The Engineer 1898 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1898 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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A

ABERDEEN Graving Dock, 203
Aberdeen Line and Triple-expansion Engines, The, 371
AbradiDg Material made from Fire-clay, A New, 497
Accident through the Breaking of a Connecting- rod of a Locomotive, 85
Accident at Messrs. Chas. Cammell and Co.’s Works, Barsting of a Fly-wheel, 233
Accident with an Electric Charging Machine, 168
Accident to Electric Tramcar at Bradford, 301
Accident at the Eston Works of Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., 229
Accident at Irvine’s Shipbuilding Yard, 319
Accident with Liquefied Air at Brooklyn, 519
Accidents in Mines and Quarries, 1897, Number of Fatal, 279
Accidents, Railway—see Railway Accidents Accident, Scottish Cold Storage and Ice Com¬pany’s Works, Glasgow, 304
Accident at Messrs. Short Brothers’ Shipyard, 417
Accidents in the Suez Canal, 419
Accident on the Torpedo Boat Destroyer Desperate, 35
Acetylene Gas Production in France, 349
Generator, 547
at the Imperia, Institute, 67
Its Modern Development, Prof. V. B. Lewes on, 4
Railway Carriage Lighting by, in Canada, 373
Prof. J. E. Reynolds on, 300 Rubber not Impervious to, 85
Working of Gas Engines by, 587
Mixed with Oil Gas, Illuminating Power, 59
Oil Gas Plant, Combined, 258
Utilisation of, 171
Admiralty Board, Action of the, towards the Engineers of the Navy, 541
Admiralty, Complaints in Fairplay of the Manner in which Builders are Treated by the, 109
Aerial Navigation, Mr. Percival Spencer’s Experiments, 485
Aërial Research, Experiments in, 109
Africa, German Possessions io, 279
Africa, The German Protectorate in, 83
Africa, Telegraph Line from Cairo to Cape Town, 205
African News—see also Letters from Oar own Correspondents
Agricultural Machinery, French, 34
Agricultural Machinery—see also Royal Agricul¬tural Society
Agricultural Statistics of British India, 279
Air Compressor, Three-stage, Nordberg Company, 576
Air Compressors, West and Jenkins, 45
Air Pumps, High-speed, 588, 615
Air Pumps, High-speed, 574
Akerman, Mr., On the Development of the Swedish Iron Industry, 221
Alexandrowicz, M., On the Pressure attained by Superheated Water, 85
A'gal Flora of the Hamburg Waterworks, Oj the, 205
Allen, Mr. A. H., Electric Canal Haulage, 318
Allen, Son, and Co, Messrs. W. H., High-speed
Compound Vertical Engine, 494, 495, 518, 525
Allis Co., The Edw. P., Compound Horizontal Engine, 310
Almanacs and Diaries, 550, 559, 597, 628, 651
Alps by Balloon, Ascent of the, 279
Almpinium Manufacture, Mr. E. Ristori, 104,117
Aluminium, Metallic Oxides reduced and Great Heat obtained by, 325
Aluminium as a Rival of Copper and Brass for Electric Conductors, 81

American:

Competition, 208, 213, 265, 324, 402, 519
Competition in Denmark, 519
Electricity Supply Engines, 310
Grain Elevator at the Manchester Ship Cana1, 354, 355, 377
Gunnery, 158
Iron, Freights and, 275
Iron and Steel, 62
Locomotives for Finland, 540
Machine Tools, 316
Manufacturing Competition, 2S9
Navy, Effect of the Lite War on the, 595
Paddle-wheel Steamers with Beam Engines, 295, 306, 557
Passion for Big Things, A Five-eighth Acre Boat, 396
Patents Selected — see Patents Selected, American
Progress in English Industries, 171, 380
Railway Record, A New, 135
Shipbuilding Materials and Tools Favoured by Danish Firms, 519
Steel for Belfast Shipyards, 134
Traction Engines (illustrated), 12, 16, 17, 18
Train, Three-quarters of a Mile in Length, An, 238
Tramways, 446
View of German Competition, 499
Ammunition, The New Service Bullet at Omdurman, 325
Ammunition in the United States, On the Cost of Large Calibre, 205
Amphre Bdanc?, Prof. W. E. Ayrton and Prof. J. V. Jone3 (E'ectrical Engineering Supple¬ment, November 25th, 1898, xv.)
Anderson, Sir William (with Portrait), 587
Andrew and Co, Messrs. J. E. H., Gas Engine Contract, 80
Anemometers, Pressure-tube, The Advantages of, 497
Anti-friction Metal, Babbitt’s, 177
Aqueduct, Steel, United States, 140
Aqua Ammonia, the Best Fire-extinguishing Agent, 229
Arc, Motive Power Supplied by the, 73
Archangel Harbour and Railway, and Contem¬plated Revival of the Shipbuilding Industry,
Archbutt-Deeley Process of Water Softening at the Midland Railway Works, 104
Archbutt-Daeley Process, Water Softening and Purification by the, 124,151, 188
Arctic Exploring Steamer, 66
Ardwick Engineering Company, Launch Engines of the Compact type, 335
Argentaurum, 34
Argentiferous Zinc, Electrolytic Treatment of, 97
Arlberg Tunnel with Oil Fuel, Through the, 492, 498
Armour Plates, Beard more Process, 524
Krupp, its Application to Defeat Shell Fire in Warships, 438
Krupp Process, made in the United States, 473
Krupp Process, Brown’s 9in. and 12in., 402, 617
Krupp Process, Brown’s, for Japan, 622
Krupp Process, Cammell’s, 470
Krupp, Carnegie, 235
Krupp, for Shamrock, 541
Mills in Sheffield, Activity in, 459
Orders for, in Sheffield, 265
Armoured Pipes, 617
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Messrs. W. G., Ice-breaking Steamer Ermack, 451
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, Sir W. Japanese Cruiser Tokiwa, 30, 83
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Messrs. W. G., Order booked by, for Three Oil-tank Steamers, 459
Arnold, Prof. J. 0., On the Internal Architecture of Metals, 6
Arnold, Prof. J. O., On the Micro-Chemistry of Cementation, 248
Artesian Well at Werrington, 602
Asbestos in Bosnia, 154
Ashbee, Frank, Experiments on Cast Iron Man¬telpieces, 304
Ashbury Railway Carriage Company, Trains for the Metropolitan Railway Company, 167
Ashby’s Marine Boiler, 599
Ashby, Mr. J. H., Water-tube Boilers, their
Vatue for the Utilisation of Blast Furnace Gas and Waste Heat Generally, 357
Ashpit Refuse, Generation of Steam from the Combustion of, 414
Asphalt Plant, A Portable, 599
Asphalte, Laviano, 225

Association, Bell Casters’: 94

Association of Birmingham Students of the Institution of Civil Engi¬neers:

Axles for Road Carriages and Motor Cars, Mr. R. Thomas on, 631
Syllabus for Ensuing Session, 371

Association, British see British Association.

Association of Civil Engineering Stu¬dents, The Manchester:

Turbines, Mr. A. H. Tyack on, 630

Association, Derbyshire Miners’ 95

Association of Engineers In Johan¬nesburg, South African:
Mr. R. T, Tennant’s Speech, 506

Association of Engineers, The Leeds :

Annual Dinner, 57
Refuse Destructors, Designing and Construction of, Mr. F. L. Watson, 482
Visit to the Horwich Workshops of the Lanca¬shire and Yorkshire Railway Company, 190, 857

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

Election of New Members, 291
Opening of Winter Session and Visit to the new American Grain Elevator at Trafford Wharf, 354, 355, 377
Picnic at Knowsley, 95
Steam Engine Practice, Some Points ia Modern, Mr. Henry Hodgson, 456
Syllabus for the Ensuing Session, 311
Association of Foremen, Royal Arsenal:
Visit to the Central Landon Railway Works, Holborn, 81

Association, Galvanised Iron Trade : 94

July Shipments, 166

Association of Gas Managers, North British :

Coke in Gasworks, Automatic Manipulation of, Mr. G. Little, 1C8, 129
Cowan Pressure System, Mr. J. Hepworth on, 108, 129
Excursions to Loch Rauza, 129
Gas Eogine, Notes on the Modern Commercial, Mr. W. Carmichael, 108
Meters, Prepayment, Mr. Wilson, 108, 128
Ratort Settings and Practical Results Obtained, Mr. Ewing, 108, 128
Waves and Tides, Action of, on the Movement of Material on the Sea Coast, Mr. W. II. Wheeler, 2S0

Association, Glasgow and West of Scotland Engine-keepers’:

Opening Meeting and Subjects of Forthcoming Lectures, 509

Association, Manchester and Northern Counties Coal traders’:

Conflict with the Railway Companies, 359

Association, Manchester Steam Users’:

Memorandum read by Mr. C. E. Sromeyer, 81

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

Annual and Opening Meetings, 378, 562

Association of Old Students of the Central Technical College, S.W.:

First Annual Dinner, 63

Association, Self-Propelled Traffic :

Opening Meeting, 458

Association, Self-propelled Traffic (Liverpool and District Centre):

Opening Meeting, 508

Association of Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Newcastle-on-Tyne:

Visits to the Engineering Works of the District, 210, 496

Association of Students, The Manchester :

Marine Engineering Practice, Mr. F. T. Wolseley-Lewis, 527

Association, Unmarked Bar, 94

“Atlas” Metal, Repairing a Screw Propeller Shaft, 600
Atlas Steel and Ironworks, Annual Meeting of Shareholders, 21
Atmospheric Resistance to the Motion of Railway Trains, 164, 180
Atmosphere of Underground Railways, 87, 117
Austria, Modern Goods Locomotive Practice in Supplement, September 2Zrd, 1898), 129, 131,
Austrian State Railways, Goods Locomotive Supplement, October 23rd, 1898), 129, 131, 300
Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland, The, 497, 578, 643
Axles, Engine and Tender, 75
Axles, Scrap Iron Car, Southern Pacific Railway Shops, 619

B

BABBITT'S Anti-Friction Metal, On, 177
Babcock, Mr. W. I., on Portable Pneumatic Riveters in Shipbuilding, 665
Bacterio-thermal Treatment of Sewage, 85
Bagbie, Messrs., Electrically - driven Machine Tools, Johannesburg Works, 506
Bag Dall, Limited, v. Carthago Syndicate, Limited, 132
Bailey, Mr. Percy D , 265
Bailey and Co., Sir W. IL, Dynamometer for Measurement of Wave Stroke, 166
Bailey, and Co., Messrs. W. H., New Works adjoining Manchester Ship Canal, 141
Baku Naphtha Company, Financial Report of, 229
Balancing Engines—see Engines, Balancing Ball Bearings into the United States, Importation of, 137
Balloon Ascent of the Alps, 279
Balloon Ascent, Remarkable, from the Crystal Palace, 325
Bananas, Dried, Queensland Fruit Trade, 593
Band Saw Machines, Two New, 502, 503
Barclay, Sons, and Co., Messrs. Andrew, Pump¬ing Engines, Glasgow Graving Docks, 28, 29, 32, 52, 53, 78, 79, 86
Barnes, Mr., Report of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 7
Barry, Sir J. Wolfe, His Presidential Address, Section G, Mechanical Science, 289
Barry Docks. The, 536, 512, 583, 611, 647
Bars, Transference of Heat in Cooled, 476
Bartlett, Mr. A. T., Experiments on the Trans¬ference of Heat in Cooled Bars, 476 Bass, Ratcliff, and Gretton’s Brewery, Visit to Messrs., 124
Beams subjected to Cross Bending, 213
Beams, Theory of, 163, 189
Beardmore Process Armour Plates, 524
Becker and Co., Messrs. R., Hand Punching and Shearing Machine?, 575
Bedford, Mr. John, 431
Bedson, Mr. J. P., His Retirement and Prcsenta- tion to, 460, 485
Beele Metal and Chemical Company’s Works, Visit to, 210
Begbia and Co , Messrs. T., New Works at Wit- watersrand, 381
Behrens and Baucke, On Babbitt's Anti friction Metal, 177
Beith, Mr. Wm., 46
Belfast Harbour, Electric Light Mast, 259
Belfast Ironworks Company’s New Engines, 356
Belgian Iron Trade, Improvement in, 141
Belgium, English Engineering Tools Wanted at, Belk, Mr. Wm., 95
Belper Sewage Works, 152
Benjamin, Prof. C. H., On the Bursting of Small Cast Iron Fly-wheels, 619
Benjamin, Prof. C. H., On Experiments on Cast Iron Cylinders, 109
Berend and Co., Limited, Messrs. O., Micrometer Gauges, 467
Berend’s Revolution Counters, 262
Beresford, Lord Charles, On the Russian Naval Programme, 102
Berkley, Mr. Philip, His Appointment, 553
Berlin, Stone, Asphalte, and Wood Carriage Pavements at, 35
Bermondsey, Refuse Destroyers and Electric Lighting in, 43
Bessemer Process, The Homo-office and the, 357
Bethlehem-Krupp Process Plate, 517
Bickford, Mr. J. S. V., Petroleum Vapour, Its Production and Use, 49
Bicycle Exercise, Effects of, on the Body, 279
Bicycles, Fifteen Dollar, 565
Bicycle Frames, How to Lessen the Weight of, 253
Bicycle Frames, Manufacture of, 10
Bicycles, German, 484
Bicycles on Railways, Carriage of, 102
Bicycles, Railway Transport of, Prussian Rules for, 519
Bicycle Rider, How to Determine the Speed at which he is Riding, 279
Bicycle, On the Steering of the, 557
Bill, London University Commission, 85
Bills in Parliament, Private, 113
Bills, South Wales Railway and Dock, 513
Birchington Sewerage, 402
Birmingham Electric Lighting Undertaking, 519
Birmingham, Motor Omnibuses to Run iD, 593
Birmingham Water Scarcity, 253
Birmingham Water Supply from Central Waks 243, 245
Blast, A Monster, in Welsh Quarries, 593
Blears and Co., Mo3jrs. Tho3., Milling, Boring, and Facing Machine, 288
Blondlot, M R.. How a Practical Coulombmeter may be Obtained, 11
Board of Conciliation, Official Statistics of the Price of Manufactured Iron Prepared for the, 553
Board of Trade’s Report on the State of the Skilled Labour Market during November, 593
Board of Trade and Railways, 58
Board of Trade Returns, 473
Board of Trade and Water-tube Boilers, The, 158
Bog Ore, Manganese from, 32

Boilers:

for the American Navy, Commdore Melville’s Annual Report, 654
for Calcutta, 396
Choice of, 232
The De Laval, 147, 151
The Drought and, 381, 402
H.M.S. Diadem’s, 478
Explosion, Norwich, 257, 627
Fallacies Concerning, 157
Firing, New Method of, Mr. Schlicht’s, 137
Gauge, New, 81
in Italy, 35
Marine, Ashby’s, 599
Marine, Explosion, 304
Plant of a Sugar Refinery, Arbuckle Rs- finery, America, 44
Plates, Immense, American Goods Engines, 70
Transmission of Heat in, 549
Vertioal, at the Lowney Chocolate Factory, America, 94
Vertical Steam, Messrs. T. Toward and Co., 178
Water-tube, Mr. J. H. Ashby on, 357
Water-tube, The Board of Trade and, 158
Water-tube, The Largest Order for, ever Given in America, 643
Water-tube, and the Manning of Stokeholds, 246
Water-tube, The Miyabara, 173
Water-tube, Mumford’s, 136, 590
Water-tube, on Passenger Steamers. 601
Water-tube, H.M.S. Salamander, 55
Boilermakers on our Warships, Courage of, 447
Bond, Engineer Edmund, The Injustice of the Admiralty towards, 541

Books Received :

Acetylene, Lighting by, Generators, Burners, and Electric Furnaces, by Wm. E. Gibbs, 63
d’Acoustique et d'Optique, Logons Elémentaires (avec 205 Figures), by Ch. Fabry, 15, 39
Africa, Guide to South, with Coloured Maps, Plans, Diagrams, Ed. annually by Samier Brown and G. Gordon Brown, 523
Alabama Geological Survey, by Eugene Allen Smith, 209
Algebra, A Middle, Based on the Algebra of Radbakrishnan, by W. Briggs and G. H. Bryan, 451
Algebra, Tutorial, Based on the Algebra of Radhakrishnan, Part II., Advanced Course, by Wm. Briggs, 545
Alter der Welt. Das, Auf Mechanische-Astro- nomische Grundlage Gerechnet, von Mgr. Siegmund Wellisch, 306
l’Aluminio, del Dottore Carlo Formenti, 545
American Institute of Electric Engineers, Transactions of, 63
Analysis Infinitesimal, E’ementary : Real Vari¬ables, by Wm. B. Smith, Vol. i., 306
Annuaire pour l’An, 1899, Publié par le Bureau des Longitudes avec des Notices Scien- tifiques, 597
Arbitration, Redress by, Digest of the Law Relating to Arbitration and Awards, by H. F. Lynch, 423
Architectural Surveyors and others engaged in Building, Handbook for, by John Thos. Hurst, 233
Australia, West, 1897, Report of the Depart¬ment of Public Works, 306
Australian Institution of Mining Engineers, Transactions of the, Vol. v., edited by A. S. Kenyon, 377
Autocar, On an, by Henry Sturmey, 89
Belgique, Annales des Travaux Publics de Cinquante-cinquihme Année, 159
Bicycles and Bicyclettes, Le Travail, Nouveau Traité des, par C. Boarlet, 63
Birmingham, Future Water Supply of, by Thos. Barjlay, 306
Boilers, Marine, their Construction and Work¬ing: Dealing more especially with Tubulous Boilers, by L. E. Bertin, 597
Bouches ii Feu, Déculassement des, par P. Lanrent, 257
Bouches a-Feu, Résistance des, par P. Paurent, 597
Bright, Sir Chas. Tilston, Life Story of, with which is incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable and the First Telegraph in India and the Colonies, by his brother, E. B. Bright, and his son C. Bright, 597
Bruges, Compagnie des Installations Maritimes de, The Outer Port, and the Inner Port of Bruges, 647
Caleb West, Master Diver, F. Hopkinson Smith, 159
Canada for 1897, Statistical Year-book of, 477
Cassier’s Magazine, July, 1898, 63
Charleroi Associations des Maitres de Forges de, Report Général sur la Situation de l’lndustrie Metallurgie en 1897, 477
Chemical Analysis, Qualitative and Quantita¬tive, Wm. Briggs, 89
China in Transformation, by A. R. Colquhoun, 89
Coal Mining in the Coal Trade, Annals of the Invention of the Steam Engine, and the Origin of the Railway, by Robt. L Galloway, 64/
Cofferdam Process for Piers: Practical Ex¬amples from Actual Works, Chas. Evan Fowler, 283
Colliery Managers’ Handbook, by Caleb Palmeley, with plans and diagrams, 89
Combnstion8 Spontanées Re Mies on Supposes, &o., par E. Tabaries de Grandvaignes, 15
Conduites d’Eau, Calcul des, by Georges Darifes, 159
Differential and Integral Calculus for Technical Sohoolg and Colleges, by P. A. Lambert, 477
Distribution de l’Energie par Courants Poly¬phases, par J. Rodet, 185
Doctrine of Energy: A Theory of Reality, by B. L. L., 63
Draw Spans, Designing of, in two parts: Part I., Plate Girder Draws; Part II., Riveted Truss and Pin-connected Long-span Draws, by Cbas. H. Wright, 647
Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, Calendar, 257
Electrical Measurements, Lecture Notes on the Theory of, Wm. A. Anthony, 523
Electrical Testing for Telegraph Engineers, by J. Elton Young, 39
Electricity through Gases, Discharge of, J. J. Thomson, 329
Electricity in Town and Country Ilonses, by Percy E. Scrutton, 63
Encyclopédie Scienti6que des Aide-Memoire, Statique Grapbiquo des Systbmes Triangulés, par T. Segrig, 477
Engineering Laboratory Practice, Handbook of, by Richard Addison Smart, 523
Faraday, Michael, His Life and Work, by S. P. Thompson, 559
Financial Sketches, by Helóne Gingold and Dudley Hardy, 63
Fire-place Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables, arranged by J. W. Nicholson, 113
Fonderie, L., par U. Le Verrier, 377
Geology, Applied, by J. V. Elsden, 185
Geometry of Position, Lectures on, by Theodore Reye, 39
Glasgow and West of Scot’and Technical College, Calendar for the Session 1898-99, 113
Goldfields of Australasia, by Karl Schmeisser, assisted by Dr. Karl Vogelssng, 597
Institution of Civil Engineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of, Vols. cxxxi., cxxxii., 209
Institution of Civil Engineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of, Vol. cxxxiii., 477
Institution of Civil Eogineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the, Vol. cxxxiv., 623
Institution of Junior Eagineers, Record of Transactions, Vol. vii, 545
Institution of Mechanical Ecgineers, Proceed¬ings, 1897, 39
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceed¬ings, Nos. 1 and 2, February and April, 1898, 451
Iron and Steel Bridges and Viaducts, by Francis Campin, 63
Jane’s Naval War Game, Rules, Scoring Cards, Shooting Targets, &c., 501
Law of Negligence, The, by Thos. Wm. Saun¬ders, 477
Lean’s Royal Navy List, No. 84, October, 1898, 423
Liverpool Engineering Society, Transactions of the, Vol. xix., 329
London and North-Western Locomotives, Simple and Compound, Part V., S. Cotterell and G. H. Wilkinson, 283
London University Guide for the Year 1898-9, 559
Lyons, Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund Lord, by Capt. J. Eardley Wilmot, 523
Marine de Guerre, Etudes sur la, avec 6croquis et 3 cartes, 89
Materials and Workmanship employed in Con¬struction, Inspection of, A Reference Book, by Austin T. Byrne, 283
Mechanical Engineering, Text-book of, by Wilfrid J. Lineham, 353
Mechanical Engineers’ Handy Office Companion, Robert Edwards, 89
Metallic Carbides, Review and Bibliography of, by J. A. Matthews, 209
Metallurgical Engineering on the Rand, by John Yates, 39
Metrical Tables, by Sir Guilford L. Molesworlh, 501
Mines, Report of the Bureau of, Vol. vii., 89
Naval Architects, Transactions of the Inst, tf, Vol. xi., Ed. by Geo. Holmes, 233
Nickelatura, Argentatura, Dorabura, Rima- tura, Metallizzazioni, Dell. Ing. Gbersi, 545
Opera Houses and Theatres, Modern, by Edwin (). Sachs, 523
Patents, Designs, and Trado Marks Act», 1S83 to 1888, Law and Practice under, by William Norton Lawson, 545
Patent-office, Catalogue of the Library of the, 523
Photography Annual, El. Henry Sturmey, 159
Poles, The Secret of the, by Henry Campion, 257
Practical Engineer Pocket-book for 1899, 523
Prismoidal Formula? and Earthwork, Thomas U. Taylor, 113
Problems of Modern Industry, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 63
Pump (Centrifugal), Turbines and Water Meters: Including the Theory and Practice of Hydraulics, by Charles H. Innes, 623
Purification of Public Watsr Supplies, John W. Hill, 523
Railway Block Signalling, by Jas. Pigg, 477
Railways: A Fortnightly Journal devoted to
the Interests of Railways, Tramways, &o., in India, Vol. i., 597
Railway Management at Stations, E. B. Ivatts, 15
Railway Vehicles in Pasing through Curves, Behaviour of, from the German of Ober- maschinenmeister, 623
Régularisation du Mouvement dans les Machines, par L. Lecornu, 63
Roadmasters’ Assistant: The New Manual for those having to do with the Permanent Way of American Railways, by G. H. Paine, 39
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of, Vol. ix., Part IL, III., 63, 377
Royal Navy List Diary and Naval Handbook for 1899,545
Royal Society of New South Wales for 1898, Journal and Proceedings of the, Vol. xxxi., 597
Royal United Service Institution, Journals of, 39, 113, 239, 647
Russia's Sea Power, Pa9t and Present, Col. Sir Geo. Sydenham Clarke, 159
Sanitary Engineering, Elements of, by Mans¬field Merriman, 647
Sanitary Engineering: Practical Treatise on the Collection, &c., of Sewage, Ac., by Col. E. C. S. Moore, 545
Scale Drawing Sheets, Arnold’s, prepared by Langman and Whillier, 257
Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education, Forty-fifth Report of the Department of, 159
Seismology, by John Milne, 353
Sewerage, The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems, by A. Prescott Folwell, 647
Sewage, Purification of, by Sidney Barwise, M.Ü., 597
Small Arms and Ammunition, Evolution of, by E. C. R. Marks, 329
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1126,
Hodgkin’s Fund : Determination of the Ratio of the Specific Heatsat Constant Pressure / and at Constant Volume for Air, Oxygen, Carbon Di-oxide, and Hydrogen, by 0. Lammer and E. Priegsheim, 283 ,
Smithsonian Institution, Publications of, 63
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1125, Hodgkins Fund: Investigation on the Influence upon Vital Resistance of Animals to the Micro-organisms of Disease brought about by Prolonged Sojourn in Impure Air, D H. Bergay, 283
Société des Ingénieurs Civilsde France, Compte s Rendue de Travaux de, 1818-98, 15
Technological Examinations, Programme of, inclading Regulations for the Registration and Inspection of Classes in Technology and Manual Training, 233
Technology Quarterly, June, 1893, 283
Temperature: Entropy or 8
utb Africa, 70
Steel, for Algiers, New Orleans, Tenders
Invited for by the Navy Dept., U.S., 430
Sunderland, 216
Tyne, Scheme for a Large Graving, on the 304
Woolwich, Australia, 190

Dockyard Notes:

“Admiralty Mixture ” of Coal and the Pelorus and Arrogant, 639
Admiralties, As to the “Official Secrets” of the, 495
American Coast-defence Monitors, The New, Designs for, Cancelled. 471
American Gunnery and British, 369
American Naval Construction, American Views as to, 252
American New York, The Rig of the, in the Late War, 639
Amiral Baudin, The French Battleship, 29
Andromeda Due at Portsmouth, 252
Argentine Destroyer Santa F£, Too, 442
Artificial Fog for Purposes of Naval Warfare. 213, 226
Asama, Japanese Armoured Cruiser, 225, 400
Austrian Torpedo Bjats Boa and Cobra, 618
Automatic Sights Experimented with at Gibraltar, 495
Baiern, Reconstruction of the, 302
Barry Docks, New Works at, 536
Battleships of Novel Type, Italian, 108
Baudin and the Formidable, Reconstruction of the, 370
Belleville Boilers Adopted by the Italian Government, 345
Balts, Lt 1 acht on the Grave Defects of Incom¬plete, 525
Blake, The, to be put to Rights, 618
Boilers, Our Warships’, 618
Brazilian Catchers, Elswick Guns for, 302
Brest, Le 1 acht on Events at, during 31 Lock-roy’s Visit, 178
British Battleship, Le Yacht on the Evolution of the, 525
British Gunnery, The Naval and Military Record on, 278
British Navy, Four New Battleships for the, 426
Bulgarian Ironclad, A, 370, 400
Canopus, The, 369
Cambrian and Charybdis to Replace the Immortalité and Narcissus, 91
Channel Fleet on its Way to Arosa Bay, Gale Encountered by, 425
Channel Fleet and the War Scare», 471
Charlemagne, French Ironclad, 15
Chili and Argentina, Armoured Cruisers of, 345
Coal-eaters,” On the Subject of, 225
Coal Endurances, Le Yacht on, 592
Coaling of the Channel Fleet by Temperleys, 323
Coaling Trials of the Majestic, the Prince George, &c., 302
Colliers with Big Hatches, Advantages of, 302
Colour for Torpedo Craft, The Best, 91
Cruisers, Second-class, to replace Armoured, upon the China Station, 91
Danish Navy, The, 400
Destroyers, The Best Colour for, 91
Destroyers, Le Yacht on the Speeds of British, 178
Diadem has Earned her Laurels, The, 592
Diadem Preparing for New Trials, 210
Doors, Water-tight, Lord Charles Beresford on the Use of, 108
Dreadnought, Reconstruction of the, 178
Dutch Ironclad again Laid Down, The Usual, 525
Edinburgh, Second-class Battleship, 225
Electricity on Shipboard in the American Navy, The Use of, 568, 618
Elswick Guns for German-built Battleships, 302
Engineer Officers in the Engine-room, Need of Executive Rank to, 252
Engineer Officers, Should they Qualify for Torpedo Duties, 278
Fighting Tops, Disappearance of High, and List of Ships that have had theirs Lowered or Removed, 278
Fire in Portsmouth Dockyard—see Par., page 11
“ Foreigner’s ” Contention with regard to the Elswick-built Harald Haarfagre and the
Marechal Deodoro, 29
Formidable and the Canopus in the Dry Docks at Portsmouth, 592
Formidable, Preparations for the Launch, 210
French Arsenals, Activity in, 425
French Battleship of 14,500 tons, Projected,
French Coast-defence Battleship Jemappes,
Funnels of Heightened, 442
French Cruiser d’fintrecastaux, The New, Trial of, 525
French Cruiser Jeanne d’Arc, Machinery of the New, 323
French Cruisers Ls Hire and Dunois, 471
French Cruisers of the Montcalm Type to be Laid Down next Year, 494
French Cruisers, Reconstruction of, 108
French Ironclads, The Bouvet, Massena, Charles Martel, and Carnot, 323
French Navy, Items about the, 369
French Navy, What M. Lockroy has done for the, 639
French Northern Squadron, less Redoubtable than stated, 494
French Plan of Campaign in the Event of War, 425
French Programme of Construction Published by Le Yacht, 471
French Ships, The Speed Failing of, 29
French Submarine Torpedo Boat Gustave Lsde, 323
Fu Soo, Repair of the Japanese Ironclad, 252
Garibaldi Problem, Solution of the, 471
German Ironclads, Reconstruction of Old, 302
German Torpedo Cruisers Kornet and Meteor laid up, 210
Gromet Torpedo Nets and Gyrosoope-fitted
Torpedoes supplied to the Channel Fleet, The, 29
Gunnery, Admiral Harris on the Importance of Good, 568
Gunnery Practice, Automatic Steam Pumps to discharge Spray over the Gunners, 535
Gunnery Practice, Rolling Boats for, 535
Gunnery Returns from the Channel Fleet, 369
Guns, Big, The American View of, 323
Gun Muzzles, do Shells Bursting within Six or Seven Feet Destroy them, or do they not! 568
Guns, Quick-firers and Converted, Percentage of Hits, 278
Guos, Velocities of American, Hitherto and in the Future, 525
Gyroscope-fitted Torpedoes, 29
Gyroscope Torpedoes, Their Want of Success, 154
Harald Haarfagre and Marechal Deodoro, 29
Hecate, New Boilers of, 154
Hero, Quick-firers Substituted for the Old Breech-loaders, 252
Indomptable, Reconstruction of the, 370
Invincible, Change of Rig, 210
Iron Duke, Change of Rig, 210
Italian Ironclads of Novel Type, Three New, 108
Italian Warships, 471
Japanese Armoured Cruisers, Arrangements for the Supply of Ammunition on, 406
Japanese Cruiser Kasagi to be provided with Guns at Elswick, 525
Japanese Naval War Game between Ships of English and French Type, 442
Japan, Toe Old, a Fleet Collier, 370
Jemappes and the Valmy, M. Lockroy’d Order respecting, 400
König Wilhelm, Reconstruction of, 210
Krupp and Vickers Piates Equal, 345
London, The New Ironclad, 369, 525
London, The New Ironclad, to have the same sort of Stern as the Formidable, 568
London not yot Laid Down, The, 592
Le Yacht, Comparison between the Ramillies and Charles Martel, 91
Le Yacht on the Russian Navy, 210
Majestic and the Magnificent in the Co.liog Competition, 210,252
Majestic, Coaling Record again Broken by the, 302
Majestic and Indexible in the Dry Dxks at Portsmouth, 592
Mahan, Capt., his Opinion as to Largo Fighting Ships, 210
Mareshal Deodoro, The Brazilian Coast Defence Ironclad, 15, 29
Masts, Damage Done by Falling, 535
Measured-mile Trials, A Spot for, 178
Nadiejda, The Bulgarian Cruiser. 4C0
Naval Manoeuvres and the Coal Question, Our, 29
Naval Manoeuvres in France, 29
Naval Manoeuvres, Substitute for, 29
Naval War Game in the Torpedo School Ship VernoD, 278
Niclausse Boilers, Ships to be Re-boilered with, 178
Orlando, Refitting of, 278
Pedro d'Arragano, The, 370, 425, 471
Pelorus and Arrogant, The Real Reason of their having to be Towed Home, 631
Philomel, Trial of the Cruiser, 345
Portsmouth, Preparations against Possible Eventualities, 425, 442
Prize-firing Results of the Imperieuse, 592
Proserpine, The Nominal Natural – draught Speed of the, 592
Quick-firers in the Gladiator, 6in. to bo Substi¬tuted for the 4 7in., 639
Quick-firers, The Rate-of-fire Question and the
Difficulty of Control, 639
Quick-firing Guns at Brest, 178
Ramil ies and Charles Martel, Comparison between the, 91
Russian General Admiral Apraxine, Trial of, 525
Russian Navy, Le Yacht on, 210
Russian Petropaulowsk, Engined by Haw them Leslie, Trial of, 525
Russian Rostislav, Trial with Oil Fuel, 525
Russian Warships, Copies of the Sokol, 442
Sanspareil and the Thunderer ordered to Bristol, 225
Santiago, Le Yack', on the Battle of, 226
Sfax, French Cruiser, Reconstruction of, 108
Shells Bursting near Gun Muzzles Destroy them Do, 568, 592
Shikishima, The, 471
Skjiild, The Danish Battleship, 400
Soft Ends and Armoured Ends, 91, 369, 425
Sokol, Copy of the, Constructed at Abo by the Russians, 15
Southsea Common, Electric Light Station on, 535
Spanish Cruiser, 345
Spanish Ship3 Where does “ Projected ” end and Existence begin with regard to Certain, 426
Spanish Warships after Santiago. Photographs of, showing Damage done by Falling Masts, 535
Speeds of British Destroyers, Lt Yacht on, 178
Speed of Warships, French and English, Station-keeping, 178
Superb, The, at Wei-hai-Wei, 369
Swedish Navy, The, 345
Terrible, Trials of, and Reported Destination of, 154, 210, 252, 302, 345
Thrasher, The Destroyer, 29
Torpedo Beat Attack on Portsmouth Har¬bour, 592
Torpedo Craft, The Best Colour for, 91
Torpedo, The Japanese 24in., 29
Torpedo Tubes, The Condemned Above-water,
The Order to Replace them in French Cruisers, 494
Turkish Ironclads, Condition of, 618
United States Indiana, Alterations to, 471
Vareses, The Three, Italian Warships, 471
Vindictive Trials, The, 154
“War Scare” at Portsmouth Dockyard, according to a London Newspaper Corres¬pondent, 425
Water-tight Doors, Lord Charles Bsresford on the Use of, 108
Dodge, Prof. O. G., Tests to Determine Power
Needed to Drive Woodworking Machinery, 82a
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, On Standard Methods of Conducting and Reporting Steam Engine Tests, 92
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, His Summary of the Results of Tests made by Prof. Stodola on a Sulzer Triple Steam Pumping Engine, 10
Doors, Automatic Colliery Air, 534, 535
Doors, Safety, for Hoists and Lifts, Messrs. J. C. Etchells and Co., 483
Dorman, Leng, and Co., Limited, New Acquisi¬tions, 553
Douglas, Isle of Man, Drainage of, 447
Dover Collieries, Mr. N. R. Griffiths’ Report, 447
Dover Naval Harbour, The, 89
Dover National Harbour Works, Damage done by the Gale to, 643
Dover Pier Extension, 619
Drain Testing, Mr. Gilbert Thomson on, 565
Drainage, Combined, 153
Drainage Scheme, Cairo, 85
Drains, Velocity of Flow of House Soil, 177
Draught System, The Horsfall Induced (Illus¬trated), 40
Draughtsmen, Mechanical, Their Position, 256
Draughtsmen, Position of, 286, 309, 332, 333, 348, 380, 401, 428, 458, 469, 574
Draughtsmen, Property in Design and the Posi¬tion of, Mr. Geo. Russell on, 657
Drawbridge with Unequal Arms, Railway, 214
Drawbridges—see Bridges
Dredgers, Papers on, Read at the Navigation Con¬gress, Brussels, 101, 102
Dredging, Improvement of Tidal Channels by Pump, 551
Dresden, New Commercial and Winter Harbour at (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1828)
Drilling Iron, Steel, , Mr. A. T. Murray’s New Machine for, 405
Drilling Machine, Messrs. Hompage, Jacques, and Pedersen, 648
Drilling Machine, New Sensitive, Messrs. J. Spencer and Co., 483
D.'i la, Avorage Work of Machine, 70
Drills in Stipes, Hand and Machine, Relative Merits of, ‘264
Driving Lathes for Electric Motors, Messrs. W. Muir and Co., 95
Driving Vehiclos, Power Required for, 303
Driving Woodworking Machinery at the Navy Yard, Washington, Tests to Determine Power Required, 325
Drummond, Mr. Dagald, His Express Locomo¬tives, 155
Drummond, Mr. D., Four-cylinder Locomotive Drummoad, Mr. D., Four-cylinder Express Loco¬motive, London and South-Western Railway (Supplement, Aujuet'26th, 1898) 211, 212
Drummond, Mr. P., His Express Engines, 155
Dubois, M., On the Electric Resistance of the Human Body, 35
Da Bousquet, M., Double-bogie Tender, Chemin de Fer du Nord, 367, 377
Dudley, Mr. P. H., Discussion on Rails, 42
Duffield Bank Model Railway, Visit to the, 125
Dundee's Boulton and Watt Beam Engine, 477
Dundonald, Lord, His Galloping Gun Carriage (Illustrated), 5
Dunkley, Mr. W. H., Coal-gas Driven Motor Car, 45
Dunlop, Mr. George Henry, Hydraulic Shield Tunnelling in Melbourne, 601
Durban, Harbour Works at, 190
Durham College of Science, The, 91
Dussaud, M., Experiments with the Microphone to Intensify the Sound, 643
Dust Cart, Designs for, invited by the London County Council, 619
Dost Destructor, The Shoreditch, 426
Dynamics, Theoretical, 19, 34, 67, 117
Dynamo Armatures, 484
Dynamo, Four-pole, 82
Dynamometer Car, 648
Dynamometer for Measurement of Wave Stroke, Sir W. H. Bailey cn, 166

E

EARTHENWARE, Manufacture of Hollow, 5
Earthquake proof Structures in Japan, Pagodes the only, 349
East London Water Supply, £62
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Messrs., Hydraulic Pumping Engines, 399, 640, 641
Eccles, Electric Lighting at, 592
Economy of Heavy Goods Engines, 576
Edric Bayley Schools, The, 593
Education, Sir A. Geikie on. 375
Education of Engineers, SirW. H. White on, 421, 433
Education, Secondary, Sir N. Lockyer on, 419
Eggs, Cold Storage of, 593
Egypt, What British Rule has done for, 461
Egyptian Cotton Imported into the United States, Eight Hours Day, An, 281, 288
Elba, Mr. Vice-Consul Tonietti on the Mines in, 11

Electrical:

Appliances, Muir, Mossrs. Wm., and Co., 95
Appliances in the United States in 1888 and now, Capitalisation in, 253
Canal Haulage, Mr. A. H. Allen’s, 318
Conductivities of Metals at Different Tem¬peratures, Signor P. Stranes on the, 155
Conductors, Aluminium as a Rival of Copper and Brass for, 81
Cooking, Figures given by Mr. H. R. J. Burstall relative to the Cost of, 643
Cranes, Overhead, 589
Current, Charges for, by the Niagara Cataract Power Co., 20
Driving of Engineering Works, £90
Dumb Waiters (Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 2,"th, 18S8, xv.)
Energy, Highland Lochs and, 514
Engineers and the Coal Trade, 282
Engineers, R.E. (Volunteers), 32
Engineers’ Specifications, J. Alec. McLaren, 43, 69
Excavator at Work, Central London Railway 490
Horse-power for the Union Carbide Company, 619
Installation for Light and Power on the Mid¬land Railway, Air. W. G. Lingdon, 413
Instruments for Indicating and Recording Quantities, Mr. E. S. Shoults, 656
Launch for the Russian Government, 80
Lift Engines, 654
Light, Mr. Wm. H. Preece on, 493
Light Mast, Belfast Harbour, 259
Light on Steamers, Unwisdom of, 419, 422
Lighting, 562
Balmoral Castle, 47
Bermondsey, Refuse Destructors and, 43
Boston, 654
Chicago, 229
Detroit Municipal, 337
Eccles, 592
Grimsby, 205
Middlesbrough, 279
Storage Battery, Largest in the World for, 61
Plant for Small Installations, Messrs. Stanley Davis and Pollard, 335
London, Competition in, 38
Longton, Private Plant, 593
Machinery made at Pittsburgh for this Country. 619
Motors, 305
Applied to Small Industrial Purposes, Mr. A. H. Gibbings, 316
Driving Lathes for, Messrs. William Muir and Co., 95
Rotating at Different Speeds, Appa¬ratus to Show the Action of Two, 11
Patents, 82
Plant at the Bristol Carriage ard Wagon Com¬pany’s Works, 473
Plant at the Ferrouillat Pit, M. Kodde on the, 325
Plating, Hotel that does it’s own, 177
Power and its Application on the Three-phase System at the Bristol Wagon and Carriage Works, Mr. W. Geipel, 316
Power for Drawbridges, U.S., 265
Pamping, South Staffordshire" Mines Drainage, 299
for Scene-shifting at Drury-lane, 349
Transmission, 428 in Workshops. Mr. Siemens, 316
Railways—see Railways, Electric
Resistance at the Contact of Two Discs of the Same Metal, On the, 155
Resistance tf the Human Body, 35
Sydney, Service in, Motor Cars and Tramcars for, 593
Supply Corporation, The London, High-tension Trunk Mains, 531
Supply in Lancashire, 602
Traction, GHsgow and the Conduit System of, London Tramways, 619
South-East London, 423
West of London, 404
Tramcar, Double-deck, 41
Tramways, Brighton and Rottingdean, 58
Cork, 616
Distribution Networks, Calculation of, 93
French, Laid during the last Year, 406, 497
Leeds, 85
London United, 642
Los Angeles, 155
Middlesbrough, Thornaby, and Stockton, 71
Paris, 85 Rouen, 109
Transformers, Cooling Large, 214
Tubular Post in Budapest, 59
Electricity Supply in Italy, 14
to Large Districts, 251. 297, 339, 368
Measurement of, M. R. Blondlot cn the,11
for Power Transmission, Controversy od, On the Witwatersrand, 526
Madrid, 8, 9, 10 Thun, 177
Wakefield, 10

Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898:

Alternating Currents, General Distribution from Central Stations by (Illustrated), xv.
Ampère Balance, An, by Prof. W. E. Ayrton and Prof. J. Viriamu Jones, xv.
Blackburn Electric Tramways, vii.
Electric Dumb Waiters, Chicago Public Library,
Electrical Machinery in Prussia in 1898, xv. Electric Power by Water Power from the
Lachine Rapids, Canada, Cost of, xiv.
E'ectric Railways, Isle of Man, vii.
Electric Railway, A Long, xiv.
Electrical Railway in South America, xiv.
Electrical Survey in the Borough of Manhattan,
New York, Mr. A. A. Knudson, xiv.
Electric Tramways, Blackburn, vii.
Electric Transmission at the Linotype Com¬pany’s Works, Broadheath (Illustrated), vii.—xiv.
Electricity in Engineering Works, The Use of, vii.
Etheric Telegraphy, i.
Isle of Man Electric Railways, vii.
Linotype Company’s Works, Broadheath,
Electric Transmission at the (Illustrated), vii.—xiv.
Motherwell Bridge Bail ding Company, The Works of the, xv.
New York Electric Society, xvi.
New Zealand Electric Installation, A, xvi. Niagara Falls, xiv.
Paris Central Electric Stations, Quai Jemappes, Paris (Illustrated), v. Telegraphy, Etheric,
Transformers in Practice (Illustrated), ii.
Tunnel Ventilation, The Hoosac, vii.
Wagnsr, Mr. H. A., General Distribution from
Central Stations by Alternating Currents (Illustrated), xv.
Electrolytic Treatment of Argentiferous Zinc at Friedrichsbütte, 97
Elevator, Grain, Manchester Ship Canal, 45, 215, 354, 355
Ellin, Mr. Tho’. R , “Footprint” Tools, 617
Eliott, Mr. G. W., 70
Elswick Works, Strike of Blast Furnacemen at the, 22
Emery Wheels, Safety Mountings for, 423,550, 574
Emigration, 47
Employers’ Parliamentary Council, The, 643
“ Eacyolopmdia Britannica,” The Times and the. 76 ’

Engineering:

at Cambridge University, 398
Civil (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Combination, A Textile, 257
Contract Question, 450
Dispute, Interesting, 132
Dispute in New Zealand, 349
Gas, Progress in, 89
Industry, Improvement in, and Increase of Wages, 21, 71
News, American—see Letters from Our Own Correspondents
Notes from South Africa—te: Letters from Our
Own Correspondents Strike, Mr. Barnes on the Cost of, 191
Tools for Belgium, Opening for English, 155
Trades and Petroleum, 597
Trade in Sheffield, The Dispute in, 459
Trade Unions’ Monthly Returns, The, 279
Works, Electrically-driven, 590

Engineers:

Education of, 421, 433, 463 in Japan, Training of, 189 in the Navy, 476
Specifications of, 348, 381
Stationary, A Poet amongst, 205
Trained, Success in South Africa, 5C0

Engines:

Actuated by Carbon Dioxide, 279
American, for the Dublin Electric Tramways, 310
American, Electricity Supply, 310
Balancing of, 18, 34, 66, 117, 132
B$am, American Paddle-wheel Steamers, with, 295, 3C6, 341, 344, 409, 435
Belfast Ironwork Company’s New, 356, 358
Blowing, by Jas. Proctor, 138
Compound Ventilating, Garswood Hall Collieries, 60, 64
The Compression of Steam in, Is it Economical'! 511
Corliss Gear Hauling, 598
Ciépelle and Gorand’s, 550-Horse Power, 381
Dundee’s Boulton and Watt Beam, 477
Electric Lift, American Sprague Electric Co., 654
Electric Lighting, 549
Fire, The “Greenwich Gem,” 399
Gas, On the Commercial, 128
Gas, A Large Contract, 80
Gas, Maximum Efficiency attained by, 301
Gas, Acetylene, 587
Gas and Petroleum, A Be’gian Decree as to the Starting of, 253
Governor for Large, 603
High-speed Compound Vertica1, Messrs. W. H. Allen, Son. and Co., 494, 495, 518, 525
High-speed Steam, Messrs. Coulthard and Co , 227, 228
Locomotive—see Locomotives Marine, H.M.S. Amphitrite, 152
H.M.S. Constance, 1880, Messrs. John Penn and Co., 271
H.M S. Lord Warden, 56
H.M S. Sphinx, 1882, 318, 320
H.M.S. Triton, 1882, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, 272
H.M.S. Wsrspite, 1888, 317, 321
Central Marine Engineering Co., 629
High-pressure, 134
Iris and Mercury, 1876, 150
Lake Steamers, America, 506
S.S. Lady Derby, 55
Steam Yacht Joyeuse, 127, 128
Torpedo Boats for the United States Navy, 321, 563
Triple-expansion, 5
Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station, Southwaik, Combined, with Dynamo, 444
Oil, Capitaine v. Diesel, 26
Oil, The Diesel, 435, 573
Oil, for Electric Lighting, 135
Old Newcomen, Mr. W, H. Pearson on, 318
Old Steam, A Pair of, 1777, 1803, 57, 65
Practice, Some Points in Modern Steam, 456
Pumping, Contract for, 136
Pumping, Glasgow New Graving Docks, 28, 29, 32, 52, 53, 78, 79, 86
Pumping, Hydraulic, Messrs. Easton, Ander¬son, and Gooiden, 640, 641
Pumping, Ipswich Waterworks, 65
Pumping, Sulzer Triple Steam, 10
Pumping, for Tasmania, 399 and Pumps, Stockport Main Sewerage Works,
93
Steam, at Tipton, in 1725, 468
Stop and Speed Limit, Automatic, 506
Tests of Steam, Extension of the Standard
Uniform Methods of Conducting and Re¬porting, 92
Thermal Efficiency of, 236, 262
Traction, American, 12,16, 17, 18
English Capitalists and Russia, 213
in China, School for Teaching, 163
Industries, American Progress in, 171, 380
Machine Tools in Belgium, Opening for, 155
Machinery at the Witwatersrand Gold- fields, 214
Essen and Solingen, 430
Eston Jetty, Enlargement of the, 167
Etchells and Co., Messrs. J. C., Safety Doors for Hoists and Lifts, 483
Etheric Telegraphy, Mr. W. H. Preece on (see Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898)
Etheridge, Mr., On the Keat Coalfield, 300
Ethiopia, Mines of, 93
Evans and Co., Messrs. Jas., Pattern and Core¬box Machine, 405
Ewing, Mr. Wm., On Systems of Retort Settings, 108, 128

Exhibitions:

Acetylene Gas, at the Imperial Institute, 67
Australian, Western, Mining and Industrial, 94
Brewers’, 451
Coolgardie, 1899, 348
Como, Electric Appliances, 1899, 155, 177
Cycle Shows, The Stanley and the National,
English and American Machine Tools at the, 614, 543, 548
Grahamstown, South Africa, 35
Lima, Peru, 22
Lithographic, 287 , 473
Paris, 1900, 3, 137, 177, 495
Siberian Products, Projected Exhibition of, 229
Turin, 318
Exley’s Acetylene Gas Generator, 547
Explosions—see Boiler Explosions
of Caps and Detonators, 398 at Earl’s Court, Tho, 232
Gas, Greas borough Pit, 253
Grain Dust, 373 in Sewers, 545
Explosives Act, The, 72
Explosives, On the Action of, on the Tubes of Steel Guns, Prof. Roberts-Austen, 249

F

FAIRFIELD Shipbuilding and Engineering Com¬pany, Engines and Boilers of H.M.S. Diadem (Supplement, November llfA, 1898), 478
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, H.M.S. Diadem, 415, 416, 417, 420
Feed-water Heaters, Mr. George Halliday on, 572
Feed-water Heaters, Live Steam, 521, 574, 615
Feiten and Guilleaume, Messrs., Armoured Pipes, 617
Fernow, Prof. B. E., On the Physics of Timber, 11
Ferry for Finneston, Glasgow Harbour, A New Steam, 279
Ferry, The First Steam, 205
File Cutting, The Dangers of, 349
Files, None but Russian-made, to be Used in Russia, 229
Filters, On Feed-water, Mr. A. E. Shute, 565
Filtration by Centrifugal Action, 373
Fire Alarms, False, 253
Alarms, Massachusetts, 241
Brigade Committee of the London County Council, Report of, 253
in a Cask of Minium or Red Lead, 85
Engines—see Engines, Fire
Extinguished in Boston, U.S.A., by Chemi¬cal Engines, 229
Extinguishers, Chemical, 600
Extinguishing by Aqua Ammonia, 229
Extinguishing by Steam Jets, 447 in Portsmouth Dookyard, 11
Royal Arsenal at Ferrol, 565
Fire-prevention Committe?, Testing Station of the British, 345
Fire Protection in American Cities, Auxiliary Water Supply for, 533
Fireproof Curtain for the Paris Opera House, 325
Fireproof Wood for Warships, 626
Fire Tables for 1898, U.S., 205
Fishery Industry, German Sea, 419
Flash Point of Petroleum, The, 13, 84, 109, 111,
132, 189, 237, 308, 460, 469
Flash Point, Recommendation to Raise the, If 9
Flash Point Test for Lubricating Oils, The, 460
Flax Production in Ireland During 1897, 541
Fletcher, Mr. Lavington E., Mr. C. E. Stromeyer on, 81
Floryanaviez, M., A New Abradiüg Material In¬vented by, 497
Flour, &c., Export from Russia, 85
Flying Machine of the Future, Mr. G. L. O. Davidson, 11
Fly-wheels, Bursting of, 233, 619, 645
Fly-wheels, Bursting of Small Cast Iron, Mr. C. H. Benjamin on, 619
Fog Signalling Apparatus, Mr. Herbert’s, 177
Footprint Tools, New, 617
Foreign Capital and Japanese Investment', 123
Foreign Population of Germany, France, Swiizerland, and Vienna, 447
Forestry, United States, On tho Physics of Tim¬ber, 11
Formosa, Russian Oil Shipped to, and Stored by a British Company, 59
Foistor, Mr. Robert, His Retirement and Suc¬re isor, 191
Forts of the Isle of Wight and Hurst Castle, Adequacy of, Tested, 325
Foster, Mr. C. le Neve, On the Underground Fire in the Snaefell L;ad Mine, 11
Foundations of Compressed and Rammed Soil [see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Fowler Sir John (with Portrait), 513
Fowler Messrs. J. and Co., Compound Engines, Madrid Electricity Works, 8, 9
Fownes and Co., G. E., 238
Fownes Forge and Engineering Company, 168,
Fox, Mr. Francis, Ventilation of Tunnels and Buildings, 601
Foxlee, Mr. W. T., Goods Station, Great Northern Railway, Manchester, 223, 224, 230
Frankfort-on-the-Main, Trade and Commerce of, 35
Freights and American Iron, 275
French Agricultural Machinery, 34
Coaling Stations, 61 Colonies, Trade in the, 512
Locomotives, 649
Naval Defence, 147
Naval Estimates, 545
Navy, The, 512
Railways and their Work, No. 1, Le Chemiu de Fer du Nord, Mr. Charles Rous-Marten, 76, 100, 276, 284, 285
Superior Council of the Navy, Reconstitu¬tion of, 619
Friedrichsbütte, Electrolytic Treatment of Argentiferous Zinc at, 97
Fry, Sir Edward, and Compulsory Arbitration,
Fuel, Liquid, Arrangements at the Admiralty for its Development, 565
Furnaces, Blast, on the Adriatic, Messrs. Vogel and Noot, 229
Blast, in America, 140
Blast, New Lucy, No. 2, Carnegie Steel Company, 229
Blown in and out and in Operation for the Quarter ending June 30tb, 1898, 71
“ Cupola ” Rivet, 287
Marine Boiler, 84
New Rivet, 258
Open-hearth Steel, Contract for, 373

G

GALVANIC Action, Damage to Italian Shipping by, 152
Galvanised Sheet Iron Import into Japan, 349
Garawood Hall Collieries, Ventilating Engines, 60,

Gas:

Burners, Anti-vibrators for Incandescent, 335
Burners, Mr. W. R. Clay’s Anti-vibrator for Incandescent, 605
Coal and Water, Chemioal Composition of the Same, 349
Cost of Lighting Villages by Electricity or, 4
Engine, On the Commercial, 128
Engineering, Progress in, 89
Explosion at Rotherham, 253
Furnace Top, from the, 396
Engines, Cheap, American, 653
Industry, Mr. Jas. Stelfox’s Presidential Address on,
Lighting, Incandescent, 642
Manufacture of, Mr. Hy. Green on, 4
Manufacture, Mr. S. Y. Shoubridge cn, 4
Meters and Cookers, Automatic, 615
Meter Unions for Adoption as Standards, On the Most Suitable Sizes of, 4
Oil Gas Mixed with Acetylene Gas, 59
Piping, Rule for the Size of, 447
Pressure, On the Cowan System of Regulatirg, 129
Price of, in South London, 630
Retort Settings, Mr. W. Ewing on Systems of, 108, 128
Sewage Sludge, Illuminating, from, 117, 132
Water Gas, Combustible Constituents of, 301
Water Gas, its Dangers, 59
Water Gas, The London County Council on the Dangers of, 80
Gasoline Hoisting Plants, America, 140
Gasoline Power Plant, Chicago and North-Western Railway, 552
Gatling's Cast Steel Cannon, Successful Trials with, 643
Gauge, New Boiler, 81
Gauges, Micrometer, 467
Gauge, Power, for Steam Engines, 552
Gauge, Reflex Water, 30
Geikie, Sir Archibald, On Science in Education, 375
Geipel, Mr. W. P., On the Electric Plant at the Bristol Carriage and Wagon Co.’s Works, 316, 473
Gelignite, Rhenish, 651
Gellivara, “ Iron Mountains” of, 220
Generating Plant at Madrid, 8, 9
Genoa and Vonice, Maritime Activity in, 349
German Arms and Ammunition Factory, Contract with the Turkish Government, 292 Bicycles, 484
Bicycle Manufacturers, Large Profits made by, 35
Blast Furnaces, Total Product for Fivo Months, 137
Coal Exports in the First Six Months of 1898, 279
Compstiton, American View of, 499
Export Trade to South America, 109
Industries, Statistics of Horse-power used by, 565
Iron for the German Iron Industry, 155
Pig Iron Production for 1898, 229
Possessions in Africa, 279
Protectorate in Africa, 83
Railways, Oil Gas Burned on the, Mixed with Acetylene Gas, 59
Sea Fishery Industry, Development of the, 419
Shipbuilding Trade, Activity in the, 216
Steamers, Suicides on, 216
Trade since 1873, Cause of its Great Success, 473
Trade Statistics, 447
Gibbings, Mr. A. H., Electric Motor, 316
Gibraltar, Defensive Works at, 537
Gibson, Mr. T. W., On the Water Power available in Ontario, 473
Girders, Cast Iron, 287
Gjers, Mr. John, 398
Glasgow Buildings Regulation Committee, 519
Glasgow and the Clyde Valley, Handbooks Re¬lating to, 11
Glasgow and the Conduit System of Electric Traction, 586
Glasgow Corporation invites Tenders for Cast Iron Pipes, 109, 460
Glasgow Electric Tramway, The, 593
Glasgow, New Gasworks for, 450
Glasgow, New Sewage Works for, 325
Glasgow’s Proposed New Dock, 495
Glasgow Waterworks, Cast Iron Pipes for the, from a Philadelphian Firm, 192
Glass in Belgium, The Standard Mixture for White, 419
Glass, Limestone Applicable to the Manufacture of, 413
Glass-making at Teheran, 136
Glass, Proportion in which Light is diminished by the Interception of, 205
Gledhill, Mr. M., 279
Glehn, M. Alfred G. de, Four-cylinder Compound Express Engines, Chemin de Fer du Nord, 76, 100, 276, 284, 285, 649
Globe for Incandescent Electric Lamps, New Form of, 447
Glover, Mr. G. T., Testing Material for Rolling Stock (Illustrated), 1, 75, 130, 145, 200, 219, 296, 364, 411
Glover and Co., Messrs. W. T., New Works near the Manchester Ship Canal, 141
Goddin’s Lock Nut, 235, 261, 287
Gold in British Columbia, 299, 396
Exports of Australasia Last Year, 628
Extraction, Dr. Loevy on the Cyanide Pro¬cess of, 309
Mining in California, 349
Mining on the Witwatersrand, Deep-level, 44, 70
Nugget, Big, Found in Spasso-Preobashon- sky Mines, 304
Output in Australia—tee Letters from our own Correspondents
Standard adopted by Japan, 373
Transvaal, 264, 381
Goldschmidt, Herr Hans, Metallic Oxides Reduced by Aluminium and Great Heat Obtained, 325
Goss, Prof. W. F. M., On Atmospheric Resistance to the Motion of Railway Trains, 164, 180
Governor for Largo Engines, A Special, 603
Grain Dust Explosion, United States, 373
Grain Elevator on the Manchester Ship Canal, American, 215, 354, 355, 377
Graphic Interpolation in Machine Design, The Application of, 412
Gray, Sir William, 278
Green, Mr. Henry, On the Manufacture of Gas, 4
Greenland Closed to Trade with Foreign Nations, 137
Grenier, M., On the Works for Protecting the Banks of the Terneuzen Ship Canal, 125
Grimsby, Electric Lighting of, 205
Guard, Rack Saw, Messrs. J. and F. Howard, 302
Guards, Steel Wire, General Introduction of, 141
Guest, Mr. A., 96
Guns, Action of Explosives on the Tubes of Steel, 249
Automatic Machine, Colt's Fire-arms Com¬pany, 10
Breech, Mechanism of the Service, Impor¬tant Change in the, 109
Carriage Machine, Lord Dundonald’s (Il¬lustrated), 5
Rapid and Accurate Gun-fire, Naval Battles of the Future will be Decided by, 121
Gatling’s Cast Steel, 643
Life of Steel, 205
Mountings for the Admiralty, Contractors’, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, i nd Co., 95
Guns, Mounted at the Entrance to New York Harbour, 4
New Field, 279
Quick-fire, for Artillery in the Field, 82
Quick-fire Field, Messrs. Vickers’, 103
Quick-fire, Our New, 570
Quick-firing, French, The Pister Lloyd on the, 642
Ships’, Importance of the Firing Discipline, 137
Trade and the Persian Gulf Seizure, 58
United States, England, Italy, Germany, France Compared, The Big, 4
Gunboats Wanted for the Nile, 373
Gunnery, American, 158
Gunnery and Torpedo Manuals Issued by the Admiralty, 373
Gutta-percha, Exhaustion of, 646

H

HALIFAX Waterworks Company, Mseting Rela¬tive to the, 325
Hall, Messrs. J. and E , Refrigerating Machines, 90
Hall, Messrs. J. P. and Co., Four-pole Dynamo, 82
Halliday, Mr. Geo., on Feed-water Heaters, 521, 572
Halliday, Mr. Geo., on Heat Transmission through Metal Plates, 6
Hallsworth and Co., Messrs. J., Screwing Machine, 405
Hamburg Export Trade to South America, 109
Hangiiudd, Raising the Russian Ironclad, 155

Harbours and Waterways

Aberdeen Graving Dock, 203
Billp, Harbour and Dock, 634
Blytb, New Deck, 378
Boulogne Harbour (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Bristol Harbour and Docks, 41
Calais Harbour (see Civil Engineering Supple¬ment, July22ad, 1898)
Caledonian Canal, 203
Cardiff Harbour and Docks, 41, 172
Clyde, New Decks on, 172.
Cork Harbour, 378
Danube, The, 42
Dover, Naval Harbour, 80
Dresden Harbour (see Civil Engineericg Supple¬ment, July 22nd, 1898)
Grand Junction Canal, 378
Grangemouth, New Dock, 378
Gulf if Finland, New Harbour cd, 85
Hamburg, New Harbour at, 473
Hastings Harbour, 172
Heysham Harbour (see Civil Engineering
Supplement, July 22od, 1898), 450
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 378
Lancashire Coast, New Harbour on the (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Manchester Ship Canal, 378
North Sea and Baltic Canal, 42
Seabam Harbour, 172
Suez Canal, 42
Sunderland Harbour and Docks, 41, 378
Workington Docks, 203
Harkess and Sons, Messrs. Wm., Vessel for tbo Russian Navy, 46
Harrison, Ainstio, and Co., The New Firm of, 119
Hartley and Co., Steam Valve, 335
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Order for Steamers Booked by, 95
Haythorn Boilers on the Meg Merrilees, 601
Head and Sons, Messrs. Jeremiah, Mill for Rolling Steel Plates for the Spanish War De¬partment, 655
Head, WrightsoD, and Co., Bridgework for Khar¬toum, 655
Heat in Boilers, Transmission of, 549
Heat in Cooled Bars, Transference cf, 476, £49, 647
Heat, Transmission of, from Hot Gases to Water, 34
Heat Transmission through Metal Plates, Mr. G. Halliday on, 6
Heaters, Feed-water, Mr. Geo. Halliday on, 572
Heaters, Feed-water Live Steam, 574
Heating Air, 356
Hedley and Leek, Messrs., Timbering in the Cumberland and Furness Iron Ore Mines, 299
Height of Buildings in Washington City, Bill on the Subject, 613
Hemet Dam, The (sre Civil Engineering Supple¬ment, July 22nd, 1898)
Hemp Production in Italy, 304
Heppell, Mr. Thos., 460
Hepworth, Mr. J., On the Cowan System of Regulating Gas Pressure, 129
Herbert, L'mited, Messrs. Alf., Hexagonal Turret Lathe, 379
Herbert, Mr. E. G., Centering Tool, 93
Herberts, Mr., Fog Signalling Instrument, 177
Hertfordshire Water Supply and the London Water Companies, 423
Herz, Dr. Cornelius, 40
HetheringtoD, Mr. Fred., A Portable Asphalt Plant, 599
Hexamcr, Mr. C. A., Chemical Fire Extinguishers, 600
Heywood and Bridge's Friction Clutch, 405
Highland Lochs and Electrical Energy, 614
High-speed Air Pumps, 568, 615
Hodgson, Mr. Henry, Some Points in Moderr Steim Engine Practice, 466
Hofors Ironworks, Sweden, 365, 374
Holden Apparatus, Locomotives fitted with the, 91
Holden, Mr. Jas., Bogie Single-wheel Liquid Fuel- burning Express Engines, 2C4
Holden, Mr. Jas., Oil-burning Express Locomo¬tive, Great Eastern Railway, 413
Holmes, Mr. Matthew, His New Express Engines at Work, 155
Home-tflice and the Bessemer Process, The, 357
Hopkinson, Dr. John, 234, 251, 334, 398, 506,603
Hopkinson, Dr., In Memory of, 398
HopkinsoD, Mrs. John, and Cambridge Univer¬sity, 603
Horsfall Furnace Syndicate, Refuse Destructor, 200, 201, 202, 203
Horsfall Induced - draught System, The (Illus¬trated), 40
Horsepower used io Germ in Industries, Statistics 1 of, 565
Horwioh Workshops, Visit to the, IPO
Hosack's Road Ro’ler and Scarifier, S02
House Cisterns, 237, 261,287, 333, 318, 380, 401, 457, 515
Howard, Messrs. J. and F., Rick Saw Guard, 302
Howden and Co.’s New Works, 396
Hudson Bay, Rise of the land about, 349
Hughes, Mr. A. J., Reconstruction of Plague-Stricken Cities in India, 463
Hughes, Mr. John, Air Lock, Valparaiso Harbour, 247, 249
Hulse and Co., Mossrs., formed into a Private Limited Company, 21
llumpage, Jacques, and Pedersen’s Drilling Ma¬chine, 648
Humphrys, Tennant, and Co., The Miyabara Water-tube Boiler, 173
Hunt, Mr. A. E.,on Aluminium for Electric Con¬ductors, 81
Hunt, Mr. Chas., Roller Chain, 45
Hint, Sir F. Seager, His Resignation, 109
Hunter, Mr., On the Works for the Protection of the Banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. 125 Hydrants, Experiments with Double Fire, 522
Hydrometer, Improved Form of, 373
Hyslop, Mr. P. S., Process for the Treatment of Sewage, 85

I

ILLINOIS Steel Company, United States, Works of the, 609, 620, 633
Import Returns, Bare Official, Often Misleading, 167
Incandesceut Limp, People’s Combination, 519
India, Agricultural Statistics of British, 279
India, Coal Output in, 35
India, The Government of India Encourages Private Enterprise in, 59
India, Reconstruction of Plague-stricken Cities in, 463
India-rubber, Artificial, 85
India-rubber, First Record of, 177
India-rubber Imports into this Country, Growth | of, 177
India-rubber Manufacturers, Association of British, 593
Indicator Diagrams, Caledonian Engine, 624, 625, 626
Inertia of Moving Machinery, Indicator for Measuring, 59
Intlaence Machine, Mr. W. R. Pidgeon. 447
Ingots, Method for Case-hardening, 177
Ingram, Mr. M., On the Manchester Sewage Pro¬gramme, 507
Innes, Mr., 519
Institute of Electric Engineers, American:
(See Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898, xiv.)
Institute, Incorporated Gas:
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Jamss Stel fox, 4
Gas Analysis, Mr. J. T. Sheard on, 4
Gas or Electricity, Comparative Cost of, for Lighting Villages, Mr. R. G. Shadbolt, 4
Gas Manufacture, Construction and Mode of Working Purifiers, Mr. Henry Green, 4
Gas Manufacture, Inclined Retorts at Salford, Mr. S. Y. Shoubridge, 4
Gasworks, Valuation of, for Assessment, Mr. W. Newbigging, 4
Meter Unions for Adoption as Standards, Mr. R. S. Carlow on the most Suitable Sizes of, 4
Visits to Rostrevor, &c., 4
Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1897, Mr. C. S. Ellery on, 4

Institute. Iron and Steel:

Bergsbo Mines, 313
Bofors Iran and Steel Works, Visit to the, 566
Brittleness Produced in Soft Steel by Anneal¬ing, Mr. Stead’s Paper on, Discussed, 248
Caspersson’s Converter Ladle, 366
Dannemora Iron Mines, 387
Excursions arranged for Group B. 489
Explosives, Action of, on the Tubes of Steel Guns, Prof. Roberts-Austen, 249
Forsbiicka Works, 365, 374
Gellivara Iron Mountains, 220
General Meeting of, 150
Grangesberg Mines, 316
Hofors Works, 365, 374
Kirunavaara and LuossovaaraTron OreDoposits,
Ljungberg Continuous Kiln, The, 340 Mr. H. G. Turner’s Voyage to, 249
Metalluids on Cast Iron, On the Action of, Mr. Guy R. Johnson, 249
Micro-Chemistry of Cementation, Prof. J. O. Arnold on the, 248
Programme of Autumn Meeting at Stockholm, Papers Promised for Reading, 44
Reception of Members by H.M. King Oscar, 249
Sandvik Works, 365, 374
Steel Rails, Mr. C. F. Sandberg on the Danger of Using too Hard, 221
Stora Kopparberg Company, 340, 387
Swedish Iron Industry, Mr. Akerman on the Development of, 221
Swedish Iron Ore Mining, Prof. G. Nordstrom on, 221
Visit to the Bergsbo and Grangesberg Mines, 313, 316
Visit to the Dannemora Iron Mines, 387
Visits to the Hofors, Sandvik, and Forsbiuka Ironworks, 365, 374
Visit to the Iron Mountains of Gellivara, 220
Visit to the Stora Knpparberg Company’s Skutsar Saw and Wood-pulp Mills, 340, 387

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Annual Dinner, 349
Feed-water Heaters, Mr. Goo. Halliday on, 572

Institute, The Sanitary :

Preliminary Programme of Sixteenth Congress, Institute, West of Scotland Iron and Steel:
Address of the President, Mr. F. W. Paul, 433
Iron Crystalline Structure of, Mr. J. E. S:ead, 433

Institution of Civil Engineers:

Entrance Examination, The, 457, 469, 548, 549, 574, 588, 589, 595, 615
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Wm. H. Preece, 446, 472, 493
Priz9 List for 1897-98, 392
Special Classes for the Examination of, 304
Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines, Report of the Committee, 236
Nickel from its Ores by the Mond Process, Extraction of, Prof. Roberts-Aus:en, 472
October Examination, List of the Successful Passes, 514
Subsidence due to Coal Workings on Bridges end other Structures, Effect of, Mr. S. R. Kay, 576
Ventilation of Tunnels and Buildings, Mr. Francis Fox, 601

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Annual Dinner of, 574

Institution of Electrical Engineers, The American :

Aluminium as a Rival of Copper and Brpss for Electrical Conductors, by Alf. E. Hunt, 81
Institution of Engineers, The Cleve¬land:
Boilers, Water-tube, their Value for the Utili¬sation of Blast Furnace Gas and Waste Heat Generally, 356

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Scotland :

Clyde Steel Works of Messrs. Sam. Osborn and 1 Co., 6
Cutlery Works of Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons, Limited, Visit to, 6
Dannemora Steel Works of Messrs. Saebohm and eckstahl, Visit to, 6
Electro-plating Works of Messrs. Mappin and Webb, Visit to. 6
Electro-plating Works of Messrs. Walker and Hall, Visit to the, 6
Faed-water Filters, Mr. A. E Shute. 565
Metals, Internal Architecture of Metals, Prof. Arnold. 6
Norfolk Works of Messrs. Taos. Firth and Sons, Limited, Visit to, 6
Property in Design and the Position of Draughtsmen, Mr. Geo. Russel', 657
River Don Works of Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Visit to, 6
Transmission of Heat through Plates from Hot Gases to Water, Mr. Geo. Halliday, 6

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Annual General Meeting and Report, 393
Cable Tramways and their Construction, British, by Mr. E. A. Heath, 628
Education of Engineers, Sir W. H. White on, 421
Summer Meeting, 85
Visit to the Lombard-street Station of the North Extension of the City and South London Railway, 509
Visie to Sir D. Salomon’s Works at Tunbridge Wells, 356

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Aluminium Manufacture, with Descriptions of the Milton Foundry, Mr. E. Ristori, 101,117, 125
Archbatt-Daeley Process of Softening Water Inspected, 104, 124, 151, 188
Bass, Ratcliff, and Gretton’s Brewery, Visit to, i 121
Brush Electrical EngineeringCompany’s Works, Visit to, 125
Duffield Bank Model Railway, Visit to, 125
Electric Installation for Light and Power on the Midland Railway, with Notes on Power Absorbed by Shafting and Belting, Mr. W. G. Langdon, 413
Leicester Corporation Waterworks, Visit to, 125
Locomotive Engines, Mr. W. H. Smith on the Results of Recent Practical Experience with Express, 436, 449, 452, 456
Mechanical Testing of Materials at the Loco¬motive Works of the Midland Railway, Derby, Mr. W. G. Peet on, 480
Papers to be Read at the October Meeting, 377
Programme for the Derby Meeting and Syllabus of Papers, 58
Railways, Narrow-gauge, 2ft. and under, Mr. L. S. Robertson on, 104
Visit to the Midland Railway Works, 101

Institution of Mining Engineers: Adoption of New Title, 299

British Columbia, Prospecting in, Mr. W. M. Brewer, 299
Coal and Coke, Automatic Manipulation of, Mr. Gilbert Little, 299
List of Papers to be Read, 299
Nova Scotia, Underground Certificates in, Mr. Gilpin, jun., 299
Silver Ores, Treatment of Refractory, by Chlorination and Lixiviation, Mr. J. E. Brakell, 299
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Scheme, with special regard to Electric Power Pumping, by Messrs. E. B. Marten and Edmund Howl, 299
Timbering in the Iron Ore Mines of Cumber¬land and Furness, Messrs. John L. Hedley and Wm. Lsck, 299

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy:

Progress of, Publication of the “ Transactions ” of the Seventh Session, 586

Institution, United Service:

Quick-fire Guns for Artillery in the Field, Discussion on the Advantages and Disadvantages of, 82
Instruments, Commercial, for Indicating and Re¬cording Electrical Quantities, Mr. E. S. Shoults, 656
Insurance Association, Meeting of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Scheme for Mutual, 21
Inventors and Wrecks, 422
Ipswich Waterworks, 65

Iron:

On the Action of Metalloids on Cast, 249
Bost Yorkshire, 308
Cast, Testing Material for Rolling Stock, 296
Coal Trade of Sweden, 277. 310
Freights and American, 275
Galvanissd Corrugated Sheet, Quarterly Meet¬ing of the Association, 94
German Irjn Industry, 155
German Output of Pig, in October, 565
Girders, Cast, 287 Industry of Russia, 14, 412
Losses Incurred io Melting in Cupola, 151
Industry of Sweden, Mr. Akerman on the, 221
Industry of the Ural District, 257
Melting Point of Cast, Dr. R. Moldenke on, 619
Mining, Swedish, 315, 340
Mountains of Gellivara, Kirunavaiira and
Luossovaara, in Swedish Lapland, 220
Ore of Luossavaara. Percentage of, in the, 253
Ore Production in, 229
Deposits in France, Discovery of Oolitic, 155
Expert from Lapland to Germany, 119
Production in Great Britain and Ireland, Yearly
Average of, as Compared to that of Germany,
Spain, and U.S.A., 35 Shipped from Elba, 1897, 7
Riw, Export of, from England to Germany, 59 for Shipbuilding Purposes in 1840, Wood first
Replaced by, 519 Shipments, July, 1898, 166
Spongy, Properties of, 455
Statistics of Production and Prices for May and June. 119
Strength of Old, 450 Unmarked, Price of, 91
Yorkshire, 333
“ Iron Man,” The 622
Iron and Steel, American, 62, 140
German Foreign Trade in, for
the First Half of 1898, and Coal, 192
Higher Values of, 208
Imported, The Indian Govern¬ment Sanctions the Purchase in India of Articles made up from, 59
Production in Russia in 1897, and Cast Iron, 264
Progress in the Methods of Analysing, 109
On Protective Metallic Coatirgs for, 356
Revival, The, 376
Russian, 1898, Production and Import of, 216
Ironstone, British Engineers and Swedish, 184
Ironstone Industry in the Banbury District, The, 214
Iron Trade, Chinese Railways and the, 131
Iron Trade in Germany, Great Development of, 59
Iron and Tungsten. A Double Carbide of, 325
Irrigation Works, Kuan HsieD, 403
Italian Shipping, Damage to, by Galvanic Action, 151
Italy, Electricity in, 14
Ivatt, Mr., The New Great Northern Engines, 198, 205

J

JAMES Watt, No British Steamer Bearing the Name of, 565
Jane Naval War Game, The, 581
Japan, Coal in, 229
Foreign Patents in, 180
Galvanised Sheet Iron Import into, 349
Manganese in, 229 Locomotives for, 523
Pagodas the only Earthquake-proof Struc¬tures in, 349
Railways in, 404
Training of Engineers in, 189
Japanese Imperial Railways at Kobe, Workshops of the, 512
Investments, Foreign Capital and, 123
Paper Mills, 519
Railways, British Officials of the Im¬perial, 103
Tariff, The New, 373
Tariff Regulations, 497
Treaties and the Foreign Investor, 134
Jardine’s Factories, Entertainment to the Children of the Workpeople Employed in, 648
Joggling Frames, Patent Machine for, 168
Johannesburg Electric Lighting and Tramway System, 309
Johnson, Mr. Guy R., On the Action of Metalloids on Cast Iron, 249
Johnson and Co., Messrs. J. E , Half-tone Cross- line Screens used in the Production of Process Engravings, 519
Johnson, jun., Mr. J. E., On Carbon in Piston- rods, 94
Johnson, Mr. S. W., Ten Express Engines for the Midland, 205
Johnson, Mr. W. C., Oa Crowden’s Hydraulic System of Jointing Tubes and Tubular Bodies, 318, 325
Jointing Sewer Pipe3, 163
Jointing Sewer Pipes with Cement and Soda, 214
Jointing Tubes and Tubular Bodies, Mr. W. C. Johnson on Crowden’s Process of, 318, 323
Jones, Mr. D., Express Engines, Highland Rail¬way, 30, 36, 67
Johnson Engineering and Foundry Company, New York, Steel Yacht Launched by, 35
Joy’s Assistant Cylinders, H.M.S. Sappho, 599

K

KAY, Mr. S. R., Effect of Subsidence Due to Coal Workings upon Bridges and other Structures, 576
Kendall and Gent, Messrs. Electrically-driven Engineering Works, 590, 591
Kendall and Gent, Messrs., their New Machine Tool Works, 71
Kernot, Mr. E., Cheap Railway Construction in Victoria (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Kerosene, Flashing Point of, 13, 84, 111
Keyham College, Increased Competition for
Entry to and Want of more Junior Engineers, 35
Kiln, Cmtinuous, Mr. E. J. Ljundbcrg, 340
KiltonThorp) Ironstone Mine Re-opened, 95
King's College. London, Mr. E.-nest Wilson Appointed Successor to Prof. Hopkinsnn, 529
Kinsley, Mr , on the Transference of Heat in Cooled Metals, 647
Kipling, Rudyard and Nava’ Engineers, 504
Kite Flight, High, 325
Klein Engineering Company, Lubricating Pamp, 167
Klinger and Co., Messrs Rich Water Gauge, 30
Kratostate, Prof, la Cour’s, 137
Krapp Armour and its Application to Defeat Shell Fire in Warships, 438
Krupp Plates, Brown’s, 402, 617, 622
Krupp Plate, Brown’s, for Japan, 622
Krupp Plates, Champion 12-inch, 501
Krupp Process Plate, Bethlehem, 547
Krupp Proces» Plate, Cammell's, 470
Kuan Hsien Irrigation Works, 403
Kutter’s Formula, 261
Kynochs’Tcn Million Military Cartrilge for the U.S., 190

L
LABOUR Disputes, 497, 500
Market in July, The State of the, 205
Market during November, State of the Skilled, 593
Market Judged from Trade Unions’ Returns, 419
Market,Skilled, October Memorandum, 519
Parliament, The, 119
Questions in New Zealand, and Sum¬mary of the Award of the Court, 309
Union Members as Employers, 267
La Bourgogne, Loss of, 61
La Cour, Prof., on the Utilisation of the Wind’s Power, 137
Ladle, Caspersson’s Converter, 366
Laird Bros., Messrs., 30-Knot Boats Built for the Government, 119
Laird Bro3.’ Works, Torpedo Destroyers and Battleships in Hand and Launched, 361
Lake in the Sandstone at Reigate, Discovery of, 565
Lancashire. Electricity Supply in, 602
Lancaster Metallic Piston Packing, The, 603
Lane and Bodley’s Record-breaking Machine Tools, 349
Langdon, Mr. W. G., On the Electric Installation on the Midland Railway, 413
Lathe, Standard, Miley's Machine Tool Company, 83
Latham's Rule for Determining Thickness of Brickwork in a Sewer, 177
Lathe, Hexagonal Turret, 379
Launch, Electric, for the Russian Government, 80

Launches and Trial Trips:

Albertville, Mail and Passenger Steamer, 239
Aioxandcr Golovatcheff, Dredger, 631
Alf, Steel Screw Steamer, 361
A'mora, Steel Screw Steamer, 654
America Maru, Passenger Steamer, 337
Amphitrite, Cruiser, H. M.S., 30, 68
Aotleon, Twin - screw Sand Pump Hopper Dredger, 143
Arminza, Steel Screw Steamer, 193
Astroca, Steel Screw Steamer, 482
Atlas, No. 3. Steel Derrick Pontoon, 20
Azil, s.s., 67
Balder, Steel Screw Steamer, 313
Barges, Sailing, 337
Barges, Steam Hopper, 361
Barge, Steam Hopper, for the Thames Censervancy, 403
Beatrice, Steel Steamer, 193
Borgenhus, 631
Bramble, British Man-of-war, 654
Brighton, Steel Screw Steamer, 267
Britannic, 607
Britannic, Steel Screw Steamer, 361
Caisson for the Bristol Docks Committee, 267
Candleshoe, Steel Screw Steamer, 361
Cardiff, Steel Screw s.s., 19
Ceres, Steel Screw Steamer, 361
Chicago, Atlantic Liner, 433
Clan Ferguson, Turret-decked Steamer, 359
Clarence, 607
Claverdale, 631 Clematis, Steel Screw s.s., 20
Eisingwold, Steel Screw Steamer, 313
Ehrenfelds, S.eel Screw Steamer, 118
Ella Sayer, Steel Screw Steamer, 217
Easton, s.s., 118
Everest, Steel Screw Steamer, 526
Fourth of July, Cruiser, 30
Greenhill, Steel Screw Steamer, 550
Guernsey, Turret-deck, s.s., 19
Haiching, Steel Spar-deck Screw Steamer, 50:, 654
Halotis, s.s., 267
Ueathmore, Steamer, 288
Hongkong Maru, Twin-screw Linor, 67
Jencral Baquedano, Training Ship for the
Chilian Navy, 30
Joseph Merry weather, Steel Screw Steamer, 267
Juno, The, 166
Kasagi, 109
Laura, s.s., 20
Lemgo, s.s., 361
Lewisham, s.s., 372
L. H. Carl, Steel Steamer, 403
Llsette, Steel Screw Steamer, 143
Lendesborongh, Steel Screw Steamer, 551
Longbenton, Screw Steamer, 267, 433
Louise, Steel Screw Steamer, 482, 526
Lowestoft, Steel Tug, 482
Mainstay, s.s., 67
Malang, Steel Screw Steamer, 482, 631
Manchester City, Steel Sorew Steamer, 506
Mancunia, s.s., 372
Marie Suzanne, Steel Sorew Steamer, 217
Mars, Steel Screw Steamer, 166
Marselisborg, Steel Screw Steamer, 92
Mayflower, Steel Screw Slearner, 266, 526
Medjerda, s.8., 267 Miles Coverdale, 631
Moorgate, s.s., 217
Mount Rosa and Mount Visa, Trawlers, 20 ,
Mount Royal, Cattle and Cargo Steamer, 217
Mountry, 654
Newcastle, Steel Screw Steamer, 654
Nippon Mam, 239
Oceanic, White Star Company’s New Steam¬ship, 516
Onslow, Steel Screw Steamship, 19
Orono, Steel Screw Steamer, 239, 526
Orwell, H.M.S. Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 361, 654
Osborne, Steel Screw Stmmer, 482, 654
Palatinia, Steel Screw Steamer, 482
Pelican, Twin-screw Steamer, 550
Plencia, Steel Screw Steamer, 29
Politician, Steel Screw Steamer, 433
Polymitis, Turret-deck s.s., 118
Pontoon, Large Steel, for the Southampton
Harbour Board, 403
Primo, The, 526
Prince Arthur, Mail and Passenger s.s., 118
Prince George, 506, 526
Princess of Wales, Paddle Steamer, 403, 651 !
Principe, Passenger Steamer, 361, 526
Raphael, The, 403
Recovery, 631
Romford, Steel Screw s.s., 20
Romney, s.s., 433
Saint Quentin, The, 403
Salfordia, Steel Screw Steamer, 526
Scarthoe, Steel Screw S:eamer, 92, 313
Scott and Co.’s Works, a Steel Screw Steamer (no name), 361
Ssrger Witte, Trial Trip, 166
Severn, Mail and Passenger s.s., 67, 482
Shipping Launched from the Clyde duricg
September, 360 Sicilia, 550
Sigrid, Steel Screw Steamer, 217, 526
Silesia, Steel Screw Steamer, 550
Sirdar, S:eel Screw Steamer, 526
Skipjack, Steam Steel Yacht, 654
Steam Launch, Twin-screw, to the Order of the
British Government, 654 Svend Hang, 654 Syria, 550
Taboga, Screw Steamer, 92, 217
Therese, Steel Screw Steamer, 217
Thirlby, Steel Screw Steamer, 313, 433
Titan, Twin-screw Tugboat, 288
Tokiwa, First-class Armoured Cruiser for the
Japanese Navy, 30 Trigonia, 239
Trunk Steamer to the Order of Britain Steam¬ship Company, 654
Tugboat for South Africa, Messrs. Day, Sum¬mers, and Co., 120
Turkistan, Steel Screw Steamer, 579
Ultonia, S.S., 482 Yalentia, s.s., 217
Vril, Launch for the Kassian Government, 80
Whaleback Steamer, Launch of the Largest ever Built, 233
William Broadley, 239
Wilster, Twin-screw Steamer, 143
Winifred, Steel Screw Steamer, 217, 313
Wladimir Sawin, s.s., 267
Yacona, Steam Yacht, 193
Zingara, s.s., 267
Launching Mishaps. 387
Laviano Asphalte, 225
Lsad Poisoning Due to File-cutting, 349

Leaders:

American Competition, 208
American Gunnery, 158
American Mercantile Shipping, 88
American Navy, Effect of the Late War on the, 596
American View of German Competiti.n, 499
Boiler, Choice of a, 232
Boilers, Fallacies Concerning, 157
Bristol Docks and River, 133, 397
British Officials and British Men of Business in China, 522
China, British Officials and British Men of Business in, 522
Coal Country. Two Years’ Peace in the, 328
Coal Strike, The, 13, 87, 208, 375
Coal Trade, Coming Millennium in the, 352
Coal Trade, Preparing for the Winter in the, 183
Compression in Steam Cylinders, 543
Cooled Bars, Transference of Heat io, 476
Consuls and Competit:on, 397
Consuls and Trade, 351
Corliss Valve Gear, 183
Draughtsmen. Position of Mechanical, 256
E»st London Water Supply, 207
Education of Engineers, Sir W. H. White on the, 421
Education, Science in, 375
Eight Hours Day, An, 281
Electric Motors, 305
Engines, High-pressure Marine, 134
English and American Machine Tools, 543
Explosions of Caps and Detonators, 398
Feed-water Heaters, Live Steam, 521
Flash Point, The, 13
Flashing Point ol Kerosene, The, 111
Fly-wheels, Bursting of, 645
French Coaling Stations, 61
"V" and Compulsory Arbitration,
Garman Competition, American View of, 499
Gun, Our New Quick-fire, 570
Institution of Civil Engineers, Entrance Examinations of the, 595
Inventors and Wrecks (with reference to the loss of the Mohegan), 422
Japanese Treaties and the Foreign Investor, La Bourgogne, Loss of the, 61
Labour Disputes, Last Year’s, 500
Liquid Fuel on the Underground Railway, 87
Load-line Committee, Report of the, 596
Locomotives, High-pressure, 37
Locomotives, Monster, 475
Locomotive Performance, 449
Lomion County Council and Public Interests,
Measurement, Refinement of, 352
Patent-office Library, 522
Preece, Mr., His Presidential Address, 449
Propeller Shafts, 112
Railway Speeds, 376
Railway Unpunctuality, 327
Santiago, Lessons from the Battle of, 422
Santiago, Naval Battle, 62
Science in Education, 375
Screw Propellers, 570
Smoke, 569
South Wales, Position ia, and Outlook, 208. 231
Spanish Fleet, Destruction of the, 37
Steel Specifications, 327
Telegraph Scheme, A Great, 621
Trade as it is, 514
Train Resistance, 305, 621
Tsar’s Proposal to Disarm, The, 231
Ventilation, 645
Warships in Action, 255
Water, Purification of, 255
Welsh Coal Strike and After, 13, 87, 208, 375
White, Sir W. H., on th9 Education of Engi¬neers, 421
Wind Pressure (with reference to page 289), 282

Sub-Leaders:

American Iron and Steel, 62
American Paddle-wheel Steamers, 303
American Steel for Belfast Shipyards, 131
Biker-street and Waterloo Railway, Toe, 450
Board of Trade and Water-tube Boilers, 158
Boiler Explosion, A Noteworthy, 257
British Apathy again, 328
British Engineers and Swedish Ironstone, 184
Brown-Krupp Plate for Japan, 622
British Locomotives for Belgium, 423
Cheapness, The Rags for, 571
Chinese Railways and the Iron Trade, 134
Clyde Shipbuilding, 38, 353, 476
Coal Dispute, South Wales, 112
Coal, Pocahontas, 112
Coal, South African, 184
Coal Trade, Electric Engineers and the, 282
Coal Trade, Position in the, 282
Coal Values and Miners' Wages, 14 3
Coast Shield Trial, 209 Copper and Tin, 377
District Surveyors, 596
Djndee’s Boulton and Watt Beam Engine, 477
Electric Engineers and the Coal Trade, 282
Electric Lighting Competition in London, 38
Electricity in Italy, 14
Engineering at Cambridge University, 398
Engineering Contract Question, An, 450
Engineering Trades and Petroleum, The, 597
Explosion at Earl’s Court, The, 232
Federated Miners and the Proposed Advance of Wages, 135
Gas Engineering, Progress in, 89
Gasworks for Glasgow, New, 450
Gutta-percha, Exhaustion of, 646
Heysham Harbour, 450
Hydrants, Experiments with Doable Fire, 523
Iron Industry of Russia, 14
Iron Industry of the Ural District, 257
“Iron Man,” The, 622
Iron and Steel, Higher Values for, 208
Iron and Steel Revival, 376
Iron, Strength of Old, 450
Iron Trade, Chinese Railways and the, 134
Light Railway Scheme, An I mportant, 352
Liverpool Motor Wagon Trials, 545
Lloyd’s Rogistry on Circuit, 184
Locomotives, Electric, in France, 62
Locomotives for Japan, 523
London Local Authorities and the Water Supply Question, 544
London Water Supply, East, 328
Miners’ Federation and the Proposed Advance of Wages, 135
Miners and their Leaders, 306 ,
Mining Machinists, Good News for, 306
Minting in Chine, 63
Overtime in the Midlands, 646
Patent Law, 158
Picketting, 622
Pit Lads’ Strike, The, 62, 88, 209
Pit Lad, Power of the, 62, 88
Port of Calais, 306 f Simplon Tunnel, The, 233
Skulking in Dockyards, 89
Seuth Staffordshire Mines Drainage, 376
Smoke, 158
Smoke Consumption, 500
Steel, American, for Belfast Shipyards, 62, 134
Strikes, Avoid, 544 Suez Canal, 209
Syria-Ottoman Railway, The, 477
Tes’a and Power, 450
Textile Engineering Combination, A, 257
Tin-p’ates, 328 Tonnage, 256
Tonnage, Minimum Net, 112
Trade Comparisons, A Few, 523
Trade Marks, “ Invented Words” as, 88
Trade Revival, 158, 501
Trade for Two Years or More, Good, 571
Trade Unionists in Council, 622
Tramways in Liverpool, 423
Water Supply, East London, 328
Water Supply of Sheffield, The, 450
Workmen’s Compensation Act in Operation, The, 477
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Yorkshire Coal- owners and the, 14
Yorkshire Coalfield, Development of a, 112
Yorkshire Coalowners and the Workmen's Compensation Act, 14
Yorkshire Miners, The, 398
Lee-Metford Bullet to be Tried in India, 109

Legal Intelligence:

Bagnall, Limited, W. G., e. Carthago Syndicate, Limited, 132
Lyons and Sons v. Wilkins, 626
Magnolia Metal Co. and Others v. The Tandem Smelting Syndicate, Limited, 67, 458
Mica Insulator Co. v. The Electrical Co., Limited, 42
Milner's Safe Co., Limited, r. Campbell, 92
Perfecta Seamless Steel Tube Co., Limited, J. Penn and Sons, Limited, 492
Leicester Corporation Waterworks, Swithland, Visit to, 125
Leicester, Sheffield, and Derby Water Supply Scheme, 519
Leith Docks (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)

Letters to the Editor:

American Competition, Fairplay, 401
American Competition, Arthur Herschmann, 213
American Locomotive Performance, F. W. Brewer, 163
American Progress in English Industrie’, M S , 380
American Riilway Rscord, The New, C. Rous- Marten, 458
Arctic Exploring Steamer, An, Re, 66
Argentaurum, Stephen U. Emmens, 34
Atmosphere of Underground Railways, S. H. H. B., 117
Beams Sibj acted to Cross Bonding, P. Q , 213
Beams, Theory of, A. D., 163
Beams, The ry of. J. L., 189
Bailers and the Drought, Wm. Ingham, 401
Boilers and the Drought, C. E. S’.romeyor, 381
British and American Machine Tools, M. E. C. Co., 650
British and American Machine Tools, High Campbell, 649
British and American Machine Tools, H. Rustin, 650
British and American Machine Tools, Water Wright, 650
Broken Screw Shafts, Robt. McGlasson, 163
Cement Spec'fications for Marine Work, Alfred E. II urea, 574
Cement Specifications for Marine Work, John L. Watson, 574
China, Modern, from an Engineer's Point of View, Shanghai as an Engineering Centre, Chas. Mayne, 589
Clerks, English v. Foreign, D., 468
Collision Mats, Interested, 588
Corliss Valve Gear, Herbert Crooke, 213
Corliss Valve Gear, E. R. and F. Turner, Limited, 238
Cranes, Overhead Electric, Hugh Campbell, 589
“Cupola” Rivet Furnace, Ross and Gibson, 287
Disclaimer, A, John Marx and Co., 117
Dynamics, Theoretical, Student, 67
Draughtsmen, Position of, H. Austin, 286
Draughtsmen, Position of, A. M. Barrie, 333
Draughtsmen, Position of, Corkenoig, 428
Draughtsmen, Position of, Critic, 428
Draughtsmen, Position of, Disgusted, 286
Draughtsmen, Position of, A Draughtsman, 332, 333
Draughtsmen, Position of, Draughtsman, Another, 401
Draughtsmen, Position of, Draughtsman, An Oppressed, 348
Draughtsmen, Position of, Employer,Oppressed, 286, 380
Draughtsmen, Position of, Employer, Unop¬pressed, 333
Draughtsmen, Position of, Engineer, 401
Draughtsmen, Position of, Experience, 428
Draughtsmen, Position of, A.l.E E , 332
Draughtsmen, Position of, Foreman Patternmaker, 34S
Draughtsmen, Position of, J. Gillaird, 309, 458, 574
Draughtsmen, Position of, E. G. A. H., 286
Draughtsmen, Position of, J. S. J., 348
Draughtsmen, Position of, A. L., 309
Draughtsmen, Position of, Manager, 458
Draughtsmen, Position of, R. C. D. M., 332
Draughtsmen, Position of, Penc.1 Driver, 332
Draughtsmen, Position of, Superintendent Engineer, 333
Draughtsmen, Position of, J. H. M. S., 333
Draughtsmen, Position of, Union is Strength, 469
Draughtsmen, Position of, Veritas, 380
Dynamics, Theoretical, LosiDg Hazard, 19
Dynamics, Theoretical, E. Louseley, 34, 117
Dynamics, Theoretical, Secutor, 19
Electric Lighting Engines, Mark Robinson, 549
Electrical Power Transmission, A. J. Balkwill, 428
Electrical Power Transmission, Fred. Hart, 428
English Capitalists and Russia, T. Fletcher Fullard, 213
Engines, Balancing, Rjbt. H. Smith, 34
Engines, Balancing, Superintending Engineer, 66
Engines, Balancing, John Tweedy, 132
Engines, Balancing, James Whitcher, 18, 117
Engines, Balancing, X., 34
Engines, Gas, Maximum Efficiency Attainable by, Wm. Donaldson, 301
Engine at Tipton, 1725, Steam, 468
Engineers, Education of, Premium Pupil, 468
Engineers in Japan, Training of, Edw. Divers, 189
Engineers’ Specifications, Civis, 348
Engineers’ Specifications, Geo. T. Pardoe, 381
Feed-water Heaters, Live Steam, Alexander Dalrymple, 574
Feed-water Heaters, Live Steam, T. E. Stanton, 615
Flash Point, E. A. Cullen, 469
Flash Point, Edw. A. Harman, 189, 308
Flash Point, The, D. R. Steuart, 84, 132, 237
Fownes and Co., G. E., Henry Fownes, 238
Furnaces, Marine Boiler, Alexander Dalrymple, 84
Gis Meters and Cookers, Automatic, Elw. A. Harman, 615
Gas from Sewage Sludge, Illuminating, Edw. A. Harman, 117, 132
Gelignite, Rhenish, C. H. Darbishire, 651
Girders, Cast Iron, Charles L. Smith, 287
Goddins Lock-nut, Edgar A. Goddin, 251, 287
Great Northern Eogines, A., 287
Great Northern Eogines, Running Shed, 261
Great Northern Engines, Retired Observer, 237
Great Northern Eogines, Another Observer, 261
Great Northern Goods Depot, Manchester, Wm. T. Foxlee, 287
Great Western, Remarkable Run on the, O. R. Walkey, 469
Heat in Cooled Bars, Transference of (with Reference to November 11th), 549
Heat in Boilers, Transmission of, T. E. Stanton, 549
House Cisterns, Aquarius, 237, 333
House Cisterns, R. H., 401, 457, 515
House Cisterns, W. Payton, 380, 505
House Cisterns, M. R., 287, 348, 457, 505
House Cisterns, Sanitas, 348
House Cisterns, Superintendent, 261, 333
House Cisterns, Surveyor, 401
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Examination, Anglo-Indian, 469
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance
Examination, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 469, 616, 657
Institution of Civil Eogineero’ Entrance Ex¬amination, E. R. Dymond, 589
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Maurice F. FitzGerald, 469, 588
Institution of Civil Eogineero' Entrance Ex¬amination, Laudator Temporis Acti, 548
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, M. Inst., 469
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Another M. Inst. C.E., 504
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, One Who Has Passed, 574
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Outsider, 504
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Practical, 469
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Practice before Theory, 504
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Sigma, 469
Institution of Civil Engineers’ Entrance Ex¬amination, Student, 549
Iron, Best Yorkshire, B. Y. L, 309
Japanese Patents, Va'idity of, Your Ketent Special Commissioner in Japac, 505
Japanese Patents, Validity of, Wm. P. Thomp¬son, 589
Jointing Sewer Pipes, Omega, 163
Jointing Sewer Pipes with Cement and Soda, Frank E. Priest, 214
July Train Services, Cbas. R lus-Marten, 67
Rutter’s Formula, Geo. T. Pardoe, 261
Locomotives, British v. American, Commercial Engineer, 651
Locomotives, Compound, W. B., 457
Locomotives, Great Northern, A , 287
Locomotives, Great Northern, Another Observer, 261
Locomotives, Great Northern, Running Shed, 251
Locomotives for Narrow-gauge Railways, W. G. Bagnall, 163
Locomotives for New Zealand, Walter l<9nna- way, 238
Locomotive Axle Bearings, Axle B>x, 505
London University Matriculation Examinations, Fairplay, 189
Machine Tools, British and American, E. C. Amos, 614
Maohine Tools, British and American, Anglo- Saxon, 589
Machine Tools, British and American, British Toolmaker, 589
Machine Tools, British and American, Hugh Campbell, 572
Machine Tools, British and American, Clifton and Waddell, 615
Machine Tools, British and American, Theodore Coventry, 614
Machine Tools, British and American, A Fitter, £89
Machine Tools, Bri'.ish and American, R. B. Hodgson, 589
Machine Tools, British and American, G. M. 11., 615
Machine Tools, British and American, Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Limited, 589
Machine Tools, British and American, W. H. Thornbery, 615
Magnetism and the Spectrum, Arthur G. Cotterill, 19
Mobegan, Wreck of the s s., Leopold Rop:r, 469
Mohegan, Wreck of the s.s., C. Scott Snell, 428
Mortar, The Strength of, Simplex, 615
Mortar, Strength of, N. D. Y., 651
Patent office Library, Henry Brockelbank, 615
Patent-office Library, George T. Holloway, 615
Patent-office Library, The, Thomas Pinch, 573
Patent-office Library, The, R. B. Prosser, 573
Profit Sharing, Gilbert Little, 163
Propeller Shafts, Vibration, 132
Pumps, High-speed Air, Antiquarian, 549
Pomps, High-speed, D. A. Bremner, 457, 588
Pumps, High-speed Air, A. J. Dudgeon, 651
Pumps, High-speed Air, J. A. S. Dunlop, 515
Pumps, High-speed Air, Fredk. Chas. Haste,
Pumps, High-speed Air, Cyril West Lupton, 549, 650
Pumps, High-speed Air, Marine, 574
Pumps, High-speed, P. R., 588
Pumps, High-speed Air, W. R., 615
Pumps, High-speed Air, Superintendent Engi¬neer, 515
Pumps, High-speed Air, E. W. S., 457
Purification of Water, Andrew Howatson, 426
Railway Gauge, E. M., 214
Railway Speeds, W. M. A., 117, 238, 287, 309, 380, 468
Railway Speeds, W. C. A. Church, 401
Railway Speeds, Tom O’Dicks, 332
Railway Speeds, Eile mit Weile, 426
Railway Speeds, Festina Lente, 84
Railway Speeds, Norman D. Macdonald, 332, 426
Railway Speeds, Old Driver, 426
Railway Speeds, A Peaceful Man, 515
Railway Speeds, Quod Tangis Orna, 332
Railway Speeds, Clement E. Stretton, 163, 261, 309, 332, 348, 401
Railway Speeds, O. R. Walkey, 287
Railway Speeds, G. J. W., 287
Railway Speeds, A. Warburton, 168
Railway Speeds, X., 468
Railway, The West London, W. Lawford, 341 ,
Rolling Stock, High v. Low Capacity for, J. D. Twinberrow, 505
Royal Engineers, The, A Roval Engineer Officer, 19
Safety Collars for Emery Wheels, A. H. Bate¬man, 574
Safety Collars for Emery Wheels, Luke and Spencer, Limited, 549
Safety Collars for Emery Wheels, W. O. Rooper, 505
Safety Collars for Emery Wheels, L. Sterne and Co., Limited, 549
Screw Propellers, T. Hattersley Pickard, 615
Self-propelled Traffic, Sidney Straker, 549
Shoreditch Dust Destructor, The, T. W. Baker, 426
Smoke as a Factor in Naval Actions, Geo. F. Cole, 213
Suakes and Safety Valves, Rich. McLaren, 574
Spanish Warships, M. I. N. A., 651
Speed of Warships, Foreigner, 34
Steam, Generation of, from the Combustion of Ashpit Refnso, F, J. Brookman, 515
Stsam Generation from the Combustion of Ash¬pit Refuse, Geo, Wilkinson, 414
Stress in Flat Plates, Eugineor, 414
Submarine Exploration, Nautilus, 381
Testing Cement, V. de Michelo, 549
Trade Marks in Zanzibar, Reginald W. Barker, 381
Train Resistance, J. M. Gorham, 348
Train Resistance, C. W. H., 308
Train Resistance, John Riskie, 66
Transmission of Heat from Hot Gases to Water, Geo. Halliday, 34
Waterloo and the Bank Railway, One out of Breath, 66
Water-tight Daors to Bulkheads, J. C., 84
Workmen's Compensation Act, George Livesey, Workmen’s Cottages, R. Sheward, 469
Letters from Our Own Correspon¬dents :
Africa, South, Engineering Notes from, 44, 70, 93, 140, 190, 214, 264, 278, 309, 334, 381, 403, 430, 484, 526, 552, 579, 607, 631, 657
American Engineering News, 20, 44, 70, 91, 140, 214, 264, 334, 480, 552, 576, 628, 653 American Notes, 47, 73, 97, 143, 166, 193, 217, 267, 313, 337, 361, 407, 433, 509, 554, 631
Australian Notes, 94, 190, 234 , 332, 401, 433, 529, 628
England, North of, 21, 46, 71, 95, 119,141,167, 191, 215, 240, 266, 291, 311, 335, 359, 383, 405, 431, 459, 483, 507, 527, 553, 577, 605, 629, 655
Germany, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142, 168, 192, 216, 240, 266, 292, 312, 336, 360, 406, 432, 460, 484, 508, 528, 554, 578, 606, 630, 656
Iron, Coal, ana General Trades of Birmincham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 20, 45, 70, 94, 118, 141, 166, 190, 214, 239, 265, 291, 311, 334, 359, 382, 404, 431, 453, 483, 507, 527, 552, 577, 604, 629, 654 Japan, 404
Lancashire, 20, 45, 70, 94, 118, 141, 166, 190, 214, 239, 291, 311, 335, 359, 383, 405, 431, 459, 483, 507, 527, 552. 577, 601, 629, 654
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Reports, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142 192, 216, 240, 266, 312, 336, 360, 384 406, 432, 460, 484, 508, 528, 554, 579, 604, 630, 656
New Zealand, 309
Scotland, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142, 168, 192, 216, 240, 266, 292, 312, 336, 360, 384, 406, 432, 460, 484, 508, 528, 553, 578, 606, 629, 656
Sheffield, 21, 45, 71, 95, 119, 141, 167, 191, 215, 239, 265, 291, 311, 335, 359, 383, 405, 431, 459, 483, 507, 527, 553, 577, 605. 629, 655
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142, 168, 192, 216, 240, 266, 292, 312, 336, 360, 384, 406, 432, 460, 484, 508, 528, 554, 578, 606, 630, 656
See also for Special Matters referred to in the above, “Miscellaneous"
Lewes, Prof. V. B., Acetylene: Its Modern Development, 4
Lewis, Mr. Wilfrid, Indicator for Measuring Inertia of Moving Machinery, 59
Liège, Metallurgical Industries of, A Blue-book on the, 541
Light, Diminution of, by Interception of Glass, 205
Light Railways—see Railways
Lighthouse at Cape Gris Nez, New, 253
Lighthouse for Norway, Cast Iron, 426, 427
Lighting by Compressed-oil 'Gas and Acetylene, Railway Carriage, 258
Lightship in California Harbour, 137
Lignite for Railway Fae), Mr. S. R. Tuggle cn the Use of, 109
Lilleshall Company, lOOin. Vertical Blowing Engine, 138
Limestone Applicable to Glass Manufacture, 419
Linde, Process of Liquefying Air, M. d’Arsonval on the, 5
Linotype Company’s Works, Broadheath, near Manchester (Electrical Engineering Supple¬ment, November 25th, 1898, vi i., xiv.), 602
Liquid Air Produced per Hour by the Linde Pro¬cess, 5
Liquid Fuel, Arrangements at the Admiralty for the Development of, 565
Liquid Fuel on the Underground Railway, 87, 117
Liquids, On Measuring the Surface Tension of, 11
Literature:
Analysis, Infinitesimal, by Wm. Benjamin Smith, 623
Boiler Construction, Steam, Practical Hand¬book for Engineers, Boilermakers, and Steam Users, W. S. Hutton, 282
Bridge Engineers, Pocket-book for, “ De Pon- tibus,” by J. A. L. Waddel1, 126
Bridges and Viaducts, Iron and Stee', Practical Treatise (Illustrated), Francis Campin, 329
Calculations in Hydraulic Engineering, Prac¬tical Text-book for the use of Draughtsmen and Engineers, with Illustrations and Examplos, by T. Claxton Fidler, 184
China in Transformation, Archibald R. Colqu- houn, 257
Cofferdam Process for Piers, Practical Examples from Actual Work, by Chas. Evan Fowler, 559
Colliery Managers’ Handbook, The, by Caleb Pamely, 523
Combustions Spontanèos Réeles, ou Etude Scientifique et Juridique sur les, Supposées, Specialement au Cours de Transports, par E. Tabaries de Grandsaigne3, 89
Conduites d’Eau, Calcul des, par Georges Daries, 423
Courants Polyphases, Distribution de l’Energie, par J. Rodet, 353
Cyanide Process for the Extraction of Gold, and its Practical Application in the Wit- watersrand Goldfields and elsewhere, by M. Eissler, 393
Differential Equations, Ordinary, by Jas. Morris Page, 559
Differentia) and Integral Calculus for Technical 1 Schools and Colleges, by P. A. Lambert, 647
Spanish Warships, M. I. N. A., 651
Speed of Warship3, Foreigner, 31
Steam, Generation of, from the Combustion of Ashpit Refuso, F, J. Brookman, 515
St jam Generation from the Combustion of Ash¬ pit Refuse, Geo. Wilkinson, 414 Stress in Flat Piates, Eogineor, 414
Submarine Exploration, Nautilus, 381
Testing Cement, V. de Michelo, 549
Trade Marks in Zanzibar, Reginald W. Barker, 381
Train Resistance, J. M. Gorham, 348
Train Resistance, C. W. H., 308
Train Resistance, John Riskie, 66
Transmission of Heat from Hot Gases to Water, Geo. Halliday, 34
Waterloo and the Bank Railway, One out of Breath, 66
Water-tight Doors to Bulkheads, J. C., 84
Workmen’s Compensation Act, George Livesey, Workmen’s Cottages, R. Sheward, 469

Letters from Our Own Correspondents :

Africa, South, Engineering Notes from, 44, 70, 93, 140, 190, 214, 264, 278, 309, 334, 381, 403, 430, 484, 526, 552, 579, 607, 631, 657
American Engineering News, 20, 44, 70, 91, 140, 214, 264, 334, 4*0, 552, 576, 628, 653
American Notes, 47, 73, 97, 143, 166, 193, 217, 267, 313, 337, 361, 407, 433, 509, 554, 631
Australian Notes, 94, 190, 234 , 332, 401, 433, 529, 628
England, North of, 21, 46, 71, 95, 119,141,167, 191, 215, 240, 266, 291, 311, 335, 359, 383, 405, 431, 459, 483, 507, 527, 553, 577, 605, 629, 655
Germany, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142, 168, 192, 216, 240, 266, 292, 312, 336, 360, 406, 432, 460, 481, 508, 528, 554, 578, 606, 630, 656
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 20, 45, 70, 94, 118, 141, 166, 190, 214, 239, 265, 291, 311, 334, 359, 382, 404, 431, 453, 483, 507, 527, 552, 577, 604, 629, 651
Japan,404
Lancashire, 20, 45, 70, 91, 118, 141, 166, 190, 214, 239, 291, 311, 335. 359, 383, 405, 431, 459, 483, 507, 527, 552. 577, 601, 629, 651
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Reports, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120. 142 192, 216, 210, 266, 312, 336, 360, 384 406, 432, 460, 481, 508, 528, 554, 579, 604, 630, 656
New Zealand, 309
Scotland, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142, 168, 192, 216, 240, 266, 292, 312, 336, 360, 384, 406, 432, 460, 484, 508, 528, 553, 578, 606, 629, 656
Sheffield, 21, 45, 71, 95, 119, 141, 167, 191, 215, 239, 265, 291, 311, 335, 359, 383, 405, 431, 459, 483, 507. 527, 553, 577, 605, 629, 655
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 46, 72, 96, 120, 142, 168, 192, 216, 240, 266, 292, 312, 336, 360, 384, 406, 432, 460, 484, 508, 528, 554, 578, 606, 630, 656
Ste also for Special Matters referred to in the above, “Miscellaneous"
Lewes, Prof. V. B., Acetylene: Its Modern Development, 4
Lewis, Mr. Wilfrid, Indicator for Measuring Inertia of Moving Machinery, 59
Liège, Metallurgical Industries of, A Blue-book on the, 541
Light, Diminution of, by Interception of Glass, 205
Light Railways—tee Railways
Lighthouse at Cape Gris Nez, New, 253
Lighthouse for Norway, Cast Iron, 426, 427
Lighting by Compressed-oil 'Gas and Acetylene, Railway Carriage, 258
Lightship in California Harbour, 137
Lignite for Railway Fuel, Mr. S. R. Tuggle cn the Use of, 109
Lilleshall Company, lOOin. Vertical Blowing Engine, 138
Limestone Applicable to Glass Manufacture, 419
Linde, Process of Liquefying Air, M. d’Arsonval on the, 5
Linotype Company’s Works, Broadheath, near Manchester (Electrical Engineering Supple¬ment, November 25th, 1898, vid., xiv.), 602
Liquid Air Produced per Hour by the Linde Pro¬cess, 5
Liquid Fuel, Arrangements at the Admiralty for the Development of, 565
Liquid Fuel on the Underground Railway, 87, 117
Liquids, On Measuring the Surface Tension of, 11

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l’Explorateur, Manuel de, Procédés de levers rapides ot de detail, Determination Astrono- mique des Positions Geographiques, par E. Blim, 647
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Materials and Workmanship Employed in Con¬struction, Inspection of, by Austin T. Byrne, 647
Mechanical Engineering, Text - book of, by Wilfrid J. Lineham, 393
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Railway Management at Stations, by E. B. Ivatts, 393
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Russia's Sea Power, Past and Present, or the Rise of the Russian Navy, by Col. Sir Geo. Sydenham Clarke, 158
Tdlegraphs, Submarine, Their History, Con¬struction, and Working, by Chas. Bright, 233, 298
Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, by Cecil H. Peabody, 597
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Bouches a Feu, Resistance des, par P. Laurent, 623
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Calculator, Direct, for the Coal, Ironstone, and other Heavy Trades, M. B. Cotsworth, 501
Caleb West, Master Diver, by F. Hopkinson I Smith, 155
Chemical Analysis, Qualitative and Quantitative, Wm. Briggs and R. W. Stewart, 126
Chemistry, First Stage Inorganic, by Fred. I Beddow, 423
“Contour” Road Book of England, S.E. Divi¬sion, Series of Elevation Plans of Roads, with I Measurements and Descriptive Letterpress (with 500 Diagrams and Maps), by H. R. G. I Inglis, 113
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Electrical Engineers’ Central Station Directory, Containing Information about Various Cen- . tral Stations in Oporation and Contemplation, , &c.,&c., 63 L
Electrical Measurements, Lecture Notes on the Theory of, by Wm. A. Anthony, 545
Electrical Undertakings, Manual of, Compiled under the Direction of Emile Garcke, L393
Electrically -propelled Carriages, by W. C. Electricity in Town and Country Houses, Percy E. Scrutton, 126
Engines, Gas and Petroleum, Translated and Adapted from the French of H. de Graffigny, 451
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Fire Tests with Unprotected Columns, Report by the Committee on Fire-proofing Tests, Li New York, 393
Gas and Electric Lighting Works Directory and Statistics, Revised to July 1st, 1898, 298
German and English Commercial Correspond- L< ence, by Mathias Meitner, 298
Gas Engineers and Managers, Handbook for, by Lt Thos. Newbigging, 155
German Self-taught with Phonetic Pronunciation, C. A. Thimm, 298
J. Hazall’s Annual for 1899, Cyclopieiic Record of Men and Topics of the Day, 659
Hydraulic Tables for Finding the Mean Velocity and Discharge in open Channels according to the Formula: of Bazin and Kuttor, Calculated and Compiled by T. Higham, 545
Hydrographical Sarvejing, Description of the o- Means and Methods Employed in Construct- Bing Marine Charts, by Rear-Admiral Sir Win. J. L. Wharton, 93
58
Hygiene, Pocket Dictionary of, C. T. Kingzott, 298
House Drainage : It3 Insp3ction and Testing, Richards J. Jenkins, 298
Indicator Handbook: Practical Manual for, Engineers, by Charles N. Pickworth, 113
Iron Merchants' Table and Memoranda Weights and Measures, Rownson’s, 451
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Machine Drawing for the Use of Engineering fc, Students in Science in Technical Schools and Colleges, Thomas Jones and T. G. Jones, 257
Mariners’ Family and Cable Code, by B. T. Vickers, 477
Mechanical World Pocket Diary and Year-book for 1899, 545
Physics, Introduction to Practical, by D. Rin-tool, 451
Pocket-book of Electrical Rules and Tables for the Use of Electricians and Engineers, by John Munro, 113
Protection of Industrial Property, Transactions of the Association for the, Vol. ii. and Appen¬dix, 298
Pumping their Principles and Construction : A J Series of Lectures, by J. Wright Clarke, 353
Railway Officials, 1898, Universal Directory of, by S. Richardson Blundstone, 159
Sanitation of Domestic Buildings, by Frank Latham, 393
“Scaife” System, Historical Chart on the, termed “ Six Centuries of Attack and Defence,” compiled by Captain Ward, 353
1 Science Series, Organised, Second Stage Mathe¬matics, Ed. by Wm. Briggs, 329
Small-arms and Ammunition, Evolution of, by r E. C. R. Marks, 353
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, No. 1093, Vol. xl., Catalogue of Scientific Periodi¬cals, 298
Specifications for Architects, Surveyors, and Engineers when Specifying, 159
Steam, First British Edition, 177
Telephona Outlines of the Development of : Transmitters and Receivers, by Wm. J. J.
Hopkins, S77
Torpedo in Peace and War, The, Fred. T. Jane, N 377
Tourist Guide to the Continent, Published by A the Great Eastern Railway Co., 15
Trade Unionist, The, Monthly Periodical, 233
Tramways, Aërial or Wire Rope : Their Con¬struction and Management, A. J. Wallis- M Taylor, 353
Trigonometry at a Glance : Graphic Demon¬stration of the Various Functions, by G. W. M Usill and F. J. Browne, 559
Wannan’s Marine Engineer’s Guide to Board M of Trade Exams , by A. C. and E. W. I. M Wannan, 329
WanDan’8 Marine Engineer’s Pocket-book: M Containing the Latest Board of Trade Rules M and Data for Marine Engineers (Illustrated), M 329
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Lithography, Exhibition of, 287
Little, Mr. Gilbert, Oa the Automatic Manipulation of Coke, 129
Liverpool Docks, 195- 199, 206, 262
Liverpool, Trials of Heavy Motor Vehicles, 540, 545
Ljunberg, Mr. E. J., Continuous Kiln, 340
Llanelly District, Strike in the, 22, 72
Lloyd’s Register Appointment, 309
Lloyd’8 Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 456
Lloyd’s Registry on Circuit, 184
Lloyd’s Shipping Casualty Returns, 304
Lloyd’s Shipping Returns, 85 jp
Lloyd’s Visiting Committee Inspect the Shipyards and Engineering Works of the North of England, 168
Load-line Committee, Report of the, 595
Local Authorities and th9 Workmen’s Compensa¬tion Act, 31
Lock Nut, Goddin’p, 235, 261, 287
Locks and Keys, Mr. H. Chubb on the Development of, 503:
Lockyer, Lieut.-Col. W. N., On the Evolution of Small-arms, 27
Lockyer, Sir Norman, On the Advantages of Literary Culture, 419

Locomotives Railway Matters, Various, Locomotives

Lodge Farm Sewage Disposal Scheme, Pumping Station and Buildings, Messrs. Wingrove and Stanley’s Tender Accepted, 577
London, City of, Inhabited Houses in the, 497
London, City of, New Street, 519
London County Council, Contracts with the, 116
London County Council and Public Interests, 111
London County Council, Schemes of the, 35
London County Council, Tramways Department to be Formed, 109
London, Electric Lighting Competition in, 38
London General Poet-office, Railway Stations within Twelve and Six-mile Radius from, 545
London School of Economics and Political Science, Courses of Lectures at the, 447
London United Tramway?, Sketch Map of, 642
London United Tramways Company, Electric Tramways System Extension, 519
London University Com mist ion Bill Passed, 85
London University Matriculation Examinations, ity 189
London Water, 508
London Water Supply, 85, 207, 328, 336, 418, 497, 544, 593, 615, 619
London Water Supply, Mr. Waltor Hunter's ;t- Evidence, 593
London Water Supply Question and the Local Authorities, 544
London Water Supply. Report of Sir Wm. Crookes and Prof. Dewar, 85
London Water Supply, Sir Wm. Crookes and Prof. Dewar’s Report, 619
Loom, Improvements in the Power, 241
Lössnitz Bridge lue Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898,
Loughborough, Water Supply Scheme for, 357
Lowell Textile School, The, 628
Lowry, Mr. Geo. A., On the Treatment of Cotton Fibre during the Last Hundred Years, 253
Lubricating Oils and Fats in the Workshop, Sampling and Testing, 50, 77
Lubricating Pump, Positive Sight-feeding, 167
Lubricator, Sight-feed, Messrs. Hartley and Co. 141
Lubricator, Single Connection Cylinder, 141
Lyddite Shell, Officers’ Reports on the, 541
Lymm and Critchley, Controlling Apparatus for Colliery Winding Engines, 45 k *Lyons and Sons c. Wilkins, 626
Lyster, Mr. A. G., Dock Extensions, Liverpool, 195, 199, 206, 262
Lyster, Mr. A. G., Roof Crane, Liverpool Docks, 199 y

M

McCAW, Mr. G. T., On tho Steering of ihe 3 Bicycle, 557
Machine Accidents Act, The, 95
Machine Design, Application of Graphic Interpolation in, 412
Machine Drills, Average Work of, 70 ,
Machine Stoker, Messrs. Ransomcs and Rapier, 382, 393
Machine Tools, 316
Belgium, Oponing for English in, 155
British and American, 543, 548, 572, 589, 614, 615, 649, 650
Muir and Co., 95
Myers’ Patent Sharpening Ma¬chine, 382
Spencer and Co.’s Improvements in, 483
Electrically-driven, Messrs. Bag- bie’s Works, Johannesburg, 516
Mack, M. E., On the Melting Points of Some Substances under High Pressures, 253
McLaren, Mr. Hy., “Premiums Paid to Experi¬ence,” 639
McLaren, J. A., Electrical Engineers' Specifica¬tions, 43, 69
M’Sharry, Mr., His Case against the Australasian Government, 628
Madrid Electricity Works, 8, 9
Maglin, M. E., On the Casting of Bronze Statues, 593
Magnetic Records at Greenwich, as Affected by South London Electric Railway, 35
Magnetism and the Spectrum, 9
Magneto-optic Phenomenon, Dr. S. P. Thomp¬son’s Experiments on a, 447
Magnetism, Conference on Terrestrial, 400
Magnets of Self-hardening Steel, Tests of, 137
Magnolia Metal Co. and Others, v. the Tandem Smelting Syndicate, Limited, 67
Maidstone Waterworks, 312
Mains, High-tension Trunk, 531
Mallaig Railway, The, 273, 274, 280
Manchester, Electric Tramway for, 593
Manchester, New Goods Station, Great Northern Railway, 223, 224, 230
Manchester Sjwage Disposal, 59, 181, 507, 617
Manchester Sewage Problem, Mr. M. Ingram on, 507
Manchester Ship Canal, 140, 154
Manchester Ship Canal, Important Industrial Development in Neighbourhood of, 140
Manganese from Bog Ore, 32
Manganess in Japan, 229
Manganese Steel in Place of Nickel, The United States Ordnance Department, 619
Manila Hemp, 30
Mann and Charlesworth, Messrs., Steam Cart, 225
Mansel, Mr. Robert, On Steamship Propulsion, 363
Map of the Central London Railway, 440
Map of Ceylon Railways, 174
Map of London United Tramways, Existing, Authorised and Proposed, 642
Marconi, Chevalier, His Wireless Telegraph Apparatus in Use at Osborne, 137
Mariaui, Colonel, On the New Guns, and the Possible Transformation of Italian Guns, 288
Marine Engineering Practice, Mr. F. T. Wolseloy- Lewis, 527
Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding and. on the
Thames in the Victorian Era—see Shipbuilding Marine Notes from America, 44, 628 Marten and Howl, Messrs., on the South Stafford¬shire Mines Drainage Scheme, 299 Martyn’s Locomotor Car or Steam Omnibus, 546
Marx and Co., Disclaimer from Messrs. Jacob, 117
Masonry Arches, On Long Span Three-hinged, 132
Massena Canal, Work on the, 229
Matches in France, Consumption per Head, 205
Mats, Collision, 588
Mathews, Mr. Thos , Well Borings and Special Arrangements of Pumps, 335
Mauser Bullets at Santiago, The Wooden, 419
Maxim, Mr. Hiram S., Process to Pro vent Erosion and Extend the Life of Guns, 846
Maxim Guns on Motor Cars, 137
Measurement, the Refinement of, The Proposed Foundation of a Public Institution for the Standardising and Verifying Instruments for, 352
Mechanical Draughtsmen, Position of, 256
Mechanical Engineers’ Institution—see Institution,
Mechanical Testing of Materials at the Locomotive Works of the Midland Railway, Derby, Mr. W. G. Peet on the, 480
M citing Points of S erne Substances under Pressure, xi On the, 253
Mtritens, M. de, 46 4
Marry weather and Sons, Limited, their New Fire Engine, 399
Merthyr, Electric Light and Light Railways for, 497
Mosnard, M. Paul, his Directions How to Form Concrete and Mortar, 85
Metal Tube Jointing Company, Manufacture of Bicycle Frames, 10
Metallic Piston Packing, The “ Lancaster," 603
Metalloids, Action of, on Cast Iron, 249
Metals, On the Internal Architecture of, by Prof. Arnold, 6
Metals, Transference of Heat in Cooled, 647
Meteorological Department of the British Asso¬ciation's Bristol Meeting, Proceedings in, 299
Meters, On Prepayment, 108, 128
Methyl-alcohol in Water, Maxima of Density of a Number of Solutions of, 229
Metropolitan Tramway System, Management of the, 619
Metropolitan Water Supply during July and August, 1898, 262, 396
Mexican Machinery Market, The, 648
Mexico, Mining, Agricultural, and Industrial Machinery Wanted in, 396
Mica Insulation Company c. the Electrical Com¬pany, Limited, 42
Mica Mines in Icd:a, 373
Micro-chemistry of Cementation, On the, 248
Micrometer Gauge?, 467
Microphone to a Telephonic Receiver, How to Intensify the Sound Transmitted by, 643
Mddlesbrough, Electric Lighting of, 279
Midland Hotel, Manchester, The New, 335
Midway “Densitas” Cane Clay, Morrison, Ingram, and Co.’s, 215
Miley’s Machine Tool Company, Standard Lathe, 83
Milford Haven, Line of Steamers to Canada, 519
Mill for Rolling Steel Plates to be put down at Trubia, 655
Mdling, Boring, and Facing Machine, Messrs. Thomas Blears and Co., 288
Milling Machine, Large Vertical, Messrs. William
Muir and Co., 95 Mil!workers as Employers, 267
Milner’s Safe Company, Limited, c. Campbell, 92
MiltoD, Staffordshire, Aluminium Manufacture at, 104, 117
Milwaukee, Stranding of the, 394
Mineral Products of New South Wales for 1896 and 1897, 382
Mineral Products of the United States fcr 1897,
403
Mineral Prospeots of British Columbia, 190
Mineral Wealth of the Philippine Islands, 562
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, Wage Con¬ference, 22, 135, 191, 216
Miners’ Education in Nova Scotia, 299
Miners and their Leaders, 306
Mines, Chinese Salt and Gas, 146
Drainage, South Staffordshire, 299, 376
Ethiopia, 93
Elban, 11
Gold, West Australian Chamber of. List of Cash Distributions for 1897,190
Sardinian, as Represented at the Turin Exhibition, 318
Szc-Chuan, China, Contract Granted to Mr. P. Morgan, 541
Timbering in the Cumberland and Fur¬ness Iron Ore, 299
Mining and Industrial Exhibition, Western Australia—see Exhibitions Mining Machinists, Gocd News for, 306
Mining in the Transvaal, Annual Report, 140
Minting in China, 63
Miyabara Water tube Boiler, The, 173
Mohegan, Wreck of the s.s., 428, 447, 469, 539
Moissan, M., On the Preparation of Crystallised Calcium, 35
Moissan, M., Grand Prize Awarded to, for Researches in Chemistry, 85
Moldenke, Dr. R., On the Melting Point of Cast Iron, 619
Molitor, Mr. David A , On Long Span Three- hinged Masonry Arches, 132
Monceau Steel Works and Rolling Mill, Blast
Furnace Works, Maizieres, Bought by, 484
Monster Trains, 512
Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel Ships, Mr. S. J. P. Thearle, 564, 603
Moretto, M. P., Maxima of Density of Different Solutions of Methyl-alcohol in Water, 229
Morewood’s Tin-plate Works, Strike at, 22, 72, 96
Morrison, Ingram, and Co.’s Midway “ Densitas” Cane Clay, 215
Morrison, Ingram, and Co., Patent Fuel Works, 141
Mortar, Strength of, 615, 651
Morton, Mr. Henry Thomas, 22
Moth, Cold Storage of Furs, &s., against the Ravages of the, 593
Motive Power Supplied by the, 73
Motor Car, Coal-gas Driven, Mr. W. H. Dunkly, 45
Electric Service in Sydney, Tenders for, Let to C. G. Hudson, 593
Movement, New Words Due to the, 325
Notes, 40, 58, 176, 495
Pontoon Raft, on a, 137
Trials in France, Heavy, 425, 426, 438
Paris, in, 612
Motor Omnibuses to Run in Birmingham, 593
Motor Traction, Paris Omnibus Co,, 85
Motor Tramcar, A Patton, 541
Motor Vehicles for Heavy Traffic, Trials of, 275, 540
Motor Vehicles, Martyn’s Locomotor Car or Steam Omnibus, 546
Muir and Co., Messrs. Wm , Spindle Profiling and General Milling Machine, 95
Muirhead, Mr. Jas., 451
Mumford’s Water-tube Boilers, 55, 136, 590
Municipal Advancement in America, 214
Municipal Plumbing Business, America, 214
Murray, Mr. A. T., New Machine for Drilling Iron, Steel, Brass, &c., 405
Musquetry and Gunnery of the Navy, 304
Myers' Patent Sharpening Machine, 381

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NAGASAKI, Docks at, 396
Nagasaki, Shipping Industry of, 396
Nagel, Mr., his Appointment, 11
Naples Sewage Disposal, 396
Natal, Law relative to Trade in, 511
Naval Armaments, Design of Future, Experience in, Gained by the Santiago Fight, 121
College at Dartmouth, The, 293
Contracts, Sir C. Dilke on the Penalty Clauses in, 85
Defence, The French, 147
Engineers, 476
Engineers, America, 576
Engineer Appointments, 17, 34, 92, 120, 142, 163, 185, 209, 257, 300, 331, 353, 423, 467, 509, 515, 586, 618 Engineers, Claims of the, 598
Engineers, Rudyard Ripling and, 501
English Officer, Position of the, 324 Estimates, The French, 545
Expenses, Cape Colony Bill relative to, 497 ( Harbour, Dover, 80
Programme, Russian, 267
Station for the South Pacific, A Second, 35
War Game, The Jane, 581
Navies, Number of Trained Seamen in the British, French, Russian, and German, 279
Navigation Congress, Brussels: 82
Dredgers of Great Power, Recent Applications of, M. Massalski, 101
Dredgers and their Relation to Sea and Inland Navigation, Mr. L. W. Bates, 101
Dredgers, Sand Pump, Use of, for Improvement of Tidal Channels, Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 101
Dredgers, Suction, Mr. V. E. de Timonoff, 101
Dynamometer for Measuring Wave Stroke, Sir W. H. Bailey, 166
Navigation, In’and, Mr. E. D. Marten on the relative Advantages of Deepening Water¬ways either by Raising the Weirs or by Dredging, 102
Navigation, Inland, Mr. E. D. Marten on the Utilisation of the Power of the Weirs as a Motive Force, 102
Papers Sent in, Excursions Arranged, Coun¬tries Represented, 82
Port of Antwerp Visited, 125
Port of Zeebiugge, Works of the New, 146
Ship Canal, The Bruges, 146
Ship Canals, Papers on the Protection of the Banks of, by M. Grenier and Mr. llnnter, 125
Tidal Rivers, Five Papers relating to, 125
Navigation, Inland—see Papers on, Read at the Navigation Congress, Brussels, 101, 102
Navy, Musquetry and Gunnery of the, 304
Neeley, Mr. S. T., On the “ Compression End¬wise Test ’’ of Timber, 11
Nehling Casting Process under Trial at Messrs Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.’s Works, 279
Neilson, Reid, and Co., Messrs., Narrow-gauge Locomotive, Soudan Railway, 226
Newcastle, Improvements on the Quayside, 191
Newcastle, New High-level Bridge at, 191
Newcomen Engine, 1803, 57, 65
Newport, I.W., Water Supply, 639
New South Wales in 1896 and 1897, Mineral Products of, 382
New South Wales, Shipments of Wool from, 593
New South Wales Tramways and Railways, 1897, 382
Newton Machine Tool Works, Electrically-driven Cold Saws, 153
New York and London Ports, Entrances and Clearances of Vessels for the Past Year, 447
New Zealand, Engineering Dispute in, 349
New Zialand Mines, Report of the Minister, 519
Niagara Falls, Age of, 473
Niagara Power Company, Electric Horse-power for the Union Carbide Company, 619
Nicaragua, Annual Rainfall, 85
Nickel from its Ores by the Mond Process, Extraction of, 472
Nickel Ores, New Caledonian Copper and, 628
Nickel Steel for Boiler and Atm our Plates, Ad¬vantages of, 177
Nile, Gunboats Wanted for, 373
North Pole, The So-called Displacements of the, 3. 85
Northern Finished Iron Conciliation Board, Mr. Waterhouse’s Statistics, 336
Northern of France, The, Mr. Chas. Rous- Martan, 68, 76, 100, 276, 284, 285, 367, 377, 487
Northwicb, Subsidence of Land at, 497
Norway, Cast Iron Lighthouse for. 426, 427
Norway. Revision of the Tariff of Custom Daes, 137
Norwegian State Railways, 616
Norwich Sewerage Works {see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Nova Scotia, Underground Certificates of, Mr. E. s Gilpin, jun., 299
'Nursey, Mr. P. F., On the Preparation of Rhea Fibre for Textile Purposes, 485

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Obituary:

Anderson, Sir Wm. (with Portrait), 587
Bailey, Mr. Percy D., 265
Bedford, Mr. John, 431
Beitb, Mr. Wm., 46
Bsntall, Mr. Edw. Hammond, 157
Chambers, Mr. Arthur Marshall, 234
Clark, Mr.'Josiah Latimer, 451
Colville, Mr. David, 442
Crowley, Mr. W. H., 167
Dorman, Mr. Robt Page, 360
Elliott, Mr. G. W., 70
Fowler, Sir John (with Portrait), 513
Galbraith, Mr. E. E., 375
Gauntlett, Mr. Wm. Hy.. 406
Gjers, Mr. John, 375, 398
Gledhill, Mr. M., 279
Gray, Sir Wm., 278
Heppell, Mr. Thos., 460
Herz, Dr. Cornelius, 40
Hopkinson, Dr. John, 234, 506
Hunter, Alderman Michael, 605
Innes, Mr., 519
Meritens, M. de, 464
Morton, Mr. Hy. Thomas, 22
Muirhead; Mr. Jas., 451
Neumann, Mr. Gan,, 133
Ogilvie, Mr. F. D. W., 375
Pease, Mr. Arthur, 240
Philipson, Mr. John, 22
Roberta, Mr. Llewellyn, 22
Rowan, Mr. David, 135
Salkeld, Mr. Win.. 578
Shepherd, Mr., 656
Sinclair, Mr. Robert, 471
Sopwitb, Mr. Thos., 133
Summerson, Mr. Thomas, 587
Swain, Mr. John, 278
Whittaker, Mr. J. W., 553
Wilde, Mr. F. S., 87
Wilson, Mr. Joseph William, 524
Wilson, Mr. Wm., 324, 349
Wrightson, Mr. Stephen, 577

Observatory on Pike’s Peak, 279
Oil-burning Locomotive for the Metropolitan Railway, 91
Oil Engines—see Engines, Oil
O.ls and Fats in the Workshop, Sampling and Testing Lubricating, 50, 77
Oils, Flash-point Test for Lubricating, 460
Oil Industry at North Formosa, 59
Ontario, Mr. T. W. Gibson on the Water Power available in, 473
Oregon at Santiago, The, 176
Ores, Treatment of Refractory Silver, 429
O3treicher, Adolph S., Application of Graphic Interpolation in Machine Design, 412
O’Toole, Rev. H., Improved Form of Hydro¬meter, 373
Overtaught Student, The, 526
Overtime in the Midlands, 616
Oxides Rsduced by Aluminium and Great Heat Obtained, 325

P

PACKING of the American Cotton Bale, 565
Packing, Lancaster Metallic Piston, 603
Paints, Preservative, 614
Paisley Water Supply, 396
Pall Mall Deposit Company, for the Preservation of Furs, &o., from Moths, 593
Panama Canal, The, 565
Pan-Germanic League, The, 409
Park, Tenders Invited for Purchase and Working of Waterworks, 325
Paris Central Electric Stations (ter Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898, v.-vii.)
Paris Electric Tramways, 85
Paris Exhibition of 1900—see Exhibition, Paris Paris, Motor Cars in, 612
Paris Omnibus Company, Motor Traction for its Rolling Stock, 85
Paris, Water Supply in, 581
Parker, Dr. J. G., Oa the Tanning Industry, 300
Parliament-street, Widening of, 619
Passenger Travel on Canals (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)

Patents, American, Selected:

Acetylene Gas Lamp, G. E. Hesse, 338
Air Compressor, H. C. Sergeant, 122
Air Lock for Oaieoons, 8. Mattson, 98
Ammonia-gas Compressor for Ice Machines, J. J. Bailey, 658
Awning, J. B. Hogan, 194
Baling Press, C. L. Bessonette, 170
Bearings, Thrust, C. Sellers, 122
Bicycles, Power Mechanism for, C. T. Umsted, 462
Blast Furnace Iron Notch and Appliance, J. M. Hartman, 170
Boilers, Attachment for Steam, A. Griese, 314 .
Boiler Feeder, Automatic Steam, Downs and Johnston, 408
Boiler and Furnace, Steam, H. Stanton, 74
Boiler, Steam, H. Sec, New Vork, N.Y., 24
Boilers, Steam, C. Lloyd, 510
Boilers, Steam, Shanks and Kelly, jan., 608
Boiler, Steam, J. J. Tonkin, 74
Boilers, Water-tube Steam, H. Workman, 658
Bolts, Stay, J. Johnson and W. V. Lukens, 144
Bridges, Metal, J. E. Beer, 486
Burner for Pulverised Coal, G. W. Prescott, 294
Caulking Ships, W. P. Freeman, 314
Cinder Car, E. E. Slick and T. Morrison, 144 1
Coal Crusher, T. R. Griffith, 608
Coin-freed Apparatus for Supplying Liquids, R. J. Streatfeild, 24
Coke Manufacture, J. T. Key, 530
Conveyor, T. A. Edison, 98
Conveyor, H. F. Hodges, 314
Crank Shafts and Discs, A. L. Ide 98
Cutting Cloth, Messrs. Jackson and Boroughs, 218
Cycle Frames, Means for Making, F. A. Ellis, 212
Dock, Floating, L. E. Clark, 48
Dredge, Hydraulic, L. W. Bates, 218
Dredging Drag, J. Edwards, 632
Dynamo, Alternating - current, Hutin and Leblanc. 362
Electric Circuit Controller, N. Tesla, 530
Electric Ignites for Gas Engines, N. Tesla, 556
Electrically Coating Wire, W. S. Rawson, 632
Electric Motor, Alternating-current, W. Lang¬don-Davies, 74
Engine, Compressed Air, L. T. Gibbs, 294
Engine, Gas, J. Carnes and C. W. McKibben, 144
Engine, Oil or Gas, W. F. Trotter, 170
Engine, Rotary, F. J. Macey, 268
Engine, Steam, T. G. Clayton, 462
Engines, Rotary Steam, C. A. Holcomb, 580
Engine, Self-lubricating, E. E. Hanna, 338
Engine, Steam, W. F. and E. W. Cleveland, 122
Engine, Steam, H. Steven, 48
Excavating Machinery, A. Cryer and E. C. Newby, 144
Feed-water Heater, Sectional, J. E. Schlieper, 434
Feed-water Regulator for Boilers, A. Blechyn- den, 486
Fog Whistle. S. H. Hunter, 362
Furnace, Garbage, L. D. Smead, 434
Furnace, Garbage-burning, J. F. G. de Bonardi and A. D. F. de Villepigné, 74
Glass Furnaces, Keeping Glass Clear in, G. Sohluder, 98
God Mounting, C. Martin, 74
Guns, Mounting for Disappearing, A. T. Dawson, 242
Hammer, Compressed Air, J. Schmidt, 98
Hammer, Metal Beater, J. E. Hermann, 408
Harrow, G. W. Ream, 486
Hose Coupling, J. N. Me Loan, 170
Hydrocarbon Incandescent Lamp, G. Washing¬ton, 434
Injector, W. A. Downes, 408
Insulator, C. Winguard, 386
Jack Sorew, T. Coaghlan, 632
Locomotive Engine, G. S. Strong, 338
Measuring Cloth, J. E. Windle, 486
Meter, Steam, G. C. St, John, 48
Morticing Chisel, W. Potter, 530
Motor, Alternating-current Induction, C. S. Bradley, 462
Motors, Gas, Pratis and Mazengo, 608
Motors, Method of and Means for Securing Constant Torque in Polyphase, B. G. Lamme, 580
Motor Vehicles, Steering Wheel for, Club and Southey, 658
Notch Gun for Blast Furnaces, J. M. Hartman, 580
Ordnance, Charging, F. W. Hawkins, 556
Ordnance, Primer for, T. G. Bennett, 314
Ore Pulveriser, J. R. Moffitt, 632
Oxide of Iron, Reducing, A. Karyscheff, 486
Pipe Cutter, Morse and Rich, 462
Pipe Wrench, L. C. Springer, 122
Press, Hydraulic, F. M. Leavitt, 212
Projectiles, Armour-piercing, H. A. Brustleio, 144
Protectors for Stay Bolts, F, J, Coins, 194
Pomp, E. H. Oderman, 24
Reflectors, S. O. Cowper-Coles, 122
RiDgbom, O. A., Steam Engine, 408
Rolling Hollow Ingots into Tubes, J. C. Stur¬geon, 98
RopedriviDg Machinery, T. S. Miller, 608
Scarifying and Breaking Roads, Apparatus for, Bomford and Evershed, 362
Screw Propellers, P. A, N. Winand, 314
Signalling, Railway, W. A. Babcock, 218
Springs, Carriage, S. R. Bailey, 608
Tire and Rim, Elastic, F. Berger, 462
Tool Handles, F. Baker. 632
Tubes, Mechanism for Expanding and Enlarg¬ing Metallic, R. C. Stiefel, 268
Tubes, Polygonal, C. P. Higgins, 294
Turf Making, J. A. Charnock, 194
Turbine, Marine Steam, C. A. Parsons, 510
Turbines, Power-transmitting Apparatus for Steam, E Seger, 486
Vacuum, Apparatus for Producing High, Messrs. Barr and Stroud, 194
Valve, Blow-off, D. Maclean, 386
Valve Gear, L. A. Lang, 386
Valve Gear for Air Compressors, E. T. Sederholm, 386
Valve Mechanism for Steam Pipes, G. de Laval, 268
Vapour Generator and Burner, Entwistle, Starr, Talley, and Lorance, 194
Velocipedes in Railway Cars, Carrying, F. H. Skrine, 194
Water-cooling Device, W. F. Niebling, 632
Wood Grinder for Pulp Making, B. Eilers, 386
Wrenches, F. Olsen, 194
Patents, Electrical, 82
Patents, Germany, Applied for in, 1896-1897, 349 Patents in Japan, Foreign, 180 Patent Law, 158
Patent Laws, The, 158, 578
Patent-office, A Chinese, 59
Patent-office Library, The, 105, 522, 573, 615
Patent Wheel and Axle Company, Registered, 96
Patton Motor Tramcar, Test of a, 541
Pavements in Berlin, Stone, Asphalt, and Wood, 35
Pavements, Wood, Steepest Gradient on which they Should be Laid, 177
Paving, Cork, 27
Pearson, Mr. W. H., On an Old Newcomen Engine, 318 Pease, Mr. Arthur, 240
Peebles, Mr. W. Carmichael, On the Commercial Gas Engine, 128
Peet, Mr. W. Gadeby, Mechanical Testing of Materials at the Locomotive Works of the Midland Railway, Derby, 480
Penalty Clauses in Naval Contracts, Sir C. Dilke on, 85
Pencoyd Iron Company’s Steel Plant. 430
Pendulum Oscillations, Prof. Righi’s Apparatus for Representing the Resultant of Two, 301
Penn and Sons, Engines of the Sphinx, 1882, and the Warspite, 1888, 317,318, 320, 321
Penn and Sons, Limited, An Engineering Contract Question, 450
Penny Postage to India, 619
Pentane Lamp, Prof. A. G. Vernon - Harcourt’s New Form of, 300
Peru, Coal Deposits in, 136
Petroleum, Flash Point of—see Flash Point
Flash Point of, 189, 237
American and Russian, Relative Qualities of, 541
Engineering Trades and, 597
Laws, 59
Discovery of, in the North-West Terri¬tories, 205
Incandescent Lighting by, in Spain, Spring in Roumania, A New, 497
Vapour, its Production and Use (Illus¬trated), 49
Philippine Islands, Mineral Wealth of the, 562
Philipson, Mr. John, 22
Photography without Light, Dr. W. J. Russell, 35
Physics of Timber, Prof. B. E. Fernow’s Circular Doaling with, 11
Picketting, 622
Pickles and Son, Messrs. J., Wood-planing Machine, 602
Pidgeon, Mr. W. R., On an ‘‘Influence Ma¬chine,” 447
Pier Extension at Dover, The Admiralty, 619
Pig Iron Demand from Australia, 214
Pig Iron Industry in South Staffordshire, The, 214
Pig Iron Production, 1898, German, 229 ,
Pile-driving Machine for Heavy Ground, 600
Pilotage Regulations, Inconsistency of Our, 419
Pintsch Lighting Company, Combined Acetylene i acd Oil-gas Plant, 258
Pipes. Cast Iron, Glasgow invites Tenders for, 109
Pipes, Cast Iron, for the Glasgow Corporation, Order given to a Local Firm, 266
Pipes, Jointing Sewer, 163
Pipes, Jointing, with Cement and Soda, 214
Pistol, Borchardt Automatic Repeating, 186
Piston-rods, Carbon in, 94
Pit Lads' Strike, 62, 88, 119,191, 209, 239
Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, The Largest Locomotive in the World, 474, 479, 546
Planing Machine, Wood, 602
Plata Basin, Drainage Area of the, 279
Plates, Stross in Flat, 414
Platinum Mines, The Russian, 593
Plumbago, Rise in the Price, 419
Plymouth Corporation Waterworks, The, 321, 323, 326, 346, 388
Plymouth Water Supply, 301
Pneumatic Despatch Tubes, First Use of, 253
Pneumatic Tire, The Cottrell, 504
Pneumatic Wheels, Advantage of, 303
Pocket-knives for America, English v. German, 304
Pollitt, Mr. H., 7ft. Coupled Engines for the Great Central, 155
Population of the Globe, M. P. D'Amfreville on the, 473
Port of Zeebrugge, Now, 146
Portland Cement Deposit, Ontario, 155
Portland Cement, World’s Annual Output of, 109
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., Floating Dry Dock Wanted at, 102

Portraits:

Anderson, Sir Wm., 587
British Officials of the Imperial Japanese Rail¬ways, 103
Fowler, Sir John, 313
Hopkinson, Dr. John, 234
Macdonald, Mr. John, 103
Page, Mr. W. H., 103
Trevithick, Mr. R. F., 103
Postage to India, Penny, 619
Postal Rates, Imperial Conference on. 64
Power Loom, Improvements in the, 241
Preece, Mr. W. IL, On Etheric Telegraphy (Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898)
Preece, Mr. W. H., Presidential Address, 446, 449, 472, 493
“ Premiums Paid to Experience,” Mr. Hy. McLaren on, 639
Preservative Paints, Improvements in, 614
Pressure Attained by Superheated Water, 85
Prism Globe, The, 447
Proctor, Mr. Jas., Blowing Engines, 138
Profit Sharing, 163
Projectiles for Spain, Messrs. Thos. Firth and Sons, 167
Projectiles in the United States, On the Cost of Large, 205
Propellers, Screw, 570, 615
Propeller Shafts, 112, 132
Propeller Shaft, Repairing a Screw, 600
Propeller Starter, Hydraulic, 64
Property in Design and the Position of Draughts¬men, Mr. Geo. Rnssell on, 657
Propulsion, Steamship, Mr. R. Mansel on, 363
Pullman Car Company, Double-deck Electric Tramcar, 41
Pamping, Electric Power, on the Sonth Stafford¬shire Mines Drainage, Scheme with Special Regard to, 299
Pumping Engines—see Engines, Pumping Pumping Machinery in Bulgaria, Demand for, 253
Pumping Machinery, North-Eastern Steel Com¬pany, 550
Pump, Lubricating, Klein Engineering Company, 167
Pumps, High-speed Air, 457, 515, 549, 574, 588, 615, 651
Punching and Shearing Machines, Portable Hand, 575
Pyrometor, A New American, 653

Q

QUARTZ, Mr. S. J. Barnatt on the Coefficient of Rigidity of, 229
Quebec Railway Bridge, The, 506
Queensland Fruit Trade, Dried Bananas, 593

R

RACK Saw Guard, Messrs. J. and F. Howard, 302

Railways:

Railway Accidents:

Basford Hall Sidings, near Crewe, 519
Belfast and Northern Counties Line, 59, 593
Blue-book Issued containing Returns of Acci¬dents in the United Kingdom during Three Months ending March 31st, 1898, 177
Brechin, 497
Caledonian Railway, Maryhill Station Collision, Lieut.-Col. Yorke’s Report, 253
Crewe Station, Collision near, 565
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 541
Great Central, Attempt to Wreck a Train near Lees Bridge, 349
Great Central Railway, Wrawby Junction, 396
Great Eastern, Collision, 619
Great Northern, Peterborough, Accident Averted, 447
Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, Permanent Way Destroyed by Floods, 396 Great Western, Attempt to Wreck a Train, 541
Great Western, Breaking of a Connecting-rod of a Locomotive, 85
Great Western, Carey Bridge, 85
Great Western, near Did cot, 94
Great Western, Narrow Escape, 643
Great Western, near Penryn, Cornwall, 447
Great Western, between St. Thomas' and St. David'8 Stations, 473
Glasgow and South-Western, near Closeburn, 565
Half-year’s Accidents, A, 456
Harrogate, 373
Jarrow and Hebburn, Level Crowing Accident, 643
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Breaking of an Out¬side Rod, 279, 301
Leicester, Due to Sloping Platforms, 396
London and North-Western and Midland, Four Attempts at Wrecking Trains on the, 279, 419
London and South-Western, near Clapham Junction, 541
London and South-Western, near Tresmeer Station, 519
Midland, Melton, 419
Midland, Wellingborough, Corridor Dining Express, 253, 279, 304, 330, 468
Midland, Ynysgeinon, Collision at, 565
North London Railway, as the Broad-street Terminus, 304
North-Western, at Bisford Wood on the, 279
Rolleston-on-Dove, 2
St. Gotbard Railway, Landslip at Sasso Rosso, 643
Sheffield Station, Colonel Addison's Report on, 59
South-Eastern Railway Station, Dover, 613
Trouville Express, Derailment of, 177
United Kingdom, Last Year’s, 304
United States, Train Accident Records, 35,137,
304, 396, 593
Waterloo and City, Hitch in the Working, 373

Railways, British:

Baker-street and Waterloo, 450, 593
Caledonian, Extension, Glasgow, 447
Cambrian, Summer Express Service on, 360
Central London, The, 349, 439, 443, 473, 490, 613
Cornwall, North (See Civil Engineering Supple¬ment, July 22nd, 1898)
Ealing and South Harrow, 489
Ep3om Downs, Extension of (see Civil Engineer¬ing Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Fishguard and Rosslare, 120, 419, 473, 541
Glasgow, Motherwell, and Sanquhar Railway Extension, 565
Great Central 15, 108, 109, 137, 155, 253, 310, 349, 439, 443, 465, 473, 490-we also Para¬graph, page 11,
Great Eastern, New Station at Felixstowe, 35
Great Eastern, Proposal Respecting Light Rail¬ways, 209
Great Northern Goods Depot, Manchester, 45, 287, 290
Great Northern New Goods Station, Man¬chester, Mr. W. T. Foxlee, 223, 224, 230
Great Northern, Train Mileage of the, 177
Great Northern at Werrington, Artesian Boring Operations Carried Out by the, 593, 602
Great Southern, The, 319
Great Western Railway Company, 81
Great Western, New Line, Bristol and South Wales Direct, 35
Great Western, Newport and Pontypridd Line to be taken over by the, 593
Great Western, A Remarkable Run on, by Mr. Chas. Rous-Marten, 437, 469
Great Western, Widening of Line between Bridgend and Tondu, 406
Great Western, Works on the, 618
Irish, 473
Lanark and Dumfries-shire Railway, Extension Scheme, 565
Leek and Manifold Valley, 619
London, Brighton, and South Coas‘, Altera¬tions of the Victoria Terminus, 419
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Altera¬tions in the Train Service, 643
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Bill for Widening Line, 109
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Quicker Service to Brighton, 349
London, Brighton, and South Coast Company’s Works, 58
London, Chatham, and Dover, Increased Re¬ceipts of, 177
London and North - Western, Eogineer's Report, 239
London and North-We3tern, Projected New Line from Nuneaton to Tamworth, 619
London and South-Western, Anniversary of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the First Dock at Southampton Celebrated, 373
London and South-Western, Extension to Bude, 177
London and South-Western, Provision at Southampton for the Live and Dead Meat Trade, 473
London and South-Western, Bill before Parlia¬ment for the Extension of Waterloo Station, &c. &c., 463
London and South-Western, Traffic Receipts of, 177
London, Tiibury, and Southend Railway, Con¬nection with the District Railway Resolved on, 85
Mallaig Railway, The, 273, 274, 280
Marlborough and Grafton, Keystone of the New Tunnel Laid, 35
Metropolitanand Metropolitan District, Experi¬ments with Electric Traction on the Inner Circle, 519
Midland, Contract for the New Loop Line, 22
Midland, Electric Installation for Light and Power on, 413, 643
Midland, Extensions, Projected, 519
Midland, New Carriage Works of the, 577
Midland, Order for Locomotives placed with
American Firms, 619
Midland, Widening of, at Kentish Town (see Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
North British, St. Rollox Goods Station, Destroyed by Fire, 155
North-Eastern, Bridge over the Tyne, New, 553
North-Eastern, Extension in East Durham, 419
North-Eastern, Extension from Stockton to Billingham Beck, 578
North-Eastern, Extensions at the North-road Engineering Works at Darlington, 360
North-Eastern and the Proposed Durham Coast Line, 142
North-Eastern, Purchase of New Sites near Stockton Station, 553
North Sunderland, Opened, 142
Plymouth, Improvements at, 353
Sheffield District, 109
Sheffield and Neighborhood, Developments at, 349
South Devon, Extension in, 429
South-Eastern and Lindon, Chatham, and Dover, Proposed Amalgamation, 11, 325
South Wales, and Dock Bills, 513
Tdlf Vale, Dispute on the, 419, 473
Tees, Along the North Bink of the, 578
Victoria Station Extensions and Alterations, 396, 419
Waterloo and the Bank, 66
Waterloo and City Electric, Hitch in the Working, 373
West London, The, 348

Railways, Electric:

American Electric Traction, Record Speeds Obtained, 419
Buenos Ayres, 137
Chicago, The Elevated Electric Railways of, 473
Chicago to Waukegan (Electric Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898, xiv.) Germany, Portable Field or Electric Railway, 593
Great Northorn, Electric Line from Wood
Green to the Strand Projected, 541
Kansas City, Operating Expenses of Single Line, 85
Long-distance Electric Railways, 293
New York Electric Traction for Cable, Substi¬tution of, 643
Overhead Trolley, Limitations to the, 511
South America (Electric Engineering Supple¬ment, November 25ib, 1898, xiv.)
South London, Its Effect on the Magnetic Records at Greenwich, 35
Swiss Electric on the Three-phase System, 396
United States, A Long Electric Railway (Elec¬tric Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898, xiv.)
Volk’s Brighton, 5S
Washington, Conduit Electric Road in, Work¬ing of, Interfered with by Rain, 229
Waterloo and City, 59, 373

Railways, Foreign:

African, Beira, 419 African, South. Cape-Natal Line, 607
American, A More Liberal Expenditure on, 143
American Railway Record, A New, Mr. C. Rous-Marten, 135, 458
Argentine, 325
Australian—see also Letters from our own Cor¬respondents, 264, 361, 430
Austrian State, The Arlberg Tunnel Section, 492, 498
Belgium, Mileage and Traffic, 35
California, The Sierra-Pacific, 137
Canadian, Inter-Colonial, 155
Canadian Pacific Extension, 265
Cape Colony, Railway Extension Enterprise, 204, 526
Ceylon, Tbs Broad and Narrow gauge Problem, 174
Ceylon, with Sketch Map of Present and Pro¬jected, 176
China, Russian Opposition to the Northern Railway Extension Loan withdrawn, 59
Chinese, Canton to Chengtu, 519
Chinese Railways, Edict Respecting Direction of, 137
Chinese, A German Traveller’s Account of, 326
Chinese, and the Iron Trade, 134
Chinese, Kiusin Extension, 396
Chinese Railways, Nin-Chwang Extension Line, 155, 497
Chinese, The Pekin-Hankow Line, 11, 349
Chinese, Tient-tsin-Chiw Kiang, 140, 519
Congo, 106, 110
Corea, 35
Egypt, Railway Development in, 437
Finland State, Extension of, 325
Finland State, Reduction of Rites of Carriage on, 325
Formosa, North, Need of, 59
French Railways and their Work, by Chas.
Rous-Marten, La Chemin de Fer du Nord, 68, 76, 100, 276, 284, 285, 367, 377, 487, 649
German State, 35
Hungarian, From Gabela to Castelnuovo, 155
Indian Administration, Report on, 59
Assam-Bengal Extension, 253
Assom-Bengal Line, Murder of Mr. F. S. Wilde by Pathans, 85
Bengal-Dooars, 35
Bombay Presidency, Additions to the Mileage, 541
Ghaziabad-Moradab Line, 279
lherria, 35
Khyber, Line up the, 85
Madras Railway, Mileage of, 11
Raipur to Vizianagram Much Needed, 59
Report for the Official Year ending March 31st, 1898, 392
Scheme for Patrolling the Lines and Guarding the Bridges, 229
Indo-China, 612
Italian Government Railway Commission, 519
Italian, New Line in the Mount Districts of Rome, 253
Italian, Sig. Guiseppe Spera on, 205
Japanese, 304, 396, 404, 512
Japanese Imperial Railways at Kobe, Work¬shops of the, 512 Jungfrau, 304, 349
Kansas City, Operating Expenses of Electric Railway, 85
Manchurian, The Progress of, 349
Mediterranean and Persian Gulf, 630
Mexico, Total Mileage of Railways in, 419
Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda, 129
New South Wales, 190, 304, 382, 396
New South Wales, Report for the Quarter ending June 30th, 1898, 264
New York Central, Monster Trains on the, 512
New Zealand, Mr, J. Cad man's Statement of the Working Results for Past Year, 309 New Zealand, Mr. F. T. Rotheram’s Report on, 253
Northern Pacific, 265
Norwegian State, 616
Norwegian State, Tenders invited by, 35
Orange Free State, 70, 579
Pennsylvania, Four-tracking of a Line, 265
Prussian, Net Revenue from, 85
Queensland, 506
Russian, 4, 253, 503
Archangel, The first in, 263
Baltic Provinces, Riga to Windau, 108
Far East, 11
Russian Lines Opened and under Construction at the End of 1897, 253
Moscow to Windau, 373
Northern Line to Petersburg, 304
Petersburg to the White Sos, 121
Popassnaja to Nikitovka, 593
Tittis to Kars, 229
Trans-Caspian to the Afghan Frontier, Branch Line from the, 325
Trans-Siberian, 25, 85, 99, 137, 155, 234, 325, 349, 497, 593
Vladicaucas Line to Astrakan Com¬pleted, 229
Scandinavian, The Trans, 347
Siam, Bangkok to Korat, 419
Simplon Railway Tunnel, Progress of, 497 Soudan, 226, 473
South African Railway Extension, 93, 506, 552, 693
Spanish, The AJgeciras-Bobadilla, 447
Swedish, from Gotbcnbu'g to the Norwegian
Frontier, 304 Syria and Ottoman, 477
Trans-Caspian Line, Service of Trains between Merv and Kousihka, 593
Trans-Scandinavian, The New, 347
Uganda, Parliamentary Paper Describing the Construction Works and Progress on, 137, 279
United States, The Dauphin Line, 593
United States Railways, 1897, 373
Victorian Railway Extension, Mildura, 567
Yukon Railway, 109, 473

Railways, Light:

Alton and Basingstoke, 393
Applications for, Received by the Commis¬sioners, 565
Belgium, Progress of, io, 204
Board of Trade’s Modified Rules with Respect to, 373
Board of Trade, Six Orders for, Authorised by the, 205
Bristol, 565 Colne, 541 Derbyshire, 85
Great Eastern Railway Company, 109 Lanark and Dumfries, 155
Lind’s End District, 619 Leek and Manifold, 619
Leighton Buzzard, to Harlington and Uitchin, 325
London, 613
Lynton and Barnstaple, American Locomotive for, 323
Merthyr and Dowlais and Merthyr and Cufo, 415
Minehead to Lynmouth, Refused, 153
North liolderness, from Beverley to Beeford, 593
Perth, Bankfoot Light Railway Order Con¬firmed, 532
Prescott and Liverpool, Between, 352
Staffordshire, 473
Wales, Glamorgan, 373
Wales, Gower, near Swansea, 383
Wiltshire, Grately and Porton to Amesbury and Shrewton, 325
Wiltshire, Between Powsey and Salisbury, 177, 253
Wood Green to Edmonton and to Tottenham,
The Scheme Withdrawn, 59

Railway Locomotives, Material, and Various Matters:

Acetylene Gas for Railway Carriage Lighting in Canada, 373
American Railway Travelling, 598
Anthracite, Effect of the Combustion of, on Wrought Iron Tubes, 349
Appointments and Retirements, Official, 11, 519, 541, 565
Atmosphere of the Underground Railways, 87,
Automatic Couplers likely to be Made Com¬pulsory on British Railways, 619
Axles, Scrap Iron Car, South Pacific Railway Shops, 619
Bicycles on Railways, Carriage of, 102
Bicycle Traffic on Railways, Increasing, 593
Bills Deposited, 35, 46, 72
Board of Trade and Railways, 58
Boyden and Westinghouse Companies, The Fight between the, 59
Bridge over the Hooghly, 229
Bridge, Qaebec Railway, 506
Bridge across the Volga at Vinnovka, 325
British Officials on the Imperial Japanese Rail¬ways, 103
“British Expresses, 1898,” 565
Burnisher for the Journals of Axles of Locomo¬tives and Cars, 419
Cable Haulage for Passenger Railway Work, 1838, 373
Caledonian Railway Employés’ Annual Excur¬sions, 253, 309
“Calvert," Origin of the Name of, on the
Great Central, 541
Coal Supply for the Central of Brazil State Railway, 325
Compressed Air as a Means of Power Trans¬mission, Developments in the Use of, 643
Dangers of Sloping Railway Platforms and Bogie-wheeled Barrows, 396
Economic Railway Construction in Victoria
(sre Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Electric Excavator, The Thompson, Central Loudon Railway, 490
Electric Lighting, Santa Fé Railway Company’s Trains, by Electricity Generated from the Car Axles, 541
Exhibits at South Kensington, Railway, 561
Extension, Railway, 4
Ferry across the Thames, Proposed, 565
Ferry, Railway, The Largest in America, 229
Gasoline Power Plant, Chicago and North-Western Railway, 552
Great Central, Attempt to Wreck a Train near Openshaw, 349
Norwich Works, Visit to the, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 155, 190
Indian Railways, Expenditure on State Railway Stores, 229
Indian Railways, Improvements in Earnings, 229
Indian Railways, Mileage and Rolling Stock, 301
Lignite Fuel Records, Houston and Texas Cen¬tral Railway, 109
Liquid Fuel on the Underground Railway, 87,
Locomotives Aot, 1898, The, 446, 618
American, for the Midland, 619 American, in Japan and Aus¬tralia, 404
American, for the Manchurian Railway, 349
American, Narrow-gauge, Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, 323
American in Australia, 404
Austrian (Supplement, September ïird, 1898), 129, 131, 300, 307
British, for Belgium, 423
Blue Asbestos Coverings for, 177
Breadalbanes, The, and the Duna¬lastairs, 171
Breaking of a Connecting-rod on, 85
British r. American, 651
British, for Belgium, 423
Caledonian Railway, 177
Caledonian, Tests, 624, 625, 626
Canadian Pacific, Leading Dimen¬sions, 506
Can it bs made a Condensing Engine, The, 22
Chemin de Fer du Nord, Of the, M. de Glehn, 68, 76, 100, 276 284, 285, 367, 377, 487, 649
Compound, 457
Compound, Two-cylinder, Con¬verted into a Three-cylinder Compound of a New Type, 205
C 'rnpound, Canadian Pacific Railway, Leading Dimensions, 506
Congo Railway, 108 Constructed by Mr. D. Drum¬mond, Conversion of into Dun¬alastairs, 177
Construction in America, Cast Steel in, 334
Crane Combined, and, 210
Derwent, The, to be Placed in Darlington Station, 497
Design, Working Stresses of Materials employed in, Mr. F. J. Cole on, 497
Diagram Showing Seven of the Great Western’s Early, 565
Dunalastairs, 171, 177
Economy of Heavy, 576
Electric, in France, 62 Export from Germany, 1897, 8, 22
Express, on all British Railways,
Outside Cylinders Abandoned, 177
Express, Grand Trunk Railway, 20
Express, Great Central Railway, 7ft. Coupled, Mr. H. Pollitt's, 155
Express, for the Great Eastern, Mr. Jas. Holden’s (Bogie Single-wheel Liquid Fuel-burn¬ing), 204, 413
Express, Great Eastern, Mr. Chas. Rous-Marten, On, 532
Express, for the Great Eastern, Mr. J as. Stirling’s 7ft. Coupled, 205
Express, Highland Railway, 30, 36, 67
Express, London and South- Western, Mr. Dugald Drum¬mond (Supplement, Av<put26th, 1898), 155, 211, 212, 356
Express, North British, Mr. M. Holmes’, 3, 155
Express, North - Eastern, Mr. Chas. Rous - Marten on, 205, 378
Express, Northern of France, 68, 76, 100, 276, 284, 285, 367, 377, 649
Express, Mr. W. H. Smith on the Results of Recent Practical Experience with, 436, 449, 452, 455
Finland, American, for, 540
French, 68, 76, 100, 276, 284, 285, 367, 377, 487, 649
Great Central Railway, Twenty New, for the, 253
Great Eastern, Fifty New, for, 109
Great Northern, Mr. Rous- Marten on, 198, 205, 237, 261, 287
Great Western’s Early, Diagram of, at the South Kensington, 565
Heavy Goods, Economy o‘, 576
High-pressure, 87
High Pressures for, American
Engineering News, 70 on Highways, 508
on Highways Bill, Several Drafting and other Amendments Agreed to, 59
Horse-power of, 238
The Iron Duke Re-built and Re-named the Jubilee, by Mr. F. W. Webb, 205
for Japan, 373, 404, 523
Japan, American, 404
London, Chatham, and Dover, Mr. Wm. Kirtley, 325
London and North-Western, Mr. F. W. Webb, 205
Largest in the World, and its Boiler, 474, 475, 479, 546
Midland Railways, Mr. S. W. Johnson, 165, 205
Narrow-gauge Railways, 163
Narrow-gauge, Soudan Railway, 226
New Zealand, American, 190, 238
North-Western, Water Softening for, 177
Performance, 436, 449
Performance, American, 163
Piston Valves for, 20
Locomotives Practice in Austria, Modern Goods (Supplement, September 23rd, 1898), 129, 131, 300, 307
Queensland Railways, Walkers Limited, 430
Reconstructing, 324
Remarkable, 331
Run on a Four-cylinder, 415
South-Eastern Railway, Mr. J. Stirling, 205
Water Supply of, Advantages and Disadvantages of Track Tanks and the Water Column System. 447
Mackerel Carried over Irish Railways in Six Months, 229
Midland, Carriage Works Visited, 104
Midlands, Overtime in the, 646
Midland, Train Mileage of, 137
North Eastern Railway Company, Death of B.
Dobson, one of the Oldest Employ6s of the, 643
Overhead Trolley, Limitations to the, 541
Painting and Lettering Locomotives and Tenders, Saving in the Method of, 473
Permanent Way, American, Exported to Bom¬bay, 541
American Steel, 348
Boyenval Sleeper, 108
Continuous, The Electrician on, 955
Continuous, and the Strain which is Due to Tempera¬ture Variations, 155
Contracts for Large Orders for the Victorian Government, 253
Discussion on, 42
Fa k Cast-welded Rail Joints,
The Electrician on, 155
Furness, Use of Heavier Rails, &c., 215
Gauge, The Question of, English and Russian, 214
London and South-Western and American, 11
Narrow-gauge, Two Feet and Under, Mr. James Proctor on, 139
Narrow-gauge, Two Feet and Under, Mr. L. S Roberts on, 104
Norwegian State Railways, Contracts Open, 334
Plates and Rivets, 145
Railway Gauge, 214
Rail Spikes and, Norwegian
State Railways, Contracts Open, 334, 356
Rolling Stock and, South African needs Reconstruc¬tion and Improvement, 278
Mr. C. P. Sandberg on the Danger of Using too Hard Steel Rails, 221, 227
Steel Rails in America, Re¬duction in the Cost of, 229
Steel Sleepers, 324
Swept away by Floods in Ire¬land, 396
Weight of, Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke on, 11
Queensland Pail way Revenue, 190
Refrigerating Cars for the Cape Government Railways, 657
Rolling Stock Built by the Ashbury Railway Carriage Company, 167
Great Central Railway, 167
Indian, 301
Metropolitan Railway Company (Supplement, December 9th, 1898),
Refrigerating Cars for the Cape Government, 657
Russian Railway Carriages to be Lighted by Electricity, All, 593
Springs for, 130
Testing Material for (Illustrated), 1, 75,130,145, 200, 219, 296, 364, 411
Trans-Siberian, Arrival of the First Goods Train at Irkutsk, 234
Trans - Siberian, Express Train, Moscow Kursk Workshops, 137
Trans-Siberian Railway, Hospital Cars, 137
Trans-Siberian Railway, Trains de Luxe, 85
Trains, Atmospheric Resistance to the Motion of, 164
Train Communication between Railway Passen¬gers and Guards and Drivers, 11
Trains, Monster, 512
Train Resistance, 348
Train Service between Brighton and London, Quicker, 349
Train, Three-quarters of a Mile Long, American, 238
Sidings Rent Question, 119
Signal and Point Levers on British Railways
Interlocked, Ninety-nine percent, of, 304
Simplon Tunnel, Ventilation of, 229
Speeds, Railway, 84, 117, 163, 238. 261, 287, 309, 332,348, 376, 380, 401, 426, 468, 515
Steel for Fire-boxes, Requirements for, Specified by the Railway Master Mechanics’ Association of America, 396
Stephenson’s Plan of the Railway from London to Birmingham, Sale of, 619
Swedish, A Zone System of Passenger Tariff, 593
Traffic, The Heavy, 619
Tunnels, Ventilating, 337
Tyne North Pier, Reconstruction of, 497
Underground Railways, Atmosphere of the, 87, 117
Underground Railways, Liquid Fuel on the, 87, 117
Unpunctuality, 327
Victoria Station Extensions and Alterations, 349, 396
Windsor Great Western Railway Station, Death of the Dog “ Charley,” 253
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Railway Employers to be Subjected to a Medical Test in Consequence of, 120
Rainfall from Roofs in England, Average, 472
Rainfall on the Pacific and Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 85
Ramie Machinery, 497
Ransome and Co., Messrs. A..Band-saw Machines, 602, 503
Ransomes and Rapier, Messrs., Machine Stoker, 382, 393
Rathmines ard Rat hear Township, Ireland, Electric Lighting, 550
Reflex Water Gauge, The, 30
Refrigerating Machines, Messrs. J. and E Hall, 90
Refrigerating Plant Wsnted in South Africa, 631
Refuse Cremation at San Francisco, 137
Refuse Destructors, Designing and Construction of, Mr. F. L. Wat9on, 482
Refuse Destructor at Edinburgh, 200, 201, 202, 203
Refuse Destructors and Electric Lighting in Ber¬mondsey, 43
Refuse Desiructor and Electric Lighting in Lam¬beth, 17
Reeves, Mr. .1. II., His Method of Measuring the Effect of Stray Fields upon Ammeters and Voltmeters, 497
Reid, Mr. Tbos., His Appointment, 447
Reidler Air Compressor (Thirty-drill) on the New Heriot Property, South Africa, 506
Repoussé Metal for Articles of Small Bulk, 304
Reservoir in Arizona, U.S.A., Steel Dam for a, 147, 156
Reservoirs, Repairing, by Cemented Hoop Iron, Revolution Counters, 2'2
Revolving Magnetic Field, Device for Obtaining Representation of, 229
Rh*a Fibre for Textile Purposes, Mr. P. F. Nursey on the Preparation of, 485
Rhenish Gelignite, 651
Kibble, Projected Tramway Across the, 519
Rideai, Dr., On the Standards of Purity for Sew¬age Effluents, 800
Ristori, Mr. E., On Aluminium Manufacture, 104, 117
Rivers Pollution Commissioners’ Standards of Per¬missible Composition of Sewage, 279
Rivet Furnace, New, 258
Riveters, Portable Pneumatic, 628
Riveters, On Portable Pneumatic, Mr. W. L. Babcock on, 665
Road-paving Materials, Experiments with, 394
Roath Dock, Quick Despatch at the, 508
Roberts-Austen, Prof., Action of Explosives on the Tubes of Steel Guns, 249
Roberts - Austen, Prof., On the Extraction of Nickel from its Ores by the Mond Process, 472
Roberts, Mr. Llewellyn, 22
Roberts, Mr. W. F., His Engine Actuated by Carbon Dioxide, 279
Robertson, Mr. L. S-, Narrow-gauge Railways, Two Feet and Under, 104, 139
Robey and Co., Messrs,, Corliss Gear Hauling Engine, 598
Robinson and Auden, Messrs., Combined Engine and Dynamo, 444
Rock Drills and Air Compressors for the Trans¬vaal, 403
Rodde, M., On the E'ectric Plant at the Ferrouillat Pit, 325
Roller and Scarifier, Road, Mr. Hosack’s Patent, 302
Ropes, Wire, 411
Ross and Gibson, Messrs., Rivet Furnace, 253
Rous-Morten, Mr. Cbas., French Railways and their Work No. I., Le Chemin de Ferdu Nord, 76, 100, 276
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., New American Railway Record, 135
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., New Express Engine for the North Eastern Railway, 378
Rous Marten, Mr. Chas., On the New Great Northern Engines and their Work, 198
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., The New North British Express Engine, 3
Roi s-Marten, Mr. Chas., July Train Services, 39
Rius-Marten, Mr. Chas., Remarkable Run on Great Western Railway, 347
Rowan, Mr. David, 135
Row’s Patent Tubes to the Transmission and
Storage of Heat, Mr. J. Royle’s Applications of, 507
Royal Agricultural Society of England:
Prize Sheet Issued for Livestock, Poultry, Pro¬duce, Implements, &c., 643
Date and Place of the Sixtieth Annual Exhibi¬tion, 137
Self-moving Vehicles, Trials of, 372

Royal Dublin Society:

Measuring the Surface Tension of Liquids, Dr.
F. F. Trouton’s Method, 11 Royal Engineers, The, 19
Royal Engineers, Detachment of, Ordered to the Soudan, 638

Royal Institution:

Christmas Lectures on “Astronomy” by Sir
Robt. Stawell Ball, 515
Monthly Meetings, Donations to the Fond for the Promotion of Experimental Research at Low Temperatures, 42, 578

Royal Institution of British Architects:

Electrical Power, The Practical Applications of, Mr. H. R. J. Burstall, 613
Royal Meteorological Society—see Society Meteoro¬logical

Royal Scottish Society of Arts :

Drain Testing, Mr. Gilbert Thomson, 665
Rayle, Mr. J. J., Storage Calorifier and the
“ London ” Pattern Calorifier, 507
Rubber not Impervious to Acetylene Gas, 85
Rubber Textiloid, A Substitute for, 85
Russell, Mr. Geo., On Property in Design and the Position of Draughtsmen, 657 Russell, Dr. W. J., Photographs Without Light, 35
Russia, Iron and Steel Industry of, Import, Out¬put, and Production, 14, 216, 261, 432
Russia, Opening for British Enterprise, Cheap
Timepieces Wanted in, 109
Russia, Permission of Duty on Mining Plant and Ships Built Abroad, 253
Russian Flour and Moat Export Scheme, 85
Russian Government Encourages Industrial Undertakings in Poland, 104
Russian Oil Shipped to Formosa, 59
Ryan, Prof., Welsh Methods of Shipping Coal, 318

S

SAFETY Collar for Emery Wheels, 423, 550, 574
Safety Valves, Snakes and, 574
St. Anthony Falls Water-power Plant, 160—162
St. Helens Municipal Tramway Working, 519
St. Rollox Goods Station, Glasgow Destroyed by Fire, 155
Salkeld, Mr. Wm., 578 1
Salvage Operation, Gigantic, 155
Sampson, Admiral, His Report on the Destruction of the Spanish Fleet, 162
Sand for Cement, 333
Sandberg, Mr. C. P., On the Danger of Using too Hard Steel Rails, 221. 227
Sandstone, Artificial, 209
San Francisco, Refuse Burning at, 137
Sanitary Institute—tee Institute, Sanitary Sanitation in India, 463
Santiago, Lessons from the Battle of, 62, 121, 422
Saw, Diamond Circular, for Stone Cutting, 85
Saws, E'eotrically-driven Cold, 153
Saw Machines, Two New, 502, 503
Sayer, Mr. H. T., Carriage of Bicycles on R til- ways, 102
Scarlet for the Purposes of the Battlefield, On the Disputed Merits of, 35
Schitffer and Budenberg’s Governors for Large Engines, 603
Schermuly. Mr. Wm., Apparatus for Coiling Life Lines, 599
Schichau v. Vulcan, The Patent Case Decided, 59
Schon, Mr. Paul, On Superheated Steam and its Application to Steam Engines, 605
Science in Education, 375
Scott and Co., Messrs., Ocean Steamship Com¬pany, Contracts for Four Steamers with, 96
Scrap Iron Car Axles at the South Pacific Rail¬way Shops, 619
Screw Propellers, 570, 615
Screw Shafts, Broken, 163
Screw Shaft, Repairing a, 600
Screwing Machine, Messrs. J. II ills worth and Co., 4C5
Seamen and Stokers who Leave the Navy at the End of their First Engagement, Returns Showing Percentage of, 59
Search-lights, Submarine, Experiments with, 177
Self-propelled Traffic, 549
Semet-Solvay System of Coke Production, The, 189
Separator, Centrifugal, for Extracting Oil from Water, 373
Servia, Iron Industry of, Measures for the Development of, 216
Sewage Disposal Plant, Small, at Depew, U.S.A , 140
Effluents, Dr. Rideal on the Standards of Purity for, 300
Filter Beds at Altoona, Pa., U.S.A., Crops to be Raised on, 11
Filtration, Columbus, Ohio, 11
Hyslop’s, Mr. P.S., Process for Treatment of, 85
Manchester, Treatment of, 181, 647
Rivers Pollution Commissioners’ Stan¬dards of Permissible Composition of, 279
Works, Belpsr, 152
Works, Norwich, (tee Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22nd, 1898)
Works, Opening of New, Uxbridge, 58
Sewers, Explosions in, 545
Pipes, Jointing, 163, 214
System for Chicago (see Civil Engineering Supplement)
Shadbolt, Mr. R. G., On the Comparative Cost of Lighting Villages by Gas and by Electricity, 4
Shafts, Broken Screw, 163
Shafts, Propeller, 112, 132
Shaft Question, The Broken, 293
Shaft, Repairing a Screw, 600
Shafts, Steel Head Frames for, American, 654
Shafts in the United States, Deepest, 229
Shanghai, Cotton-spinning Factories at, 109
Shanghai, an Engineering Centre (with Panoramic View of), 179
Shanghai Trade, Mr. Mansfield’s Report on, and Warning Note to British Steamship Lines, 85
Shanghai, Waterworks for, 85
Shanks and Son, Limited, Messrs. Alexander, Triple-expansion Marine Engine (Illustrated), 5
Sharpening Machine, Myer’s Patent, 381
Sheard, Mr. J. T., On Gas Analysis, 4
Shearing and Punching Machines, Portable, 575
Sheer Legs, Collapse of, Devonport, 11
Sheffield, Cheaper Goods for Foreign Market®, 119
Sheffield, as to Foreign Trade, Uneasiness in, 229
Sheffield, Purchase of Market and Market Rights from the Duke of Norfolk, 419
Sheffield Water Supply Schemo, 331, 450, 605, 612-614
Shepherd, Mr., 656
Shield Trial, Coast, 209
Shield Tunnelling, Hydraulic, 601
Shield Tunnelling, Hydraulic, in Melbourne, 601. 652
Shlps-of-War:
British Battleships:
Bramble, 654
C inopus, 592, 639
Constance, Unarmoured Corvette, 1880, Engines of, 271, 272
Edinburgh, The, 225
Formidable, 471, 496, 592
Gladiator, Change of Guns, 639
Implacable, Stem Piece and Ram of the, Messrs. Wm. Jessop and Sons, 291
Inflexible, The, 592
Irresistible, 593 Majestic, The, 592
Majestic, Station-keeping Speed of which Ships of her Class are Capable, 178
Powerful, Sir Wm. White on, 45
Ramillies compared to Charles Martel in the Carrent Number of Lt Yacht, 91
Sappho, 599
Venerable, Preparations for Laying Down, 643
Battleships in Action, 255, 269

Ships-of-War:

Battleships to be Bailt by Contract, Four New, 426
Battleship i, Gnu Mountings for, 95
Battleships, Speed of, 34, 178
Battleships, Trial Course for, off the Devon and Cornish Coast, 211
Sphinx, H.M.S., Engines of, 1882, 318, 320
Station-keeping Speed of the French Fleet and our Majestic Class, 178

British Cruisers:

Amphitrite, 30, 45, 68, 152 Argonaut, 592
Blake to be Pot to Rights at Last, 618
Diadem (Supplement, November 11M, 1898), 415, 416, 417, 420, 478, 592, 597, 635, 641
Fourth of July for Sale, The Army and Navy Gazette Suggests her Acquisition by the Government, 59
Hyacinth, 418 Pactolus, H.M S , 418
Philomel, Trial of, 345
Proserpine, 592
Salamander, 55
Spartiate to be Launched in September, 120
Terrible, Trials in the Channel, and Record Passage to Malta, 301, 345, 593
Cruisers to by Built by Contract, Two New, 423
Cruisore of the Cressy Type, Tenders for the, 109
Cruiser to be Laid Down at Perabroko Dock, 120, 381

British Destroyers and Gunboats:

Avon, Trial of the, 405, 431
Bittern, Trial of the, 405, 431
Desperate, Accident on Board the, 35
Leopard, Trial of the, 405, 431
Orwell, 361, 654
Torpedo Boat Attack on Portsmouth Harbour, 592
Torpedo Tubes on Battleships and Cruisers a Danger to the Ships themselves, 121
Torpedo Vessels Built on the Thames, from 1877 to 1898, by Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Co. and Messrs. Yarrow and Co , 222, 274, 639
Torpedo Boats in 1885, 319
Torpedo Boats, Submarine, 373
Gunboat, Dwarf, 514
Gunboat, Onyx, Leakage of, 120
Gunboats for the Nile, Small, 373
Battleships, Foreign:
American, Oregon at Santiago, The, 176
Wisconsin, 541
Battleships in Action, by A United States Correspon¬dent, 269
Battleships to be Painted a Dead Gray Colour with a Yellowish Shade, 565
and Spanish, 153, 651
Navy, Speed Premium Prac¬tice in the, 40
Value of Rapid-fire Bstteries Attested at Santiago, 121
Argentine’s Italian-built Vessels of the Cristobal Colon Type, Garibaldi and San Martin, 345
Argentine Training Ship, Presidente Sar¬miento, 119
Dinish, Skjiild, 400
French, Bouvet, 441, 442
Battleships, Coal Endurances on, 592
Marshal Deodoro and Charle¬magne, 15
Massena, 471, 639
Navy, The, 512
Navy, What M. Lockroy has done for the, 639
New, 14,500-Ton, 592
German, Kaiser, 1873, Armour-clad Frigate, 149
Japanese, Shikishima, 415, 448, 456, 471, 477
New Battleship, Order Booked by Vickers, Sans, and Maxim, 291
Russian, General Admiral Apraxino, Trial of, 525
Petropaulovsk, Trial of, 525
Poltava, Trial of, 304
Rotislav, Trial of, 525
Battleships, 15
Battleship, Messrs. Cramp and Co., 638, 644
Naval Programme, 262
Naval Programme, Lord Chas. Beresford on the, 102
Spanish, Infanta Maria Teresa Destroyed at Santiago de Cuba, 651
Battleships Sunk at Manila, 619
Swedish, 345
Turkish Ironclads, Condition of the, 618
United States, Long-distance Steaming of, 96
United States, Three New, 30

Cruisers, Foreign:

American, Chicago, Reconstructed, 325, 334
Bulgarian, Nadiejda, 4C0
Chilian, Esmeralda and O’Higgins, 345
Duteb, Friesland, 491
French, Jeanne d’Arc, 323
d’Entrecastaux, Trial of, 525
Cruisers to be Commissioned in 1899, 497
Italian, New Crniser, 456
Japanese, Asama, 225, 400
Kasagi, 109, 471, 525, 578
Tokiwa, 400
Russian, New, 217, 592, 894
Spanish, Infanta Maria Teresa Found¬ered, 473
Rio de la Plata, 345

Torpedo Boat Destroyers & Catchers, Foreign:

Austrian Torpedo Boats Bca and Cobra 302, 618
Chinese, Torpedo Boats for the Navy, 1887, 319
French, Costive Lede, Submarine, 323
Catcher, La Hire, 471
Torpedo Boats to be Commis¬sioned in 1899, 497
Italian, Torpedo Boats for the Navy, 1887, 319
Japanese Destroyer, Ikadsucha, 612
Russian Torpedo Boats, Batoum, 1876, and others, 217, 270, 304
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Order for Four given to Mesrrs. Schichau, 217
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Order for Twelve given to the Nevsky Shipbuilding Yard,
Spanish, Torpedo Boat Ariete, 1887, 319
United States, Torpedo Boats, Tenders Opened for, 253

Torpedo Boat Destroyers

Nos. 1 to 16 (Supplement, October 21 si, 1898), 390, 391, 560, 563, 581, 585
Ships and Steamers, Mercantile, Pas¬senger, and Various:
Abyssinia, 1871, Harbour Defence Ship, 149
American Passion for Big Things, A Five-eighth Acre Boat, 396
Aotsa, The New Zealand, 619
Atacama, The Case of the, 506
Aurania, Mail S learner, Cunard Company. 304
Austral, A Passenger’s Account of the Acci¬dent to the, 643
Blaenavon in Heath Dock, Quick Coaling of. 508
Bourgogne Disaster, The, 129
Carisbrook Castle, Record Run of, 155
Cromartyshire, Bows of the, 129
Cunard Company, Orders Received by Messrs. Swan and Hunter for, 216
Disinfection, A United States Steamship
Equipped Solely for the Purposes of, 313
Distilling Ships for the Navy, American, 552
Drummond, The Clan Line Steamer, Loss of. 565
Duke of Cornwall, Twin-screw Steamer for the Service between England and North Ireland, 114
Ermack, Ice-breaker, 451, 520, 524
French Naval Budget for 1899, 497
Friend of All Nation.», The Margate Surfboat, Loss of, 565
Galtee More, 159
Ice-breaker for Russia, Another, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., 578
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Average of Knots made by, 11
La Bourgogne Disaster and Longitudinal Bulkheads, 155
L'oyd’s Register of Vessels Lost, Condemned, Ac., During Three Months Ending June 30th Last, 497
Londonian, The Steamer, Found Abandoned in the Atlantic, 565
Mail, The First Transatlantic, Penny Postage, 643
Mail Packets used for Thirty Years between Dover and Calais Stripped and Sent to Tilbury, 643
Milwaukee, Stranding of the, 394 Mohegan, Wreck of the, 422, 447, 469, 559
Monster Boat for the Texas and Paciti o Rail¬way, 396
Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel Ships, Mr. S. J. P. Thearle on the, 564, 603
Nord, The New French Mad Packet, Her First Passage, 373
North German Lloyd Steamer, Average of Knots made by, 11
Ocean Steamship Company, Contracts with Messrs. Scott and Co. for Four Steamers, 96
Oceanic to be Launched in January, 519
Oil Tank Steamers, Order for, Booked by Messrs. W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., 459
Pachtusoff for the Russian Navy, for Sur¬veying and Making Charts of the Siberian Coast, 46
Protector, United StatesSteamship, Equipped Solely for the Purpose of Disinfection, 313
Sado Mara, Mail Steamer, Japanese, 53
Shamrock, American Challenger Yacht, Nickel Steel Plates from Essen for, 541
Ships Acquired by the American Government Prior to and During the War, What is to be Done with Them 310
Launched on the Wear During the Present Year, 541
Launched Themselves, that have, 59
List of Principal, Built by Messrs. J. and W. Dudgeon, 1861 to 1875, 638
List of Principal, Built by Messrs. Green, Blackwall Yard, 1878 to 1898, 636
List of Principal, Engined by Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant, and Co. ,1877 to 1898, 637
List of Principal, Engined by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, 1878 to 1898, 636
List c f Principal, Engined by Messrs. Jno. Penn and Sons, 1878 to 1898, 636
List of Principal, Built by Messrs. Sarouda Brothers, 1870 to 1892, 637
List of Principal, Built by the Thames Ironworks Co. at Blackwall, 1877 to 1898, 637
Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel, Mr. S. J. P. Thearle on the, 664
Passing through the Suez Canal in July last, 541
Spinish Merchant Navy, 155
Steamers, A merican Line of, to Re-commence Running from Southampton, 442
Steamers, American Paddle-wheel, with Beam Engines, 295, 306, 341—344, 409, 435, 516, 557 ....
Steamer, Arctic Exploring, 66
Steamers between this Country and Canada, New Service of, 541
Loss of, 565
Twin-screw, 114
Steamer for the Folkestone-Boulogne Service, South-Eastern Railway, 119
Steamers, French Line of, between Havre and Para, Brazil, 109
Steamer, Twin-screw, North German Lloyd, Messrs. Wigham Richardson and Co., 578
Steamer, United States, Equipped for Disinfection, 313
Steamer, Whaleback, Launch of the Largest, 233
Steam Yacht, American Challenger, 541
Steam Yacht, American Steel, 35
Steam Yacht, H.M.S. New, 019
Steam Yacht, Joyeuse, Engines of the, 127, 128
Steamship Propulsion, Mr. R. Mansel on, 363
Submarine Boat, Development of the, 373
Teutonic, Bilge Keels fitted to, 59
Trinidad, First Steamer carrying German Coal to China, Wreck of, 266
Triton, H.M., Surveying Vessel, 1882, Engines , of, 272
Tug-boat for South Africa, Messrs. Day, Summers, and Co., 120
Ulster, The Mail s.s., 526
Ultonia for the Cunard Company, 216
Vril, Launch for the Russian Government, 80

Shipbuilding:

Bilge Keels fitted to th3 Teutonic, 59
Freight Boats for the Great Lakes, 628
German Yards since 1895, Men-of-War for Foreign Navies Delivered by, 419
Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 458
Lloyd’s Register, Returns of Ships Under Con¬struction at the End of the Half-year, 85
Sailing Vessels are not Going Out, 419
Shipbuilders and the Admiralty’s Treatment when asked to Tender for Vessels, 109
Shipbuilding Activity and Consequent Re¬-starting of Shipyards at Port Glasgow, Ardrossan, Yoker, &c. &c.
Activity, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 578
Chicago, 628
Clyde, 38, 46, 221, 240, 353, 460, 476, 541
English, Ships Launched dur¬ing October and November, 473, 593
English, during August, 253
Germany, 23, 216
Materials, Ssatistics Respecting
Wood, Iron, and Steel Com¬pared, 519
Output fcr the Year 1898, The Woill’s, 643
Scotch, Ships Launched dur¬ing October and November, 473, 565
Thames in the Victorian Era, 54, 55, 148,149, 222, 270, 318, 636
Trade, Activity in the German, 216
in the United Kingdom in the Quarter ending September 30th, 1898, 373
in the United States, Activity, 235, 419
Yard and Engineering Works, Nicolaiev, Russia, 266
Ships, Fireproof Wood for the New Warships, 626
Ships Launched by English Shipbuilders in June, 59
Ships Launched by Scotch Shipbuilders in June, 59
Shipping, American Mercantile, 88
Shipping in the North of England, Orders given out in July for New, 95
Shipping Statistics of the Past Year, Merchant
Marine of the United States, 473
Shipping Traffic on the Great Lakes of America, 264
Steamship Propulsion, Mr. R. Mansel, 361
Shoreditch Dust Destructor, The, 426
Short BroF., Messrs., Experiment with the Eight Hour Day, 281, 288
Shoubridge, Mr. S. Y., On the Manufacture of Gas, 4
Shoults, Mr. E. S., On Commercial Instruments for Indicating and Recording Electrical Quan¬tities, 656
Shute, Mr. A. E , on Feed-water Filters, 565
Siberian Products, Projected Exhibition of, 229
Sidings Rent Questicn, The—see Railways Siemens, Mr., Electric Power in Workshops, 316
Signal System, Dr. L. Weber’s, 59
Signalling at Sea, Fcg, 177
Silesia, Production and Consumption of Coal, 1894 to 1898, 554
Silver Ores, Treatment of Refractory, 299, 429
Silver Ores, Treatment of Refractory, Mr. J. E. Brakell, 299
Silver from Z'no and Lead Alloys, Electrolytic Separation of, 97
Simplon Tunnel, The, 233, 618
Simpson and Co., Messrs , Pumping Engines, Ipswich Waterworks, 65
Sinclair, Mr. Robert, 471
Sinking Cylinder Foundations in Valparaiso 247,
Skulking in Dockyards, 89
Sludge, Gas from, 117, 132
Small-arms, Evolution of, 27
Smith, Mr. Sbaler, Kentucky River Bridge, 121
Smith, Mr. Walter II., On the Results of Recent
Practical Experience with Express Locomotive Engines, 436, 449, 452—455

Smithfield Club Show:

Agricultural Machines, 572
Bentall and Co., Messrs. E. H., Exhibits, 572
Blackstone and Co., Messrs., Exhibits, 572
Boby and Co., Messrs. R., Exhibits, 572
Clayton and Sbuttleworth, Messrs., Exhibit». 572
Coultas, Mr. James, Exhibits, 571
Crossley Bros., Messrs , Exhibits, 571
Darby Land Digger Syndicate’s Exhibits, 571
Dodman and Co., Messrs., Exhibits, 572
Engines, Gas and Oil, 571
Engines, Portable Traction, 571
Garrett and Sons, Limited, Messrs. Richard, Exhibits, 571
Hornsby and Sons, Messrs., Exhibits, 571
Howard, Messrs. J. and F., Exhibits, 572
Harvesting Machines, 572
Implement and Machinery Section, 571
Kearsley and Co, Messrs., Exhibits, 572
Kell and Co., Messrs., Exhibits, 572
Massey, Harris, and Co., Mess-s , Exhibits, 572
Nalder, Limited, Messrs., Exhibits, 671
Ransomeg, Sims, and Jefferies, Messrs., Ex¬hibits, 571
Robey and Co., Messrs., Exhibit?, 571
Robinson and Auden, Messrs , Exhibits, 571
Ruston, Proctor, and Co , Messrs., Exhibits, 571
Slipper, Mr. Thos. G., Exhibits, 572
Stamford and Co., Messrs., Exhibits, 571
Turner, Messrs. E R. aDd F., Exhibits, 571
Wood and Co., Messrs., Exhibits. 571
Smoke, 358, 569
Smoke Abatement, 618
Smoke Consumption, 500, 539
Smoke Consumption, Law cn, 539
Smoke Consumption, The Thames Steamboat Company Fined for a Boiler Furnace not Con¬suming its Smoke, 35
Smoke as a Factor in Naval Actions, 213, 226
Smoke Nuisance, The, 221
Smoke Prevention, Glasgow, 447
Smokeless Powder Factory, U.S., 187
Soaefell Lead Mine, Underground Fire at, 11
Snakes and Safety Valves, 574
Society, Aeronautical:
Flying Machine of the Future, Mr. G. L. D. Davidson, 11

Society of Arts, Royal Scottish — see Royal

Scottish Society of Arts

Society, Bath and West and Southern Counties:

Council Meeting, Fixing of Date of the 1899 Exhibition, 113
Particulars Relative to the Meeting at Exeter. 1899, 34

Society of Civil Engineers, The Ameri¬can :

Masonry Arches, Long-span Three-hicged, Mr. Dr. A. Molitor, 132
Toirtieth Annual Convention, Papers Iliad and Trip3 Made, &c., &c., 214

Society of Electrical Engineers, North¬ern:

Commercial Instruments for Indicating and Recording Electrical Quantities, Mr. E. S. Shoults, 656
Superheated Steam and its Application to Steam Engines, Mr. Paul Sohon, 605

Society of Engineers:

Annual Dinner, 616
Metallic Coatings for Iron and Steel, Protective, Mr. Sherard Cowper-Coles, 356
Visit to the Central London Railway Works, 377
Visit to the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Locomotive Works, Brighton ; the Brighton Marine Palaco and Pier Works, Volk’s Electric Railway and Brighten and RottiDgdean Electric Tramroad, 58

Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated :

Annual Meeting, Forty-6fth, 602
Annual Report, Brief Summary of Statements in, and Mr. Barnes' Introductory Address to the Same, 7
Barnes, Mr., On tl.e Cost of the Disputs, 191
Financial Statement Respecting the Late Dis¬pute, 311
Presentations to Mr. Entwistle and Mr. Sykes, Chairman and Secretary for the Manchester District of, 119
Wages Question again, Proposal of the Em¬ployers, and Acceptation, 21, 71
Society, Glasgow University Engi¬neering:
Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel Ship? Mr. S. J. P. Thearlo, 564

Society, Manchester Geological:

Annual Meeting and Rsport, 373
Carboniferous Bads, Correlation of British and European, by Dr. Whoelton Hind, 605
Subsidences from Colliery Workings, Mr. J Dickinson on the Bast Methods of Protecting the Surface from, 507

Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American:

Bursting of Small Cast Iron Fly-wheels, Mr C. H. Beojamin, 619
Carbon in Piston-rods, Mr. J. E. Johnson, jun , 94
Cylinders, Experiments on Cast Iron, Pref. C. H. Benjamin, 109
Standard Uniform Methods of Conducting and Reporting Steam Engine Tests, Extension of, Bryan Donkin, 92

Society, Meteorological:

Anemometers, Pressure-tube, The Wind Force Committee on, 497

Society of Model Engineers:

Its Formation, 482

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers:

Riveters io Shipbuilding, Portable Pneumatic. Mr. W. I. Babcock, 565

Society, New York Electric:

Electric Engineering Supplement, Novem¬ber 2oth, xvi.

Society, Physical:

Apparatus to Illustrate the Action of Two Electric Motors, so Coupled as to Admit of their Rotating at D.fforent Speeds, Prof. Cams Wilson, 11 ’
Irfluence Machine, Mr. W. R. Pidgeon on an 44/
Magneto-optic Phenomenon, Dr. S. P. Thomp¬son’s Experiments on a, 447
Measuring the Effect of Stray Fields upon Ammeters and Voltmeters, Mr. J. U. Reeves on his Methcd of, 497
Society of Railway Servants, Amal¬gamated :
Mr. Bell appointed Treasurer of the Provisional Committee for ths Federation of all the Unions, 304
Society, The South Wales Employers’ Indemnity:
First Meeting at Cardiff, 72
Society, Yorkshire College Engineer¬ing:
E'ectnoal Engineers’ Specifications, by J. A. McLaren, 43, 69
Lacks and Keys, Development of, Mr. H. Chubb, 503
Opening Address of Mr. Wickstoed, 461
Premiums P-*fd to Experience, Mr. Il9nry McLaren, 639
Testing of Materials, Mr. E. E. Whitehouse, 515, 539
Softening Water, &c., Archbutt-Desley Process 151, 183
Solingen and Essen, 430
Sondan Military Railway, 226
Soudan Rjwards, The Naval Honour List and the Injustice to Engineer Bond, 541
Sound, Velocity of, M. Frot’s Experiments on, 473
South Africa, Engineering Notes from—see Letters from our own Correspondents
Southampton Harbour Board, Electric Cranes of the, 538
Southend Pier, Wreck of, 592
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage, 376
South Wales, The Coal Strike in—see Welsh Coal Strike
South Wales Outlook, The, 211
South Wale3, Position in, 208
Spain, Iron Ore Production in, 229
Spanish Colonies, Are they to be Lost Markets 598
Spanish Fleet, Destruction of the. 87
Spanish Fleet, Admiral Sampson’s Report on the Destruction of, 162
Spanish War Department, Mill for Rolling Steel Plates at Trubia, 655
Speeds, Railway, 238, 261, 287, 309, 332, 348, 380, 401, 426, 468
Spencer and Co., Messrs. Jas., Improvements in Machine Tools Introduced by, 483
Spencer House Steam Colliery to be Sold, 120
Spera, Signor Guiseppe, on Italian Railways, 205
Spiders’ Threads, Utilisation of, 155
Spindle Profiling and General Milling Machine, Messrs. Wm. Muir and Co., 95
Staffordshire Mines Drainage Scheme, The, 299
Staines Reservoirs Joint Committee and the Ramie Syndicate, 477
Stanley, Davis, and Pollard, Electric Plant for Small Lighting Installations, 335
Starting of Gas and Petroleum Engines, A Belgian Ministerial Decree as to, 253
Staveley Coal and Iron Company’s Annual Report, 253
Steam Cart, Messrs. Mann and Charles worth, 225
Steam Cylinders, Compression in, 513
Steam Engine Tests, On Standard Methods of Conducting and Reporting—see Engine Tests, 92
Steam Ferry, The First, 205
Steam, Generation of, from the Combustion of Ashpit Refuse, 414, 515
Steam Jets, Fire Extinguishing by, 447
Steam Omnibus Company, Their Peculiar Ways, 473
Steam, On Superheated, Mr. Paul Schon, 605
Steamers, Oil Tank, for French and English Firms, 21

Steel:

American, for Belfast Shipyards, 131
American Manufactured, Consignments of, for England, 229
Aqueduct across the Seneca River, United States, 140
Balls for Bicycle Bearings, Schweinfurt, The Seat of the Largest Firm for Making, 419
Casting of Exceptional Size, Messrs. Wm. Jessop and Sons. Limited, 291
Castings for H.M S. Venerable, Large, 629
Company, Works of the Illinois, 609, 620, 655
Dam for a Reservoir in Arizona, 147, 156
Electric Resistance of— see Civil Engineering Supplement
Guns, Action of Explosives on the Tub3s of, Prof. Roberts-Austen, 219
Head Frames for Mine Shafts, American, 654
Plants inthe United States, One of the Greatest, 613
Plates under Hydraulic Pressure, Porosity of, Experiments to Determine the Same, 253
Open-hearth Basic, American Output of, 109
Plant, The Pencoyd Iron Company’s, 430
Rails, Dangers of Using Too Hard, 221,227
Shipments of Unwrought, Board of Trade’s Returns, 473
Soft,g Brittleness Produced in, by Annealling,
Specifications, 327
Statistics, 109
Temperature at which the Tempering of, Influ¬ences its Resistance, 35
Tests, Tungsten and Molybdenum, 396
Thirty-storey Building, Weight of, in a, 430
Treatment of, in the Shop, 619
Wire Guards for Machinery, General Introduction of, 141
Yacht, The American, 35
Stelfox, Mr. Jas., His Presidential Address on the Gas Industry, 4
Stephenson and Co., Messrs. Robt, Combined Locomotive and Crane, 210
Stephenson and Co., Messrs. Rebt., Visit to their Shipyard, 210
Stirling, Mr. Ja9., Locomotives for the Great Eastern, 205
Stockport Main Sewerage Works, 93
Stokeholds in the Tropics, 51
Stokeholds, Water-tube Boilers and the Manning of, 246
Stoker, Machine, 382
Stone, Mr. E. H., On Working Stresses for Railway Bridges, 136
Stone Cutting, Diamond Circular Saw for, 85
Stone Sawing by Steel Wires, 240
Stothertand Pitt, Messrs., Electric Cranes of the Southampton Harbonr Board, 538
Storage Battery, The Largest in the World, 51
Strains, Instruments for Measuring Small Torsional, 575
Strand and Holborn, Street to Connect the, 35
Straneo, Signor P., On the Conductivities of Metals at Different Temperatures, 155
Stress in Flat Plates, 414
Strikes, Avoid, 544
Strike of Blast Fumacemen at the Elswick ' Works, 22
Strike, The Coal—see Coal Strike
Strikes in Germany during 1897, 396
Strike, Pit Lads’, 62, 88, 191 '
Strike, Welsh Coal, 55, 72, 80, 115
Strohmeyer, Herr 0., On the Algal Flora of the Hamburg Waterworks, 205
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., Advise to Boiler Attendants, 81
Students' Difficulties, Prof. T. R. Smith on, 526
Student, The Overtaught, 526 1
Submarine Exploration, 381
Submarine Search Lights on an American Ship, Experiments with, 177
Subsidences from Colliery Workings, 576
Subsidences from Colliery Workings, Mr. G. Dickinson on, 507
Suez Canal, The, 209
Suez Canal, Accidents in the, 419
Suez Canal, Ships Passing through the, in July last, 541
Sugar, Beetroot, Production of, 304
Suicides on German Steamers, 216
Sulphide Reduction Co., The; 192
Sulphur in a Diamond Boring Core, Percentage of, 253
Sulzer, Triple Steam Pumping Engine, Four Days Tests on a, 10
Summerson, Mr. Thomas, 587
Sunderland, Dock Extension at, 216
Superheated Water, Pressure Attained by, 85
Swain, Mr. John, 278
Sweden, Iron and Coal Trade of, 277. 310
Sweden, Iron and Steel Institute in, 220, 221, 248, 249, 315, 316, 340. 365, 377
Sweden, Texti'e3 Mads from Peat Fibre, 35
Swedish Iudus’ry, Extensive Development of, 279
Swedish Iron Industry, Mr. Akerman on the, 221
Swedish Mines, Visit to the Stora Kopparbsrg , Company’s Works, 340
Swedish Iron Mining, 315, 340
Swedish Ironstone, British Engineers and, 184
Swedish Ironworks, 365, 374
Swindon Sxamshio Company Registered, The, 96
Switzerland, Last Year’s Import of Coal and Coke to, 141
Syria-Ottoman Railway, The, 477

Supplements:

Engines and Boilers of H.M S. Diadem, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, November 11th, 1838
Engine, 100in. Middlesbrough Type Blowing, The Lilleshall Company, Limited, August 5th, 1898
Engines for New Destroyers, United States ’ Navy, Nos. 1 to 16, October 21st, 1898 Locomotive, Four-cylinder Express, London and South-Western Railway, Mr. D. Drummond, August 26tb, 1898
Locomotive, Goods, Austrian State Railways,
Wiener Neustadt Locomotive Works, Sep¬tember 23rd, 1898
Locomotive, Four-cylinder Bogie Express, London and South-Western Railway, No. 14,
Working Drawing, Mr. D. Drummond, October 5th, 1893

T

TANK, Novel Method of Moving a, 541
Tanning Industry, Dr. J. G. Parker on the, 300
Taps for Belleville Boilers, Mr. J. H. Widdowson’s, 215
Taylor and Sons, Coverings for Steam Pipes, &c., e 90
Taylor, Struvd, and Co., Dissolution of Partner¬ship, 90
Tea-making in Ceylon, 250, 254
Tees, Railway along the North Bank of the, 578
Teheran, Glass-making, 136
Telegraphy, Etherio (see Electrical Engineering Supplement, November 25th, 1898)
Telegraph L:ne from Cairo to Cape Town, 205
Telegraph Scheme, A Great, 621
Telegraphy without Wire3, 129
Telegraphy, Wireless, at Osborne House, 137
Telephone Committoe’s Rsport, The, 147
Telephone Switchboard, American, 70
Telephones between Moscow and St. Petersburg, 35
Telephonic Communication in Australia by Wire Fences, 349
Telescope for the Paris Exhibition, The Great, 279

Tenders:

Bridge Building Contract, Messrs. Pethick Brothers’ Tender Accepted,136
Cast Iron Pipes, Glasgow Invites, 109
City of Norwich, 603
Cruisers of the Cressy Type sent in to the Admiralty, 109
Norwegian State Railways for Rail Spikes, 356
Norwegian State Railways Administration for Permanent Way, 349
Gas Engines for the Pumping Station, Lot’s- road, Chelsea, 80
Permanent Way an! Stone Trolleys with Iron Carriages, Invited by the Ofsten Railway, Sweden, 396
Pumping Engines, Messrs. J. Penn and Sons’ Tender Accepted, 136
U.S. Navy Department for Torpedo Boat Destroyers and Torpedo Boats. 253
Tensile Strain in Cases of Deflection, Formulae connected with, 279
Terra-Cotta, What it is Made from, 473
Terrestrial Magnetism, Conference on, 400
Tesla and Power, 450
Testing of Cast Iron, The German Practice, 137
Testing Magnets of Self-hardening Steel, 137
Testing of Materials, Mr. E. E. Whitehouse, 515
Testing of Materials, Mechanical, at the Locomo¬tive Works of the Midland Railway, Darby, Mr. W. G. Peet, 480
Testing Material for Rolling Stook, 145, 219
Testing Material for Rolling Stock (Illustrated) 1, 75, 130, 145, 200, 219, 296, 364, 411
Textile Engineering Combination, A, 256
Textiles Made from P^at Fibre in Sweden, 35
Textile School, The Lowell, 628
Textiloid, A Substitute for Rubber, 85
Thackeray Incinerator for Consuming Town Refuse, 137 :
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, The Shikishima, 415, 448, 456
Thames and Severn Canal, 610
Thames in the Victorian Era, Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the—see Shipbuilding r and Marine Engineering, &c.
Thames, Wharf Accommodation on the, 503
Thearle, Mr. S. J. P., Morbid Anatomy of Iron and Steel Ships, 564, 6( 3
Theoretical Dynamics—Dynamics, Theoretical Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines, Report of the Committee Appointed by the Institution of Civil Engineers, 236, 263
Thermopiles, Fcg Signalling Instrument Consist¬ing of Two, 177
Thomsen Electric Excavator, 490
Thompson, Dr. S. P., Experiments on a Magneto-optic Phenomenon, 447
Thomson, Mr. Gilbert, Oj Drain Testing, 565
Thornycroft Gunboat in Sections, Soudan Military Railway, 226
Thuile and Foure’s Locomotive, 331
Thun, Electricity Works at, 177
Tidal Channels, Improvement of, by Pomp Dredging, W. H Wheeler on, 551
Tidal Rivers, Five Papers Relating to, 125
Timber after Felling, Treatment of, 121
Timber, Physics of, Prof. B. E. Fernow on, 11
Timber and Wood-pulp Export from Norway, 35
Timepieces at a Popular Price Wanted in Russia, 109
Tin-platos, 328
Tin-plate Combination in the United States, 512
Tin-plates, English and American, Relative Cost of, 137
Tin plate Imported into the United States, Duty on, 137
Tin-plate Shipment? from England to the United States for November, 1898, 643
Tin-plate Works, The Lion, Sale of, 120
Tire, The Cottrell Pneumatic, 504
Tire Tests, Wagon, 1. 2
Tokyo Waterworks, 404
Tonnage, 256
Tonnage, Minimum Net, 112
Tool, Centering, Mr. E. G. Herbert, 93
Tools, Machine, British and American, 649, 650
Tools, Machine—see Machine Tools
Tools, New “ Footprint," 617
Tool Rooms, their Advantages and Disadvantages,
Torpedo Boats—see Ships
Torpedo Tubes on Battleships and Cruisers a Dinger to the Ships themselves, 121
Torsional Strains, Instruments for Measuring Small, 575
Toward and Co.’s Steam Tractor, 178
Trade as it is, 544

Trade and Business Announcements :

17, 90, 103, 166, 190, 214 , 238, 261, 301, 330, 356, 377, 393, 433, 461, 509, 529, 554, 579, 607, 631. 656
Trade Comparisons, A Few, 522
Conditions of this Country, 419
Directory in Preparation, 419
Disputes, 142, 177, 419
French Colonies, in the, 512
Indication of the Improvement in, 214
Marks for China, Mr. S. L. Gracey on, 137
Marks, “Inventod Words "as, 88
Marks in Zanzibar, 381
Rsvival, 158, 501
Russia, with, Remission of Duty on Miniog Plant and Ships, 253
South African, 190
Two Years and More, Good, for, 571
Union Congress, 245
Unionists in Council, 622
Unions, Returns for July, 137
Train Load, Heavy, Hauled on an American Railway, 20
Train Resistance, 66, 305, 308, 348, 621
Train Services, July, 67
Train Services, July, by Mr. Chas. Rous-Martan, 39
Train Three-quarters of a Mile in Length, An American, 238
Tramcar, Double-deck Electric, 41
Tramcars and Motor Cars for Sydney, Tenders Let to C. G. Hutson and Ritchie Bros., 593

Tramways:

in Denver, Tractive Force Supplied by the Horse for the Up Journey and Gravity for the Down, 11
Department to be Formed by tho London County Council, 109
Distribution Networks, Electrical, On the Calculation of, 93
American, Electric, Cable, Steam, and Horse , or Mule, 446
Electric v. Cable, 447
Cork, 616
Dundee, 565
French, 406, 497
Glasgow Corporation, 176, 593
Halifax Corporation, 176
Isle of Man, 137 Leeds, 85
London, 423, 565, 619, 642
London, South-Eastern Metropolitan Company, 423
London United (Sketch Map), 642
Los Angeles, 155
Manchester, 593
Middlesbrough, Thomaby and Stockton, 71
Municipal Working, St. Helens, 519
New South Wales, 382
Paris, 85
Ronen, 109
Twickenham, Hampton, &e., 519
Wolverhampton, 604
in France, Mechanical, 187
Liverpool, Greatly in Need of Repair, 423
Metropolitan, Mr. J. Young Appointed Chief Officer of, 505
Across the Ribble, Projected, 519
Traction in New York, Statistics of, 541
Transmission of Heat from Hot Gases to Water— see Heat
Trans-Siberian Railway—see Railway, Siberian
Transvaal, Annual Report of tho S:atc M ning Engineer, 140
Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Returns, 526
Transvaal, Mining Enterprise in, 606
Transvaal, Statistical Returns of the, 484
Trolley, Overhead, Limitations to the, 205
Trouton, Dr. F. T., Oi Measuring the Surface Tension of Liquids, 11
Truck Timber, Norwegian State Railways, 616
Trunk Mains, High-tension, 531
Tsar’s Proposal to Disarm, The, 231
Tube Works at Coatbridge, New, 59. 96
Tungsten, Iron and, A Double Ca-b do of, 325
Tungsten, Silicide of, M. E. Vigoureux's Obser¬vations on, 304
Tunnels and Buildings, Ventilation of, 601
Tunnel, Greenwich and Millwall, Tender for, 85
Tunnel and Shafts, Cast Iron, Central London Railway, 465
Tunnel, The Simplon. 233, 618
Tunnel Ventilation, 626
Tunnel, Water Supply Intake, United States, 264
Tunnelling, Hydraulic Shield, in Melbourne, 691, 652
Turbines, Mr. A. H. Tyack, 630
Turret Lathe, Hexagonal, 379
Tyack, Mr. A. H., 630
Tyne, Graving Dock on the, Schem9 for a Large, 304
Type-easting Machine, Rotary, 370

U

UMBRELLA Trade, United States, The. 205
Underground Railway, Liquid Fael on the, 87, 117
Unemployed, Reduction in the Number of, 279
Union Docks, Limebouse, Lower Dock, 330, 350, 353
United States Coaling Station, Chiriqui Lagoon, 559
United Statos Division of Forestry, Physics of Timber, 11
United States, Electrical Appliances in the, Capitalisation on, in 1888 and Now, 253
United States, 1897, Mineral Products of the, 403
United States Ordnanco Department., Manganese Steel in Place of Nickel, 619
United States Tin-plate, Combination in, 519
University College, Liverpool, 47

V

VALPARAISO, Sinking Cylinder Foundations in, 247, 249
Valve Gear, Corliss, 183, 213, 238
Valves, Piston for Locomotives, 20
Valve, Steam, Hartley and Co., 335
Vehicles, Tests taken in France with regard to the Power Required for Driving, 306
Velocity of Sound, Mr. Frot’s Experiments on, 473
Venice, Maritime Activity in, 349
Ventilation, 645
Ventilation, Tunnel, 626
Ventilation of Tunnels and Buildings, Mr. Francis Fox, 601
Ventnor Urban District Council and Ventnor Gas and Water Company, 477
Vernon-Harcourt, Prof. A. G., Pentane Limp, 300
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited. Breech Screw adopted by the War-offire, 109
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Engines of H.M.S. Amphitrite, 152
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Launch of H.M.S. Amphitrite, 30, 45, 46, £8
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Order for a Cruiser of the Cressy Typo, 141
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Order for a New Japanese Battleship booked, 291
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Quick-fire Field Gun, 103
Victoria, Economic Railway Construction in (Civil Engineering Supplement, July 22ad, 1898)
Vincent, Sir Howard, His Visit to Solingen and Essen, 430
Vogel and Noot’s Blast Furnace on the Adriatic 229
Vril Launch for the Russian Government, 80

W

WAGES Advances at Northern Shipyard’, 191
Wages on Clydeside, Weekly Payment of, 587
Wages, Coal Values and Miners', 14
Wages Disputes, 497
Wages in Melbourne in the Past Year, Rates of, 190
Wages, Miners’ Federation and the Proposed Advance of, 135
Wages Question, The Coal Strike and the, 21
Wages Question, The Darby shire Miners’ Associa¬tion and the, 95
Wages Question, The Lancashire Coalowners’ Association and the, 71
Wakeham, Mr. H. T., Appointed County Sur¬veyor for Middlesex, 10
Walker Bros., Messrs., Compound Ventilating Engines, 60, 64
Walker, Maynard, and Co., Re-opcn the Kilton- thorpe Ironstone Mine, 95
War Department, Posts to be Abolished by the, 177
War, Lossons to be Learnt from the, 121
War Notes, 32
Warships in Action, 255
Washington, Height of Buildings, Restrictions, 643
Water Analysis, Instruction on, Methods of New Cross Institute, 373
Water Divining, 554
Water Gas, Combustible Constituents of 1000 Cubic Feet of, 304
Water Gas, Conclusions of the Public Control Committee Relative to, 59
Water Meters for Jersey City, United States, 519
Water-power Plant, St. Anthony Falls, 160, 162
Water, Pressure Attained by Superheated, 85
Water, Purification of, 255, 426
Water Schemes for London, Private Bills relating to New, 643
Water Softening and Purification by the Arch- butt-Deeley Process, 121, 151, 188

Water Supply:

477
Brentwood, 72
Birmingham from Central Wales, 243-245 Chicago, 94
Fire Protection in American Cities, 533
Intake, Chicago, 91
Intake Tunnel, Lake Erie, 264
Lindon, 85, 207, 262, 328, 418, 497, 508, 562, ' 593, 615, 619
London, Report of Sir William Crookes and Prof. Dewar, 85, 619
The London, Mr. W. Hunter’s Evidence, 593
East London, 207, 328, 562
Newport, Isle of Wight, 639
Newport, Mon., 72
Paisley, 396
Paris, 581
Plymouth, 301
Water-tight Doors to Bulkheads, 84
Water-tube Boilers—see Boilers, Water-tnbe Waterworks, On the Algal Flora of tho Hamburg, 205
Waterworks, Brede Valley, 259
Waterworks, Maidstone, 312
Waterworks for the Midlands, 396
Waterworks, Plymouth, 321, 323, 326, 346, 388
Waterworks for Shanghai, 85
Watson, Mr. F. L , Designing and Construction of Refuse Destructors, 482
Wave Stroke, Dynamometer for Measurement of, 166
Waves and Tides, Action of, on the Movement of Material on the Sea Coast, 290
Weatherburn, Mr. R., The Wear of Chains (Illustrated), 31
Webb's Equalising Buffer Arrangement for Rail¬way Vehicles, 91

Webb, Mr. F. W., The Iron Duke Engine Re¬built and Re-named the Jubilee, 205

Weber, Dr. L., Signalling System, 59
Weighing Machine to Weigh Coal as it is being Put into the Bunkers, Much Wanted, 373
Wellingborough Accident, The, 330
Welsh Coal Strike, The, 208, 210, 375
Werrington, Artesian Well at, 593, 602
West’s Gas Improvement Company, Limited, Works Extension, 45
West Middlesex Waterworks Company’s Bil', The, 643.
West’s Patent Pottery and Machine Company, Machine for Making Hollow Earthenware, 5
Westinghouse Brake on the Victorian Railways, Cost of Fitting the Goods Truck with, 94
Westinghouse Passenger Emergency Brake, The, 90
Whaleback Steamer, Launch of the Largest, 233
Wharf Accommodation on the Thames, 503
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Action of Waves and Tides on the Movement of Material on the Sea Coast, 290
Wheeler, W. H., Improvement of Tidal Channels by Pump Dredging, 551
Wheels, Pneumatic, Tests Taken in France Show¬ing Advantage of, 303
While, Mr. J. M., His Now Post, 265
White, Mr. Henry Watkins, 396
White, Mr. Sidney, 329
White, Sir W. H., On the Education of Engi¬neers, 421, 433
White, Sir William, His Visit to Egypt and its Uses, 373
Whitehaven, Labour Demonstration at, 141
Whitehouse, Mr. E. E., Testing of Materials, 515
Wicksteed, Mr., Opening Address at the York¬shire College Engineering Society, 461 Widdowson, Mr. J. H., Order from the Govern¬ment Dockyard for his Tap3 for Belleville Boilers, 215
Wierner, Mr. A. E., Device for Obtaining a Re¬presentation of a Revolving Magnetic Field,
Wilde, Mr. F. S., 87
Williams Hinged Hammer Mill, The, 628
Williamp, Mr. Percy, On a Doable Carbide of Iron and Tungsten, 325
Willow Ware in America, The Manufacture of, 541
Wilson, Mr. Andrew, On “Prepayment Meters,” 108, 123
Wilson, Mr. Joseph William, 521
Wilson, Mr. Thomas, Presidential Address on Matters Affecting Gas Managers and the Public, 128
Wilson, Mr. William, 324
Wind Force Committee and Pressure-tubo Anemometers, 497
Wind’s Power, Utilisation of, Prof, la Cour on the, 137
Wind Pressure, 282, 333
Windsor Dock Bill, Toe, 96, 120
Wine Cooler or Refrigerator, Californian Uni¬versity, 211
Wire Ropes, 411
Wireless Telegraphy, Experiments at Pola and in Paris, 593
Wireless Telegraphy—see also Telegraphy, Etheric and Wireless
Wivenhoe Sewerage, 502
Wolseley-Lewis, Mr. F. T., On Marine Engineer- ! ing Practice, 527
Wood and Co., Limited, Messrs. Edw., The New Midland Hotel, Manchester, 335
Wood-planing Machine, 6f2
Wood Pulp and Timber Export from Norway, 35
Wood Seasoning by Electric Action, 565
Wood for Warships, Fireproof, 626
Wool Shipments from New South Wales, 593
Worcester and Upper Forest Works, Future before the, 96
Workington Docks, 203
Workman, Clark, and Co., Messrs., The Mail Steamer Sado Maru, 53
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The, 4, 14, 19, 31, 45, 46, 120, 200, 477
Workmen's Compensation Act, Action under, 200
Workman’s Compensation Act, 1897, Mr. C. S. Ellery an, 4
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Local Authorities and the, 31
Workmen’s Competition Act in Operation, 477
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Railway Employ made to Submit to a topical Test, 120
Workmen’s Cottages, 469
Worsdell, Mr. Wilson, Conversion. of No. 1619
Locomotive on the North-Eastern Railway into a Three-cylinder Compound of New Type, 206
Wreck of the Mohegan, 419, 422
Wreck Statistics for 1897, 203
Wright, Prof. G., On the Ag« of Niagara Falls 4/3
Wrightson, Mr. Stephen, 577
Wuchow, Trade of, 155

X-Y-Z

YARROW and Co., 1886-7, Torpedo Boat Engines, 321
Yorkshire Coalfield, Development of a, 112
Yorkshire Coalowners and the Workmen’s Com¬pensation Act, 14
Yorkshire Coal Trade, 262
Yorkshire Iron, Best, 308, 333
Yorkshire Miners, The, 398
Yorkshire Pits’ Lad Strike—s«e Pit Lads’ Strike
Young, Messrs., Hydraulic Propeller Starter, 61

ZANZIBAR, Agricultural Department to Increase the Staple Products of, 85
Zickler, Prof., Experiments with Ultra - violet L'ght on a Telegraphic Instrument, 373

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