Engineering 1895 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABERDEEN and London Railway Trains, 121, 151, 192, 243, 246, 278, 307, 340, 426, 543, 632. See LETTERS, Railway Race to the North
Acceleration Diagram, Piston and Connecting Rod, 55

Accidents, Railway :

Butt Collision on a Single Line, 646
Collision at Bolton, 817
Collision at Brechin, 817
Collision at Drighlington, 817
Collision at Grosmont, 817
Collision at Herne Bay. 817
Collision at Landore, 817
Collision at Leith, 817
Collision at Liverpool-Street, 817
Collision near Newport (Mon.), 784
Collision at Sheffield, 817
Derailment at Croydon, 700
Derailment near Doublebois, 81
Derailment at Rushey Platt, 614
Fatal Derailment at Tanfield Lea, 301
Fatal Level Crossing Accident, 710
Montparnasse Station, Paris, 548
Near Newport (Isle of Wight), 47
Rear Collision near Basingstoke, 279
Recent Train Collisions, 817
Reports of Railway, 432
Shandon Station, 797
Slight Collision at Penrith, 818
Slight Collision at Romford, 419
Triple Smash at Mirfield, 64

Accumulators Charged from Alternating Current Circuits, 252
Accumulators, Electrio, Capacity Increase, 611
Acid, A New Organic, 566
Adams' Sewage Lift, 572
Admiralty Contracts, 669
Admiralty Works Department, 677, 743
Adzing and Boring Machine, Combined Sleeper (Robinson, Rochdale), 570 .
Aerial Navigation, 448, 787
Agriculture (Dairy Show), 461
Agriculture and Light Railways, 351. See
Ariatum, 440
Agriculture and Light Railways, 703
Agriculture and Science, 566
Agricultural Machinery, 788
Air Electrification and Diselectrification, 478
Air, Liquid, 743
Air Pipes, Friedmann's Flexible Coupling, 452
Air Pressure, 787
Air, Respirability, in which a Candle is Extinguished, 566
Albert Bridge, Windsor, 889
Allan Glen's School Physical Laboratories, 805
Alloys, 580
Alloys, Tenacity at High Temperatures, 186
Alpine Tunnel, 692, 756
Alternate Current Wave Tracers, 563
Aluminium Torpedo-Boats, 548
America Cup, 488, 516. See larrEits
American. See United State8
American Metallurgical Industry, 460
American Railway Speeds, 426, 632. See 121, 151, 192, 243, 246, 278, 307, 340, 543. See Railway Race to the North
American Technical Publications, 221
American Telegraphy, 611
Anderson's Electric Welding System, 664
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 641
Annealing and Welding of Iron and Steel, Dilatation, 745
Annuals and Year-Books, 806
Apprentice Lathe (Shanks, Johnstone), 390
Arbitrary Functions, Development of, 558
Arc, Back Electromotive Force and True Resistance of the, 523
Arc, Electric, Potential Difference, Current and Length, 5z3
Arc Lamp (Inverted) for Indirect Lighting, 373
Arc Lamp, " I. R." (Richardson, Patricroft), 746
Arc Lamp, Jandus, 649
Arc Systrm of Electric Welding, Deflected, 664
Archbutt-Deeley Process, Water Purification, 610
Argentine Cruiser " Buenos Aires" (Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.), 567, 707
Argon, Refraction and Viscosity, 478
Armature Reaction in a Single-Phase Alternating Current Machine, 64
Armour Plate Bending Rolls (Striven and Co., Leeds), 113
Armour-Plates in the United States, 609
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Argentine Cruiser "Buenos Aires," 567, 707
Arnold, Mr. John Oliver, on Influence of Carbon on Iron, 745
Arrhenius' Generalisation, 566
Arrol, Sir William, Gas Works, Automatic Plant, 107, 153, 170, 231, 312
Artillery, Canet's Electrically Worked Turrets, 690
Asphalte, Beton, 307
Aspinall, Mr. John A. F., on Express Locomotives, 95
Asquith, Radial Drilling Machine, 509
Association of Water Works Engineers, 644, 712, 742, 778
Astronomy at Cape Town, 516
Atlantic Liners and Plymouth, 704
Atomic Theory, Genesis of Dalton s, 565
August Weather, 805
Automatic Water Flow Recorders, 402. See 154, 362
Avalanche, Ice, on the Gemmi Pass, Switzerland, 445
Average Wages of British Workmen, 397

B.A. Screw Gauge, 418, 496
Back Electromotive Force and True Resistance of the Arc, 623
Baden Two-Phase Hydro-Electric Installation, 530, 591, 655. See 719, 759, 789
Baker, Sir Benjamin, Presidential Address of, 607, 649, 683, 715, 747
Baku Naphtha Fountains, 337
Balancing Locomotives, 23
Baldwin Eight-Wheeled Locomotive, 455
Baldwin Eight-Wheel Locomotive for Brazil, 45
Bally and Sons, Schoenenwerd, Hydro-Electric Installation, 789. See 530, 591, 655, 719, 755
Baltic-B ack Sea Canal, 87
Baltimore City and Suburban Railway, 597
Baltimore and Ohio Electric Locomotive, Eo. See 755
Baltimore and Ohio Electric Railway Locomotive, 755, 793
Barcelona Depositing Dock, 481
Barnaby's Safety Mountings for Domestic Boilers, 811
Barometers, Mechanical Device for Correcting,783
Barring Engine (Victor Coates and Co., Belfast), 362
Bascule Bridge at Chicago, 92, 159. See 284
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., Windlasses and Capstans S.S. " St. Louis," 211
Batteries, Storage, 389
Battle Creek Steam Pump Company, Marsh Boiler Feed Pump, 746
Battleships. See Warships
Beam Engines, Mossend and Summerlee Works, 218
Beck, London, Schonheyder Water Meter, 420
Beckton Gas Works Retort Charging Plant, 170, 232, 312. See Glasgow Gas If orkl
Bedlington Local Board Water Supply, 363
Belfast Boiler Explosion, 817
Belfast and Clyde Dispute, 608, 707, 739
Belfast Strike, 608, 707, 739
Belgian Railways, 220
Bell and Co., Theodore, Kriens, Lucerne, Interlaken Hydro-Electric Installation, 719. See 530, 591, 655, 769, 789
Bell and Rock' ffe's Joggle Plating Machine, 419. See 463
Bellefontaine Bridge, Missouri River, 296, 373
Belleville Boilers, Evaporative Trials, 671
Belleville Boilers in the French Navy, 554, 587, 617, 682, 749. See Limns, Water - Tube Boilers
Belleville Boilers, United States Report on, 554, 587, 617, 682, 749. See 'Arms, Water- tube Boilers
Belt Fastener, Edwards', 169
Belt and Rope Driving, 635
Belting, Link, 279, 431
Ben Nevis Meteorological Observations, 478
Bending Rolls, Armour-Plate (Scriven and Co., Leeds), 113
Benham, Mr. Charles E., on the Sympalmograph, 127. See ',Erma
Bennett, Mr. A. It., on Telephony, 415, 526
Benzene, Latent Heat of Evaporation, 622
Berlin Exhibition, 1896, 278, 642
Berlin, Lighting of, 806
Bessemer Flame and the Hardening of Steel, Spectrum, 585
Bessemer Process, Thermo-Chemistry, 263
Beton, Asphalte, 307
Biggart, Mr. Andrew, on Hydraulic Machinery in Gas Works, 153, 312. See also Glasgow Gas Works
Birt, Mr. W., on the Growth of the Port of Harwich, 620
Black Sea-Baltio Canal, 87
Blackwall Tunnel, Thames, 549 •
Blake Air Pump, United States Cruiser, 600, 728. See 'Arms
Blast-Furnace Engines, Summerlee Works, 218
Blowing Organ by Fan, 355
Board of Trade Electric Lighting Regulations, 729
Boiler Efficiency, 50. See LETTERS
Boiler Experiments, Steam (Summary), 347
Boiler Explosion at Belfast, 817
Boiler Explosion at Cheadle, 663
Boiler Explosion at Drumgowan, 814
Boiler Explosion at East Keal, 744
Boiler Explosion near Glasgow, Compound, 87
Boiler Explosion near Halifax, 197, 343
Boiler Explosion at Longton, 525
Boiler Explosion at Newport, 80
Boiler Explosion, Redcar, 51, 122, 163, 199, 217, 715. See LETrms
Boiler Explosion, Stainland, 197, 343
Boiler Explosion near Stamford, 63
Boiler Explosions, Domestic, 679
Boiler, Fairbairn-Beeley, 361, 362. See 154, 402
Boiler Feed Pump, Marsh (Battle Creek Steam Pump Company), 746
Boiler Gauge Glasses, Fracture of, 815
Boiler, Haythorn Water-Tube (Meehan, Glasgow), 80
Boiler Injectors, Steam (Holden and Brooke, Limited, Manchester), 281
Boiler, Kitchen, Safety Mountings (Barnaby's) 811
Boiler-Making Plant. See Clydebank Works
Boiler, Niclausse Water-Tube, 93
Boiler, Normand and Sigaudy's Water - Tube, 541
Boiler Shells, Strength of, 165
Boiler Tests, 43
Boiler Tube Scraper, 780
Boiler Tubes, Lewis's Corrugated, 614. See LETTERS, 645
Boiler with Water-Tube Firebars (Thornycroft), 269
Boiler (Water-Tube) Shop at Clydebank Works, 136 •
Boiler Works at Clydebank, 67
Boilers. See also Water-Tube Boilers
Boilers for Central Electric Stations, 428, 503, 597. See Central Stations
Boilers, Domestic, 81
Boilers and Engines, Factors of Safety for, 418
Boilers, Evaporative Trials of Belleville, 571. See LETTERS
Boilers, Locomotive, Fireboxes and Tubes, 10
Boilers, Navy, 396, 437. See LETTERS
Boilers, The Strength of Short, 165, 489, 672. See LETTERS
Boilers, T.-S. Cunard Liners " Sylvania " and "Carinthia" (London and Glasgow Company), 539. See LETTERS.
Boilers, United States Cruiser " Minneapolis" (Cramp), 600, 728
Boilers, Water-Tube. See LErrEits
Boilers, Water - Tube, Boston Street Electric Railway, 446
Boilers, Water-Tube, in the French Navy, 554, 587, 617, 682, 749. See LErms, Water-Tube Boilers
Boilers, Water-Tube, in Navy, 396, 437
Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway, 19. See LErrER.s, Indian, dec.
Bond and Cooper, Birmingham, Drilling and Milling Machine, 433
Bonehill, Mr. Emile, on the Direct Puddling of Iron, 250, 283
Books Received, 471, 693, 725, 793
Bordeaux Exhibition,409
Boring and Adzing achine for Railway Sleepers (Robinson, Rochdale), 570
Boring, Drilling, and Tapping Machine, Universal (Shanks, Johnstone), 135
Boring Machine, Corliss Valve (Shanks, Johnstone), 797
Boring, Tapping, and Drilling Machine, Universal (Shanks), 135
Borings in London Area: 596 To ;ton West End Electric Tramway, 446
Bourne End Bridge of the Great Western Railway Company, Old, 562 ; New, 563
Bows of Torpedo-Boats, 614
Bradford College Testing. Laboratory, 609
Brake, Westinghouse Quick-Acting, 399, 406, 419. See LErrERs
Brakes for Electric Cars, 69, 70
Brakes on Freight Trains, 712
Brakes for Light Railways, 80
Brandt, Brandau, and Co., Simplon Tunnel, 692, 756
Brassey's Naval Annual, 324
Brazil Locomotive, Baldwin, 45
Breakdown Crane, 15-Ton Steam (Cowan, Sheldon and Co., Carlisle), 268
Breech Mechanism Gledhill's (Whitworth), 305
Breechloading Mechanism, Melin's (Vicars), 328
Brewers' Exhibition, 516
Bridge, Bellefontaine, Missouri River, 296, 373
Bridge at Chicago, Lifting, 92, 159. See 284
Bridge Deflections, 490
Bridge Flooring, Knight's, 160
Bridge Flooring, Pease's Tubular, 780
Bridge Reconstruction, Great Eastern Railway, 696
Bridge and Trestle Members, Strength of, 815
Bridges, Canadian Pacific Railway, 627, 657, 721
Bridges on Galway and Clifden Railway, 412. See 319, 384, 506
Bridges, Loath, 471. See LETTERS
Bridges on North Sea Canal, 210, 234
Bridges over Thames. See Thames Bridges
Brighton and Rottingdean Railway, 580, 613. See LETTERS
Bristol Electric Tramway, 359, 490. See LwrrEas
British and American Wages, 596
B.A. Screw Gauge, 418, 496

British Association : 334, 351

Presidential Address, by Sir Douglas Galton, 334
Mechanical Section, 280, 351, 388, 416, 435, 448
President's Address, by Professor L. F. Vernon Harcourt, 351
Light Railways as an Assistance to Agriculture, by Major-General Webber, C.B., 351. See rratum, 440
The Gobert Freezing Process for Shaft Sinking and Tunnelling under Rivers, by Mr. A. Gobert (Brussels), 353
East Anglian Coal Exploration, Description of
Machinery Employed, by Mr. J. Vivian, 354
The Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tides, by Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 353
Notes on Autumn Floods of 1894, by Mr. G. J. Symons, 354
Weirs in Rivers, by Mr. R. C. Rapier and Mr. F. G. M. Stoney, 364 -
An Experiment in Organ Blowing, by Mr. W. Anderson, C.B., 355.
The Growth of the Port of Harwich, by Mr. W. Birt, General Manager G.E.R., 357, 620
Snowdon Mountain Tram Road, by Mr. F. Oswell, 357, 378
Report of Committee on Standardising, 358
Report of Committee on Coast Erosion, 358
Dredging Operations on the Mersey Bar, by Mr. A. G. Lyster,358
Carbonic Anhydrie Refrigerating Machinery, by Mr. E. Hesketh, 358, 555. See LETTERE;
Deodorising of Sewage by Hermite Process, by Mr. J. Napier, Public Analyst of County of Suffolk, 358
The Modern Application of Electricity to Traction Purposes, by Mr. P. Dawson, 388
An Improved Portable Photometer, by Mr. W. H. Preece, C.B., and Mr. A. P. Trotter, 369, 389
Storage Batteries, by Mr. W. H. Earle, 389
The Development of the Telephone Service in Agricultural Districts, by Major-General Webber; C.B., 416
Some Lessons in Telephony, by Mr. A. R. Bennett, 415, 526
The Field Telegraph in the Chitral Campaign, by Mr. P. V. Luke, C.B., 416, 525
A Movement Designed to Attain Astronomical Accuracy 4n the Motion of Siderostats, by Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 416
Modern Flour Milling Machinery, by Mr. F. W. Turner, 416
On the Production of Letterpress Printing Surfaces without the use of Types, by Mr. J. Southward, 418
Memorandum on the B. A. Screw Gauge for Small Screws, by Mr. R. E. Crompton, 418, 496
Uniform Factor of Safety for Boilers and. Machinery in Steamships, by Mr. F. Key, 418
Experiments on the Transfer of Heat through Plates with variously arranged surfaces, by Ur. W. G. Walker, 418
British Association—continued.
A New Principle of Aerial Navigation, by Lieut. B. Baden Powell, 448
Receiver and Condenser Drop, by Professor A. E. Elliott, 436, 448. See 687, 753. See Erratum, 816
Concluding Proceedings in Section 0, 449
Mathematical and Physical Section, 449, 475, 521, 563
President's Address (Vortex Theories of Matter and of Ether), by Professoi Hicks, 450
Bicyclic Vortex Aggregates, by Prof. Hicks, 451
Hill's Spherical Vortex, by Prof. Hicks, 451
Species of Tetrahedron, by Prof. M. J. M. Hill, 451
Suggestions as to Matter and Gravity in Hicks' Cellular Vortex Ether, by Dr. Burton, 451
On Recent Developments of the Lunar Theory, by Mr. P. H. Cowell, 451
On the Velocity of Light in a Rarefied Gas through which a Current is Passing, by Mr. B. E. Edser and Mr. S. G. Starling, 451
Report on Solar Radiation, 451
Report on Cosmic Dust, by Dr. J. Murray, 475
Report on Underground Temperature, by Professor Everett, 475
Report on Earth Tremors in England, by Mr. C. Davison, 476
Report on Earthquakes in Japan, by Professor J. Milne, 475
Report on the Reduction of Magnetic Observations, by Dr. Chree, 476
As to whether Vertical (Earth-Air) Electrical Currents Exist in the United Kingdom, by Professor Rucker, F.R.S., 476
Report on Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 478
Report on the Application of Photography to Meteorology, by Mr. Clayden, 478
On Probable Projective Lightning Flashes, by Mr. E. S. Bruce, 478
On Indian Thunderstorms, by Professor Michie Smith, 478
Some Observations with Lord Kelvin's Portable Electrometer, by Professor Schuster, 478
Electrification and Diselectrification of Gases, by Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., Messrs. Maclean and Galt, 478
On the Refraction and Viscosity of Argon and Helium, by Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R.S., 478
On Specific Refraction and. the Periodic Law, with reference to Argon and other Elements, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 479
Discussion " On the Evidence to be Gathered as to the Simple or Compound Character of a Gas, from the Constitution of its Spectrum," by Professor A. Schuster, F.R.S., 479
The Spectrum of Cleveite Gas and Helium, by Professors Runge and Paschen, 479
The Interpretation of Spectra, by Dr. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 479
Discussion "On the Objective Character of Combination Tones," by Professor A. W. Rucker, F.R.S., Dr. Koenig, and Professor Hermann, 521
Discussion " On a New Practical Heat Standard," by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 521
On the Latent Heat of Evaporation of Benzine, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., and Miss Dorothy Marshall, 521
On a Method of Comparing the Heats of Evaporation of Different Liquids at their Boiling Points, by Professor W. Ramsay, F.R.S., and Miss Dorothy Marshall, 521
Thermal Conductivities of Mixtures of Liquids, by Dr. C. H. Lees, 522
On some Recent Improvements in Measurements of High Temperatures, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 522
The Reichsanstalt Charlottenburg and a National Research Laboratory, by Sir Douglas Galton, F.R.S., 522
On the Teaching of Geometrical Drawing in Schools, by Professor 0. Henrici, 522
An Harmonic Analyser, by Mr. G. U. Yule, 522
Report on the Sizes of Periodicals, 522
On the Relation between the Morphological Symmetry and the Optical Symmetry of Crystals, by Mr. Wm. Barlow, 522
On a Dynamical Top, by Mr. G. T. Walker, 522
On the Translational and Vibrational Energies of Vibrators after Impacts on Fixed Walls, by Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., 522
On the Graphical Representation of the Partition of Numbers, by P. A. Macmahon, 523
On a New Canon Arithmeticus, by Lieut.-Col. Allan Cunningham, R.E , 523
On Mersenne's Numbers, by Lieut.-Col. Allan Cunningham, R.E., 523
On Absolute and Relative Motion, by Professor J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 523
On the Choice of Magnetic Units, by Professor Lodge and Professor S. P. Thompson, 523
Reports on Electrical Standards, 523
On the Hysteresis of Iron in an Alternating Field, by Mr. F. G. Baily, 523
Note on the Electrolysis of Iron, by Prof. W. M. Hicks and Mr. L. T. O'Shea, 523
On the Equation connecting the P.D., Current, and Length of the Electric Arc, by Mrs. Ayrton, 523
On the Back E.M.F. and True Resistance of the Arc, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and Mr. T. Mather, 523
On a Magnetic Field Tester, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and Mr. T. Mather, 523
On Some New Methods and Apparatus for the Delineation of Alternate Current Wave Forms, by Mr. J. M. Barr, Mr. W. B. Burnie, and Mr. Chas. Rodgers, 563
On the Relation between Speed and Voltage in Electric Motors, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and Mr. T. Mather, 563
On Alternating Wave Tracers, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S , and Mr. T. Mather, 563
Chemical Section, 563
President's Address, Chemical Theories, by Professor Meldola, 563
The Genesis of Dalton's Atomic Theory, by Sir H. E Roscoe and Mr. Arthur Harden, 565
British Association—continued.
Experimental Proof of Van't Hoff's Constant, of Dalton's Law, &c , for very Dilute Solutions, by Dr. M. Wildermann, 566
On the Velocity of Reaction before Perfect Equilibrium takes place, by Dr. M. Wildermann, 566
Report of the Committee on the Bibliography of Spectroscopy, 566
Report of the Committee on Wave-Length Tables, by Sir H. E. Roscoe, 566
Report of the Committee on Quantitative Analysis by Means of Electrolysis, by Dr. C. A. Kohn, 566
Report of the Committee on the Action of Light on Dyed Colours, 566
The Action of Light upon the Soluble Metallic
Iodides in Presence of Cellulose, by Mr. D. J. P. Berridge, 566
Some Remarks on Orthochromatic Photography, by Dr. H. W. Vogel, 566
The Sensitising Action of Dyes on Gelatino-Bromide Plates, by Mr. 0. H. Bothamley, 566
The Formation and Properties of a New Organic Acid, by Mr. H. J. H. Fenton, 566
The Respirability of Air in which a Candle Flame has Burnt until it is Extinguished, by Professor F. Clowes, 566
Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools, by Dr. J. H Gladstone, 566
How shall Agriculture best obtain Help from Science? by Professor R. Warington, 566
Agriculture and Science, by Mr. T. Hendrick, 567
The Application of Science to Agriculture, by Mr. M. J. R. Dunstan, 567
Work at the Experimental Plots in Norfolk and Suffolk, by Mr. T. B Wood, 667
The Chemical History of the Barley Plant, by Mr. C F. Cross and Mr. C. Smith, 567
Economic Section, 595
President's Address, by Mr. L. Price, 595
Rate of Increase of Wages in the United States and Great Britain, by Mr. A. L. Bowley, 596
Normal Course of Prices, by Dr. W. Smart, 596
The Growth of Population in England and Wales, by Mr. Edwin Cannan, 596
Geological Section, 696
Presidential Address, by Mr. W. Whittaker, 596
The Recent Coast Erosion at Southwold and Covehithe, by Mr. John Spiller, 597
Report of Committee on Coast Erosion, 597
Circulation of Underground Waters, Committee's Report, 597
Earth Movements observed in Japan, by Professor Milne, 597
Volcanic and Seismological Phenomena of Japan (Committee's Report), 597
Auriferous Conglomerates of the Witwatersrand, by Dr. Hatch, 597
Dip of the Underground Palaeozoic Rocks at Ware and Cheshunt, 697
Investigation of Deep-Seated Rocks by Boring, by Mr. F. W. Warner, 597
Zonal Division of the Carboniferous System, by Messrs. Garwood and Marr% 597
Lectures and Entertainments, 697

British Battleship " Sultan," New Engines (Thomson). 451, 483
British Battleship " Victorious," 517
British Cruiser "Minerva," 401
British Cruiser "Powerful" (Naval Company, Barrow), 118
British First-Class Cruisers, Contracts, 581, 605
British Foreign Trade Decadence, 87
British Iron Trade, Deputation to the Continent, 803
British Railway Working Profits, 366
British Torpedo-Boat Destroyer "Lightning " Damaged (Palmer's), 699
British Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 579. See Erratum, 637
British Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 629
British Trade Relations with the Colonies, 121
British Warships Launched, 1895, 770
British Workmen's Average. Wage, 397, 596
Brooklyn City Electric Railway, Kent Avenue Station,660
Brooks' xpress American Locomotives, 632
Broomhall's Corn Trade Year-Book, 806
Brown, Boveri, and Co., Baden Hydro-Electric Installation, 530, 591, 655. See 719, 759, 789
Brown's Horseshoe Roasting Furnace, 665
Bruce's Signalling by Electric Flashes, 478
Brunsbtlttel Lock Gates on North Sea Canal, 3. See 71
Brunsbttttel Locks, Building, North Sea Canal, 71, 101
Brush Engines at Dover, 238
Buchanan's Method for Securing Railway Carriage Doors, 190
Bucyrus Dredge Company, Milwaukee, Suction Dredger, 797
Buda-Perth Electrical Underground Railway, 307
"Buenos Aires," Argentine Cruiser (Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.), 567, 707
Buenos Ayres, Hydraulic Power Supply, 154, 362, 402
Buildings, Bordeaux Exhibition, 409
Burstall, Mr. H. R. J., on Electric Lighting of Edinburgh, 531, 573, 618
Butter Manufacture, 420, 671
Cable Gear and Windlass, H.M.S. " Terrible" (Napier Brothers, Glasgow), 240. See LETTBR, 279
Cable Tramway, Streatham, 706
Cables, Telegraph, 641 •
Caisson, Southampton Docks (Rennie, Greenwich), 270
Campbell and Hunter, Leeds, Cold Plate Rolls, 67
Canadian Pacific Railway, Reconstruction, 627, 657, 721
Canal, Black Sea-Baltic, 87
Canal, Corinth. See Corinth Canal
Canal, North Sea. See North Sea Canal
Canals, Dimensions of Existing, 411
Canals in Prussia, Ship, 221
Canet's Electrically Worked Turrets, 690
Cape Government Railways, 87
Cape Town, Astronomy at, 516
Capital and Labour, 55
Capper, Prof., on Rope and Belt Driving, 535
Capstan Gear, Windlass, H.M.S. " Terrible " (Napier Brothers), 240. See LETTER, 279
Capstan, Sheppard's (Simpson, Strickland, and Co.), 730
Capstans and Windlasses, S.S. " St. Louis " (Bath Iron Works), 211
Car Body, Specifications for Electric, 8
Car Construction, Electric 7, 38
Car Heating, Lighting, Watering, &c., Electric, 7
Car Wheels and Brakes, Electric, 38
Cars, Electric Tramway, 7, 38
Carbon, Atomic Weight of, 439
Carbon in Iron, Influence, 745
Carbonic Acid Spring, 807
Carbonic Anhydride Refrigerating Machines, 358, 555. See LErrEits
"Carinthia," Cunard T.-S.S. (London and Glasgow Company), 539. See Limns
Carriage, Daimler Motor, 772
Carriage, Electric (Morris and Salom's), 419
Carriage Manufacture, 239
Carriage, Road Power, in France, 245
Carriage, Serpollet oad Steam, 471, 499. See LETTERS
Carriages, Horseless, 239, 245, 419, 471, 490, 499, 740, 772, 807
Carriages, Securing Doors of Railway, 190
Cast Ingots, Small, 288, 316
Cast Iron, Malleable, 337
Cast Iron, Peculiarities of, 203, 288, 375
Cast Iron, Physical Properties, 339
Casting, Modern Foundry Practice, 321, 561, 625, 653, 788
Catenary in Stereo, A Spherical, 737.
Caversham Bridge, 761
Cellulose, Light Action on Metallic Iodides in, 566
Central Electric Stations, 157, 188, 206, 238, 322, 385, 428, 503, 538, 597, 641, 660, 689, 723
Central Station, Electric Lighting, Edinburgh, 531, 573, 618
Centrifugal Fans, 818
"Cesarewitch," Light Draught River Steamer (Dobson, Newcastle), 729
Cessnock Docks, Glasgow, 293, 381, 474
Charlottenburg Mechanical Training Station, 84. See also 622
Cheadle, Boiler Explosion at, 663
Chemical Syntheses at Low Temperatures, 771
Chemical Theories, 563
Chertsey Bridge, 277
Chicago Electric Railway Central Station, 503
Chicago Engineering Congress, 1893, 247
Chicago Lifting Bridge,92, 159. See 284
Chicago Motor Cycle aces, 807
Chitral Campaign, Field Telegraph in, 416, 525
Chrome-Ore and Ferro-Chromium Analysis, 266, 284
Circulation of Underground Waters, 597
City and South London Railway, 642
Civil Engineer, The, 117
Civil Engineers, institution of : 429, 462, 607, 649, 683, 716, 745, 747, 770. See LETTERS
Papers Invited, 429
Buildings, New, 462
Presidential Address by Sir Benjamin Baker, 607, 649, 683, 716, 747
City and South London Railway : Tunnelling by Compressed Air, by Mr. J. H. Greathead, 642
The Influence of Carbon on Iron, by Mr. J. Oliver Arnold, 745
Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of Iron and Steel, by Mr. Thomas Wrightson, 745
List of Original Members, 745
The Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, by Mr. H. Heenan and Mr. W. Gilbert, 818
Civil and Military Works in India, 194
Clark and Standfield's Depositing Dock at Barcelona, 481
Cleveite Gas, Spectrum of the ; Helium, 479
Cleveite, Spectrum of Gas obtained from, 633
Clifden and Galway Railway, 319, 384, 472, 506
Clyde and Belfast Dispute, 707
Clyde Navigation Improvements, 174. See also Glasgow Docks
Clyde Strike, 608, 739
ClydebanIt Works (Messrs. Thomson, Limited): 31, 67, 135
Boiler, Water-Tube, Shop, 136
Boiler Works at Clydebank, 67
Boring, Tapping, and Drilling Machine, Universal (Shanks), 135
Docks and Sheerlegs, 34
Drilling Machines, 68, 69
Engine Works at Clydebank, 67
Flanging Machine, Hydraulic (H. Smith and Co. Glasgow), 33
Lathes, 68, 69
Milling Tools, 68, 69
Planing and Slotting Machine (Smith, Bea-cock, and Tannett, Manchester), 135
Plate Rolls (Campbell and Hunter), 67
Plate Rolls (Shanks, Johnstone), 33
Rolls for Boiler Plates (Campbell and Hunter), 67
Sheerlegs, 34. See LETTER, Crane Efficiency
Shipbuilding Yard, 31
Smithy at Clydebank Works, 68
Water-Tube Boiler Shop, 136
Coal Conveyors and Elevators at Gas Works, 107, 153, 170, 231, 312
Coal Conveyors and Storage Plant for Central Electric Station, 385
Coal Gas, Heating Value of, 427
Coal in the Hainaut, 868
Coal-Mining, French, 337
Coal Transporter, Temperley, E01
Coast Defence Artillery, Sweden and Norway (Whitworth), 305. See 328
Coast Erosion, 358, 697
Coates and Co., Victor (Barring Engine), 362
Cochrane, Barrhead, Deep-Well Pumping Engines, 42
Cogging Mills for Steel Works, 174
Coke Riddling Plant, 231, 233, 312
Coles, Southwark, Crane and Grab, 231, 312
College, Cooper's Hill, 191
Collisions, Railway. See Accidents
Colonial Government Railways, Commercial Element in, 545
Colonies, British Trade Relations with the, 121
"Columbia." See United States Cruiser " Minneapolis " (Cramp), 600, 728
Commercial Element in Colonial Government Railways, 545
Communication with Lightships. Electric, 196
Company Law Reform (Limited Liability), 185. See LETTEas
Competitive Schemes, 805
Composite Screw Steam Tug " Sir Frederic "
(Cox, Falmouth), 327 •
Compound Boiler Explosion near Glasgow, 87
Compressed Air Sludge Press (Goddard, Massey, and Warner, Nottingham), 259
Compressed Air Tunnelling, 642
Compressed Air, Working in, 34
Condenser, Evaporative Surface (Theisen, BudaPesth), 146, 147
Condenser and Receiver Drop, 435, 448, 687, 753. See Erratum, 816
Conductivities (Thermal) of Mixtures of Liquids, 522
Conduit System, Electric Traction, Wheless- Westinghouse, 549
Conduit System, Hoerde Electric, 253
Congress, Engineering, 1893, 247
Congress, Trades Union, 333
Connecting and Piston Rod Acceleration Diagram, 55
Construction of Cars, 7, 38
Consumption,Steamship Engine, 550
Continuous Brake on Freight Trains, 712
Contract v. Dockyard Warships, Cost, 131, 226, 254
Contracts, Admiralty, 669
Contracts for India-Rubber, 51. See LwrrEas
Conveyors, Coal, 107, 153, 170, 231, 312, 387
Construction in England, Current Railway, 248
Cookham Bridge, 562
Coolgardie Goldfields, 778
Cooling Curves and Tests for Cast Iron, 375. See 203
Cooper's Hill College, 191
Corinth Canal: 411, 443, 529, 593, 659
Commercial Results, 659
Construction, 659
Dimensions, &c.. of Existing Canals, 411
Excavation of Canal, 595
Geology, 443
History of the Canal in our Days, 529, 693
History of the Canal in the Past, 443
Pumping, 595
Route, 443
Utility of Canal (Saving in Distances), 411,, 412
Corliss Gear Engine, Triple-Expansion (Fraser and Chalmers, Chicago, 281, 341. See Larritas. See 393
Corliss Valve Boring Machine (Shanks, Johnstone), 797
Corn Trade Year-Book, 806
Cornish Boiler Explosion, 197, 343
Cornish Boiler Tests, 43
Correction of Barometers, Mechanical Device, 783
Corrosion of Ironwork and Painting, 368
Cosmic Dust, 475
Cost of Gas and Electricity, Relative, 772
Cost of North Sea Canal, 293
Cost of Running Electric Railroad Installations, 157
Cost of Warships, 131, 226, 254
Cottrell, Mr. H., on Corinth Canal, 411, 443, 529, 593, 659
Councils of Technical Societies, 769
Coupling for Steam, Air, and Water Pipes, Friedmann's Flexible, 452
Cowan, Sheldon, and Co., Carlisle, 16-Ton Steam Breakdown Crane, 268
Craigmaddie Reservoir, Glasgow,119
Cramp, U.S. Cruiser " Minneapolis," 600, 728
Crane and Grab (Coles, Southwark), 231, 312
Crane, 15-Ton Steam Breakdown (Cowan, Sheldon, and Co., Carlisle), 268
Crane, Dock (Stothert and Pitt), 169. See 270
Cranes, Hydraulic, Glasgow Docks, 474
Crompton, R.E., on Screw Gauge, 418, 496
Cruiser " Buenos Aires," Argentine (Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.), 567, 707
Cruiser " Minneapolis," United States (Cramp), 600, 728
Cruiser " Viscaya," Spanish, 115
Cruisers. See Warships
Crusher Gauge, Measurement of Pressures by the, 20, 56. See Lwrrsas
Crusher and Pulveriser, " Niagara" (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 464
Crystals, Morphological and Optical Symmetry of, 522
Cunard Liners " Sylvania " and " Carinthia " (London and Glasgow Company), 539. See LETTERs
Cursor, Radial ; a New Addition to the Slide Rule, 558
Cycle Races at Chicago, 807
Cycle Show, Stanley, 672
Cycle Wheel, 350
Cyclostyle Manifolding Apparatus, 225. See Addendum, 243
Cylinders, The Strength of, 165, 489, 672. See
LETTERS

D'Allest Boilers in the French Navy, 617. See also 554, 587, 682, 749. See Limns, Water- Tube Boiler
D'Allest Boilers, United States Report on, 554, 5871 617, 682, 749. See larrBas, Water-Tube Boilers
Daimler Motor Carriage, 772
Dairy Apparatus, 420, 671
Dairy Show, 461
Dalton's Atomic Theory, Genesis of, 665
Damaged Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Lightning,' 699
Dams, Stability of Masonry, 337
Danube Regularisation Works, Dredger (Simons, Renfrew), 178
Darjeeling Mountain Railway, 673
Datchet Bridge, Old, 460
Davis, The Late Mr. E. F. C., President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 327
Damholm Gas Station, Glasgow, 107, 153, 170, 231, 312
Deas, Mr. James, on Clyde Navigation Improve-ments, 174
Decadence of British Foreign Trade, Reasons, 87
Deck Seam Pitching Ladle, Ramage's,. 614
Deep Foundations by the Pneumatic Process, 642
Deep Tunnels and Pneumatic Shields, 642
" Defender," Yacht, 488, 516. See Lirrrigits, Yacht Design
Deflected Arc System of Electric Welding, 664
Deflections, Bridge, 490
Denny, Mr. A., on M.G. Meter, 161
Denny, Mr. A., Presidential Address, Institution of Junior Engineers, 639. See LarrEas, Draughtsmen
Denny, The Late Dr., 276
Depositing Dock at Barcelona, 481
Deputation of British Iron Trade to the Continent, 303
Derailments. See Accidents
Design, Defects in Machine, 513
Destroyers, Torpedo-Boat. See Torpedo-Boat
Destroyers. Sec also Warships
Destroyers, Torpedo-Boat, 579. See Erratum, 637
Development of Arbitrary Functions, 558
Diagram of Metal Prices, 21, 158, 310, 432, 584, 710, 810
Dilatation, Annealing and Welding of Iron and Steel, 745
Direct Puddling of Iron, 250, 283
Directory, London, 806
Disc Cutting Machine (Ward and Haggas, Keighley), 268
Discharge Recorder for Weirs (Glenfleld Company), 508
Diselectrification and Electrification of Air and other Gases, 478
Disposal of Sewage Works at East Molesey, 763
Distilling Apparatus on H.M.S. "Terrible" (Normandy's), 12
Distribution of Power, 591. See 530, 655, 719, 759, 789
Dobson and Co., William, Light Draught Paddle Steamer for Russia, 729
Dock, Depositing, at Barcelona, 481
Dock Sheds, Glasgow, 381, 474
Dock Works at Southampton, 169, 270. See LETTERS, 224
Docks and Sheerlegs at Clydebank Works, 34
Docks, Tidal and Graving, Glasgow, 293, 381, 474
Dockyard v. Private Built Warships, Cost, 131, 226, 254
Domestic Boiler Explosions, 679
Domestic Boiler Safety Mountings (Bariiaby's), 811
Domestic Boilers, 81
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Old Newcomen Engine near Bristol, 505. See LETTERs
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Steam Boiler Experiments, 347
Doors of Railway Carriages, Securing, 190
Dover Electric Lighting Station Engines (Brush Company), 238
Dover-Ostend Mail Service, 586
Doxford's Turret Deck Ships and Joggle Plating, 419. See 463
Drainage in the Fens, 18
Drainage and Sewage Disposal Works, East Molesey, 763
Drainage Works, Richmond, 650
Draught, Suction, and Smoke Prevention, Paterson (Paul, Dumbarton), 782
Draughtsmen, The Position of, 639. See LETTERS
Drawing Offices, Sweating in, 24
Drawing (Geometrical) in Schools, 522
Dredger "General C. B. Comstock," Suction (Bucyrus Dredge Company, Milwaukee), 797
Dredger, Harrison's Scouring, Fen Drainage, 18
Dredger " Percy Sanderson" (Simons, Renfrew), 178
Dredger " Schelde II.," Suction Pump Hopper, 662
Dredgers at North Sea Canals 102, 136
Dredging Mersey Bar, 358
Drill, Radial (Shanks, Johnstone), 662
Drilling, Boring, and Tapping Machine, Universal (Shanks, Johnstone): 135
Drilling Machine, Radial (Asquith), 509
Drilling Machines at Clydebank Works, 68, 69
Drilling and Milling Machine (Bond and Cooper, Birmingham), 433
Drilling and Milling Machine (London Lathe and Tool Company), 616
Driving, Rope and Belt, 535
Drop of Pressure between Condenser and Receiver, 435, 448, 687, 763. See Erratum, 816
Drumgowan Boiler Explosion, 814
Du Temple Water-Tube Boiler, 59
Dues of North Sea Canal, 293
Durston, Mr. A. J., on Navy Boilers, 396, 437
Dust, Cosmic, 476
Dynamical Top, 622
Dynamo Driving Engine (Smit, Slikkerveer, Holland), 799
Dynamo Foundations, 322. See Central Stations
Dynamo and Motor, Sayers' (Mayor and Coulson), 635 •
Dynamo Running, 323. See Central Stations
Dynamos, Boston Street Railway, 446
Dynamos of Power-House. See Central Stations
Dynamos, Turbine. See Hydro-Electric Installations

Early Great Western Locomotives. See LETTERS
Early London Water Supply, 368
Earth, Rotation of the, 1
Earth Tremors in England, 475
Earthquakes and Volcanic Phenomena of Japan, 476
East Keal Boiler Explosion, 744
East Molesey Drainage and Sewage Disposal Works, 763
Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, 641
Easton, Anderson, and Goolden, " Niagara " Crusher and Pulveriser, 464
Economic Science at British Association, 595
Edinburgh Electric Lighting, 631, 573, 618
Edson Recording Pressure Gauge, 647
Education of Engineers (Presidential Address), 351, 639
Education and Science and Art Department, 805
Education (Science) in Elementary Schools 666, 805
Edwards' Belt Fastener, 159
Efficiency of Heating Surface in Boilers, 50
Electric Accumulators, Capacity Increase, 611
Electric Accumulators Charged from Alternating Current Circuits, 252
Electric Alternate-Current Wave Tracers, 563
Electric Arc Lamp " I. R.." (Richardson, Patricroft), 746
Electric Arc Lamp, Jandus, 649
Electric Arc Lamp, Inverted, 373
Electric Arc, Potential Difference, Current, and Length, 523
Electric Carriage (Morris and Salom's), 419
Electric Conduit System, Hoerde, 263
Electric Conduit System (Westinghouse), 549
Electric Current Generators, 206, 238
Electric Communication with Lightships, 196
Electric Installations, Hydro-, 530, 591, 655, 719, 759, 789
Electric Installations, Paris Municipality and, 735
Electric Lighting of Edinburgh, 531, 573, 618
Electric Lighting of North Sea Canal, 292
Electric Lighting New York Harbour, 287
Electric Lighting Regulations, 729
Electric Lighting Schemes in Parliament, 720
Electric Lighting Station, Dover, Engines (Brush Company), 233
Electric Lighting Trains, Gill's Patent (Stone and Co.) 673
Electric Motor and Generator, Sayers' (Mayor and Coulson), 635
Electric Railway Locomotive (Baltimore and Ohio), 80
Electric Railway Locomotives, 755, 793
Electric Railways, 689
Electric, Single-Phase Alternating Machine, Armature Reaction in a, 64
Electric Traction :
Baltimore City and Suburban Railway, 597
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Locomotives, 755, 793
Boilers for Central Stations, 429, 503, 597. See Central Stations
Boilers, Water-Tube, Boston Street Railway, 446
Boston West End Tramway, 446
Brakes for Electric Cars, 69, 70
Brooklyn City Railway, Kent Avenue Station, 660
Car Body, Specifications for,8
Car Heating, Lighting, Watring, &c., 7
Car Wheels and Brakes, 38
Central Stations, 157, 188, 206, 238, 322, 385, 428, 503, 538, 597, 641, 660, 689, 723
Chicago City Railway Central Station, 503
Coal Conveyors and Storage Plant for Central Station, 385
Cost of Running Electric Railroad Installations, 157
Current Generators, 206, 238
Dynamo Foundations, 322. See Central Stations
Dynamo Running, 323. See Central Stations
Dynamos, Boston Street Railway, 446
Dynamos of Power House. See Central Stations
Electric Railway, 689
Engines and Dynamos of Power House. See Central Stations
Freight Cars for Tramways, 8
Generators, Electric Current, 206, 238
Heating Cars, 7
Lighting Cars, 7
Locomotive, Electric, 766, 793
Long Distance Electric Transmission Plant, 723
Nantasket Beach Electric Railway, 538
Niagara Falls Park and River Railway, 641
Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik Generators, 238
Portland (Oregon) Long Distance Transmission Plant, 723
Power Houses. See Central Stations
Railway Locomotives, 755, 793
Railways and Central Stations, 538
Repair Shops in Electric Stations, 428, 603. See Central stations
St. Louis, Missouri, Cass Avenue and Fair Grounds Railway, 689
Snow Ploughs for Electric Tramways, 7
Switchboads, 262, 289. See Central Stations Trolleys, 103
Walker Manufacturing Company's Generators, 238
Water Power Plant, 723
West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Mass., 446
We2stinghouse38 Electric Company's Generators,
Wheels and Brakes, Car, 38
Electric Traction, 41, 388
Electric Traction, Power required for, 307
Electric Traction Railways, 39
Electric Traction, Wheless-Westinghouse Conduit System, 649
Electric Tramway, Bristol, 359 490. See 'Arms
Electric Tramways, 64. See Electric Traction
Electric Welding, Deflected Arc System, 664
Electrical Currents in United Kingdom, Vertical, 476
Electrical Currents, Vertical Air-Earth, 784
Electrical Patents of 1894, 771
Electrical Properties of Selenium, 64
Electrical Standards, 523
Electrical Underground Railway at Buda-Pesth, 307
Electrically Worked Turrets, (Janet's, 690
Electricity and Gas, Relative Cost of, 772
Electrification and Diselectrication of Air and other Gases, 478
Electro-Magnetic Effect, 64
Electro-Plating, Metallic Lactates for, 222
Electrometer, Kelvin Portable, 478
Elevated Railroads of New York, 338
Elevator and Dredger at North Sea Canal, 102. See 137
Elevators, Coal, 107, 163, 170, 231, 312, 385
Elgar, Dr. F., on Cost of Warships, 131, 226, 2 i4
Elliott, Professor A. C., on Condenser and Receiver Drop, 436, 448. See 687, 753. See Erratum, 816
Ely Bridge, Great Eastern Railway, 696
Embankments, Stability of Masonry, 337
Embankments, Villa Mantle for Protecting, 811
Engine, Barring (Victor Coates and Co., Belfast), 362
Engine Breakdowns, 513
Engine, Compound Horizontal, for Dynamo (Smit, Slikkerveer, Holland), 799
Engine, Drop of Pressure between Condenser and
Receiver, 435, 448, 687, 763 See Erratum, 816
Engine, Oil, Kane-Pennington, 673, 740. See LETITRS
Engine, Old Newcomen, Bristol, 505. See LETTERS
Engine, Peache's High Speed, 520. See LETTER
Engine, Tandem Surface-Condensing Compound (Taylor and Challen), 496
Engine, Traction (Marshall, Gainsborough), 738
Engine Trials, Steam, 17
Engine, Triple-Expansion Corliss (Fraser and Chalmers, Chicago), 281, 341. See 393. See LETTERS
Engine Works at Clydebank, 67
Engine Works Plant. See Clydebank Works
Engines and Boilers, Factors of Safety for Marine 418
Engines at Dover Electric Lighting Stati (Brush Company), 238
Engines and Dynamos of Power-House. See Central Stations
Engines, Gas. See Gas Engines
Engines, Light Draught Paddle Steamer (Wallsend Company), 729
Engines, Oil. See Oil Engines
Engines, Pumping, Deep-Well, East London Water Works (Cochrane, Barrhead), 42
Engines, Road, &c., at Smithfield Show, 738
Engines of the " St. Louis," 24
Engines, Suction Pump Hopper Dredger
"Schelde II.," 662
Engines, Triple-Expansion, H.M.S. " Sultan " (Thomson, Clydebank), 451, 483
Engines, Triple-Expansion, S.S. Tug " Sir Frederic" (Cox, Falmouth), 327
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson, Limited), 629, 676
Engines, Triple - Expansion, T. - S. Cunard Liners " Sylvania " .and " Carinthia" (London and Glasgow Company), 539. See LErrgas
Engines, United States Cruiser " Minneapolis" (Cramp), 600, 728
Engineer, The Civil 117
"Engineer's Pocket-Book, Mechanical," 725
Engineers' Education (Presidential Address), 361, 639
Engineers' Strike, 608, 707, 739
Engineering Congress, 1893, 247
Engineering, Cooper's Hill College, 191
Engineering Inspectors, Local Government Board, 365
Engineering Research, Marine, 640
Engineering and Shipbuilding, in 1895, 813
Engineering Trades and Trade Unions, 584
England at International Exhibitions, 558
English and French Naval Manoeuvres, 398, 457, 487
Equilibrium, Velocity of Reaction before, 566
Erosion, Coast, 358, 597
Escher, Wyss, and Co., Water Power Plant at Gokak, 570
Ether, Vortex Theories of the, 450
Evaporating Heats of Different Liquids, 622
Evaporation, Latent Heat of, 621
Evaporative Surface Condenser (Theisen, BudaPesth), 146, 147
Evaporative Trials of Belleville Water -Tube Boilers, 571. See LETISR8, Water-Tube Boilers
Excavators, North Sea Canal, 102, 136
Exhibition, Berlin, 1896, 278, 642
Exhibition of Birmingham Industries, 288
Exhibition, Bordeaux, 409
Exhibition, Brewers', 516
Exhibition, 1896, Kiel, 704
Exhibition, Lubeck, 190
Exhibition, Malmo, 19
Exhibition, Nishni-Novgorod, 1896, 401
Exhibition, Paris, 1900, 119, 153, 395, 546
Exhibitions, England at International, 558
Experiments on Kites, 81. See 448
Experiments on Punching Plates, 806
Experiments, Steam Boiler (Summary), 347 -
Experiments on Wind Pressure, 787
Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions
Express Locomotives (by Mr. Aspinall), 39, 95, 129. See 27, 42
Express Train Rolling Stock, 27, 42. See 27, 39, 95, 129

Factors of Safety for Marine Boilers and Engines, 418
Fairbairn-Beeley Boiler, 361, 862. See 154, 402
Fan, Organ-Blowing by, 355
Fans, Centrifugal, 818
Fans, Noisy, 492
Fast Railway Runs, 56
Fastener, Edwards' Belt, 169
Feed Pump, Marsh Boiler (Battle Creek Steam Pump Company), 740
Feed-Water Heater, Kirkaldy's, 453
Feed-Water Heater, Morison's Circulating, 603
Felloes, Jointless, 850
Fellowship Scheme, Thames Iron Works, 803
Fens, Drainage in the, 18
Ferro-Chrommm and Chrome Ore, Analyses, 266, 284
Ferrolithio Paving, 253
Field Telegraph in Chitral Campaign, 416, 525
Filters, Halliday's, Bedlington Water Supply, 36$
Filtration of Sewage, 208, 259, 763
Flanging Machine, Hydraulic (Smith, Possil, Glasgow), 33
Flashes, Projection Lightning (Signalling), 478
Flexible Coupling for Steam, Air, and Water
Pipes (Friedmann's), 452
Floods and Weirs, 354
Flooring, Knight's Bridge, 160
Flooring, Pease's Tubular, 780
Florida Phosphatest 141
Flour Milling Machinery, 416
Flying, 81, 448
Fogs and Weather Influences, 773
Foreign Trade Decadence, Reasons for, 87
"Forest Abbey," Turret Deck Steamer, and Joggle Plating, 419. See 463
Formation, Galway and Clifden Light Railway, 384. See 319, .412, 506
Foucault's Pendulum Experiments, Rotation of the Earth, 1
"Foudre " and her Aluminium Torpedo-Boats, 548
Foulis, Mr. William, Gas Works Automatic Plant, 107, 153, 170, 231, 232, 233, 312
Foundations, Bellefontaine Bridge, Missouri River, 296. See 373
Foundations by Pneumatic Process, Deep, 642
Foundering of Steamer " Seaford," 951
Foundry Practice, Modern, 321, 561, 625, 653, 788
Fracture of Glass Water Gauges, 815
France and Aluminium Torpedo-Boats, 548
France, Light Railways in, 772
Fraser and Chalmers, Chicago, Horseshoe Roasting Furnace, 665
Fraser and Chalmers, Triple-Expansion Engine with Corliss Gear, 281, 341. See 393. See Lwrrints, Corlisl Engine
Freezing Process for Shaft Sinking, Gobert, 353
Freight Cars for Electric Tramways, 8
Freight Train Brakes, 712
French Coal-Mining, 337
French and English Naval Manoeuvres, 398, 457, 487
French Naval Manoeuvres, 398, 487
French Navy and Water-Tube Boilers, 554, 587, 617, 682, 749. See LETTERS, Water - Tube Boilers
Friction Gear,Variable Speed (Watkins and Watson, Lodon), 647
Friedmann's Flexible Coupling for Steam, Air, and Water Pipes, 462
Fullarton, Hodgart, and Barclay, Hydraulic Plant, Glasgow Docks, 474
Furnace, Brown's Horseshoe Roasting, 665
Furnace, Petroleum, for Melting Solder (Moeller and Condripp), 390

Gain Sharing Experience, 803
Galloway Boiler Tests,43
Galway and Clifden ailway, 319, 384, 412, 506
Gas and Electricity, Relative Cost of, 772
Gas, Heating Value of Coal, 427
Gas, Lighting Berlin, 806
Gas Lighting Schemes in Parliament, 720
Gas Motors, Theory and Practice, 792
Gas Retort, Charging, &c., Plant (Arrol and Foulis), 107, 153, 170, 231, 312
Gas, Simple or Compound Character of a (Spectroscopy), 479
Gas Spectrum obtained from Cleveite, 663
Gas Works, Glasgow, 107, 163, 170, 231, 312
Gauge, B.A. Screw, 418, 496
Gauge, Edson Recording Pressure, 647
Gauges, Fractures of Water Glass, 815
Gear, Variable Speed Friction (Watkins and Watson, London), 647
Geissler Tubes, Velocity of Light in, 451
Gelatino-Bromide Plates, Sensitising Action of Dyes, 566
Gemini Pass, Ice Avalanche, Switzerland, 446
"General C. B. Comstock," Suction Dredger (Bucyrus Dredge Company, Milwaukee), 797
General Electric Company, Electric Railway Locomotive, 80
General Electric Company's Current Generators, 208
Generators, Electric Railway, 206,-238
Genesis of Dalton's Atomic Theory, 565
Geology of the London Area, 596
Geometrical Drawing in Schools, 522
German Lloyd Steamer, 549
Gill's3 67 System of Lighting Trains (Stone and Co.),
Girder Railway Bridges, Plate, 471. See LETTERS,
Bridge Loads Girders, Stresses in, 223, 279
Girders, Temperature Strains on Continuous, 400
Glasgow Central Railway, 85, 643
Glasgow, Compound Boiler Explosic n near, 87
Glasgow Docks, 293, 381, 474
Glasgow Gas Works, 107, 153, 170, 231. See 312
Glasgow Harbour Improvements, 174, 293, 381, 474. See also Clyde _Navigation
Glasgow Hydraulic Power Supply, 164, 362, 402
Glasgow Sewage Works, 208, 259
Glasgow714 and South- Western Railway Locomotive,
Glasgow Tramways, 221
Glasgow Water Works, Craigmaddie Reservoir, 119
Glass Water Gauges, Fracture of, 815
Gledhill's Breech Mechanism Whitworth), 305
Glenfleld Company, Water Discharge Recorder, 508
Gloucester Sawmill (Price, Walker, and Co.), 481. See LETTER
Gobert Freezing Process for Shaft Sinking, 353
Goddard, Massey, and Warner, Nottingham, Sludge Presses, 259
Gokak Water Power Plant (Esther, Wyss, and Co.), 570
Governor, Shaft (Robinson and Auden,Wantage) 739
Grab and Crane (Coles, Southwark), 231, 312
Grain Milling Machinery, 416
Graving Dock, Glasgow, New, 293, 381, 474
Graving Dock. Southampton, 169, 270. See LETTER, 224
Gray, Mr. Macfarlane, on Steam Expansion Drop, 687, 753. See 435, 448, 816
Great Indian Peninsular Railway, 19. See LETTERS, Indian, &c.
Great Western Locomotives, Early. See 'Arms
Great Western Railway Run, Plymouth-London, 704
Great Western Train Improvements, 429
Greathead, Mr. J. H., on Tunnelling by Compressed Air, 642
Green, Messrs., Hydraulic Lifeboat, 433, 451. See LErrEits, Hydraulil Propulsion
Grtinenthal Bridge, North Sea Canal, 210
Gull River Bridge, 721
Gun Trials," Buenos Aires "(Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.), 707. See also Next Volume
Guns, Coast Defence, Sweden and Norway (Whitworth), 305. See 328
Guns in the United States, 609
Gunboats. See Warskps

Hadfield, Mr. R. A., on the Production of Iron by a New Process, 264, 315
Hainaut, Coal in the, 368
Hainaut Phosphate Dressing Plant (Humboldt Companyl Kalk), 633
Halifax, Boiler Explosion near, 197, 343
Hall, Normal Danger Signal System, 179
Halliday's Filters, Bedlington Water Supply, 363
Hall's Refrigerating Plant, 358, 555. See LETTERS, Refrigerating, &c.
Halse Gain-Sharing Scheme, 803
Hamburg-American Line and Plymouth, 704
Hampton Court Bridge, 187
Harbour of Harwich, 367, 620
Harbour Schemes in Parliament, 720
Hardening of Steel, 263
Hardening of Steel, Spectrum of the Bessemer Flame, 585
Harland, Sir E. J., 801
Harrison, Scouring Dredger, Fen Drainage, 18
Harvey, A. and G., Govan, Treble-Geared Lathe, 70
Harwich Port, 357, 620
Haulage. See Electric Traction
Haythorne Water-Tube Boiler (Meehan, Glasgow), 680
Hazell's Annual, 806
Head of the Profession, 426. See LErrisits
Heat of Evq,poration of Benzene, Latent, 622
Heat of Evaporation, Latent, 521
Heat through Plates, Transfer of, 418
Heat Standard, A New Practical, 521
Heats of Evaporation of Different Liquids, 622
Heater, Kirkaldy's Feed Water, 453
Heater, Morison's Circulating Feed Water, 603
Heater Regulator, Langridge's Steam, 191
Heating Railway Carriages, 645
Heating Tramcars, 7
Heating Value of Coal Gas, 427
Helium, 479
Henley Bridge, 629
H.M.S. " Minerva," 401
H.M.S. " Powerful," 118
H.M.S. " Sultan," New Triple-Expansion Engines (Thomson, Clydebank), 451, 483
H.M.S. " Terrible," 23, 222
H.M.S. " Terrible," Distilling Apparatus, Normandy's, 12
H.M.S. "Terrible," Windlass and Capstan Gear (Napier Brothers, Limited, Glasgow), 240. See LETTER, 279
H.M.S. " Victorious," 517
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Torpedo-Boat Destroyers
Hermite Sewage Process, 358
Herreshoff Yachts, 488, 516. See LErrEits, Yacht Design
Hesketh, Mr. E., on Carbonic Anhydride Refrigerating Machines, 358, 555. See LETTERS 253
Hoerde Electric Conduit System,
Holland, Hydraulic Lifeboat (Thornycroft), 433, 451. See LErrsas, Hydraulic Propulsion
Holyhead and Kingstown Mail Service, 54
Horseless Carriages, 245. See also Carriages and Road Power Carriages
Howitzer, Norway Garrison (Whitworth), 305
Humboldt Company, Kalk, Phosphate Dressing Plant, 633 •
Hunt Company, New York, Coal Conveying and Storage Plant, 387
Hunt, Mr. William, on Permanent Way, 62, 73, 96, 127
Hutchison's Water Discharge Recorder for Weirs, 508
Hydraulic Cranes, Glasgow Docks, 474
Hydraulic Flanging Machine (Smith, Possil, Glasgow), 31
Hydraulic Installation, Glasgow Docks, 474
Hydraulic Lifeboat (Thornycroft), 433, 461. See
LETTERS, Hydraulic Propulsion
Hydraulic Machinery in Gas Works, 107, 153, 312. See also Glasgow Gas Works
Hydraulic Plant for Gas Retorts, 107, 153, 170, 231, 312
Hydraulic Plant at Gokak (Esther, Wyss, and Co.), 570
Hydraulic Plate Shears for Steel Works, 174
Hydraulic Power Supply, 154, 362, 402
Hydraulic Riveting Plant (The Late Ralph II. Tweddell), 307, 335
Hydraulic Swing Bridges, North Sea Canal, 234
Hydro-Electric Installations, 530, 591, 655, 719, 759, 789
Hysteresis of Iron in an Alternating Field, 623

Ice Avalanche, Switzerland, 445
Imperial Trade Relations, 121
India-Rubber Contracts, 61. See LETTERS
India-Rubber, Future Supply, 275
India, Thunderstorms, 478
Indian Civil and Military Works, 194
Indian Railway Policy, 777
Indian Railway Property, 81
Indian Railways, 19. See LETTERS
Indian Railway s and Trade, 615
Indian Weather. See Meteorological Socie y
Indirect Lighting, Inverted Arc Lamp for, 373
Industrial Notes, 26, 57, 99, 125, 1(0, 196, 225,
253, 281, 311, 342, 374, 405, 434, 464, 495, 523,
553, 586, 615, 647, 681, 713, 746, 779, 811
Industrial Situation, 83
Injectors, Boiler (Holden and Brooke, Limited, Manchester), 281
Institute of Marine Engineers, 20
Institute of Marine Engineers, President's Address, 396, 437
Institution of British Carriage Manufacturers, 239
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers
Institution of Junior Engineers, Presidential Address, 639. See Limmas, Draughtsmen
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Institutions, Councils of Technical, 769
Interlaken Hydro-Electric Installation, 719. See 530, 591, 655, 759, 789
Inventors, Rewards for, 20
Inverted Arc Lamp for Indirect Lighting, 373
Iodides in Cellulose, Light Action on, 566
Ingots, Small Cast Steel, 288, 316
Irish Light Railway, Galway and Clifden, 319, 384, 472, 506
Irminger's Experiments on Wind Pressure, 787
Iron, Cast, Keep's Tests of, 203, 288, 375
Iron, Cast, Physical Properties of, 288, 339, 745
Iron Chromium Alloy, 266, 284
Iron, Direct Puddling of, 250, 283
Iron Hysteresis in an Alternating Field, 523
Iron Industries in South Staffordshire, 249
Iron, Malleable Cast, 337
Iron, Micro-Metallography of, 88
Iron by a New Process, 264, 315
Iron Platinisation, 81
Iron and Steel Institute :
Birmingham Meeting, 249
The Iron Industries of South Staffordshire, by Mr. Daniel Jones, 249
The Mineral Resources of South Staffordshire, by Mr. Herbert W. Hughes, 249
The Direct Puddling of Iron, by M. Emile Bonehill, 250, 283
The Iron Works of the South of Russia, by M. George Kamensky, 250, 282, 313
Thermo-Chemistry of the Bessemer Process, by Professor W. N. Hartley, 263
The Hardening of Steel, by Mr. H. M. Howe, 263
The Production of Iron by a New Process, by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 264, 315
Analysis of Chrome Ore and Ferro-Chromium, by Mr. E. H. Saniter, 266, 284
Nickel Steel: Its Advantages over Ordinary Steel, by Mr. H. A. Wiggins, 266, 438
Small Cast Ingots, by Mr. R. Smith-Casson, 288, 316
Cooling Curves and Tests for Cast Iron, by Mr. Keep, 288, 375. See 203
Physical Properties of Cast Iron, by Mr. Thomas D. West, 288, 339
Visits and Excursions, 251, 266
Worcester Porcelain Works, 266
Round Oak Iron Works, 266
The Small Arms Factories, 266
Exhibition of Local Industries, 288
Iron and Steel, Physical Properties of, 288, 339, '745 '
Iron and Steel Testing, 611
Iron and Steel Tests, Uniform Methods of Conducting, 53
Iron and Steel in United States, 460
Iron Trade Deputation to the Continent, 303
Iron Works, Round Oak, 266
Iron Works, South Russian, 250, 282, 313
Iron Works in the Ural, New, 304
Ironwork, Painting, 368

Jacques, Captain W. H., on War Materials in the United States, 609
Jacques Cartier Bridge, 721
Jandus Arc Lamp, 549
Japan,Earthquakes and Volcanoes, 475
Jet ropulsion, Hydraulic Lifeboat, 433, 451. See LETTERS, Hydraulic Propulsion
Joggle Plating for Ships, 419, 463
Jolliness Felloes, 350
July Weather, 218
Junctions, Railway, by M. A. Zanotta, 76
June Weather, 19

Kaiser Wilhelm Canal. See North lea Canal
Kamensky, Mr. George, on the Iron Works of the South of Russia, 250, 282, 313
Kane-Pennington Motor, 673, 740. See LETTERS
Keep's Experiments on Cast Iron, 203, 288, 375
Kelvin Portable Electrometer, 478
Kennet, Railway Bridges on the, 761
Kent's Mechanical Engineers' Pocket Book, 725
Kiel Exhibition, 1896, 704
Kingston Bridge of the London and South Western Railway, 104
Kingston Road Bridge, 106
Kingstown and Holyhead Mail Service, 54
Kinnaber, or the Great Railway Race, 679. See LETTERS, Railway Race
Kirkaldy's Feed-Water Heater, 453
Kitchen Boiler Explosions, 679
Kitchen Boiler Safety Mountings (Barnaby's), 811
Kites, 81. See 448
Knight's Bridge Flooring, 160

Laboratories., Physical, in Schools, 805
Laboratory at Bradford College, Testing, 609
Labour and Capital, 55
Labour Statistics, 578
Lactates for Eleetro-Plating, Metallic, 222
Ladle, Ramage's Deck Seam Pitching, 614
Lamp, Arc, • I. R " (Richardson, Patricroft), 746
Lamp (Inverted Arc) for Indirect Lighting, 373
Lamp, Jandus Electric Arc, 549
Lancashire Boiler Tests, 43
Land Reclamation from the Sea, 552
Landale, Mr. David, 800 ,
Langridge's Steam Heater Regulator, 191
Lathe, Apprentice (Shanks, Johnstone), 390
Lathes at Clydebank Works, 68, 69
Launch with Water-Tube Boilers and Tube Firebars (Thornycroft), 269
Launches and Trial Trips, 15, 56, 81, 115, 166, 228, 252, 280, 310, 340, 378, 393, 440, 494, 507, 552, 622, 646, 667, 750, 784, 810
Laurence and Brunel's Scraper for Boiler Tubes, 730
Law Court Cases, 645
Laws of Similitude as Affecting Naval Construction, 54
Leaky Tubes, 396, 437
Letters to the Editor, 20, 55, 8l, 114, 145, 192, 222, 252, 278, 308, 338, 363, 390, 430, 464, 491, 517, 550, 582, 612, 643, 674, 707, 740, 773, 807
Levensau Bridge, North Sea Canal, 210
Lewis's Corrugated Boiler Tubes, 614. See LETTER, 645
Life-Saving Rocket Apparatus, 710
Lifeboat, Thornycroft Hydraulic 433, 451. See Dorms, Hydraulic Propulsion Lift, Adams' Sewage, 572
Lifting Bridge at Chicago, 92, 159. See 281
Light Action on Iodides in Cellulose, 566
Light Draught Steamer for Russia (Dobson, Newcastle), 729
Light, Electric. See Electri: Light
Light Railway, Galway and Clifden, 319, 384, 412, 506
Light Railway Shops, by Mr. Terzi, 198
Light Railways and Agriculture, 351. See Erratum, 440
Light Railways, 77, 161, 162, 351, 440, 592, 613, 703
Light Railways in Europe, I 92
Light Railways in France, 772
Light, Velocity, in Geissler Tubes, 451
Lighting of Berlin, 806
Lighting, Electric, of Edinburgh, 531, 573, 618
Lighting, Electric,' New York Harbour, 237
Lighting, Electric, Regulations, 729
Lighting Tramcars, 7
Lighting Trains; Gill's Patent (Stone and Co.), 673
"Lightning," Smashed Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 699
Lightships, Electric Communication with, 196
Lille Tests, Rope and Belt Driving. 535
Limited Liability, 185. See LETTERS
Linear Spectra, Interpretations of the, 479
Link Belting, 279, 431
Linotype Printing, 4!8
Liquid Air, 743
Literature, 324, 471, 592, 725, 792
Llewellins and James Still 13
Lloyd's Returns, Shipbuilding and Wrecks, 453
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 83
Lloyd's Shipwreck Returns, 304, 458, 707
Local Government Board, Engineering Inspectors, 365
Lock-Out on the Clyde, 608, 739
Lock Gates, North Sea Canal, 3, 35
Locomotive, BaldWin Eight-Wheeled, 455
Locomotive for Brazil, Baldwin, 45
Locomotive, Compound Mineral, London and North-Western Railway, 571
Locomotive, Compound (Worsdell and Von Borries' System), North-Eastern Railway, 25
Locomotive, Electric Railway (Baltimore and Ohio), 80. See 755, 793
Locomotive, Express, American (Brooks Company), 63g
Locomotive, Four-Wheeled Coupled Bogie Tank (North-Eastern Railway), 297
Locomotive, 2-ft. Gauge, for Glasgow Gas Works, 231
Locomotive for Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 714
Locomotive, Great Northern, 612
Locomotive, Influence of the, 49
Locomotive Piston-Rods, 20, 55, 114, 193, 431
LocOmotives and Rolling Stock, 10, 27, 39, 40, 95, 129
Locomotive Smash, Montparnasse Station, Paris, 54S
Locomotive, Tank, for Metropolitan Railway (Sharp, Stewart, and Co.), 327
Locomotives, Balancing, 23
Locomotives, Early Great Western. See LETTERS
Locomotives, Electric Railway, 80, 755, 793
Locomotives, Express, 39, 95, 632
Lohnis and Co., Rotterdam, Engines, Sand Pump Dredger,.662
London Bridges. See Thames Bridges
London County Council and Water Supply, 273, 485, 514, 737. See LETTERS
London Directory, 806
London and Glasgow Engineering Company, T.-S. Cunard Liners " Sylvania " and "Carinthia," 539. See LETTERS
London Hydraulic Power Supply, 154, 362, 402
London Lathe and Tool Company, Drilling and Milling Machine, 615
London and North-Western Railway Compound Mineral Locomotive, 571
London and Scotland Railway Race, 121, 151, 192, 243, 246, 278, 307, 340, 426, 543, 632. See LETTERS
London and Wales Railway, 670
London Water Supply, Early, 368
London Water Supply, New Source, 429, 485. See Water Supply. See LETTERS, Water Supply
Long Distance Electric Transmission Plant, 723
Longridge, Steam Users' Association Report, 513
Longton Boiler Explosion, 525
Low Temperatures, Chemical Syntheses at, 771
Lubeck Exhibition, 190
Lubecker Company's Dredgers at North Sea Canal, 137
Lucerne Single-Phase Installation, 759. See 530, 591, 655, 719, 789
Luke, Mr. P. V., on Field Telegraph in Chitral, 416, 525
Lunar Theory, Recent Developments of, 451

M.G. Meters, 162
Machine Design, Defects, 513
Machine Tools, Shipbuilding, 3L See Clydebank Works
Madawaska River Bridge, 721
Madras Railway, 19. See Limns, Cndian, &c.
Magnetic Field of Clindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, 622
Magnetic Field Tester, 523
Magnetic Observations, 476
Magnetic Units, 523
Maidenhead Bridge, Great Western Railway, 505
Maidenhead Road Bridge, 506
Mail Motor Carriages, 778
Malleable Cast Iron, 337
Malmo Exhibition, 19
Manchester Hydraulic Power Supply, 154, 302, 402
Manchester Steam Users' Association, 11. See LETrERs, Kitchen Boilers
Manoeuvres, Naval, 398, 457, 487
Mantle for Protecting River Banks, Villa, 811
Marine Engineering Research, 640
Marlow Bridge, 628
Marsh Boiler Feed Pump, Battle Creek Steam Pump Company, 746
Marshall, Gainsborough, Road Engine, 738
Masonry Dams, Stability of, 337
Mather and Platt and Water Purification, 610
Mayor and Coulson, Sayers' Electric Motor and Generator, 635
Maxim's Smokeless Powder, 367
Measurement of Pressures by the Crusher Gauge, 20, 56. See LEMIRS
Measuring. High Temperatures, 522
Meehan, Glasgow, Haythorn Water-Tube Boiler, 680
Mechanical Correction of Barometers, 783
Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-Book, 725
Mechanical Engineers, Institution or: Glasgow Meeting.
Hydraulic Machinery in Gas Works, by Mr. Andrew S. Biggart, 153, 312. See also Glasgow GL8 Works
NoTes on Hydraulic Power Supply in TownsGlasgow, Manchester, Buenos Ayres, &c , by Mr. E B. Ellington, 154, 362, 402
Recent Engineering Improvements of the Clyde Navigation, by Mr. James Deas, 174
Notes on Modern teel Works Machinery, by Mr. James Riley, 174
Txcursions. 177
Clydebank Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 31, 67, 135
Underground Railway in Glasgow, 85, 543
Glasgow Gas Works, 107, 170, 231. Sea 312
Glaszow Water Works (Craigmaddie Reservoir), 119
Institution Dinner, 177
Glasgow Sewage Works, 208, 259
Mossend and Summerlee Iron and Steel Works, 218
Glasgow Docks and Equipment, 293, 381, 474
Autumn Meeting in London, 516
The Electric Lighting of Edinburgh, by Mr.
Henry R. J. Burstall, of London, 531, 573, 61.
Report on the Lille Experiments upon the Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for the Transmission of Power. Translated by Professor' David S. Capper, of London, 535
Observations on the Lille Experiments upon the Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for the Transmission of Power, by Professor David S. Capper, of London, 535
Mechanical Testing Station at Charlottenburg, 84
Mechaniml World Pocket-Book, 806
Meik, Mr. P. W., on Light Railway %,162
Melting. Solder,?etroleum Furnac; :Moeller and Condripp), 390
Merchandise, Transport of, 42
Mersey Bar, Dredging, 358
Metacentric Height of Ships, 161.
Metal Price Diagrams, 24, 158, 310, 432, 584, 710, 810
Metals at High Temperature, Strength of, 186
Metallic Lactates for‘Electro-Plating, 222
Meteorological Observations, Ben Nevis, 478
Meteorological society, Royal :
On the Origin of the Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in India and Air Movements on Indian Seas, by Mr. J. Eliot, 643
Tornado Cloud, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 634
On the Diurnal Variation of Wind Velocity at Tokio, Japan, by Mr. C. Davison, 643
On Some of the Differences between Fogs as related to the Weather Systems which accompany them, by Mr. R. H. Scott, 773
Results of Analyses of Greenwich Barometrical Observations, 1879-90, 773
Declination of Sun and Moon, by Major H. E. Rawson, 773
Meteorological Observations at Mojanga, Madagascar, by Mr. S. C. Knott, 773
International Cloud Atlas, by Mr. Scott, 773
Meteorology and Photography, 478
Meter, SchOnheyder Water (Beck, London), 420
Metropolitan Railway Tank Locomotive (Sharp, Stewart, and Co.), 327
Metropolitan Water Supply and County Council, 273, 485, 514, 737. See LwrrERs
Micro-Metallography of Iron, 88
Midland Railway, 431
Military and Civil Works in India, 194
Military Heads for Government Establishments, 809
Milling and Drilling Machine (Bond and Cooper, Birmingham), 433
Milling and Drilling Machine (London Lathe and Tool Company), 615
Milling Grain, Niagara Crusher (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 464
Milling Machine for Test Piec 's (Ward and Haggas, Keighley), 730
Milling Machines (Muir, Manchester), 68, 69
Milling Machinery, Flour, 416
Milling Tools at Clydebank Works, 68, 69
Mineral Resources of South Staffordshire, 249
"Minerva," H.M. Cruiser, 401
"Minneapolis," United States Cruiser (Cramp), 600, 728
Mirfield, Triple Railway Smash at, 64
Miscellanea, 14, 47, 90, 124, 149, 192, 224, 243, 280, 301, 331, 372, 393, 423, 463, 491, 511, 543, 582, 605, 637, 674, 697, 733, 767, 801
Mitchell, The Late Mr. Charles, 276
Moeller and Condripp, Petroleum Furnace for Solder Melting, 390
Molesey Drainage and Sewage Works, 763
Montparnasse Railway Accident, Paris, 549
Morison's Circulating Feed-Water Heater, 603
Morison's Safety Liners for Propeller Shafts, 191
Morphological and Optical Symmetry of Crystals, 522
Morris and Salom's Electric Carriage, 419
Morris and Wethered's Still, 13
Mossend and Summerlee Iron and Steel Works, 218
Motor Carriage, Daimler, 772
Motor Carriages for Royal Mails, 778
Motor Cycle Races at Chicago, S07
Motor and Generator, Sayers' Electric (Mayor and Coulson), 635
Motor, Kane-Pennington, 673, 740. See LErrns
Motors, Gas and Petroleum, 792
Moulding, Modern Foundry Practice, 321, 561, 625, 653, 783
Mountain Railway, Darjeeling, 673
Mountain Railway, Snowdon, 357, 378
Muir and Co., Manchester, Milling Machines, 68, 69
Municipal Competitive Schemes, 805

Nantasket Beach Electric Railway, 538
Naphtha Fountains at Baku, 337
Naval Annual, 324
Naval Architects, Institution of :
The Niclausse Water-Tube Boiler, by Mr. Mark Robinson, 93
Cost of Warships, The, by Dr. Elgar, 131, 226, 254
M G. Meter, by Mr. Archibald Denny, 162
On Water-Tube Boilers, by M. J. A. Normand, 59
Naval Construction and Armaments Company, Barrow, H.M.S. " Powerful," 118
Naval Construction, Laws of Similitude as Affecting, 54
Naval Manceuvres, French, 398, 487
Naval Manceuvres, French and English, 251, 398, 457, 478
Naval Manceuvres, 251 •
Navy. See Warships
Navy Boilers, 396, 437
Navy, French, and Water-Tube Boilers, 554, 587,. 617, 682, 749. See LETrzes, Water-Tube Boilers
Navy, Shipbuilding for the, 770
Neilson and Son, Glasgow, Locomotive for Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 714'
New South Wales Railways, 545
New York Central Railway Record Speed, 420. See Railway Race to the North
New York Elevated Railroads, 338
New York Harbour Entrance, Electric Lighting, 287
Newcomen Engine, Bristol, Old, 505. See LETTERS
Newport Boiler Explosion, 80
Newport (Mon.), Collision near, 784
Newport (Mon.) Water Works, 633
Niagara Crusher and Pulveriser (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 464
Niagara Falls Park and River Electric Railway, 641
Nickel Steel, 266, 438
Niclausse Boiler in French Navy, L749. See 554, 587, 617, 682
Niclausse Water-Tube Boiler, 93
Nishnij-Novgorod Exhibition, 1896, 401
Noisy Fans, 492
Normand, M. J. A., on Laws of Similitude as Affecting Naval Construction, 54
Normand Water-Tube Boiler, 59, 541, 629, 676
Normand, Water-Tube Boilers, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson), 629, 676
Normandy's Distilling Apparatud, H.M.S. "Terrible," 12
North-Eastern Railway Brake Trials, 399, 406, 419. See LETTERS
North-Eastern Railway Compound Locomotive, 25
North-Eastern Railway, Four-Wheeled Coupled Bogie Tank Locomotive, 297
North German Lloyd Steamer, 549
North Sea Canal :
Bridges, 210, 234
BrunsbtIttel Lock Gates, 3. See 71
Brunsbtittel Locks, Building, 71, 101
Cost of North Sea Canal, 293
Dredgers, 102, 136
Dues of North Sea Canal, 293
Electric Lighting, 292
Excavators, 102, 136
Grttnenthal Bridge, 210
Hydraulic Swing Bridges, 234
Levensau Bridge, 210
Lock Gates, 3, 35, 71.
Rendsburg Lock, 35
Swing Bridges, 234
Norway Garrison Howitzer (Whitworth), 305
Notes from Cleveland, 13, 45, 89, 111, 147, 182, 214, 242, 270, 300, 330, 371, 391, 422, 462, 483, 510, 541, 575, 604, 635, 666, 701, 732, 765, 800
Notes from the North, 14, 46, 89, 123, 148, 183, 215, 242, 270, 299, 330, 370, 392, 420, 462, 482, 510, 543, 575, 604, 636, 666, 700, 733, 766, 800
Notes from South Yorkshire, 13, 45, 89, 111, 148, 182, 214, 240, 270, 300, 330, 371, 391, 422, 462, 483, 509, 541, 574, 603, 636, 666, 701, 731, 766, 799
Notes from the South-West, 14, 46, 89, 111, 148, 183, 214, 242, 271, 300, 331, 371, 391, 423, 463, 483, 510, 541, 575, 601, 636, 667, 701, 732, 767, 800
Notes from the United States, 13, 42, 87, 110, 147, 191, 214, 240, 270, 299, 329, 363, 401, 419, 464, 482, 507, 541, 580, 603, 635, 666, 700, 729, 802
November Weather, 739

Obituary:- (Moved to separate index)
O'Reilly, Dr. M. F., on Rotation of the Earth, 1
Objective Character of Combination Tones, 521
October Weather, 611
Oerlikon blaschinenfabrik Generators, 238
Oil Engine, Kane-Pennington, 673, 740. See LETTERS
Oil Industry, Scotch, 187
Oil Motor Carriage, Daimler, 772
Oil Motors, Theory and Practice, 792
Old Thames Bridges. See Thames Bridges
Optical and Morphological Symmetry of Crystals, 522
Ordnance in the United States, 609
Organ Blowing by Fan, 355
Organic Acid, A New, 566
Orthochroma, is Photography, 566
Ostend-Dover Mail Service, 586
Ostwald's Law, 566
Oswell on Snowdon Mountain Railway, 357, 378
Owen, Mr. A. C. Humphreys, on Light Railways, 161

Pacific Railway, Reconstruction of Canadian, 627, 657, 721
Paddle Steamer, Light Draught Russian (Dobson, Newcastle), 729
Page (Size) of Scientific Publications, 522
Painting Ironwork, 368
Palmer's Company, Torpedo - Boat Destroyer "Lightning, 699
Paraffin Industry, Scotch, 187
Paris Exhibition, 1900, 119, 153, 395, 546
Paris Municipality and Electric Installations, 735
Park, Mr. C. A., on Rolling Stock for Express Trains, 27
Parliament, Railway Projects in, 670, 705. See 720
Patents, Electrical, of 1894, 771
Patents, Interdependence, 275
Patent Record, 29, 65, 91, 133, 167, 201, 229, 257, 285, 317, 345, 379, 407, 441, 469, 497, 527, 559, 589, 623, 651, 685, 717, 751, 785, 819
Paterson's Suction Draught arid Smoke Prevention (Paul, Dumbarton), 782
Paul, Dumbarton, Paterson's Suction Draught and Smoke Prevention, 782
Paving, Ferrolithic, 253
Peache's High-Speed Engine, 520 See LETTER
Pease's Tubular Construction, 780
Pendulum Experiments, Rotation of the Earth, 1
"Percy Sanderson," Dredger (Simons), 178
Permanent Way of Railways (by Mr. William Hunt and others), 62, 73, 96, 127
Petroleum. See Oil
Petroleum at Baku, 337
Petroleum Furnace for Melting Solder (Moeller and Condripp), 390
Petroleum Motors. Theory and Practice, 792
Philadelphia Pneumatic Postal System,662
Philipson, Mr. J., on Carriage Manufacture, 239
Phonograph, Novel Application, 429
Phosphate Deposits of Florida, 141
Phosphate Dressing Plant (Humboldt Company, Kalk), 401, 633
Photographic Plates, Sensitising Action of Dyes on, 566
Photography and Meteorology, 478
Photometer, An Improved Portable, 369, 389
Physical Labbratories in Schools, 805
Physical Properties of Cast Iron, 339
Physical Properties of Iron and Stel, 288, 339, 745
Physical Society :
An Electro-Magnetic Effect, by Mr. Bowden, 64
The Armature Reaction on a Single-Phase
Alternating Current Machine, by Mr. Rhodes, , 64
Electrical Properties of Selenium, by Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 64
On the Development of Arbitrary Functions, by Professor J. Perry and Mr. H. F. Hunt, 558
The Radial Cursor,Addition to the Slide Rule, by Mr. F. . Lanchester, 558
The Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, by Mr. W. H. Everett, 622
The Latent Heat of Evaporation of Benzene, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths and Miss Dorothy Marshall, 622
A Method of Comparing the Heats of Evaporation of Different Liquids at their Boiling Points, by Professor Ramsay and Miss Marshall, 622
Spectrum of Gas obtained from Cleveite ;
Photograph Exhibited by Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 663
Direct Reading Platinum Therniometer, by, Mr. Appleyard, 663
Historical Note on Resistance and its Change with Temperature, by Mr. Appleyard, 663
A Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of Barometers, by Dr. John Shield, 783
On the Existence of Vertical Earth-Air Electric Currents in the United Kingdom, by Professor Rtickert 784
Piecework and Gain-Sharing, 803
Pier Schemes in Parliament, 720
Pipes, Friedmann's Flexible Coupling for all, 452
Piston and Connecting-Rod Acceleration Diagram, 55
Piston-Rods, Locomotive, 20, 55, 114, 193, 431
Planing Machine (Shanks, Johnstone), 13
Planing and Slotting Machine (Smith, Beacock, and Tannett, Manchester), 136
Plate Bending Rolls, Armour (Striven), 113
Plate Girder Railway Bridges, 471. See LETrEits, Bridge Loads Plate Rolling Plant, Flat and.Dished (Richards, Manchester), 311
Plate Rolls, Horizontal (Shanks, Johnstone), 31
Plate Rolls (Campbell and Hunter), 67
Plate Rolls (Shanks, Johnstone), 33
Plate Shears, Hydraulic, 174
Plates, Experiments on Punching, 806
Plates, Transfer of Heat through, 418
Plating, Joggle Ship-, 419
Platinisation of Iron, 81
Platinum Thermomter, Reading, 663
Plymouth as a Port for Atlantic Liners, 704
Pneumatic Dredging (Mersey), 358
Pneumatic Postal System, Philadelphia, 662
Pneumatic Process for Deep Foundations, 642
Pneumatic Tunnelling, 34
Pneumatic Tyres, 239
Pollak Accumulators, 252
Pont Neuf River Bridge, 721
Population, Growth, 596
Porcelain Works, Worcester, 266
Port of Harwich, 357, 620
Portable Photometer, An Improved, 369, 389
Portland Cement, 712
Portland (Oregon) Long Distance Transmission Plant, 723
Post Office Telegraphy, 401
Postal System, Philadelphia, Pneumatic, 662
Potential Difference, Current, and Length of the Electric Arc, 523
Powder, Smokeless (Waxim's), 367
Power Carriage in France, Road, 245. See also Carriage
Power Distribution, 591. See 530, 655, 710, 759, 789
Power House. See Cent al Stations Power Press (Taylor and Challen, Birmingham), 350
Power Required for Electric Traction, 307
Power Supply, hydraulic, 154, 362, 402
Power Transmission, Rope and Belt, 535
Power Transmission by Ropes, 611
Power, Water, in Sweden, 673
" Powerful," H.M S., 118
-" Practical Engineer" Pocket-Book, .506
Precipitation and Filtration of Glasgow SeNlage, 208, 259
Precipitation and Filtration of Molesey Sewage, 763
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Portable Photometer, 369, 389
Preller, Dr. C. S. du Riche, on Swiss Ice Avalanche, 445
Preller, Dr., on Hydro-Electric Installations, 530, 591, 655, 719, 759, 789
Presidents of Societies, 425. See LETTERS
Press, Power (Taylor and Challen), 350
Pressure, Experiments on Wind, 787
Pressure Gauge, Edson's Recording, 647
Pressures, Measurement by the Crusher Gauge, 20. See LETTERS, Measurement, &c.
Price, Walker, and Co., Sawmill at Gloucester, 481. See LETTER
Prices, The Normal Course of, 596
Printing, Cyclostyle Manifolding Apparatus, 225. See 243
Profit-Sharing Experience, 803
Projectiles in the United States, 609
Projection Lightning•Flashes, 478
Propeller Shaft, Safety Liners, 191
Protecting River Banks, Villa Mantle, 811
Prussia, Ship Canals in, 221
Publications, Sizes of Pages of Society, 522
Puddling of Iron, Direct, 250, 283
Pulveriser, Niagara Crusher (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 464
Pump of 1500 1600 for London Water Supply, 368
Pump, Marsh Boiler Feed (Battle Creek Steam
Pump Company), 746
Pumps, Blake Air, United States Cruiser, 600, 728. See LETTERS
Pumps, Southampton Dook (Gwynne), 169. See 270
Pumping Engines, Deep - Well, East London Water Works (Cochrane, Barrhead), 42
Pumping Plant, Hydraulic, Glasgow Docks, 474
Punching Plates, Experiments, 806
Purification of Water, 610

Quay Wall Construction, Glasgow Docks, 293, 381, 474
Queensland Railways, 545
Quick-Acting Westinghouse Brake, 399, 406, 419. See LETTERS

Races. Motor Cycle, at Chicago, 807
Radial Cursor, a New Addition to the Slide Rule, 558
Radial Drill (Shanks, Johnstone), 662
Radial Drilling Machine (Asquith), 509
Radiation, Solar, 451
Ragatz Hydro-Electric Installation, 655. See 530, 591, 719, 759, 789
Railroads of New York, Elevated, 338
Rails, A Steamer on, 121
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railway Axles, Effects of Temperature on, 22
Railway Brake, Westinghouse Quick-Acting, 399, 406, 419. See LETTERS
Railway Breakdown Crane, 15 - Ton (Cowan, Sheldon, and Co., Carlisle), 268
Railway Bridges (by M. Max Edler von Leber), 77
Railway Bridges, Plate Girder, 471. See LETTERS, Bridge Loads
Railway, Buda-Pesth Underground Electric, 307
Railway Carriage Doors, Securing, 190
Railway Carriages, Heating, 645
Railway, City and South London, 642
Railway, Coast, Brighton and Rottingdean, 580, 613. See LETTERS
Railway Congress, International: 9, 38
Brakes for Light Railways, 80
Boilers, Fireboxes and Tubes, 10
Concluding Proceedings, 80
Electric Traction, by M. Auvert, 41
Express Locomotives, by Mr. Aspinall, 39, 95, 129
Express Rolling Stock, 42
Irish Trip, 124
Junctions, by M. A. Zanotta,"76
Light Railway Shops, by Mr. Terzi, 198
Light Railways, 77, 161, 162
Locomotives and Rolling Stock, 10
Permanent Way of Railways, by Mr. William
Hunt and others, 62, 73, 96, 127
Railway Bridges, by M. Max Edler von Leber, 77
Rolling Stock for Express Trains, by Mr. C. A.
Park, 27
Signals, 80
Transport of Merchandise, 42
Railway Construction in England, Current, 248
Railway, Darjeeling Mountain, 673
Railway Diary and Official Directory, 806
Railway, Electric. See Electric Traction
Railway, Galway and Clifden, 319, 384, 412, 506
Railway Influences, 49
Railway Locomotives, Electric, 755, 793
Railway, Midland, 431
Railway Permanent Way, 62, 73, 96, 127
Railway Policy, Indian, 777
Rail way Projects in Parliament, 670, 705. See 720
Rail way Property, Indian, 19, 81, 515, 777
Railway Race to Scotland, 121, 151, 192, 218, 246, 278, 307, 426. See 331, 340, 543, 632. See LitirrEas
Railway Rates Decision, 647
Railway, Reconstruction Canadian Pacific, 627, 057, 721
Railway Rolling Stock, 10, 27
Railway Rolling Stock, Express; 27, 42
Railway Rolling Stock, Express Train, 27
Railway Run, Plymouth-Paddington, 704
Railway Runs, Fast, 56. See Railway Race
Railway, Siberian, 366
Railway Signalling System, Hall, Normal, Danger, 179
Railway Sleeper Boring and Adzing Machine (Robinson, Rochdale), 570
Railway, Snowdon Mountain, 357, 378
Railway Speed, Great Western, 429 •
Railway, Underground, Glasgow, 85, 543
Railway Wagons, Tube Frame (Leicester Company), 113
Railway Working, British, 366
Railways, Belgian, 220
Railways, Cape Government, 87
Railways and Central Power Stations, 538. See Central Stations
Railway s, Commercial Element in Colonial Government, 546
Railways, Electric, 39. See Electric Traction
Railways, Indian, 19, 81, 515, 777. See Limns, India, J;c.
Railways, Light, 77, 161, 613, 703
Railways, Light, and Agriculture, 351. See Erratum, 440
Railways, Light, in Europe, 592
Railways, Light, in France, 772
Railways, Light, Shops, 198
Railways, Russian, 490
Railways, Safety on, 304
Railways, Street. See Electric Traction or Tramways
Railways and Trade, Indian, 515
Ramage's Deck Seam Pitching Ladle, 614
Rates Decision, Railway, 547
Receiver Drop, Condenser and, 435, 448,4687, 753. Erratum., 816
Recipes (Workshop) in the Olden Times, 252
Reclamation of Foreshore, Southampton, 169. See 270
Reclamation of Land from the Sea, 552
Record Train Speeds, 121, 151, 192, 243, 246, 278, 307, 340, 426, 543, 632. See LETTERS
Recorder for Weirs, Discharge (Glenfield Co.), 508
Redcar Boiler Explosion, 51, 122, 163, 199, 217, 715. See LETTERS
Refraction, Specific, and the Periodic Law, 479
Refraction and Viscosity of Argon, 478
Refrigerating Machines, Carbonic Anhydride, 358, 555. See LETTERS
Regulation for Electric Installation in Paris, 735
Regulator, Langridge's Steam Heater, 191
Reichsanstalt and National Research Laboratory, 522
Rendsburg Lock, North Sea Canal, 35
Rennie, Greenwich, Caisson, Southampton Docks, 270
Repair Shops in Electric Stations, 428, 503. See Central Stations
Research Laboratory, Reichsanstalt and National, 522. See also 84
Reservoir, Craigmaddie, Glasgow Water Works, 119
Reservoir Dams, Stability of Masonry, 337
Resistance of the Arc, Back Electromotive Force and True, 523
Respirability of Air in which a Candle is Extinguished, 566
Rewards for Inventors, 20
Rhone Water Power Utilisation, 492
Richardson, Mr. A. W., Patricroft, Inverted Arc Lamp for Indirect Lighting, 373
Richardson, Patricroft, " I. R. " Arc Lamp, 746
Richmond Bridge, 53
Richmond Main Drainage Works, 550
Riley, Mr. James, on Steel Works Machinery, 174
River Banks, Villa Mantle for Protecting, 811
River Weirs and Floods, 354
Riveting Plant, Hydraulic (The Late Ralph H. Tweddell), 307, 335
Road Carriages, Serpollet Steam, 471, 499. See LETTERS, Carriages
Road Engines at Smithfield Show, 738
Road Power Carriage in France, 245. See also Carriages
Roasting Furnace, Brown's Horseshoe, 665
Robinson and Auden, Wantage, Berks, Shaft Governor, 739
Robinson, Mr. Mark, on Niclausse Water-Tube Boiler, 93
Robinson's Sleeper Adzing and Boring Machine, 570
Robison, Mr. J. K. on Tubulous Boilers in the French Navy, 564, 587, 617, 682, 749. See LETTERS
Rocket Apparatus, Life Saving, 710
"Rocket," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 629, 676
Rolling Flat and Dished Plates, Plant (Richards, Manchester), 311
Rolling Mills for Steel Works, 174
Rolling Stock for Express Trains, by Mr. C. A. Park, 27. See 10, 39, 42, 95, 129
Rolls for Boiler Plates (Campbell and Hunter), 67
Roofing, Pease's Tubular, 780
Rope and Belt Driving, 535
Ropes and Power Transmission, 611
Rotation of the Earth, 1
Rottingdean and Brighton Railway, 580, 613. See LETTERS
Round Oak Iron Works, 266
Royal Engineers as Inspectors, 365
Royal United Service Institution: The Production of War Materials in the States by Captain W. H. Jacques, 609
Russian Iron Works, South, 250, 282, 313
Russian Iron Works (Ural), 304
Russian Railways, 490
Russian River Light Draught Steamer (Dobson,
Newcastle), 729
Russian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer "Sokol" (Yarrow), 277, 334, 461, 539

Safety Factors for Marine Boilers and Engines, 418
Safety Liners for Propeller Shafts, 191
Safety Mounting for Domestic Boilers, Barnaby's, 811
"St. Louis," Engines of, 24
St. Symphorien,Mons, Belgium, Phosphate Dressing Plant 401, 633
Salenius Radiator Buttermaker, 420, 671
Salmon River Bridge, Canadian Pacific, 657. See 626, 721
Sand Pump Dredger " Schelde II.," 662
Sand Pump Dredging, 358
Sanitation of Sydney, N.S.W., 680
Saniter, Mr. E. H., on a New Method for the Analysis of Chrome Ore and Ferro-Chromium, 266, 284
Sautter, Harld, and Co.' The Works of, 222
Sawmill at Gloucester (Price, Walker, and Co. Limited), 481. See Lityrita
Sayers' Electric Motor and Generator (Mayor and Coulson', 635
Schoenenwerd Hydro-Electric Installation, 789 See 630, 591, 655, 719, 759
Schonheyder Water Meter (Beck, London), 420
Schuckert, The Late Sigmund, 436
Schupphaus Smokeless Powder, 367
Science and Agriculture, 566
Science and Art Department and Education, 805
Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, 566,805
Sc-tch Shale Oil Industry, 187
Scraper for Boiler Tubes, 730
Screw Gauge, B.A.,418, 496
S.S. "St. Louis" indlasses and Capstans (Bath Iron Works), 211
Scriven, Leeds, Armour-Plate Bending Rolls, 113
"Seaford," Foundering of the, 251
Securing Doors of Railway Carriages, 190
Selenium, Electrical Properties of, 64
Sensitising Action of Dyes on Gelatino-Bromide Plates, 566
Separator, Cream, 420, 671
September Weather, 459.
Serpollet Steam Road Carriages, 471, 499. See LErrEas, Carriages
Sewage Disposal Works, East Molesey Sewage and, 763
Sewage Lift, Adams, 572
Sewage Process, Hermite, 358
Sewage Purification and Sludge Disposal, Glasgow, 208, 259
Sewage Works, Richmond, 550
Shaft Governor (Robinson and Auden, Wantage), 739
Shaft, Safety Liners for Propeller, 191
Shaft Sinking, Gobert Freezing Process, 353
Shanks, Johnstone, Apprentice Lathe, 390. Corliss Valve Boring Machine, 797. Planing Machine, 13
Shanks, Johnstone, Plate Rolls, 31
Shanks, Johnstone, Radial Drill, 662
Shanks, Johnstone, Shaping Machine, 496
Shanks, Johnstone, Universal Boring, Drilling, and Tapping Machine, 135
Shaping Machine (Shanks, Johnstone), 496
"Shark," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 629, 676
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Tank Locomotive, Metropolitan Railway, 327
Sheds, Glasgow Dock, 381, 474
Sheerlegs at Clydebank Works, 34. See LETTER, Crane Efficiency
Sheppard's Capstan, 780
Ship Canals in Prussia, 221
Ship Deck Seam Pitching Ladle, Ramage's, 614
Shipbuilders and the Clyde Lock-Out, 608, 739
Shipbuilding Machine Tools, 31. See Clydebank Works
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1895, 813
Shipbuilding for the Navy, 770
Shipbuilding Returns, Lloyd's, 83, 458. See 813
Shipbuilding Yard at Clydebank, 31
Shiplake Bridge, Great Western Railway Company, 692
Shipping Losses, 304, 458, 707
Shipwrecks, British and Foreign, 304, 707
Ships, Metacentric Height of, 162
Siberian Railway, 366
Siderostats, A Movement for, 416
Sigaudy and Normand's Water-Tube Boiler, 541
Signal Superintendents and Engineers and Shandon Accident, 797
Signalling by Lightning Flashes, 478
Signalling System, Hall Normal Danger, 179
Signals, Railway, 80
Similitude as Affecting Naval Construction, 54
Simons, Limited, Renfrew, Dredger "Percy Sanderson," 178
Simplon Tunnel, 338, 692, 766 •
Simpson, Strickland, and Co., Sheppard's Capstan, 730 •
Sinking Shafts, Gobert Freezing Process, 353
"Sir Frederic," Composite S.S. Tug (Cox, Falmouth), 327
Siren, Steam (S. Smith and Sons, Nottingham), 452 See Erratum, 483
Sleeper Adzing and Boring Machine (Robinson, Rochdale), 570
Slide Rule, Radial Cursor, A New Addition to the, 558
Slotting and Planing Machine (Smith, Beacock, and Tannett, Manchester), 135
Sludge Presses (Goddard, Massey, and Warner, Nottingham), 269
Sluices for Rivers, 364
Small Arms Factories, Birmingham, 266
Smashed Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Lightning, 699
Smashes, Railway. See Accidents
Smit, L., and Son, Kinderjik, Sand Pump Dredger " Schelde IL," 662
Smit, Slikkerveer Holland, Dynamo Driving Engine, 799
Smith, Beacock, and Tannett, Manchester, Slotting and Planing Machine, 136
Smith - Casson, Mr. R., on Small Cast-Steel Ingots, 288, 316
Smith, II., and Co., Hydraulic Flanging Machine, 31
Smith and Sons, Sydney, Nottingham, Steam
Siren, 452. See Erratum, 483
Smithfield Club Show, 738
Smithy at Clydebank Works, 68
Smoke Prevention, Paterson's Suction Draught and (Paul, Dumbarton), 782
Smokeless Powder (Maxim's), 367
Smulders, Mr. A. F., Dredgers and Elevators 102. *See 137
'Snow Ploughs for Electric Tramways, 7
Snowdon Mountain Railway, 357, 378
Societies, The Work of Technical, 577
"Sokol," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 277, 334,461, 539 '
Solar Radiation, 451
Solder Melting Petroleum Furnace (Moeller and Condri Pp), 390
Sonning Bridge, 692
South African Railways, 87
'South Staffordshire Iron and Minerals, 249
Southampton Graving Dock, 169, 270. See LETTER
Spanish Cruiser " Viscaya," 115
Spanish Gunboats (Thomson), 461
Specific Refraction and the Periodic Law, 479
Spectra (Linear), Interpretations of the, 47'9
Spectroscopy and Gases, 479
Spectrum of the Bessemer Flame and the Hardening of Steel, 585
Spectrum of the Cleveite Gas, Helium. 479
Spectrum of Gas obtained from Cleveite, 663
Speed of Railway Trains, Highest. See Railway Rare
Speed Regulating Gear (Watkins and Watson, London), 647
Spence, Mr. J. C., on Strength of Cylindrical
Shells, 165, 489, 672 See LETTERS
Spherical Catenary in Stereo, 737
Spring, Carbonic Acid, 807
Spuzzum River Bridge, Canadian Pacific, 657.
See 626, 721
Stability of Masonry Dams, 337
Staines Bridge (London and South-Western Railway), 277
Staines Road Bridge, 336
Stainland Boiler Explosion, 197, 343
Stamford, Boiler Explosion near, 63
Standardising, British Association Committee Report, 379
Stanley Cycle Show, 672
Stations, Galway and Clifden Light Railway, 384. See 319, 412, 506
Statistics of Shipbuilding, 83, 458, 813
Steam Boiler Efficiency. See LErrEits
Steam Boiler Experiments (Summary), 347
Steam Heater Regulator, Langridge's, 191
Steam Pipes, Friedmann's Flexible Coupling, 452
Steam Road Carriages, Serpollet, 471, 499. See LETTERS
Steam Siren (S. Smith and Sons, Nottingham). 452. See Erratum, 483
Steam Tug, Composite, S.S. " Sir Frederic" (Cox, Falmouth), 327
Steamer " Forest Abbey " and Joggle Plating (Doxford), 419. See 463
Steamer, Light Draught, for Russia (Dobson, Newcastle), 729
Steamer, North-German Lloyd Atlantic, 549
Steamer on Rails, A, 121
Steamer " Seaford," Foundering of, 251
Steamers " Sylvania " and " Carinthia," Cunard T.-S. (London and Glasgow Company), 639. See LETTERS
Steamship Performance, 550
Steel, Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of, 745
'Steel, Hardening, 263
Steel and Iron Testing, 611
Steel and Iron in the United States, 460
Steel, Nickel, 266, 438
Steel, Strength of High Carbon, 642
Steel Tests for Locomotives, 455
Steel Works Machinery, 174
Steel Works, Mossend, 218
Stereo, A Spherical Catenary in, 737
Still, Morris and Wethered's, 13
Stirling, The Late Mr. Patrick, 612
Stone and Co., J., Deptford, Lighting Trains, 673
Stoney's Weirs for Rivers, 354
Stony Creek Bridge, 627
Storage Batteries, 389
Strains on Continuous Girders, Temperature, 400
Streatham Cable Tramway, 705
Street Paving, Ferrolithic, 253
Street Railways. See Electric Traction
Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 815
Strength of Cylindrical Shells, 165. See also 489, 672. See LETTERS
Strength of High Carbon Steel, 642
Strength of Metals at High Temperatures, 186
Strength of Railway Axles, Temperature Effects, 22
Strength of Short Boilers, 165, 489, 2. See LETTERS
Stresses in Girders, 223, 279
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 641
Suction Draught and Smoke Prevention, Paterson's (Paul, Dumbarton), 782
Suction Dredger " General C. B. Comstock" (Bucyrus Dredge Company, Milwaukee), 797
Suction Pump Dredger (Simons, Renfrew), 178
Suction Pump Hopper Dredger " Schelde II ," 662
"Sultan," New Triple-Expansion Engines of H.M.S. (Thomson, Clydebank), 451, 483
Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Works, 218
Supply and Waste of Shipping, 458, 304, 707
"Surly," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 629, 676
Sweating in Drawing Offices, 24
Sweden, Coast Defence Guns (Whitworth), 305. See 328
Sweden, Water Power, 673
Swing Bridges, North Sea Canal, 234
Swiss Ice Avalanche, 445
Switchboards, 262, 289. See Central Stations
Switzerland and Italy Tunnel, 692, 756
Sydney, Sanitation of, 580
"Sylvania," Cunard T.-S.S. (London and Glasgow Company), 539. See LETTERS
Sympalmograph, 127. See. LETTER
Syntheses, Chemical, at Low Temperatures, 771

Tapping, Boring, and Drilling Machine, Universal (Shanks, Johnstone), 115
Taylor and Challen, Birmingham, Power Press, 350
Taylor and Challen, Tandem Surface-Condensing Engine, 496
Technical Publications, American, 221
Technical Societies' Councils, 769
Technical Societies, The Work of, 577
Teddington Footbridges, 63
Telegraph (Field) in Chitral Compaign, 416, 525
Telegraph, Submarine Enterprise, 641
Telegraphy, American, 611
Telegraphy, Post Office, 901
Telephony, 415, 526
Temperature Changes for Resistance, 663
Temperature Effects on Railway Axles, 22
Temperature Strains on Continuous Girders, 400
Temperature, Underground, 475
Temperatures, Measuring High, 522
Temperley Transporter, 601
Tenacity of Metals and Alloys at High Temperatures, 186
"Terrible," H.M.S., 23, 222 •
"Terrible," Normandy's Distilling Apparatus, 12
Tester, Magnetic Field, 523
Testing Engines (Steam), 17
Testing Iron and Steel, 611.
Testing Laboratory at Bradford College, 609
Testing Station, Mechanical, at Charlottenburg, 84
Tests of Boilers, 43, 347
Tests of Marine Engines, 640
Tests of Material (Physical) for Locomotives, 453
Tests, Uniform Methods of Conducting, 53
Thames Bridges :
Albert Bridge, Windsor, 889
Bourne End Bridge of the Great Western
Railway (Old), 562 •, New, 563
Caversham Bridge, 761
Chertsey Bridge, 277
Cookhaiu Bridge, 562
Datchet Bridge, Old, 460
Hampton Court Bridge, 187
Henley Bridge, 629
Kennet, Railway Bridges at Mouth of the, 761
Kingston Bridge of the London and South-
Western Railway, 104
Kingston Road Bridge, 106
Maidenhead Bridge, Great Western Railway, 505
Maidenhead Road Bridge, 506
Marlow Bridge, 628
Old Datchet Bridge, 460
Richmond Bridge, 53
Shiplake Bridge, Great Western Railway, 692
Sonning Bridge, 692
Staines Bridge, London and South-Western
Railway, 277
Staines Road Bridge, 336
Teddington Foot Bridge, 53
Victoria Bridge, Windsor, 337
Walton Bridge, 187
Windsor Black Potts, London and South-
Western Railway, 389,
Windsor Railway Bridge, Great Western Railway, 459
Windsor Road Bridge, 459
Thames Iron Works, Goodfellowship Scheme, 803
Thames Tunnel at Blackwall, 549
Theisen, Buda-Pesth, Evaporative Surface Condenser, 146, 147
Thermal Conductivities of Mixtures of Liquids, 622
Thermo-Chemistry of the Bessemer Process, 263
Thermodynamics, Reoeiver Drop, 435, 448, 687, 753. See Erratum, 816
Thermometer, Reading, Platinum, 663
Theta-Phi Diagram, 687, 753. See 435, 448, and Erratum, 816
Thomson, Clydebank, New Triple - Expansion Engines, H.M.S. " Sultan," 451, 483
Thomson, Clydebank, Smart Piece of Shipbuilding, Spanish Gunboats, 461
Thomson, Limited. See Clydebank Works
Thomson, Limited, Clydebank, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 629, 676
Thomson - Houston, Limited, Bristol Electric
Tramway, 359, 490. See LETTERS
Thornycroft Hydraulic Lifeboat, 433, 451. See LETTERS, Hydraulic Propulsion
Thornycroft, Launch with Water-Tube Boilers and Tube Firebars, 269
Thunderstorms in India, 478
Tides, Effect of Wind on, 353
Timbers for Bridges, &c., Strength of, 815
Tones, Objective Character of Combination, 521
Top, Dynamical, 522
Tornado Clouds, Formation of, 643
Toronto Water Supply, 585
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Sokol" (Yarrow), 277 334, 461, 539
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Contracts, 669
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Lightning " after Collision, 699
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 579. See Erratum, 637
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 629 676
Torpedo-Boats, Bows of, 614
Torpedo-Boats, French Aluminium, 548
Traction, Electrical, 388
Traction Engine (Marshall, Gainsborough), 738
Traction, Hoerde System, 253
Traction, Power Required for Electric, 307
Traction, Street, Electric. See Electric Traction
Traction, Westinghouse Electric Conduit System, 549
Trade, Indian Railways and, 515
Trade Unions and the Engineering Trades, 684
Trade Union Statistics, 578
Trades Union Congress, 333
Train Lighting, New System (Stone and Co.) 673
Tramroad, Snowdon Mountain, 257, 378
Tramway, Bristol Electric, 359, 490. See LETTERS
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 720
Tramway, Streatham Cable, 705
Tramways. See illtetric Traction
Tramways, Electric, 54
Tramways, Glasgow, 221
Transfer of Heat through Plates, 418
Transformers, Electric, 591. See 530, 655, 719, 759, 789
Transmission and Distribution of Power, 591. See 530, 655, 719, 759, 789
Transmission of Power by Ropes, 611
Transport of Merchandise by Rail, 42
Transporter, Temperley, 601
Transvaal, Progress of the, 490
Trestle and Bridge Members, Strength of, 815
Triple-Screw Cruiser " Minneapolis" (Cramp), 600, 728
Trolley for Electric Traction, 103
Trotter, Mr., on Portable Photometer, 369, 389
Tube Boilers. See Water-Tube Boilers
Tube Firebars for Boilers (Thornycroft), 269
Tube Frame Wagons (Leicester Company), 113
Tube Scraper, Boiler, 730
Tubes, Lewis's Corrugated Boiler, 614. See LETTERS, 645
Tubular Construction, Pease's, 780
Tug, Composite S.S., " Sir Frederic" (Cox, Falmouth), 427
Tunnel, Simplon, 338, 692, 756
Tunnel, Thames, at Blackwall, 549
Tunnel Ventilation, 756
Tunnelling by Compressed Air, 34, 642
Tunnelling, Cost of, Glasgow Water Works, 119
Tunnelling, Gobert Freezing Process for, 353
Tunnelling, Pneumatic, 34, 642
Turbine Dynamos. See Hydro-Ele :tric Install2tion9
Turbine and Power Plant at Gokak (Escher, Wyss and Co.), 570
Turret Deck Steamer and Joggle Plating (Doxford), 419. See 463
Turrets, Canet's Electrically Worked, 690
Tweddell, The Late Mr. Ralph Hart, 307, 335
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Twin-Screw Steamers. See teamirs
Two-Storey Sheds, Glasgow Dock, 381, 474
Tyres, Pneumatic, 239

Underground Railway (Electric) at Buda-Pesth, 307
Underground Railway in Glasgow, 85, 543
Underground Water, Circulation of, 577
Unemployed, Distress, 84
Uniform Methods of Conducting Tests, 53
United States and British Wages, 596
United States Cruiser " Minneapolis" (Cramp, Philadelphia), 600, 728
United States Dredger " General C. B. Comstock " (Bucyrus Dredge Company), 797
United States Metallurgical Industry, 460
United States Railway Accident (Safety on Railways), 304
United States War Material, 609
Units, Magnetic, 523
University College, London, Conversazione, 20
Ural, New Iron Works in the, 304
Utilisation of Water Power on the Rhone, 492

Valve Boring Machine, Corliss (Shanks, Johnstone), 797
Valve Gear, Accuracy of, 685
Valves for Hydraulic Pipes, 361, 362. See 151, 402
Valves, Safety, for Domestic Boilers (Barnaby's), 811
Valves for Sewage Works, 259
Van't Hoff's Constant, 566
Varnish Figures, 492
Velocity of Light in Geissler Tubes, 451
Velocity of Reaction before Equilibrium, 566
Ventilation of the Simplon Tunnel, 756
Vering Dredger at North Sea Canal, 102. See 137
Vertical Air-Earth Electrical Currents, 784
Vertical Electrical Currents in the United Kingdom! 476
Vibrations of the Earth in England, 475
Vicars, Welin's Breechloading Mechanism, 328
Victoria Bridge, Windsor, 337
"Victorious," H M.S., 517
Villa Mantle for Protecting River Banks, 811
Viscosity of Argon, Refraction and, 478
Volcanic Phenomena of Japan, 475
Vortex Theories of Matter and of the Ether, 450.

Wages of British Workmen, The Average, 397
Wages, Increase in United Kingdom and United States, 596
Wagons, Tube Frame (Leicester Company), 113
Walker Manufacturing Co.'s Generators, 238
Wallsend Company, Machinery for Light Draught Paddle Steamer, 729
Walton Bridge, 187
Wanklyn, Mr. A. J., on Atomic Weight of Carbon, 439
War Material Production in the States, 609
Ward and Haggas, Keighley, Disc-Cutting Machine, 268
Ward and Haggas, Keighley, Milling Machine for Test Pieces, 730

Warships :

Argentine Cruiser " Buenos Aires" (Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co ), 567, 707
British Battleship " Sultan," New Engines (Thomson), 451, 483
British Battleship " Victorious," 517
British Cruiser " Minerva," 401
British Cruiser " Powerful" (Naval Company, Barrow), 118
British First-Class Cruisers, Contracts, 581, 605
British Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Lightning" Damaged (Palmer's), 699
British Torpedo - Boat Destroyers, 579. See Erratum, 637
British Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 629
British Warships Launched in 1895, 770
Cost of Warships, 131, 226, 251
Russian Torpedo - Boat Destroyer " Sokol " (Yarrow), 277, 334, 461
Spanish Gunboats (Thomson), 461
United States Cruiser " Minneapolis " (Cramp, Philadelphia), 600, 728
Waste of Shipping, 304, 706
Waste and Supply of Shipping, 458
Water Discharge Recorder (Glenfield Co.), 508
Water Flow Recorders, Automatic, 402. See 154, 362, 508
Water Meter, Schonheyder (Beck, London), 420
Water Pipes, Friedmann's Flexible Coupling, 452
Water Power. See Hydro-Electric Installations
Water Power Plant, 723
Water Power Plant at Gokak (Esther, Wyss, and Co.), 570
Water Power in Sweden, 673
Water Power Utilisation on the Rhone, 492
Water Purification, 610
Water Supply, Bedlington Local Board, 383
Water Supply, Early London, 368
Water Supply, London County Council and, 273, 429, 485, 514, 737. See LErrEas
Water Supply, London, Welsh Source, 429, 485. See LETTERS
Water Supply, Toronto, 585
Water-Tube Boiler, Haythorn (Meehan, Glasgow), 680
Water-Tube Boiler, Niclausse, 93
Water-Tube Boiler Shop at Clydebank Works, 136
Water-Tube Boiler, Sigaudy and Normand's, 541
Water-Tube Boilers. See LETTERS
Water-Tube Boilers, Normand, 59, 629, 676
Water-Tube Boilers, Belleville, Evaporative Trials, 571. See LErrns
Water-Tube Boilers for Electric Stations, 429, 446, 503, 597
Water-Tube Boilers in the French Navy, 554, 587, 617, 682, 749. See LErrsits
Water-Tube Boilers in Navy, 396, 437. See LETTERS
Water-Tube Boilers (Normand), Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson), 629, 676
Water-Tube Firebars (Thornycroft), 269
Water Works Engineers, Proposed Association, 644, 712, 742, 778
Water Works, Glasgow, Craigmaddie Reservoir, 119
Water Works, Newport (Mon.), 633
Water Works Schemes in Parliament, 720
Watkins and Watson, London, Variable Speed Friction Gear, 647
Wave Tracer, Electric, 563
Weather, 19, 218, 305, 459, 611, 739
Weirs, Discharge Recorder for (Glenfield Company), 508
Weirs, Floods and, 354
Welding, Deflected Arc System of Electric, 664
Welding Iron and Steel, Dilatation, Annealing, and, 745
Welin's Breechloading Mechanism (Vicars), 328
Welsh Hill Water for London, 429, 485. See LETTERS, Wafer Sup oly
Welsh London Railway, 670
West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Mass., 416
West, Mr. Thos. D., on the Physical Properties of Cast Iron, 339
Western Australia Railways, 545
Westinghouse Electric Company's Gencrators, 238
Westinghouse Quick-Acting Brake, 399, 403, 410. See LETTERS
Wethered's Still, Morris and, 13
Wheels and Brakes, Tramcar, 38
Wheless-Westinghouse Conduit System, Electric Traction, 549
Whitworth Guns, Sweden and Norway Coast Defence, 305. See 328 1
Wiggin, Mr. II. A., on Nickel Steel, 439. See 266
Wilhelm Canal, Kaiser. See North Sea Canal
Winans and Robinson, Premium System, 803
Wind Pressure, Experiments on, 787
Wind Velocity at Tokio, 643
Windlass and Cable Gear, H.M.S. " Terrible " (Napier Brothers, Limited, Glasgow), 240. See LErrER, 279
Windlasses and Capstans, S.S. " St. Louis" (Bath Iron Works), 211
Winds on Tides, Effect, 353
Windsor Black Potts, L. and S.W. Railway, 389
Windsor Railway Bridge, G.W. Railway, 459
Windsor Road Bridge, 459
Worcester Porcelain Works, 266
Working in Compressed Air, 34, 642
Workmen's Average Wages, 397

Works :

Clydebank Works (Messrs. Thomson, Limited), 31, 67, 135
East Molesey Sewage Works, 763
Glasgow Gas Works, 107, 170, 231. See 312 -
Glasgow Sewage Works, 208, 259
Mossend and Summerlee Iron and Steel Works, 218
Phosphate Dressing Plant, St. Symphorien,
Mons, Belgium, 633
Round Oak Iron Works, 266
Sautter, Hark, and Co., Paris, 222
Sawmill at Gloucester (Price, Walker and Co. Limited), 481. See LErrut
Small-Arms Factories, Birmingham, 266
Worcester Porcelain Works, 266
Workshop Recipes in the Olden Times, 252
Worsdell and Von Borries' System Compound Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, 25
Wrecks, Lloyd's Returns, 304, 458, 706
Wrightson, Mr. Thomas, on Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of Iron and Steel, 745

Yacht Design (America Cup), 488, 516. See LETTERS
Yale and Towne Gain-Sharing Scheme, 803
Yarrow and Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Contracts, 669
Yarrow Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Sokol" Russian), 277, 334, 461, 539
Year-Books and Annuals, 806

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