The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1872 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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• Accident near Nice, The Late Railway, 163
• Aconcagua, Launch of the, 416
• Aerial Navigation, M. Dupuy de Lome's Balloon, 166, 167, 189
• Africa, The New Steamship, 137
• Agassiz Expedition, The, 450
• Air-Brake, A Successful but Uncomfortable Railway, 250
• Air-Brake, The Westinghouse, 359, 360
• Air Loom at the International Exhibition, Mr. C. Richardson, 362
• Alderney Harbour Works, 205, 346, 382
• Alexander and Son, Messrs., 20-H.P. Engine and Boiler, 201, 204
• Allison, Mr. T., Belt Riveter, 436
• Alsace and Lorraine, French Patents in, 333
• American Car Wheel Boring Machine, 40
• American Commission on Danks' Rotary Puddling Furnace, 64, 78, 102
• American Navy, 86
• Ammonia as a Motive Power for Street Cars, 23
• Anemometer, Mr. J. E. Gordon's Registering, 66
• Annual Article, 1872
• Arbitration between Masters and Workmen, 453
• Archer's Stone-breaking Machinery, 255
• Armour-piercing Projectiles, Development of, 145, 197, 305, 341
• Armour-plated Ships. By J. M. Hyde, 298
• Army on a Peace Footing, An, 164
• Art and Manufactures at the International Exhibition, 377
• Artillery, French and Prussian, 37
• Artillery, German, 450
• Artillery, Phosphorised Bronze and other Alloys as Materials for, 127, 145, 179
• Asbestos Packing, 137
• ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN :--
• - The London, 155, 245, 328, 364, 381
• - Anniversary Banquet, 132
• - Annual Meeting, 20
• - Cast Iron, Mr. Laird, 401
• - Cast Iron in Relation to Mechanical and Constructive Purposes, Mr. A. Laird, 164
• - Iron-Steel, Mr. Galloway, 91
• - Association, Manchester Steam Users', 166, 184
• - Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher on the Application of Encircling Hoops to the Furnace Tubes and Flues of Boilers originally made without, 49
• Asphalte and other Pavements, 269, 287
• Atkins, Mr. T., Fire Engine, 166
• Atlantic Cable, The, 25
• Australia, Steam to, 275
• Austrian Experiments with Dynamite, 395
• Axle Boxes, M. E. Reuther, 100
• Ayrton, Mr., Galvanometer, 49

• Balloon, M. Dupuy do Lome's, 160, 167, 189
• Bangor Slate Ridge, Messrs. Thomas and Son, 4
• Barrow-in-Furness, 387
• Barton, Mr. J., Feed-heater, 49, 85, 96, 220
• Bayley, Mr., "Combination" Printing, Embossing, International Exhibition, 450
• Beaumont, Capt., Diamond Boring, 109
• Beauvais Cathedral Clock, 290 291
• Belgian Rails, 25
• Bell, Mr., Feed-water Heater, 219
• Belt Riveter, Mr. T. Allison, 436
• Benhar Coal Company, The, 47
• Bermuda Floating Dock, 448
• Bertha, The New Red Cross-line Steamer, 38
• Beuther, M. E., Axle-Boxes, 100
• Biddell, Testimonial to Mr. 40
• Bilge Pumps, 95, 98, 149, 155
• Bilge Water, Action of, 188
• Birmingham, Sewerage of, 437
• Birmingham Wagon Building Co., 137, 146
• Biscuit Factory, Messrs. Huntley and Palmer's, 251
• Blake's Stone-breaker, Constructed by Mr. H. R. Marsden, 406
• Blast Furnaces Using Wood Fuel, George M. Fraser, Boiler, 128
• Boiler, Mr. J. S. Crossland's Tubular, 398
• Boiler Experiments, Proposed Government, 401
• Boiler, The Fairbairn Fire-Tube Safety, 273, 276 396
• Boiler Flues, Strengthening, 150
• Boiler Inspection on the Continent, 264
• Boilers, Curious, 260
• Boilers, High-Pressure Marine, 413, 429, 447, 459
• Boilers, of H.M.S. Salamis and Helicon, Messrs. Ravenhill, Salkeld and Co., 62
• Boilers, Sectional Steam, 313
• Boilers, Mr. L. J. Todd's Vertical, 23, 43, 84
• Boilers, Trial of Steam, 434
• Boilers, 240-H.P., Mr Watts' Tubulous Marine, 454
• Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway Co., 419
• Borax, 54
• Boring Machine, American Car Wheel, 40
• Boring for Oil, 380
• Bottling and Syrup Machine, 434
• Bread, Sea Water, 128
• Breakwater of the Future, 370
• Breakwaters, 396
• Breech-loaders, Trial of, 352
• Bridges, Indian, 223, 275, 298
• British Association of Gas Managers 434
• Browning, F.R.S., Mr. J., Some Results of the Eclipse Expedition, 96
• Brusch, Mr., Automaton Damper, 180
• Buda-Pesth Competition, 46
• Building Materials, On Some New, 163
• Buss, M., Cataract Governor, 326

• Cable between Lowestoft and Mordeney, Repair of, 314
• Caisson used in Replacing the Propeller of the Steam-ship Lusitania, 237
• "Canada" Tug-Dredger, 438
• Canadian Patent Laws, 453
• Caspersen, Mr. H. W., Continuous Expansion Compound Engine, 384
• Cassell's Technical Manuals, Gothic Stonework, Ellis A. Davidson, 121
• Cataract Governors, M. Buss, 326
• Cement, Mr. G. F. Chantrell on the Strength of, Liverpool Polytechnic Society, 85
• Central Swedish Iron and Steel Company, 156
• Changeable Head Light, 442
• Channel Passage, The, 84
• Charcoal Ironworks, Selection of Sites for, 287
• Charcoal using and Blast Furnaces, 368
• Chart of H.M.S Minotaur, 1350-H.P 413
• Chemical Manufacturers and the Pollution of Rivers, 349
• China Lighthouse, 137
• Chronograph, Mr. G. W. Hough's Description of a Printing, 43
• Clearing House in Paris, 262
• Cleveland District, 18, 35, 53, 72, 90, 108, 125, 144, 162, 178, 196, 214, 232, 250, 268, 286, 303, 322, 340, 358, 375, 394, 411, 428, 446 464
• Clyde Shipbuilders and the Short Time Movement, 187
• Coal in Alaska, 364
• Coal at Cobquecura, 226
• Coal Cutting Machinery 282
• Coal Mine Ventilation, 46
• Coal near Wolverhampton, Search for, 419
• Cocks, Mr. S. Penn's Regulating, 291
• Cocks, Mr. Whitakerís Stop, 130
• Colladon, Prof., 156
• Colours of Metals, Prof. Seeley at the New York Lyceum of Natural History, 47
• "Combination" Printing, Embossing, and Copying Press, Mr. Bayley, International Exhibition, 450
• Compass Compensator, M. Arion, 226
• Concrete Dwellings, 433
• Conversazione at the London Institution, 216
• Conversazione of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 441
• Coode, C.E., Mr. John, 189
• Cooper's Hill College, 144
• Cornish Mining, 150
• Cotton Gin Trials, 29, 122
• Council Bluffs and Omaha Bridge, 128
• County Surveyorships (Ireland), 85
• Crank Pin, Motion of a, 208
• Crichton and Co., Messrs., Steam Launch Engines for the Russian Navy, 381
• Crosland, Mr. J. S., Tubular Boiler, 399
• Crossings, Level, 42
• Cutter Heads, Moulding, 398
• Cupro Ammonium, 206, 346
• Cutting Machine, Furnival's "Express" Diagonal, International Exhibition, 432
• Cylinders, Condensation in, 459
• Cylinders in the Navy, Marine Engine, 45, 86

• Damper, Mr. Brusch's Automaton, 130
• Danish Government Railway, Compressed Wool Auxiliary Springs, 148
• Danks, Mr., Puddling Furnace, 76, 80, 347
• Danks Rotary Puddling Furnace, Report of the American Commission on, 64, 78, 102
• Danks Furnace in the United States, 432
• Davey, Paxman, and Co., Messrs., 8-H.P. Vertical Engine, 5
• Deadliness, Comparative. From Pall Mall Gazette, 38
• Death of Mr. Andrew Fleming, Superintendent of the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 434
• Delhi Iron Pillar, 30, 456
• Designs upon which Ships of War have been recently Constructed, Report of the Committee appointed to Examine the, 168, 183, 198
• Detecting Electrically Defective Insulators, Mr. Schwendler, 433
• Detonators, New, 47
• Diamond Boring, Captain Beaumont, 109
• Diamond in its Matrix, Discovery of, 32
• Disputes between French Railway Companies and their Men, 138
• Dormoy's Revolving Rabble applied to Common Furnace, 335
• Dormoy, Mr., Rotary Puddling Furnace, 262
• Doty's Lamps, Captain, 150
• Dovetailing Machine, Messrs. W. Furness and Co., 94
• Drainage, Metropolitan, 173
• Dundee New Dry Docks, 419
• Dunoon New Water Supply, 369
• Dynamite, Austrian Experiments with, 395

• Eclipse Expedition, Some of the Results of the, Mr. J. Browning, F.R.C.S., 46
• Eclipse of the Sun, Spectroscopic Apparatus, 4
• Economy, Steamship, 346
• Egan, Mr. A., Springs, 112
• Egypt, Engineers in, 42
• Electric Telegraph Instruments, 424
• Electrical Tables and Formulae, Clark and Sabone's, 42, 84
• Embankments, The Thames, 259
• Encircling Hoops to Furnace Tubes and Flues of Boilers originally made without, Mr. L. E. Fletcher on the Application of, 49
• Engine and Boiler, Messrs. Alexander and Co.'s 20-H.P., 201, 204
• Engine, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co.'s, 8-H.P. Vertical, 5
• Engine, Louisville and Nashville Railway, Mr. T. Perkins, 10-Wheel Goods, 113, 119, 131, 136
• Engine, Steam Tug, Hoist, and Fire, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley, 436
• Engine, 8-Wheel Goods, Louisville and Nashville Railway, 237
• Engineering Societies, Provincial, 367, 396
• Engineers, Marine, 114
• Engineers, More Work for Naval, 206
• Engines, Mr. H. W. Caspersen's Continuous Expansion, 384
• Engines, Compound, 28
• Engines, Compound, 382, 396, 418
• Engines, Economical Marine, 349, 367, 386
• Engines, Friction of, 418
• Engines, Horse Power of Steam, 395
• Engines in the Navy, Marine, 27, 42, 61, 81, 139, 153
• Engines for the Prussian Government, 96
• Engines, Rotary, 73, 109
• Engines for the Russian Navy, Messrs. Crichton and Co., Steam Launch, 381
• Engines, H.M.S. Salamis and Helicon, Messrs. Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co.ís 250-H.P. Oscillating, 15. 22. 26, 41, 44, 47
• Engines of the Scindia and Bertha, Messrs. Oswald and Co.'s 250-H.P. Compound, 148, 152
• Engines, Strafford Main Collieries, Mr. G. W. Hick's Pumping, 183
• Engines, Testing, 434
• Erie Railway Company, 453
• Esk Valley Ironworks, 86
• Estimates, The Navy, 223
• Excavating Machine, Mr. Webb, 182
• Exhibition, Art Manufactures at the International, 377
• Exhibition Courtesies, International, 371, 396
• Exhibition, The International, 295, 296
• Exhibition in Paris in July, Universal, 278
• Exhibition in Vienna, 1873, 334
• Exit Broad Gauge, 364
• Experimental Steam Boiler Explosions, Prof Thurston, 352
• Experiments at Shoeburyness, 447, 455
• Explosions, 91
• Explosions, Air, 208, 220
• Explosions, Boiler, 382
• Explosions in 1871, Boiler, 136

• Fairbairn Fire-tube Safety Boiler, 273, 276
• Feed-heater, Mr. J. Barton, 49, 85, 96, 220
• Feed-water Heater, Mr. Bell, 219
• Fell Central Rail Locomotive, Trial of a, 453
• Field Artillery, Capt. Sladen, R.A., 164
• Fielding and Platt, Messrs., Three-Throw Pumps, Great Western Locomotive Works, Gloucester, 273
• Fifty-one Hours, The Effect of, 164
• Fire Engine, Mr. T. Atkins, 166
• First Locomotive Built in the United States, 47
• Fletcher, Mr. L. E., Application of Encircling Hoops to Furnace Tubes and Flues of Boilers made without, 49
• Fleury's Water Meter, 433
• Force of Wind on Inclined Planes, 306
• Foreign Periodical Literature, 14, 28, 46 82
• Fowling-piece, Mr. H. Walker's Oscillating Bolt, 416
• French Engineering, 262
• French Ordnance Maps, 252
• French and Prussian Artillery, 37
• French Railway Companies and their Men 158
• Furnace, Mr. Danks' Rotary Puddling, 76, 8O, 347
• Furnace, M. Dormoy's Rotary Puddling 269
• Furnace, Newport Puddling, fitted with Witham's Puddling Machine, 200, 202
• Furnaces using Wood Fuel, Blast, George M. Fraser 128
• Furnaces, Charcoal-using, Blast, 368
• Furnaces, The Glengarnock Blast, 377
• Furness and Co., Messrs., Dovetailing, 94
• Furnival's "Express" Diagonal Cutting Machine International Exhibition, 432
• Furnival's "Express" Flatten Printing International Exhibition, 436

• Galvanometer, Mr. Ayrton, 49
• Gas, 437
• Gas Connection, Mr. Mathew, 58
• Gas Generator Co., The New, 346
• Gas Supply, Progress of, 135
• Gatling Mitrailleuse, 58
• Gauge Bar for Bit Braces, Mr. C. Whitus, 38O
• Geography and Topography in France, 40
• Georgetown Gasworks, Mr. Alfred Williams, C.L., 294, 299, 303, 316, 326, 327, 342, 348
• German Artillery, 450
• German Patent Law, 456
• Gins, Native Indian Cotton, International Exhibition, 432
• Girders, Designing Wrought Iron, Mr. A. Stewart on, 399, 422
• Girders, Loads on, 296
• Girders, Stability of, 403
• Glaister, Mr. T., Stone Sawing at Melbourne, 48
• Glasgow Graving Dock, 46
• Glasgow University, Certificate of Proficiency in Engineering Science, 334
• Glasgow, Water Supply of, 55
• Glengarnock Blast Furnaces, 377
• Gold in Old Crowns and Half-Crowns, 395
• Gordon, Mr. J. E., Registering Anemometer, 66
• Gothard Railway, The St., 407
• Governors, Mr. Richard Long, 458
• Governors, Parabolic, 256, 333
• Graham, Mr., Breech-loading Guns, 40
• Grantham, Mr., Steam Tramway Car, 130, 134
• Great Eastern Railway New Lines, 397
• Greenwich Time, 31
• Gun Barrels, Manufacture of, 354
• Gun Carriages, Ancient, 3
• Gun Cotton Experiments, 315, 371
• Gun Cotton, War Department Report on, 37
• Gun, A Great, 224
• Gunpowder during the Siege of Paris, Manufacture or, 55
• Gun for the Russian Government, 20-inch Smoothbore, 345
• Gun Stocking by Machinery, 157
• Guns, Mr. Graham's Breech-loading, 40
• Guns, Heavy, 350
• Guns, Mishap to Naval, 403
• Guns, Rifled, 459
• Guns, Steel, 277
• Guns, 35-Ton, 257

• Hammer versus the Rolls, 364
• Harston, Mr. Grenville, Breech-loading Rifle, 166
• Hatcham Ironworks, Sale of Engineering Plant at, 381
• Hayward, Tyler, and Co., Messrs., Direct-acting Steam Pump, 451
• Heat and Motion? Arc they Compound Forces? 61
• Heat and Work, Equivalence of, 30, 42
• Henderson Process, 380
• Henry Blagrove Testimonial, 395
• Hick, Mr. G. W., Hydraulic Brick-making, 5
• Hick, Mr. G. W., Pumping Engine, Strafford Main Collieries, 183
• High-pressure Marine Boilers, 413, 429, 447, 459
• Honduras 10 per Cent. Government Ship Railway Loan, 364
• Hopper Dredge for the Canadian Government, Messrs. W. Simons and Co., 309, 312
• Horse Power, Nominal, 418
• Horse Power of Steam Engines, 395
• Horse Shoes by Machinery, Manufacture of, 224
• Hough, Mr. G. W., Description of a Printing Chronograph, 43
• House of Commons' Committee on Patent Law, Newton, Mr. A. V., Evidence of, 261
• House Drains, Ventilation of, 31
• Huntley and Palmer's Biscuit Factory, 251
• Hutchinson, Mr., Plan of Ironworks, 190, 191
• Hydra, Launch of H.M.S., 3
• Hydraulic Ram, Prof. Rankine on the Mathematical Theory of the, 163
• Hydrofluoric Acid on Glass viewed Microscopically, 270

• Illinois Central Company, Financial Statement, 397
• India, Iron Manufacture in, 19
• Indian Civil Engineering College, 296
• Indicator for Boilers, Mr. F. Millward's Water Level Alarm, 22
• Indicator for Chain Testing Machines, Mr. A. S. Jack's Hydraulic, 380
• Influence of Gas and Water Pipes in Determining the Direction of a Discharge of Lightning, Mr. Henry Wilde, 133
• INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS :--
• - Visit to Mr. Kirkaldy's Testing Works, 383
• Institute of Engineers, The Midland, and the Mines' Regulation Bill, 214
• Institute of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, The Derbyshire, 28
• INSTITUTE OF MINING, CIVIL, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, SOUTH MIDLAND :--
• - Produce of Coal Seams, Mr. D. W. Lees, 94
• Institute of Mining Engineers, South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire, 65
• INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE NORTHERN
• - School Drum for Winding Engines, Mr. G. Fowler, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 227
• INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL, 202, 225 :--
• - Chemistry of the Puddling by the Danks Furnace, Report of Mr. Snellus, 225, 228, 245, 263
• - Cost of Construction and Working of a Danks Rotary Puddling Plant, Mr. John A. Jones, 220, 225
• - Newport Puddling Furnace, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 202, 225
• - On Dormoy's Process of Mechanical Puddling, Mr. F. A. Paget, C.E., 255
• - Report of Puddling Committee, 207
• INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 17, 96, 207, 228, 234, 340, 361
• - Address of the President, Mr. Hawksley, 24
• - Annual Dinner, 293
• - Bridge over the Gorai River on the Goalundo Extension of the Eastern Bengal Railway, Mr. Bradford Leslie, M. Inst. C.E., 138
• - Conversazione, 387
• - Digest of Report, 24
• - Kind-Chaudron System of Sinking Shafts through Water-bearing Strata without Pumping Machinery, Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 208
• - Somerset Dock at Malta, Mr. C. Andrews, M. Inst. C.E., 86
• - Soonkesala Canal of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company, Mr. J. H. Latham, M. Inst. C.E., 209
• - Value of Water and its Storage and Distribution in South India, Mr. G. Gordon, M. Inst. C.E., 101
• - Visit of the Students to the Leicester Waterworks, 434
• INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS OF IRELAND :--
• - Address of the President, Mr. Bindon B. Stoncv. M.A., M.I.C.E., 60
• INSTITUTION, THE CLEVELAND
• - Ironworks, Mr. E. Hutchinson, 190
• - Steam in the Navy, Mr. R. C. Oldknow, R.N., 452
• Institution, Conversazione at the London, 216
• INSTITUTION, THE LONDON :--
• - Political Economy of Railways, Mr. T. Adams, 264
• INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 442 :--
• - Description of the Disintegrating Hour Mill and Machine for Pulverising Minerals without Grinding or Crushing, Mr., T. Carr, 86
• - Steam Jet for Exhausting Air, C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 328
• - Strength and Proportions of Riveted Joints, Mr. Walter R. Browne, 86
• INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS, 82, 260 :--
• - Armour Plated Ships, J. M. Hyde, Esq., 221
• - Construction of Vessels in Relation to the Changed Modes of Naval Warfare, Captain Jones Harvey, R.N., 21
• - Designs for the Saving of Life and Valuables in Ships, Mr. M. Cole, 257
• - Effects of Torpedoes on Naval Construction, C. W. Merrifield, Esq., F R.S., 226
• - Elements of Design affecting the Sailing Qualities of Ships, with Special Reference to the Ships of our Navy, Mr. James D. Wildish, 288
• - Increasing Spiral in Heavy Rifled Ordnance, Commander W. Dawson, R.N., 310
• - Legislative Interference with the Construction, Stowage, and Equipment of Ships. Mr. W. Young of Lloyds, Assoc. Inst. N.A., 274, 300
• - Lights in Ships, Mr. M. Cole, 257
• - Misuse of Cement on Iron Transport Ships, with Suggestions for making Half-worn-out I run Ships perfectly Seaworthy at a Small Cost, Mr. William Poole King, 274
• - President's Address. Sir J. Pakington, 224
• - Protection of Vessels against Torpedoes, Herr J. N. Moerath, 245
• - Quick Steam Launches, F. J. Bramwell, Assoc. Member of Council, 281
• - Registering Reports of Surveys of Iron and Steel Steam and Sailing Ships, Mr. W. Taylor, 380
• - Rolling of Ships, W. J. Al. Rankine, C.E., LL.D., andc., 238
• - Rule for Determining the Freeboard for Sailing and Steam Ships, Herr Gustav A. Mitzlaff, 307
• - Tripod Masts and the Arrangements of Rigging connected with them, Admiral Paris, C.D., 257
• INSTITUTION, THE ROYAL :--
• - Crystallisation of Metals, Dr. John Hall Gladstone, F.R.S., 198
• - Ice, Water, Vapour, and Air, Prof. Tyndall, 67
• - Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Air. J. N. Douglas, C. E , 74
• INSTITUTION, THE ROYAL ARTILLERY :--
• - Field Artillery, Capt. Sladen, R.A., 164
• International Scientific Series, 146
• Intuitive Calculations, Daniel O'Gorman, 28
• Iron, Chemistry and Manufacture of, 114
• Ironclads, A New Form for, Capt. J. Wheatley, R.N., 238
• Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, andc., 17, 35, 53, 71, 89, 107, 125, 143, 161,177, 195, 213, 231, 249, 267, 285, 303, 321, 339, 357, 375, 393, 411, 427, 435, 463
• Iron in Cornwall, 214
• Iron in India, 19, 448
• Ironmaking at Merthyr Tydfil, Early, 260
• Iron, Price of, 371
• Iron Railway Cars, 255
• Iron Roofs, Strains in, 84
• Ironworks, Mr. Hutchinson's Designs for, 190, 191
• Iron Ships, Galvanic Action on, 367
• Iron Ships, Leaks in, 256, 333, 371
• Iron, M. Van Ruth's System of Examining and Recording the Fibre of, 236, 238
• Irrigation Canal of the Rhone, 397

• Jacks, Air. A. S., Hydraulic Indicator for Chain-Testing Machines, 380
• Jose Baro, Trial Trip of the Screw Steamer, 414

• Keith's Improvements in Nickel Plating, 43
• Kershaw, Messrs. J. and J., Tapping and Screwing Machine, 450
• Koch, Mr., Pontoon Viaduct, 181, 186
• Krupp's Steel Works at Essen, 401
• Kutab Pillar, The, 30, 456

• Landing Stage at Seacombe, Messrs. Robinson and Ianson, 414, 416, 417, 420, 434
• Lathe, Messrs. Thompson and Wilson's Double-Wheel Tire, 218
• Lathe for Turning Spheres, Messrs. Robey and Co. and Messrs. Hind and Son, 291
• Lathes, Messrs. D. New and Co.'s Wheel and Axle, Brighton Works of the L, B. and S. C. Railway, 330, 332
• Launch at Renfrew, 381
• LEADING ARTICLES :--
• - Action of Bilge Water, 188
• - American Goods Locomotive, An, 119
• - Annual Article, 1872, 11
• - Birmingham Sewerage Bill, 243
• - Boiler Explosions in 1871, 136
• - Clyde Shipbuilders and the Short Time Movement, 187
• - Curious Boilers, 260
• - Delhi Iron Pillar, 456
• - Economical Marine Engines, 349, 307, 380
• - English Ships of War, 188, 173
• - Flimsy Shell, 421
• - From Pig to Puddled Bar, 331
• - Galvanic Action on Iron Ships, 367
• - Gun at Shooburyness, The 35-ton, 455
• - Harbour Works at Alderney, 205
• - Heavy Guns, 350
• - Indian Bridges, 223
• - Indian Narrow Gauge Railways, 385
• - International Exhibition, The, 295
• - Loads on Girders, 296
• - Locomotive Performance, 206
• - Manufacture and Supply of Gas, 437
• - Marine Engines in the Navy, 27, 45, 81
• - Megaera, Loss of the, 187
• - Metropolitan Drainage, 173
• - Mishaps to Naval Guns, 403
• - National Thanksgiving, 151
• - Navy Estimates, 223
• - Patent-office Museum, 136, 153
• - Pollution of Rivers by Chemical Manufacture, 455, 349
• - Progress of the Gas Supply, 135
• - Progress of the Ordnance Survey, 332
• - Provincial Engineering Societies, 367
• - Railways and the State, 99
• - Railways in War, 244
• - Report of the Patent Law Committee, 295
• - Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 421
• - Sectional Steam Boilers, 313
• - Sewerage of Birmingham, 437
• - Stability of Girders, 403
• - Status of the Profession, 99
• - Steam Tramway Cars, 64
• - Steel Guns, 277
• - Strength of Materials, 45
• - Surveyors to Local Boards, 277
• - Swinger and the Goshawk, The, 385
• - Thames Embankments, 259
• - Thames Sewerage Commission, 81
• - Train Signals, 438
• - Treatment and Utilisation of Sewage, 119
• - Unarmoured Ships, 27
• - Universal Exhibition in Paris in July, 278
• - Value of Patents, 136
• - Vertical Engines in the Navy, 153
• - Victorian Railways, 63
• Leeds Corporation and Phosphate Sewage Co., 238
• "Leeds" Lithographic Press, Messrs. Dearden and Newsum, International Exhibition, 399
• LEGAL INTELLIGENCE :--
• - Rollins versus Hinks, 68
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
• - Air Explosions, G. S. Webster, 208
• - Are Heat and Motion Compound Forces ? Hydrab Sen., 61
• - Asbestos Packing, St. John Vincent Day, 137
• - Battery Resistance, S. T. P., 418
• - Boiler Explosions, J. N. W., 382
• - Breakwater of the Future, Alex. Doull, 370
• - Breakwaters, Neptune's Coast Commissioner, 396
• - Channel Passage, W. Tighe Hamilton, 84
• - Chemistry and the Manufacture of Iron, J. F. P., 114
• - Clark and Sabine's Electrical Tables and Formulae, A Student, 42, 84
• - Coal in the Navy, G., 31
• - Compound Engines, F. W. C., 383
• - Compound Engines, G. R., 396
• - Compound Engines, W. W., 396
• - Compound Engines in the Navy, Nauticus, 61
• - Compound Engines in the Navy, G. B. Rennie, 42
• - Compound and Single Cylinder Engines, W. J. M. Rankine, 48
• - Condensation in Steam Cylinders, G. Reginald Parkes, 459
• - Corrosion of Iron Ships, John Boulton, 333
• - Cost of Pumping, W. C. H., 333
• - Cupro Ammonium, B. P. A. Amateur, 346
• - Curves for Sidings, William Donaldson, 42, 114, 208
• - Curves for Sidings, James S. Tate, C.E., 31, 84, 298
• - Duckham's Hydrostatic Weighing Machine, Fred. E. Duckham, 346
• - Duckham's Hydrostatic Weighing Machine, W. Redfern Kelly, C.E., 334
• - Effects of Lightning, A. B. M., 256
• - Engineers in Egypt, C. H. Johnson, 42
• - Equivalence of Heat and Work, J. C. Fell, 30, 42
• - Expansive Working of Steam, W. J. M. Rankine, 42
• - Explosions due to Steam or Air, W. J. M., 220
• - Fairbairn Boiler, R. W., 396
• - Feed-heaters, James Barton, 96, 220
• - Feed-heaters, W. Canning, 96
• - Feed-heaters, J. P. Rawlings, 85
• - Form of Ships, Inquirer, 256
• - Frames of Roofs, W. J. M. Rankinc, 114
• - French Patents in Alsace and Lorraine, Hughes and Son, 333
• - Friction of Steam Engines, A. Hildebrandt, 418
• - Greenwich Time, A. M. Mackay, 31
• - Gun Cotton Experiments, W. de W. Abnev, Lieut. R.E., F.C.S., 371
• - High-pressure Marine Boilers, W. J. P., 459
• - Hydraulic Rams, W. J. M. Rankine, 84
• - Indian Bridges, Hardy Wells, 275
• - International Exhibition Courtesies, C. E., 371, 396
• - Invention of the Screw Propeller, Samuel Owen, 30
• - Judicial Utterances on Patents, Rollins versus Hinks, W. Spence, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 114
• - Kutab Pillar, The, Robert Mallet, 30
• - Leak in the Megaera, Charles Prentis, 220
• - Leaks in Iron Ships, W. Jones, 256
• - Level Crossings, B. D., 42
• - Lighthouses in China, David M. Henderson, 137
• - Liquefaction of Steam, Augustus Alexander, 30
• - Liquefaction in Steam Cylinders, The Compositor, 61
• - Liquefaction of Steam, J. C. Fell, 61
• - Lord Lyndsay's Great Spectroscope, Astronomer, 42
• - Macadam Roads, E. A. Daton, 220
• - Marine Engineers, Orion, 114
• - Mechanical Puddling, Adam Spencer, 316
• - Mechanical Puddling, B. Bayliss, 382
• - Megaera Case, The, Maurice Cole, 256
• - Motion of a Crank Pin, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 208
• - Mountain Locomotion and Narrow Gauge Lines, J. H. B., 383
• - Necessity of Harbour Refuges around the Coast, W. Austin, C.E., 346, 382
• - New Form of Propeller for Water and Air, J. Bell Pettigrew, M.D., F.R.S., 30
• - Nominal Horse Power, J. W. L., 418
• - Novel System of Screw Propulsion, William Hay, 434
• - "On Armour-plated Ships." By J. M. Hyde, J. Evelyn Liardet, 298
• - Parabolic Governor, George Crowe, 256
• - Parabolic Governors, Jeremiah Head, 333
• - Patent Law Reform, W. A. Little, 208, 334, 371, 383
• - Patent Laws, A Working Man, 150
• - Patent Office Library, An Inventor, 346
• - Patent Office Library, Fred. A. Paget, 316
• - Patent Office Library, W. Spence, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 371
• - Patent Question, W. Tighe Hamilton, 333, 370, 396
• - Piston Rod Packing, H. Johnson, 84
• - Pneumatic Looms, Interested in Looms, 434
• - Pneumatic Tube System, R. S. Culley, 43
• - Problem, A Neat, Alpha, 114
• - Problem, A Neat, A Crewe Workman, 96, 137
• - Problem, A Neat, A. K., 187
• - Problem, A Neat, D. II. M., 137
• - Problem, A Neat, G. E. D., 137
• - Problem, A Neat, Newport, 114
• - Problem, A Neat, Trochoid, 137
• - Problem, A Neat, W. J. M., 84
• - Provincial Engineers' Societies, F. W. Garrard, 396
• - Public Policy of a Patent Law, Sir R. Palmer's Evidence, W. Spence, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 30, 43
• - Rifled Guns, G., 459
• - Rifled versus Smooth-bore Guns, An Englishman, 256
• - Road Steamers, J. K. Fisher, 458
• - Rolling of Ships, W. McNaught, 333
• - Removal of Phosphorus from Iron, James Henderson, 346
• - Rotary Puddling, Fred. A. Paget, 371
• - Screw Propulsion, Alex< Laird, 333
• - Seacombe Landing Stage, Archimedes, 4?4
• - Ships' Bottoms, M. Cole, 275, 371
• - Sluices versus Syphons, W. Thorold, M. Inst. C.E., 220
• - Smoke Nuisance in the Navy, Orion, 31
• - Snider Rifle, A. Harris, 418
• - Steam to Australia, A., 275
• - Steam Ploughing, Simeon Leather, N.B., 346
• - Steamship Economy, James Bailey, C.B., 346
• - Steam Tramway Cars, Alex. Laird, 96
• - Strains in Iron Roofs, W. J. Millar, C.E., 84
• - Strengthening Boiler Flues, J. Pinchbeck, 100
• - Subterranean Waters, Leon Yourd'hed, 382
• - Swinger and the Goshawk, The, Blackwall, 434
• - Tay Bridge, H. Nabholz, 459
• - Testing Engines, C. R. Parkes, 434
• - Testing of Iron Developed by Hydrochloric or Muriatic Acid, David Kirkaldy, 256
• - Time Planets would take to Fall into the Sun, G. O. Hanlon, 459
• - Todd's Boiler, W. Lloyd Wise, 43
• - Todd's Boiler, J. Millward, 84
• - Torpedoes, A. Alexander, 42, 114, 208
• - Torpedoes, A. M., 31, 84, 150
• - Torpedoes, W. Morshead, 298
• - Trial of Steam Rollers, R. H. Thurston, 434
• - Unarmoured Ships, F. M., 43
• - Unarmoured Ships, R. B., 61
• - Use of Refined Iron in Puddling, B. Bayliss, 418
• - Utilising Force of Tidal Rivers, J. M. Menzies, 85
• - Value of Patents, Philomath, 150, 371, 418
• - Ventilation of House Drains, H. A. James, 31
• - Ventilation of Sewers, J. E. Phillips, 84
• - Voltaic Protection of Ships' Hulls, W. A. Little, 383
• - Who made the Screw Propeller a success ? W. Lane, 397
• Leicester Waterworks, 457
• Library, The Patent Office, 346, 371
• Lifeboat Work in 1871, 4
• Light and Radiant Heat, Prof. Tyndall on the Identity of, 139
• Lighthouse, The Wolf Rock, 74, 77
• Lightning, Effects of, 256
• Lightning, Gas and Water Pipes Influence in Determining Direction of Discharge, Mr. H. Wilde, 133
• Lilpof, Ran, and Co., Russian Post-office Carriages, 362
• Lincolnshire Ironstone District, Progress of, 438
• Link Motion, The Invention of, 299
• Liquefaction of Steam, 30, 42, 61
• LITERATURE :--
• - Artillerie Lehre, Andrias Rutzky, 422
• - Cassell's Technical Manuals, Gothic Stonework, Ellis A. Davidson, 120, 151
• - Dictionnaire de Poche Technologique pour 1íIndus- trie et le Commerce, Trubner and Co., 87
• - Elementary Handbook of Physics, W. Rossiter, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., F.R.G.S., 233
• - Engine Room, The, An Old Hand, 356
• - Erganzengsband zum Leitfaden den Bergbaukunst, Von Lotner Serio, 422
• - Erlauterungcn zu der Geognostischen Karte, von Hainichen im Sachem, C. Naumann, 121
• - Etudes Pratiques que les Machines Outils servant aux Constructions Mecaniques, Pulot de Fontaine, 121
• - Fabrication et Raffinage du Sucre de Betterane, 155
• - Friction, A Treatise on the Theory of, John H. Jellett, B.D., 369
• - Geometrical Conic Sections, J. Stuart Jackson, M.A., 154
• - Geschichte des Deutschen Eisenbahnwesens, Carl Schmeidler, 422
• - Gesteine des Sudlichen Odenwalden, die zur Dyas, Gehorigen, Dr. Emil Cohen, 155
• - Grundriss der Algemeinen Huttenkunde, Bruno Kerl, 422
• - Handbook of Sewage Utilisation, U. R. Burke, Esq., 387
• - Hochbau des Eisenbahnen, Wilhelm Flattich, 422
• - How to Make Money by Patents, Mr. C. Barlow, 323
• - Intuitive Calculations, or Easy Methods of Arithmetic in Business Transactions, Daniel O'Gorman, 28
• - Jura in Nordwestlichen Deutschland, der Untere, Dr. D. Brauns, 155
• - Mathematics as Applied to the Constructive Arts, A Treatise on, Francis Campin, 456
• - Physik aus Grunellage einer Rationelle Molecular und Aethertheorie, Dr. J. Hammerschmied, 155
• - Practische Rubenziickerfabrikant und Raffinadeur, Louis Walkoff, 422
• - Remarks in Connection with a Proposal for Extending the Railway Accommodation of Dublin, W. Lawlor, C.E., 369
• - Report on the Proposed Additional Works for Supplying Hull with Water Direct from Springhead, T. Dale, M. Inst. C.E., 154
• - Roheisen in Bezug auf sein Worwendung zur Eisen- giesserei, A. Ledebur, 457
• - Scales for Ready Comparison of British Metric Weights and Measures, A. L. Newdegate, M.A., 28
• - Solid Geometry and Conic Sections, J. M. Wilson, M.A., 457
• - Sonne, Die, P. A. Secchi, 120
• - Studii Geologici sulle Alpi Occidentali, Di B. Gastaldi, con Appendice Mineralogica, di G. Struver, 422
• - Studien Uber die Warmererhaltnisse des Eisenhofenprocesses, 422
• - Subterranean World, The, Dr. G. Harting, 314
• - Tables for Platelayers, William Donaldson, M.A., A.I.C.E., 120
• - Technisches Taschen Woeterbuch fur Industrie und Handel, C. W. Kreidel, 387
• - Theorie und Darstelluug der Bcleuchtung Gesctz- miissig Gestalteter Fliicher, Dr. Burmester, 121
• - Theory of Heat, Prof. J. C. Maxwell, M.A., LL.D.,
• - Transpositeur, Le. ou l'Improvisateur de Tissues, Edward Gand, 155
• - Uber die Lehre vom Metamorphismus, Justus Roth,
• - Urzeit aus der Bilder aus der Schbnpfungsges- chichte, Dr. Carl A. Zitter, 155
• - Verzeichmis der Wichtigsten Geologischen Kartere von Central Europa, V. Decken, 121
• - Wages Table Calculated to a Scale of 54 Hours to the Week, John Bellows, 233
• - Wetli's Eisenbahnsystem, A. R. Harlacher-Meycr u Zelner, 422
• - Zeitschrift fur Analytische Chimie, andc.
• Literature, Foreign Periodical, 14, 28, 82
• Llanelly Anthracite Coal Company, 564
• Llynvi, Tondu, and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company, 339
• Local Boards, Surveyors to, 277
• Locomotives for the Mexican Railway, 91
• Locomotive Performance, 206
• Locomotive for the Southampton Docks Company, Messrs. A. Shanks and Co.'s Tank, 182
• Locomotive in the United States, The First, 47
• Lome, M. Dupuy de, Balloon, 166, 167, 189
• London and County Banking Company Dividend, 130
• London and North-Western Railway, Working Stock of the, 307
• Long. Mr. R., Governors for Engines, 458
• Looms, Pneumatic, 434
• Louisville and Nashville Railway, 8-Wheel Goods Engine, 237
• Lubricators for Screw Shaft Couplings, Mr. J. McGough's Centrifugal, 344

• McCool, Mr., Safety Plates, 202
• McGough, N.E., Mr. J., Centrifugal Lubricators for Screw Shaft Couplings, 344
• McKay and McGeorge, Messrs., Punching and Rivet- ingMachine, 76
• Mallet, M.I.C.E., Mr. R., Buckled Plate Permanent Way, 401, 402
• Manufactories, Ventilation of Unwholesome, 19
• Marble, Artificial, 381
• Markets, Metal, Oil, Timber. See last page of each Number
• Martin, Mr. T. H., Piston, 345
• Masonry Dams, Prof. Rankine's Report on the Design and Construction of, 1
• Materials, Strength of, 43
• Mathew, Mr., Gas Connection, 58
• Mechanical Puddling, 256, 346, 382
• Megaera Case, The, 256
• Megaera Commission, The, 181
• Megaera, Leak in the, 220
• Megaera, Loss of the, 187
• Merthyr Tydvil Sewage Works, 215
• Metal Trade of 1871, 25
• Metals, Crystallisation of, 198
• Meter, Fleury's Water, 433
• Metropolitan Tramways, 307, 362
• Mexican Railway, Locomotives for the, 91
• Microscope, New Micromatic Goniometer, Eye-piece for the, 100
• Military Committee at Berlin, 80
• Mill, Messrs. Norton and Hawksley's Beater, 5
• Millward, Mr. F., Water-level Alarm Indicator for Boilers, 22
• Mineral Wealth of North Lincolnshire, 164
• Mines, Rateable Value of, 122
• Minotaur, Steam Chart of H.M.S., 413
• Miranda Steam Yacht, Mr. Thorneycroft, 281
• Miscellanea, 6, 21, 39, 57, 83, 97, 111, 129, 151, 165, 185, 199, 217, 235, 253, 271, 297, 311, 329, 343, 365, 379, 405, 415, 435, 449
• Modern Railway Construction, 157
• Monarch, The, 361
• Moscow Exhibition, 225, 201
• Motive Power of Street Cars, Ammonia as a, 23
• Motz, M., Expansion Pivot, 380
• Mountain Locomotives and Narrow Gauge Lino, 333
• Museum, Patent Office, 136

• Native Indian Cotton Gins at the International Exhibition, 432
• Navy, Coal in the, 31
• Navy, Smoke Nuisance in the, 31
• New and Co., Messrs. D., Wheel and Axle Lathes at the Brighton Works of the L., B., and S. C. Railway, 330, 332
• Newport Puddling Furnace fitted up with Witham's Puddling Machine, 200, 202
• Newton, Mr., Railway Carriage Wheels, 76
• Newry Waterworks, 86
• Noce, Railway Accident, 163
• Nickel Plating, Keith's Improvements in, 43
• Nine Hours League Meeting at Newcastle, 248
• Nine Hours Movement, 65
• Northern Pacific Railroad, Proposed, 72
• Norton and Hawksley, Messrs., Beater Mill, 5
• Notes from France, 75, 121
• Notes from the Northern and Eastern Counties, 18, 36, 54, 72, 90, 108, 126, 144, 162, 178, 196, 214, 250. 268, 286, 304, 322, 340, 358, 376, 394, 412, 428, 446, 464
• Notes and Memoranda, 6, 21, 39, 57, 83, 97, 111, 129, 151, 165, 185, 199, 217, 235, 253, 271, 297, 311, 329, 343, 365, 379, 405, 415, 435, 449
• Notes from Scotland, 18, 35, 53, 71, 89, 107, 125,143, 161, 178, 196, 214, 232, 250, 268, 285, 303, 321, 339, 357, 375, 393, 411,427, 445, 463
• Notices to Correspondents, 11, 27, 45, 63, 81, 99, 119, 135, 153, 173, 187, 205, 223, 243, 259, 277, 295, 313, 331, 349, 367, 385, 403, 421, 435, 455

• Oaks Colliery, The, 137
• OBITUARY :--
• - Brown, Mr. James, 207
• - Chesney, General, 93
• - Combes, M., 94
• - Crawshay Bailey, Mr., 25, 37
• - Crower, C.E.,Mr. Bland William, 141
• - Morse, Mr. Sydney E., 40
• - Morse, Prof., 270
• - Siebe, Mr. Augustus, 289
• - Whitmore, Mr. John, 406
• Odessa Waterworks Company, 221
• Omnibus, Mr. L. J. Todd's Steam, 219, 222
• Ordnance Maps, French, 252, 323
• Ordnance Survey, Progress of the, 332
• Oswald and Co.,Messrs., Compound Engines, 250-H.P. of the Scindia and Bertha, 148, 152
• Otley's Saw Spindle, 130
• Owen's College, Manchester, Distribution of Prizes, 383

• Pacific Railroad, 450
• Packing Piston Rod Packing, 84
• Paddle Wheel of H.M.S. Salamis and Helicon, Messrs. Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co.'s Feathering, 59
• Palmieri, Prof., Seismographic Apparatus, 407
• Paper Cutting, Messrs. Tidcombe and Co., International Exhibition, 432
• Paris, Admiral, Designs for Turret Ships, 254, 258
• Paris Newspaper Office, Machinery of, 85
• Patent Case, Saxby and Farmer versus Easterbrook and Co., 82
• Patent Law Committee, Report of, 295, 353
• Patent Law, Public Policy of, Sir R. Palmer's Evidence, 30, 43
• Patent Laws, 150
• Patent Office Model, 196
• Patent Office Records, 153
• Patent Office, What shall be Done with the Models at the, 148
• Patent Office, United States, 371
• Patent Question, 333, 370, 396
• Patent Reform, 382
• Patents, Judicial Utterances on, Rollins v. Hicks, 114
• Patents, Value of, 136, 150, 418
• Pavement, Wooden, 20
• Pavements, Asphalte and other, 269, 287
• Paving in the City and the Strand, 453
• Peart's Pit Car Wheel, 433
• Peat in the Blast Furnace, 364
• Pembroke Government Dockyard, 184
• Penn, Mr. S., Regulating Cocks, 291
• Pepper, Professor, at the Egyptian Hall, 238
• Perkins, Mr. T., 10-Wheel Goods Engine, Louisville and Nashville Railway, 113, 119, 131, 156
• Permanent Way, Buckled Plate, Mr. R. Mallet, M.I.C.E., 401, 402
• Phosphate Mills, 408
• Phosphorised Bronze and other Alloy as Materials for Artillery, 127, 145, 179
• Phosphorus from Iron, Removal of, 346
• Photographing Designs on Enamel, andc , by Violent Heat, 49
• Photography, A Novel Application of, 377
• Photo-painting, 394
• Pig Iron, Prospective Supply of, 407
• Pig Iron in the States, 260
• Pig Metal in Puddling, Use of Refined, 395, 418
• Pig to Puddled Bar, 331
• Piston, Mr. T. H. Martin, 345
• Pivot, M. Motz, Expansion, 380
• Plates, Mr. McCool's Safety, 262
• Ploughing, Steam, 346
• Pneumatic Tube System, Progress of, 20
• Polytechnic, The Royal, 20, 344
• Pontoon, Messrs. Siebe, Goman, and Christy's Ship Raising, 95
• Post-office Carriage, Russian, Messrs. Lilpof, Rau, and Co., 362
• Precious Metals, Custom House Returns, 280
• Press, "Leeds" Lithographic, Messrs. Dearden and Newsum, International Exhibition, 399
• Printing from Iron, 238
• Printing Machine, Furnival's "Express" Flatten, International Exhibition, 436
• Printing Machine, Walter, Times, International Exhibition, 363, 366
• Private Bills of the Session, 40, 82, 100, 121, 137, 184, 245, 260, 278, 293, 387, 438, 453
• Problem, A Neat Little, 40. 84, 96, 114, 137
• Projectiles, Development of Armour Piercing, 145, 197, 305, 341
• Propeller, Invention of the Screw, 30
• Propeller for Water and Air, New Form of, 30
• Propelling Ships, Mr. J. J. Allingham, 289
• Propulsion, Novel System of, 434
• Propulsion, Screw, 333
• Puddling, Mechanical, 256, 346, 382
• Puddling, Rotary, 371
• Puddling, Use of Refined Pig Metal in, 395, 418
• Pump, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co.'s Direct-Acting Steam, 451
• Pump, Mr. A. Schmid's Oscillating, 59
• Pumping, Cost of, 333
• Pumps, Bilge, 95, 98, 149, 155
• Pumps, Messrs. Fielding and Platt's Three-Throw, Great Western Locomotive Works, Gloucester, 273
• Punching and Riveting, Messrs. McKay and McGeorge, 71

• Railway Amalgamation, 316, 369
• Railway Communication with India, 388
• Railway Construction, Modern, 157
• Railway Dividends, 364
• Railway in Egypt, 406
• Railway Matters, 6, 21, 39, 57, 83, 97, 111, 129, 151, 165, 185, 109, 217, 235, 253, 271, 297, 311, 329, 343 365, 379, 405, 415, 435, 449
• Railway Travelling, Cheap, 347
• Railway Travelling, Fast, 380
• Railway Works and Projects, the Great Eastern, 37
• Railway Works and Projects, the Great Northern, 34
• Railway Works and Projects, the Great Western, 274 Railway Works and Projects, London and Nortl ï Western Company, 261
• Railway Works and Projects, the Midland, 306
• Railway Works and Projects, North-Eastern, 408
• Railway Works and Projects, the Southern Companies, 378
• Railway Works and Projects, South-Western an Bristol and Exeter Companies, 453
• Railways in Asia Minor, 48
• Railways, French, 130
• Railways, Indian, Narrow Gauge, 385
• Railways, Light, 91
• Railways and the State, 99
• Railways, Victorian, 63
• Railways in War, 244
• Ram, Professor Rankine on the Hydraulic, 55, 84
• Rankine, Professor, on the Hydraulic Ram, 55, 84
• Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., W. J. M., Report on the Design and Construction of Masonry Dams, 1
• Ravenhill and Salkeld, Messrs., 250-H P. Oscillating Engines, H.M.S. Salamis and Helicon, 15, 22, 26, 41, 44, 47
• Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., Messrs., Boilers of H.M.S. Salamis and Helicon, 62
• Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., Messrs., Feathering, Paddle-Wheel of H.M.S. Salamis and Helicon, 59
• Reform, Patent Law, 208
• Report on the Designs for Ships of War lately Constructed, 168, 183, 198
• Report of the Puddling Committee of the Iron and Steel Institute, 207
• Republic of Paraguay, 453
• Resistance Battery, 418
• Restell Breech-loading Rifle, 344
• Rhone Irrigation Canal, 397
• Rhymney Railway, Tank Locomotive for the, 2
• Riachuelo, Launch of the, 145
• Richardson, Mr. C., Air Loom, International Exhibition, 362
• Rifle, Mr. Grenville Harston's Breech-loading, 166
• Rifle, The Restell Breech-loading, 344
• Rifle, The Snider, 418
• Rifled versus Smooth-bore Guns, 256
• Rivers, Pollution of, 455
• Roads, Macadam, 220
• Road Steamer in Greece, Trial of, 124
• Road Steamers, 458
• Robey and Co., Messrs., and Messrs. Hind and Son, Lathe for Turning Spheres, 291
• Roofs, Frames of, 114
• Rotary Engines, 73, 109
• Rotterdam Ship Canal, 307
• Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marino Engineering, 442
• Rudder, Mr. Saunders, 351
• Rumford Medal, 76
• Russian Carriage for Moving Heavy Guns, 156
• Russian Sheet Iron, 364

• Sale of Engineering Plant at the Hatcham Ironworks, 381
• Sardinian Mines, Condition of, 122
• Saunders, Mr., Rudder, 351
• Savill, Mr. R., Retirement of, 346
• Saw Spindle, Mr. Otley's, 130
• Scales for Comparing British Metric Weights an Measures, A. L. Newdegate, M.A., 28
• Schmid, M. A., Oscillating Pump, 59
• School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Dinner at the Royal, 310
• Schwendler, Mr., Detecting Electrically Defective Insulators, 433
• Science in France, 419
• Screw Propeller a Success, Who made the, 397
• Seacombe Landing Stage, Messrs. Robinson and Janson, 414, 416, 417, 420, 434
• Sea Water Bread, 128
• Seeley, Prof., on the Colours of Metals at the New York Lyceum of Natural History, 47
• Seismographic Apparatus, Prof. Palmieri's, 407
• Selection of Sites for Charcoal Ironworks, 287
• Selenitic versus Common Mortar, 262
• Sewage Disinfecting and Manure Company, 139
• Sewage Works, Merthyr Tydvil, 215
• Sewerage Bill, The Birmingham, 243
• Sewers, Ventilation of, 84
• Shanks and Son, Messrs., Tank Locomotive for the Southampton Docks Company, 182
• Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, 53
• Shell, Flimsy, 421
• Ship Register Diagram, 389
• Ship's Bottoms, 275
• Ships, Form of, 256
• Ships' Hulls, Voltaic Protection of, 382
• Ships, On the Rolling of, 333
• Ships, Unarmoured, 27, 42, 61
• Ships of War, English, 173, 188
• Shoeburyness Experiments with 35-ton Gun, 417, 455
• Sidings, Curves for, 31, 42, 84, 114, 208, 298
• Siebe, Gorman, and Christy, Messrs., Ship Railing Pontoon, 45
• Signals, Train, 438
• Silician Steel, 282
• Simons and Co., Messrs. W., Hopper Dredge for the Canadian Government, 309, 312
• Sluices versus Syphons, 220
• SOCIETY OF ARTS, 58, 300, 342
• - Use of a Revolving Rabble in the Common Puddling Furnace, Mr. Fred. Paget. C.E., 335
• Society of Bengal, Asiatic, Form of Galvanometer Suitable for the Quantitative Measurement of the Electro-motive Force and Internal Resistance of Telegraph Batteries, W. E. Ayrton, Esq.., 49
• SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL, 227, 248
• - Action of Phosphoric Acid on Morphine, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 431
• - Action of Phosphorus Pentasulphide on Tetrachloride of Carbon, Dr. E. T. Thorpe, 351
• - Benzyl Isocyanate and Cyanurats, E. A. Letts, 351
• - Caesium contained in the Water of the Hot Springs in Weal Clifford, Col. P. Yorke, F.R.S., 142
• - Ceylon Jargons, Mr. M. H. Cochran, 430
• - Chemistry of the Hydrocarbons, Dr. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 328
• - Chinoline and Leucoline, C. Greville Williams, F.R.S., 430
• - Compound of Sodium and Glycerine, E. A. Letts, 351
• - Crystalline Principle of Barbadoes Aloo, W. A. Tilden, D. Sc., 101
• - Degree of Solubility of Silver Chloride in Strong Nitric Acid, Dr. E. T. Thorpe, 351
• - Dendritic Spots on Paper, A. Liversidge, 430
• - Determination of Carbonic Acid in Sea Water, Professor Himly, 351
• - Determination of the Solubility and Specific Gravity of Certain Salts of Sodium and Potassium, Dr. Page and A. D. Keighley, 389
• - Double Sulphide of Gold and Silver, MM. Pattison Muir, 430
• - Effects of Temperature on the Absorption of Gases by Charcoal, J. Hunter, M.A., 431
• - Electrolyses of Sugar Solutions, Mr. H. T. Brown, 389
• - Examination of a Recent Attack on the Atomic Theory, Mr. Atkins on, 389
• - Faraday Lecture, Professor Cannizzaro, 431
• - Influence of Pressure upon Termination, Mr. H. T. Brown, 389
• - Iron and Steel, Mr. E. Riley, 361
• - Magnetic Sand of Mount Etna, J. B. Hannay, 430
• - Metasstanic Acid and Detection and Estimation of Tin, Mr. A. H. Allen, F.C.S., 192
• - New Tests for Some Organic Fluids, J. A. Wanklyn,. 430
• - Note on a Secondary Colouring Matter in the Preparation of Alizarine from Anthracene, Mr. W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 431
• - Nuinicine and Cinchonicine and their Salt, Mr. D. Howard, 56
• - Reduction of Ethylic Oxalate by Sodium. Amalgam, Professor Williamson, 192
• - Relations between the Atomic Hypothesis and the Condensed Symbolic Expression of Dissected Formulae, C. R. A. Wright, D.S.C:, 101
• - Remarkable Salt Deposited from the Mother Liquors Obtained in the Manufacture of Soda, Mr. T. E. Thorpe, 430
• - Solvent Action of Various Saline Solutions on Lead, MM. Pattison Muir, 430
• - Study of Some Tungsten. Compounds, Professor Roscoe, F.R.S., 139
• SOCIETY, CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS', 418
• - Visit to Battersea., Foundry and Horseshoe Works, 133
• - Visit to the Works of the Metropolitan Extension of the Great Eastern, 207
• - Water Supply to Towns and Villages, Mr. G. WL Mill, F.R.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 364
• SOCIETY, EDINBURGH AND LEITH ENGINEERS':--
• - Construction and Submersion of Submarine Telegraph Cables, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, C.E., F.R.S.E., 210
• - Designing Wrought Iron Girders, Allan D. Stewart, C.E., 399, 422
• - Locomotives, Mr. W. S. Taylor, C. E.
• - Reservoir Embankment, Mr. R. C. Reid, C. E., 65
• SOCIETY, ENGLISH MECHANICSí, SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL, 2, 325
• - Application of the Lever, Mr. Anatole Tolhausen, 38
• SOCIETY, ENGINEERING, KINGíS COLLEGE, 96
• - Cotton, Mr. Hunter, 184
• - Great Pyramid, Mr. Jacob, 126
• - Hydraulic Machinery, Mr. Kirkby, 85
• - Submarine Works, Mr. Baynes, 158
• - Visit to Iceland of Mr. Milne, A.K.C., 144
• SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 20, 407, 451
• - Address of the President, Mr. Jabez Church, C.E., 92
• - American Locomotive Engines, Mr. V. Pendred, C.E., On Some Recent Examples of, 164
• - Electric Telegraph Instruments, Mr. E. G. Bartholomew, C.E., 424, 439
• - State Railways and Railway Amalgamation, Mr. G. Spencer, 347
• - Society of Great Britain, The Aeronautical, 255
• SOCIETY, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL :--
• - Influence of Gas and Water Pipes in Determining the Direction of Discharge of Lightning, Mr. Henry Wilde, 133
• SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC :--
• - Strength of Cement, Mr. G. F. Chantrell, 85
• SOCIETY, THE ROYAL :--
• - Action of Oxygen and Copper Nitrate in a State of Tension, Messrs. Gladstone and Tribe, 274
• - Anhydrous Liquefied Ammonia, Mr. G. Gave, F.R.S., 453
• - Bakerian Lecture, Mr. W. Kitchen Parker, F.S.A., 418
• - Blood Relationship, Mr. F. Galton, 434
• - Change of Ref Tangibility of the Fraunhofer Lines at the Sun's Limb, W. Huggins, LL.D., D.C.L., 147
• - Connection between Explosions in Collieries and Weather, Mr. R. H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. W. Galloway, 324
• - Contact of Surfaces, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, 147
• - Contributions to the History of the Opium Alkaloids, Mr. C. R. A. Wright, 209
• - Conversazione, 325, 332
• - Decomposition of Water by Zinc in Conjunction with a more Negative Metal, Messrs. J. H. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 210
• - Elementary Principles in Animal Mechanics, Rev. S. Houghton, 325
• - Evolution of Life from Lifeless Matter, Mr. W. Noel Hartley, F.C.S., 109
• - Examination of the Gases occluded in Meteoric Iron from Augusta County, Virginia, Dr. J. W. Mallet, 418
• - Formal Logic, Mr. Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 325
• - Fossil Mammals of Australia, Prof. Owen, F.R.S., 325
• - Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, Prof. Williamson, 192
• - Further Experiments on the Effect of Alcohol and Exercise on the Elimination of Nitrogen and on Pulse and Temperature of the Body, Dr. E. A. Parkes, 434
• - Further Investigation on Planetary Influence upon Solar Activity, Messrs. De la Rue, Balfour Stewart, and B. Loewy, 209
• - Heterogenitic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria, Prof. H. C. Bastian, 234
• - Hycrometer, On a New, Mr. W. 0. Whitehouse, 147
• - Induction of Electric Currents in an Infinite Plane Conducting Sheet, Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S., 138
• - New Researches on the Phosphorus Basis, Prof. A. W. Hofman, 234
• - Normal Paraffins, Mr. C. Shorleminer, 96
• - Note on a Possible Ultra-solar Spectroscopic Phenomenon, Mr. C. Piazzi Smyth, 96
• - Opium Alkaloids, Dr. C. R. A. Wright. 274
• - Relative Power of 34 Substances to Prevent Development of Protoplasmic and Fungus Life in Arresting Putrefaction, Dr. F. C. Calvert, 164
• - Rings Produced by Crystals when submitted to Circularly Polarised Light, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, 325
• - Solar Variations of Magnetic Declination at Bombay, Mr. C. Chambers, 96
• - Specific Heat and other Physical Character of Mixtures of Methylic Alcohol and Water, andc., Dr. Dupre, 388
• - Structure and Function of the Rods of the Cochlea in Man and other Mammals, Dr. Urbain Pritchard, 418
• - Supersaturated Saline Solutions, Mr. C. Tomlinson and Mr. Vander Mansbruggho, 388
• - Supposed Periodicity in the Elements of Terrestrial Magnetism, Mr. G. B. Airy, C.B., 325
• - Volcanic Energy, Mr. Robert Mallet, F.R.S., 453
• - Voltaic Standard of Electro-motive Force, Mr. Latimer Clark, 453
• Society, Royal Agricultural, 389, 406, 421, 438
• SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS :--
• - Address of President, Mr. C. AV. Siemens, D.C.L., F.R.S., 150
• - Application of Mr. T. de Colmar's Calculating Machine to Electrical Computation, Mr. Thomas T. P. Bruce Warren, 280
• - Automatic Telegraphs, Mr. R. S. Culley, 210
• - Conversazione at Lord Lindsay's Laboratory, 441
• - Military Telegraphy, Capt. E. D. Malcolm, R.E., 325
• - Telegraphy at Sea, Capt. P. H. Columb, R.N., 234
• - Wheatstone's Bridge, Prof. G. C. Foster, F.R.S., 378
• Soffits of Bridges, Water-tight, 451
• Somerset and Dorset Railway, 453
• South Cleveland Ironworks Company's Share List, 100
• South Kensington Museum, 18, 25, 33, 48, 61, 86, 93, 110, 138, 157, 178, 193, 226. 245, 257, 278, 298, 307, 328, 368, 380, 412, 416, 438, 457
• South Wales Ports, Trade of, 262
• Spectroscope, Lord Lindsay's, 42
• Spectroscopic Apparatus, Solar Eclipse, 4
• Spontaneous Combustion, 280
• Springs, Compressed Wool Auxiliary, Danish Government Railway, 148
• Springs, Mr. A. Egan, 112
• Squeezer, Mr. Winslow's, 76
• Status of the Profession, 69
• Steel Springs, Mr. J. H. Cooper on, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 20
• Stone Breaker, Blake's, Constructed by Mr. H. R. Marsden, 406
• Stone Breaking Machinery, Archer's, 255
• Stone Sawing Machinery, Melbourne, Mr. T. Glaister, 48
• Street Watering, 416
• Strength of Long Struts, Walter R. Browne, 73
• Struts, Strength of Long, Walter R. Browne, 73
• Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 423
• Suez Canal, 207
• Sulphur and Phosphorus in Iron, Test for, 216
• Sulphur in Switzerland, 342
• Surcharges on Foreign Shipping and Merchandise Entering France, 112
• Surveyor, A Tree'd, 388
• Swedish Coal, 164
• Swinger and the Goshawk, The, 385, 434

• Tank Locomotive for the Rhymney Railway, 2
• Tapping and Screwing Machine, Messrs. J. and J. Kershaw, 450
• Tay Bridge, Details of the, 399
• Taylor, Mr. W., Ship Register Diagram, 389
• Technical Education, 82, 148
• Telegraph Poles, Process of Preparing, 344
• Telegraphy, Practical Papers on, 110, 147, 215, 233, 269, 305, 359, 404, 429
• Testing of Iron Developed by Hydrochloric or Muriatic Acid, 256
• Thames Sewerage Commission, 81
• Thanksgiving, The National, 154
• Thomas and Son. Messrs., Bangor Slate Ridge, 4
• Thompson and Wilson, Messrs., Double Wheel Tire Lathe, 218
• Thorneycroft, Mr., Steam Yacht Miranda, 281
• Tidal Rivers, Utilising the Force of, 85
• Tidcombe and Co., Messrs., Paper Cutting, International Exhibition, 432
• Time that Planets would take to Fall into the Sun, 419, 459
• Tin-plate Trade, 244
• Tin Plates, Exports during the Year, 73
• Tires and the Communication Cord, Railway, 32
• Todd, Mr. L. J., Steam Omnibus, 219, 222
• Todd, Mr. L. J.. Vertical Boilers, 23, 43, 84
• Torpedoes, 31, 42, 84, 114, 150, 208, 298
• Towle, Mr. H., Valve Gear, 112
• Train Stopped by Sand, 346
• Tramway Car, Mr. Grantham's Steam, 130, 134
• Tramway Cars, Steam, 64, 96
• Tramways, Metropolitan, 307, 362
• Tramways in the Potteries, 137
• Trial Ground at Cardiff, 424
• Tube System, The Pneumatic, 42
• Tunnelling by Diamond-boring Machine, 398
• Tunnels, Cost of, 72
• Turret Ships, Admiral Paris' Designs for, 251, 258
• Tyndall, Prof., at the Academy Dinner, 336
• Tyndall, Prof., on the Identity of Light and Radiant Heat, 139

• United States Patent Office, 371

• Valve Gear, Mr. H. Towle, 112
• Valve, Messrs. Watson and Andrews Marine Oscillating, 344
• Vanguard, H.M. Double Battery Iron-plated Ship, 58
• Van Ruth, M., System of Examining and Recording the Fibre of Iron, 236, 238
• Vavasseur's 7in. Steel Gun, Naval Carriage and Slide, 272, 275
• Ventilation, Coal Mine, 46
• Ventilation of Unwholesome Manufactories, 19
• Vesuvius Eruption, Description of Instruments used for Observing Earthquake Shocks, 407
• Viaduct, Mr. Koch's Pontoon, 181, 186
• Vohl, Dr., Experiments with Charcoal, 325

• Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 18, 36, 54, 72, 90, 108, 126, 144, 162, 178, 195, 214, 232, 242, 267, 286, 304, 322, 340, 358, 376, 394, 412, 428, 446, 464
• Walker, Mr. H., Oscillating Bolt Fowling-piece, 416
• Walter-Times' Printing Machine, International Exhibition, 363, 366
• War Department Report on Gun Cotton, 37
• Water Supply for Dunoon, 369
• Water Supply of Glasgow, 55
• Waterworks, The Leicester, 457
• Waters, Subterranean, 382
• Watson and Andrews, Messrs., Marine Oscillating Safety Valve, 344
• Watt, Mr., Tubulous Marine Boilers, 240-H P., 454
• Weather Charts, 218
• Webb, Mr., Excavating Machine, 182
• Weekly Chemical, Mineral, and Metal Report, 36, 51, 108
• Weighing Machine, Duckham's Hydrostatic, 334, 346
• Well, The Deepest in the World, near Berlin, 414
• Westinghouse Air Brake, The, 359, 360
• Wheatly, Capt. J., On a New Form for Ironclads, 238
• Wheel, Peart's Pit Car, 433
• Wheels, Mr. Newton's Railway Carriage, 76
• Whitaker, Mr., Stop Cocks, 130
• Whitus, Mr. C., Gauge Bar for Bit Braces, 380
• Williams, C.E., Mr. A., Georgetown Gasworks, 294, 299, 308, 316, 326, 327, 342, 348
• Wind on Inclined Planes, Force of, 306
• Winslow, Mr., Squeezer, 76
• Wire Drawing, 59
• Wolf Rock Lighthouse, 74. 77
• Wonderful Discovery, Motive Power, 181
• Woolwich Dockyard, 25
• Working Men and the Patent Laws, 389

• Yarrow and Hedley, Messrs , Steam Tug, Hoist, and Fire Engine, 436

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