The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

The Engineer 1878 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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1878, Annual Article, 9

1878, Diaries for, 13

1878, The Exports of, 28

1878, List of Private Bills, Session, 97, 118, 135, 151, 187

Acaster’s Bail Joints, 241

Atherton’s Patent Tire-Fastening, 198, 324, 349, 386, 441

Allan, Ransome and Co., Messrs., Steam Tree-Felling Machine, 59. 79

Aloe Leaves, Machine for Treating, 293 .

American Mining Engineers, Communication of, The

Prussian Minister of Commerce, Industry, and

Public Works, &c., 348

Anemometer, The Cup, 412

Angle Iron Rings, 293

Arches, Cast Iron, 285

Armour-plates Compound, 125

Armour-plates and Projectiles, 27

Asia Explorations in, Central, 7

Asquith, Mr. W.. Radial Drilling Machine, 163

Association- of Employers, Foremen, and Draughtsmen, Manchester—

Testing the Value of Lubricants, Mr. W. H. Bailey, 372

Association, The Fairfield, 113

Engine Governors, Mr. James Bower, 113

Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London, 33, 214, 297

Emery and Corundum Wheels as Adjuncts to the File and Chisel, Mr. A. H. Bateman, 334

Metaline, Mr. Bateman, 170

Preventing Railway Accidents, Mr. G. B. Galloway, 97

Sewer Gases, and Simple Means of Averting their Dangers, Mr. W. Greenhill, 257

Association of Science and Art, The Edinburgh

_ Steam Stop Valves, Mr. D. A. Cormack, 188

Australia vid the Cape, 332

Australian Mails, The, 116

Austrian Artisans at the Paris Exhibition, 183

Battery, Pneumatic, Dr. Byrne, 279, 406

Battery, A New Electric, 268

Bailey and Co., Messrs. W. H., Testing Apparatus, 30

Balata and Ralata Gum, 239

Becker’s Automatic Friction Brake, Kaiser Ferdinand

Nordbahn, Austria, 73, 76, 296

Belgium, Trade in, 378

Berdan Range Finder, The, 374

Bessemer Plant at Messrs. Brown, Bayley, and Dixon’s

Works, Sheffield, 242

Bessemer Steel, 100

Bethnal Green Branch Museum, 251

Bevel Gearing, 369, 389

Billerica and Bedford Railway, U.S., Two-Feet Gauge

Locomotive for the, 113, 114

Birmingham District, Mineral Resources of the, 151

Birmingham, Exhibition of Gas Apparatus in, 419

Black-drop, and how to Draw it. The, 275, 324

Blair Process of Making Iron, 226, 308

Blast Furnaces, Construction and Management of, 386

Block System and Continuous Brakes, The, 295

Blundell, Messrs., Storm Valve, 224

Board of Trade and Scotch Shipbuilders, 186

Boiler Committee, The Admiralty, 369

Boiler Explosion in Dublin, 355

Boiler Explosions in 1877, 101

Boiler Flues, The Strength of, 294, 324

Boiler Flues, Corrugated, 213, 274, 296, 308, 348, 373, 386, 458

Boiler Inspection, 260, 297, 308, 325, 349, 386, 406

Boiler Plates, Steel, 296

Boiler Plates in the United States, 66

Boiler, Water Tube, M. L. Benoit, Paris Exhibition, 354

Boilers Adapted for very High Pressure, Construction of, 355

Boilers, Air and the Corrosion of, 425, 441

Boilers, Feed-water, 451

Boilers in the Navy, 212

Boilers, New Method of Making, 287

Boilers, Semi-Tubular, Paris Exhibition, MM. Ed.

Victoor and Eug. Fourcy, 392

Boilers, Steel, 304

Boilers, Steel Marine, 111, 115,146, 170

Boilers, Vertical, Messrs. Cochran and Co., 28S

Boilers, Zinc in Marine, 193

Books Received, 13, 83, 135, 337, 371, 463

Borneo, 462

Bower, Mr. B. P., Sewer Gas Trap, 110

Brake Apparatus, Electric, Northern Railway of

France, Paris Exhibition, 455, 456

Brake, Automatic Friction, Herr Becker, Kaiser

Ferdinand Nordbahn, Austria, 73, 76

Brake as a Dynamometer, The, 361

Brake Van, Experimental, London, Brighton, and

South Coast Railway, 380, 402, 404

Brake?Vacuum, Mr. Hardy, Paris Exhibition, 346,

Brakes, Continuous, 65, 77, 284, 428, 441, 458

Brakes, The Action of Railway, 454

Brakes, The Board of Trade and Continuous, 116

Brakes, Firework, 134

Brakes, Railway, 419

Britannia Ironworks, Middlesborough, 145

British Association, The, 13

Brearley and Sons’ Mills, Batley, Messrs., Compound

Engines, 234, 238, 251, 258, 275

Brick Kiln at Normanton, Whitwell’s, '(see Notes and Memoranda, p. 253), 325

Bridge over the Bandon, near Kinsale, 102, 214

Bridge-work, Ceylon Railway, 40

Bridge, The Douro, 409, 445. 446

Bridge, The Fitzroy River, 373

Bridge, Hooghly Floating, 183

Bridge, Tariffville, 149

Bridge, The Tay, 208, 408

Bridges, American Suspension, 331

Bridges of Large Spans for Railway Traffic, Iron, 383 qq on the Punjab Northern State Railways, 335, ii(

Bridges over the Thames at Tower-hill, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Engineer, 213, 217, 220, 221 224

Bridges in the United States, Railway, 186

Brighton and the Victoria, The, 288

Bulkheads, Water-tight. 416, 428, 441

Burn, Mr., Railway Signals, 128

Burner, The Retort Bunsen, 419

Burners, Steatite, 115

Burslem, Local Government Board at, 333

Byrne’s Pneumatic Battery, 279

Cabinet Making by Machinery, 107

Cables, Duplexing, 312

Calais-Douvres, The, 400

•Canadian Government Patent Office, The, 187

Cannock Sewerage, 452

Castings, Steel, 235

•Castings, Securing Studs in, 81

Castings, Small, 458

Castleford and its Sewerage 470

Cavalry, The Arming of, 370

^4y2,0?62TlV69?lToent RaUways-Matal6 Extension, 40,

Champ de Mars, What to be seen in, 331

Charcoal Furnaces, 167

Cherry’s Patent Brake Hoist, 180

Chimney Shafts, 85

Clamp, The Crown Floor. Paris Exhibition. 417 Cleopatra’s Needle, 73, 80, 117, 119, 134, 135, 145, 169, 182 261

Coal and Coal Mining, 157, 205

Coal Crushing and Bunker Design, 123

Coal as a Munition of War, 296

Coal Production, Our, 44, 61

Cochran and Co., Messrs., Vertical Beilers, 288

Cockerill, of Seraing, Rails Rolled by MM., 187

Cold Storage Wharf. The, 170

Collman, Herr A.. Valve Gear fitted to 25-G.P. Engine,

Gorlitzer Maschinenbau, Engineers, 141

Colombo Harbour, 185

Colombo Water Supply, 351

Colonial Defence, 205

Colorado, Moose Mine in, 169

Combination, Power of, 222

Concrete Mixing Machine, Messrs. Day and Lampard, 354

Confectionery Machinery, 259

Contracts Open—

Bridge over the Bindon, near Kinsale, Mr. S. A.

Kirby, C.E., Engineer, 102, 214

Ceylon Government Railway—Matale Extension, 40, 42

Moorswater Viaduct, Cornwall Railway, 149, 151, 152

Convict Labour in America, 169

Copper Sheet, Perforated, 389

Cormack, Mr. D. A., Steam Stop Valve, 188, 200, 297

Cotton Powder or Tonite, 461

Couplings, Automatic Railway, Mr. Hitchiner, 384

Couplings, Railway Wagon, 188

Craddock, Thomas, 390

Crane, Steam, 263

Crane, Watson’s Automatic Loading, 53, 55

Cranes, 161 and 100-ton, Creusot Works, 335

Crank Axles, Breakage of, 41, 61, 119, 130, 146, 219

Crank Bending Apparatus, Mr. E. Clarke. 438

Creusot, Furnaces and Cranes for 80-ton Steam Hammer at, 326, 335

Cyclometer, Mr. J. C. Thompson, 234

Darlington Rock Drill, 239

Day and Lampard, Messrs., Concrete Mixing Machine, 354

Day, Summers, and Co., Messrs., Direct-acting Mill

Engines, 460, 465

Deferred Payment System, The, 25

Diamonds for Rock Boring, 221

Disintegrator, Patent, Mr. Sherwin, 354

Dock, Floating, Victoria Graving Docks, Mr. Druitt

Halpin, Engineer, 270, 272, 273, 279

Dortmund Ironworks. The, 291

Douro Bridge, The, 409, 445, 446

Dovetailing Machine, Mr. Stengel, Paris Exhibition, 435

Drainage, House, 47

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, 25, 61, 130, 168, 170, 182, 200. 297, 325, 349. 406

Drilling Machine, Radial, Mr. W. Asquith, 163

Dudley and Hales Owen Railway, The, 151

Dynamo-Electric Apparatus, Improvements in, 96

Earthwork. Measuring, 61

Earthwork Ramparts, Russian, 323

Eddystone Lighthouse. The, 151

“Edith,” Raising the 8.S., 252, 254

Electric Lamp, M. Reynier, 458

Electric Light, 43

Electric Light, Apparatus for Producing, 447

Electric Light for Coal Mines. 458

Electric Light, Cost of the, 47

Electric Light, Battery for, 9

Electric Light at the Paris Exhibition, 17

Emery and Corundum Wheels, as Adjuncts to the

File and Chisel, 334

Enamelled Dials, 259

Engine Beam, Breakage of a Steamboat, 29

Engine and Boilers at Messrs. Craig’s Paper Mills, Dalkeith, Efficiency of an Economical, Mr. James Brownlee, 107, 125,142, 182

Engine Box, Mr. Outridge, 55

Engine, Compound, Messrs. Brearly and Sons’ Cloth Mills, Batley, Messrs. Pearson and Spurt, Burstall. Engineers, 234, 238

Engine, Corliss, MM. le Gavrian et Fils, Paris Exhibition, 405, 409

Engine, Express Passenger, Eastern Railway of France, M. L. Regray, Paris Exhibition, 379

Engine, Express Passenger, Northern Railway of rrance, Socidtd Alsacienne de Constructions Me-canique de Mulhouse, 436, 442

ExPreS3 Passenger, North British Railway.

Mr. D. Drummond, Cowlairs, Engineer, 5, 6

Engine Friction, Marine, 221

Engine, Goods, Paris and Orleans Railway, Messrs. Cail and Co., 364, 368

Engine and the Gramme Machine, West’s Six-cylinder,

Engine, Horizontal, Fourlinnie’s Patent, The Soctete Anonyme des Usines de Marquise, Lille, Paris Exhibition, 348, 350, 364

El00.’Hor®®. Power Horizontal Condensing WHnJ Wu»tothur, Mr. Brown, Paris Exhi-

uiuon, ooi, obo

Engines of the Inman Steamship “ City of New pany,’4, 8,O20 2TStern En^neerin& Com-Eass.eDSeL Western Railway Of France, Socidte Ernst Goinn et Cie., Pans Exhibition, 399, 415, 420 (Supplement to the Engineer, June 1th, 1878 ) Theeb™rt ny CoTmp°UU^ PumPing. Oberhausen, Engineers, « IrOnWorks Company, Sterkrade,

BnWbti^t30r'iUrninS’ MeSSrS’ Eansome> Paris Ex-Engine, 40-Horse Power, Surface Condensing, Messrs

Ruston, Proctor and Co., 289, 292, 307, 310g

Engine, Wall, Messrs. Aimers and Sons, 393 d?n,e246ng Laboratory at University College, Lon-

Engineering, Sanitary, 425

Engineers, Borough, 204, 219

Engineers, The Institution of Civil. 407

Engineers, The Nine Hours Movement and the 40R E way^oT °f London and North-Western IUil-Enginemen National' Federation of, 371

251“e258“ 273 SrS' Brearley’8 Woollen Milla, Batley, Engines of the Calais-Douvre, 400

aSci.'l^^5 Mi,1> Summers

Engines, Equalising the Wear in Horizontal Steam, Engines, Gas, 203

Fnaine!’ and L?w-Pressure Marine, 09

Stlm^Tn 23n7d M“um the BXhibitlOn’ 322’ S«- <36

Engines, Nominal Horse-Power of 41

• c 4-a s t( Grangemouth,” Compound, ESs. Mltbew^Faul and Engineers, 1*>, 132, Engines of H.M. Steel Despatch Vessel " Iris,” Com-pound, 98, 102, 118, 135, 149

Engines, Testing Steam 219

England’s Commercial Position, 167

English Workmen and the Paris Exhibition, 427

Erie Railway, Sale of the, 296 T>«;ia^a lan 141 Evaporative Power of Locomotive Boilers, 130, 14 , 219

Exeter Waterworks, 18

Explosions in Coal Mines. 5»

“Express,” Channel Twin Steamer, 19<, 289

Farmers’ Club, The London Agricultural Loco-motives, Thomas Aveling. 315

Faversham, Explosion at, 383,.400 989

Feed Regulating Apparatus, Mr. H. S. Maxim, Feed Regulator B fliers, Messrs WPope and Son, 288 Finney. Mr. J , Locking Plate for Nute, 464 Fires, Water Jets for Extinguishing, 328, 3^6

Fitzroy River Bridge, 373

Flexible Wheel Base System, 130, 146, 18-,

Flour Mills, Explosions in, 352

Foreign Competition, Meeting, 240

Foreign Products, Quality of, 390

Forest Conservancy, 64, 426

Forge at Creusot,-80-ton Steam Hammer, 327, 335

Fortifications, 170

Foundations, Pressure on, 63 .

Foundry Work of the United States, Light, 426 Fox, Mr. St. George Lane, Automatic Gas Lighter,

Fox, Mr. Samson, Apparatus for Testing Corrugated

Boiler Flues, 213

France, Public Works in, 208

Free Trade and Protection, 47

Frew, Mr., Close Top for Gas Furnaces, 234

Friction Clutches, 43

Fuel, Patent, 81

Fuels, Liquid, 183

Fur-cutting Machines, 115

Furnace, Gas Glass, Mr. J. P. Rickman, 4o7 . „

Furnaces of her Majesty’s Steam Tug Grinder,

Experimental, 23

Furnaces for 80-ton Steam Hammer at Creusot, 320, 335

Garforth Colliery, Stopping a Leak at, 373

Garrett and Sons, Messrs. R., Spark Arrester, 354

Gas Abroad, Price of, 115

Gas Apparatus in Birmingham, Exhibition of, 419

Gas Furnaces, 27

Gas Furnaces, Close Top for, Mr. Frew, 234

Gas Globe Holders, Messrs. Lovett and Whitehouse, 419

Gas Lighting, Automatic, 29

Gas Producer, Messrs. Ziebarth and Pulsch, 110

Gas Testing, Official, 240

Gas Lighting, Electric, 400

Gas in Syphons, 63, 99

Gases, Analysis of, 95

Gases issuing from Metallurgic Hearths, Composition and Use of, L. Cailletet, 313

Gasworks, Arrangement and Construction of, 275

Gasworks of Paris, The, 440

Gear for Heavy Guns, Loading, Mr. R. C. Smith, 464

Girders, Belgian and English, 17

Girders, Relative Economy in Trussed, 168

Glasgow Sewage, Disposal of, 203

Glass, Iridescent, 45

Glass Furnace, Gas, 457

Governors, Engine, 113

“ Grangemouth,” Compound Engines of the Steamship, Messrs. Mathew, Paul and Co., 129, 132, 402

Grinding Com in Odessa, 360

Gun, French Steel Field, 421

Gun Loading Gear, Smith’s, 464

Gun, New 100-ton, 134, 170

Gunpowder without Water, Manufacture of. 128

Guns, 100-ton, 229

Guns, Progress in Field, 99

Guns, Protection of Casemate, 25, 170

Guns for Russia, Krupp, 115

Guns, Testing, 303

Hatfield Collisions, The, 27,146

Hammer, 80-ton Steam, Paris Exhibition, MM.

Schneider et Cie., Creusot, 330, 335, 464

Hammer Foundations, Steam, 359

Hardware English, 402

Harmonic Analysis Applied to the Reduction of

Meteorological Observations, 291

Hay-pressing Plant in the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, Messrs. Hayward Tylor and Co., 457

Heating Buildings, 100, 115, 130

Heating by Steam in New York, 279

Hoist, Patent Brake, Mr. Cherry, ISO

Holmes’ Patent Movable Shaft Bearing, 188

Hooghly Floating Bridge, The, 183

Hoop Iron, Thick-ended, 167

Howitzer, New Rifled Muzzle-loading, 381

H.M. Steel Despatch Vessel “ Iris,” Compound

Engines of, 98. 102, 118, 135, 149, 196, 207

H.M.S. “ Iris,” Trials of, Mr. R. Mansell, 381

H.M.S. Tug “ Grinder,” Furnaces of, 23

H.M.S. “Hercules,” 96

Huelva Pier of the Rio Tinto Railway, The, 814

Hughes, Professor E. D., Telephone, Microphone, and

Thermopile, 343

Hull Waterworks, 66

Hydrogen, Liquefaction of, 47

“Inflexible,” H.M.S., 165, 195, 203. 206

Inertia, Influence of, on the Performance of Steam Engines, 177, 237

Inman Steamship “City of New York,” Engines of the, North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, 3, 20, 26*

Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and

Ireland, 110

Institute, The Franklin—

Examination of the Phonograph Record under the

Microscope, Mr. P. Frazer, 367

Institute of Great Britain, The Sanitary 356 Institute, The Iron and Steel, 214’

AcastePs Rail Joints, Mr. Halcomb 241

Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails, as made at the

Works of Messrs. Brown, Bayley, and Dixon _ Sheffield, Mr. C. B. Holland, 241, 242’

Kennedy’s Spiral Punch, Mr. F. W. Webb 241 Recent Improvement in the Manufacture of Iron

Sponge by the Blair Process, Mr. J. Ireland

Engineer, 226’

Separation of Phosphorus from Pig Iron, Mr. I. L.

JDCll, Zlo,

Steel-casting Apparatus, Mr. Michael Scott. 255 Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 36 96 135

263, 289, 355, 371, 383, 402 ’ W ’

The Alexandra Bridge over the Chenab, Mr H

Lambert, the Punjab Northern State Railway’

C°h£?C£°? of Si?amT goilors Adapted for very High Pressure, Mr. J. F. Flannery, 355

Conversazione of the Institution, 402

Institution of Civil Engineers (continued)—

On the Design Generally of Iron Bridges of very Large Spans for Railway Traffic, Mr. T. C. Clarke, 383

Direct-acting or Non rotative Pumping Engines and Pumps, Mr. Davey, 257

Dynamo-electric Apparatus, Recent Improvements in, Dr. Higgs and Mr. Brittle, 96

Evaporative Power of Locomotive Boilers, Mr. J. A.

Longridge, 130

Hooghly Floating Bridge, Mr. Bradford Leslie, 183

Inaugural Address of tne President, 36

The Jhelum Bridge, Mr. F. M. Avern, the Punjab

Northern State Railway, 335

Liquid Fuels, Mr. H. Aydon, 183

Railway Appliances at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, Mr. D. Galton, 256

The Ravi Bridge at Lahore, Mr. R. T. Mallet, the Punjab Northern State Railway, 335

Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland—

Construction and Management of Blast Furnaces, Discussion on, 386

Improved Fixed Bessemer Converter, Mr. L. Wit-noffs, 175

Mackay and McGeorge’s Hydraulic Rivetting Machine, 386

Mechanical Puddling, Mr. J. A. Jones, 63

Phosphorus in Iron Ore and in Iron, Part IL, Mr.

Stead, 66

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland—

Late Action of the Board of Trade with Regard to Safety Valves, Mr. W. Denny, 185, 189

Strain and Fracture in Bars of Various Materials, 83

Institution of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, 290

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 83, 232, 325

On the Appliances and Operations for Raising the Wreck “Edith, ’ Mr. L. M. Kortwright, at Holyhead, 252, 261

Construction of Vessels to Resist High Internal Pressure, Mr. C. W. Siemens, 287

Cost of Working Different Descriptions of Railway Traffic, Mr. F. R. Conder, 256, 261

Experiments Relative to Steel Boilers, Mr. Boyd.

270

Floating D ock upon an Improved System at the Victoria Graving Docks, Mr. C. Elwin, 270, 272. 273, 279

Further Application of the Flow of Solids, M. Henri Tresca, 428

Institution of Naval Architects, 189, 261

Comparative Efficiency of Single and Twin-scraw Propellers in Deep Draught Ships, Mr. W. H. White, 261

Effect of Punching on Iron and Steel Plates, Mr.

A. C. Kirk, 207

Royal Naval College and the Mercantile Marine, Mr.

W. John, 274

On the Use of Steel for Marine Boilers and anmo Recent Improvements in their Construction Mr W. Parker, 304

Iridescent Glass, 45

“Iris,” H.M.S., 406

Iron Barrows, 27

Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham-Wolverhampton, and Other Districts, 16, 33, 51, 71 88, 105, 123, 139, 156, 175, 193, 211, 229, 216, 267 283* 301, 318, 341, 359, 377, 397, 433, 451, 469

Iron, Enamelling, 43

Iron Goods, American, 406

Iron Making in India, 278, 308

Iron Mountain in New Mexico, Discovery of an 284

Iron, Necessity of Cheapening, 169

Iron from Old Steel Rails, 6

Iron, Phosphorus in, 66

Iron Pipes, Preservation of, 81

Iron, Purification of, 6, 7, 41, GO, 79

Iron, Sheet, 207

Iron Shipbuilding, 208

SQ^nge by thc BlaIr Pr0CC5s> Manufacture of, 30b

Iron, Spongy, 407

Iron, Steel, and Allied Trades in 1877, 195

Iron and Steel Plates, Effect of Punching on. 207

Iron and Steel Trades in 1877, British. 24

Iron, Strength of Cast, 99

Iron Surfaces, The Preservation of. 259

Iron Trades, The, 43

Iron Trade, Reduced Profits in the. 117

Iron Trade, Statistics, French, 205

Iron Trade in the United States, 135

Iron in the United States, Manufacture of, 79, 295

Jagges, Mr., Metallic Piston Rod Packing, 465

TZu iSon’Tir W*

Joints, Acaster’s Rail, 241

Kennedy’s Spiral Punch, 241

Keystone Valve, The, 416

Kinsale Bridge, 102, 214, 275

K 407g Wllhelm and the Grosser K urfilrst, The, 401,

Lancashire Strike and Trade, Thc 350

Launch Steam Jet, 239

17?Ch of a War Yacht for the Sultan of Zanzibar,

Leading Articles—

R^rospectivc and Prospective, 9

Admiralty Boiler Committee, Thc, 369

Armour-plates and Projectiles, 27

Australia vid the Cape, 332

Australian Mails, The, 116

Birmingham District, Mineral Resources of the.

|X 188 Boiler Inspection, 260

Boilers, Air and the Corrosion of 425

Boilers, Steel Marine 115 *

Borneo, 462

Borough Engineers, 204

Brakes’, Conttaumufos™40’ “d Contiau»'“. H6

Brakes, Fireworks, ’134

in Amenca, 136

BritSh8Tr^ri^Su8PeMlon> 331

cfXVhde\MnX^“y’ 312 Col°lPmiS 8 Xndle’ U7»’l34, 169

Goal-mining, Dangers of 205

^.-Production, 45 05

Collision in the Channel 407

Colombo Harbour, I85 '

Colombo Water Supply 351

Colonial Defence, 205 *

Combination, Power of 222

Competition, Foreign, 240

Convict Labour in America, 169

Leading Articles (continued}—

Corrosion of Mild. Steel, 389

Cotton Powder or Tonite, 461

Craddock, Thomas, 390

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, 168

Duplexing < ables, 312

Engine Friction, Marine, 221

Engineering, Sanitary, 425

Enginemen, National Federation of, 371

Engines, High and Low Pressure Marine, 99

Engines, Six-Coupled Express, 82

England’s Commercial Position, 167

English Workmen and the Paris Exhibition, 427

Explosions in Flour Mills, 352

Exports, Last Year’s, 28

Field Guns, Progress in, 99

Forest Conservancy, 63, 426

Foundations, Pressure of, 63

Foundry Work of the United States, Light, 426

French Iron Trade Statistics, 205

French Navy, The, 133

Gas Testing, Official, 240

Glasgow Sewage, Disposal of, 203

Gun, a New 100-ton, 134

Guns for Russia, Krupp, 115

Hatfield Collisions, The, 27

Health and Sewage of Towns, 390

Inflexible, H.M.S., 203

Institution of Civil Engineers, 407

Iridescent Glass, 45

Iris, II. M.S., 149

Iron Making in India, 278

Iron, Necessity for Cheapening, 169

Iron Surfaces, Preservation of, 259

Iron in the United States, Pig, 295

Iron Trade, Reduced Profits in the, 117

Iron Trade, The, 43

Lancashire Strike and Trade, The, 352

Liverpool Contract, A, 100

Locomotives, American v. English, 44

London Bridge, 63

London Coal Supply, 150

London Streets, Traffic in, 222

London Water Companies, 149

London Water Supply, 81

Lubricating Locomotive Leading Wheel Flanges, 352

Machinery in the Lock and Key Trade, 408

Magnophone, The, 408

Manufactures and the Factory Acts, 259

Microphone, The, 461

Mine Cage Detaching Hooks, 186

Naval Architects, Education of, 277

Nine Hours’ Movement and the Engineers, 408

Ordnance, Our Expenditure for, 443

Paris Exhibition, The, 311, 331

Paris Hotels and the Exhibition, 117

Patents, Fraudulent, 100

Patents and Trade Marks, 82

Plumbers’ Unions and Apprentices, 150

Propellers, Action of Screw, 351

Protection of London Against Fire, 311

Quality of Foreign Products, 390

Railway Extension, Metropolitan, 65

Railway Traffic Returns, Our, 65

Railways, Overhead. 133

Railways, Some Possibilities of the, 222

Reclamation Work, 462

Rotherham and its Engineering Troubles, 332

Seely, Mr., on Ships of War, 185

Sheffield, A Bright Gleam from, 117

Sheffield Surveyorship, The, 240, 260, 278

Station Platforms and Railway Carriage Footsteps, 352

Steam Power on Tramways, 45, 167, 443

Steel, Bessemer, 100

Steel and Chilled Iron Projectiles, 277

Steel, Influence of Vibration on, 28

Strike, The Masons’, 28, 204, 293

Tay Bridge, The, 408

Thames, and the Metropolitan Sewage, The, 43

Torpedo Attack and Defence, 239

Trade Marks Case, A, 370

Trade, Prospects of British, 369

Trade Prospects in the United States, 444

Tramways, Steam on, 45, 1^7, 443

Trussed Girders, Relative Economy in, 168

Victorian Tariff, The New, 186

Water, Red-hot, 100

Waterloo Bridge, 389

Legal Intelligence.

British Dynamite Company v. Krebs, 257

Dalton v. The Savile-street Foundry and Engineering Company, 226

Morgan-Brown v. O’Reilly, 187

Le Neve Foster, Mr. P., 452

Letters to the Editor—

Air and Corrosion in Marine Boilers, J. P. de Winton, 441

Aloe Leaves, Machine for Treating, D. H., 293

American Iron Goods, Non-Jnteilopcr, 406

Angle Iron Rings, C. J. 8., 293

Atherton’s Patent Tire Fastening, W. Atherton, 349, 441

Atherton’s Patent Tire Fastening, Diogenes, 324, 386

Atherton’s Patent Tire Fastening, Joseph Walker, 849

Balata and Balata Gum, B. C., 239

Bevel Gearing, Bevel Wheels, 369

Bevel Gearing, Bodley Bros, and Co., 389

Bevel Gearing, J. H., 389

Bevel Gearing, Millwright, 389

Bevel Gearing, R. N. N., 389

Black Drop, The, G Pennington 324

Black Drop and How to Use it, The, C. B. Allen, 275

Blair Process, The, Fred. Yates, 226, 308

Boiler Flues, Corrugated, Boiler, 296, 373, 458

Boiler Flues, Corrugated, T. M., 296

Boiler F ues, Corrugated, John J. Webster (See also p. 294), 275, 308, 348, 386

Boiler Flues, Strength of, Boiler, 324

Boiler Inspection, Boiler Inspector, 297

Boiler Inspection, J. Criswick, 297

Boiler Inspection, W. 8. Hall, 325, 386

Boiler Inspection, H. Hiller, 386

Boiler Inspection, Inspector No. 2, 308, 349, 406

Boiler Plates, Steel, W. Boyd, 296

Boilers, Steel, Fredk. Ware, 170

Boilers, Steel, J. T., 146

Borough Engineering, Honeste Audax, 219

Brake, The Becker, Becker, 296

Brake, The Becker, T. W., 296

Brakes, Continuous, E. M., 458

Brakes, Continuous, T. G. Hardy and M. D.

Yeumans, 441

Brakes, Continuous, M. Urban, 428

Brakes, Continuous, Geo. Westinghouse, jun., 441

Brakes, Continuous, The Westinghouse Continuous Brake Company, 428

Byrne’s Pneumatic Battery, Desmond G. Fitzgerald, 406

Casemate Guns, Protection of, George 8. Clarke, Lieut. R.E., 25

Casemate Guns, Protection of, J. Jones, 170

Castings, Securing Studs in, Ajax, 81

Castings, Small, The Patent Plumbago Crucible Company, 458

Cast Iron, Strength of, H. S. S., 99

Charcoal Furnaces, Charcoal, 167

Cleopatra’s Needle, Common Sense, 182

Cleopatra’s Needle, W. W., 119

Coal as a Munition of War, Danger, 296

Cold Storage Wharf, Archibald D. Dawnay, 170

Confectionery Machinery, D. ID, 259

Crank Axles, Breakage of, G. Beck, 130

Crank Axles, Breakage of, C. M. P., 41,119

Crank Axles, Breakage of, C. M. 8., 146

Crank Axles, Breakage of, F. N. M,, 119

Crank Axles, Breakage of, G. B., 219

Crank Axles, Breakage of, Walter Shellshear, 61

Darlington Rock Drill, G. C., 239

Deferred Payment System—Re Thomas and Evans, Scott and Barham, 25

Letters to the Editor (continued)—

Diamonds for Rock Boxing, Jos. R. and Co., 221

Draughtsman and Managers. Pay of, F. II. T., 25

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, Alpha, 349

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, Fair Play, 200

Draughtsmen, Pay of, F. A. H., 130

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, A German Draughtsman, 349

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, II. E. H., 182

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, L. II., 182

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, Mechanical Engineer, 406

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, Senior Draughtsman, 200

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, T Square, 297

Draughtsmen, Pay and Position of, Theta, 297

Draughtsmen, Position and Pay of. Triangle, 325

Draughtsmen, Pay of, T. D. S., 170

Draughtsmen, Value of Services of, W., 61

Electric Light, Battery, 43

Electric Light, Battery for, Lux, 9

Electric Lights for Coal Mines, An Engineer (Correspondence with Dr. Faraday), 458

Enamelled Dials, W., 259

Enamelling Iron, An Old Subscriber, 43

Engine and Boiler at Messrs. Craig’s Paper Mills, Dalkeith, Economical Efficiency of an, Thomas Baldwin, 182

Engines, Six-coupled Express, F. H. Credlaw, 200

Engines, Six-coupled Express, J. D. B., 200

Engines, Six-coupled Express, Piston, 119

Engines, Six-coupled Express, Robt. T. Fairlie, 182, 275

Engines, Six-cnupled Express, R. H. H., 130

Explosion at Faversham, 406

Exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition, T. S. Thompson, 325

Fitzroy River Bridge, The, Fred. J. Byerley, 373

Flexible Wheel Base System, T. Claxton Fidler, 130, 182

Flexible Wheel Base System, Jas. Cleminson, 146, 200

Friction Clutches, Oil Seed Crushers,* 43

Fur-cutting Machines, II. W., 115

Galvanising, Punt, 259

Garforth Colliery, Stopping a Leak at, Henry Davey, 373

Gas Abroad, Price of, F. E. H., 115

Gas Engines, X. Y. Z., 203

Gas Furnaces, Fred. Yates, 27

Gas in Syphons, M. S., 63

Gas in Syphons, Wm. Henderson, 99

Gun, A New 100-ton, J. Provenzale, 170

Heating Buildings, Foreign Subscriber, 115

Heating Buildings, X., 130

Heating Chrome Iron, Adami, 461

H.M.S. “Iris,” C., 406

Hoop Iron, Thick-Ended, J. G., 167

Horse-power of Engines, Nominal, W. S., 41

Inertia on the Performance of Steam Engines, Influence of, Robert Gill, 237

Inertia on the Performance of Steam Engines, Influence of G. G., 237

Iron Barrows, J. F., 27

Iron-making in India, J. Ireland (seep. 278), 308

Iron Pipes, Preservation of, Zura, 81

Kinsale Bridge, Alex. Rooney, 275

Locomotives, English v. American, J. E. Clanchy, 61

Locomotive Boilers, Efficiency of, J. A. Longridge, 219

Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition, Crank, 428

Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition, An Express Driver, 428

Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition, J. J. Tyrrell, 428

Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition, C. W.

Vincent, 406

Looms, Brussels Carpet, Textile, 99

Lubricants, Value of, F. L. R., 25

Machinery in the Lock and Key Trade, Messrs.

Greenwood and Batley, 443

Mill Engines, Marine Engineer, 275

Mill Engines, G. hellers (see p. 275), 308

Morse Drills, R. L K., 425

“ Moulders’ ” Ready Reckoner, The, David Neave, 170

Nine Hours’ Movement, The, Alpha, 441

Paper Baga ? M. and Co , 443

Patent Fuel, A Subscriber, 81

Patents, Fraudulent, John Frearson, 119

Perforated Copper Sheet or Plate? B. P., 389

Permanent Way, Henry Simon, 386

Permanent Way, Hilfs, Henry Simon, 324

Permanent Way, Charles Wcod, 373

Petroleum Engines, Bel, 277

Plumbers’ Union, The, C. S., 237

Polishing Saws L. E. F., 81

Purification of Iron, MM. L. Fallows, 7

Purification of Iron, James Henderson, 6

Purification of Iron, J. Jones, 41

Purification of Iron, J. A. Jones, 79

Purification of Iron, Oxide, • 0

Purification of Iron, Phosphorus, 60

Purification of Iron, Vulcan, 41

Rails, New Use for Old, E. Wasell, 324

Railways in Russia, Anthracite (seep. 233), 308

Rheea Fibre, John Greig and Sons, 7

Rhubarb Cleaning Machines, C., 293

Ripping in Boiler Plates, Orlando Cliff, 239

Rolling Stock, North-Western Railway, J. J., 203

Scarcity of Good Workmen, A British Mechanic, 200

Scarcity of Good Workmen, H. J., 7

Scarcity of Good Workmen, A Mechanic, 237

Scarcity of Good Workmen, A Sea-going Engineer, 182

Scotch Fir, Preserving, L. W. P., 63

Screw Moorings, T. M., 443

Sea Water Temperature at Bombay, G. P., 185

Shannon, Regulation of the, Coranied, 61

Sinking cylinders, C. S., 203

Spongy Iron, A. H., 389

Spongy Iron, J. Ireland, 407

Staple Making Machines, R. F. and Co., 259

Steam Hammer Foundations, T. G. and S., 369

Steam Hammer Foundations, G., 389

Steam Hammer Foundations, E. Stocks, 389

Steam Jet Launch, C. R. S. 239

Steam Jets, A. W. Wilson, 63

Steatite Burners, A. D., 115

Stune Getting and Breaking, J. W. P., 221

Stop Valves, Daniel A. Cormack, 219

Stop Valves, Death and Ellwood, 219

Stop Valves, D. T. A., 297

Stop Valves, Foreign Observer, 297

Stop Valve, Cormack’s Improved Steam, Charles L.

Bett, 200

Stop Valves, Wm. McNaught, 297

Strap Driving, Thomas Bramwell, 386, 458

Strap Driving, Millar and Durie, 428

Strap Driving, W. P., 428

Strikes Preventible ? Are, W. H. T. 79

Syphon Lubricators, R. • Weatherburn, 185

Testing Presses, W. S. Bell, 185

Testing Steam Engines, W. H. Northcott, 219

Thames Steam Ferry, Fred. E. Duckham, 25

Thrust Blocks for Screw Shafts, John Anthony, 275

Thrust Blocks for Screw Shafts, 324

Timber, Canadian and Riga, Novice, 115

Torpedo Launches, Engineer, 296

Tower Bridge, The, Ewing Matheson, 348

Tower Bridge, The, Hamilton W. Pendred, 296

Tramways, Steam on, J. L. Haddan, 237

Tree Felling Machine, Steam, A. Ransome, 79

Water-tight Bulkheads, R. B., 441

Water-tight Bulkheads, R. M., 441

Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, W. R., 428

Weighing Machines, W. Q. E. Co., 259

Whitwell’s Patent Continuous Drying and Burning Brick Kiln, Thomas Whitwell (see p. 253), 325

Wolverhampton Tramways, D. Campbell, 81

Letters to the Editor (continued)—

Wood, African Hard, U. S. C., 119

Wood-working Machinery, Wood-worker, 275

Lighting Railway Carriages, 118

Literature :—

Accidents in Mines, their Causes and Preventions, by Alan Bagot, 427

American Journal of Mathematics Pure and Applied, Edited by Dr. J. J. Sylvester, 414

Application of Electricity to Railway Working, by G. W. E. Langdon, 134

Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus of the South Kensington Museum, 353

Chalumeau Analyses, Qualitatives et Quanti-tatives, Traduction Libre du Trait6 de B. Kerl, 240

City of London Directory for 1878, 223

Economic Theory of the Location of Railways, by A. M. Wellington, C.E., 45

Eisen, Constructionen des Hoch und Briickenbaues aus Eisenbahnschienen Von Franz Kessler und Franz Pfeuffer, 29

Elements of Geology, Text Book for Colleges and for the General Reader, by Joseph Le Conte, 371

Essai d’une Thdorie des Vofites en Berceau, en Arc de Circle et en Plein Centre, by T. Belpaire, 295

The Geology of the Fenland, by Sydney B. J. Skerichley, F.G.S., 222

History, Products, and Processes of the Alkali Trade, including the most recent improvements, by C. T. Kingsett, Illustrated, 100

Imperial College of Engineering, Tokei. (1) Calendar, Session 1877-8. (2) Reports by the Professors for the Period 1873-7, 462

Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Nos. xv. to xix., 140

Locomotive Engine Driving, by Michael Reynolds,

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, with other selected and abstracted Papers, Vol. LI., Part I., 260

The Moulder’s Ready Reckoner, by David Neave, 134

Physiography; an Introduction to the Study of Nature, 332

Practical Treatise on Mill Gearing, Wheels, Shafts, Riggers, &c., for Engineers, by Thomas Box, 205

Practical Treatise on Water Supply Engineering, by J. T. Fanning, 332

Preventive Medicine in relation to the Public Health, by Alfred Carpenter, 445

Remunerative Railways for New Countries; with some Account of the First Railway in China, by Richard C. Rapier, M.I.C.E., Illustrated, 169

Report to the United States Secretary of War, 1 vol., 312

Science and Art of the Manufacture of Portland Cement, by Henry Reid 65, 117

Tbe Sheffield Standard List, Illustrated, 463

Slate and Slate Quarrying, Scientific, Practical, and Commercial, by D. C. Davies, 391

Supplement to the Sixth Report of the Local Government Board, 186

System of Volumetric Analysis, by Dr. Emil Fleischer, 240

Tables Permettant d’Effectuer rapidement les Cal-culs relatlfs & la Stability des Vofttes, by T. Belpaire, 295

LeTelSgraphe: Terrestre, Sous-Marin, Pneumatique ; Histuire, Principes Mdcanismes, Applications, Rdglements, Tarifs, &c., by Paul Laurencin Rothschild, Paris, 151

Transactions of the Society of Engineers for 1877, 278

Treatise on Statics, Containing some of the Fundamental Propositions in Electrostatics, by G. M. Min chin, M.A., 151

Treatise on Chemistry, by H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., and

C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., Vol. 1 (The Non-Metallic Elements), 82

Works in Iron, Bridge, and Roof Structures, by Ewing Matheson, M. I. C.E., 212

Lock and Key Trade, Machinery in the, 408, 443

Locking Plate for .Nuts, Mr. J. Finney, 464

Locomotive Engines at the Paris Exhibition, 406, 428, 436

Locomotive, Narrow Gauge Tank, Soc. Suisse Winterthur, Paris Exhibition, 385, 386, 388

Locomotive Tramway, Mr. Brown, Socidte Suisse, Winterthur, Paris Exhibition, 361, 362

Locomotive, A 2ft. Gauge, Hinkley Locomotive Works, 113, 114

Locomotives, Agricultural, 315

Locomotives, American, 412

Locomotives, American v. English, 44

Locomotives at the Paris Exhibition, 322, 344, 379, 419, 436

London Bridge, 63

London Coal Supply, 149

London Against Fire, The Protection of, 311

London Streets Traffic, 222

London Water Companies, 149

London Water Supply, 56, 81

Looms, Brussels Carpet, y9

Lubricants, Apparatus for Testing the Value of, 372

Lubricants, Value of, 25

Lubricating Locomotive Leading Wheel Flanges, 352

Lundy Islanu, Climate of, 469

Maccoll’s Rivetting Machine, 288, 307

Magnophone, The, 408

Mail Steamship, White Star, 7

Manchester Water Supply, 108

Manufactures and the Factory Acts, 259

Masons' Strike, The, 28, 204

Merchant Fleets of the World, The, 257

Metaline, 170

Metropolitan Improvements Map, 89

Microphone, The Invention of the, 461, 463

Microphone, Mr. J. Blyth on the, 445

Microphone, Prof. E. D. Hughes’, 343, 422

Microphone, Pile, Mr. W. J. Lancaster, 422

Microscopical Examination of Water, The, 465

Midland Railway Carriage Works, Derby, Wood-working Machinery, Messrs. Thomas Robinson and Son, 181, 187, 199, 206, 216, 275, 276, 278

Mine cage. Detaching Hooks, 186

Mineral with Castor Oil, Blending, 351

Miners’ Wages, Proposed Reduction of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, 176

Miscellanea, 3, 21, 37, 57, 75, 93, 109, 131, 147, 161, 179, 201, 215, 233, 253, 271, 298, 309, 329, 345, 363, 387, 403, 423, 437, 459

Morse Drills, 425

Moors water Viaduct, Cornwall Railway (Contracts

Open), 148, 151, 152

Moulders’ Ready Reckoner, The, 170

Moysey, Mr. J., Feathering Screw Propeller, 59

Natal, Meteorology of, 469

Naval Architects, 277

Naval college and the Mercantile Marine, The Royal, 274, 277

Navy, The French, 133

Navy, Purchase Department of the, 48

Needle Making, 397

“Nettle," Experiments on Board H.M.S., 113, 125

Newhaven Harbour, 85

Nicolaieff Dockyard, Activity at, 452

Nine Hours’ Movement, The, 441

North British Railway, Express Passenger Engine, Mr. D. Drummond, Cowlairs, Engineer, 5, 6

North of England, 17, 34, 52, 72, 89, 106, 124, 140, 157, 176, 194, 212, 230, 247, 268, 284, 302, 319, 342, 360, 378, 398, 412, 434, 452, 470

North-Western Railway Rolling Stock, 203

Notes from Scotland, 17, 34, 52, 72, 89, 106, 124, 140, 157,176, 194, 212, 230, 247, 268, 284, 302, 319, 342, 360, 378, 398, 412, 434, 452, 470

Notes from Lancashire, 17, 33, 51, 71, 88, 105, 123, 139, 156, 175, 193, 211, 229, 246, 267, 284, 301, 318,341, 359, 877, 397, 412, 433, 451, 469

Notes and Memoranda, 3, 21, 37, 57, 75, 93,109,131,147, 161, 179. 201, 215, 233, 253, 271, 298, 309, 329, 345, 363, 387, 403. 423, 437, 459

Notices to Correspondents, 9, 27, 43, 63, 81, 99, 115, 133, 149. 167, 185, 203,221, 239, 259, 277, 293, 311, 331, 351, 369, 389, 407, 425, 443, 461

Rotary Compound Pumping Engine, I he Goodhope Ironworks Co., Sterkrade, Engineers, 58, 61

Obituary:—

Mr. H. W. F. Bolckow, M.P., 444

Mr. John Cleminson, 226

Dr. Julius Robert Mayer, 223

Mr. Alexander Moore, Chief Constructor of Devon-port Yard, 246

Captain Parrott, 33

Captain R. G. Scott, 212

Sir George Gilbert Scott, 223

Mr. J. P. Woodford, C.E., 386

Oil Testing ? 351

Ooroomiah, Lake, 360'

Ordnance, Monster, 214

Ordnance, Our Expenditure for, 443

Ornament in Manufacture, On the Use of, 194

Outridge’s Box Engine, 55

Packing, Metallic Piston Rod, Mr. Jagges, 465

Paper Bags ? 443

Paris Exhibition, The, 17, 20, 22, 35, 54, 92, 94, 110, 142, 160, 166, 178, 183, 184, 207, 231, 269, 295, 303, 306, 311, 321, 322. 325, 330, 331, 335, 344, 346, 353, 354, 361, 391, 415:—

Austrian Artisans at the Exhibition, 183

Boiler, Water Tube, M. L. Benoit, 354

Boilers, Semi-Tubular, MM. Ed. Victoor and Eug.

F..urcy, 392

Clamp, The Crown Floor, 417

Details, Interior Galleries, 160,166

Dovetailing Machinery, Mr. Stengel, 435

Electric Brake Apparatus for the Railways of France, 455, 456

Electric Light at the Exhibition, 17

Engine, Corliss, MM. Le Gavrian ct Fils, 405, 409

Engine, Express Passenger, Eastern Railway of France, M. L. Regray, 379

Engine, Goods, Paris and Orleans Railway, Messrs. Cail and Co., 364, 368

Engine, 100-Horse Power, Horizontal Condensing, Mr. Brown, Socidte Suisse, Winterthur, 364, 365

Engine, Passenger, Western Railway of France, Socidtd Ernst Gouin et Cie., 399, 415, 420, and also Supplement to June 7, 1878

Engines, Steam Pumping, M. Dubuc, 420, 424

Exhibitors at the Exhibition, 325

Grand Vestibule, 110

Joiner, Improved General, Messrs. F. W. Reynolds and Co., 417

Locomotive Engines, 322, 344, 379, 419, 436

Locomotive, Narrow Gauge Tank, Soc. Suisse, Winterthur, 385, 386, 388

Locomotive, Tramway, Soc. Suisse, Winterthur, 361, 362

Machinery Sections, Leading Features of the, 321

Opening Ceremony, The, 311

Outer Gallery and Verandah, 20, 22

Planer and Matcher, Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co., 439 Planing, Shaping, and Morticing Machine, Messrs.

T. Robinson and Son, 417

Pulley, Bevel Flange, Loose, Mr. Streit, 436

Rod Machine, Power Feed, Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co., 435

Roof of the Fine Arts Galleries, 178, 184

Roof of Interior Galleries, 92, 94

Sand Papering Machine, Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co., 435

Sheet Iron for the Exhibition, 207

Steam Hammer, 80-ton, MM. Schneider et Cie., Creusot, 330, 335

Thrashing Machine and Seed Drill Cups, Messrs.

R. Garrett and Sons, 306

Vacuum Brake, Mr. Hardy, 346, 347

Water and Woods Department, 391

What is there to be seen in the i hamp de Mars ? 331 Wood-worker, Universal. Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co..

439

Wood-working Machinery, 399, 435

Wood-working Machinery, American, 435, 439

Paris Hotels and the Exhibition, 117, 355

Patent Office, The, 349

Patent Laws, The, 243

Patents, Fraudulent, 119

Patents and Trade Marks, 82

Pavement, Wood, 47, 171, 314

Peat, Charring, Mr. Barff s Process, 392

Peninsular and Oiiental Steam Navigation Company, List of Vessels, 470

Permanent Way, 386, 397

Permanent Way Hilf’s, 324

Permanent Way, Iron, 235, 374

Phuneidoscope The, Mr. S. Taylor, 421

Phonograph, The, 378, 438

Phunogiaph Recoid under the Microscope, Examination of the, 367

Phonography Extraord’nary, 455

Phonoscope, The, Mr. H. Edmonds, jun., 421

Phosphoi us fr Pig Iron, Separation of, 214

Pier, Withernaea Promenade, Mr. T. Cargill, Engineer, 62, 66

Pieri Rifle, The, 334

Planer and Matcher, Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co., Paris Exhibition, 439

Planing, Sbap ng, and Morticing Machine, Messrs. T.

Robinson and Son, Paris Exhibition, 417

Plumbers’ Unions and Apprentices, 149, 237

Pope and Bon, Messrs., Boiler Feed Regulator, 288

Portishtad Docks, The, 4u2

Portland Cement, Concrete, 47

Prices Current of Metals, Oils. Timber, &c. (see last page of first member in each month')

Private Bills, Session 1878 97, 118, 135, 151, 187

Press, Compound Hydraulic Cotton, Watson’s, Messrs. Fawcett, Preston and Co., Engineers, 38, 39, 46

Projectiles and their Effects, Competitive, Shoebury-ness, 250, 251, 277

Projectiles, Steel and Chilled Iron, 277

Propeller, Feathering Screw, Mr. J. Moysey, 59

Propellers, The Action of Screw, 351

Propellers in Deep Draught Ships, Single and Twin Screw, 261

Protection, Free Trade and, 47

Puddling, Mechanical, 66

Pulley, Bevel Flange Loose, Mr. Streit, Paris Exhibition, 436

Pulsometer in Chemical Works, The, 453, 464

Pulsometer Engineering Company, The, 25

Pumping Engines and Pumps, 257

Pumping Engines for Waterworks, 263

Pumps for Hydraulic Presses, Direct-acting, Mr.

Ralph H. Tweddell, 84

Punch, Spiral, 241

Rails, A New Use for Old, 324

Rainfall, Heavy, 257

Ram of the Kbnig Wilhelm, The, 401

Ramsgate Sewage, 2o8

Rape Oil for Irish Lighthouses, 119

Railway Appliances at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, 256, 261

Railway Extension, Metropolitan, 65

Railway, New York Elevated Street, 206, 397

Railway in Liverpool, Overhead, 434

Railway Matters, 3, 21, 37, 57, 75, 93, 109, 131, 147, 161, 179, 201, 215, 233, 253, 271, 298, 309, 329, 345, 363, 387, 403, 423, 437, 459

Railway Stock in Austria, Depreciation of, 336

Railway Traffic, Cost of Working Different De scriptions of, 256, 261

Railway Traffic Returns, Our, 65

Railways in California, 79

Railways, Ceylon Government, 40, 42, 162, 16v, 180

Railways in 1865, 1875, Traffic on the European, 367

Railways, Narrow Gauge, 152

Railways, Overhead, 133

Railways in Russia, 308, 319

Railways, Some Possibilities of the, 222

Reaper, Self-binding, Mr. W. A. Wood, 163

Reaping Machine, The Invention of, 337

Reclamation Work, 462

Renfrew Harbour, 207

Roynier, M., Electric Lamp, 458

Rheea, Fibre, 7

Rhubarb Cleaning Machines, 293

Rickman, Mr. J. P., Gas Glass Furnace, 457

Rifle, The Pieri, 334

Rifle, The Soper, 35, 46

Rivetting Machine, Hydraulic. 386

Rivetting Machine, Mr. Maccoll’s, 288, 307

Roadway Construction, Modern, 344

Rod Machine, Power Feed, Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co.

Paris Exhibition, 435

Rotherham and its Engineering Troubles, 332

Royal Agricultural Society, 101, 247, 427

Royal Observatory, Greenwich, The Mean Relative Humidity at the, 469

Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and at the Kew Observatory in 1877, The Relative Duration of Sunshine at the, 469

Russian Armaments, 56

Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., 40-Horse Power Surface Condensing Engine, 289, 292, 307, 310

Saloon Carriage, Royal, South-Western Railway, Cleminson’s Flexible Wheel Base System, 111

Sanders, Mr. D., Continuous Brakes, 77

Sand-papering Machine, Messrs. J. A. Fay and Co.,

Paris Exhibition, 435

San Francisco, Compound Pumping Engines, 198, 202

Sash Fastener, The Yale, 47

Saws, Polishing, 81

Schneider et Cie., Creusot, MM., 80-ton Steam Hammer, 326, 327, 335, 464

School of Engineering, The Crystal Palace, 319

School of Mines, Columbia College, 348

Scotch Fir Preserving, 63

Screw Moorings, 443

Screw Shafts, Thrust Blocks for, 275, 324

Sea Water at Bombay, Temperature of, 185

Seely on Ships of War, Mr., 185

Sewage and Health of Towns, 390

Sewer Gases and Simple Means of Averting their Dangers, 257

Shaft Bearing, Movable, Mr. Holmes, 188

Shannon, The Regulation of the, 61

Sheffield, A Bright Gleam from, 117

Sheffield District, 17, 34, 52, 72, 89, 106, 124, 140, 157, 175, 193, 211, 230, 246, 267, 284, 302, 319, 342, 360, 378, 397, 412, 434, 451,470

Sheffield, The Factory Acts in, 278

Sheffield Surveyorship, The, 240, 260, 278

Shells, Trial of, 237

Sherwin, Mr., Patent Disintegrator, 354

Shipbuilding in 1877, 246

Ships, Steel, 226

Ships of War, Mr. Seely on, 185

Shoeburyness, Trial of Competitive Armour Piercing

Shot, 250, 251, 277

Signals, Railway, Mr. Burn, 128

Silver Mining in Nevada, 1,19, 35, 53, 91

Simons and Co., Messrs., Launch of Screw Steamer, 600 rons, 193

Sinking Cylinders, 2 3

Smith, Mr. R. Catanach, Loading Gear, 464

SOCIETE DES INGENIEURS ClVILS, PARIS—

Further Application of the Flow of Solids, Mr.

Henri Tresca, 428, 445, 463

Society of Arts, The, 452

Society of Arts, The Royal Scottish—

Notes on the Telephone, Mr. R. M. Ferguson, Ph.D., F.R.S.E., 164

Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’: —

Arrangement and Construction of Gasworks, Mr H. E. Hill, 275

Chimney Shafts, Mr. R. M. Bancroft, 85

Design and Construction of the Portishead Docks, Mr. M. Curry, jun., 402

Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers (continued)—

House Drainage, Mr. H. T. Munday, 47

Society, The Liverpool Engineering :—

Appliances and Operations for Raising the Steamship Edith, Mr. L. M. Kortright, 307

Arched Structures, Mr. M. E. Yeatman, 374

Atlantic Lines and Steamships, 85

Boxwood, The Trade in, 85

Coal Crushing and Bunker Design, Mr. J. J. Butcher, 128

Permanent Way of Railways, Sir. Alexander Ross, 397

Portland Cement Concrete, Mr. W. S. Boult, 47

Progress of Steam Shipping During the last Quarter of a Century, Mr. Alfred Holt, 374

Pumping Engines for Waterworks, Mr. Vernon Petherick, 263

Town Sewage and House Drainage, Mr. Wm. Kelly, 193

Wooden Pavements, Foundations of, Mr. G. Smith, 47

Society of Edinburgh, The Royal:—

The Microphone, James Blyth, M.A., 445

Society of Engineers, The:—

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. R. P. Spicer, 112

Equalising the Wear of Horizontal Steam Engines, Mr. W. Schonhcyder, 393

Lighting and Extinction of Gas by Means of Electricity, Mr. St. George Lane Fox, 400

Modern Roadway Construction, Air. Henry S. Copland, 344

Visit of the Members to the Lambeth Pottery Works, 419, 440

Water Purification, Mr. J. Walter Pearse, 189

Society, King’s College Engineering, 97

Coal and Coal Mining, Mr. T. F. Playle, 157

Iron Shipbuilding, Mr. A. L. Alliman, 208

Needlemaking. Mr. 8. H. Heynes, 397

Phonograph, The, Mr. W. R. Pidgeon, 378

Railway Brakes, Mr. R. Blunt, 419

Telephone, Mr. C. W. Cunnington, 157

Tin Mining in Cornwall, Mr. H. N. Harvey, 97

Use of Ornament in Manufacture, Mr. R. Blunt, 194

Society, The Meteorological, 41, 469

Account of the Atmospheric Disturbance which took place in Lat. 21 deg. N., Long. 22 deg. W., on January 27-28, 1877, by J. H. Carden, 469

Application of Harmonic Analysis to the Reduction of Meteorological Observations, Hon. R. Abercrombie, 291

Auroral or Magnetic Cirrus, Rev. S. Barber, 469

Climate of Lundy Island, A. J. H. Crespi, 469

Daily Inequality of the Barometer, W. W. Rundcll, 398

Mean Relative Humidity at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, W. Ellis, 469

Meteorology of Mozufferpore, Tirhoot, in 1877, C. N.

Pearson, 398

The Meteorology of Natal, Dr. R. J. Mann, 469

Note on the Great Rainfall of April lOth-lltb, by W.

Ellis, 398

Notes on the Occurrences of Globular Lightning, and of Waterspouts in Co. Donegal, Ireland, by M. Fitzgerald, 226

Notes on Some Remarkable Cloud Formations, &c., 1 by Captain W. Watson, 469

Notes on a Waterspout, Captain W. Watson, F.M.S., I 226

Observations of Sea Temperature at Slight Depths, Captain W. F. Caborne, 398

Rainfall at Sea, W. J. Black, 226

Relative Duration of Sunshine at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and at the Kew Observatory, during the year 1877, G. M. Whipple, 469

Some Peculiarities in the Migration of Birds in the Autumn and Winter of 1877-78, J. Cordeaux, 291

Winter Climate of some English Seaside Health Resorts, Dr. Tripe, 171, 226

Society, The Physical: —

Physical Action of the Microphone, Prof. Hughes, 422

Society, The Royal;—

On the Determination of the Constants of the Cup Anemometer by Experiments with a Whirling Machine, T. R. Robinson, 412

Society, Royal Microscopical:—

On the Microscopical Examination of wat-er, Mr.

W. L. Scott, 465

Society of Telegraph Engineers:—

Address of Dr. C. W. Siemens, 67

The Telephone and Magnophone, Mr. W. H. Preece, 374

I Society, University College Chemical and Physical, 208

Solids, The Flow of, 42«, 445, 463

Soper Rifle, The, 35, 46

South Kensington Museum, 17, 34, 52, 72, 89, 106, 140, 152, 176, 189, 209, 219, 268, 284, 319, 325, 354, 378, 398, 412, 422, 441, 470

S. W. Railway, Royal Saloon Carriage, Clcminson s Flexible Wheel Base System, 111

Spark Arrester, Messrs. R. Garrett and Sons, 354

Spinning and Weaving Districts of the Voigtland,

Distress in the, 307

Spongy Iron, 226,389

Standards of Length in the Guildhall, Public, 313

Staple-making Machines, 259

Station Platforms and Carriage Footsteps, 352

Steam on Common Roads, 101, 113

Steam Hammer Foundations, 389

Steam Jets, 63

Steam Shipping, Progress of, 374

Steam on Tramways, 45

Steel Boilers, Experiments Relative to, 270, 290

Steel Casting Apparatus, 242, 255, 334

Steel, Classification of, 445

Steel “Corrosion of,” Mild, 389

Steel, Influence of Vibration on, 28

Steel and Steel Rails, Bessemer, 241, 212

Steel Ships, 7

Stone Getting and Breaking, 221

Strange, Mr., Tricycle, 457

Strap, Driving, 386, 428, 458

Strikes in 1877, 108,175

Strikes Preventable ? Are, 79

Sugar in Australia, 72

Sugar Cane Mill for Messrs. Polledo, Rionda and Co., Matanzas, The Farrel Foundry and Machine Company Ansonia, Connecticut, Engineers, 95

Sun and Earth, Constitution of the, 333

Sutton Bridge, Dock at, 41

Swedish Railways, 212

Syphon Lubricators, Mr. R. Weatherburn, 170, 185

Tariffville Bridge, Failure of the, 119

Tay Bridge, The, 208

Technical Education, 135

Telegraph Progress. 82

Telegraphing from New York to Sidney, 451

Telephone, The, 157, 164, 287

Telephone, Prof. Barrett on the, 34

Telephone, Prof. Hughes’, 313

Telephone, Call for the, 434

Telephone, a Chinese Invention, The, 383

Telephone and Magnophone, The, 374

Telephonic Transformations, 374

Tenders, 207

Tenders—

Darenth, Kent, 252

Droitwich, Water and Sewerage Works, 213

Oxford Local Board, 152

Rotterdam Tramways, 371

Solihull (Birmingham) Sewerage Works, Contract

No. 1, 419

Yardley, Birmingham Sewage Works, Contract No. 2, 102

Testing Apparatus, Messrs. W. H. Bailey and Co., 30

Thames, Embankment of the River, 315

Thames and the Metropolitan Sewage, The, 43, 293

Thames Steam Ferry, The, 25

Thames Valley Drainage, The, 128

Thermopile, Prof. E. D. Hughes’, 343

Thirlmcre Scheme, The, 231, 249, 269

Thirlmerc Water Scheme, 175

Thompson, Mr. J. C., Cyclometer, 234

Thrashing Machinery and Seed Drill Cups, Messrs.

Richard Garrett and Sons, Paris Exhibition, 306

Thrust Blocks for Screw Shafts, 275, 324

1'imber, Canadian and Riga, 115

Tin Mining in Cornwall, 97

1'ire Fastening, Atherton’s Patent, 198, 324

Tire Ingots, Scott’s System of Casting, 331

Tires, Cheap Railway Wheel, 7

Torpedo Armour. 234

Torpedo Attack and Defence, 239

• Torpedo Boats for the Admiralty, 1 /1

Torpedo Corps, Volunteer, 402

1 Torpedo Launches, 296

Tower Bridge, The, 296, 348

Town Sewage and House Drainage, 1J.»

j Trade Marks Case, A., 370

! Trade Marks in Germany, British. 312

Trade, Prospects of British, 36 J

! Trade Prospects in the United States, ill Trading Profi ts in Birmingham,134 Tramways, Steam on, 45, 167, 237, 443 Tramways, Wolverhampton, 81

Transit of Venus Expeditions, Results of the, 153,

275

Trap, Sewer Gas, Mr. B. P. Bower, 110

Tree-felling Machine, Steam, Messrs. Allan, R uisomc, and Co., 59, 79

Tricycle, Mr. Strange. 457

Trimming Wheel Teeth, Machine for, Mr. J. Smith, 384

1 United States Navy, Trial of a Steamer in the, 398 University College, London, Engineering Laboratory at, 246

Valve Gear fitted to 25-Hor»c Power Engine, Collman’s Gorlitzcr Maschinenbau, Engineers, 114

Valve, Steam Stop, Mr. D. A. Cox mack, 188, 200, 219,

I 297

Valves, Safety, 135

Valves, Stop, 297

Valves, Storm, 189, 224

Vanguard,*M r. Halpin’s Apparatus for Raising the, 17

Ventilating Cowls, 47

Viaduct, Cornwall Railway, Moors water ,Cjn tracts

. open), 148, 151, 152

Victorian Tarifl, New, 186

Wales and Adjoining Counties, 17, 31, 52, 72, 89, 106, 124, 140, 157, 176, 194, 212. 230, 217, 2-JS, 281, 392, 319, 342, 360, 378. 393, 412, 431, 452, 470

Water Jets for Extinguishing Fires, 328, 366

Water Purification, 1 -9

I Water, Re i-hot, 100, ISO

i Water, Softening, 302

I Water and Steam Powers, Relative Cost of, 83

1 Water Supply, Metropolitan, 56, 81

Water Supply, National, 339, 362

1 Waterloo Bridge, 389

Watson’8 Automatic Loading, 53, 55

Watson's Compound Hydraulic Cotton Press, 33, 39. 46

Weatherburn, Mr. R., Syphon Lubricators, 17(‘, 185

Weighing Machine, 259

Weights and Coinage, International, 135

Went Engine and the Gramme Machine, The, 55

1 Wheels on their Axles, Fixing, 79

White Star Mail Steamships, 7

Withemsea Promenade Pier, Mr. T. C.ugill, Engineer,

Witnesses, Professional, 4<»6

Wood, African Hard, 119

Wood Pavement, 47, 171. 314

Wood, Mr. W. A., Self-binding Reaper, 163

Wood-worker, Universal, Messrs. J. A. lav and Co., Paris Exhibition, 439

Wood-working Machinery. Midland Railway Carriage Works, Derby, Messrs. Thomas Robinson and Son, Engineers, 151, ls7, 199, 200, 216, 275, 276, 27s

Wood-working Machinery, Paris Exhibition, 410 435, 439

Wood-working M ichinery nt the Paris Exhibition, Messrs. Pritchard, Oiler and Co.’s Lubricating Grease, used by Messrs. Reynolds, 414

Workmen, Scarcity of Good, 7, 182, 20J, 237

Yale Sash Fastener, The, 47

ZiEBAKTH and Putsch, Messrs., Gas Producer, 110

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