Engineering 1890 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

Abel, Sir Frederick, Presidential Address, British Association, 287 (See Letter, Aluminium and Sodium, 311)
Aberdeen Breakwater, 616, 77’2
Abingdon and Louth, Boiler Explosions at, 219
Abrasion, Coefficient of, as Absolute Measure of Hardness, 445
Absorption Dynamometer, An Automatic, 62
Acceleration of Trains to Scotland, 18, 169, 248
Achbron,” The French Armoured Cruiser, 694
Act, Boiler Explosions, 588
Act, Boiler Explosions, 1882, Amendment of the, 332
Act, The Directors’ Liability, 106, 224
Act, The M‘Kinley Tariff, 430, 523, 582
Acts, The Factories, 346
Action of Semi-Permeable Membranes in Electrolysis, The, 421
Action of Steam Digging, The Mechanical, 367
Action of Tides on Estuaries, The, 237
Additions to the Navy in 1890, 730
Address of the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 276
Address of the President of the British Association, Sir Frederick Abel, 287
Address of the President of the Mechanical Science Section of the British Association, Captain Noble, 299, 322, 350
Addy, Mr. George, on Milling Cutters, 542, 676 (See 702)
Admiralty Coefficient Formulas, The Correct Form of the, 76
Aetna Works, The, 168
Agricultural Implements, Smithfield Show, 699
Ainley-Oakes Square Drilling Machines, The, 78
Aire and Calder Navigation, The, 182
Alignment of Dunmail Raise Tunnel, 80
Alloys of Nickel and Iron, Magnetic Properties of, 293
Alternate Current Dynamos, 187
Alternate Currents, 418
Alternating Current Induction, Phenomena of, 144, 202
Altmann-Kuppermann Petroleum Motor, The, 454
Aluminium Alloys by the Heroult Process, 430
Aluminium Bronze for Artillery and Small Arms, 301 (See Paragraph, 336)
Aluminium in the Drawing Press, 263
Amendment of the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, 332
America, Armour Plate Trials in, 402, 491
America, The Iron and Steel Institute in, 163,286 (See Iron and Steel Institute)
America, Production of Pig Iron in, 431
America, Strikes in, 226
American Bridges, Some New, 401
American Cruisers “ Maine ” and “ Boston,” 465
American and English Trusts, 255
American Institute of Mining Engineers, The 498, 531, 559
American Mines and Manufacturing Centres, Distances between, 317
American Population, 259
American Railroad Phrases, 195
American Railway Statistics, 194
Ameiican Shipping and Shipbuilding, 283
American Society of Civil Engineers, The, 238 274, 316
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (See Mechanical Engineers, American Society oj)
American Trade, English Ports for the, 226
American Warships, New, 199
“ Admiral Baudin,” The French Barbette Ironclad, 25
“ Admiral Dupere,” The French Turret Ship, 398
Amsler’s Recording Dynamometer, 497
Analysis of Fats, Some Points on the, 449 (See Erratum, 496)
Angle Shears, 243, 623
Apatite in Sweden, 317
Argentine Cruiser “ 25 de Mayo,” The, 579 (See Letter, 601)
Armour-Clad Forts, The Canet System of, 596
Armour-Plate Trials in America, 402, 491
Armoured Barbette Ship “ Formidable,” The, 126
Armoured Ships, French (See French Navy}
Armoured Turret and Gun Mounting; Canet System, 511, 538
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.’s Heavy Plate Edge and Butt Planing Machine, 627
1 Artillery, Modern French : 4
Armour-Clad Forts, 597
Armour Turret and Gun Mounting, 511, 538
Bores of Guns, Apparatus for Examining, 685
Breechloading Mechanism (Canet), 653
Breechloading Mechanism of Quick - Firing Guns, 297
British Service Howitzers, 139
Canet System, Details of, 745
Canet System, Mortars and Howitzers, 63, 93, 139
Carriages (Coast Gun) with Hydraulic Brakes, 566
Carriages for Mortars and Howitzers, 139
Carriages of “ Pelayo ” (Spanish Cruiser) and French Ships “St. Louis” and “Courbet,” 715
Carriages for Quick-Firing Guns, 239
Cast-Iron Guns, 626
Coast Gun Carriages with Hydraulic Brakes, 566
“ Courbet” (French Ship), Gun Mountings on, 719
Electrical Training Gear for Quick-Firing Guns, 269
Forts, Armour-Clad, 597
Gun Carriages, 358, 384, 414, 475
Gun Mounting Machinery, 511, 538
Howitzers and Mortars, Canet System, 63, 93, 139
Hydraulic Brakes for Coast Gun Carriages, 566
Inspecting Apparatus and Sights, 685
Manceron’s Apparatus for Examining the Bores of Guns, 685
Mortars and Howitzers, Canet System, 63, 93, 139
Mounting, Armour Turret and, 511, 538
Naval Gun Carriages, 475
Naval Guns and Carriages, 653
“ Pelayo,” Gun Carriages of Cruiser, 715
Quick-Firing Guns, Canet System, 153, 207, 239, 269, 297
Siege and Garrison Guns (Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee), 4
Siege and Garrison Guns, French and English Mountings Compared, 34
“ St. Louis” Guns, Mountings of French Ship,
Artillery and Small Arms, Aluminium Bronze for, 301 (See Paragraph, 336)
Asbestos-Packed Stop Valve, Robinson’s, 467
Asquith’s Double Planing Machine, 544, 581
Assessable Valuation of the Forth Bridge, The,
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 27 (See Letters, Boiler Explosions and Boiler inspection) J
Association for the Promotion of Technical and Secondary Education, The National, 198
Atlantic Passages. (See Transatlantic)
Auditorium, Chicago, The, 507
August Weather, 285
Australia, Railway Commissioners in, 466
Automatic Sprinklers, Determination of the Sensitiveness of, 39
Automatic Steam Stop Valve, Jeffrey’s, 86
Automatic Switch, Newton and Hawkins’, 377
Automatic Torpedoes, 573, 628, 740, 772
Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, Trial of a, 53, 738 (See Letters)
Baker’s Hydraulic Dredger, 524 (See Letters)
Balloons for Naval Purposes, 493
Band Saw for Large Logs, Ransome’s, 215
Barbette Ironclad, “ Amiral Baudin,” The French, 25
Barbette Ship “ Formidable,” The French Armoured, 126
“Barham” and “Bellona,” H.M.SS., Boilers and Engines of (Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 628, 705 (See Letters)
Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, on Protection of Ships, 703
Barnsley, The Electric Light at, 77
Barrel Chlorination, The Thies Process of, 145
Barrow’s Screwing and Turning Machines (Messrs. T. Shanks and Co.), 310
Batoum, The Port of, 581
Battleships in Spain, Building, 317
Baxter’s Triple-Expansion Engines Driving Three Screws (Messrs. Cox and Co., Falmouth), 484
Beam Bending, 623
Bearing for Shafts, Lister’s Roller, 377 (See Letters, Lubricating Shafting)
Bearings, Wood’s Journal, 261
Belaja River, Bridge over the ; Samara-Ufa Railway, Russia, 41, 95
“Bellona” and “Barham,” H.M.SS., Boilers and Engines of (Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 628, 705 (See Letters)
Belts or Donkey Engines? 244
Ben Nevis Observatory, 422
Bessemer, Alabama, The City of, 212
Bethlehem Iron Works in Pennsylvania State, The, 242
Bevelling Machine, 623
Bilbao Shipbuilding Works, 317
Bill, The Mines Eight Hours, 761
Birmingham, The Electric Lighting of, 289
Birmingham and Mersey Canal, The Proposed, 372
Blast Furnacemen’s Strike in Scotland, 429 (See also Paragraphs)
Blast Furnaces at Sheffield, Alabama, 486
Blast Nozzle, Macallan and Adams’ Variable, 21G
Bleaching by Electrolysis, 259
“ Blenheim,” Launch of H.M.S., 48
Blyth and Whitby, Shipbuilding in 1890, 768
Board of Trade Regulations for Electric Supply Companies, 490
Boat Davits, Rees’, 367
Boat-Lifting Apparatus, Duinker’s, 111
Boats, A System of Inclined Plane for, 186, 263
Boiler and Engine Works, Brightside, 168
Boiler Experiments, Steam, 1, 59, 122, 591
Boiler Explosion at Bury, 689
Boiler Explosion, A Curious Locomotive, 332
Boiler Explosion at Denton, 289
Boiler Explosions Act, 588
Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, Amendment of the, 332
Boiler Explosions at Louth and Abingdon, 219
Boiler Explosions in 1889; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 83
Boiler Furnace Bridge, Phillips and Archer’s Movable, 201
Boiler, Knap’s Water Tube ; Root’s System, 484
Boiler, Lentz’s Stayless Locomotive, 724
Boiler, Trial of a Babcock and Wilcox, 53, 788 (See Letters)
Boiler Tubes, The Serve, 306, 490, 523
Boilers and Engines of H.M.SS. “ Bellona” and “ Barham” (Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 628, 705 (See Letters)
Boilers and Engines of the S.S. “ Kaiser Wilhelm II,” (Vulcan Works, Stettin), 126, 188 (See Letters, Boiler Construction Defective)
Boilers, Marine, Prepared Sea-Water for, 401
Boilers, Steam Launch, The Safety of, 342
Boilers and Triple-Expansion Engines of the Russian Ironclad “Sinope,” (Messrs. R. Napier and Sons), 81
Boilers, Yarrow’s Tubular Stay for, 544
Bolivia, The Mineral Resources of, 31
Booth's Boiler Flue Flanging Machine, 754
“ Boston,” American Cruiser, 465
Brake, The Simplex, 306
Brake Trials in Australia, 612
Brake Trials in India, 315
Brake, The Westinghouse Quick-Acting, 227, 460
Brashear, J. A., on Modern Measurements and Manipulations, 112
Brake, The Vacuum (See Letters)
Brassey’s “Naval Annual,” 512
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 491
1 Bridge for Boiler Furnaces, Phillips and Archer’s Movable, 201
1 Bridge, The Great Western Road, Glasgow, 231
Bridge, The New York and Brooklyn, 373, 478
Bridge over the Ohio River, The Chesapeake and Ohio, 660
Bridge, The Poughkeepsie, 465
Bridge over the River Belaja; Samara-Ufa Railway, Russia, 41, 95
Bridge Span, Erection of a Large, 373
Bridge, The Washington, 478
Bridges, Some New American, 401
Bridges, The Lansdowne and Chittravati, 690
Bridges, Long Span, 734
Bridges, Masonry Skew, 238
Bridgewater Ship Railway Scheme, 618
Brigntside Boiler and Engine Works, 168
Briquette-making Machine, Stevens’s, 291

British Association, The : 225, 286
- Cardiff Meeting, 449
- Chemical Papers, 445
- Economic Section, The, 343
- Mechanical Science Section, The, 299, 385
- Mechanical Section. President’s Address by
- Captain Noble, 299, 322, 350
- Physical Papers, 359
- Presidential Address by Sir Frederick Abel, 287 (See Letter, Aluminium and Sodium, 311)
On the Victoria Torpedo, by Mr. G. Read Murphy, 246, 301 (See Letters)
On an hydraulic Steam Lifeboat, by Mr. J. F. Green 299
On Aluminium Bronze for Artillery and Small Arms, by Mr J. Dagger 299 (See Paragraph 336)
On New Telemeters and Range Finders, by Professors Barr and Stroud, 302 (See a Letters 406)
On Estuaries, Report of Committee, 303
On Graphic Methods, Report of Committee, 303
On the Manufacture of Netting from Sheet Metal by Mr. J. F. Golding, 303
On Cable Tramways, by Mr. W. N. Colam, 304
On the "Serve" Tube, by Mr W. B. Marshall, 306
On the Simplex Brake, by Mr.W. B. Marshall, 306
On the Thorne Type-Composing Machine, by Mr J Southward, 306
On the Pneumatic Distribution of Power, by Professor A. Lupton 306
On the Construction of Sluices for Rivers, by Mr F. G. M. Stoney, 307
On the Raiyan Escape and Impounding Reservoir Middle Egypt, by Mr. Cope White 307
On some Assets of Competition, by Professor Alfred Marshall, M.A., 343
On Modern Forms of Industrial Combination, by Professor A. T. Hadley, 344
On Co-operation, by Mr. Benjamin Jones, 345
On the Probable Effect on Wages of a General Reduction in the Hours of Labour, by Prof. J. E. C. Munro, LL.D., 345
On the Factories and Workshops Acts, Past and Present, by Mr. G. H. L. Richards, 346
On Modern Changes in the Mobility of Labour, by Mr. H. Llewellyn Smith, 346
On Science in Elementary Schools, Report of Committee, 347
On the Drawbacks of Modern Economic Progress by Mr. E. L. K. Gonner. 347
On Pure Mathematics, by Dr. Glaisher, 359
On Electro-Optics, Report of Committee, 361
On Refraction and Dispersion in Certain Metals, by Professor Du Bois, 361
On Contact Electricity and the Multicellular Electrometer, by Sir William Thompson 361
On some New Vacuum Joints and Taps, by Mr. W. A. Shenstone, 362
On High Vacua, by Mr. Swinburne, 362
On a Lantern for Class Room Work, by Professors Barr and Stroud, 362
On Defective Colour Vision, by Lord Rayleigh, 363
On the Size of Drops falling from a Tube, by Mr. W. Binnie, 363
On Recent Determinations of the Ohm, by Mr. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 363
On Suggestions towards a Determination of the Ohm, by Professor Jones, 363
On a New Electric Meter, by Sir William Thomson, 365
On the Lineff Tramway System, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 385
On Alternating versus Continuous Currents in Relation to the Human Body, by Messrs. H. N. Laurence and A. Harries, M.D., 386
On Electric Lighting and Fire Insurance Rules, by Mr. Wilson Hartnell, 387
On Secondary Batteries, by Mr. W. J. Barber-Starkey, 388
On Telephoning through Submarine Cables, by Mr. W. H. Preece, 389
On the Column-Printing Telegraph, by Mr. F. Higgins, 389
On Heavy Lathes, by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, 389
On Factors of Safety, by Mr. W. Bayley Marshall, 389
On the Measurement of Elongation in Test Samples, by Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 392
On a Mechanism for Giving Vertical Motion, by Professor Barr, 393
On Alternate Currents in Parallel Conductors of Homegeneous or Heterogeneous substance, by Sir William Thomson, 418
On Anti-Effective Copper in Parallel media Conductors for Alternate Currents, by Sir William Thomson, 418
On the Molecular Theory of Induced Magnetism,by Professor Ewing, 419
On Experiments to Determine Wave Velocity in Certain Dielectrics, by Professor Trouton, 419
On a Method of Determining in Absolute Measure the Magnetic Susceptibility of Diamagnetic and Feebly Magnetic Solids, by Sir William Thomson, 420 .
On the Tension of any Water Surface Clean and Contaminated by the Method of Ripples, by Lord Rayleigh, 420 .
On Electrolysis, Report of Committee, 420
On the State of our Knowledge of Electrolysis and Electro-Chemistry, by Mr. Shaw, 420
On the Action of Semi-Permeable Membranes in Electrolysis, by Professor Oswald, 421
On the Present Position of the Hydrate Theory of Solution, by Mr. Pickering, F.R.S., 422
On Molecular Refraction of Substances in solution, by Dr. Gladstone, 422
On the Ben Nevis Observatory, Report of committee, 422
On Tidal Observations in Canada, Report of Committee, 422
On Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations, Report of Committee, 422
On Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena Japan, Report of Committee, 422 .
On the Meteorological Observatory on Mont Blanc, by Mr. A. L. Rotch, 422 .
On Spectra of Elements and the Constitution of the Sun, by Professor Rowland, 423
On Regional Magnetic Disturbances in the United Kingdom, by Professor Rilcker, 423
On Magnetic Perturbations in France, by Professor Mascart, 423 .
On Instantaneous Photographs of Water Jets, by Lord Rayleigh, 423
On Electrical Standards, Report of Committee, 414
On Variation in some Standard Resistance Coils, by Mr. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 444
On the Comparison of a Platinum Thermometer with some Mercury Thermometers, by Mr. R. H. Griffiths, 444
On some Standard Air Condensers, by Messrs. Glazebrook and Muirhead, 444
On the Specific Resistance of Copper, by Mr. Fitzpatrick, 444
On the Character of Steel for Permanent Magnets, by Mr. Preece, 444
On Oxidation and the Magnetic Properties of Manganese Steel, by Mr. L. T. O’Shea, B.Sc., 445
On Testing Iron, by Messrs. Swinburne and Bourne, 445
On Molecular Phenomena Attending the Magnetisation of Iron, Report of Committee, 445
On Electrical Oscillations, by Professor Trowbridge, 445
On Electrostatic Forces between Conductors Carrying Currents, by Professor O. Lodge, 445
On a Coefficient of Abrasion as Absolute Measure of Hardness, by Professor Trouton, 445
On Fluorspar for Optical Instruments, by Professor Sylvanus Thompson, 445
On a New Direct Reading Photometer, by Mr. Frederick Varley, 445
On Priestley, Cavendish, and Lavoisier, by Professor Thorpe, F.R.S., 445
On the Methods of Teaching of Chemistry, Report of Committee, 446
On the Development of the Coal Tar Colour Industry, by Dr. Perkin, F.R.S., 448
On Unburned Gases of Gas Stoves and Burners, by Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., 448
On the Vulcanisation and Decay of India-Rubber, by Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., 448
On the Ignition of Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, by Dr. G. S. Turpin, 448
On the Rate of Explosion of Hydrogen and Chlorine, by Professor Dixon, F.R.S.E., 448
On some Points on the Analysis of Fats, by Mr. T. Lewkowitsch, Ph. D., F.C.S., F.I.C., 449 (See Erratum, 496)
On Recent Investigations on the Gases Held in Solution by the Sea Water of the Skagerack, by Dr. O. Petterson, 449
On the Measurement of Strains, by Mr. A. Mallock, 614

British Colonies, The Mineral Riches of, 459, 698
British Corporation for Survey and Register of Ships, 668
British Railway Statistics, 370
Brooklyn Bridge, 478, 373
Brooklyn Navy Yard, The, 218, 465
Bucknill, Colonel J. T., on Submarine Mines, 566, 642, 658 (See Letters)
Building Battleships in Spain, 317
Burr, W. IL, on Bridge over Ohio, 660
Burrell’s Single-Crank Compound Traction Engine, 675
Bury, Boiler Explosion at, 689
Bush, Thomas’s Concentric Wedge, 377
Cable v. Locomotive Haulage on Brooklyn Bridge, 373 (See also 478)
Cable Tramways, 304
Caissons, Ship, 674
Calorimeter, A Universal Steam, 89
Calumet and Hecla, and Tamarack Copper Mines, The, 256, 553
Cambridge, Engineering at, 78
Cammell’s Armour Plate Trials in America, 380, 402, 491 (See Letters, Armour Plates)
Canada, Tidal Observations in, 422
Canal Boats, 183
Canal Congress, The International : 134,166 Miscellaneous, 274
On the River Weaver Navigation, by Mr, J. A. Saner, 166,181
On the Aire and Calder Navigation, by Mr. Bartholomew, 182
On the Reorganisation of the Marie Fluvial System, by Mr. D. Hoerschelmann, 182
On the Volga Navigation, by Mr. V. E. de Timanoff, 183
On Canal Propulsion, by Aiderman W. H. Bailey, 183
On Deep Locks, by Mr. Fontaine, 186
On a System of Inclined Plane for Boats, by Mr. A. Flament, 186, 263
On the Present Condition and Development of Inland Waterways, by Mr. Henry John Marten, 186, 204, 221
On the River Weser Improvements, by Herr Franzius, 208
On the Design, the Final Location, and the Current Progress of the Nicaragua Canal, by Mr. A. G. Menocal, U.S.N., 208 (See also
749)
On the Centenary of a Scotch Canal, by Mr. J. Law Crawford, 237
On the Action of Tides on Estuaries, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, 237
On the Forth and Clyde Direct Route Ship Canal, by Mr. J. Law Crawford, 237
On the Manchester Ship Canal, by Mr. E. Leader Williams, M.I C.E., 264, 274 (See also 77, 633, 664, 754)
On Dredging Plant, by Mr. A. C. Schonberg,
272
On the Physical Conditions Affecting Tidal Rivers and the Principles Applicable to their Improvement, by Mr. L. F. Vernon Harcourt, 273
Canal, The Forth and Clyde, 237
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 77, 264, 274, 633, 664, 754
anal, The Nicaragua, 208, 749
ana), The North Sea Baltic, 21
anal, The Proposed Birmingham and Mersey, 372
anal, The Saulte Ste. Marie, 2^9
anal Works, The Manchester Ship, Flooding of
the, 633
mals, Steam Propulsion on, 183
wet Guns (See French Artillery, Modern) met System of Armour-Clad Forts, The, 596 irdew’s Earthing Device, 544
C^dMndi?CatorOf119e Br‘ti8h As8ociation> 449
CaJriaKi1^’^8’ ^'cock’s Railway, 124
'for Making Larg^’^?^ Cha,len 8 Machinery Cast-Iron Guns, 626’
Cast Iron, Testing, 19
“d LaVoisier> 445
Centenary of a Scotch Canal, The, 237
C 218 Gold-Extracting Process, Jordan’s, ^Lecters)* PU“P’ The Inventor of ^e, 670 (See Ce‘‘CoHiJ?TPing ,EnSines the s.s.
voiumbia (Tangyes ), 44
^BiVkuffiead^o ?Wnes ’ Wallasey Dock, mi Ki nnead (GWynne’s), 755
Ce'sa" onofVr^i?"0;11"Huntington’s,424 490 ;<s° Q X< ? Erocinotion in Scotland, The,
GhaJr 8AfC(?n®’ Some ExPerience8 with, 21
The, 765 lg at thG K°yal Sch001 of Mines,
Chapin Mine, 552
Charges and Rates, Railway, 223
Cheap Railway Construction, 275
ChlSvPX8Tat Briti8h A^ociation, 445 vmemistry, The Teaching of, 446
C R8vePr,aThe,a66d0 °hi° B"dge a°r°88 the Ohio
C12°4^2O 5S4efiK7tiR-7noal-?xhibition of 1893> The> z, 402, 554, 667, 678, 709, 731
Chicago, A New Sanitary Scheme for, 509 4Qi1C/acF0’ T United States Man-of-War, 216, 431 (See Letter, 427)
C^1nfig°’ Vi8it Of the Iron and Sfceel institute to, OvO 1
Chimney Draught, 63
Chittravati and Lansdowne Bridges, The, 690
Chiyoda, The Japanese Cruiser, 423
Chlorination, Barrel, The Thies Process of, 145
Chlonne and Hydrogen, Rate of Explosion of,
448 1 ’
City of Bessemer, Alabama, The, 212
City of New York ” and “ Teutonic,” The, 285 (See 1 ransatlantic Record)
“ City of Paris’’(See Transatlantic Record)
City of Pittsburg, The, 482 '
City of Pullman, The, 510
" oif Richmond,” Indicating the Engines of uIlCj ZJL
City and South London Railway, The, 550, 757
Sty.0* th? West, The Queen (Cincinnati), 149
97/t . ameers, The American Society of, 238, 2/4, 316
Civil Engineers in India, 133, 164
Civil Engineers, The Institution of :
On Steam on Common Roads, by Mr. John McLaren, A.M.I.C.E., 613
On the Vibratory Movements of Locomotives, and on Timing Trains and Testing Railway Tracks, by Mr. John Milne, F.R.S., and John McDonald, 644
On the Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus at ?ukkur> by Mr. F. E. Robertson, M.I.C.E., 690 1
On the New Chittravati Bridge, Madras Rail-way, by Mr. Ed. W. Stoney, M.I.C.E., 690
Subjects for Papers, Session 1890-91,452
Class-Room Work, A Lantern for, 362
Cleaning Coal, 74, 289
Cleveland (See Notes from Cleveland)
Club Trains from London to Berlin and other Continental Towns, 554
Clyde Coast Service, The, 42 (See Letters, s s.
“ Cobra” 70, and Marine Engine Economy. 71)
Clyde and Forth Canal, The, 237
Clyde New Steamers, 42, 70, 71
“ Clyde,” s.s., The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s (Messrs. R. Napier and Sons, Glasgow), 366 ’
Clyde Steel Works, The, 123
Coal Cleaning, 74, 289
Coal Mines, The Mechanical Engineering of, 135
Coal Mining in Belgium, 703
Coal Mining in New South Wales, 459, 763
Coal Tar Colour Industry, Development of the, 448
Coal Washing in Yorkshire, 289
Coast Defence Armour-Clad “Fusde” The French, 187
Coast Gun Carriages with Hydraulic Brakes, 566
Cockburn Dredging Crane and Grab, The, 393 (See Erratum, 435)
Coefficient of Abrasion as Absolute Measure of Hardness, 445
“ Colbert,” French Central Battery Ironclad, 454
Cold Air Machine for the s.s. “Maori King”
Hall’s Duplex, 543 (See Erratum, 572)
College Courses, Engineering, 399
College, Sibley, and Cornell University, 210
College, The Technical, Finsbury, 591
“ Colliers”—Past and Present, 719
Colonies, British, The Mineral Riches of, 459, 698
Colorado, Irrigation Canals in, 432
Colour Vision, Defective, 363
“Columbia,” s.s., Centrifugal Pumping Engines for the (Tangyes’), 44
Columbian Exhibition, The, 2, 402 554, 667, 678 709, 731
Column-Printing Telegraph, The, 389
Combination, Industrial, 344
Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the Institution, The, 165
Common Roads, Steam on, 613
Companies, Winding-Up, 47
Company, The John Cockerill, 765
Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations, 422
Competition, Some Aspects of, 343
Competition in the Shipping Trade, Foreign, 48
Competitive Examination, Physical Tests in, 639
Compound Direct-Acting Self-Governing Pumping Engine, Tyler’s, 528
Compound Locomotive for the London and North-Western Railway, 99
Compound Ophthalmic Refractometer, Fournet’s, 66
Compound Traction Engine, Burrell’s SingleCrank, 675
Compound Vertical Engine, 68
Compressed Air Flying Machine, Hargrave’s, 769 (See Letter, 758)
Compressed Air Hospital, A, 48
Compressed Air for Power Distribution, 306, 409
Concentric Wedge Bush, Thomas’s, 377
Condensers, Alternate Current, 771
Conductors Carrying Currents, Electrostatic Forces between, 445
Congress at the Chicago Exhibition, Proposed International Engineering, 554
Congress, The International Canal (See Canal
Congress, The International)
Congress, The Trades Union, 313
Consolidated Gas Company, The Works of the, 478
Constitution of the Sun and Spectra of Elements, 423
Construction, Cheap Bailway, 275
Contact Electricity and the Multicellular Electrometer, 361
Co-operation, 345
Copper Corner, Sequel to the, 195
Copper, Deposited, 46
Copper, Electrically Deposited, 21
Copper Mines, The Calumet and Hecla, and Tamarack, 256, 553
Copper Mining District, American, 553
Cordite, Experiments with, in Armstrong’s Quick-Firing Gun, 466
Cornell University and Sibley College, 210
Correct Form of the Admiralty Coefficient Formulas, The, 76
Cost of Steel, The, 228
Counter, Snelgrove’s, 602
Countersinking Machines, 444
Crane Chains, Some Experiences with, 21
Crane and Grab, The Cockburn Dredging, 393 (See Erratum, 435)
Crane Jibs, 243
Crane, Smith’s Locomotive Steam, 575
C<-ane, Wharf, Davis and Primrose’s 40-Ton, 279
Cross-Sections in Rock-Cuttings, Taking, 239
Crossley’s 30 Horse-Power Gas Engine, 603
Cruiser “ Achdron,” The French Armoured, 694
Cruiser for the American Navy, Triple-Screw7, 493
Cruiser “Chicago,” U.S., 216, 431 (See Letter, 427)
Cruiser “25 de Mayo,” The Argentine (Messrs.
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.’s), 579
Cruisers “Maine” and “Boston” (American), 465
Cuba, The Iron Mines of, 763
Cupola, with Receiver, The Stewart “ Rapid,” 662
Cutters, Milling, 542, 676, 702
Danish Ice-Breaking Steamer, A, 109
Danish Rifle, New7, 48
Dannemora Steel Works, The, 122
Davis Island Dam, 479
Davis and Primrose’s 40-Ton Wharf Crane, 279
Davits, Rees’ Boat, 367
Deceased Members of the Iron and Steel Institute, Tribute to, 612
Deep Locks, 186
Deep Tunnel Railways, 549 (See also 550,757)
Defective Colour Vision, 363
De la Vergne Refrigerating Works, The, 478
Denton, Boiler Explosion at, 289
Deposited Copper, 46
Desiderata in a Punching Machine, The, 244
Detector, An Excess Current, 28
De Tunzelmann, G. W., on Finsbury Technical College, 591
“ Devastation,” The Central Battery and Barbette Ironclad, 585
Development of the Coal Tar Colour Industry, 448
Diagrams of Three Months’ Fluctuations in
Prices of Metals, 556, 672
Dielectrics, Wave Velocity in, 419
Digging, Steam, The Mechanical Action of, 367 (See Letters)
Direct-Reading Photometer, 445
Directors’ Liability Act, The, 106, 224
Disinfector, Taylor’s Automatic, 373
Dispersion and Refraction in Certain Metals, 361
Disposal of Surplus, 1851 Exhibition, 224
Distances between American Mines and Manufacturing Centres, 317
Distribution of Power, Compressed Air for the, 409
Distribution of Power at Niagara, 77 (See also 355, 449, 473, 505, 535, 563)
Distribution of Pow7er, Pneumatic, 306, 409
Dividing Appliance for Milling Machines, 111
Dock, The Simpson Dry, Brooklyn, 218 (See also 463)
Dock at Southampton, New Tidal, 308
Donkey Engines or Belts? 244
Donkin, B., Jun., Steam Boiler Experiments, 1, 59, 120, 591
Double-Ended Punching Machine with Z-Iron Cutters, Smith’s, 126
Double Planing Machine, Asquith’s, 544, 584
Dover Breakwater, 616, 772
D’Oyly Carte’s New Theatre, Electric Lighting
Installation at, 128
Drake and Gorham’s Safety Fuzes, 645
Draught, Chimney, 63
Drawbacks to Economic Progress, 347
Drawing Press, Aluminium in the, 263
Dredge, Mr. James, on Chicago Exhibition, 678, 709 (See also Chicago Exhibition)
Dredge, Mr. James, Holley Memorial Statue ;
Inaugural Address, 433, 469, 478, 500
Dredger, Baker’s Hydraulic, 524 (See Letters)
Dredger for the Manchester Ship Canal, 77
Dredging Crane and Grab, The Cockburn, 393 (See Erratum, 435)
Dredging Plant, 272
Drill Grinder, Phillips’s Twist, 674
Drill, Rock, M'Culloch’s “ Rio Tinto,” 321
Drilling Machine, Lister’s Improved, 585
Drilling Machines, The Ainley-Oakes Square, 78
Drilling Machines, Improved Universal, 189
Drilling, Punching, and Shearing, 177
Drops, Size of, Falling from a Tube, 363
Dry Dock, The Simpson, Brooklyn, 218 (Sec also 463)
Duinker’s Boat-Lifting Apparatus, 111
Dunmail Raise Tunnel, Alignment of, 80
Duplex Wheel Lathe, Earnshaw’s, 599
Durability of Lubricants, The Measurement of, 20
Duty Trials of Pumping Engines, A Standard Method of Conducting, 38
Dynamometer, Amsler’s Recording, 497
Dynamometer, An /Automatic Absorption, 62
Dynamos, Alternate Current, 187
Earnshaw’s Duplex Wheel Lathe, 599
Earthing Device, Cardew’s, 514
Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena in Japan, 422
Eaton, E. M., on Sheffield Water Works, 138, 173 (See Letters, Corrosion of Pipes)
Economic Progress, Drawbacks to, 347
Economic Section of the British Association, The, 343
Economy of Small Engines, The, 577 (See Erratum, 602)
Edinburgh Exhibition, The Failure of the, 526 (See Paragraphs)
Edinburgh Exhibition, Ship Railway at, 618
Education of Engineers, The, 103, 253 (See Letters)
Education, The National Association for the
Promotion of Technical and Secondary, 198
Efficiency of Locomotives, The, 35
Egleston, T., on Barrel Chlorination, 145
Eight-Coupled Goods Locomotive for the
Southern Railway of Italy, 529
Eight Hours Bill, The Mines, 761
Electric Currents and the Human Body, 165, 386
Electric Engineering, The Prospects of, 697
Electric Exhibition, The Frankfort International, 68
Electric, Gwinnett’s Swivel Union, 662
Electric Lighting :
Board of Trade Regulations for Electric Supply Companies, 490
Dynamos, Alternate Current, 187
Earthing Device, Cardew’s, 544
Electric Exhibition, The Frankfort International, 68
Electric Light at Barnsley, The, 77
Electric Lighting of Birmingham, The, 289
Electric Lighting and Fire Insurance, 387
Electric Lighting Installation at Mr. D’Oyly
Carte’s New Theatre, 128
Electric Meter, A New, 385
Electricity in Glasgow, 372
Excess Current Detector, 28
Fire Office Rules for Electric Lighting, 369
Fuzes, Drake and Gorham’s Safety, 645
Secondary Cells, 388, 706
Switch, Newton and Hawkins’ Automatic, 377
Switchboards for the Leeds Municipal Building, Hartnell’s, 645
Electric Locomotives, 274
Electric Meter, A New, 385
Electric Motors for Street Railways, 317
Electric Spark, Photographing the, 142
Electric Supply Companies, Board of Trade Regulations for, 490
Electric Traction, The Lineff System of, 385
Electric Tramway, The Southend, 259
Electric Welded Projectiles, 259
Electrical Oscillations, 445
Electrical Standards, Committee on, 444
Electrical Units—The Ohm, 363
Electrically Deposited Copper, 21, 46
Electricity, Contact, and the Multicellular Electrometer, 361
Electricity, Execution by, 165 (See also 386)
Electricity in Glasgow, 372
Electricity, The Working of Railroads by, 38
Electro-Deposition of Platinum, The, 432
Electrolysis, 420
Electrolysis, Bleaching by, 259
electromagnetic Radiation, The Measurement of, 28
Electro-Optics, 361
“ Electrophonoscope,” The, 47
Electrostatic Forces between Conductors Carrying Currents, 445
Elementary Schools, Science in, 347
Elevating Deck Ferry Steamer “ Finnieston”
The Patent, 276
Ellicott, Ensign John M., United States Navy, on Automatic Torpedoes, 573, 628, 740, 772
Endowment of Research, The, 224
Engine and Boiler Works, Brightside (Messrs.
Hawksley, Wild, and Co.’s), 168
Engine, Compound Vertical, 68
Engine, Gas, Crossley’s Thirty Horse-Power, 603
Engine Governors, 59
Engine, The Marine, 587
Engine Performances, Steam, 669
Engine, Pumping, Tyler’s Compound Direct-
Aoting Self-Governing, 528
Engine, Reversing Rolling Mill, at the Works of Fried. Krupp, Essen, Germany, 277
Engine and Shipbuilding Works, Fairfield, Extension of, 336, 393, 485, 599, 687
Engine, Tangyes’ Horizontal Triple-Expansion 644
Engine, Traction, Burrell’s Single-Crank Compound, 675
Engine, Winding, at the Wingate Grange Colliery, 451
Engineering at Cambridge, 78
Engineering of Coal Mines, The Mechanical, 135
Engineering College Courses, 399
Engineering Congress at the Chicago Exhibition
Proposed International, 554 ’
Engineering, Electric, The Prospects of, 697
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in 1890
766 ’
Engineering in the Navy, Subordination of, 164
Engineering Works in the West Highlands, Proposed, 317
Engineers, Civil, The American Society of, 233
274, 316 ’ ’
Engineers, The Education of, 103, 253 (See Letters)
Engineers in India, Civil, 133, 164
Engineers, The Institution of Civil (See Civil
Engineers, The Institution of)
Engineers, The Society of German, 259, 288
Engines, Baxter’s Triple ■ Expansion, Driving
Three Screws (Messrs. Cox and Co., Falmouth),
Letters, Boiler Comtructzon)
Engines, Centrifugal Pumpmg, for the 8.8.
Engines,“centrih^Pumpfng; W^Uasey Dock,
the, 21 „ o ni.
Engines, Donkey, or Belts ? 244
Engines, The Economy of Small, 577 (Sec J^rra
Ensrines^Farcot Triple-Expansion, 310
Pnf nel’ Four-Cylinder Triple-Expansion of Epaddle Steamer "Hygeia” (Messrs. Kankm EnginM^Quadruple-Expansion, in Yarrow’s Tor-Engines^Triple-Expansion, “ Chiyoda” (J. and
G. Thomson, Limited), 423 „
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Clyde (R- .Napier and Sons), 366 ,
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Normannia (Fairfield Co.), 247,321, 365 „ e ..
Engines, Triple-Expansion, and Boilers of the Russian Ironclad “Sinope” (Messrs. R. Napier
Engfoes^Tnple-Expansion Pumping, at Waltham Abbey, East London Water Works (Messrs. T. Richardson and Sons, Hartlepool), 158
English and American Trusts, 255
English Ports for the American Trade, 226
English Shipbuilding Trade, 766
Equatorial Photographic Telescope for the Melbourne Observatory, 721
Erection of a Large Bridge Span, 373
Erie Railroad, The, 702 . .
Escape and Impounding Reservoir, The Raiyan, Middle Egypt, 307, 334 . . |
Estimates, The Navy, 193. (See Letters, Privilege in the Royal Ravy)
Estuaries, The Action of Tides on, 237
Estuaries Committee of the British Association,
Ethics of Great Exhibitions, The, 17j
Evaporator and Feed Heater, Morison s Combined, 12 ..
Evaporator and Feed Heater, Weir s, in Nor- , mannia,” 395
Excess Current Detector, An, 28.
Excursion of the Institution of Mechanical En- i gineers to Works near Sheffield and Rotherham, 167 , , x I
Excursion of the Iron and Steel Institute up the Hudson, 463
Excursions of the American Society of Media- j nical Engineers, 92
Execution by Electricity, 165 (See also 386)
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 491
Exhibition of 1893, The Chicago International, 2, 402, 554, 667, 678, 709, 731
Exhibition, The Columbian, 667
Exhibition, 1851, Disposal of Surplus, 224
Exhibition, Edinburgh, Ship Railway, 618
Exhibition, The Frankfort International Electric, 68
Exhibition at Glasgow, Another, 373
Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, 126, 179
Exhibition, The Royal Naval, 227, 348
Exhibition of 1890 at Vienna, The, 198 i
Exhibitions, Great, The Ethics of, 17 Expanding Sheet Metal, Golding’s Machine for, 100
Experiences with Crane Chains, Some, 21
Experiments with Cordite in Armstrong’s Quick-Firing Gun, 466
Experiments on Electrical Undulations of Professor Hertz, A Rbsumd of, 707
Experiments with Mining Explosives in South Wales, 314
Experiments, Professor Elihu Thomson’s, 196
Experiments, Steam Boiler, 1, 59, 122, 591 (See also 310)
Explosion, Boiler, at Bury, 689
Explosion, Boiler, at Denton, 289
Explosion of Hydrogen and Chlorine, Rate of, 448
Explosion, Locomotive Boiler, A Curious, 332 Explosions Act, Boiler, 588
Explosions, Boiler, at Louth and Abingdon, 219 Explosions, Boiler, in 1889 ; Report of Mr. E. B.
Marten, 83
Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, The Ignition of, 448
Explosives, High, The Strength of, 644
Explosives, The Storage of, on the Mersey and Tyne, 348
Extension of Fairfield Works, 336, 393, 485, 599, 687
Extinguish Fires, Water Required to, 762
Factories Act, The, 346
Factors of Safety, 389
I Failure of the Edinburgh Exhibition, The, 526
1 (See Paragraphs)
I Fairfield Works, Extension of, 836, 393, 485, 599, 687
Farcot Triple-Expansion Engines, 310
Fares (Passenger) on Indian Railways, 639
Fats, Some Points on the Analysis of, 449 (See
Erratum, 496)
Federation, The Shipping, 489
Feed-Heater and Evaporator, Morison’s Combined, 12
Feed-Heating Appliances, Weir’s; o.s. “ Normannia,” 365
Ferry Steamer “ Finnieston,” The Patent Elevating Deck (Messrs. Simons and Co., Renfrew), 276
Finances of the Forth Bridge, The, 289, 403
Finances of Indian Railways, 341 (See 639)
Finland, Siberian, and Russian Railways, 762
“ Finnieston,” The Patent Elevating Deck Ferry Steamer (Messrs. Simons and Co., Renfrew), 276
Finsbury Technical College, The, 591
Fire at the Grosvenor Gallery, The Late, 610
Fire Insurance and Electric Lighting, 387
Fire Office Rules for Electric Lighting, 369
Fires, Water Required to Extinguish, 762
Fitzalan Steel Works, 168
Flanging Machine, Booth’s Boiler Flue, 754
Flooding of the Manchester Ship Canal Works, 633 .
Fluctuations in Prices of Metals, Diagrams of Three Months’, 556, 672
Flue Gases from Steam Boiler and other Furnaces, 383, 413
Fluorspar for Optical Instruments, 445
Flying Machine, Hargrave’s Compressed Air, 769. (See Letter, 758)
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 584, 736
Foreign Competition in the Shipping Trade, 48
Forges et Chantiers de la Meditcrranec, 4, 34 (See Artillery t Modern French)
“Formidable,” The French Armoured Barbette
Ship, 126
Formulas for Chimney Draught, Tests of
Recent, 63
Formulas, The Correct Form of the Admiralty
Coefficient, 76
Forth Bridge, The Assessable Valuation of the, 403 (See also 289)
Forth Bridge, Automatic Register of Movements of the, 374
Forth Bridge, The Finances of the, 289, 403
Forth and Clyde Canal, The, 237
Forts, The Canet System of Armour-Clad, 596 Foundations, Subaqueous, 439, 515, 616, 772 Fournet’s Compound Ophthalmic Refractometer,
66
France, Magnetic Perturbations in, 423
Frankfort International Electric Exhibition,
The, 68
Freiberg, Furnaces at, 186
Freight Charges on Indian Railways, 639
French Artillery. (See under Artillery)
French Navy, The : 374, 525
“Acbdron,” The French Armoured Cruiser, 694
“ Amiral Baudin,” The French Barbette Ironclad, 25
" Amiral Duperrc,” The Turret Ship, 398
“ Colbert,” The Central Battery Ironclad, 454
Courbet’s Gun Mountings, 717
Details of Coast Defence Fleet, 187
“ Devastation,” The Central Battery and Barbette Ironclad, 585
“ Formidable,” The Armoured Barbette Ship.
126 F
“ Fusde,” The Coast Defence Armour-Clad. 187
Gun Mounting Machinery of Acheron, 511
Guns of Ironclad “ Marceau,” 357
New Ironclads, 525
" Ouragan,” The Seagoing Torpedo Boat, 187
St. Louis, Gun Mountings on, 717
Statistics of New Vessels, 374
Fuel Gas, The Loomis Process of Making, 137, Ado
Fuel Press, Stevens’s, 291
Furnace Crowns. Overheated, 400
Furnace, The New Siemens, 378
Furnaces, Blast, at Sheffield, Alabama 486
Furnaces at Freiberg, 186
Furnaces, Heating, 118
lus($e,” The Coast Defence Armour-Clad, 187
Fuses, Drake and Gorham’s Safety, 645
Garboard Strake Machine, The, 117
Gas Company, the Consolidated, The Works of the, 478 „
Gas Engine, Crossley’s Thirty Horse-Power, 603
Gas Fuel, The Loomis Process of Making, 137
Gas, Natural, Restriction in the Supply of, 608.
(See Letters)
Gas Stoves and Burners, Unburned Gases of, 448
Gaseous Mixtures, The Ignition of Explosive, 448
Gases, Flue, from Steam Boiler and other 1 urnaces, 383, 413
Gelatinous Secondary Batteries, 702
German Engineers, The Society of, 259, 288
Girders, Strains on, 316
Girvan Harbour (Subaqueous Foundations), 515, 616
Glasgow, Electricity in, 372
Glasgow, Another Exhibition at, 373
Glasgow, The Great Western Road Bridge at, 231
Gogebic Range Iron Mines, 652
Gold-Extracting Process, Jordan’s Centrifugal, 218
Golding’s Machine for Expanding Sheet Metal, 100
Goods Locomotive, Eight-Coupled, for the Southern Railway of Italy, 529
Goods Wagons, Tube-Frame, 524, 540, 647
Governors, Engine, 59
Grab and Crane, The Cockburn Dredging, 393.
(See Erratum, 435)
Grantham, Richard F., on London Sewage, 583
Graphic Methods, 303
Great Western Road Bridge, Glasgow, The, 231
Greenock, Prince’s Pier Foundations, 439, 515, 616
Grinder, Phillips’s Twist Drill, 674
Grosvenor Gallery, The Late Fire at the, 610
Gun and Gun Carriage (See Artillery, Modern French)
Gwinnett Swivel Union, The, 662
Hall’s Duplex Cold-Air Machine for the s.s. “Maori King,” 543. (See Erratum, 572)
Hamburg-American Twin-Screw Steamer “ Nor-mannia” (Fairfield Co.), 247, 321, 365
Hammers, Steam, 683
Harbours, The Yokohama, 701
Hardness, Absolute Measure of. Coefficient of Abrasion as, 445
Hargrave’s Compressed Air Flying Machine, 768, 769
Hartnell’s Switchboard for the Leeds Municipal Buildings, 645
Hartlepool Shipbuilding in 1890, 767
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.’s Boilers and Engines of H.M.SS. “ Bellona” and “ Barham,” 628,705
Heating Apparatus for Railway Carriages; State Railways of France, 13
Heating Furnaces, 118
Heavy Lathes, 389
Heavy Plate Edge and Butt Planing Machine at
Elswick, 627
Hell Gate, 477
Heroult Process, Aluminium Alloys by the, 430
Hertz, Professor, Experiments on Electrical Undulations, 707
Hewitt, A. S., Presidential Address, American Mining Engineers, 498, 531, 559
High Pressures, Mercury Column for, 62
High Vacua, 362
Hill and Son’s Horizontal Cold Steel Sawing Machine, 627
Him and Dwelshauvers’ Theory of the Steam Engine, 92
Hodgkin, J. Eliot, on Inventor of Centrifugal Pump, 670 (See Letters)
Hoists, Hydraulic, on the City and South London Railway, 757. (See also 549, 550)
Holley Memorial Statue, The, 433, 469, 478, 500
Holyhead for Atlantic Steamers, 226
Horizontal Cold Steel Sawing Machine, 627
Horizontal Punching, 243
Horizontal Triple-Expansion Engine, Tangyes’, 644
Hospital, A Compressed Air, 48
Hours of Labour and Wages, The, 345
Howell Torpedo, The, 740, 772
Howitzers and Mortars, 63, 93, 139
Hudson, Excursion of the Iron and Steel Institute up the, 463
Hudson River Tunnel, The, 461
Human Body and Electric Currents, The, 386.
(See also 165)
Humber, Shipbuilding in, 1890, 768
Huntington’s Centrifugal Roller Quartz Mill, 424
Hutton and Sons’ Works, 168
Hydrate Theory of Solution, The Present Position of the, 422
Hydraulic Brakes, Coast Gun Carriages with, 566
Hydraulic Dredger, Baker’s, 524. (See Letters)
Hydraulic Hoists on the City and South London Railway, 757. (See also 549, 550.)
Hydraulic Keel-Plate Bender, Hugh Smith and Co.’s, 688
Hydraulic Power at Birmingham, Retailing, 612
Hydraulic Steam Lifeboat, A, 299
Hydrogen and Chlorine, Rate of Explosion of, 448
«« Hygeia,” The Paddle Steamer, 557
Ice-Breaking Steamer, A Danish, 109
Ignition of Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, The, 448
Illuminants, Lighthouse, 521
Improvements, The River Weser, 208
Inclined Plane for Boats, A System of, 186,263
Increase of the Shipping Trade, Shipbuilding in Relation to the, 578
India, Brake Trials in, 315
India, Civil Engineers in, 133,164 a m. w, ™,»»
India, The Railways in, 341, 639
India-Rubber, Vulcanisation and Decay of, 448 Indian Railway Traffic-Extent, Charges, and Indicating9 the Engines of the “City of Richmond, ”21
Indicator Cards, 119
Induced Magnetism\ Molecular Theory of, 419 Induction, Phenomena of Alternating Current, 144,202
in, 1.1,170,201, m 261 292, 321, 349, 377, 408, 437, 468, 497, 530 558; 586 615, 646, 675, 705, 737, 769
Industries, Sheffield, 122, 168
Industry, Coal Tar Colour, Development of the,
Inland Revenue, The Commissioners of and the InUnd^Waterways, The Present Condition and ’’Development of, 186, 204 221
Injecting Apparatus and Sights for Guns, 685
Installation, Electric Lighting, at Mr. DOyly rTrte’s New Theatre, 128
Instantaneous Photographs of Water Jets, 423 Institute of Mining Engineers, The American, Institution Civil Engineers (See Civil Engineers, The Institution of)
Institution and the Commissioners of Inland
Institution of^Mechanical Engineers (See He-Engineers, Inntitutwn of)
International Canal Congress (See Canal Con-nrau The International)
International Exhibition of 1893, The Chicago, o 402, 554, 667, 678, 709, 731
r^iimational Metric Standards, 672
Inventor of the Centrifugal Pump, The, 670 (See iri^Radlvavand Shipping Statistics, 373 Iron MU18, The Soho, 479
Jinn Mines of Cuba, The, 763
Iron Pi? >n America, Production of, 431
Iron Production in Scotland, The Cessation of, Ir°429 (See Blast Eurnacemcns Strike, under iron AAh°DRST^ IMBTITUTK, Tub : 163,286, 462, 552,
Auditorium* Chicago, The, 507
Bessemer, Alabama, The City of, 212
BeEem Iron Works in Pennsylvania State, The 242
«< Boston,” American Cruiser, 465 n^klvn Navy Yard, The, 218, 465
Cahimet and Hecla, and Tamarack Copper Mines The, 256, 553
rnn wr Mining District, The, 553
Cornell University and Sibley College, 210
De'la Vergne RMrigemting Works, The, 47S Excursion up the Hudson, 463
Holley“Memorial, The, 483,469, 478, 500 Hudson River Tunnel, The, 464
Iron and Steel Institute. The—continued
Iron and Steel Works, 482
“ Maine,” American Cruiser, 465
Middlesbrough, The New Town of, in Ken tucky,197
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, The, 478
On Calculations Concerning the Possibility of Regenerating the Gas in the New Siemens Furnace, by Professor Akerman, 378
On the Development of the Marine Engine and the Progress made in Marine Engineering during the Past Fifteen Years by Mr" A. E. Seaton, M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E.,M. Council I.N.A., 587
On the Protection of Iron and Steel Shins against Foundering from Injury to their Shells ; including the Use of Armour, bv Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B., 703
Papers Read, 463, 479
Pennsylvania Steel Company, The New Worka of the, 610
Pittsburg, The City of, 482
Pittsburg Reduction Company’s Works, The 479 ’
Poughkeepsie Bridge, The, 465
Pullman, The City of, 510
Queen City of the West, The (Cincinnati) 149 Reception at New York, The, 403
Sanitary Scheme for Chicago, A New, 509
Saulte Ste. Marie Canal, The, 269
Soho Iron Mills, The, 479
Statue of Liberty, The, 464
Sudbury Nickel Mines and Mining, The, 611
Tribute to Deceased Members, 612
Visit to America, 163,286, 462, 552, 610,641
Visit to Chicago, 506
Visit to New York, 462
Visit to Pittsburg, The, 479
Visitor’s Impression of American Railways, 641
Washington Bridge, The, 478
Water Supply of Chicago, 507
Works of the Consolidated Gas Company The 478
Iron and Steel Works, 482
Iron and Steel Works, The Park Gate, 136, 174
Iron, Testing, 19, 445
Iron Works, The Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania State, 242
Ironclad “ Amiral Baudin,” The French Barbette 25
Ironclad “ Colbert,” The Central Battery, 454
Ironclad “ Devastation,” The Central Battery and Barbette, 585
Irrigation Canals in Colorado, 432
Irrigation in India, 274
Italy and her Steamship Subventions, 581
Jackets, Steam, 119
Japan, Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena in, 422
Japanese Cruiser “ Chiyoda,” The, 423
Jeffrey’s Automatic Steam Stop-Valve, 86
Jefferds, Mr. M. R., on Tube Frame Goods I Wagons, 540, 647 (See also 702)
Jennings and Stannard’s Needles for Supporting Superincumbent Earth in Tunnels, 672
Jersey (St. Reliefs) Harbour (Subaqueous Foundations) 515, 616, 772
Jibs, Crane, 243
John Cockerill Company, The, 765
Jordan’s Centrifugal Gold-Extracting Process, 218
Journal Bearings, Wood’s, 261
July Weather, 196
June Weather, 19
Jungfrau Railway, The Projected, 7
n Kaiser Wilhelm II.,” s.s., Engines and Boilers of the, 126, 188 (See Letters, Boiler Construction)
Keel-Plate Bender, Hydraulic, Hugh Smith and Co. 8, 688
Kennedy’s New 50-Ton Testing Machine, 31
Kennedy, Professor, Steam Boiler Experiments,
1, 59,120, 591 (See Tenting Machine, 310)
Keying, The Woodruff System of, 349
Kimppie, Mr. W. H., on Subaqueous Foundations, 439, 515, 616, 772
King’s Cross Tunnel, The New, 672
Kmzua Viaduct, The, 119
Knap’s Water Tube Boiler ; Root’s System, 484
Labour, The Mobility of, 346
Lady Torfrida,” The Steam Yacht, 158
Lake Superior Mines, 552
Lansdowne and Chittravati Bridges, The, 690
Lantern for Class-Room Work, A, 362
Largest Sailing Shipin the World, The, 348
Lathe, Earnshaw’s Duplex Wheel, 599
Lathe, Wheel, Spencer’s 4-Ft., 213
Lathes, Heavy, 389
Launch of H.M.S. “ Blenheim,” 48
Launches and Trial Trips, 24, 41, 71, 97, 174, 234, ?I7’ 324’ 352> 379> 41 °> 427> 457> 483> 527» 560, 574, 613, 650, 680, 695, 736
Lavoisier, Priestley, and Cavendish, 445
Laycock s Railway Carriage Fitting Works, 124
Laycock and Son’s Works, 123
Laying a Pipe under Water, 21
Leeds Municipal Buildings, Hartnell’s Switchboards for, 645
Lentz’s Stayless Locomotive Boiler, 724
Ljaojlity Act, The Directors’, 106, 224
Liability of Patent Agents, The, 466
t ™ New Russian Naval Port at, 259
Emrary The Patent Office, 77 (See Letters)
t ;?b+.oa,t’A Hydraulic Steam, 299
r Bar"sley, The Electric, 77
^ghthouse Illummants, 521
Lighthouses, Petroleum Engines for, 259
T !w-ng °£B^mingham, The Electric, 289 gating, Electric, and Fire Insurance, 387
Jn8tallation, Electric, at Mr. D’Oyly
T • L c New Theatre, 128
LiXf«T^emof JElectric Traction, The, 385
L stefs RnSrOnd BrillinK Machine, 585
Livernn^ iler?eanng for Shafts, 377
Lloyd’s CriHa^b°^lr ImProvement®, 226
Loc^
Locomotive p°-Jer BxPlo8ion, A Curious, 332
Locomotive Boiler, Lentz’s Stayless, 724
^motive y* Cable Haulage on Brooklyn Bridge, for the Kailway,VompJun^f" and North’^eStern T nn^In°J-Ve Steam Crane, Smith’s 575
Locomotives, Electric, 274 y
London Sewa^e683bratOry Movements of’ 644
Long-Span Bridges, 734
LouthVnrtTv of?lakins Fuel Gas, The, 137, 233 Ubricante The v0”’ 'er ExPlosions at> 219 uoncants, The Measurements of Durability of,
WCul nPh’ 14^™? Variable Blast Nozzle, 216 McDonald m R;°Tlnto Rock Drill, 321
on Vihrntnr’ {?hn’andMr- John Milne, R.S.A., M°Kini b r.y M°vements of Locomotives, 644 VoKA-ley ?ar,ff Acfc’ The> 430, 523, 582 Machine, Bevelling, 623
\Tarh;ne’ £riI11ing» Li9fccr’s Improved, 585
AlK^g,»5^3PleX CoIdAir>for the s.s. “Maori Machine for Expanding Sheet Metal, Golding’s, Machine, Flanging, Booth’s Boiler Flue, 754 Machine Flying, Hargrave’s Compressed Air, /69. (bee Letter,758)
Machine, The Garboard Strake, 117
E18wrieokH627y P‘ate Edge and ButtPlanlnF- at
Machine, Horizontal Cold Steel Sawing, 627 Machine, Planing, Asquith’s Double, 544, 584 Machine, Punching, The Desiderata in a, 244 Machine, Punching and Shearing, Bennie and
Sons’,688
Machine, Punching, withZ-Iron Cutters, Smith’s Double-Ended, 126
Machine Rushworth’s Plate - Flattening and Straightening, 278
Machine, Shearing, Schultz and Goebel’s Heavy Rail and Plate, 68
Machine, Testing, Professor Kennedy’s New 50-Ton, 310
Machine Tools, Shipyard (See Shipyard Machine Tools)
Machine, Type-Composing, The Thorne, 306
Machinery of the Hamburg-American Twin-Screw Steamer “Normannia,” The (Fairfield Co.), 321, 365
Machinery for Making Large Cartridge Cases, Taylor and Challen’s, 424
Machinery at the Mining and Metallurgical Exhibition, 179
Machinery, The Rating of, 284
Machinery, Refrigerating, 63
Machines, Countersinking, 444
Machines, Drilling, Improved Universal, 189
Machines, Many-Sided, 243
Machines, Milling, Dividing Appliance for, 111
Machines, Plate Planing, 535
Machines, Rivetting, 684
Machines, Screwing and Turning, Barrow’s, 310 Madras Breakwater (Subaqueous Foundations),
Magnetic Disturbances in the United Kingdom, Regional, 423
Magnetic Observations, Comparing and Reducing, 422
Magnetic Perturbations in France, 423
Magnetic Properties of Alloys of Nickel ar. d Iron, 293
Magnetic Properties and Oxidation of Manganese Steel, The, 445
Magnetic Susceptibility of Diamagnetic and Feebly Magnetic Solids, 420
Magnetisation of Iron, Molecular Phenomena Attending the, 445
Magnetism, An Illustration of Ewing’s Theory of, 707
Magnetism, Induced, 11
Magnetism, Induced, Molecular Theory of, 419
Magnets, Permanent, Character of Steel for, 444 “ Maine,” American Cruiser, 465
Mallock, Mr, A., on the Measurement of Strains, 614
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 77, 264, 274, 633, 664, 754
Manchester Ship Canal, Dredger for the, 77
Manchester Ship Canal Works, Flooding of the, 633
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 27 (See Letters, Boiler Explosion)
Manoeuvres, The Naval, 227
Man-of-War “Chicago,” The United States, 216, 431
Mansel, Mr. R., Admiralty Coefficient Formulas, 76
Many-Sided Machines, 243
“ Maori King,” s.s., Duplex Cold Air Machine for the, 543 (See Erratum, 572)
Marie Fuvial System, The, 182
Marine Boilers, Prepared Sea-Water for, 401
Marine Engine, The, 587
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1890, 766
Marquette Mining Region, The, 315
Marten, Mr. E. B., Report of, on the Boiler Explosions in 1889, 83
Martin, Mr. H. J., on Development of Inland Waterways, 186, 204, 221
Maskelyne Type-Writer, The, 693. (See Letters)
Masonry Skew Bridges, 238
Mast Bending Rolls, 443
Mathematics, Pure, 359
Mather and Platt’s Alternate Current Dynamo, 187
Measurement of Durability of Lubricants, The, 20 Measurement of Strains, The, 392, 614 Measurements and Manipulations, The Refinements of Modern, 112
Mechanical Action of Steam Digging, The, 367 (See Letters)
Mechanical Engineering of Coal Mines, The, 135 Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 20,118
Excursions, 92
On the Measurement of Durability of Lubricants, by Professor Jas. E. Denton, 20
Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of—continued.
%Ex^e!?ence8 with Crane Chains, by Mr. C. S. Dutton, 21
^he Engines of the “City of OnRl?hn™ndZ by Mr. Geo. H. Barrus, 21 un tne Efficiency of Locomotives, by Mr. W. F.
Lnxon, 35
°n a. Standard Method of Conducting Duty n/fi ?"mPinK Engines (Report), 38 °Vhe,y?vkV?ff of Railroadsby Electricity, by
Mr. Wallis E. Hall, 38
On the Comparative Tests of a Hot Water and a steam Heating Plant, by Professor Car-penter, 39
°n the Use of Kerosene in a Steam Boiler, by Professor Carpenter, 39
u the Determination of the Sensitiveness of Automatic Sprinklers, by Mr. A. F. Nagle, O<z
a Tfor Iner^a in Shaft Governors, by Mr. E. J. Armstrong, 59
On a Governor for steam Engines, by Mr. Jessie M. Smith, 59
Effect' of an Unbalanced Eccentric in oliaft-Governed Engines, by Mr. John E. Sweet, 59
On an Open Mercury Column for High Pressures, by Mr. W. W. Bird, 62
On an Automatic Absorption Dynamometer, by Mr. George I. Alden, 62
On Pecklet’s Treatment of Chimney Draught, by Mr. J. Burkitt Webb, 63
On Chimney Draught, by Mr. De Volson Wood, 63
On Tests of Recent Formula? for Chimney Draught, by Mr. William Kent, 63 (See Letters, Burrus' Draught Gauge)
On the Test of a Refrigerating Plant, by Professor D. V. Wood, 63
On a Universal Steam Calorimeter, by Mr. George H. Barrus, 89
On Hirn and Dwelshauvers’ Theory of the Steam Engine, Experimental and Analytical, by Professor R. H. Thurston, 92
On Heating Furnaces, by Mr. D.K. Nicholson, 118
On the Kinzua Viaduct, 1882, by Mr. T. C. Clarke, 139
On the Length of an Indicator Card, by Professor Webb, 119
On the Influence of Steam Jackets on the Pawtucket Pumping Engine, by Professor D. S. Jacobus, 119
On the Effective Area of Screws, by Professor D. S. Jacobus, 119
On the Holley Memorial Statue, by Mr. James Dredge, 433, 469, 478, 500
Queen City of the West, The (Cincinnati), 149 Reports, 38
Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of : 134, 167, 524
Excursion to Works near Sheffield and Rotherham, 167
On Steel Rails, Considered Chemically and Mechanically, by Mr. C. P. Sandberg, 134,142,
On Recent Improvements in the Mechanical Engineering of Coal Mines, by Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, 135
On the Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, by Mr. Charles J. Stoddart, 136, 174
On the Loomis Process of Making Fuel Gas, by Mr. R. N. Oakman, Jun., 137, 233
On the Sheffield Water Works, by Mr. Edward M. Eaton, 138,173. (See Letters, Corrosion of Water Pipes')
On Tube-Frame Goods Wagons of Light Weight and Large Capacity, and their Effect upon the Working Expenses of Railways, by Mr. M. R. Jefferds, 540, 647
On Milling Cutters, by Mr. George Addy, 542, 676 (See 702)
Sheffield Industries:
/Etna Works, The, 168
Brightside Boiler and Engine Works, 168
Clyde Steel Works, The, 123
Dannemora Steel Works, The, 122
Fitzalan Steel Works, 168
Hutton and Sons’ Works, 168
Laycock’s Railway Carriage Fitting Works, 124
Laycock and Sons’ Works, 123
Mechanical Science, 322, 350
Mechanical Science Section of the British Association, 299, 385
Mechanism for giving Vertical Motion, 393
Membranes, The Action of Semi-Permeable, in Electrolysis, 421
Memorial Statue, The Holley, 433, 469, 478, 500
Menominee Iron Mining District, 552
Mercury Column for High Pressures, 62
Messageries Maritimes, The, 75
Metallurgical Furnaces at Freiberg, 186
Metallurgy in the Southern States, 403
Metals Prices, Diagrams of Three Months’ Fluctuations in, 556, 672
Metals, Refraction and Dispersion in Certain, 861
Metals, Strains on, 275
Meteorological Observatory on Mont Blanc, 422
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 723
Meter, A New Electric, 385
Methods of Water Supply, 316
Metric Standards, International, 672
Mexico, New Patent Law for, 466, 526
Mexico, The Railways of, 256
Middlesbrough, The New Town of, in Kentucky, 197
Milford Haven as a Port for American Steamers, 226
Mill, Quartz, Huntington’s Centrifugal Roller, 424
Milling Cutters, 542, 676,702
Milling Machines, Dividing Appliance for, 111
Milne, R.S.A., Mr. John, and McDonald, Mr.
John, on Vibratory Movements of Locomotives, 644
Minchin, Mr. John B., Mineral Resources of Bolivia, 31
Mineral Resources of Bolivia, The, 31
Mineral Riches of New South Wales, 459 (Sec 763)
Minera Riches of Victoria, The, 698
Miners, Past and Present, 719
Mines, Coal, The Mechanical Engineering of, 135
Mines of Cuba, The Iron, 763
Mines Eight Hours Bill, The, 761
Mines, Submarine, 566, 642, 658 (See Letters
Mines, The Sudbury Nickel, and Mining, 611
Mining, Chair of, at the Royal School of Mines, 765
Mining, Coal, in Belgium, 703
Mining, Coal, in New South Wales, 459 763
Mining District, The American Copper, 553
Mining Engineers, The American Institute of, 498, 531, 559
Mining Explosives, Experiments with, in South Wales, 314
Mining and Metallurgy, Exhibition of, 126, 179
Mining Region, The Marquette, 315
Mining Salt, 316
Mining in the Witwatersrand District of South Africa 227
Miscellanea, 24, 39, 80, 110, 131, 161, 200, 230, 260, 290, 320, 339, 380, 397, 436, 457, 487, 528, 547, 575, 605, 635,665, 704, 727, 755
Mobility of Labour, The, 346
Molecular Phenomena Attending the Magnetisation of Iron, 445
Molecular Refraction of Substances in Solution, 422
Molecular Theory of Induced Magnetism, 419
Monopoly, The Telephone, 729
Mont Blanc, Meteorological Observatory on, 422
Monte-Jus, Self-Acting, 692
Mordey Alternator, The, 187
Morison’s Combined Evaporator and Feed Heater, 12
Mortars and Howitzers, 63, 93,139
Motor, Petroleum, The Altmann-KUppermann, 454
Motors for Street Railways, Electric, 317
Movable Bridge for Boiler Furnaces, Phillips and Archer’s, 201
Munton Process of Manufacturing Steel Tyres, The, 445
Natural Gas, Restriction in the Supply of, €08 (See Letters, 634)
“ Naval Annual,” Brassey’s, 512
Naval Exhibition, The Royal, 227, 348
Naval Guns, Canet, 653
Naval Manoeuvres, The, 227
Naval Purposes, Balloons for, 493
Naval Works, The Southampton, 467 (See Letter, 583)
Navigation, The Aire and Calder, 166, 182
Navigation, The Volga, 183
Navigation, The Weaver, 181
Navy, Additions to the, in 1890, 730
Navy Estimates, The, 193 (See Letters, Prioi-leges in the Royal Navy)
Navy, The French (See French Navy, The)
Navy, Subordination of Engineering in the, 164
Navy Yard, The Brooklyn, 465, 218 (See also 373) Nelson, Mr. Thomas, 404
Netting, Sheet-Metal, 303
New South Wales, Coal Mining in, 459, 763
New South Wales, Railways in, 672
New Shipping Registry (Lloyd’s Opposed), €68, 691
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, The, 478 (See also 373
New York, Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to, 462
Newton and Hawkins’ Automatic Switch, 377 Niagara, Distribution of Power of, 77
Niagara, The Utilisation of, 355, 449, 473, 505, 535, 563
Nicaragua Canal, The, 208, 749
Nickel and Iron, Alloys of, Magnetic Properties of, 293
Nickel Mines and Mining, The Sudbury, 611
Noble, Captain, Presidential Address to Mechanical Section, British Association, 299, 322, 350
“Normannia,” The New Hamburg-American Twin-Screw Steamer, 247, 321, 365
North Sea Baltic Canal, The, 21
Northern Trunk Line to London, The New, 525 (See Engineering Projects in 1891, 641)
Norway, Shipbuilding in, 288
Notes from Cleveland, 15, 48, 79, 101, 127, 160, 191, 221, 251, 281, 319, 338, 376, 396, 435, 453, 496, 527, 546, 584, 604, 631, 691, 734, 768
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 584, 736
Notes, Industrial, 25,53, 82, 111, 144,170, 201, 232, 261, 292, 321, 349, 377, 408, 437, 468, 497, 530, 558, 586, 615, 646, 675, 705, 737, 769
Notes from the North, 14, 52, 78, 100, 126, 160, 191, 220, 251, 280, 319, 335, 375, 396, 434, 452, 495, 526, 546, 583, 604, 634, 664, 690, 735, 759
Notes from North-West India, 26, 67,109, 529
Notes from the South-West, 15, 43, 79, 101, 127, 160, 191, 221, 250, 281, 320, 338, 376, 410, 435, 453, 496, 527, 560, 588, 604, 650, 673, 691, 734, 759
Notes from South Yorkshire, 15, 43, 79, 98, 127, 160, 191, 221, 251, 281, 319, 336, 376, 396, 435, 453, 496, 527, 546, 584, 604, 634, 664, 691, 735, 768
Notes from the United States, 11, 67, 100, 126 187, 233, 260, 290, 311, 367, 433, 493, 546, 575 612, 674
Nottingham, The Water Supply of, 40
November Weather, 670
Nozzle, Macallan and Adams’ Variable Blast, 21*

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Ben Nevis, 422
Observatory on Mont Blanc, Meteorological, 422
Ocean Racing, 254, 284 (See Letter, 279, and also Transatlantic Record)
October Weather, 550
Ohio River, The Chesapeake and Ohio Bridge across the, 660
Ohm, The—Electrical Units, 363
Ophthalmic Refractometer, Fournet’s Compound, 66
Optical Instruments, Fluorspar for, 445
Ordnance, Comparative Trials of, in Belgium, 348
Oscillations, Electrical, 445
“ Ouragan,” The Seagoing Torpedo Boat, 187
Overheated Furnace Crowns, 400
Oxidation and the Magnetic Properties of Manganese Steel, 445

Paddle Steamer “Hygeia,” The, 557
Papers, Subjects for ; Institution of Civil Engineers 452
Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, The, 136, 174
Parkes, The late Mr. Alexander, 111
Parliamentary Bill Regarding Pig Iron Gambling, 169
Patent Agents, The Liability of, 466
Patent Law for Mexico, New, 466, 526
Patent Office Library, The, 77 (See Letters)
Patent Record, The, 29, 57, 87, 115,147,175, 205, 235, 267, 295, 325, 353, 381, 411, 441, 471, 503, 533, 561, 589, 621, 651, 681, 711, 743, 775
Peclet’s Treatment of Chimney Draught, 63
“ Pelayo,” Gun Carriages of the, 715
Pennsylvania Steel Company’s New Works, The, 610
Performances, Steam Engine, 669
Permanent Magnets, Character of Steel for, 444
Petroleum Engines for Lighthouses, 259
Petroleum Motor, The Altmann-KUppermann, 454
Petroleum for the Sind-Pishin Railway, 21 (See Letters)
Petroleum Tank in Norway, A Large, 765
Phenomena of Alternating Current Induction, 144, 202
Phillips and Archer’s Movable Bridge for Boiler Furnaces, 201
Phillips’s Twist Drill Grinder, 674
Photographic Equatorial Telescope for the Melbourne Observatory, 721
Photographing the Electric Spark, 142
Photographing Projectiles in Motion, 402
Photographs of Water Jets, Instantaneous, 423
Photometer, Direct-Reading, 445
Phrases, American Railroad, 195
Physical Conditions of Tidal Rivers, The, 273
Physical Papers at the British Association, 359

Physical Society, The :

On the Stretching of Liquids, by Professor A. W. Worthington, 28
On the Measurement of Electromagnetic Radiation, by Mr. C. V. Boys, 28
On Secondary Batteries, by Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Hibbert, 28 (See also 706)
On an Easy Rule for Calculating Approximately the Self-Induction of a Coil, by Professor J. Perry, 28
On Certain Relations Existing amongst the Refractive Indices of the Chemical Elements, by the Rev. T. Pelham Dale, M.A., 600 (See JSrratum, 650)
On Tables of Spherical Harmonics, with Examples of their Practical Use, by Professor J. Perry, F.R,S., 601
On Secondary Batteries, Additional Notes, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and Mr. W Hibbert, F.I.C., 706 (See also 28)
On an Illustration of Ewing’s Theory of Magnetism, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D,Sc°,
On the Solution of a Geometrical Problem in Magnetism, by Mr. Thomas H. Blakeslev M.A., 707
On some Experiments with Selenium Cells, bv Mr. Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 771
On Alternate Current Condensers, by Mr James Swinburne, 771

Physical Tests in Competitive Examinations, 639 Pig Iron in America, Production of, 431
PifD^69 Parliamentary Bill Regard-
Pi429IrOn’ Cessation of Production in Scotland,
Pipe under Water, Laying a, 21
Pittsburg, The City of, 482
Pitsburg, Reduction Company’s Works, The, i>i^9b«UnrQ8';oReSTtricfci0n xof SuPP’y of Natural Gas at, 608 (See Letters)
P^teburg, Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to,
Planes, Inclined, 186, 263
Planing Machine, Asquith’s Double, 544, 584
Planing Machine, Heavy Plate Edge and Butt, at JMSWICK, 627
Plate-Bending Rolls, 327
Plate-Bending Rolls, Hugh Smith and Co.’s,
Plate - Flattening and Straightening Machine
Rushworth’s, 278 6 **vuiue,
Plate-Planing Machines, 535
Plate Straightener, The, 443
Platinum The Electro-Deposition of, 432
Plymouth Breakwater, 616
Pneumatic Distribution of Power 306
Policy and Progress, Recent Scotch Railway 45
Population, American, 259 J °
Port of Batoum, The, 581
Port Said Breakwater, 616
Ports for the American Trade, English 226
Poughkeepsie Bridge, The, 465 ’
Power Distribution, Compressed Air for 409
Prepared Sea-Water for Marine Boilers 401
Preservation of Timber, The, 607 (See Letter^
Prices of Metals, Diagrams of Three Months’ Fluctuations in the, 556, 672 Months
Priestley, Cavendish, and Lavoisier 445
Prince’s Pier, Greenock, 616
Production of Iron in Scotland, The Cessation of,
Production of Pig Iron in America, 431
Production of Steel in America, 734
Production of Tin, The, 73
Proctor’s Steam Digger, 366 (See Letters
Mechanical Action of Steam Diqgina) ’ Progress of Marine Engine, 587 ' '
Projectiles, Electric Welded, 259
Projectiles in Motion, Photographing 402
Projects, Railway, for 1891, 637
Propellers, Screw, 119
Properties of Steel at Low Temperatures, The,
Propulsion on Canals, Steam, 183
Prospects of Electric Engineering, The, 697
Prospects of Trade, The, 105
Protection of Ships, The, 703
Pulley Block, Weston’s Triplex Spur-Gear, 213 (See Letter, 280)
Pullman, The City of, 510
Pulsometers, 581
Pump, Centrifugal, The Inventor of the, 670 (See Letters)
Pumping Engine, Tyler’s Compound Direct-Acting Self-Governing, 528
Pumping Engines, Centrifugal; Wallasey Dock, Birkenhead (Gwynne’s), 755
Pumping Engines, A Standard Method of Conducting Duty Trials of, 38
Pumping Engines for the s.s. “ Columbia,” Centrifugal (Tangyes’), 44
Pumping Engines, Triple-Expansion, at Waltham Abbey, East London Water Works (Messrs. T. Richardson and Son), 158
Punching, Horizontal, 243
Punching Machine, The Desiderata in a, 244
Punching Machine with Z?lron Cutters, Smith’s Double-Ended, 126
Punching, Shearing, and Drilling, 177
Punching and Shearing Machine, Bennie and Sons’, 688

Quadruple-Expansion Engines, Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat with, 608
Quartz Mill, Huntington’s Centrifugal Roller, 424
Quebec Harbour Improvements (Subaqueous Foundations), 515
Queen City of the West, The (Cincinnati), 149
Queenstown Harbour, 226
Quick-Acting Westinghouse Brake, The New, 227, 460
Quick-Firing Guns ; Canet System, 153, 207, 239, 269, 297 (See Artillery t Modern French)

Racing, Ocean, 254, 284 (See Letter, 279, and see Transatlantic Record)
Radial Drilling Machines, Improved, 189
Rail and Plate-Shearing Machine, Schultz and Goebel’s Heavy, 68
Rail Profiles, Schilling’s Apparatus for Tracing, 336
Railroad, The Erie, 702
Railroad Phrases, American, 195
Railroad, The Siberian, 643, 762
Railroads, The Working of, by Electricity, 38
Rails, Steel, Considered Chemically and Mechanically, 134, 142, 171
Railway Carriage Fitting Works, Laycock’s. 124
Railway, The City and South London, 549, 550, 757
Railway Commissioners in Australia, 466
Railway Construction, Cheap, 275
Railway Disaster, The Taunton, 582
Railway, Jungfrau, The Projected, 7
Railway Policy and Progress, Recent Scotch, 45
Railway Projects for 1891, 637
Railway Rates and Charges, 223, 671
Railway and Shipping Statistics, Irish, 373
Railway, Smith’s Ship, 618
Railway Statistics, American, 194
Railway Statistics, British, 370
Railway Traffic, Indian—Extent, Charges, and
Cost, 341, 639
Railway, The Transandine, 329
Railway Wagons, Tube-Frame, 524, 540, 647
Railway, The West Highland, 407
Railways, American, A Visitor’s Impression of, 641
Railways, Deep Tunnel, 549, 550, 757
Railways, French State, Carriages for, 13
Railways in India, The, 341, 639
Railways of Mexico, The, 256
Railways in New South Wales, 672
Railways in Parliament, Scotch, 109, 637
Railways, Russian, Siberian, and Finland, 762
Railways, Street, Electric Motors for, 317
Railways, Victorian, 580, 624
Raiyan Escape and Impounding Reservoir, Middle Egypt, 307, 334 (See Letters)
Range Finders and Telemeters, 302 (See Letters Barr and Stroud's Range Finder)
Ransome’s Band Saw for Large Logs, 215
° Rapid” Cupola, The Stewart, with Receiver, 662
^448 °* ExPl°si°n of Hydrogen and Chlorine, Rates and Charges, Railway, 223, 671
Rating of Machinery, The, 284
Reception of the Iron and Steel Institute at New
York, The, 403
Record, The Patent (See Patent Record) h3lo?722,9758a,,tiC> 217’ 2M> 279’
Recording Dynamometer, Amsler’s, 497
Rees Boat Davits, 367
Refinements of Modern Measurements and Manipulations, The, 112
?isPer8ion in Certain Metals, 361
Refraction of Substances in Solution, Molecular,
of tbe Ch^ical Elements, Relations Existing amongst the, 600
Ref^ac^meter, Fournet’s Compound Ophthalmic, Refrigerating Machinery, 63
Refrigerating Plant foi? the s.s. “Maori Kin-” Duplex Cold Air, 543 (See Erratum 572)
Refrigerating Works, The De la Ver-ne 478
Kingdom^410 Disturbanccs the United RAutomatic(V74ement8 °f the F°rth Brid*e-RBoard o? Trade, SUPP'y ComPa'lic«. RXshi Ks3B- Marten on the Boiler Explo-ReEnOgJneOerSth38AmeriCan S°°iety Of Mechanical RT^i?fECnXerS16°ffche Soci^
Research, The Endowment of 224 s®.S“s?K£Ssr“,‘'"g'
Reversing Rolling Mill Engine at the Works of Fried. Krupp, Essen, Germany, 277
Revision of Railway Rates, 671
Ribbed Tubes, 306, 490, 523
Rifle, New Danish, 48
Rifle, Sham Fighting with the, 733
“ Rio Tinto” Rock Drill, M‘Culloch’s, 321
River Belaja, Biidge over the ; Samara-Ufa Railway, Russia, 41, 95
River Sluices, 307
River Weser Improvements, The. 208
Rivers, Tidal, The Physical Conditions of, 273
Rivetting Machines, 684
Roads to Armenia, Russian, 227
Roads, Common, Steam on, 613
Robinson’s Asbestos-Packed Stop Valve, 467
Rock Cuttings, Taking Cross Sections in, 239
Rock Drill, M'Culloch’s “ Rio Tinto,” 321
Roller Bearings for Shafts, Lister’s, 377 (See Letters, Lubricating Shafting)
Rolling Mill Engine, Reversing, at the Works of
Fried. Krupp, Essen, Germany, 277
Rolls, Mast Bending, 443
Rolls, Plate Bending, 327
Root’s System Water Tube Boiler, Knap’s, 484
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s s.s. “ Clyde,” The (Messrs. R. Napier and Sons), 366
Royal Meteorological Society, The, 723
Rules for Electric Lighting, Fire Office, 369
Rushworth’s Plate-Flattening and Straightening
Machine, 278
Russian Naval Port at Libau, The New, 259
Russian Roads to Armenia, 227
Russian, Siberian, and Finland Railways, 762

Safety, Factors of, 389
Safety Fuzes, Drake and Gorham’s, 645
Safety of Steam Launch Boilers, The, 342
Sailing Ship, The Largest, in the World, 348
St. Clair Tunnel, The, 570
Salt Mining, 316
Sandberg, Mr. C. P., on Steel Rails, 134, 144. 171
“Sandfly” and “Serpent,” H.M.SS., 639
Sanitary Scheme for Chicago, A New, 509
Saulte Ste. Marie Canal, The, 269
Saw for Large Logs, Ransome’s Band, 215
Sawing Machine, Horizontal Cold Steel, 627 Saws, 623
Scandinavian Telephones, 700
Schilling’s Apparatus for Tracing Rail Profiles. 336
Schneider’s Armour Plate Trials in America, 380, 402, 491 (See Letters, Armour Plates)
Schrbter, Professor M., on Steam Engine Performances, 669
Schultz and Goebel’s Heavy Rail and Plate-Shearing Machine, 68
Science in Elementary Schools, 347 Science, Mechanical, 322, 350
Scotch Canal, The Centenary of a, 237
Scotch Expresses, The Acceleration of the, 18. 169 ’ *
Scotch Railway Policy and Progress, Recent, 45
Scotch Railways in Parliament, 109, 637
Scotland, The Cessation of Iron Production in, 429
Scotland, Water Works in, 262
Screw Propellers, 119
Screwing and Turning Machines, Barrow’s, 310
Seaton, Mr. A. E., on Marine Engine, 587
Sea-Water for Marine Boilers, Prepared 401
Secondary Batteries, 28, 388, 706
Secondary Batteries, Gelatinous, 702
Selenium Cells, Experiments with 771
Self-Acting Monte-Jus, 692
Self-Induction of a Coil, Calculating the, 28
Sensitiveness of Automatic Sprinklers, Determination of the, 39
September Weather, 402
Sequel to the Copper Corner, 195 q,>rvLPnnti” a£d.“ Sa"dfly-” H.M.SS., 609, 639
Serve Boiler Tubes, The, 306, 490, 523
-nhe C?2re ^°d8t’ 42 <See Lkttkr, t.t. Cobra, <0, and Manne Engine Economy, 711
Sewage, London, 583 y
Sham Fighting with the Rifle, 733
Shearing Angle Bars, 243, 623
RaanaPndIpiate,e68SChUltZ Ooebc1’8 Hea^ |b®arPu"chi"?> and Drilling, 177 Sh100 ^0^ ’ Expandinand- Golding’s Machine for, IVv, uUO
Sheffield Industries, 122,168
Sheffield Water Works, The, 138 173 (See ShhTr ERf1’ Corr°gto^ <>f Watcr Pipet) Ship Caissons, 674
Sh664,C754a1’ The Manchestcr. 77, 264, 274, 633, Stt?e^6331 Work9’ The Manchester, Flooding of S*Barbette°ri26dable'” The French Arraot,red ^pSailray, S™>th’s, 618
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1890, gss «•
22, 702 (See at Stettin, in Germanv 4TI oFtheW52? The Conditioned Prospecta Shipping Federation, The, 489 Sh!p£,‘T^ienprotecUon‘of”76^nier’Can' Shipyard Machine Tools : 117
Angle Shears, 623
Beam Bending, 623
Bevelling Machine, 623
r?9Un te1r?inki”g Machines, 444
Urane Jibs, 243
Tto'l" arboard Strake Machine, The 117 wXSS?*’ w’<s“ fissxssru"
1 late Bending Rolle, 327
Machine Tools—continued.
Plate-Planiog Machines, 535
1 late Straightener, The, 443
Punching, Shearing, Drilling, 177
Kivetting Machines, 684
Saws, 623
Shearing Angle Bars, 243
Steam Hammers, 683
™°P Roller Gear, 443
Show, The Smithfield Club, 699
.-ibenan, Russian, and Finland Railways, 643,
Sibley College and Cornell University, 210
□lege and Garrison Guns, 4, 34
Siemens Furnace, The New, 378
sin?, i ano I!,8Pecfcin? Apparatus for Guns, 685
Simplex Brake, The, 306
Simpson Dry Dock, The, 218
Sind-Pishin Railway, Petroleum for the, 21 (See Letters) '
“Sinope,” Russian Ironclad, Triple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the (Messrs. R. Napier and Sons), 81
Size of Drops Falling from a Tube, 363
Skagerack, The Water of the, 449
Skew Bridges, Masonry, 238
Slag Cement, 109
Sluices, River, 307
S",±EMne8’ The EconomT 577 (See Erra-liii/l, OUZ)
Smith’s Double-Ended Punching Machine with Z'fron Cutters, 126
Smith’s Locomotive Steam Crane, 575
Smith a Ship Railway, 618
Smithfield Club Show, The, 699
Snelgrove’s Counter, 602
Society of German Engineers, The, 259, 288
Society, The Royal Meteorological, 723
Soho Iron Mills, The, 479
Solution, the Hydrate Theory of, The Present Position of, 422
Eolith London and City Electric Subway, 549, DDVj iD/
South Wales, Experiments with Mining Explosives in, 314
South Yorkshire (See Notes from South Yorks.)
South-n est England (See Notes from the South-JFexf)
Southampton Naval Works, The, 467 (See Letter)
Southampton, Shipbuilding at, 22, 702 (See Letter)
Southampton, New Tidal Dock at, 308
Southend Electric Tramway, The, 259
Southern States, Metallurgy in the, 403
Spain, Building Battleships in, 317
Spark, Electric, Photographing the, 142
Spectra of Elements and the Constitution of the Sun, 423
Speed Trial Data of the United States Protected Cruiser “ Chicago,” Note on the, 431
Speeds of Milling Machine Cutters, 702
Spencer’s Four-Feet Wheel Lathe, 213
Spherical Harmonics, Table of, 601
Standard Method of Conducting Duty Trials of
Pumping Engines, A, 38
Standards, Electrical, Committee on, 444
Statue, The Holley Memorial, 433, 469, 478, 500
Statue of Liberty, The, 464
Stay for Boilers, Yarrow’s Tubular, 544
Steam Boiler Experiments, 1, 59, 122, 591
Steam Boiler and other Furnaces, Flue Gases from, 383,413
Steam Calorimeter, A Universal, 89
Steam on Common Roads, 613
Steam Crane, Smith’s Locomotive, 575
Steam Digging, The Mechanical Action of, 367 (See Letter)
Steam Engine Performances, 669
Steam Hammers, 683
Steam Jackets, 119
Steam Launch Boilers, The Safety of, 342
Steam Propulsion on Canals, 183
Steam Users’ Association, Manchester, 27 (See
Letters, Boiler Explosions)
Steam Yacht “ Lady Torfrida,” The, 158
Steamboat Propulsion and William Symington, 641
Steamer “ Finnieston,” The Patent Elevating Deck Ferry, 276
Steamer “ Hygeia,” The Paddle, 557
Steamer “ Normannia,” The New Hamburg-American Twin-Screw, 247, 321, 365
S.S. “City of New York,” 199, 217, 279, 285, 320, 380 758 (See also Ocean Racing)
Steamship “Clyde,” The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company’s, 366
Steamship “Kaiser Wilhelm IL,” Engines and Boilers of the, 126, 188 (See Letter, 280, and Boiler Construction)
Steamship Subventions, Italy and her, 581
Steel Company, The Pennsylvania, New Works of the, 610
Steel, The Cost of, 228
QtepI and Iron Works, 482
s£e and Iron Works, The Park Gate, 136,174
Steel at Low Temperatures, The Properties of,
Steel Manganese, Oxidation and the Magnetic
Properties of, 445
Steel for Permanent Magnets, Character of, 444
Steel Production in America, 734
Rails Considered Chemically and Mechanically, 134, 142, 171
Q»-noi Tvres The Mun ton Process of Manufacturing 455. ’ (See Letter)
Steel Works, The Clyde, 123
Steel Works, The Dannemora, 122
Steel Works, Fitzalan, 168
Stettin, in Germany, Shipbuilding at, 433
Stevens’s Fuel Press (Briquette-making), 291
Stewart “ Rapid ” Cupola, with Receiver, The,
Stoddart, Mr. C. J., on Parkgate Iron Works, 174
Stop Valve, Jeffrey’s Automatic Steam, 86
Stop-Valve, Robinson’s Asbestos-Packed, 467
Storage of Explosives on the Mersey and Tyne, The, 348
Strains on Girders, 316
Strains, The Measurement of, 392,614
Strains on Metals, 275
Street Railways, Electric Motors for, 317
Strength of High Explosives, The, 644
Stretching of Liquids, The, 28
Strikes in America, 226
Subaqueous Foundations, 439, 515, 616, 772
Subjects for Papers ; Institution of Civil Engineers, 452
Submarine Cables, Telephoning through, 339
Submarine Mines, 566, 642, 658 (See Letters)
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 702
Subway, City and South London Electric. 540 550, 757.
Subordination of Engineering in the Navy 161
Sudbury Nickel Mines and Mining, The, 611
Supply, The Water, of Chicago, 507
Supply, Water, Methods of, 316
Supply, The Water, of Nottingham, 40
Susceptibility, Magnetic, of Diamagnetic and Feebly Magnetic Solids, 420
Swanston, Mr. G. J., on Boiler Explosions Act 588
Sweden, Apatite in, 317
Switch, Newton and Hawkins’ Automatic, 377
Switchboards, Hartnell’s, for the Leeds Muniri pal Buildings, 645
Swivel Union, The Gwinnett, 662
Symington, William, and Steamboat Propulsion 641 " ’

Taking Cross-Sections in Rock Cuttings, 239
Tamarack, and Calumet and Hecla Copper Mines, The, 256, 553
Tangyes’Centrifugal Pumping Engines for the s.s. “Columbia,” 44
Tangyes’ Horizontal Triple-Expansion Engine, 644
Tank, A Large Petroleum, in Norway, 765
Tank Locomotive, North London Railway, 394
Tariff Act, The M‘Kinley, 430, 523, 582
Taunton Railway Disaster, The, 582 (See Letters on Vacuum Brake and Brakes, Deficient}
Taylor and Challen’s Machinery for Making Large Cartridge Cases, 424
Taylor’s Automatic Disinfector, 373
Teaching of Chemistry, The, 446
Technical College, Finsbury, The, 591
Tees Shipbuilding in 1890, 767
Telegraph, The Column-Printing, 389
Telegraph Company, Western Union, 671
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 702
Telemeters and Range Finders, 302 (See Letter, Barrand Stroud's Ranye Finder, 406)
Telephone Monopoly, The, 729
Telephone Trunk Lines, 169
Telephones, Scandinavian, 700
Telephoning through Submarine Cables, 389
Telescope, Equatorial Photographic, for the Melbourne Observatory, 721
Tension of Water Surfaces, Clean and Contaminated, 420
Testing Iron, 19, 445
Testing Machine, Professor Kennedy’s New 50-Ton, 310
Tests, Physical, in Competitive Examination, 639
“Teutonic,” The, 722 (See Transatlantic Record}
Theatre, Mr. D’Oyly Carte’s New, Electric Lighting Installation at, 128
Theory of Induced Magnetism, Molecular, 419
Theory of the Steam Engine, Hirn and Dwels-hauvers’, 92
Thies Process of Barrel Chlorination, The, 145
Thomas’s Concentric Wedge Bush, 377
Thomson, Professor Elihu, on Alternating Current Induction, 144, 196, 202
Thorne Type-Composing Machine, The, 306
Tidal Dock at Southampton, New, 3l8
Tidal Observations in Canada, 422
T^al £jver8> The Physical Conditions of, 273
Tide. The Action of, on Estuaries, 237
Timber, The Preservation of, 607 (See Letter)
Tin, The Production of, 73
Tokio Water Supply, 108
T°Toote)biPyard Machine (^Shipyard Machine
Top Roller Gear, 443
Torpedo Boat “ Ouragan,” The Seagoing, 187
Torpedo Boat with Quadruple-Expansion Engines, Yarrow’s, 608
Torpedo, The Victoria, 246, 301 (See Letter)
Torpedoes, Automatic, 573, 628, 740, 772
Town Middlesborough, in Kentucky, The New,
Tracing Rail Profiles, Schilling’s Apparatus for, 336
Traction, Electric, The Lineff System of, 385
Traction Engine, Burrell’s Single-Crank Compound, 675
Trade, The American, English Ports for, 226
Trade, Increase of the Shipping, Shipbuilding in Relation to, 578
Trade, The Prospects of, 105
Trade, The Shipbuilding, The Condition and Prospects of, 522
Trade, The Shipbuilding, in 1890, 766
Trades Union Congress, The, 313
Traffic, Indian Railway—Extent, Charges, and Cost, 639
Trains, Cheap, for London Workmen, 702
Trains from London to Berlin and other Continental Towns, Club, 554
Trains to Scotland, Acceleration of, 18, 169, 248
Tramways, Cable, 304
Transandine Railway, The, 329
Transatlantic Record, 199, 217,254,279, 285,320, 380,722, 758
Trial of a Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, 53, 738 (See Letters)
Trial, Speed, Data of the United States Protected Cruiser “ Chicago,” Note on the, 431
Trial Trips (See Launches)
Trials, Armour-Plate, in America, 402, 491
Trials, Brake, in Australia, 612
Trials, Brake, in India, 315
Trials of Ordnance in Belgium, Comparative, 348
Tribute to Deceased Members of the Iron and Steel Institute, 612
Triple-Expansion Engine, Tangycs’ Horizontal, 644
Triple-Expansion Engines, “Chiyoda” (J. and G. Thomson, Limited), 423
Triple-Expansion Engines, " Clyde” (R. Napier and Sons), 366
Triple-Expansion Engines, Farcot, France, 310
Triple - Expansion Engines, Four - Cylinder, Paddle Steamer, “Hygeia” (Messrs. Rankin and Blackmore), 557 .
Triple-Expansion Engines, “Normanma” (Fairfield Company), 247, 321, 365
Triple-Expansion Engines and Boilers of the Russian Ironclad “Sinope” (Messrs. R. Napier and Sons), 81 . «
Triple-Expansion Engines Driving Three Screws, Baxter’s (Messrs. Cox and Co., Falmouth), 484
Triple-Expansion Pumping Engines at Waltham Abbey, East London Water Works (Messrs. T. Richardson and Sons, Hartlepool), 158
Triple-Screw Cruiser for the American Navy, 493
Triple Screw Engines, Baxter’s (Messrs. Cox and Co., Falmouth), 481
Triplex Spur-Gear Pulley Block, Weston’s, 213 i (See Letters)
Crunk Line to London, The New Northern, 525
Crunk Lines, Telephone, 169
Crusts, American and English, 255
Cube-Frame Goods Wagons, 524, 540, 647
Cubes, Boiler, The Serve, 306, 490, 523

Tubes, Ribbed, 306
Tubular Stay for Boilers, Yarrow’s, 544
Tunnel, Dunmail Raise, Alignment of, 80
Tunnel, The Hudson River, 464
Tunnel, The New King’s Cross, 672
Tunnel Railways, Deep, 549 (See also 550, 757)
Tunnel, The St. Clair, 570
Tunnelling at King’s Cross with Needles, 672
Tunzeltnann, G. W. de, on Finsbury College, 571
Turning and Screwing Machines, Barrow’s, 310
Turret and Gun Mounting, Armoured; Canet System, 511, 538
Turret Ship “ Amiral Duperre,” The, 398
Twin-Screw Steamer “Normannia,” The New Hamburg-American, 247, 321, 365
Twist Drill Grinder, Phillips’s, 674
Tyler’s Compound Direct-Acting Self-Governing Pumping Engine, 528
Tyne Shipbuilding in 1890, 766
Type-Composing Machine, The Thorne, 306
Type-Writer, The Maskelyne, 693 (See Letters)
Tyres, Steel, The Munton Process of Manufacturing, 455

Unburned Gases of Gas Stoves and Burners, 449
Undulations, Electrical, A R6sum6 of Professor Hertz’s Experiments on, 707
Union, The Gwinnett Swivel, 662
United Kingdom, Regional Magnetic Disturbances in the, 423
United States Man-of-War “ Chicago,” The, 216, 431 (See Letter, 427)
United States, Notes from the, 11, 67, 100, 126, 187, 233, 260, 290, 311, 367, 433, 493, 546, 575, 612, 674
Units, Electrical—The Ohm, 363
Universal Drilling Machines, Improved, 189
Universal Steam Calorimeter, A, 89
University, Cornell, and Sibley College, 210
Utilisation of Niagara, The, 355, 449, 473, 505. 535, 563

Vacua, High, 362
Valve, Steam Stop, Jeffrey’s Automatic, 86
Valve Stop, Robinson’s Asbestos Packed, 467
Variable Blast Nozzle, Macallan and Adams’, 211
Velocity, Wave, in Dielectrics, 419
Vertical Compound Engine, 68
Vertical Motion, Mechanism for Giving, 393
Viaduct, The Kinzua, 119
Vibratory Movements of Locomotives, The, 644
Vickers, Sons, and Co. v. Siddell, 199
Victoria, The Mineral Riches of, 698
Victoria Torpedo, The, 246, 301 (See Letters)
Victorian Railways, 580, 624
Vienna, The Exhibition of 1890 at, 198
Vision, Defective Colour, 363
Visitor’s Impression of American Railways, A, 64
Volcanic and Earthquake Phenomena in Japar 422
Volga Navigation, The, 183
Vulcanisation and Decay of India-Rubber, 448

Wages and the Hours of Labour, 345
Wagons, Tube-Frame Goods, 524, 540, 647
Warships Launched in 1890, 730
Warships, New American, 199
Warships of the World, 226
Washing Coal in Yorkshire, 289
Washington Bridge, The, 478
Waterjets, Instantaneous Photographs of, 423
Water Required to Extinguish Fires, 762
Water of the Skagerack, The, 449
Water Supply of Chicago, The, 507
Water Supply, Methods of, 316
Water Supply of Nottingham, The, 40
Water Supply, Tokio, 108
Water Surfaces, Tension of, Clean and Contaminated, 420
Water Tube Boiler, Knap’s ; Root’s System, 484
Water Works in Scotland, 262
Water Works, The Sheffield, 138,173 (See Letters,
Corrosion of Water Pipes)
Waterways, Inland, The Present Condition and
Development of, 186, 204, 221
Wave Velocity in Dielectrics, 419
Waymouth, the late Mr. Bernard, of Lloyd’s, 613
Wear Shipbuilding in 1890, 766
Weather, The, 19, 196, 285, 402, 550, 670
Weaver Navigation, The, 166, 181
Wedge Bush, Thomas’s Concentric, 377
Weirs Feed-Heating Appliances; e.s. “Normann ia,” 365
Weser River Improvements, The, 208
West Highland Railway, The, 407
Western Union Telegraph Company, 671
Westinghouse Brake, The New Quick-Acting, 227, 460
Weston’s Triplex Spur-Gear Pulley Block, 213 (See Letters)
Wharf Crane, Davis and Primrose’s Forty-Ton, 279
Wheel Lathe, Earnshaw’s Duplex, 599
Wheel Lathe, Spencer’s Four-Feet, 213
Whitehead Torpedo, 573, 628
Wick Breakwater, 616
Winding Engine at Wingate Grange Colliery, 451
Winding-up Companies, 47
Witwatersrand District of South Africa, 227
Wood, Sir Henry Trueman, on Photographing Electric Sparks, 142
Wood’s Journal Bearings, 261
Woodruff System of Keying, The, 349 (See Letters)
Working of Railroads by Electricity, The, 38
Workmen, London, Cheap Trains for, 702

Works:

JEtna, The (Messrs. Spear and Jackson’s), 168
Bethlehem Iron, in Pennsylvania State, 242
Brightside Boiler and Engine (Hawksley, Wild,
and Co.’s), 168
Brooklyn Naval Yard, 218, 463
Clyde Steel, The, 123
Consolidated Gas Co, The, 478
Dannemora Steel, The, 122
Fairfield, Extension of, 336, 393, 485, 599, 687
Fitzalan Steel, 168
Hutton and Sons’, 168
Iron and Steel, 482
Laycock and Sons’, Samuel, 123
Laycock’s Railway Carriage Fitting, 124
Park Gate Iron and Steel, The, 136, 174
Pennsylvania Steel Company’s New, 610
Pittsburg Reduction Company’s, The, 479
Sheffield Water, The, 138, 173 (See Letters, Corrosion of Pipes)
Soho Iron, The, 479
Southampton Naval, The, 467 (See Letters)

Yacht “ Lady Torfrida,” The Steam, 158
Yarrow’s Torpedo Boat with Quadruple-Expansion Engines, 608
Yarrow’s Tubular Stay for Boilers, 544
Yokohama Harbour, The, 701

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