The Engineer 1880 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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1880 11
Aborystwith Water Supply from Plynllmmon, 375
Abingdon Sewerage, The, 288
Abutment Thrusts of Binged Structures, 366 l
Adelaide Waterworks, Cement Testing Machine, 100
Adelaide Waterworks, Service Reservoir, 101 .
Agricultural Machinery and Implements in Russia, 4o8
Air Machines, Expansive Compressed, 159
Aldwarke Main Colliery, Rotherham, Winding Engines, 136, 142
Alexandria Harbour Works. Completion of the, 186
“American,” Foundering of the, 370
“American" Loss of the, 395, 403
American Rivalry, 266
Amsterdam Ship Canal, The, 333
Anemograph, Mr. Howlett’s, 376
Annealing in Boiling Water, 342
Ansted, Professor, 393
Arbitration, Economical, 462
Armature, On the Shape of, as Affecting Magnetic Attraction, 42
Armour, The Resistance of, to Shot, 221
Armour-plates, Wilson’s Compound, 417 .
Asphalte and Mineral Bitumen, Use of, in Engineering Works, 154
Association, The Fairfield, 72
Electricity, Mr. A. W. Solomon, 140
The Lines of Ships, Mr. Ivan JI aver, 216
Association of Foremen Engineers, The London, 24, 46, 259, 292, 342
Bridges of the Thames, Old, New and Projected, Mr. A. T. Walmisley, 132
Association, London and Suburban Railway Officials’, 42, 158
Association of Municipal Engineers, 299
Separate System and Economical Drainage of Towns, Mr. R. Vauser, 411
Association of Municipal and Sanitany Engineers and Surveyors of Dewsbury :
Sewage Disposal at West Derby, Mr. E. H. Allies, 280
Sewers, Town, Mr. Hewson, 388
Sulphates : their Effect on Lime Mortar, 388
Atlantic Mail Service, 392
Atlantic Steamers, 216
Atlantic Steamers, Screw Propellers for, 213
Australian Gold Mining, 366
Austrian Lloyd’s Arsenal at Trieste, 401
Axles, Railway and Bridge Parapets, 294
Band Knife Cloth Machine, Messrs. Powis, Bale and Co., 235
Barrow Shipbuilding Company’s Works, Barrow-in-Furness, 460, 463
Beauty in Architecture, 192
Beland Rail Drill, 412
Bell Clapper and Hammer, Mr. Mackenzie, 268
Bell-hanging, 280, 283, 299, 316
Berthon Duplex Dingy, The, 438
Bessemer Steel and Ingot Iron, Manufacture of, from
Phosphoric Pig, 332
Bilbao Iron District, 135
Bin, Orderly, Mr. J. Jonas, 190
Black Sea, Docks in the, 24
Blake, Mr. John, Water Gauge, 172
Blast Furnace Plant, North of England, 51
Blast Furnace Work in the United States, 144, 158, 412
Blast Furnace Working at the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works. 269
Blower, Rotary, Mr. Krigar, 421
Board of Trade and Continuous Brakes, The, 322
Bogie Carriage, Composite, Festiniog Railway, Mr.
Spooner, 338, 342
Boiler, Mr. J. Blake. 447
Boiler Explosion, Fatal, 446
Boiler Explosion at the Glasgow Ironworks, 204, 216
Boiler Explosion, The Walsall, 374
Boiler Explosions, 270, 403
Boiler Feeding Apparatus, 35
Boiler Inspection, 320
Boiler Insurance, 8
Boiler, Lancashire, Set on Mr. Livct’s System, 387
Boiler Stays, Strength of, 205, 394
Boiler Surface, Useless, 8
Boiler, Ti ial of a Passman, 202
Boilers, Mr. F. G., 121
Boilers,Elephant,” 28, 64
Boilers, Furnace, 401, 418
Boilers, Shortness of Water in, 418
Boilers, Tubulous, Messrs. L. and C. Stein muller, 428 1
Boilers, Winch, S.S. Telemachus and Jason, Messrs. 1
Cochran and Co., 279
Bone, Mr. F. G., Boilers, 121
Bo’ness Harbour and Dock, 233
Books Received, 33, 127, 197, 209, 267, 375
Bore-hole, A Deep, 262
Bottling Machine, Messrs. Spencer and Gillman, 235
Bournemouth Sewerage, 411
Bracing of Trestle Piers, 227, 435
Brake, Vacuum, Mr. Hardy, 297
Brakes, Continuous, Automatic Action in, 78
Brakes, Continuous, and the Board of Trade. 275, 322
Brakes, Continuous, in Practice, 249
Brakes, Railway, 437
Breech-loading Question, The, 355
Brewery for the Cannock Brewery Company, 63, 66, 72
Brewing in Austria, 435
Brick-making Machine, Portable, Messrs. Armitage and Itter, 342
Bridge, Denton Bank, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 89 -double-bow Girder, Hamburg and Harburg Railway, 104, 108
Bridge, The Forth, 65, 162, 184, 280, 299
Bridge ovct the River Irwell, Salford, Mr. Arthur
Jacob, 437, 442
Bridges, The Forth and Tay, 162
Bridges, Railway, Strength of, 461
^ri92CS °Ver Thames at London, Past and Present,
Brighton Beach, 50
Brighton Waterworks, 216
Brighton Waterworks, Water Pressure Pumping Engine, Messrs. W. H. Bailey and Co., 193
Brown, Brothers, Messrs., Flanging Press, 1/3
Brush Electric Light, The, 123
Brussels Exhibition, The, 446
Buenos Ayres Exhibition, 29,100, 135, 173, 323
Buenos Ayres Exhibition. The River Plate and the, 395
Buffer, Economic Railway, Mr. Thomas, 3o8
Buffon, M. Nadault de, 456
Building Exhibition, The, 277, 299
Cameron, Mr. John, 376
Canal, New American, 411
Canal from Bordeaux to Nantes, Proposed, 280
Canals in China, 152
Cannock Brewery. 63, 66, 72
Carbon Black for Mineral Oil, 29
Cargo Steamers, 143, 161
Carriage Lighting on Continental Railways, 293, 341
Cement, 410
Cement Testing Machine, Adelaide Waterworks, 100
Ceylon, Railway Extension in, 161
Chain Coupling, Commander J. H. Vidal, 190
Cheapness, The Age of, 356
City of London Directory, 154
Clausius on the Mechanical Theory of Heat, 299
Cleaning Water Mains, 404, 419
Cleveland, Commercial Prospects in, 427
Cleveland Iron Production, 32
Cleveland Iron Trade, 321
Cleveland Water Supply, 69
Clifton Suspension Bridge, 403
Clips, Mr. Massey, 52
Clyde Water, Effect of, on the Sheathing of Ships, 14
Coal Gas in 1810—A Prophecy, 228
Coal and Iron Interests in Parliament, 284
Coal Slack, Utilisation of, in the Manufacture of Coke for Smelting, 174
Coal Supply for a Century, 196
Cofferdams, Single Balk, used in the Port of Dublin, 447
Coke as a Steam Fuel, 409
Coke, Utilisation of Bye-products in the Manufacture, 347
Colombo Harbour Works, 366
Combustion, Artificial, 252
Comstock District, Nevada, 383
Condensation of Steam in Pipes, 199, 200.
Continental Passenger Traffic, 350
Contracts Open :
Denton Bank Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. A.
M. Fowler, 89
Co-operation and After, 140
Copper in Australia, 262
Cramp, A Plumber’s, 35
Crane for Coaling Locomotives, Two-ton Self-acting, C. Wendt, 120
Crane, Ten-ton :Locomotive Steam, Messrs. Charles lanson, Son, and Co., 160, 163
Crane, Travelling, Hand Foundry, 404
Creosote Stills, 298
Crighton, Mr. C. E., Insulator, 107
Crumlin Viaduct, 316
Darke, Mr. E. T., High-speed Indicator, 172
Denton Bank Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mr. A.
M. Fowler, Contracts Open, 89
Determination of the Abutment Thrusts of Hinged Structures, 366
Determination of Stresses in Redundant Structures, 34, 128, 146
Diamonds, Artificial, 14, 69, 107, 178
Dioptric Apparatus in Lighthouses for the Electric Light, 246
Dioptric Lenses for Gas Lighthouses, Improvements in, 422
Dock, The Royal Albert, Mr. E. M. Rondel, 454, 457
Douglas, Isle of Man, New Harbour Works, 296, 297, 300
Drainage of Towns, Separate System and Economical,
411
Drains, House, 392
Drum Guard, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, 235
Drying Machinery, Self-emptying Centrifugal, Mr.
Stevenson, 323
Durham Iron Trade, The, 127
Dusseldorf Exhibition, 376
Economical Speed, The Most, for Steamships of the Navy, 2
Edge, Mr., Grooveless Tramway, Brunswick, SO
Edison Electric Light, 22, 49, 107, 126
Electric Lamp, Mr. Brokie, 268
Electric Lamp, Hon. R. T. D. Brougham and M.
Andrd, 190
Electric Lamp, Mr. Crompton, 323
Electric Lamps, Horseshoe, Mr. Edison, 324
Electric Light, The Brush, 123
Electric Light, The Edison, 49
Electric. Light, Mr. Edison’s Latest, 22
Electric Light, Mr. Edison on the, 126
Electric Light, Edison’s, its Efficiency, 377
Electric Light, The Sawyer, 358
Electric Light in the United States, 288
Electric Middlings Purifier, 292
Electric Railways and the Berlin Electro-Technical
Society. 100
Electrical Storage, 120
Electricity, 140
Electricity a Form of Force, 105
Electricity, Progress of, 427
Emery Lap Machine, Messrs. Thomson, Sterne, and
Co., 386
Employers’ Liability Bill, 446
Engine, Outridge’s, 439
Engine, Atmospheric, Staveley, 79, 84
Engine Coal, Stockton and Darlington Railway. 1847.
139,140
Engine Driver, Death of the Oldest, 342
Engine Drivers, Locomotive, Warning to, 374. 394
403, 410, 418 ’
Engine, 8-Coupled, Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 14
Engine, Horizontal, Mr. E. 9. Hindley, 394
Engine Inspection, Steam, 333
Engine, Locomotive, for the Volga-Don Railway, 8<2
Engine, Passenger, Kaiser-Franz-Joseph Railways, Austria, Herr Emil von Tilp. (Supplement to the Engineer of March 19th, 1880, and p. 216)
Engine, Passenger, for the Franz-Joseph Railway, Herr von Tilp, 245, 248
Engine, Passenger, North-Eastern Railway, 18a0, <7, 81
Engine, Portable, Trials at Magdeburg, 428
Engine, Traction, and Steam Crane Combined, Messrs.
J. and H. McLaren, 260
Engine, Water-pressure Pumping, Brighton waterworks, Messrs. W. H. Bailey and Co., 198
Engineering, Amateur, 100
Engineering Education, Society of Engineers, 123
Engineering Trades in 1879, 24
Engineers’ Annual and Almanack for 1880, 89
Engineers and Manufacturers, 143
Engineers, Marine, in China, 250
Engines, Compound, 299
Engines, Compound, of the Loftus Perkins, 2, 3, 6, 7
Engines, English Traction, in the United States, 232
Engines, Gas, 145, 158, 171, 216
Engines, High-pressure, Mr. Perkins, 388
Engines, The Management of Marine, 236
Engines, Marine, 265, 280
Engines in the Navy, Compound and Simple, 374
Engines, Pumping at Staveley, 199
Engines, Tramway, Mr. Hughes, 388, 390
Engines, Vertical, Mr. E. 8. Bindley, 210
Engines, Winding, Aldwark Main Colliery, Rotherham, 136, 142
Engines, Water-pressure, Mr. J. Hastie’s Improvements in, 304
Engines, Water-pressure, for Mining Purposes, Mr. H.
Davey on, 312, 313, 315, 318
Excavators Employed on the Calais Harbour Works, M. Couvreux, 405, 410, 419
Explosive Agents Applied to Industrial Purposes, 243
Factories, Protection of Life in, 375
Festiniog Railway, Composite Bogie Carriage, Mr.
Spooner, 338, 342
Fire-damp, Apparatus for Measuring, 53-
Fire-engines, Steam, in the Navy, 46
First-class Carriage, Western Railway of France, 163
Flanging Press, Messrs. Brown Bros., 173
Flat Stayed Surfaces, Strength of, 250
Flow of Liquids, 204
Footboards, Continuous, 419
Forth Bridge, 65, 126, 184, 228, 280, 299
French Woollen Trade, 8
Friction Clutch, Mr. Addy man, 268
Frigate, Steam, 110
Frost of December, 1879, Over the British Isles, 184
Furnace A of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, 259
Furnace, The Open Hearth, Reactions in, 332
Furnace, Oscillating, Mr. Piat, 260
Gas Engineers’ Diary and Text-book for 1880, 14
Gas Purifier, MM. Pelouze and Audouin, 350
Gas Regulator, Mr. Stott, 210
Gases, Analysis of Blast Furnace and other, 331
Gauge, Pressure, 122
Gauges, Steam, 440
Gauge, Steam, Inventor of the, 122
Gauge, Water, Mr. John Blake, 172
Geological Phenomenon, Grand, 422
Girders, The Depth of, 333
Glasgow Exhibition of Apparatus for the Utilisation of Gas and Electricity, 462
Good Times and Bad, 85, 105
Gorse Mill, Messrs. McKenzie and McBudc, 109
Government and the Metropolitan Water Companies, 86
Governors, Marine, 8
Governors, Marine Engine, 259
Governors, On Sensitiveness and Isochronism in, 427
Grain Cargoes, 437
Grain Elevator, Mr. Wm. Rennie, 287
Gray, Mr. John, Valve Gear, 41
Gramme Machine, M. Hippolyte Fontaine, 174
Greenock Advertiser, Sudden Death of the, 186
“ Grosser Kurf first,” 8. 29, 46, 83
Gun, 9‘2-Inch Breech-loading, Woolwich. 453
Gun, The 100-Ton, 319
Gun, 100-Ton, Bursting of, at Spezia, 187
Gun, The 100-Ton Armstrong, its Failure, 394
Gunboat, A New, 294
Gun Metal Packing, Air. E. M. B. Faull, 439
Guns, Deformities in our 80-Ton, 85
Gun, Iron and Steel, 213
Guns, The “Thunderer’s,” 97, 258, 261
Haddan, Mr. J. L , 256
Hamburg and Harburg Railway, Double-bow Girder
Bridge. 104, 108
Harbour Works, Douglas, Isle of Man, 296, 297, 300
Hartlepool, Breakwater Works, 410
Hartlepool Dock Works, 266
Health, Progress of Public, 262
Heat, Mechanical Theory of, 418, 440, 464
Heating by Gas, 8
Hedley Dial, Improved Arc for the, 270
Bindley, Mr. E. 8., Vertical Engines, 210
Hoist and Crane, Automatic, Mr. T. Thomas, 386
Hoisting and Sea-water Distilling Machinery, 334, OOQ
Holyhead Harbour and Docks, 440, 458
Horse-power, Foreign Measurement of, 141
Ince, Water Tank at, 53
India, The Coast Trade of, 301
Indian Government Colliery, The, 414
Indicator, High-speed, Mr. E. T. Darke, 172
Industrial Exhibition Company, 401
Insulator, Mr. C. E. Crighton, 107
Institute, The Anthropological •
° TKi>n ,of Plon«rh and the Wheeled Carriage, Dr.
Institute, The Constructor’s, 141
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 381
Application of the Spectroscope to the Analysis ot Iron and Steel, Mr. John Parry and Mr. Alex. E. Tucker, 348 ~
Dephosphorisation of Iron in the Bessemer Converter, Mr. R. Pink, 331. 347
Further Experiments on the Existence of Nitrogen in Iron and Steel, Mr. Alfred II. Allen, 349
Improved Apparatus for the Analysis of Blast r urnace and other Gases, Mr. J. E. Stead, 331
Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Ingot Iron from Phosphoric Pig, Messrs. C. B. Holland and A. Cooper, 347, 342
Reactions in the Open-hearth Furnace, Mr. Arthur
Willis, 332 „ . x i
Results obtained by Testing Steel Rails at Natural and Artificially Lowered Temperatures, Mr. Demetrius Jouraffsky. 349
Separation of Silica in the Analyses of Limestones Iron Ores, and other Minerals, Mr. H. Rocholl 350
Some Physical Changes occurring in Iron at High Temperature, Mr. Wrightson, 329
Utilisation of Bye-products in the Manufacture of
Coke, Mr. Henry Simon, 347
Institute of Mining Engineers, The American:
Blast Furnace Working at the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works, Mr. Henry Kennedy, 269
Regenerative Stoves, Sketch of their History, Mr. John M. Hartman, 359
Institute of Mining Engineers, The S. Staffordshire, 171
Institution of Civil Engineers, 47, 103, 200, 228, 285, 303, 400, 456
The President’s Address, 47
Abingdon Sewerage, Mr. Charles Foote Gower, 289
Amsterdam Ship Canal, Mr. II. Hayter, 333
Drainage of Torquay, Mr. George Chatterton, 289
Election of M. de Lesseps as Honorary Member, 289
Explosive Agents applied to Industrial Purposes, Prof. Abel, 243
Iron and Steel at Low Temperatures, Mr. John James Webster, 118
Portland Cement Concrete, and Some of its Applications, Mr. E. A. Bernays, 377
Portland Cement, The Manufacture and Testing of, Mr. Gilbert R. Redgrave, 377
Portland Cement: Its Nature, Tests, and Uses, Mr. John Grant, 377
The River Thames, John Baldry Redman, 103
Strength and Elasticity of Materials, Mr. Wm. James Millar, 110
Use of Asphalt© and Mineral Bitumen in Engineering Works, Mr. W. H. Delano, 154
Weirs, Fixed and Movable, Mr. L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, 98
Weirs, Movable Dams in Indian, Mr. R. B. Buckley, 98
Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland:
Dioptric Lenses for Gas Lighthouses, Proposed Improvements in, Mr. John S. Sloane, 422
Saw Mill Machinery, Notes on, Mr. John A. F. As-pinall, 285
Single Balk Cofferdams used in the Port of Dublin, Mr. John P. Griffith, 447
Stamping and Welding under the Steam Hammer, Mr. A. McDonnell, 154
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
The Forth and Tay Bridges, Mr. St. John Vincent Day, 162
Institution of Naval Architects :
Amsler-Laffon’s Mechanical Integrator, Mr. Merrifield, 252
Artificial Combustion, Recent Experiments in, Mr. Flannery, 252
Causes of Unscaworthiness in Merchant Steamers, Mr, Martell, 205
On the Cellular Construction of Merchant Ships, Mr. John, 224
Method of Analysing the Forms of Ships and Determining the Lengths and Angle of Entrance, Mr. A. C. Kirk, 222
Simplification of the Thermodynamics of Steam, Mr. McFarlane Gray, 227
Steam Trials of II.M S. “ Iris ” and the Resistance of Screw Propellers, Mr. J. A. Normand, 221
Steel for Shipbuilding, Mr. Barnaby, 226
Steel in the Shipbuilding Yard, Mr. Denny, 225
True Nature of the Resistance of Armour to Shot, Mr. John Scott Russell, 221
Twenty Minutes with Passenger Steamers on the Long Ferry, Mr. J. R. Ravenhill, 223
Wave Line Form of Midship Section, Mr. John 8cott Russell, 224
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 262
President’s Address, 59
Automatic Action in Continuous Brakes, Mr. T. H. Riches, 78
Brown’s Tramway Locomotive, Mr. B. C. Browne,
Chernoff’s Papers on Steel, Mr. Anderson, 294
Fireless Locomotives, M. Francq, 59
Permanent Way for Street Tramways with Special Reference to Steam Traction, Mr. Larsen, 311
Rolling Iron and Steel Plates, Mr. Hutchinson, 78 Water Pressure Engines for Mining Purposes, Mr.
Henry Davey, 312, 313, 315
Institution, The Polytechnic, GO]
Institution, The Edinburgh Philosophical:
History and Manufacture of Steel, Prof. \ B W Kennedy, 141
Integrator, The Amsler-Laffon, 252
Ireland, Public Works in. 426, 465
Iron in Australia, 422
lion, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham Wol-neoh??QPt,°-n’ Districts, 19, 38? 57, 75, 93,
133, lol» lb7» *85, 203, 219, 239. 255 >73 291
309, 327 345, 363, 381, 399, 415, 433, 451, 467 ’ '
v^Be?9?sphori8ation of> in the Bessemer Con-
Iron, Fracture of Cast. 342
Iring'i;nH329 Ten,pcrature- rl’ys«cal Changes Occur-
Iron, Pig, 356
Iron Production, Cleveland, 32
Iron Railway Sleepers, 83, 95, 115, 241
Iron, the Realised Price of, 284
Iron and Steel Trade, The American, 3>1
Iron and Steel, The Analysis of, by means of the Spectroscope, 348
Iron and Steel, Existence of Nitrogen in, 349
Iron and Steel, Homogeneity v. Welds in, 269
Iron and Steel at Low Temperatures, 118
Iron and Steel-making in Great Britain and Amerjca 339
Iron Surfaces, Preservation of, 339
Iron Trade, 357
Iron Trade, Americans and the, 340
Iron Trade, Foreign Tariffs and the, 162
Iron Trade, Future of the, 443
Iron Trade, 1879, North of England, 15
Iron Trade, the Northern Crude, 232, 462
Iron Trade in North Lincolnshire, 69
Iron Trade, the Northern Manufactured, 196, 340
Iron Trade, Outlook in the Northern, 86
Iron Trade, The Manufactured, Sliding Scale in, 427
Iron Trade, Staffordshire, in 1879, 33
Iron Trade, Strike in the Northern, 340
Ironclad, A United States, 276, 278, 282
Ironworks, Plant in the Market, 69
Jack-screw, Mr. Ball, 286, 299
Japanese Navy, The, 324
Jarrah Timber, 4
Kiln, Chamber, Mr. I. C. Johnson, 210
Kinfauns Castle, The, 80
Lamps, Safety, Mr. Shakespear, 173
Landslip, 456
Launch of H.M.S. Linnet, 98
Launch of an Italian Steamer, 294
Lay Torpedo, The, 243
Leaders:
1880, 11
American Rivalry, 266
Americans and the Iron Trade, 340
Artificial Diamonds, 69, 178
Artificial Production of Precious Stones, 107
Atlantic Mail Service, 392
Atlantic Passenger Steamers, 177
Atlantic Steamers, Screw Propellers for, 213
Bell-mounting, 283
Blast Furnace Work in the United States, 144
Breech-loading Question, The, 355
Bridges, Railway, Their Strength, 461
Brighton Beach, 50
Cargo Steamers, 143,161
Cement, 410
Cheapness, The Age of, 356
Cleveland, Commercial Prospects in, 427
Cleveland Iron Production, 32
Cleveland Iron Trade, 321
Cleveland Water Supply, 69
Coal and Iron Interests in Europe, 281
Coal Supply for a Century, 196
Coast Trade of India, 301
Coke as a Steam Fuel, 409
Continuous Brakes in Practice, 249
Deformities in our 80-Ton Guns, 85
Durham Iron Trade, 127
Economical Arbitration, 462
Edison Electric Light, 49, 107, 126
Effect of Clyde Water on the Sheathing of Ships, 14
Electricity a Form of Force, 105
Electricity, Progress of, 427
Engine Drivers, Warning to, 374, 410
Engineers and Manufacturers, 143
Engines in the Navy, Compound and Simple, 374
English and American Locomotives, 68, 125
English Traction Engines in the United States, 232
Foreign Tariffs and the Iron Trade, 162
Forth Bridge, 126
Good Times and Bad, 85, 105
Government and the Metropolitan Water Companies, 86
Government Water Bill, 177
Great Russian War Ship, 14
Gun, The 100-Ton, 319
Hartlepool Breakwater Works, 410
Hartlepool Dock Works, 266
House Drains, 392
Indian Government Colliery, The, 414
Ireland, Public Works in, 426
Iron, Realised Price of, 284
Iron and Steel Guns, 213
Iron and Steel Making in Great Britain and Ireland, 339
Iron Trade, Future of the, 443
Iron Trade, The Northern Crude, 462
Iron Trade in North Lincolnshire, 69
Iron Trade, Sliding Scale in the Manufactured, 427
Ironworks Plant in the Market, 69
Liability of Employers, 391
Locomotive Engine Drivers, A Warning to, 374
London Water Supply and the Authorities, 355
Marine Engines in China, 250
Marine Engines of Great Power, 265
Metropolitan Board, 391
Metropolitan Main Drainage Outfalls, Arbitration of the, 373
Metropolitan Street Improvements, The Delay in, 283
Navy Estimates, 195
North of England Blast Furnace Plant, 51
Northern Crude Iron Trade, 232
Northern Iron Trade, Strike in the, 340
Northern Manufactured Iron Trade, 196, 340
Northern Shipbuilding, 374
Northern Steel Manufacture, 392
Our Marble Supply, 106
Outlook in the Northern Iron Trade, 86
Parliament and the London Water Companies, 425
Patent, An Old, 266
Patent Laws, 196
Petroleum in Hanover, 107
Pig Iron, Production of, 356
Powders, English and Foreign, 409
Powder Ignition in Heavy Guns, 321
Preservation of Iron Surfaces, 339
Problem in Smoke Prevention, 127
Railway Capital, Growth of, 214
Railway Curves, 265
Railway Extension in Ceylon, 161
Railway Materials, Cost of, 214
Railway Passenger Traffic, 144
Railway Works, 32
Registration of Trade Marks, 107
Russian Tariff Rates on MetaS, 393
Scientific Research, 196
Shipbuilding in the United States, 32
Ships’ Pumps, 461
Slag Cement, 356
Sliding Scale for South Yorkshire, 127
Sliding Scales and Wages, 302
Steam Boiler Inspection, 320
Steamships, New Ocean, 462
Steel of the Future, 249
Steel Making in Cleveland, 126
Steel for Shipbuilding, 231
Steel, A Strange Story of, 251
Stiffening of Skeleton Piers, 50
Storms in Relation to Structures, 31
Strength of Flat Stayed Surfaces, 250
Struts and Ties, 231
Tay Bridge, The, 162
Tay Bridge Inquiry, 67, 178, 301, 319
Tay Bridge, Future of the, 49
Tay Bridge, Reconstruction of the, 444
Thames, The, and the Metropolitan Sewage, 443
“ Thunderer ” Gun Trials, 69
Tonnage Rates for Coal by Rail, 302, 321
Tonnage Rates by Rail from South Yorkshire, 214
Torpedo Boats, 284.
Tramway Locomotives, 31
Trial of Patent Actions, 162
Leaders (continued) —
Utilisation of Gas and Electricity, Glasgow Exhibition of Apparatus for, 462
Walsall Boiler Explosion, 374, 425
Water Meters in Middlesborough, 51
Water Supply of Aberystwyth and Bala, G7
Leather, Waterproof, 371
Legal Intelligence: —
Brunton's Patent, 428
Saxby and Another v. the Gloucester Wagon Co., Limited, 159
Von Heyden v. Neustadt, 209
Lesseps, M. de, 288, 412
Letters to the Editor :—
“American,” Foundering of the, S. H. Terry, 403
“American/’ Loss of the, J. A., 395
Armstrong 10'J-ton Gun, Failure of, X., 394
Atlantic Steamers, T. J., 216
Austrian Hungarian Patent Laws, Carl Pieper, 316
Ball’s Screw Jack, T. Titley, 299
Bell Hanging, Foreman Fitter, 280, 299, 316
Bell Hanging, Moore, Holmes, and Mackenzie, 299
Blast Furnace Work in the United States, E. A.
Cowper, 158
Blow Pipes? Large, W. H. B., 409
Blowing Apparatus? W. T., 265
Boiler Explosions at Ironworks, John Hayes, 403
Boiler Explosions at Ironworks, G. D. Hughes, 403
Boiler Insurance Companies, Boiler, 8
Boiler Stays, Strength of, J. H. Wicksteed, 394
Boilers, Furnace, Henry Hiller, 418
Boilers, Shortness of Water in, B. Heginbottom, 418
Borehole, A Deep, S. A. Scratchley, 301
Brighton Waterworks, B. M. A., 216
Buckley’s Pistons, A. G. H., 283
Building Exhibition, The, R. H. Williams and Sons, 299
Calcining Kilns? Oxide, 105
Cement for Stone Steps, R. T. T., 443
Cigarette Machines? A. C., 461
Coal Gas in 1810—A Prophecy, J. J. Talman, 228
Cochran’s Boilers, Cochran and Co., 301
Compound Engines, John King and Co., 299
Compressed Air Locomotives, J. R. Clipperton, 465
Compressed Air Locomotives, L. and E. Delettrez, 464
Compressed Air Locomotives, Observer, 464
Compressed Air Locomotives, G. B. Wilson, 464
Constructors’ Institute, A. Leahy, 141
Consuming Smoke ? Baker, 373
Cord of Wood ?F., 443
Corrosion of Well Water Tanks ? J. A., 105
Cleaning Water Mains, J. C. Stark and Co., 419
Cleansing Wrought Iron Tubes, Paracelsus, 49
Cleansing Wrought Iron Tubes ? W. R., 11
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Thomas Airey, 391
Clifton Suspension Bridge ? Lila, 339
Clifton Suspension Bridge, W. B. T., 335, 403
Cloth-cutting Machines ? W. H. H., 125
Creosote Stills, J. J. Vaughan, 298
Crumlin Viaduct, The, Henry N. Maynard, 316
Cupola Practice, No. 1 Pig, 265
Dioptric Apparatus in Lighthouses for the Electric Light, David M. Henderson, 246
Drawing ? Cheap Treatises on, Indian Ink, 373
“ Eagle ” Steam Packing ? B. C., 391
Elephant Boilers, Inquirer, 28
Elephant Boilers, T. B. Lightfoot, 64
Engine Drivers, Warning to, C. E. S., 394,403, 418
Excavators at Calais Harbour, II. D. Fabricius, 419
Foot-boards, Continuous, C. W. V., 419
Foreign Measurement of Horse Power, A. Cameron, 141
Forth Bridge, W. H. Bidder, 280
Forth Bridge, The, Will. Young Black, 228, 299
Foundering of the “ American/’ S. H. Terry, 370 Frost and Cement ? T. Y., 31
Furnace “A” of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Taws and Hartman, 259
Gas Engines, J. E. H. Andrew, 216
Gas Engines, Dynamometer, 171
Gas Engines, Simon, Beechey, and Co., 171
Gas Engines, Robt. Wilson, 158
Gas Retort Stoking Machines, Adam Woodward and Sons, 228
Gearing? W. B., 425
Girders, Depth of, Robt. H. Bow, 333
Grosser Kurfuerst, J. and W. Gwynne, 29
Grosser Kurfuerst, Gwynne and Co., per W.H. Allen, 65
Grossei Kurfuerst, S. W. Maquay, 8, 46, 83
Heat-resisting Paint? Subscriber, 195
Heating by Gas, J. S. J., 8
Hooping Cotton Bales? Cotton, 143
Horse Nail Pointing Machines? F. Y., 213
Horseshoe Magnets? G. L., 391
Hydraulic Jute and Cotton Presses, C. E. 8., 29
India-rubber Fabrics? Thin, C. A. W., 213
Iron Sleepers, John Emile Monnier, 83 Ireland, Public Works in, Slick, 465
Jarrah Timber, McLean Bros, and Rigg, 4
Jet Propelled Steamers ? J. R., 373
Lighting Railway Carriages, G. Bower, 28, 65
Lighting Railway Carriages, Hugo Pischon, 28, 46
Links in the History of the Locomotive, G. F. B. L-, 280
Links in the History of the Locomotive, H. A. F., 298
Links in the History of the Locomotive, Thos. Hunt, 82
Logical Definitions of Scientific Terms, Carter Draper, 4
Lubricant for Gas Engine Cylinders? J. W., 105
Machine for Grinding Hand-saw Teeth, X., 143
Marine Engines of Great Power, B. C., 280
Marine Engines, Management of, A Third Engineer, 440
Marine Governors, D. J. Dunlop, 8
Marine Engine Governors, Wm. Murdoch, 259
Mathematical Problem, A, W. D. H., 228
Measuring the Inside Diameter of Cylinders, Instrument for, D. Giegly, 259
Measuring Wind Gusts, W. T. Farquhar, 370
Mechanical Theory of Heat, <!>•. n., 419, 464
Mechanical Theory of Heat, Walter R. Browne, 440
Mechanical Theory of Heat, W. J. Millar, 464
Mechanical Theory of Heat, Staines, 464
Mechanical Theory of Heat, Clausius on, Walter R.
Browne, 299
Metalline, Spinner and Manufacturer, 171
Narrow Gauge Railways? T. O. 8., 195
New Zealand Railways? F., 339
New Zealand Railways, B. Dawson, 355
Non-conducting Coatings? J. M., 355
Non-conducting Paint for Ships ? A very Old Subscriber, 161
Oil for Gas Engines? J. W., 49
Panama Canal, C. H. W., 5
Pattern Letters ? J. T. T., 85
Permanent Way for Street Tramways, J. D. Larsen, 370
Permanent Way for Street Tramways, Spielmann and Co., 394
Poncelet Wheels ? J. D. J., 301
Poncelet Water-wheels, Henry Allchin, 319
Portland Cement, Adulteration of, A Cement Manufacturer, 123
Power Transmission by Wire Ropes? J. K., 49
Premium Resident Engineers? A Young Engineer, 11
Pressure Gauge for Very Small Pressures, Robt. Gill, 122
Problem Concerning Belts, A. R., 440
Problem in Physics, A. G. Murray, 403
Problem in Physics, C. L., 419
Problem in Physics, Gravity, 360, 395
Problem in Physics, Verax, 370, 403
Pulleys, Loose, A. H. Bateman and Co., 333
Rail Sections and Tests, Inspecting Engineer, 370
Railway Swing Bridges ? S. M., 319
Railways, The Wear and Tear on, The Desirability of a More Efficient Experimental Control Over, S. Tolver, Preston, 370
Letters to the Editor (continued)—
Rating of Machinery, J< s. Potts, jun., 158
Regulator for Controlling the Admission of Feedwater to Steam Boilers, James Finney, 259
Regulator for Controlling the Admission of Feedwater to Steam Boilers, L. D. J. IT., 228
Roberts’s Tide Predicting Machine, Edward Roberts, 11
Rutherglen Accident, The, I. N. A., 440
Rutherglen Railway Accident, The, Editor of the English Mechanic and World of Science, 465
Safety Valve : How to Improve it, Robert Gill, 5
Sail-cloth Making Machines ? N. T., 11
Sanitary Appliances, William Bennett, 418
Sanitary Appliances, William Young Black, 418
Saw-mill Machinery, J. Davis, 2£9
Screwing Machines ? T. J. P., 49
Screw Piles ? Pier, 443
Screw Propellers for Atlantic Steamers, J. Fortescue Flannery, 246
Screw Propulsion, Robert H. Armit, 29
Sewage Farms, F., 65, 103
Sewage Irrigation, Irrigator, 83
Signal Guns ? T. W. G., 31
Slag Glass ? H. B., 125
Speed Regulator, William Tighe Hamilton, 418
Spence’s Metal, Berger Spence, 283
Steam Engine Governor ? S B. and Co., 339
Steam Engine Inspection, R. Charles Longridge, 333
Steam Gauge, The Inventor of, Sydney Smith, 122
Steam Gauge, The Inventor of, George Stephenson, 122
Steam Gauges, Joseph Casartelli, 440
Steam Gauges, Ex-Gauge Maker, 440
Steam Gauges, J. F. Fonblanque, 440
Steam Gauges, Lex, 440
Steam Gauges, F. C. Southwell, 440
Steamers’ Pumps, C. E., 403
Steamers’ Pumps, R. E. M., 440
Steamship “ Adriatic,” The, Chief Engineer, 249
Steamship “ Adriatic?” T. J. B., 195
Steamships “ Adriatic ” and “ Great Britain ’’John
Hartley, 213
Steamship “ Anthracite,” The, W. H. Harris, 465
Steamship “ Great Britain?” Sen ex, 195
Steel Castings ? Small, J. S., 31
Steel Chain ? Proof Strain, 105
Steel Stencil Plates? F. G. M. S., 213
Strains on Bed-plates, A Student, 355
Straw Wrapping Round Thrashing Machine Drums?
C. P., 67
Strength cf Wrought Iron Crane Jibs? Varidsea, 85
Struts and Ties, Alfred E. Ottewell, 280
Taper Ropes, Charles D. West, 280
Tapioca Machines ? A. C., 425
Tay Bridge, A. R., 29
Tay Bridge, G. W. Camphuis, 46
Tay Bridge, David Cunningham, 64
Tay Bridge, Electrical Tyro, 64
Tay Bridge, The, Engineer, 46
Tay Bridge, E. G. B., 82
Tay Bridge, Great George-street, 29
Tay Bridge, A. E. W. Gwyn, 29
Tay Bridge, A. Percival Heywood, 64
Tay Bridge, II. G. S., 82
Tay Bridge, J. J. T., 46
Tay Bridge, J. S., 46
Tay Bridge, David Kirkaldy, 333
Tay Bridge, Wentworth Lascelles Scott, 4
Tay Bridge, Charles Lean, 123
Tay Bridge, T. B. Lightfoot, 82
Tay Bridge, W. J. Millar, 360
Tay Bridge, H. Nabholz, 28, 64
Tay Bridge, Hamilton W. Pendred, 46
Tay Bridge, Pier, 82, 123
Tay Bridge, R. M., 360
Tay Bridge, Charles Sean, 64
Tay Bridge, Charles Stewart, M.A., 4, 82, 102
Tay Bridge, S., 102
Tay Bridge, T. K., 64, 82
Tay Bridge, Wig, 46
Tay Bridge, James Wright, 333
Tay Bridge, W. C. L., 82
Tay Bridge, W. J. M., 46
Tea Withering and Preparing Machinery E. R. D., 31
Tee Iron, Strength of ? E. D. W., 125
Testing Cement, H. Faija, 64
Testing Cement, Arthur Jacob, 28
Testing Cement, P. F. McC., 5
Testing Cranes? R. G., 265
Testing Feed-water, Paracelsus, 161
Testing Feed-water? Winton, 143
Testing Machines for Iron ? W. B., 105
Testing the Wearing Qualities of Bearing Metals ? C. N.A., 67
Theory of the Compound Engine, Joseph Henry, 8
Theory of the Compound Engine, John Turnbull, jun., 28
Thin Iron Foil or Leaves, Paracelsus, 161
Tide Mills, Paracelsus, 161
Tide Mills? R. H. M., 67. 143, 195
Tires, The Wear of, R. Hadfield, 141
Ties, The Wear of, S. Jones, 122
Tramway Locomotives, Henry Hughes, 46
Tramway Permanent Way, Spielmann and Co., 333
Transmission of Power by Wire Ropes, E. E. M., 83
Turbine v. Overshot Wheel ? T. W. H., 231
Turbines, Efficiency of, An American Engineer, 228
Turbines, Efficiency of, A. M. Brown, 102, 158
Turbines, Efficiency of, Wm. Donaldson, 64, 102, 141, 171 228 259
Turbines,’Efficiency of, J. Peters, 123, 158, 216
Turbines, Efficiency of, Pinx Gryph, 82, 122, 158, 216
Turbines, Efficiency of, R., 158
Twin Screws? Working, A. F., 425
Uchatius Bronze Steel Guns ? W. J. E. N., 195
Useless Boiler Surface, T. B. Lightfoot, 8
Utilising Town Refuse, Isaac Shone, 98
Utilising Town Refuse .Town Refuse, 28
Valves, Safety, J. Hopkinson and Co., 28
Valves, Stop, E. R. and F. Turner, 8
Vermicelli-Maccaroni-Starch, R., 409
Virtual Length, J. Melan, 102
Walsall Boiler Explosion, Observer, 395, 418
Waterproof Leather: Patent Anhydrous Leather Company, 371
Wavish Economiser, The, I. Copley and Co., 8
Wheel Castings? Small, E. R. D., 67
Wheel Gearing ? C. L. H., 49
Wilson’s Safety Valve, J. M. N. Atock, 418
Wind on Trains ? Effect of, Meteorologist, 31
Wire Rope, Street Railroads, David R. Smith, 65
Woodworking Machinery, M. Powis Bale, 403
Work in a Pound of Steam, C. A. Matthey, 102
Work in a Pound of Steam, The, G. Pinnington, 28
Liability of Employers, 391, 393
Lighting Railway Carriages, 14, 46, 65
Literature:
Abhandlung fiber den Thomas Gilchrist’schen Process des Verbessemerns, Phosphorhaltiger Roh-eisensorten, J. Gangl von Ehrcnwerth 462
Blow-pipe Analysis, J. Landauer, 127
Building Materials of Otago and South New Zealand, generally, W. N. Blair, 162
Car Builders’ Dictionary, The, Matthias W. Forney, assisted by Leander Garey and Calvin A. Smith, 233
Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, the Electric Telegraph, &c., Including the Ronalds Library, Sir Francis Ronalds, 410
Chemical Denudation in Relation to Geological Time, T. Mellard Reade, 51
Clarendon Press Series, Geodesy, Col. A. F. Clarke, 444
Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Strains m Various Engineering Structures of Wood and Iron, Col. H. T. Rogers, 162
Euclid and his Modern Rivals, Charles L. Dodgson, 127
Literature (continued')—
Lehrbuch der Scbiffbaukunde, Erster Theil, dio Theoric des Schiffes, Bearbcitet von Victor Lut-schaunig. 462
Manual of Power for Machines, Shafts, and Belts, with the History of Cotton Manufacture in the United States, Samuel Webber, 32
Mechanical Theory of Heat, R. Clausius, 197, 251, 284
Metallurgy, the Art of Extracting Metals from their Ores, John Percy, 340
Nautisch-technisches Worterbuch der Marine, Deutsch, Italianisch, Franzbsisch, u. Englisch, Bearbeitet von. P. E. Dabovich, 462
Physical, Historical, Political, and Descriptive Geography, Keith Johnston, 410
Pocket Mining Atlas, Edwin Bolitho, 411
Practical Arbitrator, The: A Treatise Designed more particularly for the Use of Lay Arbitrators, Charles Jackson, 196
Programme der Koniglichen Rhenisch-westfa-lischen Technischen Hochschule zu. Aachen fur den Cursus 1879-80, 462
Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains, G K. Gilbert, 266
Sewage Disposal, Mr. H. Robinson, 178
Shipowner’s and Engineer’s Guide to the Marine Engine, William Allan, 321
Six Lectures on Physical Geography, Rev. Samuel Haughton, 357
Steel, its History, Manufacture, Properties, and Uses, J. S, Jeans, 302
Tables of Metric Measure, and their English Equivalents, G. M. Borns, 232
Technical Vocabulary, English and German, Dr. J. F. Wershoven, 107
Technische Mittheilungen des Schweizerischen Ingenieur-und-Architekten Vereins, Heft, 17, 19. 462
Telegraph in America, The: Its Founders, Promoters, and Noted Men, James D. Reid, 214
Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare, C. W. Sleeman, 144
Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, 1879, 107
Traverse Tables, Computed to 4 places Decimals for every Minute of Angle up to 100 of Distance, Richard Lloyd Gurden, 427
Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health, edited by Albert H. Buck, 69, 86
Treatise on Statics, Containing the Fundamental Principles of Electrostatics and Elasticity, G. M. Minchin, 375
Wood-working Machinery: Its Rise, Progress, and Construction, M. Powis Bale. 393
Locomotive Engine for the Lille and Haubourdin Tramway, Mr. J. Hughes, 388, 390
Locomotive, Fast Passenger, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Company, 408, 412
Locomotive Engine, Links in the History of the, 41, 77, 82, 139, 199, 280, 298
Locomotive Tramway, Mr. Brown, 59
Locomotives, American, and their Cost, 304
Locomotives, Compressed Air, 445, 464
Locomotives, English and American, 68, 125
Locomotives, Fireless, 59
Locomotives on the Hull and Selby, 1844, and Stock-ton and Darlington Railways, 1830, 41, 45
Locomotives, Tramway, 31
Locomotives, Russian and English, 1847, 1861, 191,199
Locomotives, Tramway, 46
“Loftus Perkins,” The Tyne Ferry Steamer, 2, 3, 6, 7
Logical Definitions of Scientific Terms, 4
London Water Supply, 341, 355
London Sea Water Supply Company, 388
London Waterworks, 106
Machinery, The Rating of, 118
McKenzie and McBude, Messrs., Gorse Mill, 109
MacNeill, Sir John, 197, 215
Madras Harbour Works, 262
Main Sewering and Water Supply Works, Type Drawings for Systems of, Mr. Robert Rawlinson, 211, 216, 233, 234, 419, 420
Manchester, New Central Station, Staging at and
Roof of, 122, 124, 163, 164, 171, 176
Mandrils, Something about, 29
Marble Supply, Our, 106
Marine Engines, Management of, 440
Maskelyne, Prof., 259
Mathematical Problem, A, 228
Measuring the Inside Diameter of Cylinders, 259
Metalline, 171
Metropolitan Board, The, 391
Metropolitan Main Drainage Outfalls, Arbitration on, 373
Metropolitan Street Improvements, Delay in, 283
Miantonomoh, The, United States Turret Ship, 276; 278, 282
Miscellanea, 9, 25, 43, 61, 90, 99, 119, 137, 155, 175, 193, 212, 229, 247, 263, 281, 295, 317, 337,353, 367, 389, 407, 423, 441, 455
Mississippi, the Impounding of the Waters of the, 256
Morin, General, 127
Motor, a Novel Small, 279
Naval Engineer Appointments, 24, 52,70, 89, 171, 268, 299, 381, 385, 428, 454
Naval Ordnance, The New Direetor of, 270
Navy Estimates, 195
Navy, New Vessels for the, 439
Nevada, Silver Mining in, 95
Nevada, Silver Mining in, The Sutro Tunnel and
Comstock Lode, 257
New Orleans Harbour, 454
Newent Collieries, Pumping Engines at, 27, 85
Nickel-Plated Tubes, 333
Nickel Plating Company’s Works at Stockton, 303
North of England, 19, 38, 57, 75, 93, 114, 133, 151, 167, 185, 203, 219, 239, 255, 273, 291, 309, 327, 346, 363, 382, 399, 415, 434, 451, 468
North of England Blast Furnace Plant, 51
Notes from Lancashire, 19, 38, 57, 75, 93, 113, 133, 151, 167, 185, 203, 219, 239, 255, 273, 291, 309, 327, 345, 363, 381, 399, 415, 433, 451, 467
Notes and Memoranda, 9, 25, 43, 61, 90, 99, 119, 137, 155, 175, 193, 212, 229, 247, 263, 281, 295, 317, 337, 353, 367, 389, 407, 423, 441, 455
Notes from Scotland, 20, 40, 58, 76, 94, 113, 134, 152, 168, 185, 203, 219, 240, 256, 274, 292, 309, 328, 345, 363, 382, 400, 416, 434, 452, 468
Notices to Correspondents, 11, 31, 49, 67, 85,105, 1 143, 161, 177, 195, 213, 230, 249, 265, 283, 301, 319, 339, 355, 373, 891, 409, 425, 443, 461
Obituary :
Ansted, Professor, 393
Cameron, Mr. John, 376
Haddan, Mr. J. L., 256
Macneill, Sir John, 197, 215
Oil District of America, 24
Ordnance, Application of Steel to the Construction of,
453
Otto Bicycle, The, 34
Outridge’s Engine, Steam Launch Fitted with, 439
Ozone, Production of, during the Combustion of Coal
Gas, 171
Palliser Gun Experiments, 169
Panama Canal, The, 5
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, Coupled
Engine, 14
Parkes Museum of Hygiene, The, 14
Parliament and the London Water Companies, 425
Patent Actions, The Trial of, 162
Patent, An Old, 266
Patent Laws 19
Patent Laws, Austrian-Hungarian, 316
Patent Office, American, 106
Patented Inventions in France, Working, 447
Patents, Ruined through, 139
Penholder, A. New, 216
Permanent Way, Beland Rail Drill, 412
Permanent Way, Roller Wedge Chair, 439
Permanent Way for Street Tramways, 311, 3/0
Permanent Way, Wrought Iron, Mr. A. J. Acaster. 304
Petroleum Fields of Russia, 259
Petroleum in Hanover, 107
Phare Gas Lantern and Burner, 210
Physics, Problem in, 360, 370
Pier, Iron Promenade. Skegness, 42, 44, 62, 72
Piers, Braced, for Bridges, 435
Piers, Skeleton, Stiffening of, 50
Pipe Bend and Union, Mr. J. J. Royle, 53
Pipe Joint, Painter’s, 181
Piston, Mr. Rowan, 235
Plough and the Wheeled Carriage, Origin of, 220
Plug, Mud, for Portable Engines, 53
Polytechnic Institution, 60
Portland Cement, Adulteration of, 123
Portland Cement, Concrete, and some of its Applications, 377
Portland Cement, its Manufacture, Testing, and Uses, 377
Powder, Ignition in Heavy Guns, 321
Powders, English and Foreign, 409
Prices Current of Metals, Oils, and Timber, 20, 4 \ 58, 76, 94,114, 134, 152, 168, 186, 204, 219, 240, 256, 274, 292, 309, 328, 346, 361, 382, 400, 416, 434, 452, 468
Presses, Hydraulic. Jute and Cotton, 29
Private Bills in Parliament, 60, 87, 98, 118, 145, 174, 192, 209, 227
Problem in Physics, 395, 403, 419
Pulley, Slit, Smithfield Club Show, 71
Pulleys, Loose, 333
Pumping Engines at Newent Collieries, 27, 35
Pumping Engines at Staveley, Old and New, No. I. to
III., 79, 84, 199, 365, 368, 369, 417, 424, 438
Pumps, Steamers’, 440, 461
Punching Machine, American, 71
Rail Sections and Tests, 370
Railway Accidents in France, 109
Railway Capital, Growth of, 214
Railway Carriage, Western Railway of France, 253
Railway Carriages, Lighting, 28
Railway Carriage Lighting, Continental, Pintsch’s
System, 293, 341
Railway Construction in the United States, 310
Railway Curves, 265
Railway Extension in Ceylon, 161
Railway, The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 88
Railway Materials, Cost of, 214
Railway Matters, 9, 25, 43, 61, 90, 99,119,137, 155,175, 193, 212, 229, 247, 263, 281, 295, 317, 337, 353, 367, 389, 407, 423, 441, 455
Mines, Accidents in, Visit of the Royal Commission on, to South Yorkshire, 375
Railway Passenger Traffic, 144
Railway Works, 32
Railways in Kent, 393
Railways, Rope Street, 33
Railways, Swiss, 140
Railways, Virtual Length of. 15
Railways, The Wear and Tear on, and the Desirability of more Efficient Experimental Control over, 370
Ramsgate Surveyorship, The, 333
Rating of Machinery, 153, 158
Regulator for Controlling the Admission of Feed Water to Boilers, 228, 259
Regulator, Steam, Mr. Stannab, 421
Reservoir, Service, Adelaide Waterworks Extension, 101
Reynard, AL Leonce, 159
River Water. 235
Roads, Repair of, 60
Roads and Road-making, Mr. W. Shelford, 54
Rolling Iron and Steel Plates, 78
Roof Construction in the Middle Ages, 324
Royal Albei t Dock, The, 454, 457
Royal Commission on Accidents in Alines, and the
South Yorkshire Coalfield, 385
Rudder Pins, Lead, 294
Russia* Agricultural Machinery and Implements in, 458
Russian Locomotives, Air. Ross Winans, 191, 194,199
Russian Tariff Rates on Aletal, 393
Russian War Ship, A Great, 14
Rutherglen Accident, The, 249, 410 440, 465
St. Gothard Tunnel, 170, 180, 181, 324
Sand Distributor, Air. Chamber’s, 438
Sanitary Appliances, 418
Sardinia, Mineralogy of, Society of Engineers, 123
Saw Guard, Circular, Mr. E. R. Dale, 268
Saw Al ill Machinery, 285, 299
Science, Progress of, 437
Scientific Research, 196
Screw Propellers for Atlantic Steamers, 246
Screw Propellers, Fitting, Messrs. John Jones and Sons, 52 . . -
Screw Propellers, the Resistance of, 221
Screw Propulsion, 29
Sentries, Mechanical, 262
Sewage, 294 _ , , _r
Sewage, Apparatus for Removing Suspended Matters from, Messrs. Parrot and Good, 456
Sewage Disposal, On, 23, 123
Sewage Disposal at West Derby, 280
Sewage Farms, 65, 103
Sewage Irrigation, 83
Sewage of Rotherham, 437 , _ . . . onn
Sewage Pumping Machinery at Twickenham, 299
Sewage Works at Twickenham, 103
Sewer Traps, 243, 244
Sewerage, The Abingdon, 288
Sewers, Town, Mr. Hewson, 388
Shaft, Sinking of, in Flintshire, 286
Shakespeare, Mr., Safety Lamps, 173
Sheaf-binders, 341
Sheffield District, 19, 38, 57, 75, 93, 113, 133, lol, 167, 185, 203, 219, 239, 255, 274, 291, 309, 327, 315, 363,381, 399, 415, 433, 451, 467
Shipbuilding on the Clyde, 71, 412
Shipbuilding, Northern, 374
Shipbuilding on the Tyne, 52
Shipbuilding in the United States, 32
Ships, Dangerous, 202
Ships, Lines of, 216
Ships, Merchant, Cellular Construction of, 224
Ships, Method of Analysing the Forms of, 222
Ships’ Pumps, 440, 461
Signal, Marine Safety, Capt. Wm. Barker, 411
Signalling, Underground, 395
Silica, The Separation of, in the Analyses of Limestones, Iron Ores, and other Minerals, 350
Silver Mining in Nevada, 95, 383
Silver Mining in Nevada, The Sutro Tunnel and Comstock Lode, 257
Skegness, Iron Promenade Pier, 42, 44, 62, 72
Skegness Waterworks, 109
Slag Cement, 356
Sleepers, Iron, 115
Sliding Scales and Wages, 301
Smoke Prevention, Problem in, 127
Society of Arts, 33, 72, 240, 422, 410
Society, The Chemical, 235, 262
Production of Ozone during the Combustion of Coal
Gas, Mr. R. H. Ridout, 171
River Water, Prof. Tidy, 235
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’ : Fracture of Cast Iron, Mr. James Love, 342
Society of Engineers, 109, 454
Inaugural Address of the President, 123
Design and Reconstruction of the Tay Bridge, Mr.
Graham Smith. 328
Distilling and Hoisting Machinery for Sea-going Vessels, Mr. Hamilton Weldon Pendred, 335
Mineralogy of Sardinia, Mr. C. J. Alford, 123
Modern Machinery for Preparing Macadam for
Roads, Mr. C. E. Hall, 123
Modern Tramway Construction, Mr. W. Jones, 123
Pits and Hauling Machinery for the San Domingos Mines, Mr. Joseph Bernays, 123
On Sewage Disposal, Mr. Henry Robinson, 23, 123 Utilisation of Coal Slack in the Manufacture of Coke
for Smelting, Mr. G. M. Ward, 174
Society, King’s College Engineering :
Beauty in Architecture, Mr. C. E. Bradley, 192
Bridges over the Thames at London, Past and Present, Mr. A. T. Walmsley, 192
Water Supply, Mr. A. J. Cipron, 192
Society, The Liverpool Engineering :
Homogeneity v. Welds in Iron and Steel, Mr. F. B.
Salmon, 269
House Sewage, Mr. E. H. Allies, 146
Retaining Walls, Mr. W. Wilkinson Squire, 171
Sewage, Mr. O. S. Pilkington, 294
Sinking of a Shaft in Flintshire, <fec., Mr. Wm. C.
Pagan, 286
Subsoil Waters and their Drainage, Mr. E. M. Touzeau, 236
Society, The Meteorological, 46, 83, 240
The Frost of December, 1879, over the British Isles, W. Marriott, 184
Meteorology of Mozufferpore, Tirhoot, for the Year 1879, by Charles N. Pearson, 386
Sketch of the Winds and Weather experienced in the N. Atlantic between Latitudes 30 deg. and 50 deg. during February and March, 1880, by Charles Harding, 386
Typhoons in China, 1877 and 1878, Lieut. A. Carpenter, 184
Variations in the Barometric Weight of the Lower Atmospheric State in India, Prof. E. Douglas Archibald, 386
Wind Force and Velocity during the Tay Bridge Storm, R. H. Scott, 181
Society of Mining Students, The British :
Taper Ropes of Uniform Tensile Strength Throughout, Prof. A. S. Herschel, 265
Society of Mining Students, The British
Underground Signalling, W. IL Routledge. 395
Society, The Physical:
Flow of Liquids, Mr. R. H. Ridout, 201
Society of Telegraph Engineers, 87 _
South Kensington Museum, 14, 35, bo, 89, iiu, 174, 192, 210, 228, 256, 260, 28o, 303, 328, 3b0, 428, 437, 465
Spain, Notes from, 72 _ „ „ t x
Speed Regulator, New, Mr. H R. Barnhurst, 418 . ... -
141,
412,
260, 285, 303, 328, 366,
401,
Stamping and Welding under the Steam Hammer,
Staveley, Pumping Engines at, 79, 84, 199, 417, 424, 438
Steam Launch for the Ganges, Messrs. Miller and
Tupp, 121
Steam Navigation on the Thames, 223
Steam, The Thermodynamics of, 22 7
Steam, Work in a Pound of, 28, 102
Steamers, Atlantic Passenger, 177
Steamers, Merchant, Unseaworthiness in, 205
Steamers’ Pumps, 403
Steamers, Stern-wheel Mail, 42, 48
S.S. “ Anthracite,” The, 465
Steamships, New Ocean, 463
Steel, Dr. Cbernoff’s Papers on, 294
Steel of the Future, The, 249
Steel, History and Manufacture of, 141
Steel Making, Progress of, in Cleveland, 126
Steel Manufacture, Northern, 163, 392
Steel Rails Tested at Natural and Artificially Lowered
Temperatures, 349
Steel for Shipbuilding, 225, 226, 231
Steel Ships. 412
Steel, A Strange Story of, 251
Stocks, Dies, Taps, and Wrenches, Mr. McCormack, 421
Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1847, Coal Engine, 139, 140
Stone Breaker and Crane, Self-moving, Mr. Hall, 71
Storms in Relation to Structures, 31
Stott, Mr., Gas Regulator, 210
Stoves, Hot-blast, for a Pair of Furnaces, Mr. E. A.
Cowper, 351, 354, 357
Stoves, Regenerative, Sketch of their History, 359
Strength and Elasticity of Materials, 110
Struts and Ties, 231, 280
Subsoil Waters and their Drainage, 236
Sulphates, their Effect on Lime Mortar, 388
Sutro Tunnel, 96
Swiss Railways, 140
Taper Ropes of Uniform Tensile Strength Throughout 267, 280
Tay Bridge, The :
After the Accident, 10
Bird’s Eye View of its Site, 21
Detail of Expansion Rollers, 21
Position of the Wrecked Train, 22
Piers of the Principal Spans, 26
Elevation of Main Spans and Details, 30
Its Future, 49
The Inquiry, 49, 67, 87, 178, 188, 192, 301, 319, 352
The Fallen Girder, from a Photograph, 88
Ground Plan of Pier Top, 88
The Perthshire Chamber of Commerce on, 132
Mr. St. J. V. Day’s Visit to, 162
The Ruins of, 227, 230, 259, 264
Design and Re-construction of, 328
The Columns of, 360
The Storm, 350
Mr. Law’s Report on, 384
Re-construction of, 444
Letters Relative to, 4, 23, 29, 46, 61, 82, 102, 123.
133, 333, 360
Technical Education, 252
Technical Schoo], Bradford, 437
Technical Science Classes, City, 371
Technological Examinations, 132, 274
Telegraphs, Pneumatic, 179
Telegraphs in Tasmania, 33
Temple Bar, 256
Tenders :
Aberystwith Water Supply from Plynlimmon, Mr.
Thos. 8. Stroke, Engineer, 360
Mountsorrel North and Mountsorrel South Drainage, Messrs. Hodson, Price, and Hodson, 159
Much Hadham Sewerage, Messrs. Smith and Austin 159
Notting Hill Infirmary, Messrs. IT. Saxon Snell and Sons, Architects, Messrs. T. Potter and Sons’ accepted, 376
Pwllheli Waterworks, 465
Saltley (Birmingham) Sewerage Works, 465
Sileby (Leicestershire) Main Drainage, Messrs
Hodson, Price, and Hodson, 159
Wigan Tramways, Mr. C. H. Beloe, 159
Wymeswold (Leicestershire) Drainage, Messrs.
Hodson, Price, and Hodson, 159
Testing Cement, 5, 28, 61
Thames, Conservators of the River, and the Metropolitan B >ard of Works, 3< 1, 3<3
Thames and the Metropolitan Sewage, The, 4 43
Thames, The River, 10 J
Thames Valley Drainage, Lower, 431
Theory of the Compound Engine, 8, 23
Thermoscope, New, 412
“ Thunderer” Gun Trials, 69
“Thunderer’s ” Guns, The, 258, 261
“Thunderer” Gun, The Bursting of the, 97, 117, 153
Tires, Wear of, 122, 141
Tonnage Rates for Coal by Rail, 302
Tonnage Rates by Rut from South Yorkshire, 214
Tonnage Rates for Coal by R ail and the Royal Commission, 321
Tool Holder, Mr. Phillips’, 423
Torpedo B jats, 284
Torpedo Boats : their Steering Capabilities. 23
Torpedo, The Lay, 243, 211
Torquay, M dn Drainage of, 288
Town Refuse, Utilising. 28
Trade Marks, Registration of, 107
Trade Marks in Switzerland, 279
Tramway, Grooveless, Mr. Edge, Brunswick, 80
Tramway Permanent Way. 333
Tramways, Construction of, Society of Engineers, 123
Transmission of Power by Wire Ropes, 83
Treadle Motion, Mr. John Romig, 190
Trestle Piers. The Bracing of, 227
Trial Trip, 395
Trial Trip of the Steamship “ Avon,” 310
Trial Tiip of the Steamship “ Bedibou,” 118
Trial Trip of a Telegraph Steamer, 216
Tube Cleaning Rings, Automatic, Mr. W. Paulson, 235
Turbines, Efficiency of, 61, 82, 102, 122, 123, 141, 158
171, 216, 228, 259
Twickenham Sewage Works, 103
Tyne Ferry Steamer “ Loftus Perkins,” The, 2, 3, 6, 7
Typhoons in China, 181
United States Patent Office, Rules of the, 233
Valve Gear, Mr. John Gray, 41
Valve (Klotz), Safety, Mr. J. C. Wilson, 358, 418
Valves, Safety, 5. 28
Valves, Stop, 8
Virtual Length, 102
Visits in the Provinces :
Barrow Shipbuilding Company’s Works, Barrow-in-Furness, 463
Nickel Plating Company’s Works at Stockton, 303
Steel Works at Eston, 116
Volga-Don Railway, Goods Locomotive 138, 139
Volga-Don Railway, Locomotive Engine for, Mr.
Thomas Urquhart, 372, 376
Wages of Railway Servants, GO
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 20. 40 58, 76, 91, 114, 134, 152, 168, 186, 204, 219, 240, 256, 274, 292, 309, 328, 346, 364, 382, 400, 434, 452, 468
Walls, Retaining, 171
Walsall Boiler Explosion, 374, 395, 418. 125
Warning to Engine Drivers, 374, 394, 40 , 410, 418, 440, 465
Water Ejector, Self-acting, Messrs. Vaughan and Son, 342
Water Meters in Middlesbrough, 51
Water Bill, The Government, 177
Water Supply, 192
Water Supply of Aberystwyth and B da, 67
Waterworks, London, 106
Waterworks, Skegness, 109
Wave Line Form of Midship Section, 221
Wavish Economiser. Tire, 8
Weirs, Fixed and Movable, 93
Weirs, Movable Dams in Indian, 98
Western Railway of France, Railway Carriage, 253
Westinghouse Brake, Testimony to the Value of. 4-9
Wheel and Radial Motion for Tram-cars. Mr. J
Smith, 297
Wheel Railway, The Hecla, 456
Wilson’s Compound Armour, Experiments with, 417
Wilson’s (Klotz) Safety Valve, 418
Wind Force and Velocity during the Tay Bridge
Storm, 184 °
Wind Gusts, On Measuring, 3‘0
Wind Pressures, 108, 376
Winding and Pumping Machinery, Combined, Sam.
r. Hodge, 70
Wire Rope Street Railways, 65
Wood Carving, School of Art, 376
Woods, American, Shearing Strength of seme. 233
»» oodworking Machinery, 403
Yacht, A Great, Messrs. CunlifTc and Dunlop, 388 larrow and Co., Messrs., Stern-wheel Mail Steamer for S. America, 42, 48
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