Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: 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