Engineering 1891 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs
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Agriculture
- American Implements, 281
- Highland Show, 136
- Royal Society’s Show, 1892, 761
Appointments:
- Commissioner of Railways in South Australia (Mr. T. Davies), 507
- Director of Dockyards (Mr. James Williamson), 724, 761
- Director of the Fairfield Company (Dr. Elgar), 336
- Dundee Water Managership (Mr. G. S. Baxter), 135
- Engineer of Taff Vale Railway, 536
- Glasgow and South-Western Railway Engineer (Mr. William Melville, C.E.), 152, 389
- Glasgow University Chair of Naval Architecture (Mr. Biles), 273
- Melbourne Board of Works Engineer-in-Chief. 157
- Metallurgist to Messrs. Brown, Sheffield (Mr. G. S. Packer), 658
- Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, Cape Colony, 658
- Artillery. See Guns
- Boilers. Seo Engines and Boilers
Bridges:
- Great Western Road Bridge at Glasgow, 398
- Masonry Bridges in Germany, 629
- Murray Bridge, New South Wales, 669
- Nile Bridge, New, 659
- Resistance of Masonry Arches, 629
- Rutherglen Bridge, Glasgow, 716
- Scotch Railway Bridges, Safety of, 222
- Vehicular Bridge across the Mersey, Proposed, 142
- Viaducts in America, 282
Canals:
- Baltic North Sea Canal, 49, 507
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 281
- Corinth Canal, 140, 157, 281, 655
- Manchester Canal, Newcastle Engineers’ Visit, 49
- Panama Canal, 606
- St. Lawrence Canals Expenditure, 477
- Saulte Ste. Marie Canal Lock, 243
- Suez Canal Traffic, 26, 242, 281
- Suez Canal, Widening of, 52
Catalogues:
- Bowling Iron Co, Limited, 406
- Ceres Iron Works, 552
- Dick, Kerr, and Co., 717, 753
- Electric Power Storage Co, 485
- Elmore’s Copper Depositing Company, Limited, 406
- Fowler-Waring Cables Co, 552
- Howell and Co., 427
- R. Hunt and Co., 406
- Mr. George Kent, 552
- Machinery and Hardware Company, Limited, 753
- P. and W. MacLellan, Limited, 166
- Mather and Platt, 41
- Myers’ Patent Box and Barrel Machinery Company, Limited, 41
- Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Limited, 406
- John Tullis and Sons, 485
Coal:
- American Production, 389
- Barry Dock Coal Exports, 136, 597
- Belgian Briquettes, 520
- Belgian Coal Exports, 52
- Belgian Mining, 243, 281, 372
- Bohemian Coal, 126
- Briquettes in Sweden, 753
- Burntisland Shipments, 426
- Burry Port, Coal found at, 136
- Cardiff, 8, 36, 75, 94, 136, 153, 184, 222,242, 273, 298, 336, 357, 398, 427, 447, 473, 507, 563, 597, 629, 657, 698, 715, 752
- Cardiff Shipments, 8, 299, 447, 507, 563, 657
- Coal for British Fleet in Leith Roads, 91
- Coal Companies. See Cmnpcbnies
- Coal Mining Development in Yorkshire, 698
- Coal for P. and O. Company, 657
- Coal Traffic on Great Western Railway, 36
- Coals and Combustion, 698
- Contracts to Sheffield, 716
- Discovery of Coal near Middlesbrough, 223
- Dover, Coal at, 127, 223, 243
- Dundee Coal Analyst at Work, 242
- Fifeshire Coal Trade, 152
- France, Coal in, 76
- France, Coal in the North of, 516
- France (North) Coal, 281
- Gas Coal Contract, Glasgow, 426
- German Briquettes, 682
- German Coal in Italy, 398, 593
- German Coal Mining, 215, 281, 745
- German Locomotive Coal, 76
- Hemp or Aloes Ropes for Mining, 185
- Idaho, Coal in, 238
- Coal— .continued.
- India Collieries, 223
- Mexican Coal, 460
- Middlesbrough Trade, 75, 242, 273, 299, 397, 447, 473, 506, 597, 628, 659, 698, 752
- New Shafts in Wales, 242, 299
- New Zealand Coal, 344, 403, 597
- Nova Scotian Coal, 335
- Oil Companies (Scotch) and the Prices for, 91-92, 184
- Pennsylvania Coal, 127
- Petroleum as Fuel, 717
- Petroleum, Mexican, 104
- Petroleum, Russian Production, 76
- Price of Coal in United Kingdom, 327
- Rhondda Valley Trade, 473
- Russian Coal, 281
- Russian Trade, 185
- Scotch Coal, 8, 35, 75, 93, 135, 152, 184, 221, 242, 298, 356, 398, 426, 446,472, 506, 628, 658, 716
- Scotch Railway Contracts, 184
- Sheffield Trade, 242, 281, 356, 397, 419,447, 473, 506, 567, 597, 698
- South African Coal, 242, 243
- South Australia, Coal in, 240, 243
- South Yorkshire Trade. See Sheffield
- Teeside, Search for Coal on, 628
- Victorian Briquettes, 63
- Wales Coalfields, South, 222, 242
- Washington State, Production in, 76
- Welsh Coal Mining, 8, 36,75
- Welsh Colliery Enterprise, 136
- Western Australian Coal, 752
- Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 94
- Collisions. See Railways
Companies:
- Abbot, John, and Co., Limited, 184
- Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Dock Railway Company, Limited, 273
- Anzin Coal Mines Company, 76. See also French Metallurgical Industry, 76
- Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Sir W. G., 357
- Austro-Belgian Metallurgical Company, 752
- Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, 20
- Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Limited, 242
- Bridgend Gas and Water Co, 242
- Bristol and South Wales Railway Wagon Co, Limited, 136, 299, 398
- Bristol Wagon and Carriage Works Co, Limited, 657
- Brown, John, and Co., Limited, 658
- Burys and Co., Limited, 184
- Cambrian Railway Company, Mid-Wales, 398
- Cleveland Salt Co, Limited, 537
- Consett Iron Co, Limited, 136, 222
- Darlington Steel and Iron Co, Limited, 9
- Dorman, Long and Co., 567
- Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co, Limited, 8, 536, 657
- Elmore Copper and Wire Co, Limited, 753
- Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co, Limited, 222
- Hill's Dry Dock and Engineering Co, Limited, 222
- Jessop and Co., Limited, William, 397
- London and Glasgow Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, 336
- Monmouthshire Wagon Co, Limited, 222
- Newport-Abercarn Coal Co, Limited, 95
- Newport Tramway Company, 242
- North Central Wagon Company, Limited, 166
- North Navigation Collieries, Limited, 336
- North’s Navigation Company, 398
- Railway Companies. See Railways
- Rhymney Iron Company, Limited, 222, 752
- Severn and Canal Carrying Association, Limited, 597
- Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, Limited, 281
- Sheffield Companies, 716
- Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mill Company,
- . Limited, 222
- Shotts Iron Company, 472
- Staveley Coal and Iron Company, Limited, 281, 305
- Steel Company of Scotland, 272, 298
- Thornbury Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited, 298
- Tinsley Rolling Mills Company, Limited, 91
- Union S.S. Company, 366
- Vernon Tin-Plate Company, Limited, 715
- Vickers and Co., Limited, 222
- Villiers Tin-Plate Company, 698
- West Gloucestershire Water Company, 398
- Weymouth and the Channel Islands Company, 94
- Defence of Coasts. See Naval
- Docks* See Harbours, andc.
- Drainage* See Sewage
- Electric Tramways. See Electricity
Electricity:
- American Electric Stations, 507
- Electricity- continued.
- Aspen Mining Company’s Plant at Colorado, 477
- Bath, Electric Lighting, 273
- Birmingham Town Hall Installation, 366
- Bristol, Electric Light at, 629
- Cardiff, Electric Lighting, 136, 657
- Carlow, Lighting of, 9
- Chinese Telegraphs, 626
- Church Tower Demolished by Electricity, 406
- Classes at Manchester Technical School, 299
- Cost of Lighting in American Cities, 95
- Decoration by Electric Incandescence, 427
- Denmark and France Cable, 194
- Dynamo, Plating, 327
- Edison Patents Decision, 127
- Edison’s Electric Railway System, 659
- Electric Railroad in Switzerland, 9
- Electric Traction in Honolulu, 507
- Electric Transmission at Frankfort, 243
- French Submarine Telegraphy, 243
- Generating Plant for South London Railway, 157
- Glasgow, Corporation Electric Lighting of, 36, 698
- Granary Lighting, 327
- Great Northern Telegraph Company, 281
- Gulcher Company in Melbourne, 443
- Hauling Coal by Electricity, 136
- Hull Electric Light, 658
- Independent System of Electric Motive Power, 576
- International Telephonic Communication, 647
- Kelway’s Electric Signals, 447
- Kingswood, Lighting of, 222
- Lamps, Competitive, 327
- Lamps, Efficiency of Various, 157
- Light Cables and the Distribution of Electricity, 576
- Lighthouses, Telegraphic Communication with, 753
- Lightning Conductors in Germany, 507
- London, Electric Lighting of, 606
- Manchester Cental Station, Lighting, 157
- Railway Lighting (Swansea Bay Company), 473
- Railway, New Type of Electric, 629
- Railways in America, Electric, 503, 507
- Railways under Construction in America, 223
- Sheffield Electric Lighting, 752
- South African Telegraphy, 674, 736
- Storage Battery System of Street Car Traction,
- 9
- Submarine Cable, A New, 669
- Taunton Electric Lighting, 153
- Telegraphy in the North Pacific, 637
- Telephone and the Antipodes, 699
- Telephones in Hotels, 753
- Traction Cost in Boston, 282
- Traction, New System, 282
- Train, Frankfort and Berlin, Lighting, 282
- Transmission Plant in Western Colorado, 185
- Units, Abbreviations of Electric, 507
- Utilising Hydraulic Power (Lachine Rapids), 419
- Water Power in Switzerland, 507
- Waves, Velocity of Propagation of Electric, 753
- Welding in America, 223
- Welding, Electric. The Improved Benardos
- Process, 211
- Wires, Safe Carrying Capacity of Interior, 477
- Engineering. See Shipbuilding and L give ering
Engines and Boilers:
- Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, 20, 36
- Boiler Explosion in Norway, 299
- Boiler Explosions ; Statistics, 753
- Boiler Performances, 157
- Contract for South America, Large Glasgow, 536
- Coverings, Removable Boiler, 537
- Dashpots of Corliss Engines, 37
- Engine and Boiler Tariff Duty to France, 157
- Explosions, Boiler, Statistics, 674. See 243
- New System of Boiler Construction, 717
- Steam Fire Engine Tests at Belgium, 308
- Steam Pipes and the Board of Trade, 299
- Vertical Boilers, Wear and Tear of, 629
- Victoria Mining Boilers. No Explosions, 243
Exhibitions:
- Electrical Exhibition at St. Petersburg, 477
- Fire Appliances Exhibition at St. Petersburg, 477
- Forestry Exhibition at Goritz, 95
- Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and the
- World’s Fair Exposition, 567
- Liverpool, Naval, 389, 593
- Naval Exhibition Attendance, 507
- Newcastle Surplus, 397
- Tasmanian Exhibition, 535
- Explosions. See Engines and Boiler
Gas :
- American Gas ; Price, 753
- American Natural Gas, 65, 544
- Bristol Gas Supply, 273
- Gasholder for Glasgow, Large New, 184, 426
- Gasholders, New (Scotland), 596
- Greenock Supply, 94
- Holders, South Metropolitan Company’s New,
- London Gas Supply Board of Trade Committee Inquiry, 689
- Natural Gas Wells of Ohio giving- out, 629
- North British Association of Gas Managers, 93
- Paisley Supply, 94
- Paris, Gas at, 344, 730
- Rhymney Valley, 628
- Thornbury, Gas at, 298
- Water Gas Plant for Coatbridge Works, 8
Guns :
- Driggs and Schroeder 6-Pounder, 76
- Explosive, New (Belgian), Fortis (Krupp), 299, 576
- Finspong Cannon Factory, Sweden, 659
- Fuze for Shell, New Type of, 127
- German Field Gun, New, 629
- Krupp 15-cm. Burst, 443
- Magazine Rifles, 95
- Projectiles, American, 282
- Russian Small Arms, 404, 443
- Schneider Quick-Firing Gun, New Hontoria Type, 717
- Swedish Artillery, 736
Harbours, Docks, Piers, andc.:
- Ardrossan Harbour, 75, 336
- Australian, Western, Plarbour, 753
- Avonmouth, Dock at, 222, 597
- Barry Docks Extension, 447, 473, 752
- Blasting in Ljusne River, Sweden, 406
- Breakwater at Durban, Natal, 753
- Bristol Dock Sheds, 629
- Bristol Docks, 36
- Bute Dock Accounts, 184
- Bute Dock, Proposed Transfer, 357
- Caithness, 36
- Canadian Lake, Deepening of, 243
- Cardiff Dock Accommodation, 36, 136, 658
- Cardiff, More Docks for, 94, 563
- Cardiff New Bute Dock, 629
- Clevedon Pier, 273, 507, 698
- Clyde Harbour Finance, 36
- Clyde Trust, Sir Jas. Bain’s Connection with, 536
- Clydebank Wet Dock, 36
- Colwyn Bay, New Road to Beach, 507
- Crane for Victoria Harbour, Greenock, Big, 222
- Docks in the Iron Mountains, U.S., 240
- Dundee Harbour Trust, 36
- Durban Harbour, 659, 753
- Eucalyptus Timber for Harbour Works, 366
- Feodosia in Black Sea, 476
- Glasgow Harbour and New Graving Dock, 242
- Glasgow Harbour Works, 397, 426
- Goole Dock, 95
- Graving Dock Work at Sunderland, 181
- Grimsby Docks, 419
- Hobson’s Bay, Victorian Colony, 64
- Hudson, The River, 87
- Leith, New Dry Dock for, 447
- Leith, Proposed New Dock at, 75
- Lighthouse Building, American, 230
- Llanelly Harbour, 752
- Mersey Bar, Dredging of, 243
- Mersey Dock Finances, 427
- Milford Docks, 242
- Moray Firth, Harbour for, 336
- Mount Stuart, Proposed Dry Dock at, 36
- New Zealand Lighthouse, 281
- Off-Shore Dock, 552
- Penarth Dock Shipments, 184
- Sand Pump Dredging at the Mersey, 185
- Severn, 8, 36, 75, 94, 136, 153, 336, 752
- Southampton Dock Transfer, 717
- Stonehaven (Scotland), Proposed Harbour Extensions at, 356
- Telegraphic Communication with Lighthouses, 753
- Wick, Another Harbour for, 75
Hydraulics :
- Fire Engine at Birmingham, 95
- Glasgow Supplying Water at High-Pressure, 426
- Niagara Water Power, 92
- Profiles of River Beds, Instrument for, 157
- Pulsometer, Tests of, 659
- Switzerland, Water Power in, 397
- Utilising Falls in Sweden, 477
Industries, Various :
- American Tariff on British Industries, Effect, 29, 305
- Arizona, Irrigation at, 612
- Belgian Metallurgical Industries, 752
- Canadian Asbestos, 644
- Copper Ore Imports into Glasgow, 447
- Copper Supply of the World, 366
- Egyptian Irrigation Commission, 419
- Electrical. See Electricity
- Engineering. See Shipbuilding, andc.
- Guildford Sewage Scheme, 336
- Honley Sewage Disposal, 715
- Hydraulic Foundry at Whiteinch, Glasgow,
- 221
- Hydraulic Sewer Flusher, 537
- Iron. See Iron and Steel
- Ironfounding Trade in Scotland, 506
- Munich Drainage, 717
- Nickel Ore Imports at the Clyde, 567
- Pipefounding Trade, Glasgow, 152, 298
- Purification of Sewage, 185
- Sewers in the Rhondda, 715
- Shipping. See Shipbuilding
- Steel. See Iron and Steel
- Tin Bar Manufacture (Middlesbrough), 506
- Tin-Plate Works at Blaina, 752
- Tin-Plate Works at Briton Ferry, 629
- Tin-Plate Trade in South Wales, 136, 273
- Tin Production of Malay Peninsula, 389
- Western Australian Timber, 342
- Institutions. See Technical Societies
Iron and Steel:
- Abersychan Iron Works, Wales, 36
- Acklow Iron Works, 273
- Alloys used in French Railways, 243
- Aluminium as Substitute for Cast Iron, 477
- American Pig Iron, 281
- American Steel Orders, 752
- Armour Plate Tests at Annapolis, 127
- Basic Steel Plant in Sweden, 659
- Belgian Blast Furnaces, 242, 281
- Belgian Rail Exports, 75
- Belgian Steel Rails, 295
- Blast Furnaces in United States, 281
- Blast Furnaces in Wales, 447
- Breakdown of Middlesbrough Blast Furnaces, 716
- Casting, Extraordinary Steel, Sheffield, 447
- Castings, Steel, 37
- China, Iron and Steel in, 516
- Cleveland Ironstone Field, Development of, 506
- Companies. See Companies
- Contract for Hematite Ironstone, Large, 398
- Crucible Steel at Sheffield, 136
- Cyfarthfa Steel Works, 427
- English Railways in Sweden, 370
- Flumes, Galvanised Iron, 507
- French Iron Trade, The, 104, 752
- French Steel, 304, 752
- German Blast Furnaces, 242
- German Rails for China, 281
- Germany, Pig Iron in, 240, 534
- Grosmont Iron Works, The, 94
- Hammer, 125-Ton, at Bethlehem, U.S., 223
- Labour Questions, Wages, andc. See Trade Societies
- Middlesbrough Foundry in the Market, 716
- Middlesbrough Trade, 9, 36, 75, 91, 136, 153, 184, 222, 242, 274, 299, 336, 357, 397, 427, 447, 473, 506, 536, 563, 597, 628. 658, 698, 716, 752
- Milling Machine for Heavy Cuts, 299
- Nickel Ore Imports at Clyde, Large, 447
- Pig Iron, Famine of (Sheffield), 716
- Portuguese Duty on Steel (Another Blow to Sheffield), 567
- Price of Iron in the United Kingdom, 327
- Production of Iron Ore in America, 612
- Rails for Egypt, 7
- Rolling Mills at Newburn, New, 222
- Rolling Plant for Dowlais Company, 715
- Russian Steel, 281
- Rust, Removal of, 223
- Scotch Steel and Iron Trade, 152, 184, 272, 29S, 336, 357, 398, 426, 446, 473, 506, 536, 567, 596, 658, 716
- Sheffield Trade, 8, 36, 136, 166, 222, 242, 281, 305, 327, 356, 397, 419, 447, 473, 506, 536, 567, 597, 658. 698
- Sheffield Trade and the McKinley Tariff, 36, 305
- Shipments for Middlesbrough, 9
- Spanish Iron Ore Imports to Clyde, 298, 426, 536, 697
- Steel Castings, Failure of, 243
- Steel Company of Scotland, 272, 298
- Steel v. Iron Columns for High Buildings, 717
- Sword and Bayonet Manufacture at Sheffield, 752
- Steel Manufacture (Basic) in India, 753
- Steel for New Cunarders, 272
- Steel Ropes at Sheffield, 136
- Tubes, Strength of Iron and Steel, 427
- Wales Iron and Steel Trade, 36, 75, 222
- Weld less Steel Chains, 211. See Erratum^ 258
- Welsh Blast Furnaces, 36
- Works at Wishaw, New, 393
- Irrigation. See Sewage
- Labour Questions. See Trade Societies and Strikes
- Light, Electric. See Electricity
Markets:
- Cleveland Iron, 8, 36, 75, 94, 136,153, 184, 222, 242, 272, 299, 336, 357, 397, 427, 447, 473, 506, 536, 563, 597,628, 658, 698, 716, 752
- Make and Disposal of Cleveland Iron, 36, 153, 299, 427, 536, 698
- Scotch Pig Iron, 8, 35, 75, 93, 135, 152,183, 221, 241, 272, 298, 335, 356, 398, 426, 446, 472, 506, 536, 567, 596, 628, 658, 697, 716
Mechanics:
- American Workshops, 507, 537. See Letters, Machine Tools
- Horse-Power of a Driving Rope, 507
- Strength of Screw Bolts, 9, 717
Mining:
- Antimony in Victoria, 462
- Canadian Asbestos, 644
- Coal. See same
- Copper Mining in Norway, 699
- Copper Ore in Natal, 659
- Copper Production in America, 327
- Diamond Mining in South Africa, 243
- Electricity in Mining, 299
- Gold Mining in Sweden, 460
- Nickel Production in America, 389
- Peruvian Mines, 659
- Plumbago Mining in Ceylon, 576
- Quarrying Rock, 623
- Safety Lamps in Mining, 597
- Silver Mining in China, 282
- South African Gold Mining, 202
Miscellaneous:
- American Natural Gas, 281
- Anchor Trials, 443
- Arctic Expedition, 157
- Arrol, Sir William, on Thrift and Temperance, 716
- Asbestos Works at Cardiff, 473
- Blasting of Rock, Heavy, 4C6
- Brickmaking Machinery at Doncaster Show, 41
- Canadian Wheat, 427
- Cement Tests, 389
- Cement, Waterproof, 223
- Charts for Model Drawing, 485
- Chicago Building Construction, 576
- Chronophotograph, 243
- Concrete, Tests of, 606
- Crane, A Large Travelling, 336
- Cryogene for Producing Low Temperatures, 185
- Exemption of Machinery from Rating, 95
- Fire Engine Trials at Manchester, 443
- Fire Extinction Apparatus at Lord Brassey’s, 299
- Fire Extinguishing Appliances for Glasgow, New, 447
- Galveston Cotton, 547
- Geological Map, 127
- German Forests, 281
- German Trade, 477
- Glass, Breaking Strength of, 576
- Grinding Rolls for Papermaking, 366
- Ice Works at Aberdeen, 75
- Limestone, South African, 753
- Literature, Handy List of Technical, 211, 430
- Master Cutlers’ Guests at Cyclops Works, 305
- Meteorite Found, 228, 397
- Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 37
- Mexican Petroleum, 104
- Microscope, a Monster, 753
- Mont Blanc Observatory, 127, 240
- New Orleans, 411
- New South Wales Timber, 80
- Oxygen, Professor Dewar on the Properties of
- Liquid, 717
- Patents in United States, 281
- Paving, 753
- Petroleum Production in America, 37
- Plaster Hardening, 223
- Porcelain Work, 185
- Sand Blast, 327
- Screws, Holding Down Power of, in Wood, 717
- Sea Defences, 637
- Sheffield Holidays, 166
- Sheffield Municipal Buildings (a 90,000Z. Application), 136
- Siam Engineering, Progress in, 507
- Squares, Curves, and Protractors, Transparent Set, 486
- Strength of Paving Stones under Compression,
- Tea Cultivation, 342
- Timber on the Pacific Coast, 112
- Trawling Industry, Dundee and the, 536
- Trieste Imports and Exports, 224
- United States Foreign Trade and McKinlav Tariff, 406 J
- Vienna, Public Works at, 706
- Watkin’s Tower, 127
- Weights, Standard British, 95
- Wind Velocities on Ben Nevis, 628
- Wood Preservation, 689
Naval:
- American Coast Defence, 752
- Anchor Trials, 443
- Arming British Ships, 157
- Armour Plates, New Alloy for, 753
- Armour Plates and Turrets at Cyclops Works 305 *
- Cellulose Protective Belt Tested, 157
- Cruisers for Spanish Navy, New, 49
- Danish Warships, New, 41
- Devonport Dockyard, 136, 222, 273
- Director of H.M. Dockyard (Dr. Elgar), 252 See also 277
- Dockyard Shipwrights, 299
- Engineer-in-Chief of the United States Navy, 535
- French Ironclad “ Brennus,” 492
- French Navy, 306
- French Navy Statistics, 659
- French Navy and Submarine Boats, 689
- German Navy, 669
- German Warship, Launch of, 170
- Gunboats, New British, 185
- TT “-JSolus,” 473, 597
- “Apollo,” 492, 507, 516 “Andromache,” 749
- “ Blake,” 507, 658. See 603, 685
- “ Blenheim,” 668
- “ Charybdis,” 389
- “ Edgar,” 427, 492, 668, 685
- “ Gleaner,” 685, 749
- “ Gossamer,” 357
- “ Indefatigable,” 721
- “ Intrepid,” Launch, 13
- “ Leda ” and “ Alarm,” Ordered, 127 “Melampus,” 52 “Naiad,” 401, 419
- “ Philomel,” 658
- “ Phoebe,” 389, 427
- “ Resolution” and “Revenge.” 184 “Scylla,” 492
- “ Seagull,” 75
- “ Sirius,” 427, 715
- “Tartar,” 659
- “Thetis” (Second-Class Cruiser), 327
- “Tribune” (Second-Class Cruiser),
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- 366, 459
- Japanese Navy, 243, 432, 752
- Keyham Students, 153
- Mooring Gear for Navy, 357
- Pio?oWOrk in the Dockyards, 283, 324, 336,
- Naval —continued.
- Port Darwin, Defence of, 224
- Russian Cruiser “Na varin,” 486
- Russian Ironclad ‘‘George the Victorious,**
- 685
- Russian Navy, 286
- Sims-Edison Dirigible Torpedo, 721
- Spanish Cruiser, “ Almirante Oquendo,” Launched, 459
- Torpedo Boat for Victorian Government, 243, 721
- Torpedo Boats at Devonport, 473
- Torpedoes at the Manoeuvres, 157
- United States Cruiser “ Maine ” (Machinery), 442
- United States Cruiser “New York,” 668
- United States Monitor “Miantonomoh,” 689
- United States Navy, 273, 311
- Wages in the Dockyard, 507. See also Piecework and Dockyard Shipwrights
- War Material, French, 612
- Yacht for Admiralty, 398
- Obituary* See General Index
- Piers. See Harbours, andc.
Population :
- American Population, 243
- Australasia Population, 223, 76S
- Custer County, Montana State, 67
- French City Populations, 273
- Immigration into the United States, 342
- Indian Population, 243
- Kimberley Population, 65
- London City Population, 37
- Melbourne Population, 49
- Newport, Wales, Population, 36
- St. Louis Boulevards, 627
- Toronto Population, 389
- Transvaal Population, 104
- Vancouver, 6 <7
- World’s Population, 458
Railways:
- Accidents in the United Kingdom, 127. 223
- American Car Building, 295
- American Locomotive Building, 281, 6/4
- American Railway Statistics, 282
- Argentina, French Railways in, 2b’-
- Australia, Western, Railway, /6, 110
- Australian. South, Locomotive Building, /6
- Austro-Hungarian Railway, 104, 342
- Avonmouth and Severn Railway Tunnel, 597
- Babbacombe Cliff Railway, 153
- Baldwin Locomotives, 520, 752
- Baltimore Belt Railway, 752 _
- Barry Docks and Railways, 95, 153, 222, 242, 629
- Belfast Central Station, Proposed, 299
- Berlin Street Railways and Zone, 282
- Berlin Tramways, 659
- Bogie Carriages in Sweden, 3S9
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Railway, 281
- Bradford and South Yorkshire Railway Scheme, 306
- Brazil Railways, 313
- Bridges in New York State, 95
- Bristol Tramways, 153
- Burmah, Railway Extensions in, 582
- Canadian Government Subsidies, 366
- Canadian Pacific Railway, 7, 26, 104, 242, 243
- C inon’s Marsh Railway, 507
- Car Wheels, Boring Eyes of, 157
- Chignecto Ship Railway, 243, 288,717
- Coal Consumption of German Locomotives, 507
- Cost of Railways and Land, 37
- Cowbridge and Aberthaw Railway, 273
- Cneff and Comrie Railway, 242
- Curves on French Railways, 753
- Dore and Chinley Railways, 94
- East African Railway from Lake Mombassa to
- Lake Tanganzelia, 606
- Egyptian Railway Schemes, 366
- Experimental Locomotiveat Purdue University, La Fayette, Ind., 717
- Fast Locomotive Running in America, 327, 389
- France, Rolling Stock in, 434
- Free State Railways, 659
- French Railway Traffic, 676
- French Railways, 213
- Gearing for Rack Railways, 127
- Glasgow and South-Western Schemes, 473
- Government Railway Scheme for West of Scotland, 36
- Great Western Railway, 75, 184, 715
- Heavy Train Haulage in America, 327
- Highland Railwa Dividend, 419
- Highland Railways, 157, 242
- Honduras Railways, 752
- Hull and Barnsley .Company, 184
- Hungarian Railways, State Purchase, 9 Japanese Railway Plant, 185
- Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, 222
- Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 37,166
- Leicester and Swannington Railway, One of the Oldest Lines, 537
- Liverpool Overhead Railway, 185
- Locomotive Coal Consumption in Germany, 507
- Locomotive, Compound, in America, 753
- Locomotives in Great Indian Peninsula, 76
- Locomotives on Great Western Railway, 184
- Locomotives for Midland, Contract for, 473 Locomotives for Roumania, 342
- Locomotives in South Australia, 224
- Locomotives with Steel Crank-Pins Oil-Tempered and Annealed, 477
- London and Brighton Carriage Lighting, 327
- London and South-Western Railway, 153
- Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway Machinery, 336
- Lynton and Lynmouth Railway, 536
- Machinery for Italian Railway Workshops, 243
- Manchester Sheffield Extension to London, 443
- Metropolitan Underground Railways, Extension of, 606
- Mexican Railway s, 26
- Mid-Wales Railway, 1»5, 398, 603
- Railways —continued.
- Midland Railway at Bristol, 563
- Midland Railway Station and Warehouses at Bradford, 397
- Natal Government Railways, 75, 242
- Natal Railways, 515
- New South Wales Public Works, 64
- New South Wales Railways, 76, 282, 520, 668, 753. See General Index
- New York City Passenger Traffic Returns, 576
- New York Deep Tunnel Railway, 76
- New Zealand Railways, 9, 73
- North British Railway Extension in North of Scotland, 152
- North British Railway at Kirkcaldy, 473
- Northern Pacific Railroad, 606
- Norwegian State Railways, 576
- Orleans Railway and Employees, 104
- Ottawa Railways, 185
- Paris Underground Railway, 127
- Queensland Railways, 507
- Rail Joints, 327
- Rails, Trade in. See Iron and Steel Railway to the Engadine, 95
- Railway Extension in South-West England, 153
- Railways to Severn, 473
- Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, 242, 473
- Rhymney Railway, 184, 473
- Scotch Railways in Parliament, 35, 49
- Second-Class Railway Carriages, 507, 535, 537
- Sheffield Railway Extension to London, t89
- Signalling in South Australia, 342
- Sleepers in America, 389
- Sleepers, Corrosion of, 389
- Sleepers, Metallic, in Bavaria, 11
- South African Railways, 282, 659, 689, 762
- South American Railway, 522
- South Austrian Railways, 344, 507
- Spain Railways, North of, 112
- Sparks from Locomotives, 223
- Spikes, Holding Power of, 443
- State Ownership in America, 443
- Street Railways of America, 37
- Strikes. See Trades Societies, <fcc.
- Sweden, Northern Trunk Line of, 447
- Swedish Railways, 642
- Swedish States and Gellivora Iron Mountains, 460
- Taff Vale Railway, 75, 153, 357, 427, 629
- Tasmanian Railways, 112
- Tramways in America, Statistics, 507
- Tramways, Cable, 606
- Tramways, Cost of Operating, 76
- Victorian Railways, 211, 252, 637
- Welsh Railways, Purchase of, 36
- West Highland Railway, 242
- West Highlands, Proposed Railways, 473
Sewage Irrigation* Ac.:
- Barry Sewerage, 222
- Cardiff Sewage, 658
- Castle Donnington Sewerage, 398
- Centrifugal Pumps for Drainage, 127
- Durban Sewage, 474
- Edinburgh Sewage Purchase of Mill Lades cn
- Water of Leith, 628
- Egypt, Irrigation in, 366
- Grays and Tilbury Sewage, 717
- Hucknall Torkard Sewerage, 575
- Hyde, Manchester, New Sewage Works at, 606
- Idaho, Irrigation in, 63
- Keg worth Sewerage, 228, 520
- Knaresborough Sewage, 753
- Leighton Buzzard, 642
- Oldbury Sewage Works 637
- Pollution of the Aire and Calder, 153
- Precipitation of Sewage, 398
- Soothill Nether Drainage, 153 , .
- York Sewerage and the Contractor s Claims, 166
Shipbuilding and Engineering:
- Aberdeen China Steamers, Messrs. G. Thompson and Co.’s, 356
- Amazon Shipping Trade 26
- American Mail Contracts, 92
- American Mail Subsidy, 504
- American Mails, The Carriage of, 504
- American Steam Navigation, 110, 752
- AntifoutogPa^nt Trials in the Navy, 430
- InHpodes Steani Navigation in, 231
- Atlantic Passage, F ast, 215
- Atlantic Route, Shortest, 95
- Austrian Lloyd, 474
- Barrow and Wmkington Trade, 608
- Bristol Channel Steamer 36
- Bristol Steam Navigation, 273
- British Registry for Ships, 658
- Canada Steam Navigation, 752 Cardiff and Hamburg Service 36 Cardiff. New Steamer for, 136
- Elgar Appointment to Fairfield Company,
- “ Frnnress of China,” Trial, 67
- FimTne Works at Port-Glasgow, New 293
- Faft Work in Marine Engineering, 26
- Fensburg Shipyard, Large Fire at the, 427
- French Mechanical Industries, 166
- “ Furst Bismarck” Record, 366
- German Merchant Fleet, Statistics, 403 carman Steamer for Victoria Nyanzi, 41 9e in Trade Transatlantic, 748
- Graving Dock Work at Sunderland, 181 Hamburg American Steamer “ Normannia, 74
- Hartlepool, Proposed New Shipbuilding Yard
- Hull and Bristol Channel Service, 752 JSSSS- y."«‘ Marine Engines, Large Output of. <5
- Shipbuilding and Engiiieering-conrtnue^
- Middlesbrough Shipbuilding Yard Destroyed by Fire, 336 J
- “ Mira ” Yacht Trial, 67
- New Zealand Steam Navigation, 522
- “Norham Castle’s” Trials, 492
- North-Fast Coast Trade, 397
- Norway Production of Ships, 659
- Norwegian v. British Steamers, 582
- Pacific Record Broken, 336
- P. and 0., Coal for, 657
- P. and O. Company, Additions to, 356
- Price of New Shipping on the Clyde, 8 152
- 273, 536, 658
- Purchase of Sir John Burns’ Yacht for Admiralty, 398
- Quadruple-Expansion Engines for Yacht in
- America, 419
- Sailing Ships for Greenock Owners, 506
- “Scot,” Rapid Passage, 659
- Seamless Steel Boat, 597
- Sheffield Engineering, 8, 567
- Ship, Largest Afloat, 749
- Shipbuilding and Engineering Contracts,
- Clyde, 152, 222, 273, 336, 356, 398, 426, 473
- 506, 567, 596, 628, 716
- South African New Line of Steamers, 8
- South African Steamship Record, 427
- Steamer with Flanged Joints, First, 597
- Steamer to Propel itself on Land, 397
- Steamers for Llanelly, 94
- Steamship Statistics for all Nations, 95
- Steel in Ships (Pass of Melfort), 749
- Systematic Overtime in Engineering Trade, 447
- Transatlantic Routes, 614
- Shipping* See Shipbuilding and Engineering
- Societies* Technical* See Technical Societies
- Strikes. See Trude Societies
Technical Societies, Institutions, «andc*:
- Astronomical Association, British, 515
- Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, 357
- Birmingham Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 689
- British Society of Mining Students at Sheffield, 166
- Chemical Industries, Society of (London Section), 507
- Chemical Industry, Society of Glasgow Section, 536
- Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 37, 194
- Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 75, 597, 716
- East of Scotland Engineering Association, 628
- Engineering Students’ Club, 419, 717
- Engineering Trade Section of the Chamber of
- Commerce, 473
- Finsbury Technical College, 419
- Glasgow Students’ Institution of Civil Engineers, 698
- Hull and District Institution of Engineers and
- Naval Architects, 507, 629
- Institute of Marine Engineers, 185, 327, 443 Junior Engineering Society, 9, 95,194,223, 299,
- 389, 419, 443, 606, 629
- King’s College, Mechanical Engineering at, 389
- Leeds Association of Engineers, 185, 537, 698
- Liverpool Engineering Society, 537, 606, 659, 717
- Manchester Association of Engineers, 419, 443, 507, 537, 717
- Midland Institute of Mining Engineers, 184
- Mining Education, 507
- technical Societies, Institutions, andc.— continued.
- Mining Institute of Scotland, 273, 628
- Moon, Sir Richard, and Crewe Scholarships, 223
- Newcastle Students’ Club, 717. See 419
- North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 689
- North of England Association of Students of
- Civil Engineers, 49,170,576, 659
- Owens College Engineering Society, 537
- People’s Palace, 443
- Perry’s Lectures at Finsbury College—Differential and Integral Calculus, 456
- Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 536, 567, 628, 716
- Sanitary Engineering at Yorkshire College, 281
- Science and Art Department and Grants, 629
- Science Scholarships (1851 Exhibition), 185
- Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Ship
- builders in, 506, 567, 628, 698
- Sheffield Society of Engineers, 447
- Society of Arts, 537
- Society of Engineers, 419, 717
- South Wales Institute of Engineers, 136, 628
- Technical Instruction in Coal Mining (Sheffield), 184
- Technical Literature, Index to, 211, 430, 567
- Undermanagers’ and Deputies’ Mining Institute, 242
- University College, London, 9, 366, 689
- University College of South Wales, 447
- West Riding Technical Instruction Committee, 473
- Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 185
- Yorkshire College, 397, 698
- Yorkshire College Mining Department, 443
- Telegraphy. See Electricity
- Telephony. See Electricity
- Trade. See Iron and Steel, Coal, Shipbuilding, and Industries
Trade Societies, Strikes, «andc.:
- Amalgamated Society of Engineers and Doncaster, 536
- Amalgamation of North of England and Midland Conciliation Board, 579
- Australian Labour Party, 226
- Belgian Miners’ Strike, 226
- Belgian Strike, Yorkshire Miners and, 136
- Blacksmiths, Associated, 77, 196, 306, 578, 639
- Blast Furnacemen’s Strike (Scotch), The Cost of, 253
- Board of Trade Report on Skilled Labour, 137, 253, 368, 487, 639, 763
- Boilermakers’ and Iron Shipbuilders’ Society, 226, 368, 488, 639
- Boot and Shoe Trade Strike, 537, 579
- Busmen’s Union, 400
- Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Amalgamated Society, 225
- Child Labour on Continent, 223
- Cleveland Miners’ Wages, 537
- Clyde Shipbuilders’ Strike, 36, 51,105,138,196,
- 226, 254, 368
- Coalminers’ Wages in America, 582
- Colliers Deserting Work, 327
- Colliers’ Strike at South Wales, 254
- Conciliation and Arbitration Board, North of
- England, 167, 400, 427, 659
- Conciliation Board in London and Strikes, 77, 283, 307
- Conciliation, Engineering Section of London Chamber of Commerce, 473
- Continental Labour Difficulties, 24
- i*a<le Societies, Strikes, andc»—continued.
- Dockers’ Congress at Hull, 399
- Dockers’ Difficulties, 52, 78, 369, 400, 732, 764
- Dockers’ Strike. See Hermitage
- Dockers’ Union Balance Sheet, 284
- Durham Miners* Dispute, 168
- Eight Hours Question, 485, 518, 608, 764
- Eight Hours and the Trades Congress, 488, 518, 608
- Engineering Overtime in Tyne District, 458, 506, 578. See also 539
- Engineers, Amalgamated Society of, 77, 225, 283, 338, 368, 457, 607, 731
- Engineers’ Dispute in North of England, 458, 506. See also 539
- Engineers* Strike in London, 306
- Engineers’ Strike at Samuda Brothers, 518
- Enginemakers’ Society, Steam, 137, 368, 487
- Enginemen, Cranemen, and Firemen in Cleveland, 253
- Eston Steel Works Dispute, 9, 23,137,197
- Factory Act, Enforcement of, 51
- Fifty-Three Hours* Week, 488
- French Miners, 640, 670
- German Socialists and Trade, 369, 400
- Hermitage and Carron Wharves Strike, 457, 488, 518, 579
- International Federation of Miners, 138
- International Social Congress, 168
- Intimidation, Legal Decision as to, 106
- Ironfounders’ Society, 77, 196, 338, 487, 578, 731
- Ironmoulders, Associated, 368
- Ironmoulders of Scotland, 458, 578, 763
- Ironworkers in North of England, 430
- Joiners’ Strike in London, 77, 105, 168, 253, 307, 400, 488, 579, 640
- Labour Commission, 24, 78, 137, 197, 477, 640, 670
- Labour Congress at Brussels, 226, 254
- Labour in New South Wales, 342
- Labour Party in America, 338
- Land and Marine Engineers’ Society, 488
- Law of Trade Combinations, 138
- Low7 Moor Colliery Dispute, 536
- Miners’ Dispute at Grimsthorpe, 8, 36
- Miners’ Disputes, 23, 51, 52, 78, 94, 106, 167, 168, 222, 254, 284, 327, 338, 369, 400, 419, 427, 488, 507, 519, 567, 597, 640, 658, 670, 700, 715i 732, 752, 764
- Navy Yards. See Naval
- Newton Steel Works Strike (Glasgow), 368
- Northern Counties Federation of Trade anc
- Trade Unions, 519
- Omnibus Strike, Sequence, 51, 106
- Overtime, 698
- Overtime Question, Leeds Engineers and the 597
- Pittsburg Iron Workers* Wages, 299
- Politics and Labour, 400
- Railway Detectives, 400
- Railway Servants, Amalgamated Society of 458
- Railway Servants’ Hours, Great Eastern, 307
- Railway Workers’ Hours, 518
- Reduction in Workmen’s Wages, Allege< Illegal, 94
- Riverside and Carrying Unions Federation 458
- Rolling Sheet Iron Contract Wages, 167
- Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, 430, 458
- Shipbuilders’ Strike at Southampton, 226 283
- Shipbuilders’ Wages in Tyne District, 537
- Shipbuilding in the Tyne and Tees District 106
- Sliding Scale in North of England, 167, 400
- Sliding Scale in South Wales, 95, 357
- Steelmakers’ Strike at Frodingham, 166
- rades Societies, Strikes, andc, —continued.
- Sweating in Birmingham Small Arms Factory, 369
- Tailors’ Strike, London, 23
- Tin-Plate Workers’ Union, 338
- Trade Congress at Newcastle, 138, 168, 254, 284, 306, 337
- Trade Slackening, 167
- Tyne Shipyard Workers’ Reduction in Wages, 307
- Wages in Wales (Miners’), 629
- Wales, South and Monmouthshire Coal Owners
- Association, 357
- Welsh Iron and Steelworkers’ Wages, 430
- Wolverhampton Iron Strike, 253, 283
- Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 8, 51, 94
- See Railways
- Aqueduct Tunnel under the Mersey, 546
- Blackwall Tunnel, 537
- Great Cascade Tunnel on Canadian Pacific
- Railway, 477. See Erratum, 563
- Heligoland, Tunnel at, 606
- Hudson River Tunnel, 282
- Niagara Falls Power Tunnel, 443
- Prince Edward’s Tunnel, 76
- St. Clair Tunnel Opening, 282
- Simplon Tunnel, 282
- Totley Tunnel on Dore and Chinley Railway ;
- Accident, 658
- Tunnel on the Midland Railway, 419
Water Supply:
- Abyssinian Tube Wells, 185
- Adelaide Supply, 752
- American Supply Statistics, 95
- Artesian Wells in South Dakota, 104
- Audley Parish, Staffordshire, 63. See Letters
- Birmingham Supply, 427, 456
- Cardiff Corporation Works, 563, 715
- Dundee, Duplication of Water Main, 698
- Edinburgh and District Supply, 221
- Glasgow, Supplying Water at High-Pressure, 426
- Glasgow Water Consumption, 221
- Glasshoughton Water Works, 202
- Gothenburg, 653
- Hamilton Supply, 221
- Hemsworth Water Supply, 537
- Leighton Buzzard, 642
- Liverpool Water Supply, 546
- Llanelly Water Supply, 427
- London, Spring Water for, 202
- London Water Supply, Analysis of, 243
- London Water Supply, 336. See 202, 243, and General Index
- Mains, Size of, 9
- Mansfield Supply, 222
- Melbourne Supply, 459
- Meter, Kent’s Uniform Positive Water, 474
- Moortown, Reservoir for, 716
- New South Wales Artesian Wells, 76, 550
- New South Wales Water Supply, 550
- New South Wales Wells, 372
- Paisley Water Supply, 94
- Paris, Water Supply of, 9
- Perth (West Australia), 104
- Pipes for Dundee Water Works Extensions, 596
- Portishead Supply, 273
- Queensland Wells, 342
- Rhymney Valley, 628
- Rugeley Supply, 576
- South Australian Water, 281
- South Australian Works, 243
- Swansea Supply, 629
- Warships. See Naval
- Ynysybwl, 273
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