Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

Accident to the Czar’s Train, The, 675
Accident to a French Torpedo Boat, 260
Accident at Saltaire Dining Hall, 539
Additions to the Navy, 596
Address by the President of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, 542, 602
Address of the President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 552
Addy’s Milling Cutter, 168
“ Admiral Duperre” Gun Accident, The, 41
“ A. G. Darwin,” The “ Strong ” Locomotive, 560
Agents, Patent, 700

Agricultural Society’s Snow at Windsor, The Royal: 720

Conveyors for Automatic Stokers, 728
Engine, Petroleum, Priestman’s, 712
Engine, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’ Ten
Horse-Power Under-Type, 691
Engine, Scott’s High-Speed, 721
Engines and Boilers, Steam, 721
Engines, Burrell’s, 712
Hay and Straw Baling Press, Howards’, 712
Implements, 725
Locomotive, Tank, 3-ft. Gauge, Bagnall’s, 721
Motor, The Davey, 712
Motors, Gas and Petroleum, 724
Pulsometer, The, 728
Shakers for Thrashing Machines, Robey’s, 726
Spring Mounted Traction Engine, Fowler’s
Arrangement of Gear for, 722
Wheel, Garrett’s Wrought-Iron, 722

Ahrens’ Modification of Delazenne’s Polariser, 105
Air Compressor for Torpedo Service, Brotherhood’s, 587
“ Alfonso XII.,” s.s., The Engines and Boilers of the, 154, 201
Algerian Pavilion, The; Paris International Exhibition, 78
Allen and Kapp’s Dynamo and Compound Engine for the Deptford Electric Lighting Station, 30
Alloys of Nickel and Steel, 555, 573
“ Alphonso XIII.” and “ Reina Maria Christina,” The New Spanish Mail Steamers, 140
Alternate Current Machinery, 189, 619
Alternate Currents, Ganz’s Wattmeter for, 338
Aluminium, 539
Aluminium, The Deville-Castner Process for the Manufacture of, 285
America Cup, A Challenge for the, 335
America, The Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to, 553
American Blast Furnace Practice, 119
American Engineers, The Visit of the, 676
American and English Engineers, 379
American Locomotive Building in 1888, 236
Ammonia Compression System Refrigerating Machine, 143
Analysis of an Hydraulic Step, 32, 95
Ancient Reservoir, An, 164
Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, Limited, The, 235
Animal Locomotion, 311
Annular Lid, Strains on an, 56
Anti-Friction Metals, 212
Apparatus for Tapping Water Mains, Turner’s, 82
Appleby’s Sixty-Head Stamp Mill, 116
Appleby’s Twenty-Head Stamp Mill, 226
Archer’s Pipe Joint, 44
Architectural and Building Trades Exhibition, The, 360
Arctos Refrigerator, The, 237
Argentine Republic, The Pavilion of the ; Paris
International Exhibition, 104
“ Argus,” s.s., Engines and Boilers of the, 86
Armington and Sims’ Horizontal Engines, 154
Armour for Ships, 348
Armstrong’s Method of Signalling from Mining Cages, 143
Artillery Experiments, The Lydd, 14
Asbestos in Canada, 17
Asquith’s Radial Drilling Machine for Malta Dockyard, 280
Associated Blacksmiths’ Society, The, 332
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, 284
Atin, 173
Atkinson Gas Engine, The, 178
Atlantic Liner, A New Fairfield, Fast, 513
Atlantic Steamship Line, A New, 672
Atomiser, The Fisher, 70
Australian Irrigation Colonies, 14, 67
Australian Railways, 597
Automatic Machines, Lynde’s, 77
Automatic Regulator for Compound Locomotives,
Automatic Stokers, Conveyor for Feeding, 679
Automatic Stokers, Conveyors for; Messrs. J. and P. Coats’ Thread Mills, 728
Automatic Tube Vice, Bauer’s, 627
Aveling and Porter’s Portable Electric Light Engine, 729
Awards, Paris Exhibition, 261

Bag Machine, Duerden’s Paper, 615
Bagnall’s Tank Locomotive, 3-ft. Gauge, 724
Baling Press, Howards’ Hay and Straw, 712
Barges, Cold Air, 248
Barker’s “ Forward” Gas Engine, 227
Basic Open-Hearth Steel, The Manufacture of, 578
Bateman, Mr. J. F. La Trobe, 672
Batoum and the Rothschilds, 66
Battle of the Brakes, The, 250
Battle-Ships, Designs for, 356, 362, 367, 373
Bauer’s Automatic Tube Vice, 627
Beer, Pasteurisation of, 91
Belgium, Coal Mining in, 139
Bellite, 128
Bells, Signal, Cox-Walker and Swinton’s Magneto Electric, 277
Bent’s Tool-Holder, 541
Berry’s Vertical Cylinder Boring Machine, 104
Bessemer Medal, The, 553
Bill Legislation, Private, 563
Bill, The Steam Boilers, 649
Biquartz, The Use of, 712
Birmingham Sewage Farm, The, 91
Bismuth, The Electrical Resistance of, 737
Blacksmiths’ Society, The Associated, 332
Blast Furnace Practice, American, 119
Blowpipe, An Electric, 188
Board of Trade and the Electric Lighting Companies, The, 136, 143
Board of Works, The Metropolitan, 213
Boat Lowering, 505
Boat, Torpedo, A New, 236
Boat Traction on Canals, 66
Boats, Diving, Past and Present, 245, 319
Boats, Torpedo, 187
Boiler, Experiments on Bursting a, made to Admiralty Scantlings, 394, 398
Boiler Explosion at Drighlington, 508
Boiler Furnaces, Marine, The Collapse of, 80
Boiler Incrustation, Marine, The Formation of, 396
Boiler with Removable Firebox and Tubes, Ruston and Proctor’s Portable, 526
Boiler Shells, The Strength of, 394, 398
Boiler Tubes, Serve’s Ribbed, 288
Boiler, Ward’s Sectional, 322
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders, 89
Boilers and Engines, Steam, 721
Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “ Alfonso XII.,” The, 154, 201
Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “ Argue,” 86
Boilers, Marine, Corrosion and Pitting in, 315
Boilers for Warships, Water Tube, 392, 411
Bonthrone’s Firedoor, 21
Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing Machine, Horizontal, 541
Boring Machine, Vertical Cylinder, Berry’s, 104
Box-Nailing Machine, Hodge’s and Bridgman’s, 298
Boys’s Instrument for Testing Fibres, 708
Brake Dynamometer, Brotherhood’s Registering, 664
Brake Trials at Carlsruhe, 307, 620
Brakes, The Battle of the, 250
Brick Foundations, 41
Bridge, The Forth, 34, 336
Bridge over Glasgow Harbour, Proposed High-Level, 42
Bridge, New Great Western Road, Glasgow, 67
Bridge, Osney, Oxford, 48
Bridge over the River Indus at Sukkur, 10
Bridge under the Sound, Proposed Submarine, 597
Bridges, Brochocki’s Portable, 322
Briquette-Making Machinery, Fouquemberg’s, 588
British Gunboats “Sparrow” and “Thrush,” The, 321
British Petroleum Enterprise, 676
British Railways and British Trade, The, 645
British Warships, 333, 358
Brochocki’s Portable Bridges, 322
Brotherhood’s Air Compressor for Torpedo Service, 587
Brotherhood’s Registering Brake Dynamometer, 661
Brymbo Steel Works, 536
Building Trades and Architectural Exhibition, The, 360
Buoyancy and Stability in Ships, The Protection of, 368, 505
Burners, Gas, The Efficiency of, 247
Burrell’s Engines, 712
Bursting a Boiler made to Admiralty Scantlings, Experiments on, 394, 398

Cabul, Engineering at, 335
Cages, Mining, Signalling from, 143
“ Calais-Douvres,” The London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company’s Steamer, 667
Calais Harbour Works, 549, 577, 609
Calbourne and Newport Viaducts, The, 96
Calorimeter, A New, 52
Canada, Asbestos in, 17
Canada, The Grand Trunk Railway of, 40, 139
Canada, Mineral Productions of, 67
Canadian Extensions ; Northern Pacific Railway, 210
Canal, Kioto and Lake Biwa, 75
Canal, The Kootenay, 212
Canal, The Panama, 30, 115
Canal and River Works in France, Belgium, and Germany, 154
Canal, The Suez, 567
Canal in Sweden, Projected Large, 91
Canals, Boat Traction on, 66
Carlsruhe, Brake Trials at, 307, 620
Carver’s Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus, 169
Caspian, Steamers for the, 705
Cast Iron, The Strength of, 52
Cast Gun, Steel, The Pittsburg, 65
Cast Guns, Steel, 211
Cathcart-Street Station, Greenock, Roof of, 276, 301
Cement Testing, Portland, 701
Central Electric Lighting Station, The Kensington, 115
Centrifugal Pumping Engines, Tangyes’ Triple Expansion, 70
Challenge for the America Cup, A, 335
Champ de Mars, Luminous Fountains on the, 631
Channel, Ship, between Quebec and Montreal, 89
Chemistry, Thermal, and Metallurgical Reactions, 583, 654
Chilled Slide Valves, 539
Christmas Island, 101
Circular Saw Sharpener, Hill’s, 277
City of London and Southwark Subway, Electrical Traction on the, 116
“ City of New York,” The Inman Liner, 213
“ City of Paris,” The Inman Liner, 406

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 642

On the Compound Principle as Applied to Locomotives, by Mr. Edgar Worthington, B Sc„ A.M.I.C.E., 34
On the Use of Heavier Rails for Safety and Economy in Railway Traffic, by Mr. C. P. Sandberg, 91, 144
On the Trincheras Steep Incline, on the Puerto Cabello and Valencia Railway, Venezuela, by Mr. John Carruthers, M.I.C.E., 116
On the Cost of Working the Hartz Mountain Railway, by Mr. Robert Wilson, M.I.C.E., 117
On Further Information on the Working of the Fell System of Traction on the Rimutaka Incline, New Zealand, by Mr. Joseph Prime Maxwell, M.I.C.E., 117
On Some Canal, River, and other Works in France, Belgium, and Germany, by Mr. L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, M.A., M.I.C.E., 154
On Alternate Current Machinery, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, A.M.I.C.E., 189
On Indian Railways; the Broad and the Narrow-Gauge Systems Contrasted, by Mr. Francis John Waring, M.I.C.E., 262
On the District Distribution of Steam in the United States, by Dr. Chas. E. Emery, M.I.C.E., 299
On Armour for Ships, by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B., 348
On the Treatment of Steel by Hydraulic Pressure, and the Plant Employed for the Purpose, by Mr. William Henry Greenwood, M.I.C.E., 568

Clark Cell as a Source of Standard Currents, The, 340
Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Governor and Expansion Gear, 241
Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Portable Engine for Electric Light Plant, 348
Cleveland, Notes from, 6, 43, 60, 84, 108, 129, 155, 191, 206, 240, 255, 279, 303, 329, 361, 385, 409, 515, 540, 558, 590, 616, 642, 668, 692, 738
“ Clutha 4,” Triple-Expansion Engines of the Twin Screw Ferry Steamer, 411
Clyde, The Export Trade from the, During 1888, 11
Clyde, The Purification of the River, 311
Coal Imports into Russia, 261
Coal and Iron Company, The Lackawanna, 52
Coal in Japan, 164
Coal Mining in Belgium, 139
Coal Question, The, 179
Cold Air Barges, 248
Cole and Marchant’s Triple-Expansion Engine, 264
Collapse of Marine Boiler Furnaces, The, 80
Collapsible Lifeboat, Henderson’s, 350
Colonies, Australian Irrigation, 14, 67
Companies, the Electric Light, The Board of Trade and, 136,143
Composing Machine, The “ Linotype,” 729
Compound Engine and Allen and Kapp’s Dynamo for the Deptford Electric Lighting Station, 30
Compound Engine, The Newall High-Speed, 397 Compound Engine, Ruston and Proctor’s Vertical, 627
Compound Engine, Willdigg and Lupton’s Sectional, 30
Compound Engines, 28
Compound Express Locomotive (Worsdell and Von Borries’ System); North-Eastern Railway, 707
Compound Goods Locomotive for the Prussian State Railways, 106, 181
Compound Locomotives, 34, 137, 289, 313, 338 °"nd Locomotives, Automatic Regulator
C°No?t°h WP^3SeT-i Locomotive ; London and North-western Railway, 601, 656
C2,27P°Und Portaole steam Engine, Paxman’s, C°638Pr685e 711“' System in Paris> The Popp, 163,
Compressibility of Sea Water, The 41 Chood’sS,S587Air’ f°r Torpedo Service. Brother-CThee,n602tiOn °f El6CtriC Radiation by Lenses, Concessions v. Private Bills, 511
Coned Step Pulleys, 52
Congress, The Electrical, in Paris, 403
Construction and Repair of Roads, The, 237
Continuous Brakes in India, 260
Contract for Spanish Cruisers, 649
Conversazione at the Royal Society, The Ladies’, ConvpvnrJ°fr Fe.edi"o Automatic Stokers, 679
Co“vJno? o for Automatic Stokers; Messrs. J. and P. Coats Thread Mills, 728
Copeland s Rice Mill for Japan, 398 oPfPSteeT,h582nflUenCe °f’ °n the Tensile length
Copper Syndicate, The Paris, 257
Copyright of the Eiffel Tower, 355
Corliss Engine, Horizontal, 58
LF^Limited6, ln5gl °-Amerioan Brush Electric COThZ503aDd F°Uling °f SteeI a,id Iron Ships-
t? a5d.Pit'('iPR in Marine Boilers, 315
Cost of Dredging, The, 406
Cost of a Strike, The, 731
C°SXignaai BerHs,a27d7 SWint°n’8 “^eto-Eleetric CComblFedE3X48aVatOr> Steam’ Smith’s Patent Crane, Stothert and Pitt’s Five-Ton Portable 641 Crank-Pm TurnmgMachine, Urquhart’s Portabit*
Crematory Furnace, Key’s, 252
Cross-River Communication at Glasgow 625
Crossley s Large Twin Gas Engine, 182 ’
Cruiser ‘Piemonte,” The Italian 392 508 695 cFFTal ;„Ve8UT8> The »ynSe3Gin?865325
Apparatus to Illustrate, 384 ° Certlintr237UreS’ The Eormation °f a Cross Cutter, Milling, Addy’s, 168
Czar s Train, The Accident to the, 675

Daglish’s Wood Pulp Digester, 386 Davey Motor, The, 712
De la Rue, Mr. Warren, 405
Debate on Naval Ordnance, The. 282
Decauville Railway, The 477 Defence, Fortress, 87
Defence, Imperial, 261
Defence, Port and Harbour, 37 Defences, National, 136, 286
Denmark, The Production of Gas in, 406
Density and Refraction of Gaseous Elements and some of their Compounds, A Relation between.
D The’’271 L'gnite’ and Industry in Germany, Designing of War Vessels, The, 404
Diamond Polishing, 123
Digester, Wood Pulp, Daglish’s, 386
Disaster, The South Fork Reservoir, 647
Won,ThV?andSUrplU8Of the G]as,S°'v Exhibi-Distribution, Electrical, A NewSystem of 311
D1threS2?,°47^ernal EriCti°n Of On WMott Th6 Use of E'-tric
district Steam Distribution in the United States, past and Present, 245, 319
Dock, The Oflf-Shore Floating, at Hamburg 531 Doubling the Grand Trunk, 405 ambur»’ 531
Dovetailing Machine, 729
Downie’s Piston Packing, 544
Draught, Forced, v. Natural Draught, 11
Dredger, The First Twin-Screw Stern-Well 57 xk sin s»"“'
Dredging, The Cost of, 406
Drighhngton, Boiler Explosion at, 508
zontagl’ Minng’ and SurfacW Machine, Hori-DRSM2a8C0hinefOrMalta D°Okyard> Asquith’s
Dry Steam, The Identification of 52 Drying m a Vacuum, 526, 741
Duerden’s Paper Bag Machine, 615
Duplex Pendulum Seismograph, Ewino-’q iso
Duty Trials of Pumping Engines, 145 169 217
Dynamite Gun Cruiser “ Vesuvius,” The 653 Dynamite Gun, New Patent, 286 ’ 3

Economy in Ocean Transport, Recent, 63
Edison Company, The Paris, 673
Edison Laboratory, The, 513
Edison Lamp Patent, The 189
S,Theht226StaUati°n at the Palai3 Royal, Efficiency of Gas Burners, The, 247 '
Eiffel Tower, The : 428
Copyright of the, 355
Edoux Elevator, The, 433
Electricity, 701
Elevators and Staircases, 433
Erecting Cranes, The, 432
Erection of the First Story, 432
Erection of the Second Story, 432
Foundations, 431
Location of the Tower, 431
Mangin Projectors, 703
Top of the Tower, The, 433
Uses of the Tower, 434
Eight Hours’ Movement, The, 699
Electric Blowpipe, An, 188

Electric Lighting :

Alternate Current Machinery, 189, 619
Board of Trade and the Electric Lighting Companies, The, 136, 143
Dynamo, Allen and Kapp’s, and Compound Engine for the Deptford Electric Lighting Station, 30

Electric Light Corporation, the Anglo-American Brush, Limited, 235
Electric Light Employes, Licensing, 359
Electric Light Engine, Aveling and Porter’s Portable, 729
Electric Light in Essex, 335
Electric Lighting Inquiry, The, 359, 382, 513
Electric Light Installation at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 701
Electric Light, Retailing, through Meters in Glasgow, 567, 734
Electric Light Station, The Palais Royal, 226
Electric Lighting of London, The, 593
Electric Lighting of the Paris International Exhibition, 494
Electric Lighting Schemes in the Metropolis, 13
Electric Lighting Station, The Kensington Central, 115
Electric Transformer Patents, 233
Electrical Congress in Paris, The, 403
Electrical Distribution, A New System of, 311
Electricity on the Eiffel Tower, 701
Engine for Electric Light Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Portable, 348
Paris Edison Company, The, 673
Trials of Motors for Electric Lighting, 175, 202, 227, 265
Wattmeter for Alternate Currents, Ganz’s, 338
Westinghouse Electric Lighting System, The, 56, 127,175, 248
Electric Motors for the Distribution of Power, The Use of, 596
Electric Railroad in Scotland, An, 539
Electric Railroad, A Short, 17
Electric System, The Westinghouse, 56,127,175, 248
Electric Testing, Magneto Machine for, 165
Electric Tramway System, The Series, 139, 259
Electric Tramways in the United States, 164
Electric Transformer Patents, 233
Electric Weighing Machine, The Snelgrove, 694
Electric Welding, 56
Electrical Congress in Paris, The, 403
Electrical Distribution, A New System of, 311
Electrical Engineering in Edinburgh, Proposed Exhibition of, 704
Electrical Engineers, The Institution of, 65
Electrical and Industrial Exhibition at Birmingham, The, 286
Electrical Measurement, 237
Electrical Resistance, The Measurement of, 237
Electrical Traction on the City of London and Southwark Subway, 116
Electrical Treatment of Sewage, The, 306
Electricians and Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 16
Electricity on the Eiffel Tower, 701
Electro-Magnetic Units, The Dimensions of, 237
Electromotive Forces, Divergence of, from Thermochemical Data, 105
Electrostatic Field Produced by Varying Magnetic Induction, An, 602
Elevator with Safety Gear, Smith and Stevens’s, 217
Emmensite, 66
Employes, Electric Light, Licensing, 359
Employment of Reserve and Discharged Soldiers, The, 235
Energy, The Transmission of, by Compressed Air, 163, 638, 685, 715
Engine, Aveling and Porter’s Portable Electric Light, 729
Engine, Compound, and Allen and Kapp’s Dynamo for the Deptford Electric Lighting Station, 30
Engine, Gas, The Atkinson, 178
Engine, Gas, Crossley’s Large Twin, 182
Engine, Gas, The “ Forward,” 227
Engine, Horizontal Corliss, 58
Engine, The Newall High-Speed Compound, 397
Engine, Portable, for Electric Light Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 348
Engine, Priestman’s Petroleum, 712
Engine, Pumping, at the West Middlesex Water
Works, Worthington High-Duty, 10
Engine, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Ten Horse-Power Under-Type, 691
Engine with Removable Firebox and Tubes
Ruston and Proctor’s Portable, 526
Engine, Richardson’s High-Speed, 58
Engine, Ruston and Proctor’s Vertical Compound, 627
Engine, Scott’s High-Speed, 721
Engine, Steam, The Theory of the, 293, 343, 60* 683, 717 ’
Engine Trials, Marine, 519, 527
Engine Trials, The Society of Arts, 305
Engine, Triple-Expansion, at Messrs. R. and H. Hinchcliffe’s Mills, Cragg Valley, Mytholmroyd,
Engine Willdigg and Lupton’s Sectional Com-pound,30
Engine, Worthington Pumping, 497
Engineer Officers, Naval, 38
Engineering at Cabul, 335
Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries in Scotland, 306
Engineers, American and English, 379
Engineers, The Institution of Electrical, 65
Engineers and Professors, 161 „
Engines and Boilers of the s.s. Alfonso All, The, 154,201
Engines and Boilers of the s.s. Argus, 86
Engines and Boilers, Steam, 721
Engines, Burrell’s, 712 .
Engines, Centrifugal Pumping, Tangyes Triple Expansion, 70
Engines, Compound, 28
Engines, Horizontal, Armington and Sims , 154
Engines, Internal Friction of, On the Distribution of, 22, 27, 47, 68
Engines, Marine, The Weight of, 221
Engines, Non-Condensing, 53
Engines, Pearsall’s Hydraulic, 586
Engines, Pumping, Duty Trials of, 145, 169, 217
Engines, Sewage Pumping at Luton, 299
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the Steam Yacht “Lady Torfrida,” 348, 526
Engines, Triple Expansion, of the Twin-Screw Ferry Steamer “Clutha 4,” 411
English and American Engineers, 379
English Machinery and New South Wales, 514
Ericsson, Mr. John, 258
Essex, The Electric Light in, 335
Estimates, The Navy, 309
Estimating Temperatures, A New Method of, 115
Ether Pressure Theory of Thermodynamics Applied to Steam, The, 396
European Navies, 513
Ewing’s Duplex Pendulum Seismograph, 180
Excavator and Steam Crane, Smith’s Patent Combined, 348
Excursions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 634
Excursions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 53
Exhaust System, The Transmission of Power by the, 659
Exhibition, The Architectural and Building Trades, 360
Exhibition at Birmingham, The Electrical and Industrial, 286
Exhibition of Electrical Engineering in Edinburgh, Proposed, 704
Exhibition, The Glasgow, The Surplus of, and its Disposal, 128, 567

Exhibition, The Paris International: 4, 78, 91, 335, 533, 564, 594

Air Compressor for Torpedo Service, Brotherhood’s, 587
Algerian Pavilion, The, 78
Awards, 261,424
Briquette-Making Machinery, Fouquemberg’s, 588
British Section, The, 482
Calais Harbour Works, 549, 577, 609
Capstan, Hydraulic, 641
Classification of Exhibits, 461
Conclusion, 502
Congresses and Conferences, 427
Crane, Stothert and Pitt’s Five-Ton Portable, 641
Depauville Railway, The, 477
Drilling Machine, Hydraulic, Berrier-Fontaine System, 641
Dynamometer, Brotherhood’s Registering Brake, 664
Edison Company, The Paris, 673
Eiffel Tower, The : 428
Copyright of the, 355
Edoux Elevator, The, 433
Eiffel, Gustave, 428
Electricity, 701
Elevators and Staircases, 433
Erecting Cranes, The, 432
Erection of the First Story, 432
Erection of the Second Story, 432
Foundations, 431
Location of the Tower, 431
Mangin Projectors, 703
Top of the Tower, The, 433
Uses of the Tower, 434

Electric Lighting, 494
Electricity on the Eiffel Tower, 701
Engine, Aveling and Porter’s Portable Electric Light, 729
Esplanade des Invalides, The, 4
Fine Arts and Liberal Arts Buildings, The: 448
Central Dome, The, 449
Transverse Galleries, 449
Foreign Sections, 488
French Colonial Pavilion, The, 78
French Colonies, 465
French Inventors, 620
General Arrangements, 416
General Catalogue, The, 424
General Direction, The, 417
Government Grants to Departments, 420
Health Exhibition, The, 78
History of Human Habitation, The, 491
History and Organisation: 417
Admission Regulations, 424
Educational Exhibits, 421
Juries and Awards, 261, 424
List of the Executive, 422
Miscellaneous Committees, 417
Preliminary Legislation, 417
Protection to Inventors, 420
Hydraulic Machinery, 641
Intensifier, Hydraulic, 642
Introductory, 415
Lu“inoJis1 i?ountains 011 the Champ de Mars, ine, ooi
Machinery Hall, The : 452
Cail Contract. The, 458
Decorations, andc., 459
Fives-Lille Contract, The, 457
Foundations, 457
General Description, 452
Other Contracts, 459
Vestibule, The Great, 460

Miscellaneous Industries Courts, The : 436

Central Entrance and Dome. The 433
Connecting Pavilions, 441 ’
Construction of the Building 437
Decoration, 443
Foundations, 436
Gallery, The 30-Metre, 437
Modes of Erection, 437
Wings, The, 441
Model of the Earth, The Great, 732
Motive Power and Water Supply : 495
Motors, 496
Shafting, 496
Steam Generators, 495
Steam and Water Mains, 496
Supply of Steam, Condition of, 495
Travelling Bridges, 497
Water Supply, 497
Worthington Pumping Engine, 497
Notes, 626, 649, 676, 705

Paper Bag Machine, Duerden’s, 615
Paris Edison Company, The. 673
Pavilion of the Argentine Republic, The, 104
Pavilion of the War Department, The, 4
Projector, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 704
Projectors, Mangin, 703
Pumping Engines, Triple-Expansion Hydraulic 641
Railway Works at Petit-Bourg, 635, 660

Retrospective Exhibition of Works, I he : 498

Exhibition of Means of Transport, 499 Railways, 500
Road Carriage, 502
Sections of Retrospective Exhibition, 499 Shipbuilding, 501
Separate Buildings, 467
Social Economy, 497
Swiss Section, The, 647
Transmission of Energy by Compressed Air. 639,685,715
Transmission of Power by the Exhaust System. 659
Tunisian Pavilion, The, 78
Warp Weaver and Knitter, The Paget, 729
Weighing Machine, The Snelgrove Electric. 694
Wool-Washing Machine, 601

Exhibitions, Floating, 359
Expansion Gear and Governor, Clayton and Shuttle worth’s, 241
Expansion with Rise of Temperature of Wires under Pulling Stress, 737
Experiment, Phonographic, A Remarkable, 259
Experiments on Bursting a Boiler made to Admiralty Scantlings, 394, 398
Experiments, The Lydd Artillery, 14
Explosion of Boiler at Drighiington, 508
Explosions under Water, 289
Explosives, High, 539
Export Trade from the Clyde during 1888, The, 11
Express Locomotive, Compound (Worsdell and Von Borries’ System) ; North-Eastern Railway. 707
Extending the Transcaspian Railway, 41, 139
Extensions, The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 601

Fairfield Fast Atlantic Liner, A New, 513
Falshaw, Sir James, Bart., 696 Fanning Island, 101
Feeding Automatic Stokers, Conveyor for, 679
Fell System in New Zealand, The, il7
Ferro-Silicon, and the Economy of its Use, 46
Ferry Boat “ Transfer,” Canada Southern, 287
Fibres, Testing, Boys’s Instrument for, 708
Fielding and Platt’s Treble-Power Hydrau’ic Ingot Shears, 298
Figee’s Hopper Suction Dredger “Libawa” for the Port of Libau, 45
Finances of the Glasgow Exhibition, The, 128, 567
Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus, Carver’s, 149
Firebox, Webb’s Locomotive, 559
Firedoor, Bonthrone’s, 21
First Twin-Screw Stern-Well Dredger, The, 57
Fisher Atomiser, The, 70
Five-Masted Sailing Ship, A, 382
Flexible Foundations, 17
Floating Dock at Hamburg, The Off-Shore, 531
Floating Exhibitions, 359
Flour Milling, Roller, 150, 351, 387
Flow of Steam through Tubes, 52
Flowage of Water in Pipes, Notes on the, 1, 25
Fluid Pressure in Relation to Propulsion, 505
Forced Draught v. Natural Draught, 11
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 94, 590, 678
Foreign Steam Navigation, 66
Foreign Trade of Japan for 1888, The, 403
Formation of Marine Boiler Incrustration. The 396
Forth Bridge, The, 34, 336
Fortress Defence, 87
“ Forward” Gas Engine, The, 227
Fouling and Corrosion of Steel and Iron Ships, The, 503
Foundations, Brick, 41
Foundations, Flexible, 17
Foundations, Machinery, 164
Fountains on the Champ de Mars, Luminous, 631
Fouquemberg’s Briquette - Making Machinery, 588
Fowler’s Arrangement of Gear for Spring-Mounted Traction Engine, 722
France, Belgium, and Germany, River and Canal Works in, 154
French Colonial Pavilion, The; Paris International Exhibition, 78
French First-Class Torpedo Boats, The, 335
French Inventors, 620
French Metallurgical Industry, 335
French Torpedo Boat, Accident to a, 260
Friction of Engines, Internal, On the Distribution of, 22, 27, 47, 68
Friction of Piston Rings, The, 27
Fuel, Liquid, 114, 130, 156
Fuel for Metallurgical Purposes, Oil as, 624
Fuel Petroleum for, in the United States, 112
Full-Way Valve, Moseley’s Straight, 82
Furnace, The Hopcraft, 57
Furnace, Key’s Crematory, 252
Furnaces, Marine Boiler, The Collapse of, 80

Galicia, Petroleum Borings in, 286
Galvanometer, a Standard, Application of a Clark Cell to the Construction of, 340
Ganz s Wattmeter for Alternate Currents, 338
Garretts Wrought-Iron Wheel, 722
Gas Burners, The Efficiency of, 247
Gas in Denmark, The Production of, 406
Gas Engine, The Atkinson, 178
Gas Engine, Crossley’s Large Twin, 182
Gas Engine, The “ Forward,” 227
Gas v. Oil Illumination, 165
Gas and Petroleum Motors, 724
Gas Plant, Water, at the Leeds Forge, Leeds, 58
Gear-Cutting Machine, Eberhardt’s Universal Automatic, 208
Gearing, Worm, 52
Geometrical Optics, 712
German Iron Industry, The, 582
German Way of Promoting Industry. The, 212
Germany, The Lignite Deposits and Industry in,
Gilbert, Mr. E. E., 261
Glasgow, Cross-River Communication at, 625
Glasgow Exhibition, The Finances of the, 128,567
Glasgow Harbour, Proposed High-Level Bridge over, 42
Gold Mining, Indian, 731
Gold in Nova Scotia, 16
Goniometer, A Refraction, 384, 559
Goods Locomotive, Compound, for the Prussian State Railways, 106, 181
Gourock Railway Service, Steamers in Connection with the, 510
Governor and Expansion Gear, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 241
Grand Trunk, Doubling the, 405
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, The, 40, 139
Great Western Road Bridge, Glasgow, New, 67
Greenhill Theory of the Screw Propeller, The, 505
Greenock and Gourock Railway, 193, 241, 253. 276, 301, 326
Greenock and James Watt: Dumbarton and William Denny, 261
Gun Accident, The “ Admiral Duperre,” 41
Gun, Dynamite, New Patent, 286
Gun, The Pittsburg Steel Cast, 65
Gunboats " Sparrow” and “ Thrush,” The British, 321 ’
Guns, A Steady Platform for, 397, 400
Guns, Steel Cast, 211
Gustave Eiffel, 428

Hague, Holland, The Water Works at the, 249
Hamburg, The Off-Shore Floating Dock at, 531
Hand and Steam Steering Gear, Napier’s Combined, 351
Harbour, Otago, 298
Harbour and Port Defence, 37
Harbour Works, Calais, 549, 577, 609
Harbour, Yokohama, 382
Hartz Mountain Railway, The, 117
Haulage Clip, Smallman’s, 106
Hay and Straw Baling Press, Howards’, 712
Health Exhibition, The ; Paris International Exhibition, 78
Heavier Rails, The Use of, 91, 144
Heavy Rail Sections, 275, 624
Henderson’s Collapsible Lifeboat, 350
Hervey Islands, 173
High-Duty Pumping Engine at the West Middlesex Water Works, Worthington, 10
High Explosives, 539
High-Level Bridge over Glasgow Harbour, Proposed, 42
High-Speed Compound Engine, The Newall, 397
High-Speed Engine, Richardson’s, 58
High-Speed Engine, Scott’s, 721
Hill’s Circular Saw Sharpener, 277
History of Niagara, The Life, 269
Hodges and Bridgman’s Box-Nailing Machine,
Honolulu, 90
Hopcraft Furnace, The, 57
Hopper Suction Dredger “ Libawa ” for the Port of Libau, 45
Horizontal Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing Machine, 541
Horizontal Corliss Engine, 58
Horizontal Engines, Armington and Sims’, 154
Hotel Mont Dore, Bournemouth, The, 197
Howards’ Hay and Straw Baling Press, 712
Hunter and English’s Shore Delivery Dredger for Lake Copais, 104
Hydraulic Engines, Pearsall’s, 586
Hydraulic Ingot Shears, Fielding and Platt’s Treble-Power, 298
Hydraulic Machinery, 641
Hydraulic Pressure, Treatment of Steel by, 568
Hydraulic Step, Analysis of an, 32, 95

Identification of Dry Steam, The, 52
Illustrated Official Journal (Patents), The, 66
Imperial Defence, 261
Implements, 725
Improving the Russian Canals, 188
Improving the Transcaspian Railway, 41, 139
Incline, The Trincheras, Venezuela, 116
Increase in the Navy, The, 258
Incrustation, Marine Boiler, The Formation of, 396
India, Continuous Brakes in, 260
India, Railways in, 262
India, Shipbuilding in, 286
Indian Gold Mining, 731
Indicator, The Tabor, 654
Indus, Bridge over the River, at Sukkur, 10
Industrial Notes, 278, 312, 323, 360, 372, 407, 514, 541, 567, 597, 627, 650, 680, 709, 740
Industries in Scotland, Shipbuilding and Engineering, 306
Industry and Deposits, The Lignite, in Germany, 271
Industry, The German Iron, 582
Industry, A Threatened, 379
Influence of Copper on the Tensile Strength of Steel, The, 582
Ingot Shears, Hydraulic, Fielding and Platt’s Treble-Power, 298
Inman Liner “ City of New York,” The, 213
Inman Liner “ City of Paris,” The, 406
Inquiry, The Electric Light, 359, 382, 513
Installation, Electric Light, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 701
Institute, The Stevens, Hoboken, U.S.A., 634
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The, 65
Instrument for Testing Fibres, Boys’s, 708
Interdependence of Patents, 281
Interests of Mining Engineers, The, 286
Internal Friction of Engines, On the Distribution of, 22, 27, 47, 68
Inventors, French, 620
Inventors, Protection to; Paris International Exhibition, 420
Iron Industry, The German, 582
Iron, Manufactured, in 1888, 186
Iron Minerals, Spanish, 286
Iron Ore Supplies, 535
Iron Shipbuilders and Boilermakers, 89

Iron and Steel Institute, The : 538, 551

Bessemer Medal, The, 553
On Alloys of Nickel and Steel, by Mr. James Riley, 555, 573
On the Manufacture of Basic Open-Hearth Steel, by Mr. J. H. Darby, 578
On the Progress made in the German Iron Industry since the Year 1880, by Herr Schroedter, 582
On the Influence of Copper on the Tensile Strength of Steel, by Messrs. Edwin J. Bull and Arthur Wingham, 582
On a Universal Rolling Mill, by Mr. Hugo Sack, 583
On the Application of Thermal Chemistry to Metallurgical Reactions, by M. A. Pourcel, 583, 654
On the Thomasset Testing Machine, by M. Ferd. Gautier, 584
Presidential Address, The, 552
Visit to America, The, 553

Iron and Steel, The Strength of, 242
Iron Trades, Wages in the, 671
Ironfounders’ Society, The, 39
Ironmoulders of Scotland, Associated, 284
Irrigation Colonies, Australian, 14, 67
“ Islander,” The s.s., 21
Italian Cruiser “ Piemonte,” The, 392, 508, 625
Japan, Coal in, 164
Japan, The Foreign Trade of, for 1888, 403

Joint, Archer’s Pipe, 44
Journal (Patents), The Illustrated Official, 66

Kensington Central Electric Lighting Station, The, 115
Kerosene Pipe Line, The Russian, 649
Key’s Crematory Furnace, 252
Key-Way Cutting Machine, Smith and Coventry’s, 276
Kioto and Lake Biwa Canal, 75
Knight’s Petroleum Motor, 724
Knitter and Weaver, The Paget Warp, 729
Kootenay Canal, The, 212
Korting Steam Trap, The, 591

Laboratory, The Edison, 513
Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company, The, 52
Ladies’ Conversazione at the Royal Society, The. 700
“Lady Torfrida,” Steam Yacht, Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 348, 526
Lake Biwa and Kioto Canal, 75
Lake Superior Silver Mining, 236
Lamp Patent, The Edison, 189
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Extensions, The, 601
Large Telescope in the United States, Proposed,
Launches and Trial Trips, 11, 43, 59, 81, 117,133, 190, 216, 239, 254, 287, 302, 336, 383, 410, 516, 545, 587, 605, 617, 643, 678, 697, 737
Lawful Underground Railroad, A, 596
Leeds Forge, Leeds, Water Gas Plant at the, 58
Legislation, Private Bill, 563
“ Libawa,” Hopper Suction Dredger, for the Port of Libau, 45
Licensing Electric Light Employes, 359
Lid, Strains on an Annular, 56
Life History of Niagara, The, 269
Lifeboat, Henderson’s Collapsible, 350
Light, The Effect of, on Magnetism, 383
Light, Electric, Station, The Palais Royal, 226
Light Inquiry, The Electric, 359, 382, 513
Lighting of London, The Electric, 593
Lighting Schemes in the Metropolis, Electric, 13
Lighting Station, Electric, The Kensington Central, 115
Lightning Photographs, The Dark Flash in some, 383
Lignite Deposits and Industry in Germany, The, 271
Liners, The New White Star, 80
“Linotjme” Composing Machine, The, 729
Liquid Fuel, 114,130, 156
Lissa jou’s Figures, The Use of, to Determine a Rate of Rotation, 340
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, The, 104
Liverpool (Vyrnwy) Water Works, 99, 125, 152, 235
Lock Nut, The Stark, 143
Locomotion, Animal, 311
“Locomotive No. 1” ; Stockton and Darlington Railway, 707
Locomotive “A. G. Darwin,” The “ Strong,” 560
Locomotive Building in 1888, American, 236
Locomotive, Compound Express (Worsdell and Von Borries’ System); North-Eastern Railway, 707
Locomotive, Compound Goods, for the Prussian State Railways, 106, 181
Locomotive, Compound Passenger; London and North-Western Railway, 601, 656
Locomotive Firebox, Webb’s, 559
Locomotive for the Sind-Pishin Railway, 372
Locomotive, Tank, 3-ft. Gauge, Bagnall’s, 724
Locomotives, Compound, 34, 137, 289, 313, 338
Locomotives, Compound, Automatic Regulator for, 21
Locomotives, Petroleum Fuel in, The Use of, 114, 130, 156
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company’s Steamer “ Calais-Douvres,” The, 667
London, The Electric Lighting of, 593
Lowering, Boat, 505
Luminous Fountains on the Champ de Mars, 631
Lydd Artillery Experiments, The, 14
Lynde’s Automatic Machines, 77

Machine, Box-Nailing, Hodges and Bridgman’s, 298
Machine, Composing, The “ Linotype,” 729
Machine, Crank-Pin Turning, Urquhart’s Portable, 348
Machine, Cylinder Boring, Berry’s Vertical, 104
Machine, Dovetailing, 729
Machine, Duerden’s Paper Bag, 615
Machine, Gear-Cutting, Eberhardt’s Universal Automatic, 208
Machine, Horizontal Boring, Drilling, and Surfacing, 541
Machine, Key-Way Cutting, Smith and Coventry’s, 276
Machine, Planing, Worssam’s Panel and Hand, 227.
Machine, Radial Drilling, for Malta Dockyard, Asquith’s, 280
Machine, Refrigerating ; Ammonia Compression System, 143
Machine, Slotting, Shanks’s Heavy, 321
Machine, Testing, The Thomasset, 584
Machine, Weighing, The Snelgrove Electric, 694
Machine, Wheel-Cutting, Wilkinson and Lister’s, 372
Machine, Wool-Washing, 601
Machinery, Alternate Current, 189, 619
Machinery Foundations, 164
Machinery, Fouquemberg’s Briquette-Making, 588

Machinery Hall, The : Paris Exhibition, 452

Cail Contract, The, 458
Decorations, andc., 459
Fives-Lille Contract, The, 457
Foundations, 457
General Description, 452
Other Contracts, 459
Vestibule, The Great, 460

Machinery, Hydraulic, 641
Machines, Lynde’s Automatic, 77
Magnetisation and Speed in a Dynamo Machine, A Relation between, 105
Magneto-Electric Signal Bells, Cox-Walker and Swinton’s, 277
Magneto Machine for Electric Testing, 165
Magneto-Optic Rotation by Transient Currents with Reference to the Time Required for the Production of the Effect, 250
Malden Island, 149
Man-of-War, Through the South Sea Islands in a, 51, 90, 101, 149,173, 198
Manoeuvres, The Report of the Naval, 185, 234
Manufacture of Aluminium, The Deville-Castner Process for the, 285
Manufacture of Basic Open-Hearth Steel, The, 578
Manufactured Iron in 1888, 186
Marine Boiler Furnaces, The Collapse of, 80
Marine Boiler Incrustation, The Formation of, 396
Marine Boilers, Corrosion and Pitting in, 315
Marine Engine Trials, 519, 527
Marine Engines, The Weight of, 221
Massachusetts General Hospital, Electric Light Installation at the, 701
Measurement of High Specific Resistance, The, 340

Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 26

Excursions, 53
Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company, The, 52'
On the Distribution of Internal Friction of Engines, by Dr. Robert H. Thurston, 22, 27, 47, 68
On Variable Load, Internal Friction, Engine Speed and Work, by Dr. Robert H. Thurston, 27
On the Friction of Piston Packing Rings in Steam Cylinders, by Professor Denton, 27
On the Use of Compound Engines for Manufacturing Purposes, by Charles T. Main, 28
On the Flow of Steam through Tubes, by Professor C. H. Peabody, 52
On a Simple Calorimeter, by Professor C. H. Peabody,52
On a System of Worm Gearing of Diametral Pitch, by Messrs. Powel and Cheney, 52
On an Improved Method for Finding the Diameters of Cone and Step Pulleys, by Mr. C. A. Smith, 52
On Tests of the Strength of Cast Iron, by Professor Lanza, 52
On the Identification of Dry Steam, by Professor J. E. Denton, 52
On the Cost of Power in Non-Condensing Engines, by Mr. Charles E. Emery, 53
On the Overhauling of a Mechanical Power, by Professor F. Burkitt Webb, 53
On Steel, 53
On the Strains of an Annular Lid Resisting Internal Pressure, by Professor Hutton, 56
On Electric Welding, by Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury, 56

Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of: 113, 151, 512

Address by the President, Mr. Charles Cochrane, 542, 602
On the Use of Petroleum Refuse as Fuel in Locomotive Engines, by Mr. Thomas Urquhart, 114, 130, 156
On Compound Locomotives, by Mr. R. Herbert Lepage, 137, 289, 313, 338
On the Latest Development of Roller Flour Milling, by Mr. Henry Simon, 150, 351, 387
On Marine Engine Trials, Report of the Research Committee, 519, 527
On Drying in a Vacuum, by Mr. Emil Passburg, 526, 741
Paris Meeting, The, 675

Mechanical Power, Overhauling of a, 53
Medal, The Bessemer, 553
Meeting of the Mechanical Engineers, The Paris, 675
Memorial Institute, The William Denny, 405
Merchant Steamers, The Protection of, in Time of War, 391
Metallurgical Industry, French, 335
Metallurgical Purposes, Oil as Fuel for, 624
Metallurgical Reactions and Thermal Chemistry, 583, 654
Metals, Anti-Friction, 212
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 96, 183, 412, 588, 741
Meters, Retailing Electric Light through, in Glasgow, 567, 734
Metropolis, Electric Lighting Schemes in the, 13
Metropolitan Board of Works, The, 213
Mill for Japan, Rice, Copeland’s, 398
Mill, Rolling, A Universal, 583
Mill, Stamp, Appleby’s Sixty-Head, 116
Mill, Stamp, Appleby’s Twenty-Head, 226
Milling Cutter, Addy’s, 168
Milling, Flour, Roller, 150, 351, 387
Mineral Productions of Canada, 67
Mining Cages, Signalling from, 143

Mining Engineers, The American Institute of :

512, 634
Excursions, 634
Miscellaneous Papers, 624
On Ferro-Silicon, and the Economy of its Use, by Messrs. W. J. Keep, C.E., and Edward Horton, Jun., E.M., 46
On Rail Sections, by Mr. C. P. Sandberg, 275, 624 „ '
On Spirally Welded Tubes, by Mr. Jas. C. Bayles, 513
On Iron and Steel, 622 ,
On the Use of Oil as a Metallurgical Fuel, 624
Stevens Institute, The, 634
Visit to the Edison Laboratory, 513

Mining Engineers, The Interests of, 286
Mining, Indian Gold, 731
Miscellanea, 7, 41, 61, 85, 109, 142, 159, 192, 207, 240, 251, 275, 303, 337, 353, 384, 401, 517, 540, 570, 591, 617, 643, 669, 693, 738
Model of the Earth, The Great, 732
Molecular Weight of Caoutchouc and other Colloid Bodies, The, 652
Mont Dore, The Hotel, Bournemouth, 197
Montreal and Quebec, Ship Channel between, 89
Montreal, New Railway Stations at, 386
Morse Receiver to Measure the Periodic Time of a Reed or Tuning-Fork, The Use of a, 310
Moseley’s Straight Full-Way Valve, 82
Motor, The Davey, 712
Motors for Electric Lighting, Trials of, 175, 202, 227, 265
Motors, Gas and Petroleum, 724
Motors, Spirit, 597
Mountain Railway, The Hartz, 117
Movement, The Eight Hours’, 699

Nailing Machine, Box, Hodges and Bridgman’s, 298
Nails of Tinned Sheet Iron, 41
Napier’s Combined Hand and Steam Steering Gear, 351
National Defences, 136, 286
Natural Draught v. Forced Draught, 11

Naval Architects,. The Institution of : 356

On the Designs for the New Battle-Ships, by
Mr W. H. White, F.R.S., Assistant Controller of the Navy and Director of Naval Construction, Vice-President, 356, 362, 367, 373
On the Protection of Buoyancy and Stability in Ships, by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, 368, 505
On the Protection of Merchant Steamers in Time of War, by Captain C. C. P. Fitzgerald, R.N., 391
On Water-Tube Boilers for Warships, by Mr. J. I. Thornycroft, 392, 411
On the Italian Cruiser “ Piemonte, by Mr. P. Watts, 392, 508
On Experiments on Bursting a Boiler H^de to Admiralty Scantlings, by Mr. John Scott, 394, 398
On the Ether Pressure Theory of Thermodynamics Applied to Steam, by Mr. J. Mac-farlane Gray, 396
On the Formation of Marine Boiler Incrustations, by Professor Vivian B. Lewes, 396
On an Apparatus for Providing a Steady Platform for Guns, andc., at Sea, by Mr. Beauchamp Tower, 397,400
On the Corrosion and Fouling of Steel and Iron Ships, by Professor Lewes, 503 .
On Fluid Pressure in Relation to Propulsion, by Mr. R. E. Froude, 505
On the Greenhill Theory of the Screw Propeller, by Mr. R. E. Froude, 505
On Boat Lowering, by Mr. A. F. Hill, 505

Naval Engineer Officers, 38
Naval Manoeuvres, The Report of the, 185, 234
Naval Ordnance, The Debate on, 282
Naval Reserve, The Royal, 111
Navies, European, 513
Navvy, Whitaker’s Steam Crane, 411
Navy, Additions to the, 596
Navy, The, 209
Navy Estimates, The, 309
Navy, The Increase in the, 258
Navy, The Outlay on the, 235
Navy, The Strength of the, 161
Navy, The United States, 113
New South Wales and English Machinery, 514
Newall High-Speed Compound Engine, The, 397
Newfoundland, Railways in, 164
Newport and Calbourne Viaducts, The, 96
Niagara, The Life History of, 269
Nickel, Effect of Heat on the Magnetic Susceptibility of, 383
Nickel and Steel, Alloys of, 555, 573
Non-Condensing Engines, 53 . . a
Northern Pacific Railway ; Canadian Extensions, 210
Northfleet Series Electric Tramways, The, 139,259

Notes ’

Accident to the Czar’s Train, The, 675
Accident to a French Torpedo Boat, 260
Accident at the Saltaire Dining Hall, 539
Additions to the Navy, 596
“ Admiral Duperre” Gun Accident, The, 41
Aluminium, 539 .
American Locomotive Building in 1888,-36
Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, Limited, The, 235
Animal Locomotion, 311
Anti-Friction Metals, 212
Asbestos in Canada, 17
Australian Irrigation Colonies, 67
Australian Railways, 597
Batoum and the Rothschilds 66
Birmingham Sewage Farm, The, 91
Boat Traction on Canals, 66
Brick Foundations, 41
British Petroleum Enterprise, 676
Canal in Sweden, Projected Large, 91
Challenge for the America Cup, A, 335
Chilled Slide Valves, 539
Coal Imports into Russia, 261
Coal in Japan, 164
Coal Mining in Belgium, 139
Compressibility of Sea Water, The, 41
Continuous Brakes in India, 260
Contract for Spanish Cruisers, 649
Cost of Dredging, The, 406
Cross-River Communication at Glasgow, 625
De la Rue, Mr. Warren, 405
Doubling the Grand Trunk, 405
Dynamite Gun, New Patent, 286
Edison Lamp Patent, The, 189
Electric Blow-Pipe, An, 188
Electric Light in Essex, The, 335
Electric Lighting Inquiry, The, 359, 382, 513
Electric Motors for the Distribution of Power, The Use of, 596
Electric Railroad in Scotland, An, 539
Electric Railroad, A Short, 17
Electric Tramway, The Northfleet Series, 139
Electric Tramways in the United States, 161
Electrical Distribution, A New System of, 311
Emmensite, 63
Employment of Reserve and Discharged Soldiers, The, 235
Engineering at Cabul, 335
Estimating Temperatures, A New Method of, 115
European Navies, 513
Exhibition at Birmingham, The Electrical and Industrial, 286
Exhibition of Electrical Engineering in Edinburgh, Proposed, 704
Fairfield Fast Atlantic Liner, A New, 513
Ferry Boat “Transfer,” Canadian Southern, 287
Finances of the Glasgow Exhibition, The, 567
Five-Masted Sailing Ship, A, 382
Flexible Foundations, 17
Floating Exhibitions, 359
Foreign Steam Navigation, 66
French First-Class Torpedo Boats, The, 335 r rench Metallurgical Industry, 835
Gas in Denmark, The Production of, 406
German Way of Promoting Industry, The. 212
Gilbert, Mr. E. E., 261
Grand Trunk Railway, New Branch of the, 139
Greenock and James Watt: Dumbarton and William Denny, 261
Heavier Rails, The Use of, 91
Imperial Defence, 261
Improving the Russian Canals, 188
Journal (Patents), The Illustrated Official, 66
Kootenay Canal, The, 212
Lake Superior Silver Mining, 236
Lawful Underground Railway, A, 596
Licensing Electric Light Employes, 359
Liverpool (Vyrnwy) Water Works, The, 235
Machinery Foundations, 164
Magneto Machine for Electric Testing, 165
Metropolitan Board of Works, The, 213
Mineral Productions of Canada, 67
Mining Engineers, The Interests of, 286
Nails of Tinned Sheet Iron, 41
National Defences, 286
New South Wales and English Machinery, 514
Oil Illumination v. Gas, 165
Official Standardising Laboratory, An, 704
Panama Canal, The, 115
Paris Exhibition, The, 91, 335
Paris Exhibition Awards, 261
Faris Meeting of the Mechanical Engineers, The, 675
Pasteurisation of Beer, 91
Petroleum Borings in Galicia, 286
Prohibiting Wood Fuel on Russian Railways, 359
Purification of the River Clyde, 311
Railway Movements in South Africa, 165
Railways in Persia, 286
Railways in the Western Isles of Scotland, 676
Reservoir, An Ancient, 164
Retailing Electric Light through Meters in Glasgow, 567 734,
Russian Kerosene Pipe Line, The, 649
Ship Canal across Scotland, Proposed, 41, 139
Shipbuilding in India, 286
Siberian Railway, The Great, 92, 734
Society of Arts, The, 287
Spanish Iron Minerals, 286
Spirit Motors, 597
Steam Boilers Bill, The, 649
Steamers for the Caspian, 705
Steel Shipbuilding in Canada, 311
Submarine Bridge under the Sound, Proposed,
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 92
Suez Canal, The, 567
Swedish Railways, 382
Telescope in the United States, Proposed Large,
Torpedo Boat, A New, 236
Transcaspian Railway, Improving the, 41. 139
Trial Trip of a New Railway Train, 514
Uruguay, The Republic of, 625
Vieille-Montagne, The, 596
Visit of American Engineers, The, 676
Westinghouse, George Jun., 18
William Denny Memorial Institute, The, 405
Yokohama Harbour, 382

Notes from Cleveland, 6, 43, 60, 84, 108, 129, 155, 191, 206, 240, 255, 279, 303, 329, 361, 385, 409, 515, 540, 558, 590, 616, 642, 668, 692, 738
Notes on the Flowage of Water in Pipes, 1, 25 Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 94, 590, 678
Notes, Industrial, 278, 312, 323, 360, 372, 407, 514, 541, 567, 597, 627, 650, 680. 709, 740
Notes from the North, 6, 42, 60, 84, 108, 128, 155, 191, 206, 280, 254, 278, 302, 328, 361, 385, 409, 516, 530, 569, 590, 616, 642, 668, 692, 737
Notes, Paris Exhibition, 626, 649, 676, 705
Notes from the South-West, 7, 43, 59, 82, 108, 128, 154, 191, 206, 231, 255, 279, 316, 329, 352, 385, 408, 515,531,557,589,628, 656, 668, 692, 742
Notes from South Yorkshire, 6, 42, 60, 84, 108, 129, 158, 192, 216, 231, 255, 279, 302, 328, 361, 385, 409, 515, 540, 570, 589, 616, 643, 668, 692, 737
Notes from the United States, 6,70, 79, 143, 169, 189, 237, 264, 288, 338, 360, 372, 411, 515, 542, 568, 654, 680, 696
Nova Scotia, Gold in, 16
Nut Lock, The Stark, 143

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Ocean Transport, Recent Economy in, 63
Officers, Naval Engineer, 38
Official Standardising Laboratory, An, 704
Off-Shore Floating Dock at Hamburg, The, 531
Oil-Carrying Steamers, The Stability of, 571, 604
Oil as Fuel for Metallurgical Purposes, 624
Oil Illuminations. Gas, 165
Open-Hearth Steel, The Manufacture of Basic, 578
Ordnance, Naval, The Debate on, 282
Ore Supplies, Iron, 535
Osney Bridge, Oxford, 48
Otago Harbour, 298
Outlay on the Navy, The, 235
Overhauling of a Mechanical Power, 53

Packing, Downie’s Piston, 544
Paget Warp Weaver and Knitter, The, 729
Palais Royal Electric Light Station, The, 226
Panama Canal, The, 30, 115
Panel and Hand Planing Machine, Worssam’s, 227
Paper Bag Machine, Duerden’s, 615
Paris Copper Syndicate, The, 257
Paris Edison Company, The, 673
Paris, The Electrical Congress in, 403
Paris Exhibition Awards, 261
Paris Exhibition Notes, 626, 619, 676, 705
Paris International Exhibition. See Exhibition, The Paris International.
Paris Meeting of the Mechanical Engineers, The, 675
Paris, The Popp Compressed Air System in, 163, 638, 685,715
Passenger Locomotive, Compound ; London and North-Western Railway, 601, 656
Pasteurisation of Beer, 91
Patent Agents, 700
Patent Record, The, 23, 49, 73, 97, 121, 147, 171, 195, 219, 243, 267, 291, 317, 341, 365, 389, 413, 518, 546, 575, 605, 629, 657, 681, 713, 743
Patents, Electric Transformer, 233
Patents, Interdependence of, 281
Pavilion, The Algerian; Paris International Exhibition, 78
Pavilion of the Argentine Republic, The ; Paris International Exhibition, 104
Pavilion, The French Colonial; Paris International Exhibition, 78
Pavilion, The Tunisian ; Paris International Exhibition, 78
Paxman’s Compound Portable Steam Engine, 227
Peacock, Mr. Richard, 311
Pearsall’s Hydraulic Engines, 586
Penrhyn Island, 149
Percy, Dr. John, 732
Permanent Way and Public Safety, 135
Persia, Railways in, 286
Petit-Bourg, The Railway Works of, 635, 660
Petroleum Borings in Galicia, 286
Petroleum Engine, Priestman’s, 712
Petroleum Enterprise, British, 676
Petroleum Fuel in Locomotives, The Use of, 114, 130,156 _ I
Petroleum for Fuel in the United State?, 112
Petroleum and Gas Motors, 724
Petroleum Motor, Knight’s, 724
Phonographic Experiment, A Remarkable, 259
Phonophore, The, 380
Photograph of Lightning Flashes, A, 712
Photographs of Lightning and of “ Black” Electric Sparks, Some, 736

Physical Society, The : 105,194

On the Structure of Natural Diffraction Gratings of Quartz, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 105
On Ahrens’ Modification of Delazenne’s Pola-riser, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 105
On the Use of Two Quarter-Wave Plates in Combination with a Stationary Polariser, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 105
On a Relation between Magnetisation and Speed in a Dynamo Machine, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 105
On the Divergence of Electromotive Forces from Thermochemical Data, by Professor Herroun, 105
On Physico-Geometrical Models, by Professor A. S. Herschel, D.C.L., F.R.S., 194
On the Measurement of Electrical Resistance, by Dr. J. W. Waghorne, 237
On a New Polarimeter, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 237
Structures, by Professor b. P. Thompson, O^Electrical Measurement, by, Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and Professor J. Perry, OnFtandme7nsions of «ro Wf Units,
JSlorTh^rodSn of the Effect, by a Reed or Tuning-Fork, by Professor J. V.
On °the’ciark Cell as a Source of Standard Currents, by Professor R. Threlfall and Mr.
Or^ the ^Application of Clark’s Cell to the Construction of a Standard Galvanometer, by Professor R. Threlfall, 340
On the Measurement of the Re8l8*anc® perfectly Purified Sulphur, by Professor Threlfall and Mr. A. Pollock, 340
On the Measurement of_.H1Sh SP®^lftc Re sistances, by Professor Threlfa11, 340
On a Lecture Experiment Rlu8*ra*lDand Effect of Heat on the Magnetic Supcepti-bility of Nickel, by Mr. Shelford Bidwell, F R S 383
On an*Experiment Showing an Effect of Light on Magnetism, by Mr. Shelf ord Bidwell, F.R.S., 383
On the Dark Flash Seen in some Lightning Photographs, by Mr. G. M. wJyPP!,e’^nvfl
On Quartz as an Insulator, by Mr. G. V. Boys, F.R.S.,384
On a Refraction Goniometer, by Mr. A. r. Trotter, 384,559
On Apparatus to Illustrate Crystal Forms, by Professor R. J. Anderson, 384
On an Electrostatic Field Produced by Varying Magnetic Induction, by Dr. 0. J. Lodge, D.Sc., F.R.S., 602 . .
On the Concentration of Electric Radiation by Lenses, by Professor O. J. Ljnge, D.bc., F.R.S , and James L. Howard, D.Sc., 602
On a Relation Existing between the Density and Refraction of Gaseous Elements and some of their Compounds, by the Rev. 1. Pelham Dale, 652
On a Water Spray Influence Machine, by Mr. George Fuller, 652
On Polarised Light: (a) On the Transition Tints of Various Orders; (and) Lecture illustrations of the Rotation of Circularly Polarised Light; (c) On the Rotation of Circularly Polarised and Non-Polansed Light, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 652
On the Molecular Weight of Caoutchouc and other Colloid Bodies, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and Mr. W. Hibbert, F.I.C., 652
On a Photograph of Lightning Flashes, by Dr. Hoffert, 712
On the Method of Suppressing Sparking m Electro-Magnets, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 712
On a Shunt Transformer, by Mr. E. W. Smith, 712
On Geometrical Optics : (1) On the Deduction of the Elementary Theory of Mirrors and Lenses from Wave Principles; (2) On a Diopteric Spherometer ; (3) On the Formula of the Lenticular Mirror, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 712
On the Use of Biquartz, by Mr. A. W. Ward, 712
On Some Photographs of Lightning and of “ Black” Electric Sparks, by Mr. A. W. Clay den, 736
On the Electrical Resistance of Bismuth, by Dr. Ed. von Aubel, 737
On Expansion with Rise and Temperature of Wires under Pulling Stress, by Mr. J. T. Bottomley, M.A., F.R.S., 737

Physico* Geometrical Models, 194
“ Piemonte,” The Italian Cruiser, 392, 508, 625
Pipe Joint, Archer’s, 44
Pipes, Flowage of Water in, Notes on the, 1, 25
Piston Packing, Downie’s, 544
Piston Rings, The Friction of, 27
Pitcairn, 199
Pitting and Corrosion in Marine Boilers, 315
Pittsburg Steel Cast Gun, The, 65
Planing Machine, Worssam’s Panel and Hand, 227
Platform for Guns, A Steady, 397, 400
Polarimeter, A New, 237
Polarised Light, Notes on, 652
Polishing, Diamond, 123
Popp Compressed Air System in Paris, The, 163, 638, 685, 715
Port and Harbour Defence, 37
Portable Bridges, Brochocki’s, 322
Portable Crane, Stothert and Pitt’s Five-Ton, 641 Portable Electric Light Engine, Aveling and
Porter’s, 729
Portable Engine for Electric Light Plant, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 348
Portable Engine with Removable Firebox and Tubes, Ruston and Proctor’s, 526
Portable Steam Engine, Paxman’s Compound, 227
Portland Cement Testing, 701
Power, The Transmission of, by the Exhaust System, 659
Press, Howards’ Hay and Straw Baling, 712
Priestman’s Petroleum Engine, 712
Private Bill Legislation, 563
Private Bills v. Concessions, 511
Professors and Engineers, 161
Prohibiting Wood Fuel on Russian Railways, 359
Projector, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 704
Projectors, Mangin, 703
Promoting Industry, The German Way of, 212
Propeller, Screw, The Greenhill Theory of the, 505
Propulsion, Fluid Pressure in Relation to, 505
Protection of Buoyancy and Stability in Ships, The, 368, 505
Protection to Inventors; Paris International Exhibition, 420
Protection of Merchant Steamers in Time of War, The, 391
Public Safety and Permanent Way, 135
Pulleys, Coned Step, 52
Pulp Digester, Wood, Daglish’s, 386
Pulsometer, The, 728
Pumping Engine at the West Middlesex Water Works, Worthington High-Duty, 10
Pumping Engine, Worthington, 497
Pumping Engines, Centrifugal, Tangyes* Triple Expansion, 70
Pumping Engines, Duty Trials of, 145, 169, 217
Pumping Engines at Luton, Sewage, 299
Purification of the River Clyde, The, 311

Quarter-Wave Plates, Use of Two, with a Stationary Polariser, 105
Quartz as an Insulator, 384
Quartz, Structure of Natural Diffraction Gratings of, 105
Quay and Station at Gourock ; Greenock and Gourock Railway, 326
Quebec and Montreal, Ship Channel between, 89
Question, The Coal, 179

Radial Drilling Machine for Malta Dockyard, Asquith’s, 280
Rail Sections, Heavy, 275, 624
Railroad, An Electric, in Scotland, 539
Railroad, A Short Electric, 17
Rails, Heavier, The Use of, 91, 144
Rails, Steel, 622
Railway, The Decauville, 477
Railway Extensions, The Lancashire and Yorkshire, 601
Railway, The Grand Trunk of Canada, 40, 139
Railway, The Great Siberian, 92, 734
Railway, Greenock and Gourock, 193, 241, 253, 276, 301, 326
Railway, The Hartz Mountain, 117
Railway, The Liverpool and Manchester, 104
Railway Movements in South Africa, 165
Railway, Northern Pacific ; Canadian Extensions, 210
Railway Service, the Gourock, Steamers in Connection with the, 510
Railway, Sind-Pishin, Locomotive for, 372
Railway Station at Dundee, New; Caledonian
Railway, 680, 739
Railway Stations at Montreal, New, 386
Railway, The Swedish-Norwegian, 79
Railway Train, Trial Trip of a New, 514
Railway Works of Petit-Bourg, The, 635, 660
Railways, Australian, 597
Railways, The British, and British Trade, 645
Railways in India, 262
Railways in Newfoundland, 164
Railways in Persia, 286
Railways, Swedish, 382
Railways in the Western Isles of Scotland, 676
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Ten Horse-Power Under-Type Engine, 691
Raratonga, 173
Reactions, Metallurgical, and Thermal Chemistry, 583, 654
Recent Economy in Ocean Transport, 63
Recent Spectroscopic Researches, 331
Record, The Patent, 23, 49, 73, 97, 121, 147, 171, 195, 219, 243, 267, 291, 317, 341, 365, 389, 413, 518, 546, 575, 605, 629, 657, 681, 713, 743
Record, The Transatlantic, 594
Refraction, Goniometer, A, 384, 559
Refrigerating Machine, Ammonia Compression System, 143
Refrigerator, The Arctos, 237
Registering Brake Dynamometer, Brotherhood’s, 664
Regulator for Compound Locomotives, Automatic, 21
“ Reina Maria Christina” and “ Alphonso XIII.,” The New Spanish Mail Steamers, 140
Removable Firebox and Tubes, Ruston and
Proctor’s Portable Engine with, 526
Repair and Construction of Roads, The, 237
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, C.M.G., R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 34, 336
Report of the Naval Manoeuvres, The, 185, 234
Republic of Uruguay, The, 625
Researches, Spectroscopic, Recent, 331
Reserve, The Royal Naval, 111
Reservoir, An Ancient, 164
Reservoir Disaster, The South Fork, 647
Retailing Electric Light through Meters in Glasgow, 567, 734

Retrospective Exhibition of Work, The : 498

Exhibition of Means of Transport, 499
Railways, 500
Road Carriage, 502
Sections of Retrospective Exhibition, 499
Shipbuilding, 501

Ribbed Boiler Tubes, Serve’s, 288
Rice Mill for Japan, Copeland’s, 398
Richardson’s High-Speed Engine, 58
Rigging Screw, Smith’s Improved, 21
Rimutaka Incline, The, New Zealand, 117
River and Canal Works in France, Belgium, and Germany, 154
River Indus, Bridge over the, at Sukkur, 10
Road Bridge, New Great Western, Glasgow, 67
Roads, The Construction and Repair of, 237
Robey’s Shakers for Thrashing Machines, 726
Roller Flour Milling, 150, 351, 387
Rolling Mill, A Universal, 583
Roof of Cathcart-Street Station, Greenock, 276. 301
Rotary Steam Snow Shovels, 326
Rothschilds and Batoum, The, 66
Royal Meteorological Society, The, 96, 183, 412, 588, 741
Royal Naval Reserve, The, 111
Royal Society, The Ladies’ Conversazione at the. 700 ’
Royal Society Soirde, The, 538, 566
Russia, Coal Imports into, 261
Russian Canals, Improving the, 188
Russian Kerosene Pipe Line, The, 649
Ruston and Proctor’s Portable Engine with Removable Firebox and Tubes, 526
Ruston and Proctor’s Vertical Compound Engine, 627

Sack’s Universal Rolling Mill, 583
Safety Gear, Smith and Stevens’s Elevator with. 217
Safety, Public and Permanent Way, 135
Sailing Ship, A Five-Masted, 382
Saltaire Dining Hall, Accident at, 539
Saw Sharpener, Hill’s Circular, 277
Scotland, Associated Ironmoulders of, 284
Scotland, Proposed Ship Canal across, 41, 139
Scotland, Shipbuilding in, in 1888, 71
Scotland, Shipbuilding and Engineering Industries in, 306
Scott’s High-Speed Engine, 721
Screw Propeller, The Greenhill Theory of the, 505
Screw, Rigging, Smith’s Improved, 21
Sea Water, The Compressibility of, 41
Sectional Boiler, Ward’s, 322
Sectional Compound Engine, Willdigg and Lupton’s, 30
Sections, Heavy Rail, 275, 624
Seismograph, Ewing’s Duplex Pendulum, 180
Series Electrical Tramway System, The, 139, 259
Serve’s Ribbed Boiler Tubes, 288
Sewage, The Electrical Treatment of, 3CG
Sewage Farm, The Birmingham, 91
Sewage Pumping Engines at Luton, 299
Shakers for Thrashing Machines, Robey’s, 726
Shanks’s Heavy Slotting Machine, 321
Sharpener, Circular Saw, Hill’s, 277
Shears, Hydraulic Ingot, Fielding and Platt’s Treble-Power, 298
Shells, Boiler, The Strength of, 394, 398
Ship Canal across Scotland, Proposed, 41,139
Ship Channel between Quebec and Montreal, 89
Shipbuilders, Iron, and Boilermakers, 89
Shipbuilding in Canada, Steel, 311
Shipbuilding and Engineering Industries in Scotland, 306
Shipbuilding in India, 286
Shipbuilding in Scotland in 1888, 71
Ships, Armour for, 348
Ships, Battle, Designs for, 356, 362, 367, 373
Ships, British War, 333, 358
Ships, The Protection of Buoyancy and Stability in, 368, 505
Ships, Steel and Iron, The Corrosion and Fouling of, 503
Shore Delivery Dredger for Lake Copais, Hunter and English’s, 104
Siberian Railway, The Great, 92, 734
Signal Bells, Cox-Walker and Swinton’s Magneto Electric, 277
Signalling from Mining Cages, 143
Silver Mining, Lake Superior, 236
Slide Valves, Chilled, 539
Slotting Machine, Shanks’s Heavy, 321
Smallman’s Haulage Clip, 106
Smith and Coventry’s Key-Way Cutting Machine, 276
Smith and Stevens’s Elevator with Safety Gear, 217
Smith’s Improved Rigging Screw, 21
Smith’s Patent Combined Excavator and Steam Crane, 348
Snelgrove Electric Weighing Machine, The, 694
Snow Shovels, Rotary Steam, 326
Society of Arts, The, 287
Society of Arts Engine Trials, The, 305
Society, The Associated Blacksmiths’, 332
Society, The Ironfounders’, 39
Society, Steam Engine Makers’, 185
Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, 16
Soiree, The Royal Society, 538, 566, 700
Soldiers, Reserve and Discharged, The Employment of, 235
South Africa, Railway Movements in, 165
South-East England, The Weather of, in 1888, 64
South Fork Reservoir Disaster, The, 647
South Sea Islands, Through the, in a Man-of-War, 51, 90, 101, 149, 173,198
South-West, Notes from the, 7, 43, 59, 82, 108, 128, 154, 191, 206, 231, 255, 279, 316, 329, 352, 385, 408, 515, 531, 557, 589, 628, 656, 668, 692, 742
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 6, 42, 60, 84, 108, 129, 158,192, 216, 231. 255, 279, 302, 328, 361, 385, 409, 515, 540, 570, 589, 616, 643, 668, 692, 737
Spanish Cruisers, Contract for, 649
Spanish Iron Minerals, 286
Spanish Mail Steamers “Alphonso XIII.” and “ Reina Maria Christina,” The New, 140
Spanish Torpedo Boat Trials, 295, 345, 381
“ Sparrow” and “ Thrush,” The British Gunboats, 321
Spectroscopic Researches, Recent, 331
Spirally Welded Tubes, 513
Spirit Motors, 597
Spring Mounted Traction Engine, Fowler’s, Arrangement of Gear for, 722
Stability and Buoyancy in Ships, The Protection of, 368, 505
Stability of Oil-Carrying Steamers, The, 571, 604
Stamp Mill, Appleby’s, Sixty-Head, 116
Stamp Mill, Appleby’s Twenty-Head, 226
Standardising Laboratory, An Official, 704
Stark Nut Lock, The, 143
Station, Cathcart-Street, Greenock, Roof of, 276, 301
Station at Dundee, New Railway; Caledonian Railway, 680, 739
Station, Electric Lighting, The Kensington Central, 115
Station and Quay at Gourock ; Greenock and Gourock Railway, 326
Stations, New Railway, at Montreal, 386
Steady Platform for Guns, A, 397, 400
Steam Boilers Bill, The, 649
Steam Crane and Excavator, Smith’s Patent Combined, 348
Steam Crane Navvy, Whitaker’s, 411
Steam Distribution in the United States, District, 299
Steam, Dry, The Identification of, 52
Steam Engine Makers’ Society, 185
Steam Engine, The Theory of the, 293, 343, 607, 683, 717
Steam Engines and Boilers, 721
Steam, Flow of, through Tubes, 52
Steam and Hand Steering Gear, Napier’s Combined, 351
Steam Navigation, Foreign, 66
Steam Snow Shovels, Rotary, 326
Steam Trap, The Korting, 591
Steam Yacht “ Lady Torfrida,” Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 348, 526
Steamer “ Calais-Douvres,” The London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company’s, 667
Steamers “ Alphonso XIII.” and “ Reina Maria Christina,” The, New Spanish Mail, 140
Steamers for the Caspian, 705
Steamers in Connection with the Gourock Railway Service, 510
Steamers, Merchant, The Protection of, in Time of War, 391
Steamers, Oil-Carrying, The Stability of, 571, 604
Steamship “Alfonso XII.” The Engines and Boilers of the, 154, 201
Steamship “ Argus,” Engines and Boilers of the, 86
Steamship “ Islander,” The, 21
Steamship Line, A New Atlantic, 672
Steel, On, 53
Steel Cast Gun, The Pittsburg, 65
Steel Cast Guns, 211
Steel and Iron, The Strength of, 242
Steel Locomotive Firebox, Webb’s, 559
Steel, The Manufacture of Basic Open-Hearth, 578
Steel and Nickel, Alloys of, 555, 573
Steel Rails, 622
Steel Shipbuilding in Canada, 311
Steel, the Tensile Strength of, The Influence of Copper on, 582
Steel, Treatment of, by Hydraulic Pressure, 568
Steel Works, Brymbo, 536
Steering Gear, Napier’s Combined Hand and Steam, 351
Step, Hydraulic, Analysis of an, 32, 95
Step Pulleys, Coned, 52
Stern-Well Twin-Screw Dredger, The First, 57
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, U.S.A., The, 634
Stothert and Pitt’s Five-Ton Portable Crane, 641
Strains on an Annular Lid, 56
Strength of Boiler Shells, The, 394, 398
Strength of Cast Iron, The, 52
Strength of Iron and Steel, The, 242
Strength of the Navy, The, 161
Strike, The Cost of a, 731
“Strong” Locomotive “A. G. Darwin,” The, 560
Submarine Bridge under the Sound, Proposed, 597
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 92
Subway, the City of London and Southwark, Electrical Traction on, 116
Suction Dredger “Libawa” for the Port of Libau,45
Suez Canal, The, 567
Sukkur, Bridge over the River Indus at, 10
Sulphur, Imperfectly Purified, Measurement of the Resistance of, 340
Sunshine and Water, 14, 67
Supplies. Iron Ore, 535
Suppressing Sparking in Electro Magnets, The Methods of, 712
Suram Tunnel, Trans-Caucasus Railway, The, 324
Surplus of the Glasgow Exhibition and its Disposal, The, 128, 567
Suwarrow Island, 150
Sweden, Projected Large Canal in, 91
Swedish-Norwegian Railway, The, 79
Swedish Railways, 382
Swiss Section of the Paris International Exhibition, The, 647
Syndicate, Copper, The Paris, 257

Tabor Indicator, The, 654
Tahiti, 198
Tangyes’ Triple-Expansion Centrifugal Pumping Engines, 70
Tapping Water Mains, Turner’s Apparatus for, 82
Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, The Society of, 16
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 92
Telescope, Proposed Large, in the United States, 212
Temperatures, A New Method of Estimating, 115
Tensile Strength of Steel, The Influence of Copper on the, 582
Testing Fibres, Boys’s Instrument for, 708
Testing Machine, The Thomasset, 584
Testing Portland Cement, 701
Theory of the Screw Propeller, The Greenhill, 505
Theory of the Steam Engine, The, 293, 343, 607, 683, 717
Thermal Chemistry and Metallurgical Reactions, 583, 654
Thomasset Testing Machine. The, 584
Thrashing Machines, Robey’s Shakers for, 726
Threatened Industry, A, 379
Through the South Sea Islands in a Man-of-War, 51, 90, 101, 149, 173, 198
“Thrush” and “Sparrow,” The British Gunboats, 321
Tinned Sheet Iron, Nails of, 41
Tool-Holder, Bent’s, 541
Torpedo Boat, A New, 236
Torpedo Boat Trials, Spanish, 295, 345, 381
Torpedo Boats, 187
Torpedo Boats, The French First-Class, 335
Torpedo Service, Brotherhood’s Air Compressor for, 587
Traction, Electrical, on the. City of London and Southwark Subway, 116
Traction Engine, Spring-Mounted, Fowler’s Arrangement of Gear for, 722
Trade, British, and the British Railways, 645
Trade, The Export, from the Clyde during 1888, 11
Trade of Japan for 1888, The Foreign, 403
Trades, Iron, Wages in the, 671
Training Wall at the Mouth of Otago Harbour, New Zealand, 298
Tramway System, The Series Electrical, 139, 259
Tramways, Electric, in the United States, 164
Transatlantic Record, The, 594
Transcaspian Railway, Improving the, 41, 139
“ Transfer,” Canada Southern Ferry Boat, 287
Transformer Patents, Electric, 233
Transformer, A Shunt, 712
Transmission of Energy by Compressed Air, The, 163, 638, 685, 715
Transmission of Power by the Exhaust System, The, 659
Transport, Ocean, Recent Economy in, 63
Trap, Steam, The Orting, 591
Travelling Bridges, 497
Treatment of Sewage, The Electrical, 306
Treatment of Steel by Hydraulic Pressure, 568
Trial Trip of a New Railway Train, 514
Trial Trips and Launches, 11, 43, 59, 81,117, 133, 190, 216, 239, 254, 287, 302, 336, 383, 410, 516, 545, 587, 605, 617, 643, 678, 697, 737
Trials, Brake, at Carlsruhe, 307, 620
Trials, Engine, The Society of Arts, 305
Trials, Marine Engine, 519, 527
Trials of Motors for Electric Lighting, 175, 202, 227, 265
Trials of Pumping Engines, Duty, 145, 169, 217
Trials, Spanish Torpedo Boat, 295, 345, 381
Trincheras Incline, Venezuela, The, 116
Triple-Expansion Centrifugal Pumping Engines, Tangyes’, 70
Triple-Expansion Engine at Messrs. R. and H. Hinchcliffe’s Mills, Cragg Valley, Mytholm-royd, 264
Triple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “ Argus,” 86
Triple-Expansion Engines of the Steam Yacht “ Lady Torfrida,” 348, 526
Triple-Expansion Engines of the Twin-Screw Ferry Steamer “ Clutha 4,” Two-Crank, 411
Tube Vice, Bauer’s Automatic, 627
Tubes, Boiler, Serve’s Ribbed, 288
Tubes, Flow of Steam through, 52
Tubes, Spirally Welded, 513
Tunisian Pavilion, The ; Paris International Exhibition, 78
Tunnel, The Suram, Trans-Caucasus Railway, 324
Turner’s Apparatus for Tapping Water Mains, 82
Turning Machine, Crank-Pin, Urquhart’s Portable, 348
Twin Gas Engine, Crossley’s Large, 182
Twin-Screw Stern-Well Dredger, The First, 57
Two-Crank Triple-Expansion Engines of the
Twin-Screw Ferry Steamer “Clutha 4,” 411
Tyler’s Sewage Pumping Engines at Luton, 299

Underground Railroad, A Lawful, 596
Under-Type Engine, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’ Ten Horse-Power, 691
United States, District Steam Distribution in the, 299
United States Navy, The, 113
United States, Notes from the, 6, 70, 79,143,169, 189, 237, 264, 288, 338, 360, 372, 411, 515, 542, 568, 654, 680, 696
United States, Petroleum for Fuel in the, 112
Universal Rolling Mill, A, 583
Urquhart’s Portable Crank-Pin Turning Machine, 348
Uruguay, The Republic of, 625
Use of Heavier Rails, The, 91, 144
Use of Petroleum Fuel in Locomotives, The, 114, 130, 156

Vacuum, Drying in a, 526, 741
Valve, Moseley’s Straight Full-Way, 82
Vancouver Water Works, 246
Vertical Cylinder Boring Machine, Francis Berry and Sons’, 104
Vertical Compound Engine, Ruston and Proctor’s, 627
“Vesuvius,” The Dynamite Gun Cruiser, 653
Viaducts, The Calbourne and Newport, 96
Vieille-Montagne, The, 596
Visit of American Engineers, The, 676
Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to America, The, 553

Wages in the Iron Trades, 671
Wall, Training, at the Mouth of the Otaga Harbour, New Zealand, 298
War Vessels, The Designing of, 404
Ward’s Sectional Boiler, 322
Warships, British, 333, 358
Warships, Water-Tube Boilers for, 392, 411
Washington Island, 90
Water Gas Plant at the Leeds Forge, Leeds, 58
Water Mains, Turner’s Apparatus for Tapping, 82
Water in Pipes, Notes on the Flowage of, 1, 25
Water Spray Influence Machine, A, 652
Water and Sunshine, 14, 67
Water-Tube Boilers for Warships, 392, 411
Water Works at the Hague, Holland, The, 249
Water Works, Liverpool (Vyrnwy), 99, 125, 152, 235
Water Works, Vancouver, 246
Wattmeter for Alternate Currents, Ganz’s, 338
Weather, The, 17, 40, 64, 136, 235, 333, 512, 646
Weather of South-East England in 1888, The, 64
Weaver and Knitter, The Paget Warp, 729
Webb’s Locomotive Firebox, 559
Weighing Machine, The Snelgrove Electric, 694
Weight of Marine Engines, The, 221
Welded Tubes, Spirally, 513
Welding, Electric, 56
Western Isles of Scotland, Railways in the, 676
Westinghouse Electric Lighting System, The, 56, 127, 175, 248
Westinghouse, George, Jun., 18
Wheel-Cutting Machine, Wilkinson and Lister’s, 372
Wheel, Garrett’s Wrought-Iron, 722
Whitaker’s Steam Crane Navvy, 411
White Star Liners, The New, 80
Wilkinson and Lister’s Wheel-Cutting Machine, 372
Willdigg and Lupton’s Sectional Compound Engine, 30
William Denny Memorial Institute, The, 405
Windsor Show, 720
Wood Fuel on Russian Railways, Prohibiting, 359
Wood Pulp Digester, Daglish’s, 386
Wool-Washing Machine, 601

Works :

Brymbo Steel, 536
Calais Harbour, 549, 577, 609
Canal and River, in France, Belgium, and Germany, 154
Railway, The Petit-Bourg, 635, 660
Water, at the Hague, Holland, 249
Water, Liverpool (Vyrnwy), 99,125, 152, 235
Water, Vancouver, 246
Worm Gearing, 52
Worssam’s Panel and Hand Planing Machine, 227
Worthington High-Duty Pumping Engine at the West Middlesex Water Works, 10
Worthington Pumping Engine, 497

Yokohama Harbour, 382

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