Engineering 1896 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

AARAU Hydro-Electric Plant, 303
Abatement of Smoke, 178, 252. See LETTERS
Abt Rack, Snowdon Mountain Railway, 345
Accident to Boilers of H.M.S. "Blake," 464. See LETTERS, Explosion.
Accident to Quick-Firing Gun Cartridge, 503

Accidents, Railway: 808

Collision at Coventry, 814
Collision at Dunstable, 440
Collision at March, Fatal, 718
Collision at Preston Junction, 378
Collisions at St. Enoch's, Glasgow, 352
Derailment, Fatal, at Knock, 634
Derailment at King's Cross, 495
Derailment, Fatal, at Preston, 608. See LETTERS
Loose Shunting at Stamford, 752
Mysterious Derailment (Adlington Junction), 41
Roof Destruction, 527
St. Enoch Station Hand Signalling, 718
Terminal Stations, Running into! 570
Traction Engine and Level Crossing, 382
Trains with Reversed Engines, 527

Accidents in 1895, Railway, 808
Accumulator, Butter (Wahlin), 47
Accumulators for Jura Simplon Railway Cars, 72
Acetylene, Calcium Carbide and, 680
Acetylene) Explosive Properties, 531
Acetylene, Limiting Explosive Proportions of, 10
Admittance and Impedance, Electric, 28
Aerial Cableway, Table Mountain, 305
Aeronautics, 652
Africa, In New South, 424
Agricultural Implements, 740
Agriculture and River Pollution, 136. See 86, 11
Air Extractor, Beedham's, 683
Air, Detecting Carbon Monoxide in, 611
Air Power in Workshops, 777
Air Pressure, Tunnelling under, 561, 573
Air Pump, Edwards', 221. See LETTERS
Air Pump, Edwards', 276, 309, 348, 377, 407, 470, 93
Akroyd Cellular Pneumatic Tyre, 90
"Alabama," United States Battleship, 762
Aladdin's Lamp, 376
Algebraical Gyrostat Curves, 92
Alkali Manufacture, 787, 819
Allen, The Late William D., 562
Alloys, Liquation of Gold, 663
Alloys and their Resistance to Wear, 652
Alternate Current for Power Transmission, 95, 28
Alternating Current, Admittance and Impedance, 28
Alternator and Steam Turbine (Parsons), 6%25
Alton Brdge over Mississippi, St. Louis, 457, 524
Altos Hornos Iron Works, Spain, 364
Alumina Factory at Larne, 170, 291
America. See United States
"Amphitrite," H.M.S., 468
Analysis, Quantitative, Electrolytic Methods of, 1
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, on Microscopic Internal Flaws in Steel, 35, 68, 118
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 183
Annuals and Directories, 777
Anychoteric Solutions, Behaviour of Litmus in, 11
Apprentices, Training of French, 8i
Arc Lamp, 184
Argentine Armoured Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Yarrow), 122, 424
Argentine Cruiser " Garibaldi" (Ansaldo, 5
Argon in an Austrian Well, 612
"ArFonaut," H.M.S., 468
"Ariadne," H.M.S., 468
Armour and Heavy Ordnance, 452, 477
Armoured Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Yarrow), 22, 424
Army, Japanese, 402
Artificial Potstone, 183
Artillery. See Guns
Artillery, Armour and Heavy, 452, 477
Ashton Keynes Bridges, 171
Assay Balance, Auxiliary, 721
Astronomical Clocks, 743
Astronomy. See 549
Atlantic Liners, North German Lloyd (Schichau), 35
Atlantic Mail Steamers, 418, 425. See LErrsas
Atlantic Records, 23
Atlantic Ship Route Lights, 504, 535, 624, 654
Atmospheric Pressure and Wind Effects on Tides, 17
August Weather, 314
Australia, Fremantle Harbour, 416, 482
Australian Progress, West (Aladdin's Lamp), 76
Australasian Telegraphy, 53
Autocars. See Cars, Motor
Automatic Guns, Origin of, 776

Bacteria and their Importance in Nature, 539, 27
Bacterial Purification of Water, 663
Bacteriology, 391
Balance, Auxiliary Assay, 721
Balance Pressure Valve, 452, 568
Baling Press, Hay and Straw (Howard, Bedford) 3
Ball Bearings for Gearings, 77
Bank Protection, Mississippi River, 89
Barges for Canals, 728
Barr and Stroud Fortress Range-Finder, 701
Barrow-in-Furness, Li Hung Chang's Visit, 250
Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding Works. See Naval Construction Company's Works
Barrow-in-Furness and Sir James Ramsden, 534
Barry, C.B., Mr. J. Wolfe, on Examination of Engineers, 588
Barsi Light Railway, 560, 612
Batteries, Storage, for Tramways, 485, 544
Battleship and Torpedo Defence, 565
Battleships. See Warships
Beare, Professor J. Hfidson, on Locomotive Steam Jacketing, 589, 715
Bearings, Ball, for Gearings, 77
Becquerel, Cathode, X Rays and Hyperphosphorescence, 491
Beedham's Air Extractor, 683
Belfast Electric Lighting, 151, 166, 351, 381, 439. See LErrER, 218
Belfast Gas Works, 170, 293
Belfast Harbour, 171
Belgian Shipbuilding Company, 733
Belgium, Coal and Iron in, 437
Bellasis, Mr. E. S., on Uniform Flow in Open Channels, 518, 632. See Erratum, vol. lxiii., page 21
Belleville Boilers in H.M.S. " Powerful," 403, 33, 499, 532, 553, 691
Belleville Boilers of the " Ohio," 610. See LETTERS
Belleville Boilers,Russian Volunteer Steamer "Kherson," 665 668, 730, 800
Ben Nevis Meteorological Observations, 652
Benham' Mr. Charles E., on Iridescent Glass, 466
Bergen Railway, Norway, 89
Berlin Tramway Conduit, 200
Berlin Exhibition, Engines at (Borsig, Berlin), 76, 424, 468, 663
Berlin and Her Railways, 445, 797
Berne Hydro-Electric Plant, 273
Bessemer Process, History, 222, 749
Bessemer Steel. See 562
Bicycle Propulsion, Work Expended, 65
Bicycles. See Cycles
"Birkenhead," Wreck of the, 276
Birstall Boiler Explosion, 743
Biscay Iron Ore Industries, 334. See also 364, 65
Blackpool Conduit System, Holroyd Smith's, 137
"Blake," Explosion in, 464. See LETTERS
Blast in Cupolas, Action of, 156
Blast Valve, Lewis' Water-Cooled, 364, 505
Bleach, Manufacture of, 591, 787, 807, 819
Blochairn Boiler Explosion, 437
Blount, Mr. B., Manufacture of Alkali, 787, 819
Blowers in Foundries, 297
Blue Prints, Copying, 184, 276
Bogies for Transporting Normal Gauge Wagons on Light Railways, 537
Boileau's Traverse Tables, 713
Boiler Accident on H.M.S. " Blake," 464. See LErrEas, Explosions, &c.
Boiler, Belleville. See Belleville Boiler
Boiler Efficiency, Steam, 40
Boiler Evaporative Power, 425
Boiler Explosion at Birstall, 743
Boiler Explosion at Blochairn, 437
Boiler Explosion and Ship Sinking, 57, 77, 109, 44, 184, 218, 308, 376
Boiler Explosions Act, Working of the, 708, 773, 84, 813
Boiler Firebox, An Overheated, 877
Boiler Forced Draught Apparatus, 702
Boiler Inspection, Compulsory, 773, 784. See LETTERS, 813
Boiler Manhole Covers, Removal under Pressure, 18, 252, 309
Boiler, Munro, 754
Boiler, Safety Valve, Domestic, 185
Boiler, Tests of Triple-Expansion Engine and 0
Boiler Tubes, 745, 780
Boiler Tubes and Retarders, 140
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boiler
Boilers, Belleville, in H.M.S. "Powerful," 403, 33, 499, 632, 653, 691
Boilers, Belleville, of the " Ohio," 640. See LETTERS
Boilers, Belleville, Russian T.-S.S. " Kherson," 65, 668, 780
Boilers at Glasgow Subway, 631
Boilers, Munro's Tubular, 625. See LErrEas
Boilers, Steam, Commercial Efficiency, 93
Boilers, Steam Yacht " Speedy " (Ramage and Ferguson, Leith), 241
Boilers, Strength of Marine, 746
Boilers, Strength of Short, 77, 109
Boilers, Unusual Corrosion in, 157, 166
Bolide Oil Motor Tricycle, 576
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 810
Books Received, 89, 121, 183, 424, 446, 603, 720, 62, 797
Boring Machines, Duplex (Britannia Company, Colchester), 91
Boring Machines (Niles Tool Works, Ohio), 639
Bourne End Bridge, 336
Bouton and De Dion Road Motor (Steam and Oil) 01, 233
Brakes, Continuous, and Railway Accidents, 44, 252, 377
Brazilian Revenue Twin-Screw Steamer (Yarrow), 26
Breakdowns of Stationary Engines, 606. See NEXT VOLUME
Breakwater Construction in Earthquake Countries, 201. See 1, 73, 161, 385
Breakwater, Fremantle, Western Australia, 15, 482
Breech Mechanism for Field Guns, Canet's, 668, 96, 726, 760, 801
"Bremen," North German Lloyd Liner(Schichau), 35
Brewers' Exhibition, 593
Brewing in United States, 181
Bridge Construction in Earthquake Countries, 1, 3, 161, 200, 385
Bridge, Fixed Girder, at Great Ducie-Street, Manchester, 545, 651, 741. See LETTERS, Bridge, (Cc., 593, 624, 681
Bridge under the Fosseway at Thames head, 29
Bridge, Kistna, East Coast Railway, India, 7, 01
Bridge over Mississippi at Alton, St. Louis, 457, 24
Bridge Pins, 55
Bridge Practice, 624, 651, 681, 713, 741. See LETTERS
Bridge, Rue Tolbiac, Paris, 206, 267
Bridge, Tower, 418, 621
Bridges, Cantilever, 250
Bridges, Large Span Railway, 744
Bridges-Lee Surveying Camera (Hicks, London), 55
Bridges, Suspension, 196, 234, 652. See Erratum, 86
Bridges over the Thames. See Thames Bridges
Brighton and Rottingdean Sea Railway, 711
Bristol Corporation and Tramways, 739
Bristol Electric Tramway, 553

British Association: 48, 391. See LETTERS, 503

President's Address (Sir Joseph Lister), 391
Mechanical Section, 395, 417, 420, 452
President's Address (Sir Douglas Fox), 395, 473
Physical and Engineering Features of the River Mersey and the Port of Liverpool, by Mr. G. F. Lyster, 395
The Cause of Fracture of Railway Rails, by Mr. W. W. Beaumont, 395
Report of Committee on the Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the-Tides, 417
Tower Bridge (Lantern Illustrations), by Mr. J. W. Barry, 418
Liverpool Water Works, by Mr. J. Parry, 418
The Present Position of the North Atlantic
Mail Service, by Mr. A. J. Maginnis, 418
Safety of Ships, by Dr. F. Elgar, 420. See LETTER, 470
Report of Committee on Small Screw Gauges, 20, 509
Test of Glow Lamps, by Mr. W. H. Preece, 420
The Liverpool Overhead Railway and the Southern Extension of It, by Mr. S. B. Cottrell, 422
Notes on Electric Cranes, by Mr. E. W. Anderson, 422
Experiments on the Hysteresis of Iron in Revolving Magnetic Fields, by Professor Fleming, Mr. R. Beattie, and Mr. R. O. Clinker, 52
Street Lighting by Incandescent Electric Lamps, by Mr. W. G. Walker, 452
Armour and Heavy Ordnance : Recent Developments and Standards, by Captain Jaques (New York), 477
A New Spherical Balanced Valve for all Pressures, by Mr. J. Casey, 452, 568
Engineering Laboratory Apparatus, by Professor Hele-Shaw, 452
Development of the Art of Printing in Colours, by Mr. T. Conti, 455
Expanded Metal, by Mr. Golding,455, 605
Wreck Raising, by Mr. J. Bell, 456
Horseless Road Locomotion, by Mr. A. R. Sennett, 456
Vote of Thanks to the President, 450
Mathematical and Physical Section, 487, 519, 48
President's Address, Theory of Cathode and Röntgen Rays, by Prof. J. J. Thomson, 487
Electrical Conduction through Gases Exposed to Röntgen Rays, by Professor J. J. Thomson and Mr. E. Rutherford, 4'90
Lenard and Cathode Rays, by Prof. P. Lenard, 90
Cathode, X, and Becquerel Rays ; Hyperphosphorescence, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 91
Sensitised Paper and X Rays, by Mr. H. H. F. Haysman, 491
Röntgen Rays and Glass and Porcelain, by Professor A. W. Rucker and Mr. W. Watson, 91
Duration of X Radiation at each Spark, by Mr. F. T. Trouton, 491
Photo-Electric Sensitisation of Salts by Cathode Rays, by Professors Elster and Goldstein, 519
Change of Absorption accompanying Fluorescence, by Mr. J. Burke, 519
Complete Apparatus for Studying the Properties of Electric Waves, by Prof. J. Chunder Bose, 519
Detecting Electro-Magnetic Waves, by Mr. E. Rutherford, 522
Electric Currents through Rarefied Air, by Lord Kelvin, Mr. J. T. Bottomley, and Mr. Magnus McLean, 522
Communication of Electricity from Steam and Air, by Lord Kelvin, Mr. Magnus Maclean, and Mr. A. Galt, 522
Molebular Dynamics of Gases, Vapours, Water, Ice, Quartz, &a., by Lord Kelvin, 522
Division of an Alternating Current in Parallel Circuits, by Prof. F. Bedell, 522
Electric Disturbance in Submarine Cables, by Mr. W. H. Preece, 522, 593. See LETTERS
Reostene, a New Resistance Material, by Dr. J. A. Harker and Mr. A. Davidson, 523
One-Volt Standard Cell with Small Temperature Coefficient, by Mr. W. Hibbert, 523
A Direct Reading Wheatstone Bridge, by Mr. A. P. Trotter, 523
Measuring Magnetic Permeability, by Mr. W. M. Mordey, 548
Measurement of Electrical Resistance, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, 518
Report on Electrolysis and Electrical Standards, 548
Report on a Thermal Unit, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, 548. See LErrzos, S. A. Sworn, 623
Total Heat of Water, by Mr. W. N. Shaw, 549
Researches in Absolute Mercurial Thermometry, by Mr. S. A. Sworn, 549
Homogeneous Structure of Crystals, by Mr. W. Barlow, 549
Evolution of Stellar Systems, by Dr. Isaac Roberts, 549
Periodic Orbits, by Prof. G. H. Darwin, 549
Effect of Refraction on the Diurnal Star Movements, by Prof. A. A. Rambaut, 549
Measuring the Velocity of Rotation of Planet: by Spectroscropy, by Prof. J. E. Keeler, 549
Report on Solar Radiation, 651
Report on Magnetic Stanards, by Professor A. W. Rucker, 551
Report on Seismological Observations, by Prof. J. Milne, 551
Report on Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, by Dr. A. Buchan, 552
Report on Meteorological Photography by Mr. A. W. Clayden, 552
Great Circle Sailing, by Mr. IL M. Taylor, 552
Sailing Flight of Birds, by Dr. G. II. Bryan, 52
Some Difficulties connected with the Kinetic Theory of Gases, by Dr. G. H. Bryan, 552
Preliminary Note on the Exploration of the Upper Air by means of Kites, by Mr. Lawrence Rotch, 552
Report on Establishment of a National Research Laboratory, by Sir Douglas Galton652 cr twiteiel con ""
PresidentS Address, History of the Manufactu 591ry of -Chlorine, by Dr. Ludwig Mond, Manufacture of Chlorine by means of Nitric Acid, by Dr. F. Hunter, 592
Nitrates, their Occurrence and Manufacture, by Mr. W. Newton, 592
Photographs of the Flash in Explosions of Mixed Gases, by Prof. H. Dixon, 592
Limiting Explosive Proportions of Acetylene, by Prof. F. Clowes, 610
Detection of Carbon Monoxide in Air, by e Prof. F. Clowes, 611
Estimation of Carbon Monoxide in Air, by Dr. J. Haldane, 611
Absorption of Oxygen by Pyrogallol, by Prof. F. Clowes, 611
The Behaviour of Litmus in Anychoteric Solutions, by Mr. T. Bradshaw, 611
Carbohydrates of Barley Straw, by Mr. C. F. Cross, 611
Excrescent Rosins, by Prof. Bomberger, 611
Report on Proximate Constituents of Coal, by Prof. P. P. Belson, 611
Report on the Bibliography of Spectroscopy, by Dr. D. H. Nagel, 611
Report on Action of Light on Dyed Colours, c by Prof. J. Hummel, 6 a
Report on Electrolytic Methods of Quantitatative Analysis, by Prof. Emerson Reynolds, Dr. P. Bailey, Dr. C. A. Kohn, Mr. B. Davies, and Mr. G. K. Barnes, 611
New Form of Aspirator, by Dr. C. A. Kohn and Dr. T. L. Bailey, 611
Modified Form of Schrotter's Apparatus, 1) Dr. C. A. Kohn' 611
Helium, by Prof. W. Ramsay, 611
Argon in an Austrian Well, by Prof. Bomberger, 612
Low Temperature Research, by Prof. J. Dewar, 12
Röntgen Rays, Metals, and their Salts, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone and Mr. IV. II. Hibbert ), 612
Velocity of Reaction before Equilibrium takes Place, by Dr. Wildermann, 612
Diminution of Chemical Action due to Limitation of Space, by Prof. 0. Liebreich, 636
Chemical Education in England and Germany, by Sir H. Roscoe, 636
Report on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 36
Teaching of Science in Girls' Schools, by Miss E. Walters, 636

British Association of Water Works Engineers, 10, 116
British v. Foreign Shipping (Manning), 19
British Guiana Goldfields' 152
British Railway Finance, 497. See also 520
British Warships. See II. M.S.
Broken Hill Consols Mines, 189
Brookes' Valve Reseating Tool, 287
Brussels Tramway Conduit, 200
Brussels Exhibition,149, 214, 374, 533
Bucknill, Lieut.-Colonel J. T., on Explosions and their Radii of Danger, 261, 291, 360, 443, 515
Buckton Testing Machine at Yorkshire College, Leeds, 262, 327, 390, 449
Buda-Pest Conduit Tramway System, Siemens, 37
Building, Warship, in 1896, 758
Buildings in Earthquake Countries, 1, 73, 161, 00, 385, 481
Bulkhead Doors, 23, 57
Bulkheads, Steamers', 420. See LETTER, 470
Burners, Incandescent Gas, 300, 357, 467
Butter Accumulator (Wahlin), 47

Cable Companies and Repairs, 183
Cable Traction, Glasgow Subway:
Boilers, 631
Power Station, 610, 631, 697
Roof of Boiler House, 631
Roof of Power Station, 697
Tank, Water, 631
Tunnelling under Compressed Air, 573
Cables, Electrical Disturbances in Submarine, 22
Cableway, Table Mountain, 305
Caissons for Liverpool Docks, 305
Calcium Carbide and Acetylene, 680
Caledonian Locomotives, Fastest Train in the World, 710. See LErrsits, Railwayq Service to Scotland Caledonian Tank Locomotives, 410
Callendar and Griffiths' Electric Resistance Measurer, 548, 595
Calorimeter, A New Form of, 65
Camera, Bridges-Lee Surveying (Hicks), 155
Cameron, Mr. Donald, on Sewage Treatment at Exeter, 257
Canal Boats, 728
Canalisation of Upper Loire, 405
Canet's Breech Mechanism and Field Guns, 668, 96, 726, 766, 801
Canet's Duplex Mounting for Quick-Firing Guns, 13
" Canopus " Class Battleships, New British, 152
Cantilever Bridge, Rue Tolbiac, Paris, 206, 267
Cantilever Bridges, 250
Cape Town, Wire Ropeway, 305
Capitaine Oil Engine (Tolch and Co.), 643
" Capitan Orella," Chilian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Laird), 492
Car, Motor (Bolide and Co.), 576
Car, Electro-Locomotive Motor (Baldwin), 219
Car, Motor, Thornycroft's Steam Road, 47. See 11
Car, Motor, Race in France, 576
Car, Motor, Run to Brighton, 653
Oar, Motor, De Dion and Boutin Steam, 201, 33
Cars, Motor, 47, 201, 233, 308, 303, 348, 405, 453, 59, 576, 620, 621, 653, 681, 713, 744, 779
Cars, Motor, and Company Promotion, 648, 633, 78, 680. See LETTERS
Cars, Motor, Legislation, 250, 279
Carbohydrates of Barley Straw, 611
Carbon in Metals, 364
Carbon Monoxide in Air, Detecting, 611
Cardiff Exhibition : 76, 238, 282
Machinery Section, 282
Maritime Section, 238. See LErrza, 276
Carriage, Motor. See Car, Motor
Carriages, Dutch Railway, 492
Carriages, Wide Railway, 57
Cartridge, Giin, Accident to Quick-Firing, 563
Casey, Mr. James, on Balanced Pressure Valve, 52, 568
Cast Iron, Strength of, 40
Casting Cylinders, &c., 99, 297. See LErricits
Castings, Defects in Iron, 818
Castle Eaton Bridge, 44
Castle Liner " Dunvegan Castle " (Fairfield Company), 253. See LETTER, 276
Cathode Ray Spectrum, 563
Cathode Rays, Influence of Cold on, 250
Cathode Rays, Photo-Electric Sensitisation of Salts by, 519
Cathode and Röntgen Rays, Theory of, 487
Cathode, X, and Becquerel Rays, and Hyperphosphorescence, 491
Cell, 1-Volt Standard, with Small Temperature Coefficient, 522
Cellulose Filters, 315
Cellulose for United States Warship Protection, 29
Cement, Heat Resisting Properties, 437
Cement, Pure Portland, 650
Cement to Resist Paraffin, 425, 682
Central Railway. See Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Centrifugal Governors, 603, 769
Centrifugal Pump and Electric Motor (Scott and Mountain), 553
Cessnock Dock at Glasgow, 469
Chains, Temperature Adjustment for Surveying, 287
Channels, Flow of Water in Open, 518, 632. See Erratum, vol. lxiii., page 21.
Charts and Great Circle Sailing Routes, 552
Chaux de Fonds Hydro-Electric Installation) 72
Chemical Action, Diminution Due to Limitations in Space, 636
Chemical Education in England and Germany, 36
Chemical, Electric Industries, 807
Chemical Manufacture of Alkali and Bleach. 91, 592, 7871 819
Chemical Section. See British Associgtion,
Chicago Electrical Congress, 88
Child, Mr. Henry J., on Timbers in the Straits Settlements, 290
Chilian Nitrate of Soda Deposits, 543, 633, 667. See LETTER, 624
Chilian Torpedo • Boat Destroyer " Capitem Orella" (Laird), 492
Chilian War and Nitrate of Soda Deposits, 624
Chimney of Glasgow Cable Power Station, 610
China, Industrial Prospects in, 617
China Steel Rails, 250
China, Trade Affairs in, 213, 531, 562
Chlorine Manufacture, 591, 787, 819
Chlorine Manufacture by Nitric Acid, 592
Chronograph, A New, 315
Chronograph Watches (S. Smith and Sons, London), 25. See Limnos
Chronographs, 57
Civil Engineers, Institution of: 1. Medals, &c., 585
Presidential Address, by Mr. J. Wolfe Barry, C.B., 588
The Tower Bridge : Superstructure, by Mr. G. E. W. Cruttwell, 621
The Machinery of the Tower Bridge, by Mr. G. G. Homfray, 622
The Bacterial Purification of Water, by Dr. Percy Frankland, 669
Screening and Tipping Coal, by Mr. James Rigg, 743
The Surface Plant at Kirkby Colliery, by Mr. Thomas Gillott, 743
Civil v. Royal Engineers. See 57, 251, 348, 375, 25
Classification of Warships, 30
Climacteric, Mechanic's, 245, 276. See LETTERS
Clocks, Astronomical, 743
Clontarf Electric Railway, 581
Closed Conduits for Tramways. See Electric Traction
Coal in India, 281
Coal, Moisture in, 40
Coal in New South Wales, 503
Coal, Proximate Constituents of, 611
Coal Screening and Tipping, 743
Coal-Shipping Machinery, Cleveland, Ohio, 241
Coal and Iron in Belgium, 437
Cockerill Company, John,733
Coffee Growing in Peru, 26
Cold Effects on Conductance of Metals and
Cathode Rays, 250
College, French Naval, 649
Colliery Explosions, 21
Colliery Surface Plant, 743
Collisions, Railway. See Accidents
Colonial Trade and Foreign Competition, 246
Colour Printing, 455
Colquhoun William, on a Water-Cooled Hot Blast Valve, 505. See 364
Combe, Mr. Abram, on Rope Driving, 167, 426
Commercial Efficiency of Steam Boilers, 93
Commercial and Industrial Progress in Japan, 313
Compensation in Rivers, Continuous v. Intermittent, 17, 86, 134, 211
Compound Engine. See Engines
Compressed Air and Gas Traction, 474
Compulsory Boiler Inspection, 773, 784
Condenser, Self-Cooling, 186
Conductance of Metals and Cathode Rays, Influence of Cold, 250
Conduction through Gases exposed to Röntgen Rays, Electrical, 490
Conductivity, Measuring Electrolytic, 598
Conductivity of Sheet Copper, Thermal, 564, 624
Conduit Wiring in the United States, 183
Conduit Tramway System, Open, 137, 197
Conduits for Tramways. See Electric Traction
Congo Railway, 592
Congress, Chicago Electrical, 88
Congress, Trades Union, 371
Construction in Earthquake Countries, 1, 73, 61, 200, 385. See 481
Continuous Current Generator for Three-Wire System, 249
Continuous v. Intermittent Compensation in Rivers, 17, 86, 134, 211
Contractors and London County Council, 692, 47, 676
Contracts, Government, with Foreigners, 55
Control of West Riding Rivers, 211. See 86, 134
Co624pper, Thermal Conductivity of Sheet, 564. See Copying Blue Prints, 184, 276
Cordite in India, 681
Cornwall? Granite in, 276. See 368
Corporation Tramway Results, Glasgow, 23
Correction of the River Weser, 284
Corrosion of Gauge Glasses, 504
Corrosion in Marine Machinery, 157, 166
Cost of Ships and Wage Ratio, 163
Cost of Systems of Traction, 474
County Council and the Contractor, 592, 647,
Crane, Locomotive Steam (Marshall, Fleming, and Jack, Motherwell), 273
Crane, 2-Ton Locomotive Steam (Bedford Company), 108
Crane, 10-Ton Locomotive Steam (Southgate Company), 337
Crane, 65-Ton Steam Goliath (Southgate Corn parry), 642
Cranes, Electric, 422
Cricklade Bridge, 105
Cricklade Plank Bridge, 105
Cruisers. See Warships
Crushing Mills for Ginger, 309
Crystals, Homogeneous Structure of, 549
Cupolas, Action of Blast in, 156
Cupolas, The Design of, 682
Cupolas in Foundries, 297
Cursor for Slide Rules, Radial (Lanchester), 172
Curves, Algebraical Gyrostat, 92
Curves and the Preston Accident, 535
Cut-off Regulating Hood for Pelton Water-Wheel, 19
Cutting Machine, Hydraulic Guillotine (Hooker's), 2
Cycle, Bolide Oil Motor, 676
Cycle Gear, Protean, 714
Cycle-Making' Machinery, 704, 732, 781
Cycle Show, Stanley, 679. See LETTERS, Protean Gear
Cycle Tube Works (Coventry), 712
Cycle Tyre, Akroyd Cellular Pneumatic, 90
Cycle Tyre, Pneumatic, 217, 679
Cycles, De Dion and Bouton Motor, 201, 233
Cylinder Jacketing of Locomotives, 589, 715
Cylinders and Heat Transmission, 590, 788
Cylinders, Strength of Pump, 65
Cylinders, Strength of Thin, 77, 109

Dam Construction, 276
Damper Regulator, Locke, 185
Dangerous Trades, 213
Danube, Regularisation of the, 435
Decimal and Metric Systems, 77, 83, 109, 252, 08, 503, 564. See LETTERS
Deep Mines, 777
Defects in Cast-Iron Castings, 818
Deflections and Spring Tables, 140
Demarcation of Work, 115, 217
Depreciation of Tramways, 356, 416
Design for Gas or Oil Engine, 218
Destructor, Refuse, at Leyton, 671
"Diadem," H.M. Cruiser (Fairfield Company), 38
Diagram of Metal Prices, 24, 184, 318, 438, 594, 14, 814
Diagrams, Indicator, 276, 309, 347
Diagrams, Temperature Entropy, 225
Diamond, Preparation of the, 217
"Diana," H.M. Cruiser, Engines (Fairfield Company), 552
Diaries, 777
Dion and Bouton Road Motor (Steam and Oil), 01, 233
Disinfector, Lee's Automatic, 625
Displacement and Speed in Yachts, 375, 407
Dispute in Engineering Trade re Non-Union Labour, 285, 345
Distribution, High-Tension Continuous Current, 49. See LETTER, 308
Disturbances due to Strong Electric Currents in Telephones, 215
Dock Caissons, Liverpool, 305
Dock, Cessnock, at Glasgow, 469
Dock, Floating, 364
Docks, Belfast, 171
Docks, Kidderpore, 308
Domestic Boiler Safety Valve, 185
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Heat Transmission through Metal Cylinders, 590, 788
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Locomotive Steam Jacketing, 589, 715
Doors, Bulkhead, 23, 57
Drawing Office Table, Laughlin-Hough, 185
Dredger, Electrically Driven Ladder, 457
Dredger, Hydraulic, for Mississippi River (Maryland Steel Company), 79
Dredging, Grab, 102
Dredging Rock, &c., at the Danube, 435
Dredgings in Glasgow Harbour, 620
Dresden Electric Tramway Conduit, 199
Drilling Machine, Harrison's Slot, 59
Drilling Machine, Vertical (Barnes, Rochford, III.), 172
Drilling Machines (Niles Tool Works, Ohio), 639
Drilling Rock for Excavation at the Danube, 435
Drills, Electric, for Naval Work, 307
Driving, Rope, 167, 426
"Drummond Castle," The, 57, 77, 109, 144, 184, 18, 308, 376
"Dunvegan Castle," Castle Liner (Fairfield Company), 253. See LETTER, 276
Duodecimal and Metric Systems, 77, 109, 252, 08, 503, 564
Duodecimal System, 83. See LETTERS
Duration of Röntgen Rays, 491
Dutch Navy Programme, 742
Dutch Railway Carriages, 492
Dynamics, Molecular, of Gases, Water, Vapours, &c., 522
Dynamo, Continuous-Current, for Three-Wire System, 249
Dynamite Explosions and their Radii of Danger, 61, 291, 360,. 448, 515
Dynamo with Turbine for Alkali Works (Parsons), 93
Dynamos, Electric Railway (Westinghouse), 306
Dynamometer, Hydraulic, 140

Earth Currents and Effect on Telephones, 215
Earth Tremors, 551
Earthquake Countries, Construction in, 1, 73 61, 200, 385. See 481
East Coast Railway, India, Kistna Bridge, 7, 101.
East Coast Rolling Stock, 20. See LETTERS, Railway Carriages
East End Water Famine, London, 2E0, 345
Eastern Telegraph Company, 183
Eaton Hall Light Railway, 642. See Erratum, 73
Eaton Weir and Footbridge, 41
Edison and Röntgen Rays (New York Show), 69
Edison's Phonograph, 446
Education, Chemical, in England and Germany, 36
Education in Japan, Technical, 84 I,
Education, Science, 636
Education, Technical, 341, 587. See LETTERS, 05, 470, 623, 682, 745, 813
Education of the Working Man, 775
Education, Yorkshire College, Leeds, 252, 327, 90, 449
Edwards' Air Pump, 221. See LETTERs, 276, 309, 48, 377, 407, 470, 593
Efficiency, Commercial, of Steam Boilers, 93
Efficiency, Maintenance, and Depreciation of Electric Tramways, 356, 416
Egypt, Winter Climate in, 778
Eickenradt, Herr F., on Electricity on Board Ships, 60
Eight-Acre Copse Bridge, 171
Eisey Bridge, 105
Elasticity of Timber, 311
Electric Alternating Current Admittance and Impedance, 28
Electric Alternating Current for Power Transmission, 95, 128
Electric Alternating Currents Divided in Parallel Circuits, 522
Electric Alternator and Steam Turbine (Parsons), 25
Electric Body having Negative Resistance, Properties of an, 28
Electric Cranes, 422
Electric Currents through Rarefied Air, 522
Electric Currents and Telephone Disturbances, 15, 657, 685
Electric Currents, Wattless, 248
Electric Elevator, Sprague's, 69
Electric Generator with Steam Turbine for Alkali Works (Parsons), 493
Electric Glow Lamps, Tests of, 421
Electric Helm Indicator and Steering Telegraph, Fiske's, 702
Electric High-Tension Continuous Current Distribution, 249. See LETTER, 308
Electric Lighting in Belfast, 151, 166, 351, 381, 39. See LETTER, 218
Electric Lighting and Tramway, Bristol, 553, 739
Electric Locomotive Motor Car (Baldwin), 219
Electric Measuring Magnetic Permeability, 548
Electric Motor and Centrifugal Pump (Scott and Mountain), 553
Electric Overhead Lines, Protection from Lightning, 250
Electric Railway, Brighton and Rottingdean, 71Z
Electric Railway, Clontarf, 581
Electric Railway Generators (Westinghouse), 306
Electric Railway, Liverpool Overhead, 422
Electric Safety Fuses for Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 437
Electric Three-Wire System, Continuous Current Generator, 249
Electric Traction. See also Electricians at Geneva Batteries, Storage, for Tramways, 485, 544
Berlin Conduit, 200
Blackpool Conduit System, Holroyd Smith, 37
Brussels Conduit, 200
Budapest Conduit System. Siemens, 137
Conduit System, Open, 137, 197
Depreciation of Tramways, 356, 416
Dresden Conduit, 199
Efficiency, Maintenance, and Depreciation, 356, 16
General Electric Company's Conduit in LenoxAvenue, New York, 197
Love's Conduit at Washington, 137
Maintenance of Tramways, 356, 416
Metropolitan Company's Conduit Road, Washington, 197
New York Conduit (General Electric Company's), 197
Open Conduit System, 137, 197
Siemens' Conduit at Budapest, 137
Smith's Conduit System at Blackpool, 137
Station Fittings, 11
Storage Batteries as Applied to Traction Purposes, 485, 544
Surface Contact System, 264
Washington Conduit, Love's, 137
Washington,Conduit Road, (Metropolitan Company) 197
Wiring, 11
Electric Traction and Light Station, Hamburg, 4, 76, 108
Electric Tramcar Truck, 379
Electric Tramway, Bristol, 553, 739
Electric Tramways. See also Electric Traction and Electricians at Geneva
Electric Two-Way Tumbler Switch, 251
Electric Waves Observing Apparatus, 519. See LETTER, 593
Electric Wheatstone Bridge, A Direct Reading, 23
Electric Wiring, Underground, in the United States, 183
Electrical Cell, 1-Volt, with Small Temperature Coefficient, 523
Electrical Conduction through Gases Exposed to Röntgen Rays, 490
Electrical Congress, Chicago, 88
Electrical Developments in Japan, 149
Electrical Disturbances in Submarine Cables, 522
Electrical Engineers. Institution of: 73 The Telephone Trunk Line System in Great Britain, by Mr. J. Gavey, 657, 685
Electrical Railway, Liverpool Overhead, 811
Electrical Resistance, Lorenz Measurer, 409
Electrical Resistance, Measuring, 548, 595
Electrical Show, New York, 69
Electrical Standards, 548
Electrical Undertakings, Manual of, 777
Electrical Wave Absorption along Wires by Terminal Bridge, 657
Electrically Driven Fan, 594
Electrically Driven Feed Pumps (E. Scott and Mountain), 524
Electrically Driven Ladder Dredger, 457
Electrically Driven Tools for Naval Work, 307
Electrically Driven Tools, Power Required for, 02
Electrically Driven Ventilating Fan (Smit, Holland), 458. See 'Arms
Electricians at Geneva, The Interna. Clonal Congress ot: 79
Disturbances Produced by Strong Currents in Telephone Lines, by Dr. Wietlisbach, 215
Photometric Units, by Professor Hospitalier, 16
Magnetic Units, by Professor Hospitalier, 216
Wattless Currents in Power Distribution by Means of Alternating Currents, by Mr. Andre Blondel, 248
High Tension Continuous Current Distribution, by Mr. Rene Thury. See LETTER, 308
Continuous Current Generator for Three-Wire System, by Mr. A. Rothert, 249
Long Distance Power Transmission, by Mr. Charles S. Bradley, 249
Protection of Overhead Lines against Lightning, by Mr. R. Chavannes, 250
The Influence of Cold upon the Conductance of Metals, and on Cathode Rays, by Professor Raoul Pictet, 250
Electricians at Geneva, The International Congress of-continued.
Festivities and Excursions, 250
Technical Excursions, 269
Lausanne Tramway and Power Station, 269
Zurichberg Electric Tram, 271
Montreux Water-Power Station and the Vevey Tramway, 272
Fribourg Hydro-Electric Installation, 272
Accumulators for Jura-Simplon Railway Cars, 72
Hydro-Electric Installation at Val de Travers, La Chaux de Fonda and be Lock, 272
Light and Power Station for Neuchatel at Cress, 272
Hydro-Electric Plant at Aarau, 303
Hydro-Electric Plant at Berne, 272
Hydro-Electric Plant at Thorenherg and Rathausen, 304
Hydro-Electric Plant at Wynau, 272
Hydro-Electric Plant of Zurich, 301
Oerlikon Works, 304
Electricity Works on the Sihl, 305
Electricity on Board Warships, 60, 702
Electricity Communicated from Steam to Air, 22
Electricity on Ships, 60, 702
Electricity, Street Lighting, 452
Electricity Works in Germany, 121
Electricity Works on the Sihl, 305
Electro-Chemical Industries, 807
Electro-Magnetic Waves, Detecting, 522. See LETTER, 593
Electrolysis, 807
Electrolysis and Electrical Standards, 548
Electrolytic Conductivity, Measuring, 598
Electrolytic Galvanising at Barrow, 269
Electrolytical Manufacture of Alkali and Bleach, 87, 819
Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis, 11
Elevator, Electric (Sprague), 69
Elgar, Dr. F., on Classification of Warships, 30
Ending-up Machine, Combined Saw and (J. Hill and Son), 457
Engine, Compound, at Berlin Exhibition (Borsig, Berlin), 176, 424
Engine, Compound Horizontal (A. Borsig, Berlin), 553
Engine, Gas, Four-Cycle (Borsig, Berlin); 458
Engine, Gas, Tests, Belfast Electric Lighting, 51, 166, 351, 381, 439
Engine on the Highway. See Cars, Motor
Engine on the Highway, 250, 279, 559, 620, 621
Engine, Oil, Capitaine (Tolch and Co.), 643
Engine, Oil, 3 Horse-Power Portable (Fielding and Platt), 173
Engine, Pumping, Duplex (Bever and Dorling), 55
Engine, Pumping, Triple-Expansion (Nordberg Company, Milwaukee), 766, 815
Engine Revolution Indicator (Little's), 722
Engine, Triple-Expansion, Tests, 40
Engine, Universal High-Speed (Brush Company), 37
Engine, Willard's Launch Oil, 655
Engines, Compound v. Triple-Expansion, 469
Engines, Gas, Attached to the Soil, 810
Engines, H. M. Torpedo-Beat Destroyers (Palmers' Company), 142
Engines of H.M.S. " Powerful " (Naval Construction Company), 403. See 433, 499, 532, 53, 691
Engines of II.M.SS. " Diana " and " Venus' (Fairfield Company), 552
Engines, Oil and Gas, 740
Engines, Oil. See also Motors
Engines,Russian Volunteer Steamer " Kherson (Hawtorn, Leslie, and Co.), 665, 668, 730, 800
Engines, Stationary, Breakdowns of, 606
Engines, Stationary Steam, 713
Engines of the S.S. " Ohio," 681
Engines, Steam Yacht " Speedy " (Ramage and Ferguson, Leith), 241
Engines of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Earle), 524
Engines, Oil Traction (Hornsby), 506
Engines, Traction and Portable, 740
Engines, Unusual Corrosion in Marine, 157, 166
Engineering in China, 213
Engineering Department of Yorkshire College, Leeds, 262, 327, 390, 449
Engineering in Hokkaido, Japan, 588
Engineering Laboratory Appliances, 452
Engineering Laboratory for Glasgow, 563
Engineering Laboratory at Yorkshire College, Leeds, 262, 327, 390, 449
Engineering, Marine, in 1E96, 811
Engineering Practice and Science, 687
Engineering 5neering Schemes in Parliament, 676, 709, 2
Engineering Work Plant. See Naval Construetwit Company's Works
Engineers' Dispute, 285, 345
Engineers, Examination for, 588
Engineer's Qualifications, Marine, 675. Erratum, 22
Engineers, Royal v. Civil, 57, 251. See 348, 375, 88
English, Lieutenant-Colonel, on Heat Transmission through Metal Cylinders, 590, 788
English Trade Diminishing ? Is, 503, 564. See also Migration qf Trade
"Entre Rios," Argentine Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 424
Entropy Diagrams, Temperature, 225
Equilibrium, Velocity of Reaction before, 612
Evaporative Power of Marine Boilers, 425
Evaporative Trials of Belleville Boilers of H.M.S. "Powerful," 403, 433, 499, 532, 553, 691
Ewen Bridge, 172
Examination for Engineers, 588
Examinations, Irish County Surveyorships, 376
Excrescent Rosins, 611
Exeter, Sewage Treatment at, 256, 406
Exhauster, Pressure Balance Gas (Gwynne), 287
Exhibition, Brewers', 593
Exhibition, Brussels, 149, 214, 374, 533
Exhibition, Cardiff, 238, 282
Exhibition, Fire Brigade Tournament and, 21
Exhibition, New York Electrical, 69
Exhibition, Paris, 51, 148, 530
Exhibition in Paris, Theatrical, 89
Exhibition, Rouen, 372
Exhibition, Stockholm, 778
Exhibitors, Art, &c., Subsidised, 51
Expanded Metal, 455, 605
Experience, Records of, 431
Experiments, Rain, 533
Experiments with Torpedo - Boat Destroyer Models, 164
Explosion. See Boiler Explosions
Explosion, Boiler, on H.M.S. " Blake," 464. See LETTERS
Explosion on H.M.S. " Blake," 593, 623
Explosion of a Kier at a Paper Mill, 640
Explosion of a Logwood Still, 785
Explosions, Colliery, 21
Explosions, Flash of, Photographs of, 592
Explosions and their Radii of Danger, 261, 299, 60, 418, 515
Explosive Properties of Acetylene, 534
Explosive Proportions of Acetylene? 610
Explosives and Submarine Excavation (Danube), 35

Factory, Alumina, at Larne, 170, 291
Fan, Electrically Driven, 594
Fan, Electrically Driven Ventilating (Smit, Holland), 458. See LETTERS
Fans in Foundries, 297
Fastest Train in the World, 710, 745, 780. See LETTERS, Railway Service to Scotland
Feed Distribution for Yarrow Boilers, 153, 218. See LETTEas
Feed Pumps with Electric Motor (E. Scott and Mountain), 524
Ferro-Manganese, Manufacture of, 470
Ferryboats, Screw, 797
Field Gun, Canet quick-Firing, 668, 696, 726, 766, 01
Filters, Cellulose, 315
Filtration, Mechanical, 342
Fire Brigade Tournament and Exhibition, 21
Fire on Shipboard, Prevention of, 470, 504, 535, 93
Fireboats, 729
Firebox, An Overheated Boiler, 377
Firemaster for London, 533
Fishing and River Pollution, 136. See 86, 211
Fitters and Turners, Strike at Hull, 469
Fixed Girder Bridge at Great Dude-street, Manchester, 645, 651, 741. See LETrzas, Bridge, tec.
Fixed Nitrogen in Steel, 335, 380
Flanging Machine, 204
Flaws in Steel, Microscopic Internal, 35, 63, 118
Flax Machinery, 151, 320
Flax Works in Belfast. See 151, 320'
Fiske's Helm Indicator and Telegraph, 702
Fletcher Rysimeter, 504
Fleuss' Tyre for Cycles, 679
Flight of Birds, Sailing, 552
Flow, Uniform, in Open Channels, 518, 632. Sec
Erratum, vol. lxiii., page 21
Fluorescence, Change of Absorption Accompanying, 519
Flying Machines, 552
Flywheels, Steel, 190
Fog, 643
Forced Draught Apparatus, Gosling's, 702
Foreign v. British Shipping (Manning), 19
Foreign Competition and Colonial Trade, 246
Foreign Competition, 503, 564. See also Migration of Trade
Foreign Shipping Subsidies, 619
Foreign Works and the Working Man's Education, 775
Foreigners and Government Contracts, 55
Forgings, Hollow Steel, 40
Fortress Range Finder (Barr and Stroud), 701
Foundations, Deep and Difficult, 742
Foundations, Kistna Bridge, 101 See 7
Foundry Cupolas, Blast in, 156
Foundry Practice, Modern, 99, 297, 347, 377, 07. See Cupolas. See LETTERS
Fracture of Railway Rails, 395
Fractures in Steel due to Internal Flaws, 35, 68, 18
Framed Structures, Theory of Modern, 22
Freezing Method of Sinking Foundations, 742
Fremantle Harbour, West Australia, 415, 482
French Cruiser " Jaureg-uiberry," Explosion, 23
French Cruiser " Jaureguiberry" (Forges et Chantiers Company, Havre), 26. See LErrkks
French Marine Reorganisation, 312
French Motor Car Race, 676
French Naval College, 649
French Naval Manoeuvres, 330, 386, 501. See LETTERS, 406
French Railway Apprentices, Training, 85
French Ships in the Manoeuvres, 330, 386, 501. See LETTERS
"Friant," Niclausse Boilers of the, 23
Fribourg Hydro-Electric Installation, 272
Friction Tests, Engineering Laboratory, Leeds, 49. See 262, 327, 390
Fuel, Oil, 680
Fuel, Oil, for Warships, 285
Furnaces for Roasting Ore, 335, 475
Fuses, Safety, for Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 437

Galvanising Electrolytically, 269
Garbage Destructor at Leyton (Beaman and Deas), 671
"Garibaldi," Argentine Cruiser (Ansaldo, Italy), 5
Gas Engine, Four-Cycle (Borsig? Berlin), 458
Gas Engine Tests, Belfast Electric Light, 151, 166, 51, 381, 439
Gas Engines attached to the Soil, 810
Gas Exhauster, Pressure Balance (Gwynn&, 287
Gas Lighting by Incandescence, 300, 357, 467, 24. See ',grunts
Gas, Mixed, Explosions, Photographs of Flash, 92
Gas or Oil Engine, Design for, 218
Gas Retort Beds, Tunnelled, 90
Gas Retort Mouthpiece, Tysoe and Mitchell's, 25
Gas Traction, 474
Gas Work Locomotives, Glasgow (Drummond), 49
Gas Work Schemes in Parliament, 725
Gas Works, Belfast 170, 293
Gases Exposed to Röntgen Rays. Electrical Conduction through, 490
Gauge Glasses, Corrosion of, 504
Gauge Glasses on H.M.S. " Blake," 464. See LETTERS, Explosions, &c.
Gauge-Making, 121
Gauge, Screw, 420, 509
Gavey, Mr. J., on Telephone Trunk System, 657, 85
Gellivara-Ofoten Railway, 285
General Electric Company's Conduit in LenoxAvenue, New York, 197
Geneva, Electricians' Congress at. See International Congress
Geology, Hydro-, and Hygiene, 223, 257
German Chemical Education, 636
German Electricity Works, 121
German Railway Association, 117
German Shipping Subsidies, 619
Gilchrist, Mr. J., on Fixed Girder Bridge at
Great Ducie-Street, Manchester, 545. See 651 LETTERS, Bridge, &c.
Ginger. See Crushing Mills
Girder Bride at Great Ducie-Street, Manchester, Fixed, 545, 651, 741. See LErrEas, Bridge, &c.
Girders, Kistna Bridge, 101. See 7
Girders, Lattice, Strains, 57
Girders, Stiffening, Suspension Bridges, 196, 234. See Erratum, 286
Glasgow Central Railway, Underground Station*, 43, 355. See 410
Glasgow Corporation Tramway Results, 23
Glasgow Docks, 469
Glasgow Gas Works Locomotives (Drummond, Govan), 349
Glasgow Harbour Dredgings, 620
Glasgow Subway, 573, 610, 631. See also Cable Traction, 573
Glasgow University Engineering Laboratory, 63
Glass, Iridescent, 466
Glass and Porcelain and Röntgen Rays, 491
Glasses, Corrosion of Gauge, 504
Glow Lamps, Tests of, 421
Gold Alloys, Liquation of, 563
Goldfields of British Guiana, 162
Golding's Expanded Metal, 455, 605
Goliath Crane, 65-Ton Steam (Southgate Company), 642
Goodman's Hatchet Planimeter, 255, 377. See Prytz Planimeters and Planimeter
Gosling's Forced Draught Apparatus, 702
Government Contracts with Foreigners, 55
Governor, Triple-Expansion Pumping Engine (Nordberg Company, Milwaukee), 766, 815
Governors, Centrifugal, 603
Governors, Shaft (Robinson and Auden), 458
Grab Dredging, 102
Granger's Jet Nozzle, 722
Granite in Cornwall, 276, 368
Great Circle Sailing Routes on Charts, 552
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 810
Great Western Locomotive " Leopard," 368, 07
Greathead, The Late Mr. J. IL, 561
Grinding,Milling and Screwing Machines, 21
Guiana oldfielSs, British, 152
Guillotine Cutting Machine, Hyd raulic (Hooker's), 2
Gun, Canet Quick-Firing Field, 668, 696, 726, 66, 801
Gun, Canet's Duplex Mounting for Quick-Firing, 13
Gun Cartridge, Accident to Quick-Firing, 563
Gun Mounting for H.M.S. " Cmsar " (Whitworth), 67
Guns, Canet's Breech Mechanism for Field, 668 96, 726, 766, 801
Guns, Heavy, and Armour, 452, 477
Guns, Origin of Maxim, 776
Gwynne's, Strike at, 535
Gyrostat Curves, Algebraical, 92

Hackling Machinery, Flax, 151, 320
Hamburg Combined Light and Power Electric Station, 44, 76, 108
Hamburg, Port and Shipping of, 28
Hannington Bridge, 41
Hanssen, Mr. A., on Commercial Efficiency of Steam Boilers. 93
Harbord, F. W., and Twynam, T., on Fixed Nitrogen in Steel, 380 See 335
Harbour, Belfast, 171
Harbour Improvements in Western Australia, 15, 482
Harbours in South Africa, 597
Hard Steel, 681, 713, 745, 779, 813
Harrison's Slot-Drilling Machine, 59
Hatchet Planimeter, Goodman's, 255, 377. See LETTERS
Hatchet Planimeters, 308, 425. See also Prytz Planimeters
Hawthorn, Les:ie, and Co., Russian Volunteer Steamer " Kherson," 665, 668, 730, 800
Hay and Straw Baling Press (Howard, Bedford), 3
Haze, 643
Hazell's Annual, 777
Health and River Pollution, 136. See 86, 211
Heat Resisting Properties of Portland Cement, 37
Heat Transmission through Metal Cylinders, 590, 88
Heat of Water, Total, 649
Helium, 611
Helm Indicator and Telegraph, Fiske's, 702
Hibbard, Mr. II. D., on Sand on Pig Iron, 411. See 364
High-Tension Continuous Current Distribution 49. See Lgrrga, 300
Hub for Cycle, Machinery, 704, 731, 781
H M. Destroyer " Swordfish " (Armstrong), 122
H.M. Second-Class Cruisers, 759
H.M. Battleships (" Canopus " Class), 152
H.M.S. "Blake," Boiler Accident in, 464. See LETTERS
H.M.S. "!Make," Explosion on, 593, 623
H.M.S. "Cicsar," Whitworth Gun Mounting, 767
H.M.S. " Diadem " (Fairfield Company), 538
H.M.S. " Powerful," Trials of, 469, 535
H.M.S. " Powerful " (Naval Construction and Armaments Company, Limited), 40',4, 433, 499, 32, 553, 691. See LErnsas
H.M.S. " Venus" (Fairfield Company), 287
H. M . SS. " Ariadne," " Amphitrite, " " Argonaut," " Spartiate " Class (New Cruisers), 468
H.M. Ships Built in 1896, 758
H.M SS. " Furious," " Gladiator," " Vindictive," and "Arrogant " (Cruisers with Rams), 708 I.M.SS. " Venus" and "Diana "-(Engines), Fairfield Company, 552
H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Model Experiments (Barrow), 165
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Swordfish " and the Yarrow Boiler, 122
H.M Torpedo-Boat Destroyers" Janus," "Lightning," and " Porcupine" (Palmers), 108, 142
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers " Salmon " and "Snapper " (Earle), 524
hoisting Machinery, 314
Hokkaido, Engineering in, 5:8
hollow Steel Forgings, 40
Hooker's Hydraulic Guillotine Cutting Machine. 2
Horner, Mr. John, on Flax Machinery, 151, 320
"Horse Power," 624
Hose Pipes, Tests of, 504
Homeless Carriages. See Cars, Motor
Hot Bloom Guillotine Shears (Grant, Ritchie, and Co , Kilmarnock), 123
House, Remarkable, in Japan, 481
Hudson River Tunnel, 309, 347
Hull Fitters and Turners' Strike, 469
Hyperphosphorescence, Cathode, X, and Becquerel Rays, 491
Hydraulic Calculations, Rule for, 6R5, 681 See LwrrEa and Erratum, 669
Hydraulic Dredger for Mississippi River (Maryland Steel Company), 79
Hydraulic Dynamometer, 140
Hydraulic Gear for Working Railway Signals, 355
Hydraulic Riveter, 424
Hydraulic Self-Clamp Guillotine Cutting Machine,Hooker's, 62
Hydrauic Sheerlegs, 124-Ton, 800
Hydraulic Tests at orkshire College, Leeds, 390. See 262, 327, 390, 44Q
Hydraulic Wheel Bossing and Forging Press, 200-Ton (Fielding and Platt), 273
Hydro-Electric Installations. See Electricians at Geneva
Hydro-Geology and Hygiene, 223, 257
Hygiene and Hydro-Geology, 223, 257
Hysteresis, 452

Incandescent Gas Lighting, 300, 357, 467, 624. See LErrEas
India, Coal in, 281
India, Irrigation in, 84
Indian Railway Property, 810
Indian Railways and Trade, 403
Indicator Diagrams, 276, 309, 347
Indicator Diagrams, Effect of Pipe Connections on, 65
Induction, Telegraphy by, 593
Industrial and Commercial Progress in Japan, 313
Industrial Notes, 26, 59, 91, 124, 155, 187, 219, 54, 288, 319, 349, 379, 410, 440, 471, 506, 537, 67, 596, 625, 655, 683, 719, 748, 782, 817
Industrial Prospects in China, 617
Industrial Undertakings and Japan Diet, 89
Industries in Japan, 498
Inflammable Paints, 213
Influence of Cold on Conductance of Metals and on Cathode Rays, 250
Inglesham Bridge, 41
Inspection of Boilers, Compulsory. See LETTER, 13
Intermittent v. Continuous Compensation in Rivers, 17, 86, 134, 211
Internal Flaws in Steel, Microscopic, 35, 68, 118
International Congress of Electricians at Geneva, 08. See Electricians at Geneva
Iridescent Glass, 466
Irish County Surveyorship Examinations, 375. See Royal v. Civil Engineers
Iron and Coal in Belgium, 437
Iron and Steel Institute : 1, 111, 339
Bilbao Meeting, 333
The New President (Mr. E. Pritchard Morgan), 34
Spanish Iron Industry, by Don Pablo de Alzola, 34
Iron Ore Industries of Biscay and Santander, by Mr. W. Gill, 335
The Walrand-Legenisel Process, by Mr. George F. Snelus, 335, 442
The Roasting of Iron Ores with the View to their Magnetic Concentration, by Professor H. Wedding, 335, 475
The Manganese Ore Deposits of Northern Spain, by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 336
A Note on the Presence of Fixed Nitrogen in Steel, by Messrs. Harbord and Twynam, 335, 80
Sand on Pig Iron, by Mr. II. D. Hibbard, 364, 11
The Missing Carbon, by Mr. T. W. Hogg, 364
A Water-Cooled Blast Valve, by Mr. Colquhoun 64, 605
Estimation of Sulphur in Iron Ores, by Messrs. R. W. and A. Atkinson, 365
Concluding Proceedings, 365
Excursions, tt.c :
Altos Hornos Iron Works (Visit), 364
Conversazione by the Alcalde, 364
Viscaya Iron and Steel Works, 365
Orconera Mines, 365
Other Excursions, 364, 365
Iron Industry in Spain, 334. See also 364, 365
Iron Ore, Roasting, 335, 475
Iron,Sand on Pig, 364, 411
Iron, Strength of Cast, 40
Iron, Structural, at High Temperatures, Tests, 374
Iron, Tests of Pig, 125
Irrigation in India, 84

Jacketing Cylinders, Locomotive, 589, 715
"Janus," I-1.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Palmers), 108, 142
Japan, Commercial and Industrial Progress, 313
Japan, Construction in Earthquake Countries, , 73, 161, 200, 385. See 481
Japan, Electrical Developments in, 149
Japan Engineering Development, 588
Japan, Pipe Inspection, 56, 281
Japan, Recent Trade of, 707
Japan Sea Waves, The Great, 177. See LETTER, 18
Japan, Technical Education in, 84
Japan, Telephones in, 405
Japan Trade, 807
Japanese Army and 'Navy, 402
Japanese Diet and Industrial Undertakings, 89
Japanese Industrial Aims, 498
Japanese Railways, 342, 372
Japanese Shipping, 289, 463
Japanese Steamship Company, New, 121
Jaques, Captain W. H., on Armour and Heavy Ordnance, 477
Jaureguiberry, Explosion on the Cruiser, 23
"Jaureguiberry," French Cruiser (Forges et Chantiers Company, Havre), 26
Jet Nozzle, Granger's, 722
Johannesburg, 345
Johnson and Phillips Arc Lamp, 184
Jones's Water-Tube Boiler, 555, 594
July Weather, 180
June Weather, 53
Jura-Simplon Railway Car Accumulators, 272

"Kaiser Friedrich," North German Lloyd Liner (Schichau), 735
Kauri Timber, 180
Kentish Ragstone and Portland Cement, 650
" Kherson," Russian Volunteer Fleet T.-S.S. (Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 665, 668, 730, 800
Kidderpore Docks, 308
Kier Explosion at a Paper Mill, 640
Kilbourn's Refrigerating Machine, 471
Kirkby Colliery Plant, 743
Kistna Bridge, East Coast Railway, India, 7, 101
Kitchen Boiler Safety Valve, 185
Kites for Aerial Exploration, 552
Koch and Pasteur's Work in Physics, 394

Laboratory Appliances, Engineering, 452
Laboratory for Glasgow University, Engineering, 63
Laboratory, National Physical, 552
Laboratory, Yorkshire College, Leeds, 262, 327, 90, 449
Lamp Black, Packing, 714
Lathps, Tests of Electric Glow, 421
Lanchester Radial Cursor for Slide Rules, 172
Larne Alumina Factory, 170, 291
Lathe, 24-Ft. Horizontal (Schiess, Dusseldorf Oberbilk), 683. See Erratum, 706
Lathe, 42-In. Surface and Boring (Shepherd, Hill, and Co.), 396
Lathe, Treble-Geared (Shepherd, Hill, and Co., Leeds), 253
Lattice Girders, Strains, 57
Laughlin-Hough Drawing Office Table, 185
Launch Engine, Willard's, 655
Launches and Trial Trips, 15, 56, 90, 122, 158, 88, 224, 292, 309, 351, 378, 408, 440, 478, 507, 36, 570, 594, 597, 628, 654, 669, 746, 780, 805
Lausanne Tramway and Power Station, 269
Law as to Hired Engines, 820
Lechlade Bride, 41
Leeds, Yorkshire College Laboratory, 262, 327, 90, 449
Leeds Water Supply, 539
Lee's Automatic Disinfector, 625
Lenard and Routgen Rays, 490
Leonardo da Vinci 's Hygrometer. See Weighing Machine
" Leopard," Great Western Railway Old Locomotive, 368. See LETTERS
Letters to the Editor, 23, 56, 77, 109, 144, 184 18, 261, 274, 308, 345, 405, 425, 4Q9, 503, 535 64, 593, 622, 653, 681, 713, 744, 779
Lewis' Water-Cooled Blast Valve, 364, 505
Leyton Refuse Destructor (Beaman and Deas), 71
Li Hung Chang's Visit to Barrow-in-Furness, 250
Lifting Machinery, 314
Light and Power Station, Hamburg Electric, 44, • 6, 108
Light Railway, Barsi, 560, 612
Light Railway at Eaton Hall, 642. See Erratum, 73
Light Railway Locomotive (Drummond, Govan), 49
Light Railway Locomotive (Kitson, Leeds), 612
Light Railways, Transport of Normal Gauge Wagons on Narrow Gauge Lines, 537
Lighting in Belfast, Electric, 151, 166, 351, 381, 39. See LETTER, 218
Lighting, Gas, by Incandescence, 300, 357, 467. See LErrERs
Lighting Streets by Electricity) 452
"Lightning," H.61. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Palmers), 108, 142
Lightning, Protection of Overhead Lines, 250
Liquation of Gold Alloys, 663
Literature, 21, 88, 120, 181, 284, 314, 424, 445, 03, 636, 75d, 797
Litmus Behaviour in Anychoteric Solutions, 611
Little's Revolution Indicator for Engines, 722
Liverpool Dock Caissons, 305
Liverpool Overhead Railway, 422, 473, 811
Liverpool, The Port of, 395
Liverpool, Progress of, 473
Liverpool-Strict Station Signalling Arrangements, 697
Liverpool Water Works, 418
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 19, 437
Lloyd's Shipping, Wreck, &c., Returns, 281
Locke Damper Regulator, 185
Locking Block Signals, Nicholson's Apparatus,
Lode Hydro-Electric Installation, 272
Locomotive Coal in India, 281
Locomotive, Electric, Car (Baldwin), 219
Locomotive, Fastest, in the World, 710. See
LETTERS, Railway Service to Scotland
Locomotive in Factories; Dangers, 213
Locomotive for 2-Ft. Gauge Railway (Drummond, Govan), 349
Locomotive for Glasgow Central Railway, 410
Locomotive, Goods, for New South Wales Railway (Beyer, Peacock, and Co.), 680
Locomotive on Highways Act, 1896, 279, 559, 620, 21. See 250. See also Cars, Motor
Locomotive " Leopard," Great Western Railway, Old, 368, 407. See LwrrEas
Locomotive, Light Railway (Kitson, Leeds), 612
Locomotive, North-Eastern Express, 23, 57
Locomotive, Oil (Hornsby), 506
Locomotive, Oil-Burning, for Liverpool Docks, 251
Locomotive Steam Crane, 2-Ton (Bedford Company), 108. See also Cranes
Locomotive Steam Jacketing, 589, 715
Loire, Canalisation of, 405
London Bridges. See Thames Bridges
London, Chatham, and Dover Service, 23
London County Council Works Committee, 592, 47, 676
London Directory, 777
London, East-End Water Famine, 280, 345
London Fire Brigade Command, 533
London and Norwich New Railway, 315
London Tramways, 741
London Water Famine, East, 280, 345
Machine Tools for Cycle Making, 732, 781
London Water Supply, 619. See 280, 345
Long-Distance Power Transmission, 249
Lorenz Measurer of Electrical Resistance, 409
Luggage, Railway Passengers', 55
Love's Conduit at Washington, 137

Maclaren, Mr., on Practice with Science, 687
MacColl, Mr. Hector, on Unusual Corrosion in
Marine Machinery, 157, 166
Machine Guns, Origin of, 776
Machine Tools for Cycle Making, 732, 781
Machine Tools, Electrically Driven, for Naval Work, 307
Machine Tools, Grinding, Milling, and Screwing, 1
Machine Tools. See .Naval Construction Company's Works. See also Lathe, Drill, &c.
Machine Tools, United States, 774
Machinery Attached to the Soil, 810
Machinery v. Manual Labour, 147
Machinery of the Russian Volunteer Steamer " Kherson " (Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 668, 85, 730, 800
Madras Railway, 810
Magnetic Permeability, Measuring, 648
Magnetic Standards, 551
Magnetic Units, 216, 248
Magnetisation of Iron Ores, 475. See 335
Maintenance of Tramways, 356, 416
Making Gauges, 121
Manchester, Fixed Girder Bridge at Great DucieStreet, 545, 651, 741. See LETTERS, Bridges, &c.
Manganese Ore Deposits of Spain, 335
Manganese, World's Supply of, 502
Manhole Covers under Steam Pressure, Removal of, 118. See LETTERS, 252, 309
Manning, British v. Foreign Shipping, 19
Manwuvres, French Naval, 330, 38d, 501. See LETTERS
Manor House Bridge, Ashton Keynes, 171
Manufacture of Power, 147
Marine Engineers' Qualifications, 675. Erratum, 22
Marine Machinery, Unusual Corrosion in, 157, 166
"Massachusetts," Tests of Turret for U.S. Battleship, 762
Maxim Guns, Origin of, 776
Maxim and Hard Steel, 681, 713, 745, 779, 813
McCowen, Mr. Victor A. H., on Electric Lighting in Belfast, 151, 166, 351, 381, 439. See LETTER. 18
Measurement, Spectroscope, of Velocity of Planets, 549
Measuring Electrical Resistance, 548, 595
Measuring Electrical Resistance, Lorenz, 409
Measuring Electrolytic Conductivity, 598
Measuring Magnetic Permeability, 548
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of: 7
St. Louis City, 37
Strength of Cast Iron, by W. J. Keep, 40
The Efficiency of a Steam Boiler ; What is It ? by W. Kent, 40
Tests of a Four-Cylinder Triple-Expansion Engine and Boilers, by A. H. Eldridge, 40
Determining Moisture in Coal, by Mr. R. S. Hale, 40
Hollow Steel Forgings, by H. F. J. Porter, 40
A Study of the Proper Method of Determining the Strength of Pump Cylinders, by Charles W. Kettell, 65
The Effect upon the Diagrams of Long Pipe Connections for Steam Engine Indicators, by Professor W. F. M. Goss, 65
A New Form of Calorimeter, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 65
An Hydraulic Dynamometer, by Mr. James D. Hoffman, 140
Spring Tables, by Mr. G. R Henderson, 140
Retarders in Boiler Tubes, by Mr. J. M. Whitham, 140
Mechanical Stokers, by Mr. Whitham, 140
The Western River Steamboat, by Mr. W. H. Bryan, 140
St. Louis Water Works, Visit to, 186
A Self-Cooling Condenser, by Mr. Louis B. Alberger, 186
Superheated Steam, by Professor R. II. Thurston, 222
History of the Bessemer Process, by Sir Henry Bessemer 222, 749
Steel Flywheels, by Thomas E. Murray, 190
Mechanical Engineers in Belfast, 218
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :
Belfast Meeting, 150
Flax Scutching and Flax Hackling Machinery, by Mr. John Horner, 151, 320
Electric Lighting in Belfast, by Mr. Victor A. H. McCowen, 151, 166, 351, - 381, 439. See LETTER, 218
Works Open to Members, 152
Unusual Corrosion of Marine Machinery, by Mr. Hector MacColl, 157, 166
Notes on the Introduction and Development of Rope Driving, by Mr. Abram Combe, 167, 2
Description of the Alumina Factory at Lame Harbour, by Mr. James Sutherland, 170, 291
Description of the Belfast Gas Works, by Mr. James Stelfox, 170, 293
Votes of Thanks, 170
Excursions and Visits, 170, 171
Belfast Harbour Works, 171
London Meeting :
Report of the Research Committee on the Value of the Steam Jacket, by Professor T. Hudson Beare and Mr. Bryan Donkin, 589, 15
The Transmission of Heat from Surface Condensation through Metal Cylinders, by Lieut.-Col. English and Mr. Bryan Donkin, 90, 783
Breakdowns of Stationary Engines, by Mr. Michael Longridge, 589, 606
Mechanical Filtration, 342
Mechanical Stokers, 140
Mechanic's Climacteric, 245, 276. See LETTERS
Memorial, Submarine Telegraph, 620
Mercurial Thermometry, Researches in Absolute, 49
Mersey, The River, 395
Metal-Chemical Industries, 807
Metal, Expanded, 455,605
Metal Price Diagram, 24, 184, 318, 438, 591, 714, 14
Metals and their Salts, Röntgen Rays, 612
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 552
Meteorological Society, Royal :
International Conference Report, 643
Haze, Fog, and Visibility, by Hon. F. A. Rollo Russell, 643
Winter Climate of Egypt, by Dr. Leigh Canney, 78
Attempt to Determine the Velocity Equivalents of Wind Forces Estimated by Beaufort's Scale, by Mr. R. H. Curtis, 778
Meter, Water, Venturi, 207
Metre-Gauge Railways, 682
Metric and Duodecimal System, 77, 83. See LETTERS, 109, 252, 503, 564
Metropolitan. See London
Metropolitan Company's Conduit Road, Washington, 197
Meyer, Herr F. A., on Port and Shipping of Hamburg, 28
Microscopic Internal Flaws in Steel, 35, 68, 118
Midland and South-Western Junction Viaduct, 08
Migration of Trade, 374. See LETTERS, 401, 425, 69, 503
Milling, Grinding, and Screwing Machines, 21
Milling Machine (Brown and Sharpe Company, Providence, R.I.), 567
Milling Machines (Niles Tool Works, Ohio), 669
Milne, Mr. J., on Construction in Earthquake Countries, 1, 73, 161, 200. See 385, 481
Mineral Wealth of New South Wales, 503
Mines, Broken Hill Consols, 189
Mining at Great Depths, 777
Mining in New South Wales, 503
Mining in Sweden, 653
Miscellanea, 24, 49, 81, 113, 145, 175, 209, 243, 86, 318, 339, 369, 399, 429, 461, 495, 527, 557, 85, 615, 645, 673, 705, 737, 771, 814
Mississippi Bridge at Alton, St. Louis, 457, 524
Mississippi River Bank Protection, 89
Mississippi River Hydraulic Dredger (Maryland Steel Company), 79
Mississippi Steamers, 140
Mitchell and Tysoe's Retort Mouthpiece, 225
Model Experiments, 164
Modern Foundry Practice, 99, 297. See LETTERS
Moisture in Coal, 40
Molecular Dynamics of Gases, Water, Vapours, &c., 522
Mond, Dr. Ludwig, on Chlorine, 591
Montreux Water Power Station, 272
Morris, Mr. J. T., on Power Transmission by Alternating Currents, 95, 128
Mossend Steel Works, Hot Bloom Guillotine Shears (Grant, Ritchie, and Co., Kilmarnock), 23
Motor Carriages. See Car, Motor
Motor Carriages and Company Promotion, 648, 53, 678, 680. See LErrERs
Motor Car. See Car, Motor
Motor Car Legislation, 250, 279
Motor for Driving Centrifugal Pump (Scott and Mountain), 553
Moulding, Modern Foundry Practice, 99, 297
Mountain Guns, Canet Quick-Firing, 668, 696, 26, 766. Sde 801
Mountain Railway, Snowdon, 345
Mounting, Gun, for H.M.S. " Omar," 767
Mounting for Quick-Firing Gun, Canet's, 613
Mouthpiece for Retort(Tysoe and Mitchell's), 225
Munro's Tubular Boiler, 625. See LETTERS
Murray, Mr. Thomas E.,•on Steel Flywheels, 190
Museum, A National Railway, 535, 564, 618, 682, 13, 745
Musical Tubes, 787
National Physical Laboratory, 552
Naval Architects, Institution 01:
The Maritime Position and the Principal Features of the Port of Hamburg, by Herr Frain Andreas Meyer, 28
The Classification and Relative Power of Warships, by Dr. Francis Elgar, 30
On Signs of Weakness in Tank Steamers, by Herr Otto Sehlick, 32
Uses of Electricity on Board Ships, by Herr F. Einkenradt, 60
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
American Society of :
New York Meeting, 728
Test of an Experimental Turret of the United States Battleship " Massachusetts," by Commodore W. T. Sampson, 728, 763
Steel Canal Boats, by Mr. Lewis Nixon, 728
Naval Practice in Ships' Rivets and Riveting, by Mr. J. H. Linnard, 728
American Fireboats, by Mr. H. de B. Parsons, 29
American Corn Pith Cellulose, by Mr. II. W. S. Cramp, 729
The New Battleships, by Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn, 762
Tests with an Experimental Turret for the United States Battleship " Massachusetts," by Commodore W. T. Sampson, 728, 763
Speed Trials of a Screw Propelled Ferryboat, by Mr. F. L. du Bosque, 797 25-Ton Hydraulic Sheerlegs, by Mr. Frank B. King, 800
A Method of Calculating the Stability of Ships, Adapted to the Use of Standard Curves of Stability, by Naval Architect Hugo Hammar, 00
Stability of a Ship in Damaged Condition, by James Swan, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 800
Damaged Condition as Affecting the Stability and Fighting Efficiency of Battleships, by Assistant Naval Constructor T. F. Ruhm, of the United States Navy, 800
Screw Propellers, by Professor George L. McDermott, 800
Naval College, Frenph, 649
Naval Construction Company's Works at Barrow :
Boiler Works, 362
Docks, 364
Electrolytic Process, 269
Engine Fitters' Shop in the Yard, 269
Engine Works, 301, 361
Flanging Machine, Hydraulic, 201
Floating Dock, 364
Foundry, 302
Galvanising, 269
Model Experiments, 165
Planers, Plate, 204
Plate Machine Shed, 204
Production, &c., 1871-96, 163
Punching Machines, 204
Rolls, Plate, 204 Shipbuilding Yard, 164
Naval Guns, Canet, 801. See also 668, 696, 726, 66
Naval Manoeuvres, French, 330, 386, 406, 501. See LETTERS
Naval Pocket-Book, 446
Navigation and River Pollution, 136. See S6, 211
Navigation of the Upper Loire, 405
Navy, Japanese, 402
Navy Programme, Dutch, 742
Negative Resistance, Properties of a Body having a, 28
Neigh Bridge, 172
Neuchatel, Light and Power Station, at Crises, 73
New Brighton Great Wheel, 711
New South Wales and Foreign Competition, 246
New South Wales Mineral Wealth, 503
New South Wales Railway Goods Locomotive (Beyer, Peacock and Co.), 580
New South Wales Railways, 432
New York Conduit (General Electric Company's), 97
New York Electrical Show, 69
New Zealand Timber, 180
Nicholson's Locking Apparatus for Block Signals, 67
Niclausse Boilers of the " Friant," 23
Nippon Yusen Kwaisha, 289
Nitrate of Soda Deposits, Chilian, 543, 633, 667. See LETTER, 624
Nitrates, 592
Nitric Acid for Chlorine Manufacture, 592
Nitrogen in Steel, Fixed, 335, 380
North-Eastern Express Locomotives, 23, 57
North German Lloyd Steamers (Schichau), 735
Norway, Bergen Railway, 89
Norwich and London New Railway, 315
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 13, 45, 79, 112, 153, 173, 208, 242, 277, 316, 39, 368, 399, 42:t, 459, 494, 526, 555, 584, 615, 44, 672, 705, 736, 770, 804
Notes of Experience, 431
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 175, 317
Notes from the North, 14, 48, 80, 112, 154, 174, 08, 242, 276, 317, 338, 368, 396, 428, 460, 494, 26, 556, 584, 614, 644, 672, 704, 736, 770, 804
Notes from South Yorkshire, 13, 48, 80, 112, 153, 73, 208, 242, 277, 316, 338, 369, 398, 427, 459, 94, 526, 556, 582, 614, 643, 672, 704, 736, 770, 03
Notes from the South-West, 14, 48, 81, 113, 154, 74, 208, 243, 277, 316, 339, 369, 398, 428, 461, 95, 527, 557, 585, 615, 645, 673, 714, 736, 770, 04
Notes from the United States, 13, 56, 77, 122, 44, 184, 217, 251, 316, 345, 375, 396, 427, 459, 03, 526, 555, 582, 614, 643, 671, 711, 735, 778
November Weather, 742
Nulton, Ass. Engineer Louis M., on Temperature Entropy Diagrams, 225. See LETTER, 76
Nozzle, Granger's Jet, 722
Oaklade Bridge, 171

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Occupation Bridge, Somerford Keynes, 171
Occupation Bridge, Thames Head Pumping Station, 229
October Weather, 652
Oerlikon Works, 304
"Ohio," Engines of the S.S., 681
"Ohio's" Belleville Boilers, 640. See lama
Oil. See also Petroleum
Oil-Burning Locomotive for Liverpool Docks, 251
Oil Engines. See Engines and Motors
Oil Fuel, 680
Oil Fuel in German Ships, 284
Oil Fuel for Warships, 285
Oil and Gas Engine, Design for, 218
Oil Motor Cycles, De Dion and Bouton, 201, 233
Oil Motor Tricycle, Bolide, 576
Oil, Non-Mineral, 109
Oil Supply, World's, 560
Oil Tank Steamers, Weakness, 32
Old Age, Mechanics', 245. See LErnos
Old Man's Bridge, 41
Open Conduit Tramway System, 137, 197
Open Conduits for Tramways. See Electric Traction
Orbits, Periodic, 549
Orconera Mines, 365
Ordnance. See Guns
Ore, Roasting Iron, 335, 475
Ore Treatment, Silver, 1S9
Ores, Spanish Iron, 335. See also 364, 365
Ores, Sulphur in Iron, 365
Origin of Wire Gauge, 624
Overhead Railway, Liverpool, 422, 473, 811
Oxygen Absorbed by Pyrogallol, 611

Pacific Cable, 53
Packing Lamp Black, 714
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Paints, Inflammable, 213
Paper-Cutting Guillotine, Hydraulic, 62
Paper Mill, Kier Explosion, 640
Paraffin, Cement to Resist, 425, 682
Paris Exhibition, 1900, 51, 148, 530
Paris Express Service, 23
Paris and Lyons Railway Company and Passengers' luggage, 55
Paris, Rue Tolbiac Bridge, 206, 267
Paris Theatrical Exhibition, 89
Parker's Bridge, near Kemble, 229
Parliamentary Schemes, 676, 709, 725
Passengers' Luggage, Railway, 55
Pasteur and Koch's Work in Physics, 394
Patent Case, A Provincial, 217
Patent Record, 33, 63, 97, 131, 159, 191, 227,-259, 95, 323, 353, 383, 413, 443, 419, 511, 541, 571, 99, 629, 659, 689, 723, 753, 791, 821
Pelton Water-Wheel and Power, 145, 319
Pender Memorial, 620
Permanent Way, 218, 274, 535, 564, 565, 622
Peru Coffee Growing, 246
Petroleum Engines. See En3ines and Motors
Petroleum and its Products, 636, 759
Petroleum as a Steam Generator, 680
Phonograph, 446
Photo-Electric Sensitisation of Salts by Cathode Rays, 519
Photographic Shutter, Efficiency, 718
Photographic Surveying, Camera for, 155
Photographs of Flash of Explosions, 592
Photography, Meteorological, 552
Photometric Units, 216, 248
Physical Laboratory, National, 552
Physical Society :
Admittance and Impedance, by Mr. F. Bedell, 8
The Properties of a Body having a Negative
Resistance, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 28
Rules and Subscriptions, 598
Satisfactory Method of Measuring Electrolytic Conductivity by Means of Continuous Currents, by Professor W. Stroud and Mr. J. B. Henderson, 598
Some Experiments with Rontg,en's Radiation, by Professor Threlfall and Mr. Pollock, 656
Absorption of Electrical Waves along Wires by a Terminal Bridge, by Mr. Bryan and Dr. Barton, 657
Diagrams of the Efficiency of the Photographic Shutter, by Captain Abney, 718
Applications of Physics and Mathematics to Seismology, by Dr. C. Chree, 786
Musical Tubes, by Mr. R. T. Rudd, 786
Piftin Rotary Pump (Morris and Bastert), 784
Pig Iron, Sand on, 364, 411
Pig Iron, Tests of, 125
Pins, Bridge, 55
Pipe Connections to Indicators, 65
Pipe Inspection in Japan, 56, 281
Pipe Scandal in Japan, Water, 281
Planets, 549
Planimeter, Goodman's Hatchet, 255. See LErrERs
Planimeter, Hatchet, 308, 425. See also Prytz Planimeter
Planimeter, Improved Stang, 205
Planimeters, 347, 377, 425
Planing Machine, 204
Planing Machine, Vertical and Horizontal (Shanks, Johnstone), 336
Plank Bridge near Somerford Mill, 171
Pneumatic Power in Workshops, 777
Pneumatic Pressure, Tunnelling under, 561, 573
Pneumatic Tyre, 217, 679
Pneumatic Tyre, Akroyd Cellular, 90
Poison from Trades, 213
Pollution of the River Trent, 653
Pollution, Rivers, West Riding, 86, 134, 211
Porcelain and Glass and Röntgen Rays, 491
"Porcupine," H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Palmers), 108, 142
Port Directory, 777
Port of Hamburg, 28
Port of Liverpool, 395
Portable Oil Engines, 3-Horse-Power (Fielding and Platt), 173
Portland Cement, Heat Resisting Properties, 37
Portland Cement, Pure, 650
Potstone, Artificial, 183
Power and Light Electric Station, Hamburg, 41, 6, 108
Power, Manufacture of, 147
Power for Electrically Driven Tools, 502
Power Station, Glasgow Subway, 610, 681, 97
Power Stations in Switzerland. See Electrician4 at Geneva
Power Transmission by Alternating Currents, 95, 28
Power Transmission, Long Distant*, 249
"Powerful," H.M. Cruiser (Naval Construction Company), 403, 433, 469, 499, 532, 535, 553, 691. See LzTrzas
Pownall, Mr. C. A. W., on Construction in Earthquake Countries, 385. See also 1, 73, 61, 200, 481
"Practical Engineer " Pocket-Book, 777
Practice with Science, 687
Pr 13 ess, Hay and Straw Baling (Howard, Bedford),
Press, 1200-Ton Hydraulic Wheel Bossing and Forging (Fielding and Platt), 273
Pressure Balance Gas Exhauster (Gwynne), 287
Preston Accident, Curves and the, 535
Preston, Fatal Derailment at, 508. See 'Arms
Prevention of Fire on Shipboard, 470, 504, 635, 93
Printing, Colour, 455
Profession of Engineering, 588
Propelling Bicycle, Work Expended in, 55
Properties of a Body having a Negative Resistance, 28
Protean Gear for Cycles, 714
Protection, Mississippi River Bank, 89
Prytz Planimeter, 347. See also Good man's Hatchet Planimeter and Planimeter
Pump, Centrifugal, and Electric Motor (Scott and Mountain), 553
Pump Cylinders, Strength of, 65
Pump, Edwards' Air, 221, 276, 309, 348, 377, 407, 70, 593
Pump, Pit tin Rotary (Morris and Basted), 784
Pumps, Feed, Electrically Driven (E. Scott and Mountain), 524
Pumping Engine, Duplex (Bever and Dorling), 555
Pumping Engine, Triple-Expansion (Nordberg Company, Milwaukee), 766, 815
Pumping Plant, St. Louis Water Works, 186
Punching Machine, 204
Purification of Water, Bacterial, 669
Pyrogallol, Absorption of Oxygen by, 611

Quick-Acting Brake, Westinghouse. See Brakes, Continnow
Quick-Firing Field Guns, Canet, 668, 696, 726, 66, 801
Quick-Firing Gun, Canet's Duplex Mounting, 618
Quick-Firing Gun Cartridge, Accident to, 563

Race to the South, 23
Radcot Bridge, 41
Radial Cursor for Slide Rules (Lanchester), 172
Radiation, Solar, 551
Ragman's Lane Bridge, 108
Rail Joints with Large Bearing Surfaces, 622
Rails, Fracture of Steel, 395
Rails (Permanent Way), 218, 274, 535, 564, 565, 622
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railway Accidents and Continuous Brakes, 144, 52, 377
Railway Accidents in 1895, 808
Railway Association, German, 117
Railway, Barsi Light, 560, 612
Railway, Bergen, Norway, 89
Railway, Berlin and its, 797
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railway, Brighton and Rottingdean Electric, 711
Railway Carriages, Dutch 492
Railway Carriages, Wide, 57
Railway, Congo, 592
Railway Construction in United Kingdom, 215 13, 676, 709, 725
Railway Diary, 777
Railway, Electric, Clontarf, 581
Railway Finance, British, 497. See also 529
Railway, Gellivara-Ofoten, 285
Railway, Glasgow Central, Underground Stations, 343, 355. See 410
Railway, Light, at Eaton Hall, 642. See Erratum, 73
Railway, Liverpool Overhead, 422, 473, 811
Railway, Long Distance, Runs, 57
Railway Locomotive, Light (Kitson, Leeds), 612
Railway Museum, A National, 535, 564, 618, 682, 13, 745
Railway Passengers' Luggage, 55
Railway Property, India, 810
Railway Rolling Stock, East Coast, 20. See Letters, Railway Carriages
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 676, 709, 725
Railway Service to Scotland, 710, 745, 780
Railway Signal Locking Apparatus, Nicholson's, 67
Railway Signalling at Liverpool-Street, 697
Railway Signals Worked by Hydraulic Gear, 355
Railway Trailable Facing Point Lock and Detector (Saxby and Farmer), 424
Railway Trains and Speeds, 23, 52, 710, 745
Railways. See also Electric Traction
Railways, Berlin, 445
Railways, Indian, 403
Railways, Japanese, 373
Raliways, Metre-Gauge, 682
Railways, New South Wales, 432
Railways, Scotch, 408
Railways in South Africa, 597
Railways near Tokio, 342
Railways, Transport of Normal-Gauge Wagons on Narrow Gauge, 537
Railways, U.S., 529
Rain Experiments, 533
Rams in Action (British Cruisers), 708
Ramsden, Sir James, 534
Rance, C. E. de, on Hydro-Geology and Hygiene, 23, 257
Range-Finder, Barr and Stroud, Fortress, 701
Rathausen Hydro-Electrio Plant, 304
Ratio of Labour to Total Cost, of Ships, 163
Raworth High-Speed Engine (Brush Company), 37
Ray, Cathode, Spectrum, 563
Rays, ROntgen, &c., 487, 490, 491
Records of Experience, 431
Reed's Water-Tube Boiler, 108, 143
Refrigerating Machine, Kilbourn's, 471
Refraction on the Diurnal Star Movement, Effect of, 549
Refuse Destructor at Leyton (Beaman and Deas), 71
Regularisation of the Danube, 435
Removal of Manhole Covers under Steam Pressure, 118. See LETTER, 252
Reorganisation of the French Marine, 312
Reostene, a New Resistance Metal, 523
Reservoir Construction in Earthquake Countries, 01. See 1, 73, 161, 385
Resistance of Alloys to Wear, 652
Resistance-Box, Self-Testing, 695
Retarders in Boiler Tubes, 140
Retort Beds, Tunnelled, 90
Retort Mouthpiece, Tysoe and Mitchell's, 225
Revenue Steamer for Brazil (Yarrow), 626
Revolution Indicator for Engines (Little's), 722
River Bank Protection, Mississippi, 89
River Pollution, West Riding, 86, 34, 211
River St. Lawrence, Discharge of the, 711
River Steamboats for United States Rivers, 140
River Weser, Correction of the, 284
Rivers, Compensation in, 17, 86, 134, 211
Riveter, Hydraulic, 424
Riveting, Ships',729
Riveting Warships, 728
Road Bridge and Great Western Railway Viaduct, 29
Road Carriage, Thornycroft's Steam, 47. See 111
Road Motor Carriages. See Cars, Motor Roasting Iron Ore, 335, 475
Robinson's Shaft Governor, 458
Rock Excavation at the Danube, 435
Roechling, Mr. H. Alfred, on Bacteria and their
Importance in Nature, 539, 627
Rolling Stock, East Coast, 20. See LivrrEks,
Railway Carriages
Rolls, Plate, 204
Röntgen and Cathode Rays, Theory of, 487
Röntgen and Lenard Rays, 490, 491
Röntgen Rays, Edison and (New York Show), 69
Röntgen Rays, Electrical Conduction through Gases Exposed to, 490
Röntgen Rays, Metals and their Salts, 612
Röntgen Rays and Porcelain and Glass, 491
Röntgen Rays and Sensitised Papers, 491
Riintgen's Radiation, 656
Roof of Boiler House, Glasgow Cable Station, 631
Roof of Power-House, Glasgow Subway, 697
Rope Driving, 167, 426
Rosins, Excrescent, 611
Rotary Pump, Pif tin (Morris and Bastert), 784
Rottingdean and Brighton Sea Railway, 711
Rouen Exhibition, 372
Royal v. Civil Engineers. See 57, 251, 348, 375, 25
Royal Engineer Civil Staff, Examination, 348. See Royal v. Civil Engineers .
Rue Tolhiac Bridge, Paris, 206, 267
Russian Volunteer Fleet, 665, 668, 730, 800
Russian Volunteer Steamer " Kherson," 665, 668, 30, 800
Rysimeter, The Fletcher, 504

Sachs, Mr. Edwin 0. See Theatre Stages
Safety Fuses for Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 37
Safety in Ships, 420. See LETTER, 470
Safety Valve for Domestic Boilers, 185
Sailing Routes on Charts, 552
St. John's Bridge, Lechlade, 41
St. Lawrence, Discharge of the, 711
St. Louis City, 39
St. Louis, Tornado at, 10
St. Louis Water Works, 186
"Salmon," Engines of Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Earle), 524
Salvage of Wrecks, 456
Sand on Pig Iron, 364, 411
Sand Pump Dredger for Mississippi (Maryland Steel Company), 79
Santander Iron Ore Industries, 334. See also 64, 365
"Santa Fe," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 22
Sawing and Ending-up Machine, Combined Flush Side Cold (J. Hill and Son), 467
Scandal in Japan, Water Pipe, 281
Schlick, Herr Otto, on Weakness in Oil Tank Steamers, 32
Science Teaching, 636
Scotch Railway Train, Speeds, 710, 745, 780
Scotch Railways, 408, 676
Scott, Mr. Ernest Kilburn, on Improved Stang Planimeter, 205
Screening Coal, 743
Screw Engines. See Engines
Screw Ferryboats, 797
Screw Gauges, 420, 509
Screwing, Grinding, and Milling Machines, 21
Scutching Machinery, Flax, 151, 320
Sea Walls in Earthquake Countries, 2)1. See , 73, 161, 386
Sea Waves in Japan, The Great, 177. See LETTER, 218
Seismological Observations, 551
Seismology, Application of Mathematics and Physics to. 786
Sensitised Paper and X Rays, 491
Sensitisation of Salts by Cathode Rays, PhotoElectric, 519
September Weather, 467
Septic Tank, Mr. Donald Cameron and the, 406
Sewage Schemes in Parliament, 725
Sewage Septic Tank, 406
Sewage Treatment at Exeter, 256, 406
Shaft Governors (Robinson and Auden), 458
Shafts, Microscopic Internal Flaws in Steel, 35, 8, 118
Shanks, Johnstone, Vertical and Horizontal Planing Machine, 336
Shearing Machine (Schulz and Goebel, Vienna), 73
Shears, Hot Bloom Guillotine, at Mossend Works (Grant, Ritchie, and Co., Kilmarnock), 123
Sheerlegs, 125-Ton, 800
Ship Route Lights, Atlantic, 604, 635, 624
Shipboard, Prevention of Fire on, 470, 504, 636, 93 ,
Shipbuilding. See Naval Construction at Barrow
Shipbuilding, Migration of, 374. See also 401
Shipbuilding Returns, Lloyd's, 19
Shipbuilding and Shipping- Boom, 592
Shipbuilding Trade (Lloyd's Returns), 437
Ship Building in 1896, War-, 758, 811
Shipping, British and Foreign (Manning), 19
Shipping Coal, Machinery, Cleveland, Ohio, 241
Shipping Directory, 777
Shipping Competition in the East and West, 463
Shipping of Hamburg, 28
Shipping, Japanese, 121, 289
Shipping Losses, 281
Shipping Subsidies, Foreign, 619
Shipping, United States, 120
Ships, Electricity on, 60, 702
Ship's Helm Indicator and Telegraph, Fiske's, 02
Ships' Riveting, 728
Ships, Safety in, 420. See LETTER, 470
Shipwreck Raising, 456
Shipyard Tools. See Naval Construction Company's Works
Shutter, Efficiency of Photographic, 718
Siemens Conduit at Budapest, 137
Signal, Trailable Facing Point Look and Detector (Saxby and Farmer), 421
Signals, Locking Apparatus (Nicholson's), 367
Signals Worked by Hydraulic Gear, 355
Signalling Arrangements at Liverpool - Street Station, 697
Sihl, Electricity Works on the, 305
Silver Mines, Broken Hill, 189
Slide Rule, 348
Slide Rules, Radial Cursor (Lanchester), 172
Slide Rules for Special Calculations, 655, 681
Slot-Drilling Machine, Harrison's, 59
Smith, Mr. George, on Broken Hill Consols Mines, 89
Smithfield Club Show, 740
Smith's Conduit System at Blackpool, 137
Smoke Abatement, 178, 252. See LETTERS
"Snapper," Engines of Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Earle), 524
Snelus, Mr. George J., on Walrand -Legenisel Process, 442. See 335
Snowdon Mountain Tramroad, 345
Society of Arts: Mining at Great Depths, by Mr. Bennett H. Brough, 777
Solar Radiation, 551
Solid-Drawn Boiler Tubes, 745, 780
South Africa, 424
South Africa, Notes from, 597
South-Eastern Railway Accident, 820
Southgate Company, 10-Ton Locomotive Steam Crane, 337
Spanish Iron Industry, 334. See also 364, 365
Spanish Iron Ore, 335. See also 364, 365
Spanish Manganese Ore Deposits, 335
"Spartiate," H.M.S., 468
Spectroscopic Measurement of the Velocity of Planets, 549
Speed Control in Modern Steamers, 377
Speed and Displacement in Racing Yachts, 375, 07
Speeds of Railway Trains, 23, 52, 710, 745
"Speedy," Steam Yacht (Ramage and Ferguson, Leith), 241
Sprague's Electric Elevator, 69
Spring Tables, 140
Spring, Mr. F. J. E., on Kistna Bridge, East Coast Railway, 7, 101
Stang Planimeter, Improved, 205, 347, 377, 425
Stanley Cycle Show, 679. See LErrzfts, Protean Gear
Stars, Movements of, 549
Station Fittings, Electric, 11
Station Signalling Arrangements, Liverpool Street, 697
Stationary Steam Engines, 713
Stations, Underground, Glasgow Central Railway, 33, 355. See 410
Statistics of Warship Building in 1896, 758
Steam Boiler Efficiency, 40
Steam Boiler Legislation, 773, 784. See LETTER, 13
Steam Crane, 2-Ton Locomotive (Bedford Company), 108
Steam Motor Carriages, De Dion and Bouton, 01, 233
Steam Road Carriage, Thornycroft's, 47. See 11
Steam Stop Valve, Quick-Acting, 471
Steam, Superheated, 222
Steam Turbine Alternator (Parsons), 625
Steam Yacht "Speedy " (Ramage and Ferguson, Leith), 241
Steamboats for Western Rivers in United States, 40
Steamer " Dunvegan Castle " (Fairfield Company), 253. 'See LETTER, 276
Steamer Engines, Unusual Corrosion in, 157, 166
Steamer " Kherson," Russian Volunteer Fleet (Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 665, 668, 730, 800
Steamer " Trunkby" (Ropner), 706
Steamer, Twin-Screw Revenue, for Brazil (Yarrow), 526
Steamers, Atlantic Mail, 418, 425. See LETTERS
Steamers, Electricity on, 60, 702
Steamers, Ferryboats, 797
Steamers, North German Lloyd (Schichau), 735
Steamers, Safety in, 420. See LETTER, 470
Steamers, Speed Control in Modern, 377
Steamers, Weakness in Oil Tank, 32
Steamship Company, New Japanese, 121
Steel, Bessemer Process, History, 222, 749
Steel Flywheels, 190
Steel Forgings, Hollow, 40
Steel Guillotine Shears at Mossend Works (Grant, Ritchie, and Co., Kilmarnock), 123
Steel, Hard, 681, 713, 745, 779, 812
Steel, Microscopic Internal Flaws in, 36, 68, 118
Steel, Nitrogen in, 335, 280
Steel Rails, Fracture of, 395
Steelmaking, Bessemer Process, 222, 749
Steelmaking by Walrand-Legenisel Process, 335, 42
Steering Telegraph, Fiske's Helm Indicator and,
Stelfox, Mr. James, on Belfast Gas Works, 170, 93
Stellar Systems, Evolution of, 549
Stern-Wheel Steamers in United States Rivers, 40
Stiffening Girders, Suspension Bridges, 196, 234. See .ErratuM, 286
Still, Logwood, Explosion of a, 785
Stockholm Exhibition, 778
Stokers, Mechanical, 140
Stone, Artificial, 183
Storage Batteries as Applied to Traction Purposes, 485, 544
Stoves in Foundries, 297
Straits Settlements, Timbers in the, 290
Straw, Carbohydrates of Barley, 611
Straw and Hay Baling Press (Howard, Bedford) 3
Stream Flow in Open Channels, 618, 632
Street Lighting by Electricity, 452
Strength of Cast Iron, 40
Strength of Marine Boilers, 746
Strength of Thin Cylinders, 77, 109
Strength of Timber, 311
Stress on Timber, 311
Stresses, Structures and, 631
Stresses, Suspension Bridges, 196, 234. See Erratum, 286
Strike of Fitters and Turners at Hull, 469
Strike at Gwynne's Works, 535
Strike against Non-Union Men, 285, 345
Stroh, A., on Gauges for Verifying Screws, 509
Stroud and Barr Fortress Range-Finder, 701
Structural Iron at High Temperature, Tests, 374
Structures and Stresses, 681
Structures, Theory of Modern Frame, 22
Submarine Cables, Electrical Disturbances in, 22
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 183
Submarine Telegraph Memorial, 620
Subsidised Exhibitors, 51
Subsidies, Foreign Shipping, 619
Subway, Glasgow, 573, 610, 631. See also cable Traction, 573
Sulphur in Iron Ores, 365
Summer Train Services, 52, 710, 745
Sun Prints. See Blue Prints
Superheated Steam, 222
Supply of Manganese, 502
Supply, Water,116
Surface Contact System for Tramways, 264
Surveying Camera, Bridges-Lee (Hicks, London), 55
Surveying Chains, Temperature Adjustment, 287
Suspension Bridges, 196, 234, 652. See Erratum, 86
Suspension Bridges, Large-Span Railway, 744
Sutherland, Mr. James, on Larne Alumina Factory, 170, 291
Swiss Electric Works. See Electricians at Geneva
Switch, Two-Way Tumbler, 251
Sweden, Mining in, 653
"Swordfish," H.M. Torpedo - Boat Destroyer (Armstrong), 122

Table, Laughlin-Hough Drawing Office, 185
Table Mountain Wire Ropeway, 305
Tank Steamers, Weakness in, 32
Tank, Water, Glasgow Cable Station, 631
Technical College. See also Laboratory
Technical Education, 341, 405, 470, 587, 623, 682, 45, 813
Technical Education in Japan, 84
Technical Laboratory, Yorkshire College, 262, 27, 390, 449
Telegraph, Submarine, Memorial, 620
Telegraph Wire Safety Fuse, 437
Telegraphy, Australasian, 53
Telegraphy without Wires, 593
Telephone Disturbances due to Strong Electric Currents, 215
Telephone Trunk Lines in Great Britain, 657, 85
Telephone Wire Safety Fuse, 437
Telephones in Japan,405
Temperature Adjustment for Surveying Chains,
Temperature Entropy Diagrams, 225
Temperature Research, Low, 612
Test of Turret for U.S. Battleship "Massachusetts," 762
Testing Machine, Buokton, at Yorkshire College, Leeds, 262, 327 390, 449
Tests of Hose Pipes, 504
Tests of Pig Iron, 125
Tests of Structural Iron at High Temperatures. 74
Tests of Turbo-Alternator (Parsons), 625

Thames Bridges :

Ashton Keynes Bridges, 171
Bourne End Bridge, 336
Bridge under the Fosseway at Thames Head, 29
Castle Eaton Bridge, 44
Cricklade Bridge, 105
Cricklade Plank Bridge, 105
Eaton Weir and Footbridge, 41
Eight-Acre Copse Bridge, 171
Eisey Bridge, 105
Ewen Bridge, 172
Hannington Bridge, 41
Inglesham Bridge, 41
Lechlade Bridge, 41
Manor House Bridge,Ashton Keynes, 171
Midland and South-Western Junction Viaduct, 08
Neigh Bridge, 172
Oaklade Bridge, 171
Occupation Bridge, Somerford Keynes, 171
Occupation Bridge, Thames Head Pumping Station, 229
Old Man's Bridge, 41
Parker's Bridge, near Kemble, 229
Plank Bridge near Somerford Mill, 171
Radeot Bridge, 41
Ragman's Lane Bridge, 108
Road Bridge and Great Western Railway Viaduct, 229
St. John's Bridge, Lechlade, 41
Water Eaton Bridge, 105
Waterhay Bridge, 108
Wilts and Berks Canal Aqueducts, 105

Theatre Stages, Modern :

Amsterdam Theatre, 325
"Asphaleia" Stages, 387, 513, 601, 604
Brown's Hydraulic Mechanism for Edinburgh Theatre, 793
Budapest " Asplialeia" Stage, 601, 604
Chidago Auditorium, " Asphaleia " Stage, 601
D'Oyly Carte's English Opera House, 3, 4, 5, 6
English Opera House, 3, 4, 5, 6
Evian Theatre, 193
Halle Stage (Germany), 513
Hofburg " Theatre, Vienna, 661, 755, 793
Hydraulic Mechanism (Brown), 793
Iron Stages, 325, 387, 613, 601, 604
Iron and Wood Stages, Sinai!, 133, 193, 230
Monte Carlo Theatre, 196
Palace of Varieties, London, '3, 4, 5, 6 'lanat's French Type, 193
Rheims Theatre, 66
Salzburg Theatres 133
Schwerin Theatre, 230
Tilsit Theatre, 133
Vienna, " Ilof burg " Theatre, 661, 755, 793

Theatrical Exhibition in Paris, 89
Thermal Conductivity of Sheet Copper, 564, 624
Thermal Units, 548, 623. See LETTERS
Thermometry, Researches in Absolute Mercurial, 49
Thermophone, Wiborgh's, 316
Thorenberg Hydro-Electric Plant, 304
Thornycroft's steam Road Carriage, 47. See 111
Tides, Wind and Atmospheric Pressure, Effects on, 417
Timber, New Zealand, 180
Timber Structures, 311
Timbers in the Straits Settlements, 290
Tipping Coal, 743
Tipping Coal, Machinery, Cleveland, Ohio, 241
"Titan " Mississippi River Towboat, 140
Tokio Railways, 342
Tolbiac, Rue, Bridge, Paris, 206, 267
Tools Driven by Pneumatic Power, 777
Tools, Electrically Driven, 502
Tools, Machine, for Cycle Making, 704, 733, 781
Tools, United States Machine, 774
Top pinning, Algebraical Gyrostat Curves, 92
Tornado at St. Louis, 10
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Torpedo Defence of Battleships, 565
Tower Bridge, 418, 621
Traction. See Electric Traction
Traction, Cable. See Cable Traction, 573, 610
Traction, Cost of Various Systems, 474
Traction Engines, 506, 740
Traction Engines and Locomotives, Oil (Hornsby), 06
Trade in China, 531, 562, 617
Trade in India, 403
Trade of Japan, Recent, 707, 807
Trade, Migration of, 374, 401, 425, 469, 503
Trade Unions and Demarcation of Work, 115, 17
Trades, Dangerous, 213
Trades Union Congress, 371
Trailable Facing Point Lock and Detector (Saxby and Farmer), 424
Train Resistance, 682
Train Services, Summer, 52, 700, 745
Train in the World, Fastest, 710. See LETTERS, Railway Service to Scotland
Train Speeds, 23, 710, 745, 780
Training of Apprentices (French), 85
Tramcar Truck, Electric, 379
Tramway, Bristol Electric, 553, 739
Tramway, Clontarf Electric, 581
Tramway Results, Glasgow Corporation, 23
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 725
Tramways. See Electric Traction
Tramways, Berlin, 445
Tramways, Hamburg, Electric, 44, 76, 108
Tramways, London, 741
Tramways in Switzerland. See Electricians at Geneva
Transatlantic Steaming, 23
Transmission, 788
Transmission of Heat through Metal Cylinders, 90, 788
Transmission of Power by Alternate Currents, 95, 28
Transmission of Power, Long Distance, 249
Transport of Normal Gauge Wagons on Narrow Gauge Lines, 537
Traverse Tables, Boileau's, 713
Treatment of Sewage at Exeter, 266
Trent, Pollution of the River, 653
Trials of 'H.M.S. " Powerful," 403, 433, 469, 499, 32, 535, 5531.691. See LErrERs
Trials of Triple-Expansion Pumping Engines, 816
Tricycles. See Cycles
Triple-Expansion. See Engine
Truck for Electric Tramcar, 379
Trunk Line System in Great Britain, Telephone, 57, 685
"Trunkby," Steamer (Ropner), 706
Tube Works, Cycle (Coventry), 712
Tubes, Boiler, 745, 780
Tubes, Boiler, and Retarders, 140
Tubes, Musical, 787
Tug Steamers in the United States Rivers, 140
Tumbler Switch, Two-Way, 251
Tunnel, Hudson River, 309, 347
Tunnelled Retort Beds, 90
Tunnelling by Pneumatic Shield, 561, 573
Turbo-Alternator Tests (Parsons), 625
Turbo-Electric Generators for Alkali Works (Parsons), 493
Turners and Fitters' Strike at Hull, 469
Turning Lathes (Niles Tool Works, Ohio), 639
Turret for United States Battleship, Tests of, 63
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Twynam, T., and Harbord, F. W., on Fixed Nitrogen in Steel, 380 See 335
Tyre, Akroyd Cellular Pneumatic, 90
Tyre, Pneumatic, 217
Tyres for Cycles, 679
Tysoe and Mitchell's Retort Mouthpiece, 225

Underground Cables in the United States, 183
Underground Station, Glasgow Central Railway, 43, 355. See 410
Uniform Flow in Open Channels, 518, 632. See Erratum, vol. lxiii., page 21
United Kingdom Railway Construction, 216, 313
United Service Institution. Royal : Automatic Firearms, by Mr. Hiram S. Maxim, 76
United States Battleship " Massachusetts," Test of Turret, 763
United States Battleships, " Alabama" Class, 62
United States, Brewing in the, 181
United States Ferryboats, 797
United States Fireboats, 729
United States Machine Tools, 774
United States Railways, 529
United States Shipping, 120
United States Underground Cables, 183
Units, Photometric and Magnetic, 216, 248
Units, Thermal, 548, 623
Universal High-Speed Engine (Brush Co.), 337
Unwholesome Trades, 213

Val de Travers Hydro-Electric Installation, 272
Valve Gear, Triple-Expansion Pumping Engine (Nordberg Company, Milwaukee), 766, 815
Valve, Lewis' Water-Cooled Blast, 364, 505
Valve, Quick-Acting Stop, 471
Valve Reseating Tool, Brookes', 287
Valve, Spherical Balanced, 452, 568
Valves, Safety, for Domestic Boilers, 185
Velocity of Planets, Spectroscopic Measurement, 49
Ventilating Fan, Electrically Driven (Smit, Holland), 458. See LErrns, Fans, &c.
Ventilation, Beedham's Air Extractor, 683
Venturi Water Meter, 207
"Venus," H.M. Cruiser (Fairfield Co), 287, 522
Verandah at Boiler House, Glasgow Cable Station, 631
Verein Deutscher Eisenbahn - Verwaltungen, 17
Vevey Electric Tramway 272
Vienna Water Supply, 54
Viscaya Iron and Steel Works, 365

Wage Relation to Cost of Ships, 163
Wagon Transport on Narrow-Gauge Lines, Standard Gauge, 537
Waldo, Dr. Leonard, on New York Electrical Show, 69
Walrand-Legenisel Process, 335, 442
Warship Design, 276

Warships :

Argentine Armoured Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 122
Argentine Cruiser "Garibaldi" (Ansaldo, Italy), 45
Argentine Torpedo - Boat Destroyer " Entre Rios " (Yarrow), 424
Building in 1896, 758
Cellulose for United States Warship Protection, 729
Chilian Torpedo - Boat Destroyer " Capitan Orella " (Laird), 492
Classification of Warships, 30
Electricity on Board Warships, 60
French Cruiser " Jaureguiberry " (Forges et
Chantiers Company, Havre), 26. See LETTERS
French Ships in the Manoeuvres, 330, 386, 501. See LETTERS
Greek Ships, (Janet Naval Guns for, 801
H.M. Battleships (" Canopus" Class), 152
H.M. Destroyer " Swordfish " (Armstrong), 122
H.M. New Second-Class Cruisers, 759
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Model Experiments (Barrow), 165
H.M. Torpedo - Boat Destroyer " Swordfish" and the Yarrow Boiler, 122
H.M. Torpedo - Boat Destroyers " Janus," "Lightning," and " Porcupine " (Palmers), 08, 142
H.M. Torpedo - Boat Destroyers " Salmon " and " Snapper " (Earle), 524
H.M.S. " Blake," Boiler Accident in, 464. See LETTERS
H.M.S. " Caesar," Whitworth Gun Mount'ng, 67
H.M.S. " Diadem" (Fairfield Company), 538
H.M.S. " Powerful ' (Naval Construction and Armaments Company, Limited), 403, 433, 99, 532, 553, 691. See LErrEits
H.M.S. "Venus" (Fairfield Company), 287
H.M.SS. Built in 1896, 758
H.M.SS. " Venus " and " Diana " (Engines), Fairfield Company, 552
H.M.SS. " Ariadne," " Amphitrite," " Argonaut," " Spartiate " Class (New Cruisers), 68
H.M.SS. " Furious," " Gladiator," " Vindictive," and " Arrogant' (Cruisers with Rams), 08
Naval Pocket-Book, 446
Oil Fuel in German Ships, 284
Rains in Action (British Cruisers), 703
Riveting Warships, 728
Russian Volunteer Steamer " Kherson," 665, 68, 730, 800
Turret for United States Battleship, Tests of,, 63
United States Battleship, " Alabama " Class, 62

Washington Tramway Conduit, Love's, 137
Washington Conduit Road (Metropolitan Company), 197
Waste of Shipping (Lloyd's Returns), 281
Watches and Chronographs, 57
Watches, Chronograph (S. Smith and Sons, London), 25. See LETTERS
Wattless Currents, 248
Water, Bacterial Purification of, 669
Water-Cooled Blast Valve, 364, 505
Water Eaton Bridge, 105
Water Famine, East End, 280, 345
Water Flow in Open Channels, 518, 632
Water, Heat of, 549
Water Meter, Venturi, 207
Water Pipe Scandal in Japan, 281
Water Power, 145
Water Power. See Electricians at Geneva
Water Supply, 116
Water Supply and Hygiene, 223, 257
Water Supply, Leeds, 539
Water Supply, London, 619
Water Supply of Vienna, 54
Water Towers in Earthquake Countries, 201 See 1, 73, 161, 385
Water-Tube Boiler Explosions, 23
Water-Tube Boiler Feed Apparatus, Yarrow's, 18
Water-Tube Boiler, Jones's, 555, 594
Water-Tube Boiler, Reed's, 108, 143
Water-Tube Boilers, Belleville, 640, 668
Water-Tube Boilers (Belleville) in H.M.S." Powerful," 403. See 433, 499, 532, 553, 691
Water - Tube Boilers, Belleville, in S.S. "Kherson," 800
Water-Tube Boilers, Belleville, of the "Ohio," 40. See LETTERS
Water-Tube Boilers and Demarcation of Work, 15, 217
Water-Tube Boilers and Feed Distribution (Yarrow), 153. See Limnos
Water-Tube Boiler (Yarrow's) and Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 122
Water-Wheel with Cut-off Regulating Hood, 319
Water Works Engineers, British Association of, 10, 116
Water Works, Liverpool, 418
Water Works, St. Louis, 186
Waterhay Bridge, 108
Watkin, Col., on Shadow Photographs of Screws, 09
Waves in Japan, The Great Sea, 177. See LETTER 18
Weakness in Tank Steamers, 32
Weather, 53, 180, 314, 467, 652, 742
Webb's Oil-Burning Locomotive for Liverpool Docks, 251
Wedding, Professor H., on Roasting Iron Ores, 475. See 335
Weighing Apparatus, A Novel Form, 218, 348, 377
Well Sinking, Kistna Bridge, 101. See 7
Weser, Correction of the River, 284
West Australian Progress (Aladdin's Lamp), 376
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Action of Blast in Cupolas, 156
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Tests of Pig Iron, 125
West Riding Rivers Pollution, 86, 134, 211
Western Australia Harbour Improvements, 415, 82
Westinghouse Electric Motor for Car, 219
Westinghouse Quick-Acting Brakes. See Brakes, Continuous
Westinghouse Railway Generators, 306
Wheatstone Bridge, A Direct-Reading, 523
Wheel, Another Great, 711
Wheel Bossing and Forging Press, Hydraulic 200-Ton (Fielding and Platt), 273
Wheel, Water-Power, 145, 319
Wheels, Steel Fly-, 190
Whitworth Gun Mounting for H.M.S. "Caesar,' 67
Wiborgh's Thermophone, 315
Willard's Launch Engine, 655
"William Stone," United States Sternwheel Tow Steamer, 140
Wilts and Berks Canal Aqueducts, 105
Wind and Atmospheric Pressure, Effects on Tides, 417
Wind Velocities and Beaufort's Scale, 778
Winter Climate in Egypt, 778
Wire Gauges, The Origin of, 624
Wiring for Electric Tramways, 11
Wiring, Underground, in United States, 183
Wooden Structures, 311
Work, Demarcation of, 115, 217
Work Expended in Bicycle Propulsion, 55

Works :

Altos Hornos Iron Works, Spain, 364
Alumina Factory at Larne, 170, 291
Belfast Gas Works, 170, 293
Cycle Tube Works (Coventry), 712
Electricity Works in Germany, 121
Flax Works in Belfast, See 151, 320
Naval Construction Company's Works at
Barrow, 163, 204, 269, 301, 361
Oerlikon Works, 304
Orconera Mines, 365
Viscaya Iron and Steel Works, 365

Works Committee of the London County Council, 592, 647, 676
Wreck of the " Birkenhead," 276
Wreck Raising, 456
Wynau Hydro-Electric Plant, 273

X Rays. See Rontgen Rays

Yacht Speeds and Displacements, 375, 407
Yacht " Speedy," Steam (Ramage and Ferguson, Leith), 241
Yarrow Boiler and Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 22
Yarrow's Feed Distribution for Water - Tube Boilers, 153, 218. See LwrrERs
Yarrow's Removal from England, 374. See also 01
Year-Books, 777
Yorkshire College Laboratory, Leeds, 262, 327, 90, 449
Yorkshire College, Leeds, Engineering Department, 262,327, 390, 449
Yorkshire RA,ers Pollution, 86, 134, 211

Zero, The Absolute, 620
Zinc, Electrolytic Deposition of, 269
Zurich Hydro-Electric Plant, 304
Zurichberg Electric Tram, 269

Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Engineering 1896 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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