Engineering 1899 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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General Index

ABSORPTION Spectra and Chemical Constitution’ 524
Accident Compensation, French, 398

Accidents, Railway:

Brake Failure at Holyhead, 277, 307
Coupar Angus Station Collision, 813
Epsom Station Collision, 843
Guildford, Railway Accident, 644
Perth Station Collision, 843
See also under Railways in Paragraph Index
Tunbridge Station Collision, 843

Acetylene, Electrical Production of, 778
Acetylene Gas Automatic Generator, 539. See LETTER
Act, Workmen’s Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation
Admiralty v. Elswick Design of Cruiser, 83, 156, 147
Aerograph, The Hydro, 490
Aeronautic Fatality, 433
Aeronautics, 433, 490
Africa. See South Africa
Agricultural Engines and Implements, 731
Air, Compressed, Mechanism, 115, 246, 280. See LETTER, 306
Air-Compressing Engines, Two-Stage Compound (Walker Brothers, Wigan), 42
Air Engines, New System of Valves for, 170
Air, Kites for Exploring the, 490
Air, Liquid, as a Blasting Agent, 304
Air Propellers, 421, 439. See IJETTERS
Albany,” United States Cruiser, 101
Alcohol, Industrial Uses of, 467. See 175
Alexander III. Bridge, Paris, 39, 72, 387
Alkali Trade, 730
Allegheny County Light Company (Westinghouse Company), 585
Allen Valve for Locomotives, 170
Alloys, Heat of Combinations of, 487
Alloys of Iron-Aluminium, Magnetic Properties of, 569
Alternating Currents, Determining Frequency of, 20
Alternating Currents of Electricity and the Theory of Transformers, 382
Alternating Electric Currents, 382
Alternator, Two - Phase (Westinghouse Company), 70
Aluminium in Alloys, 86
Aluminium-Iron Alloys, Magnetic Properties, 569
Aluminium as a Heating and Reducing Agent, 804
America. See also United States
America and Japan, 702

American Competition : 347, 379, 413, 445, 479, 515, 549, 583, 617, 647, 677, 713, 743, 777, 813. See LETTERS

Anonymous, 445, 813
Robert S. Ball, Jun., B.Sc., 713
George Nicol Barnes, 515
G. W. Dickie, 777
Archibald P. Head, 583
George Howell, 379
Robert W. Hunt, 647
Wm. Kent, 413
Walter M. McFarland, 743
Wm. Metcalfe, 617
Oberlin Smith, 549
T. Guildford Smith, 677
E. A. Stevens, 347
John Thomson, 479

American-French Treaty, British Trade and, 634
American Shipbuilding, 784
American Shipping, Blue-Book of, 151
Ancient Gold Mine, 180
Andrews and 5Iartin’s Balanced Slide Valve, 171. See LETTERS
Anglo-Russian Agreement, Japanese Views on, 51
Animals Compared with Structures, 511, 515
“ Ansaldo’s,” Cruisers, 327. See LETTER:, 369
Argentine Cruiser “Buenos Ayres (Elswick), 156
Armour-Plate Planing Machine (Niles’ Tool Works), 457
Armour-Plate Slotting, Drilling, and Milling Machine, 601
Armstrong’ Guns and Mountings, 82 See also Elswick
Arnold, J. O., and McWilliam, A., on Diffusion of Elements in Iron, 248, 311
Art Gallery, Corcoran, Washington, 9
Artillery. See Guns and Schneider
“ Asama,” Japanese Cruiser (Elswick), 156
Asbestos Sheathing’ for Ships, 822
Asia Minor, Railways in, 800
Assessing of Machinery, 22
Athara Bridge, 207
Atlantic Cargo Steamers, Large, 98, 200
Atlantic Liner Driven by Parsons Turbine, 255. See 373, 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS, Parsons^ <Cc.
Atlantic Tjiner “ Oceanic,” 274. See 436 Atlantic Liner Performances, 2
Atlantic Steam Navigation, 340, 373
Atmosphere of Planets, Permanenec of Gas in the, 491
Atmospheric Railways, 115, 246, 280, 306 Atomic Weights, 524
Atoms, Existence of Masses Smaller than the, 447
Australasian Railways, 241
Australian Copper, 18
Australian Liner “Ortona,” 669
Australian Railways, South, 275
Automatic Gun, Colt, 119
Automatic Screw Machine (Hartford), 649
Automatic Screw Machine (A. Herbert, Limited, Coventry), 595
Automatic Screw Machine (Wolseley S.S. Machine Company), 649
Automobile Exhibition at Paris, 81, 131
Automobiles. See also Cars, Motor

Babcock, Mr. W. J., on American Shipyards, 784
Babcock, Mr. W. J., on Portable Pneumatic Riveters for Shipbuilding, 89
Babcock and Wilcox Boiler in the United States Navy, 829
Bacteriological Filtering with Coal, 213
Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage, 23, 462, 521, 695
Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage, Manchester, 695. See LETTERS, Sewage
Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage Sludge, 23
Balance, Gravity, 491, 605
Balanced Slide Valves, 243, 277
Balancing Engines, 54, 120
Ball, Mr. Robert S., Jun., on American Competition, 713
Balloon, First, Crossing English Channel, 490
Ballooning v. Kites for Exploring the Air, 490
Barbette Turrets, Schneider-Canet, 455, 485, 516, 653, 635, 718. See LETTERS, 572, 605
Barnaby’s Theory of Cavitation, .538, 571, 572, 604, 605, 639, 657, 688, 727. See Erratum^ 736
Barnes, Mr. G. N., on American Competition, 515
Barometric Variations in Britain, 640
Barr, Professor A., on Similar Structures and Machines, 475, 511, 545. See LETTER, 571
Barry, Sir John Wolk, on London Street Traffic, 636
Basic Slag Works, 331
Bates’ System Hydraulic Dredger, 691, 754, 823
Batteries. See Accuimdators
Battleship, Launch of a, 107, 115
Battleships. See also Warships
Beam Formulfe Applied to a Vertically Stiffened Bulkhead with some Results, 753
Belgium Coal and Iron, 512
Belt Transmission, 39
Ben Nevis, Meteorological Observations, 491
Beresford, Lord Charles, on Engineering in China, 680, 705. See LETTERS, 726, 757, 802
Bessemer Process, Hot Blast in the, 58 Bicycles. See Cycles
Bicycles, Efficiency of, 537
Biolysis of Sewage, Nitrates and the, 521
Birch, Mr. J. Grant, on Imperial Chinese Railways, 500
Birch, Mr. J. Grant, Notes on China, 315
Birmingham New-street Station, 423
“ Blanco Encalada,” Chilian Cruiser (Elswick), 156
Blast-Furnace, Machine Casting for the, 210, 245
Blast-Furnace and Martin Working, Combined, 702
Blasting by Liquid Air, 304
Boats, Launching Ships’, 749
Boiler Arrangement of Recent Cruisers, 95, 185
Boiler Defects, 397
Boiler Explosion at Hull, 774
Boiler Explosion at Shelfield, 841
Boiler Explosions, Investigations of, 38
Boiler Feed Pump, Compound Direct-Acting (Hall, Peterborough), 690
Boiler Furnaces, Gauging, 419
Boiler and Furnace Efficiency, 38
Boiler Tests, American Rules for, 7
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boiler Boiler Works, Galloway, 226
Boiler Works, “ Vulcan,” Stettin, 353
Boilers, Effects of Thames Water in, 605
Boilers of H.M.SS. “ Proserpine ” and “ Psyche” (Thornycroft), 116, 216. See 136, 177
Boilers, Navy, 431
Boilers, Water-Tube v. Cylindrical (Indian Troopship), 503. See LETTER, 571
Bolton Sewage Filtration, 211
Bolts for Pipe Flanges, 68
Books Received, 167. (See Erratum, 205), 319, 383, 516, 618, 745, 778
Borneo Crude Oil, 657
Boulevard, Iron Centring Used for Constructing, 325
Bounties, United States Shipping, 733 Box-Making Machinery, 327
Box-Nailing Machine (“ Ductor ” Company, Manchester), 326
Boys, Professions for, 515
Brackley Viaduct, Great Central Railway, 555
Brake Failure at Holyhead, 277, 307
Bramwell, Sir Frederick, on South Devon Atmospheric Railway, 115, 246, 280. See LETTER, 306
Brass - Finishers’ Lathe (Britannia Co, Colchester), 837
Brassey’s Naval Annual, 166
Breakwater, Delaware, 230
Brewer, Mr. W. M., on the Copper Deposits of Vancouver Island, 643
Brewers’ Exhibition, 567
Bridge, Alexander III., 39, 72, 387
Bridge, Atbara, 207
Bridge-Building Trust, United States, 414
Bridge Design, 633
Bridge over the Indus, 111
Bridges in Cornwall, Railway, 116, 407
Bridges, Great Central Railway, 295, 555, 621
Bridges on the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and ; East Coast Railway, 747, 815
Bridges, Loads on, 228
Bridges, North and Waverley, over Waverley Station, Edinburgh, 423, 491
Bridges, Railway, Temporary Restoration of, 648, 745
Bridges, Removing Railway, 561
Bridges, United States v. British, 207
Bridges, Wooden and Trestle, 648, 745

British Association: 305, 334, 348, 383, 415, 446, 486, 518 Presidential Address (Sir Michael Foster), 334

Mechanical Science Section.
Presidential Address (Sir William White), 340, 348, 373
The Dover Harbour Works, by Mr. W. Matthews, M. Inst. C.E., and Mr. J. C. Coode, M. Inst. C.E., 348
Non-Flammable Wood and its ships, by Mr. E. Marshall Fox, 349
The Introduction of the Screw Gauge (Committee Report), 352
A Short History of the Engineering Works of the Suez Canal to the Present Time, by Sir Charles Hartley, K.C.M.G., F.R.S.E., 383
Fast Cross-Channel Steamers Driven by Steam Turbines, by the Hon. C. A. Parsons, F.R.S., 373, 383. See Parsons, tbc.
The Niclausse Water-Tube Boiler, by Mr. Mark Robinson, M. Inst. C.E., 384
The Discharge of Torpedoes Below Water, by Captain Lloyd, 386
The Alexander III. Bridge in Paris for the International Exhibition of 1900, by Mr. A. Alby (of Paris), 387. See 39, 72
Electrical Machinery on Board Ship, by Mr. A. Siemens, M. Inst. C.E., 387
On the Electric Conductivity and Magnetic Properties of an Extensive Series of Alloys of Iron, prepared by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, by Professor W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., and Mr. VV. Brown, B.Sc., 388
Some Recent Applications of Electro-Metallurgy to Mechanical Engineering, by Mr. Sherard Cowper-Coles, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 415
Signalling without Contact; a New System of Railway Signalling, by Mr. Wilfrid S. Boult, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 415
Our Lighthouses of the English Channel, by Mr. J. Ken ward, F.S.A., 418
Recent Experiences with Steam on Common Roads, by Mr. J. I. Thornycroft, F.R.S., 357, 418
Dymchurch Wall, the Reclamation of Romney Marsh, by Mr. E. Case, 419. See 208 and LETTERS, Sea Protection
An Instrument for Gauging Boiler Furnaces, by Mr. T. Messenger, 421
Experiments on the Thrusting Power of Air Propellers, by Mr. W. G. Walker, 421, 439. See LETTERS, Air Propellers
Water and Sewage Examination, Committee’s Report, 439
Physical and Chemical Sections.
Professor Poynting’s Address, 446
Production, in Rarified Gases, of Luminous Rings in Rotation about Lines of Magnetic Force, by Mr. C. E. S. Phillips, 447
On the Existence of Masses Smaller than the Atoms, by Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 447
Seat of Volta’s Contact Force, by Professor Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 447
Vacuum Discharges, by Professor Broca, 447
Report on Radiation from a Source of Light in a Magnetic Field, 448
The Spectral Sensitiveness of Mercury Vapour in an Atmosphere of Hydrogen, by Dr. E. P. Lewis, 448
Spectroscopic Examination’of Contrast Phenomena, by Dr. G. H. Burch, 449
Report on Electrolysis and Electro-Chemistry, by Mr. W. C. D. Whetham and Mr. E H. Griffiths, 450
Report on Seismology, by Professor J. Milne, F.R.S., 48.5
Some Novel Thermo-Electric Phenomena, by Professor W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., 486
On the Theory of the Electrolytic Solution Pressure, by Dr. R. A. Lehfeldt, 486
Variation of the Specific Heat of Water, by Professor H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., and Mr. H. T. Barnes, 487
On the Expansion of Porcelain with Rise of Temperature, by Mr. T. G. Bedford, 487
Report of the Committee on Electrical Standards, 487
Report on the Heat of Combination of Metals in the Formation of Alloys, by Dr. A. Galt, 487
Discussion on Platinum Thermometry, by Professor H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., and Drs. Chappuis and Harker, 487
Report on Solar Radiation, 488
On Some Connection between Sun Spots and Temperature, by Dr. Van Rijckevorsel, 488
Recent Magnetic Work in North America, by Dr. L. A. Bauer, 490
Seismology at Mauritius, by Mr. J. F. Claxton, 490
Progress in Exploring the Air with Kites ; On the First Crossing of the Channel by a Balloon, by A. L. Rotch, 490
The Hydro-Aerograph, by Mr. F. Napier Denison, 490
Permanence of certain Gases in the Atmo* spheres of Planets, by Professor G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 491 '
Note on Deep-Sea Waves, by Mr. Vauo-han Cornish, 491
Temperature and the Dispersion in Quartz and Iceland Spar, by Mr. J. Gifford, 491
On a Gravity Balance, by Professor R. Threl- fall, F.R.S., 491. See LETTERS
Report on Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 491
Report on Meteorological Photography, 491 President’s Address, The Assimilation of Carbon by Plants, by Mr. D. Horace Brown, F.R.S., 518
The Excretory Products of Plants, by Professor Hanriot, 520
Symbiotic Fermentation, by Professor Marshall Ward, Dr. A. Calmette, and Professor H E. Armstrong, 520
Oxidation in Presence of Iron, by Mr. 11. J. H. Fenton, 521
The Condensation of Glycollic Aldehyde, bj* Mr. H. J. H. Fenton and H. Jackson, 521 Report of Sewage Committee, by Dr. Rideal, 521
The Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, b}' Professor F. Clowes, 521
The Chemical Effect on Agricultural Soils of the Salt-Water Flood of November 29,1897, on the East Coast, by Mr. T. S. Dymond, 521
Saccharification of Starch b}’ Malt-Diastase, by Dr. A. Fernbach, 521
Combined Action of Diastase and Yeast on on Starch Granules ; On the Action of Acids on Starch, by Dr. G. H. Morris, 521
The Action of Hydrogen Peroxide on Carbohydrates in Presence of Iron Salts, by Mr. R. S. ^lorrell and Mr. J. M. Crofts, 521
The Place of Nitrates in the Biolysis of Sewage, by Mr. W. Scott-Moncrieff, 521
The Solidification of Hydrogen, by Professor Dewar, 523
Report on Wave-Length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements, 524
Report on the Continuation of the Bibliography of Spectroscopy, 524
Report bn the Relation between the Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic Substances, by Professor N. Hartley, 524
Laws of Substitution, especially in Benzenoid Compounds ; The Relative Orienting Power of Chlorine and Bromine; Isomosphism in Benzenesulphonic Derivatives, by Professor H. E. Armstrong, 524
Note on the Action of Light upon Metallic Silver, by General J. Waterhouse, 524
Alloys of Cadmium, Zinc, and Magnesium with Platinum and Palladium, by Professor W. R. Hodgkinson, Captain Waring, and Captain Desborough, 524
Report on the Teaching of Natural Science in Elementary Schools, by Dr. J. II. Gladstone, 524
Discussion—Atomic Weights, by Professor F. W. Clarke and Professor Tilden, 524
The Development of Chemistry in the Last 15 Years, by Professor A. Ladenburg, 524
Drying of Colloids, Mineral and Organic, by Dr. J. II. Gladstone and Mr. W. Hibbert, 525

British v. Elswick Cruisers, 83, 147, 156 British Fire Losses, 480, 795
British Fire Prevention Committee, 503, 795 British and Foreign Works, 605
British Influence in China, 430
British Merchant Shipping, 532
British Rail Exports, 53
British Railway Construction, 336
British Railway Passengers and Profits, 363 British and Russian Trade in Persia, 432 British Trade with Cuba, 602
British Trade and the Franco-American Treaty, 534
British y, United States Bridges, 207
British v. United States Locomotives, 11, 55 British v. United States Tramway Station Engines, 238, 275.
British v. United, States
A'inerican Competition
British Warships. See H.M.S. Brockelbank Railway Wagon Coupler, 641
Brooklvn Bridge and Stray Electric Currents, 729
Brook’s Locomotives, Most Powerful in World, 756
Brook’s 6-Wheeled Locomotive (Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburg), 325
Brown, Boveri, and Co,, Baden, 321. See Erraturn, 402
Brown's Cantilever Shipyard Crane, 292
Brunswick Electric Railway (Westinghouse), 197
Brush Gear, Commutators, &c. (Electric Generators), 102, 222
Brush Holders (Electric Generators), 222
Buffer, Ramsden’s Wagon, 607
Building, Highest, in World, 69, 352
Building, Textile, Paris Exhibition, 261
Buildings, Tall, in New York, Equipment, 69, 352
Bulkhead Doors, 821
“ Bullfinch,” Disaster on Destroyer, 287 Burma Railway Viaduct, 307

Cable Company’s Submarine Telegraph, 124, 833
Caird, Mr. R., on Glasgow’s Technical Institutions, 565
Calcite and Quartz, Temperature and Dispersion of, 491
Calcium. See Acetyle'iie . , ,
Calculations, Chemical and Physical (Reform of), 382, 463, 524. See LETTERS
Caledonian Railway Engineer, the Late George Graham, 24
Caledonian Railway Excursion, 335
Canadian Canals, 536, 797
Canadian Mining and Railway Progress, 499
Canal Crossing, Great Central Railway, 022
Canal, Manchester, 181
Canal, Soulanges, 536. See 797
Canal, Suez, History, 383
Canals in Canada, 536, 797
Canals in Russia, 33, 257, 550, 619. Sec 303 . Canec-Schrieider Naval Mounts. See Schneider
Cantilever Shipyard Crane, Brown’s, 292
Capstan and Windlass Gear, R.M.S. “Oceanic’ (Napier’s), 436
Car Couplings, 371, 641
Car, Motor, Exhibition at Islington, 19
Car, Motor, Fire-Engine (Merryweather), 325
Car, Motor and Fire-Engine (Cambier, Lille), 658
Car, Motor Works at Baden, 365
Cars, Motor, 22, 86, 120
Cars, Motors, at the National Show, 699
Cars, Motors, at the Stanley Show, 667
Cars, Motor, Davis’s Steering Gear, 306, 338, 369, 538
Cars, Motors, French, 81, 131
Goods Traffic (Thornycroft), 35(y 418 I
Cars, Motor (Liverpool Tests), 148
Cars, Motor, and Street Traffic, 832 '
Car Wheels, Manufacture, 69 I
Carbon Electrodes, 432
Carbon Fixation by Plants, 518
Carbonic Acid Gas Works, London, 505
Carbonic Acid, Liquefied, 505
Carbonising Plant at Gas Works, 609 Cargo Steamers, Large Atlantic, 98, 200
Carriage Motor. See Cars, Motor
Carriages, Corridor, of Great Central Railway. 44,140, 231 ’
Case System of Sea Groynes, 208, 419. See LETTERS, Sea Protection
Cast-Iron Standards, 251
Casting, Machine, for the Blast-Furnace, 210.245 Castle Line Troopship, 568, 625
Catalogues, United States Business, 764, 793 Catesby Tunnel, Great Central Railway, 622 Caulking Tools, Pneumatic, 89
Causes of Adoption of Water-Tube Boilers in Warships, 715, 738, 772, 829
Caustic Soda, 730
Propellers, Barnaby’s Theory of, A 736’
Cement Concrete, Laying during Frost, 402 Centenary of the Technical High School, Berlin, 5uO
Central Heating Plant of the University of Madison, Wisconsin, 169
Pumps for Hydraulic Dredger, 691, 154, 823
Centrifugals for Sugar, &c., 719
Centring, Iron, Used in Constructing Wienfluss
Boulevard, 325
Centring, Roberts’ Collapsible, 595
Ceylon Railways, 669
Chain Mortising Machine (New Britain Machine Company, Connecticut), 44
Champness, Mr H. R., on the Launch of a Battleship, 107,115
Channel Crossed by First Balloon, 490
Channel Steamers, 340, 373
^’^h Parsons Turbine, 373, 383.
Charges, Shop and Establishment, 59 Charlottenburg Technical High School, 536 and Steam Raising, 762. See 739, 808. See Erratum,
C hefoo and Shanghai Trades, 333 ^P?’^j!;^/^alculations, Reform of Physical and, *vOj OUl
Chemical Constitutions, 524
Chemical and Physical Calculations, 382, 468, 524. See LETTERS
Chemistry, Development in 15 Years. 524 Chemistry, Electro-, 450
Chemulpo Soul Railway, 832
“(Chesapeake,” Wood Sheathing, U.S.S., 753 Chilian Cruisers “Esmeralda” and “Blanco Lncalada,”and “ O’Higgins ” (Elswick), 156
China, British Influence in, 430
China Colliery, 560
China, Cost of Labour in, 315, 560
China Engineering Works, 560
China (Creat Wall, Proposed Demolition, 35 China, Manchurian Railway, 273
China, Notes from Newchwang, 315
Mechanical Engineers in h»0, /05, /96. See LETTERS, 726, 757, 802
China, Russo-Anglian Agreement, 51
China, Shanghai and Chefoo Trades, 332
Chinese Ambassador on Affairs in China 796
Chinese Cruiser “ Hai Chi” (Boiler Arrangements), 185
Chinese Cruisers “ Chih Yuan ” and “ Ching Yuan ” (Elswick), 156
Chinese Cruisers (Vulcan Company), 163
Chinese Inland Waters, Regulations, 367 Chinese Railways, Imperial, 500
Chinese Workmen, 315, 560
Chuck, 8-In. Automatic Lathe (C. Taylor Birmingham), 339 ’
Chucking Capstan Lathes (A. Herbert, Limited),
Chucking Machine (Pratt and Whitney), 649
City and South London Railway, New Generating Plant, 335, See Erratum, 369

Civil Engineers, American Society of - 196, 228, 291

Cape May Meeting, 196, 291
Presidential Address, by Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, 196
Report on International Congress on Navio-a- tion, by Mr. Cortells, 228 ®
Loads on Bridges (Discussion), 228
Delaware Breakwater, by Colonel Charles W
Raymond, 230
Sewage of Cities (Discussion), 291
River Pollution (Discussion), 291 Cramp’s Shipyard, 292
Gantry Cranes for Shipyards, 292

Civil Engineers, liistitntioii of: 599, 638, 693, 843

Premiums, &c., 502
Presidential Address (Sir Douglas Fox), 599 Waterloo and City Railway, by Mr H H Dalrymple Hay, 638
Electrical Equipment of the Waterloo and City Railway, by Mr. B. M. Jenkins, 638
Students and Graduates’ Examinations, 693 Comlnned Refuse Destructors and Power

1 lants, by Air. C. Newton Russell, 843

Clark s Adjustable Ship Curve, 124
Climatic Conditions Necessary for the Propagation and Spread of Plague, 789
Clock Regulation by Electricity, 800
Closcd-In Turret for Large Guns. See Turrets Clutch, My wheel, 719
Coal as a Bacteriological Filtering Material, 213 Coal, China, 560
Coal Consumption of Water-Tube Boilers, 800. See 840
Coal and Iron in Belgium, 512
Coal Mines in Japan, 767
Coaling Warships at Sea, Miller’s System, 714
Coast Protection, Dymchurch Wall, 208, 419. See LETTERS
Coherer, Electric, 535
Coke Ovens, Sinion-Carves, 224
Collapsible Centring, Roberts’, 595
College, Presidency of Cooper’s Hill, 272
Colliery in China, 560
Collisions, Railway. See Accide?its
Colloids, Drying, 524
Colour Printing, Orloff Process of, 119
Colours of Heated Steel, 843
Colt Automatic Gun, 119
Combined Refuse Destructors and Power Plants, 843
Combines in Germany, 178
Combines, Trade, 178, 414, 430, 464, 466, 634, 733, 760
Combines, United States Steel, 733
Combustion in Furnaces, 840
“ Commander Cawley,” Humber Steam Pilot Yacht, 826
Commercial Curiosity, A, 335
Commercial Museum in Tokio, 303
Commutator Losses in Rotary Converters (Electric Generators), 783
Commutators and Brush Gear, 102, 222 Companies Act, Amendment of, 17
Comparison of Similar Structures and Machines, 475, 511, 545. See LETTER, 571
Compensation Cases, Workmen’s, 143, 303,

398, 457, 467, 535, 541, 626, 735, 810, 844 Competition amongst Firms, 531 Competition, Foreign, 434 Competition, International, 241 Competition of the United States, 347, 379,
445, 479, 515, 549, 583, 617, 647, 677, 713, 777, 813. See LETTERS

Complications in Warships, 749
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotive, Worsdell, 369 Compressed Air Mechanism, 115, 246, 280.
LETTERS, 306
Compressing Engines, Two-Stage Compound Air (Walker Brothers, Wigan), 42
Compulsory Military Service, 759, 801 Concentrating Iron Ore, 209 Concrete Laying during Frost, 402 Conductivity of Media, 704, 705
Conductors, Resistance of Copper, 804 Conduit Electric Tramways of New York, 402 Congress, International Mechanical (Paris), 82 Congress, Trades Union, 332
Congress, &c., Paris Exhibition, 82, 495 Congressional Library, Washington, 106 Connecting-Rod Disaster to II.M.S. “Bullfinch,” 237
Conscription for Militaiy Service, 759, 801 Consols Mines, Devon, Great, 136 Constant of Gravitation, 535
Consuls, Activity of United States, 53
Contact Electricity, 644
Continuous Mean Pressure Indicator, 744, 771, 804
Contrast Phenomena, Spectroscopic Examination of, 449
Converter, 400-Kilowatt Rotary (Westinghouse Company), 71, 783
Converters, Rotary, 389, 450, 517, 620, 721, 783 Conveyors for Sugar, &c., 719
CoopeFs Hill College Presidency, 272. See LETTERS
Copper, Australian, 18
Copper Deposits of Vancouver Island, 643 Copper, Electrical Resistance of, 804 Copper in Steel, 800
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, 9
Corners in Trade, 178, 414, 430, 464, 466, 634, 733, 760
Cornwall Viaducts, 116, 407
Corridor Carriages of Great Central Railway, 44, 140, 231
Corrugated Furnaces in Locomotives (Vanderbilt), 343. See LETTERS
Cost of Electrical Energy, 578, 739, 762, 808. See Erratum, 793
Cost of Making Iron and Steel in United Stat’s, 27
Cost of Railways, Apportionment of, 599
Cost of Steam Raising, 739, 762, 808. See Erratum, 793
Cotton Manufacture Association, New England, 681
Cotton Mills, Howarth’s, 226
Cotton Spinning Industry in Japan, 569 Counter, Munro’s Engine, 607
Countj" Council Water Bills, 779
Coupar Angus Station, Collision, 843 Coupler, Brockelbank Railway Wagon, 641 Coupling and Pole, Hill’s Railway Wagon, 371 Cowens, Mr. Wm. Ed., on Shop and Establishment Charges, 59
Cowper-Coles Sound Locator and Projector, 507 Cramp’s Yard, Philadelphia, 292
Crane, Cantilever Shipyard, 292. See 98, 200, 785
Crane, “ Goliath,” at Dover Harbour (Ransomes and Rapier’s), 392
Cranes, Overhead, for Shipbuilding, 785
Creusot Guns. See Schneider,
Creusot, Strike at, 461, 600. See 271
Crossings at Streets in London, 636
Crossness, Bacteriological Sewage Experiments, 462, 521
I Cruisers. See 'Warships
I Cruisers, Her Majesty’s, y. Elswick, 83,147, 156
I Crystal Palace, Repairs at the, 603
I Crystalline Structure of JMetals, 474 Crystallisation in Motion Plant for Sugar, 719 Cuba, British Trade with, 602
Cunard Liner “ Ivernia,” 368
Curve, Clark’s Adjustable Ship, 124
Cutlers’ Company of Sheffield, 302, 602
Cycle Construction, 275
Cycles, Efficiency of, 537
Cycle Trust, United States, 464
Cycles and Machine Tools at the Natiojxal Show, 677, 699
Cycles and Motor Cars at the Stanley Show, 667
Cylindrical v. Water-Tube Boilers, 503, 571

Dalby’s Transmission Dynamometer, 807
Dangerous Trades, 331
Davis’s Steering Gear for Auto-Cars, 306, 338, 369, 538
Davits for Launching Ship’s Boats, 749 Deceptive Fracture of Pig Iron, 543. See 375 Deep Sea Waves, Notes, 491
Defects in Machinery, 397
Delaware Breakwater, 230
“ Denver” Class of United States Cruisers, 819 Derbyshire, Lancashire, and East Coast Railway, 747, 815
Design of Bridges, 633
Designs for the “Denver” Class of Protected Cruisers, 819
Destructor, Refuse, 136, 215, 243, 843
Destructors, Refuse, and Lighting Plant, 843 Devon Great Consols Mines, 136
Devonport Dockyard, 116, 127, 136, 177, 216, 403 Diagram of Shipbuilding Production, 834
Diagrams of Metal Prices, 23, 154, 308, 440, 572, 736, 836
Diameter Gauging of Boiler Furnaces, 419
Diastase, Saccharification of Starch by Malt, 521 Diastase and Yeast Combined Action on Starch Granules, 521
Dickie, Mr. Jas., on Shipyard Cranes, 785
Dickie, Mr. G. W., on American Competition, 777 Diffusion of Elements in Iron, 248, 311
Directory of Railway Officials, 175
Disaster to H.M. Destroyer “ Bullfinch,” 237 Discussions, Technical, 429
Dispersion and Temperature of Quartz and Calcite, 491
Diurnal Variations of the Barometer in the British Isles, 610
Dnieper River Navigation, Russia, 257, 303
Dock Constructing Plant, 116, 127
Dock, Graving, Shanghai, 469
Docking of Ships, Dry, 83,102, 125, 153
Docks and Harbours in Japan, 42
Docks, Mechanical Appliances for Constructing, 116,127
Docks, Private Bills for, 780
Dockyard, Devonport, 116, 127, 136, 177, 216, 403
Donaldson, The Late Mr. John, 464
Doors for Bulkheads, 821
Dover Harbour, Goliath Crane at (Ransomes and Rapier’s), 392
Dover Harbour Works, 348
Dowson Gas and Electric Station at Oerlikon, 366
Draught, Foley System of Forced, 83, 89
Dredger, Hydraulic (Bates System \ 691, 754, 823
Dredging Channels across Sandy Shallows of Rivers, 303
Dredging for Gold, 34,192
Drilling Machine, 4-Spindle (D. Fraser and Sons, Arbroath), 326
Drilling Machine, 8-Spindle (Hill, Clarke, and Co., Boston), 625
Drilling’, Milling, and Slotting Machine, Universal (Russian), 691
Dry Docking Ships and Pressure on Blocks, 83, 102,125. See 153
Drying Colloids, 524
Duplex Lathe, Heavy (Hulse and Co., Limited, Manchester), 526
Dust Haze which was Experienced at Teneriffe, Canary Islands, 789
Dymchurch Wall, 419. See 208 and LETTERS, Sea Protection
Dynamo Driving by Gas Engines (Westinghouse), 85, See LETTERS
Dynamometer Records, Euston-Crewe Fast Run, 21
Dynamometer Transmission, 807
Dynamos. See Electric Generators
Dynamos. See also Westinghouse Installations

Early Steamships, 23, 66
Earthquake Measurements, 488, 490
East and West Railway, 747, 815
Eastern Railway of France, Rapid Locomotive Erection, 278
Edinburgh, Waverley Station, 423, 491 Education, Engineering, 177, 403
Education of Naval Engineers, 116, 133, 177, 216.
See LETTERS, Engineering Education Education Science in Elementary Schools, 524 Education, Technical, 499 Education, Technical, at Glasgow, 565 Efficiency of Bicycles, 537
Electric Alternating Currents, Determining Frequency, 20
Electric Alternating Currents and Transformers, 382
Electric Coherers, 535
Electric Contact Force, Volta’s, 447
Electric Currents, Stray, and Stability of Struc- tures, 729
Electric Development in Germany, 304
Electric Dynamo Driving by Westinghouse Gas Engines, 85. See LETTERS
Electric Energy, Cost of, 578, 739,762, 808. See Erratum, 793
Electric Generating Plant, City and South London Railway, 335. See Erratani^ 369

Electric Generators: 102, 222, 389, 450, 517, 620, 721, 783

Brush Gear, Commutators and, 102, 222 Brush Holders, 222
Commutator Losses in Rotary Converters, 783 Commutators and Brush Gear, 102, 222
Converters, Rotary, 389, 450, 517, 620, 721, 783
Four-Phase Rotary Converters, 620 Interconnection of Static Transformers and
Rotary Converters, 517
Rotary Converters, 389, 450, 517, 620, 721, 783
Single-Phase Rotary Converters, 450
Six-Phase Rotary Converters, 517, 721, 783
Static Transformers and Rotary Converters, 517
Three-Phase Rotary Converters, 450
Transformers, Static, and Rotary Converters, 517
Weight of Rotary Converters, 784
Windings for Rotary Convertors, 783

Electric Generators Driven by Steam Turbines, 221. See also Parsons, tOc,
Electric Generator, Largest, 733 '
Electric v. Horse Trainway Traction (Glasgow), 151
Electric Lighting. See also Westinghouse Co7n- pamj
Electric Lighting Plant, Refuse Destructors and, 813
Electric Lighting Statistics, 603
Electric and Magnetic Properties of Alloys, 569 Electric Power Supply. See also Westinghouse
InntaUutwn^
Electric Power Transmission in Switzerland. See
Electric Engineers, Institution of
Electric Power Transmission Installations in Sweden, 535, 603
Electric Power Transmission in United States, 69, 421, 781, 813
Electric Railway, A Model (Westinghouse), 197 I Electric Railway Power Plant, Tests, 511 Electric Railways. See Electrical Engineers, '
Institution of
Electric Schemes in Parliament, 732
Electric Steam Turbines (Parsons), 191, 221, 255, 373, 371, 383, 601, See LETTERS, Parsons, tie.
Electric Supply Works, Plymouth, 63
Electric, Thermo- (Phenomena), 486 Electric Traction, Plymouth, 63 Electric Traction, 63, 151, 673, 709 Electric Traction Power Station, Pittsburg (Westinghouse Company), 483
Electric Traction Statistics, 603 Electric Tramway Schemes, 151, 697, 779 Electric Tramways in London, 213, 697, 779 Electric Tramways, New York, 402
Electric Transmission to Los Angeles (Westinghouse Company), 781,813
Electric Tunnel for Transit of Mails, 367 Electrical Engineering in China, 680, 705, 796 “Electrical Engineers’ Central Station Directory,” 329

Electrical Enginecrs, Instiliiiion of; 179, 293, 320, 365, 400, 663, 762

Switzerland Visit, 47, 179, 293. Errata, 402
Brown, Boveri, and Co., Baden, Works of. 321. See Erratum, 402
Concluding Meeting, 402
Dowson Gas and Electric Station at Oerlikon 366 '
Errata, 402
Escher, Wyss, and Co., 659
Iron and Steel Works of Mr. G. Fischer, at
Schaffhausen, 366
Jungfrau Railway, 293, 401
Kanderwerk (Motor Company), 365. See EV- rata, 402
Maschinenfabrick Oerlikon, 482
Meeting at the Polytechnikum, 401
Municipal Electricity Works at Zurich ami the Electric Tramways, 365. See Errata, 402 National Museum of Zurich, 400
Rheinfelden Power Transmission, 320, 584 Schaffhausen Electricity Works, 366
Silk Weaving Works at Ruti, 400 Stansstad Engelberg Electric Railway, 323 Sulzer Brothers’ Engine Works at Winterthur, 367. See Errata, 402
Swiss Locomotive Works, 367
Thun-Burgdorf Electric Railway, 324
Tnphase Electric Railway, Thun-Burgdorf 324. See Errata, 402 ’
London Meetings:
Presidential Address, by Professor S P Thompson, 673, 709. See 663
The Cost of Steam Raising, by Mr. John Holliday, 739, 762, 808. See Erratum, 793 Annual Dinner, 736
Influence of Cheap Fuels on the Cost of Electrical Energy, by Mr. R. E. Crompton, 762. See Erratum, 793
Resistance of Copper, Report on, 804
Copper Resisting Continuous Pressure, 804
Electrical Time Service, by Mr F Hone Jones, 800
Electrical Equipment of Highest Office Buildinn- m the World, 352. See 69 ®
Electrical Ecpiipment, Waterloo and City Railway, 638
Electrical Express Railway, 639
Electrical Machinery on Warships, 387
Electrical Plant. See Westinghouse Electric Installations
Electrical Plant, Standardising, 9
Electrical Power Distribution to Works. 578
Electrical Progress, 673, 709
Electrical Resistance of Oopjier 804
Electrical Standards, 487 ’
Electrical Time Service, 809
Electrical Works iu Switzerland. See Electrieal Engineers, Institution of
El^trif^lly Driven Lathe (Greenwood and Bat- ley), 677
nttiev^W " (Greenwood
Electrically'Worked Turret for Two 12-Centi- metre Guns (Schneider), 653,815
Electricity, Contact, 644
Electricit)’ and Dowson Gas at Oerlikon, 365 Electricity, Progress of, 603
Works at Buti,
Electricity Works, Schaffhausen, 366 365.
Electro-Chemistry, 450
Electro-Chemistry and Acetylene, 778 I’-iectro-Meta-llurgy in Mechanical Engineering,
Electrodes, Carbon, 432
Electrolysis and Electro-Chemistry. 4.S0
E ectrojysis (Stray Electric Currents), 729 Electrolytic Processes (Caustic Soda), 730 Electrolytic Solution Pressure, Theory 480
E ements in Iron, Diffusion of, 248, 311
W2^’ 125 ’
Eliot, Mr. Whately, on Mechanical Amdiances ^n^ployed m the Construction of Keyham Dockyard Extension Works, 116, 127
Elliott and Hatch Typewriter, 592 Elswick Cruisers, 83, 156. See 147
Elswick Guns and Mountings, 82
Elswick Submerged Torpedo-Tube Gear, 386 Elswick Yard, 100
Employers’ Liability for Accident, B rench, 398 Engine Boiler and Employers’ Liability Insurance Company, 397
Engine Contract, Glasgow Tramways, 242, 2/7
Engine Connecting-Rod Disaster, ILM. Destroyer “ Bullfinch,” 237
Engine Counter, Munro’s, 607
Engine Defects, 397
Engine, Fire, Self-Propelled, 325, 658
Engine, Gas, Westinghouse, 85,173,243, 277, 307, 338, 369, 403, 434, 571, 657, 688, 727, 840
Engine, Oil, Griffin, Launch, 670
Engine Oil, Vertical (Gardner and Sons, Patri- croft), 57
Engine, Pumping, Test of a Nordberg, 150 Engine-Room Staff in Warships, 79. See 55, <9,

86, 174, 242, 276, 306, 605, 687, 725, 757, 801 Engine, Self-Propelled Fire, 325, 658 Engine Works, Sulzer Brothers, Winterthur, 367. See Errata, 402

Engine Works, Vulcan, Stettin, 353
Engines, Balancing, 54, 120 .
Engines, Gas, for Dynamos (Westinghouse), 85. See LETTERS
Engines of II.M.SS. “Hermes” and “Highflyer” (Fairfield), 10. See 185
Engines of H.M.SS. “Proserpine’’and “ Psyche” (Keyham), 116, 216. See 136, 177
Engines, Rolling-Mill Reversing, 171
Engines, Steam, Glasgow Tramway Contract, 238, 275. See LCTTERS
Engines, Traction, 731
Engines, Two-Stage Compound Air-Compressing (Walker Brothers, Wigan), 42
Engineering Conference, 56
Engineering Education, 177, 216, 403
Engineering Personnel in United States Navy, 829
Engineering Projects in Tokio, 182
Engineering Records, 307
Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1899, 834
Engineering Telegraph Code Book, 529
Engineering in United States (Historical), 196
Engineering in the United States Navy, 738, 772, 829
Engineering Works in China, 315, 560
Engineers, Mechanical, Openings in China, 680, 705, 796. See LETTERS, 726, 757, 802
Engineers, Naval, Education of, 116, 136, 177, 216, 403. See LETTERS, Engineering Education
Engineers in the Navy, 55, 79, 86, 174, 242, 276, 306, 605, 687, 725, 757, 801
Engineers’ Oratory, 429
Engineers, Training of Marine, 669
English Channel Lighthouses, 418
Epsom Station Collision, 843
E(iuipment of Tall Office Buildings in New York City, 69, 352
Erecting Alexander III. Bridge, 39, 72, 387
Erecting Buildings, Paris Exhibition, 261 Escher, Wyss, and Co,, 559
“ Esmeralda,” Chilian Cruiser (Elswick), 156 Establishment and Shop Charges, 59
Europeans in the United States, 637 Euston-Crewe Railway Profile, 21
Evaporator, Lillie Sugar (McOnie, Harvey, and Co.), 324
Evaporator, Ortman’s, 542
Evolution of the Steam Locomotive, 745
Ewing, Professor J, A., on Crystalline Structure of Metals, 474
Examinations, Science and Art, 431
Excavating Machinery, 116, 127
Excretor}’ Products of Plants, 520
Exhibition, Automobile, at Paris, 81, 131
Exhibition, Brewers’, 567
Exhibition, Cycle and Machine Tools, 649, 667, 677, 699
Exhibition, Glasgow, 114
Exhibition, Motor Car, at Islington, 19
Exhibition, Paris. See Paris Exhibition Expansion Gland for Steam Pipes, 510
Experiences with Deep Well Pump Rods, 39
Experiments on Various Types of Fire Hydrants, 170
Exploring the Air, Kites for, 490
Explosion. See also Boiler Explosions
Explosions, Boiler, Investigations of, 38
Explosions in India-Rubber Works, 272

Falla of Snoqualmie, Electric Power Plant, 421
Fans Driven by Parsons Turbine, 221. See 255
Fans, Experiments with, 421, 439
Feed Pump, Boiler, Compound Direct-Acting (Hall, Peterborough), 690
Fermentation, Symbiotic, 520
File-Cutting, 33i
Filtering with Coal, Bacteriological, 213
Filtration, Sewage, and River Pollution, 241
Fire Engine, Self-Propelled (Cambier, Lille), 658
Fire Engine, Self-Propelled (Merry weather), 325
Fire, Gun, at Santiago Naval War, 65
Fire Hydrants, 170
Firebosses in 1899, 795
Fire Losses, Our Annual, 480
Fire Prevention in 1899, 795
Fire Prevention Committee, British, 503
Fireproof Construction, 795
Fischer, G., Iron and Steel Works at Schaffhausen, 366
Fixation of Carbon b.y Plants, 518
Flanges, Pipe, and Bolts, 68
Floods, Salt Water, on Soil, Effects of, 521
Floor (Construction, Machine, 525
Flywheels, Rolling Mill, 105
Flying Machine Fatality, 433
Fog, Due to Dust, at Teneriffe, 789
Foley, Mr. Nelson, on New System of Forced Draught, 83, 89
Forced Draught, New Method, 83, 89
Foreign v. British Works, 605
Foreign Competition, 432. See also Competition
Foreshore Protection, 208, 419. See LETTERS Forestry in Maine, 839
Forgings, and Machines for Producing them, 22
Fortschritte der Angewandten Elektrochemie und der Acetylen-Industrie, 7?
Fouling of Ships, 174, 277
Foundry Practice, Pig-Iron Fractures and, 375
Four-Phase Rotary Converters, 620
“Fourth of July,” United States Cruiser, 101
Fractures of Pig Iron and Foundry Practice, 375. See 543
Fractures of Propeller Shafts, 264
Framing for Sugar Machinery, Safety, 710
France, Labour Market in, 271. See 461, 600
France, Locomotive, Erection, Rapid, 278
France, Locomotive, Southern Railway of, 592
France, Railway, Northern of, 43
France, Tobacco Industry, 240,
Franco-American Treaty, British Trade and, 634
Frederiksberg Gas Works Carbonising Plant, 609
Freedom of Devonport to Sir William White, 116
Freight, Locomotives. See Locomotives
French Battleships “Charles Martel” and “Massena,” Gun Turrets, 455, 485. See LETTERS, 572, 605
French Battleship “ Marceau,” Gun Barbettes, 516. See LETTERS, 572, 605
French Trade Unions, 271, 461, 600
French Warship Programme, 661
French Warship Quick-Firing Gun Mountings. See Schneider
French Workmen’s Compensation Act, 398
Frequency of Alternating Currents, Determining, 20
Furnace Efficiency, Boiler, 38
Furnace Gas Analyses and Pyrometry, 702
Furnaces, Combustion in, 840
Furnaces, Gauging Boilers, 419

Gallery, Corcoran Art, Washington, 9
Galloway’s Boiler Works, 226
Galvanising, 415
Gantry Cranes for Shipyards, 292
Garcke’s “Manual of Electrical Undertakings,” 603
“Garibaldi,” Italian Cruiser, 327. See LETTERS, 369
Garrett, Mr. 11., on Refuse Disposal, 136, 215. See LETTERS
Gas Analyses and Pyrometry, Furnace, 702
Gas ill the Atmosphere of Planets, Permanence of, 491
Gas, Automatic Generator for Acetylene, 539, 688, 727, 757, 802
Gas Company Profit-Sharing, 497
Gas and Electric Station at Oerlikon, 365
Gas Engines. See Engines
Gas Engines for Driving Dynamos, Westinghouse, 85. See LETTERS
Gas, Liquefied Carbonic Acid, 505
Gas Schemes in Parliament, 732
Gas Tubes, Porcelain, 487
Gas Work Carbonising Plant, 609
Gauge-Glass Protector, Service’s, 25
Gauges, Screw, 352
Gauging Boiler Furnaces, 419
Gcipel’s Steam Trap, 24
Generating Steam, Cost of, 739, 762, 808. See Erratum^ 793
Generation and Electrical Distribution of Motive Power, 578
Generator for Acetylene Gas, Automatic, 539, 688, 727, 757, 802
Generators, Company), 733
Generators at Pittsburg Reduction Works, Niagara (Westinghouse Company), 6
Georgian Bay Canal, 797
German Battleship “Weissenburg” (Vulcan Company), 163
German Electrical Development, 304
German Emperor’s Yacht “ Hohenzollern ” (Vulcan Company), 163
German Machine-Tool Works, 380, 414, 450, 525. See LETTER, 605
German Shipbuilding, 1, 163, 285, 353
German Technical High School, 536
German Towns, Water Supply, 617
Germany, “ Rings” in, 178
Gibbons, Mr. T. IL, on Railway Viaducts in Cornwall, 116, 407
Girls’ Hours of Labour (Unionist’s Moral Principles), 307
Gland, Expansion, for Steam Pipes, 510
Glasgow Exhibition, 1901, 114
Glasgow Fire, 480
Glasgow Technical Institutions, 565
Glasgow Tramway Engines Contract, 238, 242, 275, 277
Glasgow Tramway Results, 151
Glasgow University and Engineering, 565
Glass and Platinum Thermometry, 487
Gliding Boats, 434
Globular Lightning, 335
Gold Dredging, 34, 192
Gold Mine, An Ancient, 180 1
Goliath Crane at Dover Harbour (Ransomes and Rapier’s), 392
Governor, Robinson Shaft, 707
Graham, The Late George, Caledonian Railway, 24
Grain Weighing Machine, Automatic (Avery), (25
Graphical Methods of Finding the Pressure on Blocks under a Ship due to Overhang, 153. See also 83,102, 125
Graving Docks. See also Docks
Graving Dock, Shanghai, 469
Graving Dock, Ship’s Pressure on Blocks of, 83 102, 125. See 153 ’ ’
Gravitation, Constant of, 535
Gravity Balance, 491, 605
Great Britain at the Paris Exhibition, 634

Great Central Railway: 44, 140, 231, 295,- 405, 555, 621, 656

Brackley Viaducts, 555
Bridges, 295, 555, 621
Canal Crossing, 622
Carriages, Corridor, 44, 140, 231
Catesby Tunnel, 622
Corridor Carriages, 231
Locomotive, Express Passenger, 405
Northern Division, 656
Great Central Rail way-continued.
Oxford Canal Viaduct, 621
Rolling Stock, 44, 140, 231, 405
Rugby Viaduct, 621
Tunnel, Catesby, 622
Viaducts, 565,621 . ..

Great Central Railway Corridor Carnages, 44, 140, 231
Great Central Railway Express Passenger Locomotive, 405
Griffin Oil Engine (Launch), 6/0 ,
Grinding Tools. See Ludw. Loewe and Co. 8 IForAjd
Grindstones, 331
Groynes for Foreshore Protection, 208, 419. See LETTERS
Guide to South Africa, Castle Line, 541
Guildford, Railway Accident at, 644
Gun, Colt Automatic, 119
Gun Fire at Santiago, Naval War, 65
Gun Mountings, Elswick, 82 r. » .,
Gun Mountings, Schneider-Canet. See Schneider Guns, Elswick Naval, 82
Guns, Vickers, 114

Hadfield. Mr. R. A., as Master Cutler, 602
Hadfield’s Works at Sheffield (Master Cutler),
**Hai Yung,” "Hai Shew,” and “ Hai Shen,
Chinese Cruisers (Vulcan Company), 163
Harbour, Breakwater at Delaware, 230
Harbour, Crane at Dover, 392. See 348
Harbour, Ofoten, Norway, 303
Harbour Works, Dover, 348
Harbour Works at Otaru, Japan, 768
Harbours and Docks in Japan, 42
Harbours, Private Bills for, 780
Hartford Long-Distance Transmission (Westinghouse Company), 69
“Hatsuso,” Japanese Battleship, 101
Hawaii, Steamship Lines to, 304
Head, Mr. A. P., on American Competition, 583
Heat Action on India-Rubber, 463
Heat of Combinations and Alloys, 487
Heat, Specific, of Water, Variations in, 487 Heated Steel, Colours of, 843
Hedges and Hedgemaking, 47
Hele-Shaw Experiments and the Stream-Line Theory, 121, 152
“Hermes” and “Highflyer,” Engines of H.M.SS. (Fairfield), 10. See 185
H.M. V. Elswick Warships, 83,147,156
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Bullfinch” Disaster, 237
II.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Viper,” with Parsons Turbine, 191, 221, 255, 374, 383, 601, See LETTER
Her Majesty’s Ships in 1899, 798. See 840
II.M.S. “ Andromeda,” Boiler Arrangements, 185 H.M.S. “ Ocean,” Launching of, 107, 115
II.M.S. “ Ocean,” Steam Trials, 152,181
H.M.S. “Vengeance” (Vickers), 88, 114
H.M.SS. “Hermes” and “ Highflyer” (Fairfield Company), 10, 185
II.M.SS. “Pegasus” and “ Pyramus” (Palmer’s), 788
H.M.SS. “Proserpine” and “Psyche,” Machinery of, 116, 216
Hexagonal Turret Lathe, Herbert’s, 679. See LETfER, 726, 802
Hexose, Oxidation in the Presence of Iron, 521 High Buildings, New York, 69, 352
Hill’s Railway Wagon Coupling and Pole, 371 History of Engineering in United States, 196 History of Physics, 193
Hobart, Mr. H. M., on Electric Generators and Converters. See Electric Generators
“ Hohenzollern,” German Emperor’s Yacht (Vulcan Company), 156
Hoists, Passenger, 839
Hoists, the Insurance of, 639
Hokkaido Coal Mines, 767
Holding Power of Wood Screws, 441
Holliday, Mr. John, on the Cost of Steam Raising, 739, 762, 808. See Erratum^ 793
Horseless Carriage. See Cars, Motor
Horwich Locomotive Works, L. and Y. Railway, 223
Hot Blast in the Bessemer Process, 59
Hot Lakes, 777
Hot Weather Observations, 640
Howell, Mr. George, on United States Competition, 379
Howitzers and Mortars for Naval Service, (Schneider), 227
Hull, Boiler Explosion at, 774
Humber Steam Pilot Yacht, “ Commander Cawley,” 826
Hunt, Mr. Robert W., on American Competition, 647
Hunter, Mr. G. B., on Large Atlantic Cargo Steamers, 98, 200. See 785
Hutcheson’s Automatic Stop-Valve, 279
Hydrants, Fire, 170
Hydraulic Dredger (Bates System), 691, 754, 823
Hydraulic Intensifier, Self-Acting, 703
Hydro-Aerograph, The, 490
Hydro-Electric Plant, Snoqualmie Falls, 421. See also Electrical Engineers^ Inetitutionofy Visit to Switzerland
Hydrogen, Solidification of, 523
Hydrogen, Spectral Sensitiveness of Mercury Vapour in, 448

Implements, Agricultural, 731
Incrustation of Pipes at Torquay Water Works* 554, 575
India as a Centre for Iron Industry, 201, 211
India-Rubber Combine, Proposed, 634
India-Rubber Heat Action, 463
India-Rubber Works, Explosions in, 272
Indian Iron and Steel Manufacture, 201, 211
Indian Railway, Locomotive Superintendents on,- 174
Indian Railways^ 27
Indian Troopship (Boilers), 503. See LETTERS, 571
Indicator, Continuous Mean Pressure, 744, 771,- 804 > > .
Indices of Engineering Records, 307
Indus, Bridge over the, 111
Industrial Notes, 26, 57, 87, 123, 154, 183, 214, 244, 279, 309, 339, 371, 406, 438, 469, 506, 539, 5/4, 607, 641, 672, 703, 737, 768, 803, 837
Industrial Uses of Alcohol, 467. See 175 Influence of Cheap Fuels on the Cost of Electrical Energy, by Mr. R. E. Crompton, 762. See 739, 808, and Erratum, 793
Ingham, Mr. William, on Incrustation of Pipes at Torquay' Water Works, 554, 575
Institution of Marine Engineers, 669
Institutions, Technical Discusions, 429
Institutions, Technical, Functions of, 663
Intensifler, Self-Acting Hydraulic, 703
Interconnection of Static Transformers Rotary Converters, 517
International Competition, 241
International Congress on Navigation, 228 International Mechanical Congress, Paris, 82 Inventions, Restricted Licenses to Work, 533 Investigations of Boiler Explosions, 38 Iron Aluminium Alloys, Magnetic Properties, Iron, Cast. , See Cast Iron
Iron Centring used in Constructing Wienfluss Boulevard, 325
Iron and Coal in Belgium, 512
Iron, Deceptive Fracture of Pig, 543. See 375
Iron, Diffusion of Elements in, 248, 311
Iron Industry, New Centre of Russian, 53
Iron Ore, Use of Finely Divided, 209, 337
Iron, Oxidation in the Presence of, A Hexose, 521
Iron, Pig. See Pig Iron Iron, Solution Theory of, 212
Iron and Steel, Cost in United States, 27
Iron and Steel Industry in India, 201, 211

Iron and Steel Institute: 58, 209, 223

Hot Blast in the Bessemer Process, by Professor J. Wiborgh, 58
The Diffusion of Elements in Iron, by Messrs. J. O. Arnold and A. McWilliam, 248, 311 Manchester Meeting:
The Use of Finely Divided Iron Ore, by Professor J. Wiborgh, 209, 337
Machine Casting for the Blast-Furnace, by Mr. R. H. Wainford, 210, 245
Iron Industry in the Territory of H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan, by Shamsul Ulama Syed Ali Bilgrami, 211
India as a Centre for Steel Manufacture, by Major R. H. Mahon, 201, 211
Some Forms of Magnetic Separators and their Application to Different Ores, by Mr. H. C. McNeill, 210, 470, 508
Practical Microscopic Analysis for the Use in Steel Industries, with an Introduction to a Systematic Study of Soft and Dead Soft Steel, by Mr. C. H. Ridsdale, 211
The Present Position of the Solution Theory of Carburised Iron, by Dr. A. Stansfield, 212
The Relation between the Structure of Steel and the Thermal and Mechanical Treatment of Steel, by Mr. A, Sauveur, 213
The Constitution of Steel, by Professor E. W. Campbell, 213
On Pig - Iron Fractures on their Values in Foundry Practice, by Mr. J. W. Miller, 213, 375
Excursions, tC-c.
Horwich Locomotive Works, 223 Simon-Carves Coke Ovens, 224 Conversazione, 226
Ship Canal, 216
Dramatic Performance, 226
Platt’s Textile Machinery Works, 226 Galloway’s Boiler Works, 226 Howarth’s Cotton Mills, 226
Charter of In(;orporation granted, 693
Iron and Steel Works of G. Fischer, at Schaffhausen, 366
Iron Supplies, United States, 466 irrigation, South African, 637
Italian Cruiser “ Garibaldi,” 327. See LETTERS. 369
Italian Cruisers “Dogali” and “Piemonte” (Elswick), 156
“ Ivernia,” Cunard Liner, 368

Japan and America, 702 Japan Coal Mines, '767 Japan, Commercial Museum inTokio, £03 Japan Cotton-Spinning Industry, 569
Japan, Engineering Projects in Tokio, 182 Japan, Foreign Trade, 399
Japan, New Treaties, 179 Japan, Notes from (Docks, &c.), 42, 336, 767 Japan Railway Contracts, 241
Japan and the Rest of the World, 241 Japan, Shipping, 149
Japanese Battleship “ Hatsuse ’’(Elswick), 101 Japanese Battleship “ Shikishima ” (Elswick), 468, 494 ’
Japanese Cruisers (Elswick), 101
Japanese Cruisers (Vulcan Company), 163 Japanese Cruiser “ Yoshino” (Elswick), 156 Japanese Finance, 467
Japanese and Korean Railways, 276. See 832 Japanese Views on the Anglo-Russian Agreement, 51
Jennings, Mr. F. W., on Working Stress of Materials in Locomotives, 612
Jones, Mr. Hope, on Electric Time Service, 800 Jungfrau Railway, 293, 401
Jura Belli, 498

“ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse ” Performances, 2
Kanderwerk (Motor Company), 365. See Erratum, 402
Kathode Stream Particles Smaller than Atoms, 447
Keene’s Water-Tube Boiler, 202
Kent, Mr. Win., on United States Competition, 413
Kermode’s Apparatus for Burning Li/piid Fuel, 629. See LETTER, 657
Keyhain Engineering College, 116, 216, 136, 177. See LETTERS, 403
Keyham Engineering Works, 116, 186
“ Kildonan Castle,” Troopship, 568, 625

Launching H.M. Battleship “Ocean,” 107, 115 Launching Ships’ Boats, 749
Launching, Torpedo-Tubes, 261, 287, 386
Law as to Naval Warfare (Jura Belli), 498 Law as to Picketing, 467
Law as to Selling Patent Rights, 533
Law as to Trade Libels, 566
Laws as to War, 498
Lean’s Royal Navy List, 510
Legal. See Limited Liability Companies' Amendment Act^ Workmen's Compensation Act^ Picketiny^ Jura Belli, Patentees' Be- stricted Licences, Trade Libels
Legislative Procedure, Scotch Private Bill, 301 Lenses, Cylindrical, 807
Lenses, Exact Formulae for, 807
Letters to the Editors, 22, 54, 86, 120, 152, 173, 242, 276, 306, 338, 369, 403, 434, 468, 503, 537, 570, 604, 610, 638, 657, 687, 725, 756, 801, 839 Lewiston, Brunswick, and Ba*h-street Electric Railway (Westinghouse), 197
Libels, Trade, 566
Library, Congressional, Washington, 106
Lifting Power of Air Propellers, 421, 439. See LETTERS, 468, 504, 538, 571, 606
Lifts, Passenger, 839
Lifts, &c., The Insurance of, 639
Light, Action upon Metallic Silver, 624
Light Radiation in a Magnetic Field, 448 Light Railway Schemes in Parliament, 697, 779 Lighthouses, English Channel, 418
Lighting, &c., of Highest Office Building, 352 Lighting Installation, Allegheny County (Westinghouse Company), 585
Lighting Plant. See Electric Generators
Lighting Plant, Refuse Destructors and, 843 Lightning Arrester, Wurts’ (Westinghouse Company), 70
Lightning, The Dark Flash, 696
Lightning, Globular, 335 !
Lightning Strokes, Multiple, 173
Lillie Evaporator (McOnie, Harvey, and Co.), 324
Limited Liability Company’s Amendment Act, 17 Linotype Works, Manchester, 85
Liquefaction of Hydrogen, 523
Liquefied Carbonic Acid, Manufacture of, 505 Liquid Air as a Blasting Agent, 304
Liquid Fuel, Kermode’s Apparatus for Burning 629. See LETTER, 657
Literature, 166,193, 316, 382, 615, 617, 745, 777 Liverpool-Street Station, 423
Liverpool, Trials of Motor Vehicles, 148 Lloyd’s Return of Ship Losses, 119, 273, 402, 669 Lloyd’s Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 432
Loads on Bridges, 228 Locomotive, A Year’s Work of a, 432
Locomotive Bogies, 120
Locomotive with Corrugated Furnace, Vanderbilt, 343. See LETTERS, 404, 503, 538
Locomotive Engineering, A Manual of, 317. See LETTER, 369, 'Worsdell Locomotives
Locomotive Erection in France, Rapid, 278 Locomotive, The Evolution of the Steam, 745 Locomotive Express, Passenger, Great Central Railway, 405
Locomotive, Illinois Central Railroad (Brooks), 756
Locomotive Life Guards, 688
Locomotive, Most Powerful, in the World, 756 Locomotive for the Southern Railway of France, 592
Locomotive Speed, Euston-Crewe Fast Run, 21
Locomotive Superintendents on Indian Rail- waj’s, 174
Locomotive, United States, for Midland Railway (Baldwin), 11
Locomotive, Six-Wheeled, Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburg (Brooks), 325
Locomotive, Four-Wheeled Coupled Express, for Vandalia Railway (Schenectady), 573
Locomotives, Working Stress of Materials in, 612
Locomotive Works at Horwich, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 223
Locomotive Works, Swiss, 367
Locomotive Works, Vulcan, Stettin, 356
Locomotives, British v. United States, 55
Locomotives, Worsdell Compound, 369
Loewe and Co., Ludw., Berlin, 380, 414, 450, 525. See LETTER, 605
London County Council Water Bill, 779
London, Electric Tramways in, 213, 699 London and North - Western Railway Profile, Euston-Crewe, 21
London and South-Western Railway, Bridges, Removing, 561
London Sewage, Bacteriological Treatment, 462, 521. See 685, 756, 757, 802
London Street Traffic, 636
London Water Supply, 316, 779 Long-Distance Transmission at Hartford (>V estinghouse Company), 69 .
Longridge, Captain C. C., on Dredging for Gold, 34, 129
Longridge, Mr. M., on Engine Defects, 397 Lowest Tender, The, 531
Ludw. Loewe and Co., 380, 414, 450, 525, 605
Luminous Rings Rotating about Magnetic Lines of Force, 447

MacPhail, Mr. W. M., and Mr, T. T. Irving, on Holding Power of Wood Screws, 441
Machine Casting for the Blast-Furnace, 210, 24.5
Machine-Tool Works of Ludw. Loewe, and Co., 380, 414, 450, 525. See LETTER, 605

Machine Tools:

Armour-Plate Planing Machine (Niles Tool Works), 457
Automatic Screw Machine (Hartford), 649
Automatic Screw Machine (Mr. A. Herbert, Limited, Coventry), 595
Automatic Screw Machine (Wolseley S.S. Machine Company), 649
Box-Nailing Machine (Ductor Company, Manchester), 326
Brass Finishers’ Lathe (Britannia Company), 837 . . ,,
Chain Mortising Machine (New Britain Machine Company, Connecticut), 44
Chucking Machine (Pratt and Whitney), 649
Drilling Machine, Four-Spindle (D. Fraser and Sons, Arbroath), 326
Duplex Lathe, Heavy (Hulse and Co., Limited, Manchester), 526
Lathe Chuck, 8-In. Automatic (C. Taylor, Birmingham), 339
Lathe, Chucking Capstan (A. Herbert, Limited, Coventry), 679
Lathe, Electrically Driven (Greenwood and Batley), 677
Lathe, Hexagon Turret (A. Herbert, Limited,
i Coventry), 679. See LETTERS, 726, 802
Lathe, 4-In. Tool Room (Mr. W. T. Astbury, Grantham), 279
Milling Machine (A. Herbert, Limited), Coventry), 679 .
Milling Machine, Electrically Driven Vertical Profile (Greenwood and Batley’s), 677
Multiple Drilling Machine (Hill, Clarke, and Co., Boston), 625
Plate-Edge Planing Machine (Mr. George Addy, Sheffield), 112
Shearing Machine (Messrs. Th. Schultz and L. Goebel), 790
Turret Lathe and Opening Die (Jones and Lamson Company, Springfield, Vermont), 392
Universal Slotting, Drilling, and Milling chine (Russian), 691
Machine Tools at the National Show, 677
Machine Tools at the Stanley Show, 649
Machine Tools, United States v. British. America)i Competition
Machines, Similar Structures and, 476, 511, See LETTERS, 571
Machinery Arrangements of Warships, 749
Machinery Defects, 397
Machinery, Rating of, 22
Machinery and Workmen’s Attitude, 22.
also American Competition
Mauritius, Seismology in, 490. See 488
Maw’s Screw Reversing Gear for Locomotives, 593 Mayston, Mr. Robert, on “ Machinery of H.M.S.
“ Proserpine ” and “ Psyche,” and Education of Naval Engineers, 116, 216. See 136, 177. See LETTERS, Engineenng Education
Mechanical Appliances at Extension of Keyham Works, 116,127
Mechanical Appliances in United States v. Britain. See American Competition
Mechanical Congress, International, 82 Mechanical Engineers, Openings in China, 680, 705, 796. See LETTERS

Mechanical Engineers, American Society of 7, 38, 68, 105, 137, 169

Washington Meeting :
Committee’s Report, 7
Rules for Boiler Tests, 7
Standards for Direct - Connected Generating
Sets, by Mr. J. B. Stanwood, 9
Boiler and Furnace Efficiency, by Mr. R. S. Hale and Mr. W. B. Russell, 38
The Test of a Steam Separator, by Mr. F. L. Emery, 38
Investigations of Boiler Explosions, by Mr.
G. C. Henning, 38
Relation between the Initial Tension and Power Transmitted by a Belt, by Mr. F. L. Emery, 39
Experiences with Deep-Well Pump-Rods, by Professor G. W. Bissell, 39
Pipe Flanges and their Bolts, by Mr. A. F. Nagle, 68
The Manufacture of Car Wheels, by Mr. George
R. Henderson, 69
Equipment of Tall Office Buildings in New- York City, by Mr. R. P. Bolton, 69
Rolling Mill Flywheels, by Mr. John Fritz, 105
Excursions, 6
Congressional Library, Washington, 106
The Ship Model Tank, 137
Power Plant of Columbia University, by Mr.
E. A. Darling, 169
Central Heating Plant of the University of Madison-Wisconsin, by Professor Storm Bull, 169
Plunger Elevator, by Professor G. J. Alden, 169
The Allen Valve for Locomotives, by Mr. C. H. Quereau, 170
A New System of Valves for Steam Engines, Air Engines, and Compressors, by Mr. F. W. Gordon, 170
Experiments on Various Types of Fire Hydrants, by Mr. Charles L. Newcombe, 170
Presidential Address on Engineering in the United States Navy, by Rear-Admiral G. W. Melville, 738, 772
Colours of Heated Steel Corresponding to Different Degrees of Temperature, by Maunsell White and F. W. Taylor, 843
Mechanical Eiigiueer.s Institution of:

115, 136, 554, 680, 744

Plymouth Meeting, 115, 136, 554
The South Devon Atmospheric Railway, preceded by certain Remarks on the Transmission of Energy by a Partially Rarefied Atmosphere, by Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., 115, 246, 280. See LETTER, 306
The Launching of a Battleship, by Mr. H. R. Champness, 107,115
Railway Viaducts in Cornwall, Old and New, by Mr. T. H. Gibbons, 116, 407
The Mechanical Appliances Employed in the Construction of the Keyham Dockyard Extension Works, by Mr. Whately Eliot, 116, 127
The Machinery of H.M.S. “ Proserpine ” and H.M S. “ Psyche,” as Illustrative of the Work done at Keyham, Particularly with Reference to the Practical Training of Engineer Students, by Mr. Robert Mayston, R.N.,

116, 216. See 136,177. See LETTERS, Engi- necrhig Education

Outlet Valves at the Burrator Reservoir of the Plymouth Water Works, by Mr. Edward Sandeman, Member, Borough Water Engineer, 118
Refuse Disposal, and the Results obtained from Six Months’ Working of the Refu.se Destructor at Torquay, b.v Mr. Henry A. Garrett, 136, 215. See LETTBR.S
Votes of Thanks, 136
Excursions, 116, 136,137
Devonport Dockyard, 116, 136 Presentation of Freedom of Devonport to
Sir William White, 116
The Dinner, 116
Keyham Extension Works, 136 Royal Naval Engineering College, 136 Plymouth Water Works, 136 Devon Great Consuls Mines, 136
Incrustation of Pipes at Torquay Waterworks, by Mr. William Ingham, 554, 575
Graduates’ fleeting, 555, 627, 794
Opening for Mechanical Engineers in China, by Lord Charles Beresford, 680, 705. See 796 and LETTERS
A Continuous Mean Pressure Indicator, by Professor William Ripper, 744, 771, 804 Mechanical Engineers, Openings in China, 680, 705, 796. See LETTERS
Mechanical Stokers for Ships, 568
Mechanical and Thermal Treatment of Steel, 213
Melville, Rear-Admiral G. W., on Engineering in the United States Navy, 738, 7?2
Melville, Rear-Admiral, on the Modern Warship, 707
Melville, Rear-Admiral, on Triple-Screw Ships, 150. See 610
Melville, AdmiralG. W’., on Water-Tube Boilers, 715
Merchant Shipping, British, 532
Mercury Vapour Spectrally Sensitive in Hydrogen, 448
Metals, Crvstalline Structure of, 474
Metal Price Diagrams, 23, 154, 808,440, 572, 736, 836
Metallurgy, Electro-, 415
Metcalfe, Mr. Wm., on United States Competition, 617
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 491 Meteorological Photography, 491
Meteorological Society, Royal: 640, 789
Diurnal Variations of the Barometer British Isles, by Mr. R. H. Curtis, 640
Hot Weather Observations, monds, 640
The Climatic Conditions
Propagation and Spread of Plague, by Mr. Baldwin Latham, 789
Remarkable Dust Haze which was Experienced at TenerilTe, Canary Islands, on February 16 to 19, 1898, by Dr. R. H. Scott, 789 Meteorology, Kites Exploring the Air, 490 j
Meteorology, Theory of the Rainbow, 588 Metropolitan. See London
Microscopy and Iron Diffusion, 248, 311 Microscopy and Metals, 474
Microscopy and Steel, 211
Midland Railway, United States Locomotives (Baldwin), 11
Military Bridges, 618, 745
Military Service, Compulsory, 759
Miller, Mr. J. W., on Pig-Iron Fractures and
Foundry Practice, 375
Milling, Drilling, and Slotting Machine, Universal (Russian), 691
Milling Machine (A. Herbert’s, Limited, Coventry), 679
Milling Machine, Electrically Driven Vertical Profile (Greenwood and Batley’s), 677
Milling Machine at National Show (Herbert’s), 677
Milling Machines at the Stanley Show, 649
Milling Tools. See Ludw. Loewe and Co.'s Works
Mine, An Ancient Gold, 180
Mine Surveying, A Treatise on, 745 Mineral Waters, Hot, 777
Minerals of United States, 180, 535 Mines, Devon Great Consols, 136
Mines and Metallurgical Building, Paris Exhibition, 551
Mining in China, 680, 706, 796. See Letters, China Openings for Engineers
Mining, Copper Deposits in Vancouver, 643
Minings Engineers, Aiiicricaii Institute of:
The Cost of Making Iron and Steel in the United States (Presidential Address) by Charles Kirchoff, 27
The Copper Deposits of Vancouver Island, by Mr. W. M. Brewer, 643
Mining Industry in Russia, 466 Mining Plans, Natural Scales for, 277 Mining and Railway Progress, Canadian, 499 Mining in Sweden, 538
Mining in the Transvaal, 368
Mining in United States, 535
Miscellanea, 15, 47, 77, 111, 145,175, 205, 235, 269, £99, 329, 361, 395, 435, 459, 504, 529, 563, 608, 627, 661, 693, 734, 766, 793, 833
Moberley, Mr. C. H., on Russian Waterways, 33, 257
Model Tank, Ship, at Washington, 137
Model Tramway Power Station (Westinghouse Company), 483
Modern Warship, The, 707, 738, 772
Mont Blanc, Wireless Telegraphy on, 764
Moral Principles, Trade Unionists’, 307
Morison, Mr. D. B., on Manufacture of Propeller Shafts, 264
Mortars and Howitzers for Naval Service (Schneider’s), 227
Mortising Machine, Chain (New Britain Com-: pany, Connecticut), 44 i
Motor Cars and Cycles at the Stanley Show, 667 ' Motor Company’s Works at Baden (Kanderwerk), , 365. See Erratum, 402
Motor Vehicles. See Cars, Motor
Motors for Cars. See Automobile Exhibition i Mounting for Guns. See Schneider
Mountings, Elswick Naval Gun, 82
Mountings for Quick-Firing Guns (Schneider’s), ‘ 9, 36, 102, 167, 194
Mountings in Turrets, Schneider-Canet Naval, ' 455, 485, 516, 653, 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS, Turrets
Mounts for Naval Mortars and Howitzers, Schneider’s, 227
Multiple Drilling Machine (Hill, Clarke, and Co., Boston), 625
Multiple Lightning Strokes, 173
Municipal Electricity Works and the Electric
Tramways at Zurich, 365. See Errata, 402 Municipal Ownership in United States, 209 Municipal Tenders, 531
Munro’s Engine Counter, 607 Museum, Commercial, in Tokio, 303 Museum at Zurich, National, 400
Naphthalene, Double Refraction of, 808 Napier’s Windlass and Capstan Gear, R.M.S. “ Oceanic,” 436
National Cycle Show, 677, 699 National Museum of Zurich, 400
National Physical Laboratory, 208
Nature’s Contribution to American Industries 180, 535
Naval Annual, 1899,166
Naval Arcliitccts, Aiiiericaii JSociely of: 714, 749, 784, 819
President’s Address, by Mr. Clement A. Griscom, 714
Coaling Vessels at Sea, by Mr. Spencer Miller, 714
Causes for the Adoption of Water-Tube Boilers in the United States Navy, by Rear-Admiral George W. Melville, 715
Improved Appliances for Launching Ships’ Boats, by John Hyslop, 749
The Increased Complications in Warships and how Simpler Arrangements might be Adopted, by George W. Dickie, 749
Beam Formula^ Applied to a Vertically Stiffened Bulkhead with Some Results, by Mr. H. F. Norton, 753
Noteson Sheathing of U.S.S. “Chesapeake,”by Naval Constructor Lloyd Bankson, 753
System of Work in a Great Lake Shipyard, by W. J. Babcock, 784 .
Overhead Cranes, Staging, and Riveter Carrying Appliances in the Shipyard, by James Dickie, 785 ,
Designs for the Denver Class of Protected Cruisers, by Chief Constructor P. Hichborn, 819
Novelties in Ship Fittings, by Assistant Naval Constructor R. M. Watt, 821
Trial Speeds of the U.S.S. “Manning, by 1 ro- fessor C. H Peabody, 822 ,
Tactical Considerations Involved in Torpedo- Boat Design. Lieutenant A. P. Niblack, 823
The Action of the Rudder, by Professor W. I. Durand, 823
Office Bearers 323

Naval Arcliltecture liistHulion «! : 23, 82, 95

Portable Pneumatic Riveters for Shipbuilding, by Mr. W. J. Babcock, 89
Triple-Screw Ship, by Admiral Melville, 150 Netvcdiitle Meeting, 23, 82, 95
The Rise and Progress of Naval Artillery, by Sir Andrew Noble, 82
The Distribution of Pressure over the Bottom of a Ship in Dry Dock and over the Dock Blocks, by Dr. Francis Elgar, 83, 102, 125. See 153 , „
A New Method of Forced Draught by Mr. Nelson Foley, 83, 89
Elswick Cruisers, by Colonel Watts, 83, 156. See 147
On the Boiler Arrangements of Certain Recent Cruisers, bv Mr. F. T. Marshall, 95, 185
Some Experiments having Reference to the Durability of Water-Tube Boilers, by Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 95, 140
Large Atlantic Cargo Steamers, by Mr. G. B. Hunter, 98, 200
Experiments on Thrust-Block Friction, by Mr. F. von Kodolitsch, 99, 122
Excursions and Enterlainnients, 100 Elswick and Cruisers, 100 River Excursions, 101
Visit to Sunderland, 101

Naval Architecture Problems, 340, 348, 373
Naval Artillery, 82. See also Schneider
Naval Construction, Progress, by Sir William White, 340, 318,373
Naval Engine Room Staff, 79
Naval Engineering Students’ Education, 116, 136, 177, 216, 403
Naval Engineers, 55, 70, 83, 174, 242, 276, 306, 605, 687, 725, 757, 801
Naval Engineers Students’ Education, 116, 13b 177, 216
Naval Engineers, United States, 829
Naval Guns, Vickers’, 114
Naval Motors and Howitzers, Schneider’s, 227
Naval Mounts for Quick-Firing Guns, Schnei- , der’s, 9, 36, 102, 167, 194
Naval Quick-Firing Guns, Mounts for French Ships, 9, 36, 102, 167, 194
Naval Turrets, Schneider-Canet, 455, 485, 516, 653, 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS, 572, 605
Naval War, Santiago de Cuba, 65
Naval Warfare, Strategy and Tactics, 239 Navigation on Chinese Rivers, 267
Navigation Congress, 228 ?
Navy Boilers 113, 431, 715. See 798, 840 i
Navy Engineering, United States, 715, 738, 772 |
Navy Non-Combatants (?), 695
Nav}’ and the Transvaal War, 760
Navj’ and Water-Tube Boilers, 113, 431, 715, 798, 840
New England Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, 681
New Jersey, People’s Light and Power Company’s Station (Westinghouse Company), 133. See 182
New York Electric Tramways, 402
New York Tall Buildings, Equipment, 69, 352
New Zealand Railways, 533
Newcastle, Picketing at, 467
Newchwang, Notes from, 315
Nickel Steel for Water-Tube Boilers, 95, 140 Niclausse Water-Tube Boiler, 384
Nitrates in the Biolysis of Sewage, Place of, 521 Non-Combatants (?) in the Royal Navy, 605 Non-Flammable Wood for Warships, 349 Nordberg Pumping Engine, Test of a, 150 North Bridge overWaverley Station, Edinburgh, 423, 491
Northern Division, Great Central Railway, 656 Northern of France Railway, 43
Norway Harbour at Ofoten, 303 Norwegian Battleships (Elswick), 101
Notes from Cle^'eland and the Northern Counties, 14, 46, 76, 120, 145, 182, 204, 234, 268, 298, : 328, 370, 394, 427, 458, 495, 528, 562, 597, 631, 660, 692, 735, 765, 792, 827
Notes from the North, 13, 46, 76, 119, 144, 182, 204, 234, 268, 298, 328, 369, 394, 426, 458, 494, 528, 562, 596, 630, 660, 692, 734, 765, 791, 826
Notes on Sheathing of United States Steamer “Chesapeake,” 753
Notes from the South-West, 14, 47, 76, 120, 145, 182, 205, 234, 268, 298, 328, 370, 394, 427, 458, 495, 528, 562, 597, 631, 660, 692, 735, 765, 792, 827
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 46, 76, 119, 144, 181, 204, 233, 268, 298, 328, 370, 394, 427, 458, 495, 528, 562, 597, 630, 660, 692, 735, 765, 792, 827
Novelties in Ship Fittings, 821

Obituary: (Moved to separate index)

Observatories and Stray Electrical Currents, 729
“Ocean,” Launch of H.M.S., 107, 115
“ Ocean,” Steam Trials of H.M.S, 152, 181
“ Oceanic,” R.M.S. 274. See 436
“Oceanic’s” Windlass and Capstan Gear (Napier’s), 436
Oerlikon Electric Works (Dowson Gas), 365
Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik, 482
Ofoten Harbour, Norway, 303
“ O’Higgins,” Chilian Cruiser (Elswick), 156
Oil, Borneo Crude, 657
Oil Engines. See Engines
Oil Fuel, Kermode’s Apparatus for Burning, 629. See LETTERS, 657
Opening for Mechanical Engineers in China 680, 703, 796. See LETTERS
Oratory, Engineers’, 429
Ordnance. See Guns, and Schneider
Ore Dust, Iron, Use of, 209, 337
Ore Separators, Magnetic, 470, 508, 210
Orloff Process of Colour Printing, 119
Ortman’s Evaporator, 542
“ Ortona,” New Australian Liner, 669 Otaru Harbour Works, 768
Ovens, Simon-Carves Coke, 224
Overhead Cranes, Staging and Rivetcr Carrying Appliances in the Shipyard, 785. See 98, 200
Oxford Canal Viaduct, Great Central Railway, 621
Oxidation in the Pressure of Iron : A Hexose, 521

Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s S.S. “ Ortona,” 669
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Paris Automobile Exhibition, 81, 131
Paris Bridge, Alexander HL, 39, 72, 387

Paris Exhibition: 39, 52, 72, 82, 260, 495, 551, 634, 761, 831

Alexander III. Bridge, 39, 72, 387
Congresses, &c., 82, 495
Great Britain at the Paris Exhibition, 634
International Mechanical Congress, 82
Mines and Metallurgical Building, 551
Progress of Building Operations, 52, 761, 831
Progress at the Champs de Mars, 761 Textile Building, 260

Parliament and Water-Tube Boilers, 113, 431, 798, 800, 840. See 715, 738, 772
Parliamentary Private Bill Procedure, Scotch, 301
Parliamentary Schemes, 664, 697, 732, 779
Parole Water-Tube Boiler (Thom’s), 73
Parshall, Mr. IL F., on Electric Generators and Convertors. See Electric Generators
Parsons Steam Turbine Torpedo Craft, 191, 221, 255, 373, 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS
Parsons Turbine, 191, 221, 255, 373, 374, 383, 601, See LETTERS
Parsons, Mr. C. IL, on Fast Channel Steamer, i 373, 383
Passenger Lifts, 839
Passenger Locomotives. See Locomotives Passengers on Railways, 363. See LETTER 435
Patent Record, 31, 61, 93, 129, 160, 189, 219, 263, 283, 313, 345, 377, 411, 443, 477, 513, 547, 581, 615, 645, 675, 711, 741, 775, 811, 845
Patentees’ Restricted Licenses, 533
Peebles, Mr. D. Bruce, Death of, 789
People’s Light and Power Company’s Station,
New Jersey (Westinghouse), 133. See 182
Pernter, Professor, on the Rainbow, 588 Persia, Russia and British Trade in, 432 Persian Gulf Railway, 800
Personnel Question in the United States Navy, 738, 772, 829
Perth Station, Collision, 843
Petroleum Engines. See Engines Phillips’ Water-Tube Boiler, 233 Photography, Meteorological, 491 Photography, Micro-. See Microscopy Physical and Chemical Calculations, 382, 524.
See LETTERS
Physical Laboratory, National, 208 Physical Science, Progress of, 446
Physical Society :

569,644,704, 807

Magnetic Properties of Alloys of Iron and Aluminium, by Dr. S.W. Richardson, 569
Electric and Magnetic Properties of Alloys of Steel and Aluminium, by Pro. Barrett, 569
Contact Electricity, by Mr. F. S. Spiers, 644
On the Conductivities of Certain Heterogeneous Media for a Steady Flux having a Potential by Dr. C. H. Lees, 704
On the Thermal Conductivities of Mixtures and their Constituents, by Dr. Lees, 705
On Obliquely Crossed Cylindrical Lenses, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 807
Exact Formulaj for Lenses, by Mr. T. H. : Blakesley, 807
Friction Dynamometer, Professor Dalby’s, 807
On an Organic Compound of Great Double Refraction, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 808 Physics, A History of, 193 Picketing at Newcastle, 467
Piecework and Profit-Sharing, 497 Piecework, Premium System of, 49
Piers, Private Bills for, 780
Pig-Iron Casting Machine, 210, 245
Pig Iron, Deceptive Fracture of, 543. See 375 Pig-Iron Fractures and their Value in Foundry
Practice, 213, 375
Pilcher, Mr. Percy S. (Death from Flying Machine Experiments), 433
Pile-Driving Test, 826
Pilot Yacht, “Commander Cawley,” Humber
S.S.,826
I LETTERS, Cooper's Ilill T. i m v
Pressure of Ships on Graving Dock Blocks, 83, 102, 125. See 153
Prevention of Fire, 480, 503, /95 Printing, Colour, Orloff Process of, 119 Private Bill Legislation, 664, 697, 732, 779 Private Bill Legislative Procedure, Scotch, 301 Professions for Boys, and How to Enter Them, by M. L. Pechell and J. J. Nolan, 515 Profit-Sharing, 497. See 49 . .
Progress of Building Operations, Pans Exhibition, 52, 761, 831 .
Progressive Speed Trials of United States Ship “ Manning,” 822
Projectile-Making Machine (Herbert), 595 Projectiles, Hadfield, 603
Projector and Locator, Sound, 507 Propeller Shafts, Manufacture of, 264 .
Propellers, Air, 421, 439. See LETTERS, Air 1 ro- pellers
Propellers, Cavitation of. See LETTERS, Cavitation, d:c.
Propellei-s, Triple, for Warships, 150, 610 Proportions of Similar Structures and Machines, 475, 511, 515. See LETTER, 571
“ Proserpine ” and “ Psyche,” Engines of H.M.SS. (Keyham), 116, 216. See 136, 177 Protection, Foreshore, 208, 419, 503, 538 Protector, Service’s Gauge-Glass, 25 Publications, Engineering, 307 Pullman Workers’ Nationality, 637
Pump, Boiler Feed, Compound Direct-Acting (Hall, Peterborough), 690
Pump-Rods, Deep-Well, 39
Pumping Dredger (Bates’ System), 691, 754, 823 Pumping Engine, Test of a Nordberg, 150 Pyrometry and Furnace Gas Analysis, 702
Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Quartz and Calcite, Temperature and Dispersion of 491
Queen’s Yacht, Non-Flammable Wood for, 349 Quick-Firing Gun Mounts. See Schneider
Radiation, Solar, 488
Radiation from a Source of Light in a Magnetic Field, 448
Rail Contracts, Japan, 241 Rail Exports British, 53 Railway Accidents. Sec Accidents Railway, Atmospheric, 115, 246, 280, 306, Railway Brake Failure at Holyhead, 277, 307 Railway Bridge over the Indus, 111 Railway Bridges. See Bridges Railway Bridges, Removing, 561
Railway Bridges, Temi)orary Restoration of 648, 745
Railway Building at Newchwang, 315 Railway Car Wheels, Manufacture, 69 Railway Carriages, Great Central, 44, 140, 231 Railway Club, 504
Railway Construction in England, 336. See 664, 697, 779
Railway, Electric, Generating Plant, City and South London, 335. See Ei ratum, 369
Railway, Electric, Lewiston, Brunswick, and Bath-street (Westinghouse Company), 197
Railway, Electrical Express, 639 Railway Excursion, Caledonian, 335 Railway, Jungfrau, 293, 401 Railway, Korean, 276, 832
Railway, Lancashire, and East Coast, 747, 815 Railways, Light, Projected, 779
Railway, Manchurian, 273
Railway and Mining, Canadian, 499 Railway Mobolisation, A Great, 335 Railway, Northern of France, 43 Railway Passengei’s, 363. See LETTER, 435 Railway Profits, United Kingdom, 363 Railway Schemes in Parliament, 664, 697, 779. See 336
Railway Signalling without Contact, 415 Railway Station, Waverley, Edinburgh, 423, 491 Railway Stations, Large, Compared, 423 Railway, Tests of an Electric Overhead, 541 Railway, Uganda, 161
Railway Viaducts in Cornwall, 116, 407
Railway Wagon Buffer, Ramsden’s, 607 Railway Wagon Coupler, Brockelbank, 641 Railway Wagon Coupling and Pole, Hill’s, 371 Railway, Waterloo and City, 638 Railways. See also Great Central Railways in Asia Minor, 800 Railways, Atmospheric, 115, 246, 280.
LETTER, 306 Railways, Australasian, 241 Railways in Ceylon, 669 Railways in China, 680, 705, 796 Railways, Chinese Imperial, 500 Railways, Cost of (Apportionment), 599 Railways, Electric. See Electrical Engineers, Institution of
Railways, Indian, 27 Railways, Korean, Japanese and, 276, 832 Railways, New Zealand, 533 Railways, Siberian, 20, 43, 276,403, 568 Railways, South Australian, 275 Rainbow, Theory of the, 588 Ramsden’s Wagon Buffer, 607 Rating of Machinery, Exemption Bill, 23 Raworth, Mr. John S., on Electrical Power Distribution, 578
Recherche Captage et Amenagement des Sources Thermo-Minerales, 777
Records, Engineering, 307
Reform of Chemical and Physical Calculations, 382. See LETTERS, 468, 504
Refraction, Body Showing Great Double, 808 Refuse Destructors and Lighting Plant, 843 Refuse Disposal, 136, 215, 243,843. See LETTERS, 243
Regulator, Westinghouse, 71 Relation between the Initial Tension Power
Transmitted by a Belt, 39 Removing Railway Bridges, 561 Restoration of Railway Bridges, Temporary, 648, 745
Reversing Gear for Locomotives, Screw, 593 Rheinfelden Power Transmission, 320, 584 Rings in Germany, 178
Rings in Trade, 178, 414, 430, 464, 466, 634, z33, 760 _
Ripper, Professor, on Continuous Mean Pressure Indicator, 744, 771, 804
River Bridge over the Indus, 111 River Improvements in Japan, 182 River Pollution, 291 River Pollution in Japan, 182 River Regulations in China, 367 River Shallows, Dredging Channels Across, 303 Rivers in Russia, 33, 257, 550, 619. See 303 Riveters, Portable Pneumatic, in Shipbuilding, 89 Roberts’ Collapsible Centring, 595 Robinson Shaft Governor, 707 Rods, Deep-Well Pump, 39 Roller Bearing Thrust-Block, 99,122 Rolling Mill Flywheels, 105 Rolling Mill Reversing Engines, 171 Rolling Stock of Great Central Railway, 44, 140, 231
Romney Marsh Sea Groynes, 419, 208, See LETTERS, Sea Protection, 503, 538
Roof Repairs at Crystal Palace, 603 Roof of Workshops. See Luiw. Lee we and Co. Roofs, Paris Exhibition, 261
Rotary Converters, 389, 450, 517, 630, 721, /83 Rotary Converter, 400-Kilowatt Westinghouse, 71 783
Rotary Transformers (Westinghouse Company), 6 Royal Engineers and Cooper’s Hill, 272. See LETTERS, Cooper's HUI
Royal Naval Engineering College, 116, 136, 1/7, 216. See 403
Royal Yacht, Non-Flammable Wood for, 349 Rugby Viaduct, Great Central Railway, 621 Rules for Boiler Tests, 7
Russia-Anglian Agreement, Japanese Views on, 51
Russia, Hydraulic Dredger (Bates System), 691, 754, 823
Russia Mining Industry, 466
Russian and British Trade in Persia, 432 Russian Industries, The Growth of, 733 Russian Iron Industry, New Centre, 53 Russian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer with Turbine (Elswick), 101
Russian Triple-Screw Ships, 610. See 150 Russian Waterways, 33, 257, 550, 619. See 303 RUti, Silk Weaving at, 400
Saccharification of Starch by Malt Diastase, 521 Salt-Water Floods on Soil, Effects of, 521 San Gabriel Electric Works (Westinghouse Company), 781, 813
Sandeman, Mr. Edward, on Plymouth Water Works, 118,136
Sandy Shallows, Dredging Channels Across, 303 Santiago, Battle of, 65
Scales for Mining Plans, Natural, 277 Schaffhausen Electricity Works, 366 Schaffhausen Steel Works (Fischer), 366
Schneider’s Works at < reiisot:

9, 36, 102, 167, 194, 227, 261, 287, 455, 486, 516, 653, 685,718, 815. See LETTERS, 572, 605 Closcd-ln Turrets for Large Guns. See Turrets Electrically Worked Turret for Two 12-Centi- metre Guns, 653, 815

Howitzers and Mortars for Naval Service, 227 Mortars and Howitzers for Naval Service, 227 Mountings for Quick-Firing Guns, 9, 36,102,
Mountings in Turrets, Schneider-Canet Naval, 455, 485, 616,653, 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS, Turrets, 572, 605 .
Mounts for Naval Mortars and Howitzers, 227 Naval Mortars and Howitzers, 227
Naval Mounts for Quick-Firing Guns, 9, 36, 102,167,194
Quick-Firing Gun Mounts, 9, 36,102,167, 194 Schneider-Canet Naval Turrets, 455, 485, 516, 653, 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS, 572, 60.6 Strike at Creusot, 461, 600 Torpedo-Launching Tubes, 261, 287 Tubes, Torpedo-Launching, 261, 287 Turrets, Schneider-Oanet Naval, 455, 485, 516, 653. 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS, 572, 605 Schneider-Canet Naval Turret, 465, 485, 616, 653, 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS, 572, 605
I Schneider-Canet Quick-Firing Naval Guns and
I Mounts, 9, 36, 102, 167,194, 227
j Science and Art Examinations, 43
i Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, 524
I Scotch Private Bill Legislative Procedure, 301
Scraping Water Mains, 564, 575
Screw Engines. See Engines
Screw Machine, Automatic (A. Herbert, Limited, Coventry), 595
Screw Machine, Automatic (Hartford), 649
Screw Machine, Automatic (Wolseley S.S. chine Company), 649
Screw Reversing Gear, Locomotive, 693
Screw Threads, 352
i Screws, Triple, Ships’, 150, 610
I Screws, Wood, Holding Power of, 441
' Sea Groynes, Dymchurch, 208, 419. See LETTERS,
I Sea Protection, 603, 538
Sea Sound Projector and Locator, 507
Sea Waves, Deep, 491
j Seattle Power Transmission, 421
I Seismology, 488, 490
Self-Propelled Traffic. See also Cars, Motor
I Self-Propelled Traffic (Liverpool Tests), 148 Separators, Magnetic Ore, 470, 508, 510 Separators, Steam, 38 Service’s Gauge-Glass Protector, 25 Sewage, Bacteriological Treatment of, 23, 521, 695. See LETTERS
Sewage of Cities, 291.
Shipbuilding Appliance.s, American, 784. See 89, 98, 200, 292
Shipbuilding Boom, 50, 432
Shipbuilding in Germany, 1, 163, 285, 363
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, 784
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1899, 834
Shipbuilding Portable Pneumatic Riveters, 89
Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 432, 834
Shipbuilding, United States, 89, 714, 733, 784 Shipbuilding (Workman’s Compensation Case), 303, 308
Shipping Bounties, United States, 733 Shipping, British Merchant, 532 Shipping in Japan, 149
Shipwrecks and Losses, 119, 273, 402, 669
Shipyard Appliances, 89, 98, 200, 292, 784
Shipyard Gantry Cranes, 292. See 89, 98, 200, 785
Shipyard Staging and Cranes, 785
Shop and Establishment Charges, 59
Shoreditch Refuse Destructor and Electricity, 843
Siberian Progress, 668
Siberian Railway, 20, 43, 276, 403, 568 Signalling, Railway, without Contact, 415
Silk Weaving Works at RUti, 400
Silver, Action of Light upon, 524
Similar Structures and Machines, 475, 611, 545. See LETTERS, 571, 727
Simon-Carves Coke Ovens, 224
Simon, The Late Mr. Henry, 149
' Single-Phase Rotary Converters, 450
Six-Phase Rotary Converters, 517, 721, 783
Slide Valves, Andrews and Martin’s Balanced, 171. See LETTERS, 143, 277
Slotting, Drilling, and Milling Machine, Universal (Russian), fel
Smith, Mr. Oberlin, on American Competition, 549
Smith, Mr. T. Guildford, on American Competition, 677
Smithfield Club Show, 731
Snoqualmie Falls Electric Power Plant (Westinghouse Company), 421
Solar Radiation, 488
Solidification of Hydrogen, 623
Solution Theory of Iron, 212
Soudan Railway Bridge, 207
Soul Chemulpo Railway, 832
Soulanges Canal, 536
Sound Projector and Locator, Cowper-Coles, 507 South African Irrigation, 637
I South Australian Railways, 275
South Devon Atmospheric Railway, 115, 246, 280. See LETTERS, 306
South Metropolitan Gas Company Profit-Sharing, 497
Spanish-American War, 65
Spanish Warships in Action, 65
Specific Heat of Water, Variations in, 487
Specifications, Standard, 599
Specifications and the Lowest Tender, 631. See 599 Spectra, Absorption, and Chemical Constitution, 524
Spectral Sensiti\’eness of Mercurs^ Vapour in Hydrogen, 448
Spectroscopic Examination of Contrast Phenomena, 449
Speeches at Technical Institutions, 429
Speed in Steamers, Future, 340, 375. See 383
Speed Trials of United States Ship “ Manning.” 822
Springs, Thermal, 777
Squares, Table of, 688
Staging for Shipbuilding, 785. See 200
Standard Screw Threads, 352
Standard Specifications, 599
Standardising Electrical Plant, 9
Standards for Cast Iron, 251
Standards for Direct-Connected GeneratingSets, 9 Standards, Electrical, 487
Stanley Show, 649, 667
Stansstad Engelberg Electric Railway, 323
Starch Granules, Combined Action of Yeast and Diastase, 521
Starch, Saccharification by Malt Diastase, 521
Static Transformers and Rotary Converters, 517 Statically Indeterminate Structures, 688 Station, Railway, Waverley, Edinburgh, 423, Stations on the Lancashire and Derbyshire Railway, 747, 815
Steam Motor Cars, 22, 86, 120
Steam Navigation, 340, 373. See 383
Steam Pilot Yacht Commander Cawlev/' Humber, 826
Steam Pipe Expansion Gland, 510
Steam Pressure Indicator, Continuous, 744, 771, 804
Steam Raising, Cost of, 739, 762, 808. See Ena- turn, 793
Steam Road Vehicles (Thornycroft), 357, 418
Steam Separators, 38
Steam Trap, Geipel’s, 24
Steam Trials of Her Majesty’s Ships in 1899, 798. See 840
Steam Turbine (Parsons), 191, 221, 255. See 373. 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS
Steamer, Channel, with Parsons Turbine 373 374, 383, 601
Steamer “ h ernia,” Cunard Line, 368
Steamer “ Oceanic,” Royal Mail, 274. See 436 Steamer, S.S, “ Kildonan,” 568, 625
Steamer, S.S. “ Ortona,” 669
Steamer Thrust-Block, Roller Bearing, 122 Steamers, Large Atlantic Cargo, 98, 200 Steamship Lines to Hawaii, 304
Steamships, Early, 56
Steel Aluminium Alloys, Magnetic Properties, o69
Steel, Bessemer Process, Hot Blast in the, 58
Steel Colours at Varying Temperatures, 843
Steel Combination (United States), 733
Steel, Combined Blast-Furnace and Martin Working, 702
Steel Containing Copper, 800
Steel and Iron, Cost in United States, 27
Steel and Iron Manufacture, India, 201, 211
Steel and Microscopy, 211
Steel, Nickel, for Water-Tube Boilers, 95, 140 Steel, Thermal and Mechanical Treatment, 213 Steel Trade, History of Sheffield, 302
I Steering Gear for Autocars, Davis’s, 306,338, 369, 538
Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien Gesellschaft “ Vulcan,” 1, 163, 285, 353 ’
Stevens, Mr. E. A., on United States Competition, 347
Stokers, Mechanical, for Ships, 568
Stop-Valve, Hutcheson’s Automatic, 279
Strategy, Naval, 239
Strategy, Naval, at Santiago, 65
Stra5^ Electrical Currents and Stability of Structures, 729
Stream-Line Theory, Hele-Shaw- Experiments and, 152
Street Traffic in London, 636
Street Traffic and Motor Cars, 832 I
Stresses, in Materials for Locomotives, 612 Strike at Creusot, 461, 600
Structure of Metals, Crystalline, 474
Structures, Similar and Machines, 475, 511 545 See LETTERS, 571
Structures, Stability Effected by Electrolysis 729 ‘ J .
Structures, Statically Indeterminate, 688
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 124, 833 Submerged Torpedo Discharge (Elswick), 386 Submerged Torpedo-Launching Tubes (Schneider), 261, 287
Suez Canal, History, 383
Sugar Evaporator, Lillie (McOnie, Harvey, and Co.), 324
Sugar Machinery (Pott, Cassels, and Williamson), :
Sulzer Brotiiers’ Engine Works at Winterthur. 366. See AV?*afa, 402
Sunderland Fire, 480
Sun Spots and Temperature, 488
Supporting Ships in Dry Dock, 83, 102, 125. See 153
Surveying, A Treatise on Mine, 745
Sweden, Large Electric Power Transmission. 535, 603
Sweden, Mining in, 538
Sweden, Telephone in, 830
Swiss Electrical Engineering Works. See Elec- trical Engineers, Jnstitution
Swiss Locomotive Works, 367
Swiss Motor Car Works, Baden, 365
Swiss Railways. See Electrical Engineers^ Institution of
Switzerland Visit and Meetings of the Electrical Engineers, Institution of, 47,179, 293, 320, 365, 400, 482, 559. See Errata^ 402
Symbiotic Fermentation, 520
System of Work in a Great Lake Shipyard, 784
Table of Squares, 688
Tacoma Power Transmission, 421
Tactical Considerations Involved in Torpedo-
Boat Design, 823
Tactics, Naval, at Santiago, 65. See 239
Tall Buildings in New York, Eijuipment, 69, 352
Tank Ship Model at Washington, 137
Taylor, Mr. F. W., on Colours of Heated Steel, 843
Teaching Science in Elementary Schools, 524
Technical Discussions, 429
Technical Education, 499
Technical High School, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 536
Technical Institutions, Functions of, 663
Technical Institutions, Glasgow’s, 565
Technical School and Tests of Power Plant, 541 Telegraph Act, 1899, 363
Telegraph Companies, Cable, 124, 833
Telegraphy, Wireless, on Mont Blanc, 746 Telephone Legislation, 19, 363
Telephone in Sweden, 830
Telephonic Communication Bill, 19, 363
Temperature and Dispersion of Quartz and Calcite, 491
Temperature of Heated Steel, 843
Temperature of Sun Spots, 488
Tender, The Lowest, 531
Teneriffe, Haze at, 789
Test of a Nordberg Pumping Engine, 150
Test of a Steam Separator, 38
Tests of an Electric Railway Power Plant, 541
Textile Building, Paris Exhibition, 260
Textile Machinery Works, Platt’s, 266
Thames Water, Effects, on Boilers, 605
Thermal Conductivity of Mixtures, 704, 705
Thermal and Mechanical Treatment of Steel, 213
Thermal Springs, 777
Thermo-Electric Phenomena, 486
Thermometry, Platinum and Glass, 487
Thompson, Professor S. P., on Electrical Problems, 673, 709. See 663
Thom’s Water-Tube Boiler, 73
Thomson. Mr. John, on American Competition, 479
Thornycroft, Mr. J. I., on Steam Road Vehicles, 357, 418
Three-Phase Rotary Converters, 450
Thrust-Block, Roller Bearing, 99, 122
Thun-Bergdorf Electric Railway, 321
Thunder and Lightning, 696
Tin, The Fall in, 666
Tinplates, 503
Tobacco Industry in France, 240
Tokio, Commercial Museum in, 303
Tokio, Engineering Projects, 182
“Tokiwa,” Japanese Cruiser (Elswick), 156
Tools of United States v. British Workmen. See Amevican Cornpetition
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Torpedo-Boat Design, 373, 823
Torpedo Discharge Below Water (Elswick System), 386
Torpedo-Launching Tubes for Warships (Schnei- der-Canet System), 261, 287
Tor({uay Refuse Destructor, 136, 215. See
LETTERS
Torquay Water Works, Incrustation of Pipes, 554, 575
Traction, Electric. See Electric Traction
Traction Engines, 731
Trade Combinations, 760
Trade, Foreign, of Japan, 399
Trade Libels, Law as to, 566
Trade, Situation of, 50
Trade Statistics, 50, 432, 534, 535, 567, 569, 602, 666, 733, 834
Trades Union Congress, 332
Trades’ Unionists, Moral Principles, 307
Trades Unions in France, 271. See 461, 600 Trade, United States, 80
Train Speed, Euston-Crewe Fast Run, 21
Tramway Engines Contract, Glasgow, 238, 275. See LETTERS
Tramway and Lighting Station Combined, 63
Tramway, Municipal Ownership in United States, 209
Tramway, Plymouth Electric, 63
Tramway Power Station, Pittsburg (Westinghouse Company), 483
Tramway Results, Glasgow, 154
: Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 697, 779
Tramway Works, Zurich Electrical, 365. See Errata, 492
Tramways in London, Electric, 293, 779
Tramways, New York Electric, 492 Trans-Siberian Railway, 43
Transformers, 382
Transformers, Rotary (Westinghouse Company), 6
Transformers, Static, and Rotary Converters, 517
Transmission Dynamometer, 807
Transmission of Power, Long-Distance, 69, 421, 781, 813. See also Power Transmission
Transmission and Use of Electric Power. See Electrical Engineers, Institation of
Transport of Troops, 625. See 568
Transvaal Mining, 368
Transvaal War, Laws as to, 498
Trap, Geipel’s Steam, 24
Treatise on Mine Surveying, 745
Trestle Bridges, 648, 745
Trial Speeds of the United States Ship “ Manning,” 823
Trials of Elsw’ick Cruisers, 156
Trials of H.M.SS. “Hermes” and “ Highflver,”

10. See 183 ’

Trials of H.M.S. “ Ocean,” Steam, 152, 181
Trials of H.M.S. “Pegasus” and “ Pyramus (Palmer’s), 738
Trials of H.M.SS. “ Proserpine” and “ Psyche,’ 216
Tricycles. See Cycles
Triphase Electric Railway, Thun-Burgdorf, 324 See Errata^ 402
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines Triple-Screw Ships, 150, 610
Troopship, Indian (Boilers), 503. See LETTER, 571 Troopship, Largest, for South Africa, 568, 625 Trusts, 178, 414, 430, 464, 466, 634, 733, 760 Trusts in Germany, 178
Trusts, India-Rubber, 634
Trusts, New United States, 464
Trusts, United States, Industrial Commission on, 760 . . I
Tubes, Torpedo-Launching (Elswick), 386 i
Tubes, Torpedo, Launching (Schneider), 261, 287 Tunbridge Station Collision, 843
Tunnel, Catesby, Great Central Railway, 622 Tunnel for Transit of Mails, 367
Tunnelling, Waterloo and City Railway, 638 Turbine Marine Propulsion, 255, 373, 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS, Parsons,
Turbines, Steam (Parsons), 191, 221, 255, 373, 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS
Turret Lathe and Opening Die (Jones and Lam- son Company, Springfield, Vermonp, 392
Turrets, Schneider-Canet Naval, 455, 485, 572, 605, 653, 685, 718, 815. See LETTERS
Twin-Screw Engines. See Pngines
T^ypewriter, Elliott and Hatch, 592
United States, Cost of Making Iron and Steel, 27
United States Cruisers, “ Denver ” Class, 819
United States Cruisers “ Fourth of July” and “ Albany ” (Elswick), 101
United States Engineering (Historical), 195
United States, Europeans in, 637
Uniied States Falls Electric Plant, 431
United States, Forestry' in the, 832
United States Iron Supplies, 466
United States and Japan, 702
United States Locomotive for Midland Railwaj’ (Baldwin), 11. See also Loeomotives
United States Locomotives, 11, 55, 325, 343, 573, 756
United States Magnetic Observations, 490 United States Minerals, 180, 535
United States, Municipal Ownership in, 209
United States Naval Model Tank, Washington, 137
United States Navy, Engineering in, 738, 772, 829
United States Navy Engineers’ Report, 829
United States, Notes from, 12, 46, 76, 152, 204, 244, 265, 305, 327, 361, 391, 433, 457, 507, 527, 561, 606, 630, 658, 691, 723, 765, 791
United States Shipbuilding, 89, 714, 733, 784
United States Shipping Bounties, 733
United States Ships, Causes of Adoption of Water-Tube Boilers in, 715, 738, 772
United States-Spanish Naval War, 65
United States Steamer “ Chesapeake,” Sheathing, 753
United States Steel Combination, 733
United States Street Railway Investments, 15
United States Torpedo-Boat Design, 823
United States Tr ade, 80
United States Triple-Screw Ships, 150. See 610 United States Trusts, 733, 760
United States Trusts, New, 464
United States Warship Design, 707, 829
United States Warship Pipe Arrangements, 749
United States Warships in Action, 65
Universal Slotting, Drilling, and Milling Machine (Russian), 691
Vacuum Discharges, 447
Vacuum xMotors, 115, 246, 280
Valve for Engines, New System (Allen), 170
Valve, Hutcheson’s Automatic Stop, 279
Valve for Locomotives, 170
Valve, Slide, Andrews and Martin's Balanced, 171. See LETTERS
Valves, Balanced Slide, 243, 277
Valves, Plymouth Water Works, 118, 136
Vancouver Island, Copper Deposits of, 643
Vanderbilt’s Locomotive with Corrugated Furnace, 343. See LETTERS, 404, 503, 538
“Vengeance,” H.M. Battleship (Vickers', 8’, 114 Ventilating Fans, 421, 439
Vertical Oil Engine (Gardner and Sons, Patri- croft), 57
Viaduct for Burma Railways, 309
Viaducts, Cornwall, 116, 407
Viaducts, Great Central Railway, 555, 621
Viaducts on the Lancashire, Derby, and East Coast Railway, 747, 816
Vibration Recorder, 488, 490
Vickers’ Ships and Vickers’ Guns, 88, 114. See 798
Vienna Boulevard, Iron Centring for Constructing, 325
“ Viper,” Parsons Destroyer, 191, 221, 255, 374. See LETTERS, 383, 601
Volga River Hydraulic Dredger (Bates System), 691, 754, 823
Volta’s Contact Force. 447
Voluntary y. Compulsorj- Military Service, 759,801 Volunteering, 759, 801
Vulcan Works at Stettin, 1, 163, 285, 353
Wages on Railways, 363
Wagon Buffer, Ramsden’s, 607
Wagon Coupler, Brockelbank Railwaj’, 641
Wagon Coupling and Pole, Hill’s Railway, 371
Walker, Mr. W. G., on Air Propellers, *421, 439. See LETTERS, Air Propellers
Wall of China, Proj^osed Demolition, 53
War, Spanish-American, 65
War and Commerce, Laws as to, 498
Warfare, Naval, 65, 239
Warnford, Mr. R. H., on Casting Machine for. the Blast-Furnace, 210, 245
Warship Building in Germany, 1, 163, 285, 363
Warship Design, 83, 147, 15(5,*707, 738, 772
Warship Design, by Sir William White, 341, 348, 373
Warship, The Modern, 707, 738, 772
I Wsirsliips :
Ansaldo’s Cruisers, 327. See LETTER,, 369 Argentine Cruiser “ Buenos Aires” (Elswick), 156
Armstrong Guns and Mountings, 82
Balancing Warship Engines, 54, 120 Barbette Turrets, Schneider-Canet, 455, 485, 516, 653, 685, 718. See LETTERS, 572, 605
Boiler Arrangement of Recent Cruisers, 95, 185
Brasse3’’s Naval Annual, 166
Bulkhead Doors, 821
Causes of Adoption of Water-Tube Boilers on Warships, 715, 738, 772. See 829
Cavitation of Torpedo-Boat Propellers. See LETTERS
Chilian Cruisers “Esmeralda,” “Blanco En- calada,” and “ O’Higgins” (Elswick), 156
Chinese Cruiser “ ChihYuan” and “Ching Yuan’’(Elswick), 166
Chinese (bruiser “ Kai Chi” (Boiler Arrangement), 185
Chinese Cruisers (Vulcan Company), 163
Coal Consumption of Water-Tube Boilers, 800. See 840
Coaling at Sea, 714
Colt Automatic Gun, 119
Complications in Warships, 749 Cruisers, II.M. v. Elswick, 83, 147, 156
Devonport Dockyard, 115, 216
Electrical Machinery on’Warships, 387
Elswick Cruisers, 8i, 147, 156
Elswick Guns and Mountings, 82
Elswick Submerged Torpedo Tube Gear, 386 Engineering in the United States Navy, 738, 772, 829
Engineers in the Navy, 55, 79, 86, 174, 212, 276, 306, 605, 687, 725, 757, 801
Engine-Room Staff in Warships, 79. See 55, 86, 174, 242, 276, 306, 605, 687, 725, 757, 801
French Battleship “ Marceau,” Gun Barbettes, I 516. See LETTERS, 572, 60.5 '
French Battleships “Charles Martel” and “Massena,” Gun Turrets, 455, 485. See LETTERS, 572, 605
French Warship Programme, 661 ;
French Warship Quick-Firing Gun Mountings, 9, 36, 103, 167, 194
(ierman Battleship “Weissenburg” (Vulcan Company), 163
German Emperor’s Yacht “ Hohenzollern ” (Vulcan Company), 163
Gun Fire at Santiago, 65
Gun Turrets. Schneider-Canet, 455, 485, 616, 653, 685, 718. See LETTERS, 572, 605
Guns and their Mountings (Elswick), 82
II. M. V. Elswick Warships, 83, 147, 156
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Bullfinch” Disaster, 237
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer “Viper,” with Parsons Turbine, 191, 221, 255, 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS, 277
Her Majesty’s Ships in 1899, 798. See 840 H.M.S. “Andromeda,” Boiler Arrangements, 185
II.M.S. “ Ocean,” Launching of, 107, 115 II.M.S. ’
H.M.S.
n.M.SS. “ Hermes” and “ Highflyer” (Fairfield Company), 10, 183
H.M.SS. “Pegasus” and “Pyramus” (Palmer’s), 788
H.M.SS. “Prosei*pine” and “Psyche,” Machinery of, 116, 216
Howitzers and Mortars for Warshi|)s, 227 Indian Troopship, 503. See LETTER, 571 Italian Cruisers “Dogali” and “Piemonte” (Elswick), 156
Italian Cruiser “ Garibaldi,” 327. See LETTERS, 369
Japanese Battleship “ Hatsuse” (Elswick), 101 Japanese Battleship “Shikishima” (Elswick), 468, 494
Japanese Cruisers (Elswick), 101
Japanese Cruiser “ Yoshino” (Elswick), 156 Japanese Cruisers (Vulcan Company), 163 Launching Torpedo Tubes, 261, 287, 386 Launches of Warships in 1899, 798. See 840 Launching the Battleship “Ocean,” 107, 115 Law a.s to Naval Warfare (Jura Belli), 498 Modern Warship, The, 707, 738, 772 Mortars and Howitzers for Warships, 227 Naval Artillery (Elswick), 82
Naval Construction Progress, by Sir William White, 341, 348, 373
Naval Engineering, Students’ Education, 116, 136, 177, 216, 403
Naval Engineers, 55, 79, 86, 174, 242, 276, 306, 605, 687, 725, 757, 801
Naval Guns, Vickers’, 114
Naval Quick-Firing Gun, Mounts for French Ships, 9, 36, 102, 167, 194
Naval Turrets, Schneider-Canet, 455, 485, 516, 653, 685, 718. See LETTERS, 572, 605
Naval Warfare, Strategy and Tactics, 239. See 65 Navy and the Transvaal War, 760
Niclausse Water Tube Boiler, 384 Non-Flammable Wood for Warships, 349
Norwegian Battleships (Elswick), 101 Parliament and Water-Tube Boilers, 113, 431, 798. See 715, 738, 772
Parsons’ Steam Turbine Torpedo Craft, 191, 221, 255, 374, 383, 601. See LETTERS
Personnel Question in United States Navy, 738, 772, 829
Pipe Arrangements in Warships, 749 Portuguese Cruiser “Don Carlos L,” Boiler Arrangement, 185
Russian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer with Turbine (Elswick), 101
Russian Triple-Screw Ships, 610. See 150 Santiago, Battle of, 65
Schneider-Canet Quick-Firing Naval Guns and Mounts, 9, 36, 102, 167, 194
Sheathing United States Ship “Chesapeake,” 753
IVarsIlips—continued.
SpaMish-American War, 05
Spanish Warships in Action, 05
Steam Trials of Her Majesty’s Ships in 1899, 798. See 840
Tactics, Naval, at Santiago, 05
Torpedo Boat Design, 373, 823
Torpedo Discharge Below Water (Elswick System), 380. See 261, 287
Torpedo-Launching Tubes for Warships (Schneider-Canet System), 261, 287. See 380 Trials of Elswick Cruisers, 150
Trials of H.M.SS. “ Hermes” and “ Highflyer,” 10, 183
Trials of H.M.SS. “Pegasus” and “ Pyramus” (Palmer’s), 788. See 210
Triple-Screw Ships, 150, 610
Turbine Torpedo Craft, Parsons, 191, 221, 255, 374, 383, 001. See LKTTKRS
Turrets, Schneider-Canet, 455, 485, 510, 653, 085, 718. See LKTTKRS, 572, 605
United States Cruisers “Fourth of July” and “Albany’’(Elswick), 101
United States Cruisers, “ Denver” Class, 819
United States Naval Model Tank, Washington, 137
United States Navy, Engineering in, 738, 772, 829
United States Ships, Causes of Adoption of Water-Tube Boilers in, .715, 738, 772, 829
United States Steamer’* Chesapeake,” Sheathing, 753
United States Torpedo-Boat Design, 823
United States Triple-Screw Ships, 150. See 010
United States Warships in Action, 05
United States Warship Design, 707, 829
Vickers’ Ships and Vickei*s’ Guns, 88, 114, 798
Warship Built by Vulcan Company, Stettin, 103
Warship Construction in 1899, 798. See 849 Warship Design, 83, 147, 150, 707, 823, 829 Warship Design, by Sir Wm. White, 341, 348, 373
Watertight Bulkhead Doors, 821
Water-Tube Boiler Question, 56, 113,318,373, 384, 431, 715, 738, 772, 798
Water-Tube Boiler Results, 800. See 840
Water-Tube Boilers, Nickel v. Steel for, 95, 140
Water-Tube Boilers in United States Ships, 715, 738, 772, 829
Water-Tube v. Cylindrical Boilers, 503. See LBTTER, 571
Warships Built by Vulcan Company, Stettin, 163
Warships, Coaling at Sea, Miller’s System, 714
Warships Constructed in 1899, 798. See 840
Washington Art Gallery, 9
Washington Congressional Library, 100
Washington Ship Model Tank, 137
Waste of Shipping, Lloyd’s Return, 119, 273, 402, 609
Water in Boilers, Effects of Thames, 00,5
Water and Sewage Examination, 439, 521
Water Supply in German Towns, 017
Water Supply, London, 316, 779
Watertight Doors for Ships’ Bulkheads, 821
Water-Tube Boilers, 56
Water-Tube Boiler for Hydraulic Dredger, 091, 754, 823
Water-Tube Boiler, Keene’s, 202
Water-Tube Boiler, Niclausse, in Warships, 384
Water-Tube Boiler, Phillips, 233
Water-Tube Boiler Question, 56, 113, 348, 373, 384, 431, 715, 738, 772, 800, 840
Water-Tube Boiler Results, 800. See 840 Water-Tube Boiler for Road Goods Vehicles, 357
Water-Tube Boiler, Thom’s, 73
Water-Tube Boiler in United States Naw, 715, 733, 772, 829
Water-Tube Boilers, Efficiency, 431 Water-Tube Boilers (Reed’s) of H.M.SS.
“ Pegasus” and “ Pyramus,” 788
Water-Tube Boilers of H.M.SS. “Proserpine” and “ Psyche,” 116, 216. See 136, 177
Water-Tube Boilers, Nickel v. Steel for, 95, 140
Water-Tube Boilers, Parliament and, 113,431, 798
Water-Tube Boilers in Recent Cruisers, 95, 185
Water-Tube Boilers in United States Ships, 715, 738, 772, 829
Water-Tube v. Cylindrical Boilers, 503. See LETTER, 571
Water, Variation in Specific Heat of, 487
Water Works, Plymouth, 118, 136
Water Works, Private Bills for, 779
Water Works, Torquay, Incrustation 554, 575 Waterloo and City Railway, 638
Watertight Bulkhead Doors, 821
Waterways in Canada, 536, 797
Waterways in Russia, 33, 257, 550, 619.
Watts, Mr. Philip, on Elswick Cruisers, 83, 156, See 147
Waverley Station, Edinburgh. 423, 491
Waves, Deep Sea, 491
Weighing, Grain, Automatic Machine (Avery), 725
Weight of Rotary Converters, 784
Weights, Atomic, 524
“Weissenburg,” German Battleship (Vulcan Company), 164
Well Pump-Rods. 39
West Indies Trade, Cuba and, 602
West, Mr. T. D., on Deceptive Fracture of Pig
Iron, 543 Westinghouse Electric Company in England, 51
Westinglioiisc Electric lnstallation 6, 51, 69,85, 133, 197, 352, 421, 483, 585, 733, 781, 813
Allegheny County Light Company, 585 Alternator, Two-Phase, 70
Converter, 400-Kilowatt Rotary, 71, 783 Electric Transmission to Los Angeles, 781, 813 Electrical Equipment of Highest Building in the World, 352
Gas Engines for Driving Dynamos, 85. See LETTERS
WesliiiKlioiisc Electric liistnilat ions -continued.
Generators, Electric, Largest, 733
Generators at Pittsburg Keduetion Works Niagara, 6
Harford, Long-Distance Transmission, 69 Lighting Installation, Allegheny County, 585 Lightning Arrester, Wurts’, 70
Long-Distance Transmission at Hartford, C9
New Jersey, People’s Light and Power Company’s Station, 133. See 182
People’s Light and Power Company’s Station, New Jersey, 133. See 182
Pittsburg Tramway' Power Station, 483
Polyphase Plant for Los Angeles, 781, 813
Power Transmission, Long-Distance, Electric, 69
Power Transmission to Los Angeles, 781, 813
Railway, Electric, Lewiston, Brunswick, and Bath Street, 197
Regulator, Westinghouse, 71
Rotary Converter, 400-Kilowatt, 71, 783
Rotary Transformers, 6
San Gabriel Electric Company, 781, 813 Snotpialmie Falls Electric Power Plant, 421 Transformers, Rotary, 6
Transmission of Power, Long Distance, 69
Wooden Conduit for Water, Large, 781
Works in England, 51
Wurts’ Lightning Arrester, 70
Westinghouse Gas Engine, 173, 243, 277, 307,338, 369, 403, 434, 571, 657, 688, 727, 840
Weston’s Centrifugal for Sugar, &c., 719
Wheels, Manufacture of Railway Car, 69
White, Mr. M., on Colours of Heated Steel, 843
White, Sir Wm., Freedom of Devonport, 116
White, Sir Wm., on Ship Design, 340, 348, 373
White Star Liner “ Oceanic,” 274. See 436
Wiborgh, Professor J,, on the Use of Finely Divided Iron Ore Obtained by Concentrating Processes, 209, 337
Wiborgh, Professor J., on Hot Blast in the Bessemer Process, 58
Windings for Rotary Converters, 783
Windlass and Capstan Gear, R.M.S. “Oceanic” (Napier’s), 436
Winterthur Engine Works (Sulzer Brothers), 367. See Errata, 402
Wireless Telegraphy, 535
Wireless Telegraphy on Mont Blanc, 764
Wood, Non-Flammable, 349
Wood Screws, Holding Power of, 441
Wood Sheathing of United States Ship “Chesapeake,” 753
Wooden Bridges, 648, 745
Wooden Conduit for Water, Large (Westinghouse Company), 781
Working Stress of Materials in Locomotives, 612
Workmen in the United States. See American Competition
Workmen’s Compensation Act, French, 398
Workmen’s Compensation Cases, 143, 303, 308, 398, 457, 467, 535, 541, 626, 735, 810, 844

Works:

Brown, Boveri, and Co., Baden, 321, See Erratum^ 402
Carbonic Acid Gas Works, London, 505
Cramp’s Yard, Philadelphia, 292
Devonport Dockyard, 116,127,136,177, 216, 403
Escher, Wyss, and Co., 559
G. Fischer’s Iron and Steel Worksat Schaffhausen, 366
Galloway’s Boiler Works, 226
Hadfield’s Works at Shefiield (Master Cutler), 602
Keyham Engineering Works, 116, 127,136, 177, 216, 403
Lancashire and Yorkshire Locomotive Works, Horwich, 223
Linotype Works, Manchester, 85
Loewe, Ludw., and Co., Berlin, 380, 414, 450, 525. See LETTER, 605
Manchester Works, 226
Motor Company’s Works at Baden werk), 365. See Erratum, 402
Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik, 482
Parsons Steam Turbine Works, 191, 383. See LETTERS. See 601
Platt’s Textile Manufacturing Works, 226
Pott, Cassels, and Williamson, Motherwell, 716
Silk Weaving Works at Ruti, 400
Simon-Carves Coke Ovens, 224
Stettiner Maschenenbau Actien Gesellschaft, “Vulcan,” 1, 163, 285, 353
Sulzer Brothers’ Engine Works at Winterthur, 366. See Errata^ 402
Swiss Locomotive Works, 367
Westinghouse Electric Works at Pittsburg. See Westinghouse
Works, Foreign v. British, 605. See also American Competition
Workshop Premium System, 49. See also 497
Worsdell Compound Locomotives, 369
Wrecks of Ships, Lloyd’s Return, 119, 273, 402, 669
Wurts’ Lightning Arrester (Westinghouse Company), 70

Yacht, The Queen’s, Non - Flammable Wood, 349
Yacht, Steam Pilot, (Humber), 826
“ Yakunoo,” Japanese pany), 164
Yarrow, Mr. A. F., on Tube Boilers, 95,140
Yeast and Diastase, Combined Action on Starch Granules, 621
“ Yoshino,” Japanese Cruiser (Elswick), 156

Zeeman Effect, The, 448
Zinc Trust, Projected, 480
Zurich Lighting and Tramway Electricity Works, 365. See Errata, 402
Zurich National Museum, 400

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