Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

Accidents, Railway:

Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Accident, 761
Buffer-Stop Collision, Clippens, 205
Collision at Barassie Junction, 515
Collision at Bisley Station, 702
Collision at Dunbar, East, 515
Collision, Fatal, Lock and Block Wanted, Falkirk, 192
Collision at Penistone, Fatal, 54
Collision at Ryhope, 285
Collision at St. John’s Station, Fatal, 672
Collision at Tiverton Junction, Great Western Railway, 678
Collision with Vehicle Left on Main Line at Haughton, 128
Collision, Woodgrange Park, 222
Derailment and Collision at Border Union
Junction, Gretna, 499
Derailment at Luffenham, 286
Derailment near Tavistock, 643
“Fogging” Slotted Distant Signals near Chelmsford, 128
Overrunning Signals (Hatfield and King’s Cross), 691
Runaway Train near Achterneed Station on Highland Railway, 695
Runaway Train, Whitburn, 192
Spanish Line Derailment, 460
Subsidence Viaduct at Porthkerry, 735

Acetylene, 735
Acetylene, Calcium Carbide and, 333
Acetylene Exhibition in Berlin, 120
Acetylene Gas Exhibition, 755
Africa, Notes from South, 560
Age on Engineers, Effect of, 54
Agricultural Implements. See Agricultural Show

Agricultural Show, Royal: 783

Baling Presses, Hay, 787
Cars, Trials of Motor, 766
Chaff-Cutting Machine, 791
Dairy, 790
Engines, Gas and Oil, 786
Engines, Steam, 783
Gas Engines, 786
Hay and Straw Baling and Wiring Presses, 787 Implements, 787
Motor Van Trials, 766
Oil Engines, 786
Steam Engines, 783
Traction Engine, 783

Aide-Memoire de 1’Officier de Marine, de Edouard Durassier, 295
Air Compressors, 552
Air Compressor, Taylor Hydraulic, 563. See 640
Air Compressors and Exhausters, Koster’s, 301
Air Injector, 508
Air, Liquefaction of, 377, 396, 474, 508, 541, 542, 573, 607, 795
Air, Liquid, Linde’s Process for Producing, 310. See Letters
Air Pumps, 495
“ Akashi,” Japanese Cruiser, 43
“Albion,” H.M.S. (Thames Company), 799
Alley, The Late Stephen, 409
Alternate-Current Motors, Electric, 248
Alternating Current Windings, 324
Aluminium Castings, 542
Aluminium as an Electrical Conductor, 278
Aluminium, Melting Point of, 312. See also 56, 75, 122, 153, 186
A. S. E. and Marine Engineers, 250
America. See United States
American Society of Civil Engineers, New Buildings, 530. See 670
Ammonia Absorption, RefrigeratingMachine, 236
Ammunition Works, Kynoch’s, 270
Anchors and Chains, 591
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, on Microscopical Observations of Steel Rails, 7,201, 451, 617
Annuals and Year-Books, 104, 295
Anticyclonic Systems and their Movements, 507
Antimony, Influence on Cold Shortness of Brass, 490
Arbitration and Conciliation, 49
Archangel-Vologda Railway, 53
Argentine Railways, 662
Armature Windings, 227, 323
Armour, Hardening, 770
Armour-Plate Department, Creusot Works, 457, 487, 524, 557, 587. See 531
Armour-Plate Mills, Creusot, 717
Armour-Plate Tests, Creusot, 587
Armour-Plate Supply in Britain, 795
Artesian Well Boring, 506
Artillery. See Guns
Astronomical Exhibits at Royal Society Soiree, 603, 733 . . ,
“ Attila,” Burning of the S.S., 55, 158
Atlantic Passengers, 149
Attenuation of Electric Waves along a Line of Negligible Leakage, 773
Audition, Max Meyer’s Theory of, 773
Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, 247
Austro-Hungarian Warship Electrical Equipment, 653
Automobile Fiasco, 75. See also Cars, Motor
Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Pocket-Book of Automotive Formula? and Commercial Intelligence for 1898, 105
Auxiliary Engines on Ships, 156
Auxiliary Machinery Coal Consumption, 444
Ayrton, Professor W. E.,on the Determination of the Ohm, 29

Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage, 82, 638
Balanced Locomotive, A, 54, 55, 7o, 122, 152, loo, 249, 312, 573 .
Balancing Marine Engines, Diagrams, 4zv
Baldwin’s Locomotives for China, 13, 58o
Baldwin’s Locomotives for Japan, 301
Baling Presses, Hay, 787
Balloons, 524
Baltic and Black Sea Canal, 248
Barrow Shipbuilding, 27, 53 .
Bascule Bridge across the Clyde. Proposed, 184
Basic Refined Steel on the Continent, 777
Battleships. See Warships
Bays and Rivers, Dockising, 22
Beaman and Deas’ Refuse Destructor, 150
Beams, Wooden, 492
Bearings for Rolls, Westley’s, 286
Belgian Law Procedure, 247
Belgium, Coal and Iron in, 95, 254
Belleville Boilers in “ Diadem,” 444
Belpaire Boiler, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 431
Belt, Bridging the Little, 408
Bending Machine, Hydraulic Plate, 659
Berlin Acetylene Exhibition, 120
Berly’s Universal Electrical Directory, 297
Bertrand-Thiel Process, 392
Bessemer Converter, Tropenas, 43
Bessemer, the Late Sir Henry, 341
Bessemer Plant, Creusot, 200
Bicycles, Tests of, 607
Bicycles. See Cycles
Bicycles, Efficiency of, 247
Bird’s Duplex Planing Tool, 673. See Erratum, 736
“Black Prince,” London and North-Western Railway Locomotive, 239
Black Sea and Baltic Canal, 248
Blake Air Pumps, 495
Blanton Fastening, 238
Blast-Furnace Department, Creusot, 137,169
Blast-Furnace Gases for Power Production, 570, 591, 743
Blast-Furnace, Limestone in the, 594, 775, 803
Blast-Furnaces in the United States, 381, 397, 481
Blasting of Rock, by Messrs. Albert W. Daw and Zacharias W. Daw, 720
Blooming Mills, Creusot, 683, 717, 749
Boats, Submarine, 457
Boiler, Belpaire, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 431
Boiler Diagrams, Wingfield’s Straight Line, 508, 607
Boiler Efficiency Diagrams, 428, 411
Boiler Explosion at Devonport Dockyard, 223
Boiler Explosion at Wednesbury, 613
Boiler Explosions Act, Working of, 182
Boiler Explosion near Walsall, 614
Boiler, Mudd’s Marine, 11
Boiler Setting, 155
Boiler-Shell Drilling Machine (Hulse), 755
Boiler Tests, Classification of, 70
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boilers
Boilers, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 649
Boilers, The Care of, 211. See Letters, Corrosion of Boilers
Boilers, Corrosion and Scale in, 248, 272
Books Received, 7, 64,105, 168, 233,265, 325, 360, 393, 524, 556, 587, 683
Boring Shafts, andc., 553
Boring, Well, 506
Boyer Hammer, 251
Boys’ Phase Reversal and Silver Zone Plates, 603
Brake Shoe, Diamond “S,” 57
Brass, Casting and Rolling, 490
Brass, Influence of Antimony on Cold Shortness of, 490
Brassey, Lord, on Co-operative Production, 731
Brassey’s “ Annual,” 651
Brazed Copper Steam Pipes, 468
Breech Mechanism of Vickers’ Guns, 622
Bricks, Tests for Paving, 311
Brick Works, Perreuil, 103
Brickwork, Strength of, 121
Bridge, Bascule, Across the Clyde, 181
Bridge Design, Errors in, 747
Bridge at Niagara, New Arch, 606
Bridge, Vauxhall, 540
Bridging the Little Belt, 408
Brighton Ice Rink, 659
Britain, Japanese Trade with, 168
British Columbia Year-Book, 296
British Columbia, Railway Extension in, 668
British and German Trade, 502

British Iron Trade Association :

On the Utilisation of Consular Services in the Interests of British Trade and Commerce by Sir Edward H. Carbutt, Bart., 569
On the Position and Prospects of the Tin-Plate Industry, by Sir John J. Jenkins, M.P 569 ’ ’
On Commercial Methods of Utilising Blast-Furnace Gases for Power Production, and their Results on the Pig-Iron Industry bv Mr. B. H. Thwaite, 570 3
Report on British Steamship Freights and Shipping Conferences, and their Effects on the British Iron and Steel Industries, by Mr J. Stephen Jeans, 570
British Railway Progress, 610, 644, 675, 707
British Shipping, Lloyd’s Returns, 279
British Trade in the Far East, 86
Brooks “Mastodon” Locomotive, 74 140
Brown Coal-Handling Plant, 74 ’
Brussels Exhibition (Minerals and Metals), 357 552, 682
Brussels Exhibition, Social Economy Exhibits at 1 ..n ’
Bucknill, Lieut.-Colonel, on the
United States Battleship Maine, o , 716, 752, 782
Building, Chicago, Fisher, /81 Engineers,
Buildings of American Society of CimI E g 530. See 670
Buildings, Dustless, 173
Bulkhead Door Indicator, /21
Bunge’s Plansifter, 25

Cahall Water-Tube Boiler, 315
Calais and Paris Railway Profile, <24. See 757,
Calcium Carbide and Acetylene, 120, 333, 735,755
Calculus, Thermodynamics without tne, 100
Calendars, 105
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 10o
Campbell’s Prismatic Piston Valve, 123
Canada, Grand Trunk Railway of, 50/
Canada, Progress of, 277 . . .
Canadian Pacific Extension at British Columbia,
Canadian Pacific Railway, Land-slides, 29
Canal, Black Sea and Baltic, 248
Canal in Japan, Proposed Large, 800
Canal from United States Lakes to Atlantic, 309
Cape Electric Works, Belpaire Boiler, 421
Capital and Labour, 14
Capstan and Windlass (Napier Brothers, Glasgow), 591
Car, Daimler Motor, 766
Car, Lancashire Steam Motor, 629, 766
Car, Lifu Motor, 669. See 666
Car, Roots and Venables Motor, 766
Car, Saunderson Motor, 766
Car, Thornycroft Steam Lurry, 725, 763
Cars, Automobile, 75
Cars, Motor, 168, 736
Cars, Motor, Cost of Transport, 184
Cars, Motor, Trials at Birmingham, 766
Cars, Motor, Trials at Liverpool, 628, 666, 669,
685. See 766
Cars, Six-Wheeled Motor, 757
Cars, Steam Road, 245
Carbonic Acid Gas in India, Storage of Compressed, 438
Cardew, Major P., on Electric Tramways, 638
Cargo Loading Machinery, 560
Carriage, Motor. See Cars, Motor
Carriages (Historical), Midland Railway, 707
Cartridge Works, Kynoch’s, 270
Caspian Sea, Glauber Salt in the, 216
Cast Iron, Action of Sea Water on, 311
Cast Iron under Impact, 155
Cast Steel, 66
Casting and Rolling Brass, 490
Castings, Steel, at Creusot, 360
Cathode Rays, Heating Effects of, 670
Cavalry Guns, Maxim, 329
Cavitation in Screw Propulsion, 603
Cement. See Portland Cement
Cements, Calcareous Hydraulic, Hardening Process, 159
Central Station, Glasgow Electric, 794
Central Station, Central London Railway, 259, 432
Centrifugal Governors, 736
Centrifugal Pumps, " Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse,” 495

Central London Railway: 214, 259, 329, 432, 485

Central Station, 259, 432
Converters and Transformers (British Thomson-Houston Company), 259
Current Curves, 259
Electric Locomotives, 236
Electric Tunnel Excavating Machine, 485
Generating Station, 259, 432
Locomotives, Electric, 236, 427
Shield for Tunnelling, 329, 485
Speed Acceleration Curves, 259
Tunnel Excavating Machine, 485
Tunnelling, 329, 485
Winding Machine (Wilson, Liverpool), 485

Chaff-Cutting Machines, 791
Chain Gear, Kenolds’, 542
C1Grossea" 591AnChOrS’ “Kaiser der
Channel Steamers, French, 792
Channels through Sandy Estuaries, 205
Channels for Surface Drainage, Dimensions of
Charging Machines for Iron Ore, 397
Chemical Electric Treatment of Gold Ores, 180
Chemical Industry in Russia, 701
Chemical Manufactures, Electricity and, 87 1°7
Chemical Still, Explosion of a, 579* ’
Chemistry, Tutorial (Metals). By G. H. Bailey
Chicago Tall Building, 781
Chi!!Jn aC«U-ise• “ ” (Elswick), 662
China, Affairs in, 374 7
China, British Trade in, 86
China, European Powers and 4G9
China, French Commercial Mission to *17
China, Locomotives for, 13, 585
China, Railway Prospects in, 339
China Railways and Works, 585
China, Recent Events in 20
China Steamers, 667
China, United States Competition in, 697
Chronograph, Smith’s Tramway, 692
Circulating Pumps, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 495
Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 3/7, 508
Circulation of Yarrow Water-Tube Boiler, 411, 426. See Letters, VTing/toM, <Cc., 465, 508
Civil Code of Japan, 376

Civil Engineers, Institution of: 150

A New Transmission Dynamometer, by Mr. W. E. Dalbv, 28
The Great I^and-Slides on the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia, by Mr. Robert B. Stanton, 29
The Machinery used in the Manufacture of Cordite, by Mr. E. W. Anderson, 94
Reservoirs with High Earthen Dams in Western India, by Mr. W. L. Strange, 121
Summer Conference, 150 The Security of Some Ixjcomotive Fireboxes, by Mr. W.’ Thow, 184
The Friction of Locomotive Slide Valves, by Mr. John A. F. Aspinall, 185
Dimensions of Channels for Surface Drainage, by Mr. C. E. Livesay, 190
The Stability of Channels through Sandy Estuaries, by Mr. P. M. Crosthwaite, 205
The Theory, Design, and Working of Alternate-Current Motors, by Mr. Llewelyn B. Atkinson, 248
Dublin Electric Tramway, by Mr. W. F. Parshall, 248
Calcium Carbide and Acetylene, by Mr. Henry Fowler, 333
On the Relation of Geology to Engineering, by Professor Boyd Dawkins, 383, 409, 514
Dinner, 369
Extraordinary Floods in Southern India: Their Causes and Destructive Effects on Railway Works, by Mr. E. W. Stoney, 396 The Electricity Supply of London, by Mr. Arthur H. Preece, 481
Office Bearers, 542
Medals and Premiums, 576
Conversazione, 687

Classification of Works at Creusot, 71
Clutch, Friction, 254
Clyde Passenger Steamer “ Meg Morri lees,” Haythorn Water-Tube Boiler, 693
Coal Consumption of Auxiliary Machinery in Steamers, 444
Coal-Conveving and Loading, 560
Coal-Handling Plant, Brown, 74
Coal Industry in Germany, OJ1
Coal and Iron in Belgium, 95, 254
Coal-Mine lingers from Electrical Appliances, 373
Coal Mines (Creusot), 71
Coal Production, Consumption, and Value, 793
Coaling Crane, 25 Ton Hydraulic, 531
Cochrane, Mr. Charles, on Limestone in the Blast-Furnace, 594, 775, 803
Cochrane, the Late Charles, 636
Cogging Mills, 481. 683, 717
Coils, Internal and Surface Temjierature of Dynamo, 605
Coke Ovens, 169
Coke Ovens, Collin’s, 42
Coking in By-Product Ovens, 593
Colliers’ Strike, South Wales, 529
Collin’s Coke Oven, 42
Collision, Railway. See Accident*
Colonial Railways, 319
Colonies and the Imperial Institute, 277
Companies Acts Amendments, 361, 486
Comparative Fusibility of Foundrv Metals, 286 319
Compensation Act, Workmen’s, 375
Competitions, Engineering, 795
Compound Engines. See Engine*
Compound Locomotives. French, 395, 475, 705, 724, 757
Compressed Carbonic Acid Gas in India, Storeage, 438
Compressors, Air, 552
Compressors and Exhausters, Koster’s Air, 301
Compressor, Taylor Hydraulic Air, 563. See 640
Conciliation and Arbitration, 49
Conciliation in the Steel Trade, 797
Condenser, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 495
Congo Railway, 285
Congress on the Protection of Industrial Property, 405, 732
Consular Service, 569
Convection, Diffusive, 773
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engi-, neers, 687
Converters and Transformers (British Thomson-, Houston Company), 259
Conveying and Loading Cargo, 560
Conveying Plant, Brown Coal, 74
Conveyors for Iron Ores. andc., 397
Cooke s Back Wheel Adjustment for Cycles, 29
Co-operative Production, 731
Copenhagen Tramways, 345
Copper Deposition, 6<i3
Copper Sheathing of Ships, 457. See LETTER#
Copper Steam Pij>ea, Brazed. 468
Copper, andc.,in West Australia, 492
Copper Wire, Properties of Commercial, 655
Coppering Ships, 5u8, 542, 572
Cordite Manufacture, 94
Corliss Mill Engine, Vertical (Dunlop, Port Gias-, gow), 14 r
Corps of Electrical Engineers Volunteers, 183
Corrosion and Scale in Steam Boilers, 248, 272
Cost of Electric Energy, 535
Cost of Exhibition Management, 308
Cost of Motor Car Transport, 184
Cost of Steam Power, 70
Cotton Mills, Electricity in, 172
Coupling Fastening, Blanton, 238
Cowper-Coles, Mr. S., on an Electrolytic Process for making Parabolic Reflectors, 349
Crane, Electric Travelling, 150-Ton, 325
Crane, 25-Ton Hydraulic Coaling, 53.1
Crane, Pulley, Spring-Mounted, 88
Crank Shafting, Rocking Moments, 429
Cremation of Dust-Bin Refuse, 217
Cremation of Refuse, 150, 179, 212. See Letters
Cressy Class, Armoured Cruisers, 372
Creusot Works. See Schneider and Co.
Cripplegate Fire, 118, 251, 277, 355. See Letters
“ Cristobal Colon,” Spanish Cruiser (Ansaldo, Italy), 206, 249, 272. See Letters
Crooke’s Tube, Gas Circulation in, 413, 710
Crooke’s Tube Experiments at the Royal Society Soiree, 602, 733
Cruisers. See IFar ships
Cruisers, Armoured, H.M.S., 372
Current Curves, Central London Electric Railway, 259
Current Loss, Eddy, 100
Cycle Carriage for Rifle-Calibre Gun, 328
Cycle Details, New (Humber), 366
Cycle Tube Joint, Hydraulically-Expanded, 151. See Letters
Cycles, Cooke’s Back Wheel Adjustment, 29
Cycles, Efficiency of, 247, 607
Cyclist’s Pocket-Book, 105
Cyclists’ Year-Book, 333
Cycloidal Curves and Envelopes, Hele-Shaw’s Apparatus, 602, 733

Daimler Motor Van, 766
Dairy Apparatus, 790
Dams, High Earthen, for Reservoirs, 121
Danish Railway and Bridging the Little Belt, 408
Darby, Mr. John H., on Coking in By-Product Ovens, 593
Dawkins, Professor Boyd, on Geology and Engineering, 383, 409, 514
Dawson, Mr. P., on Electric Traction, 31, 91,195, 317
De la Vergne’s Refrigerating Plant, Brighton Ice Rink,659
December Weather, 19
Denmark Shipbuilding, 582
Density of Gases, Apparatus for Determining, 437
Derailments. See Accidents
Destruction of United States Battleship “Maine,” 501, 508, 541, 572, 607, 640, 650, 670, 687. See 218 and Letters
Destructors, Refuse, 150, 179, 212, 217. See Letters
Determination of Hysteresis Loss, 41
Determination of the Ohm, 29
Devonport Dockyard Boiler Explosion, 223
“ Diadem,” Trials of H.M.S., 83, 119, 149, 213, 407, 444
Diagrams of Boiler Efficiency, 411, 428
Diagrams of Metal Prices, 24, 154, 282, 442, 574, 704
Diffusive Convection, Mr. A. Griffiths on, 773
Disappearing Mounts, Maxim, 387
Dobson, Sir B. A., 311
Dock Extension of Middlesbrough, 606
Dockising Bays and Rivers, 22
Docks at Yokohama, 668
Door, Bulkhead Indicator, 721
Doors, Hewen’s Manhole, 530
Douglas, Sir James Nicholas, 801
Drainage Channels, Dimensions of Surface, 190
Dresden Railway Station, 571
Drill, Combined Ratchet, 57
Drilling, andc., Armour-Plates, 557
Drilling Machine, Boiler-Shell (Hulse), 755
Drills, Mechanical Rock, 552
Drop Figures, 640
Drury Lane Theatre Hydraulic Bridges, 754
Drying of Washed India-Rubber, 246, 396
Dublin Electric Tramways, 248
Dublin Fire, 135
Duckham’s Pneumatic Grain Elevator, 453, 460
Durston, Sir John, on “Diadem’s” Trials, 444
Dustless Buildings, 173
Dutch Cruisers “Holland,” “Friesland,” and “Zeeland,” Yarrow Water-Tube Boilers, 702
Dutch East Indies, Guide to the, 295
Dyer, The Late Colonel, 376
Dynamical Illustration of Optical Phenomena, 350
Dynamo and Engine, Four-Pole (Allen, Bedford), 335
Dynamometer, Transmission, 28
Dynamos. See Electric Generators

Early United States Marine Engineering, 425, 515
Economic Conditions at Creusot, 38
Eddy Current Losses, 100
Education in Japan, 216
Education, Scientific, in Germany, 521
Education, Technical, in France, 635
Education, Technical, and Northampton Institute, 345
Effect of Temperature upon Insulation Resistance, 163
Effects of the Engineering Strike, 607
Efficiency of Bicycles, 247. See 607
Eight-Hours Day. See Engineers' Dispute
Electric Alternate-Current Motors, 248
Electric Applications in Iron and Steel-Making, 397, 482
Electric Charging Machine for Iron Ore, 397
Electric Energy, Cost of, 535
Electric Engines Driven by Blast-Furnace Gas, 591, 743. See 570
Electric Four-Pole Dynamo and Engine (Allen, Bedford), 335

Electric Generators. See Letters

Alternating Current Windings, 324
Armature Windings, 227, 323
Cast Steel, 66
Coils, Internal and Surface Temperature of, 605
Copper Wire, Properties of Commercial, 655
Current Loss, Eddy, 100
Determination of Hysteresis Loss, 41
Eddy Current Loss, 100
Effect of Temperature upon Insulation Resistance, 163
Electromotive Force, Formulae, 388
Energy Losses in Sheet Iron, 99
Flux in Transformers, 390
Forgings, 99
Formulae for Electromotive Force, 388
Heat Losses, 654
Hysteresis Loss, Determination of, 41
Hysteresis Losses in Alternating and Rotating Fields, 42
Induction Motor Windings, 325
Insulating Material, 132
Insulating Testing Methods for Factories, 163
Insulation Resistance, Effects of Temperature upon,163
Iron Magnetisation, 65
Magnetisation of Iron and Steel, 65
Magnets, 605
Materials, 1, 42
Materials, Properties of, 42
Measuring Hysteresis Losses, 42
Metals, 1, 42
Methods of Measuring Permeability not Requiring Ballastic Galvanometer, 2
Nickel Steel, 66
Output, Thermal Limit of, 604
Permeability Measurements, 2
Properties of Commercial Copper Wire, 655
Sheet Iron, Energy Losses, 99
Steel, Cast, 66
Steel Magnetisation, 65
Step-up Transformer, 164
Temperature of Coils, Internal and Surface, 605
Temperature Effects on Insulation Resistance, 163
Testing Insulating Methods, 163
Thermal Limit of Output, 604
Transformer, Step-up, 164
Transformers, Electromotive Force and Flux in, 390
Windings, 227, 333

Electric Generators, 122
Electric Ignition, Gas Engine, 441
Electric 200-Volt Lamps, 371
Electric Lighting, 721
Electric Lighting Handbook, 748
Electric Lighthouse, Finisterre, 551, 623
Electric Lighthouses on Lundy Island, 19, 106, 393
Electric Locomotives, 236, 427
Electric Machines, Mechanical Construction of, 233
Electric Ohm, Determination of the, 29
Electric Power Plants, Rating, 155
Electric Power Station at Glasgow, 794
Electric Power Supply, Glasgow, 606
Electric Power Transmission, Method of Illustrating, 547
Electric Railway. See Central London Railway
Electric Signalling without Connecting Wires, 158
Electric Traction. See also Municipal Electrical Association
Electric Traction, 31, 91, 195, 317
Electric Tramways, 638
Electric Tramways, Dublin, 248
Electric Tramways, Rail Returns for, 568, 580. See 638
Electric Travelling Crane, 150-Ton, 325
Electric Tunnel Excavating Machine, 485
Electric Water-Power on the Rhine, 297
Electric Waves, Attenuation Along a Line of Negligible Leakage, 773
Electrical Appliances in Mines, Danger of, 373
Electrical Conductor, Aluminium as an, 278

Electrical Engineers, Institution of:

President’s Address (Electro-Chemistry), by Mr. J. W. Swan, 87, 127
Electro-Chemical Treatment of Gold Ores, by Major General Webber, 180
An Electrolytic Process for the Manufacture of Parabolic Reflectors, by Mr. S. Cowper-Coles, 349
On the Manufacture of Lamps and other Apparatus for 200-Volt Circuits, by Mr. Bings-wanger Byng, 371
The Cost of Generation and Distribution of Electric Energy, by Mr. Robert Hammond, 535
Rail Returns for Electric Tramways, by Mr. H. F. Parshall, 568
Notes on Electric Tramways, by Major P. Cardew, 638
Note on Return Feeders for Electric Tramways, 638

Electrical Engineers Volunteer Corps, 183
Electrical Exhibition, New York, 699
Electrical Exhibits at the Royal Society Soirde, 602, 673
Electrical Installation on Warships, 653
Electrical Progress and Prospects, Mr. J. S. Raworth on, 95. See Letters
Electrical Recording Apparatus, 603
Electrical Riveting, 420
Electrical Society, Northern, of Engineers, 95
Electrical Stations. See Municipal Electrical Association
Electrician, Electrical Trades Directory and Handbook, 297
Electricity and Chemical Manufactures, 87, 127
Electricity in Cotton Mills, 172
Electricity and Mr. Raworth, 122, 153, 185, 217, 313, 346
Electricity Supply of London, 481
Electro-Chemical Treatment of Gold Ores, 180
Electrolytic Iron, 638
Electrolytic Process for Making Parabolic Reflectors, 349
Electrolytic Sodium, 216
Electrolytic Zinc, 85,154. See Letters
Electromachine Construction, 233
Electro-Magnetic Induction, 220
Electromotive Force, Formulae, 388
Electro-Thermo Pyrometers, 413
Elektromechanische Konstructionen, by Gisbert Kapp, 233
Elektrotechnischer Unterricht und Anleitung zum Betreitelektrischer Anlagen auf Kriegs schiffen. Lehrbuch fur Unterofficiere, 653
Elementary Physics, Practical and Theoretical, by John G. Kerr, 101
Elephant v. Man, Strength, 184
Elevators, Duckham’s Pneumatic Grain, 453, 460
Embankments, High Earthen, for Reservoirs, 121
Emery, Charles E., 801
Energy Losses in Sheet Iron, Electric, 99
Engine and Dynamo (Allen, Bedford), 335
Engine, Gas, Electric Ignition, 441
Engine, Gas Research, 197, 350, 413
Engine, Gas, Vertical Duplex (Griffin Company), 641
Engine, Gas, White and Middleton, 76, 153
Engines, Gas and Oil, 786
Engine, Horizontal(Preudhomme-Prion), 174
Engine, Marine Steam, 261
Engine with Robinson’s Shaft Governor, 758
Engine, Vertical (Shanks, Arbroath), 89. See 145, 236
Engine, Vertical Corliss Mill (Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 14
Engines for Blast-Furnace Gases, 570, 591, 743
Engines Burned, 158
Engines for Electric Stations, 734, 768
Engines of H.M.S. “ Europa” (Clydebank), 728
Engines, Marine, Stevens Valve Gear, 201, 219
Engines, Multiple-Cylinder Steam, 273
Engines, New, of “ Orient,” 735
Engines, Propelling, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 429
Engines, Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart” (Burmeister and Wain), 123, 173
Engines, Spanish Cruiser “Cristobal Colon” (Ansaldo), 206. See Letters
Engines, Steam, at Birmingham Show, 783
Engines, Steam, Multiple - Cylinder, 155. See Letters
Engines of the Twin-Screw Yacht “Sovereign,” 335
Engineering in 1897, 27, 53, 58
Engineering Competitions, 795
Engineering in Denmark, 582
Engineering and Geology, 383, 409, 514
Engineering in the Malay States, 276
Engineering Strike, Effects of the, 607
Engineers’ Dispute, 14, 18, 49, 53, 81, 116, 147, 243. See Letters
Engineers, Effect of Age on, 51
Engineers’ Lock-out, 346, 395, 441, 473
Engineers’ Rank in United States Navy, 115, 627
Engineers in United States Navy, 17
English Shipbuilding and Engineering, 27, 53. See 58
English v. United States Railway Track, 508
Entropy and the Science and Art Department, 670
Erie Canal Improvement, 309
Estuaries, Channels through Sandy, 205
“ Europa,” Engines of H.M.S. (Clydebank), 728
European Powers in the Far East, 469
Executive Rank in United States Navy, 115, 627
Exeter Sewage Purification, 82
Exhibition, Acetylene, in Berlin, 120
Exhibition, Acetylene Gas, in London, 755
Exhibition, 1901, Glasgow, 184
Exhibition, Madrid, 1898, 313
Exhibition Management, Cost of, 308
Exhibition, New York Electrical, 699
Exhibition, Paris, 345, 467, 505, 537, 747, 797
Exhibition, Stockholm, 392
Expansion of Solids, Measuring, 603
Explosion. See Boiler Explosions
Explosion of a Chemical Still, 579
Explosion, Fatal Steam Pipe, 744
Explosion on United States Cruiser “Maine,” 218, 501, 650, 687, 716, 752, 782. See Letters
Explosives, Maxim High, 536, 739
Export Merchant Shippers’ Directory, 296
Exports from United States, 436

Fans for Mines, 553
Fastening, Blanton, 238
February Weather, 310
Feed Pumps (Weir’s), 649
Feed Regulator, Thornycroft Boiler, 347
Feed-Water Heating with Live Steam, 541
Felten and Guilleaume’s Rail Bond, 272
Filtration, Mechanical, 637
Finisterre Electric Lighthouse, 551, 623
Fire-Alarm System, Automatic, 572
Fire at Central Telephone Station of Zurich, 438
Fire, Cripplegate, 118, 251, 277, 355. See Letters
Fire Prevention, Fire Survey, 35,133, 228, 335

Fire Protection in Europe :

Cripplegate Fire, 355
Dublin Fire, 135
Fire Prevention, Fire Survey, 35, 133, 228, 335
Fire-Resisting Materials, 658
Fireproof Material, 658
Glasgow Fire, 135
Hamburg Warehouse, 519
London Fires, 35, 133
Sheffield Fire, 134
Survey, 35, 133, 228, 335
Warehouse Protection, 519

Fire-Resisting Materials, 658
Firebox Stays, Threading, 173
Fireboxes, Security of Locomotive, 184
Fireboxes, Staying of Locomotive, 21, 55,153
Fireproof Material, 658
First Steam Launch, 312
Fisher Building, Chicago, 781
Floods in Southern India, 396
Fluid, Motion of Solids in, 425, 577
Flux in Transformers, 390
Fog Signals on Lundy Island, 393. See 19, 106
Forces, Measurement of Impulsive, 86
Forging Presses and Hammers (Creusot), 457, 487, 557. See 531
Forgings for Dynamos, 99
Formulae for Electromotive Force, 388
Foundry Metals, Comparative Fusibility of, 286, 319
Foundry, Steel (Creusot), 360
France, Northern Railway of, 724, 738, 757
France, Northern Railway, Locomotive, 705, 724. See 738, 757
France, Trade Schools in, 635
Free Labour Protection Association, 703
Free and Protected Labour, 54
Freight-Handling Plant (Brown), 560
French Commercial Mission to China, 247
French Lighthouses, Luminous Power of, 313, See 551, 623
French Merchant Navy, 150
French Steamers for Calais and Dover, 792
Friction Clutch, 254
Friction of Locomotive Slide Valves, 185
Froude, Mr. R. E., on Twin Screws and Effect of Direction of Turning, 416, 423
Furnaces, Annealing, andc. (Creusot), 717, 791
Furnaces, Reheating (Creusot), 717, 791
Fusibility of Foundry Metals, Comparative, 286. 319

Galvanometers, 678
Gantry, Travelling, at Harland and Wolff’s (Fielding and Platt), 111
Gas, Carbonic Acid, Storage in India of Compressed, 438
Gas Circulation in Crooke’s Tube, 413
Gas Engine, Electric Ignition, 441
Gas Engine Research (Inst. M.E.), 197, 350, 413
Gas Engines. See also Engines
Gas Engines, 786
Gas, Acetylene. See Acetylene
Gas-Fired Tubulous Boilers, 169
Gas Governor, Automatic, 528
Gas Plant, 768
Gas Producers, 481
Gas Works Machinery, 744
Gases, Apparatus for Determining the Density of, 437
Gauge Fittings, Water (Winn and Co.), 89. See 145, 236
Gauge, Invention of the Steam, 249, 273
Generating Station, Central Electric Railway, 259, 432
Geology and Engineering, 383, 409, 514
German and British Trade, 502
German Coal Industry, 601
German Industrial Progress, 665
German Railway Stations, 506
German Scientific Education, 521
German Shipping and Shipbuilding, 344
German Trade with the Far East, 438
Geyser Action, A New Theory of, 285
Gilain Refrigerating System, 236
Glasgow Bridge over Clyde, Proposed Bascule, 184
Glasgow Electric Power Station, 794
Glasgow Electric Power Supply, 606
Glasgow Exhibition, 1901, 184
Glasgow Fire, 135
Glauber Salt in the Caspian Sea, 216
Goddin’s Positive Grip Lock-Nut, 318
Gold Ores, Electro-Chemical Treatment, 180
Gold, tec., in West Australia, 492
Goliath Rail, Sandberg’s, 441
Government Ordnance Factory, 403
Governor, Automatic Gas, 528
Governor, Origin of the, 640, 736
Governor, Robinson’s Shaft, 758
Governors, Centrifugal, 736
Grain Conveying and Loading, 560
Grain Elevator, Pneumatic, 453, 460
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 507
Great Central Railway, 222
Great Northern Railway Run, 377, 395, 441
Great Northern Telegraph Company, 626
Greiner, Mr. A., on Blast-Furnace Gas for Motive Power, 591
Gun Trials of H.M.S. “ Illustrious,” 343
Guns. See also Maxim Guns
Guns, Vickers’, 622

Hamburg, Projected Railways, 638
Hamburg Warehouse, 519
Hamilton, Mr James, on Horse-Power Absorbed in Skin Friction and Wave-Making, 421, 610
Hammer, Boyer, 251
Hammering, Work done in, 279
Handbuch der Elektrischen Beluchtung. By J.
Herzog and C. P. Feldmann, 748
Hardening Armour-Plates, 524
Hardening Process of Calcareous Hydraulic Cement, 159
Hardware Trade Directory, 105
Harland and Wolff, Travelling Gantry (Fielding and Platt), 111
Hay and Straw Baling and Wiring Presses, 787
Hayter, The Late Mr. Harrison, 604
Haythorn Water-Tube Boilers, 693
Haze and Transparency, £08
Hazell’s Annual, 105
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, on Iron Resources of India, 567
Heat Losses in Electric Apparatus, 654
Heating Effects of Cathode Rays, andc., 670
Heating, Electric, 721
Heating- Feed Water with Live Steam, 541
Hele-Shaw, Dr. H. S., on Surface Resistance of Water, 420, 477, 511
Helicoid Lock Nuts, 141
“ Hermes,” Second-Class Cruiser, 470, 497
Hewens’ Manhole Doors, 530
Highland Tourist Railway, 606
Historical Account of Creusot, 3
History of Maxim Gun, 164
H.M. Cruiser “ Ariadne ” (Clydebank), 548
H.M. Cruiser “Diadem,” Trials (Fairfield Company), 83, 119, 149, 213, 407, 444
H.M. Second-Class Cruiser “ Hermes ’’(Fairfield), 470, 497
H.M.S. “Albion,” 799
H.M S. “ Oressy,”Cruisers, 372
H.M.S. “ Europa,” Machinery (Clydebank), 728
H.M.S. “ Illustrious,” Gun and Steam Trials, 343
Hobart, Mr. H. M., on Electric Generation. See
Electric Generators
Hoists for Mines, 683
Hbk, Mr. W., on Trunk-Deck Steamers, 424, 461
Hole-Widening Machine, Tapered, 755
Holland Submarine Torpedo-Boats, 457, 543
Hong Kong, Competition in, 404
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Machine - Moulded
Wheels, 67, 131, 291, 525,715. See 204
Horse Carriage for Rifle-Calibre Gun, 328
Horseless Carriage. See Cars, Motor Humber Shipbuilding, 27, 55 t
Hydraulic Air Compressor (Taylor), 563. See 640
Hydraulic Bridges at Drury Lane Theatre, 754
Hydraulic Coaling Crane, 25-Ton, 531 Hydraulic Hay Press, 787
Hydraulic Plate-Bending Machine, 659
Hydraulic Presses, 457, 487, 557. See 531, 787 I
Hydraulic Riveter and Beam Shears (Wood, Philadelphia), 597
Hydraulic Tube-Staving Machine (Fielding and Platt, Limited), 77
Hydraulically-Expanded Tube Joint, 151, 185. See Letters
Hysteresis Loss, Determination of, 41
Hysteresis Losses in Alternating and Rotating Fields, 42

Ice-Rink, Brighton, 659
“ Illustrious,” Steam and Gun Trials, H.M.S., 343
Impact, Cast Iron Under, 155
Imperial Institute and the Colonies, 277
Implements, Agricultural, 787
Impulsive Forces, Measurement of, 86
India, Floods in Southern, 396
India, Iron Resources of, 567, 670. See Letters
India-Rubber, Drying of Washed, 246, 396
Indian and Eastern Engineer Diary, 105
Indian Public Works and Royal Engineers, 185, 218, 756, 794, 795
Indian Railways, 319
Indicator Diagrams, H.M.S. “ Diadem,” 447
Indicator Diagrams, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 649
Induction Motor Windings, 325
Industrial Democracy, by Sydney and Beatrice Webb, 4, 63
Industrial Notes, 25, 57, 89, 124, 156, 188, 221, 253, 283, 315, 347, 379, 412, 439, 476, 509, 546, 575, 609, 642, 673, 706, 740, 774, 803
Industrial Property, Congress on Protection 'of, 405, 732
Information Bureau in United States, 702 Ingot Moulds (Creusot), 293
Injector, an Air, 508

Institution of Gas Engineers :

Address of the President, 768
Reports of Committee on Standards of Light, 769
High-Pressure System of Distribution, by Mr. F. W. Stevenson, 769
Inclined Retorts, by Mr. E. Drory, 769
A Modern Gas Works, by Mr. F. D. Marshall, 769
On a Standard 10-Candle Lamp, by Professor Vernon Harcourt, 769
The 2-Candle Standard, by Mr. E. L. Pryce, 769 A New Departure in Carbonising, by Mr. S. Glover
Washers and Scrubbers, by Mr. E. A. Harman, 769

Insulating Materials, Electric, 132
Insulating Testing Methods for Factories, 163 Insulation Resistance, Effects of Temperature Upon, 163
Invention of the Steam Gauge, 249
Irish Railway Property, 273
Irish Railways, 237. See Letters
Irish Shipbuilding, 60. See 53
Iron Bridge Design, Some Errors in, by W. C. Kernot, M.A., C.E., 747
Iron, Cast, Action of Sea Water on, 311
Iron and Coal in Belgium, 95, 254
Iron, Effect of Phosphorus on, 694
Iron, Electrolytic, 638
Iron, Magnetic Permeability (Measuring), 603
Iron Magnetisation, 65 Iron Mines, 101
Iron Ore in Sweden, 86
Iron Resources of India, 567, 670. See Letters

Iron and Steel Institute : 337

Annual Report, 571
Bessemer Gold Medal (Mr. R. Price-Williams), 571
Autumn Meeting, 571
The Iron Industry of the Urals, by Mr. H. Bauerman, Professor of Metallurgy, Royal Artillery College, 596
Lime and Limestone in Blast-Furnace Practice, by Mr. Charles Cochrane, Stourbridge, 594, 775, 806
Coking in By - Product Ovens, by Mr. John II. Darby, Brymbo, 593
The Use of Blast-Furnace Gases as Motive Power, by Mr. Adolphe Greiner, Seraing, 591, 743
The Solution Theory of Iron, by Baron Hanns Juptner von Jornstorff, Leoben, Austria, 596
Steel Permanent Way, by Mr. R. Price-Williams, London,595
Brittleness in Soft Steel, by Mr. C. H. Rids-dale, Guisbrough, 596
Allotropic Iron and Carbon, by Mr. E. H. Saniter, Seaton Carew, 596
The Crystalline Structure of Iron, by Mr. J. E. Stead, Middlesbrough, 596
Name Index for Vol. I. to Vol. L. of Journal, 586
Arrangements for Summer Meeting, 736

Iron and Steel in Japan, 701
Iron and Steel Practice, United States, 381, 397, 481
Iron and Steel in Sweden, 237
Iron and Steel in Sweden (Stockholm), 392
Iron Trade Problems, 569

James Forrest Lecture, Geology and Engineering, 383, 409, 514
January Weather, 182, 627
Japan, Baldwin Locomotives for, 301
Japan, British Trade in, 86
Japan, Civil Code, 376
Japan, Economic Situation, 408
Japan, Education in, 216
Japan Foreign Trade, 570, 765
Japan, Industrial, 244
Japan, Iron and Steel Manufactories, 701
Japan, Launch of Warship in, 43
Japan, Match Industry or, 279
Japan, Patents in, 700
Japan, Proposed Large Canal in, 800
Japan Railway Construction, 438
Japan, Railway Strike in, 505
Japan Sea Power, 635 . 7
Japan Shipbuilding and Shipping, 66, 18J, 54/, 799
Japan, Strikes in, 373
Japan Trade, 117
Japan, Yokohama Works, 668 .
Japanese Battleship “ Yashima,” Steering of, 4ab
Japanese Cruiser “ Akashi,” 43
Japanese Patent Law, 523, 709
Japanese Railways, 121
Japanese Trade with Britain, 168
Japanese Trade and Commerce, f06
Jaques, Captain, on Submarine Torpedo-Boats, 457, 543
Johnston, Mr. S. W., on Railway Progress, 610, 644,675,707 1
Joint, Hydraulically-Expanded Tube, 151, 18o. See Letters
Jones, Mr. J. V., on the Determination of the Ohm, 29

“Kaiser Wilhelm der <Arosse,” North German Lloyd Twin-Screw Steamer:

Air Pumps, 495
Anchors and Chains, 591
Balancing Engines, Diagrams, 429
Blake Air Pumps, 495
Boilers, 649
Bulkhead Door Indicator, 721
Capstan and Windlass (Napier Brothers, Glasgow), 591
Centrifugal Pumps, 495
Chains and Anchors, 591
Circulating Pumps, 495
Condenser, Main, 495
Crank Shafting, Rocking Moments, 429
Electric Lighting, 721
Engines, Propelling, 429
Feed Pumps (Weir’s), 649
Heating, Electric, 721
Indicator Diagrams; 649
Linde’s Ice Machinery, 721
Machinery, General Arrangement, 364
Motors, Electric, 721
North German Lloyd (Historical), 266
Passenger Accommodation, 266, 300
Propeller, 590
Pumps, Air and Circulating, 495
Refrigerating Plant, 721
Rocking Moment of Crank Shafting, 429
Scantlings, 300
Steering Gear (Brown Brothers, Edinburgh), 590
Telephones, Loud-Speaking, 721
Typical North German Lloyd Steamers, 1857-1888, 268
Windlass and Capstan (Napier Brothers, Glasgow), 591

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 492
Key, Blanton, 238
King’s Lynn Water Supply and Health, 181
Kites and Meteorology. 756
Kodolitsch, Herr F. Von, on Riveting by Electricity, 420
Koster’s Air Compressors and Exhausters, 301
Kriloff, Captain A., on Oscillation of Ships on Waves, 453
Kriloff, Captain A., on Stresses on a Ship in a Seaway, 453
Krypton, The New Gas, 733
Kynoch’s Ammunition Works, 270

Labour and Capital, 14
Labour, Free and Protected, 54, 703
Labour Problems, 4, 63
Labour Protection Association, Free, 54, 703
Labour-Saving Machinery in Gas Works, 768
Laird, The Late Mr. John, 121
Lamps, 200-Volt, 371
Land-slides on Canadian Pacific Railway, 29
Lathe, Treble-Geared Sliding Surfacing and Screw Cutting (Sharp, Stewart, and Co.), 283
Lathes, Screw Dies for Turret, 172
Launch, First Steam, 312
Launch of H.M.S. “Hermes,” 470, 497
Launches and Trial Trips, 15, 94, 126, 154 220 256, 286, 314, 333, 378, 410, 441, 474, 51g’ 548’ 574,608,671,703,738,770,808 ’
Laundry Machinery, 556, 771, 805. See Letters
Softening Water
Law Procedure, Belgian, 247
Laxton’s Builders’ Price Book, 296
Legislation, Private Bill, 437
Les Ballons Sondes. By W. de Fonvielle, 524
Letters to the Editor, 21, 54,75 199 159 w-217,-248, 272, 312, 346, 377, 395, 441’, 473 508’ 541, 560, 572, 607, 640, 670, 736, 756 794
Lifu Motor Car, 669. See 666
Light Railways, 763
Lighthouse, Electric, Finisterre, 551 623
Lighthouses, 346, 395
Lighthouses, French, Luminous Power of, 313
Lighthouses on Lundy Island, New, 19 106 393 Lighting, Cost of Electric, 535 ’ 393
LlwSf/™eCtriC' See MuniciPal Electrical -CLOOl/l/C/Cvu vU/Cf
Lighting, Electric, Handbook, 748
Limestone in the Blast-Furnace, 594, 775 806
L1?fi,te4o«iablIlty Companies Acts, Amendments,
Linde’s Ice Machinery, 721
Linde’s Process for Producing Liquid Air 310 See Letters, Air, <t-c 1 r’
Liquefaction of Air, 310, 377, 396, 474, 508, 541,
Liquid Air, Linde’s Process for Producing 310 See Letters, Air, <{-c.
Liquid Mixtures, The Properties of, 350
L 6G9P68O5’. SSeeP766Pelled TraHlc’Tri^> 628, 666,
011 Dimensions of Channels for Surface Drainage, 190 ‘anneis
Lloyd’s Return of Shipwrecks, andc., 86
Lloyds Shipbuilding Returns, 471
Local Government Annual, 295
Loch Lomond Steamers, Dispute as to, 151
Lock Nut, Goddiii’s Positive Grip, 318
L^kwo^’^BuUdl’rsV C°,,trac,ors ’
Lo“omK ABauTed, 54, 55, 75, 122, 153, 249,
Locomotive “ Black Prince,” London and North-Western, 239 , v.^hnm RaiL
Locomotive, Compound Express, Northern way of France, 705, 724. bee /38,. ,, <
Locomotive Compound, French, 39j, 4,a, /O.>,
Locomotive Compound, for the Northern Railway of France, 705, 724, 75/
Locomotive, Early, 542
Locomotive Fireboxes, Security of, 1M
Locomotive Fireboxes, Staying of, 2L
Locomotive, “Mastodon, for Great Northern Railway, U.S.A., 74, 140
Locomotive Performances on Ixmdonancl wonn-Western Railway, 20
Locomotive Problems, 538, 539, 610, 644 , 6<o, 707 . .
Locomotive Slide Valves, Friction, 18n
Locomotives for China, Baldwin, 13
Locomotives, Electric, 236, 427 w.
Locomotives, Historical (Midland Railway), 67a, 707 .
Locomotives for Japan, Baldwin, 301
Locomotives in Mines, 682
London Directory, 104
London Electricity Supply, 481
London Fire, Cripplegate, 51, 118. See Letters
London Fires, 35,133
London and North-Western Locomotive “ Black Prince,” 239
London and North-Western Locomotive Performances, 20
London Railway. See Central London Railway
London Railways, Greater, 189
London Water Supply 152
Lubricating Gear, Lumb’s, 509
Lumb’s Lubricating Gear, 509
Luminous Power of French Lighthouses, 313
Lundy Island New Lighthouses, 19, 106, 393
Lurry, Thornycroft Steam, 725, 761 See 629

MacFarlane’s Self-Closing Steam Valve, 395 Machine Guns. See Maxim Gums
Machine-Moulded Wheels, 67, 131, 291, 525, 715.
See also 204
Machine Moulding without Stripping Plates, 2"4
Machine Tools for Finishing Armour-Plates, 525, 557
Machinery, General Arrangements, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 364
Madrid Exhibition, 1898, 313
Magnetic Observations, Curious, 186, 249, 312
Magnetic Permeability of Iron, Measuring, (503
Magnetisation of Iron and Steel, 65
Magnets, 605
“Maine,” United States Battleship, Explosion, 218, 501, 650, 687, 716, 752,782. See Letters on, 508, 541, 572, 607, 640, 670
Malay States, Engineering, 276
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 473
Manchurian Railway Agreement, 472
Manhole Doors, Hewens’, 530
Manufacture of Cordite, 94
Manufacturing Economics at the Brussels Exhibition, 136
March Weather, 437
Marine Engineering, Early United Stairs, 423,515
Marine Engineers and the A.S.E., 250
Marine Steam Engine. A Treatise for Engineering Students, Young Engineers, and Officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine. Bvthe I>ate Richard Sennett and Henry J. Oram,* 261
Mastodon Locomotive for Great Northern Rail, way, U.S.A., 74, 140
Match Industry of Japan, 279
Materials for Electric Apparatus, 1, 42
Materials, Properties of Electrical 4*
Material et les Procddes de 1’Exploitation des Mines a 1 Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles en 1897. Par Victor Watteyne et Armand Halleuv, 357, 552, 682

Maxim Gun ;

Cavalry Gun, 329
Cycle Carriage for Rifle-Calibre Gun, 328
Disappearing Mounts, 387
Historical, 164
Horse Carriage for Rifle-Calibre Gun, 328 37-Milhmetre Gun, 387
Mounts, 328, 329, 387
Mounts for Rifle-Calibre Gun 328
Naval Mounts, 387
Rifle-Calibre Gun, 234 328

Maxim-Schuppha,ls High Explosives, 53G
Maxim-Schtlpphaus Smokeless Powder 729
Measurement of Impulsive Forces, 86
Measin i ng Hysteresis Losses 42
Measuring Magnetic Permeability of Iron GO 1
Measuring Pressure in an Artery ’
Measuring Wind Pressure, Instrument, 376

Mechanical Society of* ““Sineers, American So-

New York Annual Meeting, 10
W RnWarnerd W8 °“ th° TeIe8C0Pe- Kv Mr. Mate-
Trial Cod^m70tCe °n S°Ciet}”8Code(Boiler
WekaWe’® ™i'™'ion of
Chicago, in bv jh- R r on’Pin- Station,
A Water-Purifji ig b an?’ by^"^’.108
Stillman, 108 ’ 5 Mr- Howard Mn’w'T
Cast Iron under Impact, by Dr. W. J. Keep, 551
Merit. Engineer*. Ame riean
A Strength of Gear Chart, by Mr. John B. Mayo 155 * *
The Law of Hydraulic Obstruction in Streams, by Mr. David Guelbaum 155
A Boiler Setting, by Mr. G. W. Bissell 155
The Auxiliary Engines and Transmission nf DhWkie,T5(JNaVal Ve*iCU’ by Mr Ge0*e "?-Thermodynamics Without the Calculus hv
George Richmond, 156 * . -wr.
The Valuation of Textile Manufacturing Pmperty, by Mr. Chas. T. Main, 156 g ro’ “whrilei "17^“°“ Milb- byMr-w B- Smith A Screw Dietor Turret bathe, by Mr. James Hartness, 172
A Stay-Bolt Threading Device, by Mr. James Hartness, 173
Wire-Testing Machine, by Mr. Arthur L. Rice 1/3*
Dustlegs Buildings, by Mr. C. J. H. Woodbun-1/3* *
Stevens Valve Gear for Marine Engines b\ Mr Andrew Fletcher, 204. See 219* ’ ' T’
Machine Moulding Without Stripping Platen by Mr. E. H. Mumford, 204 H %t€8

Mechanical Engineers. Institution of;

Electric Traction, by Mr. Philip Dawson, 31 9’1 195, 317’ *
Report of the Council, 195
The New President (Mr. S. W. Johnson) 195 538, 611, 644, 675, 707
Retirement of Mr. Bache, 197
Report, 197,
■» I<>, 039
Presidential Address (Mr. Samuel W. Johnson) 538, 610, 64 4, 675, 707 Dunson;,
Annual Dinner, 572
Steam Laundry Machinery, by Mr. Sidnev Tebbutt. 556 771, 805. See Letter/,
Mechanical Filtration, 637
Mechanical Stokers, Proctor's 725
Mechanical Work! Year-Book, 104
“Mi-g Jkrrikes,- Haythorn Hater-Tube Boiler 693 ’
Melting Point of Aluminium, 312. See also 56
Mersey Shipbuilding, 27, 53
Metal Price Diagram. 24, 154, 282, 442. 574 701 Metal Tests at High Teni|wratiires, 375 ’ Metals, Comparative Fusibility of, 286 319 Metals for Electric Apparatus, 1, 42 Metals, Tutorial Chemistry, 556
Meteorology and Kites, 756
Meteorological Society. Royal:
Weather Influences on Fann and Garden Crops, by Mr. Edward Mawlev, 87
New President, 87
Report on Phenological observations for 1897 by Mr. E. Mawlev, 20
Monthly and Annual Rainfall in the British Empire, 1877-96, 205
Photographing Meteorological Phenomena, bv Mr. A. U. Clayden, 332
Antic' Ionic Systems and their Movements, by Major H. E. Rawson, 507 J
°^a.lioV.8 on ,Ijuc and Transparency in 189/. by Hon. F. A. Rollo Rus^ll,508
On the Frequency of Rainy Days in the British Isles, by Mr. R. H. Scott, 627
Abnormal Weather of Januarv Last, bv Mr F 1 J. Brodie, 627. See 182
Frequency of Non-lnstrumenU) Meteorological
I henomena in Ixmdon with Different Winds from L63 to 1897, by Mr. R. C. Mossman, / Ov
The Exploration of the Free Air by Means of Kites at Blue Hill < >bscr.atory, Miss., L’.SA., by Mr. A. L. Rotch, 756
Meter, Venturi, 313
Me^’,,ring Permeability not Requiring Ballistic Galvanometer, 2
Metinen, The Igite Mr. John 472
Metropolitan. Sec London
Michaelis Dr. W., on Calcareous Hydraulic cements, 159
M4 5l,S617iC Ol,8enation8 of Steel Rails, 7, 201, Middlesbrough Dock Extension, 606
\ Carriages, (Historical), 707
MidlandIJUiJ way Locomotives, Cars, Rails (His-wi?n< ■ ^ec GI0» 644
. !i , Morison s Quick-Running Stamp, 691
M» »ng Machine, Double-Ended, Wi
... 1 ng Machine, 2-Spindle Vertical, 173
Ml 8, Cogging, in 1 nitorl States, 481
Mills, Rail, m C'mt-cd States 482
Mine Ventilation, 553
Mineral Exhibits at Brussels, 357. 552, 682
Miners Strike, South Wales, 529
Mines, Dangers from Electrical Appliances, 873
Mines, lxx?omotives for, 682

Mining Engineer*, American Society of: 364

Atlantic City Meeting, 364
Mpi‘Xa.nt^Orc8t nerves, by Mr. Giffard Pmehot, 364
American Geologist, in Russia, bv Dr. 8. J. Emmens, 364 *
Iievice for Gas Producers, by Mr. C. W. Bildt, 364
A V,,’pawt!1!‘ f°r the Removal of Sand from V)ante Water of Ore Washers, bv Mr. J. E. Johnson, Jun., 392
i«o?n 9?rtain Dia£ra»M Graphically Ulus-(•?. r? ,n’PJ>rtaPt Thermal and Structural
I>f !’!' Professor H. M. Howe, 392
Hh™e,™2 ' •’ Mr- ,,art’
N<l!2.On }ho 8V’°Jhobl> Exhibition ami the a?»d s??e Tnw,c of Sweden, bv Mr. James Douglas, 392 J
b-V ,r‘ T- D'right, 393
\h \?n\’Crrv Anlhrac‘te Coal Breaker, by Mr. W . Ayres, 393
A ’nIu. "‘J? Dr’ p^><or Fraser, 393 Rr< /?n,,xr°\LnRrot Mou,d '<»• Brass or Bronze, by Mr. Edwin S. Sperry, 490
The Influence of Antimony in the Cold Shortness of Brass, by Mr. Edwin S. Sperry, 490
The Elimination of Impurities from Copper Mattes in the Reverberatory and the Converter, by Mr. Edwin Keller, 491
The Strength of Wooden Beams Calculated from Compression Tests, by Mr. B. G. Fernow, 492
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and Surroundings, by Mr. George J. Bancroft, 492
General Business, 495

Mining Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition, 357, 552, 682
Miscellanea, 22, 56, 79, 113, 145, 186, 209, 241, 282, 305, 346, 365, 401, 442, 465, 499, 533, 565, 599, 631, 672, 704, 729, 761, 803
Model Workshop at Brussels, 136
Morison’s Quick-Running Stamp Mill, 691
Motor Cars or Power Carriages for Common Roads, by A J. Wall is-Taylor, 168
Motor Cars, Six-Wheeled, 757
Motor Van Trials, 666, 685, 766
Motor Vehicles. See Cars, Motor
Motors, Electric. See also Electric Generators
Motors, Electric, 721
Moulded Wheels, Machine, 67, 131, 291, 525, 715.
See also 201
Moulding Without Stripping Plates, 204
Mountings for Vickers’ Guns, 622
Mounts for Guns. See Maxim Guns
Mounts for Rifle-Calibre Gun, 328
Mudd, the Late Thomas, 669
Mudd’s Marine Boiler, 11
Multiple-Cylinder Steam Engines, 155, 273. See Letters

Municipal Electrical Association :

Presidential Address, by Mr. A. H. Gibbings, City Electrical Engineer, Bradford, 734
The Management of Electrical Undertakings, by Councillor Hesford, Chairman of the Electricity Committee of the Southport Corporation, 731
Switchboard Apparatus, by Mr. J. R. Blaikie, Chief Assistant Electrical Engineer, Bristol, 734
Steam-Using Plant, by Mr. J. A. Jeckell, Borough Electrical Engineer, South Shields, 734
Uniformity of Plant, by Mr. C. H. Wordingham, City Electrical Engineer, Manchester, 767
Appropriation of Profits and Repayment of Loans, by Bailie William Maclay, Convener of the Electricity Committee of the Glasgow Corporation, 768
Single versus Multiple Generating Stations, by Mr. J. C. F. Snell, Borough Electrical Engineer, Sunderland, 768
Electric Traction, by Mr. R. C. Quin, Borough Electrical Engineer, Blackpool, and Mr. J. E. Stewart, Borough Electrical Engineer, Derby, 768
Accumulators in Connection with Lighting and Traction, by Mr. J. H. Rider, Borough Electrical Engineer, Plymouth, 768
Municipal Year-Book, 296

Name Index of the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, vol. i. to 1., 1869 to 1896. Edited by Bennett II. Brough, 586
Naval Annuals, 295, 651

Naval Architects, Institution of: 52

Annual Report of the Council, 406
Presidential Address (Earl of Ilopetoun), 406
Presentation of Premiums, 407
Presentation to the Secretary, 407
Recent Trials of the Cruiser “ Diadem,” by Sir John Durston, K.C.B , 407
Riveting by Electricity, by Herr F. von Kodo-litsch, 408, 420
Investigation of the Nature of Surface Resistance of Water and of Stream-Line Motion under Certain Experimental Conditions, (Second Paper), by Professor Hele-Shaw, LL.D., 420,444, 477, 511
Annual Dinner, 421 ...
Horse-Power Absorbed by Skin Friction and : Wave-Making in Ships of Different Forms and Proportions as Deduced from Progres- ; sive Trials, by Mr. James Hamilton, 421, 610 ( Submarine Torpedo-Boats, their Influence on Torpedo-Boat Architecture, and their Value in Warfare, by Captain W. 11. Jaques, late U.S. Navy, 457, 543
Experiments on the Effect of Direction of Turning in Twin Screws, by Mr. R. E. Froude, 416, 423
Trunk-Deck Steamer “Oscar IL,” by Mr. W. Hok, 424, 461
Reminiscences of Early Marine Steam Engine Construction and Steam Navigation in the United States of America from 1807 to 1850, by Mr. Charles II. Haswell, 425, 515
Description of Some Experiments with a Water-Tube Boiler, by Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 411, 426. See Erratum, 465 ; also Letters, Wingfield, andc.
Discharging Grain Cargoes by Pneumatic Means, by Mr. F. E. Duckham, 453, 460
A General Theory of the Oscillations of a Ship on Waves, by Captain A Kriloff, I.R N., 453
On the Stresses on a Ship in a Sea-Way, by Captain A. Kriloff, I.R N., 453
The Problem of Stability in Naval Architecture, by Herr L. GUmbel of Berlin, 454
Minimum Net Register and its Effect on Design, by Mr. A. Ramage, 454, 742
Note on the Steering Qualities of the “Yas-hima,” by Mr. Philip Watts, 456
On Resistance to the Motion of Solids in a Fluid, by Herr B. Schieldrop, of Bergen, 425, 577
On the Direct Attachment of Copper Sheathing Plates to the Hulls of Vessels, by Mr. Leopold Roper, 457. See Letters
Concluding Proceedings, 457

Naval Engineers, United States, 17, 115, 627
Naval Mounts, Maxim Guns, 387
Navy, British, 651, 697
Navy Engineers’ Rank, United States, 17,115, 627
Navy Estimates, 307
Navy, Japan, 635
Navies Compared, 296
New South Wales Railways, 81
New York Electrical Exhibition, 699
New Zealand Railways, 439
Newcastle Daily Chronicle Edition of British Almanac, andc., 296
Newton’s Rings, Method of Viewing, 547
Niagara, New Arch Bridge at, 606
Nickel Steel for Electric Apparatus, 66
Nickel Steel, Coefficient of Expansion of, 56
Nickel Steel, Some Peculiarities in, 668
Niclausse Water-Tube Boilers in Spanish Battleship “ Pelayo,” 504
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 189
North German Lloyd (Historical), 266
Northern Railway of France, 705, 724, 757, 738
Northampton Institute, 345
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 23, 47, 78, 112, 144, 177, 208, 240, 281, 304, 337, 369, 433, 464, 498, 532, 564, 598, 631, 663, 695, 737, 760, 802
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 288
Notes from the North, 23, 46, 78, 112, 144, 176, 208, 240, 280, 304, 336, 368, 400, 432, 464, 498, 532, 564, 598, 630, 694, 737, 759, 801
Notes from South Africa, 560
Notes from the South-West, 24, 47, 79, 113, 145, 177, 209, 241, 281, 305, 337, 369, 401, 433, 464, 499, 532, 565, 599, 631, 663, 695, 738, 760, 802
Notes from South Yorkshire, 23, 46, 78, 112, 144, 176, 208, 240, 280, 304, 336, 368, 400, 432, 464, 498, 532, 564, 598, 630, 663, 695, 737, 760, 802
Notes from the United States, 21, 74, 112, 152, 205, 209, 248, 280, 311, 336, 377, 448, 472, 491, 531, 572, 598, 629, 729, 756, 794
Nut, Godden’s Positive Grip Lock, 318
Nuts, Helicoid Lock, 141

Oban and Ballachulish Railway, 606
Ohm, Determination of the, 29
Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
“O’Higgins,” Chilian Cruiser (Elswick), 662
Oil. See also Petroleum
Oil Engines. See also Engines
Oil Engines, 786
Open-Hearth Furnaces in United States, 397
Optical Apparatus for Finisterre Electric Lighthouse, 623
Optical Phenomena, Dynamical Illustration of, 350
Oram’s “ Marine Steam Engine,” 261
Ordnance. See Guns
Ordnance Factory, Government, 403
Ore-Handling Plant, Brown’s, 560
Ore Washers, 392
Orient Liner “ Orient,” 735
Origin of the Governor, 610
“ Oscar IL,” Trunk-Deck Steamer, 424, 161
Oscillation of Ships on Waves, 453
Oscillator, Tesla, 159
Output, Thermal Limit of, Electric, 604
Oven, Collin’s Coke, 42
Ovens, Coking in By-Product, 593

Paddle Engines. See Engines
Parabolic Reflectors, Electrolytic Process for Making, 349
Paris and Calais Railway Profile, 724. See 738, 757
Paris Exhibitions, 345, 467, 505, 537, 747, 797
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Locomotives, 395, 475
Paris Sewage Farm, 408
Parshall, Mr. II. F., on Electric Generators. See Electric Generators
Parshall, Mr. H. F., on Rail Returns for Electric Tramways, 568, 580. See 218 and 638
Passenger Accommodation, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 266, 300
Passengers, Atlantic, 149
Patent Cases, The Trial of, 435, 473. See Letters
Patent Fees in South Africa, 75
Patent Law, Japanese, 523, 700
Patent Law Problems, 732
Patent Laws, 405
Patent Record, 33, 61, 97, 129, 161, 193, 225, 257, 289, 321, 353, 385, 417, 449, 483, 517, 549, 583, 615, 647, 679, 713, 745, 778, 809
Patents in Japan, 700
Paving Bricks, Tests for, 311
Peace Employment of Royal Engineer Officers.
See Royal Engineers
Peake of Tenerife, Observation on the, 285
Peckham Tramway Trucks, 317
“ Pelayo,” Spanish Battleship, 504
Permanent Way, 325. See 378
Permanent Way, Steel, 595, 711
Permeability Measurements, 2
Pernambuco Railways, 662
Perreuil Brick Works, 103
Petroleum Engines. See Engines
Phenological Observations, 1897, 205
Phosphate Field, New, 20
Phosphorus and its Effects on Iron, 694
Photographing Meteorological Phenomena, 333

Physical Society :

Photographs, Illustration, Zeeman Effects, b Professor Fitzgerald, 158
Electric Signalling without Connecting Wires, by Professor Oliver Lodge, 158
Tesla Oscillator, by Dr. S. Thompson, 159
Treasurer’s and Council Reports, 220
Electromagnetic Induction in Plane, Cylindrical, and Spherical Current Sheets and its Representation by Moving Trails of Images, by Mr. G. H. Bryan, 220
Eton Meeting, 285
Observations on the Peak of Tenerife, by Professor Porter, 285
A New Theory of Geyser Action, by Professor Porter, 285
Dynamical Illustration of Certain Optical Phenomena, by Professor J. D. Everett, 350
The Properties of Liquid Mixtures, by Professor R. A. Lehfeldt, 350
The Circulation of Gaseous Matter in a Crooke’s Tube, by Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton, 413
Thermo-Electro Pyrometers, by Mr. A. Stansfield, 413
A Method of Viewing Newton’s Rings, by Professor T. C. Porter, 547
Apparatus to Illustrate Three-Phase Method of Transmitting Power, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 517
Galvanometers, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Mr. T. Mather, 678
A Simple Method of Reducing Prismatic Spectra, by Messrs. Edwin Edser and C. P. Butler, 710
Some Further Experiments on the Circulation of the Residual Gaseous Matter in Crooke’s Tubes, by Campbell Swinton, 710
Max Meyer’s Theory of Audition, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 773
Attenuation of Electric Waves Along a Line of Negligible Leakage, by Mr. E. H. Barton, 773
Diffusive Convection, by Mr. A. Griffiths, 773
Physics, Elementary, 104
Pipe Explosion, Steam, 744
Pipes, Brazed Copper Steam, 468
Pipes, Water Hammer in, 758
Piston Valve, Campbell’s Prismatic, 123
Planing Armour-Plates, 557
Planing Tool, Bird’s Duplex, 673. See Erratum. 736
Plansifter, Bunge’s, 25
Plate-Bending Machine, Hydraulic, 659
Plate Mills at Creusot, 654', 683, 717, 749
Pneumatic Grain Elevator, 453, 460
Pneumatic Hammer, Boyer, 251
Pneumatic Postal Tubes, 800
Portland Cement, Manipulation of, 255
Portland Cement, Purity of, 256
Post Office London Directory, 104
Postal Tubes, Pneumatic, 800
Potter Tilting Open-Hearth Furnace, 397
Powder, Maxim-Schupphaus Smokeless, 739, 536
Power Absorbed in Skin Friction and Wave-Making, 421, 425, 610
Power, Cost of Steam, 70
Power Station, Electric, at Glasgow, 794
Power Transmission, Method of Illustrating Three-Phase, 517
Power Transmission on Ships, 156
Practical Engineer Pocket-Book, 105
Preller, Dr., on Electric Lighthouse, Finisterre, 551, 623 ; on Water-Power on the Rhine, 297
Presses, Hydraulic Forging, 457, 487, 557. See 531
Press, Hydraulic Hay, andc., 787
Price-Williams, Mr.* IL, on Steel Permanent Way, 595, 711
Prismatic Piston Valve, Campbell’s, 123
Prismatic Spectra, Reducing, 710
Private Bill Legislation, 437
Process Year-Book for 1898, Edited by Wm. Gamble, 587
Proctor’s Mechanical Stokers, 725
Producers, Gas, in United States, 481
Production, Co-operative, 731
Profile Steel for Tools (Beardshaw), 187
Profit-Sharing, 731
Propeller Blades, 21, 75, 250, 273
Propeller, Cavitation in Front.of, 603
Propeller, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 590
Properties of Commercial Copper Wire, 655
Puddling Furnaces, Rotary, 293
Pulley Fastening, Blanton, 238
Pulley, Spring-Mounted Crane, 88
Pumping Machinery, Tests of, 103
Pumping Plant, Inefficiency of, 734
Pumps, Air and Circulating, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 495
Pumps. By K. Hartmann and J. O. Knoke, 393
Purdue University, 55
Purification of Sewage, 82, 638
Purifying Plant, Water, 108
Purity of Portland Cement, 256
Pyrometers, Thermo-Electro, 413

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Queensland Railways, 319

Rail Bond, Felten and Guilleaume’s, 272
Rail Mills, 482
Rail Returns for Electric Tramways, 568, 580. See 248, 638
Rail, Sandberg’s “Goliath,” 441
Rail Sections, Joining Different, 55
Rails (Historical), Midland Railway, 707
Rails, Microscopical Observations of Steel, 7, 201, 451, 617
Rails, Steel, 595, 711
Railway. See Central London Railway
Railway Accidents See Accidents
Railway Agreement, Manchurian, 472
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railway, Congo, 285
Railway Construction, Current, 222
Railway Diary and Official Directory, 105
Railway, Electric. See Central London Railway
Railway Extension in British Columbia, Canadian, 668
Railway, Grand Trunk, Canada, 507
Railway, Highland (Oban and Ballachulish), 603
Railway Locomotives, Cars, and Permanent Way (Historical), 675, 707
Railway Policy, Russia’s, 408
Railway Profile, Paris and Calais, 724. See 728, 757
Railway Progress, 610, 644, 675, 707
Railway Property, Irish, 273
Railway Prospects in China, S39
Railway Run, Great Northern, 377, 395, 441
Railway Station, Dresden, 571
Railway Stations, German, 506
Railway St-ike in Japan, 505
Railway Track, English v. United States, 508
Railway Track and Track Work, by E. E. Russell Tratman, 325. See 378. See Letter, 508
Railway Traction Problems, 539, 610, 644, 675 707
Railway, Trans-Siberian, 120, 216
Railway Tyre Shops 419
Railway Un punctuality, 633, 757. See Letters
Railway, Vologda-Archangel, 53
Railways, Burma, 29, 681
Railways, Canada, 277
Railways, China, 585
Railways, Colonial, 319
Railways, Construction of, in Japan, 438
Railways and Floods in South India, 396
Railways at Hamburg, Projected, 638
Railways, Indian, 319
Railways, Irish, 237. See Letters
Railways, Japanese, 121
Railways, Light, 763
Railways, London Suburban, 189, 214, 432
Railways in Mines, 682
Railways, New South Wales, 81
Railways, New Zealand, 439
Railways, Scotch, 376
Railways, South African, 560
Railways, South American, 662
Railways, World’s, 327
Rainfall in British Empire, 1877-96, 205
Rainy Days, Frequency of, 627
Ramage, Mr. A. G., on Net Register Tonnage, 451, 742
Ratchet Wrench and Drill Combined, 57
Rating Electric Power Plant, 155
Rawlinson, The Late Sir Robert, 699
Raworth and Electricity, 122, 153, 185, 217, 313, 346
Raworth, Mr. John S., Electrical Progress and
Prospects, 95. See Letters
Recording Apparatus, Electrical, 603
Reflectors, Parabolic, Electrolytic Process for Making, 349
Refrigerating Machine, Ammonia Absorption, 236
Refrigerating Plant, “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 721
Refrigerating Plant, De la Vergne’s, Brighton Ice Rink, 659
Refuse Destructors, 150, 179, 212, 217. See Letters
Regulator, Automatic Gas Pressure, 528
Renolds’ Chain Gear, 542
Reservoirs with High Earthern Dams, 121
Resistance to Ship Propulsion, 421, 420, 425, 441, 477, 511, 577, 610
Resistance of Water Surface, 420, 444, 477, 511
Retorts for Gas Plant, 768
Return Feeders for Electric Tramways, 638
Review of the Japanese Patent Law, including Regulations relating to Trade Marks and Designs. By W. Silver Hall, 523
Rhine Water-Power, Utilisation, 297
Rifle-Calibre Guo, 234, 328
Rivers and Bays, Dockising, 22
Riveter, Hydraulic (Wood, Philadelphia), 597
Riveting by Electricity, 420
Road Vehicles, Steam, 245. See Cars, Motor
Robinson’s Shaft Governor, Engine with, 758
Rock Blasting, 720
Rocking Moment of Crankshaft “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 429
Rolling-Mill Department, (Creusot), 619, 654, 683, 717, 749
Rolling Stock (Historical), Midland Railway, 707
Rolls, Bearings for, 283
Rontgen Rays, 506
Rontgen Rays, A New Use for, 769
Rontgen Rays at the Royal Society Soirde, 602, 733
Roots and Venables Motor Van, 766
Roper, Mr. L., on Sheathing Ships, 457
Rotary Puddling Furnaces, 293
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural Society, Royal
Royal Engineer Officers, Peace Employment of, 185, 218
Royal Engineers, 185, 218, 756, 794, 795
Royal Engineers and Appointments, 403
Royal Society Soiree, 602, 733. See Eriatum. 629
Russia, Chemical Industry in, 701
Russian Imperial Yacht “ Standart ” (Burmeister and Wain), 123, 173
Russian Industry and Trade, 148
Russian Railway, 53
Russia’s Railway Policy, 408

Sachs, Mr. Edwin O. See Fire Protection in Europe
Safety Appliances for Mines, 682
Salem Iron Resources, 567. See Letters, India Iron Resources
Salt, Glauber, in the Caspian Sea, 216
Sandberg’s “ Goliath” Rail, 441
Sandy Estuaries, Channel through, 205
Saunderson’s Motor Van, 766
Scale and Corrosion in Steam Boilers, 248, 272
Scantlings of “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 300
Schieldrop, Mr. B., on Resistance to the Motion of Solids in a Fluid, 577, 425

Schneider and Co.’s Works, Creusot. See Letter, 573

Armour-Plate Department, 457, 487, 524, 557, 587. See 531
Armour-Plate Mills, 717
Armour-Plate Tests, 587
Bessemer Plant, 200
Blast-Furnace Department, 137, 169
Blooming Mills, 683, 717, 749
Brick Works, Perreuil, 103
Castings, 360
Classification of Works, 71
Coal Mines, 71
Cogging Mills, 683, 717
Coke Ovens, 169
Crane, Electric Travelling, 150-Ton, 325
Creusot Works, General Plan, 101
Drilling, andc., Armour-Plates, 557
Economic Conditions, 38
Electric Travelling Crane, 150-Ton, 325
Forging Presses and Hammers, 457, 487, 557. See 531
Foundry, Steel, 360
Furnaces, Annealing, andc., 717, 791
Furnaces, Reheating, 717, 791
Gas-Fired Tubulous Boilers, 169
Hardening Armour-Plates, 521
Historical, 3
Hydraulic Presses, 457, 487, 557. See 531
Ingot Moulds, 293
Iron Mines, 101
Machine Tools for Finishing Armour-Plates, 525, 557
Perreuil Brick Works, 103
Planing Armour-Plates; 557
Plate Mills, 654, 683, 717, 749
Presses, Hydraulic Forging, 457, 487, 557. See 531
Puddling Furnaces, Rotary, 293
Railway Tyre Shops, 419
Rolling-Mill Department, 619, 654, 683, 717, 749, 791
Rotary Puddling Furnaces, 293
Shearing Machines, 749
Sheet Mills, 749
Siemens-Martin Plant, 232, 265, 293
Slabbing Mills, 717
Steel Foundry, 360
Steel Works, 200, 232, 265, 293, 363
Tests of Armour-Plates, 587
Tyre Shops, 419
Workers’ Conditions, 38
Schneider, M. Henri, 643, 735. See 757
Schneider’s Plant, 573
Schools in France, Trade, 635
Science Abstracts, 401
Science and Art Department, Entropy and the, 670
Science Handbooks for Laboratory and Class Room, 104
Scotch Railways, 376
Scotch Shipbuilding, 58. See 53
Scotch Steel Trade Conciliation, 797
Screw Dies for Turret Lathe, 172
Screw Engines. See Engines
Screws, Twin, Mr. R. E. Froude on, 416, 423
Screwing Machine for Stay Bolts, 173
Sea Water on Cast Iron, Action of, 311
Seeing under Water, 471
Self-Propelled Vehicles, 736. See Cars, Motor
Sell’s Directory of the World’s Press, 297
Sell’s Telegraphic Address Directorv, 160
Sennett’s “ Marine Steam Engine,” 261
Separator, Steam, 347
Septic Tank System, 82
Sewage, Bacteriological Treatment, 82, 63S
Sewage Farm, Paris, 408
Sewage Purification, 82
Shaft Governor, Engines with Robinson’s, 758
Shaft-Sinking by Freezing Process, 553
Shearing Machines, 749
Shears, Hydraulic Beam (Wood, Philadelphia), 597
Sheathing, Copper, of Ships, 457. See Letters
Sheet Iron, Energy Losses, 99
Sheet Mills, Creusot, 749
Sheffield Fire, 134
Shield for Tunnelling, 329, 485
Ship-Loading Plant, 560
Ship, Resistance of Fluid to Propulsion of, 577,425
Ship Skin Friction and Wave-Making, 420, 421 425, 444, 477, 511, 610
Ship Stability, 454
Ship Stresses in a Seaway, 453
Ships, Copper Sheathing, 457. See Letters
Ships’ Coppering, 508, 542, 572
Ships, Power Transmission on, 156
Ships on Waves, Oscillation of, 453
Shipbuilding in Denmark, 582
Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1897, 27, 53, 58
Shipbuilding Gantry (Fielding and Platt), 111
Shipbuilding for Japan, 547
Shipbuilding, Lloyd’s Returns, 471
Shipbuilding and Shipping in Japan, 799
Shipping, British, 279
Shipping, French, 150
Shipping Industry in Japan, 66
Shipping, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 189
Shipping Preferential Freights, 570
Shipping and Shipbuilding, German, 344
Shipping and Shipbuilding in Japan, 799
Shipping World Year Book, 296
Shipwrecks, Lloyd’s Return, 86
Shoe, Brake, Diamond “ S,” 57
Shoreditch Refuse Destructors, 179, 212. See Letters
Siberian Railway, 120, 216
Siemens-Martin Plant, 232, 265, 293
Skin Friction and Wave-Making, Horse-Power absorbed in, 420, 421, 425, 444, 477 511 610
Slabbing Mills, Creusot, 717 ’ ’
Slide Valves, Friction of Locomotive, 185
Smith’s Tramway Chronograph, 692
Smokeless Powder, Maxim-Schtlpphaus, 536, 739
Social Economy Exhibits at Brussels, 136

Society of Arts:

Linde’s Process for Producing Liquid Air, by Professor J. A. Ewing, 310. See Letters, Air
Society of Engineers, 744
Sodium Electrolytic, 216
Softening Water, 670, 758, 736, 757, 79a
South Africa, Patent Fees, 75
South Africa, Railway and Works, 560
South American Railways, 662
South Wales Colliers’ Strike, 529
“ Sovereign,” Engines of T.-S. Yacht, 33?
Spanish Battleship “ Pelayo,” 501
Spanish Cruiser “ Cristobal Colon (Ansaldo., 206. See Letters
Spectra, Reducing Prismatic, 710
Speed, Accelerating Curves, 259
Sphygmo-Manometer, 602
Spring-Mounted Crane Pulley, 88
Stability of Ships, 454
Stamp Mill, Morison’s Quick-Running, 691
“Standart,” Russian Imperial Yacht (Burmeister and Wain), 123, 173
Stations, German Railway, 506
Staving Machine, Hydraulic Tube (Fielding and Platt, Limited). 77
Stay-Bolt Threading Device, 173
Steam Engines at Birmingham Show, 783
Steam Gauge, Invention of the, 249, 273
Steam Laundry Machinery, 553, 771, 805. See Letters, Softeninj Water
Steam Pipe Explosion, 741
Steam Pipes, Brazed Copper, 468
Steam Pipes Water Hammer, 758
Steam Power, Cost of, 70
Steam Road Vehicles, 245. See Cars, Motor
Steam Separator, 347
Steam Users’ Association, Manchester, 473
Steam Valve, MacFarlane’s Self-Closing, 395
Steam Vehicles for Heavy Traffic, 636, 669, 685. See 766. See also-Cars, Motor
Steamer, First, at Chungking, 667
Steamers, Dispute as to Loch Lomond, 151
Steamers, French, for Calais and Dover, 792
Steamers, Net Register Tonnage, 454, 742
Steamers, Trunk-Deck, 424, 461
Steel, Basic Refined, on the Continent, 777
Steel, Cast, 66
Steel Foundry at Creusot, 360
Steel, Hardening of, 374
Steel and Iron in Japan, 701
Steel and Iron Practice, United States, 381, 397, 481
Steel and Iron in Sweden (Stockholm), 392. See 237
Steel Magnetisation, 65
Steel, Nickel, Some Peculiarities, 668
Steel Plant in France, 573
Steel Process, Bertrand Thiel, 392
Steel, Profile, for Tools (Beardshaw), 187
Steel Rails, 595, 711
Steel Rails, Microscopical Observations of, 7, 201, 451, 617
Steel, The Use of, 275
Steel Trade, Conciliation in the, 797
Steel Works, Creusot, 200, 232, 265, 293, 360
Steelmaking Process, Tropenas, 43
Steering Gear “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse” (Brown Brothers, Edinburgh), 590
Steering of Japanese Battleship “ Yashima,” 456
Step-up Transformer, 161
Stevens Valve Gear, Marine Engines, 201, 219
Still, Explosion of a Chemical, 579
Stock Exchange Year-Book, 104
Stockholm Exhibition, 392
Stokers, Proctor’s Mechanical, 725
Stream Line Motion,.Dr. Hele-Shaw on, 420 444 477, 511 ’ ’
Strength of Brickwork, 121
Strength, Trial of, Elephant v. Men, 181
Stresses on a Ship in a Seaway, 453
Strike in Japan, Railway, 505"
Strike, South Wales Colliers’, 529
Strikes in Japan, 373
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E. on Basic Refined Steel on the Continent, 777
Styffe, The Late Knut, 183
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 158
Submarine Torpedo-Boats, 457, 543
Subway See Central London Railway
Surface Drainage Channels, Dimensions, 190
Surface Resistance of Water, 420,441 477 511
Surgery and Rbntgen Rays, 769 ’ ’
Survey, Fire, 35, 133, 228, 335
Swan, Mr. J. W., on Electricity and Chemical
Manufacture, 87, 127
Sweden, Iron Ore in, 86
Sweden, Iron and Steel, 237
Sweden, Iron and Steel (Stockholm) 39?
Synchronograph, 278

Tacheograph, Ziegler-Hager, 558
Tall Building, Chicago, 781
Tapered Hole-Widening Machine, 755
Tavistock, Derailment at, 643
TphhnrJIyM Ail‘ ConJPressor’ 5(53. See 640
| 1 nery *771* ’ °n Steam Laundr? Machi-
Technical Education in Germany 521
Technical Education and Northampton Institute, 34o
Telegraph Company, Great Northern, 626
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 158
Telegraph, Hertz-Wave Space, 602, 733
Telegraph, Synchronograph, 278
Telegraphing without Wires, 159
Telegraphy, Post Office, 646
Telephone Station Fire in Zurich, 438
Telescope, 10
Telpher Lines, 607
Temperature of Coils, Internal and Surface 605
Temperature Effects on Insulation Stance,
Tenerife, Observations on the Peak of, 285
Tensile Tests at High Temperatures, 375
Tesla Oscillator, 159
Testing Cast Iron, 155
Testing Insulating Methods, loo
Testing Materials, Association tor, 11
Testing Wire, Machine for, 1/3
Tests of Armour-Plates, 587
Tests of Pumping Machinery, 108 .
Textile Manufacturing Plant, Valuation, lob
Thames Bridge at Vauxhall. o40
Thames Shipbuilding, 27, 53
Theatre Hydraulic Bridges, Drury Lane, /□*
Theodolite, Ziegler-Hager, 558
Thermal Expansion of Solids, Measunno, o Thermal Limit of Output, 601
Thermo-Electric Pyrometers, 413 ,
Thermodynamics without the Calcu.us, loo
Thermopile, 571
Thiel Process, Bertrand, 392
Thornycroft Boiler Feed Regulator, 34/
Thornycroft Steam Lurry, 725, 766
Tilting Open-Hearth Furnace, Potter s, 393
Tin-Plate Industry, 569
Tonnage, Net Register, 454, 742
Tools, Profile Steel for (Beardshaw), 187
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 22
Torpedo-Boats. See H'arships
Torpedo-Boats, Submarine, 453, 547
Traction. See also Electric Traction
Traction, Electric. See Municipal Electrical Association
Traction, Electric, 31, 91, 195, 317, 568, 580, 638
Traction Engine, 783
Trade in Japan, 117
Trade, Russian, 148
Trade Unionism, 463
Train Unpunctuality, 633, 757. See Letters
Tramway Chronograph, ^Smith’s, 692
Tramway, Dublin Electric, 248
Tramways, Copenhagen, 345
Tramways, Electric, 31, 91, 195, 317, 568, .'>89,638
Tramways, Rail Returns for Electric, 568, 530. See 638
Trans-Siberian Railway, 120, 216
Transatlantic Passengers, 149
Transformer, Step-up, 161
Transformers, Electromotive Force and Flux in, 390
Transmission Dynamometer, 28
Transmission of Power on Ships, 156
Transportation in Mines, 682
Transport, Cost of, 184
Travelling Gantry at Harland and Wolff’s (Fielding and Platt), 111
Trials of H.M.S. “Diadem,” 83, 119, 149, 213, 407, 441
Tricycles. See Cycles
Triple-Expansion. See Engines
Tropenas Steel-Making Process, 43
Trotter, Mr. A. P., on Electric Tramways, 638
Trunk-Deck Steamers, 424, 461
Tube Joint. Hydraulically-Expanded, 151, 185. See Letters
Tube-Staving Machine, Hydraulic (Fielding and Platt, Limited), 77
Tunnel-Excavating Machine, 485
Tunnelling, Central London Railway, 329, 485
Turret Lathe, Screw Dies for, 172
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Twin Screws, Effect of Direction of Turning, 416, 423
Typical North German Lloyd Steamers, 1857-88, 268
Tyre Shops, Creusot, 419

United Kingdom Railway Extensions, 222
United States Battleship “ Maine,” Destruction of, 508, 541, 572, 607, 610, 670. See also 218, 501, 650, 687, 716, 753. See Letters
United States Competition in China, 697
United States v. English Track, 508
United States Foreign Trade, 436
United States Information Bureau, 702
United States Iron and Steel Practice, 381 397 481 ’ ’ ’
United States Lakes and Atlantic Canal, 309
United States Marine Engineering, 425 515
United States Naval Engineers, 17
United States Naval Intelligence, 531
United States Navy Rank for Engineers, 115, 527
United States Ships and Power for Auxiliary Engines, 156
United States Submarine Torpedo-Boats, 457
United States Submerged Torpedo-Boat (Holland’s), 543 '
United States Tin-Plate Industry, 569
Unpunctuality, Railway, 633. See Letters
Unsere Hochschulen und die Anforderungenc des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. By A. Riedler 521
Utilisation of Water-Power on the Rhine, 297

Valuation of Textile Manufacturing Propertv 156
Valve Campbell’s Prismatic Piston, 123 3 ’
Valve Gear, Stevens, Marine Engines, 204, 219 \al\e, MacFarlane’s Self-Closing Steam, 395
Valves, Friction of Slide, 185
Van Trials Motor, 628, 666, 669, 685, 766
Vauxhall Bridge, 540
Vehicles, Self-Propelled, 736. See Cars, Motor
Ventilating Mines, 553
Venturi Meter, 313
Vickers’ Guns, 622
Vieille Montagne, 670
Vologda-Archangel Railway, 53
Volunteer Corps of Electrical Engineers 183

Wagons (Historical), Midland Railway, 707
' 628’ 6681 885- See 700 s" Cars,
wa!!"I’n1or I!'ett0rin" Machine, 512
Wallsall Boiler Explosion, 614
Warehouse Protection, 519

Warships:

A mentH653garian WMShip EIectrical Equip-
Chilian Cruiser •• O’Higgins” (Elswick), 662
War* l> iP*—continued.
Dutch Cruisers “ Holland.” " Friesland ”
• (Yarrow), WateJSSbT^
H.M. Cruiser “ Adriane ” (Clvdebank) 548 H.M. Cruiser “ Diadem.” Trials (Fairfield Company). 83, 119, 149, 213, 407 414"
CrUiSer “ He™«* ” (Fair-
H.M.8. “Albion ’’(Thames Iron Works) 7fn H.M.S. Creasy Cruisers, 372"
H.MJS. “Europa,” Machinery (Clydebank), H.M.S. “ Illustrious" Gun and Steam Trials 343’
Japan, Sea Power of, 635
Japan, Ships Building for, 547
Japanese Battleship “ Yashima,” Steering of
Japanese Cruiser “ Akashi,” 43
Naval Annual, 651
Russian Imperial Yacht “ Standart” (R,,r meister and Wain), 123, 173'
Spanish Battleship “ Pelayo,” 501
SlXiS!L<V’?.-irr • C7st<’b’al Colon "(Ansaldo) 20b, 249, 2/2. See Lkttkrs'*
United States Cruiser “Maine,” Explosion 2kS 51)1, 650. 687, 716, 752,782. See 0
United States Ships and Power for Auxiliary Engines, 156•
United States Submarine Torpedo Boats 457 I nited States Submerged Torpedo-Boat (ilol.land’s), 543'

Washers for Ore, 392
Waste of Shipping, 86
Water-Gauge Cock Cleaner, Watson’s, 25
Water-Gauge Fittings (Winn and Co.). 89 Spa Erratum, 145. 236’
Water Hammer in Pipes, 758
Water-Power on the Rhine, Utilisation of. 297
Water-Purifying Plant, 108
Water, Seeing under, 471
Water, Softening. 670. 757, 736, 758, 795
Water Supply and Health, 181
Water Supply, London, 152
Water-Tube Boiler, Cahall, 315
Water-Tube Boiler, Hay thorn’s. 693
Water-Tube Boiler Regulator, Thornvcroft 347
Water-Tube Boiler (Yarrow) in Dutch Cruiser
Water-Tube Boilers, Belleville, in “Diadem” 83, 119, 149, 213, 407. 444 ’
Water-Tulie Boilers. Belleville, Russian Yacht | “ Standart,” 123, 173
Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation in, 377, 508 ,
Water-Tube Boilers, Niclausse, in Spanish Battleship “ Pelayo,” 504
Water-Tube Boilers, Yarrow’s (Circulation). 411 426. See 465, 598
Watson’s Safety Water-Gauge Cock Cleaner, 25
Wave-Making, Horse-Power Absorbed in Skin friction and, 421, 420, 425, 444, 477, 511, 610
Waves, Oscillation of Ships on, 453
Weather, 19. 182, 310, 437
Weather Influence on Crops, 87
Webbs l/ocomotive Performances, 20
Wednesbury, Boiler Explosion at, 643
Well Boring, 506
Wellman’s Charging Machine for Iron Ore, 397
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Comparative Fusibility of Foundry Metals, 286, 319
West. Mr. Thomas D., on the Effects of Phosphorus on the Strength and Fusibility of Iron,
Westrn Australian Go,(,» Kalgoorlie, Ac.,
Westley’s Bearings for Rolls, 286
Wheels, M.v hineMoulded, 67, 131, 291, 525. 715. See also 204
White Gas Engine, 153
White and Middleton Gas Engine. 76. See Lkttkrs
Who’s Who, 297
Widening Machine, Tapered Hole, 755
Wilhng’s British and Irish Press Guide, 297
Wimshurst’s, Mr. James, Retirement, 54
Wind Pressure, Instrument for Measuring, 376
Wind and W eather in London, 756
Winding Machine (Wilson, Liverpool), 485
W Hidings for Dynamos, 227, 323
Windkiss and Capstan (Napier Brothers, Glasgow), 591
Wingfield's Straight-Line Boiler Diagrams, 508, 607
Wire-Testing Machine, 173
Wireless Telegraphy, 602, 733
Wooden Beams, 492
Woolwich Ordnance Factory, 403
Work done in Hammering, 279

Works:

Kynoch's Ammunition Works, 270
Schneider’s Works, Creusot. See Schneider and Co.'x JI'orL*

Workers’ Conditions, 38
Workmen’s Compensation Act Handbook, 297
Workmen’s Compensation Act, 375, 607
World’s Railways, 327
Wrench and Drill Combined, Ratchet, 57

Yacht Engines, ” Sovereign,” 335
Yacht “Standart,” Russian Imperial (Burmeister amrWain), 173
Yangtsi Kiang Steamers, 667
Yarrow Boiler in Dutch Cmiser, 702
Yarrow Water-Tube Boiler Circulation, 411, 426., See 465, 508
Yarrow’s Boat and United Suites Reporters, 531
Yoshima, Steering of Japanese Battleship, 456
Year-Books and Annuals, 104, 154, 295, 333
Yokohama Harbour and Engineering Works, 668

Zeeman, Effects on Metals, 158
Ziegler-Hager Tacheograph, 55b
Zinc, Electrolytic, s5, 154. See Lkttkhs zmr at \ iclle Montagne, 670
Zurich Telephone Station Fire, 438

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