Engineering 1894 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

Aalborg Portland Cement Works, 800
Abney, Captain, on Photometry, 455, 488, 489, 522
Access Chambers to Aqueduct, Glasgow Water Works, 603
Accident to Chester Bridge, Boston and Albany Railroad, 51
Accident Insurance Funds in Russia, 525
Accident, Railway, at Drummuir, 622
Accounts, Engineering Cost, 1, 68, 218, 249
Adams’ Automatic Lift for Sewage, 500
Admiralty Practice (Contractors), 263
Aerial Cableway near Brighton, Proposed, 145

Agricultural Society, Royal: 833

Aveling and Porter, Spring Mounted Traction Engine, 807
Baling Presses, Hay and Straw (G. Stephenson and Son, Newark), 843
Brick Machinery, 843
Britannia Company’s Oil Engine, 835
Bruising and Grinding Grain (Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, Manchester), 843
Burgess, W. J. H., King’s Lynn, Planting and Raising Potatoes, 843
Campbell’s Oil Engine, 835. See also 741
“ Capitaine” Oil Engine (Tolch and Co.), 835
Chaffcutter, andc. (Messrs. L. R. Knapp and Co., Faringdon), 843
Chaff cutters (Messrs. John Crowley and Co., Sheffield), 843
Churns, 846
Clarke, Chapman, and Co.’s Oil Engine, 838
Clarke’s Crank Company’s Oil Engine, 834, 839
Cooking Hay (Mr. D. A. Fyfe, Stratford), 843
Crossley’s Oil Engine, 807, 834, 838
Crowley and Co., John, Sheffield, Chaffcutters, 843
Daimler Oil Engine, 835
Digger for Cultivation (Cooper Steam Digger Co, Limited), 842
Digging Plough (Messrs. Lloyd, Lawrence, and Co., London), 843
Digging Potatoes, tec., 843
Disintegrator (Messrs. Christy and Norris, Chelmsford), 846
Fawcett, Mr. T. C., Leeds, Brick-Making Machine, 843
Fielding and Platt, Oil Engine, 837
Flour Milling (Mr. G. Croome, Towcester), 846
Forman, H., Derby, Forked Plough, 843
Fowler and Co.’s Steam Ploughs, 842
Fyfe, Mr. D. A., Cooking Hay, 843
Gas Engines, 833
Gas-Making Apparatus (Messrs. E Mansfield and Son, Manchester), 844
Grain Bruiser and Grinder (Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, Manchester), 843
Griffin Oil Engine (Samuelson and Co.’s), 835
Grinding and Bruising Grain (Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, Manchester), 843
Grob, J. M., and Co., Vertical Oil Engine, 822
Hay, Cooking (Mr. D. A. Fyfe, Stratford), 843
Hay and Straw Baling Presses (G. Stephenson and Sons, Newark), 843
Haymaking Machine (Picksley, Sims, and Co., Limited, Leigh), 843
Hoist, Sack (Mr. John Walter, Lowestoft), 844
Hoisting Blocks and Tackle (Pickering Company, Clerkenwell), 844
Holmes and Son, Oil Engine, 838
Hornsby and Co., Oil Engines, 775, 834
Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, 839
Implements, 842
Iron and Steel Exhibit (Weardale Company, Spennymoor), 845
Knapp and Co., L. R., Faringdon, Chaff-cutters, andc., 843
Lloyd, Lawrence, and Co., Digging Plough, 843
Mellon’s Separator (Mr. Harrison Carter, London), 846
Milling Flour (Mr. G. Croome, Towcester), 846
Oil Engines, 775, 807,808, 822, 833
Picking Stone, Machine (Messrs. Woods and Co., Stowmarket, Suffolk), 843
Picksley, Sims and Co., Leigh, Haymaking Machine, 843
Plough, Digging (Messrs. Lloyd, Lawrence, and Co., London), 843
Plough, Forked (H. Forman, Derby), 843
Plough, Steam (Fowler and Co., Leeds), 842
Ploughs (Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies), 843
Potato Digger (Messrs. J. Wallace and Sons, Glasgow, 843
Potato Planting "and Raising (Mr. W. J.
Burgess, King’s Lynn), 843
“ Premier” Oil Engine (Wells Brothers), 838
Priestman’s Oil Engine, 841
Pullan and Mann, Leeds, Brick-Making Machine, 844
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Ploughs, 843
Richmond and Chandler, Manchester, Grain
Bruiser and Grinder, 843
Robey Oil Engine, 808, 834, 842
Root’s Oil Engine, 838
Samuelson and Co.’s, Oil Engine, 835
Separators and Distintegrators, 846
Sieves, Operating, with Circular Motion (Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, Ipswich), 843
Smoke Prevention (British Engineering Company, Limited, Birmingham), 845
Spring Mounted Traction Engine, 807
Steam Diggers, 842
Steam Engines, 842
Stephenson and Co., Robt., Portable Oil Engine, 835, 842
Stephenson and Son, G., Newark (Hay and Straw Baling Presses), 843 <
Stone-Picking Machine (Messrs. Woods and Co.
Stowmarket, Suffolk), 843
Tolch and Co.’s “ Capitaine” Oil Engine, 835
Traction Engines, 807
Trials of Oil Engines, 833
“ Trusty ” Oil Engine (Weyman and Hitchcock), 835
Turner, Ipswich, Operating Sieves with Circular Motion, 843
Vosper’s Oil Engine, 839. See also 647
Wallace and Son, Glasgow, Potato Digger, 843
Walter, Mr. John (Lowestoft), Sack Hoist, 844
Wells Brothers’ Premier Oil Engine, 838
Weyman and Hitchcock’s Oil Engine, 835. See also 711
Windmills, 845
Wire Fencing (Messrs. W. F. Dennis and Co.), 844
Woods and Co., Messrs. (Stowmarket, Suffolk), Stone-Picking Machine, 843

Agricultural, Trials of Self-Binding Harvesters, 20
Air, Compressed, Meter, 811
Air Engines, 739
Air Lift Pump, Pohld, 723, See Letters, Polite. andc.
Air, Phenomena in Upper, 512
Airways in Mines, Resistance of, 393
Alkali Works, Dangerous Occupations, 48
Alignment of Tunnels, Glasgow Water Works, 603
Allis and Co., E. P., Economy of Multiple-Expansion Engines, 794, 828
Allis, Milwaukee, Multiple-Expansion Pumping Engines, 32
Allotropic Modifications of Iron, 854
Alloy, Aluminium Bronze, 186
Alternate Current Electro-Magnets, 656
Alternators, Parallel Working of, 391, 455
Althouse Car Coupler, 804
Aluminium Bronze, 186
Aluminium and Steel, 270, 300
America, Electric Progress in (Mr. W. II. Preece), 171
“America” Locomotive, 645
American Car Couplers, 733, 767, 803, 833
American Colleges and Universities, 82
American Cruiser on Service, 281. See Letters, Cruisers, andc.
American v. English Railway Carriages. See Letters
American Ferry Steamer “Netherlands” (Marvel, Newburg, U.S.A.), 223
American Locomotives, 10, 43, 163, 195, 223, 257, 301, 316, 347, 385, 461, 509, 561, 644, 677, 712
American Mail Service Return, 621
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
American Steam Yacht, A Fast, 655
American Type Locomotive, 163
American Universities, 222, 252
American Water-Tube Boilers, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Eoilers
American Waterways, 324
Analysis of Coal, andc., 3
Analysis of Furnace Gases, 239,299. See Marine Engine Trials
Analysis of Steel, 590
Anchorages of Suspension Bridges, 853
Anderson and Lyall's Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Anderson, Mr. Edward W., on Grafton High-Speed Engine, 538, 590, 630. See Letters, Grafton, <fcc.
Ann Arbor University, 653
Annuals, 249

Antwerp Exhibition:

50, 172, 261, 460, 618
British Section, 618
London,Chatham, and Dover Railway Arrangements, 148
Southampton Dock Exhibit, 621
April Weather, 620
Aqueduct, Barton Swing, 122. See Letters
Aqueduct, Loch Katrine. See Glasgow Water Works
Aqueduct Tunnels, Glasgow Water Works, 535, 601, 635. See also 820
Arbitration (Domination in Labour Questions), 202
Arbitration in Labour Disputes, 357, 453, 651
Arc Lighting (General Electric Company), 752
Arcs of Circle Delineator, 36
Arctic Ocean, Russian Harbour on the, 267
Arcus Hoist on Railway Hand Car, 87
Arithmometers, Calculating Machines, 543
Armament, II.M.S. “ Barfleur,” Trials (Whitworth), 358, 415
Armature, Thomson-Houston (General Electric Company), 752
Armour-Plate Trials at Indian Head, Harveyised, 788
Armour, Recent Experiments in, 375, 465, 530, 598
Armoured Cruisers, Spanish (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 576, 645, 711, 805
Armoured Ships. See Battleships
Arms Palace Horse Car, 195
Armstrong Gun Trials, Chilian Cruiser, 723, 746, 819
Armstrong Quick-Firing Guns, 283, 308, 346
Army Road Steam Engines, 552. See Letters, Road Engines
Arnold, Professor, on the Physical Influence of Elements on Iron, 606, 636, 665, 695, 729
Arnold’s Method of Grinding- Metals, 588, 826
Artificers in Navy. See Letters
Artificers in the Navy, Engine-Room, 328
Artillery, Pedrazzoli Rear Sight for, 778
Artillery, Submarine (Detachable Ram), 378
Asphalte and Mineral Bitumen, 345
Asphalte Pavements, 47
Asquith Radial Drilling Machine (Halifax), 195
Assouan Dams on the Nile, 521. See 784. See Letters, Nile
Assurance Directory, Bourne’s, 249
Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao, Spanish Armoured
Cruisers, 576, 645, 711, 805
Atlantic Liner Passengers, 294
Atlantic Passenger Rate War, 554
Audibility of “Big Ben,” 658
Austria-Hungary Patent Laws, 525
Automatic Coal Gas Retort Company, Rochdale Gas Works, 41
Automatic Lift for Sewage (Adams Company, Limited), 500
Aveling and Porter’s Spring Mounted Traction Engine, 807

Bagnall, Limited, Stafford, Four-Wheel Coupled Locomotive with Baguley’s Valve Gear, 775
Baguley’s Valve Gear on Tank Locomotive (Messrs. Bagnall, Limited, Stafford), 775
Balancing of Engines and Bridge Failures. See Letters
Baldwin Locomotives, 163, 221
Baldwin’s Safety Valves, 678
Bales Car Coupler, 804
Baling Presses, Hay and Straw (G. Stephenson and Son, Newark), 843
Balloon in the World, Largest, 327
Banking in Ireland, 296
Barbette of H.M.S. “ Barfleur,” 415
“ Barfleur” (Battleship) Gun Trials (Whitworth), 358, 415
Barr Car Vestibule, 833
Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding, 10, 81, 87
Bars, Post-Elastic Deformation of, 621
Barton Swing Aqueduct on Manchester Canal, 122. See Letters
Bascules of Tower Bridge, 852
Basic Steel Production, 261
Battleship “ Barfleur,” Gun Trials (Whitworth), 358, 415
Battleship “ Centurion,” Gun Trials of the, 52
Battleship, First-Class, Stability, andc., 360,367,387. See Letters
Battleship “ Jaurdguiberry,” French, 662
Battleships “Resolution” and “Revenge,” Stability, Engines, andc. (Palmers Company, Jarrow), 17. See 146.- See Letters
Battleship “Royal Oak,” Machinery (Laird Brothers, Birkenhead), 514
Battleship Stability, 17. See 146. See Letters
Battleships, New, 389, 421, 424, 485, 519, 547. See Letters, Navy
Bauxite, 443
Beare, Professor T. Hudson, on Marine Engine
Trials, 186, 212, 274. See Letters, Marine Eng hie Trials
Bearings, Expansion, for Bridges, 33
Bearings, Guide, for Railway Rod Connections, 31, 63
Bedson, Mr. J. P., on Iron and Steel Wire Manufacture, 58, 90
Belgian Government Mail Steamer “Marie Henriette” (Cockerill Company, Antwerp), 255, 313
Belgian State Railway, Triple-Boiler Locomotive (Socidtd St. Leonard, Lidge), 573
Belleville Boilers, 758
Belleville Water-Tube Boilers in “Thames”

(Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 622

Belt Power Transmission, Experiments, 186
Belted Cruiser, Spanish (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 577, 645, 711, 805
Belting, Notes on, 36
Belting, Walton’s Link, 52
Berend Company, Pump Lubricator, 500
Berlin, Miners’ Congress at, 685
" Berlin ” Steamer, Earle’s Company (Hook of Holland Route), 555
Bettisfield, Rear Collision at, 592
Bevel Gear, High-Speed, 428
Beyer, Peacock and Co., Limited, Rack Railway Locomotive (Lange-Livesey System), 477
“ Big Ben,” Audibility, 658
Birmingham, Garbage Disposal, 415
Birmingham Gas Works, 447
Birmingham and the North Train Service, 155
“ Blanco Encalada,” Gunnery Trials, Chilian Cruiser, 723, 746, 819
Blast Furnaces, Capacity and Form of, 604
Blasting Subaqueous Rock, 27, 56
Blechynden Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube. Boilers
“ BlUcher” Locomotive, 644
Blyth Shipbuilding, 10, 81, 87
Boiler Experiments, Steam, 774. Se Vol. Ivi., page 752
Boiler Explosion near Bristol, 556
Boiler Explosion at Buckie, 317
Boiler Explosion, German Warship “ Brandenburg,” 860
Boiler Explosion at Guildhall, Heating, 243
Boiler Explosion at Huddersfield, 824
Boiler Explosion at Leeds, 266, 272
Boiler Explosion at Middlesbrough, 743
Boiler Explosion near Walsingham, 466
Boiler Explosion, Wigan, 150
Boiler Explosions Act, Working of the, 327
Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, 170, 182. See 243. See Letters
Boiler Furnace Grates, 185
Boiler, Kitchen, Explosions, 80, 182
Boiler and Superheater, Simpsons and McPhail’s, 244. See Letters, Generator, andc.
Boiler Tubes, Leaky, 331
Boiler, Tubulous. See Tubulous Boiler
Boiler, Tubulous, 381, 385, 430. See Letters
Boilers, Belleville, 758
Boilers, Expansion Strains in, 237
Boilers of H.M. Battleship “ Royal Oak” (Laird
Brothers, Birkenhead), 514
Boilers of H.M.S. “ Malacca,” 462
Boilers, Oil-Carrying Steamers (Messrs. Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 72, 209, 238
Boilers, Spanish Belted Cruisers (Astilleros del
Nervion, Bilbao). See 577, 645, 711, 805
Boldi, M. A., on Covered Markets, 671
Bombay Pumping Engines, Worthington TripleExpansion (J. Simpson and Co., Limited, London), 578
Borings, Petroleum, in North Caucasus, 393
Boston, Submerged Sewer at Shirley Gut, 348
Boulet and Company’s Land Dredger (Paris), 123, 126
Boulogne and Thames Excursion Steamer “La Marguerite ” (Fairfield Company), 857
Brake, A Modified Prony, 67
Brake Patents, The New York Air Brake Company, 21
Brake Patents, Westinghouse, in America, 21
“ Brandenburg ” Explosion, 860
Brazil’s Affairs, 818
Breaking Down Point of Iron and Steel, 50
Breakwater, Copenhagen, 93
Breakwaters and Sea Defences in Italy, 179, 302, 337
Breech Mechanism, Fletcher Rapid-Fire, 740
Breuer-Schumacher 1200-Ton Hydraulic Forging Press, 241
Brick Machinery, 843
Bridge at Brisbane, Proposed New, 297
Bridge, Chester, on the Boston and Albany Railroad, Failure of, 51
Bridge Construction, A Practical Treatise on, 801
Bridge Failures, Balancing of Engines. See Letters
Bridge, Fall of the Louisville and Jeffersonville, 174
Bridge, Glasgow, 226. See Letters
Bridge, Lift, over the Chicago River, 776
Bridge, Rail, on the Mauritius Railway, 330
Bridge, Road, at Wooler, Northumberland, 289
Bridge, Suspension, Anchorages, 853
Bridge, Tower, 852
Bridges, Aqueduct. See Glasgoiv Water Works
Bridges, Expansion Bearings for, 33
Bridges on Line of Aqueduct, Glasgow Water Works, 635
Bridges on Manchester Canal, 114
Bridges on North-West India Railway, 612
Bridges over Rhone at Lyons, 394
Bridges and Roofs, Stresses in, 342
Bright, Mr. Charles, on Yof-Dakar Underground Cable, 617
Brighton, Proposed Aerial Cableway near, 145
Briquette Fuel, 632
Briquette Machine (Mr. R. Middleton, Leeds), 542
Brisbane, Proposed New Bridge at, 297
Bristol, Boiler Explosion, 556
Britain’s Trade, Supremacy of, 719
Britannia Company’s Oil Engine, 835
British Conservatism and Australian Patriotism, 24
British Cruisers “Powerful” and “ Terrible,” 24, 45, 51
British Food Supply, 264
British Locomotives, 758
British Royal Commission Report, 688
British Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Havock” (Yarrow), 72
Bronze, Aluminium, 186
Bronze, Experimental Determination of Poisson’s Ratio, 760
Brown, Mr. A., on Ferry Steamers, 689
Brown's Emergency Link Coupler, 804
Bruising and Grinding Grain (Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, Manchester), 843
Buckeye Valve Gear, 32
Buckie, Boiler Explosion at, 317
Buhoup-Miller Railway Car Platform, 733
Builder’s Price Book, Laxton’s, 249
Building Construction, Advanced, 313
Building Trades Exhibition, National, 424
Buildings, Fireproof, 273
Bulkheads of Oil-Carrying Steamers (Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 209, 238
Bullet-Proof Cuirass, 726, 753. See Letters,
Burgess, W. J. H., King’s Lynn, Planting and Raising Potatoes, 843
Burma, Oil in, 688 .
Burmeister and Wain, Centrifugal Tar Separator, 778
Byford, William, on Captain Wiggins’ Expedition to River Yenisei, Siberia, 82

Cable Railway, Otis Elevating, Catskill Mountain, 408, 474
Cables, Submarine Telegraph, 296
Cables, Yof-Dakar Underground, 617
Cableway, Aerial, near Brighton, Proposed, 14o
Calculating Machine, Mathematical, 350. Sei also 687
Calculating Machines, 542
Cambridge, Royal Agricultural Show. Sei u Agricultural Show, Royal
“Campania” and “Lucania,” Year’s Steaming S.S., 553. See Letters
Campbell Oil Engine, 741, 835
Canal. See Manchester Shiv Canal
Canal Congress, The Hague, 753
Canal, Dutch North Sea, 237
Canal, Manchester, as an Engineering Structure. 107 °
Canal, Manchester Ship, Proposed Freights, 19
Canal, Proposed Forth and Clyde Ship, 487
Canal, Ship, Humber to Wakefield, 146, 615
Canal, Suez, and Shipping, 722
Canal Towage, Electric, Bourgogne, 362
Canals in America, 324
Canals in Denmark, Projected, 456
Canals in Germany, Projected, 204
Canary Islands, Water Supply, 23
“ Canda ” Cattle Car, 253
“Canda” Sliding Bottom Gondola Car (Ensign Company, Huntingdon), 711
“ Canda ” Timber Flat Car, 414
Cannon-Street, Railway Collision at, 656
Canoes, Steel, 683
Capacity and Form of Blast-Furnaces, 604
“ Capitaine ” Oil Engine (Tolch and Co.), 835 Capital and Labour. See Letters
Capitalist and Labourer, 357, 651
Capstans, Electric (Humpidge and Snoxell, Limited), 475
Car, Arms Palace Horse, 195
Car, “ Canda” Timber Flat, 414
Car Couplers, American, 733, 767, 803, 833
Car Heating and Lighting Appliances (Safety Company, New York), 287, 335
Car, Railway Hand, with Arcus Hoist, 87
Car, 60,000-Lb. Fruit, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railroad, 227
Car, Sliding Bottom Gondola (Ensign Company, Huntingdon), 711
Car Starting Apparatus, Tram, 363
Car for Transportation of Live Poultry, 542
Car-Weighing Plant (Streeter-Amet Company. Chicago), 12
Car-Wheel Grinding Machine (Ensign Company Huntington, West Virginia), 72
Cars, Coal and Platform Railway, Zuvpen and Charlier, 480
Cars, Early American Locomotives and, 712
Cars, Eastman’s Refrigerator, 365
Cars, Electric Heating of Motor, 854
Cars with Fox’s Pressed Steel Underframes, 446
Cars, 42-Ft. Lavatory Composite, London and North-Western Railway, 414
Cars, Open and Closed Street, 611
Cars, Pullman, Parlour, Passenger, Smoking and Baggage, 38, 676
Cars, Sleeping Saloon, London and North-Western Railway, 414
Cars, Street, Pullman, 676
Cars, United States Post Office, 385
Cars, Wagner Palace, 162
Carbon-Boron Grinding Material, 655
Carbon Steel, Results of Heat Treatment on Manganese Steel, and their Bearing upon, 607. 636 665, 695, 729
Carburetted Water Gas, 817
Carnegie Fireproof Buildings, 273
Carpentry, Elements of Handicraft and Design, 803
Carriage Seat, Wood’s Woven Wire (Longford Company), 545
Carriage-Way Pavements, 47, 84
Carriages, American v. British. See Letters
Cask-Making Machine (J. Pickles and Son. Heb-den Bridge), 481
Castings, Steel, 158
Catskill Mountain Elevating Railway, Otis 411 474 ’ ’
Cattle Car, “Canda,” 253
Caucasus, North, Petroleum Wells, 393
Chaffcutter, andc. (Messrs. L. R. Knapp and Co.
Faringdon), 843
Chaffcutters (Messrs. John Crowlev and Co Sheffield), 843
Chain Mortising Machine, 424
“ Charleston,” Cruise of, 281
Chemical Occupations, Dangerous, 48
Chester Bridge on the Boston and Albany Railroad, 51
Chicago River Lift Bridge, 776
Chicago University, 252
Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” Trials. 723 746, 819 1 ’
Chilian War, American Cruiser on Service, 281. See Letters, Cruisers, andc.
Churns, 846
Cimino, Gius., on Rock Dredging, 27, 56
Circulation Boiler Explosion at Leeds, 266, 272
Circulation of Water-Tube Boilers, 381, 385, 430.
See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
City of London Electric Supply Company’s Station, 583

Civil Engineers, Institution of:

723, 743. See Letter.
Concentration and Sizing of Crushed Minerals, by Mr. Robert E. Commans, 92
Tunnels on the Dore and Chinley Railway, by Mr. Percy Rickard, 181
Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, by Mr. Bover-ton Redwood, 205
Liverpool Overhead Railway, by Messrs. J. H. Greathead and F. Fox, 334
Electrical Equipment of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, by Mr. T. Parker, 334
The Prevention and Detection of Waste of Water, by Mr. Ernest Collins, 403
Construction of Gas Works, by Mr. Charles i Hunt, 447 I
The Training of Rivers, by Mr. L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, 525
Estuaries, by Mr. H. L. Partiot, 526
The Manufacture of Briquette Fuel, by Mr. I William Colquhoun, 632 '
Recent Types of Ferry Steamers, by Air. An- i drew Brown, 689
The Birkenhead Ferryboats “Wirral” and “Mersey,” by Mr. Charles Jones, 690
Annual Meeting : Premiums, andc., 723
The Relation of Mathematics to Engineering, by Dr. John Hopkinson, 728, 762
See Letters, Masonry Dams
Premiums and Prizes, 743
Cells, Some Applications of Electrolytic, 772
Cement Concrete Making, Portland, 754
Cement, Dry Method of Making Portland, 708, 735, 799
Cement Industry in Norway, 84
Central Station Refrigerating Plant, 267
Central Stations, Cost of Running, 585, 652,720
Central Stations, Electric, 537, 563, 592, 632
Centrifugal Tar Separator, 778
“Centurion,” Gun Trials of H.M.S., 52
Clarke, Chapman, and Co.’s Oil Engine, 838
Clarke’s Crank Company’s Oil Engine, 834, 839
Climax Lathe Carrier, 428
Clyde and Forth Ship Canal, Proposed, 487
Clyde Joiners’ Strike (Domination in Labour Questions), 202
Clyde River Purification and Weir, 325
Clyde Shipbuilding, 87
Clyde Steamers, Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company’s, 742
Coaches, Old Passenger, 713
Coal Combustion and Spontaneous Heating, 379, 463
Coal Gas and its Consumption, 686, 816
Coal, Gases Inclosed in, 144
Coal Mining, Sample Analyses, 3
Coal, Railway Cars, Zuypen and Charlier, 480
Coal Tar for Making Gas, 817
Coal, Treatment and Mining, 443
Coale Safety Relief and Vacuum Valves, 612
Cochrane, Mr. John, Barrhead, Compound Mill
Engine, Corliss Valve Gear, 397
Cockerill Company, John, 393
Cockerill Company, Antwerp, Belgian Government Mail Steamer “Marie Henriette,” 255, 313. See 393
Colliery Accidents, 299
Colliery Pumping Plant, Electric (Ernest Scott and Mountain), 350
Collins, Mr. Arthur E., on Machines for Breaking up Roads, 486, 496, 547
Collision at Bettisfield, Rear, 592
Collision at Cannon-Street, 656
Collision, Railway, at King’s Cross, 268
Collision, Railway, at Tain, 792
Collision. Railway, at Thorpe’s Bridge, 542
“Columbia,” United States Cruiser, 25. See Letters

Columbian fixposition :

Althouse Car Coupler, 804
“ America” Locomotive, 645
American Car Couplers, 733, 767, 803, 833
American Colleges and Universities, 82
American Locomotives, 10, 43, 163, 195, 223, 257, 301, 316, 347, 385, 461, 509, 561, 644, 677, 712
“ American ” Type Locomotive, 163
American Universities, 222, 252
Arc Lighting (General Electric Company), 752
Arcus Hoist on Railway Hand-Car, 87
Armature, Thomson-Houston (General Electric
Company), 752
Arms Palace Horse Car, 195
Armstrong Quick-Firing Guns, 283, 308, 346
Baldwin Locomotives, 163, 221
Bales Car Coupler, 804
Barr Car Vestibule, 833
“BlUcher” Locomotive, 644
Breech Mechanism, Fletcher Rapid-Fire, 740
British Royal Commission Report, 688
Brown’s Emergency Link Coupler, 804
Buhoup-Miller Railway Car Platform, 733
“ Canda ” Cattle Car, 253
“ Canda” Sliding Bottom Gondola Car (Ensign Company, Huntingdon), 711
“ Canda ” Timber Flat Car, 414
Car, Arms Palace Horse, 195
Car, “Canda,” Timber Flat, 414
Car Couplers, American, 733, 767, 803, 833
Car Heating and Lighting Appliances (Safety Company, New York), 287, 335
Car, Railway Hand, with Arcus Hoist, 87
Car, Sliding Bottom Gondola (Ensign Company, Huntingdon), 711
Car, 60,000-Lb. Fruit, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railroad, 227
Car for Transportation of Live Poultry, 542 Car-Weighing Plant (Streeter-Amet Company,
Chicago), 12
Car-Wheel Grinding Machine (Ensign Company, Huntingdon, West Virginia), 72
Cars, Coal and Platform Railway, Zuypen and Charlier, 480
Cars, Early American Locomotives and, 712
Cars, Eastman’s Refrigerator, 365
Cars, 42-Ft. Lavatory Composite, London and North-Western Railway, 414
Cars with Fox’s Pressed Steel Underframes, 446
Cars, Open and Closed Street, 611
Cars, Pullman, Parlour, Passenger, Smoking, and Baggage, 38, 676
Cars, Sleeping Saloon, London and North-Western Railway, 414
Cars, Street, Pullman, 676
Cars, United States Post Office, 385
Cars, Wagner Palace, 162
Cattle Car, “Canda,” 253
Coaches, Old Passenger, 713
Coale Safety Relief and Vacuum Valves, 612
Composite and Sleeping Cars, London and North-Western Railway, 414
Compound Engine, 300 Horse-Power Horizontal (Harrisburg Company), 194
Compound Locomotive, Schenectady, 347
Compound Locomotive, Webb’s, 610. See
Letters, Locomotives, dec.,
Cooke’s Locomotive, 195
Couplers, American Railway Car, 733, 767, 803, 833
Crane, Locomotive, 15-Ton (Industrial Works, Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A.), 177
Decapod Locomotive, 223
Dick and Church High-Speed Horizontal Engines (Phoenix Company, Meadville, Pa.), 574
Drexel Steel Car Coupler, 833
Dynamo, Thomson-Houston (General Electric Company), 752
Early American Locomotives and Cars, 712. See also 316, 644
Early English Locomotives, 316, 644
Eastman Refrigerator Cars, andc., 365
Electric Arc Lighting Plant (General Electric Company), 752
Electric Launches, 311
Electric Lighting of Trains, Gibbs Tender, 6
Electric Transfer Table (Industrial Works, Michigan), 55
Elswick Quick-Firing Guns, 283, 308, 346
Engine, 300 Horse-Power Horizontal Compound (Harrisburg Company), 194
Engines, Dick and Church High-Speed Horizontal (Phoenix Company, Meadville, Pa.),
Engines, Westinghouse, 70
English Locomotives, Early, 316, 644
Fives-Lille Company Locomotive, State Railways of France, 742
Fletcher Rapid-Fire Breech Mechanism, 740
Fox’s Pressed Steel Underframes, 446
France, State Railways, Fives-Lille Company Locomotive, 742
Fruit Car, 60,000-Lb., Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railroad, 227
“General,” American War Locomotive, 385
General Electric Company’s Exhibit, 752
Gibbs Light and Heat Tender, 6
Gould Car Coupler, 767
Gun Breech Mechanism, Fletcher Rapid-Fire, 740
Guns, Armstrong, Quick-Firing, 283, 308, 346
Guns, Krupp, 567, 641,673
Hand Car, Railway, with Arcus Hoist, 87
Heating and Lighting Cars (Safety Company, New York), 287, 335
Heating and Lighting Trains, Gibbs Tender, 6
Hinson Car Coupler, 803
Hoist, Arcus, on Railway Hand-Car, 87
Horse Car, Arms Palace, 195
Janney Railway Car Platform and Couplers, 733
“John Bull” Locomotive, 712
Johns Hopkins University, 222
Krupp Ordnance, 567, 641, 673
Launches, Electric, 311
Lighting and Heating Cars (Safety Company, New York), 287, 335
Lighting and Heating Trains, Gibbs Tender, 6
Locomotive, American War, 385
Locomotive, Cooke’s, 195
Locomotive Crane, 15-Ton (Industrial Works, Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A.), 177
Locomotive, Decapod, 223
Locomotive, Fives-Lille Company, State Railways of France, 742
Locomotive, Old Colony, 461
Locomotive, Rhode Island Consolidation Compound, 316
Locomotive, Richmond Company, 677
Locomotive, Rogers, 43, 301, 561
Locomotive, Schenectady, 257, 347, 509
Locomotive, Switching, 257
Locomotives, American, 10, 43, 163, 195 223 257, 301, 316, 347, 385, 461, 509, 561, 644, 677’ 712
Locomotives, Baldwin, 163, 221
Locomotives, Early American, 316, 644, 712
Locomotives, Early English, 316, 644
Locomotives, Pittsburgh, 10
Locomotives, Webb’s System of Compounding, 610. See Letters
London and North-Western Locomotives, 610.
See Letters, Locomotives,
London and North-Western Railway Composite and Sleeping Cars, 414
Mail Cars, United States, 385
McConway and Torley Car Platforms and Couplers, 733
Michigan University (Ann Arbor), 653
Miller Railway Car Platform, 733, 770, 803, 833
“ Mogul” Locomotive (Baldwin), 163
Mortar Carriage, 12-In. Spring Return (Builders
Iron Foundry, Providence, R.I.), 258
Mortars, Krupp, 567, 641, 673
National Car Coupler, 767
Naval Guns, Krupp, 567, 641, 673
Official Report, 86
Oil Fuel at the Chicago Exposition, 692
Old Colony Locomotive, 461
Parlour and Passenger Cars (Pullman), 38
Pittsburgh Locomotives, 10
Platforms, American Railway Car, 733, 767, 803 833
Post Office Cars, United States, 385
Poultry Transportation Car, 542
Pullman Cars, 38, 676
Pullman Street Cars, 676
Quick-Firing Breech Mechanism, Fletcher, 740
Quick-Firing Guns, Armstrong, 283, 308, 346
Quick-Firing Guns, Krupp, 567, 641, 673
Railway Cars. See Cars
Railway Car Couplers, 733, 767, 803, 833
Refrigerator, Eastman’s Cars, tec., 365
Relief and Vacuum Valves, Coale Safety, 612
Report by British Royal Commission, 688
Rhode Island Consolidation Compound Locomotive, 316
Richmond Company’s Locomotive, 677
“ Rocket” Locomotive, 316, 645
Rogers Locomotive, 43, 301, 561
Schenectady Locomotive, 257, 347, 509
Sleeping and Composite Cars, London and
North-Western Railway, 414
Smoking Cars (Pullman), 38
Street Cars, Pullman, 676
Switching Locomotive, 257
Thomson-Houston Arc Lighting and Compound-Wound Dynamos, 752
Timber Flat Car, “ Canda,” 414
Train Lighting and Heating, Gibbs Tender, 6
Tram Cars, Open and Closed Street, 611
Tramway Cars. See Street Cars
Transfer Table, Electric (Industrial Works, Michigan), 55
Trojan Car Coupler, 767
Truck, Standard Six-Wheel, New York Central Railroad, 709 See 803, 833
S" S—llk-Wheel, New York Cen-
WbbbTsystem of Compounding Locomotives, Weighingepiant^^tomatm Cm-(Streeter-Amet
Company, Chicago), 12
w^r^Grindi^MLhine, Car (Ensign Com-
Higdon, West Virginia), 72
u w’vl'im Dillv ” Locomotive, 644 .
ColvY^Sk Auckland on Sanitatmn m Indm, 549 Combustion in I ?' Columbia,” United
Commerce - »es‘1,°5"ER8 “Columbia"
Coimnerciai Aspects of Manchester Canal, 105,
Commission on labour, ofBoyal, 849
X’Sand Xing Cats, London and North-ComXdEnR’3^ Home-Power Horizontal C^pffiS^e™
Conciliation in Labour Disputes, 357, 453, 651
Condensa^n^n ^Xm^Tripl^Expansion
congreTst’M^^^avigation, The^i^ue, 753
Railway Congress
Constitution of Flame, 489
Construction, Advanced '
Construction of Gas Works, 44/
Consumption of Smoke, 7 /
Contractors and the Admiralty, 263
Contractors’ Directory, o09 435
Contracts for New Warships, 389, 421, 424, 48o, 519, 547
Cooke’s Locomotive, 19o
“y.e, Strata,, 8<3
Copenhagen Breakwater >93
Copper, Saws for Cutting, 624
Copper Sheets, Manufacture of, 624
Co^’Valve Gear, Compound Mill Engine
Corrdsh’^Bolie^Experiments, 774. See vol. Ivi.
Colorations and the Purchase of Tramways,
144,297,483
Corrosion, Curious Case of, 544
Corrosion of Iron and Steel, 203
Corrosion of Underground pd^s, Electrical, .4
Cost Accounts, Engineering, 1, 68, 218,,24.
Cost of Concrete Lining, Glasgow Watei W oiks,
Cost5 of Driving Tunnels, Glasgow Water Works,
Cost of Electric Energy, 585, 6o2, 720
Cost of Private Electric Lighting, 851
Cost of Railway Wagon Repairs, 270, 300
Cost of Swedish Iron, 11 .
Cotton Weaving and Designing, 313
Couplers, American Railway Car, / 33, 76/, 80.5, 833
Covered Markets in Europe, 671, 705
Craig and Donald, Johnstone, Scrap-Cutting Machine, 727 .
Craigmaddie Reservoir, Glasgow, /03, /38
Crampton-Smith Position Finder, 644
Crane, 160-Ton Hydraulic (Tannett Walker and Co ) 259
Crane, Locomotive, 15-Ton (Industrial Works, Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A.), 177
Crane, Travelling, Railway Collision, 60
Cranes and Excavators, 123, 126
Cranks from Shafts, Removing, 483, 623, 680
Creswick, the Late James Frost, 563.
Croll, Mr. D., on Triple-Expansion Engines at Reduced Pressures, 410, 529.
Crompton, Mr. R. E., on Cost of Electric Energy, 585, 652, 720
Crosland, Mr. J. F. L., on Simpsons and McPhail s
Steam Generator and Superheater, 244. bee Letters, Generators, tfcc.
Crossley’s Oil Engine, 807, 834, 838
Crowley and Co., John, Sheffield, Chaffcutters, 843
Crucible, Petroleum Furnace, 162.
Cruiser “ Blanco Encalada,” Gunnery Trials of Chilian, 723, 746, 819.
Cruiser “Columbia,” United States, 25. bee IjETT'ERS
Cruiser Dynamo (E. Scott and Mountain, Limited), 475,,
Cruisers “Powerful” and “Terrible, 24, 45, 51
Cruiser on Service, American, 281. See Letters, CvuiscTS
Cruiser, Spanish Belted (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 576, 645, 711, 805
Crystal Palace Gas Works, 447
Cuirass, Bullet-Proof, 726, 753. See Letters .
Cunard Steamers “ Lucania ” and Campania,
Year’s Steaming, 553. See Letters, Campania
Curve Delineator, 36 ,
Curves of Current in Transformers and Electro-Magnet, 657
Cutter Sharpener (Lister, Keighley), 591
Cylinder Condensation (Triple-Expansion hn gines), 410, 529
Cylindrical Marine Boiler, An Early, 462
Cylindrical v. Tubulous Boilers, 381, 385, 430. See Letters

Daimler Oil Engine, 835
D’Allest Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Dam, Assouan, 223, 521, 784. See Letters
Dams on the Nile, 233
Dangerous Occupations, 48
Danish Portland Cement Works, 800
Danube, European Commission on the, 752
“Danube,” Royal Mail Liner (Thompson, Limited, Clydebank), 620
“Daring,” Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Thornv-croft), 850 J
Dawson, Mr. Philip, on Guernsey Electric Tramway, 411
Deacon’s Water-Waste Detection, 818
Death Rate and Temperature, 434
Decapod Locomotive, 223
December Weather, 21
Deformation of Bars, Post-Elastic, 621
“Delaware,” Oil-Carrying Steamer (Messrs. Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 72, 209, 238
Denmark, Patent Laws, 525
Denmark, Projected Canals in, 456
Denny, Dumbarton, Engines Working at Reduced Power, 204
Denny, Dumbarton, International Company’s T.S.S. “ Southwark,” 51
Derelicts, Marine Dangers, 817
Design of Battleships, 389, 421, 424, 485, 519, 547. See Letters, Navy
Designs of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 237
Detachable Rams (Submarine Artillery), 378
Detection of Waste of Water, 403, 818
Determination of Phosphorus in Coal, 473
Devil’s Dyke, Proposed Aerial Cableway near Brighton, 145
Diagram, Metal Prices, 24, 176, 300, 460, 624, 757
Diagrams, Indicator, 68
Dick and Church High-Speed Horizontal Engines (Phcenix Company, Meadville, Pa.), 574
Dielectrics, 700
Dieppe and Newhaven Steamers “Seine” and “ Thames ” (Forges et Chan tiers, Havre), 622
Diffraction, Some Observations in, 206
Digger for Cultivation (Cooper Steam Digger Company, Limited), 842
Digging Plough (Messrs. Lloyd, Lawrence, and Co., London), 843
Digging Potatoes, andc., 843
Dinner of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 524
Directories, 249, 509
Disinfecting Apparatus, 162
Disintegrator (Messrs. Christy and Norris, Chelmsford), 846
Dock, Manchester, 131
Docks, Salford, 131
Docks, Southampton, 621
Dockyards and Eight-Hours Day, 854
Domination in Labour Questions, 202
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Steam Boiler Experiments, 774. See Vol. Ivi., page 752
Dore and Chinley Railway Tunnels, 181
Dover and Ostend Mail Steamer “Marie Henriette” (Cockerill Company, Antwerp), 255, 313
Dover Railway Station Roof, Fall of, 92
Dowe’s Bullet-Proof Cuirass, 726, 753. See Letters, Cuirass
Draining Lands, Pump and Windmill, 207, 239, 270, 334
Drawing, Machine, 675
Drawings, Torpedo-Boat, 459
Dredger and Soil Transporter, 123, 126
Dredging Operations on Manchester Canal, 123
Dredging, Rock, 27, 56
Drexel Steel Car Coupler, 833
Drill, Four - Spindle Sensitive, Vanderbeck’s (United States Machine Company, Hartford, Conn.), 760
Drilling Machine, Hunter’s Furnace Mouth (Hawthorns, Leith), 823
Drilling Machine, Radial (Asquith, Halifax), 195
Drilling and Tapping Machine (Loudon Brothers, Glasgow), 613. See Erratum, 656
Driving, Pile, 334
Drummuir, Railway Accident at, 622
Dryness of Steam, Testing, 818
Dunlop, Messrs. D. J. and Co., Port Glasgow, Oil - Carrying Steamers “Delaware” and “Lackawanna,” 72, 209, 238
Duplexing Submarine Cables, 583
Dllrr Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Dust, Grahamite, Explosion of, 508
Dutch North Sea Canal, 237
Dynamo for Chilian Cruiser (E. Scott and Mountain, Limited), 475
Dynamo, Thomson-Houston (General Electric Company), 752

Early American Locomotives and Cars, 712. See also 316, 644
Early English Locomotives, 316, 644
Eastman Refrigerator Cars, andc., 365
Economical Speed of Steamships, 54
Economy of the Eight-Hours Day, 422, 753
Economy of Gas Engines, 819
Economy of Steam Engine, Maximum, 794, 828
Edinburgh and Tramway Purchase, 297. See also 144
Education, Technical, 79
Effect of Water in Steam, 185
Egyptian Irrigation, Assouan Dam, 223, 521, 784.
See Letters, Nile
Eight-Hours Day, Economy of the, Mather’s Report, 422, 753
Eight-Hours Day. See Letters
Eight-Hours Day Division, 334
Eight-Hours Day in the Dockyards, 854
Eight v. Ten Hours’ Shifts, Tunnel Driving, Glasgow Works, 601
Elastic Strength of Ring, 489, 526. See Letters.
See Erratum, 526
Electric Arc Lighting Plant (General Electric Company), 752
Electric Capstans (Humpidge and Snoxell, Limited), 475
EandMoun®', (ErneSt Scott
Electric Cooking, 819
Electric Energy, Cost of, 585, 652, 720
^{ectric Engineering in the Law Courts, 583
Aberneth/S? ing Apparatus> Timmis and Electric Gun Gearing, 662
h ectric Heating of Motor Cars, 854
AUernatoSf^ Je5rieS’ ParaHel W°rkin^ of Electric Launches, 311
Electric Lighthouses, 208, 333
Electric Lighting, 537, 563, 592, 632
F City, London, 235
FUnJ -C Cost of Private, 851
tk>n1C84lghtmg Schemes’ Influence of Legisla-rJpoh-ic g£}.ing Stati<*ns, Voltmeters for, 555
L^hting of Trains, Gibbs’ Tender, 6 Electric Locomotive Trials, Heilmann, 655 Electric Power, 537, 563, 592, 632 p!^rJc P°wer Transmission at Periyar, 785 Electric Progress in America (Mr. W. H. Preece), E3OC7t;'375Ra437jo3'85? Sal6ve’ GeneVa> Electne Radiation, the Work of Hertz, 751 F £UPP> Portsinouth Corporation, 747 Electric Traction, 394, 556, 627, 658
mracJjon Cosfc» 503- See 307, 375, 437 Electric Traction System, Conduit, 590
MganX 5?er Tab'e (Industrial Works, E1362liO T°Wage °n the Canal de Bourgogne, Electric Tramway, Guernsey, 411
Electric Transmission in Norway, 818
F JonS1ilis!-0n Power*in Sweden, 50 Electrical Conduction in Metals, 656
Uectrical Corrosion of Underground Pines 24 Electrical Directory, Berly’s, 249* ’ ~
Electrical Engineers, Institution of •
Presulencal Address, by Mr! "“"“siemens, Electrical Progress in America, by Mr W H Preece, 171 ••
Testing the Magnetic Qualities of Iron, by Mr Gisbert Kapp, 326’
T W Pv'\}el?Vor^ng of Alternators, by Mr. W. M. Mordey, 391, 455
The Best Resistance for the Receiving Instrument of a Leaking Telegraph Line, by Pro-hATaw E‘ AyrtOn and Mr- C' S- White-
Universal Shunt Box for Galvanometers, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Mr. T. Mather,
Voltmeters for Electric Lighting Stations, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Mr. T. Mather ooo *
The Cost of Electrical Energy, by Mr R F Crompton, 585, 652, 720 ’ *
Electrical Locomotive, Heilmann, 175
Electrical Phenomena, Wimshurst, 341
Electrical Theorem, A New, 304
(MeSSrS’ Hayward
Electricity Manual, 772
Electrolytic Cells, Some Applications, 772
Electro-Magnetic Induction, 700
Electro-Magnetic Oscillations, 700
Electro-Magnets, Alternate Current, Winding bob
Elevating Railway, Otis, Catskill Mountain, 411,
Elevator Bridge over Chicago River, 776
Ellesmere Port, 131
Ellis, Mr. Chas. H., on Recent Experiments in Armour, 375, 465, 530, 598
Elswick Quick-Firing Guns, 283, 308, 346
Emigrants, Atlantic Passengers, 294
Employers and Employed, 357, 651
Employers’ Liability. See Letters
Engelhart, Mr. Chr., on the Dry Method of Mak
ing Portland Cement, 708, 735, 799
Engine Balancing and Bridge Failures. See Letters
Engine, Compound Mill, with Corliss Valve Gear (Cochrane, Barrhead), 397
Engine, Compound with Proell Gear (Messrs. Westgarth, English, and Co., Middlesbrou-h) 6/8 °
Engine Design, Elementary Lessons in, with Examples, 313 ’
F*re> Light Suburban (Merryweather),
Engine, Gas, 200 Horse-Power Fielding Tandem, Engine High-Speed Single Cylinder (Messrs. J. P. Hall and Co.), 791
Engine, 300 Horse-Power Horizontal Compound (Harrisburg Company), 194
Engine, Marine, Trials, 186, 212, 274 Spp Letters’
Engine, Oil, Campbell, 741, 835
Engine, Oil, Crossley’s Portable, 807, 834 838
Engme, Oil, Robey, Horizontal Fixed, 808 834 842 ’*
Engine, Oil, Vertical (Messrs. J. M. Grob and Co., Leipzig-Eutntzsch), 822
Engine, Oil, Vosper’s Launch, 647. See 839
Engine, Portable Centrifugal Pumping, Fitted for Oil Fuel (Gwynne), 318
Engine Reversing Gear, Joy’s Fluid Pressure 411, 432, 539, 695. See Lexers, Joy^sGear '
Engine-Room Artificers, 421, 485, 519 547 Rpp
Letters, Navy ’
Engine-Room Artificers in the Navy, 328
El^ne» steam, Grafton High-Speed, 538, 590, 630. See Letters ’
?ron^0n’ Mounted (Aveling and
1 orter), 80/
Engine, “ Trusty,” Portable Oil (Messrs Wev-man and Hitchcock), 711, 835
Engines, Clyde Steamers “Neptune” and ‘Mercury” (Messrs. D. Rowan and Son Glasgow), 742
Engines, Compound v. Triple-Expansion (Thomson, Clydebank), 572, 615. See 717
Engines, Dick and Church High-Speed Horizontal (Phoenix Company, Meadville, Pa.), 574
Engines, Economy of Multiple-Expansion, 794, 828
Engines, Gas, Economy of, 819
Engines, Gas, Oil, and Air, 739, 835
Engines of H.M. Battleship “Royal Oak” (Laird Brothers, Birkenhead), 514
Engines, Hydraulic Pumping (Taylor and
Challen, Birmingham), 544. See Erratum, 577
Engines, Marine, Steam Pressure Losses in, 410
Engines, Multiple-Expansion (Allis, Milwaukee), 32
Engines, Oil. See Agricultural Show, Royal
Engines, Oil, Fixed and Portable (Messrs.
Hornsby, Grantham), 775
Engines, Paddle Compound, Belgian Mail Steamer “ Marie Henriette ” (Coekerill Company, Antwerp), 255, 313
Engines, Petroleum, 478. See also Oil Engines
Engines, Road Steam, 552. See Letters
Engines of S.S. “Queen Olga” Working at Reduced Power, 204
Engines, S.S. Trawler “Hermes” (Hall, Aberdeen), 352
Engines, Spanish Belted Cruisers (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 577, 645, 711, 805
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of Battleships “ Resolution” and “ Revenge” (Palmers Company, Jarrow), 17. See 146. See Letters
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Oil-Carrying Steamers (Messrs. Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 72, 209, 238
Engines, Triple-Expansion, at Reduced Pressures, 410, 529
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Worthington Pumping (J. Simpson and Co., Limited, London), 578
Engines, Westinghouse, 70
Engines Working at Reduced Power, 204
Engineering Cost Accounts, 1, 68, 218, 249
Engineering Experience, Records of, 617
Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding, 7, 39, 81, 87, 551
Engineering and Mathematics, 728, 762
Engineering in Norway, 174
Engineers and Iron Trades Directory, 249
Engineers, Marine, The Position of, 169. See Letters
Engineers, Military and Civil Appointments. See Letters
Engineers, Telegraph, in India, 324
Engineers’ Year Book, 573. See Letters
England, Shipbuilding in, 7, 40, 81. See 87
English v. American Railway Carriages. See Letters
English Locomotives, Early, 316, 644
English Trade Abroad, Development of, 23
Enrichment of Coal Gas, 686, 816
Ensign Manufacturing Company’s Sliding Bottom Gondola Car, 711
Equipment of Shafts, Sinking and, 153, 217, 279, 405, 533, 669
Estuaries, 526
Ether, Isothermals of, 825
European Covered Markets, 671, 705
Evaporator, Morison’s, 291
Excavation, Dry, on Manchester Canal, 126
Exchanger, Quirk’s Train Tablet, 448
Exhibition, Antwerp, 50
Exhibition, National Building Trades, 424
Exhibition, Yachting, 236
Exhibitions (Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen), 423
Expansion Bearings for Bridges, 33
Expansion of Rarefied Gases, 724, 825
Expansion Strains in Boilers, 237
Expedition to River Yenisei, Siberia, 82
Experience, Records of Engineering, 617
Experimental Determination of Poisson’s Ratio, 760
Experiments, Steam Boiler, 774. See Vol. Ivi., page 752
Explosion, German Warship “Brandenburg,” 860
Explosion of Grahamite Dust. 508
Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions
Explosions, Kitchen Boiler, 80, 182
Explosions in Mines, 508
Explosive, Cordite, 394
Exporters’ Directory, 509
Exports, British, to Foreign Countries, 719
Extemporised Paddle Steamer, 22

Fact and Fiction in Boiler Explosions, 170
Fall of Dover Railway Station Roof, 92
Fall of the Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge, 174
Fans, Noise of, 428, 459, 492
Fast Warships, 23
Fawcett, Mr. T. C., Leeds, Brick-Making Machine, 843
February Weather, 325
Ferry Steamer “ Netherlands,” Hudson River (Marvel, Newburg, U.S.A.), 223
Ferry Steamers, 689
Fibre Tubes, 788
Fielding and Platt, Hydraulic Shell Plant, 12
Fielding and Platt, Oil Engine, 837
Fielding Tandem Gas Engine, 200 Horse-Power, 352
Filtration, Water, 267
“ Finnieston,” Glasgow Ferry Steamer, 689
Fire Engine, Light Suburban (Merryweather), 258
Fireproof Floors, 273
First Monopoly Patent, 804
Fives-Lille Company Locomotive, State Railways of France, 742
Flame, Constitution of, 489
Flax and Hemp Machinery, 328
Fleming and Ferguson’s Water-Tube Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water- Tube Boilers
Fletcher Rapid-Fire Breech Mechanism, 740
Fletcher, Steam Generator (Towns’ Refuse), 237, 396, 425. See Letters, Steam Raising, Ac.
Floors, Fireproof, 273
Flour Milling (Mr. G. Croome, Towcester), 846
Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, Joy’s, 411, 432, 539, 695. See Letters, Joy's Gear
Fog Signalling Apparatus, Tiinmis and Abernethy’s Electric, 527
Fogs with Strong Winds, 1876-90, 822
Food and other British Supplies and the Navy, 264
Foreign Competition with British Trade, 719
Foreign Navies, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers for, 204:
Forges et Chantiers, Havre, Newhaven and Dieppe Steamers “Seine” and “Thames,” 622
Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee, French Battleship “ Jaurdguiberry,” 666
Forging Press, Breuer-Schumacher, 1200-Ton Hydraulic, 241
Forman, H., Derby, Forked Plough, 843
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, Proposed, 487
Forty-Eight Hours Movement in Engineering Trade. See Letters
Forty-Eight Hours Week in the Government Works, 854, 753
Forty-Eight Hours Week, Mather’s Report, 422, 753
Fowler and Co.’s Steam Ploughs, 842
Fox’s Pressed Steel Underframes, 446
France, Railway Development in, 331. See Erratum-y 352
France, State Railways, Fives-Lille Company Locomotive, 742
French Excavators, 123, 126
French Ironclad “ Jaurdguiberry,” 662
Fruit Car, 60,000-Lb., Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railroad, 227
Fuel, Briquette,. 632
Furnace Combustion and Spontaneous Heating of Coal, 379, 463
Furnace, Crucible, for Burning Petroleum, 162
Furnace Gases, Analysis of, 239
Furnace Grates, 185
Furnace Mouth Drilling Machine, Hunter’s (Hawthorns, Leith), 823
Furnaces, Capacity and Form of Blast, 604
Furness System Rock Dredging, 27, 56
Fyfe, Mr. D. A., Cooking Hay, 843

Gales and Strong Winds, Characteristics, 822
Galloway, The Late Mr. John, 227
Galvanometers, Shunt Box for, 489
Garbage Disposal in Birmingham, 415
Garbage, Raising Steam by Town’s, 237, 396, 425. See Letters, Steam Raising, cOe.
Gas, Analysis of Furnace, 239
Gas Baking Ovens, 816
Gas Coal and its Consumption, 686, 816
Gas Consumption, 816
Gas Engine, 200 Horse-Power Fielding Tandem, 352
Gas Engines, 739, 833
Gas Engines, Economy, 819
Gas Institute, Incorporated, 816
Gas-Making Apparatus (Messrs. E. Mansfield and Son, Manchester), 844
Gas Power on Tramways, 808
Gas Retorts at Rochdale, Inclined, 40. See Letters
Gas Works, Construction of, 447
Gases, Expansion of Rarefied, 724, 825
Gases Inclosed in Coal, 144
Gasholders, Low and High Pressure, 23
Gazetteer, Railway and Commercial, 249
Gear, High-Speed Bevel, 428
“ General,” American War Locomotive, 385
General Electric Company’s Exhibit, 752
Geneva, Mont Saldve, Electric Rack Railway, 307, 375, 437, 503, 854
Genoa Rock Dredging, 27, 54
Geology, Manchester Canal, 138
German Excavators, 123, 126
Germany, Projected Canals, 204
Geyelin-Jonval Turbines for Niagara (Wood, Philadelphia), 480
Gibbs Light and Heat Tender, 6
Girders, Stresses in, 342
Glasgow Bridge, 226. See Letters
Glasgow Ferry Steamer “ Finnieston,” 689
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company’s
Clyde Steamers, 742

Glasgow Water Works:

469, 535, 601, 635, 703, 738
Access Chambers to Aqueduct, 603
Alignment of Tunnels, 603
Aqueduct Tunnels, 535, 601,635. See also 820
Bridges on Line of Aqueduct, 635
Cost of Concrete Lining, 53.5
Cost of Driving Tunnels, 601
Craigmaddie Reservoir, 703, 738
Eight v. 10-Hour Shifts, Tunnel Driving, 601
Hirnant Rock Drill, 602
Junction between Old and New Aqueducts, 603
Larmuth’s Rock Drill, 602
Map of Line of Loch Katrine Aqueduct, 469
Observatory Towers, Alignment of Tunnels, 603
Outlet to Aqueduct at Loch Katrine, 470
Piping, 635
Reservoir, Craigmaddie, 703, 738
Rock Drill, Hirnant, 602
Source of Glasgow Supply, 469
Straining Well at Craigmaddie Reservoir, 738
Supply and Cost in Principal Towns, 470
Syphons, 635
Tunnels, 535, 601, 635. See also 820
Valve Chambers, 635
Valves at Craigmaddie Reservoir, 738
Ventilating Aqueduct Tunnels, 603

Gold-Bearing Slates, Magnetic Phenomena in, 509
Gold Milling, Purifying Water Used in, 459, 494
Gold and Silver Refinery, 472
Gould Car Coupler, 767
Government Employes and the Eight-Hours Day, 854
Government Railways, Rate War between, 49
Grabs, Steam Cranes and, 123, 126
Graduated Scales, Cumulative Errors in, 159
Grafton High-Speed Steam Engine, 538, 590, 630 See Letters
Grain Bruiser and Grinder (Messrs. Richmond
and Chandler, Manchester), 843
Granite Causeway Pavements, 47
Graphic Statics, Indeterminate Cases in, 54, 77
Grates, Furnace, 185
Graving Dock, Southampton, 621
Great Western Railway. See Letters
Great Western Train Service, 155. See Letters.
Greenwich Feny Steamer, 689
Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, Breuer-Schu-
jnacher Hydraulic Press, 241
Griffin Oil Engine (Samuelson and Co.’s), 835 ann B“*
Grain (Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, Manchester). 843
Grinding Cement, 799
Grinding Machine, Car Wheel (Ensign Company Huntingdon, West Virginia), 72
Grinding Material, A New, 655
and Co-» Vertical Oil Engine, 822
Guernsey Electric Tramway, 411
Guide Bearings for Railway Rod Connections, 31
Guildhall, Heating Boiler Explosion at, 243 cun Breech Mechanism, Fletcher Rapid - Fire 1
Gun Tests at Watertown Arsenal, 569
Gun Trials of H.M.S. “Centurion,” 52
™H,”72^746GhiSe"8WrUi8er “Blan°° E"
GUS)j5tl8415°f “BarfleUr" <Whit
Guns, Armstrong Quick-Firing, 283,308, 346
Grtn;an(l/AGlJu Mechanism, Spanish Belted
Gjiuser (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 577, 645. See 711, 805 ’
Guns, Krupp, 567, 641, 673
° onnpLiPoi^bIe PumPing Engine Fitted for L llvlj olo
^5* R<rA’’ On Tbe Results of Heat treatment on Manganese Steel and their Bearci? Carbon Steel» 607, 636. See also 665,

Hall, Aberdeen, S.S. Trawler “Hermes,”352
HNavv°264L°rd George, on the Need for the
Hand Car, Railway, with Arcus Hoist, 87
Harbour, Copenhagen, 93
Harbour, Russian, on the Arctic Ocean, 267
Harbour, Southampton, 621
CSC6 665g 695 729”’ Influence of Elements, 606,
Hardening of Steel, 854
Harmonic Analyser, Henrici, 543
Harrisburg Company’s 300 Horse-Power Horizontal Compound Engines, 194
Hartlepool Shipbuilding, 9, 81, 87
Hartman, Mr. L., on Post-Elastic Deformation of Bars, 621
Harvesters, Trials of Self-Binding, 20
Harveyed Steel Armour, 375, 465, 530, 598
Harveyised Armour-Plate, Trials at Indian Head,
Harwood, Sir John, on Ship Canal, 749, 787
Hatchet Planimeter, 687. See Addendum, 725.
See Letters
(Yarrow) 7 Rrifcisb Torpedo - Boat Destroyer “Havocks ” for Foreign Navies, 204
Furnaces ^6^’’ °n Capacity and Form of Blast-
Hawthorns, Leith, Hunter’s Furnace Mouth Drilling Machine, 823
Hay, Cooking (Mr. D. A. Fyfe, Stratford), 843 n«/?,Qd StlSW Babny Presses (G. Stephenson and Sons, Newark), 843
Haymaking Machine (Picksley, Sims, and Co., Limited, Leigh), 843
Hayward Tyler and Co., Electrically Driven Pumps, 162 J
Hazell’s Annual, 36
Head, ™Iemiah’ on Scandinavian Iron Ore,
Health Problems, 293
Heat Treatment of Manganese Steel, Results of a™ their Bearing upon Carbon Steel, 607, 636,’ 66o, 695, 729
Heating, Electric, of Motor Cars, 854
Heating and Lighting Cars (Safety Company New York), 287, 335
Heating and Lighting Trains, Gibbs’ Tender 6
Heating Railway Carriages, 332, 354 ’
Heilmann Electric Locomotive, 175
Heitmann Electric Locomotive Trials 655
Hemp and Flax Machinery, 328
“Hermes,” S.S. Trawler (Hall, Aberdeen). 352
‘Hermione,” H.M.S., Steam Trials, 700
Hertz, The Work of, 751
High-Speed Warships, 23
Hinson Car Coupler, 803
Hirnant Rock Drill, 602
History of Manchester Canal, 97, 749 787
H,415S* “Barfleur>” Gun Trials (Whitworth), 358,
H.M.S. “Centurion,” Gun Trials, 52
H.M.S. “Havock,” Torpedo-Boat Destroyer . (Yarrow), 72
H.M.S. “ Hermione,” Steam Trials, 700
H.M.S. “Hornet,” Torpedo-Boat Destroyer > (Yarrow), 295, 394. See Letter, 387
H.M.S. “ Malacca,” Boilers, 462
H.M.S. “Royal Oak’’Machinery (Laird Brothers Birkenhead), 514’
H.M.SS.“ Resolution’’and “ Revenge,” Stability Engines, andc. (Palmer Company, Jarrow) 17’ See 146. See Letters
H.M.SS. “Resolution” and “Royal Sovereign ” Stability, Rolling, andc., 360, 367, 387 andSee Letters
Hoist, Arcus, on Railway Hand Car, 87
Hoist, Sack (Mr. John Walter, Lowestoft), 844
Hoisting Blocksand Tackle (Pickering Company Clerkenwell), 844 ’
Hoists, Gun (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao) See 577, 645, 711, 805
Holmes and Son, Oil Engine, 838
Hook of Holland Route to Continent, 555
Hopkinson, Dr. John, on the Relation of Mathematics to Engineering, 728, 762
“ Hornet,” Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 295, 394 See Letter, 387
“ Hornet,” Trial Trip of, 394
Hornsby and Co., Oil Engines, 775, 834, 839
Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, 839
Horse Car, Arms Palace, 195
Horseshoe Nail. Machine, 240
Howden, Mr. J., on Cylindrical v. Tubulous Boilers, 381. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Huddersfield Boiler Explosion, 824
Hudson River Ferry Steamer “Netherlands” (Messrs?, Marvel, Newburg, U.S.A.), 223
Hull Shipbuilding, 10, 81, 87
Humber to Wakefield Ship Canal, 146, 615
Humpidge and Snoxell, Limited, Electric Capstans, 475
Hungary Railway Zone Tariff, 22
Hunter’s Furnace Mouth Drilling Machine (Hawthorns, Leith), 823
“Hutton,” Greenwich Ferry Steamer (Simons, Renfrew), 689
Hydraulic Crane, 160 - Ton (Tannett Walker and Co.), 259
Hydraulic Forging Press, Breuer - Schumacher 1200-Ton, 241
Hydraulic Lifeboat “City of Glasgow,” 723
Hydraulic Packing, 36
Hydraulic Power Transmission at Periyar, 785
Hydralic Pumping Engines (Taylor and Challen, Birmingham), 544. See A’rraium, 577
Hydraulic Shell Plant (Fielding and Platt, Gloucester), 12
Hydrogen Passing through a Palladium Septum, 724
Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 817

“ Ideal ” Reducing Valve, 527
Ilfracombe, Thermometer Screens, 257
Implements, 842
Incorporated Gas Institute, 816
India, Railways in, 800
India, Railways and Trade in, 390
India, Telegraph Engineers in, 324
Indian Public Works Department, 626
Indian Railway Property, 266
Indian Railways (London Chamber of Commerce), 689
Indian Sanitation, 549
Indicator Diagrams, 68
Indicator, Railway Station, 479
Indicator, Silvertown Water Level, 164
Indicators, 66
Induction, Electro-Magnetic, 700
Induction, Telegraphic, by Means of Coils, 464
Inductive Telegraphy, 264. See also 464
Industrial Notes, 26, 55, 89, 149, 177, 211, 242, 271, 301, 336, 366, 398, 429, 461, 495, 527, 561, 591, 628, 664, 693, 727, 759, 791, 823, 858
Industrial Outlook, 551
“ Infanta Maria Teresa,” Spanish Armoured Cruiser, 577, 645, 711, 805
Influence of Elements on Iron, 606, 636, 665, 695, 729
Influence of Legislation on Electric Lighting Schemes, 84
Inland Navigation Congress, The Hague, 753
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil .Engineers
Insurance of Workmen against Accidents in Russia, 525
International Company’s New Twin - Screw Steamer “ Southwark” (Denny, Dumbarton),
Investor’s and Shareholder’s Guide, 772
“ Iona,” Marine Engine Trials, 186, 212, 274. See Letters, Marine Engine Trials
Ireland, Railway Traffic in, 296
Ireland, Shipbuilding in, 40, 81. See 87
Iron, Allotropic Modifications of, 854
Iron, Breaking-Down Point, 50
Iron, Cost of Swedish, 11
Iron, Influence of Elements on, 606, 636, 665, 695, 729
Iron Ore, Scandinavian, 588, 763, 793
Iron and Steel, Experimental Determination of Poisson’s Ratio, 760
Iron and Steel Grinding for Microscopic Examination, 588, 826

Iron and Steel Institute :

Iron and Steel Wire, and the Development of its Manufacture, by Mr. J. P. Bedson, 58, 90
Report of the Council, 587
Arrangements for Summer Meeting, 587
Finances, 587
Bessemer Gold Medal (Mr. John Giers, Middlesbrough), 587
President’s Address, by Mr. Windsor Richards, 587
The Walrand-Legenisel Process as Applied to Steel Castings, by Mr. George J. Snelus, 588
Methods of Preparing Polished Surfaces of Iron and Steel for Microscopic Examinations, by Mr. J. E. Stead, 589, 826
Scandinavia as a Source of Iron Ore Supply by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 589, 763, 793 ’
The Analysis of Steel, by Mr. H. K. Bamber,
The Capacity and Form of Blast Furnaces, by Mr. William Hawdon, 604
The Physical Influence of Certain Elements on Iron, by Professor J. O. Arnold, 606,636, 665, 695, 729
The Results of Heat Treatment on Manganese Steel and their Bearing upon Carbon Steel, V’ Hadfield> W7, 636. See also 665, 695, 729
The Application of Electricity as a Motive Power in the Iron and Steel Industries, by Mr. D. Selby-Bigge, 640
The Relations between the Chemical Constitution and Ultimate Strength of Steel, by Mr W. R. Webster, 640 J

Iron and Steel Rusting, 203
Iron and Steel in Sweden, 764
Iron and Steel Trade Prospects, 587
Iron and Steel Wire Manufacture, 58, 90
Iron, Testing the Magnetic Quality of, 326
Iron Tests at Watertown Arsenal 569
Ironclads. See Battleships
Irrigation Reservoirs in Egypt, 223, 521 784 See Letters, Nile ’
Irrigation in Western States, 22
Isothermals of Ether, 825
Breakwaters and Sea Defences in, 179, 302 337

Jacobus’ Modified Planimeter, 186
Jamaica Bridge, Glasgow, 226. See Letters
(Glasgow nri lge ’
Janney Railway Car Platform and Couplers 733
January, Weather, 203
“ Jaurdguiberry,” French Ironclad, 662
Jet-Propelled Lifeboat “ City of Glasgow ” 723
“ John Bull ’’ Locomotive, 712
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 222
Joiners’ Strike, Clyde (Domination in Labour Questions), 202
Jonval-Geyelin Turbines for Niagara (Wood, Philadelphia), 480
Joy’s Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, 411, 432, 539, 695. See Letters
Junction between Old and New Aqueducts, Glasgow Water Works, 603

Kelly’s Engineer’s and Iron Trade Directory, 249
Kennedy, Professor, on Electric Power and Stations, 563, 592, 537, 632
Kennedy, Professor, on Steam Boiler Experiments, 774. See Vol. lvi.,page 752
Kilns, Portland Cement, 799
Kinematics, Point Paths in Mechanisms, 439 King’s Cross Railway Collision, 268
Kinipple and Under - Water Foundations, Yarmouth Quay, 37
Kitchen Boiler Explosions, 80, 170, 182. See 243. See LettersI
Knapp and Co., L. R., Faringdon, Chaffcutters, tec., 843]
Krupp Ordnance, 567, 641, 673|
Kurung Railway Bridge, North-West India, 612

“ La Marguerite,” Thames and Boulogne Steamer (Fairfield Company), 857|
Labour and Capital. See Lettersj
Labour Commission, 453, 783, 849I
Labour Disputes in 1892, 815 Labour Disputes, Conciliation in, 453
Labour Questions, Domination in, 202
“Lackawanna,” Oil-Carrying Steamer (Messrs. Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 72, 209, 238 I
Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, Machinery Battleship “Royal Oak,” 514 Land Dredgers, 123,126
Landslip on Swansea Vale Railway, 152
Lange and Livesey System Rack Railway Locomotive (Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Limited), 477
Larmuth and Co.’s “ Hirnant ” Rock Drill, 602
Las Palmas, Temperature, andc., 257
Lathe Carrier, Climax, 428 i
Launch Engine, Vosper’s Oil, 647. See 839 '
Launches, Electric, 311
Launches and Trial Trips, 28, 60, 72, 152, 182, 246, 257, 304, 317, 372, 434, 451, 494, 530, 564, 595, 623, 649, 690, 726, 746, 796, 830, 859
Law Courts, Electric Engineering in the, 583
Lead Pencils, 683
Lead and Its Substitutes, White, 145 :
Leaky Boiler Tubes, 331 1
Leaky Telegraph Line, Working a, 457
Leeds, Circulating Boiler Explosion, 266, 272
Leghorn Harbour, Rock Dredging, 27, 56
Legislation, Influence on Electric Lighting Schemes, 84 I
Lengthening of S.S. “Moor,” 572, 615. See Letters I
Letters to the Editor, 23, 52, 76, 151, 174 206 238, 268, 297, 330, 353, 386, 425, 457, 49o’ 5io’ 556, 623, 658, 678, 713, 754, 776, 779, 808,811 855 Lewes, Professor, on Coal Gas and Its Consumption, 686. See 816 1
Lewes, Professor, on Furnace Combustion and Spontaneous Heating of Coal, 379, 463
Li£eboat “ City of Glasgow,” Steam Hydraulic,
Lift Bridge over the Chicago River, 776 L1£fc. f°r Automatic (Adams Company Limited), 500‘ ’
Lifting Water by Air Flotation, 723!
Light, Measurement of, 455, 488, 522j
Light Railways, 560
Lighthouses, Electric, 208, 353
Lighting, Cost of Electric, 585, 652, 720
Lighting, Cost of Private Electric, 851
Lighting, Electric, in City of London, 235. See 583
Lighting Electric, Schemes, Influence of Legislation, 84 °
Liquids, Viscosity of, 273
Lister Keighley, Cutter Sharpener, 591
768 800 ’ 36> 249’ 313’ 342> 509> 573> 674> '39,
Liverpool Overhead Railway, 334
Liverpool and the Ship Canal, 853
Liverpool v. Southampton, 621
st^am Generator (Town Refuse), 237, 396 T im d iSee Letters> Steam Raising, <£-c. ’
Lloyd, Lawrence, and Co., Digging Plough 843 Shipwrecks, 327 ” ’
Lloyd s Shipbuilding Returns, 81, 551
Loa<l Tests at Watertown Arsenal, 569
Local Government Annual, 249
Lock Nut, Cornwall, 352. See Lettfrr
Lock and Weir, Richmond, 687
Locks in Manchester Canal, 110
Lock-Outs in 1892, Strikes and, 815
Locomotive, American War, 385 Locomotive, Cooke’s, 195
Bav Citve 15;TTon industrial Works,
nay City, Michigan, U.S.A ) 177
Locomotive, Decapod, 223 ’
Locomotive Rack Railway (Lange and Livesev T nSASteli- ’B^er> Peacock, and Co., Limited 477 sure 4n 4Qoer±ff,Sear’ Joy’s Fluid Pies-Gear U’ 432, S39’ °95' See Lktters> Joy’s
^poukdSb Rh°de l81and Consolidation Com-Locomotive, Richmond Company, 677
Locomotive, Rogers, 43, 301, 561 Locomotive, Schenectady, 257, 347 509
Locomotive, Switching, 257 ’
Tank» for Beckt°n Outfall Works (Messrs. Bagnall, Limited, Stafford) 775
Locomotive Triple-Boiler, Belgian State Railway (Soci^te St, Leonard, Lidge), 573
Locomotive, Webb’s System of Compounding, 610. See Letters
Locomotives, 801
Locomotives, American, 10, 43, 163,195,223, 257, 301, 316, 347, 385, 461, 509, 561, 644, 677, 712
Locomotives, Balancing. See Letters
Locomotives, Baldwin, 163, 221
Locomotives, British, 758
Locomotives, British, 674. See Letters
Locomotives, Compound. See Letters
Locomotives, Early American, 316, 644, 712
Locomotives, Early English, 316, 644
Locomotives, Pittsburgh, 10
Lodge, Dr. Oliver, on the Work of Hertz, 751
London Chamber of Commerce, 689
London County Council and Tramway Purchase, 144, 297, 483
London, Electric Lighting of City, 235. See 583
London and North-Western Locomotives, 610. See Letters, Locomotives, <fcc.
London and North-Western Railway Composite and Sleeping Cars, 414
London and North-Western Railway Signals, 267
London Refuse Steam Destroyer and Electrical Power Corporation, 237, 396, 425. See Letters, Steam Raising, andc.
London and South-Western Railway Company’s Service, 767. See Letters
Losses, Steam Pressure, in Marine Engines, 410
Loudon Brothers, Glasgow, Double Drilling and Tapping Machine, 613. See Erratum, 656
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge, Fall of the, 174
LUbecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft, Land Dredger, 123, 126
Lubricator, Pump (Berend and Co.), 500
“ Lucania” and “Campania,” Year’s Steaming of 553. See Leiters
Luiggi, Chev. L., on Breakwaters and Sea Defences in Italy, 179, 302, 337

McConway and Torley Car Platforms and Couplers, 733
McPhail and Simpsons’ Steam Generator and Superheater, 244. See Letters
Macadamised Road Scarifiers, 486, 496, 547
Machine Design, Early Lessons in, 313
Machine Drawing, 675
Machinery and Manual Labour. See Letters
Machines for Breaking up Roads, 486, 496, 547
Madras Power Transmission Scheme, 785
Magic Mirrors, Making, 206
Magnetarium, 351
Magnetic Phenomena in Gold-Bearing Slates, 509
Magnetic Quality of Iron, Testing the, 326
Magnets, Alternate-Current Electro, 656
Mail, American, Returns, 621
Mail Cars, United States, 385
Making of a Modern Fleet, 359
Manchester Dock, 131

Manchester Ship Canal:

19, 749, 787, 853. See Letters. See Erratum, 261
Special Number, 97 to 142
Aqueduct, Barton Swing, 122. See Letters
Barton Swing Aqueduct, 122. See Letters
Boulet and Co.’s Land Dredger, Paris, 123, 126
Bridges, 114
Canal as an Engineering Structure, 107
Commercial Aspects, 105, 686
Contractors, 139
Cranes and Excavators, 123, 126
Dock, Manchester, 131
Docks, Salford, 131
Dredger and Spoil Transporters, 123,126
Dredging Operations, 123
Ellesmere Port, 131
Engineers, 139
Excavation, Dry, 126
Freights, Proposed, 19
French Excavators, 123, 126
Geology, 138
German Excavators, 123, 126
Grabs, Steam Cranes and, 123, 126
Harwood, Sir John, on Estimates, Cost, and Prospects, 749, 787
History, 97. See also 749, 787
Land Dredgers, 123, 126
Liverpool and the Ship Canal, 852
Locks, 110 t
LUbecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft, Land Dredger, 123, 126
Manchester Dock, 131
Navvies, Steam, 123, 126
Opening Bridges, 118. See Letters, Barton Swing Aqueduct
Other Engineering Features, 134
Partington Coal Basin, 135
Plant, 139
Price’s Dredger and Spoil Transporter, 123, .126
Prospects of the Canal, 297, 688, 749, 787, 853
Railway Bridges, 114, 118
Road Bridges, 114, 118
Runcorn Viaduct, 114
Salford Docks, 131
Sluices, 111
Spoil Barges and Buckets, 126
Stoney’s Sluices, 111
Stoney’s Tipping Crane, 126
Swing Bridges, 118. See Letters
Traffic, 297, 688, 749, 787, 853
Viaducts, 114, 118
Walls and Embankments, 131
Whittaker’s Crane Navvy, 123,126
Wilson’s Steam Crane and Excavator, 123 1^6

Manganese Steel, Results of Heat Treatment on and their Bearing upon Carbon Steel, 607, 636* 665, 695, 729
Manual Labour v. Machinery. See Letters
Manufacturing Large Steam Pipes, 159
Manufacturing Marble, Moreau-Rae Process, 362
March Weather, 454
Mari-Attock Railway, Bridges, North-West India Railway, 612
“Marie Henriette,” Belgian Government Mail Steamer (Cockerill Company, Antwerp), 255 313 ’
Marine Boiler, An Early Cylindrical, 462
Marine Construction, 7, 39, 81, 87, 551
Marine Dangers, 817 -
Marine Engine Trials, 186, 212, 274. See Letters
Marine Engines. See Engines
Marine Engineers, The Position of, 169. See Letters
Markets, Covered, in Europe, 671, 705
Martens’ Method of Grinding Metals, 588, 826
Masonry Dams, 714
Mathematical Calculating Machines, 350. See also 687
Mathematics and Engineering, 728, 762
Mather’s Report, Eight-Hours Day, 422, 753
Mauritius Railway, Rail Bridge on the, 330
Maxim’s Bullet-Proof Cuirass, 726, 753. See Letters, Cuirass
Maximum Contemporary Economy of the Steam Engine, 794, 828
May Weather, 751
Mechanics, Early Lessons in, 313

Mechanical Engineers, American Society of:

Presidential Address, by Mr. Eckley B. Coxe, 2 Election of Office-Bearers, andc., 6
Buckeye Valve Gear, The, by Mr. A. K. Mansfield, 32
On the Maximum Contemporary Economy of the High-Pressure Multiple Expansion Steam Engine, by Professor R. H. Thurston, 32, i 794, 828
Expansion Bearings for Bridge Superstructures, by George A. Morrison, 33
A Curve Delineator, by Mr. F. A. Scheffler, 36
Notes on Belting, by Fred. W. Taylor, 36 Hydraulic Packing (Discussion), 36
Some Experiments on the Effect of Water Hammer, by Professor Carpenter, 64. See Letters, Water Hammer
Constants for Correcting Indicator Springs that have been Calibrated Cold, by Professor Carpenter, 66
A Modified Proriy Brake, by Professor Carpenter, 67
A Comparison of the Mean Effective Pressures of Simultaneous Cards taken by Different Indicators, by Professor D. S. Jacobus, 68
Recent Progress in the Manufacture of Steel Castings, by H. L. Gantt, 158
Steam Piping and Efficiency of Steam Plants, by W. A. Pike, 158
A Method of Manufacture of Large Steam Pipes, by C. H. Manning, 159
Cumulative Errors of a Graduated Scale, by W. A. Rogers, 159
A Modern Disinfecting Plant, by W. II. Francis, 162
Crucible Furnace for Burning Petroleum, by W. E. Crane, 162
Tests of a Boiler Using Grates with Small Percentage of Openings, by Mr. J. A. Scheffler, 185
Experimental Determination of the Effect of Water in Steam on the Economy of the Steam Engine, by Professor Carpenter, 185 A Modified Planimeter, 186
Aluminium Bronze, Dr. Leonard Waldo, 186
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: 524. See Erratum, 590
Report of the Council, 186
Experiments on Transmission of Power by Ropes and Belts, 186
Payment for Life Membership, 187
Papers not Read in the Proceedings, 187
New President (Professor A. B. W. Kennedy), 187
Summer Meeting, 187
Abstracts of the Results of Experiments on Six Steamers, and Conclusions Drawn theref rom in regard to the Efficiency of Marine Boilers and Engines, by Professor T. Hudson Beare, 187, 212, 274. See Letters, Analysis of Furnace Gases
Presidential Address, by Professor Kennedy, 537, 563, 592, 632. See Letters, Electric Traction
A Description of the Grafton High - Speed Steam Engine, by Mr. E. W. Anderson, 538, 630. See Letters. See Erratum, 590
A Description of a Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear for Locomotive Engines, by Mr. D. Joy, 539, 695. See Letters, Joy's Gear
Dinner of the Institution, 524
Mechanisms, Point Paths in (Kinematics), 439
Mellon’s Separator (Mr. Harrison Carter, London), 846
“ Mercury,” Clyde Steamer, 742
Merry weather’s Light Suburban Fire Engine, 258
Mersey Bar, Removal of, 590
Mersey Ferry Steamers, 689
Mersey Shipbuilding, 39, 81, 87
Metal Price Diagrams, 24, 176, 300,. 460, 624, 757
Metals, Experimental Determination of Poisson’s Ratio, 760

Meteorological Society, Royal:

76, 460, 489, 822
President’s Address, by Dr. C. Theodore Williams, 76
Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine at Las Palmas, Grand Canary, by Dr. J. Cleasby Taylor, 257
Report on the Phenological Observations for 1893, by Mr. E. Mawley, 257
Comparative Observations with Two Thermometer Screens at Ilfracombe, by Mr. W. Marriott, 257
Relation between the Mean Quarterly Temperature and the Death Rate, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 434
Duration and Lateral Extent of Gusts of Wind and the Measurement of their Intensity, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 434
On the Calculation of Photographic Cloud Measurements, by Dr. K. G. Olsson, 434
Some Phenomena of the Upper Air, by Mr. Richard Inwards, 512
On the Relative Frequency of Different Velocities of Wind, by Mr. W. Ellis, 658
Audibility of “ Big Ben” at West Norwood, by Mr. W. Marriott, 658
Earth Temperatures at Cronkbourne, Isle of Man, by Mr. A, W. Moore, 658
Meteorological Society, Royal—continued.
Fogs Reported with Strong Winds during the 15 years 1876-90 in the British Isles, by Mr. R. H. Scott, 822
Some Characteristic Features of Gales and Strong Winds, by Mr. R. H. Curtis, 822

Meter, Compressed Air, 811
Meter, Venturi Water, 329
Meters, Prepayment System, 816
Meters, Some Applications of Electrolytic Cells, 772
Metropolitan Electric Supply Company v. Wise, 583
Michigan University (Ann Arbor), 653
Microbes, Sewage Purification by, 201. See Letters
Microscopic Examination of Iron and Steel, Surfaces for, 588, 826
Middlesbrough, Boiler Explosion, 743
Middleton’s Briquette Machine, 542
Military Engineers and Civil Appointments. Sco Letters
Miller Railway Car Platform, 733, 770, 803, 833
Milling Flour (Mr. G. Croome, Towcester), 846
Milling Machine, Heavy Universal (Pedrick and
Ayer, Philadelphia), 271
Milton, Mr. J. T., on Tubulous Boilers, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Milwaukee Pumping Engine, Quadruple Expansion (E. P. Allis Company),-32, 794, 828
Mine Explosions, 508
Mine, Unwatering a Flooded, 508
Mines, Resistance of Airways in, 393
Mines. See Shaft Sinking
Minerals, Concentration and Sizing of Crushed, 92
Miners’ Congress, International, 685
Mining, 3

Mining Engineers, American Institute of:

Baltimore Meeting, 442
New Steamer “ Alabama,” 442
Presidential Address, by Mr. H. M. Howe, 442
Mining at the Chicago Exposition, 442
Close Sizing before Jigging, by Professor R. H. Richards, 443
Torsional Theory of Joints, by Dr. Becker, 443
Correlations in the Coalfield West of Pocahontas, by Colonel Boyd, 443
Pocahontas Coalfield, by Mr. Fred. R. Hotchkiss, 443
Notes on the Reworking of Anthracite Culm Banks, by Mr. A. F. Sheafer, 443
The Geological Relations of the Southern Appalachian Bauxite Deposits, by Dr. W. C. Hayes, 443
The Bauxites : a Study of a New Mineralogical Family, by Francis Laur, 443
Artesian Waters of Eastern Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland, by Mr. N. H. Darton, 471
Physics of Steel (Discussion), 471
Aluminium Bronze, by Dr. Waldo, 472
The Product and Economical Results of the Marsac Refinery for 1892, by Mr. C. A. Stetefeldt, 472
The Determination of Phosphorus in Coal, by Mr. Jacob Lychenheim, 473
Ore Washer at Longdale, by Mr. Guy R. Johnson, 507
Mine Explosions Generated by Grahamite Dust, by Mr. William Glenn, 508
Notes on the Unwatering of a Flooded Mine, by Mr. B. S. Randolph, 508
Notes on certain Magnetic Phenomena in Gold-Bearing Slates, by Mr. C. A. Merger, 509
Survey of an Underground Connection at Leavenworth, Kansas, by Mr. E. A. Sperry, 568
Notes on some Tests by Repeated Stresses made at the Watertown Arsenal, by Mr. James E. Howard, 569
Mining Survey in Kansas, 568
Mining and Treatment of Coal, 443
Mirrors, Making Magic, 206
Miscellanea, 15, 45, 73, 148,167,199, 231, 261, 291, 321, 351, 396, 419, 460, 483, 526, 547, 581, 615, 657, 692, 726, 747, 790, 821, 856
Mogul Locomotive (Baldwin), 163
Moissan, M. Henri, Grinding Material, 655
Moller, H. C. V., on Copenhagen Breakwater, 93
Mont Saldve (Geneva), Electric Rack Railway, 307, 375, 437, 503
“ Moor,” Lengthening and Re-Engining (Thomson, Clydebank), 572, 615. See 717
Mordey, Mr. W. M., on Parallel Working of Alternators, 391, 455
Moreau-Rae Process, Marble Manufacture, 362
Morison’s Evaporator, 291
Morrison’s Expansion Bearings for Bridges, 33
Mortar Carriage, 12-In. Spring Return (Builders Iron Foundry, Providence, R.I.), 258
Mortars, Krupp, 641, 567, 673
Mortising Machine, Chain, 424
Motor Cars, Electric Heating of, 854
Motor, Gas, on Tramways, 808
Motors, Electric, 537, 563, 592, 632
Motors, Internal Combustion, without Boilers', 739
Mountain, Electric Rack Railway, Geneva, 307, 375, 437, 503
Mountain Railway, Otis, 411, 474
Muirhead v. Commercial Cable Company, 583
Municipalities and the Purchase of Private Undertakings, 144, 297, 483

Nail Machine, Horseshoe, 240
Napier, Shanks, and Bell, Glasgow, Clyde Steamers “ Neptune ” and “ Mercury,” 742
National Building Trades Exhibition, 424
“ National ” Car Coupler, 767

Naval Architects, Institution of:

Annual Report of Council, 360
Navy, Address by the Chairman, Admiral Sir
John Dalrymple-Hay, Bart., 360
Presentation of Gold Medals to Mr. George A.
Calvert, and to Herr Otto Schlick, 360
The Qualities and Performances of Recent First-Class Battleships, by Dr. W. H. White, 360, 367. See Letter, 387
The Amplitude of Rolling on Non-Synchronous Waves, by M. Emile Bertin, 362
The Stresses on a Ship Due to Rolling, by Professor A. G. Greenhill, 362
On Leclert’s Theorem, by Professor A. G. Greenhill, 362
Recent Experiments in Armour, by Mr.
Charles E. Ellis, 375, 465, 530, 595
The Detachable Ram or Submarine Gun as a Substitute for the Ram, by Captain W. H. Jaques, 378
Leaves from a Laboratory Note-Book: (a) Some Points Affecting the Combustion of Fuel in Marine Boilers; (6) The Spontaneous Heating of Coal, by Professor V. B. Lewes, 379, 463
The Circulation of Water in Thornycroft Water-Tube Boilers, by Mr. J. I. Thornycroft, 381, 399
On Water-Tube Boilers, by Mr. J. T. Milton, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
On the Comparative Merits of Cylindrical and Water-Tube Boilers for Ocean Steamships, by Mr. James Howden, 381. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers and “ Malacca's" Boilers, 462
Further Investigations on the Vibration of Steamers, by Mr. Otto Schlick, 401, 406. See Letters,’ Vibration of Steamers
On the Relation between Stress and Strain in the Structure of Vessels, by Mr. T. C. Read and Mr. G. Stanbury, 409, 499
On Ship-Shaped Stream Forms, by Mr. D. W. Taylor, 410
Experiments with Triple-Expansion Engines at Reduced Pressures, by Mr. D. Croll, 410, 529
Steam Pressure Losses in Marine Engines, by Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 410
Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, by Mr. David Joy, 411, 432, 539. See Letters’, Joy's Gear. See also 695

Naval Architecture, A Manual of, 768
Naval Defence Act Fleet, 359
Naval Guns, Krupp, 567, 641, 673
Naval Supremacy, 264
Navigation of the Severn, 143
Navvies, Steam, 123, 126
Navy, Additions to, 389, 421, 424, 485, 519, 547. See Letters, Navy
Navy Artificers. See Letters
Navy, Engine-Room Artificers in the, 328
Navy Questions, 389, 421, 424, 485, 494, 517, 519, 547. See Letters
Navy, Why we Need a, 264
“ Neptune,” Clyde Steamer, 742
“Netherlands,” Hudson River Ferry Steamer (Messrs. Marvel, Newburg, U.S.A.), *223
Netting, Wire, Machine, 612
New South Wales, Punctuality of Trains, 362
New South Wales Railways, Rate War with Queensland, 49
Newhaven and Dieppe Steamers “ Seine ” and “ Thames” (Forges et Chan tiers, Havre), 622
Newport Iron Works, Blast Furnaces, 604
Niagara, Jonval-Geyelin Turbines for (Wood, Philadelphia), 480
Nickel Industry in Norway, 50
Nickel Steel Armour, Harveyised, Recent Experiments, 375, 465, 530, 595
Niclausse Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Nile, Storage Reservoirs, and Regulating, 223, 521, 784. See Letters
Noise of Fans, 428, 459, 492
North Sea Dutch Canal, 237
Norway, Cement Industry in, 84
Norway, Electric Transmission in, 818
Norway, Nickel Industry in, 50
Norway, Railways in, 655
Norway, Shipbuilding and Engineering in, 174
Norway, Wood-Pulp industry in, 267
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 14, 44, 85, 147, 165, 198, 230, 260, 290, 319, 363, 395, 418, 450, 481, 512, 546, 580, 614, 648, 691, 725, 744, 789, 820, 846
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 15, 847
Notes from the North, 14, 44, 85, 147, 166, 198, 230, 260, 290, 320, 363, 395, 418, 450, 482, 513, 545, 580, 613, 648, 690, 724, 746, 788. 819, 846
Notes from the South-West, 28, 44, 86, 148, 166, 198, 230, 259, 289, 320, 364, 395, 418, 451, 482, 512, 546, 580, 614, 649, 691, 725, 745, 789, 820, 847
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 44, 86, 148, 166, 198, 230, 261, 290, 320, 364, 395, 418, 450, 481, 512, 546, 580, 615, 649, 691, 725, 744, 789, 820, 847
Notes from United States, 13, 52, 72, 142, 174, 205, 268, 289, 329, 428, 450, 478, 512, 545, 579, 658, 689, 723, 753, 776, 822, 855
Nut, Cornwall Lock, 352. See Letters, Lock Nuts
Nuts, 754, 777

Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
Observatory Towers, Alignment of Tunnels, Glasgow Water Works, 603
Ocean Highways and the Navy, 264
Official Report, Chicago Exhibition, 86
Oil-Burning Apparatus (GWynne), 318
Oil-Carrying Steamers, 205 *
Oil-Carrying Steamers “Delaware” and “Lackawanna” (Messrs. Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 72, 209, 238
Oil Engine, Campbell, 741, 835
Oil Engine, Crossley’s, 807, 834, 838
Oil Engine, Robey Horizontal Fixed, 808, 834, 842
Oil Engine in Tramcar, 676
Oil Engine, Vertical (Messrs. J. M. Grob and Co., Leipzig-Eutritzsch), 822
Oil Engine, Vosper’s Launch, 647. See 839
Oil Engines. See Agricultural Show
Oil Engines, 478, 739, 775, 807, 808, 822,-833
Oil Engines, “Trusty” Portable (Messrs. Weyman and Hitchcock), 711, 835
Oil Fuel at Chicago Exposition, 692
Oil Industry, Scotch, 788
Oil Supplies, Regulation of, 22
Oil-Testing Machine (Phillips), 791
Oil Wells in Burmah and Siam, 688
Old Colony Locomotive, 461
Oldfield and Robinson’s Feed Mechanism, Planing Machine (Sharp, Stewart and Co., Glasgow) 41
Opening Bridges on Manchester Canal, 118. See Letters, Barton Swing Aqueduct
Ordnance Trials of H.M.S. “Centurion,” 52
Ore, Iron, Scandinavian, 763, 793
Ore-Washing in East Texas, 507
Oscillations, Electro-Magnetic, 700
Osmond, Mr., on Physical Influence of Elements on Iron, 607, 636, 665, 695, 729
Osmond’s Method of Grinding Metal, 826, 588
Ostend and Dover Mail Steamer “ Marie Henriette” (Cockerill Company, Antwerp), 255, 313
Otis Elevating Railway, Catskill Mountain. 411 474
Owen, Sir Philip Cunliffe, 423

Packing of Hydraulic Machinery, 36
Paddle Boat, Extemporised, 22
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Paddle Steamers. See Steamers
Palace Cars, Wagner, 162
Palace Steamer Company’s Excursion Steamer “La Marguerite”(Fairfield Company), 857
Palermo Harbour and Rock Dredging, 27, 56
Palladium Septum, Hydrogen Passing through,724
Palmer, Jarrow, Engines, andc., of H.M.S. “Resolution,” 17,146. See Letters
Parallel Working of Alternators, 391, 455
Paris and Mantes Railway, Profile, 655
Parlour and Passenger Cars (Pullman), 38
Partington Coal Basin, 135
Passenger Rate War, Atlantic, 554
Passengers, Transatlantic, 294
Patent Agent Legislation, 550, 758, 787. See Letters
Patent, First Monopoly, 804
Patent Laws, Austria-Hungary and Denmark, 525
Patent Office Library, 76, 327
Patent Record, 29, 61, 95, 183, 215, 247, 277, 305, 339, 373, 404, 435, 467, 501, 531, 565, 599, 633, 668, 701, 731, 765, 797, 831, 861
Patent of Saltpetre, The First, 773
Patents, American v. British, 583
Patents in Camboya, Annam, and Tonkin, 240
Patents, Westinghouse Brake, in America, 21
Pavement, A New, 173
Pavements, Carriage-Way, 47, 84
Pedrazzoli Rear Sight for Artillery, 778
Pedrick and Ayer, Philadelphia, Heavy Universal Milling Machine, 271
Pencils, Lead, 683
Penn’s Tubulous Boiler, Lifeboat “City of Glasgow,” 723
Periyar Power Transmission Scheme, 785
Permanent Way for Tram Lines, 456
Persian Telegraphs, 662
Petroleum Borings in North Caucasus, 393
Petroleum Burning Apparatus (GWynne), 318
Petroleum Engines, 478. See also Oil
Petroleum Furnaces, Crucible, 162
Petroleum Supplies, Regulation of, 22
Petroleum, Tank for, 492
Petroleum Wells in Burmah and Siam, 688
Phenological Observations, 1893, 257
Phillips’ Oil Testing Machine, 791
Phosphorus in Coal, Determination of, 473
Photometer, Spurge’s, 206
Photometry, 455, 488, 489, 522
Physics of Steel, 471
Physical Society :
Note on a New Mode of Making Magic Mirrors, by Mr. J. W. Kearton, 206
Some Observations in Diffraction, by Mr. W. B.
Croft, 206
Note on the New Photometric Method and a Photometer for Same, by Mr. J. B. Spurge, 206
The Viscosity of Liquids, by Mr. Owen Glynne Jones, 273
Note on a New Electrical Theorem, by Mr. T. H. Blakesley, 304
Attachment of Quartz Fibres, by Professor
C. V. Boys, 304
Method of Determining Refractive Indices, by Mr. Littlewood, 304
Mathematical Calculating Machines, especially a New Harmonic Analyser, by Professor O. Henrici, 350. See also 687
Magnetarium, by Mr. H. Wilde, 351
Calculating Machines, by Professor Henrici, 543 . \ •
On the Minimum Temperature of Visibility, by Mr. P. L. Gray, 543
On the Mechanism of Electrical Conduction (Conduction in Metals), by Mr. C. W. Burton,
D. Sc., 656
On the Design and Winding Alternate-Current Electro-Magnets, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 656
Graphical Method of Constructing the Curves of Current in Electro-Magnets and Transformers, by Major A. L. Hippisley, 657
On Electro-Magnetic Induction in Plane, Cylindrical, and Spherical Current Sheets, and its Representation by Moving Trails of Images, by Mr. G. H. Bryan,’700
On Dielectrics, by Mr. Rollo Appleyard, 700
Note on the Behaviour of certain Bodies in Presence of Electro-Magnetic Oscillations, by Professor G. M. Minchin, 700
The Passage of Hydrogen through a Palladium Septum, and the Pressure which it Produces, by Professor W. Ramsay, 724
The Expansion of Rarefied Gases, by Professor W. Ramsay, 724
Experiments on the Relations of Pressure, Volume, and Temperature of Rarefied Gases, by Mr. E. C. C. Bah' and Professor Ramsay, 825
The Isothermals of Ether, by Mr. Rose Innes, 825
Picking Stone, Machine (Messrs. Woods and Co., Stowmarket, Suffolk), 843
B w
Pickles and Sons, J., Cask-Making Machine, 481 Picksley, Sims, and Co., Leigh, Haymaking Machine, 843
Pile Driving, 331
Pipes, Electrical Corrosion of Underground, 21
Pipes, Experiments as to Water Hammer, 64.
See Letters, Water Hammer
Pipes, Manufacturing Large Steam, 159
Piping, Glasgow Water Works, 635
Piping, Steam, 158, 159
Pits. See Shaft Sinking
Pittsburgh Locomotives, 10
Planimeter, Hatchet, 687. See Addendum, 725. See Letters
Planimeter, A Modified, 186
Planing Machine, with Robinson and Oldfield’s Feed Mechanism (Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Glasgow), 41
Plant, Manchester Canal, 139
Platform Railway Cars, Zuypen and Charlier, 480
Platforms, American Railway Car, 733, 767, 803, 833
Playfair and De la BOche, Steam Generator (Town Refuse), 237, 396, 425. See Letters, Steam Raising,
Plough, Digging (Messrs. Lloyd, Lawrence, and Co., London), 843
Plough, Forked (H. Forman, Derby), 843
Plough, Steam (Fowler and Co., Leeds), 842
Ploughs (Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies), 843 Pocahontas Coal Mining and Treatment, 443 Pohld Air Lift Pump, 723, 754. See Letters Point Paths in Mechanisms; a Contribution to
Elementary Kinematics, 439
Poisson’s Ratio, Experimental Determination of, 760
Polishing Metals, 588, 826
Portable Centrifugal Pumping Engine Fitted for
Burning Oil Fuel (Gwynne), 318
Portland Cement Concrete Making, 754
Portland Cement, Dry Method of Making, 708, 735, T99
Portsmouth Corporation Electric Supply, 747
Position Finder, Crampton-Smith, 644
Post-Elastic Deformation of Bars, 621
Post Office Cars, United States, 385
Potato Digger (Messrs. J. Wallace and Sons, Glasgow), 843
Potato Planting and Raising (Mr. W. J. Burgess, King’s Lynn), 843
Poultry Transportation Car, 542
Power Transmission in Norway, Electric, 818
Power Transmission at Periyar, 785
Power Transmission by Ropes and Belts, Experiments, 186
Power Transmission in Sweden, Electric, 50
“ Powerful,” British Cruiser, 24, 45, 51
Practical v. Theoretical Training, 79
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Electric Progress in America, 171
Preece, Mr. W. H.,on Inductive Telegraphy, 264.
See also 464
Preller, C. S. du Riche, on the Electric Heating of Motor Cars, 854
Preller, C. S. du Riche, on Mont Saldve (Geneva) Rack Railway, 307, 375, 437, 503, 854
“ Premier” Oil Engine (Wells Brothers), 38
Prepayment of Gas Meter System, 816
Press, Breuer-Schumacher 1200-Ton Hydraulic
Forging, 241
Press Directory, 509
Press, “ Presto” Stereo, 288
Pressed Steel Underframes, 446
Presses, Hydraulic (Fielding and Platt, Gloucester), 12
Pressures, Riveting, 655
“ Presto” Stereo-Matrix Process, 288
Prevention of Waste of Water, 403
Price’s Dredger and Spoil Transporter, 123, 126
Priestman’s Oil Engine, 841
Prince’s Pier Station, Greenock, 742
Producers, Gas, 816
Proell Gear, Compound Engine with (Messrs.
Westgarth, English, and Co., Middlesbrough), 678
Projectiles, Hydraulic Presses (Fielding and Platt, Gloucester), 12
Prony Brake, Modified, 67
Propellers, Spanish Belted Cruisers (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 576, 645, 711, 805
Prospects of Manchester Canal, 297, 688, 749, 787, 852
Public Health, 293
Puerto Cabello and Valencia Rack Railway Locomotive (Beyer, Peacock, and Co.), 477
Pullan and Mann, Leeds, Brick-Making Machine, 844
Pullman Cars, 38, 676
Pullman Street Cars, 676
Pump Lubricator, Automatic (Berend and Co.’s), 500
Pump, Pohle Air Lift, 723, 754. See Letters
Pump and Windmill for Draining Lands, 207, 239, 270, 334
Pumps, Electrically-Driven (Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co.), 162
Pumps, Snow Oil, Oil-Carrying Steamers, .72, 209, 238
Pumping Engine Fitted for Oil Fuel, Portable Centrifugal (Gwynne), 318
Pumping Engines, Hydraulic (Taylor and Challen, Birmingham), 544. See Erratum, 577
Pumping Engines, Quadruple-Expansion (E. P.
Allis Company), Economy of, 32, 794, 828 x
Pumping Engines, Triple-Expansion, Worthington (J. Simpson and Co., Limited, London), 578
Pumping Plant, Electric Colliery (Ernest Scott and Mountain), 350
Punctuality of Trains in New South Wales, 362
Purification of Coal Gas, 686, 816
Purification of Sewage, 293
Purification of Sewage by Microbes, 201. See Letters
Quartz Fibres, Attachment of, 304
Quay, Great Yarmouth, New Fish (Kinipple), 37
“Queen Olga” Engines Working at Reduced Power, 204
Queensland Railways, Rate War with New South Wales, 49
Quick-Firing Breech Mechanism Fletcher 740
Quick-Firing Guns, Armstrong, 283 308 346
Ouick-Firing Guns, hrupp, 567, 641, 6/3
Quirk's Train Tablet Exchanger, 448
Rack Railway, Electric, Mont Saleve, Geneva, rMw’ ^motive (Lange and luvesey
Rail Bridge on the Mauritius Railwaj, 330
Rail, Sandberg’s 1QO-Lb., 613
Rails in United States, 84
Railway Accident at Drummuir, 62
Railway Bridges, Manchester Canal, 114, 118
Railway Bridges in North-W est India, bU
Railway Car Couplers, 733, 76/ , 803, 833
Railway Carriages, American D. British.
wi"
(Longford Company), 545
»Xi^SiSfieM,Rean592
Railway Collision at Cannon-Street 656
Railway Collision at King s Cross, 268
Railway Collision at Ramsey, 41
Railway Collision at Tain, 792
Railway Collision at Thorpe s Bridge, a43
Railway Collision with Travelling Crane, 60
Railway and Commercial Gazetteer, 249
Railway, Congo, 723 kttrr
Railway Congress, The 323, 355 520. See Lkttkr
Railway Development m France, 331. o
R^wav^ectric Rack, Mont Sateve, Geneva, 307,375,437,503
Railway Extension in San Salvador, 4a6
Railway Fog Signalling, Timmis and Aber-| nethy’s Electric, 527 I
Railway, Landslip on Swansea Vale, 152 ,
Railway, Otis Elevating, Catskill Mountain, 411, 474
Railway Policy, Russian, 653
Railway Property, Indian, 266
Railway, Queensland, 49
Railway Rates and Traders, 456, 483
Railway Rod Connections, Guide Bearings for,
Railway Rolling Stock with Steel Frames, 446 Railway, Scotch, Economy, 542 Wo<u.o-„
Railway, Service of London aRd South-Western,
767. See Letters, London and South-Western
Railway Signals, London and North-Western, 267 x.
Railway Signals, Operating, 31, 63
Railway Signals, Tablet Exchanger, 448
Railway Station Indicator, 479
Railway Station, Prince s Pier, Greenock, 742
Railway Station Roof, Fall of Dover, 92
Railway Traffic in Ireland, 296
Railway Train Lighting and Heating, 6
Railway Train Service, Great Western, 15d. See
Letters, Great Western Railway
Railway Tunnels, Dore and Chinley, 181 ,
Railway, Venezuelan, 392
Railway Wagon Repairs, Cost of, 2/0, 501
Railway Zone Tariff in Hungary, 22
Railways, Government, Rate War between
Australian, 49
Railways in India, 800
Railways, Indian (London Chamber of Commerce), 689
Railways, Light, 560
Railways, Norway, 655
Railways, Spanish, 689
Railways and Trade in India, 390
Raising Steam by Towns’ Refuse, 237, 396, 425.
See Letters
Ram, Detachable, Submarine Artillery, 3/8
Ramsey, Railway Collision at, 41
Range Finder, Crampton-Smith, 644
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Ploughs, 843
Rapid-Firing Guns, Armstrong, 283, 308, 346
Rapson’s Slide, 757, 812
Rarefied Gases, Expansion of, /24, 825
Rates, Railway, and Traders, 456, 483
Read, Mr. T. C., andStanbury, Mr. G.,on Stresses and Strains in Ships, 409, 499
Rear Collision at Bettisfield, 592
Rear Sight for Artillery, Pedrazzoli, /78 Recalescence of Iron, 606, 636, 665, 695, /29 Records of Engineering Experience, 617 Reducing Valve, Ideal, Joy’s, 527
Re-engining S.S. “Moor” (Thomson, Clydebank), 572, 615. See 717
Refinery, Gold and Silver, 472
Refractive Indices, Method of Determining, 304
Refrigerating Plant, Central Station, 267
Refrigeration, Eastman’s Cars, andc.. 365
Refuse Disposal in Birmingham, 415
Refuse, Raising Steam by Towns’, 237, 396, 425.
See Letters, Steam Raising, andc.
Registration of Patent Agents, 550, 758,78/. See Letters
Relief and Vacuum Valves, Coale’s Safety, 612
Report by British Commission, Chicago Exhibition, 688 „ . .
Research Committee, Inst. M.E., Marine Engine Trials, 186, 212, 274. See Letter, Marine Engine Trials
Reservoir, Craigmaddie, Glasgow, 703, 738
Reservoir, Masonry Dams, 714
Reservoirs. See Glasgow Water Works
Reservoirs on the Nile, Storage, 223, 521, 784.
See Letters, Nile
Resistance of Airways in Mines. 393
“ Resolution” and “Revenge,” H.M.SS., Stability, Engines, andc. (Palmers Company, Jarrow), 17. See 146, 152, 360, 367, 387. See Letters
Retorts at Rochdale, Inclined Gas, 40. See Letters
Retorts, Setting of Gas, 816
“ Revenge,” Engines, andc., of H.M. Battleship (Palmers, Jarrow), 17, 146, 152, 360, 367, 387
Reversing Gear, Fluid Pressure, Joy’s, 411, 432, 539, 695. See Letters, Joy's Gear
Rhode Island Consolidation Compound Locomotive, 316
Richards, Mr. Windsor, on Steel Trade, 587
Richmond and Chandler, Manchester, Grain Bruiser and Grinder, 843
Richmond Company’s Locomotive, 677
Richmond Lock and Weir, 687
Rings, Elastic Strength of, 489,526. See Letters.
See Erratum, 526
River Bridges over the Rhone at Lyons, 394
River Yenisei, Siberia, Expedition to, 82
Rivers, Training of, 525
Riveting Pressures, 655
Road Bridge at Wooler, Northumberland, 289
Road Bridges, Manchester Canal, 114, 118
Road Scarifiers, Macadamised, 486, 496, 547
Road Steam Engines, 552. See Letters
Robey Oil Engine, 808, 834, 842
Robinson and Oldfield’s Feed Mechanism, Planing Machine (Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Glasgow), 41
Robinson, Professor, on Petroleum Engines, 478
Rochdale Gas Works, Inclined Retorts, 40. See Letters, Gas Retorts
Rock Dredging Work, 27, 56
Rock Drill, Hirnant, 602
Rock Forming Minerals, Tables for the Determination of the, 801
“ Rocket” Locomotive, 316, 645
Rogers Locomotive, 43, 301, 561
Rollason’s Wind Motor, 513
Rolling of Battleships (“Royal Sovereign”), 17, 360, 367, 387. See Letters
Roof, Fall of Dover Railway Station, 92
Roofs and Bridges, Stresses in, 342
Room, Sound-Proof, 77,151
Root’s Oil Engine, 838
Rope Power Transmission, Experiments, 186
Rowan and Sons, Glasgow’, Engines Clyde 1 Steamers “ Neptune ” and “ Mercury,” 742 |
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
Society, Royal 1
Royal Commission on Labour, 453, 783, 849
Royal Engineers and Civil Appointments. See Letters
Royal Mail Company’s Steamships, 620
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological Society
“Royal Oak” Machinery, Battleship (Laird Brothers, Birkenhead), 514
Royal Society Soiree, 584, 786
“Royal Sovereign” Stability, 17, 360, 367, 387.
See Letters
Royle’s Expansion Steam Trap, 561
Runcorn Viaduct, 114
Russia, Accident Insurance Funds, 525
Russian Harbour on the Arctic Ocean, 267
Russian Oil Supplies, Regulation of, 22
Russian Railway Policy, 653
Rusting of Iron and Steel, 203
Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company’s Appliances, 287, 335 r J
Safety Valves, Baldwin, 678
St. Leonard’s Soctets, Ltege, Triple-Boiler Locomotive, Belgian State Railway, 573
Salford Docks, 131
Saltpetre, The First Patent of, 773
Samuelson and Co.’s Oil Engine, 835
San Salvador, Railway Extension, 456
Sandberg’s 100-Lb. Rail, 613
Sanitation in India, 549
Saws for Cutting Copper, 624
Scales, Graduated, Cumulative Errors in 159 Scandinavian Iron Ore, 588, 763, 793 Scarifiers, Macadamised Road, 486, 496 547 Schenectady Locomotive, 257, 347, 509 ’
Scbbck> Mr- Otto, on vibration of Steamers, 401, 406. See Letters
Scotch Oil Industry, 788
Scotch Railway Economy, 542
Scotch Ship Canal, Proposed, 487
Scotland, Shipbuilding in, 87
Scott and Mountain, Ernest, Electric Colliery
Pumping Plant, 350 *
^CruFser, 47°5Untain’ Steam D^amo for Chilian Scrap-Cutting Machine (Messrs. Craig and
Donald, Jolinstone), 727 8
Seoo?efences and Breakwaters in Italy, 179, 302
Seaton Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See
Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
fc” an/l“ Thames>” Newhaven and Dieppe a ??Sn'?.rs (Horges et Chantiers, Havre), 622 P c pBln?lng Harvesters, Trials of, 20 ' Sell s Telegraphic Address Directory, 509 Separator, Centrifugal Tar, 778 Separators and Disintegrators, 846 Serpollet Boiler, 327
Severn, Navigation of the, 143
LHt for (Adams Company,
Sewage Disposal in Birmingham, 415
Sewage (Public Health), 293
LEmR8UrifiCatiOn by Microbes> 201. See
Bloving Cranks from, 483, 623 680
405® 533? 669s “nd EquiPment °f> 153, ’217, 279, Shafts, Tests of, at Watertown Arsenal 569 investors and, 772 *
Sharp, Mr. Archibald, on Point Paths in chamsms (Kinematics), 439
oh?ne S’ C0 > Glas«ow> Ma-
Mechinism^l®01”"80" and °ldfleld’8 Feed lteenner’w Uu.er (Listcr> Keighley), 519
(Messrs-craig and
Shand« et’Pr00f> 726> 753‘ See Letters,
|!j?P 2anaJ* TTSee Manchester Ship Canal
Sh n rana ’ ?Jlmber t0 Wakefield, 146, 615
P °ana > Liverpool and the, 852 ’
Ship Canal, Proposed Scotch, 487 Sh^Dynamo (E. Scott and Mountain, Limited), Ship-Shaped Stream Forms, 410
Stresses and Strains, 409, 499
Shipbuilding, A Manual of Naval Architecture, S187,b551lding and Marine Engineering, 7, 39, 81, Shipbuilding in Norway, 174
Shipping through Suez Canal, /23
Shipping, The Surplus of, 81
Shipping World Year-Book, 249
Shipwreck List, 327
Shofer Portland Cement Kiln, <99
Shunt Box for Galvanometers, 489
Siam, Oil in, 688 . t
Siberia, Expedition to River Yenisei, 82
Sieves, Operating, with Circular Motion (Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, Ipswich), 843
Sight for Artillery, Pedrazzoli Rear, 778
Signalling, Railway, 31, 63
Signals, London and North-Western Railway, 267
Silver and Gold Refinery, 472
Silvertown Water Level Indicator, 164
Simplon Tunnel, 297
Simpson and Co., Lmited, Triple-Expansion Worthington Pumping Engines, 578
Simpsons and McPhail’s Steam Generator and Superheater, 244. See Letters, Generators, andc.
Sinking and Equipment of Shafts, 153, 217, 279, 405, 533, 669
Sizing of Crushed Minerals, Concentration and, 92
Sleeping and Composite Cars, L. and N.-W. Railway, 414
Slide, Rapson’s, 757, 812
Sluices on Manchester Canal, 111
Sluices at River Clyde, 325
Sluices, Stoney, at Richmond, 687
Small Coal, Value of, 3
Smoke Consumption, 77
Smoke Prevention (British Engineering Company, Limited, Birmingham), 845
Smoking Cars (Pullman), 38
Snelus, Mr. G. J., on Walrand-Legandiisel Steel Process, 588
Snow’s Oil Pumps, Oil Carrying Steamers, 72, 209, 238
Society ot Arts:
22
Electric Signalling without Wires, by Mr. W.
H. Preece, 264
Railways and Trade Development in India, by Mr. Joseph Walton, 390
Photometry (Cantor Lectures), by Captain
Abney, 455, 488, 489, 522
Sanitation in India, by Sir Auckland Colvin, 549
Coal Gas and its Consumption, by Professor Lewes, 686
Oil Wells in Burmah and Siam, by Mr. R. D.
Oldham, 688
Sorby’s Method of Grinding Metal, 826, 588
Sound-Proof Room, 77, 151
Source of Glasgow Water Supply, 469
South Atlantic Steamships, 620
South-East England Weather in 1893, 554
South-Western Train Service, 155
Southampton Docks, 621
Southampton v. Liverpool, 621
“Southwark,” International Company’s T.S.S.
(Denny, Dumbarton), 51
Spanish Armoured Cruisers (Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao), 576, 645, 711, 805
Spanish Railways, 689
Spectacles, Mechanical Treatment for Double
Vision, 329
Speed of Steamships, Economical, 54
Speed Trials, Chilian Cruiser “ Blanco Encalada,”
819. See 723, 746
Spencer Naval Programme, 389, 421, 424, 485,
519, 547. See Letters, Navy
Spheroidal State, Boiler Explosions, 170
Spoil Barges and Buckets, 126
Spontaneous Heating of Coal, 379, 463
Spring Mounted Traction Engine (Aveling and
Porter), 807
Spurge’s Photometer, 206
Squint, Spectacles for, 329
Stability of Battleships (“Royal Sovereign”),
17, 146, 360, 367, 387. See Letters
Stability, Spanish Cruiser (Astilleros del Nervion,
Bilbao), 576. See 645, 711, 805
Stanbury, Mr. G., and Read, Mr. T. C., on
Stresses and Strains in Ships, 409, 499
Starting Tram Cars, Apparatus, 363
Statics, Graphic, 54, 77
Station, Prince’s Pier, Greenock, 742
Station, Railway, Indicator, 479
Station Roof, Fall of Dover Railway, 92
Stations, Electric, 537, 563, 592, 632
for
En-475
Statistical Society. The Royal:
Ocean Highways ; their Bearing on the Food and Wages of Great Britain, by Lord George Hamilton, 264
Stead, Mr. J. E., Polishing Iron and Steel
Microscopic Examination, 588, 826
Steam on Common Roads, 552. See Letters
Steam Diggers, 842
Steam Dryness, Testing, 818
Steam Dynamo for Chilian Cruiser “ Blanco calada” (E. Scott and Mountain, Limited)
Steam, Effect of Water in, 185 h
Steam Elevator Bridge over Chicago River, 776
Steam Engines, 842 ’
StMoPH 5nd Superheater, Simpsons and
McPhail, 244. See Letters, Generator
Steam Jets, 23, 53, 77,175 ’ V ’
Steam Lifeboat “City of Glasgow ” 723
Steam Piping, 158, 159
Steam Pressure Losses in Marine Engines 410
Ste,am Raising by Towns’ Refuse, 237, 396 425
See Letters ’
Steam, Superheated, in Small Motors 327
Steam Trap, Royle’s Expansion, 561 ’
s •<
Steamer, Extemporised Paddle 22
Steamer “ La Marguerite,” Thames and Boulogne
Excursion (Fairfield Company) 857
St^ieri“ Netherlands,” Hudson River Ferrv
(Marvel, Newburg, U.S.A ) 223 ferry
Steamer, Paddle, “ Marie ’Henriette ” p«i •
Mail (Cockerin Company, Ant^ )’ 255 3^” Steamer “ Southwark,” International Con,’,„„ ■
Twin-Screw (Denny,’ Dumbarton), 51 Pa"y 8
Steamers,Clyde, “Neptune’’and “Mercury,” 742
Steamers, Ferry, 689
Steamers “Lucania” and “Campania,” Year’s Steaming of, 553. See Letters, Lucania
Steamers, Oil-Carrying, 205
Steamers, Oil-Carrying, “Delaware” and “Lackawanna” (Messrs. Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 72, 209, 238
Steamers “Seine” and “Thames,” Newhaven and Dieppe (Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 622
Steamers, South Atlantic Royal Mail, 620
Steamers, Vibration of, 401, 406, 459, 492. See Letters
Steamships, Economical Speed of, 54
Steel, Allotropic Modifications of, 854
Steel and Aluminium, 270, 300
Steel Analysis, 590
Steel, Basic, Production of, 261
Steel, Breaking Down Point of, 50
Steel Canoes, 683
Steel Castings, 158
Steel, Results of Heat Treatment of Manganese, and their Bearing upon Carbon Steel, 607, 636, , 665, 695, 729
Steel and Iron Grinding for Microscopic Examination, 588, 826
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel
I nstitute
Steel and Iron Rusting, 203
Steel and Iron in Sweden, 764
Steel and Iron Trade Prospects, 587
Steel and Iron Wire Manufacture, 58, 90
Steel, Physics of, 471
Steel Process, Walrand-Legenisel, 588
'Steel, Tests of, 471
Steel Tests at Watertown Arsenal, 569
Steel Underframes, Fox’s Pressed, 446
Steerage Passenger Rate War, Atlantic, 554
Stephenson and Co., Robt., Portable Oil Engine, 835, 842
Stephenson and Son, G., Newark (Hay and Straw
Baling Presses), 843
Stereo-Matrix Process, “Presto,” 288
Stevenson, Mr. C. A , on Telegraph Communication by Induction by Means of Coils, 464
Stock Exchange Year-Book, 37
Stone-Picking Machine (Messrs. Woods and Co., Stowmarket, Suffolk), 843
Stoney Sluices, Manchester Canal, 111
Stoney Sluices at Richmond, 687
Stoney’s Tipping Crane, 126
Storage Reservoirs on the Nile, 233, 521, 784.
See Letters, Nile
Straining Well at Craigmaddie Reservoir, Glasgow
Water Works, 738
Strains in Boilers, Expansion, 237
Strains and Stresses in Ships, 409, 499
Strains and Structures, 342
Stream Forms, Ship-Shaped, 410
Street Cars, Pullman, 676
Street Pavements, 47, 84
Streeter-Amet Company’s Car-Weighing Plant, 12
Strength, Elastic, of Rings, 489. See Letters.
See Erratum, 526
Stresses and Strains in Ships, 409, 499
Stresses and Structures, 342
Strikes and Lock-Outs in 1892, 815
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., on Experimental Determination of Poisson’s Ratio, 760
Subaqueous Foundations, Yarmouth Quay, 37
Subaqueous Rock, Dredging, 27, 56
Submarine Artillery (Detachable Ram), 378
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 296
Submerged Sewer at Shirley Gut, Boston, 348
Substitute for an Air Pump at Sea, 717
Subterranean Survey in Kansas, 568
Subterranean Telegraph Cables, 617
Suez Canal and Shipping, 722
Superheated Steam in Small Motors, 327
Superheater, Simpsons and McPhail’s Steam Generator and, 244. See Letters, Generator, andc.
Supremacy of Britain’s Trade, 719
Surfaces for Microscopic Examinations, 588, 826
Surplus of Shipping, 81
Survey of an Underground Connection at Leavenworth, Kansas, 568
Suspension Bridge Anchorages, 853
Swansea Vale Railway, Landslip on, 152
Sweden, Electric Transmission of Power 50
Sweden, Iron and Steel in, 764
Swing Bridges, Manchester Canal, 118. See Letters
Swiss Mountain Railway, 307, 375, 437, 503
Switching Locomotive, 257
Syphons, Glasgow Water Works, 635

Tablet Exchanger, Quirk’s Train, 448
Tain, Railway Collision at, 792
Tank Indicator, Sil vertown Water Level, 164
Tank for Petroleum, 492
Tannett Walker and Co.’s 160-Ton Hydraulic Crane, 259
Tapping and Drilling Machine (Loudon Brothers, Glasgow), 613. See Erratum, 656
Tar, Coal, for Making Gas, 817
Tar Separator, Centrifugal, 778
Tariff, Zone, in Hungary, 22
Taylor and Challen, Birmingham, Hydraulic Pumping Engines, 544. See Erratum, 577
Technical Education, 79
Tees Shipbuilding, 8, 81, 87
Telegraph Cables, Yof-Dakar Underground, 617
Telegraph Engineers in India, 324
Telegraph Line, Working a Leaky, 457
Telegraph, Submarine, 296
Telegraphic Address Directories, 509
Telegraphic Communication by Induction by Means of Coils, 464
Telegraphs, Persian, 662
Telegraphy, Inductive, 264. See also 464
Telford’s Bridge at Glasgow, 226. See Letters, Glasgow Bridge
Temperature and Death Rate, 434
Temperature, andc., of Las Palmas, Grand Canary, 257
Temperature of Visibility, Minimum, 543
Temple of Philaj, Assouan Dam, 223, 521, 784. See Letters
“ Terrible,” British Cruiser, 24, 45, 51
Testing the Magnetic Quality of Iron, 326
Testing Oil, Machine for (Phillips), 791
Textile Machinery, Flax and Hemp, 328
Thames and Boulogne Excursion Steamer “La Marguerite ” (Fairfield Company), 857
“ Thames” and “ Seine,” Newhaven and Dieppe Steamers (Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 622
Thames Shipbuilding, 39, 81, 87
Thames, Tower Bridge, 852
Theorem, A New Electrical, 304
Theory v. Practical Training, 79
Thermometer Screens at Ilfracombe, 257
Thomson, Clydebank, Compound v. Triple
Engines, S.S. “Moor,” 572, 615. See 717
Thomson, Limited, Clydebank, R.M.S. “Danube,” 620
Thomson-Houston Arc Lighting and Compound-Wound Dynamos, 752
Thornycroft Torpedo Vessels (‘ ‘ Daring ”) 850
Thornycroft Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See
Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Thurston on the Economy of Multiple-Expansion Engines, 794, 828
Timber Flat Car, “ Canda,” 414
Timmis and Abernethy’s Electric Fog-Signalling Apparatus, 527
Tolch and Co.’s “ Capitaine ” Oil Engine, 835
Tomlinson, The Late Mr. Joseph, 621
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Daring,” Trials (Thornycroft), 850
Torpedo- Boat Destroyer Designs, 237, 459
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Havock,” British (Yarrow), 72
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Hornet” (Yarrow), 295, 394. See Letter, 387
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers for Foreign Navies, 204
Torpedo-Boat No. 92 (Thornycroft), 850
Towage, Electric, on the Canal de Bourgogne, 362
Tower Bridge, 852
Traction, Conduit Electric System, 590
Traction, Electric, 394, 556, 627, 658
Traction Engine, Traffic, 552
Traction Engines, 807
Trade Abroad, Development of English, 23
Trade Disputes, 357,651. See Labour Commission
Trade Outlook, 551
Trade Prospects, Iron and Steel, 587
Trade and Railways in India, 390
Traffic, Manchester Canal, 297, 688, 749, 787, 852
Train Lighting and Heating, Gibbs’ Tender, 6
Train Punctuality in New South Wales, 362
Train Service, Great Western, 155. See Letters, Great Western Railway
Train Speeds, London and South-Western Service, 767. See Letters, London and Southwestern
Train Tablet Exchanger, Quirk’s, 448
Training of Rivers, 525
Tramcar with Oil Engine, 676
Tramcar Starting Apparatus, 363
Tram Cars, Open and Closed Street, 611
Tram Lines, Permanent Way for, 456
Tramway Cars. See Cars
Tramway, Gas Power on, 808
Tramway, Guernsey Electric, 411
Tramway Purchase by Municipalities, 144, 297,483
Tramways, Electric, andc., 204. See Letters
Tramways in United Kingdom, 204. See Letters, Electric Tramways
Transatlantic Passengers, 294
Transfer Table, Electric (Industrial Works, Michigan), 55
Transformers and Electro-Magnets, Curves oi Current in, 657
Transition Curve Field Book, 332
Transmission of Electric Power in Norway, 818 Transmission of Power by Ropes and Belts.
Experiments, 186
Transmission of Power in Sweden, Electric, 50
Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, 205
Trap, Royle’s Expansion Steam, 561
Travelling Crane, Railway Collision with, 60
Trawler “ Hermes,” S.S. (Hall, Aberdeen), 352
Trials of Oil Engines, 833
Trials of Self-Binding Harvesters, 20
Trials, Steam, H.M.S. “ Hermione,” 700
Triple-Boiler Locomotive, Belgian State Railway
(St. Leonard’s Soci£t6, Liandge), 573
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Triple-Expansion Engines at Reduced Pressures 204, 410, 529
Trojan Car Coupler, 767
Truck, Standard Six-Wheel, New York Centra Railroad, 709
“ Trusty” Oil Engine (Weyman and Hitchcock), 835
“Trusty” Portable Oil Engine (Messrs. Weyman and Hitchcock), 711, 835
Tubes, Fibre, 788
Tubulous Boiler. See also Water-Tube Boilers
Tubulous Boiler, Furnace Grates, 185
Tubulous Boiler, Yarrow’s, H.M.S. “ Hornet,” 295, 394. See Letters, 387
Tubulous Boilers, 381, 385, 430. See Letters
Tubulous v. Cylindrical Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters
Tunnel, Simplon, 297
Tunnels, Alignment of, 602
Tunnels on the Dore and Chinley Railway, 181
Tunnels, Glasgow Water Works, 535, 601, 635. See also 820
Turbines for Niagara, Geyelin-Jonval (Wood, Philadelphia), 480
Turner, Ipswich, Operating Sieves with Circular Motion, 843
Tyne Shipbuilding, 7, 81, 87
Type Press, “Presto” Stereo, 288

Under-Water Foundations, Yarmouth Quay, 37
Underground Water Supplies, 204
Unemployed, The, 23
United Kingdom Tramways, 204. See Letters, Electric Tramways
United Service Institution. Royal : Steam on Common Roads, by Lieut.-Colonel Templer, 552
United States Commerce - Destroyer “Columbia,” 25. See Letters
United States Mail Cars, 385
United States, Rails in, 84
Universal Milling Machine (Pedrick and Ayer, Philadelphia), 271
Universities, American, 222, 252
University of Chicago, 252
University, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 222

Vacuum Valves, Coale’s Safety Relief and, 612
Valve Chambers, Glasgow Water Works, 635
Valve Gear, Baguley’s, on Tank Locomotive (Messrs. Bagnall, Limited, Stafford), 775
Valve Gear, Buckeye, 32
Valve Gear, Corliss, Compound Mill Engine (Cochrane, Barrhead), 397
Valve Gears, Point Paths in Mechanisms, 439
Valve, Proell, Compound Engine with (Messrs. Westgarth, English and Co., Middlesbrough), 678
Valve, Reducing (Ideal Company), 527
Valves, Baldwin’s Safety, 678
Valves, Coale Safety Relief and Vacuum, 612
Valves at Craigmaddie Reservoir, Glasgow Water Works, 738
Van Dorston Car Coupler, 804
Vanderbeck’s Four-Spindle Sensitive Drill (United States Machine Company, Hartford, Conn.), 760
Varley Testimonial Fund, 333
Vassar College at the Chicago Exposition, 82
Velocities, Wind, Relative Frequency of, 658
Venezuelan Railway, 392
Ventilating Aqueduct Tunnels, Glasgow Water Works, 603
Venturi Water Meter, 329
Verdinois, C., on Rock Dredging, 27, 56
Vestibules, American Railway Car, 733, 767. See 803, 833
Viaducts, Manchester Canal, 114, 118
Vibration of Electric Central Stations, Law, 583
Vibration of Steamers, 401, 406, 459, 492. See Letters
“Ville de Douvres,” Marine Engine Trials, 186, 212, 274. See Letters, Marine Engine Trials
Viscosity of Liquids, 273
Visibility, Minimum Temperature of, 543
Vision, Mechanical Treatment for Double, 329
Voltmeters for Electric Lighting Stations, 555
Vosper’s Oil Engine (Launch), 647. See 839

Wagner Palace Cars, 162
Wagon and Carriage Frames, Pressed Steel, 446
Wagon Repairs, Cost of, 270, 300
Wagon, Standard Six-Wheel, New York Central Railroad, 709
Wagons. See Cars
Wakefield and Humber Ship Canal, 146, 615
Wallace and Son, Glasgow, Potato Digger, 843
Walls and Embankments, Manchester Canal, 131
Walrand-Legdnisel Steel Process, 588
Walsingham Boiler Explosion, 466
Walter, Mr. John (Lowestoft), 844
Walton’s Link Belting, 52
War, Chilian, American Cruiser on Service, 281. See Letters, Cruise, andc.
Ward’s Tubulous Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Warming Railway Carriages, 332, 354
Warships, Foreign, Launched in 1893, 41, 393
Warships, High-Speed, 23
Warships, Stability of, 17, 360,367, 387. See 146. See Letters
Washing Ore in East Texas, 507
Water Filtration, 267
Water Hammer (Experiments), 64. See Letters
Water Level Indicator, Silvertown, 164
Water Meter, Venturi, 329
Water, Purifying, Used in Gold Milling, 459, 494
Water in Steam, Effect of, 185
Water Supply, Canary Islands, 23, 77
Water Supply and Cost in Principal Towns, 47C
Water Supply, Underground, 204
Water-Tube Boiler. See also Tubulous Boiler
Water-Tube Boiler Furnace Grates, 185
Water-Tube Boiler (Penn’s), Lifeboat “ City of Glasgow, 723
Water-Tube Boilers 381, 385, 430. See Letters
Water-Tube Boilers, Belleville, in “ Thames (Forges et Chantiers, Havre), 622
Water-Tube Boilers in Destroyer “ Daring, Thornycroft, 850
Watertown Arsenal, Tests at, 569
Water Waste Prevention and Detection, 403, 818
Water Works, Glasgow. See Glasgow Water Works
Waterways in America, 324
Wear Shipbuilding, 7, 81, 87
Weather, 21, 50, 203, 325, 454, 554, 620 751
Webb’s System of Compounding Locomotives, 610. See Letters
Weighing Plant, Automatic Car (Streeter-Amet Company, Chicago), 12
Weir at Richmond, 687
Weir on the River Clyde, 325
Wells Brothers’ “ Premier” Oil Engine, 838
Wells, Oil, in Burmah and Siam, 688
Wells, Petroleum, in North Caucasus, 393
Western States (U.S.), Irrigation, 22
Westgarth, English, and Co., Inverted Engine with Proell Gear, 678
Westinghouse Brake Patents in America, 21
Westinghouse Engines, 70
Weyman and Hitchcock “Trusty” Oil Engine, 711, 835
Weymouth and Channel Islands, Great Western Train Service, 155
Wheel Grinding Machine, Car (Ensign Company, Huntingdon, West Virginia), 72
White, Dr. W. H., A Manual of Naval Architecture, 768
White, Dr. W. H., on Naval Defence Fleet, 359
White, Dr.W. H., on Stability, andc., of New Battleships, 360, 367, 387. See 17, and Letters
White Lead and its Substitutes, 145
White’s Tubulous (Coil) Boiler, 381, 385, 430. See Letters, Water-Tube Boiler
Whittaker’s Crane Navvy, 123, 126 *
Whitworth Gun Mountings, Spanish. See Cruiter, 577, 645, 711, 805
Whitworth Guns, H.M.SS. “Centurion,” “Bar-fleur,” Trials, 52, 358, 415
Wigan, Boiler Explosion at, 150
Wiggins’ Expedition to River Yenisei, Siberia, 82
Wilmott Brothers and Cobon, Rotherhithe, Wire Netting Machine, 612
Wilson’s Steam Crane and Excavator, 123, 126
Wimshurst Electrical Phenomena, 341
Wind Gusts, Duration and Measurement, 434
Wind Motor, Rollason’s, 513
Wind Velocities, Relative Frequency of, 658
Windmill and Pump for Draining Lands, 207, 239, 270,334
Windmills, 845
Wire Carriage Seat, Wood’s Woven (Longford Company), 545
Wire Fencing (Messrs. W. F. Dennis and Co.), 844
Wire Manufacture, Iron and Steel, 58, 90
Wire Netting Machine (Messrs. Willmott Brothers and Cobon, Rotherhithe), 612
“ Wirral ” and “ Mersey ” Ferry Steamers, 679
Wood-Pulp Industry in Norway, 267
Wood Street Pavement, 47, 84
Woods and Co., Messrs. (Stowmarket, Suffolk), Stone-Picking Machine, 843
Wood’s Woven Wire Carriage Seat (Longford Company), 545
Wooler, Road Bridge at (Northumberland), 289
Work of Hertz, 751
Working Marine Engines at Reduced Power, 204, 410, 529

Works:

Aalborg Portland Cement Works, 800
Astilleros del Nervion, Bilbao, 645
Worthington Pumping Engines, Triple-Expansion (J. Simpson and Co., Limited, London), 578
Woven Wire Carriage Seat, Wood’s (Longford Company), 545
Wrecks, Lloyds’ List, 327
“ Wylam Dilly ” Locomotive, 644

Yacht Engine, Vosper’s Oil, 647. See 839
Yacht, A Fast American Steam, 655
Yachting Exhibition, 236
“Yankee Doodle,” a Fast American Steam Yacht, 655
Yarmouth New Fish Quay (Kinipple), 37
Yarrow British Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 72,295, 387, 394
Yarrow Tubulous Boiler, 295, 381, 385, 387, 394, 430 See Letters, Water-Tube Boilers
Year-Books, 249
Year’s Weather, 50
Yenisei, Siberia, Expedition, 82
Yof-Dakar Underground Cables, 617

Zone Tariff in Hungary, 22
Zuypen and Charlier, Coal and Platform Railway

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