The Engineer 1899 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1899 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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1898, 13
Accidents, Colliery, Government Returns, 44
Cage, in the Derbyshire Coalfield, 350 to a Daimler Motor Wagonette, 213
Government and, 215
Industrial, Number of Workpeople killed in, in 1898, 213
in Mines and Quarries, Deaths from, 313, 350
Motor Car, 213, 621
Railway — see Railway Accidents,
British and Foreign
Strange Steam Pipe, 273
with a Thrashing Machine, A Peculiar Case, 59
Accumulator Trials, 634
Acetylene, M. G. Claude on the Explosive Power of, 164
Gas Engines, 145,169
Gas Generator, Messrs. J. Stott and Co., 632
Gas Lighting in Greece, 491
Gas for Lighting Purposes in Prussia, 317
as an Illuminant, Real Value of, 303
Gas, Maximum Explosive Effect pro¬duced with 12A
Volumes of Air and one of, 33
Gas v. Coal Gas, 373
Gas combined with Resin Oil, Experi¬ments with, 491
Ackroyd, Mr. W., His Investigations on Moorland Waters, 542
Adamson and Co., Messrs. Joseph, 50-Ton Electric Travelling Crane, 601
Admiralty and Naval Engineers, The, 495
Advertising on False Pretences in Leading Engi¬neering Papers, 655
Aetheric Telegraphy, Mr. W. H. Preece on, 445
Aetheric — see also Wireless Telegraphy and Telegraphy, Wireless
Agricultural Machinery for the La Rochelle District, and Why American v. English, 439
Machinery in Poland, Demand for, 439
Machinery, South African, 376 Machinery, Steam Flour Mills, Mine
and Quarries, &c., Opening for in Tunis, 621
Machines at the Maidstone Show, 617 , Machines for Russia, British and J
Foreign Competition, 655
Air Power Company, Organisation of an Interna¬tional, 11
Air Ships, The Aerial Navigation Company, San ' Francisco, 595
Alabama, Coal6elds of, 237
Pig Iron Output in, 237
Alfheim Company, Limited, Permanent Machinery Exhibition, Christiania, 11
Algeciras, Growing Importance of the Town of, 365
Alleu and Co., Messrs. W. H., Compound Con¬densing Plant, 389
Alloy called “ Bronze Gaulois,” The, 491
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Mr. R. A. Hadfield on, 348
Iron and Nickel, Mr. F. Osmond on, 164
Nickel and Aluminium, Characteristic ’ of, 287
Alloy, A New Nickel-manganese-iron, 438
Alloys Research Committee, Sir Wm. C. Roberts-
Austen’s Report, 160, 166
Almanacs and Diaries, 8, 45, 73, 91, 141, 183
Aluminium and Copper as Conductors of Electric Currents, Rivalry between, 213
Progress of, 155
Effect of Washing Soda on, 33
Seamless Tubes, 187
Water Steriliser, 147
Writing Capacity of, 313
Amalgamation of German Electrical Interests, 547
Two Well-known Firms, 547
American Bridges, English Engineers and, 391
Coal, 650
Colonial Expansion, The Little Bill, 317
Commercial Enterprise, Its Keenness, 377
Commercial Enterprise, How it is that the Yankees are Beating the English on their own Ground, 453
Competition, 29, 453, 498, 538, 603
in the Engineering Trade, 538
Industries, An English Report on, 301
Interoceanic Canal, 351 Locomotives — see Railway Rolling
Stock, &c. &c., Locomotives, 603
Machine Tools, British and, 29, 66, 67
Manufacturers’ Success in Foreign
Markets, The Secret of, 453
Navy, Niclausse Boiler and the, 195
Paddle-wheel Steamers with Beam
Engines, 26, 48, 107, 154, 252, 277
Patents, Selected –see Patents, Selected American
Thin Armour Trial, 545
Trade Invasion, 409, 435, 474
Ammonium Borate as a Hardening Liquid for Plaster of Paris, 237
Ammunition, The Lee-Metford and Martini- Henry, Experiments with, 59
The New British Service Bullet, 59
Amos, Mr, E. C., on Machine Tools, 372
Amsterdam, Telephone System of, 595
Ancona, The New Mole at, 337
Andrew and Co., J. E. H., Gas Engine, 470
Anthracite Coal Removed from the List of Free Imports at San Francisco, 542
Appert, M. L., New Method of Moulding Glass, 621

Appointments and Retirements:

Appleyard, Mr., 439
Arrandale, Mr. M., Address, Machine Workers’ Association, 487
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., 512
Bayley, Mr. C. W.,542
Becbler, Captain, 412
Black, Mr. Thos., 399
Cassatt, Mr. A. J., 629
Charles, Mr. A. L.,621
Crowe, Mr. Hy., 119
Evans, Mr. David, 607
Fay, Mr. S., 365
Fenwick, Mr. Luke, 378
Forbes, Mr. Wm., 542
Franklin, Alderman Geo., 478
Gavey, Mr. J., 187
Glover, Mr. John, 413
Grierson, Mr., 365
Heald, Mr. Horace, 621
Henderson, Mr. Alexander, 465
Hookey, Mr. J., 187
Hopkinson, Mr. Chas., 607
Howell, Mr. Walter J., 435
Hoy, Mr. H. A., 542
Hunter, Mr. David, 21
Ingham, Mr. Oswald, 399
Irwin, Mr. J. C., 542
Jamieson, Prof. Andrew, 387, 413
Katté, Mr. Walter, 465
Knaggs, Mr. W. T., 504
Knight, Mr. Robert. 72
Laird, Sir Wm.,365
Maclean, Mr. Magnus, 645
McNeil, Mr. Jas., 72
Nisbet, Mr. W. H , 592
Purkess, Mr. Jas., 365
Richmond, Mr. J. H., 119
Sadler, Col., 607
Salamons, Sir Julian, 270
Siburn, Mr. Jas., 72
Squire, Mr. W. W., 605
Stafford, Mr. J. H., 542
Sykes, Mr. Wm., 271
Trotter, Mr. A. P., 365
Walker, Mr. Arthur Tannett, 313
Ward, Mr. Thos. F., 504
Wharncliffe, Earl of, 465
Wilgus, Mr. W. J., 465
Wood, Sir Lindsay, 72

Archangel, Projected Improvement of the Port of, 491
Arctic Currents, Casks for Testing, 337
Ardwick Engineering Company, High-speed Vertical Engine, New Design, 377
Argentine Republic, Meat Export from, 137
Arnold, Prof, and Mr. Andrew MacWilliam, On the Diffusion of Elements in Iron, 461
Armour-plate Situation in the U.S.A., 348
Armour Trial, American Thin, 515
Arth, Prof., On the Utilisation of Blast Furnace Gas, 387

Association, American Foundrymen’s:

Compression Tests of Jin. Cubes of Ingot
Mould Iron and of Bessemer Mixture, 313

Association, Chicago Electrical:

Patent Systems of the United States and Foreign Countries Compared, Mr. W. C. Jones, 416 |

Association of Civil Engineering Students, Manchester:

Annual Dinner, Twelfth, 93
American Grain Elevator, The Manchester Ship Canal Company’s, Mr. Percy F. Gask on the, Electric Welding, Mr. O. Winder, 247
Prospecting for Minerals, Mr. H. T. Hildage,

Association, Cleveland Blast Furnace- men’s :

Election as President, of Mr. P. Trainer, and names of Candidates for the Secretaryship,

Association, The Cleveland Iron¬masters’ :

Election as President and Vice-president of
Mr. J. F. Wilson and Mr. C. A. Cochrane, 119

Association, Coal Trade Benevolent: 477

Association of Draughtsmen, British:

Formation of, 162

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

Chains, On the Making and Testing of Welded Steel, Mr. E. J. Taylor, 111
Excursions Planned for the Summer Months, 377
Flooring for Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best, 229
Forty-third Annual Report and Anniversary Dinner, 71, 158
Gas Engines as Motive Power in Engineering Works, Mr. A. R Bellamy, 327
Gas Exhausters and Gas-exhausting Plant, Mr. ' R. Hargraves, 320
Heating Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best Method of, 229
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Hy. Webb, 73
Odontograph described by Mr. Michael Longridge, 71
Switches, Liquid and Metallic, The Question of the Relative Merits of, 229
Utilising Furnace Gases as a Motive Power in Certain Gas Engines, Question of, 325

Association of Engineers, Leeds:

Electricity, Mr. Joe A. Tempest, 330
Machine Tools, English v. American, Mr. Alfred Towler, 230
Mineral Oils, Mr. B. Holgate, 146

Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London:

Forty-sixth Anniversary Festival, 469

Association, Geologists’:

Excursion to Brittany, 412

Association, Lancashire Coal Sales :

Resolution with regard to Contracts to be made with Merchants for the ensuing Twelve months, 477, 503

Association, Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic:

Motor-Vehicle Design, Some New Features in, Mr. T. H. Parker, 269
White, Mr. J. W., Appointed Hon. Treasurer, 237

Association, Manchester and Salford Sanitary:

Lamps which have Exploded in Manchester, and the Oils used therein, Mr. W. Thomson’s Report on, 400

Association, Manchester Steam Users’:

Annual Report—Boilers under the Care of, 439
Annual Memorandum of Chief Engineer Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 599

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

Inaugural Address of Mr. J. Cox, 42

Electric Traction:

Its Application in Large Towns, Mr. G. Conaty, 269

Association, Mechanical Engineers', The Wltwatersrand:

Compressed Air as Power, Discussion on the Utilisation of, 298

Association, The Miners’:

“Character Note” Question, Mr. E. Cowey and Mr. W. Parrott on the, 442

Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Incorporated:

Examination of Candidates for Municipal Surveyorehips, Twenty-seventh Voluntary Pass, 401
Yorkshire District Meeting Programme, 551

Association, National Free Labour:

Manifesto issued by, showing where Strike Funds come from, 89

Association of Old Students of the Central Technical College:

Second Annual Dinner of, 575

Association, South Wales Miners’:

Annual Conference : Address of Mr. Abraham —" Mabon ”—44

Associations, Trade:

Recently-formed, 477

Association of Trade Protection Societies:

Fifty-first Annual Meeting, 421

Association, Unmarked Bar Iron:

Prices Advanced 10s. per Ton, 542

Association of Waterworks Engineers, The British:

Papers to be Read at the Fourth Annual Meet¬ing, 491
Atbara Bridge Contract, The, 297, 408
Bridge, The (Supplement, June 2nd, 1899)
297, 367, 395, 408, 539, 543 :
Bridge and Standardisation, The, 367, 395
Atlas Engineering Company, Machine Tools, 423
Australia, West, Rainfall, 246
Auto-cars, Compressed Air as a Motive Power for 195
Autocrat of the Pit, 468
Automatic Couplers, 263, 616, 644
Couplings—tie alto Couplings, Auto¬matic
Coupling, The Janney, 644 Automobile Club, 150
Particulars of the Forthcoming Trials and Awards, 439
Show, Richmond, 37, 577, 627, 652
Show, Richmond, 1899, Awards at the, 652
Tours of the, 296, 496
Auxiliary Machinery cn Board Ships, Mr. E. Nicholl on, 164
Avery, Messrs. W. and T., Rail-weighing Ma¬chine, 196
Ayrton, Mrs., On the Hissing of the Electric Arc, 321
Ayrton, Prof., On Electric Meters, 611

B

BABCOCK, Mr. W. I., on Portable Pneumatic Riveters in Shipbuilding, 147, 321
Babcock and Wilcox Boilers, 55
Bacon Air Lift Pump, 422, 490
Bacteria Bed System, Mr. Dibdin's and not Pro¬fessor Roscoe's, 164
Bactolite, The, 631
Bailey and Co., Limited, Messrs. W. H., Branch Works at Patricroft and Extension of Business, 377
Brillie, Mr. Robt., 351
Baillie-Weaver, Mr. H., New Process of Season¬ing and Preserving Timber and other Fibrous Substanoes, 599
Baker, Sir Benjamin, Visits Egypt, 33
Baku, Water Supply Scheme for, 577
Balancing of Engines, Prof. W. E. Dalby on, 310
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Extraordinary Acti¬vity at, 453
Locomotives for the Great Central and the Midland, 517, 527
The Year's Output, 187
Ballasting of Steamers, 289
Band Ropes, Slow-moving, for Transmission of Power Underground, 599
Barbed Wire in Italy, Use of, 213
Barking Boiler Explosion, The, 31, 34, 35, 118, 145, 241
Barnaby, Sir N., on Steam Speeds at Sea, 92
Barnes, Mr. Geo. N., Introductory Address, Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 4S7
Barnum and Bailey’s Special Trains, 360
Barrett, Professor W. F., On the Thermo-electric Behaviour of Alloys of Nickel Steel, 337
Basalt, Lava Stone, and Trass, 525
Basset Mines, Cornish Engine, 471, 513, 575, 656
Bath and West of England Show, The:
Implement Department, Agricultural, 546
Oil and Gas Engines, 546
Traction and Agricultural Engines, 546
Battery Calculator, An Ingenious, 313
Bauermann, Prof. H., On the Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, 461
Baxter, Mr. G. H., On the Pumping Machinery at the Clyde Trustee»’ Graving Dock, 405
Beams, Problem in the Thoory of, 652
Bearings, Hot, 374
Beattie, Prof. J. C., On the Leakage of Electricity, 542
Becher, Mr. Septimus J., 174
Becks, Mr. Geo. A., Gold Coast Ice Factory, 219
Beckton Gasworks, The, 557, 561
Beeby’s Brick Company, Limited, Yaxley Vi-it to, 600
Begbie and Co., Limited, Messrs., Their New Plant, 324
Beit, Mr., 22
Belgian Coal Strike, 478
Belgian Trade in Coal, 1897-8, 224
Belgians in Russia, 115
Bell Bros., Messrs., A Limited Company, 43
Belleville Water Separator, 383
Beilis and Co., Messrs. G. E„ Formation into a Public Company of their Business, 657
Belper Sewage Schemes, 33
Belts, Joining Machine, 209
Benischke, Dr., Apparatus for Measuring the Speed of Electric Motors, 491
Berry and Sons, Messrs. Francis, Horizontal Cylinder Boring Machine, 362
Bessemer Pig Iron, Advance in Price of, 527
Bessemer Steel Ingots in the United States Pro¬duction of, 262
Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Tank Engine for South Africa, 440, 443
Bickford Burners Company, Messrs., the Liquid Fuel Furnace, 168
Bicycles, Duty on, in France, 265
Bicycles, English, and Foreign Rivals, 570
Bicycles, Reduction in Prices of, 137
Bicycle Tire Tests, Professor R. C. Carpenter, 137
Bilbao, College of Mechanical Engineering, for, 517
Bilbao, Eibar Work at, 517
Bilbao, Pig Iron Export, 517
Biles, Mr. J. Harvard, On Using Merchant Steamers for War Purposes, 566, 584
Bill, The Education of Children, 241
Bill, The Government Telephone, 240
Bills in Parliament, Private, 405
Bills Relating to Railway Canals, Tramways, &c., deposited for the present Session, 287
Bills thrown out of the List this Session, 213
Billericay, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Schemefor, 237
Bing, Director E., A New Geometrical Quadra¬ture of the Circle, 136
Birch and Co., Messrs. Geo., Their Machine Tools. 349
Birmingham University, The, 172, 187, 494, 502
Blackening of Moulds in Foundries by means of Compressed Air, 542
Blake and Knowles Steam Pump, 40, 41, 118, 345
Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Gases, On the Use of, 461
Blast Furnaoe Gases, Utilisation of, 140, 387, 461,
Bleaching Lye, Electrical Production of, in Ger¬many, 137
Blechynden Feed-water Regulator, 142
Blocks, On Graving Dock, 641
Blowing Engines, Messrs. Bolzano, Tedesco, and Co., 393
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the
Manufactured Iron Trades of the North, Meeting of, 119
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Mr. Waterhouse's Official Returns to the, 326. 349, 528
Board of Trade and Automatic Couplings, The. 317
Bofors Plant, 29
Bolzano, Tedesoo, and Co., Blowing Engines, 393

Boilers:

Boilers, Anti-Incrustation Composition for, 399
Babcock and Wilcox, 55
Belleville, of the Spartiate, 332, 333, 335
Built since 1872,
Working Stress for, 621
Circulation in, 140, 169
Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890, Working of the, 212
Barking, 31, 34, 35, 118, 145, 241
at the Halliwell Dyeing Com¬pany’s Works, The, 11
Phenomena of, 67 in Prague, A Marine, 162,163
of a year, 91
Express, in Warships, 511, 522
Feed-water heaters for, 500
of the Future, The Naval, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
for a Japanese Destroyer, 511, 522
for Large Powers, Yarrow, 390
Liquid Fuel for, 169
Marine, 394, 493, 511, 518, 522, 529, 576
High-pressure Steam, at Sea, 493
Naval, of the Future, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
Niclausse, and the American Navy, 195
Okes-Servo Wator-tube, 92
of Pactolns, Regulator as Fitted to, 142
Plates, Large, 192
Practical Experience on the Strength of, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 309
Prevention of Explosions in, Mr. D. T. Lawson’s Patent for, Extension of Applied for, 287
The Belcher Apparatus and others for the Prevention of Smoke from, 444
Statistics, Massachusetts, 187
Tubes for the United States Navy, Mate¬rial to be Used in the Construction of, 337
Under the Care of the Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 439
Water-tube, 194, 263, 269, 290, 394, 496, 511, 518, 529, 569, 576, 603
Water-tube, Messrs. Anderson and Lyall, 496
Constructional Failures of, 569
Knap's, 194
Mr. Milton on, 263, 269 in the Navy, 394, 529
in Passenger Steamers, 511, 518
s.s. Orlando, 576
Boiling Point of Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dewar on, 365
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.'s Balance-Sheet, 223
Bombay, Mr. S. Crimp to Advise the Municipality on the Sanitation of, 577

Books Received:

Abaques des Efforts Tranchants et des Moments de Flexion développés dans les poutres a une travéa par les surchages du Réglement du 29
Aoüt, 1891, sur les Fonts Métalliques, par Marcelin Duplaix, 369
Acetylene Generators at the Imperial Institute, Report of the Committee on the Exhibition of, 256
Advertising, The Art of, Its Theory and Practice fully Described, by Wm. Stead, jun., 599
Aide - Mémoire de l’Officer de Marine de Edouard Durassier, continué par Charles Valentine, 141
Americaine : La Vie Ranches, Fermes, Usines, by Paul de Rousiers, 642
American Institute of Architects, Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Convention of 545
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Transactions of, Vol. six., 63
American Trade Index, 37
Animals in Motion: Electro-photographic
Investigation of Consecutive Phases of
Locomotive Engineering, Manual of, with an
Historical Introduction, by Wm. Frank Pettigrew, 291
London Water Supply, The, by Arthur Shad¬well, 241
London Water Supply: Being a Compendium of the History, Law, and Transactions relat¬ing to the Metropolitan Water Companies from Earliest Times to the Present Day, by H. C. Richards and W. H. C. Payne, 511
Machine Design, Part II.: Form, Strength, and Proportions of Parts, by Forrest R. Jones, 291
Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, and Miscellaneous Improvements, 256
Marine Steam Engine, The, by Carl Bosley, 63
Mathematical and Physicial Tables for the Use of Students in Technical Schools and Colleges, by Jas. G. Wrapson and W. W. Haldane, 37
Mathematical Theory of Attraction, Introduc¬tion to the, by F. A. Tarleton, 89
Matriculation Directory, No. xxv., 191
Measurement and Weighing: First Year's Course in Elementary Practical Physics, Edwin Edser, 191
Measuring and Valuing Artificers’ Work, Student’s Guide to the, Edited by E. Dobson, with Additions by E. W. Tarn, 625
Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Easy Lessons in, by J. G. A. Meyer, 291
Mechanics Applied to Engineering, by John Goodman, 469
Mechanics, Text-book on Applied, Specially arranged for Engineering Students, by Andrew Jamieson, 642
Merchants’ Hand-book of Money, Weights, and Measures, with their British Equivalents, W. A. Browne, 625
Mersey, Report on the Present State of the Navigation of the, by Vice-Admiral Sir G. S. Nares, 599
Metallurgical Analysis for Laboratory Use, Tables for Quantitative, by J. J. Morgan, 545
Metallurgy, Hand-book of, by Dr. Carl Schnabel, 63
Microscopy of Drinking Water, The Geo. T. Whipple, 291
Mine Surveying, Treatise on, by Bennett H. Brough, 599
Mines and Agriculture, New South Wales, Annual Report for 1897, 317
Motor Car Manual, by R. Moffat Ford, 384
Municipal Electricity Supply, Commercial and Business Aspects of, Alf. H. Gibbings, 418
Municipal Trading, the Cost of, by Dixon H. T. Davies, 291.
Naval Annual, 1899, Edited by T. A. Brassey, 443
Naval Architecture, Text-book of Theoretical, by E. L. Attwood, 91
Physical Chemistry, Outlines of, by A. Reychler, 384
Physics in its Elementary Branches, History of, by Florian Cajorie, 256
Physics; Experimental and Theoretical, Vol. i.. Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Heat, and Acoustics, by R. H. Jude, and partly from the French Third Edition of II. Gossin, 642
Portland Cement, its Manufacture, Testing, and Use, by D. B. Butler, 642
Railway Year-book for 1899, Edited by G. A. Sekon, 317
Retrospect of Eight Decades, Rev. E. L. Ber- thon, 191
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of, Third Series, Vol. ix., Part IV., No. 36, 20
Royal United Service Institution, Journal of the, 559, 642
Russian Province of the North, by Alexander Platonovich Engelhardt, Translated from the Russian by Hy. Cooke, 511
Sanitary Science, Examinations in, Questions with Suggestive Answers, by E. R. Matthews, 625
Science and Art Department, Calendar, History and General Summary of Regulations of, 191
Sewage Analysis, Practical Treatise on the Examination of Sewage and Effluents from Sewage, by J. A. Wanklyn and W. J. Cooper, 495
Sewer Design, by H. N. Ogden, 559
Ship, Know your Own, Explanation of the Stability, Trim, Construction, Tonnage, and Freeboard of Ships, &c., by Thos. Walton, 545
"Shipping World” Year-book, Desk Manual in Trade, Commerce, and Navigation, Edited by E. R. Jones, 191
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents, 20, 511
Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1898, and General Index, 1857 to 1898, Edited by G. A. P. Cnxon, 545
South African Association of Engineers and Architects, Proceedings of, Vol. iv., 469
Specification—now Illustrated—for Architects, Surveyors, and Engineers, when Specifying, No. 3, 256
Steam Engine and Gas and Oil Engines, Book for Students who have Time to Make Experiments and Calculations, by John Perry, 559
Steam Engine Indicator, Directions for Selec¬tion, Care, and Use of the Instrument, and the Analysis and Computation of the Diagram, Compiled from the Issues of “ Power,” 469
Steinbruchindustrie nnd Steinbruohgeologie: Technische Geologie nebst praktischen Winken fiir die Verwertung von Gesteinen unter Heingehender Beriicksichtigung der Steinindustrie des Kiioigreichs Sacnsens, von Dr. 0. Herrmann, 511
Telegraphy, by W. H. Preeoe and J. Sive- wright, 191
Trains Rapides, Les Services Actuels, Belgique, Angleterre, France, Suisse, Notes de Voyage, 1897-8, par Camille Barbey, 291
Tramways, Omnibuses, and Eleotric Railways, Duncan’s Manual of, 599
Transport und Lagerungseinrichtungcn fur Getreide und Kohle, von M. Buhle, 545
Trigonometry, Spherical, Theoretical and Prac¬tical, W. W. Lane, 20
United States Naval Institute, Proceedings of the, Vol. xxv., No. 1, Edited by G. F. Cooper, 443
Water Supply of Sussex from Underground Sources, by Wm. Whitaker and Clement
Reid, 317
Willing's Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Direc¬tory and Hand-book, Jas. Willing, jun., 291 l
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, with Notes and an Appendix Containing the Rales and Regulations under the Act, Toe Employers' Liability Act, 1880, by W. Adding¬ton Willis, 642
Bore Holes, Vogt’s Patent for Sinking, 423
Boring Machine, Corliss Cylinder, 210, 220
Horizontal Cylinder, 362 1 A Large Snout, 279, 280
Botley, Mr. C. F., Practical Working of Carburetted Water Gas, 457
Boult, Mr. W. S., Various Systems of Railway Fog Signalling, 563
Boulton, Mr. Isaac Watt, 620
Boyle, Mr. Robert, The Bactolite, 631
Bradbury and Co., Cam-cutting Machine, 372
Brake, Clarke’s Field Carriage, 79
Brassey, Lord, on the Empire, 571
Braunkohle, Hating Power and Production of German, 262
Brazil, Coffee Tabloids prepared by Compression, i 595
Brazil, Mining of Manganese Ore, 595
Breakwaters, On the Effect of Waves on, Mr. Wm. Shield, 584
Brett, Mr., On Forgings and the Machines Used in Producing them, 566
Brick or Stone Impervious to Water, Portland ' Cement the Best Material for Rendering, 119
Brick-making Appliances at the International
Building Trades Exhibition, 444

Bridges:

Bridges, American, and English Engineers, 391
The Bonn, and its Ornamentation, 465
Builders, English and American, 453
Collapse of a Roadway, Iowa, 237
across the Danube at Ratisbon to be
Removed, The Old, 595
English v. American, 498
Glasgow New, 520, 539, 540, 541
Bridge over the Indus, The New, 413
at Kalrebodstrand, 651
of Mans, The, 222
Melan Concrete, 360
New Niagara River, Suspension, 172
Plate-girder Arched, 270
Railway, American, for a Bnrmah Rail¬way, 655
Railway, over the Atbara River, (Supple¬ment, June 2nd, 1899), 297, 539, 543
Railway, The Atbara, and Standardisa¬tion, 367, 395
Railway, Bechuana Land, 45
Railway, The Inkissi, Congo Railway, 218
Railway, Moving, 198
Railway, Siberian, across the Yeuissei, 174
Railway— see also Railway Rolling Stock and Material, Permanent way, &c.
for Sydney, New, 500
Vanxhall, The New Road, and its Orna¬mentation, 262, 465
over the Wear, Proposed Erection of, 517
Work, Standard, 408
Bright, Mr. Chas. Coast Telegraphic Communica¬tion, 153, 205, 227, 251
Brighton, New Eiffel Tower, Electric Lifts for, 3, 4, 5,12
Marine Parade Pier, 536
Bristol Channel, The Midlands and the, 644
Britain's Competitors, 519
British and American Machine Tools, 29, 66, 67, 80

British Association:

Presidents of the Various Sections, 542
British Imports for 1898 and 1897, 119
Fire Prevention Committee, The, 110, 224
Railways, Limitations of, 520
Refrigeration and Allied Interests, 150
Shipping and the " Rings ” 623
Steam Engines Abroad, 122
Trade with Italy, Real Cause of its Decline, 291
Trade Marks Abroad, 91
Trade with the Orient, Decline of, 465
Trade in South America, Report on, and how Business goes away from us, 313
Brodie, Mr. F. J., On the Prolonged Deficiency of Rain in 1897-98, 287
“Bronze Gaulois,” The Alloy called, 491
Brooklyn, Bursting of the Retaining Tank of a Gasholder, 11
Fracture of a 48in. Water Main, 33
Browett, Lindley, and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine and Dynamo, 374
Brown and Co., Limited, Messrs. John, Extension of Business, 607
and Co., Limited, Messrs. John, Meeting of Shareholders, 621
Brown, Mr. T. F., On the Coal Supplies of the United Kingdom, 465
Brown, Mr. W. Walton, Mechanical Ventilators for Mines, 599
Bruno, Professor, Experiments with the New British Service Bullet, 59
Bryant, Mr. C. H., Oil Engine, 278
Buckton and Co., Messrs. Joshua, A Large Snout Boring Machine, 279, 280
Buenos Ayres, Frozen Meat Factory, 137
Buffalo Bav, Deepening of, 542
“Builder " on the Ugliness of the Great Central Railway Bridges, &c. &c., 387
Buildings in New York, The Highest, 33
New York, Moving a Five-storey, 59
Trade Dispute, The, 217
Bulkheads, Testing, 67
Bulman, Mr. H. F., Kalgoorlie Coal Mines, West Australia, 534
Bumsted and Chandler’s Fan and Engine for Forced Draught, 370, 871
Buoy at the Manacles, New Gas-lighted Automatic Sound-producing, 491
Burner, Petroleum, 322
Burrator Reservoir, Plymouth Corporation, 186
Burrows, Captain Guy, “The Land of the Pig¬mies,” 33
Burrows, Mr. J. II., 423
Bursting of Fly-wheels, 29
Burton, Griffiths, and Co., Mossrs. C. W., Gisholt Lathe, 293
Butt Hinges, American Patented Process, 43
Butter Exported from Denmark, 134
Bya, M. Hubert, On the Manufacture of Iron C and Steel Plates, 164

C

CABLE Armour, Stallibrass’s Chain, 227
Cable, Fire-detective, 575
Indicator Submerged, for Warning Ships off Dangerous Coasts, 439
New Submarine, 368
United States Pacific, 362
Cableway across the Thames, 65, 193
Cadastral Survey, A Great, 331
Cairo Electric Tramway, 436, 438
Caisson Disease, 365
for Pneumatic Foundations, Wooden, 40
Calcium Carbide, New York Regulations as to the Sale and Use of, 11
Output, Niagara Falls Plant, 513
Plant at Meran driven by Water Power, 655
Californian Wine, Concrete Tank for Storage of, 187
Cam-cutting Machine, 372 Cambered Keels, 26
Camera, Gun, 337 Campbell, Mr. W. R., 33
Canada, Exports to, nnrier the full Preferential Tariff, 11
Graving Dock at Liverpool, The New, 516
Statistics of Exports to. 11
Canadian Hydraulic Canal Lift, 529

Canals:

Canals, American Interoceanic, 651
Amsterdam, 182
Canadian, 182
to Connect the Rhine, Weser, and Elbe, 378
Dortmund-Ems, 577, 630
German, 111, 252, 387, 577, 606, 621, 630
The Kaiser Wilhelm, 111
Manchester Ship, 63, 187
Lift, Canadian Hydraulic, 529
Nicaragua, 329, 337
North Sea and Baltic, A Year's Official Statistics, 621
Panama and Nicaragua, 217
Sheffield and South Yorkshire, 606
Soulanges, 409
Between Stettin and Berlin, Projected, 252
Suez, Traffic for 1898, 137
Thames and Severn, 182
Yumniden, 40
Canterbury Electricity Supply, 265
Cantor Lectures, On Cycle Construction and Design, Mr. A. Sharp, 146
Cape Colony, Government Abuses iD, 603
Capetown Corporation, Machinery for 60,000 Lights Ordered from the United States, English Firms too Busy, 578
Capstan Lathe, 419
Carbon - consuming Batteries and their Possi¬bilities, Mr. W. R. Cooper on, 233
Carbon in Electrolysis, on the Combustion of, Mr. S. Skinner, 313
Carbonic Acid in Water on Iron Pipes, Action of, 491
Carlsborg Viaduct, Works for the, 651
Carlton, Mr. Thos., 43, 607
Carnegie Steel Company, The, its Capital, 517
Carpenter, Mr. C. C., Gas Distribution, 457
Carpenter, Prof. R. C., Bicycle Tire Tests, 137
Carriages, Gun, of the Horse and Field Artillery, Alterations Ordered, 262
Carr, Mr. Wm., On the Evolution of the Hydraulic Main, 594, 626
Casks for Testing Arctic Currents, 337
Castings, A Record Contract for, 119
Casting Temperature upon Steel, On the Influence of, 640

Catalogues:

Alldays and Onions, Pneumatic Engineering Company, Limited, Turbines, 7
Alley and Maclallan, Wall-card Illustrating a 250-H.P. Tandem Compound High-speed En¬gine Driving Alternating current Generator, 443
Andrew and Co., Limited, J. E. H., Stockport Gas Engines, 136
Archdale and Co., James, Machine Tools, 603
Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, Water-tube Boilers, 312
Bailey, Chas. S., Adjustable Utensils, 400
Baldwin and Co., Jas., Safety Boiler Mountings, 634
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 603
Beck and Co., Imperial Positive Water Meter, 520
Bedford Engineering Company, 7
Bever, Dorling, and Co., Limited, Mill Engines,
Winding and Hanling Machinery, 340
Bradbury and Co., Limited, No. 6 Capstan Lathe, 520
British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, Applications of Electric Power, 42
Brush Electrical Engineering Company, ' Limited, The Universal Steam Engine, 96
B, and S. Folding Gate and Lift Company, Interlocking Rubber Tile Flooring, 443
Campbell Gas Engine Company, The Campbell ' Oil Engine, 340 1
Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, Ballistic Tests of Armour Plate, 400
Central Cyclone Company, Limited, Description of the Cyclone Pulveriser, 469
Chambers and Son, Limited, Mining and Gene¬ral Machinery and Engineers’ Requisites, 520 1
Chloride Electrical Storage Syndicate, Limited, Renewals Catalogue, 248
Clayton, James, Clayton Compressors, 603 1
Cox, Limited, H. W., X-ray Apparatus, Vacuum
Tubes, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephones, 520
Croft and Perkins, Friction Clutches and Pul¬leys, 221
Curtis and Company Manufacturing Company, Air Compressors, Air Hoists, and Air Appli¬ances, 652
Davies and Son, John, Electric Mining Appli¬ances, 136
Electrical Company, Limited, Measuring and Testing Instruments, Electricity Meters, 136
Ellison and Co., Limited, W. T., Niagara Falls Double-acting Pulsating Pump, 634
Fairbank, Brearley, Steam Engines, 7
Geretti and Tanfani, Chemins Aériens, 469
Glad step Company, The Patent, Pedestals, C Puleys, and Sockets for Shafting, 469
Greenwood, Thomas, Engineers' Tools (New C and Second-hand), Woodworking Machinery, and Contractors’ Plant, 136
Gresham and Craven, Limited, Injectors, Ejectors, and Railway Specialities, 42
Harpers Limited, Belt and Rope Pulleys, Gear- wheels, Cone Pulleys, &c., 312
Haryer, C., Dehne’s Filter Presses, 400
Hills and Jones Company, Machine Tools, 7
Hohdell, Way, and Co., Limited, Heat-insulating Materials and Packings, Belting, Ac., 340
Holden and Brooke, Limited, Steam Users' Specialities, 248
Jackson and Co., Limited, P.R., Gear Wheels and Pistons, and Electrical Plant, 443
Jenkins Bros., Valves, Cocks, and Packings, 340
Lang and Sons, John, Lathes, 42
Langdon-Davies Electric Motor Company, Limited, 340
McNeil, Cbas., Steel Manhole Doors, Sludge Doors, fee., 221
Milwaukee Harvester Company, Agricultural Implements, 42
Muntz’s Metal Company, Limited, 221
National Boiler and General Insurance Com¬pany, Limited, Double-cone Fusible Plugs, 400
Niles Tool Works Company, Machine Tools, 42
Owen, Brazil, and Holborow, Steam Engines and Pumps, 634
Peirson and Co., High-class Constructional Steel and Ironwork, 96
Platt, Samuel, Shafting, Shaft Fittings, Pulleys, Gearing, &c., 652
Polland and Co., Descriptive Pamphlet of the “ Beezy ” Pocket Voltmeter, 469
Ransome and Co., Limited, Wood-working, Sawmill, Cooperage Machinery, 7
Ramsomes and Rapier, Limited, Rapier’s Patent Coaling Plant, 443
Reaveil and Co., Limited, High-speed Enclosed Constant-thrust, Compound Engines, 469
Renold, Hans, Cycle Roller Chains, 221
Sagar and Co., Builders’ and Joiners’ Machinery, 469
Scott and Mountain, Limited, Ernest, Com¬pound Double-acting Self-lubricating Enclosed Engines, &c., 520
Shaw and Co., John, Cast Iron Pipes, Columns, Bends, &c., 340 (
Shippey Bros., Limited, Self-propelled Electric Carriages and Motor Cars on the Riker System, 520
Snowden, Sons, and Co., Limited, Lubricators ( and Asbestos, Materials of the "Snowdrift" Brand, 340
Spencer, Limited, Mr. John, Pipes and Fittings, 136
Standard Pneumatic Tool Company, 7
Standard Steel Works, Locomotive Tires and Wheels, 652
Stewart, Robt D., Paints, Colours, Oils, and Varnishes, 340
Stone and Co., J., Electric Lighting for Railway Carriages, 42
Tangyes Limited, Chain Blooks and Chains, 603
Thornton, A. G., English Drawing Instruments, 400
Tolch and Co., Oil Engines and Launches, 42 ,
Tosi, Franco, Electric Light and Power Instal¬lations, 136
Unbreakable Pulley and Mill Gearing Company, Limited, 248
United Asbestos Company, Limited, Salamander Decorations for Walls, Ceilings, fee., 469
United States Metallic Packing Company, Limited, Metallic Packing for Locomotive, Marine, and Stationary Engines, 443 1
Wallach Brothers, " Pneumatophor,” 7 s
Ward and Co., H. W., Machine Tools, 312
Whitecross Company, Limited, Rolled and Drawn Steel, Cast Steel and Iron Wire,
Wire Rope Nails, and Netting, 443
Whitmore and Bioyon, Limited, Bnrnay’s Centrifugal Pumps, 469
Whitmore and Binyon, Limited, Rice Mill Machinery, 603
Willcox and Co., Limited, W. H., Semi-Rotary Wing Pumps, 136
Wilson, Alfred, Wilson Gas Producer Described, 603
Wood, W. A., Agricultural Implements, 312
Wright and Co., Joseph, Feed-water Heaters, Filters, Condensers, &c., 186
Zadig and Co., C. A., Light Railway Plant, 603
Cement Industry of Ghent, 337
On the Mechanism of the Disintegration of Hydraulic, 365
Tensile Requirements of, for Recent Works in United States, Mr. R. W. Lesley on, 262
in the United States, Natural, 370
Works, The Wickham, 644
Central Electric Supply Company’s Bill, 655
Chain Pitch, Mr. V. W. Staunton, 11
Chains, Welded Steel, Mr. E. J. Taylor on the Making and Testing of, 111
Charing Cross Station, 378
Charlock by Spraying, Destruction of, 542
Chatham, Admiralty’s Scheme for Perfecting the Naval Establishment at, 187 i- Chemistry, 1898, 19
in England, The Teaching of Industrial, 481
Chesterfield Town Council, Electric Light and Power for the Borough, 620
Children in Factories, 241
Chimney Construction, Mr. S. E. Loring’s New Method of, 365
Shaft, A Large, 323
Tall, in the United States, Saxony, and England, 33
China and Japan, Metal and Machinery Imports of, 431
Chinese Iron Trade Development, 697
Circle, A New Geometrical Quadrature of the, 136
City of London Electric Lighting Company, The, d 232, 233, 458, 460
Clarke’s Field Carriage Brake, 79 s
Clarke, Mr. W. J., Apparatus for Detecting the Presence of Ships or Icebergs by Wireless Telegraphy, 655
Cleaver, Henry, Sentenced to Hard Labour for Advertising on False Pretences, 655
Cleveland Iron, Open-hearth Steel from, 37
Clock, Electric, at Liverpool-street Station, 465
Clyde Purification, 136
Trustees’ No. 3 Graving Dock, Performances of Pumping Machinery at, Mr. G. H. Baxter on, 406

Coal:

Coal, 62
American, 650
American, Shipped to European Ports, 262
Artificial, Manufacture of, 621
Boring at Barham, 313
and Coal Dust at Nantes, Importation of, 439
“Combine,” The, 451
Kentish, 508
The South Yorkshire Coalfields, 624
Wages in the Coalfields, 140
Area of the Principal Coalfields of the World, 465
Industry of South Africa, 262
Lignite, Production and Heating Power of German "Braunkohle,” or, 262
Mining in Natal, 413
Mining—Winding from Deep Mines, Modern Improvements in, 586
Mines, Mr. F. A. Legge on, 580
Natel, 213
Ootput of the British Empire, 313
Output in this Country in 1898, 387
Pocahontas, Analysis of, 387
Production, France, Great Britain, United States, Germany, and Belgium, 119 in Russia, Donetz Deposits Inexhaustible, 577
and Salt Springs in the Soest District, 11
Shipments on the Elbe, 1898, Bohemian Brown, 124
Smoke Abatement Society, 245
South African, and British Steam Coal, 533
Supplies, Our Present and Future, Mr. J. A. Longdon on, 534
Supplies of the United Kingdom, Mr. T. F. Brown on, 465
Trade, The Yorkshire, 36, 368
in the Vicinity of Chabarovsk, Discovery of, 85
White, A Substitute for Mineral Fuel, 517
Coast Defences, Our, 52, 53
Telegraphic Communication, Mr. Charles C Bright, 153, 205, 227, 251
Coke-handling Plant, On, 457 C
Ovens, By-products, 640 Ovens in Course of Erection, 123
Cold Storage Depöt, Munich, 655
Plants at the Cape Porte, The De Beers Company’s Scheme, 376
South Africa, 376, 505
Cold Treatment of Patients, by a Foreign Physi¬cian, 262
Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Messrs., Large Horizontal Engine, 310
Colley, Mr. James. Presentation to, 477
Colliers in South Wales, Registration of, 649
Visions, 544
Collision Mate, 195
Colomb, Admiral, On the Lessons of the Spanish-
American War, 278
Colour Photography at Kieff, 119
Combustion, New Process of, M. P. J. Schlicht on a, 164
Commercial Agents to be Appointed at Foreign Commercial Centres for the Develop¬ment of British Trade, 621
Education in Japan, 517
Law, Russia, The New, 465
Travellers, Licence required in the Netherlands by, 262
Compass, Swedish Miners’ Dipping, 461
Compensation Act, Mr. Pickard cn the, 390
Cases—tee Workmen’s Compensa¬tion Cases and Wilful Misconduct, 516
Compressed Air as a Motive Fluid for Auto-Cars 195
as Power, Discussion on, before the Mechanical Engineers' Association of the Witwatersrand, 298
used to Blacken Moulds, 542
Compression Teste of an iDgot Mould Iron of Soft Bessemer Mixture, 313
Compressor Plante, Three-stage, Mr. R. P. White- law on, 298
Conaty, Mr. G., On Eleotric Traction in Large Towns, 269
Conciliation Board, Accountants’ Returns, 550
Concrete-mixing Machine, A Rotary (American) 398
Storage Tank for Californian Wine, 187
Condensers, Evaporative, 432, 442, 447, 498, 513
in the Navy, 342
A Novel, 146
Condensing Plant, Compound, Messrs. W. H. Allen, Son, and Co., 389
for Factory Purposes, Sepa¬rate, Sir A. S. Haslam on, 614
Conductivity of an Incandescent Lamp Filament, Increase and Decrease of the, 365
Considère, M., On the Value of Metallic Cores in , Building, 387

Contracts Open:

Dock Pumping Machinery for the Norwegian Government, 523
Indian State Railways, Radial Drilling Machine and Cylinder Boring Machine, 629
Steel Barges, 418
Works for the Carlsberg Viaduct, 652
Cooke, Mr. J., 423
Cooled Bars, Transference of Heat in, 29
Coolgardie Water-pipe Contract, The, 132
Cooper, Mr. R. E., On Earthslips in Railway Slopes and Cuttings, and How to Prevent them, 612
Cooper, Mr. W. R., On Carbon-consuming Batteries, 233
Coppée, M. Evenie, On By-product Coke Ovens, b 640
Copper and Aluminium as Conductors of Electric Currents, Rivalry between, 213
Casting, How to Make a Sound, by the
Addition of Phosphorus, 313
Combination, 417, 443
Mines of America and the Rothschilds, The, 505
Position of, 216, 570
Tin and, 114
and Tin, Position of, 216, 670
Copper Trade of the United States, 59
Copper Wire Production in Japan, 413
Cores, Metallic, Their Value in Building, 387
Corliss Cylinder Boring Machine, 210, 220
Cornish Engine, High-pressure, 471, 513, 575, 650
Corporation Competition in Engineering Work in South Africa, 635
Cory and Sons, Messrs. Wm., Works of, 556
Cotton, Mr. E. J., 621
Manufacturing State, South Carolina the Chief, 365
Mills in the Federal District and State of Rio de Janeiro, 595
Saturated with Liquid Air, Explosive Power of, 655
Trade, Threatened Strike in the, 290
County Council Contracts, 115, 144
Couplings, Automatic, 263, 317, 616, 632, 644, 645
American, 632
and the Board of Trade, 317
see also Railway Material Coupling, The Janney Automatic, 644
Cox, Mr. Job, His Inaugural Address, 42
Crane, 50-Ton Electric Travelling, 8, 129, 133
50-Ton Electric Travelling, Messrs. Joseph Adamson and Co., 601
and the Power to be Used with Them, Mr. Pitt, 614
Crank Pinning a Crank Shaft, 312
Shafts, Turning, 373
Craven Brothers, New Took, 134,135
Creuzot, Strike at, 542
Works, Schneider, Projected Blast Furnaces in Piombino, 224
Critchley, Mr. J. S., Motor Car Lecture by, 258
Croft and Perkins, Messrs., Crown Friction Clutch, 259
Cromer Gas Company’s Works, New Site of the, 337
Crossley Brothers, Limited, Combined Gas Engine and Air Compressor, 68
Croton Aqueduct, Mr. A. W. Hall’s Experiments on the, 119
Crucibles, Cracking of, and its Cause, 387
Cuningbam, Mr. G. C., On Mechanical Traction by Electricity, 611
Cunliffe and Croom, Messrs., Vertical Milling and Profiling Machine, 398
Cutlery, Foreign Trade in, during May, 607
Cuxhaven, Dry Dock at, 387
Cyanide Plants on the Rand, Steel Wheels instead of Pumps for Lifting, 125
in South Africa, 479
Cycle Construction and Design, Mr. Archibald Sharp on, 146
Tax and Licence in France, 33
Cycle Trade, Greater Activity in the, 337
Results in Schweinfurt of Over-pro¬duction and Depression in, 655
Cycling Track on a Hotel Roof, 85
Cyclists in Hamburg, Special Paths for, 639
Laws and Bye-laws affecting, Pamphlet issued by the Cyclists’ Touriüg Club, 287
Cylinder Boring Machine, Contract Open, 629
Ratios for Compound Engines, Mr. G. L. Rockwood on, 164
Cyprus, Irrigation Works in, 445

D

DALBY, Prof. W. E., On the Balancing of Engines, 310
Dales, Mr. J. H., On High-speed Engines, 70
Dalzell Steel and Ironworks, Record Output in Steel Smelting, 577
Dam across the Nile, Foundation Stone Laid, 164
Dangerous Trades of England, The, 390
Daniel, Mr. B., 634
Dartmoor Water, Purification of the, 262
Daudeteau, Captain, Small-bore Repeating Rifle, 517
Davey, Mr. H., Cornish Engine, Basset Mines, 471, 513, 575, 656
Davey, Paxman, and Co., Electric Lighting Installation, Johannesburg, 505
Davidson, Mr. Robert Cope, On Locks and Entrances and Graving Docks, having regard to the Increasing Sizes and Shapes of Vessels, 564
Davies, Mr. D. H., On the Cost of Municipal Enterprise, 239
Davies, Mr. John, 504
Davis and Sons, Report for the Past Year, 200
Davy Bros., Electric Light Installation at Sheffield, 337
Dawson, Mr. Philip, On Electric Traction and its Application to Metropolitan Railways, 313
Deans, Mr., Pneumatophor Rescue Appliance for Mines, 503
De Beers Company, Cold Storage Plants at the Cape Ports, 376
Decauville Engineering Works, Fire at the, 85
Defences, Our Coast, 52, 53
Defries and Son, Filtration Plant for the Drinking Water on the “ Oceanic,” 86
"Dekko,"The New Photographic Printing Paper, 387
Delagoa Bay, Harbour Works, 505, 609
Demenge Process of Hardening Steel Ingots, 655
Denmark, Butter Export from, 134
De Rueett, Mr. Edwin Wm., On Recent Develop¬ments in Cargo Steamers, 567
Derwent Waters, Fight for the, 624 Water Supply, The, 499
Destructor, The Horsfall, 260
Devonport Dockyard, Programme of New Works in, 262
Dewar, Prof. J., Boiling Point of Liquid Hydrogen it 365
On Exhausting Vacuum Tubes by k- Means of Liquid Hydrogen, 59
On the Properties of Liquid Air, 439
Dexter, Mr. F. G., On the Influence of Carbonic Acid on the Combustion of Coal and Car¬buretted Water Gas, 626
Diatto System of Electric Traction, 523
Dieppe, Ivory Carving at, Project of Reviving the Handicraft of, 276
Disc Fans, Prof. J. H. Kinealy’s Formulae, 187 s,
Discharge and Re loading of Large Steamers, Mr. W. H. Hunter, 564
Discount in the Iron Trade, 617
Diedier, Mr. Enrique, On the Use of Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Gases, 461
Ditte, M. A., On the Effect of Washing Soda on Aluminium, 33

Docks:

Dock, Algiers, United States of America, Float¬ing Dry, 502
Auckland, 42, 270
Boston, New Navy Dry, 270
Cardiff, The Mount Stuart Dry, Contract Given to Mr. Jas. Allen, 580
C'uxhaven, Dry, 387
Hamburg, The New, 621
Horten, Norway, Pumping Machinery for, Liverpool, Canada, Graving, 510
on the Maine Side of the St. Croix River, A Natural Dry, 313
Mersey, Two New Graving, for the, 213
Newcastle, The New, 149
New Orleans, Steel Floating and Graving, 237
Newport News Shipbuilding Company's Yard, 439
Penartn, 231
Swansea, The New Dry, 478, 517
Trieste, ExisitiDg Accommodation, 521
on the Tyne, Need for New, 223
Dry, Timber Masonry, 298
Dockyard Fitter Apprentices, 312, 345
Russian, 179, 228, 281, 363, 382, 429

Dockyard Notes:

Abolition of a Good Deal of Woodwork in our New Ships, and consequent Trouble between Joiners and Shipyards, 9
Admiral Harris, The “ Thinking Blue-jackets’ ” Belief in, 9
Admiralty Scheme for Training Shipwrights,
“All the World’s Fighting Ships,” The New Edition of, 220
Anglo-French War, “ Le Yacht ” on an, 68
Argentine Cruiser Garibaldi, The, 133
Armouring, New System of, in Italy, 625
Artificer Engineers, The Number of to be Doubled, 362
Barge, The Coral, Messrs. Cory and Co., Trial of, 32
Barham, Forced Draught and Speed Trials of, 490, 521, 600
Battleship Speed, The Question of, 220
Bechler, Captain, his Appointment, 412
Belleville Boilers, The Prot and Coni, 541, 600
Belleville Boiler, How to Prevent it from Smoking, 600
Bellona, Refit of the, 133
Bellona, Reconstruction of the, 445
Boilers, Water-tube, Are they Smoke-producers ? 541
Brassey, Lord, “ Le Yacht” on his “ Naval An¬nual," 600
Canopus, Funnels of the, 346
Canopus, Progress of the, 220, 600
Channel Fleet Leaves Arosa Bay, The, 490
Channel Squadron, Admiral Rawson and the Shooting of the, 312
Channel Squadron, Queer Story Coming from the, 575
Chatham Depót, Inspection of the (Naval Effi ciencyh 575
Chinese Boat, The Torpedoes Fired by, at the Saikio Maru, 291
Chinese Hai Chi (Hai-Tien) Expected at Ports¬mouth (tee Corrected Name, page 521), 490
Chitoee, Record Speed of the Japanese Cruiser, 168
Coal Capacity ? What is a Normal, 9
Coal Supply, The Importance of, 9
Contract Speed and Extra Premiums, The Question of, 362
Destroyers, Rig of the New, 291
Devonport’s Mobilised Contingent this Summer, 445
Diadem, The, 346, 541
Dreadnought, Reconstruction of the, 312
Duboc, Lieut E., On the Submarine Boat, 186
Dunkirk : Will it be the Port where the Russian and French Fleets will Unite in case of War, 464
Dutch Cruisers, Friesland and Holland, at Plymouth, 68
Dutch Ironclad, The New, 220
Dwarf, Trial of the, 521
Edgar, Mishap to the Cruiser, 168, 220, 246
Electric Gun, The £75,000, 625
Elswick Vessels, 521
Emdin and Andrew, Messrs., their Valuable Services on the Pelorus, 575
Explosives on Board, Government Signal for, 390
Felixstowe Docks, Rsport as to, 412
Four Classes of Ships, The Future seems to Point to, 625
French Battleship Formidable, Changes in, 186
French Cruiser D’Entre Casteaux, Trials of, 32
French Destroyers, Launch of, 186
French Destroyer, Ilallebarde, Launched, 625
French Destroyers, Sail Power Suggested for, 464
French Fleet Colliers, 600
French Naval Construction, “LeYacht” on, 169, 246
French Navy List, The Turenne struck out, 625
French Submarine Boats, the Morse, the
Francais, and the Algerien, 600
French Submarine Boats, Mons. A. Redier on, 575
French Torpedo Cruiser Dunois, Full-power Trials of, 575
French Torpedo Depót Ship, the Foudre con¬verted into a Sea-going Ship, 625
French Warships, M. Lockroy Improves the Stability of, 412
Fuel Trials in the Surly, 240
Genoa, Shipbuilding and Repairing at, 258
German Catchers litis and Three Others, The So-called, their Uselessness for War Pur¬poses, 133
German Protected Cruiser Gazelle, The, 133
German Warships, New, 220
Gibraltar Expected at Portsmouth, 168
Gladiator’s Trials, The, 133
Gladiator, Rumour Concerning Change of her Guns, 240
Gun Laying against Torpedo Boats, Mr. H. W. Metcalfe's New’System of, 312
Gunboats, Skipjack and Speedwell, On the Re¬fitting of the, 464
Gyroscope Tried by the Carnot, Bouvet, and Jaureguiberry, 5/5
Hannibal, her Average Speed Home, 541
Havock to be‘Re-boilerod, 575
Hired Labourers in the Royal Dockyards, Wages of, 389
Iron Duke and Invincible, Reconstruction of, Completed, 220
Italian Cruiser Lombardia Expected at Ports¬mouth, 490 (see Corrected Name, page 521)
Italian Liguria, The, 521
Italian Navy, Reconstruction of the, The Dandolo, 68
Italian Warships, New Projected, 258
Italy, “Looking Round” the Warship Market, 412
Jane Naval War Game, Objection Raised Against, 541
Japanese Battleship Mikasa, 625
Japanese Cruiser Asama, her Run to Chatham, 133
Japanese Destroyer Akebono, 413, 464
Japanese Warships at Portsmouth, 186, 258
Jeanne d’Arc, “ Le Yaoht’s” Answer to a Criticism of an Article in The Engineer upon the, 571, 625
Kronstadt Dockyard, 363, 382
Krupp’s Yard, Fire at, 445
L'quid Fuel, Greater Speed and Economy, 9
London, Launch of, not Fixed, 600
Lyddite Shell, New Fuse for the, 445
Lyddite, The Theory of the Harmlessness of, 390
Masts of the New Destroyers, The, 291
Metcalfe, Mr. H. W., System of Gun Laying against Torpedo Boats, 312
Mobilisation, but no Mameuvres this Year, 312
Morse, The Submersible, to be Commissioned at Cherbourg, 600
Narcissus and Immortality, on their way to England, 412
“ Naval and Military Record ” on the Fulfil¬ment of Government Contracts to the date stipulated, 362
Naval Reserve Men, The Antelope to be sent to Bristol for their Use at Drill, 412
Niobe Accident, Inquiry into the, and the Truth, 490, 541
Niobe, Smoke Abatement on the, 600
Obry Apparatus tried by the Carnot, Bouvet, and Jaureguiberry, 575
Ocean Steamers, Structural Features of Large, 139
Odin, Reconstruction of the Danish Ironclad, 168
Orlando, her Guns Converted into Quick-firers, 32
Pelorus, Messrs. Emdin and Andrew’s Ssrvices on the, 575
Plymouth Defences Tested, 490
Portsmouth, Sea-going Ships at, beginning of May, 445
Psyche, and Tribune, to be Commissioned for North American Station, 312
Quick-firers, 4'7in., discarded by the Russians, 168
Rattlesnake and the Penalty Clauses, “The Naval and Military Record ” on the, 362
Renown, her Sea Speed minus Two Propeller Blakes, 490
Resistance, Foundering of the, 168
Russian Cruiser Gromovoi, Launch of, 445, 575
Russian Dockyards, Coast Defence Ship, Gen. Admiral Graf Aprakskin, 177, 179,188
Russian Government about to adopt the Barr and Stroud RaDge Finder, 412
Russian Government reported to have ordered a Warship in Denmark, 445
Russian Mining Transport Yeniski Launched, 575
School of Naval Tactics, Mr. Gibson Bowles asks for the Establishment of a, 389
Seagull with Niclausse Boilers, Trial of the, 600
Search-light Experiments off the Isle of Wight, 521
Search-lights in the Channel Squadron, Experi¬ment with, 445
Sfax, The, 600
Shinonome arrived in Japan, 412
Ships as Designed, and Ships as they actually become, Wide Margin between, 186
Skipjack and Speedwell, " The Naval and Mili¬tary Record ’’ on the, 464
Smoke or its Absence, High Strategical Im¬portance of, 541
Spanish-American War, The yet Unwritten Side of, as seen by Officers of the Talbot, 291
Sponsons, Absence of, in the Hai-Tien, 521
Stoker, Death of a Naval, 346
Submarine Boat, A Correspondent's Startling Query respecting, 625
Submarine Torpedo Boats, 31, 32, 169, 186, 237, 240, 246, 521, 575
Submarine Boats, French, Discussed in Connection with the Rights of Men, 575
Submarine Boats for the French Navy, Two New, 237
Submarine Torpedo Boat, The Magenta At¬tacked by, 169
Submarine Boats, and the Wonders they can do, “ Le Yacht” on the French, 521
Swedish Ironclad Dristigheten, Submerged Torpedo Tubes of the, 240
Swedish Ironclads, Quick-firers of, 240
Sybille, Refit of the, 312
Témeraire, The Old, 220
Temperley Transporter out of Favour on a Battleship, 575, 600
Temperley Transporters on French Ships, 600
Terrible Disaster, The, 291, 389, 394
Terrible on Troopship Duty, 186
Torpedo Attack, New Plan for Defeating, 389
Torpedo Boats, The Best Colour for, 312
Torpedo Booms of the Mars, 625
Torpedo Device, The Latest, 168
Torpedo-net Defence, In Connection with, 625
Trafalgar, Change in her Armament, 240
Tube Cannon, Practice of, 312
Turenne, The Old Ironclad, Struck out of the French Navy List, 625
Turkish Ironclads, Transformation of Two, 258
Turkish Navy, Re-construction of the, by an
Italian, The Messudieh and Assar. i. Tewfik, r Firm, 68
Vickers’ 12in. Gun-mounting to be tried on the Excellent, 445
War Albums, The Fourth of the “ Black and White,” 220
Dodge Pulley, The, 301
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Smoke and its Diminution, 607,531,637
Doremus, M., Use of Fluoride of Sodium in Steam Boilers, 164
Dorman, Long, and Co., Limited, Mills taken over by, 21
Dortmund-Ems Canal Opened, 577
Dortmunder Coal-boring Company, Coal Dis¬covered in the Soest District by, 11
Doulton and Co.’s Clay-pit Miners, Dispute among, 476
Dow Stationary Engine, The New, 40
Drainage Systems of Buildings, The London County Council's New Bye-Laws to Regulate the, 655
Dredger, Backet, 580
for New South Wales, New Suction, 182
Sand Pump, Mr. A. G. Lyster on, 584
for Use on the Volga, 213
Dredging Naval Ports, 192
Drill, Electric Rock, German, 73
Driving Wheels, Largest, 118
Dronfield Sewage Disposal Wcrks, 517
Darlington Forge Company, Limited, Ten Years’ Work, 43
Dum-dum Bullet, The Peace Conference and the, 594
Dunkirk, An Ancient Man-of-war discovered at, 621
Duntocher and Dalmuir Waterworks, 370
Durban, North Pier Extension Works, 45, 376
Durston, Sir A. J., and Mr. H. J. Oram, On Ma¬chinery of Warships, 263, 269
Durston, Sir A. John, Trials and Experiments made in H.M.S. Argonaut, 282
Dast-arresting Appliance for Blast Furnaces, 465
Dust-laying in the United States, Oil used for, 595
D'utting, Mr., His Investigations with Regard to Pit Props, 212
Dyer, Colonel H. C. S., His Portrait on View, 349

E

EARTH’S Crust, Rigidity, Thickness, and Stability of the, 337, 409
Crust, Thesis as to the Thickness of the—see also Letter, p., 337, 409
Currents and Electric Traction, 397
Earth-slips in the Slopes and Cuttings of Rail¬ways: Their Causes and How to Prevent Them, Mr. R. E. Cooper on, 612
Earthwork Quantities, Diagrams for, 368, 409
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Limited, Electric Lifts, 3. 4, 5, 12
Economy Test of a Unique Form of Feed Pump, 209, 345, 474
Edinburgh, New Gasworks at, 275
Edison, jun., Mr. Reported Invention of a New Process for Hardening Steel, 246
Eibar Work at Bilbao, 517
Eiderdown the Best Insulator, 85
Eight Hours Question, The, 191
Elasticity, Measurements of, Prof. Ewing on the, 122

Electric:

Electric Arc, Hissing of the, Mrs. Ayrton on the, 321
Batteries, On Carbon-consuming, 233
“Buff ” or Bob Motor, The, 256
Cable, Fire-detective, 575
Cables, Important Decision affecting the Laying of, 164
Cables, Tenders invited by the Christiania Electric Works for, 491
Cabs in Chicago, 520
Cabs, London, 524
Clock at Liverpool-street Station, 465
Current at the New Sorbonne, Paris,
Various Applications of, 413
Engineering in 1898,
Engineering Practice, Question of Uni¬formity in, 228
Grain Elevator, The Manchester Ship
Canal Company’s, 199 Induction Motor, Prof. C. A. Carus Wilson, On Some Features of the, 444
Installation, Rules for, Formulated by the Royal Insurance Company, 164
Knowledge on the United States Battle¬ships, Deficient, 164
Electric Lamp, New Form of, 183
Lifts for the New Brighton Eiffel Tower, 3, 4, 5, 12
Light Carbons, Manufacture of, 337
Lighting of the City of London, 63, 642
Lighting Company, The City of London, 458, 460
Lighting for Chicago, Scheme for Utili¬sation of Water Power from New Drainage Canal, 187
Lighting in Japan, 137
Lighting, Johannesburg, Davey, Paxman, and Co., 505
Lighting Machinery, 543
Light in Manchester, Failure of, Due to the Fusion of the Rubber Cables, 527
Lighting, Middlesbrough, 136
Lighting Provisional Orders, 515
Light for St. Paul’s Cathedral, 164
Light at Sheffield, 337
Lighting, Some Practical Points in, Mr. H. Lea, 133
Lighting and Tramways, 468
Light, Wright’s, or the Maximum Charge System for, 638
Meters, Prof. Ayrton on, 611
Motors, Apparatus for Measuring the Speed of Small, 491
Power in Factories, 111
Power, Irrigation by, 231
Power from Kaweah River, California, 137
Power from Niagara Falls Companies, Total applied for from, 137
Power Plant of a Business Building, 40
Power Station for Kalgoorlie Goldfields, 9, 237
Power for Steam, Substitution of, in Philadelphia, 237
Power Storage Company’s Battery Calculator, 313
Power, Supply of, 342
Power, Eighty - mile Transmission of (America), 398
Power Transmission, Steam, v. in the Mining Equipment} in the Transvaal, 609
Pumps, Mr. A. W. K. Preria on, 73
Purification of Water in America, 465
Electric Rock Drill, German, 73
Shaft Transmission, 598
Siren, Ad, 621
Supply Company, Central, Bill of, 655
Traction Amenities, 390
Traction: its Application in Large Towns, Mr. G. Conaty, 269
Traction, the Diatto System of, 523
Traction, Earth Currents and, 397
Traction in Italy, Use of Water Power for, 577
Traction in New York, 156
Traction, Mr. H. F. Parshall on, 97
Traction Plants in the United States, 445
Electrical Traction, Power Distribution for, 51
Electric Tramway Traction Section at the Inter¬national Building Trades Exhibition, 445
Electrical Transmission, On Methods of, Mr. .las. Swinburne, 574
Electric Travelling Crane, 8, 129, 133
Welding, Mr. 0. Winder. 247
Winches for Ships, Mr. E. Nicholl on 164
Electricity, Application of, in Lombardy, 491
from a Distance, Economical Trans¬mission and Distribution of, Mr. H. F. Parshall on, 612
On the Leakage of, Professor .1. C. Beattie on, 542
Mechanical Traction by, Mr. G. C. Cuningham on, 611
as a Motive Power in Poland, 465
Steam and Compressed Air for Mining Purposes, Comparative Advantages of, 641
Supply Works of the United Kingdom, 164
Mr. Joe A. Tempest, 330
Timber-seasoning by, 109
in Warships, 441
Electro-Magnets, Use of, for Recovering Steel Rails Sunk in the Ohio, 279
Electro-plating to the Hulls of Vessels, Applica¬bility of, Experiments to Test, 287
Electrolysis in the Preparation of Bleaching Solutions, Use of, in Germany, 137
Elevated Railroads of the United States, Mr. E. E. Higgins on the, 577
Elevator, Electric Grain, The Manchester Ship Canal Company’s, 199
E io Metal, 396
Ellesmere Port, 605
Elswick Cruisers, 397
Fire at, 598, 644
Ely River, Subway under the, 231
Empire, Our, 242
Employers’ Liability in France, 46

Engines:

Acetylene Gas, 145, 169
and Alternator, Deptford, Plenty and Son, Limited, and Mr. Z de Ferranti (Supplement, April 21»<, 1899), 385
Auxiliary, on Steamships, 84
On the Balancing of, Prof. W. E. Dalby, 310
Blowing, Messrs. Bolzano, Tedesco, and Co., 393
British Stationary, Brazil, and Dealings with the Makers, 313
British Steam, Abroad, 122
Compound, Mr. G. L. Rockwood on Cylinder Ratios for, 164
Compound, for High Pressures, 62
Cornish, Mr. H. Davey, Basset Mines, 471, 513, 575, 656
for the Coventry Tramways, 374
Cylinders, Effects of High-pressure Steam on, 491
The Dow Stationary, 40
Gas, J. E. F. Andrew and Co., 470
Gas, and Lighthouses, 68
Gas and Oil, at the Bath Show, 546
of the Goliath, 183, 184, 185
High-pressure Cornish, 471, 513, 575, 656
High-speed Tri-compound Steam, 370, 371
High-speed Vertical, The Ardwick Engineering Company's New Design, 377
Indicating, Reducing Appliances for, 547
Locomotive—see Railways, Rolling Stock, &s. Main Driving for Witwatersrand Mines, 175 Marine, Four-crank, 186
Marine, The Largest ever Built in Greece, 413
for Motor Carriage Work, Four-cylinder Single- acting, 517
Oil, Mr. C. H. Bryant, 278
Oil, R. Stephenson and Co., 617
Oil, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Maidstone, 617, 619
The Oil, for Motor Cars, 1, 47, 75,101,118,127, 145
Pumping, Haughhead Colliery, Uddingston, 338, 339
Rotary (American), 398
of the “ Spartiate,” 335, 336
Steam Traction, Reported Reduction of Russian Import Duty on, 300
Traction and Agricultural, at the Bath Show, 516
Triple-cylinder Traction (American), 398
Vertical Electricity Supply, Messrs. Willans and Robinson, 386

Engineering:

Engineering Businesses, Important Amalgamation of, 85
Civil, 1898,13
Conference, 1899, The, 521, 537, 538, 555, 658, 562, 572, 574, 583, 588, 589, 611, 640
Contracts, London County Council and, 327
Electrical, in 1898, 5 Establishments in the North of England, New, 199
Harbour and Waterway, for 1898, 6
Industry in 1898, French, 298
Interest, Items of, before the London County Council, 413
Mechanical, 1898, 16 and Metal Industries, The Swiss, 406
Railway, CollegeCourse in(America), Sanitary, 1898, 17
Trade, American Competition in the, 538
Prosperity in the, 498
Use of Models in, 181
Work, Corporation Competition in,
in South Africa, 635
Engineering Workshops, The Best Flooring for, and the Best Mode of Heating, 228

Engineers:

Engineers and American Competition, 62
English, and Bridges, American, 391
Marine, Dr. John Inglis and the, 88, 95
Municipal, Duties and Compensations of, 133
in the Royal Navy, 316
United States Navy, 93
Engineman’8 Dispute, The, 241, 306
Engine-room Artificers, 211, 276, 392
English and American Workmen, 623, 656
Cycles and Foreign Rivals, 570
Engineers and American Bridges, 391
Report on American Industries, An, 301
Esparto Fibre from Tripoli, Export of, 137
Etheric Telegraphy, Signor Marconi’s Projected Experiments at Dover court,
621
see also Aetheric or Wireless Telegraphy, and Tele¬graphy, Wireless
Evaporative Condensers, 432, 442, 447, 498, 513
Ewing, Professor J. A., On Magnetism, 384
On the Measurements of Elas¬ticity, 122

Exhibitions:

Acetylene, iu Budapest, 213
Committee’s Report, 208
Coal Smoke Abatement, 267
Crystal Palace, Commercial Goods, 646
Great Britain, Mining Court, 313
Industrial and Arts at Grahmastown, South Africa, 45, 175, 450
International Building Trades, 119, 444, 517
Motor Car, Richmond, June next, 37
Paris, 1900, 158, 159, 160, 161, 207,214,284, 288, 327, 365, 542
Philadelphia, Universal Commercial Congress and Exhibition, 72, 262
Siberian, Proposed, 287 Yachting, 133
Explosion on Board the Terrible, 317
Boiler, at Barking, 31, 34, 35, 118,145, 241
at St Helens, 488, 542 Colliery, Garmant, Wales, 124
in Russia, 452 South Africa, 450
Marine Boiler, Prague, 162, 163
at Woolwich Arsenal, 287, 608
Explosives, Gathmann Shell for Firing High, 575
called Kallenite, The New, 365
in Mines, Mr. W. J. Orsman on the
Question of Permitted (see p. 513), 503
Power of Cotton Saturated with Liquid Air, 655
Safety, Mr. W. J. Oreman on, 244, 534
Exports to Canada, 11

F

FACTORIES, Electric Power in, 111
Factory Design, Mr. J. H. Pearson on, 168
Power Plant at Newark, United States, 421
Fan and Engine for Forced Draught, 370
Fawcett and Co., Messrs. Mark, Fireproof Floor¬ing, 6C6
Feed-pumps, Economy Test of, 40, 118, 345
Pumps, Efficiency of, 145
Pump. Test of a Unique Form of, 169
water Heater, Messrs. McPhail and Simpson, 605
water Heater for Locomotive Boilers, 500
water Regulators, H.M.S. Pactolus, 142
Fell, Mr. John Corry, His Inaugural Address, 146
Ferranti Valve Gesu-, 512
Field Artillery at Santiago, 624
Carriage Brake, Sir Geo. Clarke, 79
Gun Carriage, Quick-firing, 243
filters, Polarite, for Princetown, Dartmoor, 262
Fire-alarm Posts for Transmission of Telephonic
Messages, Use of, 85
Fire-arms, A French Small-bore Repeating Rifle, 517
for the Swedish Government, Contract with the Arms Factory Mauser, 528
Fire Authorities of the Paris Exhibition, Object to the Indian Building, 542
Brigades, Parisian, a Motor Car Worked by Electricity added to their Equipment, 439
detective Cable, 575
at Elswick, The, 598, 644
extinguishing by Sand, 517
in a Fireproof Building, Effect of, 10
Float Required by the Metropolitan Fire
Brigade, A Scandalous Document referr¬ing to, 513
in the Germania Shipbuilding Yard of Kiel, 434
in New York, Mr. H. Bonner on the Hotels and their Dangers, 387
Prevention Committee, The British, 110, 224
Fireproof Building Material, A New, 262
Flooring, Messrs. Mark Fawcett and Co., 606
Fischer Equipment Company, Motor Truck for Freight Work, 517
Fitter Students in the Navy, 296, 345, 395
Flash Point of Oils, Mr. Thomson on Lamp
Explosions in Manchester and on the, 400
of Petroleum, 262, 237
Fleming and Ferguson, Limited, Launch of the Twin-screw Pump Hopper Dredger Poulton 296
Fletcher, Russell, and Co.’e New Works, 199
Flood Water, Use of Filtered, 587
Flooring for Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best, 228
Flooring, Fireproof, Messrs. Mark Fawcett and Co., 606
Flow of Water, Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 94
Fluid Motion, Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw on the Character of, 94
Fluoride of Sodium in Steam Boilers, Use of, 164
Fly-wheels, Bursting of, 29
Flying Machines for Use in War, Projected Ex¬periments with, United States, 11
Fog-dispeller, The Tugrin, 439
Foreign Competition Question, The, 650
Competition in the Steel Trade, 412
Forgings and the Machines used in Producing thorn, Mr. Brett on, 566
Forman, Mr. C. de Neuville, Economy in Hand¬ling and Transport of Minerals, 613
Fossil Coal Plants, Mr. Jas. Lomax, 595
Fonl Gas in Sewers, 245
Foundry, A Large, General Electric Company, America, 502
Fowne8 Forge and Engineering Company, First Steam Hammer Started, 378
Fox, Head, and Co., The Business of, transferred to Mr. J. H. Lord, 300
France, Bill for Creation of Free Harbours under Consideration, 577
Franklin, Mr., Indicator Patent, 132
Fraser and Chalmers, Limited, Works of, 542, 555
French Engineering Industry in 1898, 298 Marine, The, 315
Naval Department, Budget for 1899, 11
Friction Clutch, Crown, 259
Frost in March, 1899, Lowest Reading in Bed¬fordshire, 313
Frozen Meat Trade, 659
Fuel Economy on American Railways, 180
Fuel, Oil, 327
Fulda Case, The s.s., 493, 547
Furnaces, Blast, in the United Kingdom, 313
Fuel, Patent, for the Navy, Admiralty Commis¬sion, 98
Petroleum, 656
Furnace Door, Smoke-preventing, 297
Liquid Fuel Crucible, 168
The Wellmann, 461

G

GALERNII Island, 228
Gales of 1898, The Heaviest, 11
Galt, Dr. Alexander, On the Heat of Combination of Pairs of Solid Metals, 542
Galton, Sir Douglas (with Portrait), 257
Galveston in Texas, Carrying Trade of, 337
Gantry, Another Large, 85
Garbage Destructors, Dr. Ashburton Thomson on, 324
and Offal Disposal, New York, 270
Garforth, Mr. W. E., On the Comparative Advan¬tages of Electricity, Steam, and Compressed Air for Mining Purposes, 641

Gas:

Gas, Blast Furnace, Prof. Arth on its Utilisation, 387
Carburetted Water, 457, 594, 626
Distribution, On, 457
Engines as Motive Power in Engineering Works, 327
Engines, New Design in, 470
Engines—see Engines, Gas
Exhausters and Gas-exhausting Plant, Mr. R. Hargraves on, 320
Influence of Carbonic Acid on the Combus¬tion of Coal and Carburetted Water, 626
Lighters, Automatic, 326
for Lighting and other Purposes, Differential Rates as between Consumers of, 594, 626
Lighting for Streets, Incandescent, 285
Liquefier, Self-intensive, Dr. Hampson’s, 470
Meters, Growing Use of Penny-in-the-slot, 33
for Motor Purposes, 626
Natural, Found in the United States, an Excellent Fuel, its Constituents, 517
Purifying from Dust, 465
Purifying by Lime, 387
Statistics for 1897, and the Last Five Years, 119
Supply, 1898, 18
Parliamentary Returns as to, 119
Traction on Tramways, 656
Gases, Blast Furnace, Utilisation of, 140, 542
Scrubbing Blast Furnace, 517
Gasholder, Failure of the Retaining Tank of a, 11
“ Gasorcoal ” Stove, The, 517
Gasworks at Edinburgh, New, 275
Gasworks, On the Regenerative System for Small,
Gathmann Shell, Test of the, 575
Gauge, Differential Micrometer, 525
Gearing, Hall's Hydraulic Variable-speed, 39
Gehre, Mr., New Fireproof Material for Building, 262
Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, On the, 461
Geometrical Quadrature of the Circle, A New, 136
German Canals, 606
Germany, Drastic Labour Measures in, 569
Gibraltar Main Sewerage Works, 193
Giffen, Sir Robt., On the Relative Growth of the Component Parts of the Empire, 242
Gilbertson, Mr., On Japanese Swords, 11
Gilson, Prof. G., Ocean-drift Experiments in the North Sea, 413
Gisholt Machine Company, Motor Gear Lathe, 117,293
Gjers, Mr. John, Valuation of his Estate, 43
Glasgow, Mr. A. G., On Carburetted Water Gas, 594, 626
Bridge, Re-opening of, 520, 539, 540, 541
Corporation Electric Tramways, 142, 343
Overhead Trolley Wires in, 452
Sewage Disposal at, 521
and West of Scotland Technical College, The, 644
Glass Moulding, M. L. Appert's New Method, 621
as a Paving Material, 287
Roofing, Mr. S. Deards’, 444
Wire, 500
Glenfield Company, Limited, Pumping Engine, Haughhead Colliery, 338, 339
Glover and Co., Messrs., 270
Gold Industry of Mashonaland, 99
Mine, The Rose Deep, Johannesburg, 593, 594
Kalgoorlie, Mr, H. F. Bulman on the, 534
of the Transvaal, Zoutpansberg, 599,
Mining, Modern Practice in, 586
Notes on, Mr. F. Irving, 586
Output, South Africa, 1898, 175
for November, 1897, 1898, West
Australia and New South Wales, 42
Gold Production of Queensland, 409
the United States Last Year, 577
and Silver Production, 354
along the Ussuri River, Discovery of, 85
Yield of Victoria in 1898, 33
“Good Fellowship Scheme,” A, 438
Goold, Mr. Joseph, Differential Micrometer Gauge, 525
Goschen, Mr., and Naval Engineers, 442
Government Abuses in Cape Colony, 603
Telephone Bill, The, 624
Graftio, Mr. Hy., On “A Formula for Train Resistance,” 595
Graphite, Manufacture of, by Electric Means, 337
Mines in Bohemia, The, 85
Graving-dock Blocks and Appliances, On, 641
Greenwich Observatory, Protection of the Mag¬netic Registers from the Effect of Electric Traction, 595
Greenwood, Mr. A., On Machine Tools, with special reference to American and German Practice, as compared with English, 613
Grether and Co., Messrs. E., Vogt’s Patent for Sinking Bore-holes, 423
Griffiths, Mr. A., Apparatus to Determine the Rate of Diffusion of Solids Dissolved in Liquids, 272
Groynes, Examples of, 354, 381, 403, 430, 455, 482
Groynes, Examples of—tte also Sea Coast Pro¬tection
Gun Camera under Construction in Chicago, 337
Carriages, Krupp Quick-firing Field, 514
Carriage. Quick-firing Field, 243
Construction, Mr. W. H. Owston on, 464
The United States Naval Tests at Indian Head, 517
Vicker’s 12in. Breech-loading, 244
Gunnery, English and American, 417
Guns, French Quick-firing, 137
Machine, for the Transvaal Government, Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, 450
New Type Wire, 181, 204
Giinther and Sons, Central Discharge Turbine, 319

H

HADFIELD, Mr. R. A., Alloys of Iron and Nickel, 348
Hadfield, Mr. Robt. Abbott, on the Influence of Casting Temperature upon Steel, 640
Haidar Pasha, Projected Harbour at, 33
Hall, Mr. J. W., Consulting Engineer and Ma¬chinery Valuer, 42
Hall’s Hydraulic Variable-speed Gearing, 39
Halliwell Dyeing Company’s Works, Boiler Ex¬plosion at the, 11
Halliday, Mr. G., Experiments to ascertain the Heat-absorptive Power of Water, 473
Hamburg, The New Dock Basin at, 621
Special Paths for Cyclists in, 639 Trade of, 59
Hamilton, Mr. Jas., On the Horse-power absorbed by Skin Friction and Wave-making, 310
Hammer, Planishing, Messrs. Thompson Bros., Steam, Messrs. B. and S. Massey, 325
Hammond, Mr. J. H., On Modern Practice in Gold Mining, 586
Hampson’s Self-intensifier Gas Liqnefier, 470
Handles, Sledge and Hammer, 10,
Hanna-Payne Shippiog Bill, The, 70
Hanson, Mr. Wm., 477, 504
Haralson and Wood, Messrs., Experiments in
Shrinking and Forcing Steel Spindles into Iron Discs, 237
Harbour Construction, Mr. W. E. Lester on Temporary Works and Appliances in, 542
Defences for New York necessary, New, 595
Free, Bill for, under Consideration in France, 577
at Haidar Pasba, German Company’s Project for Building a, 33
Works at Christiania, Tenders invited in connection with New, 491

Harbours and Waterways:

Bristol Docks, Mr. W. W. Squire’s Appointment, 605
Canal, Amsterdam, 182
Canals, Canadian, 182
Canal, Goole, 340
Canal, Thames and Severn, 182
Dredger, Suction, for New South Wales, 182
Harbour, Dover, 340
Harbour, Ellesmere, Grain Warehouse, 605
Harbour, Hamburg, 340
Harbour, Hastings, 340
Harbour, Keysham, 605
Harbour, The Hvgli, Calcutta, 340
Harbour and Docks, Seaharo, 695
Harbour, Peterhead, 605
Harbour and River, New York, 68, 182, 365
Harbour, Vera Cruz, 182
Harbour and Waterway Engineering for 1898, 6
Irrigation in India, 355
New South Wales, 365
Preston Dock and River, Capital Expended on, 605
Thames Channels, The, 605
Waterways, Russian, 59
Hargadine Dry Goods Company, Power Plant, 40
Hargrave, Mr. Lawrence, On Kites and Kite Flying, 542
Hargraves, Mr. R., On Gas Exhausters and Gas- exhausting Plant, 320
Hartcliffe and Malkin, Messrs., Straight Full-way Valve, 399
Hartmann and Braun’s New Thermo-electric Couple, 365
Harvesting Machinery, A Low Elevator Steel Binder, Messrs. Harrison Macgregor and Co., 546
Haslam, Sir A. S., On Separate Condensing Plants for Factory Purposes, 614
Haswell, Mr. C. IL, On Marine Steam Engine Construction in the United States, 308, 345
Haughhead Colliery, Pumping Plant at, 338, 339
Havre, Cranes for, Loan Authorised, 577
Hawkhnrst, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Plans for, 418
Hayward Tyler and Co., Hydraulic Intensifier, 42
Head, Mr. Archibald, On the Wellman Furnace, 461
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, 259, 378
Health Department of the City of London, 371
Heat of Combination of Pairs of Solid Metals, Dr. A. Galt on the, 542
Heat in Cooled Bars, Transference of, 29
Transfer of, 512
Heating Dwellings, Korean Method of, 187
Power of German “ Braunkohle,” 262
Hele-Shaw, Prof. H. S., On Fluid Motion, 94
On the Motion of a Per¬fect Liquid, 548
On the Stream Lines of a Liquid, 166
Henderson, Mr. J. M., Material Transporter at Vauxhall, 193
Heron’s Nest Built of Wire, 187
Hervey, Mr. M. W., On the Use of Filtered Flood Water, 587
Heuristic Method of Teaching Physics in Second¬ary Schools, Mr. F. C. Weedon on the, 264, 266
Higgins, Mr. H. E., On Some of the Larger Trans¬portations Problems of Cities, 577
High-pressure Steam at Sea, 493
Hildage, Mr. H. T., On Prospecting for Minerals, 349
Hill, Mr. G. H., Opening Address, 587
Hill and Co., Messrs. Rich., Conversion into a Company, 300
Hillier, Mr. E. G., On the Working of the Boiler Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890, 212
Hinges, Butt, American Patented Process, 43
Hissing of the Electric Arc, Mrs. Ayrton on the, 321
Holden and Brooke, Limited, Pump and Injector, 631
Holgate, Mr. B., On Mineral Oils, 146
Holgate, Mr. T., Coke-handling Plant, 457
Hopetoun, Earl of, His Opening Address as President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 282
Hop Washer at the Maidstone Show, 620
Horse-power, The Measure of, 227
Horsfall Destructor, The, 260
Howat’s Patent Miners’ Safety Lamp, 499
Howden, Mr. Jas., On Torpedo Boat Destroyers for Sea Service, 309
Hub, A Rubber-cushioned, 410
Hudson River Tunnel Projected, A, 595
Hulse and Co., Limited, Messrs., Machine Tools, 399
Humphrys, Tennant, and Co., Engines of the New Royal Yacht, 568, 574, 604
Hunter, Mr. Jas Bernard, 434
Hunter, Mr. W. H., On the Discharge and Re¬loading of Large Steamers, 564
Hurst, Mr. Wm., On the Navvy, 198
Hyatt, Mr. J. W., Roller for Anti friction Bear¬ings, 237
Hyde Park Court Mansions, The Air Lift Pump, 422
Hydraulic Main, Evolution of the, 594, 626
Presses, 195
Presses, Problem in, 145
Press Problem, 145, 194, 209, 245

I

ICE Machinery in West Africa, 219
Ice-making Plant, A Great, 145
Ice, Notes on the Slipperiness of, 262
Illuminating Shells for Lighting Areas of Ocean, 655
Incandescent Lamp Filament, Conductivity of an, 365
Incandescent Lamp, A New, 326
Incandescent Mantles, On, 457
Inclines, Self-acting, 296
Incrustation of Boilers, Composition for Prevent¬ing, Messrs. J. S. Morris and Sons, 399
India, Irrigation in, 355
Indianapolis Waterworks, Steel Pipe Line for the, 337
India-rubber Industry, The, 39
Indicating Engines, Reducing Appliance for, 547
Indicator Patent, 132
Industrial Chemistry in England, Teaching of, 481
Development, Modern, 71, 73
Trusts, Danger of, 392
Inglis, Dr. John, and the Marine Engineers, 88, 95
Injector, Live and Exhaust Steam, 631
Institute of Engineers, South Wales:
Sinking, Mr. McMurtie’s Paper on, discussed, 44
Winding Appliances, Mr. E. M. Hann on, 44

Institute, Incorporated Gas:

Inaugural Address of Mr. S. Stewart, 594
Carbonic Acid on the Combustion of Coal and
Carburetted Water Gas, Influence of, Mr. F. G. Dexter, 626
Carburetted Water-gas, Mr. A. G. Glasgow, 594,626 ’
Gas for Lighting and for Purposes other than Lighting, Differential Rates as between Con¬sumers of, Mr. Thos. Newbigging, 594, 626
Gas for Motor Purposes, Mr. T. 0. Paterson. 626
Hydraulic Main, Evolution of the, Mr. Wm. Carr, 594, 626
Inclined Retorts, Recent Experience in Work¬ing, Mr. C. A. Craven, 626
Naphthalene Deposits: their Cause and Pre¬vention, Mr. J. P. Leather, 594, 626
Degenerative System for Small Gasworks, Advantages of the, Mr. John Lyne, 627

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Annual Meeting, Programme of, 287, 897
Autumn Meeting, Manchester, Relative to the. 271, 300, 398, 625
Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Gases, Mr. Enrique Disdier on the Use of, 461
Compass, The Swedish Miners’ Dipping, Described by Professor H. Louis, 461
Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, Professor H. Banermann, 461
Hagfors Works, 25
Hot Blast in the Bessemer Process, On the Use of, Professor Wiborgh, 461
Iron, Diffusion of Elements in, Professor Arnold and Mr. A. McWilliam, 461
Ore Districts, Map of the Swedish, 25
and Steel, Solution Theory of, Baron Jiiptner von Jonstorff, 462
and Steels, Theories and Faots Relating to Cast, Mr. Bertrand Sommers, 462
Munkfors Iron and Steel Works, 25
Nykroppa Works, 25
Persberg Mines, 25
Riida and Stisrnsfors Chemical Wood PuId Works, 25
Reduced Railway Fares to Manchester for Members, 413
Roberts Austen, Sir Wm., Inaugural Address, 460, 472, 501, 531
Stoel from the Ore in the Blast Furnace, On the Manufacture of, Dimitris Tschernoff, 462
Wellman Furnace, Mr. Archibald Head on the, 461

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Presidential Address of Dr. John Inglis, 88, 95
Heat-Abaorptive Power of Water, Mr. G. Halliday’s Experiments, 473
Institute of Marine Engineers, Bristol Channel Centre of:
Auxiliary Machinery on Board Ships, Mr. E, Nicholl on, 164

Institute of Philadelphia, The Franklin:

Transportation Problems of Cities, On some of the Larger, Mr. E. E. Iliggins, 577

Institute, The Sanitary:

Welsh Water Supply Scheme for London, Mr. R. E. Middleton, 187

Institution of Civil Engineers:

Annual Dinner, 271
Awards for Papers read during Past Session, 418
Conference, 271, 521, 537, 562-574, 583-588
Conference Excursions, 537, 538, 542, 555, 556, 558, 572, 589
Conversazione, 600
Election of Officers, Result of Ballot, 412
Entrance Examination, 32,118,144
Inaugural Address of the President, Sir W. H. Preece, 562
Opening Address, Mr. E. W. Richards, 586
Programme of the Second Conference, 504, 521
Papers Read and Discussed, and Visits Paid :—
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Mr. R. A. Had- field, 348
Beckton Gasworks, The, Visit to, 557
Breakwaters, Design of, Mr. J. Watt-Sandeman, 585
Breakwaters in Different Depths of Water, Notes on the Effect of Waves on, Mr. Wm. Shield, 584
Central London Electric Railway, Conference Excursion, 589, 590, 591
Coal Mining, Modern Improvements in, Winding from Deep Mines, Mr. H. W. Martin, 586
Coke Ovens, By-product, M. Evenee Coppée, 640
Condensing Plants for Factory Purposes, Separate, Sir A. S. Haslam. 614
Cory and Sons’ Works, Visit to, 556
Cranes and the Power to be Used with them, Mr. Pitt, 614
Dredgers, Sand Pump, Mr. A. G. Lyster, 584
East London Waterworks, Visit to the, 555
Economical Transmission and Distribution of Electricity from a Distance, Mr. H. F. Parshall, 612
Electric Meters, Prof. Ayrton, 611
Electrical Transmission, Methods of, Mr. Jas. Swinburne, 574
Electricity, Economical Transmission and Distribution of, from a Distance, Mr. H. F. Parshall, 612
Electricity, Mechanical Traction by, Mr. G. C. Cuningham, 611
Forgings and the Machines Used in Produc¬ing them, Mr. Brett, 566
Fraser and Chalmers, Limited, Works of, Visit to, 555
Gold Mining, Modern Practice in, Mr. J. H. Hammond, 586
Gold Mining, Notes on, Mr. Fearnside Irving, 586
Graving Dock Blocks and Appliances, Mr. A. J. Maginnis, 641
Hills, Mr. G. H., Opening Address, 587
Lantern Slides Allowed by, 119
Light Railway? What is a, and what Cir¬cumstances should Govern the Gauge? Mr. A. C. Pain, 562
Locks and Entrances and Graving Docks, the Length, Width, and Depth, and Shape and Mode of Construction of, having re¬gard to the Increasing Sizes and Shapes of Vessels, Mr. R. C. H. Davidson, 564
Locomotives, Compound, Mr. Webb, 565
Locomotives, High-speed, Mr. J. H. Dales on, 70
London Hydraulic Power Company, 537
Machine Tools with special reference to American and German Practice as com¬pared with English, Mr. A. Greenwood, 613
Machinery of Warships, Sir A. J. Durston, 269, 290
Magnetism, Professor J. A. Ewing, 384
Mechanical Traction by Electricity, Mr. G. C. Cuningham, 611
Merchant Steamers, Practicability of so Constructing them as to make them available for War Purposes, Mr. J. H. Biles, 566, 584
Metropolitan Sewage Works, Barking, Visit to, 556
Minerals, Economy in Handling and Trans¬port of, Mr. C. de Nenville Forman, 613
Mining Purposes, Comparative Advantages of Electricity, Steam, and Compressed Air for, Mr. W. E. Garforth, 640
Mountain Railways, Mr. Charles Assheton Whately Pownall, 562
Power for Tramways, Light Railways, and Motor-car Traffic, Relative Advantages of Different Kinds of, Mr. Parker, 565
Railways, Causes of Earthslips in the Slopes of Cuttings and Embankments of, and how to Prevent them, Mr. R. E. Cooper, 612, ’
Railways of this Country, The Most Expedi¬tious Method of Re-laying, Mr. H. Footner, 612
Riveting and Canlking of Ships, and the Material of Ship Rivets, Mr. R. T. Napier, 641
Sewage Sludge Disposal by Natural Agencies, Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, 588
Siemens Brothers and Co , Limited, Works at Woolwich, Visit to, 538, 558, 572
Signalling Appliances of Railways, Advan¬tages or Disadvantages of Uniting the Lock and Block, Mr. Alexander Ross, 563
Signalling, Various Systems of Railway Fog, Mr. W. Swanwick Boult, 563
Staines Reservoirs, 537
Steamers, Cargo, Mr. Edwin Wm. de Rusett, 567
Steamers, Discharging and Re-loading of Large, Mr. W. H. Hunter, 564
Steamers of Moderate Size, Swift Passenger, Mr. Edwin Lewis Martin, 566, 583
Steel, Influence of Casting, Temperature on, Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 640
Steel Rails, Effects of Wear upon, Mr. Wm. G. Kirkaldy, 121
Steel Rails, Microphotography of, Sir Wm. Roberts-Austen, 121
Surrey Commercial Docks, Visit to, 556
Water Supply in Different Towns, and of the
Causes which Increase or Diminish it in Particular Instances, Consideration of the Rato per Head per Day of the, Mr. J. Watson, 587
Water-tube Boilers for Marine Engines, Mr. J. T. Milton, 269, 290
Water, Use of Filtered Flood, Mr. M. W. Hervey, 587
Westminster Electric Supply Corporation, Projected Visit to Millbank-street Station, 538
Webb, Four-cylinder Compound, A Run with a, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 591

Institution of Civil Engineers: Birmingham Association of Students:

Thirteenth Annual Dinner, Presentation to Mr. H. C. Adams, Description of Birmingham Waterworks in the Elam Valley, Mr. Man- sergh, 169
Institution of Civil Engineers: Glas¬gow Association of Students:
Duntocher and Dalmuir Waterworks, Mr. Chas. R. Rutherglen, 370

Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders In Scotland :

Engines, Four-crank Marine, Mr. John Thom on, 186

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Conversazione, 487
Dynamo and Transformer Construction, Mr. Jas. Swinburne on, 577
Hissing of the Electric Arc, Mrs. Ayrton on the, 321
Magnetic'Space Telegraphy, Improvements in, by Dr. Oliver Lodge, 120, 170, 197
Marconi, Signor, On Wireless Telegraphy, 237,
242
Premiums for Papers read during the Session— to whom awarded, 542
Uniformity in Electrical Engineering Practice, Question of, 229
Visit to Switzerland, Arrangements for a, 500, 625

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Presidential Address, Mr. F. D. Marshall, 457
Carburetted Water Gas, Practical Working of,
Mr. C. F. Botley, 457
Coke-handling Plant, Mr. T. Holgate, 457
Gas Distribution, Mr. C. C. Carpenter, 457
Incandescent Mantles, Prof. V. B. Lewes, 457
Retort Heating, Modern Systems of, Mr. G. P. Lewis, 457
Wind Pressure on Buildings and other Struc¬tures, Mr. J. O. V. Irminger, 457

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Annual Dinner, 122
Carbon-consuming Batteries and their Pos¬sibilities, Mr. W. R. Cooper, 233
Elasticity, Measurements of, Prof. Ewing on, 122
Factory Design, Mr. J. H. Pearson, 168
Gun Construction, Mr. W. H. Owston on, 464
Piles and Pile-driving, Mr. H. C. Reid, 397

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Address, New, Storey’s Gate, 56, 463
Annual Dinner, and Mr. Goschen’s Speech at, 422, 442
Annual General Meeting, Fifty second, and List of Papers to be Read, 78
Annual Report, Fifth Report of the Alloys
Research Committee and Description of the Recording Apparatus at the Laboratory, 160
Conversazione, 469, 490
Presidential Address of Sir Wm. White, 432, 434, 441
Programme of Summer Meeting, 213, 574
Evaporative Condensers, Mr. H. G. V. Oldham, 432, 442, 447
Mechanical Engineering and Modern Ship¬building, Connection between, Sir William White, 434, 441, 475
Printing Machinery, Mr. Wm. Powrie on, 161
Walker, Mr. Arthur Tannett, Elected Vice-president, 313

Institution of Mining Engineers:

Band Ropes for Transmission of Power Under¬ground, Use of Slow-moving, Mr. Harry Rhodes, 599
Beeby’a Brick Company, Limited, Yaxley, Visit to, 600
Boiler Explosions Acts, 1882, 1890, Mr. E. G. Hillier on the Working of, 212
Historical Sketch of the First Institute of Mining Engineers, Mr. Bennett H. Brough, 212
Johnson and Phillips’ Works at Charlton, Visit to, 600
Kalgoorlie Gold Mines, West Australis, Mr. H. F. Bulman, 534
Papers Previously Read that were to be Dis¬cussed, 600
Papers Unread, List of New, 600
Pit Props, Further Notes on, by Professor Hy.
Lewis, dealing with the Results of Mr. Diitting’s Investigations, 212
Presidential Address of Mr. J. A. Longden, on our Present and Future Coal Supplies, 534
Safety Explosives, Notes on, Mr. W. J. Oreman, 243, 534, 599
Sulphur Mines in the South of Spain, Mr. A. P. Wilson, 243
Timber and Other Fibrous Substances, New Process of Seasoning and Preserving, Mr. H. Bailie-Weaver, 599
Twenty-ninth General Meeting, Agenda Pro¬gramme, Affiliated Societies, Prizes awarded, &c., 212
Ventilators for Mines, Mechanical, Mr. W. Walton Brown, 599
Zoutpansberg Gold6elds of the Transvaal, Mr. D. S. S. Steuart, 599
Institution of Naval Architects:
Balancing of Engines, with Special Reference to Marine Work, Professor W. E. Dalby, 310
Boilers, Practical Experience on the Strength of, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 308
Dates of the Annual Meetings and Dinner, 119
H.M.S. Argonaut, Sir John Durston on Trials and Experiments made in, 282
Horse-Power Absorbed by Skin Friction and Wave-Making, Mr. Jas. Hamilton, 310
Marine Steam Engine Construction and Naviga¬tion in the United States from 1807 to 1850, Mr. C. H. Haswell, 308, 345
Motive Power of Warships, The Logical Arrangement of the, Commodore Geo. W. Melville, 285, 308, 320
Presidential Address by the Eirl of Hopetoun, 282
Programmes of the Annual Meeting and of the Summer Meetings and Excursions, 246, 478
Riveters, Portable Pneumatic, in Shipbuilding, by W. J. Babcock, 321
Stability, Cross Curves of, Advantages of Using Tchebyscheff's Rule in association with the Integrator to Obtain, Mr. C. F. Munday, 308
Steam Pipes, Mr. J. T. Milton, 294, 308
Steam Trials on Danish Ships, by Capt. A. Rasmussen, 283
Stresses at the Discontinuities in a Ship’s Structure, Mr. J. Bruhn, 308
Torpedo Boat Destroyers for Sea Service, Mr. Jas. Huwden, 308
Insulator, the Best, Professor W. Hempel on, 85
Insurance Companies in England and Scotland, 262
Intensifier, Hydraulic, 42
Inventions to be Patented at the Expense of the London County Council, 85
Irminger, Mr. J. O. V., Wind Pressure on Build¬ings and Other Structures, 457

Iron:

Iron, Belgian, Cheapness of, and Growing Demand for, 365
and Coal Statistics for the Year, 44
Compression Tests of Half-inch Cubes of Ingot Mould, 313
Diffusion of Elements in, 461
“Iron Man” in the Mine, The, 338
and Nickel, Alloys of, Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 348
and Nickel Alloys, M. F. Osmond on, 164
Open-hearth Steel from Cleveland, 37
Ore Exported from Elba 1898, 655
Ore Problem, The, 487
Ore, On the Use of Petroleum for Smelt¬ing, 390
Oatput in Russia, 608
from Over-strain, On the Recovery of, Mr. Jas. Muir, 420
(Pig) from the Cleveland District, January Shipments of, 123
(Pig) Output in Germany, including Luxemburg, for 1898, 124
(Pig) Output in Russia for 1898, 124
(Pig) Output of the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Aus¬tria, Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, for 1898, 119
(Pig), its Position, 374, 391
Pipes, First Use of Cast, for the London Water Supply, 439
Production, United States, 1898, 11
Rustless Cast, 313
Silicides of, Preparation of, by the Use of the Electric Furnace, 517
Spanish Hoop, its Unsatisfactory Quality, 365
and Steel, Austro-Hungarian Import in, 608
and Steels, Cast, Theories and Facts Re¬lating to, 462
and Steel, French Foreign Trade in, 200
and Steel Plates, M. Hubert Bya, on the Manufacture of, 164
and Steel Trade of the United States, 1897-98 59
Trade Discounts, 617, 650, 656, 657
Trade, Industrial Peace in the, 190
Trade in the United States, Monopoly of the, 140
Trade Wages, 342
from the United States into Austria, Importation of, 33
Irrigation in Cyprus, 445
by Electric Power, 231 in Italy, 439
Schemes, S. Africa, 376, 479, 609
Irwing, Mr. Fearnside, on Gold Mining, 586
Isler and Co.’s Parquet Flooring Underlaid with Peat, 187
Italy, British Trade with, Cause of its Decline, 291
Irrigation Schemes, 439
Use of Water Power to Promote Electric Traction, 577
Water Power in, 417
Water Statistics, 439
Ivorjr Carving at Dieppe, Project for Reviving,

J

JACKSON, Mr. John, 248
Jai Samund or Sea of Victory in India, 439
Janney Automatic Coupling, The, 644
Japan, The Cardboard and Pasteboard Industry in, 465
and China, Metal and Machinery Imports of, 431
Commercial Education in, 517 Foreign Capital in, 102, 114, 409
Foreign Patents in, 195
Railways and Foreign Capital, 20
Telephone Service, 137
Japanese Swords, Mr. Gilbertson oa, 11
Treaties, The New, 114
Johannesburg, Electric Lighting Installation, 505
Rose Deep Gold Mine, 593, 594
Johnson, Mr. Cuthbert Geo. Dixon, 199
Johnson, Mr. Nelson, of Cramp's Shipyards, 11
Johnson and Phillip’s Works at Charlton, Visit to 600
Joining Machine Belts, 209
Joints, Cast Welded Rail, New Type of, 212
Jones, Mr. E. Hy., Novel Vice, 545
Jones, Mr. John A., Waterworks of the Madras Presidency, 172
Jones, Mr. W. Clyde, On British and American Patent Systems, 416
Jungfrau Railway, The, 132,138, 167

K

KADONO, C., On Japanese Railways, 220
Kalgoorlie, A Central Power Station for the Goldfields of, 237
Gold Mines, W. Australia, Mr. H. F. Bulman on the, 534
Kallenite, The New Explosive, 365
Kecheur’s Steam Generator, 91
Keels, Cambered, 26
Kennedy, Prof., to Report to the L.C.C. on Mechanical Tramway Traction, 413
Kentish Coalfields, The, 508
Kertch to be Converted into a War Harbour, 287
Killowen, Lord Russell of, On Technical Educa¬tion, 165
Kinealy, Prof. J. H.. On Disc Fans, 187
King’s College, Old Students’ Dinner, 413
Kirkaldy, Mr. W. G., Effects of Wear upon Steel Rails, 121
Kite-flying Record, Massachusetts Observatory, 365
Kites and Kite-flying, Mr. Laurence Hargrave, 542
Kitson, Mr. John Hawthorn, 539
Kuap’s Water-tube Boiler, 194
Koch’s Heavy Oil Motor Car, 120
Krag-Jorgensen Rifle, Working of, 595
Kraus and Co., Locomotives for Japan, 528
Krompach Works, Blowing Engines at the, 3)3
Kronstadt Dockyard, 363, 382
Krupp Quick-firing Field Gun Carriages, 514

L

LABOUR Conciliation Shelved, 316
Disputes, Futility of, 467
Market, The, 59, 387, 413, 491, 621
Measures in Germany, Drastic, 569
and Trade Improvements, 496
Laird, Mr. Wm. (with Portrait), 134, 149
Lamb, Mr. G. C., On the Distribution of Magnetic Induction in a Long Iron Bar, 655
Lamp Explosions in Manchester, Mr. W. Thomson’s Report on, 400
Lamp, Miner’s Safety, Howat’s Patent, 499
Lanchester, Mr., Motor Carriage, 256
Landslip at Sasso Airolo, The Report of the Com¬mission to Investigate the Cause, 119
Lathe, Capstan, Messrs. Schischkar and Co., 419
Lathe, Gisholt, 293
Motor Gear, 117
T. Ryder and Son, 602
Turret, and Screw Machines, 292, 312
on Twin-screw Principle, Messrs. Hulse and Co.*8, 399
Langhans, Herr, New Incandescent Lamp, 326
Launch Motor, 346
Launching Arrangements, Hydraulic, 133

Launches and Trial Trips:

Airedale, Wm. Gray and Co., 476
Albatross, Trial of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 364
Amazonense, David J. Dunlop and Co., 476
Anna, Craig, Taylor, and Co., 198, 297
Anversville, Sir Raylton Dixon, and Co. Limited, 476
Archanda, Craig, Taylor, and Co., 400, 499
Bardistan, Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, 270
Barton, Ropner and Son, 476, 529
Border Knight, David and Wm. Henderson, and Co., 659
Bergenhus, Messrs. Irvine’s Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Company, 98
Bolama, Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, 136
Bornu, Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, 477
Brisgavia, Workman, Clarke, and Co., 297
Cassandra, Day, Summers, and Co., 545
Claudius, Wm. Gray and Co., 297, 476
Claverdale, Craig, Taylor, and Co., 222
Cork, Blackwood and Gordon, 400
Craigleith, Messrs. Wm. Gray and Co., 198
Degama, Furness, Withy, and Co., 20
Diamante, Messrs. Hall, Russell, and Co., 98
Elansobe, Gray and Co,, 529
Eleanora Mail, Messrs. Craig. Taylor, and Co., 98
Energy, Allsup and Co., 476
Euxinia, Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company, 136
Flora, Laxevaags Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, 609
Floriston, Ropner and Son, 609
Gadsby, Ropner and Son, 326
Garonne, Robt. Stephenson and Co., Limited, 609
Glory, Battleship, 268
Gothland Re-engined, David Rollo and Sons, 659
Greenwich, Messrs. Ropner and Son, 136
Grosmont, Ropner and Son, 659
Ilatasu, Messrs. Furness, Withy and Co., 136
Hyanthes, Bartram and Sons, 374
Implacable, Battleship, 263
Incnkeith, Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, 499
India, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., Limited, 476
Jahihu, Wigham Richardson and Co., 270
Jabira, Wigham Richardson and Co., 400
Java, Ropner and Son, 476
John Coverdale, Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, 499
Ktgyo, Messrs. Yarrow and Co., Limited, 98, 297
Kiinig Albert, Stettin Vulcan Yard, 655
Kronborg, Messrs. Wm. Gray and Co., 136
Kum Sang, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., 73, 270
Luciline, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, 545
Manchester Corporation, Farness, Withy, and Co., 609
Manchester Importer, Irvine’s Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Company, Limited, 545
Milton, Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, 374
Milwaukee, Launch of the Fore-end of thes.s., 361
Mont Blanc, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., 326, 609
Mooraboot, Blyth Shipbuilding Company, Limited, 136, 326
Mundaka, Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, 374
Newcastle, C. S. Swan and Hunter, Limited, 222
Newholm, C. S. Swan and Co., Limited, 297, 476
Nordpol, Northumberland Shipbuilding Com¬pany, 499
Orifiamme, Armstrong, Whitworth, »and Co., Limited, 476, 632
Ormley, Craig, Taylor, and Co., 609
Ortona, Pacific Liner, to be Launched in July, 551
Peareth, Irvine’s Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Company, 262 270, 374
Pendeen, Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, 222
Pervi, Messrs. Wm. Simon3 and Co., Limited, 491
Portugal, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., Limited, 632
Poulton, Dredger, Fleming and Ferguson, Limited, 296
Prah, Wm. Dobson and Co., 20
Prince Arthur, Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engi¬neering Co., 136
Raithwaite, Wm. Gray and Co., Limited, 270
Rau, Wm. Gray and Co., 73
Ravenshoe, Northumberland Shipbuilding Com¬pany, Limited, 161
Rembrandt, David and Wm. Henderson and Co., 374
Romney, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., 73
Saint Andrew, C. S. Swan and Hunter, 20, 326
Salamis, Hall, Russell and Co., 400
Sandormen, Messrs. W. Simons and Co., Limited, 136
Sangara, Furness, Withy, and Co., 374
Silesia, Messrs. Wigham Richardson and Co., 222
Sirdar, Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company, Limited, 98
Solo, Wigham Richardson and Co., 136, 270
Stanfield, Messrs. J. L. Thompson and Sons, Limited, 198
Terek, Sir Jas. Laing and Sons, Limited, 545
Tullochmoor, Doxford and Sons, 476
Vengeance, H.M.S , to be Launched in July, 551
Wandby, Ropner and Son, 222, 326
Warwick, Blyth Shipbuilding Company, 400, 529
West Point, Robt. Stephenson and Co , Limited, 326
Wilberforce, Messrs. J. L. Thompson and Sons, Limited, 198
Weissenfels, Wigham Richardson and Co, 476, 609
West Point, Robt. Stephenson and Co., Limited, 632
Woodford, Messrs. Ropner and Sons, 136, 222
Barge, Steam Hopper, Wm. Simons and Co., Limited, 659
Dredger, Barge-loading, Wm. Simons and Co., 326
Dredgers for Talienwan, Trials of New, 631
French Destroyers, Launch of, 188
Screw Steamer, C. S. Swan and Hunter, Limited, 476
Twin-screw Passenger Steamer, Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., 222
Lea, Mr. H., Some Practical Points in Electric Lighting, 133
Lead-poisoning in Factories, Regulations drawn up by the Swiss Government to Prevent, 577

Leaders:

1898, 13
Armoured Ships of the Future, 416
Atbara Bridge, The, 543
Atbara Bridge and Standardisation, The, 367
Ballasting of Steamers, 289
Blast Furnace Gases, Utilisation of, 140
Boilers, Circulation in Steam, 140
Explosions, The Phenomena of, 35
Water-tube, 263, 290
Water-tube, Constructional Failures of, 569
Britain’s Competitors, 519
British Railways, Limitations of, 520
Shipping and the “Rings,” 623
Chemistry, 19 Children in Factories, 240
Chinese Iron Trade Development, 597
Railway Crisis, Tho, 190
Colliers in South Wales, Registration of, 649
Condensers in the Navy, 342
Copper and Tin, Position of, 215
Couplers, Automatic, 263, 571
Eight Hours Question, The, 191
Electric Lighting Machinery, 543
Tramway Development, 216
Electricity in Warships, 441
Employers’ Liability in France, 468
Engineering, Civil, 13
Engineering, Mechanical, 16
Sanitary, 17
Steam, in the United States Navy, 87
Engineers, Marine, Dr. John Inglis and the, 88
in the Royal Navy, 316
Engines, Compound, for High-pressure, 62
English and American Workmen, 623
Cycles and Foreign Rival?, 570
Engineers and American Bridges, 391
Evaporative Condensers, 442
Field Artillery at Santiago, 624
Foreign Competition Question, The, 650
French Marine, The, 315
Fulda Case, The, 493
Gas Supply, 18
Germany, Labour Measures in, 569
Goschen, Mr., and Naval Engineers, 442
Government and Accidents, 215
Telephone Bill, The, 240
Gunnery, English and American, 417
High-pressure Steam at Sea, 493
Industrial Trusts, Danger of, 392
Inglis, Dr. John, and the Marine Engineers, 88
Iron Trade, Industrial Peace in the, 190
Japanese Treaties, The New, 114
Labour Disputes, Futility of, 467
Measures in Germany, Drastic, 569
Lebon, Mr. André, Complains of the Commercial Position of France, 415
Liquid, Motion of a, 166
Locomotive Driving Wheels, Diameter of, 597
Engine Building in Great Britain, 341
A Great, 289
Mechanics, The Teaching of, 264
Metric System Once More, The, 367
Miners’ Federation, The, 62
Municipal Trading, 239
Patent Systems, British and American, 416
Pig Iron, Position of, 391
Railway Inspection, 189 Railways, 190
Registration of Colliers in South Wales, 649
South Wales Railway Amalgamation, 415
Registration of Colliers in, 649
Strike Reports, Appendix to the, 240
Steamers, Ballasting of, 289
Structural Features of Large Ocean, 139
Steel, Micro-Structure of, 166
Trust, The, 467
Trusts and Prices, 544
Strike, Echoes of the South Wales, 114
Funds, Where They Come from, 88
Submarine Boats, 61
Technical Education (with reference to p. 160), 165
Telephone Service, The, 190
Service, Future of, 88
Thames Tunnel, Proposed, 341
Train Resistance, 36
A New Formula for, 166
United States Navy, Machinery of the, 113
Universal Peace and Industrial Establishments, 494
War Material, 19
Water Supply, 18

Sub-Leaders:

Admiralty and Naval Engineers, 495
American Coal, 650
America’s Colonial Expansion, The Little Bill, 317
Armour Trial, American Thin, 545
Autocrat of the Pit, The, 468
Barking Boiler Explosion, The, 241
Belgians in Russia, 115
Birmingham University, 494
Black Sea Railway, The, 36
Board of Trade and Automatic Couplings, The, 317
Building Trade Dispute, The, 217
Cable, a New Submarine, 36
Cleveland Iron, Open-hearth Steel from, 37
Coal, 62
American, 650
Colliers’ Visions, 544
Copper Combination, The, 417, 443
Position of, 571
Cotton Trade, Threatened Strike in the, 290
County Council Contracts, 115
Defries and Sons, Plant for the Pasteur Filtra¬tion of the Drinking Water on the Oceanic, 368
Darwent Waters, Fight for the, 624
Electric Cabs in Chicago, 520
Lighting and Tramways, 468
Power, Supply of, 342
Railways Conduit, io a Snowstorm, 63
v. Shaft Transmission, 598
Engineers and American Competition, 62
Enginemen’s Dispute in the Midland Coalfield, 241
Engine-room Artificers, 241
Artificers, Entry of, 392
Explosion on Board the Terrible, The, 317
Fire at Elswick, The, 598
French Submarine Boats, 36
Iron and Steel Works Machinery, 166
Trade Discounts, 650 Wages, 342
Libour Conciliation Shelved, 316
Landon Improvements, 598
Machinery Employment and Economical Out¬put, 342
Manchester Ship Canal, The, 63
Miners’ War Chest, The, 442
and the Workmen's Compensation Act, Toe, 290
Monopoly in the United States, A Gigantic, 140
Motor v. Horse Haulage, 89
Oil on Troubled Waters, 37
Open-hearth Steel from Cleveland Iron, 37
Panama and Nicaragua Canals, The, 217
Patent Oppositions, 417
Penn and Sons’ Engineering Works, 63
Plasterers’ “ Lock-out,” The, 241
Retribution! Trade Revival in the United States, 89
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, The, 114
South Yorkshire Coalfield, Development of, 624
Steamships, Water Supply of, 368
Strike in the Cotton Trade, Threatened, 290
Submarine Cable, A New, 363
Telegraphy, Wireless, 363
Telephone Bill, Government, 624
Textile Machinery Exports, 598
Tin and Copper, 114
Trade Ontlook, The, 520
Wages in the Coalfield, 140
Water Power in Italy, 417
Water Power in the Highlands, 443
Water Supply of Steamships, 368
Weapons, Wonderful, 520
Wireless Telegraphy, 368
Workmen's Compensation Premiums, 650
Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 368, 599
Leather, Mr. J. P., On Causes and Prevention of Naphthalene Deposits, 594, 623
Lebon, Mons. André, On the Commercial Position of France, 415
Le Chatelier, M. H., On the Mechanism of the Disintegration of Hydraulic Cements, 865
Lee-Metford Cordite Ammunition, Experiments with, 59
Leeds City E'.octrical Tramways, Mr. E. Talbot on, 169

Legal Intelligence:

Cory r. The Ocean Marine Insurance Company, 174
Lambert Bros. w. The Hesperidea Coal Com¬pany, 174
Magnolia Anti-friction Metal Company and Others Sugden and Others, 67
Patent? Who may Oppose a (from a Legal Correspondent), 408
Roots and Voaables v. The Daimler Motor Company, 413
Thornycroft's Patent, 109, 222
Legge, Mr. F. A., On Coal Mines, 580
Leghorn, Patent Fuel in, Use of, 465, 498
Laster, Mr. W. E., On Temporary Works and
Appliances in Harbour Construction, 542
Lethem, Mr. Jas., Smoke-preventing Furnace Door, 297

Letters from Our own Correspondents:

Special Matters of Interest, and Events or Information not belonging to the ordinary Weekly Routine will be found in the “Mis¬cellaneous Index”
Africa, South, Engineering Notes from, 10, 45, 73, 99, 125, 175, 201, 222, 273, 298, 324, 376, 425, 450, 479, 505, 529, 578, 609, 635
America, Engineering News from, 23, 40, 70, 96, 148, 172, 198, 270, 324, 348, 398, 421, 502, 578, 632
America, Notes from, 23. 45, 99, 125, 148, 224, 248, 301, 351, 401, 450, 479, 505, 528, 580, 608, 635, 659
Australia, Notes from 42, 270, 324, 502, 578
England, North of, 21, 43, 71, 97,123, 149, 199, 247, 271, 299, 325, 349, 377, 399. 423, 451, 477, 503, 527, 551, 579, 607, 633, 657
Germany, 23, 44, 72, 98, 124, 150, 174, 200,
248, 272, 300, 326, 350, 378, 4C0, 424, 452, 478, 504, 528, 552, 580, 608, 634, 658
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 21, 42, 70, 96, 122, 148, 172, 198, 222, 246 , 271, 299, 325, 348, 376, 398, 422, 450, 476, 502, 527, 550, 578, 606, 633, 656
Japan, 20, 148, 270, 421
Lancashire, 21, 42, 71, 96, 122, 148, 173, 198, 222, 246, 271, 299, 325, 349, 376, 398, 423, 476, 503, 527, 551, 578, 607, 633, 657
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly
Trade Report, 23, 44, 72, 98, 124, 150, 174, 200, 224, 248, 272, 300, 350, 378, 400, 424, 478, 504, 552, 580, 608, 634, 658
Scotland, 23, 44, 72, 98, 123, 149, 173, 199, 224 , 247, 272, 300, 326, 350, 378, 399, 424, 452, 478, 504, 528, 552, 579, 608, 634, 658
Sheffield, 21, 43, 71. 97, 123, 149, 173, 199, 223, 247, 271, 299, 325, 349, 377, 399, 423, 451, 477, 503, 527, 551, 579, 607, 633, 657
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 23, 44, 72, 98, 124, 150, 174, 200, 224, 248, 272, 300, 326, 350, 378, 400, 421, 452, 478, 504 , 528, 552,
580, 608, 631, 658

Letters to the Editor:

Acetylene r. Coal Gas, Edw. A. Harman, 373
Gas Engines, Anthony G. New, 169
Gas Engines, Fred. Grover, 169
American Competition, Geo. N. Barnes, 499
Competition, British Locomotive, 603
Competition, Vigilans, 29
Locomotives, E. E. Russell Tratman, 603
Machine Tools, British and (see Ma¬chine Tools, British and Ameri¬can)
Trade Invasion, Civil Engineer, 435
Trade Invasion, D., 474
Trade Invasion, Experience, 409
Trade Invasion, A Manager, 135
Trade Invasion, Steel, 409
Atbara Bridge, The, W. H. Thorpe, 632
Bridge and Standardisation, The, Alf. D. Ottewell, 395
Automobile Club, Forthcoming Tour of the, A Member, 296
Barking Explosion, Jas. Gibb and Co., 118
Beams, Problem in the Theory of, H. A. Garratt, 653
Beams, Problem in the Theory of the, Search¬light, 632
Boilers, Circulation in, Ch. Bellens, 169
Explosions, Phenomena of, Henry Woolford, 67
Water-tube A. G. Greenhill, 632
Water-tube Conrad Kuap, 603
Water-tube, Chas. II. Wilson, 632
Bridge, The Atbara, W. H. Thorpe, 682
British and American Machine Tools (see Ma¬chine Tools, British and American)
Bulkheads, Testing, U. S., 67
Collision Mats, Collision Mat, 195
Cooled Bars, Transference of Heat in (see Heat in Cooled Bars, &c.)
Cornish Engines, High-pressure, Jebus Bickle, jun. (see page 471), 513, 656
Engines, High-pressure, Hy. Davey, 575
Crank Pinning a Crank Shaft, J. Jamison, 312
Shafts, Turning, Notlimah, 373
Cruiser, A Model, Arthur J. Lucy, 395
Dockyard Fitter Apprentices, Justice, 312
Fitter Apprentices, Teacher, 345
Fitter Apprentices, Workman, 395
Driving Wheels, Largest, D. W., 118
Earth's Crust, Rigidity, Thickness, and Sta¬bility of, W. Worby Beaumont, 409
Earthwork Quantities, Diagrams for (with refer¬ence to page 368),
A. H. Roberts, 409
Economy Test of a Unique Form of Feed Pamp (with reference to page 345), G. and J. Weir, Limited, 474
Economy Test of a Unique Form of Feed Pump, F. Meriam Wheeler, 345
Engineers in the United States Navy, R. N., 237
Engine, High-pressure Cornish, Jnbus Bick'e, 656
English v. American Bridges, In thj Dark, 498
and American Workmen, C. E., 656
and American Workmen, English, 656
Evaporative Condensers, Harry Fraser, 498
Condensers, Harry G. V. Oldham, 498
Condensers (see page 498), H. B. Spencer, 513
Explosives, Permitted (with reference to page 503),
Donald M. D. Stuart, 513
Safety, Donald M. D. Stuart, 631
Feed Tump, Economy Test of a Unique Form of, R. R.. 209
Test of a Unique Form of, Blake and Knowles S. P. Works, Limited, 169
Test of a Unique Form of, G. and J. Weir, Limited, 169
Ferranti Valve Gear, The, Jas. Dunlop, 512
Fitter Students, Workman, 395
Fly-wheels, Bursting of, Geo. T. Pardoe, 29
Foul Gas in Sswers, J. Corbett, 244
Fuel, Petroleum, J. J. Kermode, 656
Fulda, Loss of the, Hy. A. Dibdin, 547
Gas Traction on Tramways, Percy Holyoake, 632
Gas Traction on Tramways, J. E. Weyman, 656
Government Abuses in Cape Colony, Wro.Thos. Olive, 603
Great Western Train Services, Traveller (with reference to page 405), 435
Heat in Cooled Bars, Transference of, A. H., 29
Heat, Transfer of, Geo. Halliday, 512
Hofors Plant, Francis J. Platt, 29
Home and Foreign Locomotives, Locomotive Builders, 603
Hydraulic Press Problem, Thos. Alston, 244
Press Problem, W. A. S. B., 244
Press Problem, John Batey, 244
Press Problem, W. Payton, 244
Press Problem, Puzzled, 209
Presses, Problem in, H. C. J., 195
Inclines, Self-acting, Wm. M. Fisher, 296
Indicating Engines, Reducing Appliance for, Wm. Harrison Barwell, 547
Institu tion of Civil Engineers, Entrance Examina¬tion, Maurice F. Fitzgerald, 118
Institution of Ci vil Engineers, Entrance Examina¬tion, Laudator Temporis Acti, 32
Japan, Foreign Patents in, W. Silver Hall, 195
Foreign Capital in, Your Tokyo Corre¬spondent (with reference to page 102), 409
Joining Machine Belts, John .Jas. Davey, 239
Liquid Air Problem, The, W. Fisher, 345, 394, 435, 498, 547
Air Problem, The, W. Hampson, 372, 408, 474, 513
Air Problem, The, Alf. Hartley, 373
Air Problem, The, W. Muir, 474
Air Problem, The, F. T. M., 513
Air Problem, The, Edgar C. Thrupp, 512
Locomotives, American, E. E. Russell Tratman, 603
Building in Great Britain, Another English Engineer, 653
Home and Foreign, Locomotive Builder, 603
Types of 1898, Norman D. Mac¬donald, 32
Machine Tools, British and American, Anglo- Saxon, 29
Tools, British and American, Alfred Herbert, 67
Tools, British and American, R. B. Hodgson, 67
Tools, British and American, Strand, 209
Tools, British and American, Theta, 29
Tools. British and American, J. Tylor and Sons, Limited, 209
Tools, British and American, Jas. Vose, 66
Tools, British and American, Webster and Bennett, 29
Micro-structure of Steel, John Placo, 195
Midland Railway Locomotives, A Midland Shareholder, 296
Motor Car, From Olney to Newport Pagnell by, J. A. Reid, 195
Municipal Tyranny, An Engineer, 373
Naval Boiler of the Future, Lnftus P. Perkins, 409
Boiler of the Future, G. D. Scott, 547
Boiler of the Future, G. F. G. des Vignes, 499
Engineers, A Naval Engineer, 10
Efficiency, X., 575, 603 Efficiency, X2, 603
Engineers, Position of, Chief Engineer R.N.,80
Engineers, Position of, Chief Engineer R.N. Secundus, 118
Engineers, Position of, Fleet Engineer, 80
Engineers. Position of, Staff Engineer, R.N., 209
Engineers, Position of, C. A. S., 244
Engineers, Position of, Superintending Engineer, 195
Fitter Students in the, Q. E. D., 296
Fitter Students in the, Teacher, 296
Niclausse Boiler and the American Navy, Willans and Robinson, Limited, 195
Oil Engine for Motor Cars, The Writer of the Article, 118
Ordnance Factories, M.I. and S. Inst., 28
Maps, Engineer, 244
Maps, Edw. Stanford, 267
Patent Fuel at Leghorn, Geo. Henderson, 498
Office Library, The, John B. C. Ker¬shaw, 10
Peace, Universal, A. C. Wilson, 547
Petroleum Fuel, J. J. Kermode, 656
Pig Iron, Position of, Walter J. May, 409
Pneumatic Despatch, Robt. T. Napier, 209
Portland Cement and Trass, Geo. T. Pardoe, 547
Pressure, A Question of, Aquarius, 267
Problem in the Theory of Beams, H. A. Garratt, 653
Professors as Consulting Engineers, Search¬light, 244
as Consulting Engineers, Past Stu¬dent, 296
Protection of Inventions and Trade Marks in Ex-Spanish Colonies, Reginald W. Barker, 498
Pumps, Feed, Efficiency of (with reference to p. 40), R. R., 118
Test of a Unique Form of, Blake and Knowles’ S.P. Works, Ltd., J. Arthur Reavell, 118
Quadrature of the Circle, &c., Edw. Crossley, 209
of the Circle, &c., (with reference to p. 209), Cecil T. Poole, 435
Railway Race, American, John Batey, 67
Reducing Appliance for Indicating Engines, Wm. Harrison Dibdin, 547
Rotation, Problem in, Curler, 169
Safety Explosives, Donald M. D. Stuart, 632
Sanitary Safety, Chas. E. Gritton, 312
Scandalous Document, A (relative to a Fire-boat required by the Metropolitan Fire Bri¬gade), Engineer, 513
Sea Coast Protection, E. T. Beard, 474
Coast Protection, A. Dowson, 603
Coast Protection. Rich. F. Grantham, 395
Sewage Analysis, Frank Scudder, 632
Analysis, J. A. Wanklyn and W. I. Analysis, J. Alfred Wanklyn, 656
Sheffield, Derby, and Leicester Water Scheme, Ross, 28
Singular Railway Experiment (see p. 483) Perry F. Nureey, 513
Six-wheeled Vehicles, Alf. J. Allen, 245
Standard Bridge Work, B. R., 408
Standardising of Light Railways, Frederick Shelford, 656
Steamships, Old, Enquirer, 409
Submarine Boats, P. Walter d'Alton, 118
Technical Education, A. M. I. Meeh. E., 194
Thermo-electric Combination (see page 438), W. F. Barrett, 513
Trade in the Soudan, Benjamin T. King, 296
Train Resistance, R. H. Crookes, 29
Resistance, R. M. Deeley, 28 Resistance, Locomotive, 67
Resistance, Chas. T. Thornton, 195
Tramways in East London, South Africa, One of the Engineers, 632
Transference of Heat in Cooled Bars—see Heat in Cooled Bare, &c.
Turret Lathes, G. M. Griffiths, 812
United States Patents, Arthur H. Stanley, 118
States Patents, J. Wetter, 118
States Patents, A. X. Y., 80
Ventilation, Alfred J. Allen, 474, 499
Water Power, Utilisation of, Geo.T. Pardoe, 194
Water-raising Wheels for Syria, Raghib Raif, 498
Wireless Telegraphy (with reference to p. 395) Atfbjp, 435
Wireless Telegraphy, Chaos, 395, 498
Lewes, Professor V. B., Incandescent Mantles, 457
Lewis, Mr. G. P., Modern Systems of Retort Heating, 457
L9wis, Professor Hy., On Pit Props, 212
Lewis, Sir W. T., Further Honours to, and his Resignation, 580, 658
Lift, Canadian Hydraulic Canal, 529
Lifts, Electric, for the Brighton Eiffel Tower, 3, 4, 5, 12
Lighthouse at Barn Noes, A New, 119
Lighthouses, Gas Engines and, 68
Lighting of the Eastern Entrance to the English
Channel, Improvements under Consideration, 577
Light Railways, see Railways, Light, and Tram¬ways
Lignite Coal, Production of, in Germany, 262
Lime Mortar, Strength of, 55
Linde System, Marine Refrigerator, 65, 66
Liquid Air, Commercial Production of, in New York, 655
Explosive Power of Cotton Saturated with, 655
at Lowest Temperature, One Gallon of, Equals a Ton of Ice for Refrigerating Purposes, 33
Problem, The, 345, 372, 373, 394, 408, 435, 474, 498, 512, 513
Fuel, 528
for Boilers, 169 Crucible Furnace, 168
Hydrogen, On the Boiling Point of, 365
Professor Dewar on the Properties of, 439
The Motion of a, 166

Literature:

Algebra, Tutorial, Based on the Algebra of Radhakrishman, Part II., by Wm. Briggs and G. H. Bryan, 115
l’Aluminio, by Dr. C. Formenti, 63
Attraction, Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of, by F. A. Tarleton, 334
Boilers, Marine, Their Construction and Work¬ing, dealing more especially with Tubulous Boilers, by L. E. Bertin, 141, 191
Coal Mioing and the Coal Trade, Annals of In¬vention of the Steam Engine and the Origin of the Railway, by Robt. L. Galloway, 369
Commercial Travelling in South America, by W. E. Torrens, 217
Cycles of Gas and Oil Engines, by Jas. Roots, 63
Dynamics, Introduction to the Science of, D. H. Marshall, 115
Dynamos, Continuous-current, by J. Fisher- Hinnen, 417
Earthwork Quantities, Diagrams for the Graphic Calculation of (referred to page 409), by Alf. Hy. Roberts, 368
Engineering, Sanitary, by Mansfield Merriman,
Engineering Works, Commercial Management of, by Francis G. Burton, 250
Gasmachine, ihre Entwickelung, ihre heutige Bauart und ihr Kriegsprocess, by R. Schottler, 583
Geology, Applied, by I. V. Elsden, Part L, pp. 95 ; Part II , pp. 250, 534
Germany, Commercial, Industrial, Maritime, and Traffic Interests in, Report on the Development of, Mr. Gastrell, 290
Institution of Civil Engineers, Minutes of Proceedings, Vols. cxxxi. to cxxxiv., 255
Kalkulos sobre las Kaflerias de Agua, Por A. E. Salazar, 317
Labour Statistics of the United Kingdom, Abstract of the, 384
Light Railways at Home and Abroad, by Wm. Hy. Cole, 559
Locomotive Engineering, Manual of, by Wm. F. Pettigrew, with a Section on American and Continental Engines, by A. F. Ravensheart, 469, 510
London Water Supply, by Arthur Shadwell, 510
Metallurgy, Handbook of, by Dr. Carl Schnabel, 290
Microscopy of Drinking Water, by Geo. Chandler Whipple, 334
Naval Annual, The, by T. A. Brassey, 495, 639
Naval Architecture, Text-book of Theoretical, by E. L. Attwood, 369
Retrospect of Eight Decades,'by the Rev. Edw. Lyon Berthon, 317
Sanitary Engineering, Elements of, hy Mans¬field Merriman, 334
Sanitary Engineering, Practical Treatise on the Collection, Removal, and Disposal of Sewage, &c., by Col. E. C. S. Moore, 384
Scaricamento nei Porti, Nuovi Tipi di, by E. Burgali and P. Lanino, 115
Seismology, by John Milne, 37, 89
Sswage Analysis, Practical Treatise on the
Examination of Sewage and Effluents from Sewage, by J. A. Wanklyn and Wm. J. Cooper, 559
Sewage, Purification of, by Sidney Barwis9, 158
Ships, All the World’s Fighting, by F. T. Jane, 533
Spherical Trigonometry, by W. W. Lane, 317
Steinbruchindustrie und Steinbrucbgeologie unter eingehender Beriicksichtigung der £ Steinindustrie des Kbnigreiches Sachens, von r S. D. Hermann, 533
Telegraphy, by W. H. Preece and J. E. Sieve- wright, 389
Testing of Materials of Construction, by Wm. Cawthorne Unwin, 141
Water Microscopy of Drinking, by George Chandler Whipple, 334
Witwatersrand Goldfields, Banket and Mining Practice, by T. J. Truscott 158

Literature: Short Notices:

Air Brake Catechism, Up to Date, by Robt. H. Blackall, 291
Auto-motor and Horseless Vehicle Pocket-book of Automotive Formula) and Commercial Intelligence for 1899, 63
Bath Road Map; Map of the Road from London to Bath and Bristol, compiled by H. R. G. ! Inglis, 625
Bridges and Framed Structures. A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 435
Builders’ Price Book for 1899, Laxton’s, 191
Builders’ Where is it ? The ; G. M. Callender and Co., 625
Conflagrations duriog the Last Ten Years ; Paper read before the Insurance Institute of Manchester, by Chas. E. Goad, 495
Cyclists’ Indispensable Hand-book and Year¬book for 1899, 317
Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette, The, 37
Cyprus, and Rambles in the Island, Develop¬ment of, by CoL Fyler, 384
Drainage Inspection and Sanitary Surveys, Modem, by Gerard J. G. Jensen, 369
Electric Railroad List of the World, containing also Cable and Horse Railroads, January to March, 1899, Published Quarterly, 256
Electriciens, Socictc Internationale des, Excur¬sion Electrotechnique en Suisse, par les Elcves de l’Ecolo Supérieure d’Electricité, 369
Electrolysis and Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds, by Dr. Walther Löb, 334
Engineering Laboratories, Table and Data for the Use of Students in, also for Class and Home Work Exercises, W. W. F. Pullen, 625
Engineer’s Year-book of Formula:, Rules,
Tables, Data, and Memoranda in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Marine, and Mine
Engineering, by H. R. Kempe, 191
English-Spanish Conversation Dictionary, with Spanish-English Vocabulary and Grammatical Appendix, by R. Jiischke, 334
Export Merchant Shippers’ Directory for 1899, 256
Every Man his Own Lawyer, Handy Book of the Principles of Law and Equity, by a Bar¬rister, 89
Funafuti, or Three Months on a Coral Island, Mrs. Edgeworth David, 291
Labour Protection Association, Report of Proceedings during 1898, 115
Lean’s Royal Navy List, No. 86, by Lieut.-Col. F. Lean, 443
Literature, A Contents-Subject Index to Gene- 1 ral and Periodical, 418
Locomotives, Simple and Compound, London and North-Western, by S. Cotterell and G. H. Wilkinson, 384
Maps compiled by H. R. G. Inglis, The Ripley Road and Brighton Road, Southampton and i New Forest Road, the Bath Road, from London to Bath and Bristol, 625
Mechanical Engineers' Handy Office Companion, by Robt. Edwards, 141
Metal-plate Work, its Patterns and their Geometry, C. T. Mills, 625
Metal Work, Advanced, in Three Parts; Part I., the Speed Lathe, by Alf. G. Compton and J. H. de Groodt, 291
Money, Weights and Measures of the Chief Commercial Nations in the World, with the British Equivalents, W. A. Browne, 115
Ocean Rainfall hy Rain-gauge, Observations at Sea, General and Special Oceans, by W. G. Black, 443
Patent Agents, 1898, Transactions of the Society of, 495
Picketing, Law Relating to, as laid down by recent Judgments, 115
Printers’ Yearbook and Diary for 1899, 115
Ripley Road Map and Brighton Road Map, by H. R. G. Inglis, 625
Sawmill and Wood - converting Machinery, Handbook of, by M. Powis Bale, 443
Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, Year-book of, 625
Sell's Directory of Registered Telegraphic Ad¬dresses, 115
Sewage Disposal Works, Description of Various, by R. 0. Wynne, 191
Slide Rule : A Practical Manual, by Chas. N. Pickworth, 369
Slide Valve Simply Explained: Elementary Treatise for Engineering Students, W. J. Tennant, 511
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the, 37, 369
Southampton and New Forest Road Map; Map of the Road from London to Southamp¬ton and Bournemouth, Ac., compiled by H. R. G. Inglis, 625
Strength and Decay of Nations, I., Forestry; II., British Forestry, by Giles A. Daubeney, 369
Testing of Materials of Construction, The, by Wm. Cawthorne Unwin, 141
'Timber Measurer and Builders' Tables, Haworth’s, 384
“ Times ” Index, Bailey’s, 1899, 191
Trade Unions in 1897, Report by the Chief
Labour Correspondent of the Board of Trade, 63
Tutorial Dynamics, by Wm. Briggs and G. H. Bryan, 191
Universal Directory (J. A. Berly’s), Record of all Industries connected with Electricity and Magnetism, 256
Water Discharge in Pipes for Water and Power Supplies; Tables fcr Calculating, by A. E. Silk, 291
Wiring of Buildings, The Internal, by H. M. Leaf, 291
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., Journal of the, Vol. it, 443
Littlewood, Mr. T. H., On the Volume Changes which accompany Solution, 119
Liverpool, Geological Map of, 377
Livesey, Mr. Frank, 439
Livingston, Mr. H. J., his Treatment of Portland Cement, 337
Llandrindod Wells, 371
Llanelly Harbour and Pontardulais Railway Bill thrown out, 478
Locomotive, Types of, 1898, 32

Locomotives — Railways, Rolling: Stock, Material, and Permanent Way

Lodge, Dr. Oliver, Banquet to, 245
Magnetic Space Telegraphy, 120, 170, 197, 375
Lodz, Cotton-spinning Mills at, 465
Electric Tramway at, 465
Weaving Machinery, Opening for a British Firm to Start, 470
Lomax, Mr. James, On Fossil Coal Plants, 595
Lombardy, Trade and Agriculture of, 491
London to Brighton in an Hour, Mr. Chas. Rous-Marten, 75
County Council and Engineering Con¬tracts, 327
Electric Cabs, Improvement in, 577
Lighting of, 642
Supply Corporation, Central Station, Engines and Alter¬nator (Supplement, April 21it, 1899), 385
Geological Field Class, Saturday Afternoon Excursions of the, 365
Health Department of the City of, 371
Improvements, 598
Letter.” The, 338, 439
Water Bill, Second Reading Deferred, 287
Supply, 77, 187, 283, 287, 310, 386, 387, 413, 486
Monthly Report, 413
Report of the Water Examiner, 387
Scheme, The Welsh, 187
Longden, Mr. J. A., Presidential Address, 534
Louis, Prof. Hy., Swedish Miners’ Dipping Com¬pass, 461
Lubricator, A New, 578
Lucifer Matches in the Making of which Yellow Phosphorus is employed, forbidden in Switzerland, 594
Lurry, Steam, at the Maidstone Show, 618
Lyall’s Water-tube Boiler, 496
Lynch, Stoker, Monetary Compensation to his Relatives, 395
Lyne, Mr. John, On the Regenerative System for Small Gasworks, 627
Lyster, Mr. A. G., On Sand Pump Dredgers, 584
Lyster, Mr. George Fosbery, 497

M

MeCURRICH, Mr. J. M.,59
Machine Belts, Joining, 209
Riveting in Shipbuilding, 305
Tools, 189, 2C9
Mr. C. E. Amos, 372
Atlas Engineering Company’s Improvements in, 423
Messrs. George Birch and Co., 349
British and American, 29, 66, 67, 80, 209, 230
Industry of Johnstone, The, 32
Large Snonu Boring Machine, 279
Modern, Mr. Joseph Shepherd on, 292
New, Messrs. Craven Bros., 134, 135
with Special Reference to American and German Practice as compared with English, Mr. A. Greenwood on, 613
Machinery, American Mining, in favour in South Africa, 298
Employment and Economical Output,
Machinery Engineers and Machinists generally of the same Nationality as the Machinery they are in charge of, 517
Mackinder, Mr, H. J., Lectures on the Geography of certain Great Railways, 213
McPhail and Simpson, Messrs., Feed-water Heater, 605
Maginnis, Mr. A. J., On Graving-dock Blocks and Appliances, 641
Magnetic Induction at a Point Outside, Mr. C. S. Whitehead, 412
in a Long Iron Bar, Distri¬bution of, 655
Registers at Greenwich Observatory, Protection of, from the Effect of Electric Traction in the Neighbour¬hood, 595
Space Telegraphy, Improvements in, 120, 170, 197
Dr. Oliver Lodge on, 120,170
Magnetism, Prof. J. A. Ewing on, 384
Mail Contract, The New South African, 505
Service to Newfoundland, Fortnightly, 865
Malt Crusher at the Maidstone Show, 619
Manchester Sewage Scheme, Mr. Latham's
Report on the Cost, 213
Ship Canal, The, 63. 187, 213
The Largest Cargo of Cotton ever brought in one Ship, Piloted up the, 213
Company, Proposed Loan of a Quarter of a Million to, 213
Traffic on, 187 and Telephones, 457
Water Supply, 59
Manganese Ore in Brazil, Mining of, 595
in the Rhondda District, A New
Mine of, 365
Manning, Mr. W. T., Permanent Way, 253
Mans, The Bridge of, 222
Mansel, Mr. Robt., Discussion of the Mechanical Theory of Steamship Propulsion, 130
Map of the County of London published by tho “ Builder,” 11
of Liverpool, A Geological, 377
of Long Island Steamer Routes, 48
Ordnance, 267
of Swedish Iron Ore Districts, 25
Marconi, Signor, Experiments with Ethereal
Telegraphy with Mail Boats Crossing the Channel, 413
On Wireless Telegraphy, 237
Marine Notes, U.S.A., 172, 348
Marshall, Mr. F. D., Presidential Address, 457
Martin, Mr. Edwin Lewis, Swift Passenger
Steamers of Moderate Size, 566, 583
Earle and Co., Ltd., Cement Works of, 644
Mr. H. W., On Modern Improvements in Coal Mining, 586
Horseshoe Co., Ltd., Projected Works in Darlington, 399
Massey, Messrs. B. and S., Steam Hammers and Steam Stamps. 325
Matches, Japanese and Swedish, in India and China, 187
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., Engines of H.M.’s First-class Cruiser Spartiate (Supple¬ment, April 7th, 1899), 332, 333 , 336
Mauritius Water Supply, 59
Mavor Mr. H. A., On Electric Power in Factories, 111
Measure of Horse-power, The, 227
Meat Trade, Frozen, 659
Mechanical Engineering and Modern Shipbuild¬ing, Connection between, Sir W. White on, 434, 441, 475
Mechanics, The Teaching of, 264
Meerut Rifle Meeting, Experiments with Lee-Metford Cordite and other Ammunition, 59
Mellisb, Mr. H., On Soil Temperature, 390
Melville, Commodore Geo. W., Logical Arrange¬ment of the Motive Power of Warships, 285, 308, 320
Melville, Commodore Geo. W., On the Machinery of the U.S. Navy, 113
Melville, Commodore Geo. W., His Plan for Test¬ing Artie Currents, 337
Menai Suspension Bridge, Offer to Sell, 193
Menzies and Co., Messrs., Extension of their Business Premises, 577
Merryweather and Sons, A Silent Steam Pump, 630
Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, New Graving Docks to be constructed, 213
Metal, “Elio,” 396
and Engineering Industries, The Swiss, 406
Industry of the Ural Mountains and South Russia, 630
and Machinery Imports of China and Japan, 431
Samples for Analysis, M. Ad. Carnot’s Directions as to taking, 621
Strained beyond their Elastic Limits, Photographs exhibiting, 438
Meteorological Forecasts for 1898, Results of, 365 Organisations, Government, Mr.
F. C. Bayard on, 85
Meters, Electric, Prof. Ayrton on, 611
Metric System once more, The, 367
Metrical System of Weights and Measures, Mr.
Consul Robinson Advises its Adoption in England, 577
Metropolitan Sewage Works, Barking, 556
Michelson-Echelon Grating Spectroscope, The, Micro-structure of Steel, 160, 166, 195
Micrometer Gauge, Differential, 438, 525
Middlesbrough Corporation, Electric Light Instal¬lation Scheme, 300
Electric Lighting, 136
Middleton, Mr. R. E., on the Welsh Water-supply Scheme for Londen, 187
Midlands and the Bristol Channel, The, 644
Millar, Mr. H. A., Feed-water Heater for, 500
Milling and Profiling Machine, Duplex Vertical, Messrs. Cunliffe and Croom, 398
Mill, Steam Stamp, 40
Milnes and Co., Messrs. G. F., Erection of Extensive Electric Workshops in Shropshire, 198
Milton, Mr. J. T., Steam Pipes, 294
on Water-tube Boilers, 263, 269
Milwaukee Rail-joint and Welding Company, Cast Welded Joint, 212
Mine Locomotives, Compressed Air, 79
Mine Managers in the Transvaal, Examinations of, 505
Tools for South Africa, Want of, 175
Mechanical Ventilators for, 599
Pnenmatophors for, 503
The Royal School of, 111
Miners’ Federations, The, 62
Safety Lamp, Howat’s Patent, 499
Strike in Belgium, 399
War Chest, The, 442
Workmen's Compensation Act and the, 290
Minerals, Mr. H. T. Hildage on Prospecting for, 349
Economy in Handling and Transport of, Mr. C. de Neuville Forman, 613
Oils, Mr. B. Holgate on, 146
Mining Apparatus, Wood’s Steam Stamp Mill, in Australia, Cheap Quartz, 145
Coal, Modern Improvements in, Mr. H. W. Martin on, 586
Engineering on the Witwatersrand, 529
Gold, Notes on. 586
Gold, Mr. J. H. Hammond on Modern Practice in, 586
Machinery, American, for South Africa. 175, 298
of Manganese Ore in Brazil, 595
Purposes, Comparative Advantages of Electricity, Steam, and Compressed Air for, 641
in South Africa, 125, 175, 222, 298, 324, 376, 529
in South Africa, Demand for Machine Tools, 324
in the Transvaal, 1898, 125
in the Transvaal, Extension and Sanitation of Mines, 376
in the Transvaal, Increased Depth of Working, 222
Models in Engineering, Use of, 181
Mole at Ancona, The New, 337
Monopoly, A Gigantic, 140
Montauk Electric Cable, 575
Moorland Waters, Mr. W. Ackroyd on, 542
Morris and Sons, Messrs. John S., Anti-incrusta¬tion Composition for Boilers, 399
Morrison and Mason, Messrs., New Glasgow Bridge, 539, 540, 541
Mort’8 Dock and Engineering Company, Sydney, Enlargement and Reconstruction of, 270
Mortar-lime, its Strength, 55
Motion of a Perfect Liquid, Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw on the, 548

Motor Cars:

Motor Car Accumulators, Competition in Paris for, 33
Lecture, Mr. J. S. Critchley’s, 258
Notes, 386
Oil Engine for, 1, 47, 75, 101, 118, 127,145
from Olney to Newport Pagnell by,
Trials, Liverpool, 169, 424
Trials in Paris, 592
Carriages Exported from France in 1898, 340
Licensing of Drivers of, Bill for, Introduced in the New York Assembly, 387
Cycle Race at Crystal Palace, 464
Electric Induction, Professor C. A. Carus Wilson on the, 444
Electric Lift, Brighton Tower, 5
Enclosed Type, 170
Gear Machine, 117 v. Horse Haulage, 89, 90
Launch, 316
Mechanical, “Compagnie Générale des Omnibus,” Paris, Four Types, 595 A Static, 237
Vehicle Design, Some New Features in,
Mr. Thos. H. Parker on, 269
Vehicles for Heavy Roads, 211, 212
Wagonette, Accident to a Daimler, 213
Wagons r. Horse Haulage, 90

Motor Vehicles, Electric:

Automobile Club Show, The, 627
Electric Cabs, Chicago, 520
Cab, The Krieger, 64
Cabs, London, 524, 577
Cabs, Use of, in Connection with the Röntgen Rays, 465
Motor Car for the Parisian Fire Bri¬gades, 439
Motor Car Run, A Long, 595
Motor Carriage, Mr. Lanchester, 256
Motor Truck for Freight Work, Fischer Equipment Company, Chicago, 517
Motor Vehicle, New Field of Usefulness for, 337
Motor Vehicles at the Automobile Club Show, 627

Motor Vehicles with Oil Engines:

1, 47, 75, 101, 118, 120, 127
Oil Motor Car, Accident at Newbridge Hollow, 621
Motor Car, The Koch, 120
Motor Carriage, The Daimler Two-seated, 627
Motor Vehicles at the Automobile Club Show, 627
Motor Wagon, The Cannstadt - Daimler, 627

Motor Vehicles, Steam:

Motor Car Steam Generator, 91
Omnibus for the Mediterranean Littoral, 237
Moving Houses, New York, 96
Muir, Mr. Jas., On the Recovery of Iron from Overstrain, 420
Mungsten, Viaduct of, 57
Municipal Engineers, Duties and Compensations of, 133
Trading, 239
Trading, Employers’ Parliamentary Council’s Leaflet on, 491
Tyranny, 373
Murray, Sir John, On the Temperature over the Floor of the Ocean, 387

N
NAIL and Screw Factory near Naples, Establish¬ment of, 213
Nantes, Coal and Coal-dust Importation at, 439
Naphthalene Deposits, Cause and Prevention of, 594, 626
Napier, Mr. R. T., Riveting and Caulking of Ships, and Material of Ships' Rivets, 641
Naples, Water Supply of, 287
Natal Coal, Analysis of, 213
National Free Labour Association, its Sixty-fifth Manifesto, 88
Naval Barracks at Portsmouth, Mr. H. Lovatt’s Tender Accepted, 198
Boiler of the Future, The, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
Efficiency, 575, 603

Naval Engineer Appointments:

22, 91, 111, 136, 162, 200, 286, 312,351,361, 386, 425, 445 , 499, 524, 547, 575, 599 , 634, 659
Naval Engineers, The, 10, 324
The Admiralty and. 495
Duties of, 128, 153, 177, 203, 230
Position of, 80, 118, 195, 209, 244
Establishment at Chatham, Admiralty Scheme for Perfecting, 187
Estimates, 255, 571
Ports, Dredging, 192
Navvy, The, 198
Steam, 260, 261, 300
Navy, British, Average of Effective Hits made by the, in Practice Shooting, 237
Estimates for the Present Year, Lord Brassey on the, 571
Fitter Students in the, 296, 345, 395
Negative Apparent Slip, 145
Nernst, Professor, Electric Lamp, 183, 438
Netherlands, Licence Required by Commercial Travellers in, 262
Nettell, Mr. E. C., 478
Newbigging, Mr. Thos., On Differential Rates as between Consumers of Gas for Lighting and other Purposes, 594, 626
Newport News, The Port of, 576
Shipbuilding Company's Yard, New Dock under Construction, 439
New South Wales, New Suction Dredger for, 182
New York, Actual Area of Greater, 337
Electric Vehicle Company, The Charg¬ing Station of the, 237
Garbage and Offal Disposal, 270
Harbour and Defences and River Im¬provement Schemes, 68, 182, 577, 595,606
The Park Row “ Sky-scraper,” 33 River and Harbour Bill, 182
Newspapers Published in the United Kingdom, 187
New Zealand, The Year’s Exports from the, Colony of, 313
Niagara, Fall of Rock at, 337
Falls, Cold Weather at, Electric Power Companies Unable to Obtain Water, 287
Nicaragua Canal, The, 329, 337
Nioaraguan Canal Commission Report, 532
Nicholl, Mr. E., On Auxiliary Machinery on Board Ships, 164
Nickel and Aluminium, Alloys of, Mr. E. S. Sperry’s Discovery Relative 'to, 287
Iron Alloys, Non-malleable, 187
Iron Alloys in Place of Platinum, Possible Use of, 237
Manganese-Iron Alloy, A New, 438
Steel, 360
Alloys, Thermo-electric, Behaviour of Certain, 337
Crank Shafting Produced by the Parkhead Forge, 85
Niclausse Boiler and the American Navy, 195
Nile Reservoir Works at Assuan and Assiut, 595
Niles Tool Works Company, Messrs. The, Corliss Cylinder Boring Machine, 210, 220
Niles Tool Works Company, of Ohio, Opens Works in Germany, 33
Nilgiri Mountain Railway, The, 311
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, The, 145
Noble, Sir Andrew, Address at the Engineering Conference, 565
Northumberland, The Duke of, and the Royal Institution, 136
Shipbuilding Company, First Launch, 161
Nut, New Union, 193

O

Obituary:

Baillie, Mr. R., 351
Becher, Mr. Septimus J., 174
Beit, Mr., 22
Boulton, Mr. Isaac Watt, 620
Burrows, Mr. J. H., 423
Campbell, Mr. W. R., 33
Carlton, Mr. Thos , 43
Cooke, Mr. Joseph, 423
Cotton, Mr. E. J., 621
Daniel, Mr. B., 634
Davies, Mr. John, 504
Dawson, Mr. T. G., 413
Dirksen, Herr Ernest, 491
Farley, Alderman Reuben, 271
Galton, Sir Douglas (with Portrait), 257
Hanson, Mr. Wm., 477, 504
Harrison, Mr. W. H„ 11
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, 259, 378
Hunter, Mr. Jas. Bernard, 434
Jackson, Mr. John, 248
Johnson, Mr. C. G. Dixon, 199
Kitson, Mr. John Hawthorn, 539
Laird, Mr. Wm. (with Portrait), 134, 149
Livesey, Mr. Frank, 439
Lyster, Mr. Geo. Fosbery (with Portrait), 497
McCurrich, Mr. John Martin, 59
Macdonald, Mr. Wm., 35
Nettell, Mr. E. C., 478
Nicholson, Mr. Wm. Newssam, 491
Nixon, Mr. John, 595
Obach, Dr. E. F. A., 13
Ogle, Mr. Riohard, 21
Pilkington, Mr. R. Woodford, 113
Ridley, Mr. John Hindmarsh, 552
Riley, Mr. Geo. F., 43
Secrécan, Mons., 257
Seekings, Mr. J. J., 40
Simpson, Mr. Robert, 58
Stephen, Mr. Alexander, 525
Swarbrick, Mr. Samuel, 109
Thomson, Mr. Frank, 595
Tosh, Mr. E. G., 423
Trow, Mr. Edward, 164
Vignoles, Mr. Hy., 625
White, Mr. G. T.. 287
Wilkinson, Mr. Wm., 33
Wooten, Mr. John E., 11
Wright, Sir James, 384

Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Report of the, 287
Drift Experiments in the North Sea, Prof. G. Gilson’s, 413
Steamers, Structural Features of Large, 139
Temperature over the Floor cf the Sir J. Murray on, 387
Oceanic, The White Star s.s. (Supplement. Janu¬ary 13th, 1899), 53, 54, 58, 60
Odontograph, Mr. Michael Longridge Describes an, 71
Ogle, Mr. Richard, 21
Oil Engine for Motor Cars, The, 1, 47, 75, 101, 118, 127
Engines—see Engines, Oil
Fields in Kansas, An English Company Organised to Work the, 287
Fuel, 327
Trials Abandoned io the Surly, 621
for Laying Dust, Use of, 595
on Waves at Ssa, The Action of, 360
Mineral, Mr. B. Holgate on, 146
Okes-Serve Water-tube Boiler, The, 92
Old Steamships ? 409
Oldham, Mr. Harry V., On Evaporative Con¬densers, 432, 442, 447, 498
Open-hearth Steel from Cleveland Iron, 37
Ordnance Carriage, Quick-firing Field, 243
Factories, 28
Field, at Santiago, 624
Maps, 245, 267
Oreman, Mr. W. J., On Permitted Explosives in Mines (see page 513), 244, 503, 534
Oscillograph, Mr. W. Duddell’s, 438
Overtime in the Midlands, 22
Owen and Fendelow's Business, Purchasers of, 476
Owston, Mr. W. H., On Gun Construction, 464

P

PACKING, Compensating Sp’it, 412
Pain, Mr. A. C., What is a Light Railway, and what Circumstances should Govern the Gauge7 562
Paper, The New Photographic Printing, 387
Paraguay, German and British Goods, and Con¬sular Advice respecting, 595
Paris Pavements and Streets, Cost of Keeping them in order, 33
Parker, Mr., On the Relative Advantages of Different Kinds of Power for Tramways, Light Railways, and Motor Car Traffic, 565
Parker, Mr. Thos. H , On Some New Features in Moto-Vehicle Design, 269
Parker, Lim., Tho3., Enclosed Type Motors, 170; Variable Ratio Transformers, 444
Parkhead Forge, Glasgow, Work done by the Mammoth Press at, 85
Parquet Flooring underlaid with Peat, 187
Parshall, Mr. H. F., On Electric Traction, 97
Passengers Landed at New York from Europe, 1898, 137
Passy, Tunnel of, 620
Patent Fuel in I.sghorn, Use of, 465, 498
for the Navy, Admiralty Commission to Enquire into the Question of, 98
Patents Applied for at the German Patent-office, 439
in Japan, Foreign, 195
Japanese, 270
Patent-office Library, 10
Patent Oppositions, 417
Patents and the Paris Exhibition, 327

Patents, Selected American:

Asbestos Covering for Wire, E Albasini, 100
Barrel Hoop, W. D. Marshall, 610
Bearing, Antifriction, C. A. Latham, 380
Boiler Cleaner, Tube, Forsyth and Bell, 274
Cleaner for Water-Tube, S. B. Murdock, 152
or Generator, A. Teste, 582
Steam, J. Weir, 100
Supporting Lug for, G. H. Drake, 274
Bolt Cotters, O. A. Hoak, 202
Breech-loading Mechanism for Guns, C. Pohlit, 610
Cable-Grip, G. S. Fouts, 554
Carving Fork Guard and Knife-sharpener, C. Ilolyland, 610
Casting, and Apparatus therefor, J. K. Griffith, 426
Armour Plates, Beard more and Holden, 480
Ladle for Steel and Iron, T. Levos, 24
Chain Gear, G. F. Sturgess, 328
Chilled Rolls, F. Gorman, 226
Clutch, E. H. Hodgkinson, 46
Cocks, Automatic Cylinder, S. M. Carlisle, 480
Cock, Stop and Waste, I. N. and J. H. Glauber, 402
Converter, T. Levos, 46
Conveyors, Endless, J. Dick, 100
Coupling, Cushion, for Trip Hammers, L. Mayer, 454
Crank for Velocipedes, Mumford and Anthony, 530
Cupola Furnace, H. E. Machell, 554
Cutter Hoad, W. H. Chaffee, 250
Cutting Stone, M. Thonar, 610
Delivering Packages from Moving Cars, F. M. Hatch. 100
Doors, Dumping, for Dredging Vessels, J. Edwards, 506
Drilling Machines, Automatic Feeding Mechan¬ism for, W. E. Hotchkiss, 126
Driving Mechanism, S. F. Clouser, 402
Mechanism for Bicycles, J. A. Birchler. 302
Dynamo Electric Machine, S. S. Forster, 480
Electric Machine, T. B. Kinraide, 530
Electric Machine, W. M. Mordey, 152
Electrio Arc-forming Device, J. Czikowski, 660
Cables, S. Z. de Ferranti, 74, 152
Firing Device for Ordnance, Dawson and Buckbam, 176
Lighting, Phosphorescent, D. M. Moore, 74
Elevator and Conveyor, Pneumatic, F. F, Landis, 352
Engine, Blowing, E. E Slick, 582
Compound, with Regulator for Super¬heated Steam, W. Schmidt, 126
Motive, A. Howard, 274
Rag, J. Wiistenhiifor, 202
Reversible Rotary, H. P. White, 46
Rotary, F. G. Bates, 250
Rotary, E. P. Kendall, 660
Rotary Reciprocating, M. F. Coomee and C. Rice, 402
Steam, J. I. Tbornycroft, 302
Excentric, F. Hassis, 328
Explosives, Smokeless, W. Ulrich, 100
Fan and Pump, Centrifugal, G. M. Capell, 274
Feeding Fuel to Boiler Fires, F. E, and F. H. Hofmann, 582
Feed-water Heater and Porifier, W. II. Smith, 506
Fence Post, Vaniman, McPherson, 328
Fireproof Ceiling, L. W. G. Lilienthal, 530
Forging Machines, O. C. Burdict, 46
Gas Burners, Incandescent, P. J. Fitzgerald 582
Gas Engine, P. Murray, 530
Gasket, J. A. Bernardi, 21
Gauge, J. McCormick, 46
Gear for Back-sights of Guns, C. Pohlit, 582
Governor, Astatic Centrifugal, M. Toile, 636
Grinding Wheels, Water-feeding Device for,
G. J. Ridley, 352
Gun Carriage, A. Resow, 226, 554
Guns in or out, Running, Dawson and Buck-ham, 176
Heater Tubes for Steam Generators, A. Heberer, 74
Hydraulic Air Compressor, A. A. E. Sterzing, 328
Machinery, R. H. Stevens, 302
Igniter for Gas Engines, L. J. Hirt, 582
Incandescent Lights, Anti-vibration Lamps for, G. S. Barrows, 126
Indicator for Engines, W. Ripper, 530
Steam Engine, J. C. Paige, 454
Joints for Cycle Framings, Brazeless, W. Fraser, 506
Fluid-tight, C. J. Gustafson, 100
for Thin Metal Pipes, P. E. Preschlin, 660
Key Seat - cutting Machine, M. and H, E. Morton, 426
Loading or Unloading Apparatus, J. D. Adams 176
Locomotive Compound, T. E. Chandler, 636
Metallic Packing for Piston-rods, A. L. Hawes-worth, 302
Mill, Grist, J. R. Jones, 202
Motor, Alternating-current, E. C. Newcomb, 426
Mowers, Lawn, W. P. Leshure, 274
Ostergren and Burger, Messrs., Apparatus for Liquefying Air, 610
Planing Tool, Metal, W. H. Chappell, 274
Pulleys, Self-oiling Loose, C. W. II. Blood, 46
Pump, G. B. Petsche, 426
Centrifugal, J. Edwards, 530
Pump, Electric, C. Rickemeyer, 402
Pumping Apparatus, T. E. Jones, 176
Riveting, Hydraulic, E. Graves, 152
Machine, Hydraulic, M. Rothe, 24
Rock Crusher, B. R. Seabrook, 226
Saws, B. S. Attwood, 506
Saw-filing Machine. T. M. Kenna, 21
Saw-setting Device, W. G. Rogers, 636
Screen, Revolving, Excentric, J. S. Bray, 636
Shears, Animal, H. V. Dunn, 74
for Use in Vices, A. Scheuermann, 46
Steam Generator, J. Lyall, 226
Steel, Annealing, E. D. Wassell, 660
Tool Blanks, Method of Making, E. Rogers, 660
Torpedo Net, W. P. Bullivant, 582
Tubular Joints for Bicycles, R. Felsche, 176
Twyer Iron, F. S. Blakesley, 454
Valves, A. T. Macfarlane, 506
Valve-operating Mechanism, Steam, F. N. Bushnell, 250
Vent Device for Pneumatic Elevators, J. K. Sharpe, jun., 530
Water Tower, C. Damra, 250
Water-wheels, W. A. Doble, 480
Welded Pipe, Manufacture of, T. J. Bray, 352
Wrench, Monkey, M. D. Converse, 380
Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, Limited, Wednesbury, Annual Report, 502
Systems, British and American, 416
Patents in this Country, Applications for, in 1898, 1897, 1896, 33
United States, 80, 118
Who may Cp )ose, 408
Paterson, Mr. T. O.,‘Gas for Motor Purposes 626
Paul, Mr. F. W., On Foreign Competition in the Steel Trade, 412
Paving Material, Glass as a, 287
Peace Conference and the Dum-Dum Bullet, 594
Universal, and Industrial Establishments, 494, 547
Pearson, Mr. George, 237
Pearson, Mr. J. H., On Factory Design, 168
Pease, Mr. Arthur, Net Value of his Estate, 300
Pease and Co., Limited, Messrs. J. F., their
Purchase of the Skerne Ironworks and Projected New Industry, 399
Pease and Co., Limited, Messrs. J. F., Proposed Removal to Darlington, 299
Penarth Dock, Development at, 231
Search-light Station at, 465
Pencoyd Bridge-building Company, their “Jumbo Punch,” 453
Ironworks, Atbara Bridge (Supplement June 2nd, 1899), 539
Penn and Sons’ Engineering Works, 63
Engines of H.M.S. Goliath, 18 184, 185
Permanent Way—see Railways, Rolling Stock, Material, and Permanent Way
Peterhead Harbour, 605
Petroleum into Belgium, Restrictions on the Im¬portation of, 491
Burner, 322
Exports from U.S. to the Far East, 542
Fields in the Indian Territory, A New Company to Work the, 287
of Roumania, Mr. Satherland on the, 410
Flash Point of, London County Council recommend that Government should raise, 237
Bill Dealing with the Raising of Rejected, 262
Fuel, 656
Industry, The Rossian, 465
and Petroleum Products, Exports from the U.S., 41
for Smelting Iron Ore, Mr. Chatis on the Use of, 390
Statistics, Storage and Legislative Regulations, 187
Philadelphia, Commercial Museums, its Cabinet of American Manufactures in Manchester, 377
Photographic Printing Paper called “Dekko," The New, 387
Photography Colour at Kieff, 119
Pickard, Mr., On the Compensation Act, 390 ,
Pier, Brighton Marine Parade, 536
and Harbour Provisional Orders, 515
Pig Iron Industry, Furnaces Employed in the, , 313
Position of, 374, 391, 409
Problem, The, 297 ,
Pile Driving, New Method of, 413
Piles and Pile Driving, Mr. H. Cartwright Reid on, 397
Pintsch Lighting System on the U.S. Railways, 59
Pipe Accident, Steam, 273
Pipes, Iron, Action of Carbonic Acid in Water on, 491
Steam, Mr. J. T. Milton, 294
Water, Twenty Miles of, wanted for East London, Cape of Good Hope, 621
Wooden Water, 465
Pith of Cornstalks, an Ingredient in the Manu¬facture of, 237
Pit, Autocrat of the, 468
Pitt, Mr., Cranes and the Power to be used with them, 614
Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, Con¬solidated Locomotive Union U.8.A. (Supple¬ment, Feb. 17, 1899), 157, 169
Planing Machine, Roller-feed, 192
Plaster of Paris, Hardening Liquid for, 237
Plasterers’ “ Lock-out,” 241
Plate-making Concerns, South Durham, Amalga¬mation of, 21
Platinum-Nickel Wire, Messrs. Hartmann and Braun's, 365
Platt and Lowtber’s Split Packing, 412
Plenty and Son, Limited, and Mr. Z. de Ferranti, Engines and Alternator, Deptford (Supplement, April 21»f, 1899), 385
Plumbers, Registration of, 150
Plymouth Waterworks, Burrator Reservoir, 186
Pneumatic Despatch, 209
Propulsion, 532
Pneumatophor, Rescue Appliance for Mines, 503
Poland, Agricultural Machinery in Demand in, 439
Cotton Industry in, 465
Electricity as a Motive Power in, 465
and Lithuania, Importance of Introduc¬ing Englishmen as Engineers and Machinists, 517
Weaving Machinery, Opening for a Bri¬tish Firm to Start, 470
Pollitt, Mr. Wm., Baronetcy Conferred on, 577
Pollitt, Mr. Wm., Presentation to. 413, 438
Porter Company, Messrs, the H. K., 79
Portland Cement, Patent Granted to Mr. n. J. Livingston for his Treatment of, 337
Portland Cement and Trass, 547

Portraits:

Ditchburn, Mr. Thomas, 82
Dudgeon, Mr. John, 83
Galton, Sir Douglas, 257
Green, Mr. George, 81
Humphrys, Mr. E., 82
Iziird, Mr. William, 134
Lyster, Mr. Geo. Fosbery, 497
Mare, Mr. Charles J., 82
Maudslay, Mr. Hy., 81
Penn, Mr. John, 81
Preece, Mr. W. H., 167
Samuda, Mr. D. A., 82
Thornycroft, Mr. John I., 83
Yarrow, Mr. A. F., 83
Post in London, Sunday, 164
Postage of Newspapers and Periodicals, Concern¬ing the, 313
Poulton, Launch of the Dredger, 296
Power Distribution for Electrical Traction, 51
Transmission and Traction Company, Bradford, Steam Omnibus for the Medi¬terranean Littoral, 237
Pownall, Mr. C. A. W., On Mountain Railways, 562
Powrie, Mr. Wm., On Printing Machinery, 161
Preece, Mr. W. H., On .Etheric Telegraphy, 445
Preece, Mr. W. H., Retirement from Office (Por¬trait), 167
Preece, K.C.B., Sir W. H., 567
Preece, K.C.B., Sir W. H., Presidential Address
at the Engineering Conference, 562
Preria, Mr. A. W. K., Electrical Pumps, 73
Pressure, A Question of, 267
Presses, Hydraulic, 195
Prince of Wales Dry Dock at Swansea, The New, 517
Printing, Machinery for Book and General, Mr. Wm. Powrie on, 161
Professors as Consulting Engineers, 244, 296
Profiling Machine, Messrs. Webster and Bennett, 267
Improved, 242
Projectile for the United States 13in. Gun, 345
Props, Pit, Professor Hy. Lewis on, 212
Propulsion, Pneumatic, 532
Steamship, Mr. Robt. Mansel on, 130
Protection of Inventions and Trade Marks in Ex-Spanish Colonies, 498
Provisional Orders for the Present Session, 515
Pulley, The Wood Split, 301
Pump, Bacon Air Lift, 422, 490
Centrifugal, Tangyes Limited, 407
Centrifugal, Speed at which they should run, 287
Collapsible Hand, Commander Wells', 85
Electrical, Mr. A. W. K. Preria, 73
Feed, Economy Test of a Unique Form of, 40, 118, 209, 345
Feed, Economy Test of a Unique Form of, Mr. F. M. Wheeler on, 40, 118, 345
Feed, Efficiency of, 118, 145
and Injector, A New. 631
Intensifier, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 42
Propeller, America, 502
Repairing a Deep-well, 322
Rope-driven Centrifugal, U.S.A., 348
Steam, Blake and Knowles', 40, 41, 118
Three-Barrel Steam, 630
Pumping Engine, Performance of a, 198
Machinery for the Assiut Barrage, 197
Machinery at the Clyde Trustees, No. 3 Graving Dock, 406
Plant, Boston Sewage, 148
Punch, Beam, The Pencoyd Bridge-building Company, Philadelphia, 453

Q

QUADRATURE of the Circle, 209, 435
Quadrature of the Circle, A New Geometrical, 136
Quartz Mining in Victoria, Australis, Cheap. 145
Quayle, Mr. Robt., Abstract of his Paper on Loss of Heat from Locomotive Boilers. 419
Queensland, Gold Production of, 409

R

RADIAL Drilling Machine, Contract Open, 628
Railways
Railway Accidents, British and Foreign :
Accidents to Railway Servants, Royal Com¬mission on, 616
Board of Trade, Accidents Reported to, during the Nine Months of 1898, ending September 30th, 9
Board of Trade's Rsport on tho Railway Acci¬dents, 1898, 491
Chester and Holyhead Railway, 59, 64
City and South London, Two Mishaps on, 542
Crewe Station, Fall of a Railway Bridge, 33
Croxton Bridge, Train Running from Lincoln to Cleethorpes, Breaking of Axle, 337
Deaths and Injuries caused by, in 1897—1898, 491
Great Central, Grimsby, Accident to a Locomo¬tive, 287
Great Eastern, Collision at Witham, 11
Great Eastern, near Newmarket, Derailment on, 33
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Kilmarnock Joint Line, Collision on the, 164
Great Western, Fall of dihrii in the Cockett Tunnel, 621
Great Western between Falmouth and Truro, 33
Great Western, Gloucester, 59
Great Western, Plymouth, Attempt to Wreck a Train at, 439
Hammersmith Terminus, Collision, 33
Hull, Barnsley, and West Riding Junction
Railway, Collision at Sandholme, 337
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Accident at Windsor Bridge, 337
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Collision at New Cross, 387
London and North-Western, Crewe Station, 137
London and South-Western, Tresmeer Station, 30
Midland, Collision at St. Paul's-road Junction, 137
Midland, A Narrow Escape, 137
Midland, Northampton, 59
Newton Colliery Siding, Derailment at, 164
Penmaenmawr, 59, 61
Sandling Junction, Accident at, 621
Siding Rents, Increased Charges for, Dispute between Coal Traders and Railway Com¬panies, 621
South Africa, Netherlands Railway Company’s Main Line, An Interesting Accident on, 425
St. Clare Railway, Quilty Cross, 59
South-Eastern Railway, Singular Fire on the, 237
South-Eastern, Strood Station, 85
Tralee and Dingle Light Railway, Report on the Accident on, 262
United States Accidents during January, February, March, and April, 365, 465, 517, 595
United States, Collision on the Lehigh Valley Railway, 33
United States, Passengers Killed in 1898, 287
Wrawby Junction, Siding Lines should be further from Passenger Lines, 59

Railways, British, Colonial, and Indian:

Australian, 42, 270, 324, 502 Australian Railways, Gauges of, 517
Australian Railways, Mileage and Population per mile, 517
Australia, West, 42
Baker-street and Waterloo Railway Bill, The, 413, 439
British Railway Mileage, Percentage of Three and Four Track Lines, 85
Caledonian Railway, Cost of Enforcing the Use of Automatic Couplings on, 287
Caledonian Railway Section and a once Famous Locomotive, 304, 305
Canadian, Miles Run by Trains on, and Miles of Railways in Operation for 1898, 393, 401
Canadian Pacific, 465
Canadian Pacific, Extent of, 387
Canadian Pacific, New Fast Service on the, 621
Canada, Report of the Minister of Railways in, 534
Chester and Holyhead, Extensions and Widen¬ing of Viaduct over the Dee, 164
Fishguard, Rosslare Route, Cost of Additional Works on the, 187
Glasgow, Motherwell, and Sanquhar Railway Bill given up for this Session, 187
Grand Trunk, Cost of the Application of Auto¬matic Couplings, 337
Great Central. 85, 103, 112,164, 234, 235, 238, 283, 356, 357, 358, 359, 365, 366, 387, 411, 413, 414, 438, 484, 485, 517, 677
Great Eastern, Piston Stroke of Express Engines on the, 85
Great Northern, American Locomotives for, 313
Great Northern and City, 64
Great Northern and the Dearne Valley Rail¬way Company, 119
Great Northern Goods Station at Hunslet Opened, 655
Great Northern and Great Central, Litigation Pending between, 365
Great Northern, Ireland, Specification of a Four-Wheeled Coupled Passenger Engine, 69
Great Northern of Scotland, Mileage of, 262
Great Southern Railway, Title for the Amalga¬mated London, Chatham, and Dover, and the South-Eastern, 313
Great Western Bill, Substitution for the, 119
Great Western, Damage Caused by a Tidal Wave, 164
Great Western, Locomotives on the, Mr. Chas. Rous-Marten on, 405, 435
Great Western, Overtime at their Locomotive Engine Works, Wolverhampton, 423
Great Western, Station at Burnham Beeches Opened, 655
Great Western, Train Mileage for Passenger Trains, 187
Indian, American Locomotives for, 59
Bombay Presidency, 59
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company's Meeting. 655
Burma Railway, American Bridge for a, 655
East, Working Expenses and Receipts, 164
Extensions, 509, 595
Insufficiency of Rolling Stock on, 439
Mandalay-Kunlon Line, 595
Midland, 595
The Nilgiri Mountain 311, 314
North Ceylon Extension Schemes, 313
The North-Western, Brake Experi¬ments on, 313
North-Western State, Contracts Open, Radial Drilling Machine and Cylinder Boring Machine, 629
Report of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 655
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Changes in the Staff, 542
Leighton Buzzard to Hitchin, 517
Liverpool and Manchester, Electric Railway Projected between, 237
London, Brighton, and South Coast, Enlarge¬ment of Victoria Station, 85, 137, 413, 443
London, Brighton, and South Coast, London to Brighton in an Hour, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 75
Landon, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com¬pany, Arrangements with the Royal Zeeland S.S. Company, to Land at Port Victoria, 119
London, Chatham, and Dover Company’s Ludgate Hill Station, Improvement of, 11
London, Chatham, and Dover, Victoria Station, Improvement of, 85, 137, 413, 443
London, Chatham, and Dover and South- Eastern Amalgamation, 11, 237, 262, 313, 375
London and North-Western, New Line be¬tween Buxton and Ashbourne, 164, 491
London and North-Western, New Line from Heaton Lodge to Wortley, 164
London and North-Western, New Station at Lancaster, 337
London and South-Western Company, The London County Council and the, 413
Metropolitan, Baker-street and Waterloo, New Clauses of the Bill, 413, 439
Metropolitan, G. F. Bird on the Future of Underground Railways, 105
Metropolitan, The Question of Electric Trac¬tion on. Sir J. Wolfe Barry’s Evidence, 413
Metropolitan, New Saburban Line, 85
Metropolitan District Railway, Extent of the, 262
Metropolitan and District Railway, Map of, 105
Midland, American Locomotives, 89, 201, 262, 271, 296, 445, 653, 654
Midland, Augmented and Accelerated Service for May, 413
Midland, Electric Lighting, Stone and Co.’s Patent, 59
Midland, Reported Erection of Wagon Build¬ing Shops at Wolverhampton, 423, 439
Midland, Short New Lines in Contemplation, 164
Midland, Train Mileage, 164
Midland and Great Western of Ireland, Heavier Permanent Way for, 213
New South Wales, Byrock to Brewarrina, 42
New South Wales, Mileage, Revenue, Expen¬diture, &c., 577
New South Wales, Report of the Commissioners for Quarter ending December, 1898, 262
North British Company, Resignation of Chair¬man and Vice-chairman, 313
North-Eastern Company, Enlargement of the Darlington Works, 517
North-Eistern Extension, Hartlepool and Sea- ham, 187, 332
North-Eastern Extensions on the North Bank of the Tees, 424, 579
North-Eastern Extension, Sunderland and Hartlepool, Projected, 187
North-Eastern, Large Express Passenger Engines for, 517
North-Eastern Lines to be Worked in Two instead of Three Divisions, 350
North-Eastern New High-level Bridge over the Tyne, Projected, 262
North-Eastern Old Locomotive, the Derwent, at Darlington, 413
North-Eastern, Purohase of the Slooperdale Estate, 377
North-Eastern and Hull and Barnsley Com¬panies, Joint Dock at Hall, 119
North London, Locomotive Works of, 137
North Staffordshire Railway Bill Passed through Committee, 632
Queensland, Locomotives for, 502
Railway Extensions, Suggested, and Bills de¬posited for the present Session relating to, Sban Hill Country and the Mandalay Railway, Mr. E. W. Wagstaff, 269
Sheffield Railway Accommodation, 196
South Africa Bulawayo and Gwelo Line to be begun, 517, 542
Extensions, 324, 376, 413, 439, 479, 485, 578, 609
Freetown, Sierra Leone, First Train to Waterloo, 356, 542
Grand Junction, The Thames Ironworks Company's Contract for, 600
Mashonaland, Beira - Salisbury Line Opened, 439, 485
Masbonaland, Umtali to Salisbury, 413, 485
Natal, Greytown Line, Severe Gradients on, 529
Natal Railways, Report for 1898, 621
Railway Policy of, 73 Rhodesian Lines, 298
Rhodesia, Line to Salisbury Opened, 635
South-Eastern Improvements. 134
South-Eastern, London, Chatham, and Dover, The Amalgamation of, 11, 237, 262, 313, 375
South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and
Dover, Bogie Carriages for (Supplement, June 30tk, 1899), 654
South Wales, 502
South Wales Amalgamation, 415
South Western, Colonel Campbell appointed Chairman, 164
South Western, Works on the, 133
Tees, North Bank of, New Line on, 542
Uganda, 11, 213, 327, 439
Wales, East and West, 85
Wales, Llanelly and Burryport Railway Opened, 262
Wales, Llanelly Harbour and Pontardu'ais Railway, 187, 237, 478
Waterloo and City, 77
Welsh Railway Bills before Parliament, 439
Welsh Railway Scheme, 64
Railways, Elevated, United States, Mr. E. E. Higgins on, 577

Railways, Electric:

Cable Railway Mileage, Glasgow Subway, 365
and Cable Railways, Working Expenses of, 365
Boston Elevated, 517
Cashmere, 491
Central London, 589, 590, 591
Huntington, United States, 577
Liverpool Overhead, Traffic on, 313
Lorain and Cleveland, 324
Manchester and Liverpool, Scheme for an, 237, 542
Massachusetts, The Boston Elevated, Traffic on, 313
Romeo, Italy, 577
Sweden, Facilities for, 465
Underground, from Marble Arch to Cricklewood, Bill for Another, 387
Traction, Electric, and its Application to Sub¬urban Railways, Mr. P. Dawson on, 313

Railways, Foreign:

American Railways—see United States Argentine Republic, Mileage and Rolling Stock, 387
Bavarian State, Janney Automatic Couplings on, 646
Belgium, Important Alteration in Railway Travelling in, 491
Brazil, Government Lines, 213
Brazil, Railway Mileage in Parana, 237
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Railway Mileage, 596
Brazil, Sonth, Railway in Rio Grande de Su', 237
Brazil, South, Only One Railway in Santa Catharina, 237
Chinese, 517, 529, 542
Chinese Concessions to British Investors, 187
Chinese, Peking-Han-Kau Line, 327
Chinese Railway Crisis, 190
Chinese Railways, American Locomotives for, 313
Chinese, West, Yangtse Route should be Developed, 517
Congo Free State, The Inkissi Railway Bridge, 218
Congo Free State Railway, Mr. Léon Trouet's Description of the, 337
Denmark State and Private Lines. 213
French Guinea Proposed Railway, 356
Indo-China, Two New Lines Authorised, 439
Lyons Railway, New Station in Paris, 337
Metropolitan Underground Electric Lines, 59
Orleans Company, Doubling of Line from Vannes to Landerneau, 472
Orleans Line, Express Service on, 655
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Com¬pany, Electric Railway from St. Gervais-les-Bains to Chamounix, 213
Germany, Hartz Mountains Railway, 622, 626
Germany to Italy, New Line from, 85
Germany, Prussian State Railways, 465
German South-West African Lines, 298
Holland, New Line round Rotterdam, 439
Italian Railways and the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship Company, Meeting of Representatives of, 413
Italian, Vesuvius Railway, 287
Japan Railways and Foreign Capital in, 20, 191, 220
Japan, Railway Mileage in, 237
Japan, Seoul and Chemulpho Line taken over by, 33
Japan, Statistics of Mileage, Rates of Fares, Ac., 600
Palestine, Haifa-Damascus Railway, 655
Poland, Railway Mileage in, 439 491
Russian, 108, 205, 213, 248
Russian, Black Sea Line, 36
Russian, Central Asia, Railway Extension, 491
^U^ln’ 'sew Lines in the Taganrog District, Russian, N.W., 304
Russian, Riga-Orel Line, Permission to Use
English Coal on. 237 Russian, Tiflis to Kars, 137
Russian, Trans-Siberian, 52, 85, 164, 331, 439
Russian, The White Sea, 332
Servia, Railway Extension in, 237
South African Republic, Pretoria to Pietersburg Line to be Opened, 635
Spain, Proposed Line from Corunna to Madrid. 387
Sweden, Electric Railways, Absence of, and Facilities for, 465
Swiss, Jungfrau Railway, 132,138, 167,183
Transvaal Railway System, Iron Poles and Wire for Fencing, 376
United States of America—Boston Elevated, 632
Charleston and Seashore Line, 387
Chicago, Lines Converging to, 517
Denver, Mileage added last year, 517
Lehigh Valley Railway, Heavy Mountain Locomotives, 313
Manhattan Elevated Railway, Electric Motive 1>13
Ter On> an^ Consequent Saving, 137,
New York and Long Island Railway, Re¬sumption of Work on the Hudson River Tunnel, 356
Pennsylvanian Railway, Fiftieth Year of its Existence, 577
Pennsylvanian Railway, Presidency of the, 629
Pittsburgh and Western, Large Steel Coal Trucks, First used on. 287
Railways Constructed 1898, 213
Railway Mileage and Population per Mile, 517
Texas, Railway Mileage in, 337
Three and Four-Track Lines, 85
Underground Railway Scheme for New York, Wabash Railway, Experiments with Lagged Locomotive Tenders, 313
Railways, Mountain, Mr. C. A. W. Pownall on, 562

Railways, Light:

Aberdare, 542
Andovereford to Witney, 655
Applications for Orders to Authorise the Con¬struction of, 577
Axminster and Lyme Regis, 655
Cape Government, 125, 273
Chirton, North Shields, Tynemouth, Culler-coats, Whitley, and Monkseaton, 262 County of Middlesex, 268
Derbyshire, Didcot to Watlington, 237
Essex, Projected, 187
Flamborough and Bridlington, 59
Gower, 542
Isle of Sheppey, 471
Liuder, Berwickshire, 577
Lincolnshire, 237
Merthyr, 387
Nelson to the Colne Borough Boundary, 11
New South Wales and Victoria, 319, 517
Oldham, Middleton, Castleton, and Chadderton, 11
Orders for Confirmed by the Board of Trade, 287
Penzance to the Land's End, 137
Rhyl and Prestatyn, 262
South Africa, Light Railways v. Standard for, South Norfolk, 213
Stourbridge to Kinver, 262
Tanat Valley, 33
Tralee and Dingle, Accident on toe, 262
Uxbridge to Hanwell, 491
Standardisation of, 656
Tramways, Different Kinds of Power for Light Railways and, Mr. Parker on, 565
Tramways, London County Council’s Schemes for Light Railways and, 287
What a Light Railway is, Mr. A. C. Pain on, 562
West Manchester, 517, 595

Railway Matters, Various:

Air Brakes and Automatic Couplers on United
States Railways, Proportion of, 439
Air Brakes, New Device for, 465
Air Brakes, Small Friction Wheel for Prevent¬ing the too Severe Application of, 465
Air Brakes, Test of, in New York, 187
American Railway Race, The, 67
Automatic Couplers, Labelling and Braking of Wagons on both Sides, &c., The New Rail¬way Bill will Deal with, 213
Automatic Couplers, Royal Commission to Investigate the Question, 571
Automatic Couplings Bill, Action of the
Government Condemned for Abandoning, 491
Automatic Couplings, Mr. Bell’s Statement with regard to, 387
Automatic Couplings, On the Question of the
Introduction of, 465
Automatic Couplings for Railway Vehicles,
Number of Patents in the United States, 237
Automatic Couplings, in the United States, Way they have, 413
Automatic Couplings—see also Couplings, Auto¬matic, under Railway Rolling Stock, Ac. Ac. Boilers, Cupped Thin Fire-box Sheets for, Mr. R. J. O’Neill’s Conclusions as to, 119
Brecon Railway Directorate, Consolidation of Preference Capital Suggested, 387
British Railway Practice, Limitations of, 520
British Railway Returns, 190
Buffer Stop, Mr. H. J. Smith’s, 413
Burnisher for Journals of Car Axles, Ao., Used in the Missouri Pacific Railway Shops, 213
Caledonian Railway Locomotive Shops, Employés Festival, 137
Camden Town and Kentish Town Widening, Traffic begun, 164
Campbell, Colonel, Appointed Chairman of the
South-Western Railway, 164
Campbell, Mr. W. R., Manager of Dominion Atlantic Railway, Death of, 33
Capell Fan to Ventilate the Hoosao Tunnel, 213
Chinese Railway Crisis, 190
Communication on Passenger Trains, Question in the House of Commons as to, 187
Driving Boxes for Locomotives, Baldwin Loco¬motive Works, 119
Driving Wheel, American, Highest Recorded Weight on a Single, 11
Earnings of United States Railways, Improve¬ments in, 542
Egypt, First Sleeping and Refreshment Car Service in, 59
Electric Clock at Liverpool-street Station, 465
Electric Traction by Moans of Accumulators,
Cost of Working, The Chicago Company’s Report on, 262 “e. r /
Electric Tramcar and Railway Carriage Works at Preston, 319
Electric Tramcars, Storage Battery, in America,
Fares for the Members of the Iron and Steel Institute, Reduced, 413
Fares, The Zone System of, Vienna Elevated Railway, 287
Fast Run between Chicago and Council Bluffs, United States, 279
Fast Run on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway, United States, 517
Fast Mail Train across the United States, 144, 172
Fast Run between Chicago and Denver, 237
Fast Runs, American, 67
Fire-box Sheets, Cupped Thin, Mr. R. J.
O’Neill’s Conclusions as to, 119
First-class Carriages and Fares Suppressed in Belgium, 491
Fuel Economy on American Railways, 180
Geography of Great Railways, Mr. H. J. Mac¬kinder's Lectures on, 213
Glasgow Subway, Miles Run by Trains Using Cable Haulage, 365
Harrison, Mr. W. H., Death of, from the Effects of Mauling by a Lion, 11
International Sleeping Car Company's Train de Luxe Services for the Present Summer, 595
Joints, Cast Welded Rail, Milwaukee Rail joint and Welding Company, 212
Lagging of Fire-boxes on the Chicago and North-Western Railway, 439
Laying Dust with Oil on American Railways, 577
Lighting by Electricity on the Midland, Messrs. J. Stone and Co., 59
Lighting System, The Pintsoh, on the United States Railways, 59
Locomotive Driving Boxes, The Baldwin Works, 119
Locomotive Driving Springs, American, 11
Locomotive Tubes, Old Fences Built of, on American Railways, 491
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company's “South Coast Quarterly,” 595
London and South-Western, Testimonial to Mr. W. S. Portal on his Retirement, 164
Metropolitan District Railway Company, Mr. Forbes on the Rumoured Sale of this Com¬pany’s System, 208
Midland Railway Company, Facilities Afforded to their Servants to Invest in their Stocks, 213
Midland Railway Company, Offer to take over the Furness Railway, 491
Midland Railway, Mileage of Trains on, 164
North-Eastern Railway Company, Goods Sidings at Northallerton, 186
North-Western Railway, New Siding Accommo¬dation at Garston Docks, 164
Pintsch Lighting System on the United States Railways, 59
Pollitt, Mr. Wm., Presentation to, and Baronetcy Conferred on, 413, 438, 577
Railways of this Country, Most Expeditious Methods of Re-laying the, Mr. H. Footner on, 612
Railway Policy of the Cape Government, 73
Railways, Causes of Earthslips in the Slopes of,
Cuttings, and Embankments of, and how to Prevent them, Mr. R. E. Cooper,.612
Railway Bills Deposited for Consideration by Parliament, 11
Railway Carriage Window Manipulator, Mr. E. J. Hill, 259
Railway Experiment, A Singular, 483, 513
Railway Inspection, 189
Railway, Speeds on Single Lines, Question of High, 11
Railway Traffic Capacity in America, Increase in, 324
Russian Railway Junctions, Schools for Instruc¬tion to Railway Mechanics, &c., to be Established at, 119
Russian Railway Report, 108
Sand-boxes of Locomotives I Position of, on the Illinois Central Railway, 287
Siding Accommodation at Garston Docks, 164
Sidings, Goods, at Northallerton, 186
Signalling Appliances, Railway, Lock and Block, Mr. A. Ross, 563
Signalling, Improved Methods of, needed on Indian Railways, 187
Signalling, Railway Fog, Mr. W. S. Boult, 563
Smith, Mr. H. J., his Buffer Stop, 413
South-Western Railway, Colonel Campbell ap¬pointed Chairman, 164
Sparks from Locomotives, and the Loss of Fuel they Represent, 11
Stafford, Mr. J. H., Reported Resignation of,
Static Wheel-loads and Speed of Trains, No Prospect of a Decrease in, 337
Station, Boston, The Largest in the World, 96, 137
Stations at Burnham Beeches and Hunslet, 655
Station, Central, for Hamburg, 577
Station, Charing Cross, Enlargement of, 378
Station, Euston, Improvements, 164
Station, Ludgate-hill, to be Improved, 11
Station for Sheffield, Joint, 465
Station of the Southern Railway Company at Bordeaux, The St. Jean, 491
Station, Victoria, Enlargement of, 413
Stone and Co.’s Patent, Electric Lighting, Mid¬land Railway, 59
Subsidies Paid to Railroads by the Province of Quebec, 287
Terminus, Boston, Largest in the World, 96, 137
Terminus, Hamburg, Now Central, 577
Train Lighting by Electricity on the Midland, Messrs. J. Stone and Co., 59
Train Mileage Run on United States Railways,
Train Resistance, 36, 67, 166, 171, 595
Train Resistance, On a Formula for, Mr. Hy. Graftio, 595
Uganda Railway, All-iron Houses Shipped to Mombassa, 213
Vallance, Mr. John, his Railway Experiments at Brighton, 483, 513
Viaducts, Railway, in Germany and Austria as Compared to Ours, 387
Wages and Cost of Coal, Increase in Locomo¬tive Department of English and Welsh Rail¬ways, 213
Weights Hauled on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 517
Workmen’s Trains and the Eight Hours Day, Great Eastern Railway, 186
Zone System, Fares on the, Vienna Elevated Railway, 287
Railway, Rolling' Stock and Material and Permanent Way:
Brakes, Automatic, Universal Adoption of in South Africa, 635
Brake Experiments on the North-Western of India, 313
Bridge over the Atbara, Soudan, 297, 408
Bridge, Cantilever, Across the Niagara Gorge, Strengthening of, 491
Bridge over the Gogra, The Elgin, 119
Bridges, The Great Central Railway, Mr. Edw. Parry, 356-359, 366, 387, 484, 485
Bridges of the Great Central—see also Railways, British, Great Central
Bridge Across the Great Fish River, South Africa, Girders Weighing 180 Tons, 635
Bridge, North - West Argentine Railway, Damaged by Floods, 491
Bridges, Projected, 262
Bridges in South Africa, 44
Buffer Stop, -Mr. H. J. Smith’s, 413
Car, Private Railway, Jackson and Sharpe Company, U.S.A., 30, 38
Cars, Coal, 40-Ton on American Railways, 324
Couplings, Automatic, 616
Couplings, Automatic, American, 237, 263, 632
Couplings, Automatic, on Bavarian Railways, The Janney, 646
Couplings, Automatic, Mr. Bell’s Statement with regard to, 387
Couplings, Automatic, Opposition to the proposed Compulsory Introduction of, on all British Railways, 270, 287
Couplings, Automatic, Patents for, in the U.S., 237.
Couplings, Automatic, Question Discussed at Glasgow, 287
Coupling, Automatic, "The Railroad Gazette” on the Question, 365
Couplings, Automatic — see also Automatic Couplings under heading Railway Matters, Various
Coupling, Railway Wagon, Mr. Joseph Hartill, 621
Driving Wheels, Amerioan Locomotives with Larger, 387
Girders for the Railway Bridge at Cookhouse, in South Africa, the Heaviest over Launched there, 635
Locomotives American, 421, 465, 602
American Baldwin Works, 89, 90, 187, 201, 262, 271, 287, 296, 313, 337, 419, 445, 465
American, for the Barry Dock and Railway Company, and for the Port Talbot Dock and Railway Company, 365, 517
American, with Cast Steel Frames, Baldwin Co., for the Topeka and Santa Fé Railway,
American, for Chinese Railways, the Baldwin Works, 313
American, Exported from the U.S. last Year, 545
American, for France, the Baldwin Works, 337
American, Geared, 497
American Goods of Enormous Size, 395
American Goods, for Midland Railway, Schenectady Works, 653, 654
American Goods, Union Railroad, U.S.A., Pittsburgh Works (Supplement, April 28lh, 1899), 418
American, for the Great Central, 517, 527
American, for Great Northern Railway, The Baldwin Works, 313, 419, 465
American, Heavy Mountain, Baldwin Works, 313
American, for the Indian Railways, 59
American, The Invasion of the, 419
American, for Japan, 324
American, for the Midland, 89, 201, 262, 271, 296, 419, 527, 653, 654
American, on the old Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, 491
American, Output in the United States, 85
American Passenger Ten-wheeled, with “ Spring Rigging,” Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway Company, 418
American, Position of Sand-box on, 287
American, Presented to the Columbia Uni¬versity by the Baldwin Works, 287 American, for South America, 148
American, for 2000-Ton Trains, 421
American, Use of Cast Steel Frames for, 85
American, with a Water Service, 137
for Belgian State Railways Ordered in Germany, 200
and Bogie Wagons for the Natal Railway
Ordered from England, 578
Boiler Coverings, Tests of, on the Chicago and North-Western Railway, 237
Boilers, Feed-water Heater for, Mr. H. A. Millar, 500
Boilers, Loss of Heat from, Mr. Robert Quayle’s Paper on, 419
Boilers, Proportions of Express, 500
Boilers for the Queensland Railways, Tender Secured by Messrs. Evans, Anderson, and Phelan, 324
Building in Great Britain, 341, 364, 653
Building in the Midlands, 364
for the Caledonian Railway Company, and for Japan, 44
Compound, their Economy, 298
Compound Express, Austrian Staatsbahn, Herr Karl Golsdorf, 318, 319
Compound, Mr. Webb on, 565
Compounding the Cylinders of, Mr. John Player’s Now Systom of, 655

Locomotives

Compressed Air Mine, Messrs. The H. K. Porter Company, 79
Consolidated, Union Railway, United States of America (Supplement, February 17th, 1899), 157, 169
Cylinders, Large Stroke or Large Diameter for, 602
for Denmark ordered in Italy, Why English Builders do not Tender, 213
The Derwent, at Darlington Station, 413
Driving Wheels, Diameter of, 597
Eight-wheel, with 2514
Square Feet of Heat¬ing Surface, Schenectady Works, 621
Eight-wheel Passenger, Prof. Goss on the In¬ternal Resistance of, 621
Electric, for the Baker-street and Waterloo Railway, Messrs. Thomas Parker, Limited, 90, 91
Electric Mining, Oerlikon Maschinenfabrik of Zurich, 410
Express Passenger, Lancashire and York¬shire, Mr. J. A. Aspinall (Supplement» March 17th and June 2nd, 1899), 254, 258, 289, 546, 621
Express, North-Eastern Railway, Built at Gateshead, 517
French, 145
French, Diagrams of Runs by, 56
for German and Bavarian State Railways, 124
at Grahamstown Exhibition, The First South African, 450
Great Western Railway, Mr. Chas. Rous- Marten on, 405
Goods, with Larger Driving Wheels, Mr. Sam Higgins, 387
Headlights on Turntables, Movable, 213
High-speed, Mr. J. H. Dales, 70
History, A Link in, 358
Home and Foreign, 603
for Japan, Kraus and Co., Munich, 527
Midland, Messrs. Dubs and Co., 413
Narrow-gauge, for Queensland, Result of Tenders for, 502
of New Design, Double-bogie, Built in Natal to be put to Work on the Coast Lines, 635
a once Famous, Mr. Rous-Marten on, 304
Parts, Reduction of Unnecessary Weight of,
313
Mr. Harry Pollitt’s, 262
Rack, for the Pike’s Peak Riilway, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 90
Six - wheeled Coupled Passenger, London and North-Western Railway, Mr. F. W. Webb, 489, 497
on a South African Railway, Loads Hauled by Double, 125
for South African Railways, Messrs. Neilson, Reid, and Co., 485
Specification of a Four-wheel Coupled Passen¬ger, Great Northern Railway, Ireland, 69
Steel Boiler Tubes for, 425
Tank, Mr. R. Cronin, Dublin, Wicklow, and
Wexford Railway (Supplement, January Oth, 1899), 8
Tank, for Pretoria and Pietersburg Railway, Messrs. Beyer, Peacock, and Co., 440, 443
Tank, with Trailing Bogies, Condemned by Major Lient.-Col. Yorke severally, Addison, and, 33
Tenders, Lagged, Experiments with, on the Wabash Railway, 313
Types of, 1898, 32
Wagon-building Works at Motherwell, New, 213
Webb Four-cylinder, Run with a, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 591
Works at Darlington, Enlargement of, 517
Works of the North London Railway, Visit to the, 137
Motherwell Wagon and Rolling Stock Com¬pany, Limited, The, 213
Permanent Wat American Steel, for the Caledonian Railway Company, 365
American, for the Victorian Government, 270 British, for the Public Works Department. Sydney, 270
for the Canadian Pacific, 465
Concrete for, 148
a German Rail Joint, 411
Illinois Steel Company’s Output, 213
Injury done to, by Disconnected Engines, 187
for Italian Railway, German, 72
for Prussian State Railways, 72
New Form of Rail, Mr. W. T. Manning, 253
791b. Replaced by 941b. per yard on the
Midland and Great Western Railway of Ireland, 213
Rail Weighing Machine, Messrs. W. and T. Avery, 196
of South African Locomotives, The, 175
Steel, 119,121
Steel, for India and China, Dowlais Com¬pany, 300
Steel Permanent Way, Effects of Wear upon, Mr. G. Kirkcaldy on, 121
Steel Permanent Way, Microphotography of, Sir W. Roberts-Austen, 121
Steel Rails, Structural, Mr. A. A. Stevenson on, 119
Quebec, Railway Mileage in the Province of, 287 Rolling Stock
Rolling Stock, Barnum and Bailey's Special Trains, 360
Rolling Stock, Bogie Carriages, South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways, Mr. H. S. Wainwright (Supplement, June 30th, 1899), 535, 536, 574, 654
Rolling Stock, Building Combination in America, American Car and Foundry Company, 270
Rolling Stock, Carriage Window Manipulator, Mr. E. J. Hill, 259
Rolling Stock, Great Eastern, Third-class Carriages to seat Six on Each Side, 365
Rolling Stock for New South Wales, 270
Rolling Stock, New South Wales, New Type of Second-class Carriage, 502
Rolling Stock, Steel v. Timber for, 99, 164
Rolling Stock of the Transvaal Railways, 175
Sand-box of Locomotives of the Illinois Cen¬tral Railway, Position of, 287

Rolling Stock:—

Steel Coal Trucks, Large, in the U.S , 287
Steel Frames for Locomotives, Cast, 313
Sreel r. Timber for Rilling Stock, 99, 164
Steel for Timber, Substitution of, as a Material
for Construction of.Rolling Stock, 164
Rain in 1897-98, On the Prolonged Deficiency of, 287
1871-98, Dr. R. H. Scott on the Heavy Falls of, 644
Rainfall at Greenwich, Annual, 486
Rothamsted, 1898, 33
Western Australia, Government Astrono¬mer’s Report, 246
Ransomes and Smith, Messrs., Rotary Concrete- j mixing Machine, 398
Rismussen, Captain A., Some Steam Trials of Danish Ships, 283
Ratisbon, Removal of the Old Bridge Across the Danube at, 595
Recording Apparatus at the Alloys Research
Laboratory, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 160
Instruments, Two, 438
Refrigerating Plant for Kimberley, American, 635
Refrigerator, Marine, Linde System, 65, 66
Registration of Colliers in South Wales, 649
Reid, Mr. H. Cartwright, On Piles and Pile-driving, 397
Reservoir, Burrator, Plymouth Corporation, 186
Staines, 537
Retort Heating, On Modern Systems of, 457
Retribution ' Effect of Trade Improvement in the United States, 89
Reynolds, Professor Osborne, On the Slipperiness of Ice, 262
Rhodes, Mr. Harry, On Band-ropes for Transmission of Power Underground, 599
Richards, Mr. E. W., Opening Address, 586
Ridley, Mr. J. Hind marsh, 552
Ridley and Sons, Messrs. Thos. D., Dissolution of Partnership, 350
Rifle, French Small-bore Repeating, 517
The Krag Jorgensen, 595
Riley, Mr. Geo. F., 43
Rings, British Shipping and the, 623
River and Canal Mileage in European Russia, 59
Riveters, Portable Pneumatic, in Shipbuilding:
Mr. W. J. Babcock, 147, 321
Riveting and Caulking of Ships, and Material of ; Ship Rivet, On the, 641
Machine, in Shipbuilding, 306
Roadmaking Department at the International ; Building Trades Exhibition, 444
Roberts-Austen, Professor Sir W., Presidential ; Address, 460, 472, 501, 516
Roberts-Austen, Sir Wm., Oa the Micro-photo¬graphy of Steel Rails, 121
Ribinson and Son, Messrs. Thos., High-speed Roller-feed Planing Machine, 192
Rockwood, Mr., On Compound Engines for High- pressure, 62
Roller for Anti-friction Bearings, New Form of, 237
feed Planing Machine, 192
and Scarifier, Road, at the Maidstone Show, 618
Roller, Mr. F. W., On the Effects of High-pressure Steam on Engine Cylinders, 491
Rolling Mills for Sale, The Richmond, 399
Röntgen Radiography, Latest Development in, 237
Rays, Applications of the, 337
Production of the, Use of the Electric Motor Cab for, 465
Tube, A New Influence Machine exciting a, 438
Roscoe Filters or Double contact Filters? Why, 164
Rose Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg, 593
Ross, Mr. Alexander, On the Advantages or Dis¬advantages of Uniting the Lock-and-Block Signalling of Railways, 563
Rotation, Problem in, 169
Rotherhithe Subway, The Proposed, 413
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., London to Brighton in on Hour, 75
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., New Coupled Express Engines of the Great Western Railway, 405
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show: Entries for Prizes Offered, and Statistics of the
Size of the Showyard, Number of Exhibits, &c., 187, 559, 617
Engine, Oil, Capel and Co., 619
Engine, Oil, Greenwood and Batley, Limited, 619
Engine, Oil (portable), Petter and Sons, 619
Engine, Oil, R. Stephenson and Co., 617
Hop Washer, Drake and Fletcher, 620
Malt Crusher, Boby’s, 619
Road Roller and Scarifier, Chas. Burrell and Sons, Limited, 618
Steam Lurry, Mann and Charlesworth, 618
Swath Turner, Blackstone and Co., 617

Royal Institution:

Centenary Commemoration, 439, 515, 571
Duke of Northumberland, The Late, and the
Election of his Son as President in his Place, 136, 255
Honorary Members Elected in Commemoration of the Centenary, 515
Members, Election of New, 255, 363, 469
Lecture Arrangements after Easter, 306, 407
Lectures, March 10th, 17th, 24th, Subjects of, 242
Tyndall Lectures, The, 407 Papers Read:
Earth Currents and Electric Traction, Prof. Riicker on, 397
Electric Eddy Currents, Prof. S. A. Thompson, 407
Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dewar on the Proper¬ties of, 439
Motion of a Perfect Liquid, Prof. H. S. Hele- Shaw, 548
Royal Metal Trades Pension Society:
Festival Banquet, 237

Royal Meteorological Society:

“At Home" in the New Rooms at Prince’s
Mansions, Victoria-street, 487
Rain, Heavy Falls of, Recorded at the Seven
Observatories Connected with the Meteoro¬logical Office, 1871-98, Dr. R. U. Scott, 644
Royal School of Mines, The, 111

Royal Society:

Conversazione, 438
Micrometer Gauge, Differential, Mr. Joseph Goold, 525
Thermo-electric Combination, Mr. W. F. Bar¬rett, 438, 513
Vacuum Tubes Exhausted by Dipping in Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dewar’s Experiments, 59
Royal Society of Edinburgh:
Heat of Combination of Pairs of Solid Metals, Dr. A. Galt, 542
Leakage of Electricity from Charged Bodies at Moderate Temperatures, Prof. J. C. Beattie, 542
Temperature Over the Floor and Surface of the Ocean, Sir John Murray on the, 387
Royle, Mr. J. J., Patent Steam Drier, 325
Rubber Cables, Fusion of, Cause of the Failure of Electric Light in Manchester, 527
Rubber Forests, Congo Free State, Control of the, 465
Riicker, Professor, On Earth Currents and Elec¬tric Traction, 397
Rudeloff, Mr., Experiments with Nickel-iron Alloys, 187
Russia, Agriculture in, 462
Russia, Agricultural Machines for, British and Foreign Competition, 655
Russia, Foreign Foremen to be Removed, 44
Russia, Some Notes in, Galeroii Island, 228, 231
Russia, Notes in, 179, 188, 228, 231, 281, 363, 382, 429, 433, 560
Russia, Donetz Coal Deposits, 577
Russian Commercial Law, The New, 465
Russian Petroleum Industry, 465
Rustless Cast Iron, 313
Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 10 Ton Steam Navvy, 260, 261, 300
Rutherglen, Mr. C. R., On the Duntooher and Dalmuir Waterworks, 370
Ryder and Son, Messrs. T., Lathe, 602

S

ST. HELENS, Explosion at, 488, 512
St. Petersburg, New Admiralty Yard and Gil-ernii Island, 179, 228, 231
Samoa’s Cargo of Cotton. The, 213
Sand for Extinguishing Fire, Use of, 517
Sanitary Safety, 312
Saniter Steel, 43
Santiago, Battle of, 177
Schiscbkar and Co., Capstan Lathe, 419
Schlicht, M. P. J., On a New Process of Com¬bustion, 164
Scoria Shipped from Ghent, and its Utilisation in the Making of Steel, 331
Scotch Coal Trade, Effect of the Welsh Strike on, 59
Scott, Dr. R. H , On the Heavy Falls of Rain Recorded at the Seven Observatories Con¬nected with the Meteorological Office, 1871- 98, 644
Sea Coast Protection, 395, 474, 482, 603
Sea Coast Protection, by W. H. Wheeler, 329, 353, 381, 403, 430, 455, 482
Sea of Victory in India, The Jai Samund or, 439
Seaham Harbour, Enlargement of, 501
Secrétan, Mons., 257
Seekings, Mr. J. J., 40
Servia, Acts Passed to Increase the Productive Power of, 237
Servian Government Grant to a German Firm a Concession to Manufacture Sugar, 237
Sewage Analysis, 603, 656
Disposal Works at Exeter, The Septic, Probable Adoption of the System in Belgium, 213
Disposal at Glasgow, 521
Pumping Plant, Boston, 148
Purification at Manchester, Bacterial
System of, Mr. Dibdin’s and not Prof. Roscoe’s, 164
Sludge Disposal by Natural Agencies, Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, 588
Works, Dronfield, 517
Sewerage Scheme, Cape Town Suburbs, 609
and Sewage Disposal of Forest Row, Sussex, 213
System for Johannesburg, 73
Works, Gibraltar, 193
Sewers, Foul Gas in, 245
Sewers, Ventilation of, 355
Shafts, Large Nickel Steel Crank, in course of Manufacture, 85
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, The, 114
Corporation, Bills to be Petitioned against by the Parliamentary Com¬mittee of, 85
Derby, and Leicester Walor Scheme, 28
Electric Lighting Municipalised, 21
and South Yorkshire Canal, 606
Tramways Municipalised, 21
Shepherd, Mr. Joseph, On Modern Machine Tools, 292
Shield, Mr. Wm., On the Effect of Waves on Breakwaters in Different Depths of Water, 584

Ships :

British Battleships:
Battleships, The New Thames-built, 136
in Course of Construction,
and Ordered, 59, 72 Bellona, The, 133, 445
Canopus, Progress of the, 220, 346, 362, 600
Eclipse, Explosion in the Shell-room, 180
Gladiator, The, 133
Glory, Floating of the, 268
Goliath, Engines of, 185, 184,185
Implacable, Launch of tho, 268
London, Stern Post and Stern Framing of the. 308
Orlando, her Guns Converted into Quick-firers, 32
Resistance, End of, 179
Trafalgar, Defects in her Machinery, 262
Warships, Sir A. J. Durston and Mr. H J. Oram on the Machinery of, 269
War Vessels, Express Boilers in, 511, 522

British Cruisers:

Argonaut Trials and Experiments made
in, Paper by Sir John Durston on, 282
Bedford, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company’s Tender Ac¬cepted, 541
Cruisers Ordered, 72
Diadem, The, 316, 383, 388, 541
Elswick Cruisers, 397
Hermes, Speed Attained by, 655
Highflyer, Speed Attained by, 655
Monmouth, Glasgow Engineering and
Shipbuilding Company’s Tender Ac¬cepted, 541
Niobe, The, 541
Pactolus, Feed-water Regulators Fitted to the Boilers of, 142
Pomone, Trials of, ‘208
Psyche and Tribune to be Commissioned for the North American Station, 312 Spartiate, First-class (Supplement, April Ilk, 1899), 332, 333, 335, 336
Sybille, Refit of the, 312
Terrible, The Explosion on, 186, 291, 317, 389, 391
Weldless Tubes for Re-boilering the. 476
British Torpedo Boats, Catchers, Destroyers, Gunboats:
Albatross, Trial of the, 361
Havock to be Re-boilered, 575
Mermaid, H.M. Torpedo Destroyer, Trial of, 464
Nordenfeltand Nordenfelt-Garrett, Sub¬marine Boats, 61
Python, Trial of the, 287
Skipjack and the Speedwel1, The Tor¬pedo Gunboats, 464
Surly, Oil Fuel Trials in the, Abandoned, 621
Torpedo Boat Destroyers for the Service, Mr. Jas. Howden on, 309
Battleships, Foreign:
Danish Ships, Some Steam Trials of, Capt. A. Rasmussen on, 283
French Formidable, her Armour Placed on the Central Redoubt, 186
Sfax, 600
German, Five New, 220
Kaiser Friedrich der Dritte, 186
Japanese, Hatsuse, 648
Russian, Peresvet, 429, 433, 560
Peter Veliky, Second-class, 363
Poltava, First-class, 363
Sevastopol, First-class, 364
Santiago, Performance of Individual Ships at, 177
United States Battleships, Deficient Electrical Knowledge on Board, 164
Battleships, Machinery j in, 110, 113, 116 ;
Oregon, Steadying Ef¬fect of her Bilge Keel, 85
Wisconsin, 40
Warships in course of Construction in the United Kingdom for Foreign Powers, December 31st, last, 59

Cruisers, Foreign:

Argentine, Belgrano, Supplement March ‘ird, 1899, 206
Argentine, Garibaldi, The, 133
Austrian, The Zenta’s Yarrow Boilers, 390
Austro-Hungarian Cruiser, Jaguar, 220
French, D'Entre Casteaux, 32
Dunois, Full-power Trials of, 575
Joanne d’Arc, 571, 572, 625
Snffren, a Record in Naval Con¬struction, 517
Gorman, Gazelle, 133
Two New Cruisers, 220
Japanese, Asama, 133
Chitose, Trial Speed of, 287
Iwate (Eewartce), in hand at Elswick, 625
Kassgi, 186, 306, 521
Russian, The Gromovoi, 281, 445, 575
Tho Pa’lada, 228, 231
Svietlana, 429
Santiago, Performance of Individual Ships at, 177
United States Albany, 86, 90
Chicago, 40
Six New Cruisers of a New Class, 502
Tigress, A Model Cruiser, Mr. Chas. L. Palmer, 361, 395
Torpedo Boats, Catchers, Destroyers, Gunboats, & Submarine Boats.

Foreign:

Austrian Kigyo, First-class, 98, 297, 387
Python, 387
French Destroyers, The Hallebarde Launched, 625
Destroyers, Launch of, 186
Destroyers, Supply of Sail
Power to the Suggested, 464
and other Submarine Torpedo Boats, 31, 32, 36, 61
Torpedo Boat Destroyers and
Submarine Boats to be laid down at Rochefort, 595
Torpedo Depót Ship, The Foudre Converted into a Sea¬going Training-ship, 625
Gorman Catchers litis and threo others, 133
Japanese Destroyer Ikadsuchi, 9
Destroyer Akobono Launched and Trial run, 413, 464, 465, 621
Destroyer Inadsuma, 119, 257
Destroyer Shinonome, 412
Destroyer, Yarrow Boilors for a, 511, 522
Russian Gunboat Khrabry, 560
United States, The Davis and the Mackenzie, 40

Mercantile and Passenger and other British:

Australia, New Passenger Steamer for the Port Jackson Co-operative Steam¬ship Company, 502
Auxiliary Machinery on Board ships Mr. E. Nicholl on, 164
Ballasting of Steamers, 239
Barges for Belfast Steel, Contracts open, 418
British Vessels entering Cadiz in 1898, Tonnage of, 365
Dredgers, Sand Pomp, Mr. A. G. Lyster on, 584
Fifeshire. The, Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Limited, 659
Holt Steamer, A New, 552
Kinfauns Castle, Castle Mail Packets
Company, Limited, 488, 492
Liverpool and Newfoundland, Mail Ser¬vice Between, 365
Lorna Doone, Boilers of the P.S., 511, 512, 518
Mail Service to India, via Brindisi, Arrangements with the Italian Bail- way Company, 413
Mail Service to Newfoundland resumed, 413
Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, Limited, Orders Secured by, 223
Oceanic, 1871, The White Star Atlantic s.s., 31
Oceanic, 1899, White Star Atlantic s.s., Messrs. Harland and Wolff (Supple¬ment, January 13M, 1899), 2, 53, 54, 58, 60, 85
Oceanic, Filtration Plant for, Messrs. Defries and Co., 368
Omrah, Orient Line, her Steaming Capa¬bilities, 502
Pervi, Dredging Vessel Launched by Messrs. Wm. Simons and Co., 491
Roller Boat Ernest Bazin, to be sold by Auction, 287
Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert, The New, 462, 466, 476, 568, 574, 604
Shipping Output of the United King¬dom, A Year’s, 59
Ships Exclusive of Warships under Con¬struction and Launched in the United Kingdom, December 31st last, 59
Ship» Exclusive of Warships under Con¬struction in the United Kingdom on March 31st, 1899, and 1898, 387
Steamers, Cargo, Recent Developments in, Mr. E. W. De Rusett on, 567
Steamers, Discharging and Reloading of, Mr. Hunter, 564
Steamers injured by the Gale at Belfast, 59
Steamers, Merchant, Practicability of so Constructing them as to Render them readily available for War Purposes, Mr. J. H. Biles on, 566, 584
Steamships? Old, 409
Steamship Propulsion, Mr. Robt. Mansel on, 130
Steamers, Swift Passenger, of Moderate Size, Mr. E. L. Martin cn, 566, 583
Stentor, The, 552
White Star Atlantic s.s. Oceanic, The Old and the New (Supplement, January Vilh, 1899), 2, 31, 53, 54, 58, 60, 85, 368
White Star Steamer Afric Damaged by the Galo, 59

Mercantile, Passenger and other Foreign:

Adirondack, Hudson River Steamer, 26
America Cup Defender, Columbia, Dimen¬sions of, 542
American Liner, Accident to an, 85
Allan Liner Castilian, 307, 312
American Liner Paris, The, 312, 511
American Paddle-wheel Steamers with Beam Engines, 26, 48, 107, 161, 252, 277, 410
American s.s. St. Paul, Accident to, 187
Assistance Condemned as Unseawortby, 542
Cunard Steamer Pavonia, Damage to, 257
Ermack, Ice-breaking Steamer, 30, 313
Fire-boat for Detroit, 502
French Mercantile Marine, The, 64
French Merchant Navy, Total Tonnage of, 262
Fulda, Accident to the, 493, 547
Germanic, Raising of the, 287
Globe, Lengthening of the Lake Ore Steamer, 502
Hamburg, American Mail s.s., Service to America, Improved, 365
Hamburg, Ships Arriving in the Port, 59
Japanese Mercantile Marine, The, 465, 595
Milwaukee, The s.s., 361, 643, 646, 647
New York Shipbuilding Company, Ship¬yard to be Laid out at Camden, New Jersey, by, 595
Norddeutschcr Lloyd, Künig Albert Launched, 655
Pathönder, Steamer for the United States Coast Survey Service, 40
Puritan, The, 107, 109
Russian Government, Dredger Constructed
for, by Mr. Lindon Bates, 584
Russian Ice-breaking Steamer Ermack, 30, 313
Russian Mercantile Marine in 1893, 595
Sailing Ships, Three Model Steel, to be Built for the Baltic and North Sea Trade, 621
Shipping Output for the Year 1898, 59
Steamers with Beam Engines, American Paddle-wheel, 26, 48, 107, 154, 252, 277, 410

Shipbuilding News, British and Colonial, Naval and Mercantile:

Armoured Ships of the Future, 416
Boilers, Express, in War Vessels, 511
Boiler of the Future, The Naval, 353, 332, 403 409, 427, 455, 511
Boilers in the Navy, Water-tube, 394
Boiler, Water-tube, in Passenger Steamers, 511
Boilers, Water-tube, s.s. Orlando, 576
Cambered Keels, 26
Clyde Shipyards, 456
Condensers in the Navy, 342
Destroyers, The New, Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, 349
Destroyers, Torpedo Beat, Entrusted by the Government to Private Builders, 350
Electricity in Warships, 441
Filtration Plant for the Oceanic, 368
Fitter Students in the Navy, 296, 345, 395
Machine Riveting in Shipbuilding, 305
Motive Power of Warships, Logical Arrange¬ment of the, by Commodore Geo. W. Melville, 285, 308, 320
Riveters in Shipbuilding, On Portable Pneu¬matic, by Mr. W. 1. Babcock, 147, 321
Riveting and Caulking of Ships, and Material of Ship Rivets, Mr. R. T. Napier on, 641
Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert, The New, 462, 466, 476, 568, 574
Shipbuilders, English, Vessels Launohed by, in February, March, and May, 262, 365, 595
Shipbuilders, Scotch, Vessels Launched by, in February, March, April, and May, 262, 365, 452, 552, 577
Shipbuilding Industry from the “Statist,” 9
Shipbuilding, Mechanical Engineering and Modern, The Connection between, Sir Wm. White on, 434,441,475
Shipbuilding Section at the Engineering Con¬ference, 641
Shipping Launched during January from Clyde Shipyards, 124
Shipyard Development on the Clyde, 218
Steam Speeds at Sea, The Watt Anniversary Lecture on, by Sir N. Barnaby, 92
Steam Tonnage, Total Addition of, to the Register of the United Kingdom, 1898, 213
Steel and Iron Tonnage classed during 1898, 213
Thames Pioneer Shipbuilders and Marine Engi¬neers, 81
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, On the Stocks, Tnree Cruisers, Torpedo Boat Destroyer for the British Admiralty, and a Battleship for Japan, 551
Wagos Advance given by Messrs. Harland and Wolff to their Employés, 213
Warship Construction on the Clyde, 257
Warships under Construction in the Unit3d
Kingdom on March 31st, 1899, 387

Shipbuilding News, Foreign, Naval and Commercial:

America, Floating Dry Dock, Algiers, United States, 502
America, Ship and Boat Building, The Coming Industry in, 301
America, Shipbuilding Activity in, 421, 479
America, Speed Trials, Admiral Sampson’s
Squadron, 577
American Liner, Accident to an, 85
American Marine Notes, 502
American Shipbuilding Company Organised, The, 502
Armoured Warships of the Future, 416
Atlantic Liner, The New Red Star, 421
Bilge Keels, On the Steadying Effect of, on the OregoD, 85
Compagnie des Forges et Chantiers de Syra takes over the Old Shipyard of the Naviga¬tion Hellénique, 387
Denmark, 1897, Ships Built and Launched in, 85
Electro-plating of the Hull of the Tug Assist¬ance, Unsatisfactory, 542
Engine, Marine, under Construction at the Piricus, 413
French Marine, The, 315
Germany, Formation of the “ Schiffbautech-nische Gesellschaft,” 517
German Shipyards in Point of Output, The Second Place Won by, 213
Hamburg-American Mail Steamship Company’s Improved Service to America, 365
Greece, Shipbuilding Trade of the Piraeus, 413
Italy, Growth of the Shipbuilding and Naviga¬tion Bounties, 517
Marino Steam Engine Construction in the United States, C. H. Haswell on, 308, 345
Melville, Commodore Geo. W., Annual Report of the United States Navy, 87
Melville, Commodore G. W., Oa Motive Power of Warships, 285, 320, 380
Navigation Hellénique, Shipyard of the Old, 387
Norwegian Government Tenders Invited for the Erection of Hot Water^Heating Appara¬tus and Pipes in Twenty-five Vessels, 412
Oil Tank Steamer, The Roach Shipyards, America, 421
Red Star, Atlantic Liner, The New, 421
Russia, Some Notes in Government Shipbuild¬ing Yards, 179, 188, 228, 231, 281, 363, 382, 429, 433, 560
Russian Coast Defence Ship, 179, 188
Russian Navy, Bulkheads, Testing, in the, 67
Russian Volunteer Fleet, Stoamships Ordered in England for, 93
Sailing Vessels for the North Sea and Baltic Trade, Construction of Three, 621
Santiago, Performance of Individual Ships at, 177
Sheathing of Vessels, The Latest American Idea for the, 119
Shipbuilding Business in America Revives, 421,
Shipbuilding, Connection between Mechanical Engineering and Modern, Sir W. White on, 434, 441, 475
Shipbuilding Material for Germany, Tenders Invited, 200
Shipping Bill, The Hanna-Payne, 70
United States Navy, Engineers in the, 87
United States Navy, Machinorv in the, 110, 113, 308, 345
United States Navy, Steam Engineering in the, 87
Warships, Motive Power of, Commodore G. W. Melville on, 87, 285, 320, 380

Shipping- Accidents:

American Liner New York, Breaking of Star¬board Engine Cylinder, 85
Collision between U.M.S. Collingwood and the Curacoa, 85
Cunard Steamer Pavonia, The Condition of the, 257
Explosion on board the Terrible 317
Fn'da, s s., 493, 547
Paris, The, oa the Manacles, 595
Shooting Practice, Average of Effective Hits made by the British Navy, 237
Shrinking and Forcing Steel Spindles into Iron Discs, Experiments in, 237
Siberian Exhibition, Question of, under Dissnssion, 287
Siemens Brothers and Co., Limited, Works at Woolwich, 538, 558, 572
Signalling, Railway Fog, Various Systems of, Mr. W. S. Boult, 563
Silicides of Iron, Preparation of, by the Use of the Electric Furnace, 517
Simpson, Mr. Robert, 58
Siphon, The Spelling of the Word, 237
Siren, An Electrical, 621
Sirius Pulsating Pump, 631
Six-wheeled Vehicles, 245
Skin-friction and Wave-making, On the Horse¬ power Absorbed by, 310
Skinner, Mr. S., On the Combustion of Carbon in Electrolysis, 313
Slate Pencils made from Slate Dnst in Tennessee, 577
Smelting Iron Ore, On the Use of Petroleum for, 390
Smith’s Dock Company, Limited, New Pontoon Docks, 223
Smith, Mr. Holroyd, On some Methods of Col¬lecting the Current in Electric Tramways, 200
Smith, Prof. R. H., On Ventilation, 427
Smoke Consumption and the Public Health Act, 1891, 137
and its Diminution, Bryan Donkin, 507, 531, 637
Nuisance, Sheffield, 491 Preventing Furnace Door, 297
Question, The Sheffield Chamber of Com¬merce and the, 439
Smokeless Powder, Pith of Cornstalks as an Ingredient in Manufacture of, 237
Snout Boring Machine, A Large, 279, 280

Society of Arts:

Etheric Telegraphy, Mr. W. H. Preece, 445
Arrangements for January and February, 2
Coal Supplies of the United Kingdom, Mr. T. F. Brown, 465
Conversazione, 632
Cost of Municipal Enterprise, Mr. D. H. Davies, 239
Electric Traction and its Application to Suburban and Metropolitan Railways, by Mr. P. Daw¬son, 313
Kites and Kite Flying, Mr. Lawrence Hargrave, 542

Society, Bath and West and Southern Counties:

Entries in the Various Departments, 439
Place and Date, Ac., of Annual Exhibition, 146
Society, Cambridge Philosophical:
Carbon in Electrolysis, Combustion of, Mr. S. Skinner, 313

Society, Chemical:

Moorland Waters, Mr. W. Ackroyd’s Investiga¬tions on, 542

Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineering:

Electric Tramways, On some Methods of Collecting the Current in, Mr. Holroyd Smith, 200
Rstaining Walls, Mr. A. T. Walmsley, 29
Society, Coal Smoke'Abatement, 245

Society of Electrical Engineers, Northern:

Electric Traction, Mr. H. F. Parshall, 97

Society of Electrical Engineers, South African:

Visit to the General Electric Power Company’s Works outside Johannesburg, Brown, Boveri, and Co.’s Generator, 376

Society of Engineers:

Machine Tools, Mr. E. C. Amos, 372
Shan Hill Country and the Mandalay Railway, Mr. E. W. Wagstaff, 269

Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated :

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. John Corry Fell, 146
Introductory Address by Mr. G. N. Barnes, and Annual Report, 487
Loans incurred during the Strike Paid off by, and Present Financial Condition of, 44
Premiums Awarded for Papers Read during 1898, 146
Wages, Application for Advance of, 299

Society of Engineers, Austrian :

Jubilee Celebration, 826

Society, Glasgow Engineering:

Engines, Auxiliary, 'on Steamships, Mr. John Thom, 84

Society, Glasgow Technical College, Scientific:

Electric Power in Factories, Mr. II. A. Mayor, 111

Society, Japan:

Japanese Railways, Mr. Choknro Kadono, 191

Society, King’s College Engineering:

Coal Mines, Mr. F. A. Lsgge? 580
Temporary Works and Appliances in Harbour Construction, Mr. W. E. Lester, 542
Society, Liverpool Engineering:
Fluid Motion, Further Experiments on the Character of, Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 94
Society, Machine Workers:
Introductory Address by Mr. Matthew Arran- dale and Annual Report, 487

Society, Manchester Geological:

Explosives in Mines, Permitted, Mr. W. J. Orsman, 503
Fossil Coal Plants, Mr. Jas. Lomax, 595
Map of Liverpool, A Geological, Exhibited by Mr. G. II. Morton, 377
Pneumatophor, described by Mr. Deans, 503

Society, Mason University College Engineering:

Electric Light, Some Practical Point* io, Mr, H. Lea, 133

Society of Mechanical Engineers, American:

May Meetings, Reception, and Visits, 632
Presentation of Papers at the Summer Conven¬tion Abolished, 577

Society, Meteorological:

Annual Meeting and Presidential Address of Mr. F. C. Bayard, 85
Rain in 1897-98, Prolonged Deficiency of, Mr. F. J. Brodie, 287

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers: American :

Pnmp Economy, Test of a Unique form of Feed, Mr. F. W. Wheeler, 40, 345
Riveters, Portable Pneumatic, in Shipbuilding, Mr. W. I. Babcock, 147

Society, Physical:

Apparatus to Determine the Rate of Diffusion of Solids dissolved in Liquids, M. A. Griffiths, 272
Appleyard, Mr., his Resignation, 439
Magnetic Induction at a Point outside. Effect of a Solid Conducting Sphere in a Variable Magnetic Field on the, Mr. C. S. Whitehead, 412

Society of Railway Servants, Amal¬gamated :

Automatic Couplings, Mr. Bell's Statement with regard to, 387

Society, Steam Engine Makers’:

Introductory Address by Mr. Jas. Swift, 246

Society, Yorkshire College Engineer¬ing:

Leeds City Electric Tramways, Mr. E. Talbot, 169
Soil Temperature, Mr. H. Mellish on, 390
Soudan, Trade in the, 296
Soulanges Canal, The, 409
South African Coal and British Steam Coal, 533
South Durham Plate-making Concerns, Amalga¬mation of the three, 21
South Kensington Museum, Series of Lectures to be given at, 85
South Wales, The Recovery in, 28
South Wales, Registration of Colliers in, 649
South Wales, Strike Reports, An Appendix to the, 240
South Yorkshire Coalfield, Development of the, 624
Spanish - American War, The Lessons of the, 278
Spanish Hoop Iron, Its Unsatisfactory Quality, 365
Specification, Part 3 of, 231
Spectrum Photographs taken with the Rowland Grating, Sir N. Lockyer’s, 413
Speed at which a Centrifugal Pump should Run, Speed Gearing, Hall's Hydraulic Variable, 39
Sperry, Mr. É. S., Characteristic of Alloys of Nickel and Aluminium Discovered by, 287
Spottiswoode Collection of Physical Apparatus, 558
Spraying, Destruction of Charlock by, 542
Staines, New Storage Reservoirs at, 119, 537
Stallibrass's Chain Cable Armour, 227
Stamp Mill and its heavy Cost, Mechanical De¬ficiencies of, 376
Standard Bridge Work, 408
Standardising of Light Railways, The, 656
Static Motor, An Interesting Form of, 237
Staunton, Mr. V. W., Pitch Chain for Power Transmission, 11
Steam Boilers, Circulation in, 140
Steam Carriage and Wagon Company, Messrs, the Steam Motor and Underframe, 211, 212
Steam Drier, Mr. J. J. Royle’s Patent, 325
Steam Navvy, 10-Ton, 260, 261, 300
Steam Pipe Accident, A Strange, 273
Steam Pipes, Mr. J. T. Milton, 294
Steam, Reactive Influence of, 2
Steam Turbines, Westinghouse Machine Company, 70

Steel:

Analysis for the United States Magazine Rifle, 512
In Austria, England Buys, 33
Balls for Cycle Bearings, Schweinfurt Manu¬facture of, stopped, 655
Barges for Belfast Harbour, Contracts Open, 418
Company of Scotland, The Record Contract for Castings Booked by, 119
Hardening, Reported Invention of Mr. Edison, jun., 246
Importance of the Heat Treatment of, 187
On the Influence of Casting Temperature upon, 640
Ingots, Demenge Process of Hardening, 655
and Iron Water Mains, America, 172
Made by the Saniter Process, 43
Making Establishments of Carnegie and Frick, Amalgamation of, 517
Micro-structure of, 160, 166, 195
Open-hearth, from Cleveland Iron, 37
Pipe Line for Indianapolis Waterworks, 337
and Rails, On Specifications for Structural, 119
Tools, How to Detect Small Cracks in, 310
Trade, Foreign Competition in the, 412 Trust, Tho, 467
Trusts and Prices, 544 Windmill, A 16ft., 630
Works, Erection of New, Announced at the Tees Conservancy Commissioners’ Meeting, 22
Stephen, Mr. Alexander, 525
Steriliser, Aluminium Water, 147, 174
Steuart, Mr. D. S. S., On the Zoutpansberg Gold Mines, 599
Stevenson, Mr. A. A., On Specifications for Structural Steel and Rails, 119
Stevenson and Evans, Messrs., Hot-blast Stove. 411 ’
Stewart, Mr. S., Presidential Address at the Gas Institute, 594
Stoping Machine Drills for Mining in South Africa, Demand for, 324
Stott and Co., Messrs. J., Acetylene Gas Genera¬tor, 632
Stott and Co., Messrs. J., Ventilating Fans, 632
Stove, The “Gasorcoal,” 517
Hot-blast, Messrs. Stovenson and Evans, 411
Straw Press, Opening at Nicolaiev for a Cheap, 621
Stream Line Motion, Method of investigating, 438
Strike ia Belgium, Colliers’, 478
Strike in the Cotton Trade, Threatened, 290
Strike at Creusot, The, 542
Strike, Echoes of the South Wales, 114
Strike Funds, Where they come from, 88
Strike Reports, An Appendix to the South Wales, 240
Strike, Results of the Coal, 200
Strike, Wendel Ironworkers, Saarbriicken, 478
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., On the Strength of Boilers, 309
Structural Steel and Rails, On Specifications for, 119
Stud-turning Lathe, 419
Submarine Boats, 118
Submarine Cable, A New, 368
Suez Canal Traffic, 137
Sugar Manufacture in Servia, 237
Sugars, Natal, to Enter the Cape and Free State Markets on Preferential Terms, 201
Sulphur Mines in the South of Spain, 243
Summers, Mr. Bertrand, Theories and Facts Re¬lating to Cast Iron and Steels, 462 Sunday Delivery of Letters in London, 164 Supplements:
Alternator, 1500-Kilowatt, Deptford, Mr. Z. de Ferranti, April 21st, 1899 Argentine Armoured Cruiser Balgrano, Messrs. Orlando Bros., March 3rd, 1899 Bogie Carriages for the South - Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Mr. Harry Smith Wainwright (Supplement, June Wth, 1899)
Bridge over the Atbara River, Soudan Railway, Pencoyd Ironworks, June 2nd, 1899 Engines of H.M.’s First-class Cruiser Spartiato, Messrs. Maudlay, Sons, and Field,
April 7th, 1899
Locomotive, Consolidated, Union Railroad, U.S.A., Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car
Works, February 17th, 1899, 157, 169
Locomotive, Four-coupled Bogie Passenger, Great Northern Railway, Ireland, Mr. Chas. Clifford, January 20th, 1899 Locomotive, Heavy Goods, Union Railway,
U.S.A., Pittsburgh Company, April 28th, 1899
Locomotive, Tank, Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, Mr. R. Cronin, January
6th, 1899
Locomotive, Ten-wheeled Express Bogie Passen¬ger, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, March 17th, 1899, and June 2nd, 1899
White Star Atlantic s.s. Oceanic, Messrs. Harland and Wolff, January 13th, 1899
Surrey Commercial Docks, 556
Swath Turner, Blackstone and Co., 617
Swarbrick, Mr. Sam, 109 Swedish Iron Ore Districts, Map of, 25
Swinburne, Mr. Jas., Lectures on Dynamo and Transformer Construction, 577 Swinburne, Mr. Jas., Methods of Electrical Transmission, 574
Swansea, New Graving Dock Opened, 478
Swiss Metal and Engineering Industries, 406
Switches, Relative Merits of Liquid and Metallic, 228
Switzerland, Sale and Fabrication of Lucifer Matches in which Yellow Phosphorus is Used, Forbidden, 595
Swords, Japanese, Mr. Gilbertson on, 11
Sydney, New Bridge for, 500

T

TALBOT, Mr. E., On Leeds City Electrical Tram¬ways. 169
Tangyes Limited, Large Centrifugal Pump, 407
Tank Cement Storage, for Californian Wine, 187
Tank of a Gasholder, Brooklyn, Failure of the, 11
Taylor, Mr. E. J., On the Making and Testing of Welded Steel Chains, 111
Technical College, Finsbury, Lectures at, 41
Technical Education, 165, 194
Technical Education, 1896-7 in England, Wales, and Ireland, Amount Spent on, 365

Telegraphy:

Telegraphic Communication, Coast, Mr. Chas. Bright on the History of, 153,205, 227, 251
Telegraphic and Telephonic Lines of the World, 387
Telegraphy, Aerial, 445
Telegraphy, Aerial — *>« also Telegraphy, E.hereal, Etheric, and Wireless
Telegraphy, Cheap, 412
Telegraphy, Ethereal, Prof. Marconi’s New
Experiments, 413
Telegraphy, Ethereal tee also Telegraphy, Aerial, Etheric, and Wireless
Telegraphy, Etheric, Signor Marconi’s Projected Experiments at Dovercourt, 621
Telegraphy, Magnetic Space, by Dr. O. Lodge, 197, 375
Telegraphy, Magnetic Space, 120,170,193,197, 375
Telegraphy, Wireless, 33,84, 111, 120,170, 197, 237, 312, 368, 395, 498, 655
Telegraphy, Wireless, Dr. Oliver Lodge on, 120, 170, 197
Telegraphy, Wireless, Signor Marconi on, 237
Telegraphy, Wireless, at the South Foreland Lightship, 33
Telegraphy, Wireless, Use of, for Detecting the Presence of a Ship or an Iceberg, 655
Telegraphy, Wireless — also Telegraphy, Aerial, Etherial, and Etheric

Telephones :

Telephone Bill, Tho Government, 240, 624, 652
Telephone Charges in New York State, 313
Telephones in London, The, 222
Telephone Service, The, 89, 190, 222/240, 268, 62-1.652
Telephone Service, Future of the, 89
Telephone Servico, Japan, 20, 137
Telephone System of Amsterdam, The, 595
Telephones, Tokyo, 20
Telescope at the Paris Exhibition, The Great, 336
Temperature over the Floor of the Ocean, Sir John Murray on the, 387
Temperature, On Soil, 390 Tempest, Mr. Joe A., On Electricity, 330
Tenders invited by the Christiania Harbour Management and the Electric Works, 491
Tenders invited .by the Netherland Ministry, 154
Tenders invited by the Norwegian Government for Hot-water Heating Apparatus and Pipes for Twenty-five Vessels, 412
Testing House Opened by the Manchester Cham¬ber of Commerce, 657
Textile Machinery Exports, 598
Thames, The, 605
Conservancy Meeting, Measures decided upon, 413
Embankment, Difficulties connected with the Foundation for the Roadway, 213
Ironworks and Shipbuilding.Company’s Good Fellowship Scheme, 438
Pioneer Shipbuilders and Marine Engi¬neers (with Portraits), 81, 82, 83
Tunnel, Proposed, 341, 464
Theisen Process of Scrubbing Blast Furnace Gases, 517
Thermo-electric Combination, 438, 513
Couple, A New, 365
Thom, Mr. John, On “ Auxiliary Engines on Steamships,” 81
Thom, Mr. John, On “ Four-crank Marine En¬gines and their Auxiliaries,” 186
Thomson, Mr. A. D., On “The Duties and Com¬pensations of Municipal Engineers,” 133
Thompson Brothers, Planishing Hammer, 382
Thomson, Prof. Elinu, Steam Engine for Motor Carriage Work, 517
Thomson, Mr. Frank, 595
Thomson, Mr. W., his Report on Lamp Explo¬sions in Manchester, 400
Thornycroft’s Patent, 222
Thrashing Machinery in Turkey, 651
Tidal Wave, Bristol Channel, Damage done by, 164
Timber v. Masonry Dry Docks, 298
and other Fibrous Substances, Seasoning and Preserving, 599
Seasoning by Electricity, 109
Winter and Summer-hewn, Difference between, 164
“Times” Report on the Accident on H.M.S.
Terrible, 394 Tin and Copper, 114
Tin-plate Combination, American, 70
Revival, A, 422
Trust in America, The, 301
Tinkers, Limited, Mcssn., Lancashire Boiler, 192
Tipping ” in Italy, Important in Insuring the Efficiency of British Machinery, 213
Tipton District Mines, Utility of the Work of the South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Com¬missioners, 213
Tobogganing on the Manitou and Pike’s Railway, 213
Tokyo Telephones, 20 Waterworks, 20
Tools, Cracks in Steel, How to Detect them, 310
Tools, Machine, Messrs. Craven Bros., 134, 135
Tosh, Mr. E. G., 423
fowler, Mr., Un English ». American Machine Tools, 230
Traction by Electricity, Mechanical, Mr. G. C. Cuningham oo, 611
Trade between the Midlands and China, Expan¬sion of, 198
Trade and Business Announcements:
22, 44, 73, 98, 124, 150, 200, 224, 248, 273,
300, 327, 350, 378, 401, 425, 452, 478, 479,604,
528, 529, 552, 580, 608, 631, 659
Trade Disputes in March, 1899 and 1898, 413
Trades of England, The Dangerous, 390
Trade Marks Abroad, British, 91
Trade Mark Cases in Japan, Four, 148
Trade Outlook, The, 520
Trade in the Soudan, 296
Trade Unionists in the United Kingdom, 119
Trading, Municipal, 239
Train Resistance, 28, 29, 36, 67
Train Resistance, New Formula for, 166, 171, 195

Tramways :

Electric, Australia, 502
Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield, 476
Blackburn, 317
Brighton and Seashore, 387
Cairo, 436, 438
Capetown, 175
Cherbourg, 365
Coventry, Engine and Dynamo for, 371
Darlington, 145
Darwen, 469
Development, 216
Durban, South Africa, 450
Glasgow, Central Power Station for, 461
Glasgow, Limited Height of Wires Objected to, 452
Germany, 119
Glasgow Corporation, 142, 343
Hastings, 137
Large Towns, Mr. G. Conaty on, 269
Leeds City, Mr. E. Talbot on, 169
Lodz. Poland, 465
Munich, Uniform Charge, 655
Moscow, 542
Naples, 201
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 439
New York, Conversion of from Cable
to Electric Traction, Motors and Cars Required, 237
Ostend, 387
Provisional Orders, 515
Rio de Janeiro, 595
Rolling Stock and Material for, 618
Seville, 365
Sheffield, 164
Mr. Holroyd Smith on some Methods of Collecting the Current in, 200
Electric, Staffordshire Potteries, 503
Switzerland, 439
United Kingdom, 119
United States, 70
West London, 571
Westminster to Finsbury Pavement, 595
Westminster and Tooting, Electric Traction for, 413
Wolverhampton, 606
British, 92, 136
Brooklyn, Night Utilisation of, for Goods Traffic, 187
Capetown, Messrs. Dick, Kerr, and Co. en¬deavour to obtain the Contract, 529
Colne and District, Estimated Cost of, 11
Gas Traction on, 656
Headingsley, Chapeltown, and Hunslet, 33
between Houghton-le-Spring and Sunderland,
Scheme for, 313
Johannesburg, Electric Traction for, 298
London County Council, Mr. Baker, Manager of, 33
London United, Service Throughout the Night, 11
Mechanical Traction on the London County Council’s, 187, 287
Mechanical, in the United States, Prof. Kennedy goes to Report upon, 187, 413
New South Wales, 577
North Metropolitan, Night Service and Fares, 137
North-West India, 387 I in a Snowstorm, The New York, 63
Street and Road, in the United Kingdom, 92 1
Tramways, Electric, and other— Railways, Light, and Tramways
Tramways-«« Railways, Light, and Tramways
Transformer, Variable Ratio, Thos. Parker, Limited, 444
Trass, 525
Trieste Dock, Accommodation at, 521
Tripoli, Esparto Fibre Export, 137
Trow, Mr. Edw., 164
Trusts, Danger of Industrial, 392
Tsakonas, Mr., Acetylene Gas Installation at Syra, 491
Tuberculin Test Applied to Cattle at the County Dairy Institute, Worleston, 262
Tubes, Seamless Aluminium, 187
Tugrin Fog Dispeller, The, 439
Tulloch, Major, not a Director of the West Australian Trading Syndicate, 2
Tunis, Openings for British Capital and Enter¬prise in, 621
Tunnel, A Hudson River, Projected, 595
of Passy, 620
Proposed Thames, 287, 341, 464 under the Thames, New Footway, 164,
180
Turbines at the Niagara Power Works, 313
Steam, Westinghouse Machine Company, 70
855-Horee Power, Central Discharge, 319
Turner and Venour, Messrs., Rubber Cushioned I Hub, 410
Turret Lathes, 312
Lathes and Screw Machines, Modern, 292
Tyndall Lectures at the Royal Institute, 407
Type Motors, Enclosed, 170
Typewriters in the United States, 33

U

UNITED States, American Plumbing Supply and Lead Company Combination, 505
Gold Production of, 577
Iron and Copper Production of the, 11,59
Magazine Rifle, The Service Pressure to be Raised, 512
Pacific Cable, A, 362 Patents, 80, 118
Projected Magazines for Naval Ammunition and Factories for Making Explosives, 365
The Safe and Lock Manufacturers’ Combination, 505
America, St. Louis Coliseum Build¬ing, 148
Union Steel and Chain Company’s Combination, 505
Urals and South Russia, Metal Industry of the, 630

V

VACUUM Tubes by means of Liquid Hydrogen, Exhausting, 59
Valve Gear, Ferranti, 512
Valve, Straight Full-way, Messrs. Hartcliffe and Malkin, 399
Vaughan and Sons, Messrs., Business converted into Limited Co., 423
Electric Travelling Cranes, 8, 129, 133
Vauxhall, Material Transporter at, 193
Vehicles, Six-Wheeled, 245
Ventilation, 474, 499
Ventilating Fans, Messrs. J. Stott and Co., 632
Ventilation, Professor R. H. Smith, 427
and Artificial Drying Plants at the International Building Trades Exhibition, 444
Ventilation of Sewers, 355
Ventilators for Mines, Mechanical, Mr. W. Walton Brown, 599
Vera Cruz Harbour Works, 182
Viaduct of Mungsten, 57
Works for the Carlsberg, 651
Viagraph, Brown's, at the International Building Trades Exhibition, 445
Vice, A Novel, 545
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Annual Meeting of Shareholders, 299
Vickers' 12in. Breech-loading Gun, 244
Victoria and Albert Museum, Laying of the Foundation Stone, 491
1898, Gold Yield of, 33
Station, 413, 443
Victorium, The New Element, 438
Vienna Water Supply, The, 465
Waterworks,Condenser and Air Pump, 146
Vignoles, Mr. Hy., 625
Vladivostock, Discovery of Gold and Coal Reported from, 85
Vogt’s Patent for Sinking Bore-holes, 423
Volcanic Products, Utilisation of, 525

W

WAGES, Advance in the Coal Trade, 325
in the Coalfield, 140 Iron Trade, 342
Miners’, Increased Scotland, 272
Question in the Swansea Valley, 22
Wagstaff, Mr. E. C., On the Shan Hill Country and the Mandalay Railway, 269
Wakefield and Co., Messrs. C. C., Lubricator, 578
Wales, The Recovery in South, 28
Walmi8ley, Mr. A. T., On Retaining Walls, 29
Walney Island as a Seaside Watering Place, 503
War Material, 1898, 18
Ward, Mr. Thos. T., Ironworks Purchased by, 491
Watchmaking in the United States, 287
Waterfalls with Electric Transmission of Power, The Utilisation of a Substitute for Mineral Fuel, 517
Water Heat, Absorptive Power of, Mr. G. Halli¬day’s Experiments to Ascertain, 473
Main, Brooklyn, Fracture of a 48in., 33
Mains, Steel and Iron, in America, 172
Meter, Mr. Prentice, 85
Power, Calcium Carbide Plant at Meran Driven by, 655
in the Highlands, 443 in Italy, 417
of the Nice District for Electric Purposes, Utilisation of, 655
Utilisation of (referring to 155), 194
Raising Wheels for Syria, 498
Reserve, New Storage Reservoirs at Staines, 119
Steriliser, Aluminium, 147, 174
Statistics, Italy, 439
Supply of Cape Colony, Mr. T. H. Saunders on the, 376
in Different Towns, Rate per Head per Day of the, and the Causes which Increase or Diminish it, 587 1898, 18
London, 77, 187, 283, 310, 386, 387, 413, 486, 655
London, Monthly Report, 413
London, The Welsh Scheme, 187
Manchester, 59
Mauritius, Anderson’s Revolving Purifiers to be used, 59
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 206 Sheffield, Derby, and Leicester, 28
South Africa, Schemes for, 609
of Steamships, 368
from the Thames during April, Avenge daily, 655
Water-tube Boilersin the Navy, ‘‘The Times” ' Report on the Accident on H.M.S. Terrible, 394
Water-tube Boilers—see also Boilers, Water-tube, 569
Water, Use of Filtered Flood, Mr. M. W. Hervey, 587
Waterways in Russia, Mileage of, 59
Waterworks, Duntocher and Dalmuir, 370
East London, 555
of Los Angelos, Cal., Valuation, 595
of the Madras Presidency, 172
Tokyo, 20
Vienna, Condenser and Air Pump, 146
Watson, Mr. J., On the Rate per Head per Day of the Water Supply in Different Towns, 587
Watson, Sir Hy., Resignation, 299
Watt Engine to be Housed at Dundee, The Early Example of a, 337
Watt Lecture, Greenock, The, Steam Speeds at Sea, 92
Waves on Breakwaters, Effect of, 584
Webb, Mr. Hy., On Modern Industrial Develop¬ment, 71, 73
Webster and Bennett, Improved Profiling Machine, 242
Weapons, Wonderful, 520
Webb, Mr., On Compound Locomotives, 565
Weedon, Mr. F. C., On the Teaching of Mechanics, 264, 266
Weeds by Spraying, Destruction of, 542
Wehnelt Electrolytic Contact Breaker, Experi¬ments with, 438
Weighing Machine, Rail, 196
Welding, Electric, Mr. O. Winder on, 247
Welding Machine, The Nicholson Tool Company, 45
Wellman Furnace, The, 461
Wells, Mr. S. H., On the Teaching of Mechanics, 264
Welsh Water Supply Scheme for London, Mr. R. E. Middleton on, 187
Welsh Water Supply Scheme, Second Reading Deferred, 287
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A.,292, 346
Westminster Electric Supply Corporation, Millbank-street Station, 538
Wheat Imports into this Country for Three Years, 33
Wheat Yield in Victoria, The Season’s, 270
Wheel Cutting Machine, Atlas Engineering Com¬pany, 423
Wheeler, Mr. F. M., Economy Test of a Unique Form of Feed-pump, 40, 118, 345
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Sea Coast Protection, 329, 353, 381, 395, 403, 430, 455, 482
Wheels Instead of Pumps at the Cyanide Plants on the Rand, 125
Whisky from Indian Corn, 137
White, Mr. J. Walwyn, Hon. Treasurer, Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic Association, 237
White, Sir W., On the Connection between Me¬chanical Engineering and Modern Shipbuilding, 434, 441, 475
Whitehead, Mr. C. S., On Magnetic Induction at a Point Outside, 412
Wiborgh, Professor, Oa the Use of Hot-blast in the Bessemer Process, 461
Wickham Cement Works, 644
Wilkinson, Mr. Wm., 33
Willansand Robinson, Messrs.,Vertical Electricity Supply Engines, 386
Wille, Mr. H. V., On the Heat Treatment of Steel, 187
Wilson, Mr. A. P., Sulphur Mines in the South of Spain, 243
Wilson, Professor C. A. Carus, On some Features of the Electric Induction Motor, 444
Wilson, Prof. Ernest, Power Distribution for Electrical Traction, 51
Winch, Derrick-slowing, Mr. W. H. Wise, 579
Windmill, A Steel, 630
Wind Pressure on Buildings and other Struc¬tures, On, 457
Wire, Barbed, its Use in Italy, 213
Wire-glass Transparent, 500
Wire Guns, New Type, 181
Wire, Heron’s Nest Built of, 187
Wireless Telegraphy, 33, 84, 111, 120, 170, 197, 237, 312, 368, 396, 495, 498, 655
Wireless Telegraphy—«te also Telegraphy, Wire¬less
Wire Nails from the United States, Export of, 85
Wise, Mr. W. H., Derrick-slowing Winch, 579
Witwatersrand, Deep-level Extension on the, 376
Wooden Water Pipes found in London, 465
Wood head, Dr. G. Sims, On Sewage Sludge Dis¬posal by Natural Agencies, 588 Wood, Non-inflammable, A Little Work on, 387
Wood’s Steam Stamp Mill for Mining Purposes, 4
Woodworking Machinery at the International Trades Exhibition, 444
Wooten, Mr. J. E., 11
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The, 390
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Effects resulting from, 287
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Messrs. Anderson and Chisholm’s Correspondence with Mr. Chamberlain in reference to, 516
Workmen’s Compensation Act, The Miners and the, 290
Workmen’s Compensation Act, A Peculiar Case at Carmarthen, 59

Workmen's Compensation Cases :

Barwell, Henry, v. the Powell-Daffryn Steam Coal Company, Limited, 446
Brown, John, v. John Scott, 446
Chambers, Ann, v. Whitehaven Harbour Com¬missioners, 476
Doyle, John, v. Edgar Allen and Co., 446
Durrie v. Warren and Co., 574
Edwards v. Godfrey, 545
Fire Tests, 574
Flowers v. Chambers, 499
Hall v. Snowden, Hubbard, and Co., 446
Holness r. Mackay and Davies, 524
Irons v. Davis and Timmins, Limited, 499
Jones v. The Ocean Coal Company, Limited, 446
Lynch, Lawrence, and Ann v. Messrs. Short Bros., 545
Medd v. Messrs. D. and C. Maclver, 574
Orth, Peter, v. Messrs. Gordon and Matz, 446
Shelley, Jas., e. Emerson, Walker, Tnomson Bros., Limited, 545
Smith v. The Taff Vale Company, 446
Walker, John, v. John and Arthur Ellis, 446
Workmen’s Compensation Premiums, 650
Workmen, English and American, 623
Wright, Sir Jas., 3S4
Wright’s or the Maximum Charge System for Electric Light, 638

X-Y-Z

YARROW Boilers for Large Powers, 390
Yarrow Boilers for Warships, 511, 522
Yellow-book on Trade Unions in 1897, 84
Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 36, 368, 599
Yumuiden Canal, 40

Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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