The Engineer 1898 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1898 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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ACCIDENT to the Battleship “ Iowa,” 107
Accident, The “Bouncer,” 162 Accident, Fly-wheel, 427
Accident Fund, South Metropolitan Gas Com¬pany, Mr. G. Livesey on, 427
Accident, Gun, 87
Accidents in Mines and Quarries of the United Kingdom in 1897, 33
Accidents, Petroleum Lamp, 209
Accident, Portsmouth Dock, 607
Accidents, Railway, tee Railway Accidents
Accumulator, The Blot, 184
Accumulator Traction, The Blackpool Corpora¬tion and, 492
Acetylene Gas, An Explosion of, 572
Acetylene Gas Explosion, Jersey City, 71
Acetylene Gas Apparatus, Examination of, 329
Acetylene Gas for Car Lighting, 437
Acetylene Gas Exhibition in Berlin, 46
Acetylene Gas Formed from Impure Carbide, On the Dangers Arising from, 159
Acetylene Gas, Railway Carriages Lighted with, Acetylene Gas Lampblack, 577
Acetylene Gas Manufacture, Theoretical Aspects of, 591
Acetylene and Oil Gas for Lighting Railway Trains, 193
Actinograph, Marion’s, 328
Adams, Mr. B. K., On the Crossing of the Man¬chester, Bolton, and Bury Canal by the Inter¬cepting Sewer of the Bury Corporation, 267
Adams, Mr. W. P., Electric Heating and Cook¬ing, 93
Admiralty Awakening, The, 587
Admiralty and the Cattewater Harbour Scheme, The, 304
Admiralty Orders for Cruisers of the “Cressy” Type, 304
Admiralty Programme of 1898—9, Lord Charles Beresford’s Conference with the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, 315
Admiralty, Selection of Engineer Students for Key ham College by the, 11
Admiralty Works of Devonport, Progress of, 279
Aerial Rope Railways, Mr. J. W. White on, 33
Africa, South, Extensive Field for Engineering Schemes, 24
African, South, Harbour Works, 242
Agricultural Implements Wanted in Khorasan, 59
Agricultural Machinery and Implements at the Cardiff Show, 524
Air-gas Flame, The One-candle Pentane, 570
Air Injectors ? 381
Air-power Boring Machines for Mines in Greece, Opening for, 529
Aisbitt, Mr. M. W., On Iron and Steel Plates and Forgings used in Shipbuilding, 185
Alaska Coast to the Upper Yukon, On the Construction of Railways from, 209
" Albemarle,” Torpedoing of the, 533
Alexandrowicz, M., On the Pressure attained by Superheated Water, 607 ,
Algeria, Standard Time of, 355
Alkali Works and Engineering, 568
Alley, Mr. Stephen, 306
Allis Vertical Cross-compound Engine, Record for Steam Consumption made by 516
Alloys of Carbide and Litharge, 11
Alloy, Prof. Carpenter on a New, 607
Almanacks and Diaries, 5, 142
Aluminium, Mr. W. S. Bates on, 449 j
Aluminium for Bicycle Pedal Frames, Drop Forged, 529
Aluminium Boat for Klondike, 553
Aluminium Castings, 398
Aluminium, Effects of Impurities on its Electrical Conductivity, 257
Aluminium, How to Blaoken, 285
Aluminium, Military Utensils of, issued by the French War Ministry, 329
Aluminium Oil Cups in Revolving Machinery, Use
Aluminium Production in the United States, 107
Aluminium and Zinc, New Compound of, 607
"Alzine,” Compound of Aluminium and Zinc, 607
Amalgamation of Trade Unions, 162
American Canals, 177
American Competition, 572
American Cyclometers, 55
American Electric Railway Signalling, Mr. Owens on, 159
American Engineering News, 21, 66,118,142,196, 218, 242, 266, 288, 340, 366, 437, 489, 614, 538, 662
American and European Armour Plate, 387
American Iron and Steel Practice, Mr. A. P. Head on, 285
American Iron and Steel Practice, Notes on, 274
American Locomotives for China, 66
American Looomotives, Coal Consumption on, 150
American Locomotives for Corea, 366
American Locomotives with Double Smoke-stacks, 194
American Locomotives for Export, 577
American Machine Tools Shipped to Liverpool, 586
American Nickel Armour Plate, Prioe of, 453
American Notes:
24, 46, 70, 172, 220, 244, 268, 290, 343, 369, 390, 414, 466, 493, 564, 688, 614
American Patents, Selected— see last page of each issue
American Permanent Way and Locomotives, 54
American Pig Iron Imported into Manchester,
American Pig Iron Output, 190
American Prices for Construction Work, 66
American Railways, British Locomotives for, 225 , 249
American Railways, A Professional Contortionist of, 257
American Steam Engine, An, 191
American Traction Engines, Latest Types of, 647, 554
American View of English Trade Unionism, 5
American Waterworks, Pumping Engines for, 9
Analysis of Spanish and United States Squadrons,
Andrew, Mr. T., his Exhibits at the Royal Society's Conversazione, 452
Andrews and Co., Messrs. J. D. F., Intercom¬munication Telephones, 118
Andrew and Co., Limited, Messrs. John Henry, Applications for Shares, 119
Andrew and Co., Messrs. John Henry, Conver¬sion of their Business into a Limited Company, 93
Antwerp, All Diseases Classified at, 316
Antwerp, Extension of the Port of, 224, 225, 319, 394
Apatite, Manure made from, 479
Appointments announced in Paris, 107
Appointments and Resignations, North of Eng¬land Towns, 119
Ardwick Engineering Company, New Designs in Steam and Gas Engines, 45
Argentaurum, 556
Argentaurum Manufactured by Dr. Eaamens, 11
Argentine Republic, English Industrial Ma¬chinery for the, 393
Argentine Republic, Frozen Meat Trade in, 380
Argentine Republic, Railways in the, 380
Armour for the Navy, 261
Armour Plate, Altericg, to the Krupp Armour, Process of, 515
Armour Plate, American and European, 387
Armour Plate, Government v. Private Manufac¬ture of, 4
Armour Plate, Price of American Nickel, 453
Armour Plating of the “ Canopus,” 273
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Messrs. Sir W., Armoured Cruiser “ Amazonas,” 286
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Messrs. Sir W., Big Gun Lathe Shop, Elswick, 424
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Sir W., De¬scription of their Torpedo - discharge Tubes, 496
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, Sir W., Extension of their Gorton Works, 119 Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co , Sir W., Gun¬boring and Turning Shops, 157
Armstrong and Co., Sir W., Ice-breaker for Russia, 11
Armstrong, Whitworh, and Co., Messrs. Sir W., Japanese Cruiser “ Asama,” 308, 310
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Sir W., Nor¬wegian Warship, 155, 160
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Messrs. Sir W., Wire-winding Machine, 417, 436
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Messrs. Sir W., Japanese Cruiser, 530, 535
Army Estimates for 1898, 209
Army, Statistical Report on the Service and Age of Men in the, 233
Arndt’s Econometer, 403
Arnold, Prof., Report on the Exploded Steam Pipe of the s.s. “ Prodano,” 360, 363
Arnott, Mr. R. F., On the Gold Present in Mexican Silver Dollars, 11
Artisans, Home and Continental, 306
Asbestos in Western Australia, 505
Askam and Millom Hematite Company, Success¬ful Working of the, 613
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., Friction of Locomotive Slide Valves, 193
Association, American Iron and Steel:
Bessemer Steel Production, Statement of, 1897, 304
Open-hearth Steel Ingots and Direct Castings in the United States in 1897, Statistics of, 607
Pig Iron Production in 1897, America, 209
Association, British Iron Trade:
Annual Meeting, 441 Papers Read and Discussed, 441
Association of Civil Engineering Stu¬dents, Manchester:
Crossing of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bory Canal by the Intercepting Sewer of the Bury Corporation, Mr. B. K. Adams, 267
Eleventh Annual Dinner, 68
Association, Cleveland Ironmasters’:
Election of President and Vice-president, 93
Association, Coalowners':
Wages, Question of Advance of 10 per cent, in, Mr. B. Pickard’s Suggestion, 439
Association, Employers’ Mutual Insur¬ance :
Establishment and Constitution of, 586 Association, The Geologists’:
Geological Ages, The Present Accepted, Mr. S. S. Buckman on their Sub-division into Shorter Time Divisions, “ Hemeras,” 407
Association of Engineers, The Leeds :
Water-tube Boilers, Design of, Mr. J. Clark Jefferson, 107
Greenwood, Mr. George, Allusion to the Death of, 440
Electric Driving Installation, Modem, Mr. A. J. Bilkwill on, 440
Draught for Boilers, Natural «. Forced or In¬duced, Mr. A. J. Balkwill, 342
Association of Engineers, The Man¬chester :
Reception of Col. Dyer at,
Balancing of Engines, The, Mr. Jas. Whitcher, 267
Engineering Appliances Connected with Coal Mining, Mr. C. M. Percy, 119
English and American Methods in the Engineering and Iron Trades, Mr. Hy. Webb, 66
Forty-second Annual Report, 69 Half-yearly Meeting. Members Elected. Pro¬
gramme for Winter Session, 586
Selected Number of Subjects Dealt with of General Interest to the Engineering Trades, 311
Visit to the Victoria Works of Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Limited, 490
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London:
Forty-fifth Anniversary Festival, 435
Association, Ironmasters’:
Demand for a Reduction of Wages Formulated by the, 196
Association, Manchester Engineering Trade Employers’:
Benefit Organisation for the Foremen Set on Foot, 341
Association, Manchester Steam Users
Annual Report of the Committee of Manage¬ment, 375
Boiler Attendants, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer’s Advice and Warnings to, 182
Association, Master Brassfounders':
First General Meeting of the, 511
Association of Mechanical Engineers:
Monthly Meeting of, 572
Association of Mechanical Engineers, The Birmingham:
Inaugural Address by Mr, Cox, 36
Association, Middlesbrough and Dis¬trict Foremen Engineers’ and Draughtsmen’s:
Twenty-eighth Annual Dinner, Annual Report, 119
Association, Midland Unmarked Bar:
Price of Bars to be Advanced 5s. per ton, 388
Association of Monmouthshire and
South Wales, The Coalowners’: Appointment of Mr. Foster Brown, 244
Coal Worked during the Year, 198
Association of Municipal and County
Engineers :
Twenty-fifth Voluntary Pass Examination of Candidates for the Offices of Municipal Engi¬neers and Surveyors to District Councils, 343
Association, National Railway Museum:
First Annual Meeting, 505
Association for the Protection of Industrial Property:
Second Congress of, 279
Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, The British :
Opening Address of the President, Mr. W. Matthews, 523
Programme of Third Annual General Meeting, 461
Pumping Station, Visit to the Foxbury, 524
Water Supplies and their Bearings upon Public Health, Sources of Town, Mr. R. E. W. Barrington, 523
Water, Chemioiland Bacterial Examination of,
Mr. P. F. Frankland, 524
Waterworks. Cardiff, Mr. C. H Priestley, 524
Waterworks, South Hants, Visit to tbo, 524
Waterworks, Portsmouth, Mr. H. R. Smith, 524
Association, Sanitary Inspectors’: Annnal Meeting, 316
Reminiscences of our Visit to Belgium, Mr. W. H. Grigg, 316
Sewerage, Drainage, and Water Supply of
Gloucester, Mr. R. Read, 316
Tenure of Office, Mr. T. G. Dee, 316
Association, Self-Propelled Traffic : Motor Vehicles for Heavy Traffic, Arrangements
for the Trials of, 435
Self-propelled Vans, Mr. E. Shrapnell Smith,
Aston Tube Works Co , Birmingham, Registra¬tion of the, 118
Atkinson, Mr. C. E., On Gold, 265
Atkinson, Mr. L. B., On Alternate-current Motors, 218
Atlantic Liner for the Pacific, An Old, 338
Atlas Works of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Visit to the, 606
Atmospheric Resistance to Trains, Prof. Goss's
Experiments, 553
Auckland, Gold Output from, 257
Australasian Colonies, Shipping Entered and Cleared, 1891, 1896, 24
Australian Market for Steel Rails, The, 353
Australian News—tte Letters from Our Own Correspondent every week Australian Notes:
24, 120, 141, 242, 288, 438, 538
Austrian Scythe and Sickle Trade, 390
Automatic Weighing Machine, 423
Automobile Club of Great Britain, 165
Automobiles in Paris, Trial of, 550
Automobiles, Some of the Trade Prices French-made, 233
Automobiles sur Rails, Par. G. Dumont, 533

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BACTERIAL Treatment of Sewage, Royal Commission to Inquire into the, 185
Biillie, Mr. T. C., On the Thermal Conductivity of Nickel, 577
Bankruptcies in the Iron and Steel Trade in the United Kingdom, 1897, 33
Bakerian Lacture— The Vapours of Metals, 430
Balancing Steam Engines—Engines,
Balancing :
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Freight Engines for :
Egypt. 329
Baldwin Works, Locomotives for the British War- cffice, 355
Baldwin Works, Locomotives for the Russian Government, 342
Baling Presses, Howard’s Hydraulic and Perpetual, 597
Balkwill, Mr. A. J., Modern Electric Driving Installation, 440
Balkwill, Mr. A. J., on Natural v. Forced or Induced Draught for Boilers, 342
Ball-bearing, a Faulty, 158
Ballast Tanks, Steamers and, 63
Ballasting of Steamers, The, 63, 188
Ballasting of Steamers, On the Water, 69
Balloons, War, for the Cuban Campaign, 606
Baltic Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, Yarrow Water-tube Boilers for the Russian Admiralty, 329
Baltic Fleet, 1854, The, 131
Bxnk Executive for Naval Engineers, 62
Bank Holiday in August, Northumberland Miners’ Agitation for, 587
Bar-heating Furnace, Messrs. Fletcher, Russell, and Co., 289
Barassie Junction, Accident at, 133, 190
Barclay, Sons, and Co., Messrs. Andrew, Pump¬ing Engines, Glasgow New Graving Dock, 568, 578
Barker, Mr. Frank, Book giving Practical In¬formation for Iron and Steel Manufacturers, &c., 539
Barnwell, Mr. Richard, 238
Barometer, On the Thoory of the Daily Osoillation of the, 159
Barry Bill, The, 440
Barry Docks, Enlargement, 540
Barry Harbour, 58
Bastian, Mr. C. O., his Exhibits at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 452
Bates, Mr. W. S., On Aluminium, 449
Bath and West of England Show:
Burrell and Sons, Limited, Messrs., 8-Horse Power Road Locomotive with Steel Gearing, 525
Clayton and Shuttlewortb, Messrs , Thrashing Machine, 525
Howard, Messrs., Ploughs, Cultivators, Auto¬matic Trus8er, and Light Railway, 525
Osborne and Co., Messrs. D. N., American Disc Harrow and Spring Tooth Harrow, 525
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, Messrs. Ploughs, 525
TaDgyes’, Messrs., Portable Oil Engine, Pinkney’s Patent, 525
Battle at Manila, 429
Bauerman, Mr., On the Iron Ores of the Ural, 444
Bavarian Chambers of Commerce, Reports of the, with regard to Exports to the United States, 159
Bavarian Waterways, Development of, 209
Bazin, M., 90
Bearings, Roller, Omnibus Wheels fitted with, 607
Beaumont, Mr. W. W., his Presidential Address, 139
Beckwith, Mr. John Henry, 677
Bedford Engineering Company, Steam Shunting Crane, 266
Belgian Business in Coal and Coke, 1897, 198
Belgian State Railways, Locomotives for, 285
Belgium, Export of Plants from, 529
Belgium, Laws concerning Mines in, 89
Belgrade, Improved Internal Communication for, 257
Belk, Mr. Wm., his Resignation, 491
Bell, Mr. Richard, Final Figures in bis Election, 607
Bell, Sir Lowthian, his Gifts to the Middlesbrough and Guisbrough Schools, 197
Belt, Best Leather for Wide, 159
Belleville Boilers in Twin s.s. “KhersoD,” Work¬
ing Results with, 305, 307
Berchem, Mr. A. H. E., Automatic Cylinder Drain Valve, 36
Beresford, Lord Charles, Conference with the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, 315
Berlin Incomes, Statistics of, 59
Barrington, Mr. R. E. W., Sources of Town
Water Supplies and their Bearings upon Public Health, 523
Berthelot, M. Daniel, “Measurement of High Temperatures by the Interference Method,” 159
Barthelot, M. D., On the Melting Points of Gold and Silver, 185
Berthelot's Interference Method of Measuring High Temperatures, 452
Bessemer, Sir Henry, 256, 283, 313
Bessemer and Co., Messrs. Henry, Annual Report, 143
Bessemer and Co , Messrs. Henry, Report for 1897, 119
Bessemer Gold Medal, The, 312
Bessemer Process, The, 277
Bessemer Steel Production in America, State¬ment of, 304
Bevel Gear Locomotive, 61
Beyer and Peacock, Limited, Messrs , Extension of their Wo:ks, 119
Bicycle Accommodation, Paddington Station, 233
Bicycle Brake Van Competition, The, 453
Bicycle Factory, An “ Up-to-date,” 467
Bicycles, Folding Chainless, for the French Army, 553
Bicycles Imported into the United States, 505
Bicycle Frame, Improved, 489
Bicycle Manufacture, The German, 268
Bicycle Pedal Frames Made from Aluminium by Drop Forging them, 529
Bicycles, Railway Luggage Vans for, 329, 453
Bicycles in Ruesia, 453
Bicycles in Siam, 553
Bicycle Tax in Italy, 329
Bicycle Trade in Spain, 607
Bidwell, Mr. Shelford, his Presidential Address, 193
BiggAVither, Mr. H. Electrical Shot Firing, 143,
Bill, The Barry, 440
Bills, Harbour and Dock, 68
Bill, Llanelly and Pontardulais, 440
Bill, Great Northern Railway Company’s New, 209
Bills, Railway, in Committee, and Withdrawn, 466
Billp, Railway, Deposited, 144
Bill Deposited, Brent, Ashburton, and Heath6eld , Railway Company, 89
Bills Deposited, &c., Birmingham, North War¬wickshire, and Stratford-on-Avon Railway Extension, 33
Bills Deposited, &c., Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway Extension, 33
Bill Deposited by the Isle of Wight Railway Company, 33 .
Bill Deposited, Railway Windsor to Ascot, 33
Bills Deposited at the Private Bill-office, Bideford and Clovelly Railway, 11
Bills Deposited at the Private Bill-office, Underground Electric Railway from Charing Cross . to Paddington, 11
Bills, Welsh Railway, 23, 46,120
Biological System of Treating the Sewage at Davyhnlme recommended, 285
Birch and Co., Messrs. G., Circular Saws and Milling Machines, 289
Birkenhead Destroyers, The, 88
Birkenhead Destroyers, Official Tiial of the Wolf,
Birmingham Corporation, Steel Pipes for the ' Welsh Water Supply Routes, 289, 290
Birmingham and Coventry Corporation, Contracts given out by, 118
Birmingham, Electricity in, 581
Birmingham, Enlarged Gas Mains for, 490
Birmingham to Stratford-on-Avon Railway, 33
Birmingham, Well and Bore-hole Corporation Baths, 104
Birmingham Welsh Water Supply, 482
Births and Deaths in London and in 32 other Great Towns, 11, 33, 59
Bisley Railway, Accident at, 368
Blackpool, Accumulator Traction declared Unsuit¬able, 492
Black and Tin-plates Shipped from this Country, 1897, 33
Blakelock, Mr. Percy, 399
Bake and Knowles, Messrs., Duplex Independent Air Pump, 472
Blast Furnace Plant in America and the Output, A, 285
Block Signalling on Country Tramways, United States, 366
Blobme and Vo3s, Messrs., Large Crane, 437
Blooming Engin9, M’Connell's, 10, 55
Blot Accumulator, The, 184
Blowing Engines, 137
“Blue Heat” in the Working of Iron and Steal, 577
Boats, Roller, 314
Beard of Conciliation and Arbitration, The, Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting, 119
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron Trade of the North of England, Statistics for March—April, 563
Board of Trade Report, Percentage of Unem¬ployed Trade Unionists, 11
Board of Trade Report on the Skilled Labour Market during March, 403
Board of Trade Report, State of the Labour Market, 11
Board of Trade Returns for December, Sheffield District, 45
Board of Trade Returns, January, February, March, 137. 237, 367, 556
Board of Trade Returns of the German Empire, 107
Boby’s Seed-sorting Machine, 598
Bog Oak Found in Germany, 355
Boiler, A Japanese, Mr. Mizabara’s Patent, 464
Boiler Explosion, 263
Boiler Explosion in America, 209 Boiler Explosions, A Year’s, 161
Boiler Feed Apparatus, A Gravity, 196
Boiler Incrustation, 52
Boiler Practice, An Objectionable, United States of America, 118
Boiler Testing, 10, 11
Boiler Tubes and the Admiralty, 237
Boiler Tubes, Large Orders for, 500
Boiler Tubes, Pressure attained by Superheated Water in, 607
Boiler, Water-tube, Experiments with a, 322
Boiler, Water-tube, Mr. A. F. Yarrow on Experiments with, 309
Boilers, Belleville, Mr. G. Grotcbin on the, of the Twins.s. “Kherson,” 305, 307
Boilers Bill, Inspection and Registration of, Petition against, Presented by Sir J. W.
Pease, 587
Boilers Buret, Conditions under which, M. Hirsch, On, 505
Bailers, Evaporative Test of Sandford’s Vertical, 327
Boilers, Importance of the Quality of the Feedwater on the Success or Failure of, 429
Boilers, Management of, 208
Boilers, Marine, New Rules in the United States for Constructing, 4S0
Boilers for Marine Use, On Cylindrical ». Tubular, 217
Boilers, Motor Car, 212, 313, 398
Boilers, On Natural e. Forced or Induced Draught for, 342
Boilers, Preservation of Unused, 11
Boilers, Water-tube, 305
Boilers, Water-tube, Combustion iD, 611
Boilers, Water-tube, On tho Design of, 107
Boilers, Water-tube, s.s. “ Meg Merrilees,” 546
Boilers, Water-tube, Mr. Goschen on, 257
Boilers, Yarrow Water-tube, for the Russian Admiralty, 329
Boilers, Yarrow Water-tube, for Swedish Cruisers, 403.
Boise City, U.S., Subterranean Hot-water Lake, 257
Bolivian Railways, Proposed, 117
Bolivia, Trade Marks in, 5
Bolted and Riveted Joints, Tests of, 133
Bombay, Toe Prongs L-'ghthonse, 520
Bombay, Renovation of, 23, 187
Bombay, The Smoke Nuisance in, 285
Bomford and Evershed’s Patent Excavator, 130

Books Received—.Literature

Booth, Mr. Cbas., Appointed Director of the
Midland Railway, 453
Bordeaux, British Coal Import to, 453
Boring for Iron Ore near Dalton-in-Furness, 285
Boring Machine, Eight-inch, Messrs. Craven Bros., 154
Boring Machines, Compressed Air-power, Use of and Opening for, in Greece, 529
Boriog and Turning Lathe, Krupp’s Works, Essen, 155
Boston Elevated Railway, 514
“Bouncer" Accident Inquiry, The, 162
Bourke, Mr. H. G., 233
Bourne, Dr., On the Sugar-cane Disease in Madras, 403
Bowser, Mr. Howard, his Jubilee, 133
Boxer, General Edward Mourrier, 8 (
Bradford, British Association to bo Invited to, 257
Bradford, Lord Masham's Gift to, 453
Bradwell, Mr. J. D. L., Manufacture of Incan¬descent Lamps, 190
Brady, Mr. A. B., Burnett River Bridge, Queensland, 596
Braithwaite Engines, Old, 376
Brakes, Returns Complying with the Board of ( Trade Regulations, 89
Brakes on tbe South Italian Railways, WestiDg- ( house in Place of Hardy, 304
Brassfounders, Association formed by the, 511 Brazilian Government, Contracts for Ironclads and Cruiser Transferred to some Foreign Power, 59
Breakwater at Buffalo, N.Y., New, 59
Brecon Railway Extension Schemes, 23 Bremen, Foreign Trade of, 577
Brent, Ashburton and Heathfield Railway Com¬pany Bill, 89
Brick-drying Carriage, Howl’s, 600

Bridges:

Amu-Daria River, Projected Iron, 479
Bundaberg River, Queensland, 596
Danube Railway, 107
Java Railway, 529
Mersey Broadway, Proposed, 340
New South Walep, Suspension, 538
North Paoi6c, at Bismarck, N.D., 573
Port Perry, U. S., 185
Seine, Proposed Railway, 89
Vauxhall, 209, 329, 399, 448, 451, 452, 454
Wear, The, 587
Bridges, Famous, Mr. A. J. West on, 490
Bridge, Lost, 185
Bridge-building, Drilling Machine, American, 437
Bridge-building in Egypt, French Engineers’, 3Ö4
Bridge-building over the Missouri, 573
Bridge, Moving the Pier of the Bismarck Railway across the Missouri, 511
Brighton Town Council, Prioeof Electric Current, 355
Brioschi, Sig., 11
Bristol Wagon and Carriage Works, Limited, Electric Installation for, 479, 491

British Association:

Meeting of the General Committee, 553
Officers of Sections Appointed for the Bristol Meeting, 304
British Coal Imports into France, 340
British Columbia, Railway Extension in, 233
“British Columbian,"Tbe New Magazine entitled the, 159
British Cycles, Export of, 329
British Firo Prevention Committee, The, 28, 238
British and Foreign Steam and Sailing Tonnage, Table of, 453
British and Foreign Types of Battleships, 260
British Locomotives for American Railways, 225
British Manufacturers and Exporters, Hints to, C 403
British Trade Abroad, Defence of, 162
British Trade in Canada, 158
British Trade with Sweden, Decrease of, 552
British Trades and Foreign Competition, 132
British Shipping at Christiania, 577
British Vessels, Loss Reports received in February, 209
Brittany, Railway Extension in tbe Brest District, 453
Brodie, Mr. Alexander, City Engineer for Liver¬pool, 233
Brodie, Mr. F. J., On the Abnormal Weather of January, 1898, 499
Bromell and Co., Messrs., Tho Simplex Tube Cleaner, 169
Brooks’ Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Japan, 529
Brooks’ Locomotive Works, U S.A., Mastodon » Locomotive, 104, 105, 106
Brown-Berryman Feed-water Heaters, 375
Browne, Sir B. C., His Election, 491
Bryan, Mr. G. H., On Electro-Magnetic Indueion in Plane, Cylindrical, and Spherical Current Sheets, and its Representation by Moving Trails of Images, 193
Bryansk Company, Blast Furnaces under Construction, Kertch, 453
Buenos Ayres, Consular Reports from, 380
Buenos Ayres, Dock and Port Works, 249
Buffalo Automatic Injector, 65
Buffalo, U.S. A., Breakwater, 498
Building Ordinance, Chicago, respecting Swing- i ing Windows, 607
Bulgaria, Commercial Relations with, 133
Bulkhead Door, Casey’s Water-tight, 400
Bull’s Metal Tail Shafts, 106
Bullet, The Dum Dum, 132, 158, £09, 216, 277, 314, 340
Bullet, The Dorn Dum, Lord Hamilton on, 209
Bundy Time Recorder, The, 239
Burglar-proof Mail Cars, 138
Burnett River Bridge, Bundaberg, Queensland, 596
Burnishing, 368
Burstall, Prof. F. W., Equipment of Mason College Laboratory, 112
Buretall, Prof. F. W., on Gas Engines, 148, 284, 336, 399
Bury Sewer, Mr. B. K. Adams, on the Crossing of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal by the, 267
Bask, Mr. Chas., Appointment, 24
Bute Dock, Capacity of the, 588

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CABLE from Birmingham to London, 539
Cable Machinery of the Capital Traction Company, Washington, Separated by Dynamite, 285
Cable Twenty-nine Miles Long, The J. A. Roebling's Sons’ Company, 505
Cables to hold Large Ships, 366
Cables, &c., for Spain, German, 453
Cables and the War, 456
Cables, Submarine, Number of throughout the World, 107
Cabs in Paris, Self-propelled, 573
Calcium Carbide Used as a Metallurgical Reduc¬ing Agent, 11
Calcutta University, “ Degrees in Science ” at the, 420
Caledonian Railway Company, The, 111
Caledonian Railway Company, Reduction of Fares, 33
Caledonian Railway, Express Locomotive, 175
Caledonian Railway, Speeds, 501
Calico Printing and Finishing Machinery, Electrically-driven, 498, 506
Callendar, Prof. H. L, Electrical Recording Apparatus, 452
Cambrian Railway, Half-yearly Rsport, 198
Campbell Gas Engine Company, Limited, Messrs.,
Combined Oil Engine and Pump, 601
Canada, Electric Railway Mileage in, 89
Canadian Gold Output in 1897, 329
Canadian Mail and Passenger Service, 237
Canadian Riilway Department, Annual Report, 304

Canals:

American, 177
Burgundy, Electric Towing on the, 505
Chicago Drainage, 142
Erie, The, 89, 142, 314
Flonda Ship, 177
Grand, Ireland, 248
Grand Junction, 248
Indian, 372
Rennet and Avon, 248
Leeds and Liverpool, 318
Manchester Ship, 19, 89, 159, 248, 539, 548
Manchester Ship, Half-yearly Report, 159
Manchester Ship, Receipts for 1897, 19
Nicaragua, 58, 198, 249
North Sea and Baltic, Second Year’s Working, 107
North Sea and Baltic, Traffic Returns, 329
Panama, 19, 58
Rochdale, 249
Suez, Returns of the, 453

Cannock Chase Colliery, Important Step in con¬nection with, 68
Cantor Lectures, On Gutta-percha, 417
Cape Government Railway, Rolling Stock for the,
Cape Government Railways, Stone's Electric Lighting Apparatus, 453
Capital and Labour, Relations of, 137
Carbide, Mr. V. B. Lewes, On Impure, 159
Carbide of Sodium, M. Camille Matignon, On, 185
Carbon Company ,. Perry and Co., 141
Cars by Boat, Transportation of, 355
Cars, Burglar-proof Mail, 138
Cars, Combination Open and Closed, New York City, 159
Car Ferries on Lake Michigan, 355
Car, Hospital, Belgian Railways, 403
Carnegie, Mr. A., Advocates the Establishment of a Commercial Shipyard in New York Harbour. 285
Carnotand Goutal, MM., OnSilicon and Chromium in Steels, 479
Carpenter, Professor, on “ Alzine,” 607
Carriage, Steam, Mr. Wm. Freakley, 383
Carthagena, Iron Ores Export from, 607
Case's Compound Cylinder (referred to in W. Walker’s Letter, 586), 548, 586
Casey’s Water-tight Bulkhead Door, 400
Castirgs, Dressing, 311
Castings, The Pickling of, 311
Castle Company decides to withdraw its Steamers from the Madagascar Trade, 505
Catalogues, 10, 36, 92, 142, 198, 266, 338 440 490, 568
Cattewater Harbour Development, The Adm ra ty with reference to, 380
Caustic Limo for Limestouo as Flux in Blast Furnaces, On the Substitution of, 444
Celluloid, Experiments at Portsmouth with an American Form of, 133
Cement, On the Amount of Limo Necessary to the Formation of Portland, 107
Cement Manufacture in China, 352, 353
Cement, The Proper Manipulation of the Tests of, 463
Cement for Rubber, 355
Cement Testing, Standardisation of, 443
Central London Railway Works, The, 250, 380
Central London Railway Works and the Stability of the Mansion House, 380
Central Railway, The Great, London Works, 374
Central Station, Electric Power Supply, 264
Ceylon Government Railway’s Locomotive Works, 89
Chain Cable, Rolled Weldless Steel, 205
Chamberlain, Mr. J., On the Workmen’s Com¬pensation Act, 679
Chantiers de la Loire, Activity at the, 329
Charcoal Iron Supply from the Urals, 169
Charcoal Yielded by an Acre of Forest Land, Official Estimate of, 159
Charleston and District, Foreign-office Report on the Trade of, 233
Chemical and Physical Calculations, Reform of, 313
Chemicals, Manufacturing Firms, Amalgamation of Two Important, 92
Chemistry, Third International Congress of Applied, Vienna, 1898, 434, 529
Chemistry, A Year’s Review, 21
Cherbourg Dock Connected with Station by Rail, 355
Chevalet, )!., Noise and Odour of Gas and Petro¬leum Engines Suppressed by, 607

Institute of Iron and Steel Works

Managers, South Staffordshire:
American Iron and Steel Practice. Mr. A. P. Head, 285
Application of Electricity to the Transmission of Power, Messrs. Booth and Ravenshaw, 52
Institute, The Northampton:
Opening of, 283

Institution of Civil Engineers:

Alternate-current Motors, Mr. Llewelyn B. Atkinson, 218
Annual Dinner of, 284
Conversazione and Exhibits at the same, 500
Dublin Electric Tramways, Mr. H. F. Parshall, 218
Electric Power Transmission, Protection of, Mr. J. T. Morris, 193
Electricity Supply of London, Mr. A. H. Preece, 364
Geology in Relation to Engineering, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, 240
Locomotive Fire-boxes, Security of Some, Mr. W. Thow, 193
Locomotive Slide Valves, Friction of, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, 193
Names of those who have Passed the Recent Examinations, 329
Officers Elected and Awards for Papers Reid and Discussed, 402, 419
Presentation to Mr. Wm. Hurst, 107
Reservoirs with High Earthen Dams in Western India, Mr. W. L. Strange, 117
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
Cost of Generation and Distribution of Elec¬trical Energy, Mr. Robt. Hammond, 329
Wilde, Mr. Hy., Elected Honorary Member, 479

Institution of Engineers, Chesterfield and Midland, and the Midland Institution of Mining, Civil, and Mechanical Engineers:

Joint Meeting to be held in Sheffield, Papers to be Read, 107

Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland:

Visit to the New Engineering Works of Sir Christopher Furness, Westgarih, and Co Limited, 563

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, North-East Coast:

Browne, Sir B. C , Elected President, 491
Visit to Sir Thos. Richardson and Co.’s Engineering Establishment, 69

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :

Combustion in Water-tube Boilers, Mr. Jas. Weir on the Problem of, 606, 612
Meeting at Sheffield, 295, 427, 606
Resistance and Speed of Ships, Mr. E. H. Parker, 415
Theory and Practice of Mechanical Refrigera¬tion, Mr. T. R. Murray, 170, 194, 240
Visit to the Cyclops and the Atlas Work, and the Electro-plating Works of Messrs. Walker and Hall, 606

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Inaugural Address, Mr. G. E. Stevenson, 570
Carbonising, New Departure in, Messrs. S. and T. Glover, 570
Carbonising Plant of a Modern Gasworks, Mr. 1 F. D. Marshall, 570
High-pressure System of Distribution, Mr. F. W. Steven sod, 570
Retorts, Observations on the Construction and Working of Inclined, Herr E. Drory, 570
Standards of Light and the One-candle Pentane Air-gas Flame, Dr. A. Vernon Harcourt, 570
Visit to the Beckton Works of the Gas Light and Coke Company, 570
Washers and Scrubbers, Mr. E. A. Harman, 570

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Conversazione and Lecturettes by Mr. H. S. I Maxim, 261
Evaporative Condensers and Independent Air Pumps for same, Mr. Harry Fraser, 493
Laboratory Testing Machines, and the Latest Examples, Prof. A. C. Elliott, 80
Mechanical Refrigeration, Mr. J. T. H. Ledicotte-Burrell, 354
Thirteenth Anniversary Dinner, 117

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Anniversary Dinner, 419
Derby Meeting and Programme of same, 185,
Electric Traction, Discussion on Mr. Dawson’s Paper on, 148
Fifty-first Annual General Meeting, Papers to be Read, 103, 148
Gas Engines, First Report to the Gas Engine 1 Research Committee, Prof. F. W. Burstall, 148, 281, 336 ; Discussion on the same, 399
New Home of the Institution, Storey’s-gate, Westminster, 278, 280
Papers to be Read at the Ensuing Ordinary General Meeting, 328
Railway Progress, Mr. S. Waite Johnson’s Presidential Address, Dealing with. 486, 512, 559

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, American:

Economy resulting from Varying Proportions between the Sizes of the Cylinders in a Compound Steam Engine, Prof. R. H. Thurston and Mr. L. L. Brinsmead, 89

Institution of Mining Engineers, The, Federated:

Technical Education, Prof. H. Louis, 197
Twenty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 170
Woodworth System of Progressive and Automatic Cut-off Gear for Winding Engines, Messrs. B. Woodworth and W. G. Cowlishaw, 576

Institution of Naval Architects:

Cruiser “Diadem,” Trials of the, Sir Albert Durston on Recent, 301, 334
Dates of the Annual Meetings, 158

Institution of Naval Architects

Experiments with a Water-tube Boiler, Mr. Yarrow, 322
Horse-power Absorbed by Skin Friction and Wave Making in Ships of Different Forms, Mr. James Hamilton, 321
Leading Article on the System of Working the Meetings of the Institution, 357
Minimum Net Register and its Effect on Design, Mr. A. G. Ramage, 315
Pneumatic Machinery for Loading and Dis¬charging Grain Cargoes, Mr. Duckham, 322, 339
Presidential Address of the Eirl of Hopetoun 301
Presentation to the Secretary, 301
Programme of the Ensuing Meetings, 286
Resistance te the Motion of Solids in a Fluid, Mr. B. Schieldrop, 322
Riveting by Electricity, Herr von Kodolitrch, 302, 311
Steam Engine Construction and Steam Naviga¬tion in the United States of America from 1807 to 1850, Reminiscences of Eirly Marine, Mr. C. H. Haswell, 312
Steering Qualities of the “ Yashima,” Mr. P. Watts, 365
Stream-line Motions, Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 302, 432, 458, 462
Torpedo Boats, Submarine, Capt. W. Jaques, 321
Trunk-deck Steamer “O;car II.,” Mr. W. Hök on the, 322, 345
Turning in Twin Screws, Mr. R. E. Froude, Experiments on the Effect of Direction of, 321
Water-tube Boiler, Description of Some Experi¬ments with a, Mr. A. F. Yarrow, 309

Institution, United Service:

Naval War Game, Mr. Jane on his, 595
Insurance against Accidents, Employers’, 604
Insurance Claims on Steel Steamers, 162
Insurance Companies and Employers, 579
Insurance, Mr. Livesey Advocates Mutual Funds rather than, 591
Insurance Premiums, Exorbitant, 537
Inter-communication Telephones, 118
Interlocking Plant, A Large, United States, 118
Inventions, Speculation in, with Reference to Parson’s Patent, 482
Ireland, Grand Canal, 248
Irish Railway Amalgamation, The, 364
Irish Railway Working, 127
Iron-bnilt Ships, The Earliest, 50
Ironclads, Extempore, 354
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Bir¬mingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts:
22, 41, 68, 92, 118, 142, 171, 196, 219, 242, 267, 289, 315, 341, 366, 388, 412, 438, 464, 490, 515, 538, 562, 586, 612
Iron and Coal Statistics, 1897, Wales, 46
Iron Industry, The French, 1897, 70
Ironmakers of Lancashire and North Stafford¬shire, Proposed Combination of, 438
Iron Market, Manchester, tee Notes from Lanca¬shire in each issue
Iron Oras Export from Carthagena, 607
Iron Ores, Swedish, 59
Iron Ores of the Ural, On the, 444
Iron from Rust, Preservation of, 27
Iron and Steel, On the Crystalline Structure of, Mr. J. E. Stead, 444
Iron and Steel Exports for 1897, 44
Iron and Steel Trade, The German, 1897, 70
Iron and Steel, German Foreign Trade in—see Notes from Germany in each issue Iron and Steel Institute, General Classified Index to the First Fifty Vols. of the Journal of the, 443
Iron, Steel, Metal, and Coal Industries in 1896, The Swedish, 320
Iron and Steel Plates and Forgings Used in Ship¬building, On, 185
Iron and Steel Practice, Notes on American,274
Iron and Steel Ships, Morbid Anatomy of, 142
Iron and Steel Sliding Scale Committee, Audit, 23
Iron and Steel Telegraph Poles for Victoria, 586
Iron and Steel Works at Calder, near Airdrie, 216
Iron and Steel Works, Workington, The West Cumberland, Disposed of to a New Company, 587
Iron Trade, The Austrian, 1897, 70
Iron Trade Board of Conciliation, 142
Iron Trade, Proposed Combination in the Finished, 464, 465
Ironworkers’ Wages, 306
Ironworks, Employment of “ Young Persons” in, 422
Irrigation Scheme for Vryburg, Cape Colony,
Isle of Man Electric Tramway Company, Exten¬sion of their Line, 41
Isle of Wight Railway Company’s Bill, 33
Italy as a Field for Cycle Manufacturers, 369
Italy, Tax on Bicycles, 329
Ivatt, Mr. H. A., Express Locomotive, Great Northern Railway, 511
Ivory Imitation, 553

J

JACKETING Locomotive Cylinders, 59
Jaffa Needs a Harbour, 430
"James Forrest” Lecture, Sixth, 240
Jane Naval War Game at the United Service-stitution, The, 553, 595, 606 '
Janet, M. P., on the Temperature of Electriccandescent Lamps, 285
January Board of Trade Returns, 137
Japan, American Warships for, 242
Japan’s Cruisers, 89, 144, 207, 210, 530, 535
Japan, Foreign Employés in, 388 Japan, Locomotives for, 329
Japan, Maritime Progress in, 195
Japan, Modern, Industrial, and Scientific, 73, 97, ;123, 178,179, 201, 223, 271, 371
Japan, Population of, 89 Japan, Strikes, 402
Japan, Telephone Service, 195
Japan, Training of Engineers in, 434, 488
Japan—see alto Notes from Japan from our own Correspondent, 195, 266, 388, 464
Japanese Bailer, A, 461
Japanese Investments, Foreign Capital and, 372
Japanese-made Machinery, 178, 179
Japanese Patents. 461
Japanese Patent Laws, 158
Jaques, Capt. W., Submarine Torpedo-boats, 321
Java, Railway Bridges for, Tenders Invited, 529
Jefferson, Mr. J. Clark, Design of Water-tube Boilers, 107
Jersey Harbour, 49S
Jessop and Sons, Limited, Fire at the Works of Messrs., 515
Johnson, Clapham, and Morris, Limited, Messrs., Invention for Lighting Miners' Lamps by Electric Current, 289
Johnson and Phillips, Messrs., Machinery for Hydraulic Jointing, 163, 161, 165, 166
Johnson, Mr. S. Waite, his Inaugural Address, 399
Johnson, Mr. S. Waite, On Railway Progress, 486, 512, 559
Jointing, Hydrau’ic, 163, 164, 165, 166
Joints, Flexible, for Submerged Wator Mains, 365
Joints, Tests of Bolted and Riveted, 133
Jones, Mr. Alfred, 172
Jones, Prof. 11., On the Use of Naphtha Refuse, 159
Jordan, Mr., Inaugural Address of, On the Coal Basin of South Wales, 466

K

KABUL, The Ameer's Workshops at, 426, 428
Kapteyn, M. R., Communication on Continuous Brakes, 505
Rennet and Avon Canal, 218
Key on Flat, Sunk Key i’., 132
Keyham Docks, Great Cofferdam, 607
Kiangnan Arsenal, 473, 474
Kidderminster and Stourport Electric Tramway,
Messrs. A. and C. Dickinson, 594, 596
King’s College, Annual Dinner of Old Students, 383
Kinsley, Mr. Carl, On Series Dynamo-electric Machines, 505
Kirk Bros, and Co. Registered as a Limited Com¬pany, 613
Rices, On Meteorological Investigation by, 592
Kithill Woolfram Mining Co., New Works Acquired by, 209
Klondike, Chances for Fortune in the, 209
Knowles and Sons, Limited, Messrs., Annual Report, 119
Kochs, Mr. W. E , 588
Kodolitsch, Herr von, On Riveting by Electricity, 302, 311
Korean Government and Railway Concessions to Foreigners, 133
Krupp, Herr, Gift of, to Göttiogen University, 353
Krupp Process Armour, United States Authori¬ties and, 371
Krupp’s Works, Long Shaft Boring and Turning Lathe, 155
Krupp’s Works, Percentage of Nickel in Street Car and Locomotive Axles and Fire-boxes, 453

L

LABORATORY Testing Machines and the Latest Example, On, 80
Labour Bureau, The, 265
Labour Department of the Board of Trade, Fourth Annual Report, 51
Labour Department of the Board of Trade, Monthly Report, 257
Labour Department of the Board of Trade, Wages Disputes and Changes, 380
“Labour Gazette,” State of Employment during March, 427
Labour Market, February, Board of Trade Report, 329
Labour Market, March, Board of Trade Report, 403
Labour Statistics of the Board of Trade, 257, 329, 380, 403, 479, 607
Lagos, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186
Laird, Mr. John (With Portrait), 88, 138
Lake Erie and Ohio River. 142
Lakin-Smitb, Mr. C., Oa Torpedoes, 418
Lamb and Sumners, Sheet Flue Boiler, 350, 351
Lambourn Valley Railway Opened, The, 89, 329
Lampblack, Acetylene Gas, 577
Lamps by Electricity, Lighting Miners’, 209
Lamp, Safety, for the Navy, 233
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 30
Lancaster, New Station at, 107
Lancashire News—see Letters from our own Corre¬spondent in each Issue
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Holidays and Advance of Wages to Firemen and Drivers, 233
Lascellea, Mr., his Report on Prussian State Railways, 209
Lathe, 54in. Centre, Messrs. Thos. Shanks and Co., 153

Launches and Trial Trips:

“ Adamastor,” Portuguese Cruiser, 4
“Albion,” H.M S. (llluslral d), 605
“ Algorta,” Steel Screw Steamer, 463
“ America Maru,” Twin-screw Passenger Liner, 265
“Anglian,” The Telegraph Cable-laying and Cargo and Passenger Steamer, 613
“Angola,” Steel Screw Steamer, 265
“ Ashton,” s.s., 463
“Bellerby," Steel Screw Steamer, 514
“ Berry,” Screw Steamer, 265
“Broadly, William,” 412
“ Bruce,” Passenger Steamer, 56
“ Bruxellesville,” s.s., 385
“ Chatham,” Steel Screw Steamer, 128, 288
“ Chicago,” Steel Screw Steamer, 464
“ Chitox,” Japanese Cruiser, 89
“Clan Macfarlane,” Turret-deck Steamer, 463
“ Cleopatra,” The s.s., 366
“ Dart,” s.s., 538
“Dongola,” Steel Screw Cargo Steamer, 463
“Dove,” H.M S., 288
Drofger, Barge-loading, for the Russian Government, 514
“ Ehoe," Steel Screw Steamer,” 463
“ Edenball,” s.s., 314
“Emmanuel,” s s.. 385

English Shipbuilders during January and Feb¬ruary, 1898, Ships Launched by, 133, 233
“ Ethelbryhta,” Steel Screw Steamer, 343
“ Euro,” Steel Screw Steamer, 412
“ Euston,’’ Steel Screw Steamer, 562
“ Febrero,” Steel Screw Steamer, 288
“ Fuller, T. E.,” Steel Twinscrow Steamer, 412
“ Gambia,” Cargo Steamer, 435
“ Glencoe," Steel Screw Steamer, 366, 511
“Gloriana,” Steel Screw Steamer, 314
“ Goolistan,” s.s., 463
“Goustav Bole,"The Barge-loading Dredger, 538
" Guildhall," s.s., Trial Trip of the, 514
“ Hai Chi," Cruiser for Chinese Government, 92
“ Haliotis,” s.s., 265
" Hector,” 8.8., 586
“ Hermes,” H.M.S., Second-class Protected Cruiser, 361
Hodgett's Safety Ship, Trial Trip of the, 514
“ Hohenfels,” Steel Screw Steamer, 128, 538
Hopper Barges for the Mersey Docks and Har¬bour Board, 128
“ Idaho,” Trial Trip of the s.s., 514
‘‘Johanna,” Steel Screw Steamer, 365
“ Joyeuse,” The Steam Yacht, 435
“Juno,” Steel Screw Steamer, 412
“Koordistan,” s.s., 343
“ Laura,” Steel Screw Steamer, 463
“ Laureldene,” Steel Turret-deck Steamer, 365
“ Lokoja," Steel Screw Steamer, 435
“ Manchester City,” Atlantic Liner, 562
“Maria,” Steel Screw Steamer, 514
' Masconomo,” s.s., 365 t
“Mayflower,” Steel Screw Steamer, 365
“ Minoco,” The Steel Screw Steamer, 92
“ Niobe,” First-class Cruiser, 439
“ Nippon Maru,” Twin-screw and Mail Passen¬ger Steamer, 435
“Norseman,” The, 221
“ Paddington,” s.s., 365
“ Pere3vet,” The Russian Battleship, 561
,“ Povena,” s.s., 538
“ Prince George,” Twin-screw Mail and Passen¬ger Steamer, 514
“Proserpine,” Cruiser, 595
"Rapidan,” The, 221
“ Rathfrau,” Steel Screw Steamer, 314
“ Reynolds,” The s.s., 92
“ Sanna,” s.s., 538
“ Sapphire,” Paddle Steamer, 365, 538
Scottish Shipbuilders during February, 1898, Ships Launched by, 233
“Sergei Witte,” Steel Screw Passenger ' Steamer. 586
“ Sunflower,” Steam Yacht, 314
“Surly,” Trial of the, 505
“Sylviana,” s s., 538
“ Symra,” s.s , 463
“Tannenfels." The Steamer, 314
“Tenby,” Steel Screw Steamer, 435, 538
“Tremont,” Screw Steamer, 288
“Trigonia,” s.s., 586
“ Ultonia,” Twin-screw Cattle and Cargo Steamer, 562
“ Umbre,” s.s., 314, 385
“ Vera,” Dispatch Tog, 586
“ Vestal,” Steel Twin-screw Yacht, 463
“ Victorio»’,” Steel Cargo Steamer, 366
“ William Price,” Hopper Dredger, 435
“Windward,” Yacht, 288
“ Winifred,” The Steel Tramp Steamer, 288
“ Wladimer Sawin,” Steel Screw Steamer, 463
“ Woodlark,” The, 221
“ Zouave,” Steel Steam Launch, 412
Launches in the United Kingdom for the Year ending April, 453
Load and Phosphorus Poisoning, 603

Leaders:

1897, 13
Argentaurum, 556
Balancing Engines (with reference to Mr. Jas. Whitcher’s Letter), 508
Balancing Steam Engines, 406
( Ballasting of Steamers, The, 188
Boiler Explosions, A Year’s, 161
Boilers for Motor Cars, 212
Bombay, The Renovation of, 187
“ Bouncer” Accident, The, 162
“ Brennus," The, 382
British and Foreign Types of Battleships, 260
Cheap Electricity, 37
Chemistry, 21
Chinese Railway Projects and Politics, 482
Civil Engineering, 13 Compound Locomotives, 188
Consulting Engineers and Public Companies, 531
Crisis in South Wales, The, 331, 481
" Curious Troubles with Slow-burning Powder, 236
’ Dowlais Works, Lord Wimborne and the, 85
Electrical Experience in the States, 86 „
Electricity, Cheap, 37
Engine’, Balancing Steam, 406, 508
Executive Bank for the Naval Engineers, 62
Fate of the Welsh Sliding Scale, The, 38
Feed-water, 429
Fireproof Windows, 110
French Marine, The, 136
Future of the Sailing Ship, The, 282 Gas, 20
Harbours and Waterways, 18
Heating Feed-water, 331
Heating Surface, What is 1 580
Increase in the Price of Gas in London, 136
Institution of Naval Architects, 357
Insurance Claims on Steel Steamers, 162
Insurance Companies and Employers, 579
Inventions, Speculation in, with Reference to Parson’s Patent, 482
Lead and Phosphorus Poisoning, 603
Locomotive Engine Economy, 357
Locomotives, Large, 109
London's Internal Railways, 332
Manila, Battle at, 429
Mechanical Engineering, 15
Metals, Vapours of, 430
Metropolitan Railways, 507
Miners’ Provident Fund and Workmen's Com¬pensation, The, 259
Motor Vans, 382
Naval Estimates, The, 235
North Atlantic Freeboards, 110
Patents and Inventions, 62
Pickard, Mr., On the War Path and After, 38
Picketing, 135 .
Railways, Light, 236 J
Roads, Power on Common, 455
Sailing Ship, Future of the, 282
Sanitary Engineering, 19
Smoke Prevention at Electric Light Stations, 555
South Wales Coal Perplexities, Som?, 579
South Wales Deadlock, The, 405
South Wales, Position in, 211
Specuation in Inventions, with Reference to Parson's Patent, 482
Steam Engine Economy, 86
Storage of Energy, The, 260
Stream Lines, Prof. Hele-Shaw’s Paper on, 305
Strike, The End of the, 61
Strike, The Welsh Ccal, 331, 481, 507
“Terrible,” H.M.S., 555
Train Resistance, 236
Transformers v. Dynamos, 455
“ Undertakers,” the Oppressed, 531
United States and Spanish Fleets, 381
Vapours of Metals, 430
War, The, 532 War Materiel, 17
Waste Heat at Sea, 38
Water Supply, 20
Water-tube Boilers, 305
Welsh Coal Strike, New Developments in the, 331, 481, £07
Welsh Collier and bis Wages, The, 507
Wires and Fires, 603
Workmen's Compensation Act, Effects of the, 603
Sub-leaders:
American and Spanish War, The, 406
Armour for the Navy, 261
Artisans, Home and Colonial, 306
Ballast Tankers, Steamers and, 63
Birmingham Welsh Water Supply, 482
Board of Trade Returns, 137, 237, 556
Boiler Tubes and the Admiralty, 237
British Trade Abroad, Defence of, 162
Cables and the War, 456
Caledonian Railway Co., The, 111
Canadian Mail and Passenger Service, 237
Capital and Labour, Relations of, 137
Clyde Shipbuilding Activity, 358
Coal Crisis, South Wales, 282
Coalowners, The Yorkshire, 406
Collieries and tha Workmen’s Compensation Act, 605
Consul’s Advice, Following the, 533
Copper, Engineers and, 483
Cripplegate Fire, The, 39
Eight Honrs Day, An, 39
Electric Traction on the Metropolitan Railway, 601
Employers’ Insurance against Accidents, 604
Engines, Blowing, 137
Engineers and China, 580
Engineers and Compensation, 456
Engineers and Copper, 483
Engineers and the Tin-plate Trade, 556
Engineering Strike, Sequel to the, 533
Experiment, Important, 87
Fireproof Wood, 63
“Gacgout,” The, 383
Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901, 358
Gun Accident, 87
Imperial Institute, The, 358
Ironworkers’ Wages, 306
Jaffa, Need of a Harbour at, 430
Loch Lomond Steamers, Rival Designs for, 111
Locomotive Fuel, 39
“ Maine,” Explosion on Board the, 163
Midland Railway Company and its Men, The, 332
Mining and Mine Engineering, 482
Mining in Nova Scotia, 382
Motor Car, Military, The, 406
Nile, Utilisation of the, 189
North Atlantic Freeboard, 282
Oil and Flue Tubes on Fuel Consumption by Locomotives, Influence of, 430
Pig Iron Last Year, The, 212
Plymouth Harbour, 212, 509
“ Powerful,” H.M.S., 237, 281
Railway Rates, Trade and, 237
Russian Volunteer Fleet, The, 533
South Wales Coal Crisis, The, 282
South Yorkshire, After the Battle in, 111
Steamers and Ballast Tanks, 63
Strike in a New Aspect, The, 163
Strikes in Germany, 63
“Terrible,” H.M.S., 509
Torpedoing of tbe "Albemarle,” The, 533
Trade Abroad, Defence of British, 162
Trade, Prospects of 111
Trade and Railway Rates, 237
Trade Unions, Amalgamation of, 162
Tyne Improvement Works, 189
United States Cruiser “ Maine,” 163
Vickers’ Gas Check, 306
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Collieries and the, 605
Yorkshire Coalfield, The, 483
Yorkshire Coalowners, The, 406
Yorkshire Coalowners and the Railway Con¬tracts, 604
Yorkshire Steam Coal Trade, 681
Le Chatelier, M., his Nomination, 59
Leddicote-Burrell, Mr. J. T. H., On Mechanical ltefrigation, 354
Lee, Howl, and Co., Compound Steam Pump, 598
Leeds Corporation, Electric Cars run by the, 403
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 348
Leen Valley Extension Branch Opened, The, 329
Lees, Dr. C. H., On the Effect of Temperature on Thermal Conductivities, 89
Left-hand Rail and Left-hand Driving Wheel of the Engine as Compared to the Right, Wear of the, 577
Legal Intelligence:
Carbon Company r. Perry and Co., 141
Employment of “ Young Persons" in Ironworks,
Important Case at Merthyr, 422
Holborn District Board of Works r. Messrs. W.
Scott and Co. re The Smoke Nuisance, 529
Inspector of Factories r. Crawshay Bros., Limited, 217
Lyons, J., and Sons v. Wilkins, 141
Parsons’ Patent, 385, 489
Leigk-an-Sea, Sewerage of, 265
Lenox and Co., Admiralty Order for Cables and Moorings Seenred by, '316
Lenses, Date of the Discovery of, 186
Lengthening a Kiver Steamer in America, 21
Lépinay, M. Godin de, 69
Le Roy, M. Fernand, On the Electrical Resist¬ance of Crystallised Silicon, 107

Letters to the Editor:

Aluminium Castings, Inquirer, 398
American Cyclometers, J. S. V. Bickford, 55
American Permanent Way and Locomotives, E. E. Russell Tratman, 51
Ball Bearing, A Faulty, Cyclist, 158
Bessemer Process, The, Edw. M. Mushet, 277
Bessemer, Recollections of Sir Henry, A. H., 313
Bicycle Wheels, Stress in, R. M. M., 325
Bogardu’s Mill? The, R. S., 305
Boilers, The Collapsing Pressure of, Mich. Longridge, 325
Boilers, Management oi, Ransome and Mar¬shall, 208
British Trade in Canada, F. T. B., 158
British Traders and Foreign Competition, C. P., 132
Chemical and Physical Calculation, Reform of, C. J. T. Hanssen, 313
China, &c., Modern, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 276
Christ’s Hospita), E. H. Pearce, 33
Clyde New Graving Dock, Gwynneand Co., 431
Coaling Warships, Bunker, 265
Cruisers, Spanish and English, Pro Patria, 537
Cylinder Jacketing, Wm. H. Booth, 132
“ Diadem,” Trials of H.M.S., Richard W. Allen, 325
Dum-Dum Bullet, The, M. T., 158
Dum Dum Bullet, l'he, N. S. B.-C., 132, 314
Dum Dum Bullet, The, Major-Gen. M. Tweedie, 277, 340
Dynamics, Problem, J. D. S., 536
Dynamics, Problem in, Revolver, 340
Dynamics, Theoretical, W. A. S. B., 10
Dynamics, Theoretical, Eurus, 32
Dynamics, Theoretical, E. Lousley, 611
Dynamics, Theoretical, G. Pinnington, 611
Dynamics, Theoretical, Secutor, 585
Econometer, The, Freak. Grover, 537
Electric Drilling Machines, Fred Jno. Rowan, 398
Employers’ Liability Bill, Engineer, 611
Employers’ Liability Bill, Factory, 611
Energy, C. B. Nixon, 354
Engines, Balancing, Arthur Forbes Scott, 501
Engines, Balancing. Robert H. Smith, 585
Engine, Balancing, Vauxhall, 460, 536, 585
Engines, Balancing, Jas. Whitcher, 434, 501, 536, 549, 611
Engines, Balancing, X., 611
Engine Governors, O. G. Bolitho, 536
Engine Governors, Early, Fred Bramwell, 468, 536
Engine Governors, Early, Miller, 501
Engine Governors, Early, Wm. Moor, 501
Engines, Old Braithwaite, Herbert T. Walker, 376
Engineers in Japan, Training of, Edw. Divers, 434
Engineers in Japan, Training of, Robert H. Smith, 488
Engineers’ Lock-out, The, Richard Tangye, 235
Engineers, Consulting, and Public Companies, M.I. and S. Inst., 549
Erie Canal, Improvements on the, E. E. Russell Tratman, 314
Explosives, Dangerous, Frank Richards, 114
Feed-water Heaters, Live Steam, Burrell and Co., 434
Feed Heater, Sambrook’s, J. K., 434
French Marine, The, J. A. Normand, 257
Fuel on Sugar Estates, Colonial, 32
Fuel on Sugar Estates, Colonial Engineer, 377
Fuel on Sugar Estates, J. A. D. Rolfe, 55
Fuel on Sugar Estates, Llewellyn Jones, 55
Gas Engine Research, F. W. Burstall, 488
Gas Engine Research, J. D. Roots, 460, 501
Girders, Proportions of, Ad Rem., 7, 32, 55
Girders, Proportions of, W. H. Bidder, 132
Girders, The Proportions of, Edw. J. M. Davies, 32, 228, 325
Girders, Proportions of, W. R. Evans, 55
Girders. Proportions of, Maurice F. Fitz-Gerald 115
Girders, Proportions of, B. W. Head, 115
Girders, Proportions of, F. W. Jennings, 90, 158
Girders, Proportions of, E. Lousley, 132
Girders, Proportions of, Retired Engineer, 7, 55, 158
Girders, Proportions of, Another Retired Engi¬neer, 90
Girders, Proportions of, J. C. Rome, 32, 158
Girders, Proportions of, R. E., 115
Girders, Proportions of, Chas. L. Smith, 90
Girders, Proportions of, Student, 32
Girders, Proportions of, N. D. Y., 276
Golf Balls, Machinery for Manufacturing, P. T., 1 211
Hats and Coats at Engineering Soirees and Meetings, M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., 585
Hammers, Pneumatic Chipping and Caulking, James Dunlop, 585
Horseshoe-making machinery, R. Z., 109
Houses for Workmen, R. Sheward, 184
Insurance Premiums, Exorbitant, Mechanical Engineer, 585
Insurance Premiums, Exorbitant, A Londen j Engineering Co., 537
Ironclads, Extempore, D. N., 354
Japanese Patent Laws, W. Silver Hall, 158
Key Sunk r. Key on Flat, Draughtsman, 132 ,
Labour Bureau, The, Non-unionist, 285
Linde’s Method of Liquefying Air, J. A. Ewing, f 314
Liquid Air, W. Hampson, 277
Locomotive Building in the United States, E. E. Russell Tratman, 276
Locomotives, Compound, F. W. Brewer, 287
Locomotives, Double-chimney, A. R. Bennett, 276
Locomotives, Double-chimney, Draughtsman, 208
Locomotives, Electric, on the Metropolitan Railway, A. M. B., 585
Locomotives, Fireless, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C. E , 55
Locomotives Supplied by British Firms to American Railroads, The Writer of the Articles, 277
M'Connell's Bloomer Engine, Howard Fletcher, 10 |
M'Connell’s Bloomer Engines. Clement E. Strotton, 55
Magnet and the Speotrum, The, F. Charles,
“ Maine,” Destruction of the, J. S. V. Bickford, 376
" Maino,” Destruction of the, J. S., S76
Marine Engineering and the Post-office Service, An Engineer, 184
Motor Cars, J. S. V. Bickford, 228
Motor Cars, Oil, 611
Motor Car Boilers, J. S. V. Bickford, 313
Motor Car Boiler, G. F. G. Des Vignes, 398
Motor Car Boilers, A. W. K., 313
Motor Cars, Regulations for, W. A. Martin and Co., 354
Motor Van Trials, H. W., 549
Naval Re-armament, W. A. S. B., 277
Oil Engines in Lighthouses, J. E. Weyman, 55
Ordnance, Modern Wire-wound, Bernard Daw¬son, 132
Panniter’s Steam Wagon, Philip J. Parmiter, 340
Power on Common Roads, J. S. V. Bickford, 501
Power on Common Roads, Chas. E. Hall, 501
Power on Common Roads, H. A. 0. Mackenzie, 501
“ Powerful,” Note on the Speed Trials of H.M.S., Robt. Mansel, 208
Practice v. Theory, E. F. Ransome, 184
Pumping Problem, A, Aquarius. 158
Pumping Problem, Ed w. J. M. Davies, 208
Railway, Light, A Trip on a, H., 232
Railway Speeds, W. M. Ackworth, 90
Railway Speeds, L. T. A. J., 32
Railway Speeds, A. de Normanville, 7
Railway Speeds, H. P. N., 7
Railway Speeds, A. E. S., 55
Railway Speedy Chas. Rous-Marten, 55
Railway Speeds, Clement E. Stretton, 132
Railway Speeds, Ciledonian, F., 501
Roller Bearings, Thomas H. How, 232
Roller Boats, E. W. Young, 314
Run on the Great Northern, A Good, O. R. Walkey, 325
Saw Guards, W. G. Woresam, 287
Screwjacks, Efficiency of, G. P. W., 265
Screwjack Efficiency, H. E. W., 208
Shafting Accidents and the Board of Trade, W. S. Woresam, 314
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the Thames, E S , 519
Slide Rules, Civil Engineer, 461
Soaring Birds, J. D. Fullerton, 55
Steam Navigation, Early, A. G. Greenhill, 10
Strike and Lock-out, E. Durant Cecil, 10
Strike and Lock-oat, E., 10
Strike and Lock-out, Elbow Education, 10
Strike and Lock-out, Ousted, 10
Trade Unions, Nemo, 158
Train Resistance, John Batey, 208
Train Resistance, Big End Bob, 208. 276
Train Resistance, R. M. Dseley, 276
Train Resistance, J. Nield, 184
Train Resistance, Henry Simpson, 184
Train Resistance, Charles L. Smith, 32
Train Resistance, W. Carew Smith, 354
Train Resistance, Charles J. Thornton, 460
Train Resistance, C. E. Wolff, 232, 276
Tubes in Shear, Charles Childs, 184
Tubes in Shear, U. F. R., 158
Tubes in Shear, W. H. T., 184
Tubes in Shear, P. Warren, 132, 184
U. S. and of Spain, Relative Forces of the, U. S. A., 287
Venturi Meter, The, W. W. F. Pullen, 232
Walker’s Compound Pump, W. Walker, 586
War, End of the, Alexander Dalrymple, 132
Waste Heat at Sea, J. S. V. Bickford, 55
Waste Heat at Sea, William H. Booth, 277
Waste Heat at Sea, Rivet Head, 184
Wheat and War, A Trader, 398
Wheels, Half-helical, R. B., 501
Workmen's Compensation Act, Caxton, 549
Workmen’s Compensation Act, F. D., 549
Workmen's Compensation Act, The, Director, 488
Workmen’s Compensation Act, An Undertaker, 519
Letters—see also Inquiries
Letters from Our Own Correspondents:
England, North of, 23, 45, 69, 93, 119,143, 171,
219, 243, 267, 289, 315, 341, 367, 389, 413, 439, 465, 491. 515, 539, 563, 587, 613
Germany, 24, 46. 70, 94, 120, 172, 198, 220, 244, 268, 290, 316, 342, 368, 390, 414, 440, 466, 492, 516, 540, 564, 588, 614
Japan, 195, 266, 388, 464
Lancashire, 22, 44, 68, 92, 118, 142, 171, 196,
242, 267, 289, 315, 341, 367, 389, 413, 439, 465, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 6:3
Newport Harbour Commissioners' Weekly Trade Reports, 24, 46, 70, 94, 120, 144, 167, 220, 214, 256, 316, 368, 390, 414, 440, 466, 492, 516, 540, 564, 588, 614
Scotland, 23, 46, 68, 94, 120, 143, 172, 197, 243, 268, 290, 316, 342, 368, 389, 413, 439, 465, 491, 516, 540, 564, 587, 613
Sheffield, 22, 45, 69, 93, 119, 143, 171, 197, 219, 243, 267, 289, 315, 341, 367, 389, 413, 439, 465, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 613
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 23, 46, 70, 94, 120, 144, 172, 198, 220, 244, 268, 290, 316, 342, 390, 414, 440, 466, 492, 516, 540, 564, 585, 614
Lewes, Mr. V. B., On the Dangers Arising from the Use of Impure Carbide, 159
Liyton Sewage and Destructor Works, 115, 116
Light Dues, 58
Light Railways—«c Railways
Lijhthouse, Bombay, The Prongs, 520
Lighthouse Lamp, Electric, Staten Island, 553
Lighthouses, Oil Engines in, 55
Lighting Miners’ Lampe by an Electric Current, Invention for, 289
Limestone and Lime in Blast Furnaces Smelting Iron Ores, Relative Merits of, 444
Limited Liability Companies in Germany, 355
Linde’s Method of Liquefying Air, 257, 314
Lindlar, Mr. W. L., Appointment of, 119
Liquefaction of Hydrogen, by Prof. Dewar, at the Roy. Inst., 453
Liquid Air, 277
Liquid, The Lightest, 553
Lishman, Mr. J. J., Retirement of and Presenta¬tion to, 290, 342
Lishman, Mr. Wm., 587

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Minerals of Commercial Value, Description of, by D. M. Barringer, 295
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Ships, Resistance and Propulsion of, by W. F. Durand, 543
Siberia, Side-lights of, Some Accounts of the Great Siberian Railway, the Prisons, and Exile System, by James Young Simpson, 351
Sousterrains, de l’Emploi du Bouclier dans la Construction des, par Reynald Legonez, 294
Submarine Cable Testing, Student’s Guide to, by H. K. C. Fisher and J. C. H. Darby, 333
Survey and Estimates, Preliminary, J. T. Gribble, 63
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Valuation of Property, Hints to Young Valuers :
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Literature: Short Notices:

Acetylene Gas, its Nature, Properties, and Uses; also Calcium Carbide, its Composition, Properties, and Methcd of Manufacture, G. F. Thompson, 581
Aide-memoire de l’Officier de Marine de Edouard Durassier, Chef de Bureau au Ministère de la Marine, Continué par Charles Valentino, lie Annéi, 1898,190
Alternating Currents in Practice, by Francis J. Moffett, 593
Automobiles on Rails, par G. Dumont, 533
Automobiles sur Routes, par L. Périsse, 581
Auto-motor and Horseless Vehicle Pocket-book of Auto-motive Formula; and Commercial Intelligence, Edited by G. H. Little, 7
British Columbia, Year-book of, and Manual of Provincial Information, with a Chapter of Special Information as to the Canadian Yukon and North Territory, also Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations of British Columbia and the Canadian Yukon, by R. E. Gosnell, 137
Chemistry, Elementary, Practical and Theo¬retical, First Year's Course, by T. A. Cheetham, 376
Coal Statistics, 533
Curves from 5 to 200 Radius, Tables of Tan¬gential Angles and Multiples for Setting up, Alexander Beazeley, 681
Cyclists’ Pocket-book for 1898, Archibald Con¬stable and Co., Publishers, 111
Cyclist Year-book, 1898, The, 272
Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast, Catalogue of, 1769 to 1897, Edw. S. Holden, 581
Electric Wiring and Fitting Details Book, by W. Perren Maycock, 533
Electrical Dictionary, Standard: Popular Encyclopaedia of Words and Terms used in th9 Practice of Electrical Engineering, 238
Electrical Directory, Universal, J. A. Berly’s, 213
"Electrician ” Electrical Trade’s Directory and Handbook for 1898. 213
Electricity, Industrial, from the French, by H. de Graffigny, and Edited by A. G. Elliott, 483
L’Electrolyee, Les Theories de, par A. Minet, 351
Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence, by J. C. Wait, 509
Engineers’ and Surveyors’ Compendium and Diary, Edited by J. E. Sears, 7
Engineers’ Yearbook of Formu’re, Rules, Tables, Data, and Memoranda in Civi’, Mechanical, Electrical, Marine, and Mine Engineering, H, R. Kempe, 137
Gas Engineers’ Pocket-book, comprising Tables, Notes, Memoranda, relative to the Manu¬facture, Distribution, and Use of Coal Gas, and the Construction of Gasworks, by H. O’Connor, 111
Geometry, W. and A. K. Johnston’s Illustra¬tions of, Sheet II-, 509
Gum-bichromate Process, Handbook to the, for Obtaining a Permanent Print in Pigment by Photographic Means without Transfer, by W. J. Warren, 457
Gutta-p9rcha, Cantor Lectures on, by Dr. E. F. A. Obach, 533
Hoepli Manual, Dizionari Tecnico in Quattro Lingue, Vol. iii., Francese, Italiano, Tedesco, Inglese, 190
Lancashire, Public Works in, for the Relief of Distress among the Unemployed Factory Hands during the Cotton Famine, 1863-66, Carried out under the Supervision of Mr. Robt. Rawlinson, 376
Lathe Construction, Twenty-four Coloured Plates, Drawn to Scale, by Paul N. Hasluck, 238
Laxton’s Builders’ Price-book for 1898, con¬taining above 72,000 Prices, 81st Edition, 152
Local Government Annual, Official Directory, 1898, Edited by S. Edgecumbe-Rogers, 137 Lockwood’s Builder’s, Architect’s, Contractor’s,
and Engineer’s Price-book for 1898, Edited by F. F. W. Miller, 7
Locomotive, Kikanshya, which in English means the, by M. Crizuka, 190
Locomotives of the London and North-Western Railway, Simple and Compound, Part I., Experiment and Dreadnought Classes and Black Prince, by S. Cotterell and G. H. Wilkinson, 376
Master and Servant, Employer and Employed, Handybook on the Law of, Mr. Jas. Walter Smith, 581
Map to Illustrate the Chinese Qaestion, W. and A. K. Johnston's, 213
Maps to Illustrate the Niger and Upper Nile Questions, W. and A. K. Johnston, 333
Map of the Klondyke Goldfields, W. and A. K. Johnston’s, 213
Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, and Miscellaneous Improvements Deposited at 1 the Private Bill Office, 152
Map of South Afiica, Castle Line Roller, Donald 1 Currie and Co., Ill
Meteorology, Proposed Revolution in the Science of, by W. G. Wenley, 137
Metric Charts, Cassell’s Approved, 376
Mile a Minute Express Trains, Rev. W. J. Scott, 7
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Municipal Year-book of the United Kingdom for 1898, Robt. Donald, 137
Parabolic Curves, Tables of, for the Use of Railway Engineers and others, by Geo. T. Allen, 32
Periodical Literature, A Contents — Subject Index to General and ; to which is added an extensive List of Works on Subjects of General and Special Interest, Compiled by A. Cotgreave, 376
Physics, Elementary, Practical, and Theoretical, First Year’s Course, by J. G. Kerr, 137
Process Year-book, The, for 1898, Reviews of the Graphic Arts, Edited by William Gamble, 1 467 1
Railway Year-book for 1898, The, 238
Science Abstracts, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Vol. i., Part II., 295
Science, General Elementary, Edited by Wm. 1 Briggs, 213
“ Scientific American ” Supplement, Catalogue of Valuable Papers, New York, Minns and 1 Co., 152
Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, comprising Lists of the Papers read during 1897, with Names of Authors, 581
Sail’s Dictionary of the World’s Press and Annual of Useful Commercial Knowledge, by Henry Sell, 63
Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, National Directory of Large Commercial Houses, and Buyers’ Guide, by J H. Sell, 137
Shipmasters, Hints on the Legal Duties of, by B. W. Ginsburg, 431
" Shipping World” Year-book, Desk Manual of Trade Commerce and Navigation, Edited by 1 Evan Rowland Jones, 137
Ships, Laying off Iron, Steel, and Composite, Manual on, by Thomas H. Watson, 509
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the 1 Board of Regents of, 581
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1084, Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum J Group, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Rhodium, Osmium, Ruthenium, by James 1 Lewis Howe, 295
Square Measurements, Tables of, Compiled for the Convenience of Architects, Auctioneers, 1 Builders, he., by Frank Trickey, 111
Street Railroad Location, Handbook of, by J. P. Brooks, 483
Strength of Materials, Toe, Text-book for Manual Training Schools, by Mansfield
Merriman, 509
Valve Settiog Racard Boak, by P. A. Low, 111
War Map of U.S. with Spain, W. and A. K. Johnston, 483
“Who’s Who?” 1898, Edited by Douglas Sleden, 213
Working Men's Insurance, by Wm. Franklin Willoughby, 593
Workmen’s Compensation Act, People’s Guide , to the, 533
Literature Books Received:
7, 41, 63, 75, 111, 137, 152,190,213, 238, 272, 295, 333, 407, 457, 483, 509, 533, 581
Liver Acetylene Gas Company, Limited, Automatic Generator, 515
Liverpool Motor Car Trials, The, 502, 503, 504, 531, 535
Livesey, Mr. Georg", On the South Metropolitan Gas Company's Mutual Accident Fund, 427
Livesey, Mr. George, On the South Metropolitan Gas Company’s Workmen's Compensation Scheme, 591
Living Pictures at the Empire, M. E. Guitton, the Inventor, 159
Llanelly Dock, The New, 120, 268
Llanelly Embankment Scheme, The, 342
Llanelly Harbour, 177
L'anelly, The Wages Question at, 614 .
Lloyd’s Register, Percentage of the Tonnage built of Steel, 257
Lloyd’s Register, Vessels under Construction, Quarter ending March 31st, 380
Lloyd’s Register Wreck Returns, 59
Lloyd’s Register, 1897, Vessels Classed by and Added to, 233
Loading and Discharging Grain Cargoes, Pneu¬matic Machinery for, 322, 339
Loch Lomond Steamers, Rival Designs for, 111
Lock-nut, The Helicoid, 112, 113
Locks, English, Useless at Las Palmas, 380 Locomotives:
Locomotives, American, 276
Locomotives, American, for the British War-office, Baldwin Works, 355
Locomotives, American, Bnilt in 1897, 33, 106, 117
Locomotives, American, for China, 66
Locomotives, American, Coal Consumption of, 150
Locomotives, American, for Corea, 366
Locomotives, American, with Double Smoke-stacks, 194
Locomotives, American, for Export, 120, 577
Locomotive, American Geared, 21
Locomotives, American, for Japan, 529
Locomotive, American, The Mastodon, Great Northern Railway, 104, 105
Locomotives, American, and Permanent Way, 51
Locomotives, American, for tho Russian Govern¬ment, The Baldwin Works, 342
Locomotives, American, at £10,000, Offered to Russia, 612
Locomotives for Belgian State Railways, 285
Locomotives, British, Supplied to American Rail¬ways, 51, 77, 225, 249, 277
Locomotives, Central London Railway, 107
Locomotive, China, The First Built in, 474
Locomotives, Compound, 188, 287, 314
Locomotive, Four-cylinder, Compound Passenger. London and North-Western Railway, 420, 42l
Locomotives, Double Chimney, 208, 276, 453
Locomotives, Dublin and Kingstown Railway, 1810, 609, 610
Locomotives, Express, Caledonian Railway, 175
Locomotives, Express, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway, E05
Locomotive, Express, Glasgow and South- Western Railway, 128, 134
Locomotive, Express, Great Northern Railwav, 511
Locomotives, Fireless, 55
Locomotive, The First, Representation of, at Darlington, 563
Locomotive, Four-cylinder, Mr. J. Manson, 8, 16
Locomotives, Furness Railway Company, New and Powerful, 243
Locomotives, German State Railways, 614
Locomotives, Indian Railways, 257, 613
Locomotives for Japan, 329
Locomotives for Russian State Railways, 257
Locomotives, South Australia, Construction of in Government Workshops, 538
Locomotive, A Large, 109
Locomotives, The Largest Passenger, 340
Locomotive, The Largest in the World, 607
Locomotives for the Midland, 197
Locomotive, Midland Railway, Coloured Plate of 59
Locomotives, Old Braithwaite, 376
Locomotives, Tank, Lynton and Barnstaple Rail¬way, 547
Locomotive, Bevel Gear, 64
Locomotive, Chicago and E. Illinois, Weight of Train Hauled by a, 529
Locomotive Cylinders, Jacketing, 59
Locomotives, Double Stacks for, again Prominent, 208, 276, 453
Locomotive Engine Economy, 357
Locomotive Fire-boxes, On the Security of Some, 193
Locomotive Fuel, 39
Locomotives, Fuel Consumption by, Influence of Oil and Flue Tubes on, 430
Locomotives, Prizes for Working to their Full Capacity, 329
Locomotive Slide Valves, Friction of, 193
Locomotive Stay Bolts, Test Holes in, 380
Locomotive Steam Shunting Crane, 266
Locomotive Works of the Ceylon Government Railway, 89
Locomotive Work in Russia, 120
London, Electricity Supply of, 364
London Geological Field Class, Prof. Set ley’s
Lecture Excursions with the, 329
London, Public Vehicles in, 257
London Water Supply (with Map), 257, 419
Longbotham, Mr. J., Testimonial to, 33
Louis, Prof. H., on Technical Education, 197
Lubricating by Compressed Air, U.8.A., 118
Lubrication System, A Pneumatic, 233
Lucas and Aird, Messrs., The Assouan and Assiout, 380
Lynch, Edward, The Albert Medal Bestowed on, 89
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, Tank Locomotives for, 517
Lyons and Sons v. Wilkins, 141

M

MACAO, Cement Manufacture at,352, 353
Macao, From our Correspondent at, 371
M’Connel’s Blooming Engine, 10, 55
Micfarlane and Bryant’s Automatic Steam Stop 5, Valve, 375
McGlashan, Mr. A., on the Water Ballasting of Steamers, 69
Machine Tool Market of South Africa, Particulars concerning the, 278
Machine Tools from America to Liverpool, Shipment of, 586
Machine Tool for Railway Work, Messrs. Can- iffo and Croom, 515
Machine Tools, Some Large, 227, 234
Machinery for Egypt, British Cnambsr of Com¬merce on, 380
Machinery Exhibits, Royal Agricultural Show, Birmingham, 597, 601
Machinery Exports, A Year’s, 42
Machinery, Japanese Made, 78, 179
McKie and Bixter, Messrs., Engines of the Ferry Steamer “ Chebucto,” 470, 471, 472
Madagascar, Trade and Industry of, 133
Magazine, A New Monthly, 159
Magnet and the Spectrum, The, 536
Magnetic Disturbancss Reported at Greenwich, 1897, 557
Magnetic, Properties of Tempered Steel, 107
Magnolia Metal Patent, The, 52 yiail Cars, Burglar Proof, 138
Mail Vans, Electric Motor, 89
Mails between Havre and New York, New Packet Boats for Conveyance of, 453 Mails by Steam Motor Vans from London to Red-hill, 89
Main Drainage Committee of the London County Council, Report for 1897,107
“Maine,” Destruction of the, 347
‘Maine ” Disaster, Spanish Report on the, 378
Majendie, Sir Vivian Dering, 400
‘Mallard," The, 227
Management of Boilers, 208 ;
Manchester City Council, The Tramways of
Manchester and other Corporations, 209
Manchester Docks, Large New Warehouse, 196
Manchester Liners, Limited, Floatation of the, 539
Manchester Sewage Disposal Question, The, 285, 294, 319, 608
Manchester Ship Canal, 19, 29, 89, 159, 248, 539, ;518
Manch-ster Water Supply from Longdendale for, 257
Manganese Industry in Russia, Railway Accommodation for the Development of, 529
Manganese Ore ia Asturias, 470
Manganese Ore from India, Import of, 513
Manila, Battle at, 429
Mann and Charlesworth, Messrs., Steam Wagon, 278
Mannesmann Tubss in Strong Request, 516
Manson, Mr. J., Four-cylinder Locomotive, 8, 16

Maps:

Map of Chinese Railways, 252, 469
Map of Formosa, 73
Map Showing the Defences of Havana, 422
Map of the Lagos District, 180
Map, Naval War Game, 545
Marconi Apparatus on an Italian Warship, A, 233
Mardy, Electricity at, 241
Mare, Mr. C. J., 133
Marine Engineering and the Post-office Service, 184
Marion’s Actinograph, 328
Maritime Congress, Tbe, 495
Maritime Congress in Japan, 195
Marshall, Mr. F. D., On the Carbonising Plant of a Modern Gasworks, 570
Martin and Co., London, Catalogue, 410
Masham, Lord, Generosity to Bradford, 453
Mason College Laboratory, Equipment of, 112
Mastodon Locomotive, Great Northern Railway, U.S.A., 101, 105
Matches, Paste for, Premium Offered by the Belgian Government, 577
Mather and Platt, Messrs., Electrically-driven Calico Printing and Finishing Machinery, 498, 606
Matthews, Mr. D. H. F., On an Improved Appli¬ance for Drawing Timber in Mines, 69
Matthews, Mr. W., Opening Address to the Waterworks Engineers, 523
Matignon, M. Camille, On Carbide of Sodium, 185
Mauaslay, Sons, and Field, Engines of H.M. Battleship “Albion” (Supplement, June 24 1898), 602, 606
Mawley, Mr. Edward, Weather Influences on Farm and Garden Crops, 111
May Train Services, C. Rous-Marten, 470
Measurement of High Temperatures by the Interference Method, 159
Measurement of Steam in Steam Engines, Con¬densation and, 2
Measuring the Eirth’s Diameter, Prof. Porter 8
Method of, 209 Measuring Machine, 9
Mechanical Cab Trials in Paris, 550
Mechanical Engineering, a Year’s Review, 15
Mechanical Refrigeration, Mr. J. T. H. Leddicote-Burrell, 354
Mechanical Refrigeration and Ice-making, 30
Mechanical Refrigeration, Theory and Practice of, 170, 194, 240
Mechanical Stoker, Earliest Form of, 185
Melson, Dr. John Barritt, 529
Melbourne Tramways, Traffic on, 438
Melting Points of Gold and Silver, M. D. Berthelot on the, 185
Members of Parliament at Portsmouth, 592
Menne and Co., Gustav, Eleotrolytic Nickel harder than the American, 403
Mercury, The Tnscan, 457
Mersey Broadway Bridge, Proposed, 340
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Bill, Passing of the, 304 ,
Mersey Docks and Harbour, Proposed Alteration of the Herculaneum Graving Dock, 285
Mersey and Irwell Purification, 348
Metal, On Expanded, 306
Metals Used by the Great Nations of Antiquity, Ni Metals, Vapours of, 430
Metallurgical Reducing Agent, Calcium Carbide used as a, 11 .
Metallurgical Value of By-Product Coke in U.S , Report as to the, 355
Meteorites, The Composition of, 374
Meteorological Phenomena in Landon from 1763 to 1897, Mr. R. C. Mossman on, 592
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Commander Wells New Regulations, 607
Metropolitan Railway, Electric Traction on the, 604
Metropolitan Railway, Ventilation of the, 607
Mexican Silver Dollars, On the Presence of Gold in, 11
Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, Quarter s Statistics, 367
Middlesbrough Docks, 143, 342, 498
Middlesbrough Ore Imports, 45, 69 on N
Midland Railway Company and its Men, The, 332
Midland Railway, Concessions to Goods Guards, Shunters, and Locomotive Men, 89
Midland Railway, Dispute between the Morriston and, 198
Midland Railway, Duke of Norfolk’s Sheffield Residence bought by, 453
Midland Railway, Locomotives for the, 197
Midland Railway Widening at Kentish Town, The, 138
Midsomer Norton Sewage Works, Opening of, 175
Military Utensils of Aluminium issued by the French War Ministry, 329
Milk brought Annually to London by Railway, 250
Milward and Sons’ Works, Messrs., Manufacture of Needles, 298, 299
Mill Engine, 1600-Horee Power Triple-expansion -(Supplement, January 14<A, 1898), 35
Milling Machine, Messrs. G. Birch and Co., 289
Milling Machine, Horizontal Duplex, 378
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, Special Conference of, 289
Miners* Federation and the Wages Question, 563
Miners’ Provident Fond and Workmen’s Compen¬sation, The, 259
Miners’ Provident Fund, Returns of, 466
Mines, On Drawing Timber in, 69
Mines, Gas Explosion in Russian, 94
Mines and Quarries in the North Wales, &c. District for 1896, Home-office Report on, 11
Minimum Net Register and its Effect on Design, Mr. A. G. Ramage, 345
Mining and other Electrical Machinery at the Works of Messrs. Ernest Scott and Mountain, Limited, 220
Mining and Mine Engineering, 482
Mining in Nova Scotia, 382
Mining Products of British Columbia since 1890,
Miscellanea:
11, 33, 59, 89, 107, 133, 159, 185, 209, 233, I 256, 285, 304, 329 , 355, 380, 403, 427, 453, I 473, 505, 529, 553, 577, 607
Modern Languages, Statistics respecting the Speaking of, 233
Montgomery-Moore System of Controlling Water¬ tight Doors, 461
Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel Ships, On, 142
Morecambe Sewage Disposal Schemes, 89
Morris, Mr. E. H., On the Superelevation of Rails, 196
Morris, Mr. J. T., Protection of Electric Power Transmission from Lightning, 193 Morris and Sons, Messrs. John, Patent Hand-pipe and Nozzle for Tire Extinguishing, 613
Morrison, Mr. J., Express Locomotive, Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 128, 134
Morse Recorder Applied to Determine Speed of Trains in Berlin, 133
Mossman, Mr. R. C., On the Frequency of Non-instrumental Meteorological Phenomena in London with Different Winds from 1763 to 1897, 592
Motors, Alternate-current, 218
Motor, Hot-air, 65
Motor Cars, 228, 611
MotorCars, Mr. F. H. Hummell, On, 300
Motor Car, The Military, 406
Motor Cars, Regulations for, 354
Motor Care, Smallwood’s Metal and Manufacturing Company, 438
Motor Car Traffic in London, 41
Motor Car Notes. 230, 254, 286, 322, 605
Motor Car Trials, Liverpool, 502, 503, 504, 534, 535
Motor Car Boilers, 212, 313, 398 Motor Vans, 382
Motor Vans for Road Scavenging, 4
Motor Van Trials, 549
Motor Vehicles at the Royal Show, 571
Moulding Boxes ? 281
Mounting, Double-fire Schneider-Canet, 205
Mudd, Mr. Thomas, 483, 491
Muirhead, Dr. A. and Professor 0. Lodge, Tele-graphic Apparatus Exhibited at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 452
Muirhead’s Steel Railway Chairs, 479
Muller and Co., Messrs. C. E., Statistics Relative to Ore Imports at Middlesbrough, 69
Multiphase Currents, Practical Operation of, Mr. T. Hawkins, 267
Mumbles Pier, Opening of the, 466
Municipalisation, The March of, 205
Mushroom Growing in Tunnels, Mr. Littler, On, 285
Murray, Mr. T. R., Theory and Practice of Mechanical Refrigeration, 170, 194, 240,

N

NAGASAKI Dockyard, The, 371
Nagel, Mr. Albert, his Appointment at Hartle¬pool, 613
Nails, Holding Power of, 614
Nantes, Casualties to Ships Trading to, 380
Nantes, Railway Communication with, 377
Naphtha Refuse, Prof. H. Jones, On the Use of, 159
Natal Harbour, 226
Natural Gas and Oil Gas in the United States, Ü8e Of> 308 . m ,T a 4
Naval Dry Docks, Dimensions of Ten United States, 59
Needles Manufacture of, 298, 299
Neilson, Reid,and Co., Locomotives for Belgium, O 285
Netherlands Government invite Tenders for Rail¬way Bridges for Java, 629
Naval Engineer Appointments:
36, 190, 217, 228, 302, 333, 386, 407, 440, 490, 503, 557
Naval Engineers, Executive Rank for, 62, 92
Naval Engineer Students’ Examination, 610
Naval Estimates, 235 .
Naval Forces in Chinese Waters, Comparative, 80
Naval Observatory, The United States, 304
Naval Re-armament, 277
Naval Reform», French, 176 .
Naval War Game, The Jane, at the United
Service Institution, 149,192, 215, 544, 553, 595
Navigation Congress, 548
Navy, The French, 136
Navy, Mr. Goschen on the Increase of the, 224
Navy, The United States, 538
Navy, United States, Fireproof Wood in the, 13/
Newberry, Messrs., On the Essential Constituents of Portland Cement, 107
Newfoundland, Contract for a Railway across, 18o
Newfoundland, The Dry Dock at St. John’s, Dis¬posed of to Mr. Reid, 257
Newhaven Harbour, 89, 227
New Orleans, Drainage Project, 233
New Orleans, Electric Street Railways, 233
New Orleans, Electric Traction instead of Mole Haulage, 257
New Orleans, Exports from, 233
Newport-Abercarn Annual Report, The, 540
Newport made a Coaling Station for the Navy, 558
Newport, The Lock-out of Carpenters at, and Mr. Tom Harrington’s Letter to the “ South Wales Argus,” 517
Newspapers in the United States, 380
New South Wales, Child Labour, 33
New South Wales, Coal Output in 1897, 233
New South Wales, The New Factories and Work-shops Act, 33
New South Wales, Ironworks Prcjec'.ed, 24 _ A
New South Wales, Manufactories of, in 1897, 33
New South Wales, Metal Works of, 33
New South Wales, Mineral Production of, in 1897, 355
New South Wales, Railway Commissioners Reports, 24, 288
New South Wales, Values of Municipal Property ~ 438
New South Wales, Woollen Manufactures in, 33
New York, Proposed Power Station of the “ Metropolitan Traction Company, 11
New York, Shipyard Advocated by Mr. A. Carnegie, 285 .
New Zealand, Frozen Meat Trade, Official Statistics, 380
New Zealand Railways, 21 Nicaragua Canal, 58, 198, 249
Nickel Armour Plate, Price of American, 453
Nickel, Electrolytic, Produced at Siegen, 403
Nickel Plating, Sand Blasting before, 311
Nickel Steel, Engine Columns of, 185 ,
Nickel Steel by Prussian Government Railroads, L Use of, 209
Nickel Steel Stay Bolts, 380
Nickel in Street Car Axles and Fire-boxes, Pro¬portion of, 453
Nickel, On the Thermal Conductivity of, 577
Niger, British Gunboats on the, 52
Nile, Utilisation of the, 189
Niles’ Tool Works Company, Horizontal Duplex 1 Milling Machine, 378
Nipher, Prof. F. E., On the Measurement of Wind Pressures, 517
Nitro-glycerine Explosives, Acoident3 due to Improper Thawing of, 257
North Atlantic Freeboards, 110, 282
North of England, News from, tee Letters from Our Own Correspondent in each issue North Shields Cold Storage Works, 139, 140
North Sea and Baltic Canal, The, 107, 329
Northampton Institute, The, 283
Northwich, Rock Salt Deposits of, 389
Norway, Tariff Amendments in, 553
Norwegian State Railways, Contracts Open, 80
Notes from Germany, tee Letters from Our Own
Correspondent in each issue f Notes From Scotland, tee Letters from Our Own 1
Correspondent in each issue Notes and Memoranda:
33, 59, 89. 107, 133, 159, 185, 209, 233, 256, 285, 304, 329, 355, 330, 403, 427, 453, 473, j 505, 529, 553, 577, 607
Notices to Correspondents:
13, 37, 61, 85, 109, 135, 161, 187, 211, 235, 259, 281, 305, 331, 357, 381, 405, 429, 455, 481, : 507, 531, 565, 579, 603
Nova Scotia, Mining in, 382
Novel Case, A, 218
Nut-locking Device, Crocker's, 578

O

OAK Trunks Found in the Bed of the Maine in Germany, 365
Oakley, Sir Henry, his Resignation and Election, 285
Obach, Dr. E. F. A., On Gutta-percha, 417, 633

Obituary:

Alley, Mr. Stephen, 306
Barnwell, Mr. Richard, 238
Bazin, M. Ernest, 90
Beckwith, Mr. John Henry, 577
Bessemer, Sir Henry, 256, 283
B’.akelock, Mr. Percy, 399
Bourke, Mr. H. G., 233
Boxer, Mr. Edw. Mourrier, 8
Brioschi, Sig., 11
Cecil, Lord Sackville Arthur, 107
Clark, Mr. Geo. Thos., 116
Cochrane, Mr. Chas., 464, 491
Cowan, Mr. Wm., 261
Davies, Mr. Edw., 23
Dsmarest, Mr. David, 355
Dobson, Sir B. A., 238
Douglass, Sir Jas. Nicholas, 60 .
Dransfield, Major Wm. 361
Druce, Mr. E., 285
Dyer, CoL, 279
Emery, Mr. Chas. Edw.,
Gregory, Sir Cbas. Hutton, 39
Harrison, Mr. Frank, 243
Hayter, Mr. Harrison, 452
Henry, Mr. Benjamin, 586
Hulse, Mr. Joseph Whitworth, 465
l'Anson, Mr. Jas., 333
Insole, Mr. J. W., 466
Jones, Mr. Alfred, 172
Laird, Mr. John, with Portrait, 88, 138
Lépinay, M. Godin de, 59
Li8bman, Mr. Wm., 587
Majendie, S r Vivian Dering, 400
Mare, Mr. C. J., 133
Meek, Mr. Ilownam, 118
Melson, Mr. John Barritt, 529
Mudd, Mr. Thos., 4b3, 491
Parker, Mr., 24
Peace, Mr. W. K., 219
Pengelley, Capt., 24
Plimsoll, Mr. Samuel, 568
Plummer, Mr. E , 23
Pritchard, Mr. W., 23
Raine, Mr. Nicholas, 243
Rawlinson, Sir Robert, 528
Ridley, Mr. Thos. D., 56
Rocket, Mr. Richard, 355
Rodgers, Mr. Maurice George, 504
Schneider, M., 483
Steel, Mr. T. Dyne, 614
Stoker, Mr. F. W„ 172
Stoney, Mr. Edw. Duncan, 163
Vaughan, Mr. Henry, 583
Williams, Col. Jas., 466
Winter, Mr. G. K., 133
Wrangham, Mr. B. D., 243

Oceanic Steam Navigation Company's Ship “ Cymric,” 214
Oil Engines in Lighthouses, 55
Oil Engines for Yachts and Locomotives in America, 340
Oil and Flue Tubos, Influence of, on Fuel Con¬sumption by Locomotives, 430
Oil, Hospital Lighted by, 285
Oil Industry in the Apsheron Peninsula, The, 323, 330
Oil Trade on the Manchester Ship Canal, 539
Oliver, Mr. C. N. J., Portrait, 42
Omnibus with Wheels Fitted with Roller Bearings, 607
Openshaw, Extension of the Works at, 367
Ordnance Factories, Annual Statement on, 403
Ordnance, Modern Wire-wound, 1, 49, 53, 60, 99,
132, 163, 247, 293, 345, 347, 348, 417
Ordnance, Schneider-Canet Quick-tiring, 126
Ores in the Corunna District, 505
Ore Imports at Middlesbrough, Messrs. C. E. Muller and Co.’s Statistics relative to, 69
Ores, Magnetic, containing Phosphorus, Treat¬ment of, 479
Ores, Utilisation of Swedish Iron, 69
Orlando Brothers, Messrs., Engines and Boilers of the Portuguese Cruiser ** Adamastor ” (Supplement, January 17M, 1898), 3, 4
Osmond, Mr. F., On Steel, 11
Oiis Steel Company, Limited, Ohio, Projected Extensions of the Plant, 587
Onest Railway Company, Proposed Bridge over the Seine, 89
Overhead Wires, Dangers of, 608
Owens, Mr., to the Sonth-Western Signalmen, 159
Owens College, Manchester, Donations for a Physical Laboratory in connection with, 233
Oyster Industry, A Colonial, 553

P

PAINT for Preserving Ships’ Hulls, Prize Offered by the Russian Marine for, 59
Panama Canal—see Canals
Paper, The Deterioration of, Examined into by the Society of Arts Committee, 529, 553
Paper-hanging by Machine, 403
Paper Made from a Standing Tree in Two Hours, A Sheet of, 355
Paper Making by means of an Endless Wire Machine, Centenary of N. L. Robert's Dis¬covery, 285
Paper in the World, Annual Production of, 329
Paraguay, Sugar Factory to be Established in, 607
Paris, Appointments Announced in, 107
Paris Exhibition of 1900—see Exhibitions Paris, Luminous Fountains, 257
Paris, Mechanical Cab Trials in, 550, 573
Paris Metropolitan Railway, 285, 423
Paris Omnibus Company and Mechanical Trac¬tion, The, 329
Paris Water Supply, The Syphons Employed for,
Park Talbot Railway and Docks, Progress of, 120
Parker, Mr., 24
Parker, Mr. E. H., On the Resistance and Speed of Ships, 415
Parmiter’s Steam Wagon, 340
Parshall, Mr. H. F., On the Dublin Electric Tramways, 219
Parsons, The Hon. C. G., his Exhibit at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 452
Parson’s Patent, 385, 482, 489
Paste for Matches Free from Whita Phosphorus,
Premium Offered by the Belgium Government for, 577
Patents, 10
Patent Case Trials, Practice of the Scotch and English Courts Compared, 529
Patents and Inventions, 62
Patents, American Selected—tee Last Page of each issue
Patents, Japanese, 464
Patent Law of Austria, Amendment of, 607
Patent-office, United States, 216
Patents, United States, Last Year. 355
Patin Fly-wheel Dynamo, The, 263, 264
Peace, Mr. Wm. Kirby, 219
Pease, Mr. H. P., Appointed Deputy-Lieutenant, 197
Peat-bogs as Generators of Electrical Power, Dr. Frank on, 505
Pencil Eraser, Messrs. E. Wolff and Sons’, 209
Pendulum Vibrations of Different Vibrations, Tracing of Curves formed by Compounding, 133
Pengelley, Captain, 24
Peniston Railway Accident Lieut.-Col. Ander¬son’s Report, 11
Pennsylvania Railway Company, Tracks Laid by I the, for Testing the Third Rail and other Systems, 107
Penrhyn Slate Quarry, Activity at, 120
Pentane Air-Gas Plame, The “Oae-candle," 570
Percy, Mr. C. M., On Eagineering Appliances Connected with Coal Mining, 119
Permanent Way, Mr. F. A. Delano, On the De¬pression of, 479
Permanent Way, A German Investigator on the Wear of, 577
Permanent Way and Locomotives, American, 54
Permanent Way, Muirhead’s Steel, 479
Permanent Way, On Steel, 444
Permanent Way for South Africa, 24
Persia, Opening for the Sale of Cheap Agricul¬tural Implements in Khorasan, 59
“Persian Sword ” Grate, The. 107
Petroleum for Coal Found Unfavourable on an Indian Railway, 285
Petroleum Lamp Accidents, Report on, 209
Petroleum Products and Exports, United States, 273
Pewsy and Salisbury Light Railway, The, 369
Phosphorus and Lead Poisoning, 603
Pickard, Mr.. On the War Path anl After, 38
Picketing, 135
Pickling of Castings, The, 311
Pier Dues at Stamboul Settled in a Curious Way, 505
Pierrot, M., his Scheme for the Port of Antwerp, 394
Pig Iron, Consumption in this Country, in 1897, 33
Pig Iron Exports from the Cleveland District, 219, 539
Pig Iron Import into Manchester, American, 329
Pig Iron Output, American, 190
Pig Iron Output in the German Empire, Decem¬ber, 1897, 133
Pig Iron Output, U.S., 1897, 89, 209
Pig Iron Output in April, 541
Pig Iron Output in the United Kingdom, 1897, 35
Pig Iron Trade, Scotch, 1896—97, 46
Pig and Unwrought Steel Imports from the U.S., 24, 133
Pigott and Co., Messrs., Steel Pipes Ordered by the Birmingham Corporation from, 289, 290
Pintsch System of Gas Lighting, Use of the, in Germany and Elsewhere, 529
P.'pa Coverings, Non - conducting, Messrs. Schneider and Co., 403
Pips-founding Concern in Southern States of America. Consolidation of a Large, 586
Pipes and Pipe-laying, Mr. Alfred Hanssen, 390
Piraeus, The Port of, 523
Planets, Atmosphere of, Dr. Johnstone SMoney’s Theory, 427
Plates, Black and Tin, Shipped from this Country in 1897, 33
Plate-lattice Girders, 49
Platinum Output in Russia, 46
Pliers, Spanners and, 193
PLimsoll, Mr. Sam, 563
Plummer, Mr. E , 23
Piymqpth Port, Development of, 166, 176, 509
Plymouth and Yealmpton, Railway between, 89
Pneumatic Grain Elevator. Duckham's. 440
Pneumatic Lubrication System, A, 233
Pneumatic Machinery for Loading and Discharg¬ing Grain Cargoes. 322, 339 Poisoning, Lead and Phosphorus, 603
Popoff, Admiral, 285
Port of Antwerp, Extension of the, 224, 225, 285
Port of Pirmus, The, 523
Port Talbot Railway Opened, 172
Porter, Professor, Method of Measuring the
Earth’s Diameter, 209
Porter, Professor, New Theory of the Action of Geysers, 209
Portland Cement, Lime Necessary to the For¬mation of, 107
Portland Cement Manufacture in India, 59
Portraits:
Dyer, Colonel, 279
Hitchborn, Mr. Philip, 386
Laird, Mr. John, 138
Oliver, Mr. C. N. J., 42
Morrison, Mr. Gabriel James, 251
Sbeng Taotai, Director-General of Chinese Railways, 251
Portsmouth, Coaling Experiments at, 114
Portsmouth Dock, Accident at, 607
Portuguese Cruiser “ Adamastor,” The (Supple¬ment, January 11th, 1898), 3, 4
Post-office Authorities, Electric Motor Mail Van Worked by the, 89, 133
Post-offics Service, Marine Eagineering and the, 184
Potato Planter, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, 597
Powder, Curious Troubles with Slow-burning, 236
Power on Common Roads, 455, 501
Power from Compressed Air, 467
“ Power,” Contents of the International Edition of, 11
Pratt and Whitney Company, Measuring Machine, 9
Pratt and Whitney’s Mode of Heating Steel for Annealing, 159
Preecs, Mr. A. H., Electricity Supply of London, 364
Preace’s Exhibit of Wireless Telegraphy, 500
Premiums, Exorbitant Insurance, 537
Preservation of Iron from Rust, 27
Pressure Attained in Boiler Tubas by Superheated Water, 607
Price’s Engineering Company, Neath, 466
Prince Liners in the Place of Atlantic Liners between Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and New York, 453
Prince of Wales Dock Extension, Opening of the, 244
Prizas for Bast Designs for Conveying Bicycles by Rail, 329
Prizas for Working Locomotives to their Full Capacity, 329
Proctor’s Coking Stoker, 511, 552
Prongs L!ghthouse, Bombay, The, 520
Propellers, Influence of Surface on the Perform¬ance of Screw. 67, 91
Proportions of Girders, 7, 32, 55, 90, 115, 132, 158, 276, 325
Protection of Electric Power Transmission, 193
Prussia, Collieries and Mines owned by Govern¬ment, 427
Pennsylvania Railway Company, Tracks Laid by the, for Testing the Third Rail and other Pr Systems, 107
Penrhyn Slate Quarry, Activity at, 120
Pentane Air-Gas Flame, The "Oae-candle,” 570
Percy, Mr. C. M., On Engineering Appliances Connected with Coal Mining, 119
Permanent Way, Mr. F. A. Delano, On the De¬pression of, 479
Permanent Way, A German Investigator on the Wear of, 577
Permanent Way and Locomotives, American, 54
Permanent Way, Muirhead's Steel, 479
Permanent Way, On Steel, 444
Permanent Way for South Africa, 24
Persia, Opening for the Sale of Cheap Agricul¬tural Implements in Khorasan, 59
“Persian Sword” Grate, The. 107
Petroleum for Coal Found Unfavourable on an Indian Railway, 285
Petroleum Lamp Accidents, Report on, 209
Petroleum Products and Exports, United States, 273
Pewsy and Salisbury Light Railway, The, 369
Phosphorus and Lead Poisoning, 603
Pickard, Mr., On the War Path and After, 38
Picketing, 135
Pickling of Castings, The, 311
Pier Dues at Stamboul Settled in a Curious Way, 505
Pierrot, M., his Scheme for the Port of Antwerp, 394
Pig Iron, Consumption in this Country, in 1897, 33
Pig Iron Exports from the Cleveland District, 219,
Pig Iron Import into Manchester, American. 329
Pig Iron Output, American, 190
Pig Iron Output in the Garman Empire, Decem¬ber, 1897, 133
Pig Iron Output, U.S., 1897, 89, 209
Pig Iron Output in April, 541 C
Pig Iron Output in the United Kingdom, 1897, 35
Pig Iron Trade, Scotch, 1896—97, 46
Pig and Unwrought Steel Imports from the U.S., 24, 133
Pigott and Co., Messrs., Steel Pipes Ordered by the Birmingham Corporation from, 289, 290
Pintsch System of Gas Lighting, Use of the, in Germany and Elsewhere, 529
Pips Coverings, Non - conducting, Messrs. F Schneider and Co., 403
Pipa-founding Concern in Southern States of America. Consolidation of a Large, 586
Pipes and Pipe-laying, Mr. Alfred Hanssen, 390
Pirmus, The Port of, 523 ,
Planets, Atmosphere of, Dr. Johnstone Sionej’s Theory, 427
Plates, Black and Tin, Shipped from this Country in 1897, 33
Plate-lattice Girders, 49
Platinum Output in Russia, 46
Pliers, Spanners and, 193
Plimsoll, Mr. Sam, 563
Plummer, Mr. E , 23
Piymquth Port, Development of, 166, 176, 509
Plymouth and Yealmpton, Railway between, 89
Pneumatic Grain Elevator, Duckham's. 440
Pneumatic Lubrication Syst9m, A, 233
Pneumatic Machinery for Loading and Discharging Grain Cargoes. 322, 339
Poisoning, Load and Phosphorus, 603
Popoff, Admiral, 285
Port of Antwerp, Extension of the, 224, 225, 285
Port of Pirmns, The, 523
Port Talbot Railway Opened, 172
Porter, Professor, Method of Measuring the Earth's Diameter, 209
Porter, Professor, New Theory of the Action of , Geysers, 209
Portland Cement, Lime Necessary to the Formation of, 107
Portland Cement Manufacture in India, 59

Portraits:

Dyer, Colonel, 279
Hitchborn, Mr. Philip, 386
Laird, Mr. John, 138
Oliver, Mr. C. N. J., 42
Morrison, Mr. Gabriel James, 251
Sheng Taotai, Director-General of Chinese Railways, 251
Portsmouth, Coaling Experiments at, 114
Portsmouth Dock, Accident at, 607
Portuguese Cruiser “Adamastor,” The {Supplement, January 17tA, 1898), 3, 4
Post-office Authorities, Electric Motor Mail Van Worked by the, 89, 133
Post-offics Service, Marine Engineering and the, 181
Potato Planter, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, 597
Powder, Curious Troubles with Slow-burning, 236
Power on Common Roads, 455, 501
Power from Compressed Air, 467
“Power,” Contents of the International Edition of, 11
Pratt and Whitney Company, Measuring Machine, 9
Pratt and Whitney’s Mode of Heating Steel for Annealing, 159
Preecs, Mr. A. H., Electricity Supply of London, 364
Presce’s Exhibit of Wireless Telegraphy, 500
Premiums, Exorbitant Insurance, 537
Preservation of Iron from Rast, 27
Pressure Attained in Boiler Tubas by Superheated Water, 607
Price’s Engineering Company, Neath, 466
Prince Liners in the Place of Atlantic Liners between Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and New York, 453
Prince of Wales Dock Extension, Opening of the, 244
Prizai for Bast Designs for Canveying Bicycles by Rail, 329
Prizss for Working Locomotives to their Full Capacity, 329
Proctor’s Coking Stoker, 511, 552
Prongs L:ghthouse, Bombay, The, 520
Propellers, Influence of Surface on the Performance of Screw 67, 91
Proportions of Girders, 7, 32, 55, 90, 115, 132, 158, 276, 325
Protection of Electric Power Transmission, 193
Prussia, Collieries and Mines owned by Govern- 1 ment, 427
Prussia, Rules concerning Length of Trains, 301
Prussian State Railways, Acetylene and Oil Gas for Lighting Carriages, 193
Prussian State Railways, Traffic on, 257
Prussian State Riilways, Mr. Lascelles' Report,
Public Vehicles in London, Mr. Bathurst’s Ro- R turns, 257
Pulleys, American “ Standard” Separable or Wood Split, 413
Pulleys, American, Steel, 142
Pullman Palace Cars for the President of Mexico, 31, 42
Pullman Wtge Earners, 277
Pulsometer Engineering Co., Cold Storage Works, North Shields, 139, 140
Pump, Compound Steam, Messrs. Lee, Howl, and Co., 598
Pump, A Continuous Flow, 218
Pump, Duplex Independent Air, s.s. “Chebucto,’’ 472
Pump, Pulsatiog, Messrs. Holden and Brooke, Limited, 438
Pump, Walker's Compound (with reference to page 548), 586
Pumping Problem, A, 158, 208 Pumping Station, Streatham, 378, 379
Punching Machines, Multiple, Messrs. De Bergue and Co.’s, 243
Pyne, Sir Salter, his Workshops at Kabul, 426, 428
Pyrometers, On Thermo-electric, 316

Q

QUARRYING in the North Wales, ke, District and Kent, 59
Qlick-firing Ordnance, Colt’s Factory, Hartford, Conn., 380
Quick-firing Ordnance, Schneider-Canet, 126, 156 .
Qaick-firing Ordnance, 6:n., 206, 207

R Railways:

British :
Railway, Caledonian, Speeds on, 501
Railway, Cardiff, Cutting First Sod of, 466
Railway, Cbipstead Valley, Bill Passod, 403
Railway, City and South London, Bill Passed, 403
Railway, Glasgow and South-Western, Extension, 403
Railway, Glasgow and South-Western, Four- cylinder Locomotive, 8, 16
Railway, Golden Valley, Reported Sale of, to the Great Western Railway Company, 120
Railway, Great Northern, Bills of the Present Session, 159, 209
Railway, Great Northern, Express Locomotive, 511
Railway, Great Northern, Extensions, 304, 329
Railway, Great Northern, Good Run on, 325
Railway, Great Northern, Literary Society's Smoking Concert, 107
Railway, Ureat Northern, Loop Line between Enfield and Stevenage, 159
Railway, Great Northern, R9port for the Half- year, 159
Railway, Great Western, Diversion of the Irish Traffic, 244
Railway, Great Western, Extension Schemes, 59, 329, 403 ’
Railway, Great Western, Half-yearly Report, 6 185
Railway, Great Western, Train Alterations, 607
Railway, Irish, 127
Railway, Isle of Wight, 33
Railway, Lambourn Valley, 89
Railway, London, Brighton, and South Coast, Fourth Road into Victoria Station, 288
Railway, London, Chatham, and Dover, Arrange¬ments for March, 257
Railway, London, Chatham, and Dover, Half- ] yearly Report, 185
Railway, London, Great Central, 374
Railways, London’s Internal, 332
Railway, London and North-Western, Half-yearly Report, 185
Railway, London and North-Western, Four-cylinder Compound Passenger Locomotive, 420, 421
Railway, London and North-Western, New Station, Lancaster, 107
Railway, London and South-Western, Half-yearly Report and Meeting, 107, 181
Railway, London and South-We3tern, Roofing of Mortlake Station, 505
Railway, London and South-Western Widening the Barnes to Twickenham Line, 185
Railway, Lynton, 209
Railway, Metropolitan, Gas Lighting and Electric Traction on, 33, 507, 604
Railway, Midland, Mr. Chas. Booth appointed Director, 453
Railway, Midland, Concessions to its Men, 89, 332
Railway, Midland, Dispute between the Morriston and the, 138
Railway, Midland, Dake of Norfolk’s Sheffield Residence bought by, 453
Railway, Midland, Locomotives for, 197
Railway, Midland, Projected Station in Newgate- street, 529
Railway, Midland, Purchase of ihe Duke of d Norfolk’s Sheffield Residence, 453
Railway, Midland, Widening at Kentish Town, 138
Railway, North British, Steep Gradients on, 33
Railway, North-Eastern, Eston Branch Line, 290
Railway, North-Eastern, Revenue for Half-year, 159
Railway, North-Eastern, Stockton the First y Station in the World, 563
Railway, Plymouth and YealmptoD, 89 11
Railway, Port Talbot, 59, 172
Railway, Savernake Forest, 553
Railway, Scotland, from Lug ton to Cambusland, 553
Railway, South-Eastern, Accidents on the, 257, 285
Railway, South-Western, Widening at Battersea, 447
Railway, The Uek Valley, 492 i- Railway, Vale and Glamorgan, 403
Railways, Welsh, 440, 466

Railways, Indian:

Railways, Indian, Burma Line1, 59, 133
Railways, Indian State, East Bengal, 127
Railways, Indian, Kathiawar, Metre-gauge Lines of, 59
Railway, Mandalay-Kun'oD, 133
Railway, Meiktila-MyingyaD, 355
Railways, Indian, Mogul Ssrai-Gya Branch, 133
Railways, Indian, The Nilgiri, 59, 427
Railways, Indian, South Punjab, 427
Railways, Indian State, Contract Open—P.llar Water Cranes, 510
Railways, Indian, Earnings for First Quarter of 1898, 607
Railways, Indian, Eipenditure in 1897—98, 285
Railways, Indian, Extension in Prospect, 89, 159
Railways, Indian, Gross Earnings of, for First Quarter of 1898, 607
Railways, Indian, Locomotives, &c., for, 257
Railways, Indian, New Lines Ready for Opening, 427
Railways, Indian, Petroleum tried as a Substi¬tute for Coal, 285

Railways, Foreign:

Railways, American, Improvements on, 288
Railways in the Argentine Republic, 380
Railways, Australian, 438, 538
Railways, Baltimore and Ohio, Experimenting with Electricity as a Motive Power, 505
Railways, Belgian, Hospital Car Introduced, 403
Railway, Bessemer and Lake Erie, Heavy Mineral Traffic on, 489
Railways in Brittany, 33, 453, 553
Railways, Bulgarian, from Radomir, 159, 427
Railways, Burma, 59, 133
Railways, Canadian, 304
Railway, Cape Government, 197, 453
Railway, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville, Express Locomotives of the, 505
Railways, China, 284, 469, 482, 529
Railways, The Congo, 529
Railways, Coban, 446
Railways, France, Boulogne and Lucques Line, Tunnel Ventilation on the Injector Principle, 505
Railways, German, Working Results, 1896—7, 423, 614
Railways, Hungarian, Earnings per Passenger, Mile, 553
Railways, Japan, 201, 388, 523 ,
Railways, New Zealand, 24
Railways, Norway, 80, 505, 553, 607
Railway, Northern of France, Electric Lighting on, 33
Railway, Paris Metropolitan, 423
Railway, Portuguese, in Africa, 553
Railways, Roumania, 107
Railways, Russia, 133, 257, 479, 505, 529, 608
Railway, Siberian, 89, 411, 505, 519
Railway, Soudanese, 399
Railways, Spain, Corunna to Santiago, 479
Railway from Suez to Bosrah, 89
Railways, Sweden, 304, 453
Railways, Tasmania, Line Connecting Hobart with the Mount Lyell Mines, 505 Railways, Transvaal, 453
Railway, Uganda, 479
Railways, United States, 285, 427
Railway, Western of Francs, Electric Cabs at the Paris Terminus, 553

Railway Accidents:

Railway Accidents in 1897, 514
Railway Accident, Birassie Junction, 133, 190
Railway Accident, Belfast and Northern Counties, 577
Railway Accident, Bisley, 368, 479
Railway Accident, Bourne Eod Station, 355
Railway Accidents, Dunbar, 11, 290
Railway Accident on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 133
Railway Collision, Great Eastern Railway, 59
Railway Accident, Great Northern Main Line, 133, 257
Railway Accident near Huntingdon, 133
Railways, Indian, Accidents on Indian Lines, 209, 427
Railway, London and South-Western, Accident near Tavistock, 233
Railway Accident, Peniston, 11
Railway, Great Northern, Accident at Potter's Bar, 257
Railway Accident at St. John’s, 285, 478 y
Railway Accidents, United States, 133, 301, 402, 479
Railway Accident, Woodhoase Junction, 380
Railways, Light, 436
Railway, Light, from Burnham to Brent, Proposal ic for, 198
Railways, Light, Electric Tramways between Chatham and New Brompton, 553
Railways, Light, in Essex and Suffolk, 577
Railway, Light, between Finchley and Hampstead Refused, 285
Railway, Light, First Grant under the Act, 23
Railways, Light, France, Bordeaux to Cadillac, 427
Railways, Light, Germany, East of Stettin, 427
Railways, Light, Gower Scheme, 440
Railway, Light, from Kew to Hampton Court, Abandoned, 607
Railway, Light, Lincolnshire and Northampton¬shire, 89
Railways, Light, The Penarth, 492
Railway, Light, Pewsey and Salisbury, 369
Railway, Light, across Salisbury Plain, 453, 572, 10 577
Railway, Light, from Stourbridge to Kniver,
Railways, Light, between Tonbridge, Yalding, Hadlow, and Winfield Mill, 529
Railway, Light, through Trafford Park, Man¬chester, 233
Railway, Light, Trip on a, 232
Railway, Light, West Riding of Yorkshire, 577
Railway, Acetylene Gas for Lighting Cars, 437
Railways, Carriage Lighting, Cape Government, 453
Railways, Communication between Passengers and Guards, 185
Railway Contract, A Novel, 107
Railway Contracts, Yorkshire Coalowners and the, 601

Railways, Electric :

Railway, Electric, American, 489, 562
Railway, Electric, Brighton to Rottingdean, 380
Railway, Electric, Brixton to City, Bill for, 285
Railways, Electric, Canada, 89
Railways, Electric, Germany. 453
Railway Bill, Underground Electric Railway from Charing-cross to Paddington, 11
Railways, Elevated, Boston, 514
Railways, New Friction Apparatus for Rolling Stock, 505
Railway, Lighting Cars, 437, 453
Railway, Machine Tool for Railway Work, Messrs Cunliffe and Croom, 615
"Railway Magazine’s" Bicycle Brake Van Com¬petition, 453
Railway, Pneumatic, Hopcraft’s, 328
Railway Progress, Mr. S. Waite Johnson, 486 512, 550
Railway Rates and the Heavy Trades, 500
Railway Rates to and from South Staffordshire District, 289
Railways, Reduction of Rites Question, 438
Railway, Road, or Electric Tramway Lines, 529
Railway Shops, Boston and Maine, 266
Railway Sneeds, 7, 32, 55, 90. 132
Railway, Ventilation of the Metropolitan, 607
Railway Works in Germany, Chief, 159
Raine, Mr. Nicholas, 243
Rainfall for Twelve Months ending April, 1898, 553
Rainfall in CeyloD, An Abnormal, 577
Rainfall, Record, Cwmtaff Reservoir, 107
Rainy Days in the British Islands, Frequency of, 499
Ramage, Mr. A. G., Minimum Net Register and its Effect on Design, 345
Ramage and Ferguson, Messrs., Projeots in Con temptation, 257
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Potato Planter, 597
Ravenshaw, Mr. H. W., Application of Electricity to the Transmission of Power, 52
Rawlinson, Sir Robert, 528
Rayleigh, Lord, On Heat, 479
Reavell <•. Brotherhood Case, The, 453
Reform of Chemical and Physical Calculations, 313
Refrigeration, Mechanical, 30, 170, 194, 240, 351
Reid, Mr. Hugh, his Appointment, 479
Rennes and Brest, Doubling of Railway between, 33

Replies:

A. B. M., 455
Acetylene, 135
Adiabatic, 61
A. E. D., 603
A. E. L. (Bristol), 381
A. F. (Pontymister), 281
A. H . 85
A. H. (Dartford), 381
A. H. B. (Stockton-on-Tees), 37
Albini, A., 429
A. L. P.. 305
A. M., 281
A. M., 357
A. M. B , 507
A. W. D. (Glasgow), 603
A. W. J. (Milford), 13
Bert, 109
Call (Birmingham), 235
A. P. (Newport), 135
I. S. (Nelson-road, Southsea), 13
Compressed Air, 507
B. (East Dulwich), 531
J. (Derby), 481
B. (Essen-Ruhr), 405
G. H., 135
L. (Regent’s Park), 187
Energetic, 305
W. P., 211
(London, E.), 579
H., 357
Freakley, Mr. W., Stoke-on-Trent, 429
W., 85
W. S. (Newcastle), 13
W. W., 305
B. (Manchester) and E. and G. (Bolton), 211
C. B., 13
D. S., 429
Glanswr, 429
L. (Sydenham 1, 85
MacP. G , 187
R. (Truro), 507
B., 161
B. (Forest Gate), 603
B. (Sharrow), 161
C. (Sydenham), 481
R., 109
H. S. (Seacombe), 603
H. S. (Seraing), 381
H. S. G„ 481
H. U. W., 187
Ignorant, 13
J. A., 259
J. C., 161
J. C. S., 187
J. D., 187
J. E. D. (Rendham), 13
J. F., 109
J. G. (Ipswich), 85
J. H. (Chatham), 555
J. H. M., 579
J. H. R. R„ 481
J. H. S., 381
J. K. B. (Gateshead-on-Tyne), 507
J. R. (Claremont-square), 381
J. R. B. (Chester), 381
J. S., 259
J. Y. (Thame), 37
Liverpool, 85
L. P., 555
Merchant Acc, 305
N. K. (Stockton-on-Tees), 331
O. R. W., 25
Permanent Way (Hampton Park), 357
P. L. J. (Winchester House), 405
Reservoir, 429
Rex. 187
R. J. U. (Liverpool), 13
R. M. N. (Chad Kirk), 13
Roof, 13
“Senex,”259
S. N. (Shincliffe), 405
Straightedge, 37
Subscriber, 281
Subscriber, 259
Syd. Jakf, 531
Tom Cat, 259
Tool Steel, 235
Torpedo Nets, 211
T. T. (Roustchouk), 161
Ventilate (Manchester), 259
Vnlcan, 61
Water (Birmingham), 555
Water-tubs Boiler, 235
W. B.,259 Rv
W. B. Sparrow-lane, Sheffield), 357
W. G. (Clarendon-place, Dover), 61
W. J. (Cardiff), 405
W. T. Scarborough), 13
W. T. S., 357

Reservoirs Embankments, Mr, William Fox, On, 238
Resistance to the Motion of Solids in a Fluid, On, n. 322
Resistance and Speed of Ships, Mr. E. H. Parker, On, 415
Restler High speed Engine, The, 582, 583
Restler, Mr. J. W., Pumping Machine, Streatham Station, Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks (Supp/emeaf, June IQtk), 378, 379, 400, 401, 548
Retorts, On Inclined, 670
Rich, Capt, W. W., his New Appointment in China, 577
Richardson and Co., Sir Thomas, Visit to the Engineering Establishment of, 69 Ridgeley and Johnson's Pneumatic Caulking and Riveting Hammer, 504
Ridley, Mr. T. D.. Retirement of, 23, 58
Ridsdale, Mr. C. II., On Brittleness in Soft Steel, 414
Rigg, Mr. A., Hydraulio Eagine, 28:
River Tyne Commissioners. Report Sent in to the, on the Damage to the North Pier, 516
River Wear Commissioners, Schemes for Enlarging the Docks, 516
Riveting by Electricity, On, 302, 311
Riveting Machines, Monster American, 21
Roads, Power on Common, 455, 501
Robinson's Shaft Governor, 598
Rochdale Canal, 249
Rocket, Mr. Richard, 355
Rocket, The, 377
Rodgers, Mr. Maurice George, 504
Roebling’s Sons Company, The J. A, Cable Twenty-nine Miles Long, 505
Roller Bearings, 232
Roller Bearings, Tests with, 257
Roller Boats, 314
Rolling Mill for Universal Plates, The Carnegie Steel Company, 33
Rolling Stock for the Cape Government Railway, 197
Rolling Stock, Belgian Railways, Hospital Car, 4C3
Rolling Stock of the Prussian St its Railways, 144
Rolling Stock for the South Eastern Railway Company and the Midland and Central London Electric Railway Company, 143
Roof, Running Shed, Contracts Open, 8
Rooflng Slate in the United States, Production of, 209
Roots, Mr. James D., On a Debated Point in the Theory of the Gas Engine, 393
Rotch, Mr. A. L, On Meteorological Investiga¬tion by Kites, 592
Rotterdam Gas Coal Contract, The, 290
Rouen, 1897
Returns of the Port of, 304
Ronen, Timber Freights to. and the Action of the Railway Companies, 257
Rous-Marten, Charles, Express Locomotive on the Caledonian Railway, 175
Royal School of Minos, 59, 78
Royal Society of New South Wales:
Effect of Temperature on the Tensile and Compressive Properties of Copper, Prof. Warren and Mr. S. H. Barraclcugh, 89
Royal Society of Edinburgh:
Nickel, Thermal Conductivity of, Mr. T. C. Baillie, 577
Royal Society:
Conversaziones and Exhibits at, 452, 565
Royal Meteorological Society:
Rainy Days in the British Islands, On the Fre¬quency of, by Mr. R. H. Scott, 499
Weather Influences on Farm and Garden Crops, Mr. E. Mawley, 111
Royal Institution:
Annual Meeting, Report, Election of Officers, 435
Election of Members and Vice-Presidents, 466
General Monthly Meetings, 141, 557
Liquefaction of Hydrogen by Prof. Dewar, 453
Metals used by the Great Nations of Antiquity, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 190
Royal Institute of Public Health, Dublin:
Congress and Health Exhibition, August, 541
Royal Agricultural Society's Show:
Awards, 601
Notice to Intending Exhibitors at the Country Meeting, 185
Hop Washer, Prize Offered for the Best, 386
Implement Department, Space Allotted to Ex¬hibitors in the, 446, 505
Machinery Exhibits, 597, 598, 599, 600, 601
Plan of the Showyard, Birmingham, 572
Self-moving Vehicles at, 571
Royal Dublin Society, The:
Spsctrographic Analysis of Iron Meteorites, Siderolites, and Meteoric Stones, Messrs. Hartley and Ramage, 374
Royal Yacht, New Style of Coaling Port on the, 453
Royal Yacht, Photographs of, for the Admiralty, ft9
Royle, Mr. John, Specialities in Connection with Hot-water Supply in Hotels, &c., 289
Rubber, Cement for, 355
Rubber in Combination with Metallic Springs for Motor Car Work, 479
Rudeloff, Prof. M., On the Influence exerted by Length in a Sample Tested of Hemp Rope, 610
Running Shed Roof, Contracts Open, 8
Russell and Co., Messrs. Geo., 25-Ton Travelling Crane, 356, 362
Russell, Dr., The Bakerian Lecture by, 430
Russia, Locomotives granted to Inland Shops by St the Government, 120 St
Russia, Pig Iron Production in, 120
Russian Admiralty, Decisions of the, respecting Installation of Electrical Power in Warships and Building of Eighteen Transport Boats, 159
Russian Enterprise, South, 448
Russian Government, Tenders for Rolling Stock
Prepared Material invited by, 612 Russian Locomotive Shops, Charkow, The First
Locomotive finished, 91
Russian Mercantile Marine, Projected Develop¬ment of, 529
Russian Navy, Additions to, 380
Russian Oil Industry, The, 323, 330
Russian Tariffs, Reductions in, 614
Russian Torpedo Boats, Du Temple Boilers to be replaced by Yarrow Boilers, 33 *Russian Volunteer Fleet, The, 533
Russian Industrial Oil Company, Hecta, Bankowa, Projected Wagon Factory, 21

S

SACK-MAKING Machines 281
Safety Lamp for the Navy, 233
St. lleliers, Jersey, Electric Light for, 59
St. Petersburg Company for Transmission of Power from Waterfalls, 185
Salt Deposit Found in an Inlet of the Caspian, 355
Salt Production in the United States, 185
Sambrook's Feed-beater, 434
San Francisco, Defences of, 271
Sand Blasting before Nickel Plating, 311
Sandford's Patent Vertical Boilers, Evaporative Test of, 327
Sanitary Engineering, A Year’s Review, 19
Santiago de Cuba, with Sketch of the Harbour and Town, 525
Sarpsborg, Industrial Activity at, 577
Sawdust, New Use for, 89 Saw Guards, 287
Saws, Circular, Messrs. G. Birch and Co., 289
Saw, Circular, Messrs. Craven Bro’., 153
Saws, Cold, Foreign Demand for, 553
Saws, The Victor Shield for Circular, 217
Scavenging, Motor Vans for Road, 4
Schenectady Works, Locomotives for Japan, 329, 529
Schieldrop, Mr. B., On Resistance to the Motion of Solids in a Fluid, 322
Schneider, M., 483
Schneider-Canet Quick-firing Guns, Breech Mechanism and Mounting for same, 126, 156, 205
Schneider and Co., Messrs., Non-conducting Coverings for Pipes, 403
Schccntjes, Prof. H., Paper on the Collapse of one Metal Hemisphere under the Pressure of another, 479
Scotch Court Practice in Patent Case Trials, 529
Scotch Pig Iron Trade, 1896—1897, 46
Scotland—Notes from Scotland:
18 In each Issue
Scott and Co., Messrs. W., summoned for Using Non-smoke Consuming Furnaces, 529
Scott, Mr. R. H., On the Frequency of Rainy Days in the British Islands, 499
Scotter, Sir Chas., succeeded by Mr. C. J. Owens, of ,1
Scottish Ironmasters’ Association, Report of the, 16 23
Screws, Effect of Direction of Turning in Twin, 321
Screw-jack Efficiency, 208
Screw Propellers, Influence of Surface on the Performance of, 67, 91
Screws, Right-handed or Left-handed Twin, 321
Scythes, Austrian, 390
Sea, Interests of the Inhabitants of the British C. Empire Entrusted Yearly to the, 553
Seed-sorting Machine, Boby's, 598
Seeloy, Prof., his Lecture Excursions with the London Geological Field Class, 329
Self-propelled Vans, 387
Sellar, Mr. D., Exhibition of his Pictures, 36
Semaphore Telegraphs, 535
Separator, The Stemtriff Steam, 204
Series Dynamo Electric Machines, Mr. Carl Kingsley on, 505
Serpollet Car, Trial of, at Manchester, 196
Servia, Consular Report on the Import Trade,
Sewage, Bacterial Treatment of, A Royal Com¬mission to Inquire into, 185
Sewage, Biological System of Treating, Discussed ’ at Manchester, 285
Sewage and Destructor Works, Leyton, 115, 116
Sewage Disposal, Barking and Crossness Outfall Works, 107
Sewage Disposal, Lancashire, Mr. R. A. Tatton’s Report, 285
Sewage Disposal, Leigh-on-Sea, 265
Sewage Disposal, Manchester, 294
Sewage Disposal, Rhymney and Aber Valley, Mr. Harpur’s Scheme, 70
Sewage Dispoeal, Royal Commission on, 479
Sewage Disposal, Sherborne, 277
Sewage Filter-beds, Double-deck, 242
Sewage Filtration at Winsford, 567
Sewage, Food as Affected by, 479
Sewage Works, Sale, Cheshire, Opening of, 547
Shafting Accidents and the Board of Trade, 314
Shafts, Bull's Metal Tail, 106
Shanks and Co., Messrs. Thos., 54in. Centre Lathe, 153
Sharp, Mr. Archibald, On his Fly-wheel Design,
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Locomotives for the ie, Midland and for New Zealand and Brazil, 197
Shear Legs, Messrs. Sir C. Furness, Westgarth, and Co., Limited, 342
Shear Legs at Haulbowline, The New, 333
Shearer and Sons, Messrs. John, Ferry Steamer " Chebucto,” 470. 471, 472
Shearing Machine, Double Angle-iron, 227, 234
Sheffield, Central Station for, 89
Sheffield City Council, Electric Lighting and by Paving, 367
Sheffield District, News from—see Letters from our own Correspondent in each issue
Sheffield, Electric Lighting in, 33, 143, 277, 505
Sheffield, E'ectrical Light and Power Co., Pur¬chase of their Undertaking by the Corporation, 33, 143
Sheffield Silver Trade, The, 209
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, 498
Sherborne Sewerage Scheme, 277
Shield for Circular Saws, The Victor, 217

Ships.

British Battleships :—
“Albion” (Supplement», June 17<A, 1898,
June 24th, 1898), 575, 602, 606
“Alexandra," 228, 262, 328, 557
“ Amphitrite,” 539
“Canopus,” Armour Plating of, 273
“ Europa,” 378, 558, 570
“ Formidable,” 461
“ French Admiral Baudio,” 528
“ Gladiator,” 528
“ Goliath,” 279, 302, 303
“ Hermes,” 361
“Implacable,” 461
“ Irresistible,” 138
“ Jupiter,” Firing from, 583
“ Orlando,” 528
“ Powerful,” 208, 237, 281, 583
“Surly,” Trial of, with Oil Fuel, 505
“Terrible,” 165, 262, 283, 328, 378, 422, 448, 449, 509, 555, 557
“ Warrior,” 445, 446
“ Yashima,” Steering Qualities of, 365
Battleships, Admiralty’s Programme for 1898, 537
Battleships, British and Foreign Types of, 260
Battleships Building in this Country, Mr. Goschen on, 283
Battleships, Coaling, 265
Battleships, Proposed Re-rating of, by Displacement, 11
Battleships, Signalling on, Inadequacy of Sirens and Whistles, 607
Battleships under Construction in the United Kingdom, Quarter ending ur March, 380
British Cruisers:—
“Argonaut," First-class, 108, 112
“Cornua,” 403
“Diadem," 89, 301, 325, 334
“ Hogue,” 435 gy
“ Niobe," First-class, 465
“Pandora,” First Keel Plate of, Laid, 11 9
“ Proserpine,” 595
Cruisers in Building at Barrow, 171
Cruisers of the “ Cressy ” Type, Contracts placed by the Admiralty for, 304
Cruisers, Types of English and Foreign, 537
British DestroyersSt “ Birkenhead," 28, 88, 254
“Dasher,” 28
“Hunter,” Accident to, 448
Gunboats on the Niger, 52
Torpedo Baat Dsstroyer “Dasher," Trial of, Q. 9
Torpedo Boat Design, 410
Torpedo Boat Design, by H. G. Gillmor, 88, 312
Torpedo Riat Destroyers as strains Battleships, Admiral Colomb's Views in favour
Torpedo Boat Destroyers to be Built by Contract, Five, 83
Torpedo Boats, Submarine, Captain W. a Jacques on, 321

Foreign Battleships

American [Supplement, April 22nd, 1898),
43, 381, 386, 437, 500, 538, 562, 588
" Alabama,’ The, 562
“ Iowa,” Accident to, 107
“ Maine,” (Supplement, March 25th, 1898), 255, 278, 285, 307, 376
American and Spanish, Analysis of, 541
French, “ Formidable,” 327
Japanese, 242 Norwegian, 155, 160
Russian, 380, 564
Spanish, 422, 425
Foreign Cruisers:
Brazilian, “Amazonas” (built at Elswick and bonght by the United States), 286
Chilian, “ O’Higgins,” 472, 480
English and Foreign, 537
French, “ Brennus,” 296, 297, 373, 382
French, “ Chateaurenault,” 528
Japanese (built in the United States), 89, 207, 210
" Asama ” (built at Elswick), 308, 310
" Kasagi ” (built in the United States), 144
“Takosago" (Elswick),530, 535
Portuguese, “ Adamastor ” (Supplement January 7th, 1898), 3, 4 in’s
Russian, “ Gangout, ” 383
Spanish, “ Cristobal Colon,” 397, 404
Swedish, to be Fitted with Yarrow Boilers, 403
Mr. Turkey (Elswick), 11

Gunboats, American, 498

Torpedo Boats in the United States Navy (Supplement» January 2Slh and April lsf, 1898), 410
Torpedo Boat Destroyers for Italy, 614
Torpedo Boat, Submarine, American, 514
Torpedo Boat, Submarine, Holland, 461
Torpedo Catchers for Japan, 464

Mercantile and Passenger:

"Anglian,” Telegraph Cable-laying Steamer, 613
“Bruce,” s.s., 55, 56, 228, 229, 256, 258 the
" Burt,”a.s., 538 197
“Chebucto, Ferry Steamer, 470, 471, 472
“ Clan Macgregor,” s.s., 539
"Cymric,” White Star Liner, 214
" Duke of Connaught,” s.s., 539
“ Euston,” as., 562 14
“Ferencz Josef,” Hungarian River Steamer, No/13, Working Drawing of
and Engines, 102
"Germania,” General Steam Navigation rom Company, 396
“ GoustavBole,” Dredger for Russia, 538 05
“Great Eastern,” s.s., 895
" Hohenfels,” s s., 538
"Kaiser Friedrich,” North German Lloyd Express Liner, 447

Ships: Mercantile and Passenger

“ Manchester City "Atlantic Liner, 562
“ Meg Merrilees,’’ Water-tube Boilers of, 546
‘' Povena,’’ aa, 538
“ Ragnor,” Norwegian Steamer, Engines to be built at Middlesbrough, 342
“Sanna,” s.s., 538 “ Sapphire," s.s., 538
“Sylviana,” s.s., 538 “Tenby,” s.s., 538
“ Ultonia,” s.s., 562
“ Winifred," American Steamer, 288

Steamers Various:

Steamers for the Australian Frozen Meat Trade,516
Steamers Building at Stockton, 466
Steamer, Harbour, Speed Tests of a, 196
Steamers, Largest Launched in the United Kingdom, 1897, 89
Steamers, Mail, for Service from Havre to New York, 304
Steamers, Merchant and Passenger, for the North German Lloyd Co., 577
Steamers, North German Lloyd, Croom and Arthur’s Steering Gear, 409
Steamers, Passenger, for Thames River Service, 165
Steamers and Sailing Ships classed by and added to Lloyd's Register, 1897,
233
Steamer, Six 3000-Ton, for Service be¬tween Russia and the Far East, 577
Steamers, Stern-wheel, for the River Magdalena, South America, 564
Steamer, Telegraph Cable layirg, The “ Anglian,” 613
Steamer, Tramp, for Lake Service, 366
Steamers, Water Ballasting of, 69
Steamers, for the Yukon River, 437
Steam and Sailing Tonnage, Table of British and Foreign, 453
Steamship Service between Hamburg and East Asia, 33
Steam Yacht, United States, 489
Shipbuilding:
Shipbuilding in America, 538
Shipbuilding Trade, Barrow, 613
Shipbuilding in Belfast, 9
Shipbuilding, British Returns of, 596
Shipbuilding Activity on the Clyde, 358
Shipbuilding, Earliest Iron-built Ships, 50
Shipbuilding in 1897, English, 133, 147, 205, 247
Shipbuilding, English and Scotch, in February, Shipbuilding in Germany, 120, 233
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the Thames in the Victorian Era, 124, 131, 203, 253, 275, 349, 395, 444, 526, 549, 574
Shipbuilding in the North of England, 540, 613
Shipbuilders, Orders for New Vessels, 119
Shipbuilding Output on the Clyde, Five Months, 540
Shipbuilding Output of the United Kingdom for 1897, 59
Shipbuilding Output of the United Kingdom, Percentage of, to the Order of Foreign and Colonial Owners, 59
Shipbuilding, Percentage of Sailing Ships built in the United Kingdom in 1897, 59
Shipbuilding in Scotland, April and May, 1898, 427, 577
Shipbuilding, Torpedo Boat Destroyers, The Five to be built by Contract, 33
Shipbuilding Works, Blohmo and Voss, Large Crane, 437
Shipbuilding Yards, Activity in the, 243
Shipbuilding Yard at Dankirk, Projected, 505
Shipping Returns for May, Bremen, 577
Shipping Returns for May, Havre, 577
Shipping Trade Returns, Lancashire, 587

Ships:

Miscellanea Relating to:
American Marine Notes, 489
British Ships at Buenos Ayres, 380
British Ships in February, Loss Reports of, 209
Bulkhead Doors, Hydraulic Gear for Con¬trolling, 461
Dashpot on a Battleship, Result of the Breaking of a, 107
Dredger for Russia, 538
Dutch Mercantile Marine, Ships Comprising the, 453
English Shipbuilders, Vessels Launched in February by, 233
Hydraulic Gear for Controlling Bulkhead Doors, 461
Naval Kriegspiel, 302
Nickel Steel Engine Columns for United States Battleships, 185
Packet-boats for Mails between Havre and New York, 453
Revenue Cutter, American, 562
Russian Government’s Decree Respecting Foreign Ships Trading to Russian Ports, 529
"Sailing Ship, Future of the, 282
Scottish Shipbuilders, Vessels Launched in February by, 233
Ships Comprising the Dutch Mercantile Marine, 453
Ships of Different Forms, Horse-power Absorbed by Skin Friction and Wave-making in, 321
Ship, Future of the Sailing, 282
Ship Model Experiment Tank, 380
Ships, Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel, 142
Ships, Points in Favour of Big, 528
Ships, Resistance and Speed of, 415
Ship-shaped Stream Forms, On, 302
Signalling on Ships-of-War, Inadequacy of Sirens and Whistles, 607
10
Speed Tests of a Harbour Steamer, “ Boston," 196
Steam Pipe of the s.s. “ Prodano,” Analyses of the, 360, 363
Travelling Gantry for Shipbuilding, 87
Tug-boats, Sea-going, in the United States, 489
Short, Prof., his Plan of Electric Towage, 403
Siberia, East, Temperature at Werchojansk, 380
of Siberian Railway, The Great— see Railways
Sickles, Austrian, 390
in Signalling in America, On Electric Railway, 159
Signalling, Incandescent Lamp, United States 58
Warships, 380
Signalling Plant at Chicago, Lirge, 274
Signalling in Trains between Passengers and Guards, 185
Silcock, Mr. E. J., his Resignation, 257
Silk Industry of the United States, Rsview of the, 304
Silvester Pulling Jacks for Mine’, Mr. Matthews on, 69
Simon’s Weighing Machine, 423
“Sirius ” Pulsating Pump, the, 438
Slag, Extraction of Phosphorus and Calcium Car¬bide from Basic, 553
Slate Production in the United States, 209
Slide Rules, 461
Slide Valves, On the Friction of Locomotive, 193
Sliding Scale, The Welsh. 38
Sliding Scale Meetings, 120, 198
Slough Station, A Second Name for, 233
Slow-burning Powder, Curious Troubles with, 236
Smart, Mr. R. A., On Compound Locomotives, 314
Smelting Works in Russia, 553
Smethwick, The New Conveyor Co.’s Works, 167
Smith, Mr. E. Shrapnell, 387
Smith, Mr. Eugene W., On Changes in Foundry Mixtures, 501
Smith, Mr. H. R , On the Portsmouth Water¬works, 524
Smoke Consumers, Furnaces not Provided with, Messrs. W. Scott and Co., Summoned for Using, 529
Smoke Nuisance in Bombay, The, 285
Smoke Nuisance in London, The, 529
Smoke Prevention at Electric Light Stations, 555
Soaring Birds, 55
Society, American Chemical:
Aluminium, Mr. W. S. Bates, 419

Society of Arts:

Apparatus for Producing Extreme Cold and Liquefying Air, Dr. Linde, 257
“ Electric Traction,” Cantor Lectures, Prof. C. A. Carus Wilson on, 298
“Gitta-percha," Cantor Lectures, Dr. E F. A. Obach, On, 417
Paper, Deterioration of, Report of the Comraittee Appointed to Inquire into, 529, 553

Society, Bath and West and Southern Counties:

Annual Exhibition at Cardiff, 165, 453
Arrangements for the Holding of the Society's Exhibition at Exeter, 1899, 304

Society, Birmingham Municipal Technical School Engineering:

Annual Dinner, 338

Society, British Steel Smelters’ Trade Union:

Annual Report, 171

Society of Civil Engineers, American:

Cement, Proper Manipulation of Tests of, Committee on, 463

Society Civil and Mechanical Engineers:

Pipes and Pipe-laying, Mr. Alfred Hanssen, :
Thirty-ninth Anniversary Dinner, 486

Society of Electrical Engineers, The Northern:

Electric Cranes, Mr. J. G. Slatter, On, 196 ;
Practical Operation of Multiphase Currents,
Mr. T. Hawkins, 267

Society of Engineers:

President’s Inaugural Address, Mr. W. W. : Beaumont, 139 ‘
Gasworks Machinery, Mr. E. A. Harman, 561
Reservoir Embankments, Mr. Wm. Fox, 238
Wages, Application for an Advances of, for all :
Members Employed at Shipbuilding and Engineering Establishments, 491

Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated:

Mr. Barnes Elected Secretary, 372
Monthly Returns, Decrease in the Unemployed List, 586

Society, Glasgow University Engineering:

Damsholm Gasworks of the Glasgow Corpora¬tion, Mr. Alexander Wilson, 177;

Society, King’s College Engineering:

Bridges, Famous, Mr. A. J. West’s Presidential Address, Dealing with, 490
Coal Gas, its Manufacture and Uses, Mr. F. E. I L. Hurst, 227
Cylindrical v. Tubular Boilers for Marine Use, i Mr. F. Hamblin, 217
Geld, Mr. C. E. Atkinson, 265
Incandscent Lamps, Manufacture of, Mr. J. D. L. Bradwell, 191

Society, Liverpool Engineering:

Aerial Rope Railways, with Special Reference to Traffic between Liverpool and Manchester, , Mr. J. Walwyn White, §3
Flow of Water, Experiments on the, Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 151

Society, Manchester Geological:

Electrical Shot Firing, Mr. H. Bigg-Wither, ; 143
“Silvester Pulling Jack,”Mr. D. K. F. Matthews on the Machine known as, 69;
Subsidence caused by Colliery Workings, Mr. Joseph Dickinson, 586
Tinsley’s Patent for Collieries, brought forward < by Mr. Wm. Saint, 490

Society, Mason University College Engineering:

Equipment of Mason College Laboratory, Prof. F. W. Burstall, 112
Metor Cars, Mr. F. H. Hummell, 300
Torpedoes, Mr. C. Lakin-Smith, 418

Society of Mechanical Engineers, American :

Electricity in Cotton Mills, Use o’, Mr. W. B. I Smith Whaley, 89

Society of Mechanical Engineers, The ' Berlin:

Prize offered for a Plan for Transferring Trains between the Electric Elevated Railway and the Surface Street Lines, 285

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers:

Screw Propellers, Experimental Study of the Influence of Surface on the Performance of, ” Prof. W. F. Darand, 67, 91
Torpedo Boat Design, by Assistant Naval Constructor H. G. Gillmor, 88, 312

Society, The Physical:

Annual Meeting and Presidential Address, Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 193
Electro-Magnetic Induction in Plane, Cylin¬drical, and Spherical Current Sheets and its Representation by Moving Trails of Images, Mr. G. II. Bryan, 193
Generator, Three-phas?, Ilelio3 Company’s, 449
Measuring the Earth’s Diameter, Professor Porter’s Method of, 209
Prismatic Spectra, Simple Method of Reducing, Messrs. E. Edser ana C. P. Butler, 529
Thermo-Electric Pyrometers, Mr. A. Stansfield, 316

Society, Steam Engine Makers’:

Introductory Address on the Engineering; Dispute, Mr. Jas. Swift, 273

Society, Yorkshire College and Engineering:

Annual Meeting and Report, 314
Sofia, Electric Light and Tramways for, 107
Soudanese Railway, The, 399 ,
Soule, Prof. Frank, On the Holding Power of Nails, 614
South Africa, Progress of Foreign Trade with, 329
Southampton, Meeting of the Waterworks Engineers at, 523
South Brooklyn Steam Engine Works, Surface , Condensers, 59
South Russian Enterprise, 448 .
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Acts, Draft
Awards Made by the Arbitrators, 464
Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company's Mains, 41
Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks (Supplement, June Wth, 1898), 378, 379, 400, 401, 548, 569
South Yorkshire, After the Bottle in, 111
Spain, Bicycle Trade in, 607
Spain, Manganese Ore in Asturias, 470
Spain, Railway Extension in, 479
Spain and the United States, 271
Spanish Report on the “ Maine ” Disaster, 378
Spanish and United States Squadrons, Analysis , of, 359
Spanners and Pliers, 193
Specification,” New Quarterly Technical Publication, 205
Spectra, On a Simple Method of Reducing Prismatic, 529
Spectrum, The Magnet and the, 536
Speed of Trains, Apparatus for Recording, 133
Speeds, Railway, 7, 32, 55, 90, 132
Spring Head for Crane Jibs, 90
Squadrons now in Chinese Waters, 98
Staffordshire, North, Railway Company, Pro¬posals from the Men and Outlay if Granted, 171
Staffordshire, South, Surface Drainage Scheme, 530
Standard Lights, Dr. A. Vernon Harcourt on, 570
Stansfield, Mr. A., On Thermo-electric Pyro¬meters, 316
Slatter, Mr. J. G., On Electric Cranes, 198
Stay Bolts, Nickel Steel, 380
Stay Bolts, Making Test Holes in, 380
Stead, Mr. J. E., On the Crystalline Structure of Iron and Steel, 444
Steam Boiler Incrustation, 52
Steam Carriage, The Freakley, 383
Steam Engines see Engines and Locomotives Steam Engine Economy, 86
Steam Excavators, American, 288
Steam Navigation Company formed at Cronstadt, A, 577
Steam Navigation, Early, 10
Steam Pipeof the s.s. " Prodano,” Miorographical Analysis of the, 360, 363
Steam Pipes, Failure of Copper, 360, 363
Steam Separator, The Stemtriff, 204
Steam in Steam Engines and its Measuremeat, Condensation of, 2 Steam Stop Valve, 375
Steam Tramcar, United States, 366
Steam Turbines, Parson’s Patent, 482
Steam Wagon, A Novel, 278
Steamers, Ballasting of, 63, 188
Steamers and Ballast Tanks, 63
Steamers, Insurance Claims on Steel, 162
Steamer, Lengthening a River, 21
Steamers, Rival Designs for Loch Lomond, 111
Steamers—see Ships
Steel, Mr. Chas., Appointed Manager of the Great Northern Railway, 112, 143
Steel, Mr. T. Dyne, 614
Steel for Anaealing, On the Bost Way of Heating, I
Steel, On Brittleness in Soft, Mr. C. H. Ridsdale, 444
Steel Castings, Electric Welding of, 311
Steel, Contraction of Fire-box, 118
Steel Industry in the United States, Statistics of the Open-hearth, 607
Steel, On the Magnetic Properties of Tempered, by Mme. Curie, 107
Steel, Mr. F. Osmond on, 11
Steel Permanent Way, On, 444
Steel Permanent Way, Australian Market for, 353
Steel Pipes for Coolgardie, Tenders Invited from England for, 586
Steel Pipes, A Record Order for, 279
Steel Production at Kertch, 453
Steel Pulleys, America, 142
Steel in Shipbuilding, almost Exclusive Employ¬ment of, 257
Steels, On Silicon and Chromium in, 479
Steel Steamers, Insurance Claims on, 162
Steel Testing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 107
Steel, Toughening Process for, 340
Steel Tower at the Pan - American Exhibition Projected , 285
Steel Works in Germany, Projected, 46
Steering Gear, Crcom and Arthur s, 403
Steering Qualities of the “ Yashima,’’ 365
“Stellite” Works, Messrs. R. and F. Hall, Limited, 467
Stemtriff Steam Separator, The, 204
Stettin Dock. 516
Stevenson, Mr. F. W., on High-pressure System of Gas Distribution, 570
Stevenson, Mr. G. E., his Inaugural Address at the Meeting of the Institute of Gas Engineers, 570
Stoker, Mr. F. W., 172
Stoker, Gallant Behaviour of a, 89
Stoker Lynch’s Heroism should be Rewarded, 606
Stoker, Mechanical, Earliest Form of, 185
Stoker, The Proctor, 552
Stoneham, Mr. W. G., his C implaints to the Thames Conservancy Board, 614
Stoney, Mr. Edw. Duncan, 163
Stoney, Dr. Johnstone, his Theory as to the Atmosphere of Planets, 427
Stop Valve, Steam, 375
Storage Battery at Chicago, Large, 340
Storage of Energy, 260
Stranding of the “ Victorious ” and its Cause, 366
Strange, Mr. W. L, Reservoirs with High Earthen Dams in We3t India, 117
Stream Forms, On Ship-shaped, 302
Stream-line Motions, Prof. II. S. Hele-Shaw, 302, 305, 432, 458, 462
Stream Lines (with reference to Prof. Hele-Shaw’s Paper), 305
Streatham Pumping Station, Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks (Supplement, June lQth, 1898), 378, 379, 400, 401, 548, 569
Stress in Bicycle Wheels, 325
Strike and Lock-out, The Engineering, 10, 22, 39, 44, 54, 61, 84, 93, 103, 111, 132, 163, 533
Strike and Lock-out, The Engineering, Conditions of Settlement Proposed and Accepted at the Final Meeting of the Conference, December, 1897, 39
Strike and Lock-out, The Engineering, The End of the War, 61. 84
Strike and Lock-out, The Engineering, in South Yorkshire, After the Battle, 111
Strike, Stockton Malleable Iron Company’s Works, 465
Strike, The Welsh Coal, 325, 331, 384, 402, 405, 426, 449, 478, 481, 507, 553, 601
Strikes in Germany, 63
Strikes, Japan, 402
Strikes of Platers’ Helpers, 119
Submarine Cables throughout the World, Number of, 107
Subsidence Caused by Colliery Workings, 583
Suez to Busrah, Railway from, 89, 3
Suez Canal, Returns of the, 133, 453
Sugar Cane Disease in Madras, Dr. Bourne on, 403
Sugar Eitates, Fuel on, 377
Sugar Factory, Paraguay, First, 607
Sugar Machinery, America, 142
Sugar Manufacture, Improved Methods in, 415
Sunk Key r. Key on Flat, 132 1
Super-elevation of Rails, Mr. E. H. Morris, 196

Supplements:

Battleship “Albion," H.M. First-class, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, June 17th and June 24th, 1898
Battleship “Maine,” U.S. Second-class, March 25th, 1898
Battleships, United States, Typesof, April 23rd, 1898
Cruiser “ Adamastor,” Portuguese, Messrs. Orlando Brothers, January 7th, 1898
Engine, Four-cylinder Compound Passenger, London and North-Western Railway, Mr. F. ' W. Webb, May 6th, 1898
Engines, Paddle, Working Portfolio Drawing, No. 13. of the Hungarian Steamer “ Ferencz q Josef,” Messrs. The Danubius, Schoenichen, and Hartmann Ship and Machine Construc¬tion Company, February 4th, 1898
Engine, 1600-Horse Triple-expansion Corliss, Messrs. Cole, Marchent, and Morley, January - 14th, 1898
Maps showing the Railways of Japan up to ' November, 1897, March 4th, 1898
Pumping Machinery, Streatham Station, Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks, Mr. J. W. Restler, June 10th, 1898
Torpedo Boats in the United States Navy, January 28th and April 1st, 1898
Surface Condensers, New Method of Constructing,
Surface Resistance of Water and Stream Line ' Motion, Nature of, 302, 305, 432, 453, 462
Swansea Corporation and the Gray Water Scheme, ' The, 440
Swansea Docks, 372 '
Swansea Harbour, 58
Swansea, Opposition to the Projected Mumbles ' Dock, 248
Sweden, British and German Trade in, 431
Sweden, British Trade with, Decreases, 552
Sweden, Industrial Activity in, 577 '
Swedish Iron Ores, Utilisation of, 59
Sweden, Iron, Steel, Metal, and Coal Industries in 1896, 320
Sweden, Railway Extension in, 304, 453
Sweden, Railways, Revenues of, 233
Sweden, Tools and Machinery Exports from, 453
Sweden, Trade of, Mr. Herbert on, 159
Sweden, Utilisation of a Waterfall in, 355 ’
Sweitzer, jun., Mr. N. B., On the Gulf Stream, 677
Swift, Mr. James, Introductory Address to the Steam Engine Makers’ Society, 273
Swinton, Mr. A. A. Campbell, Circulation of Gaseous Matter in a Crookes Tube, 304 Swiss Railways, State Redemption of the, 185
Switch for Electric Motors, 289
“Sydney Daily Telegraph,” On the Combination by American Shippers to Australian Ports, 438
Syphons to be Employed in Bringing Water to Paris, 505

T

TAFF Vale Railway Company’s Reports, 107,120
Taff Vale Windsor Dock Estimates, 209
Taff Vale Windsor Dock Scheme, The, 198, 209
Tangier, Drinking Water for, Tenders Requested, 89
Tank, Ship Model Experiment, 380
Tanks, Steamers and Ballast, 63
Tariff of Norway, Amendments in the, 553
Tatton, Mr. R. A., Report on the Sewage Treatment in Lancashire, 285
Taylor, Mr. D. W., On Ship-shaped Stream Forms, 302
Teaching University for London, A, 159
Technical Education, French and English, 495
Technical Education, Prof. H. Louis, 197
Telegrams Handled by Her Majesty’s Post-office in 1897,107
Telegraph Cable-laying S learner the “Anglian,” Launch of, 613
Telegraph Poles for Victoria, Iron or Steel, 586
Telegraphic Apparatus, Dr. A. Muirbead and Prof. 0. Lodge, 452
Telegraphs, Semaphore, 535
Telegraphy, Wireless, Preece’s System, 500
Telephones, Inter-communication, 118
Telephone and Microphone,The “ ScientificAmerican” on the Names, 453
Telephone and Telegraph Wires, Dangers of Over¬head, 60S
Telephone Service, Conference on the Subject of the, 505
Telephone Service, Japan, 195, 266
Telephone System from California to British Columbia, 427
Telephotos Company, Incandescent Lamp Signal¬ling for Warships, 380
Telescopes, First Use of Cross Hairs in, 133
Tomperatnre of Electric Incandescent Lamp’, M. P. Janet on the, 285
Temperatures, Measurement of High, by the Interference Method, 159
Temperature on the Tensile and Compressive Properties of Copper, Effect of, 89
Temperature on Tnermal Conductivities, Dr. C. H. Lees on the Effect of, 89
Temperature at Werchojansk, East Siberia, 380
Temperature of the Year, Mean, 653

Tenders:

Admiralty, Cruisers for, Messrs. Vickers, Sans, and Maxim, 171
Amsterdam, Cast Iron Water Pipes, &}., lor Municipal Waterworks, 427
Coolgardie International Mining and Industrial Exhibition Buildings, 209
Criccieth, Seawall, 11
Java, Metallic Parts of Railway Bridges for, 529
Sofia, Electric Light Supply and Tramways for, 107
Tangiers, Drinking Water for, 89
Warsaw-Vienna Railway Company, Coal Trucks for, 607
Tenure of Office, Mr. T. G. Dae, On, 316
“ Terrible”—t’t Dockyard Notes
Test Holes in Stay Bolts, Drilling and Punching, 380
Testing, Boiler, 10
Testing Boiler to Destruction by Hydraulics, 11
Tests with Roller Beaiiogs, 257
Texas, Railways Working in the State of, 355
Thames Conservancy, New Bye-laws Relative to House-boats, 577
Thames Conservancy and the Navigation of the Upper Thames, 577
Thames Ironworks and Shiphuildirg Company, Electric Drilling Machine, 380
Thames, Tunnel under the, Eitimated Coat of, 329
Thames Valley, Flood Risks in the, Mr. W. G. Stoneham’s Complaints respecting, 614
Thames at Vauxhall, New Bridge over the, 209
Thames in the Victorian Era, Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the, No. xii, 203
Thames, Water Supply to London from the, 257
Thacet, the Isle of, Sewerage System of, 529
Thearle, Mr. S. J. P., Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel Ships, 142
Thermo-electric Pyrometers, On, 316
Third Rail System, Tracks Laid by the Pennsyl¬vania Railway Company to Test the, 107
Thompson, Mr. J. C., On the Question of Colour in Electric Lighting, 529
Thow, Mr. W., On the Security of some Loco¬motive Fire-boxes, 193
Thresh, Mr. J. C., Protection of Underground Water Supplies, 423
Thurston and Brinsmade, Messrs., Experiments with Engine Cylinders of Varying Sizes, S9
Tides, Scheme for Utilising the Energy of the, 677
Timber Freights to Rouen, The Action of the Railway Companies relative to, 257 Time Recorder, The Bundy, 239
Tin-plate Manufacture from 1829 to the Present, History of, 70
Tin-plate Trade, Depression in the, 311
Tin-plate Trade, Engineers and the, 556
Tin-plate Trade, Restriction of Output io, 438
Tin-plate Trade, Sir John J. Jenkins, On the, 466
Tin-plate Trade, Wales, 1891—1897, 91
Tin and Terne-plate Production, Unitod States 185, 209
Tinsley’s Patent for use in Collieries, 490
Tipton Engineering Scheme, The, 539
Tire Widths, Effect o', on the Draught of Wagons, 541
Tobacco in Victoria, The Bonus on, 577
Tokyo, Electric Tramways for, 376, 607
Tonnage and its Measurement, 345
Tonnage of the Mercantile Marine, Net Regis¬tered, 358
Torpedo Discharge Tubes, 496, 497
Torpedoes, Mr. C. Lakin-Smitb, 418
Torpedoing the “ Albemarle,” 533
Toughening Process for Steel, 340
Towage, Electric, 403
Trade Abroad, Defence of British, 162

Trade and Business Announcements:

41, 56, 90, 118, 141, 167, 181, 220, 232, 261, 276, 316, 325, 351, 385, 402, 440, 457, 488, 514, 540, 576, 610
Trade Combinations in Contemplation, 461, 465
Trade and Commerce of Havre, .329
Trade Disputes, April and March, 403, 479
Trade Marks in Bolivia, 5
Trade Prospects, 111
Trade and Railway Rates, 2-37
Trade with South Africa, Foreign, 329
Trade in Sweden, English and German, 431
Trade Unions, 158
Trade Unions in 1896, 54
Trade Unions, Amalgamation of, 162
Trade Unions, Percentage of Unemployed in April, 479
Trade Unionism, American View of English, 5
Trading with Hungary Popular with English Firms, 159
Trains, Atmospheric Resistance to, 663
Train Mileage of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 304
Train Resistance, 32, 151,184, 208, 232, 236, 276, 354, 460
Train Robberies and Wrecking in the United States, 304
Trains in Prussia, Rules concerning, 304
Trains, Toy, 577
Tramcar at Manchester, Trial of a Serpollet, 196
Tramcar, A New Kind of, 185
Tramcar, United States, Steam, 366
Tramp Steamer for Lake Service, A, 366
Tramways in Brittany, St. Malo and others, 380
Tramways, Electric, Dublin, 219
Tramways, Electric, Great Grimsby, 403
Tramways, Electric, Havre, 304
Tramway, Electric, Kidderminster and Stourport, 594, 596
Tramway, Electric, from Rome to Genzano, 577
Tramways, Electric, Tokyo, 376, 607
Tramways in Great Britain, Total Capital Expended on, 355
Tramways, Hampton Court, 403
Tramways in Histings, Construction of, Refused, 577
Tramways of Lyons and the Vicinity, Changes in the, 233
Tramways of Manchester and other Corporations, 209
Tramways, New South Wales, 288
Tramways, United States, Block Signalling on Country. 366
Tramway, Zurich. Electric, 5, 12
Tramway Rope, Record Life for a, 59
Transatlantic Company's Works at SL Nazrire,
Three Large Steamers for the Postal Service, Havre to New York, 304
Transformers v. Dynamos, 455
Transportation in Country Districts, Improve¬ment of, 587
Transporting Cars Across Lake Michigan, 355
Trans-Siberian Railway—ire Railway, Siberian Transvaal, Gold Production in the, 219
Transvaal, Railway Extension in the, 453
Transvaal Railway Tariffs, Reduction of, 59
Tratman, Mr. E. E. Russell, on the Improve¬
ment of Transportation in Country Districts, 537
Tredegar Dry Dock Company Floated, The, 120
Trewent, Mr. F. J., Rolled Weldless Steel Chain Cable, 205
Tripoli, Decrease of Shipping at the Port of, 355
Trotter and Co., Messrs., Fog Signalling Ap¬paratus, 355
Trowbridge and Burbank, Messrs., Novelty in Vacuum Tubes, 209
Truck Act, Sir W. T. Lewis’ and Mr. Abraham’s Interview with the Home Secretary, 244
Trucks for Coal Transport for the Warsaw- Vienna Railway Company, Tenders invited, 607
Trunk-deck Steamer “Oscar II.,” Mr. W. Hök on the, 322, 345
Tube Cleaner, The Simplex, 169
Tubes, Novelty in Vacuum, 209
Tubes in Shear, 132, 158,184
Tubing of Nickel Aluminium, 553
Tugboats, Sea-going, 366
Tullis, Mr. John, on Belt Driving, 159
Tunis, Railways in, 329
Tunnel Under the Thames, Estimated Cost of, 329
Tunnel Ventilation on the Injector Principle, 505
Turbine, A New American Steam, 159
Turkey, Metals of, 172
Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., Positive Corliss Gear Engine, 600
Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., Wheat Washer, 600
Turning in Twin Screws, Effect of Direction of, 321
Tuscan Mercury, The, 457
Twin Screws, Experiments on the Effect of Direction of Turning in, 321
Tyne Cycle Manufacturing Syndicate, Bicycle Frame, 489
Tyne Improvement Works, 189

U

UGANDA Railway, The, 479
" Undertakers,” The Oppressed Employers or, 531
Unemployed in the Engineering and Metal Trades, February, Percentage of, 329
Unemployed List, Decrease in the, Lancashire, 586
Unemployed in the Trade Unions Making Returns, Percentage of, 329
Unions, Church, Shop, and Trades, 517
United Kingdom in 1897, Fatal Accidents and Deaths in Mines and Quarries of the, 33
United States, Aluminium Production, 107
United States, Authorities and Krupp Process Armonr, 371
United States, Coal Output, 1897, 427
United States, Coast Fortifications of the, 106
United States, Electrical Experience in the, 86
United States, Furnaces in Blast in the, 329
United States, Great Northern Railway, Heaviest Locomotive in the World, 104, 105, 106
United States, 1897, Locomotive Building in the, 33, 106, 117, 276
United States, Naval Appropriations Bill, Pro¬visions of the, 329
United States, Naval Dry Docks, Dimensions of the Ten, 59
United States, Naval Observatory, The, 304
United States Navy, The, 538
United States Navy, Emergency Increase in the, 437
United States Navy, Fireproof Wood in the, 137
United States Navy Department, Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the, 233
United States Navy, Ship Model Experiment Tank, 380
United States Navy, Warships with Incandescent Lamp Signalling, 380
United States, Newspapers in the, 380
United States Patent Office, The Business of the. 216
United States, Petroleum Products and Exports. 273
United States, Pig Iron Production in the, 89, 209
United States, The Port Perry Bridge, 185
United States, Protective Tariffs of the, and their Influence on the Bavarian Exports to, 159
United States Railways, 427
United States Railway Accidents in January, 1898, 304
United States, Railway Mileage in, 285
United States Railway Statistics for Three Years, 33
United States Safety Appliances on Railways, Law with Regard to, 11
United States, Salt Production in the, 185
United States, Silk Industry of the, 304
United States, Slate Production in the, 209
United States, Spain and the, 271
United States and Spain, Relative Forces of the, 287
United States and Spanish Squadrons, Analysis of, 359, 381
United States Subterranean Hot Water Lake, 257
United States Tin and Terne Plate Production, 185
United States Train Accidents in December, 133
United States Train Robberies and Wreckings, 304
United States, Watertown Arsenal, Tests of Bolted and Riveted Joints, 133
United States Wind Engine and Pump Company, Catalogue, 440
University College, London, Dinner of the Past Engineering Students, 133
Ural, On the Iron Ores of the, 444
Urals, Charcoal Iron from the, 159
Utah, Electric Transmission in, 34, 230, 232
Utilisation of the Nile, 189

V

VACUUM Tubes, Novelty in, 209
Valve, Automatic Cylinder Drain, 36
Valves, On the Friction of locomotive Slide, 193
Valve, Steam Stop, Messrs. Macfarlane and Bryant’s, 375
Vans, Electric Motor, for Conveying Mails, 89,133
Vans, Self-propelled, 387
Vans, Steam Motor, for Conveying Mails, 89
Vans, Steam Motor, for Riad Scavenging, 4
Vapours of Metals, 430
Vaughan, Mr. Henry, 583
Vauxhall, Temporary and Permanent Bridges, 329, 448, 451, 452, 454
Venezuela, Navigation on the Orinoco Granted to an English Syndicate, 329
Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 329, 607
Venturi Meter, The, 232
Vernon Harcourt, Dr. A., On Standards of Light, 570
Vertical Boilers, Evaporative Test of Sandford’ 327
Viaduct, Subsidence of Part of Porthkerry, 46
Vickers’ Gas Check, 306
Vickers’ Quick-fire Field Guns, 206, 207, 552
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Extension of their Workshops, 367
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Orders Booked by, 243
Victor Shield for Circular Saws, The, 217
Victoria Embankment Extension, 92
Victoria Embankment Extension Scheme, Oppo¬sition to the, 185
Victorian Subscription to the Imperial Institute Ceases, The, 185
Vienna, International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 434
Vintage in France, 1897, 427
Vologda-Archangel Railway, Opening of, 133
Valcanising Cylinders, Haskin Wood Vulcanising Works, Millwall, 79, 81

W

WAGES Boards in Staffordshire, 22
Wages, Claims for Higher, in Consequence of the Activity in Shipbuilding, 516 Wages Disputes and Changes in the Rates of, 380
Wage Earners, Pullman, 277
Wages, The Engineers’ Society Apply for an Advance, 491
Wages, Ironworkers’, 306
Wages Question in Lancashire, 587
Wages Question, The Lancashire, Cheshire, and Midlands Coalowners and the, 491
Wages Question, Scotland, 440
Wagon, A Novel Steam, 278
Wages Question, The Miners’ Federation through¬out Lancashire and the, 613
Wagons, Effect of Tire Widths on the Draught of,
Wales and Adjoining Counties, News from—see Letters from our own Correspondent, each issue
Wales, Railway Extension in, 23, 59, 144
Wales, Record Rainfall of December, taken by the Cardiff Authorities, 107
Walker’s Compound Pump (with reference to p. 548), 586
Walker and Hall’s Electro-plating Works, Visit to Messrs., 606
War, American and Spanish, 406, 532
War Balloons for the Cuban Campaign, 606
War Expenses in the United States, Preliminary, 457
War and the Iron Trade, 329, 341, 439
War Material, A Year’s Review, 17
War Notes, 457, 471, 605
War, Wheat and, 398
War, End of the, Engineers’, 84, 132
Ward, Mr. Thomas, On the Rock Salt Deposits of Northwich, Cheshire, 389
Wardle and Co., Messrs., Tank Locomotives, 547
Warner and Co.’s New Foundry, 94
Warning to British Capitalists with reference to the Ecuador Railway Scheme, 150
Warren and Barraclough, Messrs., on the Effect of Temp9rature on Copper, 89
Warsaw-Vienna Railway Company Invite Tenders for Coal Trucks, 607
Warsaw, Wagon-building Industry in, 492
Washford Mills, Redditch, Messrs. H. Milward and Sons’ Works, 298, 299
Waste Heat at Sea, 38, 55, 184, 277
Water-ballasting of Steamers, Mr. A. McGlashan, 69
Water, Chemical and Bacterial Examination of, by Mr. P. F. Frankland, 524
Waterfall in Sweden, Utilisation of a, 355
Water Filtration Plant, Albany, 218
Water Mains, Flexible Joints for Submerged, 365
Water Movement, The Welsh, 528
Water Pipes for Fire Protection, United States, 142
Water Supply of Gosport, 523
Water Supply, London (with Map), 419
Water Supplies, On the Sources of Town, and their Bearings upon Public Health, 523
Water Supply, A Year's Review, 20
Water Supply from the Mississippi, Filtration of, 66
Water-tight Doors, Montgomery-Moore System of Controlling, 461
Water-tube Boilers, 305
Water-tube Boilers, Combustion in, 611
Water-tube Boilers, On the Design of, 107
Water-tube Boiler, Experiments with a, 322
Water-tube Boilers, Mr. Goschen on, 257
Water-tube Boiler, Mr. A. F. Yarrow’s Descrip¬tion of some Experiments with a, 309
Water-wheel at the Hercules Factory, Queretaro, 407
Waterworks, Portsmouth, Mr. H. R. Smith on the, 524
Waterworks, Pamping Engines for American, 9
Waterworks. South Hants, Map of. 524
Waterworks, Southwark and Vauxhall (Supple¬ment, June 10M), 400, 401, 548, 569
Watts, Mr. Philip, Steering Qualities of the “ Yashima,” 365
Watt Memorial, Lecture at Greenock, 59
Wear, The. 372
Weardale Iron and Coal Company, Presentations made by the Workmen connected with the, 243
Weather Influences on Farm and Garden Crops, Mr. Edw. Mawley, 111
Weather of January, 1898, On the Abnormal, 499
Weatherill, Mr. H., On the Employment of
Rubber, Combined with Metallic Springs, for Motor Car Work, 479
Webb, Mr. F. W., Four - cylinder Compound Passenger Locomotive, 420, 421
Weighing Machine, Simon’s Automatic, 423
Weir, Mr. James, Combustion in Water-tube Boilers, 611
Welding, Electric, 311
Welding, Electric, of Steel Castings, 311
Weldless Steel Chain Cable, Rolled, 205
Well and Bore-hole, Corporation Baths, Birming¬ham, 104
Welsbach’s Patent Filaments for Electric Limps, 403
Welsh Coal Strike, The, 38, 211, 282, 290, 325, 331, 368, 389, 390, 402, 405, 481, 507
Welsh Sliding Scale, Fate of the, 38
Welsh Steel Works, Effect of the War upon, 390
Welsh Coast, Transfer of Business by several Industries to the, 244
Welsh Water Movement, The, 528
Welsh Water Supply, Birmingham, 482
West Hartlepool Electric Lighting Station, The, 465
Westinghouse Brakes on South Italian Railways, 304
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company, Grain Elevators, 577
Westinghouse Generators at the Niagara Falls Power Company’s Station, 403
Westinghouse Rapid-action Brake and a New Friction Apparatus, Experiments with Coke Wagons fitted with, 505
Whaley, Mr. W. B. S., On the Use of Electricity in Cotton Mills, 89
Wheat and War, 398
Wheat-washer, Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, 600
Wheel, The Great, Paris Exhibition of 1900, 326
Wheel, Great Over-shot, at the Hercules Factory, Queretaro, 407
Wheels, Half Helical, 501
Wheels in Pittsburgh, Average Life of, £09
Whitcher, Mr., On Balancing Engines, 267, 508
White, Mr. J. W., On Aerial Rope Railways, 33
Wigan Coal and Iron Company's Report, 171
Wilde, Mr. IL, his Appointment, 479
Willans and Robinson's Works, Visit to, 490
Williams, Col. Jas., 466
Williams, Mr. Price, On Steel Permanent Way 444
Wilson, Mr. Alex., On the Damsholm Gasworks. 177
Wimborne, Lord, and the Dowlais Works, 85
Wimborne Steamship Company Floated, The, 144
Wind Pressure Gauges, 517
Windows in Chicago, Building Ordinance relative to, 607
Windows, Fireproof, 110
Windsor to Ascot Railway Bil’, 83
Windsor Dock, The Fight for the, 588
Windsor Dock Bill, Preamble passed, The, 614
Windsor Dock Scheme, The, 492
Winsford, Sewage Filtration at, 567
Winter, Mr. G. K., 133
Wire-winding Machine, Elswick Ordnance Works, 417, 436
Wire-wound Ordnance, Construction of Modern, 1, 49, 53. 60, 99, 153, 247, 293, 345, 347, 348, 417, 436
Wires and Fires, 604, 608
Witwatersrand Gold-fields, Output from 1887 to 1897, 59
Wolff and Sons, Messrs. E., Pencil Eraser, 209
Wolfram Ore in the Oural Region, 510
Women as Electric Engineers, &c , in the United States, 427
Wood, Fireproof, 63
Woods, Heating Capacities of Hard and Soft, 355
Woodworth System of Progressive and Automatic Cut-off Gear for Winding Engines, 576
Workington Docks, 372
Working Men’s College, Great Ormond-street, Next Term, 11
Workmen, Houses for, 184
Wounds Received in a Land Battle with those of a Sea-fight, Comparison of, 427
Wreck Returns, Lloyd’s, 59
Wrangham, Mr. B. D. ,243
Wright and Co., Messrs. Joseph, Feed-water Heater, 262, 375
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The, 364 , 386, 488, 549, 556
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Mr. Chamberlain on the. 579
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The Coalowners and the, 492
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Collieries and the, 605
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Forthcoming Operation of, 341
Workmen’s Compensation Act and Insurance Premiums, 537
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Ironmasters and Coalowners Concerned over the, 612
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The Miners’ Pro¬vident Fund and, 259
Workmen's Compensation Act, The People’s Guide to, 533
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Probable Friction in the Coal Trade in Connection with the Working of, 119
Workmen’s Compensation Act in Sheffield, Arrangements Connected with, 613
Workmen’s Compensation Act and the “Under¬takers,” 531
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The Yorkshire Miners and the, 279
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Effect of the, 603
Workmen’s Compensation Scheme, Results of a Private, 591

Y

YARROW, Mr. A. F., Experiments with a Water- tube Boiler, 309, 322
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Offer to the London County Council to Supply a Fire-float Ac¬cepted, 285
Yarrow and Co., Torpedo Boat for New York, 329
Yarrow Boilers for the Russian Admiralty, 33, 329 '
Yarrow Boilers for Swedish Cruisers, 403
Yoke Riveting Machine, A, 196
Yorkshire Coalowners, The, 406
Yorkshire Coalowners Mutual Indemnity Com¬pany, Limited, Registration of the, 577
Yorkshire Coalowners and the Railway Contracts, 604
Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 581
Yorkshire Coal Trade and Engineering Appliances,
Yorkshire Miners and the Compensation Act, The, 279
Yukon River, Steamers for the, 437

Z

ZAMBESI, Coal Deposits on the Upper, 615
Zoological Gardens Water Supply, 150
Zurich Electric Tramway, The, 5, 12

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