The Engineer 1867 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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Abbey Hills Pumping Station, 176, 178, 180, 203, 206,
226, 248, 270, 271, 272
Abyssinia, Surveying in, 474
Abyssinian Expedition, 303
Accident, Railway, in India, 106
Accidents, Colliery, in North Staffordshire, 60
Act, London Traffic, 186
Acts Factory, New, 298
Adams and Whiteman's Railwa Ticket Printing
Apparatus, 3 LG
Admiralty, Mr. Seely and the, 540
Admission to the Palaces, Museums, &c., during the
Paris Exhibition, 22
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 33
Agricultural Machinery, British and Foreign, 345
Algeria, 258
Algeria, Irrigation Works in, 60
Alloy, Iron, with Tungsten 472
Alps, Railway Across the
Amber, Australian, 311
Amalgamation of South-Eastern and London and
Brighton and South Coast Railways, 462
America, Extinction of Fires in, 458
America, Monetary System of, 95
American Dovetailing Machine, 424
American Gun at Shocburyness, 97
American Ordnance, 232
American Reapers and Mowers in France, 209
Amsterdam, Slip Roof at, 28, 30
Anatomic of Ye Engineere, Yc, 470
Aneroids, Errors of, at Various Pressures, British
Association, 241
Arsenial Poisons, 130
Anti-incrustator, Electrical, Note on, 483
Apparatus for Sinking Foundations of Railway
Bridges over the Pregel, 104
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, 11, 14, 32,54, 130, 160, 179, 185
Appleby’s Donkey Pump, 129, 145
Appointments, Engineering, 73
Appointments, Naval. 61. 91
Arcs, Circular, Approximate Lengths of, 229, 273 Armour Plate, 15?n., was Made, How, 262
Artillery and Other War Material Produced, at the
Paris Exhibition, 471, 489, 509, 531
Arsenal, Explosion at the Royal, 419
Ashcroft’s New Rail, 446
Asphaltum, Trinidad, 414
Association, Manchester Boiler, 209
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Report, 344
Atlantic Telegraph, 75
Atmosphere of London. 95
Australia, South, Telegraph in, 516
Austria, Production and Manufacture of Metals in, 478
Austria, Technical Education in, 186
Austria, Telegraph in, 488
Austrian Batteries for Mountain Service, 211
Awards, Billancourt, 444
Awards, Distribution of Paris Exhibition, 1, 63
Awards, Jurors’, Powis, James and Co., 57
Awards of Prizes for Agricultural Machinery, Paris Exhibition, 472
Bailey and Co.’s Boiler Fitting, 274
Balloon at the Champs de Mars, 303
Bank, London and County, 106
Parff’s Petroleum Furnace, 487
Barnsley, Experiments with Safety Lamps, 462
Barrow-in-Furness, 279
Bates’ Prize Press, 443
Bathing Barges, 479
Batteries, Mountain Gun, 440, 442
Batteries, Austrian, for Mountain Service, 211
Bavaria, Iron and Machine Works in, 511
Beaming Machine, Self-stopping, 400
Beams, Cast Iron, 381
Beams, Strength of, 381, 405
Belgian Goods Locomotive, 199, 202
Belgians, 73
Belgian Rails, 274
Belgium, 86. 519
Berbice, Engines of the Steamer, 72, 74
Bermuda, Floating Docks for, 9
Bernay’s Centrifugal Pump, 26
Bessemer Rails in France, 124
Bethell Creosoting Process on the Strength of Timber, Effect of, 427
Bhore Ghaut Incline, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 538
Billancourt Awards, 444
Biarritz, Port of, 54
Bills, Private, of the Coming Session. 501
Bills, Private, End of the Session, 157
Birkenhead, Coal Shipment at, 11
Birmingham, Trade of, 331
Bitumen in Gas Making, 503
Block, Self-oiling Plummer, Martinet’s, 39
Blower, Roots’, 146
Board of Trade, Railway Department, 266
Boiler Explosion, Bradford, 502
Boiler Filling, Bailey and Co.’s, 274
Boiler Fittings, 169
Boiler Tubes, How, Should not be Feruled,.281
Boilers, Danubian Steamship Company’s, 146
Boilers, Evaporating Power of Steel and Iron, 137
Boilers, Priming of, 117
Boilers, Setting, 146
Boilers, Steam Exhaust Pipes Inside, 512
Boilers, Steel, 91
Boilers, Steel, Evaporation in, 58
Bolts, Parson’s, 391
Bolts of Locomotives, Cutting the Stay, 80
Bombay Irrigation of, 519
Bolts, Patent, Parson’s, 16
Bombay, Steam Road Roller for, 387
Bombay, Victoria and Albert Museum, 128, 136
Boring Machine, Diamond Rock, 296
Borers, Rock, Gems, their Cutting and Uses as, 195, 246, 267, 293
Bovill’s Patent, 408
Brake Rails, 502, 518, 539
Brakes, Clarke’s Continuous Chain, 345
Brazils, Steam Navigation in, 265
Breech-loaders, Competitive, 4
Bridge Across the Bosphorus, 222, 230
Bridge, Brigham, Cumberland, 333
Bridge, New, at Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 273, 275, 278 " . n-
Bridge, Railway, of Boats on the Rhine at Maxau, 6o, 66, 67
Bridge, Railway, over the Pregel, Foundations of, 102
Brid fiuspe nsion, over the Dordogne at Cubzac, 6, 8 Bridges, Dead Weight in, 231
Boring Machinery, Bergstrcem’s, 261
Bridges on the Highlands, Railway, 223
Bridges, New System, Ralway Structures, 219, 222, 309, 330
Bridges, Railway, 476
Bristol, 363
British Association. 185, 207
Account of Bergstroem’s Boring Machine at the Perseberg Mines, Sweden, by C. Le Neve Foster,
B. A., &c., 261
Aneroids, Errors of, at Various Pressures, by Balfour Stewart, LL.D., 241
Approximate Drawing of Circular Arcs of Given Lengths, by W. J. M. Rankine, C.E., &c., 229, 273 Constructing the Surface of Sheets, &c., New Mode, by Jos Mitchell, F.R S E., 263
Construction and Works of the Highland Railway, by Jos. Mitchell, F.R.S.E., 223
Covered Lifeboats, by Mr. Geo. Maw, F.G.S., 226
Electrical Induction of Mr. Hooper’s Insulated Wires Compared with Gutta-percha Insulated Wires, by Mr. W. Hooper, 276
Eneineerin Manufacture of Dundee, by Mr. J. G.
Orchar, 23 4
Experimen tai Researches on the Mechanical Properties of Steel, by W. Fairbairn, LL.D., 235
Flushing Lights for Beacons and Buoys, by Messrs.
D. and T. Stevenson, and Designed by Mr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S.,
Force and Matter, by Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 204
Fuel, Consumption of, by Mr. Wm. Patterson, C.E. 239
Geography and Ethnology, 219
Iron and Steel at the Paris Exhibition, by Mr. Jno.
Fernie, 294
Liberation of Chlorine from Hydrochloric Acid, by Mr. Walter Weldon, 241
Mathematical and Physical Science, 219
Mechanical Science, by Professor W. J. M. Rankine,
C. E., &c., 201
Mode of Determining the Speed of Steam Vessels at the Measured Mile, &c., by Admiral Belcher, 261
Next Meeting of, 237
President’s Address, 200
Reaping Machinery, by Rev. Patrick Bell, 233
Report on Condensation and Analysis of Tables of Steamship Performances, 229
Report of the Lunar Committee, by W. Glaisher, 224
Steam Cultivation, by W. D. Greig, 238
Stono, Decay of, Its Cause and Prevention, by Mr.
John Spiller, F.C.S., 235
Telegraph Thermometer, by Prof. Wheatstone, 250
Theory of Reciprocal Polar Figures to the Construction of Diagrams of Forces, by J. C. Maxwell, F.R.S., 402
Tourist Indicator, by Mr. Bazalgette, C.E., 238
Tunnelling Machinery, by Mr. H. Haupt, C.E., 227
Use of Movable Seats for Slide Valves, by Jas. Napier, F.R.S., and W. J. M. Rankine, LL.D., &c., 247, 336
British Association of Gas Managers: Extraction of Ammonia from Gas and the Utilisation of the Product. By Mr. Anderston, 31
British Association, Official Programme, 167
British Iron Trade, 430
Brown and Sharpe, Screwing Machine, 53, 54
Brown, Sir John, 197
Bullets in Wounds, Detection and Extraction of, 153
Bursting of the Wivern’s Gun, 426
I Bury St. Edmunds Show, 23, 26, 49, 73
Bury St. Edmunds Show, Clayton, Shuttleworth
Co., 75
Bury St. Edmunds Show, Deacon and Wood, 80
Bury St. Edmunds Show, Smith and Grace, 93
Cables and Anchors, Chain, 510
Cables, Submarine, Electrical Tests of, 18, 79
Cables and Wires, Insulated, M r. Hooper’s, 276
Caledonian Railway Company, Meeting, 281
Campooly Station, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 5
Canada. Emigration to, 438
Canal Basin Foundry, Diagrams from Engines, Constructed at, 174
Canal on Fire, Setting, 45S
Canal, Ganges, 363
Canal of the Loire, 257
Canal, Ship, in Holland, 247
Cannon, Discharge of by Electricity, 298
Cannon with a History, A, 422
Carriage, State Saloon, The East Indian Railway, 109
Carter and Edwards’ Rifle, 496
Carter and Edwards’ New Rifle Musket, 174
Casting. Gigantic, 276
Chain Cables and Anchors, 510
Challenge, Competition of Safes, Paris Exhibition, 125, 170
Channel Squadron at Sea, 224
Charing Cross Compound Rail, 519
Chassepot Rifle, 483, 516
Chatham, Siege Operations .at, 249
Chatham, Siege Works, Flying Bridge, 460
Chatwood’s Safes, 89
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products, 111, 143, 187
Cherbourg to Brest. Railway from, 81
Chili, Mining and Wages in, 541
Chimney Furnace, 125
China, Engineering in, 274
Chlorine from Hydrochloric Acid, Liberation of,
British Association, 241
Circle Maker, Johnson and Woolley’s, 534
Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ Society, 81
Chubb and Fry’s Communicating in Trains, 96
Clark’s Continuous Chain Railway Brakes, 345
Clayton, Shuttle worth, and Co., Bury St. Edmunds
Show, 75
Clerkenwell Explosion, 513
Club House, Junior Carlton, Pall Mall, 94
Coal-cutting by Machinery, 374, 519
Coal Digging in Japan, 472
Coal, Exports of, 434
Coal Exports to France, 72
Coal, Paris Exhibition, 3, 59
Coal Shipments at Birkenhead, 11
Coal, Supply of, 358
Coal, Utilisation of Small, 125
Coaling in the Pacific, 537
Collieries and Ironstone Mines Inspectors’ Reports, 466, 524
Colliery Accidents in North Staffordshire, 40
Colliery Disasters, 444
Colliery, New, near Barnsley, 274, 303
Colliery, Oaks, Opening of, 217, 269, 454, 487, 502, 514
Colliery Ventilation, 504
Commercial Competition, 462
Commercial Downfall of Great Britain, Alleged, 321,
346, 363, 428. 429, 444. 458
Commission, Sheffield, 35
Commissioner of Sewers, 358
Communicating in Trains, Messrs. Chubb and Fry’s,
96
Communication between Passengers and Guards. 419
Company, Lyman Refrigerating Transportation, 329
Company, Shareholders of Shackleford, Ford, and,
Meeting. 73
Company, Staveley Coal and Iron, 185
Company, Universal, Suez Maritime Canal, 119
Company, Worcester Engine Works, General Meeting,
106
Companies, Metal and Ore, New, 294
Companies, Metropolitan Gas, 217
Compressed Air and Water Pressure, The New Motive
Forces, 41
Compressed Fodder for the Abyssinian Expedition,
419
Condenser for Horizontal 10-Horse Engine, 493
Constructing Roadways, British Association, 263
Consumption of Fuel, British Association, 239
Consumption of Smoke in the Potteries, 47, 343
Contract for Cable between England and Belgium, 89
“ Contract,” Fleet, The, 280
Contracts, Public, 522
Conversazione, Institute of Architects’, 11
Corn Drills, Hawkes ami Spencer’s, 52
Courtney and Stephens’ 70-Horsc Marine Engine, 399,
404
Courts, New Law, 106, 153
Craft, Strange, The Mystery, 284, 301, 319, 341
Crane, Direct-Acting Steam, Trial of, 358
Crane, Overhead Traversing, 331
Cranes, Steam, Dallam Forge Company, 535
Crystal Palace, The, 434
Cubzac, Suspension Bridge Over the Dordogne at, 6, 8
Cultivation, Steam, British Association, 238
Curves, Railway, Setting out, 478
Curves, Superelevation of the Outer Rail in, 285, 323,
346
Cylinders, Jacketted, 160,179
i, and I
Dallam Forge Company, Steam Cranes, 535
Dams, Continental, Plans and Sections, 312
Danae, The, 333
Danube, Steam Navigation, 483
Danubian Steamship Company’s Boilers, 146
Darien Canal Lino, Survey of, 502, 518, 539
Davies’ Steam Striker, Paris Exhibition, 27
Davy’s, Marie, Element Compared with Daniell’s, 493 Deacon and Wood, Bury St. Edmunds Show, SO Deaths
- Bonnelli, M.
Bonnier, Fanny
Burgmann, Major-General Geo. Hildebrand
Carpmael, Esq., Wm.
Delany, Mr. Edward M. J.
De Morgan, Mr. Geo. Campbell
Faraday, Michael
Fowler, Esq., Chas.
Griffiths, Mr. Samuel
Hawthorn. Esq., C.E., Robert
Howe, Elias
Lang, Mr. Oliver W.
McGauley, Professor
May, C.E., Mr. G.
Meacham, Esq., T.
Pearse, Sarah
Peele, Edith
Purcell, Esq., W.
Rosse, Earl of
Stone, C.E., Mr. Henry
Ward, Lieutenant-General
Wheatley, Mr. Alfred
l Decay of Engineering Business, 458
De Chancourtois, M. E. B., Natural and Artificial Production of the Diamond, 33
Demagnetising Iron Ships, 38
Depression in the Hardware Trades, 519
Derbyshire Colliery Owners and Trades’ Unions, 111
Designs, Uniformity in, 320
Diagrams from Engines Constructed by the Canal
Basin Foundry Company, 174
Diagrams of Forces, Theory of Reciprocal Polar Figures to the Construction of, 402
Diagrams, Geometrical Tests of Indicator, 409
Diameter of a Circle, 519
Diamond, Natural and Artificial Production of, 33
Diamond Rock Boring Machine, 296
Diving Bell, 219
Dock, Regent’s Canal, Laying Foundation Stone, 335
Docks, Floating, for Bermuda, 9
Docks, Millwall, Society of Engineers, 109
Double-Cylinder Steam Hammer, Paris Exhibition, 17
Dovetailing Machin , American, 424
Dovetailing by Machinery, 405, 424
Drainage, Metropolitan Main, 176, 178, 180, 203, 206, 226, 248, 270, 271, 272
Drainage of Towns in the Thames Valley, 317, 372
Drying, Grain, Apparatus, 253
Dry-makings in Holland, 269
Dudgeon’s Tube Fixer, 356
Dundee, Engineering Manufacture of, British Association, 234
Durability of Rails, 522
Dutch Government, Rails for, 54
Dutch Rails, 140
Duties, Foreign and Import and Export, Metals, 73
Dykes in Holland, Critical State of, 333
Editors and Advertisers, Messrs. Powis, James, and Co., 182, 209
Education, Technical, 102, 110, 118, 285, 321, 338, 410, 429, 430, 458, 516
Education, Technical in Austria, 186
Education, Technical, in Great Britain, 36, 59, 68, 80, 90
Education, Privy Council and Scientific, 145
Education of our Workmen, 93
Efficiency of Heat Engines, 179
Electrical Anti-incrustator, Note on, 483
Electrical Machine. New, 465
Electrical Tests of Submarine Cables, 18, 79
Electricity, Animal, 373
Electricity, Simultaneous Discharge of Cannon by, 298
Embankment of Tidal Lands, 283, 534
Engine, Agricultural, Trial at Billancourt, 179
Emigration to Canada, 438
Engine, Compound, Paris Exhibition, 12, 15
Engine, Horizontal, Messrs. Fox, Walker, and Co., 484
Engine, Horizontal, Paris Exhibition, 132, 137
Engine, Horizontal Combined, at the London Jute Works, 173
Engine, Horizontal 10-Horse, Condenser for, 493
Engine, Hot Air, Shaw’s, Paris Exhibition, 6
Engine, Locomotive for, Great Eastern Railway,
Creusot, 177
Engine, Passenger, Messrs. Kitson and Co., 150,152
Engine, Passenger, Messrs. Stephenson and Co., 439, 446
Engine, Portable, M. Nillus’, 33, 34
Engine, Steam Fire, First English, fora French Town, 303
Engine, Traction, M. Albarez, 360
Engine, Traction, M. Lotz, 364
Engine, Traction, Messrs. Ransome and Sims’, 112, 117
Engineering, Atmospheric, 285
Engineering Appointments, 73
Engineering Business, Decay of, 458
Engineering in China, 274
Engineering, Foreign Mechanical, 461
Engineering, Marine, 158
Engineering, Marine, French, 57
Engineering, Marine, in the Navy, 319, 346
Engineering, Manufacture of Dundee, British Association, 234
Engineering Works at the Harbour of Refuge, 72
Engineering Works upon the Maritime Seine, &c., 394
Engineers and Contractors, 445
Engineers’ Education, 502
Engineers, Naval, 258
Engineers, Would-be-, 279
Engineers in the Royal Navy, 145
Engines, Air, 260
Engines, Air, Theory of a Class of, By W. J. M. Lan-kine, C.E., F.R.S., 141, 393
Engines and Boiler, Twin Screw Yacht, 147, 148
Engines and Boilers of the Jumna, 374, 382
Engines and Boilers, Poaching, at Lloyds Paper Mills, 70, 78
Engines, Compound, 13
Engines, Heat, Efficiency of, 179
Engines of HM. Sloop Sappho, 38
Engines, High Pressure, 510
Engines on the Highway, 142
Engines, Horizontal Non Condensing, 91, 92
Engines of the Ironclad Friedland, 53, 56
Engines, “ Locking-up,” 301
Engines, Marine, 70-Horse, 399, 404
Engineers, Mechanical, and their Prices, 381
Engines, Portable, Racing, 208
Engines, Portable, 133
Engines, Portable Steam, 158
Engines, Pumping. Cornish, 415
Engines, Pumping at Crossness, Inst. M.E., 402
Engines, Pumping, Small, 461
Engines, Road, 224
Engines, Road, Novel Race of, 185
Engines of the Steamer Berbice, 72, 74
Engines, Steam Fire, New York, 265
Engines, Three Cylinder Marine, 113
Engines, Winding, 2oO-Horse Power, 252, 255, 256
Engines, Winding, for the Moira Colliery Company, 479, 502, 518, 537
England at the Exhibition of 1867, 539
England’s Retrogression, <fcc., 321, 346, 363
English and American Iron Trades, 467
Esparto Grass, 209 . ,
Europe on the Western Hemisphere, 431.
Evaporating Power of Steel and Iron Boilers., 137
Evaporation in Steel Boilers, 58
Evaporator and Granulator, Sugar Cane, Knagg s, 401
Exhibitions, 319
Exhibitions and Bad Laws, What they have done for
England, 410
Exhibitions and their Effects, 518
Experiments with Coal Gas on Safety Lamps, 184, 204, 479
Experiments with the Mackney Gun, 311, 336, 448
Experiments with Safety Lamps, 125
Experiments on Torsion and Flexure for the Determination of Rigidities, By J. D. Everett, 5
Explosion, Boiler, 502
Explosion, Clerkenwell, 513
Explosion, Ferndale Colliery, 419, 446, 454, 48o, o46
Explosion at the Royal Arsenal, 419
Explosions, How they Occur, 523
Exports of Coal, 434
Facing up Slide Valve Seats, 261
Factories, Locomotive, of Germany and Austria, 255
Factory Acts, New, 298
Faraday, Michael, 182
Farragut, Admiral, On the Rodman Gun, 407
Ferndale Colliery Explosion, 419, 446, 454, 483, o46
Fire-arms, Museum of, 502
Fire Escape, New, 168 •
Fire Extinguishing Arrangements for the Metropolis.
By James Shand, 41
Fireproof Theatres, 500
Fires in America, Extinction of, 458
Firing Colliery Fire-damp by Means of the Electric
Spark, 483
Fittings, Boiler, 169 . ... ,
Flashing Lights for Beacon’s and Buoys (Lritisn
Association), 254, 297
Fleet, The “Contract,” 280
Floating Gun Carriages, 301
Floods in India, 456
Flying Bridge, Chatham Siege Works, 460
Fodder, Compressed, for the Abyssinian Expedition, 419
Foot-plates of Locomotives, 232
Force and Matter, British Association, 204 .
Forces, New Motive, Compressed Air and water ires-sure, 41 n R1
Foreign and Colonial Railways, 196, 286, 465, 514
Fortifications, Our, 410
Fosbery Rifle, 417, 446 .
Foundations of the Railway Bridge over the Pregel,
Fowlers’, Messrs., Experiments, Steam Plough, at the
Paris Exhibition, 204
Fox, Walker, and Co., Horizontal Engine, 484
France, Coal Exports to, 72
France, Department Railways in, 523
Franco, Mines of, 438
France, Progress in, 503, 526, 535
France, Railway Management in, 338
French Government Heavy Ordnance, 207
French Inland Navigation, 18
French Marine Engineering, 57
Friedland, Engines of the Ironclad, 53, 56
Fuel, Consumption of, British Association, 239
Fuel, Patent, 321
Fuel, Peat, 521
Fuel, Petroleum, 399
Fuel, Petroleum as, for Locomotives, 148
Fuel, Petroleum as Steam, 130
Furens Viaducts, 312, 313
Furnace Chimney, Great, 125
Furnace, Hot Blast Cupola, Krigar and Eichorn’s. 456
Furnace, Juckes’, Hart’s Modification of, 16, 35, 54, 81
Furnace, Petroleum, Barff’s, 487
Galloway, Messrs. W. and J., Horizontal Non-Condensing Engines, 91. 92
Gas Coal, Experiments with, on Safety Lamps, 184,
Gas Companies. Metropolitan, 217
Gas Down a Fit. faking, 461, 537
Gaslighting, Early, 440
Gas, Lojidon, 455
Gas-making, Bitumen in, 503
Gas Retorts, Drawing and Charging, 358
Gas, Utilisation of Blast Furnace, 73
Gas Washing Apparatus, 31
Gases, Flow of, 11, 79
Gasometers, Large, 323
Gates, Hanging Railway, 10
Gellerat’s Steam Road Roller, 476
Gems, their Cutting and Uses as Rock Borers, 195.
246, 267, 293
General Joiner. By Mr. Worssam, jnn., 210
German and Austrian Rail Manufactories, 273
Germany and Austria, Locomotive Factories in, 255
Germany, South, Notes from, 78, 504
Gii ders, Webs of, 93
Glasgow, University of, 86
Glasgow University, Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 358
Grain Drying, Apparatus, 253
Graphotype Process, 430
Grass, Esp arto, 209
Grave-digging Machine Wanted, 502
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 430
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bhore Ghaut Incline, 538
Great Ocean Ship Race, 247
Great Pacific Railway, 208
Greek Fire, 518
Grindstones, Free Grit, Ransome’s, 358
Gun, 15in., 311
Gun, American, at Shoeburyness, 97
Gun-carriages, 362
Gun-carriages, Floating, 301
Gun, Needle, Inventor of, 512
Gun, Rodman, The, 209, 280
Gun, Rodman, American View of English Experi
ments with, 155
Gun, Rodman, at Shoeburyness, 14
Gun Shields, 137
Gun, Wivern’s, Bursting of, 426
Gunboats, Double Deflecting, 298
Gunboats, New, 538
Guns, Cast Iron, Converted, 482
Guns, Converted, 144
Guns, Heavy, Connection between the Shape and their
Durability, 453. 484
Guns, Loading Monitor, 446
Guns, Mackay, 311, 336, 337, 448
Guns, Strengthened, Major PalUser’s, 133
Guns, Wrought Iron Coil, 10
Hackworth’s Dynamic Valve Gear, 457
Hale’s, Mr., Compensation from Government, 504
Hammer, Dead Stroke Power, Shaw and Justice’s, 400
Hammers, High Speed Tilt, 118
Hanging Railway Gates, 10
Harbours of Refuge, Engineering Works at the, 72
Harrison’s Method of Cleaning the Bottoms of Iron
Ships, 523
Harb’s Modification of the Juckes Furnace, 16, 35, 54,
81
Hawkes and Spencer’s Corn Drills, 52
Haye’s Steam Plough Tackle, 455
Heincke’s Apparatus, 496
Henley, Mr. W. T., Contractor for the New Cable between England and Belgium, 89
Hercules, The, 273, 435, 467
High Speed Tilt Hammers, 118
Holland, Drymakings in, 269
House of Commons, Reconstruction of, 415
Hung ary, Internal Wealth of, 451
Hurricane in the West Indies, 479
Hutchesontown, New Bridge at, 273, 275, 278
Holland, New Ship Canal, 247
Hooper’s, Mr., Insulated Wires and Cables, 276
Horse-Power, Laws of the Drawing Office and the Law of Nominal, 10
India, Railway Accident in, 106
India, Railways in, 114
India, Telegraph to, 95
Indicator, Diagrams, Geometrical Tests of, 409
Indicator, Tourist, British Association, 238
Industrial Instruction, Paris Exhibition in its Relation to, 28
Infantry Rifle of the Future, 37
Injector, Recent Improvements on the, 511, 521
Inspection, Official, of the Huddersfield and Kirkburton Railway, 263
Institution of Civil Engineers : —
Candidates as Students Admitted, 492 .
Description of the Victoria Bridge, by W. Wilson,
498
Election of Members, 487
Experiments on the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in Water, by Mr. Edwd. Byrne, M.I.C.E., 438
New Railways at Battersea, by Mr. C. D. Fox, 498
Premiums Awarded, 38, 516
Students’ Class, Creation of, 72
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Civil and Mechanical Engineers Society, 302
Description of the Pumping Engines at Crossness, by Mr. Gilbert Hamilton, 402
Steam Pile Driver, with Endless Chain, by P. B.
Eassie, 402
Steam Steering Gear, by Mr. J. McFarlane Gray
Visit to Paris, 59
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland:—
Inaugural Address of the President, 494, 524, 536
Institute of Architects. Conversazione, 11
Instruments, Philosophical, Rare, 108
Inventor of the Needle Gun, 512
India, Floods in, 456
Ireland, Railways in, 201
Iron, British Railroad, 135
Illyrian, Launch of, 203
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Other Districts, 21, 47, 61, 83, 99, 123, 139, 167,193, 217, 244, 265, 291, 307, 327, 351, 369 391, 415, 433, 451, 469, 4S8, 508, 530, 545
Iron for Making Agricultural Machinery, Useful Hint
197
Iron, Malleable Cast, 94
Iron Forts, Proposed Plan, 153
Iron and Machine Works in Bavaria. 511
Iron by Magnetism, Testing. Saxby’s Method, 463
Iron, Paris Exhibition, 64, 90, 268. 294
Iron, Pig, Dr. Percy and Air. Keely, 187
Improvements, Westminster, 260
Iron Preservatives, 177
Iron Roofs, 182
Iron Trade, 113
Iron Trade, British, 430
Iron Trade of North Staffordshire, 537
Iron Trades, English and American, 457
Iron with Tungsten, To Alloy, 472
Ironworks, South Boston, U.S.,453
Ironworks in Wales, 130
Ironclads, 130
Irrigation of Bombay, 519
Irrigation Works in Algeria. 60
Iron, Melting, with Charcoal, 405, 425, 457
Jacketted Cylinders, 160, 179
Japan, Digging Coal in, 472
Japan, Mining in, 250
Jensen’s Roller Wheel Gearing, 493
Johnson and Woolley's Circle Maker, 534
Jottings about Thames Steamers, 303
Jupkes’ Furnace, Hart’s Modification of, 16, 35, 54, 81
Jumna, Trial Trip of, 47
Junior Carlton Club House, Pall Mall, 95
Jupiter’s Moons, Disappearance of, 135
Jurors’ Awards, Powis, James, and Co., 57
Krigar and Eichorns’ Hot Blast Cupola Furnace, 456
Knagg’s Cane Sugar Evaporator and Granulator, 401
Lamp for Wellington Pier, Bombay, 333
Lamps, Safety, 502
Lamps, Safety, Experiments with, 125, 462
Lamps, Safety, Experiments with Coal Gas on, 184, 204, 479
Lamps, Safety, in Mines, 303, 479
Landtsheer’s, M., Compound Engine, 12, 15
Lattice Arches, 481, 499, 521
Launch of the Illyrian, 203
Law Courts, New, 106, 153
Law Intelligence :—
Blake v. Archer, 422
Bovill v. Cowan, 100
Bowditch v. Baker, 266
Laws of the Drawing Office and the Law of Nominal
Horse-Power, 10
Laws, Labour, New, 250
Leading Articles
Algeria, 258
American Ordnance, 232
American View of English Experiments with the
Rodman Gun, 155
Assistant Engineer and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, 14
Atlantic Telegraph, 75
Barrow-in-Furness, 279
Bridges, Dead Weight in, 231
British Association, 207
Bursting of the Wivern’s Gun, 426
Canal of the Loire, 257
Commercial Competition, 462
Conversion of our Wooden Ships, 134
Converted Cast Iron Guns, 482
Durability of Rails. 522
Editors and Advertisers, 182
Education of our Workmen, 93
Engineers and Contractors, 445
Engines, Locking-up, 301
England at the Exhibition of 1867, 539
Evaporation in Steel Boilers, 58
Event of the Year, The, 405
Exhibitions, 319
Faraday, Michael, 182
Fireproof Theatres, 500
Floating Gun Carriages, 301
Foot-plates of Locomotives, 232
Foreign Mechanical Engineering, 461
French Marino Engineering, 57
Great Pacific Railway, 208
Gun Carriages, 362
Infantry Rifle of the Future, 37
Injector, The, 521
Iron Roofs, 182
Iron Trade, 113
Locomotives, Outside and Inside Cylinder, 341
Magnetism of Nickel and Cobalt, 76
Major Palliser’s Strengthened Guns, 133
Malleable Cast Iron, 94
Marine Engineering in the Navy, 319
Martin Process of Steel Making, 499
Metropolitan Railway, 341
Mokta-el-Hadid, 302
Monetary System of America, 95
Patent Jurisdiction, 482
Peat Fuel, 521
Portable Engines, 133
Prime Cost, 405
Professional Monopoly, 75
Public Contracts, 522
Public Works in Spain, 426
Pumping Engines, Small, 461
Raciug Portable Engines, 208
Rails, 539
Railway Legislation, 13
Railway Traction, 361
Railways in India, 114
Revolvers, 426
Road Making by Steam, 301
Rodman Gun, 280
Rodman Gun at Shoeburyness, 14, 209
Seely, Mr., and the Admiralty, 540
Self-acting Railway Signals, 231
Sewage, 257
Sheffield Commission, 35
Ship Breaking, 361"
Smoke and Stone, 258
Society of Engineers, 113, 134
Steam on the Highway, 155 *
Steel v. Iron Rails, 499
Steel Rails, 425
Storm Warnings, 383
Subaqueous Projectiles, 14
Suez Canal, 113
Technical Education in Great Britain, 36
Trade Marks, 445
Trades’ Union Legislation, 406
Uniformity in Designs, 320
Variry Waterworks, 383
Ventilation, 384
Water and Sewage, 75
Waterwitch, 207
Waterworks Legislation, 481
Webs of Girders, 93
Working Steam Expansively, 181
Would-be Engineers, 279
Leather, Paris Exhibition, 284
Leeds Association of Foremen Engineers, Annual Dinner, 502
Leeming’s Looms, 54
Legislation, Railway, 13
Lrtters to the Editor:—
Air Engines, Wm. McNaught, 260
Alleged Commercial Downfall of Great Britain,
E. K. Dutton, 429
Alleged Commercial Downfall of Great Britain, C. H., 346
Alleged Commercial Downfall of Great Britain, W. H. Harrison, 321, 428
Alleged Commercial Downfall of Great Britain, J. 8., 444
Alleged Commercial Downfall of Great Britain,
B. O. W., 346, 458
Alleged Restriction of Patents, Wm. Spence, 537
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, An Assistant, 130, 160
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, An Assistant C.E., 11
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent Society. D. A., 54
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent Society, A. B., 11
Assistant Engineers’and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, E. B., 11
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, S. 13., 54
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Sjciety, J. G. U., 54
Letters to the Editor:—
Assistant Engineers’and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent Society, Jas. Conder, 54=
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, A Draughtsman, 179
Assistant Engineers’and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, Inquirer, 11
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, E. J,, 11
Assistant Engineers’and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, Metallurgist, 32
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, Jos. Newton, 54
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent Society, Thos. Prescott, 54
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, Spero, 11
Assistant Engineers* and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, J. T., 54
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent Society, 8. J. Walters, 11
Assistant Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s Benevolent
Society, Permanent Way, 11
Atmospheric Engineering, Jno. Scoffern, M.B., 285
Bathing Barges, B. 0. W., 479
Brake Bails, A Railway Inspector, 502
Brake Rails, T. S. P., 518, 539
Bury St. Edmunds Show, Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co., 75
Bury St. Edmunds Show, Deacon and Wood, 80
Bury St. Edmunds Show Awards, Smith and Grace, 93
Cast Iron Beams, Webster, 381
Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Society, C. Dawson, 81
Colliery Disasters, H. W. Reveley, 444
Compound Ordnance, J. S. Morris, 130
Converted Ships, Wm. Forde, 130
Cost Price, J. B., 405
Covered Lifeboats, A Young Mechanic, 298
Cutting the Stay Bolts of Locomotives, T. W.
Rumble, 80
Darien Canal, B. O. W., 518
Decay of tho Engineering Business, R. Waygood, 458
Diagrams of Forces Applied to Frames, W. J. M.
Rankine, 428
Double Deflecting Gunboats, J. M. Hyde, 298
Dovetailing by Machinery, T. Brown, C.E., 405
Efficiency of Heat Engines, P. Shaw, 179
Electrical Tests of Submarine Cables, Rd. Laming, 79
English and American Iron Trades, B., 457
Esparto Grass, T. Routledge, 209
Facing up Safety Valve Seats, J. W. Mann, 261
Flashing Lights for Beacons, &c., W. D. Hart, 297
Flight of Projectiles, T., 502.
Flow of Gases, Thos. Baldwin, 11
Flow of Gases, R. D. Napier, 79
French Exhibition, The, E. Lacroix, 285
French Government Heavy Ordnance, H. P. Gaudet et Cie., 207
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, J. L. Haddan,
C.E., 430
Greek Fire, W. O’Brien, 518
Handyside’s, Messrs., Winding Engine, Scrutator, 502
Hanging Railway Gates, M;, 10
High-speed Tilt Hammers, H. W. Reveley, 118
Hurricane in the West Indies, H. E. Austen, Lieut.-
Col., 479
Ironclads, W., 130
Jet Pumns. O. R., 502, 537
Jacketted Cylinders, Aveling and Porter, 160
Jacketted Cylinders, E. R. andF. Turner, 179
Jucke’s Furnace, Messrs. Hart’s Modification of, Two Engineers, 54
Jucke’s Furnacjs, F. Colyer and Co., 35, 81
Juror’s Awards, Powis, James, and Co., 57
La Cere and Busseau d’Ahun Viaducts, Wm. Nord-ling, lu
Lattice Arches, C., 521
Lattice Arches, J. E. C., 481
Lattice Arches, N. D. Y., 499
Law of the Drawing Office the Law of Nominal
Horse-Power, Rob Roy, 10
Marine Engineering in the Navy, W. F., 316
Marine Engineering, Paris Exhibition, 1867, N. P.
Burgh, 158
Mechanical Engineers and their Prices, Cost Price,
381
Melting Iron with Charcoal, W. A., 405
Melting Iron with Charcoal, R. F. Mackenzie, 457
Metropolitan Railway, B. D., 381
Metropolitan Railway, P. O., 478
Moira Engines, Walter Scott, 518, 537
Moira Winding Engines, (
Money Orders on the Continent, E. D., 521
Mountain Locomotives, Mont Cenis Railway, R. M., 537
Newspaper Rattening, A. B., 179
Newspaper Rattening, Powis, James, and Co., 209
Ordnance, J. M. Girdlestone, 518
Paraire Looms, Thos. Martin, 10 1
Paraire’s Loom, E. L. Paraire, 32
Paris Exhibition, Prize Medals, Merryweather and
Sons, 57
Park Railings, An Old Londoner, 297
Patent Commission Free Library, Wm. Spence, 32
Patent Law, A. V. Newton, 380
Patent Law as it is, Wm. Spence, 81
Patent Law Reform, Engineer, 380
Patent Law Reform, F. L., 338
Patent-office Library, W. Spence, C.E., 380
Patents, but Better Patents, Edw. K. Dutton, 338
Patents or no Patents, F. W. Campin, 286
Patents or no Patents, W. H., 286
Patents or no Patents, F. L., 33, 80, 81,118,158, 209, 260
Patents or no Patent's, Nemo, 286
Patents or no Patents, Common Sense, 286
Pepper’s Ghost, J. H. Pepper, 346
Petroleum as Steam Fuel, J. Richardson, 130
Portable Steam Engines, J* Pinchbeck, 158
Prime Cost, Geo. Sparkes, jun., 502
Priming of Boil ers, R. D. Napier, 117
Railway Management in France, Viator, 338
Railways in Queensland, Chas. Fox and Son, 118
Railways in Turkey, C. W. Eddy, 458
Raising the Druid, Gwynne and Co., 297
Raising the Steamship Druid, J. W. Roberts, 323
Ratchet Brace, J. Cripps, 80
Ratchet Brace, A. Mathieson and Son, 118
Remarkable Trip, Thos. Boulton, 160
Roads in France, Your Correspondent, 207
Safety Lamps, F. Foster, 502
Scientific Discussion in Manchester, H. S. M. S., 257
Second Law of Thermodynamics, W. J. M. Rankine
32, 54
Setting out Railway Curves, G. J. M., 478
Sewage, Thos. Fenwick, 321
Ship Ventilation, W. Cross, 13
Simpson’s, Capt., System of Propulsion, F. Wise, 155
Simultaneous Discharge of Cannon by Electricity
W. Riddle, 298
Slide Valves, M. Wardle, 261
Smoke and Stone, Jno. Spiller, 285
Society of Engineers, Observator, 130
Steel Boilers, Hie et Ubique, 91
Steel Rails, Robt. Mushet, 444, 457
Street Horse Railway, B. O. W., 323
Strength of Beams, T. M. Cleemau, 381
Strength of Beams, M. D. Y., 405
Suez Canal, D. A. Lange, 32
Superelevation of the Outer Rail in Curves, D. Dav 285, 346
Survey of the Darien Canal Line, E. Cullen, 502, 539
Superelevation of Rails on Curves, W. Johnson, 323
Taking Gas down a Pit, Mining Engineer 537
Taking Gas down a Pit, W. H., 461
Technical Education, A. Adrian!, SO
Letters to the Editor :—
Technical Education, Hyde Clarke, 118
Technical Education, G. G., 321, 410
Technical Education, P. O. Ws, 285
Technical Education, Practical Engineer’s, W. S. EL. 429
Technical Education, Practical Engineers’, F. II. W., 458
Technical Education, Practical Engineers’, A Pupil, 430, 502
Technical Education, Practical Engineers, B. 0. W., 338
Testing the Truth of an Indicator Diagram, N. P.
Burgh, 409
Three-Cylinder Marine Engines. E. R. Dutton, 113
Transactions of the Society of Engineers, Thomas Adams. 380
Trinity House Light at Paris, J. N. Douglas, 118
Trinity House Light at Paris, S. Hodge and Sons, 93
Trinity House, the Paris Exhibition, D. M. Henderson, 91
Wanted, a Grave Digging Machine, “Anthony Wobblejaws,” 502
Waterwitch, Viper Vixen, W. B., 179, 260
Waterworks Legislation, “ Sheffield,” 518, 537
What Exhibitions and Bad Laws have done for
England, R. Waygood, 410, 518
Westminster Improvements, R. J. M., 260
What are We to do with Our Sewage, H. A. James,
C. E,479
Wood Working Machinery, Paris Exhibition, Powis, James, and Co., 158
Wood Working Machinery, Paris Exhibition, S. Worssam, 130
Woolwich Catastrophe, J. Scoffern, M.B., 346
Woolwich Catastrophe, Philander Shaw, 32, 57, 80
Library, Patent Commission, Free, 32
Lifeboats, Covered, 298
Lifeboats, Covered, British Association, 226
Light, Flashing, for Beacons and Buoys, British
Association, 254, 297
Light at Paris, Trinity House, 118
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Lloyd’s Paper Mills, Poaching Engines and Boilers, 70, 72, 78
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Locomotive, Belgian Goods, 199, 202
Locomotive Factories of Germany and Austria, 255
Locomotives, Climbing, 5
Locomotives, Cutting the Stay Bolts of, 80
Locomotives, Foot-plates of, 232
Locomotives, Mountain, 537
Locomotives, Outside and Inside Cylinder, 341
Locomotives, Paris Exhibition, 378, 379, 380, 420, 473, 517
Locomotives, Russian, 414
Loire, Canal of, 257
London, Atmosphere of, 95
London and County Bank, 106
London Gas, 455
London, Shipbuilding Yards, 201
London Association of Foremen Engineers :—
Election of Members, &c., 327
Half-yearly Meeting, 38
Monthly Meeting, 399
Sliding and Screw-cutting Lathe, by Mr. W. Bragg,
London Traffic Act, 186
Looms, Leeming’s, 54
Looms, Paraire, 10, 32
Lord Warden, Trial Trip of, 259
Lubricator, Schloesser’s, 443
Lunar Committee, Report of, 224
Lyman Refrigerating Transportation Company, 329,
Machinery, British and Foreign Agricultural, 345
Machinery, Printing, 245
Machinery, &c., Tenders Accepted by the Liverpool
Town Council, 11
Machines, Type, 187
Mackay Guns, 311, 336, 337, 448
Magnetism of Nickel and Cobalt, 76
Magnetism, Testing Iron by, Saxby’s Method, 463
Malleable Cast Iron, 94
Manchester Boiler Association, 209
Manchester Geological Society, 130
Manufactures in Sweden, 294
Marble Polishing Machine, Pyrenean, 516
Marine Engineering in the Navy, 319, 346
Market, Smithfield, New Meat and Poultry. 151, 154 172, 198,316
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Martinet’s Self-Oiling Plummer Blocks, 39
Martin Process of Steel Making, 499
Maxau, Railway Bridge of Boats on the Rhine at, 65 66, 67 ’
Mechanical Industry in Russia, 537
Mechanical Science, 89
Mechanical Prize, Paris Exhibition, Merry weather and Sons, 57
Melting Iron with Charcoal, 405, 425, 457
Merry weather and Sons, Prize Medals, Paris Exhibition, 57
Metal and Oro Companies, New. 2b-t
Metals in Austria, Production and Manufacture of, 478
Metals, Export of to the United States, bo
Metals, Foreign Import and Export Duties, 73
Metals, Machinery and Manufactures, Past and Present, 185
Metals, Now Belgian Tariff, 111
Meter, Gas, Standard, 413
Meter, Water, Myer’s, 386
Meters, "Wet Gas, 375
Metropolitan Board of Works, 541
Metropolitan Gas Companies, 217
Metropolitan Main Drainage, Abbey ‘Mills, Station, 176, 178, 180, 203, 206, 226, 248, 270, 271, 272
Metropolitan Railway, 341, 381, 425, 478
Metropolitan Street Traffic, 496
Metropolitan Tramways, 440, 537
Mhow-kee-Mullee Viaduct, Great Peninsula Railway, 519
Microscopes, Paris Exhibition, 15
Midland Railway, Extension of, 116
Mill, Destruction of the Pittsburgh Rolling, 504
Millwall Docks, Inspection of Society of Engineers, 109
Mines, Collieries, and Ironstone Inspectors’ Reports, 466, 524
Mines of France, 438
Mines and Metals, Prussia, 438
Mines, Society, Yorkshire, Inspection of, 438
Mines, Ventilation of, 492
Mining in Japan, 250
Mining in Turkey and Spain, 243
Mining and Wages in Chili, 541
Ministerial Whitebait Dinner, 135
Miscellanea, 7, 29, 55, 69, 87, 107, 131, 149,175, 205, 225, 251, 277, 295, 318, 339, 359, 377, 403, 423, 441, 459, 475, 495, 515, 533
Moira Colliery Company, Winding Engines for, 479, 502, 518, 537
Mokta-el-Hadid, 302
Molecular Physics, 536
Money Orders on the Continent, 521
Monetary System of America, 95
Monopoly, Professional, 75
Mont Cenis Railway, Mountain Locomotives, 537
Mont Cenis Railway, Opening of, 179
Mont Cenis Tunnel and Railway, 106,108, 315, 362, 399, 482
Mountain Mortars, 535
Movable Scats for Slide Valves, British Association, 247, 336
Museum of Fire-arms, 502
Museum, Victoria and Albert, Bombay, 128, 133
Myers’ Water Meter, 386
Napier and Rankine’s Slide Valve, 336
Natal Railway, 504
Naval Appointments, 61, 91, 174, 197, 224, 297, 363, 376, 431, 452, 503, 537
Naval Architecture, Instruction in, Privy Council, 148
Naval Engineers, 258
Naval, French, Exhibits, Paris Exhibition, 114
Navigation, French Inland, 18
Navigation, River, Barrages and Works, 334, 354, 357
Navigation, Steam, in the Brazils, 265
Navigation, Steam, Danube, 483
Navy, French, Addition to, 327
Newspaper Rattening, 179, 209
New York Steam Fire Engines, 265
Nickel and Cobalt, Magnetism of, 76
Nillus, M., Portable Engine, 33, 34
North London Railway, 259, 280
Northumberland, Mr. Seely and the, 197
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Notes from Paris, 78, 152, 430
Notes from Southern Germany, 78, 504
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Oaks Colliery, Opening of, 217, 269, 454, 487, 502, 514
Opara, Harbour of, 532
Opening of the Mont Ccnis Railway, 179
Ordnance, 518
Ordnance, American, 232
Ordnance, Compound, 130
Ostend, 72
Outside and Inside Cylinder Locomotives, 641
Pacific, Coaling in, 537
Packing, Self-Lubricating, 185
Palliser’s, Major, Strengthened Guns, 133
Paper Making Machine, Lloyd’s Paper Mills, 71, 72
Panama Railway, 492
Paraire Looms, 10, 32
Paris Exhibition, 25,141, 169, 285, 424
Admission to the Palaces, Museum, &c., during the Exhibition, 22
American Locomotive, 137
American Reapers and Mowers, 209
Artillery and Other War Material, 471, 48 9, 509,531
Awards, Distribution of, 1, 63, 197
Awards of Prizes for Agricultural Machinery, 472
Boiler Fittings, 169
Challenge, Competition of Safes, 125,170
Chatwood’s Safes, 89
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products, 111, 187
Coal, 3, 59
Compound Engine, 12
Dams, Plans, .and Sections of, 312, 313
Danubian Steamship Company’s Boilers, 146
Davies’ Steam Striker, 27
Diamond Rock Boring Machine, 296
Diving Bell, 219
Double-Cylinder Steam Hammer, 17
Engine, Horizontal, Messrs. Fox, Walker, and Co., 484
Engine, Horitontal, M. Prosper Vandenkerchovc, 132,137
Engines of the Ironclad Friedland, 53, 56
Engines, Hot Air, Shaw’s, 6
Engine, Locomotive, Great Eastern Railway Company, 177
Engine, Passenger, Messrs. Kitson and Co., 150, 152
Engine, Traction, M. Albarez, 360
Engine, Traction, M. Lotz, 364
Engineering, Marine, 158
Engines of H. M. Sloop Sappho, 38
French Naval Exhibits, 114
Furens Viaduct, 312, 313
Gems, their Cutting and Uses as Rock Borers 195
246, 267, 293 ' ’
Iron, 64, 90
Iron and Steel, 268, 294
Leather, 284
Locomotive, Belgian Goods, 190, 202
Locomotives, 378, 379, 3S0, 420, 473, 517
Les Mondes, 11
Machine Tools, 116, 144
Martinet’s Self-Oiling Plummer Block, 39
Microscopes, 15
Portable Engine, M. Nilins’, 33, 34
Printing Machinery, 245
Prize Medals, Merry weather and Son, 57
Prizes, M Cormick, 108
Prizes, Nicholson, N., 108
Prizes, Wood, W. A., 108
Pump and Engine, Q Wynne’s Combined Centrifugal,
Railway Bridge of Boats on the Rhine at Maxau, 65, 66, 67
Railway Structures, New System of Bridges, &e., 219, 222, 309, 330
Relation to the Industrial Instruction, 28]
Reports by English Artisans, On the, 60
Paris Exhibition : —
River Navigation Barrages and Works, 334, 354, 357
Root’s Blower, 146;
Schlaesser’s Lubricator, 443
Screwing Machine, Messrs. Brown and Sharpe, 53
Small Arms, 315, 342, 353, 385, 408, 426
Societe d’Encouragcment in Connection with the Exhibition, 4
Steam Plough Experiments, 263, 294
Steam Plough Experiments, Messrs. Fowler’s, 204
Stevenson and Co.’s Passenger Engine, 439, 446
Textile Machinery, 309, 329
Trinity House, at the, 63, 91
Trinity House Light, 93
Ventilation of the Main Building, 171
Wood-working Machinery, 130, 158
Wood-working Tools, 371
Palis, Admiral, On Converted Ships, 466
Paris, Notes from,78, 152, 430
Paris, Sewerage of, 263
Paris, Transformations in, 311
Park Gate Works, Rotherham, 333
Park Railings, 297
Parsons’ Patent Bolts. 16, 391
Patent Commission Free Library, 32
Patent Jurisdiction, 4«2
Patent Law, 280
Patent Law as it is, 81
Patent Law Reform, 338, 380
Patent-office Library, 380
Patents, Alleged Restriction of, 537
Patents, Number Passed, &c., 157
Patents or No Patents, 33, 80, 118, 15S, 2C9, 260, 286
Patents, but Better Patents, 338
Peat Fuel, 521
Peet’s Patent Valve, 89
Percy, Dr., and Seely’s Pigs, 187
Pepper’s Ghost, 346
Perseids, Return of, 135
Peto, Betts, and Crampton, Examination of, 323
Petrified Forests, .511
Petroleum Fuel, 399
Petroleum as Fuel for Locomotives, 143
Petroleum as a Fuel for Steam Fire Engines, 329, 353
Petroleum as Steam Fuel, 130
Philosophical Instruments, Rare, 108
Photographic Improvements, 11
Physics, Molecular, 536
Pianoforte, Steam, 5 lO
Pile Driven with Endless Chain, Inst. M.E., 402
Pipes, Steam Exhaust, Inside Boilers, 512
Pittsburgh Rolling Mill, Destruction of. 504
Plates, Swedish Steel, Experiments with, 126
Plough, Steam, Trials at. Evry-sur-Seine, 294
Plough, Steam, at the Paris Exhibition, 201, 263
Plough Tackle, Steam, Hayes’, 455
Points, Improvements in, 96
Poisons, Animal, 130
Polishing Machine, Pyrenean Marble, 516
Pollution of Rivers, &c., 519
Polyphant Quarries, 303
Polytechnic Institution, 4, 415
Pooley and Son, Weighing Machines, 88. 89
Portsmouth Waterworks, 118
Powis, James, and Co., Editors and Advertiser3, 182, 209
Powis, James, and Co., Jurors’ Awards, 57
Preservatives, Iron, 197
Press, Prize, Bates’, 443
“ Prime Cost,” 405, 502
Priming of Boilers, 117
Printing Machinery, 245
Privy Council and Instruction in Naval Architecture, 148
Privy Council and Scientific Education, 145
Printing Railway Tickets, Apparatus, 316
Prizes, Paris Exhibition, 108
Products, Chemical and Pharmaceutical, 187
Professional Monopoly, 75
Progress in France, 51'3, 526, 535
Projectile, New, Mons. Bassompierre’s Invention, 111
Projectiles, Flight of, 502
Projectiles, Resistance of the Air to the Motion of, 417
Projectiles, Subaqueous, 14
Projectiles, Velocities of, 344
Propulsion, Capt. Simpson’s System of, 39, 155
Prosecutions against a Colliery Owner for Smoko
Nuisance, 443
Prussia, her New Mines and Metals, 438
Prussia, Small Arms in, 530
Prussian Railways, 66
Puddling Machines, 493
Pump, Air, The Sprengel, 26
Pump, Centrifugal. Bernay’s, 26
Pump, Donkey, Appleby’s, 129, 145
Pump and Engine, Combined Centrifugal, 297
Pump, Hand-Power Centrifugal, 538
Pumps, Donkey Steam, 304
Pumps, Floating Drainage, 344
Pumps, Jet, 502, 537
Pyrenean Marble Polishing Machine, 516
Quarries, Polyphant, 303
Queensland, Railways in, 118
Race, Great Ocean Ship, 247
Race, Novel, of Road Engines 185
Racing, Portable Engines, 208
Rail, Compound, Charing Cross, 519
Rail Manufactories, German and Austrian, 273
Rail. New, Ashcroft’s, 446
Railings, Park, 297
Rails, 589
Rails, Belgian, 274
Rails in Belgium, 498
Rails, Brake, 502, 518, 539
Rails, Durability of, 522
Rails, Dutch, 140
Rails for the Dutch Government, 54
Rails, Old, 144
Rails, Steel, 425, 444, 457
Rails, Steel versus Iron, 499
Rails, Wear and Teai' of, 422
Railway Across the Alps, 140
Railway, Atlantic and Great Western, Report, 344
Railway Bridges, 476
Railway, Bridges on the Highland, 223
Railway from Cherbourg to Brest, 81
Railway Department, Board of Trade, 266
Railway, East India, State Saloon Carriage, 109
Railway, Great Indian Peninsula, 430
Railway, Great Indian Peninsula, Campooly Station, 5
Railway, Great Pacific, 208
Railway, Huddersfield and Kirkburton, Official Inspection of, 263
Railways. Indian, 114
Railway Improvements, 323
Railway Legislation, 13
Railway Management in France, 338
Railway Matters, 7, 29, 55, 69, 87, 107, 131. 149,175, 205, 225, 251, 277, 295, 318, 339,359, 377, 493, 423,441, 459, 475, 495, 515, 533
Railway, Metropolitan, 441, 381, 435, 478
Railway, Midland, Extension of. 115
Railway, Mont Cenis, 315, 262, 399, 482
Railway, Mont Cenis, Opening of, 179, 315
Railway, Natal, 504
Railway, New Midland Extension’to Barnsley, 358
Railway, North London, 259, 280
Railway, Panama, 492
Railway, Portable, for Abyssinia, 446
Railway, Proposed in South Yorkshire. 443
Railway, South-Eastern, Now Line, 119
Railway, Street Horse, 323
Railway Structures, New System of Bridges, 219, 222 , 309, 330
Railway Traction, 361
Railways, Department, in France, 523
Railways, Foreign, 116, 152
Railways, Foreign and Colonial, 196, 286, 465, 514
Railways in Ireland, 201
Railways, Prussian, 66
Railways in Queensland, 118
Railways, Roumanian. 492
Railways in Russia, 308
Railways. South-Eastern, London, and Brighton, and
South Coast, Amalgamation of, 462
Railways in Turkey, 344, 372, 436. 458
Raising the Steamship Druid, 263, 297, 323
Raising Water from Wells, 204
Rankine, W. J. M., Application of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to a Perfect Steam Engine and a Perfect Air Engine, 85
Ransome and Sons, Traction Engine, 112,117
Ransome’s Free Grit Grindstones 358
Ratchet Brace, 80
Ratchet Brarte, Useful, 118
Rattening, Newspaper, 179, 209
Reaping Machines, Trial of, 211
Reaping Machinery, British Association, 233
Reapers and Mowers, American, in France, 209
Reconstruction of the House of Commons, 415
Regent’s Canal Dock, Laying Foundation Stone of, 335
Report of the Lunar Committee, 224
Report of Metal and Engineering Works on the Continent, 511
Report Relative to Technical Education, 59, 68, 90,102
Reports by English Artisans on the Paris Exhibition, 60
Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles, 417
Retorts, Gas, Drawing and Charging, 358
Revolvers, 426
Rifle, Chassepot, 483, 516
Rifle, TheFosbery, 417, 446
Rifle, Infantry, of the Future, 37
Rifle Musket, New, Messrs. Carter and Edwards’, 174, 496
Rifle, Snider, Modification of, 68
Rifle, Soper’s, 496
Rifles, New Central-fire Breech-loading, T. Wilson’s, 197
Rifles, Long and Short, 3
Rigidities, Experiments on Torsion and Flexure for the Determination of, 5
Roads in France, 207
Roadway, New Mode of Constructing, British Association, 263
Rocks, Origin of, Revealed by the Microscope, 315
Rodman Gun, The, 209, 280
Rodman Gun, American View of English Experiments with the, 155
Rodman Gun at Shoeburyness, 14
Roller, Road, Steam, 300, 301
Roller, Road, Steam, for Bombay, 387
Roller, Road, Steam, M. Gellerat’s, 476
Roller, Road, Steam, Trial of, 327
Roof, Slip, at Amsterdam, 28, 30
Roof over the Wellington Pier, Bombay, 833, 840
Roofs, Iron, 182
Root’s Blower, 146
Rotherham, Park Gate ‘Works, 333
Roux’s, M., System of Sheathing Ships, 355, 356
Royal Agricultural Society at Bury St. Edmunds, 23, 26, 49, 73
Royal Navy, Engineers in, 145
Royal Polytechnic Institution, 512
Russia, Mechanical Industry in, 537
Safes, Challenge Competition of Paris Exhibition, 125, 170
Safes, Ch at wood’s, 89
Sappho, Engines of H.M. Sloop, 38
Sawmakers, Sheffield, 427
Saws, Mechanical, Mr. J. W. Worssam, jun., 365, 395
Saxby’s Method of Testing Iron by Magnetism, 463
Schloesser’s Lubricator, 443
Scotland, its Trade and Operations, 21, 48, 62, 84, 100, 124, 140, 168, 193, 218, 244, 265, 292. 307, 328, 351, 370, 392, 434, 452, 470, 488, 508, 530, 546
Screwing Machine, Messrs. Brown and Sharpe, 53, 54
Second Law of Thermodynamics, 32, 54, 57, 80, 85
Seely, Mr., and the Admiralty, 540
Self-lubricating Packing, 185
Seeley, Mr., and the Northumberland, 197
Self-registering Railway Signals, 231
Sessions of the Society d’Encouragement in Connection with the Exhibition, 4
Setting Boilers, 146
Sewage, 257, 321
Sewage, What to do with it, 479
Sewage Works, Whitehaven, 233
Sewerage of Paris, 263
Sewers, Outfall, in the Thames Mud-bank, 523 .
Shand, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Jas., Fire-extinguishing Arrangement, 41
Shareholders of Shackleford, Ford, and Co., Meeting of, 73
Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s Combined Drilling and Slotting Machine,. 116
Sheathing Ships, M. Roux’s System, 355, 356
Shaw and Justice’s Dead Stroke Power Hammer, 400
Shaw’s Hot-air Engine, Paris Exhibition, 6
Sheffie’d Commission, 35
Sheffield File-maker, Feat of, 335
Sheffield Sawmakers, 427
Shield’s Gun, 137
Ship-breaking, 361
Shipbuilding Yards, London, 201
Ships, Converted, Admiral Paris, 466
Ships, Converted, 130, 134
Ships, Iron, Demagnetising, 38
Ships, Iron, Harrison’s Method of doming the Bottoms of, 523
Ships’ Machinery, 511
Ships, Something of a few of our, 343
Ships, Waterwitch, Vixen, and Viper, 161, 179, 230
Shipwrecks, 321
Shoeburyness, American Gun at, 97
Siege Operations at Chatham, 249
Signals, Railway, Self-Registering, 231
Silkworm Disease, 11
Simpson, Mr. J. H., Single-wire Typo-Telegraph, 421
Simpson’s, Captain, System of Propulsion, 39, 155
Singapore Gas Company, Limited, 358
Slide Valve Seats, Facing-up, 261
Slide Valves, 261
Slide Valves, Movable Seats for, British Association, 247, 336
Small Arms, 315, 342, 353, 385, 408, 426
Small Arms in Prussia, 530
Smithfield, New Meat and Poultry Market, 151,154, 172, 198, 316
Smithfield Club Cattle Show, 462, 491
Smith and Grace, Bury St. Edmunds Show, 93
Smoke, Consumption of, in the Potteries, 47, 343
Smoke and Stone, 258, 285
Snider Rifle, Modification of, 68
Snow, Greatest Height of, 276
Society of Engineers, 482
Annual Dinner, 532
Connection between the Shape of Heavy Guns and their Durability, by Arthur Rigg, jun., 453, 484
Election of Members, 483, 519
Mechanical Saws, by Mr. S. W. Worssam, jun., 365, 395
Millwall Docks, Inspection of, 109
Recent Improvements on the Injector, by Mr. Jas.
Gresham, 511
Visit to the Factories of Messrs. J. Penn and Sons, 254
Visit to the Thames Embankment, 321
SoCIETE DES INGENIEURS ClYILS PARIS 1—
Election of Members, 487
Society of Engineers, Leading Articles, 113, 134
Society of Engineers, Transactions of, 380
Society, Manchester Geological, 130
Solway Junction, 345
Soper’s Rifle, 496
South Boston Ironworks, U.S., 453
South-Eastern, New Line, 119
South-Eastern Line to Tunbridge, 419
South Kensington Museum, 11, 54, 100, 111, 130, 146 174, 211, 233, 261, 304, 320, 335, 363, 376, 424, 465, 487, 493, 511, 541
South Wales Institute of Engineers
Quarterly Meeting, 160
Spain, Public Works in, 426
Spectrum Analysis, 447
Speed of Steam Vessels at the Measured Mile, Mode of Determining, British Association, 261,321
Sprengel Air Pump, 26
Staffordshire, North, Colliery Accidents in, 60
Staffordshire, North, Iron Trade of, 537
Staffordshire Potteries, Trade of, 419
Standard Weights and Measures, 126
Staveley Coal and Iron Company, Limited, 185
Steam Cultivation, British. Association, 238
Steam Hammer, Double-cylinder, Paris Exhibition, 17
Steam on the Highway, 155
Steam Locomotion on Roads, 224
Steam, Introduction of, into Sweden, 462
Steam Road Roller, 300, 301, 327, 476
Steam Striker, Davies’, Paris Exhibition, 27
Steam, Working, Expansively, 181
Steamer Schwyz, The, 346
Steamers, Jottings about Thames, 303
Swedish Steel Plates, Experiments with, 126
Steaming, Rapid, 224
Steamship Druid, Raising, 263, 297, 323
Steel Boilers, 91
Steel, Cast, and Wrought Iron, Railway Tires, 276
Steel v. Iron Rails, 499
Steel, Experimental Researches on the Mechanical
Properties of, 233, 236
Steel Making, the Martin Process, 499
Steel Rails, 425, 444, 457
Steering Gear, Steam, Inst. M.E., 402 '
Steering and Sailing Rules, 373
Stephenson and Co.’s Passenger Engine, 439, 446
Stone, Decay of, British Association, 235
Stone, Smoke and, 258, 285
Storm Theorists, A Question for, 331
Storm Warnings, 383
Stove, Hot Blast, Whitwell’s, 401
Street Horse Railway, 323
Street Traffic, London, Relief of, 477
Strike on the North-Eastern Railway, How it has Ended, 126
Strike Items from America, An Ironmasters Testimony, 40
Subaqueous Projectiles, 14
Suez Canal, 32, 113, 416
Suez, Maritime Canal Universal Company, 119
Sugar Making, Cane, Knagg’s, 400
Sultan’s First Railway Journey in Turkey, 186
Supply, Water, 135
Survey of the Darien Canal Line, 502, 518, 539
Survey, United States Government, 174
Surveying in Abyssinia, 474
Surveying Instrument, New, Van Hecko’s, 497
Surveyorships, Board of Trade, 416
Sweden, Boring Machine, Bergstroem’s, British Association, 261
Sweden, Introduction of Steam into, 462
Sweden, Manufactures in, 294
Waddell’s Slide Valves, 274
Wages, Reduction of, in South Yorkshire Trade, 502, 516
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 22, 47, 62, 84, 99, 123, 139,167, 193, 217, 244, 265, 292, 308, 328, 351, 369, 392, 416, 433, 452, 470, 488, 508, 530, 546
Wales, Ironworks in, 130]
Warner’s Stop Valve, 273 ’
Water, Organic and Inorganic Substances in, Institution Civil Engineers, 438
Water, Raising from Wells, 204
Water and Sewage, 75
Water Supply, 135
Water Supply for Port Glasgow, 335
Waterwitch, The, Trial of, 174, 207, 269
Waterwitch, Vixen, and Viper, 161, 179,
Waterworks Legislation, 481, 518, 537, 260
Waterworks, Portsmouth, 118
Waterworks, Vartry, 383
Waterworks, Vartry, Institution Civil Engineers, Ireland, 536
Wealth, Internal, of Hungary, 451
Webb and Sons’ Tannery at Combs, 66
Webs of Girders, 93
Weighing Machines, Messrs. Pooley and Son, 88, 89
Weights and Measures, Standard, 126
Wellington Pier, Bombay, Root of, 333, 340
West Indies, Hurricane in, 479
Westminster Improvements, 260
Wheel Gearing, Roller, Jensen’s, 493
Whitehaven Sewage Works, 233
Wilson’s, T., New Central Fire Breech-loading Rifles, 197
Whitwell’s Hot Blast Stove, 401
Wimbledon Stands,-60
Windlass, Haye’s Ploughing, 456
Wood-working Machinery, Paris Exhibition, 130, 158
Wood-working Machinery, Worssam and Co., 196, 210
Woolwich Catastrophe, 346
Worcester Engine Works Company, General Meeting, 106 .
Wood-working Tools Exhibited at Paris, 371
Workmen, Education of, 93
Works, Iron and Machine, in Bavaria, 511
Works, Jute, London, Horizontal Combined, 173
Works, Metal Engineering, on the Continent, Report of, 511
Works, Public, in Spain, 426
Wrought Iron Coil Guns, 10
Yankee Enterprise, 504
Year, Event of the, 405 #
Yorkshire Union of Mechanics Institute, Paris Exhibition in its Relation to Industrial Instruction, by Mr. Jas. Kitson, jun., 28
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