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Abel, Professor, Gun Cotton and Water Shells, 342, 351
*Abel, Professor, Gun Cotton and Water Shells, 342, 351
*Accident on the Midland Railway, 357
*Accident, The Norwich, 225. 237, 250, 305
*Accidents, Railway, 76, 238
*Accidents in India, 82
*Air Pumps and Condensers, Messrs. Sulzer Brothers, 318
*Alexander, High-pressure Boilers of S.S., Messrs. Crighton, Abo, Finland, 374
*Alexander and Sons, Messrs., Semi-portable High- pressure Winding Engines for Yale, Gloucestershire, 172, 174
*Alexandra Palace, The, 15
*Allan, Funeral of Mr. W., 314
*Alloying of Iron with Manganese, 24
*American Bessemer Works, 94
*American Blast Furnace Statistics, 303
*American Blast Furnace Yields, 406
*American Paper Trade, Growth of the, 161
*American Process of Galvanising Iron, 254
*Americans as Agricultural Engineers, 220
*Aniline Colours, 345
*Arthur Woolf, Mr. S. Hocking, C.E., on the Life and Labours of, at the Miners' Assoc., Cornwall, 379
*Artillery, Russian, 410
*ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS, LEEDS, 460
*ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN, LONDON, 37, 320
*- Electric Telegraph, Sir David Salomons, 274
*- Equilibrium Cabins for Passenger Ships, and Equilibrium Turrets for Ironclads, Mr. Black, 37
*- Improvements in Engines and Boilers, Mr. T. Black, 357
*- Life Saving Apparatus, Mr. John Banting Rogers, 202
*- Three-cylinder Continuous Expansion Engine, Mr. J. Steward, 449
*- Visit to Blackwall Ironworks, 80
*ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS, NORTH BRITISH:--
*- Address to Mr. Foulis, 56
*ASSOCIATION, MANCHESTER STEAM USERS', 185
*- Inspection of Household Boilers, Mr. Fletcher's Report, 316
*ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS, 155, 212
*ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUPERVISION OF STEAM BOILERS IN BELGIUM, 9
*Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Plough Travelling Van, 99, 100
 
*Bailey and Co., Messrs., Feed Valve, 3
*Balloon Experiments, Military, 81, 93
*Balloon, M. Menier's Hot Air, 217
*Balloons, 240
*Barnsley Sewerage Scheme, 339
*Barrow-in-Furness, 161, 384
*Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Works, 183, 211
*Battery, The Stevens, 170, 209
*Bearings, Dr. Kunzel's Combined Phosphor Bronze and Soft Metal, 1
*Belfast Gasworks, Improvements in, 354
*Belfast Strike, Close of the, 176
*Belgian Competition, 360, 370
*Belts or Straps as Communicators of Work, Professor Osborne Reynolds on the Efficiency of, 396
*Bement and Sons, Messrs. W. B., Radial Drilling ï Machine, 374
*Bennett, Mr. W., Standpipe, 354
*Berry and Sons, Messrs. F., Plate and Scrap Shearing Machine, 221
*Berry and Sons, Messrs. F., Wall Planing Machine, 391
*Bessemer Channel Steamer, The, 253, 269, 284
*Bessemer, Launch of the, 255
*Beverley Iron and Wagon Company, Boiler Fittings for Portable Engines, 105
*Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 30, 31, 98, 135, 160
*Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, 211, 222, 356, 393, 448
*Blackleading Iron, 152
*Blasting with Gunpowder Fired by Electricity, 410
*Blower, Root's Patent, 116
*Blowers, Rotary, 97
*Boat Lowering Apparatus, Folkard's, 410
*Boiler Experiment, Contemplated, 23
*Boiler Explosion near Abcrdare, 334
*Boiler Explosion, The Blackburn, 30, 31, 98, 135, 160
*Boiler Explosion at Leeds, 370
*Boiler Fittings for Poitable Engines, Beverley Iron and Wagon Company, 105
*Boiler Inspection in the United States, 226
*Boiler, Mr. Kesterton's High-pressure, 220
*Boiler, 20-H.P. Messenger, Messrs. Verey and Lange, 267
*Boiler, Robey's Patent, 98, 160
*Boiler Setting, 325
*Boilers, Household, 338, 428, 448
*Boilers, Inspection of Household, 316
*Boilers of the Ly-ee-Moon, 310--(See Working Drawing October 23rd)
*Boilers for Steam Tramway Purposes, Mr. L. J. Todd's Accumulator, 105
*Boilers, Strength of, 185
*Bolton Strike, The, 236
*Bolt and Stud End Cutter, Mr. Nelson, 267
*Boulogne Harbour, 422
*Bourne and Co., Messrs. John, Vertical Planing Machine, Chinese Government, 97
*Bowling Iron Company, 238
*Bremme, Mr. G., Elastic Wheel for Traction Engines, 24
*Bridge ever the Allier at Vichy, M. Radout Delafosse, 263, 266, 274, 290
*Bridge over the Mississippi, Railway, 254
*Bridge over the Reuss at Lucerne, MM. Cuenod and Gaudard, 336, 340, 344
*Bridges, American versus English, 55
*Britannic, of the White Star Line, The, 49
*BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE, BELFAST, 127, 147, 167
*- Address of President Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., D C.L., LL.D.. andc., 148
*- Address of Professor Thomson, President of Mechanical Section, Section G, 167
*- Coal Mining in Italy, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Jun., C.E., Section G, 169
*- Instruments for Measuring Speed of Ships, Mr. Fronde, 186
*- Isometrical Drawing, Mr. George Fawens, Section G, 192
*- Prevention of the Inundations of Navigable Rivets, Mr. James Lynam, C.E., 273
*- Report of the Committee on Siemens' Electrical Pyrometer, 256
*- Screw Lowering Apparatus, Mr. E. J. Harland, Section G, 169
*- Volcanic Phenomena of County Antrim and adjoining Districts, Professor Edward Hall, M.A., F.R.8., andc., President of Geological Section, 154
*- Water Power of the Upper Bann, Mr. John Smyth, A.M., M.I.C.E., Section G, 177
*Brock, Mr., Loading Safety Valves by direct Springs, 409
*Burleigh, Mr., Rotary Switch Lever, 6
*Burning of the Liverpool Landing Stage, 99, 111, 114, 115, 127, 132, 160, 211
*Bursting an Experimental Boiler by Hydraulic Pressure, 226


Accident on the Midland Railway, 357
*California-built Marine Engine, 162
*Calender, Messrs. Urquhart, Lindsay, and Co.'s Hydraulic, 345
*Canal, The Interoceanic, 11
*Canal Workin Italy, by P. Le Neve Foster jun , C.E 319, 324, 358, 361, 405, 408, 42b, 434, 441, 446, 455, 463
*Capital and Labour, Mr. C. Stewart Drewry, On the Relation between, 396, 434
*Carmarthen Sewerage, 4
*Carriages, Lighting Railway, 12, 52
*Castalia, The, 196, 281, 304, 320
*Castings in Iron are Accurate Copies of the Mould, Mr. Robt. Mallet, C E., andc., On the Real Reasons Why, 197
*Cast Iron, The Break of, 269
*Cast Iron and the Phenomena of the Crane Ladle, Mr. R. Mallet, C.E.. andc., On the Dilatation of, 231
*Chronograph, Lieut. H. Watkin, R.A., 333
*Chronographs. 393 .
*Church, Mr.. Metallic Piston Rod Packing, 318
*Clapp, Mr. W. J., Coal-cutting Machine. 22
*Clark M.I.C.E., Mr. Edwin, Harbour Works in Callao Bay, Peru, 96, 104, 106, 115, 118
*Cleveland Iron Trade in 1874, 467
*Cloth, Raising, Giacomini's Patent Gig for, 383
*Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 49
*Coal-burning Locomotives in the South, 399
*Coal in Colorado, 232
*Coal-cutting, Mr. W. J. Clapp, 220
*Coal-cutting Machine Trials, 156
*Coaldust as Fuel, 202
*Coal Elevator, Hunt's, 153
*Coal in India, 185
*Cohesion and Crushing, 461
*Colosseum, The New York. 273
*Comber, Mr. W. A., Wrenches and Spanners, 170
*Comet, The New, 29
*Comet and the Weather, The, 99
*Condensers, Steam Pump, 327, 338, 356, 376
*Condensers without Air Pumps, 9
*Constant and Intermittent Water Supply, 297
*Coppee, M., Coke Ovens, 300
*Cornwall, Boiler Explosions in, 451
*Coriosion, Railway Bar, 326
*Costin, Capt., The New Wimbledon Rifle Target, 301
*Couches, Improvements in, 392
*Couplings, Friction, 393
*Crane at Glasgow Harbour, Messrs. J. Taylor and Co.'s 60-Ton, 321
*Cresson, Mr. G. W., Movable Pulleys, 352
*Crichton, Messrs., Compounded Engines of S.S. Alexander, 354, 355
*Crichton, Ab0 Finland, Messrs., High-pressure Boilers of S.S. Alexander, 374
*Crossing the Channel, 392
*Crown, Contracts of the, 396
*Crystal Palace Engineering School, 140
*Cuenod and Gaudard, MM., Bridge over the Reuss, at Lucerne, 336, 340, 344
*Cupola at the Polytechnic School, Angers, 186
*Curves for Sidings, 30
*Cylinders, Condensation in Steam, 231
*Cylinders, Corroded, 222, 250, 269, 284
*Czarevna, Launch of the, 185, 201


Accident, The Norwich, 225. 237, 250, 305
*Dale, Messrs. J. and T, Compound Surface Condensing Engines 20-H.P. S.S. Black Watch, 268, 270
*Dangerous Superheater, 449
*Darlington Ironworks, 208
*Darlington Rolling Mill Engine, 203, 206
*Darlington Notice Case, 431
*Delafosse, M. Radout, Bridge over the Allier at Vichy, 263, 266, 274, 290
*Dennis, Messrs., Stop Valve, 3
*Denton, C. E. J. Bailey, On Disposal of Sewage of Towns, Villages, andc., Social Science Congress, 321
*Determination of Longitude by Telegraph in Connection with the Transit of Venus, 245
*Diamond Drill. The, Mr, A. Bassett, Institute of Civil Engineers, 130,135
*Diggers, Steam, 356
*Disintegrator, Mr. Greenhill's, 470
*Donald and Atkey, Messrs., Machine Tool, 170
*Dovetailer, The Hamilton, 282
*Drawings and Tracings, On Mounting, 453
*Drewry, Mr. C. Stewart, On the Relation between Capital and Labour, 396, 434
*Drill for Messrs. Marshall and Sons, Messrs. Gregson, Brown, and Son's Radial, 47
*Drilling Machine, Messrs. W. B. Bement and Sons Radial, 374
*Drilling Machine, Messrs. Lowry and Co.'s Radial, 283
*Drum Guards, 135
*Dutch South-Eastern Company, 196
*Dynamite, New Application of, 321
*Dynamo Electric Machine, Siemens', 52


Accidents, Railway, 76, 238.
*Eastbourne, Siege Experiments at, 360, 369, 385, 441 461
*Economy of Fuel in Furnaces, 23
*Egyptian Railways, 161
*Elce and Arundel, Messrs., Roving Frames, 248
*Engine, California-built Marine, 162
*Engine at Clay Cross Colliery, 84in. Cornish, Butter- lev Iron Co., Mr. Howe, 224, 227, 234, 236, 281, 286
*Engine at Darlington Ironworks, Rolling Mill, 203, 206
*Engine Fittings, Portable, 160
*Engine, General Engine and Boiler Co.'s 8-H.P. Horizontal, 468, 472
*Engine, Messrs. Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey's Compound, 6, 10
*Engine, Messrs. Hurd and Simpson s Locomotive 153
*Engine Mr. E. D. Leavitt's Compound Rotative Pumping, Lynn, Mass., U.S., Messrs. J. P. Morris, Engineers, 450, 453, 454, 455
*Engine, Mr. Robertshaw's Hydraulic Press Pumping, 390
*Engine for Steep Gradients, Mr. H. Handyside's Locomotive, 210
*Engine, Messrs. Thwaites and Carbutt's Twin Crank Direct-acting, 50
*Engine for Working Tramways, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, 70, 71
*Engineering in Odessa, 51
*Engineering School at the Crystal Palace, 140
*Engineers in India, 417
*Engines of S.S. Alexander, Messrs. Crichton's Compound, 354, 355
*Engines in America, Pumping, 222
*Engines of S.S. Black Watch, Messrs. J. and T. Dales' Compound Surface Condensing, 20-H.P., 268, 270
*Engines, Mr. G. Bremme's Elastic Wheel for Traction, 24
*Engines, Carbonic Acid Gas, 175
*Engines, Compound, 283, 308, 326, 338, 356, 376, 393, 409, 428, 478
*Engines, Compound, versus Simple, 172
*Engines, Mr. J. A. Henderson, M. E., On the Theory of Aero Steam, 141, 288
*Engines for her Majesty's Government, 250
*Engines, Launch, 12
*Engines, Limit of Useful Expansion of Steam in, 110, 135
*Engines, Low-pressure, 137
*Engines of the Ly-ee-Moon, 239, 249, 252, 256
*Engines, Marine, 191, 207
*Engines, Rotary, 478
*Engines, Tottenham Pumping, 338, 356, 410
*Engines for Yale, Gloucestershire, Messrs. Alexander and Son's Semi-Portable High-pressure, Winding, 172, 174
*Ericsson Pneumatic Torpedo, 468
*Essendine Junction, Great Northern Railway, Gasworks and Pump-house, 190, 241
*Essendine Station Gasworks, 250
*Evans, C.E., Mr. C. A., On the Stability of Towers and Chimneys, 231
*Exhibition, Chilian International, 449
*Exhibition at Manchester of Appliances for the Economy of Labour, 449
*Explosives, Legislation on, 263, 298
*Extension Works of the East London Railway, 417
*Extinguishing Fires in Mines, 15


Accidents in India, 82
*Federal Polytechnic School, 391
*Ferrara Waterworks, 349
*Ferro-Manganese, 232
*Ferryhill Ironworks, 102
*Fire Engine Competition at Antwerp, 321
*Fireplaces, Domestic, 473
*Fletcher, Mr. E., Bogie Tank Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, Messrs. Neilson and Co., Engineers, 282
*Flour Mills, Messrs. Tod and Co., Glasgow, 4
*Fog Gun, Major Maitland, R.A., 470
*Folkard's Boat-lowering Apparatus, 410
*Foot Bridge, New-street Station, Birmingham, Mr. S. Woodall, 321, 322
*Foster, jun., C.E.. Mr. P. le Neve, on Canal Works in Italy, 319, 324, 358, 361, 405, 408, 426, 434, 441, 446, 455, 463
*French Coal Commission, 425
*Fuel, Combustion of Powdered, 341
*Fuel, Locomotive, 138, 254
*Funeral of Mr. W. Allan, 314
*Furnace Statistics, American Blast, 303
*Furnace Yields, American Blast, 406
*Furnaces, Blast, 376
*Furnaces, Construction of, 8, 31
*Furness and Co., Messrs., Trying-up and Four-Cutter Planing and Moulding Machine, 202


Air Pumps and Condensers, Messrs. Sulzer Brothers, 318
*Gas in America, Price of, 4
*Gas, Durability of Illuminating, 52
*Gases, Expansion of, 191
*Gas Profits, 225
*Gas Question in tho Metropolis, 119
*Gasworks and Pump-house, Great Northern Railway, Essendine Junction, 190
*Gauge, Messrs. I. Storey and Sons' Magnetic Water, 202
*General Engine and Boiler Company, 8-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 468, 472
*Geometry, Modern, 120
*German Artillery, 185, 281, 425
*Giacomini's Patent Gig for Raising Cloth, 383
*Girders, Economical Limits to the Use of Rolled, 287
*Glass, Siemens' Process in the Manufacture of, 244
*Governor, Marine, 250
*Grammar of Ornament. The, 264
*Gramme's Electric Machines, 476
*Grantham Sewage, 327
*Greenhill, Mr., Disintegrator, 470
*Gregson, Brown, and Son, Messrs., Radial Drill for Messrs. Marshall and Sons, 47
*Greig and Eyth, Messrs., Wire Rope Tug for Canal Navigation, Messrs. Fowler and Co., 136
*Gun Cotton and Water Shells, Professor Abel, 342, 351
*Gun Manufacturers in India, Native, 47
*Gunpowder, 271
*Gunpowder, Carriage of, 327
*Gunpowder, Dangerous Conveyance of, 273


Alexander, High-pressure Boilers of S.S., Messrs.
*Hall, Mr. Robt., 20ft. Loom for Weaving Woollen Felt, 3
*Hamilton Dovetailer, The, 282
*Handyside and Co.. Messrs., 313
*Handy side, C.E., Mr. H., Locomotive Engines for Steep Gradients, 210
*Harbour Works in Callao Bay, Peru, Mr. Edwin Clark, M.I.C.E., 96, 101, 106, 115, 118
*Harbour for Madras, Proposed New, 415
*Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Messrs., Compound Engine, 6, 10
*Hawkshaw's Visit to Brazil, Sir John, 425
*Heat, Economy in the Production and Use of, 98, 116, 160, 240, 307
*Heaters, Feed-water, 79, 97
*Henderson, M.E., Mr. J. A., On the Theory of Aero Steam Engines, 141, 288
*Henderson Process, The, 320
*Herculaneum, Discovery of Silver Bust at, 422
*Hiring in the Iron Trade, Proposed New Rules of, 414
*Holborn Viaduct Station, Mr. W. Mills, C.E., 4, 7, 28, 29, 140
*Holiday Question at Ironworks, 337
*Hopper Dredger, St. Lawrence, Trial Trip of, 452
*Howe, Mr. W., 84in. Engine, Clay Cross, Details of Pumps, 281. 286
*Howe, Mr. W., 84in. Cornish Engine, at Clay Cross Colliery, Butterley Iron Co., 224, 227, 234, 236
*Hunt's Coal Elevator, 153
*Hurd and Simpson, Messrs., Engines, 153
*Hydraulic Engineering Company, Limited, 9
*Hydraulic Tests for Chain Cables, 110
*Hydro-Thermic Motor, Signor F. Tommasi, 221


Crighton, Abo, Finland, 374
*Increase of Third-class Fares, 273
*Independents, The, 138
*Independencia, The, Launch of, 230
*India, The Future Port of, 253
*Indian Civil Engineering College, 50
*Indian Railways, 72, 372
*Indicators, Revolution, 185
*Inspectors of Mines, Reports of, 69
*INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL, 69, 172, 176, 183
*- American Rolling Mills, Mr. Holley, 200
*- Crampton's Revolving Furnace and its Products, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 235
*- Geology of the West Coast Iron Ore Districts, Mr. P. Wurzburger, 184
*- Latest Improvements in Appliances for Manufacture of Bessemer Steel, Mr. Walker, 201, 218
*- New Foundry Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, Mr. T. Wrightson. 201
*- Rampside Boring, The, Mr, Alex. Brogden, 197
*- Setting Bessemer Converter Bottoms, Mr. Holley, 199
*- Valves suitable for Working Hydraulic Machinery, Mr. R. Luthy, 221
*INSTITUTE ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 314, 341, 357
*- Bute Docks and Mechanical Arrangement for Shipping Coal, Mr. McConnochie, 112
*- Diamond Boring Machine, Mr. Alex. Garrett, 113
*- Pumping Machinery for Emptying the Dry Docks at Chatham and Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Rennie, 113
*- South Wales Coalfield, Mr. Forster Brown, 113
*INSTITUTE OF MINING, CIVIL, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE SOUTH MIDLAND:--
*- Colliery Locomotives, Mr. James T. Tatlow, 316
*INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN :--
*- Coking Coals under Pressure, Mr. E. T. Cox, State Geologist, 246
*- Iron and Steel Rails, Mr. J. B. Pearce, 60
*- Midlothian Colliery, Virginia, Mr. Oswald J. Heinrich, M.E., 48
*- Smelting of Argentiferous Lead Ores in Nevada, Utah, and Montana, Messrs. O. F. Hahn, Aubon Eilers, and Dr. R. W. Raymond, 76
*Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 113
*INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE:--
*- Excursion to Hyde Junction Engineering Works, 251
*INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND EAST WORCESTERSHIRE:--
*- Visit to Barrow-in-Furness, 69
*INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 339, 410
*- Diamond Drill, Mr. A. Bassett, 130
*INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (continued):--
*- Extension of the South Jetty at Kustendjie, Turkey, Mr. G. Lenton Rolt, 479
*- List of Premiums and Prizes. 21, 188
*- Nagpur Waterworks, The, &c., Mr. Alexander R. Binnie, M.I,C.E., 379
*- Pennsylvania Railway, &c., Messrs. Charles D. and Francis Fox, M.I.C.E., 392
*- South Breakwater at Aberdeen, Mr. William Dyce Clay, M.I.C.E., 479
*INSTITUTION ON ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND, 350, 357, 404
*- Future of Engineering, Mr. T. Wrightson, 357
*Institution of Naval Architects, 226
*INSTITUTION, THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC, 339
*- Coal Gas, Lectures by Professor Gardiner, 339
*International Exhibition, Kensington, Close of, 187
*International Exhibition, The London, 250, 281
*Ireland, Railway Extension in, 363
*Iron, American Pig, 201
*Iron, American Process of Galvanising, 254
*Ironclads for Sale, 256
*Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, andc , 19, 41, 63, 91, 109, 125, 145, 165, 181, 195, 215, 229, 243, 261, 277, 295, 313, 331, 319, 367, 383, 403, 421, 439, 459, 483
*Iron and Coal of New South Wales, 69
*Iron, Floating Cast, 52, 135
*Iron Industry in Turkey, 192, 417
*Iron Interests in the United States, 456
*Iron with Manganese, Alloying, 21
*Iron Mines, Extraordinary, 316
*Iron with Natural Gas, Making, 6
*Iron, New Zealand, 212
*Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, Mr, A. L. Stevenson, 219
*Iron Trade, Depression of, 448
*Iron Trade, United States, 166, 169
*Ironworks, The Ferryhill, 102
*Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U.S. Navy, Method of Ascertaining what Portion of the Feed-water Admitted to a Boiler is Entrained in the form of Spray by the Escaping Steam, 363


Alexander and Sons, Messrs , Semi-portable High-pressure Winding Engines for Yale, Gloucestershire, 172, 174
*Jack, Hydraulic, 477
*Jackson, Mr. F, W., Mortar Mill, 283


Alexandra Palace, The, 15
*Kahlenberg Rack Railway, 337
*Kesterton, Mr., High-pressure Boiler, 220
*Kunzel, Dr., Combined Phosphor Bronze and Soft Metal Bearings, 1


Allan, Funeral of Mr. W., 314
*Labour Laws, Royal Commission on, 374
*Lamocks Lighthouse, Formosa Strait, China, 392
*Lamps, Improved Railway, 59
*Lamplighter, MM. Baumeister, and Effer's Automatic, 352
*Land, Clearing, 80
*LEADING ARTICLES:--
*- American v, English Bridges, 55
*- Armament of Unarmoured Ships, 359
*- Belgian Competition, 360
*- Bessemer Channel Steamer, The, 253
*- Boiler Explosions in Cornwall. 451
*- Carbonic Acid Gas Engines, 175
*- Channel Tunnel, The, 137
*- Combustion of Powdered Fuel, 341
*- Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 237
*- Contracts of the Crown, 396
*- Cutting Steel Rails Cold. 378
*- Darlington Ironworks, The, 208
*- Darlington Notice Case, The, 431
*- Decrepitude of Temple Bar, 119
*- Disposal of Sewage, 287
*- Domestic Fireplaces, 473
*- Economical Limits to the Use of Rolled Girders, 287
*- Education of Agricultural Engineers, 34
*- Expansion of Gases, 191
*- Feed Water Heaters, 79
*- Future Port of India, The, 253
*- Gas Profits, 225
*- Gas Question in the Metropolis, 119
*- Gunpowder, 271
*- High-pressure Steam, 33
*- Independencia, The, 137
*- Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 341
*- Interoceanic Canal, The, 11
*- Iron Piers, 451
*- Iron and Steel Institute, 176
*- Lax Use of Terms in Science, 157
*- Legislation for the London Gas Supply, 431
*- Lighting Railway Carriages, 12
*- Long Railway Runs, 157
*- Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, 359
*- Low-pressure Engines, 137
*- Marine Engines, 185, 207
*- Mechanical Puddling, 305
*- Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock, 11
*- Midland Railway, The, 395
*- Norwich Accident, The, 225, 237, 305
*- Oberon Experiments, 177, 271
*- Patent Law, 473
*- Prevention of Smoke at Sea, 377
*- Professor Tyndall's Address, 175
*- Proposed New Rules of Hiring in the Iron Trade, 414
*- Railway Girders for the Metre Gauge, 207
*- Razors, 288
*- Safety Valves, 413
*- Sanitary Progress, 101
*- Sewage Difficulties, 377
*- Sewage Farms, 33
*- Sewage Standard, The, 79
*- Spontaneous Combustion, 101
*- Stoke Hole Temperatures, 395
*- Street Tramways, 323
*- Suez Canal, The, 55
*- Temple Bar, 272, 414
*- Transit of Venus. 474
*- Warner Process, The, 323
*Leavitt, Mr. E. D., Compound Rotative Pumping Engine, Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., Messrs. J. P. Morris, Engineers, 450, 453, 454, 455
*LEGAL INTELLIGENCE :--
*- Barlow v. the Public Works Construction Company, 37
*- Laidlaw v. the Hastings Pier Company. 411
*- Re Henry's Patent Prolongation, 343, 352
*- Re Lancaster's Patent, 172
*- Salvin v. the North Brancepeth Coal Company, 87
*Legislation on Explosions, 263, 298
*LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
*- Asbestos Packing, H. A. O. Mackenzie, 284
*- Asbestos Packing, Henry Smith, 269
*- Balloons, B. Brandao, 240
*- Barrow Steel Worke, Barrow Shipbuilding Company (Limited), 211
*- Bessemer, The, C., 269
*- Bessemer, The, James Lyall, 284
*- Bituminous Deposits of the Valley of the Pescara, R. Carter Moffatt, 428, 478
*- Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Henry Hiller, 31
*- Blackburn Explosion, H. MacColl, 98, 160
*- Blackburn Boiler Explosion, William Wolverton, 30, 135
*- Blast Furnaces, W. Robson, 376
*- Boiler Setting, Henry Hiller, 325
*- "Break" of Cast Iron, W. J. M., 269
*- Broadcast Manure Distributors, Your Correspondent, 185
*- Broadcast Manure Distributors, Thomas Chambers,- 116
*- Carriage of Gunpowder, F. N. C., 327
*- Castalia, The, J. B., 309
*LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued) :--
*- Casting Steam Pipes. J. A., 410
*- Chilian International Exhibition, Juan E. Walker, 449
*- Chronographs, Peter Conti, 393
*- Clearing Land, Charles Louis Hett, 80
*- Compound Engines, Arques, 283, 326, 356
*- Compound Engines, C. J., 409
*- Compound Engines, E., 478
*- Compound Engines, Bey wood, 338
*- Compound Engines, H. O., 308, 338, 376
*- Compound Engines, J. B. J., 308
*- Compound Engines, J. E., 327
*- Compound Engines, J. T., 393
*- Compound Engines, Lancashire, 409
*- Compound Engines, Rufus, 309
*- Compound Engines, W. G., 428
*- Compound Engines, X., 283, 326, 376
*- Compound Engines, Y, 326
*- Construction of Furnaces, Arthur Barff, 31
*- Construction of Furnaces, John Watson, 31
*- Corroded Cylinders, Percy Gow, 284
*- Corroded Cylinders, A Ten Years' Reader, 222, 269
*- Corrosion in Steam Cylinders, Stephen Watkins, 250, 269
*- Curves for Sidings. James S. Tate, C.E.. 30
*- Depression in the Iron Trade, Arthur Warner, 448
*- Diamond Drill, Alex. Bassett. C.E.. 135
*- Diamond Rock-boring, R. Allison, 309
*- Diamond Rock-boring, Blumer Brothers, 250
*- Diamond Rock-boring, District Agent, 309
*- Diamond Rock-boring, Edmund Hann, 269
*- Diamond Rock Drill, Charles P. Hendy, 284
*- Diamond Rock Drills, Edwin J. Honeychurch, 393
*- Diamond Rock-boring, M. Geoffry Morgan, 250
*- Diamond Rock-boring, R. S. L., 241
*- Driving Trade out of the Country, E. Hamer Carbutt, 428
*- Drum Guards, Corbett and Peele, 135
*- Durability of Illuminating Gas, F. Churton, 52
*- Economy in Heat, Professor Hofmann's Account of the Atmopyre, D. O. Edwards, 240
*- Economy in the Production and Use of Heat, D. O. Edwards. M.D.. 98, 116, 160, 307
*- Elastic Engine Wheels, H. S. O. Mackenzie, Assoc. I.C.E., 52
*- Essendine Station, J. F. B. Porter, 240
*- Extracting Roots, G. J. G., 410
*- Extracting Roots, Arthur Tupman, 428
*- Eye in Transit Observations, C. Bruce Allen, 356, 448
*- Fastening Tires, J. R., 97
*- Feed-water Heater, Joseph Twibill, 97
*- Floating Cast Iron, L. H, 135
*- Floating Cast Iron, W. Worby B., 13, 52
*- Fixed Stars as seen through Minute Apertures--The Light Drop, C. B. A., 268
*- Friction Couplings, W. S. Hall, 393
*- Gasworks at Essendine Station, Geo. Bower, 250
*- Heaton's Steel, J. Heaton, 356
*- Household Boilers, Thos. Holt, 338, 448
*- Household Boilers, Isaac Storey and Sons, 428
*- Howe's Valve Gear, Ph. Roux, 99
*- Initial Pressure, C., 135, 478
*- Institute of Mechanical Engineers, M. I. M. E., 357
*- Launch Engines, Farmer, 12
*- Lifeboats, Edward Jackson, 99
*- Lighting Railway Carriages, J. Biggs, 52
*- Lighting Railway Carriages and Tram-cars with Gas, Geo. Bower, 211
*- Lighting Railway Carriages and Tram-cars, Hyat Duckham, 185
*- Lighting of Railway Carriages, John Waugh, 241
*- Limits of Useful Expansion in Engines, D. K. Clark, 116
*- Limit of Useful Expansion in Engines, Crank, 135
*- Liverpool Landing Stage, Fred. Campion, 160
*- Liverpool Landing Stage, Joseph Simpson, Engineer, 211
*- Locomotive Telegraphs, Philip Braham, 250
*- Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, C., 428
*- Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, B. T. McKay, 393
*- Marine Governor, H. Harrison, 250
*- Marksmen in the Navy, Arma Virumque Cano, 284
*- Mechanical Puddling, W. Corbett, 338, 448
*- Mechanical Puddling, Perry F. Nursey, 327
*- Mechanical Puddling, Adam Spencer, 308, 327, 357
*- Mending Broken Screw Shafts, W. G., 338
*- Midland Railway, The, A., 410
*- New Mint, A, M. E., 31
*- New Zealand Iron, Jas. Major, 212
*- Norwich Accident, Charles Fairholme, 250
*- Notes on the Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, C. Bruce Allen, 211
*- Notes on the Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, Geo. M. Seabrook, 222, 396
*- Outflow of Steam, Thomas Baldwin, 448
*- Outflow of Steam, Robert Napier, 478
*- Pease's New Mill at Darlington, Y., 427
*- Polysphenic Ship, The, Thomas B. Daft, 80
*- Polysphenic Ship, Charles Meade Ramus, 116
*- Portable Engine Fittings, Draughtsman, 160
*- Prevention of Smoke, C. D., 410
*- Priming, Robert Johnson, 478
*- Priming, Alexander Smith, 478
*- Priming, W .C. P., 376
*- Priming, Y., 410
*- Pumping Engines in America, James H. Harlow, 222
*- Pumps, Aquarius, 30, 52
*- Railway Bar Corrosion, Robert Mallet, 327
*- Railway Signals, J. Whiteman, 308
*- Revolution Indicators, Fair Play, 185
*- Revolution Indicators, Juvenis ab Urbe, 393
*- Robey's Patent Boiler, J. Richardson, 160
*- Robey's Patent Boiler, Thos. Wilkins, 98
*- Root's Patent Blower, Thwaites and Carbutt, 116
*- Rotary Blowers, Ironfounder, 97
*- Rotary Engines, Reciprocator, 478
*- Rotary Puddling, Dogbery, 393
*- Roving Frames. A. Z., 269
*- Roving Frames, W. M.. 325
*- Safety Valves, Robert Martin, 478
*- Safety Valves, John W. Melling, 448
*- Sewage of Grantham, J. Hille, 327
*- Shannon Improvement Scheme, Shannonside, 80, 98, 211
*- Siemens' Dynamo-electric Machine. G. R., 52
*- Steam Diggers ,Hetherington and Parker, 356
*- Steam Pump Condensers, John C. Fell, 327, 356 376
*- Steam Pump Condensers, Q., 356
*- Steam Pump Condensers, M. Silvester, 338
*- Steam Pump Condensers, Tangye Bros, and Holman, 338
*- Steam Pump Condensers, J. Thompson, 338
*- Steam Pump Condensers, G., 856
*- Tottenham Pumping Engines, J. W. Couchman, 338
*- Tottenham Pumping Engines, C. E. Horner, 356
*- Tottenham Pumping Engine, Alfred Phillips, 410
*- Tottenham Pumping Engines, Whieldon and Cooke, 356
*- Tramways, Geo. T. Yuli, 428
*- Trial of Patent Cases, William Spence, Assoc. Inst. C,E., 12, 80, 222
*- Warner Process, The, J. Knox Clifford, 339
*- Warner Process, Arthur Warner, 339, 357
*- Water Supply, A Liverpool Houseowner, 338
*Liffey, Purification of the, 155
*Lifeboats, 99
*Lifeboats, Mr. C. Beloe on, 13
*Life-raft, Mr. Roper, 141
*Light-draught Steamers, 273
*"Light Drop" Fixed Stars as Seen through Minute Apertures, 268
*Lincolnshire Agricultural Show, Grantham, 93
*LITERATURE :--
*- Clocks, Watches, and Bells, Sir Edmund Beckett, late E. B. Denison, LL.D., L.C., F.R.A.S., andc., 147
*- Complete Measurer, The, Richard Horton, 147
*- Elements of Metallurgy, J. Arthur Phillips, M. Inst. C.E., 452
*- History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris in the Siege of 1870-71, T, W. Evans, M.D.' Ph.D., 43
*- Horizontal Wells, J. Lucas, 167
*- Instructions on Modern Bridge Building, G. B. N. Tower, 167
*- Iron and Timber Railway Superstructures and General Works, J. W. Grover, M. Inst. C.E , 272
*- Journal of the Chemical Society, J. Van Voorst, 1873
*- Manual of Metallurgy, W. H. Greenwood, F.C.S., 147
*- Metallurgy of Iron, andc., H. Bauerman, F.G.S., 147
*- Military Carriages and other Manufactures of the Royal Carriage Department, Captain W. Kemmis, 306
*- Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom for 1873, Robert Hunt, F.R.S., 432
*- Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, The, J. Nasmyth, C.E., and J. Carpenter, F.R.A.S., 217
*- Report on the Inspection of Metalliferous Mines in Cornwall, Devonshire, and Part of Somersetshire, for 1873, Clement Le Neve Foster, B.A., 432
*- Report on a Naval Mission to Europe, especially Devoted to the Material and Construction of Artillery,Washington Government Printing-office, 21, 65
*- Short Logarithmic and other Tables, E. and F. N. Spon, 272
*- Theory of Arches, W. Allan, 272
*- Transactions of the Society of Engineers for 1872, E. and F. N. Spon, 351
*Liverpool Landing Stage, Burning of, 99, 111, 114, 115, 127, 132, 160, 211
*Loading Safety Valves by Direct Springs, Mr. Brock, 409
*Locomotive Engine Building in the United States, 49
*Locomotive Fuel, 138, 254
*Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, Mr. E. Fletcher's Bogie Tank, Messrs. Neilson and Co., Engineers, 282
*Locomotives, Mountain, 203
*London Gas Supply, Legislation for the, 431
*Loom, Lyall Positive Motion Wire Cloth, 469
*Loom for- Weaving Woollen Felt, Mr. Robert Hall, 3
*Lowry and Co., Messrs , Radial Drilling Machine, 283
*Lyall, Mr., Positive Motion Wire-cloth Loom, 469
*Ly-Eg-Moon, Boilers of the, 310--(See Working Drawing, Oct. 23rd)
*Ly-ee-Moon, Trial Trip of, 192. Engines of, 239. 249, 252, 256
*Lynde, Mr. J. H., Tramway, 83


Alloying of Iron with Manganese, 24
*Machinery Exhibitions at Manchester, 378
*Maidenhead Waterworks, 449
*Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R., Dilatation of Cast Iron and the Phenomena of the Crane Ladle, 231
*Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R., on Real Reasons why Castings in Iron are Accurate Copies of the Mould, 197
*Manganese Pig Iron, 392
*Manure Distributors, Broadcast, 116, 185
*Manure Wharf, The Salford, 273
*Markets, Metals, Oils, Timber, andc--(See last page of each number)
*Markfield and Bardon Granite Quarries, 371, 375
*Marine Engineers' Agency, 417
*Martyr to Science, 281
*Marsden's Combined Stonebreaker and Engine, 152
*Menier, M., Hot-air Balloon, 217
*Metre Gauge, Railway Girders for the, 207
*Metric System in our Workshops, 25
*Metropolitan Buildings and Management, 80
*Metropolitan Railway, Smoking Carriages on the, 185
*Metropolitan Railway, Ventilation of the, 94
*Metropolitan Water Companies and Constant Supply, 155
*Midlothian Colliery, Virginia, 48
*Military Balloon Experiments, 81, 93
*Miller, Mr. B., Self-acting Punching, Shearing, Platecutting, and Planing Machine, 304, 309
*Mills, C.E., Mr. W., Holborn Viaduct Station, 4, 7, 28, 29, 140
*Miners' Strike in Scotland, 269
*Mines and Mining Accidents, 433
*Mining, Deep, 468
*Mining in Russia, 443
*Mint, A New, 31
*Miscellanea, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 223, 233, 247, 265, 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
*Mormon Engineering, 246
*Mortar Mill, Mr. F. W. Jackson's, 283
*Mountain Locomotives, 203
*Mounting Drawings and Tracings, 453


American Bessemer Works, 94
*Narbonne, Projected Port at, 268, 298
*Native Railway Engineers for India, 251
*Navies of Europe, 238
*Navy, Marksmen in the, 284
*Nelson, Mr., Bolt and Stud End Cutter, 267
*Newcastle Chemical Society--Address of President Mr. Pattison, 388
*New Factory Act, 417
*New Law for the Registration of Trade Marks in Germany, 449
*New Rifle for France, 4
*New York Harbours, 172
*New York Plumbers, 232
*Nominal Horse Power, Messrs. Vaughan, Richardson, and Co.'s Scale of, 26
*Non-conducting Coatings for Steam Boilers, 262
*North of England, 19, 42, 63, 91, 109, 126, 146, 166, 182, 196, 216, 230, 244, 262, 278, 296, 314, 331, 349, 368, 383, 404, 421, 440, 459, 484
*Notes from Lancashire, 20, 41, 63, 91, 109, 125, 145, 165, 181, 195, 216, 230, 262, 278, 313, 331, 349, 367, 383, 403, 421, 439, 459
*Notes and Memoranda, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 205, 223, 233, 247, 265; 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
*Notes from Paris, 406
*Notes from Scotland, 20, 41, 64, 91, 110, 126, 146, 182, 196, 230, 244, 262, 278, 295, 314, 332, 350, 367, 384, 404, 421, 439, 460, 483
*Notes from the West Coast of South America, 2
*Notices to Correspondents, 11, 33, 55, 79, 101, 119, 137, 157, 175, 191, 207, 225, 237, 253, 271, 287, 305, 323, 341, 359, 377, 395, 413, 431, 451, 473


American Blast Furnace Statistics, 303
*Oberon Torpedo Attack, Stokes Bay, 133, 152, 176, 185, 232, 271
*OBITUARY:--
*- Anderson, F.R.S.E., Dr. Thomas, 368
*- Benson, Sir John, 313
*- Boyer, M. Pierre, 428
*- Brown, Mr. George, 250
*- Fairbairn, Sir W., 154, 172
*- Grantham, M.I.C.E., Mr. J., 80
*- Laird, Mr. John, 343
*- Logan, C.E., Mr., 52
*- Rennie, C.E., F.R.S., Sir John, 209
*- Smiles, Mrs., 9
*- Smith, Mr. John, 74
*Oven, M. Coppee's Coke, 300
*Oxford Main Drainage, 185


American Blast Furnace Yields, 406
*Pacific Coast Mines, Returns of, 31
*Packing Asbestos, 269, 284
*Packing, Mr. Church's Metallic Piston-rod, 318
*Paris Mud, 433
*Paris Waterworks, The New, 476
*Patent Cases, Trial of, 12, 80, 222
*Patent Laws, The, 391, 433, 473
*Patent-office, Publications of the, 31
*Pease, Messrs., New Mill at Darlington, 388, 427
*Peat in Germany, 51
*Pebble Powder and Barbette Firing, 9
*Penn, John, 289
*Pescara, South Italy, Bituminous Deposits of the Valley of, 428, 478
*Petersburg, Drainage of, St., 316
*Petroleum in Russia, 320
*Phosphor Bronze, 392
*Piers, Iron, 451
*Pipes, Casting Steam, 410
*Pipes, Loss of Pressure in Steam, 359, 393, 428
*Planing Machine, Chinese Government Vertical, Messrs., John Bourne and Co., 97
*Planing Machine, The First, 281
*Planing and Moulding Machine, Messrs. Furness and Co.'s Trying up and Four Cutter, 202
*Plate and Scrap Shearing Machine, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 221
*Polychrome Process, The, 313
*Polytechnic School, Angers, Cupola at the, 186
*Polysphenic Ship, The, Mr. Charles Meade Ramus, 56, 80, 116
*Postal Statistics of Austria, 399
*Pressure, Initial, 135, 478
*Priming, 375, 410, 449, 478
*Prizes for Hand-turning, 113
*Projection of Electric Light, 397
*Propeller, The Screw, 344
*Propontis, The, 12, 130
*Puddling, Mechanical, 305, 309, 326, 338, 357, 448
*Puddling with Natural Gas, 343
*Puddling. Rotary, 393
*Pulleys, Mr. G. W. Cresson's Movable, 352
*Pumps, 30
*Pumps, Steam, 226
*Punching. Shearing, Plate-cutting, and Planing Machine, Mr. B. Miller's, 304, 309
*Punkah Pulling, 313
 
*Quebec Harbour Improvements, 232
 
*Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 475
*Rails, Cold, Cutting Steel, 378
*Rails, Form, Endurance, and Manufacture of, 102, 155, 177, 187, 204
*Rails at Sheffield, Cyclops Works, Manufacture of, 314
*Railway Accidents, 76
*Railway Accidents in India, 82
*Railway Carriages and Tram-cars, Lighting, 185, 211, 241
*Railway Matters, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 205, 223, 233, 247, 265, 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
*Railway, The Midland, 395, 410
*Railway Rolling Stock, 12
*Railway Runs, Long, 157
*Railway Works and Projects, The North-Eastern, 369
*Railways, Indian, 72, 372
*Railways by Steam Power, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, On Working Street, 65, 70, 71
*Railways, The World's, 371
*Ramus, Mr. Charles Meade, The Polysphcric Ship, 56, 80, 116
*Razors, 288
*Reaping Machine Trials, 99
*Regent's Canal Explosion, 385, 390, 394
*Report of the Committee of the British Association on Siemens' Electrical Pyrometer, 256
*Report to the Town Council of Barnsley by the Committee appointed to visit Localities where Sewage Works are in Operation, 302
*Researches on Explosives, Fired Gunpowder, 255
*Revolution Indicators, 393
*Reynolds, Professor Osborne, On the Efficiency of Belts or Straps as Communicators of Work, 395
*Rifled Ordnance in the United States, 440
*Robertshaw, Mr., Hydraulic Press Pumping Engine, 390
*Rock-boring, Diamond, 241, 250, 269, 284, 309, 393
*Rolling Mill Gearing at Messrs. Grillo, Funke, and Co.'s Works, 378--(See also Supplement, Nov. 20th)
*Rolling Stock, Metropolitan Railway, 11
*Rolling Stock, Railway, 12
*Rolling Stock for the South-Eastern Railway Company, 33, 36
*Roots, Extracting, 410, 428
*Roper's Life Raft, 141
*Ropes, Testing Strength of, 80
*Route through Germany to the East, 255
*Rover, Launch of the, 135
*Roving Frames, 269, 325
*Roving Frames, Messrs. Elce and Arundel, 248
*Russia, Mining in, 443
*Russian Artillery, 410


American Paper Trade, Growth of the, 161
*St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 245, 256, 257, 363
*Sale of American Monitors, 273
*Salford Manure Wharf, The, 273
*Sanitary and Educational Exhibition, Glasgow, 202
*Sanitary Progress, 101
*San Pier d'Arena, 449
*Science and Art Department, 23
*Scotch Cotton Factory, The First, 425
*Screw Shafts, Mending Broken, 338
*Semmering and Brenner Railways, The, 57, 85
*Sewage of Carmarthen, 4
*Sewage Difficulties, 377
*Sewage, Disposal of, 287
*Sewage Farms, 33
*Sewage in Paris, 399
*Sewage "Standard," 79
*Sewage of Towns, andc., Mr. J. Bailey Denton, C.E., on the Disposal of, Social Science Congress, 321
*Sezaroch, The, New Russian Projectile, 155
*Shaft Couplings, Mr. C. F. Varley, F R.S., 172
*Shannon Improvement Scheme, 80, 98, 211, 238
*Sheet Iron Gas Pipes and their Powers of Resistance, 248
*Sheffield District, 19, 42, 64, 92, 110, 126, 145, 165, 182, 196, 216, 330, 243, 261, 278, 296, 313, 332, 350, 368, 384 403, 422, 440, 460, 484
*Sheffield Statistics. 69
*Ships, Armament of Unarmoured, 359
*Ships, Sheathing, Messrs. Westwood and Baillie, 390
*Ships, Strength and Strains of Iron, 9
*Show at Grantham, Lincolnshire, Agricultural, 93
*Siege Experiments at Eastbourne, 36o, 369, 385, 441, 461
*Siemens' Process in the Manufacture of Glass, 241
*Signals, Railway, 308
*Silica from Iron, Removal of, 87
*Slough Sewage, 479
*Smelting of Argentiferous Lead Oros in Nevada, Utah and Montana, 121, 134
*SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW, 423
*- Alexander and Sons, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 425, 435
*- Ashby Jeffery, and Luke, Messrs., Engines and Boilers, 425
*- Ayshford, Mr. T. B. Adjustable Dog-cart, 425
*- Barford, Messrs., Stack Elevators and Ploughing Gear, 425
*- Brown and May, Messrs., Portable Engines, 424
*- Burrell, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 424
*- Cambridge and Parham, Messrs., Horse Gears, 425
*- Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Engines and Thrashing Machines, 424
*- Davey, Mr. T., Turn Wrest Plough, 425
*- Davey, Paxman, and Davey, Messrs., Engine and Boiler, 424
*- Fowler, Messrs., Ploughing Engine, 424
*- Garratt and Sons, Engines and Thrashing Machines, Holmes and Reid, Messrs., Drills, 425
*- Hornsby, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 424
*- Howard, Messrs., Boiler, 424
*- Lewin, Mr., Engine and Thrashing Machine, 424
*- Marshall, Messrs., Portable Engines and Thrashing Machine, 423
*- Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Messrs., Ploughs, 424
*- Reading Ironworks Company, 16-Horse Condensing Engine, 423
*- Robey and Co., Messrs., Fixed Engine and Boiler, 424, 427
*- Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Expansion Gear, and 12-Horse Double, and an 8-Horse Single Portable Engine, 423
*- Suckling, Mr., Chaff Cutter, 425
*- Tangye and Holman, Messrs., Engines and Pumps, 424
*- Tasker and Sons, Messrs., Portable Engines, 424
*- Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., 3-Horse Portable Engine, 424, 430
*- Willsher and Co., Messrs., Thrashing Machine, 425
*- Wood, Mr. W., Reaping Machine, 425
*Smoke, Prevention of, 410
*Smoke at Sea, Prevention of, 377
*"Snapper" Telegraph Sounder, 460
*Social Science Congress, 250
*SOCIETY OF ARTS, 352
*- Expediency of Protection for Inventions, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S., 433
*Stove Competition, 449
*SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL :--
*- Action of Baryta on Oil of Cloves, Professor A. H. Church, 363
*- Action of Bromine in the Presence of Water on Bromopyrogallol and Bromopyrocatechu, Dr. J. Stenhouse, 363
*- Action of Bromine on Protocatechuic Acid, Gallic Acid and Tannin, by J. Stenhousc, F.R.S., 899
*- Action of Organic Acids and their Anhydrides on the Natural Alkaloids, Dr. Wright and G. H. Beckett, 363, 399
*- Bilirubin and its Compounds, Dr. J. L. W. Thudicum, 363
*- Colour of Cupric Chloride, Mr. W. N. Harkley, 436
*- Composition of Antonite, Professor A. H. Church, 399
*- Formulas of the Alums, Mr. S. Lupton, 436
*- General Equations of Chemical Reactions, Professor W. K. Clifford, 399
*- Groves' Method of Preparing Chlorides, C. Schorlemmer, 479
*- Methyl Hexyl Carbinol, C. Schorlcmmer, F.R.S., 363
*- Note on Aricine, Mr. D. Howard, 479
*- Note on the Boiling Point of Methyl Hexyl Carbinol, C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 436
*- Oxidation of the Essential Oils, Part II., Mr. C. T. Kingzett, 436
*- Precipitation of Metals by Zinc, Mr. T. L. Davies, 479
*- Propionic Coumarin and its Derivatives, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 399
*- Purification and Boiling Point of Methyl Hexil Carbinol, G. Neison, 436
*- Researches on the Paraffines Existing in Pennsylvanian Petroleum, T. M. Morgan, 479
*- Use of Permanganate of Potash in Volumetric Analysis, E. A. Parnell, 363
*SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN :--
*- European Railways as they appear to an American Engineer, Mr. W. Howard White, C.E , 84
*- Method Pursued in Replacing a Stone Pier on a Pile Foundation, J. Albert Monroe, C.E., 59
*SOCIETY, EDINBURGH AND LEITH ENGINEERS' :--
*- Furnaces and their Construction and Management, Mr. Charles Fairbairn, 8
*- Mortar, Mr. Graham Smith, 34
*- Study of Engineering Science, Mr. James H. Cunningham, 362
*- Working Street Railways by Steam Power, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, 65
*SOCIETY, ENGINEERING, KING'S COLLEGE :--
*- Centrifugal Pumps, Mr. E. W. Anderson, 425
*- Harbours and Breakwaters, Mr. F. Marsh, 415
*SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 201, 269
*- Action of Marine Worms and the Remedies Applied in San Francisco Harbour, California, Mr. John Blackburn, C.E., 306
*- Channels for the Conveyance of Sewers, Mr. John Phillips, C.E., 465
*- Mechanical Puddling, Mr. Perry F. Nursey, 267, 279
*- Tramway Rolling Stock and Steam in Connection therewith, Mr. Charles C. Cramp, 398, 416
*- Visit to the Imperial Gasworks, Blackwall, 130
*SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC :--
*- Lifeboats, Mr. Charles H. Beloe, M.I.C.E., 13
*SOCIETY, MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 392
*- Effect of Acid on the Interior of Iron Wire, Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., 392
*SOCIETY, MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL :--
*- Use of Timber in Connection with Mechanical Work, Mr. J. G. Lynde, C.E., 35
*SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL :--
*- Heat and Damp which accompany Cyclones, Hon. Ralph Abercrombie, F.M.S., 392
*- Report Concerning the Meeting of the Conference on Maritime Meteorology in London, August 31, 1874, President, Dr. R. J. Mann, 399
*- Table for Facilitating Determination of the Dew Point from Observations of the Dry and Wet Bulb Thermometer, William Marriott, 392
*- Weather of Thirteen Springs, R. Strachan, F.M.S., 392
*Society, Newcastle Chemical, Address of President, Mr. Pattison, 388
*Society for the Promotion of Scientific Industry, 172
*SOCIETY, THE ROYAL, 378
*- Alleged Expansion in Volume of Various Substances in Passing by Refrigeration from State of Liquid Fusion to Solidification, Mr. Robert Mallet, F.R.S., 2
*Society, The Royal Agricultural, 370
*SOCIETY, THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL, AT BEDFORD, 1, 21, 43, 69
*- Abstract of Particulars of Wagon Trials, 23
*- Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Plough and Travelling Van, 99, 100
*- Challis, Mr., Turnip-thinner, exhibited by Messrs. Ransome Sims, and Head, 140
*- Fowler and Co., Messrs. J., Steam Ploughing Windlass for the Roundabout System, 111, 115
*- Fowler and Co., Messrs , Sutherland Plough, 82
*- Fowler and Co., Messrs. J.,Traction Engine (8-H.P.), 74, 78
*- Garrett, Messrs., Drum Guard for Thrashing Machine, 226
*- Greig and Eyth, Messrs., Plough, 74, 82
*- Hayward Tyler and Co., Messrs., "Universal" Pump, 45, 51
*- Head, Messrs., Self-feeder for Thrashing Machine, 36
*- Hill and Massey, Messrs., 3-Horse Engine and Boiler, 83
*- Howard, Messrs., Double Gear Ploughing Windlass, 54
*- Howard, Messrs., Self-moving Anchor, 46
*- Howard, Messrs., Traction Engine with Ploughing Windlass, 50
*- Howard, Messrs., Water Tube Boiler, 74, 75
*- Prize List, 46
*- Robey and Co., Messrs., Vertical Boiler, 25
*- Ruston and Proctor, Messrs., Feeding Gear for Thrashing Machine, 45, 51
*- Show Yard, Map of, 1
*- Traction Experiments, 81
*SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS :--
*- Conversazione at King's College, 436
*Solvency of Trades' Unions, 281
*South-Eastern Railway Company, Rolling Stock, 32, 36
*South Kensington Museum, 20, 34, 56, 87, 99, 126, 135, 155, 182, 204, 230, 254, 264, 281, 313, 332,343, 352, 383, 392, 411, 425, 460, 474
*Spontaneous Combustion, 101
*Stability of Towers and Chimneys, Mr. C. A. Evans, C.E., on, 231
*Stand Pipe, Mr. W. Bennett, 354
*Steam Cultivation, 83
*Steam Culture in Wiltshire, 129
*Steam, High Pressure, 33
*Steam, Outflow of, 415, 448, 478
*Steavenson, Mr. A. L., Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 219
*Steel, Heaton's, 356
*Stevens Battery, The, 378
*Stevens Battery, 170, Engines, 171, 209, 232
*Stobart and Allan, Messrs., Weighing Machine, 100
*Stonebreaker and Engine Combined, Marsden's, 152
*Storey and Sons, Messrs. J., Magnetic Water Gauge, 202
*Strength of American Car Wheels, 334
*Sulzer, Brothers, Messrs., Air Pumps and Condensers, 318
*Suez Canal, The, 55
*Suez, Isthmus of, 115
*Switch Lever, Mr. Burleigh's Rotary, 6
*Switches, Improved System of Railway, 477


American Process of Galvanising Iron, 254
*Talargoch Lead Mining Company, The Old, 190
*Taps, 357
*Target, The New Wimbledon Rifle, Captain Costin, 301
*Tay Bridge, 120
*Taylor and Co., Messrs., 60-ton Crane at Glasgow Harbour, 321
*Technical Education, 393
*Telegraphs, Locomotive, 250
*Telegraphy in the States, 102
*Temperatures, Stoke Hole, 395
*Temple Bar, 272, 412, 414
*Temple Bar, Decrepitude of, 119
*Terms in Science, Lax Use of, 157
*Testing Strength of Ropes, 80
*Thorpe Collision, 383
*Thunderer, Guns of H.M S., 279
*Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Twin Crank Direct-acting Engine, 50
*Timbers of Natal, 411
*Timber in Connection with Mechanical Work, Use of, 35
*Tires, Fastening, 97
*Tod and Co., Messrs., Flour Mills, Glasgow, 4
*Todd, Mr. L. J., Accumulator Boilers for Steam Tramway Purposes, 105
*Todd, Mr. L. J., Engine for Working Tramways, 70, 71
*Tommasi, Signor F., Hydo-Thermic Motor, 221
*Tool, Messrs. Donald and Atkeyís Universal Machine, 170
*Torpedo Attack on the Oberon, Stokes Bay, 133, 152, 176, 185, 232, 271
*Torpedo, The Ericsson Pneumatic, 468
*Trade out of the Country, Driving, 428
*Trade Societies and Public Opinions, 204
*Trades Unions in America, 24
*Trains, Communication in, 236
*Tramway, Mr. J. H. Lynde, 83
*Tramways, 428
*Tramways, Street, 321
*Tramways, Vienna, 142
*Transit of Venus, Determination of Longitude by Telegraph in Connection with the, 245
*Transit of Venus Expedition, 238
*Tunnel, The Channel, 137
*Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 245, 256, 257, 363
*Turret System in 1831, The, 315


Americans as Agricultural Engineers, 220
*Uninflammable Wood for the Navy, 23
*Urquhart, Lindsay, and Co., Messrs. Hydraulic Calender, 345


Aniline Colours, 345
*Value of Cultivated Land in France, 410
*Valve, Messrs. Bailey and Co.'s Feed, 3
*Valve, Messrs. Dennis' Stop, 3
*Valve Gear, Howe's, 99
*Valves, Pump, 52
*Valves, Safety, 413, 448, 478
*Varley, F.R.S., Mr. C. F., Shaft Couplings, 172
*Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 94
*Venus, Transit of, 474
*Verey and Lange, Messrs., 20-H.P. Messenger Boiler, 267
*Vienna Exhibition, 202
*Vienna Tramways, 142
*Volcano in the South Pacific, 185


Arthur Woolf, Mr. S. Hocking, C.E., on the Life and Labours of, at the Miners’ Assoc., Cornwall, 379
*Wages at the Iron Mills, East and West, 391
*Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 20, 42, 64, 92, 110, 126, 146, 166, 182,196, 230, 244, 262, 278, 296, 314, 332, 350, 368, 384, 404, 422, 440, 460, 484
*Wall Planing Machine, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 391
*Warner Process, The, 320, 323, 339, 357
*Water Supply, 338
*Water Supply, Constant and Intermittent, 297
*Water Supply of San Francisco, 320
*Watkin, R.A., Lieut. H., Chronograph, 333
*Weighing Machine, Messrs. Stobart and Allan, 100
*Werderman's Process for Resharpening Files, 339
*Westwood and Baillie, Messrs., Sheathing Ships, 390
*Wheels, Elastic Engine, 52
*Wheels, Strength of American Car, 334
*Whieldon and Cook, Messrs., Pumping Engines at Tottenham--(See Supplement, Sept. 18th)
*Whitworth Scholarships, 100
*Willcock, Mr. J., Rolling Mill Engines--(See Supplement, July 17)
*Wiltshire, Steam Culture in, 129
*Wimbledon Drainage, 264, 303
*Wire Rope Towing on Canals, 128
*Wire Rope Tug for Canal Navigation, Messrs. Greig and Eyth, Messrs. Fowler and Co., 136
*Woodall, Mr. S , Foot Bridge, New-street Station, Birmingham, 321, 322
*Woolwich Arsenal, 35-Ton Hammer, 152, 158, Coal Furnace, 156, 158
*Wrenches and Spanners, Mr. W. A. Comber, 170


Artillery, Russian, 410
*Yorkshire Agricultural Society's Show at Sheffield, 113
 
*Yorkshire College of Science, 309
Association of Foremen Engineers, Leeds, 460
 
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London, 37, 320
 
Electric Telegraph, Sir David Salomons, 274
 
Equilibrium Cabins for Passenger Ships, and Equilibrium Turrets for Ironclads, Mr. Black, 37
 
Improvements in Engines and Boilers, Mr. T. Black, 357
 
Life Saving Apparatus, Mr. John Banting Rogers, 202
 
Three-cylinder Continuous Expansion Engine, Mr. J. Steward, 449
 
Visit to Blackwall Ironworks, 80
 
Association of Gas Managers, North British Address to Mr. Foulis, 56
 
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 185
 
Inspection of Household Boilers, Mr. Fletcher’s Report, 316
 
Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, 155, 212
 
Association for the Supervision of Steam Boilers in Belgium, 9
 
[[Aveling and Porter]], Messrs., Steam Plough Travelling Van, 99, 100
 
Bailey and Co., Messrs., Feed Valve, 3
 
Balloon Experiments, Military, 81, 93
 
Balloon, M. Menier’s Hot Air, 217
 
Balloons, 240
 
Barnsley Sewerage Scheme, 339
 
Barrow-in-Furness, 161, 384
 
Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Works, 183, 211
 
Battery, The Stevens, 170, 209
 
Bearings, Dr. Kiinzel’s Combined Phosphor Bronze and Soft Metal, 1
 
Belfast Gasworks, Improvements in, 354
 
Belfast Strike, Close of the, 176
 
Belgian Competition, 360, 370
 
Belts or Straps as Communicators of Work, Professor Osborne Reynolds on the Efficiency of, 396
 
Bement and Sons, Messrs. W. B., Radial Drilling • Machine, 374
 
Bennett, Mr. W., Standpipe, 354
 
Berry and Sons, Messrs. F., Plate and Scrap Shearing Machine, 221
 
Berry and Sons, Messrs. F., Wall Planing Machine, 391
 
Bessemer Channel Steamer, The, 253, 269, 284
 
Bessemer, Launch of the, 255
 
Beverley Iron and Wagon Company, Boiler Fittings for Portable Engines, 105
 
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 30, 31, 98, 135, 160
 
Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, 211, 222, 356, 393, 448
 
Blackleading Iron, 152
 
Blasting with Gunpowder Fired by Electricity, 410
 
Blower, Root’s Patent, 116
 
Blowers, Rotary, 97
 
Boat Lowering Apparatus, Folkard’s, 410
 
Boiler Experiment, Contemplated, 23
 
Boiler Explosion near Abcrdare, 334
 
Boiler Explosion, The Blackburn, 30, 31, 98, 135, 160
 
Boiler Explosion at Leeds, 370
 
Boiler Fittings for Poitable Engines, Beverley Iron and Wagon Company, 105
 
Boiler Inspection in the United States, 226
 
Boiler, Mr. Kesterton’s High-pressure, 220
 
Boiler, 20-H.P. Messenger, Messrs. Verey and Lange, 267
 
Boiler, Robey's Patent, 98,160
 
Boiler Setting, 325
 
Boilers, Household, 338, 428, 448
 
Boilers, Inspection of Household, 316
 
Boilers of the Ly-ee-Moon, 310—(See Working Drawing October 23rd)
 
Boilers for Steam Tramway Purposes, Mr. L. J. Todd’s Accumulator, 105
 
Boilers, Strength of, 185
 
Bolton Strike, The, 236
 
Bolt and Stud End Cutter, Mr. Nelson, 267
 
Boulogne Harbour, 422
 
Bourne and Co., Messrs. John, Vertical Planing
 
Machine, Chinese Government, 97
 
Bowling Iron Company, 238
 
Bremme, Mr. G., Elastic Wheel for Traction Engines,
 
Bridge ever the Allier at Vichy, M. RadoutDelafosse, 263, 266, 274, 290
 
Bridge over the Mississippi, Railway, 254
 
Bridge over the Reuss at Lucerne, MM. Cuenod and Gaudard, 336, 340, 344
 
Bridges, American versus English, 55
 
Britannic, of the White Star Line, The, 49
 
Bbitish Association, The, Belfast, 127, 147, 167
 
Address of President Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., D C.L., LL.D.. &c., 148
 
Address of Professor Thomson, President of Mechanical Section, Section G, 167
 
Coal Mining in Italy, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Jun., C.E., Section G, 169
 
Instruments for Measuring Speed of Ships, Mr. Fronde, 186
 
Isometrical Drawing, Mr. George Fawcns, Section G, 192
 
Prevention of the Inundations of Navigable Rivets, Mr. James Lynam, C.E., 273
 
Report of the Committee on Siemens’ Electrical Pyrometer, 256
 
Screw Lowering Apparatus, Mr. E. J. Harland, Section G, 169
 
Volcanic Phenomena of County Antrim and adjoining Districts, Professor Edward Hall, M.A., F.R.8., &c., President of Geological Section, 154
 
Water Power of the Upper Bann, Mr. John Smyth, A.M., M.I.C.E., Section G, 177
 
Brock, Mr., Loading Safety Valves by direct Springs* 409
 
Burleigh, Mr., Rotary Switch Lever, 6
 
Burning of the Liverpool Landing Stage, 99, 111, 114, 115, 127, 132, 160, 211
 
Bursting an Experimental Boiler by Hydraulic Pressure, 226
 
California-built Marine Engine, 162
 
Calender, Messrs. Urquhart, Lindsay, and Co.’s Hydraulic, 845
 
Canal, The Interocoanic, 11
 
Canal Workin Italy, by P. Le Neve Foster jun , C.E 319, 324, 358, 361, 405, 408, 42b, 434, 441, 446, 455,
 
Capital and Labour, Mr. C. Stewart Drewry, On the
 
Relation between, 396, 434
 
Carmarthen Sewerage, 4
 
Carriages, Lighting Railway, 12, 52
 
Castalia, The, 196, 281, 304. 320      .                1Zi
 
Castings in Iron are Accurate Copies of the Mould,
 
Mr. Robt. Mallet, C E., &c., On the Real Reasons
 
Why, 197
 
Cast Iron, The Break of, 269
 
Cast Iron and the Phenomena of the Crane Ladle,
 
Mr. R. Mallet, C.E.. &c., On the Dilatation of, 231
 
Chronograph, Lieut. H. Watkin, R.A., 333
 
Chronographs. 393                  .
 
Church, Mr.. Metallic Piston Rod Packing, 318
 
Clapp, Mr. W. J., Coal-cutting Machine. 22
 
Clark M.I.C.E., Mr. Edwin, Harbour Works m
 
Callao Bay, Peru, 96, 104, 106, 115, 118
 
Cleveland Iron Trade in 1874, 467
 
Cloth, Raising, Giacomim s Patent Gig for, 383
 
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 49
 
Coal-burning Locomotives in the South, 399
 
Coal in Colorado, 232
 
Coal-cutting, Mr. W. J. Clapp, 220
 
Coal-cutting Machine Trials, 156
 
Coaldust as Fuel, 202
 
Coal Elevator, Hunt’s, 153
 
Coal in India, 185
 
Cohesion and Crushing, 461
 
Colosseum, The New York. 273
 
Comber, Mr. W. A., Wrenches and Spanners, 1 < 0
 
Comet, The New, 29
 
Comet and the Weather, The, 99
 
Condensers, Steam Pump, 327, 338, 356, 376
 
Condensers without Air Pumps, 9
 
Constant and Intermittent Water Supply, 297
 
Coppee, M., Coke Ovens, 300
 
Cornwall, Boiler Explosions in, 451
 
Coriosion, Railway Bar, 326
 
Costin, Capt., The New Wimbledon Rifle Target, 301
 
Couches, Improvements in, 392
 
Couplings, Friction, 393
 
Crane at Glasgow Harbour, Messrs. J. Taylor and
 
Co.’s 60-Ton. 321
 
Cresson, Mr. G. W., 'Movable Pulleys, 352
 
Crichton, Messrs., Compounded Engines of S.S.
 
Alexander, 354, 355
 
Crichton, AbdJFinland, Messrs., High-pressure Boilers of S.S. Alexander, 374
 
Crossing the Channel, 392
 
Crown, Contracts of the, 396
 
Crystal Palace Engineering School, 140
 
Cuenod and Gaudard, MM., Bridge over the Reuss, at
 
Lucerne, 336. 340, 344
 
Cupola at the Polytechnic School, Angers, 186
 
Curves for Sidings, 30
 
Cylinders, Condensation in Steam, 231
 
Cylinders, Corroded, 222, 250, 269, 284
 
Czarevna, Launch of the, 185, 201
 
Dale, Messrs. J. and T, Compound Surface Condensing Engines 20-H.P. S.S. Black Watch, 268, 270
 
Dangerous Superheater, 449
 
Darlington Ironworks, 208
 
Darlington Rolling Mill Engine, 203, 206
 
Darlington Notice Case, 431
 
Delafosse, M. Radout, Bridge over the Allier at
 
Vichy, 263, 266, 274, 290
 
Dennis, Messrs., Stop Valve, 3
 
Denton, C. E. J. Bailey, On Disposal of Sewage oi
 
Towns, Villages, &c., Social Science Congress, 321
 
Determination of Longitude by Telegraph in Connection with the Transit of Venus, 245
 
Diamond Drill. The, Mr, A. Bassett, Institute of Civil
 
Engineers, 130,135
 
Diggers, Steam, 356
 
Disintegrator, Mr. Greenhill’s, 470
 
Donald and Atkey, Messrs., Machine Tool, L0
 
Dovetailer, The Hamilton, 282
 
Drawings and Tracings, On Mounting, 453
 
Drewry, Mr. C. Stewart, On the Relation between
 
Capital and Labour, 396, 434
 
Drill for Messrs. Marshall and Sons, Messrs. Gregson,
 
Brown, and Son’s Radial, 47                    ,
 
Drilling Machine, Messrs. W. B. Bement and Sons
 
Radial, 374                                          .
 
Drilling Machine, Messrs. Lowry and Co. s itaaiai, 283
 
Drum Guards, 135
 
Dutch South-Eastern Company, 196
 
Dynamite, New Application of, 321
 
Dynamo Electric Machine, Siemens’, 52
 
Eastbourne, Siege Experiments at, 360, 369, 385, 441 461
 
Economy of Fuel in Furnaces, 2o
 
Egyptian Railways, 161
 
Elce and Arundel, Messrs., Roving Frames, 248
 
Engine, California-built Marine, 162
 
Engine at Clay Cross Colliery, 84in. Cornish, Butter-lev Iron Co., Mr. Howe, 224. 227, 234, 236. 281 286
 
Engine at Darlington Ironworks, Rolling Mill, 203, 206 Engine Fittings, Portable, 160              _ __ .
 
Engine, General Engine and Boiler Co.’s 8-H.P. Horizontal, 468, 472                  .            n
 
Engine, Messrs. Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and
 
Davey’s Compound, 6, 10
 
Engine, Messrs. Hurd and Simpson s Locomotive 153
 
Engine Mr. E. D. Leavitt’s Compound Rotative
 
Pumping, Lynn, Mass., U.S., Messrs. J. P. Morris, Engineers, 450, 453, 454, 455    ,
 
Engine, Mr. Robertshaw’s Hydraulic Press Pumping, 390
 
Engine for Steep Gradients, Mr. H. Handysidc’s Loco-
 
Engine, Messrs. Thwaites and Carbutt’s Twin Crank Direct-acting, 50
 
Engine for Working Tramways, Mr. Leonard J. lodd, 70, 71
 
Engineeiing in Odessa, 51
 
Engineering School at the Crystal Palace, 140
 
Engineers in India, 417                .      ,
 
Engines of S.S. Alexander, Messrs. Crichtons Compound, 354, 355
 
Engines in America, Pumping, 222
 
Engines of S.S. Black Watch, Messrs. J. and 1.
 
Dales’ Compound Surface Condensing, 20-H.P., 2bb, 270
 
Engines, Mr. G. Bremme’s Elastic Wheel for Traction, 24
 
Engines, Carbonic Acid Gas. 175
 
Engines, Compound, 283, 308, 326, 3u8, 3o6, 376, 393, 409,428,478              .  , __
 
Engines, Compound, versus Simple, 172
 
Engines, Mr. J. A. Henderson, M. E., On the Theory of Aero Steam, 141, 288
 
Engines for her Majesty’s Government, 2a0
 
Engines, Launch, 12                        • mr
 
Engines, Limit of Useful Expansion of Steam in, 110, 135
 
Engines, Low-pressure, 137
 
Engines of the Ly-ee-Moon, 239, 249, 2o2, 256
 
Engines, Marine, 191, 207
 
Engines, Rotary, 478
 
Engines, Tottenham Pumping, 338, 356, 410
 
Engines for Yale, Gloucestershire, Messrs. Alexander and Son’s Semi-Portable High-pressure, Winding, 172, 174
 
Ericsson Pneumatic Torpedo, 468
 
i Esscndine Junction, Great Northern Railway, Gasworks and Pump-house, 190, 241
 
Essendine Station Gasworks, 250        Tnwors and
 
Evans, C.E., Mr. C. A., On the Stability of Towers ana
 
Chimneys. 231
 
Exhibition, Chilian International, 449
 
Exhibition at Manchester of Appliances fot tl e
 
Economy of Labour, 449
 
Explosives, Legislation on, 263, 29S
 
Extension Works of the East London Railway, 41 (
 
Extinguishing Fires in Mines, 15
 
Federal Polytechnic School, 391
 
Ferrara Waterworks, 349
 
Ferro-Manganese, 232
 
Ferryhill Ironworks, 102
 
Fire Engine Competition at Antwerp, 321
 
Fireplaces, Domestic, 473                          ,
 
Fletcher, Mr. E., Bogie Tank Locomotive, isorth-
 
Eastern Railway, Messrs. Neilson and Co., Engineers, 282
 
Flour Mills, Messrs. Tod and Co., Glasgow, 4
 
Fog Gun, Major Maitland, R.A., 470
 
Folkard’s Boat-lowering Apparatus. 410
 
Foot Bridge, New-street Station, Birmingham, Mr. S.
 
Woodall, 321, 322                        , w .
 
Foster, jun., C.E.. Mr. P. le Neve, on Canal Works in Italy, 319, 324, 358, 361, 405, 408, 426, 434, 441, 446, 455, 463
 
French Coal Commission, 425
 
Fuel, Combustion of Powdered, 341
 
Fuel, Locomotive, 138, 254
 
Funeral of Mr. W. Allan, 314
 
Furnace Statistics, American Blast, 303
 
Furnace Yields, American Blast, 406
 
Furnaces, Blast, 376
 
Furnaces, Construction of, 8, 31
 
Furness and Co., Messrs.,’-Trying-up and Four-Cutter
 
Planing and Moulding Machine, 202
 
Gas in America, Price of, 4
 
Gas, Durability of Illuminating, 52
 
Gases, Expansion of, 191
 
Gas Profits, 225
 
Gas Question in tho Metropolis, 119
 
Gasworks and Pump-house, Great Northern Railway, Essendino Junction, 190
 
Gauge, Messrs. I. Storey and Sons’ Magnetic Water, 202
 
General Engine and Boiler Company, 8-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 468, 472
 
Geometry, Modern, 120
 
German Artillery, 185, 281, 425
 
Giacomini's Patent Gig for Raising Cloth, 383
 
Girders, Economical Limits to the Use of Rolled, 287
 
Glass, Siemens’ Proccss.in the Manufacture of, 244
 
Governor, Marine, 250
 
Grammar of Ornament. The, 264
 
Gramme’s Electric Machines, 476
 
Grantham Sewage, 327
 
Greenhill, Mr., Disintegrator, 470              .
 
Gregson, Brown, and Son, Messrs., Radial Drill for
 
Messrs. Marshall and Sons, 47
 
Greig and Eyth, Messrs., Wire Rope Tug for Canal Navigation, Messrs. Fowler and Co., 136
 
Gun Cotton and Water Shells, Professor Abel, 342, 351
 
Gun Manufacturers in India, Native, 47
 
Gunpowder, 271
 
Gunpowder, Carriage of, 327
 
Gunpowder, Dangerous Conveyance of, 273
 
Hall, Mr. Robt., 20ft. Loom for Weaving Woollen Felt, 3
 
Hamilton Dovetailer, The, 282
 
Handyside and Co.. Messrs., 313
 
Handy side, C.E., Mr. H., Locomotive Engines for
 
Steep Gradients, 210
 
Harbour Works in Callao Bay, Peru, Mr. Edwin Clark, M.I.C.E., 96, 101, 106, 115, 118
 
Harbour for Madras, Proposed New, 415
 
Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Messrs., Compound Engine, 6, 10
 
Hawkshaw’s Visit to Brazil, Sir John, 425
 
Heat, Economy in the Production and Use of, 98, 116, 160, 240, 307
 
Heaters, Feed-water, 79, 97
 
Henderson, M.E., Mr. J. A., On the Theory of Aero
 
Steam Engines, 141, 288
 
Henderson Process, The, 320
 
Herculaneum, Discovery of Silver Bust at, 422
 
Hiring in the Iron Trade, Proposed New Rules of, 414
 
Holborn Viaduct Station, Mr. W. Mills, C.E., 4, 7, 28,
 
29, 140
 
Holiday Question at Ironworks, 337
 
Hopper Dredger, St. Lawrence, Trial Trip of, 452
 
Howe, Mr. W., 84in. Engine, Clay Cross, Details of
 
Pumps, 281. 286
 
Howe, Mr. W., 84in. Cornish Engine, at Clay Cross Colliery, Butterley Iron Co., 224, 227, 234, 236
 
Hunt’s Coal Elevator, 153
 
Hurd and Simpson, Messrs., Engines, 153
 
Hydraulic Engineering Company, Limited, 9
 
Hydraulic Tests for Chain Cables, 110
 
Hydro-Thermic Motor, Signor F. Tommasi, 221
 
Increase of Third-class Fares, 273
 
Independents, The, 138
 
Independcncia, The, Launch of, 230
 
India, The Future Port of, 253
 
Indian Civil Engineering College, 50
 
Indian Railways, 72, 372
 
Indicators, Revolution, 185 •
 
Inspectors of Mines, Reports of, 69
 
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 69,172,176, 183
 
American Rolling Mills, Mr. Holley, 200
 
Crampton’s Revolving Furnace and its Products, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 235
 
Geology of the West Coast Iron Ore Districts, Mr.
 
P. Wilrzburger, 184
 
Latest Improvements in Appliances for Manufacture of Bessemer Steel, Mr. Walker, 201, 218
 
New Foundry Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, Mr.
 
T. Wrightson. 201
 
Rampside Boring, The, Mr, Alex. Brogden, 197
 
Setting Bessemer Converter Bottoms, Mr. Holley, 199
 
Valves suitable for Working Hydraulic Machinery, Mr. R. Lu thy, 221
 
Institute on Mechanical Engineers, 314, 341, 357
 
Bute Docks and Mechanical Arrangement for
 
Shipping Coal, Mr. McConnochie, 112
 
Diamond Boring Machine, Mr. Alex. Garrett, 113
 
Pumping Machinery for Emptyingthe Dry Docks at
 
Chatham and Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Rennie, 113
 
South Wales Coalfield, Mr. Forster Brown, 113
 
Institute of Mining, Civil, and Mechanical Engineers, The South Midland
 
Colliery Locomotives, Mr. James T. Tatlow, 316 Institute of Mining Engineers, The American : —
 
Coking Coals under Pressure, Mr. E. T. Cox, State Geologist, 246
 
Iron and Steel Rails, Mr. J. B. Pearce, 60
 
Midlothian Colliery, Virginia, Mr. Oswald J. Heinrich, M.E., 48
 
Smelting of Argentiferous Lead Ores in Nevada, Utah, and Montana, Messrs. O. F. Hahn, Aubon Eilers, and Dr. R. W. Raymond, 76
 
Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 113
 
Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, The North Staffordshire
 
• Excursion to Hyde Junction Engineering Works, 251 Institute of Mining Engineers, South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire
 
Visit to Barrow-in-Furness, 69
 
Institution of Civil Engineers, 339, 4102
 
Diamond Drill, Mr. A. Bassett, 130
 
Institution of Civil Engineers (continued):—
 
Extension of the South Jetty at Kustendjie, .Turkey,
 
Mr. G. Lenton Rolt, 479
 
List of Premiums and Prizes. 21, 188
 
Nagpur Waterworks, The, &c., Mr. Alexander R.
 
Binnie, M.I,C.E., 379
 
Pennsylvania Railway, &c., Messrs. Charles D. and
 
Francis Fox, M.I.C.E., 392
 
South Breakwater at Aberdeen, Mr. William Dyce
 
Clay, M.I.C.E., 479
 
Institution on Engineers, The Cleveland, 350, 357,
 
ivx
 
Future of Engineering, Mr. T. Wrightson, 357
 
Institution of Naval Architects, 226
 
Institution, The Royal Polytechnic, 339
 
Coal Gas, Lectures by Professor Gardiner, 339
 
International Exhibition, Kensington, Close of, 187
 
International Exhibition, The London, 250, 281
 
Ireland, Railway Extension in, 363
 
Iron, American Pig, 201
 
Iron, American Process of Galvanising, 254
 
Ironclads for Sale, 256
 
Iron. Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton. <fcc , 19, 41, 63, 91, 109, 125, 145, 165, 181, 195, 215, 229, 243, 261, 277, 295, 313, 331, 319, 367, 383, 403, 42], 439, 459, 483
 
Iron and Coal of New South Wales, 69
 
Iron, Floating Cast, 52, 135
 
Iron Industry in Turkey, 192, 417
 
Iron Interests in the United States, 456
 
Iron with Manganese, Alloying, 21
 
Iron Mines, Extraordinary, 316
 
Iron with Natural Gas, Making, 6
 
Iron, New Zealand, 212
 
Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, Mr, A. L. Stevenson, 219                                                    ’
 
Iron Trade, Depression of, 448
 
Iron Trade, United States, 166, 169
 
Ironworks, The Ferryhill, 102
 
Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U.S. Navy, Method of Ascertaining what Portion of the Feed-water Admitted to a Boiler is Entrained in the form of Spray by the Escaping Steam, 363
 
Jack, Hydraulic, 477
 
Jackson, Mr. F, W., Mortar Mill, 283
 
Kahlenberg Rack Railway, 337
 
Kesterton, Mr., High-pressure Boiler, 220
 
Kttnzel, Dr., Combined Phosphor Bronze and Soft
 
Metal Bearings, 1
 
Labour Laws, Royal Commission on, 374
 
Lamocks Lighthouse, Formosa Strait, China, 392
 
Lamps, Improved Railway, 59
 
Lamplighter, MM. Baumcister, and Eller’s Automatic, 352
 
Land, Clearing, 80
 
Leading Articles:—
 
American v, English Bridges, 55
 
Armament of Unarmoured Ships, 359
 
Belgian Competition, 360
 
Bessemer Channel Steamer, The, 253
 
Boiler Explosions in Cornwall. 451
 
Carbonic Acid Gas Engines, 175
 
Channel Tunnel, The, 137
 
Combustion of Powdered Fuel, 341
 
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 237
 
Contracts of the Crown, 396
 
Cutting Steel Rails Cold. 378
 
Darlington Ironworks, The, 208
 
Darlington Notice Case, The, 431
 
Decrepitude of Temple Bar, 119
 
Disposal of Sewage, 287
 
Domestic Fireplaces, 473
 
Economical Limits to the Use of Rolled Girders, 287
 
Education of Agricultural Engineers, 34
 
Expansion of Gases, 191
 
Feed Water Heaters, 79
 
Future Port of India, The, 253
 
Gas Profits, 225
 
Gas Question in the Metropolis, 119
 
Gunpowder, 271
 
High-pressure Steam, 33
 
Independencia, The, 137
 
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 341
 
Interoceanic Canal, The, 11
 
Iron Piers, 451
 
Iron and Steel Institute, 176
 
Lax Use of Terms in Science, 157
 
Legislation for the London Gas Supply, 431
 
Lighting Railway Carriages, 12
 
Long Railway Runs, 157
 
Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, 359
 
Low-pressure Engines, 137
 
Marine Engines, 185, 207
 
Mechanical Puddling, 305
 
Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock, 11
 
Midland Railway, The, 395
 
Norwich Accident, The, 225, 237, 305
 
Oberon Experiments, 177, 271
 
Patent Law, 473
 
Prevention of Smoke at Sea, 377
 
Professor Tyndall's Address, 175
 
Proposed New Rules of Hiring in the Iron Trade /IX
 
Railway Girders for the Metre Gauge, 207
 
Razors, 288
 
Safety Valves, 413
 
Sanitary Progress, 101
 
Sewage Difficulties, 377
 
Sewage Farms, 33
 
Sewage Standard, The, 79                    •  . J
 
Spontaneous Combustion, 101.
 
Stoke Hole Temperatures, 395
 
Street Tramways, 323
 
Suez Canal, The, 55
 
Temple Bar, 272, 414
 
Transit of Venus. 474.
 
Warner Process, The, 323
 
Leavitt, Mr. E. D., Compound Rotative Pumping Engine, Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., Messrs. J. P. Morris, Engineers, 450, 453, 454, 455
 
Legal Intelligence :—
 
Barlow v. the Public Works Construction Company, 37
 
Laidlaw v. the Hastings Pier Company. 411
 
Re Henry’s Patent Prolongation. 343, 352
 
Re Lancaster’s Patent. 172
 
Salvin v. the North Brancepeth Coal Company, 87
 
Legislation on Explosions, 263, 298
 
Letters to the Editor
 
Asbestos Packing, H. A. O. Mackenzie, 284
 
Asbestos Packing, Henry Smith, 269
 
Balloons, B. Biandao, 240
 
Barrow Steel Worke, Bar row Shipbuilding Company (Limited), 211
 
Bessemer, The, C., 269
 
Bessemer, The, James Lyall, 284
 
Bituminous Deposits of the Valley of the Pescara* R. Carter Moffatt, 428, 478
 
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Henry Hiller, 31 Blackburn Explosion, H. MacColl, 98. 160 .
 
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, William Wolverton, 30, 135
 
Blast Furnaces, W. Robson, 376
 
Boiler Setting, Henry Hiller, 325
 
“ Break” of Cast Iron, W. J. M., 269
 
Broadcast Manure Distributors, Your Correspondent, 185
 
Broadcast Manure Distributors, Thomas Chambers,-116
 
Carriage of Gunpowder, F. N. C., 327
 
Castalia, The, J. B., 309
 
Letters to the Editor (continued):—
 
Casting Steam Pipes. J. A., 410
 
Chilian International Exhibition, Juan E. Walker, 449
 
Chronographs, Pe.ter Conti, 393
 
Clearing Land, Charles Louis Hett, 80
 
Compound Engines, Arques, 283, 326, 356
 
Compound Engines, C. J., 409
 
Compound Engines, E., 478
 
Compound Engines, Bey wood, 338
 
Compound Engines, H. 0., 308, 338, 376
 
Compound Engines, J. B. J., 308
 
Compound Engines, J. E., 327
 
Compound Engines, J. T., 393
 
Compound Engines, Lancashire, 409
 
Compound Engines, Rufus, 309
 
Compound Engines, W. G., 428
 
Compound Engines, X., 283, 326, 376
 
Compound Engines, Y, 326
 
Construction of Furnaces, Arthur Barff, 31
 
Construction of Furnaces, John Watson, 31
 
Corroded Cylinders, Percy Gow, 284
 
Corroded Cylinders, A Ten Years’ Reader, 222, 269
 
Corrosion in Steam Cylinders, Stephen Watkins, 250, 269
 
Curves for Sidings. James S. Tate, C.E.. 30
 
Depression in the Iron Trade, Arthur Warner, 448
 
Diamond Drill, Alex. Bassett. C.E.. 135
 
Diamond Rock-boring, R. Allison, 309
 
Diamond Rock-boring,* Blumer Brothers, 250
 
Diamond Rock-boring, District Agent, 309
 
Diamond Rock-boring, Edmund Hann, 269
 
Diamond Rock Drill, Charles P. Hendy, 284
 
Diamond Rock Drills, Edwin J. Honeychurch, 393
 
Diamond Rock-boring, M. Gcoffry Morgan, 250
 
Diamond Rock-boring, R. S. L., 241
 
Driving Trade out of the Country, E. Hamer Carbutt, 428
 
Drum Guards, Corbett and Peele, 135
 
Durability of Illuminating Gas, F. Churton, 52
 
Economy in Heat, Professor Hofmann’s Account of the Atmopyre, D. O. Edwards, 240
 
Economy in the Production and Use of Heat, D. O.
 
Edwards. M.D.. 98, 116, 160, 307
 
Elastic Engine Wheels, H. S. O. Mackenzie, Assoc.
 
I.C.E., 52
 
Essendine Station, J. F. B. Porter, 240
 
Extracting Roots, G. J. G., 410
 
Extracting Roots, Arthur Tupman, 428
 
Eye in Transit Observations, C. Bruce Allen, 356, 448
 
Fastening Tires, J. R., 97
 
Feed-water Heater, Joseph Twibill, 97
 
Floating Cast Iron, L. IL, 135
 
Floating Cast Iron, W. Worby B., 13, 52
 
Fixed Stars as seen through Minute Apertures—The
 
Light Drop, C. B. A., 268
 
Friction Couplings, W. S. Hall, 393
 
Gasworks at Essendine Station, Geo. Bower, 250
 
Heaton’s Steel, J. Heaton, 356
 
Household Boilers, Thos. Holt, 338, 448
 
Household Boilers, Isaac Storey and Sons, 428
 
Howe’s Valve Gear, Ph. Roux, 99
 
Initial Pressure, C.» 135, 478
 
Institute of Mechanical Engineers, M. I. M. E., 357
 
Launch Engines, Farmer, 12
 
Lifeboats, Edward Jackson, 99
 
Lighting Railway Carriages, J. Biggs, 52
 
Lighting Railway Carriages and Tram-cars with Gas, Geo. Bower, 211
 
Lighting Railway Carriages and Tram-cars, Hyat Duckham, 185
 
Lighting of Railway Carriages, John Waugh, 241
 
Limits of Useful Expansion in Engines, D. K.
 
Clark. 116
 
Limit of Useful Expansion in Engines, Crank, 135
 
Liverpool Landing Stage, Fred. Campion, 160
 
Liverpool Landing Stage, Joseph Simpson,’ Engineer, 211
 
Locomotive Telegraphs, Philip Braham, 250
 
Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, C., 428
 
Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, B. T. McKay, 393
 
Marine Governor, H. Harrison, 250
 
Marksmen in the Navy, Arma Virumque Cano, 284
 
Mechanical Puddling, W. Corbett, 338, 448
 
Mechanical Puddling, Perry F. Nursey, 327
 
Mechanical Puddling, Adam Spencer, 308, 327, 357
 
Mending Broken Screw Shafts, W. G., 338
 
Midland Railway, The, A., 410
 
New Mint, A, M. E., 31
 
New .Zealand Iron, Jas. Major, 212
 
Norwich Accident, Charles Fairholme, 250
 
Notes on the Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, C. Bruce Allen, 211
 
Notes on the Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in
 
Transit Observations, Geo. M. Seabrook, 222, 396
 
Outflow of Steam, Thomas Baldwin, 448
 
Outflow of Steam, Robert Napier, 478
 
Pease’s New Mill at Darlington, Y., 427
 
Polysphenic Ship, The, Thomas B. Daft, 80
 
Polysphenic Ship, Charles Meade Ramus, 116
 
Portable Engine Fittings, Draughtsman, 160
 
Prevention of Smoke, C. D., 410
 
Priming, Robert Johnson, 478
 
Priming, Alexander Smith, 478
 
Priming, W .C. P., 376
 
Priming, Y., 410
 
Pumping Engines in America, James H. Harlow, 222
 
Pumps, Aquarius, 30, 52
 
Railway Bar Corrosion, Robert Mallet, 327
 
Railway Signals, J. Whiteman, 308
 
Revolution Indicators, Fair Play, 185
 
Revolution Indicators, Juvenis ab Urbe, 393
 
Robey’s Patent Boiler, J. Richardson, 160
 
Robey’s Patent Boiler, Thos. Wilkins, 98
 
Root’s Patent Blower, Thwaites and Carbutt, 116
 
Rotary Blowers, Ironfounder, 97
 
Rotary Engines, Reciprocator, 478
 
Rotary Puddling, Dogbery, 393
 
Roving Frames. A. Z., 269
 
Roving Frames, W. M.. 325
 
Safety Valves, Robert Martin, 478
 
Safety Valves, John W. Melling, 448
 
Sewage of Grantham, J. Hille, 327
 
Shannon Improvement Scheme, Shannonside, 80, 98, 211
 
Siemens’ Dynamo-electric Machine. G. R., 52
 
Steam Diggers ,Hetherington and Parker, 356
 
Steam Pump Condensers, John C. Fell, 327, 356 376
 
Steam Pump Condensers, Q., 356
 
Steam Pump Condensers, M. Silvester, 338
 
Steam Pump Condensers, Tangye Bros, and Holman, 338
 
Steam Pump Condensers, J. Thompson, 338
 
Steam Pump Condensers, G., 856
 
Tottenham Pumping Engines, J. W. Couchman, 338
 
Tottenham Pumping Engines, C. E. Horner, 356
 
Tottenham Pumping Engine, Alfred Phillips, 410
 
Tottenham Pumping Engines, Whieldon and Cooke, 356
 
Tramways, Geo. T. Yuli, 428
 
Trial of Patent Cases, William Spence, Assoc. Inst.
 
C,E., 12, 80, 222
 
Warner Process, The, J. Knox Clifford, 339
 
Warner Process, Arthur Warner, 339, 357
 
Water Supply, A Liverpool Houseowner, 338
 
Liffey, Purification of the, 155
 
Lifeboats, 99
 
Lifeboats, Mr. C. Beloe on, 13
 
Life-raft, Mr. Roper, 141
 
Light-draught Steamers, 273
 
“ Light Drop” Fixed Stars as Seen through Minute Apertures, 268
 
Lincolnshire Agricultural Show, Grantham, 93
 
Literature
 
Clocks, Watches, and Bells, Sir Edmund Beckett, late E. B. Denison, LL.D., L.C., F.R.A.S., <fcc., 147
 
Complete Measurer, The, Richard Horton, 147
 
Elements of Metallurgy, J. Arthur Phillips, M. Inst. C.E., 452
 
History of the American Ambulance Established in
 
Paris in the Siege of 1870-71, T, W. Evans, M.D.’ Ph.D., 43
 
Horizontal Wells, J. Lucas, 167
 
Instructions on Modern Bridge Building, G. B. N. Tower, 167
 
Iron and Timber Railway Superstructures and General Works, J. W. Grover, M. Inst. C.E , 272
 
Journal of the Chemical Society, J. Van Voorst, 1873
 
Manual of Metallurgy, W. H. Greenwood, F.C.S., 147
 
Metallurgy of Iron, &c., II. Bauerman, F.G.S., 147
 
Military Carriages and other Manufactures of the Royal Carriage Department, Captain W. Kemmis, 306
 
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom for 1873, Robert Hunt, F.R.S., 432
 
Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, The, J. Nasmyth, C.E., and J. Carpenter, F.R.A.S., 217
 
Report on the Inspection of Metalliferous Mines in Cornwall, Devonshire, and Part of Somersetshire, for 1873, Clement Le Neve Foster, B.A., 432
 
Report on a Naval Mission to Europe, especially Devoted to the Material and Construction of Artillery,Washington Government Printing-office, 21,65
 
Short Logarithmic and other Tables, E. and F. N. Spon, 272
 
Theory of Arches, W. Allan, 272
 
Transactions of the Society of Engineers for 1872, E. and F. N. Spon, 351
 
Liverpool Landing Stage, Burning of, 99, 111, 114,115, 127, 132, 160, 211
 
Loading Safety Valves by Direct Springs, Mr. Brock, 409
 
Locomotive Engine Building in the United States, 49
 
Locomotive Fuel, 138, 254
 
Locomotive, North-Eastera Railway, Mr. E. Fletcher’s Bogie Tank, Messrs. Neilson and Co., Engineers, 282
 
Locomotives, Mountain, 203
 
London Gas Supply, Legislation for the, 431
 
Loom, Lyall Positive Motion Wire Cloth, 469
 
Loom for- Weaving Woollen Felt, Mr. Robert Hall, 3
 
Lowry and Co., Messrs , Radial Drilling Machine, 283
 
Lyall, Mr., Positive Motion Wire-cloth Loom, 469
 
Ly-ee-Moon, Boilers of the, 310—(Sec Working Drawing, Oct. 23rd)
 
Ly-ee-Moon, Trial Trip of, 192. Engines of, 239. 249, 252, 256
 
Lynde, Mr. J. H., Tramway, 83
 
Machinery Exhibitions at Manchester, 378
 
Maidenhead Waterworks, 449
 
Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R., Dilatation of Cast Iron and the Phenomena of the Crane Ladle, 231
 
Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R., on Real Reasons why Castings in Iron are Accurate Copies of the Mould, 197
 
Manganese Pig Iron, 392
 
Manure Distributors, Broadcast, 116, 185
 
Manure Wharf, The Salford, 273                »
 
Markets, Metals, Oils, Timber, &c—(See last page of each number)
 
Markfield and Bardon Granite Quarries, 371, 375
 
Marine Engineers’ Agency, 417
 
Martyr to Science, 281
 
Marsden’s Combined Stonebreaker and Engine, 152
 
Menier, M., Hot-air Balloon, 217
 
Metre Gauge, Railway Girders for the, 207
 
Metric System in our Workshops, 25
 
Metropolitan Buildings and Management, 80
 
Metropolitan Railway, Smoking Carriages on the, 185 Metropolitan Railway, Ventilation of the, 94
 
Metropolitan Water Companies and Constant Supply,
 
155                                  »
 
Midlothian Colliery, Virginia, 48
 
Military Balloon Experiments, 81, 93
 
Miller, Mr. B., Self-acting Punching, Shearing, Platecutting, and Planing Machine, 304, 309
 
Mills, C.E., Mr. W., Holborn Viaduct Station, 4, 7, 28, 29, 140
 
Miners’ Strike in Scotland, 269
 
Mines and Mining Accidents, 433
 
Mining, Deep, 468
 
Mining in Russia, 443
 
Mint, A New, 31
 
Miscellanea, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 223, 233, 247, 265, 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
 
Mormon Engineering, 246
 
Mortar Mill, Mr. F. W. Jackson’s, 283
 
Mountain Locomotives, 203
 
Mounting Drawings and Tracings, 453
 
Narbonne, Projected Port at, 268, 298
 
Native Railway Engineers for India, 251
 
Navies of Europe, 238
 
Navy, Marksmen in the, 284
 
Nelson, Mr., Bolt and Stud End Cutter, 267
 
Newcastle Chemical Society—Address of President Mr. Pattison, 388
 
New Factory Act, 417
 
New Law for the Registration of Trade Marks in Germany, 449
 
New Rifle for France, 4
 
New York Harbours, 172
 
New York Plumbers, 232
 
Nominal Horse Power, Messrs. Vaughan, Richardson, and Co.’s Scale of, 26
 
Non-conducting Coatings for Steam Boilers, 262
 
North of England, 19, 42, 63, 91, 109, 126, 146, 166, 182, 196, 216, 230, 244, 262, 278, 296, 314, 331, 349, 368, 383, 404, 421, 440, 459, 484
 
Notes from Lancashire, 20, 41, 63, 91, 109, 125, 145, 165, 181, 195, 216, 230, 262, 278, 313, 331, 349, 367, 383, 403, 421, 439, 459
 
Notes and Memoranda, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 205, 223, 233, 247, 265; 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
 
Notes from Paris, 406
 
Notes from Scotland, 20, 41, 64, 91, 110, 126, 146, 182, 196, 230, 244, 262, 278, 295, 314, 332, 350, 367, 384, 404, 421, 439, 460, 483
 
Notes from the West Coast of South America, 2
 
Notices to Correspondents, 11, 33, 55, 79, 101, 119, 137, 157, 175, 191, 207, 225, 237, 253, 271, 287, 305, 323, 341, 359, 377, 395, 413, 431, 451, 473
 
Oberon Torpedo Attack, Stokes Bay, 133, 152, 176, 185, 232, 271
 
Obituary
 
Anderson, F.R.S.E., Dr. Thomas, 368
 
Benson, Sir John, 313
 
Boyer, M. Pierre, 428
 
Brown, Mr. George, 250  ~
 
Fairbairn, Sir W., 154, 172
 
Grantham, M.I.C.E., Mr. J., 80
 
Laird, Mr. John, 343
 
Logan, C.E., Mr., 52
 
Rennie, C.E., F.R.S., Sir John, 209
 
Smiles, Mrs., 9
 
Smith, Mr. John, 74
 
Oven, M. Coppee’s Coke, 300
 
Oxford Main Drainage, 185
 
Pacific Coast Mines, Returns of, 31
 
Packing Asbestos, 269, 284
 
Packing, Mr. Church’s Metallic Piston-rod, 318
 
Paris Mud, 433
 
Paris Waterworks, The New, 476
 
Patent Cases, Trial of, 12, 80, 222
 
Patent Laws, The, 391, 433, 473
 
Patent-office, Publications of the, 31
 
Pease, Messrs., New Mill at Darlington, 388,- 427
 
Peat in Germany, 51
 
Pebble Powder and Barbette Firing, 9
 
Penn, John, 289
 
Pescara, South Italy, Bituminous Deposits of the Valley of, 428, 478
 
Petersburg, Drainage of, St., 316
 
Petroleum in Russia, 320
 
Phosphor Bronze, 392
 
Piers, Iron, 451
 
Pipes, Casting Steam, 410
 
Pipes, Loss of Pressure in Steam, 859, 393, 428
 
Planing Machine, Chinese Government Vertical, Messrs., John Bourne and Co., 97
 
. Planing Machine, The First, 281
 
Planing and Moulding Machine, Messrs. Furness and Co.’s Trying up and Four Cutter, 202
 
Plate and Scrap Shearing Machine, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 221
 
Polychrome Process, The, 313
 
Polytechnic School, Angers, Cupola at the, 186
 
Polysphenic Ship, The, Mr. Charles Meade Ramus, 56, 80, 116
 
Postal Statistics of Austria, 399
 
Pressure, Initial, 135, 478
 
Priming, 375, 410, 449, 478
 
Prizes for Hand-turning, 113
 
Projection of Electric Light, 397
 
Propeller, The Screw, 344
 
Propontis, The, 12, 130
 
Puddling, Mechanical, 305, 309, 326, 338, 357, 448
 
Puddling with Natural Gas, 343
 
Puddling. Rotary, 393
 
Pulleys, Mr. G. W. Cresson’s Movable, 352'
 
Pumps, 30
 
Pumps, Steam, 226
 
Punching. Shearing, Plate-cutting, and Planing Machine, Mr. B. Miller’s, 304, 309
 
Punkah Pulling, 313
 
Quebec Harbour Improvements, 232
 
Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 475
 
Rails, Cold, Cutting Steel, 378
 
Rails, Form, Endurance, and Manufacture of,102, 155, 177, 187, 204
 
Rails at Sheffield, Cyclops Works, Manufacture of, 314
 
Railway Accidents, 76
 
Railway Accidents in India, 82
 
Railway Carriages and Tram-cars, Lighting, 185, 211, 241
 
Railway Matters, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 205, 223, 233, 247, 265, 285, 299,317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
 
Railway, The Midland, 395, 410
 
Railway Rolling Stock, 12
 
Railway Runs, Long, 157
 
Railway Works and Projects, The North-Eastern, 369
 
Railways, Indian, 72, 372
 
Railways by Steam Power, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, On
 
Working Street, 65, 70, 71
 
Railways, The World’s, 371
 
Ramus, Mr. Charles Meade, The Polysphcric Ship, 56, 80, 116
 
Razors, 288
 
Reaping Machine Trials, 99
 
Regent’s Canal Explosion, 385, 390, 394
 
Report of the Committee of the British Association on
 
Siemens’ Electrical Pyrometer, 256
 
Report to the Town Council of Barnsley by the Committee appointed to visit Localities where Sewage Works are in Operation, 302
 
Researches on Explosives, Fired Gunpowder, 255
 
Revolution Indicators, 393
 
Reynolds, Professor Osborne, On the Efficiency of
 
Belts or Straps as Communicators of Work, 395
 
Rifled Ordnance in the United States, 440
 
Robertshaw, Mr., Hydraulic Press Pumping Engine, 390
 
Rock-boring, Diamond, 241, 250, 269, 284,309, 393
 
Rolling Mill Gearing at Messrs. Grillo, Funke, and
 
Co.’s Works, 378—(See. also Supplement, Nov. 20th)
 
Rolling Stock, Metropolitan Railway, 11
 
Rolling Stock, Railway, 12
 
Rolling Stock for the South-Eastern Railway Company, 33, 36
 
Roots, Extracting, 410, 428
 
Roper’s Life Raft, 141                                  I
 
Ropes, Testing Strength of, 80
 
Route through Germany to the East, 255
 
Rover, Launch of the, 135
 
Roving Frames, 269, 325
 
Roving Frames, Messrs. Elce and Arundel, 248
 
Russia, Mining in, 443
 
Russian Artillery, 410
 
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 245, 256, 257, 363
 
Sale of American Monitors, 273
 
Salford Manure Wharf, The, 273
 
Sanitary and Educational Exhibition, Glasgow, 202
 
Sanitary Progress, 101
 
San Pier d’Arena, 449
 
Science and Art Department, 23
 
Scotch Cotton Factory, The First, 425
 
Screw Shafts, Mending Broken, 338
 
Semmering and Brenner Railways, The, 57, 85
 
Sewage of Carmarthen, 4
 
Sewage Difficulties, 377
 
Sewage, Disposal of, 287
 
Sewage Farms, 33                                  |
 
Sewage in Paris, 399
 
Sewage “ Standard,” 79
 
Sewage of Towns, &c., Mr. J. Bailey Denton, C.E., on .
 
the Disposal of, Social Science Congress, 321
 
Sezaroch, The, New Russian Projectile, 155
 
Shaft Couplings, Mr. C. F. Varley, F R.S., 172
 
Shannon Improvement Scheme, 80, 98, 211, 238
 
Sheet Iron Gas Pipes and their Powers of Resistance, 248
 
Sheffield District, 19, 42, 64, 92, 110, 126, 145, 165, 182, 196, 216, 330, 243, 261, 278, 296, 313, 332, 350, 368, 384 403, 422, 440, 460, 484
 
Sheffield Statistics. 69
 
Ships, Armament of Unarmoured, 359
 
Ships, Sheathing, Messrs. Westwood and Baillie, 390
 
Ships, Strength and Strains of Iron, 9
 
Show at Grantham, Lincolnshire, Agricultural, 93
 
Siege Experiments at Eastbourne, 36o, 369, 385, 441, 461
 
Siemens’ Process in the Manufacture of Glass, 241
 
Signals, Railway, 308
 
Silica from Iron, Removal of, 87
 
Slough Sewage, 479
 
Smelting of Argentiferous Lead Oros in Nevada, Utah, 1 and Montana, 121, 134
 
Smithfield Club Show, 423
 
Alexander and Sons, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 425, 435
 
Ashby Jeffery, and Luke, Messrs., Engines and Boilers, 425
 
Ayshford, Mr. T. B.» Adjustable Dog-cart, 425
 
Barford, Messrs., Stack Elevators and Ploughing
 
Gear, 425
 
Brown and May, Messrs., Portable Engines, 424
 
Burrell, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 424
 
Cambridge and Parham, Messrs., Horse Gears, 425
 
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Engines and
 
Thrashing Machines, 424
 
Davey, Mr. T., Turn Wrest Plough, 425
 
Davey, Paxman, and Davey, Messrs., Engine and
 
Boiler, 424
 
Fowler, Messrs., Ploughing Engine, 424
 
Garratt and Sons, Engines and Thrashing Machines,
 
Holmes and Reid, Messrs., Drills, 425
 
Hornsby, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 424
 
Howard, Messrs., Boiler, 424
 
Lewin, Mr., Engine and Thrashing Machine, 424
 
Marshall, Messrs., Portable Engines and Thrashing
 
Machine, 423
 
Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Messrs., Ploughs, 424
 
Reading Ironworks Company, 16-Horse Condensing
 
Engine, 423
 
Robey and Co., Messrs., Fixed Engine and Boiler, 424, 427
 
Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Expansion Gear, and 12-Horse Double, and an 8-Horse Single Portable Engine, 423
 
Suckling, Mr., Chaff Cutter, 425
 
Tangye and Holman, Messrs., Engines and Pumps, 424
 
Tasker and Sons, Messrs., Portable Engines, 424
 
Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., 3-Horse Portable Engine, 424, 430
 
Willshci' and Co., Messrs., Thrashing Machine, 425
 
Wood, Mr. W., Reaping Machine, 425
 
Smoke, Prevention of, 410
 
Smoke at Sea, Prevention of, 377
 
“ Snapper ” Telegraph Sounder, 460
 
Social Science Congress, 250
 
Society of Arts, 352
 
Expediency of Protection for Inventions, Mr. F. J.
 
Bramwell, F.R.S., 433
 
Stove Competition, 449
 
Society, The Chemical: —
 
Action of Baryta on Oil of Cloves, Professor A. H. Church, 363
 
Action of Bromine in the Presence of Water on Bromopyrogallol and Bromopyrocatechu, Dr. J. Stenhouse, 363
 
Action of Bromine on Protocatechuic Acid, Gallic Acid and Tannin, by J. Stenhousc, F.R.S., 899
 
Action of Organic Acids and their Anhydrides on the Natural Alkaloids, Dr. Wright and G. II. Beckett, 363, 399
 
Bilirubin and its Compounds, Dr. J. L. W. Thudi-cum, 363
 
Colour of Cupric Chloride, Mr. W. N. Harkley, 436
 
Composition of Antonite, Professor A. H. Church, 399
 
Formulas of the Alums, Mr. S. Lupton, 436
 
General Equations of Chemical Reactions, Professor
 
W. K. Clifford, 399
 
Groves’ Method of Preparing Chlorides, C. Schor-lemmer, 479
 
Methyl Hexyl Carbinol, C. Schorlcmmer, F.R.S., 363
 
Note on Aricine, Mr. D. Howard, 479
 
Noto on the Boiling Point of Methyl Hexyl Carbinol,
 
C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 436
 
Oxidation of the Essential Oils, Part II., Mr. C. T. Kingzett, 436
 
Precipitation of Metals by Zinc, Mr. T. L. Davies, 479
 
Propionic Coumarin and its Derivatives, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 399
 
Purification and Boiling Point of Methyl Hcxil Carbinol, G. Neison, 436
 
Researches on the Paraffines Existing in Pennsylvanian Petroleum, T. M. Morgan, 479
 
Use of Permanganate of Potash in Volumetric Analysis, E. A. Parnell, 363
 
Society of Civil Engineers, The American :—
 
European Railways as they appear to an American Engineer, Mr. W. Howard White, C.E , 84
 
Method Pursued in Replacing a Stone Pier on a Pile Foundation, J. Albert Monroe, C.E., 59
 
Society, Edinburgh and Leith Engineers’ :—
 
Furnaces and their Construction and Management, Mr. Charles Fairbairn, 8
 
Mortar, Mr. Graham Smith, 34
 
Study of Engineering Science, Mr. James H. Cunningham, 362
 
Working Street Railways by Steam Power, Mr.
 
Leonard J. Todd, 65
 
Society, Engineering, King’s College
 
Centrifugal Pumps, Mr. E. W. Anderson, 425
 
Harbours and Breakwaters, Mr. F. Marsh, 41.5
 
Society of Engineers, 201, 269
 
Action of Marine Worms and the Remedies Applied in San Francisco Harbour, California, Mr. John Blackburn, C.E., 306
 
Channels for the Conveyance of Sewers, Mr. John Phillips, C.E., 465
 
Mechanical Puddling, Mr. Perry F. Nursey, 267, 279
 
Tramway Rolling Stock and Steam in Connection therewith, Mr. Charles C. Cramp, 398, 416
 
Visit to the Imperial Gasworks, Blackwall, 130 Society, Liverpool Polytechnic
 
Lifeboats, Mr. Charles H. Beloe, M.I.C.E., 13
 
Society, Manchester Literary and Philosophical, 392
 
Effect of Acid on the Interior of Iron Wire, Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., 392
 
Society, Manchester Scientific and Mechanical :— Use of Timber in Connection with Mechanical Work,
 
Mr. J. G. Lynde, C.E., 35
 
Society, The Meteorological :—
 
Heat and Damp which accompany Cyclones, Hon. Ralph Abercrombie, F.M.S., 392
 
Report Concerning the Meeting of the Conference on Maritime Meteorology in London, August 31, 1874, President, Dr. R. J. Mann, 399
 
Table for Facilitating Determination of the Dew Point from Observations of the Dry and Wet Bulb Thermometer, William Marriott, 392
 
Weather of Thirteen Springs, R. Strachan, F.M.S., 392
 
Society, Newcastle Chemical, Address of President, Mr. Pattison, 388
 
Society for the Promotion of Scientific Industry, 172 Society, The Royal, 378
 
Alleged Expansion in Volume of Various Substances in Passing by Refrigeration from State of Liquid Fusion to Solidification, Mr. Robert Mallet, F.R.S., 2
 
Society, The Royal Agricultural, 370
 
Society, The Royal Agricultural, at Bedford, 1, 21, 43, 69
 
Abstract of Particulars of Wagon Trials, 23
 
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Plough and Travelling Van, 99, 100
 
Challis, Mr., Turnip-thinner, exhibited by Messrs. Ransome Sims, and Head, 140
 
Fowler and Co., Messrs. J., Steam Ploughing Windlass for the Roundabout System, 111, 115
 
Fowler and Co., Messrs , Sutherland Plough, 82
 
Fowler and Co., Messrs. J.,Traction Engine (8-H.P.), 74, 78
 
Garrett, Messrs., Drum Guard for Thrashing Machine, 226
 
Greig and Eyth, Messrs., Plough, 74, 82
 
Hayward Tyler and Co., Messrs., “ Universal ” Pump, 45, 51
 
Head, Messrs., Self-feeder for Thrashing Machine, 36
 
Hill and Massey, Messrs., 3-Horse Engine and Boiler, 83
 
Howard, Messrs., Double Gear Ploughing Windlass, 54
 
Howard, Messrs., Self-moving Anchor, 46
 
Howard, Messrs., Traction Engine with Ploughing
 
Windlass, 50
 
Howard, Messrs., Water Tube Boiler, 74, 75
 
Prize List, 46
 
Robey and Co., Messrs., Vertical Boiler, 25
 
Ruston and Proctor, Messrs., Feeding Gear for
 
Thrashing Machine, 45, 51
 
Show Yard, Map of, 1
 
Traction Experiments, 81
 
Society of Telegraph Engineers :—
 
Conversazione at King’s College, 436
 
Solvency of Trades’ Unions, 281
 
South-Eastern Railway Company, Rolling Stock, 32, 36 South Kensington Museum, 20, 34, 56, 87, 99, 126, 135, 155, 182, 204, 230, 254, 264, 281, 313, 332,343, 352, 383, 392, 411, 425, 460, 474
 
Spontaneous Combustion, 101
 
Stability of Towers and Chimneys, Mr. C. A. Evans,
 
C.E., on, 231
 
Stand Pipe, Mr. W. Bennett, 354
 
Steam Cultivation, 83
 
Steam Culture in Wiltshire, 129
 
Steam, High Pressure, 33
 
Steam, Outflow of, 415, 448, 478
 
Steavenson, Mr. A. L., Ironstone
 
219
 
Mining in Cleveland,
 
Steel, Heaton’s, 356
 
Stevens Battery, The, 378
 
Stevens Battery, 170, Engines, 171, 209, 232
 
Stobart and Allan, Messrs., Weighing Machine, 100
 
Stonebreaker and Engine Combined, Marsden’s, 152
 
Storey and Sons, Messrs. J., Magnetic Water Gauge, 202
 
Strength of American Car Wheels, 334
 
Sulzer, Brothers, Messrs., Air Pumps and Condensers, 318
 
Suez Canal, The, 55
 
Suez, Isthmus of, 115
 
Switch Lever, Mr. Burleigh’s Rotary, 6
 
Switches, Improved System of Railway, 477
 
Talargoch Lead Mining Company, The Old, 190
 
Taps, 357
 
Target, The New Wimbledon Rifle, Captain Costin.
 
301
 
Tay Bridge, 120
 
Taylor and Co., Messrs., 60-ton Crane at Glasgow Harbour, 321
 
Technical Education, 393
 
Telegraphs, Locomotive, 250
 
Telegraphy in the States, 102
 
Temperatures, Stoke Hole, 395
 
Temple Bar, 272, 412, 414
 
Temple Bar, Decrepitude of, 119
 
Terms in Science, Lax Use of, 157
 
Testing Strength of Ropes, 80
 
Thorpe Collision, 383
 
Thunderer, Guns of II.M S., 279
 
Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Twin Crank Direct- | acting Engine, 50
 
Timbers of Natal, 411
 
Timber in Connection with Mechanical Work, Use of, 35
 
Tires, Fastening, 97
 
Tod and Co., Messrs., Flour Mills, Glasgow, 4
 
Todd, Mr. L. J., Accumulator Boilers for Steam Tramway Purposes, 105
 
Todd, Mr. L. J., Engine for Working Tramways, 70, 71
 
Tommasi, Signor F., Hydo-Thermic Motor, 221
 
Tool, Messrs. Donald and Atkey’s Universal Machine, 17o
 
Torpedo Attack on the Oberon, Stokes Bay, 133, 152,
 
176, 185, 232, 271
 
Torpedo, The Ericsson Pneumatic, 468
 
Trade out of the Country, Driving, 428
 
Trade Societies and Public Opinions, 204
 
Trades Unions in America, 24
 
Trains, Communication in, 236
 
Tramway, Mr. J. H. Lynde, 83
 
Tramways, 428
 
Tramways, Street, 321
 
Tramways, Vienna, 142
 
Transit of Venus, Determination of Longitude by
 
Telegraph in Connection with the, 245
 
Transit of Venus Expedition, 238
 
Tunnel, The Channel, 137
 
Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 245, 256, 257, 363
 
Turret System in 1831, The, 315
 
Uninflammable Wood for the Navy, 23
 
Urquhart, Lindsay, and Co., Messrs. Hydraulic Calender, 345
 
Value of Cultivated Land in France, 410
 
Valve, Messrs. Bailey and Co.’s Feed, 3
 
Valve, Messrs. Dennis’ Stop, 3
 
Valve Gear, Howe’s, 99
 
Valves, Pump, 52
 
Valves, Safety, 413, 448, 478
 
Varley, F.R.S., Mr. C. F., Shaft Coupling’, 172
 
Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 94
 
Venus, Transit of, 474
 
Verey and Lange, Messrs., 20-H.P. Messenger Boiler, 267
 
Vienna Exhibition, 202
 
Vienna Tramways, 142
 
Volcano in the South Pacific, 185
 
Wages at the Iron Mills, East and West, 391
 
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 20, 42, 64, 92, 110, 126, 146, 166, 182,196, 230, 244, 262, 278, 296, 314, 332, 350, 368, 384, 404, 422, 440, 460, 484
 
Wall Planing Machine, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 391 Warner Process, The, 320, 323, 339, 357
 
Water Supply, 338
 
Water Supply, Constant and Intermittent, 297
 
Water Supply of San Francisco, 320
 
Watkin, R.A., Lieut. H., Chronograph, 333
 
Weighing Machine, Messrs. Stobart and Allan, 100
 
Werderman’s Process for Resharpening Files, 339
 
Westwood and Baillie, Messrs., Sheathing Ships, 390
 
Wheels, Elastic Engine, 52
 
Wheels, Strength of American Car, 334
 
Whieldon and Cook, Messrs., Pumping Engines at Tottenham— {See Supplement, Sept. ISth)
 
Whitworth Scholarships, 100
 
Willcock, Mr. J., Rolling Mill Engines—[See Supplement, July 17)
 
Wiltshire, Steam Culture in, 129
 
Wimbledon Drainage, 264, 3 3
 
Wire Rope Towing on Canals, 128
 
Wire Rope Tug for Canal Navigation, Messrs. Greig and Eyth, Messrs. Fowler and Co., 136
 
Woodall, Mr. S , Foot Bridge, New-street Station, Birmingham, 321x322
 
Woolwich Arsenal, 35-Ton Hammer, 152, 158. Coal Furnace, 156, 158
 
Wrenches and Spanners, Mr. W. A. Comber, 170
 
Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Sh >w at Sheffield, 113
 
Yorkshire College of Science, 309


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  • Abel, Professor, Gun Cotton and Water Shells, 342, 351
  • Accident on the Midland Railway, 357
  • Accident, The Norwich, 225. 237, 250, 305
  • Accidents, Railway, 76, 238
  • Accidents in India, 82
  • Air Pumps and Condensers, Messrs. Sulzer Brothers, 318
  • Alexander, High-pressure Boilers of S.S., Messrs. Crighton, Abo, Finland, 374
  • Alexander and Sons, Messrs., Semi-portable High- pressure Winding Engines for Yale, Gloucestershire, 172, 174
  • Alexandra Palace, The, 15
  • Allan, Funeral of Mr. W., 314
  • Alloying of Iron with Manganese, 24
  • American Bessemer Works, 94
  • American Blast Furnace Statistics, 303
  • American Blast Furnace Yields, 406
  • American Paper Trade, Growth of the, 161
  • American Process of Galvanising Iron, 254
  • Americans as Agricultural Engineers, 220
  • Aniline Colours, 345
  • Arthur Woolf, Mr. S. Hocking, C.E., on the Life and Labours of, at the Miners' Assoc., Cornwall, 379
  • Artillery, Russian, 410
  • ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS, LEEDS, 460
  • ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN, LONDON, 37, 320
  • - Electric Telegraph, Sir David Salomons, 274
  • - Equilibrium Cabins for Passenger Ships, and Equilibrium Turrets for Ironclads, Mr. Black, 37
  • - Improvements in Engines and Boilers, Mr. T. Black, 357
  • - Life Saving Apparatus, Mr. John Banting Rogers, 202
  • - Three-cylinder Continuous Expansion Engine, Mr. J. Steward, 449
  • - Visit to Blackwall Ironworks, 80
  • ASSOCIATION OF GAS MANAGERS, NORTH BRITISH:--
  • - Address to Mr. Foulis, 56
  • ASSOCIATION, MANCHESTER STEAM USERS', 185
  • - Inspection of Household Boilers, Mr. Fletcher's Report, 316
  • ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS, 155, 212
  • ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUPERVISION OF STEAM BOILERS IN BELGIUM, 9
  • Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Plough Travelling Van, 99, 100
  • Bailey and Co., Messrs., Feed Valve, 3
  • Balloon Experiments, Military, 81, 93
  • Balloon, M. Menier's Hot Air, 217
  • Balloons, 240
  • Barnsley Sewerage Scheme, 339
  • Barrow-in-Furness, 161, 384
  • Barrow Hematite Iron and Steel Works, 183, 211
  • Battery, The Stevens, 170, 209
  • Bearings, Dr. Kunzel's Combined Phosphor Bronze and Soft Metal, 1
  • Belfast Gasworks, Improvements in, 354
  • Belfast Strike, Close of the, 176
  • Belgian Competition, 360, 370
  • Belts or Straps as Communicators of Work, Professor Osborne Reynolds on the Efficiency of, 396
  • Bement and Sons, Messrs. W. B., Radial Drilling ï Machine, 374
  • Bennett, Mr. W., Standpipe, 354
  • Berry and Sons, Messrs. F., Plate and Scrap Shearing Machine, 221
  • Berry and Sons, Messrs. F., Wall Planing Machine, 391
  • Bessemer Channel Steamer, The, 253, 269, 284
  • Bessemer, Launch of the, 255
  • Beverley Iron and Wagon Company, Boiler Fittings for Portable Engines, 105
  • Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 30, 31, 98, 135, 160
  • Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, 211, 222, 356, 393, 448
  • Blackleading Iron, 152
  • Blasting with Gunpowder Fired by Electricity, 410
  • Blower, Root's Patent, 116
  • Blowers, Rotary, 97
  • Boat Lowering Apparatus, Folkard's, 410
  • Boiler Experiment, Contemplated, 23
  • Boiler Explosion near Abcrdare, 334
  • Boiler Explosion, The Blackburn, 30, 31, 98, 135, 160
  • Boiler Explosion at Leeds, 370
  • Boiler Fittings for Poitable Engines, Beverley Iron and Wagon Company, 105
  • Boiler Inspection in the United States, 226
  • Boiler, Mr. Kesterton's High-pressure, 220
  • Boiler, 20-H.P. Messenger, Messrs. Verey and Lange, 267
  • Boiler, Robey's Patent, 98, 160
  • Boiler Setting, 325
  • Boilers, Household, 338, 428, 448
  • Boilers, Inspection of Household, 316
  • Boilers of the Ly-ee-Moon, 310--(See Working Drawing October 23rd)
  • Boilers for Steam Tramway Purposes, Mr. L. J. Todd's Accumulator, 105
  • Boilers, Strength of, 185
  • Bolton Strike, The, 236
  • Bolt and Stud End Cutter, Mr. Nelson, 267
  • Boulogne Harbour, 422
  • Bourne and Co., Messrs. John, Vertical Planing Machine, Chinese Government, 97
  • Bowling Iron Company, 238
  • Bremme, Mr. G., Elastic Wheel for Traction Engines, 24
  • Bridge ever the Allier at Vichy, M. Radout Delafosse, 263, 266, 274, 290
  • Bridge over the Mississippi, Railway, 254
  • Bridge over the Reuss at Lucerne, MM. Cuenod and Gaudard, 336, 340, 344
  • Bridges, American versus English, 55
  • Britannic, of the White Star Line, The, 49
  • BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE, BELFAST, 127, 147, 167
  • - Address of President Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., D C.L., LL.D.. andc., 148
  • - Address of Professor Thomson, President of Mechanical Section, Section G, 167
  • - Coal Mining in Italy, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Jun., C.E., Section G, 169
  • - Instruments for Measuring Speed of Ships, Mr. Fronde, 186
  • - Isometrical Drawing, Mr. George Fawens, Section G, 192
  • - Prevention of the Inundations of Navigable Rivets, Mr. James Lynam, C.E., 273
  • - Report of the Committee on Siemens' Electrical Pyrometer, 256
  • - Screw Lowering Apparatus, Mr. E. J. Harland, Section G, 169
  • - Volcanic Phenomena of County Antrim and adjoining Districts, Professor Edward Hall, M.A., F.R.8., andc., President of Geological Section, 154
  • - Water Power of the Upper Bann, Mr. John Smyth, A.M., M.I.C.E., Section G, 177
  • Brock, Mr., Loading Safety Valves by direct Springs, 409
  • Burleigh, Mr., Rotary Switch Lever, 6
  • Burning of the Liverpool Landing Stage, 99, 111, 114, 115, 127, 132, 160, 211
  • Bursting an Experimental Boiler by Hydraulic Pressure, 226
  • California-built Marine Engine, 162
  • Calender, Messrs. Urquhart, Lindsay, and Co.'s Hydraulic, 345
  • Canal, The Interoceanic, 11
  • Canal Workin Italy, by P. Le Neve Foster jun , C.E 319, 324, 358, 361, 405, 408, 42b, 434, 441, 446, 455, 463
  • Capital and Labour, Mr. C. Stewart Drewry, On the Relation between, 396, 434
  • Carmarthen Sewerage, 4
  • Carriages, Lighting Railway, 12, 52
  • Castalia, The, 196, 281, 304, 320
  • Castings in Iron are Accurate Copies of the Mould, Mr. Robt. Mallet, C E., andc., On the Real Reasons Why, 197
  • Cast Iron, The Break of, 269
  • Cast Iron and the Phenomena of the Crane Ladle, Mr. R. Mallet, C.E.. andc., On the Dilatation of, 231
  • Chronograph, Lieut. H. Watkin, R.A., 333
  • Chronographs. 393 .
  • Church, Mr.. Metallic Piston Rod Packing, 318
  • Clapp, Mr. W. J., Coal-cutting Machine. 22
  • Clark M.I.C.E., Mr. Edwin, Harbour Works in Callao Bay, Peru, 96, 104, 106, 115, 118
  • Cleveland Iron Trade in 1874, 467
  • Cloth, Raising, Giacomini's Patent Gig for, 383
  • Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 49
  • Coal-burning Locomotives in the South, 399
  • Coal in Colorado, 232
  • Coal-cutting, Mr. W. J. Clapp, 220
  • Coal-cutting Machine Trials, 156
  • Coaldust as Fuel, 202
  • Coal Elevator, Hunt's, 153
  • Coal in India, 185
  • Cohesion and Crushing, 461
  • Colosseum, The New York. 273
  • Comber, Mr. W. A., Wrenches and Spanners, 170
  • Comet, The New, 29
  • Comet and the Weather, The, 99
  • Condensers, Steam Pump, 327, 338, 356, 376
  • Condensers without Air Pumps, 9
  • Constant and Intermittent Water Supply, 297
  • Coppee, M., Coke Ovens, 300
  • Cornwall, Boiler Explosions in, 451
  • Coriosion, Railway Bar, 326
  • Costin, Capt., The New Wimbledon Rifle Target, 301
  • Couches, Improvements in, 392
  • Couplings, Friction, 393
  • Crane at Glasgow Harbour, Messrs. J. Taylor and Co.'s 60-Ton, 321
  • Cresson, Mr. G. W., Movable Pulleys, 352
  • Crichton, Messrs., Compounded Engines of S.S. Alexander, 354, 355
  • Crichton, Ab0 Finland, Messrs., High-pressure Boilers of S.S. Alexander, 374
  • Crossing the Channel, 392
  • Crown, Contracts of the, 396
  • Crystal Palace Engineering School, 140
  • Cuenod and Gaudard, MM., Bridge over the Reuss, at Lucerne, 336, 340, 344
  • Cupola at the Polytechnic School, Angers, 186
  • Curves for Sidings, 30
  • Cylinders, Condensation in Steam, 231
  • Cylinders, Corroded, 222, 250, 269, 284
  • Czarevna, Launch of the, 185, 201
  • Dale, Messrs. J. and T, Compound Surface Condensing Engines 20-H.P. S.S. Black Watch, 268, 270
  • Dangerous Superheater, 449
  • Darlington Ironworks, 208
  • Darlington Rolling Mill Engine, 203, 206
  • Darlington Notice Case, 431
  • Delafosse, M. Radout, Bridge over the Allier at Vichy, 263, 266, 274, 290
  • Dennis, Messrs., Stop Valve, 3
  • Denton, C. E. J. Bailey, On Disposal of Sewage of Towns, Villages, andc., Social Science Congress, 321
  • Determination of Longitude by Telegraph in Connection with the Transit of Venus, 245
  • Diamond Drill. The, Mr, A. Bassett, Institute of Civil Engineers, 130,135
  • Diggers, Steam, 356
  • Disintegrator, Mr. Greenhill's, 470
  • Donald and Atkey, Messrs., Machine Tool, 170
  • Dovetailer, The Hamilton, 282
  • Drawings and Tracings, On Mounting, 453
  • Drewry, Mr. C. Stewart, On the Relation between Capital and Labour, 396, 434
  • Drill for Messrs. Marshall and Sons, Messrs. Gregson, Brown, and Son's Radial, 47
  • Drilling Machine, Messrs. W. B. Bement and Sons Radial, 374
  • Drilling Machine, Messrs. Lowry and Co.'s Radial, 283
  • Drum Guards, 135
  • Dutch South-Eastern Company, 196
  • Dynamite, New Application of, 321
  • Dynamo Electric Machine, Siemens', 52
  • Eastbourne, Siege Experiments at, 360, 369, 385, 441 461
  • Economy of Fuel in Furnaces, 23
  • Egyptian Railways, 161
  • Elce and Arundel, Messrs., Roving Frames, 248
  • Engine, California-built Marine, 162
  • Engine at Clay Cross Colliery, 84in. Cornish, Butter- lev Iron Co., Mr. Howe, 224, 227, 234, 236, 281, 286
  • Engine at Darlington Ironworks, Rolling Mill, 203, 206
  • Engine Fittings, Portable, 160
  • Engine, General Engine and Boiler Co.'s 8-H.P. Horizontal, 468, 472
  • Engine, Messrs. Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey's Compound, 6, 10
  • Engine, Messrs. Hurd and Simpson s Locomotive 153
  • Engine Mr. E. D. Leavitt's Compound Rotative Pumping, Lynn, Mass., U.S., Messrs. J. P. Morris, Engineers, 450, 453, 454, 455
  • Engine, Mr. Robertshaw's Hydraulic Press Pumping, 390
  • Engine for Steep Gradients, Mr. H. Handyside's Locomotive, 210
  • Engine, Messrs. Thwaites and Carbutt's Twin Crank Direct-acting, 50
  • Engine for Working Tramways, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, 70, 71
  • Engineering in Odessa, 51
  • Engineering School at the Crystal Palace, 140
  • Engineers in India, 417
  • Engines of S.S. Alexander, Messrs. Crichton's Compound, 354, 355
  • Engines in America, Pumping, 222
  • Engines of S.S. Black Watch, Messrs. J. and T. Dales' Compound Surface Condensing, 20-H.P., 268, 270
  • Engines, Mr. G. Bremme's Elastic Wheel for Traction, 24
  • Engines, Carbonic Acid Gas, 175
  • Engines, Compound, 283, 308, 326, 338, 356, 376, 393, 409, 428, 478
  • Engines, Compound, versus Simple, 172
  • Engines, Mr. J. A. Henderson, M. E., On the Theory of Aero Steam, 141, 288
  • Engines for her Majesty's Government, 250
  • Engines, Launch, 12
  • Engines, Limit of Useful Expansion of Steam in, 110, 135
  • Engines, Low-pressure, 137
  • Engines of the Ly-ee-Moon, 239, 249, 252, 256
  • Engines, Marine, 191, 207
  • Engines, Rotary, 478
  • Engines, Tottenham Pumping, 338, 356, 410
  • Engines for Yale, Gloucestershire, Messrs. Alexander and Son's Semi-Portable High-pressure, Winding, 172, 174
  • Ericsson Pneumatic Torpedo, 468
  • Essendine Junction, Great Northern Railway, Gasworks and Pump-house, 190, 241
  • Essendine Station Gasworks, 250
  • Evans, C.E., Mr. C. A., On the Stability of Towers and Chimneys, 231
  • Exhibition, Chilian International, 449
  • Exhibition at Manchester of Appliances for the Economy of Labour, 449
  • Explosives, Legislation on, 263, 298
  • Extension Works of the East London Railway, 417
  • Extinguishing Fires in Mines, 15
  • Federal Polytechnic School, 391
  • Ferrara Waterworks, 349
  • Ferro-Manganese, 232
  • Ferryhill Ironworks, 102
  • Fire Engine Competition at Antwerp, 321
  • Fireplaces, Domestic, 473
  • Fletcher, Mr. E., Bogie Tank Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, Messrs. Neilson and Co., Engineers, 282
  • Flour Mills, Messrs. Tod and Co., Glasgow, 4
  • Fog Gun, Major Maitland, R.A., 470
  • Folkard's Boat-lowering Apparatus, 410
  • Foot Bridge, New-street Station, Birmingham, Mr. S. Woodall, 321, 322
  • Foster, jun., C.E.. Mr. P. le Neve, on Canal Works in Italy, 319, 324, 358, 361, 405, 408, 426, 434, 441, 446, 455, 463
  • French Coal Commission, 425
  • Fuel, Combustion of Powdered, 341
  • Fuel, Locomotive, 138, 254
  • Funeral of Mr. W. Allan, 314
  • Furnace Statistics, American Blast, 303
  • Furnace Yields, American Blast, 406
  • Furnaces, Blast, 376
  • Furnaces, Construction of, 8, 31
  • Furness and Co., Messrs., Trying-up and Four-Cutter Planing and Moulding Machine, 202
  • Gas in America, Price of, 4
  • Gas, Durability of Illuminating, 52
  • Gases, Expansion of, 191
  • Gas Profits, 225
  • Gas Question in tho Metropolis, 119
  • Gasworks and Pump-house, Great Northern Railway, Essendine Junction, 190
  • Gauge, Messrs. I. Storey and Sons' Magnetic Water, 202
  • General Engine and Boiler Company, 8-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 468, 472
  • Geometry, Modern, 120
  • German Artillery, 185, 281, 425
  • Giacomini's Patent Gig for Raising Cloth, 383
  • Girders, Economical Limits to the Use of Rolled, 287
  • Glass, Siemens' Process in the Manufacture of, 244
  • Governor, Marine, 250
  • Grammar of Ornament. The, 264
  • Gramme's Electric Machines, 476
  • Grantham Sewage, 327
  • Greenhill, Mr., Disintegrator, 470
  • Gregson, Brown, and Son, Messrs., Radial Drill for Messrs. Marshall and Sons, 47
  • Greig and Eyth, Messrs., Wire Rope Tug for Canal Navigation, Messrs. Fowler and Co., 136
  • Gun Cotton and Water Shells, Professor Abel, 342, 351
  • Gun Manufacturers in India, Native, 47
  • Gunpowder, 271
  • Gunpowder, Carriage of, 327
  • Gunpowder, Dangerous Conveyance of, 273
  • Hall, Mr. Robt., 20ft. Loom for Weaving Woollen Felt, 3
  • Hamilton Dovetailer, The, 282
  • Handyside and Co.. Messrs., 313
  • Handy side, C.E., Mr. H., Locomotive Engines for Steep Gradients, 210
  • Harbour Works in Callao Bay, Peru, Mr. Edwin Clark, M.I.C.E., 96, 101, 106, 115, 118
  • Harbour for Madras, Proposed New, 415
  • Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Messrs., Compound Engine, 6, 10
  • Hawkshaw's Visit to Brazil, Sir John, 425
  • Heat, Economy in the Production and Use of, 98, 116, 160, 240, 307
  • Heaters, Feed-water, 79, 97
  • Henderson, M.E., Mr. J. A., On the Theory of Aero Steam Engines, 141, 288
  • Henderson Process, The, 320
  • Herculaneum, Discovery of Silver Bust at, 422
  • Hiring in the Iron Trade, Proposed New Rules of, 414
  • Holborn Viaduct Station, Mr. W. Mills, C.E., 4, 7, 28, 29, 140
  • Holiday Question at Ironworks, 337
  • Hopper Dredger, St. Lawrence, Trial Trip of, 452
  • Howe, Mr. W., 84in. Engine, Clay Cross, Details of Pumps, 281. 286
  • Howe, Mr. W., 84in. Cornish Engine, at Clay Cross Colliery, Butterley Iron Co., 224, 227, 234, 236
  • Hunt's Coal Elevator, 153
  • Hurd and Simpson, Messrs., Engines, 153
  • Hydraulic Engineering Company, Limited, 9
  • Hydraulic Tests for Chain Cables, 110
  • Hydro-Thermic Motor, Signor F. Tommasi, 221
  • Increase of Third-class Fares, 273
  • Independents, The, 138
  • Independencia, The, Launch of, 230
  • India, The Future Port of, 253
  • Indian Civil Engineering College, 50
  • Indian Railways, 72, 372
  • Indicators, Revolution, 185
  • Inspectors of Mines, Reports of, 69
  • INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL, 69, 172, 176, 183
  • - American Rolling Mills, Mr. Holley, 200
  • - Crampton's Revolving Furnace and its Products, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 235
  • - Geology of the West Coast Iron Ore Districts, Mr. P. Wurzburger, 184
  • - Latest Improvements in Appliances for Manufacture of Bessemer Steel, Mr. Walker, 201, 218
  • - New Foundry Wagon Drop for Blast Furnaces, Mr. T. Wrightson. 201
  • - Rampside Boring, The, Mr, Alex. Brogden, 197
  • - Setting Bessemer Converter Bottoms, Mr. Holley, 199
  • - Valves suitable for Working Hydraulic Machinery, Mr. R. Luthy, 221
  • INSTITUTE ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 314, 341, 357
  • - Bute Docks and Mechanical Arrangement for Shipping Coal, Mr. McConnochie, 112
  • - Diamond Boring Machine, Mr. Alex. Garrett, 113
  • - Pumping Machinery for Emptying the Dry Docks at Chatham and Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Rennie, 113
  • - South Wales Coalfield, Mr. Forster Brown, 113
  • INSTITUTE OF MINING, CIVIL, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE SOUTH MIDLAND:--
  • - Colliery Locomotives, Mr. James T. Tatlow, 316
  • INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN :--
  • - Coking Coals under Pressure, Mr. E. T. Cox, State Geologist, 246
  • - Iron and Steel Rails, Mr. J. B. Pearce, 60
  • - Midlothian Colliery, Virginia, Mr. Oswald J. Heinrich, M.E., 48
  • - Smelting of Argentiferous Lead Ores in Nevada, Utah, and Montana, Messrs. O. F. Hahn, Aubon Eilers, and Dr. R. W. Raymond, 76
  • Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 113
  • INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE:--
  • - Excursion to Hyde Junction Engineering Works, 251
  • INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND EAST WORCESTERSHIRE:--
  • - Visit to Barrow-in-Furness, 69
  • INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 339, 410
  • - Diamond Drill, Mr. A. Bassett, 130
  • INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (continued):--
  • - Extension of the South Jetty at Kustendjie, Turkey, Mr. G. Lenton Rolt, 479
  • - List of Premiums and Prizes. 21, 188
  • - Nagpur Waterworks, The, &c., Mr. Alexander R. Binnie, M.I,C.E., 379
  • - Pennsylvania Railway, &c., Messrs. Charles D. and Francis Fox, M.I.C.E., 392
  • - South Breakwater at Aberdeen, Mr. William Dyce Clay, M.I.C.E., 479
  • INSTITUTION ON ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND, 350, 357, 404
  • - Future of Engineering, Mr. T. Wrightson, 357
  • Institution of Naval Architects, 226
  • INSTITUTION, THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC, 339
  • - Coal Gas, Lectures by Professor Gardiner, 339
  • International Exhibition, Kensington, Close of, 187
  • International Exhibition, The London, 250, 281
  • Ireland, Railway Extension in, 363
  • Iron, American Pig, 201
  • Iron, American Process of Galvanising, 254
  • Ironclads for Sale, 256
  • Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, andc , 19, 41, 63, 91, 109, 125, 145, 165, 181, 195, 215, 229, 243, 261, 277, 295, 313, 331, 319, 367, 383, 403, 421, 439, 459, 483
  • Iron and Coal of New South Wales, 69
  • Iron, Floating Cast, 52, 135
  • Iron Industry in Turkey, 192, 417
  • Iron Interests in the United States, 456
  • Iron with Manganese, Alloying, 21
  • Iron Mines, Extraordinary, 316
  • Iron with Natural Gas, Making, 6
  • Iron, New Zealand, 212
  • Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, Mr, A. L. Stevenson, 219
  • Iron Trade, Depression of, 448
  • Iron Trade, United States, 166, 169
  • Ironworks, The Ferryhill, 102
  • Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U.S. Navy, Method of Ascertaining what Portion of the Feed-water Admitted to a Boiler is Entrained in the form of Spray by the Escaping Steam, 363
  • Jack, Hydraulic, 477
  • Jackson, Mr. F, W., Mortar Mill, 283
  • Kahlenberg Rack Railway, 337
  • Kesterton, Mr., High-pressure Boiler, 220
  • Kunzel, Dr., Combined Phosphor Bronze and Soft Metal Bearings, 1
  • Labour Laws, Royal Commission on, 374
  • Lamocks Lighthouse, Formosa Strait, China, 392
  • Lamps, Improved Railway, 59
  • Lamplighter, MM. Baumeister, and Effer's Automatic, 352
  • Land, Clearing, 80
  • LEADING ARTICLES:--
  • - American v, English Bridges, 55
  • - Armament of Unarmoured Ships, 359
  • - Belgian Competition, 360
  • - Bessemer Channel Steamer, The, 253
  • - Boiler Explosions in Cornwall. 451
  • - Carbonic Acid Gas Engines, 175
  • - Channel Tunnel, The, 137
  • - Combustion of Powdered Fuel, 341
  • - Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 237
  • - Contracts of the Crown, 396
  • - Cutting Steel Rails Cold. 378
  • - Darlington Ironworks, The, 208
  • - Darlington Notice Case, The, 431
  • - Decrepitude of Temple Bar, 119
  • - Disposal of Sewage, 287
  • - Domestic Fireplaces, 473
  • - Economical Limits to the Use of Rolled Girders, 287
  • - Education of Agricultural Engineers, 34
  • - Expansion of Gases, 191
  • - Feed Water Heaters, 79
  • - Future Port of India, The, 253
  • - Gas Profits, 225
  • - Gas Question in the Metropolis, 119
  • - Gunpowder, 271
  • - High-pressure Steam, 33
  • - Independencia, The, 137
  • - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 341
  • - Interoceanic Canal, The, 11
  • - Iron Piers, 451
  • - Iron and Steel Institute, 176
  • - Lax Use of Terms in Science, 157
  • - Legislation for the London Gas Supply, 431
  • - Lighting Railway Carriages, 12
  • - Long Railway Runs, 157
  • - Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, 359
  • - Low-pressure Engines, 137
  • - Marine Engines, 185, 207
  • - Mechanical Puddling, 305
  • - Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock, 11
  • - Midland Railway, The, 395
  • - Norwich Accident, The, 225, 237, 305
  • - Oberon Experiments, 177, 271
  • - Patent Law, 473
  • - Prevention of Smoke at Sea, 377
  • - Professor Tyndall's Address, 175
  • - Proposed New Rules of Hiring in the Iron Trade, 414
  • - Railway Girders for the Metre Gauge, 207
  • - Razors, 288
  • - Safety Valves, 413
  • - Sanitary Progress, 101
  • - Sewage Difficulties, 377
  • - Sewage Farms, 33
  • - Sewage Standard, The, 79
  • - Spontaneous Combustion, 101
  • - Stoke Hole Temperatures, 395
  • - Street Tramways, 323
  • - Suez Canal, The, 55
  • - Temple Bar, 272, 414
  • - Transit of Venus. 474
  • - Warner Process, The, 323
  • Leavitt, Mr. E. D., Compound Rotative Pumping Engine, Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., Messrs. J. P. Morris, Engineers, 450, 453, 454, 455
  • LEGAL INTELLIGENCE :--
  • - Barlow v. the Public Works Construction Company, 37
  • - Laidlaw v. the Hastings Pier Company. 411
  • - Re Henry's Patent Prolongation, 343, 352
  • - Re Lancaster's Patent, 172
  • - Salvin v. the North Brancepeth Coal Company, 87
  • Legislation on Explosions, 263, 298
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :--
  • - Asbestos Packing, H. A. O. Mackenzie, 284
  • - Asbestos Packing, Henry Smith, 269
  • - Balloons, B. Brandao, 240
  • - Barrow Steel Worke, Barrow Shipbuilding Company (Limited), 211
  • - Bessemer, The, C., 269
  • - Bessemer, The, James Lyall, 284
  • - Bituminous Deposits of the Valley of the Pescara, R. Carter Moffatt, 428, 478
  • - Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Henry Hiller, 31
  • - Blackburn Explosion, H. MacColl, 98, 160
  • - Blackburn Boiler Explosion, William Wolverton, 30, 135
  • - Blast Furnaces, W. Robson, 376
  • - Boiler Setting, Henry Hiller, 325
  • - "Break" of Cast Iron, W. J. M., 269
  • - Broadcast Manure Distributors, Your Correspondent, 185
  • - Broadcast Manure Distributors, Thomas Chambers,- 116
  • - Carriage of Gunpowder, F. N. C., 327
  • - Castalia, The, J. B., 309
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued) :--
  • - Casting Steam Pipes. J. A., 410
  • - Chilian International Exhibition, Juan E. Walker, 449
  • - Chronographs, Peter Conti, 393
  • - Clearing Land, Charles Louis Hett, 80
  • - Compound Engines, Arques, 283, 326, 356
  • - Compound Engines, C. J., 409
  • - Compound Engines, E., 478
  • - Compound Engines, Bey wood, 338
  • - Compound Engines, H. O., 308, 338, 376
  • - Compound Engines, J. B. J., 308
  • - Compound Engines, J. E., 327
  • - Compound Engines, J. T., 393
  • - Compound Engines, Lancashire, 409
  • - Compound Engines, Rufus, 309
  • - Compound Engines, W. G., 428
  • - Compound Engines, X., 283, 326, 376
  • - Compound Engines, Y, 326
  • - Construction of Furnaces, Arthur Barff, 31
  • - Construction of Furnaces, John Watson, 31
  • - Corroded Cylinders, Percy Gow, 284
  • - Corroded Cylinders, A Ten Years' Reader, 222, 269
  • - Corrosion in Steam Cylinders, Stephen Watkins, 250, 269
  • - Curves for Sidings. James S. Tate, C.E.. 30
  • - Depression in the Iron Trade, Arthur Warner, 448
  • - Diamond Drill, Alex. Bassett. C.E.. 135
  • - Diamond Rock-boring, R. Allison, 309
  • - Diamond Rock-boring, Blumer Brothers, 250
  • - Diamond Rock-boring, District Agent, 309
  • - Diamond Rock-boring, Edmund Hann, 269
  • - Diamond Rock Drill, Charles P. Hendy, 284
  • - Diamond Rock Drills, Edwin J. Honeychurch, 393
  • - Diamond Rock-boring, M. Geoffry Morgan, 250
  • - Diamond Rock-boring, R. S. L., 241
  • - Driving Trade out of the Country, E. Hamer Carbutt, 428
  • - Drum Guards, Corbett and Peele, 135
  • - Durability of Illuminating Gas, F. Churton, 52
  • - Economy in Heat, Professor Hofmann's Account of the Atmopyre, D. O. Edwards, 240
  • - Economy in the Production and Use of Heat, D. O. Edwards. M.D.. 98, 116, 160, 307
  • - Elastic Engine Wheels, H. S. O. Mackenzie, Assoc. I.C.E., 52
  • - Essendine Station, J. F. B. Porter, 240
  • - Extracting Roots, G. J. G., 410
  • - Extracting Roots, Arthur Tupman, 428
  • - Eye in Transit Observations, C. Bruce Allen, 356, 448
  • - Fastening Tires, J. R., 97
  • - Feed-water Heater, Joseph Twibill, 97
  • - Floating Cast Iron, L. H, 135
  • - Floating Cast Iron, W. Worby B., 13, 52
  • - Fixed Stars as seen through Minute Apertures--The Light Drop, C. B. A., 268
  • - Friction Couplings, W. S. Hall, 393
  • - Gasworks at Essendine Station, Geo. Bower, 250
  • - Heaton's Steel, J. Heaton, 356
  • - Household Boilers, Thos. Holt, 338, 448
  • - Household Boilers, Isaac Storey and Sons, 428
  • - Howe's Valve Gear, Ph. Roux, 99
  • - Initial Pressure, C., 135, 478
  • - Institute of Mechanical Engineers, M. I. M. E., 357
  • - Launch Engines, Farmer, 12
  • - Lifeboats, Edward Jackson, 99
  • - Lighting Railway Carriages, J. Biggs, 52
  • - Lighting Railway Carriages and Tram-cars with Gas, Geo. Bower, 211
  • - Lighting Railway Carriages and Tram-cars, Hyat Duckham, 185
  • - Lighting of Railway Carriages, John Waugh, 241
  • - Limits of Useful Expansion in Engines, D. K. Clark, 116
  • - Limit of Useful Expansion in Engines, Crank, 135
  • - Liverpool Landing Stage, Fred. Campion, 160
  • - Liverpool Landing Stage, Joseph Simpson, Engineer, 211
  • - Locomotive Telegraphs, Philip Braham, 250
  • - Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, C., 428
  • - Loss of Pressure in Steam Pipes, B. T. McKay, 393
  • - Marine Governor, H. Harrison, 250
  • - Marksmen in the Navy, Arma Virumque Cano, 284
  • - Mechanical Puddling, W. Corbett, 338, 448
  • - Mechanical Puddling, Perry F. Nursey, 327
  • - Mechanical Puddling, Adam Spencer, 308, 327, 357
  • - Mending Broken Screw Shafts, W. G., 338
  • - Midland Railway, The, A., 410
  • - New Mint, A, M. E., 31
  • - New Zealand Iron, Jas. Major, 212
  • - Norwich Accident, Charles Fairholme, 250
  • - Notes on the Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, C. Bruce Allen, 211
  • - Notes on the Black Drop, its Cause and Remedy in Transit Observations, Geo. M. Seabrook, 222, 396
  • - Outflow of Steam, Thomas Baldwin, 448
  • - Outflow of Steam, Robert Napier, 478
  • - Pease's New Mill at Darlington, Y., 427
  • - Polysphenic Ship, The, Thomas B. Daft, 80
  • - Polysphenic Ship, Charles Meade Ramus, 116
  • - Portable Engine Fittings, Draughtsman, 160
  • - Prevention of Smoke, C. D., 410
  • - Priming, Robert Johnson, 478
  • - Priming, Alexander Smith, 478
  • - Priming, W .C. P., 376
  • - Priming, Y., 410
  • - Pumping Engines in America, James H. Harlow, 222
  • - Pumps, Aquarius, 30, 52
  • - Railway Bar Corrosion, Robert Mallet, 327
  • - Railway Signals, J. Whiteman, 308
  • - Revolution Indicators, Fair Play, 185
  • - Revolution Indicators, Juvenis ab Urbe, 393
  • - Robey's Patent Boiler, J. Richardson, 160
  • - Robey's Patent Boiler, Thos. Wilkins, 98
  • - Root's Patent Blower, Thwaites and Carbutt, 116
  • - Rotary Blowers, Ironfounder, 97
  • - Rotary Engines, Reciprocator, 478
  • - Rotary Puddling, Dogbery, 393
  • - Roving Frames. A. Z., 269
  • - Roving Frames, W. M.. 325
  • - Safety Valves, Robert Martin, 478
  • - Safety Valves, John W. Melling, 448
  • - Sewage of Grantham, J. Hille, 327
  • - Shannon Improvement Scheme, Shannonside, 80, 98, 211
  • - Siemens' Dynamo-electric Machine. G. R., 52
  • - Steam Diggers ,Hetherington and Parker, 356
  • - Steam Pump Condensers, John C. Fell, 327, 356 376
  • - Steam Pump Condensers, Q., 356
  • - Steam Pump Condensers, M. Silvester, 338
  • - Steam Pump Condensers, Tangye Bros, and Holman, 338
  • - Steam Pump Condensers, J. Thompson, 338
  • - Steam Pump Condensers, G., 856
  • - Tottenham Pumping Engines, J. W. Couchman, 338
  • - Tottenham Pumping Engines, C. E. Horner, 356
  • - Tottenham Pumping Engine, Alfred Phillips, 410
  • - Tottenham Pumping Engines, Whieldon and Cooke, 356
  • - Tramways, Geo. T. Yuli, 428
  • - Trial of Patent Cases, William Spence, Assoc. Inst. C,E., 12, 80, 222
  • - Warner Process, The, J. Knox Clifford, 339
  • - Warner Process, Arthur Warner, 339, 357
  • - Water Supply, A Liverpool Houseowner, 338
  • Liffey, Purification of the, 155
  • Lifeboats, 99
  • Lifeboats, Mr. C. Beloe on, 13
  • Life-raft, Mr. Roper, 141
  • Light-draught Steamers, 273
  • "Light Drop" Fixed Stars as Seen through Minute Apertures, 268
  • Lincolnshire Agricultural Show, Grantham, 93
  • LITERATURE :--
  • - Clocks, Watches, and Bells, Sir Edmund Beckett, late E. B. Denison, LL.D., L.C., F.R.A.S., andc., 147
  • - Complete Measurer, The, Richard Horton, 147
  • - Elements of Metallurgy, J. Arthur Phillips, M. Inst. C.E., 452
  • - History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris in the Siege of 1870-71, T, W. Evans, M.D.' Ph.D., 43
  • - Horizontal Wells, J. Lucas, 167
  • - Instructions on Modern Bridge Building, G. B. N. Tower, 167
  • - Iron and Timber Railway Superstructures and General Works, J. W. Grover, M. Inst. C.E , 272
  • - Journal of the Chemical Society, J. Van Voorst, 1873
  • - Manual of Metallurgy, W. H. Greenwood, F.C.S., 147
  • - Metallurgy of Iron, andc., H. Bauerman, F.G.S., 147
  • - Military Carriages and other Manufactures of the Royal Carriage Department, Captain W. Kemmis, 306
  • - Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom for 1873, Robert Hunt, F.R.S., 432
  • - Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, The, J. Nasmyth, C.E., and J. Carpenter, F.R.A.S., 217
  • - Report on the Inspection of Metalliferous Mines in Cornwall, Devonshire, and Part of Somersetshire, for 1873, Clement Le Neve Foster, B.A., 432
  • - Report on a Naval Mission to Europe, especially Devoted to the Material and Construction of Artillery,Washington Government Printing-office, 21, 65
  • - Short Logarithmic and other Tables, E. and F. N. Spon, 272
  • - Theory of Arches, W. Allan, 272
  • - Transactions of the Society of Engineers for 1872, E. and F. N. Spon, 351
  • Liverpool Landing Stage, Burning of, 99, 111, 114, 115, 127, 132, 160, 211
  • Loading Safety Valves by Direct Springs, Mr. Brock, 409
  • Locomotive Engine Building in the United States, 49
  • Locomotive Fuel, 138, 254
  • Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, Mr. E. Fletcher's Bogie Tank, Messrs. Neilson and Co., Engineers, 282
  • Locomotives, Mountain, 203
  • London Gas Supply, Legislation for the, 431
  • Loom, Lyall Positive Motion Wire Cloth, 469
  • Loom for- Weaving Woollen Felt, Mr. Robert Hall, 3
  • Lowry and Co., Messrs , Radial Drilling Machine, 283
  • Lyall, Mr., Positive Motion Wire-cloth Loom, 469
  • Ly-Eg-Moon, Boilers of the, 310--(See Working Drawing, Oct. 23rd)
  • Ly-ee-Moon, Trial Trip of, 192. Engines of, 239. 249, 252, 256
  • Lynde, Mr. J. H., Tramway, 83
  • Machinery Exhibitions at Manchester, 378
  • Maidenhead Waterworks, 449
  • Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R., Dilatation of Cast Iron and the Phenomena of the Crane Ladle, 231
  • Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R., on Real Reasons why Castings in Iron are Accurate Copies of the Mould, 197
  • Manganese Pig Iron, 392
  • Manure Distributors, Broadcast, 116, 185
  • Manure Wharf, The Salford, 273
  • Markets, Metals, Oils, Timber, andc--(See last page of each number)
  • Markfield and Bardon Granite Quarries, 371, 375
  • Marine Engineers' Agency, 417
  • Martyr to Science, 281
  • Marsden's Combined Stonebreaker and Engine, 152
  • Menier, M., Hot-air Balloon, 217
  • Metre Gauge, Railway Girders for the, 207
  • Metric System in our Workshops, 25
  • Metropolitan Buildings and Management, 80
  • Metropolitan Railway, Smoking Carriages on the, 185
  • Metropolitan Railway, Ventilation of the, 94
  • Metropolitan Water Companies and Constant Supply, 155
  • Midlothian Colliery, Virginia, 48
  • Military Balloon Experiments, 81, 93
  • Miller, Mr. B., Self-acting Punching, Shearing, Platecutting, and Planing Machine, 304, 309
  • Mills, C.E., Mr. W., Holborn Viaduct Station, 4, 7, 28, 29, 140
  • Miners' Strike in Scotland, 269
  • Mines and Mining Accidents, 433
  • Mining, Deep, 468
  • Mining in Russia, 443
  • Mint, A New, 31
  • Miscellanea, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 223, 233, 247, 265, 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
  • Mormon Engineering, 246
  • Mortar Mill, Mr. F. W. Jackson's, 283
  • Mountain Locomotives, 203
  • Mounting Drawings and Tracings, 453
  • Narbonne, Projected Port at, 268, 298
  • Native Railway Engineers for India, 251
  • Navies of Europe, 238
  • Navy, Marksmen in the, 284
  • Nelson, Mr., Bolt and Stud End Cutter, 267
  • Newcastle Chemical Society--Address of President Mr. Pattison, 388
  • New Factory Act, 417
  • New Law for the Registration of Trade Marks in Germany, 449
  • New Rifle for France, 4
  • New York Harbours, 172
  • New York Plumbers, 232
  • Nominal Horse Power, Messrs. Vaughan, Richardson, and Co.'s Scale of, 26
  • Non-conducting Coatings for Steam Boilers, 262
  • North of England, 19, 42, 63, 91, 109, 126, 146, 166, 182, 196, 216, 230, 244, 262, 278, 296, 314, 331, 349, 368, 383, 404, 421, 440, 459, 484
  • Notes from Lancashire, 20, 41, 63, 91, 109, 125, 145, 165, 181, 195, 216, 230, 262, 278, 313, 331, 349, 367, 383, 403, 421, 439, 459
  • Notes and Memoranda, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 205, 223, 233, 247, 265; 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
  • Notes from Paris, 406
  • Notes from Scotland, 20, 41, 64, 91, 110, 126, 146, 182, 196, 230, 244, 262, 278, 295, 314, 332, 350, 367, 384, 404, 421, 439, 460, 483
  • Notes from the West Coast of South America, 2
  • Notices to Correspondents, 11, 33, 55, 79, 101, 119, 137, 157, 175, 191, 207, 225, 237, 253, 271, 287, 305, 323, 341, 359, 377, 395, 413, 431, 451, 473
  • Oberon Torpedo Attack, Stokes Bay, 133, 152, 176, 185, 232, 271
  • OBITUARY:--
  • - Anderson, F.R.S.E., Dr. Thomas, 368
  • - Benson, Sir John, 313
  • - Boyer, M. Pierre, 428
  • - Brown, Mr. George, 250
  • - Fairbairn, Sir W., 154, 172
  • - Grantham, M.I.C.E., Mr. J., 80
  • - Laird, Mr. John, 343
  • - Logan, C.E., Mr., 52
  • - Rennie, C.E., F.R.S., Sir John, 209
  • - Smiles, Mrs., 9
  • - Smith, Mr. John, 74
  • Oven, M. Coppee's Coke, 300
  • Oxford Main Drainage, 185
  • Pacific Coast Mines, Returns of, 31
  • Packing Asbestos, 269, 284
  • Packing, Mr. Church's Metallic Piston-rod, 318
  • Paris Mud, 433
  • Paris Waterworks, The New, 476
  • Patent Cases, Trial of, 12, 80, 222
  • Patent Laws, The, 391, 433, 473
  • Patent-office, Publications of the, 31
  • Pease, Messrs., New Mill at Darlington, 388, 427
  • Peat in Germany, 51
  • Pebble Powder and Barbette Firing, 9
  • Penn, John, 289
  • Pescara, South Italy, Bituminous Deposits of the Valley of, 428, 478
  • Petersburg, Drainage of, St., 316
  • Petroleum in Russia, 320
  • Phosphor Bronze, 392
  • Piers, Iron, 451
  • Pipes, Casting Steam, 410
  • Pipes, Loss of Pressure in Steam, 359, 393, 428
  • Planing Machine, Chinese Government Vertical, Messrs., John Bourne and Co., 97
  • Planing Machine, The First, 281
  • Planing and Moulding Machine, Messrs. Furness and Co.'s Trying up and Four Cutter, 202
  • Plate and Scrap Shearing Machine, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 221
  • Polychrome Process, The, 313
  • Polytechnic School, Angers, Cupola at the, 186
  • Polysphenic Ship, The, Mr. Charles Meade Ramus, 56, 80, 116
  • Postal Statistics of Austria, 399
  • Pressure, Initial, 135, 478
  • Priming, 375, 410, 449, 478
  • Prizes for Hand-turning, 113
  • Projection of Electric Light, 397
  • Propeller, The Screw, 344
  • Propontis, The, 12, 130
  • Puddling, Mechanical, 305, 309, 326, 338, 357, 448
  • Puddling with Natural Gas, 343
  • Puddling. Rotary, 393
  • Pulleys, Mr. G. W. Cresson's Movable, 352
  • Pumps, 30
  • Pumps, Steam, 226
  • Punching. Shearing, Plate-cutting, and Planing Machine, Mr. B. Miller's, 304, 309
  • Punkah Pulling, 313
  • Quebec Harbour Improvements, 232
  • Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 475
  • Rails, Cold, Cutting Steel, 378
  • Rails, Form, Endurance, and Manufacture of, 102, 155, 177, 187, 204
  • Rails at Sheffield, Cyclops Works, Manufacture of, 314
  • Railway Accidents, 76
  • Railway Accidents in India, 82
  • Railway Carriages and Tram-cars, Lighting, 185, 211, 241
  • Railway Matters, 5, 27, 53, 73, 95, 117, 131, 159, 173, 189, 205, 223, 233, 247, 265, 285, 299, 317, 335, 353, 373, 389, 407, 429, 445, 471
  • Railway, The Midland, 395, 410
  • Railway Rolling Stock, 12
  • Railway Runs, Long, 157
  • Railway Works and Projects, The North-Eastern, 369
  • Railways, Indian, 72, 372
  • Railways by Steam Power, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, On Working Street, 65, 70, 71
  • Railways, The World's, 371
  • Ramus, Mr. Charles Meade, The Polysphcric Ship, 56, 80, 116
  • Razors, 288
  • Reaping Machine Trials, 99
  • Regent's Canal Explosion, 385, 390, 394
  • Report of the Committee of the British Association on Siemens' Electrical Pyrometer, 256
  • Report to the Town Council of Barnsley by the Committee appointed to visit Localities where Sewage Works are in Operation, 302
  • Researches on Explosives, Fired Gunpowder, 255
  • Revolution Indicators, 393
  • Reynolds, Professor Osborne, On the Efficiency of Belts or Straps as Communicators of Work, 395
  • Rifled Ordnance in the United States, 440
  • Robertshaw, Mr., Hydraulic Press Pumping Engine, 390
  • Rock-boring, Diamond, 241, 250, 269, 284, 309, 393
  • Rolling Mill Gearing at Messrs. Grillo, Funke, and Co.'s Works, 378--(See also Supplement, Nov. 20th)
  • Rolling Stock, Metropolitan Railway, 11
  • Rolling Stock, Railway, 12
  • Rolling Stock for the South-Eastern Railway Company, 33, 36
  • Roots, Extracting, 410, 428
  • Roper's Life Raft, 141
  • Ropes, Testing Strength of, 80
  • Route through Germany to the East, 255
  • Rover, Launch of the, 135
  • Roving Frames, 269, 325
  • Roving Frames, Messrs. Elce and Arundel, 248
  • Russia, Mining in, 443
  • Russian Artillery, 410
  • St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 245, 256, 257, 363
  • Sale of American Monitors, 273
  • Salford Manure Wharf, The, 273
  • Sanitary and Educational Exhibition, Glasgow, 202
  • Sanitary Progress, 101
  • San Pier d'Arena, 449
  • Science and Art Department, 23
  • Scotch Cotton Factory, The First, 425
  • Screw Shafts, Mending Broken, 338
  • Semmering and Brenner Railways, The, 57, 85
  • Sewage of Carmarthen, 4
  • Sewage Difficulties, 377
  • Sewage, Disposal of, 287
  • Sewage Farms, 33
  • Sewage in Paris, 399
  • Sewage "Standard," 79
  • Sewage of Towns, andc., Mr. J. Bailey Denton, C.E., on the Disposal of, Social Science Congress, 321
  • Sezaroch, The, New Russian Projectile, 155
  • Shaft Couplings, Mr. C. F. Varley, F R.S., 172
  • Shannon Improvement Scheme, 80, 98, 211, 238
  • Sheet Iron Gas Pipes and their Powers of Resistance, 248
  • Sheffield District, 19, 42, 64, 92, 110, 126, 145, 165, 182, 196, 216, 330, 243, 261, 278, 296, 313, 332, 350, 368, 384 403, 422, 440, 460, 484
  • Sheffield Statistics. 69
  • Ships, Armament of Unarmoured, 359
  • Ships, Sheathing, Messrs. Westwood and Baillie, 390
  • Ships, Strength and Strains of Iron, 9
  • Show at Grantham, Lincolnshire, Agricultural, 93
  • Siege Experiments at Eastbourne, 36o, 369, 385, 441, 461
  • Siemens' Process in the Manufacture of Glass, 241
  • Signals, Railway, 308
  • Silica from Iron, Removal of, 87
  • Slough Sewage, 479
  • Smelting of Argentiferous Lead Oros in Nevada, Utah and Montana, 121, 134
  • SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW, 423
  • - Alexander and Sons, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 425, 435
  • - Ashby Jeffery, and Luke, Messrs., Engines and Boilers, 425
  • - Ayshford, Mr. T. B. Adjustable Dog-cart, 425
  • - Barford, Messrs., Stack Elevators and Ploughing Gear, 425
  • - Brown and May, Messrs., Portable Engines, 424
  • - Burrell, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 424
  • - Cambridge and Parham, Messrs., Horse Gears, 425
  • - Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Engines and Thrashing Machines, 424
  • - Davey, Mr. T., Turn Wrest Plough, 425
  • - Davey, Paxman, and Davey, Messrs., Engine and Boiler, 424
  • - Fowler, Messrs., Ploughing Engine, 424
  • - Garratt and Sons, Engines and Thrashing Machines, Holmes and Reid, Messrs., Drills, 425
  • - Hornsby, Messrs., 10-H.P. Portable Engine, 424
  • - Howard, Messrs., Boiler, 424
  • - Lewin, Mr., Engine and Thrashing Machine, 424
  • - Marshall, Messrs., Portable Engines and Thrashing Machine, 423
  • - Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Messrs., Ploughs, 424
  • - Reading Ironworks Company, 16-Horse Condensing Engine, 423
  • - Robey and Co., Messrs., Fixed Engine and Boiler, 424, 427
  • - Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Expansion Gear, and 12-Horse Double, and an 8-Horse Single Portable Engine, 423
  • - Suckling, Mr., Chaff Cutter, 425
  • - Tangye and Holman, Messrs., Engines and Pumps, 424
  • - Tasker and Sons, Messrs., Portable Engines, 424
  • - Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., 3-Horse Portable Engine, 424, 430
  • - Willsher and Co., Messrs., Thrashing Machine, 425
  • - Wood, Mr. W., Reaping Machine, 425
  • Smoke, Prevention of, 410
  • Smoke at Sea, Prevention of, 377
  • "Snapper" Telegraph Sounder, 460
  • Social Science Congress, 250
  • SOCIETY OF ARTS, 352
  • - Expediency of Protection for Inventions, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S., 433
  • Stove Competition, 449
  • SOCIETY, THE CHEMICAL :--
  • - Action of Baryta on Oil of Cloves, Professor A. H. Church, 363
  • - Action of Bromine in the Presence of Water on Bromopyrogallol and Bromopyrocatechu, Dr. J. Stenhouse, 363
  • - Action of Bromine on Protocatechuic Acid, Gallic Acid and Tannin, by J. Stenhousc, F.R.S., 899
  • - Action of Organic Acids and their Anhydrides on the Natural Alkaloids, Dr. Wright and G. H. Beckett, 363, 399
  • - Bilirubin and its Compounds, Dr. J. L. W. Thudicum, 363
  • - Colour of Cupric Chloride, Mr. W. N. Harkley, 436
  • - Composition of Antonite, Professor A. H. Church, 399
  • - Formulas of the Alums, Mr. S. Lupton, 436
  • - General Equations of Chemical Reactions, Professor W. K. Clifford, 399
  • - Groves' Method of Preparing Chlorides, C. Schorlemmer, 479
  • - Methyl Hexyl Carbinol, C. Schorlcmmer, F.R.S., 363
  • - Note on Aricine, Mr. D. Howard, 479
  • - Note on the Boiling Point of Methyl Hexyl Carbinol, C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 436
  • - Oxidation of the Essential Oils, Part II., Mr. C. T. Kingzett, 436
  • - Precipitation of Metals by Zinc, Mr. T. L. Davies, 479
  • - Propionic Coumarin and its Derivatives, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 399
  • - Purification and Boiling Point of Methyl Hexil Carbinol, G. Neison, 436
  • - Researches on the Paraffines Existing in Pennsylvanian Petroleum, T. M. Morgan, 479
  • - Use of Permanganate of Potash in Volumetric Analysis, E. A. Parnell, 363
  • SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN :--
  • - European Railways as they appear to an American Engineer, Mr. W. Howard White, C.E , 84
  • - Method Pursued in Replacing a Stone Pier on a Pile Foundation, J. Albert Monroe, C.E., 59
  • SOCIETY, EDINBURGH AND LEITH ENGINEERS' :--
  • - Furnaces and their Construction and Management, Mr. Charles Fairbairn, 8
  • - Mortar, Mr. Graham Smith, 34
  • - Study of Engineering Science, Mr. James H. Cunningham, 362
  • - Working Street Railways by Steam Power, Mr. Leonard J. Todd, 65
  • SOCIETY, ENGINEERING, KING'S COLLEGE :--
  • - Centrifugal Pumps, Mr. E. W. Anderson, 425
  • - Harbours and Breakwaters, Mr. F. Marsh, 415
  • SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, 201, 269
  • - Action of Marine Worms and the Remedies Applied in San Francisco Harbour, California, Mr. John Blackburn, C.E., 306
  • - Channels for the Conveyance of Sewers, Mr. John Phillips, C.E., 465
  • - Mechanical Puddling, Mr. Perry F. Nursey, 267, 279
  • - Tramway Rolling Stock and Steam in Connection therewith, Mr. Charles C. Cramp, 398, 416
  • - Visit to the Imperial Gasworks, Blackwall, 130
  • SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC :--
  • - Lifeboats, Mr. Charles H. Beloe, M.I.C.E., 13
  • SOCIETY, MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 392
  • - Effect of Acid on the Interior of Iron Wire, Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., 392
  • SOCIETY, MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL :--
  • - Use of Timber in Connection with Mechanical Work, Mr. J. G. Lynde, C.E., 35
  • SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL :--
  • - Heat and Damp which accompany Cyclones, Hon. Ralph Abercrombie, F.M.S., 392
  • - Report Concerning the Meeting of the Conference on Maritime Meteorology in London, August 31, 1874, President, Dr. R. J. Mann, 399
  • - Table for Facilitating Determination of the Dew Point from Observations of the Dry and Wet Bulb Thermometer, William Marriott, 392
  • - Weather of Thirteen Springs, R. Strachan, F.M.S., 392
  • Society, Newcastle Chemical, Address of President, Mr. Pattison, 388
  • Society for the Promotion of Scientific Industry, 172
  • SOCIETY, THE ROYAL, 378
  • - Alleged Expansion in Volume of Various Substances in Passing by Refrigeration from State of Liquid Fusion to Solidification, Mr. Robert Mallet, F.R.S., 2
  • Society, The Royal Agricultural, 370
  • SOCIETY, THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL, AT BEDFORD, 1, 21, 43, 69
  • - Abstract of Particulars of Wagon Trials, 23
  • - Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Plough and Travelling Van, 99, 100
  • - Challis, Mr., Turnip-thinner, exhibited by Messrs. Ransome Sims, and Head, 140
  • - Fowler and Co., Messrs. J., Steam Ploughing Windlass for the Roundabout System, 111, 115
  • - Fowler and Co., Messrs , Sutherland Plough, 82
  • - Fowler and Co., Messrs. J.,Traction Engine (8-H.P.), 74, 78
  • - Garrett, Messrs., Drum Guard for Thrashing Machine, 226
  • - Greig and Eyth, Messrs., Plough, 74, 82
  • - Hayward Tyler and Co., Messrs., "Universal" Pump, 45, 51
  • - Head, Messrs., Self-feeder for Thrashing Machine, 36
  • - Hill and Massey, Messrs., 3-Horse Engine and Boiler, 83
  • - Howard, Messrs., Double Gear Ploughing Windlass, 54
  • - Howard, Messrs., Self-moving Anchor, 46
  • - Howard, Messrs., Traction Engine with Ploughing Windlass, 50
  • - Howard, Messrs., Water Tube Boiler, 74, 75
  • - Prize List, 46
  • - Robey and Co., Messrs., Vertical Boiler, 25
  • - Ruston and Proctor, Messrs., Feeding Gear for Thrashing Machine, 45, 51
  • - Show Yard, Map of, 1
  • - Traction Experiments, 81
  • SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS :--
  • - Conversazione at King's College, 436
  • Solvency of Trades' Unions, 281
  • South-Eastern Railway Company, Rolling Stock, 32, 36
  • South Kensington Museum, 20, 34, 56, 87, 99, 126, 135, 155, 182, 204, 230, 254, 264, 281, 313, 332,343, 352, 383, 392, 411, 425, 460, 474
  • Spontaneous Combustion, 101
  • Stability of Towers and Chimneys, Mr. C. A. Evans, C.E., on, 231
  • Stand Pipe, Mr. W. Bennett, 354
  • Steam Cultivation, 83
  • Steam Culture in Wiltshire, 129
  • Steam, High Pressure, 33
  • Steam, Outflow of, 415, 448, 478
  • Steavenson, Mr. A. L., Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 219
  • Steel, Heaton's, 356
  • Stevens Battery, The, 378
  • Stevens Battery, 170, Engines, 171, 209, 232
  • Stobart and Allan, Messrs., Weighing Machine, 100
  • Stonebreaker and Engine Combined, Marsden's, 152
  • Storey and Sons, Messrs. J., Magnetic Water Gauge, 202
  • Strength of American Car Wheels, 334
  • Sulzer, Brothers, Messrs., Air Pumps and Condensers, 318
  • Suez Canal, The, 55
  • Suez, Isthmus of, 115
  • Switch Lever, Mr. Burleigh's Rotary, 6
  • Switches, Improved System of Railway, 477
  • Talargoch Lead Mining Company, The Old, 190
  • Taps, 357
  • Target, The New Wimbledon Rifle, Captain Costin, 301
  • Tay Bridge, 120
  • Taylor and Co., Messrs., 60-ton Crane at Glasgow Harbour, 321
  • Technical Education, 393
  • Telegraphs, Locomotive, 250
  • Telegraphy in the States, 102
  • Temperatures, Stoke Hole, 395
  • Temple Bar, 272, 412, 414
  • Temple Bar, Decrepitude of, 119
  • Terms in Science, Lax Use of, 157
  • Testing Strength of Ropes, 80
  • Thorpe Collision, 383
  • Thunderer, Guns of H.M S., 279
  • Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Twin Crank Direct-acting Engine, 50
  • Timbers of Natal, 411
  • Timber in Connection with Mechanical Work, Use of, 35
  • Tires, Fastening, 97
  • Tod and Co., Messrs., Flour Mills, Glasgow, 4
  • Todd, Mr. L. J., Accumulator Boilers for Steam Tramway Purposes, 105
  • Todd, Mr. L. J., Engine for Working Tramways, 70, 71
  • Tommasi, Signor F., Hydo-Thermic Motor, 221
  • Tool, Messrs. Donald and Atkeyís Universal Machine, 170
  • Torpedo Attack on the Oberon, Stokes Bay, 133, 152, 176, 185, 232, 271
  • Torpedo, The Ericsson Pneumatic, 468
  • Trade out of the Country, Driving, 428
  • Trade Societies and Public Opinions, 204
  • Trades Unions in America, 24
  • Trains, Communication in, 236
  • Tramway, Mr. J. H. Lynde, 83
  • Tramways, 428
  • Tramways, Street, 321
  • Tramways, Vienna, 142
  • Transit of Venus, Determination of Longitude by Telegraph in Connection with the, 245
  • Transit of Venus Expedition, 238
  • Tunnel, The Channel, 137
  • Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 245, 256, 257, 363
  • Turret System in 1831, The, 315
  • Uninflammable Wood for the Navy, 23
  • Urquhart, Lindsay, and Co., Messrs. Hydraulic Calender, 345
  • Value of Cultivated Land in France, 410
  • Valve, Messrs. Bailey and Co.'s Feed, 3
  • Valve, Messrs. Dennis' Stop, 3
  • Valve Gear, Howe's, 99
  • Valves, Pump, 52
  • Valves, Safety, 413, 448, 478
  • Varley, F.R.S., Mr. C. F., Shaft Couplings, 172
  • Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 94
  • Venus, Transit of, 474
  • Verey and Lange, Messrs., 20-H.P. Messenger Boiler, 267
  • Vienna Exhibition, 202
  • Vienna Tramways, 142
  • Volcano in the South Pacific, 185
  • Wages at the Iron Mills, East and West, 391
  • Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 20, 42, 64, 92, 110, 126, 146, 166, 182,196, 230, 244, 262, 278, 296, 314, 332, 350, 368, 384, 404, 422, 440, 460, 484
  • Wall Planing Machine, Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, 391
  • Warner Process, The, 320, 323, 339, 357
  • Water Supply, 338
  • Water Supply, Constant and Intermittent, 297
  • Water Supply of San Francisco, 320
  • Watkin, R.A., Lieut. H., Chronograph, 333
  • Weighing Machine, Messrs. Stobart and Allan, 100
  • Werderman's Process for Resharpening Files, 339
  • Westwood and Baillie, Messrs., Sheathing Ships, 390
  • Wheels, Elastic Engine, 52
  • Wheels, Strength of American Car, 334
  • Whieldon and Cook, Messrs., Pumping Engines at Tottenham--(See Supplement, Sept. 18th)
  • Whitworth Scholarships, 100
  • Willcock, Mr. J., Rolling Mill Engines--(See Supplement, July 17)
  • Wiltshire, Steam Culture in, 129
  • Wimbledon Drainage, 264, 303
  • Wire Rope Towing on Canals, 128
  • Wire Rope Tug for Canal Navigation, Messrs. Greig and Eyth, Messrs. Fowler and Co., 136
  • Woodall, Mr. S , Foot Bridge, New-street Station, Birmingham, 321, 322
  • Woolwich Arsenal, 35-Ton Hammer, 152, 158, Coal Furnace, 156, 158
  • Wrenches and Spanners, Mr. W. A. Comber, 170
  • Yorkshire Agricultural Society's Show at Sheffield, 113
  • Yorkshire College of Science, 309

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