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Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

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Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Paragraph Index.
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Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Paragraph Index.
Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Paragraph Index.
Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Paragraph Index.
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Engineering 1898 Jan-Jun: Paragraph Index.
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PARAGRAPH INDEX

Agriculture:

  • Agricultural Plant for Bulgaria, 316
  • Bath Show, 401, 599, 695
  • Indian Implements, 672
  • Machinery for Russia, 448
  • Peru, Implement Industry, 533
  • Prizes for Hop Machines, 499
  • Royal Show, 241
  • Siberian Implements, 533
  • Alloys. See Mechanics

Appointments:

  • Albert Medal. Mr. G. J. Symons, 282
  • Iron and Steel Bessemer Medal (Mr. R. Price-Williams), 401
  • LL.D, to Mr. John Inglis, Shipbuilder, 336, 464
  • Master Cutler of Sheffield, Sir Alex. Wilson, 760
  • Professor of Naval Architecture in Japan, 126
  • Shipwright-Surveyor to the Board of Trade, 773
  • Armour, Naval
  • Artillery. See Guns
  • Boilers. See Engines and Boilers

Bridges:

  • Aberdeen Harbour, New Bridge, 598
  • Bridge-Building in Egypt, 465
  • Bridge over the Ta}’ at Perth, 498
  • Cross-River Bridge at Glasgow, 280
  • Niagara, International Bridge, 643
  • Oatlands Bridge over the Clyde, 564
  • Orange Free States Bridges, 113
  • Subsidence of a Viaduct, 735
  • Swansea Swing Bridge, 113
  • Temporary Bridge for Warfare, 397
  • Timber Bridges, Life of, 365
  • United States Bridge in Holland, 2.8
  • Vauxhall Bridge, 241
  • Viaduct in Difficulties, 79

Canals :

  • British American Canal, 248
  • Corinth Canal, 542
  • Emperor William Canal, 24
  • Great Russian Canal, 177. See Letter, 248
  • Manchester Ship Canal, 209
  • New York Canal, 24
  • North Sea-Baltic Canal, 631
  • Panama Canal, 186, 693
  • Sheffield and South Yorkshire, 432
  • Suez Canal, 121, 209, 288, 337, 579, 688, 704

Catalogues:

Coal:

  • Alabama Coke for Mexico, 473
  • Australasian Coal, 318
  • Baillieston Coal Output, 593
  • Belgian Briquettes, 220, 414, 678
  • Belgian Coal, 128, 236, 288, 576
  • Belgian Coal Imports, 288
  • British Coal Exports, 91, 205, 378, 542, 616, 776
  • British Coal Production, 648
  • Cardiff, 24, 47, 79, 113, 145, 177, 209, 241, 281, 305, 337, 369, 401, 433, 454, 499, 532, 565, 599, 631, 663, 695, 738, 761, 803
  • Cardiff Exports, 113
  • Carmarthenshire Coal, 761
  • China Coal, 738
  • Cleveland. See Middlesbrough
  • Coal Traffic to the South of England, 465
  • Colonial Exports, 369
  • Cumberland Coal-Mining, 30, 94
  • France, Coal in the Western of, 563
  • French Coal-Mining, 238
  • Forest of Dean Coal, 565
  • German Coal, 22
  • German Coal-Mining, 281
  • Hull Shipments, 46, 185, 301, 464, 598, 760
  • Japan Coal, 465, 738
  • Merthyr, Coal at, 209
  • Middlesbrough, 24, 47, 78, 177, 209, 211, 281, 301, 337, 369, 400, 433, 464, 498, 532, 565, 599, 631, 663, 695, 737, 760, 802
  • Midlands Coal, 32
  • Mining Machinery, 695
  • Newport and South Wales Coal, 761
  • Prussia, Coal-Mining, 497
  • Railway Coal Bill, United Kingdom, 239
  • Railway Coal in France, 770
  • Rhymney Valley Coal, 47, 281, 401
  • Rhymney Valley New Seams, 369
  • Russia, English Coal, 255
  • Scotch Railway Coal Bill, 384
  • Scotch Shipments, 23
  • Sheffield, 23, 47, 78, 112, 144, 177, 208, 240, 281, 305, 337, 369, 400, 433, 464, 498, 532, 564, 598, 630, 663, 695, 760, 802
  • Siberian Coal, 241
  • South African Coal, 186
  • South Wales Mining, 599
  • South Wales Shipments, 209, 465, 631, 760
  • Sweden, Coal in, 218
  • Sweden, South-Western, Coal, 442
  • Transvaal Coal, 531
  • United States Anthracite, 288
  • United States Coal, 531
  • United States Coal Output, 533
  • Welsh Coal Shipments, 24
  • Welsh Colliery Enterprise, 305
  • Welsh Seams, New, 337, 433, 631, 695
  • Yorkshire. See Sheffield
  • Zambesi Fields, 803*
  • Collisions* Sae General Index, Accidents

Companies :

  • Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., 281
  • Bristol and South Wales Railway Wagon Company, 145, 177, 761
  • Brown and Co., Limited, John, 802
  • Brush Electrical Company, 209
  • Bute Dock Company, Limited, 563
  • Bute Dry Dock Company, Limited, 565
  • Charles Cammell and Co., 368
  • Consett Iron Company, 113
  • William Cooke and Co., 663
  • Darlington Iron and Steel Company, Limited 565
  • Delta Metal Company, Limited, 378
  • Earle’s Shipbuilding Company, 78
  • Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Company Limited, 852
  • Engine, Boiler, and Employers Liability surance Company, 285
  • Great Western Colliery Company, Limited,
  • Hallamshire Steel and File Company, Limited,
  • Head, Wrightson, and Company, Limited, 8')2
  • Kelham Rolling Mills Company, 630
  • Neepsand Rolling Mills Company,
  • Newport Dry Dock Shipbuilding Company, 533
  • Rhymney Iron Company, 145
  • Robey and Co., Limited, 337
  • Scottish Silicate Brick Company, 432, 498
  • Sheffield Companies, 46 .
  • Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company, 432
  • Stewart, A. J., and Clydesdale, Limited, 464
  • Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, 695
  • Vulcan Boilerand General Insurance Company, Limited, 282
  • Yorkshire Engine Company, 305
  • Defence of Coasts. See Naval
  • Drainage. See Sewage
  • Electric Tramways. See Tramwayt

Electricity:

  • Allan Accumulator, 217
  • Battery, Storage, 145
  • Electric Energy Station, Parliamentary Powers, 346
  • Electrical Engineers’ Corps, 631
  • General Power Distributing Company, Sheffield, 240
  • Heating and Cooking Apparatus, 365
  • Lamp, Incandescent, 22
  • Lifts for City and South London Railway, 499
  • Lighting Argentina, 288
  • Lighting Barnsley, 209, 598
  • Lighting Blackpool, 145
  • Lighting Bristol, 337
  • Lighting Cardiff, 695, 738
  • Lighting Dundee, 694
  • Lighting Exeter, 281
  • Lighting Glasgow, 564, 737
  • Lighting Gourock, 368
  • Lighting Grimsby, 1<88
  • Lighting Hull, 154, 630, 671
  • Lighting Insurance Rules, 113
  • Lighting Leeds, 23, 432
  • Lighting Lincoln, 154
  • Lighting Mardy, Rhondda Valley, 305
  • Lighting Sheffield, 47, 176, 208,* 240. 337, 369, 532, 663
  • Lighting Shoreditch, 186
  • Lighting Swansea, 433, 533
  • Lighting Taunton, 533
  • Lighting Torquay, 369
  • Lighting with Vacuum Tubes, 761
  • Lighting White Star Liner “ Oceanic,” 729
  • Machinery, Demand for, 737
  • Mavor and Coulson’s Works, Glasgow, 363
  • Naval Ships, Russian, 241
  • Power at Crewe Shops, 79
  • Power Installation in Bristol Works, 672
  • Power for Machine-Driving, 704
  • Power from Sea Waves, 668
  • Power Transmission, 671
  • Power Transmission in Belfast Yard, 672
  • Power in Works, 565
  • Telegraph Cable Conference, 113
  • Telegraph, Cape Blantyre, 533
  • Telegraphic Development in the Colonies 333
  • Telegraphs, Brazilian State, 248
  • Telegraphs, Post Office, 273
  • Telegraphy, African, 694
  • Telegraphy, Australia and Europe, 529
  • Telegraphy, French Submarine, 448, 481
  • Telegraphy, Mexican, 305
  • Telegraphy, South African, 381, 626
  • Telegraphy across Space, 442
  • Telegraphy, United States Submarine 5>9
  • Telephone Improvement, 145
  • Telephone in the West of England, 433 472
  • Tramways, Valparaiso, 187
  • Vacuum Tubes, Lighting a Chapel, 761
  • Water-Power, Russian, 301
  • Water-Power, Sheffield, 598
  • Water-Power in Sweden 67°
  • Welding, 313
  • Wireless Telegraphy, 507
  • Engineering. See Shipbuilding and hui.utriee

Engines and Boilers:

  • Boiler Attendant Instructions 241
  • Boiler Insulating Material Tests, 761
  • Boiler-Room Coaling Labour Costs, 761
  • Engine* and Boiler*-contfaued.
  • Boilers in Austria, 78
  • Boiler Explosion. Statistics, 211
  • Condensers and Pumps, 620
  • Economy, 282
  • Engine Exports, 109, 237, 573
  • Motor, Small Lalioratory, 22
  • Parsons’ Patent for Steam Turbines, 533
  • Steam Turbines, 79
  • United States Boiler Rules, 7G4
  • Water Gauge, Visibility of, 593

Exhibitions:

  • Acetylene (Jas Generator Exhibition, Imperial Institute, 533
  • Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, 346
  • Brussels Exhibition, 47, 177
  • Como Electrical Exhibition, 729
  • Coolgardie Mining, 282
  • Coolgardie Mining Machinery, 629
  • Edinburgh Exhibition, 78
  • Paris Exhibition, 209, 761
  • Photographic Exhibition, 241
  • Rochfort-sur-Mer Exhibition, 465
  • Vienna Exhibition, Applied Chemistry, 729
  • Yachting Exhibition, 145
  • Explosions. Brc and Boilers
  • Explosives* Sec Guns

Gas and Gas Engines :

  • Acetylene, 112
  • Alcohol and Acetylene, 79
  • Christiania Gas-Pipe Contracts, 401
  • Cn pion. The New Gas, 729
  • Dundee (Jas, 094
  • Explosions in Air Compressors and Receivers, 176
  • Gas Retorts, 305
  • Gasoline Engines and Mining, 346
  • Helens burg Gas Works, 737
  • Hull Supply, 598
  • Incandescent Gas Light, 56.5
  • Natural Gas for Chicago, 288
  • Paris, Gas in, G80
  • Water-Gas in Yorkshire, 141
  • Guns and Explosives:
  • American Ordnance, 346
  • Heavy Gun in One Piece, 672
  • Sheffield-Made Projectiles, 737
  • Smokeless Powder in United States, 288
  • Vickers’ Field Gun, 737
  • Vickers’ Guns, 305
  • Vickers’ Projectile, 401

Harbours, Piers, Ac.:

  • Avonmouth Docks, 731
  • Bahia Blanca, 712
  • Barry Dock, 79, 499,631
  • Bremen Traffic, 561
  • Bristol Docks, 663, 802
  • Bute Docks, 113, 631
  • Cape Town Harl>our Works, 121
  • Cardiff Docks, 465
  • Clarence, 576
  • Clyde Dredgings, 645
  • Columbia Harbour. Ceylon, 803
  • Columbia River Harlx>ur, 250
  • Delagoa Bay, 77
  • Durban Bar, 91, 239
  • Fleet wood, 631
  • French Ports, 442
  • Glasgow Graving Dock, 532
  • Glasgow Graving Dork Pumping Plant, 280
  • Glasgow Harl>our, 30
  • Hamburg Port Traffic, 758
  • Hull Do ks and North-Eastern Railway, 176, 304, 368, 400
  • Lighthouse Apparatus, 304, 401. See Lkttkk, 846
  • Llanellv Docksand Breakwater, 145, 369, 761, 802
  • Lynmouth, 533
  • Middlesbrough Docks, 177
  • Mumbles Pier, 599, 631
  • New Zealand Harlxuirs and Light houses, 269
  • Newport Dock Company, 305
  • Nicolaicff, 756
  • Nile and its Tributaries, 209
  • Obstructions in the St. Lawrence, 15
  • Port Glasgow, 78
  • Port Talbot Docks, 465
  • Plymouth, 79, 241, 282
  • River Pollution, 113
  • Scarborough Sea Defences, 126
  • Swansea, 24, 47, 305, 337, 465, 631, 761
  • Sydney, 6t8
  • Yaw Rock, 565

Hydraulics:

  • Glasgow Hydraulic Power Supply, 176
  • Machinery at Leith, 208
  • Industries (Various):
  • Anglo-French Trade, 314
  • Australian Contracts for U.S., 756
  • British Goods in Siberia, 200
  • British Trade Returns, 631
  • Engineering, 22
  • Locomotive Contracts for Glasgow, 368, 802
  • Locomotive Exports, 57, 415, 803
  • Metals, 22 .
  • Pipe - Founding Firm, Dundee Contract for the United States, 400
  • Rivet Trade, Scotch Combination, 432
  • Russian, 211
  • Singer Sewing-Machine Needles, 23
  • South African Trade Prospects, 400
  • Swedish Industries, 354
  • Swedish Sawmill and Timber, 46o
  • Tin-Plate Industry, 738
  • Tube Trade, 304, 760
  • United States Bicycles, 397
  • Water Pipes, Contracts for, 46
  • Welsh Tinplate Trade, 381
  • Wood-Working Machinery for Russia, 288
  • Zinc Oxide Manufacture, Swansea, 337
  • Institutions. See Technical Societies

Iron and Steel* See also Markets

  • Alabama Pig Iron, 281
  • Birmingham, 26, 91, 125, 157, 188, 222, 2a4,316, 348 380, 412, 440, 476, 510, 546, 576, 609,674, 706’, 741, 774, 801
  • Belgian Blast-Furnaces, 347, 668
  • Belgian Rail Exports, 582
  • Bethlehem Company’s Iron Works, 250
  • Blast Furnaces, Belgium, 318, 643, 808
  • Blast-Furnaces, U.S., 236, 576, 795
  • British Rails Abroad, 218, 381, 508, 648, 773
  • Briton Ferry Pig Iron, 281
  • Calder New Iron Works, 280
  • Cleveland, 21, 47, 78,113,144,177, 209, 241, 281, 304, 337, 369, 400, 433, 464, 498, 532, 564, 599, 631, 663, 695, 737, 760, 892
  • Darlington Works, 192
  • Dowlais Works, 533
  • France, Iron Minerals, 93
  • France,Steel in, 495
  • French Iron Ore, 448
  • French Iron and Steel, 561
  • Furnace Run, Remarkable, 729
  • German Pig Iron, 542
  • Germany, Iron in, 448
  • Glasgow. See Scotch
  • Glengarnock Iron Works, 532
  • Jessop’s Works Fire, 663
  • Lancashire, 26, 58, 90, 125, 157, 188, 221, 253, 284, 316, 348, 380, 412, 440, 476, 510, 546, o76, 609, 674, 706, 741, 774, 804
  • Llanelly Iron Works, 145
  • Mesabi Range Iron Mines, 79
  • Middlesbrough. See Cleveland
  • Middlesbrough Exports, 144, 464
  • Middlesbrough Shipments, 281
  • Mount Vernon Steel Works, Glasgow, 210
  • New South Wales Ironmaking, 28
  • Nova Scotia Mineral Output, 580
  • Pig-Iron Exports from Grimbsy, 337
  • Pig Iron in Germany, 735
  • Pig-Iron Imports, Belgian, 28
  • Rail Construction in United States, 281
  • Rail Exports, 75
  • Russian Pig Iron, 145, 528
  • Scotch, 23, 46, 144, 177, 203, 240, 280, 301 336, 368, 400, 432, 464, 498, 532, 554, 593, 630, 694, 737, 759, 802
  • Scotch Pig-Iron Output, 23
  • Sheffield, 23, 47, 78,141, 177, SOS, 210, 280, 30o, 337, 369, 400, 432; 464, 493, 532, 564, 593, 630, 663, 695, 737, 760, 802
  • Spanish Iron Minerals, 542, 776
  • Steel Cars, 281
  • Swansea Valley Production, 533
  • United Kingdom Exports, 377
  • United States Pig Iron in Sweden, 88
  • United States Rail Exports, 803
  • United States Rails for Russia, 710
  • Venezuela Iron Ore, 669
  • Wales, South, Shipments, 209, 465, 631, 760
  • Welsh Rails for Australia, 273
  • Wolverhampton, 26, 58, 90,12o, 157, 188, 2l1, 254, 284, 316, 348, 380, 412, 440, 476, olO, o46, 576, 609, 674, 706, 741, 774, 804
  • Yorkshire. See Sheffield.

Irrigation:

  • California, 663
  • Griqualand, West, 531
  • Nile Reservoirs, 241, 499, 565
  • labour iluestions. See Trades Societies, &c.
  • Light, Electric. See Electricity
  • Machine Tools. See Mechanics

Markets:

  • Cleveland Iron, 23, 47, 78, 113, 144, 177, 203, 240, 281, 304, 337, 369, 400, 433, 464, 498, 532, 564, 598, 630, 663, 695, 737, 760, 802
  • Copper, Glasgow, 23, 46, 78, 112, 144, 176, 208, 240, 280, 301, 336, 368, 400, 432, 464, 498, 532, 564,598,630,694,737,760,802
  • Glasgow Pig Iron, 23, 46, 78, 112, 144, 176, 208, 240, 280, 301, 336, 368, 400, 432, 464, 498, 532, 564,1598, 630, 694, 737, 759, 801
  • Sulphate of Ammonia, 46, 112, 144, 176, 210, 2S0, 394, 400, 432, 498, 564, 598, 630, 802

Mechanics:

  • Alloy, Carbolite, 672
  • Alloys of Ancient Arms, 22
  • Aluminium Rolling Mills, 336
  • Asbestic, 346
  • Bevel Gear Cutter, 465
  • Bicycle Frame Tests, 533
  • Brazed Joints, Making, 346
  • Bricks from Blast-Furnace Slag, 365
  • Building Stones, Protecting, 803
  • Burning Bricks, Corean Method, 365
  • Cast-iron Columns, Tests, 761
  • Cast-Iron Pipes, Straightening, 729
  • Castings, Hard-Faced Steel, 701
  • Median ICS—continued.
  • Compressed Air Rolling Mill, 729
  • Compressed Air Wood-Boring Machine, 533
  • Conveying Crushed Grapes, &c., 365
  • Dividing Wheels, 663
  • Electro-Zincing, 533
  • Expanded Metal, 365
  • Ferro-Nickel Alloys, 670
  • Field Riveting, 346
  • Fireproof Wood, 79
  • Flash Point of Oil, 803
  • Flower-Pot Making, 631
  • Flywheel, Smashing of a, 695
  • Galvanising Wire, 145
  • Gasoline Engines and Mining, 343
  • Iron Cleaned from Rust, 499
  • Labour Saving, 23
  • Lagging Radiating Surfaces, 335
  • Lathe Construction, 282
  • Liquefying Hydrogen, 519
  • Lubricator for Tools, 672
  • Machine Driving by Electric Power, 704
  • Metals of the Ancients, 209
  • Moulding Sand, 241
  • Nails, Holding Power of, 704
  • Nickel Steel, 410
  • Nickel Steel for Locomotives, 631
  • Paints, Experiments with, 282
  • Phosphorus and Calcium Carbide from Thomas Slag, 241
  • Polishing Wheels of Cork, 346
  • Reducing Refractory Metals, 761
  • Safe, Chatwood, 631
  • Specific Heat of Water, 499
  • Sugar Process, 565
  • Temperature Reading, 282
  • Testing Lubricating Values of Oil, 761
  • Timber Tests, 599
  • Tractive Resistance of Trains, 499
  • Train Friction, 365
  • Transmission of Sound through Tubing, 803
  • Water Mains, Steel. 803
  • Welded Steel Pipes, 365
  • Wheel Construction, 803
  • Wire Ropes, 79
  • Metals. See Iron and Steel and Mechanics

Mining:

  • Assaying of Silver and Gold in Sheffield, 289
  • Australasian Gold Mining, 547, 627
  • Brazilian Gold, 376
  • Canadian Gold, 641
  • Gold Imports, 87, 281, 369, 610
  • Gold in Siberia, 145
  • Gold in Transvaal, 96, 252
  • Klondyke, Report, 599
  • Mashonaland Gold, 545
  • South African Diamond, 778
  • South African Gold, 25, 185, 288, 352, 627
  • Temperature in Copper Mines, 672
  • Witwatersrandt, 383

Miscellaneous:

  • Aberdeen Public Library, 78
  • African Ivory, 25
  • Alaska Survey, 643
  • Brazil, Economic Condition of, 255
  • Buenos Ayres Population, 283
  • Californian Petroleum, 738
  • Cape Town Health, 316
  • Clock, A Monster, 744
  • Cold Storage and Ice Company at Glasgow, 280
  • Cripplegate Fire, 77
  • Fire Curtain in Theatre, 672
  • Forest of Dean Rent Roll, 281
  • French Enterprise in America, 773
  • French Internal Transport, 465
  • German Emigration, 218
  • Greater New York, 305
  • Grindstone Protection Prosecution, 532
  • Immigration into Argentina, 295
  • Land Reclamation in the Baltic, 303
  • Live Stock, Importation of, 145
  • Lumber Traffic at Tacoma, 574
  • Map of Klondyke, 365
  • Map of South Africa, 239
  • Metropolitan Railway Map, 299
  • Newfoundland Progress, 378
  • Newport Roads, 433
  • Niagara Hall, 704
  • Nottingham Improvements, 693
  • Observatory on Mont Blanc, 305
  • Oil in Newfoundland, 646
  • Paris Debt, 663
  • Parkeston, 574
  • Pneumatic Tubes at New York, 56
  • Queensland Population, 590
  • Rating of Rolling Mills, 499
  • Reavell v. Brotherhood Law Case, 607
  • San Francisco Trade, 177
  • Scotch Private Bills, 78
  • Sweden’s Forests, 241
  • United States Patents, 316
  • Victoria Public Works, 678

Motor Cars:

  • Automobile Club, Easter Run, 401
  • Cycle Cars, 442
  • Cycle Railway Vans, 599
  • Electric Post Office Motor Vans, 113
  • Joining Cycle Frames, 599
  • Motor Car Competition at Royal Show, 22
  • Motor Car Trials, Liverpool, 401, 497, 565
  • Narrow Tyres for Vehicle Wheels, 346
  • Self-Propelled Traffic Association, 346, 401
  • Tyre Inflation and Tractive Resistance, 499

Naval:

  • Admiralty and Armour Plates,639
  • Armour-Plate Competition, 532
  • Armour Production, 336
  • Austro-Hungarian Cruiser “ Buda Pest,” 15
  • Chilian Torpedo-Boats, 565
  • Corn-Pith Cellulose Protection, 79
  • Dartmouth Naval College, 465
  • Devonport Dockyard 113, 177, 395, 695
  • Devonport Dockyard Extension, 499
  • Devonport, New Sheerlegs, 433
  • Devonport Work, 433, 465, 477, 599
  • Dover Works, Admiralty, 352
  • Engine-Room Artificers, 209, 564
  • Fireproof Wood, 79
  • French Destroyer, “ Dunois,” 770
  • French Navy, 760
  • German Division Boat (Thornycroft), 410
  • Gibraltar Works, 761
  • Haulbowline Sheerlegs, 401,533
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Angler, ” 671, 738, 808
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Bullfinch” (Earle), 256
  • H M. Destroyer “Cygnet” (Thornycroft), 91
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Dasher,” 91
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Dove” (Earle), 378
  • H.M. Destroyer “Fawn” (Palmers), 770
  • H.M. Destroyer “Flying Fish” 286, 314
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Gipsy” (Fairfield), 256
  • H.M. Destroyer “Locust,” 126
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Panther” (Laird), 47
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Seal” (Laird), 15
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Sylvia,” 94, 738
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Violet,”286
  • H.M. Destroyer “ Wolf ” (Laird), 91, 333
  • H.M. Royal Yacht, 145, 433
  • H.M.S “ Argonaut,” 126
  • H.M S. “Ariadne,” 548
  • H.M.SS. Building on Clyde, 78
  • H.M.S. “Cressy,” 208
  • H.M SS. “Conquest” and “ Carysfort,” Non-Effective, 369
  • H.M.S. “Cressy” Class, Prices, 432
  • H.M.S. “ Europa,” 516
  • H.M S. “Furious,” 516, 548, 574
  • H.M.S. “Formidable,” 365, 599, 695
  • H.M.S. “Goliath,” 378
  • H.M.SS. “ Heron” and “ Jackdaw’’(Gunboats, Yarrow), 22
  • H.M.S. “ Highflyer,” 738
  • H.M S. “ Hogue,” 533
  • H.M.S. “Illustrious,” 220
  • H.M.S. “ Implacable,” 241, 465, 565, 599
  • H.M.S. “ Mercury,” 15, 94
  • H.M.S. “Niobe,” 499
  • H.M.S. “ Ocean,” 499
  • H.M.S. “Proserpine,” 808
  • H.M.S. “ Psyche,”281, 499, 695
  • H.M.S. “Racoon,” 256
  • H.M S. “Rosario,” Engines for (Keyham), 79
  • H.M SS. “Skipjack” and “Speedwell,” 282
  • H.M.S. “Terrible,” 401, 499, 738
  • H.M.S. “Terrible” Trials, 401
  • H.M.S. “Woodlark” (Shallow-Draught Boat), 286
  • Hull and Naval Work, 400
  • Japanese Cruiser “ Asama,” 378
  • Keyham Engineering College, 47
  • Keyham Extensions, 401
  • Keyham Factory, 663, 695, 738
  • “Monitor” Battleships, 729
  • New York Defence, 79
  • Petroleum Fuel, 22
  • Pinnace Contracts, 47
  • Portland Defensive Works, 21
  • Portsmouth Docks, 738
  • Portsmouth Dockyard Work, 465
  • Portuguese Cruiser “Don Carlos I ,” 608
  • Protective Works in the West of England, 401
  • Russian Authorities and Electricity, 241
  • Russian Battleship “Pereswiet,” 671
  • Russian Battleships, 565
  • Russian Naval Ports, 57
  • Russian Naval Yard, 316
  • Russian Navy, 661
  • Russian Volunteer Ship “ Moskva,” 671
  • Spanish-American War, 564
  • Stokers, Navy, 695
  • Torpedo Net Defence, 282
  • Turkish Warship Guns, 22
  • United States Battleships, 441
  • United States Ships Coal-Handling Plant, 465
  • United States Torpedo-Boat, 442 "
  • Water-Tube Boilers, 465
  • Weighing Machines for Dockyards, 695
  • Ohltlliiry. Sse General Index
  • Pliysi.CS* See Mechanics
  • PlCl’S* See Harbours

Railways:

  • Argentine Railways, 401, 695, 712
  • Australian Railways, 256
  • Barry Docks and Railways, 145
  • Barry Railway, 241, 760
  • Barry and Vale of Glamorgan Railway, 305
  • Behr Monorail Railway, 222
  • Belgian Locomotive Engineers in Glasgow, 240
  • Belgian Locomotives and Mr. McIntosh of Caledonian, 176
  • Bicycle Storage in Railway Vans, 442
  • Bideford and Clovelly Railway, 24
  • Brazilian Railways, 128, 347, 547
  • Brecon and Merthyr Railway, 24
  • British Maintenance Charges, 352
  • British Railway Coal Bill, 239
  • Buenos Ayres Elevated Railroad, 530
  • Buenos Ayres Railway, 206
  • Caledonian New Line to Lesmahagow, 208
  • Canada Railways, 442
  • Canadian, 113
  • Cape Government Railways, 775
  • Cardiff Railway, 599
  • Central Argentina Railway, 126
  • Ceylon Railway, 305
  • Chilkoot Pass Railway, 286
  • Chinese Railways, 433
  • City and South London Railway Hoists, 499
  • City and Waterloo Railway, 79 '
  • Communication in Trains, 803
  • Compensation on Railways, 448
  • Corridor Sleeping Car, 737
  • Dresden Railway Station, 533
  • Dumbarton Railway Station, 695
  • East of France Railway, 662
  • East and West Wales Railway, 47, 599
  • Elevated Railroad for Buenos Ayres, 530
  • French Internal Transport, 465
  • German Railways, 187
  • German South-West Africa Railway and Telegraph, 410
  • Germany, Railway Accidents in, 79
  • Grand Trunk Railway, 433
  • Great Central Railway, 75
  • Great Eastern Railway Purchasing Branches, 113
  • Great North of Scotland at Inverurie, 531
  • Great Northern Railway, 177, 433
  • Great Western, 47, 177
  • Highland Line, Doubling of, 176
  • Highland Railway, 461
  • Hull and Barnsley Railway, 192
  • Hull and Lincoln Railway, 633
  • Indian Railways, 185
  • Italian Railways, 187
  • Jungfrau Railway, 22
  • Klondyke, Rothschild Railway to, 518
  • Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railw 756
  • Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Extension, 737
  • Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 30
  • Leeds and Bradford Railway, 126
  • Light Railway, Aberayron, 465
  • Light Railway, Barnstaple and Lynton, 533
  • Light Railway, Barton-on-Humber to Lincoln, 630
  • Light Railway, Chatham, Gillingham, and District, 729
  • Light Railway, Dornsch, 46
  • Light Railway, Hampstead, 401
  • Light Railway, Leeds, 561
  • Light Railway, Lotterkenny and Burton Port, 183
  • Light Railway, Lime Regis to Chard Junction, 565, 695
  • Light Railways, Cawood, Wistow, and Selby, 209
  • Light Railways, Lincolnshire, 192
  • Light Railways, Midland and South Western Junction Line, 761
  • Light Railways, Postlani to Peakirk in Notts., 79
  • Light Railways in West of England, 337
  • Lincolnshire Railways, 154
  • Liverpool Overhead Railway, 282
  • Locomotive Coal Consumption, 761
  • Locomotive Contracts, 240
  • Locomotive Exports, 415, 516,645
  • Locomotive, Lagging Radiating Surfaces, 365
  • Locomotive, New Caledonian, 46
  • Locomotive, North British, for East Coast Route, 208
  • Locomotive Power on Railways, 311
  • Locomotive Wages on British Railways, 279
  • Locomotives, Baldwin, 513
  • Locomotives on British Railways, 239
  • Locomotives for China and Japan, 288
  • Locomotives, French, for China, 222
  • London Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 79
  • London and North-Western Railway, 239
  • London and South-Western Railway, 281, 663
  • London and South-Western Railway and
  • Waterloo Station, 79
  • Lule-Ofoten Railway, 185
  • Lynton Railway, 241
  • Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, 305
  • Metropolitan and Electric Traction, 401
  • Midland Railway, 205
  • Midland Railway Extension, 564
  • Midland Railway in Sheffield, 112
  • Midland Railway in Yorkshire, 75
  • Mumbles Railway Extension, 24
  • Museum Association, 678
  • Newfoundland Railways, 241
  • North-Eastern Railway and Hull, 94
  • Orange Free State Railways, 94
  • Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 668
  • Persian Railway Line, 533
  • Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 15
  • Pittsburgh Railway Station, 60
  • Plymouth and Yealmpton Railway, 79
  • Port Talbot Railway, 209
  • Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, 203
  • Russia and Afghan Railway, 79
  • Russian Railways, 286, 465
  • San Paulo, 547, 678
  • Scarborough Improvements, 598
  • Siberian Railway, 145, 465, 480, 565
  • Siberian Railway Steam Ferry, 645
  • Soudan Military Railway, 499
  • South African Conference, 482
  • Speed, United States Railway, 305
  • Speed of the World’s Best Trains, 672
  • Spiral Railway for Exhibitions, 237
  • Suburban Railway Service, 282
  • Swedish Arctic Railway, 770
  • Swedish Railways, 186, 465
  • Taff Vale and Barry Railway, 565
  • Taff Vale Railway, 145
  • Train Friction, 365
  • Transvaal Railway, 481, 514
  • United States Railroads, 237
  • Vale of Glamorgan Railway, 401
  • Vologda Railway, Moscow, 79
  • Vryheid Railway, 481
  • Welsh Railways, 369
  • West Highland Railway and Floods, 760
  • Yorkshire Extensions, 23
  • Cape Town, 729
  • Cape Town Sewers, 377
  • Exeter Sewage, 761
  • Gosport Drainage, 663
  • Greenock, 564
  • Household Refuse Destructor, 113
  • Leeds, 237
  • Mangotsfield Sevage Works, 545
  • Morecambe, 91
  • Taunton Scheme, 533

Shipbuilding and Shipping :

  • Atlantic Greyhound, Hamburg-American, 608 775
  • Austrian Lloyd Dividend, 547
  • Baltic Trade, 303
  • British Corporation for the Survey and Registry of Shipping, 209
  • Bulkhead Door Gear, 672
  • Canadian Navigation, 773
  • Canadian Transatlantic Navigation, 770
  • Castle Line and Southampton, 499
  • Clyde, 23, 46, 78, 144, 176, 208, 240, 280, 304, 336, 400, 432, 464, 498, 532, 564, 598, 630, 694, 695, 737, 760, 802
  • Cunarders, New, 400
  • Shipbuilding and Shipping—continued.
  • Danish Shipbuilding’, 465
  • Duckham’s Grain Elevator, 573
  • Durban Traffic, 239
  • English and German Shipping, 639
  • Fares to Far East, 442
  • Ferry for Siberian Railway, 615
  • Folkestone and Boulogne Service, 565
  • Foreign Shipbuilding, 56
  • France and Canada Line, 241
  • French Shipping Bounties, 224
  • German Steam Navigation, 126, 288, 382, 775
  • Grain Elevator, Floating, 671
  • Harwich Continental Service, 565
  • Italian Company, 318
  • Kara Sea Route, 433
  • Losses Reported to Board of Trade, 22
  • Mexican Navigation, 703
  • North German Lloyd, 156
  • North German Lloyd and “ Kiao-Chau, 533
  • North German Lloyd S.S. “ Spree,” 28
  • P. and O. Mail Contract, 663
  • Russian Ice Breaker, 288
  • Sternwheel Steamer, 744
  • Swedish Merchantmen, 433
  • Toronto Boats for Yukon, 109
  • United States Shipbuilding, 28, 236, 674
  • United States Whaleback Steamers, 237. See Erratum, 369
  • Windward for Arctic Exploration, 365
  • Shipping* See Shipbuilding, &c.
  • Societies* See Technical, &c., or Trades, &c.
  • Strikes* See Trade Societies, &c.

Technical Societies, <&c*:

  • Birmingham Association of Mechanical Engineers, 209, 305, 548
  • British Association of Water-Works Engineers, 611
  • Central Technical College, London, 442
  • Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institute of Engineers, 432
  • Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 186, 507, 631
  • Cleveland Institute of Engineers, 78
  • Derby Society of Engineers, 209
  • Dundee Institute of Engineers in Glasgow, 464
  • East of Scotland Engineering Association, 176
  • Education and Foreign Competition, 47
  • Electrical Section, London Chamber of Commerce, 305
  • Finsbury Technical College, 186
  • Glasgow Students, Institution of Civil Engineers, 46, 112, 240, 304, 432
  • Glasgow Technical College Scientific Society, 208, 336
  • Glasgow University Engineering Society, 176
  • Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, Medallist, 598
  • Imperial Institute, 185, 279
  • Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, 441
  • Institution of Civil Engineers, Students’ Dinner, 672
  • Institution of Civil Engineers, Students’ Examination, 448
  • Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 112,240,363, 532, 564, 737 ; Sheffield Meeting, 760
  • Institution of Junior Engineers, 122, 305, 626
  • Institution of Marine Engineers, 510, 533
  • Institution of Mining and Civil Engineers, 176
  • Institution of Naval Architects, 185
  • International Congress of Navigation, 597
  • International Congress for Protection of Property, 704
  • International Congress at Rio de Janeiro, 288
  • Leeds Association of Engineers, 441, 565
  • Liverpool Engineering Society, 186
  • London County Council Scholarships, 639
  • Technical Societies. &c»-continued.
  • London Geological Field Class, 499
  • London Senior County Scholarships, 49o
  • Metric System in Russia, 442
  • Midland Institute of Mining Engineers, 49d
  • Mining Institution of Scotland, 208, 498, 504, 760 .
  • Municipal Electrical Association, z03
  • Northampton Institute, 305
  • Purdue University, 533
  • Rbntgen Society, 241, 472
  • Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 330
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh, 368, 802
  • Sanitary Congress, 599 # .
  • Scenic Art and Stage Mechanism (Society of Arts), 480
  • Science and Art Department, 780
  • Scientific Education Grants, 79
  • Scotch Gas Managers, 464
  • Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, 112
  • Sheffield University College, 757
  • Silversmiths’ Association, 368
  • Society of Engineers, 318
  • South Wales Institute of Engineers, 631
  • Steam Engine Trial Class, Chelsea Polytechnic, 533
  • Technical College Scientific Society, 144
  • Technical Colleges, Professor Stans5eld and, 280
  • United States Society of Civil Engineers, 28
  • University College, London, 186
  • Water Works Engineers, 738
  • Weaving, tec., School in Poland, 672
  • West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, 368, 498
  • Telegraphy. Sec Electricity
  • Telephony. See Electricity
  • Trade. See Coal, Iron and Steel, Markets, Shipbuilding, Electricity, and Industries

Trades Societies, Unions, Strikes, &c. .

  • Agricultural Labourers’ Wages, 804
  • Birmingham Builders’ Strike, 440
  • Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders’ Society, 125, 253, 389, 440, 477, 510, 674, 703, 804
  • Boot and Shoe Operatives, 157, 254, 284, 316, 576, 741
  • Bury Builders, 742
  • Carpenters and Joiners’ Society, 58, 221, 348, 476, 609, 774
  • Carpenters’, Sunderland, Strike, 254
  • Cheap Trains Bill, 380, 412
  • Civil Servants’ Grievances, 222
  • Cleveland Blastfurnacemen’s Wages, 47
  • Clyde Engineers’ Wages, 630, 774
  • Clyde Shipbuilders’ Wages, 516, 609, 707, 804
  • Coalowners and Workmen’s Compensation Act, 498
  • Colliery Enginemen, &c., in Northumberland, 348
  • Compensation Act Guide, 631
  • Consett Ironworkers’ Wages, 400
  • Continental Strikes, 284, 316
  • Co-Operative Congress, 740
  • Co-Operative Production, 157
  • Copenhagen Lock-Out, 510
  • Cotton Employers’ Federation, 222, 241
  • Cotton Spinners, Operative, 26, 27, 477
  • Cotton Spinners’ Union, 316
  • Cotton Workers in Rhode Island, 27, 126
  • Decorators and Painters’ Society, 284
  • Dockyard Piecework, 707
  • Dockyard Workers, 126, 157, 183, 254, 281, 316 380, 413, 440
  • Domestic Servants’ Union, 674
  • East End Labour Council, London, 517
  • Employers’ Liability and Workmen’s Insurance Companies, 499
  • Engineer Foremen’s Scheme, 254
  • Engineers’ Amalgamated Society, 90, 221, 318 380, 510, 801
  • Engineers’ Society Secretaryship, 477, 499
  • Engineers’ Strike, 23, 25, 26, 46, 58, /8, 125, 144, 156, 188, 221, 241, 254, 316, 318, 609
  • Engineers’ Wages in the North, 630, 774
  • Enginemen, Cranemen, &c., 26
  • Enginemen, National Federation, 741
  • Federation of Trades, 222
  • Friendly Societies and Accident Funds, 6/4
  • Friendly Society Conferences, 740
  • Gas Workers and General Labourers’ Lmon,
  • German Eight-Hours’ Agitation, 189
  • German Firms and English Work, 26
  • Government Employes and Parliament, 576
  • Hartlepool Engineers, 546
  • Hour System, 281
  • 48 Hours’ Week, What it Meant, 305
  • Industrial Situation, 89, 124, 253, 379, 509, 674, 803
  • Irish Railway Dispute, 157, 188, 222
  • Ironfounders’ Society, 57, 315, 348, 476, 774
  • Ironmoulders’ Society, 90, 188, 315, 440, 706
  • Labour Aidermen in London, 381
  • Labour Protection League, 546
  • Lancashire and Cheshire Builders, 349, 440, 610
  • Leeds Plumbers, 742
  • Leicester Carpenters’ Strike, 410, 547
  • London Compositors, 381
  • London County Council, 283, 316
  • London County Council and Contractors, 222, 283, 316
  • London and North - Western Employes’ Full Time, 281
  • London Trades Council and Italian Workers, 775
  • Manufactured Iron Workers’ Wages, 113
  • Mav>Day Demonstration, 380, 546, 576
  • Midland Wages Board, 576, 740
  • Miners, 58, 189, 222, 349, 413, 477, 547, 574, 576
  • Miners’ Federation, 57, 126,157, 707, 774, 801
  • National Conference of Trades, 26
  • Navvies, Bricklayers, Labourers’, &c., Union, 674
  • North of England Conciliation Board and Sliding Scale, 283, 412, 440, 576, 740
  • Northumberland Miners and Labour M.P.’s, 774
  • Parliamentary, 221, 254, 281, 316, 317, 412
  • Penrhyn Quarrjmen, 441
  • Plasterers’ Dispute, 775
  • Plumbers and Education, 222
  • Plumbers, Operative, 126
  • Portsmouth Plasterers’ Strike, 610
  • Postal Telegraph Clerks, 674
  • Postal Workers’ Concessions, 380
  • Profit-Sharing, 87
  • Profit-Sharing in Gas Works, 126
  • Railway Servants’ Agitation, 26, 58, 125, 157 188, 222, 281, 316, 348, 412, 413, 510, 546, 610 ’
  • Railway Servants’ Society Secretaryship, 26, 348
  • Roll Turners’ Strike at Bolton, 281
  • Scotch Ironmoulders, 610
  • Scotch Miners, 477
  • Scotch Steel Trades Dispute, 91
  • Scottish Trades Congress, 576
  • Sheffield Manufacturers and the Compensation Act, 760, 802 F
  • Shipyard Workers’ Federation, 189
  • Signalmen’s Hours, 741
  • S16'3d8(pabOU1 RepOrfc’ 89 ’ 12 379, 509,
  • Sliding Scale in Wales, 337. See Coal strike
  • SouUi Metropolitan Gas Mutual Accident rund, o65
  • South Shields Builders, 440
  • South Wales Sliding Scale, 381
  • Spanish Labour, 477
  • Steam Enginemakers’ Society’s Report, 412
  • Strike Statistics, 89,124, 253, 379, 509, 674 804
  • Strikes in 1897, 124
  • Testimonials to Trade Unionists, 413
  • Textile Workers’ Deputation, 413
  • Tinplate Workers in Wales, 413, 510, 774
  • Trades Congress and the Eight-Hour Day, 804
  • Trades Union Congress Parliamentary Committee, 222
  • Tyne Carpenters, 349
  • Unemployed, Strike of, 741
  • Wages in the Coal Trade, 695
  • Waiters’ Wages, 674
  • Wales, Wages in (Sliding Scale), 24, 91
  • Wear Carpenters and Joiners, 742
  • Welsh Coal Dispute, 381, 440, 476, 477, 510 546, 575, 609, 674, 707, 741, 774, 801
  • Workers’ Union, 547, 707
  • Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 802

Tramways :

Tunnelling :

  • Dalreoch Tunnel Duplicated, 630
  • St. Gothard Tunnel, 565
  • Simplon Tunnel, 499
  • Ventilation by Aspiration, 365
  • Warships. See Sarai

Water Supply, Ac.:

  • Amsterdam Water Works Contracts, 565
  • Barmouth Works, 631, 761
  • Birmingham, 737
  • Blaenavon Supply, 802
  • Bristol Company, 369
  • Callao Works, 729
  • Cardiff Corporation Works, 663
  • Coolgardie Supply, 248
  • Durham, 804
  • Easington Supply, 729
  • Edinburgh and District Supply, 208
  • Glasgow Water Rates, 630
  • Greenock Water Trust, 802
  • Hartlepool Supply, 157
  • Nile Reservoir, 241
  • Pembroke Supply, 231
  • Port Glasgow Water Supply, 176
  • Portishead Supply, 281
  • Queensland, 220
  • South Australia, Water in, 584
  • Steel Mains for Adelaide, 803
  • West Gloucestershire, Company, 401
  • Whitby District Supply, 79
  • Yeovil Works, 738

Sources of Information


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