The Engineer 1896 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1896 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABBOTT’S Bolt-raising and Lowering Davit, 642
Aberamman Colliery, Coal Conveying, and Sorting Plant, 409, 410, 418, 461, 465, 477, 488, 496
Aberdare and Merthyr Valley Colliers, Mass Meeting of, 150
Aberdare Valley, Colliery Disaster, 646
Aberdeen, Graving Dock, 382, 421
Aberrant, The Flooded Colliery at, 666
Aberystwith Royal Pier Pavilion, 281, 282, 286, 311
Absorption of Electrical Waves along Wires by a Terminal Bridge, 572
Accident to a Canet Quick-firing Gun, 465
Accident in Columbia, The Bridge, 146 Accidents in Mines, 653

Accidents, Railway:

57, 85, 89, 95, 109,146,182,185.215, 237, 271, 287, 311, 315, 341, 393, 413, 417, 490, 537, 572
Accidents, Railway, Belgium, 215
Accident, Railway, Belgium, at Bruges-Bassin, 237
Accident, Railway, at Delhi, 109
Accident, Railway, Damfries Station, 215
Accident, Railway, Glasgow, 572
Accident, (Great Northern Railway,
Accidents, Railway, Half-year ending June 30th, 1896, 572
Accident, Railway, at Ivybridge Station, through Fall of Earth, 215
Accident, Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 146
Accident, Railway, March Station, 315
Accident, Railway, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 237
Accident, Railway, Midland, 271
Accident, Railway, at the Midland Station, Not¬tingham, 185
Accident, Railway, on the North British Railway,
Accident, Railway, on the North-Eastern Rail¬way, Lieut.-Col. G. W. Addison's Report on,
Accident, Railway, at Philson, Pa , United States, 417
Accident, Railway, at Preston Junclijn, 85, 89, 182, 287, 311, 393, 413
Accident, Railway, to the Scotch Mail Express, 57
Accident, Railway, on the South-Eastern, 490
Accidents, Railway, Two, 537
Accidents, Railway, in tho United States, 95, 109, 417, 490, 572
Accidents Caused by Runaway Cars, 57
Accident on the Torpedo Boat Djstroyer “ Des¬perate,” 31
Accident at Turcoing, Extraordinary, 526
Accidents, Traction Eogine, and Accidents Con¬nected with the Employment of Horses, 69
Accident Wards in Wales, Gifts to, 126
Accles, Messrs., Cycles of the New Luminum Metal, 20
Accumulator Adopted on the German aud Austrian Railways, 146
Accumulators with the Alternate Current Supply at Zurich, On the Use of, 259
Acetic Acid and Potassium Cyanate, M. Berthelot , on the Reaction between, 215
Acetylene in Air, Explosion and Detection of, Mr. F. Clowes on, 237
Acetylene for Commercial Purposes, MM. Berthe¬lot and Vieille on tho Preparation. &c., of. 417
Acetylene Explosion in Berlin, 653
Acetylene as an Explosive, 407
Acetylene Gas, 581, 643
Acetylene Gas Flame Uses loss Oxygen than ordinary Lighting Gas, 365
Acetylene Gas for Lighting Railway Carriages in Prussia, Use of, 548
Acetylene Gm Motor, Sig. Pedrell's, 365
Acetylene Illuminating Co. with the British
Aluminium Co. at Foyors, Arrangements of,
Acetylene Gas, its Illuminating Power, and Burners Designed for it, 399
Acetylene, Prof. A. E. Munby on, 311
Acetylene, Specific Gravity of, 399
Acworth, Mr. W. M., Railway Economics, 490
Adams Bridge Railway, 391
Addison, Lieut.-Col. G. W., Report on the Acci¬dent on the North-Eastern Railway, 159, 185
Adcney, Mr. W. E., The Mullins Large Gold Medal Awarded to, 30
Adjustable Swivel Shaft Bearing, 370
Admiralty Buildings, The New, 119, 120, 269
Admiralty Coal Contract Secured by Wa'es, 228
“ Admiralty Formulas,” Fundamental Correction of the, 239
Admiralty Inspection, 192
Admiralty Orders to the Chief Engineer of Devonport Dockyard, Machinery for Third-class Cruiser to be Commenced at, 237
Admiralty, The, Orders Placed with Private Firms for Two New Battleships, 162
Admiralty Works Department, The, 604
Advertising in the American Enqineer, Notice ai to, 417
Aerial Navigation, Mr. J. T. Tolmó on, 570
Afterdamp, Mr. T. G. Davies on, 378
Africa, East, Proposed Central Railway through German 364
African Railways, 271
Africa, Railways in West, 206
Agricultural Implements, Leicester Show, 83
Agricultural Machinery in Turkey, 413
Aims of Technical Colleges, Tbe, 188
Air Feed and Bilge Pumps, s.s. “ Germanic,” 53
Air Pollution, Mr. J. B. Cohen, 516
AitebiDson’s Field Glasses, 250
Akroyd's Cells for Pneumatic Tires, 122
Albert Medal of the Society of Arts Awarded to -Prof. E. D. Hughes, 20 | -
Alcohols as Compared with Water, Colours of, 31 I –
“ Algoa,” s.s., Warping Gea-, 160
Alkali and Bleach, Manufacture of, by Chemical and Electrolytical Methods, 604, 655
Alldays and Onions’ Pneumatic Hammer, Royal Agricultural Sooiety’s Show, 16
Allen, Mr. Wm, Dan, with Portrait, 449
Allen, Son, and Co., Messrs. W. H., Pumping Engines and Plant for Yokohama, 500
Allott, Mr. C. S., On Bridge Construction, 529 :
Alloys, M. H. Moissan on the Preparation of, 11
Alloys of Aluminium, Proportion of the, 271
Alps, New Tunnel Projected through, 399
Alsinfc, Mr. G. V., 403
Alt, Dr., Apparatus for Sterilising Milk io, 452
Alternators in Parallel at Hastings, Working, 361, 439
Altos Hornos Works at El Desierto, Bilbao River, 284
Alumina Factory at Larne Harbour, Mr. Jas. Sutherland's Description of, 131 173
Aluminium Alloy by a Chemical Reaction, M. C. Combes on the Preparation of, 57
Aluminium, Amount of Sodium in Commercial, 287
Aluminium Bronze, How to Obtain the Best ; Castings with, 202
Aluminium, Consequences of the Presenoe of Sodium in, 271
Aluminium, Experiments with Relation to its Resistance to Corrosion, 95
Aluminium, Melting and Casting, 83
Aluminium, Proportion of the Alloys of, 271
Aluminium used ns au Electric Conductor, 638
Alzola, Don Pablo de, Iron and Steel Industry of Spain, 258
Amalgamation of Two Well-known Shipping Firms, 215
Amber Production in Germany, 432

America:

America, Balanced Valves in, 399
America, Continuous Rails io, 443
America, Pig Iron in, 283, 298
American Pig Iron, Threatened Competition of, 200, 550
America, Successful Use of Water Meters in, 408
American Blast Furnace Practice, 25—27, 80, 81, 245, 387
American Blowing Engines, 247
American Centre-bearing Turntable, 479
American Competition in the Cycle Trade, 271
American Competition, German Complaints of,
American Competition, Germany and, 104
nieriran j&i^rneer, Notice to Manufacturers and Business Men, 417

American Engineering News:

J 72, 98, 122, 270, 453, 479, 549, 664
American Fight and Tariff Prospects, 446
American Locomotives, Typical, 238, 2-12, 261
American Master Mechanics’ Association, Experi¬ments on Exhaust Nozzles, 215
American Merchant Stoamers as Cruisers, 297

American Notes:

22, 46, 74, 100, 126, 176, 200, 252, 270, 300, 326, 350, 378, 402, 428, 456, 482, 506, 530, 552, 578, 606, 646
American Pig Iron in England, 200
American Plate Trials, 145
American Railways, 193
American Railways, Permanent Way of, E. E. Russell Tratman, 153
American Shipbuilding, 79
American Shut and Armour, 250
American Steam Plough, An, 96
American Steel Rail Plant in Australia, Opportunity for ao, 293
American Three-cylinder Locomotive, An, 280
Americanising of English Railways, 374
Ammonia Sulphate Recoverable by the Produc¬tion and Consumption of Coke in Germany, 443
Anchor Ironworks, Smethwick, Its-opening of, 66a
“Anchoria,” Accident to the, 523
Anderson, Mr. John, His Resignation, 251
Andrews, Mr. I., Working Alternators in Parallel at Hastings, 361
"Anemogene” Apparatus for Ventilating Stoke¬holds, 99
Anglo-Japanese Business Relations, 533
“ Antenor,” The Cargo Steamer, 213
Anthracite Coal - breaking and Sizing Plant South WaleR, Mr. W. D. Wight, 279
Anthracite Coal-breaking and S'z'ng Plant at Glyncaste Colliery, 279, 348
Anthracite, A Seam of, Discovered in Washing¬ton, 287
Apatites, M. Ad. Carnot on the Composition of,
Apostoloff Automatic Telephone System, The, 170
Appeal, Tbe W. H. Harrison, 163
Applebee, Mr. N., Hi, Appointment, 456
Aqueduct between Dolan and Knighton, Inspec¬tion of, 426
Arbitration between Gerald Barker and the Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company 69
Arches, Construction of, 412 Argentina, Patriotic Spaniards in, 215 Argentine Cruiser “Buenos Aires,” 106, 114 Argentine Railway Scheme, 315, 653
Argt^ntig® RePublic, Condition and Prospects of Argon, Mr. P. Villard’s Experiments with, 271
Argon and Helium, Prof. Ramsay and N. J Collie on tbe Spectra of, 159
Argon and Nitrogen, Ratio of, 159
Arklow and Wales, Steamer Service between 275
Armour for Battleships, Orders placed by the Government for, 665
Armour and Heavy Ordnance, Capt. Jaques, 323
Armour-piercing, Formula: for, 90
Armour-pieroing Projectiles, American, 548
Armour Plate Trials, American, 145
Armour-plated Torpedo Boats, 63 „ I
Armour Plates for the New Ships of the<: Canopus” Class, 645
Armoured Cruisers for Japan, Two New, 537
Armoured Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 391, 535
Armstrong and Co., Messrs. Sir W. G., Argentine , Craiser “ Buenos Aires,” 108, 114
Armstrong, Messrs., Steel Foundry for the Japanese Government, 11
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Messrs , Annual Report, 299
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Battleship for Spain, 327, 328
Arroi, Sir William, Presidential Address, 480
Artesian Well at Chepstow, 606
Artificial Flight, 269
Artificial Silk-spinniog Co., The, 326
Artisan, For toe Benefit of the, 295, 350, 374, 412, 419, 439, 452, 478, 495, 540 Artisans’ Dwellings Erected by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, 159, 185
Asbestos Rock in White County, U.S.A , 159
Asbsstos in the United States, 159. 215
Ashford, Mr. George, Patent Method of Joining the Ends of Rails, 150
Asphalt Gutter Scrips along the Kerbs of Streets in New York Paved witn Granite Blocks, 101
Asphalt Paving, Portable Plant for, 664

Association for the Advancement of Science, International:

Formation of an, Suggested, 431

Association, American Iron and Steel:

Statistical Report of, 2

Association of Anchorsmlths, The Amalgamated :

Meeting to Consider the Wages Question, 4S0

Association, The British —«« British Association.

Association, Tho Cleveland Iron¬masters :

665
June and July, and August and September, Statistics of, 47, 149, 273, 877
Proposal to Send a Collective Exhibit to the Brussels Exhibition, 481
Rssolve to Discontinue the Publication of their Monthly Statistical Returns, 455
Association, American Railway Master Mechanics:
Metric System in our Workshops: Will its Value Equal the Cost of its Introduction, by Coleman Sellers'! 45

Association, Belfast Mechanical Engineering:

Visit te the Pumping Stations of the Belfast Main Drainage Works, 31

Association, The Decimal:

Communications from tbe Foreign Office as to the Adoption of tho Metric Weights and Measuroi in Egypt, 572

Association, The Durham Miners:

Mr. T. II. Cunn Appointed Agent for, 328
Association of Engineers and

Draughtsmen, Middlesbrough Dis¬trict :

Visit to the SimonCirves Coking Plan1, 455

Association of Engineers, The Leeds:

Visit to Newcastle, 399
Sir James Kitson’s Address, 539

Association of Engineers, The Man¬chester :

Election of New Members, 644
Opening Meeting of the Forty-first Discussion
Session—Projected Visits and List of Papers for the Ensuing Session, 376
Quarterly Meeting, Favourable Financial State¬ment, 298
Reminiscences of the Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to Spain, Mr. H. Webb, Mr.
S. Dixon, and Mr. Percy, 576
Ripes and Rope Driving, Mr. G. H. Kenyon, 529
Visit to Crewe, 39
Visit to the Manchester Ship Canal, 423
Wages in the Engineering Trades, Mr. J. Nasmith on the, 403
Water Power and its Development, Mr. J. Nasmith, 451

Association of Engineering Students, The Manchester:

Marine Engineering, Recent Improvements in, by Mr. B. Stephenson, 576

Association of Foramen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London:

Defects in Cocks and Valves, by Mr. Walter P. ! Heath, 513

Association, Tha Iron Trades Employers' :

Twenty-fourth Annual Report, 86, 99

Association, The Light Railway: 159

Association, The Manchester Branch of the Iron Trades Employers':

Mr. Frank Hazelton appointed Secretary, 577

Association, The Master Brassfounders’ :200

Association, The Master Car Builders’:

Report on Balanced Valves for Locomotives, 95
Resolution Relative to the Metric System, 95

Association of Mechanical Engineers:

Annual Meeting, 606

Association of Mechanical Engineers The Birmingham:

Last Meeting of the Session, Half - yearly Balance Sheet, 42

Association, Metropolitan Railway Shareholders’:

Scheme for Express Trains Worked by Electric Power, 365

Association, National Traction Engine Owners and Users’:

Third Annual Meeting—Business, 565

Association, The Self - Propelled Traffic: 397

First Statutory General Meeting, 41
Inaugural Address of Sir D. Salomons (Presi¬dent) on Self-Propelled Carriages, 434

Association, Sheffield Branch of the British Steel Smelters’ Amalga¬mated:

Address by Mr. J. Hodge, 577

Association of Students, The Manchester:

Bridge Construction, Improvements in, Mr. C. S. Allott’s Inaugural Address, 529

Association of Students, The New¬castle : 271

Visit to the Clara Vale Colliery, Wylam, 377

Association, Thames Navigation :

Tidal Dock between Putney and Wandsworth, 347

Association of Waterworks Engineers, The British:

Change of Address, 550
Annual Meeting, Date of, 30
Discharge Tunnels from Reservoirs, Mr. J. A. Paskin, 121
Interpretation of the Results of Water Analysis, Mr. F. Clowes, 108
Notes on Sinking, Timbering, and Re filling Concrete and Puddle Trenches for Reservoir Embankments, William Watts, 424
Removal of Offices to New Address, 550
Use and Misuse of Water, Mr. R. E. W. Berringten, 147
Waste of Water in Relation to Lead Service Pipes, Mr. O. J. Kirby, 134
Atlas Bronze, 93
Atlas Locomotive Works, Contracts Secured by the, 271
Atlas Steel and Ironworks, Messrs. John Brown and Co., Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Satisfactory Report, 47
Atmospheric Railway, Relic of the, 199, 211
Atomic Weight of Magnesium, 638
“ Augsburg," The German-Australian S.S. Co.’e New Boat, 95
“Aurora,” Tho Cruiser, 413
Austin, Mr. L. S., A Modern Silver-Lead Smelt¬ing Plant, 511, 548
Austin and Sons, Messrs. S. P., The Firm Con¬verted iuto a Limited Liability Concern, 666
Australasian Skipping Trade, 653
Australia, Advancement of British Trade in, 287
Australia, Opportunity for an Amtrican Steel Rail Plant in, 293
Australia, Sulphide Ore from, 606
Australian Coal Supply, 585
Australian Consolidation Locomotive, New South Wales Government Railways, Messrs. Beyer, Poacsck, and Co. (Supplement, July 3rd, 1896)
Australian (Western; Government Railways, Revenue and Expenditure of, 417

Australian Notes:

226, 297, 453, 602
Australian Railways, Protest as to the Starting Point for the Menzies Railway, 341
Austrian Locomotive, Compound, 410, 411, 436, 437, 438
Austro-Hungarian Business in Ore, Iron, Meta’s, Machines, and Coal during the First Six Months ot the Year, 150
Auto-car, The Wolseley, 663
Automatic Disinfector, 442
Automatic Propulsion for Cycles and Motor Cars, Mr. J. Evans’ Patent, 604
Automatic Railway Signalling, 469, 541
Automatic Saw Sharpening Machine, The Schmaltz, 144
Automatic Signals to Greenwich from the West¬minster Clock, 95
Automatic Sight, Captain Gaynor’s, 213
Automatic Sights for Cjast Guns, 415
Automatic Telephone System, Tho Apostolcff 170
Automatic Weighing of Grain, 413
Automobile Torpedo, An Improved Howell, 365
Automobiles, M. D. Farman’s Work on, 287
Avon, The Dockisation of the, 490

B

BACTERIAL Purification of Water, The, 576
Bacteria of the Soil, How they may be Rendered Useful, 57
Baglan Engineering Works, Excavations begun for, /4
Bailey’s Compensating Water Gauge 479
Bailey, Mr. Wm., 125
Baister and Raven’s Automatic Fog Signal, 299
Bakerian Lecture on the Viscosity of Liquids, 31
Baaer s Oil Separator, Feed-water Heater and Softener, 371
Baku, Railway from Petrovsk to, 315
Balanced Valves for Locomotives, On, 95
Balanced Valves in Regular Service in America, 399
Balancing Locomotives in the States, On, 95
Baldwin Electric Locomotive, 11
Baldwin Locomotive, Heavy, 453
Baldwin, Messrs. E. P. and W., New Polished Steel Sheet, 298
Bale, Electric Generating Station for, 271
Ball Bearing, New Journal for, Railway Vehicles, 401
Balloons, Experiments in Firing at Captive, 574
Baltic Canal, 232
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Rolling Stock, Large Box Cars, 453
Bamford, sen., Mr. Henry, 478
Bamford and Sons’ Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 16
Bancroft, Mr. F. J., On the Stability of Tall Chimneys, 504
Barb Wire Export, The German, 333
Barcroft’s System, Steam Passenger Boat Fitted on, 159
Barker’s Graphical Calculus, 163, 184. 239
Barker, Mr. Eric C , Bogie Tank Locomotive, Wirral Railway, 264, 268
Barking-road Bridge, Opening of the New, 146
Barlow, Dr. L., On the Application of the Laws of Osmosis, 31
Bara Elms Reservoirs, 138
Barnes, Mr. George Henry, His Appointment, 505
Barr, Prof. A., On Naval Manoeuvres, 628
Barrow, Hematite Pig Iron Trade, 73
Barrow, Iron. Coal, and Shipping, 227
Barrow, Pig Iron and Iron Ore Trade, 21, 47, 99, 175, 201
Barrow Salt Company, Limited, New Salt Works, 615
Barrow Shipbuilding Works Purchased by a Syndicate, 605
Barrow Shipping Returns, Steel and Coal Trade, 21, 47, 99, 125, 149, 201
Barrow’s Trade — tee alto Notes from Lancashire.
"Barrozo,” Lannch of the, for Brazil, 227
Barry Docks, The. 2
Barry, Mr. John Wolfe, 501
Barry, Mr. John Wolfe, His Presidential Address, 460, 501
Barry, Mr. John Wolfe, On the Dockisation of the Avon, 490
Barry, Mr. John Wolfe, On the Tower Bridge, 308
Barry Railway, Opening of the, 151
Basic Bessemer Steel in America, Manufacture of, 365
Bisingstoke Station, Projected Alterations, 399
Bates, Mr. L. W., Hydraulic Suction Dredge on the Mississippi, 12,18
Batey, Mr. John, On the Explosion of Steam Generators and Accessories. 400
Bath, Extension of Electricity Works at, 417
Bath and West of England Society, Meeting of the, 109
Bath and Western and Southern Counties Agri¬cultural Show, 1897, 443
Batoam Port, Deepening of, 57
Battersea Municipal Buildings, 108
Battersea Polytechnic Institute, Prospectus of Classes, 271
Battleships, Armour for the Five New, 551
Battleships, Construction of, 657
Battleships, The New, 162
Battleships, Nos. 4 and 5, U.S. Navy, 590-592
Battleship 11 Fuji,” Progress of the Japanese, 245
Battleships for Spain, 327, 328
Battleships, Tenders for Two First-Class, 95
Banm, Mr. Charles, Combination Boiler, Feedwater, and Alarm Apparatus, 238
Bavaria, Machinery and Metals in, 459
Bayreuth Opera House, 374
Bazin, M., Launch of the Rolling or Wheel Steamer Designed by, 185
Beardmore and Co. on the Smoke Nuisance at Glasgow, 384
Rjaiings, Adjustable Swivel Shaft, 370
Bearings, Overheating of, How to Reduce the Chances of to a Minimum, 159
Bearings, Roller, Liverpool Overhead Railway, 417
Beaufor.’s Scale, On the Velocity Equivalents of Wind Forces Estimated by, 657
Bechuanaland Railway, Progress of, 490
Beddoe, Mr. E., 352
Bedstead Manufacturers in the United Kirgdom, Scheme to Buy np, 11
Bee Hive Works, Retford, Re-started by Mr. W. J. JenkiDs, 299
Beechings, Messrs., Save-time Graduated Writirg Blocks, 365
Beer Material», Official Inquiry into the Question of, 417
Behr, Mr. F. B., “Lightning Express ” Railway, 109
Beira Railway, 11
Bsira Railway Extension, 300

Belfast and its Industries:

28-30, 36, 77, 88, 132, 133
Belfast Ropework Co., Limited, The, 55, 62
Distilleries, Messrs. Dunville and Co., 77, 88
Electricity Works, Belfast, The, 78
Fire at, 116
Gasworks, 131
Main Drainsga Works, Pumping Stations, 31
Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engi¬neers. Programme of the, 68
Port of Belfast, The, 28
Works of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, 28, 36
York Street Flax Spinning and Weaving Co., Limited, 54, 59
Belgian Competition in the Production of Fast Channel Steamers, 523
Belgium, Frequency of Railway Accidents in, 215
Belgian Import and Export Statistics, 378
Belgian Light Railways, Two Years' Extension and Working of, 2
Bell, Prof. A. G., LL D. Degree Conferred on, 399
Bell, Mr. Tho<>., Oa tbe Durham and Cleveland SaltHeld. 604
Bell Push, Createy’s Indicatirg, 411
Bell-Rock liffe System of ’‘Jcggla" Plating, Firms now Adopting the, 175
Belleville Boiler and Fittings, H.M.S. “Power¬ful,” 338
Belleville and Thornycroft Water-tube Bailers, Government Orders for, 455
Belleville Water-tube Boilers, Admiralty Experi¬ments, 589
Beiliss and Co, Stokehold Fans, H.M.S. “Powerful," 396
Beiliss and Co., Messrs. G. E., Torpedo-boat Engines, Record Performance, 454
Beiliss and Co , Messrs. G. E., Trial of the Engines of the “ Spitfire,” 226
Belts, Convejing, 171
“ Bslt Shifters ” in Factories acknowledged to be Dangerous by the Indian Government, 173
Bench Drilling Machine, Mr. T. Bradley, 73
Benefit of the Artisan, For the, 374, 412, 419, 452, 478, 495
Rentall's Grinding Mill, 83
Benzoline Motor Cars, 569
Berget, M. Alphonse, Studying the Expansion of Liquids by means of Photography, 572
Berlin Exhibition, 1896, 154
Berlin Exhibition, Moving Side-walk Railway, 296
Berlin Exhibition, Receipts of Entrance Money at, 287
Berlin Gasworks, The, 225
Bernal, Mr., Invites English Cyclists to Nor¬mandy, 109
Bernal, Mr., On the Need for Energetic Com¬mercial Travellers, 109
Barrington, Mr. R. E , The Use and Misuse of Water, 147
Berthelot, Prof., On the Changes Effected by Chemistry in the MioiDg Art, 341
Bsrthelot, M., On the Copper Mines of Sinai, 271
Berthelot, M., On the Reaction between Acetic Acid and Potassium Cyanate, 215
Bessemer, Sir Henry, 473
Bessemer Converters, L:nings for, 121
Bessemer Steel Billet Pool, Reported Break up of, 644
Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Messrs., Australian Consilidation Locomotive (Supplement, July 3id, 1896), 15
Beyrout and Damascus, Mountain Railway be¬tween, 271
Bicycle, M. Bonny on the Dynamometrical Work done on the, 57
Bicycle, The Faun Folding. 573
Bicycle-making in Japan, 441
Bicycles, Measuring Pedal for, 31
Bicycle Rack for Baggage Cars Designed by S. J. Collins, 57
Bicycles as Regular Baggage on Pennsylvania Railways, Carriage of, 11
Bilbao River, Altos Hornos Works at El Desierto, 284
Bills, Local Railway and Dock, 578
Bill, The Locomotives on Highways, 6, 15
Bill, The New Truok, 550
Bills Read and Passed, Welsh. 100
Bills, Windsor Dock, Barry Rai'way, Port Talbot Railway and Dock Company, 22
Bill, The West Highland Railway, 11
Birmingham City Council Water Department,
Contracts entered into for Additional Engine Power, 31
Birmingham Corporation, Water Gas Plant Erec¬ted by, 528
Birmingham District, Action of Members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers on the Wages Question, 426
Birmingham Meat Market, Electric L’ght Instal¬lation, 528
Birmingham Mint, Coining for Russia, 426
Birmingham Small, Arms and Metal Company,
High Dividends Declared by the, 272
Birmingham Small Arms and Metal Company, Reconstruction of, 327
Birmingham Tramway Lines, Project for Amal¬gamating, 426
Birmingham Tramways, Extension Scheme, 480
Birmingham Tramway System, Changes in Con¬templation, 11
Birmingham and Wa'sall, Proposed Electric Tramway between. 327, 350
Birmingham Water Committee’s In«pecti n <f Works Connected with Elan Water Supply. 426
Births and Deaths Registered in Thirty-three Great Towns of England and Wales, £7, 365, 399, 443, 520, 537, 572. 589
“Bistro’’Car, The, On the Line from Paris to St. Germain, 185
Bituminous Coal in Boil sis, Combustion of, 358
Black Damp, Mr. Strick Suffocated by, 298
Blackpool, St. Ann’s and Lytham Tramways, Gas Motor Tram Cars. 66
Blackwall Tunnel, The New, 365
B'air and Co., Limited, Steamers Eogined by, 666
Blast Furnaces, English, 247
Blast Furnace Practice, American, 25-27, 80, 81, 245. 397
Blast Pipe, The New, 666
Blocks, Brake, 109
Blount, Mr. Bertram, Manufacture of Alkali and Bleach by Chemical and Electrolytical Methods, C04, 655
Blowing Engines, American, 247
Blown-out Shots in Mines and their Danger, 417
Blue Hill Observatory, Scientific Kile Flying at, 443
Blytb, Coal Staiths at, 57
Blyth Harbour, 33, 100
Board of Trade Marine Engineers’ Certificates, Qualifications for the, 364
Board of Trade on the State of the Skilled Labour Market for August, 315
Boat Channel Dredgers for the Colonies, £60 Boat-raising and Lowering Davit, Lieut. Abbott. 642
Bogie Engines, 239
Bogies, Leading, 295, 340, 439
Bogie and Radial Locomotives, 211
Bogie Tank Locomotive, Wirrall Railway, 264, 2C8

Boilers:

Boilers, Belleville Water-tube, Admiralty Ex¬periments with, £89
Boilers, British r. American Locomotive, 211, 263, 295, 340
Boilers, Combustion of Bituminous Coal in, 358
Boiler, The Edgar. 570
Boilers, Effect of Retarders in Fire-tubes of, 189
Boiler Explosions Act, Report on the Working of, 537
Boiler Explosion, Locomotive, 11
Boiler Explosion at Mearrs. Aikroyd's Stone Quarry, 315
Boilers (continual):
Boiler Explosion in Paris, 576
Boiler Explosion, Tbe Redcar, Arbitration, 523
Boiler, Feed-water, and Alarm Apparatus, Combination, 238
Boiler Furnace, The “ Camroc,” 375
Boiler Inspection, Government, 640
Boilers, Internal Corrosion in Steam, 574
Boilers at the Islington Electric Light Station, CO
Boilers, Locomotive, 266, 373, 413
Boilers, Marine, 1, 13
Boilers, Marine, On the Maintenance and Re¬pair of, 1, 10
Boiler, Serpollet Motor, 495, 593
Boiler Setting, 415
Boiler Shops at Middlesbrough, Sir C. Fumes’, Westgarth and Co.’s Large, 551
Boilers and Steam Pipe», Tests of Non-Con¬ducting Coverings for, 237
Boilers of Steam Vessels, Particulars as to the Increase of Pressure in tbe, 109
Boiler of the Steam Yacht “Scud,” 236
Boiler Tests, 643
Boilers, Water Gauges and Marine, 472
Boilers, Wear and Tear of Steam, 241
Boilers of the White Star s.s. “Germanic” (Supplement, August 7 th, 1896)
Boiler from the Works if tbe Edgar Boiler Company, 95
Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. Decide to Pay an Interim Dividend, 251
Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Rolling Mill Engines, the Largest in the World, 377
Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Steel Rails for South Africa, 605
Bollinckx, Messrs. H , Corliss Cylinder, 560
Bolting Cloth, Wire, 95
BoHod Electricity and Sewage Schemes, 382
Bolton Iron Trade, Wages in the, 172
Bombay, New Through Route to, 268
Bonny, M.,’on the Dynamometrical Work done on the Bicycle, 57
Bonny, M., On the Measurement of Fores Expended in Driving a Bicycle, 31

Books Received.

15, 39, 65, 91, 117, 143, 193, 219, 245, 267, 291,
319, 369, 395, 447, 499, 523, 515, 569, 597, 661
Booster Battery Charges, 651
Boothby, Sir Brooke, Report on Bavarian Trade, 459
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Road and Railway Com¬munication in, 432
Boston Pneumatic Transit Co., Plans Vetoed by the Mayor, 476
Boston Subway Act Declared Constitutional, The, 11
Boulogne, Snipping Trade of, 95
Box Cars, Large, Baltimore aud Ohio Railway, 453
Boyne Navigation, 33
Boydell’s Traction Engine, 136, 137
Bradley Hall Ironworks, Sale of the, 250
Bradley, Mr. J., Bench Drilling Machine, 73
Bradley, Simpson, and Griffiths, Messrs., On the Kent Coalfield, 56
Brake Blocks, Experiments of, 109
Brakeshoe Composition, American, 443
Bramwell, Mr., The Winding Engine at the Great Western Colliery Co.’s Brass Trade Dispute Settled, 20
Bray’s Road Locomotive, 1862, 233
Brazilian Line, Doubling of a, 315
Brazilian Railways, Government Control of, Proved Unsuccessful, 653
Bread, Nutritive Power of White and Brown. 11
Breech Apparatus, Canet’s Concentric Groove, 535
Brick and Tile Machinery at the Royal Agricul¬tural Society’s Show, 16
Brickwork in Frosty Weather, Durability of, Tested at Rigs, 399

Bridges

Bridge Accident in Columbia, Main Points of the Verdict-, 146
Bridge Building on the Great Eastern Railway, Rapid, 490
Bridge Construction, Mr. C. S. Allott on, 529
Bridge Destroyed by Fire on the Metropolitan Extension Railway, 215
Bridge, Fall of a, 170
Bridge for Kew, Stone, 109
Bridges, Lattice and Web Girder. Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway. 398, 400 Bridge Lifting, Chicago, 216, 223
Bridge over the Medwav, The Snodland Tubular,
356, 357, 382, 387, 452, 469, 560, 593
Bridges, Moving Railway, 536, 538, 539, 542
Bridge, The New Barking-road, 146
Bridge, New York, East River Suspension, 424
Bridge, Paris, The Rue de Tolbiac. 662
Bridge, The Primrose-street, Great Eastern Railway Widening Works, 183, 186,187
Bridge, A Remarkable Highway, 589
Bridge Requirements in America, Large, 43
Bridge, Snodland Tubular Railway, 356, 357, 382.
387, 452, 469, 560, 593 Bridge, The Tower, 516 Bridgwater, 232
Brigg Haulage Attachment for Four-wheeled Vehicles. 489
Bright, Mr. Cbas., On Submarine Telegraph Cables, 417
Brighton Beach, 218 Brighton Chain Pier, Destruction of, 589
Brighton Piers, The Late Gales and the, 639
Brighton Projected Sea-wall with Four Groynes, 638
Brighton Railway, Jubilee of the, 107
Brighton Railway, New Line between Croydon and Redbill, 117
Brighton and Rottingdean Seashora Electric Rail¬way, 570, 657
Brighton Saa Defences, The Late Storm and, 394
Brighton and Venning’s Lead-lined Iron Piping, 474
Briquettes from Small Coal and Concentrated Waste Sulphur Liquids, 271
Brisbane, 1897, International Exhibition in, 490
Bristol, Access from Inland to, 586
Bristol Harbour Railway, 534
Bristol Harbour Schemes, 382
Bristol Ports, Coal Shipment from, 476
Bristol’s Recording Thermometer, 269
Bristol University College, Opening of the Engi¬neering Wing of the, 525
Britain’s Foreign Business, 499
British American Locomotive Bailers, 211, 263, 295, 340

British Association:

British North Atlantic Mail Service, The, Mr. A. J. Maginnis, 308
Calibration of Instruments in Engineering Laboratories, Prof. W. C. Unwin, 308
Carbon Monoxide in the Air, Dr. Haldane's Method of Detecting and Estimating, 315
Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tide», Mr. W. H. Wheelsr, 308
Electrical Standards, Report of Committee cn, 315
Final Meeting of the Liverpool Local Commi:- tee, 572
Helium, Professor Ramsay cn, 315
Horseless Carriages, Mr. A. R. Sennett, 309
Inaugural Address of tbe President, Sir Joseph Lister, 282
Low Temperatures, Results Obtained at, by Professor Dewar, 315
Mechanical Science Section, Sir Douglas Fox’s Address to tbe, 325
Metric System, The, Mr. F. Toms, 308
Programme of the L’verpool Meeting, Septem¬ber 16th to 24tb, 267
Projected Excursions, 27
Safety on Ships, Dr. F. Elgar, 323
Screw Gauge Committee, Report of tbe, 321
Tower Bridge, The, Mr. Wolfe Barry, 308
British Coal in Spain, Prospects of, 64
British Colombia, Gold Mining in, 573
British Commission, Brussels Exhibition, 1897, 399, 465
British Consul ot Havre Invites Cyclists to Nor¬mandy, 109
British Consul at Havre on the Need for Commercial Travellers, 109
British and Foreign Navies, 593
British and German Trade in Chile, 333
British Imports into Russia, 341
British Iron for Sweden, 421
British Merchant Ships, Loss of Life in, 490
British Motor Syndicate, Limited, The, 587
British North Atlantic Mail Service, Mr. A. J. Maginnis on, 308
British Shipbuilding, Official Reports, 638
British Society of Mining Students, Papers in tbe Journal or the, 215
British Trade in Australia, Advancement of, 287
British Trade with Bulgaria, 600
Broadbent, Mr. J. K., Patent System of Smoke Prevention, 454
Bronze, Atlas, 93
Brookes’ Valve Re-seating Machine, 122
Brooklyn Bridge, Pneumatic Tubes across, 490
Brooks Locomotive Works, The Typical American Locomotives, 238, 242, 261
Broom for Cleaning Sides of Reservoirs, Revolving,
Brough, Mr. B. H., on Mining in Cornwall, 638
Brough, Mr. B. H , on Mining at Great Depths,
Brown, Robert Gilman, on a Shaft Fire and its Lesson, 416
Brown, Mr. C. Vesey, his Appointment at Lin¬coln, 73
Brown and Co., Messrs. John, Trial of a Harvey- ised Armour Plate, 146
Browning, Mr. A. F., Construction and Illumina¬tion of Lighthouses, 540
“Bruiser” and “Banshee,” The Torpedo Boat De¬stroyers, 572
Brush Back Boring Machine, 400
Brush Boring Machine, Shaw and Ditchfield's, 441
Brush Company's New Engine Shops, Lough¬borough, 79
Brush Electric Engineering Company, Riworth’s Universal High-speed Steam Engine, 512, 519, 641
Brussels Exhibition, 1897, 215. 414
Brussels Exhibition—are also Exhibition, Brussels International
Brysn and Barton, Messrs., on Absorption of Electrical Waves along Wires by a Terminal Bridge, 572
Backley, Mr. Peter, Retirement o’, 95
Budapost Exhibition, 1896, 4, 5, 78, 331
Budapest, Rubbish Collected in, 490
Budipest and Trieste, Electric Railway between, 287
Budapest's Unde-ground Railway, Defects in, 572
“Buenos Aires," The Argentine Cruiser, 106, 114
Buffalo Harbour Works, 479
Buildings in New York, Restriction in the Height of, 653
Building, A Thirty-st rey, in New York, 453
Bulgaria, British Trade with, 600
Bulgaria, Railways io, 511
Bulgaria Railways and Harbours, 589
Bulgaria, Trade with, 518
Bulgarian Government., Concession for Working Graphite Deposits, 365
Bulgarian Government Railways, Receipts of the, 520
Bulgarian Government, Tenders to he invited for the Supply of Iron and Steel for Public Works, 550
Bu'garian Ministry of Pablio Works invites Ten¬ders for Railways, 185
Bulkhead Doors, Water-tight, Apparatus for Closing, 589
Bulkhead Doors, Water tight, Casoy's Spherical, 181
Bulkhead Doors, Water-t'ght, 34
Bullock, Lieutenant R. L., Care of Mechanical Instruments, 557
Buoys, Metallic Life, 571
Bureau Veritas, Registry of Shipping, Tbe British Committee of the, 31
Burma, Irrigation Projects for, 537
Burrell and Co., Messrs., Boydell’s Traction Engine, 136, 137
Burrell and Son’s Road Locomotive, 235
Burstall, Mr. F. W., His Appointment, 146
Burstall, Professor F. W., on the Relation of Engineering to the Exact Sciences, 606
Bury Locomotive, Furness Railway, 239
Bury Waterworks, The, 164, 168, 190, 195, If 6, 197
Bushings, Self-lubricating, 57
Business Revival followirg on the United States Election, 537
Bute and Rbymney Ama'gamated Inquiry, The, 74
Bute Rhymney, Fusion Bill for the, 666
Butler, Mr. D. B., on the Effect of Admixture of Kentish Ragstone,Ac., upon Portland Cement. 464
Batter Worker, Moyldor, and Dryer, Lister's, ftoyal Agricultural Sjqqipty’g Show, 16

C

CABLE, Snapping of a Strand of the Edinburgh Northern Tramway, 520
Cadiz, Tenders invited for the Electric Lighting 1 of, 185
“Civ far," II M.S., 232
Caird and Raynor’s Condenser and Evaporator, P. and 0. s.s. “ India,’’ 563
Cairo, Electric Tramway, 159
Calais-Dover Service, New Paddle Boats for the, 95
Calais and Marseilles, Special Trains from, 520
Calculating Riveted Joints, 432
Calculus, Barker’s Graphical, 163, 184
Caledonian Central Railway opened, 153
Caledonian Railway Performances, 373
Caledonian Railway Works, 267
Calibration of Instruments in Engineering Labora¬tories, Prof. W. C. Unwin on, 303 California, Gold Veins in, 653
Calumotand Hecla Mines, The Red Jacket Shaft, 163
Calvert, Mr., 36)
Cam Gear Cycle, 371
Cam and Laver Punching and Shearing Machine, Mr. John Cameron, 92
Cambridge, Projcated Improvement of the River at, 11
Cameron, Mr. Jahn, Cam and Laver Punching and Shearing Machine, 92
Cammell and Co., Messrs. Chas., Visit to their Works, 403
Cammell and Co., Messrs. Chas., Order for Armour-plates to, 645
Cammell and Co., Messrs. Chas., Their Position in Sheffield, 577
Camp’s Coal Dust Furnace Feeder, 255
Camroc Boiler Furnace, The, 375
Canada, Flour-making in, 446
Canada reaching out for Business, 211
Canada, Steel Rails for, 98
Canada, Threshing in, 533
Canadian Electric Railway Work, Latest Develop¬ment, 442
Canadian Enterprises, 72

Canals:

Canal, Baltic, 185, 232, 341, 420
Canal between Bristol, Wolverton, and Liverpool, 544
Canal, Corinth, 33
Canal, The Grand, 33
Canal, Improvement in Now York State, 122
Canal, New York and Philadelphia, 295, 311
Canal, The Nicaragua, Reported Feasible, 180
Canal, North Sea and Baltic, 185, 232, 341, 420
Canal, An Old West Country, 663
Canals, Railways and, South Staffordshire, 443
Canals and Rivers in France, Total Length of, 520
Canal, Sanlt Ste Marie, Growth of Traffic on the, 365
Canals, Ship, Sir E. L. Williams on, 376
Canal, Manchester Ship, see Manchester Ship Canal
Canals of the United Kingdom, 169
Canet’s Concentric Ring Breech Apparatus, 538
Canet Quick-firing Gan, Accident at Havro to a, 465
Canney, Dr. Leigh, on the Winter Climate of Egypt, 657
Cannock District, Branch Line for, 665
Cm», Seamliss Copper Oil, 145
Cantabrian Coast, Ore Shipping Piora on the, 359, 362
Cape Town, Electric Lighting in, 524
Cape Town Tramways, Report upon, 401
Car, Dining, Great Western, Newport-London Express, 157
Cars, Freight, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 453
Car-heating by Steam, 575
Cars, Refreshment, Western of France Railway, 185
Carbide, On Lantbamum, 146
Carbide Plant at Foyers, Erection of a, 215
Carbide of Vanadium, On the, 11
Carbine, Tbe Krag-Jorgensen, 92
Carbon Boride, The New Prodnct, 653
Carbon nnd Boron harder than Diamond, Dis¬covered by M. MoissaD, Compound of, 95
Carbon Monoxide in the Air, Dr. Haldane's Method for Detecting, 315
Carbon in Rhodinm, Iridium, and Palladium, On the Solubility of, 95
Carburetted Water-gas. Plant, The Southport Corporation’s, 251
Cardiff, Coal Tonnage from, 22, 48, 100, 126, 150, 176, 202
Cardiff Exhibition, Railway Section at, 248
Cardiff Railway Company, The, 666
Cardiff Tramways, Purchase of, by the Corpora¬tion decided on, 606
Cardigan, New Pier Pavilion and Cliff Railway, 33
Cargo Steamer “Antenor,” The, 213
Carlton Ironworks, Accident at the, 57
Carlingford Lough, Steam Passenger Boat the “ Pioneer ” on, 87, 159
Carnot, M. Ad., On the Composition of Apatites, 31
Carnegie Harveyed Nickel Steel-plates, 145
Carpenter, Mr. R. F., Figures relating to the Production of Sulphate of Ammonia in the United Kingdom, 185
Carriages, Mr. G. J. Jacobs on the Application of Science and Art to the Manufacture of, 19
Carter, Mr., The Manufacture of Coal Gas, 20
Carter, Mr. E. T., Motive Power and Gearing for Electrical Machinery, 490 Cartwright, Mr. C. L., Construction and Main¬tenance of Roads, 500
Cartwright, Mr. J., The Bury Waterworks, 164, 168, 190, 195, 197
Casey's Spherical Water-tight Balkhead Doors, Castle Liners for Caps Service, New, 475
Castletown Steel Works, Sale of the, 645
Catalogues, 17, 61, 117, 188, 219, 259, 286, 323, 378, 402, 442, 510, 552, 600, 644 Caversham Drainage, The Scheme of, 198
Cawley’s Explosion Recorder Indicator Attach¬ment, 220
Cells for Pneumatic Tires, Akroyd’g, 122
Cement, Action of Heat on, 415
Cement containing Ragstone, 464
Central London Railway, The, 25
Centro-Beariog Turntable, 479
Centrifugal Apparatus to Dotermine the Food Supply of Oysters, Ac., 11
Cesspool Emptier, Morryweathor’s, 527
Ceylon Railway Workshops, Activity in, 283
Chain, A Big, 238
Chain Cables, on the Question of Testing, 476
Chain, A Monster Crane, 11
Chain Trade, Operatives desire that the Pro¬ visions of a Clause in tho New Truck Bill be applied to the, 550
Charles, Mr. S. A. .on Water Consumption through Metered and Unmetered Tap», 293
Chalmot, M. G. J. L. de, on Crystalline Silicon, 476
C’harpy, M. G., on the Displacsments in Metals Subjected to Stresses, 159
Chatelier, M. H. le, Experiments on the Melting Points of Some Double Salts and Alloys, 476
Chatelier, M. II. le, on Glazss for Porcelain and Pottery, 109
Chauveau, M. A., on the Relations between the Work done by a Muscle and the Shortening it undergoes, 146
Cheltenham, Proposed Electric Tramway for, 95
Chemical Education, 367
Chemical Industries and Incidsnts of Manufac¬ture, 14
Chemistry and the Mining Art, Prof. Barth clot's Speech, 341
Chepstow, Artesian Well at, 606
Cherry, Hoary, 374
Chesterfield to Lincoln Line, Passenger Traffic begun, 653
Chesterfield Viaduct, 547
Cbevalet Heater Detartariser, The, 283
Chicago, Electric Conduit Railway, Proposed, 31
Chicago, Electric Lifts at Lake-street Station, 95
Chicago Exhibition Medal, The, 20
Chicago, Lifting Bridge over the Chicago River, 216, 223
Chicago, Overbold Electric Trolley System Pro¬hibited in the Central Streets of, 215
Chicago, Tramway Companies in, 31
Chicago World’s Fair Medals, Reputed Blunder,
Chile, British and German Trade in, 333
Chili, The Copiapo Railway,'.476
Chilian Navy, Torpedo Gunboat, 122, 291
Chimneys, On the Stability of Tall, 504
Chinese Government permit the Siberian Railway to pass through North Manchuria, 365
Chinese Mining Scheme, A, 435
Cbipstead Valley Railway, 572
Chiswick, Strike at, 211
Chree, D. C., Physics and Mathematics applied to Seismology, 653
Christy and Co., Messrs. Thos., Litmus Pencils, 11
Chromo Lithographers, Belfast, Messrs. David Allen and Sens, 134
Chronometers, Annual Trial of, for the Navy, 57
City and South London Railway Bill, The, 57
City Surveyorship, Cork, 400
Civil Engineering Legislation in Manitoba, 219
Civil Engineers’ Exploration Syndicate, A New Company, called tbe, 57
Clark's Road Locomotive, 1866, 234
Clarke, Chapman, and Co., Warping Gear, s.s. “ Algoa," 160
Cleminson, Mr. Jas. Lyons, 530, 544
Cleveland District, Shipments of Pig Iron from the, 21, 47, 149
Cleveland Extension Mineral Railway Scheme, Toe, 328
Cleveland, Furnaces in Operation, 577
Cleveland Iron Output, 149
Cleveland Ironmasters’ Offer to Induce Men to Work at the Blast Furnaces during the
Christmas Holidays, 605
Cleveland Pig Iron, 227
Cleveland Pig Iron Makers, Swedish Ore used by, 175
Cleveland Pig Iron, Ac., Trade, see North of Eng¬land Letters
Clifton and Crossley’s Radial Drilling and Tapp¬ing Machine, 260
Clock Lightbonse, Siren Fog-signalling Plant, 572
Clock Signal Errors at Greenwich, 11
Close-sizing before Jigging, by Robert H. Richards, 270
Cloth-cutting Machine, Philippsohn and Losch- ainer, 255
Clowes, Mr. F., on Explosion and Detection of Acetylene in Air, 237
Clowes, Mr. Frank, Interpretation of the Results of Water Analysis, 108
Clyde, The, 382
Clyde, Belfast and North of England Engineers’ Federation, Proposals to their Men, 571
Clyde Engineering Dispute, Close of the, 272. 273
Clydo Shipbuilders, Admiralty Orders Placed with, 666
Clyde Shipbuilders, Tenders for Battleships Sub¬mitted by, 95
Clyde’s Shipbuilding Trade, Statistics of, 14. 22 60, 95, 176, 394, 646

Coal:

Coal, 499
Coal, The Abercynon, 578
Coal Alliance, A New, 367
Coal in Boilers, Combustion of Bituminous, 358
Coal-cleaning Machinery at Aboramman Colliery 409, 410, 418 1
Coal Combination, The, 319
Coal Consumption, Mr. Fothergill on, 1, 6
Coal Consumption, Trial of the “ Eclipso,” 31
Coal Consumption, Trial of the " Swordfish,” 95
Coal Conveying and Sorting Plant, Aberamman Colliery, 461, 465, 470, 488, 496 Coal-cutting by Machinery, 569
Coal Dust Furnace Feeders, Barlin Exhibition 255
Coal Exported from Newcastle to Foreign and Intercolonial Ports, Return of, 226
Coal, French, as Against British, for Tunis, 237
Coal Gas, Mr. Carter on tho Manufacture of. 20
Coal Gas Rstort Bads, New System of, 6, 35, 60
Coal, A Good House, Londoners should take the Hint, 578
Coal, Importation of Yorkshire, 600
Coal, Iron, Steel, and Machinery in Mexico, 642
Coal Mines, Danger of Blown-out Shots in, 417
Coal into Mine Workings, Irruptions of, 604
Coal Mining in India, 560
Coal Mining Puzzles, 63
Coil Mining at Shakespeare Cliff, 417
Coal Mining, Unprofitable, 158
Coal Monopoly, A Gigantic, 219
Coal in North Staffordshire, New Scam of, 148
C»al Ownors and Colliery Works, Suggested Term? of Alliance between South Wales and Monmouthshire, 315
Coal Owners, Mr. B. Pickard’s Proposals to the, 182, 201
Coal Owners and the Railway Companies, 14
Coal Pit Explosion in Germany, 565
Coal Ports, The Welsh. 232
Coal, Preventing the Underselling of, 428, 472, 552, 578, 606
Coal Prices, Regulation of, 266
Coal Prices in South Wales, 472
Coa1 Production in India, 417
Coal Question, The South Wales, 659
Coal, Railway Contracts for, 523
Coal Screening and Tipping, Mr. Jas. Rigg, 643
Coal Shipments from British Ports, 476
Coals, Shipping and Engineering, 115
Coal and Shipping, Manchester, 73
Coal and Shipping Trade, Lancashire, 227
Coal in Spain, Prospects of British, 64
Coal Staitbs at Blyth, The New, 57
Coal Supply, Australian, 585
Coal Supply of London, 346
Coal Tippler, Automatic Varying Speed, C52
Coal, Tonnage of, sent from Yorkshire Collieries, 638
Coal Trade, The, 90
Coal Trades Associations, Tbe, and the New Siding Rent Charges of the Midland, 11
Coal Trade Conciliation Board, re the, 20, 38, 125, 175
Coal Trade, Engineering Industries and the, 14
Coal Trade, Improvement in the, 202
Coal Trade, North of England, 74
Coal Trade, Proposed Combination in the South Wales, 495
Coal Trade, Review of, 665
Coal Trade, The Scotch, 74
Coal Trade, Situation in the, 38
Coal Trade, South Yorkshire, 21, 47, 227
Coal Trade in the United Kingdom, Forecast of Mr. D. A. Thomas’s Pamphlet on the, 456
Coal Trade in Wales, see Wales and Adjoining Counties
Coal Trade ? What of the, 165
Coal Trust Combination, Proposed Formation of a, 448
Coal, The Underselling of, 300, 328, 315, 352, 404, 428, 530, 552, 568, 578, 606
Coal, Underselling of, Schemes to Prevent, 428, 472. 552, 578, 606
Coal, Underselling of, The Coalowners’ Scheme to Prevent, approved of, 606
Coal, Underselling of, Sir W. T. Lewis’s Com¬mittee's Report on, 578
Coal, Underselling, Mr. Toomas’s Scheme, 552
Coal Waste in all C?al Mining Regions, 57
Coalfield, The Kent, 56, 589
Coalfield, Net Output of the Nord and Pas de Calais, 341
Cocks and Valves, Defects in, 512
Cohen, Dr. J. B., on Air Pollution, 516
Coining Order for Russia, 426
Coke Consumption in Germany, and Ammonia
Sulphate Recovered Yearly, 443
Coke Making, 64, 205, 303, 316
Coke Making in the United States, 211
Coking-Plant, The Simon-Carves, 455
Collieries, Closing of the Midide Mons PA tu rages and Nasmes, 237
Collieries of Wales, Visits to the, 309
Colliery, Abernant, The Flooded, 666
Colliery Accidents, 653
Colliery Accidents, Mr. Hy. Hall on tin Initia¬tion of, 73
Colliery Disaster, Micklefield and Brancepeth, 283, 300
Colliery Differences adjusted by " Mabun ” and Mr. Evans, 530
Colliery Explosion at Brancepeth, Government Report, 300
Colliery Explosions, Phenomena of, 311
Colliery Miners’ Strike in New South Wales, 31
Colliery Shaft, The Deepest in the United King¬dom, 653
Colliery Strikes, Disputes, and Accidents, 31. 150, 299, 530, 693
Collingridge, Dr., His Report on the Sanitary
Condition of the Port of London, 476
Collins, S. J., Bicycle Rack for Baggage Cars, 57
Collis, General C. H. J., His Plan for Putting Down Asphalt Gutter Strip; in the Granite- paved Streets of New York, 104
Collision, Railway, Glasgow, 572
Colombo, Harbour Works at, 166
Colonial Roads, Maintenance of, 584
Colonial Samples Exhibita, 235, 341, 347, 488
Colour Printing, Portrait of the Queen on White Satin, 315
Colouring Steel Piano Wire ? 659
Colours of Alcohols and of Water, 31
Columbia, The Bridge Accident in, 146
Combo, Mr. Abram, Notes on the Introduction and Development of Rope Driving, 130
Combe, Barbour, and Combe, Limited. Messrs Belfast, 133, 140
Combustion of Bituminous Coal in Boilers, 358
Commercial Mnseum, Pekin, 490
Commercial Travellers now Required, Energetic, w the Great International Commercial Rice’
Commons Amendments of the Locomotives on Highways Bill in the House of Lords. 159
Compensating Water Gauge, Bailey’s, 479
Compound Engines—see Engines, Compound, 225
Compressed Air Cranes and Hoists, America, 453
Compressed Air Motors likely to Supersede Overhead Conductors for Tramways in the United States, 31
Compressed Air Motors for Traction in New York,
Compressed Air for Power Purposes, Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co., 463
Compressed Air Tramcars, New York, 479
Concentric Riog Breech Apparatus, Canet’s, 538
Conciliation and Arbitration Board for the Manu¬factured Iron Trade, Statistics for July and august. fumished by Mr. Waterhouse to tho, Ct>llC49iaii75> B°ard’ Th° C°al Trad0’ 201 38, 47,
Condensing Engine, Shanks’ Compound Vertical, 225
Condensing Plant, Monsted’s Margarine Factory Southall, 288, 292, 293, 337
Cinduit, Electric Road, in Winter, A, 1C8
Congo Railway, Progress of, 315
Conservation of Energy, The, 141
Constantinople, Depression tf Trado with, 351
Constanza, New Harbour Works at, 476 Construction of Archcp, 412
Constructie n of B ittlcsbips, 657
Construction and Maintenance of Roads, 500
Consular Assistance for Trade, 541
Continuous Brake Returns, 365
Continuous Rai’s in America, Cist Welded and Electric Welded, 443
Contracts Open :
Goods Wagons for Norwegian Slate Railways, 477
Contract for Additional Engine Power, Birming¬ham City Council Water Department, 31
Contract Let to tbe Stillwell-Bierce and Smith-Vale Co., 31, 95
Contract for a Turbine Installation, A Large, 31
Contract for the Widening and Enlargement the Sheffield Victoria Station, 95
Contracts Open, 373
Conveying Belts and their Use, 171
Conveyors from Cold Steel Bars, any Depth or Thickness, Machine to Coil Spiral, 174
Conveyors, Corn, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 17
Coode, Son, and Matthews, Messrs., to Survey Folkestone Harbour, 476
Coolgardie or Kalgoorlie v. Southern Cross as Starting Point of the Menoies Railway, 341
Coolgardie Water Scheme, Tendors, 520
Cooper’s Copper Jointing Rings, 374
Cope, Mr. Wm., E'ectric Tramway Conduit, 604
Copiapo Railway, Proposal of the Chilian Govern¬ment to Buy the, 476
Copper-jointing Rings, Cooper’s, 374
Copper Mines of Sinai, worked by the Ancient Egyptians, M. Berthelot on the, 271
Copper Oil Cans, Seamless, 145
Copper Prodnction of the United States, 365
Copper Sulphide, Precipitates of, 443
Copper in the United States, 618 Copy Work, 358
Coral Stone aud Engineering Work, 370
Corea, The First Railway in, 399
Corinth Canal, 33
Cork, City Surveyorship, 400
Corliss Compound Engine and Vertical Boilor, Tests of a, 71
Cornell University, Hydraulic Laboratory for, 574
Cornish Unemployed Tin Miners, The Granite Supply and the, 211
Cornwall, Mr. Brough, on Mining in, 638
Corrosion of Marine Machinery, Unusual, 130
Corrosion in Steam Boilers, Internal, Mr. Sinclair Couper, 574
Corsican Railways, Accelerated Service between Ajaccio and Bastia, 443
Corliss Engine Cylinder, 560
Cotton Industry in Japan, 442
Cotton Picking by Machinery, 211
Counterbalancing, Rails Bent by Locomotivo3 with Faulty, 287
Couper, Mr. Sinclair, Internal Corrosion in Steam Boilers, 574
Coventry Machinist Company passes into the Hands of the Syndicates, 20
Coverings, Non-conducting, for Boilers and Steam Pipes, 237
Craigmaddie, New Service Reservoir at, 118
Cramlington Coal Company, New Pit Opened by,
Cramp and Sons, Messrs, the Cruiser “Brooklyn,” 399
Cramp and Sons, Messrs., Steamers for Japan, 399 F ’
Crane Chain for tho Admiralty, Monster, 11
Cranes, Electric Driven, Messrs. Vaughan and Sons, 201
Cranes, Heavy Travelling, 657
Cranes and Hoists, Compressed Air, 453
Crane of 100 Tons, Overhead Travelling, 287
Crane, 30-Ton Steam Locomotive, 594, 600
Crastin’s Oil Motor Quadricycle, 546
Creasey’s Indicating Bell Push, 414
"Creole,” Passenger and Freight Steamer, The, 200 ’ Crewe, 39
Crookes and Dewar, Professors, On the London Water Supply, 537
Crossley Bros., G.is Engine and Direct-driven Dynamo, Double, 93
Crossley Bros., Gas and Oil Engines, 149
Cruisers, American Merchant Steamers as, 297
Cruiser “Aurora,” Cost of Refitting, 443
Cruiser “Edgar,” Cost of Refitting, 443
Cruisers for the Admiralty of the “ Doris ” Class, Tenders invited, 481
Cruiser of 4500 Tons to be Built on the Clyde for the Spanish Government, 215
Cruisers for Japan, Armoured, 537
Cruttwell, Mr. G. E. W., The Tower Bridge: Superstructure, 516
Crystal Palace, The, 659
Crystal Palace Exhibition, Awards for Motor Cars, 460
Crystal Palace, Motor Care at the, 35
Crystal Palace Old Students' Society, 408
Crystal Palace School of Engineering, Distribu¬tion of Awards and Certificates, 107, 653
Crystalline Silicon, On, 476
Crystallography for Beginners, 34
Culverts, Mr. F. D. Blake’s New, 520
Current Collector for Electric Traction Purposes, American, 237
Current Leakage from Electric Tramway Lines, Regulation Respecting, 271
Curtis, Mr. R. H., on the Velocity Equivalents of Wind Forces Estimated by Beaufort’s Scale, 657
Curves, Outer Rail Elevation on, Figures Relating to, 443
Curve. Tracer, The Monticolo Cyclesograph or,
Cutler’s Feast, The, 273, 529, 551
Cutlery, Electro-plated Goods, Silver Tools, &c., Review of Lighter Trades such as, 665
Cutlery, English and German Rivalry, 605
Cutlery (Clasp Knives), for the War Office, 149
Cutter Grinding Machine, Milling, 148
Cutter, Hydraulic, Mr. J. W. Parker, 31
Cutters, Milling, 82
Cutting Cloth, Bsrlin Exhibition, 255
Catting Coal by Machinery, 569
Cutting Machine, Self-clamp Guillotine, 173
Coxhaven Docks, 382
Cuxbaven Harbour, The New, 552
Cyanide Gold Process, The, 148
Cycle Cam Gear, 371
Cycle Company, The Latest Local, 480
Cycles in Franco, Increase of the Revenue from the Tax on, 95
Cycle Msnufacturers’ Tube Company, Limited, 573
Cycle Manufacturers' Tube Company, New Works Opened, 604
Cycle Manufactory Projected at Swansea, 578
Cycle Mechanism, by H. K. Landis, 249
Cycle and Motor Car Exhibition, Birmingham, 426
Cycles of the New Luminum Metal, 20
Cycle Science, National Institution of, 593
Cycle Show, Crystal Palace, The National, 642
Cycle Trade, Activity in the, 326
Cycle Trade, American Competition in the, 271
Cycle Trade, Effect of the Baom in the, on the Birmingham Small Arms and Metal Co., 272
Cycle Trade, The Liège, 174
Cyclists Invited to Normandy, 109
Cyclop; Works, Armour for the Five New Battle¬ships, 551
Cyclops Works, Visit to the, 551
Cyclesograph or Curve Tracer, The Monticolo, 147
Cylinder, Corliss, 560
Cylinder Ratio?, 511

D

DAIRY Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 16, 17
Dairy Show, The, 16, 17, 421, 452
Dam Problem, A, 211
Danube, The Iron Gates of the, 334, 335, 342
d’Arcy-Irvine’s Line-throwing Guns Ordered by Trinity House, 11
Darlington Iron and Steel Works for Sale, 529, 577, 645
David Allen and Sons, Messrs., Chromo Litho¬graphers, Belfast, 134
Davies, Mr. T. G., on After-damp, 378
Davison, Mr. J. M., On Wardite, 215
Davis’s Loose Pulley ? 595
Davit, Boat Raising and Lowering, 642
Davy-Faraday Laboratory, 660
Dawes, Sir Edwyn Sandys, Hi3 Presidential Address, 593
Daylight at Vienna, Javs, and Cairo, Herr Wiesner on the Chemical Intensity of, 315
Dean and Main, Messrs , Report on the Trial of a Corliss Compound Engine and Vertical Boiler, 71
De Bergue and Co.'s Multiple Punching Machine, 433
Do Bergue snd Co., Limited, Messrs., Special Shearing Machine, 58
Decimal System ? Who Invented tho, 596
Deeloy (John), Westloy, Richards, and Co., v. Perkes, 108
Deems, Mr. J. F., on tho Form of the Exhaust Jot in Locomotives, 95
Dsep Navigation Colliery of the Ocean Coal Company, Visit to the, 309
Defacos, M. E., on the Analytical Character of the Compounds of Tungsten, 215
Defects in Cocks and Valves, 512
Defiance Cycle and Motor Car Company Floated, The, 606
Deformations in Metals Subjected to Strains, Distribution of, 372
Dohérain and Demoussy, MM., on the Oxidation of the Organic Material of the Soil, 215
Delagoa Bay, State of Things at, 57
De Laval Steam Turbine Tested in the United States, 399
Delehenty System, Steam Garbage Scow on the, 664
Demerbe et Cie, MM. V., Roadways Laid with Flat Rail? for Heavy Traffic, 159
Dennis, Mr. L. M., New Compounds of Thallium, 287
Denny and Bros., Messrs., Passenger Steamer for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, 74
Derrick for Pipe-laying, Portable, 262
“Descartes, ’ Engine Trials of the, 95
"Descartes,” Instability of the Cruiser, 365
" Desperate,” Accident on Board the, 31
“Desperate," The Torpedo-boat Destroyer, 347
Destroyer of the Sokol Type for the Russian Government, New, 95
Des Vignes and Co., Messrs., Design for Steam Carriage, 84
Dewar, Prof., Results obtained at Low Tempera¬tures, 315
Diagram Puzzle, A, 495, 526. 561
Diamond, M. H. Moisian on the Black, 159
Diamonds from Steel, Formation of, 109
Diaries for 1897, 664
Dibdin, Mr. W. J., Society of Arts Silver Medal awarded to, 572
Dick, Kerr, and Co., Tho Douglas Cable Tram¬way, 422, 450, 451
Dilke, Sir Charles and the E:ght Honrs Miners’ Bill, 476
Dining Car, Great Western Newport-London Express, 157
D.p in Ancient Times, Method for obtaining the value of tbe, 520
D'scharge and Storage of Grain, 361
Discharge Tunnels from Reservoirs, Mr. J. A. Paskin, 121
Disinfector, Automatic, 442
Displacement in Metals, On the, 159
Dixon and Baker, Messrs., Investigations as to whether Röntgen Rays can influence Chemical Change, 237
Dixon and Co., Sir Rayltoo, Keel of the Largest Steamer built on the Tees laid by, 551
Dixon and Co., Sir Rayl ton, Trial Trip of the steamer “Nitocrio," 550
Dixon, Mr. R. M., on Car Heating by Steam, 575
Dixon and Sons, Messrs., Silver Table, 645

Docks:

Dock, Aberdeen Graving, Mr. R. Nichols’ Report on, 421
Dock, Dry, Chile, 438
Dock Extension, Middlesbrough, 529
Deck, Floating, for Havana, 653
Docks at Ostend, Projected, 287
Docks, Penarth and Birry, '2
Docks, Port Talbot Railway and, Works com¬menced, 159, 210
Dock, Tidal, Projected between Pulney and Wandsworth, 348
Dock for Troon, Graving, 108
Docking for the Rivor at Swansea, 214
Dockisation of the Avon, Mr. J. Wolfo Barry on the, 490
Dulley, Dr. C. S., his Planktonokrit, 11
Donath, M. Ed., Oa the Chemical Analysis of Iron, 443
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Experiments with Sopcr- licatcd and Saturated Steam on a 500 Indicated Horse-power Sulzer Compound Engiuo, 585
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, On Professor Dwelshauvers- Dery’s Experiments on a Steam Engine at L'ège University, 248
Doors, Casey’s Spherical Water-tight Bulkhead, 181
Doors, Water-tight Bulkhead, see Water-tight Bulkhead Doors
Dorman, Long, and Co., Limited, Britannia and W. Marsh Iron and Steel Works, Gross Profit for the Year, 577
Douglas, Isle of Man, Electric Tramways, 388, 389, 422, 450
Dover Coalfield, The, 589
Dover Town Council and the Use of Motor Cars in Street Scavenging, The, 237
Dover Undercliff Reclamation, 123
Dov'r, Water Springs Discovered near, 237 Dowden, Mr., 530
Dowlais-Cardiff Colliery Strike, The, 456, 482, 506, 578, 666
Dowlais Company, Effort of the, to form Duplicate Concern on Cardiff Moors, 202
Doxford, Mr , Il s Proposal, 544
“Dragonne,” Trials on the French Torpedo Gun¬boat, 520
Drainage Ettiuent Scheme, Manchester Main, 391
Draining the Zuyder Zee, Scheme for, 315
Draught Gosling’s System of Accelerated, 601, 606
Draughtsmen, Position of, 60, 87, 163
Drawing Board, Mr. Stanley, S6
Draycott Colliery Company, Four-foot Seam Reached by the, 146
“ Dreaduought,” H.M.S., 184
Dredgers for the Colonies, Boat Channel, 260
Dredger, An Electric, 186
Dredger, Hydraulic Suction, on the Mississippi Mr. L. W. Bates, 12. 18
Drill, Kiirte-Whitley’s Sensitive, 45
Drilling Machine Bench, Mr. T. Bradley, 73
Drilling and Tapping Machine, Radial, 260
Driving Engines, 537
Driving Wheels, 445
“ Drummond Castle ” Disaster, Tbe, 141
Dry Dock, Chile, Opening of the Talcahuano, 438
Dryness of Saturated Steam, On Determining the, 514
Dublin and Wicklow Railway, The, 516
Dudley, Electric Light for, 273
Dudley Power Pneumatic Gun, Tho, 475
Duff’s Patent Gas Producor, 174
“Dukoof Devonshire,” The New Paddlo Steamer, 42
Duke of Wellington’s Carriage, Crystal Palaco Exhibition. 110
Dumbarton Harbour, Subsidence at, 420
Dumfries Station, Official Report on the Accident at, 215
Duncan, Mr. L .uis, Distribution and Transmission of Electrical Energy, 417
Dunsmuir and Jackson's Engine Works, Dispute in Messrs., 228, 274
Dunstan, Prof. W., at the Imperial Institute, 489
“ Dun vegan Castle,” Royal Mail Steamer, the, 267
Dunville and Co.’s Distilleries, 77, 88
Duquesne Steel Works, Electric Equipment for the, 105
Durban Port, 33
Durham and Cleveland Saltfield, On the, 604
Durham Collieries, Closing of the, 290
Durham, New Railway in, 219
Durpe, Mr. W. F., Cause of the Difference of Wrought Iron and Ingot Iron, 399
Dussy, M. J., On the Heat of Sulphur, 237
Dwelshauvers-Dery, Prof., Experiments on a Steam Engine at Liège University, Belgium, 1896, 248
Dynamite Guns, Pneumatic, at San Francisco, 250
Dynamometrical Work done on the Bicycle, M. Bonny oa the, 57

E

EADIE, Mr., Site of the Imperial Ironworks at Southbank Bought by, 551
Exrl’s Court Exhibition Theatre, Electric Light¬ing of, 463
Earthquake, The Recent, 657
East Coast Flyer, With the, 617
East Coast Scottish Service, Mr. Charles Rous- Marten, 15
Eist River Suspension Bridge, New York, 424
Eaton Hall, Light Railway at, 448
Eaves’ Helical Induced Draught, 590
Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, Strike at, 352, 404
Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works very Encourag¬ing, 578
‘ Eclipse,” Trials of, as Relating to Coal Con¬sumption, 31
" Eclipse,” Trials of the, as Relating to Stern Torpedo Tubes, 185
Economic Steam Appliances Company, Baker's Oil Separator, Feed-water Heater and Softener, 571
Economy in Railway Engineering, 166
Edgar Boiler, The, 570
Edgar Boiler Company, Large Boiler from the Works of the, 95
“ Edgar,” The Cruiser, 443
Edinborgh North Tramway, Snapping of a Strand of the Cable, 520
Edinburgh, On the Meteorology of, 42
Education, Chemical, 367
Efficiency of Screw Propellers, 568, 637
Effinent Scheme, Manchester Main Drainage, 391
Egypt, Dr. L. Canney on the Winter Climate of, 657

Eight Hours Day not a Success at Works in the North, where it has been introduced, 201

Ejectors, Hydraulic, 495
Elan Water Supply, Works in Connection with the, 426

Electric:

Electric Annealing of Armour Plates at Cher¬bourg, Plant for, 315
Electric Apparatus in Warships, Delicato, 561
Electric Cara or Steam Locomotives, which arc Moro Severe on the Rails, 443
Electric Conductivity of Aluminium, 638
Electric Conduit Railway, Chicago, Proposed, 31
Electric Congress at Genova, Projected Inter¬national, 31
Electric Construction Company, Variable Ratio Transformer, 116
kilowatt, 651
Electric Currents, Magnetisation of Iron Wires Traversed by, 572
Electric Dredger, An, 186
Electric Driven Cranes, Messrs. Vaughan and Sons, 201
Electric Driving Plant, Redaction of Coal Con¬sumption in a Shipyard owing to the Use of an, 365
Electric Elevated Railway Opened in Chicago, 215
Electric Energy, Distribution and Transmission of, 417
Electric Furnace, M. Moissan's Researches with, 443
Electric Generating Station for BAle, 271
Electric and Incandescent Gas Lighting in the City, 79
Electric Indicating Bell Posh, 414
Electric Industries in the United States, Capital Invested in, 638
Electric Industry, Opening in the Present State of, 537
Electricity Distribution by Rotary Transformers, 650
Electricity on the Manhattan Elevated Railway in New York, 417
Electricity on Projectiles in Flight, Effect of, 181
Electricity Works at Niagara Falls, 586
Electric Lighting in Belfast, Mr. Victor A. II. McCowen, 129
Electric Light, Birmingham Meat Market, 528
Electric lighting of Cadiz, Tendors Invited for, 185
Electric Lighting in Cape Towd, 524
Electric Light for Docks, 481
Electric Light at Dowlais Ironworks, 274
Electric Lighting, Earl’s Court Exhibition Theatre, 463
Electric Lighting Gas Engine, Double High¬speed, 93
Electric Light at Guildford, 60
Electric Lighting, Leyton, 491, 492,' 493, 494, 526
Electric Light for Malta, 589
Electric Lighting, Morley, 510
Electric Lighting Plant, Messrs. F. B. Welch and Co , 505
Electric Light at Portsmouth and Bradford Encouraged, 572
Electric Light, South-Eastern Corridor Train, 589
Electric Lighting, Tenders for Torquay, 565
Electric Light at tbo Trocadoro Restaurant, 341
Electric Light, Walsall, 376
Electric Light Station, Boilers at tho Islington, 60
Electric Light Stations, Forced Draught at, 34 Electric Lines for Paris, 572
Electric Locomotives, Baltimore, United States, 572
Electric Locomotive of tho Future, The, 589
Electric Locomotives, New York, 315, 480
Electric Locomotives to bo Tried in Russia, 315
Electric Locomotive, The Westinghouse, 11
Electric Mining Plant, Silver Lake Mine, Silver-ton, 72
Electric Motive Power on the Wear, First Intro¬duction of, 529
Electric Motors at the Bavarian Exhibition in Nuremburg, 277
Electric Motor Car for the Queen of Spain, 340
Electric Motors and Dynamos, Small, 297
Electric Ploughs, 653
Electric Power Machinery Installed in the Rocky Mountains, 365
Electric Power from Niagara Falls, 516
Electric Power Transmission Plant, The Folsom, 239
Electric Pumps? Small, 541
Electric Rack Railway up the Jungfrau, 653
Electric Railway, Brighton and Rottingdean Sea¬shore, 570
Electric Railway between Budapest and Trieste, 287
Electric Railway for Mont Blanc, 490
Electric Rrilway, Narrow Gauge, OberhauseD, 271
Electric Riilway Project, Another Metropolitan, 476
Electric Railway Work, Canadian, 442
Electric Railway, Working Model of Mr. F. B. Behr’s High-speed, 109
Electric Resistances? 445
Electric Shocks be Communicated through the Jet from a Fire Engine Hose ? Can, 185
Electric Shunting on tbe Brooklyn Bridge, 537
Electric Standards, Report of the Committee on, 315
Electric Street Cleaning Car, New York, 358
Electric Street Tramways in New York State, 215
Electric Supply Stations, Prof. Schwartz on, 664
Electric Traction, 495
Electric Traction for Branch Lines of the New York, Now Haven, and Hartford Railway, 653
Electric Traction for Glasgow Tramways, 44
Electric Traction, Prof. R. H. Smith, 381
Electric Traction on the Upper Silesian Railway, 476
Electric Telegraph, Mr. F. H. Carter on the, 527
Electric Tramroad, Brighton and Rottingdean, 570, 657
Electric Tramways for Algiers, 417
Electric Tramway in Cairo Inaugurated, 159
Electric Tramway for Cheltenham, Proposal for an, 95
Electric Tramway Conduit, Mr. Wm. Cope’s Patent, 604
Electric Tramways, Douglas, Isle of Man, 388, 389
Electric Tramways in the North, 551
Electric Tramways, Proposed, 327, 350
Electric Tramways, Statistics Showing the De¬velopment of, 572
Electric Tramways, Tokio, 399
Electric Transmission of Power in Mines, 8, 9
Electric Trolley System, The Overhead, Prohi¬bited in Central Streets of Chicago, 215
Electric Tugs on the Spree, Proposed Service of, 271
Electric Victoria for the Queen of Spain, 323
Electric Water-power Development in Montreal, 95
Electric Waves along Wires, Absorption of, by a Terminal Bridge, 572
Electric Waves, On the Velocity of, 490
Electric Welding, 589
Electric Wires, Extraordinary Accident connected with Overhead, 526
Electric Working of Ymuidon Locks, 417
Electric Works, Extension of Batb, 417
Electrolytic Conductivity, Method of Measuring, 476
Eloctrolytical Methods, Manufacture of Alkali and Bleach by Chemical and, 655
Electro-mechanical Water-wheel Governor, Tte Giesler. 92
Electro-motive Force of Iron Thermo-couples, Influence of Magnetisation on the, 572
Elevator “Baltic,” The Grain, 413
Elgar, Dr., Safety in Ships, 323
Elliott’s Compound Wedge, 162
Eliott and the Gibson Instruments at Greenwich, Values Given Respectively by the, 95
Elliott’s New Outside Spring Indicator, 268
Elswick, Li Hung Chang at, 214
Emery Paper and Cloth Plant ? 445
Emigrants' Information Office, Last Report from, 22
Empire Seamless Tube Company, Hot Rolling Plant for, 604
Empire Typewriter, The, 121
Employment at Steel and Tin-plato Works, Puddling Furnaces, and Rollmg Mills in October, 636
Emptying Cesspools, Plant for, 315
Endurance Tube and Engineering Company, Satisfactory Position of the, 272
Energy, The Conservation of, 141
Energy of a Gas, The Intrinsic, 84, 413, 439 Engines:
Engines, American Blowing, 247
Engines, Bogie, 239
Engine and Car Performance on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, 441
Engine, Compound, Wolf’s 200-Horse Power Semi-portable, 256
Engine Cylinder, Corliss, 660
Engine, Doable High-speed Electric Lighting Gas, 93
Engine Driver, Thomas Melling, Death of the, 572
Engines, Gas and Oil, Messrs. Crossley Bros., 149
Engine, Tho Halladay Wind, 212
Engines, High-speed, 142
Engine, High-speed Vertical, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jelfories, 17
Engine Igniter, Oil, 598
Engines of tho “ Inchmonn," 373
Engine, Tho Libra, 30
Engines, London and North-Western Railway, If 3, 184, 211
Engines, Marino Five-crank, 295
Engine for Mill Work, Marino Type of, 479
Engines, New North-Eastern, 35 Eogines, Pilot, 413
Engine, Portable, Hungarian State Works, 331
Engine Pumping, Messrs. W. H. Allen and Son, 500
Engine Puzzles, 596, 643
Eagines and Railways, Traction, 275
Engine, Raworth’s Universal High-speed Steam Engine, 512, 519, 541
Engineer Road Carriage Competition, The, 573
Engines, Rolling Mill, Eston Steel Works, 377
Engine-room Floor ? What is tbe Best Material for, 520
Engines, Shanks’ Compound Vertical Condensing, 225
Engine, Southall’s Gas, 70
Engines, Steam, Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 17
Engine, A Steamboat Beam, 664
Engines of the s.s. “Inchmona,” The Five-crank (Supplement, September IDA, 1896), 261
Engines of the s.s. “ Jattra,” 160, 161
Engines and Tenders, Geods, New South Wales Government Railways (Supplement, July 3rd. 1896), 15
Engine Traction, 1857, Boydell’s, 136, 137, 138
Engine Trials of the “ Descartes, ’’ 95
Engines, Triple Expansion, H. M. S. “ Powerful " (Supplement, October 2nd, 1896)
Engine, Two-wheel Portable, 598
Engine, Universal, Mr. J. S. Rawortb’s, 550
Engine and Vertical Boiler, Tests of a Corliss Compound, 71
Engines, Vertical Inverted Triple-expansion, Admiralty Orders for, 237
Engines of the White Star Liner “ Germanic,” New (Supplement, July 17th, 1896), 52
Engine, The Willans, 163

Engineer The, 11OO Guinea Road Com¬petition :

Conditions of Competition, 517, 521
Engineer Laboratory., Cambridge, 144
Engineer Studentships in II.M. Dockyard at Devonport Openea to Sons of Gentlemen in the Colonies, 57
Engineers in tbe United States Navy, 280
Engineering, Coals, Shipping, and. 115
“Engineering” and “Engineer,” Mr. H. W. Standen on the Termp, 413
Engineering to the Exact Sciences, Profossor F. W. Burstall cn tbe Relation of, 606
Engineering Firms in the North, Orders Booked by, 455
Engineering Industries and the Coal Trade, 14
Engineering Industries in Leeds, The Growth of, 589
Engineering Trade at Colchester, 42
Engineering Trade of the Manchester District, Circular from the Workmen Engaged in the, 227
Engineering Trades, Present Position and Out¬look in the, 86
Engineering Trades, Wages Agitatien in the, 327, 341
Engineering Wing of University College, Bristol, Opening of the, 525
Engineering Work, Coral Stcne and, 370
Engineering Works in Spain, 576
English Railways, Americanising of, 374
Envelope Maker, Royal Ulster Works, 155
Erimns Ironworks, Changes at the, 251
Erratum, Engixbbr of July 31st, 159
Erratum, Munstod'a Margarine Factory, 337
Erratum, Snodlani Bridge, 382
“E«ex,” Trial Trip of the, 57
Etchingham Station, Major Marindin's Report on Fi the Collision near, 275
Ether, Toe, 372. 388
Etna Railway, The, 215
Evaporating Power of the Soil, 159
Evaporation from Lind aud from Water Surfaces, Rate of, 109, 14Ö, 159
Evans and Co., Messrs. Jas., “Anemogene,” 99
Evans, Mr. Joseph, Patented Improvement in Self-propulsion for Cycles and Motor Cars, 604
Everard, Mr. J. B., Leicester Waterworks, 332, 363, 366
Everett, Mr. S. A., Automatic Varying Speed Coal Tippler, 652
Exe, The, Dredging of the Channel of, 531
Exeter and the Royal Agricultural Society’s Meeting, 589
Exhaust Nozzles, Oa, 215

Exhibitions:

Exhibition, Hungarian Millennial, Budapest, 1869, 4, 5, 51. 78, 138, 331
Exhibition, the Chicago, 20
Exhibition, The Berlin Industrial, 161, 255, 257, 296, 417
Exhibition, Toe Brewers', 474
Exhibition, Brisbane, International, 1897, 490
Exhibition, The Brussels International, 215, 414, 465, 500
Exhibition, The Cardiff, 248, 378
Exhibition of Colonial Samples, 235, 488
Exhibition, Confectioners’, Bakers', and Allied Traders’ Annual International, 95
Exhibition, The Crystal Palace, 84, 85, 110, 460
Exhibition, Crystal Palace Great Victorian Loan, 1897, 442
Exhibition, Cyclo and Motor Car, Birmingham, 1897, 426
Exhibition, Electrical and Engineering, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 476
Exhibition, Electrio (International) at Turin, 638
Exhibition, Gas Industries, New York, 322
Exhibition, The Guatemala, 1897, Central American, 35
Exhibition of Laundry Appliances, 214
Exhibition of Machinery at Kieff in 1897, 435
Exhibition of Motor Machinery, Munich, 311
Exhibition, The National Cycle, Crystal Palace, 642
Exhibition, The Nijoi Novgorod, 43
Exhibition, Nuremburg, Electric Motors at the, 277
Exhibition, Queensland International, 319
Exhibition, Scandinavian and Russian, 1897, 451, 650
Exhibition, The Tinworth Art, 54
Expansion Gear, Automatic Variable, Mr. W. D. Wight's Paper on, 348
Expansion of Liquids studied by means of Photography, 572
Explosion in Barlin, Acetylene, 653
Explosion, Boiler, in Paris, 576
Explosion, Coal Pit, 565
Explosion daring Racket Experiments, 572
Explosion of Generators and Accessories, Mr. John Batey on the, 400
Explosion on H.M.S. “ Blake," 35
Explosion of a Piston, Serious Effects of the, 537
Explosion, Locomotive Boiler, 11
Explosion, Redcar Ironworks, 551. 605
Explosion on s.s. “Scotia,’ 891, 399, 590
Explosion, A Suggestive, 270
Explosives Act of 1875, Alterations in, 537
Explosives in France, Experiments with, 474
Explosive, A Smokeless, 287
Express Locomotive, Chicago, Rack Island, and Pacific Railway, 72
Express Train, A New, between New York and Buffalo, 72
Extraction of Precious Metals from Cabined Orcs, Process for the, 185

F
FAILURES in the United States during the Past Nine Months, 490
Fairburn, Naylor, and McPherson, Hydraulic Wheel Press, 642
Fairfax, Mr., Patents kept in Force by Renewal Fees, 490
Fairfax, Mr., On the Value of Patent Property, 489
Fall of a Bridge, 170
Fall in Steamship Freights, 544
Faraday Research Laboratory, The New, 606
Karman, M. D., his Work on Automobiles, 287
Fast Train Running in France. 192
Fatigue in Reading, On the Physical Conditions of, 572
Fanlkner, Mr. J., on Lightaing Conductors at St. Paul’s, 515
Faulks, Mr. A., Brush Company’s New Engine Shops, Loughborough, 79
Faun Folding Bicycle, The, 573
Featherstone, Mr. H. C., appointed Birongh Sur¬veyor, 638
Feed Pampa, H.M.S. “Minerva," 535
Feed-water Heater, The Harman, 441
Ferrates, Lap-welded, 662
Ferryboats, Railway Train, 664
Ferry Steamer, Lake Baikal and Siberian Rail¬way, 385
Field Glasses, Aitchinson’s, 250
Files, The Government's Conditions Modified with regard to, 351
Filling Paper, New Material for, 57
Filter Beds for Indianapolis, 109
Filters, Sand, their Increasing Bacterial Effi¬ciency, 653
Filters in Use at Asbury Park for Removing Iron in the Water Supply, 98
Filtration of Water, 64
Fining a Railway, 341
Finland, The Paper Industry in, 159
Fire, The Belfast, 116
Fire-brick Heat, Conductivity, Expansion and
Fusibility of, Mr. J. D. Pennock, 341
Fire-damp and Gas from Rochbelle, Constituency of, 237
Fire-damp, Nitrogen and Argon Contained in, i 159
Fire at Millwall Works, 520
Fire Tubes of Steam Boilers, The Effect of, 189
Firing at Captive Balloons, Experiments in, 574
Firth and Sons, Messrs. Thomas, A Large Cast Steel Wheel, 140
Fitton, Mr. George, his Appointment, 413
Five-crank Marine Engines, 295
Five-crank Eagines of tho s.s “(nchmona ” (Sup¬plement, Sr/itembri 11M, 1890), 201
Flat Rails or. Roads Subjected to Heavy Traffic, 159
Flax Scutchiag and Flax Heckling Machinery, Mr. J. Horner on, 105
Fléchet, M., On the Advisability of Laying Flat Rails on Roads, 146, 159
Fleet, Inspection by Li Hung Chang at Spithead, 144
Fletcher's Road Locomotive (Design), 1872, 235
Fletcher, RusieJ, and Co.’s Gas Muffle Furnaces, 327
Flight, Artificial. 269
Floors, EajinoReon! What is the Bost Material for, 520
Flour Dreis’ng Machines at the Royal Agricul¬tural Society’s Show, 16
Flours, M. Girard on, Screened and Unscreened, 11
Fiour Making in Canada, 416
Flour Milling in Manitoba, 431
Flour Milling Notes, 71
Fluid Friction, Oaa Vexed Question in the Theory of, 146
Flying Machine, Mr. Otto Lilientbal's, 572
Flying Machine, Mr. W. Paul’s, 417
Flying Shunts, The Danger of, 109
Fly-wtieel, Bursting of a, 537
Fog Signalling, Mechanical, 38
Fog Signalling Plant at the Clock Lighthouse, 572
Folgheraiter, G., On the Approximate Value of the Dip in Ancient Times, 520
Folkestone Harbour, Project for Deepening and Enlarging, 476
Folsom Electric Power Plant, 24-Pole Dynamo, 239
Fontio, M. Paul, On the Trials made with 6in. Howitzer on the “ Dragonne,’’ 443
Forced Draught at Electric L:ght Stations, 34
Foreign Competition Question, The, 645
Foreign Trade of Great Britain, The, 317
Foreign Trade, Our, 420, 597
Forfeit—or Little Cutler’s Feast, The, 11
Forging Machines ' 497
Forman, Mr. C., Lattice and Web Girder Bridges, Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, 398, 400
Formosa, Development of Internal Communica¬tion in, 109
Formulie for Armour Piercing, 90
Fothergill, Mr., On Coal Consumption, 1, 6
Fothergill Prize and Silver Medal is Offered by the Society of Arts, Subject for which the, 159
“ Foudroyant” in Nelsen's Time, a.d. 1800, 33
Fowler and Co.’s Locomotive, 1868, 234, 235
Fox, Sir Douglas, Address to the Mechanical Section of the British Association, 325
Foxhole Works, Swansea, Amicable Settlement at, 274
France, Cycles in, and the Tax on, 95
France, Fast Train Running io, 192
France, Motor Cycle Trials in, 319
France, Race of Horseless Carriages in, 41
Frankland, Dr. Percy, Bacterial Purification of Water, 576
Freezing Point of Mercurial Thermometers, The, 159
Freights from British and from other Ports, South African Orders Lost to us on Account of the Difference in, 480
Freights, Rise in Shipping, 446
Freights, Steamship, 544
French Cruiser “Descartes,” Defects of the, 365
French Cruiser, Engine Trials of a, 95
French Motor Carriage Race, The, 333, 355
French Quick-fire Guns, 320
French Railways, Development of, 237
French Société d'Encouragement, Prize Awards of the, 95
Fresnel, M. Dallin de, Advocates the use of French Coal in Tunis, 237
Friction of Screws, Mr. A. Kingsbury on the, 516
Friction of the Turbines at Niagara, 417
Friedeberg’s Pulveriser, 255
Fuel Economies, Soot Catchers and, 57
Fuel, Oil, Mr. Holden’s Invention for Using, 572
“ Fuji," Progress of the Japanese Battleship, 245
Funnels of the “ Terrible ” and “ Powerful,” The 1 506
Furnace, The Camroc Boiler, 375
Furnace, The Electric, M. Moissan's Researches with, 443
Furnace, The Gobbe Glass Tank, 654
Furnaces, Improved Glass Muffle, 327
Furnace, Marshall's Downdraught, 384
Furnace Practice, American Blast, 25, 27, 80, 81
Furnaces, Siemens, 400
Furness, Sir Christopher, Three Companies to be Formed by. 73, 126
Fusibility of Metallic Alloys, M. H. Gautier on the, 109

G

GALE, Big Guns in a, 525
Galloway, M r., Death of, 646
Galvanising, North of England Firms that are laying down Plant to enable them to do their own, 251
Ganor, Capt., Automatic Sight, 213
Garbage Disposal Plant, Now York, 122
Garbage Scow, Steam, 664
Gard Coalmasters and the increasing Import of British Coal into Tunis, 237
Gas, Acetylene, 581, 643
Gas r. Electric Traction for Sheffield, 339
Gas Engine, Double High-speed Electric Light¬ing, 93
Gas Engines, Messrs. Crossley Bros., 149
Gas Engine, Southall’s, 70
Gas, Intrinsic Energy of a, 31, 413, 439
Gases, Liquefying, Apparatus for, 485, 509
Gas Mantle, Mr. J. Lery, 490
Gas Mixtures, Apparatus for Mechanically Seperntiog, 485, 509
Gas Motor Tram Cars, Blackpool, St. Ann’s, and Lytham Tramways, 66
Gas Mutlla Furnaces, Improvod, 327
Gas Plan*, Water, Birmingham, 528
Gas Producers, Th waites’ Motor, 220
Ga9 Rstort Beds, New System of Coal, 6, 35, 60
Gases Subjected to ths Action of a Series of
Sparks Acquire an Increased Conductivity for Heat, 476
Gxs Supply, Change in the Lindon, 318
Gas Supply of tho South Metropolitan Gasworks,
Mr. G. Li vesey on the, 146
Gas-testing Lamp;, 503
Gas Traction Company, Gas Mitor Tramcars, 66
Gas Traction for Tramways, 318
Gasworks of Berlin, 225
Gauge Act, Jubilee of the, 198
Gauges, 244
Gauge Glasses in the Navy, 343
Gauges, Scavenger. 663
Gautier, M. LI., Oa the Fusibility of Metallic Alloys, 109
Gear, Rope Driving, 184
Generators—see Boilers
Geology, Mr. Mark Stirrup on Speculative, 505
German-Australian Steamship Company’s Boats, The 100th Voyage by, 95 '
German Barb Ware Expert, The, 333
German Competition, Remarkable Instance of, 272
German Complaints of American Competition, 476
German East Africa, Proposed Central Railway Through, 364
German «. English Materials in the German Ship¬building Industry, 432
German Export to Russia, 300
German Foreign Trade for September, 520
German Foreign Trade in May, 1896, Figures of and from 1889 te 1896, 74
Garman Government Invited to take Part in the Paris Exhibition, 1900, 72
German Industries, Import and Export, 428
German Naval Estimates, 212
German Rails into Russia, Table Showing Total Export of, 185
German Shipbuilding, 65
German State Railways, Receipts of the, 572
German Trade Returns, 476
“ Germanic,” Boilers of the White Star s.s. (Supplement, „1 ugust 7 th, 1896)
“Germanic,” New Engines and Pumps of the (Supplement, July 17th, 1896), 52, 53
Germany and American Competition, 104
Germany, Coal Pit Explosion in, 565
Germany in 1895, Strikes in. 589
Germany, Iron Ore Production in, 208
Germany, Light Railways in, 315
Germany, Locomotive Building in, 180
Germany, Steam Power Used in, in 1895, 208
Germany, Wages in, 549
Ghent, Improvements in the Port of, 121
Giesler Governor, The, 92
Gill, Mr., Iron Ora Industries of Biscay and San¬tander, 258
Gillivare Magnetic Iron Ore, 175
Gillott, Mr. Thos., On tho Surface Plant at Kirkby Colliery, 643
Girard, M , On the Value as Food of Bread made from Soreened Flours, 11
Girder Calculator. Timmin’s Mechanical, 357
Glasgow Central Railway, Tbe, 440, 441, 444
Glasgow District Subway, 558, 559
Glasgow District Subway Opened, 638
Glasgow Pig Iron Market, The, 228
Glasgow Railway Collision, 572
Glasgow, Refrigerating Plant for, 33
Glasgow and the Smoke Nuisance, 384
Glasgow Subway Railway, Alterations in the Working, 653
Glasgow Tramways, Electric Traction for, 44
Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, Prof. Watkinson’s Lectures at, 549
Glass Bottle Making Machinery ? 659
Glass Industry of Nor wav, Decline of, 11
Glass Marbles in the United States, Plant for making, 271
Glass Tank Furnace, The Gobbe, 654
Glasses, Field, Mr. Aitcbinson, 250
Glazss for Porcelain and Pottery, The Problem of Obtaining, 109
Globe Engineering Company, “Metropolitan” Injectors, 99
Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation, 534
Gloucester, New Water Supply for, 82
Glover and Co., Messrs. W. and T., Patent High Conductivity Introduced by, 251
Gobbe Glass Tank Furnace, The, 654
Gold from tho Cape. 232
Gold Crnshings at Witwatersrandt for Jaly, 159
Gold Mining in British Columbia, 573
Gold Monometalism in tbe United States, 100
Gold, New Process for the Extraction of, 191
Gold Output, New South Wale«, 31
Gold Process, The Cyanide, 148
Gold Reduction, Toe Ore Atomic System for, 503
Gold and Silver from Calcined Ores, Process for the Extraction of, 185
Gold and Silver Production in the United States, 311
Gold in the Transvaal, On ihe, 146
Gold Veins in California, 653
Gonda, Bala von, with Portrait, 475
Goole, New Docks for, 382
Goods Wagonp, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 453
Goods Wagons for Norwegian State Railways, 477
Gosling’s Improved System of Accelerated Draught, 601, 606
Goss, Prof., Effect upon the Diagrams of Long r Pipe Connections for Steam Engine Indicators,
Goss, Prof., on the Form of the Exhaust Jet in Locomotives, 95
Gothenburg, Iron and Steel in, 516
Gothenburg, Railway Extension in, 520
Government Boiler Inspection, 640
Governor, The Giesler, 92
Governor, Robinson’s Variable Speed, 70
Guatemala Central American Exhibition, 1897. 35
Guildford, Electric Light at, 60
Gunboats, Torpedo, see Torpedo Gunboats Gnn, Accident to a Canet Quick-firiDg, 465
Guns, Automatic Sights for Coast, 415
Gun, Tbe Dudley Power Pneumatic, 475
Guns in a Gale, Big, 525
Guns of the “ Indiawa,” Trials of the, 271
Guns, Line-throwing, ordered by Trinity House Corporation, Il
Guns, LoDg, 217
Guns, Pneumatic Dynamite, at San Francisco, 250
Guns, Quick-firing Field, 320
Guns, Sbip9 and, 639
Gwynne v. Bute Docks Company, 462
Gyldon, Professor Hugo, 490
Grain, Discharge and Storage of. 361
Grain ex-Ship, Automatic Weighing of, 413
Grain Transport in India, Reduction in the Rate of, 633
Grand Canal, The, 33
Granite Supply and the Cornish Unemployed, T.'n Miners, 211, 295
Grant's Automatic Sights for Coast Gun’, 415
Graphical Calculus, Barker’s, 163, 134, 239
Graphite Deposits in Bulgaria, Woikiog of, 365
Graphite as a Lubricant, 516
Grappier Tire, The, 481
Graving Dock for Troon, New, 108
Gray, Mr. J. W., 189
Gray and Co., Sir Wm., Causes of Disputes at the Works of, 577
Gray, Sir Wm , Reduction of Coal Consumption in his Shipyard, 365
Gray, Sir Wm., Testimonial to, 274
Great Britain, The Foreign Trade of, 317
Great Eastern Railway Extension Project, 633 Great Eastern Railway Company, Line from Southminster to Bradwell-on-Sea urged upon the, 520
Great Eistern Railway Company. New Railway from Yarmouth to Lowestoft, 520
Great Eistern Railway, a Piece of Rapid Bridge work, 490
Great Eistern Railway, Widening Works, The Primrose-street Bridge, 183, 186,187
Great Eastern Railway Works, 90
Great Northern Engines, New, 388
Great Northern Express, Attempt to Wreck, 589
Great Northern Railway Jubilee. 34, 87
Great Northern Railway at King’s Cross, Col. Yorke's Report on the Accident on the, 399
Great Northern Railway, New and Old Bridge Removal, Peterborough. 538, 539, 542
Great Northern Railway, Widening the Line, 365
Great Northern Railway Works, 142
Great Western, The Longest Non-stopping Rail¬way Run of the World, 355, 399
Great Western Railway, Advance of Wages
Offered—Reduction of Hours Preferred, 577
Great Western Locomotives, 561
Great Western Railway, Development cf Metro¬politan Traffic, 417
Great Western Long Distance Train, Photograph of, 399
Great Western Railway Gradients from Padding¬ton to Cardiff, 157, 158
Great Western Railway, Large Orders for Steel Rails placed with Messrs. Connell's, 645
Great Western Railway, Mileage, Staff, Revenue, and Capital, 271
Great Western Railway, Newport-London Ex¬press, 157
Great Western Railway, Outrage near Slough, 572
Great Western Railway, Project to Shorten Route to Midlands, 287
Great Western Railway, Report as to Orders for Steel Rails placed by the, with Firms in South Wales, 644
Great Western Railway S.rvice, Important Meet¬ing, Cardiff, 530
Great Western Railway, Tenby and Pembroke Railway to be taken over by. 300
Great Western Railway, Two 20-KnotTwin-screw Passenger Steamers to be Built by the Barrow Co., 73
Great Western Railway, Widening tbe, and the Ob j set, 399
Greatbeid, Mr. Jas. Henry, with Portrait, 428, 448
Greek Government, Steam Lauuch for the, 310
Green, Mr. James, Lifts, 663
Green, Messrs. R. and H., Padd’.e Steamer, “ Duke of Devonshire,” 42
Greenleaf Turntable Ce., Centre-bearing Turn¬ table, 479
Grieve and Co., Messrs. John, 30-Ton Steam loco¬motive Crane, 594, 600
Grilling and Franz, Messrs., On the Physical Con¬ditions of Fatigue in Reading, 572
Grinding Machine, Hole, 186
Grinding Mill, Bentall's, 83
Grove, Sir William, 143
Grover's Indicator Gear, 96

H

HALDANE, Dr., Method for Detecting Carbon Monoxide in the Air, 315 Haldane, Dr Paper with Regard to Pit Explosions, 72
Halesowen Rural District, Projected Sewerage Works, 174
Hall, Mr. Henry, Oa the Initiation of Colliery Accidents, 73
Hal), Mr. John, 486
Halladay Wind Engine, The, 212
Haltermann, Mr. II., Discussion of the Occurrence of St. Elmo’s Fire at Sea, 185
Hammer, Pneumatic, Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 16
Hand Looms in Italy, 653
Handcock’s Steim (Omnibuses, Sir F. Bramwell on, 309
Handyside and Co., Messrs., Railway Bridge Great Northern Railway, 538, 539, 542
Harbord and Twynam, Messrs., Nitrogen cn Steel, 258

Harbours and Waterways:

Blyth, 33, 100
Boyne Navigation, 33
Bndgwater, 232
Bristol, 535
Buffalo, Harbour Work at, 479
Colombo, Harbour Works at, 166
Corinth Canal, 33
Cuxbaven Harbour, The New, 552
Exe, The, 535
Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation, Tie, 535
Grand Canal, 33 Harbour Bills, 232
Harbours and Waterways (continual): Manchester Ship Canal, 232, 535
Port Durban, 33
Swansea, 535 Tees, The, 33
Thames, The, 533 Tyne, The, 535
Vera Cruz. Harbour Works, 453
Welsh Coal Ports, The, 232

Hardening Steel in Petroleum, 95
Hardy, Mr. J., 31
Hardy and Padmore’s Small Ideal Gas Engines, 70
Hardy Patent Pick Ci.'s Show at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 16
Harker, Dr. J. A., Oa ths Determination of the Freezing Point of Mercurial Thermometers, 159
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Eogines of the White Star Steamer “Germanic” (Supplement, July 17th, 1896)
Harland and Wolff's Works, Belfast, 28, 36
Harman Feed-water Heater, The, 411
Harrison Appeal, Re W. H., 163
Hartmann's Machinery House, New Ironworks in South Russia, 95
Harvesting Machines, Royal Agricultural Society of England, 16, 17
Harveyiied Armour-plate, Trial of an, 145
Haslam Foundry and Engineering Co., Refrigerating Machinery, S.S. India,” 563
Hastings, Harbour Work, 382
Hastings, Working Alternators in Parallel at, 361, 439
Haswell Colliery, Pit to be Closed, 299
Haulage Attachment for Four-wheeled Vehicles, The Brigg, 489
Hanlage, Mechanical, by J. Sturgeon, 157, 199
Havana, Floating Dock for, 653
Havre, Refrigerated Meat Depót at, 613
Hayward Tyler and Co.’s Three-throw Vertical Pumps, 122
Hayward Tyler and Co.'sTreble Verticil Plunger Pumps, 269
Haze, Fog, and Visibility, The Hon. F. A. Rol'.o Russell, 511
Hazolton, Mr. Fred, His Appointment. 577
Hazen, Mr. Allen, Present European Practice in Regard to Sewage Disposal, 195
Head, Mr. J., On the Manganese Ore Deposits in Santander, 258
Health Committee of the Sheffield Corporation, Actions against Manufacturers for Making Excessive Smoke, 251
Heat on Cement, Action of, 415
Heat at the Critical Points, Mr. Sanveur's Theory as to the Absorption and Evolution of, 417
Heat Test for Railway Wheels, Experimenting with a, 399
Heath, Mr. W. P., On Defects in Cocks and Valvis, 512
Heater-Detartariser, The Chevalet, 283
Heating Apparatus, Manchester Post-office, 383
Heating Cars by Steam, 575
Heinhaus, the Mental Calculator, Feats of, 109
He’ical Induced Draught. Eaves’, 590
Helium, M. K. Olszewski’s Experiments with, 365
Helium, Prof. Ramsay on, 315
Hematite Pig Iron Trade at Burrow, 251
Henderson, Mr. G. R., on Locomotive Counter¬ balancing, 287
Herbert, Limited, Messrs., Screw-cutting Lathe, 433
H.M.S. “Albion,” 652
H.M.S. “Blake,” Explosion on Board, 35
H.M.S. “C»«r,”232
H.M.S. “Diadem,” First-class Cruiser, 200
H.M.S. “Dreadnought,” 184
H.M S. “ Illustriou»," 319
H.M.S. ‘•Minerva,” Feed Pumps, 535
H.M.S. “ Powerful,” 337, 338, 339, 359, 396, 397, 421, 556
H.M.S. “ Prince George,” 618—637, 652
H.M S. “ Proserpine,” Launch of, 588
H.M.S. “Terrible,” 169, 185
H.M.S. “ Victorious,” Spaed Trials of, 268
Herne Bay Pier, Placing the First Pile of, 215
Herstal Sma'l Arms Factory, The, 546
Hibbard, Mr. H. D., on Sand in Pig Iron, 259
Highland Railway, The, 266
High-pressure Steam and Back Pressure, 373
High-speed Eogines, 142
Hind and Lund’s “Flatsifter” at the Royal Agri¬cultural Society’s Show, 16
Hindley’s Two-wheel Portable Engine, 598
Hodge, Mr. J., His Address to the Sheffield Branch of the British Steel Smelters Amalga¬mated Association, 577
Hogg, Mr. W. T., on “Missing Carbon,” 258
Holden and Brooke, Heating Apparatus, Man¬chester Post-office, 383
Holden, Mr., Invention for Using Oil Fuel, 572
Hole Grinding Machine, 186
Holland, N., An Interesting Source of Lighting Discovered in, 121
Holloway, Mr. G. T., Petroleum Legislation and Motor Vehicles, 106
Holyhead and Kingstown Mail Service. 6
Home, Col., Engaged to Advise the New South Wales Government on the Water Conserva¬tion Question, 226
Homfray, Mr. S. G. H., Machinery of the Tower Bridge, 516
Hong Kong Port, Total Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared at, 315
Hooker, Mr. P., Self-clamp Guillotine Cutting Machine, 173
Hoosick Falls, A Remarkable Bridge at, 589 Hopkinson's Patent, 69
Horner, Mr. John, on Flax Scutching and Flax Heckling Machinery, 105
Hornsby, Bonnel and Astbury’s Road Locomo¬tive, 1863, 233
Hornsby and Co., Messrs. B., Oil Traction and Locomotive Engines, 566, 573
Ilorological Insititute, British, Lectures and Classes Organised by, 215
Horseless Age, The, 224
Horseless Carriages or Vehicles:
Horseless Carriages, 11, 35, 40, 41, 56, 83, 89, 106, 142, 206, 277, 289, 295, 309, 311, 315, 333,340, 341, 355, 434, 446, 460, 478, 489, 499, 515, 663
Horseless Carriage Notes, 15, 40, 84, 122, 143, 499, 545, 569, 600
Horseless Carriage Comp9tition, The Engineer, 206
Horseless Carriages, W. Crooke's Reference to Sir D. Salomons’ Address, 478
Horseless Carriages at the Crystal Palace, Awards for, 460
Horseless Carriages in France, Final Regulations for the Race of, 41
Horseless Carriages, The French Raes, 333, 355
Horseless Carriage of the Future, The, 289
Horseless Carriages, G. A. Haig's Letter with
Reference to Sir D. Salomons' Address, 478
Horseless Carriages at Harlingbam, 56
Horseless Carriages, Local Government Board anl, 446
Horseless Carriages in London Streets, 142
Horseless Caniage, The Lutzuann, 40
Horseless Carriages in the Midlands, 311, 499
Horseless Carriagesat the Nuremburg Exhibition, 277
Horseless Carriages for Paris, 11, 515
Horseless Carriages, Petroleum and, 106, 489
Horseless Carriages, The Rhods Island State Fair Competition, 315
Horse'ess Carriages, Sir D S ilomons on, 434
Horseless Carriages, Mr. A. R. Sennett, 309
Horseless Carriage for Twenty Persons ' S9
Horseless Carriages, The Wolseley Auto-car, 633
Horseless Carriages—see also Motor Carriages Horseless Future, The, 226
Horse Power, 165
Horse-power Required for Road Motors, Oil, or Steam Engines, Notes on the, 34, 60
Horse Power ' What is, 211
H.nes, Note on the Mean Weight of, 520
Horseshoes in Australia, Machine-made, 46
Horseshoe Permanent Magnets' 595
Hotel Cecil, Junior Engineers’ Visit to the, 476
Howell Automobile Torpedo Tested by the United
States Government, 365
Ilowi’zsr on Board tho “ Dragonne,” Trials with, 443
High-pressure Steam and Back Pressure, 317
Hugh Middleton School, The, 70
Hughes, Prof. E. D., The Albert Medal Awarded to, 20
Hull and Barnsley Railway, 516
Hull, Coal Imported to, 638
Hull Dock Improvement Scheme, 377, 382
Hull, Growth of the Port of, 413
Hulss and Co., Messrs., Special Machine Tools, 212
Humber, The North-Eastern Railway and the, S94
Humble and Barker’s Valve, 225, 236
Hungarian Government, Tenders invited by, for the Supply of Iron and Steel, 72
Hungarian Millennial Exhibition, Budapest, 1896 —see also Exhibition, Hungarian, lie., 4, 5, 51, 138, 331
Hungary, Canal, River, and Lake Communication and Mercantile Marine in, 583
Hungary, Petroleum in, 146
Hungary, Plans for Developing Commerce, 287
Hungary, Road and Railway Communication, 383
Hurst, Mr., His Trade Roport, South Formosa, If 9
Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Glasgow, Li
Hung Chang’s Visit to the, 194
Hydraulic Cutter, Mr. J. W. Parker's, 31
Hydraulic Ejectors, 495
Hydraulic Laboratory for Cornell University, 574
Hydraulic Shaft and Axle Inserting Press, 138
Hydraulic Suction Dredge on the Mississippi, Mr. L. W. Bates, 12, 18
Hydraulic Tool for Removing Heads of Rivets, 589
Hydraulic Wheel Press, 642

I

IGNITER, Oil Engine, 598 “Illustrious,” H.M.S., 319
Import and Export to Different Countries since 1892, Value of, 328
Imports into the United Kingdom, Total Value of, 315
Imperial Bureau of Scientific Advice, Projected, 489
Incandescent Lamps, Reflector, 475
Incandescent Gas L’ght Company, Limited, v. The De Mare Incandescent Gas Light System, Limited, 20
Incandescent Gas Lighting Litigation in Germany, 109
Incandescent Lamps, Measuring Temperature of, 520
“Inchmona,” Five Crank Engines of the s.s. (Supplement, September IDA, 1896), 261, 373
India and Indian Railways:
India, Coal Mining in, 560
India, Coal Production in, 417
India, Irrigation in, 411
“India,” The New P. and O. s.s., 562, 563
India, Production of Petroleum in, 417
India, Railway Policy of, How it has Failed, 417
India-rubber and Bananas in Mexico, 106
India-rubber Tires for Motor Cars, 503
India, Steel Rails for, 427, 423
Indian Famine. Reduction in the Rate of Grain Transport, 638
Indian Railways, 11, 237, 341, 433, 443, 638
Indian Railways, Acceleration of the Mail Train Service likely to ba asked by Government, 638
Indian Railways Needed for Development of Bengal, 433
Indian Railway Rates, Reduction in, 443
Indian Railways, Surplus Profits of the, 443
Indian Railways, Signalling System for Trains in Motion, 341
Indian Railways, The Tapti Valley Railway First S )d Turned, 638
Indian Railways, Total Length of, 237
“ Indiana,” Trials of the Guns of the, 271
Indianapolis, Slow Sand Filtration for, 109
Indicator Diagrams, Effect upon them of Long
Pipe Connections for Steam Engine, 123
Indicator Gear, Grover's, 96
Indicator, New Outside Spring, 268
Indicator Puzzle, An, 541
Indicator Springs, Testing, 60
Indnr.te Dr. Monroe’s Invention, 287
Injectors, The Globe Engineering Company’s“ Metropolitan,” 99
iDgleton Manufacturing Company, Steam Plough 96
Inland Navigation Conference, 535, 536
Inland Navigation in France, On, 520
Inquiries:
13. 37, 63, 89, 115, 111, 165, 191,217,213,265, 289, 343, 393, 419, 415, 497, 521, 543, 567, 595, 659
“ Iowa,” The United States Battleship, 590, 592, 597

Institute, The Battersea Polytechnic: 271

Institute of British Carriage Manufacturerers :

Address of the President, Mr. G. J. Jacob’, 19

Institute, The British Horologlcal:

Lectures and Classes Organised by, 215

Institute, The City and Guilds of London:

Associate Diplomas Conferred by, 96

Institute of Civil Engineers of Ire¬land:

Go'd Medal Awarded to Mr. A. D. Price for his Paper on Light Railways, 113
Mullins Large Gold Medal Awarded to Mr. W. E. Adeney, 30

Institute of Electric Engineers, The American:

Committee to Investigate the Subject of a Suitable Standard for Photometric Purposes, 287
Distribution and Transmission cf Electrical Eaergy, Mr. L. Duncan’s Presidential Ad¬dress, 417

Institute of Engineers, South Wales:

After-damp, Mr. T. G. Davies on, 378

Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, The Tramway:

Mechanical Haulage, Mr. J. Sturgeon, 157, 199

Institute, The Iron and Steel:

Programmes for the Bilbao Meeting, 83, 167
Reception of the Members at Portuga’ete, 244
Visit to the Altos Hornos Works at El Desierto, Bilbao River, 284
Visit to the Orconera Iron Ore Company's Mines, 312
Visit to Sautander and St. Jeande Luz, 348, 349

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Arrangements for the Season, 310
Election of Mr. Robert McGlasson a Life Hon. Companion of the, 109
Electric Welding Company, Limited, Showed Examples of Welding Work done by Thom¬son’s Electric Welding Apparatus, 589
Presidential Address of Sir E. S. Dawes, 593
Qualifications for Board of Trade Marine Engineers' Certificates, Discussion on, 364

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Description of the Alumina Factory at Larne Harbour, Mr. Jas. Sutherland, 173
Visit to Carlingford Lough, 159
Visit to Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co.'s Works, Belfast, 155

Institute of Mining Engineers, The American:

Conveying Belts and their Use, Mr. Thos. Robins, jun., 171
Micro-structure of Steel and the Current Theories of Hardening, Mr. A. Sauveur, 417
Modern Silver-lead Smelting Plant, A, Mr. L. S. Anstin, 511, 548
Note on a Shaft Fire and its Lasson, Mr. R. G. Brown, 416

Institute of Mining' Engineers, The South Staffordshire:

Presidential Address, Mr. R. S. Williamson, 399

Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, The North of England:

Kent Coalfield, Messrs. Brady, Simpson, and Griffiths on the, 56
Programme of the General Meeting at Wigan, 30

Institute of Patent Agents, The Char¬tered :

Dinner of the Members, 44

Institute of Public Health, The British:

Progress of Glasgow in respect of Sanitary Arrangements, Sir Jas. Bellon, 109

Institute, South - Western, London Polytechnic:

Recent Developments in Elestric Supply Stations, Prof. Schwartz, 664

Institution of Civil Engineers:

Bacterial Purification of Water, Dr. Percy Frankland, 576
Construction of Wells and Borings, or Tube Wells, and the Methods of Eisily Procuring Water from Them, Mr. J. W. Kitchen, 657
Conversazione, Date and Particulars, 30
Machinery of the Tower Bridge, Mr. S. G. H. Homfray, 516
Medals and Premiums Presented, 474
Obtain an Injunction to Restrain the Institute
of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Limited, being Registered under that Title, 162
President's Address, Mr. J. Wolfe Barry, 460, 501
Screening and Tipping Coal, Mr. Jas. Rigg, 643
Surface Plant at Kirkby Colliery, The, Mr. Thos. Gillott, 643
Tower Bridge, Superstructure, Mr. G. E. W. Crnttwell, 516

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Annual Dinner and Annual Report, 549, 653

Institution, The Electrical Standard¬ising and Training:

Awards made by, 42

Institution of Engineers, The Cleve¬land :

Bertrand-Tbiel Steel-making Process, Mr. P. C. Gilchrist, 645
Visit to Upper Teesdale, 224
Visit to the Works of tho Stockton and Mid¬dlesbrough Corporation Water Boards, 228
Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders:
Appointment cf Mr. E. II. Parker as Secretary, 271
Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders, North-East Coast:
Construction and Steam Pressures of Marine Boilers, Discussion on, 529
Gauge Glasses, Preservation of, Prof. Ferrier, 529
Maintenance and Repair of Marine Bailers, Mr. Wa’l.ker, 1, 10
Marine Boilers, I’articu'arly in Reference to Efficiency of Combustion and Higher Steam Pressures, Mr. J. R. Fothergill, 1, 6
Penarth Daek and Barry Docks Visited, 2
Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders, The North-East (Students’ Section):
Water-tube Boilers as Applied to Marine Work, Mr. B. G. Nicol, 529
Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders In Scotland:
Presidential Address of Sir Wm. Arroi, 480
Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders of Scotland:
Internal Corrosion in Steam Boilers, Mr. Sin¬clair Couper, 574
Stability of Ships, Mr. Jas. Reid’s Inaugural Address on the (Graduates’ Section), 510
Institution of Junior Engineers:
Annual General Meeting and Report, 416
Scottish Summer Meeting, 253
Stability of Tall Chimneys, Institution Premium
awarded to Mr. F. J. Bancroft for hi3 Paper od, 501
Visit to the Works of Messrs. J. I. Thorny- croft and Co., 565
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Transmission of Heat from Surface Condensa¬
tion through Metal Cylinders, Lieut.Colone English and Mr. Bryan Donkin, 473
Value of the Steam Jacket on a Locomotive Engine, Report by Prof. T. Hudson Bzare and Mr. Bryan Donkin, 465, 473
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Belfast:
Description of the Alumina Factory at Larne Harbour, Mr. James Sutherland, 131
Description of the Belfast Gasworks, Mr. James Stelfox, 131
Electric Lighting in Belfast, Mr. V. A. H. McCowen, 129
Flax Scutching and Flax Heckling Machinery, Mr. J. Horner, 105
Programme of the Belfast Meetiog, 68 Notes on the Introduction and Developm;nt of
Rope-Driving, Mr. Abram Combe, 130
Visit to the Port, 132
UdususI Corrosion of Marine Machinery, Mr. Hector McColl, 130
Institution of Mining Engineers, The Federated:
Anthracite Coal-breaking and Sizing Plant at Glyncastle Colliery, Mr. W. D. Wight. 318
Compound Winding Engine at Great Westsra Colliery Company’s Tymaur Pit, with Notes on its Comparative Steam Economy, Mr. Bramwell, 309
Phenomena of Colliery Explosions, Mr. D. M. D. Stuart, 310
Seventh Annual General Meeting, 241, 300
Welsh Collieries Visited, 309
Institution, The RoyalRoyal Insti¬tution
Interlocking Mine ,Cage3 with Anti-Overwinding Apparatus, 207, 209
International Coal Company, Half-yearly Re¬port of, 274
International Submarine Telegraph Memorial, The, 341, 498
Intrinsic Energy of a Gas, 34, 413, 439
Invention ? What is an, 86
Invergarry and Fort Augustus Riilway Co.’s New Line, 399
Irish Mail Service, The, 6, 279
Irish Railway Working, 166
Iron:
Iron, The Chemical Analysis of, 443
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Bir¬mingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts:
20, 46, 72, 98, 124, 148, 174, 200,226, 250, 272, 298, 326, 376, 402, 426, 454, 480, 501, 528, 550, 576, 604, 644, 665
Iron and Coal Products of the United States, Value of, 215
Iron and Coal, Transatlantic Progress in, 244
Iron, Crushed Mass of, a Test of the Pressure of Water, 146
Iron Gates of the Danube, The, 334, 335, 342
Iron Industry, Pig, in October, 584
Iron Markets, Continental-see Notes from Germany
Iron Ore Industries of Biscay and Santander, 258
Iron Ore Production in Germany, 208
Iron Ores, Dr. Wedding on the Roasting of, 258
Iron Piping, Improvements in Lead-lined, 474 Iron? Rustless, 445
Iron Sleeper Permanent Way, Oo, 199
Iron, Steel, and Coal Industries in 1895, Swedish, 649
Iron and Steel Exports from England and Ger¬many Compared, 550
Iron and Steel in Gothenburg, 516
Iron and Steel, Improving Times in, and Conse¬quent Developments of Works, 202
Iron and Steel Industry in Russia, 95, 267, 341 365, 482
Iron and Steel Industry of Spain, 258
Iron and Steel Trade, German—see also Notes from Germany, 74
Iron and Steel Trades, Review of, 665
Iron and Steel Works in New South Wales, Mr. J. Mitchell's Project for, 226
Iron and Steel Works in Russia, New, 267
Iron and Steel Works of the United States, 104
Iron for Sweden, British, 421
Iron Trade, Manchester—s<e Notes from Lancashire
Iron Trade Wages, Engineering and—see Notes from Lancashire
Iron in the Water Supply, Continental, Filters in use at Asbury Paris for removing, 98
Ironworks in Ontario, Effort to get the Govern¬ment to Inaugurate, 490
Ironworks in South Russia, 95, 341, 482
Ironworkers’ Wages, West of Scotland, 350, 352
Iron, Wrought, and Is got, Cause of Difference between, 399
Irrigation io India, 411
Irrigation Projects for Burm9, 53"
Irruptions of Coal into Mine Workings, 604
Irvine and Co, Messrs. R., Extension of Shipyard and Graving Dock, 252
Isinglass Making Machine? 567
Isle of Man, Electric Tramways, 389
Islington Electiij Light Station, Hollars at the, 60
Isnruta, Mr. K., on the Magnetisation of Iron Electric Wires, 572
Italy, Bill to Abolish the System of Official Rail¬way Construction, 537
Ivatt, Mr, H. A., Compound Express Locomotive, Great Southern and Western Railway (Sup¬plement, November 20th, 1896), 524, 525
Ivory Sales in London, 149
Ivy bridge Station, Accident through Fall of Earth, 215

J

JACKSHAFTS, 637
Jacobs, Mr. G. J., on the Application of Science and Art to the Manufacture of Carriages, 19
James, Mr. Enoch, his New Appointment, 537
Janet, M. P., Measuring Temperature of Incan¬descent Lamps, 520
Japan:
Japan, Bicycle Making in, 441
Japan and the Black Sea, New Steamship Line between, 572
Japan, Business with, 34
Japan, Coalfiel Is Plant for Steel Manufacture, 537
Japan, Cotton Industry in, 442
Japan and Great Britain, Treaty of Commerce
and Navigation between, 533, 535
Japan. Industrial, 265
Japan, .arge Order placed in South Staffordshire by, 200
Japan, Locomotives for, 552
Japan, Locomotives in, 57
Japan, Locomotive Building in, 57, 67, 95
Japan and London, New Steamers to Trade between, 287
Japan, Modern, Industrial and Scientific, 533,581
Japan, Permanent Way for, 551
Japan, Population of, 417
Japan, Railway Activity in, 287
Japan, Railway Materials for, 395
Japan, 1896, Railway Mileage, 653
Japan, Seismic Disturbance in, 241
Japan, Shipbuilding and Engineering in, 57, 90
Japan, Ships and, 295
Japan, Steel Foundry for, 11
Japan, Sngar Refining Plant for, 552
Japan, Tin-plates for, 606
Japan, Trade with, 311
Japan, Two Armourod Cruisers for, 537
Japanese Battleship “Fuji,” Progress of the, 245
Japanese Government, Stoamers for the, 399
Japanese S'.cam Navigation Co., Marine Material for, 551
Jaques, Captain, Armour and Heavy Ordnance, 323
Jarmain’s Swaithe Turners, 83
“ Jattra," The s s., 160, 161
Jemappes, The Gobbe Glass Tank Furnace, 654
JenkiDs, Mr. Rhys, On the Early Mechanical Carriages, 399
Jerome, Mr., On the Making of Olive Oil in the Alpes Maritimes, 271
Jet in Locomotives, Form of the Exhaust, 95
Jeypore Railway, 11
Jigging, Close-sizing before, 270
Johnson, Mr. R., New and Old Bridge Removal,
Peterborough, 538, 539, 542
Joining Rails, Patent Mothod of, 150
Joints, Calculating Riveted, 432
Joints, Riveted, 495
Jonas, Mr. Joseph, Presentation to, 645
Jones, Mr. A. A. W., his Indian Appointment, 537
Jones, Mr. David, Presentation on his Retirement, 490
Journal, Ball Bearing, for Railway Vehicles, 401
Joyce’s Gas Retort Setting, 6
Jubilee of the Brighton Railway, 107
Jubilee of tho Gauge Act, 198
Jubilee of the Great Northern Railway, 34, 87
Jubilee of the London and North-Western Rail¬way, 27
Jnbilee of the Scientific American, The, 166
Jungfran, Eloctric Rack Railway up tbe, 653

K

KAYES Copper Oil Cans, 145
Kellner-Partington Wood Pulp Co., Dividend Declared by, 550
Kelmer-Partington Wood Palp Co.’s New Mill for Making Brown Paper, 299
Kelvin-Partington Chemical Wood Pu’p Co., Dividend Declared by, 529
Kennet Wharf, Building to Carry Exceptionally Heavy Weights at, 19
Kent Coalfield, Messrs. Brady, Simpson, and Griffiths on the, 56
Kentish Ragstone, &o., upon Portland Cement, Effect of Admixture of, 464
Kenyon, Mr. G. H., Ropes and Rope Driving, 529
Kow, A Stone Bridge for, 109
Khilkoff, Prince, Deputed to Make an Official Tour in the United States, 185
Keiff, Machinery Exhibition at, 435
Killingworth Locomotive Engine, Tbe Old, 299
Kiln for Making Glass Marbles, 271
King’s College Day and Evening Classes, 341, 364
KiDzer and Jones’ Composition Brakeshoe, 443
Kirby, Mr. O. J., Wasto of Water in its Relation
to Lead Service Pipes, 134
Kirby, Mr. O. J., on Weighbridges, 259
Kirby Colliery, The Surface Plant at, 643
Kitcbin, Mr. J. W., on tbe Cor si ruction of Wells and Boring or Tube Wells, 657
Kite Flying near Boston, Scientific, 443
Klein Screen, The, 348
Kioto Radial Locomotive, 466, 467, 468
Korat Railway, Tbe Contractor for, served with
Notice to Vacate the Premises, 109
Körte-Whitley’s Sensitive Drill, 45
Krag-Jorgensen Rifle in the United States Army, Practical Tests of the, 92
Krauss and Co.. Messrs. K'ose Radial Locomo¬tive, 466, 467, 468
Krupp, Ilorr, on the Perforation of Steel Armour, 1

L

LABOUR Markot, Upward Tendency of the, 638
Labour Questions in Wales, 202
Laing, Mr. Andrew, his Appointment, 399
Laird Brothers, Messrs., Torpedo Gunboat, Chilian Navy, 122, 294
Lake Street Elevated Railway Opened in Chicago,
Lala and Fournier, MM., Influence of Magnet¬isation on the Electro-motive Force of Thermo¬couples, 572
Lamont’s Improved Simple Steam Pump, 93
Lampa, Dr. A., Experiments to Determine the Refractive Indices of a Number of Substances for Electric Waves of Small Length, 185
Lamp Chimneys, Safety, 11
Lamps, Reflector, Incandescent, 475
Lamp, Safety, A Forthcoming, 428
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, The, 365,370
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Bridges, 398, 400
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway,
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, Viaduct, 547
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Accident on, 146, 341
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Engines on the, their Dimensions and Weight of the Reciprocating Parts, 109
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Engines, Stroke of Cylinder for 26in., not 24in., 159
Lancaster Town Council’s Memorial to London and North-Western Railway, 215
Lindis, H. K , On Cycle Mechanism, 249
Landore Tin-plate Works, Tbe Management’s Arrangement with the Men, 666
Landslip between Folkestone and Dover, 520
Lanthamum Carbide, M, Moissan on, 146
Lap-welded Ferrules, 662
Lapierre, M., On the Auriferons Deposits in the Transvaal, 146
“ La Plata,” The New s.s., 200
Large Coupled Wheels, 350, 374
Larne Harbour, The Alumina Factory of, 131,173
Lathe Attachments, New, 268

Launches and Trial Trips :

20 46, 57, 72, 98, 122, 124, 151, 174, 200, 226, 271, 272, 286, 311, 314, 319, 350, 359, 374, 391, 402, 421,425, 448, 456, 504, 528, 550, 556, 572, 588, 597, 603, 646, 666
Laundry Appliances, Exhibition of, 214
Lavalard, M., On the Mean Weight of Horses, 520
Lea, Tho Pollution cf tho River, 225
Lead-lined Iron Piping, Improvements in, 474
Lead Pencil Machinery ? 497
Lead Service Pipes, Waste of Water in its Rela¬tion to, 134
Lead Water Pipes, Tin-lined, 163
LeadiDg Bogies, 439

Leaders:

Adams Bridge Riilway, The, 394
Admiralty Inspection, i92
American and British Permanent Way, 37
American Fight and Tariff Prospects, The, 446
American Railways, 193
Armour-plated Torpedo Boats, 63
Belfast Fire, Tne, 116
Belgian Competition in the Production of Fast Channel Steamers, 523
Benzoline Motor Cars, 569
Brighton Beach, 218
Brighton Sea Defences, The, 394
Britain’s Foreign Business, 499
Caledonian Railway Works, 267
Canada, Flour-making in, 446
Change in the London Gas Supply, A, 318
Chemical Education, 367
Chemical Industries and Incidents of Manufac- factnre, 14
Civil Engineering Legislation in Manitoba, 219
Closing of the Durham Collieries, 290 Coal, 499
Coal Alliance, A New, 367
Coal-cutting by Machinery, 569
Coal Mining Puzzles, 63
Coalowners and the Railway Companies, 14
Coal Prices in South Wales, 472
Coals, Shipping and Engineering, 115
Coal Trade, The, 90
Coal Trade, Situation in the, 38
Coke Manufacture, The, 64
Complexities of the South Wales Coal Question, 659
Condition of the Streets, The, 343
Conservation of Energy, Tho, 141
Consular Assistance for Trade, 544
Crystal Palace, The, 659
Curions Strike, A, 595
Davy-Faraday Laboratory, The, 660
Doxford’s Proposal, Mr., 544
Driving Wheels, 445
"Drummond Castle” Disaster, The, 141
Economy in Railway Engineering, 166
Efficiency of Screw Propellers, The, 568
Engine Puzzles, 596
Engineering Industries and the Coal Trade,
Fall in Steamship Freights, The, 544
Fast Train Running in France, 192
Filtration of Water, The, 64
Flour Making in Canada, 446
For the Benefit of the Artisan, 419
Foreign Trade of Great Britain, The, 317
Formula) for Armour Piercing, 90
Gas Traction for Tramways, 318
G luges, 214
Gauge Glasses in the Navy, 313
Garman Shipbuilding 65
Gigantic Coal Monopoly, A, Government Boiler Inspecticr. 610
Great Eastern Railway Woik 90
Great Northern Railway Wnk , 142
Great Welsh Water Scheme, i'he, 13
Harbour Works at Colombo, 1C6
Highland Railway, The, 266
High-pressure Steam and Back Pressure, 317
High-speed Engines, 142
Horseless Carriage of the Future, The, 259
Horse Power, 165
How are Our Tramways to be Worked, 218
Industrial Japan, 265
Intraational Submarine Telegraph Memorial, 497
Irish Railway Working, 166
Iron Trade Wages, 369
Lite Gales and the Brighton Piers, The, 639
Lite Storm and Brighton Sea Defences, Tho, 394
Local Government Board and Horseless Car¬riages, 446
Local Government Board and Light Locomo¬tives, 497
Locomotive Boilers, 266
Locomotives on Highway Act, 191
London County Council Scandal, 522, 513
London Dock Companies and Shipowners, £96
London Water, 497
Long Guns, 217
Machinery Wins, 344
Marins Boilers, 13
Mechanical Fog Signalling, 38
Metropolitan Railway Extensions, 116
Metropolitan Railway of Paris, The, 341
Miners’ Work and Mineral Yield, 14
Mo’or Cars in the London Streets, 142
Motor Cars in the Midlands, 499
Motor Car Trip to Brighton, 521
New Railway in Durham, Tho, 219
Nine Months’ Clyde Shipbuilding, 394
North British Railway Works, 344
North-Eastern Railway and the Humber, The, 394
North Sea and Baltic Canal, 429
Old Time Railway Record, An, 523
Our Foreign Trade, 420, 597
Patent Monopolies, 567
Preston Accident, The, 89, 393
Projected Water Supply for Paris, 192
Proposed Wharfage iu the Lower Thames, 191
Prospects of British Coal in Spain, 64
Prospict of the London Water Supply, 543
Railways, The, 368
Railway Contracts for Coal, 523
Railway Traffic and its Co3t, 471
Redcar Boiler Explosion, 523
Regulation of Coal Prices, 266
Rise in Shipping Freights, 446
Röntgen Rays, The, 64
Scottish Railway, Working, 214
Severn Navigation and the Bristol Channel, 368
Sheffield District Railway, 522
Sheffield’s New Water Supply, 420
Shipbuilding and Engineering in Japan, 90
Shipbuilding in the North, 597
Shipping Freights, Rise in, 446 Ships and Guns, 639
Six Months’ Clyde Shipbuilding, 14
Smoke Prevention, 89
Selingen and Sheffield, 243
South Wales Sliding Soa'.e, Tho, 191
Steam Shipping and Shipbuilding, 369
Subsidence at Dumbarton Harbour, 420
Superheated Wet Steam, 243
Technical Education, 289
Technical Education and Foreign Competition, 497
Technical Education in St. Panora?, 116
The “Terrible,” 344
Trade Revival, 569
Trade and Territory, 523
Trafalgar, 419
Transatlantic Progress in Iron and Coal, 244
Transport Charges in tli9 Manufacturing Dis¬tricts of Lancashire, 394
Uncensidered Aspect of Strikes, An, 265
Underselling Question in South Wales, The, 568
Ventilation in Warships, 115
Water Communication between Bristol, Wol¬verton, and Liverpool, 544
Water Gauges and Marine Boilers, 472
What of the Coal Trade? 165
Who Invented the Decimal System ? 596
Leakage of Current to Earth in Electrical Installa¬tions from Generating Heat and Setting Build¬ings on Fire, Prize Offered for Paper on the Best Means of Preventing, 159
Lebanon, Railway Across the, 271
Lee-Metford Bullet, Experiments with the, 71
Leeds, Growth of the Eogineering Industries of, 589
Leeds Water Supply, Visit to the Source of, 259
Leek Rural District Council, Construction of a
Light Railway Proposed by the, 95
Legal Intelligence:
Arbitration between Gerald Barker and tbe Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., 69
Gwynne v. Bute Docks Go., 462
Hopkinson’s Patent, 69
Incandescent Gas Light Co., Limited, v. the De Mare Incandescent Gas Light System, Limited, 20
John Deeley and Westloy Richards v. Perkes, 108
MagDolia Metal Co. r. the Atlas Metal Co., Limited, John Sugden, Max WagDer, and John Lulham Pound, tho Atlas Bronze Co., Limited, and A. G. Brown, 541
North British Rubber Co. n. the Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Co., 170
Pneumatic Tire Co., Limited, <. Dunlop, 147
Tolson v. Speight, Tolson v. SingletoD, 170
Willans and Robinson's Patent, 108
Lehigh Valley Railway, U.S.A., Express
Locomo¬tive, 453, 582
Leicester Waterworks, 282, 362, 363, 366
Leighton Buzzard Water and Sewerage Works, 391
Lonnard, Mr. J. H., On Naval Practice in Ships’
Rivets and Rivetting, 589
Lory, Mr. J., Gas Mantle, 490
Letters to the Editor
Aberyatwith Pier Pavilion, Archibald D. Dawnay, 311
Acetylene Gas, F. J. Smith, 643
American Blast Furnace Practice, F. F. A msden, 387
Americanising of English Railways, W. B. Piloy, 37 i
Asbestos Packed Cocks, W. LI. W., 13
Automatic Railway Signalling, John P. 0. Donnell, 469
Automatic Railway Signalling, An Old Railway Servant, 541
Birker’s Graphical Calculus, A. G. Graenh‘11, 163, 239
Biyreoth Opera House, W., 374
Bagee Eagines, R. R. Surtees, 239
Bogies, Leading, F. W. Brewer, 349
Bogies, Leading, W. B. Thompson, 295
Bogle and Radial Locomotives, Consensu», 211
Boilers at the Islington Electric Light Station, Poulton and Son, 60
Boiler Tests, F. G., 643
Brighton and R. S. E. Tramroad, R, St. George Moore, 657
British American Locomotive Boilers, F. W. Brewer, 263, 311
British v. American Locomotive Boilers, Nor¬man D. Macdonald, 211, 295
British v. American Locomotive Boilers, Charles
Rous-Marten, 263, 340 British and Foreign Navies, Reflex, 593 British Motor Syndicate, The, W. W. B:aument, 561
Bury’s First Liverpool Locomotive, Max, 135
Bury’s First Liverpool Locomotive, Mernok, 135
Bury’s First Liverpool Locomotive, Clement E. Stretton, 135
Bury Locomotive, Furness Railway, W. J, Barker, 239
Business with Japan, Cuidado, 34
Caledonian Railway Performances, Chas. Rous-Marten, 373
Case for Naval R9 - armament, The Wessex, 561
Central Technical College, Exhibition Road, 452
Coal-mining in Iadia, An ADglo-Indian, 560
Colouring Steel Piano Wire ? G. L. C., 659
Construction of Arches, The, W. H. Bidder, 412
Construction of Battleships, The, J. Sinclair Fairfax, 657
Contracts OpeD, Enquirer, 373
Crystallography for Beginner?, C. J. Wood¬ward, 84
Cylinder Ratios, H. Wilkinson, 541
Dam Problem, A., A. A. W., 211
Davis’s Loose Pulley? E. L., 595
Delicate Electrical Apparatus in Warships,
Bradley A. Fiske, 561
Diagram Puzzle, A, W. S. Hubbard, 561
Diagram Puzzle, A, Trip Gear, 478, 526, 561
Diagram Puzzle, A, J. T. Wade, 495
Efficiency of Screw Propellers, Robt. McGlasson 637
Efficiency of Screw Prope’lers, C. W. Rowe. 637
Electric L’ght at Guildford, Sharp and Kont, 60
Electric Motor Car for the Queen of Spain,
Walter A. Clatworthy, 340
Electric Pumps ? Small, G. M., 543
Electric Resistances? J. II. H., 415
Electric Trac.ion, Meacock Bros., 4C5
Emery Paper and Cloth Plant, Sic.1 Crorsby, 445
End of a Strike, Gwynne and Co., 413
Eogine Puzzles, G. T. Pardee, 643
Engines of the “ Inchmona,” Tho, Alexander
Dalrymple, 373 Ether, The, B. A., 372 Ether, The, X., 388
Explosion on Board H.M.S. "Blake,” T. J. Davey, 35
Five-crank Marine Engines, G. F. G. Des Vignes, 295
Floating Water Wheels? I. K. G., 141 Forced Draught at E'ectric Light Stations, Tho
House-to-Houee Electric Supply Company, Ltd., 34
Forging Machines ? D. F. S., 497
For the Benefit of the Artisan, H. E. Dane, 495
For the Benefit of the Artisan, A Unionist, 350
For tho Benefit of th9 Artisan, Non-Unionist, 374
For the Benefit of the Artisan, A Non-Unionist Erector, 295
For the Benefit of the Artisan, Another Non-Unionist Erector, 374
For the Benefit of the Artisan, A Non-Unionist Erector, 452
For the Benefit of the Artisan, Chas. W. Rowe, 478, 540
For the Benefit of the Artisan, R., 412
Fundamental Corrections of tho "Admiralty Formulas,” 239
Gasr. Electric Traction for Sheffield, Hill-Hart¬land, 339
Gas-testing Lamps, M. Walton Brown, 503
Glass Bottle-making Machinery? P. S. P., 659
Granite Supply and the Cornish Unemployed Tin Minors, T. Kytfin Freeman, 211
Granite Supply and Cornish Unemployed Tin Miners, John Freeman, Sons and Co., Limited, 295
Graphical Calculus, A. H. Barker, 135
Great Western Locomotives, Clement E. Stretton, 561
Grinding Isinglass? R. S., 521
Heavy Travelling Cranes, Geo. Russell, 657
High-pressure Steam and Back Pressure, R. J. Worth, 373
Horseless Carriages, J. W. B., 340
Horseless Carriages, W. Crooke, 478
Horseless Carriages, G. A. Haig, 340, 478
Horseless Carriages, Thos. Hill, 311
Horseless Carriages, John Hy. Knight, 295, 340
Horseless Carriage for Twenty Persons ? T. D., 89
Horseshoe Permanent Magnets? N., 595
Hydraulic Ejectors, A. B Brown, 495
India-rubber Tires for Motor Cars, G. A. Haitr, 503
Indicator Puzzle, An, Fred. Hovenden, 541
Indicator Puzzle, An, I. T. Wade, 541
Indicator Puzzle, An, A. I. W., 511
Intrinsic Energy of a Gas, C. E. Baeovi, 413
Intrinsic Energy of a- Gas, Carpus, 34, 439
Ising'.ais Making Machine ? E. H. G., 567
Jubilee of the Brighton Riil.vay, X. Y. Z., 135
Jabibe of the Great Northern Railway, W. B. Paby, 87,135
Jubieo of tho Great Northern Railway, G. A. Sekon, 34
Lancashire, Dorbyshiro, anti East Coast Rail¬way, B. Elliott Cooper, 561
Large Coupled Wheels, Camillet Barbey, 263
Large Coupled Wheels, C&as. Rous-Marten, 350
Lead Pencil Machinery? W. A. S , 497
Leading Bogies, F. W. Brewer, 439
Leyton Electrical Lighting Station, Peirsonand Co, 526
Light Railways, Alfred Dickenson Price, 31
Link in Locomotive History, A., W. B. Thomp¬son, 339
Locomotive Boilers, F. W. Brewer, 263, 311, 373, 387
Locomotive Keilers, Chas. Clinton, 295, 311
Locomotive Boilers, Gorton, 340
Locomotive Boilers, Chas. Rous-Marten, 263, 310
Locomotive Boilers, Steam Ports. 413
Locomotives with Large Coupled Wheels, W. J. Barker, 439
Locomotives with Large Coupled Wheels, Exactitude, 468
Locomotives with Large Coupled Wheels, R. Graham Lindsay, 413
Locomotives with Large Coupled Wheel», Au Outsider, 439
Locomotives with Large Coupled Wheels, C. E. Stretton, 387
Locomotives with Large Coupled Wheels, F. W. Brower, 373, 374, 387, 439
Locomotive Performances on the Caledonian Railway, J. G. W. Butlor, 340
London and North-Western Railway Engines, F. W. Brewer, 211
London and North-Western Railway Eagines, Norman D. McDonald, 184
London and North-Western Railway Engines, R. R. Surtees, 184
London and North-Western Railway Engines, Tentonic, 163
Machinery for Pearling Barley? C. D., 521
Metallic Ignition Tubes for Gas Engines? F. G. B., 521
Metaphysical Physical Problem, A, Paste Pot, 374
Metric System, The, W., 468
Motor Cars, David Salomons, 526
Motor Cars at the Crystal Palace, Ernest Watson, 35
Motor Cars in tbe London Streets, C. Harring¬ton Moore, 163
Motor Cars at Stanley Show, Fortunately not a British Motor Car Company Shareholder, 561
Motor Car Syndicate, David Salomons, 540
Motors for Carriages? W. H., 89
National Institution of Cycle Science, A, T. H. Brigg, 593
National Railway Museum, A, W. M. Acworth, 388
National Railway Musonm, Alf. R. Bennett, 526
National Railway Museum, A, F. W. Brewer, 541
National Railway Museam, I. W. B., 478, 526
National Railway Museum, J. Sinclair Fairfax, 413
National Railway Museum, J. A. Kay, 413
National Railway Museum, N. D. Macdonald, 495, 526
National Railway Museum, A, W. B. Paley, 388
National Railway Museum, Chas. Rous-Marten, 478, 495
National Railway Museum, G. A. Sekon, 413, 495
National Railway Museum, A, Clement E. Stretton, 374, 413, 439, 495, 526, 560
National Railway Museum, C. O. Tbomas, 643
New Great Northern Engines, W. J. Barker, 388
New North-Eastern Engines, The, “ Yo Se,” 35
New North-Eastern Express Locomotive, F. W. Brewer, 163
New System of Coal Gas Retort Beds, J. R. Frith, 35
New System of Coal Gas Retort Beds, Little and Graham, Limited, 60
Notes on the Horso-power Required for Road Motors, Oil or Steam Eogines, Bryan Donkio, 34
Notes on Weighbridges, W. and T. Avery, 340
One Thousand Pounds Steam, G. A. Haig, 311, 387
One Thousand Pounds Steam, Thos. Hill, 374
“Ormuz” Band, The, G. S. A. Foreman, 295
Patent Museum, A, J. Sinclair Fairfax, 593
Permanent Way, W. H. Derry, 311
Permanent Way, J. D., 374
Permanent Way, W. Lawford, 87
Permanent Way, Col. Lnndie, 163, 340
Permanent Way, E. E. Russell Tratman, 34
Permanent Way, J. W. Wilkin9, 294, 339, 374, 389
Physical Mathematical Puzzle, A, Wm. H. Massey, 350
Physical Mathematical Puzzle, A, Paste Pot, 239
Pilot Engines, A. C. C., 413 Pneumatic Tires, Glausur, 87
Position of Draughtsmen, A. C., 60
Position of Draughtsmen, Drawing Pin, 87
Position of Draughtsmen, Viary, 163
Preston Accident, W. J. Ellis, 413
Preston Accident, John Riekie, 311
Problem in Meters, Henry Lea and Thornbery, 439
Proposed Combination in the South Wales Coal Trade, D. A. Thomas, 495
Protection of Wire Ropes, The, Herbert Chees- man, 657
Railway Speeds, A., 503, 541
Railway Speeds, C., 439, 503
Railway Speeds, Clement E. Stretton, 439, 468, 526
Raw Hide Toothed Pinions? D. C. M. and M., 37
Raworth’s Universal Eigine, Bomsted and Chandler, 541
Recent Earthquake, The, Chas. Davison, 657
R> Barker’s Graphical Calculus, Your Reviewer, 181
Ralia of the Atmospheric Railway, John S. Chenhall, 211
Rivotod Joints, B. B. Stonoy, 495
R ipe driving Gear, S. T). B., 181
Kustloss Iron, J. B., 445
Salt Works Machinery ? C. P., G59
Scheelite? B. II. Brough, 445
Self-propelled Traffic, A. R. Sennett, 637
Serpollet Generators, H. A. 0. Mackenzie, 495
Serpollet Motor Boilor, Hy. Sparton, 593
Savern Navigation Sehtine, Herbert Wolling, 413
Sheelite? A. B. B., 419
S nail Motor Parts? H. J. L., 89
Small Pottery Kilns? Alpha, 13
S.iodland Bridge, W. 11 Bidder, 469
Snodland Bridge, M. W. 1)., 452
Snodland Bridge, C. E., 452
Snodland Bridge, C. P., 560
Soodland Bridge, W. G. Stryps, 387
Snodland Bridgo, Hy. Woodbouse, 469, 593
Snowdon Mountain Tramroad, The, R’nteker,
Abt, and Co., 262
Spiral Tubes under Pressure, Querist, 657 Steam Engine Economy, (Prof.) D*elshauvers-Dery, 372
Steel Pen Machinery, F. K , 595
Stringency of the Merchandise Marks Act, Ono who has boeu Victimised, 263
Substitute for Steamer’s Rapes, A. B. M., 184
Superheated Steam, Charles Day, 657
Swivel Joints for Hydraulic Pipes ? Hydraulic, 521
Testing Indicator Springs, J. Walton, pro A. Bollinckx, 60
Toe Late Henry Cherry, Alfred Suggate, 374
Thomas’s Steam Sulphur-extracting Apparatus ? J. H., 63
Tin-lined Laad Water-pipes, Alexander Wy'.ie, 163
Traction Engine Wheels, I. W. B., 263
Traction Engine Wheels, G. A. Haig, 526
Traction Engine Wheels, H. R. Summers, 495
Trade with Japan, W. G. Gass, 311
Train Resistances, W. I. Ellis, 540
Traverse Tables, W. H. Allen and Co., Limited, 561
Trestle Railway and 150 Miles per Hour, The, F. B. Behr, 135
Trimming Knives? X., 141
Unwarrantable Strike, An, A. H. Hope, 373
Water Communication between Liverpool and London, R. E. Collins, 593
Water Communication between Liverpool and London ? Dock, 567
Water-power Rock Drills? Crossley, 497
Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, Ernest Gearing, 34
What is Horse Power ? R. 0., 211
What is an Invention ? W. H. Smyth, 86
Wheels for Self-propelled Carriages, H. A. O. Mackenzie, 478
Where are the Motor Cars ? F. R. C. S., 540
W. H. Harrison Appeal, The, Frederick H. Varley, Andrew Pringle, 163
Willans Engine, The, Mark Robinson, 163
Working Alternators in Parallel at Hastings, L. Andrews, 439
Let’ers Parent, Applications for, 490
Levat, M., Tempering Steel in Phenol, 653
Lewis, Sir W. G., Interesting Statistics Concern¬ing the Rhondda Valley, 606
Lewis, Sir W. T., his Committee's Report on How Bast to Prevent ths Underselling of Coal, 578 Leyton Electric L;ghting, 491, 492, 493, 494, 526
Lexington, Ky.. Water Consumption through Metered and Unmetered Taps in, 293
Libra Oil Engine, The, 30 L:fe-buoy, Corrugated Metallic, 571
Lifting Bridge over the Chicago River, 216, 223
Lifts, Mr. Jas. Green’s, 663
Lifts at Railway Stations, 95
Lighthouse Board of the United States, Signalling
Apparatus and Plant Tried by the, 95
Lighthouses, Construction and Illumination of, 540
Lighting, An Interesting Source of, 121
Light Locomotives, The Local Government Board and, 497
Lightning Conductors at St. Paul’s, 515
Light Railways:
Light Railways, 2, 34, 57, 95, 109, 146, 159, 215, 271, 315, 341, 365, 399, 413, 418, 490, 505, 528, 537, 638
Light Railway between Alton and Basingstoke,
Projected, 638
Light Railways Association, Meeting of, 159 Light Railways, Belgian, 2
Light Railways Bill, Ireland, Mr. G. Balfour and the, 57
Light Railways, Board of Trade Rules, 315
Light Railway, Cheltenham, 528, 537
Light Railway Commission, The, 365
Light Railway Commission’s Interview with the President of the Board of Trade, 215
Light Railways in the Dantzig District, 443
Light Railway at Eaton Hall, 448
Light Railways for England, How are they to Established, 57
Light Railway in Formosa, 109
Light Railways, German, 315, 311
Light Railways, Mid-Cumberland, 271
Light Railway on the North York Moors, 505
Light Railways for North Staffordshire, 95
Light Railways in Prussia, Rapid Development of, 315, 341
Light Railways in Puerto Rico, Tenders Invited for, 490
Light Railway for Scotland, 399
Light Railways for South Devon, 365
Light Railways for Wales, 146
Light on Sparking Discharge, On the Action of, 31, 365
L’ght, Standards of, Mr. W. J. Dibdin on, 572
Light, Visible and Invisible, Prof. S. P. Thompson’s Christmas Lectures on, 474
Lights at Sea, Experiments to Ascertain the Visibility of, 159
Li Hnng Chang at Elswick, 214
Li Hung Chang among the Locomotives, 194
Lime in Raw Portland Cement, Volumetric Method of Ascertaining tho Quantity of, 185
Linde British Refrigerating Company, Refrigera¬ting Plant for Glasgow, 33
L’nde, Dr. Carl, Process and Apparatus for Attaining Lowest Temperatures tor Liquefy¬ing Gases, 485, 509
Line-throwing Gans for Trinity House Vessels, 11
Linebarger, Mr. C. E , Apparatus for Determining the Surface Tension of Liquids, 237
Linings for Bessemer Converters, 121
Link in tho History of Submarine Boats, A, 54
Link io Locomotive History, A, 339
Liquefying Gases, Apparatus for, 485, 509
Liquids, Apparatus for Deterraiairg the Surface Tension of, 237
Liquids, Surface Tension of, 490
Liquids, On the Transparency of, 31
Liquids, On the Viscosity of, 31
Lister's Batter Worker and Moulder and Dryer, Royal Agricultural Society’s Shjw, 16
Literature:
Alternating and Interrupted Electric Currents, Prof. G. Forbes, 91
Aluminium: Its History, Observance, Pro¬perties, Metallurgy, and Applications, by J. W. Richards (Third Edit'on), 660
Annuaire Fran^aise dea Mines d’Or, Transvaal, Sud-Afrique, Année, 1896, 117
ADnuaire pour TAn 1897, publié par le Bureau des Longitudes, 661
Applied Magnetism, J. A. Kingston, 219
Architectural Engineering, with Special Reference to High Building Construction, including many Examples of Chicago Office Buildings, Joseph K. Freitag, 167
Auto-cars, Cars, Tramcars, and Snail Cars, by D. Farman, 515
Beginner’s Guide to Photography, showing how to Buy a Camera and how to Use It, by a Fellow of the Chemical Society, 39
Blue-book of American Shipping, 91
Calvert’s Mechanics' Almanack and Workshop
Companion, 1897, 167
“Carriages without Horses shall Go,” a Rsprint of a Papsr on “ Horseless Road Locomotion,” road before Section G of the British Association, by A. R. Sennett, 545
Chamounix and the Range of Mont Blanc, a Guide, by Edward Whymper, with Illustra¬tions and Maps, 219
Chicago Main Drainage Channel, Dessription of the Machinery Used and the Methods of Work Adopted in Excavating the Twenty- eight Miles Drainage Canal from Chicago to Lockport, by C. H. Hill, 640
Civilisation of Oor Day: A Series of Original Essays on some of its more Important Phases at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, by Export Writers, 446
Contour Road Book of Scotland, Series of Elevation, Plan of the Roads, with Measure¬ments and Descriptive Letterpress, Harry R. G. Inglis, 65
Dos We3en des Erfinden9, Von E. Capitaine, 473
Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, 421
Detection and Measurement of Inflammable
Gas and Vapour in the Air, by Frank Clowes and Boverton Redwood, 420
Digest of Physical Tests and Laboratory Practice, a résumé of Practical Tests made in the Laboratories of the World, published by A. Riehlé, 369
Domestic Sanitary Drainage and Plumbing, W. R. Maguire, 219
Draiaage of Villages, by Wm. Spinks, 219
Drawing and Designing for Marine Engineers, by C. W. Roberts, 117
Early Work in Photography, a Text-book for Beginners, W. Ethelbert Henry, 219
Electricity in Naval Life, Lieut. B. A. Fiske, 395
Elementary Mechanics, including Hydrostatics and Pnsumatics, by Oliver J. Lodge, 318, 345
Engineering Index, Vol. it, 117
Experimental Science, a School Course of Prac¬tical Exercises in Elementary Physics (mainly Quantitative), including some Fundamental Principles in Mechanics, by Arthur Hubble, 545
First Principles of the Locomotive, by Michael Reynolds, 569
Future Trade in the Far East, C. C. Wakefield, 39
Gas and Electric Lighting Companies’ Directory and Statistics, 1896: Water Companies' Directory and Statistics, 1896, 291
Good Trade and a Living Wage, F. U. Lay- cook, 117
Graphical Calculus, by A. H. Barker, 38, 65
Greenwood’s Calculator or Roady Reckoner, for those who Buy and Sell by the Hundred¬weight, by John Greenwood, 39
Gaide to Modern Photography, by Harold Baker, 545
Handy Gride to Patent Law and Practice, by
F. Emery, 597
Hazell’s Annual for 1897: Cyclopedic Record of Men nnd Topics of tho Time, Revised to November 21st, 1896, 661
Intellectual Rise in Electricity, The, hy Park Benjamin, 597
Journal of the Royal United Service Institu¬tion, Vol. xl., 661
Latitude and Longitude: How to Find Them, W. J. Millar, 39
L’ght Railways Act, 1896, together with the Rules of the Board of Trade made under the Act, by Evans Austin, 421
Life and Labour of tho People in London, Vols. vi. and vii., Edited by Chas. Booth, 116
Locomotive Engine and its Development: A Popular Treatise on the Gradual Improve¬ments made in Railway Engines between 1803 and 1896, by Clement E. Stretton, 267
Locomotives Suisses, Les, by Camille Barbey, 91
Mining Manual for 1896, 193
Manual of Hygiene, Sanitation and Sanitary
Engineering, with Special Reference to Indian Conditions, by J. A. Jones, 661
Metallic Alloys, The, A Practical Guide, Ed. by W. T. Brannt, 597
Metallic Structures, Corrosion, Fouling, and their Prevention, John Newman, 193
Model of a Horizontal Steam Engine furnished with Meyer’s Variable Expansion Gear, with Brief Description of the Parts and Methods of Working, and Discussion and Explanation
L’nde, Dr. Carl, Process and Apparatus for
Attaining Lowost Temperatures tor Liquefy¬ing Gases, 485, 509
Line-throwing Gans for Trinity House Vessels, 11
Linebarger, Mr. C. E , Apparatus for Determining the Surface Tension of Liquids, 237
Linings for Bessemer Converters, 121
L'nk in tho History of Submarine Boats, A, 54
Link io Looomotivo History, A, 339
Liquefying Gases, Apparatus for, 485, 509
Liquids, Apparatus for Deterraiairg the Surface Tension of, 237
Liquids, Surface Tension of, 490
Liquids, On the Transparency of, 31
Liquids, On the Viscosity of, 31
Lister's Batter Worker and Moulder and Dryer, Royal Agricultural Society’s Shaw, 16

Literature:

Alternating and Interrupted Electric Currents, Prof. G. Forbes, 91
Aluminium: Its History, Observance, Pro¬perties, Metallurgy, and Applications, by J. W. Richards (Third Edit'on), 660
Annuaire Fran^aise dea Mines d’Or, Transvaal, Sud-Afrique, Année, 1896, 117
ADnuaire pour TAn 1897, publié par le Bureau des Longitudes, 661
Applied Magnetism, J. A. Kingston, 219
Architectural Engineering, with Special Reference to High Building Construction, including many Examples of Chicago Office Buildings, Joseph K. Freitag, 167
Auto-cars, Cars, Tramcars, and Snail Cars, by D. Farman, 515
Beginner’s Guide to Photography, showing how to Buy a Camera and how to Use It, by a Fellow of the Chemical Society, 39
Blue-book of American Shipping, 91
Calvert’s Mechanics' Almanack and Workshop Companion, 1897, 167
“Carriages without Horses shall Go,” a Rsprint of a Papsr on “ Horseless Road Locomotion,” road before Section G of the British Association, by A. R. Sennett, 545
Chamounix and the Range of Mont Blanc, a Guide, by Edward Whymper, with Illustra¬tions and Maps, 219
Chicago Main Drainage Channel, Dessription of the Machinery Used and the Methods of Work Adopted in Excavating the Twenty-eight Miles Drainage Canal from Chicago to Lockport, by C. H. Hill, 640
Civilisation of Oor Day: A Series of Original Essays on some of its more Important Phases at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, by Export Writers, 446
Contour Road Book of Scotland, Series of Elevation, Plan of the Roads, with Measure¬ments and Descriptive Letterpress, Harry R. G. Inglis, 65
Dos We3en des Erfinden9, Von E. Capitaine, 473
Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, 421
Detection and Measurement of Inflammable
Gas and Vapour in the Air, by Frank Clowes and Boverton Redwood, 420
Digest of Physical Tests and Laboratory Practice, a résumé of Practical Tests made in the Laboratories of the World, published by A. Riehlé, 369
Domestic Sanitary Drainage and Plumbing, W. R. Maguire, 219
Drainage of Villages, by Wm. Spinks, 219
Drawing and Designing for Marine Engineers, by C. W. Roberts, 117
Early Work in Photography, a Text-book for Beginners, W. Ethelbert Henry, 219
Electricity in Naval L’fe, Lieut. B. A. Fiske, 395
Elementary Mechanics, including Hydrostatics and Pnsumatics, by Oliver J. Lodge, 318, 345
Engineering Index, Vol. it, 117
Experimental Science, a School Course of Prac¬tical Exercises in Elementary Physics (mainly Quantitative), including some Fundamental Principles in Mechanics, by Arthur Hubble, 545
First Principles of the Locomotive, by Michael Reynolds, 569
Future Trade in the Far East, C. C. Wakefield, 39
Gas and Electric Lighting Companies’ Directory and Statistics, 1896: Water Companies' Directory and Statistics, 1896, 291
Good Trade and a Living Wage, F. U. Lay- cook, 117
Graphical Calculus, by A. H. Barker, 38, 65
Greenwood’s Calculator or Roady Reckoner, for those who Buy and Sell by the Hundred¬weight, by John Greenwood, 39
Gaide to Modern Photography, by Harold Baker, 545
Handy Gride to Patent Law and Practice, by F. Emery, 597
Hazell’s Annual for 1897: Cyclopedic Rocord of Men and Topics of tho Time, Revised to November 21st, 1896, 661
Intellectual Rise in Electricity, The, hy Park Benjamin, 597
Journal of the Royal United Service Institu¬tion, Vol. xl., 661
Latitude and Longitude: How to Find Them, W. J. Millar, 39
Light Railways Act, 1896, together with the Rules of tho Board of Trade made under the Act, by Evans Austin, 421
Life and Labour of tho People in London, Vols. vi. and vii., Edited by Chas. Booth, 116
Locomotive Engine and its Development: A Popular Treatise on the Gradual Improve¬ments made in Railway Engines between 1803 and 1896, by Clement E. Stretton, 267
Locomotives Suisses, Les, by Camille Barbey, 91
Mining Manual for 1896, 193
Manual of Hygiene, Sanitation and Sanitary
Engineering, with Special Reference to Indian Conditions, by J. A. Jones, 661
Metallic Alloys, The, A Practical Guide, Ed. by W. T. Brannt, 597
Metallic Structures, Corrosion, Fouling, and their Prevention, John Newman, 193
Model of a Horizontal Steam Engine furnished with Meyer’s Variable Expansion Gear, with Brief Description of the Parts and Methods of Working, and Discussion and Explanation of Zauner's Valve Diagrams for tho Use of General Leaders and Elementary Engineering Students, 319
Naval Annual for 1896, by T. A. Brassey (Con¬cluding Notice), 142
Nitro-explosives, A Practical Treatise Concern¬ing tho Properties, Manufacture, and Analysis of Nitrated Substances, including the Fu1m:- nates, Smokeless Powders, and Celluloid, P. Gerald Sanford, 15
Petroleum, its Development and Uses, by R. Nelson Boyd, 91
Petroleum and its Products, by Boverton Rad- wood, assisted by G. T. Holloway and other Contributors, 193
Photography Annual: Comp9ndium of Photo¬graphic Information, with a Record of Pro¬gress in Photography for tbe past year, edited by H. Sturmey, 193
Power Locomotion on the Highway, Guide to tha Literature Relating to Traction Engines and Steam Road Rollers, and to the Propul¬sion of Common Road Carriages and Veloci- pades by Steam and other Mechanical Power, with a Brief Historical Sketch, by Rhys Jenkins, 117
Practical Hints for Light Railways at Homo and Abroad, by F. R. Johnson, 509
Practical Mechanics Applied to the Require¬ments of the Sailor, by Thomas Mackenzie, 117
Rivers and Canals, by L. F. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., 267
Science and Art Drawing, Complete Geometri¬cal Course, by J. Humphrey Spanton, 167
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, by Henry Robinson, 291
Spectator Mathematical Tables, Actuarial, compiled by J. W. Gordon, 193
Steam Eogine considered as a Thermodynamic Machine : a Treatise on the Thermodynamic Efficiency of Steam Engines, by James II. Cotterill, 91
Students’ Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geo¬logy, edited by John W. Judd, 91
Submarine Cable-laying and Repairing, by H. D. Wilkinson, 290
Systematic Course of Geometric Drawing, T. A. V. Ford, 319
Tables for Constructing Ship3’ Lines, by Archi¬bald Hogg, 661
Traité Théorique et Pratique des Courants Alternatifs Industriels, by F. Loppe and R. Bouquet, 569
U.S. Ordnance Department Papers, 1896, 641
Universal Directory of Railway Officials, 1896, 267
Volunteers and the National Dofence, by Spen¬ser Wilkinson, 447
Water Supply considered principally from a Sanitary Standpoint, Prof. Wm. P. Mason, 499
World’s Riilway, Tae, by J. G. Pangborn, 544
Litmus Pencils, Messrs. Tbos. Christy and Co., 11
Little Don Water Scheme, Arrangements con¬nected with the, 537
Livens, Mr F. H , On the Advantages of the Metric System, 215
Liverpool, Annual Accounts of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 382
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and the Ship Canal, 135
Liverpool Docks, Oil-burning Locomotive, 297
Liverpool Overhead Railway, Southern Extension of, 520
Liverpool, St. Helens, and South Lancashire Rail¬way Fined, The, 311
Liverpool-street Station Widoning, The Primrose- street Bridge, 183, 186, 187
Liverpool Water Supply, Mr. J. Parry on tho, 308
Livorsidge, Profossor, on the Composition of Sea Water, 417
L’vesey, Mr. Gao., on the Gas Supply of the South Metropolitan Gasworks, Tho Prosen; System and Price, 146
Llandrindod Sewage Scheme, 646
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Returns, 311
Lobnitz, Mr. Henry C., 661
Local Government Board and Horseless Carriages, 446
Local Government Board and Light Locomotives, 497
Lock between Wandsworth and Putney, Meeting in Favour of the Construction of a, 476
Loch Katrine Waterworks, Extension of, 118
Locks at Ymuiden to be Worked by Electricity, 417

Locomotives:

Locomotives, American, 238, 242, 261, 280
Locomotive, American Throe-cylinder, 280
Locomotives, The Australian Consolidation, 226
Locomotives, On Balanced Valves for, 95
Locomotives, Bogie, 239
Locomotives, Bogie and Radial, 211
Locomotive, Bogie Tank, Wirral Railway, 261, 268
Locomotive Boilers, 266, 373, 413
Locomotive Boilers, British u. American, 211, 263, 295, 340
Locomotive Boilor Explosion, 11
Locomotive Boilers should be Examined Monthly, 11
Locomotive Building in Germany, 180
Locomotive Building in Japan, 67
Locomotive and Car Performance on the Louisville and Nashville Railway, 441
Locomotive Performancos on the Caledonian Railway, 340
Locomotive, Caledonian Railway, List of Weights of the Reciprocating Parts of tbe Last, 95
Locomotives for the Cape Government Railways, 456
Locomotive, Counterb.a’ancing, Mr. G. R. Hender¬son on, 287
Locomotives, Electric, to be Tried in Russia, 315
Locomotives, Electric, Baltimore, United States, 572
Locomotive, Electric, in Now York, 315, 480
Locomotive Engine, Value of a Stoam Jacket on a, 465, 473
Locomotive Erected in 107 Hours, 520
Locomotives Exported from the United Kingdom,Value of, 109
Locomotive, Express Compound, Austrian State Railways, 392, 395, 410, 411, 436, 437, 438
Locomotive, Ex pres*. Chicago, Rock island, and Pacific Railway, 72
Locomotive, Express, Lehigh Valley Railway, U.S.A., 582
Locomotive, Express, North-Eastern Railway, 107
Locomotive, Ex press, ot Novel Type, for the Chicago Burlington, and Qiiccy Railway (Dimensions given), 122
Looomotivo, Express Passenger. London and North-Western Railway, 658, 602
Locomotive, Furness Railway, A Bury, 239
Locomotive of the Future, The Electric, 589
Locomotive, Goods, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 517
Locomotives, Great Northern, 388
Ixicomotives, Great Western, 561
Locomotives, Heavy Goods, of tbe Mogul Type, 463
Locomotive, Heavy Tank, Pennsylvania Line, 661
Locomotives, High-speed, 142
Locomotives on Highways Bill, The, 6, 15, 69,
191, 200, 488
Locomotive on Highways Bill, Sir D. Salomons on the, 200
Locomotive History, A Link in, 339
Locomotives for Japan, Eglish and American, 67
Locomotives for Japan and for the Orange Free State, 552
Locomotives, Kobe, Japan, 95
Locomotives of the Luicashire and Yorkshire Railway, Weight of Reciprocating Parts, 109
Locomotive with Inrge Coupled Wboals, 350, 374, 387, 413, 439
Looomotive Licences, 61
Locomotives, Li HuDg Chang among the, 194
Locomotive for Liverp >ol Dock Lines, 297
Locomotives, Tbo Local Guvernm snt Board and Light, 497
Locomotives, London and North-Western Rail¬way, 163, 184, 211
Locomotives Narrow-gauge and Mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina State Railways, 416, 467
Locomotives, North-Eastern, 35
Locomotives, North-Eastern Express, 163
Locomotive, North-Eastern Express Passenger,
Mr. W. Worsdell (Supplement, December 18M, and Pur'folio Draicimj, December 18/A, 1896), 616
Locomotive, The Old Stephenson, 237
Locomotives, Pilot, 413
Locomotive, Powerful Express, Baldwin, 453
Locomotives, Road, 233, 234, 235
Locomotives for Russia, Forty Heavy, Ordered in Kassel, 74
Locomotive, Shunting, Accident to, 638
Locomotive for Soudan Expedition Railway, 414
Locomotive, South Wales Government Railways,
Australian Consolidation, Messrs. Boyer, Peacock and Co. (Supplement, July 3rd, 1896), 15
Locomotive, Toe Westinghouse Electric, 11
Locomotive under Actual Working Conditions, Operation of the. 95
Locomotives in the United States, 408
Locomotives in the United State?, On Balancing, 95
Locomotives—ste also Engines Log Saw Frame, Heavy, 71
London:
London Chamber of Arbitration, where Papers Rotating to it may bo Obtained, 109
London, Chattam, and Davor Railway, Balance shown by the Coming Report of the, 95
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, New Steamer for the, 399
Landon, Coal Supply, 346
London Coal Syndicate, The Arrangement as Summarised by Mr. Lambert, 252
London County Council Scandal, The, 522, 543
London Dock Companies and Shipowners, 596
London Emory Works Company, Milling Cutter Grinding Machine, 148
London to Exeter without a Stop, 157
London Gas Supply, Change in the, 318
London and North-Western Railway Engines, 163, 184, 211
Landon and North-Western Railway Express Passenger Engine, Mr. F. Webb, 658, 662 L'.ndon and North-Western Railway, Jubilee of the, 27
London Railway, The Central, 25
Landon, Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Port of, 476
Landon and South-Western Railway Company, Light Railway between Alton and Basing¬stoke, 638
Landon Streets, Electric and Incandescent Gas Lighting Experiments, 79
London Streots, Motor Cars in the, 163
Landon Syndicate to Acquire the Welsh Collieries, Rumoured, 176
London Wator, 497
London Water Board Bills, The, 57, 365
London Water Supply, 263, 315, 443, 490, 497, 537, 543
Landon Water Supply, Daily Average, 490
Landon Water Supply, Early Legislation Pressed for, 443
Ixindon Water Supply, Prof poets of the, 51)
Ixindon Water Supply, Professors Crookes and Dewar on tlao, 53/
Long Guns, 217
Long Pips Connections for Stoam Engine Indica¬tors, Effect upon tbo Diagrams of, 123
Loams, Hand, in Italy, 653
“ Lord of the Isles,” Photograph Roceivod of the Great Western Locomotive. 122
Loss of Life in British Merchant Ships, Parlia¬mentary Returns, 490
Lubricant, Graphite as a, 516
Lubricating Wiro Ropes, For, 589
Lugansk, South Russia, Ironworks to ba Esta¬blished at, 95
Lutzmann Motor Carriage, 40, 518
Lynn Dock Trade, 382

M

MAAS’S Water Gaugo Attachment, 225
" Mahon’s Day," Institution of, 530
Macadam, Dr. Stevenson, On the Safe Oil Stand¬ard, 638
McColl, Mr. Hector, Unusual Corrosion of Marino Machinery, 130
McCowen, Mr. Victor A. IL, Electric Lighting in Belfast, 129
Mocfarlane, Mr. W., Appointed Metallurgical Instructor in Staffordshire, 95
McGlasson, Mr., Made an Honorary Companion of the Institute of Marine Engineers, 109
Machine Tools, Special, Messrs. Hulse and Co., 212
Muchinery and Metals in Bavaria, 459 Machinery Wins, 341
McKinley’s Next Tariff Bill, Anxiety respecting, 645
McLaren, Mr. IL, Oa “Practi:e with Science,” 419
Madeira, Waterworks at, 30
Madras-Vizinagram Railway, 11
Mafeking and Bulawayo, Railway between, 271, 629
Maginnis, Mr. A. J., On the Britieh North Atlantic Mail Service, 3C8
Magnesium, Atomic Weight of, £33
Magnetic Force, Moan Determination at Green¬wich of Horizantal, 95
Magnetic Perm lability, Instrument for Measur¬ing, 315
Magnetisation on tho Electra Motive Force of Therm a-Couples, On the Influence of, 572
Magnst'sation of Iron Wires Traversed by Elec¬tric Correris, 572
Magnolia Metal Company i>. The Atlas Metal Company, Limited, 541
Maidstone and the Rayal Agricultural Society, 672
Mail Tube, A, 1C8
Malta, Eleotric L’ghting of, 589

Manchester:

Manchester Business—see also Notes from Lanca¬shire
Manchester, Change from Overhead ta Under¬ground Wires, 604
Manchester Coal and Shipping Trade, 20, 47, 99, 121, 174, 201
Manchester District Wages Q ïestion, 20, 227, 327, 341, 351, 352
Manchester Electric Light Works, Storaga Battery Plant, 599
Manchester Engineering Trades, Wages Conflict Probable in the, 273
Manchester Iron and Steel Trade, 20, 47,124,148, 174, 200, 226
Manchester, Labour and Wages Disputes at, 20
Manchester Main Drainage Effl aent Scheme, 391
Manchester Post-office, Heating Apparatus, 383
Manchester Sewage Disposal Scheme. 306, 555
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Extension to London, The, 68
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, Inspection of their New Line to London, 520
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway’s New Terminus, 476
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company’s Works, London, 156
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Riilway Company’s Rolling Stock, Change of Colour Docided upon, 215
Manchester Ship Canal, 185, 215, 232, 426, 520, 534, 550
Manchester Ship Canal, Inspection of, by Ship¬owners, 550
Manchester Ship Canal, Traffic Returns, 185, 215, 520
Manchester Ship Canal, Visit to tbe, 426
Manchester Wages Qiesticn, 72, 399, 403, 423
Manganese Production in Russia, 275, 653
Manganese Ore Deposits in Santander, Mr. J. Head on the, 258
Mangotsfield Sewage Scheme, The, 70
Manhattan Railway Company’s Proposals, 271
Manitoba, Civil Engineering Legislation in, 219
Manitoba, Flour Milling in, 431
Mannesman Works, Enlargement of the, 578
Manning, Wardle, and Co., Locomotive for the Soudan Railway, 414
Mantua, Ancient Mills at, 57
Manufacturers and Transit Facilities, A £300,000 Scheme, 536
Manure Distributors, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 17
Map of the Glasgow District Subway, 558
Map of the Great Siberian Railway, 459
Map of Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, 370
Map of Route, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 547
Map and Sections of Glasgow District Subway, 558, 559
Map of South Shore, Isle of Man, and Route of i the Electric Tramway, 389
March Station, Accident at, 315
Marcus Ward and Co.’s Works, Messrs., 155
Marine Boilers, 1, 6,10, 13
Marine Boilers, Mr. Walliker on the Maintenance and Repair of, 1, 10
Marine Boilers, Particularly in Reference to Effi¬ciency of Combustion and Higher Steam Pressures, Mr. J. R. Fothergill, 1, 6
Marine Engineering, Mr. B. Stephenson on Improvements in, 576
Marine Engines, Five-crank, 295
Marine Machinery, Unusual Corrosion of, 130
Marine Type of Engine for Mill Work, 479
Marks, Sir. G. C., Aberystwith Royal Pier Pavilion, 281,282,286
Marshall’s Dreadnought Furnace, 384
Marshall, Mr. Horace Brooks, 236
Martio, Mr. E. W., the Iron and Steel Institute Presidency, 252
Martin, Mr. E. P., Next President after Sir D. Dale of the Iron and Steel Institute, 126
Maryland Steel Co., Hydraulic Suction Dredger for the Mississippi River, 12. 18
Mason College, Birmingham, 159, 395
Mason, Mossrs. W. F., Duff’s Patent Gas Pro¬ducer, 174
Masonry Dams, Remscheid Waterworks, 118
Master Car Builders, Standard Pipe Arrangement, 575
Masthead Semaphore cf the “ Talbot,” Carrying Away of the, 520
Matches, Paper, 31
Meachem, Air. F. G., On Irruptions of Coal into Mine Workings, 604
Mean Temperature of 1895 at Greenwich, 11
Measuring the Force Acting upon Dielectric Liquids in an Electric Fiold, 520
Measuring the Temperature of Incandescent l^amps, 520
Mechanical Fog Signalling, 38
Mechanical Haulage, the Société der Chiudil-res et Voitures a Vapour’s Pamphlet on their, 237
Mechanical Haulage, by J. Sturgeon, 157, 199
Mechanical Instruments, On the Care of, 557
Mechanical Power for Tram and Omnibus Hors:s in Paris, Proposed Substitution o', 11 Mechanical Traction in Paris, 82
Medal, The Chicago Exhibition, 20
Medway, The Snodland Bridge over the, 356, 357, 382, 387, 452, 469, 560, 593
Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company’s Profits, 453
Me’inite Explosion, A, 474
Mailing, Thomas, Death of the Engine Driver, 572
Melting Points of some Double Salts and Alloys, Experiments on the, 476
Mental Calculator, Feats of Heinhaus, The, 109
Merchandise Marks Act, Stringency of the, 263
Merchant Steamers as Cruisers, American, 297
Merryweather and Sons, P.ant fur Emptying Cesspools, 315
Merryweather’s Pneumatic Cesspool Emptying Apparatus, 527
Mersey Docks and Harbiur Board, Reduction in the Tonnage Rates, 365
Mersay Docks, Pans f.r Tobacco Warehouse, 287
Mersey Forge, Liverpool, Sale of, £9
Metal Agencies Company, Solution for Coating Galvanised Iron before Painting, 365
Metal Keys in place of Wood cn East Indian Railways, 365
Met lie, On the Displacements in, 159
Metals Subjected to Strain, Distribution of De¬formations in, 372
Metallic and Non-metallic Products of the United
States, Value of, 215 Metaphysicil Physical Problem, A, 374
Meteorology of Edinburgh, On the, 42 Meters, Problem in, 439
Metric System, Tne, 45, 95, 215, 237, 308, 447, 468, 565, 572, 601
Metric System, Mr. F. H. Livens on the Advan¬tages of the, 215
Metric System, Mr. Coleman Sellers on the, 447, 565, 601
Metric System, Mr. F. Tomi on the, 308
Metric System in our Workshops, Will its Value Equal its Cost ? 45
Metiic System in Russia, The, 287
Metric System for the United States, The Master Car Builders and the, 95
Metric Weights and Measures in Egypt, As to the Adoption of, 572
Metropolitan District Railway Shareholders’
Association. Schema for Express Trains worked by Electric Power, 365
Metropolitan Electric Railway Project, Another, 476
Metropolitan Railway Extensions, 116
Metropolitan Railway of Pari*, 344
Mexican Government and Messrs. Pearson and Son, Contract between the, 365
Mexican Railway, Construction of a, Resumed, 653
Mexican Government, Expenditure on Railway Subsidies, 287
Mexico, Amendment of Patent Laws, 287
Mexico, Coal, Iron, Steel, and Machinery in, 642
Mexico, India-rubber and Bananas in, 106
Mexico, Railway Mileage in, 589
Mexico, Tenders invited for Pumping Machinery and Engine and Steam Boilers, 365
Meyer, Prof. A. M., on the Surface Tension of Liquids, 490
Mica Trade, The Government of India Rales with regard to the, 315
Micklefield and Brancepeth Colliery Disaster, Micro-structure of Steel, M. A. Sauveur on the, 417
Microbe and Germ Theories lead often to Absurd Conclusions, 57
Middlesbrough Dock Extension, 404, 529, 537, 605
Middlesbrough Dock, Electric Lighting of, 404
Middlesbrough Tramways, 349
Middlewich Waterworks, 67
Midland Engineer, Death of, 189
Midland Engineers and Ironmasters and the Railway Company’s Rates, 399
Midland with the London and North-Western, Project to Connect the, 252
Midland Railway, Accident on the, 271
Midland Railway, Somers Town Goods Depót Visited, 397
Midland Railway Company, Train Mileage during Half-year, 159
Midland Manufacturers in Australia, 287
Military Motor Car, Tho, 589
Milk Sterilising in Bottles, Dr. Alt’s Apparatus 452
Miling Cutters, 82
Milling Cutter Grinding Machine, 148
Milling in Manitoba, Flour, 431
Milling Plant, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 17
Millom and Askam, Hematite Iron Company, Limited, Profits made by, 645
Mills at Mantua, On some Ancient, 57
Millwall Works, Fire at, 520
Mine Apparatus for the Defence of Vladivostok. 159
Mine Cage Interlocking, Overwinding, Prevention Apparatus, 207, 209
Mines’ Cages, Accidents to, 653
Mines Drainage Scheme, The South Staffordshire. 146
Mines, Electric Transmission of Power in, 8, 9
Mines, Iron Ore, in Spain, 576
Mines, Wedges and Explosives in, 162
Miner?, The Granite Supply and the Cornish Unemployed Tin, 211
Miners, Greatest Depth ever Attained by, 163
Miners’ Work and Mineral Yield, 14
Mining Activity in Tasmania, 109
Mining Art, Changes Wrought by Chemistry in the, 341
Mining in Cornwall, Mr. Brough on, 638
Mining at Great Depths, Mr. Bennett H. Brough,
Mining Production of Queensland, 453
Mining Scheme, A Chinese, 435
Mineral Products of the United States m 1894 and 1895, 215
Mineral Resources of New South Wales, The, 589
Mineral Statistics for 1895, 376
Miquel, M., Ilis Microbe and Germ Theories, 57

Miscellanea:

31. 57. 95, 109, 146,159,185, 215, 237, 271, 287, 315, 311, 365 399, 417, 443, 476, 491, 520, 537, 589, 638, 653
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Royal Agriculture Society's Show, 16
Missing Carbon, Mr. W. T. Hogg on, 258
Mississippi, Hydraulic Suction Dredge on the 18
Mitchell, Mr. Joseph, his Project for the Establishment of Iron and Steel Works in New South Wales, 22
Moissan, M., “ Carbon Boride,” the New Product, 653
Moissan, M , Compound of Carbon and Boron Discovered by. 95
Moissan, M., On Lantbamum Carbide. 146 Moissan, M. H., On Preparing Alloys, 11 Moissan, M., His Researches with the Electric Furnace, 443
Moissan, M. H., Researches on Tungsten, 109
Moissan, M. IL, Result of his Experiment on the Black Diamond, 159
Moissan, M. II , On the Solubility of Carbon in Rhodium, Iridium, and Palladium, 95
Moissan, M. H., “Study of Melted Vanadium and its Carbide,” 11
Mombasa and Uganda Railway, No Promoters tf the, 31
Monmore Ironworks, Re-cpenirg o', 454, 480
Monopolies, Patent, 567 Monopoly, A G>'gantic Coal, 219
Monroe, Dr., His Smokeless Powder, 287
Monsted's Margarine Factory, Southall, 288, 292, 293, 337
Monticolo Cyclesograpb, or Curve Tracer, 147
Montreal, Electric Water Power Development in, 95
Montreal and Ottawa Railway to be Opened, The, 653
Mcrdey, Mr. W. M., Instrument for Measuring Magnetic Permeability, 315
Morley Electric Lighting Tenders, 510
Morgossy, B., Hardening Steel in Petroleum, 95
Morton, Mr. A , Maximum Density and Elasticity of Steam, 480
Mosher, Mr. C. D., Plans for a Fast Yacht, 417
Mossman, Mr. R. C., On the Meteorclcgy of Edinburgh, 42
Motive Pow.-r and Gearing for Electrical Machi¬nery, by Mr. E. T. Carter, 490
Mo‘ors f.r Auto-cars, Professor Watkinson’s Lectures on, 549
Motor Carriages, Caps, Cycles, Vehicles —»« also Horseless Vehicles:
Motors for Carriages? 89
Motor Carriage Licences, 516
Motor Carriage Race, The French, 333, 355
Motor Carriages, Speed of, Limited in Warwick¬shire, 489
Motor Carriages, The Woheley Auto-car, 663
Motor Cars, Benzoline, 569
Motor Car Building Industry in the Midlands, Activity in the, 504
Motor Car Club, Proposed Tour of the, 271
Motor Cars at the Crystal Palace, 35. 460
Motor Car in Eogland in 1896, The, 555
Motor Car, First Prosecution of, 665
Motor Cars, India-rubber Tires for, 503
Motor Car Ran from London to Brighton, 365, 518, 521
Motor Cars in the London Streets, 142, 163
Motor Cars in the Midlands, 499
Motor Car, The Military, 589
Motor Car Notes, 477, 526, 544. 569
Motor Cars, Petroleum and, 489
Motor Care, Serpollet, 538
Motor Care at Stanley Show, 561
Motor Cars in Street Scavenging, Uee of, 237
Motor Car Syndicate, Toe, 540, 561
Motor Cars? Where are the, 540
Motor Cycles, Competition of, at Rhode Island State Fair. 315
Motor Cycle Trials in France, 319
Motor for Men-of-War in the United States to Rotate 10,000 Times a Minute, 417
Motor Omnibuses for Paris, 515
Motor Parts ? Small, 89
Motor Shock, A, 644
Motor Srndicate, British, 540, 561,587
Motor Vehicles, Petroleum Legislation and, 106
Motor Vehicle will not Run Away, The, 22-1
Motor Vehic’es, Tax on, Opposed in the House of Lords, 159
Moulding and Planing Machine, Double, 97
Moving Railway Bridges, 536, 538, 539. 542
Moving Sidewalk Railway, Berlin Exhibitien. 296
Muirhead, Mr., His Patent Wrought Iren Chair, 505
Mullin's Large Gold Medal Awarded to Mr. W. E Adeney, 30
Multiple Punching Machine, 433
Mumford, Mr. A. G., Feed Pumps, H.M.S. “Minerva,” 535
Mnnhy, Professor A. E., On Acetylene, 311
Mungsten Viaduct, The, 476
Musc'e, Relation between the Wcrk it Decs, and the Shortening it Undergoes, 146
Museum, A National Railway, 388, 413, 478
Musgrave Brothers, Hydraulic Shaft Imcrtirg Press, 138

N

NAPHTHA Fuel for Torpedo Craft, Advantages 417
Nasmith, Mr. Joseph, On the Wages Question in the Engineering Trades, 403
Nasmith, Mr. J., On Water Power and its Deve¬lopment, 454
National Art Competition, 570
National Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Wages Board, The, 604
National Institution of Cycle Science, 593
National Railway Museum, A, 374, 388, 413, 439, 478,495, 526, 541, 560, 643
National Society of Local Railways in Belgium and Light Railways, 57
Nationalisaticn of Railways, Arguments in Favour of, 341
Nationalisation of Railways in Switzerland, Forthcoming, 365
Naval Construction and Armamont Co., Triple¬-expansion Engines (Supplement, October 2nd, 1 1896)
Naval Construction and Armamont Co.’s Under¬taking Purchased by a Syndicate, 605

Naval Engineer Appointments:-

20. 61, 122, 133, 157, 193, 206, 260, 283, 319, ] 361, 395, 425, 439, 481, 511, 516, 561
Naval Engineer Students, 253 1
Naval Estimates, German, 212
Naval Manoeuvres, Professor A. Birr on, 638 ,
Naval Re-armament, Case for, 561
Navies, British and Foreign. 593
Navies of the World, The, 486, 514
Navigation Conference, Inland, 536
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Hole Grinding Machine, 186
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Locomotives for the Cape Government Riilways, 456
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Locomotives for Japan and the Orange Free State, 552
Nematolith, A Now Material for Filling Paper, 57
New Conveyor Co., Coal Conveying and Sorting Plant, Abcramman Colliery, 461, 465, 470, 488, 496
New Conveyor Co., Machine to Coil Spiral Con¬veyors from Cold Steel Bars, 4in. to 4ft. dia¬meter, 174
New Express Delivery System Inaugurated by the Brooklyn Heights Railway Co., 31
Newfoundland Railway Co., Rights of, Purchased by the Colonial Government, 653

Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Report:

22, 46, 74, 100, 124, 148, 176, 202, 253, 275, 286, 326, 350, 378, 402, 428, 482, 506, 530, 552, 578, 606, 646
New South Wales Budget Speech. The, 298
New South Wales Government Railways, Goods Engines and Tenders for the (Supplement, July Zrd, 1896), 15
New South Wales, Output of Gold, 31
New South Wales Government Railways, Statis¬tics of, 365
New South Wales, The Mineral Re-ources of, 589
New South Wales, Platinum in, 572
New South Wales, Rails for, 402
New South Wales Railways and Tramways, 253, 298, 365, 589 *
New South Wales Railways and Tramways Com¬missioners’ Report, 589
Newth, Mr. G. S., Apparatus for Showing Experi¬ments with Ozone, 237
Newton, Prof. H. A., of Yale University, 185
Newton, Prof. H. A., Ilis Comparison between the Mortalities of Yale Graduates in 1701-1744, 1745-1762, 95
New York, Asphalte Gutter Strips along the Kerbs of Granite Paved Streets, 101
New York and Brooklyn, Tunnel Railway between, 520
New York Harbour, 382
New York Harbour, Heavy Ordnance to Com¬mand the Entrance to, 185
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, Heavy Goods Engines of the “ Mogul ” Type, 453
New York and Philadelphia Canal, 295
New York, Rapid Transit in, 72
New York State Board of Railway Commissioners on Flying Shunts, 109
New York State, Electric Tramways in, 215
New York S:eam Company, Large Boiler in Process of being Fixed by the, 95
New York, Twenty-five Storey Building, 32
New York Underground Railway, The, 479
New Zealand Iron and Steel Company, Limited, The, 87, 148
New Zealand Railways, Report for Year, 453
Niagara Falls, Electric Power from, 516
Niagara Falls, Electricity Works at, 586
Niagara Turbines, The, 417
Nicaragua, Railway Projects in, 520
Nicaragua Canal, Reported Feasible, 180
Nicholson, Mr. C. J., Arrangement for Inter¬locking Signal Switches and Instruments, 476
Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, The, 43
Nobel, Mr. Alfred, 641
Nobel’s Works, Messrs., Construction of New Mine Apparatus for Vladivostock, 159
Noble, Mr. John, 523
Nord and Pas de Calais Coalfield, Net Output for Half-year, 341
Nordenskjold, Well Bored by, through Granite Layers, 109
Normanby Iron Company’s Slag Manure, 328
North Accident Insurance Company, Arbitration between Messrs. Walker, Maynard, and Co., The, 505, 523
Northampton Institute, The, Appointments Filled, 162
North British Railway Works, 344
North British Rubber Company ». the Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company, 170
Nortb-Eistern Railway, Accident on the, 159, 185
North-Ea.tsrn Riilway between Darlington and Barnard Castle, Doubling of the, 201
North-Eastsrn Contract: for South Yorkshire, Coal Placed, The, 605
North-Eastern Railway Engines, New, 35
North-Eastern Riilway Express Locomotive, 107, 163
North-Eastern Railway, Fuel Supply, 589
North-Eastern Railway and the Ilumber, 394
North-Eastern Railway Report for Half-year, 159
North-Eastern Railway, Scarcity of Trucks on, 537
North-Eastern Railway, Short Supply of Trucks, 577
North-Eastern Railway Special Tickets, 31
North-Eastern Railway System, Extension Pas¬senger Line Opened on the, 185
North-Eastern Railway Works, Gateshead and Darlington, 607, 617

North of England:

21, 47, 73, 99, 125, 149,175, 201, 227, 251, 273, 299, 327, 351, 377, 403, 427, 455, 481,505,528, 551, 577, 605, 645, 665
North London Railway, 185, 506
North London Railway, Presentation to Mr. T. Matthews, 506
North London Railway, Train Mi’eige of, for the Half-year, 185
North Railway Company of France, Paddle Boats for the Calais-Dover Service Ordered by the, 95
North Sea and Biltic Canal, 185, 341, 420
North Staffordshire, Now Seam of Coal Struck in, 148
Norton, Prof. Charles L., Tests of Non-conducting Coverings for Boilers and Steam Pipes, 237
Norway, Glass Industry, Decline of, 11
Norwegian State Railways, Goods Wagons for, 477
Notbe and Hall, Drs., Experiments with Bacteria r of the Soil, 57
Notes from Germany:
22, 48, 74, 100, 120, 150, 176, 202, 228, 252, I 274, 300, 328, 352, 378, 404, 428, 456, 482, 506, I 530, 552, 578, 606, 616, 666
Notes from Lancashire:
20, 47, 72, 99, 124, 148,174, 200, 226, 250, 273, I 298, 327, 350, 376, 402, 426, 451, 480, 505, 528, 576, 601, 644
Notes and Memoranda:
11, 31, 57, 95, 109, 146, 159,185, 215, 237,271, 1 287, 315, 341, 365, 399, 417, 443, 476, 491,520, 537, 572, 589, 638, 653
Notes from Scotland:
22. 48, 74, 100, 126, 150, 175, 202, 228, 252, 300, 328, 352, 377, 404, 427, 456, 482, 505, 530, 578, 605, 645, 666
Notices to Correspondents:
13, 37, 63, 89, 115, 141, 165,191, 217, 213, 265, 1 289, 317, 343, 367, 393, 419, 445, 471, 497, 521, 543, 595, 639, 659
Nottingham, Accident at tho Midland Station, 185
Nottingham Corporation e. the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, 109
Nozzles, On Exhaust, 215
Nuremburg Exhibition, Electric Motors at, 277

O

Obituary:
Allen, Mr. W. D. (with Portrait), 448
AlsiDg, Mr. G. V., 403
Bamford, Mr. Hy., 478
Beddoe, Mr. E., 352
Calvert, Mr., 360
Castel, M. Emile, 589
Cleminson, Mr. Jas., 530, 545
Galloway, Mr. Joseph, 616
Gray, Mr. J. W. (Midland Engineer), 189
Greathead, Mr. J. H. (with Portrait), 428, 448
Grove, Sir Win., 143
Gylden, Prof. Hugo, 490
Hardy, Mr. J., 31
Lobnitz, Mr. H. C., 661
Marshall, Mr. Horace Brooks, 236
Newbold, Mr. Robt., 47
Newton, Prof. Hubert A., 185
Nobel, Mr. Alfred, 611
Noble, Mr. John, 523
Palmieri, Senator Luigi, 287
Patterson, Mr. W. H., 87
Shapton, Mr. W., 211
Smith, Mr. Thos., 456
Warwick, Mr. John, 315
Wheeler, Mr. Herbert, 31
Wheeler, Mr. Ralph, 31

O’Brien, Mr. Wm., Apparatus for Closing Water¬tight Bulkhead Doors, 589
Oddesse Steam Pump, The, 415, 416
Oil in Alsace, 271
Oil Cans, Seamless Copper, 145
Oil Engines, Messrs. Crossley Brothers, 149
Oil Engine Igniter, 598
Oil Engine, The Libra, 30
Oils, Flashing Point of, 638
Oil Fuel, Mr. Holden’s Invention for Using, 572
Oil Fuel in the United States Navy, 511
Oil, Olive, in the Alpe3 Maritimes, Advantages to be Derived from Improved Machinery for Making, 271
Oil from Ohio and Indiana Oil Fields, Output of, 287
Oil, Olive, in Persia made into Soap, 413
Oil Separator, Feed-water Heater and Softener, Baker's, 571
Oils Sold as Lamp Oils, On the Dangerous Kerosene, 490
Oil Motor Quadricycle, Crastin’s, 546
Oil, The New, 572
Oil at St. Paul's Inlet, 653
Oil Standard, The Safe, 638
Oil Tanks for the German Navy, 375
Oils, Universal, The Day of, Gone, 537
Olszewski, M. K., Experiments with Helium, 365
One Thousand Pounds Steam, 311, 387
Ooe Thousand Pounds Steel, 311
Ontario, Ore in, 490
Oram Palace Hotel and Hydropathic Company, Limited, 558
Orconera Iron Ore Mines, Visit to the, 312
Ordnance, Quick-firing, 320
Ore Atomic System for Gold Reduction, 503
Ore Shipping Piers on the Cantabrian Coast, 359, 362
Orean, A Remarkable, 655
“Ormuz” Band, The, 295
“Orotava,” Accident to the, 638
"Orotava ’’ Pondered Buoyant Again, The, 651
Osmosis, On the Laws of, 31
Ostend Docks, 287, 382
Ostend and Tilbury Service to Continue, 237
Otto-Hoffmann Coke Ovens, 303, 304
Ottoman Empire, Railway Mileage in the, 572
Our Foreign Trade, 420
Outer Rail Elevation on Curves, Figures Relative to, 443
Overhead Conductor for Tramways in the United States, Compressed Air Motors Likely to Replace the, 31
Overheating of Bearings, Precautionary Measures against, 159
Oxidation of the Organic Material of the Soil, On The, 215
Ozone, Apparatus for Showing Experiments with, 237

P

PADDINGTON to Victoria ridWestbourne Park, p 417
Paddington Wood Paving, Hard or Soft? for, 146
Paddle Steamer, “Duke of Devonshire,” The p New, 42
Palmer, Mr. A. de, On the Rate of Condensation p in the Steam Jet, 476
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Bicycles and Motor Cars, 311
Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Hopeful Report of the, 274
Palmieri, Senator Luigi, 287
Panama Canal, Works on the, 523
Paper Filler, Nematolith, a New, 57
Paper in Finland, Manufacture of, 159
Paper Folding Machine, Royal Ulster Works, 155
Paper Lighters, 31
Parcels Delivery by Electric Railway in America, 72
“ Paris,” Th9 American Liner, Breaking of the Starboard Shaft, 417
Paris, Electric Lines for, 572
Paris and Lyons Railway Terminus in Paris to be Rebuilt, 271
Paris, Mechanical Traction in, 82
Paris, Motor Omnibuses for, 515
Paris Municipal Council with reference to the Substitution of Mechanical Power for Tram p and Omnibus Horses, 11
Paris, Railway Extension in, 193, 300, 344, 572
Paris Water Supply, 192
Parker, Mr. E. H., His Appointment, 271
Parker, Mr. J. W., Hydraulic Tool Patented by, 31
Parker, Limited, Thomas, Re-arrangement of Hours at tho Works of, 250
Parkes and Co., Messrs. H. P., A Big Chain, 238
Parkes and Co., Messrs. H. P., Monster Crane Chain for the Admiralty, 11
Parry, Mr. Joseph, On the Liverpool Water Supply, 308
Paskin, Mr. J. A., Discharge Tunnels from Reservoirs, 121
Patent Case, Infringement of, Reference to Herod, 537
Patent Laws, Mexico, Amendment of, 287
Patent Monopolies, 567
Patent Museum, A, 593
Patent Property, On the Value of, 489
Patents Kept in Force by Renewal Fees, 490
Patriotism in Argentina, 215
Patterson, Mr. W. H., 87
Paul, Mr. Win., Albatross Flying Machine, 417
Paving Blocks of Meadow Grass, 520
Paving ? Hard or Soft Wood, 146
Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company, Arbitration between Gerald Barker and the, 69
Pearson and Sons, Messrs., Contract with the Mexican Government, 365
Pedrell, Sig., Acetylene Gas Motor, 365
Pekin Commercial Museum, 490
Pellat, Mr. H., Measuring the Force Acting upon Dielectric Liquids in an Electric Field, 520
Penarth Dock, The, 2
Peninsular and Oriental s.s. “India,” The New, 562, 563
Penn and Sons, Messrs. J., Annual Dinner, 416
Penn and Sons, Machinery of the “ Pactolus ” and “ Pomone,” under Construction, 237
Pennock, Mr. J. D , on the Properties of Fire Brick, 341
Pennycuick, Colonel, Ilis Appointment, 262
Pennsylvania, Heavy 60fc. Rails to be Laid Through the Tunnols of the, 95
Pennsylvania Railways, Carriage of Bicycles on, 11
Pennsylvania Railway Company, Specifications of Thermal Tests for Railway Wheels, 399
Penrhyn Slate Quarries, Strike at, 552
People's Palace Calendar for 1896-7, The, 271
Perfecta Seamless Tube Company, Good Trading Results of, 174
Perforated Sails, Speed of a Vessel Increased by, 365
Perforation of Steel Armcur, Herr Krupp, on the,

Permanent Way:

Permanent Way, 34, 37, 87, 95, 150,153,163,185, 199, 287, 294, 311, 339, 340, 341, 374, 387, 402, 443, 529, 551, 646, 649
Permanent Way, Accident Due to Displacement of, 341
Permanent Way, American and British, 37, 46, 153
Permanent Way of American Railways, by E. E. Russell Tratman, 153
Permanent Way, Mr. George Ashford's New Patent, 150
Permanent Way, Bending of, 287
Permanent Way for Buluwayo, 529
Permanent Way, Export of German Rails into Russia, 185
Permanent Way, Foreign Business in, 646
Permanent Way, Heavy 60ft. Rails, to be laid 3 Through the Tunnels of the Pennsylvania, 95
Permanent Way, On Iron Sleeper, 199
Permanent Way for Japan, 551
Permanent Way for New South Wales, 402
Permanent Way, Steel, 649
Permanent Way in Syracuse, Steel, 443
Perrin, M. Jean, On Discharges by the Riintgen Rays: Influence of Temperature and Pressure, 589
Persia, Soap mado from Olive Oil and Suet, 443
Peru, Sugar Production in, 159

Petroleum:

Petroleum of Different Compositions, Generalisa¬tions as to, 271
Petroleum, Foreign Evidence given in the House of Commons on, 31
Petroleum, Hardening Steel in, 95
Petroleum in Hungary, 146
Petroleum in India, Production of, 417
Petroleum Legislation and Motor Vehicles, Mr. o G. J. Holloway, 106
Petroleum and Motor Cars, 489
Petroleum, Report of the United States Geological Survey for 1895 on the Production of Crude, 109
os Petroleum in Russia, The First District Worked for, 215
In Petroleum Springs, near Budapest, 159
Petroleum Struck at St. Paul’s Inlet, 653
Petroleum Uninflammable, How to Make, 11
Petroleum, The Use of, 42
Phenol, Tempering Steel in, 653
Philippines, The Spanish Government Contemfilate Important Works in the, 159 ippsohn and Leschziner’s Cloth-cutting Machine, 255
“ Phillip’s Monthly Machinery Register," 148
Phoenix Co., The Gosliog Forced Draught Furnaces, 601, 606
Phosphorus and Titanium, United Effect of, Pro¬duces a Metal in which nearly all the Carbon is in the Graphitic State, 185
Photo-chemical Climate, Important Relation of Plant Life to, 237
Photograph of the Great Western Express, 399
Photography, Studying the Expansion of Liquids by Means of, 572
Photometric Purposes, On a Standard of Light for, 287
Physical Mathematical Puzzle, A, 239, 350
Physics and Mathematics Applied to Seismology, Dr. C. Chree on, 653
Piekard, Mr. Benjamin, His Proposals to the Coalowners, 182, 201
Pickles and Son, Double Moulding and Planing Machine, 97
Pickles and Son, Messrs., Heavy Leg Saw Frame,
Piers on the Cantabrian Coast, Ore Shipping, 359, 362
Pier, Herne Bay, N ew, 215
Pier Pavilion and Cliff Railway, Cardigan, 33
Pig Iron in America, 283, 298
Pig Iron Exports from the Cleveland District, Summary of, 481
Pig Iron Industry in October, 584
Pig Iron in the Manchester District, with Refer¬ence to the Reported Scarcity of, 480
Pig Iron Output and Demand, Scotch, 22, 48,100, 126, 150, 175, 202
Pig Iron Production of the United States, 572
Pig Iron Production, United States, 397
Pig Iron, Stocks and Make of Cleveland, for September, 1896, 377
Pilkington, Mr. Alfred, 604
Pillar Distributor, Mr. C. H. Wordingham, 73
Pilot Engines, 413
“Pioneer,” The, on Carlingford bough, 159
Pipe Laying, Portable Derrick for, 262
Pipes, Cellulose or Paper, 365
Pipes, Tin-lined Lead Water, 163
Piping, Lead-lined Iron, 474
Pit Explosions, Dr. John Haldane on, 72
Planing Machine, Double Moulding and, 97
Planing Tools, Special Side, 212
Planktonokrit, Dr. C. S. Dolley’s, 11
Plansifters at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show,16
Plant Life, Important Relation of, to Photo- Chemical Climate, 237
Plates, Shipments of, from Swansea, 552
Plates, Trial of Harveyised Armour, 146
Platinum in New South Wales, 572
Platter Recks, The Question of the Removal of the, 215
Plough, An American Steam, 96
Ploughs, Electric, 653
Pneumatic Dynamite Guns at San Francisco, 250
Pneumatic Motor System of the “Terror "tested, 589
Pneumatic Tires, 87
Pneumatic Tire Company, Limited, c. Dunlop,147
Pneumatic Tires, Akroyd’s Cells for, 122
Pneumatic Tubes across Brooklyn Bridge for Carrying Mails, 490
I’oage Water Column, The, 162
Point a Moral, To, 224
Pontoon Dock for Spain, 638
Port of Hull, Growth of the, 443
Port Talbot Railway and Dock, 159, 210
Portland Cement, How to Ascertain the Quantity of Lime in Raw, 185
Portland Cement, Kentish Ragstone and, 461
Portrait of Mr. John Wolfe Barry, 501
Portrait of Bela von Gonda, 475
Portraits, Mr. Jas. H. Greathead and Mr. W. D. Allen. 448, 449
Portrait of Mr. W. Worsdell, 607
Position of Draughtsmen, 163
Posniloff, M., Method of Preventing the Steel from Splashing, 315
Post, Mr. Geo. B., Twenty-five-Storey Building, New York, 32
Post-Office during 1896, Profit Made by the, 271
Power from Steam and Gas, Relative Cost of Producing, 520
Power Transmission by Vertical Shafts, New York, 453
“Powerful," H.M.S., 337, 338, 339, 359, 396, 397, 421, 556
Practice with Science, Mr. H. McLaren on, 449
Preece, Mr. W. H., On the Technical Education of Artisans, 371
Preece, Mr., His Telephone Cable to Germany, 315
Premier Cycle Company, The Now, 20
Pressure Gauge Manufacturing Works, Messrs. Scbiiffer and Budenberg, 576
Press, Hydraulic Shaft and Axle Inserting, 138
Press for Packing Cotton Bales, Messrs. Nasmyth, Wilson, and Co., 227
Pressure Regulator Co.’s New Regulator, 454
Pressure of Water at a Great Depth, Test of the, 146
Preston Accident, The, 57, 85, 89, 182, 287, 311, 393, 413
Preston Railway Accident, Mr. Ritchie on the, 57
Price, Mr. A. D., Gold Medal Awarded to, for His Paper on Light Railways, 113

Priestman and Co., The “ Self-Trimmer,” 328

Primrose Street Bridge, Great Eastern Railway Widening Works, 183, 186, 187 “ Prince George,” Speed Trials of the, 814
Princes’ Skating Club, The, 520
“ Princess Clementine," Launch of the, 443
Prize Awards of the French Société d'Encouragement, 95
Prizes Offered by tho Society of Arts, 287
Problem in Meters, 439
Projectiles, American Armour-piercing, 548
Projectiles in Flight, Effect of Electricity on, 181
Projectile, Ways of Increasing the Velocity of a, 638
Propellers, Scrow, Their Etliciency, 568 d
“ Proserpine,” Launch of H.M.S., 588
Protection and the Silver Party in the States. 22, 46
“Pub Car,” The, on the Line from Paris to St. Germain, 185
“ Puddler's Tap,” Utilisation of, 328
Puddling Furnaces in October, Employment at, 536
Pullan and Mann’s Brick and Tile Press, 16
Pulveriser, Friedeberg's, 255
Énb'*nea an(f Plan« for Yokohama Dock,
Pumping Arrangements in Screw Steamers, Steam, 103, 179, 231
Pumps, Air, Feed, and Bilge, s.8. “Germanic,” 53
Pumps, Feed, H.M.S. “ Minerva,” 535
Pump, Lamont’s Steam, 93
Pump, Tho Oddesse Steam, 415, 416
Pumps! Small Electric, 511
Pumps, Three-throw Vertical, 122
Pump’, Treble Vertical Plunger, Messrs. Hay¬ward Tyler and Co.’s, 269
Punching Machine, Multiple, 433
Pure Air Leaguo, Prosecutions Instituted at Shef¬field by, 251
Purves, Mr. James, 126
Pyinkado Tree, A New Source of Tannio, 537

Q

QUADRICYCLE, Crastin’s Oil Motor, 546
Queensland Mining Production, 453
Quick-firing Fiold Guns, French, 320
Quick-firing Gun, Accident to a Canot, 465
Quinton Works, Changes at, 326

R

RACE of Horseless Carriages in France, Final
Regulations for the, 41
Radial Drilling and Tapping Machine, 260
Rail Elevation on Curves, Outer, Figures Relating to, 443
Rail Joint, A 100 Per Cent., 454
Railroads and Public Convenience, New, 434
Rails? Are Electric Cars more Severe than Steam Locomotives on the, 443
Rails, Cast Welded and Electrical Welded, 443
Rails, Narrow Flat, for Roads subjected to Heavy Traffic, 146
Rails for New South Wales, 402

Railways:

Railways, Mileage, Capital, Traffic, The, 368
Railway Accidents, Belgium, 215
Railway Accident at Delhi, Terrible, 109
Railway Accident at Dumfries Station, 215
Railway Accident, Glasgow, 572
Railway Accident, Great Northern Railway, 146
Railway Accident, Preston, see Preston Railway Accident
Railway Accident Returns, Half-yearly, 572
Railway Accident at St. Andrew’s Links, 215
Railway Accident, Scotch Mail Express, 57
Railway Accident, South-Eastern, 490
Railway Accidents, Two, 537
Railway Accidents in the United States, 109, 490
Railway, Adam’s Bridge, 394
Railways, American, 193
Railways, American, which went into the Hands of Receivers last Year and this, 74
Railways, Americanising of English, 374
Railway, Article on Rivals of the, 146
Railway Bills Affecting Cardiff and the District, 552
Railway Bills Deposited in Parliament, 1896, 237
Railway Bridges, Moving, 536, 538, 539, 542
Railways in Bulgaria, 185, 511
Railway, Caledonian, 267
Railways and Canals in South Staffordshire, 443
Railway, The Central London, 25
Railway Companies, Coalownors and the, 14
Railway Conference, Simla Approaching, 433
Railway Contracts for Coal, 523
Railway in Corea, The First, 399
Railway and Dock, Port Talbot, 210
Railway, Too Dublin and Wicklow, 516
Railway in Durham, New, 219
Railway Economics, Mr. W. M. Acworth on, 490
Railway Engineering, Economy in, 166
Railway, The Etna, 215
Railway Exhibits at South Kensington, 581
Railway Extension, American, 46
Railway Extension from Mafeking to Buluwayo, 271
Railway Extensions, Metropolitan, 116
Railway Extension in Paris, 193
Railway Ferry Steamer, Messrs. Sir W. G. Arm¬strong, 385
Railways, French, Annual Report, 237
Railway through German East Africa, Proposed Central, 364
Railway, Glasgow Central, 440, 441, 444
Railways and Harbours, Bulgaria, 589
Railway, The Highland, 266
Railway, The Hull and Barnsley, 516
Railways, Indian, Lord G. Hamilton on, 109
Railways, Indian, Total Length of, 237
Railways, Irish, 166
Railway, Jubilee of tho London and North-Western, 27
Railway, Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire, 365, 370
Railways, Light—see Light Railways
Railway Lines in America, Working of, Studied by a Russian Minister and a Grand Duke, 476
Railway Litigation, North British and North- Eastern Railway Companies, 638
Railway Materials for Japan, 395

Railway Matters:

11, 31, 67, 95, 109,146, 159, 185,215, 237, 271, 287, 315, 341, 365, 399, 417, 443, 476, 491, 520, 587, 572, 589, 638, 653
Railway Mileage, Japan, 1896, 653
Railway Mileage in tho Ottoman Empiro, 572
Railway Mileage in the United Kingdom, Total Length of, 399
Railway Mileage, Unitod States, 356
Railway Museum, National, 374, 888, 413, 478, 495, 526, 541, 560
Railway Nationalisation Leaguo, Statements of the, 341
Railways, New South Wales, Working Results, 298
Railway, Opening of the Barry, 151
Railways, Passenger and Goods Traffic, Revenue and Cost of Working during Forty Years, 146
Railway Rate in India, and How it has Failed in its Policy, The Uniform Minimum Mileage, 417
Railway Rates, Reduced, Indian, 443
Railway Rating, Dissatisfaction in the Midlands, 399
Railway Record, An Old Time, 523
Railway, The Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway, 181
Railway, A Relic of the Atmospheric, 199, 211
Railways in Rhodesia, 515
Railway Ran, The Long st Non-Stopping, of the World, 355, 399
Railways for Russia, 185
Railways, Scandinavian, 215, 237
Railway Section at Cardiff Exhibition, 248
Railway, The Sheffield District, 522
Railway, The Siberian, 459
Railway Signalling, Automatic, 469, 541
Railway Speeds, 407, 439, 468, 503, 526, 541
Railways, Statistics of New South Wales Govern¬ment, 365
Railway in Sweden, Tho New, 215
Railways in Switzerland, Nationalisation of, 365
Railway Traffic and its Cost, 471
Railway Traffic in Wales on occasion of the Royal Visit, 22
Railway Train Ferryboats, 664
Railways and Tramways, New South Wales, 589
Railways of the United Kingdom in 1895, Pas¬sengers Killed on, 365
Railways ia the United State», 293
Railway Viaduct, A Lofty, 358
Railways, Welsh, Tribute to, in connection with the Prince of Wales’s Visit, 22
Railways in West Africa, 206
Railways, West Australian Government, Revenue and Expenditure, 417
Rainfall in Assam and London, Annual Average, 537
Rainfall in the British Islands based on an Average of Sixteen Years, 271
Rainfall in Scotland, Ireland, and Channel Islands, 287
Rainfall at West Molesey, Total, 399
Rainy Days to the End of August in England and Scotland, 271
Ramsay, Professor, on Helium, 315
Ramsay, Professor, and Mr. J. N. Collie, On the Spectra of Argon and Helium, 159
Ramsden, Sir James, 421, 427
Rind, Water Supply for the, 271
Rinkinand Blackmoro, Messrs., Engines of the S.S. “ Jattra,” 160, 161
Ransome and May’s Road Locomotive, 1849, 233
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, High-speed Vertical Engine, 17
Rapid Transit in New York, Check to, 72
Rapid Transit Commissioners of New York and the Manhattan Railway Co.’s Plan, 271
Raw Hide Toothed Pinions? 37
Rawmarsh Sewage Works, Opening of, 664
Raworth’s Universal High-speed Engine, 512, 519, 541, 550
Raworth’s Velograpb, 512
Rays, Röntgen—see Röntgen Rays
Rscord Journey to Paris via Dover and Calais, 3
Recorder for Gauging Water, Tudsbery’s, 346
Redcar Boiler Explosion, The, Arbitration, 377, 403, 523, 551, 505, 605
Red Jacket Mining Shaft, Dimensions of the, 163
Reflector Incandescent Lamps, 475
Refractive Indices of a Number of Substances for Electric Waves of Small Length, 185
Refreshment Cars, 157
Refreshment Cars on the Western of France Rail¬way, 185
Refrigerated Moat Ropót at Havre, 643
Refrigerating Machinery, s.s. “ India,” 563
Refrigerating Plant for Glasgow, 33
Regent’s Canal City and Docks Railway, 181
Regulation of Coal Prices, 266
Regulating Dribble and Stop Valve, 173
Regulator, Pressure, 454
Reid, Mr. James, On the Stability of Ships, 510
Reliance Tube Co., Statutory First Meeting of the, 250
Remscheid and Chemnitz Waterworks, Masonry Dams, 118

Replies:

13, 37, 63, 89, 115, 165, 191, 217, 243, 265, 289, 317, 343, 367, 393, 419, 445, 471, 497, 521, 543, 567, 639, 659
Report from the Select Committee cn Traction Engines on Roads, 35, 97
Reservoir, The Barn Elms, 138
Reservoir Dams in the United States, Bursting of
Two, 95
Reservoir, Discharge Tunnels from, 121
Reservoir Embankments, Mr. Wm. Watts on, 424
Reservoirs, The Staines, 417
Reservoir at Upper Nenadd, Great Height of, 456
Reservoir Wall Cleaner, Rodda’s, 272
Rotarders in Fire Tubes of Steam Boilers, The Effect of, 189
Retort Beds, New System of Coal Gas, 35, 60
Retort Setting, Joyce’s Gas, 6
Revolving Broom for Cleaning Sides of Open Reservoirs, 272
Reynolds, Professor 0., On Methods of Deter¬mining the Dryness of Saturated Steam and the Condition of Steam Gas, 514
Rhodesia, Railways in, 490, 515
Rhondda Valley, Sir W. G. Lowis on the, 606
Richmond and Chandler's Out-bruiser and Splitter,
Royal Agricultural Society’;} Show, 16
Richards, Mr. E. W., On Best Yorkshire Iron, 428
Richards, Mr. J. W., Experiments with Alumi¬nium, 95
Richmond Ironworks, Re-opening of, 529
Rifle, Practical Tests of the Krag Jorgensen, 92
Rigg, Mr. James, Screening and Tipping Coal, 643
Rings, Cooper’s Copper Jointing, 374
Ritchie, Mr., His Visit to Holyhead, and the Question of the Removal of the Platter Rocks, 215
Rivals of the Railway, Article on, 146
Rivet Co., The Patent, 665
Riveted Joints, 495
Riveted Joints, Calculating, 432
Rivets and Riveting, On Naval Practice in Ships', 589
Road Carriage Competition, The Engineer 1100
Guineas’, 517, 521
Roads, Construction and Maintenance of, 500
Roads Laid with Flat Rails for Heavy Traffic, 159
Road Locomotives, 233, 234, 235 3
Reads, Maintenance of Colonial, 584
Road and Railway Communication in Bosnia and ’ Herz’govir.a, 432
Road and Railway Communication in Hungary, 383
Roads, Steam Locomotion on Common, 233, 234, 235
Roads Subjected to Heavy Traffic. M. Fléchet’s Argument for Flat Rails on, 146
Robey and Co., Clover and Seed Thrasher, Hun¬garian Exhibition, 332
Robins, jun., Mr. Thos., Conveying Belts and their Use, 171
Robinson, Prof. H., Gas Driven Electric L:ghting Station, 493, 491
Robinson, Prof. H., On the Pollution of the River Loa, 225
Robinson’s Variable Speed Governor, 70
Rochbelle, Constituency of Fire Damp and Gas from, 237
Rodda's Reservoir Wall Cleaner, 272
Riiatgen Roys, The, 64, 237, 537, 589
Roller Bearings, Liverpool Overhead Railway, &o. &c., 417
Roller Bearings Co., Limited, The, 30
Rolling Mills in October, Employment at, 536

Rolling- Stock:

Rolling Stock, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Goods Wagons, 453
Rolling Stock on the North-Eastern Railway, Scarcity of, 537
Rolling Stock, Refreshment Cars in France, 185
Rolling Stock Review, 665
Rolling Stock by Steam, Heating, 575
Rolling Stock on the Victoria Railways. Renewal , of, 287
Roots and Venables, Double Cylinder Motor, 41
Rope Driving Gear, 184
Ropes and Rope Driving, Mr. G. H. Kenyon, 529
Ropes, Round v. Flat, 297
Ropes, Substitute for Steamers? 184
Rope Driving, Notes on the Introduction and Development of, 130
Ropeworks, Belfast, 55, 62
Ropner and Sons, Launch of a Vestel of the “Trunk ” Type, 455
Ropner, jun., Mr. R., New Type of Steamer Patented by, 274
Roscoe, Sir Henry, Evidence on Petroleum, 42
Ross, Mr. Alexander, His Appointment to the Great Northern Co., 638
Rossel, M., Formation of Diamonds from Steel, 109
Rossi, Mr. A. J., On the Effect of Additions of Titaniferous Ores to Phosphoric Iron Ores in the Blast Furnace, 185
Rotary Transformers, Electricity Distribution by,
Roumania, Low Grain Prices in, and Effect on the Sale of Agricultural Machinery in, 271
Roumanian Government Invites Tenders for Steam Vessels, 185
Rou8-Marteu. Mr. C., Longest Non-stopping Railway Run of the World, 355, 399
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., New Express Engine for North-Eastern Railway, 107
Rous-Martcn, Mr. Chas., The New Train Ser¬vices, 51
Rous-Marten, Mr, Chas., With the East Coast “ Flyer,” 617
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., With the West Coast “Flyer,” 182
“ Row ” Tube, The, 603
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Leicester:
Bentall’s Grinding Mill, 83
Invitation to the Society from the Muidstone Town Council, 572
Rarmain’s Swaithe Turner, 83
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 16 Trials of Potato Raisers, 360
Royal Institution:
Christmas Lectures, Prof. S. P. Thompson on Visible and Invisible Light, 474
General Meeting: Lecture Arrangements before Easter, 600
Royal Mail Steamship Company, Contracts placed in Wales by the, 482
Royal Meteorological, Society:
Attempt to Determine the Velocity Equivalent of Wind Forces Estimated by Beaufort’s Scale, Mr. R. II. Curtis, 657
Winter Climate of Egypt, Dr. Leigh Canney, 657
Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwith, 281, 282, 286
Royal Society of New South Wales, Composition of Sea Water, Prof. Livorsidge’s Communication on the, 417
Royal Ulster Works, Belfast, The, 155
Royle, Mr.. The “ Row” Tube, 603
Rubbish Disposal in Budapest, 490
Rudolph Biblisheim-Warburg Oil Co.’s Operations in Alsace, 271
Rue de Tolbiac Bridge, Paris, 662
Ruhrort Harbour, Number of Vessels Frequenting, 215
Run, A Fast Transatlantic, 11
Run, The Longest Non-stopping Railway, 355, 399
Runaway Cars on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, 57
Runaway Electric Car, Accidents Caused by a, 57
Runaway Train, A, 159
Russell, The Hon. F. A. Rollo, On Haze, Fog, and Visibility, 511

Russia: ‘

Russia, American Locomotive Railway Plant for Nijni Novgorod, 399
Russia, British Imports into, 341
Russia, Electric Locomotives to be Tried in, 315
Russia, Expenditure for Industrial Purposes in South, 300
Russia, Export of German Rails into, 185
Russia, German Export to, 300
Russia, Iron and Steel Industry in, 365
Russia, Manganese Production in, 653
Russia, The Metric Systom in, 287
Russia, Output of Pig Iron in, during Sixty-live Years, 1/6
Russia, Railway from 1’etrovsk to Baku, 315
Russia, Projected Public Works in, 451 Russia, South, On the Ironworks in, 341
Russian-American Manufacturing Co., The, in Course of Formation, 399
Russian Minister of Ways of Communication Deputed to Inspect American and English Railway Practice, Ac., 185
Russian Navy, New Destroyers for The, 95
Russian Navy, Personnel of the, 443
Russian Railway System, Improvements in the, 476
Russian Railways, Total Length of, 341
Russo-American C’j. at Nijni Novgorod, Reported Formation of, for Locomotive, Ac, Construc¬tion, 31
Rustless Iron? 445

S

SADLER and Co., Messrs., Annual Report, 299
Safety in Ships, Dr. Elgar, 323
Sailing Vessels Increased by Perforating the Sails, Speed of, 365
St. Andrew’s Links, Report on the Railway Acci¬dent at, 215
St. Elmo’s Fire at Sea, H. Haltermann’s Discus¬sion on the Occurrence of, 185
St. Enoch Station, Lieut. Yorke’s Report on the Collision at the, 271
St. Jean de Luz, Visit of the Iron and Steel Instititute to, 348
St. John’s Wood, The New Terminus at, 476
Si. Pancras, Technical Education in, 116 St. Paul’s, Lightning Conductors at, 515
Salt6eld, On the Durham and Cleveland, 601
Salt Lake City, Water Power and Electric Plant for, 453
Salt Lake and Mercur Railway in Utah, 109
Salt Works Machinery ? 659
Sand Filters, Increasing Bacterial Efficiency of, 653
Sand in Pig Iron and its Avoidance, Mr. H. D. Hibbard on, 259
Sanderson, Mr. R. P. C., Cast Iren Steel Tired Wheels, 527
Sandgate, Breach in the Seawall, 365
Sankey and Sons, Messrs. Joseph, Corrugated Metallic Lifebuoy, 571
" Santa Fé,” Arrival of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 365, 443
“ Santa Fé” and the “Foudroyant,” The, 111
Santander, Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to, 348
Sarmova Works, American Locomotive-making Plant for the, 399
Sault Sto Marie Canal, Growth of Traffic on the, 365
Saunders, Mr. C. A., on Velocity of Electric Waves, 490
Sauveur, M. A., on the Micro-structure of Steel, 417
Sauveur, M. A., his Theory as to the Absorption and Evolution of Heat, 417
Save-time Graduated Writing Blocks, 365
Saw Frame, Heavy Log, 71
Saw-sharpening Machine, The Schmaltz Auto¬matic, 144
Saw, Wood-cutting Circular, Hungarian Exhibi¬tion, 51, 331
Scandinavian Railways, Development of, 237
Scandinavian and Russian Exhibition, 451, 650
Scavenger Gauges, Bailey and Robinson’s, 663
Schaffer and Budenberg, Pressure Gauge Manu¬facturing Works, Manchester, 576 Scheelite ? 445
Schloesing, jun., M. Th., Analysis of Fire-damp,
Schloesing, jun., M. Th., on the Constituency of Fire-damp and Gas from Rochbelle, 237
Schofield, Mr. J. W., on American Competition and the Sheffield File Manufacturers, 57
Schon, Mr. Paul, Ammonia Condensers, Monsted's Margarine Factory, Southall 288, 292, 293, 237
Schmaltz Automatic Saw-sharpening Machine 144
Schuler, Mr, J., on Iron Sleeper Permanent Way,
Schwartz, Prof., on Recent Developments in Electric Supply Stations, 664
Scientific Advice, Projected Imperial Bureau of, 489
Scotch Pig Iron Output, 22, 48, 100, 126, 202, 228
Scotia, Explosion on Board the, 391, 899, 590
Scottish Miners’ Federation in favour of an Advance of Wages, 202
Scottish Railway Working, 244
Scow, Steam Garbage, 664
Screening and Tipping Coal, Mr. Jas. Rigg, 643
Screw-cutting Lathe, Messrs. Herbert, Ltd., 433
Screw Gauge Committee, Report of the, 321
Screw Propellers, Efficiency of, 568, 637
Screw Steamers, Steam Pumping Arrangements in, 103, 179, 231
“Scud,” Boiler of the Steam Yacht, 236
Sea Water, Prof. Liversidge on the Composition of, 417
Seabam Blast Furnaces Bought by Mr. Geo. Barclay, 605
Seamless Copper Oil Cans, 145
Seismic Disturbance in Japan, 241
Seismology, Physics and Mathematics Applied to 653

Selected American Patents:

23, 50, 76, 102, 128, 152, 179, 204, 230, 254, 276, 302, 330, 354, 380, 406, 430, 458, 484, 508 532, 554, 580, 607, 648, 688
Self-clamp Guillotine Cutting Machine, 173
Self-lubricating Bushes, 57
Self-gropelled Carriages, Sir David Salomons on, Self-propelled Traffic, 637
Selig, Sonnenthal and Co., New Lathe Attach¬ments, 268
Sellers, Mr. Coleman, On the Metric System 45 447.565, 601
Semaphore, Carrying away of a Masthead, 520
Semet-Solvay Coke Ovens, 303, 316
Sennett, Mr. A. R., On Horseless Carriages, 309
Serpollet Motor Boiler, 495, 593
Serpollet Motor Cars, 518, 538
Servia, British Trade should Revive with, 298
Severn Navigation and the Bristol Channel, 226. 368, 413
Sewage Disposal Scheme, Manchester, 306, 555 Sewage Disposal at Natick, 98 Sewage Scheme, The Mangotsfield, 70
Sewerage Works. Water and, Laighton Buzzard, 391
Sewage Works, Rawmarsh, 664 !
Shaft and Axle Inserting Press, Hydraulic, 138
Shaft Bearing Adjustable Swivel, 370
Shaft Breakage, “ F'urst Bismark,” 501
Shaft, The Deepest, in the United Kingdom, 653
Shaft Fire and its Lesson, Note on a, 416
Shafting for Transmitting Power, 537
Compound Vertical Condensing Engine, Shanks and Go., Messrs. Thomas, 100-TonTravel¬ling Crane, 287
Shanks, McCormac and Co., The Camroc Boiler Furnace, 375
Shapton, Mr. W., 211
Shares of Locil Public Companies, Sheffield, Im¬provement in, 665
Sharp, Mr. T. C., on Railway and Water Carriage Systems in South Staffordshire, 443
Sharpe, Stewart and Co., Contracts Secured by Messrs., 271
Shaw and Ditchfield’s Brush-boring Machine, 441
Shaw, Mr. William, Death of, 21
Shaws, Limited, Messrs , Brush Back – boring Machine, 400
Shearing Machine, Special, 58
Sheelito ? 419
Sheffield District:
21, 47, 73, 99, 125, 149, 175, 2C1, 227,251, 273 299, 327, 351, 376, 403, 427, 455, 481, 505, 528, 551, 577, 605, 645, 665
Sheffield File Manufacturers and American Com¬petition, 57
Sheffield’s New Water Supply, 420
Sheffield Smoke Abatement League, The, 351
Sheffield, Solingen and, 243
Sheffield Trades, Review of, for the Year, 665
Sheffield Technical School, Annual Meeting, 638
Sheffield District Railway, 522
Sheffield Workmen’s Wages and the Steel Trade, 577
Shipbuilding-, Shipping, and Ships:
Shipbuilding, American, 79
Shipbuilding on the Clyde, 394, 506
Shipbuilding and Engineering in Japan, 57, 90
Shipbuilding, A Feat in, 638
Shipbuilding, German, 65
Shipbuilding Industry, Favourable Condition of the, 455
Shipbuilding Industry, German r. English Ma¬terials in the German, 432
Shipbuilding Industry, Great Activity in, 427
Shipbuilding and Marine Engine Works in the North of England, 21, 175
Shipbuilding in the North, 597
Shipbuilding, Official Reports of British, 638
Shipbuilding, Scotland Contracts Placed, 456, 530, 551
Shipbuilding, Steam Shipping and, 369
Shipbuilding on the Tees and the Wear, 605
Shipbuilding on the Wear, Returns of, 572
Shipping Casualties in 1894-5 Round our Shores, 443
Shipping and Engineering, Coals, 115
Shipping Firms, Amalgamation of two well-known, 215
Shipping Freights, Rise in, 446
Shipping and Shipbuilding, Steam, 369
Shipping Trade, Australian, 653
Shipping Trade of Boulogne, 95
Shipping Trade of Liverpool and the Com¬petition of Manchester, 315
Ship Canals, Sir E. L. Williams on, 376
Ships under Construction, Lloyd’s Return as to,
Ships Employed in the Naval Manoeuvres, 109
Ships and Guns, 639
Ships and Japan, 295
Ships Lost, Condemned, &c., Statistics respecting, 215
Ships’ Rivets and Riveting, On Naval Practice in, 589
Ships, Safety in, 323
Ships, Stability of, 510
Ships’ Turrets in a Gale, 525
Shot and Armour, American, 250
Shuckert and Co., Electric Plant for Dutch Locks, 417
Shunting Neck at Waterloo Station, Major Marindin Recommends a, 341
Shunts, Flying, 109
Siam, One Railway open to Traffic in, 365, 476
Siberian Industries, The Development of, 524
Siberian Railway, The Great, 296, 365, 459, 589
Siberian Railway Permitted to pass through North Manchuria, 365
Siberian Railway and War in the East, a German Military Paper on the, 589
Side-walk Railway, Moving, Berlin Exhibition, 296
Siding Rents, Action to Recover Extra Charges for, 529
Siding, Rent Charges Enforced by the Midland Railway on the New, 11
Siemens’ Furnaces, 400
Siemens and Ilalske, Messrs., Applications of Electrical Energy to tho Driving of Mine Plant, 8, 9
Siemens and Halse, Reflector Incandescent Lamps, 475
Sifter, Weiss's Four-crank Rotary, 256
Signalling:
Signalling Apparatus and Plant Experimented with by the Lighthouse Board of the United States, 95
Signalling Apparatus, Mr. C. J. Nicholson's Safety, 476
Signalling, Automatic Fog, 299
Signalling, Automatic Railway, 469, 541
Signalling, Mechanical Fog, 38
Signalling Plant, Siren Fog, Clock Lighthouse, 572
Signalling System for Trains, Alarm, 341
Signal, A Triple-position, 479
Signals Mistaken by Driver: the Cause of W.
Slater's Death, 159, 185
Silicon-Carbide, The Nature of, 417
Silicon upon certain Metals, On the Action of, 109
Silicon, On Crystalline, 476
Silk Production in Transcaucasia, Failure of the, 159
Silver Goeds, Increasing Demand for a Higher Class of, 227
Silver-Laad Smelting Plant, A Modern, 511, 548
Silver Party and Protection in the United States, 22, 46
Simla, Railway Conference to Meet at, 433
Simon-Carves Coking Plant, Visit to, 455
Simplon Tunnel, The Projected, and its Advantages, 443, 653
Simpson, Mr. R. C., on the Rifles in the British Army, 474
Simpson, Strickland, and Co., Steam Launch for the Greek Government, 310
Simpson, Wilson, and Simpson, Glasgow District Subway, 558, 559
“Singlo ” L’ne Railways in the Unite! States, 31
Sinking the Pit at Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 417
“ Skate," Accident to the, 57
Slahy, Prof., Experiments concerning Alternating Currents, 185
Slag as Manure, Utilisation of, 328
Slater, William, Verdict of the Jury on his Death, 159, 185
Sliding Scale Committee, The Coalowners’Scheme to Prevent Underselling of Coal Approved, 606
Sliding Scale, The South Wales, 191 Small Motor Parts 1 89
Smelting Plant, A Modern Silver-Lead, 511, 548
Smithfield Club Show:
Allchin, Mr. W., 7-H.P. Inside Gear Agricul¬tural Traction Engine, 598
Aveling and Porter Compound Light-type Traction Engine, 598
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Oil Engines and Automatic Igniters, 598
Coultas, Mr. Jas , Manure Distributors, Drills, and Horseshoes, 600
Crossley Bros., Limited, Oil Engines, 598
Fowler and Co., Agricultural Engines, 598
Hindley’s Two-wheel Portable Engine, 598
Howard, Mes rs. J. and F., Implements and Machines, 598
Marshall, Sons, and Co., Limited, Assortment of their Leading Specialities, 598
Pfeil and Co., Engineers’ Tools, 600
Robsy and Co.’s Steam Eogine3 of all Kinds, 598
Robinson and Auden, Limited, Steam Engines of Various Patterns, 598
Ruston, Proctor, and Co.'s 8 Nominal Horse¬power Portable Engine, 598
Wallis and Steevens, Limited, 10-Horse Power Road Locomotive and 3-Horse Power Traction Engine, 600
Smith, Prof. R. H., Electric Traction, 381
Smith, Prof. R. H., His Resignation, 395 Smith, Mr. Thomas, 456
Smith, Mr. W. G., Boiler Setting, 415
Smith’s Road Locomotive, 1858, 233
Smoke Combustion by Injection of Heated Air, 399
Smoke, Excessive, and Actions brought by the Health Committee of the Sheffield Corpora¬tion, 251
Smoke Nuisance, Glasgow and the, 384
Smoke Prevention, 89
Smoke Prevention, Mr. J. K. Broadbent’s Patent System of, 454
Smulders, Mr. A. F., Electric Dredger, 186
Snell, Mr. Jno. F. C., His Appointment, 252
Snelus, Mr., On the Walrand Legenesil Process, 258
Snodland Bridge, 356, 357, 382, 387, 452, 469, 560, 593
Snowdon Mountain Tramroad, The, 262
Soap made of Olive Oil and Suet, 443
Societe des Acierles de Longwy: Alterations, 520
Societe Anonyme du Canal et les In¬stitutions Mapitimes de Bruxelles:
Formation and Capital of the, 159
Societe des Chaudieres et Voitures a Vapeur:
Their System of Mechanical Haulage, 237
Societe d’Encouragement pour 1’In¬dustrie Nationale:
Medals and Prizes to be Awarded by, 95, 185
Societe des Ingenieurs Civlls de France:
New Address, 541
Society of Arts:
Albert Medal Awarded to Professor D. E. Hughes, 20
Determination of the Freezing Point of Mer¬curial Thermometers, Dr. J. A. Harker, 159
Fothergill Prize and Silver Medal is Offered ;
' Subject of Paper for which it is Offered, 159
Mining of Great Depths, Mr. B. H. Brough, 653
Papers to bs Read after Christmas, 664
Priz3s Offered by, and Award of Silver Medal
to Mr. W. J. Dibdin, 159, 287, 572
Silver Medals have been Awarded to, List of those, 32
Society, The Bath and West of Eng¬land :
109
Society, The Berlin Physical:
Action of Light on Sparking Discharge, Professor Warburg on the, 31
Society of Boilermakers and Ship¬builders’ United:
Increasing Demand for its Members, 201
Society of Civil Engineers, The Boston:
Present European Practice in regard to Sewage Disposal, Mr. Allen Hazen, 195
Society, The Civil and Mechanical Engineers:
Visit to the Kennot Wharf to see a New Building to Carry Exceptionally Heavy Weights, 19
Visit to the Shot and Lead Works of Messrs. Walker, Parker, and Co., Limited, 638
Visit to the Surrey Commercial Dock, 346
Society, Crystal T~alace Old Students': Annual Dinner, 408, 475
Society of Electrical Engineers, The Northern:
Discussion on Mr. J. S. Raworth’s Paper with Reference to the Universal Engine, 550
Manufacture of Alkali and Bleach by Electro¬lytic Methods, Mr. B. Blount, 604, 655
Society of Electrical Engineers, The S Swiss:
Congress Organised by, 31
Society of Engineers, The:
Discharge and Storage of Grain, Mr. W. G. “ Wales, 361
Visit to the New Line Forming Part of t'.e
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Company’s Extension to London, 30
Visits Arranged, 336
Visit to the Midland Railway Somers Town
Goods Depdt, 397
Visit to the Westinghouse Brake Company, Limited, York-road, King's Cross, 397
Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated: »
Question of the Advance in Wages, 426 „
Resignation of Mr. John Anderson, and Appointment of Mr. G. H. Barnes, 605
Society of German Engineers:
Membership List, 365
Society, King's College Engineering:
Aerial Navigation, Mr. J. T. Tolmé, 571
Construction and Illumination of Lighthouses, Mr. A. F. Browning, 540
Construction and Maintenance of Roads, Mr. g C. L. Cartwright, 500
Electric Telegraph, Mr. F. H. Carter, 527
Manufacture of Coal Gas, Mr. Carter, 20
Presidential Address of Mr. H. W. Standen, 413
Rifles of the British Army, Mr. R. C. Simpson, 474
Society, The Manchester Geological:
Durham and Cleveland Saltfleld, Mr. Thomas S Bell, 604
Irruptions of Coal into Mine Workings, Mr. » F. G. Meachem, 604
Presidential Address of Mr. Mark Stirrup on the Early History of the Society, and some S Remarks on Speculative Geology, 403, 505
Society, Mason College Engineering:
Relation of Engineering to the Exact Sciences, Prof. F. W. Burstall, Presidential Address, g 6C6
Society of Mechanical Engineers, S American:
Effect of Retarders in Fire Tubes of Steam S Boilers, Mr. Jay M. Whitham, 189
Effect upon the Diagrams of Long Pipe Con¬nections for Steam Engine Indicators, Prof. S W. F. M. Goss, 123
Metric System : Is it Wise to Introduce It into our Workshops? Mr. Coleman Sellers, 447, S 565, 601
Society of Patent Agents :
Value of Patent Property, Mr. J. Sinclair Fair- g fax, 489, 490
Society, The Physical:
Proposed Increase in the Subscription, and that the Members be styled “ Fellows of the Physical Society of London,” 476
Riintgen’s Radiation, Prof. Threlfall’s and Mr. Pollock’s Experiments with, 537
Satisfactory Method of Measuring Electrolytic k Conductivity by means of Continuous Cur¬rents, Prof. W. Stroud and Mr. J. B. Henderson, 476
Society, The Royal Meteorological:
Haze, Fog, and Visibility, The Hon. F. A. £ Rollo Russell, 511
Society, The Steam Engine Makers’:
Question of an Advance in Wages, 426
Society, The Tokyo, Mathematical - J Physical:
Magnetisation of Iron Wires Traversed by Electric Currents, by Mr. K. Isuruta, 572
Society, The Yorkshire College Engineering:
,Air Pollution, Dr. J. B. Cohen, 516
Care of Mechanical Instruments, Lieut. R. L. 1 Bullock, 557
Naval Manojuvres, Professor A. Barr, 638
Practice with Science, Mr. H. McLaren’s Presidential Address, 449
Syllabus for 1896-97, 413
Visit to the Leeds Water Supply Source, 259
Sodium in Aluminium, Consequences of the Presence of, 271
" Sokol,” The Trials of the, 96
Solingen and Sheffield, 243
Solution for Coating Galvanised Iron before Painting, 365
Soot Catchers and Fuel Economies, 57
Soudan Railway, Locomotive for the, 414
Southall’s Gas Engine, 70
South-Eastern Railway Improvements, 510
South-Eastern Railway Company’s New Rolling
Stock for Hastings and St. Leonards, 537
South Hetton Colliery Company, Institute for its Workmen, 68
South Russia, On the Ironworks in, 341
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Scheme, Commencement of the, 146
South Wales Coal Question, Complexities of the, 659
South Wales Coal Trade, Proposed Combination in the, 495
South Wales and Monmouthshire Coalowners and Colliery Works, Suggested Terms of Alliance between, 345
South Wales Sliding Scale, The, 191
Spain and Spanish:
Spain, Battleships for, 327, 328
Spain, Imports into, 443
Spain, Iron and Steel Industry of, 258, 272, 577, 578
Spain, Prospects of British Coal in, 64
Spain, Reminiscences of the Iron and Steel Insti¬tute’s Visit to, 576
Spanish Customs Dues, New, 520
Spanish Government, Cruiser to be Built on the Clyde for tho, 215
Spanish Government, Pontoon Dock for the, 638
Spanish Navy, Tenders for Battleship and Cruiser for the, 271
Spanish Ore, Lack of, 577
Spanish Ore Trade, The, 578
Speeds. Railway, 503, 526, 541
Speed Trials of H.M.S. *’ Victorious," 268
Speed Trials of th9 “ Prince George,” 314
Spherical Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, Casey’s, 181
Spinning and Weaving Mill, Flax, Belfast, 54, 59
Spiral Tubes under Pressure, 657
“ Spitfire,” Trial of the Engines of the, 226
Spithead, Fleet Inspection at, 144
Spot Activity of the Sun, The, 57
Spring, Mr. W., On the Transparency of Liquid 31
Springs, New Works for the Manufacture of, 250
Stability of Ships, 510
Stability of Tall Chimneys, On the, 504
Staffordshire County Council, Mr. W. Macfarlane Appointed Metallurgical Instructor under, 95
Staffordshire, South, Railways and Canals, 443
Standards of Light, Medal Awarded to Mr. W. J. Dibdin for his Paper on, 572
Staines Reservoir. The Projected, 417
Standards of Thermal Efficiency for Steam Engines, Committee to Consider the Question of, 95
Standen, Mr. H. W., His Presidential Address, 413
Stanley, Mr., Drawing Board, 96
Stanley Cycle Show:
Crastin's Oil Motor Quadricycle, 546
Starboard Shaft of tho “ Paris," Breaking of, 417
Statistical Report of the American Iron and Steel Association. 2
Steamboats, Steamers, Steamships:
Steamboat, The Bazin Wheel, Launch of, 185
Steamboat Beam Engine, A, 664
Steamboat Service on the Hudson, 98
Steamer “Antenor,” The Cargo, 213
Steamer, Coasting, The Ocean Steamship Com¬pany, 664
Steamer “ Duke of Devonshire,” The New, 42
Sreamers, Fast Channel, Belgian Competition in their Production, 523
Steamer, A Large River, 98
Steamer for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, New, 399
Steamer, New Pleasure, for Carlingford Lough, 87
Steamer, A New Type of, Messrs. Priestman and Co., 328
Steamer, Railway Ferry, Messrs. Sir W. G. Arm¬strong, 385
Steamers’ Ropes, Substitute for, 184
Steamer “St. Paul’s,” Fast Transatlantic Run made by, 11
Steamer Service betwen Arklow and Wales, 275
Steamers, Steam Pumping Arrangements in Screw, 103, 179, 251
S S. “Algoa,” Warping Gear, 160
Steamship Freights, Fall in, 544
S.S. “Germanic,” Boilers of the (Sappluntnl, August 7 th, 1896)
S.S. “ Germanic,” Engines and Pumps of the (Supplement, July V7th, 1896), 52, 53
S.S. “ Jattra,” The, 160, 161
Steamship and Railway Lines for Venezuela, 372
Steam and Back Pressure, High Pressure, 317, 373
Steam Boilers, Wear and Tear of, 241
Steam Engine Economy, 372
Steam Engine, Prof. Dwelshauvers-Dery’s Ex¬periments on a, 248
Steam Gas, Determining the Condition of, Prof. O. Reynolds on, 514
Steam and Gas, Relative Cost of Producing Power from, 520
Steam Jacket on a Locomotive Engine, Value of a, 465, 473
Steam Jet, On the Rate of Condensation in the, 476
Steam Launch for the Greek Government, 310
Steam Locomotion on Common Roads, 233
Steam, Maximum Density and Elasticity of, 480
Steam, One Thousand Pounds, 374, 387 Steam Plants, Testing, 644
Steam Plough, An American, 96
Steam Power Used in the German Empire in 1895, 208
Steam Pump, Lamont’s Improved Simple, 93
Steam Pump, The Odesse, 415, 416
Steam Pumping Arrangements in Screw Steamers, 103, 179, 231
Steam Shipbuilding Trade, Activity in tho, 456
Steam Shipping and Shipbuilding, 369
Steam, Superheated and Saturated, 243, 585 657
Steam, Superheated Wet, 243
Steam Turbines, 281 Steam Van, Thornycroft, 83, 84

Steel:

Steel Armour, Herr Krupp on the Perforation of, 1
Steel for Asian Markets, Special German Mission to Ascertain the Requirements, 550
Steel, Basic Bessemer, made in America, 365
Steel Billet Combination, Meeting of the, 552
Steel v. Cast Iron Railway Wheols, 653
Steel. Diamonds Formed from, 109
Steel, Foreign Trade in Unwrought, for July, 1895. and 1896, 201
Steel Foundry for Japan, A, 11, 537
Steel Keys on East Indian Railways, 365
Steel Manufacture in Japan, Plant for, 11, 537
Steel, Micro-Structure of, M. A. Sauveur on the, 417
Steel, One Thousand Pounds, 311
Steel Pen Machinery? 595
Steel Pen Trade, The, 328
Steel Permanent Way, 98, 252, 293, 443, 605, 616
Steel in Petroleum, Hardening, 95
Steel in Phenol, Tempering, 653
Steel Production in Great Britain and in the United States, 172
Steel Rails for Canada, 98
Steel Rails, Foreign Business in, 646
Steel Rail Plant in Australia, Opportunity for an American, 293
Steel Rails for South Africa, Heavy, 605
Steel Rails used in Syracuse, Specification of, 443
Steel Rails for the West Indies, 252
Steel Sheet, Messrs. Baldwin’s New Polished, 298
Steel Sleepers, 619
Steel from Splashing, M. Posniloff’s Method of Preventing, 315
Steel in Steamship Construction, Enormous Stride made by, 341
Steel and 'Tin-plate Works in October, Employ¬ment at, 536
Steel and Tin-plate Works in Wales and Adjoin ing Counties, Survey of, 252
Steel Trade, Activity in the, 606
Steel Trade, Sheffield, 21, 47, 99, 149, 577
Steel Trade, Sheffield — so also Sheffield District Steel Wood as a Shipbuilding Material, 413
Sterilising Milk in Bottles, Dr. Alt’s Apparatus, 452
Stern Torpedo Tubes, The Admiralty’s Orders respecting. 185
Stelfox, Mr. Jas., Description of the Belfast Gas¬works, 131
Stephenson's Killingworth Engine “ Billy,” 551
Stephenson Locomotive, The Old, 237
Stephenson, Mr. B., on Improvements in Marine Engineering, 576
Stephenson's Water Intake Strainer, 442
Stevenson, Jno. L., American Blast Furnace Practice, 25, 27, 80, 81, 245
Soillwell-Bierce and Smith-Vaile Company, Con¬tract for a Turbine Installation secured by, 31
Stillwell-Bierce and Smith-Vaile Company, Con¬tracts Let to the, 95
Stirrup, Mr. Mark, his Election and bis Presi¬dential Address, 403, 505
Stockton and Darlington Railway, Seventy-first Anniversary, 341
Stockton and Middlesbrough Corporation Water Boards, The Works of the, 228
Stokeholds of Steamships, Ventilating, 99
Stokers for the Navy, Standard Height of, 11
Stone-breaking Machinery, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 17
Stone and Co., Messrs., Electric Light Apparatus, South-Eastern Corridor Train, 589
Stowmarket Sewage Works, 588
Strachan and Co., Messrs. J., Contractors for the
Widening and Enlargement of the Victoria Sheffield Station, 95
Strainor, Stephenson’s Water Intake, 442
Street-cleaning Car, Electric, 358
Streets Committee of the City of London, Electric and Incandescent Gas Lighting Experiments, 9
Streets, Condition of the, 343
Street Railroads in the United States, 287
Strut Railwau Journal of New York, Special Issue of, 476
Street Scavenging, Use of Motor Cars in, 237

Strikes:

Strike at Chiswick, 211 Strike, A Curious, 595
Strike, The Dowlais-Cardiff Colliery, 456, 482
Strike, End of a, 413
Strikes in Germany in 1895, 589
Strike at Kiveton Park Colliery, En4 of, 227
Strike in the Leeds Building Trade Settled, 315
Strikes and Lock-outs of 1895, 511
Strike at Messrs. J. L. Thompson and Co.’s Yard, 227, 237
Strike in New South Wales, Colliery Miners’, 31
Strikes in North Wales, 552
Striko, Platers’ Helpers, 455
Strike of Sheffield Moulders, 427
Strikes, an Unconsidered Aspect of, 265
Strike, An Unwarrantable, 373
Strode and Co.'s Electric Light Installation,
Trocadero Restaurant, 341
Stroke of Cylinders for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Engines 26in., not 24in., 159
Stroud, Prof. W., and Mr. J. B. Henderson, On the Method of Measuring Electrolytic Con¬ductivity, 476
Stnart, Mel). D. M; D., Phenomena of Colliery Explosions, 311
Sturgeon, J., Mechanical Haulage. 157, 199
Submarine Boats, A Link in the History of, 54
Submarine Telegraph Memorial, An International, 360, 498
Subsidence at Dumbarton Harbour, 420
Substitute for Steamers’ Ropes, 184
Sugar in Peru, Annual Total Production of, 159
Sugar Refining Plant for Japan, 552
Sulphate of Ammonia in the United Kingdom,
Mr. R. F. Carpenter's Figures Relating to the Production of, 185
Sulphate of Iron from Water, Use of Milk of Lime to Remove, 589
Sulphide Ore from Australia, 606
Sulphur in the Viscous and in the Liquid State, Specific Heat of, 237
Sun, The Spot Activity of the, 57
Sunderland Technical College, Extension of, 271
Superheated Steam, 657
Superheated Wet Steam, 243
Superheated and Saturated Steam, Experiments with, 585
Supply System Losses, 113
Surface Tension of Liquids, On the, 490
Surface Tension of Liquids, Apparatus for Deter¬mining the, 237
Surveyors for the Engineering and Architectural Department of the Navy, 516
Sutherland, Mr. Jas., Alumina Factory at Larne Harbour, 131, 173
Swaithe Turners, Jarmain’s, 83
Swann and Hunter, Messrs. C. S., Pontoon Dock
for the Spanish Government, 638
Swann and Hunter, Messrs. C. S., Their Ship¬yards Visited, 399
Swansea Coal Shipments, 22, 48, 126, 150, 176, 202, 228
Swansea, Docking the River at, 214
Swansea, Improvement of the North Dock, 534
Swansea Shipments, 300
Swansea, Shipments of Plates from, 552
Swansea Water Scheme, Mr. Wynne’s Increased Salary, 606
Swedish Iron, Steel, and Coal Industries in 1895, 175, 176, 649
Swedish Line, New, 215
Swiam Tunnel, The, 572
Switzerland, Forthcoming Nationalisation of Rail¬ways in, 365
Swivel Shaft Bearing, Adjustable, 370
“Swordfish,” Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Accepted by the Admiralty, 95
Syndicate, Limited, The British Motor, 587
Syracuse, Specification of Steel Rails used in, 443

Supplements:

Australian Consolidation Locomotive, New South Wales Government Railways, Messrs. Beyer, Peacock and Co., July 3rd, 1896 Boilers of the White Star Steamship “Ger¬manic," Messrs. Harland, Wolff and Co., August 7tb, 1896
Compound Express Locomotive, Great Southern and Western Railway, Mr. II. A. Ivatt, November 20th, 1896
Engines of the White Star Steamship “Ger¬manic,” Messrs. Harland, Wolff and Co.,
July 17th, 1896
Express Passenger Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, and Working Drawing (No. 8) of the same, Mr. Wilson Worsdell, December 18th, 1896
Five Crank Engines, s.s. “Inchmona,” Mr. Thos. Mudd, September 11th, 1896
Triple Expansion Engines, H.M.S. “I’owerfu'.” Naval Construction and Armament Co., October 2nd, 1896

T

TAFF Yale Railway, Men’s Grievances, 530
“ Talbot," Carrying Away the Masthead Sema¬phore of the, 520
Tame, the Pollution of the, Conference Respect¬ing, 200
Tank Furnace, The Gobbe Glass, 654
Tanks, Liquid Fuel, for the German Navy, 375
Tannin, New Source of, 537
Taps. Metered and Unmetered, 293
Tariff, Income and Expenditure under the McKinley and other, 269
Tariff Prospects, American Fight and, 446
Tasmania, Mining Activity in, 109
Tasmanian Railways Report, 453
Tax on Motor Vehicles Opposed in the House of Lords, 159
Technical Collection, Exhibition-road,Central, 452
Technical Colleges, The Aims of, 18h
Technical Education, 116, 188, 198, 289, 371, 452
Technical Education of Artisans, The, 371
Technical Education in St. Pancras, 116
Technical Education and Waste of Tims, 198
Tees, The, 33
Tees, New Railway Line along the North Bank, 481
Tees and the Wear, Tonnage Launched on the, 605
Telegraph Cables, Mr. C. Bright on Submarine, 417
Telegraph Memorial, An International Sub¬marine, 360
Telephone Cable to Germany, Mr; Preece’s, 315
Telephone System, The Apostoloff Automatic. 170
Telephonic Tariff in Switzerland, Reduced, 215
Telephone Wires, Manchester, Change from Overhead to Underground, 604 Tellurium from Copper Residues, On the Separa¬tion of, 215
Temperature Records at Greenwich, 11

Tenders:

Tenders for Battleship and Cruiser for Spain, 271
Tenders for Battleships Submitted by Clyde Shipbuilders, 95
Tenders for Battleships and Torpedo Boats, The United States Invites, 57
Tender for Compound Locomotive Austrian State Railways, 436
Tenders, Electric Lighting of Cadiz, 185
Tenders, Electric Lighting of Morley, 510
Tenders, Electric Lighting of Torquay, 565
Tenders for Fuel Supply, North-Eastern Railway Company, 589
Tenders for a Heating Apparatus for a Palace in the Province of Biscay, 537
Tenders for Pumping Machinery, &c., The Mexi¬can Government Invites, 365
Tenders for Railways, The Bulgarian Ministry of
Public Works Invites, 185
Tenders for Steam Vessels, The Roumanian Government Invites, 185
Tenders for Steel Plates and Rivets for Cool- gardie, 520
Tenders for the Supply of Iron and Steel to the
Bulgarian Government, 550
Tennessee Centennial Exhibition, 1897, 105
H.M.S. “Terrible,” 344, 169
Testing Chain Cables, On the Question of, 476
Testing Indicator Springs, 60
Testing Steam Plants, 644 Tests, Boiler, 643
Thallium, New Compounds of, 287
Thames, Dredging of the Channel of the, 534
Thames Navigation, Projected Relief Channel, 653
Thames, Proposed Wharfago in the Lower, 191
Thames-Western Improvement Committee and the Proposed Lock, 476
Thermal Efficiency for Steam Engines, Committee to Consider Standards of, 95
Thermal Tests for Railway Wheels, Specifications of, 399
Thermometer, Bristol’s Recording, 269
Thermometers, On the Determination of the
Freezing Point of Mercurial, 159
Third-Rail Method of Contact, Trial of the, on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, 159
Thirty Days, Round the Globe in, 95
Thirty-Storey Building in Now York, A, 453
Thomas, Mr. D. A.} His Pamphlet on the Coal Trade in the United Kingdom, 456 Thomas, Mr. D. A., His Scheme anent Under¬selling of Coal, 404, 506, 552
Thomas’s Steam Sulphur Extracting Apparatus ? 63
Thornycroft Steam Carriage and Wagon Com¬pany, Steam Van by, 83, 84
Thompson and Co.. Messrs., Resumption of Work at the Works of, 237
Thompson and Sons, Messrs. J. L., End of Strike at their Works, 252
Thompson and Sods, Messrs. R , Jubilee of, 73
Thomson Electric Welding Apparatus, The, 589
Thomson, Mr. M. W., A 100 per cent. Rail Joint, 454
Thomson, Prof., On the Nature of X Rays, 315
Thomson, Prof., on Prof. O. Lodge’s Attempts to Determine if the Ether of Space be Moved by a Moving Body, 315
'Thornycroft and Co., Messrs. John I», Visit to thoir Works, 565
Thorpe, J. W., and Roger, Dr. J. E , on the Viscosity of some Seventy Liquids, 31
Thrasher, Clover and Seed, Messrs. Robey and Co., 832
Threshing in Canada, 533
Thrashing Machine, Hungarian State Engineering Works, 331
Three-throw Vertical Pumps, 122
Threlfall and Pollock’s Experiments with
Röntgen’s Radiation, 537
Thrupp and Maberly, Electric Victoria for the Queen of Spain, 323
Thurston, Professor, On the Value of Graphite as a Lubricant, 516
Thwaites’ Motor Gas Producers, 220
Tides, Effect of Wind on, 308
Timmin’s Mechanical Girder Calculator, 357
Tin Exports from the Straits to the United States, 365
Tin-lined Lead Water Pipes, 163
Tin-plate Centre, General Strike Unlikely, 578
Tin-plates for Japan, 606
Tin-plate Shipments, Wales, 646
Tin-plate Situation, The, 428, 552
Tin-plate Workers’ Union of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Resolution Passed at their Meeting, 74
Tinworth Art Exhibition, The, 54
Tippler, Coal, Mr. S. A. Everett, 652
Tipton Engineering Scheme, The, 376, 480
Tires, Akroyd's Cells for Pneumatic, 122
Tire, The Grappler, 481
Tires, India-rubber, for Motor Cars, 503
Tires? Pneumatic, 89 Tire-setter, West’s Power, 350
Titaniferous Ores added to Phosphoric Iron Ores in the Blast Furnace, Effect of, 185 Tobacco Warehouse at the Stanley Dock, Plans for, 287
Tokio Electric Tramways, Progress of, Retarded, 399
Toledo Extension Railway Completed, 443
Tolls for the North Ssa and Baltic Canal, New Tariff of, 185
Tolmé, Mr. J. T., On Aerial Navigation, 570
Tolson v. Speight, Tolson v. Singleton, 170
Toms, Mr. F., Toe Metric System, 308
Tonnage Launched on the Tees and the Wear, 605
Tool, Hydraulic, for Removing the Heads of Rivets, 589
Toronto Water Supply, The, 39

Torpedo Boats and Destroyers:

Torpedoes, United States, 503
Torpedo Boats, Armour-plated, 63
Torpedo Boats for Chili, Trial of, 122, 294, 653
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Armoured, 535
Torpedo Boat Destroyers “ Bruiser ” and “ Ban¬shee," 572
Torpedo Baat Destroyer “ Desperate,” The, 31, 347
Torpedo Boat, H.M.S. “Otter," Launch of the, 550
Torpedo Boat, A Submarine, 287
Torpedo Boat': for the United States, The New, 527
Torpedo Craft, Advantages of Naphtha Fuel for,
Torpedo D.stroyers, Armoured, 391
Torpedo Gunboat, Chilian Navy, 122, 294, 653
Torpedo Tested, An Improved Howell Automo¬bile, 365
Torquay Electric Lighting Plant, Tenders for, 565
Tower Bridge, Mr. Wolfe Barry on the, 308
Tower Bridge, Mr. Cruttwell'sand Mr. Homfray’s Papers on the, 516
Traction, Electric, 381, 495, 526
Traction, Electric, Prof. R. H. Smith, 381
Traction Engine, 4857, Boydell’s, 136, 137, 138
Traction Engine Owners, Licences have to bo
Taken out by, 653 Traction Engines and Railways, 275
Traction Engine Reform, The, 200
Traction Engines on Roads, Regulations as to Duty on, & j. &c., 11
Traction Engines on Roads, Report from the Select Committee on, 34, 35, 61, 97
Traction Engine Wheels, 495, 526

Trade and Business Announcements :

7, 42, 56, 148, 172, 184, 214, 270, 337, 361, 384, 413, 451, 465, 506, 545, 565, 572, 606, 646, 664
Trade with Bulgaria, 518, 600
Trade, Consular Assistance for, 544
Trade with Japan, 311
Trades, Our Expanding Foreign, 420, 597
Trade Revival, 569
Trade and Territory, 523
Trading World in 1860 and 1890, Relative Sizes
of the, 375 Trafalgar, 419
Train Mileage on the Midland Railway during Half-year, 159
Train Mileage of the North Lcndon Railway, 185
Train Resistances, 540
Train Service, The New, 51
Tramcara, Compressed Air, 479
Tramcars, Gas Motor, 66
Tramways, The Birmingham, 11, 426
Tramway, Brighton and Rottingdean Shore Elec¬tric, 570. 657
Tramways, Electric, for Algiers, 417
Tramway, Electric, Cairo, 159
Tramways, Electric, Douglas, Isle of Man, 215 388, 389, 422, 450, 451
Tramways, Electric, Proposed, 327, 350
Tramways, Electric, Tokio, 399
Tramways, Electric Traction for Glasgow, 44
Tramways, Electric, Statistics Relating to, 572
Tramways, Gas Traction for, 318
Tramways, The Middlesbrough, 349
Tramways, New South Wales, 298
Tramways for New York State, 94 per cont. of the, Worked by Electricity, 215
Tramways, Report npon the South Suburbs of Cape Town, 401
Tramway, The Snowdon Mountain, 262
Tramways, South Staffordshire Amalgamation Scheme, 426, 528
Tramway in the United States, Total Length of
Tramways to be Worked, How are our, 218
Trans-Andean Railway, The, 490
Transatlantic Progress in Iron and Coal, 244
Transcaucasia, Raw Silk Production Unsatis¬factory, 159
Transformers, Electricity Distribution by Rotarv. 650
Transparency of Liquids, On the, 31
Transport Charges in Lancashire, 894
Trans-Siberian Railway, The, 95, 159, 296, 589
Trans-Siberian Railway, First Train arrives at Tomsk, 159
Trans-Siberian Railway, Round the Globe in
Thirty Days nnd the, 95
Trans-Siberian Railway and War in the East, A Oerman Military Paper on the, 589
Transvaal Auriferous Deposits, On the, 146
Tratman, E. E. Russell, Permanent Way of American Railways, 153
Traverse Tables, 561
Trendell, Mr. A. J. R., his Appointment, 237
Trinity House Vessels to be Supplied with Com¬mander J. d’Arcy-Irvine’s Line-throwing Guns, 11
Triple-position Signal, A, 479
Troon, Graving Dock for, 108
Trotter, Mr. A. P., Report upon the South Suburbs of Cape Town Tramways, 401
Troy Iron and Steel Company, Manufacture of Basic Bessemer Steel by the, 365
Truck Bill, The New, 550
Tracks on th9 North-Eastern Railway, Scarcity of, 577
Trunk Steamer, Mr. R. Ropner, jun.’s, Patent, 274
Tube Companies, Two Declarations made by, 326, 350
Tube, A Mail, 106
Tube, The “Row,” 603
Tubes, Sp:ral, under Pressure, 657
Tubular Bridge, Snodland, 356, 357, 382, 387, 452, 469, 560, 593
Tudsbery’s Patent Differential Recorder for Gauging Water, 346
Tungsten, On the Analytical Character of the Compounds of, 215
Tungsten, Mr. H. Moissan’s Researches on, 109
Tunis, British Merchants Advised to Trade with, 341
Tunis, French Coal as against British for, 237
Tunnel Through the Alps, at the Great St. Bernard, Proposed, 399
Tunnel, The Bellmouth, 440
Tunnel, The (New) Blackwall, 365
Tunnel, Boston, U.S.A., for the Metropolitan Waterworks, 399
Tunnel between Ireland and Scotland, Question of a, 537
Tunnel, Railway, between New York and Brooklyn, 520
Tunnel, The Simplon, 443, 653
Tunnel, The Swiam, 572
Tunnels, Three Swiss Railway, Highest Points of, 443
Tarbine Installation, The Largest Contract ever Given for a, 31
Turbines at Niagara, Friction of, 417
Turbines, Steam, 281
Turkey, Agricultural Machinery in, 413
Turntable, American Centre-bearing, 479
Turrell, Mr. C. M., Last to bo Prosecuted under the Road Locomotives Act, 185
Turret Steamers now Alloat, 551
Twenty-Five Storey Building. New York, 32
Two Years’ Extension and Working of Belgian Light Railways, 2
Tyne, Reduction of Coal Shipping Duos, 534
Typewriter, The Ei>p;re, 121

U

UGANDA Railway, 11
Umani, Dr. Antonio, On the Theory of Fluid Friction, 146
Underground Railway, The New York, 479
Underground Railway in Paris, 537
Underground Railway, Ventilation of the, 31
Underselling of Coal, The, 472, 476, 530, 552, 568, 578, 606
Undercolling Coal Scheme, The, 5:0
Underselling of Coal, Preventing the, 472
Underselling of Coal, The Coal owners’ Scheme Approved, 606
Underselling of Coal, Sir W. T. Lewis’s Commit¬tee’s Report, 578
Underselling of Coal, The Sliding Scale Committee and the, 476
Underselling of Coal, Mr. D. A. Thomas’s Scheme, 401, 506, 552
Underselling Question in South Wales, The, 568

United States:

United States, Accidents in the, Classified, 95 109, 417,490,572 ’ ‘
United States, Asbestos in the, 215
United States, Capital Invested in Electric Indus¬tries in the, 638
United States, Coke-making in the, 241
United States, Copper in the, 365, 618
United States, The Cruiser “ Brooklyn” for the, 399
United States, 1891-1895, Mineral Products of the, 215
United States Election, Business Revival following on,537
United States, Failures in the, during Nine Months, 490
United States, Iron and Steel Works of the, 104
United States, Locomotives in the, 408
United States Monitor “Terror,” Testing the Pneumatic Motor System of the, 589
United States Navy, The, 57, 58, 280, 511, 572, 575, 590
United States Navy, Additions to the, 58, 590
United States Navy Department, Tenders Invited by the, 57
United States Navy, Engineers in the, 280
United States Navy, Oil Fuel in the, 511
United States, Pig Iron Production of the, 397, 5/2
United States Navy, Present Status of, 575
United Slates, Railways in the, 293
United States Railway Accidents, 95, 109, 417, 490, 572
United States Railway, The Sixteen Leading Systems of, 185
United States Railway, Mileage in the, 356
United States Street Railroads, 287
States Torpedoes, Torpedo Boats for the, 503, 52/
United States, Train Accidents in the, 572
“ Uniter” Solution for Coating Galvanised Iron before Painting, 365
University College, Bristol, 297
University College, London, Annual Dinner, 321
ïyereity College, London, Evening Classes, 364
United States, \alueof Metallic and Non-metallic Products of the, 215
Unwin, Prof., W. C., On the Calibration of Instruments in Engineering Laboratories, 308
Use and Misuse of Water, On the, 134, 147

V

VALUE of Patent Property, On the, 489
Valve, Defects in Cocks and, 512
Valve, Hnmble and Barker’s, 225, 236
Valves for Locomotives, On Balanced, 95
Valve Re-seating Machine, Brooke's, 122
Valve, Watson’s Regulating Dribble and Stop, 1/3
Van, Thornycroft’s Steam, 83, 84
Vanadium and its Carbide, Melted, 11
Vanadium Compounds, New Source of, 399
Vasallo, Capt., His Experiments with Perforated Sails, 365
Vaughan and Son», Electric Driven Cranes, 201
Vehicle, A Remarkable, 110
Velocity of Electric Waves, On the, 496
Velocity Equivalents of Wind Forces Estimated by Beaufort's Scale, 657
Velocity of a Projectile, Ways of Increasing the 638
Velograpb, Ra worth’s, 512
Venezuela, New Steamship and Railway Lines
Ventilating Stokeholds of Steamships, Messrs. Jas. Evans and Co.’s Arrangement for, 99
Ventilation of the Underground Railway, 31
Ventilation in Warships, 115
“Venus” and “ Spitfire,” Trials of the, 200
Vera Cruz Harbour Works, Progress of, 413
Veritas Rules, Vessels in Hand under the, 31
Vertical Shafts, Power Transmission by, in New York, 453
Vessel Room, United States Scarcity of, 57
Vessey, Mr. F., 99
Viaduct at Chesterfield, 547
Viaduct, Kelvindale, 441
Viaduct, Lofty Railway, 358
Viaduct, The Loftiest, in Europe, 476
Viaduct, WaUberry, 389
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Their Reported Purchase of the Naval Construction and Arma¬ments Company, 605
Victor Air Extractor, The, 156
Victorian Government, Proposed Expenditure for Next Three Years, 298
Victorian Loan Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1897, Great, 442
Victorian Merchants on German and British Trader», 399
Victorian Railways, Renewal of Rolling Stock cn the, 287
Victoria University, Examination Results, 20
Vigouroux, M. E., Action of Silicon upon Certain Metals, 109
Villari, M. E., on the Property of Discharging Electrified Conductors, 490
Villard, M. P., Experiments with Argon, 271
Viscosity of Liquids, Bakerian Lecture on the, 31
Visibility of Lights at Sea, Experiments to Ascer¬tain the, 159
Vulcanising India-rubber with Bisulphide of Carbon Pronounced Injurious to Health, 589

W

WADDELL, Mr. J. A. L., Lifting Bridge over the Chicago, 216, 223
Wady Haifa Railway, Progress of the, 476

Wages:

Wages Agitation in the Engineering Trades, The, 327, 341
Wages Agitation, Scotland, 350, 352, 369, 646, 666, 669
Wages Board, The Midland Iron and Steel, 604
Wages in the Bolton Iron Trade, 172
Wages, Engineering Trades and Ironworkers Manchester, 273, 399, 426
Wages in the Engineering Trade, Mr. Nasmith on the, 403
Wages, Engineering and Iron Trade, 327, 341. 350, 352, 369, 376
Wages in Germany, 549
Wages and Hours, Clyde, Belfast, and North of England Engineers’ Federation, 571
Wages, Increase of South Staffordshire, 665
Wages in the Midland Engineering Trade, 296, 376
Wages Question in the Birmingham District, 426, 454
Wages Question, The General, 227
Wages in the West of Scotland, Ironworkers’, 350, 352, 369, 646
Wagon Building Trades, Review of, 665
Wagons, Goods, for Norwegian State Railways,477 '
Wales and Adjoining Counties,
22, 48, 74, 100, 126, 150, 176, 202, 228, 252. 274, 300, 328, 352, 378, 428, 456, 482, 506, 530, 552, 578, 606, 646, 666
Wales, Coal Prices in South, 472
Wales, Mr. W. G., Discharge and Storage of Grain, 361
Wales, Labour Troubles in. 126
Walker, Mr. Geo. Blake, His Appointment, 146
Walker, Maynard, and Co., and the North Acci¬dent Insurance Co., Arbitration between, 5C5, 523
Walkers, Parker, and Co., Visit to the Shot and Lead Works of, 638
Walker and Sons Boot Manufacturing Works, Visit to, 259
Wallberry Viaduct, Isle of Man, 389
Wallsend Siipway and Engineering Co., Mr. A. Laing Appointed Manager to, 319 Walrand-Legenesil Process, Mr. Snelus on the, 258
Warburg, Professor, On the Action of Light on Sparking Discharge, 31, 365
Waraite, What it is, 215
Warping Gear, s.s. “ Algoa," 160
Warship Building on the Pacific, 286
Warships under Construction, 341
Warships, Ventilation iu, 115
Warwick, Mr. John, 315
Waste of Water, Use and, 134, 147
Waste of Water in its Relation to Lead Service Pipes, 134
Water Analysis, The Interpretation of the Results of, 108
Water, Bacterial Purification of, 576
Water Column, The Poage, 162
Water Committee of the London County Council and the Welsh Water Scheme, 11
Water Communication between Bristol, Wolverhampton, and Liverpool, 544
Water Communication between Liverpool and London, 567, 593
Water Conservation in New South Wales, The Subject of, 226
Water Consumption through Metered and Un¬metered Taps at Lexington, Ky., 293
Water, Filtration of, 64
Water Found Under Granite Layers, 109
Water Gas Plant, Birmingham, 528
Water Gauges, 526
Water Gauge, Bailey's Compensating, 479
Water Gauge Fittings, Improved, 225
Water Gauges and Marine Boilers, 472
Water Gauge, Watson’s Balanced, 425
Water Intake Strainer, Stephenson's, 442
Water, London, 315, 443, 490, 497, 537
Water Meters in America, Successful Use of, 408
Water Pipes, Tin-lined Lead, 163
Water Power and its Development, Mr. J. Nasmith on, 454
Water Power and Electric Plant, Cottonwood Creek, near Salt Lake, 72, 453
Water Power Rock Drills 497
Water, Recorder for Gauging, 346
Water Scheme, Arrangements connected with the Little Don, 537
Water and Sewerage Works, Leighton Buzzard, 391
Water Softener and Purifier, 257
Water Springs near Dover, Discovery of, 287
Water Supply, The Birmingham, 31
Water Supply for Gloucester, 82
Water Supply, London, 315, 443, 490, 497, 537
Water Supply to London, Daily Average, 490
Water Supply of London, Meeting to Press for Legislation on the Question of, 443
Water Supply to London, Profs. Crookes and Dewar on, 537
Water Supply for Paris, Projected, 192
Water Supply for the Rand, 271
Water Supply, Sheffield, 420
Water Supply, Works connected with the, 426
Water, Test of the Pressure of, 146
Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, 214, 181
Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, Apparatus for Closing, 589
Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, Casey’s Spherical, 181
Water-tube Boilers, Experiments with Belleville, 589
Water, The Use and Misuse of, 134, 147
Water, Waste of, in its Relation to Lead Service Pipes, 134
Waterbury, Conn., Sewage Purification in, 653
Waterhouse, Mr., His Summary of Deliveries in the Finished Iron Trade, 352
Waterloo Station, Major Marindin’s Report on the Collision, 341
Waterworks, Leicester, 282, 362, 363, 366
Waterworks at Madeira, 30
Waterworks’, Middlewich, 67
Watkinson, Prof., Lectures by, on Motors for Auto-cars, 549
Watson’s Balanced Water Gauge, 425
Watson’s Regulating Dribble and Stop Valve, 173
Watts, Mr. Wm., On Reservoir Embankments, 424
Wear, Shipbuilding cn the, 572
Wear and Tear of Steam Boilers, 241
Weardale Coal and Iron Company, New Plate Mill at SpenDymore, 577
Webb, Mr. F., Express Passenger Engine, 658, 662
Webb, Mr. F. W., Oil Burning Locomotive, Liverpool Docks, 297
Wedding, Dr., On the Roasting of Iron Ores, 258
Wedges and Explosives in Mines, 162
Wedlake, Mr., Twc-manual Mechanical Organ, 655
Wednesöeld Ironworks Bought by Mr. Wm. Lock, 480
Weighbridges, Mr. O. J. Kirby’s Notes on, 259
Weighbridges, Notts on, 259, 340
Weighing of Grain ex Ship, Automatic, 413
Weir’s Feed Pumps. H.M.S. “ Powerful,” 397
Weiss's Four-crank Rotary Sifter, 256 Welding, Electric, 589
Weldless Steel Tube Drawing at Wednesfield, Start in, 250
Wellington, Salop, Sewage Disposal Works, 490
Wells Bored through Granite Layers, 109
Wells and Borings or Tube Wells, On the Con¬struction of, 657
Welsh Coal Ports, The, 232
Welsh Collieries, Rumours Respecting, 176
Welsh Collieries, Visits to Some, 309
Welsh Water Scheme, The Great, 11, 13
West’s Patent Power Tire-setter, 350
Westgarth, Mr. George W., Round Ropes v. Flat, 297
West Highland Railway Bill, The, 11
Westinghouse Brake Co., Limited, Works Visited, 397
Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, The, 11
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Order Received from the Carnegie Steel Co. by, 105
Westminster, Daylight at, 589
Wharfage in the Lower Thames, Proposed, 191
Wfcaracliffe Silkstone Colliery, Wages Dispute Settled, S45
What is an Invention ? 86
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on Tides, 308
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Sad Loss Sustained by, 31
Wheels, Cast Iron v. Steel Tired, 527
Wheels, Driving, 445
Wheels, Heat Tests for Railway, 399
Wheel, A Large Cast Steel, Messrs. Thos. Firth and Sons, 146
Wheels, Large Coupled, 2C3, 350
Wheels, Locomotives with Large Coupled, 439
Wheel Press, Hydraulic, 642
Wheels, for Railway Work, Steel Tired v. Cast , Iron, 653
Wheels for Se’f-propelled Carriages, 478
Wheels, Traction Engine, 263
Whitehall, Business-like Way in which the Work of Repairing is going on, 473
Whitehead, Mr. Cabell, on the Separation of Tellurium from Copper Residues, 215
White Star s.s. “Germanic,” Boilers of the Supplement, August 7 th, 1896)
White Star Liner “Germanic,” New Engines and Pumps of the {Supplement, July 17th, 1896), 52, 53
Whitham, Mr. Jay M., Effect of Retarders in Fire Tubes of Steam Boilers, 189
Whitworth Engineering Laboratory, Manchester, 638, 664
Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 18S6, 236
Wiener- Lokomotiven Fabriks-Actiën Gesellschaft, Compound Locomotive, 410, 411, 436, 437, 438
Wiener-Locomotiven-Fabriks-ActienGesellschaft, Rack and Rail Locomotives, Bosnia and Her¬zegovina Railways, 466
Wiesner, Prof., Important Relation of Plant Life to Photo-Chemical Climate, 237
Wiesner, Herr, Observations on the Chemical Intensity of Daylight, 315
Wigham, Richardson, and Co., Screw Steamer Launched by, 443
Wright, Mr. W. D., On British Anthracite, 279
Wright, Mr. W. D., His Two Papers Read at the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, 348
Wilder, Mr. John, Chaff Cutters and Mowing Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 16
Wilder, Messrs. II. J. and H., Sanitary Cart Royal Society’s Agricultural Show, 17
Willans Ergine, The, 163
Willans and Robinson's Patent, Petition for Pro¬longation of. 92, 108
Williams, Sir E. L , Address upon Ship Canals, 376
Wilson, Mr. Alexander, Installed Master Cutler, Sheffield, 251
Wilson, Mr. J., The Primrose-street Bridge, Great Eastern Railway Widening Works, 183, 186, 187
Wilson, Sots, and Co., and Withy and Co., Amalgamation of the Firms of, 215
WinchiLsea and Sandwich, Revival of, 237
Wind Engine, The Halladay, 212
Wind Forces Estimated by Beaufort’s Scale, On the Velocity Equivalents of, 657
Wind, Instance of the Force of the, 341
Wind on Tides. Effect of, 308
Windmills or Motors, Royal Agricultural Society’s I Show, 17
Windsor Dock and Barry Railway Bills, 22, 150
Winn and Co., Brookes' Valve Re-eeating Machine, 122
Wire Bolting Cloth, 95
Wire Ropes, Lubrication of, 589
Wire Ropes, Protection of, 657
Wirral Railway, Bogie Tank Locomotive, 264, 268
Witwatererandt, Gold Crnshings at, for July, 159
Wordingham, Mr. C. H., Pillar Distributor, 73
Wolf’s 200-Horse Power Semi-portable Compound Engine, 256
Wollney, Prof., on the Rate of Evaporation from Land and Water Surfaces, 109, 146, 159
Wokeley Auto-car, The, 663
Wolverhampton, Great Western Station, Run¬away Empty Train from, 159
Woodcutting Saw, Hungarian Exhibition, 51, 331
Woodhouse, Mr. H., The Snodland Bridge ever the Medway, 356, 357, 382, 387. 452, 469, 560, 593
Wood Paving in Paddington, Comparative Life of Soft and Hard Wood, 146
Wood Pulp Works, Barrow, Norway and Austria, 550
Worcester, Mr. J. R., Calculating Riveted Joints, 432
Work at Whitehall not being done by the London County Council, 473
Workman and Clark, Messrs., Cargo Steamer “ Antenor,’’ 213
Woredell, Mr. Wilson, His Experimental Engines for the North-Eastern Railway, 299
Worsdell, Mr. WiIsod, Express Locomotive, 107
Worsdell, Mr. W., Portrait of, 607
Wreck the Great Northern Express, Attempt to, 589
Wreck Statistics, Lloyd’s Half-yearly, 237
Wright and Butler’s Steel Works, New Coggirg Mill at, 300
Writing Blocks, Graduated, 365

X

X Rays, Professor Thomson on the Nature of, 315

Y

YACHT, Fast, Mr. C. D. Mosher, 417
Yale Graduates in 1701-1744, 1745-1762, Pref. H.
A. Newton on the Mortalities of, 95
Yarrow and Co., Armoured Torpedo Destroyer, 391
Yarrow and Co.’s Torpedo Boats for Chili, Trial of Messrs., 653
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., The Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Santa Fé ” Arrived at St. Vincent, 365
Yokohama Dock, Pumping Engines and Plant for, 500
Yorkshire Coal, Importation of, 600
Yorkshire Colliery, A New, 477
York-street Flax Spinning and Weaving Co., Ld., Belfast, 54, 59
Yoruba Country, Rapid Progress made by, 638

Z

ZUYDER Zee, Scheme for Draining the, 315

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