The Engineer 1887 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

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ABSTRACTS of Consular and Diplomatic Reports, 2, 23, 70, 98, 108, 147, 167, 188, 208, 225, 250, •278, 284, 304, 329, 352, 367, 397, 405, 428, 452, 468, 488, 514, 533

Accidents on Indian Railways, 386

Accidents on Tramways, 193, 213

Accumulator, An Efficient, 212

Acton and Ealing Sewage Works and Ealing New

Storage Reservoir, 339

Acton Sewerage Works, The, 227

Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 393

Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition, 395

Admiralty Coefficients, On, Mr. Robert Mansel, 510

Aerostation and Aeronautics, 196, 440

Agra Waterworks, The Proposed, 220

Agricultural Engineers’ Association, 497

Air Pump for use in the Laboratories of Works, A Simple, 14

Air Brakes in the United States, 197

Aluminium Company, The, 2

America, Locomotive Cylinder Practice in, 83

American Cities, Growth of, 21

American Engineering News, 36,115,162,200, 240, 279, 318, 360, 398, 429, 482, 526

American Engineering News, Construction of Hydraulic Dock at San Francisco, 80

American Ironclad, 107

American Locomotives in Australia, 153, 173

American Notes, 21, 39, 61, 83, 101, 121, 143, 223, 242, 281, 301, 321, 343, 401, 443, 465, 485, 528

American Shipbuilding, 156

American Stuffing-box Packings, 290, 292

American War-ships, 79

Anchor, Cast Steel, Mr. Hall. 296

Anchor Tests, 348

Anchors, Cast Steel, 310, 328

Anchors, Stockless, Wasteneys Smith’s, 171

Ardrossan, New Docks at, 36

Armour and Projectiles, 357

Armstrong, Lord, 24

Army Tools, 314

Asbestos Theatre Curtains, Terry’s Theatre, 430

Ashbury Railway Carriage Works, The, 247

“Asiatic Express,” The, 271

Association for the Advancement of Science, The American :—

The Pyromagnetic Dynamo, by Mr. Thos. A. Edison, 231

Association, The Agricultural Engineers’, 471, 497

Association, The City and Guilds of London Finsbury Technical College Old Students’, 368

Association of Engineers, The Manchester :— Electric Lighting from Central Stations, Mr. J.

R. Williamson on, 501

Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London, 61, 474

Heat and Work, Mr. W. T. Coates, 474

Jottings on Hydraulic Lifts, Mr. Suggate, 240 The Native Army in India, Mr. Haggis, 61 Propelling Ships by Sail and Paddle, Mr. Hitt, 474

Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lamp, The, Mr. Heath, 318

Association, the Geologists’, Excursion to Sheppey 71

Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, The :—

Visit to Luton Sewage Works, 420

A thus Iron and Steelworks, 205, 214

Atkinson’s Cycle Gas Engine, 536, 537

Austrian Consul on British and German Merchants, 363

Autographometer, The, 96

Automatic Cut-off Valve Gear of Steam Engines, 348

Automatic Gas Machine, The, 508, 509

Automatic Shops, 335

Axle Boxes, 287

BALLOON Ascent, Professor Mendelief’s, 212

Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Broken Bridge, 54

Band Saws, 495, 518

Barcelona, Proposed Canal at, 39

Barrow Engine, The, 376

Basic Open Hearth Process, Mr. J. Wailes on the, 258 ’

Basic Slag, The Origin, Composition, and Use of 146

Basic Steel, Present Position of, as a Material for Shipbuilding, 96

Basic Steel, Recent Experiments with, 96

Beaumaris Sewerage Works, 126

Belgian Coal Industry in 1886, 498

Belt Guides and. Belt Stretchers, Cobbett’s, 513

Belted Cruisers, 419

Bend Trueing Machine, 238

Benier’s Hot Air Engine, 366, 372

Benzine Barrels, Empty, as Dangerous as Full

Ones, 340

Berlin Screw Industry, The, 74

Birmingham Cable Railway, The, 126

Birmingham and Gloucester Ship Canal, The, 131 Blakey,-Emmott Dynamo, The, 409 .

Blast Pipe, Messrs. Appleby and Robinson, Waterford and Limerick Railway, 14

Blast Pipes, 11

Blooming or Cogging Mill, Mr. Jeremiah Head ,269 Blowers, Experiments and Experience with, 499 Boats, Self-righting, 87 W

Boiler Cleaner, Feed-water Heater, and Purifier,

The Crockford, 388

Boiler, The Essex Vertical, 469

Boiler Feeders, Automatic, 273

Boiler Registry, 363

Boiler Registry and Inspection Bill, 212

Boilers and Engines of the German Mail Steamers, 516

Boilers, Furnace, 213, 233

Boilers, High-pressure Marine, 4, 29

Boilers, Pattison’s, 533

Boilers, s.s. “Elbe,” General Arrangement of, 522

Boilers, Torpedo Boat, 29

Boilers, Water Tube, 294, 338, 356, 419

Bolton Strike, The, 375

Bolton Strike, Close of the, 374

Bombay, The Tansa Works for the Water Supply of, Mr. W. Clarke, Engineer, 53

Books Received, 13, 74, 115, 296, 315, 375

Boring Machinery, 31

Bostwick’s Folding Gates, 271

Bostwick’s Steel Folding Gates and Shutters, 250

Bows of the s.s. “ Emilie,” 171

“ Boycotting,” v. Railways, 414

Bradford Water Supply, 409

Brake, Mr. Wicksteed on a, 359

Brake, Continuous, 348

Brake, The London and North-Western Railway, 131

Brake, R.A.S.E. Type, McLaren’s, 460, 461, 482

Brakes, Continuous, 162, 386, 419

Brakes on Freight Trains, 395

Brakes on the London and North-Western Railway, 162

Brakes, Railway, 371

Brewing Trades Exhibition, The, 375

Bridge, A Defective, 348, 371, 386

Bridge, the Sice Ho, 450, 476

Bridge Structures, A Railroad Bed for, 499

Brighton and Dyke Railway, The, 228

British Association, The, 215

Address of the President, Sir H. Roscoe, 199 City of London and Southwark Subway, 297 Excursion to Northwich and Anderton, 217 Experiments on the “ Mechanical Equivalent of

Heat” on a Large Scale, byE. A. Cowper and W. Anderson, 213

Horwich and Rivington, 246, 248, 249

Improvements in the Manufacture of Portland Cement, Mr. F. Ransome, 218

Injector and Brake Works, Messrs. Gresham and Craven, 240

Ironworks, Messrs, de Bergueand Co., 239

Alachine dool and Crane Works, Alessrs. Craven Bros., 239

Mather and Platt’s Machine and Electrical Works, 217

Pump and Compressor Works, Messrs. Frank Pearn and Co., 239

Sharp, Stewart, and Co.'s Works, 217

Specimens of Steel Produced by Skidding Rail-( way Wheels, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 218 Spinning Machinery Works, Alessrs. Hetherino-ton and Sons, 238

Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersev Air. Shelford, 383

Visit to Messrs. Hetherington and Son’s Alachine lool Works, 544

Visit to Alessrs. Platt Bros, and Co., Oldham, 545 Visit to Messrs. Thos. Robinson and Sons, Rochdale, 545

1 British Industries and Technical Education, 313

British Manufacturers and Consular Reports, 436

British Trade at Canton, Opening for, 39o

British Trade in Foreign Markets, 517

Brown’s Street Surface Box, 517 I

Brunswick Park, Wednesbury, Opening of the, 29

Buckling of Rails under the Sun’s Heat, Prof. A.

G. Greenhill, 23

Buddicom, Mr. W. B., 180

Bute Docks Extension, 61

Burrell’s Trainway Locomotive, 347

Burst Steam Pipe, s.s. “ Elbe,” 305

“ Buzz,” The American Steam Launch, 368

CABLE Tramway, The Edinburgh Northern, 347, | 351, 369

Cable Tramway, Birmingham, 126

Calais Harbour, Improvements in, 168

Calorific Value of Coal, 370

Calorific Value of Fuel, The, 440, 459

Canadian Imports of Iron, 21

Canadian Tariff, The, 32

Canal, Birmingham and Gloucester, 131

Canal Connecting Two Seas, A, 32

Caple’s Combination Set Square, 508

“ Carbonit,” The New Explosive, 255

Cardiff, Opening of the Roath Dock, 197

Carding Engine, Double Composite, Messrs. Asa

Lees and Co., 336

Carding Engine, Improved, 238

Carron Ironworks, The, 116

Carter-Turner Three-High Roller Mill, The, 405

Castner’s Sodium Furnace, 513

Catalogues, 432

Cearil Harbour Works, Brazil, 88, 90

Cement for Ships, 4

Cements, How to Test the Strength of, 499

Chains for Lifting and Hauling, The Use and Care of, 28

Charterhouse Science and Art Schools and Lite- | rary Institute, 233

Chaser Stocks and Dies, Mr. T. Woods, 480

Chatsworth Disaster, The, 218

Chilled Moulds for Casting Bearings, Messrs.

Richard Garrett and Sons, 473

Chilled Plate Rolls, Strength of, 270

Chimneys, Shape of, 175

China Railways, Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive, 410, 493, 498

tl.Cinderlithic, 286

' Circular Saw, Invention of the, 271

City of London College, Mr. II. Adams on “ Foundation,” 310

City of London College, Syllabus of Lectures in the Engineering Department, 257

City of London and Southwark Railway, Map of, 298

City of London and Southwark Subway, Mr. J.

H. Greathead, 297

Claremont, Iowa, U.S.A., Three-Hinged Wrought

Iron Arch at, 136, 137

Clark, Mr. Alvan, 173

Clark Process, The, 78, 86, 87, 107, 172, 348, 371

Clark Process for Bristol, The, 12

Clarke, Mr. John Algernon, 437

Clock and Watch Making, Technical School of, Brussels, 396

Clyde Shipbuilding for July, 134

Clyde Shipbuilding for August, 216

Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, Revival in, 374

Clyde Shipbuilding Trades, 294

Coal, Calorific Value of, 370, 394

Coal Measures in Upper Burmah, 375

Coal Miners and Restriction, 436

Coal Production, Our, 498

Coal Production, The Year’s for the United

Kingdom, 306

Coal in South Africa, 478

Coal Trade, Restriction in the. 295

Cobbett’s Belt Guides and Belt Stretchers 513

Coins, rhe New. 13

Coke Breaker, Hoyle’s, Portway’s Patent, 517

CoIhsions in the English Channel, 481

Collisions at Sea, 55

Colombo Shipping Wharf, 66

Colonial College of Holleselv Bay, The 543

Colonial Defence, 232, 270, *386 ' ’

Colonial Land Sales and Public Works 113 Colonies and their Railways, Our. 455 ’ Combination Set Square, Caple’s, 508 C ombustion, 157, 205

Combustion, Analysis of the Products of 4S

Commercial Education in Relation to’Foreign Competition, 270

Commercial and Utilitarian v. International

Views, 162

Compass, A New, 317

Competition in the Home Trade, 172 _

Compound Locomotives in France, 235

Concrete Work under Water, 56

Condenser, Rayner’s Double Distilling, 276

Constructive Ironwork in a New Theatre, Mr.

Max am Ende, 257, 283

Constructive Ironwork in Terry’s New Theatre by Max am Ende, 283, 285

Continental Girders in England, Advanced

Prices for, 95

Contracts Open :

Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, Specification for Ironwork for Roofing, Ban-dora Station, 446, 447

Indian State Railways, Pillar Water Cranes, 288, 290

Indian Midland Railway, Specification of Carriages, Brake Vans, &c., for 5ft. 6in. Gauge, 429

Indian State Railways, Underframes for Third-class Carriagesand Covered Goods Wagons, 3 Copper, Comparative Tensile Strength of Electrolytic and Ordinary, 471

Copper at High Temperatures, 535

Copper Mines in the Ufa Government, 153

Copper, and its Price, 394

Copper Steam Pipes, Mr. Sinclair’s Experiments on the Strength of, 524

Correction, 479

j Corrosion of Lead Pipes Built up in Walls or Laid

I Underground, 101

Corrosion of Metals in Mine Waters, 55

| Cost of Transmission of Power, 177

(Jotton Machinery at the Manchester Exhibition, 75

I Cotton Mule, Self-acting, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 340

I Cotton Spinning in Manchester, 336, 310

Cotton Spinning by Water Power in India, a New Industrial Enterprise, 502

I Coupling, Engine and Tender, 512

I Crane, Five Tons, Permanent Way Hand. 268

I Craven Brothers Machine Tool and Crane Works, 238

“ Craven ” Scholarship at the Yorkshire College, The, 419

Cream Separator, the Victoria, 326

Crockford Boiler (’leaner, The, 388

(’roton Aqueduct, Reports on the, 357

Cruiser Designs, Recent, 366

I Cruiser, the Fastest in the World, 309

| Croydon Waterworks, 162

Cupola, Messrs. Greiner and Erpf, ISO

' Cut-off Gear for Reversing Engines, Mr. E. Foden, 46

Cut-off Valve and Governor, Horton’s Patent Automatic, 317

Cut Steel Nails ? Patent, 273

DAIRY Show, The, 156

Dairy Show, Novelties and Trials at the, 326

' Davits { Hinged, 235

De Bergue and Co.’s Ironworks, 239

Decrease in W ages, and Improvements in Machinery, 290

Dee, Spanning the, 177

Defence of Colonial Harbour*, The, 31

epression of Trade and Foreign Competition,

Depression of Trade. Foreign Competition, and lechmeal Instruction, 448

Devil Disintegrator, The, 376

Diepi>e, New Docks at, 74

Disinfector, Aero-steam. Mr. W. E. ThuiKfield, 90 Disintegrator, The “ Devil.” 371;

The Patent Eclectic. 219

Distiller and Pump. Mr. John Kirkaid v’s Com-

Lined Compactum,’’7

istnbution of Heat in a Stationary Steam Tiiv- P°’ on. Major T. English. 16

Diving Apparatus, M r. Sparks’, 465 .. n Accommodation in the Emt, 411

dogah, Engines of the. 109, ]]o 116

Domestic Cooking A ppa nit us. 134, 286

D^innt,C >k,ng APJ'aratu,S Mr. J. Ixshman,31« Drainage, Domestic, 18

Drajnage of Fens anti Uw hinds by Steam Power, i. *lr; ■ 11 •, u heeler, 103, 186,283,323,359,404 1 raughUinen s Provident Soviet v, 140, 171,195 draughtsmen » Salaries' 273

Dredger, New Form of, for Removal of Rocks in the Suez Canal, 306

Dredger used in the Clyde Estuary, 138

Dredging of the Lower Estuary of the Clyde, 138

Drilling Machine, Wild’s Improved Portable Handpower, 458

Dronfield—An Unfortunate Town, 135

Dublin and Kingstown Railway, History of the, 125

Durability of Iron and Steel Ships, The, 156

Dynamite Gun, Lieutenant Zalinski’s, 171

Dynamo and Arc Lamps, The “ Lever,” 329

Dynamo, The Blakey-Emmott, 409

EAST London Water Supply, Official Inquiry into the, 23u

East Molesey, Oil Lamps v. Gas, 339

Economic Theory of the Location of Railways, 428

Edinburgh Northern Cable Tramway, The, 347,

351, 369, 389, 390 ’

Edinburgh Waterworks, The, 117

Edison’s New Electrical Generator, 271

Edison’s System of Continuous Current Transformers, 377

Education of Engineers, 4, 56, 78, 87, 162

Elastic Extension, a Species of Motion, Mr R H

Graham, 145, 185 *

“Elbe’’ Catastrophe, The, 330

“Elbe,” Messrs. Kirkaidy’s Reports on the Steam

Pipe of the, 331

“ Elbe’s ” Steam Pipe, The, 348

Election of Water Engineer of Nottingham 339

Electric Light at the Adelaide Jubilee ’ International Exhibition, 1887, 305

Electric Light v. Gas for Glasgow Public Buildings, 78

Electric Lighthouse on the Isle of May Messrs.

D. and T. Stevenson, 158, 159

Electric Lighting from Central Stations, W. J. R.

Williamson on, 501

Electric Lighting and Inertia, 498

Electric Lighting, Trials of Motors for, 66

Electric Lighting in Works and Factories, Prof.

J. A. Fleming on, 259

Electric Meters, Mr. A. H. Preece, 360

Electric Sewing Machine, Mr. Philip Diehl, 265

Electric Telegraph, Jubilee of the, 4

Electric Tramcar Propulsion, 95

Electric Tramways, 490

Electrical Engineering, The School of, 27

Electrical Generator, Edison’s New, 271

Electrical Governor, Messrs. Robey and Co., 8

Electrical Launches, 131

Electricity, Modern Views of, Dr. Oliver Lodge 367

Electrical Tramways and Railways, 541

Electro-deposition of Alloys, 233

Electro-motive and Electric Launch, The Elieson, 318

Elieson Electro-motive and Electric Launch, 318

Emigration of Capital, The, 455

Endless Railway, Fender’s, 451

Engine, The Barrow, 376

Engine, Benier’s Hot air, 366, 372

Engine, Blowing, Athus Iron and Steel Works, 205, 214 5

Engine, Compound High-speed Box, Messrs.

Be ver and Dori i ng, '508

Engine, Compound, for the Indian State Railways, 194, 198, 207, 230, 232

Engine, Compound Mill, 1000-H.P., Messrs.

Buckley and Taylor, 507

Engine, Compound Portable, Messrs. J. and H.

McLaren, 147

Engine, Compound Traction, Mr. E. Foden, 43, 46

Engine, Compound Vertical, Messrs. Wallis and

Steevens, 472

Engine Economies, Steam, 78

Engine, Explosion of a Portable, 316

Engine, Express, L. and S.W. Railway, 108

Engine, Express, Midland Railway, 517

Engine, The de Glehn, 235

Engine, High-speed Compound Vertical, Messrs.

Davey, Paxman, and Co., 473

Engine, High-speed Vertical, Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, 473

Engine, Passenger, Lancashire and Yorkshire

Railway, 174, 179

Engine, Passenger, L. and S.W. Railway (Supple

ment November 1887), 370

Engine, Prize Compound, Messrs. Davey, Pax man, and Co., 63

Engine, The Steam, Prof. Ryan on the, 514

Engine Trials, The Newcastle, 42, 48, 63, 78,105,

106, 147, 172

Engine Turntables—Indian State Railways, 347, 350

Engine, Vertical, Messrs. Robey and Co., 472

Engine, The “Viator” Vertical, Messrs. Jeffery

and Blackstone, 268

Esk Paper Mills, The, 117

Essex Vertical Boiler, The, 469

Engineering and Applied Science Department of

King’s College, London, 526

Engineering Education, University College, Bristol, 176

Engineering Laboratories, The Use and Equipment of, 277

Engineering Students’ Club. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 360

Engineering Trade Prospects, 114

Engineering Trades, 80

Engines of the “ Bencroy,” 308, 309

Engines, Compound, 50, 54, 55, 542

Engines, Compound, Electric Light Installation

at Olympia, 131, 132

Engines, Compound High Speed Launch, 125

Engines, Differential Pumping, Umaria Colliery, 149, 151

Engines of the “ Dogali,” 109, 112, 116

Engines, Export of Steam, 518

Engines, Multi-cylinder, 75

Engines, Portable, at Tansa Waterworks, 107

Engines, Pumping, Indian State Railways—

Umaria Colliery, 149, 151

Engines of the Spanish Cruiser, “ Reina Regente,”

Messrs. J. and G. Thompson, 431

Engines, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s

Newcastle Show, 510

Engines, Triple Expansion, 29

Engines, Triple Expansion, for German Mail

Steamers, 452, 454

Engines, Triple Expansion, s.s. “Worcester” and “Oxford,” 89 *

Engines, Triple Expansion Marine, Messrs. A.

Shanks and Sons, 178

English and Continental Railway Traffic Charges. 478

English Foot v, the Metre, The, 440, 449

Pv^1Shn-°n!tone and SPan:sh Ore, 236

Exeter Disaster, The, 216

Exhaust Injector, The, 481

Exfe“S H?'

Exhibition, I he Brewing Trades 375

FXh'k-J-On’ n he Frenc’h Railway,’ 75

pXHu-J-on’ Newcastle, 371

.ko NewaaU,

Bxhdntion, The Vincennes Railway Jubilee, 408, Experimental Machinery, 51

Recent,*73 °H °UF Shotand Arm™r, Effect of Explosion on Board the s.s. “Elbe,” 245. 521 522 Explosion on Board a Torpedo Boat, 20 Explosion, A Curious, 193

EXPMnaECoCtrT®xntractingRefining,and naimgLo., Limited, 501

Extension of the Mersey Railway, 543 Eyemouth Harbour, The, 13

FASTEST Cruiser in the World, 309

Paddle Wheels, 172, 193, 232, 471 494 Featherstone^ West Riding, Water Supply of 147 Feed-water Heater, Maclaine’s, 265

I' eed-water Heater, Mr. John Kirkaldy 7 Fender s Endless Railway, 451'

B ens and Lowlands, Drainage of—See Drainage 1 Fre7dyFl^“erTRunni1^ Both Wa^’ 175 i f ie!d Electric Locomotive, The, 450

ter, A Large, Messrs. Slack and Brownlow 331 1 Finsbury Technical College, 71 ’|

b ires in Theatres, 287, 307, 355

f ishing, An Easy Way of, 330

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Flonr lWnP7b °£’ fr!’m th° United States> 18 LIour the Laubardemont, 50, 55, 72

F °FirsS^405 °f Mr’ Harr!son Carter’s System,

Flow of Water, The, 518

K1°Lw }yater,in Pipes and Open Channels, A

Kew 1- ormula for the, Mr. Edgar C. Thrupp,

Fly Ropes, 479

F°lnd rX? 57gnalApParatuS’ Messrs’ Ke“Pe log and Smoke, Sir Douglas Gal ton on, 490 foreign Competition, 293, 306, 348

I oreign Ships and British Trade, 52

foreign Torpedo Boats, 440

Forth Bridge, The, 71

FOBfi>-gartg438he Ere°tion of the’ Mr- Andrew S.

K°i ‘i».

Forth Bridge, A Main Cantilever Pier, 438

f orth Bridge, Rivetting Cage, 439

forth Bridge Works, The, 116

Foundations, Air. Henry Adams, 310

“d H”’«.s-

s 3;l-

I French m Japan, The, 240 ’

I Fr?n/?h Shipbuilding and Shipping, 255

1 friction in Toothed Gearing, 499

| Fuel, Liquid, 419

i Fuel, Value of Natural Gas, 278

Furnaces commonly called Destructors, Defects m, 471 ’

Furnaces commonly known as Destructors, some

i Defects in, 49o

Fusible Plugs, Williams’, 513

some

I GAS, Apparatus’ for Removing Tires, Messrs.

Gentry and O’Brien, 79

Gas Engine, Rolla^’s, The Beck Gas Engine Co., z / o

i Gas Fuel, Value of Natural, 278

I Gas Heating, 410

Gas Lamp, The Welsbach Incandescent, 318

Gas Lighting Buoys, 343

Gas Lighting of the Clyde, Extension of the, 255

Gas Lighting, lhe Invention of, 216

Gas, Natural, 410

Gas Production, Profits on, 314

Gas, Reduction in the Price of, 374

Gas, A Sensational Story about, 114

Gas r. Steam Engines, 535

Gas Supply, 11

Gates, Folding, 250, 271

Gatling, The Eighty-pound, 428

Generation of Steam, 137, 205, 271

German Competition with British Shipping 196

German Cycles, 348

German Imitation of Trade Marks, 295

German Mail Steamers, Boilers and Engines of the, 516

Giiclirist Engineering Scholarships, University

College, 210 J

Gland Packing, A New, 249

Glass Manufacture in Norway and Sweden 263

Globe Quartz Crushing Mill, The, 26

Glucose, Machines for Extracting, 195

Gold, Note on the Atomic Weight of, Messrs T

E. Thorpe, and A. F. Laurie, 403

Goods and Passengers on Railways, 197

Government Sale of Historic Steamships 371

Granilc Works at Naples of the Mediterranean

Railway Company, 512

Grease-cup Lubricator, Messrs. Leek Bros 34

Grease Extractor, Steam, 397

“Great Eastern” Steamship, The, 71

Greenwich Hospital Pension, The, 237

Greig’s Tramway Locomotive, 328

Gresham and Craven’s Injector and Brake Works

240 ’

Grinnel Automatic Sprinkler and Fire-alarm Experiments with at the Victoria Corn Mills Sheffield, 520 ’

Gun, Bursting of an 11-ton Howitzer, 330

Gun, 12-pounder Breech-loading Field, 325

Gun, Section of 67-ton Breech-loading, H M S “Trafalgar,” 123

Gunpowder as a Boiler Cleaner, 56

Guns, American Steel Cast, 330

Guns, Horse and Field Artillery, 324

Gyrating Stone Breaker, Continuous Action,

Lowry’s, 521

HALL, Mr. W., 131

Halle, Sewage Works of, 159

Hammer, Radial Arm Steam, 54

Hammers, Radial Steam, 2/1

Hangchow, Fire Engine at, 261

Hangk'ton Bridge, Brighton and Dyke Railway,

Harbour Improvements at Melbourne, Australia, 295

Harlem River Bridge, New York, Sinking Foundation for New, 183

Harrison’s Scouring Dredger for Fen Drains and

Rivers, 359

Haslar, New Experimental Tank at, 130

Heat and Work, Mr. W. T. Coates, 474

Heating Gas, 410

Heisler Incandescent Light, The, 309

Henley-on-Thames Sewage Works Machinery, 348

Henley-on-Thames, Sewerage of, 325

H.M.S. “ Trafalgar,” 123

Herreshoff Yacht, “ Now Then,” The, 227

Herreshoff Yacht, A 28-Knot, 101

Hetherington and Co.’s Machine Tool Works, 544

Hetherington and Sons’ Spinning Machinery

Works, 238

Hexthorpe Accident, The, 245, 440

Hexthorpe Collision, The, 273, 286, 307, 338, 413

Hoists and Lifts, 215

Holyhead Steamers, 11

Horse and Field Artillery Guns, 324

Horwich and Rivington, 246, 248, 249

Hotchkiss Guns, The, 159

Hot Water Cylinder Jacket, 314

Hull and Barnsley Railway, The, 356

Hunt, Mr. Robert, 335

Hydraulic Baling Machinery, Messrs. John Birch and Co., 15

Hydraulic Lifts, Jottings on, Mr. Suggate, 240

Hydraulic Pipe Testing Apparatus, The Glenfield

Company, 277

Hydraulic Pressure, Application of, to Gunnery,

IBBOTSON’S Lock Nuts and Fish Bolts, 193 Ice-making Machine, Hand, Fleuss’ Patent, 34 Ignition of Mine Gases and Coal Dust, Experiments on the, 150

India, The Native Army in, 61

Indian Coal and its Storage, 313

Indian Midland Railway, Transship Vans, 429

Indian State Railways, Compound Vertical Engine, 194, 198, 207, 230, 232

Indian State Railways, Pumping Engines, Umaria Colliery, 149, 151

Indian State Railways, Underframes and Covered Wagons for, 3

Indian State Railways, Water Cranes for the, 288, 290

Injectors for Portable Engines, 78

Institute, City and Guilds of London, 192

School of Art Wood Carving, 295

Institute of Great Britain, The Sanitary :

Programme of the Autumn Meeting, 1887, 240 Institute, The Iron and Steel, 95, 240, 462

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Daniel Adamson, 228

Basic Open Hearth Process, Mr. J. Wailes, 258 Electric Lighting in Works and Factories, Prof.

J. A. Fleming, 259

Notes on the Reduction of Iron Ore in the Blast

Furnace, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 258

Programme of the Autumn Meeting, 240 Institute Mining and Mechanical Engineers :

Visit to Newcastle-on-Tyne, 90

Institution, Birk beck Literar y and Scientific :

Conference of Teachers on the Technical Education Bill, 287

Prospectus for the Sixty-Fifth Session, 286 Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 31, 149

List of Papers to be Read during the Winter Season, 381

Magnesia, a Substitute for Plaster of Paris, D. Frank, 317

Permanent Way for the Belgian State Railways, 301

Presidential Address, Mr. George R. Bruce, 391, 418

Sewage Works of Wiesbaden, 321

Upsetting of a Railway Train by Wind, 203

Visit to Messrs. J. and E. Wright’s Wire and

Hemp Rope Works, 277

Water Supply of Birmingham, 180 Institution of Civil Engineers—Association of Birmingham Students, 508 Institution of Civil Engineers, Ireland :

Electrical Tramways : the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway, Mr. Edward Hopkinson, 490

Enlargement of the Westland-row Terminus, with a Sketch of the Early History of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Mr. T. B. Grierson, 125

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders— North-east Coast :

Reaction and Efficiency of the Screw Propeller, On the, Mr. A. Blechynden, 1 Institution oy Mechanical Engineers, 79

Description of the New Tay Viaduct, by Mr.

Fletcher F. S. Kelsey, 198

Dredging of the Lower Estuary of the Clyde, Mr. C. A. Stevenson, 139

Experiments on the Distribution of Heat in a Stationary Steam Engine, Major Thomas English, 16

Visit to the Carron Ironworks, 116

Visit to the Edinburgh Waterworks, 117

Visit to the Esk Paper Mills, Penicuick, 117

Visit to the Forth Bridge Works, 116

Visit to the Valley field Paper Mills, Penicuik, 118

Institution of Naval Architects, 66

Application of Hydraulic Pressure to Gunnery, Lord Armstrong and Mr. J. Vavasseur, 96

Present Position of Basic Steel as a Material for Shipbuilding, Mr. B. Martell, 96

Recent Developments in Marine Engineering, Mr. F. C. Marshall, 96

Recent Experiments with Basic Steel, Mr. W.

H. White, 96

Instruction of Engineer Officers in the Navy in Hydraulic Gun Machinery, 31

Insurance Value of Steamships, The, 176

Trithrrafcl°?alcPailway Con£ress, Milan, 257, 275

Iron AOroh y ST.rVey°oShiP Examination, An, 406

U.stS’4 W g6d’ C16rem0nt’ iowa> Ir°Wnlvt\and ,Genera’ Trades Of Birmingham,

59 w ooan|1T’o0?.nn? other Districts, 18, 37, ?-o82hn9\U9’ 140> 168> 180> 200, 221, 241 259 Sio2;iy’,|^36O’379’398>421>4«.^.’

Iron Founders and Steel Castings, 520

Iron Manufacture in France, Decrease of the, 345

Iron Mountain, An, 183 ’

Iron Ore in the Blast Furnace, Notes on the, Mr.

L. Bell on Reduction of, 258

Iron and Steel Duties, The New Canadian, 177

Iron and Steel Imports, 414

Iron and Steel, The Improvement in, 498

Iron and Steel Ships’ Bottoms, Complete Protection of, against Rust, 306

Iron and Steel Ships, Preservation of, 415

Iron trade Association Boards, 156

Iron Trade, Improvement in the, 456

Ironwork in a New Theatre, On the Construe tive, 4/1

Ironworks Practice and Steel Competition, 310

Irrigation, Mr. Jones on, 390

Irrigation in India, 546

Irrigation Work, Hindrance to, 437

Isinglass ? Machinery for Cutting, 273

Isle of May, Electric Light on, 158, 159

Itehani Government, The “Kangaroo” and the ,.JPter_^atlonal Chartered by the, for Distilling Water at Massowah, 320

Italian Made Steam Plate, Trial of 498

Italian Railways, 365

Ivory, Artificial, 51

JEROME’S Metallic Packing, 289, 290

John, Mr of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, T hs Armoured Battle Ship,” 138 1

Joist Sawing Machine, 545

Jubilee, The Business Side of the, 13

Jubilee Calamity, A, 377

KENT’S Uniform Water Meter, 450, 451

Kerosene Oil in Steam Boilers, Use of, 499

Khyber Railway, The, 52

Kirchoff, Prof., 328

Kirkaldy, Mr. John, 150

K‘rkaIdy’s Messrs. Reports On the Steam Pipe or the Elbe, 331

Kout’s Car-stove Cremation, The, 363

AlfreA a?d his Work as a Cast Steel

Manufacturer, /4 85, 104, 123

LA534UR Market, Supply, and Population, Lade Bank, Lincolnshire, Engine and Pump, 103 Lake Haarlem, Pumps, 323

iS“,Annexc in the Melbourne Exhibition, loco, 226’

Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, Union of 3f 0 Horw[eeh,‘24d6, MT Sh°PS at La H^lseand0^, 4^1

Laubardemont Flour Mill, The, Messrs. T. Powell and Company, 50, 55, 72

Lau^her? and Trial ^8, 60, 95, 120, 140 182 219, 242 298, 339, 362, 381, 410, 462, 482, 518

Launching Lifeboats, 534 ’

Lead Mines and Lead, 478

Lead Pipes, Corrosion of, 101

Leader an<^ ^an^s^er Machinery, 175

Address^ of . the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 393

Advanced Prices for Continental Girders in England, 95

Aerostation and Aeronautics, 196

Agricultural Engineers’ Association, The 497 Air Brakes in the United States, 197 ’

American Shipbuilding, 156

Armour and Projectiles, 357 Army Tools, 314

Association of Electrical Engineers, 335

Awards at Exhibitions, 295

Belgium Coal Industry in 1886, 498 Berlin Screw Industry, The, 74 Blast Pipes, 11 ’

Boiler Explosion Act of 1882, The, 333 “Boycotting” and Railways, 414 Brakes on Freight Trains, 395 Brewing Trades Exhibition, The, 375 British Association, The, 215

I"du8tri°s and Technical Education, 313 British Manufacturers and Consular Reports 4J0 x ’

British Workman in Foreign Countries, The

Calorific Value of Coal, The, 333, 394

Canadian Iron and Steel Duties, The New 177 Canadian Tariff, The, 32 ’ "

Canal connecting Two Seas, A, 32 “Carbonit,” The New Explosive, 255 Clark Process for Bristol, The 1J Close of the Bolton Strike, 374 Clyde Shipbuilding for August, 216 Clyde Shipbuilding for July, 134 Clyde Shipbuilding Trades, 294 Coalminers and Restriction, 436

Coal in South Africa, 478 Coins, The New, 13

Colonial Land Sales and Public Works 113 Compound Engines, 542

Compound Locomotives in France 235 Copper and its Price, 394

Dairy Show, The, 156

Defence of Colonial Harbours, The 31 Depression of Trade and Foreign Competition, Dock Accommodation in the East 414 Domestic Cooking Apparatus, 134 Dronfield—An Unfortunate Town 135 Fff^bnJt5p°“?^and.Steel Shil’s- The, 156 tflArmourK 73°nt ExPerlments 011 our Shot and Electric Lighting and Inertia, 498 Electrical Tramways and Railways, 541 Emigration of Capita], The, 455

SeotT76Education’ u™ity c°’^, E DroSt,g4,%'1Uiry in‘° the L°WCr Tham-Engineering Trade Prospects, 114

English and Continental Rail way Traffic Charges,

Leaders (continued):—

English and French Railway Competition in the East, 294

English Ironstone and Spanish Ore, 236

Exeter Disaster, The, 216

Experimental Machinery, 51

Extension of the Mersey Railway, 543

Eyemouth Harbour, The, 13

Faulty Sword Bayonets and Sir John Adye, 274

Fires in Theatres, 355

Foreign Competition, 293

Foreign Ships and British Trade, 52

French Shipbuilding and Shipping, 255

Gas Lighting, The Invention of, 216

Gas, A Sensational Story about, 114

Gas Supply, 11

German Competition with British Shipping, 196

German Imitation of Trade Marks, 295

Glehn’s Engine, M. de, 235

Goods and Passengers on Railways, 197

Harbour Improvements at Melbourne, Australia,

Hexthorpe Collision, The, 273, 413

Hindrance to Irrigation Work, 437

Hot-water Cylinder Jackets, 314

Hull and Barnsley Railway, The, 356

Improvement in Iron and Steel, The, 498

Improvement in the Iron Trade, 456

Indian Coal and its Storage, 313

Instruction of Engineer Officers in the Navy in

Hydraulic Gun Machinery, 31

Insurance Value of Steamships, The, 176

Ironfounders and Steel Castings, 520

Iron and Steel Imports, 414

Iron Trade Association Boards, 156

Jubilee, The Business Side of the, 13

Lead Mines and Lead, 478

Leviathans of the Deep, 295

Local Government and Public Works, 215

Lord Carnarvon on Imperial Defence, 236

Loss of Merchant Shipping, The, 543

Machinery for the East, 155

Maligakanda Reservoir, The, 51, 542

Manchester Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 253

Marine Boilers, The Management of, 155

Marine Engines from the Shipowner’s Point of

View, 175

Midland Railway, The, 134

Mining Bill, A Year’s, 197

Mining in East Scotland, 216

Naval Review, The, 93

Newberry-Vautin Gold Extraction Process, The,

273 ’

New Water Scheme for Halifax, A, 543

Nordenfelt, The, 519

North-east Coast Engineers, 334

Novel Railway Accident, A, 13

Official Enquiry into the East London Water Supply, 235

Opening for British Trade at Canton, 395

Our Coal Production, 498

Our Colonies and their Railways, 455

Our Merchant Fleet’s Change, 334

Panama Canal, The, 73, 156

Parkes’ Smelting Process, The, 543

Perpetual Motion in Disguise, 254

Petroleum Refuse as a Fuel, 176

Petroleum Trade of the Black Sea, 357

Piece-work and Technical Education, 436

Ports and Steamships, 74

Practice of Pig Iron Manufacture, The, 520

Preston Docks, 255

Preston Docks Scheme, The, 274, 373

Priming, 32

Profits in Gas Production, 314

Public Works Department of India, 394

Pumping Engines at Work in Staffordshire, 295

Railway Dividends, 95

Railway Enterprise in Turkey, 175

Railway Half-year, The, 520

2*16^ Mismanagement in New South Wales,

Railway Rates and Charges, 437

Railway Working, 114

Railways in India, 478 «

Reduction in the Price of Gas, 374

Registration of Workmen, The, 114

Reports on thdNew Croton Aqueduct, 357

Restriction in the Coal Trade, 295

Revival in Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 374

Richmond Main Drainage Board, The, 197

Roads in the Colonies, 414

Roath Dock, Cardiff, Opening of the, 197

Russian Iron Trade, The, 94

Sanding Locomotives, 357

Sanitary Registration of Buildings Bill, The 52

Sanitary Registration of Buildings—’The Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 94

Sanitary Surveyors and Inspectors of’Nuisances

435 ‘ ’

Saving Life at Sea, 195

Softening Water by the Clark Process, 334

Spanish Ore and British Steamships, 456

Spanning the Dee, 177

Staffordshire Colliery Owners and Pumping

Operations, 357

Standard of Light, The, 133

Steam Engine Economies, 12

Steamship Freights and the Iron Trade, 374

Steamship Power, Our, 32

Steam Tramway Locomotives, 355

Steel Trade, Activity in the, 74

Structural Stiffness, 497

Successful Railway Legislation, 519

Technical Education, 393

Technical Instruction, 94, 133

Thames at Richmond, The, 177

Thames, The State of the, 113

Trade Competition and Education, 253

TT^u1 ?]f ^ian-made steam Plates, 498

United States Navy, The, 477, 541

Vacuum Brake, Another Failure of a, 275

V illage Sanitation, 293

W. A. Scholten Disaster, The, 435

War-office Organisation, 113 ’

Water-tube Boilers, 294, 356

Yorkshire College, Leeds, The, 255

Lees and Co., Messrs. Asa, Cotton Preparing and

Spinning Machinery, 336, 340 V

Leg a l I nte lligence :

Albo-Carbon Light Company v. J. Kidd and Co.,

BlndKenU43SC°mPany (Limited>- «rindell

Chailender v. Boyle, 86

Ellington r. Clark, Bunnett, and Co., 514

219,"1-!C- HaU and Another>

Proctor v. Bennis and others, 160

Leicester Snow Ploughs, 517

Letters to the Editor : Accidents on Tramways, H.

Aerostation and Aeronautics,

Conradi, 193, 213 Eduardo Claudio,

American Locomotives in Australia, C., 173

American Locomotives in Australia, A Colonial

Locomotive Superintendent, 153

American Transit Theodolites, J. M. F,, 43a

Anchor Tests, Justicia, 348

Artificial Ivory, E. A. G., 51

Automatic Boiler Feeders, J. J. B., 273

Axle Boxes, H. Kenneth Austin, 287

Band Saws, The Author of “ Sawmills,” 495

Band Saws, R. F. Drury, 518

Band Saws, J. H., 477

Bearings for High-speed Engines, Marine Engineer, 413

Bearings for High-speed Engines. Steam Launch, 373

Belted Cruisers, J. A., 419

Bevel Wheel Cutting, Engineer, 413

Boiler Registry and Inspection Bill, M. Powis Bale, 212

Boring Machinery, Seibats, 31

Bostwick’s Folding Gates, Yankee, 271

Brakes on the London and North-Western

Railway, 162

Broken Propeller Shafts, China, 339

Button-making Machinery, C. S. M., 519

Calorific Value of Fuel, Anthony J. Bower, 370, 440

Calorific Value of Coal, Alfred Chatterton, 459

Calorific Value of Fuel, Bryan Donkin, jun., 440

Calorific Value of Coal, John Goodman, 370

Calorific Value of Coal, Practical, 459

Caustic Soda ? Atlas, 455

Cement for Ships, E. C. S., 4

Comparative Tensile Strength of Electrolytic and Ordinary Copper, Alexander Watt, 471

Chain-making and Testing Machinery? F. S. and Co., 355

Circumlocution at the Patent-office, C. E., 270

Clark Process, The, J. W. Gray and Son, 107, 172, 348

Clark Process, The, Andrew Howatson, 86

Clark Process, The, C. J., 87

Clark Process, The, J. Alfred Wanklyn, 86

Clark Process for London, The, W. J. Cooper, 78 Colonial Defence, Robert A. E. Scott, 232,270,386 Commercial Education in Relation to Foreign

Competition, W. A. S. B., 270

Commercial Education in Relation to Foreign Competition, U., 270

Commercial and Utilitarian r. International

Views, H. A. T. S., 162

Competition in the Home Trade, X. M., 172

Complete Protection of Iron and Steel Ships’

Bottoms against Rust, Holzapfel and Co., 306

Compressed Lime Cartridges, A. H. F., 519

Compressed Yeast? H. G. B., 113

Continuous Brakes, John E. Hopkinson, 162

Continuous Brakes, Clement E. Stretton, 386

Contraction of Concrete? A. C. G., 413

Constructive Ironwork in a New Theatre, On the, John S. de Jongh, 470

Continuous Brakes, G. Mitchell, 419

Continuous Brake, Clement E. Stretton, 348

Copper at High Temperatures, Leslie S. Robin son, 535

Cream Separator Trials ? Freeth and Pocock, 355

Croydon Waterworks, Thos. Walker, 162

Curious Explosion, A, Chas. Fredk. Fuller, 193

Defective Bridge, A, Inquirer, 348, 386

Defective Bridge, A, Wilfrid Stokes, 371

Depression of Trade, Foreign Competition and Technical Instruction, C., 448

Domestic Cooking Apparatus, D. J. Russell Duncan, 286

Domestic Drainage, W. Silver Hall, 18

Draughtsmen’s Provident Society, John Brindley, 440

Draughtsmen’s Provident Society, The, W. A. Chambers, 495

Draughtsmen’s Provident Society, The, G. A.

T. Middleton, 470

Draughtsmen’s Salaries? W. R., 273

Drying Gelatinous and Pasty Substances? A. D., •435

Early Roller Milling, J. Harrison Carter, 87

Edison’s New Electrical Generator, Volt, 271

Education of Engineers, E. H. B., 162

Education of Engineers, Slow Coach, 4, 78

Education of Engineers, The G. G., 87

Education of Engineers, Via Media, 56

Efficient Accumulator, An, W. T. de L.

Roberts, 212

“Elbe’s” Steam Pipe, The, Oswald, Mordaunt, and Co, 348

Election of Water Engineer of Nottingham, Arnold Wym, 339

Electrical Launches, A. B. Frenzel, 131

Electro-Disposition of Alloys, Alexander Watt,

English and American Locomotives, J. D., 339

English Foot u the Metre, The, G. E. Child, 440

English and Foreign Locomotives and Bridges, England, 56

Export of Steam Engines, R. Marshall, 518

Explosion on Board the s.s. “Elbe,” J. P. Williams, 535

Feathering Paddle Wheels, M. E., 193

Feathering Paddle Wheels, A. G. Greenhill, 172, 471

Feathering Paddle Wheels, R. Hartland, 232, 494

Ferry Steamer Running Both Ways, An Advocate for Double-ended Ferry Boats, 175

Fires in Theatres, Bob, 287

Fires in Theatres, E. H., 307

Flanging Steel Plates ? Ferrum, 477

Flow of Water, The, D. L., 518

Foot r. Metre, Saddleton Frank Saint y, 449

Foreign Competition, E. Gobcrt, 306

Foreign Competition, Richard Kerr Miller, 348

Foreign Torpedo Boats, Bolling and Lowe, 440

Fraud, A, Exporters, 419

Fraud, A. E. Schroiter, 440

Free Trade and No Trade, W. A. S. B., 449

Free Trade and No Trade, John Brett, 371, 439, 470

Free Trade and No Trade, International Cooperation, 518

Free Trade and No Trade, Wm. Muir, 339, 371, 439

Free Trade and No Trade, Protectionist, 348

Free Trade and No Trade, G. Fredk. Ransome, 419, 535

Free Trade and No Trade, Slow Coach, 338

Free Trade and No Trade, Roger T. Smith, 495

Letters to the Editor (continued)'.—

Free Trade and No Trade, A Sufferer, 449.

Free Trade and No Trade, Trader, 306, 449

From New York to Liverpool in a Cattle Ship,

R. S. Edwards, 286

Furnace Boilers, F. B., 213

Furnace Boilers, F. Botting, 233

Furnace Boilers, Furnace Builder, 233

Gas v. Steam Engines, H. E. C., 535

Generation of Steam, H. Leopold, 271

German Cycles, Hon. Life Director of an English

Chamber of Commerce, 348

Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888, Arrol

Bros., 435

Guide for Forging Iron and Steel' J. A., 355

Gunpowder as a Boiler Cleaner, J. W. Smith, 56

Hand Power Mills? E. J. B., 235

Henley-on-Thames, Sewage Works Machinery,

Pratchitt Bros., 348

Hexthorpe Collision, The, Westinghouse Brake

Co., 286

Hexthorpe Collision, The, F. Gobert, 338

Hexthorpe Collision, The, John E. Hopkinson, 307

Hexthorpe Collision, The, Clement E. Stretton,

286, 307, 338

High and Low Locomotives, Fred. A. Field, 470

High Pressure Marine Boilers, Boiler, 29

High Pressure Marine Boilers, H. P. Fenby, 4

Hinged Davits ? W. K., 235

Hoistsand Lifts, Scrutator? 215

Holy head Steamers, Paddle? 11

Ibbotson’s Lock-nuts and Fish-bolts, Ibbotson

Bros, and Co., 193

Ice Crushing Machines? J. C., 455

Injectors for Portable Engines, Geo. F. Hooper, 78

Invention of the Circular Saw, John Place, 371

Invitations for Tenders, Contractors, 271

Inventor of the Circular Saw, M. Powis Bale,

339

Labour Market, Food Supply, and Population, Indicator, 534

Latent Heat of Steam, Latent Heat, 495

Launching Lifeboats, J. W.. 534

Lead Shot and Tin Canister Machinery, K., 175

Liquid Fuel, Balance, 419

Locomotive Blast Pipes, Boiler, 56

Locomotive and Elastic Oscillation, Robert II.

Graham, 494

Locomotive Engine Blast, Boiler, 161

London and North-Western Railway Brake, The, H. C. W. Borrie, 131

Long Struts? H. W. G., 175

Machinery for Cutting Isinglass? H. 0. E., 273

Machines for Extracting Glucose ? S. S., 195

Management of Marine Boilers, The, J. W. R., 172

Marine Engine Bearings, J. H. K., 193

Masouta? G. B. Froom 477

Masouta? Influx, 413

Match-box and Match-making Machinery ? Ulzella, 435

Mersey Bar, The, Joseph Boult, 287

Modern Milling Machinery, J. A. Arnold Buchholz, 4

Modern Milling Machinery, A. M. Robinson, 29

Modern Milling Machinery, The Writer of the Article 4

Monitors and Turret Ships, G. W. Cobb, 131, 172

Monitors and Turret Ships, U. S. N., 153

Moorgate-street Station, Roof, Pessimist, 271

Multi-cylinder Engines, M. E., 153

Multi-cylinder Engines and Monitors r. Turret

Ships, Slow Coach, 213

Newcastle Engine Trials, The, Thos. Cooper, 78

Newcastle Engine Trials, The, An Ex-portable Engine Builder, 106

Newcastle Engine Trials, The, E. Hall-Brown, 172

Newton’s Third Law of Motion, Eduardo Claudio, 29

Non-conducting Silicate Cotton? T. G. and C., 175

Patent Cut Steel Nails ? E. Davies, 273

Patent-office Library, Wm. Spence, 286

Pearl Button Makers ? D. J., 133

Pipe Cores, A Constant Subscriber, 175

Portland Cement Concrete, A Portland Cement Manufacturer, 87

Portland Cement Concrete, F. E. Duckham, 78

Preston Dock Scheme, The, Benjamin Sykes, 287

Preston Docks, Nemo, 307

Preston Docks, The, River Ribble from Preston to the Irish Sea, G. Henry Roberts, 439

Preston and the River Ribble Navigation Works,

G. Henry Roberts, 270

Preston and the River Ribble Navigation

Works, Benjamin Sykes, 270

Problem of Flight, The, I. Lancaster, 56

Problem in Strains, A, W. A. S. B., 193, 339

Problem in Strains, A, John Batey, 193, 271

Problem in Strains, R. Hartland 193, 233, 271. 287

Problem in Strains, A, T. N. M., 212

Problem in Strains, A, T. E. N., 193

Problem in Strains, C. G. Major, 271

Problem in Strains, C. S., 233

Problem in Strains, A, D. S. Sinclair, 193

Problem in Strains, J. Trevor, 271

Problem in Strains, A, X., 153

Problem in Strains, A, Zit, 247

Professor Mendeleef’s Balloon Ascent, W. Anderson, 212

Provident Fund for Draughtsmen, A. Edgar Farman, G. A. T. Middleton, 371

Pulp Boilers ? A., 113

Quantity of Coke from Coal, Foreman, 56

Radial Steam Hammers, Jas. Bennie and Co.. 271

Rail Joints, A. M. Clark, 78

Rail Joints, Baldwin Latham, 107

Rail Joints, S., 107

Railway Brakes, G. Mitchel], 371

lie Test of Stone Breakers, S. Mason and Co., 338

Relative Strength of Screw Threads, R. Hartland, 270

Relative Strength of Screw Threads, The Inquirer, 233

Relative Strength of Screw Threads, N. D Y 270

Riachuelo Bridge, The, W. C. Kernot 4

Ribble Docks and Estuary, The. J. B.. 247

Ribble Scheme, The, G. E. Child, 4]9’ ~

Ribble Scheme, The, Engineer, 348

Ribble Scheme, The, W. C. Hankinson, 386

I Letters to the Editor

Kibble Scheme. The, James Hibbert, 38b

Kibble Scheme, The, A Prestenian, 380

Koller Milling, W. A. S. B., 131

Roller Milling Machinery, One U ho Knows, 56

Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes Jas. Atkinson, 495

Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes, Wilson Hartnell, 194

Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes,

J. and H. McLaren, 495

R.A.S.E., Engine Trials, J., 470

R.A.S.E, Engine Trials, L. St. Lawrence, 470

R.A.S.E., Steam Engine Trials, J. and H.

McLaren, 460

R.A.S.E’s Steam Engine Trials, The, R., 518

R.A.S.E., Steam Engine Trials, R. A. 8., 470, 518, 535

Safety Match Making Machinery? A. G., 195

Sanitary Registration of Buildings Bill, Reginald E. Middleton, 86

Sanitary Surveyors, N. B., 449

Sawing Grindstones? R. P. and S., 11

Sea-Water and Cement. Henry Faija, 494

Self-Righting Boats, -J. W., 87

Shape of Chimneys, The, An Outsider, 175

Sheet Brass with Diagonal Indentations? J. C. and Co., 293

Ship Canal from Woolwich toNewhaven, W. 11.

Thomas, 270

Ships’ Boats, E. L. Berthon, 87

Sir Wm. Thomson’s Recent lecture and the Lundborg Design, E. H. Parker, 172

Skidding Railway Wheels, Effect of, John Place, 233

Skidding Railway Wheels, Effect of, Clement E. Stretton, 233

Softening Water. John H. Porter, 370

Softening Feed Water. B. Donkin and Co., 131

Softening Feed Water, Gimson and Co., 131

Softening Feed Water, J. W. Kennard, 131

Some Defects in Furnaces commonly called Destructors, A. M. 1. C. E. ,171

Some Defects in Furnaces commonly known as Destructors. Another A. M.I.C.E., 495

Southwark Tramways, William D. Gooch. 107

Specimens of Steel Scale Produced by the Skidding of Railway Wheels, C. P. F., 271

Specimens of Steel Scale Produced by the Skidding of Railway Wheels, R. Hartland, 271

Standard Gauges for Brass Unions to Hose, Tubal-Kain, 494

Standard Gauges for Hose Coupling Screws, Hayward Tyler and Co., 440

Steam Engine Economies, II. Lcupold, 78

Steam Engine Economies, Chas. hitfield, 78

Strength of Chilled Plate Rolls, R. T. C., 270

Strains in the Legs of Cross-legged Stools,

K. W. M. M.» 212

Stresses in a Camp Stool, B. C., 173

Stresses in a Camp Stool, W. A. S. B., 193

Stresses*in a Camp Stool, .John Batey, 193, 271

Stresses in a Camp Stool, D., 212, 213

Stresses in a Camp Stool, Common Mechanical Engineer, 131

Stresses in a Camp Stool, R. Hartland, 161. 233, 287

Stresses in a Camp Stool, B. J. Hall, 107

Stresses in a Camp Stool, E. K., 107

Stresses in a Camp Stool, K. W. M. M., 107

Stresses in a Camp Stool, T. E. N., 161

Stresses in a Camp Stool, C. E. S., 173

Stresses in a Camp Stool, Scrutator, 131

Stresses in a Camp Stool, E. J. Wilson, 173

Stresses in the Iowa Bridge, J. H. Cunningham, 172

Stresses in the Iowa Bridge, The, Robt. 11.

Graham, 153, 193

Stresses in the Legs of a Cross-legged Stool Puzzled, 93

Stresses in Rolling Mills, R. T. C , 73

Stresses in Tension Rods, L., 307

Technical Education, Expert, 339

Technical Education, H. J., 87

Technical Education in its Bearing on Foreign Competition, C., 247

Technical Education and Foreign Competition. Gaffer, 439

Technical Education and Foreign Competition,

Technical Instruction, W. A. S. B., 107 162

Technical Instruction, (’., JOG

Technical Instruction, An Engineer. 162

Telegraphy and Lightships, T. Bradshaw, 172

Test of Stone Breakers, S. Mason ami Son. 287

Theoretic Diagrams, J. Jennings ('ampML 18

Theoretic Diagrams, Thomas Mudd. 56

Theory of the Steam Engine, Technical Unit,

Theory of Struts, The, T. Claxton Fidler, 347 Tidal Estuaries and Bar of the Mersey, Joseph

Boult, 418, 518, 535

Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersey A. F. Fowler, 418

Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersey C. P. J., 459

Tidal Estuaries and Bar of the Mersey, J. V., 535

Tinning Gun-metal '! Fortis, 11

Torpedo Boat Boilers, M. A,, 29

Torpedo Boat Casualties, J. A., I

Torpedo Boat Casualties, John Donaldson, 4 Torpedo Boat Casualties, W. A. Martin, 4 Torpedo Boat Casualties, Win. Thompson, 78 Town Refuse Crematories ? Subscriber, 51 Trial of Stone Breakers, W. H. Baxter and Co., 307

Trial of Stone Breakers, Pp. Lancashire Patent Belting and Hose Company, S. J. McMeehan, ‘-a

Trial of Stone Breakers, H. J. McMeehan, 307 Triple Expansion Engines, Robt. S. Lawrence, 29 Water Softening, J. W. Gray and Son, 386,448 Water Softening, Andrew Howatson, 153, 348, 386, 418

Water Softening, John H. Porter, 139, 118

Water Softening, The Stanhope Company, Limited, 439

Water Softening, The Clark Process, A. B. C., 371

ater Softening, The Clark Process, The Stan-hope Comi»any, Limited, John S. Sawrcy, 371 Water-tube Boilers, T. W. Baker, 338, 419 Water-tube Boilers, Conrad Knap, 2438, 370 W elding and Tempering < -ast Steel ? N. ., 293 Working Women, their Present, their Future,

Walter Besant, 87

“Lever” Dynamo and Arc Lamp, The, 329 Leviathans of the Deep, 295

Lifeboat Service, The. 391

Light for Instantaneous Photographs, Messrs.

Goedicke and Miethe, 131

Lighthouses, Mr. A. K. Brydges, 371

Lightning Tapper, 239

Limpsfield and Oxtod Waterworks, 197

Liquid Fuel, 474

Liquid Fuel on the Thames, 395

Literature :

Analysis of the Accounts of Gas Companies and Corporations, 1886, John Allan, Offices of the Gas World, 315

Annali di Agricoltura, 1887, Rivista del Ser-vizio Minerario nel 1885, 375

Civil Engineers’ Field Book, The, Designed for the Use of the Locating Engineer, by Edward Butts, 357

Civil Engineers’ Pocket Book, The, by John C. Trautwine, 375

Conversion of English Timber, The London : W. Rider and Son, 357

The Economic Theory of the Location of Rail-ways, by Arthur Mellen Wellington, 414

Exercises on Quantitative Chemical Analysis, with a Short Treatise on Gas Analysis, by W. Dittmar, 395

Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, von dem Verein Hiitte, 157

Electrical Distribution by Alternating Currents and Transformers, by Rankin Kennedy, 456

Electricity for Public Schools and Colleges, by W. Larden, 296

Elementary Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Perfectly Elastic Solids, with a short Account of Viscous Fluids, by W. J. Ibbotson, 13

Factory Accounts : Their Principles and Practice, by Emile Garcke and I. M. Fells, 217

Field Practice of Laying Out Circular Curves for Railroads, The, by John C. Trautwine, 375

Geology of England and Wales, The, by Horace Woodward, 74

Health of Nations, The : Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick, with a Biographical Dissertation, by Benjamin Richardson, 237

Iron Bridges of Moderate Span : Their Construction and Erection, by Hamilton Weldon Pend red, 395

London Water Supply: An Analysis of the Accounts of the Metropolitan Water Companies, by Alfred Lass, 335

Magneto and Dynamo Electric Machines, with Description of Electric Accumulators : Practical Handbook, Trans, from the German of Glacer de Cew, 177

Matter and Energy: Are these Two Real Things in the Physical Universe, by B. L. L., 74

Metallurgy of Silver, Gold, and Mercury in the United States, The, by T. Egleston, Vol. I., Silver, 395

Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting, by E. D. Peters, jun., 415

Notesand Formulae for Mining Students, by J.

H. Merivale, 315

Particulars of the War-ships of the World, extracted from the {i Universal Register” for the Year commenced 1st April, 1887, 32

Practical Engineers’ Handbook, The: Comprising a Treatise on Modern Engines and Boilers, Marine, Locomotive, and Stationary, &c., by W. S. Hutton, 177

Practical Handbook on Pump Construction, by Philip H. Bjoerling, 479

Practical Treatise on Petroleum, by Benjamin J. Crew, 74

Pump Catechism: A Practical Help to Runners, Owners, and Makers of Pumps of any Kind, by Robert Grimshaw, 479

Die Schiffmaschinen, ihre Construction, Wirk-ungsweise, und Bedienung, Ein Hand u Nachschlagebuch fur Ingenieure u.s.w., Bear-beitet von Carl Busley, 197

Theory and Practice of Electro-Deposition, &c.. by Dr. G. Gore, 296

Theory and Practice of Surveying, The, by J.

B. Johnson, 114

Treatise on Azimuth, with a Study of the Astronomical Triangle and of the Effect of Errors in the Data, by Joseph Edgar Craig, 456

Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction as Applied to the Working of Street or other Railways, by J. Bucknail Smith, 357

Treatise on the Integral Calculus, Part I. containing an Elementary Account of Elliptic Integrals and Applications to Plain Curves, byR. A. Roberts, 477

Littleport and Downham Pumping Stations, 103

Local Government and Public Works, 215

Lock-nut and Washer, New, 358

Lock Washer, New, 180

Locomotive, Messrs. Black, Hawthorne, and Co., 6

Locomotive Blast Pipes, 56

Locomotive Boiler Fittings, Messrs. Gresham and

Craven, 57

Locomotive Cylinders, The Proportion of, 538

Locomotive and Elastic Oscillation, 494

Locomotive Engine Blast, 161

Locomotive, The Field Electric, 450

Locomotive, Four-coupled Outside Cylinder, London and South-Western Raiiway (Supplement, November 4th, 1887), 370

Locomotive, High-speed Road, 496, 500

Locomotive, London and South-Western Railway, 385, 392, 407, 432, 462

Locomotive, The Ten-wheeled Tank, China Railways, Messrs. Dubs and Co., 410, 412, 493, 498

Locomotives, English and American, 339

Locomotives, High and Low, 470

Locomotives, High and Low, Professor A. G.

Greenhill on, 445

Locomotives at the Newcastle Exhibition, 6

Locomotives, Sanding, 357

Locomotives, Steam Tramway, 355

London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company’s Denial of Report Concerning Cattle Trucks, 249

London and South-Western Railway Locomotive, 385, 392, 407,^432, 462

Long Struts ? 175

Lord Canarvon on Imperial Defence, 236

Loss of Merchant Shipping, The, 543

Lowestoft Ravine Bridge, Mr. B. M. Parkinson, 191

Lowry’s Continuous Action Gyratory Stone Breaker, 521

Lundborg Design, Sir Wm. Thomson’s Lecture and the, 172

Luton Sewage Works, The, 420

Luxemburg, The Iron Industry of, 57

MuDOUGALL’S Steam Trap, 521

Machine Drawing, Cheap Copies, 499

Machine Tools at the Newcastle Exhibition, 256

Machinery for the East, 155

Machines for Treating Auriferous Materials, Messrs Jordan and Commans, 210

McLaren’s Brake, R.A.S.E. Type, 482

McLaren’s, Messrs., Engine Trials, 460, 461, 482

McLaren’s High Speed Road Locomotive, 496, 500

Magnesia, a Substitute for Plaster of Paris, Dr.

Frank on, 317

Maligakanda Reservoir, Thcj 51, 542

Manchester Exhibition : 64, 118

Cotton Machinery at, 75

Locomotive Boiler Fittings, Messrs. Gresham and Craven, 57

Locomotives at, 64, 118

Nut Finishing Machine, Messrs. Dunderdale, Wood and Co., 35

Schiele Ventilating Fan, 171

Manchester Fire Brigade, 317

Manchester Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 253

Manchester Ship Canal, 500

Manchester Ship Canal Commenced, The, 409

Mandril, Expanding Face Plato, 388

Mannheim, New Bridge at, Competitive Designs, 489, 492

Map of the Clyde Estuary, 138

Margate, Dr. Page’s Report on the Sanitary Condition of, 75

Marine Boilers, The Management of, 155

Marine Boilers, Management of, 172

Marine Engine Bearings, 193

Marine Engineering, Recent Developments in, 96

Manne Engines from the Shipowners’ Point of View, 175

Mason’s Lever Cracking Motion Stonebreaker, 328

Mechanical Engineers at Edinburgh and Dundee, With the, 135

Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Apparatus for Determining, 213

Mediterranean Railway, The, 457

Mediterranean Railway Co.’s Pietrarsa and Granile

Works, Naples, 512

Mersey Bar, The, 287

Metallurgical Department of King’s College, The, 247

Mica Mine, A, 232

Midland Railway, The, 134

Midland Railway Express Engine, 517

Mill, The Carter-Turner Three High Roller, 405

Mill, Head’s Improved Blooming or Cogging, 269

Mill and Sieves, Multiple Roller Break, Mr. J. A.

Bucholz, 41, 47

Millers’ Convention, Mr. H. Simon’s Paper at the, 36, 58

Milling, Early Roller, 87

Milling Machine, The, a Substitute for the Planer, 499

Milling Machine, Universal, Messrs. Tangye and Co., 396

Milling Machinery, Modern, 4, 29

Milling Machinery, Roller, 56, 87, 131

Milling, Modern—:its Birth and Development, Mr.

Gilbert Little, 41

Mills, Hand Power, 235

Miner’s Safety Lamps, Mr. Win. Wood on, 471

Mining Bill, A Year’s, 197

Mining in East Scotland, 216

Mining Institutions of Great Britain, 124

Miscellanea, 9, 25, 49, 67, 91, 111, 126, 153, 169, 189, 209, 229, 251, 267, 291, 311, 327, 349, 378, 387, 411, 433, 453, 475, 491, 515, 539

Modern Milling—its Birth and Development, by Mr. Gilbert Little, 167, 404

Monitors and Turret Ships, 131, 153, 172, 213

Montreal, The Harbour of, 296

Moorgate-street Station Roof, 271

Moseley, Mr. Charles, 296

Motors for Electric Lighting, Trials of, 66

Multi-Cylinder Engines, 153, 213

Mumford’s Marine Engine, 125

NAVAL Docks in China, 307

Naval Engineer Appointments, 20, 52, 69, 126, 183, 243, 278, 328, 359, 375, 396, 420, 452, 479, 511

Naval Engineer Students, 367

Naval Review, The, 93

Newberry-Vautin Gold Extraction Process, The, 273

Newcastle Engine Trials, The, 63, 105, 147

Newcastle Exhibition, The :

Apparatus for the Analysis of the Products of Combustion, Mr. J. E. Stead, 48

Condenser, Double Distilling, Messrs. Rayner, 276

Distiller and Pump, Combined “Compactum,” Mr. John Kirkaldy, 7

Electrical Governor, Messrs. Robey and Co., 8

Engine, Compound, Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co., 43

Engine, Compound Portable, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, 147

Engine, Compound Traction, Mr. E. Foden, 43, 46

Engine. Simple, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 42

Engine Trials at, 42

Express Engine, London and South-Western Railway, Mr. W. Adams, 108

Feed-water Heater, Mr. John Kirkaldy, 7

Foundry Ladle, Messrs. Goodwin and How, 5

Furnace Mouth Rivetter, Messrs. Tweddell, Platt, and Fielding, 5, 7

Gas Engine, Rollason’s, The Beck Gas Engine Company, 276

Hydraulic Pipe Testing Apparatus, The Glenfield Company, 277

Implement Trials at, 76

Locomotive, Messrs. Black, Hawthorne, and

Company, 6

Machine Tools at, 256

Plan of the Implement Yard at, 15

Plate-closing Rivetter, Messrs. Tweddell, Platt, and Fielding, 5, 7

Potato Digger, Messrs. Penny and Co., 76

Potato Digger, Mossrs. Powell Bros., 76

Potato Planter, Messrs. Murray, 76

Stoker, Messrs. Johnston and Blandford, 256

Syphon Meter, Messrs. W. and B. Cowan, 277

Tool Holder, Gavin Jones, 256

Weighing Machine, Prize Cattle, Messrs. Hart and Co., 77

New Companies, 21, 39, 61, 83, 101, 121, 143, 165, 183, 203, 243, 261, 281, 301, 321, 343, 363, 381, 401, 423, 443, 465, 485, 505, 529, 549

Newhaven Drainage, 92, 96

New South Wales Railways, The, 23

Newton’s Third Law of Motion, 29

New York to Liverpool in a Cattle-ship, From, 286 New Zealand, Total cost of the Harbour Defences of, 398

Niagara Suspension Bridge, New Towers of the, 481

Nordenfelt, The, 519

! Nordenfelt Submarine Vessel, Official Trial of the, I 511

North Derbyshire Colliery, Visit to, 220

North of England, The, 19, 38, 59, 82, 100, 119, 142, 164, 181, 202, 222, 241, 260, 300, 319, 342,

361, 380, 400, 422, 442, 463, 484, 504, 527, 547 Notes from Germany, 20,38, 60, 82, 100, 120, 142,

164, 182, 202, 222, 242, 260, 280, 300, 320, 342,

362, 380, 400, 422, 442, 464, 484, 504, 528, 548 Notes from Lancashire, 19, 37, 59, 81, 99, 119, 141,

163, 181, 201, 221, 241, 259, 279, 299, 319, 341,

361, 379, 399, 421, 44], 463, 483, 502, 527, 546 Notes and Memoranda, 9, 25, 49, 67, 91, 111, 126,

153, 169, 189, 209, 229, 251, 267, 29], 311, 327, 349, 378, 387, 411, 433, 453, 475, 491, 515, 539 Notes from Scotland, 20, 38, 60, 82, 100, 120,142,

164, 182, 202, 222, 242, 260, 280, 300, 320, 342,

362, 380, 400, 442, 464, 484, 504, 528, 548

Notices to Correspondents, 11, 31, 51, 73, 93, 113, 133, 155, 175, 195, 215, 235, 253, 273, 293, 313, 333, 355, 373, 393, 413, 435, 455, 477, 497, 519, 541

Nut-finishing Machine, Messrs. Dunderdale, Wood and Co., 35

OBITUARY

■ Buddicom, Mr. W. B., 180

Clark, Mr. Alvan, 173

i Clarke, Mr. John Algernon, 437

Hall, Mr. William, 131

Hunt, Mr. Robert, 335

• Kirchhoff, Professor, 328

Kirkaldy, Mr. John, 150

Krupp, Herr Alfred, 74, 85, 104, 123

i Walker, Mr. Thomas, 502

Moseley, Mr. Charles, 296

Woodhouse, Mr. 0. E., 296

“Ochwadt” Self-registering Meter, The, 536

Oil Lamps v. Gas at East Molesey, 339

Olympia, Electric Light Installation at, 131, 132

Olympia Hall, Kensington, Portion of the, 150

Oxford Waterworks, Extension of the, 360

PACKINGS, Piston Rod, 289, 290, 292

Panama Canal, The, 71, 73, 156, 430

Paper Stencils, 193

Paris International Exhibition of 1889,150,152,227

Fino Arts Court, 190, 234

Quelch’s Metallic Permanent Way, 536

The Great Machinery Hall, 150

Parkes’ Smelting Process, The, 543

Patent-office Library, 286

Patent-office, Circumlocution at the, 270

Pattison’s Engine Works, Naples, 533

Pearl Button Makers ? 133

Pearn and Co.’s Pump and Compressor Works, 239

Pedestals for Colliery Tubs, Self-lubricating, 459

People’s Palace, The, 316

Permanent Way for the Belgian State Railways, New, 301

Permanent Way Hand Crane, Five Tons, Messrs.

Grafton and Co., 268

Permanent Way, Post Metallic Railway Sleepers,'75

Perpetual Motion in Disguise, 254

Petroleum Fuel, 226

Petroleum Refuse as a Fuel, 176

Petroleum Trade of the Black Sea, The, 357

Photographic Apparatus, Mr. Ranken, 443

Piece-work and Technical Education, 436

Pier, Section of, New Tay Viaduct, 199

Pig Iron Manufacture, The Practice of, 520

Pig Iron, Statistics of the Production of, 199

Pig Iron in the U.S. and Great Britain in 1886, 124

Pipe Cores? 175

Piston Rod Packing, 289, 290

Platt Bros, and Co.’s Works, Oldham, 545

Portland Cement Concrete, 78, 87

Portland Cement, Improvements in the Manufacture of, 218

Ports and Steamships, 74

Portsmouth and Ryde Ferry Boats {Supplement,

September 23rd, 1887), 128, 129, 148, 154, 245

Portway’s Patent Coke Breaker, Royle’s, 517

Postal Tubes, Proposed System of, 407

Post’s Metallic Railway Sleepers, 75

Potato Diggers at the Newcastle Exhibition, 76

Potato Planters at the Newcastle Exhibition, 76

Preservation of Iron and Steel Ships, 415

Press, Combined Light Baling and Finishing, Turner’s, 26

Preston Dock and the River Ribble, 263

Preston Dock Scheme, The, 287, 373

Preston Docks, 255, 307

Preston Docks and the Ribble, 225

Preston and the River Ribble Navigation Works, 270

Preston Docks—River Ribble from Preston to the i

Irish Sea, 439

Preston Docks Scheme, The, 274

Primary Batteries for Illuminating Purposes, Mr.

P. F. Nursey, 388

Primary Battery in which Carbon is Consumed, A

New, 265 I

Priming, 32

Private Bill Work in the Past Session, 298

Problem of Flight, 56

Problem in Strains, A, 153, 193, 212, 233, 247

Problem in Strains, 271

Problem in Strains, A, 287

Problem in Strains, 339

Proctor’s Furnace Feeder, 160

Provident Fund for Draughtsmen, 371

Propeller Shafts, Broken, 339

Proportion of Locomotive Cylinders, 538

Public Works Department of India, 394

Pulp Boiler? 113

Pump, The Differential Feed and Force, 35

Pumping by Electricity in Coal Mines, 460

Pumping Engines, Southwark and Vauxhall

Waterworks, Hampton {Supplement, July 22nd, 1887), 10,13, 30, 65, 68, 69, 97

Pumping Engines, Whampoa Docks, 409

Pumping Engines at Work in Staffordshire, 295

Pumping Plant, An Enormous, for the City of Montreal, 228

Pumps, Widnes Waterworks, 170,171

Pyromagnetic Dynamo, The, Mr. Thos. A.

Edison, 231

QUELCH’S Metallic Permanent Way, 536

Quicksilver Deposits, Prof. S. B. Cristie, 188

RADI AL Drill and Milling- Machine, 544

Radial Steam Hammers, ‘271

Railroad Sleepers in America, 307

Railroads of New York, The Elevated, 317

Rail Joint, Spliced, Mr. Lightfoot, 481

Rail Joints, 78, 107

Railway Accident, A Curious, 4'20

Railway Accident, A Novel, 13

Railway Brakes, 371

Railway Congress, International, 315

Railway Construction, A Remarkable Achievement in, 546

Railway Diary and Officials’ Directory, 1888, The 548

Railway Dividends, 95

Railway Enterprise in Turkey, 175

Railway Extension in Ceylon, 204

Railway Half-Year, The, 520

Railway Legislation, Successful, 519

Railway Materials for Italy, 504

Railway Matters, 9, 25, 49, 67, 91, 111, 126,153, 169, 189, 209, 229, 251, 267, 291, 311, 327, 349, 378, 387, 411, 433, 453, 475, 491, 515, 539

Railway Mismanagement* in New South Wales, 216, 264, 345

Railway Rates and Charges, 437

Railway System of South Africa, The, 391

Railway Work in New Zealand, 192

Railway Working, 114

Railways in India, 478

Railways in India, Mr. R. L. Tapscott, on, 502

Railways in India, New, 506

Railways of Italy, Map of the, 365

Railways and Population, 187

Ravine Bridge, Lowestoft, Mr. B. M. Parkinson, 191

Reaction and Efficiency of the Screw Propeller, Mr. A. Blechynden on the, 1

Refrigerating Machinery, s.s. “Fifeshire,” Mr.

T. B. Lightfoot, 305, 312

Registration of Workmen, The, 114

“Reina Regente,” Spanish Cruiser, The, Messrs,

J. G. Thompson, 352, 354

Reversing Gear, Italian, 512

Riachuelo Bridge, The, 4

Ribble Navigation and Preston Dock Act, 266

Ribble Scheme, The, 348, 386, 419

Richmond Main Drainage Board, The, 197

Rio Tinto Mines, The, 225

Riyetters, Plate Closing and Furnace Mouth, Messrs. Tweddell, Platt, and Fielding, 5, 7

Rivetting of Iron and Steel Ships, 85

Roads in the Colonies, 414

Robinson and Sons, Messrs. Thomas, First Order of Merit Awarded to, for Wood-working Exhibit at the Adelaide Exhibition, 422

Robinson and Sons’ Works, Rochdale, 545

Roburite Experiments at Monk Bretton, 352

Roller Brake Mill and Sieves, Multiple, 41, 47

Roller Mill Plant, Mr. Simons’ Flow Sheet of the

First Complete, 167

Roller Milling, 56, 87, 131

Roller Mills, Tests as to the Power Consumed by Various Machines Used in, 36, 58

Rolling Mill for Corrugated Sheets, 71

Roof of Bandora Station, Bombay, Baroda, and

Central India Railway, 446, 447

Roscoe, Sir H., His Address at the Annual Meeting of the British Association, 199

Roving Frame, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 337

R.A.S.E. Steam Engine Trials, 459, 470, 534

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, The, 33

Brakes, Trials of, 494

Steam Engine Trials at, 459, 461, 470, 482, 535

Steam Engines at, 403, 427, 457

Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes, 495, 518

Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, Distribution of Prizes at, 86

Royle’s Coke Breaker, Portway’s Patent, 517

Rushworth’s Strong Bar and Angle Iron Shears, 43<r

Russian Iron Trade, The, 94

SAFETY Lamps, Sandbrook’s, 513

Safety Match-making Machinery, 195

St. Chamond Projectile, Effect of, on a Steel Plate, 197, 198

St. Helen’s Water Supply, 130

Sandbrook’s Safety Lamp, 513

Sanding Locomotives, 357

Sanitary Registration of Buildings Bill, 52, 86

Sanitary Registration of Buildings, The Society of

Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 94

Sanitary Surveyors, 449

Sanitary Surveyors and Inspectors of Nuisances, 435

Saving Life at Sea, 195

Sawing Grindstones, 11

Schiele Fan, Large, 171

Scholten Disaster, The, W. A., 435

School of Art Wood Carving, 295

Scientific Education, 266

Scoop Wheel at Nordelph, 187

Screw Threads, Relative Strength of, 233, 270

Scutcher, Improved, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 336

Seamless Tubes from Solid Blanks, 396

Selected American Patents, 22, 40, 62, 84, 102, 122, 144, 166, 184, 204, 224, 244, 262, 282, 302, 322, 344, 364, 382, 402, 424, 444, 466, 486, 506, 530, 550

Seller’s Patent Compound Engine, 536, 540

“Severn,” Placing of the, on the Active List of the Royal Navy, 329

Sewage Treatment, Mr. W. J. Dibdin’s Experiments on, 118

Sewage Utilisation Works, Leicester, 140

Sewage Works of Halle, 159

Sewage Works of Wiesbaden, 321

Sewerage of Henley-on-Thames, 325

Sewing Machine and Electric Motor Diehl’s Combined, 265

Shafting Bearings, Mr. H. Fordsmith, 27

Shaping Machine, Tangye’s Self-Shaping, 368

Shears, Rushworth’s, 430

Sheffield District, The, 19, 37, 59, 81, 99, 119, 141, 164,181, 201, 221, 241, 260, 280, 299, 319, 341, 361, 379, 399, 421, 441, 464, 483, 503, 527, 547

Sheffield, Water in, 331

Shell for the Dynamite Gun, A Large, 505

Ship Canal from the Thames to Newhaven, 259

Ship Canal from Woolwich to Newhaven, 270

Shipbuilding Orders for the Clyde, 69

Ships’ Boats, 87

Siee Ho Bridge, China Railways, The, Mr. C. W.

Kinder and Mr. Jas. Cleminson, 450, 476

Silicate Cotton ? Non-conducting, 175

Silk Reeling, A New Departure in, 105

Skidding Railway Wheels, Effect of, 233

Slag Manure, 437

Slabbing Frame, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 337 Smithfield Club Show, The :

('hilled Moulds for Casting Bearings Messrs.

Richard (Jarrett and Sons, 473

Compound Vertical Engine, Messrs. Wallis and Steevens, 472

High-Speed Compound Vertical Engine, Messrs.

Davey, Paxman and Co., 473

High-Speed Vertical Engine, Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, 473

Vertical Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co., 472

Wheelwrights’Sinking Platform, Baker’s “Simplex,” Exhibited by Messrs. Pfeil, Stedall, and Son, 472

Smith’s Forge, Horwich Works, 246, 249

Smoke Nuisance, The, 440

Snow Ploughs, Leicester, 517

Society of Arts, 8, 388

Society, Bristol University College Engineering :

Early Forms of Stamping Machinery used in Brazil, Mr. Fonsica^460

Submarine Torpedo Boats, Mr. Littleton, 460 Society, The Chemical :

Note on the Atomic Weight of Gold, Mr. T. E.

Thorpe and Mr. A. F. Laurie, 403

Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 513

Use and Care of Chains for Lifting and Hauling, The, Mr. Henry Adams, 28

Society, Dundee Mechanical, 70

Visit to the North Derbyshire Colliery, Mr. G.

Worrall, jun., 220

Society of Engineers, The, 79, 490

Acton and Ealing Sewage Works, and Ealing New Storage Reservoir, Visit to, 339

New Formula for the Flow of Water in Pipes and Open Channels, Mr. Edgar C. Thrupp, 499

Primary Batteries for Illuminating Purposes, Mr. Perry F. Nursey, 388

Visits of the, 79

Society, Junior Engineering, 87

Visit to the Beckton Gasworks, 263

Visit to the Royal Mint, 87

Society, King’s College Engineering :

Diving Apparatus, Mr. Sparks, 465

Electric Meters, Mr. A. H. Preece, 360

Irrigation, Mr. Jones, 390

Lighthouses, Mr. A. K. Brydges, 371

Photographic Apparatus, Mr. Ranken, 443

Society, Liverpool Engineering 149 Society, The Manchester Geological :

Miners’ Safety Lamps, Mr. Wm. Wood on, 471 Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American :

Experiments and Experience with Blowers, Mr. Henry I. Snell, 499

Friction in Toothed Gearing, Prof. Gaetano Lanza, 499

Investigation how to Test the Strength of Cement, Prof. Jerome Sondericker, 499

Milling Machine, The, as the Substitute for the Planer in Machine Construction, Mr. John J. Grant, 499

New Principles in Steam Piston Packing, Mr. John E. Sweet, 499

Railroad Bed for Bridge Structures, A, Mr. 0.

C. Woolson, 499

Results from Steel Tested shortly after Rolling, Mr. Felton, 499

Steel Car Axles, Mr. John Coffin, 499

Use of Kerosene Oil in Steam Boilers, On the, Mr. Louis F. Lyne, 499

Society of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors, The :

Examination of some Recent Experiments on Sewage Treatment made by Mr. W. J. Dib-din for the Metropolitan Board of Works, 118 Society, Yorkshire College Engineering, 359 “Ona Brake,” Mr. Wicksteed, 359

Sodium Furnace, Castner’s, 513

Softening Feed Water, 131

South Kensington Museum, 8, 55, 101, 240, 368 437

Southport Railway, The New, 173

Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks, Hampton, Double Cylinder Compound Pumping (Supplement July 22nd, 1887), 10, 13, o0, bo, 68, 69, 97

Southwick Tramways, 107

Spanish Cruiser “ Reina Regente, lhe,, M

1 Spanish Ore and British Steamships, 4r>6

1 Speedometer, Willis’s Hydro-pneumatic, one Staffordshire Colliery Ownersand Pumping Opera

tions, 357 . J TT .n.

Standard Gauges for Brass Unions to Hose, 494

Standard Gauges for Hose Coupling Screws, 440

Standard of Light, The, 133

Stead, Mr. J. E., Apparatus for Analysis of Products of Combustion, 48

Steam Boilers’ Bill, 20.

Steam Engine Economies, 12 , ,

Steam Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society s

Newcastle Show, 403, 427, 457

Steam Grease Extractor, Stuart’s, 397

Steam, Latent Heat of, 495

Steam Launch “Buzz,” The American,. 368

Steam Piston Packing, New Principle in, 499

S.S. “Bencroy,” Engines of the, 308, 309

S.S. “Duchess of Edinburgh,” Portsmouth and Ryde Ferry Steamer (Supplement, September 23rd}, 128, 129, 148, 154, 245

S.S. “Elbe,” Explosion or Board the, 521, 522

S.S. “ Fifeshire,” Refrigerating Machinery, 305, 312

S.S. “ Worcester” and “Oxford,” Triple Expansion, Engines, 89

Steam Tramway Locomotives, 355

Steam Trap, McDougall’s, 521

Steamship Freights and the Iron Trade, 374

Steamship Power, Our, 32

Steel Cables for the Birmingham Tramways, 126

Steel Car Axles, 499

Steel Decking, Messrs. W. H. Lindsay and Co., 289

Steel-faced Armour Trials in Russia, 197

Steel Guns at the Watervliet Arsenal, 89

Steel and Iron Trade Changes, The Advance o", 390

Steel Scale Produced by Skidding Railway Wheels, 218, 219

Steel Scale, Specimens of, Produced by the Skidding of Railway Wheels, 271

Steel Tested shortly after Rolling, 499

Steel Trade, Activity in the, 74

Stern-wheel Steamer for the River Magdalena, South America, 268, 272

Stockton Bridge, Removal of the Old, 183

Stoker, Messrs. Johnston and Blandford, 256

Stone-breaker, Mason’s Lever Cracking Motion, 328

Stone-breakers, Test of, 287

Stone-breakers, Trial of, 255, 271, 307

Stone-breaking and Delivering Apparatus for the Indian Government, Messrs. W. H. Baxter and Co., 431

Stoney Stratford Town Waterworks, 452

Strains in the Legs of Cross-legged Stools, 212

Street Surface-box, Brown’s, 517

Stresses in a Camp Stool, 107, 131, 161, 173, 193, 212, 233, 271, 287

Stresses in the Iowa Bridge, 153, 172, 193

Stresses on Lattices, A New Method of Obtaining the, Mr. William Robertson, 531

Stresses in the Legs of a Cross-legged Stool, 93

Stresses Occurring in Cast Iron and Steel, The Internal Investigation into, General Nicholas Kalakoutsky, 467, 487, 507

Stresses in Rolling Mills, 73

Stresses in Tension Rods, 307

Stretton, Mr. C. E., Presentation to, 504

Structural Stiffness, 497

Struts, The Theory of, 347

Struts, their Working Strength and Stiffness, 345

Struts, their Working Strength and Stiffness, Professor R. H. Smith, 303, 425

Stuffing-box Packings, American, 290, 292

Stuffing-boxes, Independent, 358

Subway, City of London and Southwark, 297

Sukkur Bridge, The, 107

Sumatra, Proposed Railway for, 223

Supplements :

Compound Engines, Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks, Hampton, Constructed from the Designs of Mr. J. W. Restler by Messrs. R. Moreland and Sons, July 22nd, 1887

Supplements (cojitmued):— Kf.Mi-.nd

Four-coupled Express Midlan

Rail way, Decern be r 23rd ,188/ ,

Four-coupled Outside-cylinder Locomotive L.

and S.W. Railway, Mr- W. Adams Constructed by Messrs^ R. Stephenson and Co., November 4th, 1887 ....

.November 4tn, iooz ,f...

One Thousand Horse-power Compound .Mill Engine, Messrs. Buckley and Taylor, December 23rd, 1887 ,

S.S. “ Duchess of Edinburgh, Portsmouth and

Ryde Ferry Steamer, Mr. W. Stroud ley, September 33rd, 1887

Surveying and Levelling Apparatus, 9b

Sword Bayonets, The Faulty, and Sir John Adyc, 274

Syphon Meter, Messrs. W. and B. Cowan, 2/ /

TANGYE’S Shaping Machine, 368

Tank at Haslar, New Experimental, 130

Tansa Waterworks, Portable Engines at, 107

Tansa Works for the Water Supply of Bombay,

The, Mr. Killingworth Hedges on the 53

Tay Viaduct, Description of the New, 198

Technical Education, 87, 106, 107, 162, 173, 278, 339, 393

Technical Education Bill, Conference of Teachers on the, 287

Technical Education in its Bearing on Foreign Competition, 247

Technical Education and Foreign Competition, 439, 534

Technical Education, Mr. Henry Dyer, 384

Technical Instruction, 94, 133, 149

Telegraph, The Writing, 420 ~

Telegraphy and Lightships, 172

Telephone into China, Introduction of the, 180

Tenders

Borough of Leicester, 396

Canterbury, 353

Corporation of Leicester, 353, 375

Drainage Works, &c., at the Hailsham Union,

Polegate, Sussex, 148

Laundry, and Married Couple’s Quarters, St.

Marylebone Workhouse, 24

Litherland Road Bridge, 24

Lymington Sewerage, 232

Public Conveniences at Bournemouth, 148

Road Making under the 150th Section, Public Health Act, 1875, at Bournemouth, 148

Sea-water Scheme for Watering Roads, &c., at Bournemouth, 148

Storm Outfall, Bournemouth, 148

Tenders, Invitations for, 271

Terni Steel Works, Vertical Turbines, 252, 255

Terni, Visit of the King of Italy to, 124

Terry’s New Theatre, Constructive Ironwork of,

Messrs. Matthew T. Shaw and Sons, 283, 285 |

Test of Stonebreakers, The, 338

Testing Apparatus, Messrs. McLaren’s Engine

Trials, 460, 461

Thames at Richmond, The, 177

Thames, The State of the, 113

Theoretic Diagrams, 18, 56

Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersev, 418, 459, 494, 518, 535

Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersey, Mr.

W. H. Wheeler on Mr. Shelford’s Paper on, 383 I

Tinning Gun Metal ? 11

lire Testing, Woehler’s Experiments on, 502

Tonnage of Ships, The, 532

Tool Holder, Gavin Jones, 256

Torpedo Boat Casualties, 4, 78

Torpedo Boats, Bids for, 462

Torpedo Boats, The Concealment of, 511

Torpedo Boats for Spain, Messrs. Yarrow and I Co., 331, 332

Torpedo Boats for the United States Navy, 135

Town Refuse Crematories t 51

Trade Competition and Education, 253

Trade Marks in Roumania, 507

Tram Rail Cleaner, Mr. Jno. Prosser, 27

Tramway Engines, Greig and Aveling’s, 328

Tramway Locomotive, Birmingham Central Tramways, 347

Tramway Sleeping Car for the Argentine Republic, 500

Tramways, Cable v. Horse, 326

Transvaal Industry, A New, 226

rra'o6 i2HCrane’ 5°ft’ Span’ t0 Lift Thr0° T,)nS’

Trial Trip of the “ Halcyon,” General Steam Navigation Company, 9o

Tributary Development, Modern Milling, Mr. G.

Little on, -104

Tunnel in Colorado, A, 106

Turbines, Vertical, Term Steel Works. 252, 255

CM A RI A Colliery, Differential Pumping Engines, 149, 151

Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, 390

United States Geological Survey, 110

United States Navy, 4/7

United States Navy, I he, 541

United States Navy, Progress in the, 116

United States War Ships, Five. J 73

University College, London, 277

Upsetting of a Railway Train by Wind, 203

VACUUM Brake, Another Failure of a, 275

Valley field Paper Mills, The, 118

Valve, Lambert’s Screw-down Guided, 358

Vice Chuck, Cosgrove’s, 27

Village Sanitation, 293

Vincennes Railway, Jubilee Exhibition Building, The, 408, 416 *

Volga, Steam Tug Boat for the, 499

WAGES in Great Britain, 66

Wales and Adjoining Counties, 20, 38, 60, 82,100, 120, 142, 164, 182, 202, 222, 242, 260, 280, 300, 320, 342, 362, 380, 400, 422, 412, 164, 484, 504, 528, 548

Walker, Air. Thomas, 502

Wallsend Slipway Company’s Marine Boiler, The, 7 Walsall Chamber of Commerce and the New Merchandise Marks Bill, 275

War-office Organisation, 113

Waste Bolts, Nuts, Rivets, and Washers, 22

1 Waste Power for Mills, 107

Wasteneys Smith’s Stockless Anchor, 171

Water Capacity of Soils, The, 219

Water Cranes, Pillar, the Indian State Railways.

! 288, 290

j Water-gauge Float, Improved, 159

Water Meter, Kent’s Uniform, 450, 451

i Water Power for Mills, 55, 65

Water Scheme for Halifax, A New, 543

Water Separator, Messrs. Vaughan and Sons, 269

I Water Softening, 348, 370, 371, 386, 439, 448

I Water Softening—The Clark Process, 348, 371 Water Supply of Birmingham, 180 Water Supply Case, A Complicated, 409 Water Supply of West Gloucestershire, 48 Water-tube Boilers, 294, 338, 356 Water Waste in Town Supplies, 495 Watervliet Arsenal, Steel Guns at the, 89 Wear Shipbuilding in 1887, 546 Weardale Railway, The, 35

Wednesbury Sewerage Works, The, 490

Weighing Alachine, Prize Cattle, at the Newcastle Exhibition, 77

Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lamp, The, 318 Westinghouse Automatic Engine, The, 4]5 Westinghouse Brake Tests near New York, 489 Whampoa Docks Pumping Engines, 409 Wheel Pen, Mr. W. F. Stanley, 396 Wheelwright’s Sinking Platform, Baker’s Simplex 472

Whittlesea Alere Pump, 186

Whitworth Scholarships for 1887, 233

Widnes Waterworks, New Pumping Alachinerv 170, 171

Wild’s Improved Portable Hand-power Drilling Machine, 458

Williams’ Fusible Plugs, 513

Willis’s Hydro-pneumatic Speedometer, 358 Woehler’s Experiments on Tire Testing, 562 Woodhouse, Mr. 0. E., 296

Working Women: Their Present and their Future 87

Writing Telegraph, The, 420

YEAST, Compressed, 113

Yorkshire College Evening Classes, 335

Yorkshire College, Leeds, The, 255

ZALINSKT, Lieut., Dynamite Gun. 171

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