The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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• A. B. C. Process at Hastings, 6
• A. B. C. Process at Leamington, Abandonment of, 188, 193
• Abouchoff Cast Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 107, 110, 159
• Abstract of a Paper on "Thermodynamic Acceleration and Retardation of Streams," Professor Rankine, 242
• Abstract of Report of Brit. Assoc. Com. on Underground Temperature, Prof. J. D. Everett, 261
• Accident, Colliery, 175
• Accident to the Irish Mail, 204
• Accident to the Mail Train from Dublin, 328
• Accident at Newark, 923
• Accident at Tam worth, 234
• Administration, Naval, 331
• Admiralty, Appointments at the, 418
• Admiralty, The Change at the, 44
• Agricultural Show, Lille, 1
• Air, The Sewage of the, 231
• Alarm Signals for Trains, 197
• Albert Hall, The Royal, 339, 427
• Albion Ironworks and Patent Punched Steel Tube Works, Staffordshire, Sale at, 345
• Abbot, Messrs. J., 250-ton Hydraulic Chain Testing Machine, 398
• Allibon and Noyes, Messrs., Boilers and Engines of the Kirkstall, 325, 326, 330
• Alloys of Copper, Tin, Lead, Zinc, with Manganese, J. F. Allen, Esq., F.C.S., 342
• American Iron Trade, 67
• American Patent Law, 88
• American Shipping, 160
• Angular Instruments, Latitudes without, 360
• Application of the Centre Rail System to a Railway in Brazil, and to other Mountain Lines; also on the Advantages of Narrow Gauge Railways, Mr. J. B. Fell, 229, 230
• Appointment of Trustees to Owen's College, Manchester, 55
• Arches, Iron, 447
• Arithmetic for Schools, A. Sonnenschein and H. A. Nesbitt, M.A., 414
• Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical, W. H. Girdlestone, M.A., 414
• Army, Surgical and Commissariat Appliances, 142,150, 190, 255, 385
• Artillery, Field, 195
• Artillery, French, 273, 277, 289, 305, 323
• Artillery, Indian Field, 141
• Artillery, Steam, 281
• Ashpit System of Manchester, Aiderman Rumney, 223
• Association, Annual Meeting of the Batley Branch of the National Engineers', 33
• Association, Manchester Steam Users', 328
• Association, Brit., Units, 245, 261, 278, 328
• Assurances, Boiler, 344
• Aveling, Mr., Testing Engines, 358
• Aveling and Porter, Messrs., 20-H.P. Double-cylinder Ploughing Engine, 408
• Aveling and Porter, Messrs., 5-H.P. Self-moving Engine, 75
• Axles, Breakage of Railway Wagon, 399
• Axles, Fracture of, 41

• Balloon Guns, Herr Krupp's, 408
• Balloons in War, Use of, 281
• Barometric Prediction of Weather, Mr. F. Galton, F.R.S., 240
• Baths at Southport, Lancashire, Mr. Chas. H. Beloe, C.E., 359, 362, 365
• Batteries, Railway, 399
• Bavarian Troops, Rifle of, 135
• Beaming Machine, Messrs. Howard and Bullough's Self-stopping, 168
• Bedford and Northampton Railway, 370
• Belgian Iron Trade, 86, 114, 126
• Belgian Mechanical Undertakings, 333
• Belgium and its Coal and Iron Districts, Visit of English Engineers to, 27, 36, 80, 114, 177
• Beloe, C.E., Mr Chas. H., Baths at Southport, Lancashire, 359, 362, 365
• Berger Spence, and Co's. Weekly Chemical, Mineral and Metal Report, 321
• Betts, Mr., The Contractor, 209, 234
• Beuther, Herr, Axle-box, 309, 344
• Birkenhead Railway Extension, 360
• Birmingham Gun Trade, 174
• Birmingham at Work, 15, 49, 67, 85, 119, 147
• Bitumen, Gas from, 98
• Blackburn, Mr., Oil Lubricator for Grease Boxes, 326
• Blast Furnace Hoists of the Cleveland District,
• Blast Furnace Slag at Autnege, Belgium, 315
• Board of Trade, Notice of Examinations, 266
• Board of Works and Leicester-square, 340
• Boiler applied to a Ball Furnace, 22-H., Miller's Safety Isca Foundry Co., 342
• Boiler, 60-H.P., Cone Paper Mills, Lydney, Mr. J. A Lee, 169
• Boiler and Engine, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Davey's 4-H. Vertical, 258, 263, 279, 315
• Boiler Explosion, 131
• Boiler Explosion Committee, 27
• Boiler Explosion, The Lanesfield, 11, 18
• Boiler Explosion Legislation, 206
• Boiler Explosions, Mr. E. B. Marten on, 207
• Boiler, The Field, 410
• Boiler Flues, Tapered, 221
• Boiler, The Howard Safety, 360
• Boiler, Mr. J. Pinchbeck's Self-cleansing Water Tube, 346
• Boiler Setting, Messrs. Hyde and Bennett, 124
• Boiler, Trials with Miller's Cast Iron Safety, 441
• Boilers and Engines of the Steamship Kirkstall, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 326, 330
• Boilers, Mr. Jeremiah Head on the Efficiency and Durability of Plain Cylindrical, 169
• Boilers for the Houses of Parliament, Messrs. Clayton, 375, 376
• Boilers, Land and Marine, Messrs. Hawksley, Wild, and Co., 246
• Boilers at Oxford, Relative Efficiency of, 69, 74, 77, 96, 98
• Boilers, Second-hand Steam, 398
• Boilers, Steel, 410
• Boilers, Tubulous, 77, 98, 126
• Boilers, Vertical, 126, 193, 313,-328, 344, 360, 373, 399, 410, 452
• Boring, Rapid, 171
• Bow Station, North London Railway, Mr. T. Matthews and Mr. E. H. Horne, 151, 155, 156
• Bridge over the Abvodnoi Canal, St. Petersburg, Messrs. Handyside, 388, 394
• Bridge Construction, Principles of, 264
• Bridge over the Nesbor, Bucharest Railway, Mr. McCandlish, 24, 28
• Bridges without Scaffolding, Erecting, 306
• Britannia Ironworks, Bedford, 187
• Britain's Strength, 173
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 116, 175,193, 210, 213, 214, 228
• - Abstract of an Investigation of the Mathematical Theory of Combined Strains, Professor Rankine, 225
• - Address of the President, Professor Huxley, 185,197
• - Address of Mr. J. Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., F.R.S., President of Section A, 198
• - Address of Professor Roscoe, F.R.S., President of Section B, 200
• - Address of Mr. C. B. Vignoles, C.E., F.R.S., President of Section G, 201
• - Alloys of Copper, Tin, Lead, and Zinc with Manganese, J. F. Allen, Esq., F.G.S., 342
• - Application of the Centre Rail System to a Railway in Brazil and to other Mountain Lines. Also on the Advantages of Narrow Gauge Railways, Mr. J. B. Fell, 229
• - Ashpit System of Manchester, Alderman R. Rumney, 223
• - Barometric Prediction of Weather, Francis Galton, F R.S., 240
• - Binocular Microscope, Mr. S. Holmes, 258
• - Boiler Explosions, Mr. E. B. Marten, 207
• - Colour Visions at Different Points of the Retina, J. Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., F.R.S., 268
• - Construction of Sewers in Running Sand, Messrs. Reade and Goodison, 227
• - Efficiency of Furnaces and Mechanical Firing, Mr. G. F. Deacon, C.E., 226
• - Electric Time Signal at Port Elizabeth, S. A. Varley, C.E., 240
• - Electro-Deposition of Copper and Brass, Mr. W. H. Walenn, F.C.S., 393
• - Existence of two Spectra of Carbon produced at the same Temperature, Mr. W. M. Watts, 318
• - Extent to which Existing Works and Prevailing Practices Militate against the Profitable Utilisation of Sewage, Mr. J. Bailey Denton, C.E., 224
• - Faure's Battery, Mr. C. Becker, 239
• - Frictional Screw Motion, Mr. G. Lauder, C.E., 261
• - Gauge for the Railways of the Future, Mr. R. F. Fairlie, C.E., 214
• - Hammering and Stone Dressing Machinery, Dr. Lloyd, 205
• - Hills and Dales, J. Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., andc., 239
• - Hydraulic Bucketing Engine for Graving Docks and Sewerage, Mr. Percy Westmacott, 209
• - Hydraulic Machinery for Steering and Reversing Heavy Steam Engines, and for Discharging Cargoes, Mr. A. B. Brown, 327
• - Improved Appliances for the Production of Heavy Forgings, as used at the Birkenhead Forge, Lieut.- Col. Clay, 246
• - Improved Ships of War of Moderate Dimensions, Mr. Michael Scott, C.E.N.A., 217, 232, 239
• - Mechanical Stoking, Mr. Smith, 216
• - Mode of Action of Lightning on Telegraph Circuits, and New Methods of Constructing Telegraph Coils, S. A. Varley, C.E., 267
• - New Electro-Magnetic Anemometer, M. J. J. Hall, 266
• - New Field of Magnetic Research, Fred. Varley F.R.A.S., 318
• - New Method of Obtaining Chlorine, Mr. Henry Deacon, 316
• - Numerical Theorem with Practical Applications, Mr. W. H. Walenn, 375
• - Pneumatic Transmission through. Tunnels and Pipes, Mr. R. Sabine, 260
• - Policy and Provisions of a Patent Law, Mr. R. M. Paukhurst, LL.D., 334
• - Proposed Rearrangement of the Registration Districts of England and Wales to Facilitate Scientific Inquiries, Mr. A. Haviland, 240
• - Rainfall--its Variation with Elevation of the Gauge, Chas. Chambers, F. R.S., 318
• - Rolling Machine for Shaping Axles, Mr. A. Bowater, 226
• - Sewage of Liverpool- -its Collection and Ultimate Disposal, Mr. J. N. Shoolbred, C.E., 225
• - Stability, Propulsion and Sea-going Qualities of Ships, Professor Rankine, 209, 218
• - Steam Lines and Waves in Connection with Naval Architecture, Professor Rankine, 218
• - Steam Power Meter, Mr. Ashton, 216
• - Testing the Quality of the Malleable Metals and Alloys, Professor G. Bischof, 243
• - Weldon Process for the Manufacture of ^Chlorine, Mr. Walter Weldon, 292
• Bronze Guns, 17
• Bryant and Cargill, Messrs., Vernon Bridge over the Mersey, at Stockport, 123, 128
• Bucholz System of Flour Making, 125
• Buddhist Gateway, A, 429
• Burgh, Mr. N. P., Steam Donkey Pump, 242

• Campbeltown Harbour, New Works in, 166
• Camrouse and Co., Messrs., Stone Crushing Machine, 38
• Canal, Eastern Ganges, 276
• Captain, H.M.S. The, 195, 208, 234, 245, 246, 247, 263, 278, 295, 297, 315, 433
• Captain and The Monarch, 103
• Carriages, Naval Gun, 157
• Cartridges in Paris, Manufacture of, 416
• Carvalho's Ships' Lines, 61, 64
• Carving Machinery, Mr. Jordan, 327
• Cassell's Technical Manuals, Ellis A. Davidson, 415
• Cement, Portland, 72, 126
• Cement Testing Machine, Messrs. Michell and Carrington, 426
• Cements, Strength of, 347
• Central Cottages Improvement Society, Labourers' Cottages, 259
• Certain Systems which have been Proposed for Effecting the Electric Transmission of Telegraph Signals, 355
• Cast Steel Works, Abouchoff, St. Petersburg, 107, 110, 159
• Chain Testing Machine, Messrs. J. Abbot's 250-ton Hydraulic, 398
• Channel Tunnel, The, 6
• Charging and Discharging Gas Retorts, Mr. J. J. Holden, 411, 412
• Chatham Dockyard Extension Works, 172
• Chatham Dockyard Extension Works, Visit of Civil Engineers to the, 35
• Chatwood, Mr , New Safe, 23
• Cherbourg and the Channel Islands, Works at, 6
• China Grass, 27
• Chinese Gold Lacquer, 55
• Chinese Grass Machine Competition, 299
• Chlorine, New Method of Obtaining, Mr. Henry Deacon, J.P., 316
• Clayton, Messrs., Boilers for Houses of Parliament, 375, 376
• Cleveland District, 15, 31, 49, 67, 85, 102, 120, 134, 148, 163, 182, 204, 221, 237, 254, 271, 258, 303, 322, 338, 354, 368, 383, 404, 422, 437, 456
• Cleveland District, Blast Furnace Hoists of the, 2
• Coal-getting Machine, Mr. Grafton Jones, 124
• Coal in the Hasdo River, India, 46
• Coal Traffic to London by the New Route, 283
• Coal, Welsh and North Country, 138
• Coals in Germany, 441
• Coasts and Harbours, Defences of our, 141
• College, Indian Civil Engineering, Cooper's-hill, Surrey, 106, 374, 377, 399
• Colliery Machinery in South Staffordshire and Shropshire, 112
• Colliery Waste and Coal Supply, 153
• Collision, The Harrow, 395, 411, 413
• Collision on the South Yorkshire Railway, 64
• Colour Blindness and Railway Officials, 250
• Colour Vision at Different Points of the Retina, J. Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., andc., 268
• Commercial Metal and Mineral Report, 148, 403
• Compagnie Beige, Brussels, Russian Goods Engine, 256, 262
• Compagnie Beige, Brussels, 200-H.P. Winding Engines, Houssu Collieries, Central Belgium, 430, 433
• Compensation from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, 52
• Condensation of Steam, 149, 209
• Condensers Surface, 193, 278
• Construction, Elementary Papers on, 450
• Consumption of Coal on Board H.M. Ships, 188
• Contract for the Atlantic and Erie Railway, 112
• Cornish Engine, 239, 306, 310
• Cornish Pumping Engines, 10, 192
• Cost, Prime, 428
• Cottages, Labourers', Central Cottage Improvement Society, 259
• Cottages, some Hints on Improved Miners' and Agricultural Labourers', 410
• Cotterill, Mr. E., Locks, 372
• Court Martial on the Loss of the Captain, 278
• Cow bridge Line, 56
• Cooke and Sons, Messrs. T., Engraving Machine, 373
• Crane, Messrs. Taylor and Co.'s Direct-acting Steam, 426
• Crickmer, Mr. R., Anti-priming Valve, 28
• Crushing Machine, Messrs. Camroux and Co.'s Stone, 38
• Cultivator, A Novel, 345
• Curves and Gradients, Experimental Trips of the Progress, 12

• Davey, Paxman, and Davey, Messrs., 4-Horse Vertical Boiler and Engine, 258, 263, 279, 315
• Defence, The Admiralty, 447
• Defences of Paris, 138
• Description of an Experiment on the Strength of a Lattice Road Girder at the Boyne Viaduct, Mr. B. B. Stoney, M.I.C.E., 452
• Deutsches Bergworterbuch MitVelegen, Heinrich Veith, 62
• Devon and Somerset Railway, 295
• Diamond Fields of South Africa, the Recently-discovered, 339
• Doors, Mr. Warhurst's Apparatus for Closing the Bottoms of, 326
• Drainage Machinery, 72
• Dredging Operations on the Mississippi, 89, 90
• Drewry, Mr. C. Stewart, on a Concise and Familiar View of the Law of Patents, 405, 446
• Drilling and Recessing Machine, Messrs. J. and J. Kershaw's Quadruple, 442
• Duke of Sutherland's Railway, 334

• Ealing Sewage Works, 358
• Eastbourne Gasworks, Mr. A. Williams, 443, 444, 446
• Eclipse of the Sun on December 22nd, 250, 434
• Electric Lights, Intermittent, 177
• Electric Time Signal at Port Elizabeth, Mr. S. A. Varley, C.E., 240
• Electric Transmission of Telegraph Signals, Systems which have been Proposed for Effecting the, 405
• Electro-Deposition of Copper and Brass, Mr. W. H. Walenn, F.C.S., 393
• Electro-magnetic Anemometer, Mr. J. J. Hall, 266
• Engine, Messrs. Aveling and Porter's 5-Horse Self-moving, 75
• Engine, Messrs. Aveling and Porter's 20-Horse Double-cylinder Ploughing, 408
• Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Messrs. Gwynne, 57
• Engines, Cornish Pumping, 10, 192
• Engine, 10-Horse Fixed, Mr. Underhill, 152
• Engine, Messrs. Garstang and Co.ís Pumping, Swinley Colliery, 442
• Engine, Messrs. Marshall's 10-H.P. Horizontal, 38
• Engine, A Novel, 409
• Engine, Parker's Air-jet Steam, 249
• Engine, Russian Goods, Compagnie Beige, 256, 262
• Engine, Messrs. Shand and Mason's Treble-cylinder Equilibrium Steam Fire, 57
• Engine, Tank, on the Vaessen System, 284
• Engine, Messrs. E. and R. Turner's 10-Horse Fixed, 106
• Engine, The "White Cloud," 388
• Engineering in India, 171, 234
• Engineering Colleges, 181
• Engineers, College for Indian Civil, 9
• Engineers, Education of, 171, 234
• Engineers, Naval, 5, 23, 41, 181
• Engines, Mr. Aveling's System of Testing, 358
• Engines, Competitive, at Oxford, 91, 126, 140
• Engines, Compound, 25, 27
• Engines with Double-acting Pump, Messrs. Mather and Platt's Pumping, 312
• Engines of H.M.S. Druid, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, 6, 8
• Engines, Messrs. Fletcher, Jennings, and Co.'s Coupled Horizontal Winding, 78
• Engines of the Hindostan, P. and O. Co., 274. See also Supplement
• Engines, 200-H.P., Houssu Collieries, Compagnie Beige, 430, 433
• Engines, Marine, 129
• Engines, Mountain Railway, 98
• Engines, Oscillating, without Surface Condensers, 101
• Engines, Pumping, 154
• Engines, Pumping, Berlin Waterworks, Messrs. Simpson and Co., 208, 212
• England, Steam Road Rolling in, 158
• Engraving Machine, Messrs. T. Cooke and Sons, 373
• Epidemic, The Small Pox, 428
• Essay on Sewage Irrigation, 164
• Evrard, Mr. C., Compagnie Beige, Brussels, 200-H.P. Winding Engines, Houssu Collieries, Central Belgium, 430, 433
• Examination, India Public Works, 43, 44, 63, 76, 80, 95, 139
• Examinations, Competitive, 155
• Examples of American Naval Architecture, 55
• Exhibition, Annual International, 290, 324, 326, 423
• Exhibition, The Working Men's International, 35
• Existence of Two Spectra of Carbon Produced at the same Temperature, Mr. W. Watts, 318
• Expansion Gear, Mr. Walker's Self-acting, 56
• Explosion near Tredegar, 177
• Explosions, Boiler, 77, 344
• Explosive Compounds, M. A. Noble, 124
• Explosive Energy of Heated Liquids, Professor Ran- kine, 323, 423
• Exports of Railway Iron from Cardiff to the United States, 295

• Fairlie, Mr., Trial of the Progress Curves and Gradients, 12
• Farcy Gunboat on the Seine, Siege of Paris, 346
• Faure's Battery, Mr. C. Becker on, 239
• Fehti Bulend, Trial of the Turkish Ironclad Corvette, 86
• Fell, C.E., Mr. J. B., Mid-rail Locomotive, Canta Gallo Railway, 243
• Festiniog Railway, Captain Tyler on the, 46
• Fire-arms, Some Characteristics of Modern, 130
• Fire Engines for France, 421
• Fletcher, Jennings, and Co., Messrs., Coupled Horizontal Winding Engines, 78
• Flour-making, Bucholtz System, 125
• Flour, Manufacturing True, 171
• Formation of a New Association of Engineers in Yorkshire, 232
• Formula, An Ideal, 98
• France, Reaping Machine Competition in, 17
• French Experimental Squadron, 136
• Frictional Screw Motion, Mr. G. Lauder, C.E., 261
• Froelich Gas Furnace, 325
• Furnace, The Froelich Gas, 325
• Furnace, Mr. Tenwick's Annealing, Leiston Works, Suffolk, 372
• Furnace, Messrs. T. Vicars' Self-stoking Smokeless, 216
• Furnaces and Mechanical Firing, Mr. G. F. Deacon, C.E., on the Efficiency of, 226

• Galloway's Motive Power, 131
• Garrett and Sons, Messrs., Scantling Machine, 409, 428
• Garstang and Co., Messrs., Pumping Engine, Swinley Colliery, Wigan, 442
• Gas in Long Conduits, 56
• Gas Retorts, Charging and Discharging, Mr. J. J. Holden, 411, 412
• Gases, Occlusion of by Electro Deposited Iron, 17
• Gateway, A Buddhist, 429
• Gatling Gun, 139
• Gauges, The Battle of, 347
• Gauges of Future Indian Railways, 23
• Gauge for the Railways of the Future, Mr. R. F. Fairlie, C.E., 214
• Gauges, Steam, at Oxford, 82
• Geography, Physical, Historical, and Military, from the French of T. Lavallee, Captain Lendy, 144
• German Percussion Shells, 358
• Girders, Cross, 79
• Girders, Erection of, 395
• Glasgow University, Opening of, 325
• Glasgow University, Proposed Degree in Engineering Science, 315
• Glastonbury, Drainage of, 343
• Glucose, Manufacture of in Germany, 318
• Glycerine and Red Lead Cement, 171
• Gough, Mr., Printing and Arming Press, 4
• Government, the Astronomers and the Coming Eclipse, 325
• Government and Inventors, 72
• Government and Science, 225
• Governor, An Improved, 153
• Governor for Marine Engines, Weir's Centrifugal, Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., 358
• Guattari, Signor, Pneumatic Telegraph, 49
• Gun Carriages, Iron Wheels for, 26
• Gun, The Gatling, 139
• Gun for India, 9-pounder Bronze Muzzle-loading Rifled, 138
• Gun, A Novel and a New Metal, 154
• Gun, Progress of the 35-ton, 157
• Gunpowder, its Nature and Action as Exemplified by Recent Researches, 165, 183
• Guns, Bronze, 17
• Guns, Prussian, 51, 60, 121
• Guns, Steam, 313
• Gwynne, Messrs., Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 57

• Haddan, Mr. J., Proposed Tunnel under the Bosphorus, 114
• Hafod Deep Pits and the Bagillt Sea Sinking, North Wales, 268
• Hall, The Royal Albert, 339
• Hammering and Stone Dressing Machinery, Dr. J. H. Lloyd, 205
• Hammers, Messrs. C. Merrill and Son's Drop and Air Spring Forging, 198
• Handyside, Messrs., Bridge over the Abvodnoi Canal, St. Petersburg, 388, 394
• Harbour Accommodation for Renfrew, 193
• Harbour Extension at Irvine, 242
• Harrison, Mr., Ventilating and Flushing Sewers, 5
• Hastings, A. B. C. Process at, 6
• Hawskley, Mr., Ventilator, 409
• Hawskley, Wild, and Co., Messrs., Land and Marine Boilers, 246
• Heavy Breech-loading and Rifled Artillery of France, 273, 277, 284, 305, 323
• High Speeds as Applied to Wood Working Machinery, 91
• Hills and Dales, Dr. Clerke Maxwell on, 239
• Hindostan, Engines of the P. and O. Co., See also Supplement, 274
• Hint to Local Boards of Health and Water Companies, 41
• Holborn Viaduct Station, 411
• Holden, Mr. J. J., Charging and Discharging Gas Retorts, 411, 412
• Homersham, C.E., Mr. W. C., Joints for Gas and Water Pipes, 242
• Horse and Sheep Clippers, American, 408
• Howe Testimonial Fund, 343, 360
• How to Roll your Roads, 98
• Huggins and Horsenaill's Diamond Millstone Dressing Machine, 172
• Hyde and Bennett, Messrs., Boiler Setting, 124
• Hydraulic Bucketing Engine for Graving Docks and Sewerage, Mr. Percy Westmacott's Description of, 92, 209
• Hydraulic Machinery for Steering, Reversing Heavy Steam Engines and for Discharging Cargo, andc., Mr A. B. Brown, 327

• Ice Making, 76, 126
• Important Patent Decision, 242
• Important Prosecution in the Iron Trade, 318
• Improvement, Locomotive, 363, 377, 409, 414
• Inclining a Ship in Order to find her Centre of Gravity, Process of, W. J. M. R., 339
• India, Engineers in, 154
• India, The Great Trigonometrical Survey of, 1, 33
• India, Pendulum Operations in, 386
• India, Public Works in, 62
• India, Public Works Department Examination, 43, 44, 63, 76, 80, 95, 139
• India, Railways in, 25
• Indian Civil Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Surrey, 106, 374, 377, 399
• Indian Railway Gauges and Rolling Stock, 369, 415, 439
• Indian State Railways, 71
• Inspection, Boiler, 279
• Institution of Civil Engineers, Minutes of Proceedings, 174, 314
• INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS, NORTH OF ENGLAND, AND INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :--
• - Carboniferous Formation of Scotland, Mr. J. Geikie 105
• - Duty of Cornish, &c., Pumping Engines, Mr. J. B. Simpson, 105
• INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS, NORTH OF ENGLAND, AND INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :--
• - Economical Advantages of Mechanical Ventilation, Mr. D. P. Morrison, 105
• - Expansion Valve, Mr. Barclay, 112
• - Grafton Jones, Mr., Coal Getting Machine, Mr. Arnold
• - Magnetic Ironstone in Rosetalet West, Mr. J. Marley, 105
• - Meeting in Scotland, 105
• - Pumping Engine, Mr. Barclay, 112
• Institute of Engineers, South Wales, 245, 426
• Institute of Engineers and Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Meeting of, 105
• INSTITUTE THE IRON AND STEEL, 136, 158, 178
• - Efficiency and Durability of Hain Cylindrical Boilers, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 169
• - Pumping and Winding Machinery at Castle Pit, Cyfarthfa, Property of Mr. R. T. Crawshay, Mr. G. C. Pearce, 168
• INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 27, 41, 274, 304, 314, 424
• - Subjects for Premiums, Session, 1870-71, 300
• - Visit to Chatham Dockyard Extension Works 35
• - Water Supply of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Mr. A. Leslie, 357
• INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS:
• - Annual Meeting at Nottingham, 92, 100, 112
• - Conclusions Derived from the Experience of Recent Boiler Explosions, Mr. G. F. Marten, 92
• - Self-acting Machinery for Knitting Hosiery by Power, Mr. Arthur Paget, 92
• - Self-acting Safety and Fire Extinguishing Valve for Steam Boiler, Mr. G. D. Hughes, 92
• - Steam Road Roller, Mr. Batho and Mr. Aveling, 92
• - Warsop Aero-steam Engine, Mr. R. Katon, 340
• - Wire Rope Bridge at Landore Steel Works, Mr W. Hackney, 340
• - Working Coal on the Midland Counties, Mr. George Fowler, 92
• - Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Nottingham, Annual Meeting, 92
• - Institution of Naval Architects, 300
• INSTITUTION, THE ROYAL LECTURES :--
• - Astronomy of Comets, Professor Grant, F.R.S., 93
• - Atoms, Professor Williamson, F.R.S., 93
• - Descent of Glaciers, Rev. Henry Moseley, M.A., F.R.S.,12
• - Electrical Phenomena and Theories, Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 21
• - Electricity, Professor Tyndall, 93,116
• - History, Professor Seeley, 93
• - Moral and Political Philosophy, Professor Blackie, 93
• - INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, ANNUAL, 271, 290, 324, 326
• - Intrenching Tools, 408
• - Ironclads, Stability of our, 290
• - Ironclads, Top Heaviness of, 234
• Iron, Coal, andc., Trades of Birmingham, andc., 15, 31, 49, 67, 85. 101, 119, 134, 147, 163, 181, 203, 221, 237, 253, 271, 287, 304, 321, 337, 353, 367, 383, 403, 421, 437, 455
• Ironmasters in France, 178
• Iron Railway, 428
• Iron Trade, American, 67
• Iron Trade of France, 188
• Ironworks at Bedford, The Britannia, 187
• Ironworks, Round Oak, 276
• Irrigation and Sewage, 63, 138
• Isca Foundry Co., 22-H.P. Miller's Safety Boiler applied to a Bill Furnace, 342
• Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, 261

• Jacob, Mr. A., Sewer Ventilator, 56
• Japan, Progress in, 314
• Joints for Pipes, Mr. W. C. Homersham, C.E., 242
• Jones Mr. Grafton, Coal-getting Machine, 124
• Jordan, Mr., Carving Machinery, 327

• Kershi. Messrs. J. and J., Quadruple Drilling and Recessing Machine, 442
• Kilnhurst Swing Bridge over the River Dun Navigation, Mr. W. N. Swettenham, C.E., 292, 296
• King, Mr. J., Safety Hook and Cage for Mines, 227
• Kirstall, Boilers and Engines of the, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 325, 326, 330
• Kirstall, Trial Trips of the, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 306, 358
• Krupp's Balloon Guns, 408

• Lanesfield Boiler Explosion, 11, 18
• Lange, Mr. C., Improvements in Watches and Clocks, 4
• Lathe Pulleys, Radii of, 154
• Lathe, M. and J. Woolfield's Screw-cutting and General Purpose, 227
• Launch of the Atacama, 139
• Launch of the John Elder, 158
• Launch of a Screw Steam Yacht, 97
• Launch of Two Iron Steamers, 23
• La Vapeur, L'Usage Economique de, 75
• Law of Patents, Mr. C. Stewart Drewry on a Concise and Familiar View of the, 405, 423, 440
• LEADING ARTICLES :--
• - Admiralty Defence, The, 447
• - American Neutrality, 250
• - Atlantic Yacht Match, 80
• - Battle of the Gauges, 347
• - Bombardment of Paris, 331
• - Britain's Strength, 173
• - British Association, 213
• - British Museum and South Kensington, 95
• - Change at the Admiralty, 44
• - Childers', Mr., Minute, 431
• - Chinese Grass Machine Competition, 298
• - College for Indian Civil Engineers, 9
• - Compound Engines, 25
• - Cross Girders, 79
• - Davey-Paxman Boiler, 263
• - Defence of our Coasts and Harbours, 141
• - Erection of Girders, 395
• - Explosive Shells for Small Arms, 95
• - Field Artillery, 195
• - Forms of Ships, 61
• - French Mitrailleuse, The, 396
• - Good and Bad Stoking, 348
• - Harrow Collision, The, 395, 413
• - India Public Works' Examination, 43, 95
• - Indian Civil Engineering College, The, 377
• - Indian Field Artillery, 141
• - Indian Railways and the Public Works Department, 231
• - Iron Arches, 447
• - Latest Results of Sewage Irrigation, 363
• - Laying Out of Sewage Farms, 432
• - Locomotive Improvement, 363, 377, 414
• - Loss of the Captain, 195, 247, 263
• - Manufactories and Rivers, 43
• - Marine Engines, 129
• - Martini-Henry Rifle, 129
• - Mechanical Engineers at Nottingham, 112
• - Military Breech-loaders in the United States, 142
• - Naval Administration, 331
• - Naval Gun Carriages, 157
• - Parker's Air-jet Steam Engine, 249
• - Past, Present, and Future of the Serpentine, 61
• - Principles of Bridge Construction, 264
• - Prof Huxley's Address, 214
• - Progress in Japan, 314
• - Progress of the 35-ton Gun, 157
• - Public Works in India, 62
• - Purification of Sewage, 111
• - Railway Accident at Newark, 9
• - Railways in India, 25
• - Reed, Mr., on the Loss of the Captain, 297
• - Rotary Cutter for Wood, 250
• - Saint Gothard Railway, 173
• - Sewage of the Air, 231
• - Sir William Armstrong on Trades' Unions and Patents, 249
• - Some Characteristics of Modern Fire-arms, 130
• - Steam Artillery, 281
• - Steam Guns, 313
• - Steam Road Rolling in England, 158
• - Strength of Cements, 347
• - The War, 79
• LEADING ARTICLES :--
• - Use of Balloons in War, 281
• - Vertical Boilers, 313
• - Whitworth Metal, 298
• - Why the Roadway of the Victoria Embankment was not Steam Rolled, 174
• Lecons de Geologie Pratiques, Professfes au College de France, par M. L. Elie de Beaumont, M.I., 62
• Lee, Mr. J. A., 60-H.P. Boiler, Cone Paper Mills, Lydney, 169
• Legal Intelligence, 123
• Legislation, Steam Boiler Explosion, 206
• Leiston Works, Suffolk, 379
• Leiston Works, Suffolk, Tenwick's Annealing Furnace, 372
• Lever, Reversing, Nicholas Railway, Worcester Engine Co., 176
• Lighting, Proposed New System of, 231
• Lightning on Telegraph Circuits, and New Method of Constructing Telegraph Coils, Mr. S. A. Varley, C.E., 267
• Lille Agricultural Show, 1
• Link Motion, 6, 23, 41
• Literature.--
• - Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical, W. H. Girdlestone, M.A., 414
• - Board of Trade Railway Returns, 378
• - Cassell's Technical Manuals, Ellis A. Davidson, 415
• - Deutsches Bergworterbuch Mit Velegen, Von Henrich Veith, 62
• - Geography, Physical, Historical, and Military, from the French of T. Lavalee, by Capt. Lendy, F.G.S., 144
• - Lecons de Geologic Pratiques, Professes au College de France, par M. L. Elie de Beaumont, M.I., 62
• - Military Resources of Prussia and France, by Lieut. - Col. Chesney, R.E., and Henry Reeve, D.C.L., 143
• - Mines Metalliques de La France, par A. CaUlaux, 62
• - Minutes of Proceedings of the Inst, of Civil Eng., James Forrest, C.E., 174, 314
• - Post Office Directory of Engineers and Iron and Metal Trades, Messrs. Kelly and Co., 432
• - Promenades de Paris, Mons. A. Alphand, 332
• - Quarterly Weather lieport of the Meteorological Office, Part I., 174
• - Science and Art of Arithmetic for Schools, A. Sonnenschein and H. A. Nesbitt, M.A., 414
• - Tabulated Weights of Angles, T. Bulb, andc., Chas. U. Jordan, M.I.N.A., 175
• - Traite de Fortification Polygonale, par A. Brialmont, 63
• - Tritone, The, Joseph Green, 415
• - Locking Points on the North-Eastern Railway, 343
• - Locks, Mr. E. Cotteiill, 372
• - Locomotive, Mid Rail, Canta Gallo Railway, Mr. J. B. Fell, C.E., 243
• - Locomotive, Mr. Nairn's Mountain, 308
• - Locomotive, Quadruple Bogie, Mr. G. Percy Spooner, C. E., 20
• - Locomotive, Tank on the Vaessen System, Societe de Liege, 280
• - Lubricator for Grease Boxes. Mr. Blackburn, 326
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
• - A. B. C. Process at Hastings, J. F., 6
• - Accident at Tam worth, A Timid Traveller, 234
• - Administration of the Patent Law, W. Spence, C.E., 234, 344
• - Aeronautical Science, F. Sheward, 373
• - An Ideal Formula, C. M. Poole, 98
• - A New Metal and a Novel Gun. One who Believes that the Colour of a Metal has much to do with its Merits, 154
• - Balanced Slide Valves, G. W. Elliott, 140
• - Belts and Pulleys, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 234, 245
• - Beuther's Axle Box, R. H. Burnett, 344
• - Blowing Engines for the Weldon Process, Walter Weldon, 374
• - Boat Ram, H. Walker, 234
• - Boiler Assurance, Robert Briggs, 344
• - Boiler Explosions, John Swift, 344
• - Boiler Explosions, United Society of Boiler Makers, 77
• - Boiler, the Field, Lewis Olrick, 410
• - Boiler Inspection, Henry Miller, 279
• - Boiler Inspection in the United States, An Inspector, 452
• - Boiler Repairing, Robert Jenkins, 6
• - Breakage of Railway Wagon Axles, H. S. Harland, 399
• - British Association, J. P. Joule, 193
• - British Association Units, Cromwell F. Varley, 245
• - British Association Units, X. X. X., 278
• - British Association Units of Electrical Measurement, Desmond G. FitzGerald, 261, 328
• - Captain and the Court Martial, F. F., 278
• - Caulking Tubes, 410
• - Centrifugal Pumps, Plodder, 154
• - Coal Supply and Colliery Waste, G. Ryland, 153
• - Colliery Tub Wheel, J. H. L., 315
• - Colliery Tub Wheels, W. R. R., 295
• - Competitive Boilers at Oxford, Edward Field, 98
• - Competitive Engines, Omega, 140
• - Davey-Paxman Boiler, Andrew Barclay, 315
• - Davey-Paxman Boiler, E. D. B., 279
• - Davey-Paxman Boiler, F. C., 279
• - Davey-Paxman Boiler, W. Roberts, 315
• - Davey-Paxman Boiler, Thomas Wilkins, 279
• - Disposal of Sewage, A. B.C. Process, T. W. Cowan, 193
• - Disposal of Sewage, Two Sides of the Question, F. Jones, 155
• - Drainage of Glastonbury, H. J., 343
• - Duty of Cornish Engines, One and All, 193
• - Education of Engineers, A. J. C., 171
• - Education of Engineers, Sold, 234
• - Elastic Tires for Traction Engines, L. Sterne, 428
• - Engine Tests, C. J. W., 155
• - Engine Trials, W., 171
• - Engine Trials at Oxford, Lewis Olrick, 77
• - Engineering in India, Arthur Jacob, 234
• - Engineers in India, M. I. C. E., 154
• - English Mechanic's Scientific and Mechanical Society, F. G. Wood, 343
• - Examinations of the Science and Art Department, John Henry Ohlsen, 261
• - Extracting Tallow, A. L., 428
• - Extracting Tallow, George Bennie and Co., 428
• - Fell's Mountain Locomotive, Locomotive, 76
• - Fishing up Torpedoes, 343
• - Flow of Water Through Pipes, A. W. E., 140
• - Fog Signals, W. Wright, C.E., 428
• - Fracture of Axles. W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 41
• - Frictional Screw Motion, G. Lauder, 345
• - Gas from Bitumen, A. Cochrane, 98
• - Gauges of the Railways of the Future, Delta, 360, 399
• - Hancock's Screw Propeller, W. Scott, 6
• - Hancock's Screw Propeller, Henrietta Vansittart, 6
• - Hint to Local Boards of Health and Water Companies, Illogicus, 41
• - Historic Meteorology, Thomas Measam, 76
• - H.M.S. Captain, G. Featherstone Griffin, C.E., 234
• - H.M.S. Captain, Heincke and Davies, 315
• - Howe Testimonial Fund, N. P. Burgh, 360
• - Howe Testimonial Fund, Justice, 343 i
• - Hydraulic Ram, Hydraulicus, 155
• - Ice Making Machines, B., 76
• - Ice Making Machines, H. C., 126
• - Improved Governors, J. A. Z., 153
• - Indian College, A. Tutor, 399
• - Indian Engineer Examinations, Another Teacher, 140, 155
• - Indian Engineer Examinations, A Leveller, 139
• - Indian Public Works Examination, A Teacher, 63, 76, 140
• - Iron Wheels for Gun Carriages, T. M. C., 261
• - Latitude Without Angular Instruments, C. M Poole, 360
• - Locomotive Improvement, B. P., 409
• - Loss of the Captain, Anti-Humbug, 295
• - Lowe-Vansittart Propeller, H. Vansittart, 76
• - L'Usage Economique de la Vapeur, F. Griveaux, 75
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:--
• - Machinery for Manufacturing Fine Flour A Z Glas, 171
• - Messrs. B. Garrett and Son's Scantling Planing Machine, Samuel Worssam and Co., 428
• - Mountain Railway Engines, A. A., 98
• - Narrow Gauge Railways, Delta, 410
• - Narrow Gauge Railways, Robert F. Fairlie, 278, 399, 428
• - Narrow Gauge Railways, M. Inst, C.E., 261
• - Narrow Gauge Railways, C. Spooner, 429
• - Naval Engineers, J. H. E., 5
• - Naval Engineers, Only an Engineer, 41
• - Naval Engineers, Resigned in Disgust, 23
• - Naval Engineers, Union is Strength, 23
• - New Naval Reserve, J. Orrell Lever, 278
• - New Postal Delivery into Paris, R. M., 453
• - Novel Engine, A, 409
• - Our Ironclad Ships, W. McNaught, 374
• - Pneumatic Postal Tubes, Robert R. Gibbs, 76
• - Portland Cement, C. Russell and Co., 126
• - Prime Cost, Alpha, 428
• - Prime Cost, J. B., 428
• - Prime Cost, Q. E. D., 428
• - Pumping Engines, Thomas Sampson, 154
• - Purifying Water, D. P., 76
• - Question in Screw Propulsion, C., 126
• - Radial Rolling Stock, Wilkin and Clark, 453
• - Rads of Lathe Pulleys, E. E. S., 154
• - Railway Accident at Newark, H. Weaver, 23
• - Railway Batteries, Thos. Almgill, 399
• - Railway Iron, Senex, 428
• - Railway Points and Crossings, Sisson C. Norris, 2
• - Raising the Captain, William Morgans, 245
• - Rapid Boring, H. N. McKie, C.E., 171
• - Rigi Railroad, W. E. Clayton, 4
• - Rigi Railroad, J. H. K., 41
• - Royal Agricultural Society's Engine Tests, John Pinchbeck, 126, 142, 154
• - Screw Propellers, G. F. G. Des Vignes, 279
• - Secondhand Steam Boilers, Henry Hiller, 399
• - Sewage Irrigation, A. Scott, 63
• - Sewage Purification, C. M. Barker, C.E., 154
• - Sewage Utilisation, A. B. C. Process, C. Rawson 295
• - Shipbuilding at Newcastle, Maudslay, Sons and Field, 399
• - Siege of Paris, J. Scoffern, M.B., 453
• - Small-pox Epidemic, Robert R. Carr, 428
• - Soft Studded Projectiles, W. F. Pad wick, 76
• - Some Hints on Improved Miners' and Agricultural Labourers' Cottages, C. B. A., 410
• - Steam on Common Roads, S. Darton, 23
• - Steam on Common Roads, W. B. Wood, 6
• - Steel Boilers, A Scotch Engineer, 409
• - Surface Condensers, J. Henderson, 193
• - Surface Condensers, Scotus, 278 Syphons, A. J., 295
• - Syphons, Peter Jensen, 328
• - Syphons, John Jones, 343
• - Thomson's Road Steamers, Dunmore, 428
• - Top Heaviness of Ironclads, A. M., 234
• - Tramroads, "Tram," 295
• - Tubulous Boilers, H. Kesterton, 77
• - Tubulous Boilers, E. Mirchin, 98, 126
• - Vertical Boilers, C. J. W., 193
• - Vertical Boilers, Gardiner and Macintosh, 328
• - Vertical Boilers, II. A. F., 126
• - Vertical Boilers, J. P., 344
• - Vertical Boilers, Lewis Olrick, 344
• - Vertical Boilers, James Macpherson, 399
• - Vertical Boilers, Lewis Olrick, 126
• - Vertical Boilers, J. Pinchbeck, 399, 452
• - Vertical Boilers, S. Smart, 373, 410
• - Vertical Boilers, X. Y. Z., 360
• - Westminster Offices, An Engineer, 245
• - Who Invented the Link Motion? W. Lawrence Williams, 23
• - Who Invented the Link Motion ? W. Waller, 6
• - Who Invented the Link Motion? W. T., 41

• McGregor, C.E., Mr. J., Appointment of, as Chief Engineer to H.M. Kidderpore Dockyard, 36
• Madeley and Dudley, Sales of Colliery Plant at, 131
• Madrid Tramway, 372
• Mail Contracts, 155
• Mansion House Station, Metropolitan District Railway, 11
• Manslaughter at Amington Colliery, 433
• Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., Engines of H.M.S. Druid, 6, 8
• Marine Engine Economy, 265
• Markets, Metal, Oil, and Timber, Prices Current, See last page of each Number
• Marsden, Mr., Road Metal Breaking Machine, 149
• Marshall, Messrs., 10-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 38
• Mathematical Theory of Combined Strains, Abstract of an Investigation of the, Prof. Rankine, 225
• Mather and Platt, Messrs., Pumping Engines with Double Acting Pumps, 312
• Medway Forts, 176
• Meeting of North of England Institute of Engineers, and Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 105
• Merill and Sons, Messrs., Drop and Air Spring Forging Hammers, 190
• Mersey, Defences of, 140
• Metal Whitworth, 298
• Meter, Mr. Aghton on a Steam Power, 216
• Meteorology, Historic, 76
• Michele and Carrington, Messrs., Cement Testing Machine, 426
• Microscope, Mr. S. Holmes on the Binocular, 258
• Mid-London Road and Railway, 18
• Milner's Safe Works at Liverpool, 28
• Miller's Cast Iron Safety Boiler, Trials with, 441
• Millstones, Dressing, Messrs. Huggins and Horsenaills, 172
• Mines, Metalliques de la France, Alfred Caillaux, 62
• Minute, Mr. Childers', 431
• Miscellanea, 7, 19, 37, 59, 73, 89, 113, 127, 137, 151, 167, 189, 211, 233, 241, 257, 275, 291, 307, 329, 341, 361, 371, 389, 407, 425, 445
• Mississippi, Dredging Operations on the, 88, 90
• Mitrailleur, The, 135
• Mitrailleuse, The French, 396
• Monarch and Vanguard, H.M.S., 324
• Mont Cenis Tunnel, 449
• Moody, Capt., Telegraph Ship, 11
• Mossley Board of Health, 284
• Moulding Machine, Messrs. Ransome and Co.'s High- Speed Force-Cutter, 94
• Mountain Locomotive, Fell's, 76
• Murray and Co., Messrs., Double-Furrow Plough, 309

• Nagant, M., A New Photometer, 68
• Nairn, Mr., Mountain Locomotive, 308
• Nairn, Mr., 8-H.P. Road Steamer for Traction of Soft Ground, 254
• Naval Architecture, Some Examples of American, 55
• Navy, Oui Ironclad, 1U4
• Naval Reserve, a New, 278
• Neutrality, American, 250
• Newark, Railway Accident at, 9, 23
• Newcastle, Shipbuilding at, 399
• New Field of Magnetic Research, Fred. Varley. F.R.A.S.,318
• New Line of Railway from Hassop to Castleton, 322
• New Salt for Intense Electric Currents, 124
• New Zealand Railway, 318
• Nils Ericson, 197
• Noble's Chronoscope and Section of Powder-Testing Gun, 183
• North-Eastern Railway, Locking Points on the, 343
• Norwood, Sewage Farm at, 10
• Notes from France, 10
• Notes and Memoranda, 7, 19, 37, 59, 73, 89, 113, 127, 137, 151, 167, 189, 211, 233, 241, 257, 275, 291, 307, 329, 341, 361, 371, 389, 407, 425, 445
• Notes from the Northern and Eastern Counties, 16, 32, 60, 68, 86, 102, 120, 134, 148, 164, 182, 204, 222, 238, 254, 272, 258, 3u4,322, 338, 354, 368, 384, 404, 422, 438, 456
• Notes from Paris, 36, 63, 81, 101, 116, 130,144, 160 196, 265, 282, 299, 315, 333, 364, 397, 449
• Notes from Manchester, 354, 384, 421
• Notes on the Russian Exhibition of 1870, 355
• Notes from Scotland, 15, 31, 49, 67, 85, 102, 119, 134, 148, 163, 182, 203, 221, 238, 2-53, 258, 272, 303, 322, 337, 353, 368, 384, 404, 421, 438, 456
• Notices to Correspondents, 9, 25, 43, 61, 79, 95, 111, 129, 141,157, 173, 195, 213, 231, 247, 263, 281, 297, 313, 331, 347, 363, 377, 395, 413, 431, 447
• Numerical Theorem, with Practical Applications, Mr. W. H. Walenn, 375

• OBITUARY :--
• - Bischof, Professor, 433
• - Braithwaite, Mr. John, 237
• - Brassey, Mr., 407
• - Coates, Major, 34
• - Cresy, E., 409
• - Dahlgren, Admiral, 88
• - Ewbank, Mr. T., 246
• - Hughes, Mr. Samuel, 358
• - Miller, Professor W. A., 242
• - Simoneau, Gustave, 34
• - Taylor, Mr. Philip, 20
• - Thornbury, Mr. David, 345
• - Thwaites, Sir John, 115
• - Wilson, Mr. G., 441
• Occlusion of Gases by Electro-Deposited Iron, 17
• Offices, Westminster, 245
• Our Iron-clad Navy, 104
• Our Naval Strength, 441
• Oxford Engine Trials, Report of Judges, 244, 268, 283, 294, 316
• Oxford, The, Royal Agricultural Show at, 33, 53, 74, 81, 82, 87, 91, 154, 155, 171, 192

• Paper, 380
• Paper and Paper Stock, 88
• Paraffin, Purification of, 332
• Paris, Bombardment of, 331
• Paris, Defences of, 138
• Paris, Manufacture of Cartridges in, 416
• Paris, A New Postal Delivery into, 453
• Paris, Les Promenades de, A. Alphand, 332
• Paris, The Siege of, 453
• Parks and Promenades of Paris, 271
• Patent Law, Administration of, 234. 344
• Patent Law, The United States, 1870, 349, 356
• Patent Office, 178
• Paving Machine in France, 26
• Pendulum Operations in India, 386
• Petroleum in North America, 448
• Phenomenon, A Strange, 11
• Photometer, A New, Mr. Nagant 68
• Pier, New Iron, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Mr. J. W. Grover. C.E., 193, 194
• Pinchbeck, Mr. J., Self-cleansing Water Tube Boiler, 346
• Pipes, Flow of Water through, 140
• Plough, Messrs. G. W. Murray and Co.'s Double Furrow, 309
• Plough, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, Head, and Co.'s Double Furrow, 82, 114
• Pneumatic Aids to State Telegraphy, 38, 42
• Pneumatic Despatch, Mr. R. Sabine on, 260
• Pneumatic Telegraph, A, 49
• Points and Crossings, Railway, 23
• Poisoning by Waste Gas, 26
• Policy and Provisions of a Patent Law, R. M. Punkhurd, LL.D., 334
• Pollution of Rivers, 271
• Polytechnic, The Royal, 301
• Portland Cement, 72, 126
• Postal Tubes, Pneumatic, 76
• Postal Directory of Engineers, and Iron and Metal Trades, Messrs. Kelly and Co., 432
• Power, Transmitting, 328
• Press, Mr. Gough's Printing and Arming, 4
• Private Bills, 10, 378, 396, 438
• Process of Inclining a Ship in Order to Find her Centre of Gravity, W. J. M. R., 339
• Production of Heavy Forgings, as used at the Birkenhead Forge, Lieut.-Col. Clay, 246
• Progress in the Potteries, 340
• Projectiles, Soft Studded, 76
• Propeller, Hancock's Screw, 6
• Propeller, The Lowe-Vansittart, 76
• Propellers, Screw, 279
• Provisional Instructions for the use of Breech-loading Guns of 16, 19, and 24 Centimetres, Pattern 1864, 349
• Prussia and France, Military Resources of, Lieut.-Col. Chesney and Henry Reeve, D.C.L., 143
• Prussian Guns, 51, 60, 121
• Public Works at Constantinople, 346
• Public Works Department and Indian Railways, 231
• Public Works in Turkey, 106
• Pulley, Mr. G. Watson's Patent, 56
• Pulleys and Belts, 234, 245
• Pump, Mr. N. P. Burgh's Steam Donkey, 242
• Pumping and Winding Machinery at the Castle Pit, Cyfarthfa, Mr. Pearce, 168
• Pumps, Centrifugal, 154
• Purification of Paraffin, 332
• Purification of Sewage, 154, 155

• Quarterly Journal of Science, 239
• Quarterly Weather Report of the Meteorological Office, Part 1., 174
• Quebec and Gosford Wooden Railway, 268
• Queries respecting Ether, Charles Brooke, M.A., F.R.S., 325

• Rails, Belgian, 372, 43S
• Railroad, The Rigi, 41
• Railway, Duke of Sutherland's, 334
• Railway in the High Peak of Derbyshire, a Proposed New, 279
• Railway Matters, 7, 19, 37, 59, 73, 89, 113, 127, 137,151, 167, 189, 211, 233, 241, 257, 275, 291, 307, 329, 341,361, 371, 389, 407, 425, 445
• Railway Returns, Board of Trade, 378
• Railway, The St. Gothard, 173
• Railways, Foreign and Colonial, 144, 357
• Railways of the Future, Gauges of the, 360, 399
• Railways, Gauge of Future Indian, 23
• Railways in India, 25
• Railways, Indian State, 71
• Railways, Indian, 168
• Railways, Narrow Gauge, 261, 278, 399, 410, 428, 442
• Railways in New Zealand, 171
• Rainfall, its Variation with Elevation of the Gauge, Chas. Chambers, F.R.S., 318
• Rainforth, Messrs. Screen, 373.
• Ram, A Boat, 234
• Ram, Hydraulic. 155
• Ransome and Co., Messrs., High Speed Four Cutter Moulding Machine, 94
• Ransomes, Sims, Head, and Co., Messrs., Double Furrow Plough, 82, 114
• Rating Mines, 139
• Reaping Machine Competition in France, 17
• Rearrangement of the íRegistration Districts of England and Wales to Facilitate Scientific Inquiry, Mr. A. Haviland on, 240
• Recovery of Treasury Lost in the Ham ilia Mitchell, 155
• Reed, Mr., on the Loss of the Captain, 297
• Relative Efficiency of Rollers Tested at Oxford, 69, 96, 98, 74,
• Renfrew Harbour Extension Works, 276
• Repairing Boilers, 6
• Revolver, Breech-loading, for the Russian Navy, 276
• Rifle, The Martini-Henry, 129
• Rifle of the Bavarian Troops. 135
• Rio Sao Goncalo Navigation, 295
• Rivers and Manufactories, 43
• Rivers Pollution Commission, 174
• Road Metal Breaking Machine, Mr. Marsden, 149
• Road and Railway. Mid-London, 18
• Road Steamers, Mr. Thomson, 428
• Road Steamer for Traction on Soft Ground, Mr. Nairn's 8-H.P., 259
• Road Steamer for Woolwich "Arsenal," Messrs. Robey and Co., 370, 387, 390
• Roads, Steam on Common. 6, 23
• Robey and Co., Messrs., Thrashing Machine, 82
• Robey and Co., Messrs., Road Steamers for Woolwich Arsenal, 370, 387, 390
• Rolling Machinery for Shaping Axles, Mr. A. Bowater, 226
• Rolling Stock for the Honduras Railway, Messrs. Wilkin and Clark's Radial, 427
• Rolling Stock, Radial, 453
• Romford Sewage Farm, 123
• Round Oak Ironworks, 276
• Royal Agricultural Show at Oxford, The, 33, 53, 74, 81, 82, 87, 91, 154, 155, 171, 192
• Russian Exhibition of 1870, Notes on, 355, 370, 417, 432
• Russian Navy, Breech-loading Revolver for the, 276
• Russian Railways and the South Wales Iron Trade, 342

• Saarbruck Collieries, 136
• Safe, A New, Mr. Chatwood, 23
• Safety Hook and Cage for Mines, Mr. J. King, 227
• Safe Works at Liverpool, Messrs. Milner, 28
• St. David's Railway, 68
• Sale at the Albion Iron Works and Patent Punched Steel Tube Works, Staffordshire, 345
• Sales of Colliery Plant at Madeley and Dudley, 131
• Scantling Machine, Messrs. R. Garrett and Sons, 409, 428
• Scholarship and Exhibition^t Merton College, Oxford, Natural Science, 283
• Scholarships, Whitworth, 1C6
• Science, Aeronautical, 373
• Science and Art Department, Examinations of, 261
• Science and Education, 448
• Science in War, Early Use of, 234
• Screen, Messrs. Rainforth, 373
• Screw Propulsion, Michael Sefi, 397, 418
• Screw Propulsion, a Question in, 126
• Serpentine, the Past, Present, and Future of the, 61
• Setting out Driving Lines, by J. S. Tate, C.E., 52
• Sewage Difficulties, Further, 295
• Sewage Farm, Romford, 123
• Sewage Farms, Laying out of, 432
• Sewage Grown Grass, 208
• Sewage Irrigation, Latest Results of, 363
• Sewage of Liverpool and the Neighbourhood, its Collection and Ultimate Disposal, Mr. J. N. Shool bred, C.E., 223, 225
• Sewage Problem, 256
• Sewage, Purification of, 111
• Sewage Utilisation, 295
• St-wer Ventilation, 388
• Sewers, Mr. Harrison's Apparatus for Ventilating and Flushing, 5
• Sewers in Running Sand, Messrs. Reade and Goodison on the Construction of, 227
• Sewers, Ventilating, Mr. A. Jacob, 56
• Sewers, Ventilating, Mr. T. C. Thorburn, C.E., 57
• Shand and Mason, Messrs.,Treble Cylinder Equilibrium Steam Fire Engine, 57
• Sheffield, Effects of the War in, 88
• Shipbuilding in Belgium, 208
• Ship of War of Moderate Dimensions, Mr. Scott on, 217, 232, 239
• Shipping Trade, 253
• Ships, Forms of, 61
• Ships Lines, Senhor Carvalho, 61, 64
• Ships, Our Ironclad, 374
• Ships, Report on the Stability, Propulsion, and Seagoing Qualities of, 209, 218
• Siege of Paris, Farcy Gunboat on the Seine, 346
• Signalling Underground in Collieries, 150
• Signals, Fog, 428
• Simpson and Co., Messrs., Pumping Engines, Berlin Waterworks, 208, 212
• Slide Valve, Messrs. Wilson and Peebles' Equilibrium, 5
• Slide Valves, Balanced, 140
• Small Arms and Accoutrements, 122
• Small Arms, Explosive Shells for, 95
• Smith Brothers and Co., Messrs., Weir's Centrifugal Governor for Marine Engines, 358
• Smithfield Club Show, 391
• Smithsonian Institute of Washington, 219
• Smoking in Railway Carriages, 175
• Snider Redivivus, The, 144
• Society, the Amateur Mechanical, 372
• SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL, 333, 357
• - Composition of Hyposulphites, Mr. E. A. Letts, 333
• - Determination of Sulphur in Cast Iron, Mr. Elliott, 333
• - Mineralogical Notices, Prof. Mackelyne and Dr. Flight, 357
• - Production of the Sulphates of the Alcohol Radicles from the Nitrites by the Action of Sulphurous Acid, Mr. E. T. Chapman, 333
• Some Derivatives of Anthracene, Mr. Perkin, F.R.S., 393
• Some New Derivatives of Coumarin, Mr. Perkin, P.R.S., 441
• Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 12, 424
• SOCIETY. ENGINEERING, 295, 306, 328, 345, 364 :--
• - Bessemer Process, Mr. J. Wilson, 295
• - Brickmaking, Mr. A. E. Baldwin, 328
• - Design and Construction of Harbour and Breakwaters, Mr. Reid, 408
• - Experimental Magnetism, Mr. Gordon, 295
• - Fuel, Mr. Courtney, 372
• - Gold Fields of Great Britain, Mr. Milne, A.K.C., 345
• - Progress and Construction of Artillery, Mr. Carey, 306
• - Sewage Utilisation, Mr. Bluett, 393
• - Telegraphy, Air. Baynes, 364
• SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 23, 88, 193, 219, 388, 437:--
• - Theory of Screw Propulsion, Michael Sefi, 397
• Society, English Mechanics' Scientific and Mechanical, Manchester, 301, 343, 411
• South-Eastern, Bath and Washhouse's, Company, 31
• South Kensington and the British Museum, 96
• South Kensington Museum, 11, 23, 35, 81, 88, 106, 124, 147, 149, 172, 189, 237, 245, 271,284, 301, 335, 360,372, 404, 418, 424, 456
• Spooner, C.E., Mr. G. Percy, Quadruple Bogie Engine, 20
• Springs, Thomson's Cushion Spiral, 176
• Station, The Holborn Viaduct, 411
• Steam Lines and Waves in Connection with Naval Architecture, Prof. Rankine, 218
• Steam Road Roller as an Engine of War, 74
• Steam Road Rolling Company in London, 149
• Steamship Freight and the War, 177
• Steamship Trade of New York, 442
• Stoking, Good and Bad, 318
• Stoking, Mr. Smith on Mechanical, 216
• Stoney, M.A., M.I.C. E., Mr. B. B., Description of an Experiment on the Strength of a Lattice Road Girder at the Boyne Viaduct, 452
• Subways, 11
• Suez Canal Company, 388
• Sugar, Manufacture of, 70
• Sultan, H.M.S., 388
• Sun, Total Eclipse of the, 434
• Supplying Water to Locomotives, 171
• Swettenham, C.E., Mr. W. N., Kilnhurst Swing Bridge over the River Dun Navigation, 292, 296
• Swiftsure, The, 109
• Syphons, 295, 328, 343
• Systems which have been Proposed for Effecting the Electric Transmission of Telegraph Signals, 405

• Tallow Extracting, 428
• Tarapaca, The, 139
• Tate. C.E., Mr. J. S., Setting out Driving Lines, 52
• Taylor and Co., Messrs., Direct Acting Steam Crane, 426
• Telegraph in Russia, 5
• Telegraph Ship, Captain Moody's II
• Telegraph Signals, Certain Systems which have been Proposed in Effecting the Electric Transmission of, 355
• Telegraph System, German Field, 181
• Telegraphy, Pneumatic Aid to, 38, 42
• Tenwick, Mr., Annealing Furnaces, Leiston Works, Suffolk, 372
• Testing Malleable Metals and Alloys, Prof. G. Bischof, 243
• Thermodynamics, On, 136
• Thomsons Cushioned Spiral Springs for Railway Buffers, andc., 176
• Thorburn, C. E., Mr. T. C., Ventilating Sewers, 57
• Thrashing Machine, Messrs. Robey and Co., 82
• Tires, Elastic, for Traction Engines, 428
• Titanic Steel, 299
• Torpedoes, 72
• Torpedoes, Fishing up, 343
• Trades Unions and Patents, Sir W. Armstrong on, 249
• Traite de Fortifications Polygonale, A. Brialmont, 63
• Tramroads, 295
• Tramways in Glasgow, Projected, 176
• Trial of an Aveling and Porter Steam Road Roller at Orange, New Jersey, U.S., 299
• Trial of Beuther's Axle-box on the Metropolitan Railway, 309, 344
• Trial of Compound Armour Plates of Iron and Steel, 290
• Trial of the Ironclad Corvette, Fetid Bulend, 86
• Trial Trip of the Kirstall, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 306, 358
• Trial Trip of a Steam Launch, 108
• Trials with Miller's Cast Iron Safety Boiler, 441
• Trigonometrical Survey of India, The Great, 1, 33
• Tritone, The, Joseph Green, 415
• Truck Act in South Wales, 237, 266
• Trucks on the Great Northern, 314
• Tube Making at Wednesbury, 450
• Tubes, Caulking, 410
• Tabulated Weights, by C. H. Jordon, M.I.N.A., 175
• Tunnel under the Bosphorus, Mr. J. Haddan's Proposed, 114
• Tunnel, Mont Cenis, 449
• Turner, Messrs. E. and R. 10-horse Fixed Engine, 106
• Tyler, Captain, on the Festiniog Railway, 46

• Underhill, Mr., 10-horse Fixed Engine, 152
• United States, Boiler Inspection in, 452
• United States, Military Breech-loaders in the, 142
• United States, Patent Law, 1870, 349, 356
• University of Glasgow, 88
• Utilisation of Cotton Seed, 116
• Utilisation of Sewage, Mr. Denton's Remarks on the Extent to which Existing Works and Prevailing Practice Militate against the Profitable, 224

• Vaessen System,Tank Engine for Steep Gradients and Sharp Curves, 284, 300
• Vaessen System, Tank Locomotive, 280, 300
• Valve, Mr. R. Crickmer's Anti Priming, 28
• Ventilator, Mr. Hawksley, 409
• Vernon, Bridge over the Mersey at Stockport, Messrs. Bryant and Cargill, 123, 128
• Vicar's, Messrs. T., Self-stoking Smokeless Furnace, 216
• Victoria Embankment, Why it was not Steam Rolled, 174, 225
• Vidal, Mr. U. B, and Street Cars, 254
• Visit of English Engineers to Belgium, its Coal and Iron Districts, 27, 36, 80

• Wales and Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 50, 58, 102, 120 134, 148, 164, 182, 204, 222, 238, 254, 272, 258, 304 322, 338, 354, 368, 384, 401, 422, 438, 456
• Walker, Mr., Self-acting Expansion Gear, 56
• War, The, 79
• War, The Influences of, 155
• War, The, Steam Fire Engines for Paris, 222
• Warhurst, Mr., Apparatus for Closing the Bottoms of Doors, 326
• Warren, Captain, Cooking Apparatus, 3-12
• "Waste" at our Ironworks, 64
• Watches and Clocks, Mr. C. Lange's Improvements in 4
• Water, Purifying, 76
• Water Supply of Newcastle, 233
• Watson, Mr. G., Pulley, 56
• Wear of Taylor Steel Tires, 150
• Wednesbury, Tube Making at, 450
• Weir's Centrifugal Governor for Marine Engines, Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., 358
• Weldon Process, Blowing Engines for the, 374
• Weldon Process for Manufacturing Chlorine, Mr. W. Weldon, 292
• Welsh Trade, 136
• Wheels, Colliery Tub, 295, 315
• Whitworth Scholarship, 106
• Whitworth Steam Hammer for Turkey, 256
• Wilkin and Clark, Messrs, Radial Rolling Stock, Honduras Railway, 427
• Williams, Mr. A., Eastbourne Gasworks, 443, 444, 446
• Wilson and Peeble, Messrs., Equilibrium Slide Valve, 5
• Winlock, Professor. Photographing the Sun, 124
• Wood, A Rotary Cutter for, 250
• Wood Working Machinery, High Speeds as applied to, 91
• Woolfield, Mr. J., Screw Cutting and General Purpose Lathe, 227
• Woolwich Arsenal, 77
• Woolwich Arsenal, New Iron Pier, Mr. J. W. Grover, C.E.,193, 194
• Working Load, 213
• Working Men's International Exhibition, 35
• Workshops' Act, 345
• Wreck from New York Harbour, Removal from, 172

• Yacht Match, The Atlantic, 80

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