The Engineer 1904 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1904 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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1903 – A Retrospective
Accident? What is an

Accidents, Explosions, Fires Etc.

Burnbrook Mills
Boiler Explosions Act
Cage Accident, Nunnery Colliery
Colliery Accidents
Explosion, Gas main, St. Pancras
Explosions produced by Ferro-silicon
Fire, Baltimore, Fire-resisting Quality of Wire Glass Proved, (437)
- at the Bristol Corporation Electric Light Works, (13)
- at Mordey, Carney and Co.’s Shipbuilding Works, (65)
- in the Water Main Colliery, (89) at the Works of Gresham and Craven, Limited, (415)
Gas Explosion, Burma, (191)
Gun, Explosion of an American, (402)
Iron Mines of La Baume Destroyed by a Landslip, (637)
Middlesbrough Dock, (39)
Mines, Home-office’s Advance Proof of the Tables of Fatal Accidents and Deaths in, (89)
New York Hotel Building Collapse, Coroner’s Verdict, (463)
Pallion, Sunderland, Messrs. John Lynn’s Engineering Works, (89)
Precautions Taken Against Fire at Motor Car Works, (437)
Railway — see Railway Accidents

AERONAUTICAL Competition to be Founded by the Paris Municipality, (341)
Agricultural Implements from the United States, Export of, (613)
Agricultural Machinery for the Cordoba Exhibition, (365)
- Industry in Odessa, (341) in the Kieff District, Demand for, (341)
- Projected Curtailment of American Production, (92)
- Required at Rosaric, British Consul with Regard to, (587)
- The R.A.S. Show, 632
- Russia, Brisk Trade in, (161). (341)
Air Compressor, The R. H. Collingham. No. 1, 558, 627
Air Compressor Plant, Calumet and Hecla Copper Mine, United States, 562
Air Pumps, 145
Albula Railway, The, 226, 227, 229
Alcohol, Denaturalisation of. Prize Offered by the Russian Ministry of Finance, (65)
- in Germany, Duty-free, (389)
- for Manufacturing Purposes, Permission asked for the Use of Duty-free, (463)
- as a Motive Power, 399, 422 and the Motor Car, 391
- Prize Offered by the Russian Government for a Process by which it can be made Undrinkable, (415)
Almanacs and Calendars, 24, 50,71, 98, 148
Allan, Sir William, 8; and Memorial to, (299)
Allen, Mr. Jeremiah M., (89)
All-gear Head and the Motor, The, 566
Allotropy of Metals, 139
Alloys of Copper and Arsenic, Mr. A. J. Hiorns on, 445
Alloys of Copper and Tin, Prof, Turner on the Properties of Bronze and other, (246)
Alloy, Magnalium, Use of the New, (191)
Alloys Research Committee, Reports to the, 177, 226 ; Heat Treatment of Steel, T. K. Rose, 84, 204, 284
Alloys Research Committee, Mr. W. H. Merritt on the Work of the, (196)
Aluminium Employed for Electric Transmission Lines in America, (341) for Wood in Machinery of Spinning Mills, Substitution of (513) Zinc Treated with, (513)
Amalgamation of the South Durham Company with the Cargo Fleet Iron and Steel Company, Limited (39), (173), 199
American Education, 367
American Foundry, A Modern, 36, 37
Ammunition Works, Witton, 493
Animal Pull, 419
Ankylostomiasis, Discussion on, 603
Apples, Storage of, in the United States, (537)

Appointments and Resignations Appointments:

Bond, Mr. John, (191)
Brackenbury, General Sir Henry, (221)
Carlisle, Mr. Edwin, (147)
Carlyle, Mr., (148)
Crowe, Mr. Henry, (573)
Davies, Mr. F. L., (474), (531)
Davis, Mr. H. W., (99)
Dixon, Mr. John, (573)
Drummond, Mr. Hugh, (341)
Ingram, Mr. N. M., (524)
Jones, Mr. D., (573)
Lambert, Mr. C. A., (262), (^71)
Longmuir, Mr. Percy, (40U)
McLaren, Sir Chas., (463)
Mellsom, Mr. K., (89)
Mosley, Mr. Tonman, (437)
Sanitar, Mr. E, H., (573)
Scotter, Sir Chas., (341), (352)
Wadsworth, Mr. J., (51)
Wainwright, Mr. H. S., (89)
Whitehouse, Sir George, (137)

Resignations:

Barker, Mr. R,, (463)
Campbell, Lt.-Col. the Hon. H. W., (341)
Duffield, Mr. Jas., (123)
Hodges, Mr. P,, (473)
Hoy, Mr. H. A., (191)
Mellor, Col. J. J., (463)
Peel, Lord, (137)
Sanitar, Mr. E. H., (473)
Weston, Mr. Wm., 134
Wood, Mr. G. B., (473)

APPRENTICES in Baldwin Locomotive Works, U.S.A., 261
Apprentices, Education of, 43
Arbitration, Compulsory, 92

Armour Plates:

Admiralty Orders for 6000 tons of, (235), (247)
Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., for Japanese Battleship, (221)

ARMOURED Concrete Water Tower, U.S.A, (548)
Articulations in Granite for Bridges, 591

Association, The British:

York Invites the Association to Meet there in 1906, (587)
Association, British Foundrymen’s: Formation and Constitution, (545)

Association of Engineers, Leeds:

High-capacity Railway Wagons, Mr. Jas. T. Jepson, 373
High-speed Turning, Mr. John Miley, 146
Slip in Pumps, Professor Goodman, 322
Turning Steel Shafts of Small Diameter, Discussion on the Difficulty of, 243

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

Anniversary Dinner, (186)
Council’s Report for Past Year, (147)
Half-yearly Meeting, Election of Members, (623)
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. A. Saxon, on Development of Engineering, 96 Boilers, Water-tube Flue, Mr. A. Hobbs, 234, Electric Driving for Engineering Works, Mr. B. Longbottom, 373
Japanese Member, Election of the First, (299) Power Hammers and Recent Developments, Mr. H. F. Massey, 298
Screw Milling Machines, Mr. H. Liebert, 147 Tool Steel Experiments, Dr. Nicholson’s Report on, 142, (450)
Visit to Northwich, The Lift Locks, 459

Association, German Engineers’:

Grashof Medal Conferred on Mr. Parsons and M. de Laval, tht Pioneers of Steam Turbine Propulsion, (587)
Association, Ironinongers’ Federated: Visit to Witton Ammunition Works, 493

Association of Managers of Sewage Disposal Works:

Year’s Progress in the Solution of the Sewage Problem, Mr. W. D, Scott-Moncrieff, (265)

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

Styrian Steel, Billets, Bars, and Forgings, Mr. R. B. Hodgson, (270). 283
Visit to the Aston Electric Power Station, (196)

Association of Municipal Engineers, Incorporated;

Visit to Buxton Bacterial Filter Beds, (549)

Association, South Wales Coalowners’:

Appointment of Mr. F. L. Davies as President, (561)

Association, United Machine Workers’:

Fifty-ninth Annual Report, 494

Association of Waterworks Engineers, | British: |

Ninth Annual General Meeting : Papers to be ’ Kead, 541 i

ASTRONOMER Royal's Report as to Mean Temperature and Rainfall for 1903, (587)
Atlas Works, Sbetlield, (407) “Vuriferous Ore Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia, (209) \.utomatic Marking for Musketry Practice, (137)

BABBAGE and the Analytical Engines, 169
Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, Annual Smoking Concert, (124)
Balloon and Kite Ascents, Summary of, (513)
Balloons, Metal, for Raising Sunken Vessels, Experiments in Reval Harbour, (561)
Bamboo, Paper made from, (114)
Band Brakes, 119 Barrow, Proposed Bridge to Walney Island, (39), (114), (209), 327, (573), (647)
Barrows and Sons, Messrs. Wm., Sale of their Works, (220)
Bath, The Question of Locomotive Traffic in the Streets of, (315)
Bath and West of England Show, (550)
Battleship Design, The Tendency of, 577 Battleships — see. Ships
Battle of Port Arthur, The, 164
Bearing, Self-oiling, Unbreakable Pulley, and
Mill-gearing Company of West Gorton. (327) Beasley, Mr. A., Presentation to, (287), (300)
Belgium, Industrial Development of, (209) Prosperity of, shown by Savings Banks Returns, (613), Sums Spent on Public Works in, (613)
Belt-conveying Plant, New, Messrs. Graham, Merton and Co., 535

Bills;

Birmingham Tramways Extension, Proposed, (613)
Barrow, Bridge to Walney Island, (39), (114) Barrow Corporation, (647)
Brazilian Navy Reorganisation, (609)
Cambrian Railways Bill Passed, (488) Canal Traffic, Introduced by Sir John Brunner, (437)
Cardiff Railway, (148)
Cheshire Electricity and Power Gas Company, (137)
Garman Government to Promote Erection of Small, Low-rented Dwellings, Unimpeachable from Sanitary, Moral, Social Points of View, (488)
Humber Commercial Railway and Dock, (415)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company’s Steamboat Services, 4, (437)
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Electric Power, Opposition to, (191)
Loudon and North-Western, Short Line to the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show Ground, near Twyford Abbey, (189)
London Port and Docks, Petition Against, (161)
Manx Legislative Company’s. Legalising the Holding of the Eliminating Trials in Connection with the Motor Race for the Gordon Bennett Cup, (287)
Marylebone Borough Council Electric Lighting, (341)
Metric Weights and Measures Adoption, (161) Midland Railway Omnibus, (235)
Newport Docks, (148)
North and South Woolwich Electric Railway, (340)
North Staffordshire Railway, (612)
North Yorkshire Dales Railway Company, (52); Withdrawn, (270)
Preston and Blackburn Tramways, (45), (287), (613)
Private, 1904, 308, 369, 387
Prussian Canals and Waterways, (389)
Radway Companies’, for Eusuing Session, (13), (189)
Thames Steamboat, Petition Against, (161)
Tipton District Engineering Scheme, (498)
Torquay Tramways, Electrolysis Clause to be Inserted in, (161)
Tottenham Court - road Tramways, M.P.’s Oppose, (191)
United States, for the Licensing of Engineers and Pilots of Motor Boats, (287)
United States, Manufacture of Denatured Alcohol, (287)
Various Bills against which the Stockport Town Council intends to Petition Parliament, (65)

BIRTHS and Deaths in London and Seventy-five other Towns, Weekly Return, (137)

Blackburn Education Committee, Applications for Post of Principal of Technical School, (587) '
Blast Furnaces, Number of American, (252) Furuaco Plants, American for Bolckow,
Vaughan and Co., (161)
Plant in the United Kingdom, Rettirn of the Changes in tho, (415)
A Record Charcoal, (341)
Board of Trade, The, 616
and Condensers, 617
Returns, Capital Expenditure on Tramways and Works, (203) Surveys, 665

Boilers:

Corrosion of Steam. (192)
Explosions Act, 1882 and 1890, Report for the Year 1903, (65)
Explosion on Locomotive owned by Messrs. Nevill, Druce and Co. : Judgment given at Llanelly, (114)
Feed-water from Septic Tanks ? (323), 397
Management, R, T. Cooke, 384
Niclausse, 217
Niclausse, in the United States Navy, 91, 145
Plants in St. Louis, (587)
Power, 212
Water-tube, Mr. W. E. Berry, 200, 201 V. Flue, Mr. A, Hobbs on, 234 L'icomotive Type, Southampton
Docks, Mr. D. Drummond, 305, 322

BOOT and Son, Bi-photo Prints, (488)
Borough Councils and House Drainage 373
Bournebrook, Metallurgical Buildings at, (472)
Bournebrook, The New University Buildings, (270)
Bournemouth, Construction of Sea Defence Works and Undercliff Drive, (39)
Brazil, New Branches of Industry in, (39)
Brazil, Number of Cotton Mills in, and Capacity of the Largest, (262)
Breakdowns in the Navy— see Shipping Accidents Brewing Plants in America mostly Owned by Germans, (415)

Bridges, Railway and other:

Albula Railway, 257
Articulation in Granite for, 591
Austria, Concrete Road Bridges in, 424
Ayr, Closed for Traffic, (341)
Barrow, to Walney Island, (39), (114), (209), 327, (573), (647)
Barry Company’s, for the, (574)
Bristol Town Council, Widening and Reconstruction of Four Bridges on the Dock Estate, (470)
Budapest, The Elizabeth (Supplevienli April 1904), 379, 429, 503,514, 579, 628, 629
The Old Suspension, 422
Cairo, New, 491
Caisson Disease, (114), (135)
Conway Suspension, 517
Copley, Steel Foot-bridge over the Canal at, (459)
Frequency in the Loading of Railway, 179
Grosvenor, London, Brighton, and South Coast, 584, 585
Iron, Erection of, R. G. Scholefield, 297
Lambeth, (235), 616
London, Ceremony to Celebrate the Completion of tho Widening of the, (343)
Long Plate Girder Bridges, 422
Middlesbrough, Transporter for, (91
Midland Railway between Settle and Carlisle, New Iron Girder, (137)
Neva, St. Petersburg, The Troitsky, 280, 281
Nile, Order for Secured by Messrs.. Head, Wrightson and Co., (647)
North-Eastern Railway, Darlington, (123)
Russian State, New Official Regulations for Railway, 307
Saxony, Plauen, Stone Arch, 218
Sonning, (209), 291
Spain, Betanz ;s, (537)
Sydney Harbour, (175)
Talingho, Extra-Mural Railway, (89)
Thames, Order for Seemed by Messrs. Head, Wrightson and Co., (647)
Tower, G. Munro Fined for causing Light Locomotive to be Used on, (191)
Troitsky, over ihe Neva, St. Petersburg, 280, 281
United States, American Bridge Company’s Works at Lafayette, Ind. Closed, (415)
Brooklyn, 80
Carbondale, Concrete Arch Railway Bridge, 83, 88
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, Counterbalanced Swieg, 548
Chicago River Bascule, 142 Concrete Railway, 416 Hartford, Stone, 496
Manhattan, Cais on Disease m the Foundation Work, (H^) New York, Blackwell’s Island, over the East River, 244 New York, East River Suspension, (13), 80
Pennsylvania Railway, Masonry instead of Steel on, in Future, (613)
St. Louis, 443
Shore Line, Four New Bridges Projected, (13)
Williamsburg, still without Railway Service Across it, (114) Vauxhall, New, 135 . rnbla
Victoria Falls, over the Zambesi, (248) , Cable
Conveyor for, (287) , __ . ,
Walney Island, Vickers, Sons and Maxim and the. (39), (114), (209), 327. (573). (617) Warrington, Widening ot, (479)

BRIQUETTE Fuel, Use of, in German Mines, (488)

British Association, The:

To be Invited to Meet in York in 1906, (537) Ih'disk Jounutl of Pkotographij, Jubilee Number British ^Locomotives and their Work, by Charles Rous Marten, 80, 151, 199, 2ol, 303
Broadwood’s Piano Factory, 162, 166
Bromell Patents Company, Limited, Silent Ratchet Brace, 243 .
Bronzs and Alloys of Copper and Tin, Professor Turner on the Properties of, (246)
Bronze Ordnance, 258 -
Buildings, Bill Empowering the Corporation ot London to Inspect all, (315)

CABLEWAYS, Aeciil Suipsuiion, Me. J. M. Henderson on, 445
Cableway in the Argrentine, 492 . r>
Caisson Disease in Foundation Work in Bridg
New York, (114). (235)
Calcium Carbide, New Mode of Formation of,
M. H. Moissan on, (341)
Calorimetry, Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dawar on,
California. Water Power and Klectncity in, 0 Canada, Home Shipping Port for, 319
Irrigation in, 286, 306
Mineral Output, 1901, 1902, 1903, (315) North-west, Acreage Suitable for the Production of Cereals, (39)
Canadian Lift Lock, A, 69

Canals :

Belgian, Policy of Low Freights and Tolls Advisable, (437); Under State Control, (437)
Electric Towage Scheme for, 45
Ems, Quay Wall at Dalfz’jl. 193 .
Forth and Clyde Loch Lomond, Projected, i (131
France, Cutting of the Canal du Nord, (561)
Ghent and Terneuzen, (209)
Hennepin, United States, 324
Irrigation Reconstruction of the Yakuma, ioo Lake Onega and the White Sea, (65), (661) Manchester Ship, Estimate of the Cost of the New Works Proposed, (137); Traffic Receipts, November (13),Wmbe/ (111). 1903,^1904, March, (415); Traffic Returns, May, (687)
Manchester Ship Canal (Finance) Bill of 1904, Ml ea\e of, in France, and Traffic, (311) New York State, 509
North Sea and Baltic, Traffic and Dies, April, (587); 1903, (137); January, 1904, (23o);j February, (341)
Ohio, Annual Report of a Special Canal Com* mission, (65)
Ontario, Canal Lift at Peterborough, 69
Panama, Colombian Government’s Demand
Rejected, (365) I
Portage Lake, Commerce of, (191) i
Raiyan Project, The, 568 ,
Suez, March Traffic, (415); Navigation Returns for 1903, (561)
Suez, January Traffic Through, (209); Three Months’ Traffic and Dues, (463)
Thames and Severn, Open for Traffic, (209) Trent, United States, Hydraulic Lock for the,
Welland, Canadian Government’s Plan to Enlarge, (488)

CARBORUNDUM as Protection for Furnace Bricks, (488)
Cargo Fleet Iron and Steel Works, (450) i
Carnotite, Radium Obtained from, (114), (587) Castings, Tempering Malleable, 190

Catalogues: i

24, 50, 76, 100,122, 146, 175, 243. 270, 328, 353, 400. 445, 474, 498, 522, 574, 598, 645

CEBU Harbour, 32
Call, Experiments with a New Primary, Mr. Bousfield, 445
Cellulose Production, Smokeless Powder Cloth, Cement^Consumption in the United States, (13) Plant at Buffiegbon, Ind., The Illinois Steel Company’s Great, (637) Weighers, Automatic, 522
Works in Rhenish-Westphalia, ‘‘Sales Union ” of, (537)
Chamberlain, Mr. Herbert, (549)
Chemical Substances Composing the Eirth, M.
Delamnay’s Work on the Distribution of, (287)
Ch.mistry, Atomic Theory, 460, 490, 493
Mr. Weston and Dockyard, 134
Chinese Patents and Trade Marks, 520
Cinnabar in British Columbia, Occurrence of, Mr. G F. Monckton, 604
Clearance in Steam Engine Cylinders, 238
Clutch, A New Friction, Messrs. Croft and Perkins, 371

Coal and Coke:

Anthracite, British Columbia, Discovery of, (613)
Donetz District Output, (13)
Coal and Coke {continued'):
Anthracite, United States Production, January, 1904, 1903, (191)
in Wales, (352)
Argentine Republic, Cardiff Coal and Coal Found in, (463)
Bituminous, Safe Storage of, A United States Insurance Company’s Instructions Relatiog to, (513) .
British, Imported into France I'id Havre, (613)
British Production, 1840 and 1903, (13)
Brown (Lignite), Thickness of Beds of, in Prussia, (587)
Coal and Patent Fuel for the Gold Coast Government Railway, Question Asked in the House, (415) . j
Coke, Foreign, Imported into Belgium, (36o), ! (513)
Consumption in Berlin, Quantity from Great Britain, &c., (161)
Consumption, California, 1902, 1903, (161)
Contracts, Locomotive, (13), 68
Contracts, Midland Railway, (604)
Cutting by Electricity, Mr. A. J. Tonge on, (74)
Denaby Main Case, The, 157
Dust Fuel, Tests of, U.S.A., 496
Exported into France from the United Kingdom and from Germany, (235)
Farcy Islands, Mr. G. A. Greener on the Coalfield of the, 603
German, Bought by Danish State Railways, but will not Compete with English, (613)
Germany, Output, January, (389)
Germany, Output of Lignite and Coal in, (39) Havre Imports, German v, British ? (89)
Hull Trade, 1903, The Yorkshire Collieries and the, 45
Imported into Russia, Coke and, (262)
Industry in Alsace-Lorraine, (352)
Japan, Kiou Siou, The Principal Basin, 423
Manton, near Worksop, Notts, The ‘'Top Hard ” Seam Reached at, (599)
Midland Coalfield, Extension of the, (74) Mining, United States, Use of Machinery in, (3S9)
Natal, Production, 1902, 1903, (437)
New Zealand, Output, (137)
Pittsburg District, (531)
Preservation of, by Submersion in the Sea, Experiments at Portsmouth, (561)
Pulverised, for Combustion in Steam Boilers, Mr. J. M. Sweeney on, (415)
Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, 323
Russia, Area of the Doneiz Mines, (262) Russian Coalfields in the Dombrovo Basin, Coal to be Sold from the Pit’s Mouth, (561)
Russian Protective Duty on Imported, (341)
Serudong, British N. Burma, Existence of Extensive Bod of, (39)
Shipped by Russian Merchants to Kio Chau from Cardiff, (352)
Spencer-Miller Apparatus for taking in Coil at Sea, All Russian Warships to be Fitted with, (561)
Storing at Gibraltar, 559
Sub-leader on, 188
Tar, Demand for Making Briquettes in the Donetz Basin, (161)
Tax in South Wales, Total Yield of, (315)
Three Months’ Export of, (463)
Trade, Lancashire, Unsatisfactory Condition cf, (161)
Trade, Mr. D. A. Thomas on the Condition of the,(100)
Transit on Indian Riilways, (443)
United States, Proportion of, Cut Mechanically, (519)
Welsh, Used with Good Results by the Western of France, (613)
Westphalian, for Carbonisation, (561)

COFFERDAMS, Freezing Process for, 393

Coast Protection, Clacton-on-Sea, (262)
Coke obtained from Petroleum by Prof. A. P. Lidoff, (287)
Colne Sewage Works, Extensions to, (13) Compressing Air for Power Purposes, Utilising the Tide in, (351)
Concrete Piles for Foundation Work in the United States, Increasing Use of, 564
Concrete Piles in Wet Soil, The Advantages of the Use of, (235)
Condensers, 539
Condensing Plant, 169
Condensing Plant, Independent, Messrs. Cole, Marchent and Morley, 40, 46
Conduction through Gases, 12
Conservation of Energy, 117

Contracts:

Gas, Coal and Shipping, 560
Indian Railway, Question in the House of Commons, (209)
Locomotive Coal, (13), 68
Midland Railway Coal, (604)
Placed, 450, 467, 491, 524, 536, 596
Swedish State Railway, Coal, (196), (208)

COOPERS Hill College, 465, 521, (648)

Copper:

Production, Probable Effect of the War on, 158
Wire for Electrical Purposes, Method of Producing, (137)
World’s Supply of on the Increase, (161) CORY, Mr. Richard, (100)

Costs in an Action for Infringement, 617

Cotton Cultivation, Porto Rico, (613) Manufacture in Great Britain, (191)
Mills in Brazil, (262)
Output from America, and Number of Spindles in the World, (89)
Spindles and Looms of the World and Great Britain, (191)
in Togoland, Expansion of the Native Cultivation of, (235)

Coulthard, Mr. William, (537)
County Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Scholarships and Exhibitions Offered by, 246
Courtier-Dutton, Mr. W. T., 38
Crane, American, 100-Ton Breakdown, 594
Crane Excavator, Steam, Messrs. John H. Wilson and Co., 167
Crane, New Form of Travelling Jib, Mr. J. Matthews, 57, 59
Cryostase, Properties of, (415)
Cuban Tariff, “Tin and Alloys thereof” Dutiable under the, (415)
Cutting Angle, 690, 612, 617, 613
Cypress and Walnut or Cypress and Cedar said to Rot when used in Contact, (39)

DALLAS, Mr. Robert, 622
Davenport, Mr. Russell Wheeler, (315) Decimal Systems, 283
Definition in Science, 490, 521
Delfzigl, Quay Wall at, 193
Denaby Main Case, 155, 164
Destructors for Town Refuse, Mr. Geo. Watson and Mr. C. N. Russell, 630, 631
Diagram Measurer, Prof. D. A. Low, (624)
Die Head, A New, Alf. Herbert, Limited, 204, 205
Dilatometer, Mr. B, Bonnikeen, (272)
Directory Telegraph, (521) Directory for 1904, City of London, (551)
Discs, Steam Turbine, 481, 520, 544

Docks:

Bombay, The New Scheme, (13), 492
Bombay Port Trust, New Docks at Mody Bay,
Contract let to Price, Wills and Reeves, (437) Brest, Completed, (587)
Bristol, Progress of the Royal Edward the VXL, (100)
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Specifications Issued, Masonry Dry Dock, (52)
Cardiff, Two Large Dry Docks Projected, (148) Dry, Mr. A. W. Young on Design of a, 494 Engineering, 521
French Ports, Four Floating, Ordered by the Government for, (537)
Graving, Messrs, R. Stephenson and Company, Limited, (550)
Hamburg, Extensions, (44)
Hebburn-on-Tyne, Messrs, R, Stephenson and Company, (450)
Hudson, River Wear, (299)
Mersey Extensions, (114), (161)
Mexican Port of Mazatlan, Construction of, (341)
Middlesbrough, Accident at, (39)
New York Navy Yard, New Dry, Only one Firm Tendered for its Construction, (235)
Piruius, Dry Docks, at a Standstill, (537) Seine, Projected, (114)
Southampton, Water-tube Locomotive-type Boiler, Mr. D. Drummond, 305, 322
Suez Canal Company, Floating Dock for the, (437)
Swansea, (402)

Dockyard Notes:

American Fleet, Torpedo Tubes Restored, 633
Guns, Length of the Latest Pattern, 633
Submarine Plunger, Periscope of the. 337
Archer, Homeward Bound, 10 Argonaut, to be Refitted, 184 Armament of French Ships Liberte, Democratic, Justice, and Verity, 441 of the New Warships, 493 of Ships of the Devonshire Class, (393)
“ Battle Grey ” Warships in Collision, (509) Berwick, Accident to the Cruiser, 364
Betting and Idleness at Devonport Dockyard, Admiral Henderson’s Action against, 144
Black Prince, her 6in. Guns to be Broadside only, 493
To have Raking Masts and Funnels, 509
Boilers, Battle of the, in Italy, 10, 622 Committees, Work of both, 337 of the Three New Battleships, 144
Briggs, Captain Charles, Succeeds Captain Ingle- field, 144
Centurion’s Gun-Sights, The Mystery of, Explained, 184
Chinese Cruiser Hai-tien Aground, 441 Coal-dust Firing, Experiments with, 393 Coaling at Sea, Experiments with the Gunboat Basilisk, 493
Commissioned Ships at Portsmouth, 622 Cornwall, Trials of, 509
Cruiser Encounter, Use Found for the, 441 Squadron, Race Home of the, 364
Cuniberti, Colonel, Emerges Triumphant from Socialist’s Accusations, 493
Danish Battleship Iver Huitfelt Destroyed by Fire, 70
Destroyers Exe and Eden, The, 364
Devonshire Classes to have Raking Masts and Funnels, (509)
Devonport Dockyard, Admiral Henderson’s Work at, 144
Drake Makes another Record, 10
Duke of Edinburgh Cruiser, Her Guns, 493
Duke of Edinburgh, Cruiser Launched, 622 “ Economy” and the Marconi Apparatus, 364 Elswick Ships Engaged in the War, 541
Exmouth Replaced by the Prince of Wales, 393 '^^^psdo, 23ft. Long, under Experiment,
French Channel Fleet, Its Composition for the Summer, 393, 445, 493
Cruiser Cassard, Disaster to, 337 Gambetta, The Cause of the Disaster, 337
Jules Michelet (revised Gambetta), 509
Renan to have Niclausse Boilers, 493
Victor Hugo, (393), 493 The Latest, 144
Navy, Petrol and Electric Submarines Added to the, 467
Gem Class Cruiser Topaze, Trials Postponed. 622 German Cruiser, Ersatz Merkur, 144
German Cruiser Hamburg, Speed Trial, 70; Her Builders, (144)
Ge^rman Cruiser Prinz Friedrich Karl, Trials of, Corvettes'Sold out of the Service. (509)
T'lGS, 6in., are Useless, Feeling in the Naw vEat the. 622
Gun, The 1902 Model 12in. French, 591
Hercules as Flagship in Portsmouth Harbour, 337 ’
Highflyer Cruiser Refitted and sent to Portsmouth, 622
Hindustan Launched, 10
Iris and Mercury, Training Cruisers, Halls still Black, (509) j TJ i i>i>.
Italian Battleship, The Rumoured Ideal, 144 Italian Naval Engineers, Recent Decree respecting, 493
Iwate, Hole Made in Her, 184
Japanese Battleships. The ^ew, 144, 493 Cruisers Kasuga and Nisshin (ex Argentine), 70
Fleet, Engine-room Efficiency in the, 493
Mine, The Wonderful New, 591 Ships Lost, Elswick-built, 541 Torpedoes, Attack on the Pallada, 184, 217
Jeanne d’Arc, Steam Trial of, 337
Karrakatta, Homeward Bound, Water-tube Boilers, 10
King’s Bastion at Portsmouth, Treatment of, 144
King Edwards to be fitted with merged Tubes and to carry Oil Fuel, 144
Lancaster has Belleville Boilers, 633 Lancaster, Trials of, 509
Leviathan, Coaling at Singapore, 337 Lord Nelson Class, Rumour respecting Mr. Watt’s 441
Magnificent Refitted, and her Destination, The, 622
Magnificent to be Replaced by the Illustrious, 45
Majestic to be Replaced by the Cwsar, 45 Majesties to go into the Home Fleet and be Replaced by the Duncans, 622
Marchant, Mr., his Death, 144
May, Rear-Admiral H. J., 441
Medusa, Commissioned as Training Ship Tender to the Impregnable, (467)
Mersey Replaced in the Home Fleet by one of the Eclipse Class, 144
Motor Cars or Bicycles, owned by Almost all Naval Officers in the Home Ports, 144 Narcissus Coaling at Portsmouth, 337 Naval Estimates, Debate on the, 393
Manoeuvres, Mediterranean Fleet Defeated by the Channel Fleet, (509)
War Came Founded at Malta, 144
Navy League, Mr, Arnold White at the General Meeting of, 509
New Zealand; Launch of 10
Oil Fuel Trials with the Surly, 591 Pallada, The, 184, 217
Portsmouth Naval War Game Society, Last War of the, 591
Premium System in the Government Yards, Adoption of the, 238, 244, (287)
Prince George, Prize Firing of the, 144 Queen to be Commissioned, 144
Raking Masts, (509)
Revenge turning over to the Exmouth, 467, 493
Revenge to Return to the Home Fleet after Refit, 591
Royal Arthur’s Return to Portsmouth, 541 Rupsrra Collision, The, 92
Russian Battleship Fitted to Bum Naphtha and Coal, 541
Captains Commended for Gallantry at the Battle of Port Arthur, 217
Destroyers still at Port Arthur, Ton, 622
Fleet, Origin of the, 184
Pallada Unhurt by the Torpedoing, 467
Programme, The New, 364
Ships Bound for the Far East, 10
Ships during the War, Steaming Powers of, 493
Submarines Laid Down at the Baltic Works, St. Petersburg, 70 St. George, Cruiser, Broken Down, (509) Shipbuilding Firms Represented at the War, 541
Southsea, Broken Windows Line the Front, 144
Spanish Naval Programme, The, 144 Submarine (“A” Class) Said to have Done 14 Knots, 10
“ Al,” her Sinking, 337, 364 Depot at Haslar Creek, 493 Le on, 393
Number of British, French, German, Russian, United States, Italian, 691
Success, Destroyer, Taken to Portland, 622 Suffolk has Niclausse Boilers, 633
Speed Taking by Log, Discussed,^ 10 and Lancaster Cruisers to Join the Mediterranean Fleet, 633
Swiftsure (ex Constitution) Purchased by us, 10, 92
Swiftsure and Triumph Put into Commission for the Home Fleet, 633
Torpedoes from Submerged Tubes, Record for Firing, 493
Torpedo Tubes Restored in the American Fleet, 633
Triumph (ex Libertad) Purchased by us, 10, 92
Tsarevitch and Retvisan Reported Damaged beyond Repair, 217
United States Cruiser Denver, Speed Trials, 217 .
Destroyers Bound for Manila, /O Scouts” for, 70
Wallaroo, Boiler Explosion on, 45 Warrior to have Raking Masts and Funnels, (609)
Warships, Armament of the New, 493
Wiren, Captain, Transferred to the Battleship Sevastopol, 622

DRAINAGE System, Extension of the London Main, 203
Dredger, Gold, for Siberia, 542, 543 Dredger, Hydraulic and Bucket, for Mexico, Featherstone Machine Works, U.S.A., 564
Drilling and Milling, Jig for, 171
Driving a Light Locomotive on Tower Bridge without Brakes on a Trailer Attached, G. Munro Fined for, (191)
Dust Laying in Buckinghamshire, Composition for, (389)

EDISON Medal, Founding of an, (182)
Egyptian Trade—see Trade

Electric, Electric Light, Electricity:

Current for Railway Signalling, United States, 596
C^n^ral KLeotrie Company, Limited, 467
Puwer Plant, An, ®z?rnJ -^’ternating Currants, Dr. Yv. Watson, (359)
Apparatus in America, 1903, Summary of Production of, (161)
Sin, s:,' A”' w)
Brighton Corporation Electric Light and Power P«T ’ Placed to
Reserve Fund, (587)
British Westinghouse Electric and Manufac- + Application for Admission
J J^apchester Association of the Fede-rated Engineering Trades Employers, (221)
Cables in Workshop Installations and their ^^cubles, J, H. C. Brooking on, 268
^^(llV)^^ Design Tested at Darlington,
Canal Towage Scheme, 45
Coal Cutting (Supplement, June 24M, 1904 ix.-xii.) ’
Conduction through Cases, 12
E^ :^T®219'“24^^®^“° Energy, Notes on, <^«rreiit of American Central Electric Stations,
Manchester Corporation VV OFKSj (iu}
Driving for Engineering Works, Mr. B, Lonff- bottom on, 373
Experiments with a Lathe Tool. Mr. J. T. Nicholson, 620, 621, 622
Economisers at Central Stations, Tests of 121 Electrically-driven Milling Machine, James Archdale and Co., Limited, 192
Electro-Chemists, German Society of The Bonn Meeting and Papers Read at, (364), 535, 583
Electro-Galvanising, Ignaz Szirmay^s Process, (191)
Electrolysis, Thin Film, Mr. C. R. Darling on, and a Proposed Application to Printing, 373 Electrolytic Analysis of Gold, Dr. Parkin and Mr. Prebble on, 373
Electro-Metallurgy in 1903, 106, 127
Energy, Notes on the Cost of Generating, E J Fox, 219, 245
Engineers at the Military Tournament, 586
Fan, Pelton Colliery, Davidson and Co Limited, 642 ’
Gear for Driving Bending Rolls, Messrs. J. P. Hall and Co., 536
Generating Electric Energy, Notes on the Cost of, E. J. Fox, 219, 245, 269
Generating Sets in Spain, (561)
German Society of Electro-Chemists, The, Papers read at the Bonn Meeting, (364), 635 583
Hauling Plants (Supplement, June 2itk, 1904 vi.-ix.) ‘
High-tension Oil Switch, Messrs. Dick. Kerr and Co., 568
High-tension Transmission Circuit, (592) Hydraulic Power Plant, Los Angeles, (506) Hydro-Electric Power Plant, An American, ' 112, 113
Lathe Tool Dynamometer, Experiments with, Mr. J. T. Nicholson, 595, 620, 621, 622
Mains in Mines (xii., xvi., Supplement, June ' 1904)
Manchester, Diekinsoa-straet Station Re- I arrangement of Plant. (262)
Mason, Mr. Richard, (221) I
Mining Machinery (Supplement, June 2itk 1904)
Motors and the Driving of Machin jry, Mr T. H. Churtonon, (190)
for Driving Printing Machines at Bank of England, (137) named the Jandus, 121
Vehicles—se? Motor Vehicles
Niagira Falls Power aad its Introduction into Buffalo, (191)
Power from the Ardhohe Waters, (587) Generating Stations in Germany, (65) for Lyons and Anrath Silk Weavers, (389) ’
in Manufacturing Plants, 38 Mysore Government and, (513) Plant, Spier Palls, 112, 113 Question of Long-distance Transmission of, (89)
Station, Aston, (196)
Station, Tokio, (209)
Transmission in California, 5, 14 Transmission in Works, W. E. Buck 571, 697
Pumping Plants (iii.-vi., Supplem>'nt, June2ifh, 1904)
Resistance of the Human Body, (287)
St. Etienne, (637)
Sheffield Corporation Supply Department, Year’s Report, (573)
Standard Primary Cell, 548
Stations of the United States, (13)
Steam Consumption of a Large Turbo-Alternator, 108
Steam Turbine Power Plant. Port Huron, U.S.A., 548
Sunderland Corporation Committee, Berlin Tender for Three-phase Cables Accepted by, (573)
Supply, Birmingham, Loan Sanctioned for Extension of, (389)
Butte, Montana, United States, Interest Attaching to, (637)
Companies of London, Capital Called Up by the, (513)
Extensions in Birmingham, 436
, Pi’oject, St. Etienne, Ardhche, (587) Tests of Economisers at Central Stations, 121 Thermal Storage at an Electric Generatino- Station, 609, (536) °
Three-phase Plant, Bolsover Colliery (xvi., Sur)- plement, June 2iik, 1904)
Transmission Wires, Aluminium Used in North America for, (341)
Turbo-Alternator, Steam Consumption of a Large, 108
United States Central Electric Stations, Cost of Fuel Consumed during the Year, (114)
Mileage of Main and Feeder Wires (114)
Niagara Power, Buffalo, Impetus Given to its Industrial Growth by, (191)
Windiog Plants, (i., ii., Supplement^ June 2P/t,
Water-power Station near Vallorbe, Switzerland, (137)
Works, Kerka, Dalmatia, (235)
Works, Manchester Corporation, Application to the Local Government Board for Power to Borrow in connection with, (488)
Zinc Amalgam Electrode for Secondary Batteries, Mr. H. B. Ford’s Patent, (262)

Electric Light:

Arc Limps, Comparative Tests of Incandescent Gas and, Made by the Schuckert Electric Company, 231
Arc Lamp Using Magnetic or Black Oxide of Iron, instead of CarbDD, Mr, C. P, Steinmetz. (613)
Bexhill, Failure of, (137)
Birmingham, (375), (572)
Brighton, Profit and Balance and Purpose to which it is to be Devoted, (561)
Hammersmith, New Works Projected, (488) Kettering, New Station Opened, (513)
Lisbon, (613)
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, (613)
Munich, Prince Regent Theatre, (191)
Photometer, A New, (513)
Plant, Steam Turbine, Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company, 591
Provisional Orders, 1904, 436
St. Louis Exhibition, (114)
Stafford, Extensions Projected, (98)
Stations in Germany, (65)
Tokio, (209)
United States in Small Places, (13)

Electricity :

Birmingham Supply, Council’s Application for Loan, (572)
Brescia to be Supplied from a Water-power Station at Caffaro, (89)
Brighton Supply and Standard Pressure, (513), (561) .
Generating Station at Davonport, Decision of the Admiralty Regarding a, (252)
Horses Killed by, (100)
Huddersfield, Decrease in the Units of Electricity Supplied to, and Increase in Gas Consumption, (561)
Kerka Works, Dalmatia, (235)
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Question of Cost of, when Produced Privately or Purchased from the Corporation, (613)
Mines, Report of the Departmental Committee on the Use of Electricity in, Mr. S. F. Walker on, 603
Mining Purposes, Comparison of Three-phase and Continuous Currents for, Mr. R. Holiday, 603
Motive Forca Producad in Italy by, (637) Niagara, Utilisation of, 564
Undertakings in Spain, (561)
United States Battleship Virginia, Applications of, (437)
Water Power and, in California, 6
Works, Malvern, (351)

ELEVATING a Town Sevan Feet, Mexico, 261 Emigration from the United Kingdom, 1903, Board of Trade’s Annual Report, (89)
Enamelling Processes, Home-office Report on Dangerous, (191)

Engineering, Engineers, Engines, Motors:

Activity, Board of Trade Returns Encouraging, ; 392
As a Profession, 234
Birmingham, Engineering Instruction Makes Great Strides, (50)
Characteristics of St. Louis, U.S.A., 410, 442
Civil, 15
Commercial Side of, 457 Commissions in, C. on, 444
Congress, St. Louis International, 492, 548
Crystal Palace School of, Award of the Wilson Premium, 426
Curious Bit of (A Puzzler, C.E.), (445)
Dock, 521
Education, Lessons from America in, Robt. H. Smith, 251
Electrical, 18
Engineering Education, Lessons from America in, R. H. Smith, 251
Mechanical, 17
Revolution in, Mr. Alfred Saxon on, 93 Sanitary, in 1903, 5
Scheme, Tipton Mines Draingge, (50) Standards Committee, 193, Question of Screw
Threads and Limit Gauges, 344, 346 Structures, Paints Suited for, 542 Works, Bedford, The Queen’s, 414 Works, Electric Driving for, 373

Engineers:

and Egypt, 418 and South America, 467 as Arbitrators, 233
Electric, at the Military Tournament, (586) Employment for Young Men as Irrigation Engineers, Sir Wm. Willcocks on, 55
German Engineers, Meeting of the Union of, (574)
H.M. Inspectors of, Report for Past Year, (637)
Preparation of Estimates and Young Engineers, 267
School for Training of Marine, to be Started at Liege, (65)

Engines:

American Engine Building Works, 246 Analytical, Babbage and the, 169
Safety-stop for Steam, American, 163 Beiliss and Morcom High-speed, 433, 435 Centrifugal, Brake Horse-power for Driving, (437)
Chemical Fire, for Birkenhead, Merryweather and Sons, 119
Compound (735 Brake Horsa-power), Badford Corporation Electricity Works, Messrs. W. H. Allen, Son and Company, 464, 467
High-speed, Browett, Lindley and Company, 479, 480
Horizontal, Ei.fiton and Bessemer, Limited (Supplement^ February 19/A, 1904), 189
Condensers, 539
Crossley Bros,, for America, (194)
Crude Oil and Water, 567
Cylinders, Clearance in, 238
Equipment of an Engine Test House, IL K. Morcom, 396
Gas, American, 548
Efficiency of, 466
Formula for Deciding the Effective Horsepower of, (415)
Sources of Waste in, (561)
U.S.A., The Barger, with Variable Cutoff, 564
U.S.A., 60H.P,, 563
High-speed, Alley and MacLellan’s, 610 Brotherhood, Limited, Peter, 611 Thornycroft and Co,, J. L, 612
Jandus Motors, The, 121
Marino Gas, 336, 343
Marine, in Warfare, 163
Modern High-speed Steam, 379, 433, 479, 529, 610, 611
Motor, Messrs. Crossley Bros., (123), 138, 144, 153, 154, 155
Motor, Internal Combustion, Dugald Clerk on, (365), 423, 447
Oil and Water, 567
Petrol Motors for Fishing Boats, (39)
Pumping, Danville Waterworks, U.S.A., 593 for the North-East Steam Company, Limited, Worth, Mackenzie arid Co., Limited, 180, 181
at Ravensfleet, Marshall, Sons and Co., 460, 461
Two Large, for Wellsvile, Ohio, (437) Reciprocating, (190)
Rotary, Mr. C. G. Petree on, (144)
Sectional Saw Mill, A, Ransome and Co,, 170
Sewage Pumping, An American, 254, 255 Silencer for Gas, 47
Single-phase Motor, in Germany, The, (311) Superheated Steam, 118, 169
Traction, Demand for, at the Limoges Exhibition, (191)
London Bye-laws for Regulating the Use of, 368
and Motor Wagons, Cape Town, Importation Likely to Increase, (687)
for the St. Louis Exhibition, 535
Turner, Mr. J., Particulars with Regard to Engines Built for America by Messrs. Cross- ley Bros., (194)
Winding, Electrically-driven, Koepe System, in Westphalian Colliery, (589)
Winding Engine Problem, 12, 64

Motors:

Geared Electric (45 B.H.P.), Messrs, J. P. Hall and Co,, 536
For Aeronautical Work, Built in Philadelphia, (537)
Internal Combustion, J. H. Hamilton, 462
Internal Combustion Firing by Compression, Described by M. Cannevel, (13)

ENTERTAINING Workpeople, (10)
Erratum, 298
Estimates, Preparation of, 4, 43, 56, 79, 103,1’28, 162, 212, (267)
European Syndicates and Tariffs, 566

Exhibitions:

Barcelona, Mineral Products and Hydraulic Machinery, (561)
Bradford, (208), 635, 638
Colliery, (598)
Compressed Air Power Plant at, 143
Cordoba, Agricultural, (365)
Health, The Sanitary Institute’s, 459
Ltege, Machinery Section, (262)
Limoges, Damand for Traction Engines, (191)
Mechanical Engraving and Colour Printing, (64) Milan, (513)
Motor Car, Agricultural Hall, London, (161)
- Crystal Palace, 183, 214 at Olympia, Next Year, (365)
Palermo, Agricultural Machinery, (65)
Peat Industry, Berlin, (191)
Printers’, 470
St. Etienne, Loire, Industrial, Agricultural, and Scientific, 209

ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL, 96, 114, 259, 415, 455, 477, 504, 556, (587), 618, (637) Boiler Plants in, (587)
Cascades, The, 618
Commemorative Postage Stamps Issued, (637)
Electric Lighting of, (114)
Germany’s Pavilion at, (415)
Lancashire Textile Machinery, 259
Locomotives, Four-cylinder at, 527
Locomotive Tests at, 96 Traction Engines for, 535
Waterworks at, 477
Worthington Turbine Pump, 618
Vienna, Alcohol Exhibition of the Austiiin Automobile Club, (114)
Warsaw, Electrical (Postponed), (315) EXPLOSIONS Produced by Ferro-Silicon, 458

Explosives:

Safety, 324
Smokeless Powder, Experiments at the United States Proving Ground with, (537), 548
Smokeless Powder, Navy, 548
Japanese Shimose Powder, (633)
Whitehead Torpedoes Ordered by Russia, France, Austria, and Italy, (537)

FACTORY Research Laboratory, A, 581, 607, (615)
Fareham, Purchase of Land near, by the Admiralty, (365)
Feed-water from Septic Tanks, 323
Ferro-bleach, (248)
Ferro-silicon, Change in the Requirements of, (359)
Ferro-silicon, Explosions Produced by, 458
Files and Rasps made in Odessa by Sheffield Firm, (341)
Filter, Aerobic, U.S.A., 398
Fire Engine, Chemical, 119
Fire Extinguishing in London, 1903, Water Used. (561)
Fire-proof Safe, British Uralite Company, 144
Fire Protection of Buildings in Chicago and the West, (191)
Fire Protection System, Special, Philadelphia, 246
Fire Risks in Factories, 323
Firing in 1903, Prize, 203
Firth, Mr. George Henry, (299)
Floods, Thames, (114)
Fly-wheel, United States Patent providing for the Maintenance of a Vacuum within the Rim, (235)
Fog Particles, Measuring the Diameter of, (287'*
Fog Signalling, 490
Forbes, Mr. James Staats, 364
Forced Lubrication, 545
Foundry, A Modern American, 36, 37
Freezing Process for Cofferdams, 393
French Customs, Official Returns, 1903, (89) Frith, Mr. John, (196)
Fryer, Mr. Joseph, (600)
Fuel Consumption, Lord Inverclyde on the Importance of the Question of, (137)
Fuel Economy from the Chemical Point of View, J. B. C. Kershaw, 171
Furnace Bars, Rocking, Mr. Jas. Neil’s Patent, 436

GALLOWAY, Mr, Chas. John (with Portrait), 286
Galvanising, New Process of, 606
Ganister, Its Suitability for Patching in Gas- work Settings, (473)

Gas:

Acetylene Generators, Certification of, 344
in German Villages, 487
for Lighthouses, 323
Plant Improvements, Mills and Co,, (572)
Bath, Analysis of Gases in the Largest Hot Mineral Spring, (39)
Batswing Burner, R. H. Winder, (599)
Carbon Monoxide, Poisoning from, in Sheffield, (235)
Carburetted Water, Liverpool. Death caused by, (262)
Conduction through Gases, 12 Engineering, Advanced Practice in Modern,
Milwaukee Gasworks, (389)
Huddersfield, Increase in Gas Consumption and Decreased Quantity of Electricity Metered, (637)
Illuminating Value of, 190, 217
Lamps, Incandescent, Comparative Tests of Electric Arc and, 284
Lamps, Open Flame, still Largely Used in New York, (637)
Mains, Heavy Cost of, and Plans for the Use of Higher Pressures in the same, (235)
Natural, United States, 1902, Number of Wells Producing, (39)
Natural, United States, Production, Value, Price, and Consumption of, (39), 246
Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe described by M. Fouch6, (2C9)
Plant, for Brown-coal Briquette Operation, Producer, (311)
Producers, Large, Stevenson, Limited, 370 Provisional Orders, 1904, 436
Pump, Automatic, Mr. C. E. S. Phillips, (488) Reduction in Price of. Effect on the Revenue of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, (137) Reduction in Price of. The Sheffield Gas Company, (157)
Smelting Furnace, Disposal of, (136)
Sold To-day, Percentage of, used for other Purposes than Lighting, (137)
Supply, 19
Undertakings Belonging to Companies and 'o Local Authorities, (65)
Water, Private Bill for the Regulation of the Supply of, (315)

GERMAN

Germany, (488)
Glasgow, Improvements in Street Lighting in, 373
Glasgow Sewage Works, New. 562, 586
Gledhill, Mr., on Tool Steel, 233, 268
Glehn, Mr. Alfred de, made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the French Government, (124)
Gold-dredging Plant for Siberia, 542, 543
Gold, Imitation, (262)
Goldfield, The Southern Hand, Mr. A. R. Sawyer on, 604
Graham, Morton and Co., Limited, The Works of, 206, 207, 208, 210
Grain Warehouse, A Large, 38
Graphics, 540
Graphite Resistances (Scientific Notes from Germany), 8
Grashof Medal Conferred on Mr. Parsons and M. de Laval, (587)
Gravity, On the Accidental Anomalies Connected- with, (389)
Grinding Machine r.'the Lathe, The, 178

HADFIELD Steel Works, Sheffield, 414
Haesler Pneumatic Hammer, The, 293
Hammer, The Haesler Pneumatic, 293
Hammers, Power and Recent Developtneht? 298
Hammer, Schiele Power, 521

Harbours and Waterways:

Antwerp Port, Flourishing Condition and Development of, (209)
Antwerp, Third on the List of the World’s Ports, (316)
Belgium, Navigable Waterways of, (415), 529 Bombay Harbour, Development of, 181 Brixham Harbour, Dry Dock with Caisson and Slipway, (191)
Bruges, Ealargement of the Port, (463)
Cebu Harbour, 32
Caicago Riv6r,Widenmg and Deepening Northern Branch of the, (318)
C jngo, Dredger for the River, (463) Dalny and Port Arthur, Trade of, (561) Dover Harbour Passenger Gangway, 619 Durban Harbour, 12
France, Mileage of Internal Waterways and Tonnage Carried on, (341)
Glasgow, Trade and Harbour Extension at, 190 Havre Harbour and Docks, (613)
Italian Harbours, Sum Voted for their Improvement, (415)
Kiel, North of the City, Contemplated, (65) London, First on the List of the World’s Port?, (315)
New York, Second on the List of the World’s Ports, (315)
in 1903, 2
Philippine Islands, United States Survey of Coast-line and Harbours of, (65)
Q’leis, The River, Silesia, the Marklissa Dam, 543
Rea, Improvement of the River, (327), 382, (440)
Soonehouse Pool, Ocean Quay Station, (262)
Swansea, New Docks. and Works, Messrs. Topham, Jones and Railton’s Tender Accepted, 389
Thames, Barrage of the, Scheme under Consideration, (437), (488), (513)
Conservancy, The, 634
Conservancy, Measures for Formulating Scheme for Dealing with Floods in the Thames Valley, (287)
Conservators of the River, Dredging over the Railway Tunnel, (345)
Deep-water Jetties in the, 199
New Lock, Teddington, (587)
Trieste Harbour Improvements Bill, (315) United States, Inland Water Route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort, North Carolina, (389)
Valparaiso Harbour, Proposed Improvements, (262)

HASWELL, Mr. Charles Haynes, the Oldest Civil and Mechanical Engineer in the World, (587) Heat-insulating Media, Note on the Relative EGBciency of, S. H. Davies, 547

Heat, Radiant, as a Steam Maker, 343 Henderson, Sir William, 622
Hoist for Coal Wagons, Travelling, U.S.A., 218 Hoole, Mr. P. F., Presentation to, (375) Howard, Mr, Edward, (315)
Howarth, Mr., Utilising the Tide or Inland Waterfalls in Compressing A'r for Power Purposes, (351)
Howden, New Drainage Schema for, (39) Howell, Mr. J, B., (599)
Hutton, Colonel Herbert, (599)
Hydrogen Sulphide, Uses of, in Manufacturing Processes, (637)
Hydrographical Surveys, 527

IMPORTS and Exports, Germany, 1903, 1902, 1901, (488)
Inch Unit System, The, 234
Indefinite Science, 64
India, Deaths from Plague Increase, (191) Railway Map of, (191)
Tidal Observations at Thirteen Stations, (191)
Indian Government, Scholarships to be Offered by the, (191)
Indian Irrigation and Famine, 252, (315) India-rubber, Export from French Guinea, (487) India-rubber Industry, The Para, (209) Inspection of Buildings and the Compulsory Provision of Means of Escape in Case of Fire, (315)

Institute of Electrical Bngineers, American:

High-tension Transmission Circuits, Discussion on, 592
Single-phase Railroads, Mr. W. A, Blanck, 496

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Annual General Meeting, Programme of Autumn Meeting in New York, 108
Annual Meeting, Address of the President, Dr. Andrew Carnegie, 458
Coke, Manufacture of, in the Bessemer Oven, and its Value in the Blast Furnace, Mr. C. Lowthian Bell, 484
Explosions Produced by Ferro-Silicon, Dr. A Dupre and Capt, M. B. Lloyd, 458, 483
Papers down for Reading at the Forthcoming Meeting in May, 359, 414
Pyrometers, Report on, Messrs. Stead, Hadfield and Brough, 459
Pyrometers, Exhibition of, 483
Steel in Large Masses, Production and Thermal Treatment of, Mr. Cosmo Jones, 458
Steel, Synthesis of Bessemer, Mr. Carrulla, (484)

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Formula for Deciding the Brake or Effective Horse-power of a Gas Engine, Mr. Summer on the, (415)
Programme of Forthcoming Meetings, (71)

Institute of Mining Engineers, American:

Mobility of Molecules in Cast Iron, Mr. Outerbridge, (398)

Institute, Northampton:

Annual Prizs Distribution and Conversazione, Lord K«]vin at, (89)

Institute, The Sanitary:

Congress at Glasgow, Papers to be Read, (598) Health Exhibition of the Institute at Glasgow 459
Municipal Re-housing, Discussion cn, (328)

Institute of Sanitary Engineers:

Meetings Arranged, (186), (431)
Visit to the Prudential Assurance Company’s New Buildings, (287)
Richmond Maia Sewage Works, (217)
University College Hospital, (567)

Institute, Staffordshire Iron and Steel:

Improvements in the Working of the Steam Kagine, Mr. John Mills, 327
Increase in Membership and Funds, (472)

Institution of Civil Engineers :

Aerial Suspension Cableways, Mr. J. M. Henderson, 445
Annual Dinner, 283
Awards for Papers, 445
Billot for Election of Council, 1904-1905, 445 Conversazione, 619
Electrical Ra-construction of the South London Tramways on the Conduit System, Mr. A. Millar, 98
Erection of Iron Bridges, R. S. Scholefield, 297 Examination Results, 283
James Forrest Lecture : “Internal Combustion Motors,” Mr. Dugald Clerk, (365), 423, 447
List of Successful Candidates in the October Exams., 24
Pumping and Disposal of Sewage at York, Mr. A. D. Greer, 108
Resistance of Plane Surfaces in a Uniform Current of Air, Mr. T. E. Stanton, 24
Turbines most Suitable for Low Falls, Forms of, Alphonse Steiger, 219
White, Sir William Henry, to Represent the Institution on the Engineering Standards Committee, 89

GLASGOW ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS—
Caisson Quay Wall Construction in the Harbour of Glasgow and Clydebank Dock, Mr. James M. Clark, 142
Elevated Water Tanks, Mr. J. N. Stirling, (100)
Electric Equipment of Light Railways, Mr. J. M. Bell, 12
Lochearnhead Rxilway, Works on, Mr. William Jackson,(364)
Ninth and Last General Meeting, 1903-4, (388) Venturi Motor, Mr. T. B. M. Gray, (184) Wemyes Bay Railway, Widening, Mr. R. W. Gairns, 243

MEETING OF STUDENTS—
Annual Dinner, (491)
Boiler-house Design, Mr. L. G. Crawford, 244 Premium System of Payment for Labour, Mr. W. G, Bancister, 314
Relative Advantages of Continuous and Alternating Current for Traction Purposes, _J. M. Kennedy, 369
River Pier of the Beckton Gasworks, Arthur Trewby, 445

NEWCASTLE - UPON - TYNE ASSOCIATION STUDENTS—
Visit to Sunderland Harbour Works, (591)
Institution of Electrical Engineers:
Appointments of Mr. G. C. Lloyd and Mr. P. F. Rowell (389)
Edison Accumulator for Motor Oars, Mr, W. Hibbert on the, (161)
Major-General C, E. Webber Elected Honorary Member, (661)

BIRMINGHAM LOCAL SECTION OF—
Equipment of an Engine Test-house, R. K. Morcom, 396
Institution, Electrical Standardising’, Testing, and Training:
Result of Scholarship Examinations, (76)

Institution of Engineers, Cleveland:

Electrical Energy, Some Notes on the Cost of Generating, E, J. Fox, 219, 245, 269

Institution of Engineers, Junior:

Design of a Dry Dock, Mr. A. W. Young, (441),
Electric Accumulators, Notes on, Mr. G. C. Allingham, 300
Presidential Address, Mr. J. F. Moulton. (761, 110 ' '
Visits, 220, «2, £25, (586). (621)

Institution of Engineers, Midland Counties;

Visit to the Derwent Valley Waterworks, (437)

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, N.B. Coast:

Longitudinal Bulkheads, Mr. F. H, Alexander 424
Report of Educational Committee, 50

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland:

Steely Tools, Rapid Catting, Mr. Chas. Day on,

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Annual General Meeting and Papers to be Read, (568)

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Alderman Richard Williams’ Gift to the Wednesbury Free Library of a Complete Set of the “Transactions” of, (341)
Compound Locomotives, M.Sauvage, Discussion opened by M. de Glehn, 304, 325, 407, 409
Heat Treatment of Steel, Alloys Research Commictee’s Sixth Report, 85, 204
Lathe Tool Dynamometer, Experiments with Mr. Nicholson, 695, 622, 644 ’
Water Softeners, Inquiry into the Working of Various, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer and Mr. W B Baron, 23, 48 ' ’

INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS IN AMERICA—
Chicago Sessions, 630
Destructors for Town Refuse, Papers by Mr Geo. Watson and Mr. C. Newton Russel]^
Engiimonng Boilding in New York City, Mr. ?•* Report Concerning its Erec
tion, 630
^£mer3o?.“630^” Barrington

GEADUATBS’ ASSOCIATION—
Alloys Research Committee, Work of the, Mr. W. H. Merrett, (t96)
Eleotrieal Passenger Lifts, Mr. P. H. Stevens, i (76)
Linoleum Floorcloth, Mr. £. J. Stevenson on the Manufacture of, 394
Two-cycle Marine Petrol Motors, Mr. Holbrook Gaskell, 298
Institution of Mining Engineers:
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Jas. Cope Cadman, 603
Ankylostomiasis, Discussion on, 603 _
Chlorination for Mixed Gold and Silver Ores, New Process cf, Mr. H. F. Brown, (604), 611
Cinnabar in British Columbia, Occurrence Mr. G. F. Monckton, 604
Coaltield of the Farce Islands, Mr. G. Greener, 603
Electric and Compressed Air Locomotives Mines, Mr. B. S. Randolph, 603
Electricity in Mines, Report of the Departmental Committee on the Use of, Mr. G. F. Walker, 603
Excursions, (601), 641
Gas Coals, Analytical Valuation of, Mr. 6. P. Lishman, (604), 641
Graphite Mining in Ceylon and India, Mr. G. A. Storrier, (604)
Hammer-Fennel, Taohyometer, Theodolite, Mr. A. F. Kill, 603
Mining in the Straits Settlements, Mr. W. T. Saunders, 608
Petroleum and its Use for Illumination, Lubricating and Fuel Purposes, Dr. Dvorkovitz, 604
Sjfety lamps and Explosives, Experiments Carried Out at the Framaries Experimental Station, Belgium, Mr. V. Watteyne, (603)
Southern Rand Goldfield, Mr. A. R. Sawyer, 604
Tbree-phase and Continuous Currents for Mining Purposes, Comparison of, Mr. Roslyn Holiday, 603
Transvaal Kromdraai Conglomerates, Mr. A. R. Sawyer, 604
Underground Temperatures, Especially in Coal Mines, Prof. H. Hoefer, 603
Winding, Prevention of Accidents in, Mr. J. H. Merivale, Describing Mr. T. C. Futer’s Safety Winding Gear, 604

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy :

Expression of Sympathy with the Family of Sir C. Le Neve Foster, (441)
Forthcoming Meetings and Papers, (383), (598) Fo^rieth General Meeting, Papers to be Read, Tunnel under Lake Superior for Supplying Water to the Adventure Stamp Mill, Mr. P. R. Robert, 216
Institution of Naval Architects: 1904, Programme cf, (146),
Opening Meeting, Forty-fifth Session, 309 Presidential Address, Earl of Glasgow’s, 309 Battleships Triumph and Swiftsure, late
Libertad and Constituoion, Sir Edward J. Reed, 310, 350
Establishment of an Experimental Tank for Research Work on Fluid Resistance and Ship Propulsion, Sir Wm. H. White, 33.5
Fire Prevention at Sea, Mr. Edwin Sachs, (361) Gas and Oil Engines for Marine Propulsion, Two Papers on the Advantages of, by Mr. J. E. Thornycroft and Mr. A. F. Evans, 336; Leader thereon, 343
Gyroscopic Effect of Fly-Wheels on Board Ship, Herr Otto Soblick, 336, 346
Heeling and Rolling of Ships of Small Initial Stability, Professor A. Scribanti, 336
Mirchant Cruisers and Steamship Subsidies, Lord Brassey, 311
Model Experiments, Some Results of, by R. E. Froude, 471
Normal Pressure on Thin-Moving Plates, Mr A. W. Johns, 361, 396
Ship’s Composition, Mr. A. C. A. Holzapfel, (361)
Steam Turbines for Marine Propulsion, A Rideau, 361, 372, (402)
Transverse Strength of Ships, Mr. J. Bruhn, 361

INSURANCE, A Point in Marine, (111) Insurance Laws, German, (537)
Invar, its Advantages for Pendulum Observations, 637
Ipsed Safety Valve, The, 536

Iron;

Alloy of, with 36 per cent. Nickel, hardly Susceptible to Expansion from Heat, (161)
Carburisation of, Mr. T. Swinden on, (99)
Cast, M. Harmot’s Treatment of. Producing a Refined Iron or Steel, (365)
Convention, Belgian, (450)
Elasticity of Circular Dises of Ingot (192) German Output, 1908, (13); Three Months, ^on398°f Mr. Outerbridgo °S51, wT’
Lake 7Superior, Decrease in Shipments of, ^”(51*3)'’ Germany, Returns,
Pig, Belgium, Production, 1903, (245) franco. Production, 1903. (389) German, Production, (488) Russia, Production, 1903, (561) United States, Production, 1903, (235)
Russian Iron and Steel Industry and Le War, Scotch Ironmasters’ Return for 1903, (65)
Scrap and Pig Imported into Italy, and Produc- iion of, (613)
and Steel Trades, British and German, 166 ; New Bonus System in the, 213 and Steel, Mexico’s New Duties on, 319 Steel Works, Cargo Fleet, (450)
Trade, 1903, Statistics of the Hematite Pig, (89)
Trade, North of Eagland, Official Statistics of the Manufactured, (573)
United States, Exports from, (637) IRRIGATION in Canada, 261, 286, 306, 361
in Egypt, (262), 459
in the Soudan, 430 Works in India, and Famine, 252, (315)
Italy, Cotton Industry of, (613)
Increased Importation of Scrap and Pig Iron, (613)
Industrial Development, (613)

JAPANESE Government, Glasgow Marine Eagi- neers Engaged by the, (32)
Jardine, Mr., Entertainments to his Workpeople, (10)
Jessop and Sons, L’.mited, Annual Report, (221)
Jig for Drilling and Milling, C. T, Sutton, 171
Jones, Mr. Edwin, 213

KING’S College, Forty-fourth Annual Dinner, (541)
Knots per Hour—see Shipping News, Various

LABORATORY, A Factory Research, 581, 607, (615)
Labour Questions, Strikes, and Disputes:
Agricultural, Mining, Commercial Industries in the United States, Germany, France, England, Italy, (209)
Baldwin’s Land orc Sceel Works, Stoppage of 400 Hands, (65)
Belgium, Average Rate of Wages and Hours of Labour in, (209)
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron Trade of the North of England, Official Statistics for, (123)
Board of Trade Returns for January, (^7) Bonus System New, 213
C Ape Colony,
Consequent (365)
Demand for January, (287)
German Statistics, (209)
industrial Unions, Australia, (572)
Japanese Labour for Mexico, (637)
Labour Market in January, Condition of, (191^
Labour Party in Australia, Ideal Success ol the, (572)
Men and Machines in America, 326
Midland Iron and Steel Wages Board, Annual Report, (209), 213
New South Wales Arbitration Act, The, (572)
Philadelphia Engine Works, Reduction in Wages, (99)
Premium System of Payment for Labour, Mr. W, G. Bannister on, (315)
Reduction in Wages to be Postponed in the Engineering Trade, (161)
Strike, American Mining Industry Threatened with, (300)
Strike Benefit Larger than Wages Received by Workmen while in Employment, Boston Printers, (341)
Strikes, Palmer’s Works, Jarrow, and Messrs. Gray and Oo/s Shipyard, West Hartlepool, 549, (573)
Strikes in Sweden, Supplementary Law giving Fuller Powers to the Government in Dealing with, (287)
Tia • plate Manufacturers, Sir K, Digby’s Award, (196)
Trade Union Law, 116
United National Colliery Company and Workmen of the Risca Colliery, Dispute between, (137)
Wages Questions in the Engineering Industries, (99), (161), (173)

LANCASHIRE Coast, Damage done by the Rough Weather, (365)
Lanchester Engine Company, The, 486, 510
Langley, Mr. A. A., (222)
Lathe Power, 163
Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 47, 61,98,122,145, 172, 248, 298, 328, 373, 397, 451, 472, 521, 572, 601
Lead Poisoning in China and Earthenware Works, Home-office Returns, 1899-1903, (389)

Leaders:

1903—A Retrospect, 15
Acetylene Generators, Certification of, 344
Alcohol and the Motor Car, 391
All-gear Head and the Motor, The, 566
Allotropy of Metals, The, 139
American Education, 367
Board of Trade, The, 616
Board of Trade Surveys, 565
Boiler Power, 212
Box Section, The, 42
Chemistry, 21
Choice of Power, The, 139
Civil Engineering, 15
Clearance in Steam Engine Cylinders, 238 Coopers Hill College, 465, 521
Cruiser Armaments, Changes in. 417
Cutting Angles, 590
Definition in Science, (460), 490 Denaby Main Case, The, 164
Electrical I^ilways, 289
Engine Cylinders, Clearance in Steam, 238 Engines, Marine Gas, 348
Leaders {continued}:
Engineering, Electrical, 18
Mechanical, 17
. as a Profession, 264 Fog-signalling, 490 French Navy, The, 317 Gas Engine, Efficiency of the, 466 Gas, Illuminating Value of, 115 Gas Supply, 19 German Steel Syndicate, The New, 188 Heat and Steel, 316
I Iron and Steel in the United States, 115 Lathe Power, 163
? Locomotive Engine Front Ends, 67
. Engines, Resistance of, 417
' High-speed. 515, 615
Side Rods. 2oi Three-cylinder, 368 (Steam) Trials in Germany, 237
Loss of the “ Al ” Submarine, 318 Lubrication, Forced, 489
Marine Engines in Warfare, 163
Medea, Trials of the, 465
Metallurgy, 22
Missouri Explosion, 439
Mortality in Metal Mining, 639
Navy Estimates, 237
Niclausse Boiler in the U.S. Navy, 91
Paris Sewage Farms, 640
Petrol Motor Boats, 639
Preparation of Estimates, 232 Radiant Heat as a Steam Maker, 343
Railway Enterprise in South Europe, 589
Railway Motor Carriages, 187
Repairs, 41
Research, 318
Rolling Stock, High-speed, 566
Screws, Standardisation of, 392
Speed, Limits to, 440
Steam Turbines at Sea, 367
Steam, Very High Pressure, 68
Steel Convention, International, 418 Steel, Heat and, 116
Ideal, 391
Iron and. United States, 115
Researcb, 91
Syndicate, Belgian, 616 Syndicates in Germany, 68. 188 Tool, 263
Strength of Flat Surfaces, 590
Superheated Steam, 42
Superheating Locomotives, 211
Syndicates and Tariffs, European, 565
Tariff Commission and the Iron and Steel Trades, 289
Thermal Storage, 516
Trade Union Law, 440
Trusts in the United States, 290
Turbine Combination, American-German, 140
Utilitarian Research, 615
War Material, 21
Water Supply, 20

Sub-Leaders:

Accident ? What is an, 617
Accidents to Workmen on British Railways, 290
Apprentices, Education of, 43
Battle of Port Arthur, The, 164
Bonus System in the Iron and Steel Trades. New, 213
British Shipbuilding, 290
Clyde Shipbuilding, Four Months’, 466
Coal, 188
Compulsory Arbitration, 92
Costs in an Action for Infringement, 617 Creeping of Rails, The, 590
Education of Apprentices, 43
Engineering Activity, 392
Engineers and Egypt, 418
Engineers and South America, 466
Engines, Crude Oil and Water, 567 H.M.S. Triumph, 491
Iron and Coal Outlook, The, 264
Iron and Steel, Mexico’s New Duties on, 319 Lambeth Bridge, 616
Locomotive Coal Contracts, 68
Engines, Firing, 567
Engine Resistance, 491
Mexico’s New Duties on Iron and Steel, 319 Motor Wagon Brakes, 640
Naval Engineering College, The, 567 Petropavlovsk, Destruction of the, 392 Premium System in the Dockyards, 238 Premium System, Opposition to the, 591 Screw Threads, Standard, 344 Shipbuilding, British, 290 Slag, Use of, 640
Steam-pipe Coverings, 517
Steel, American Production of Bessemer, 441
Trade of the United States, 265 Trust, The, 43
Sugar Machinery, British and American, 516
Trade Commissioner, The, 517
Trade Union Law, 116
Wear and Tear of American Locomotives, 319 Wind Pressure, 567

Legal Intelligence:

Aylesbury Petty Sessions, First Caso under the New Motor Car Act for the County, (209)
Costs in an Action for Infringement, 617
Denaby Main Case, The, 155, 164
East London Railway Company v, the Thames Conservancy Board, (345)
Grand Junction Company’s Claims against the Water Board, Arbitrators’ Award, (13)
Leeds Forge Company, Limited, v. Deighton’s Patent Flue and Tube Company, Limited, 523
Llanelly, Judgment Given at, in Board of Trade Inquiry into a Boiler Explosion on a Locomotive, (114)
Pilkington, Limited, Peter, i’. B. and S. Massey, 523
Sheerness County-court, Lieut. F. R. Harrold Sued by Mr, Jas. Piper, (209)

LEICESTER Rates, Reduction of the, (287)
Le Neve Poster, Sir Clement, 419, (441)

Letters to the Editor :

Acetylene for Lighthouses, Gbt. Lauder, 323 Air Pumps, J. Hoyle, 145
Analyses of Steamship Trials, Robt. Mansel, 423
Alcohol as a Motive Power, R, J. Hutchinson, 422
Australian Patents, Wm. P. Thompson and Co., 233
Babbage and the Analytical Engines, H, P, Babbage, 169
Letters to the Editor {continueit);
Band Brakes, Motor Man, 145
Band Brakes, Geo. T. Pardoe, 119 Boilers, Niclausse, J. and A. Niclausse, 217 Boiler, The Niclausse, J. C. R. Okes, 145 Board of Trade and Condensers, Chas. B. Boo2 Wation, 617
Borough Councils and House Drainage, House Owner, 233
Borough Councils and House Drainage, Another House Owner, 373
Breakdowns in the Navy, Beechwood, 217 Fred. T. Jane, 47, 118, 190
Marine Engineer, 117 Pom-Pom, 217 Superintendent En- . gineer, 63, 146
Bridge at Budapest, The Old Suspension, Anglo-Hungarian, 422
Changes in the Sea Coast of the United Kingdom, R. G. Allanson Winn, 12
Chemistry without the Atomic Theory, F. C. S.,
Chinese Patents and Trade Marks, W. P, Thompson and Co., 520
Coiled Springs, V., 462
Cold Iron Sawing by Band Saw, Progressive, 283
Commissions in Engineering, C., 444 Condensing Plant, W. H. Roy, 169 Conduction through Gases, Your Reviewer, 12 Conservation of Energy, A. Turner, 117 Cooper’s Hill, A. H. Heath, 521
Cutting Angle, J. T. Nicholson, 617, 649 Decimal Systems, A. J. Allen, 283
Deep-water Jetties in the Thames, Bindon B. Stoney, 190
Dock Engineering, Brysson Cunningham, 521 Draughtsmen, Practical, Draughtsman, 217 Durban Harbour, Pioneer, 12
Eirly Permanent Way at South Kensington, Clement E. Stretton, 323
Egyptian Trade, W. Willcocks, 64
E'.ectrical Cables in Workshop Installations and their Troubles, J. H. C. Brooking, 268
Engine-room Artificers, Nelson, 283 Engines, Reciprocating, Nabor Soliani, 190
Feed-water from Septic Tanks, ‘*Senki.” 397 : Septic, 323
Fire Risks in Factories, P. G. Ebbutt, 323
Forced Lubrication, Sartor, 545
French Northern Squadron, X. X, 493 : Andr^ Bourbon, (393), 445
Gas, Illuminating Value of, Edward A. Harman, 190, 217
Glasgow New Sewage Works, Drysdale and Co., 586
Indefinite Science, 0. L. M’D , 64
Iron Masts, J. Roome, 445
Knots, G., 97
Knots per Hour, Andrew Jamieson, 97 ; Sailorman, 118; Superintendent Engineer, 47, 118 ; U. S. N., 64 ; Yachtsman, 118
Locomotives, Compound, John Riekie, 643; Simplex, 586
Engine Front Ends, George T. Clayton, 145
High-speed, Beechwood, 586; A. F. Goodyear, C.P.R., 569; Arthur Hockley, 545 ; Michael Reynolds, 216; W. Wilson, 645
The First, W., 217‘
A New Type of. T. H. K., 445
A Plea for the Single, C. F. D.ndy Marshall, 569
Three-Cylinder, G. F. C. G., 545; Clement E. Stretton, 397 ; John Riekie, 444
Trials in Germany, Steam, Dr. R. Herzfeld, 323
Machine Tools, Old, John H. Knight, 569 ; C. T. Sutton, 586
Some Early, Richard Laybourne, 545; Thomas Noakes and Sons, 520 ; R. P. Wray, 520
Metric System, J. Sinclair Fairfax, 462
Mines, Roving, Fuse Pin, 544
Moment of Inertia, H. H. Bowack, 644 Motor Boats, S. F. Edge, 422, 445
Car Brakes, F. Strickland, 190
Car, Ths First Four-wheel Petrol, John Henry Knight, 621
\ ehicles, A, 586 ; Arthur Kinder, 643 Internal Combustion, J. H. Hamilton, 462
Paris Motor Car Show, Edward Butler, 64 Patent Laws, Unification of British and Colonial, George C. Douglas, 169
Petroleum Briquettes, W. F. S. Chenhall, 119 Photographic Image, Reversal of the, C. R., 217
Preparation of Estimates and Young Engineers, A Mechanical Draughtsman, 268
Pumps for Forced Lubrication, J. L. B., 119 Purification of Water by Shock, L. A. Jinks,
643 ’
Pazzler, A., C.E., 415; Edw. A. Harman, 521; Arthur M. Issel, 462
Quick-acting Brake Trials, Railway Engineer, 350 ; Westinghouse Brake Company, Limited, (350), 586
Radium, Jas. C. Richardson, 64
Railways in Southern Europe, Henry Hooke. 643
Raiyan Project, The, Cope Whitehouse, 568 Reservoir Drawing Pens, Wm. B. Bryan, 397 ;
J. M. Gavin, jun., 397 ; Henry G. Lloyd, 422 ; Douglas McNae, 373
Resistance of High-speed Engines and Locomotives, W. Carew Smith, 642
Scientific Definition, T. Douglas, 545 ; S. H, R., 521
Secret Commissions, C. E., 520 ; F. W. J., 462 ; I^ex, 462; Shamrcck, 520 ; Tenace, 493: Veritas, 520; X., 462
Side-slip Trials, Basil H Joy, 12
Silencer for Gas Engines, Peto, 47 Smoke-Box, A Variable, C. F. Dendy.Marshall, 444
Scaring Plane, The, 1. Lancaster, 544
Steam I’ipe Coverings, The Mica Boiler Covering Company, Limited, 569
Steam, Superheated, John and Edward Wood. 118 ’
Steam Turbine Discs, Maurice F. Fitzgerald, 217^
Steamships, Henry Davey,
Steam-turbo Generating Plant, John H. Barker, 46,64; (for Beiliss and Morcom, Limited), Alfred Morcom, 12; B. Pariolany, 47 ; Geo. B, Parrott, 64; Chas. A. Parsons, 46 ; Reciprocating Engine, 64 ; A Student, 46
Steel in Large Masses, Production and Thermal Treatment of, T. Vaughan Hughes and J. Windle, 545, 569
Steels, Rapid Catting Tool, Daniel Adamson, 493 ; C. Pendlebury, 620
Suburban Passenger Traffic, P. W. D’Alton, John Mannheim, 47, 97, 168; K., 217 ; Suburban Passenger, 119; C, Thorne, 119; U. R. B., 12, 64. 118, 119, 190
Superheat, F. A. Willcox, 169
Superheating Locomotives, Easton, Courtney, and Darbishire (.sec 283). 268
Superheating Steam, W. H. Booth, 233 Superheated Steam—see also Steam
Technical Civil Service Appointments, Civil Service, 422
Tempering Malleable Castings, Hematite, 190
Thermal Storage, J. B. C. Kershaw, 586 ; F. A. Yerbury, 544, 617
Thermal Treatment of Steel in Large Masses, J.^Windle, 545; T. Vaughan Hughes, 569 ; Cosmo Johns, 586
Thermit, Chas. Edw. Masterman, 169
Timber for Sleepers in America, Supply of, Rails, 12
Trade Marks in Japan, W. Silver Hall, 283
Triumph and Swiftsuro, The, E. J. Reed, 350 (refers to 310)
Turbines, Brigade, 617; Frank Foster and J. A. S., 568; Robt. H. Smith, 643
Turbine Discs, Steam, Maurice F, Fitzgerald, 644 ; Frank Foster, 520
Turbine Economy, Robb. H. Smith, 586
Water Softening, Walter Geo. Atkins, 190, 217 ; F. W., 190
Winding Engine Problem, A, The Author of the Article, 12, 118; J. S, Nicholson, 12, 64

Letters from our own Correspondents :

America, Engineering Notes from, 38 122, 186, 246, 261, 324, 398, 496, 509, 548, 563, 592
America, Notes from, 26, 124, 148, 174, 248, 272, 300, 353, 376, 402, 424, 474, 650, 674, 600, 646
Australia, Notes from, 61, 92, 175, 248, 400, 522. 572, 616
England, North of. 25, 52, 74, 99, 123, 173, 195, 221, 247, 271, 299, 327, 351, oio,
401, 425, 449, 473. 499, 524, 549, 573. 599, 647
Germany, 26, 52, 76, 100, 124, 149, 174, 196, 222, 248, 272, 300, 329, 352, 376, 402, 426, 450, 475, 500, 625, 551, 674, 601, 648
Germany, Scientific Notes from, 8, 120, 192, 284, 311, 385 ’
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 24, 51, 74, 98, 122, 146, 172, 194, 220, 246, 270 298, 327, 351, 375, 400, 425, 449, 472, 493 523, 548, 572, 599, 647 » ’ ’ '
Lancashire, 24, 51, 74, 98, 122, 146, 172, 194, 220, 246, 270, 293, 327, 351, 375, 400, 425, 449, 472, 498, 523, 549, 572, 599, 047
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Reports, 26, 52, 76, 100, 124, ' 172, 222, 248, 272, 300, 323, 402, 424 474, 500, 524, 574, 600, 648
Sjjbland, 25, 52, 74, 99, 123. 148, 174, 222, 247, 271, 299, 328, 352, 376, 402, 450, 473, 499, 524, 550, 673, 600, 648
Sheffield, 25, 52, 74, 99, 123, 147, 173, 221, 247, 271, 299, 327, 351, 375. 401, 449, 473, 499, 524, 549, 572, 599, 647
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 25, 52, 74, 100, 124, 148, 174, 195, 222, 247, 271, 300, 328, 352, 376, 402, 426, 450, 474, 500, 624, 650, 573,600,648
Naval Engineer Appointments, 6, 61, 100, 143, 216, 242, 323, 376. 400, 461, 459, 612, 532, 564, 600, 630 '

LIFT Locks, 459
Light, Effect of the Intensity on the Velocity of, M. T. Dould’s Experiments, (513)
Lighthouse, Ferro-Concrete, 542
Lighting, Present State of the Art
Wedding on, 284
Lignite Industry of Brandenburg and (613)
Limits to Speed, 440
Linoleum Floorcloth, The Manufacture E. J, Stevenson on, 394
Liquid Air made on Commercial Scale Angeles, (637)
Liquid Oil in Transportation Tested, Durability of, (537)

Literature N.B.—Figures in brackets refer to Books Received and Short Notices.

Agriculture, Organisation of, Edwin A. Pratt, (560)
Air-Brake Catechism, Up-to-date, R. H. Blackall, (218)
Alternate Currents for Students, Notes on, H. H. Simmons, (631)
Alternating Currents, Their Generation, U cili- sation, and Distribution, T. Hanchett, (560)
American Institute of Architects, Quarterly Bulletin, Edited by Gleenn Brown, (218)
American Steam Navigation, History of, John H. Morrison, 239
Aunuaire pourl'An, 1904, Publid par le Bureau des Longitudes, 259
Architects’, Surveyors’, and Auctioneers’Diary and Almanack for 1904, Waterlow Brothers and Layton, (36)
Assuan Reservoir and Lake Mceris, Sir William Willcocks, (462)
Astronomic Pratique, Prdcis d’, P. Stroobant, (218)
Automatic Surveying Instruments and their Practical Uses in Land and Water, Thomas Ferguson, Introduction by E. Hammer, (218)
Boilers, Steam, their Theory and Design, H. T). E. B. Parsons, (218)
Litaratupe (continued)*,
B.'insh Association of Waterworks Engineers, Transactions of, with Subjects, Volume viii., 1903 ; Index, Volumes i. to viii,, (560)
Engineering Standards, Coded Lists, VoJ. i., Compiled by Robert Atkinson, 560
Industries, a Series of General Kiviews for Business Men and Students, Edited by W. J. Ashley, (631) Railways, Their Organisation and Management, Hugh Munro Ross, (533)
Builders' Prices, How to Estimate, being an Analysis of, John T. Rea, (432)
Builders’ Quantities, Herbert C. Grubb, (432) Buildings connected with Generation and Supply of Electricity, Notes on Design and Construction of, Charles Stanley Peach, (512) Business Encyclopscdia and Legal Adviser, W. S. M. Knight, (462)
Buy English Acres, C. F. Dowsett, (560) Calculus for Engineers and Others, Specially Adapted for Board of Trade Examinations, A. E. Larkman, (462)
Canada’s Resources and Possibilities, with Special Reference to the Iron and Allied Industries and the Increase of Trade with the Mother Country, J. S. Jeans, (560)
Canada in the Twentieth Century, A. G. Bradley, 61
Coal and Metal Miners’ Pocket-book of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables, B. K, Stevens and Brown, (388)
Coal Mining, for the Use of Colliery Managers and Others, Charles Griffin and Co., (419) Country Gentleman’s Estate-book, 1904, Edited and Compiled by Wi.liam Broomhall, (560) Combustibles, Essais des, D. Sidersky, (218) Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, James Park, (165)
Cyaniding Gold and Silver Ores: Practical Treatise on the Process, H. F. Julian and Edgar Smart, (282)
Dampfturbinen mit Einem Aohange liber die Aussichten der Warmekraftmaschinen und uber die Gasturbine, Dr. A. Stodola, (605)
Deutschen Flottenvereins in Munchen, 1903, Die Tagungen des, (218)
Directory and Guide to the Manchester Royal Exchange for 1904, (560)
Di-ectory of Shipowners, Shipbuilders, and Marine Engineers, Directory Publishing Company, Limited, (462)
Dock Engineering, Treatise on the Principles and Practice of, Brysson Cunningham. (282), 481
Drainage, Modern House, Gerard J. G. Jensen, 239
Drainage, Sewerage, and Conservancy in Tropical Countries and Elsewhere, Major F. Smith, (512)
Dynamo Attendants and their Dynamos, Frank Broadbent, (560)
Dynamo-Electric Machinery, Manual for Students of Electrotechnics, Silvanus P. Thompson, (218)
Electric Club Journal,” The, No. 3, Vol. i., Published by the Electric Club Journal, (560)
Directory, Universal (J. A. Berly's), (218)
Engineers’ Pocket-bock, Horatio A. Foster, (218)
Laboratory and Testing Room, Hand-book for the. Vol. it, J. A. Fleming, 35
Lighting and Traction Works in Operation or Projected in Great Britain and Ireland, 1904, Edited by C. S. Vesey Brown, (282) Motors, Application of, to Machine Driving, Andrew Stewart, (462) Plants, Manual on the Care and Handling of, Norman H. Schneider, (282)
Practice, Modern, Magnus Maclean, Editor, (432)
Traction, Practical Hand-book on the Application of Electricity as a Locomotive Power, J. H. Rider. (35)
Undertakings and Directory of Officials, Manual of, Compiled under the Direction of Emile Garcke, (218)
Electricien, Manuel Pratique du Monteur, J. Laffargue, (462)
I’Electricite, Lemons sur, Eric Gerard, (560) Electricity Act, Indian, 1903, Act III. of 1903. J. W. Mears, (282)
Electricity and Matter, J. J. Thomson, (462) Electricity, Static, Simple Experiments in, Percival G. Bull, (282)
Electro-magnetic Machinery and Other Apparatus, Testing of. Vol. i., Messrs. Swenson and Frankenfield, (282), 533
Elektrische Bahuen Zeitschrift fur das Gesamte Elektrische Befbrderungswesen, (218)
Elektrisch-betriebene Strassenbahnen, Taschen- buch filr deren Barechnung, Konstruktion u.s.w, S, Herzog, (35)
Elektrischen Zentralen mit Dampfmasebinen und Gasmotoren-betrieb, Prufungen in, von Dr, Phil. E. W. Lehman Richter, (560)
Elektromechanische Konstruktionselemente: Skizzen herausgegeben von Dr. G. Klingen- berg, (165)
Elementary Mensuration, G. T. Chivers, (560) Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. No. 34, Tenth and Last of the New Series, 35
Engineer’s Year-book of Formuie, Rules,Tables, Data, &c., H. R. Kempe, (218)
I Engines^ and Power Generators, Modern, A Practical Work on Prime Moyers and the Transmission of Power — Steam, Electric, Water, and Hot Air, Rankin Kennedy, (560) ' English and American Steam Carriages and 5 Traction Engines, Wm. Fletcher, 314
Englishwoman’s Year-book and Directory, 1904, I Edited by Emily Jones, (165)
Entropy o Thermodynamics from an Engineer’s Standpoint and the Reversibility of Thermodynamics, Jas. Swinburne, (218)
Factory Manager and Accountant: Some Examples of the Latest American Factory Practice, Horace Lucian Arnold, (165)
Fire Exhibition, Record of the International Earl’s Court, 1903, (35)
Litepatups (continued):
Fiscal Policy, Fifty Years of Progress and the New, Lord Brassey, (282)
Five-figure Tables of Mathematical 1 unctions. Comprising Tables of Logarithnis, Numbers, &c., John Borthwick Dale, (9d)
Framed Structures, Theory and Practice of Modern, Designed for the Use of Schools, oy J. B* Johnson and C. W. Bryan and r L, Turneaure, (462) ,
French and Eiglish Commercial Correspondence, A. Dadevant, (388)
Friction and Lost Work in Machinery and Mill Work, Treatise on, Robt. H. Thurston, (oo)
Friction and its Reduction, G. U. Wheeler,
Gas Eagineers and Managers, Hand-book for, Thos. Newbigging, (605) .
Gasworks: Their Construction and Arrangement, and the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal Gas, originally Written by Sam Hughes, Revised by H. O’Connor, (605 Gleichstrom Maschinen in Laboratorien u. Priifrauraen, Die Ptlifung von C. King- brunner, (432), 533
Gold Assaying, H. Joshua Phillips, (512)
Grant and Validity of British Patents for Inventions, Jas. Roberts, (35) . . , r
Graphic Statics, Elementary Principles of, Edward Hardy, (282)
Graphs and Imaginanes, J. G. Hamilton and F. Kettle, (388)
Guide to South Africa, A, Samler Brown and G Gordon Brown, for the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, (218) . . ,
Gunnowder and Ammunition, their Origin ai^ Pfoffress, Lieutenant-Colonel H. Hime, (512) Hazlitt’s Annual for 1904, Edited by W. Palmer,
Heatmg by Hot Water, Ventilation, and Hot
Water Supply, Walter Jones, (512)
Hebszeuge Elemente der Hebezeuge Fiaschen- zuge, Winden und Krane, von Hugo Beth- mann, (481) .i -n
Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams, William Lumsden Strange, (512), 560 ludicator Hand-book, The, Part L, Charles M. Pickworth, (218)
Industrie Chimique Minerale, La Grande, E. Sorel, Two Vols., 60
Institution of Civil Engineers, Minutes of the Proceedings, Vols. cli., cliv., with Subject Index,(35) , . x
Institution of Naval Architects, Minutes of Proceedings, Index to Vols, fromi. to xlii,, Iron/^Sbeel, and Other Alloys, H. M. Howe, 430 . ,
Japan and China : their History, Arts, and Literature, Captain F. Brinkley, 61
Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft, 5ter Band, 314 . '
Journal of Proceedings of the South African , Association of Engineers, for 1902-3, (35) Kelly’s Customs Tariffs of the World, 1904, I (432) I
Kelly’s Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Shippers of the World, 1904, (560) Kriegsllotten, Taschenbuch der, v. Jahrgang, 1904; Kapitiin-Lieutenant a. D. B. Wayer, (35) 61
Langue Anglaise sans Maitra (English Self- taught for the French), C. A. Thimm and T. de Marney, (189)
Law of Boundaries and Ferries in Relation to the Sea Shore and Sea Bed, and Private Rivers and Lakes, Private Properties, Mines, Railways, Highways, Canals, &c, &c., Arthur Joseph Hunt, (218)
Laxton’s Builders’ Price-book for 1901, (218)
Lecture Agency Date-book: Containing the Lecture Seasons, 1904-1905 and 1905-1906, (560)
Liquid Fuel and its Combustion, William H. Booth, 239
Local Government Annual and Official Directory, 1904, (93)
Locomotive Breakdowns, Emergencies and their Remedies, George L. Fowler,(282) The Modern: Its Design and Construction, Henry Greenly, (605) Simply Explained, The, Charles S. Lake, (93)
Logarithms for Beginners, Charles N. Pickworth, (533)
Machine Design : Parti.—Fastenings, William Ledyard Cathcart, (631) Part II.—Form, Strength, and Proportions of Parts, Ferrest R, Jones, (93) Shop Tools, Modern, William H. Van Dervoort, (631)
Marine Engineering, Manual of, E. A, Seaton, (93), 141
Marine Engineers, Verbal Notes and Sketches for, J. Sothern, (282).
Mechanical Di'awing Simply Explained, F. E, Powell, (560)
Mechanical Engineers’ Reference Book, H. H, Suplee, (512)
Mechanics, John Cox, (605)
Metal Working, Introduction to, J. C. Pearson, (432)
M^tallurgie, Revue de, Directeur Henry le Chatelier, 239
Metals, Microscopic Analysis of, Floris Osmond, (189)
Mebaux, Essais des, Thdorie et Pratique, L. Gages, (218)
Mining, An Elementary Treatise on the Getting of Minerals, Arnold Lupton, (282)
Mining and Quarrying, Elements of, Sir C. Le Neve Foster, (165)
Model Engineer, The, Series No. 16, Acetylene Gas, Cyril N. Turner, (93)
Mosely Educational Commission to the United States of America, 1903, Reports of the, 382, 419, (462)
Moteurs Essence pour Automobiles, Professor L. Marchis, (218), 279
Motor Car Acts, 1896 and 1903, with Introduction and Notes, John A. Williamson, (605)
Motor Pocket-book, O’Gorman’s, (279) Motoring Annual and Motorists’ Year-book, The, (323)
Municipal Trading, The Common Sense of, Bernard Shaw, (218)
Municipal Year-book of the United Kingdom for 1904, Edited by Robert Donald, (282)
Literature {continued}:
Naval Annual, 1904, Edited by T. A. Brassey, (560), 604 , ,
Naval Architecture, Cecil H. Peabody, (4D2)^ Naval Development of the Century, Nathaniel Barnaby, (462), 533
New Epoch, The, as Developed by the Manufacture of Power, Geo. S. Morison, (35) , Newspaper Press Directory and Advertisers Guide, Messrs. C, Mitchell and Co., (189) Nile and the New Soudan, Binding of the, Hon. Sydney Peel, (282), 453
Oil Engines, their Selection, Erection, and Correction, W. A. Tookey, (633)
Oil Fields of Russia and the Russian Petroleum Industry, A. Beeby Thompson, (388)
Ore and Stone Mining, Text-book of, Sir Clement La Neve Foster, (419)
Patents for Inventions, Grant and Validity of British, Jas. Roberts, 141
Patents Simply Explained, with Plans and Sketches, Percival Marshall and Co., (560) Peat, Facts about; Peat Fuel and Peat Coke, T. H. Leavitt, 239
Phase Rule and its Applications, Alex. Findlay, (282)
Photo-engraving in Half-tone, on Zinc, Copper and Brass, Julius Verfasser, (141)
Photography for AU, Elementary Teit-book, W. Jerome Harrison, (512)
Physical Chemistry, Introduction to the Study of. Sir Wm. Ramsay, (282)
Physikalischen Grossen, Die fur Tachnik und Praxis Wichtigsten, Olaf Linders, 239
Pocket-book of Ice-making and Refrigeration, Edited by A. J. Wallace-Taylor, (560)
Pocket-book of Tables and Memoranda for Plumbers, Builders, &c., J. Wright Clarke, (560)
Practical Electrician’s Pocket-book for 1904, S. Rentall and Co., Limited, and Dawbarn and Ward, (35)
Public Schools Year-book, with a Select List of Preparatory Schools, Swan, Sonnenschein and Co,, (282)
Railroad Curves and Earthwork?, C. Frank Allen, (282)
Railway Carriages and Wagons : Their Design and Construction, Sidney Stone, 188 Railways, E, R. McDermott, (93)
Refuse Disposal and Power Production, W. Francis Goodrich, (462)
Reuter’s Directory of Telegraphic Addresses: Registered in Australia and New Zealand, Robt. Atkinson, (560)
Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of, Vol. 64, John Murray, (432)
Royal Navy List, Founded by Lieut.-Colonel i Francis Lean, (218)
Rubber, Gutta-percha, and Balata, Franz ! Clouth,165
Rustless Coatings: Corrosion and Electrolysis of Iron and Steel, M. P. Wood, (560)
Sawmill Work and Practice, W. J. Blackmur, (533)
Scbiffoautechnischen Gesellschaft Jahrbuch der Funfl er Band, 218
Science Abstracts: Indices to Sections A and B, Vol. Vi., (165)
Sell’s D.'ctionary of the World’s Press and Advertisers’ Reference Book, (388)
Sewer and Drain Cases Noted in the “Surveyor and Municipal County Eugineer,” J. B. R Condor, (462)
Shipbuilding, Practical Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of Modern Steel Vessels, A. Campbell Holms, (388), 481
Shipping World Year-book, Edited by Eyan Rowland Jones, (218)
Slide Making, Practical, G. T. Harris, (432)
Slide Rule, The, Practical Manual, Mr. C. N. Piekworth, (35)
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, (35) Institution for the Year Ending June 30th, 1902, Annual Report of the, Report of the United States National Museum, (560) Miscellaneous Collections, 1874: Index to the Literature of Taorium, 1817-1902, Cavalier H. Jonet, (218)
Miscellaneous Collections: Part of Vol. xliv., Phylogency of Fusus and its Allies, Amadeus W. Grabau, (605)
Miscellaneous Collections : Part of Vol. xlvi.. Researches on the Attainment of Very Low Temperature, Morris W. Travers, Part I., (605)
Sonde, L’Industrie de la, L. Guillet, (512) Spanish Self-taught, with Phonetic Pronunciation (Timm’s System), W. F. Harvey, (165)
Specification for Architects, Surveyors and Engineers when Specifying, Published by the Proprietors of the Builders Journal, (481)
Statesman and the Bishop, The : Letter to a Gentleman in the Diocese of Hereford, and other Papers, John Draper, (388)
Steel, Metallurgy of, F. W. Harbord, 278
Steel, Open-hearth, Album of Drawings relating to its Manufacture, M. A. Pavloff, (282), (432)
Strength and Elasticity of Structural Members. R. J. Woods, (141)
Stresses and Thrusts, G. A. T. Middleton, (432)
Stubbs’ Commercial Year-book and Gazette Index, 1904, (282)
Tables of Multiplication, Division and Proportion for the Ready Calculation of Quantities and Costs, Estimates, &3. &c., R. H. Smith, (282)
Telegraphy, Wireless, Chas. Henry Sewell, (35) Towers and Tanks for Waterworks, Theory and Practice of their Design and Construction, J. N. Hazlehurst, (462)
Trade Marks, Property in, Manual Written without the Use of Legal Phraseology, Brewer and Son, (189)
Trades Unionism and British Industry, Reprint of the Times Articles on the Crisis in British Industry, with Introduction by E. Pratt, (218)
Transvaal Mines, Yearly Report of the Government Mining Engineer (ending June 30th, 1903), 165 ’
Tijdaohrift aua dar Kdninklijk Institut von Ingenieura, 1903-4, (218)
University Correspondence College Ca’endar, 1903-4, (165), (282)
Volunteer Annual (Metropolitan Corps), Edited by A. E Johnson, (338)
Who’s Who Year-book for 1904, Adam and Chas. Black, (218), (282)
Willing’s Press Guide for 1904, (165)
Worked Problems in Higher Arithmetic for Civil Service and other Advanced Examinations, W. P. Workman and R, H. Cope, (388)
Workshop Costs for Engineers and Manufacturers, Sinclair Pearn and Frank Pearn (462)
X-Rays Simply Explained : Hand-book on the Theory and Practice of Radiography, R, P. Howgrave-Graham, 388

LITHOGRAPHIC Stone Beds Discovered in Iowa, (415)
Lloyd’s Signal Stations, The Now International
Code, (39)
Lock for Canal, Hydraulic, (548)
Locks, Lift, 459
London Bye-laws for Regulating the Use of Locomotives, 368
London County Council Loans to be made to different Borough Councils, (488)
London Main Drainage System, Extension of, 203
London Streets, Regulation of Slow-going Traffic in, (463)
London Traffic, Royal Commission on, (203), (513)
London Traffic, Statistics of, Mr. E. J. Harper on, (287), (315)
Looms at the Bradford Exhibition, 635, 638
Loom, The Largest in the World, (235) Lubrication, Forced, 489, 645

Machine Tools:

All-gear Head, 566
Bolt-making, American, 38
Box Section, The, 42, 49
Designs for New, Mr. J. E. Sweet on, 49 Die Head, Alfred Herbert, Limited, 205, 206 Duplex Milling Machine, John Hetherington and Sons, Limited, 44
Fly-wheels upon, 38
Frank Kneeland Works, U.S.A,, Machinery for ' Rolling Mills, 563 ,
Gear Cutting Machine, Automatic, Cjuld and Eoerhart Company, U.S.A., 32i
Grinding Machine e. the Lathe, The, 178 Machine, Universal, G. Birch and
Co., (599)
Jig for Drilling and Milling, C. T, Sutton 171
Lathes, 453, 506, 653, 566 ’ '
Messrs. Hulse and Co., (122) Chasing and Turret, Messrs. Roberts Bros., 45
Crank Shaft, The Tindel-Albracht, 157 High-speed, Tangye Tool and Electrm Company, Limited, 94 Modern Turning, 261 with New Variable Speed Gear, John
Lang and Sons, 117 Power, 163
Tool Dynamometer, Experiments with “1, 622^-61'4“’*°'““’ M'll‘'¥,M»ohin9. Electrically Driven, James Archdale and Co., Limited, 192
Old, 569,’ 686
Planing Machine of 1835, Whitworth’s. 605 Nasmyth, 605
Tj -J II. Roberts’, 606
Tests“of 33/®®’’ Notes on
Bergue and Co.. 495 Machinery for. 663
Sand Mixer, Mr. J. S. Hall, 186 baw3, Cold Iron, G. Birch and Co., (599) baw, Horizontal Reciprocating Log, A. Ransome and Co., 494 ®
Screw Milling Machines, Messrs. John Holroyd and Co., Limited, 147
Hydraulic, Frank Knee- '^°d Rolling Works, U.S.A., 563

MACHINERY Combination in Germany, 540 Imported into Mexico, 1902, Value of. (137)
XT nT-n „ Rating of, 306, 328 McMillan, Mr, W. G., 141 SSiSC\m:136"’ ^cal E^mc1’ioTo?‘(V8T“'’'“ Mannhcher, Chevalier Ferdinand, (89) ts, (Sr
nf Rovised Hill-shaded, (341)
^vey,'^91)®’'’'•ought out by the Sur- of Korea, (175)
Two New, (88) Marchant, Mr., (144) Marine Engines in Warfare, 163
Insurance, A Point in, (HI) XT 1, “Mvage Wreck Raisine- 532 ^eorge, Presentation^’o, (648)
May, Rear-Admiral, H. J., 441 ’
How
Stokers in India, Failure of, 10 Mechanics, Researches in Prizn K H.
Paris Academy of ScienceVfor, ?3l) ®
Meldrum, Mr. David, (137) ' '
Men and Machines in America, 326
J Menneer, Mr. R. R., (5371
Metal Mining, Mortality in, 639 t f'”’Motor Bearings, (587)
nn Clost, ProfUsor Borchers
now Produces, (637) -Dt^reners
fundings at Bournebrook, The,
Metallurgy, 22
Metals, Allotropy of, 139 Dangerous Processes in Enamelling and Tinning, Home-office Report on, (191) M. Harmot’s Proposal for Intensifying the Oxidising Action of Air on, (365)
Metric System, The, 462
Ballot on the, United Slates National Association of Manufacturers, (114)
Herbert Spencer’s Opposition to its Introduction in this Country (191)
I Mexico’s New Duties on Iron and Steel, 319 Mexico, Value of Machinery Imported into, (137)- Value of Variety of Climate to be Found in ’ (137)
Mica, Demand for, 295
Mica Produced in the United States, (415) Microscope, Theory of the. Dr. Glazebrook on 219 ’
Milling Operations, Some, 62
Milling Trade of London, Important Developments in, (65)
Mills Stopped Working in Bombay, (235)
Mineral Deposits in South Africa, Prosnectino- for, (513)
Output of Canada, Value of, 1901, 1902 1903,(315)
Production of British Columbia, 1902 1903, (537), (613) '
Wealth Produced in New South Wales Aggregate Value of, (389)
New, (365)
New South Wales Production. 1902 1903, (191) ’ ’
Non-metallic, Raised in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Value of the, (13)
Mines of Indo-China, Official Report on the. (5371 Mines, Roving, 544 '
Mining in Alaska, (474)
Improved Methods and Machinery in, and Consequent Decreased Mortality among Miners, (161)
Machinery, Electrical (Su.ppleiHeut, 24//q 1904) ’
in Mexico and New York Capitalists. (4741 Mortality in Natal, 639 Purposes, Comparison of Three-phase and Continuous Currents for, Mr. R. Holiday on, 603
in the Straits Settlements, Mr. W. T, Saunders on, 603
Monozite, Sand Tests at the Westport School of Mmes, New Zsaland, for, (13)
Mortality in Metal Mining, 639
Morticing Machine, Hand Power, The Phythian Company, Limited, 633
Model Experiments, Some Results of. R. E Froude, 471
Motor, The Single-phase,^in Germany, (311) Motors, Two-cycle Marine Petrol, Mr. Holbrook Gaskell, jun , 298

Motor Vehicles and Matters Connected Therewith:

Act, Work thrown on the London County Council by the. (315)
Anomalies of the, (137) ; in Surrey, (191); at Aylesbury, (209) Agricultural Motors at the Royal Lancashire ? Show, (437)
Alcohol and. Dr. prmandy on, 391
Apparatus for Driving a Dynamo Ignition for Purposes on, (235)
Metropolitan Fire Brigade. (235) ’
Army Service Corps, New Mechanical Transport Company, (513)
Automobile Association of America, Motor Car Exhibition, (365)
Automobile Club, Brake-testing Instrument in their Garage, (235); Endeavour to Obtain a 50- mile Course in the Isle of Man, (262)
Delivery Van Trials and the Army Council’s Offer, (341). (463); the Words “Chauffeur "and “Garage” Con- demned, (209)
Dr. Ormandy on Alcohol and the Motor Car, 391, 399
Motor Boat Trials in Southampton Water, (613)
New Members, (300) Parade of Motor Delivery Vans Organised by, (209), (341). (463)
President, the Duke of Sutherland, (315)
Report of the Side-slip Competition of, 567
Rules Governing Trials for Small Cars Ox-ganised by, (613)
Side-slip Trials, (12), (235),
X X . (287), (309)
Automobile Club, The Austrian, Consumption
Tests at their Alcohol Exhi- /'I V J for Automobiles, (114)
Automobile Club de France, Race from Calais to Dover for Motor Boats,
AX .^31, (613)
Automobile Mutual Protection Association, General Meeting of, (613) Technical Society, Berlin, (315) i» 1 Tram, An American, 398 Brakes for, 190
Baud, 119, 145
Motor Wagon, 640
Brake-testing Instrument in the Garage of the Automobile Club, (235)
Canada, Use of Automobiles in, (114) required for Motor Cars,
Registered, and Drivers licensed m London, (209)
Cycles Registered from February 17th to March 23rd, (341)
Classes in Motor Car Construction and Driving, Gr^Xfp^alflP^^®h 155
crystal Palace Show, 184, 214, 240
VehFclB°’n H Municipal Motor
vehicle and the Cost, (39)
Darracq Motor Car, G. and J. Weir, Limited,
Motor Vehicles and Matters Connected therewith (continued);
Dynamometer for Small Motors, Col. Renard’s, (613) ’
Electric, to be Let out on Hiro at Brighton, (513)
Electric Cars in America, Increasing Use for, (613)
Engine, A New, Messrs. Crossley Bros., (123), 138, 144, 153, 154, 155
Essex County Council and the Motor Car Traffic, (415)
French Motor Manufacturer Fined for having the Number Written in Chalk, (89)
Glasgow-built Darracq Motor Car, 441 Gloucestershire, Motor Cars and Cycles Registered in, (437)
Gordon Bennett Race at Homburg, (13)
Gordon Bennett Race, Isle of Man Course. (341)
Ignition of. Due to Friction, (137)
Imported into the United Kingdom in February, Number and Value of Motor Cars and Cycles, (415)
Imports and Exports of Completed, (89)
Inland Revenue Officers and County Council Registers, (114)
Isle of Man Course for the Eliminating Trials for the Gordon Bennett Race, (341)
Islington Show, 314
Italian Tax on, to be Raised, 362
Lancashire, Number in Use and Registered in, (114)
Licences Taken Out in London in Two or Three Days, (39)
Motor Car Service, Adelaide, (175)
Herne Bay and Canterbury, (637)
Great North of Sootland Railway, (315)
North-Eastern and Great Western, (65), (209)
Wales, (315), (437) Works, Some, The Lanchester Engine Company, 486, 510 for Surveyor, West Riding of Yorkshire, (537)
Wagon Brakes, 640 Wagons, Steam, Londonderry Works, (647)
Motoring Annual and Motorists’ Year-book, (323)
Motor Volunteers to be Armed with Rifles, (282)
Naval Officers and, (144)
New York State, Hillcock Motoring Bill Passed by the Senate, (415)
Number of Foreign Cars Imported into England, (65)
Licensed in France, (513) Registered in the United Kingdom, (65)
Omnibus Service, Modbury and Plymouth, (121) Forest Hill Station and Camberwell, (140)
Ross-shire, (39) for London, Start made with, (191) Owners still Required to take out Carriage Licences for their Cars, (114)
Paris, 2, 7, 11, 30, 55, 64, 87, 104, 130, (235) Petrol, The First Four-wheel Motor Car, 521 Motor Boats, 639
Motor Railway Inspection Trolley, 81, 88
Pneumatic Tire Trials in Paris, (513) Portugal, Increasing Trade in, (613) Radiators, (637)
Radiator, its Efficiency Increased by Coating it with Black, (637)
Railway Inspection Car, Self-propelled, Simms Manufacturing Company, 81, 88
Railway Motor Carriages, 187
Road Motor Wagons, Penrith and Patterdale Test Case before the Magistrates, (315)
Show, Crystal Palace, 184, 214, 240
Show, Islington, 314 Side-slip Trials, 12, (235)
Speed Limit at Dover, Question of the, (513) Proposal, Newport Town Council, (365)
within the City and Outside, The Corporation of London and, (287), 468, (561)
for Cars Crossing the Menai Bridge, (437)
Steam Motor Carriage for Indian Railway, Tenders Invited by the Secretary of State for India, (437)
Steam Motor Wagon, Messrs. J. Robertson and Son, 468
Stockton Chamber of Agriculture on the Maximum Speed of, (239)
Surrey County Council and the New Motor Car Act, (89)
Taff Vale Railway, Six more Motor Cars for, (174)
Testing Plant for Motor Cars, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., (463)
Tires, Inner Tube for, (287)
Tires, and Springs of, J. S. V. Bickford, 199 Toll Reduced for, on Bridge between Goring and Streatley, (561)
Traffic on Roads at Night, Holland, Lincolnshire County Council, (365)
Traffic, Southwark Borough Council Consider their whole Area Dangerous to, (39)
Training Class for Drivers of, at Bray, County Wicklow, (209)
Tunbridge Wells Education Committee, Class in Motor Car ’
(114)
Vehicles, 586, 643
Wagons Ordered (235)
War-office Grant for Wear and Tear of Machines, (65)
Warsaw, Opening for Inexpensive Motor Cars in, (463)

Motor Vehicles, Illustrated

Belsize Cars, Crystal Palace Show, 214
Bristol Wagon and Carriage Company’s Steam ; Lorry, Crystal Palace Show, 241
Brouhot Alcohol Engine (Paris), 104, 105
Chenard and Walcker Carburetter, Crystal Palace Show, 241
Daimler Car, 18-22 Horse-power, Crystal Palace, 184
Duryea Four-seated Car, Crystal Palace, 185,186
Elliott Brothers, Motormeter, Crystal Palace, 186
Gobron-Brillie Alcohol Engine (Paris), 105
Gregoire Carburetter (Paris), 7, 30
Humber Car, 8J
Horse-power, Crystal Palace Show, 214 r ) /
James and Brown Four-cylinder Car, Crystal Palace Show, 215
Langdon-Davies Car, Crystal Palace Show, 240
Lea and Francis Car, Crystal Palace Show, 240
Longuemare Carburetter (Paris), 87
Milnes-Daimler Omnibus, Crystal Palace Show, 215
Napier Car, Crystal Palace, 184, 185
Napier Carburetter, Crystal Palace Show, 241
Renard Road Train, Trailing Car of (Paris), 31
Socidte do ITndustrie Electrique et Mecanique of Geneva, Petrol Electric Car (Paris), 8
Straker’s Steam Omnibus, Crystal Palace Show, 241
Turgan Railway Car (Paris), 130, 131
Weyher and Richemond Fire Engine (Paris), 8
Wolseley Carburetter, Crystal Palace Show, 240

MOVING an Oil Tank, 323
Moy, Mr. Thos., Appeal for Funds to Help, (270)
Municipal Authorities in Germany as well as here. Extravagance of, (513)

NATIONAL Physical Laboratory, Mr, Percy
Longmuir’s Appointment, 400
Naval Engineering College, 567
Navy Estimates, The, 213, 237
Nernst Lamp, Efficiency of, Mr. Ingersoll’s Experiments, (39)
Newchang, Trade of, (587)
New York Magnetic Mines, 136
Mechanical Part of Broadway Building, 136
State, Mileage of Improved Highways in, (114)
Niagara, Utilisation of, 564
Nova Scotia, Rich Auriferous Ore in Halifax Co., (209)

Obituary :

Allan, Sir William, 8, (2S9)
Allen, Mr, Jeremiah M., (89) )
Chamberlain, Mr. Herbert, (549) )
Cory, Mr. Richard, (100) )
|Coulthard, Mr. William, (537) )
Courtier Dutton, Mr. W. T., 38 )
Crawford, Mr. Samuel, 9 )
Dallas, Mr. Robert, 622 )
Davenport, Mr. Russell Wheeler, 315 )
Firth, Mr. Geo. Henry, (299) )
Forbes, Mr. James Staats, 364 )
Frith, Mr. John (196) )
Fryer, Mr. Joseph, (600) )
Galloway, Mr. Charles John, 286 (with Portrait)
William Henderson|Henderson, Sir William]], 622 )
Edward HowardHoward, Mr. Edward, (315) )
Howell, Mr. J. B., (599) )
Hutton, Colonel Herbert, (599) )
Jones, Mr. Edwin, 213 )
Langley, Mr. A. A., (222) )
Le Neve Foster, Sir Clement, 419, (441) )
Lindsay, Col. Jas. Gavin, 8 )
McMillan, Mr. Walter G., 141 )
Mannlicher, Chevalier Ferdinand, (89) )
Marchant, Mr., 144 )
Mason, Mr. Richard, (221) )
May, Rear-Admiral H. J., 441 )
Meldrum, Mr. David, (137) )
Menneer, Mr. R. R., (537) )
Onions, Mr. J. C., (137) )
Pickard, Mr. Benjamin, 141 )
Richards, Mr. Wm., (473) )
Salt, Sir Thomas, (388) )
Sherley-Price, Mr. S., (437) )
Skinner, Mr. Sam, (147) )
Smiles, Mr. Sam, 413 )
Staniforth, Mr. G. W., (389) )
Stevenson, Mr. John, (401) )
Swift, Mr. Jas., (270) )
Train, Mr. Geo. Francis, 92 )
Turner, Mr. Edw. Rush, 182 )
Tyndall, Mr. George, 141 )
Walthew, Mr. James, (122) )
Wilkinson, Mr. Christopher N., (437), (450) )
Williams, Mr., (450)

ODESSA, Trade and Manufacture in, (341)
Oil, Californian Products of, for 1903, 1902, (137), (437); and Increasing Use of, as Fuel, (637) Fields of Baku, Wasteful Conditions in. Shown by Fire Losses, (437)
Fuel on Railways in the United States, (272) and Gasoline for Heating and Cooking, United States, Increased Use of, (389)
Heavy Kern, of California, Difficulty in Transporting, (437)
on the Island of Tcheleken, (537)
Pipe Line in California and Difficulties due to the Heaviness and Slow Travelling of Oil, (637)
Tank, Moving an, 323 Wells, Borneo, (437)
Omnibus Traffic, Growth of, in Spite of the Tube Railway, (191)
Onions, Mr. J. C,, (137)

Ordnance and Small Arms;

Armament of the Barfieur, (161)
Armament of Battleships and Cruisers, Improvements and Changes in, (161), 417
Bronze, 258
Guns, Device for Sponging out the Bores of. Navy Yard, Washington, (613) 18^-Pounder Quick-firing Field, R.F.A.
Batteries to be Armed with, (209) Explosion of an American, (402) Krnpp and Canet, under Trial for Portugal, (341)
The New 4m. Quick-firing, (315) The 7 ’5in. Naval, (315)
Ordnance and Small Arms {continued)
Ordered at Royal Gun Factory, Additional Hands taken on, (137)
Quick-firing, to be Adopted by the Admiralty, (415)
Quick-firing 5in. and 6in., Bethlehem Steel Company, (537)
United States, The Latest Types of, (287) New Landing, Austrian Navy, (637)
New, which is being Introduced into the Navy, (315)
Portuguese, (341)
Rifle, The New Springfield Magazine, for the United States Army, (437)
Rifle, Sight for the Lebel, Invented by Lieut. Martin, (341)
Syringing Apparatus, to Prevent Flare-backs, (513)
Tendency of Battleship Design, The, 577
United States Navy Department Regulations as to the Initial Velocity of Projectiles of 13in. Guns, (209)

OSMIUM Used as Substitute for Carbon, (365) Osmium Lamps, 284
Oxygen, Joseph Priestley, the Discoverer of, (161)
Oxygen from the Nitrogen of Air, M. G, Claude’s Apparatus for Separating, (235)
Ozone in Gases not Dissociated by Moderate Heat, Percentage of, 445

PAINTS Suited for Engineering Structures, 542
Palermo, Scheme to Stimulate the Industrial Development of, (191)
Palmer, Sir Charles Mark, Memorial Statue to, at Jarrow, (137), (147)
Paper Made from Bamboo, Process of Manufacture, (114)
Paris Sewage Farms, The, 640
Patents Acts, Australian Commonwealth, (561)
- Australian, 323
- Falling off in the Number of Applications for, (39)
- Laws, Unification of British and Colonial, 169
- Office, Examination for Assistant Examiners in the, (437)

Patents, Selected American:

Ammunition Shell, E. von Reichenau, 502
Back Gearing, S. C. Davidson, 224
Bells, Making, J. T. Duff, 502
Belts, Fastening Device for Driving, A. H. S. Sharpe, 378
Blue Burner, H. Hurwitz and A. Schapire, 576
Boiler, S. L. Marple, 354 Steam, J. A. Mumford, 502. F. J. Rowan, 526
Bolt, Flexible Stay, F. Berger, 198
Bunsen Burner for Incandescent Gas Lamps, H. W. Hellmann, 330
Caulking Tool, Pneumatic, Tynan and Mos- tiller, 502
Cement Process, H. Passow, 202
Centrifugal Apparatus, A. Liedbeck, 378
Centrifugal Fans, Supporting the Enclosing Cases of, S. C. Davidson, 126
Coke Oven Door Hoist, A. S. Mason, 602
Compressing and Charging Coal into Coke Ovens, J. Haug, 274
Compressor for Air, Sargent and Raymond, 176
Concrete Piles, Forming, F. Shuman, 502 Condenser, 0. H. Mueller, 650
Condensing Steam, H. A. Due, jun., 502 Connecting-rod, C. W. Hart, 250
Cooling Means for Explosive Engines, H. Nelson, 404
Corrugated Furnace Flues or Tubes, W. Rain- forth, 102
Electric Furnace, A. H. Cowles, 378 Generating System, W. A. Bole, 626 Railway Motor, R. Siegfried, 502 Railways, Third Rail for, L. G. Johnstone, 428
Engine Blowing, F. M. Riles, 274
Explosion, McMullen and Robinson, 650 ,
Explosive, Feeding and Ignition Device for, W. Remington, 354
Fluid Pressure, M. N. Forney, 78 Gas, Arnold and Kasley, 78 Gas, G. Westinghouse, 176 Rotary Explosive, A. McCahon, 274 Rotary Explosive, G. C. Blasdell, 102 Steam, J, Missong, 78
Traction, B. J. Diplock, 302
Fireproof Construction for Buildings, Lyon and Berle, 28
Friction Device, G. L. Harvey, 650
Furnaces, S. C. Davidson, 626
Furnace Straightener, Collapsed, J. Todd, 274 Gas-making, L. Mond, 150
Governor, Inertia, Howe and Gibbs, 150
Gun Carriage, Elevating, Traversing and Lighting Apparatus for, Dawson and Buckham, 126
Gun Carriage, Separable, Dawson and Buckham, 102
Guns, Recoil Check for, Meigs and Stout, 354
Gyroscopes for Steering Torpedoes, F. M. Leavitt, 28
Heat-radiating Device, J. H. Bullard, 502 Hoist, E. Y. Moore, 330
Hoist Equipment, G. W. Bollman, 602
Indicator, Steam Engine, C. B. Bosworth, 476 Injector, S. L, Kneuss, 378
Locomotives, Parallel Rod for, C. Houston, 150
Locomotive, Road, Fowler and Tuer, 126
Lubricator for Flaked Graphite, A. D. Howard, 274 ’
Machine Tools, Device for Intermittently Rotating Tables of, F. Komniek, 274
Meter, Fluid, A. S. Tuttle, 330
Motor Cycles, Accles, de Veulle and Starlev, 198
Motor-operated Hand Tool, A. W. Clark, 428 Motor Rotary Fluid, G. Westinghouse, jun,, 452
Nozzle for Impact Water Wheels, W. A. Doble, 452 ’
Ordnance, W. H, Bevans, 78
Patents, Selected (continued}:
Pivot Gun, J. Krome, 602
Sighting and Firing, H. W. Jones, 150
Pierced Ingots with Solid Ends, Process of Pro- I ducing, L. D. Davis, 404
Piston Rods, Cooling, T. Matson, 476 Steam Engine, J. Swan, 354 Valve, W. Schmidt, 378
Plug Motor Sparking or Igniting, J. S. Foley 354
Pneumatic Cleaning Apparatus, A. Lota, 102 Power Hammer, A. A. Koch, 452
Pump, C. C. Worthington, 102 Purifying Boiler Feed Water, J. Sault, 176 Relief Mechanism for Gearing, C. G. Tideman. 476
Spring Cushioning Device, C. P. Brynes, 126
Stay-bolts, Flexible, J. B. Tate, 502
Steam Generator, H. E. Penney, 404
Steam Generators, Tubulous, J. McKechnie, 126
Threshing Machines, E. W. Flagg, 126
Tool Metal Boring, Taykr and Newbold, 354 Trolley Poles, Apparatus for Controlling, Bogue and Jennings, 126
Turbine, E. J. Wood, 354
Buckets to Wheels, Means of Attaching, H. G. Reist, 198
Elastic Fluid, C. G. Curtis, 198, 302 Fluid Pressure, G. Westinghouse, 452
Multicellular, Rateau and Souttar, 354 Steam, G. Zahikjanz, 176
Valve, A. K. Mansfeld, 602
Adjusting Engine, E. S. Newton, 626 for Engines, Reversing, R. S. Furman, 126
Steam Engine, 0. W. Young, 404 Wheels of Metal Disc, J. Melaun, 602 Wheel Vehicle, P. A. Sanguinetti, 526

PATENTS and Trade Marks, Chinese, 520
Pearls Located in Pearl Oysters by Rontgen Rays,
Pearl Shell Trade Affected by the War, (221)
Peat, Manufacture of Spirit from, (537) Pelletan, M., and the French Navy, 317, 358
Pens, Reservoir Drawing, 373, 397, 422
Petrol Illuminant on the North-Eastern Railway, Experiments with a, (39)
Petroleum Briquettes, 119 Briquettes, Mr. Maestracci’s Process, (89)
in Canada, (60)
Coke Produced from, (287)
and its Use for Illuminating, Lubricating, and Fuel Purposes, Dr. Dvor- kovitz on, 604
Wells, Borneo, (437)
Phenological Observations for 1903, Mr. Mawley’s Report, (196)
Photographic Image, Reversal of the, 217 Photometer, M. Nisco’sNew, (5.i3)
Piano Factory, Broadwood’s, 145, 162, 166 Pickard, Mr. Benjamin, 141
Picric Acid Treated with Petrol, (463)
Pier of the Beckton Gasworks, No. 2 River, 445 Plane Surfaces in a Uniform Current of Air,
Resistance of, Mr. T. E. Stanton, 24
Platt Bros, and Co., Textile Machinery for the St. Louis Exhibition, 259
Portland Cement, Manufacture of, in Istria, (315) Portraits, Mr. Chas. John Galloway, 286
Postal Business of the United States, Magnitude of, (13)
Post-office London Directory for 1904, (71) Potato Growing in Germany, Use of Duty-free
Alcohol and its Effect on, (389)
Power, The Choice of, 139
Power Hammers and Recent Developments, 298 Practical Draughtsmen, 217
Premium System, Opposition to the, 591 Premium System in Government Dockyards, 238, 244
Preparation of Estimates— .sw Estimates Priestley, Joseph, Medallion Unveiled at Warrington to, (161)
Prize Firing in 1903 and Some Comments, 203
Protection and Free Trade:
European Syndicates and Tariffs, 566
Tariff Commission, The, 289, 293, 468, 598. 612, 648
Walsall Chamber of Commerce in Favour of Protection, (50)

PRUSSIAN Budget for 1904-5, Minister cf Finance’s Advice to German Manufacturers, (89)
Prussian State, New Official Regulations for Railway Bridges in the, 307
Provisional Orders, 1904, 436
Pump, An Automatic Gas, (488)
Automatic Receiver and, (327)
Air, 145
Air Lift, Mr, Philip Bjorling on, 172 for Forced Lubrication, 119 Slip in, Professor Goodman on, 322 Pumping Engine, American Sewage, 254, 255
Danville Waterworks, United States, 593
at Ravensfleet, 460, 461 Machinery, Mr. G. A. F. Ahlberg on, 591
Plant at Shanghai, Messrs. Manlove, Alliott and Co., (513j
Purification of Water by Shock, 643
Puzzler, A, 462, 521
Pyrometers, Report on, and Exhibition of, 459, 483
Quartz Glass, and How it is Made, (13)

RADIANT Heat as a Steam Maker, 343
Radio-active Gas Found in the Soil and Tapwater at Newhaven, Conn., (287)
Radium in America, from Carnolite, (114), (137), (587)
in the Buxton Springs, (463)
in Carnolite, Prof. A. H. Phillips on the Existence of, (13)
in Colorado, (114), (137), (587) Destructive Action of, on Vegetable Matter, (161)
Dr. Tracy’s Experiments with, (65) in Meteorology, Field of Usefulness for (437)
Radium in the Mineral Springs of Bath, (235) Radiation, Photographic Action of, Mr.
Skinner on, (114) _ . ..
Rays to be Capable of Penetrating Polished Granite, Experiments Show-
Bisel’roto Rdative to. Subsidised by the French Government, (39) *
Sir Oliver Lodge on, 35, 41 in Solid Bodies, M. Cane on the Disappearance of the Radio-activity induced by, (287)

Railway Matters:

(I) Rai(tca>/and Ti'anucan Accidents; liktish Canadian, Colontai, Indian, and Sotaii
(5) Railtian/s, Litjht; Railwa2/ RdUirnti Ni’ics VaviO('-'<, Rvitit^h and lo^ei()n. y) Way, (9) KaiUa.s, Ka/Zm,
Stock.

Railway and Tramway Accidents:

Act, Mr. Gerald Balfour with Reference to, A^iwlnd, New Zealand, Tramway, (175) Birmingham, New Lines Proposed, (otd) British, 1903, Official Return, (561) Board of Trade, Personal Accidents Reported to, (365) ,
Prevention of Accidents Rules, Alteration of Rule 8 (437) Reports on Recent, (262) Returns for Nine Months, (209)
British, Accidents to Workmen on, 290
Canadian Statistics, (191)
Chicago, March, (415) , . p
Dudley, Horses Killed through coming m C^m- tact with a Standard Connected with Tram-
D rnhanv!’-the-Hill, Caused by a Cow, (120) Great NOTtherl LLdonExpreis to Edinburgh, Narrow Escape, 424
Indian, Madras Line Damaged by Hoods, Lanchhire and Yorkshire Company’s Ei^prcss, between Wigan and Southport, (613)
Loohmill, near Linlithgow, Major Pringles Report on, the Signal-box being Used as a Place of General Resort and Amusement,
London and North-Western Dming-car Express, Attempted Dorailment of, (20S
London and North-Western, Landslip on, (13) Midland, between Wellingborough and Ket- tering, (191)
Narrow Escapes, (137), (424)
North-Eastern, Electrified Portion of, Death ot a Porter and Dog and lojary to a Workman through Contact with Live Rails, (old) Paignton and Churston, Snapping ot Couplwg- rod of the Engine, (235)
Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Locomotive, A Kan- Pa^k^^etSpoUtan, M. Felix RousseVs Report on. (315), (341); Trial to Begin in May, (U5) Plymouth and Torquay, Corridor Express, Narrow Escape of, (137)
Preston and Blackburn, Bill Thrown Out, (613) Russian, in 1902, (262) . q. ;fx__
Sheffield, E’ectrically-operated Point Shitter under Trial on, (613) , T-, •
Siberian, Derailment, when the Engine was being Driven by a Student, (13) South-Eastern and Chatham, Gomshall Station, Board of Trade’s Report, (437) .
Toddington Viaduct, on the Great Western Railway’s New Line, 69
United States, in November. 1903, (13) , De- | cember, (235); January, (287), February (389) ; April, (687) in the Last Twelve Months, (89); in Three Months ending Docamber 31st, 1904, (488) Orders to Engineers to Adhere to Schedule Time, Winter Accidents Due to Efforts to Make up Lost Timo, (137)

Railways, British, Canadian. Colonial, African and Australian

Canadian Paoitio. Daily Service between Montreal and Vancouver, (315)
Direct Line of Steamers between Antwerp and Canada Inaugurated by, (315)
Dividends for Half-year,
Extensions in Prospect, (262) Train Services on, (613) Trans-Continental, The, (270), (561) ' Cape to Cairo, Progress of, (287), (437) .
Cape Town to Victoria Falls on the Zambesi, CeylVn, Northern, Railway to Anuradhapra, , Eist^^and West Yorkshire Railway U'lioi Company, New Line (50)
Egypt, Berber-Saakin, (513), (608) Glasgow and South-Western, Half-yearly Grand'rrunk Paoiflo Scheme, (341), (637) j
Great Central, Half-years Accounts, (148),
New Line, Loughborough to , Burton-on-Trent, Presentation to Mr. R. Barrow, I (262), (599) I
Question of Low Zone Fares under Consideration, (191) ! Retirement of Mr, R. Barker, | (463)
Zone System of Booking, (463) and Great Western, New ' Railways, 531, 538, (599) Great Eastern, Accelerated Services for Summer Months, (161)
Fast Trains to Yarmouth ana Lowestoft, (587)
Motor Car Service on, (513) Service of Workmen’s Trains, (262)
Sleeping Car Service on the Danish State Railway, (561) Great Northern, Accounts for the Half-year, December, 1903, (158), (161)
Great Northern of Scotland, Half-yearlyReport, (262)
Motor Car Services, (262), (513)
Great Western,. Appointments of Mr. T. H, Rendell and Mr. J. Morris, (39), (613)
Dividends and Reports, (161), (196)
Electric Signalling on, (513) Fast Runs from Plymouth to Paddington, (389), (463) Initial Journey of the de Glehn Engine, (114) Marvellous Record Run, (463), 484, 507, (515), 582
Motor Car Service between Beaconsfield and Slough, (209); Helston and the L’zard, (463)
Motor Coach Service, 461 Record Run from Plymouth to London, (463), 582
Road Metal Siding, 634 and Great Central, New Railways, 531, 538
Harrow and Uxbridge, (559) Indian, Coal Transit on, (443)
East, Dislocation of the Schedule on, (561)
Midland, Half-year’s Report, (587) Mr. Robertson’s Report and Forthcoming Conference on, (89)
Nine Months’ Gross Receipts, (191) North-Eastern Lino of the Madras Railway, Damages Cause! by the Floods, (191)
North-Western. Extension Proj oct, Lodhian to Mailsi, (365)
North-Western, Late Running of Trains due to Age of Locomotives, (365)
North-Western, and Oudh and Rohil- kand, Proposed Central Sh^p at Lucknow, (315)
Peninsula, Great, Half-year’s Report, (587)
Railway Development in, 631 Simla-Kalka Railway, Estimate Exceeded, (191)
South, Total Revenue Earnines, (587) Steam Motor Car Service, (587)
Isle of Man, Purchase of the Manx Northern and Foxdale Railway Company’s Undertakings, (389)
Lancashire and Yorkshire, “All Electric” System of Operating Signals and Points, (114)
Dividend for Past Half-year, (114) ; (Steam Vessels), Bill Passed, ^(437)
Electric Equipment of Line between Liverpool and Southport, 9, (13)
Extension of its Steamboat Facilities, (4), (437)
London, Brighton and South Coast, Death of Mr. Staniforth, (389)
London, Brighton and South Coast Improvements, New Grosvenor Bridge, 584, 585
London, Chatham and Dover, Appointment of Sir Y.
Midland, Acquisition of the Donegal Railway and Larne Harbour, (287) Derby and Manchester Line, Ordinary Working Resumed, (315) Diamond Jubilee of the, 508 Dividends, Half-year’s, (161) Half-year’s Return of Working Stock, (209)
Train Mileage of, (209) Improvements from July 1st, 636, (637)
Mr. W. N. Bancroft’s Appointment, (114)
and North Ireland, 333 Twin-screw Turbine Steamer Antrim for the Cross-Channel Irish Traffic, 220, 315
West Riding Lines, Earthworks and Bridges of, (209)
Natal Government, Annual Reports, (513), (587); Total Revenue of, (561) ; Number of Wagons Placed on, (561)
New South Wales, Mileage Open for Traffic, (613); Revenue for the March Q larter, (463) New Zaaland, Mileage, Traffic, Cost, Receipts, &c., (161)
North-Eastern, Autocar Service Adapted to the Train Service, (65) Automatic Signalling, (389) Electrification of Tyneside Lines. (65)
Petrol Electric Coach, Mr. W. Worsdell, 420, 421
Petrol Illuminant on the, (39) Presentation to Mr, R. Wedgewood, (450)
Quick-acting Brake Trials, 269, 350
North Staffordshire, Mr. Tonman Mosley Succeeds Sir Thomas Salt, (437)
North Yorkshire Dales, (52), (65)
Scotland, Lochearnhead L’.no, Mr. W. Jackson on,(364)
South African,
South-Eastern,
South-Eastern and Chatham, Opening of the New Pier at Queenborough, (463); Sponge Cloth Laundry, Ashford, (420)
South-Western and Isle of Wight, Junction Scheme, (39)
Suakin-Atbara, (513), (608)
Taff Vale, Presentation to Mr. Beasley, (287), (300)
Uganda, Country Produce Carried on, (437)
Victorian, Satisfactory Financial Statement, (463)
Victorian, Comparative Results of their Working, (613); Returns for Ten Months, (587)
Wemyss Bay, Widening, Mr. R. W. Gairns on, (243)

Railways, Electric:

Alpine Railways, Electric Working of. The Austrian Government asks for Plans and Estimates, (513)
Alternating Current Traction System, United States, 246
Automatic Block System for, in the United States, 246
Berlin to Hamburg, Two Projects for Highspeed, (161)
Overhead and Underground, Extension to the Gfunewald, (259)
Traffic and Woiking Receipts, and Need of Better Management, (65), (463)
Brussels to Antwerp, (235)
Canada, Bruce Peebles and Co., Limited, Contract Accepted, 298
Central London, Dividend and Traffic (114) (262)
Total Receipts for Half-year, (137)
Chicago, Curious Underground Railway, 286
Coal Consumption of, (114)
Concrete Viaduct for the Utica and Mohawk Valley Line, 496
Fast Travelling on, Question of, Raised in the Reichstag, (137)
German, Marienfeld and Zossen. Rssult of Speed Trials, (65)
Great Northern and City Tube Railway, connecting Moorgate-street and Finsbury Paik,
Great Western, Electrification of Oswestry to Gobowen Line, (624)
Great Western, Projected Electrification of some of its Lines in the London District, (39) ’
High-speed Experiments, New York Central and Hudson River Railway Company, (191) Italian, Electrification of Certain Lines, (39) Italian, Mediteranean, (130) Liverpool-Southport, 9, (13). (262) 275, 280
Metropolitan, (39), 158. 183, 202, 253
Moscow Ring, (561)
New York Central, New Kind of Electric Locomotive to be Tested. (161)
New York Rapid Transit, 261 street Railway, Lines of Greater, Traffic Reaches the Thousand Million Record,
N^h-Eastern, Newcastle Suburban Lines
Recently Electrified, (97), 345, (352)
North and South Woolwich BUI, (340)
Paris Metropolitan, Traffic and Projected Ex- tensions, (88), (287), (341)
Pans, New Tube, Projected, (341)
Romo to Naples, (341)
Russian, Projected, to Yalta, (341) gectional System, United States, (509) Single-phase, Mr. W. A. Blanck on, 496 bwiss, Schwytz and Seewen, Three-phase, (39) Ihames, from North to South Woolwich,
Estimate for Railway under the, (191)
Torquay, The Dolter System, (287)
Tyneside Railway«», 315
United States, Mileage of, in certain Towns, (39)

Railways, Foreign:

Austiian, Bosruck Alpine Tunnel, 424
Belgian, (415); Mileage Belongiogto the State and to Private Companies, (235); Total Mileage of, (236); Total Expenditure, (235)
Bohemia, Teplitz and Klostergrab, (39)
Burma, Doubling of Two Sections of Line, (315) Chilian, Lima to Pisco, (97)
Chinese, Eistern, Rebuilding of, the Russian Government Asked for a Grant, (22) German-Shantung, (315) Hankow-Canton Line, (13), (537) Kao-pei-tien to the Western Tombs, (397)
Prance, Northern of, and the Great Eastern, Fast Service of Trains and Boats, London and Paris, 6j Hours, (231) Northern of, Report for 1903, (488) Orleans, Extensions and Doubling of Line, (587)
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Report for 1903, (488)
Southern of, Report for 1903, (561) Steel Gondola Cars on, (561) Western of, Report for 1903, (415) French Guinea, Completed to Kindia, (613) Indo-China, Hanoi to Vietry, (537) Puget and Teniers Line to be Extended to St. Andr^, (389)
West Africa, Hayes to the Niger Completed, (561)
German, Cameroons, Line to Lake Chad, (13) High-speed Steam Railway Service, (192)
Protectorate of Togoland, Railway from Lome to Palimo, (389)
Shantung, (315)
Grand Trunk Pacific, (637)
Greece, Pine us to the Turkish Frontier, (315), (415), (537)
Iceland, The First, (415)
Italian, Ronco Tunnel, Ventilation of, 132 Italo-Swiss Alpine Tunnels, 577
Japan, Extension of Internal Lines, (315) Mileage Open for Traffic, 1902, 1903 (172)
North-East Korean, (341)
Official Statistics c-f Mileage, Locomotive?, Rolling Stock, &c., (311) Korea, (341) Korea, Seoul-Fusan, (613) Malacca, (341) Mexican, Eastern of, (437)
Extensions, (161) Total Mileage, (389)
Nicaragua, (13), (415)
Porto Rico, (637)
Russian, 44
Coal Consumption on, (262)
Freights on Kerosene Must be Raised, (114)
Mileage, January 1st, 1904, (513), (637)
Moukden and Kharbine Line, Proposed Doubling in Less than Two Months, (537)
Samarkand and Tarmys, on the Russo- Afghan Frontier, Projected, (13) Siberian, Circum-BaikaJ, (537) Siberian, Trans-Baikal, Section of, (161). 326
South-West, Ereclion of Grain Elevators in Odessa, (191)
Trans-Mjnchurian, Mileage of, (341) T. ans-Siberian, Mileage of, (341)
T. ans-S.bar:an with Pekin, Connection cf, (287)
Saxozy and Bohemi», Line between Adorf and Rostb-ch, (39)
Southern Europo, 643
Swedish, Private Lines and State Lines, (287)
Sweliah Rxilway Contracts, Placing of the. (186), (203)
Swiss, The Albula, 226, 227, 229, 256-259, 309, 312, 313, 334, 342, 355, 363, 405, 406, 407, 416, 455, 456
St. Gothard, Ventilation of the Tunnel,
82
Simplon Tunnel, (513), 577, 643 Turkish, Konia-Eregli Line, (65) Union Pacific, Mileage Added. 19C3. (49) United States, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fv, Cane Belt Railway Purchased by the, (437)
Line to Eureka Begun, (561) Decrease of Traffic and Suspension of Men, (533), (561)
Erie Main Line, Proposed Change in its Course, (39)
Manhattan Island to Harlem, Tunnel Opened, (39)
New Mileage of Main Lines, 1903, (89)
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, Improvement of its Shore Line, (13)
Los Angeles and Salt Lake, (637) Pennsylvanian, Appointment of Mr. A. M. Bell, (315)
Decrease of Traffic and Suspension of Men, (533), (561)
Hudson River Tunnel, (287) Improvements and Expenditure in 1903, (89) ManganeseRails to be Tested on,(561)
Special Committee Appointed to Study Railway Transportation in England acd on the Continent, 114)
Misonry instead of Steel Bridges on the, (613) Terminal in New York City, Closing of Thirty-second Street Authorised, 24
Sb, Louis Railway Terminns, 410 Wabash, (474)

Railways, Light:

Aldershot and Farnborough, (463)
Board of Trade. Orders Confirmed bv. (651 (137), (161) (287), (389), (437), (513), (613) ’’
Board of Trade s Rule with Respect to Allowance of Expenses of Local Authorit’es, (26) • Additional Rile under the Act, (5371 ’
Colne, (13)
Dean Forest, Cinderford to Lydney, (161) Derbyshire, (218)
East Cheshire Syndicate, (209)
Electric Equipment of, Mr. J. M. Bell. (12) Essex, North, (587)
Gijon, (537)
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, (437) Hampshire and Manifold, (537), (549) Hope Station to Castleton, (161), (437)
India, The Ranagat-Krishnagar, (415)
Leek, Cauldon Low and Hartington Extension, (287)
Leek and Manifold, (437)
Nigeria, Northern, (137)
Malvern Wells and Maisemore, (572)
North Staffordshire, Hampshire and Manifold, (235) ’
Rating of, 143, (175)
Spain, (537)
Tanat Valley, Opening of, (65)
Wales, Lake Gwynant and Bettws-y-Coed. (161) Watford and District, (137)

Railways, Locomotives;

African Central, 518
American, 246, 319, (587), 592 Four-cylinder, 216
Wear and Tear of, 319 Large, 586
Atlantic, Prussian State Railways, 103 Australia, Locomotive Building in, 534 Axles, Distribution of Loads on, A. T. J. Kerssy, 260
Baldwin Works, Number of Locomotives Built, and Men Employed, 1903, (661)
Barclay, Son and Co.’s, (13)
Boiler Water Softening, United States, Atchison Railway, 216
British, Review of their Work in 1903, Chas. Rous-Marten, 80, 151, 199, 251, 303, 636
Carnegie Institution’s Grant to Professor Goss to Promote Research in Testing of, (137)
Centenary of the, 157, (217)
Chilian, (315)
Compound (Supple/ment, January 29^/i, 1904), 35, 90, 93, 103, 105, 107, 303,304. 315, 326, 347-360, 407, 417, 586, 587, 592, 643, 583, 643
Discussion on M. Sauvage’s Paper on, 407, 417
Express, for Chilian Railways, Contract for Fifteen Secured by the North British Locomotive Company, (315)
Four cylinder, Atlantic Type, New York Central Railway, 692
Goods, Saxony State Railway (Supplement, January 29^7?., 1904), 90, 93, 105, 107
Mallet Articulated Type, Schenectady Works, (587)
Midland Railway, 303
M. Sauvage at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Discussion Opened by M. Alfred de Glehn, 304, 325, 347, 350
in Service on the Seven Principal Railways of France, (35)
Crank Axles of, 394
Danish State, Gauging of Wheels and Relative Wear, (537)
Da Glehn Four-cylinder Compound, Paris- Orleans Railway, 564
De Glehn Four-cylinder Compound, Pennsylvania Railway, (389), (561)
Departments of American Railways, College Graduates in the, 648
Electric and Compressed Air, for Mines, Mr. B. S. Randolph on, 603
Experiments, Two Locomotive, Chas. Rous- Marten, 182
Express, Great Western, Mr. G. J. Churchward, by C. Rous-Marten, 292 London and North-Western, Mr. Geo. Whale, 362
Passenger, Atlantic Type, North- Eastern, 66, 72
Passenger, Great Northern (Supple, ment, January l.s’7, 1904), 10
Fire-boxes, Flexible Stay-bolt for, (488) Firing, 566
First, 157, (217)
Four-coupled Express, Great Central, Mr. J. G. Robinson, 583, 693
Four-cylinder Balanced Compound, by A. Von Borries, 103
Compound, De Glehn, Paris- Orleans Railway (Supplement, June 1904), 564
Pennsylvania Railway, (389), (561)
at the St. Louis Exhibition, 627 Fieuch (Supplement, June ^rd, 1904), 35, 103, 133,182, 228, 304, 325, 347-350, 389, 407, 417, (463), 484, 507, 515, 561, 564
French, of the Great-Western, by C. Rous- Marten, 133, 182, 228
Front Ends of, 67, 145
German, 103. 191, 237, 308, 323, (341), (365), 383
Compounds, (341)
Tested, on the Zossen Military Railway, (365)
Steam Locomotive, 237
Goods, with Large Firc-brx, New Jersey, Central, U.S.A., 398
Great Central, 469, 583, 593
Great Central, New Express, Mr. Charles Rous- Marten, 469
Great Northern {Supplemenf, January Ast, 1904). 10, 191 '
Great Northern, Forty-five New and More Powerful Placed on the Road in 1903, (191)
Great Western (Su-pplp^nents, March ll^'/z, A/a?/ 18</t), 133,182, 228, 231, 292, (463), 484, 492, 507, 515
Record Run on the, Charles Rous-Marten, (463), 481, 507, 615
Six-coupled Tank, Mr. G. J.
Churchward {Supplement, May l^th. 1904), 492
Heaviest in the World, Schenectady Works, (587)
High-Speed, 216, 308, 323, (463), 484, 507, 515, 545, 569, 586, 615, 643
Michael Reynolds, 216
Russian State Railways, 308, 323
Indian, East, Engines Condemned, (415) North-Western, Age of Locomotives, (265)
State Railways, Few Capable Men in the Locomotive Department, (209)
State Tenders Placed with Messrs.
Beyer and Peacock, (463)
Italian, Combustion Chambers in, 291 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 134
London and North-Western, (209), 362, (513)
Polyphemus, Belpaire Boiler and New Style of Cab,(513)
Three Dreadnought Compound, to be Withdrawn, (209) Midland Compound, 303
Montreal Locomotive Works, New, 146
Natal Government Railways, Standard Type of, io be Used on, (561)
New Type of, J. H. K. on, 444
New York Central, New Kind of Electric, to be Tested on, (161)
New York, Chicago and St, Louis, Five under Construction at the Brooks Works of the American Locomotive Company, (191)
Oblique Type, Crank Axles of, 394
Orders Secured by Messrs. R. Stephenson and Co., (99)
Passenger, Six Ordered by Cambrian Railway Company, (99)
Pennsylvanian, DaGlehn Locomotive Purchased by, (389), (561)
Petrol, Maudslay Motor Company, Limited, _ 297
Plea for the Single, 569
Prussian State Railways, New, Ordered for the Coming Year, 103, (191)
Radial Tank, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Mr. A. Hoy, 134
Resistance of Locomotive Engines, 407, 417, 491, (572). 642
Saxony State {Supplement, January 29zA, 1904).
90, 93, 106, 107
Side Rods, 264
Smoke-box Action, 395
Smoke-box, A Variable, 444
Standard Type of, to be Used on the Natal Government Railways, (561)
Stay-bolts, Breakage of in Bad Water Districfe. (35)
Stephenson’s, The Invicta, to be Presented to the London County Council by Sir David Salomons, (287)
Superheating, 211, 268, (341), (361)
Superheating, Easton, Courtney and Darbi- shire, 268
Sweden, Peat Fuel Used on the Government
Railway, (463)
Tank, Central South African Rxilways, The Vulcan Foundry Company, L^’mited, 518
Tank, Six, Ordered by the Rhymnsy Railway Company, (99)
Testing Plant, Swindon, 409
Tests of, at the St. Louis Exhibition, 96 Three-cylinder, 368, 397, 444, 545
Simple, John Riekie on, 444
Tank, Berlin Locomotive Company, 383
Twelve-wheeled Passenger, Union Pacific Railway, U.S.A., 563
United States, 398, (463), 563, 587, 592
Headlights of, (389)
for Korea, Ordered by Japan, (209)
Orders, 1903, 1904, (463)
U.S.A., Large American, 586
U.S.A., Numbers Built during the Last Twelve Years, (89)
Using Superheated Steam on German Railways, (341), (361)
Whale’s Valve Gear, Fitted with, 32, 33. 76
Works, Apprentices in, BaldwinWorks, U.S.A., 261
Works, New Jersey, The Rogers, The American Locomotive Company Secures Control of, (415)
Railway News, Various, British and Foreign:
Act, The Continuous Brake, Usual Half-yearly Returns, (137)
The Hours, (137)
Railway Accidents, (137)
Amalgamation of the Belfast and Northern Counties with the Midland of England, (400) American Syndicate and the Hankow-Canton Railway, (637)
Automatic Signalling, 160, No. I.; 177, No, II,, (339)
Automatic Signalling, North-Eastern Railway, (389)
Ballast-washing Machine, Chicago and Alton Railway, 218
Bancroft, Mr. Walter N., his Appointment, (114)
Bangkok, Tenders for Rolling Stock Called for, (209)
Barker, Mr. R., his Retirement, (463)
Bearings, Comparative Wear of, on Elevated Railway Cars and Street Surface Cars, (287)
Belgian Company, Construction of the Hankow- Canton Railway to be Entrusted to, (537)
Blair, Mr. A. G., United States, bis Appointment, (13)
Block System, United States, (218)
Railway News, Various, 'British and Foreign (continued) j
Board of Agriculture’s Correspondence with British Railway Companies, (488)
Boston Elevated, Money Expended on Clearing Tracks of Snow, (341)
Brake Trials, Quick-acting, 269, 350, 586
Brakes, Continuous, Use of, on British Railways, (137)
Bridge, New Grosvenor, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 584, 585
Bridges—see Bridges, Miscellaneous
Bridgnorth, Taking off of the Great Western Mail Train to Birmingham and London, Serious Inconvenience, (65)
British Railway Companies, Six Months’ Total Capital Outlay of the Twenty-seven Leading, (537)
British Railway Records, Recent, Mr. Charles Rous-Marten, 484
By-laws, Uniform System of. The Board of Trade Urged to bring about, (341)
Cambrian Railways Bill Passed, (488)
Canada, Half-rate Tickets for Clergymen Abolished, (235)
Canadian Pacific, Double Daily Train Service between Montreal and the Pacific, (613)
Cape Colony, Reduction of Railway Rates, Consequent Loss to, (365)
Ceylon, Narrow-gauge Railways for, Mr. Harrington to Advise the Government regarding, (235)
Chicago City Railway Company, Franchise Extension Granted to, (365)
Cincinnati Street Railway Company, Contract Price for Carrying Letter, Carriers to be Renewed, (415)
Crank Axles, Oblique Type, 394
Danish State Railways, German Coals Bought by, but will not Compete with English, (613)
Davis, Mr, H. W., his Appointment, (99) Depression, British and American, (587) '
Duplex Valve Gear, Whale’s, 32, 33, 76
Eist Coast Route between England and Scotland, Revision of the Express Train Service on, (97)
Egyptian Railway Administration, Projected Expenditure on New Works and Materials, (415)
Egyptian State, Traffic, Receipts, Expenditure, (389)
Electric Signalling on the Great Western, (513) Electrical Power, Railways and, 69
Engine Driver Fined for being Drunk. (513)
European Russia and Poland, Men Discharged during Last Four Months, (637)
Express Services of Trains to the Riviera, South- Eastern and Chatham Railway, (137)
Fast Run over the Michigan Central, (513)
Fast Run, Great Western, (463), 484, 507 i Fog Signalling, 490 !
France, Western of, Welsh Small Coal used on, (613)
French, Cost of, to the State, Departments and Companies’ Working Expenses, Receipts, &c., (637)
Grand Trunk Pacific Contract, Modifications of, (235)
Great Central Express from London Acceleration, (235)
Great Central, New System of Signalling to be Introduced,(65)
Great Western, Record Run between Plymouth and London, (463), 484, 507
Hull, Barnsley, and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company’s Accounts for Half Vear, (137)
Hungarian Railway Strike, (437)
Indian Government Orders Given for Materials for Indian State Railways, and Percentage given to German Firms, (235) Government, Purchase of the Madras Railway by, (235)
Secretary of State’s Option to Purchase Bombay and Baroda Railway, (235) ‘
Railway Contracts, (209)
Railway Revenue for Eleven Months, (365)
International Conference of Railway Representatives at Konigsberg, (561)
International Railway Congress, Arrangements for, (637)
Italo-Swiss Alpine Tunnels, 577
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Steam Vessels) Bill, (437)
London, Brighton and South Coast and Western of Prance, Through Carriages between Dieppe and Paris, (209)
London County Council’s Work in the Matter of Workmen’s Trams, (209)
London and Manchester, Accelerated Service, (389)
London and North-Western, Accelerated Service between London and Manchester, (463), 484
London and North-Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire, Joint Conference of the Directors, (114)
London and South-Western, Windsor Station to be called Windsor and Eton, (114)
Loree, Mr, U. S., His Appointment, (13)
Los Angeles Pacific Railway Company, Telephone and Telegraph System to be Constructed by,(315)
McLaren, Sir Charles, His Appointment, (463) Mellor, Colonel, J. J., His Resignation, (463) Midland Railway Coal Contracts, (604) Midland Railway Company, Its Omnibus Bill, Estimates Deposited, (235)
Model of a New Kind of Railway, on View in Kilmarnock, (605)
Mono-rail System, Mr. F. B. Behr’s Address on his, London Chamber of Commerce, (415)
Morris, Mr. J., His Appointment, Great Western, (39)
Mosley, Mr. Tonman, His Appointment, (437)
Motor Car Services on the Great North of Scotland and Great Eastern, (513)
Motor Car Service, Great Western, (209), (389)
Naphtha as Fuel for Locomotives, Question under Discussion in Russia, (13)
Natal Government Railways Annual Reports, (513)
Newhaven and Dieppe Route, Improvements
Made, (513)
New South Wales, Mileage Open for Traffic, (613)
New South Wales Returns, (646)
New Yoik, Greater, Thousand Million Record Traffic, (587)
New York Rapid Transit Commission, Subway Extension, (537)
New Zealand Midland, Viaduct Bridges, Contract given to Cleveland Bridge and Eagi- neering Company, (65)
North-Eastern Railway, Petrol Electric Coach on the, 420, 421
North-Eastern, Rates of Wages to be paid to the Motor-men, (401)
North of England and Hastings, Through and Direct Service, (114)
Oil, Texas, for Fuel on the Santa F^ Railway. (272)
Pennsylvania, Pension Department, (235) Pension Department, The Pennsylvania, (235) Pneumatic Sanding Device for Electric Cars, (315)
Prussian Railway Ministry, Projected Experiments with a View to Running Express Trains from Frankfort to Hamburg, (89)
Railway Club, History of the Metropolitan and District Railways, Mr. A. H. Woodhurst on the, (517); Midland Scotch Service, Mr. ft. E. Charlewood on, 414: Working Tables, Rev. W. Scott, (641)
Railways and Electrical Power, 69
Railway Enterprise in Southern Europe, 589 Return Tickets Available for Six Months on English Railways, (209)
Royal Agricultural Society, Reduced Fares for the Members of the, (537)
Russian, Effect of the War on the Traffic, (637) Russian Trans-Siberian Railway and Russian Lines in Manchuria, Total Distance from S*. Petersburg to Port Arthur by, (488)
Seoul-Fusan Railway, Services of Trains on. (613)
Siberian Railway Staff Ordered to Debar Practising Students from Engine Driving, (13)
Signal Manufacturers, United States, Consolidation of Two of the Leading, (437)
Signalling, Mr. A. C. Rogerson on, (114) Alternating Current for, 595 Electric, Lancashire and Yorkshire, (114)
Simplon Tunnel, Work on the, (65) Smoke-box Action, 395, 444
South-Eastern and Chatham, Sponge Cloth Laundry, Ashford, 420
Suburban Passenger Traffic 12, 47, 61, 97. 118. 119,168,189,217
Sykes’ Electric Block and Interlocking System on Burmese Railways, (561)
Toddington Viaduct, Collapse of, on the Great Western, 69
Thermit Weld Used for Repairing the Frame of a Locomotive on the Pennsylvanian Railway, (415)
Train Service between American Cities, 350 Tunnel, Bosruck Alpine, 424
under the Chicago River, Lowering of the, (365)
Italo-Swiss Alpine, 577
Mont Blanc, (89)
Giovi, Ventilation of, 132
Mont Cenis, Ventilation of, 133 Pennsylvania Railway, (76) Praochia, Ventilation of, (108) Ronco, Ventilation of, 132 The St. Gothard, Ventilation of, 82 Simplon, (65)
Ventilation of some Continental, 58, 82, 108, 132,133
United Kingdom, Railway Returns for 1903 Compared with 1901 and 1902, (488)
United Kingdom, Traffic Returns of Thirty- ttree of the Principal Lines for Week Ending June 1st, (637)
United States, Numbers of Persons in the Employment of, (646)
Valves, High-speed Reducing, Record of their Application to the Westinghouse Brake on Passenger Equipment, (235)
Ventilation of some Continental Tunnels, 58. 82, 108, 132
Weiohbridges, Messrs, H. Pooley and Son, Limited, 95
West Hartlepool Station, Alterations and Extensions, (463)
Westinghouse Brake, Record of the Application of High-speed Reducing Valves to, (235)
Whale’s Duplex Valve Gear, 32, 33, 76 Wilkinson, Mr. Christopher N., his Death, (437)
Workmen’s Trains, the London County Council’s Work, (209)
Zone System of Railway Tickets, Caledonian Railway Company, (437)

Railways, Permanent Way:

American, with Steel Longitudinals, 593 Association of Manufacturers of Light Steel Rails, Ring Formed in the United States to be Called, (137)
Belgian Exports of, to British Markets, (161). (209), (235), (271)
Boston Elevated, Experiments with Manganese, (262)
Creeping of the Left-hand Rail, Mr. O’Busse’s Theory Respecting, (365)
Creeping of Rails, 590
Derby, Belgian Contract for, (169). (209) : Cancelling of, (235)
Early Permanent Way at South Kensington. 292, 323
Hydraulic Machine for Twisting and Straightening Rails, Crewe Works, 596
Leather Railway Ties, (89)
Manchester Corporation Tramways, Weight and Sections of, (^5)
Manganese Rails to be Tested on the Pennsylvanian, (561)
Midland Company’s Latest Type of Permanent Way, (613)
Norwegian State Railways Invite Tenders for. (13)
Shipped for India from Cardiff, (124)
Steel for Holland, Tenders Invited, (389) Nova Scotia, (365) the Pennsylvanian Railway, (39) the United States, Contract Awarded to C. Campbell and Co., Limited, (191)
Rail Plant, The Dominion Steel Company of Sydney, Nova Scotia, (315) Timber for Sleepers in America, 12 United States, Annual Consumption of Sleepers, (637)

Railways, Rolling Stock:

Armoured Train to Convey General Kuropatkin to the Seat of War, (315)
Bangkok Railway Department Calls for Tenders for, (209)
British, Imported into Bilbao, (488)
Coal Wagons for Central South African Railways, Leeds Forge Company, Limited, 046
Coal Wagons, Self-emptying, Featherstone Main Colliery, 340
Great Western, Wagons of a New Type, (191) High-speed, 566
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Liverpool and Southport Line, Trial Trip of New Carriages on, (13)
London and South-Western, 15-Ton Wagons, (437)
Metropolitan, to Carry Six Passengers a Side, (415)
Midland Railway’s New Sleeping Cars, (13) Midland, Steel Wagons of a Novel Pattern, (316)
Natal Government Railways, Tonnage of Capacity Wagons placed on the, (513), (561) North-Eastern, New Sleeping Cars for, (262) North-Eastern, Petrol Electric Coach on, 420, 421
Rhodesia Railway, Agent’s Carriage, 431, 443 ; Medical Officer’s Carriage, 332; Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works, Limited, 333
South-Eastern Railway Double-bogie Coach, Mr. H. S. Wainwright, 546, 547
Steel Axles on the Pennsylvania Railway, 646 Tires Used on Danish Railways, (341) United States Freight Cars Ordered 1904,1903, (463)
United States Output, 1903, (114) Weighbridges, Messrs. H. Pooley and Son, Limited, 95

RAIYAN Project, Cope Whitehouse on the, 568 Ratchet Brace, Silent, 243
Rating of Machinery, The, 306, 328
Rating of Tramways and Light Railways, Mr. W. G. Bond on, 143
Redwood, Californian, Its Use for Water Pipes and Building Purposes, (89)
Refractory Material, Mr. E. L. Reade on, (473) Refrigerating Machinery for the Magazines in Battleships, (161)
Refrigerating Work, Mr. Lorenz, (587)
Refuse Destructor of the Horsfall Pattern, West Hartlepool, (463)
Refuse Destructor, Wolverhampton, (449) Lopairs, 41
Research Visit to the National Physical Laboratory, 318
Resistance of Plane Surfaces in a Uniform Current of Air, T. E. Stanton, 21
Richards, Mr. William, (473)
Road Communication in European Russia. A Pressing Need, (60)
Improvements in New York State, (114) Locomotive, Colonial Compound, R. Garrett and Sons, Limited, 23 Metal, Handling of, 634
Roads for New York State, Sum Appropriated for, (561)
Rontgen Rays, Pearls Located in Pearl Oysters by, (463)
Rope Driving, Lectures on, (598)

Royal Agricultural Society:

Implement Stands, Regrettable Reduction in the Number, (561)
Milk-drying Machine, Mr. Jas. R. Hatmaker, ' 632
Oil Engine, Thos. Glover and Co,, 632 Prize Sheet for Ensuing Show, (65) Show Opens June 218t, Implement Stands and Entries for, Silver Medals for New Implements, (543)
Steam Tractor, Messrs. F. C. Southwell and Co., 632
Swath Turner, Messrs. Sergeant and Co., 632 ROYAL Commission on Coal Supplies, 323 London Traffic, (513) Sewage Disposal, 60, 345, 393
Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, 500

Royal Institution :

Annual Meeting and Election of Officers, 457 Calorimetry, Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dewar. 345
Carnegie, Dr. Andrew, and Dr. Prank McLean, Their Donations Acknowledged, (596) Elevator Attached to a Stone Breaker, Mr, H. R. Marsden, 633
Lectures Arranged for January, (43) May and June Lectures, (524) Members, Election of, (291)
Monthly Meetings, General, (144), 400, 500, 596 Morticing Machine, Hand Power, Phythian Engineering Company, Limited, 633
Tractors, Light, with Petrol Engines, 632, 633

Royal Meteorological Society;

Afternoon Meeting, Capfc. D. W. Barker in the Chair: Effects of a Lightning Stroke at Earl’s Fee, by Rev. C. F. Box, (624)
Autumn Mists, The Cause of, Mr. J. B. Cohen (441)
India, Variation of the Population Compared with the Variation of Rainfall in the Decen- nium 1891-1901, Mr. W> L. Dallas, 441
Royal School of Mines, Annual Dinner, (272)

Royal Society:

Conversaziones, 518, 633

ROYLES, Limited, Automatic Receiver and Pump, (327)
Rule, Slide, Mr. H. M. Baines, 346
Russo-Japanese Naval Actions, The, 242

SAGGERS to be Used in Bacteriological Filters, (65)
St, Helena, Accounts of Gas and Electricity Undertakings at, (587)
St, Louis, Engineering Characteristics of, 410, 442
Salt Briquettes. Hungary, (365)
Economic importance of, and Production, (365)
Salt SirThos., (388)
Sand Mixer, The Hall, 186
Sand Tests made at the Westport School of Mines, New Zealand, (13)
Sanitary Engineering in 1903, 5
Saniter, Mr. E. H., Presentation to, (624)
Santiago, Drainage System and Improved Street Pavement for, (114)
Saturday Half-holiday in France, The, (13)
Saw Bench, Portable Engine and, A. Ransome and Co., 170
Saw, Cold Iron Sawing by Band, 283
Schiele Power Hammer, 521
Scholarships to be Offered by the Indian Government, (191)
Science, Indefinite, 61
Scientific Definition, 490, 521, 545
Screw Propulsion, The Problem of, by Arthur Rigg, 380, 405
Screw Threads, Standard, 344, 346
Screws, Standardisation of, 392
Sea Coast of the United Kingdom, Changes in the, 12
Secret Commissions, 462, 493, 520
Seeley, Prof., Geological Excursions to be Conducted by,(365)
Sewage Disposal, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Use of Saggers, (65)
Royal Commission on, 60, 345, 393
at York, Pumping and, Mr. A. D. Creer on, (108)
Farms, Paris, 610
Problems of New York, (637) Pumping Engine for Chicago, 254, 255 Purification Plant, U.S.A., Aerobic Filter, 398
Testing Apparatus, Mr. W. D. Scott- Moncrieff, 167
Works, Buxton, (549)
Droitwich Town Council, (549) Glasgow, New, 562
Leyburn, (463)
Sewers in Paris, Size of, and Men Employed in, (613)
Sewing Machines Imported into Turkey, (437) Sheffield Trade and Foreign Competition, 169

Shipbuilding:, British, Naval and Mercantile:

Armstrong, Whitworth and (99), (114), (137), (147)
British and American, 296
Brown, John, and Co., Limited, Annual Report, (623)
Bulkheads, Longitudinal, Mr. F. H. Alexander, 424
Clyde, during 1903, (13); Feb., 1904, (235); Four Months, April, (474); May, 1901, and 1903, 466, (573)
Cunarders Ordered from John Brown and Co., (209), and Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson,(463)
English: Jan., 1902, 1903, (161); Feb., (262); May, (613)
Gyroscopic Effect of Fly-wheels on Board Ship, Herr Otto Schlick, 336, 346
Iron Masts, 445
Lloyd’s Register Shipbuilding Returns, (114), (402), (415)
Mercantile Tonnage in the United Kingdom, 1903, Output of, (114)
Model Experiments, Some Results of, R. E. Froude, 471
North-east Coast Output, 1903, 1902, (13) Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, (500) Scotch : Jan., 1902, 1903, (161); Feb., (262):
May, (613) ’
Screw Propulsion, The Problem of, by Arthur Rigg, 380
Steel, Vessels Built of. United Kingdom Last Year, (114)
Sunderland, (173)
Tonnage of Steamers Produced, and Removed from the Register in the Past Year, (39)
Vessels Built of Steel, Percentage of the, Launched in the United Kingdom Last Year, (114)
Vessels under Construction, End of December, 1903, September, 1903, September, 1901, (114)
Total Output of the United Kingdom for 1903 (114)
Turbine Steamers Launched in the United Kingdom, 1903—H.M.S. Eden, H.M.S. Amethyst, Yacht Lorena, Channel Steamers Queen and Brighton, (114)
Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Battleship for Japan, (99), (114), (137), (147), (173); Submarines of the Holland Type, (262)
Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Work in Progress for Home and Japan, (549)
Warships under Construction in the United Kingdom on December 31st last in Private and Royal Yards, (114)
Warships to be Laid Down, Armament of the New, 493
Wear Shipyards, Three-quarter Time in, (13)

Shipbuilding: Foreign, Naval, and Mercantile:

American, (161), (209), 296, (315)—abo United States
American, British and, 296
American Lakes, Shipyards, Orders on Hand Last Year and This, (137)
American Shipbuilding Company, Cleveland Yard, Launch of the Umbria, (191)
Belgian Yards, Gross Tonnage of Ten Steamers Built and Launched from, (119)
French Government, New Vessels to be Laid Down by the, (637)
German State Examination for Diploma for Naval Architecture or Engineering, (561)
German Turbine Steamers, (137)
Hamburg-America S.S. Line, Big Twin-screw Passenger Boat, 710ft. long, Ordered bv (488)
Italy, “ Battle of the Boilers” in, 10
Russian Yards, The New, (13)
Shipbuilding: Foreign, Naval, and Mercantile {continued)*.
United States, (161), (209)-5fe also American May 1st, 1904, Vessels under
Construction, (537)
Lorain, Ohio, Steel Steamship, 560ft. long, for the Great Lakes, Built at, (488)
Navy, Cost of Fitting the Ships now Building with Submerged Torpedo Tubes, (619)
Steel Full-rigged Training Ships Cumberland and Intrepid, (613)

Shipping Accidents, British and Foreign:

Breakdowns in the Navy, 47, 63, 117, 146, 190, 194, 217
Chinese Cruiser Hai-tien Aground, 441
Danish Battleship Tver Huitfeldt Destroyed by Fire, 70
French Cruiser Cassard, 337
French Cruiser Gambetta, 337
Gun Explosion on the United States Battleship Missouri, (402), 439, (463)
Haulbowline Dockyard Tug Thistle in Queenstown Harbour, Sinking of the, (587)
Petropavlosk, Destruction of the, 392 Ruperra Collision, The, 92
Submarine “Al,” 318, 337, 364
Traveller, The Special Service Vessel, Prospect of her being Salved, (13)
United States Battleship Iowa, (262)
Wallaroo, Boiler Explosion on the, (45)

Shipping News, Various, British :

Analyses of Steamship Trials, Robert Mansel, 243
Archer Homeward Bound, 10
Armament of Battleships and Cruisers, (161)
Armament of Ships of the Devonshire and the Black Prince Class, 393
Basilisk (Composite Sloop) to be Commissioned for Service in Testing Apparatus for Coaling at Sea, (389)
Bsllerophon and Temeraire, Alteration of, into
Training Ships, (365), 413
Boiler Committees, Work of both, 337 British Shipping at Havre, 1903, (613)
British Ships Entering Port of Philadelphia, 1903, and Conclusions therefrom, (537)
Chatham Dockyard, Sale of Eight Ships formerly in the Royal Navy, (389)
Coal Dust Firing, Experiments with, (393) Coaling of the Leviathan at Singapore and the
Narcissus at Portsmouth, 337
at Sea, Experiments with the Gunboat
Basilisk, 493
Testing Apparatus for, (389) Cost of Maintaining First-class Battleship, (488) Cross-Channel Traffic on March 31st, (365) Sec also Dockyard Notes
Dredgers, Steam, in Use in the Baltic Sea for Digging Amber, (561)
Durifiex Packing, Efficiency of Messrs. D. Moseley and Sons’, (99)
Hankow, Carrying Trade to. Progressing as regards the United Kingdom only, (488)
Hydrographer of the Admiralty, his Report on the Work Done in 1903, (537)
See Institution of Naval Architects, Papsrs Read at, 309, 310, 311, 335, 346, 350, 361, 367, 372
Karrakatta to be Fitted with Water-tube Boilers, 10
Knots per Hour, 64, 97, 118
Lloyd’s Register, Addition of Steam and Sailing Tonnage during 1903 to, (235)
Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping for 1903, Percentage of Tonnage Built for the United Kingdom and for Foreign Countries, (235)
Marine Salvage and Wreck Raising, 532
Motor Boat Races in Prance, 384, 390
Motor Boat Trials, 492
Naval Estimates, Debate on the, 393
Navy Estimates for 1904-5, 213, 237 ; Engine room Artificers, 283 ; Vessels to be Repaired and Refitted, 283
Oil Fuel, Crude, Use of on the s.s. Nebraskan : The Work of Twelve Stokers Done by Three Furnaceman, (537)
Prize Firing in the Fleet during 1903, (315)
Record Run made by a Steamer, the Engines of which were Packed with Duriflex Packing, (99)
Refrigerating Machinery for Battleships, Experiments with, (161)
Screw Propulsion, The Problem of, by Arthur Rigg, 380
Steam Turbine for Steamships, 217 Steamship Progress in 1903, 6
Service to Portugal from Swansea, (573) ’
Service between Westminster and Greenwich, (578)
Trials, Analyses of, Robert Mansel on the, 243
Submarine Depot at Haslar Creek, 493
Subsidies given by H.M. Government to Shipping Companies, (341)
Suffolk Speed-taking by Log Discussed, 10 Superheating on Steamships, 311
Thames s.s. Service between Greenwich and Westminster, (578)
Thamess.s. Service, L.C.C., (437)
Tonnage of Vessels Entered at Ports in the (191U4S^(61^
T.mnago of Vessels. Number and Net Registered, which Entered and Cleared to and from Port of London, 1903, (578)
Training of Engine-room Artificers for tbA Royal Navy, (365), 413
Vessels on the Register of the United Kingdom, December, 1903, (235) ®

Shipping News, Various, Foreign:

Alexandria, Increase in Shipping in 1902. (2351 American Navy Estimates, 228
Vessels Entering Port of 1903, 1902, (56), (365), (437)
Belgian Government, Turbine Steamer Ordered for the Dover and Ostend Service, (613) Brazilian Navy Re-organisation Bill, (609) See also Dockyard Notes '
Emden, Tonnage Visiting Port of, 1903, 1902,
French Channel Fleet, Its Composition for the Summer, 393, 445, 493 Navy, Additions to the, (637) Navy, The, and M. Pelletan’s Account of his Stewardship, 317, 358 Northern Squadron, The, 493
German Navy, Increase in the Tonnage, of daring 1903, (613)
Officers and Ships of, (613)
Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamers to Run to Australia by the Cape Route, (537)
Hamburg-American Line and the Administration of Prussian Railways, Agreement between, which will Shorten the Journey between Berlin and London, (613)
Italian Navy, Titles in the, (537)
Japanese and Russian Fleets, The, 156, 242 Motor Yacht Race, 261
Reduction of Third-class Fares from London and Liverpool to the United States, (537)
Rotterdam, Tonnage Visiting Port of, 1903, 1902,(65)
Russian Battleships and Cruisers to be Fitted with Spencer-Miller Apparatus, (561)
Russian Steamship Line from Black Sea to the United States Given up, (65)
Russo-Japanese Naval Actions, The, 184, 242 Submarines, Admiral von Tirpitz on, (513) Toronto, Shipping Returns, (191)
United States Navy Department, New, Model Automobile Whitehead Torpedo to be Tried by, (389)
Enlisted force of the, (389) Estimates, 228
Increase Authorised,(209)

Ships: Battleships, British:

Albion, Prize Firing on, (315)
Barfleur, (161)
Belleisle, Ultimate Fate, (65)
Bellerophon Transformed into a Training Ship, 333, 412, (445)
Benbow, Prize Firing on, (315)
Cajsar, 45
Exmouth, 393, 467, 493
Goliath, Prize Firing on, (315)
Hercules, 337
Hindustan, 7, 10, (623)
Illustrious, 45
King Edward to be Fitted with Stern Submerged Tubes, and to Carry Oil Fuel, 144
Magnificent, 45, 622
Majestic, 45 ; Prize Firing on, (316)
New Zealand Launched, 10
Prince George, Prize Firing of, (144)
Prince of Wales, Official Gun Mounting Trials, (161); to Replace the Exmouth, (393)
Queen, to be Commissioned, (144); Trials Postponed Owing to Defects Discovered, (161)
Revenge, 467, 493
Swiftsnre (*’.'? Constitucion), 10, 92; Sir E. J. Reed on, 310, 350, 370
Temeraire Transformed into a Training Ship, 333, 412, (445)
Tendency of Battleship Design, The, 577
Three Laid Down at the Dockyards, Machinery for, (114), (144)
Triumph («.r Liber tad), 10, 92. 491 ; Sir E. J. Reed on, 310, 350

Ships: Battleships, Foreign:

Austrian, Erzherzog Karl {Sirpitlt'wnii, Javyar;i22n(ly 1904), 98, (436)
Danish, Iver Huitfelot, 70 (.xerman, Alteration in Construction of, (65)
Italian, The Rumoured Ideal, (144) Japanese, Kashima, (493)
Katori, (493)
Mikasa, (493)
Two New Battleships for, to be Built by Vickers, SODS and Maxim, and Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co.. (99). (114), (137), (144), (147), 366
Russian, Kniaz Potemkin Tavritchesky, (541)
Peresviet, (493)
Pobieda, (493)
Retvisan, in the Far East, 217, 493
Tsarevitch, 217, (493)
United States, Idaho, 261
Kentucky, (537) Mississippi, 261 Missouri, Gun Explosion, (402), 439
Virginia, (437) Three New, their Dimensions, (415)

Ships: Cruisers, British:

Antrim, (623)
Argyle, 265, 296 Berwick, Bursting of a Boiler Tube, (364) Black Prince, (493), (509)
Canada, (599)
Charybdis, Prize Firing on, (315) Coastguard, The New Steam, to take the Place of the Sailing, (365)
Cornwall, (39), (341), (365), (509) Devonshire, (462), (509)
Diamond, (65)
Drake, 10, (365), (420) Duke of Edinburgh, (493), 622 Encounter, Use Found for the, 441 Essex, (39), (365)
Euryalus (89)
Flora, Prize Firing on, (315) Good Hope, Prize Firing on, (315)' High Flyer, (622)
Lancaster, (262), (509) Medea, (287), 457, 465
Medusa, (151), (365), 467 Roxburgh, Rear-Admiral Wilson at the Launch of, (89), 94
St. George, (509)
Sapphire. 286, 316, 321
Suffolk ,10

Ships: Cruisers, Foreign:

French, Cassard Aground, 337 Gambetta, Disaster to, 337, (509'i Jeanne d’Arc, 337 Jules Michelet, (509) Penan, 493
^417’ Defective Ventilation of the, (287)
Victor Hugo, 393, 493 The Latest, (144)
A New One to be Laid Down at L Orient, (513)
Garman, Ersatz Merkur, (144) Hamburg, 70, (144) Lubeck, (311) Prinz Friedrich Karl, 70 Small Turbine, (137) Japanese, Asama, (493^ Iwate, 184
Kasuga (e;r Argentine), 70 i Nisshin (e.v Argentine), 70 Yoshino, (541)
Russian, Bayan, at Port Arthur, 217 493 Gromoboi, (493) ’
Noyik at Port Arthur, 217, 493 TT •* J 217, 466, 493
United States, California, (463)
Denver, (437)

Torpedo Destroyers, Gunboats, Scouts, Submapines: British:

Torpedo-boat Destroyer Bittern, Lieut. R. F. Harrold Sued by Mr. James Piper, (209) ’
Eden Pitted with Parsons’ Turbines (114) ; Speed Trials of, (364) Erne, (209), 345 Exe, (364) Ribble, Launch , 0^(315) i
Success, (622) i
Turbine - propelled, Yarrow and Co., Limited, 372, 374 ,
Waveney, (637) n 1 X . Welland, (415) '
Gunboat Basilisk, Coaling at Sea Experiments, 493
Widgeon, Yarrow and Co.. Limited, (415), 534
Scout Sentinel, (351), Skirmisher, (599)
Sloop Buzzird, Drill Ship for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. (488) Cadmus, 270
Submarine A Class said to have Done 14 Knots, 10 Experiments mouth, (587) Holland Type,
Motor Boats, Petrol, 639
Royal Mail Liners, The Parana and the Conway, (474)
Steamer, 12,000 - Ton Pour-masted, Launched from Clyde Bank without a Name, Sold to the Cunard Company, (65)
Training Ship Exmouth, Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, (351)
Turbine Steamers, Cunard Company, (209), 614, 622, (623)
Turbine Steamer Londonderry, for the Irish Channel, First, William Denny and Brothers, 220, 315, (463)
Steamer, Twin-screw, Antrim, for the Cross-Channel Irish Traffic, 220, (315), 359, 559, (623)
Turret Deck Steamer, Messrs. Wm. Doxford and Sons, (624)
Yacht (Steam), Nirvana, David and Wm. Henderson and Co., Limited, 232, 236, 333

Ships: Mercantile, Passenger, and Various. Foreign:

American, Cargo Steamer Umbria Launched, (191)
Belgian, Dover-Ostend Service, Three New Turbine Mail Packets for, (287), (415)
German, Turbine Passenger Steamer, (137)
Motor Boat Races in France, 384, 390 North German Lloyd Steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm II., Records Established by, (415). (637)
Turkish Yacht Erthogroal, Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 71 United States Mercantile Marine, Tonnage Added in 1902- 1903 to the, (637) Mississippi River Steamer, 442
Motor Boat Owners, Licensing of Engineers and Pilots, (287)
Nebraskan, Use of Crude Od Fuel on, (537)
Ohio, Steel Steamship for the Great Lakes, 560ft. Long, (488)

SIBERIAN Gold Dredger, Messrs. Lobnitz and Co., 542, 513
Side-slip Trials— see Motor Cars and other Vehicles Signal System, Submarine, Prof, Gray and Mr. J. Munday, (161)
Silencer for Gas Engines—see Engines, Gas Silica by Hydrogen, Reduction of, (513) Silicon upon Water, M. H. Moissan and F. | Siemens on the Action of, (463) i
Silicon in Zinc and Lead, M. H. Moissan on the i Solubility of, (341)
Silk Weaving in Lyons, Electric Distribution Scheme for the, (389)
Skylight Construction, 593 Slag, The Use of, 640
Slide Rule, A New, Mr. H. M. Baines, 346
Slide Rule, A Cheap, Mr. A. G. Thornton, (604) Slip in Pumps, Prof. Goodman on, 322 Slipway on the Neva, (561)
Small-arms, Rifle Approved in 1903, Whore it is being Made, (287)
Smiles, Mr. Sam, 413
Smoke Abatement, Sir John Ure Primrose on, (112)
Smoke Abatement Society, The Coal, (315) Smokeless Powder Cloth, (513)
Smyrna, German and Belgian Trade Competes Favourably with British in, (587)
Soaring Plane, The, 544

Society of Arts:

Arrangements of Meetings before Easter, 1904. (215)
Rating of Tramway and Light Railway Undertakings, Mr. W. G. Bond, 143

Society, Boilermakers’ and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’:

Annual Report, (415)

Society of Chemical Industries (Yorkshire Section):

Heat-insulating Media, Note on the Relative Efficiency of Steam Pipe Coverings, S. H. Davies, 547

Society of Civil Engineers, American:

Declines Joining the other Three Engineering Associations in Accepting Mr. Carnegie’s Offer, (315)

Society, Coal Smoke Abatement:

Meeting at Stafford House, Appointment of Smoke Inspectors, (315)

Society, Coventry Engineering:

Steel, High-speed Tool, Mr. J. M. Gledhill, 266

Society of Electro-Chemists, German:

Alloys of Lead and Tin, Dr. Sackur, 583 Annual Meeting at Bonn, (364), 535: Papers Read, 583
Metallic Calcium by Electrolysis of its Fused Salts, New Method of Preparing, Dr. Rathenau, 583
Metals, The Passive State of the, Dr. Muller. 583
“Phase Rule” Applied to Mixtures of Iron and Carbon, Prof. Roozeboom, 583
Phase Rule and Holotropy, Prof. Ostwald, 583 Ruthenburg Electric Concentrating Process for Iron Ores, Dr, Goldschmidt, 583
Slags from Furnace Processes and Operations, Composition, Production, and Utilisation of, Prof, Mathesius, 583
Steel, The Hardening of inits Physico-Chemical Aspects, Prof. Heyn, 583

Society of Engineers, Amalgamated:

Fifty-third Annual Report, Mr. Geo. N. Barnes, 545
Local Reports of the Organising District Delegates and Mr. G. N. Barnes’ Reports, (400)
Monthly Report, Unsatisfactory Condition of the Engineering Trade, (74)

Society of Engineers:

Visit to Portland Cement Works, (631)
Society, Faraday;
Alloys of Copper and Arsenic, Mr. Arthur J. Hiorns, 445
Cell, Experiments with a New Primary, Mr. E. G. P, Bousfield, 445
Electrolysis Thin Film, and a Proposed Application to Printing, Mr. C. R. Darling, 373
Electrolytic Analysis of Gold, Dr. F. M. Perkin and Mr. W. C, Prebble, 373
Ozone Formed in Electrolytic Reactions, Determining Percentage of, Mr. E. G. P. Bousfield, 445
Viscosity, Studies in, Dr. C. E. Fawsitfc, 512
Society, German Ironmasters*;
Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Year of its Existence, 446
Society, Glasgow Philosophical:
Forthcoming Lectures, (376)
Word Royal” to be Prefixed to its Title, (376)
Society, Glasgow University Engineering :
Excursion to Germany, Tickets, Programme, 558
Steam Turbines for Marine and Land Purposes, Mr. A. A. Wynne, 145
Society, Liverpool Engineering:
Fuel Economy from the Chemical Point of View. J. B. C. Kershaw, 171
Society, Manchester Geological and Mining:
Coal Cutting by Electricity, Mr. A, J. Tonffe, (74). . ’
Electrical Machinery for Pumping, Ventilating, Winding, and Haulage and Coal Cutting, Mr. Maurice Georgi, (270)
Society of Mechanical Engineers, American :
Designs for New Machine Tools, Mr. John E. Sweet, 49
Society, Meteorological:
Phenological Observations for 1903, Mr. Mawley’s Report on, (196)

Society, Physical:

Presidential Address by Dr. Glazebrook, 219 Dilatometer, Mr. B. Bonnikeen, 272 Measurement of Small Inductances and Capacities, Prof. Fleming on, (365)
Microscopic Vision, Theories of, The President on,(167)
Pump, Automatic Gas, Mr. C. E. S. Phillips, (4.88) . ’
Radium Radiation, Photographic Action of, Mr. S. Skinner on, (114)

Society, Steam Engine Makers:

Annual Report, 399
Society, Students’ Engineering and Metallurgical:
Carburisation of Iron, Mr. T. Swinden, (99)
Society, Yorkshire College Engineering, Leeds:
Electric Motors and the Driving of Machinery’ Mr. T. Harding Churton, (190)
Engines, Rotary, Mr. C. G. Petree, (144)
Smoke Nuisance in Calcutta, Mr. Fred. Grover on the, (144)

SPEED Limits, 440
Spelter in Europe, Increase in Production of,
Spirit from Peat, Manufacture of, (537)
Sponge Cloth Laundry, Ashford, 420
Springs, Coiled, 462
Springs, Spiral, the Largest Ever Made in the United States, (463) Steam Maker, Radiant Heat as a, 343
Pipe Coverings, 517, 547, 569
Pipe Coverings, S. H. Davies, 547
Superheated, 42, 118, 283
Turbine Discs, 97 Turbines at Sea, 367
Turbo Generating Plant, 12, 46, 47, 64 Very High Pressure, 68

Steel;

Action of Terrestrial Magnetism upon a Tube of Nickel, (537)
American Production of Bessemer, 441
Belgian Trade Returns, (161)
Castings, Open-hearth, Amount Annually Produced in Scotland and the Cleveland District, (365)
Process for Preventing Formation of Blowholes in, (235)
Strength of, at Ordinary and Higher Temperatures, 385
Chrome-Nickel, Superficial Hardness Acquired by being Tempered, (161)
Convention, An International, 418
Corporation, The United States, 496 Ferro-Silicon, Change in the Requirements of in the Rhenish-Westphalian Works, (359)
German Production, 1903, (365)
Heat and, 116
Heat Treatment of. Sixth Report of the
Alloys Research Committee, 84, 85, 204, 284 High-speed, Disadvantages of, (65)
Tool, Mr. J, Gledhill on, 263, 266 ’
Tools, 230
Turning, Mr. John Miley on, (146)
Ideal, 391
Ingots, New Method for Increasing the Density “ Invar” (Alloy of Nickel and Iron), (537)
Iron and, in the United States, 115
Large Massas, Production and Thermal Treatment of Steel in, Mr. Cosmo Jones, 458 Lectures on, by Mr. A, H. Hiorns, (472) Manchaster High-speed Tests, 142, 450 Midlands Firm Decides to Produce its own instead of Importing it from Germany, (89)
Mossend Works, Re-opening of, (13)
Motion of Gases in Pipes, and Use of Gauges to Determine the Delivery, Mr. Richard Threlfall, 204
Paving Streets with, (232)
Pickling of Structural, in the United States, (463)
Piates, the Largest Ever Made in America. (137)
Rails, Exportation from Germany, Marked Decline in, (561)
Rapid Cutting Tool, 493, 520
Research, 91
Rod Rolling Record, Pittsburg Steel Companv (137)
Russian Iron and Steel Industry and the War 414 ’
Ship Plates, Advance in the Prices of, (235) Styrian, Mr. R. B. Hodgson on, (270), 283 Syndicate, Belgian, 516 Syndicates in Germany, 68. 188, (365). (513) Tests, High-speed, 142, 450
Thermal Treatment of, in Large Masses Production and, 545, 569, 586
Tools, High-speed, 230
Tools, Notes on Tests of Rapld-cuttino'. C. Pendlebury, 331 ®
Trades, British and German Iron and, 166 Trade, United States, 265 Trade, Welsh, Serious Condition of, (13) Trust, The, 43 ; Mr. H. Frick to be Managinv Head of, (39) ?’
Trust, Gorman, Reduction in the Export
Bounty on Hilf-finished Steel, (513)
U.S. Steel Corporation’s Plants. Total Pxoduct Returns for Feb. and Jan., 1904, (315) Vanadium in, Hardening Effect of, (463) Water Tank at Milwaukee, The Largest Ever
Built for a Private Concern, (637)
Works, Erection of New, by Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., (194) Sheffield, Hadfield, 414
Springvale, Improvements Carried Out by Sir Alfred Hickman, (623)

STEPHENSON and Co., Limited, Messrs. Robert, Additional Capital Subscribed for, (222)
Stephenson, Robert, Tablet t? be Placed on his House in Gloucester-square, (637)
Stockport Town Council, Bills against winch it Decides to Petition Parliament, (65)
Stokers, Mechanical, Failure of, in India, 10 Stone-working Machinery, Messrs. Brunton and Trier, 592
Strawboard Factories in the United States (637)
Street Lighting, Results of J. W. Bradley’s. Tests on the Lamps Employed in, (341)
Strength of Fiat Surfaces, 590
Sugar Machinery, British and American, 6i6
Sugar Plant for British West Indies, 134
Sulphur, Ignition Points of Molten, M. Moissan on,(13)
Sulphur Recovery Process, A New, 10
Sulphuric Acid, Russia’s Consumption of, ( i87)
Sunderland Municipal Technical College, Sir William Allan Scholarship at, (299)
Superheat, 118, 169
Superheated Steam, 283 Superheaters, Hick, Hargreaves and Co., 594
Superheating on Steamships, 311

Supplements:

January Bridge,’ Budapest, The Elizabeth Suspension. April 29th, 1904 '
Electrical Mining Machinery (sixteen-page) June 24th, 1904
Locomotive Compound Goods, Saxony State Railways, January 29th, 1904
Engine Details, Great Western Railway, Mr. G. J. Churchward, Supplements, March Uth. Mav 13th, 1904
Express Passenger, Great Northern Railway, January 1st, 1904
Four-coupled Express, Great Central, Mr. J. G, Robinson, June 10th, 1904
Four-cylinder Compound, Paris Orleans Railway, Soci^t^ Alsa- cienne de Constructions Mecaniques, June 3rd, 1904
Proell" Valve Gear, Compound Horizontal I Engine, Easton and Bessemer, Limited. February 19th, 1904
: Water-distiller for Suakin, 350 Tons Sextuple- Effet, Mirrlees Watson Company, Limited. March 4th, 1904

SURREY Roads and Traction Engines of the War Department, (209)

Survey of India, Railway Maps, and Tidal Observations, (191)
Swath Turner, Sergeant’s, 632
Sweden, Forest Land in, and Laws for the Better Preservation of, (315)
Swift, Mr. James, (270)
Syndicates and Tariffs, European, 566

TACHY-TACHEOMETER, Mr. A, F. the,603
Talc in California, Novel Attempt to (365)
Tapping Machine, Water Main, Mr. Talbot, 371, (587)
Tariff Commission, 289. 293, 468, 598, 612, 648
and the Iron and Steel Trades, 289, 293
and the Engineering and rp J o X Machinery Trades, 468
Tariffs and Syndicates, European, 566
Technical Civil Service Appointments, 422
Technolexicon of the Society of German Engineers; 186

Telegraphy:

Berlin Type - printing Telegraph Central Station, 8
Mileage of Ocean Cables, (191)
Simultaneous Telephoning and Telegraphing, 385
Telegraph Directory, (521)
Telegraphic Addresses, (300) Underground, (87)
Wave Detector, A Novel, Mr. W. Schloe- milch’s, 8
Wireless, up the Amazon, (209)
England and the Channel Islands, (256)
France, (311). (587)
Goodwin Sands Lightships to Dover, (65)
from Moving Trains, Professor Biscan’s Experiments at Teplitz, (120)
Novel Species of (Scientific Notes from Germany), Herr A. Rohmer, 8

Telephony:

Canada, Active Development of, (161) German Federal System, Total Capital Cosf of, (561)
High Frequency Currents Produced by Means of the Telephone, (398)
Liverpool and Paris, (398) London Telephone Exchange, New, (598) Rubber Telephone, (437)
Siemens and Halske’s Rubber Telephone, (437) Simultaneous Telegraphing and Telephoning, 385
United States Statistics, (637)

TEMPERATURE, Underground, especially in Coal Mines, Professor H. Hoefer on, 603
How it Affects the Percolation of a Liquid through a Porous Solid, (613) for the Year, Mean, (587)
Testing Machine, A Large, Messrs. Joshua Buckton and Co., Limited, 110
Textile Industry of Russia, (114)
Textile Machinery, Lancashire, for the St, Louis
Exhibition, 259

Tenders:

Birmingham, Tame and Rea District Drainage, Tenders Accepted by, (98)
Norwegian State Railways Invites, for Steel Permanent Way, (13)
Secretary of State for India Invites, for Steam Motor Carriage for Use on an Indian Railway, (437)

THAMES, Conference on the Periodical Storm Flooding, (114)
Conservancy, The, 634 Conservancy Board, Bills to be Petitioned Against, (161)
Deep Water Jetties in the, 190 Theatres in New York, Open Courts to ba Provided Round, (637)
Thermal Units, British, (687) Thermit, 169
Thermal Storage, 509, 516, (536), 586, 617
Thorianite, (365)
Thorium, Complex Nature of, (389) Threshers, English, Rivalled by American, (262) Timber, Fire-proofing Process for, 496
for Sleepers in America, Supply of, 12 Used in Engineering Structures, Mr. Jas. R. Baterden, (488)
Tin Buckets Made in Bilbao District, (482) Tin-plates no longer Imported into Odessa, (311)
Tin-plate Milla at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, New, (341)
Tin-plates, Exports of, 112
Tin, Recovery of, from Tin-plate Scrap in Germany, by the Stannate Process, (13)

Trade:

American, with Turkey, Improved by a Direct Line and Cheapened Freights, (463)
Board of Trade’s Official Returns for 1903, (65)
Commissioner, Mr. Ben. Morgan and the, 517 Dalny and Port Arthur, Consular Report of their Trade, (561)
Denmark, Report on the Trade and Shipping of, (137)
Egyptian, 61
German Machinery Export Trade, Increase in, (537)
Germany, Consular Report on, (188) Germany, Total Foreign Trade of, (492) Hankow, British Merchants’ Rivals, Now many in, (488)
Marks in Japan, W. Silver Hall on, 283
Newchang, Net Value of the Trade of, 1902 and 1903, (587)
New York from the United Kingdom, Decrease in the Imports into, (561)
Official Records of our Imports and Exports of Iron and Steel, 298
Our Export, 297
Sheffield, and Foreign Competition, 169
Swansea Chamber of Commerce, Annual Report of the Year’s, (137)
Switzerland, Absence of the British Commercial Traveller in, Great Demand for Finished Goods in, (499)
Tariff Commission and the Iron and Steel, 289, 293

Trade and Business Announcements:

26, 52, 76,100,124, 149, 172, 196, 248, 272, 300, 329, 353, 376, 426, 450, 475, 500, 524, 550, 674, 648

TRADE Publications, (222) Union Law, 116, 440
United States, 1903, Foreign - office Report on the Trade and Commerce, 1903, (537), (587)
Traffic in London, Statistics of, Mr. E. J. Harper on, (287), (315)
Train, Geo. Francis, 92

Tramways, Electric and other:

Association, Tramways and Light Railways Meeting Postponed, (463)
American Pneumatic Sanding Device for Electric Cars, (315)
Aston, Alterations at the Witton-lane Depot, (98)
Australian, Interference by Overhead Systems with Telephone Lines, (39)
Barrow, (173)
Bath, (65) Belfast and Co. Down, (488) .
Berlin’s, and Fares Charged and Extensions Demanded, (13)
Birmingham, (389), (498)
Birmingham and Cottndge, New Lines Projected, (449), (599), (623)
Blackburn, Estimated Loss on, (488) Board of Trade Returns, (235)
Bolton Corporation, Tests of Life-guards on their Cars, (13)
Bradford, Gross Receipts, (365)
Bristol, (513)
Camborne and Redruth, (39)
Canary Islands, (488)
Chester, (437)
Chicago, Municipal Ownership Favoured, (389) ? Crewe, (389)
Dresden, Tramcar Deriving Power from Accumulators, (488)
Dudley Road and Snow Hill, Loan Applied for, (89)
Farnworth, (437) France, Mileage of, (637)
Gloucester, (463)
King’s Norton, (647)
Kingsway Shallow Underground, (209) Lancashire, South, Doubling of Lines, (389) Leeds, (513), (561)
Leicester Corporation, Electric Rails for, (550) Life-guards on Tramway Cars, Testing of, (13) Lincoln, (191)
Lisbon, (637)
Liverpool Cars, The, (365); Steel-tired Wheels of, (389); Speed of, (389); Electrical Energy Used during 1903, (389)
Liverpool Corporation, Traffic and Receipts, 1903, (89)
London County Council, Blackfriars, Westminster Bridge, and Streatham, (637)
Receipts per Car Mile of, (209)
Southern Lines, Electrification of, (89), 98
Bystem, Extension of the, (537)
Tramway Horses, Sale of, (262)
London, South, on the Conduit System, Electric Reconstruction of, A. Millar on the, 98 ; Fares on, (488)
United, Extensions over Kingston and Hampton Court Bridges, (287)
New Line, (365); Successful Appeal against the Assessment of their Lines by the Brentford Union, (385) Manchester Corporation, (235) ; Contribution to the City Rates, (262)
Manchester to Liverpool, rM Bolton, (561) Mandalay, (209)
Newport Extension, (76)
Plough Life-guard, The Efficacy of the, (389) Portobello and Musselburgh, (488)
Preston and Blackburn, (287)
Preston and Blackburn Bill, (44) Provisional Orders, 1904, 436 Rating of, 143, (175)
Salford, (498)
Salford, Manchester, Service Interrupted owing to Fire at the Power Station, (89) Scarborough, (485)
Seville, (488)
Sheffield District, Extensions in the, (51) Torquay, Electrolysis Clause to be Inserted in the Bill, (161)
Torquay, Opposed, (415)
Tottenham Court-road, Sb. Pancras M.P.’s Against the Bill, (191)
Tramways, Electric and other (continued);
United Kingdom Progress, Mileage of Line in Service, Increase in 1903, (235)
United Kingdom System Municipally Owned, Worked by Companies, Capital Expenditure, Receipts, Traffic, (235)
United States, Fort Wayne, Springfield and Decatur Line, Single-phase System, (287)
Valencia, (494)
Wolverhampton, (437)
Yarmouth, (513)
Yorkshire, West Riding, Proposed Extensions, (191)

TRANSVAAL Kromdraai Conglomerates, Mr. A. R. Sawyer on, 604
Trusts in the United States, 290
Tunnel under the Elbe, Projected, (488)
- Hudson River, (287)
- Scheme, Revival of the Channel, (488)
- Ventilation of Some Continental, 58, 82, 108, 132
- at Woolwich, Proposed Footway, Thames, 635, (637)
Turbine Combination, American-German, 140
- Steam Developments, 443
- Steam Discs, 34, 97, 481, 520, 544
- Discs, Steam, Professor Maurice F. Fitzgerald, 481, 544; Frank Foster, 520
- Dynamic and Commercial Economy in, R. H.Smith, 540, 578, 586, 608
- Propulsion, Steam, The Grashof Medal
- Conferred on the Pioneers of, Mr. Parsons and M. de Laval, (587)
- Pump, The Worthington, St. Louis Exhibition, 618
- Brigade, 617; F. Foster, 520, 569; J. A. S. 568; R. H. Smith, 643
- for Marine and Land Purposes. 146
- Most Suitable for Low Falls, Forms of, Alphonse Steiger on, 219
- Rateau Steam, 361, 372, (402)
- Steam, 361, 372, (402), 496, 537, 553
- Electric Light Plant, Boston, Edison Electric Illuminating Company, (591)
- in the United States Navy, The First, (537)
- Ventilating Machinery for Colliery, Messrs. C. A. Parsons and Co., (573)
Steamer for Irish Channel, The First, 220
Steamers — see also Ships, Sub-index
Terry Steam, The, 496
The Zoelly Steam, 563

Steam-Turbo Generating Plant, 12, 46, 47, 64
Turkey, Asiatic, Demand for Knitting Machines, (437)
Turkey, Machinery in Demand in, (437)
Turner, Mr. Edw. Rush, 182
Turning, Modern, 261
Tyndall, Mr. George, 141
Type-composing and Distributing Machines, The Pulsometer Company’s, 446

UNITED States Census Bureau, (600)
United States Treasury Note, Dimensions and Strength of, (191)
University College, Past and Present Dinner. (248)
Uraninite, (365)
Uranium in Pitchblende, Occurrence of, (262)
Utilitarian Research, 616

VALVE, New Deadweight Safety, 636
Vehicles, Regulations as to Weight, Use, and Construction, (89)
Ventilation of the House of Commons, (262)
Ventilation of some Continental Tunnels. 58 82 108, 132
Viscosity, Studies in, Dr. C. E. Fawsitt on, 512
“ Vivaxo ” Water Gauge, W. H. Bailey and Co., 473
Voting Machine, United States Patent, (613)

WAR Material, 21
Ward, Mr. William, Presentation to, (624)
Water Distilling Plant for Egypt, 230 231
- Gauges, W. H. Bailey and Co , (473)
- Main Tapping Machine, 320, 371
- Power Available from Rivers on the North Slopes of the Alps, (39)
- Power Project, Louisville, (39)
- Purification by Shock, 643
- Softening, 23, 48, 72, 190, 217
- Softeners, Inquiry into the Working of Various Mr. C E. Stromeyer and Mr. W. H. Baron, 23, 48, 72

Water Supply:

American Methods, Improvements in, 593
Barcelona, Water Tower for, 641
Birmingham, Elan Valley, Annual Report, (537), (561), (599)
Blackpool, 587
Bradford, Mr. James Watson’s Salary to be Increased,(613)
Calcutta, Elevated Reservoir at Tallah, (537)
Derwent Valley Waterworks, The, 393
Discovered near Etaples in France, and Further Investigations Projected in the Ardennes, (463)
Edinburgh, from the Talla, (235)
Egypt, Accounts of the Nile Reservoir, (389)
Flow of Water over Teddington Weir Daily, February Return. (389)
High Peak Water Storage Scheme, (39)
High-pressure Fire Protection, Chicago, 509
In 1903, 20
Lambeth Water Company’s Claim, New Reservoirs said to be Cracking, (89)
Liverpool, New Storage Reservoir Opened, (365)
London, Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company’s Business, Figures Relating to the,(114)
London Water Companies’ Undertakings, Value of, and Awards made by the Arbitrators, (209)
Lynton, New Polarite System of Waterworks Opened, (561)
Manchester, Estimates of Cost of Proposed New Works, (39)
Metropolitan, The London County Council’s Report, (13)
- Dr. Thorpe’s Report, (65)
- Question of Appointment of a Chief Engineer, (513)
- Report of Examiner Appointed under the Metropolis Water Act, (65)
- Report for December, 1903, (191), March, (509), January, 1904, (262), February, (389)
- Street Mileage Containing Water-pipes Constantly Charged, (262)
- Water Board, Debenture Stocks to be Transferred to the Board, (415)
Midland Counties, Derwent Valley Reservoirs, (437)
Milford, U.S.A., Armoured Concrete Water Tower, 548
Milwaukee, W. Allis’ Works, Large Steel Tank under Construction, (637)
Newport Waterworks, The, 560, (574)
New South Wales, Artesian Supply, (89)
Provisional Orders, 1904, 436
Pumping Engine, Danville, United States, 593 Rangoon, (89)
Retrospect, 20
St. Louis, Waterworks at, 477
Softening of Water, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer and Mr. W. B. Baron, 23, 48, 72
Somali Campaign, (47)
Springfield, Mass., (415)
United States, Hibbing, Minn., (613)
- New York Aqueduct, Tests to Ascertain the Slip of the Pumps, (415)
- New York City, and Consumption per Head, (39)
- New York, Meters Advocated, Frost a Difficulty, (637)
- West Philadelphia, Consumption and Supply, (89)
Water Main Tapping Machine, 320, 371
Waterworks Extensions at Gainsborough, 324

WATFORD’S Dust Destructor, (415)
Watt, James, Memorial to, (157)
Weston, Mr. William, and Dockyard Chemistry, 134
Wheatley Kirk, Price and Co. Return Thanks for Sympathy on Occasion of Mr. S. Sherley-Price’s Death, (437)
Whitelead Combination, German, (606)
Winding Engine Problems - see Engines
- Gear, Safety, Mr. T. C. Futer’s, 604
- Prevention of Accidents in, Mr. J. H. Merivale on, 604
Wind Pressure, 567
Wire Rope Haulage, Speed of, (537)
Wire Rope Made by the Ancients, (608)
Witton Ammunition Works, The, 493
Wolverhampton Refuse Destructor, 449
Wood Pulp Pollution of Streams, United States Geological Survey, 635
Worcester Drainage Scheme, (513)
Workmen’s Compensation Act, Five Years of the, 485

YORKSHIRE Coalowners and the Swedish State Railway Contracts, (208)
Yorkshire Miners, The, (641)
Zinc Mining in North Wales, 38
- Soft, Method of Producing. (365)
- Treated with Aluminium, (513)

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