Engineering 1898 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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A TRAVERS I’Angieterre, Industrielle et Commercial. Par Edouard Deiss, 66
Aachen Electricity Works (Schuckert), 844
Acceleration Indicator, 22. See LETTERS
Accident, Wellingborough, 359, 400, 581, 757, 792
Accidents to Engines, 364

Accidents, Railway:

Accident (Derailment) at Wellingborough, 359. See Letters
Accidents (Recent) at Maryhill, Edinburgh, and Larne, 357
Buffer-Stop Collision at Craigendoran Pier, 440
Collision, Double, at Ashford, 93
Collision, Fatal Buffer, at Inniskeen, 729
Collision at Scotsgap Station, 79
Collision at Sheffield, 121
Collision, Side, at Glasgow, 532
Collision, Slight, at Greystones, 551
Collision, Slight, at Manningtree, 551
Derailment and Collision at Appleford, 440
. Derailment on Forth Bridge, 523
Derailment, Slight, at Tinahely Station, 248
Derailment on the Taff Vale Railway, 47
Grantham Collision, 440
Leyland, Fatal Collision at, 369
Locomotive Breakage at Acton Station, 440
Rear Collision at Carstairs, 440
Salisbury, Signalman’s Blunder, 585
Station, Barrow causes Train Wreck, Wellingborough, 359. See Letters
Statistics of Accidents, 244
Wellingborough Accident, 359. See LETTERS
Wembley Park, Fatal Derailment, 297

Accumulators. See Schuckert^ also 515
Acetylene. See also Calcium CarbUe
Acetylene (Calcium Carbide), 592
Acetylene, Calcium Carbide Industry, 753
Acetylene and Carbon Dioxide, Mixtures, 518
Acetylene Gas, 123
Acetylene for Gas Engines, 754 .
Acetylene Gas Generators, 88, 123
Acetylene Industry, 83
Acids, Fatty, Cooling Curves of, 549
Acoustics and Articulation of Consonants, 520
Action of Metalloids on Cast Iron, 319, 372, 402
Adeney, W. E., on Sewage Sludges, 277 Aeronautics, 489
African Coal, 493
African Lakes, Navigation on, 212
Agricultural Chemistry, 334
Agricultural Implements, 751
Agricultural Society’s Motor Vehicle Trials, Royal, 461. See LETTERS
Air, Compressed, Plant at Paris (Schneider), 378
Air, Compressed, Tunnelling under, 530, 632
Air Compression, Hydraulic, 416
Air Drill, Boyer’s, 387
Air Gap Reluctance, Electric Generators, 129
Air Waves Formed by Flying Projectiles, Photographs of, 191
Airs, Factitious, 353
Akerman, Mr. R., on Swedish Iron Industry, 303, 309, 339
Albuminous Substances, Chemistry of, 333
Albuminous Substances, Syntheses, 333
“ Alexander Barminsky” Dredger (Holland), 324
Alkali, Electrolytic Production of, 115
Alkaline Chlorates and Sulphates of Heavy Metals, 550
Allen, Mr. A. H., on Electric Canal Haulage, 416, 728
Alloys, Aluminium, 228
Alloys of Brass and Bismuth, 775
Alloys, Constitution of, 461
Alloys, Heat of Combination of Metals in, 480
Alloys, Microscopic Structure of Gold and other, 411, 541, 733, 753
Alloys, New Steel, 515
Alloys, Physical and Electrical Properties of, 869
Alma Tube Works, Walsall (J. Russell and Co., Limited), 825
Alternating Current Dynamos (Schneider), 106 1
Altona Electric Works (Schuckert ,742 i
Aluminium /Vlloys, 228 '
Aluminium Annealing Furnace, 289
Aluminium in India, 335
Aluminium Industry, 21
Aluminium Manufacture, with a Description of the Rolling Mills and Foundry at Milton, Staffs., 147, 154, 289 |
Aluminium as a Reducing Agent, 22
Amalgamated Societ}^ of Engineers, 867 America. See United States
American Liners as Merchant Cruisers, 621
Ammonia and Gun-Cottons, Action of, 550 Amoy and Formosa Trade, 529
An Ampere Balance, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Professor J. Viriamu Jones, 515, 872
Analysis, Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative, 550
Ancient Dry Dock on Thames, 432
Ancient Millwrights, 862
Anderson, The Late Sir William, K.C.B., 787
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, on Microscopic Structure of Gold and Gold Alloys, 411, 541, 733. See IJETTERS
Anemometers, Exposure of, 647
Angles of Cranks, H.M.S “Terrible’s ” Trials, 428
Anglo-French Trade, 592
Annealing Furnace, Aluminium, 289
Annealing of Soft Steel, Brittleness Produced by, 319, 404
Annuaire pour Fan 1899 public par le Bureau des longitudes, 864
Annuals, 863
Anorganic Substancos, 331
Arbitration, Industrial, 573
Arc, Drop of Potential at the Carbon of the, 515
Arc Lamp Circuits and Suspenders, Schuckert, 847
/Vrchbutt, Mr. L., on Water Softening and Purifying, 149, 166, 186, 230. See LETTERS
Archbutt-Deeley Process of Water Softening and Purification, 149, 165, 18», 230. See LETTERS
Argentiferous Lead, Treatment of, 182
Argentine Cruiser “General San Martin” (Orlando, Leghorn), 74
Argon, Neon, and Xenon, 547
“Arkansas,” New United States Class of Monitor, 817
Armature Core Reluctance, Electric Generators, 129
Armature Interference, Electric Generators, 350
Armour, Cost of, 214
Armour-Plate, Development of, 530
Armour-Plate Tests, United States, 825
Army and Navy, Students, 551
Arnold, Professor, on Micro-Chemistry of Cementation, 319
Articulation and Acoustics of Consonants, 520
Artillery. See Guns
Ashford Boiler Explosion 437
Aspiration Thermometer, 791
Assaying Mercury, 735
Atlantic Liners as Merchant Cruisers, 624
Atlantic Load-Line, 722
Atlantic Records in 1898, 865
Auriferous Lodes, 735
Austria and Hungary, Engineers in, 21, 54
Austrian Torpedo-Boats (Yarrow), 394
Austro-Hungarian Floating Exhibition, 305
Automatic Cut-Out and Junction Box (Schuckert), 773
Automatic Gas Meters and Cookers, 868
Ayrton, Professor W. E., and Professor J. Viriamu Jones, on Ampere Balance, 515, 872 ,

Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, 213
Bacteria on Photographic Plates, 547
Bacterio-Chemical Study of Sewage, 277
Bacteriologic^d Purification of Sewage, 85, 118, 3a2, 497, 550, 749
Baden-Vienna Electricity Works (Schuckert), 845 I
Bailey, Sir William H., on Dynamometer for Wave Measurement, 216
Balance, Ampere, 515, 872
Balancing Engines of H.M.S. ‘‘Terrible,” 428
Balancing Hinge for Railway Wagons, 615, 793
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Electric Power, 464
Baling and Ginning, Cotton, 197. See Erratum^ 33'5
Ball-Bearing Fad, 55, 87, 183
Ball-Bearing Hardening Furnace, 229
Balloon Ascents, 480
Bar-Cutting Machine, Hydraulic (Cameron, Salford), 245
Barbette Carriage for Unite! States
Breechloading Gun, 294
Barges for United States Navy, 812
Barmen Electric Works (Schuckert), 742
Barnes’ Heating Furnace, 793
Barry Docks, 352
Barry, Sir J. Wolfe, Presidential Address, “ G” Section, British Association, 352, 373, 407
Bass’s Brewery, 169
Battleships. See Warships
Beams, Efficiency of Built Wooden, 221
Bearings, Thompson’s Self-Aligning, 499 Belgian Railways, 758
Bell-Elliott Tangent Reading Tacheometer, 743
Belting, Power Absorbed by, 560, 566. See 381 Ben Nevis and Meteorology, 478
Bending Tests of Locomotive Staybolts, 227
Beneficent Inventor, The, 557
Beni 3 r Gas Engine and Producer, 386
Berlin Fire Tests of Materials, 130, 251, 347, 510
Bethlehem Iron Works, 824
Bethlehem Iron Works Krupp Armour, 825
Bevel Gear, Elliptical, 121, 626
Bicycle Efficiency, 246, 279, 357. See LETTERS
Bicycle Tubes, Tests of, 260
Bicycles. See also Cycles
Bilge Keel and Roiling Experiments, United States ship “ Oregon,” 812
Binary Electrolyte, Hall Effect in a, 29
Birch J. Grant, on Some Notes on United States Manufactures, 774, 805
Birmingham and Bristol Canal Scheme, 413
Birmingham Water Supply, 480
Bismuth in Brass, Influence of, 775
“ Black Diamond ” Express, Lehigh Valley Railroad, 379
Blackburn Mission to China, 49
Blanvell, Mr. W. H., on Solvay Coke Oven, 703
Blast-Furnace Gas for Motive Power, 562
Blast-Furnace Hoisting and Conveying Plant, Brown’s, 42
Blast-Furnace Tuyeres, 670
Blasting a Smoke Strick, 658
Blower and Engine, Combined (Alldays and Onions), 520
Board of Trade Return on Wages, 267
Boats, Standard, United States Navy, 812
Boiler Explosion at Ashford, 437
Boiler Explosion at Bradford, 62
Boiler Explosion at Norwich, 761
Boiler Explosion at Reading, 272
Boiler Explosion at Wakefield, 505
Boiler, Fatal Explosion of a Tramway Engine, 217
Boiler Furnaces, Setting Back Bulges, 93
Boiler Heating Surface, 135
Boiler Setting, Horizontal, 134
Boiler Shops, Schneider's, 163 Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boiler Boilers, the Care of Steam, 84
Boilers, the Effect of Drought on, 496, 531
Boilers, Gunboat, of the Washington Mills Company (United States), 533
Boilers, the Purchase of Second-Hand, 759
Boilers, Tar Burners for, 550
Boilers, Three v. Four-Furnace, 399, 433, 497
Boilers, Wood Fuel for, 400
Bolsover and Cresswell’s Collieiyj 170
Books Received, 35, 67, 242, 283, 481, 543, 605, 775, 864
Books, the Best 100 Engineering, 625
Borcea Bridge (Schneider), 513. See LETTERS, 723
Bourgogne Collision Law Case, 624
Bourgogne, Collision at Sea, 81. See LETTERS, CoUisionSf <^c.
Boyer’s Pneumatic Drill, 3S7
Bradford Boiler Explosion, 62
Bradford Tramcar Accident, 532
Brass Alloys and Bismuth, 775
Brass Finishers’ Lathe (Britannia Company,
Colchester), 185
Breakdowns, Engine, 364
Breaking Strain of Cast Iron, 497
Breakwater, Buffalo, 701
Brewers’ Exhibition, 590
Brewery, Bass’s, 169
Bridge, An Old Floating, 280
Bridge over the Borcea, 513, 723
Bridge-Building (Schneider), 417, 444, 476, 512, 513, 575, 609, 693
Bridge Design, Common Errors in Iron, 293, 465
Bridge Design, Economy in, 621. See LETTER, 868
Bridge, Foot, over River Guadalquiver, 290
Bridge over the Harlem River, 743
Bridge, Niagara Arch, 778
Bridge, Swing, Machinery (United States), 370
Bridges and Coal Subsidences, 755
Bridges, Combination, 315
Bridges, Floating (Schneider), 693
Bridges, Military (Schneider), 609, 693
Bridges (Schneider), 417, 444, 476, 512, 513, 575, 609, 693
Bright, Mr. Charles, on the Pacific Cable, 536
Bright, Mr. Charles, on Submarine Cable Grapnels, 571, 603
Bristol, Ancient Weights and Measures, 520
Bristol and Birmingham Canal Scheme, 413
Bristol Carriage Works, Electric Power Plant, 381, 631
Bristol Electric Lighting, 412

British Association : 330, 352, 381, 412, 448, 477, 515, 546, 572, 611 Presidential Address (Sir W. Crookes), 330

Mechanical Science {Q Section}.
President’s Address, by Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 352 373 407
New Works at Barry Docks, by Mr. R. C. H. Davison, 352
Conditions necessary for the Successful Treatment of Sewage by Bacteria, by Mr. W. J. Dibdin, 352
Description of an Old Newcomen Engine at Long Ashton, near Bristol, by W. H. Pearson, 353
Factitious Airs, by Sir Frederick Bramwell, 353
Some of the Mechanical and Economic Features of the Goal Question, by Mr. T. Forster Brown, 353
The Hydraulic System of Jointing of Tubes on Tubular Bodies, by Mr. C. Johnson, 356
Description of an Instrument for Measuring Small Torsional Strains, by Mr. E. G. Coker, 356, 503
Electric Power in Workshops, by Mr. A. Siemens, 381, 500
The Application of the Electric Motor to Small Industrial Purposes and its Effects on Trade and on the Community generally, by Mr. A. H. Gibbings, 381
Electric Power and its Application on the Three-Phase System to Bristol Wagon gtnd Carriage Works, by 3Ir. W. Geipel, 381, 631
Notes on the Electric Lighting System at Bristol, with special reference tp Auxiliary' Plant, by Mr. H. Faraday Proctor, 412
Electric Traction b.y Surface Contacts, by Professor Silvanus Thompson and Mr. Miles Walker, 412
Scheme for the Improvement of the Waterway between the Bristol Channel and the Birmingham District, by Mr. E. D. Marten, 413
Notes on the Welsh Method of Shipping Coal, by Professor J. Ryan, 414
A New Instrument for Drawing Envelopes, and its Application to the Teeth of Wheels and for other Purposes, by Professor II. S. Hele-Shaw, 416
Hydraulic Power Transmission by Compressed Air, by Mr. W. G. Walker, 416
Electric Canal Haulage, by Mr. A. H. Allen, 416,72s
Combined Electric Lighting and Power Plant for Docks and Harbours, by Mr. J. G. Aldridge, 417
On the Pacific Cable, by Mr. 0. Bright, 417, 536
Physical ani Chemical Sections,
Professor W. E. Ayrton’s F.R.S., Presidential Ad Iress, 149
Address by .the Chairman of the International Magnetic .Conference, Professor A. AV. Rucker, Sec. R.S., 450
On the Relative Advantages of Long and Short Magnets, by Professor Mascart, 450
On the Construction of Magnets of Constant Intensity under Changes of Temperature, by Mr. J. R. Ashworth, 450
On the Establishment of Temporary Magnetic Observatories in Certain Localities, especially in Tropical Countries, by Professor von Bezold and General Rykatschew, 450 '
Secular Variations of Magnetic Elements, by i Dr. A. Schmidt, 451
Report of the Committee on Comparing and i Reducing Magnetic Observations, 452 1
Simultaneous Magnetic Observations, by Pro- I fesor Eschenhagen, 452
Calculating Monthly Means, by Professors Eschenhagen and Moureaux, 452
On Magnetic Observations in the Azores, by Albert, Prince of Monaco, 452
On Magnetic Observations in Cape Colony, by Dr. Beattie and Mr. Morrison, 452
Diurnal Movements of a Magnet, bj' Mr. J. B. Capello, 452
An Account of the Late Professor John Couch Adams’s Determination of the Gaussian Magnetic Constants, bj^ Professor W. GryIJs ; Adams, 452
On a Simple Method of Obtaining the Expression of the Magnetic Potential of the Earth in a Series of Spherical Harmonics, by Professor Arthur Schuster, 452
On Magnetic Observations at Funafuti, by Captain Creak, 452
On the Relations between the Variations in the Earth Currents, the Electric Currents from the Atmosphere, and the Magnetic Perturbations, by Professor Selim Lemstrbm, 452
On the Interpretation of Earth Current Observations, by Professor Arthur Schuster, 452 ,
Some Remarks on the Construction of Magnetic Observatories, by Dr. Snellen, 452
On the Influence of Altitudes above the Sea on the Elements of Terrestrial Magnetism, by Drs. Van Rijckevorsel, Von Bemmelen,. and Liznar, 452
Isomagnetic Lines near the Aetna, bj^ Professor L. Palazzo, 452
Report of the Committee on Seismological Jn- vestigatioiij by Professor Milne, F.R.S., 477
Joint Discussion on the Magnetic and Electrolytic Actions of Electric Railways, by Professors Schott, A. W. Rucker, Eschenhagen, Von Bezold, Mr. W. II. Preece, Mr. D. L. Palazzo, and Mr. J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., 477
Report of the Committee on Ben Nevis Observatory, 478
Analogies between the Yearly Ranges of some Meteorological and Magnetic Phenomena, by Dr. Van Rijckevorsel, 478
Report of the Committee on Meteorological Photography, by Mr. A. Clay den, 479
Interim Report on the Montreal Meteorological Observatory, 479
A Quantitative Bolometric Sunshine Recorder, by Professor H. Callendar, F.R.S., 479
Progress of the Exploration of the Air with lutes at Blue Hill Observatory, Mass., U.S.A., b5' Dr. A. L. Rotch, 480
The Classification of Polydiurnal Weather Types io Relation to the Daily Forecasts in Western Europe, by Mr. Douglas Archibald, 480
The Rainfall of the South-AVestern Counties of England, by Mr. John Hopkinson, 480
Balloon Ascent, by Rev. J. M Bacon, 480
Some Experiments on the Effects of Pressure on the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks, by Dr. C. H. Lees, 480
On the Thermal Conductivity of AVater, b.A’’ Mr. S. R. Milner and Professor A. P. Chattock, 480
Heat of Combination of Metals in the Formation of Alloys, by Dr. A. Galt, 480
On Dalton’s Law, bj’ Mr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 480
On the Conservation of Energy in the Human Body, by Messrs. E. B. Rosa and W. O. Atwater, 480
Dissipation of Energy in the Dielectric of a Condenser, by Mr. E. B. Rosa and Mr. A. W. Smith, 515
Comparison between Charging a Secondary Cell at Constant Potential and at Constant Current, More Especially as regards Efficiency, by Mr A. A. Cahen and Mr. J. M. Donaldson, 515
On a Magnifying or Bellowing Telephone, by Professor Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 515
On the Measurement of Small Differences in Resistance, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 515
A Platinum Voltmeter, by Professor H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., 515
Interim Report of the Committee on Electrolysis, 515
Dilute Solutions, by Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 516
Conductivity of Dilute Solutions, by Mr. W. C. D. Whetham, 515
On the Velocity of the Electricity in-the Electric Wind, by Professor A. P. Chattock, 515 Report of the Committee on Electric Standards, 515
The Temperature-Coefficients of the Resist ances used in the 1897 Determination of the Ohm, by Mr. M. Solomon, 515
An Ampere Balance, by Professor Ayrton and Principal Viriamu Jones, 515, 872
On Standard High Resistances, by Mr. J. B. Fawcett, 615
The Drop of Potential at the Carbons of the
Electric Arc, by Mrs. Ayrton, 515 Preliminary Report on the Electric Conductivity and Magnetic Permeability of a Series of New Alloys of Iron, by Professor W. F. Barrett, Mr. W. Brown, and Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 515
Experiments on the Influence of Electricity on Plants, by Mr. S. Lemstrom, 518
The Action of Electricitj" on Plants, by Dr. E. H. Cook, 518
The Brush Discharge, by Dr. E. II. Cook, 518
Some Experiments on the Luminosity of Sugar produced by Rubbing, by Mr. J. Burke, 518
On the Electromagnetic Theorj^ of Reflection on the Surface of Crystals, by Dr. C. E. Curry, 518
On Righi’s Discovery of the Zeeman Effect by by Absorption, by Professor S. P. Thompson, F. R.S., 518
Graphic Representations of the Two Simplest j Cases of a Single Wave, (a) Condensational- I Rarefactional, (5) Distortional, by Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 518
Dynamical Theoryof Refraction and Anomalous
Dispersion, by Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 518 Continuity of Undulatorj' Theory for Sound,
Elastic-Solid Light and Electric Waves, by Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 518
On Radiation from a Source of Light in Magnetic Field, bv Professor T. Preston, F.R.S., 518
The Carbon-Consuming Cell of Jacques, by Mr. S. Skinner, 518
Lenses, not of Glass, by Mr. J. W. Gifford, 518
Pneumatic Analogue of the Potentiometer, by Mr. W. N. Shaw, F.R S., 618
Electrob tic Corrosion of Water and Gas Pipes, b}’ Professor Fleming, 477
Stream-Line Motion with Viscous Fluids in Two Dimensions and in Three Dimensions (with Experimental Illustrations), by Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw, 519
Mathematical Proof of the Identity of the Stream Lines obtained by Means of a Viscous Film with those of a Perfect Fluid moving in Two Dimensions, by Sir G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., 519
New Method of Describing Cycloidal and other Curves, by Professor H. S. Hele Shaw, 519
The Dynamical Explanation of Certain Observed Phenomena of Meteoric Streams, by Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 519
Survey of that Part of the Scale upon which Nature Works, about which Man has some Information by Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 519
Joint Discussion with Section B on the Results of the Recent Solar Eclipse Expeditions, by Professor II. H. Turner, Sir W. Lockyer, Captain E. H. Hills, R.E., 519
Ancient Weights and Measures of Bristol, by Mr. W. R. Barker, 520
Total Immersion Hydrometers, by Mr. A. W. Warrington, 520
On the Articulation and Acoustics of the Spirate Fricative Consonants, by Dr. R. J. Lloyd, 520
Professor F. R. Japp’s, F.R.S., Presidential Address, Stereochemistry and Vitalism, 546
The Companions of Argon, Neon, and Xenon, by Professor W. Ramsaj' and Dr. Morris W. Travers, 547
The New Gases and the Periodic Law, by Professor Emerson Reynolds, 547
Thermal Properties of Gases and Liquids, by Professor Sydney Young, 547
Action exerted by Certain Metals and Organic Substances on a Photographic Plate, by Dr. W. J. Russell, 547
The Action of Bacteria on Photographic Plates, by Professor P. F. Frankland, 547
Absorption of the Rontgen Rays by Chemical Compounds, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone and Mr. Hibbert, 547
Undeveloped Photographic Images, by Mr. C. II. Bothamley, 547
Acetylene and Carbon Dioxide Mixtures, by Professor J. Emerson Reynolds, 548
The Cooling Curves of Fatty Acids, by Mr.
A. P. Laurie and Mr. E. H. Strange, 549
On a 10-Candle Lamp to be used as a Standard of Light, by Mr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, 549
On a Convenient Form of Drying Tube, by Mr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, 549
Report of the Committee on the Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis, 550
A New Form of Stand for Electrolytic Analysis, by Dr. Hugii Marshall, 550
Report of the Committee on the Continuation of the Bibliography of Spectroscopy, 550
Report of the Committee on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours, 650
On the More Exa?t Determination of the Densities of Crystals, by the Earl of Berkeley, 550
The Equivalent Replacement of Metals, by Professor F. Clowes, 550
Note on the Alkaline Chlorates and Sulphates of Heavy Metals, by Professor W. R. Hodgkinson and Mr. A. H. Coote, 550
Recent Advances in the Tanning Industry, by Dr. J. G. Parker, 550
A New Class of Colouring Matters ; Amidated Aromatic Amidines, by Professor E. Noelting, 550
Standards of Purity for Sewage Effluents, by Dr. S. Rideal, 550
Action of Ammonia on Gun-cotton, by Professor W. R. Hodgkinson and Captain Owen, 550
Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools, 550
Juvenile Research, by H. E. Armstrong, 550 Economic Science ancZ Statistics.
Old Lights and New in Economic Study, by Dr. James Bonar,-572
A Plea for the Study of Economic History, by Rev. Wm. Cunningham, D.D., 573
A Defence of Poor Law St^hools, by Mr. W. Chance, 673 •
Poor Law Administration, by Mr. Douglass Dent, 673
Industrial Conciliation, by Mr. L. L. Price, 573
Some Economic Aspects of the Imperial Idea, by iliss E. R. Faraday, 575
Banking in Canada, b}' Mr. B. E. Walker, 675 The Question of the Ratio, by Mr. F. J. Faraday, 575
Municipalities as Traders, by Mr. Geo. Pearson, <511
Ought Municipal Entei-prises to Yield a Profit in Aid of Rates? by Mr. E. Cannan, Gll
Rectification of Municipal Frontiers, by Mr. W. M. Acworth, 612
Economic and Social Influences of Electric Traction, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 612 Shipping Rings and the Manchester Cotton
Trade, by Mr. J. R. Galloway, 612, 619
The Effect of Sugar Bounties, by Mr. G. E. Davies, 612
Comparison of the Wages in France, United States, and the United Kingdom, by Mr. A. L. Bowley, 612
Saving and Spending, by Professor A, W. Flux, 613
Partnership of Capital and Labour as a Solution of the Conflict between them, by Mr. H. Vivian, 613
Expenditure of Working Women in the Middle Classes, by Miss C. E. Collet, 613
The Wakefield Land System and the Development from it in the Colonies, by Mr. W. P. Reeves, 613
British Cuisers, New, 17, 145,830, 862
British Interests in China, 432, 718
British Navy Estimates, 17, 145
British Navy Progress, 17, 145, 830, 862
British Railway Returns, 526
British Trading Methods, 529, 581. See LETTERS
British Warships. See also H.M.S.
British Warships Built in 1898, 831, 862
Brittleness Produce! in Soft Steel by Annealing, 319,. 404
Broken Hill Mining Dangers, 270
Broken Hill Sulphide Ore, Treatment, 22
Brown Hoisting and Conveying Machines, 42
Brown’s Steam Carriage, 294
Brush Discharge, 518
Brush Electrical Works, 169
Buckton Testing Machine at Cardiff College, 7
Budapest Electricity Works (Schuckert), 844
Buffalo Libraries, Halls, andc., 734
Buffalo Town and Harbour and Breakwater, U.S.A., 701, 734
Buffer Equalising Arrangement, London and North-Western Railway, 472
Building of the French Society of Civil Engineers, IGl
Building Materials, Fire-Resisting, 130, 251, 347, 510, 786
Building, Tall, in New York, 39, 139,"200, 290, 786
Buildings, Fireproof, 786
Buildings of University of Columbia, New York, 849
Buildings, Ventilation of, 778
Bulk, Electric Energy in, 459
Bulkheads, Testing, *821
Bullet, Magazine Rifle, 335
Bullets, Photographs of Air Waves Formed by Flying, 191
Burrator Dam, Plymouth Water Works/394, 452
Bursting of Flywheels, 357, 400, 433
Buyers’ Guide to Technical Books on the Mechanical Arts, 659 j
By-Product Ovens, Coking in, 27 I

Cable Companies, Submarine, 123, 201, 563
Cable V. Electric Traction, 655
Cable Grapnels, Submarine, 571, 603
Cable, Pacific, 536
Cable, Telephone, in Walenlake, Switzerland, 397. See LETTERS
Cables, All-British Telegraph, 417, 436, 536
Cadmium and GreenokiC in Greece, 396
Caisson Disease, 530
Caisson and Gates, Glasgow Graving Dock, 287
Calcium. See also Acetylene
Calcium Carbide, 592
Calcium Carbide Industry, 83, 753. See E8
Calcium, Nitride of, 562
Calcium, Pure, 397
Calcium, Sulphite Residue as Mordant, 396
Calculation for Magnetic Circuit of Dynamo, Electric Generators, 210
Calendars, 86J
“ Calorie,” The, 643, 724
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack. By William Calvert, M E., 864
Camberwell Tornado, 647
“ Campbell” Portable Oil Engine, 292
Canadian Timber, 179
Canal, Birmingham and Bristol, 413
Canal Haulage, 416, 728
Canal Locks, Electric Working of (Schuokert) 840
Canals, 420
Capital for Industries, 525
Capital and Labour Partnership and Strikes, 613
Capstan and Turntable Gear, Electric (French), 454, 579. See LETTER, 626
Capstans, Electric, 626
Car, Brown’s Steam Motor, 294
Car Frame Tenoning Machine, Double, 141
Car, Motor, Traffic Control, 646, 679
Cars, Motor, Liverpool Trials, 723 , ?
Cars, Motor, Trials of Royal Agricultural Society, 461. See LETTERS
Cars, Motor, Wheels for, 55
Cars, United States Tramway, 172
Carbon Consuming Cells, Jacques, 518
Carbon Contents of Piston-Rods as Affecting their Indurance under Fatigue, 227
Carbon Dioxide, A Mixture of Acetylene and, 548
Carbon Oxides, Methane, Determination of, 396
Carbons of the Arc, Drop of Potential at the, 515
Cardiff University College, Buckton Ttsting Machine, 7
Carpenter, Professor R. C., on Efficiency of Bicycles, 246, 279. See LETTERS
Carriage, Brown’s Steam, 294
Carriage Motor. See Cars^ Motor
Carriage, United States Breachloading Gun Barbette, 294
Carriage and Wagon Works, Midland, 167
Cast Iron, Action of Metalloids on, 319, 372, 402
Cast Iron, Breaking Strains of, 497
Cast Iron Cylinders, Experiments on, 228
Cast Iron, Specific Gravity Tests on, 29
Cast-Welded Joint, “ Falk,” 150
Casting, Making a Large Standardising, 218
Cementation, Micro-Chemistry of, 319
Central Electric Station at Christiania, 773
Central Electric Stations. See Schuckert's
Central Electric Stations, 35, 67
Central Electric Stations, Large, 459
Central Station, Development of, 125,187
Centrifugal Pumping Plant (Gwynne and Co.), 10
Chalon-sur-Sadne Shipyard (Schneider), 417, 444, 692
Channel Bridge, (Schneider), 609
Channel Steamer “ Duke of Cornwall” (Vickers), 150, 779
“ Chanzy,” French Cruiser, Engines of, 356
Chapman-Hunter Pitchometer, 793
“ Charles Martel,” French Battleship, Engines (Schneider), 551,645
Cliciiiical Congress: 333, 396
Agricultural Chemistry, 334
Calcium Sulphite Residue as Mordant, 336
Chemical Industry of Anorganic Substances, 334
Chemical Industry of Organic Compounds, 39J
Cnemistry of Graphic Lidustries: Photography, 396
Determination of Methane and Carbon Oxides, £96
Dietetical Medicine and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 334
Electro-Chemistry, 396
Electrolytic Alkali Industry, 397
Electrolytic Determination of Zinc in Ores, 397
Electrolyfe Sugar Refining, 397
Fermentation without Yeast Cells, by E. Buchners, 333
Fermentation and Wine, 334
Flash Point of Petroleum, and its Safety, 334
General Analytical Chemistry and Instruments, 334
Greek Lignites, 396
Greenokit and Cadmium in Greece, 396
Illuminating and Water Gas, 396
Indigo, 396
Limekilns, Chemistry of, 334
Metallurgy, Mining and Explosives, 396
Obnoxious Gases, and Waters of Metallurgical Works, 396
Preparation of Pure Calcium, 397
Sugar Industry, 334
Syntheses of Albuminous Substances, bj’ Leo Lilienfeld, 333
Tanner©’ Lye, 396
Use of Explosives in Mines, 393
Chemical - Electro Department at Schu kert’s Works, 480. See 857
Chemical Industry of Anorganic Substances, ?34 Chemical Industry of Organic Compounds, 396 Chemistry at the British Association, 449, 546 Chemistry, Electro, 115, 396, 550, 774, 805 Chemistry of Graphic Industries : Photography, 396
“ Chesapeake,” United States Training Ship, 820 Chimney, Blasting a Factory, 658
China, Blackburn Mission to, 49 China, British Interests in, 718 China, Business Methods, 432 China, Coal in, 53, 180 China, Competition in, 84 China, Cotton Spinning Profits, 19 China, Cycles in, 364 China, Pekin Syndicate, 147 China Railways, 269, 560
China, United States Commercial Commission to, 212
Chlorates, Alkaline, and Sulphates of Hea\'y Metals, 550
Chlorination Gold Milling in Colorado, 3, 103, 221. See 868
Christiania Electric Station (Schuckert), 773 Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Underpinning, 138
Circular Saw Safety Guard, 262

Civil Engineers, American Society of: 379, 418, 448, 481. See Erratum^ 594

Lehigh Valley Railway, 379. Sea Erratum Detroit, 418
Lake Steamers, 419
President’s Address, by Mr. Fteley, 420
Experiments on the Flow of Water in Iron and Wooden Pipes, by Charles D. Marx, Charles
B. Wing, andL. M. Hoskins, 446
Excursions, 447
Determination of the Safe Working Stress for Railway Bridges of Iron aod Steel, by E. Herbert Stone, 447
Marine Woodborers, by Charles H. Snow, 447
Dredges and Dredging on the Mississippi River, by J. A. Ockerson, 448
The Reservoir System of the Great Lakes of the St. Lawrence Basin, by Capt. H. M. Chittenden, 448
Excursions:
Michigan Stove Company’s Works, 481
St. Clair Tunnel, 484
Three-hinged Masonry Arches, by Mr. Molitor, 484

Civil Engineers, Institution of: ,

Prize List, 520
Presidential Address by Mr. W. H. Preece, C. B., 588
The Extraction of Nickel from its Ores, by the Mond Process, by Prof. Roberts-Austen, 615
Electrical Transmission of Power in Mining, by Mr. W. B. Esson, 659
The Effects of Subsidence due to Coal Workings upon Bridges and other Structures, by Mr. S. R. Kay, 755
The Ventilation of Tunnels and Buildings, by Mr. Francis Fox, 778

Civil Engineers, French Society, New Buildings, 161
Clark, the late Mr Latimer, 589
Clay, Fusibility of, 735
Cleaning Locomotives, 646
Clench’s Engine Works, Chesterfield, 613, 677 Clothing Steam Pipes, 226
Clutch, Heywood and Bridge’s Friction, 661
Clutch, Herschmaiin’s Hydraulic, 57
Clutch, Hydraulic, 544
Coal in the East, 180 Coal and Iron in Fiance, 729
Coal-Mining in China, 53, 180
Coal, Removing Sulphur from, 734
Coal Shipping, Welsh Method, 414
Coal, South African, 493
Coal Strike, 114
Coal Subsidences and Bridges, andc., 755
Coal Supplies, Duration of, 353
Coke Ovens, 703
Coker, Mr. E. G., on Instruments for Pleasuring Small Tortional Strains, 356, 503
Coking in By-Product Ovens, 27, 703
Colliery Warnings, 183
Collisions, Railway. See Accidents
Collisions at Sea, 81. See LETTERS, 465 Cologne Harbour, New, 150
Colorado, Gold Milling in, 3, 103, 221. See 868
Columbia, University of, 849
Columns, Tests of (Fire Protection), 347
Combination Bridges, 315
Commercial Development, of Egypt, 620
Commercial Intelligence Department, French, 271
Commercial Intelligence Department, Proposed, 208
Common Errors in Iron Bridge Design, 293, 465
Commutator Heating (Electric Generators), 38
Company Act Abuses, 653
Compensation Act, Application to Government Dockyards, 464
Compensation Act, Workmen’s, 19, 464, 492, 503, 686, 727, 751
Competition, United States Iron and Steel, 622
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compressed Air Plant (Schneider), 378
Compressed Air Tunnelling in Melbourne, 632
Compressed Air, Working under, 530
Companies, Foreign, Domicile in England, 624
Conciliation, Industrial, 573
Condenser, Dissipation of Energy on the Dielectric of a, 515
Condensing Plant at Altona, (Schuckert), 742
Conductivity of Rocks and Water, Thermal, 480
Congo Railway, 658
Conservation of Energy in the Human Body, 480
Consonants, Articulation of, 520
Constant Potential, Continuous Current Dynamo (Electric Generators), 349
Consuls and Foreign Trade, 114
Contractors and the London County Council, 146
Control of Self-Propelling Traffic, 646, 679
Converters, Rotatory, 661,695, 719
Conveying and Hoisting Machines, Brown, 42
Cookers, Gas, Automatic Metersand, 868
Cooling Tower for Water at Altona (Schuckert), 742
Copper, Electro-Deposition of, 528. See LETTERS, 581, 626
Copper Industry, Electrolytic, 861
Corners in Shipping Rates, 612, 619
Cornish Express Run, 331. See Errata, 369
Corrosion Some Remarkable Cases of, 323. See LETTERS, 357
Cost of EleCztric Traction, 655
Cost of Power, 59
Cotton Ginning and Baling, 197. See AVratum, 336
Cotton Manufacturing in Mexico, 82
Cotton Spinning in Japan, Difficulties, 240
Cotton Spinning Profits in Japan and China, 19
Cottrell, H. E. P., on Purification of Drinking Water, 253, 494, 608, 671, 767, 833
County Council and Contractors, London, 146
Coupling. Sec Cintch
Coverings of Steam Pipes, 226
Cowper-Coles, Mr. Sherard, on Removal of Mill
Scale and M^netic Oxide by Electricity, 872
Cox Type-Setting Machine, 644
Crane (Hoisting and Conveying Plant), 42
Cranes (Schuckert), 545
Crank-Angles, H.M.S. “ Terrible ” Trials, 428
Cream Separator, Fram, 486. See Erratum, 536
Creusot. See Schneider's Works
Criticism of the Navy, 86
Crosthwaite, Mr. Ponsonby Moore, on Graphic Methods Applied to Hydraulic Calculations, 65
Cruisers. See Warships
Crystals, Detection of the Density, 550
Cupola Practice, Modern, 671, 702
Curves New Method of Describing Cycloidal, andc., 519 k
Cutter, Sutton’s Milling, 467 I
Cutters for United States Navy, 812
Cut-Out and Junction Box (Schuckert), 773
Cut-Out for Resistance of High Self-Induction (Schuckert), 846
Cycle. See also Bicycle Cycle-Making Machinery, 674, 690, 706
Cycle Shows, 674, 690, 706
Cycle Trade in the Far East, 364
Cycle Works, Humber, 170
Cycloidal and other Curves, New Method of Describing, 519
Cylinder Drain Valve, Automatic, 627
Cylinder, Joy’s, Assistant, 779
Cylinders, Experiments on Cast-Iron, 228
Cylinders, Vibrations in, 800

Dairy, Fram Cream Separator, 486, 526
Dalton’s Law, 480
Damaged Battleships, Stability of, 822
Dams, Plymouth Reservoir, 394, 452 Dangers, Mining, 270
Danube Improvement Works, 787
Darby, John H., on Cokingin By-Product Ovens, 27. See 703 ’
Davison, Mr. R. C. H., on Barry Docks, 352
Deep Tunnel Railway, Waterloo and City, 51. 78
Defences of Hong Kong, 62
Delano Company’s Chlorination Gold Mill. 103 See also 3, 221, 868
Western Railroad,
Depreciation, 113. See LETTERS, 151
Designs of the New Vessels for the United States Navy, 817
Destruction of the United States Battleship “ Maine,” 23, 54, 86,110, 151, 213, 242 Destructor, Horsfall, 200
Destructors, Refuse, 342
Determination of Methane and Carbon Oxides, 396
Determination of the Safe Working Stress for Railway Bridges of Iron and Steeb 447 Detroit, 418
Diagram of Metal Prices, 56, 184, 336, 466, 594, 724, 866
Diagrams and Models, 198
W^>din, Mr. W. J., on Treatment of Sewage, 352
Dietetical, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 334
Diffraction Fringes as Applied to Micrometric Observations, 727
Dinghies for the United States Navy, 812 Directories. See LITERATURE
Disposal of Sewage, 277 Dissipation of Energy on the Dielectric of a Condenser, 51.5
Dock, Graving, at Glasgow, Caisson and Gates, 287
Dock Pumping Plant (Gwynne and Co.), 10 Dock Schemes in Parliament, 742. See 683 Dock, Thames Old Dry, 432 Docks, Barrv, 352 5ockrpla.thf71’ (SohneMerX 693
^464^^^^^^ Workmen’s Compensation Act, ^"°i“^ers’ Annual and Almanac for loyy, 532
Doors, Hyde’s Hinge for Wagon, 793 Doors, Spring Hinge for Wagon, 615 Drain Valve, Automatic Cylinder 627 Drake’s Propeller, 595
Draughtsmen, The Betterment of, 792 Dredger for French Government 711 I
Dredger, Sand Pump, for Ru8sia‘(Holland), 324
Dredger and Dredging on the Mississippi Rivei- for French Government, 711 Drill, Boyer’s Air, 387
Drilling Rock, 776
Drought on Steam Boilers, Effects of, 496, 531
Drum Switch Lever and Point Indicator, 172
Drury Lane Elecrical Stage Machinery, 834 i
Dry Dock. See Graving Dock Drying Tube, Convenient Form of, 549 Duffield Narrow-Gauge Railway, 169 i
P,j;J^®2iCo’*nwair* Channel Steamer (Vickers), 150, 7/9 ' I
Dusseldorf Electric Works (Schuckert), 742
Dutch Cruiser “ Friesland,” Engines of the I (Fijenoord Company), 11
“ Dwarf,” H.M. Gunboat, 563 i
Dynamical Explanation of Meteor Streams Phenomena, 519 i
DiSon,^T “nd Anomalous '
Dynamo, 180 Indicated Horse-Power, 203 '
Dynamo, (Schuckert), 846, 847 ' Company, Milwaukee), 485 i 778 ’ (Anderston Foundry Company),
Dynamometer for Wave Measurement, 216

Early Marine Engines (Schneider), 195
Earth Pressures on Retaining Walls, 256 484 641
Earthwork, Prismoidal Formulai, 283 ’ *
Eason’s Diaries, 863
East London Water Supply, 299
Eclipse, Solar, Results of, 519
Economics at the British Association, 572
Economiser, Schmidt’s, 838
Economy in Power Installations, 69
Economy Test of Unique Form of Feed Pump, Education, Engineering, 659, 604
Education, French Naval, 689 Fffppf ^on. Science, in Elementary Schools, 550 X b v^Vas^i°„g‘734
Effects of Subsidence Due to Coal Workings upon 1’.?other Structures, 755 P
Bicycles, 246,279. See LBTTBR, 357 Eif^lft-Hom’ DayriHrses*’™'"^ "?‘iXo^S 221.'^ steP^’® Electric. See also Schuckert Electric Arc, Drop of Potential, 515 V Traction, 655 1
Electric Canal Hauhige, 416, 728
Electric Capstan and Turntable Gear, Irenclb 454, 579. See LETTER, 626
Electric Car Accident, Bradford, 532
Electric Cell, Jacques’ Carbon-Cwisuming. 518
Electric Central Stations. See Central Jilectnc
Electric Construction Department (Schneider), 35,67,106 rn.>
Electric Contact Resistance of ^^etals, o92
Electric Converters, Rotatory, 661, 6J5, 719
Electric Cranes (Schuckert), 645
Electric Dynamo, 180 Horse-Power, 203
Electric Dynamo, Steam (Allis Company, Milwaukee), 485
Electric Energy in Bulk, 459

Electric Generators: 6, 38,129, 210, 258, 349, 463, 591, 643,803

Air Gap Reluctance, 129
Armature Core Reluctance, 129
Armature Interference, 350
Calculation for Magnetic Circuit of Dynamo, 210
Commutator Heating, 38
Constant Potential, Continuous Current D,5 • names, 349, 8l3
Foucault Currents, 6
Friction Loss, 38
Gap Reluctance, 129
Heating Commutator, 38
Hysteresis Losses in Cores, 6
Inductance, Determination of the, 643
Inductance, Experimental Tests of, 591
Inductance, Practical Definition, 591
Influence of Armature Reaction in Extreme Cases, 463
Leakage Coefficient, 129
Magnetic Circuit Design, 38
Magnetic Circuit of Dynamo, Calculation for, 210
Magnetic Circuit of Induction Motors, 258
Magnetic Circuit of Transformers, 258
Modern Constant Potential Commutating Dynamos, 803
Multiple Circuit Windings, 463
Multiple Windings, 463 Proportioning of Dynamos, 351
Reluctance of Core Projections, andc., 129
Shunt-Wound Dynamo, Spool Winding for, 210
Transformers, Magnetic Circuit, 258
Two-Circuit Coil-Windings, 464
Voltage per Commutator Segment as Related to Inductance, 464, 591

Electric Generators (Schuckert), 476, 772
Electric Installation on Walenlake, Switzerland, , 180. See LETTER
Electric Installations for Lighting and Power on . the Midland Railway, with ISotes on Power Absorbed by Shafting and Belting, 560, 566
Electric Launch for Russian Government, 75
Electric Lifts (Schuckert), 543
Electric Light and Power, 560, 566
Electric Lighting, Bristol, 412
Electric Lighting, Municipal, Profits, 611
Electric Lighting Schemes in Parliament, 738 ’
Electric Lighting Station (Schneider), 35, 67 •
Electric Motors Coupled so as to Work at Different Speeds, 29
Electric Motors (Schuckert), 543
Electric Power at British Association, 381, 412, 500, 631
Electric Power for Mining, 659
Electric Power Transmission, Etsch, 117
Electric Power Transmission, Long-Distance, 722
Electric Power Transmission at ^lechaniesville, N.Y., 562
Electric Power Transmission in Shops, 381, 464, 500, 560, 566, 631
Electric Railway, Waterloo and City, 51, 78
Electric Resistance of Steel Rails, 215
Electric Secondary Cells, Charging, 515
Electric Standards, Committee on, 515
Electric Station, Development of Central, 125,187
Electric Station at Barmen, Dusseldorf, 742
Electric Station at Christiania, 773
Electric Traction, 34, 240, 655. See LETTER, 273
Electric Traction, Blondel and Paul Dubois’, 273
Electric Traction, Economicand Social Effect of, 612
Electric Traction Plant (Schuckert), 605. See also Electric Generators
Electric Traction by Surface Contact, 275, 412
Electric Tramway at Evian-les-Bains, 314
Electric Tramway System, Kingsland’s, 275 Electric Tramways, Lausanne, 769
Electric Velocity in the Electric Wind, 515
Electric Water Power in the Scottish Highlands, 722
Electric Working on the Ymuiden Locks (Schuckert), 840
Electrical Ampere Balance, 872
Electrically Driven Machine Tools, 560, 566. See also Electric Poiver
Electrical Engineer, 827
Electrical Engineers, Institution of:
Rotatory Converters, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 661, 695, 719
Electrical Industry Finance, 525
Electrical Influence Machine, 597
Electrical Oscillations, Propagation of, 658
Electrical and Physical Properties of Various Metals and Alloys, 869
Electrical Stage Machinery at Drury Lane, 834
Electrical Transmission of Power in Mining, 659
Electrical Works, Brush, U.S.A., 169
Electricity on Plants, Influence and Action, 518
Electricit5^ and the Wheat Supply, 330
Electricity Works at Barmen, DUsseldorf, Altona (Schuckert), 742
Electricity Works at Christiania, (Schuckert), 773
Electricity Works in Continental Cities (Schuckert), 844, 845,848
Electricity Works, Hamburg (Schuckert), 840
Electro-Chemical Department (Schuckert), 840. See 857
Electro-Chemistry, 396
Electro-Chemistry Annual, 774. See 805
Electro Deposition of Copper, 528. See LETTERS, 626
Electrolysis, 515
Electrolysis of Gold Chloride, 240
Electrolyte, Hall Effect in a Binary, 29
Electrolytic Analysis, Stand for, 550
Electrolytic Copper Industry, 861
Electrolytic Corrosion of Mains, 477
Electrolytic Determination of Zinc in Ores, 397
Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis, 550
Electrolytic Production of Soda and Bleach (Hargreaves-Bird), 115
Electrolytic Sugar Refining, 397
Elektricitats-Actieogesellschaft. See Schuckert and Co.
Elements, New, 240, 547
Elementary Schools, Teaching Science in, 550
Ellington’s Fire Hydrant, 152
Ellin’s Soldering Iron, 262
Elliott, Professor, on liaboratory Testing Machines, 7
Elliptical Bevel Gear, 121, 626
Embankments, Plymouth Reservoir, 394, 452
Empire and Engineering, 491. See also 685
Employers’ Federation, 724
Encyclopsedia Britannica, 111
Energy Dissipation on the Dielectric of a Condenser, 515
Engine. See also Locomotive
Engine, an Old Newcomen, 353
Engine and Blower Combined (Alldays and Onions), 520
Engine Construction, Marine (Schneider), 163, 195, 257
Engine Design and Coal Supply, 353
Engine Failures, 364
Engine, Gas, Longsdon, 401
Engine, Gas (Producer), Bonier, 386
Engine and Generator (Allis), 485
Engine Governor, Marine, 271
Engine, Joy’s Assistant Cylinder, 779
Engine Materials, Testing, 576, 628, 647
Engine, Oil, Portable (Tangyes), 485
Engine, Schmidt Compound Tandem, 797. 838
Engine Tests, Conducting, 116
Engine, Vertical, Compound, and Dynamo, 778. See jfc’rrafnw, 833
Engine Works, Lincoln, Chesterfield, 613, 677 Engines and Boilers of the Washington Mills Company (United States), 533
Engines, Compound, Piston-Rods for, 227
Engines of the Dutch Cruiser “ Friesland ” (Fijenoord Company), 11
Engines, Early French Warship (Schneider), 195
Engines, Factory (Schneider), 378
Engines of the French Battleship “ Charles Martel ” (Schneider), 551, 645
Engines, Gas, Acetylene for, 754 Engines, Horizontal, of the French Cruiser
“ Chanzy ” (Schneider), 356
Engines, Pumping, and Motive Power (Merryweather), 42
Engines, Rolling Mill, ande. (Schneider), 314
Engines, Torpedo-Boat (Schneider), 257
Engines, Traction, on Highways, 330
Engines, Triple-Expansion of Channel Steamer “ Duke of Cornwall,” 779. See 150
Engineers, Amalgamated Society of, 867
Engineers in Austria and Hungary, 24, 54
Engineers, Electrical, 827
Engineers’ Eight-Hours’ Day, 117, 368
Engineers, Naval, 717. See LETTERS, 791
Engineers, Naval, and the Efficiency of the Navy 465 ’
Engineers, Royal. See Royal Engineers
Engineering Books, The Best, 625
Engineering Education, 559, 604
Engineering, Empire and, 491. See also 685
Engineering, Marine, in 1898, 851
Engineering Schemes in Parliament, 686 720 737, 754
Equations (71), with nVariables, Graphical Solution of, 867
Erosion of Steel Guns, 320, 486
Escapement for Watches, Revolving, 467, 489. See LETTER, 723
Etsch Electric Power Transmission, 117
Etudes sur la Marine de Guerre, 542
Euphrates Valley Route to India, 532
“ Europa,” Steam Trials of (Clydebank), 20
Exhibition, Agricultural, 751
Exhibition, Austro-Hungarian Floating, 305
Exhibition, Brewers, 590
Exhibition Buildings (Schneider), 639
Exhibition, Paris, 1900, 182, 431, 828
Exhibition, Westralian, 656
Experience with Express Locomotive Engines 576,597, 663. See LETTERS ’
Experiments on Cast-Iron Cylinders, 228
Experiments on the Exposure of Anemometers at different Elevations, 647
Experiments on the Flow of Water in Iron and
Wooden Pipes, 446
Explosion, see also Boiler Explosions Explosion, Blast-Furnace, 670
Explosion, Fatal, at Glasgow, 400
Explosion of a Tramway Engine Boiler, 217 Explosives in Mines, 3y6
Express Locomotives, 756. See also 576, 597, 663
Extraction of Nickel from its Ores, by the Mond Process, 815

F.R.S.N.A., 626
Factitious Airs, 353
Factory Buildings (Schneider), 539
Failures, Engine, 364
“ Falk” Cast-Welded Joint, 150
Fatty Acids, Cooling Curves of, 549
Feed Pumps, 813
Fermentation and Wine, 334
Fermentation without Yeast Cells, by E. Buchners, 333
Financing Industries, 525
Fire Hydrant, Ellington’s, 152

Five Protection: 130, 251, 347, 510, 637

Berlin Tests of Materials, 130, 251, 347, 510
Building Materials, Fire-Resisting, 130, 251, 347, 510
Columns, Tests of, 347
Fire Prevention, 130, 251, 347
London Survey, 637
New York Tests, 510
Survey, 637
Tests of Building Materials, 130, 251, 347, 610

Fireproof Buildings, 785
Flanging and Setting of Horizontal Fire Tube Boiler, 134
Flash Point of Petroleum, and its Safety, 242, OOx
Fleetwood and Belfast Steamer, “ Duke of Cornwall,” 150, 779
Floating Bridge, An Old, 280
Floating Docks and Bridges (Schneider), 693
Floating Exhibition, Austro-Hungarian, 305
Flow of Water in Steel and Wooden Pipes, 446
Fluorescent Eyepiece, 397
Fluxes, Magnetic, in Meters, ande., 597, 658
Flywheels, Bursting of, 357, 400, 433
Flying Bullets, Air Waves formed by (Photographs), 191
Footbridge over River Guadalquiver, 290
Foreign Companies’ Domicile in England, 624
Foreign Markets and British Manufactures, 529. See LETTER, 581. See also China and Japan
Foreign Statistics, 363
Formosa Trade, 529
Foucault Currents, Electric Generators, 6
Fowler, the late Sir John, 688
Fowler’s “Mechanical Engineer” Pocket-Book for 1899, 864
Fram Cream Separator, 486. See Erratum, 526
France, Mercantile Marine, 75, 495
France, United States, and United Kintrdom Wages, 612
French Battleship, the “Charles Martel” (Schneider), 551, 64-^
French Commercial Intelligence Department,
French Cruiser “Chanzy,”’ Engines of the, 356
French Ideas of Britain, 66
French Locomotives (Schneider), 281
French Naval Manoeuvres, 462, 614
French Naval Training College, 589
French Phosphorus Matches, The New, 623
French Society of Civil Engineers, New Buildings, andc., 161
French Steam Navigation, 75, 495
French Torpedo-Boat Building (Schneider), 418, 444
French Torpedo-Boat Engines, 257
French Toi*pedo-Boats, 692
French Trade, Anglo, 592
French Tramway Traction, 34, 273
French Warships and Manoeuvres, 462, 514
French Warship Marine Engines, 195, 257, 356, 651, 645
French Warship “ Ville de Paris,” Old, 158
French Warships, Study of, 642
Fribourg Viaduct (Schneider), 477
Friction Clutch, Heywood and Bridges, 661
Friction Loss, Electric Generators, 38
“ Friesland,” Engines of the Dutch Cruiser (Fijenoord Company), 11
Fuel, Wood, for Boilers, 400
Furnace, Aluminium Annealing, 289
Furnace, Barnes’ Heating, 793
Furnace Explosion, Blast, 670
Furnaces, Setting Back Bulges in, 93
Fusibility of Clays, 735
Galvanising Plant (Schneider), 445
Gape Reluctance, Electric Generators, 129
Gas, Acetylene. See Acetylene
Gas, Blast-Furnace, for Motive Power, 562
Gas Engine and Producer, Benier, 386
Gas Engines. See Engines
Gas Engines, Acetylene for, 754
Gas Generators, Acetylene. See Acetylene
Gas, Illuminating and Water, 396
Gas Meters and Cookers, Automatic, 868
Gas Power, Cost of, 59
Gas from Sewage Sludge, Illuminating, 151,183
Gas and Water, Obnoxious, from Metal Works, 396
Gas Works, Schemes in Parliament, 739
Gases, New, at the British Association, 547
Gases, New, and the Periodic Law, 547
Gases, Thermal Properties of, 547 'Gasifier, Mason’s Refuse, 870
Gates, Glasgow Graving Dock, 287
Gates, Penarth Docks,.71
Geipel, Mr. W., on Electric Power Plant, 631. See 381
Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, Sweden, 300, 322, 365, 430, 443
General Analytical Chemistry and Instruments, 334
“General San Martin,” Argentine Cruiser (Orlando, Leghorn), 74
Generators, Acetylene Gas. See Acetylene
Genesis of Certain Auriferous Lodes, 735 German Banks and Electrical Undertakings, 525 German Colonial Expansion, 393
German Electric Stations, 742
German Locomotives (Vulcan Company), £83, 680. See 626
German Patent Office, New Rules, 759
German Population, 357
Ginning and Baling, Cotton, 197. See Erratum, 336
Gjers, The Late Mr. John, 496
Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 52
Glasgow, Fatal Explosion at, 400^
Glasgow. Graving Dock, Caisson and Gates, 287
Glasgow and South-Western and Midland Route, 754
Glasgow Water Pipes Contract, 431
Gloucester Diary and Directors’ Calendar for 1899, The, 863
Gold Chloride, Electrolysis, 240
Gold, Microscopic Structure of, 411, 541, 733. See LETTERS, 766
Gold Milling in Colorado, 3, 103, 221. See 868
Gold in Transvaal, 270
Governor for Marine Engine, 271
Granger’s Variable Steam Nozzle, 121
Graphic Diagrams and Glyptic Models, 198
Graphic Method Applied to Hydraulic Calculations, 65
Graphic Records of the Screening of Crushed Material, 735
Graphical Solution of n Equations with n Variables, 867
Grapnels, Submarine Cable, 571, 603
Dock at Glasgow, Caisson and Gates, 287
Graving Dock, Old Thames, 432
Gray, The Late Sir William, 368
Great Britain at the Paris Exhibition, 182. See also Paris Exhibition
Great Central Railway, 150
Great Western Locomotive Run, 331. See Erratdf 369
Greece, Greenokit, Cadmium, and Lignites, 396
Greenokit and Cadmium in Greece, 396
Gregory Hexagonal Automatic Milling Machine, 76
Guides and Railway Time-Tables, 79
Gunboat, Boilers of the Washington Mills Company (United States), 533
Gun Carriage, United States Barbette, 294
Gun-Cotton, Action of Ammonia and, 550
Gun Factory, Maxim, Erith, 552
Guns, Erosion of Steel, 320, 486
“ Europa,” Steam Trials (Clydebank), 20
“Formidable,” 660
“Hyacinth” (London and Glasgow Company), 580
Irresistible ” 791
H.M.S. “ Niobe,” Steam Trials of (Vickers), 53
H.M.S. “Powerful’s” Performance in Chinese QAQ
H.M.S. “Terrible,” Steam Trials, 428
H.M.SS. “Dwarf” and “Thistle’’(Gunboats), 563
Heat of Combination of Metals in Forming Alloys, 480
Heating Commutator, Electric Generators, 38
Heating Furnace, Barnes’, 793
Heating Surface of a Steam Boiler, 135
Herbert’s Machine-Tool Works, Coventry, 843
Herschmann’s Hydraulic Clutch, 57
Heywood and Bridge’s Friction Clutch, 661
High Buildings in New York, 39, 139, 200, 290, 510, 78
Highlands Water Power Scheme, 722
Hinge, Balancing, for Railway Wagons, 615
Hinge for Wagon Doors, Hyde’s, 793
Hobart, Mr. H. M., on Electric Generators. See Electric Generators
Hobart, Mr. H. M., and Mr. H. F. Parshall, on Properties of Metals and Alloys, 869
Hofors Iron Works, Sweden, 443
Hoisting and Conveying Machines, Brown, 42
Hoists, Electric, 560, 566
Hong Kong, Defences of, 52
Hong Kong, Development of, 624
Hopkinson, The Late Dr. John, 301, 324, 631,651, 783
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Cycle Shows, 674, 706
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Machine - Moulded Wheels, 33, 223, 313, 377, 509
Horseless Carriage. See Car, Motors
Horsfall Refuse Destructor, 200
Hospital Ship “ Solace,” United States, 228
Hours of Labour, Wages and, 267
Humber Cycle Works, 170
Hurricane in West Indies, 866
“ Hyacinth,” H.M. Second-Class Cruiser, 580
iljde’s Hinge for Wagon Doors, 793
Hydrant, Ellington’s Fire, 152 Hydraulic Bar-Cutting Machine (Cameron, Salford), 245
Hydraulic Calculations, Graphic Methods Applied to, 65
Hydraulic Clutch, Herschmann’s, 57
Hydraulic Clutch (Schuckert), 544
Hydraulic Compression of Air, 416
Hydraulic Jointing of Tubes, 356
Hydro-Electric Power for Mining, 659
Hydrometers, Total Immersion, 52
Hyslop’s Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage, 85, 118
Hysteresis Losses in Cores (Electric Generators), 6

“ Ikadsuchi,” Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 854
Illuminating and Water Gas, 396
Independent Labour Party, Policy of the, 792
India, Aluminium in, 335
India, Euphrates Valley Route to, 532
Indian Rack Railway, 358
Indian Railways, 58
India-Rubber Plantations, 269
Indicator, A New Acceleration, 55
Indicator, Acceleration, 22. See LETTER.S
Indigo, 396
Inductance, Determination of the (Electric Generators), 643
Inductance, Experimental Tests of (Electric Generators), 591
Inductance, Practical Definition (Electric Generators), 591
Industrial Conciliation, 573
Industrial Finance, 525
Industrial Notes, 26, 57, 92, 121, 152, 185, 215, 245, 276, 307, 338, 371, 401, 435, 468, 499, 536, 565, 596, 627, 659, 694, 725, 760, 794, 836, 870
Industrial Position in New Zealand, 111 Influence of Armature Reaction in Extreme Cases (Electric Generators), 463
Influence of Bismuth in Brass, and its Relation to Fire-Cracks, 776
Influence Machine, 597
Institute of Marine Engineers, 495
Insull, Mr. Samuel, on Development of the Central Station, 125,187
International Navigation Congress, 149, 209
Inventors, Beneficent, 557
Iron Buildings (Schneider), 639
Iron, Cast. See Cast Iron
Iron and Coal in France, 729
Iron Industry of South Russia, 182
Iron Industry, Sweden, 303, 309, 339
Iron Ore Deposits of Kiirunavaara and Luossavaara, 310
Iron Ore Mining, Swedish, 304, 340, 438 469, 502
Iron Ore of Northern Sweden, 300, 322, 365, 430. See 443
Iron Ore Prospecting, Magnetic Instruments, 469

Iron and Steel Institute: 303, 319

On Coking in By-Product Ovens, by Mr. John H. Darby, 27
Sweden Meeting, 303
Jerkontoret, 303
Outlines of the Development of the Swedish Industry, by Mr. R. Akerman, 303, 309, 339
Prominent and Characteristic Features of the Swedish Iron Ore Mining, bj’ Professor G. Nordenstrbm, 304, 438, 469, 502
The Danger of Using too Hard Steel Rails, by Mr. C. P. Sandberg, 304, 308
Dinner of the Swedish Ironmasters, 305 Brittleness Produced in Soft Steel by Annealing, b}^ Mr. J. E. Stead, 319, 404
The Micro-Chemistry of Cementation, by Professor Arnold, 319
The Action of Metalloids on Cast Iron, by Mr. Guy R. Johnson, 319, 372, 402
Erosion of Steel Guns, by Professor Roberts-Austen, 320, 486
Reception by the King of Sweden, 321
On the Iron Ore Deposits of Kiirunavaara and Luossavaara, by Hjalmar Lundbohm, 340
(.)n the Solution Theory of Iron and Steel, by Baron Hanns Jiiptner von Jornstorff> 763
Iron and Steel, Solution Theory of, 763
Iron and Steel, United States, 622
Iron, Swedish, List of, 248
Iron Works, Hofors, Sweden, 443
“Irresistible,” H.M.S , 791

Jacques’ Carbon-Consuming Cell, 518
Jahrbuch des Elektrocheniie Berichte Uber die
Fortschritte des Jahres 1897. Edited by W. Nernst and W. Borchers, 774
Japan Battleship, A New (Vickers), 863
Japan Coal, 180
Japan, Competition in, 84
Japan Cotton Spinning, Difficulties, 240
Japan Cotton Spinning Profits, 19
Japan, Cycles in, 364
Japan, Foreigners in, 658
Japan, Industry of Hiogo and Osaka, 828
Japan, Locomotives in, 397
Japan Mail Shipping Company, 117
Japan Navigation, 300
Japan Railways, 179
Japan, Schenectady Locomotives for, 323
Japan, Shipbuilding at, 306
Japan Social Progress, 271
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in, 531
Japan Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 755, 854
Japan, United States Competition in, 562
Japan, Yokohama Trade, 656
Japanese Battleship “ Shikishima,” 593. See 626
Japanese-Built Mail Steamer, 754
Japanese Institute of Naval Architects, 429
Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 755, 854
Jernkontoret (Sweden), 303
Johnson, Mr. Guy R., on Action of Metalloids on Cast Iron, 372, 401. See 319
Jointing, Hydraulic, 356
Jones, Professor J. Viriamu and Professor Ayrton, on Ampere Balance, 515, 872
Jornstorff, Baron, on the Solution Theory of Iron and Steel, 763
Joy’s Assistant Cylinder, 779
Junction Box (Schuckert), 773

Keels, Bilge, and Rolling Experiments, U.S.S. “ Oregon,” 812
Kiirunavaara Iron Ore Deposits, Sweden, 340
Kingsland’s Electric Tramway System, 275
Kites at the Blue Hill Observatory, 480 Korea, Affairs in, 70
Korea, Cycles in, 364
Krupp Process, Armour-Plate Tests, 825

“ La Bourgogne” Collision, Law Case, 624
“La Bourgogne” Collision at Sea, 81. See LETTERS, Collisions^ tCc.
Laboratory, Proposed National Physical, 460
Laboratory Testing Machine at Cardiff College, 7 Labour Dispute Statistics, 621
Labour Party, Policy of the Independent, 792
Lagging Steam Pipes, 226
Lake Steamers, United States, 419
Lakes, Reservoir System of United States, 448
Lamp Circuits and Suspenders (Schuckert), 847
Lamplough’s Steam Trap, 627
Lancashire, Plateways in, 207
Langdon, Mr. W. E., on Electric Power in Machine Shops, 560, 566
Lathe, Front Slide Brass Finishers (Britannia Company, Colchester), 185.
Lathes, andc., for Cycle Making, 674, 690, 706
Launch of H.I.J.M.S. “Shikishima,” 593. See 626
Launch, Vril Electric, for Russia, 75 Launches and Trial Trips, 30, 62, 94, 188, 218, 213, 278, 306, 344, 369, 408, 506, 538, 564, 600, 634, 666, 730, 759, 885
Launches for United States Navy, 812
Lausanne Electric Tramways, 769
Lead, Treatment of Argentiferous, 182
Leakage Coefficient, Electric Generators, 129
Lean’s Royal Navy List, 538. See LETTER, F.R.S.N.A., 626
Leather Trade, Recent Advances in the, 550
Lehigh Valley Railway, 379. See Erratum^ 379
Leicester Water Works, 169
Lenses, not of Glass, 518
Letters to the Editor, 23, 54, 85, 108, 151, 183, 213, 242, 273, 292, 335, 357, 398, 433, 465, 496, 531, 551, 580, 625, 646, 678, 723, 756, 791, 867
Libau Dock Pumping Plant (Gwynne and Co.), 10
Library at University of Columbia, N.Y., 849
Licenses (Compulsory) to Work Patents, 212 Light and Power, Electric, 560, 566
Light Railway Schemes in Parliament, 720, 737
Light Railways, 2-Ft., 148, 166, 164. See LETTERS .
Light, Standard, 10 Candle-Power Lamp as, 549
Lighting (Electric), Bristol, 412
Lignite, Greek, 396
Limekilns, Chemistry of, 334
Limited Liability Companies Act, 653
Lincoln Engine Works, Chesterfield, 613, 677
Lindon Fin-Boat, 24
Liquid Mixtures, Properties of, 727
Liquids, Thermal Properties of, 547
Literature, 34, 66, 240, 283, 480, 542, 604, 774, 863
Liverpool and London Train Service, 50. See LETTERS
Liverpool and Manchester Plateway, 207
Liverpool Trials of Motor Vehicles, 723
Lloyd’s Ship Losses, 117,178, 367, 657
Lloy d’s Shipbuilding Returns, 53, 464
Lloyd’s Shipwreck Returns, 117, 178, 367, 657
Load-Line, Atlantic, 722
Local Authorities and Profits of Electric Lighting, andc.. Schemes, 611
Lock Gates, Penarth Docks, 71
Lock Gates. See also 287
Locomotive Department (Schneider), 258, 284
Locomotive, German Compound (Vulcan Companj'), 583, 680. See 626
Locomotive, Great Western Run, 331. See Errata, 369
Locomotive Materials, Testing, 576, 628, 647
Locomotive Practice, North-Eastern, 576, 597, 663. See LETTERS, 756
Locomotive Recent Tests, 723
Locomotive Speeds, 379
Locomotive Spring Testing Machine (Avery), 520
Locomotive Stay Bolts, Testing, 227
Locomotive Trials, 576, 597, 663
Locomotive, Wisconsin Central Lines Heavy, 420
Locomotive Works, Midland Railway, 97
Locomotives, Cleaning, 646
Locomoti\'es, Express, 576, 597, 663, 756
Locomotives, French (Schneider), 284
Locomotives on Highway Act, 330
Locomotives in Japan, 397
Locomotives in Japan, Schenectady, 323
Locomotives, Prussian Passenger and Goods, 583, 680. See 626
London County Council and Contractors, 146
London Directory, 864
London Domicile of Foreign Companies, 624
London and Liverpool Train Service, 50, 87. See LETTERS
London Railways, 198
London Street Traffic, 654
London Survey, for Fire Protection, 637
London Water Supply, 587
London Water Supply, East, 299
Long-Distance Transmission of Electric Power, 722. See also Electric Power
Longitudinal Vibrations in Solid and Hollow Cylinders, 800
Longsdon Gas Engine, 401
Luela-Afoten Railway, 240
Luossavaara Iron Ores Mines, Sweden, 300, 322, 365, 430, 443. See 340
Lorries, Self-Locking Railway Station, 757, 792
Luminosity of Sugar Produced by Rubbing, 518
Lundbohm, Hjalmar, on Swedish Iron Ore Deposits, 340. See 304

Machine-Moulded Wheels, 33, 223, 313, 377, 509
Machine-Tool Works, Herbert’s, Coventry, 843
Machine-Tools for Locomotive Construction, 97
Machinery Depreciation, 113. See LETTERS
Machinery for Making Cycles, andc., 674, 690, 706
Machinery, Tube-Making, 825
Machinery, United States, 774, 805
Maconchy, G. C., on Earth Pressures on Retaining Walls, 256, 484, 641
Madras Rack Railway, 368
Magazine Rifle Bullet, 335
Magnetic Circuit Design, Electric Generators, 83
Magnetic Circuit of Dynamo, Calculation for, Electric Generators, 210
Magnetic Circuit of Induction Motors, Electric Generators, 250
Magnetic Circuit of Transformers, Electric Generators, 258
Magnetic Conference, 477
Magnetic Fluxes in Meters, andc., 597, 658
Magnetic Instruments for Prospecting for Iron Ore, 469
Magnetic and Meteorological Phenomena, 478, 479
Magnetic Observations at the British Association, 450, 451, 452
Magnetic Oxide and Mill Scale, Removal by Electricity, 872
Magnetism at the British Association, 450, 451, 452
Magneto-Optic Phenomenon, C97
“Maine,” Destruction of the United States Battleship, 23, 54, 86, 110,151, 213, 242
Maine,” New United States Class of Battleship 817
Management of Men, 527
Management of Ordnance Factories, 859
Manual of Electrical Undertakings. By Emile Garcke, 528
Map of British and French Possessions, 617
Marcille’s Military Bridge (Schneider), 609 Marine Construction Department (Schneider), 137,163,195, 257
Marine Engine Governor, 271
Marine Engines of French Warships (Schneider), 195, 257, 356, 551, 645
Marine Engineers, Institute of, 495
Marine Wood Borers, 447
Maritime War, Essays on, 542
Marks Act Case at Rotherham, 437
Mason’s Refuse Gasifier, 870
Matches, The New French Phosphorus, 624 Maxim Gun Factory, Erith, 552
Measures and Weights of Bristol, Ancient, 520 Measuring Machine, Micrometer, 595 Measuring Small Torsional Strains, 356, 503

Mechanical Engineers, American Society of: 116, 134, 170, 197, 226, 260

Niagara Falls Meeting, 116
Niagara Falls Water Power, 116
Engine Tests, Conducting (Discussion), 116
The Flanging and Setting of Horizontal Fire- Tube Boiler, by Mr. O. Worlson, 134 ,
What is the Heating Surface of a Steam Boiler ? by Mr. C. W. Baker, 135
Reception, 135
Patents, by Mr. James W. See, 170
The Relations between the Purchaser, the Engineer, and the Manufacturer, by Mr. William H. Bryan, 171
A Century of Cotton Ginning and Baling, by Mr. George A. Lowry, 197. See Erratum^ 336
Graphic Diagrams and Glyptic Models, by
Professor R. H. Thurston, 198
Protection of Steam-Heated Surfaces, by Mr. Charles L. Norton, 226
Excursions, 227
Bending Tests of Locomotive Stay Bolts, by Mr. F. J. Cole, 227
Notes on the Carbon Contents of Piston-Rods as Affecting their Insurance under Fatigue, by Mr. Jos. E. Johnson, 227
Experiments on Cast-Iron Cylinders, by Mr. C. H. Benjamin, 228
The Mechanical Properties of Certain Aluminium Alloys, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 228
Method of Manufacture and Tests of a New Seamless Tube, by Mr. R. C. Carpenter arid P. J. Fickenger, 260. See LETTER, 293

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: 147, 164, 560, 576

Aluminium Manufacture with a Description of the Rolling Mills and Foundry at Milton, Staffs, by Mr. E. Ristori, 147, 154, 289
Narrow-Gauge Railways (2 Ft. and under), by Mr. Leslie S. Robertson, 148, 156, 164. See LETTERS
Water Softening and Purification by the Archbutt-Deeley Process, by Mr. Leonard Archbutt, 149, 166, 186, 230. See LETTERS
Excursions and Visits to Works, andc. ; 167
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, 167
Bass’s Brewery, 169
Duffield Narrow-Gauge Railway, 169
British Electrical Works, 169
Leicester Water Works, 169 Milton and Stoke, 170
Minton’s China and Earthenware Works, 170
Humber Cycle Works, 170
President’s Reception, 170
Bolsover and Cresswell’s Colliery, 170
Election of President (Sir W. H. White), 560
Electric Installations for Lighting and Power on the Midland Railway, with Notes on Power Absorbed by Shafting and Belting, by Mr. W. E. Langdon, 560, 566
Results of Recent Practical Experience with Express Locomotive Engines, by Mr. Walter M. Smith, .576, 597, 663. See LETTERS
Mechanical Testing of Materials at the Locomotive Works of the Midland Railway, Derby, by Mr. W. Gadsby Peet, 577, 628, 647
Vote of Thanks to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 579
Mechanical Motion, A New, 121, 626
Mechanical Testing of Materials at the Locomotive Works of the Midland Railway at Derby, 577, 628, 647
Mechanical Traction, 34, 240 Merchandise Marks Act Case, 437 Merchant Cruisers, American Liners as, 624 Mercury, Assaying, 735
Merryweather Pumping and Motive Power Engine, 42
Messageries Maritimes, 75
Metal Price Diagram, 56, 184, 336, 416, 594, 724,- 866
Metalloids on Cast-Iron, Action of, 319, 372, 402 Metallurgy, Mining and Explosives, 396 Metals and Alloys, Physical and Electrical Properties of, 869
Metals, Equivalent Replacement of, 550
Metals and Organic Substances, Photographic Action of, 547
Metals Resistance, Electric Contact, 592
Meteor Streams Phenomena, Dynamical Explanation of, 519
Meteorological and Magnetic Phenomena, 478, 479
Meteorological Photography, 479

Meteorological Society, Royal: 647, 866

Camberwell Tornado, by Mr. W. Marriott, 647
Experiments on the Exposure of Anemometers at Different Elevations, Committee Report, 647
Observations by Hand ^Vnemonieters, by Captain D. Wilson-Barker, 647
West Indian Hurricane, Sej^tember, 1898, by Captain A. Carpenter, R.N., 866
Winter Temperature and Barometrical Height in North-West Europe, b^^ Mr. W. H. Dines, 866

Meteorology at the British Association, 478, 479, 480
Meter, Volt, Muller’s Synchronising (Schuckert), 846
Meters and Cookers, Automatic Gas, 868
Meters, Magnetic Fluxes in, 597, 658 Methane and Carbon Oxides, Determination, 396
Method of Manufacture and Tests of a New
Seamless Tube, 260. See LETTER, 293
Metropolitan. Sec London Mexico, Cotton Manufacturing, 82
Michigan Stove Conq>any’s Works, 481
Micro-Chemistry of Cementation, 319
Micrometer Measuring Machine, 595
Micrometric Observations, Diffraction Fringes as Applied to, 727
Microscopic Structure of Gold and Gold Alloys, 411, 541, 733. See LETTERS, 756
Midland Canals, 413
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, 167
Midland Railway Electric Light and Power, 560, 566
Midland Railway Locomotive Works, 97
Midland Route to Glasgow, 754
Military Bridges (Schneider), 609, 693
Military Floating Bridges (Schneider), 693
Milling Cutters, Sutton’s, 467
Milling, Gold, in Colorado, 3,103, 221. See 863
Milling Machine, Gregory Hexagonal, 76
Milling Machine, Large Slab Duplex (Shepherd, Hill, and Co.), 453
Milling Machine (Nile Works, Hamilton, Ohio), 172
Mill Scale and Magnetic Oxide, Removal by Electricity, 872
Millwrights in the Middle Ages, 882
Milton Aluminium Factory, Staffs., 147, 154, 289
Milton and Stoke Works, 170
Mining Dangers, New South Wales, 270
Mining, Electric Power for, 659

<ining Engineers, American Institute ol: 669, 734, 775

Detroit Meeting, 669 Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 669
Tuyeres in the Blast-Furnace, by Mr. C. F. Fackenthal, 670
Modern Cupola Practice, by Mr. B. S. Summers, 671, 702
Buffalo and its Harbour, 701 The Relation between the Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Steel, by Mr. W. R. Webster, 702
The Semel Solvay Bye-Product Coke-Oven Plant at Ensley, Ala., by Mr. W. H. Blanvell, 703
The Effect of Sizing on the Removal of Sulphur from Coal by Washing, by Mr. 0. C. Upham, 734
Excursions : Buffalo Libraries, Halls, ando., 734
Railroad Bridges, 735 Niagara, Falls and Bridges, 778
The Genesis of Certain Auriferous Lodes, by Mr. Don, 735
A Modification of Bischof’s Method for Determining the Fusibility of Clays, by Mr. H. O. Hoffman, 735
Graphic Records of the Screening of Crushed Material, by Courtenaj' de Kalb, 735
A New Assay for Mercury, by Mr. Richard E. Chism, 735
The Influence of Bismuth in Brass, and its Relation to Fire-Cracks, by Mr. E. S. Sperry, 775
Other Papers, 776 Rock Drilling, 776
Mining Explosives, 396 Mining Swedish Iron Ore, 304, 340, 438, 469, 592 Minton’s China and Earthenware Works, 170
Miscellanea, 15, 56, 79, 120, 143, 184, 205, " 274, 297, 327, 361, 391, 434, 457, 489, 523, 585, 617, 651, 683, 715, 747, 783, 833, 857
Missions, Commercial, 49, 212
Mississippi, Dredging on the, 448
Modern Constant Potential Commutating names, Electric Generators, 803
Modern Cupola Practice, 671, 702
Modification, A, of Bischof’s Method for Determining the Fusibility of Clays, 735
“ Mohegan ” Disaster, 723
Mond Process of Extracting Nickel, 615 Montreal Observatory, 479
Morand Bridge over Rhdne at Lyons (Schneider), 575
Mordant, Calcium Sulphite Residue as, 396
Motive Power and Pumping Engines (Merryweather), 42
Motive Power, Wind as a, 85 Motor Pump (Schuckert), 846
Motor Vehicles. See Cars, Motor Motors, Electric, 381, 412, 631
Motors, Electric, Coupled to Run at Different Speeds, 29
Motors (Schuckert), 543
Motor Vehicles, Liverpool Trials, 723
Moulded Wheels, Machine, 33, 223, 313, 377, 509
Muirhead, The late Mr. James (Cart Forge, Glasgow), 594
Mulhouse Industrial Society Prize Programme, 20
Muller’s Synchronising Voltmeter (Schuckert), 846
Multiple Circuit Windings, Electric Generators 463
Munich Electricity Works (Schuckert), 845
Municipal Engineering at University College, 495
Municipal Frontiers, 612
Municipal v. Private Enterprise, 612
Municipal Profits from Schemes, 611
Municipalities and Trading, 611
Munro and Jamieson’s Pocket-Book for Electrical Engineers, 183
Museum, Railway Exhibits, 18

Nagasaki, Shipbuilding at, 306
Narrow-Gauge Railway, Duffield, 169
Narrow-Gauge Railway and Rigid Wheelbase, 532
Narrow-Gauge Railways (2 Ft. and Under), 148, 156, 164. See LETTERS, 214, 274
Natal Government Railways, 23
National Cycle Show, 706. See also 674, 690
National Physical Laboratory, Proposed, 460
Nature, Scale upon which it Works, 519

Naval Architects and Marine Eugiueersy Aiiierieaii Society of:

New York Meeting, 812
Presidential Address (Mr. Clement A. Gris- com), 812
Standard Navy Boats, by ^Ir. Arthur B. Cassidy, 812
Bilge Keels and Rolling Experiments, United States ship “Oregon,” by Assistant Naval Constructor Lawrence Spear, U.S. Navy, 812
Econoiu)' Test of Unique Form of Feed Pump, by F. Meriam Wheeler, 813 '
The Steam Yacht as a Naval Auxiliary, by Mr. W. P. Stephens, 814
Naval Arclihccts, American—continued.
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, by Mr. G. W. Dickie, 816
Designs of the New Vessels for the United States Navy, by Chief-Constructor Philip Ilichborn, 817
Testing Watertight Bulkheads, bj' Mr. H. G. Smith, 821
Stability of a Damaged Battleship, by Professor C. H. Peabody, 822
Topical Questions, 823
Tests of Strength of Longitudinal Bulkheads Separating Two Engine-Rooms, by Mr. J. J. Woodward, 821
-A Visit to Bethlehem Iron Works, 824
Report of 6}Jn. Krupp Process Armour-Plate, 825
Excursions, 824
Naval Architects, Japanese Institute of, 429
Naval Expenditure and Trade, 785
Naval Engineers, 717. See LETTERS, 791
Naval Engineers and the Efficiency of the Navy, 465
Naval Machinery, 111
Naval Manoeuvres, French, 462, 514
Naval Pensions, 17
Naval Training College, French, 589
Navigation on African Lakes, 212
Navigation Congress, 149, 209
Navigation in Japan, 390
Navy. See also Warships
Navy and Army Students, 551
Navy Criticism, 86
Navy Estimates, 17, 145
Navy Programme, 159, 830
Navy, Progress of British, 830, 862
Navy, Reserves for the, 177
Neon and Xenon, Companions of Argon, 547
Neuhaldensleben Electricity Works (Schuckert), 845
New South Wales, Mining Dangers, 270
New York, Cable and Electric Traction, 655
New York Fire Tests, 510
New York, Tall Buildings, 39, 139, 200, 290, 510, 786
New York, University of Columbia, 849
New Zealand, Industrial Position, 111
New Zealand Railways, 365 Newcomen Engine, An Old, 353
Niagara Falls, Water Power, 116, 778
Niagara Power and Bridges, 778
Nickel Extraction by Mond Process, 615
Nickel-Steel Tests, 861
Nilgiri Rack Railway, 358
“ Niobe,” Trials of H.M.S. (Vickers), 53
Nitride of Calcium, 562
Non-Conductivity Coverings for Steam Boilers, 226
Non-Inflammable Wood, 182
Nordenstrom, Professor G., on Swedish Iron Ore Mining, 304, 438, 469, 502
North-East Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 527
North-Eastern Railway Locomotive Performances, 576, 597, 663. See LETTERS, Locomotiocs, <0c.
Northern Railway of France, Electric Capstans, 455, 579. See LETTERS, 626
Northern Sweden, Iron Ore of, 309, 322, 365, 430. See 443
“ Northland,” United States Lake S.S., 419 Norwich, Boiler Explosion at, 761
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 14, 47, 78j 118, 141, 175, 204, 235, 264, 296, 326, 360, 390, 425, 456, 488, 522, 554, 584, 616, 651, 679, 714, 746, 782, 832, 856
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 175
Notes from the North, 13, 46, 78, 118, 142, 174, 204, 234, 264, 296, 326, 360, 390, 424, 456, 488, 522, 554, 584, 616, 650, 682, 714, 746, 782, 832, 856
Notes from the South-West, 14, 47, 79,119, 142, 175, 204, 235, 265, 296, 327, 361, 391, 425, 457, 489, 523, 555, 585, 616, 651, 682, 714, 746, 782, 833, 856
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 47, 78, 119, 141, 174, 204, 234, 265, 295, 326, 360, 390, 424, 456, 488, 522, 554, 584, 616, 650, 682, 715, 746, 782, 832, 856
Notes from the United States, 54, 75, 107, 120, 174, 203, 244, 264, 326, 360, 389, 433, 455, 583, 646, 678, 722, 831
Nozzle, Granger’s Variable Steam, 121
Nuremberg Electricity Works (Schuckert), 846

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)* Obnoxious Gas and Water from Metal Works, 396
Observations by Hand Anemometers, 647
Observatory, Kites at the Blue Hill, 480
Observatory Roof, 725
Ocean Records in 1898, 865
Oil. See also Petroleum
Oil Engines. See Engines
Okes and Stubbs Expansion Steam Trap, 435
Olympia, Proscenium at, 337
Optic Phenomenon, Magneto-, 597
Ordnance. See Guns and also Carriages
Ordnance Factories, Management,859
Ore, Iron, in Sweden, 300,322, 365, 403. Sec 443
Ore Treatment at Broken Hill, Sulphide, 22
Organic Chemistry at the British Association 546. See 334 ’
Ofctewell, Mr. A. D., on Combination Bridges, 315
Ovens, Coke, 703
Ovens, Coking in By-Product, 27
Oxide, Magnetic, and Mill Scale, Removal by Electricity, 872
Oxides, Deteriniation of Methane and Carbon, 396

Paddle Engines. See Engines
Pacific Cable, 539
Paris Exhibition, 1900, 431, 828
Paris Exhibition, Great Britain at the, 182
Paris Station, Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 1, 2
Park-Row Building, New York, 39, 139, 200, 290. See 830
Parliamentary Schemes for Railways, andc„ 686, 720, 737, 754
Parshall, Mr. H. F., on Electric Generators. See Electric Generators
Parshall, H. F., and Hobart, H. M., on Properties of Metals and Alloys, 869
Partnership of Capital and Labour, and Strikes. 613
Patent Laws and the Trading Community, 789 Patent Office Rules, German, 759
Patent Record, 31, 63, 95, 127, 159, 189, 219, 249, 281, 311, 345, 375, 409, 441, 473, 507, 539, 569 601, 635, 667, 699, 731, 765, 801, 841, 873
Patent Specification Drawings, 214
Patents, 170
Patents, Compulsory Licenses to Work, 212
Patents, United States, 427
Peet, Mr. W. Gadsby, on Testing Engine Materials, 576, 628, 647
Pekin Syndicate, 147
Pelton Wheel, Large, 723
Penarth Docks, 71
Pensions, Naval, 17
Pensions, andc., for Schuckert’s Works, 847 Pentane, Thermal Properties of Normal, 800 Petroleum Engines. See Engines
Petroleum, The Flash Point of, 242, 334
Pfund’s Military Bridge (Schneider), 600 Phillipine Islands, 209
Photo-Chemical Action of Tuqjentine, 791
Photographic Action of Metals and Organic Substances, 647
Photographic Images, Undeveloped, 547
Photographic Plates, Bacteria on, 547
Photographs of Air Waves Formed by Flviir*-
Projectiles, 191 ®
Photography, Chemistry of, 396
Photography at the British Association, 547
Photography, Meteorological, 479
Phosphorus Matches, The New French, 624
Physical and Electrical Properties of Various Metals and Alloys, 869
Physical Laboratory, Proposed National, 460
Physical Section of the British Association, 449

Physical Socirty : 29, 597, 658, 727, 800

Electric Motors Coupled so as to Work at Different Speeds, by Professor Cams-Wilson,
Theory of the Hall Effect on a Binary Electrolyte, by Dr. Donnan, 29
An Influence Machine, by Mr. W. R. Pidgeon, 597
A Magneto-Optic Phenomenon, by Dr S P Thompson, 597
The Magnetic Fluxes in Meters and other Electrical Instruments, by Mr. Albert Camnbell, 597, 658
Propagation of Damped Electrical Oscillation along Parallel Wires/ by Professor W Morton, 658
Properties of Liquid Mixtures, by Mr R Lehfeldt, 727
Certain Diffraction Fringes as Applied Micrometric Observations, by Mr. L N Flton, 727
Longitudinal Vibrations in Solid and Hollow Cylinders, by Dr. C. Chree, 800
Thermal Properties of Normal Pentane, by Mr J. Rose-Innes and Dr. Sidney Young, 800

Physics of Smells, 449
Pickling Metals, Electrical Process, 872
Pier Schemes in Parliament, 742
Pipe-Threading Machinery, United States. 263
Pipes, Electrolytic Corrosion of, 477
Pipes, Flow of Water in Steel and Wooden 446
Pipes, Lagging of, 226
Pipes, United States, in Glasgow, 431
Pipes, Water Hammering in, 55. See Erratxun, Piston Rings, H.M.S. “Terrible,” 428
Piston-Rods for Compound En^-ines 227
Pitchometer, Chapman-Huntei” 793’
Planing Machine, Wood, 11 ’
Plants, Effect of Electricitj' on, 518
Plateways in Lancashire, 207
Ploughing Machinery, Steam, 751
Plymouth Water Works, 394, 452
Pneumatic Monito"“T:ri^5’>.
Polonium, New Element, 240
Weather Types, Classification, 480
Polyph^e Tramway at Evian-les-Bains, 314
Population, German, 357
Population Statistics, 363
Post Office London Directory for 1899, The, 864
Potentiometer, Pneumatic Analogue of the, ’'Mr^s'’e°38r’ and Belting, 560,
Power from Blast-Furnace Gas 562
Power, Etsch Electric Transmission, 117
Power Installations, Economy in 69
Power and Light, Electric, 560, 566
Power Plant, Electric, 381, 631
Company
Mechanicsville, Power Transmission in Shops, Electric, 464. 660,
Power Transmission, Water, 722
“ Practical Engineer” Pocket Book and Diary for 1899, The, 864
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Telegraphs and Telephones, 588
Preller, Dr., on Lausanne Electric Tramways, 769
Preller, Dr., on Navigation on African Lakes, 212
Preller, Dr., on Swiss Electric Installation, 180. See LETTER
Preparation of Pure Calcium, 397
Pressures on Retaining Walls, Earth, 256, 484, 641
Prismoidal Formula) and Earthwork. By Thomas U. Taylor, C.E., 283
Prize Programme of the Industrial Society of Mulhouse, 20
Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education,
Process of Gold Milling, Colorado, 3, 103, 221. See 868
Producer, Benier Gas, 386
Projectiles, Air Waves Formed by Flying (Photographs), 191
Projectors, Electrical, 703
Propagation of Damped Electrical Oscillations along Parallel Wires, 658
Propeller, Drake’s, 595
Properties of Liquid Mixtures, 727
Proportioning of Dvnamos (Electric Generators), 351
Propulsion, Wave, 24
Proscenium at Olympia, 337
Prospecting for Iron Ore, Magnetic Instruments, 469
Protection of Steam-Heated Surfaces, 226
Prussian State Railway Locomotive, 583, 626, 630
Prvissian Locomotives (Vulcan Company, Stettin), 583, 626, 680
Pump, Direct-Acting (Lee, Howl, and Co.), 262. See 327
Pump Motor (Schuckert), 846
Pumps, Feed, 813
Pumping and Motive Power Engines (Merryweather), 42
Pumping Plant, Centrifugal (Gwynne and Co.), 10
Purchase of Second-Hand Boilers, 750
Purification of Drinking Water, 253, 494, 608,671, 767. See Erratum, 833
Purification of Sewage by Bacteria, 352 See 85, 118, 550, 749

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quartz Machinery in Colorado, 3, 103, 221. See 868

Rack Railway, Nilgiri, 358
Radiation and Arc Light Telegraphy, 335
Rail Joint, Falk Cast-Welded, 150
Railroad Bridges, 735
Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western, 669
Rails, Electric Resistance of Steel, 215
Rails, Hard Steel, 304, 308
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railway Buffer Equalising Arrangement, London and North-Western Railway, 472
Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Midland, 167
Railway, Congo, 558
Railway Construction, 66, 420
Railway Construction. By William Hemingway Mills, 66
Railway, Deep-Tunnel, Undeiifinning St. Mary Woolnoth, 138
Railway Diary and Officials’ Directory for 1899, The, 864
Railway, Duffield, Narrow-Gauge, 169
Railway, Electric Capstan and Turntable Gear (French), 454, 579. See LETTER, 626
Railway Exhibits at South Kensington Museum, 18
Railway Express, /V Fast United States, £12
Railway, Glasgow to Douglas, Proposed New, 754
Railway, Great Central, 150
Railway, Lehigh Valley, 379
Railway, Lulea-Afoten, 240
Railway, Narrow-Gauge, and Rigid Wheelbase, 532
Railway, Nilgiri Rack, 358
Railway Officials’ Universal Directory, 188
Railway Route to India, 532
Railway Schemes for Parliament, 686, 720, 737, 754
Railway Speeds, 237. See Erratum. Sec LETTERS, Summer Trains
Railway Speeds, London to Liverpool, 50. See LETTERS
Railway Station, Paris, 1, 2
Railway Station in Paris (Schneider), 639
Railway Switch Lever and Point Indicators, Stoney,172
Railway, Uganda, 754
Railway Unpunctuality, 24,87, 110, 111, 183, 242, 273, 292, 336
Railway Wagons, Balancing Hinge for, 615, 793
Railway, Waterloo and City, 51, 78
Railways, Belgian, 758
Railways, British, 526
Railways in China, 269
Railways, Chinese, 560
Railways, Indian, 58
Railways, Japan, 179
Railways, London, 198
Railways, Narrow-Gauge, 148, 156, 164. See LETTERS, 214, 274
Railways, Natal Government, 23
Railways, New Zealand, 365
Railways, Spanish, Property, 107
Railways in Texas, 85
Rainfall of the South-East of England, 480
Reading Boiler Explosion, 272.
Records, Ocean, in 1898, 865
Refraction and Anomalous Dispersion, Dynamical Theory of, 518
Refuse Destructors, 342
Refuse Destructor, Horsfall, 200
Refuse Gasifier, Mason’s, 870
Relation between Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Steel, 702
Relations between the Purchaser, the Engineer, $uid the Manufacturer, 171
“aStowXlg”’ andc. (Electric by Replacement of Metals, Equivalent, 550 Research, Juvenile, 550
Reserves for the Navj’, 177
Reservoir Darns, Plymouth, 394, 452
Reservoir System of United States Lakes, 448
Resistance of Metals, Electric Contact, 592
Resistance of Steel Rails, Electric, 215
R^Uining- Walls, Earth Pressures on, 256, 484,
(Schneider), 575
Rifle Bullet, Magazine, 335
Rio MiUleco Viaduct, Chili (Schneider), 511
Riston, Mr. E., on the Manufacture of Aluminium, 147, 154, 289
River Improvement Works, Danube, 787
Road-Making- Stones, Testing, 431
Professor, on Erosion of Tubes, 486. See 320
Robertson, Mr. Leslie, on Narrow-Gauge ways, 148, 156, 164. See LETTfiKs
Robins, Mr. A. G., on Cornish Express, 331. Errata, 369 i t •
Rock Drilling, 776
Rock Is^nd Swing Bridge Machinery, 37(j
Rocks, Thermal Conductivity of, 480
Gold Milling in Colorado, 3, 103, 221. See 868
Rolling; Experiments, United States Ship Keels and, 812 ‘
Rollmg-Alill Engines (Schneider), 314
pounds Absorption ’by Chemical Com- Roof, Observatory, 725
Roof of Railway Station, Paris, 1, 2
Engine Works, Chesterfield, 613, (57^ Roofs of Large Buildings (Schneider), 639 Rotatory Converters, 661, 695, 719
Society’s Motor Vehicles, irials, 461. See LETTERS ’ 86, 108,109,151, 214 ^31,’551;58O:625:
Rubber Plantations, 269
Construction, Wiinshurst’s, 790 795 ’ ’825®”
Russia, South, Iron Industry of, 182
Russian Government, Vril, Electric Launch, 75

Safety Guard, Circular Saw, 262
Sn fnfv V n See LETTERS, CoZZisio,w, d.'c.
Safety Valve and Gate Valve, 467
^^danV^iV^’ Hoisting and Conveying
Sand Pumping Dredger for Russia (Holland), 324 Rails, 304,
Saving and Spending-, 613
Saw Bench with Radial Arm Feed 87
Saw with Radial Feed Arm, 11
^^sonie/sSS^ Automatic Cross-Cut (Ran-
Saw Safety Guard, Circular, 262
Saw, Self-Feeding- Band Ripping, 712
Sawing, Stone, Machinery, 11
Schenectady Locomotives for Japan, 323
Schmidts Superheater, 839. See 799

Schneider and Co.’s Works, Creiisoi :

.378, 417, 444, 4<6, 511, 1,75, 609. 639, 692
A r, Compressed, Plant at Paris, 378
Alternating Current Dynamos, 106 Boiler Shops, 163
Eorcea Bridge, 513. See LETTERS, 723
BriS
Bridges, Floating, 693
Bridge, Military, 609, 693
ChaLTerBddg'" 60?’’’^^’’
Co^TOe"^Iir'hbn?"37V"“’"^
Docks and Bridges, Floating, 693
Dynamos, 35, 67, 306
Early Marine Engines, 195
Ekgtric Construction Department, 35, 67,
Electric Lighting Station, 35, 67, 106 "25^35^^615°"’ ^’’5-
Engines, Early French Warship, 195
Engines, Factory, 378
Battleship “Charles Martel,” ^"^Ch°akzy/°31“*"’ l^rencU Cruiser
Engines, ItollingMili, andc., 314 Engines, Torpedo-Boat, 257
Exhibition Buildings, 639 factory Buildings, 639
Bloating Docks and Bridges, 693 lu-ench Battleship “ Charles Martel,” 541, 645 r rench Locomotives, 284
Fribourg Viaduct, 477 Galvanising Plant, 445 Iron Buildings, 639
Locomotive Department, 258, 284
Locomotives, French, 284
Marcilles Military Bridge, 609
Hijitary Bridges, 609, 693
Military Floating Bridges, 693
Lyons, 575 1 fund s Military Bridge, 609
Railway Station in Paris, 639 5^^?® at Lyons, 575
Rio Malleco Viaduct, Chili, 511 Rolling Mill Engines, 314 Roofs of Large Buildings, 639 bhipbuilding, 417, 444, 476, 692 stationary Engines, 314 Structural Buildings, 639
Torpedo-Boat Building, 418, 692. See 444
Torpedo-Boat Engines, 257
Torpedo-Boats, French, 692 Transformers, 106
Tugboats, andc., 692
Viaducts, 476, 524, 575
Superheated Steam, 779, 838

Schuckert and Co:- 475, 543, 605, 703, 742, 773, 844

Aachen Electricity Works, 844
Accumulators, Switches for, 742, 840
Altona Electric Works, 742
Arc Lamp Circuits and Suspenders, 847
Automatic Cut-Out and Junction Box, 773
Baden-Vienna Electricity Works, 845
Barmen Electric Works, 742
Budapest Electricity Works, 844
Canal Locks, Electric Working of, 840
Clutch, Hydraulic, 544
Condensing Plant at Altona, 742
Cooling Tower for Waterat Altona, 742 Cranes, 545
Cut-Out and Junction Box, 773
Cut-Out for Resistance of High Self-Induction, 846
Dusseldorf Electric Works, 742
Dynamos, 846, 847
Electric Cranes, 545
Electric Generators, 476, 772
Electric Lifts, 543
Electric Motors, 543
Electric Traction Plant, 605
Electric Working on the Ymuiden Locks, 840
Electricity Works at Barmen, Dusseldorf Altona, 742
Electricity Works at Christiania, 773
Elecricity Works in Continental Cities, 844, 845, 848
Electricity Works, Hamburg, 840
Electro-Chemical Departments, 840. See 857
Hamburg Electricity Works, 840
Historical and Administrative, 475
Junction Box, 773
Lamp Circuits and Suspenders, 847
Meter, Volt, Muller’s Synchronising, 846
Motor Pump, 846
Motors, 543
Muller’s Synchronising Voltmeter, 846
Munich Electricity Works, 845
Neuhaldensleben Electricity Works 845
Nuremberg Electricity Works, 845
Pensions, andc., for Schuckert’s Works 847
Projectors, Electrical, 703
Pump Motor, 846
Searchlights, Electrical, 703
Sigmaringden Electricity Works, 845
Social Features of Schuckert’s Works 847
Stations, Central, Electricity, 844, 845 848
Traction Plant, Electric. 605 ’
Voltmeter, Muller’s, Synchronising, 846
Ymuiden Locks, Electric Working on the 840 Zwickau Electricity Works, 845

Science and Art Department, Scandal, 238
Science in Elementary Schools, 550
Screening Crushed Materials, 735
Screw Engines. See Engines
Screw Machine, Spencer Automatic, 421
Screw Making, andc.. Machines for Cycles, 674 690 /06
Screwing Machinery, United States Pipe, 263
Sea, Accidents at, 81
Seamless Tubes, 293
Seamless Tubes, Tests of, 260
Searchlights, Electrical (Schuckert), 703
Secondary Cells, Charging, 515, 742 Seismological Investigations, 477
Self-Propelling Traffic, Control of, 646, 679. See also Motor
Seniel Solvay, By-Product, Coke-Oven Plant at Ensley, 2kla., 703
Separat(^, Fram Cream, 486. See Erratum. 536
Setting Horizontal Boilers, 134
Sewage, Bacterial Treatment, 749
Sewage, Bacteriological Purification of, 352 497 S
Sewage Effluents, Standards of Purity for 550
Sewage Purification by Bacteria, 352, 497 ’
Sewage Sludge, Illuminating Gas from, 151. 183
Sewage Sludges, 277
Sewage Treatment, 85, 118
Shaping, (fee.. Machines for Cycles, 676, 690, 706
Shearing, Hydraulic Bar, Machine, 244 **593^^^866 626 ^^^^^^*^'^ Japanese Battleship, “ Shikishima,” Anchors, 626
Ship, Collisions at Sea, 465
Shjp Construction, Wimhurst’s Rules for 790 <95 ’ ’
Ship Hospital, “ Solace,” United States, 228
Ship Losses, 117, 178, 3G7, 657
Ship, Rolling- Experiments, Bilge Keels and, 812
Sh^p^ Training, “ Chesapeake,” United States, Shipbuikling in 1898, 851
Shiplmilding Boom, 53, 464
Shipbuilding at Nagasaki, 306
Shipbuilding Returns, Lloyd’s, 53, 464
Shipbuilding (Schneider), 417, 444, 476, 692
Shipbuilding, United States, 860
Shipping Coal, Welsh Method, 414
Shipping Company, Japan Mail, 117
Shipping of France, 75, 495
Shipping, Future of, 493
Shipping and Harbours, 374, 407
Shipping Rings, 612, 619
Shipping Statistics, 363, 785
Shipping, Supply and Waste, 178
Shipping, Tonnage and Value, 785. See 363
Shipwreck Returns. 117, 178, 367, 657
SWpyard, Hoisting and Conveying Plant, Brown,
Short Brothers, Eight-Hours’ Day, 368
Shunt-Wound Dynamo, Spool Winding for, 210
Siemens, Mr. A., on Electric Power, 381
Sigmaringden Electricity Works (Schuckert),
Silver, Sulphide Ores, 22
Robert, 623. See Erratum, 650. See LETTKR, <23
Smith, Mr. Walter M., on Locomotive Engineering, 576, 597, 663. See LETTERS, ^^csis tC’c.
Smithfield Club Show, 751
Smokestack, Blasting, 658
Social Features of Schuckert’s Works (Schuc- kert), 847
Society of Arts:
London Street Traffic, by Sir J. Wolfe Barry K.C.B., 654
Long-Distance Transmission of Electric Power, by Professor George Forbes, 722
Society of Mechanical Engineers in Japan, 531
Soda and Bleach, Electrolytic Production (Hargreaves-Bird), 115
Softening Water, 55,159, 166, 186, 230, 357, 399. See LETTERS. See Erratum, 425
Solar Eclipse, Results, 519
Soldering Iron, Ellin’s, 262
Solution, Theory of Iron and Steel, 763
Soudan Campaign, Novelties in, 335
South Kensington Cataloguing, 238, 293
South Kensington Railway Exhibits, 18
South Kensington Scandal, 238, 293
Spanish Railways, 107
Specific Gravity Tests of Cast Iron, 29
Specifications for Architects, Surveyors, Builders, 143
Speed of Trains, London and Liverpool, 50. LETTERS
Spencer, Automatic Screw Machine, 421
Spending and Saving, 613
Spiller, Mr. H. ^V., on Pneumatic Steering of United States Monitor, “Terror,” 27
Spool Winding for a Shunt-Wound Dynamo, 210
Spring Testing Machine, Locomotive (Avery), 520
St. Clair Tunnel, 484
Stabiliuj’ of bamaged Battleships, 822
Stage Machinery at Drury Lane, Electrical, 834
Stage at Olympia, 337
Standard of Light, 10 Candle-Power Lamp as, 549
Standard United States Navy Boats, 812
Standards, Committees of British Association, 515
Standardising Casting, Making a Large. 218
Stanley Cycle Show, 674,690. See also 706
Stations, Central, Electricity (Schuckert), 844, 845, 848
Station Lorries, Self-Locking Railway, 757, 792
Station, Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 1, 2
Stations, Large Electric. See Schuckert
Stationaiy Engines (Schneider), 314
Statistics, Foreign, 363
Stay Bolts, Testing Locomotive, 227
Stead, Mr. J. E., on Brittleness in Annealed Soft Steel, 319, 404
Steam Carriage, Brown’s, 294. See also Cars, Motor
Steam Heated Surfaces, Protection of, 226
Steam Nozzle, Granger's Variable, 121
Steam Power, Cost of, 59
Steam, Superheated, 797, 838
Steam Trap, Lamplough’s, 627
Steam Trap, Stubbs and Okes Expansion, 435
Steam Winch, 8d3
Steam Yacht as Naval Auxiliary, 814
Steamer for Coast and Geodetic Survey, 657
Steamer, “Duke of Cornwall,” Channel (Vickers), 150, 779
Steamer, Japanese Built Mail, 754
Steamer (United States Lake), “ Northland,” 419
Steamship Guide, Rhodes, 103
Steamship Records in 1898, 865
Steel Alloys, New, 515
Steel, Brittleness Produced by Annealing, 319, 404
Steel Guns, Erosion of, 320, 486
Steel, High Carbon, for Piston-Rods, 227
Steel and Iron, Solution Theory of, 763
Steel and Iron, United States, 622
Steel, Nickel, Tests, 861
Steel, Physical and Chemical Properties, 702
Steel Rails, Electric Resistance of, 215
Steel Rails, Hard, 304, 308
Steel Ship Construction, Wimshurst’s Rules for, 790, 795
Steering Gear, Pneumatic, of United States Monitor, “ Terror,” 27
Sterilisation of Drinking Water, 253, 494, 608 671, 767, 833
Stone-Sawing Machinery, 11
Stones for Road-Making, Testing, 431
Stove Company’s Works, Michigan, 481
Strains,'Measuring Small Torsional, 356, 503
Stream-Line Motions, 519
Street Railways. See Tramivay
Street Traffic in London, 654
Strike Statistics, 621
Structural Buildings (Schneider), 639
Stubbs, Mr. J. Pemberton, on Acetylene Gas, 88,123
Stubbs and Okes Expansion Steam Trap, 435
Students, Army and Navy, 551
Submarine Cable Grapnels, 571, 603
Submarine Telegraph Company, 201
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 563
Submarine Telegraphs, 123
Subsidences, Coal, and Bridges, andc., 755
Sugar Industry, 334
Sugar Luminosity produced by Rubbing, 518
Sugar Refining, Electrolytic, 397
Sulphates of Heavy Metals, Alkaline Chlorates and, 550
Sulphide Ores, Treatment of Broken Hill, 22
Sulphur from Coal, Removing, 734
Summer Train Improvements, 237. See Erra* turn, 272. See LETTERS, 274, 292
Sunshine Record, Quantitative Bolometric, 479
Superheated Steam, 797, 838
Superheater, Schmidt’s, 839. See 799
Survey for Fire Protection, 637. See also Fire Protection
Survey Vessels, United States, 657
Sutton Sewage, Bacteriological Treatment, 749
Sutton’s Milling Cutters, 467
Swedish Iron Deposits, 340
Swedish Iron Industry, 303, 309, 339
Sweden, Iron Ore of Northern, 300, 322, 365, 430. See 443
Swedish Iron Ore Mining, 304, 340, 438, 469, 502
Swedish Iron, Tests of, 248
Swedish Iron Works, 300, 322, 365, 430
Swedish Iron Works, Hofors, 443
Swedish Water Power, 22
Swing Bridge Machinery, United States, 370
Swing Bridge over the Harlem River, 743
Swiss Electric Installation, 180. See LETTER
Switch Lever and Point Indicators, Stoney’s, 172
Syntheses of Albuminous Substances, Leo ‘Lilienfeld, 333

Tachometer, Bell-Elliott Tangent Reading, 743
Tall Buildings in New York, 39, 139, 200, 290, 786
Tanners’ Lye, 396
Tanning, Recent Advances in, 550
Tar Burners for Marine Boilers, £50
Technical Education, 559, 604
Teeth of Wheels, Drawing, 416
Telegraph Companies, Submarine, 201
Telegraph, Submarine, Enterprise, 563
Telegraphs, Submarine, 123
Telegraphs and Telephones, 588
Telegraphy, All-British, 436, 539
Telegraphy, Radiation and Arc Light, 335
Telephone Cable in Walenlake, Switzerland, 397. See LETTERS
Telephone, Magnifying, 515
Telephon(S a id Telegraphs, 588
Temperature and Barometrical Height in North-Western Europe, 866
Tenoning Machine, Double Car Frame, 141
Teredo (Marine Woodborers), 447
“ Terrible’s” Steam Trials, 428
“Terror,” United States Monitor, Pneumatic Steering Gear, 27
Testing Engine Materials, 576, 628, 617
Testing Engines (Barrus), 116
Testing Locomotive Stay Bolts, 227
Testing Machine at Cardiff College, Laboratory, 7
Testing Stones for Road-Making, 431
Testing Watertight, Bulkhead Doors, 821
Tests of Bicycles, 246, 279. See LETTERS
Tests of Building Materials, Fire, 130, 251,347,510
Tests of Feed Pumps, 813
Tests of Strength of Longitudinal Bulkheads
Separating Two Engine-Rooms, 821
Tests of Swedish Iron, 248
Texas, Railway in, 85
Textile Trade in Japan, 821
Thames Dr^^ Dock, 432
Theatre, Electric Stage Mechanism, 834
Theatre Proscenium at Olympia, 337
Theory of the Hall Effect in a Binary Electrolyte, 29
Thermal Conductivity of Rocks and Water, 481
Thermal Properties of Gases and Liquids, 547
Thermal Properties of Normal Pentane, 800
Thermometer, Aspiration, 791
“ Thistle,” H.M. Gunboat, 563
Thompson, Professor S. P., on Rotatory Converters, 651, 695, 719
Thompson’s Self-Aligning Bearings, 499
Three-Hinged Masonry Arches, 484
Timber, Canadian, 179
Tools, Machine. See Cycle-Making Machinery
Torpedo-Boats. See also ^arshivs
Torpedo-Boat Building (Schneider), 418, 692. See 444
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 816
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See also Warships
Torpedo-Boat Engines (Schneider), 257
Torpedo Boats, French (Schneider), 692
Torpedo, Whitehead, 89
Torsional Strains, Measuring Small, 356, 503
Traction. See also Electric Traction
Traction, Cost of Electric, 655
Traction Engines on Highway, 330
Traction, Mechanical, 34
Traction, Tramway, 34
Trade, Foreign, and Consuls, 114
Trade, German Colonial, 393
Trade Marks in Zanzibar, 497
Trade Methods, British, 581
Trade and National Expansion, 685. See also 491
Trade and Navy Expenditure, 785
Trades Congress, 329
Trading, Municipalities and, 611
Traffic of London Streets, 654
Train, An Express, United States, 212
Train Improvements, Summer, 237. SQQ Erratum^ ‘11'2. See LETTERS, 274, 293
Train Service, London and Liverpool, 50. See LETTERS, 87
Train Unpunctuality, 24, 87, 110, 111, 183, 242, 273, 292, 336
Training Ship, United States, “ Chesapeake,” 820
Traits Complet d'Electro-Traction. By Ernest Gerard, 34
Tramway. See also Traction
Tramway Cars, United States, 172
Tramway Engine Boiler, Fatal Explosion, 217
Tramway at Evian-les-Bains, Polyi>hase, 314
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 738
Tramway System, Kingland’s Electric, 275
Tramwdiy Traction, 34
Tramways, Glasgow, 52
Tramways, Lausanne Electric, 769
Tramways in Lancashire, 207
Transformers, Magnetic Circuit, 253
Transformers (Schneider), 106
Transmission of Electric Power, Long-Distance, 722
Transmission of Power in Shops, Electric, 464
Transvaal Gold, 270
Trials of H.M.S. “Argonaut” (Fairfield), 809
Trials of H.M.S. “Europa” (Clydebank), 20
Trials of H.M.S. “Niobe” (Vickers), 53
Trials of H.M.S. “ Terrible,” 428
Tricycles. See Cycles
Triple-Expansion. See Engine
Tube, Convenient Form of Drying, 549
Tube-Making Machinery, 825
Tubes, Seamless, 293
Tubes, Tests of Seamless, 260
Tugboats, andc. (Schneider), 692
Tunnel, St. Clair, 484
Tunnel Ventilation, 778
Tunnelling, Compressed Air, 632
Turning Clear of Swing Bridge, New York, 743
Turning Machinery of United States Swing Bridge, 370
Turntable Gear, Electric Capstan and (French), 454, 579. See LETTER, 626
Turpentine, Photo-Chemical Action of, 791
Tuyeres in the Blast-Furnace, 670
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Two-Circuit Coil Windings, 464
Type-Setting Machine, Cox, 641

Uganda Railway, 754
Underpinning St. Mary Woolnoth Church, 138
United Kingdom, United States, and France, Wages, 612
United States Battleship “Maine,” Destruction of the, 23, 54, 84,110, 151, 213, 212
United States Battleship “ Oregon,” Bilge Keel and Rolling Experiments, 812
United States Battleships, 817
United States Blast-Furnaces, Tuyeres, 670
United States Breechloading Gun, Barbette Carriage, 294
United States Bureau of Foreign Intelligence, 239 United States Commercial Mission to China, 212 United States Competition (Iron and Steel Output), 622
United States Competition in Japan, 562
United States Cupola Practice, 671, 702
United States Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 669
United States Expansion and Trade, 685. See also 491
United States Express, A Fast, 212
United States Government Survey Vessel, 657
United States Hospital Ship “Solace,” 228
United States Lake Steamers, 419
United States Manufactures, 774, 805
United States Monitor “ Terror,” Pneumatic Steering Gear, 27
United States Monitors, 817
United States Navy, Descriptions of New Battleships, Monitors, Destroyers, andc., 812 to 825
United States Patents, 427
United States Pipe-Threading Machinery, 263
United States Pipes in Glasgow, 431
United States Shipbuilding, 860
United Spates Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 816
United States Training Ship “ Chesapeake,” 820
United States Tramway Cars, 172
United States, United Kingdom, and France, Wages, 612
United States Whitehead Torpedo, 89
University College, Municipal Engineering, 495
University of Columbia, New York, 849
Unpunctuality. See Railway
Unpunctuality Use of Explosives in Mines, 396
Utilisation of Water Power, 22

Valve, Automatic Cylinder Drain Valve, 627
Valve, Safety, and (late, 467
Variables (n), Graphical Solution of n Equations with, 867
Ventilation of Tunnels and Buildings, 778
Viaducts (Schneider), 476, 524, 575
Vibrations in Solid and Hollow Cylinders, 800
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Gun Factory, Erith, 552
Voltage per Commutator Segment as Related to Inductance, 464, 591
Voltmeter, Muller’s Synchronising (Schuckert), 846
Voltmeter, Platinum, 515
Vril Electric Launch for Russia, 75

Wages in France, United States, and the United Kingdom, 612
Wages and Hours of Labour, 267
- Wagon Doors, Hyde’s Hinge for, 793
Wagons, Balancing Hinge for Railway, 615
Wakefield, Boiler Explosion at, 605
Walenlake, Electric Installation, Switzerland, 180. See LETTER
Walenlake, Switzerland, Telephone Cable, 397. See LETTER
War, Essays on Maritime, 542
Warning, re Amsterdam Firms, 55
Warship Production in 1898, 831

Warships:

Argentine Cruiser “General San Martin” (Orlando, Leghorn), 74
Austrian Torpedo-Boats (Yarrow), 394
British Cruisers, New, 17,145
British Navy Estimates, 17, 145
British Warships Built in 1898, 831, 862
Damaged Battleship, Stability of, 822
Dutch Cruiser “ Friesland,” Engines of the (Fijenoord Company), 11
French Battleship “ Charles Martel ” Engines, andc., 551, 645
French Cruiser “ Chanzy,” Engines of the, 35 5
French Toq^edo-Boat Building (Schneider), 418, 444
French Torpedo-Boat Engines, 257
French Torpedo-Boats, 692
French Warships and Manoeuvres, 462, 514
French Warship Marine Engines, 195, 257, 356, 561, 645
French Warships, Study of, 542
French Warship “ Ville de Paris,” Old, 158
H.M. Battleships Compared, New Types, 830
H M. Cruisers Compared, New Types, 830
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers Tried in 1898, 862
H.M. Warships Launched in 1898, 830, 862
H.M. Warships Tried in 1898, 862
H M.S. " ‘ ?’
H.M.S. 20
H.M.S.
H.M.S. “Hyacinth 580
H.M.S “ Irresistible, H.M.S. •••
H M.S.
H.M.S. “Terrible,” Steam Trials, 428
H.M. S.S, “ Dwarf ” and “ Thistle’’(Gunboats) 563
Hospital Ship, United States, 228
Japanese Battleship, A New (Vickers). 863
Japanese Battleship, “ Shikishima,” 593. Sec i 626
Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “ Ikadsuchi ” (Yarrow), 854
Japanese Torpedo - Boat Destroyer (Thornycroft), 755
Merchant Cruisers, American Liners as, 624
Standard U.S. Navy Boats, 812
Steam Yacht as Naval Auxiliary, 814
United States Battleship “ Oregon,” Bilge Keel and Rolling Experiments, 812
United States Battleships, 817
United States Hospital Shij) “ Solace,” 228
United States Monitor “Terror,” Pneumatic Steering Gear, 27
United States Monitors, 817
United States New Navy. Descriptions of New Battleships, Monitors, Destroyers, andc 812 to 825
United States Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 816
United States Training Ship ‘ ‘ Chesapeake,” 820
United States Whitehead Torpedo, 89

Warship Production in 1898, 831, 862
Washington Mills, Engines, 533
Watch Escapement (Revolving), 467, 489. See LETFER,723
Water, East London, Supply, 299
Water Flow in Steel and Wooden Pipes, 446 Water Gas, 465
Water Gas, Illumination and, 396 Water-Hammer Action, 55, 87
Water Power in the Scottish Highlands, 722 Water Power, Utilisation of, 22
Water, Purification of Drinking, 253, 494, 608. 671,767,833
Water Softening, 55, 274, 292, 357, 399, 465, 497, 646. See Ji’rrnfw/n, 425
Water Softening and Purification by the Archbutt-Deeley Process, 149, 166, 186, 230. See LETTERS
Water Supply, Birmingham, 480
Water Supply, London, 587
Water, Thermal Conductivity of, 480
Water-Tube Boiler, Babcock and Wilcox, 213
Water-Tube and Ordinary Boilers in Dutch Cruiser, 11
Water-Tube Boiler, Willard’s, 307
Water Waste Prevention, .592
Water Works, Leicester, 169
Water Works, Plymouth, 395, 452
Waterloo and City Railway, 51, 78
Waters and Gases, Obnoxious, from Metal Works, 396
Watson, Mr. Frank Leslie, on Refuse Destructors, 312
Wave Measurement, Dynamometer for, 216
Wave Propulsion, 24 •
Waves, Air, formed by Flying Projectiles, Photographs, 191
Weather Types, Polydiuvnal, 480
Webb’s Buffer Equalising Arrangement, 472
Webster, Mr. W. R., on Properties of Steel, 702
Weighing Machine, Locomotive, 520
Weights and Measures of Bristol, Ancient, 520
Welded Joint, “ Falk’* Cast, 150
Wellingborough Accident, 400, 581, 757, 792
Welsh Coal Shipping System, 414
Welsh Coal Strike, 114
West Indian Hurricane, September, 1898, by Captain A. Carpenter, R.N., 866
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Making a Large Standardising Casting, 218
Westralian Exhibition, 656
Whaleboats for United States Navy, 812
Wheat Supply, 330
Wheels, Drawing Teeth of, 416
Wheels, Machine-Moulded, 33, 223, 313, 377, 509 Wheels for Motor Cars, 55
White, Sir William, on Engineering Education, 659
Whitehead Torpedo, 89
Who’s Who? 1899. An Annual Biographical Directory. Edited by Douglas Sladen, 864
Willard’s Water-Tube Boiler, 307
Wilson, The Late Mr. W., 465
Wimshurst’s Rules for Ship Construction, 790, 795
Winch, Steam, 863
Wind as a Motive Power, 85
Wind Pressures, 433
Winter Temperature and Barometrical Height in North-Western Europe, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 866
Wisconsin Central Lin'’s Locomotives, 420
Wood as Fuel for Boilers, 400
Wood, Non-Inflammable, 182
Wood, andc., for Tunnel Lining, 632
Wood-Working Machines, 11
Woodborers, Marine, Teredo, 447
Woodbury, Mr. C. J. IL, on An Old Floating Bridge, 280
Wooden Beams, Efficiency of Built, 221
Wooden and Steel Bridges, Combination, 315
Woolwich Arsenal, Management of, 859
Working under Compressed Air, 530
Workmen’s Compensation Act, 19, 464, 492, 530, 636, 727, 751
Workmen’s Compensation Act in the Dockyards, 464

Works:

Alma Tube Works, Walsall (J. Russell and Co., Limited), 825
Aluminium Works at Milton, Staffs., 147, 154, 289
Bass’s Brewery, 169
Bethlehem Iron Works, 824
Brush Electrical Works, 169
Creusot. See Schneider's Works
Duffield Narrow-Gauge Railway, 169
Herbert’s Machine-Tool Works, Coventry, 843
Hofor’s Iron Works, Sweden, 443
Humber Cycle Works, 170
Leicester Water Works, 169
Lincoln Engine Works, Chesterfield, 613, 677 Michigan Stove Company’s, 481
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, 167
Midland Railway Locomotive Works, 97
Minton’s China and Earthenware Works, 170
Schuckert’s. See SchucketVs and Co.^ Nuremberg
Sweden Iron Works, 300, 322, 365, 430
Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Gun Factory, Erith, 552
Workshops and Electric Power, 500,560, 566. See 381
Wrecks, Ship, 117, 178, 367, 657

Xenon and Neon, Companions of Argon, 547

Yacht, Steam, as Naval Auxiliary, 814
Yarrow and London County Council, 146
Year-Books, 863
Ymuiden Locks, Electric Working of the (Schuckert), 840
Yokohama Trade, 666

Zanzibar, Trade Marks in, 497
Zeeman Effect, 518
Zinc, Electrolytic Determination of, 397
Zwickau, Electricity Works (Schuckert), 845

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