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Agriculture:

Agricultural Engines, 495, 671, 835
Bath and West Company’s Show, 563 Cream Separators, 74, 5U4
Railway Fares, 631
Royal Society, 835
Alloys* See Mechanic

Appointments:

Assistant Professorship of City and Guilds, 15 Director of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited (Mr. James McKechnie), 337
Fellowship of City and Guilds, 145
Lecturer on Metallurgy, Glasgow University, 494
Lord Kelvin’s Successor in Glasgow University, 458
Martell, Benjamin, Scholarship, 395
Martell, Mr. B., of Lloyd’s, Retirement of, 182 Master Cutler (Mr. R. A. Hadfield), 181 Professor of Commerce and Economics, Vermont (A Generous Gift), 607
Water Engineer for Greenock, 792
Armour* SeeJVaval
Artillery* See Gunt
Boilers* See Engines and Boilers
Bridges:
Atbara Bridge, 269
Bridge-Moving Feat at Chicago, 329
Calder, New Bridge over the, 151
Canadian Bridge Building, 205
Clyde Bridges at Glasgow, 268
East River Bridges, New York, 173
Gotkeik Viaduct, 529
High-Level Bridge, Newcastle, New, 175, 344 Japanese Bridges, 426
Newport Transporter Bridge, 597
Niagara Bridge, Another, 74
Suspension Bridge Cable Specification, 693 United States Bridge Builders’ Amalgamation, 395, 512
UnitedStates Bridge Standardisation, 235 United States Bridgework, 282, 308, 529 United States Smart Bridgework, 235 Victoria, Bridge Building in, 706
Canals:
German Canal Scheme, 235
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 370
Man(*hester, 77, 563
Nicaragua Canal, 702
Panama Canal, 793
St. Lawrence Canal, 459
Soulanges Canal, 459
Suez, 43, 442, 495, 689, 842 Suez Canal Hopper Barges, 119 Swedish New Canal, 459
<'ai*s, Motors;
Jutland Motor Cars, 597
Liverpool Self-Propelled Traffic Association, 43, 77, 510
Liverpool Trials, 43, 77, 175, 510
London Exhibition 1900, 111
Paris Exhibition and Motor Cars, 77
Prizes for Improvements, 734
Catalogues:

60, 77, 124, 153, 175, 205, 305, 336, 404, 435, 512, 538, 597, 631, 659, 687, 736, 765, 793, 826

Alldays and Onions, Limited, Birmingham, 435 Allegemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft, Berlin, 77
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 305
H. B. Barlow and Co., Manchester, 124
J. Beardshaw and Son, Limited, Sheffield, 60 Robert Boby, Limited, Bury St. Edmunds, 60, 631
G. Braulik, London, 538
British Electric Transformer Manufacturing Company, 597
British Electrical Engineering Company, London, 175
British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, London, 404, 597, 793
J. Bromilaw, Heywood, 597
Buck and Hickman, London, 765
Bullivant and Co., Limited, London, 60
Bull’s Metal and Metalloid Company, Limited, London,538
Campbell Printing Press and Manufacturing Company, Brooklyn, 124
Cleveland Constructional Company, Birkenhead, 826
Coheen Manufacturing Company, Canton, Ohio, 124
T. Cooke and Sons, York, 435
Daimler Motor Company, Limited, Coventry, 60
Deighton’s Flue and Tube Company, Limited, Leeds, 736
W. F. Dennis and Co., London, 60, 305 Samuel Denison and Son, 538
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Dick, Kerr, and Co., Limited, London, 124, 512 Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company, Limited, London, 205, 305, 404
Electrical Company, Limited, London, 77, 512 Estler Brothers, London, 659
Fielding and Platt, Limited, Gloucester, 659
Garrad Manufacturing Company, Birmingham, 124
Geipel and Lange, London, 765
General Electric Company, Limited, London, 60
Glenfield Company, Limited, Kilmarnock, 597 Julius Harvey and Co., 404
J. M. Henderson, Aberdeen, 175
Holden and Brooke, Limited, Manchester, 60
J. IL Holmes and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, 659
J. Hopkinson and Co., Limited, Huddersfield, 205
Hudswell, Clarke, and Co., Leeds, 631 R. Hunt and Co., Earle’s Colne, Essex, 597 Jessop and Appleby, Limited, London, 512 Jones and Lamson Machine Company, Springfield, U.S.A., 60
R. Kurka, Frankfort-on-Main, 124
Lancashire Patent Belting and Hose Company, Manchester, 124
W. S. Laycock, Sheffield, 77
Linde British Refrigeration Company, Limited, 124
McConway and Torley Company, Pittsburg, 124
R. W. ^IcDonald, London, 305
Mason Regulator Company, Mass., 124
VV. F. Mason, Limited, Manchester, 597 Masson, Scott, and Co., Limited, London, 153 Mather and Platt, Limited, 336, 404, 826 Mossberg Roller Bearings, Limited, 336 National Telephone Co., Limited, London, 826 Frederick Nell, London, 538
New Explosives Company, Limited, London, 153
Walter Newbold and Co., London, 687
C. Nurse and Co., 659
Parker Foundry’ Company, Derby, 153 Partridge and Cooper, London, 659 Polland and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, 659 Pridmore Moulding Machine, Limited, London, 175
Rooper and Harris, Limited, Stafford, 124
J. J. Royle, Dalham, Manchester, 538
F. Schichau, Elbing, 305
S. Schreiber, London, 205
William Sellers and Co., Philadelphia, 153
Shanks and Co., Limited, Barrhead, 538
Standard Steel Works, Philadelphia, 60
Stillwell - Beirce and Smith - Vaile Company, Dayton, Ohio, 538
Tangyes, Limited, Birmingham, 124
“ Trusty” Engine Works, Cheltenham, 512
United Asbestos Company, Limited, London, 765
United States Business Catalogues, 793 Walker Brothers, Wigan, 153
Werner, Pfieiderer, and Perkins, Limited, 765
Westinghouse Machine Company, Pittsburg, 512, 764
Whitmore and Binyon, Limited, London, 124 C. Whittaker and Co., Limited, Accrington, 659
Wilton’s Patent Furnace Company, London, 765
Wolseley Sheep Shearing Company, Limited, Birmingham, 826
Wyckoff, Seamans, and Benedict, London, 512
Coal:
Alaska, Coal in, 606
Barry Shipments, 47
Belgian, 25, 122, 214, 307, 404, 572, 827 Brazilian Coal, 426
British Coal in Hamburg, 74
British Exports, 546, 659
British Mineral Production, 536, 544
Cardiff, 15, 47, 77, 120, 145, 182, 205, 234, 269, 299, 328, 370, 394, 427, 458, 495, 528, 562, 597, 631, 660, 692, 735, 792, 827
Cleveland. See Middlesbrough
Coal Consumption Apportioned to Industries, British, 47
Coke in France, 669
Coke, Price of, 735
East Anglia Coal, 563
Forest of Dean Mines, 329, 427
French Coal, 56, 232, 235, 833
French Coke Making, 369
Garw Valley, Coal in the, 495
German Coal, 507
German Coal Mining, 728
German Mines in China, 606
German Mining, 299
Germany, Coal in, 112
Hamburg, Coal at, 827
Hull Coal Contract, 459
Coal—continued.
Hull Shipments, 181, 328, 495, 630, 765
Indian Railway Coal, 794
Middlesbrough, 14, 47, 76, 120, 145, 182, 205, 234, 268, 298, 328, 370, 394, 427, 458, 495, 528, 562, 597, 631, 660, 692, 735, 766, 792, 827
Mining Machines, United States, 643
Natal, Coal in, 265
Navy Coal Contracts, 793
Newport Patent Fuel, 182
Prussian Coal Mining, 153
Railway Coal Bill, 42, 243, 791
Scotch, New Coal Seam, 328
Scotch Railway Coal Bill, 395
Sheffield, 14, 46, 76, 120, 145, 181, 205, 234, 268, 298, 328, 370, 394, 427, 458,495, 528, 562, 597, 630, 660, 692, 735, 765, 792, 827
Siberian Coal Mine, First, 77
South Wales Coal Contracts, 120
South Wales Shipments, 47, 205, 329, 495, 631, 793
Spain, Coal in, 23
Swansea Coal Exports, 47
Swedish State Railway Contracts, 723
United States Coal, 442
Welsh Coal for the Navy, 47, 459, 661
Welsh Coal Seams, 14, 76, 395, 529, 693, 735 West Yorkshire Coal, 793
World’s Coal Output, 833
Yorkshire. See Sheffield
Yorkshire Mining Statistics, 660
Collisions* See GENERAL INDEX Accidents
Companies :
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., 370
Brightside Foundry and Engineering Company, 394
Bristol and South Wales Railway AVagon Company, 145, 182
British Westinghouse Company, 175
Browett, Lindley, and Co., Limited, 151
John Brown and Co., Limited, 204, 298, 394, 660
Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, Limited, 145
Coltness Iron Company, 76,144
Consett Iron Companies, 14, 76
Davy Brothers, 46
Dorman, Long, and Co., Limited, 631, 735
Dowlais Company, 370, 459
Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Company, Limited, 14, 736
Electric Construction Company, Limited, 77
Electrical Power Storage Company, Limited, 77 Electrolytic Alkali Company, Limited, 693 I
Fleming and Ferguson, 494 !
Hill’s Dry Docks and Engineering Company, 234
R. Hornsby and Sons, Limited, 724
Horsfall Destructor Company, 77
Kalgoorlie Electric Light and Power Company, i Limited, 299
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, 205
Midland Iron Company, Limited, 663
Nantyglo and Blaina Iron Works Company, Limited, 735
Nettlefold’s Company, 234
Rhymney Iron Company, Limited, 47
Sadler and Co., Limited, 268
R. Stephenson and Co., Limited, 111, 457, 509 Thames Iron Works Company and Penn’s, 77 Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, 47
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, 204, 268, 660, 792
Weardale Iron and Coal Company, 370
Weardale Steel, Coal, and Coke Company, 427
Defence of Coastg* See jfavai
Drainage* See Sewage
Electric Tramways* See Tramways
Electricity:
Calcium Carbide Production, 661 Communication with Besieged Troops, 627 Electric Cautery, 459
Electric Power to Cottage Industries, 269
Electric Tube Postal Transmission, 459 Electrical Resistance, 77
Ferro-Silicon by Electricity, 175 Generators, Ferranti-Maclaren, 111 German Electric Construction, 42 Gutta-Percha and India-Rubber Substitutes, 766
Hartmann and Braun’s Hot-Wire Ammeters and Voltmeters, 435
Inductor Alternator, 495
Lighting Barnsley, 14
Lighting Barnstaple, 735
Lighting Birmingham, 724
Lighting Bombay, 793
Lighting Bradford, 509
Lighting Brecon, 793
Lighting Bridlington, 433
Lightini? Bristol, 76, 269, 562, 692
Lighting Cardiff, 458
Lighting Churches, 528
Lighting Copenhagen, 631
Lighting Cost, Torquay, 427
Lighting Cottages, 536
Lighting Derby, 435
Lighting, &c., Grimsby, 244, 476
Lighting Heston and Isleworth, 529
Lighting Leicester, 395, 560
Lighting Manchester, 30
Lighting Motherwell, 111
Lighting and Power, Northallerton, 361
Lighting Provisional Order Transfers, 459
Lighting San Francisco, 643
Lighting Sheffield, 495, 660, 765
Lighting Whitby, 327
Niagara Progress, 269, 507, 563, 842
Phonograph and Telephone, 563
Printing bj' Electricity, 120
Railway, Behr, Manchester-Liverpool, 596
Railway to Top of Ben Cleuch, 119
Railways in Europe, 233
Telegraph Cable, Aden-Zanzibar, 563
Telegraph Cable, Pacific, 111, 145
Telegraphy, Indian, 702
Telegraphy, South Africa, 42, 344, 459, 691
Telephone, 235
Telephone, Copenhagen-Berlin, 504
Telephone, Hildesborg-Vedbok, 734
Telephone and the Navy, 793
Telephone, St. Petersburg-Moscow, 563
Telephone in the West of England, 47
Telephones, Scandinavia, 529
Testing Battery, 205. See Srratum, 305 Valparaiso Electrical Concessions, 112 Wireless Telegraphy, 205, 234, 793 Wireless Telephone Experiments, 766 Wires, Height of Tramway, 494 Wiring Rules Commission, 205
Engineerillffe Bee Shipbuilding And Industriet
Engines and Boilers:
Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, 660
Babcock and Wilcox Boilers in Wilson Liner, 395
Boiler Explosion at Sheffield, 562, 599
Boilers for Glasgow Exhibition, 182
Combustion and Forced Draught, 606
Heating Surfaces in various Boilers, 329
Steam Engineering and Electricity, Progress, 630
Superheated Steam, 766
Westinghouse Engines, 86
Exliibitlons:
Como Exhibition Fire, 47
Cretan Exhibition 1900, 833
Fire Brigade Exhibition, 47
Fireproof Materials at Paris Exhibition, 297 Glasgow Exhibition, 182, 342, 546
Traction Exhibition, London 1900, 459
Explosions. See Enginei and Boilers
Explosives. See Guns
Gas and Gas Engines :
Automatic Igniters, 235 Blast-Furnace Gases for Gas Engines, 111 Cardiff Works, 827
Coke Ovens for Gas Generation, 693 Copenhagen, Gas at, 631
Crude Alcohol v. Petroleum for Engines, 175 Explosion at Huddersfield, 14
Gas Preparations from Wood for Motors, 793 Gas Trade Exhibition, 205
Incandescent Gas of Low Candle Power, 766 Leicester Gas Accidents, 395
Newport Works, 827
Skipton Gas Works Value, 495
Westinghouse Engines, 86, 111
Yeovil, Gas at, 14
Guns, Explosives, Ac.:
Armoured Trains in South Africa, 661 Armstrong Trunnion Bearings Patent, 77 Brown 6-In. Segmental Wire Gun, 299 Cordite, 504
Dum-Dum Bullet, 47
Firing Old and New Firearms (Experiments), 269
German Army Rifle, 529
H.M. Inspector of Explosives Report, 329 Land Carriages for Naval Guns, 606 Lyddite Shells, 15. See 111
Mark IV. Bullet Failure at Bisley, 205
Melinite and the Peace Congress, 111 Sims-Dudley Dynamite Gun, 693, 734 United States Smokeless Powder, 606 Vickers, Gun Trial, 46
Vickers United States 6-In. Quick-Firing Gun, 395. See 46
War Material, Demand for, 660
Harbours* Piers, Ac.:
Avonmouth Dock, 76, 394
Barry Docks, 631, 692, 827
Birkenhead Docks, 245
Brisbane River Overflows, 336
Bristol Dockisation, 495
Bristol Docks, 14, 120, 370, 458, 766
Briton Ferry Docks, 562
Bute Docks, 120, 370
Clyde Dock Accommodation, 86
Coatzacoalcos, 838
Dartmouth Harbour Dredging, 827
French Lighthouses, 674
German Deep-Sea Expedition, 218
Hull Docks, 76, 119, 297
Lindholmen Docks (SwedenJ, 459
Liverpool Docks, 92
Llanelly Harbour, 562, 793
London New Graving Dock, 120
Lundy Island Harbour, 234
Mersey Dredging, 205
Middlesbrough Docks, 792
Milford Docks, 269
Paris a Seaport, 25
Port Talbot Docks, 182
Port Talbot Graving Dock, 298
Portishead Docks, 495, 597
Queensland Rivers and Harbours, 202
St. Petersburg Harbour Extension, 727
Santos Traffic, 25
Scarborough Marine Parade, 459
Swansea Dock Warehouse, 766
Swansea New Docks, 631
Swansea Trade Statistics, 328
Talbot Navigation, 529
Tees Improvement, 473
Tyne Improvements, 122
United States Dry Docks, 778
Usk Harbour Improvements, 205
Vladivostock, 86
Workington Docks, 11
Hydraulics:
Hydraulic Mining at California, 693
Jet Pump Tests, 627
London Hydraulic Power Station, 693
Industries (Various):
Calcium Carbide Production, 661, 723, 766
’ Cars,PoolingOrdersforHungarian Railway,569 Cast-Iron Pipes, Advance in Price, 76
Copper Extracting Works at Swansea, 793
Gas Meter Industry in Glasgow, 370
Iron Foundry forBo’ness, 394
Leadless Glaze Brick Production, 145 Locomotive Exports, 44, 474, 640 Locomotive, Glasgow Contracts, 426, 528, 597 Railway Wagon Building in Motherwell, 394 Refrigeration Machinery of S.S. “ Maine,” 793.
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Sheffield and the China Trade, 528
Sheffield and the Chinese Ambassador, 630 Sugar Industry, Revival of, 630
Tin, Price of, 329
Tin Production in the Malay States, 766 Tinplate Industry, 77, 370, 458, 470, 736, 793 Trade Returns, 329, 606, 766
Westinghouse Company’s Steel Foundry, 693 Institutions. See Technical Societies
Iron and Steel. See also Markets
Alabama Pig Iron for Europe, 844
Barry Smelting Works, 528, 563
Belgian Iron and Steel Industries, 404
Belgian Railway Exports, 181, 404, 657 Bessemer Process Patent Dispute, 361
Birmingham, 27, 58, 88, 123, 156, 183, 214, 245, 310, 340, 373, 407, 438, 470, 506, 540, 574, 608, 642, 673, 704, 737, 769, 804, 838
Blast-Furnaces, U.S., 54,188, 827 Blast-Furnaces, Belgium, 43, 277, 728, 842 Blast-Furnaces, British, 47, 459
British Rail Exports, 60, 342, 474, 639, 757 Briton Ferry Works, 145, 182, 529, 562, 693 Canadian Pig Iron, 269, 337
Canadian Rolling Mills, 495
Carnegie Blast-Furnaces, 504
Clay-Lane Works Bought by Bolckow Vaughan, 562
Cleveland, 14, 47, 76, 120, 145, 182, 204, 237, 268, 298, 328, 370, 394, 427, 458, 495, 528, 562, 597, 631, 660, 692, 735, 766, 792, 827
Cleveland Hematite wanted for Glasgow, 630 Creusot Mine in Spain, 92
Cumberland Iron Mines, Embankment to Keep Sea Out, 86
Dowlais Works, 299
File-Cutting Dangers, 46, 204
French Pig Iron, 838
German Production, 529
Glasgow. See Scotch
Hematite wanted for the States, 630
Iron Ore, Canadian, 457
Iron Ore at Minnesota, 793
Iron Ore, Philadelphia, 361
Iron Ore in the United States, 202, 205
Iron Trade Discounts, 15, 47
Lancashire, 26, 58, 87, 123, 155, 183, 214, 245, 280, 310, 340, 372, 406, 439, 470, 506, 540, 574, 608, 642, 672, 704, 737, 769, 803, 838
Langloan Iron Works, 426
Luossavaara Iron Ore, 606
Michipicoton Iron, 597
Middlesbrough. See Cleveland Middlesbrough Shipmerits, 562
Ontario Iron Ore on the Clyde, 298 Pennsylvania’Steel Company, 827 Petroleum Residuals for Making Iron, 62/
Pig Iron, Canadian, 269, 337
Pig Iron, German, 202, 527
Pig Iron, Liege, 626
Pig Iron, Price of, 692
Pig Iron Production, 44
Pig Iron, United States, 111, 445
Pressed Steel Cars, 235, 827
Rail Destruction in War, 627
xtails for the Cape, 182
Rails, German, z38
Rails, Old Sted, High Price, 630
Russian Iron and Steel, 30
Scotch, 14, 46, 119, 144, 182, 204, 234, 268, 298, 328, 369, 394, 426, 458, 494, 528, 562, 596, 630, 600,.692, 734, 765, 792, 826
Sulphate of Ammonia, 14, 144, 182, 204, 234, 328, 369, 394, 426, 630, 765, 792
Mechanics, &c*:
Acetate of Cellulose, 145
Acid Spray Bath for Etching Metals, 111
Alloys and “ Points of Transformation,” 175 Aluminium Alloys, 661
Aluminium for Domestic Utensils, 269
Aluminium and Manganese Alloy, 661 Anderson’s Pipe Couplings, 47
Armoured Door Fire Test, 435
Balloon, Navigable, 549
Blowing Engine Valves, 205
Cable Specification for Suspension Bridge, 693
Calcium Carbide Production, 661, 723, 766 Cast Iron, Slow Cooling of, 529
Castings, Design of Steel, 833
Ceiling constructed of Silicate Cotton, 693 Cement, Foreign, 435
Chasing Triple-Threaded Screws, 15 Chemicals, Progress in, 606
Coal-Handling Machinery, 393
Concrete, Armoured, 361
Concrete and Iron Floor Fire Tests, 459
Concrete, Strength of Coke v. Broken Stone, 112 Copper Smelting, 504
Corrosion of Metals by Sea Water, 175
Cracks in Brass. 235
Crystals Etched on Glass, 529
Distance Explosive Sounds Travel, 766
Drilling, Pressure in, 734, 793
Electro-Chemical Equivalent of Silver, 175 Electro-Magnetic Chucks for Planing Machines.

Electrolytic Process for Sharpening Files, 766
Electrolytic Treatment of Complex Sulphide Ores, 606
Expansion and Contraction of Heavj’ Rails, 435
Fire Tests, 77, 111, 145, 175, 235, 361, 435, 563, 627, 693, 734
Floors, Partition and Door Fire Tests, 627 Glass, Wired, Fire Tests, 627
Grinding Flat Mirror for Siderostat Telescope. 15
Hall’s Table of Squares, 643. See LETTER, 688
Heat Transmission through Metal Plate, 661 Holding Power of Nails, 793
Ice Boxes for Water, 627
India-Rubber, 299
Isoprene and Turpentine into India-Rubber, 235 Karri Sleepers, 529
Laboratory without Change of Temperature, 235
Locomotive Firebox Failures, 111
Meteorites, 504
Monoliths, 504
Nickel Ore, 735
Padlock Cypher, 507
Paint Tests, 435
Pressure on Twist Drills, 734, 793
Punching Machine, Multiple, 661
Rails, Wear of Hard v. Soft, 734
Refrigeration in Hospital Ship, 627, 793 Relaying Rails, 793
^*563^^^’ States, Rails, Early Attempts,
Rope Cable, Largest in World, 509
Solidifying Hydrogen, 235
Squares, Hall’s Table of, 643. See LETTER, 688
Standard Gauging Cars, 529 j
Stay Bolt Fractures, 793
Steam Turbines, De Laval, 435
Steel Castings, Design of, 833 I
Steering Balloons, 844
Thermodynamic, Economy, Human Machine, 235
Timber Preservation, 724
Train Shed Construction, Jersey City, P.R.R., 145
Typewriter, “ Granville,” 244
Victorium and Monium (New Elements), 329
Wear of Hard v. Soft Rails, 734
Wear of Locomotive Tyres, 833
Wired Glass, Fire Tests, 563
Wood Sleepers, Preservatives for, 269 i
Zinc Ore Extraction by Electricity, 734 I
Zinp Oxide Reduction under Pressure, 766 '
Hletclls* See Iron and Steel and MecKanict
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Brazil Mining, 25
Canadian Outlook, 509
Compressed Air Rock Drills, 47
Copper Mining, 235
Copper in North Michigan, 361
Gold Imports, 433, 638
Gold Mining in the Transvaal, 235, 728
M‘Arthur-Forest Cyanide Extraction Process, 734
Manganese Ore in the Caucasus, 42 Placer Bed in Montana, 661
Prospecting and Sampling Ores, 793 Rhodesian Gold, 305
Rich Gold Reef, 661 South African Gold, 56
Tasmanian Tin, 361
West Australian Gold, 361, 734
j World’s Gold, 609, 833
Miscellaneous :
Astronomy at the Cape, 188
I Barry Street Improvements, 597
Bath City Privileges for the Wounded of the Transvaal War, 793
Ben Nevis Observatory, 144
Bristol Indebtedness, 528
British Fire Prevention Committee, 77, 111, 145, 175, 235, 361, 435, 563, 627, 693, 734
Buenos Ayres Population, 685
Canadian Trade with United Kingdom, 459
I Chicago Population, 73
Consul, Danish, at Sheffield, 298
Durban Population, 246
Fire, Destructive, at Sheffield, 370
Fire Prevention Experiments, 77, 111, 145, 175, 235, 361, 435, 563, 627, 693, 734
Fire Testing in Russia on the British System, 277
Forest Reserves of India, 299
Glasgow Progress, 597
Granville Typewriter, 244 Immigration to United States, 627
Indian Town Population, 433
Kynoch VV’orks, Arson at, 529
Leicester Park, 92
Lens for Allegheny Observatory, 205
Lincoln Observatory, 91
Liquid Air Companies, 395
Oil Sprinkling of Roads, 111
Paris Municipal Debt, 269
Patent Office Handbook, 111
Peace Congress, 111
Petroleum Concessions in the Caucasus, 241
Plymouth, Greater, 145
Rio de Janeiro Population, 391
Road Sprinkling, 111, 235
Roadmaking in the Transvaal, 77
Russian Roads, 504
Russian Pound (Lb.) Standard Fixed, 269 Russian Public Works, 827
Sea Water for Street Sprinkling, 235
Siberian Progress, 693
Smoke Nuisance in Paris, 77
South African Public Works, 640
“Street Railway Journal,” Special Number, 563
Sumatra Petroleum, 504
Tape for Converting English to Metric Measures, 627
Texas Floods, 202
Trans-Caucasus Pipe Line from Baku, 459 Transvaal, 77, 541
Transvaal Patent Value, 361 United States Public Lands, 827
Work Stopped by Heat, 204
N^aval:
Armour-Plate Manufacture, 792
Armour-Plate Trial, Vickers, (Japanese Ship), 298
Artificer Engineers, 329
Austria-Hungary Navy Estimates, 833 Beardmore’s Armour-Plate, 562
Bristol Channel Forts, 268 Brooklyn Navy Yard, 91 Buenos Ayres, “ Defence,” 504
Danish Battleship “ Herlug Trolle,” 410 Devonport Dockyard, 182, 205, 427, 597, 827 Devonport Dockyard Sheerlegs, 328 Dockyard Administration, 299
Engines for Dockyard Ships, 597
French Armoured Cruisers, 693
French Battleship Re-construction, 395
French Cruiser “ Amiral Gueydon,” 442 French Expenditure, 512
French Navy Estimates, 47
French Navy Programme, 661
French Submarine Boat “ Morse,” 435
French Submarine Boats, 15
H.M. Destroyer “ Cheerful,” 442
H.M. Destroyer “ Kestrel ” (Brown), 580, 614
I H.M. Destroyer “ Spiteful” (Palmer’s), 142, 689
H.M.SS., Sale of Obsolete, 661
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H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers’ Names, 299
Italian Cruiser “ Agordat,” 544
Italian Cruiser “ Varese,” 252
Japanese Armoured Cruiser “ Idzumo,” 410
Japanese Battleship “ Hatsuse,” 30
Japanese Cruiser “Yakuino” (Vulcan Company, Stettin), 92
Japanese Destroyers (Yarrow), 92,159, 476, 544, 793
Japanese Destroyers (Thornycroft), 282, 442
Lundy Island Harboui* of Refuge, 394
Naval Manoeuvres, 47
Pembroke Dock Infantry Batteries, 299
Portsmouth Defences, 693, 735
Recruiting Artificers, 329
Refrigerating Appliances in Warships, 833
Royal Yacht, New, 462, 735, 766, 827
Royal Yachts, Engines, 329
Russian Armour-Plates, 563
Russian Armoured Destroyer, 606
Russian Battleship and Cruisers, 395
Russian Battleship Salvage, 47
Russian Cruiser, 329
Russian Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Laird), 30 Shallow-Draught Steamers, 766
Ships Building for Principal Powers, 833 Swedish Cruisers, 435
Swedish New Ironclads, 426, 536, 627
Tug for Devonport, 268
United States Cruiser “ New Orleans,” Stability of, 563
United States Navy, Water-Tube Boilers, 15 Warship Trials, 660
Warships and Material Delivery, 183 Washington Navy Yard, 42
Wireless Telegraphy, 370
Obituary* See GENERAL INDEX
Physics* See Meehanioi Piers* See Harbourt
Railways :
Accident at Cockett Tunnel, Great Western Railway, 299
Accident, Holyhead, Result, 395
Accident at Victoria-Street, Manchester, 539 Andine Railway, 91
Argentine Railways, 86, 232, 427
Asia Railways, 299
Austrian Railway, 299
Automatic Couplings, 47
Barry, 14, 182, 329
Behr Monorail Line, Manchester-Liverpool, 596 Belgian Rolling Stock, 376
Belgian State Railways, 833
Bengal and North-Western Railway, 25
Brazilian Railways, 691
Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil, 268
Buenos Ayres Southern Railway, 569
Cable Traction, 734
Caledonian Railway Extensions, 328
Canadian Pacific, 124, 529
Canadian Railway Speed, 47
Cars, Pressed Steel, 235
Cars, Steel, Flat, 668
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, 175
China, German Railways in, 606
Colorado Railway Snow Block, 299
Congo Railway, 15, 621
Danish Accident Law, 563
Danish State Railways, 504, 563
Deane Valley Railway Company, 827
Electric Railway to Top of Ben Clench, 119 Fares, Second-Class, 77
Finnish Railways, 361
Fires Caused by Railways, 631
French Railways, 234 , 305
German Railways, 734
Glasgow and South-Western New Locomotive Works, 765
Grand Trunk Economics, 544
Great Central Railway and Line to London, 47, 77, 86. See GENERAL INDEX
Great Eastern Carriages for Six Passengers a Side, 15
Great Eastern Railway, 110
Great Northern Doncaster Shops, 42
Great Northern Leeds Station, 30, 42
Great Northern and Midland Railways, 492
Great Western, 182
Great Western Avonmouth Line, 299
Great VV^estern Cocketh Tunnel, 692
Great Western Llanelly to Dafen Railway, 234
Great Western Station at Bynea, 427
Great Western Widening Works, 766 Gwanda Railway, 529
Highland Railway Widening, 268
Indian Railways, 77, 112, 794, 842
Italy Rolling Stock, 476
Landslip on Midland Railway, 395
Largs Railway Extension, 394
Light Railway, Bradford and Leeds, 693
Light Railway, Cheltenham, 14
Light Railway, Corringham, Thames Haven and Kynochtown, 77
Light Railway, Girvan-Ayr, 459
Light Railway, Sheppey Island, 435
Light Railway in Somerset, 269
Light Railway for Transvaal War, 793
Light Railways, Approved, 77, 269, 339, 435, 459, 502, 693
Light Railways, Isle of Axholme, 112 Locomotive, Baldwin, 74
Locomotive, British, 307
Locomotive, Diagrams of Results, 47 Locomotive, Indian, 842
Locomotives, German, 12
Locomotive, Heavy “ Consolidation,” 833
Locomotives, United States, for the Midland, 205 Locomotives, United States, in Sweden, 627 Locomotives, United States, for Wales, 597 Locomotives, Wear of Tyres of, 833
Locomotives, Western of France, Railway, 269 London Light Railways, 504
London and South-Western Railway, 145 Mafeking Station, 214
Mexican Railways, 740
Midland Railway, 265, 329
Midland Railway Landslip, 395
Midland Railway at Mangotsfield, 299 Midland Railway Sleeping Cars, 122 New South Wales Railways, 235, 607
Kullways-ctntinufd.
New York, Manhattan Elevated Railway, 188
New Zealand, 712
New Zealand Railways, 235
North British Railway Progress, 590
North British Railway Report, 394
North British Railway Workshops, 827 Northern Pacific Railway, 572 Paris Underground Railway, 299
Pembroke and Fishguard Railway, 42 Pennsylvania Railroad, 639
Port Talbot, 182
Pressed Steel Cars, 235, 827, 832
Railway Official’s Directory, 175
Rhymney Railway, 145 I
Russian Railways, 111, 529, 734, 840 i
Russian Railways and the Westinghouse Brake, 234
Saxony Railways, 606
Scotch Railways, 395
Sheffield Railways, 528 Siberian Mail Route, 47
Siberian Railway, 299, 361
Slamming Railway Carriage Doors, 826
Sleepers of Karri Timber, 529
Soudan Railway, 734 I
South African Railways, 54, 312
South Wales Direct Railway, 234
Speeds, United States Railway, 361
Sweden Railway Projects, 736 Swedish, Stockholm Station, 627
Texas Railway Floods, 145
Trans-Caucasian Railway, 47
Uganda Railway, 111, 392 United

United

United

United States Railways, 308, 439
United States Rolling Stock, 563, 832
Vale of Glamorgan Railway, 182, 736
Welsh Railways, 394
Western of France Railway, 175 Westinghouse Brake, 234 World’s Railways, 440 Yorkshire Dales Railway, 774, 827 Yorkshire Railway Extensions, 370 Yorkshire Railways, 159
Sewage:
Bacteriological Treatment, 111, 235
Bradford, 11
Bristol Drainage, 427
Dorchester Sewage, 269
Eiland Drainage, 774
Exmouth Sewage Disposal, 269
Filtration at Crossness, 627 Johannesburg Sewage, 218 Leeds Sewage, 502 London Drainage Scheme, 606
Manaos (Brazil), 335
Ossett Sewage, 774
Paris Sewage, 389
Pollution of the Aire, 369, 404
Pollution of the Yeo, 631
Purification of Water-Carried Sewage, 734 Rotherham Sewage, 702
Sewage in United States, 175
Shipley Sewerage, 361
Stapleton Sewerage, 597
Taunton Sewage, 328 Tiverton, 14 Walsall Wood Sewerage, 509
Yeovil Sewage, 458
Shipbuilding; and Shipping;:
Aberdeen Cape Liners Call at Plymouth, 766 Avonmouth and Quebec, 111, 182
Barcroft Propeller, 15
Boat Slip on Loch Katrine, 298
Canada and Cardiff Service, 76, 111 Canadian Mail Service, 76, 111, 120, 182, 563 Cardiff and French Line, 269 Carlingford Loch Steamer, 15 Chambers’ Collapsible Lifeboats, 827 Chili and Argentine Shipping Subvention 787
Clyde, 14, 46, 76, 144, 182, 298, 370, 426, 528, 562, 630, 692, 735, 792, 826
Clyde Shipbuilding Firm, New, 46
Clydebank Shipyard Purchase, 268
Cramps, 56, 561
Danish Shipbuilding, 473
Dredgers Passage to China, 693
Drop Rudder, 338
French Merchant Marine, 77
French Steam Navigation, 128
French Transatlantic Liners, New, 427
Gyroscopic Device for Measuring Ship Oscillations, 77
Hamburg-American Company, 561 Hamburg Shipping and Commerce, 476 Harland and Wolff, 426
Ice Breaker “ Minto,” Canadian, 311 Jamaica and Great Britain Service, 182
“ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” 47 Norddeutscher Lloyd and Scottish Oriental
Company, 833
North-East Coast Shipbuilding, 370, 660, 792
Shiphiiildiiii; and Sliippiiiff—continued.
Oil Fuel Triala, 614
“ Paris,” Salvage of the, 77, 205, 329
Paul Jones and Son’s Boatbuilding Works, 827 Sailing Ship Order, 46
Sheflield and Shipbuilding, 233, 268 Stockholm Ship Repairing Works, New, 459
Sweden and German Steam Ferry, 435 Swedish Shipping Progress, 631
United States Lakes Shipping War, 563
United States Lake Shipping, 734
United States Lakes, Shipbuilding on the, 609
United States Shipbuilding, 47, 77, 175, 440
United States Shipping, 91
United States Shipping Blue Book, 151 Wrecks, 47
Shippilltf* See ShipbuHding, Ac.
Societies* See Technical, Ac., or Tradet, Ac.
Strikes* See Trade Societies, Ac.
Teclinical Societies* «&c.:
Birmingham Association of Mechanical Engineers, 606
Boston City and Franklin Bequests, 844
British Association of Draughtsmen, Manchester Branch, 536
Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institute of Engineers, 268, 394
City and Guilds Dinner, 47
City of London College Science Society, 435 Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 734 Cleveland Institute of Engineers, 631, 766 Congress on Physics, International, 111 Engineers’ Training, 435
Glasgow Chemical Industry Society, 660
Glasgow Technical Societies, 528
Institution of Civil Engineers, Glasgow Students, 735, 792
Institution of Electrical Engineers and Paris Exhibition, 691
Institution of Electrical Engineers’ Students Meetings, 627
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 660, 792
Institution of Junior Engineers, 30, 269, 734
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, (Jraduates’ Section, 555, 627, 794
King’s College Engineering Society, 529
Lecturer on Metallurgy in Glasgow University, 494
Leeds Association of Engineers, 735
Leeds Technical Education, 76
Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Gibraltar, 77
Midland Institution of Engineers, 735
Municipal Engineers at Cardiff, 15
Railway Congress, International, 77
Royal Institute of Public Health, 299
Royal Institution, 765
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 735, 792
School and College Prospectuses, 327, 369, 391
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, 119, S27
Sheffield Society of Engineers, 630
Society of Arts, 614
Society of Chemical Industry, 47, 6C6
Society of Engineers, 435, 606, 789. See Erratum, 476
Society of Model Engineers, 627
South Wales Incorporated Engineers, 394
South Wales Institute of Engineers, 495 Technical Education, 394
Universitj' College Engineering Society, 702 West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, 660 Whitworth Scholarships, 205
Yorkshire College Engineering Society, 529, 793 Telegraphy* See Electricity
Telephony* See Electricity
Trade* See Coal, Iron and Steel, i/arlcets, Shipbuilding, Electricity, and Industries
Trades Societies* Unions* Strikes* <&c.
Absenting from Work, 58
Australasian Labour Requirements, 124
Baltimore Shipbuilders’ Wages, 395
Bank Holiday, Another, 340
Belgian Strike Riots, 57
Belgium General Strike, 643
Blacksmiths, Associated, 87, 214, 280, 642, 769
Blind Brushmakers’ Strike, 340
Boilermakers and Shipbuilders’ Society, 87, 245, 372, 470, 506, 672, 803
Bolton Carpenters and Joiners, 540
Boot and Shoe Operatives, 26, 310, 438, 540, 608
Boys’ Strike in Manchester, 340
Brassworkers in Birmingham, 738
Bristol Plasterers’ Dispute, 407
Builders’ Dispute, 58, 155, 183, 407
Builders and Plasterers’ Union Amalgamation, 643
Caledonian Railway Platelayers, 27
Caledonian Railway Workers, 310
Carpenters and Joiners’ Society, 57, 214, 339, 469, 642, 769
Chicago Building Trade Stoppage, 766 Children and Work, 6C8
Church Congress, 506
Cleveland Blast-furnacemen, 46, 470
Cleveland Ironstone Miners’ Wages, 458, 507
Cleveland Miners’ Eight-Hour Day, 47
Compensation Cases, 529. See GENERAL INDIN Compositors’ Dispute, 673, 738
Conciliation Act, 214
Continentalsocialists, 540
Co-Operative Colliery, 608
Cotton Factories, Insanitary State of, 738
Cotton Spinners’ Association, 57, 155, 340, 47 642, 769
Cottonworkers’ Conciliation Board, 373 Cottonworkers’ Savings, 280
Creusot Strike, 407, 435, 439
Demarcation Strike at Birkenhead, 470 Denmark Labour War, 156, 183, 214, 246, 310 Dockers, 183, 280, 310, 340, 608
Dockyanl Labourers’ Pay Increase, 340 Dockyard Painters’ Wages, 58
Domestic Servants’ Wages, 26
Dundee Jute-Workers’ Strike, 340, 407 Durham Conciliation Board, 54
Edinburgh Builders, 27
Eight Hours’ System at Penn’s Engine Works, 563
Employers and Union Payments, 540 Engineers’ Amalgamated Society, 87, 244, 372, 606, 672, 803
Engineers and the Trades Congress, 279 Factory Act Case, 608
Factory Regulations as to Machinery, 804 Factory and Workshops Act, 87
Fair-Wage Resolution and Manchester, 643 Farm Labourers, Scarcity, 214, 280 Federation, Trades, 310, 611, 704
Female Labour in Germany, 214
Filemakers, Warrington, 507
Free Labour Association, 459, 507
French Strikes, 60, 175, 407, 435, 439
French Workers, 704
German Socialists, 506
German Trade Unions, 280
Glass Bottle Workers in Yorkshire, 642
Government Employes’ Union, 88
Great Western Railway Guards, 575
Home for Aged Miners, 608 Hop-Pickers’ Strikes, 340 Hours of Labour in 1898, 406
Hours of Labour in Different Countries, 768
Hungarian Industrial Council, 77
Illinois Steel Works, Wages, 673
Industrial Situation, 123, 244, 371, 406, 539, 672, 803, 837
Ironfounders’ Society, 57, 214, 339,

Ironmoulders’ Society, 57, 183, 310,

Jarrow Operatives’ Strike, 769
Labour Hours Abroad, 768
Labour Movements in 1898, 838
Labour at Sheffield, Dearth of, 144
Labour Statistics, 123, 244, 371, 406. 803, 837
Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Federation, 672
Lancashire Engineering Dispute, 407, 439 Leicester Builders’ Dispute, 407
Llanelly Copper Strike, 470
London Tramway Workers, 280, 704
Mid-Lancashire Engineering Employers’ Association, 769
Midland Wages Board, 26, 154, 607
Mine Stokers and Enginemen’s Dispute, 439
Miners, 27, 280, 310, 373, 470, 540, 770, 771, 838
Miners’ Conciliation Board, 770
Miners’ Conciliation Board, Lancashire, 439
Miners’ Federation, 310, 470, 541, 575, 673 Mossend Steel Workers’ Strike, 738 Municipalities and the Fair Wages Clause, 181 National Committee of Organised Labour, 608 Navvies’ Strike in Ireland, 183
North-Eastern Railwaymen, 214
North of England Board of Conciliation, 120, 310, 438, 692, 738
North London Railway Pension Scheme, 340 North Staffordshire Ironworkers, 507 Northumberland and Durham Miners, 704 Northumberland Miners, 27, 804
Old-Age Pensions, 26, 123,154, 183, 439, 703
Old-Age Pensions in European Countries, 183
Parliamentary Session Record, 87
Picketing, 606
Picketing on the Tyne, 507
Plasterers’ Dispute, 310, 340 Plumbers of Chicago, 693 Porters, Railway, Height of, 280
Postmans’ Congress, 439
Premium System of Paying Labour, 175
Railway Servants’ Congress, 469
Railway Servants’ Demands, 574
Rates of Wages in all Countries, 737
Rouen Strike, 310
Royal Park Pensions, 156
Sailors and Firemen’s Union, 704
Saturday Hospital Fund, 575
Scarcity of Labour in Sheffield, 233
Scotch Blast-furnacemen, 27
Scotch Blast-furjiacemen’s Wages, 439
Scotch Coal Conciliation Board, 643
Scotch Ironworkers’ Wages, 407
Scotch Malleable Iron Workers, 58
Trades Inions, Ktrlkes, ^e,~continned.
Scotch Steelmakei’H, 704, 738
Seamen’s Strike, 280, 309, 339, 372, 407, 438, 507
Shale Miners in Scotland, 246
Shipbuilding Eniployers’ Federation, 642 Shipping Leader and Slander, 540
Skilled Labour Report, 123, 244, 371, 406, 540 672, 803, 837
South Wales Colliery Enginemen’s Strike, 575 607
South Wales Colliery Wages, 738
South Wales Miners, 156
South Wales Railway Workers, 804
South Wales Sliding Scale, 27
Spain, Strikes in, 214, 704
Staffordshire Iron Sheetworkers’ Association, 607
Strike Riots, 150 '
Strike Statistics, 123, 244, 372, 406, 540, 672, 803, 837
Strikes in France, 60, 175, 407, 435, 439 Tinplate Workers, 27, 470
Tinplate Workers’ Strike at Bolton, 507 Trades Congress, Reform of, 507
Trades Demonstration (Hyde Park), 58
Trades Union Congress, 123, 279, 310
Trades Union Federation, 470
Trades Union Hall, London (Proposed) 470
Trades Unionists’ Newspapers, 575
Vickers’ Sheffield Labourers, 458
Wages in all Countries, 737
Wages and Hours of Labour, 406, 737, 837, 838 Wales Iron and Steelworkers’ Advance, 470 Women’s Congress, 26
Workers’ Lost Time, 395
Workmen’s Compensation Cases (Ladder v. Scaffold), 529. See GENERAL INDEX
Workmen’s Railway Tickets, 804
Year’s Labour Report, 837
Tramways:
Aberdeen Electric, 597
Barrow-in-Furness Tramways, 774
Bristol, 77
Bristol Tramways, 205
Cable, Largest Rope, in the World, 509
Cable Traction, 734
' Cologne Tramways, 810
Copenhagen, 42
Darlington Trainways, 757
Devonport Tramways, 205
Dundee Car Contract, 458
Glasgow District Tramways, 827
Glasgow Tramway Contracts, 494, 692. See Erratum^ 528
Glasgow Tramway Wires, Height of, 494
Halifax Electric, 265
Hull Tramways, 671
Leeds, 336
Leeds Electric Tramwaj’s, 561, 657, 687
Liverpool Electric Tramways, 723
Llanelly Electric Traction, 459, 597
London Tramways, 504
Morecambe, 504
Plymouth, 458
Sheffield Electric Tramways, 233
South Staffordshire, 494
Spen Valley Tramways, 144
Swansea Tramways, 427, 629
United States Street Railways, 15
Whiteinch to Loch Lomond, 827
Tiiniielliiig::
Cockett Tunnell, 692
Scotch and Irish Tunnel, 47
Simplon, Tunnelling the, 827
Vehicle^* See Cars. Jfators
W<ll*sllil>s, See Naval
Water W orks, Ae.:
Aberdeen New Works, 458
Barrow Supply, 426
Birmingham Works Progress, 833
Bristol Supply, 766
Burry Port Water Supply, 42
Cardiff Supply Works, 459, 495
Derby Supply from Derwent Valley, 638
Edinburgh Water Works Pipe Finder, 46
Edinburgh Water Works, Tulia Reservoir, 792
Halifax Supply, 369
Haverfordwest Works, 827
Leighton Buzzard Supply, 92
Llanelly Supply, 459
London Water Supply, 145, 563
Loughborough Water Inspection, 329 Midland Towns Supply, 77, 128
Mundaring Reservoir, West Australia, 329 Neath Supplj', 766
New^port Corporation Works, 145
Nicolaieff Supply, 241
North Yorkshire Supply, 305
Otley Supply, 669
Panama Aqueduct, 459
Pencoed Supply, 15
Portishead Water Company, 298
Rhondda Supply, 735
Water Waste in London, 269
Wells for Supplying Electric Stations, 15
York Water Supply, 153

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