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The Engineer 1890 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

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The Engineer 1890 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.
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  • ABEL, Sir Fred. Aug., Abstract of his Inaugural Address as President of the British Association, 198
  • Abstracts of Consular and Diplomatic Reports, 140, 169, 213, 231, 257, 349, 472, 513
  • Activity in the Engineering Trades, 12
  • Adams’ Process for the Direct Reduction of Ore, The, 381
  • Addenbrooke, Mr. G. L., on the Distribution of Electricity from Central Stations, 455
  • Addington Pumping Engines (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 166, 167, 190, 199, 240, 403
  • Addington Pumping Engine Trials, 199, 403
  • Addington Pumping Engines, Efficiency Diagram (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 167, 190
  • Addington Waterworks, Croydon, The (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 166, 167, 190
  • Adventurous Voyage, An, The Berthon Collapsing Boat, 218
  • Aero-transition, 311
  • Agricultural Engines, 20-Horse Power, for Meld ura, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, 43
  • Agricultural Show of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society at Bath, 1891, 355
  • Ainley-Oakes Drill Syndicate, Machine for Drilling Square Holes, Exhibited by, 48
  • Air Engine, Robinson’s Patent, 443
  • Alarm for Boilers, Low Water Automatic, Messrs. Gent and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1, 2), 245
  • Albert Bridge, Belfast, The, Mr. J. C. Bretland, 147, 154, 173, 179, 217, 436
  • Alexandra Dock, Hull, Water Velocity and Quantity Recorder, 279, 403
  • Allen and Co., Messrs. W. H., Pumping Plant, New Mail Steamers for Canadian Pacific Line, 218
  • Alloys, Fusible, 45
  • Almirante Condell, The, Messrs. Laird Bros., 342
  • Aluminium ? 379
  • Aluminium in Iron, Mr. Stead on the, 308
  • Aluminium, The Manufacture of, 415
  • Aluminium in Steel, Mr. Hadfield on the, 308
  • Alvaston and Bolton Sewerage, Derbyshire, 43
  • Am Ende, Max, and Geo. Scholes, New Market Hall, La Plata, 429, 430, 431
  • America, The Iron and Steel Institute in, 271, 308, 329, 381, 420, 432, 451
  • America, Locomotive Practice in, 308
  • American Bessemer Practice, Professor How on, 308
  • American Blast Furnaces, Mr. Gayley on, 308
  • American and Cleveland Blast Furnace Plant, Comparison of, Mr. Bagley, 444
  • American Dynamos, W. Electric Co., Chicago, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 23
  • American Engineering News, 444, 464, 518
  • American Engineering Work, English Criticisms on, 476, 515
  • American Goods Wagons, 399, 434
  • American Institute of Mining Engineers, The, 308, 313, 329, 341, 361, 385, 462
  • American Notes, 18, 59, 80, 143, 185, 223, 263, 300, 345, 388, 427, 464
  • American Patent Law and Multiple Effect Evaporation, 190
  • American Rail and Track, Development of the, Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, 319, 320, 321
  • American Railroad Traffic Association, Licence for Incorporation to the, 527
  • American Society of Civil Engineers, Mr. L. Moss’s Comparative Tests of an Electric Motor and a Steam Locomotive, 181
  • American Steam Yachts, 435
  • American Waterworks Company, New York, Mr. W. A. Underwood’s Method of Cleaning Reservoirs, 75
  • Amos, Mr. C. F., on the Education of Engineers, 466, 518
  • Ammeter, Engine-room, MM. Richard Frbres, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125, 126
  • Amphre Hour Recorder, MM. Richard Frbres, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125
  • Anchoring Bolts, Portland Cement for, 518
  • Anderson, Dr. Wm., on the Progress of War Material, 291
  • Andes or Agentine and Chili Railway, 380
  • Andover Waterworks Company, The, and the Deacon Meter, 239
  • Andrews, Mr. J. J. F., on Ship Caissons fcr Dock Basins and Dry Docks, 452
  • Andrews, Mr., on Telegraphy, 394
  • Annapolis Competitive Armour Trials, 316
  • Anti-friction Conveyor Company, The “Ball Mill” for Pulverising Substances, 250
  • Anti-friction Screw, An, 481
  • Anti-friction Screw, Lieb’s, 433
  • Antwerp, Military Telephone System at, 358
  • Anxious Customer, An, 543
  • Aqueduct, New York, 341, 361, 385, 386, 404, 423
  • Arc Lamp, The Cance, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125
  • Arc Welding, 218
  • Argentine Cruiser, “25 de Mayo,” The New, Designed by Mr. P. Watts, Constructed by Messrs. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., 436, 437, 466
  • Armament'of Italy, New Features in the, 46
  • Armour-piercing Projectiles, The Cost of, 473
  • Armour-plates, 376
  • Armour-plates, Ochta Competition, 400, 409— 412
  • Armour-plates, Russian Tests of, 400, 409—412
  • Armour-plates in the United States, 424
  • Armour, Steel and Steel-faced, Competitive Trial of at St. Petersburg, 409—412
  • Armour Trials, Annapolis Competitive, 316
  • Armstrong and Co., Sir W., High-angle Breechloading Howitzer and Carriages, 46, 47
  • Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Messrs., Argentine Cruiser, “25 de Mayo,” 436, 437, 466
  • Arsenal at Sheffield, Inland, 156
  • Arter’s Mower Knife Eye, 472
  • Articulated Rolling Stock, Paris, Sceaux, and Limours Railway, 414
  • Artillery Experiments in Buckau and Tangerhuette, 257, 258, 259, 267—270, 291
  • Asbestos Curtains, 171
  • Asbestos-faced Valve, New, Bell’s Asbestos Co., 333
  • Assam, Suspension Bridge over the River Doyong, 132,134,137, 160
  • ASSOCIATION, THE ARCHITECTURAL:—
  • - Mr. Stokes’ Presidential Address, 364
  • ASSOCIATION, THE BIRMINGHAM AND DISTRICT FOREMEN’S AND DRAUGHTSMEN’S MECHANICAL :
  • - Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Thos. Meacock, 35
  • ASSOCIATION, EAST OF SCOTLAND ENGINEERING
  • - Visit to the Threipmuir and Hurelaw Compensation Reservoirs, 3
  • ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, THE LEEDS
  • - How to Calculate Beforehand the Performance of a Steam Boiler, Mr. Wilson Hartnell, 467
  • ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN, THE LONDON :
  • - Recent Improvements in Gas Engines, Mr. H. T. Crew, 58
  • ASSOCIATION, GEOLOGISTS’:
  • - Paper to be Read, 18
  • Association, Iron Trades Employers’, Eighteenth Annual Report of, 158
  • ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS :
  • - Certificates Granted to, 367
  • - Home District Meeting, Programme of, 27
  • - Tenth Examination under the Auspices of, 300
  • Attack of Decks, German Experiments on the, 357
  • Atlantic “Dead Heat,” The, 289, 334
  • Atlantic Racing, 289, 334
  • Australian Notes, 18, 280, 300, 322
  • Automatic Rifle, An, 217
  • Automatic Vacuum Brake, The, 45, 68, 98, 110, 128, 153
  • Automatic Vacuum Brake, Thermo-dynamics of the, 208, 239
  • BACHELDER Steam Engine Indicator, The, 527
  • Bagley, Mr., Comparison of American and Cleveland Blast Furnace Plant, 444, 516
  • Bailey, Mr. F., on Electric Lighting Progress in London, 480
  • Bailey, Mr. W. H., on Technical Education, 232
  • Bainbridge, Mr. Emerson, Recent Improvements in the Mechanical Engineering of Coal Mines, 84
  • Baird and Sons, Messrs. Geo., New Industrial Lamp, Mr. G. Rose, 359
  • Balanced Propellers, 416
  • Balanced Slide Valve, 5, 69
  • Balanced Slide Valves, Mr. John H. Barker and Mr. J. T. Jameson, 5, 69
  • Bale, Major, Self-acting Louvres, 27
  • Bale’s Self-acting Louvres, 98
  • Ball, Mr. C. M., on the Ball and Norton Magnetic Separator, 308
  • Ball Mill for Pulverising Hard Substances, the Anti-friction Conveyor Company, 250
  • Ball and Norton “Monarch” Magnetic Separator Mr. C. M. Ball on the, 462
  • Ballard, Mr. Stephen, 476
  • Balloons in Warfare, 379
  • Barge for Cutting Sub-aqueous Rock in the Danube, 127
  • “Baria,” Engines of the s.s. (Supplement, October 31st, 1890), 360
  • Barker and Co., Messrs. T. B., the Forward Gas Engine, 27
  • Barrus, Mr. G. H., Report Concerning the Tests of a Compound Locomotive, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 233, 248
  • Basic Open-hearth Steel, Mr. Davis on the Manufacture of, 444, 516
  • “Batavia” (1840), Compound Engines of the s.s., G. M. Roentgen, 103, 104
  • “Bathurst,” The, New Torpedo Boat, Messrs. Yarrow and Co., 394, 412
  • Battersea Bridge, The New, Sir Joseph Bazal- gette (Supplement, July 25th, 1890), 65
  • Battle of the Trade Marks, The, 136
  • Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, the New Battersea Bridge (Supplement, July 25th, 1890), 65
  • Bazley, White, and Brothers, Messrs., Machine for Cleaning Sacks, 527
  • Beams, The Strength of, 44
  • Bearings, Magnolia Metal Roll, 169
  • Bearings for Reaper Spindles, Hornsby’s, 470
  • Bearings, Ring, 160
  • Belfast, The Albert Bridge, Mr. J. C. Bretland, 147, 154, 173, 179, 217, 436
  • Belgian State Railways, The Westinghouse Brake on the, 72
  • Bell, Sir Lowthian, on the Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron, 381
  • Bell, Sir Lowthian, on the Smelting of Iron Ores Chemically Considered, 22
  • Belts for Cone Pulleys ? 31
  • Benier’s Hot-Air Engine, 200
  • Bennett, Mr. A. R., Foreign Currents in Telegraph and Telephone Lines, 49
  • Berlin, Electric Lighting at, 339
  • Berthon Collapsing Boat, The, An Adventurous Voyage, 218
  • Bessemer Practice, Professor How, on American, 308
  • Bicycle, The Euclidia Safety, 484
  • Bills in Parliament, 435, 514
  • Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, Bream’s-buildings, 262
  • Birmingham Bristol Road Electric Tramway, 48
  • Birmingham and Liverpool Ship Canal, The, 247
  • Blackman Fan Co., Method of Driving Fans, Electrically, Mr. Watel, Edinburgh Exhibition, Fig. 1, 74
  • Blast, Desiccation of, 510
  • Blast Furnace Plant, Comparison of American and Cleveland, 444, 516
  • Blast Furnaces, Mr. Gayley on American, 308
  • “Blenheim,” H.M.S., Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co., 26, 28
  • Block System, Invention of the, 530
  • Board of Trade and Railway Rates, 12
  • Boiler, The Gippeswyk, Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, Royal Agricultural Society’s Engine Trials, 2
  • Boiler, Howto Calculate Beforehand the Performance of a Steam, Mr. Wilson Hartnell, 467
  • Boiler Insurance Companies, Responsibilities of, 315
  • Boiler, Locomotive, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., St. James’s and Pall Mall Electric Light Co.’s Station, 189
  • Boiler Making Machinery, Messrs. Geo. Booth and Co., 540
  • Boiler, Messrs. Simpson, Strickland, and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials at Plymouth, 2
  • Boiler of Passenger Engine, Pennsylvania Railroad, 308, 312
  • Boiler Tubes, The “ Serve, ” Internally-ribbed, 361
  • Boiler, Vertical Return Tube, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 90
  • Boilers, English and American Locomotive, 195
  • Boilers, Heat Transmission in, by J. G. Hudson, 449, 483
  • Boilers, Heat Transmission in, 484
  • Boilers, Low Water Automatic Alarm for, Messrs. Gent and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1 and 2), 245
  • Boilers, Marine, Supplying with Fresh Water, 29, 45, 98
  • Boilers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.’s Steamer, “City of Sydney,” 339, 340
  • Bolts, Adhesive Power of Drift, 527
  • Books Received, 33, 115, 157, 197, 217, 237, 257, 276, 317, 381, 461, 481, 510, 535
  • Booth and Co., Messrs. Geo., Boiler-making Machinery, 540
  • Bosphorus, Paddle Steamers for the, Messrs. R. and H. Green, 371, 372
  • Boycotting in the Coalfield, 114
  • Boyd, Mr., Petroleum, Past, Present, and Future 521
  • Brace Cantilevers, 208, 240
  • Bradford Water Supply Scheme, The, 67, 91
  • Bradley and Craven, Messrs., “Stiff Plastic” Brickmaking Machine, 67
  • Brake, The Automatic Vacuum, 45, 68, 98, 110, 128, 153
  • Brake, Experiments with the Westinghouse Quick-Acting, on Trains of Fifty Carriages, 347
  • Brake Indicator Diagrams, 271, 289, 310, 377, 403
  • Brake, Thermo-Dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum, 21, 110, 128, 153, 171
  • Brake, Thermo-Dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum, by Messrs. Deeley and Archbutt, 21
  • Brake Valve, The Westinghouse Driver’s, 348
  • Brake, The Westinghouse, on the Belgian State Railways, 72
  • Brakes, Freezing in Vacuum, 110
  • Brander, Stave, 433
  • Breaking the Ocean Record : What it Costs, 208
  • Bretland, Mr. J, C., New Bridge over the Lagan, Belfast, 147, 154, 173, 179, 217, 436
  • Brickmaking Machine, The New “Stiff Plastic,” Messrs. Bradley and Craven, 67
  • Bridge, The Albert, Belfast, Mr. J. C. Bretland, 147, 154, 173,179, 217, 436
  • Bridge, Belfast, New Albert, 147, 154, 173, 179, 217, 436
  • Bridge-building over Navigable American Waters, 487
  • Bridge over the Cam, New Roadway, 473
  • Bridge, The Hawkesbury, Mr. Stanford on, 359
  • Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur, The Lansdowne, 471, 472
  • Bridge, The Kistna, Plans for, 208
  • Bridge over the Lagan, Belfast, New, Mr. Bretland, 147, 154, 173, 179, 217, 436
  • Bridge, Madras Railway, The New Chittravati, 472
  • Bridge, The New Battersea, Sir JosephBazalgette, (Supplement, July 25th, 1890), 65
  • Bridge, The Nile, Proposed, 436
  • Bridge, Penshaw, Sunderland, 517
  • Bridge, Suspension, Wokha-Mokokchung, Bridle Road, Assam, 132, 134, 137, 160
  • “Britannic,’’The, An Unprecedented Record, 220
  • BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE:-
  • - Address of the President, Sir Fred. Aug. Abel, 198
  • - Address of President, Section G, Capt. Noble on the Navy, 219, 238
  • - Electric Lighting and Fire Insurance Rules, Mr. Wilson Hartnell, 456
  • - Measurement of Elongation in Test Samples, Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 298
  • - Mechanical Science at the, 215
  • - On Mechanical Uni's, 15
  • - Meeting of, at Leeds, 139, 190
  • - Proceedings of the Dynamical Nomenclature Committee, 138, 150
  • - Unburned Gases Contained in the Flue Gases from Gas Stoves and Different Burners Sir Wm. Thomson, 300
  • British and Foreign Vessels, 400, 435
  • British, French, and German Exports, 339
  • British Trade, Foreign Ships in, 136
  • British Trade in November, 481
  • Broken Hill Company’s Works, Jigs at the, 360
  • Broken Hill Silver Lead Mines, The, 83, 84, 172, 360
  • Broken Piston-rods, Causes of, 364
  • Browett and Lindley, Messrs., 250-Horse Power Vertical Engines, 146, 151
  • Brush Lamps, Masts for, Edinburgh Exhibition, (Figs. 5, 6), 24
  • Brush 35-Light Dynamos, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23, 24, 25
  • Buckau and Tangerhuette, Artillery Experiments in, 257, 258, 259, 267, 270, 291
  • Bucket Dredging ? Books on, 51
  • Buckton and Co., Messrs. J., Testing Machine in Professor Kennedy’s Laboratory, 54
  • Buenos Ayres Rural Exhibition, 170
  • “Bull ” Mill for Grinding Cement ? 399
  • Buller, Jobson, and Co., Messrs., Chambers’ Telpher Insulator, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 245
  • Bullion Weighing Scales, Large, 114
  • Burning Town Refuse, 357, 376, 377, 413, 457
  • Burrell and Co., Messrs., Compound Traction Engine, 469
  • Bursting of a Steam Pipe on a Russian Ironclad, 140
  • Butler, Mr. Edw., Petroleum Motor, 65, 66
  • CABLE Tramways of Edinburgh, Mr. W. N. Colam on, 266
  • Cable Tramways, The Edinburgh Northern, 112, 116, 118, 266
  • Calais Harbour, Mr. Ellis, 473
  • Calculating Diagrams, 334
  • Calcutta Health Society and the Government, 129
  • Calumet and Hecla Mine, The Machinery Equipment of, 451
  • Cambridge, New Roadway Bridge over the Cam at, 473
  • Campbell, Mr. H. H., on “The Physical and Chemical Equations of the Open-hearth Process,” 308
  • Canada, “Terminal City,” 143
  • Canadian Pacific Line, New Mail Steamers for the, Pumping Plant, Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. (Supplement, September 5th, 1890), 197, 218
  • Canal, The Birmingham and Liverpool Ship, 247
  • Canal, Construction on the Continent, 316
  • Canal, The London and Portsmouth, 120
  • Canal, The Manchester Ship, 391
  • Canal, The Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, U.S.A., 96
  • Canal, South Yorkshire Junction, 314
  • Canals and Railways, Relative Value of, for Purposes of Transport, 265
  • Canals, Ship, 45
  • “Canals,” Mr. Stanford on, 359
  • Cance Arc Lamp, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125
  • Cantilevers, Brace, 208, 240
  • Canvas Roller Tighteners, Hornsby’s, 470
  • Capital and Labour, 175
  • Capital and Labour, A Council of, 206
  • Capital and Working of our Railways, The, 155
  • Capper, Mr. D. G., appointed to the Chair of Mechanical Engineering in King’s College, 66
  • Carbon Iron Co.’s Works, The Direct Reduction of Ore at the, 381
  • Cardiff and Hydraulic Coal Tips, The Coal Shipments from, 211
  • Carlson, Mr. F. A., Automatic Wedge for Driver Boxes, 360
  • Carnegie, Messrs., Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to the two large Establishments of, 381
  • Carson, Mr. J. P., Notes on the Excavation of the New Croton Aqueduct, 341, 361, 385, 386, 404, 423
  • Cast Steel ? What is, 4
  • Casting, A Remarkable, 403
  • Castings, Malleable, 31
  • Caulking Tool, Pneumatic, 97, 463
  • Caulking Tool, Pneumatic, The American Pneumatic Tool Co., 97
  • Causes of Broken Piston-rods, 364
  • Cement Mill Plant, 287, 290
  • Cement, Plant for the Manufacture of, Messrs. Whitmore and Binyon, 249, 251, 287, 290, 294
  • Census, The Coming, and Technical Statistics, 93
  • Central London Railway, The, 28, 44, 53
  • Century of Patent Legislation in the U.S., 521
  • Central London Underground Railway Bill, The, 28
  • Chambers’ Telpher Insulator, Messrs. Buller, Jobson, and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 245
  • Chandler’s Automatic Cut-off Engines at Messrs. Guinness’s Brewery in Dublin, 299
  • Chapel Place Station, Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Light Co., 450, 458
  • Charlier, Mr. A. C. J., on Lubricating Oils, 305
  • Chelsea Electricity Supply Co., Draycott Place, Chelsea, Map Showing Area of Supply, 327 ; Battery and Instrument Room, 328 ; Basement Plan, 329 ; Engine and Dynamo Room, 336
  • Chelsea Electricity Supply Co., The, Engine House, 374 ; Continuous Current Transformer Motor, 675 ; Victoria Exciter driven by Brush Engine 375; Main Switch-board, 375
  • Chemical Union, The, 252
  • Chemicals and Paper, 237
  • Chester-le-Street Union Rural Sanitary Authority, Schemes of Sewerage approved by, 539
  • Chicago Exhibition, The, 459
  • Chicago as an Ironmaking Centre, 421
  • Chilian Torpedo Gunboats, The, 342
  • Chimney Construction, Tall, 5
  • Chimneys, Concrete, 208
  • Chimneys, Repairing, 175
  • China, Steel and Iron Making in, 256
  • Chinese Telephone, A, 212
  • Chittravati Bridge, Madras Railway, Mr. Edward W. Stoney, 472
  • Cider Making Machinery, Messrs. Workman and Sons, 345
  • Circular Turning Tools, Martignoni’s, 238
  • “City of Paris,” The, 4, 28, 29, 44, 61, 62, 69, 208
  • “City of Paris,” Joy’s System of Driving Main Valves of Engines by Water Power, with special reference to the, 28
  • “City of Paris,” Twin Propellers, 61, 62
  • City and South London Railway, The, Mr, J. H. Greathead, 382, 383, 384
  • Clayton, Mr. Nathaniel, 527
  • Cleaning Sacks, Mr. A. Glover’s Machine for, 527
  • Cleaning Reservoirs, Mr. W. A. Underwood's Method of, 75
  • Clemancon Switch-board, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125
  • Clements, Mr. Edwin, on Inland Navigation in the United Kingdom, Traffic Capacity, Finance and Improvement, 130, 150, 212
  • Cleveland Blast Furnace Plant compared to American, 444, 516
  • Clonmel Waterworks and Sewerage, 207
  • Clyde Navigation, The, 156
  • Clyde, New Shipbuilding on the, 176
  • Clyde Shipbuilding and Future Prospects, Six Months of, 12
  • Clyde Shipbuilding, Nine Months of, 297
  • Coal Coming to England, 422
  • Coal Mines, Cost or Labour in, 276
  • Coal Mines, High Explosives in, 217
  • Coal Owners’ Reply to the Eight Hours’ Demand, 461
  • Coal and Pig Iron in Metric Tons, The World s Production of, 39
  • Coal Question, The, 11
  • Coal, Railway Carriage of, 12
  • Coal Shipment, Rapid, 32
  • Coal in the South of England, 49
  • Coal in the South-East of England, 51
  • Coal Statistics, 29
  • Coal Tip, Hydraulic, Cardiff Docks, Messrs. Tannett and Walker, 211
  • Coalfield, Boycotting in the, 114
  • Coffee Plantation Machinery ? 459
  • Coke Manufacture, Northern, 358
  • Coke, The Quality of Durham Blast Furnace, 380
  • Colam, Mr. W. N., Cable Tramways of, 266
  • Colchester, East Mills, 8, 10
  • Cold Steel Sawing Machine, Hill’s Horizontal, 148
  • Collapsing Boat, The Berthon, An Adventurous Voyage, 218
  • Colombo Waterworks, 530
  • Colonial Harbours, The Depth of, 479
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue, The, and the Institution of Civil Engineers, 108
  • Compactum Feed-water Heater, The, Messrs. J. Kirkaldy, Limited, 98
  • Compound Engines of the Maasboot, No.2, 1841, 229
  • Compound Marine Engines Sixty Years Ago, 103-105, 228
  • Compound Traction Engine, Messrs. Burrell and Co., 469
  • Compressed Air for Power Distribution, Dr.Prodi's Scheme for, 377
  • Compressed Air, Power Transmission by, 338
  • Concrete Chimneys, 208
  • Continental Railway Speeds, 355, 377, 416, 457
  • Contractors for Erecting Floating Baths ? 51
  • Cooper, Mr., Municipal Work in Edinburgh, 266
  • Cornwall Works of Messrs. Tangye, Maignen’s Water Softening Apparatus, for Steam Boiler Feed, 158, 159
  • Corliss Gear, Messrs. Woodhouse and Mitchell’s, East Mills, Colchester, 8
  • Corliss Engines, Compound Tandem, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co. (Supplement, July 25th, 1890)
  • Cornwall Mineral Railway, 1873, Locomotive Built for the, 352, 356
  • Corrugated Flanges, Ford’s, 200
  • Cost of Armour-Piercing Projectiles, The, 473
  • Cost of Labour in Coal Mines, 276
  • Cost of Production, Wages and the, 9
  • Coultas, Mr. Jas., 335
  • Council of Capital and Labour, A, 206
  • Cramps’, Messrs., Shipbuilding Yard, 230
  • Crampton’s Locomotive, Messrs. Tulk and Ley (Supplement, November 28th, 1890), 442
  • Crane Excavator, Wilson’s Steam, 109
  • Cranes, Stresses in, 128, 153, 170, 199
  • Cranks, Fowne’s Built, 313
  • Creosoting Plant ? 315
  • Crescent Steel Works, Direct Reduction of Ore at the, 381
  • Creusot Armour Plate, Trial of a, 212
  • Crew, Mr. M. T., on Recent Improvements in Gas Engines, 58
  • Crewe, Visit of the Society of Engineers to, 234
  • Crimp, Mr. W. Santo, Sewer Ventilation, 292
  • Croton Aqueduct, Mr. J. D. Carson’s Notes on the Excavation of the New, 341, 361, 385, 386, 404, 423
  • Croydon Corporation Waterworks, Addington Pumping Station, 166, 167, 190
  • Cruiser “Latona,” Stern and Bow of H.M.’s, Protected, Naval Construction and Armaments Company, 30, 32
  • Cruisers, Concerning Three, 298
  • Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Distribution of Certificates at, 529
  • Cunliffe and Croom, Messrs., Sliding, Surfacing, and Screw-cutting Brake and Pit, 397, 398
  • Cutlery Exported to the United States in July, August, September, 1890, 311
  • Cuttriss, Mr. Chas., Polarisation of the Earth by Heavy Currents, 234
  • Cylinder, Kingdon’s Compound, 2
  • Cylinder Port Areas, 435
  • Cylinders, High and Low-pressure, of the s.s. “Batavia,” 105
  • DAMPER. Patent Intermediate, Mr. Ramsay, 55
  • Danube, The Iron Gates of the, 240
  • Danube Regulation Works, 275
  • Darby Process of Recarbonising Steel, Mr. Thieler on the, 381
  • Davey, Paxman, and Co., Messrs., Locomotive Boiler, St. James’s and Pall Mall Electric Light Company’s Station. 189
  • Davies, Mr. Benjamin, Gas Engine Experiments, 250
  • Deacon Meter, The, 239
  • “Dee,” Engines of the, 169, 199, 208
  • “Dee,” Engines of the (Built by Mr. Maudslay), Traced from Mr. Nasmyth’s Private Drawings, 169
  • Deflection of Bars, 260, 271, 310, 334
  • Delivery of Steam Jets? The, 51
  • Delta Metal Screw Propeller Blade with Steel Core, 158
  • Depth of Colonial Harbours, The, 479
  • Desiccation of Blast in the Manufacture of Pig Iron, Mr. W. H. Fryer, 510
  • Design of Screw Propeller Blades, Professor M. F. FitzGerald, 145, 225
  • Diagram of s.s. “Rotterdam’s” Engines (Taken in 1838), 228
  • Direct-reading Range Finder, Lieutenant Fiske’s 528
  • Direct Reduction of Ore in America. 331
  • Disc-cutting Tools, Martignoni’s, 238
  • Disston and Sons, Messrs. Henry Visit of tbe Iron and Steel Institute to the Saw Works of, 329
  • Diver’s Helmet Fitted with the Electric Light, Mr. R. Applegarth, 454
  • Dock, The Southampton Extension, 7
  • Docks at Southampton, The New, 64, 70
  • Domestic Electric Lighting, 534
  • Drainage of Knaresborough, 517
  • Drainage Scheme for Melbourne, A, 506
  • Drawing Scales, “The Polytechnic Series” of, by Mr. C. F. Mitchell, 335
  • Dredger, Stern Well_ Hopper, Messrs. William Simons and Co., 227
  • Drift Bolts, Adhesive Power of Rods of, Mr. John B. Tscharner, On the, 527
  • Drilling Square Holes, Machine for, Exhibited by the Ainley-Oakes Drill Syndicate, 48
  • Drills, Trial of, Seed, in Italy, 200
  • Driver Boxes, Automatic, Wedge for, 360
  • Driving Main Valves of Engines by Water Power, Mr. D. Joy’s System of, 28
  • Dry Soap? Machinery for the Manufacture of, 459
  • “Duke of Northumberland,” Steam Lifeboat, Messrs. R. and H. Green, 192, 193, 210
  • Durham Blast Furnace Coke, The Quality of, 380
  • Dynamical Nomenclature, 138, 150, 171, 202
  • Dynamical Nomenclature, Committee of the British Association, Proceedings of, l38, l50
  • Dynamo, American, W. Electric Co., Chicago, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 23
  • Dynamo, The Elwell Parker, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Dynamo, The King Brown, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Dynamo, The Ronald Scott, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Dynamo, Scott, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 6), 245
  • Dynamo, Two-Pole, Mr. Wilson Hartnell, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 8), 165
  • Dynamo, Two-Pole, with two Field Limbs, Messrs. Laurence and Scott, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 8), 246
  • Dynamo, The Tyne, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Dynamo, The Woodside, Bainburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1, 2), 245
  • Dynamo, The Brush 35 Light, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23, 24, 25
  • Dynamos, The Construction of, 208, 259, 271, 310
  • Dynamos, Kapp’s Central Station, 352
  • Dynamos, Type of Two-pole, in use on the Telpher Railway, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 7, 8), 24
  • EAST India Co.’s Navy, Engineers in the, 181
  • East Mills, Colchester, 8, 10
  • East Mills, Colchester, Messrs. Woodhouse and Mitchell’s Corliss Gear, 8, 10
  • East Warwickshire Waterworks, 197
  • Eastern and Midlands Railway, Locomotive Converted for the, 352, 356
  • Easton and Anderson, Messrs., Addington Pumping Engines (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 166, 167, 190
  • Edinburgh, Cable Tramways of, Mr. W. N. Colam on, 266
  • Edinburgh, Municipal Work in, Mr. Cooper on, 266
  • Edinburgh Northern Cable Tramways, The, 112, 116, 118
  • Edinburgh, Waverley Station, 248
  • Edison’s Latest, 248
  • Education of Engineers, The, 31, 69, 71, 110, 158, 376, 466, 518
  • Education of Engineers, Discussion on the, Opened by Mr. C. F. Amos, 466, 518
  • Education of Mechanical Engineers, The, 507
  • Efficiency Diagram, Addington Pumping Engines, Messrs. Easton and Anderson (Supplement August 29th), 167
  • Efficiency of Electrical Railways, 175
  • Efficiency of Gas Engines, Mr. T. I. Miller, 77, 181
  • Efficiency of Heating Surfaces, 534
  • Efficiency of Steam Jackets, The, 440, 473
  • Eight Hours for Miners, 420
  • Eight Hours’ Movement, The, 215, 239, 259
  • Electric Cars, The Wenstrom Hydraulic Gear for, 463
  • Electric Construction Corporation, Tramcar showing Connection of Brushes by India-rubber Bands, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 7,) 166
  • Electric Launch Propulsion, Edinburgh Exhibition, 74
  • Electric Light Engines, Compound, Messrs. Robev and Co., 529
  • Electric Light Installation on the Alternating System, Messrs. E. Scott and Co., Mr. W. C. Mountain, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4), 165
  • Electric Light and the Insurance Rules, Mr. Wilson Hartnell, 456
  • Electric Light in Saw Mills ? 71
  • Electric Light at Stockholm, Tenders, 263
  • Electric Lighting at Berlin, 339
  • Electric Lighting, Domestic, 534
  • Electric Lighting of Fareham, The, 252
  • Electric Lighting in London, 187—190, 205—207 327-329, 450, 458, 474, 475, 480, 536
  • Electric Lighting in Paris, 426
  • Electric Lighting in Spain, 260
  • Electric Lighting in Woking, 444
  • Electric Motor and Steam Locomotive, Comparative Tests of an, Mr. L. Moss, 181
  • Electric Stations in the United States, 202
  • Electric Supply Corporation, 317
  • Electric Supply Corporation, London, 507
  • Electric Tramway, The Birmingham Bristol Road, 48
  • Electric Tramway in Halle, 249
  • Electric Tramway, Lineff’s System of, 129
  • Electric Transmission of Power, M. Hillairet 147
  • Electric Welding, 9, 95, 308, 463
  • Electric Welding, Professor Thomson on, 308
  • Electric Welding, Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury on, 9
  • Electric Welding Applied to the Manufacture of Projectiles, Lieutenant W. M. Wood, 463
  • Electrical Engineering Corporation, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, Overhead Conductor System of Working Electrical Tramcars, Edinburgh Exhibition, 285, 286
  • Electrical Engineering at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 23, 74, 75, 125, 165, 245, 285, 286
  • Electrical Plant for Utah, The Thomson-Houston Motor Company, 190
  • Electrical Pranks, 216
  • Electrical Railways, Efficiency of, 175
  • Electrical Standards, 539
  • Electrical Treatment of Sewage, The, 452
  • Electricity, the Distribution of, from Central Stations, Mr. G. L. Addenbrooke, 455
  • Electricity in Gunnery, 422
  • Electro-magnetic Separator for Extracting Iron from Bones, and., Mr. C. E. Hall, 44
  • Electro-magnetic Separators, 44, 98
  • Electro-motion, 110
  • Ellin, Mr., New Shifting Spanner, 3
  • Ellis, Mr., Calais Harbour, 473
  • Elongation in Test Samples, Measurement of, Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 298
  • Elwell-Parker Dynamo, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Elwell-Parker 8-Horse Power Transformer, The, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 5 and 6), 165
  • Ely, Mr. T. N., Passenger Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad (Supplement, October 17th, 1890), 308, 309, 312
  • Emigration, 12
  • “Empress of India,” The Pacific s.s. (Supplement, September Sth, 1890), 197, 218
  • “End to All Our Troubles,” An, 527
  • Engine, Benier’s Hot-air, 200
  • Engine, Chandler’s Automatic Cut-off, 299
  • Engine, Compound Traction, Messrs. Burrell and Co., 469
  • Engine and Dynamo Room, Chelsea Electric Supply Company’s Station, 336
  • Engine Experiments, Traction, 515
  • Engine, Express Crampton, Messrs. Talk and Ley (Supplement, November 28th, 1890), 442
  • Engine, The Forward Gas, Messrs. T. B. Barker and Co., 27
  • Engine (2000-Horse Power), Horizontal Compound Condensing. Messrs. John Musgrave and Sons, 277, 278, 279
  • Engine Indicator, Steam, The Bachelder, 527
  • Engine with Kingdon’s Compound Cylinder, Messrs. Simpson and Strickland’s, 2
  • Engine, Locomotive, Waterford and Limerick Railway, Mr. J. G. Robinson, 213, 214
  • Engine (200-Horse Power), Marine, s.s. “Dee,” 169
  • Engine, New Steam Fire, for the Hague, Messrs. Merryweather and Son, 64
  • Engine, Petroleum, Mr. E. Butler, 65, 66
  • Engine is Propelled, How a Locomotive, 354, 403
  • Engine, Pumping, Rhymney Iron Mines, Messrs. Harvey and Co. (Supplement, September l9th, 1890), 230
  • Engine, Robinson’s Patent Air, 443
  • Engine-room Ammeter, Richard Freres, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125
  • Engine, Semi - Portable Condensing, Messrs. Ruston. Proctor, and Co., 90
  • Engine, Tandem Compound Mill, Messrs. Robey and Co., 6, 7
  • Engine Trials at Plymouth, 1, 29, 44, 69
  • Engine Trials at Plymouth, The Royal Agricultural Society’s, 1, 29, 44, 69
  • Engine Trials, Utility of, 275. 289
  • Engine, Undertype, with Cylindrical Fire-box, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 89
  • Engine Valves by Water Power, Jo/s System of Driving, 28
  • Engine, Vertical High-speed, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 313
  • Engineering, Dearer Fuel and, 441
  • Engineering Feat, Marine, 94
  • Engineering Finance—Costs—Estimates—Prices, 493
  • Engineering Ignorance, Mr. W. K. Stevens on, 292
  • Engineering in the Navy, Steam, 533
  • Engineering in the White Star Meet, 517
  • ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ CLUB, NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE :—
  • ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, THE MANCHESTER:—
  • - Economical Employment of Steam, The, Mr. A.McKenzie, 484
  • Engineering Trades, Activity in the, 12
  • Engineering Work, English Criticisms on American, 476
  • Engineers for Brazil, 416
  • Engineers, The Education of, 31, 69, 71,110, 153, 376, 466, 518
  • Engineers in the East India Company’s Navy, 181
  • Engineers, Engine-room Artificers, and Stokers for the Navy, 503, 538
  • Engineers in the Navy, 155, 202, 208, 480
  • Engineers, Portraits of, 166
  • Engineers and Prices of Finished Iron, 276
  • Engines, Addington Pumping (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 166, 167, 190, 199, 240, 403
  • Engines (20-H.P.), Agricultural, for Meldura, Australia, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, 43
  • Engines and Boilers of the Hydraulic Lifeboat “Duke of Northumberland,” Messrs. Thorneycroft and Co., 210
  • Engines, Compound Diagonal, for the Paddle Tug “ Mana,” Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, Edinburgh Exhibition, 50
  • Engines, Compound Electric Light, Messrs. Robey and Co., 529
  • Engines, Compound, of the “ Maasboot, No. 2, 1841, 229
  • Engines, Compound, of a Moselle Steamboat, 1840 (D 21), 532, 535
  • Engines, Compound of the s.s. “Batavia,” 1840, G. M. Roentgen, 103, 104
  • Engines, Compound Marine, Sixty Years Ago, 103, 228
  • Engines, Compound Surface Condensing Land, for Malta Dockyard, Mr. A. G. Mumford, 298
  • Engines, Compound Tandem Corliss, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co. (Supplement, July 25th, 1890), 64
  • Engines of the Dee, 199, 208
  • Engines, Gas, Mr. H. T. Crew on Recent Improvements in, 58
  • Engines, Gas, Efficiency of, Mr. J. I. Miller, 77, 181
  • Engines, Gas and Petroleum, 5
  • Engines, 2000-Horse Power Horizontal Compound Condensing, Messrs. John Musgrave and Sons, 249, 254
  • Engines in a Mill, 2000 Indicated Horse-Power, 530
  • Engines, Modern Small Steam, 135
  • Engines, The Lubrication of Steam, 399
  • Engines, 700-Horse Power, Newport Rolling Mill, 482
  • Engines, Oscillating, Bosphorus Steamers, Messrs. John Penn and Sons, 371, 378
  • Engines, Proportions of Steam, 338, 377
  • Engines, Pumping, Croydon Corporation Waterworks, Messrs. Easton and Anderson (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 166, 167, 190, 240
  • Engines, Quadruple Expansion, Steam Yacht “Imogen” (Supplement, October 3rd, 1890), Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, 272, 273
  • Engines, Tank, Paris, Sceaux, and Limours Railway, 414, 418
  • Engines, Triple-expansion, Hamburgand Calcutta Co.’s s.s. “Baria,” Messrs. Thos. Richardson and Sons (Supplement, October 31st, 1890), 360
  • Engines, 250 - Horse Power Vertical, Messrs. Browett and Lindley’s, 146
  • English and American Locomotive Engine Boilers, 195
  • English and American Locomotives, 52, 369, 401
  • English Criticisms on American Engineering Work, 476, 515
  • English Manufacturers in the United States, their Views and Impressions, 400, 424
  • Ericsson, John, Doing Honour to, 121
  • Eroder, Canal and River Bed, Working in the Witham, Mr. Herbert Wheeler, 42
  • Erosion, Hydraulic Pressure, 45
  • Euclidia Safety Bicycle, The, 484
  • Evaporators, Quiggin’s, Edinburgh Exhibition, The Liverpool and London Condenser Co, 291
  • Ewing, Professor J. A., Contributions to the Molecular Theory of Induced Magnetism, 78
  • Excavator, Wilson’s Steam Crane, 109
  • “Excellent,” H.M.S., 210
  • “Excello,” The New Industrial Lamp, Mr. G. Rose, 359
  • Exhaust Injectors, 473
  • Exhaust Steam, Mr. P. Griffith on the Treatment and Utilisation of, 386
  • Exhibition of Art Brasswork and Blades, Armourers’ and Braziers’ Co.’s, 59
  • Exhibition, Buenos Ayres Rural, 170
  • Exhibition, The Chicago, 459
  • EXHIBITION, THE EDINBURGH:-
  • - Ampere Hour Meter Record, Specimen of, 126
  • - Ampere Hour Recorder, Richard Frhres, 125
  • - Arc Lamp, The Cance, 125
  • - Barge for Cutting Subaqueous Rock in the Danube, Messrs. Lobnitz and Co., 127
  • - Compound Diagonal Engines for the Paddle Tug “Mana,” Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, 50
  • - Dynamo, American, W. Electric Co., Chicago, (Fig. 4) 23
  • - Dynamo, Brush 35-Light, 23, 24, 25
  • - Dynamo, The Elwell Parker, 23
  • - Dynamo, The King Brown, 23
  • - Dynamo, The Ronald Scott, 23
  • - Dynamo, Scott (Fig. 6), 245
  • - Djnamo, Two-Pole, Mr. Wilson Hartnell (Fig.8), 165
  • - Dynamo, The Tyne, 23
  • - Dynamo, The Woodside (Figs. 1, 2), 245
  • - Dynamo, Type of Two-pole, in use on the Telpher Railway, Mr. Statter (Fig. 7), 24
  • - Electric Engineering at, 23, 74, 125, 165, 245, 285
  • - Electric Light Installation on the Alternating System, Messrs. Ernest Scott and Company Mr. W. C. Mountain (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4), 165
  • - Electrical Lighting of the Brush Electric Engineering Company and Messrs. King, Brown and Co., 23, 24, 25
  • - Engine-room Ammeter, Richard Freres, 126
  • - Engines, Robey, used in the Electrical Lighting of the Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • - Evaporators, Quiggin’s, The Liverpool and London Condenser Company, 291
  • - Holder for Carbon Brush Holder, Messrs. Immisch, 74
  • - Hydrometer, The Holden (Fig. 9), 246
  • - Instantaneous Fuse, Scott’s, Messrs. Norman and Son (Fig. 6), 245
  • - Launch Propulsion by Electricity, General Electric Power and Traction Company, 74
  • - Low-water Automatic Alarm for Boilers, Messrs. Gent and Co. (Fig. 3), 245
  • - Main Current Switch, Messrs. Hartnell and Co. (Fig. 9), 166
  • - Masts on which the Brush Lamps are Mounted (Figs. 5 and 6), 24
  • - Method of Driving Fans Electrically, Mr. Watel, The Blackman Fan Company, 74
  • - Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at, 53, 306
  • - Naval Exhibits, 227
  • - Overhead Conductor System of Working Electrical Tramcars, the Electrical Engineering Corporation, 285, 286
  • - Passenger Steamer “Hygeia,” Messrs. Napier, Shanks, and Bell, 306, 307
  • - Pocket Volt Meter, Messrs. Paterson and Cooper (Fig. 5), 245
  • - Railway, The Telpher, in the Grounds, Electrical Supply Corporation, Limited (Figs. 9— 16), 24, 25
  • - Rock Driller, Ingersoll, Driven by Electric Motor, Messrs. Immisch, 74
  • - Ship Lighting Plant, Messrs. King, Brown, and Co., 75
  • - Stern Well Hopper Dredger, Messrs. Wm. Simons and Co., 227
  • - Switch with Six Contacts used with Ingersoll Rock Driller, Messrs. Immiscb, 74
  • - Switchboard, The Clemancon, 125
  • - Telpher Insulator, Chambers’, Messrs. Buller, Jobson, and Co. (Fig. 4), 245
  • - Tramcar, showing Connection of Brushes by India-rubber Bands, the Electric Construction Corporation (Fig. 7), 166
  • - Transformer, 8-Horse Power, The Elwell-Parker (Figs. 5 and 6), 165
  • - Tray Battery, Lalande Chaperon, 126
  • - Two-pole Dynamo with Two Field Limbs, Messrs. Laurence and Scott (Fig. 8), 246
  • Exhibition in France, Projected National and Colonial, 128
  • EXHIBITION OF MINING AND METALLURGY, THE INTERNATIONAL, AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE, 83, 316, 324
  • - Prize Awarded to the Roburite Explosives Company, 297
  • Exhibition, The Naval, 526
  • Exhibition, Proposed German, 291
  • Exhibition, Royal Military, 308
  • Explosion at Waltham Abbey, The, 108
  • Explosives, High, in Coal Mines, 217
  • Exports, British, French, and German, 339
  • Exports and Imports, 289, 335, 363, 377, 403, 435, 515
  • Exports and Imports, Value of, 289
  • FACTORIES and Workshops, 71
  • Fans, Electrically Driving, Mr. Watel’s New Method, Blackman Fan Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 1), 74
  • Fareham, The Electric Lighting of, 252
  • Federation of Shipowners, 337
  • Feed-water Heater, The Compactum, Messrs. J. Kirkaldy, Limited, 98
  • Feed-water Heater and Purifier, Messrs. Sanderson and Co., 232
  • Feed-water, Heating, 339
  • Fenney’s Pipe and Pipe Joint Cutting Machine, 455
  • Ferranti, Mr., Safe Steam Pipes, 514
  • Fibrous Products, 296
  • Filter, Little Fountain, Messis. George Skey and Co., 272
  • Fire at Messrs. Fielding and Platt’s, 260
  • Fire at the Grosvenor Gallery Distributing Station, 420
  • Fire in Iquique, Nitrate of Soda, 249
  • Fire Engine, Steam, for the Hague, Messrs. Merryweather and Son, 64
  • Fiske’s Direct-reading Range Finder, 528
  • Fiske’s Position Finder, 441
  • FitzGerald, Professor M. F , The Design of Screw Propeller Blades, 145, 225
  • Flanges, Ford’s Corrugated, 200
  • Fleming and Ferguson, Messrs., Compound Diagonal Engines, Steam Tug “Mana,” Edinburgh Exhibition, 50
  • Fleming and Ferguson, Messrs., Quadruple Expansion Engines, Steam Yacht “Imogen” (Supplement, October 3rd, 1890), 272, 273
  • Flint Glass ? 357
  • Floating Death Traps, 262
  • Flood Levels, 534
  • Floating Water Motors ? 155
  • Floods and the Manchester Ship Canal, The, 443
  • Forced Draught, 22, 295, 310, 334, 379, 402, 403, 460
  • Forced Draught Again, 22
  • Forced Draught, Induced v., 460
  • Forced Draught Problems, 379
  • Ford, Mr. W. J., Corrugated. Flanges, 200
  • Foreign Currents in Telegraph and Telephone Lines, Mr. A. R. Bennett, 49
  • Foreign Shipbuilding, 32
  • Foreign Ships in British Trade, 136
  • Foreign Tariffs, Taxation of Machinery and, 310
  • Forty Years Locomotive Building tor a Great French Road, 41
  • Forward Gas Engine, Messrs. T. B. Barker and Co., 27
  • Fowne’s Built Cranks, 313
  • Fox and Greathead, Sir Douglas and Mr. J. IL, Liverpool Overhead Railway, 131
  • France, Projected National and Colonial Exhibition in, 128
  • France, Twenty Years of Naval Construction in, 305, 392.
  • French Critic on the French Navy, A, 33
  • French Naval Manoeuvres, 72, 95, 115
  • French Road, the Course of Forty Years’ Locomotive Building for a Great, 41
  • Freres, Richard, Ampere Hour Recorder and Engine-room Ammeter, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125, 126
  • Friction of Air in Tubes ? 399
  • Friction Gear for Driving Dynamos, M. A. Hamon, 107
  • Friction Problem, A, 363, 416, 457
  • Fryer, Mr. W. H., Desiccation of Blast in the Manufacture of Pig Iron, 510
  • Fuel and Engineering, 441
  • Furnaces without Chimneys ? 215
  • Furnace, A New Siemens, described by Messrs. Head and Pouff, 39
  • Fuse, Scott’s Instantaneous, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 6), 245
  • Fusible Alloys, 45
  • GALVANISED Pipes and Cisterns, 271
  • Gas Engine Experiments, by Mr. Benjamin Davies, 250
  • Gas Engine, The Forward, Messrs. T. B. Barker and Co., 27
  • Gas Engines, Mr. H. T. Crew on Recent Improvements in, 58
  • Gas Engines, Efficiency of, Mr. T. I. Miller, 77, 181
  • Gas for Fuel, Mr. R. N. Oakman on the Loomis Process of Making, 107
  • Gas Hammers? 11, 29
  • Gas Manufacture in the North, The, 196
  • Gas and Petroleum Engines, 5
  • Gas Regulator, Slatter and Watkins’ Doublecheck, 462
  • Gas, Too Much, 230
  • Gas, Water, 473
  • Gasworks Literature ? 295
  • Gayley, Mr., on American Blast Furnaces, 308
  • General Electric Power and Traction Company, Launch Propulsion by Electricity, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 2), 74
  • General Joiner, Worssam’s Improved, 353
  • Gent and Co., Messrs., Low-water Automatic Alarm for Boilers, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs.1 and 2), 245
  • German Exhibition, Proposed, 291
  • German Experiments on the Attack of Decks, 357
  • Germany, Ore Dressing in, 126, 146, 178
  • Gippeswyk Boiler, The, Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, Royal Agricultural Society’s Engine Trials, 2
  • Glazed Earthenware Pipes to Stand High Pressures? 175
  • Glover, Mr. A., Machine for Cleaning Sacks, 527
  • Governors, Speed, 515
  • Grab, Single Chain, 433
  • Grand Junction, London and Northern Railway, 359
  • Gravell, Mr. D., Optical Pointer, Made by Mr. J. H. Steward, 330
  • Great Western Accident, The, 419
  • Great Western Railway, The, 11
  • Green, Messrs. R. and H., Paddle Steamers for the Bosphorus, 371, 372
  • Green, Messrs. R. and H , Steam Lifeboat, “The Duke of Northumberland,” 192, 193, 210
  • Griffith, Mr. Percy, on the Treatment and Utilisation of Exhaust Steam, 386
  • Grist Mill Trials at Plymouth Royal Show, 5
  • Gruson Trials of Smokeless Powder and Quick- firing Guns, 95
  • Gruson Guns, Shields, and Cupolas, 257, 258, 259, 269
  • Gubbins, Mr. R R., Hot Charging Trolley for Rolling Mills, 299
  • Gubbins, Mr. R. R., Pair of Cutting and Piling Rolls, 422
  • Gunboats, The Chilian, 342
  • Gunboats on the Zambesi, 339
  • Gun, Building a 10in., 72
  • Gunnery, Electricity in, 422
  • Gunpowder in England, Early Manufacture of, 515
  • Gunpowder Factories, 403
  • HADFIELD, Mr., on Aluminium in Steel, 308
  • Halifax Graving Dock, The s.s. “Ulunda” in the, 455
  • Halifax High Level and North and South Junction Railway, 234
  • Hall, Russell, and Co., Messrs., s.s. Inyoni, 335
  • Halladay Cable Tramways, Permanent Way Designed for, 116, 118
  • Halle, Electric Tramway in, 249
  • Hamburg and Calcutta Co.’s s.s. “Baria,” Triple - Expansion Engines, Messrs. Tn os. Richardson and Sons (Supplement. October 31st 1890), 360
  • Hammers? Gas, 11, 29
  • Hamon, M. A., Friction Gear for Driving Dynamos, 107
  • Harbours, The Depth of Colonial, 479
  • Harland and Wolff, Messrs., The “ Teutonic ” and the “ Majestic” (see “Teutonic”)
  • Hartnell, Mr. Wilson, How to Calculate Beforehand the Performance of a Steam Boiler, 467
  • Hartnell and Co., Messrs., Main Current Switch (Fig. 9), Edinburgh Exhibition, 166
  • Harvey and Co., Messrs., Compound Pumping Engine, Rhymney Iron Mines (Supplement, September 19th, 1890), 230
  • Hawkesbury Bridge, Mr. Stamford on the, 359
  • Hayward Tyler and Co., Change of Address, 31
  • Hayward Tyler and Co., Messrs., Vertical High- Speed Engine, 313
  • Head and Pouff, Messrs., Description of a New Siemens Furnace, 39
  • Heat Transmission in Boilers, 484
  • Heat Transmission in Boilers, John G. Hudson on, 449, 483
  • Heating Buildings, Messrs. John Kirkaid y’s System of, 180
  • Heating Feed-water, 339
  • Heating, Problem in, 530
  • Heating Surfaces, Efficiency of, 534
  • Heenan and Froude, Messrs., the Victoria Torpedo, 172
  • Helical Gearing? 337
  • Henderson, Messrs. D. and W., Launch of Sailing Vessel, 242
  • H.M.S. “Blenheim,” the Thames Ironworks and, Shipbuilding Company, 26, 28
  • H.M.S. “Excellent,” 210
  • H.M.S. “Serpent,” The Loss of, 398. 419
  • Hercules Ice-making and Refrigerating Machine ? 135
  • Herkomer, Professor, and the Industrial Cooperators, 27
  • Heswall, Completion of the Sewerage of, 398
  • Hewitt, the Hon. A. S., Presentation of the Bessemer Gold Medal to, at New York, 308, 313
  • Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., Messrs., Compound Tandem Corliss Engines (Supplement, July 25th, 1890)
  • High-angle Howitzer Battery, 47
  • High-angle Howitzer Carriages, Messrs. Sir W. Armstrong and Co., 46
  • High Explosives in Coal Mines, 217
  • High and Low Locomotives, 479, 530
  • High-pressure Plant for Water Supply, 420
  • Hill and Son, Messrs., Horizontal Steel-sawing Machine, 148
  • Hillaires, M., Electrical Transmission of Power, 147
  • Hodbarrow Iron Mines, 366
  • Holden Hydrometer, The, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 9), 246
  • Holder for Carbon Brush Holder, Messrs. Immisch, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 6), 74
  • Holland, Mr. J., Reservoir Pen, 252
  • Holophote Bicycle Lamps ? 215
  • Honeysett, Mr. A., Hydraulic Slide Rule, Mr. W. F. Stanley, 359
  • Horizontal Cold Steel Sawing Machines, Hill’s, 148
  • Horizontal Compound Condensing Engines, 2000- Horse Power, Messrs. John Musgrave and Sons, 249, 254
  • Hornsby’s Bearings for Reaper Spindles, 470
  • Hornsby’s Canvas Roller Tighteners, 470
  • Hornsby’s Flat Rotary Divider for Reapers, 470
  • Hot Air Engine, Benier’s, 200
  • Hot Charging Trolley for Rolling Mills, Mr. R. R. Gubbins, 299
  • Hot Piling Puddle Bars, 422
  • Houghton, The Iron and Steel Institute at, 451
  • How, Prof., on American Bessemer Practice, 308
  • Howard’s Reaper Chain, 470
  • Howitzer Carriages, High Angle, Messrs. Sir W. Armstrong and Co., 46
  • Howitzer, High Angle Breech-loading, Messrs. Sir W. Armstrong and Co., 47
  • Huddleston, Mr. F., on the Mersey Dock Estate, 386
  • Hudson, Mr. J. G., On Heat Transmission in Boilers, 449, 483, 523
  • Humphrys and Tennant, Messrs., Engines of the Argentine Cruiser “25 de Mayo,” 436, 437
  • Hungary, Establishment of State-Aided Engineering and Manufacturing Industries in, 55
  • Huntingdon Mill, Paxman’s, 436
  • Hurtzig, Mr. A. C., Water Velocity and Quantity Recorder at the Alexandra Dock, Hull, 279
  • Hutchinson, Mr. George, 481
  • Hydraulic Coal Tip, Cardiff Docks, Messrs. Tannett, Walker and Co., 211
  • Hydraulic Gear for Electric Cars, The Wenstrom, 463
  • Hydraulic Lifeboat, The New, Messrs. R. and H. Green, 192, 193, 210
  • Hydraulic Pressure Erosion, 45
  • Hydrometer, The Holden, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 9), 246
  • “Hygeia” Passenger Steamer, Messrs. Napier, Shanks and Bell, 306, 307
  • IMMISCH, Messrs., Ingersoll Rock Driller Driven by Electric Motor, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 74
  • Immisch, Messrs., Motor Mounted on Trolley and Connected to a Rock Drilling Machine, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 3), 74
  • “Imogen,” The Steam Yacht (Supplement, October 3rd), 272, 273
  • Increase of Steamships, 339
  • India, Locomotives in, 237
  • India Mills, 2000 Indicated Horse-power Engines in the, 530
  • India, Railway Axles in 217, 235.
  • Indian Government, Railway Policy of the, 52
  • Indicator, The Bachelder Steam Engine, 527
  • Indicator Diagrams, 377
  • Indicator Diagrams, Brake, 310, 377, 403
  • Indicator Diagrams, Old Colony Railroad Locomotive, 396
  • Induced v. Forced Draught, 460
  • Indus at Sukkur, The Lansdowne Bridge over the, 471, 472
  • Industrial Lamp, “The Excello” (Patentee, Mr. Geo. Rose; Makers, Messrs. A. Baird and Sons), 359
  • Ingersoll Rock Driller Driven by Electric Motor, Messrs.Immisch, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 74
  • Initial Stresses in Steel, 310, 377
  • Injector, The Penberthy, Messrs. Pontifex and Wood, 137
  • Injectors, Exhaust, 473
  • Injectors, Mr. Inman, 467
  • Inland Arsenal at Sheffield, 156
  • Inland Navigation, 128
  • Inland Navigation, Fourth International Congress on, Paper by Mr. Hurtzig at, 279
  • Inland Navigation in the United Kingdom— Traffic, Capacity, Finance, and Improvement, Mr. Edwin Clements, 130, 150, 212
  • Inland Revenue, The Commissioners of, and the Institution of Civil Engineers, 108
  • Inman, Mr., on Injectors, 467
  • Instantaneous Fuse, Scott’s, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 6), 245
  • INSTITUTE, CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON :
  • - Syllabus of the Technical College at Finsbury, 266
  • INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL:
  • - American Bessemer Practice, Professor How, 308
  • - American Blast Furnaces, Mr. Gayley, 308
  • - Darby Process of Recarbonising Steel, Mr. Thieler on the, 381
  • - Electric Welding, Professor Thompson on, 308
  • - Hewitt, the Hon. A. S., Presentation of the Bessemer Gold Medal to, and Text of His Reply, 308, 313
  • - Iron and Copper Mines Visited by, 432, 451
  • - Meeting of, in America, 308
  • - Opening of the Iron and Steel Congress in Chickering Hall, New York, 271
  • - Papers Read at the American Institution of Mining Engineers, 271
  • - Papers to be Read before the Iron and Steel Congress, 271
  • - Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron, Sir Lowthian Bell, 381
  • - Progress of Iron Manufacture in Germany, Dr. Wedding on the, 381
  • - Venstrom Magnetic Separator at the Michigamme Mine, 525
  • - Visit to the Calumet and Hecla Mine, 451
  • - Visit to the Chapin Mine, 432
  • - Visit to Chicago, 420
  • - Visit to Iron Mountain, Michigan, 432
  • - Visit to the Mines in the Marquette Iron Ore District, 525
  • - Visits to the Saw Works of Messrs. Disstonand Sons, to the Works of the Phoenix Iron Company, and to the Chief Iron - producing Centres of the United States, 329
  • - Visits to the Wildwood Oil Fields, the Carbon Iron Company’s Works, the Crescent Steel Works, the Pittsburg Reduction Company’s Works, and Messrs. Carnegie’s Two Large Establishments on the Monongahela River, 381
  • INSTITUTE OF IRON AND STEEL WORKS’ MANAGERS, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE:—
  • - Visit to the Forth Bridge, 117
  • INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS:—
  • - Propellers, Mr. Thomas Drewry, 447, 484
  • - Water Jet Propulsion, Mr. Ruthven, 230
  • INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN:—
  • - Ball and Norton “Monarch” Magnetic Separator, The, Mr. C. M. Ball, 462
  • - Joint Meeting of, and the Iron and Steel Institute in New York, and Papers Read and Excursions Made, 308, 313, 329
  • - Notes on the Excavation of the New Croton Aqueduct, by J. P. Carson, 341, 361, 385
  • Institution, Birkbeck Literary and Scientific, 262
  • INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE :—
  • - Appointments of Mr. H. L. Antrobus as Hon. Treas. and Dr. Wm. Pole as Hon. Sec., 35
  • - Chittravali Bridge, Madras Railway, Mr. Edw. W. Stoney, 472
  • - The Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the, 108
  • - Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur, Mr. F. E. Robertson, 472
  • - Steam on Common Roads, Mr. John McLaren, 394, 416
  • - Vibratory Movements of Locomotives and Timing Trains and Testing Railway Tracks, by John Milne and John McDonald, 442
  • INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :—
  • - Foreign Currents in Telegraph and Telephone Lines, Mr. A. R. Bennett, 49
  • - The Telegraph and Electric Light Apparatus and Gas Engines of the Edinburgh Exhibition, Dr. Walmisley on, 49
  • INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND, 444
  • - Basic Open Hearth Steel, Mr. Davies, 516
  • - Basic Open Hearth System, Mr. Davies, 444
  • - Comparison of American and Cleveland Blast Furnace Plant, Mr. Bagley, 444
  • - Desiccation of the Blast in the Manufacture of Pig Iron, Mr. W. II. Fryer, 444, 510
  • INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE HULL AND DISTRICT:—
  • - Education of Engineers, A Discussion on the, Opened by Mr. C. F. Amos, 466, 518
  • - INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :—
  • - List of Papers to be Read and Discussed, 302
  • - Loomis Process of Making Gas for Fuel, Mr. R. N. Oakman, 107
  • - Park Gate Ironworks, Mr. Stoddart, 107, 117
  • - Recent Improvements in the Mechanical Engineering of Coal Mines, Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, 84
  • - Sheffield Waterworks, Mr. E. M. Eaton on the, 107
  • INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (continued):—
  • - Steel Rails Considered Chemically and Mechanically, Mr. C. P. Sandberg, 84, 86
  • - Tube-frame Goods Wagons of Light Weight and Large Capacity and their Effect upon the Working Expenses of Railways, Mr. M. Jefferds, 392
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Sheffield, 113
  • Institution, The Royal—see Royal Institution
  • Insulator, Chambers’ Telpher, Messrs. Buller, Jobson, and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 245
  • International Congress on Inland Navigation at Manchester, 106
  • International Strike, An, 339
  • “Inyoni,” The s.s., Messrs. Hall, Russell, and Co., 335
  • Iquique, Nitrate of Soda Fire in, 249
  • Ireland, Construction of Numerous Railways in, 461
  • Ireland, Shipbuilding in, 481
  • “Irene,” The Trinity House Yacht, 137
  • Iron for Chilled Castings ? 135
  • Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 16, 37, 57, 78, 99, 120, 141, 161, 183, 201, 221, 241, 261, 281, 301, 323, 343, 364, 386, 405, 425, 444, 465, 485, 519, 541
  • Iron, Engineers and Prices of Finished, 276
  • Iron Gates of the Danube, The, 240
  • Iron Manufacture in Germany, Dr. Wedding on, 381
  • Iron, Manufacture of, Sir L. Bell on the Probable Future of the, 381
  • Iron Mines, Hodbarrow, 366
  • Iron-producing Centres of the United States, Visits of the Iron and Steel Institute to the Chief, 329
  • Iron and Steel Institute in America, 271, 308, 329, 381, 420, 432, 451
  • Iron and Steel, International Standards for the Analysis of, 381
  • Iron and Steel Prospects, 317
  • Iron and Steel, A Ten Years’ Retrospect of our Foreign Trade in, 1
  • Iron Theatres? 51, 71
  • Iron Trade, The North of England, 442
  • Iron Trade, Northern Manufactured, 461
  • Ironclads for the United States Navy, New, 9
  • Irwell and Mersey, Pollution of The, 526
  • Italy, New Features in the Armament of, 46
  • Italy, Trial of Seed Drills in, 200
  • JAFFA and Jerusalem Railway, The, 510
  • Jefferds, Mr. M., on Tube-frame Goods Wagons. 392
  • Jennings and Stannard, Messrs., New Method of Tunnelling, 463
  • Jewell Pen Company, Reservoir Pen, 252
  • Jigs at the Broken Hill Company’s Works, 360
  • Johnson and Phillips, Messrs., Kapp’s Central Station Dynamos, 352
  • Joiner, General, Worssam’s Improved, 353
  • Joy’s Proposed System of Driving Main Valves of Engines by Water-power, 28
  • KAPP’S Central Station Dynamos, 352
  • Kelly’s Engineering Metal Trades and Colliery Proprietors’ Directory, 139
  • Kennedy, Professor, his Report on the Performance of the Addington Pumping Engines, 166, 199
  • Kennedy, Professor, Testing Machine in his Laboratory, Messrs. J. Buckton and Co., 54
  • Kensington Court Station, Electric Lighting in London, General Plan and Switch-board, 474, 478
  • Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Lighting Company, 450, 458, 474, 475, 478, 536
  • Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Light District, Plan of District Supplied, 450, 458
  • King, Brown, and Co., Messrs., Ship-lighting Plant, Edinburgh Exhibition, 75
  • King-Brown Dynamo, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Kingdon’s Compound Cylinder, Messrs. Simpson and Strickland’s Engine, Royal Agricultural Society’s Engine Trials, 2
  • King’s College Conversazione, The, 49
  • King’s College Engineering Department, Appointment of Mr. D. S. Capper, 66
  • Kirkaldy, Messrs. John, Compactum Feedwater Heater, 98
  • Kirkaldy, Messrs. John, System of Heating- Buildings, 180
  • Kistna Bridge, Plans for the, 208
  • Knaresborough Drainage, 517
  • Knife Eye, Arter’s Mower, 472
  • LABOUR and Capital, 175
  • Labour, New Machines and, 94
  • Lagan Bridge, Belfast, New, Mr. Bretland. 147, 154, 173, 179
  • Laird Brothers, Messrs., Chilian Torpedo Gunboats, 342
  • Lalande Chaperon Tray Battery, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 126
  • Lamp, New Industrial (“The Excello”), Patented by Mr. George Rose, Made by Messrs. Archibald Baird and Sons, 359
  • Langley, Professor J. W., on International Standards for the Analysis of Iron and Steel, 381
  • Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur, 471, 472
  • La Plata, New Market Hall, 429, 430, 431
  • Latch, Cabin and Cupboard Door, Mr. C. Rettie 514
  • Latham, Mr. Baldwin, Relation of Ground Water to Disease, 518
  • Lathe, Sliding, Surfacing, and Screw-cutting Brake and Pit, Messrs. Cunliffe and Croom, 397, 398
  • “Latona,” H.M.’s Protected Cruiser. Stern and Bow of, 30, 32
  • Launch Propulsion by Electricity, General Electric Power and Traction Company, Edinburgh Exhibition, 74
  • Launch at Rio Janeiro, Mr. D. M. Cumming 78
  • Launches and Trial Trips, 18, 35, 49, 78, 80, 100, 117, 122, 142, 160, 163, 194, 220, 240, 242, 262, 271, 322, 335, 364, 388, 394, 427, 446, 452, 464
  • Laurence and Scott, Messrs., Two-pole Dynamo with Two Field Limbs, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 8), 246
  • Lead Pipes and Soft Water, 473
  • LEADERS
  • - Activity in the Engineering Trades, The, 12
  • - Additions to Railway Rolling Stock, 176
  • - American Goods Wagons, 399
  • - Andes or Argentine and Chili Railway, The, 380
  • - Annapolis Competitive Armour Trials, 316
  • - Automatic Rifle, An, 217
  • - Balloons in Warfare, 379
  • - Battle of the Trade Marks, The, 136
  • - Boycotting in the Coalfield, 114
  • - British and Foreign Vessels; 400
  • - British Trade in November, 481
  • - Burning of Refuse, The, 357
  • - Canal Construction of the Continent, 316
  • - Capital and Labour, 175
  • - Capital and Working of Our Railways, The, 155
  • - Central London Railway, The, 53
  • - Chemicals and Paper, 237
  • - Chicago Exhibition, The, 459
  • - Clyde Navigation, The, 156
  • - Coalowners’ Reply to the Eight Hours’ Demand, 461
  • - Coal Question, The, 11
  • - Coal in the South-East of England, 51
  • - Coming Census and Technical Statistics, 93
  • - Compound and Simple Locomotives in the United States, 236
  • - Construction of Numerous Railways in Ireland, The, 461
  • - Cost of Keeping the Rhine Navigable, 156
  • - Cost of Labour in Coal Mines, 276
  • - Danube Regulation Works, 275
  • - Dearer Fuel and Engineering, 441
  • - Decade of Russian Naval Progress, A, 31
  • - Depth of Colonial Harbours, The, 479
  • - Do Safety Lamps Injure Miners’ Eyes? 32
  • - Domestic Electric Lighting, 534
  • - Drainage Scheme for Melbourne, 506
  • - Education of Engineers, The, 31, 71
  • - Education of Mechanical Engineers, The, 507
  • - Efficiency of Electrical Railways, 175
  • - Efficiency of Heating Surfaces, 534
  • - Efficiency of Steam Jackets, The, 440
  • - Eight Hours for Miners, 420
  • - Eight Hours’ Movement, The, 215
  • - Electric Lighting Progress in London, 480
  • - Electrical Pranks, 216
  • - Employment of Light Railways, The, 420
  • - Engineers in the Navy, 480
  • - Engineers and Prices of Finished Iron, 276
  • - Engineers in the Royal Navy, 155
  • - English and American Locomotives, 52
  • - Extraordinary Railway Experiment, An, 481
  • - Factories and Workshops, 71
  • - Federation of Shipowners, The, 337
  • - Fibrous Products, 296
  • - Fire at the Grosvenor Gallery Distributing Station, 420
  • - Flood Levels, 534
  • - Forced Draught, 295
  • - Forced Draught Problems, 379
  • - Foreign Shipbuilding, 32
  • - Foreign Ships in British Trade, 136
  • - German Experiments on the Attack of Decks, 357
  • - Great Western Accident, The, 419
  • - Growth of Steamships, The, 256
  • - Gunboats on the Zambesi, 339
  • - Heating Feed-water, 339
  • - High and Low Locomotives, 479
  • - High-pressure Plant for Water Supply, 420
  • - Improvement of Navigations between the East and West Coasts, 480
  • - Increase of Steamships, The, 339
  • - Induced versus Forced Draught, 460
  • - Inland Arsenal at Sheffield, An, 156
  • - Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Sheffield, The, 113
  • - International Strike, An, 339
  • - Iron and Steel Prospects, 317
  • - Large Bullion Weighing Scales, 114
  • - Lieutenant Fiske’s Position Finder, 441
  • - Lighting the Eastern Seas, 508
  • - Load-line Act, The, 113
  • - Load-line Act, The, 439, 505
  • - Locomotive Engine Economy, 256
  • - Locomotives for India, 237
  • - London Electric Supply Corporation, 317, 507
  • - London Water Supply, 94
  • - London Water Supply and the Authorities, 337
  • - London Water Supply Controversy, The, 135
  • - London Water Supply in Parliament, The, 459
  • - Loss of H.M.S. “Serpent,” The, 419
  • - Lubrication of Steam Engines, The, 399
  • - McKinley Tariff, The, 295
  • - McKinley Tariff Bill, The, 94
  • - McKinley Tariff, Effects of the, 400
  • - Magnesia in Portland Cement, 358
  • - Manual Labour v. Machinery, 508
  • - Mechanical Science at the British Association, 215
  • - Metropolitan Railway Fire, The, 237
  • - Midland Railway Working, 136
  • - Military Telephone System Recently Established at Antwerp, 358
  • - Mining Combinations of the Future, 32
  • - Mining and Metallurgical Exhibition, 316
  • - Mining Royalties in England, 176
  • - Modern Small Steam Engines, 135
  • - New Albert Bridge, Belfast, The, 217
  • - New Machines and Labour, 94
  • - New Problem for Parliament, A, 216
  • - New Railway Works in the North, 296
  • - New Railways, 217
  • - New Shipbuilding on the Clyde, 176
  • - Nickel Steel Corner, A, 400
  • - Nine Months of Clyde Shipbuilding, 297
  • - Northern Coke Manufacture, The, 358
  • - Northern Manufactured Iron Trade, 461
  • - Northern Shipbuilding, 94
  • - Northern Shipbuilding Prospects, 317
  • - Noteworthy Precedent in the Silver Trade, 508
  • - Opening for Sanitary Engineering, An, 380
  • - Paddle Wheels, 533
  • - Pig Iron Warrants, 461
  • - Power Transmission by Compressed Air, 338
  • - Proposed Parliamentary Restriction of Speculation m Warrants, 505
  • - Proportions of Steam Engines, The, 338
  • - Quality of Durham Blast Furnace Coke, The, 380
  • LEADERS {continued}'.—
  • - Railway Axles in India, 235
  • - Railway Carriage of Coal, 12
  • - Railway Extensions m Yorkshire, 53
  • - Railway Passenger Traffic, The, 255
  • - Railway Policy of the Indian Government, The, 52
  • - Railway Projects Revived, 297
  • - Railway Rates for Goods Traffic, 507
  • - Railway Working, 72
  • - Rapid Coal Shipment, 32
  • - Red Tape at the Plymouth Show, 32
  • - Remarkable Marine Engineering heat, 94
  • - Responsibilities of Boiler Insurance Companies, 315
  • - River Ouse Navigation, 136
  • - Royal Agricultural Society, The, 114
  • - Russian Tests of Armour Plates, The, 400
  • - School Board Drawings, 441
  • - Serve Tubes, 317
  • - Shipbuilding in Ireland, 481
  • - Shipbuilding Prospects, 507
  • - Sir Thomas Symonds and Our Navy, 93
  • - Six Months of Clyde Shipbuilding and Future Prospects, 12
  • - Smoke Abatement, 441
  • - Smoke in Great Towns, 358
  • - Steam Engineering in the Navy, 533
  • - Steam Shipping Trade, The, 534
  • - Steel and Iron Making in China, 256
  • - Steel Manufacture in the North, The, 380
  • - Steel Railway Axles on Indian Railways, 217
  • - Storage and Use of Petroleum, The, 440
  • - Swedish Railways, 216
  • - Telephone Interference with Electric Tramways 235
  • - Trade of the Country, The, 297
  • - Utilisation of the Falls of Niagara, 53
  • - Utility of Engine Trials, 275
  • - Water Supply of Paris, 297
  • - Westinghouse Brake on the Belgian State Railways, The, 72
  • - Yorkshire Miners, 256
  • Lee Magazine Rifle, The, 202
  • Leeder’s Sand Moulding Machine, 333
  • LEGAL INTELLIGENCE:—
  • - Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation v. King, Brown, and Co., 78
  • - Boden and Co., Appellants; the Overseers of Chard, Respondents—Gifford, Fox, and Co. v. the same, 45
  • - Perry, Davis, and Sons r. Lancaster Harbord, 25
  • - Tweedale v. Ashworth Brothers, 90
  • - Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited v. Siddell, 148
  • Le Neve Foster, Dr. C., Appointed Professor of Mining at the Royal College of Science, 542
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:—
  • - Addington Engine Trials, A. D., 403
  • - Addington Engine Trials, J. D. H., 199
  • - Addington Engine Trials, The, Thos. Tuke, 199 240
  • - Addington Engine Trials, W. E. L., 199
  • - Addington Engine Trials, W. J. C., 199
  • - Aero-transition, Wm. Quartermain, 311
  • - Aluminium ? B. M., 379
  • - American Goods Wagons, Mr. R. Jefferds, 434
  • - American Goods Wagons, Progress, 434
  • - Armour Plates, Chas. Weston Smith, 376
  • - Asbestos Curtains — A Practical Test The United Asbestos Company, 171
  • - Atlantic “ Dead Heat,” The, Antiquary, 289
  • - Atlantic Racing, White Star, 334
  • - Automatic Vacuum Brake, The, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 68, 110, 128, 153
  • - Automatic Vacuum Brake, The, An Engineer 98
  • - Automatic Vacuum Brake, The. E. Gobert, 68
  • - Automatic Vacuum Brake, The, F. C. S., 68 128
  • - Automatic Vacuum Brake, The, Clement E. Stretton, 45, 98, 128
  • - Balanced Propellers, H. C. Vogt, 416
  • - Balanced Slide Valve, John H. Barker, 5
  • - Balanced Slide Valve, John T. Jameson, 69
  • - Bale’s Self-acting Louvres, J. E. Bale, 98
  • - Belts for Cone Pulleys ? T. C , 31
  • - Blowing Cupolas? S. and Co., 255
  • - Books on Bucket Dredging ? O. L., 51
  • - Brace Cantilevers, G. B., 208
  • - Braced Cantilevers, C. T., 240
  • - Brake Indicator Diagrams, Jorgen Bjornstad 310
  • - Brake Indicator Diagrams, Fencaurd, 289
  • - Brake Indicator Diagrams, J. P., 271
  • - Brake Indicator Diagrams, Tom Wake, 289
  • - British and Foreign Vessels, C. P., 435
  • - Buenos Ayres Rural Exhibition, W. W., 170
  • - “Bull Mill” for Grinding Cement? N. H., 399
  • - Burning of Town Refuse, The, Chas. Jones, 376
  • - Burning of Town Refuse, The, F. E. Ross, 377
  • - Burning Refuse, Wm. A. Gibbs, 457
  • - Burning Refuse, C. A. Lind vail, 457
  • - Calculating Diagrams, I. H. P., 334
  • - Cast Steel ? What is, Henry Bessemer, 4
  • - Central London Railway, The, R. H. D., 44
  • - “City of Paris,” The, A. G. Greenhill, 29
  • - “City of Paris,” The, David Joy, 28
  • - “City of Paris,” The, John G. Liversidge, 4, 44
  • - “City of Paris,” The, Marine Engineer, 29
  • - “City of Paris,” The, J. P., 208
  • - “City of Paris,” The, W. S., 44, 69
  • - “City of Paris,” The, Superintending Engineer, 4, 29
  • - “City of Paris,” The J. Williams, 4, 44
  • - Clearing Feed-water of Oil ? Anti-oil, 135
  • - Coal Statistics, A. N. D., 29
  • - Coffee Plantation Machinery? R. L. K., 459
  • - Composition Paving Bricks ? S. L. W., 275
  • - Composition of Railway Trains ? J., 315
  • - Concentric Differential Pulleys ? E. W., 315
  • - Concrete Chimneys? J. G., 155
  • - Concrete Chimneys, John M. Wood, 208
  • - Construction of Dynamos, The, I. H. H., 259 310
  • - Continental Railway Speeds, Sceptic, 355
  • - Contractors for Erecting Floating Baths? Tramway, 51
  • - Correction and Explanation of the Theory of Steamship Propulsion, Robert Mansel, 355
  • - Creosoting Plant? E. R., 315
  • - Crushed Steel for Stone- cutting ? P. H., 255
  • - Cylinder Port Areas, Geo. C. Douglas, 435
  • - Deflection of Bars The E. Duncan 260, 310
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued):—
  • - Deflection of Bars, The, E. D. H., jun., 260, 354
  • - Deflection of Bars, The, Wm. Robertson, 240
  • - Deflections of Bars, J. Wake, 271
  • - Delivery of Steam Jets? The, C. K.. 51
  • - Dynamical Nomenclature, An Old Hand, 171
  • - Dynamical Nomenclature, W. P. J., 171'
  • - Early Manufacture of Gunpowder in England. C. M. Westfield, 515
  • - Education of Engineers, W. C. Kernot, 376
  • - Education of Engineers, The, E. N. Macllwaine, 153
  • - Education of Engineers, The, Manchester, 110
  • - Education of Engineers, The, Patriot, 69
  • - Efficiency of Steam Jackets, The, Hy. Davey, 473
  • - Eight Hours’ Movements, The, G. H., 239
  • - Eight Hours’ Movement, The, A Trader, 259
  • - Electric Light in Sawmills? The, Timber, 71
  • - Electro-magnet Separator, Christy and Carter, 98
  • - Electro-magnetic Separators, C. E. Hall, 44
  • - Electro-motion, N. D. Y., 110
  • - Engineers in the Navy, C. P., 208
  • - Engine Trials at Plymouth, Adams and Co., 29 69
  • - Engine Trials at Plymouth, Simpson, Strickland, and Co., 29, 44
  • - Engines of the “ Dee,” D. Kerr, 208
  • - Engines of the Dee, Richard Sennett, 199
  • - Engines of the Dee, Wm. John Tennant, 208
  • - English and American Locomotives, F. W. Dean, 401
  • - English Criticism on American Engineering Work, E. W. D. W., 515
  • - Exhaust Injectors, Holden and Brooke, 473
  • - Exports and Imports, A. H. Baylis, 335, 377
  • - Exports and Imports, W. A. S. B., 335, 403, 515
  • - Exports and Imports, A Trader, 363, 435
  • - Fire at Messrs. Fielding and Platt’s, Fieldingand Platt, 260
  • - First Steam Carriage or Locomotive Model, The, Alex. Murdoch, 435
  • - Flint Glass? W. M., 357
  • - Floating Water Motors, Motor, 155
  • - Forced Draught, Elswick, 331
  • - Forced Draught, Marino Engineer, 310
  • - Forced Draught, B. H. T., 310
  • - Forced Draught Problems, W. A. Martin 432
  • - Forced Draught Problems, R. N. R., 403
  • - Foreign Railways Using Chairs and Keys ? P. Q., 379
  • - Friction of Air in Tubes? C. E , 399
  • - Freezing in Vacuum Brakes, An Engineer, 110
  • - Friction Problem, A, Friction. 457
  • - Friction Problem, Wm. J no. Tennant, 416
  • - Friction Problem, A , X., 363
  • - Furnaces without Chimneys? Picturesque 215
  • - Fusible Alloys, Jas. H. Lynde, 45
  • - Galvanised Pipes and Cisterns, Francis Henrv Cnttall, 271
  • - Gas Hammers? T. C., 11
  • - Gas Hammers, Tenax, 29
  • - Gas and Petroleum Engines, G. Osborne, 5
  • - Gasworks Literature ? H. E. A. C., 295
  • - Glazed Earthenware Pipes to Stand High Pressures? F. H. W., 175
  • - Great Western Railway, H. L. Stannard, 11
  • - Grist Mill Trials at Plymouth Royal Show, The Agricultural Mill Company, 5
  • - Gunpowder Factories, Ballista, 403
  • - Gutta-percha Machinery ? G. G. M.H., 195
  • - Helical Gearing? J. H., 337, 357
  • - Hercules Ice-making and Refrigerating Machine? M. J., 135
  • - High and Low Locomotives, D. K. Clark, 515
  • - High and Low Locomotives, X., 530
  • - Holophobe Bicycle Lamps ? Bike, 215
  • - Hook-making Machines? Nails, 195
  • - How a Locomotive Engine is Propelled, An Apprentice, 354
  • - How a Locomotive Engine is Propelled, Another Apprentice, 403
  • - Hydraulic-pressure Erosion, B. H. Thwaite, 45
  • - Indicator Diagrams, Frank T. Marshall, 377
  • - Indicator Diagrams, I.H.P., 403
  • - Indicator Diagrams, John Phillips, 403
  • - Initial Stresses in Steel, Marine, 310
  • - Initial Stresses in Steel, W. Naylor, 377
  • - Inland.Navigation, John Bourne, 128
  • - Invention of the Block System, Clement E. Stretton, 530
  • - Iron for Chilled Castings? Chill, 135
  • - Iron Theatres? L. A., 51
  • - Iron Theatres, Richard B. Prosser, 71
  • - Lead Pipes and Soft Water, J. Smillie, 473
  • - Lighting of the Patent-office Library, Sam. W Worssam, 413
  • - Linde Refrigerating System, The, R. J. C., 5
  • - Linde Refrigeration System, The, S. C. E., 29
  • - Linde Refrigeration System, The, Denny Lane, 44
  • - Linde Refrigeration System, The, for the Linde fntlsh Refrigeration Company, T. B. Lightfoot, 69
  • - Linde Refrigerating System, The, W. F. R., 4, 98
  • - Linde Refrigeration System, The, W. J. Thompson, 69
  • - Linde Refrigerating System, The, Zero, 5
  • - Link Belting? G. O., 459
  • - Liverpool Overhead Railway, The, Goddard, Massey and Warner, 171
  • - Locomotive Valve Gear, An Engineer, 473
  • - Locomotive Valve Gear, Ferrule, 515
  • - Locomotive Valve Gear, Thomas Hunt, 515
  • - Locomotive Valve Gear, M. Inst. C.E. 515
  • - Locomotive Valve Gear, Clement E. Stretton, 530
  • - Lubricating Oils, Bertram Blount, 334, 403
  • - Lubricating Oils, A. Charlier, 355
  • - Macaroni Machinery? B., 51
  • - Machine for Making Lubricated Cotton Engine Packing, Cunosus, 31
  • - Machine for Painting Venetian Blind Laths ? P. L. J., 51
  • - Machine for Picture Frame Makers? T. F. R., 51
  • - Machinery for the Manufacture of Dry Soap? E. Co., 459
  • - Machines for Making Bent Wire Articles ? Nails, 255
  • - Machines for Making Perforated Iron and Galvanised Wire Netting, R. W., 31
  • - McKinley Tariff, The, Dubiosus, 435
  • - Malleable Castings ? B., 31
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR {continued):—
  • - Manchester Ship Canal, The, John H. Wilson and Company, 171
  • - Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., Hayward Tyler and Co., 31
  • - Ocean Racing, Bettinson Bennett, 260
  • - Panelled Iron Ceiling Plates ? H. A. E., 175
  • - Performances of Old Steamers, George W. Buckwell, 240
  • - Pilkington and Forest’s Air Compressor Valves ? G. B., 337
  • - Pipe Line Gas for London, James W. Vickers, 457
  • - Pit Lamps ? A. F. and Co., 215
  • - Pitcher’s Engine Governor ? Dynamo, 337
  • - Prices and Weights of Locomotives? Madrid, 379
  • - Problem in Excavation, A. W. T., 51
  • - Problem in Heating, E. F. Ranseme, 530
  • - Problem in Heating, V., 530
  • - Problem in Heating ? A, Vaporiser, 479
  • - Problem in Thermo-Dynamics, A. W. H. Booth, 45
  • - Problem in Thermo - Dynamics, A. S. J. Stevens, 29
  • - Proportions of Steam Engines, F. H. L., 377
  • - Purification of Sewage, The, Chas. H. Beloe, 5
  • - Purification of Sewage, The, Robt. F. Harvey, 29
  • - Purification of Sewage, The, A. G. Murray, 5
  • - Purchase of Land for Railways, B., 311
  • - Purchase of Land for Railways, W. B. Myers, 335
  • - Purchase of Land for Railways, C. P., 355
  • - Railway Axles, W. F. H., 260
  • - Railway Speeds, Locomotive, 98
  • - Railway Speeds, Acton Warburton, 69, 110
  • - Rational Roof Truss, The, Joaquin Arajol, 335, 402
  • - Recorder for Indicating the Velocity and Quantity of Water Pumped into Alexandra Dock, Hull, for Maintaining its Level, J. W. Restler, 376
  • - Refuse Destructors, Wm. Horsfall, 413
  • - Remarkable Casting, A., W. S. Malcolm, 403
  • - Repairing Chimneys? S. T. J., 175
  • - Repairing Roofs of Large Steel Works ? L. W., 135
  • - Ring Bearings, Jas. L. Heward, 160
  • - Roney’s Furnaces ? W., 295
  • - Royal Naval Engineer Officers, Nemo, 152
  • - Screw Propellers, Maurice F. FitzGerald, 335, 376, 413, 434, 457, 473, 515
  • - Screw Propellers, A. G. Greenbill, 434
  • - Screw Propellers, Superintending Engineer, 259, 354, 413, 473, 530
  • - Screw Propellers, Tin Tack, 354, 402, 434, 473, 530
  • - Screw Propellers, A. Vogelsang, 515
  • - Sea Water in London, W. J. B., 45
  • - Season Ticket Holders, J. P., 289
  • - Shearing Strains on Wrought Iron Pulleys? Rotifer, 255
  • - Ship Caissons, J. Andrews, 479
  • - Ship Canals, Chas. A. Stevenson, 45
  • - Siemens’ Heating Methods, Fred. Siemens, 457
  • - Sight-feed Lubricators, Bronze, 5
  • - Sight-feed Lubricators, Grease Spot, 5
  • - Sight-feed Lubricators, Gun-metal, 5
  • - Slide Valve Friction ? J. A., 479
  • - Small Rams to Destroy Propellers of Ironclads, H. C. Vogt, 310, 363
  • - Smithy Chimneys? V., 357
  • - Speed Cones for Lathes, Chas. Louis Hett, 416
  • - Speed of German Trains, C. Calvert, 377, 457
  • - Speed of German Trains, North-Western, 416
  • - Speed of German Trains, Zulu, 416
  • - Speed Governors, F., 515
  • - Starch-making Machinery, Starch, 51
  • - Steam Lifeboats, M, C., 355
  • - Steel-faced Iron for Dies ? Dies, 155
  • - Stokers in the Navy, R. N., 4
  • - Stokers in the Navy, A Post-Captain, 4
  • - Strength of Beams, the, Ed. C. de Segundo, 44
  • - Strength of Flat Surfaces ? A Flat, 337
  • - Strength of Ships’ Sides, The, J. R. O., 5
  • - Stress in Cast Iron Cylinder Covers ? H. P. T., 419
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, J. B., 240
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, Bent Tie Rod, 271
  • - Stresses in Cranes, Crane Post, 128, 260
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, Y. C., 170, 208
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, F. Duncan, 153, 199, 240, 260
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, J. F., 289
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, Graphic, 208, 260
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, Lifting Chain, 208
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, G. T., 170, 208
  • - Stresses in Crane Posts, A Winch, 199, 240
  • - Supplying Marine Boilers with Fresh Water, John Kirkaldy, 29, 98
  • - Supplying Marine Boilers with Fresh Water, G. and J. Weir, 45
  • - Suspension Bridge over the Doyong, Assam, Joseph West wood and Co., 160
  • - Tall Chimney Construction, John Hunter, 5
  • - Taunton Collision, The, Henry Brockelbank, 435
  • - Taunton Collision, The, C. B., 413, 473
  • - Taunton Collision, The, Thos. Hunt, 413
  • - Taunton Collision, The, Clement E. Stretton, 435
  • - Taxation of Machinery and Foreign Tariffs, G. Humphreys Davies, 310
  • - Testimonial to Mr. Michael Reynolds, Arthur D. Pennington, 128
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, Automatic, 128, 153, 171
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, R. M. Deeley and L. Arch butt, 110, 128, 153, 171
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, An Old Loco. Driver, 110, 239
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, Clement E. Stretton, 128, 153, 208, 259
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, Veritas, 239
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Vacuum Brake, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 110, 128, 153, 171
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Vacuum Brake, Peter Pratt, 171
  • - Thermo-dynamics of the Vacuum Brake, F. C. S., 171
  • - Tornadoes in the States, Reginald Bolton, 69
  • - Traction Engine Experiments, J. E. Steevenson, 515
  • - Traffic Receipts; also Locomotive, Carriage, and Wagon Departments’ Expenditure at the Leading Railways, Half-year Ending 30th June, 1888, H. Attock, 403
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued}:—
  • - Utility of Engine Trials, Mich. Longridge, 289
  • - Value of Exports and Imports, The, A Trader, 289
  • - Vogelsang Propeller, The, Alexander Vogelsang, 240
  • - Waste Water Detecting Meters ? Paulatim, 275
  • - Water-Gas, F. E. Ross, 473
  • - Water Meters, Henry Sporton and Co., 416
  • - Water Recorder at the Alexandra Dock, Hull, W. H. Bailey, 403
  • - Well Boring? Borer, 175
  • - Wire Door Mats? M.I.M.E., 155
  • - Woking Electric Supply Company, The, Edw. Mann, 457
  • - Wrought Iron Pulleys ? P., 357
  • Lieb’s Ball Bearing Screw, 433
  • Lifeboat, “Duke of Northumberland,” Steam, Messrs. R. and H. Green, 192, 193, 210
  • Lifeboats, Steam, 355
  • Lighthouse Illuminants, 443
  • Lighting the E. Seas, 508
  • Lighting of the Patent-office, 413
  • Light Railways, Employment of, 420
  • Linde Refrigerating System, The, 4, 5, 29, 44, 69
  • Linde Refrigeration System, Mr. W. J. Thompson on the, 69
  • Lineff Magnetic Railway, 129
  • Link Belting? 459
  • Liquid-holding Vessel, Mr. Stewart R. Mace, 55
  • LITERATURE :—
  • - A. B. C. of Electricity, The. By Wm. A. Meadowcroft, 461
  • - Advanced Physiography. By John Mills, 53
  • - The Alternate Current Transformer. By J. A. Fleming, 256
  • - Anwendungen der Graphischen Statik. By Professor W. Ritter, 441
  • - Art of Electrolytic Separation of Metals, andc. By G. Gore, 481
  • - Blackie’s Modern Cyclopoedia of Modern Information : a Handy Book of Reference on all Subjects for all Readers. Edited by Chas. Annandale, 137
  • - Centrolinead applied to Perspective Drawing, The. By E. Macdougall, 176
  • - Chronological, Historical, and Heraldic Charts of the Royal House of England, from King Egbert to the Present Time. By I. A. Timmis, 137
  • - Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. By T. E. Thorpe, 33
  • - Egyptian Irrigation. By W. Willcocks, 317
  • - Electric Light Fitting. By John W. Urquhart, 359
  • - Electrical Engineering for Electric Light Artisans and Students. By W. Slingo and A, Brooker, 95
  • - Electricity in Modern Life. By G. W. de Tunzelmann, 297
  • - Elementary Manual of Magnetism and Electricity. By Professor Jamieson, 297
  • - Hand - book for Military Artificers. Sixth Edition, 237
  • - Hand-book of Problems in Exterior Ballistics. Part I., Direct Fire. By Captain James Ingalls, 196
  • - Handy Lists of Technical Literature, andc. Part III., Engineering and Mechanics. Compiled by H. A. Hafercorn and Paul Heise, 257
  • - Industries du Creusot, Les. Lieut.-Colonel Hennebert, 237
  • - Industries du Creusot, Les. M. Emile Weyl, 237
  • - Irrigation Manual, By Lieut. - General G. Mullens, 257
  • - Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Vol. I. (Nos. 1, 2), 461
  • - Law and Practice under the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Acts, 1883 to 1888, with the Practice in Actions for the Infringement of Patents, &c. By Wm. Norton Law- son, 156
  • - Law of Trade Marks and their Registration, &c. &c., The. By Lewis Boyd Sebastian, 157
  • - Macfarlane’s Facilegraph, 461
  • - Marine Transport of Petroleum. By George Herbert Little, 115
  • - Nature and Cause of the Resistance of Water to a Vessel Passing through it. By George Alfred de Penning, 196
  • - Naval Annual, The, 1890. By Lord Brassey, 136
  • - Patentees’ Manual, The: a Treatise on the Law and Practice of Patents for Inventions, &c. By James Johnson, 156
  • - Practical Engineer’s Handbook, The: comprising a Treatise on Modern Boilers, &c. &c. By Walter S. Hutton, 157
  • - Practical Marine Surveying. By Harry Phelps, 176
  • - Reports of the Carriages in the Paris Exhibition, 1889. By Artisan. Reporter’s Edition, by John Philipson, 276
  • - Screw Threads and Methods of Producing them. By Paul N. Hasluck, 297
  • - Sham Fighting with the Rifle. By Claude W. Kinder, 381
  • - Short Logarithms and other Tables. By W. Cawthorne Unwin, 297
  • - Steam Engine Considered as a Thermo-Dynamic Machine, &c., The. By Mr. Jas. H. Cotterill, 534
  • - Surveying and Levelling Instruments. By W. F. Stanley, 509
  • - Travellers’ Colloquial French, a Handbook for English-speaking Travellers and Students. By H. Swan, 137
  • - Vogelsang Screw Propeller, and its Advantages over all known Methods of Marine Propulsion. By Alexander Vogelsang, 217
  • Liverpool and London Condenser Company, The, Quiggin’s Evaporators, Edinburgh Exhibition, 291
  • Liverpool Overhead Electric Railway, The, Sir Douglas Fox and Mr. J. H. Greathead, 131, 171
  • Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns, Quarter ended 30th June, 1890, 120
  • Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns, Quarter ending September, 1890, 292
  • Load-line Act, The, 113, 439, 505
  • Lobnitz and Company, Messrs., The Subaqueous Rock Dredger Derocheuse, 127
  • Locomotive Boiler, Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Company, St. James’s and Pali Mall Electric Light Company’s Station, 189
  • Locomotive Building for a Great French Road, The Course of Forty Years, 41
  • Locomotive, Comparative Tests of an Electric Motor and a Steam, Mr. L. Moss, 181
  • Locomotive Engine Economy, 256
  • Locomotive Engine is Propelled, How a, 354 403
  • Locomotive, A Metamorphosed Mr. W. Marriott, 352, 356
  • Locomotive Model, The First Steam Carriage or, 435
  • Locomotive, Old Colony Railroad, U. S. A. (Supplement November 14th, 1890), 396, 401. 402
  • Locomotive Passenger, Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. T. N. Ely (Supplement October 11th, 1890), 308, 309, 312
  • Locomotive, Passenger, Waterford and Limerick Railway, Mr. J. G. Robinson, 213, 214
  • Locomotive Practice in America, 308
  • Locomotive Tank, Paris, Sceaux and Limours Railway, 414, 418
  • Locomotive Tests of a Compound, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 233, 248
  • Locomotive Valve Gear, 473, 515, 530
  • Locomotives, Compound, Mr. Pritchard on, 386
  • Locomotive Compound and Simple, in the United States, 236
  • Locomotives for the Congo Railway, 486
  • Locomotives, Eight-coupled, 41
  • Locomotives, English and American, 52, 369 401
  • Locomotives, High and Low, 479, 515, 530
  • Locomotives for India, 237
  • Locomotives ? Prices and Weights of 379
  • Locomotives, Six-coupled, 41
  • Locomotives, Vibratory Movements of, John Milne and John McDonald, 442
  • London, Electric Lighting in, 187—190, 205—207, 376, 450, 458, 474, 475, 480, 536
  • London Electric Supply Corporation, The, 317, 507
  • London and North-Western Railway, 1847, Crampton Engine (Supplement, November 28th, 1890), 442
  • London and Portsmouth Ship Canal, The 120
  • London Railway, The Central, 44, 53
  • London and Tilbury Railway Company, The - their Proposal to use only Two Classes of Carriages, 481
  • London Water Supply, 94
  • London Water Supply and the Authorities, 337
  • London Water Supply Controversy, The, 135
  • London Water Supply in Parliament, The 459
  • Loomis Process of Making Gas for Fuel, Mr. R. N. Oakman, jun., 107
  • Loomis Water-gas Producer, The, 329
  • Loss of H.M.S. “Serpent,” The, 398
  • Louvres, Self-acting, Major Bale, 27, 98
  • Low-water Automatic Alarm for Boilers, Messrs. Gent and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1 and 2), 245
  • Lubricating Oils, 334, 355, 403
  • Lubricating Oils, by A. C. J. Charlier, 305
  • Lubrication of Steam Engines, 399
  • Lubricators, Sight-feed, 5
  • Lyster, Mr. F. G., and the Mersey Bar Dredging Operations, 335
  • MAASBOOT, No. 2, 1841, Compound Engines of the, 229
  • Macaroni Machinery ? 51
  • MacDonald, John, Vibratory Movements of Locomotives, 442
  • Madras Railway, Chittravati Bridge, 472
  • Mace, Mr Stewart R., Liquid-holding Vessel, 55
  • Machine for Cleaning Sacks, Mr. A. Glover’s, 527
  • Machine for Making Lubricated Cotton Engine Packing? 31
  • Machine for Painting Venetian Blind Laths, 51
  • Machine for Picture Frame Makers? 51
  • Machinery and Hardware Co., The, Martignoni’s Disc Cutting Tools, 238
  • Machinery, Manual Labour v, 507
  • Machinery, Taxation of, and Foreign Tariffs 310
  • Machines and Labour, New, 94
  • Machines for Making Perforated Iron and Galvanised Wire Netting, 31
  • McKinley Tariff, The, 295
  • McKinley Tariff Bill, The, 94, 196
  • McKinley Tariff, Effect of the, 400,435
  • Mclaren, Mr. John, on Steam on Common Roads, 394, 416
  • McLaren, Messrs. J. and H., 20-H.P. Agricultural Engines for Meldura, Australia, 43
  • Magnesia in Portland Cement, 358
  • Magnetic Railway, The Lineff, 129
  • Magnetic Separator, The Ball and Norton “Monarch,” 462
  • Magnetic Separator, Mr. C. M. Ball on the Ball and Norton, 308
  • Magnetic Separator, The Venstrom, 525
  • Magnolia Metal Roll Bearings, 169
  • Maignen s Water Softening Apparatus for Steam Boiler Feed, 158, 159
  • Main Drainage of Sutton, Surrey, 9
  • Main Switch-board, Mason’s Yard Station, St. James s and Pall Mall Electric Lighting Co., 207
  • “Majestic,” The s.s. (see “Teutonic”)
  • Malleable Castings? 31
  • Malta Dockyard, Compound Surface Condensing Land Engines for, Mr. A. G. Mumford, 298
  • “Mana,” Compound Diagonal Engines for the Paddle Tug, Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, Edinburgh Exhibition, 50
  • Manchester Congress on Inland Navigation, International, 106, 150
  • Manchester Ship Canal, The, 34, 157, 171, 285 391
  • Manchester Ship Canal, The Floods and the, 443
  • Manchester Ship Canal, Map of Country Traversed by, Mr. E. L. Williams, 34
  • Manchester Ship Canal, and Sewage Purification, The, 386
  • Manganese Bronze, 61
  • Manganese Bronze Co.’s Works, Deptford, 62, 63
  • Manilla and Hemp Ropes, Strength of, 517
  • Mannesmann Tube Works, 250-Horse Power Vertical Engines, Messrs. Browett and Lindley’s, 146, 160
  • Manual Labour v. Machinery, 508
  • Manufacturers, English, in the United States, lheir Viewsand Impressions, 400, 424
  • Manufactures in the United States, Growth of, 230
  • Map of Country Traversed by the Manchester Ship Canal, Mr. E. L. Williams. 34
  • Map of the Proposed Birmingham and Liverpool Ship Canal, 247
  • Map of Route of the City and South London Railway (Fig. 1), 384
  • Marcilhacy’s Diver’s Helmet, Mr. R. Applegarth, 454
  • Marine Boilers With Fresh Water, Supplying, 29, 40, 98
  • Marine Engine, 200-Horse Power, s.s. “Dee” 169
  • Marine Engineering Feat, Remarkable, 94
  • Marine Engines, Compound, Sixty Years ago, 228
  • Market Hall, La Plata, 429, 430, 431
  • Marquette Iron Ore District, Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute, 525
  • Marriott, Mr. W., A Metamorphosed Locomotive, 352, 356
  • Martignoni’s Disc Cutting Tools, 238
  • Masts on which the Brush Lamps are Mounted at the Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 5, 6), 24
  • Meat Cutter and Sausage Maker, A New, 271
  • Mechanical Engineering of Coal Mines, Recent Improvements in, Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, 84
  • Mechanical Goods Lifts ? 533
  • Mechanical Science at the British Association, 215
  • Mechanical Stoker, Roney’s, 232
  • Mechanical Units, 15
  • “Medusa,” 2800 tons, H. M. Second-class Steel Protected (Supplement July 4th, 1890)
  • Melbourne Drainage, 239
  • Meldura, Australia, 20-Horse Power Agricultural Engines for, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, 43
  • Melville, Mr., On Steel Castings in the United States, 514
  • Merryweather and Sons, Messrs., Diploma of Honour Awarded to, 308
  • Merryweather and Sons, of London, Messrs., Steam Fire Engine for the Hague, 64
  • Mersey Bar Dredging Operations, The, 335
  • Mersey Dock Estate, Engineering Features of the, 386
  • Meter, The Deacon, 239
  • Meters, Water, 416
  • Metropolitan Railway Fire The 237
  • Michele Mr V. de, Stave Brander, 433
  • Midland Railway Working, The, 136
  • Military Telephone System at Antwerp, 358
  • Mill Engine, Tandem Compound, Messrs. Robey ana co., 6, 7
  • Mill, Paxman’s Huntingdon, 436
  • Miller, Mr. Thomas I., on the Efficiency of Gas Engines, 77, 181
  • Miller, Mr. J. L., at the Liverpool Engineering Society, 530
  • Miller, Mr. M. T. Spencer, on Strength of Manilla and Hemp Ropes and Rope Power Transmission, 517
  • Milne, John, Vibratory Movements of Locomotives, andc., 442
  • Mine, The Calumet and Hecla, 451
  • Minerals and Metals during 1890, Some Aspects of our Trade in, 33
  • Miners, Eight Hours for, 420
  • Miners’ Eyes ? Do Safety Lamps Injure, 32
  • Mines, The Broken Hill Proprietary Company’s Silver Lead, 83, 84, 172, 360
  • Mines, High Explosives in Coal, 217
  • Mining Combinations of the Future, 32
  • Mining Exhibition, Closing Ceremony, 324
  • Mining and Metallurgy, The International Exhibition of, 83, 316
  • Mining Royalties in England, 176
  • Miscellanea, 13, 36, 56, 76, 87, 111, 133, 149, 174, 191, 209, 231, 253, 274, 293, 318, 331, 351, 373, . 395, 417, 438, 453, 477, 511, 531
  • Mitchell, Mr. F. C., “ Polytechnic Series of Draw¬ing Scales,” 335
  • Modern Small Steam Engines, 135
  • Molecular Theory of Induced Magnetism, Pro¬fessor J. A. Ewing’s Contributions to the, 78
  • Monarch Magnetic Separator, The Ball and Norton, 462
  • Moselle Steamboat, 1840 (D 21), Compound Engines of a, 532, 535
  • Moss, Mr. Lincoln, Comparative Tests of an Electric Motor and a Steam Locomotive on the Manhattan Elevated Railway, New York, 181
  • Motor, Petroleum, Mr. Edward Butler, 65, 66
  • Mountain, Mr. W. C., Electric Light Installation on the Alternating System, Messrs. E. Scott and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1. 2, 3, and 4), 165
  • Mower Knife Eye, Arter’s, 472
  • Multiple-effect Evaporator, American Patent Law and, 190
  • Mumford, Mr. A. G., Compound Surface Con-densing Land Engines for Malta Dockyard, 298
  • Municipal Work in Edinburgh, Mr. Cooper on, 266
  • Musgrave and Sons, Messrs. John, 2000 Indicated Horse-power Engines in the India Mills, 530
  • Musgrave and. Sons, Messrs. John, 2000-Horse Power Horizontal Compound Condensing En-gines, 249, 254, 277, 278, 279
  • NAPIER, Shanks, and Bell, Messrs., Passenger Steamer “Hygeia,” 306, 307
  • Nasmyth’s Will, 139
  • National Art Competition, 73
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 53, 306
  • Naval Construction and Armaments Company, Stern and Bow of H.M.’s Protected Cruiser “Latona,” 30, 32
  • Naval Construction in France, Twenty Years of, 305, 392
  • Naval Engineer Appointments, 73, 107, 163, 292, 308, 366, 386, 422, 450, 484, 521
  • Naval Exhibition, The, 526
  • Naval Exhibits, Edinburgh Exhibition, 227
  • Naval Manoeuvres, The, 177
  • Naval Manosuvres, French, 72, 95, 115
  • Naval Progress, A Decade of Russian, 31
  • Navigation, Inland, 128
  • Navigation, Inland, in the United Kingdom— Traffic, Capacity, Finance, and Improvement, Mr. Edwin Clements, 130, 150, 212
  • Navigation, Manchester, International Congress on Inland, 106, 150
  • Navigations between the East and West Coasts, Improvement of, 480
  • Navy, Captain Noble on the, at the British Association, 219, 238
  • Navy, The Condition of the, 97
  • Navy, Engineers in the, 208, 480
  • Navy, Steam Engineering in the, 533
  • Navy, Stokers in the, 4
  • Navy, Sir Thos. Symonds and Our, 93
  • New Albert Bridge, Belfast, 217
  • New Companies, 19, 39, 59, 81, 101,123, 143,163, 185, 203, 223, 243, 263, 283, 303, 325, 345, 367, 389, 407, 427, 447, 467, 487, 521, 543
  • New Conveyor Company, The, Automatic Stoking and Coal-conveying Apparatus, Nunnery Colliery, Sheffield, 332, 333
  • New Problem for Parliament, A, 216
  • New Railways, 217
  • New South Wales Railway, First-class Carriage, 7
  • New York Aqueduct, Map and Profile of the, 341, 361, 385, 386, 404, 423
  • New York to Queenstown, From, an Unprecedented Record, 220
  • New York Bay, Railway Tunnel Under, 308
  • New Zealand, Products and Resources of, 484
  • Niagara, Utilisation of the Falls of, 53
  • Nickel Steel Corner, A, 400
  • Nile, Proposed Bridge Across the, 436
  • Nitrate of Soda, Fire in Iquique, 249
  • Noble, Captain, on the British Navy, 219, 238
  • Nordenfelt Submarine Torpedo Boat, Fate of the, 190
  • Northern Coke Manufacture, 358
  • North of England, 17, 37, 79, 99, 121, 141, 162, 184, 201, 222, 242, 261, 282, 301, 323, 344, 365, 387, 406, 426, 445, 465, 485, 519, 541
  • North of England Iron Trade, The, 442
  • Northern Manufactured Iron Trade, 461
  • Northern Shipbuilding, 94
  • Northern Shipbuilding Prospects, 317
  • Notes from Germany, 18, 38, 58, 80, 100, 122, 142, 162, 184. 202, 222, 242, 262, 282, 302, 324, 344, 366, 388, 406, 426, 446, 466, 486, 520, 542
  • Notes from Lancashire, 17, 37, 57, 79, 99, 120, 141, 161, 183, 201, 221, 241, 261, 281, 301, 323, 343, 365, 386, 405, 425, 445, 465, 485, 519, 541
  • Notes and Memoranda, 13, 36, 56, 76, 87, 111, 133, 149, 174, 191, 209, 231, 253, 274, 293, 318, 331, 351, 373, 395, 417, 438, 453, 477, 511, 531
  • Notes from Scotland, 18, 38, 57, 68, 80, 100, 121, i 142, 162, 184, 201, 222, 242, 262, 302, 324, 344, 366, 387, 406, 426, 446, 466, 486, 520, 542
  • Notices to Correspondents, 11, 31, 51, 71, 93, 1 113,135, 155, 174, 195, 215, 235, 255, 275, 295, 315, 337, 357, 379, 399, 419, 439, 459, 479, 505, 532
  • Nova Scotia, Shipbuilding in, 330
  • Nunnery Colliery, Sheffield, Automatic Stoking and Coal Conveying Apparatus, 332, 333
  • Nut Lock Washer, New, the Nut Lock Washer Company, 414
  • OBITUARY
  • - Billard, Mr. Stephen, 476
  • - Clayton, Mr. Nathaniel, 527
  • - Couitas, Mr. Jas., 335
  • - Hutchinson, Mr. Geo., 481
  • - Parkes, Mr. Alexander, 65
  • - Snell, Mr. W. H., 18
  • O’Callaghan, Colonel, and Major Clarke, Report on War Materiel in the Paris Exhibition, 72
  • Ocean Racing, 260
  • Ochta Competition, Armour Plates, 409—412
  • Official Report on War Materiel in the Paris Exhibition, 72
  • Oil ? Clearing Feed-water of, 135
  • Okes’s Patent Sewage and Sludge Pump, 202
  • Old Colony Railroad Locomotive, U.S.A. (Supplement November 14th, 1890), 396, 401, 402
  • Open Hearth Process, Mr. H. H. Campbell on the Physical and Chemical Equations of the, 308
  • Ordnance, Tenders for, Asked for by the United , States Ordnance Department, 314
  • Ore, Direct Reduction of, in America, 381
  • Ore Dressing in Germany, 126, 127, 146, 178
  • Ouse Navigation, The River, 136
  • Overhead Conductor System of Working Electrical Tram cars, the Electrical Engineering Corporation, 285, 286
  • Overhead Railway, The Liverpool, 131
  • Oxford, School of Science and Art in, 150
  • PACIFIC Mail Steamship Co.’s Steamer “City of Sydney,” 339, 340
  • Pacific Steamship “Empress of India,” the Naval Construction and Armaments Co. (Supplement, September 5th, 1890), 197, 218
  • Paddle Engines of the s.s. “Princess Victoria” and “Clacton Belle,” Messrs. Denny and Co., 85, 92
  • Paddle Steamers for the Bosphorus, Messrs. R. i and H. Green, 371, 372
  • Paddle Steamship “ Princess Victoria,” Messrs. Denny and Bros., 85
  • Paddle-wheels, 533
  • Panelled Iron Ceiling Plates, 175
  • Park Gate Iron and Steel Works, Mr. Stoddart, 107, 117
  • Parkes, Mr. Alexander, 65
  • Paris, Electric Lighting Installation at, 426
  • Paris Exhibition, Official Report on War Materiel in the, 72
  • Paris, Sceauxand Limours Railway Tank Engines, 414, 418
  • Paris Water Supply, 14 387
  • Parliamentary Restriction of Speculation in Warrants, Proposed, 505
  • Patent Legislation in the United States, A Century of, 521
  • Patent Office, Lighting of the, 413
  • Patents Act, 1888, The, 163
  • Paterson and Cooper, Messrs., Pocket Volt Meter, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 5,) 245
  • Paving Bricks? Composition, 275
  • Paxman’s Huntingdon Mill, 436
  • Penberthy Injector, The, Messrs. Pontifex and Wood, 137
  • Penn and Sons, Messrs. John, Oscillating Engines, Bosphorus Steamers, 371,
  • Pens, Reservoir, 252
  • Penshaw Bridge, Sunderland, 517
  • Pennsylvania Railroad, Passenger Locomotive, Mr. T. N. Ely, 308, 309, 312
  • Permanent Way Designed for Halladay Cable Tramways, 118
  • Permanent Way, The Development of, in America, J. Elfretb Watkins, 319, 320, 321
  • Petroleum and Gas Engines, 5
  • Petroleum Motor, Mr. Edw. Butler, 65, 66
  • Petroleum—Past, Present, and Future, Mr. Bovd. 521
  • “Philadelphia,” Official Trial of the U.S. Warship, 117
  • Phoenix Iron Company, Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to the Works of, 329
  • Phonographing in Duplicate, 223
  • Pilkington and Forrest’s Air-compressor Valves? 337
  • Pipe Line Gas for London, 457
  • Pipe and Pipe Joint Cutting Machine, Fenney's, 455
  • Piston-rods, Causes of Broken, 364
  • Pitcher’s Engine Governor? 337
  • Pittsburgh Reduction Company, The, 381
  • Pittsburgh Reduction Company, The Aluminium Plant of the, 415
  • Pit Lamps ? 215
  • Plant for the Manufacture of Cement, Messrs. Whitmore and Binyon, 249, 251, 287, 290, 294
  • Plymouth Show, Red Tape at the, 32
  • Pneumatic Caulking Tool, The American Pneumatic Tool Company, 97
  • Pneumatic Caulking Tool, Messrs. Crossley Bros., Improvements in, 463
  • Pocket Volt Meter, Messrs. Paterson and Cooper, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 5), 245
  • Pointer, Optical, Mr. D. Gravel), 330
  • Polarisation of the Earth by Heavy Currents, Mr. Chas. Cuttriss, 234
  • Pollution of the Irwell and Mersey, 526
  • Popular Science, 300
  • Portland Cement for Anchoring Bolts, 518
  • Portland Cement, Magnesia in, 358
  • Power Transmission by Compressed Air, 338
  • Price’s Patent Single-chain Grab, Messrs. J. H. Wilson and Co.’s, 433
  • Pritchard, Mr., on Compound Locomotives, 386
  • Private Bill Legislation, 43, 514
  • Private Bills in Parliament, 514, 530
  • Problem in Heating ? A, 479
  • Problem in Heating, 530
  • Problem in Excavation, A, 51
  • Problem in Thermo-Dynamics, 29, 45
  • Proell’s Scheme for Compressed Air for Power Distribution, 377
  • Projectiles, The Cost of, 473
  • Projectiles, Electric Welding applied to the Manufacture of, 463
  • Propellers, Balanced, 416
  • Propeller Blade, “City of Paris,” 62
  • Propellers, Mr. Thos. Drewry on, 447, 484
  • Propeller, Screw, 335, 354, 402, 413, 434, 473, 510, 530
  • Proportions of Steam Engines, 338, 3/7
  • Propulsion, Locomotive, 354, 403
  • Propulsion, Steamship, 355
  • Public Health, The, 394
  • Puddle Bars, Hot Piling, 422
  • Pulleys? Concentric Differential, 315
  • Pulleys? Wrought Iron, 357
  • Pulverising Hard Substances, “The Ball Mill” for, 250
  • Pump, Okes’ Patent Sewage and Sludge, 202
  • Pumping Engines, Addington and Crnydon Corporation Waterworks, Messrs. Easton and Anderson (Supplement, August 29th, 1890), 166, 167, 190, 199, 240, 403
  • Pumping Engine, Rhymney Iron Mines, Messrs. Harvey and Co. (Supplement, September 19th, 1890), 230
  • Pumping Plant, New Mail Steamers for the Canadian Pacific Line, Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., 218
  • Purchase of Land for Railways, 311, 335, 355
  • Purifier, Feed-water Heater and, Messrs. Sanderson and Co., 232
  • Purification of Sewage, 5, 29
  • QUEEN’S Terrace Mews Battery Station, Electric Lighting in London, 475, 536, 537
  • RAILS in Tunnels, Wear of, 539
  • Railway, Andes or Argentine and Chili, 380
  • Railway Axles, 260
  • Railway Axles in India, 235
  • Railway Axles, Steel, on Indian Railways, 217
  • Railway Carriage of Coal, 12
  • Railway, The Central London, 44, 53
  • Railway, The City and South London, Mr. J. H. Greatbead, 382, 383, 384
  • Railway Experiment, An Extraordinary, 481
  • Railway Extensions in Yorkshire, 53
  • Railway Fire, The Metropolitan, 237
  • Railway, Grand Junction, London and Northern Railway, 359
  • Railway, The Great Western, 11
  • Railway, The Jaffa and Jerusalem, 510
  • Railway, Halifax High Level and North and South Junction, 234
  • Railway, The Lineff Magnetic, 129
  • Railway, The Liverpool Overhead Electric, Sir D. Fox and Mr. J. H. Greathead, 131, 171
  • Railway Matters, 13, 36, 56, 76, 87, 111, 133, 149, 174, 191, 209, 231, 253, 274, 293, 318, 331,351, 373, 395, 417, 438, 453, 477, 511, 531
  • Railway Passenger Traffic, The, 255
  • Railway Policy of the Indian Government, 52
  • Railway Projects Revived, 297
  • Railway Rates, 157
  • Railway Rates for Goods Traffic, 507
  • Railway Speeds, 69, 98, 110
  • Railway Speeds, Continental, 355, 377, 416, 457
  • Railway Trains ? Composition of, 315
  • Railway, Trans-Siberian, 388 _
  • Railway Tunnel under New York Bay, 308
  • Railway Working, 72
  • Railway Working, The Midland, 136
  • Railway Works in the North, 296
  • Railways, Capital and Working of Our, 155
  • Railways, Effect of Tube Frame Goods Wagons on Working Expenses of, Mr. M. Jefferds, 392
  • Railways, Employment of Light, 420
  • Railways, Foreign, Using Chairs and Keys ? 379
  • Railways in Ireland, Construction of Numerous, 461
  • Railways, New, 217
  • Railways, Purchase of Land for, 311, 335, 355
  • Railways, Russian, in 1889, 366
  • Railways, Swedish, 216
  • Railways, Traffic Receipts at the Leading, Half- year ending June 30th, 1888, 403
  • Rams to Destroy Ironclad Propellers, 310, 363
  • Ramsay, Mr., Patent Intermediate Damper, 55
  • Rankin and Blackmore, Messrs., Passenger Steamer “Hygeia,” Engined by, 306, 307
  • Rating of Machinery at Dronsfield, 467
  • Rating Value of Observatories, 171
  • Rational Roof Truss, 335, 402
  • Reaper Chain, Howard’s, 470
  • Reaper Spindles, Hornsby’s Bearings for, 470
  • Reapers, Hornsby’s Flat Rotary Divider for, 470
  • Recorder for Indicatingthe Velocity and Quantity of Water Pumped into the Alexandra Dock, Hull, Mr. A. C. Hurtzig, 279, 376, 403
  • Red Tape at the Plymouth Show, 32
  • Refrigerating Apparatus at some Gold Mmes in Peru, Mr. T. L. Miller on Some, 530
  • Refrigeration System, The Linde, 4, 5, 29, 44, 69
  • Refuse, Burning Town, 357, 376, 377, 413, 457
  • Refuse Destructors, 413, 457
  • Regulator, Double Check Gas, Messrs, blatter and Watkins, 462
  • Relative Value of Canalsand Railways for Purposes of Transport, 265
  • Rendel, Sir A. M., The Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur, 471, 472
  • Repairing Roofs of Large Steel Works ? 135
  • Reservoir Pens, Some, 252
  • Responsibilities of Boiler Insurance Companies, 315
  • Rettie, Mr. C., Cabin and Cupboard Door Latch 514
  • Reynolds, Mr. Michael, Testimonial to, 128
  • Rhine Navigable, Cost of Keeping the, 156
  • Rhymney Iron Mines, Compound Horizontal Condensing Pumping Engine, Messrs. Harvey and Company (Supplement September 19th, 1890) 230
  • Richardson and Sons, Messrs. Thomas, Triple Expansion Engines (Supplement October 31st, 1890), 360
  • Rifle, An Automatic, 217
  • Rifle, The Lee Magazine, 202
  • Ring Bearings, 160
  • Risdon Ironworks, The Boilers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s Steamer “City of Sydney,” 339, 340
  • River Ouse Navigation, The, 136
  • Robertson, Mr. F. E., on the Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus, 471, 472
  • Robey and Co., Messrs., Compound Electric Light-Engines, 529
  • Robey and Co., Messrs., Tandem Compound Mills, Engine, 6
  • Robey Engines used in the Electric Lighting of the Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Robinson, Mr. J. G., Passenger Locomotive, Waterford and Limerick Railway, 213, 214
  • Robinson’s Patent Air Engine, 443
  • Roburite Explosives Company, Prize Awarded to, at the Crystal Palace, 297
  • Rochdale, The Town Council of, and the Technical Instruction Act, 162
  • Rock-Cutting Barge and Plant, Sub-aqueous, Messrs. Lobnitz, 127
  • Rock Driller, The Ingersoll, Driven by Electric Motor, Messrs. Immisch, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 74
  • Roentgen’s Compound Engines, The Maasboot (No. 2, 1841), 229
  • Roentgen, Gerard Maurice, Compound Engines of the s.s. “Batavia,” 104, 105
  • Rolling Mill Engines, Middlesbrough, 700-Horse Power, Newport, 482
  • Rolling Stock, Additions to Railway, 176
  • Rolling Stock, Articulated, Paris, Sceaux and Limours Railway, 414
  • Rolling Stock Expenditure at the Leading Railways, Half-year ending June 30th, 1888, 403
  • Rolling Stock, New South Wales Railway, First-class Carriage, 7
  • Rolls, Pair of Cutting and Piling Rolls, Mr. R. R- Gubbins, 422
  • Ronald Scott Dynamo, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • Roney’s Furnaces? 295
  • Roney’s Mechanical Stoker, 232
  • Roof Truss, Rational, 335, 402
  • Rope-power Transmission and Strength of Manilla and Hemp Ropes, 517
  • Rose, Mr. Geo., New Industrial Lamp— “The Excello,” 359
  • Round wood Brick Works, Wakefield, Stiff Plastic Brickmaking Machine, Messrs. Bradley and Craven, 67
  • ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, THE, 114:—
  • - Boiler, The Gippeswyk, Messrs. Simpson and Strickland, 2
  • - Competition of Thrashing Machines, Entries for the, 73
  • - Cylinder, Kingdon’s Compound, 2
  • - Engine with Kingdon’s Compound Cylinder Messrs. Simpson and Strickland, 2
  • - Engine Trials at Plymouth, 1
  • - Prizes Offered in connection with the Doncaster Meeting of 1891, 35, 535
  • Royal Arsenal Woolwich, Visit of the Society of Engineers to, 64
  • ROYAL INSTITUTION, THE :—
  • - Lecture Arrangements before Easter, 476
  • Royal Military Exhibition, 308
  • Royal Naval Engineer Officers, 152
  • Royal Navy, Engineers in the, 155
  • Royalties, Mining, 176
  • ROYAL SOCIETY, THE:-
  • - Contributions to the Molecular Theory of Induced Magnetism, Professor J. A. Ewing, 78
  • Russian Naval Progress, A Decade of, 31
  • Russian Railways in 1889, 366
  • Russian Tests of Armour Plates, 400
  • Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Semi-Portable Condensing Engine, 89
  • Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., The Sheaf Ironworks, Lincoln, 88, 89
  • Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Undertype Engine with Cylindrical Fire-box, 89
  • Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Vertical Return-tube Boiler, 90
  • Ruthven, Mr., Water Jet Propulsion, 230
  • Ryland’s Iron, Steel, Tin-plate, Coal, Engineering, and Allied Trades Directory, 1890, 157
  • SACKS, Machine for Cleaning, 527
  • Safety Lamps : Do they Injure Miners’ Eyes, 32
  • St. James’s and Pall Mall Electric Light Company- The, 187—190, 205—207
  • St. Petersburg, Competitive Trial of Steel and Steel-faced Armour at, 409—412
  • Salvage of the s.s. “ Ulunda,” The, 454
  • Sand Moulding Machine, Mr. F. G. Leeder’s, 333
  • Sandberg, Mr. C. P., Steel Rails Considered Chemically and Mechanically, 84, 86, 118, 119
  • Sanderson and Co., Messrs., Feed-water Heater and Purifier, 232
  • Sanitary Engineers, An Opening for, 380
  • Sault St. Marie Canal, The, Michigan, U.S.A., 96
  • Sautier and Cie., MM., Reservoir Pen, 252
  • Scholes, Mr. Geo., and Mr. Max am Ende, Engineers, New Market Hall, La Plata, 429 430 431
  • School Board Drawings, 441
  • Scott Dynamo, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 6), 245
  • Scott’s Instantaneous Fuse, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 6), 245
  • Scott and Co., Messrs. E, Electric Light Installation on the Alternating System, Mr. W. C. Mountain, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4), 165
  • Screw, An Anti-friction, 481
  • Screw, Lieb’s Ball-bearing, 433
  • Screw Propeller Blade, Delta Metal, 158
  • Screw Propeller Blades, The Design of,.Professor M. F. FitzGerald, 145, 225
  • Screw Propellers, 259, 335, 354, 376, 402, 413, 434, 473, 515, 530
  • Screwing and Boring Machine, Special, Messrs. Jas. Spencer and Co., 232
  • Season Ticket Holders, 289
  • Sea Water in London, 45
  • Seed Drills in Italy, 200
  • Selected American Patents, 20, 40, 60, 82, 102, 123 144, 164, 186, 204, 224, 244, 264, 284, 304, 326, 346, 368, 390, 408, 428, 448, 468, 488, 522, 544
  • Separator, The Ball and Norton “Monarch” Magnetic, 462
  • Separator, Electro-magnetic, for Extracting Iron from Bones, Mr. C. E. Hall, 44
  • Separators, Electro-magnetic, 44, 98
  • “Serpent,” Loss of H.M.S., 398, 419
  • Serve Internally-ribbed Boiler Tubes, The, 361
  • Serve Tubes, 317
  • Sewage, The Electrical Treatment of, 452
  • Sewage, Purification of. 5
  • Sewage and Sludge Pump, Okes’ Patent, 202
  • Sewell, Mr., Engineering in the White Star Fleet, 517
  • Sewer Ventilation, Mr. W. Santo Crimp, 292
  • Sewerage of Heswall, Completion of the, 398
  • Shafting, 260
  • Shanghai, The Bar at Woosung, 130
  • Sheaf Ironworks, Lincoln, The, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 88, 89
  • Sheffield and Aire and Calder J unction, Map of, 314
  • Sheffield District, 17, 37, 57, 79, 99, 121, 141, 161, 183, 201, 221, 241, 261, 281, 302, 323, 343, 365, 387, 405, 425, 445, 465, 485, 519
  • Sheffield, Inland Arsenal at, 156
  • Sheffield, The New Municipal Buildings of, 452
  • Sheffield Waterworks, Mr. E. M. Eaton on the, 107
  • Shielded Mountings, Gruson’s, 269
  • Shinn, Mr., “Transportation as an Element of Iron and Steel Manufacture, 381
  • Ship Caissons, 479
  • Ship Caissons for Dock Basins and Dry Docks, Mr. F. J. F. Andrews, 452
  • Ship Canal, The Birmingham and Liverpool, 247
  • Ship Canal, The Manchester, 171, 285, 391
  • Ship Canal Schemes in 1825, 300
  • Ship Canals, 45
  • Ship Launch at Woolston, Southampton, 452
  • Ship-lighting Plant, Messrs. King, Brown, and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition, 75
  • Shipbuilding on the Clyde, New, 176
  • Shipbuilding, Foreign, 32
  • Shipbuilding in Ireland, 481
  • Shipbuilding, Northern, 94
  • Shipbuilding in Nova Scotia, 330
  • Shipbuilding Prospects, 507
  • Shipbuilding Prospects, Northern, 317
  • Shipbuilding, Six Months of Clyde, 12
  • Shipbuilding, Trade Secrets in, 360
  • Shipbuilding Yard, Messrs. Cramps’, 230
  • Shipment, Coal, 32
  • Shipowners, Federation of, 337
  • Shipping Trade, Steam, 534
  • Ships, Foreign, in British Trade, 136
  • Ships’ Sides, Strength of, 5
  • Siemens Furnace, New, Described by Messrs. Head and Pouff, 39
  • Siemens’ Heating Methods, 457
  • Sight-feed Lubricators, 5
  • Silver Lead Mines, the Broken Hill, 83, 84, 172, 360
  • Silver Trade, A Noteworthy Precedent in the, 508
  • Simons and Co., Messrs. Wm., Stern Well Hopper Dredger, 227
  • Simpson and Strickland’s, Messrs., Boiler, 2
  • Simpson and Strickland, Messrs., Engine with Kingdon’s Compound Cylinder, R.A.S. at Plymouth, 2
  • Single Chain Grab, 433
  • Skey and Co., Messrs. Geo., Little Fountain Filter, 272
  • Slatter and Watkin’s Double-check Gas Regulator, 462
  • Slide Rule, Hydraulic, Mr. A. Honeysett (Maker, W. F. Stanley), 359
  • Slide Valve, Balanced, 5, 69
  • Slide Valve Friction? 479
  • Smelting of Iron Ores Chemically Considered, Sir L. Bell on the, 22
  • SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW:—
  • - Bearings for Reaper Spindles, 470
  • - Canvas Roller Tighteners, 470
  • - Compound Traction Engines, Messrs. Burrell and Co., 469
  • - Flat Rotary Divider for Reapers, Hornsby’s,
  • - Reaper Chains, Howard’s, 470
  • Smithy Chimneys ? 357
  • Smoke Abatement, 441
  • Smoke in Great Towns, 358
  • Smokeless Powder and Quick-firing Guns, Gruson’s Trials of, 95
  • Smoke Prevention in Leeds, 300
  • Snell, Mr. W. H., 18
  • SOCIETY OF ARTS, INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON
  • - Electric Welding applied to the Manufacture of Projectiles, 463
  • Society, The Calcutta Health, 129
  • SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :—
  • - Electrical Treatment of Sewage, The, Mr. W. Webster, 452
  • - Smelting of Iron Ores Chemically Considered, Sir L. Bell’s Presidential Address, entitled, 22
  • Society of Chemical Industry, The London Sec¬tion of, The Electrical Treatment of Sewage, Mr. W. Webster, 452
  • SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN :-
  • - Comparative Tests of an Electric Motor and a Steam Locomotive on the Manhattan Elevated Railway, New York, Mr. L. Moss, 181
  • - Development of the American Rail and Track, The, Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, 319
  • SOCIETY, CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS’:—
  • - Petroleum, Past, Present, and Future, Mr. Boyd, 521
  • SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, THE :—
  • - Annual Dinner of, 481
  • - Sewer Ventilation, Mr. W. Santo Crimp, 292
  • - Ship Caissons for Dock Basins and Dry Docks, Mr. J. J. F. Andrews, 452
  • - Treatment and Utilisation of Exhaust Steam, M r. Percy Griffith, 386
  • - Visit to the London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, 234
  • - Visit to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 64
  • SOCIETE DES INGENIEURS ClVILS
  • - Electric Transmission of Power, M. Hillairet, 147
  • SOCIETY, THE JUNIOR ENGINEERING
  • - Meeting to Inaugurate the Tenth Session of, 482
  • - Visit to the Richmond Gasworks, 49
  • - Visit to the Royal Arsensal, Woolwich, 388
  • SOCIETY, KING’S COLLEGE ENGINEERING
  • - Address of the President, Mr. Stanford, 359
  • - Calais Harbour, Mr. Ellis, 473
  • - Compound Locomotives, Mr. Pritchard, 386
  • - Injectors, Mr. Inman, 467
  • - Telegraphy, Mr. Andrews, 394
  • SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING, 100
  • - Distribution of Electricity from Central Stations, Mr. G. L. Addenbrooke, 455
  • - Efficiency of Gas Engines, Mr. J. I. Miller, 77, 181
  • - Mersey Dock Estate, Mr. F. Hudleston on the General Engineering Features of the, 386
  • - Refrigerating Apparatus at some Gold Mines in Peru, Mr. T. L Miller, 530
  • - Test Samples, System for the Measurement of the Elongation of, Mr. T. L. Miller, 530
  • SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN:—
  • - Electric Welding, Mr. C. I. H. Hood bury’s Paper on, Discussed, 9
  • SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL :—
  • - List of Papers Read on the 17th December, 1890, 515
  • - Relation of Ground Water to Disease, Mr. B. Latham, 517
  • SOCIETY, THE MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERS’ :—
  • - Cable Tramways of Edinburgh, Mr. W. N. Colam, 266
  • - Municipal Work in Edinburgh, Mr. Cooper, 266
  • Southampton Docks, The New, 64, 70
  • Southampton Extension Dock, The, 7
  • Southampton Naval Works, Limited, Ship Launch at, 452
  • South Yorkshire Junction Canal, 314
  • Spain, Electric Lighting in, 260
  • Spanner, New Shifting, Mr. Ellin, 3
  • Spartan Steel ? 533
  • Speed Cones for Lathes, 416
  • Speed of Continental Trains, 355, 377, 416, 457
  • Speed Governors, 515
  • Speed of German Trains, 355, 377, 416, 457
  • Spencer and Co., Messrs. Jas., Screwing and Boring Machine, 232
  • Spencer and Sons, Messrs., Makers of Fowne’s Built Cranks, 313
  • Stanford, Mr., Presidential Address at the King’s College Engineering Society, 359
  • Stanley, Mr. W. F., Hydraulic Slide Rule; Designer, Mr. A. Honeysett, 359
  • Starch-Making Machinery, 51
  • State-Aided Engineering and Manufacturing Industries in Hungary, Embellishment of, 55
  • Statter’s Two-Pole Dynamos, in Use on the Telpher Railway, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 7, 8), 24
  • Stave Brand or, Michele’s, 433
  • Steam Carriage or Locomotive Model, The First, 435
  • Steam on Common Roads, Mr. John McLaren on, 394, 416
  • Steam Engineering in the Navy, 533
  • Steam Engines, Modern Small, 135
  • Steam Jackets, The Efficiency of, 440, 473
  • Steam Lifeboats, 355
  • Steam Pipes, Safe, Mr. Ferranti, 514
  • Steam Yachts, American, 435
  • Steam Yacht “Imogen,” The (Supplement, October 3rd, 1890), 272, 273
  • Steamer “Hygeia,” Messrs. Napier, Shanks, and Bell, 306, 307
  • Steamers, High-speed Paddle, 85
  • Steamers, Paddle, for the Bosphorus, Messrs. R. and H. Green, 371, 372
  • S.S. “Baria” (Supplement, October 31st 1890), 360
  • S.S. “Batavia,” 1840 (Compounded), Cross Sections of the, 103
  • Steamship Propulsion, Correction and Explanation of the Theory of, 355
  • S.S. “Rotterdam’s ” Engines, Diagram of, taken in 1838, 228
  • S.S. “Ulunda,” The Salvage of, 454
  • Steam Shipping Trade, 534
  • Steamships for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (Supplement, September 5th, 1890), 197, 218
  • Steamships, The Growth of, 256
  • Steamships, Increase of, 339
  • Steel, Basic Open-hearth, Mr. Davis on the Manufacture of, 516
  • Steel Castings in the United States, 514
  • Steel, The Darby Process of Recarburising, 381
  • Steel-faced Iron for Dies ? 155
  • Steel, Initial Stresses in, 310, 377
  • Steel and Iron Making in China, 256
  • Steel Manufacture in the North, 380
  • Steel Paddle Steamer for the Bosphorus, Messrs. R. and H. Green, 371, 372
  • Steel Rails Considered Chemically and Mechanically, Mr. C. P. Sandberg, 84, 86, 118, 119
  • Steel Railway Axles on Indian Railways, 217
  • Steel Sawing, Horizontal Cold, Messrs. Isaac Hill and Son, 148
  • Steel and Steel-faced Armour, Competitive Trial of, at St. Petersburg, 409, 412
  • Steel in the United States, Production of, Dr. Wm. M. Sweet on the, 394
  • Steel ? What is Cast, 4
  • Stern Well Hopper Dredger, Messrs. William Simons and Co., 227
  • Stevens, Mr. W. K., Engineering Ignorance, 292
  • Steward, Mr. J. H., Maker of Graveil’s Optical Pointer, 330
  • Stockholm, Tenders for the Central Electric Station, 263
  • Stoker, Roney’s Mechanical, 232
  • Stokers in the Navy, 4, 55
  • Stoking and Coal-conveying Apparatus, Autoci Nunnery Colliery, Sheffield, 332, 333
  • Stokes Mr. Leonard, at the Architectural Association, 364
  • Storage and Use of Petroleum, 440
  • Stoney Mr Edw W„ The New Chittravati Bridge, Madras Railway, 472
  • Strength of Ships’ Sides, 5
  • Strength of Beams, The, 44
  • Strength of Flat Surfaces ? 337
  • Strength of Manilla and Hemp Ropes, The, and Rope Power Transmission, 517
  • Stress in Cast Iron Cylinder Covers, 419
  • Stresses in Crane Posts, 208, 240, 260, 271, 289
  • Stresses in Cranes, 128, 153, 170, 199
  • Strike, An International, 339
  • Sun’s Photosphere, Sounds in the, Mr. Edison’s Experiments to Catch and Record, 248
  • SUPPLEMENTS
  • - Compound Pumping Engine, Croydon Waterworks, Messrs. Easton and Anderson, August 29th, 1890
  • - Express Crampton Engine, London and North- Western Railway, 1847, Messrs. Talk and Ley, November 28th, 1890
  • - Her Majesty’s Second-class Steel Protected Cruiser “Medusa,” 2800 Tons, Constructed at Chatham Dockyard, July 4th, 1890
  • - Horizontal Tandem Compound Corliss Engine, 12OO-Horse Power, Messrs. Hicks, Hargreaves and Co., July 25th, 1890
  • - New Battersea Bridge, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, July 25th, 1890
  • - Pacific Steamship “Empress of India,” The Naval Construction and Armaments Co., September 5th, 1890
  • - Passenger Locomotive, Old Colony Railroad, U.S.A., November 14th, 1890
  • - Passenger Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. T. N. Ely, October 17th, 1890
  • - Pumping Engines, Rhymney Iron Mines, Messrs. Harvey and Co., September 19th 1890
  • - Steam Yacht “ Imogen,” Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, October 3rd, 1890
  • - Triple-expansion Engines, Hamburg and Calcutta Co.’s s.s. “Baria,” Messrs. Thomas Richardson and Sons, October 31st, 1890
  • - White Star Atlantic Steamship “Teutonic” December 19th, 1890
  • Suspension Bridge-Wokha-Mokokchung Bridle Road, Assam, 132, 134, 137, 160
  • Sutton, Surrey, Main Drainage of, 9
  • Swedish Railways, 216
  • Swiss Magazine Rifles, Captain Studer, 49
  • Switch Main Current, Messrs. Hartnell and Co Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 9) 166
  • Switch with Six Contacts Used with Ingersoll Rock Dniler Messrs. Immiseh, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 5), 74
  • Switch-board, The Clemancon, Edinburgh Exhibition, 125
  • Symonds, Sir Thomas, and Our Navy, 93
  • TALL Chimney Construction, 5
  • Tangye’s Works, Maignen’s Water-softening Apparatus at, 158, 159
  • Tank, The Largest, in the World, 120
  • Tannett and Walker, Messrs., Hydraulic Coal Tip, Cardiff Docks, 211
  • Taunton Collision, The, 413, 435, 473
  • Taxation of Machinery and Foreign Tariffs, 310
  • Technical Education, 271
  • Technical Education, Mr. W. H. Bayley on 232
  • Telegraphy, Mr. Andrews on, 394
  • Telephone, A Chinese, 212
  • Telephone Interference with Electric Tramways 235
  • Telephonic Communication between London and Pans, 386
  • Telpher Insulator, Chambers’, Messrs. Buller Jobson, and Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 4), 245
  • Telpher Railway, The, Edinburgh Exhibition Electrical Engineering Corporation, Limited (Figs. 9-16), 24, 25
  • Telpher Railway, Edinburgh Exhibition, Type of Two-pole Dynamos in Use on the (Fig 7), 8, 24
  • TENDERS:-
  • - Boilers for the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, 73
  • - Cast Iron Lamp Columns, 249
  • - Covered Reservoir at Sandiacre: Engineer Mr W. H. Radford, 280
  • - Drainage and Outfall Sewer, 433
  • - Electric Light Installation, 461
  • - Extension of Main Sewers at Criccieth, Messrs. Thomas Roberts and Son, Engineers, 280
  • - Heston and Isleworth Sewerage (Contract No. 7), 163
  • - Hetton-le-Hole Cemetery, Durham 517
  • - Hornsey Local Board, 350
  • - Hoylake and West Kirby Gas and Water Company, 48
  • - Laying Iron Water Mains at Stapleford and Sandiacre, 280
  • - New Pier, Southampton, 201
  • - North End Road Wood Paving, 377
  • - Sandiacre Pumping Station, 107
  • - Stanley’s Mathematical Instrument Works 218
  • - Wirral Rural Sanitary Authority, 308
  • Testimonial to Mr. Michael Reynolds 128
  • Testing Machine in Professor Kennedy’s Laboratory, Messrs. J. Buckton and Co., 54
  • Tests, Comparative, of an Electric Motor and a team Locomotive, Mr. L. Moss, 181
  • “TEUTONIC,” THE WHITE STAR ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP (Supplement, December 19th, 1890)
  • - “Teutonic” and the “Majestic,” The White o^rw ^nt/0CnSfceamshiPs, Messrs- Harland and Wolff, 489
  • - Armstrong Guns, 504
  • - Chandler Engines and Fans, 498
  • - Circulating Pumps, Messrs. Tangyes 499
  • - Deck Fans, Messrs. Allen and Co., 494
  • - Detail of Rocking Slide, 501
  • - Detail of Valve Gear, 503
  • - Electric Light Engines, Messrs. Tangyes, 493
  • - General View of Port and Starboard Engines from Top Platform, 491
  • - Grand Saloon, The, 491
  • - Grand Staircase, The, 489
  • - Library, The, 490
  • - Machinery of the “Teutonic,” The 498
  • - Quick-fire Guns and Crew, 501
  • - Refrigerating Machinery, 502
  • - Sketch Plan of Starboard Engines 498
  • - Smoking Saloon, The, 492
  • - Starboard Electrical Engine Room, Looking Aft, 493
  • - Starboard Engines, Middle Platform, Looking Forward, 496
  • - Starboard Engine, Starting Platform, 500
  • - Starboard Thrust Block, 496
  • - Starboard Tunnel, 500
  • Thames, Improvement of the, 96
  • Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, H.M.S. “Blenheim,” 26
  • Thermo-Dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, 110, 128, 153, 171, 208, 239
  • Thermo-Dynamics of the Automatic Vacuum Brake, by Messrs. Deeley and Archbutt, 21
  • Thermo-Dynamics, Problem in, 29, 45
  • Thermo-Dynamics of the Vacuum Brake, 171
  • Thieler, Mr., on the Darby Process of Recarbur¬ising Steel, 381
  • Thompson and Bushnell, Messrs., The Bachelder Steam Engine Indicator, 527
  • Thomson, Prof., on Electric Welding, 308
  • Thomson-Houston Electric Company, Purchasers of the, 197
  • Thomson-Houston MotorCompany, The, Electrical Plant for Utah, 190
  • Thomson, Sir William, on the Unburned Gases contained in the Flue Gases from Gas Stoves and Different Burners, 300
  • Thorneycroft and Co, Messrs., Engines and Boilers, Hydraulic Lifeboat “Duke of Northumberland,” 210
  • “Thunderer,” Trials of the, Postponed, 166
  • Tokio Waterworks, The, 287
  • Tornadoes in the States, 69
  • Toronto Water Supply, 313
  • Torpedo Boat, A New, Messrs. Yarrow and Co., 394, 412
  • Torpedo Boat Operations in the Manoeuvres, 246
  • Torpedo Cruisers of the “ Tartar” and “ Archer ” Class, 398
  • Torpedo Gunboats, The Chilian, 342
  • Torpedo, The Victoria, 172
  • Tower for London, Design for a Great (Height 1300ft.), Mr. John Graham and Messrs. E. and J. A. H. Harper, 140
  • Tower for London, Design for a Great (Height 1300ft.), Mr. John Webster and Mr. T. W. Haigh, 14
  • Traction Engine, Compound, Messrs. Burrell and Co., 469
  • Traction Engine Experiments, 515
  • Trade of the Country, The, 297
  • Trade Marks, The Battle of the, 136
  • Trade in Minerals and Metals during 1890, Some Aspects of our, 33
  • Trade in November, British, 481
  • Trade Secrets in Shipbuilding, 360
  • Trade Unions Congress, The, 195
  • Traffic Receipts, Railway, at the Leading Rail¬ways, Half-year Ending June 30th, 1888, 403
  • Tramcar, showing Connection of Brushes by India-rubber Bands, The Electric Construction Corporation, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 7), 166
  • Tramway, Lineff’s System of Electric, 129
  • Tramways, Cable, 112, 116, 118, 266
  • Transformer, The Elwell-Parker 8-Horse Power, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 5, 6), 165
  • Transporting Power of Water, Application of, to the Deepening and Improvement of Rivers, By W. H. Wheeler, 42
  • Trans-Siberian Railway, 388
  • Tray Battery, The Lalande Chaperon, Edinburgh Exhibition, 126
  • Treatment and Utilisation of Exhaust Steam, Mr. Percy Griffith on the, 386
  • Trial of a Creusot Armour-plate, 212
  • Trinity House Yacht “Irene,” The, 137
  • Trolley, Hot Charging, for Rolling Mills, Mr. R. R. Gubbins, 299
  • Tscharner, Mr., on the Adhesive Power of Rods or Drift Bolts, 527
  • Tube-frame Goods Wagons, Mr. M. Jefferds on, 392
  • Tubes, Boiler, The “Serve” Internally-ribbed, 361
  • Tubes, Serve, 317
  • Tunnel, Railway, under New York Bay, 308
  • Tunnelling, New Method of, Messrs. Jennings and Stannard, 463
  • Tunnels, Wear of Rails in, 539
  • Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., The Gippeswyk Boiler, Royal Agricultural Society’s Engine Trials, 2
  • Taming Tools, Circular, Martignoni’s, 238
  • “25 de Mayo,” Argentine Cruiser, 436, 437, 466
  • “25 de Mayo,” The Trials of the, 398
  • Twin Propellers, “City of Paris,” 61, 62
  • Two-pole Dynamo with Two-field Limbs, Messrs. Lawrence and Scott, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 8), 246
  • Tyne Dynamo, The, Edinburgh Exhibition, 23
  • UCKFIELD Waterworks, 234
  • “Ulunda,” The Salvage of the s.s., 454
  • Underground Water and its Relations to Disease, 518
  • Underwood, Mr. W. A., Method of Cleaning Reservoirs, 75
  • United States, A Century of Patent Legislation in the, 521
  • United States, Cost of Carrying a Passenger in the, 194
  • United States, Electric Stations in the, 202
  • United States, English Manufacturers in the, their Views and Impressions, 400, 424
  • United States, Growth of Manufactures in the, 230
  • United States Navy, New Ironclads for the, 9
  • United States North River Bridge Bill, The, 127
  • United States Ordnance Department, Tenders for Heavy Steel Guns Asked for by the, 314
  • University College, Aberystwyth, 476
  • Utilisation of the Falls of Niagara, 53
  • VACUUM Brake, Thermo-dynamics of the, 171
  • Valve, Balanced Slide, 5, 69
  • Valve Gear, Locomotive, 473, 515, 530
  • Valve, New Asbestos-faced, Bell’s Asbestos Co., 333
  • Valves, Balanced Slide, Mr. J. H. Barker and Mr. J. T. Jameson, 5, 69
  • Venstrom Magnetic Separator, The, 525
  • Vibratory Movements of Locomotives and on Timing Trains and Testing Railway Tracks, John Milne and John McDonald, 442
  • Victoria Torpedo, The, 172
  • Vogelsang Propeller, The, 240
  • Volt Meter, Pocket, Messrs. Paterson and Cooper, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 5), 245
  • WAGES and the Cost of Production, 9
  • Wagons, American Goods, 399, 434
  • Wales and Adjoining Counties, 18, 38, 58, 80, 100, 122, 142, 162, 184, 202, 222, 242, 262, 282, 302, 324, 344, 366, 388, 406, 426, 446, 466, 486, 520, 542.
  • Walmisley, Dr., on the Telegraph and the Electric Light Apparatus and Gas Engines of the Edinburgh Exhibition, 49
  • Waltham Abbey, The Explosion at, 180
  • War Department Authorities, lOin. 30-ton Breech - loading Gun Mounted upon the Centre Bastion at the Entrances to the Thames and Medway, 115
  • War Material, Progress of, Dr. Wm. Anderson on the, 291
  • War Material in the Paris Exhibition, Official Report on, 72
  • Waste Water Detecting Meters? 275
  • Watel, Mr., Method of Driving Fans Electrically, The Blackman Fan Co., Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 1), 74
  • Water-Gas, 473
  • Water-Gas Producer, The Loomis, 329
  • Water Jet Propulsion, Mr. Ruthven on, 230
  • Water Meters, 416
  • Water Softening Apparatus for Boiler Feed, Maignen’s, 158, 159
  • Water Supply Controversy, The London, 135
  • Water Supply, High-press are Plant for, 420
  • Water Supply, London, 94
  • Water Supply, London, and the Authorities, 337
  • Water Supply of Paris, 297
  • Water, Underground, 518
  • Water Velocity and Quantity Recorder, Alexandra Dock, Hull, 279, 403
  • Waterford and Limerick Railway Passenger Locomotive, Mr. J. G. Robinson, 213, 214
  • Water Rating and Supply, Meeting of the Inquiry on the, 25
  • Waterworks, Colombo, 530
  • Waterworks, The East Warwickshire, 197
  • Waterworks and Sewerage. Clonmel, 206
  • Waterworks, The Tokio, 287
  • Waterworks, Uckfield, 234
  • Watkins, Mr. J. Elfreth, Development of the American Rail and Track, 319, 320, 321
  • Watts, Mr. P., Argentine Cruiser “25 de Mayo,” 436, 437, 466
  • Waverley Station, Edinburgh, 248
  • Wear of Rails in Tunnels, 539
  • Webster, Mr. W., The Electrical Treatment of Sewage, 452
  • Webster and Haigh, Messrs., Design for Great Tower for London, 14
  • Wedding, Dr., On Iron Manufacture in Germany, 381
  • Wedge, Automatic, for Driver Boxes, 360
  • Weighing Scales, Large Bullion, 114
  • Welding, Arc, 218
  • Welding, Electric, 9, 95
  • Well Boring ? 175
  • Wenstrom Hydraulic Gear for Electric Cars, 463
  • Westinghouse Brake on the Belgian State Railways, The, 72
  • Westinghouse Driver’s Brake Valve, The, 348
  • Westinghouse Quick-acting Brake on Trains of Fifty Carriages, Experiments with, 347
  • Wheeler, Mr. Herbert, Canal and River Bed Eroder Working in the River Witham, 42
  • White, Mr. Jas., “New Century of Inventions,” An Anti-Friction Screw, 481
  • White Star Atlantic s.s. “Teutonic” and “Majestic” (Supplement, December 19th, 1890;, and see “Teutonic”
  • White Star Fleet, Engineering in the, 517
  • White Star Mail Steamer, the “Britannic,” An Unprecedented Record, 220
  • Whitmore and Binyon, Messrs., Plant for the Manufacture of Cement, 249, 251, 287, 290, 294
  • Wicksteed, Mr. J. H., on the Measurement of Elongation in Test Samples, 298
  • Wildwood Oil Fields, The, 381
  • Willans and Robinson, Messrs., Engines, St. James’s and Pall Mall Electric Light Company’s Station, 189
  • Williams, Mr. E. L., Map of Country Traversed by the Manchester Ship Canal, 34
  • Williams, Mr. F. R., Production of Steel in the United States, Dr. Wm. M. Sweet, 394
  • Williams, Jun., Mr. Thos., Meat-cutter and Sausage-maker, 271
  • Wilson, Mr. Hartnell, Two-pole Dynamo, Edinburgh Exhibition (Fig. 8), 165
  • Wilson and Co., Messrs. J. H. (Price’s Patent) Single Chain Grab, 433
  • Wilson Steam Cran*1 Excavator, 109
  • Wire Door-mats ? 155
  • Wire Fountain Pen Company, Reservoir Pen, 252
  • Woking, Electric Lighting at, 444
  • Woking Electric Supply Company, The, 457
  • Wood Carving, Second Competition for, 27
  • Woodhouse and Mitchell’s Corliss Gear, East Mills, Colchester, 8
  • Woodside Dynamo, The, Edinburgh Exhibition (Figs. 1, 2), 245
  • Woolston, Southampton, Ship Launch at, 452
  • Woosung, The Bar at, Shanghai, 130
  • Workman and Sons, Messrs., Cider - making- Machinery, 345
  • Workshops, Factories and, 71
  • Worssam’s Improved General Joiner, 353
  • Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., Messrs., 700-Horse- Power Blooming Engines, Newport Rolling- Mills, Middlesbrough, 482
  • Wrecks, A Year’s, 180
  • YACHTS, American Steam, 435
  • Yarrow and Co., Messrs., A New Torpedo Boat, “Bathurst,” 394, 412
  • Year’s Wrecks, A., 180
  • Yorkshire Miners, 256
  • Yorkshire, Railway Extensions in, 53
  • ZAMBESI, Gunboats on the, 339

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