Engineering 1889 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1889 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

Accident Crane for Railway Service, Knapman’s, 11
Accidents, the Prevention of, The Exhibition at Berlin for, 1889, 579
Accumulators, Distribution of Electricity from, 357
Action of Lead Oxide on Glass, 449
Action of Light on Matter, The, 386, 411
Action of Steam in Steam Cylinders, 534, 556, 584
Action of Waves and Currents in Estuaries, The, 333
Address to the Chemical Section of the British Association, 349, 379
Address to the Mathematical and Physical
Science Section of the British Association, 411
Address to the Mechanical Science Section of the British Association, 351, 380
Agriculture in the Desert, 675
Air, Compressed, The Popp System of Distributing Power by, 86, 320, 330
Air Compressor, Weiss’s, 135
Air Compressors for Torpedo Service, Brotherhood’s, 10
Air Pumps, Horizontal, 494
Air Surface Condenser and Grease Extractor, Fouchd’s, 246
Air Vessels on Pipes and Pumps, 25
Alloys of Iron and Silicon, 156, 187, 236, 261, 392, 471, 502
Alloys, The Strength of, at Different Temperatures, 414
Alternate Current Motors, 115
Alternate and Steady Currents and Conductors, 423
Aluminium, 449
Aluminium and the Grabau Aluminium Process, 716
Aluminium, Manufacture of, 144
America, The Western States of, 552
American Atlantic Line of Steamers, Proposed, 182
American Block of Offices, An, 564
American Engineers in Europe, The, 17, 51, 113
American Impressions of the Borth Bridge, 635
American Industrial Progress, 15
American Machine Tools, 22
American Navy, The, 661
American Steamers, 581
Americanising Australian Railways, 206
Americas, The Congress of the Three, 552
Ammonia Absorption, Refrigeration by, 100
Amsler-Laffon’s Cement Tester, 623
Analysis, Water, 449
Anchor, Hall’s Stocklers, 184
Andre’s Supports for Telephone Wires, 363
Antifouling Composition, 357
Apprenticeship in Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, 483
Arc Lamps, Sayers and Sturge’s Suspension for, 610
Ardrossan, New Harbour Works at, 528
Argentine Republic, The, 741
Arsenal and Shipyard, Elswick, 451,480, 509,550, 579, 593, 621, 648
Artificial Silk, 112
Artisan, the French, The Material Condition of, 431
Artists’ Colours, 449
Asquith’s Universal Drilling, Boring, and Tapping Machine, 363
Association, New England Cotton Manufacturers’, 632
Association of Shipbuilders and Engineers, A National, 552
Atlantic Liners, New High-Speed, 497
Atlantic Liners, Milford Haven as a Port for, 469
Atmospheric Electricity, 448
Australian Railways, Americanising, 206
Australian Squadron, The Cruisers of the, 487
Awards, The Paris Exhibition, 369, 413

Baku not Drying up, 434
Band-Sawing Machine, Metal, Noble and Land’s Self-Acting, 596
Band Saws for Heavy Timber, 254
Bar of the Mersey, The, 634
Barrow, Shipbuilding at, 270
Baseplate for Flanged Rails, Sandberg’s Steel, 501
Bayonne, The Port of, 645
“ Beaver,” Steam Sand Pump Hopper Dredger,
Beer Pipes, Buss’s Inspection Cock for, 198
Belgian Coal Mining, 315
Belgian Metallurgical Industry, 606
Bells, The Tones of, 388
Belt Traction, 146
Bement and Miles’s Steam Drop Hammer, 323
Ben Nevis Observatory, 420
Bending and Extension of Cylindrical Shells, The 388
Bdnier Hot-Air Engine, The, 246
Benson’s Clock for Portsmouth Town Hall, 338
Berlin, Electric Lighting at, 582
Berlin, The Exhibition at, for the Prevention of Accidents, 1889, 579
Bevel-Gear Cutting Machine, 539
Bianchi and Servettaz’s Hydraulic Railway Signals, 43
Bilbao, The English Shipbuilding Yard at, 504
Black Sea, Russian Port Improvements in the, 206
Blast Furnace Practice, 359, 629, 533
Blasting and Explosives, Historical Notes on, 560
Blindness, Colour, 387
Block of Offices, An American, 564
Boat, Torpedo, for the Indian Government, First-Class, 515
Boat, Torpedo, “No. 79,” Yarrow, 140
Boats, Diving, Past and Present, 179, 217
Boats, Torpedo, of the British Navy. 709
Boats, Torpedo, New, 348
Boats, Torpedo, for the Italian Navy, 662
Boats, Torpedo, The Seaworthiness of, 101, 128
Boiler, De Naeyer’s Tubulous, 569
Boiler Explosion, The Charlesworth, 749
Boiler Explosions in 1888, 59
Boiler Joints, Rivetted, 146
Boiler Legislation, Steam, 49
Boiler, Locomotive, Knaudt and Pohlmeyer’s ; Prussian State Railways. 396
Boilers, The Economical Firing of, 668
Boilers of the s.s. “ Caloric,” Compound, 235
Boilers, Water-Tube, 608
Bon Marchd Electric Lighting and Repairing Shops, The, 39
Bonnefond’s Locomotive Valve Gear, 710
Bordeaux, The Port of, 679
Boring, Drilling, and Tapping Machine, Asquith’s Universal, 363
Boring Machine and Lathe, Vertical, Rushworth’s Combined, 396
Boring and Tapping Machine, Lang’s Horizontal, 501
Boscovich’s Theory, 387
Bottle-Making Machinery, 331, 443
Boult’s Cylinder Lubricant Tester, 184
Bowack’s Fire Escape, 318
Bradford, Water Supply of, 287
Brainard 36-in. Automatic Gear-Cutting Engine, 22
Brainard 84-in. Milling Machine, 22
Brakes, Electric, 703
Breaking Flax, Machine for, 317
Breguet and Company’s Exhibit at the Paris Exhibition, 454
Bremme’s Patent Valve Gear, Notes on, 444
Breuer and Schumacher’s Hydraulic Steam Sleeper Press, 22
Breuer and Schumacher’s Pneumatic Hammer, 738
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 496
Bric-a-Brac, Electro-Plated, 181
Bridge, The Channel, 373
Bridge Flooring, Hobson’s. 639
Bridge, The Forth, 469, 569, 624, 653
Bridge over the Mississippi River, near Fort Madison, Iowa; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fd Extension Railway, 73
Bridge over the River Tay at Caputh Ferry, 306
Bridge, The Sibley, over the Missouri River ;
Chicago, Santa Fd, and California Railway, 10
Bridges, Portable (Seyrig System), 139
Britannia Company’s Horizontal Radial Drill, 668
Britannia Company’s Shaping Machine, 555
British v. American Steamers, 315

British Association, The : 311, 327

Chemical Section, The, 448
Economic Section, The, 483
Mathematical Papers, 387
Mechanical Section, The. 330, 355
On the Transmission of Power by Compressed Air in Paris (Popp’s System), by Alexander B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., M.I.C.E., 320, 330
On Water Gas, by Mr. A. C. Humphreys, 331
On Apparatus for Providing a Steady Platform at Sea, by Mr. Beauchamp Tower, 331
On Bottle-Making Machinery, by Mr. H. M. Ashley, 331, 443
On the Utilisation of Fibrous Peat, for the Manufacture of Brown Paper, Wrappers, and Millboards, by Mr. J. A. London, 332
On Hydraulic Railway Signalling, by Mr. C. E. Carr, 332
On the Action of Waves and Currents in Estuaries, Report of Committee, 333
On the Manufacture of Iron. Address to the Chemical Section, by Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., F.R.S., F.C.S., D.C.L.,
President of the Section, 349,379
On Mechanical Science. Address to the Mechanical Section, by Mr. William Anderson, M.I.C.E., President of the Section, 351, 380
On the Development of Graphic Methods, Report of Committee, by Professor U. S. Hole Shaw, 355
On Ships for the Carriage of Petroleum, by Mr. A. R. Liddell, 356
On the Corrosion and Fouling of Ships and Antifouling Compositions, by Mr. Holzapfel, 357 . . r
On the Distribution of Electricity from Accumulators, by General Webber, 357
On Precautions to be Adopted when the Electric Light is Supplied by Means of Transformers, by Mr. Killingworth Hedges, 358
On Electric Launches, by Mr. George Forbes, 359
On Series Electrical Traction, by Mr. Edward Manville, 359
On Telephonic Communication, by Mr. Preece, 359
On the Purification of Sewage and Water Contaminated with Organic Matter by Electrolysis, by Mr. W. Webster, 359
On Blast Furnace Practice, Joint Discussion, 359
On the Chemin de Fer Glissant, by Sir Douglas Gal ton, 362
On Records of River Volumesand Flood Levels, by Mr. C. E. De Rance, 362
On Central Heating and Power Supply, by Mr. Wilson W. Phipson, 362
On the Hardening and Tempering of Steel, by Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., 377
Physical and Chemical Papers, 386
On the Progress of Photography. Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, by Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B., R.E., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., President of the Section, 386, 411
On the Intensity of Light Productive of Density of Deposit in a Photograph, by Captain W. de W. Abney, 386
On Pin-Hole Photography, by Lord Rayleigh, 386
On a New Method of Printing Photographic Negative*, Employing Living Leaves in Place of Sensitive Plates, by Mr. Walter Gardiner, 387
On the Action of Magnetism on Photographic Plates, by Mr. Ph. Braham, F.C.S , 387
On Eikonogen, a New Photographic Developer, by Professor Liveing, F.R.S., 387
On an Experiment on Colour Blindness, by Mr. J. Spiller, 387
On Re-Examination of the Spectra of 23 Gas-Vacuum, End-on Tubes, after Six to Ten Years of Existence and Use, by Mr. Piazzi Smyth, late Astronomer-Royal of Scotland, 387
On the Correspondence between the Molecular Refraction, Dispersion, and Magnetic Rotation of Carbon Compounds, by Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S,, and Dr. Perkins, F.R.S., 387
On Boscovich’s Theory, by Sir William Thomson, 387
On the Unification of Time, 388
On the Extensibility of Liquid Films, by Lord Rayleigh, 388
On the Extension and Bending of Cylindrical Shells, by Mr. Basset, F.R.S., 388
On Stereometry, by Messrs. Haldane Gee and Harden, 388
On the Specific Heat of Caoutchouc, by Messrs. Haldane Gee and Hubert Terry, 388
On the Tones of Bells, by Lord Rayleigh, 388
On Cardium, Illustrating the True Nature of Prime Movers, by Mr. Gamgee, 390
On the Relation of Ether to Space, by Dr. Johnstone Stoney, 390
On Cosmogony, by Professor RUcker, 390
On the Physical and Chemical Constitution of Meteorites, by Mr. Braham, 390
On Solar Radiation, Report of the Committee, 390
On a Black Bulb Thermometer in Vacuo, by Professor McLeod, 390
On a New Form of Self-Registering Actinometer, by Dr. A. Richardson, 390
On the Strength of Alloys at Different Temperatures, by Professor W. C. Unwin, F.R.S., 414
On Tidal Observations, 420
On the Rate of Increase of Underground Temperature, Report of the Committee, 420
On Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, Report of the Committee, 420
On the Determination of the Amount of Rainfall, by Professor Cleveland Abb**, 420
On Hygrometry in the Meteorological Journal, by Professor Piazzi Smyth, 420
On Storms and Winters, 420
On Instruments Used m the Recent Magnetic Survey of France, by Professor RUcker, 420
On the Relation between the Geological Constitution and the Magnetic Stare of the United Kingdom, by Professors RUcker and Thorpe, 421
On Seismology in Japan, by Professor J. Milne, 421
On the Magnetic Viscosity of Iron, by Professor Ewing, 421
On Hysteresis in the Relation of Strain to Stress, by Professor Ewing, 421, 441
On the Magnetisation of Iron, Report of the Committee, 421
On Temporary Thermo-Currents in Iron, by Professor Trouton, 421
On Recalescence of Iron, by Professor Barrett, 421
On the Electromotive Force Produced by an Abrupt Variation of Temperature at the Point of Contact of Two Portions of the same Metal, by Professor Stroud, 421
On Electrical Standards, Report of the Committee, 421
On Standards of Self-Induction, by Professor Perry, 422
On a Twisted-Strip Voltmeter, by Professor Perry, 422
On a New Form of Current Weigher, by Professor J. Blyth, 423
On Leyden Jars, by Mr. Bottomley, 423
On Sparkless Electro-Magnets, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 423
On the Relative Effects of Steady and Alternate Currents on Different Conductors, by Mr. Preece, 423
On the Determination of by Means of Electric Oscillations, by Professor Oliver Lodge and Mr. Glazebrook, 423
On the Vibrations of Railway Trains, by Mr. John Milne, 441
On the Failure of Metal Screens to Screen off the Electrostatic Effect of Moving or Varying Charges, by Professor Oliver Lodge, 447
On the Discharge of Electrification by Flames, by Professor Worthington, 447
On the Discharge of Electricity through Gases, by Professor Schuster, 447
On the Experiments of Hertz, by Professor Trouton, 447
On Electrolysis, Report of the Committee, by Professor Oliver Lodge, 448
On a Phenomenon in the Electro-Chemical Solution of Metals, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 448
On Electrification of the Air by Combustion, by Messrs. Maclean, F.R.S.E., and Makita Goto, 448
On Atmospheric Electricity and the Use of Sir W. Thomson’s Portable Electrometer, by Professor Michie Smith, 448
On Atmospheric Electricity, by Professor Leonhard Weber, 448
On Some Photographs Imitating Dark Flashes of Lightning, by Mr. Clayden, 448
On a New Thermometric Scale, by Mr. W. H. Preece and Professor Forbes, 448
On the Teaching of Chemistry, Report of the Committee, 448
On Dimidium, an Attempt to Represent the Chemical Elements by Physical Forms, by Dr. Isaac Ashe, 449
On the Molecular Weight of Metals, by Messrs. Hey cock and Neville, 449
On a Spectroscope without a Lens, by Mr. P. Braham, 449
On Water Analysis, Reportof the Committee, 449
On Artists’ Colours, by Dr. Laurie, 449
On Pure Fermentation, by Professor P. Frank-land, Mrs. Frankland, and J. J. Fox, 449
On Prussiate of Potash, by Dr. Readman, 449
On the Action of Lead Oxide on Glass, by Mr. T. W. Hogg, 449
On a New White Lead, by Mr. Hannay, 449
On the Manufacture of Aluminium in the Electric Furnace, by Mr. J. Dagger, 449
On Aluminium from Cryolite, by Professor Bedson,449
On the Hopcraft Furnace, 482
On the Application of the Transporting Poxver of Water to the Deepening and Improvement of Rivers, by Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 482
British Association, The—continual.
On the Theory of Draught for Vehicles, by Mr. T. H. Brigg, 482
On Apprenticeship in Engineering and Ship-building Trades, by Sir Benjamin Browne, M.LC.E.,483
On Economic Competition, Address to the Economic Section, by Professor F. Y. Edgeworth, President of the Section, 483
On the State of our Coal Resources, by Professor Edward Hull, 483
On the Relations between Industrial Conciliation and Social Reform, by Mr. L. L. Price, 483
On the Incidence and Effects of Import and Export Duties, by Professor C. F. Bastable, 483
On the Difficulties of Arbitration, by Dr. R. S. Watson, 484
On the Relation between Wages and the Remainder of the Economic Product, by Mr. Sidney Webb, 484

British Excutive Offices in Paris, The, 140
British Navy, Torpedo Boats of the, 709
British Railways, The Wages Cost of Working, 689
Broadway Testing Works, Westminster, The, 178
Brotherhood’s Air Compressors for Torpedo Service, 10
Brotherhood’s Three-Cylinder Engines, 43
Brtinig Railway, Carriage for, 218
Brtinig Railway, Locomotive for, 395
Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Limited, The, 86
Buckland’s Rolling Mills, An Old Horse Gear at, 682
Buildings of the Edinburgh Electrical Exhibition, The, 552
Bull’s Patent Metal, 119
Burmah, The Opening up of, 116
Burmah, Petroleum “Immense” in, after all, 405
Burning of Furnace Plates, The, 497
Buss’s Inspection Cock for Beer Pipes, 198
Buss’s Tachygraph, 248
Buss’s Tachymeter, 43

Cail Company at the Paris Exhibition, The, 590
Calais Harbour Works, 42
“Caledonia,” Paddle Steamer, Engines of the, 220
“Caloric,” s.s., Compound Boilers of the, 235
“Camperdown,” The Gunnery Trials of the, 634
Canada, Climate of, 115
Canada, Phosphate Mining in, 207
Canada and the Siberian Railway, 232
Canal Across Scotland, The Proposed Ship, 425, 607, 711
Canal, The Scotch Ship—The Opposing Routes, 711
Cance System of Electric Lighting, The, 84
Caoutchouc, The Specific Heat of, 388
Cap Wrench, Entwistle and Kenyon’s, 323
Capital and Labour, 483
Caputh Ferry, Bridge over the River Tay at, 306
Carbon Compounds, 387
Cardium, Illustrating the True Nature of Prime Movers, 390
Garels’ Express Passenger Locomotive, 8
Carlaw’s Rotary Printing and Numbering Machine, 317
Carriage for the BrUnig Railway, 218
Carriage, First-Class, for the Southern Railway of France, 684
Carriage Lock, Kaye’s Railway, 118
Carriage and Locomotive for Mount Pilatus Railway, 514
Carriage, Rock Drill, Hanarte and Balant’s, 723
Cast Iron, The Influence of Silicon in, 156, 187, 236, 261
Catenaries, Two-Nosed, and their Application to the Design of Segmental Arches, 62
Cattle Wagon ; Southern Railway of France, 540
Caucasus, Mining Operations in the, 468
Cement Tester, Amsler-Laffon’s, 623
Central Asia, Reforesting, 53
Central Vestibule of the Paris Exhibition, The, 8
Centre Punch, Smit’s Precision, 527
Centrifugal Snow Excavator, The Jull, 246
Chandler High-Speed Engine and Crompton Dynamo, 168
Channel Bridge, The, 373
Charlesworth Boiler Explosion, The, 749
Chegneto Ship Railway, The, 468
Chemical and Physical Papers at the British Association, 386
Chemical Section of the British Association, The, 448
Chemistry, The Teaching of, 448
Chili, The Republic of, 494
China, Railways in, 497
Chocolate Factory, The Menier, 402
Civil Engineering in Glasgow University, 581
Civil Engineering and Mechanics, The New Professor of, in Glasgow University, 347

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 570, 608

On Glass Apparatus for Rendering Visible the
Effects of Condensation and Evaporation that take place inside a Steam Engine Cylinder, by Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., M.I.C.E., 607
On Water-Tube Steam Boilers for Marine Engines, by Mr. J. I. Thornycroft, M.I.C.E., 608
On the British Colonies as Fields for the Employment of the Civil Engineer, by the President, Sir John Coode, K.C.M.G., 570
On the Triple-Expansion Engines and Engine Trials in the Whitworth Engineering Laboratory, Owens College, Manchester, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, LL.D., F.R.S., M.I.C.E., 693
Subjects for Papers—Session 1889-90, 608

Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Compound Portable Engine, 544
Cleaning Castings, Mathewson’s Sand-Blast Apparatus for, 527
Cleveland, Notes from, 13, 54, 79, 109, 137, 174, 200, 224, 250, 278, 309, 338, 366, 399, 429, 460, 490, 516, 545, 583, 600, 625, 665, 686, 713, 739
Cleveland and Scotch Iron Markets, The, 577
Climate of Canada, 115
Climax Drawbar Gear, Wallace’s, 584
Clock, Conant’s Isochronal, 274
Clock for Portsmouth Town Hall, 338
Clyde and Forth Ship Canal, The Proposed, 425
Coal Mining, Belgium, 315
Coal on the Pacific, 86
Coal Resources, The State of our, 483
Coal Trade, The Crisis in the, and the Sliding Scales, 715
Coaling the Navy, 82
“Cobra,” Engines of the Royal Mail Paddle Steamer, 119,150
Cock for Beer Pipes, Buss’s Inspection for, 198
Colour Blindness, 387
Colours, Artists’, 449
Column Drilling and Boring Machine, Hulse’s, 193
Committee, Labour Conciliation, of the London Chamber of Commerce, 745
Communication with Lightships, Electric, 144
Communication, Telephonic, 359
Competition, Economic, 483
Composition, Antifouling, 357
Compound Boilers of the s.s. “Caloric,” 235
Compound Electric Light Engine at the Eiffel Tower, Vertical, 400
Compound Goods Locomotive; Northern Railway of France, 654
Compound Horizontal Engine (Frikart System), 275
Compound Horizontal Engine, Sulzer’s, 108, 428
Compound Locomotives on the London and North-Western Railway, 742
Compound Portable Engine, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 544
Compound Tandem Engine (Frikart System), 236
Compound Vertical Engine, 310
Compounds, Carbon, 387
Compressed Air, Experiments upon the Transmission of Power by, in Paris (Popp’s System), 320, 330
Conant’s Isochronal Clock, 274
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 607
Condenser, Fresh Water, The Pamphlett-Fergu-son, 501 „
Condenser, Fresh Water, The Yaryan, 118 .
Condenser and Grease Extractor, Fouchbs Air Surface, 246
Condensers, Steam Engine, The Theory of, 323
Condition of the French Artisan, The Material, 431

Congress of Electricians at Paris, The International : 282, 313, 344, 355

Batteries, 314
Bipolar Induction in a Rotating Sphere, 316
Concluding General Remarks, 355
Dynamos, 344
Electrical Units and Formula, 284, 313
Lectures and Excursions to Works, 355
Long Distance Telephony, 346
Measuring Current Intensities, 283
Measuring Instruments, 345
Miscellaneous Papers, 346, 355
Photometry, 313
Printing Telegraphs, 346
Rysselberghe Telephone, T*Je> 346
Telegraphy, Telephony, and Signals, 346
Telephonic Effects, 346
Transformer and Alternating Currents, 313
Units and Measurements, 283 ,
Congress on Industrial Property, International,
Pacific Railroad, 486
cZwsol Work'to th, Navy^SS
Corrugated Steel Locomotive Firebox; London and North-Western Railway, 234
Cost of Working British Railways, The Wages, Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, New Eng-r^F^^g’^een, The, 244 CraXne lecid“n?, for B^lway Service, Knap-Crane^Rail Stacking; Paris and Orleans Rail-way, 738 Davy>8 Driving Gear for, 364 nranv p?n Turing and Cutting-Out Machine; Crank-Pin lurmng Belgium, 363
Cra^r"pansU Engines, 543, 708 CrisfeU’ the Coal Trade, Sliding Scales and the, 71? rvi p;™ Line Scheme, The Russian, 86
Crufsew'o/the Australian Squadron, The, 487 S?^^W^^^^423
584 j Condensation in, 607
Cylinders, Steam, O 534, 556i 584
Cylindricaland The Extension and Bending of, 388
Dust Flues under Pickers, 745 Dampers to Dus ri The 497 Dang,er^rivfn^Xar For Travelling Cranes, 364 pavy s Dr =• Boiler, 569
^l^ord^^ent^Th^E^plosio^of a Main Steam
Pipt Mariculture in the, 675
Desert, Agricuivut
Desrosier Dynamo,^“ct,rical Conductor8) The, Deterioration vi
719 - nf the Amount of Rainfall, 420
Determination of t Means of Electric
Determination of » *
Discharge of Electricity Through Gases, The,
Discharge of Electrification by Flames, 447
Distribution of Electricity from Accumulators, 357
Distribution of Naval Contracts, The, 719
Distribution of Temperature in the Atmosphere, Vertical, 522, 566, 633, 649, 705
Diving Boats, Past and Present, 179, 217
Dock Labourers’ Strike, The, 253
Docks at Glasgow Harbour, New, 167
Doors, Fireproof, 64
Double-Beat or Cornish Valves, 100, 669
Doubling the Grand Trunk, 469
Draught for Vehicles, The Theory of, 482
Drawbar Gear, Wallace’s Climax, 584
Dredger “ Beaver,” Steam Sand Pump Hopper, 193
Drexel Buildings, Philadelphia, The, 564
Drilling and Boring Machine, Hulse’s Column, 193
Drilling and Boring Machine, Richards’s Radial, 184
Drilling, Boring, and Tapping Machine, Asquith’s Universal, 363
Drilling and Breaking Down Rock, The Dubois and Francois System of, 44
Drilling Machine, Horizontal Radial, Britannia Company’s, 668
Driving Gear for Travelling Cranes, Davy’s, 364
Drop Hammer, Steam, Bement and Miles’s, 323
Dry Dock, Halifax, 692
Dubois and Francois System of Drilling and
Breaking Down Rock, The, 44
Dulwich College, Experimental Engine at, 507
Dumbartonshire and Stirlingshire Railways, The New, 652
Dust Flues under Pickers, Dampers to, 745
Dust-Proof Engine, Hanson and Carter’s, 233
Duveau’s Engine Speed Register, 364
Dynamo, Crompton, and Chandler High-Speed Engine, 168
Dynamo, The Desrosier, 454
Dynamometer, Loss by Friction in a, 100
Dynamos, Smit’s, 259
Dynamos, Triplex for the Eiffel Tower Lighting, 400

Eastern Railway of France, Telegraphy on the, 191, 215
Economic Competition, 483
Economic Section of the British Association, The, 483
Economical Firing of Boilers, The, 668
Economy and Mode of Action of Steam Jackets, 691
Edinburgh Electrical Exhibition of 1890, Ship Railway for the, 636
Edison Phonograph at the Paris Exhibition, The, 256
Edoux Lift, 24
Eiffel Tower, The, 39
Eiffel Tower, The Lifts in the, 18, 23, 43, 77
Elastic Coupling, Raffard’s, 721
Electric Brakes, 703
Electric Communication with Lightships, 144
Electric Company, The Westinghouse, 433
Electric Hoisting Apparatus, 627
Electric Launches, 359

Electric Lighting :

Cance System of Electric Lighting, The, 84
Dangers of Electricity, The, 497
Dynamo, Crompton and Chandler Engine, 168
Dynamo, The Desrosier, 454
Dynamo, Smit’s, 259
Dynamos, Triplex, for the Eiffel Tower Lighting, 400
Electric Light Engine at the Eiffel Tower, Vertical Compound, 400
Electric Light at Messrs. Pears’ Offices, 182
Electric Light Plant, Military Portable, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 72
Electric Lighthouse, The Houstholm, 606
Electric Lighting at Berlin, 582
Electric Lighting at the Paris Exhibition, 563, 589
Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, The, 676
Electric Lighting and Repairing Shops, The Bon Marchd, 39
Electric Lighting of Trains, The, 718
Electrical Engineering Exhibition at Edinburgh, The, 435, 552
Electrical Plant at the Paris Exhibition, 106, 134
Electrical Transformers, 358
Projector, Military, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 73
Sautter and Lemonnier at the Paris Exhibition, 71, 268, 400, 488
Suspension for Arc Lamps, Sayers and Sturge’s, 610
Train Lighting by Electricity, 477, 719
Westinghouse Electric Company, The, 433

Electric Oscillations, The Determination of “ v ” by Means of, 423
Electric Radiation Meter, A New, 555
Electric Railroad in Scotland, Proposed Public, 232
Electric Railway System, The Thomson-Houston, 692
Electric Tempering, 20
Electric Traction, Series, 359
Electric Welding, 391, 413
Electrical Conductors, The Deterioration of, 719
Electrical Engineering Company, The Brush, Limited, 86
Electrical Engineering Exhibition at Edinburgh, The, 435, 552
Electrical Engineers in Paris, 256
Electrical Plant at the Paris Exhibition, 106, 134
Electrical Resistance and Temperature Coefficient of Annealed Iron, The Effect of Repeated Heating and Cooling on, 597
Electrical Screens, Metal Sheets as, 447
Electrical Transformers, 358
Electrical Units and Standards, 421
Electricians, The International Congress of, at Paris (See Congress of Electricians at Paris')
Electricity, Atmospheric, 448
Electricity, The Dangers of, 497
Electricity, Distribution of, from Accumulators, 357
Electricity, Train Lighting by, 477, 719
Electrification due to Contact of Gases and Liquids, 556, 597
Electrification, Discharge of, by Flames, 447
Electrification of a Steam Jet, 694
Electro-Magnets, Sparkless, 423
Electro-Plated Bric-a-Brac, 181
Electrolysis, 448
Electrolysis, Purification of Sewage by, 359
Elevated Railroads in New York, 719
Elevators in the Eiffel Tower, The Otis, 77

Elswick Arsenal and Shipyard : 451

Browning Shop, 452
“Chin-Yuen,” The Chinese Cruiser, 593
Disappearing Guns, 579
Engineering Department, The, 621
Field and Mountain Guns, 648
Gun Material and Construction, 480
Gun Mounted for Gun Defence, 9.2-in., 622
Heavy Naval Guns, 482
Howitzers, 550, 580
Inspecting Department, 452
Mountain Guns, 648
Mounting Shop for Quick-Firing Guns, 452
Naval Guns, New Type, 4b2
Naval Guns, Old Type, 482
Ordnance Works, The, 451
“ Piemonte,” The Italian Ironclad, 622
Quick-Firing Gun, 4.7-in., 510
Shipyard, The, 593
“ Victoria,” H.M. Ironclad, 593

Encyclopedia Britannica, An Error in the, 100
Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, Marshall’s Horizontal, 690
Engine, Chandler High-Speed, and Crompton Dynamo, 168
Engine, Compound Portable, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 544
Engine Driving, Locomotive, and Railway Signals, 605
Engine at the Eiffel Tower, Vertical Compound Electric Light, 400
Engine, Experimental, at Dulwich College, 507
Engine, Gas, The Simplex, 38, 153, 185
Engine, Gear-Cutting, Brainard 36-in. Automatic, 22
Engine, Horizontal Compound (Frikart System), 275
Engine, Horizontal, with Wheelock Valve Gear, 168
Engine, Hanson and Carter’s Dust-Proof, 233
Engine, Hot-Air, The Bdnier, 246
Engine, Marshall’s Vertical, 690
Engine, Powell’s Triple-Expansion Horizontal, 596
Engine, Schichau’s Triple-Expansion, 456
Engine, “ Simplex ” Gas, 100 Horse-Power, 377
Engine Speed Register, Duveau’s, 364
Engine and Sugar Mill, Robey’s Combined, 318
Engine, Sulzer Horizontal Compound, 108, 428
Engine, Tandem Compound (Frikart System) 236
Engine Trials, The Royal Agricultural Society’s, 1890, 220
Engine, Vertical Compound, 310
Engine Vertical, Sulzer’s Triple-Expansion, 488
Engineering and Allied Industries in Scotland, 746
Engineering Enterprise in Russia, Foreign, 316
Engineering Laboratories, The New University College, Liverpool, 524
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in 1889, 720, 734
Engineering Notes from North-Western India, 540, 572, 612,636, 656, 736
Engineering Projects in Scotland, New, 604
Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries in Scotland, 406, 746
Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, Apprenticeship in, 483
Engineers, Electrical, in Paris, 256, 282, 313, 344, 355
Engineers in Europe, The American, 17, 51, 113
Engineers, The Institution of Civil (See Civil Engineers, The Institution of)
Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical (See Mechanical Engineer s, The Institution of)
Engineers and Shipbuilders, North-East Coast Institution of, 638
Engines, Brotherhood’s Three-Cylinder, 43
Engines, Gas, 153,185
Engines of the Paddle Steamer “Caledonia,” 220
Engines of the Royal Mail Paddle Steamer “ Cobra,” 119, 150
Engines, Stationary, at the Paris Exhibition, 204
Engines, Steam Consumption of, at Various Speeds, 100
Engines, Triple-Expansion, 146
Engines, Triple-Expansion, and Engine Trials, 693
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Cravero and Co.’s, for River Steamer, 543
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Cravero and Co.’s, 708
Engines, Triple-Expansion of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 319
English Shipbuilding Yard at Bilbao, The, 504
Enterprise, Railway, in Scotland, 435
Entwistle and Kenyon’s Cap Wrench, 323
Error in the Encyclopedia Britannica, An, 100
Estuaries, The Action of Waves and Currents in, 333
Evening Classes in Naval Architecture, 523
Exchanging Apparatus, Train Tablet; Great North of Scotland Railway, 427
Excursions of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 34, 39
Exhibition at Berlin for the Prevention of Accidents, 1889, The, 579
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 496
Exhibition of 1890, the Edinburgh Electrical, Ship Railway for, 636
Exhibition, The Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh, 435, 552
Exhibition of Means of Transport,Retrospective, 1

Exhibition, The Paris International : 547, 698

Air Compressors for Torpedo Service, Brother' hood’s, 10
Air Compressor, Weiss’s, 135
Artificial Silk, 112
Awards, The, 369, 413
Bayonne, The Port of, 645
Bevel Gear-CuttingMachine, 539
Boiler, De Naeyer’s Tubulous, 569
Bordeaux, The Port of, 679
Breguet and Co.’s Exhibits, 454
Bridges, Portable (Seyrig System), 139
British Executive Offices, The, 140
Cail Company, The, 590
Carriage for the Brtinig Railway, 218
Carriage, First-Class, for the Southern Railway of France, 684
Cattle Wagon; Southern Railway of France, 540
Central Vestibule, The, 8
Chili, The Republic of, 494
Clock, Conant’s Isochronal, 274
Column Drilling and Boring Machine, Hulse’s, 193
Condenser, Air Surface, and Grease Extractor, Fouchd’s, 246
Crane, R ul Stacking ; Paris and Orleans Railway, 738
Crank-Pin Turning and Cutting-Out Machines ; Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 363
Drilling and Breaking Down Rock, The Dubois and Francois System of, 44
Edison Phonograph, The, 256
Eiffel Tower, The Lifts in the, 18, 23, 43, 77
Elastic Coupling, Raffard’s, 721
Electric Hoisting Apparatus, 627
Electric Lighting, 563, 589
Electric Lighting, The Cance System of, 84
Electrical Plant, 106, 134
Engine, Horizontal Compoud (Frikart System), 275
Engine, Horizontal, with Wheelock Valve Gear, 168
Engine, Powell’s Triple-Expansion Horizontal, 596
Engine, Sulzer Horizontal Compound, 108, 428
Engine, Tandem Compound (Frikart System), 236
Engine, Vertical Compound, 310
Engine, Vertical Compound Electric Light, at the Eiffel Tower, 400
Engine, Vertical, Sulzer’s Triple ■ Expansion, 488
Engines, Stationary, 204
Exhibition Statistics, Some, 465
Experimental Van; Western Railway of France, 394
Firminy Steel Company, The, 114,145
Fish Net-Making Machine, 398
Flax Breaking, Machine for, 317
Fog-Signalling Apparatus, Lirand’s, 471
Furnaces, Godillot’s, as Applied to Locomotive Boilers, 336
Gas Engine, 100 Horse-Power, 377
Gas Pavilion, The, 104
Goliath Rail, The New, 117
Havre, The Port of, 479, 537, 618
Hot-Air Engine, The Benier, 246
Hydraulic Railway, Girard’s, 362, 371
Hydraulic Railway Signals, Bianchi and Ser-vettaz’s, 43
Indian Pavilion, The, 158
Injector, Sellers’ Self-Acting, 611
Inspection Cock for Beer Pipes, Buss’s, 198
Iron and Steel Manufacture in France in 1887, The, 373
Jury Awards, The, 369
Jury Work, 282
Lathe, Universal Hand, 291
Lathes by the Oerlikon Company, 209
Locomotive for the BrUnig Railway, 395
Locomotive and Carriage for Mount Pilatus Railway, 514
Locomotive, Compound Goods; Northern Railway of France, 654
Locomotive, Passenger Express, Cards’, 8
Locomotive, Tank; Eastern Railway of France, 249, 348
Locomotive, Tank ; Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 198
Locomotive, Tank, for the Western Railway of France, 599
Locomotive Turntable for the Paris and Orleans Railway, 573
Locomotive Valve Gear, Bonnefond’s, 710
Locomotive Weighing Machine; Paris and Orleans Railway, 626
Locomotive for the Western Railway of France, 458
Locomotives, 96,132,162
Machines, Grinding and Milling, 220
Material Condition of the French Artisan, 431
Menier Chocolate Factory, The, 402
Meteorological Instruments, 285
Mining Industries, 417, 620
Motive Power, 577
Nantes, The Port of, 83, 95
Notes, 20, 46, 74, 116, 141

Oerlikon Company, The :

Arc Lamp (Brown System), 107
Bevel Gear-Cutting Machine, 438, 539
Dynamo for Feeding Twenty - Five Arc Lamps, 107
Dynamo for the Transmission of Power, 200 Horse-Power, 106
Dynamo, Two-Pole, 134
Engine, Compound Vertical, 310
Engine and Dynamo, 20 Horse-Power Combined, 134
Engine, 50 Horse-Power Compound, 134
Grinding and Grooving Machine, 220
Lathes, 209
Milling Machine, 200
Switch, 134
Wheel-Cutting Machine, 488
Otis Elevators in the Eiffel Tower, The 77
Panama Canal Locks, The, 512 ’
Paper Machinery, 497, 592, 633, 650
Platform Wagon ; Southern Railway of France,
Post Office Pavilion, The, 467, 508
Projector, Photo-Electric, 488
Pumps on the Hanarte System, 104
Printing Machine, Marinoni Perfecting, 140
Railway Rolling Stock, 241, 265, 327
Railway Signalling, 127, 161, 303
Exhibition, Paris International—continued.
Retrospective Exhibition of Means of Transport, 1
Rock Drill Carriage, Hanarte and Balant s, 723
Rolling Stock for Secondary Railways, 628
Rouen, The Fort of, 424
Saint Chamond Company, The, 297, 346, 402

Sautter and Lemonnier’s Exhibits : 71

Crane, Cask, 301
Crane, Six-Ton Wall, and Megy Winch, 301
Crane, Ten-Ton Travelling; Megy System, 301
Dynamo, Bipolar Gramme, and Horizontal Compound Engine ; French Cruiser Type, 269
Dynamo, Bipolar Gramme, and Vertical Compound Engine for the French Ironclad “ Indomptable,” 268
Dynamo, Triplex, and Compound Inverted Engine, with Central Driving Shaft; French Cruiser Type, 268
Dynamos, Triplex, for the Eiffel Tower Lighting, 400
Dynamotor for Torpedo Boat Installations, 269
Electric Light Engine at the Eiffel Tower, Vertical Compound, 400
Electric Light Plants, Military Portable, 72
Electric Signal Lamp, 270
Engine for Dynamo Driving, Single-Cylinder
Variable Expansion, 269
Megy Hydraulic Motor, Two-Cylinder, 270
Military Projector, 72
Projector, Mangin, 23.62-in. in Diameter, for Military Purposes, 270
Projector, Photo-Electric, 488
Projector for Ship’s Use; Suez Canal Type, 270
Projector for Torpedo Boat Service, Portable Mangin, 270
Siren, Double Note Compressed Air, 300
Scientific Instruments, 228
“Simplex” Gas Engine, 100 Horse-Power, 377
Speed Register, Engine, Duveau’s, 364
Station of St. Lazare, The, 29, 42, 67
Steam Hammer, Massey’s, 288
Steel Works, TheHoltzer. 343
Supports for Telephone Wires, Andrd’s, 363
Tachygraph, Buss’s, 248
Tachymeter, Buss’s, 43
Telegraph Material, 418
Telegraphy, 191, 215
Three-Cylinder Engines, Brotherhood’s, 43
Tramway Locomotive for Metre Gauge Lines, 737
Transatlantic Company’s Panorama, The, 2
Typewriters, 385,452
Victoria, 19
Wagon, 20-Ton, for the Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 426
Water Supply, The, 404
Weighbridge, Guillaumin’s 20-Ton Self-Verifying, 289
Wheel-Cutting Machine, 488
Wire-Working Machinery, 152
Wood-Working Machinery, Fay’s:
Band Saws, 135, 395
Boring Machine, Four-Spindle Horizontal, 334
Cut-Off Saw, Automatic, 334
Fret Scroll Saw, 334
Knife-Grinding Machine, 395
Mitre and Bevel Saw Table, 275
Mortising Machines, 222
Moulding Machine, Four-Sided, 45
Multiple Wood-Boring Machine, 222
Self-Feeding Ripping Saw Table, 275
Tenoning Machine, Gap, 44
Universal Wood-Working Machine, 275, 335
Variety Wood-Worker, Solid Frame, 275, 335
Veneer Cutting and Planing Machine, 334
Workmen’s Houses, 512
Exhibition Statistics, Some, 465
Exhibition, The United States, of 1892, 742
Expansion of Timber, The, 100
Expenditure, Local, and Reproductive Works,
Expenditure on Locomotives and Rolling Stock. 541
Experimental Engine at Dulwich College, 507
Experimental Plant for the Study of Metallurgy ;
Royal School of Mines, 733
Experimental Van ; Western Railway of France. 394
Experiments of Hertz, The, 447
Experiments on Steam, Regnault’s, Rationalisation of, 19, 34, 57, 91, 121
Experiments upon the Transmission of Power by Compressed Air in Paris (Popp’s System), 320, 330
Explosion, Boiler, The Charlesworth, 749
Explosion of a Main Steam Pipe at Deptford Kent, The, 209 P ’
Explosions, Boiler, in 1888, 59
Explosive, A New Swedish, 434
Explosives and Blasting, Historical Notes on. 560
Express Speed, 227
Extending the Transcaspian Railway, 405
Extensibility of Liquid Films, The, 388
ExmunsiQ?Q and BendinS of Cylindrical Shells,
Fay’s Wood-Working Machinery :
Band Saws, 135, 395
Four'Spindle Horizontal, 334
Cut-Off Saw, Automatic, 334
Fret Scroll Saw, 334
Knife-Grinding Machine, 395
Mitre and Bevel Saw Table, 275
Mortising Machines, 222
Moulding Machine, Four-Sided, 45
Multiple Wood-Boring Machine, 222
Self-Feeding Ripping Saw Table, 275
Tenoning Machine, Gap, 44
Universal Wood-Working Machine, 275, 335
Variety Wood-Worker, Solid Frame, 275, 335
Veneer Cutting and Planing Machine, 334
Fermentation, Pure, 449
Files, Sharpening, Sand-Blast Apparatus for, 638
Films, Liquid, The Extensibility of, 388
Fire Escape, Bowack’s, 318
Fire Pails, New Forms of, 745
Firebox, Locomotive, Corrugated Steel; London and North-Western Railway, 234
Fireproof Doors, 64 .
Firing of Boilers, The Economical, 668
Firminy Steel Company, The, 114, 145
First-Class Carriage for the Southern Railway of France, 684
First-Class Cruisers, The New, 435
First-Class Torpedo Boat for the Indian Government, 515
Fish Net-Making Machine, 398
Flanged Rails, Sandberg’s Steel Baseplate for,
Flax, Breaking, Machine for, 317
Flexible Metallic Tubing, 438
Flood Levels and River Volumes, Records of, 362
Flooring, Bridge, Hobson’s, 639
Fog and Compass Signals for Ships at Sea, 406
Fog Signal Gun, A New, 663
Fog-Signalling Apparatus, Lirand’s, 471
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 157, 500
Forging Press, Massey’s Compound, 408
Fort Madison, Bridge over the Mississippi River near, Iowa; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Extension Railway, 73
Forth Bridge, The, 469, 569, 624, 653
Forth Bridge, American Impressions of the, 635
Forth Bridge Railway, The, 170, 442, 491
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, The Proposed, 425
Fouche’s Air Surface-Condenser and Grease Extractor, 246
French Artisan, The Material Condition of the, 431
Fresh Water Condenser, The Pamphlett-Fergu-son, 501
Fresh Water Condenser, The Yaryan, 118
Friction in a Dynamometer, Loss by, 100
“ Friesland,” The Red Star Liner, 554
Frikart Horizontal Compound Engine, 275
Frikart Tandem Compound Engine, 236
Frost, The Use of Lime to Remove, 20
Fuel, Gaseous, 374, 390
Furnace, The Hopcraft, 482
Furnace Plates, The Burning of, 497
Furnace, Siemens, Arranged to Recover Waste Gases, 440
Furnaces, Godillot’s, as Applied to Locomotive Boilers, 336

Gain Sharing, 70
Gas Engine, The Simplex, 38, 153, 185, 377
Gas Pavilion at the Paris Exhibition, The, 104
Gas, Water, 331
Gaseous Fuel, 374, 390
Gases, The Discharge of Electricity through, 447
Gear-Cutting Engine, Brainard 36-in. Automatic, 22
General Railway Station at Perth, The New, 194
Geological Constitution and the Magnetic State of the United Kingdom, Relation between the, 421
Geometrical Optics, 694
Gilbert, William, of Colchester, 717, 729
Gilbert’s Shackle Ball Insulator, 749
Girard’s Hydraulic Railway, 362, 371
Glasgow Harbour, New Docks at, 167
Glasgow University, Civil Engineering in, 581
Glass Bottles, The Manufacture of, by Machinery, 331, 443
Godillot’s Furnaces as Applied to Locomotive Boilers, 336
Goliath Rail, The New, 117
Gooch, Sir Daniel, 466
Goods Locomotive, Compound ; Northern Railway of France, 654
Goods and Minerals, The Transport of, on British Lines, 659
Grabau Aluminium Process and Aluminium, The, 716
Grand Trunk, Doubling the, 469
Graphic Methods, The Development of, 355
Grease Extractor and Air Surface Condenser, Fouche’s, 246
Grooved Keys, Roemmele’s, 711
Guillaumm’s 20-Ton Self-Verifying Weighbridge,
Gun, A New Fog Signal, 663
Gun, Pneumatic Torpedo, 49
Gunnery Tests of the “ Piemonte,” The, 370
Gunnery Trials of the “ Camperdown,” The, 634
Gunpowder and Guns, New, 495
Gyrating Screen, The Coxe and Salmon, 244

Halifax Dry Dock, 692
Hall’s Stockless Anchor, 184
Hammer, Breuer and Schumacher’s Pneumatic, 738
Hammer, Steam Drop, Bement and Miles’s, 323
Hammer, Steam, Massey’s, 288
Hanarte and Balant’s Rock Drill Carriage, 723
Hanarte System, Pumps on the, 104
Hand Lathe, Universal, 291
Hansell’s Steel Wagon Wheel, 222
Hanson and Carter’s Dust-Proof Engine, 233
Harbour Works at Ardrossan, New, 528
Harbour Works, Calais, 42
Hardening and Tempering of Steel, The, 377
Havre, The Port of, 479, 537, 618
Headland Protection Works and Promenade, Hartlepool, 469
Heat, The Specific, of Caoutchouc, 388
Heating and Power Supply, 362
Heating, Town, by Hot Water, 259, 290
Heavy Timber, Band Saws for, 254
Hercules Street-Cleansing Machine, 719
Hertz, The Experiments of, 447
High-Speed Atlantic Liners, New, 497
High-Speed Engine, Chandler and Crompton Dynamo, 168
^^60^°^ uP°n Explosives and Blasting,
Hobson’s Bridge Flooring, 639
Hoisting Apparatus, Electric, 627
Hollow Spindle Lathe, Spencer’s Open, 539
Holtzer Steel Works, The, 343
Hopcraft Furnace, The, 482
Horizontal Air Pumps, 494
Horizontal Boring and Tapping Machine, Lang’s, 501
Horizontal Compound Engine (Frikart System), 275
Horizontal Compound Engine, Sulzer’s, 108, 428
Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, Marshall’s, 690
Horizontal Engine, Powell’s Triple-Expansion 596 ’
Horizontal Engine with Wheelock Valve Gear 168 ’
Horizontal Radial Drill, Britannia Company’s 668
Horse Gear, An Old, at Buckland’s Rolling Mills 682
Hot-Air Engine, The Benier, 246
Houses, Workmen’s, at the Paris Exhibition, 512
Houstholm Electric Lighthouse, The, 606
Hulse’s Column Drilling and Boring Machine, 193
Hydraulic Pumps, Scott’s Three-Throw, 362
Hydraulic Railway, Girard’s, 362, 371
Hydraulic Railway Signalling, 332
Hydraulic Railway Signals, Bianchi and Ser-Vettaz’s, 43
Hydraulic Steam Sleeper Press, Breuer and Schumacher’s, 22
Hysteresis in the Relation of Strain to Stress 421, 441

Improvement, River, 482
India, North-Western, Engineering Notes from 540, 572, 612, 636, 656, 736
India, The Railways in, 401
Indian Government and Petroleum, The, 232
Indian Pavilion at the Paris Exhibition, The, 158
Indian Railway Policy, 147
Indicating Temperatures at a Distance, 468
Indicator, The M‘Innes, 158
Induction, Telephone, A New View of, 725
Industrial Notes, 21, 45, 75, 116, 152, 169, 208, 232, 258, 287, 316, 335, 410, 438, 456, 502, 527, 543, 582, 611, 639, 666, 697, 723, 747
Industrial Progress, American, 15
Industrial Property, International Congress on, 254
Influence of Silicon in Cast Iron, The, 156,187, 236, 261
Ingots, Steel, The Piping of, 8
Injector, Sellers’ Self-Acting, 611
Inspection Cock for Beer Pipes, Buss’s, 198
Institution of Engineersand Shipbuilders, North-East Coast, 638
Instruments, Scientific, at the Paris Exhibition, 228
Insulator, Gilbert’s Shackle Ball, 749
International Congress of Electricians at Paris, The, 282, 313, 344, 355
International Congress on Industrial Property, 254
International Railway Congress, The, 112, 341
International Yacht Race, The, 50
Investigation, Scientific, as Applied to the Manufacture of Iron and Steel, 724
Iron, The Manufacture of, 349, 379
Iron Markets, The Scotch and Cleveland, 577
Iron, Silicon in, 156, 187, 236, 261, 392, 471, 502

Iron and Steel Institute, Tub : 342, 372

Creusot, Visit to, 432
Holtzer Steel Works, The, 343
Longwy Iron and Steel Works, The, 342
On the Iron and Steel Manufacture in France in 1887, as Illustrated by the French Exhibits at the Paris Exhibition, by Professor Jordan,373
On the Channel Bridge, Preliminary Designs by Messrs. Schneider and Co. (Creusot Iron Works), and H. Hersent, by M. Henri Schneider, 373
On Gaseous Fuel, by Sir Lowthian Bell, 374, 390
On the Thomson Electric Welding Process, by Mr. W. C. Fish, 391, 413
On Alloys of Iron and Silicon, by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 392, 471, 502
On a New Form of Siemens Furnace, Arranged to Recover Waste Gases as well as Waste Heat, by Mr. John Head, F.G.S., M.I.C.E., and M. P. Pouff, 440
Paris Meeting, The, 342

Iron and Steel Manufacture in France, 373
Iron and Steel, Scientific Investigation as Applied to the Manufacture of, 724
Iron and Steel Works, The Longwy, 342
Isochronal Clock, Conant’s, 274
Italian Navy, Torpedo Boats for the, 662

Jackets, Steam, their Mode of Action, and the Reasons of their Economy, 691
Japan, The Railways of, 183
Japan, Seismology in, 421
Joints, Boiler, Rivetted, 146
Joule, Dr., 466
Jull Centrifugal Snow Excavator, The, 246
Jury Awards at the Paris Exhibition, The, 369
Jury Work at the Paris Exhibition, 282

Kaye’s Railway Carriage Lock, 118
Keely Motor, The, 708
Kennedy, Professor, Testimonial to, 148
Keys, Roemmele’s Grooved, 711
Kingston-on-Thames Sewerage Works, The, 16
Knapman’s Accident Crane for Railway Service, 11
Knaudt and Pohlmeyer’s Locomotive Boiler;
Prussian State Railways, 396
Knitting and Warp Weaving without Weft, 31, 88,119

Labour and Capital, 483
Labour Conciliation Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce, 745
Lamp, Miner’s Safety, The Thorneburry, 552, 572
Lamps, Arc, Sayers and Sturge’s Suspension for, 610
Landing Pier and Promenade at Trouville, 652
Lang’s Horizontal Boring and Tapping Machine, 501
Lathe and Boring Machine, Vertical, Rush worth’s Combined, 396
Lathe, Spencer’s Open Hollow Spindle, 539
Lathe, Universal Hand, 291
Lathes at the Paris Exhibition, 209
Launches, Electric, 359
Launches and Trial Trips, 22, 47, 92, 109, 158, 171, 197, 221, 247, 288, 305, 366, 407, 425, 457, 487, 513, 540, 583, 597, 637, 656, 687, 712, 738
Laws, Roman Mining, 705
Lead Oxide, Action of, on Glass, 449
League, The Scupps, 115
Legislation, Patent, 662
Legislation, Railway, 143
Legislation, Steam Boiler, 49
Lens, A Spectroscope without a, 449
Leyden Jars, 423
Lifts in the Eiffel Tower, The, 18, 23, 43, 77
Light, The Action of, on Matter, 386, 411
Light, The Electric, at Messrs. Pears’ Offices, 182
Lighthouse, The Houstholm Electric, 606
Lighting at Berlin, Electric, 582
Lighting, Electric, The Cance System of, 84
Lighting by Electricity, Train, 477, 719
Lighting at the Paris Exhibition, The Electric, 563, 589
Lighting of Railway Stations, The Electric, 676
Lighting of Trains, The Electric, 718
Lightning, Protection from, 81, 180
Lightships, Electric Communication with, 144
Lime v. Limestone in the Blast Furnace, 529, 533
Lime to Remove Frost, The Use of, 20
Linoleum Printing Machine, Seven-Colour, 685
Liquid Films, The Extensibility of, 388
Lirand’s Fog-Signalling Apparatus, 471
Liverpool Water Works, The, 315
Local Expenditure and Reproductive Works, 111
Lock, Railway Carriage, Kaye’s, 118
Locks for the Panama Canal, The, 512
Locomotive Boiler, Knaudt and Pohlmeyer’s ; Prussian State Railways, 396
Locomotive Boilers, Godillot’s Furnaces as Applied to, 336
Locomotive for the BrUnig Railway, 395
Locomotive and Carriage for Mount Pilatus Railway, 514
Locomotive, Compound Goods ; Northern Railway of France, 654
Locomotive, “ Consolidation,” for the Northern Pacific Railroad, 486
Locomotive Engine Driving and Railway Signals, 605
Locomotive, Express Passenger, Cards’, 8
Locomotive Firebox, Corrugated Steel; London and North-Western Railway, 234
Locomotive “ Sampson,”The Old, 70
Locomotive, The Strong, 145
Locomotive, Tank; Eastern Railway of France, 249, 348
Locomotive, Tank; Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 198
Locomotive, Tank Passenger, for the Taff Vale Railway, 150, 172
Locomotive, Tank, for the Western Railway of France, 599
Locomotive, Tramway, for Metre Gauge Lines,
Locomotive Turntable for the Paris and Orleans Railway, 573
Locomotive Valve Gear, Bonnefond’s, 710
Locomotive Weighing Machine ; Paris and Orleans Railway, 626
Locomotive for the Western Railway of France, 458
Locomotives, Compound, on the London and North-Western Railway, 742
Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 96, 132, 162
Locomotives, Progressive Pressure Trials in, 315
Locomotives and Rolling Stock, Expenditure on, 541
London Labourers’ Strike, The, 281
Longwy Iron and Steel Works, The, 342
Loss by Friction in a Dynamometer, 100
Lubricant Tester, Boult’s Cylinder, 184

Machine, Bevel Gear-Cutting, 438, 539
Machine, Boring and Tapping, Lang’s Horizontal, 501
Machine for Breaking Flax, 317
Machine, Column Drilling and Boring, Hulse’s, 193
Machine, Crank-Pin Turning and Cutting-Out; Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 363
Machine, Drilling, Boring, and Tapping, Asquith'S Universal, 363
Machine, Fish Net-Making, 398
Machine, Linoleum Printing, Seven-Colour, 685
Machine, Locomotive Weighing; Paris and Orleans Railway, 626
Machine, Metal Band-Sawing, Noble and Lund’s Self-Acting, 596
Machine, Milling, Brainard 84-in., 22
Machine, Multiple Wood-Boring, Fay’s, 222
Machine, Planing, Pollock and Pollock’s Heavy, 43
Machine, Printing, Marinoni Perfecting, 140 ,
Machine, Printing and Numbering, Carlaw s Rotary, 317
Machine, Radial Drilling and Boring, Richards’s, 184
Machine, Shaping, Britannia Company’s, 555
Machine Tools, American, 22
Machine Tools at the Paris Exhibition, 220
Machine, Wheel-Cutting, 488, 539
Machinery, Bottle-Making, 331, 443
Machinery, Fay’s Wood-Working, 44, 135, 22-, 275, 334, 390
Machinery, Paper Bag, 534
Machinery, Paper, at the Paris Exhibition, 497, 592, 633, 650
Machinery of Our Warships, The, 177
Machinery, Wire-Working, 152
Machines, Fay’s Mortising, 222
M’lnnes Indicator, The, 158
Magnetic State and the Geological Constitution of the United Kingdom, Relation between the, 421
Magnetic Survey, 420
Magnetism, 421
Mail Service, The South African, 652
Main Steam Pipe, The Explosion of a, at Deptford, Kent, 209
Manchester Ship Canal, 287
Manchester Whitworth Institute, The, 606
Manoeuvres, The Naval, 203
Manufacture of Aluminium, 144, 716
Manufacture of Glass Bottles by Machinery, me, 331, 443
Manufacture of Iron, The, 349, 379
Manufacture of Iron and Steel in France, 313
405f e °f °Pen’Hearth Styrian Steel, The, M72(\e7^nffineering and Shipbuilding in 1889, Marshall’s Hnri/C??nh and CIeveland, 577 v Expansion Ge«"690 gl‘ie With Automati(i v,2ha.U’?,Vertiea> Engine, G90 Massey’s SteamH^ Korgin* Pres8> 408
? yearn Hammer, 288
431 U °ndition of the French Artisan, The, Mathematical Papers at the British Association, Tse«ngs“’852S7and B’a8t APP-atus for Cleaning
AMBRtCAN Society Thom^rg^ef^111 I,lgOt3> The- Mr. On the Old® raring’ P-y Mr’ Henry R- Towne, ™ "rl^bb.Vo “Ve “SamP80n.” Mr. D.
On Standards, by Mr. Jas. W. See, 70 mand nt 6 L°9S?y Friotion in a Trans-“ndSne*^ tm»!lleoer under Different Loads
On d8,by Mr- Samuel Webber, 100
0 bv Prnfp?^ "r ,E.ncycloPedia Britannica, n» fhcfe8SOr J* Burklfct Webb, 100
Webb^ W0U Turbine’ by Profes8or J. Burkitt ° SneedS1 £°"8u“Ption by Engines of Various
Jacobus, loo" 68801-8 J- E' Dent°n andD‘ S-°nMtahrehm jf°5m*anCe °f •a 35-Ton Refrigerating lachme of Ammonia Absorption Type, by Professor J. E. Denton, 100
On the Expansion of Timber Due to the Absorption of Water, by Professor D. V. Wood, IvU
On Oornish or Double-Beat Valves, by Mr A F. Nagle, 100, 669
On the Distribution of Steam in the Strong Locomotive, by Mr. F. W. Dean, 145°
On Cylinder Ratios of Triple - Expansion m by Professor J. M. Whitham, 146
On Belt Traction on Pulley Faces, by Mr. Scott A. Smith, 146
On the Longitudinal Rivetted Joints of Steam Boiler Shells, by Mr. J. H. Cooper, 146
Visits to Works, 71
Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of • 18 31, 524, 533 * f
Bon Marchd Electric Lighting and Repairing Shops, The, 39
Calais Harbour Works, 42
Decauville’s Works at Petit-Bourg. 42
Eiffel Tower, The, 39
Excursions and Visits to Works, 34, 39
On the Lifts in the Eiffel Tower, by M. A. Ansaloni, 18, 23
On the Rationalisation of Regnault’s Experiments on Steam, by Mr. J. Macfarlane Grav 19, 34, 57, 91, 121
On Warp Weaving and Knitting without Weft, by Mr. Arthur Paget, 31, 88. 119
On Gas Engines, with a Description of the Simplex Engine, by Mr. Edouard Delamere-Deboutteville, 38, 153,185
On the Results of Blast Furnace Practice with Lime instead of Limestone as Flux, by the President Mr. Charles Cochrane, 529, 533
On a Description of a Rotary Machine for Making Paper Bags, by Mr. Job Duerden, 534 On Further Experiments on Condensation and
Re-Evaporation of Steam in a Jacketted Cylinder, by Major Thomas English, R.E., 534, 556, 584
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Works, The, 229
St. Lazare Station, 29, 42, 67

Mechanical Science, 351, 380
Mechanical Science Section of the British Association, The, 330, 355
Mechanical Stress, The Behaviour of Steel under, 699
Memorial Institute, The William Denny, at Dumbarton, 181
Menier Chocolate Factory, The, 402
Mersey, The Bar of the, 634
Meshed, The Railway to, 524
Messageries Maritimes, The, 81
Metal Band-Sawing Machine, Noble and Lund’s Self-Acting, 596
Metal, Bull’s Patent, 119
Metal Sheets as Electrical Screens, 447
Metallic Packing, The United States, 697
Metallic Tubing, Flexible, 438
Metallurgical Industry, Belgian, 606
Metallurgy, Experimental Plant for the Study of; Royal School of Mines, 733
Metals, The Molecular Weight of, 449
“ Meteor,” s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 319
Meteorological Instruments at the Paris Exhibition, 285
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 597, 720
Milford Haven as a Port for Atlantic Liners, 469
Military Portable Electric Light Plants, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 72
Military Projector, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 73
Milling Machine, Brainard 84-in., 22
Mine Ventilation, 242
Minerals and Goods, The Transport of, on British Lines, 669
Miner’s Lamp, The Thorneburry, 552, 572
Mining Industries at the Paris Exhibition, 417, 620
Mining Laws, Roman, 705
Mining Operations in the Caucasus, 468
Miscellanea, 9, 56, 87, 105, 149, 175, 201, 225, 251, 279, 309, 339, 363, 407, 429, 461, 491, 517, 553, 575, 601, 625, 665, 683, 709, 748
Mississippi River. Bridge over the, near Fort Madison, Iowa ; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fd Extension Railway, 73
“ Mojeska,” The Twin-Screw Steamer, 409
Molecular Weight of Metals, The, 449
Monopoly, The Great South Russian, 348
Mortising Machines, Fay’s, 222
M°J1Ve the Paris Exhibition, 577
Motor, The Keely, 708
Motors, Alternate Current, 115
^514P^a^us Railway, Locomotive Carriage for,
Mu Valley Railway, The, 206
Multiple Wood-Boring Machine, Fay’s, 222

Nails from Tin Scrap, 443
Nantes, The Port of, 83, 95
National Association of Shipbuilders and Engineers, A, 552
Naval Architecture, Evening Classes in, 523
Naval Contracts, The Distribution of, 719
Naval Manoeuvres, The, 203
Naval Policy, Russian, 435
Navy, The American, 661
Navy, Coaling the, 82
Navy, Contract Work in the, 463
Navy, Our, 631
Navy and Parliament, The, 312
New England Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, 632 ’
New South Wales, The Railways of, 304, 519
New Zealand, Oil and Iron in, 316
Noble and Lund’s Self-Acting Metal Band-Sawing Machine, 596
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 638
North-Western India, Engineering Notes from, 540, 572, 612, 636, 656, 736

Notes :

Alternate Current Motors, 115
American Atlantic Line of Steamers, Proposed, 182^
American Impressions of the Forth Bridge, 635
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The, 606
American Steamers, 581
Americanising Australian Railways, 206
Atlantic Liners, New High-Speed, 497
Baku not Drying Up, 434
Bar of the Mersey, The, 634
Belgium Coal Mining, 315
Belgium Metallurgical Industry, 606
British v. American Steamers, 315
Brush Electrical Engineering Co, Limited, The, 86
Burmah, The Opening up of, 116
Burning of Furnace Plates, The, 497
Canada and the Siberian Railway, 232
Chegneto Ship Railway, The, 468
Civil Engineering in Glasgow University, 581
Climate of Canada, 115
Coal on the Pacific, 86
Congress of the Three Americas, The, 552
Continental Ports, 405
Corn Elevators in Russia, 524
Cruisers, The New First-Class, 435
Dampers to Dust Flues under Pickers, 745
Dangers of Electricity, 497
Deterioration of Electrical Conductors, The, 719
Distribution of Naval Contracts, The, 719
Doubling the Grand Trunk, 469
Edinburgh Electrical Exhibition Buildings, The, 552
Edison Phonograph at the Paris Exhibition, The, 256
Electric Lighting at Berlin, 582
Electric Lighting of Trains, The, 719
Electric Tempering, 20
Electrical Engineering Exhibition at Edinburgh, The, 435
Electrical Engineers in Paris, 256
Electro-Plated Bric-a-Brac, 181
Elevated Railroads in New York, 719
Evening Classes in Naval Architecture, 523
Explosive, A New Swedish, 434
Extending the Transcaspian Railway, 405
Fire Pails, New Forms of, 745
Fog and Compass Signals for Ships at Sea, 406
Fog Signal Gun, A New, 663
Foreign Engineering Enterprise in Russia, 316
Forth Bridge, The, 469
Gunnery Trials of the “Camperdown,” The, 634
Halifax Dry Dock, 692
Houstholm Electric Lighthouse, The, 606
Indian Government and Petroleum, The, 232
Indian Railway Policy, 147
Indicating Temperatures at a Distance, 468
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The, 524
Labour Conciliation Committee of the London
Chamber of Commerce, 745
Liverpool Water Works, 315
Manchester Ship Canal, 287
Manchester Whitworth Institute, The, 606
Milford Haven as a Port for Atlantic Liners, 469
Mining Operations in the Caucasus, 468
Mu Valley Railway, The, 206
National Association of Shipbuilders and Engineers, A, 552
Oil and Iron in New Zealand, 316
Open-Hearth Styrian Steel, The Manufacture of, 405
Paper Machinery at the Paris Exhibition, 497
Paris Exhibition, The, 693
Paris Ship Canal, The Proposed, 287
Patent Legislation, 662
Permeability of Cements and Mortars, The, 53
Peto, Sir Morto'», 6:-»4
Petroleum “Immense” in Burmah after all, 405
Phosphate Mining in Canada, 207
Popp System, The, 86
PiQtessoT of Civil Engineering and Mechanics in Glasgow University, The New, 347
Progressive Pressure Trials in Locomotives 315 ’
Protection from Lightning, 180
Public Electric Railroad in Scotland, 232
Railway to Meshed, The, 524
Railways in China, 497
Reforesting Central Asia, 53
Removal of Rock under Water, The, 718
Resistance of Ships in Narrow Channels, The, 232
Rival to Delagoa Bay, A, 20
Russian Crude Oil Pipe Line Scheme, The 86
Russian Naval Policy, 435
Russian Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 206
Scupps League, The, 115
Sewage Plant at Rangoon, 663
Sordwana and Delagoa Bay, 182
South African Telegraphy, 115
South Russian Monopoly, The Great, 348
Speed Changing Device, A, 663
Springhill Colliery and Railway in Nova Scotia, 182
Street-Cleansing Machine, The Hercules, 719
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 232, 582
Testimonial to Professor Kennedy, 148
“ Teutonic,” The New White Star Liner. 148
Thomson-Houston Electric Railway System The, 692
Thorneburry Miner’s Lamp, The, 552
Tide-Wheel, A, 20
Timbrel Vault, The, 745
Transandine Railway, The, 286
Transatlantic Record, The, 207, 257
University College Engineering Laboratories, Liverpool, The New, 524
Use of Lime to Remove Frost, The, 20
Vancouver City, 53
Velocity of the Wind at the Top of the Eifiel Tower, The, 634
Water Supply of Bradford, 287
Wear of Rails, The, 606
Western States of America, The, 552
Western Union Telegraph Company, 719
William Denny Memorial Institute at Dumbarton, The, 181
Wiring of ships, 53 572, 612, 636, 656, 736

Notes on Bremme’s Patent Valve Gear, 444
Notes from Cleveland, 13, 54, 79, 109, 137 174 200, 224, 250, 278, 309, 338, 366, 399, 429, 460* 490, 516, 545, 583, 600, 625, 665, 686, 713, 739 ’
Notes on Explosives and Blasting, Historical, 560 Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 157, 500
Notes, Industrial, 21, 45, 75, 116, 152, 169, 208 232, 258, 287, 315, 335, 410, 438, 456, 502, 527,’ 543, 582, 611, 639, 666, 697, 723, 747
Notes from the North, 12, 54, 79, 108, 136, 174 200, 224, 250, 278, 308, 338, 367, 398, 428, 460,’ 490, 516, 544, 574, 600, 624, 656, 685, 712, 739
Notes from North-Western India, Engineering. 540, 572, 612, 636, 656, 736
Notes from the South-West, 13, 64, 79, 109, 136, 175, 200, 238, 250, 294, 308, 339, 367, 399, 442, 460, 489, 516, 545, 575, 599, 624, 65/. 686. 712, 738
Notes from South Yorkshire, 13, 54, 79, 108 137, 174, 197, 224, 250, 278, 308, 339, 366, 399^ 428, 460, 490, 516, 545, 574, 600, 637, 657, 686, 713, 7 38
Notes from the United States, 11, 42, 117 153 183, 209, 233, 258, 275, 318, 376, 457, 487, 555* 597,639,682,720
Nova Scotia, Springhill Colliery and Railway in, 182 738

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Obliquity of Connecting-Rods, The, 613
Observations, Tidal, 420
Observatory, Ben Nevis, 420

Obelikon Company’s Exhibits at the Paris Exhibition :

Arc Lamp (Brown System), 107
Bevel Gear-Cutting Machine, 438, 539
IO?1110 f°r Fee<^ing Twenty-Pive Arc Lamps,
Dynamo for the Transmission of Power, 200
Horse-Power, 106
Dynamo, Two-Pole, 134
Engine, Compound Vertical, 310
Engine and Dynamo, 20 Horse-Power Combined, 134
Engine, 50 Horse-Power Compound, 134
Grinding and Grooving Machine, 220
Lathes, 209
Milling Machine, 220
Switch, 134
Wheel-Cutting Machine, 488

Offices, An American Block of, 564
Offices, The British Executive in Paris, 140
Oii and Iron in New Zealand, 316
Old Locomotive “ Sampson,” The, 70
Open-Hearth Sty ria n Steel, The Manufacture of. 405 ’
Open Hollow Spindle Lathe, Spencer’s, 539
Opening Up of Burmah, The. 11b
Opposing Routes of the Scotch Slip Canal, The, 711
Ordnance Factories, The Director-General of, 86
Otis Elevators in the Eiffel Tower, The, 77
Otis Lifts, 24
Our Navy, 631

Pacific, Coal on the, 86
Packing Ring for Slurry Pumps, 543
Packing, The United States Metallic, 697
Paddle Steamer “ Caledonia,” Engines of the, 220
Paddle Steamer “ Cobra,” Engines of the Royal Mail, 119, 150
Pails, Fire, New Forms of, 745
Pamphlett - Ferguson Fresh - Water Condenser, The, 501
Panama Canal Locks, The, 512
Panorama, The Transatlantic Company s, 2
Paper Bag Machinery, 534
Paper Machinery at the Paris Exhibition, 497, 592, 633, 650
Paper Making, Peat Fibre for, 332
Paris Exhibition Notes, 20, 46, 74,116, 141
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Works, The 229
Paris Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, The, 342
Paris Ship Canal, Proposed, 287
Parliament and the Navy, 312
Pascall v. Toope, 666
Passenger Express Locomotive, Carels , 8
Passenger Locomotive for the Taff Vale Railway, Tank, 150, 172
Patent Legislation, 662
Patent Record, The, 27, 65, 93, 125, 159, 189, 213, 239, 263, 295, 325, 353, 383, 415, 445, 475, 505, 531, 561, 587, 615, 643, 673, 701, 727, 751
Pavilion, The Gas, at the Paris Exhibition, 104 Pavilion, The Indian, at the Paris Exhibition, 158 Pavilion, The Post Office, at the Paris Exhibition, 467, 508
Pears’ Offices, The Electric Light at Messrs., 182
Peat Fibre for Paper Making, 332
Perfecting Printing Machine, Marinoni, 140 Permeability of Portland Cement Mortars, The, 53
Perth, The New General Railway Station at, 194
Petit-Bourg, M. Decauville’s Works at, 42
Peto, Sir Morton, 634
Petroleum, 724
Petroleum “ Immense” in Burmah after all, 405
Petroleum and the Indian Government, 232
Petroleum Ships, 356
Phonograph, The Edison, at the Paris Exhibition, 256
Phosphate Mining in Canada, 207
Photo-Electric Projector, 488
Photography, The Progress of, 411
Physical and Chemical Papers at the British Association, 386

Physical Society, The :

On a New Electric Radiation Meter, by Mr. W. G. Gregory, 555
On a Method of Driving Tuning-Forks Electrically, by Mr. W. G. Gregory, 556
On a Physical Basis for the Theory of Errors, by Mr. C. V. Burton, D.Sc., 556
On the Behaviour of Twisted Strips, by Professor J. Perry, F.R.S., 556
On Electrification due to Contact of Gases and Liquids, by Mr. J. Enright, 556, 597
On the Effect of Repeated Heating and Cooling on the Electrical Resistance and Temperature-Coefficient of Annealed Iron, by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, F.R.S., 597
On the Electrification of a Steam Jet, by Mr. Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 694
On Geometrical Optics, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 694
On the Behaviour of Steel under Mechanical Stress, by Mr. C. H. Carus-Wilson, 699

“ Piemonte,” The Gunnery Tests of the, 370
Pier, Landing, and Promenade at Trouville, 652
Pipes and Pumps, Air Vessels on, 25
Piping of Steel Ingots, The, 8
Planing Machine, Pollock and Pollock’s Heavy, 43
Plant for the Study of Metallurgy, Experimental;
Royal School of Mines, 733
Platform at Sea, Steady, 331
Platform Wagon; Southern Railway of France, 1 711
Pneumatic Hammer, Breuer and Schumacher’s, 738
Pneumatic Torpedo Gun, 49
Pollock and Pollock’s Heavy Planing Machine, 43
Popp System, The, 86, 320, 330
Port of Bayonne, The, 645
Port of Bordeaux, The, 679
Port of Havre, The, 479, 537, 618
Port of Nantes, The, 83, 95
Port of Rouen, The, 424
Portable Bridges (Seyrig System), 139
Portable Compound Engine, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 544
Portable Military Electric Light Plants, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 72
Portland Cement Mortars, The Permeability of, 53
Ports, Continental, 405
Portsmouth Town Hall Clock, 338
Position and Prospects of Trade, The, 603
Post Office Pavilion at the Paris Exhibition, The, 467, 508
Powell’s Triple-Expansion Horizontal Engine, 596
Power and Heating Supply, 362
Power, Motive, at the Paris Exhibition, 577
Precision Centre Punch, Smit’s, 527
Press, Forging, Massey’s Compound, 408
Press, Sleeper, Breuer and Schumacher’s Hydraulic Steam, 22
Pressure Trials in Locomotives, Progressive, 315
Prevention of Accidents, The Exhibition at Berlin for the, 1889, 579
Prime Movers, Cardium, Illustrating the True Nature of, 390
Printing Machine, Marinoni Perfecting, 140
Printing Machine, Seven-Colour Linoleum, 685
Printing and Numbering Machine, Carlaw’s Rotary, 317
Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics in Glasgow University, The New, 347
Progress, American Industrial, 15
Progress of Photography, The, 411
Projector, Military, Sautter and Lemonnier’s, 73
Projector, Photo-Electric, 488
Projects, New Engineering, in Scotland, 604
Promenade and Headland Protection Works, Hartlepool, 469
Promenade and Landing Pier at Trouville, 652
Protection from Lightning, 81, 180
Prussiate of Potash, 449
Public Electric Railroad in Scotland, Proposed, 232
Pulsion Telephone, The, 660
Pump Tests, 183
Pump Valves, Cornish or Double-Beat, 100, 669
Pumps, Air, Horizontal, 494
Pumps on the Hanarte System, 104
Pumps, Hydraulic, Scott’s Three-Throw, 362
Pumps and Pipes, Air Vessels on, 25
Pumps, Slurry, Packing Ring for, 543
Punch, Smit’s Precision Centre, 527
Pure Fermentation, 449
Purification of Sewage by Electrolysis, 359

Race, Yacht, The International, 50
Radial Drill, Britannia Company’s Horizontal, 668
Radial Drilling and Boring Machine, Richards’s, 184
Radial Valve Gears, 613, 641
Radiation, Solar, 390
Raffard’s Elastic Coupling, 721
Rail, The New Goliath, 117
Rail Stacking Crane ; Paris and Orleans Railway, 738
Railroads, Elevated, in New York, 719
Rails, The Wear of, 606
Railway Carriage Lock, Kaye’s, 118
Railway Congress, The International, 112, 341
Railway, The Eastern of France, Telegraphy on, 191, 215
Railway Enterprise in Scotland, 435
Railway, The Forth Bridge, 170, 442
Railway, Girard’s Hydraulic, 362, 371
Railway Legislation, 143
Railway to Meshed, The, 524
Railway, The Mu Valley, 206
Railway Policy, Indian, 147
Railway Rolling Stock at the Paris Exhibition, 241, 265, 327
Railway Service, Knapman’s Accident Crane for, 11
Railway, Ship, for the Edinburgh Electrical Exhibition of 1890, 636
Railway Signalling on the Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 303
Railway Signalling, Hydraulic, 332
Railway Signalling on the Western Railway of France, 127, 161
Railway Signals, Bianchi and Servettaz’s Hydraulic, 43
Railway Signalsand Locomotive Engine Driving, 605
Railway Station at Perth, The New General, 194
Railway Stations, The Electric Lighting of, 676
Railway Trains, The Vibrations of, 441
Railway, The Transandine, 286
Railway Works, The Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 229
Railways, British, The Wages Cost of Working, 689
Railways in China, 497
Railways in Connection with the Forth Bridge, The, 498
Railways, The New Dumbartonshire and Stirlingshire, 652
Railways in India, The, 401
Railways of Japan, The, 183
Railways of New South Wales, The, 304, 519
Railways, Secondary, Rolling Stock for, 628
Railways, Secondary, The Working of, 520
Railways and the Traders, The, 493
Rainfall, Determination of the Amount of, 420
Rangoon, Sewage Plant at, 663
Rationalisation of Regnault’s Experiments on Steam, 19, 34, 57, 91, 121
Record, The Patent, 27, 65, 93,125, 159,189, 213, 239, 263, 295, 325, 353, 383, 415, 445, 475, 505, 531, 561, 587, 615, 643, 673, 701, 727, 751
Record, The Transatlantic, 207, 257, 548
Records of River Volumes and Flood Levels, 362
Red Star Liner “ Friesland,” The, 554
Red Star Liner “ Waesland,” The, 721
Reforesting Central Asia, 53
Refrigeration by Ammonia Absorption, 100
Regnault’s Experiments on Steam, Rationalisation of, 19, 34, 57, 91, 121
Removal of Rock under Water, The, 718
Repairing Shops and Electric Lighting, The Bon Marchb, 39
Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, C.M.G., R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 170, 442
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1888, 59
Reproductive Works and Local Expenditure, 111
Republic, The Argentine, 741
Republic of Chili, The, 494
Resistance of Ships in Narrow Channels, The 232 ’
Retrospective Exhibition of Means of Transport, 1
Richards*s Radial Drilling and Boring Machine,
Rival to Delagoa Bay, A, 20
River Improvement, 482
River Volumes and Flood Levels, Records of 362
Rivetted Boiler Joints, 146
Robey’s Combined Engine and Sugar Mill, 318
Rock Drill Carriage, Hanarte and Balant’s, 723
Rock Drilling and Breaking Down, The Dubois and Francois System of, 44
Rock, The Removal of, under Water, 718
Roemmele’s Grooved Keys, 711
Rolled Wood Screws, 610
Rolling Mills, Buckland’s, An Old Horse Gear at, 682
^541^ Stock and Locomotives, Expenditure on,
R9din Railway> afc the Pa«8 Exhibition,
Rolling Stock for Secondary Railways, 628
Roman Mining Laws, 705
R law’s and Numkerinand Machine, Car-
Rouen/The Port of, 424
Roux, Combaluzier, and Lepape Lifts at the Eiffel Tower, 23
Royal Agricultural Society’s Engine Trials, 1890, The, 220
Royal Meteorological Society, The, 597, 720
Rushworth’s Combined Vertical Lathe and Boring Machine, 396
Russia, Corn Elevators in, 524
Russia, Foreign Engineering Enterprise in, 316
Russian Crude Oil Pipe Line Scheme, The, 86
Russian Naval Policy, 435
Russian Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 206

Safety Lamp, Miner’s, The Thorneburry, 552, 572
Saint Chamond Company at the Paris Exhibition, The, 297, 346, 402
St. Lazare, The Station of, 29, 42, 67
“ Sampson,” The Old Locomotive, 70
Sand-Blast Apparatus for Cleaning Castings, Mathewson’s, 527
Sand-Blast Apparatus for Sharpening Files, 638
Sand Pump Hopper Dredger “Beaver,” Steam, 193
Sandberg’s Steel Baseplate for Flanged Rails, 501
Sautter and Lemonnibr's Exhibits at the Paris

Exhibition :

Crane, Cask, 301
Crane, Six-Ton, Wall, and Megy Winch, 301
Crane, Ten-Ton Travelling, Megy System, 301
Dynamo, Bipolar Gramme, and Horizontal Compound Engine ; French Cruiser Typ*, 269
Dynamo, Bipolar Gramme, and Vertical Compound Engine for the French Ironclad “ In-domptable,” 268
Dynamo, Triplex, and Compound Inverted Engine, with Central Driving Shaft; French Cruiser Type, 268
Dynamos, Triplex, for the Eiffel Tower Lighting, 400
Dynamotor for Torpedo Boat Installations, 269
Electric Light Engine at the Eiffel Tower, Vertical Compound, 400
Electric Light Plants, Military Portable, 72
Electric Signal Lamp, 270
Engine for Dynamo Driving, Single Cylinder
Variable Expansion, 269
Megy Hydraulic Motor, Two-Cylinder, 270
Military Projector, 72
Projector, Mangin, 23.62-in. in Diameter, for
Military Purposes, 270
Projector, Photo-Electric, 488
Projector for Ship’s Use ; Suez Canal Type, 270
Projector for Torpedo Boat Service, Portable Mangin, 270
Siren Double Note Compressed Air, 300

Saws, Band, for Heavy Timber, 254
Sayers and Sturge’s Suspension for Arc Lamps, 610
Scale, A New Thermometric, 448
Schichau’s Triple-Expansion Engine, 456
Science, Mechanical, 351, 380
Scientific Instruments at the Paris Exhibition. 228
Scientific Investigation as Applied to the Manufacture of Iron and Steel, 724
Scotch and Cleveland Iron Markets, The, 577
Scotch Ship Canal, The—The Opposing Routes,
Scotland, New Engineering Projects in, 604
Scotland, The Proposed Ship Canal Across. 425. 607, 711
Scotland, Railway Enterprise in, 435
Scotland, Shipbuilding and Engineering Industries in, 406, 746
Scott’s Three-Throw Hydraulic Pumps, 362
Scrap Tin, Nails from, 443
Screen. The Coxe and Salmon Gyrating, 244
Screw Ship “ Caloric,” Compound Boilers of the, 235
Screws, Wood, Rolled, 610
Scupps League, The, 115
Sea, Steady Platform at, 331
Seaworthiness of Torpedo Boats, The, 101, 128
Secondary Railways, Rolling Stock for, 628
Secondary Railways, The Working of, 520
Segmental Arches, Two-Nosed Catenaries and their Application to the Design of, 62
Seismology in Japan, 421
Se0Q<yerifyingWeiandhbridge,GuilIaurain’8 20-Ton, 2o9
Seller’s Self-Acting Injector, 611
Series Electric Traction, 359
Sewage Plant at Rangoon, 663
Sewage, Purification of, by Electrolysis, 359
Sewerage Works, The Kingston-on-Thames, 16
Seyng System of Portable Bridges, 139
Shackle Ball Insulator, Gilbert’s, 749
Shaping Machine, Britannia Company’s. 555
Sharing, Gain, 70 J ’
qh^neniDF £[le8>
Sand-Blast Apparatus for, 638
Ship Canal, The Scotch-The Opposing Routes, Ship Canal, Manchester, 287
Sh607°7nThe Proposed Forfch and Clyde, 425,
Canal, Proposed Paris, 287
Ship Railway, The Chegneto, 468
Mhu?1 the Edinburgh Electrical Exhibition of 1890, 636
ShTlpbAlld?r8 a?d En£ineers, North-East Coast
Institution of, 638
Shipbuilding at Barrow, 270
Scotland"g406\I7d46Engineerinfr Indu8tries in Shsh^>Uindi483an‘i Engineerin^Trade. Apprentice-Sh72O U734ing and Marine Engineering in 1889, ShinfUj>Idjn^ Yard atBi'bao, The English, 504
Ships, Petroleum, 356
232’ The Re8i8tance of> in Narrow Channels,
Ships, Wiring of, 53
Sh579,a593a621A648na1’El8Wick’ 451’ 48()> 509’ 650>
Siberian Railway and Canada, The, 232

Bridge over the Missouri River, The;

Chicago, Santa Fd, and California Railway, 10

Siemens Furnace Arranged to Recover Waste Gases, 440
Signalling, Railway, on the Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 303
Signalling, Railway, Hydraulic, 332
Signalling, Railway, on the Western Railway of France, 127, 161
Signals, Fog and Compass, for Ships at Sea, 400
Signals, Railway, Bianchi and Servettaz’s Hydraulic, 43
Signals, Railway, and Locomotive Engine Driving, 605
Silicon in Cast Iron, 156, 187, 236, 261, 392, 471, 502
Silk, Artificial, 112
Simplex Gas Engine, The, 38, 153, 185, 377
Sleeper Press, Breuer and Schumacher’s Hydraulic Steam, 22
Sliding Scales and the Crisis in the Coal Trade, 715
Slurry Pumps, Packing Ring for, 543

Smithfield Club Show, Thr : 690

Engine, Marshall’s Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, 690
Engine, Marshall’s Vertical, 690
Engines, The, 690
Implements, The, 690

Smit’s Dynamos, 259
Smit’s Precision Centre Punch, 527
Snow Excavator, The Jull Centrifugal, 246
Society, The Royal Meteorological, 597, 720
Solar Radiation, 390
Sordwana and Delagoa Bay, 182
South African Mail service, The, 652
South African Telegraphy, 115
South Russian Monopoly, The Great, 348
South-West, Notes from the, 13, 64, 79, 109,136, 175, 200, 238, 250, 294 , 308, 339, 367, 399, 442, 460, 489, 516, 545, 575, 599, 624, 657, 686, 712, 738
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 13, 54, 79, 108, 137, 174, 197, 224, 250, 278, 308, 339, 366, 399, 428, 460, 490, 516, 545, 574, 600, 637, 657, 686, 713, 738
Sparkless Electro-Magnets, 423
Specific Heat of Caoutchouc, The, 388
Spectra of Vacuum Tubes, The, 387
Spectroscope without a Lens, A, 449
Speed-Changing Device, A, 663
Speed Register, Engine, Duveau’s, 364
Speeds, Express, 227
Spencer’s Open Hollow Spindip Lathe, 539
Spooner, Mr. Charles Easton, 638
Springhill Colliery and Railway in Nova Scotia, 182
Squadron, The Australian, The Cruisers of, 487
Standards, 70
State of our Coal Resources, The, 483
Station, Railway, at Perth, The New General, 194
Station at St. Lazare, The, 29,42, 67
Stationary Engines at the Paris Exhibition, 204
Stations, Railway, The Electric Lighting of, 676
Statistics, Some Exhibition, 465
Steady and Alternate Currents and Conductors, 423
Steady Platform at Sea, 331
Steam Boiler Legislation, 49
Steam Consumption at Various Speeds, 100
Steam Cylinders, Condensation in, 607
Steam Drop Hammer, Bement and Miles’s, 323
Steam Engine Condensers, The Theory of, 323
Steam Hammer, Massey’s, 288
Steam Jackets, their Mode of Action, and the Reasons of their Economy, 691
Steam-Jacketted Cylinders, 534, 556, 584
Steam-Pipe Explosion at Deptford, Kent, The, 209
Steam, Regnault’s, Experiments on, Rationalisation of, 19, 34, 57, 91, 121
Steam Sand Pump Hopper Dredger “Beaver,” 193
Steam in Steam Cylinders, Action of, 534, 556, 584
Steam Turbine, A, 100
Steamer “Caledonia,” Engines of the Paddle, 220
Steamer “ Cobra,” Paddle, Engines of the Royal Mail, 119, 150
Steamer “ Modjeska,” The Twin-Screw, 409
Steamers, American, 581
Steamers, British v. American, 315
Steamers, Proposed American Atlantic Line of, 182
Steamship “ Meteor,” Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 319
Steel Company, The Firminy, 114, 145
Steel, The Hardening and Tempering of, 377
Steel Ingots, The Piping of, 8
Steel and Iron Manufacture in France, 373
Steel and Iron Works, The Longwy, 342
Steel Locomotive Firebox, Corrugated ; London and North Western Railway, 234
Steel under Mechanical Stress, The Behaviour of, 699
Steel Wagon Wheel, Hansell’s, 222
Steel Works, The Holtzer, 343
Stereometry, 388
Stirlingshire and Dumbartonshire Railways, The New, 652
Stockless Anchor, Hall’s, 184
Storms and Winters, 420
Strain to Stress, Hysteresis in the Relation of, 421, 441
Street-Cleansing Machine, Hercules, 719
Strength of Alloys at Different Temperatures, The, 414
Strike, The Dock Labourers’, 253
Strike, The London Labourers’, 281
Strong Locomotive, The, 145
Stroudley, Mr. William, 745
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 232, 582
Sugar Mill and Engine, Robey’s Combined, 318
Sulzer’s Engine, Carels’ Compound Horizontal, 108
Sulzer’s Horizontal Compound Engine, 428
Sulzer’s Triple-ExpansionVertical Engine, 488
Supply, Heating and Power, 362
Supply, The Water, of the Paris Exhibition, 404
Supports for Telephone Wires, Andre’s, 363
Survey, Magnetic, 420
Suspension for Arc Lamps, Savers and Sturge’s, 610
Swedish Explosive, A New, 434

Tablet Exchanging Apparatus, Train ; Great North of Scotland Railway, 427
Tachygraph, Buss’s, 248
Tachymeter, Buss’s, 43
Tandem Compound Engine (Frikart System) 236
Tank Locomotive ; Eastern Railway of France 249, 348
Tank Locomotive; Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 198
Tank Locomotive for the Western Railway of France, 599
Tank Passenger Locomotive for the Taff Vale Railway, 150, 172
Tay, Bridge over the River, at Caputh Ferry 306
Teaching of Chemistry, The, 448
Telegraph Company, The Western Union, 719
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 232, 582
Telegraph Material at the Paris Exhibition, 418
Telegraphy on the Eastern Railway of France 191, 215
Telegraphy, South African, 115
Telephone Induction, A New View of, 725
Telephone, The Pulsion, 660
Telephone Wires, Andre’s Supports for, 363
Telephonic Communication, 359
Temperature, Underground, 420
Temperature, Vertical Distribution of, in the Atmosphere, 522, 566, 633, 649, 705
Temperatures, Indicating, at a Distance, 468
Tempering, Electric, 20
Tempering and Hardening of Steel, The, 377
Tester, Cement, Amsler-Laffon’s, 623
Tester, Cylinder Lubricant, Boult’s, 184
Testimonial to Professor Kennedy, 148
Testing Works, The Broadway, Westminster, 178
Tests, The Gunnery, of the “ Piemonte,” 370
Tests, Pump, 183
“ Teutonic,” The New White Star Liner, 148
Theory, Boscovich’s, 387
Theory of Draught for Vehicles, The, 482
Theory of Errors, A Physical Basis for the, 556
Theory of Steam Engine Condensers, The, 323
Thermo-Currents, 421
Thermometric Scale, A New, 448
Thomson Electric Welding Process, The. 391 413
Thomson-Houston Electric Rail way Systew, The,
Thorneburry Miner’s Lamp, The, 552, 572
Three-Cylinder Engines, Brotherhood’sk 43
Three-Throw Hydraulic Pumps, Scott’s, 362
Tide-Wheel, A, 20
Tidal Observations, 420
Timber, The Expansion of, 100
Timbrel Vault, The, 745
Time, Unification of, 388
Tin Scrap, Nails from, 443
Tones of Bells, The, 388
Tools, American Machine, 22
Tools, Machine, at the Paris Exhibition, 220
Torpedo Boat for the Indian Government, First-Class, 515
Torpedo Boat " No. 79,” Yarrow, 140
Torpedo Boats of the British Navy, 709
Torpedo Boats for the Italian Navy, 662
Torpedo Boats, New, 348
Torpedo Boats, The Seaworthiness of, 101,128
Torpedo Gun, Pneumatic, 49
Tower, The Eiffel, 39
Tower, A 1600-ft., 578
Town Heating by Hot Water, 259, 290
Traction Belt, 146
Traction, Series Electric, 359
Trade, The Position and Prospects of, 603
Traders and the Railways, The, 493
Train Lighting by Electricity, 477, 719
Train Tablet Exchanging Apparatus; Great North of Scotland Railway, 427
Trains, Railway, The Vibrations of, 441
Tramway Locomotive for Metre Gauge Lines, 737
Transandine Railway, The, 286
Transatlantic Company’s Panorama, The, 2
Transatlantic Record, The, 207, 257, 548
Transcaspian Railway, Extending the, 405
Transformers, Electrical, 358
Transmission of Power by Compressed Air in Paris (Popp’s System), Experiments on the, 320, 330
Transport of Goods and Minerals on British Lines, The, 659
Transport, Retrospective Exhibition of Means of, 1
Travelling Cranes, Davy’s Driving Gear for, 364
Trial Trips and Launches, 22, 47, 92, 109, 158, 171, 197, 221, 247, 288, 305, 366, 407, 425, 457, 487, 513, 540, 583, 597, 637, 656, 687, 712, 738
Trials, Engine, The Royal Agricultural Society’s, 1890, 220
Triple-Expansion Engine, Schichau’s, 456
Triple-Expansion Engines, 146
Triple-Expansion Engines, Cravero’s, 543, 708
Triple-Expansion Engines and Engine Trials, 693
Triple-Expansion Engines for River Steamer, 543
Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 319
Triple-Expansion Horizontal Engine, Powell’s, 596
Triple-Expansion Vertical Engine, Sulzer’s, 488
Triplex Dynamos for the Eiffel Tower Lighting, 400
Trotter Curve Ranger, The, 666
Trouville Landing Pier and Promenade, 652
Tubing, Flexible Metallic, 438
Tubulous Boiler, De Naeyer’s 569
Tuning-Forks, Driving, Electrically, 556
Turbine, A Steam, 100
Turning and Cutting-Out Machine, Crank-Pin; Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 363
Turntable, Locomotive, for the Paris and Orleans Railway, 573
Twin-Screw Steamer u Modjeska,” The, 409
Twisted Strips, The Behaviour of, 556
Two-Nosed Catenaries and their Application to the Design of Segmental Arches, 62
Typewriters at the Paris Exhibition, 385, 452

Underground Temperature, 420
Unification of Time, 388
United States Exhibition of 1892, The, 742
United States Metallic Packing, The, 697
United States, Notes from the, 11, 42, 117, 153, 183, 209, 233, 258, 275, 318, 376, 457, 487, 555, 597, 639, 682, 720
Units and Standards, Electrical, 421
Universal Hand Lathe, 291
University College Engineering Laboratories, Liverpool, The New, 524,

Vacuum Tubes, The Spectra of, 387
Valve Gear, Bonnefond’s Locomotive, 710
Valve Gear, Bremme’s Patent, Notes on, 444
Valve Gears, Radial, 613, 641
Valves, Cornish or Double-Beat, 100, 669
Van, Experimental; Western Railway of France, 394
Vancouver City, 53
Vault, The Timbrel, 745
Vehicles, The Theory of Draught for, 482
Velocity of the Wind at the Top of the Eiffel Tower, The, 634
Ventilation, Mine, 242
Vertical Compound Electric Light Engine at the Eiffel Tower, 400
Vertical Distribution of Temperature in the Atmosphere, 522, 566, 633, 649, 705
Vertical Engine, Compound, 310
Vertical Engine, Marshall’s, 690
Vertical Lathe and Boring Machine, Rushworth’s Combined, 396
Vertical Triple-Expansion Engine, Sulzer’s, 488
Vestibule of the Paris Exhibition, The Central, 8
Vibrations of Railway Trains. The, 441
Victoria at the Paris Exhibition, 19

“ Waesland,” The Red Star Liner, 721
Wages Cost of Working British Railways, The, 689
Wagon, Cattle ; Southern Railway of France, 540
Wagon, Platform ; Southern Railway of France, 711
Wagon, 20-Ton, for the Grand Central Railway of Belgium, 426
Wagon Wheel, Hansell’s Steel, 222
Walker, Thomas Andrew, 635
Wallace’s Climax Drawbar Gear, 584
Warburton’s Packing Ring for Slurry Pumps, 543
Warp Weaving and Knitting without Weft, 31, 88 119
Warships, The Machinery of Our, 177
Water Analysis, 449
Water Gas, 331
Water Supply of Bradford, 287
Water Supply of the Paris Exhibition, The, 404
Water-Tube Boilers, 608
Water Works, The Liverpool, 315
Waves and Currents in Estuaries, The Action of, 333
Wear of Rails, The, 606
Weather, The, 16, 178, 286, 402, 548, 660
Weaving1, Warp, and Knitting without Weft, 31, 88, 119
Weighbridge, Guillaumin’s 20-Ton Self-Verifying, 289
Weigher, Current, A New Form of, 423
Weighing Machine. Locomotive; Paris and Orleans Railway, 626
Weight of Metals, The Molecular, 449
Weiss’s Air Compressor, 135
Welding, Electric, 391, 413
Western Railway of France, Railway Signalling on the, 127,161
Western States of America, The, 552
Western Union Telegraph Company, 719
Westinghouse Electric Company, The, 433
Wheel-Cutting Machine, 488, 539
Wheel, Wagon, Hansell’s Steel, 222
Wheelock Valve Gear, Horizontal Engine with, 168
White Lead. A New. 449
White Star Liner “Teutonic,” The New, 148
Whitworth Institute, The Manchester, 606
William Denny Memorial Institute at Dumbarton, The, 181
William Gilbert, of Colchester, 717, 729
Wind, The Velocity of the, at the Top of the Eiffel Tower, 634
Winters and Storms, 420
Wire-Working Machinery, 152
Wiring of Ships, 53
Wood Screws, Rolled, 610
Wood-Working Machinery, Fay’s, 44, 135, 222, 275, 334, 395
Work, Contract, in the Navy, 463
Working of Secondary Railways, The, 520
Workmen’s Houses at the Paris Exhibition, 512

Works :

Calais Harbour, 42
Creusdt, 432
Decauville’s, at Petit-Bourg, 42
Harbour, at Ardrossan, 528
Headland Protection and Promenade, Hartlepool, 469
Holtzer Steel, The, 343
Kingston-on-Thames Sewerage, The, 16
Longwy Iron and Steel, The, 342
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, The, 229
Testing, The Broadway, Westminster, 178
Water, The Liverpool, 315
Wrench Cap, Entwistle and Kenyon’s, 323
Wright’s Seven - Colour Linoleum Printing Machine, 685

Yacht Race, The International. 50
Yarrow Torpedo Boat “ No. 79,” 140
Yaryan Fresh Water Condenser, The, 118

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