Engineering 1893 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1893 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

Abatement of Smoke, 616, 643, 701, 805
Abney Inclinometer Level, 627 .
Abstract Science and Engineering, Interdependence, 670, 682, 720
Accident to Paddle Steamer “ Marie Henriette ” (Cockerill Company, Belgium), 737
Accidents among Workmen in Austria, 231
Accidents to Workmen, Liability of Employers, 167, 911
Acrefair Works of Hughes and Lancaster, Ruabon, 378
Adams Prize, Cambridge, 199
Adamson's 1500 Horse-I’ower Triple Expansion Mill Engines, 359
Admiralty Boiler Committee Report, 677, 699. See Letters, Navy Boilers and Forced Draught Admiralty Duplex Pumps, 596
Aerial Flight, Phillips' Machine, 288, 295, 653, 714. See Letters, Flying Machines Africa, Gold in, 813
Agriculture in United States, 431
Air Tramway, Berne Compressed, 212, 245
" Alarm ” Torpedo Gunboat Engines (Penn), 280. See 656
Alaska and the Yellowstone, Yosemite, 3, 38
Allegheny Observatory, Spectroscope, 663
Allen’s Fans and Triple-Expansion Engines on Cunard Steamers, 483
Allen's Steam Striker, 250
Allington Lock Gates, Lower Medwav, 342
Alloys, 290, 322, 352, 388, 608, 629, 059, 686
Alloys, Manganese, 389
Alsacienne, de Constructions Mócaniques, La Sociétó, Compound Express Locomotive, 70, 174, 233. See Lkttkks, Locomotives, d-e., and Erratum, 250
Alternate Current Dynamo (Mather and Platt), 100
Alternate Current Transformer, 303
Alternating Electric Currents, Measurement of, 141, 108, 190, 230
Alternating High Frequency Currents, Experiments, 323
Alternators, Testing, 200
America. See Notes from United States
America Cup Yacht Race, 231
America, First Casting, 113
American Bridges on the Transandine Railway, 173, 202
American and British Boiler Shop Wages, 878
American and English Locomotives, 043
American Fire Extinguishing Apparatus, 192,845

American Industries and British Trade :

Agriculture, 431
British Imports and Exports, United States, 335, 336
British Shipping and Foreign Trade, 273, 287, 907
Britons in United States, 307
Canal Movement, 153
Cereal Production, 431
Chemical Imports, 335
Corn Production, 431
Cost of Living in America, 432
Cost of Producing Coal, Iron, and Steel in
Britain and United States, 92
Cotton Imports, 335
Customs Duties Paid per Head of Population, andc., 304
Emigrants’ Caravans, 153
Emigration to United States, 307
Exports, 304, 335
Farm Animals, 432
Flax, Hemp, andc., Imports, 335
Freights on Railways and Canals, 153
French Imports and Exports, United States, 335, 330
German Import* and Exports, United States, 335, 330
Germans in United States, 307
Grain, Prices of, 432
Hay Production, 432
Immigration into United States, 307
Imports, 304, 335
Indian Settlements, 123
Irish in United States, 307
Iron and Steel Imports, 335
Labour, Cost of Production in United Kingdom and United States, 92
Lake Shipping, 239. See 287
Locomotive Building, 184
Nationality of the People of United States, 307
Oats Production, 431, 432
Population, 123, 153
Potato Production, 432
Produce, Prices of, 432
Railway Development, 184, 211
Revenue and Expenditure of United States 51
Road Traffic, Early, 153
Scandinavians in United States, 367
Shipping, American, 239. See 287
Shipping, British, and Foreign Trade, 27.' 287, 907
Silk Imports, 335
Tariff or Customs Received by United Stat and Britain, 51
Tariffs and their Influence, 304
Transportation, 153, 184, 211
Wheat Production, 431
Wood Imports, 335
Wool Imports, 335
Working of United States Railways, 211
American Inventor, The, 385
American Iron ami Steel Production, 844
American Line of Steamers, 287
American Patent Office Research, 284, 343
American Patents, 805
American Pig Iron Production, 357
American Railroad Economy, 452
American Railroads as Investments, 001
American Road Construction, 001
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. J
Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Mining Engineers (Montreal Meeting), 389, 405
American Tariff and Tinplate Industry, 023
American Trade with Southern Republics, 324
American Tramway Traction, 145
American Warship Building, 564, 909
Anderson, Dr. Wm., on the Interdependence of
Abstract Science and Engineering, 079, 082, 720
April Weather, 651
Arbitration and Conciliation in Labour Disputes, 049
Ardrossan Engine Shed, 859, 802
Argentine Armour-Clad Ram “ Libertad," 52
Argentine Cruiser "Neuvo de Julio” (Armstrong, Elswick), 144, 229. See Letter, “ Blenheim" .
Armatures, Current Direction m, z <8, z82
Armour-Clad Battleships. See Battleships, 52
Armour Construction in America, 199
Armour Plates, British, 255, 288
Armour Plates, Harveyised Steel, 249, 285
Armstrong Gun Trials, Armour-Clad Rain
“ Libertad,” 62
Arnold-Foster, Mr., on Mounting of Naval Guns,
103
Artesian Wells, for Water Supply, <44
Artificial Stone (Mr. Frederick Ransome), 624
Artillery, Krupp, at Chicago Exhibition, 832
Asquith’s Boring Machine, 282
Assioot-Girgeh Railway, Egypt, 703
Astbury, Mr. XV. II., 8-In. Chasing Lathe, 800
Astburv, Turret Lathe, 379
Astronomical, Allegheny, Observatory, 063
Astronomical Survey, Stellar Photographs, 91
Atlantic American Line Steamers, 287
Atlantic Liner Performances. See “ Campania,"
Atlantic Liners •‘Campania" and “Lucania.”
See “ Campania"
Atlantic Liners, Old, 173, 202, 325, 392
Atlantic Passenger and Emigrant Trade, 387
Atlantic Record, 714. See " Campania ”
Atlantic Speeds, Possibilities, 874
Atlantic Steamer " Umbria,” Shaft Fracture, 11, 80, 325. See Letters, 41,104,174, 413
Atlantic Steamers, Two New White Star, 357
Australasian Labour Questions, 777
Australia, Floods in, 001
Austrian Canals and Railways, 420
Austrian Torpedo Cruiser “ Satellit ” (Schichau), 346. See Letter, 409
Austrian Workmen and Accidents, 231
Automata, New and Old, 291
Automatic Gas Retort House (New Conveyor Company), 302
Automatic Railway Signalling, 607, 070
Automatic Signalling, Liverpool Overhead Railway, 103. See Letters, Liverpool, ifcc. Averager, Coffin, 251
Award Scheme at Chicago Exhibition, 280, 592, 713, 701, 793, 814, 875
AxIïs, Crank, 133
Babcock and Wilcox Boilers at Chelsea Electric
Station, Tests, 411. See Letters, Boiler Tests Baker’s Frost Valve for Hydrants. See Letters, Valve, ic.
Balloon Signalling, Electric, 171
Baltic Canal Forward Well Dredger (Smulder’s), 423
Baltic-North Sea Canal, 22
Baltimore and Ohio Railway at Chicago Exhibition, 289, 513
Barclay, Curie, and Co., Limited, Steam Yacht
“Capercailzie,” Engines, 25
Barrow Shipbuilding, 28, 000
Barry Company’s Passenger Locomotive (Vulcan Company, Newton-le-Willows), 902
Basic Bessemer Steel Joists, Strength of, 053
Basic Steel Production of the World, 323. See also 420
Batavian Exhibition, 201, 291, 071
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., Windlasses and Capstans, 703
Battering-Faced Retaining Walls, 914
Battleship, Armour-Clad, “ Libertad,” 52
Battleship Coal Consumption, 843
Battleship “ Hood,” Gunnery Trials, 199
Battleship “ Howe,” Floating, 294
Battleship “ Illinois." 909
Battleship " Ramillies,” H.M.S. (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 710
Battleship “ Repulse,” Trials, 294
Battleship “ Victoria,” The Loss of the, 905
Battleships, American, 504, 909
Battleships (Navy and the Ixirds), 321
Battleships, New British, 255, 288
Beare, Professor T. Hudson, on Laboratories, University College, London, 727
Bedewell, Dr. F., on Mechanical and Electrical Analogies, 304
Belgian Government Paddle Steamer "Leopold 11.” (Denny, Dumbarton), 444. See 737. See Letters, “ Leopold If."
Belgian Paddle Steamer “Marie Henriette” (Cockerill Company, Belgium), 737
Belgian State Railways, 22
Belgium, Labour in, 83
Belgium, Railways in, 358
Beiliss Engine for Dynamos in Cunard Steamers, 485
Belts, Driving, 35
Bergsunda Company’s Ice-Breaking Steamer “Murtaja,’’ 327
Berlin Municipal Government, 277
Berne Compressed Air Tramway, 212, 245
Bessemer Steel Production, Britain, 420
Bethlehem Iron Works Exhibit at Chicago, 858
Bethlehem Iron XVorks, 125-Ton Steam Hammer, 857
Biles, Professor, on Possibilities of Speed on the Atlantic, 874
Birmingham Hydraulic Supply Station, 390
Blackpool Tower, 343. See Letters Blasting, Electric, 358
Blasting Operations on Railways, 31
“ Blenheim,” H.M.S., 284
Board of Trade Labour Department, Reorganisation, 77
Boat Railway at Mcaux, France, 438
Boiler Circulator and Deposit Extractor, XX'att's, 851
Boiler Design and Pressures, 375, 754
Boiler Difficulties, Navy, 255, 288. See Leaky Tubes
Boiler Experiments, Steam (by Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy), 114, 897
Boiler Explosion at Burslem, 332
Boiler Explosion at Coatbridge, 361
Boiler Explosion near Workington, 117
Boiler Explosions at Daillv and Stackstcads, 753
Boiler Explosions at Glasgow and Lynn, 421
Boiler Explosions. W. 11. W., 23
Boiler Firedoors, Geddes’s Protector, 913
Boiler Furnaces, 53, 86,118
Boiler (Navy) Committee’s Report, 677, 699. See Letters, Navy Boilers
Boiler Plate Flanging Machine, Crow's (Messrs. R. Harvey and Co., Glasgow), 132
Boiler Shell Drilling Machine (Scriven, Leeds),
314
Boiler Shop Wages, British and American, 878
Boiler, Trevithick, at Chicago Exhibition, 684
Boiler Tube Fastenings, 1. See Letters
Boiler Tubeplates, Transmission of Heat through,
373, 394. See Erratum, 453
Boiler Tubes. See Leaky Tubes
Boiler Tubes, Fixing (Ernest Petersen), 719
Boilers at Chelsea Electric Station, Tests (Babcock and Wilcox), 411. See Letters Boilers of Cruiser “Gibraltar ’’(Napier,Glasgow), 851,901
Boilers of Cunanlers, 483
Boilers and Engines of United States Cruiser “Olympia” (Union Works, San Francisco), 410, 455, 614
Boilers, Expansion of Water in, 52
Boilers, Marine, 225, 373, 394. See Letters,
Forced Draught and Leaky Tubes Boilers in the Navy, 93
Boilers under Pressure, Alteration, 375, 754
Booth, Halifax, Cylinder Boring Machine, 700
Boring Machine (Asquith’s, Halifax), 282
Boring Machine, Cylinder (Booth, Halifax), 700
Boring Machine for Pulleys, Vertical (Richards Company), 739
Braithwaite and Kirk’s Bridge Flooring, 174
Brassey, Lord, on Merchant Cruisers, 354, 457. See also 450
Brassey, Lord, and the Navy, 321
Brassey’s Naval Annual, 895
Breach in Embankment, Yellow River, 263, 295
Brickmaking Plant, Jefferies’ (Humpidge and Snoxell, Dudbridge), 898
Bridge Destruction by Blasting, 31
Bridge Failure under Test Load in Servia, 134
Bridge Flooring, Braithwaite and Kirk’s, 174
Bridge Flooring, Hobson’s, 771
Bridge Members with Inclined Joints, Strength of, 420
Bridge over Mississippi at Memphis, Tenn., 164, 218
Bridge over Mississippi at New Orleans, 249 Bridge, Tower, River Piers, 428 Bridges, Concrete, in Spain and Scotland, 859
Bridges on the Manchester Ship Canal, 125,181, 280, 309, 340
Bridges, Models at Chicago, 815, 857, 891
Bridges, Railway, in Egypt, 763
Bridges, Swing, Lengthening, 420
Briflges on Transandine Railway, 173, 202
Bridges, Vibration of Metallic, 879
Bristol’s Recording Pressure Gauge, 63
British and American Boiler Shop Wages, 878
British Catalogue for Chicago Exposition, 589, 621, 780
British Corporation for Registry of Ships, 708
British Cruiser “ Blenheim,” 284
British Cruiser “ Fox,” Second Class, 850
British Cruiser “Gibraltar” (Napier, Glasgow), 851, 901
British Cruiser “ Grafton ” (Thames Company), 200, 912
British East Africa Railway, 909
British Engineering, The Future of, 133
British Engineering and Trade, 96. See Letter,
Future of British Engineering British Exhibits at Chicago, 621, 589, 780
British Imports and Exports, United States, 335, 336
British Shipping, 257
British Shipping and Foreign Trade, 273. See 287, 907
British Shipping Trade, 907
British Steel Production, 323, 420
British Torpedo-Catchers “Havoc” and “Hornet” (Yarrow), 848
British Trade and American Industries. See American Industries, ic.
British Trade in India, 253, 401
British Trade and New Railway Rates, 47
Britons in United States, 367
Broadbent, 15-Ton Electric Travelling Crane, 55
Broken Hill Mines, 654
Brotherhood Engine and Westminster Dynamo, 899
Brown's Emergency Gear in Cunard Steamers, 489
Brown’s 1500-Ton Hydraulic Forging and Stamping Press, 913
Bruce, Mr. Eric Stuart, on Electric Balloon Signalling, 171
Bruges Ship Canal, The Proposed, 97
Brunel’s Pocket Line to Rescue the Drowning, 101
Building Stone, The Choice of, 652
Building Stone (Mr. Frederick Ransome), 624
Bulkhead Door, Clark's Ship, 347
Bulkheads, 391
Bulkheads, Strength of, 370, 427. See Letters
Burmah and its Oilfields, 889
Burns’, Sir John, “ Capercailzie’’(Messrs. Barclay, Curie, and Co., Glasgow), 25
Burslem, Boiler Explosion at, 332
Burton’s Self-Sustaining Pulley Block Traveller, 379
Cable and Electric Mountain Railway, Murren, 408, 433, 639
Cadle’s Windmill, 868
Calvert, Mr. George A., on Measurement of Wake Currents, 371, 424
Cambridge University, Engineering at, 818

Campania ” and “ Lucania " Cunard Steamers):

See also Illustrated Index
See Paragraph, 627
Boilers: Feed Arrangements, 183
Building of the Hulls, 472
Cargo and Refrigerating Appliances, 500
Chains and Anchors, 489
Circulating Pumps, 481
Commissariat and Kitchen Arrangements, 497
Construction of the Engines, 480
Design of the New Cunard Vessels, 409
Dimensions, andc., of Notable Atlantic Steamers, 465
Electric Lighting, 485
Engines of the Twin-Screw Steamer “ Pole Star,” 501
Fans for Ventilating Stokehold, 483
Feed-Heaters, Pumps, and Evaporators, 484
Heating, 496
Historical, 463
Iron Lap-Welded Steam Pipes, 485
Kilbourn’s Refrigerator, 500
Launching of the “ Campania’’and “ Lucania,” 477
Lavatory Accommodation, 496
Life-Saving Appliances, 496
Manning of the Vessels, 500
Naming of the Vessels, 477
Navigating Appliances on the Ships, 488
Passages by “Campania,” 660, 714, 771, 838, 912
Passenger Accommodation, 491
Queenstown to New York, 660
Record Voyage, New York to Queenstown, 714
Refrigerating Plant for Provision Rooms, 497
Search Light, 491
Speed Trials, 600
Starting, Reversing, and Emergency Gear, 481
Steam Tiller Steering Gear, 489
Ventilation, 496
Windlass, Capstans, andc., 489
Campbell and Calderwooa, Triple Eflet Evaporator for Sugar Manufacture, 703
Cams, Cutting, 33
Canada and Newfoundland, Labour Questions, 707
Canal Boat Railway at Meaux, France, 438
Canal, Extension of Large Trollhatta, Sweden, 323
Canal, Manchester. Sec Manchester Ship Canal
Canal Movement in United States, 153
Canal, Nicaragua, 209, 243, 276, 436, 605, 830
Canal, North-Sea Baltic, 22
Canal, The Proposed Bruges Ship, 97
Canal, Traffic in Suez, 782
Canals, European, 416
Canals and Railways in Austria, 420
Cantilever Bridge over Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn., 164, 218
“ Capercailzie," Steam Yacht, Engines (Messrs.
Barclay, Curie, and Co., Limited, Glasgow), 25
Capstans and Windlasses (Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me.), 703
Car Lighting, Comparative Merits of Different Systems, 32
Carborundum, Diamond-Cutting Material, 849
Cardiff Market, St. Mary-street, 70, 100, 248
Cargo Steamer “ Turret” (Doxford, Sunderland), 33
Carriage, Murren Mountain Railway, 639
Carriages, Heating Railway (Laycock), 190
Carts, Premiums for Mule, 231
Casting Lead Keel for Yacht, 231
Casting Made in America, The First, 113
Catalogues of Chicago Exhibition, 621, 761
Cell, A New Dry, 782 •
Cement and Iron Pipes, 199
Central Marine Engineering Works, Hartlepool, 278, 314
Central Station, Hornsby Engine for Crystal Palace, 614
Central Station, Westminster Electric, 312
Central Stations, Development and Distribution of Power, 81, 110, 142, 169, 197, 258. See Letters
Centrifugal Pump (Thwaites’), 135. See Letters
Cereal Production m United States, 431
Channel and Angle Iron Shearing Machine, Hydraulic (Messrs. II. Smith and Co., Glasgow), 160
Channel Mail and Passenger Sen ice, 623
Charges for Power at Chicago, 747
Charnock, Mr. G. F., on Thwaites’ Centrifugal Pump, 135. See Letters, Pump Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and the Law, 145
Chasing Lathe, 8-In. (Astbury, Grantham), 806
“ Chelmsford,” Steamer, for New Route to Continent, 779
Chemical Energy, Heat and, 60
Chemical Imports in United States, 335
Chicago City, 516
Chicago Exhibition. See Columbian Exposition
Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 452
Chicago Water Supply, 447
Chlorine Recovery, 340
Chouanard’s Cold Metal Sawing Machine, 807
“ Circe ” Torpedo Gunboat, Engines (Penn), 280,
656. See " Alarm” Trials Circulating Pumps of Cunarders, 481
Circulator, Boiler, and Deposit Extractor, Watt’s, 851
Civil Engineering, The Future of British, 96.
See Letters, British Engineering

Civil Engineers, Institution of:

See Letters
Gas Power for Electric Lighting, by Mr. J. Emerson Dowson, 53, 113, 357
Smelting Processes for the Extraction of Silver and Gold from Ores, by Mr. H. F. Collins, 136
Erection of Silver Lead Smelting Works in Mexico, by Mr. T. W. Malcolmson, 136
Electrical Railways, by Dr. John Hopkinson, 188
Plant for Harbour and Sea Works, by Mr. Walter Pitt, 329
The Fracture of the “ Umbria's” Shaft, by Mr. Thomas Sopwith, 325. See also 11, 41, 80
The Foundations of the Two River Piers of the
Tower Bridge, by Mr. G. E. XV. Cruttwell. 428 ...
Steam Engine Trials, by the late Mr. P. XX, XVillans, 441
Mining and Ore Treatment at Broken Hill, New South XVales, by Mr. M. B. Jamieson and Mr. J. Howell, 054
Interdependence of Abstract Science and Engineering (Janies Forrest Lecture), by Dr. Anderson, 079, 682, 720
Wreck Raising in the River Thames, by Sir. C. J. More, 756
Manufacture of Small Arms, by Mr. John Rigby, 757, 788, 822. See Letter, 899
Annual Meeting, 784
Awards of Medals, Prizes, and Premiums, 850
Appointments and Council, 912
Clapham Junction and Paddington Electric Railway, 52, 100, 139, 349
Clark's Ship Bulkhead Door, 347
Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Portable Engine to Burn Oil Fuel, 836 . .
Cleaning Tramway, andc., Rails (Society of Engineers), 456
Cleveland. See Notes from Cleveland
Cleveland Ironstone Mining, 241
Clock-Faced Diagram, 405, 719
Cloth-Measuring Machine, 280
Cloud Forms, Re-Classification, 757
Clyde Passenger Steamer “ Isle of Arran,” 442
Coal Consumption Diagrams, Russian Toqiedo
Cruisers (Scnichau), 785 Coal Consumption of Warships, 843
Coal Production in the United Kingdom, 450
Coal Production of the United States, 894
Coal in South Africa, 109
Coal Syndicate, Rhenish XVestphalian, 749
Coatbridge Boiler Explosion, 361
Cockerill Company, Paddle Steamer “ Mario Henriette," 737
Cotie, Mining and General Telegraphic, 638
Coffin Averager, 251
Cold Metal Sawing Machine (Chouanard, Paris), 807
Cole, Mr. II. A. B., on Engines XX'orking Triple and Compound, 404. See 718
Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Compound Engine with Morley’s Positive Valve Gear, 738
Coligny Roof Lamp, 282
Colliery, Hill’s Plymouth Company, Limited, Merthyr Tydfil, South XX'ales, 633
Colliery Manager’s Pocket-Book, 33
Colliery Pumping Plant, Electric (Ernest Scott and Mountain, Limited), 347
Colorado, Altitudes and Climate, 120
Colour Sensitiveness of the Retina, 132
Colours of Nature Reproduced in Photographs, 748

Columbian Exposition :

503, 519, 691
Administration Buildings, 521, 898
Agricultural Building, 546
Awards and Jury Regulations, 280, 592, 713, 761, 793, 814, 875
Baltimore and Ohio Historical Exhibit, 289
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 513
Battleship Illinois, Model, 909
Bethlehem Iron XVorks Exhibit, 858
British Catalogue, 621
British Section, 589, 780
Catalogue, 761
Charges for Power at Chicago, 747
Chicago City, 516
Chicago XVater Supply, 447
Classification Of Exhibits, 592
Coal Production of United States, 894
Columbus Relics, 584, 846
Communication for Exhibition, 586
Competition at Chicago, 781
Congresses, 593
Creators of the Exhibition, 591
Educational and Liberal Arts Exhibits, 57
Electrical Intramural Railway, 828
Electrical Problems, Practical, 652
Electricity Building, 540
Engineering Congress, 140, 155, 324, 651, 657 762
Entrants, Number of, 877
Erie Railroad, 509
Exhibitions of Previous Years, 58
Fine Arts Building, 557
Fisheries Building, 573
Foreign Co-operation, 589, 761
Foreign Sections, 589, 761
French Railway Preparations, 105
German Section and Catalogue, 796
German Steamship Lines, 858, 910
Government Building, 560
Grounds, 581
Guns, Krupp, 882
Harbour, 581
Horticultural Building, 568
Hyde Capstans and XVindlasses (Bath XVorks, Maine, U.S.A.), 703
Intramural Railway, Chicago Exhibition, 828
Jury Awards and Judging, 280, 592, 713, 761, 793, 814, 875
Krupp Pavilion, 832
Lighting Stalls, 165
Locomotive, Winby’s Express (R. and XV. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Newcastle), 615. See Letters
Machinery Hall, 635, 782, 797
Machinery Hall Exhibits, 781, 797
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, 527
Midway Plaisance, 583
Mines and Mining Building, 541, 893
Mining Exhibits, 893
Navy Exhibit, 561, 909
New York Central Railroad, 505, 691
Opening of the Exhibition, 725
Pennsylvania Railroad, 504, 691 Pier, 581
Progress, 761, 793, 817, 877
Prospects of American Exhibition and Trade, 58
Prospects, Financial, of Exhibition, 726, 877
Pullman Exhibit at Chicago Exhibition, 736, 891
Railway Exhibits, 815, 857, 891
Railway, Intramural, 828
Railway Signalling (Union Company, Pittsburg), 670
Ship Models, 815, 857
Site of Exhibition, 520
State Buildings, 57, 579
Steam Hummer, 125-Ton (Bethlehem Iron Company), 857
Sunday Opening Question, 761, 794, 871
Tour to Chicago and Exhibition, 691, 761, 782, 793
Transportation Exhibits, 815, 857, 891
Transportation Exhibits Building, 549
Trevithick’s Boiler, 684
Viking Ship, 349
Water Supply of Exhibition, 585
Water XVorks at Davenport, Iowa, U.S.A., 715
Welsh Colliery Exhibit, 633
Whaleback Steamers, 586, 795
Women’s Building, 570 Columbus Relics at Chicago, 584, 846, 847
Commercial Aspect of Engineer’s Training, 195. See Letters
Communication at Sea by Induction, 173 Compound Engines. See Engines Compound Express Locomotive for North of
France Railway, 70, 174, 233. See Letters.
See Erratum, 250
Compound and Triple Working of Marine Engines, 404, 718
Compressed Air Tramway, Berne, 212, 245
Compressed Gas Lighting of Cars, 32
Conciliation and Arbitration in Labour Disputes, 649
Concrete Bridges, 859 Concrete in Railway Structures, 859
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 915
Condensers of the United States Cruiser
“ Olympia,” 614 Congresses at Chicago, 593
Consumption of Smoke, 616, 643, 701, 805
Continuous Current Dynamo, Desroziers, 282
Conveyor Company’s' Automatic Gas Retort House, 362
Cooke, Mr. Conrad, on Automata New and Old, 291
Cooking and Heating, Electric, 749
Copper Fireboxes for Locomotives, 611, 629
Copper e. Steel Fireboxes for Locomotives, 652
Corcoran, Mr. Bryan, on XVoven XVire and Segregation, 853
Cork, Bridge at, Hobson’s Bridge Flooring, 771
Corliss Mocufled X’alve Gear, Morley’s, Compound Engine (Cole, Marchent, and Morley), 738
Corn Production in Uniter! States, 431
Cornish Boiler Experiments, 897
Cost of Living in America, 432
Cost of Producing Coal, Iron, and Steel in Britain and United States, 92
Cotton Consumption and Production, The World’s, 22
Cotton Factories in India, 650
Cotton Imports, United States, 335
Cotton XVorks in Russia, 652
Cottrell, Mr. II. E. P., on Earth Slips and Subsidences, 369, 403
County Councils and Technical Education, 619
County Surveyors, Ireland, 899
Coupling, Snyer’s Elastic (Cowlishaw, Walker, and Co., Etruria), 220
Cowans, Sheldon, and Co., 150-Ton Steam Jib Crane at Glasgow, 819
Cowlishaw, XX'alker, and Co., Snyer’s Elastic Coupling, 220
Cowper, The Late Mr. E. A., 712
Crane, Burton’s Self-Sustaining Pulley Block Traveller, 379
Crane, Electric Overhead Travelling (Watervliet Arsenal), 63, 66
Crane, 15-Ton Electric Travelling (Messrs. Broadbent, Huddersfield), 55
Crane, Railway, 10-Ton (Messrs. Gibbons, Birmingham), 11
Crane, Steam Jib, 150-Ton, at Glasgow Harbour (Cowans, Sheldon, and Co., Limited), 819
Crane, 20-Ton Portable, at Stockton (Messrs. R. Rodger and Co.), 410
Cranes for Harbour XVorks, 329
Crank Axles, 133
Crehore, Dr., on Mechanical and Electrical Analogies, 364
“ Crescent,” Engines of Cruiser (Penn), 785
Crow's Boiler-Plate Flanging Machine (Messrs. R. Harvey and Co., Glasgow) 132
Cruiser “ Blenheim," 284
Cruiser Coal Consumption, 843
Cruiser “Crescent,” Engines (Penn), 785
Cruiser, Danish, “Gaiser,” 22, 40
Cruiser “ Fox,” British Second-Class, 850
Cruiser “Gibraltar,” British (Napier, Glasgow), 851, 901
Cruiser “ Grafton,” British (Thames Company), 200, 912
Cruiser “Milan,” French Unarmoured, 100
Cruiser “Neuvo de Julio "(Armstrong, Elswick), 144, 229. See Letter. “ B’enheim"
Cruiser “ Olympia,” United States (Union Works, San Francisco), 410, 455, 614
Cruiser, Torpedo, “Satellit,” Austrian (Schichau), 346. See Letter, 409
Cruiser “ Unebi,” Compound Engines, Japanese (Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 645
Cruisers (Navy and the Ixirds), 321
Cruisers, New British, 255, 288
Cruisers, Russian Torpedo, “XVoewoda" and “ Possadnik ” (Schichau), 785
Cruisers, Speed and Coal Endurance, 353. See Letter, 392
Cruisers in XVarfare, Position, 353. See Letter, 392
Crystal Palace Electric Station, Hornsby Engine, 614
Cunard Liners “Campania" and “Lucania.” See “ Campania ”
Cunard Steamer “ Umbria,” Shaft Fracture, 11, 80, 325. See Letters, 41, 104, 174, 413
Cunanl Steamers, 172 Cunarders; Old, 173, 202, 325, 392
Current Direction in Armatures, 778, 782
Currents, Measurement of XX'ake, 371, 424
Curves, Drawing, by their Curvature, 756
Curves, Railway Transition’’ IS, 71, 409
Curves of Stability, 378
Customs Duties Paid per Head of Population, andC., in United States, 304
Cutting Cams, 33
Cyclogram Diagram, 405, 719
Cylinder Boring Machine (Booth, Halifax), 700
Cylinder, Condensation in Steam, 915
Daelen, Mr. R. XL, on High-Pressure Hydraulic Presses in Iron Works, 205, 298
Dailly Boiler Explosion, 753
Dairy at Royal Agricultural Show, 807
Dalby, Mr. XV. E., on Harmonic Valve Diagram, 418. See Letters, Harmonic, ic.
Damaged Torpedo Boat (Yarrow, Victorian Government), 69
Damascus, Railways, andc., in, 66. See Letters, Syrian Railways
Danish Cruiser “ Gaiser,’’ 22, 40
Danube Improvements, Rock-Cutting Plant, 42
Danube, Regularisation of the, 800
Davenport Water Works, Iowa, 715
Dean, Mr. XV., on Locomotive Copper Fireboxes, 611, 629
Debating Technical Subjects, 744
December Weather, 20
Decimal System, 326, 343, 391, 409, 441, 804, 838, 869, 899
Deep Tunnel Railways in London, 52, 100, 139, 349
Denmark and Sweden Telephone, 172
Denny, Dumbarton, Belgian Government Steamer “LeopoldII.,” 444. See Letters, “ Leopold 11.” See 737
Desroziers Continuous Current Dynamo, 282
Desulphurising Iron, 764
Diagram, Cyclogram or Clockface, 405, 719
Diagram, Harmonic X'alve, 418. See Letters, Harmonic, ic.
Diagram of XIetal Prices, 24, 146,262,422, 656, 784
Diamond-Cutting Material, Carborundum, 849
Diamond Manufacture (Recent Science), 643
Diamond Shoals, Lighthouse on the, 323
Diamonds in South Africa, 109
Dimensions, andc., of Notable Atlantic Steamers, 465
Directory, London, 33
Disintegrator (Hardy Patent Pick Company), 869
Distances between Britain and the East by Various Routes, 436, 437
Distribution, Electric, Three-W'ire System, 78
Distribution of Steam in Single-Acting Compound Engine, 205
Dochart Concrete Bridge, Killin Railway, 859
Dock Charges and British Industries, 415. See Lettbrs, Shipping Charges
Docks, Graving, 391, 440, 602, 616, 642, 671
Docks at Portsmouth, New, 291
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., on Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 915
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., and Professor Kennedy on Boiler Experiments, 114, 897
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., on the Use of Superheated Steam in Steam Engines, 417. See Letters, Superheated Steam
Doulton’s Dram Pipe Joints, 135
Dover and Continental Passengers, 623
Dover and Ostend Paddle Steamer “ Leopold II.”
(Denny, Dumbarton). See 444, 737. See Letters, "Leopold II."
Dowson on Gas Power for Electric Lighting, 53, 113, 357
Doxford, Sunderland, Turret Steamer, 733
Drain Pipe Joints, Doulton’s, 135
Dredge-Steward Omni-Telemeter, 188
Dredger, Forward XX'ell, for Baltic Canal (Smulder’s), 423
Dredger and Rock Cutting (Messrs. Lobnitz, Renfrew), 42
Dredger, Stern Delivery, on Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Hunter and English, London), 836, 871
Drill, McCulloch’s Rio Tinto Rock, 11
Drills, Rock, with Priestman’s Oil Engine, 242
Drilling Machine, Boiler Shell (Scriven, Leeds), 314
Drilling Machine, Multiple (Habersang and Zinzen), Düsseldorf), 627
Driving Belts, 35
Drowning, Brunel’s Pocket Line to Rescue the, 101
Drum, XX’inding, for the Pachocha Railway, Spain (Messrs. Harvey, Hayle), 12
Dry Cell, A New, 792
Duplex XVheel and Tyre Boring Lathe (Messrs. G. and A. Harvey, Govan), 100
Durston, Mr. A. J., on Transmission of Heat through Tubeplates, 373, 394. See Erratum, 453
Dynamics, Foundations of, 756, 822
Dynamite, Ice-Breaking with, 849
Dvnamo, Alternate Current (Mather and Platt), 160
Dynamo, Desroziers Continuous Current, 282
Dynamo, Efficiency of, 356
Dvnamo, Engine and (Richardson, Patricroft), 785
Dynamo Field Magnets, Steel for, 440, 602
Dynamo, Xleasuring Power for Driving, 326
Dynamo, .Xlultipolar and Triple-Expansion Engines (Edison’s), 131
Dynamo Tests, Holmes’ Steam, 783
Dynamo, XX'estminster, and Brotherhood Engine, 899
Dynamos and Parsons’ Turbo-XIotor at Cambridge Laboratory, 408
Dynamos, Sparking in, 778
Earle Company’s Steamer “ Chelmsford ” for Great Eastern Company, 779
Earth Currents and Telephone Communication, 173
Earth Slips and Subsidences, 309, 403
Earthquake Effects on North-Western Railway, India, 698
Eddy, Commissioner, and New South Wales Railways, 17. See Letter, 409
Edison Triple-Expansion Engine and Multipolar Dynamo, 131
Education. See Tcchnicil Education Education in Laboratories, 732
Education, Science, 116
Educational and I lbcral Arts Exhibits, 57
Edwards, XIr. F., on the Cyclograin or Clock-face Diagram, 405, 719 Egypt, Irrigation, 18, 133. See Lkttkks
Egypt, Storage Reservoirs, 850
Egyptian Railway Extension, 703
Eight Hours Bill, XIather's, 107
Eight Hours Day, 090
Electric Balloon Signalling, 171
Electric Blasting, 358
Electric and Cable Xlountain Railway, Xlurren, 408, 433, 039
Electric Colliery Pumping Plant (Ernest Scott and Xlountain, Limited), 347
Electric Communication by Induction, 173
Electric Conductors, Press for Lead Coating (Weems), 085
Electric Cooking and Heating, 749, 911
Electric Current Direct in Armatures, 782
Electric Currents, Alternating, Measurement of, 141, 108, 190, 230
Electric Currents and their Interference with Telephones, 173
Electric Discharge, Separation and Striation of Rarefied Gases under Influence of, 230
Electric Distribution, Three-Wire System, 78
Electric Dynamo Efficiency, 350
Electric Flow, Differential Equation of, 379
Electric Glow Lamp Filaments, New Method of Preparing, 144
Electric Heating, Novel XIethod, 911. See 749
Electric Lighting of Cars, 32
Electric Lighting of Cunanlers, 485
Electric Light ing, Gas Power for, 53, 113, 357
Electric Lighting of Glasgow, 219
Electric Lighting XIains in New York, 748
Electric Lighting Plant for Collieries, 033
ElectricOverhead Travelling Crane, Performances
(Watervliet Arsenal), 63, 66
Electric Power in Sweden, 51
Electric Railway in Chicago Exhibition, 829
Electric Railway, Clapham Junction ami Paddington, 52, 100, 139, 349
Electric Sparks in Dynamos, 778
Electric Supply Station, Westminster, 312
Elect ric Travelling Crane, 15-Ton (Messrs. Broadbent, Huddersfield), 55
Electric, U.S.A., General Company, 681
Electric, Wimshurst’s XIachine, 657, 902

Electrical Engineers, Institution of:

141
Presidential Address, by XIr. I’reece, 141
Control of Sparking in Short Air-Space Dynamos, by XIr. XV. B. Sayers, 778
Electrical and Engineering Laboratories at University College, London, 727
Electrical Intramural Railway, 828
Electrical Locomotive, 100-Ton, 772, 806, S36
Electrical and XIechanical Analogies, 364
Electrical Problems nt Chicago, Practical, 652
Electrical Railways, 188, 828
Electricity, Development and Distribution from
Central Stations, 81, 110, 142, 169, 197, 258.
See Lkttkrs, Central Stations Elevators at Chicago Exhibition, 588
Elgar, Dr., on Strength of Bulkheads, 370, 427.
See Lkttkrs, Bulkheads
Embankment of Yellow River, Breach of, 263, 295
Emigrant Trade, Atlantic, 387
Emigrants’ Caravans in the United States, 153
Emigration to the United States, 367
Employers' Liability for Accidents to Workmen, 167
Employers' Liability Bill and Seamen, 911
Energy of Vibrating .Matter, 101
Enfield Gun Factory, 757, 789, 822, S83, 899
Engine, Brotherhood, and Westminster Dynamo, 899
Engine, Compound, with Morley’s Positive Valve
Gear (Cole, Xlarchent, and XIorley), 738
Engine, Compound, for Rolling Mill (Lilleshall Company, Salop), 838
Engine, Compound Tandem, for Double Stern-
Wheel Steamer, 247
Engine and Dynamo (Richardson, Patricroft), 785
Engine Exhibits at Chicago, 781, 797
Engine, Fire, High-Pressure “Greenwich” (Merryweather), 42
Engine, Fire, for Imperial Institute (Shand, Mason, and Co.), 772
Engine, Gas, Fielding, 30 Horse-Power (Fielding and Platt), 100
Engine, Hornsby, for Crystal Palace Electric Station, 614
Engine, XIarine, as an Agent in XIodern Civilisation, 7
Engine, Oil, Hornsby-Akroyd Safety, 838 Engine, Oil, Priestman’s, Driving Rock Drill, 242 Engine, Oil, Twin-Cylinder, with Self-Starting Gear (Priestman), 868
Engine, Oil, Twin-Cylinder Vertical (Weyman and Hitchcock, Guildford), 865
Engine, Portable, to Burn Liquid Fuel (Clayton and Shuttleworth), 836
Engine-Room Complements, 908
Engine Shed with Concrete Walls, 859, 862
Engine, Single-Acting Compound, Steam Distribution in, 205
Engine, Test of Triple-Expansion, 66
Engine Trials. Steam, 441
Engine, Triple-Expansion, and XIulti|>olar Dynamo (Edison’s), 131
Engine, X'ertical, Valve (Lanceley, Chester), 866
Engines and Boilers of the United States Cruiser
“Olympia” (Union XVorks, San Francisco), 455, 614
Engines, Compound, of Japanese Cruiser “Unebi”
(Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 645
Engines, Compound Oscillating Single-Crank, of the Paddle Steamer “Albert” (Messrs. Paul, Dumbarton), 102
Engines of the First-Class Cruiser “Crescent" (Penn), 785
Engines, Friedeborn’s Twin-Screw, 408
Engines, Gas r. Steam, for Electric Lighting, 53, 113, 357
Engines in the Navy, 93
Engines, Pumping, at Stroud Water Works (Holborow), 670
Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 862
Engines of S.S. “Iveagh” (A. and J. Inglis), Working Triple and Compound, 401, 718
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of British Cruiser “Gibraltar” (Napier, Glasgow), 851, 901
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of H.M.S. “Jason" (Naval Construction Company, Barrow), 132
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of H.M.SS. “Circe," “Alarm,” and “Leda” (Penn, Greenwich), 280, 050
Engines, Triple Expansion 1500 Horse-Power Xlill (Adamson), 359
Engines, Triple-Expansion Xlill (XIessrs. Shanks, Arbroath), 115
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of S.Y. “Capercailzie” (XIessrs. Barclay, Curie, and Co., Glasgow), 25
Engines of the Twin-Screw Steamer “ Pole Star,” (Fairfield Company), 501
Engines Working Triple and Compound, 401, 718
Engineering and Abstract Science, Interdependence of, 079, 082, 720
Engineering at Cambridge University, 818
Engineering Congress at Chicago, 140, 155, 324, 051, 057, 702
Engineering and Electrical Laboratories at University College, London, 727
Engineering, The Future of British, 90. See Lkttkrs
Engineering in the Navy, 844
Engineering and Shipbuilding, XIarine, 27, 79, 100, WH1
Engineering Theory and Practice, 351
Engineering Works, Central XIarine, Hartlepool, 278, 314
Engineers, Naval, 291, 743
Engineers in the Navy, 908
Engineers’ Training, Commercial Aspect, 195. See Lkttkrs
English and American Locomotives, 043
English Iron Works, Early, 805
English Shipbuilding and .Marine Engineering, 27, 000
Enterprise Abroad, English, 408
Equation of .Motion, Lagrange’s, 328
Erie Railroad, 509
European Canals. 410
Evaporator (Triple Effet) for Sugar .Manufacture (Campbell and Calderwood, Paisley), 703
Exhibition, Batavian, 201, 291, 071
Exhibition, Chicago. Sec Columbian
Exposition Exhibition of Fire Extinguishing Appliances, 845
Expansion of XVater in Boilers, 52
Experimental XX'orks at Haslar, 150, 329
Experiments with High-Frequency Currents, 323
Experiments on Steel (Boiler Furnaces), 53, 80, 118
Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions Explosions, Boiler, 10. Sec Letters Explosives, 745
Exports, United States, 304, 335
Extraction of Gold and Silver from Ores, Smelt ing, 135
Factors of Safety (Boiler Furnaces), 53, 86, 118
Fairfield Company. See “ Campania ”
Fans for X’entilating Stokehold of “Campania,’ 483
Farm Animals in United States, 432
February XVeather, 257
Feed Heaters, Pumps, and Evaporators (XVeir's) for “Campania,” 484
Fencing, “ Visible” Wire, 200
Ferrules (Transmission of Heat through Tube- plates), 373, 394. See Erratum, 453
Fielding Gas Engine, 30 Horse-Power (Messrs. Fielding and Platt), 100
Filaments, XIethod of Preparing Glow Lamp, 141
Filters for Davenport Water Works, 715
Filtration of Sewage, Lawrence Experiments, 113
Findlay, The Late Sir George, 390
Fire Engine, Boiler Experiments (Merryweather), 114
Fire Engine, High-Pressure (Merryweather), 42
Fire Extinction, Hale Water Tower (Kansas), 192, 880
Fire Extinguishing Appliances Exhibition, 845
Fire Jets, 357
Fire Protection of the Imperial Institute, 772
Fire Raising by Locomotive Sparks, Law, 231
Fires in London, 113
Fireboxes, Copper, for Locomotives, 611, 629
Fireboxes for Locomotives, Steel v. Copper, 652
Firebricks, Magnesia, 452
Fixing Boiler Tubes (Ernest Peterson), 719
Flanger, Tweddell’s Hydraulic (Messrs. Fielding and Platt, Gloucester), 314
Flanges, Standard Pipe, 10
Flanging XIachine, Crow's Boiler Plate (Messrs. R. Harvey and Co., Glasgow), 132
Flax, Hemp, andc., Imports in United States, 335
Fleming, Dr. J. A., on Alternate Current Transformer, 303
Fleming, Professor J. A., on I/iboratories, University College, Ixmdon, 727
Fleming, Dr.’J. A., on Measurement of Alternating Currents, 141, 168, 196, 230
Floating Deck, Reid’s, on Clyde Steamer “ Isle o Arran,” 442
Floating H.M.S. “ Howe,” 294
Floods in Australia, 601
Flooring, Hobson’s Bridge, 771
Flues, Boiler, 53, 80, 118
Flushing of Sewers, 644
Flying XIachincs, 288, 295, 653, 714. See Lkttf Flywheels, The Strength of, 58 Focometer, 298
Fogs, British, in 1876-1890, 879
Forced Draught, 93, 225, 373, 394, 453, 677, 6 See Letters
Forced Draught and Admiralty Boilers, 373, f See Erratum, 453
Forced Draught, Boiler Tube Fastenings, 1. Letters
Foreign Navies, 895
Foreign Sections at Chicago Exhibition, 701
Foreign Ships in British Ports, 907
Forges et Chantiers, Compound Eng Japanese Cruiser “ Unebi,” 045
Forging and Stamping Press, 1500-Ton (BiJ Brothers and Co., Edinburgh), 913
Formula for Ship Propulsion, 373
Forrest, XIr. James, Secretary Inst. C.E.,» 682, 720
Forth Bridge Engineers and Poncellet Prize of the Académie des Sciences, 83
Foundation for 150-Ton Steam Crane, 819
Foundations of Dynamics, 750, 822
“ Fox,” British Second-Class Cruiser, 850
Freights on United States Railways and Canals, 153
French Engineering Works in Northern Syria, 00. See Letters, Syrian Railway
French Imports and Exports to United States, 335, 330
French Navy Programme, 87
French Unarmoured Cruiser “ Milan,” 100
Friction, Ships’ (Measurement of Wake Currents), 371, 424
Friedeborn’s Twin-Screw Engines, 408
Frost Valves for Hydrants, 251. See Letters
Fronde, Mr. R. E., on Experimental Works at Haslar, 150, 329
Fuel Supplv of Warships, 843
Furnace Doors, Geddes s Protector for Boiler, 913
Furnaces, Boiler, 53, 80, 118
Furnaces for Rille Manufacture, 759, 789, 822, 883, 899
Future of British Engineering, 133. See Letters
“ Gaiser,” Danish Cruiser, 22, 40
Gas Engine, Fielding 30
Horse-Power (Fielding and Platt), 100
Gas Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 802
Gas, Heat Generated by, 03
Gas, Increasing Illuminating Power, 023
Gas Institute, The Incorporated, 038
Gas-Making Plant, 117
Gas at Pans, 081
Gas Power, Development and Distribution from Central Stations, 81, 110, 142, 109, 197, 258.
See Letters, Central stations Gas Power for Electric Lighting, 53,113, 357
Gas Retort House, Automatic (New Conveyor Company), 362
Gas ». Steam Engines, 53, 113, 357
Gasoline Carbureters for Car Lighting, 32
Gauge, Bristol's Recording Pressure, 63
Gauges, Standard, for Metal Sheets, 8
Geddes’s Protector Fire Doors, 913
General Electric Company, U.S.A., 681
Geological Survey of United States, 389
Geology (Royal Institution), 36, 128, 215, 271, 336
Geometrical Approximation, 344 German Coal Corner, 749
German Imports and Exports to United States, 335, 336
German Railway, Oldest, 452
German Rolling Mills, Union of, 878
German Section at Chicago, 796
German Steamship Lines, 858, 910
Germans in United States, 367
Germany, I/ibour in, 451, 622
Geysers in Yellowstone, 4, 5, 6
Gibbon’s 10-Ton Railway Crane, 11
“Gibraltar," British Cruiser (Napier, Glasgow), 851, 901
Gilbert’s “ De Magnete,” 40, 71, 144, 202, 227
Girders, Bridge, Strength of, 134, 420
Glaciers, 36, 128, 215, 271, 336
Glasgow. See A otes from the North Glasgow, Boiler Explosion at, 421
Glasgow Electric Lighting Station, 219
Glasgow Harbour 150-Ton Steam Jib Crane (Cowans, Sheldon, and Co., Limited), 819
Glow Lamp Filaments, Method of Preparing, 144
Gold in Africa, 813
Gold and Silver Extraction, Smelting, 135
Gold and Silver, The World’s, 260
Gold in South Africa, 109
Gordon, The I/ite J. IL, 199
“Grafton,” British Cruiser (Thames Company), 912
Grain Prices in United States, 432
Graving Docks, 391, 440, 602, 616, 642, 671
Gray’s Central Marine Engineering Works, Hartlepool, 278, 314
“Great Britain.” See Atlantic Liners Great Eastern Service to Hook of Holland, 779 Great Northern Telegraph Company, 879
Great Western Railway Widening, blasting, 31
Gun Construction in America, 199
Gun, A Multiple Projectile or Compound, 40
Gun, Pneumatic (United States Cruiser “ Vesuvius ") 260
Gun Trials of Armour-Clad Ram “ Libertad ” 52
Gun Trials of H.M.S. “ Hood,” 199
Guns, Krupp, at Chicago Exhibition, 832
Guns, Manufacture of Rifles, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Guns, Mounting of Navy, 108
Guns, Quick-Firing, in the Field, 386
Gunboat Engines, H.M.SS. “Circe,” “Alarm,” “ Leda’’ (Penn, Greenwich), 280, 656
Gunboat, H.M.S. “Jason,” Engines (Naval Construction Company, Barrow), 132
Gunboat “Speedy ” (Thornycroft), 709, 881
Gutta-Percha Covered Wire", Inventor, 23, 41, 70, 232, 899
Habersang and Zinzen, Düsseldorf, Multiple Drilling Machine, 627
Hale Water Tower (Kansas), 192, 880
Halliday’s Windmill and Sky Signs, 883
Hamburg Water Supply, 818
Hammer, Allen’s Steam Striker, 250
Hammer, 125-Ton Steam(Bethlehem Iron Works) 857
Harbour Charges and British Industries, 415.
See Letters, Shipping Charges Harbour Works, Plant for, 329
Harbury Slip, 369, 403 Hardening of Structural Steel, 875
Hardy Patent Pick Company, Disintegrator, 869
Hargrave’s Flying Machine, 295. See also 288.
See Letters, h lying Machines Harmonic Valve Diagram, 418. See Letters Hartlepool, Central Marine Engineering Works, 278, 314
Hartlepool Shipbuilding, 27, 600
Harvey, R., and Co., Glasgow; Crow’s Boiler-Plate Flanging Machine, 132
Harvey Winding Drum for Pachocha Railway, Spain, 12. See Letters, {finding Drum Harveyised Armour Plates, 249, 285
Harvey's Wheel and Tyre Boring Lathe, 100
Haslar Experimental Works, 156, 32ft
“ Havoc," H.M. Torpedo-Boat (Yarrow), 848
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.’s Xvinby Locomotive, 615. See Letters, Locomotives
Hay Production in United States, 432
Head, Mr. John, on Puddling Iron, 770, 787
Headiam, Captain, on Quick-Firing Guns in the Field, 386
Heat and Chemical Energy, 60
Heat Generated by Oil and Gas Lamps, 63
Heat Radiation by Gases, 827
Heat Transmission through Tubeplates, 373, 304. See Erratum, 453
Heating by Electricity, Novel Method, 911
Heating Railway Carriages (Laycock), 190
Heilmann’s Electrical Locomotive, 100-Ton, 772, 806, 830
Heliochromy, Composite, 748
H.M. Battleship “ Ramillies ” (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 716
H.M. Cruiser “Gibraltar" (Messrs. Napier, Glasgow), 851, 901
H.M.S. “ Grafton ” (Thames Company), 200, 912
H.M.S. “ Howe,” Floating, 294
H.M.S. “ Jason ” (Naval Construction and Arma
ments Company, Barrow), 132
H.M.S. “ Repulse,” Trials, 294
H.M.S. “Speedy" (Thornycroft), 709, 881
H.M.S. “ Victoria,” The Loss of, 905
H.M.S. “Vulcan," Trials, 324
High-Frequency Currents, Experiments with, 323
High-Pressure Hydraulic Presses in Iron Works, 265, 298
Hill’s Plymouth Company Mines, 633
Historical Narrative, Atlantic Record, 463
History of the Railway, 289
Hobson's Bridge Flooring, Cork Road Bridge, 771
Hoist, Hydraulic, and Pumps at Imperial Institute (A. Smith and Stevens), 672 Hoists, Hydraulic, 824 Hök, Mr. XV., on Curves of Stability, 378
Holborow Pumping Engines, 670
Holmes’s Steam Dvnamo Tests, 783
“ Hood,” Battleship, Gunnery Trials, 199
Hopkinson, Dr., on Electrical Railways, 188
Hopkinson v. St. James and Pall Mall Electric Company, re. Three-Wire System, 78
“ Hornet,” H.M. Torpedo-Boat (Yarrow), 848
Hornsby-Akroyd Safety Oil Engine, 838
Hornsby Engines for Crystal Palace Electric Station, 614
Hot-Air Jackets for Steam Cylinders and Gas-Fired Boilers, 23, 41
“ Howe,” Floating H.M.S., 294
Hughes and Lancaster’s Works, Ruabon, 378
Hull Shipbuilding, 28, 600
Hulse and Co., X’ertical Milling Machine, 771
Humpidge and Snoxell, Dudbridge, Brickmaking Plant, 898
Hungary, Zone Tariff, 390
Hunter and English's Stern Delivery Dredger for Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 836, 871
Hyde Capstan and XVindlass (Bath XVorks, Maine, U.S.A.), 703
Hydrants, Frost Valves for, 251. See Letters
Hydraulic Channel ami Angle Iron Shearing
Machine (Messrs. Smith, Glasgow), 160
Hydraulic Flanger, Tweddell’s (Messrs. Fielding
and Platt, Gloucester), 314 Hydraulic Forging and Stamping Press, 1500-
Ton (Brown Brothers and Co., Edinburgh), 913
Hydraulic Lifts, 824
Hydraulic Oval Hole Punching Machine (Leeds
Engineering Company), 379
Hydraulic Power Development and Distribution
from Central Stations, 81, 110, 142, 169, 197, 258. See Letters, Central Stations
Hydraulic Presses in Iron works, High Pressure, 265, 298, 913
Hydraulic Pumps and Lift at Imperial Institute, (Smith and Stevens), 672
Hydraulic Riveter (Messrs. H. Smith and Co., Glasgow), 314
Hydraulic Squeezer, 278
Hydraulic Supplies, Power, of Periyar River, 196
Hydraulic Supply Station, Birmingham, 390
Hydrodynamics, 298
I’Anson, XIr. J. C.,on Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 241
Ibea Railway, Projected, 909
Ice-Breaking with Dynamite, 849
Ice-Breaking Steamer “ Xlurtaja ” (Bergsunds Co., Stockholm), 327
“ Illinois," Battleship, 564, 909
Immigration into United States, 367
Imperial Institute Fire Appliances (Shand, mason, and Co.), 772
Imperial Institute, Hydraulic Pumps and Hoist Smith and Stevens), 672
Implements at Royal Agricultural Show, 866
Imports, United States, 304, 335
Inclinometer Level, Abney, 627
India and British Trade, 253, 401
India, Industrial Development in, 650
India, Labour Question in, 873
India, Railways in, 911
Indian Railways, Effect of Earthquakes on, 698
Indian Settlements in United States, 123
Indicator Diagrams, Calculating, 251
Induction at Great Distances, 173
Industrial Development of India, 650
Industrial Notes, 25, 55, 84, 115, 147, 175, 203,
235, 264, 297, 327, 360, 393, 424, 455, 596, 627,
658, 685, 716, 751, 786, 820, 852, 881, 913
Influence XIachine, XVimshurst's, 657, 902
Inglis, XIr. John, on Engines of S.S. “ Iveagh ” Working Triple and Compound, 404, 718
Inman. See American Line of Steamers, 287
Inquests, Professional XVitnesses at, 71
Inshaw, The Late XIr. John, Birmingham, 70
Institute of XIarine Engineers, 844
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers, Institution of
Institution of Electrical Engineers. See Electrical Engineers
Institution of XIechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Naval Architects. See Naval
Architects, Institution of Insurance Statistics, 638
Integral Calculus, «01
Interdependence of Abstract Science and Engineering, «79, «82, 720
Interlocking of Railway Signals and Block Apparatus, «07, 070
Intramural Railway, Electrical, Chicago, 828
Inventor, American, 385
Irish County Surveyors, 899
Irish Emigrants in United States, 307
Iron, Desulphurising, 704
Iron Lap-Welded Steam Pipes, 485
Iron (Pig) Production in America, 357
Iron Pipes and Cement, 199
Iron, Puddling, 770, 787
Iron and Steel in America, 843
Iron and Steel Imports, United States, 335

Iron and Steel Institute:

Report of the Council, 745
Presidential Address, by Mr. E. Windsor- Richards, 745
Bessemer Medallist(Mr. John Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa., U.S.A.), 747
On the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron and Steel (Second Paper), by Mr. J. E. Stead, Middlesbrough, 704
On the Saniter Process of Desulphurisation, by Mr. E. H. Saniter, Wigan, 704
On a Recording Pyrometer, by Professor Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S., 708
Notes on Puddling Iron, by Mr. John Head, F.O.S., London, 770, 787
Iron and Steel Production, 746
Iron and Steel in Sweden, 358, 654
Iron Works, Early English, 805
Iron Works in India, 650
Iron Works in Russia, 652
Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 241
Irrigation in Egypt, 18, 133. See LETTERS
Irrigation Reservoirs in Egypt, 850
“ Isle of Arran,” Clyde Passenger Steamer, 442
Ives’ Heliochromograph, 748
Jackets, Steam, 63
Jackets, Vacuum, 284
Jamieson, Mr. M. B., on Broken Hill Mines, 654
January Weather, 169
Japanese Cruiser “ Unebi,” Compound Engines (Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 645
Japanese Magic Mirrors, 132
Jefferies’ Brickmaking Machine (Humpidge and Snoxell, Dudbridge), 898
Jib Crane at Glasgow Harbour, 150-Ton Steam (Cowans, Sheldon, and Co., Limited), 819
Joists, Basic Bessemer Steel, 653
Jurv Award Regulations at Chicago Exhibition,
280, 592, 713, 761, 793, 814, 875
“ Katahdin,” United States Ram, 291
Kennedy, Professor, and Mr. Bryan Donkin,
Jun., on Boiler Experiments, 114, 897
Kilbourn’s Refrigerating Plant, 497
Killin Railway, Concrete Bridges, 859
Kimberley Mining and the Exhibition, 109
King, Mr. Frank, on Tests of Babcock and
Wilcox Boilers, 411. See LETTERS, Boiler Tests
Kitson and Co., Leeds, Locomotive for Mersey
Railway, 218. See LETTERS, Locomotives, ic.'
Kreitler, Professor, on Battering-Faced Retaining Walls, 914
Krupp Gun Trials, Armour-Clad Ram “ Libera- tad,” 52
Krupp Guns at Chicago Exhibition, 832
La Vergne’s Refrigerating Plant, 497
Laboratories (Electrical and Engineering) at
University College, London, 727
Labour in Belgium, 83
Labour Bill, Mather’s Hours of, 107
Labour, Cost of Production in United Kingdom and United States, 92
Labour Department, Board of Trade, Reorganisation, 77
Labour Disputes, Conciliation and Arbitration in, 649
Labour in Germany, 451, 622
Labour Question in India, 873
Labour Questions. See Industrial Notes
Labour Questions in Australasia, 777
Labour Questions, Canada and Newfoundland, 707
Lagrange’s Equation of Motion, 328
Laird, The Late Mr. Henry, 782
Lake Shipping, American, 239. See 287
Lamp, Coligny Roof, 282
Lamp Filaments, Method of Preparing Glow, 144
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, Concrete Bridges, 859
Lanceley Vertical Engine (Valve), 865
Landslips and Subsidences, 369, 402
Lathe Beds, Strains in, 35
Lathe, 8-In. Chasing (Astbury, Grantham), 806
Ixxthe, Pittler's Universal Tool, 70
Lathe, Screw-Cutting (Loudon, Glasgow), 342
Lathe, 10-In. (Tangyes, Birmingham), 221
Lathe, Turret (Astbury, Grantham), 379
Lathe, Wheel and Tyre Boring (Messrs. G. and A. Harvey, Govan), 100
Launches and Trial Trips, 44, 71, 150, 164, 223,
262, 281, 326, 361, 398, 428, 454, 604, 617, 656,
722, 758, 790, 824, 886, 900 Laval Steam Turbine, 83
Lawrence Experiments on Sewage Filtration, 113
Lead-Coating Electric Conductors, Press for (Weems), 685
Leaky Tubes, 93,225, 373, 394. See L’rrafum, 453
Leaky Tubes (LETTERS), 23, 70, 101, 252, 283, 326, 343, 391, 440, 749, 837, 870
Leaky Tubes, Navy Boiler Committee's Report, 677, 699. See LETTERS
Leaky Tubes, “ Vulcan’s” Trials, 324
“ Letia," Torpedo Gunboat, Engines (Penn), 280.
See “ Alarm ” Trials, 656
Leeds Company’s Hydraulic Oval Hole Punching Machine, 379
Length of Routes to the East, 436, 437
“ Leopold II.," Dover and Ostend Paddle Steamer (Dennv, Dumbarton), 444. See 737. See LETTERS Letters to the Editor, 22, 40, 70, 101, 133, 173, 201, 232, 252, 283, 325, 343, 390, 408, 440, 602,
616, 642, 671, 701, 749, 804, 843, 869, 899
Level, Abney Inclinometer, 627
Liability of Employers for Accidents to Workmen, 167, 911
Liability of Engineers, 642
Liability, Shipowners', for Injury to Seamen, 911
Libau, New Russian Port, 782
“ Libertad,” Gun Trials of Armonrelad Ram, 52
Life-Saving Deck, Reid’s, on Clyde Steamer “ Isle of Arran,” 442
Lifts, Hydraulic, 824
Lighthouse on the Diamond Shoals, 323
Lighting Cars, Different Systems, 32
Lighting, Electric, Glasgow, 219
Lighting Mines, 633
Lighting Stalls at Chicago, 105
Lightning Conductors, 871
Lilleshall Company, Rolling Mill Plant at Tirydail Tinplate Works, 838
Liquids, Viscosity of, 379, 055
Literature, 32, 107, 181, 277, 303, 401, 601, 638, 090, 894
Liverpool Overhead Railway, Automatic Signalling, 163. See Letter
Lloyd’s Shipbuilding Returns, 27, 79,100, 600
Lobnitz, Renfrew, Double Stern-Wheel Steamer, 247
Lobnitz’s Rock-Cutting Plant, 42
Lock Gates, Allington, Lower Medway, 342
Lock and Weir at Richmond, 408, 710
Locomotives, American, 503, 507
Locomotive Building in United States, 184
Locomotive, Compound Express, for North of
France Railway, 70, 174, 233. See Letters. See Erratum, 250
Locomotive Express for London and South-Western Railway, 380
Locomotive Fireboxes, Copper, 611, 629
Locomotive Fireboxes, Steel ». Copper, 652
Locomotive, Heilmann’s 100-Ton Electrical, 772, 806, 836
Locomotive for Mersey Railway (Kitson and Co.,
Leeds), 218. See Letters Locomotive, Murren Mountain Railway, 639
Locomotive, Passenger, for Barry Company (Vulcan Company, Newton-le-Willows), 902
Locomotive Sparks’ and Fire Raising, The Law as to, 231
Locomotive, Winbv’s Express (Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Newcastle), 615. See Letters
Locomotives, American and English, 643
Locomotives, Stretton’s List, 24, 41, 71, 101, 133, 173, 202, 232
London, Deep Tunnel Railways in, 52,100, 139. See 349
London. Fires in, 113

London Societies:

Royal Institution, 36, 128, 215, 271, 336, 634,827
London and South - Western Railway Express
Locomotive, 380 Long Eaton Water Supply, 744
Long, Rear-Admiral, on Position of Cruisers in Warfare, 353. See Letter, 392
Loudon Brothers, Screw-Cutting Lathe, 342
“ Lucania,” Cunanl Steamer. See “ Campania ”
Luminous Discharges in Electrodeless Vacuum Tubes, 655
Lynn, Boiler Explosion at, 421
McCulloch's Rio Tinto Rock Drill, 11
Machinery Exhibits at Chicago, 781, 797
Machinery, Taxation of, 173, 232, 741, 783
McKinley Tariff and Tinplate Industry, 623
Mackinnon, Late Sir William, Bart., 899
Magazine Rifles, 601. See Erratum, 749
Magazine Rifles, Manufacture of, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Magnesia Firebricks, 452
“ Magnete,” Gilbert’s “ De,” 144, 227
Magnetic Field of Circular Current, 329
Maidenhead Railway Works, Blasting Operations, 31
Mail and Passenger Service, Channel, 623
Mains, Electric Light, in New York, 748

Manchester Ship Canal:

Bridges, 125, 181, 280, 309, 340
Finances, 168, 317, 809
Opening, Date of, 647
Pontoon Dock, 880
Manganese and Manganese Alloys, 389
Manganese Steel, 133, 389, 390
Manchester Rifle, 601. See Erratum, 749
Manufacture of Ordnance in America, 199
Manufacture of Small Arms, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Marble and Stone Sawing Machine, 147
March Weather, 417
Marine Boilers. See Boilers Marine Boilers, 225, 373, 394.
Marine Boilers and Leaky Tubes (Letters), 23,
70, 101, 252, 283, 326, 343, 391, 440, 749, 837, 870
Marine Engineering Works, Central, Hartlepool, 278, 314
Marine Engines. See Engines Market, Cardiff, St. Mary-street, 70, 100, 248
Mason College Engineering Society, 117
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Triple-Expansion Engine, 66
Mather and Platt, Alternate Current Dynamo, 160
Mather’s Hours of Labour Bill, 107
Matthews, Mr. W., on Southampton Water Works, 157, 363
Maxim’s Flying Machines, 288. See also 295.
See Letters, Flying Ma-hincs Maxim’s Novel High-Speed Steamer, 62. See
Letters May Weather, 815
Measurement of Alternating Currents, 141, 168, 196, 230
Measurement of Wake Currents, 371, 424
Measures, Metrical System, 320, 343, 391, 409, 441, 804, 838, 809, 899
Measuring Power for Driving Dynamos, 320
Measuring and Recording Machine for Cloth, 280
Measuring Stellnr Photographs, 91
Mechanical and Electrical Analogies, 364
Presidential Address on the Manne Engine as an Agent in Modern Civilisation, by Mr. Charles H. Loring, 7
Congress at Chicago, Committee s Report, 8 Standards, Committee's Report, 8 Standard Gauges for Metal Sheets an<l Plates, 8
Annual Report of Council 8
Standard Pipe Flanges, Committee’s Report, 10
Boiler Explosions, by Mr. F. II. Daniels, 10. See Letters
Strains on Flywheels, by Mr. J. B. Stanwood, 33, 58
New Process of Cutting Cams, by Mr. XV. A. Gabriel, 33
The Strains in Lathe Beds, by Mr. G. XX’. Bissell 35
Driving Belts, by Mr. Samuel XX’ebber, 35
Experimental Determination of the Heat Generated per Candle-Power, by Oil and Gas Ixunps, by Professor D. S. Jacobus, 03
Bristol’s Recording Pressure Gauge, by Professor Bristol, 03
Performance of an Overhead Travelling Crane Operated by a Single Electric Motor, by Mr. Anthony X’ictorin, 03
Influence of Steam Jackets, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 63
Transmitting X'ariable Speed, by Mr. II. S. Spaulding, 64
Tests on Triple-Expansion Engines at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by Professor C. H. Peabody, 06
Steam Distribution in the Form of a Single- Acting Compound Engine, by Mr. F. XI. Rites 205
Mechanical Engineers, Institution or:
Experiments on the Arrangement of the Surface of Screw Propellers, by XIr. XX’. G. XX’alker, 148, 177
Engineering Congress at Chicago, 155
Bye-Laws, Alteration in, 156
Description of the Experimenting Apparatus and Shaping XIachine for Ships’ XIodels at the Admiralty Experimental XVorks at Haslar, by XIr. Froude, 156, 329 Description of the Pumping Engines and XX’ater- Softening XIachinery at the Southampton Works, by XIr. XX’. XIatthews, 157, 303
Alloys Research Committee, Report by Professor Roberts-Austen, 608, 029, 659, 680
Tensile Tests and Chemical Analyses from Copper Plates from Fireboxes of Locomotives on the Great Western Railway, bv XIr. XX’. Dean, 611, 029
Mechanical Flight, 288, 295, 653, 714. See Letters
Mechanical Science Tripos at Cambridge, 818
Mechanical Toys, Automata New and Old, 291
Mekarski Compressed Air Tramway, Berne, 212, 245
Melloni's Thermopile, 634
Memphis Bridge over Xlississippi in Tennessee, 164, 218
Mercantile XIarine, British, 257
Mercantile XIarine in XX’ar, 228
Merchant Cruisers, 354, 457. See also 450
Merchant Ships in XX’ar, 229
Merryweather Fire Engine Boiler Tests, 114
Merryweather's High-Pressure Fire Engine, 42
Mersey Railway, Tank Locomotive for (Kitson and Co., Leeds), 218. See Letters, Locomotives, ic.
Mersey Shipbuilding, 28, 000
Metal Prices Diagram, 24, 146, 262, 422, 656, 784
Metallurgical Industries in the United States, 420
Metallurgical and Mining Industries, Depression in, 620
Metallurgy, Progress in, 745
Meteorological Problems, 301

Meteorological Society, Royal :

The High Altitudes of Colorado and their Climates, by Dr. C. Theodore Williams, 120
Report on Phenological Observations for 1892, by XIr. E. XIawley, 200
Relation between Duration of Sunshine and Amount of Cloud and the Height of Barometer, by XIr. XV. Ellis, 200
Winter Temperatures on Xlountain Summits, by XIr. XX’. l’iffe Brown, 200
Some Meteorological Problems, by XIr. Shel- forti Bidwell, 361
Direction of the Wind over the British Isles, 1876-80, by XIr. F. C. Bayard, 617
Notes on Two Photographs of Lightning Taken at Sydney Observatory, December 7, 1892, by XIr. H. C. Russell, 617
Notes on Lightning Discharges in the Neighbourhood of Bristol, 1892, bv Dr. E. II. Cook, 617
Constructive Errors in Some Hygrometers, bv Mr. XX’. XV. Xlidgley, 617
XIean Daily Maximum anti Mlinimum Temperature nt the Royal Observator}-, Greenwich, on the Average of Fifty Years, from 1841 to 1890, by XIr. XV. Ellis, 750
Suggestions from a Practical Point of View for a New Classification of Cloud Forms, by XIr. F. Gaster, 757
Notes on Winter, by Mr. A. B. MacDowall, 757 Fifteen Years’ Fogs in the British Islands, 1876-90, by Mr. R. H. Scott, 879
Upper Currents of Air over the Arabian Sea, bv XIr. XV. L. Dallas. 879
Australian Climate and XVeather, by XIr. E. D. Archibald, 879
Middlesbrough. See Notes from Cleveland “ Milan,’’ French Unarmoured Cruiser, 100
Mill Engines, 1500 Horse-Power Triple-Expansion (Messrs. Adamson, Dukinfield), 359
Mill Engines, Triple-Expansion (Messrs. Shanks, Arbroath), 115
Mill, Rolling, at Tirydail Tinplate Works (Lilleshall Company, Salop), 838
Mills Boilers, Chelsea Electric Station, 411. See Letters, Boiler Tests
Milling XIachine (Messrs. Hulse and Co.), 771
Milling Machine (Messrs. Shepherd, Hill, and Co., Leeds), 442
Milton, Xfr. T. J., on Alterations in Boilers under Pressure, 375, 754
Mineral Products of the United States, 804
Mineral Production in the United Kingdom, 450
Mineral Resources of South Africa, 100
Mining at Broken Hill, New South Wales, 054
Mining Engineers, American Society (Montreal Meeting), 389, 405
Mining Exhibits at Chicago, 893
Mining and General Telegraphic Code, 038
Mining, Ironstone, in Cleveland, 241
Mining and Metallurgical Industries, Depression in, 020
Mining Royalties Commission, 448
Mining in the United Kingdom, Coal, 450
Minneapolis, 38, 39, 40
Minnesota, 38, 39, 40
Mirrors, Jnpanese Magic, 132
Miscellanea, 15, 45, 75, 105, 145, 105, 189, 223, 249, 293, 317, 349, 383, 413, 454, 004, 020, 047, 075, 705, 741, 775, 809, 841,871, 912
Mississippi Bridge at Memphis, Tenn., 104, 218
Mississippi, Proposed Bridge over (at New Orleans), 249
Models, Ship, Experiments with (by Mr. Froude), 150, 329
Molecular Refraction and Dispersion, 230
Mombasa and Victoria Nyanza Railway, 909
Mordey Alternators, Testing, 200
More, Mr. C. J., on Raising Wrecks in the Thames, 750
Morison, Mr. D. B., on Marine Boiler Furnaces, 53, 80, 118
Morley’s Positive X'alve Gear, Compound Engine (Cole, Marchent, and Morley), 738
Morrison, Mr. G. James, on Breach of Embankment of Yellow River, 203, 295
Motion, Lagrange’s Equation of, 328
Motor for Locomotive, Murren Mountain Railway, 039
Motor, Petroleum, “Rocket" (It. Stephenson and Co., Limited, Newcastle), 804
Mountain Railway, Murren, Electric and Cable,
408, 433, 039
Mounting of Navy Guns, 108
Mudd’s Tail Shaft Preserver, 047
Mule Carts, Premiums for, 231
Multipolar Dynamo and Triple-Expansion Engine (Ellison’s), 131
Municipal Government (Berlin), 277
Murren XVire Rope and Electric Mountain Railway, 408, 433, 039
“ Murtaja,” Ice-Breaking Steamer (Bergsunds Company, Stockholm), 327
Napier and Sons, R., British Cruiser “ Gibraltar,” and Machinery, 851, 901
Napier’s XVindlass for Cunard Steamers, 489
National Telephone Company, Limited, v. Baker, 173
Nationality of People of United States, 307
Naumann, Mr. A., on Heat and Chemical Energy, 00
Naval Annual, Brassey’s, 895
Naval Architects, The Institution of:
Presidential Address (Lord Ravensworth), 353
Election of Lord Brassey as President, 353
On the Present Position of Cruisers in Warfare, by Rear-Admiral S. Long, 353. See Letter, 392
Merchant Cruisers, Considered with Reference to the Policy of Maintaining a Reserve of Vessels by Annual Subventions to Shipowners, by Lord Brassey, 354, 450. See also 450
Some Considerations Relating to the Strength of Bulkheads, by Dr. F. Elgar, 370, 427. See Letters, Bulkheads
On the Measurement of XVake Currents, by Mr. George A. Calvert, 371, 424
On the New Afonasieff’s Formula) for Solving approximately Xrarious Problems Connected with the Propulsion of Ships, by Captain E. E. Ooulaeff, Imperial Russian Navy, 373
Some Experiments on the Transmission of Heat through Tubeplates, by Mr. A. J. Durston, Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy, 373, 394. See Erratum, 453, and Leaky Tubes
Some Notes on the Testing of Boilers, by Mr. T. J. Milton, Chief Engineer Surveyor, Lloyd’s Registry of Shipping, 375, 754
On an Apparatus for Measuring and Registering the Vibrations of Steamers, by Herr E. Otto Schlick, 375, 457
On the Repairs of Injuries to the Hulls of Vessels by Collisions, Stranding, and Explosions, by Captain J. Kiddle, R.N., 378
On Approximate Curves of Stability, by Mr. XV. Hök, 378
Some Experiments with the Engines of the S.S. “ Iveagh,” by Mr. John Inglis, 404, 718
On XVorking Triple-Expansion Engines as Compound, by Mr. H. B. Cole, 404. See also 718
On the Cyclogram, or Clock-face Diagram, of the Sequence of Pressures in Multi-Cylinder Engines, by Mr. F. Edwards, 405, 719
Presentation of Address to the Earl of Ravensworth, on his Retirement, 405
Cardiff Sleeting, 782
Naval Engine-Room Efficiency, 743
Naval Engineers, 291
Naval Policy, 255, 288
Naval Port of Libau, Russian, 782
Naval XVarfare, Cruisers in, 353. See Letter, 392
Navigating Appliances on "Campania,” 488
Navigation, Beginning of, 101
Navy Boiler Committee Report, 077, 099. See Letters
Navy Boilers. See Forced Draught Navy Boilers, 225, 373,394,677, 699. See Letters, Forced Draught and Leaky Tubes Navy Boilers, Transmission of Heat through Tubeplates, 373, 394. Sec Erratum, 453
Navy Engineers, 908
Navy Engines, 844
Navy, English, 93
Navy Estimates, 255, 288
Navy Exhibit at Chicago, U.S., 561, 909
Navy Guns, Mounting of, 108
Navy and the Lords, 321
Navy Programme, French, 871
Navies, British and Foreign, 895
"Neuvo and Julio.” Cruiser (Armstrong, Elswiok), 144,229. See Letter, " Blenheim ’’
New Orleans, Proposed Bridge over Mississippi, 249
New South XVales Railway Commission, 17, 409
New South XVales Railways, 390
New York Central Railroad, 505, 091
New York Electric Mains, 748
Newfoundland and Canada, I/ibour Questions, 707
Nicaragua Canal, 209, 243, 270, 430, 005, 830
North of France Railway, Compound Express Locomotive, 70,174, 233. See Letters. See Erratum, 250
North German Lloyd Line, 409
North Sea-Baltic Canal, 22
Northwich Bridge, 085, 701
Norway, XVood Pulp Industry, 324
Norwegian and Swedish Railway, Projected, 52
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 12, 43, 72, 104, 137, 100, 192, 221, 201, 292, 310, 348, 412, 445, 003, 025, 045, 073, 7(M, 740, 774, 807, 839, 879, 1M)3
Notes from Columbian Exposition, 201, 219, 208, 294, 324, 345, 392, 422, 453, 597, 017, 055, 083, 701, 738
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 14 , 262 , 345 Notes from the North, 14, 44, 74, 102, 137, 161, 193, 222, 201, 291, 310, 347, 381, 412, 444, 003, 024, 040, 074, 704, 740, 774, 808, 840, 880, 902
Notes from the South-XVest, 14, 44, 74, 104, 130, 100, 193, 222, 201, 292, 310, 348, 3S2, 412, 445, 003, 025, 040, 074, 714, 741, 790, 808, 840, 880, 903
Notes from South Yorkshire, 13, 43, 84, 104, 136, 100, 192, 221, 200, 292, 310, 348, 382, 412, 444, 603, 025, 045, 074 , 704 , 740, 775, 808, 840, 879, 903
Notes from United States, 12, 40, 100, 146, 192, 250, 324, 340, 381, 002, 010, 071, 700, 749, 807, 850, 808, 902
Nottingham Technical School, 113
Novelty in Patents, 284, 343

Oats Production in United States, 431, 432
Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Spectroscope for Allegheny, 003
Oil Engine, Hornsby-Akroyd Safety, 838
Oil Engine, Priestman’s, Driving Rock Drill, 242
Oil Engine “Rocket” (R. Stephenson and Co., Limited, Newcastle), 804
Oil Engine, Twin-Cylinder, with Self-Starting Gear (Priestman), 808
Oil Engine, Twin-Cylinder, Vertical (Weyman and Hitchcock, Guildford), 865
Oil Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 862
Oilfields, Burmah, 889
Oil Fuel, Portable Engine to Burn (Clayton and Shuttleworth), 830
Oil, Gas Enriched with, 023
Oil, Heat Generated by, 03
Oil Lighting of Cars, 32
“ Olympia,” United States Cruiser (Union Works, San Francisco), 410, 455, 614
Opticians’ Screws, 849
Ordnance Manufacture in America, 199
Ore Treatment, Smelting for Extraction, 135
Ostend and Dover Paddle Steamer “ Leopold II.”
(Denny, Dumbarton), 444. See 737; also Letters, “ Leopold II. ”
Oval Hole Punching Machine (Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Co), 379
Overhead Crane, Burton’s Self-Sustaining Pulley Block Traveller, 379
Overhead Travelling Crane, Electric (XVatervliet Arsenal), 03, 00

Pachocha Railway, Spain, Winding Drum (Messrs. Harvey, Hayle), 12. See Letters, Winding Drum
Paddington and Clapham Junction Electric Railway, 52, 100, 139, 349
Paddle Engines. See Engines Paddle Steamers. See Steamers
Pallograph, Vibration of Steamers, 375, 457
Paris, Gas at, 081
Parliamentary Bill, Mather's Hours of Labour, 107
Parsons’ Turbo-Motor and Dynamo at Cambridge Laboratory, 408
Passenger Accommodation of “Campania," 491
Passenger and Emigrant Trade, Atlantic, 387
Passenger Service, Channel, 023
Patent Agents, The Status of, 145
Patent Law Reform, 319
Patent Record, 29, 01, 89, 121, 151, 179, 207, 237, 209, 301, 333, 305, 399, 429, 401, 031, 001, 089, 723, 759, 791, 825, 855, 887, 917
Patents, American, 385, 805
Patents, Novelty in, 284, 343
Paul’s Compound Oscillating Single-Crank Engines, Paddle Steamer “ Albert," 102
Peabody, Mr. C. II., on Tests of Triple-Expansion Engines, 00
Penn, Engines of Cruiser “ Crescent,” 785
Penn, Torpedo Gunboat Engines, H.M.SS. “Circe,” “ Alarm,” “ Leda,” 280, 050
Pennsylvania Railroad, 504, 091, 857
Periyar River, XX'ater Power of the, 190
“ Persia.” See Atlantic Liners
Petersen’s Method of Fixing Boiler Tubes, 719
Petroleum Engines. See Oil Engines
Petroleum Fields, Biirmah, 889
Phenological Observations, 1892, 200
Phillips’ Flying Machine, 288, 295, 053, 714. See Letters, Flying Machines
Photographs in Colours, 748
Photographs, Measuring Stellnr, 91
Photometry, 883

Physical Society;

Science Teaching, by Mr. F. XV. Sanderson, 110
Japanese Magic Mirrors, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 132
Functions of the Retina. I.—Perception of
Colour, by Mr. XV. F. Stanley, 132 Annual Report, 230
Some Recent Determinations of Molecular
Refractions and Dispersion, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 230
Separation and Striation of Rarefied Gases under the Influence of the Electrio Discharge, by Mr. E. C. C. Baly, 230
New and Handy Focometer, by Mr. Everett, Jun., 298
A Hynrodynamicol Proof of the Equations of Motion of a Perforated Solid, with Applications to the Motion of a Fine Framework in Circulating Liquids, by Mr. G. H. Bryan, Jun., 298
Plane and Spherical Sound-XVaves of Finite Amplitude, by Dr. C. V. Burton, 298
On the Application of Lagrange’s Equations of Motion to a General Class of Problems, with Special Reference to the Motion of a Perforated Solid in a Liquid, by Dr. C. X'. Burton, 328
Magnetic Field of a Circular Current, by Professor G. M. Minchin, 329
The Differential Equation of Electric Flow, by Mr. T. H. Blakesley, 379
The Viscosity of Liquids, by Professor J. B. Perrv, assisted bv Mr. J. Graham and Mr. C. XV. Heath. 379; 055
Luminous Discharges in Electrodeless X'acuum Tubes, by Mr. E. C. Rimington, 055
On the Drawing of Curves by their Curvature, by Mr. C. V. Boys, 750
Foundations of Dynamics, by Professor P. J. Lodge, 750, 822
Experiments with a Vibrating Bar, by Mr. C. J. XVoodward, 822
A New Photometer, by Mr. A. P. Trotter, 883
Some Notes on Photometry, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 883
The Magnetic Field close to the Surface of a XVire conveying an Electrical Current, by Professor G. M. Minchin, 883
Influence Machine, by Mr. XV. P. Pidgeon and Mr. J. XVimshurst, 902
Volumenometer, by Mr. J. E. Myers, 902
Telephony, Long-Distance, by Professor J. Perry, 902

Pier at Salina Cruz, Tehuantepec Railway, 315
Piers, River, of Tower Bridge, 428
Pig-Iron Production in America, 357
Pipe Flanges, Standard, 10
Pipe Joints, Doulton’s Drain, 135
Pit Sleepers from Old Rails, 140
Pitt, Mr. XV., on Plant for Harbour Works, 329
Pittler’s Universal Tool, 70
Pittsburgh Railway Station, Signalling, 070
Plane Table in Topographical Work, 911
Planimeter, Coffin Averager, 251
Pneumatic Gun, 260
Pneumatic Power Tramway, Berne, 212, 245
Pneumatic Riveter, 749, 870
“ Pole Star,” Engines of (Fairfield Company), 501
Poncellet Prize of the Académie des Sciences, 83
Population, United States, 123, 153
Port of Libau, Russian Naval, 782
Portable Crane, 20-Ton, at Stockton (Messrs. R. Roger and Co.), 410
Portable Engine to Burn Oil Fuel (Clavton and Shuttleworth), 836
Portsmouth, New Docks at, 291
“Possadnik,” Russian Torpedo Cruiser (Schichau), 785
Post Office Telegraphy, 358
Potato Planter and Digger (Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies, Limited), 809
Potato Production in United States, 432
Power at Chicago, Charges, 747
Power Development and Distribution, Central Stations, 81, 110, 142, 109, 197, 258. See Letters
Power for Driving Dynamo, Measuring, 320
Power Trials of H.M. Battleship “ Ramillies ” (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 710
Preller, Mr. C. S. Du Riche, on Berne Compressed Air Tramway, 212, 245
Preller, Mr. C. S. Du Riche, on 100-Ton Electrical Locomotive, 772, 806, 830
Preller, Mr. C. S. Du Riche, on the Future of
British Engineering, 96. See Letters, British Engineering
Preller, Mr. C. S. Du Riche, on Murren Wire Rope and Electric Mountain Railway, 408, 433, 039
Premiums for Mule Carts, 231
Press, Hydraulic Forging and Stamping, 1500-Ton (Brown Brothers and Co., Edinburgh), 913
Press for Lend - Coating Electric Conductors (XVeems), 085
Presses in Iron XVorks, High-Pressure Hydraulic. 205, 298
Pressure Gauge, Bristol’s Recording, 63
Priestman’s Oil Engine Driving Rock Drill, 242
Priestman’s Reversible Screw Propeller, 803
Priestman’s Twin-Cylinder Oil Engine with Self-Starting Gear, 808
Produce, Prices, United States, 432
Production of Steel in Britain, 323, 420
Professional Witnesses at Inquests, 71
Projectile or Compound Gun, A Multiple, 40
Proof of Rifles, 759, 789, 822, 883, 899
Propeller, Priestman’s Reversible Screw, 803
Propeller, Thornycroft’s Screw Turbine, 162 See Letters, Thomycroft, ic.
Propellers, Screw, 148, 177
Propulsion of Ships, 373
Protector for Boiler Fire Doors, Geddes’s, 913
Puddling Iron, 770, 787
Pulley Boring Machine, Vertical (Richards Company), 730
Pulleys, Varying the Working Radius of, 04
Pullman Cars and their Construction, 730
Pullman Cars at Chicago, 730, 891
Pulsating Pump, Water Spout, 102
Pump, Stewart’s Rotary (Thornton and Cribbin Bradford), 751
Pump, Thwaites’ Centrifugal, 135. See Lf.tteru
Pump, Water Snout Pulsating, 102
Pumps, Admiralty Duplex, 5!)0
Pumps and Lift (Hydraulic)at Imperial Institute Smith and Stevens), 072
Pumps of the United States Cruiser “ Olympia,” 014
Pumps, Worthington, for Chicago Exhibition, 585
Pumping Engines, Southampton Water Works, 157, 303
Pumping Engines at Stroud Water Works (Holborow), 070
Pumping Plant, Electric, for Colliery (Ernest Scott and Mountain, Limited), 347
Punching Machine, Hydraulic Oval Hole (Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Company), 370
Pyrometer, Recording, 708

Quadruple Engines. See Engines
Quick-Firing Guns in the Field. 380

Radiation of Heat by Gases, 827
Railroad Economy, American, 452
Railroad, Erie, 509
Railroad, New York Central, 505, 091
Railroad, Pennsylvania, 504, 091, 857
Railroads as Investments, American, 001
Rails, Cleaning Tramway and other (Society of Engineers), 450
Rails, Heavy, 231 Rails as Pit Sleepers, Old, 140
Railway, Boat, nt Meaux, France, 438
Railway Bridge, Cork, Hobson’s Bridge Flooring, 771
Railway Bridges, Transandine, 173, 202
Railway in British East Africa, Projected, 909
Railway Carriago Heating (Laycook), 190
Railway Carriage Roof Lamp, Coligny, 282
Railway, Clapham Junction and Paddington Electric, 52, 100, 139, 349
Railway Commission, New South Wales, 17. See LETTER, 409
Railway Crane, 10-Ton (Messrs. Gibbins, Birmingham), 11
Railway Development, United States, 184, 211
Railway, Electric Intramural, at Chicago, 828
Railway Exhibits at Chicago, 815, 857, 801
Railway Extension in Egypt, 703
Railway History, 289
Railway, Intramural, at Chicago Exhibition, 828
Railway Making in Syria, French, 00. See LETTERS, Syrian Raihcay
Railway Map of England and Wales, 21
Railway, Murren Wire Rope and Electric Mountain, 408, 433, 039
Railway, Oldest German, 452
Railway, Paehocha, Spain, Winding Drum
(Messrs. Harvey, Hayle), 12. See LETTERS, Winding Drum
Railway Pier at Salina Cruz, Tehuantepec, 315
Railway Pullman Cars at Chicago, 730, 891
Railway Rates and British Trade, 47
Railway in Russia, Projected Important, 452
Railway from St. Petersburg to the Murmaii Coast, 748
Railway Signalling, Liverpool Overhead, 103. See LETTER, Liverpool, ic.
Railway Signals, Interlocking and Block Systems, 007, 070
Railway Structures, Concrete in, 859
Railway, Swedish-Norwegian, 52
Railway Transition Curves, 48, 71, 409
Railway Zone Tariff in Hungary, 390
Railways, Belgian State, 22
Railways in Belgium, 358
Railways, Blasting Operations on, 31
Railways and Canals in Austria, 420
Railways, Electrical, 188 Railways in India, 911
Railways, New South Wales, 390
Raising Wrecks in the Thames, 750
Ram “ Katahdin,” United States, 291
“ Ramillies,” H.M. Battleship (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 710
Ramming of the “ Victoria,” 905
Range Finder, Dredge-Steward Omni-Telemeter, 188
Ransome, The Late Mr. Frederick, 024
Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies’ Potato Planter and Digger, 809
Rapid Firing Guns in the Field, 380
Rating of Machinery, 173, 232
Reciprocity, United States and, 324
Record Steaming on Atlantic, 714. See “Campania"
Recording Pressure Gauge, Bristol’s, 03
Recording Pyrometer, 708
Refraction and Dispersion, Molecular, 230
Refrigerating Plant (La Vergne'sand Kilbourn’s), 497, 500
Registry of Ships, British Corporation, 708
Regularisation of the Danube, 800
Regulation of the Rhine, 452
Reid’s Life-Saving Deck on Clyde Passenger Steamer “ Isle of Arran,” 442
Repairing “Umbria’s” Shaft, 80, 104, 174, 325, 413
Repairs of Ships, 378
Repeating Rifle, 601. See Erratum. 749
Repeating Rifle, Manufacture of, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Reproducing the Colours of Nature in Photographs, 748
“ Repulse ” Trials, Battleship, 294
Reservoirs, Storage, in Egypt, 850
Resistance, Ship (Measurement of Wake Currents), 371, 424
Retaining Walls, Battering-Faced, 014
Retina, Functions of the, 132
Revenue and Expenditure of United States, 51
Reversible Screw Propeller, Priestmnn’s, SÖ3
Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Corner, 749
Rhine, Regulation of the, 452
Richards Co., Vertical Boring Machine for Pulleys, 739
Richardson, the Late William, 11
Richardson’s Engine and Dvnamo (Patricroft). 785
Richmond Lock and Weir, 408,710
Rifles, Magazine, 001. See Erratum, 749
Rifles, Manufacture of, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Rigby, Mr. John, on the Manufacture of Small Arms, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Rio Tinto Rock Drill, 11
Rites, Mr. F. M., on Steam Distribution in Single-Acting Compound Engine, 205
River Embankment, Breach (Yellow River), 203, 295
Riveter, Hydraulic (Messrs. II. Smith and Co., Glasgow), 314
Riveter, Pneumatic, 749, 870
Road Bridge Failure in Servia, 134
Road Construction in America, 001
Road Traffic in United States, Early, 153
Road-Making in Syria, French, 00. See Letters, Syrian Railway
Roberts-Austen, Professor, on Alloys, 290, 322, 352, 388, 008, 029, 059, 080
Roberts-Austen, Professor, on a Recording Pyrometer, 708
Robertson and Loudon's Screw-Cutting Lathe
(Loudon Brothers, Glasgow), 342
Rock-Cutting Plant (Messrs. Lobnitz, Renfrew), 42
Rock Drill, Rio Tinto, 11
Rock Drills with Priestman’s Oil Engine, 242
Roger's 20-Ton Portable Crane at Stockton, 410
Rolling Mill Plant at Tirydail Tinplate Works
(Lilleshall Company, Salop), 838
Rolling Stock, Murren Mountain Railway, 030
Rotary Pump, Stewart’s (Thornton and Cribbin, Bradford), 751
Rounthwaite’s Thrust Block, 751
Routes to the East, Length of, 430, 437
Royal Agricultural t'liester Show :
Oil, Gas, and Steam Engines, 802
Priestman’s Reversible Screw Propeller, 803
Petroleum Motor “Rocket” (R. Stephenson and Co., Limited, Newcastle), 804
Engine, Vertical(II. Lancelev and Co., Chester), 805
Engine, Oil, Twin-Cylinder Vertical (Weyman and Hitchcock, Guddford), 805
Implements, 800
Dairy, 807
Engine, Double-Cylinder Oil, with Self-Starting Device (Priestman), 80S
Windmill (Cadle, Dublin), 808
Potato Planter and Digger (Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies, Limited), 809
Disintegrator (Hardy Patent Pick Company, Limited), 869
Jefferies’ Brickmaking Machine with Automatio Cutting Table, 898
Royal Institution, 36, 128, 215, 271, 330, 034, 827
Royal Society Soirée, 680, 812

Royal United Service Institution:

The Mounting of Navy Guns, by Mr. Arnold- Foster, 108
Electric Balloon Signalling, by Mr. Eric Stuart Bruce, 171
The Mercantile Marine in War, by Lieut. XV. C. Crutchley, R.N.R., 228
Quick-Firing Guns in the Field, by Captain Headiam, 380
Naval Engine-Room Efficiency, by Mr. Harry Williams, 743
Fuel Supply of Warships, by Mr. XV. II. Riley, 843

Royalties Commission, Mining, 448
Russia, Projected Important Railway in, 452
Russia, Railways in, 748
Russian Manufactures, 052
Russian Port, Libau, 782
Russian Torpedo Cruisers “ XVoewoda" and “ Possadnik” (Schichau), 785

St. Mary-street Market, Cardiff, 70, 100, 248
Salina Cruz, Tehuantepec Railway, Pier at, 315
Salvage of XVrecks in the Thames', 750
Samudn Brothers’ Yard on the Thames, 599. See 647
Saniter, Mr. E. H., on Desulphurising Iron, 704
“Satellit,” Austrian Torpedo Cruiser (Schichau), 340. See Letter, 409
Sawing Machine, Cold Metal (Ohouanard, Paris), 807
Sawing Machine, Marble and Stone, 147
Sayers, Mr. XV. B., on Sparking in Dynamos, 778
Scandinavians in United States, 307
Schichau Austrian Torpedo Cruiser, 340. See Letter, 409
Schichau Locomotive Boiler in Danish Cruiser, 22, 40
Schichau Russian Torpedo Cruisers, 785
Schlick, Mr. Otto, on Vibration of Steamers, 375, 457
Schloss, Mr. D. F.,on Labour Department, Board of Trade, 77
Scholarships, Whitworth, 811. See Letters
Science Teaching, 110
“Scotia.” See Atlantic Liners
Scotland. See Notes from the North
Scott and Mountain’s Duplex Pumps, 590
Scott and Mountain’s, Ernest, Electric Colliery Pumping Plant, 347
Screw-Cutting Lathe (Loudon Brothers, Glasgow), 342
Screw Propeller, Priestman’s Reversible, 803
Screw Propellers, 148, 177
Screw Propulsion with Non-Reversible Engines, 22, 24, 101, 133, 284, 392, 617, 805
Screw Steamers. See Steamers Screw Turbine Propeller, Thomycroft's, 162.
See Letters, Thornycroft, ic.
Screws, Opticians’, 849
Scriven’s Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 314
Search Light, 491
Segregation, Woven Wire and, 853
Selby, Development of, 172
Self-Sustaining Pulley-Block Traveller (Burton), 379
Servia, Bridge Failure, 134
Sewage Filtration, Lawrence Experiments, 113
Sewage System, How to Design a, 782
Sewers, Flushing of, 644
Shaft Preserver, Tail, 047
Shaft, Repairing “ Umbria’s,” 11,80,104,174, 325, 413
Shand, Mason, and Company’s Fire Engine for the Imperial Institute, 772
Shanks’Triple-Expansion Mill Engines(Arbroath), 115
Shares, Depression in Mining and Metallurgical, 020
Shaw, Mr. F. G., on Gold in Africa, 813
Shearing Machine, Hydraulic Channel (H. Smith and Co., Glasgow), 100
Sheffield. See Notes from South Yorkshire
Shepherd, Hill, and Co.’s Milling Machine, 442
Ship Bulkhead Doors, Clark’s, 347
Ship Canal. See Manchester Ship Canal Ship Canal, The Bruges, 97
Ship Model Experiments, 150, 329
Ship Models at Chicago, 815, 857
Ship Propulsion, 373
Ships’ Bulkheads, 391
Ships’ Bulkheads, Strength of, 370, 427. See Letters
Ships, Repairs of, 378
Ships’ Scantlings, British Corporation for Registry of Ships, 708
Shipbuilding in America, 504, 909
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, 27, 79, 100, 000
Shipbuilding on the Thames, 599. See 047
Shipowners’ Liability to Injured Seamen, 911
Shipping, American, 239. See 287
Shipping, British, 907
Shipping, British, and Foreign Trade, 273. See 287, 907
Shipping Charges and British Industry, 415 See Letters
Shipping mid Shipbuilding, 257
Shipping World Year-Book, 95
Siemens’ Dynamos in Cunanl Steamers, 485
Signalling, Electric Balloon, 171
Signalling, Liverpool Overhead Railway, Automatic, 103. See Letter, Liverpool, ic.
Signalling, Railway, Interlocking and Block, 007, 070
Silk Imports, United States, 335
Silver and Gold, The World's, 200
Sky Signs and Halliday's Windmill, 883
Sleepers from Old Rails, Pit, 140
Slips and Subsidences, Earth, 309, 403
Small Arms, Manufacture of, 757, 789, 822, 883, 893
Smelting Precious Metals, 135
Smith, Messrs. H., and Co., Glasgow, Hydraulic Channel Shearing Machine, 100
Smith, Messrs. H., mid Co., Hydraulic Riveter, 314
Smith, Professor T. Roger, on Laboratories, University College, London, 727
Smith and Stevens’ Hydraulic Pumps and Hoist at Imperial Institute, 072
Smoke Consumption, 010, 043, 701, 805
Smulder’s Forward Well Dredger for Baltic Canal, 423
Snelus, Mr. G. J., on Desulphurising Iron, 704
Snyer’s Elastic Coupling (Cowlishaw, Walker, and Co., Etruria), 220

Society of Avis :

The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, by Mr. Janies Dredge, 57
Development and Transmission of Power from Central Stations, by Professor Unwin (Howard Lectures), 81,110,142, 109, 197, 258. See Letters
The Mining Industries of South Africa as shown at the Kimberley Exhibition, by Mr. Bennett II. Brough, 109
Measurement of Alternating Electric Currents, bv Dr. J. A. Fleming (Cantor Lectures), 141, 108, 190, 230
Alloys (Cantor Lectures), bv Professor Roberts- Austen, 290, 322, 352, 388
Industrial Development of India, by Sir Juland Danvers, 050
Russian Industrial Arts, by Mr. G. Delmar Morgan, 052
Practical Electrical Problems at Chicago, by Dr. Silvanus Thompson, 052
Richmond Lock and Tidal Weir, by Mr. J. H. Hilditch, 710
Composite Heliochromy, by Mr. F. E. Ives, 748
Awards and Medals, 808

Softening Water, Southampton, 157, 303
Sonning Cutting, Blasting Operations, 31
Sound-Waves, 298
South Africa, Mineral Resources of, 109
South-East England, Weather in, in 1892, 109
Southampton Water Works, 157, 303
Spanish Railway Concrete Bridges, 859
Sparking in Dynamos, 778
Spectroscope of the Allegheny Observatory, 003
Speed on Atlantic, Possibilities, 874
Speed and Coal Endurance of Cruisers, 353. See Letter, 392
Speed of Fast Cruisers, 229. Sec Letter, “ Blenheim”
Speed of Pulleys, Varying the, 04
Speed Trials of the “Campania,” 000
“Speedy,” Gunboat (Messrs. Thornycroft), 709, 881
Squeezer, Hydraulic, 278
Stability Curves, 378
Stability of Turret Steamers, 735
Stackstcads Boiler Explosion, 753
Standard Gauges for Metal Sheets, 8
Standard Pipe Flanges, 10
Stanwood, Mr. James B., on the Strength of Flywheels, 58
Starting, Reversing, nnd Emergency Gear, 431
Station, Electric Lighting, at Glasgow, 219
Station, Westminster Electric Supply, 312
Stead, Mr. J. E., on Desulphurising Iron, 704
Steam Boiler Experiments by Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, 114, 897
Steam Condensation Cylinders. 915
Steam Distribution in Single-Acting Compound Engine, 205
Steam Dynamo Tests (Holmes), 783
Steam Engines nt Royal Agricultural Show, 802
Steam Hammer, 125-Ton(Bethlehem Iron Works), 857
Steam Jackets, 03
Steam Jib Crane, 150-Ton, at Glasgow Harbour (Cowans, Sheldon and Co., Limited), 819
Steam Navigation, Beginning of, 101
Steam Power, Development and Distribution from Central Stations, 81, 110, 142, 109,197, 258. See Letters, Central Stations
Stenin Striker, Allen’s, 250
Steam, Superheated, 417. See Letters, Superheated Steam
Steam Turbine, Laval, 83
Steam Yacht “Capercailzie” (Messrs. Barclay, Curie, and Co., Limited, Glasgow), 25
Steamer “ Chelmsford,” for New Route to Continent, “79
Steamer, Double Stern-Wheel (Lobnitz, Renfrew), 247
Steamer, Ice-Breaking, “Murtaja” (Bergsunds Company, Stockholm), 327
Steamer “ Isle of Arran,” Clyde, 442
Steamer “ Marie Henriette,” Paddle (Cockerill Company, Belgium), 737
Steamer, Novel High-Speed, 52. See LETTERS
Steamer “ Pole Star,” Engines of (Fairfield Company), 501
Steamer “ Turret” (Doxford, Sunderland), 733
Steamer “ Umbria,” Cunard, Shaft Fracture, 11, 80, 325. See LETTERS, 41, 104, 174, 413
Steamers “Campania” and “Lucania.” See “ Campania"
Steamers, Cunard, 172. See “ Campania"
Steamers, Repairs of, 378
Steamers, Vibration of, 375, 457
Steamship Lines, German, 858, 910
Steamship Speeds, Atlantic, Possibilities, 874
Steel v. Copper Fireboxes for Locomotives, (552
Steel, Desulphurising, 704
Steel for Dynamo Field Magnets, 440, 002
Steel, Hardening of Structural, 875
Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel and Iron in America, 843
Steel and Iron Production, 740
Steel, Iron and, in Sweden, 358, 054
Steel Production in America and Britain, 420
Steel Production in Britain, 323, 420
Steel Rails in America, 843
Steel for Rifles, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Steel, Tests of (Boiler Furnaces), 53, 80, 118
Steering Gear of “Campania," 489
Stellar Photographs, Measuring, 91
Stephenson and Co., Limited, It., Petroleum Motor “ Rocket,” 804
Stern Delivering Dredger on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Hunter and English, London), 83(5. See LETTER, 871
Stern-Wheel Stenmer, Double (Lobnitz, Renfrew), 247
Sterne’s Refrigerating Plant, 497
Steward-Dredge Omni-Telemeter, 188
Stewart’s Rotary Pump (Thornton and Cribbin), Bradford), 751
Stock Exchange Year Book, 33
Stone, Artificial Building (XIr. Frederick Rail- some), 024
Stone, Choice of Building, 052
Stone and XIarble Sawing XIachine, 147
Stoney’s Sluices, Richmond Lock, 408, 710
Storage Reservoirs in Egypt, 850
Strains in Lathe Beds, 35
Strength of Bridge XIembers with Inclined Joints, 420
Strength of Bulkheads, 370, 427. See LETTER, Bulkheads
Stretton’s List of Locomotives, 24, 41, 71, 101, 133, 173, 202, 232
Striker, Allen’s Steam, 250
Stroud Water Works Pumping Station (Holborow), (570
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 420
SubmarineTelegraphs(Greac Northern Company), 879
Subways, Deep Tunnel Railways in London, 52, 100, 139, 349
Subways, Electrical, 188
Suez Canal Traffic, 782
Sugar XIanufacture, Triple Effet Evaporator (Campbell and Calderwood, Paisley), 703
Sulzer Engines (Future of British Engineering), 133
Superheated Steam, Use in Engines, 417. See LETTERS
Superheating Steam, 440
Sunshine in Relation to Cloud and Warmth, 200
Survey for East African Railway, 009
Survey, Geological, of United States, 389
Survey, International Stellar, 91
Survey of Ships, British Corporation for Registry, 708
Surveyors, County, Ireland, 899
Sweden Canal Extension, 323
Sweden and Denmark Telephone, 172
Sweden, Electric Power in, 51
Sweden, Iron and Steel in, 358, (554
Swedish-Norwegian Railway, Projected, 52
Swing Bridges, Lengthening, 420
Syndicate, Coal, Rhenish-Wesphalian, 749
Syria, French Works in (Roads, Rails, andc.), CO. See LETTERS

Tail Shaft Preserver, (547
Tangyes 10-In. Lathe, 221
Tariff or Customs Received by United States and Britain, 51
Tariffs and their Influence, United States, 304
Taxation of Machinery, 173, 232, 741, 783
Teaching Science, 110
Technical Education, 351, 732
Technical Education and County Councils, (519
Technical Education by Discussion, 744
Technical Education (Whitworth Scholarships), 811. See LETTERS, Whihcorth, ic.
Technical School nt Nottingham, 113
Tees Shipbuilding, 27, 600
Tehuantepec Railway, Pier nt Salina Cruz, 315
Telegraph Company, Great Northern, 879
Telegraphs, Submarine, 420
Telegraphy, Post Office, 358
Telemeter, Omni- (Dredge-Steward), 188
Telephone, New International, 172
Telephones nnd Earth Currents, 173
Telephonic Communication by induction, 173
Temperature at Greenwich, 1841-1890, 750
Temperature on Xlountain Summits, 200
Tequixquiac Tunnel, 805
Testing Alternators, 260
Tests of Boilers nt Chelsea Electric Station (Babcock and Wilcox), 411. See LETTERS
Tests of Thwaites’ Centrifugal Pump, 135. See LETTERS, Pumps
Thames Shipbuilding, 28, 599, 600. See 647
Tharsis and Calnflas Railway, Concrete Bridges, 859
Theory and Practice, 391, 440, 602, 616, 642, 671
Thermodynamics, Treatise on, 181
Thermopiles, 634
Thomson, Clydebank, H.M.S. “Ramillies,” 716
Thornton and Cribbin, Bradford .Stewart’s Rotary Pump, 751
Thornvcroft Boilers in British Navy Ships, 709, 881 '
Thornycroft’s Boiler in Danish Cruiser, 22, 40
Thornycroft’s Screw Turbine Propeller, 162. See Letters
Three-Wire System of Electric Distribution, 78
Thrust Blocky Rounthwaite's, 75
Thwaites’ Pumps, Tests, 135. See Letters, Pumps
Tinplate Industry, McKinley Tariff, 023
Tirydail Tinplate Works, Rolling Mill Plant at (Lilleshall Co, Salop), 838
Topographical Work, Plane Table in, 911
Torpedo-Boats (Navy and the Lords), 321
Torpedo-Boats, The Strength of (Yarrow’s Victorin Government Boat), 69
Torpedo Cruiser “ Satellit,” Austrian (Schichau), 340. See Letter, 409
Torpedo Cruisers, Russian, "Woewoda” and “ Possadnik ’’ (Schichau), 785
Torpedo Dépöt Ship “ Vulcan,” 324
Torpedo Gunboat Engines, H.M.SS. "Circe,” “Alarm,” and “Leda” (Penn, Greenwich), 280, 656
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers for British Navy, “Havoc” and “ Hornet" (Yarrow), 848
Tower, Blackpool, 343. See Letters Tower Bridge, River Piers, 428
Tower for Fire Extinction, Hale Water (Kansas), 192, 880
Townsend, Mr. C. F., on Chlorine Recovery, 340
Traction, American Tramway, 145
Trade. See Notes from the North, tke.
Trade, British, and American Industries. See American Industries, Ac*.
Trade Condition, Shipbuilding, Arc., 79
Trade Disputes. See Industrial Notes Trade in India, British, 253
Trade Questions in India, 873
Trade Unionism in Australasia, 777
Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes Traffic, Suez Canal, 782
Training, Commercial Aspect of Engineer's, 195. See Letters
Tramway, Berne Compressed Air, 212, 245
Tramway Rails, Cleaning (Society of Engineers), 450
Tramway Traction, American, 145
Tramways, Electrical, 188
Tramways in Syria, 00. See Letters, Syrian Railway
Transandine Railway Bridges, 173, 202
Transatlantic. See Atlantic Transatlantic Record. See “ Campania"
Transformer, Alternate Current, 303
Transition Curves, Railway, 48, 71, 409
Transmission of Heat through Tubeplates, 373, 394. See Erratum, 453, and Leaky Tubes
Transmitting Variable Speed, 64
Transportation Exhibits at Chicago, 815, 857, 891
Transportation in United States, 153, 184, 211
Traveller, Burton's Self-Sustaining Pulley-Block, 379
Travelling Crane, Electric, 15-Ton (Messrs. Broadbent, Huddersfield), 55
Trevithick's Boiler at Chicago Exhibition, 084
Trial of a Cruiser, “ Neuvo de Julio" (Armstrong, Elswick), 144, 229. See Letter, “ Blenheim” Trials, Gun, of Annourclad Ram “ Libertad," 52
Trials of H.M. Battleship “ Ramillies" (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 716
Trials, Speed, of the “Campania,” COO Trials of Steam Engines, 441
Triple and Compound Working of Marine Engines 404, 718
Triple-Effet Evaporator for Sugar Manufacture (Campbell and Calderwood, Paisley), 703
Tnple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Triple-Screw Engines, 232, 284
Tube, Boiler, Fastenings, 1. See Letters
Tubes, Fixing Boiler (Ernest Petersen), 719
Tubes, Leak}-. See Leaky Tubes
Tubes, Leaky, Transmission of Heat through Tubeplates, 373, 394. See Erratum, 453
Tubulous Boiler in Danish Cruiser (Thornycroft), 22, 40
Tubulous Boiler in H.M.S. “ Speedy,” 709, 881
Tunnel, Mexico, Tequixquiao, 805
Turbine, Laval Steam, 83
Turbine Propeller, Thornycroft’s Screw, 102. See Letters, Thornycroft, ic.
Turbines, andc., Professor Unwin on, 81, 110, 142, 169, 197, 258. See Letters, Central Stations
Turbo-Motor and Dynamos (Parsons') at Cambridge Laboratory, 408
Turret Lathe (Astbury, Grantham), 379
"Turret,” Steamer (Doxford, Sunderland), 733
Tweddell's, Flanger, Hydraulic (Messrs. Fielding and Platt, Gloucester), 314
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Twin-Screw Engines, Friedeborn's, 408
Twin-Screw Steamers. See Steamers Tyndall. Dr., and the Royal Institution, 36, 128, 215, 271, 309, 330, 827
Tyndall and Radiation of Heat by Gases, 827
Tyne Shipbuilding, 27, COO
Tyre-Bonng Lathe, Duplex Wheel and (Messrs. G. and A. Harvey, Govan), 100

“ Umbria,” Atlantic Steamer, Shaft Fracture, 11, 80, 325. See Letters, 41,104, 174, 413
Underground Electric Lighting Mains in New York, 748
Union of German Rolling Mills, 878
Union Switch Company's Signalling System (Pittsburgh), 070
United States. See America
United States Battleship “ Illinois,” 909
United States Coal Production, 894
United States Cruiser “ Olympia’’(Union Works, San Francisco), 410, 455, 614
United States Geological Survey, 389
United States Industries. See American
United States Ram “ Katahdin,” 291
United States and Reciprocity, 324
United States Steel Production and Imports, 420
Universal Tool, Pittler's, 70
University College, London, Engineering and Electrical Laboratories, 727
Unwin, Professor, on Development and Distribution of Power from Central Stations, 81, 110, 142, 169, 197, 258. See Letters, Central Stations
Utley’s Ventilation in Cunard Steamers, 496

Vacuum Jackets, 284
Vacuum Tubes, Luminous Discharges in Electrodeless
Valve Diagram, Harmonic, 418. See Letters
Valve Gear, Morley’s Positive, Compound Engine (Cole, Marchent, and Morley), 738
Valve Gear, Oscillating Engine, Paddle Steamer “ Albert" (Messrs. Paul, Dumbarton), 102
Valve Gear for X'ertical Engine (Lanceley, Chester), 865
Valves for Hydrants, Frost, 251. See Letters
Variable Speed, Transmitting, 04
Varying the Working Radius of Pulleys, 04
Ventilating Plant for Collieries, 633
Ventilation of “Campania” (Utley), 490
“ Vesuvius,” United States Dynamite Cruiser, 260
Viaducts on the Manchester Ship Canal, 125, 181, 280, 309, 340
Vibrating Matter, Energy of, 101
Vibration of Metallic Bridges, 879
Vibration of Steamers, 375, 457
Victoria Government Torpedo-Boat, Damaged (Yarrow), 69
“ Victoria,” The Loss of the, 905
Viscosity of Liquids, 379, 655
“ Visible” XVire Fencing, 200
Volumenometer, A New, 002
Vulcan Company, Newton-le-Willows, Passenger
Locomotive (Barry Co.), 902
“ Vulcan’s” Trials, 324

Wages in Belgium, 83
Wages, Boiler Shop, in Britain and United States, 878
Wake Currents, Measurement of, 371, 424
Walker, XIr. XV. G., on Screw Propellers, 148, 177
Walls, Battering-Faced Retaining, 914
War, Merchant Ships in, 229
Warships, Coal Consumption, 843
Waste Gates at Allington Lock, Lower Wedwav, 342
Water in Boilers, Expansion of, 52.
Water Power of the Periyar River, 196
Water Spout Pulsating Steam Pump, 162
Water Supply of Chicago, 447
Water Supply from Deep Wells, 744
Water Supply of Hamburg, 818
Water Tower, Hale (Kansas), 192, 880
Water-Tube Boiler in H.M.S. “Speedy,” 709, 881
Water Works at Davenport, Iowa, 715
Water Works, Southampton, 157, 363
Watervliet Arsenal Electric Overhead Crane, Performances, 03, 60
Watt’s Boiler Circulator and Deposit Extractor, 851
Wear Shipbuilding, 27, 600
Weather, 20, 49, 109, 169, 257, 417, 651, 815
Weems Press for Lead-Coating Electric Conductors, 085
Weights, Electrical System, 326, 343, 391, 4«>9, 441, 804, 838, 869, 899 '
Weir and Lock at Richmond, 408, 710
Weir’s Feed Heater Pumps and Evaporators on Cunard Steamers, 484
Welsh Colliery Exhibit at Chicago, 633
Westminster Dynamo, Brotherhood Engine, 899
Westminster Electric Supply Station, 312
Weyman and Hitchcock, Twin-Cylinder Vertical Oil Engine, 865
Whaleback. See Steamer “ Turret," 733
Whaleback Steamers for Chicago Exhibition Traffic, 588, 795
Wheat Production in United States, 431
Wheel and Tyre Boring Lathe, Duplex (Messrs. G. and A. Haney, Govan), 100
White, Dr. XV. H., on Navy Engines, 844
White Star Atlantic Steamers, New, 357
Whitworth Scholarships, 811. See Letters
Willans Engine and Holmes Dynamo, 783
Willans on Steam Engine Trials, 441
Williams, Mr. Harry, on Naval Engineers, 743
Wilson, Mr. E., on Efficiency of Dynamo, 356
Wimshurst’s Influence Machine, 657, 902
Winby'8 Express Locomotive (Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Newcastle), 615. See Letters
Winding Drum for the Pachocha Railway, Spain (Messrs. Harvey, Hayle), 12. See Letters
Winding Plant for Collieries, 633
Windlass, Capstans, andc., 489
Windlass and Capstans (Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me.), 703
Windmill (Cadle, Dublin), 868
Windmill and Skv Signs, Halliday’s, 883
Wire Fencing, “ Visible," 200
Wire, Inventor of Gutta-Percha Covered, 23, 41, 70, 201, 232, 899
Wire Rope and Electric Mountain Railway, Murren, 408, 433, 639
Wire, Woven, and Segregation, 853
Witnesses, Professional, at Inquests, 71
“Woewoda" and ’‘Possadnik,” Russian Torpedo Cruisers (Schichau), 785
Wood Imports, United States, 335
Wood Pulp Industry in Norway, 324
Working of United States Railways, 211
Workington, Boiler Explosion near, 117
Workmen’s Accidents in Austria, 231

Works :

Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool, 278, 314
Enfield Gun Factory, 757, 789, 822, 883, 899
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. See “ Campania ”
Haslar Ship Model Experimental Works, 329. See also 156
Hill's Plymouth Co, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, 633
Hughes and Lancaster's Works, Ruabon, 378
World’s Cotton Consumption, 22
World's Fair. See Columbian Exposition
World’s Gold and Silver, 26Ü
Worthington Pumps for Chicago Exhibition, 585
Woven Wire and Segregation, 853
Wreck-Raising in the Thames, 756

Yacht Race, America Cup, 231
Yacht, Steam, “Capercailzie,” Engines (Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Limited, Glasgow), 25
Yarrow and Boiler Tube Fastenings, 1. See Letters, Leaky Tubes
Yarrow’s Torpedo Catchers for British Naw “ Havoc” and “ Hornet,” 848
Yarrow’s Victoria Torpedo - Boat, Accident to 69
Year's Weather, 49
Yellow River Embankment, Breach, 263, 295
Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Alaska, 3, 38
Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone, 3, 38

Zone Tariff in Hungary, 390

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