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* Spring Wheel, Aveling and Porter’s, 80
* Spring Wheel, Aveling and Porter’s, 80
* Tramway Sleepers, Howard’s, 77
* Tramway Sleepers, Howard’s, 77
* Well Pumps, Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s, 54
* Well Pumps, [[Hathorn, Davey and Co]].’s, 54
* Whippietrees :
* Whippietrees :
* Corbett’s, 77
* Corbett’s, 77
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* Knapp and Co.’s, 77
* Knapp and Co.’s, 77
* Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 77
* Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 77
* Vipan and Headley’s, 77
* [[Vipan and Headley]]’s, 77


* Ainscoughs’ Flour Mill at Burscough, 227, 277
* Ainscoughs’ Flour Mill at Burscough, 227, 277
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* Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “ Boadicea” and
* Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “ Boadicea” and
* “ Bacchante,” 325
* “ Bacchante,” 325
* Boilersand Engines of H.M.S. “Surprise” and
* Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “Surprise” and “ Alacrity,” 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
* “ Alacrity,” 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
* Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 171 Boilers, Steam, Arnold’s, 514
* Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 171 Boilers, Steam, Arnold’s, 514
* Boilers, Steam, at the Inventions Exhibition 474
* Boilers, Steam, at the Inventions Exhibition 474
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* Bridges, Iron, Decay of, 380
* Bridges, Iron, Decay of, 380
* Lrinjes and Goodwin’s Colour-Grinding Machine,
* Lrinjes and Goodwin’s Colour-Grinding Machine,
* ODD
* Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, The, 117
* Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, The, 117
* Britannia Works, Electric Light at the, 185
* Britannia Works, Electric Light at the, 185
* aV?H Association, The: 162, 286, 300
 
* A dress to the Mechanical Science Section, by q r7 B- ?^er’ President of the
* '''British Association, The: 162, 286, 300
* Address to the Mechanical Science Section, by q r7 B- ?^er’ President of the
* Section, 289, 313
* Section, 289, 313
* Apparatus for Recording Stress and Strain, by Professor W. C. Unwin, ouZ
* Apparatus for Recording Stress and Strain, by Professor W. C. Unwin, ouZ
* Channel into Swansea Har-
* Channel into Swansea Har-
* On ?hl’ny CaPPer> 302, 347
* On ?hl’ny CaPPer> 302, 347
* L a Deyelopment of the Pneumatic System Ttelegraph Purposes, by Mr.
* L a Deyelopment of the Pneumatic System Ttelegraph Purposes, by Mr. J. w. Willmot, 482
* J. w. Willmot, 482
* n Methods of Transporting
* n Methods of Transporting
* a„,„w ^ etjeleum in the United States of oAhn n-ff by Mr- John H- Harris, 301, 346 ° PmfoD ffLion P S-’entific Knowledge, by Professor Chrystal, 300
* a„,„w ^ etjeleum in the United States of oAhn n-ff by Mr- John H- Harris, 301, 346 ° PmfoD ffLion P S-’entific Knowledge, by Professor Chrystal, 300
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* On aBri,d8e, by Mr. A. S. Biggart, 286 ° 302^ Mlners Safety Lamp, by Mr. Swan, ° {Relm',ve Merits of Iron and Copper
* On aBri,d8e, by Mr. A. S. Biggart, 286 ° 302^ Mlners Safety Lamp, by Mr. Swan, ° {Relm',ve Merits of Iron and Copper
* P?ereecef.°301Telegraph Li"e8- by W H‘ OShaw,13e0ian5d09ROller Gear’ by ProfeSS3r IL OnwhHSp;eele%O02TeIeSraph P°’eS’ by °Ltbe Tay Viaduct, by Mr. Crawford Barlow,
* P?ereecef.°301Telegraph Li"e8- by W H‘ OShaw,13e0ian5d09ROller Gear’ by ProfeSS3r IL OnwhHSp;eele%O02TeIeSraph P°’eS’ by °Ltbe Tay Viaduct, by Mr. Crawford Barlow,
* Biitk:hCTOn 4° Foi‘thcoming Meeting, 40
* Biitk:hCTOn 4° Foi‘thcoming Meeting, 40
* Bri discovered, 307
* Bri discovered, 307
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* Burscough, Flour Millat, 227 277
* Burscough, Flour Millat, 227 277
* Business of the Suez Canal, 405
* Business of the Suez Canal, 405
* Cable to Bermuda, A 547
* Cable to Bermuda, A 547
* Li® Grappling, Submarine, 161
* Li® Grappling, Submarine, 161
Line 288: Line 288:
* Chimney Raiser, Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s, 54
* Chimney Raiser, Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s, 54
* China, The Mineral Wealth of, 307
* China, The Mineral Wealth of, 307
* Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic Interlocking
* Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for, 487
* Gear for, 487
* City Lighting, Incandescence Electric Lamps for, 232
* City Lighting, Incandescence Electric Lamps for, 232
* Civil Engineering at the Inventions Exhibition, 1, 29, 103
* Civil Engineering at the Inventions Exhibition, 1, 29, 103
* Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 99
* Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 99
* Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 287, 470, 513
 
* '''Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 287, 470, 513
* On Constructions in Earthquake Countries, by Mr. John Milne, 611
* On Constructions in Earthquake Countries, by Mr. John Milne, 611
* On Dynamo-Electric Machines, and their Engines, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 512
* On Dynamo-Electric Machines, and their Engines, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 512
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* Premiums Awarded Session 1884-85, 287
* Premiums Awarded Session 1884-85, 287
* Subjects for Papers—Session 1885-86, 287
* Subjects for Papers—Session 1885-86, 287
* Clark and Low’s Indicator, 41
* Clark and Low’s Indicator, 41
* Clark’s Transit Instruments and Lamp, 398
* Clark’s Transit Instruments and Lamp, 398
Line 306: Line 307:
* Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Engines, 53
* Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Engines, 53
* Cleveland Iron Trade, The, 616
* Cleveland Iron Trade, The, 616
* Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128,
* Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155,179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
* 155,179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374,
* 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
* Clock, An Electro-Mechanical, 500
* Clock, An Electro-Mechanical, 500
* Clock at Lucknow, The Great, 199
* Clock at Lucknow, The Great, 199
Line 323: Line 322:
* Colville and Sons’ Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, 455
* Colville and Sons’ Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, 455
* Combination Agricultural Implement, Evans’s, 565
* Combination Agricultural Implement, Evans’s, 565
* Combined Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder
* Combined Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, 588
* Printing Machine, 588
* Comet, The New, 572
* Comet, The New, 572
* Company, The John Cockerill, 382
* Company, The John Cockerill, 382
Line 331: Line 329:
* Compound Engine, Wells’s Balanced, 469
* Compound Engine, Wells’s Balanced, 469
* Compound Engine, The Willans Receiver, 18
* Compound Engine, The Willans Receiver, 18
* Compound Locomotive (Webb’s System) for the
* Compound Locomotive (Webb’s System) for the Paulista Railway, Brazil, 614
* Paulista Railway, Brazil, 614
* Compound Locomotives, 329
* Compound Locomotives, 329
* Compound Pumping Engine; Northwich Water
* Compound Pumping Engine; Northwich Water Works, 304
* Works, 304
* Condenser, The Brunswick, 486
* Condenser, The Brunswick, 486
* Condenser, Morton’s Ejector, Engine with, 577
* Condenser, Morton’s Ejector, Engine with, 577
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* Corn Sizer, Nalder and Nalder’s, 72
* Corn Sizer, Nalder and Nalder’s, 72
* Corbett’s Pipe Joint, 80
* Corbett’s Pipe Joint, 80
* « Coromandel,” The New Peninsular and Oriental
* « Coromandel,” The New Peninsular and Oriental Steamer, 125
* Steamer, 125
* Cotton Mills, American, 183
* Cotton Mills, American, 183
* Cotton Seed Oil, The Manufacture of, 39
* Cotton Seed Oil, The Manufacture of, 39
Line 387: Line 382:
* Cut-out, Hedges’ Magnetic, 196
* Cut-out, Hedges’ Magnetic, 196
* Cutter, Bevel Gear, Bilgram’s, 21
* Cutter, Bevel Gear, Bilgram’s, 21
* Daily Variations of the Magnetic Elements, 500
* Daily Variations of the Magnetic Elements, 500
* Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
* Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
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* Development of Tramways, The, 519
* Development of Tramways, The, 519
* Diamond Fields, The, 333
* Diamond Fields, The, 333
* Difficulties in the Observation of Atmospheric
* Difficulties in the Observation of Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity, 162
* Temperature and Humidity, 162
* Dip Workings, Morison and Armstrong’s Pumps for, 468
* Dip Workings, Morison and Armstrong’s Pumps for, 468
* Disputes of Colonial Engineers, 430
* Disputes of Colonial Engineers, 430
Line 443: Line 438:
* Dynamite for Breaking Castings, 183
* Dynamite for Breaking Castings, 183
* Dynamo-Electric Machines, 512
* Dynamo-Electric Machines, 512
* Early History of the Sewing Machine, 381
* Early History of the Sewing Machine, 381
* Early Telegraph Line, An, 137
* Early Telegraph Line, An, 137
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* Electric Accumulators, 474
* Electric Accumulators, 474
* Electric Launch “Volta,” The, 230
* Electric Launch “Volta,” The, 230
* Electric Lighting :
 
* '''Electric Lighting :
* Domestic Electric Lighting, 135, 189, 545
* Domestic Electric Lighting, 135, 189, 545
* Edison’s Electric Light Standard, 619
* Edison’s Electric Light Standard, 619
* Electric Hand Lamp, Merryweather’s, 250
* Electric Hand Lamp, Merryweather’s, 250
* Electric Illumination in Mills, 523
* Electric Illumination in Mills, 523
Line 477: Line 475:
* Electricity at Antwerp, 197
* Electricity at Antwerp, 197
* Electricity in Coal Mining, The Uses of, 258
* Electricity in Coal Mining, The Uses of, 258
* Electric Lighting—continued.
 
* Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition, 39,64, 88, 195
* '''Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition, 39,64, 88, 195
* Incandescence Electric Lamps for City Lighting, 232
* Incandescence Electric Lamps for City Lighting, 232
* Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
* Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
Line 489: Line 487:
* Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
* Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
* Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
* Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
* Electric Resistance of Platinoid, The, 17
* Electric Resistance of Platinoid, The, 17
* Electric Smelting, 256
* Electric Smelting, 256
Line 512: Line 511:
* Electrolysis, Recovery of Tin from Tin Scrap by, 18
* Electrolysis, Recovery of Tin from Tin Scrap by, 18
* Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 13
* Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 13
* Elevated Bailroads, Power Required on, 138
* Elevated Railroads, Power Required on, 138
* Elevated Railway, The Meigs, 587
* Elevated Railway, The Meigs, 587
* Embanking the River Volga, 381
* Embanking the River Volga, 381
Line 523: Line 522:
* Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
* Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
* Engine, High-Speed, Welford’s, 385
* Engine, High-Speed, Welford’s, 385
* Engine, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion
* Engine, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, Holborow and Co.’s, 142
* Gear, Holborow and Co.’s, 142
* Engine, Horizontal, with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 55
* Engine, Horizontal, with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 55
* Engine, Horizontal, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 250
* Engine, Horizontal, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 250
Line 555: Line 553:
* Engines, Fowler and Co.’s, 51
* Engines, Fowler and Co.’s, 51
* Engines, Horizontal Tandem, at the London Portland Cement Company’s Works, Northfleet, 514
* Engines, Horizontal Tandem, at the London Portland Cement Company’s Works, Northfleet, 514
* Engines, Pumping, at Whitacre; Birmingham Corporation Water Works, 6, 68, 151, 249, 293
* Engines, Pumping, at Whitacre; [[Birmingham Corporation Water Works]], 6, 68, 151, 249, 293
* Engines, Robey’s, 205
* Engines, Robey’s, 205
* English and American Railways, The Expenses of, 433
* English and American Railways, The Expenses of, 433
Line 567: Line 565:
* “ Excelsior,” 162
* “ Excelsior,” 162
* Excursions of the Iron and Steel Institute, 235, 249
* Excursions of the Iron and Steel Institute, 235, 249
* Excursions of the Members of the Institution of
* Excursions of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 148, 149, 150
* Mechanical Engineers, 148, 149, 150
* Exhibition, Another Electrical, 65
* Exhibition, Another Electrical, 65
* Exhibition, The Antwerp, 15, 41
* Exhibition, The Antwerp, 15, 41
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* Exhibition, Nuremberg, 89
* Exhibition, Nuremberg, 89
* Exhibition of 1889, The Paris, 66
* Exhibition of 1889, The Paris, 66
* Exhibition, The Paris, 1889, and the Metrop'oh-tan Railway, 42
* Exhibition, The Paris, 1889, and the Metropolitan Railway, 42
* Exhibition, The Paris Milling, 2 ,
* Exhibition, The Paris Milling, 2 ,
* Expansion Gear, Automatic, Holborow and Co. s Horizontal Engine with, 142
* Expansion Gear, Automatic, Holborow and Co. s Horizontal Engine with, 142
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* Explosive Gelatine, 184
* Explosive Gelatine, 184
* Extraction of Gold, The Cassel Process, 38
* Extraction of Gold, The Cassel Process, 38
* Failure, The Bridge, at Chatham, 198
* Failure, The Bridge, at Chatham, 198
* Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
* Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
Line 645: Line 643:
* Furness and Co.’s Tenoning Machine, 289
* Furness and Co.’s Tenoning Machine, 289
* Fuzes, Wire, Safety, 183
* Fuzes, Wire, Safety, 183
* Gardner Machine Gun, The Improved, 152
* Gardner Machine Gun, The Improved, 152
* Garrett and Sons’ Spark Catcher, 562, 573
* Garrett and Sons’ Spark Catcher, 562, 573
Line 653: Line 652:
* Gas Engines at the Preston Show, 54
* Gas Engines at the Preston Show, 54
* Gas and other Illuminants at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
* Gas and other Illuminants at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
* Gas Kiln, Dunnachie’s Continuous Regenerative
* Gas Kiln, Dunnachie’s Continuous Regenerative 367 ’
* 367 ’
* Gas, Natural, 17, 36, 55
* Gas, Natural, 17, 36, 55
* Gas, Water, 426
* Gas, Water, 426
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* Grain Elevators on the Black Sea, 162
* Grain Elevators on the Black Sea, 162
* Graving Dock, Aberdeen, Centrifugal Pumns for, 105 . p
* Graving Dock, Aberdeen, Centrifugal Pumns for, 105 . p
* Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster. The
* Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster. The 123 * ’
* 123 * ’
* Greely, Major, on the Polar Sea, 620
* Greely, Major, on the Polar Sea, 620
* Greenock Electric Light Installation, The, 49 Greenwood and Batley’s Double-Headed Twist-
* Greenock Electric Light Installation, The, 491
* Drill Cutting Machine, 590
* [[Greenwood and Batley]]’s Double-Headed Twist-Drill Cutting Machine, 590
* Greenwood and Batley’s Milling Machinery, 221
* Greenwood and Batley’s Milling Machinery, 221
* Grimsby Dock, The, 150
* Grimsby Dock, The, 150
Line 698: Line 695:
* Guns and the Electric Light, 89
* Guns and the Electric Light, 89
* GWynnes’ 30-in. Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 124, 215
* GWynnes’ 30-in. Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 124, 215
* Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, 487
* Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, 487
* Hall’s Train Communicator, 486
* Hall’s Train Communicator, 486
Line 720: Line 718:
* H.M.S. “Surprise” and “Alacrity,” Engines and Boilers of, 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
* H.M.S. “Surprise” and “Alacrity,” Engines and Boilers of, 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
* Herat, The Railway Race to, 258
* Herat, The Railway Race to, 258
* Hick, Hargreaves and Co.’s Horizontal Engine, 250
* [[Hick, Hargreaves and Co]].’s Horizontal Engine, 250
* Higginson’s Portable Hydraulic Rivetter, 250
* Higginson’s Portable Hydraulic Rivetter, 250
* High Altitudes, Towns at, 546
* High Altitudes, Towns at, 546
Line 758: Line 756:
* Hydrogen in Zinc Dust, 500
* Hydrogen in Zinc Dust, 500
* Hygrometers, New, 17
* Hygrometers, New, 17
* Iceberg Detection, 110
* Iceberg Detection, 110
* Icebergs, Alarm for, 89
* Icebergs, Alarm for, 89
* Illuminants, Gas and other, at the Inventions
* Illuminants, Gas and other, at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
* Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
* Illuminants, Lighthouse, 212, 476
* Illuminants, Lighthouse, 212, 476
* Implements at the Preston Show, 72
* Implements at the Preston Show, 72
Line 789: Line 787:
* Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic, 487
* Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic, 487
* Interlocking and Signalling Apparatus for Rifle Ranges, 623
* Interlocking and Signalling Apparatus for Rifle Ranges, 623
* Inventions Exhibition, The :
 
* '''Inventions Exhibition, The :
* Boilers, Steam, 474
* Boilers, Steam, 474
* Candle-Making Machinery, Price’s, 3
* Candle-Making Machinery, Price’s, 3
Line 807: Line 806:
* w.S cw»y. » ®. ®
* w.S cw»y. » ®. ®
* Washing Machinery, 30/
* Washing Machinery, 30/
* Iron and Coal at Antwerp 167
* Iron and Coal at Antwerp 167
* Iron Conference in Russia, __
* Iron Conference in Russia, __
* Iron Industry of Frodingham, The, 146,17 7
* Iron Industry of Frodingham, The, 146,17 7
* Iron Lighthouses, 258
* Iron Lighthouses, 258
* Iron and Steel Institute, The . -34, -40
 
* '''Iron and Steel Institute, The . -34, -40
* E CWdebank^hip^ard and Engineering Works, 269
* E CWdebank^hip^ard and Engineering Works, 269
* Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
* Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
Line 824: Line 825:
* On the Iron Trade of Scotland, by Mr. F. J. Rowan, 234, 337, 362
* On the Iron Trade of Scotland, by Mr. F. J. Rowan, 234, 337, 362
* On Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing Purposes, by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 36, 55
* On Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing Purposes, by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 36, 55
* On a New Form of Cupola Furnace, by Mr.
* On a New Form of Cupola Furnace, by Mr. James Riley, 236, 278
* James Riley, 236, 278
* On the Present Position and Prospects of Processes for the Recovery of Tar and Ammonia from Blast Furnaces, by Mr. William Jones, 235 387 409 459
* On the Present Position and Prospects of Pro-
* I cesses for the Recovery of Tar and Ammonia from Blast Furnaces, by Mr. William Jones, 235 387 409 459
* On the Rise and Progress of the Scotch Steel Trade, by Mr. James Riley, 228, 234
* On the Rise and Progress of the Scotch Steel Trade, by Mr. James Riley, 228, 234
* j On Shipbuilding, by Mr. J. H. Biles, 248, 264
* On Shipbuilding, by Mr. J. H. Biles, 248, 264
* On the Value of Silicon Pig to the Ironfounder, by Mr. Charles Wood, 246, 263
* On the Value of Silicon Pig to the Ironfounder, by Mr. Charles Wood, 246, 263
* Iron and Steel Manufactures of Austria and
 
* Hungary, The, 619
* Iron and Steel Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
* Iron Trade Arbitrations, 306
* Iron Trade Arbitrations, 306
* Iron Trade, The Cleveland, 616
* Iron Trade, The Cleveland, 616
Line 846: Line 845:
* “Irrawaddy,” H.M.S., 551
* “Irrawaddy,” H.M.S., 551
* Isle of Wight Steam Ferry, The, 124
* Isle of Wight Steam Ferry, The, 124
* Jail, A Revolving, 619
* Jail, A Revolving, 619
* Jerome Gland Packing, The, 160
* Jerome Gland Packing, The, 160
Line 852: Line 852:
* John’s Automatic Sprinkler, 572
* John’s Automatic Sprinkler, 572
* Jury Awards, 353
* Jury Awards, 353
* Kapp’s Dynamo and Engine, 195
* Kapp’s Dynamo and Engine, 195
* Kapteyn’s Train Pipe Indicator, 348
* Kapteyn’s Train Pipe Indicator, 348
* Kell, Meats, and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
* Kell, Meats, and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
* Kilbowie, The Singer Manufacturing Company’s
* Kilbowie, The Singer Manufacturing Company’s Works at, 210, 224
* Works at, 210, 224
* Knapp and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
* I Knapp and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
 
* La Guaira and Caracas Railway, The, 299,344,372 Laboratory, A National Electrical, 545
* La Guaira and Caracas Railway, The, 299,344,372  
* Laboratory, A National Electrical, 545
* Lamp Fittings, Incandescence, Weston, 174
* Lamp Fittings, Incandescence, Weston, 174
* Lamp, Hand, Merryweather’s Electric, 250
* Lamp, Hand, Merryweather’s Electric, 250
Line 868: Line 870:
* T Ann phe Pa*ent> 37. 61,131, 425, 473
* T Ann phe Pa*ent> 37. 61,131, 425, 473
* T pna’«uCafed>Electric Conductors, 573
* T pna’«uCafed>Electric Conductors, 573
* 1 cart CT Ma!cing> by Hydraulic Pressure, 136 Lead SWh’?ng7 A.Ncw Process of, 107
* 1 cart CT Ma!cing> by Hydraulic Pressure, 136  
* Lead SWh’?ng7 A.Ncw Process of, 107
* t r ^bite, Again, 458
* t r ^bite, Again, 458
* t £011er ExPlosion, The, 332
* t £011er ExPlosion, The, 332
* Leeds Forge Company, The, 8
* [[Leeds Forge Co]], The, 8
* Mceste'r n<J?rivate Bi», 158, 569, 603
* Mceste'r n<J?rivate Bi», 158, 569, 603
* t o 15? ’ Sewa£e at, 259
* t o 15? ’ Sewa£e at, 259
* Uven ShU eUrt8lSJ.ic Anemometer, 623
* Uven ShU eUrt8lSJ.ic Anemometer, 623
* ijeven Shipyard, The, 219
* Leven Shipyard, The, 219
* LReofaTnndoMTey’s Automatic Safety Gear, 441
* LReofaTnndoMTey’s Automatic Safety Gear, 441
* Life ofa 8hnneSCe«rCe Lamps, The, 392, 439
* Life ofa 8hnneSCe«rCe Lamps, The, 392, 439
Line 881: Line 884:
* Lift Cana ’ Ther lontmettes Hydraulic 29
* Lift Cana ’ Ther lontmettes Hydraulic 29
* Light fu1 \La bouvitre, Hydraulic, 103
* Light fu1 \La bouvitre, Hydraulic, 103
* Light’ -Hie Fl10’?-the Britannia Works, 185
* Light -Hie Fl10’?-the Britannia Works, 185
* L Iht Th! Feet^C> and Guns- 89
* Light Th! Feet^C> and Guns- 89
* Light Th! F !2jr-IC’ aJ Lincoln’s Inn, 499
* Light Th! F !2jr-IC’ aJ Lincoln’s Inn, 499
* Light Flp„?-eCtnc’ at Lloyd’s, 500
* Light Flp„?-eCtnc’ at Lloyd’s, 500
* ° > Electric, on Locomotives, 356
* Light, Electric, on Locomotives, 356
* Light, Electric, at the Paris Opera, The, 522, 545
* Light, Electric, at the Paris Opera, The, 522, 545
* Light, The Electric, at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, 333
* Light, The Electric, at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, 333
Line 908: Line 911:
* Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide, The Use of, 524
* Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide, The Use of, 524
* Liquid Films, 41
* Liquid Films, 41
* Liverpool Water Works, 285
* [[Liverpool Water Works]], 285
* Lloyd’s, The Electric Light at, 500
* Lloyd’s, The Electric Light at, 500
* Lloyd’s Telegraph Indicator, 324
* Lloyd’s Telegraph Indicator, 324
* Loans for Public Works in New South Wales, 89
* Loans for Public Works in New South Wales, 89
* Lock Nut, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 433
* Lock Nut, [[Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss]]’s, 433
* Locomotive, American Inventions upon the, 308
* Locomotive, American Inventions upon the, 308
* Locomotive Cars for the Transcaspian Railway, 500
* Locomotive Cars for the Transcaspian Railway, 500
Line 931: Line 934:
* Lucas’s Temporary Rudder, 324
* Lucas’s Temporary Rudder, 324
* Lucknow, The Great Clock at, 199
* Lucknow, The Great Clock at, 199
* Macfarlane, Mr. Walter, 431
* Macfarlane, Mr. Walter, 431
* McFarlane’s Governor, 514
* McFarlane’s Governor, 514
* M‘Kaig and Stitt’s Marine Boiler with Cylindrical Combustion Chambers, 475
* M‘Kaig and Stitt’s Marine Boiler with Cylindrical Combustion Chambers, 475
* Machine, Boiler Shell Drilling, Booth’s, 419 Machine, Coal-Cutting, Heppel and Cranston’s, 417
* Machine, Boiler Shell Drilling, Booth’s, 419  
* Machine, Coal-Cutting, Heppel and Cranston’s, 417
* Machine, Colour-Grinding, Brinjes and Goodwin’s, 365
* Machine, Colour-Grinding, Brinjes and Goodwin’s, 365
* Machine, Combined Planing and Slotting, 227 Machine Gun, The Improved Gardner, 152 Machine, Planing, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s, 224
* Machine, Combined Planing and Slotting, 227  
* Machine, Plate-Flattening, Rushworth and
* Machine Gun, The Improved Gardner, 152  
* Co’s 9
* Machine, Planing, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s, 224
* Machine, Plate-Flattening, Rushworth and Co’s 9
* Machine, Plate-Straightening, Britton’s, 321 ,
* Machine, Plate-Straightening, Britton’s, 321 ,
* Machine, Plate-Straightening, Scriven and Co. s, 621
* Machine, Plate-Straightening, Scriven and Co. s, 621
* Machine, Radial Drilling, Asquith’s, 250 '
* Machine, Radial Drilling, Asquith’s, 250 '
* Machine, Saw-Sharpening, Sterne and Co. s, 319 Machine, Taylor’s Road-Sweeping 337
* Machine, Saw-Sharpening, Sterne and Co. s, 319  
* I Machine, Tenoning, Furness and Co. s, 289 Machine Tools, 583
* Machine, Taylor’s Road-Sweeping 337
* Machine, Tenoning, Furness and Co. s, 289  
* Machine Tools, 583
* Machine Tools at the Inventions Exhibition, 221, 319
* Machine Tools at the Inventions Exhibition, 221, 319
* Machine, Twist Drill Cutting, Double-Headed, 590 Machine Works, Wellington Foundry and, 147 Machinery, Candle-Making, Price’s, 3 Machinery, Cask-Making, Ransome and Co. s, 1 150 . •
* Machine, Twist Drill Cutting, Double-Headed, 590  
* Machine Works, Wellington Foundry and, 147  
* Machinery, Candle-Making, Price’s, 3  
* Machinery, Cask-Making, Ransome and Co. s, 1 150 . •
* Machinery, Pumping, at the Inventions Exhibition, 208, 395 .
* Machinery, Pumping, at the Inventions Exhibition, 208, 395 .
* Machinery, Washing, at the Inventions Exhibi-
* Machinery, Washing, at the Inventions Exhibi
* I Machinery, Worssam’s Wood-Working, 418, Machines, Dynamo-Electric, 512 Machines, Topography of, 22 Macquaire-Street Electric Lamps, The, 619 Magnesium, The Manufacture of, 522 Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456 Mains, Electric, The Size of, 14 Man-of-War and her Captain, A, 157 Manipulation of Heavy Forgings, The, 504, 51a Manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil, The, 39 Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522 Marine Engine Governor, Almqvist s, 36b Marshal^ J- T. and Co.’s Chimney Lifter, 562 Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s Chimney Raiser, 54 Mavnard’s Automatic Fall for Chaffcutters, /6 Maynard and Cooke’s Method of Constructing River Tunnels, 154
* Machinery, Worssam’s Wood-Working, 418,  
* Machines, Dynamo-Electric, 512  
* Machines, Topography of, 22  
* Macquaire-Street Electric Lamps, The, 619  
* Magnesium, The Manufacture of, 522  
* Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456  
* Mains, Electric, The Size of, 14  
* Man-of-War and her Captain, A, 157  
* Manipulation of Heavy Forgings, The, 504, 51a  
* Manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil, The, 39  
* Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522  
* Marine Engine Governor, Almqvist s, 36b  
* Marshal^ J- T. and Co.’s Chimney Lifter, 562  
* Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s Chimney Raiser, 54  
* Maynard’s Automatic Fall for Chaffcutters, /6  
* Maynard and Cooke’s Method of Constructing River Tunnels, 154
* Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
* Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
* Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 456, 555, 586
 
* '''Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 456, 555, 586
* Boston Sewage Works, The, 555
* Boston Sewage Works, The, 555
* On the Basic Bessemer Process, by Professor Egleston, 605
* On the Basic Bessemer Process, by Professor Egleston, 605
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* On Twist Drills, by W. H. Thome, 587
* On Twist Drills, by W. H. Thome, 587
* Other Papers, 608 .
* Other Papers, 608 .
* Mechanical Engineers, The Institution ot .
 
* '''Mechanical Engineers, The Institution ot .
* Address of the President, 134,140,191, 204
* Address of the President, 134,140,191, 204
* Mechan. engineers, Institution w—continued.
* Description of Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, A, by M. Louis Pollion, 147
* Description of Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, A, by M. Louis Pollion, 147
* ^^Gainsborough and Doncaster, 150
* Gainsborough and Doncaster, 150
* Grantham and Newark, 148
* Grantham and Newark, 148
* Grimsby and Frodingham, 150
* Grimsby and Frodingham, 150
* Trent Iron Works, Newark, The, 148
* Trent Iron Works, Newark, The, 148
* On Dunbar and Ruston’s Steam Navvy, by Mr.
* On Dunbar and Ruston’s Steam Navvy, by Mr. Joseph Ruston, 135,178, 202
* Joseph Ruston, 135,178, 202
* On the Iron Industry of Frodingham, by Mr. George Dove, 146, 177
* On the Iron Industry of Frodingham, by Mr.
* George Dove, 146, 177
* On Private Installations of Electric Lighting, by Mr. Ralph H. C. Nevile, 135,189
* On Private Installations of Electric Lighting, by Mr. Ralph H. C. Nevile, 135,189
* On Recent Applications of the Robey SemiPortable Engine, by Mr. John Richardson, 135 481
* On Recent Applications of the Robey Semi-Portable Engine, by Mr. John Richardson, 135 481
* Research Committee on Rivetted Joints, Abstract of Results of Experiments on Rivetted Joints, with their Applications fo Practical Work, by Professor Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 19, 43
* Research Committee on Rivetted Joints, Abstract of Results of Experiments on Rivetted Joints, with their Applications fo Practical Work, by Professor Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 19, 43
* Visits to Works :
* Visits to Works :
Line 980: Line 1,005:
* Clarke’s Crank and Forge Works, 147
* Clarke’s Crank and Forge Works, 147
* Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, The, 167
* Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, The, 167
* Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster,
* Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster, The, 123
* The, 123
* Sheaf Iron Works, 95,135
* Sheaf Iron Works, 95,135
* Spittlegate Iron Works, The, 71
* Spittlegate Iron Works, The, 71
* Stamp End Works, Lincoln, The, 98,135
* Stamp End Works, Lincoln, The, 98,135
* Wellington Foundry and Machine Works, 147
* Wellington Foundry and Machine Works, 147
* Mechanical Telephone, The, 89
* Mechanical Telephone, The, 89
* Mechanical Telephone, A New 111
* Mechanical Telephone, A New 111
Line 1,013: Line 1,038:
* Microbes from Water, Removing, 111
* Microbes from Water, Removing, 111
* Microtome, Caldwell’s Automatic, 398
* Microtome, Caldwell’s Automatic, 398
* Midland and North-Eastern Railways Rollin0
* Midland and North-Eastern Railways Rollin0 Stock, The, 25 .
* Stock, The, 25 .
* Military Operations, The Electric Light in, 161
* Military Operations, The Electric Light in, 161
* Mill, Blooming, for Bilbao, 55
* Mill, Blooming, for Bilbao, 55
* Mill, Flour, at Burscough, 227, 277
* Mill, Flour, at Burscough, 227, 277
* Milling Exhibition, The Paris, 2
* Milling Exhibition, The Paris, 2
* Milling Machinery, Messrs. Greenwood and
* Milling Machinery, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley’s, 221
* Batley’s, 221
* Millionaires, American, 570
* Millionaires, American, 570
* Mills, Cotton, American, 183
* Mills, Cotton, American, 183
Line 1,030: Line 1,053:
* Mines, Log, in the United States, 183
* Mines, Log, in the United States, 183
* Mining Conference at Warsaw, 524
* Mining Conference at Warsaw, 524
* Mining Engineers, The American Institute of :
 
* 367, 394, 427
* '''Mining Engineers, The American Institute of : 367, 394, 427
* Address of the President, 395
* Address of the President, 395
* Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion Mines, lhe, 395
* Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion Mines, lhe, 395
Line 1,038: Line 1,061:
* On the Nova Scotia Gold Mines, by Mr. Edward Gilpin, 370 ,
* On the Nova Scotia Gold Mines, by Mr. Edward Gilpin, 370 ,
* On the Picton Coalfields, by Henry S. Poole, 394 r. , »
* On the Picton Coalfields, by Henry S. Poole, 394 r. , »
* On the Present Value of Steel Castings, by A.
* On the Present Value of Steel Castings, by A. V. Abbott, 394 B .
* V. Abbott, 394 B .
* Studies of the Apatite Deposits of Canada, oj Dr. Sterry Hunt, 371
* Studies of the Apatite Deposits of Canada, oj Dr. Sterry Hunt, 371
* Mining Exhibition at Glasgow, 237
* Mining Exhibition at Glasgow, 237
* Mining Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 416, 443, 510 . _ , „ t -
* Mining Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 416, 443, 510 . _ , „ t -
* Minton’s Apparatus for Removing Flint 1 ow aei from Biscuit Ware, 160 n ..
* Minton’s Apparatus for Removing Flint 1 ow aei from Biscuit Ware, 160 n ..
* Minton’s Compressed Air Machinery for Uastmo Pottery, 159 .
* Minton’s Compressed Air Machinery for Uastmo Pottery, 159 .
* Mirrors, Spherical, for Solar Signalling, 596 Miscellanea, 9, 33, 66, 90,112, 138, 163, l«o,
* Mirrors, Spherical, for Solar Signalling, 596  
* 229, 260, 288, 312, 336, 351, 375, 400, 431, 44», 467, 503, 517, 540, 563, 596, 622 1?vbiW. Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Inventions Bx
* Miscellanea, 9, 33, 66, 90,112, 138, 163, l«o, 229, 260, 288, 312, 336, 351, 375, 400, 431, 44», 467, 503, 517, 540, 563, 596, 622 1?vbiW.  
* tion, 159, 365, 485
* Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Inventions Bx tion, 159, 365, 485
* Models, Crampton’s, at the Inventions dx tion, 170
* Models, Crampton’s, at the Inventions dx tion, 170
* Montague Gold Mines, The, 394
* Montague Gold Mines, The, 394
Line 1,059: Line 1,082:
* Muirhead, Mr. John, 322
* Muirhead, Mr. John, 322
* Murray’s Drain Cleaning Rods, 76
* Murray’s Drain Cleaning Rods, 76
* Nalder and Nalder’s Corn Sizer, 72
* Nalder and Nalder’s Corn Sizer, 72
* Napiers’ Shipyard and Engine Works, 2/1
* Napiers’ Shipyard and Engine Works, 2/1
Line 1,064: Line 1,088:
* Natural Gas in America, 17
* Natural Gas in America, 17
* Natural Gas Commission, The, 357
* Natural Gas Commission, The, 357
* Naval Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition,
* Naval Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition, 63, 257
* 63, 257
* Naval Progress, Russian, 41
* Naval Progress, Russian, 41
* Navigable Balloons, 547
* Navigable Balloons, 547
* Navigation of the Oxus, The, 572
* Navigation of the Oxus, The, 572
* Navvy, Steam, Dunbar and Ruston’s, 135,178,
* Navvy, Steam, Dunbar and Ruston’s, 135,178, 202
* 202
* Navy, Engineers in the, 458
* Navy, Engineers in the, 458
* Navy Estimates, Russian, for 1886, 308
* Navy Estimates, Russian, for 1886, 308
Line 1,081: Line 1,103:
* Niagara, The Recession of, 212
* Niagara, The Recession of, 212
* Nicholson and Son’s Pulveriser, 74
* Nicholson and Son’s Pulveriser, 74
* Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill
* Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
* and Co., 621
* Nile Floods, Impounding the, 241
* Nile Floods, Impounding the, 241
* Nile Steamer “ Ernest,” Thornycroft and Co.’s, 541
* Nile Steamer “ Ernest,” Thornycroft and Co.’s, 541
* Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
* Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
* Nordenfelt Submarine Boat, The, 334, 371
* Nordenfelt Submarine Boat, The, 334, 371
* North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and
* North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 434
* Shipbuilders, 434
* North-Eastern and Midland Railways, The, 25
* North-Eastern and Midland Railways, The, 25
* Northwich Water Works, Compound Pumping
* [[Northwich Water Works]], Compound Pumping Engine for the, 304
* Engine for the, 304
 
* Notes :
* '''Notes :
* Admiralty Finance, 596
* Admiralty Finance, 596
* Admiralty Reform, 137
* Admiralty Reform, 137
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* Alloys of Copper and Cobalt, 237
* Alloys of Copper and Cobalt, 237
* America, Position of, in Metallurgy, 357
* America, Position of, in Metallurgy, 357
* American Association for the Advancement of
* American Association for the Advancement of Science, 137
* Science, 137
* American Inventions upon the Locomotive, 308
* American Inventions upon the Locomotive, 308
* American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 456
* American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 456
Line 1,122: Line 1,141:
* Borax Supply in the United States, The, 183
* Borax Supply in the United States, The, 183
* Bourdon Gauges, 17
* Bourdon Gauges, 17
* Bower-Barff Process for Protecting Iron, The,
* Bower-Barff Process for Protecting Iron, The, 41, 524
* 41, 524
* Breakage of Axles on German Railways, 285
* Breakage of Axles on German Railways, 285
* Bridge Across the Yarra, New, 184
* Bridge Across the Yarra, New, 184
Line 1,192: Line 1,210:
* Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
* Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
* Foreign-Built Torpedo Boats, 381
* Foreign-Built Torpedo Boats, 381
* * orth Bridge, The, 430
* [[Forth Bridge]], The, 430
* Four-Masted Ship, The First American, 236
* Four-Masted Ship, The First American, 236
* Gas Cavities in Rolled Iron, 331
* Gas Cavities in Rolled Iron, 331
Line 1,227: Line 1,245:
* Lead-Encased Electric Conductors, 573
* Lead-Encased Electric Conductors, 573
* Lead Sheets, Making, by Hydraulic Pressure, 136
* Lead Sheets, Making, by Hydraulic Pressure, 136
* I Light Standard, Edison’s Electric, 619
* Light Standard, Edison’s Electric, 619
* Lighthouse Illuminants, 212, 476
* Lighthouse Illuminants, 212, 476
* Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
* Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
Line 1,239: Line 1,257:
* Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456
* Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456
* Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522
* Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522
* Manufacture of Submarine Cables in France,
* Manufacture of Submarine Cables in France, The, 546
* The, 546
* Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
* Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
* Mechanical Telephone, The, 89, 111
* Mechanical Telephone, The, 89, 111
Line 1,260: Line 1,277:
* New Zealand Railways, 137
* New Zealand Railways, 137
* Niagara Park, The, 500
* Niagara Park, The, 500
* Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill
* Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
* and Co., 621
* Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
* Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
* Nuremberg Exhibition, 89
* Nuremberg Exhibition, 89
Line 1,281: Line 1,297:
* Power Required on Elevated Railroads, 138
* Power Required on Elevated Railroads, 138
* Prediction of Tornadoes, 523
* Prediction of Tornadoes, 523
* Professional Inventor and the Fuel Problem
* Professional Inventor and the Fuel Problem A, 430
* A, 430
* Propulsion of Vessels, A New Method of, 500
* Propulsion of Vessels, A New Method of, 500
* Protection to the Obelisk at New York, 547
* Protection to the Obelisk at New York, 547
Line 1,299: Line 1,314:
* Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 66
* Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 66
* Russian Armaments, 162
* Russian Armaments, 162
* N otes—continued.
* Russian Duty on Steamers, Proposed, 357
* Russian Duty on Steamers, Proposed, 357
* Russian Naval Progress, 41
* Russian Naval Progress, 41
Line 1,308: Line 1,322:
* Scottish Mineral Oil Industry, The, 4C6
* Scottish Mineral Oil Industry, The, 4C6
* Sea Temperatures, 524
* Sea Temperatures, 524
* i “ Section A” at the Forthcoming Meeting of the British Association, 40
* “ Section A” at the Forthcoming Meeting of the British Association, 40
* Sewage at Leicester, 259
* Sewage at Leicester, 259
* Signalling in War, 89
* Signalling in War, 89
Line 1,328: Line 1,342:
* Sunlight, Recent Researches on, 17
* Sunlight, Recent Researches on, 17
* Telegraph Conference, The, 284
* Telegraph Conference, The, 284
* , Telegraph Convention, The, 89
* Telegraph Convention, The, 89
* Telegraph Line, An Early, 137
* Telegraph Line, An Early, 137
* Telegraph, an Underground One, The First
* Telegraph, an Underground One, The First American, 620
* American, 620
* Telephone in France, The, 547
* Telephone in France, The, 547
* Telephone in Paris, The, 65
* Telephone in Paris, The, 65
Line 1,338: Line 1,351:
* Thermal Telephone, The, 500
* Thermal Telephone, The, 500
* Tilbury Docks, The, 405
* Tilbury Docks, The, 405
* Timber Growth on the Pacific Coast of the
* Timber Growth on the Pacific Coast of the United States, 161
* United States, 161
* Tornadoes in the United States, 259
* Tornadoes in the United States, 259
* Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A, 380
* Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A, 380
Line 1,346: Line 1,358:
* Torpedo Gunboats, The Proposed New, 429
* Torpedo Gunboats, The Proposed New, 429
* Torpedo Scandal, A Russian, 475
* Torpedo Scandal, A Russian, 475
* Tower Bridge, The, 405
* [[Tower Bridge]], The, 405
* Towns at High Altitudes, 546
* Towns at High Altitudes, 546
* Tramways in the Low Countries, 212
* Tramways in the Low Countries, 212
Line 1,355: Line 1,367:
* Tyndall Scholarships in America, 110
* Tyndall Scholarships in America, 110
* Unmagnetisable Steel, 380
* Unmagnetisable Steel, 380
* Use of Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide
* Use of Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide The, 524
* The, 524
* Use of Rice in Brewing, The, 137
* Use of Rice in Brewing, The, 137
* Uses of Electricity in Coal Mining, The, 258
* Uses of Electricity in Coal Mining, The, 258
* Utilisation of Slag from the Basic Bessemer
* Utilisation of Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, 457
* Process, 457
* Volatilisation of Gold, 457
* Volatilisation of Gold, 457
* Volt, A Standard, 429
* Volt, A Standard, 429
Line 1,369: Line 1,379:
* White Lead Again, 458
* White Lead Again, 458
* Wind Producer, A, 308
* Wind Producer, A, 308
* Wind Velocity of over a Hundred Miles an
* Wind Velocity of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
* Hour, 357
* Wire Belts for Stone Cutting, 546
* Wire Belts for Stone Cutting, 546
* Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
* Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
Line 1,376: Line 1,385:
* Work Exhibition in Paris, 40
* Work Exhibition in Paris, 40
* Works on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 258
* Works on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 258
* Notes from Cleveland, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
* Notes from Cleveland, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
* Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 45, 90, 142, 192, 216, 432, 446, 471, 550, 578, 609
* Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 45, 90, 142, 192, 216, 432, 446, 471, 550, 578, 609
* Notes from New York, 308
* Notes from New York, 308
* Notes from the North, 10, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 154, 179, 201, 238, 262, 279, 303, 334, 374, 401, 423, 448, 471, 495, 516, 552, 566, 592, 626
* Notes from the North, 10, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 154, 179, 201, 238, 262, 279, 303, 334, 374, 401, 423, 448, 471, 495, 516, 552, 566, 592, 626
* Notes from the South-West, 11, 32, 58, 91, 105,
* Notes from the South-West, 11, 32, 58, 91, 105, 128, 155, 178, 201, 238, 262, 278, 303, 335, 350, 383, 402, 436, 447, 470, 502, 517, 551, 579, 600, 626
* 128, 155, 178, 201, 238, 262, 278, 303, 335, 350, 383, 402, 436, 447, 470, 502, 517, 551, 579, 600, 626
* Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 470, 502, 516, 552, 567, 592
* Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 32, 59, 92, 106,
* 129, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 470, 502, 516, 552, 567, 592
* Notes from the United States, 19, 35, 80, 125, 151, 187, 213, 260, 287, 309, 322, 361, 372, 409, 419, 444, 469, 501, 515, 541, 577, 609
* Notes from the United States, 19, 35, 80, 125, 151, 187, 213, 260, 287, 309, 322, 361, 372, 409, 419, 444, 469, 501, 515, 541, 577, 609
* Nova Scotia Gold Mines, The, 370
* Nova Scotia Gold Mines, The, 370

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GENERAL INDEX

  • Aberdeen Graving Dock, Centrifugal Pumps for, | 105
  • Accident, Penistone Railway, 109
  • Accidents, Railway, in Russia, 475
  • Accumulators, Electric, 474
  • Addiwell Chemical Works, The, 232
  • Address of the President of the American Institution of Mining Engineers, 395
  • Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The, 134, 140,191, 204
  • Address of the President of Section G, British Association, 289, 313
  • Ad lard Tram Rail and Clamp, The, 342
  • Admiralty Cruisers, Merchant Steamers as, 187
  • Admiralty Finance, 596
  • Admiralty Reform, 137
  • Agents, Patent, 593
  • Agricultural Snow, The Royal, at Preston : 51
  • Brickmaking Machine, Bradley and Craven’s, 80
  • Chaffcutter and Elevator, Carson and Toone’s, 76
  • Chaffcutters, Maynard’s, Automatic Fall for, 76
  • Chimney Raiser, Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s, 54
  • Combination Agricultural Implement, Evans’s, 73, 565
  • Corn Mill, Blackstone’s, 73
  • Corn Mill, Wood’s, 73
  • Corn Screen, Rainforth and Co.’s Adjustable, 73
  • Corn Sizer, Nalder and Nalder’s, 72
  • Domestic Motor, The Davey, 54
  • Drain Cleaning Rods, Murray’s, 76
  • Engine and Boiler, Vertical, Ruston, Proctor and Co.’s, 54
  • Engine, Fowler and Co.’s Coupled Traction, 80
  • Engine, Gas, Crossley and Co.’s Vertical Otto, 80
  • Engine, Horizontal, with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies’, 55
  • Engine, Traction, and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s, 51
  • Engines, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 53
  • Engines, Fowler and Co.’s, 51
  • Engines, Gas, 54
  • Ensilage, 76
  • Fencing, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 80
  • Implements, 72
  • Peat Breaker, Bracher’s, 73
  • Pipe Joint, Corbett’s, 80
  • Pulveriser, Nicholson and Son’s, 74
  • Sack Hoist, Porrit’s, 80
  • Silo with Hydraulic Seal, Howard’s, 77
  • Silo Press, Blunt’s, 77
  • Silo and Silo Press, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 76
  • Spark Arrester, Tyrcr’s, 54
  • Spring Wheel, Aveling and Porter’s, 80
  • Tramway Sleepers, Howard’s, 77
  • Well Pumps, Hathorn, Davey and Co.’s, 54
  • Whippietrees :
  • Corbett’s, 77
  • Davey, Sleep, and Co.’s, 77
  • Kell, Meats, and Co.’s, 77
  • Knapp and Co.’s, 77
  • Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 77
  • Vipan and Headley’s, 77
  • Ainscoughs’ Flour Mill at Burscough, 227, 277
  • Air, Cooling, Chambers’s System of, 5
  • Air, Currents of, Experiments with, 160
  • “ Alacrity”and “Surprise,” H.M.S., Engines and
  • Boilers of, 346, 399,447, 491, 536, 588
  • Alarm for Icebergs, 89
  • Allen and Co.’s Steam and Hydraulic Reversing Engine, 9
  • Allin’s Water Motor, 487
  • Alloa, The Forth Bridge at, and Railway Connections, 349
  • Alloys of Copper and Cobalt, 237
  • Almqvist’s Marine Engine Governor, 366
  • Amalgamation of Silver Ores, 558
  • America, Fire Prevention in, 520 .
  • American Association for the Advancement oi Science, 137
  • American Cotton Mills, 183
  • American Institute of Mining Engineers, 327
  • American Millionaires, 570
  • American Railway Speeds, 386
  • American Shipbuilding, 84
  • American Society of Civil Engineers, The, 99
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (See
  • Mechanical Engineers, American Society oj
  • American Watch Company, The Waltham, 15,62, 85
  • Ammeter, A Mercurial, 258
  • Ammonia Soda Process, The, 574
  • Ammonia and Tar from Blast Furnaces, 235, 387, 409, 459
  • Anemometer, Lcupold’s Heliostatic, 623
  • Anemometer, A New, 136
  • Antwerp, Coal and Iron at, 167
  • Antwerp, Electricity at, 197
  • Antwerp Exhibition, The, 15, 41
  • Antwerp Exhibition, Electric Traction at the, 571
  • Antwerp Exhibition, The Telephone at the, 330
  • Apatite Deposits of Canada, The, 371
  • Application of Electricity, A New, 65
  • Arbitrations, Iron Trade, 306
  • Architecture, Naval, at the Inventions Exhibition, 63, 257
  • Armaments, Russian, 162
  • Armour-Plate Manufactory, New Russian, 620
  • Army Service Rifle, The New, 405
  • Arnold’s Steam Boilers, 514
  • Artificial Oligist, 596
  • Asquith’s Radial Drilling Machine, 250
  • Atkinson’s Differential Gas Engine, 187
  • Atlantic Cable War, The, 110
  • Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity, Difficulties in the Observation of, 162
  • Australia, Engineers in, 83
  • Austrian Coal Mining, 307
  • Automatic Brakes, 548
  • Automatic Fire Extinguishers, 475
  • Automatic Vacuum Brakes, 182
  • Aveling and Porter’s Spring Wheel, 80
  • Aveling and Porter’s Steering Gear for Traction Engines, 562
  • Aveling and Porter’s Traction Engine and Crane, 51
  • Awards, Jury, 353
  • Axles, Breakages of on German Railways, 285
  • “ Bacchante ” and “ Boadicca,” H.M.S., Boilers and Engines of, 325
  • Balata, 161
  • Balloon Photograph}’, 136
  • Balloons, Navigable, 547
  • Barrow Rock Drill, The, 443
  • Basic Bessemer Process, The, 605
  • Baxter and Co.’s Stone Breaker, 441
  • Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s Fencing, 80
  • Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s Lock Nut, 433
  • Bavliss, Jones, and Bavliss’s Silo and Silo Press, 76
  • Beaumont Rock Drill, The, 442
  • Beck and Company’s Hose Coupling, 398
  • Beck and Company’s Rotary Blower, 398
  • Belts as Grain Conveyers, 42
  • Ben Nevis Observatory, 66
  • Ben Nevis Observatory, Experiments at, 620
  • Ben Nevis, Proposed Earthquake Observatinna on, 184 ns
  • Benson’s Great Clock for Lucknow, 199
  • Berlin Telegraphic Congress, The, 162
  • Bermuda, A Cable to, 547
  • Bessbrook Electrical Tramway, The, 285
  • Bessemer Process, The Basic, 605
  • Bevel Gear Cutter, Bilgram’s, 21
  • Beverley, Drainage at, 211
  • Bichromate and Nitric Acid Cells, 547
  • Bill Legislation, Private, 158, 569, 603
  • Biscuit Ware, Minton’s Apparatus for Removing
  • Flint Powder from, 160 0
  • Black Sea, Grain Elevators on the, 162
  • Black Sea, Port Improvements in the, 620 Blackstone’s Corn Mill, 73
  • Blast Furnaces, Tar and Ammonia from qqk 387,409,459 ’
  • Blochairn Steel Works, The, 297
  • Blooming Mill for Bilbao, 55
  • Blower, Rotary, Beck and Co.’s, 398
  • Blowing Engines at the Rimamurany-Salgn-
  • Torjaner Iron Works, 419, 466
  • Blunt’s Silo Press, 77
  • Boat, Gourbet’s Submarine Torpedo, 501
  • Boat, Submarine, The Nordenfelt, 334, 371
  • Boats, Torpedo, The New, 212, 616
  • Boats, Screw Ferry, 587
  • Boiler Drilling Machine, Holden and Brooke’s 320
  • Boiler Explosion, The Leeds, 332
  • Boiler Insurance, 426, 497
  • Boiler, Marine, with Cylindrical Combustion Chamber, M‘Kaig and Stitt’s, 475
  • Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, Booth’s, 419
  • Boiler and Vertical Engine, Ruston, Proctor and Co.’s, 54
  • Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “ Boadicea” and
  • “ Bacchante,” 325
  • Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. “Surprise” and “ Alacrity,” 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
  • Boilers and Engines of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 171 Boilers, Steam, Arnold’s, 514
  • Boilers, Steam, at the Inventions Exhibition 474
  • Boilers, Tubular, 409
  • Booth’s Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 419
  • Borax Supply in the United States, The, 183
  • Bore-Hole, The Deepest in the World, 17
  • Boston, U.S., Electric Lightingat, 183
  • Boston Sewage Works, The, 555
  • Bourdon Gauges, 17
  • Bower-Barff Process for Protecting Iron. The 41 524 ’ ’
  • Boyle’s System of Ventilating Railway Carriages, 313 ’
  • Bracher’s Peat Breaker, 73
  • Bradley and Craven’s Brickmaking Machine 80
  • Brakes, Automatic, 548
  • Brakes, Automatic Vacuum, 182
  • Brazilian Government, Stern-Wheel Steamer for the, 202
  • Breakages of Axles on German Railways, 285
  • Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 452
  • Brickmaking Machine, Bradley and Craven’s 80
  • Bridge, Cantilever, A New Type of, 405
  • Bridge Failure at Chatham, The, 198
  • Bridge, The Forth, 265, 286, 386, 430, 513, 537
  • Bridge, The Forth, at Alloa, and Railway Connections, 349 J
  • Bridge, New, Across the Yarra, 184
  • Bridge over the Tessin River, 278
  • Bridge, The Tower, 405
  • Bridges, Iron, Decay of, 380
  • Lrinjes and Goodwin’s Colour-Grinding Machine,
  • Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, The, 117
  • Britannia Works, Electric Light at the, 185
  • British Association, The: 162, 286, 300
  • Address to the Mechanical Science Section, by q r7 B- ?^er’ President of the
  • Section, 289, 313
  • Apparatus for Recording Stress and Strain, by Professor W. C. Unwin, ouZ
  • Channel into Swansea Har-
  • On ?hl’ny CaPPer> 302, 347
  • L a Deyelopment of the Pneumatic System Ttelegraph Purposes, by Mr. J. w. Willmot, 482
  • n Methods of Transporting
  • a„,„w ^ etjeleum in the United States of oAhn n-ff by Mr- John H- Harris, 301, 346 ° PmfoD ffLion P S-’entific Knowledge, by Professor Chrystal, 300
  • Towi 'wl0 Lig,htin° and the Law, by Mr. Lewis Edmunds, 302
  • of t'he Road Engine in the Cnlnn J*?11011 Maintenance of Roads, by Colonel Innes, 302
  • On aBri,d8e, by Mr. A. S. Biggart, 286 ° 302^ Mlners Safety Lamp, by Mr. Swan, ° {Relm',ve Merits of Iron and Copper
  • P?ereecef.°301Telegraph Li"e8- by W H‘ OShaw,13e0ian5d09ROller Gear’ by ProfeSS3r IL OnwhHSp;eele%O02TeIeSraph P°’eS’ by °Ltbe Tay Viaduct, by Mr. Crawford Barlow,
  • Biitk:hCTOn 4° Foi‘thcoming Meeting, 40
  • Bri discovered, 307
  • Broken r late'Straightening Machine, 321
  • Broken Crankshafts, Repairing 385
  • Brunswick Condenser, The 486’
  • Burscough, Flour Millat, 227 277
  • Business of the Suez Canal, 405
  • Cable to Bermuda, A 547
  • Li® Grappling, Submarine, 161
  • Ca\\e\^^^ The Life of a, 351
  • C The^ 546 *rance» Manufacture of Submarine,
  • Cables, New Submarine, 380
  • C-^fe^^me, 398
  • c““i l‘«,' uitaw S: 28
  • Canal, The Poutiloff, 42
  • Candle-Making Machinery, Price’s, 3
  • Cantilever Bridge, A New Type of, 405
  • Captain, A Man-of-War, and her, 157
  • Carbon Filaments, New, 596
  • Cars, Locomotive, for the Transcaspian Railway,
  • Carson and Toone’s Chaff cutter and Elevator, 76
  • Cask-Making Machinery, Ransome and Co.’s,
  • Cassel Gold Extraction Process, The, 38
  • Cast Iron, Silicon in, 40
  • Cast Steel, Examination of, 17
  • Casting Pottery, Minton’s Compressed Air Machinery for, 159
  • Castings, Dynamite for Breaking, 183
  • Castings, Steel, 394
  • Catcher, A Torpedo, 512
  • Cathetometer, 398
  • Cells, Bichromate and Nitric Acid, 547
  • Cement, Portland, On Testing, 145
  • Cement, Slag as the Basis of, 524
  • Centenary of the Dartford Iron Works, The, 65
  • Central Asia, Minerals in, 285
  • Central Asia, A Pipe Line for, 284
  • Centrifugal Machine, Weston’s, 486
  • Centrifugal Pump for Aberdeen Graving Dock, 105
  • CWynnes’ 30-in.,
  • Chaffcutter and Elevator, Carson and Toone’s, 76
  • Chaffcutters, Maynard’s Automatic Fall for, 76
  • Chambers’ System of Cooling Air, 5
  • Channel, Swansea, New Deep Sea, 302, 347
  • Chatham, The Bridge Failure at, 198
  • Chatham and Devonport Roperies, The, 501
  • Cheap Sodium, 524
  • Chemical Works, The Ad di well, 232
  • Chilled Car Wheels, The Inaccuracies of, 572
  • Chimney, A Paper, 356
  • Chimney Lifter, J. T. Marshall and Co.’s, 573
  • Chimney Raiser, Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s, 54
  • China, The Mineral Wealth of, 307
  • Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for, 487
  • City Lighting, Incandescence Electric Lamps for, 232
  • Civil Engineering at the Inventions Exhibition, 1, 29, 103
  • Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 99
  • Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 287, 470, 513
  • On Constructions in Earthquake Countries, by Mr. John Milne, 611
  • On Dynamo-Electric Machines, and their Engines, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 512
  • On Experiments on the Steam Engine Indicator, by Mr. Arthur William Brightmore, 470
  • On High-Speed Motors, by Mr. John Imray, 512
  • Premiums Awarded Session 1884-85, 287
  • Subjects for Papers—Session 1885-86, 287
  • Clark and Low’s Indicator, 41
  • Clark’s Transit Instruments and Lamp, 398
  • Clarke’s Crank and Forge Works, 147
  • Classes for the Study of Electricity, 357
  • Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Engines, 53
  • Cleveland Iron Trade, The, 616
  • Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155,179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
  • Clock, An Electro-Mechanical, 500
  • Clock at Lucknow, The Great, 199
  • Clydebank Shipyard and Engineering Works, The, 269
  • Coal-Cutting Machine, Heppel and Cranston’s, 417
  • Coal and Iron at Antwerp, 167
  • Coal Mining, Austrian, 307
  • Coal-Washing Machine, Sheppard’s, 511 ,
  • Coalfields of New South Wales, The, 547
  • Coalfields, The Picton, 394
  • Coiling Metal Tubes, Sharp’s Process of, 485
  • Colonial Engineers, The Disputes of, 430
  • Colour-Grinding Machine, Brinjes and Goodwin’s, 365
  • Colville and Sons’ Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, 455
  • Combination Agricultural Implement, Evans’s, 565
  • Combined Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, 588
  • Comet, The New, 572
  • Company, The John Cockerill, 382
  • Company, The Leeds Forge, 8
  • Compass Disturbance, 333
  • Compound Engine, Wells’s Balanced, 469
  • Compound Engine, The Willans Receiver, 18
  • Compound Locomotive (Webb’s System) for the Paulista Railway, Brazil, 614
  • Compound Locomotives, 329
  • Compound Pumping Engine; Northwich Water Works, 304
  • Condenser, The Brunswick, 486
  • Condenser, Morton’s Ejector, Engine with, 577
  • Conductors, Steel-Copper Electric, 522
  • Conference, The Telegraph, 284
  • Constructions in Earthquake Countries, 611
  • Continuous Regenerative Gas Kiln, Dunnachie’s, 367
  • Controversy, The Michaelovsk, 381
  • Convention, The Telegraph, 89
  • Conveyance of Petroleum, The, 334
  • Cooling Air, Chambers’s System of, 5
  • Copper and Cobalt, Alloys of, 237
  • Copper in Damaraland, 258
  • Copper, Electro-Metallurgy of, 305
  • Copper, Electrolytic Refining of, 13
  • Copper, Purification of, 40
  • Copper Telegraph Wires, 429
  • Corbett’s Whippietrees, 77
  • Corliss Compound Vertical Tandem Engine, Douglas and Grant’s, 609
  • Corn Mill, Blackstone s, 73
  • Corn Mill, Wood’s, 73
  • Corn Screen, Rainforth and Co.’s Adjustable, 73
  • Corn Sizer, Nalder and Nalder’s, 72
  • Corbett’s Pipe Joint, 80
  • « Coromandel,” The New Peninsular and Oriental Steamer, 125
  • Cotton Mills, American, 183
  • Cotton Seed Oil, The Manufacture of, 39
  • Countries, Earthquake, Constructions in, 611
  • Coupling Hose, Beck and Co.’s, 398
  • Cowles Electric Smelting Process, The, 431
  • Crampton’s Models at the Inventions Exhibition, 170
  • Crane, Sixty-Ton Steam Derrick, at Port-Glasgow, 564
  • Crane, The Thwaite-Neville Hoisting and Traversing, 610
  • Crane and Traction Engine, Aveling and Porter’s, 51
  • Craniology, New Methods in, 211
  • Crank and Forge Works, Clarke’s, 147
  • Crankshafts, Repairing Broken, 385
  • Cranston’s Rock Drill, 416
  • Creil Experiments, The, 378, 452, 498, 617
  • Crossley and Co.’s Vertical Otto Gas Engine, 80
  • Crude Petroleum, Transporting, 346
  • Cruiser, Torpedo, The “Scout,” 111
  • Crushing Ore, Rolls for, 463, 487
  • Crystallisation of Wrought Iron, The, 605
  • Cupola Furnace, A New, 236, 278
  • Curious Effects of a Thunderstorm, 380
  • Current of Telephone Transmitters, The, 547
  • Currents of Air, Experiments with, 160
  • Cut-out, Hedges’ Fusible, 196
  • Cut-out, Hedges’ Magnetic, 196
  • Cutter, Bevel Gear, Bilgram’s, 21
  • Daily Variations of the Magnetic Elements, 500
  • Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
  • Damaraland, Copper in, 258
  • Danger in the Distribution of Electricity, A, 356
  • Danger from Lightning, The Increase in the, 378
  • Dartford Iron Works, The Centenary of the, 65
  • Davey’s Differential Gear, 225
  • Davey Domestic Motor, The, Hathorn, Davey, and Co., 54
  • Davey, Sleep, and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
  • Davis’s Railway Signals, 536
  • Deacon’s Waste-Water Meter System, 490,533
  • Decay of Iron Bridges, 380
  • Deep-Sea Channel, Swansea New, 302, 347
  • Deepest Bore-Hole in the World, The, 17
  • Denny and Co.’s Engine Works, Dumbarton, 221
  • Deposits of Canada, The Apatite, 371
  • Destroyer, A Torpedo Boat, 380
  • Detection, Iceberg, 110
  • Development of Tramways, The, 519
  • Diamond Fields, The, 333
  • Difficulties in the Observation of Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity, 162
  • Dip Workings, Morison and Armstrong’s Pumps for, 468
  • Disputes of Colonial Engineers, 430
  • Disturbance, Compass, 333
  • Dock, The Grimsby, 150
  • Dock, Hull Alexandra, 89
  • Dock*, The Tilbury, 405
  • Dockyard, The Nicolaeff, Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
  • Domestip Electric Lighting, 135, 189, 545
  • Double-Headed Twist Drill Cutting Machine, 590
  • Douglas and Grant’s Corliss Compound Vertical
  • Tandem Engine, 609
  • Drain Cleaning Rods, Murray’s, 76
  • Drainage at Beverley, 211
  • Drainage of Victoria, British Columbia, The, 161
  • Draining the Pinsk Marshes, 457
  • Draper’s Self-Recording Meteorological Instruments, 535
  • Drawing Platinum Wire, 40
  • Dredger “Tilbury,” Steam, Hunter and English’s, 566
  • Drill, Portable Prospecting, 443
  • Drilling Machine, Boiler, Holden and Brooke’s, 320
  • Drilling Machine, Booth’s Boiler Shell, 419
  • Drilling Machine, Radial, Asquith’s, 250
  • Drilling Machines, 583
  • Drills, Twist, 587
  • Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion Mines, The, 395
  • Drysdale and Co.’s Centrifugal Pumps for Aberdeen Graving Dock, 105
  • Dunbar and Ruston’s Steam Navvy, 135, 178, 202
  • Duncan Brothers’ Waverley Turbine, 365
  • Dunnachie’s Continuous Regenerative Gas Kiln, 367
  • Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, Combined Perfecting and, 588
  • “ Dust,” Action of Electricity on, 184
  • Dust Fuel, Perret’s Furnace for, 401
  • Dynamite for Breaking Castings, 183
  • Dynamo-Electric Machines, 512
  • Early History of the Sewing Machine, 381
  • Early Telegraph Line, An, 137
  • Earthquake Countries,Construction in, 611
  • Earthquake Observations on Ben Nevis, Proposed, 184
  • Eccentric, Tripier’s Spherical, 147
  • Economy, Locomotive, 377
  • Edinburgh Exhibition, The, 379
  • Edinburgh, Proposed Electric Lighting in, 40
  • Edison’s Electric Light Standard, 619
  • Ejector Condenser, Morton’s Engine with, 577
  • Electric Accumulators, 474
  • Electric Launch “Volta,” The, 230
  • Electric Lighting :
  • Domestic Electric Lighting, 135, 189, 545
  • Edison’s Electric Light Standard, 619
  • Electric Hand Lamp, Merryweather’s, 250
  • Electric Illumination in Mills, 523
  • Electric Light and Guns, The, 89
  • Electric Light Installation, The Greenock, 49
  • Electric Light at Lincoln’s Inn, The, 499
  • Electric Light at Lloyd’s, The, 500
  • Electric Light on Locomotives, The, 356
  • Electric Light in Military Operations, The, 161
  • Electric Light at the Paris Opera, The, 522, 545
  • Electric Light at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, The, 333
  • Electric Light in Theatres, The, 404, 453
  • Electric Lighting at Boston, U.S., 183
  • Electric Lighting at the Britannia Works, 185
  • Electric Lighting in Edinburgh, Proposed, 40
  • Electric Lighting of Mills, The, 6, 523
  • Electric Lights in Ovens, 110
  • Electric Mains, The Size of, 14
  • Electricity at Antwerp, 197
  • Electricity in Coal Mining, The Uses of, 258
  • Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition, 39,64, 88, 195
  • Incandescence Electric Lamps for City Lighting, 232
  • Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
  • Lamps, Electric, The Macquaire-Street, 619
  • Lead-Encased Electric Conductors, 578
  • Life of Incandescence Lamps, The, 392, 439
  • Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
  • Weston Incandescent Lamp Fittings, 174
  • Weston Systems in the United States, The, 86
  • Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
  • Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
  • Electric Resistance of Platinoid, The, 17
  • Electric Smelting, 256
  • Electric Traction at the Antwerp Exhibition, 571
  • Electrical Exhibition, Another, 65
  • Electrical Furnace, An, 371, 620
  • Electrical Laboratory, A National, 545
  • Electrical Tramway, The Bessbrook, 235
  • Electrical Weathercock, An, 136
  • Electricity, Action of, on “ Dust,” 184
  • Electricity, Classes for the Study of, 357
  • Electricity in Coal Mining, The Uses of, 258
  • Electricity, A Danger in the Distribution of, 356
  • Electricity at the Explosion of Flood Rock, New York Harbour. 523
  • Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition, 39, 64 88, 195
  • Electricity, A New Application of, 65
  • Electricity, Saponification by, 405
  • Electricity, Stealing, 572
  • Electricity and Ventilation, 183
  • Electro-Dynamic Telephones, 17
  • Electro-Mechanical Clock, An, 500
  • Electro-Metallurgy of Copper, 305
  • Electrolysis, Recovery of Tin from Tin Scrap by, 18
  • Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 13
  • Elevated Railroads, Power Required on, 138
  • Elevated Railway, The Meigs, 587
  • Embanking the River Volga, 381
  • Endurance of Metals, The, 429
  • Engine, 30-in. Centrifugal Pumping, Gwynncs’, 124, 215
  • Engine, Compound Pumping; Northwich Water Works, 304
  • Engine, Douglas and Grant’s Corliss Compound Vertical Tandem, 609
  • Engine, The Fielding High-Speed, 104
  • Engine, Fowler and Co.’s Coupled Traction, 80
  • Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
  • Engine, High-Speed, Welford’s, 385
  • Engine, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, Holborow and Co.’s, 142
  • Engine, Horizontal, with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 55
  • Engine, Horizontal, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 250
  • Engine, Horizontal, Robey and Co.’s, 263
  • Engine and Kapp’s Dynamo, 195
  • Engine, Light Steam Fire, Merryweather and Sons’, 113
  • Engine with Morton's Ejector Condenser, 577
  • Engine, The Robey Semi-Portable, 135, 481
  • Engine, Steam and Hydraulic Reversing, Allen and Co.’s, 9
  • Engine, Traction, and Crane, Aveling and Porter's, 51
  • Engine Trials at University College, 317, 312
  • Engine, Umpherston’s Rag, 199
  • Engine, Vertical, and Boiler, Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s, 54
  • Engine, Wells’s Balanced Compound, 469
  • Engine, The Willans Receiver Compound, 18
  • Engine Works, Messrs. Denny and Co.’s, Dumbarton, 221
  • Engine Works and Shipyard, Napiers’, 271
  • Engineering Purposes, Sand Bags for, 333
  • Engineering Works and Shipyard, The Clydebank, 269
  • Engineers, The American Society of Civil, 99
  • Engineers in Australia, 83
  • Engineers in the Navy, 458
  • Engineers and Shipbuilders, North-East Coast Institution of, 434
  • Engineers, Telegraph, The Society of, 38,618
  • Engines, Blowing, at the Rimamurany-Salgo-Torjaner Iron Works, 419, 466
  • Engines and Boilers of H.M.S. “ Boadicea” and “ Bacchante,” 325
  • Engines and Boilers of H.M.S. “ Surprise” and “Alacrity,” 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
  • Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “ Meteor,” 171
  • Engines, Clayton and Shuttleworth’s, 53
  • Engines, Fowler and Co.’s, 51
  • Engines, Horizontal Tandem, at the London Portland Cement Company’s Works, Northfleet, 514
  • Engines, Pumping, at Whitacre; Birmingham Corporation Water Works, 6, 68, 151, 249, 293
  • Engines, Robey’s, 205
  • English and American Railways, The Expenses of, 433
  • Ensilage at the Preston Show, 76
  • “ Ernest,” Thorny croft and Co.’s Nile Steamer, 541
  • European Railway Progress, 619
  • Euston-road, The Subsidence in, 596
  • Evans’s Combination Agricultural Implement, 565
  • Evolutionary Squadron, The, 18
  • Examination of Cast Steel, 17
  • “ Excelsior,” 162
  • Excursions of the Iron and Steel Institute, 235, 249
  • Excursions of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 148, 149, 150
  • Exhibition, Another Electrical, 65
  • Exhibition, The Antwerp, 15, 41
  • Exhibition, Antwerp, The Telephone at the, 330
  • Exhibition, The Brewers’, 452
  • Exhibition, The Edinburgh, 379
  • Exhibition, The Inventions (See Inventions Exhibition, The)
  • Exhibition, Mining, at Glasgow, 237
  • Exhibition, Nuremberg, 89
  • Exhibition of 1889, The Paris, 66
  • Exhibition, The Paris, 1889, and the Metropolitan Railway, 42
  • Exhibition, The Paris Milling, 2 ,
  • Expansion Gear, Automatic, Holborow and Co. s Horizontal Engine with, 142
  • Expedition, The Soudan, The Telegraphs of the, 498
  • Expenses of English and American Railways, The, 433
  • Experiments, The Creil, 378, 452, 498,617
  • Experiments with Currents of Air, 160
  • Explosion, Boiler, The Leeds, 332
  • Explosion at Hell Gate, The, 413
  • Explosive Gelatine, 184
  • Extraction of Gold, The Cassel Process, 38
  • Failure, The Bridge, at Chatham, 198
  • Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
  • Fairfield Works, Govan, The, 244
  • Fairlie, Robert F., 133
  • Famine in Liverpool, The Water, 619
  • Fatigue of Metals, The, 31
  • Fencing, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 80
  • Ferry Boats, Screw, 587
  • Ferry, Steam, The Isle of Wight, 124
  • Fielding High-Speed Engine, The, 104
  • Fields, The Diamond, 333
  • Filaments, New Carbon, 596
  • Films, Liquid, 41
  • Finance, Admiralty, 596
  • Fire Engine, Light Steam, Merryweather and Sons’, 113
  • Fire Extinguishers, Automatic, 475
  • Fire Prevention in America, 520
  • First American Telegraph, an Underground One, 620
  • Flamache’s Signalling and Interlocking Apparatus for Rifle Ranges, 623
  • Flood Rock, New York Harbour, Electricity at the Explosion of, 523
  • Floods, The Nile, Impounding, 241
  • Flour Mill at Burscough, 227, 277
  • Fontinettes Hydraulic Canal Lift, The, 29
  • Foreign-Built Torpedo Boats, 381
  • Foreign and Colonial Notes, 45, 90,142,192, 216, 432, 446, 471, 550, 578, 609
  • Foreign Statistics, 255
  • Forest Supply in the United States, The, 404
  • Forge Company, The Leeds, 8
  • Forge and Crank Works, Clarke’s, 147
  • Forges, Gasolene Vapour for, 525
  • Forgings, Heavy, The Manipulation of, 504, 515
  • Forrestt and Sons’ Stern-Wheel Steamer for the Brazilian Government, 202
  • Forth Bridge, The, 265, 286, 386, 430, 513, 537
  • Forth Bridge at Alloa and Railway Connections, The, 349
  • Forth Bridge Railway; Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., 386
  • Forth Bridge, The, and Steel Shipbuilding, 248, 264, 265
  • Forth Bridge Works, The, 249
  • Foundry and Machine Works, Wellington, 147
  • Four-Masted Ship, The First American, 236
  • Fowler and Co.’s Coupled Traction Engine, 80
  • Fowler and Co.’s Engines, 51
  • Fowler’s Tip Wagon, 361
  • France, The Telephone in, 547
  • French Metallurgical Industry, 524
  • Frodingham, The Iron Industry of, 146,177
  • Fuel, Peat, 501
  • Fuel, Petroleum as, 572
  • Fuel Problem, A Professional Inventor and the, 430
  • Furnace for Dust Fuel, Perret’s, 401
  • Furnace, An Electrical, 371, 620
  • Furnace, A New Cupola, 236, 278
  • Furnace, The Stetefeldt, 293
  • Furnaces, Heating by Radiation, The Siemens System of, 594
  • Furnaces at the Inventions Exhibition, 284
  • Furness and Co.’s Tenoning Machine, 289
  • Fuzes, Wire, Safety, 183
  • Gardner Machine Gun, The Improved, 152
  • Garrett and Sons’ Spark Catcher, 562, 573
  • Gas Cavities in Rolled Iron, 334
  • Gas Commission, The Natural, 357
  • Gas Engine, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
  • Gas Engine, Crossley and Co.’s Vertical Otto, 80
  • Gas Engines at the Preston Show, 54
  • Gas and other Illuminants at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
  • Gas Kiln, Dunnachie’s Continuous Regenerative 367 ’
  • Gas, Natural, 17, 36, 55
  • Gas, Water, 426
  • Gasolene Vapour for Forges, 525
  • Gauge Dimensions, Standards of Lengths Annlied to, 579, 624 F
  • Gauges, Bourdon, 17
  • Gear, Davey’s Differential, 225
  • Gearing, The Transmission of Power by, 605
  • Gelatine, Explosive, 184
  • Gibbon Rail Joint, The, 342
  • Gland Packing, The Jerome, 160
  • Glass, Perforating, by Electricity, 40
  • Glengarnock Steel Works, The, 175
  • Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, The, 167
  • Glover’s Screen, 511
  • Gold Extraction Process, The Cassel, 38
  • Gold Mines, The Montague, 394
  • Gold Mines, The Nova Scotia, 370
  • Gold, Volatilisation of, 457
  • Gorman, Mr. William, Glasgow, 548
  • Gourbet’s Submarine Torpedo Boat, 501
  • Governor, McFarlane’s, 514
  • Governor, Marine Engine, Almqvist’s, 366
  • Gower, Mr., 236
  • Grain Conveyors, Belts as, 42
  • Grain Elevators on the Black Sea, 162
  • Graving Dock, Aberdeen, Centrifugal Pumns for, 105 . p
  • Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster. The 123 * ’
  • Greely, Major, on the Polar Sea, 620
  • Greenock Electric Light Installation, The, 491
  • Greenwood and Batley’s Double-Headed Twist-Drill Cutting Machine, 590
  • Greenwood and Batley’s Milling Machinery, 221
  • Grimsby Dock, The, 150
  • Grinding Machine Twist Drill, Sterne and Company’s, 319
  • Guano and Oil, Menhaden, 3
  • Gulland’s Diamond Rock Drill, 510
  • Gun, Machine, The Improved Gardner, 152
  • Gunboat Flotilla for the Amoor, Russian, 547
  • Gunboat, The “Irrawaddy,” 551
  • Gunboat, A New Russian, 356
  • Gunboats, Torpedo, The Proposed New, 429
  • Guns and the Electric Light, 89
  • GWynnes’ 30-in. Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 124, 215
  • Hall’s Automatic Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, 487
  • Hall’s Train Communicator, 486
  • Hallside Works, The, 295
  • Harbour Works, Newhaven, 1
  • Harvey Rolled Screw, The, 185
  • Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s Domestic Motor, 54
  • Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s Well Pumps, 54
  • Heat, Solar, 531
  • Heating Furnaces by Radiation, The Siemens System of, 594
  • Heavy Forgings, The Manipulation of, 504, 515
  • Hedges’ Fusible Cut-out, 196
  • Hedges’, Magnetic Cut-out, 196
  • Hedges’ Speed Indicator, 195
  • Heliostatic Anemometer, Leupold’s, 623
  • Hell Gate, The Explosion at, 413
  • Hell Gate, Improvements to, 381
  • Heppel and Cranston’s Coal-Cutting Machine, 417’
  • H.M. Twin-Screw Torpedo Cruiser “ Scout,” 111
  • H.M.S. “Hero,” 429
  • H.M.S. “ Irrawaddy,” 551
  • H.M.S. “Surprise” and “Alacrity,” Engines and Boilers of, 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
  • Herat, The Railway Race to, 258
  • Hick, Hargreaves and Co.’s Horizontal Engine, 250
  • Higginson’s Portable Hydraulic Rivetter, 250
  • High Altitudes, Towns at, 546
  • High-Level Thames Tunnel, A, 154
  • High-Speed Engine, The Fielding, 104
  • High-Speed Engine, Welford’s, 385
  • High-Speed Motors, 512
  • Hill’s Fastening for Railway Carriage Windows, 160
  • Hoisting and Traversing Crane, The Thwaite-Neville, 610
  • Holborow and Co.’s Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, 142
  • Holden and Brooke’s Boiler Drilling Machine, 320
  • Holman’s Rock Drill, 418
  • Horizontal Blowing Engines at the Rimamurany-Salgo-Torjaner Iron Works, 419, 466
  • Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, Holborow and Co.’s, 142
  • Horizontal Engine with Girder Frame, Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, 55
  • Horizontal Engine, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 250
  • Horizontal Engine, Robey and Co.’s, 263
  • Horizontal Tandem Engines at the London Portland Cement Co.’s Works, Northfleet, 514
  • Hose Coupling, Beck and Co.’s, 398
  • Houses, Insanitary, 65
  • Howard’s Silo with Hydraulic Seal, 77
  • Howard’s Tramway Sleepers, 77
  • Huddersfield Station Roof, The, 385
  • Hudson’s Bay Trade Route, The Proposed, 457
  • Hull Alexandra Dock, 89
  • Hull and Barnsley Railway, Works on the, 258
  • Hunter and English’s Steam Dredger “ Tilbury,” 566
  • Hurdy-Gurdy Water-Wheel, Pelton’s, 433
  • Hydraulic Canal Lift, The Fontinettes, 29
  • Hydraulic Canal Lift, La Louviandre, 103
  • Hydraulic Hoist, Smith and Stevens’s, 366
  • Hydraulic Pressure, Making Lead Sheets by, 136
  • Hydraulic Propulsion, 26, 584
  • Hydraulic Rivetter, Higginson’s Portable, 250
  • Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery, Smith and Co.’s, 321
  • Hydraulic and Steam Reversing Engine, Allen and Co.’s, 9
  • Hydrogen in Zinc Dust, 500
  • Hygrometers, New, 17
  • Iceberg Detection, 110
  • Icebergs, Alarm for, 89
  • Illuminants, Gas and other, at the Inventions Exhibition, 109, 133, 196
  • Illuminants, Lighthouse, 212, 476
  • Implements at the Preston Show, 72
  • Impounding the Nile Floods, 241
  • Improvements to Hell Gate, 381
  • Inaccuracies of Chilled Car Wheels, The, 572
  • Incandescence Electric Lamps for City Lighting, 232
  • Incandescence Lamps, The Life of, 392, 439
  • Incandescent Carbons, Radiation from, 18
  • Incandescent Lamp Fittings, Weston, 174
  • Increase in the Danger from Lightning, The, 378
  • India, Railways in, 615
  • Indicator, Clark and Low’s, 41
  • Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
  • Indicator, Rogers’s Station, 160
  • Indicator, Telegraph, Lieutenant Lloyd’s, 324
  • Indicator, Train Pipe, Kapteyn’s, 348
  • Industrial Growth at Warsaw, 457
  • Influence of Oil on Synchronism, 40
  • Insanitary Houses, 65
  • Installation, The Greenock Electric Light, 49
  • Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The
  • North-East Coast, 434
  • Insulating Stem, A New, 333
  • Insurance, Boiler, 426, 497
  • Integraph, A New, 333
  • Interlocking Gear for Church Bells, Hall’s Automatic, 487
  • Interlocking and Signalling Apparatus for Rifle Ranges, 623
  • Inventions Exhibition, The :
  • Boilers, Steam, 474
  • Candle-Making Machinery, Price’s, 3
  • Civil Engineering, 1, 29, 103
  • Electricity, 39, 64, 88, 195
  • Engine, Gas, Atkinson’s Differential, 187
  • ’lNVBSii^^“’oJtal?with con^ Expan-Engine, Hr01J/°JborJ>w and Co.’s, 142
  • Eng^e Horizontal, Hiek, Hargreaves, and
  • Co.’s, 250 , ■Rohey and Co.’s, 263
  • Wi“’S'iSrf'n“»mo*ws
  • Furnaces, 284 IUuminant3> 109, 133, 193
  • Hm-vey ^^^Kwing, 104 Londm^and ^North-Western Railway S.gnals,
  • Machine Tools, 221, 319 Mi-eC^SW^355’ 365’485
  • Permanent Way, 341, 3/9
  • Physical Science, 398, 5-1,wi
  • Pumping Machinery, 208, 39o
  • w.S cw»y. » ®. ®
  • Washing Machinery, 30/
  • Iron and Coal at Antwerp 167
  • Iron Conference in Russia, __
  • Iron Industry of Frodingham, The, 146,17 7
  • Iron Lighthouses, 258
  • Iron and Steel Institute, The . -34, -40
  • E CWdebank^hip^ard and Engineering Works, 269
  • Dalzell Steel and Iron Works, The, 455
  • Fairfield Works, Govan, The, 244
  • Forth Bridge Works, The, 249
  • Glengarnock Steel Works, The, 1/5
  • Union Iron Works, Johnstone, Shanks, and
  • Works’oT the Steel Company of Scotland, The:
  • Blochairn Steel Works, The, 297
  • Hallside Works, The, 295 .
  • On the Forth Bridge, by Mr. Benjamin Baker, 248,265 , , . t t
  • On the Iron Trade of Scotland, by Mr. F. J. Rowan, 234, 337, 362
  • On Natural Gas Fuel and its Application to Manufacturing Purposes, by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 36, 55
  • On a New Form of Cupola Furnace, by Mr. James Riley, 236, 278
  • On the Present Position and Prospects of Processes for the Recovery of Tar and Ammonia from Blast Furnaces, by Mr. William Jones, 235 387 409 459
  • On the Rise and Progress of the Scotch Steel Trade, by Mr. James Riley, 228, 234
  • On Shipbuilding, by Mr. J. H. Biles, 248, 264
  • On the Value of Silicon Pig to the Ironfounder, by Mr. Charles Wood, 246, 263
  • Iron and Steel Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
  • Iron Trade Arbitrations, 306
  • Iron Trade, The Cleveland, 616
  • Iron Trade of Scotland, The, 234, 337, 362
  • Iron Trade, Sliding Scales in the, 132
  • Iron Works, The Britannia, Gainsborough, 117
  • Iron Works, The Globe, Lincoln, 167
  • Iron Works, The Sheaf, 95
  • Iron Works, The Spittlegate, 71
  • Iron Works, The Trent, Newark, 148
  • Iron Works, The Union, Johnstone, 319
  • Ironfounder, The Value of Silicon Pig to the, 246, 263
  • “Irrawaddy,” H.M.S., 551
  • Isle of Wight Steam Ferry, The, 124
  • Jail, A Revolving, 619
  • Jerome Gland Packing, The, 160
  • Joining the Volga and Don, 334
  • Joints, Rivetted, 19, 43
  • John’s Automatic Sprinkler, 572
  • Jury Awards, 353
  • Kapp’s Dynamo and Engine, 195
  • Kapteyn’s Train Pipe Indicator, 348
  • Kell, Meats, and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
  • Kilbowie, The Singer Manufacturing Company’s Works at, 210, 224
  • Knapp and Co.’s Whippietrees, 77
  • La Guaira and Caracas Railway, The, 299,344,372
  • Laboratory, A National Electrical, 545
  • Lamp Fittings, Incandescence, Weston, 174
  • Lamp, Hand, Merryweather’s Electric, 250
  • Lamps, Electric, The Macquaire-Street, 619
  • Lamps, Incandescence Electric, for City Lighting, 232
  • Lamps, Incandescence, The Life of, 392,439
  • Launch, The Electric, “ Volta,” 230
  • i^nCnes and Trial Trips. 20, 68, 81, 112, 129, la?’ 288> 33G> 350, 383, 432, 446, 470, obo, 625
  • T Ann phe Pa*ent> 37. 61,131, 425, 473
  • T pna’«uCafed>Electric Conductors, 573
  • 1 cart CT Ma!cing> by Hydraulic Pressure, 136
  • Lead SWh’?ng7 A.Ncw Process of, 107
  • t r ^bite, Again, 458
  • t £011er ExPlosion, The, 332
  • Leeds Forge Co, The, 8
  • Mceste'r n<J?rivate Bi», 158, 569, 603
  • t o 15? ’ Sewa£e at, 259
  • Uven ShU eUrt8lSJ.ic Anemometer, 623
  • Leven Shipyard, The, 219
  • LReofaTnndoMTey’s Automatic Safety Gear, 441
  • Life ofa 8hnneSCe«rCe Lamps, The, 392, 439
  • Lift CannS1h^°WvVater Cablc> The. 354
  • Lift Cana ’ Ther lontmettes Hydraulic 29
  • Light fu1 \La bouvitre, Hydraulic, 103
  • Light -Hie Fl10’?-the Britannia Works, 185
  • Light Th! Feet^C> and Guns- 89
  • Light Th! F !2jr-IC’ aJ Lincoln’s Inn, 499
  • Light Flp„?-eCtnc’ at Lloyd’s, 500
  • Light, Electric, on Locomotives, 356
  • Light, Electric, at the Paris Opera, The, 522, 545
  • Light, The Electric, at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, 333
  • Light, The Electric, in Theatres, 404, 453
  • Light Installation, The Greenock Electric, 49
  • Light Standard, Edison’s Electric, 619
  • Light, White, Standards of, 578
  • Lighthouse Illuminants, 212,476
  • Lighthouses, Iron, 258
  • Lighting, Domestic Electric, 135, 189, 545
  • Lighting, Electric, at Boston, U.S., 183
  • Lighting, Electric, in Edinburgh, Proposed, 40
  • Lighting, The Electric, of Mills, 6, 523
  • Lighting, Electric, The Weston Systems of, in the United States, 86
  • Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
  • Lightning Conductors on Washington Monument, 212
  • Lightning, The Increase in the Danger from, 378
  • Lights, Electric, in Ovens, 110
  • Lincoln, The Globe Works, 167
  • Lincoln, The Stamp End Works, 98
  • Lincoln’s Inn, The Electric Light at, 499
  • Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide, The Use of, 524
  • Liquid Films, 41
  • Liverpool Water Works, 285
  • Lloyd’s, The Electric Light at, 500
  • Lloyd’s Telegraph Indicator, 324
  • Loans for Public Works in New South Wales, 89
  • Lock Nut, Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss’s, 433
  • Locomotive, American Inventions upon the, 308
  • Locomotive Cars for the Transcaspian Railway, 500
  • Locomotive Compound (Webb’s System) for the Paulista Railway, Brazil, 614
  • Locomotive Economy, 377
  • Locomotive for the Paulista Railway, San Paulo, Brazil, 34
  • Locomotive Performances, 282
  • Locomotive, Steam Tramway, Merry weather and Sons’, 227
  • Locomotive, Tank ; La Guaira and Caracas Railway, 299, 372
  • Locomotives, Compound, 329
  • Locomotives, Electric Light on, 356
  • Log Mines in the United States, 183
  • London and North-Western Railway Signals, The, 468
  • London Portland Cement Company’s Works, Northfleet, 514
  • Longitudes of Paris and Milan, The, 596
  • Louvifcre Hydraulic Canal Lift, La, 103
  • Low Countries, Tramways in the, 212
  • Lucas’s Temporary Rudder, 324
  • Lucknow, The Great Clock at, 199
  • Macfarlane, Mr. Walter, 431
  • McFarlane’s Governor, 514
  • M‘Kaig and Stitt’s Marine Boiler with Cylindrical Combustion Chambers, 475
  • Machine, Boiler Shell Drilling, Booth’s, 419
  • Machine, Coal-Cutting, Heppel and Cranston’s, 417
  • Machine, Colour-Grinding, Brinjes and Goodwin’s, 365
  • Machine, Combined Planing and Slotting, 227
  • Machine Gun, The Improved Gardner, 152
  • Machine, Planing, Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s, 224
  • Machine, Plate-Flattening, Rushworth and Co’s 9
  • Machine, Plate-Straightening, Britton’s, 321 ,
  • Machine, Plate-Straightening, Scriven and Co. s, 621
  • Machine, Radial Drilling, Asquith’s, 250 '
  • Machine, Saw-Sharpening, Sterne and Co. s, 319
  • Machine, Taylor’s Road-Sweeping 337
  • Machine, Tenoning, Furness and Co. s, 289
  • Machine Tools, 583
  • Machine Tools at the Inventions Exhibition, 221, 319
  • Machine, Twist Drill Cutting, Double-Headed, 590
  • Machine Works, Wellington Foundry and, 147
  • Machinery, Candle-Making, Price’s, 3
  • Machinery, Cask-Making, Ransome and Co. s, 1 150 . •
  • Machinery, Pumping, at the Inventions Exhibition, 208, 395 .
  • Machinery, Washing, at the Inventions Exhibi
  • Machinery, Worssam’s Wood-Working, 418,
  • Machines, Dynamo-Electric, 512
  • Machines, Topography of, 22
  • Macquaire-Street Electric Lamps, The, 619
  • Magnesium, The Manufacture of, 522
  • Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456
  • Mains, Electric, The Size of, 14
  • Man-of-War and her Captain, A, 157
  • Manipulation of Heavy Forgings, The, 504, 51a
  • Manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil, The, 39
  • Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522
  • Marine Engine Governor, Almqvist s, 36b
  • Marshal^ J- T. and Co.’s Chimney Lifter, 562
  • Marshall, Sons, and Co.’s Chimney Raiser, 54
  • Maynard’s Automatic Fall for Chaffcutters, /6
  • Maynard and Cooke’s Method of Constructing River Tunnels, 154
  • Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
  • Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of : 456, 555, 586
  • Boston Sewage Works, The, 555
  • On the Basic Bessemer Process, by Professor Egleston, 605
  • On the Crystallisation of Wrought Iron, by Mr. Win. Hill, 605 ..
  • On Improvements in Ferry Boats, by Mr. wu liam Cowles, 587 v
  • On the Meigs Elevated Railway System, by mt. Francis E. Galloupe, 587 , __ aa
  • On the Rating of Steam Boilers by Horee-Power for Commercial Use, by 1 rofessors Trowbridge and Richards, 586
  • On Standard Pipe and Pipe Threads, by mi. George M. Bond, 605 . .
  • On the Transmission of Power by Gearing, uj Mr. Wilfred Lewis, 605
  • On Twist Drills, by W. H. Thome, 587
  • Other Papers, 608 .
  • Mechanical Engineers, The Institution ot .
  • Address of the President, 134,140,191, 204
  • Description of Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, A, by M. Louis Pollion, 147
  • Gainsborough and Doncaster, 150
  • Grantham and Newark, 148
  • Grimsby and Frodingham, 150
  • Trent Iron Works, Newark, The, 148
  • On Dunbar and Ruston’s Steam Navvy, by Mr. Joseph Ruston, 135,178, 202
  • On the Iron Industry of Frodingham, by Mr. George Dove, 146, 177
  • On Private Installations of Electric Lighting, by Mr. Ralph H. C. Nevile, 135,189
  • On Recent Applications of the Robey Semi-Portable Engine, by Mr. John Richardson, 135 481
  • Research Committee on Rivetted Joints, Abstract of Results of Experiments on Rivetted Joints, with their Applications fo Practical Work, by Professor Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 19, 43
  • Visits to Works :
  • Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, The, 117
  • Clarke’s Crank and Forge Works, 147
  • Globe Iron Works, Lincoln, The, 167
  • Great Northern Railway Works, Doncaster, The, 123
  • Sheaf Iron Works, 95,135
  • Spittlegate Iron Works, The, 71
  • Stamp End Works, Lincoln, The, 98,135
  • Wellington Foundry and Machine Works, 147
  • Mechanical Telephone, The, 89
  • Mechanical Telephone, A New 111
  • Mechanism, Sphere and Roller, 509
  • Meeting of the British Association, “ Section A” at the Forthcoming, 40
  • Meigs Elevated Railway, The, a87
  • Memorial, The Siemens, 543
  • Memorial, The Trevithick, 456
  • Menhaden Oil and Guano, 3 .
  • Merchant Steamers as Admiralty Cruisers, 187
  • Mercurial Ammeter, A, 258 #
  • Merryweather and Sons’ Light Steam Fire En-
  • Merry weather and Sons’ Steam Tramway Locomotive, 227 . . TT J T AEA
  • Merry weather’s Electric Hand Lamp, -oO
  • Messenger’s Valve, 43
  • Metallurgical Industry , French, 524
  • Metallurgy, Position of America in, 357
  • Metals, The Endurance of, 429
  • Metals, The Fatigue of, 31
  • “ Meteor ” s.s., Engines and Boilers of the, 171
  • Meteorological Instruments, Draper’s Self-Re-
  • Meteorological Society, The Royal, 512, 590
  • Meter System, Deacon s Waste-Water, 490, 533
  • Methods in Craniology, New, 211
  • Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 259, 354, 458, 546
  • Michaelovsk Controversy, The, 381
  • Microbes from Water, Removing, 111
  • Microtome, Caldwell’s Automatic, 398
  • Midland and North-Eastern Railways Rollin0 Stock, The, 25 .
  • Military Operations, The Electric Light in, 161
  • Mill, Blooming, for Bilbao, 55
  • Mill, Flour, at Burscough, 227, 277
  • Milling Exhibition, The Paris, 2
  • Milling Machinery, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley’s, 221
  • Millionaires, American, 570
  • Mills, Cotton, American, 183
  • Mills, Electric Illumination in, 6, 523
  • Mineral Oil Industry, The Scottish, 406
  • Mineral Wealth of China, The, 307
  • Minerals in Central Asia, 285
  • Mines, The Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion, oVo
  • Mines, Log, in the United States, 183
  • Mining Conference at Warsaw, 524
  • Mining Engineers, The American Institute of : 367, 394, 427
  • Address of the President, 395
  • Drummond, Arcadia, and Albion Mines, lhe, 395
  • Montague Gold Mines, The, 394
  • On an Electrical Furnace for Reducing Refractory Ores, by Dr. Sterry Hunt, 371
  • On the Nova Scotia Gold Mines, by Mr. Edward Gilpin, 370 ,
  • On the Picton Coalfields, by Henry S. Poole, 394 r. , »
  • On the Present Value of Steel Castings, by A. V. Abbott, 394 B .
  • Studies of the Apatite Deposits of Canada, oj Dr. Sterry Hunt, 371
  • Mining Exhibition at Glasgow, 237
  • Mining Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 416, 443, 510 . _ , „ t -
  • Minton’s Apparatus for Removing Flint 1 ow aei from Biscuit Ware, 160 n ..
  • Minton’s Compressed Air Machinery for Uastmo Pottery, 159 .
  • Mirrors, Spherical, for Solar Signalling, 596
  • Miscellanea, 9, 33, 66, 90,112, 138, 163, l«o, 229, 260, 288, 312, 336, 351, 375, 400, 431, 44», 467, 503, 517, 540, 563, 596, 622 1?vbiW.
  • Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Inventions Bx tion, 159, 365, 485
  • Models, Crampton’s, at the Inventions dx tion, 170
  • Montague Gold Mines, The, 394
  • Mouthpiece to Telephones, 110 w ,
  • Morison and Armstrong’s Pumps for Dip w o ings, 468
  • Mortars, 212 .
  • Morton’s Ejector Condenser, Engine with, m /
  • Motor, The Davey Domestic, Hathorn, Dav y» and Co., 54
  • Motors, High-Speed, 512
  • Mount Kearsarge Railroad, 111
  • Muirhead, Mr. John, 322
  • Murray’s Drain Cleaning Rods, 76
  • Nalder and Nalder’s Corn Sizer, 72
  • Napiers’ Shipyard and Engine Works, 2/1
  • National Electrical Laboratory, A, 545 Natural Gas, 36, 55
  • Natural Gas in America, 17
  • Natural Gas Commission, The, 357
  • Naval Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition, 63, 257
  • Naval Progress, Russian, 41
  • Navigable Balloons, 547
  • Navigation of the Oxus, The, 572
  • Navvy, Steam, Dunbar and Ruston’s, 135,178, 202
  • Navy, Engineers in the, 458
  • Navy Estimates, Russian, for 1886, 308
  • New South Wales, The Coalfields of, 547
  • New York, New Water Supply for, 184
  • New York, Notes from, 308
  • New Zealand Railways, 137
  • Newhaven Harbour Works, 1
  • Niagara Park, The, 500
  • Niagara, The Recession of, 212
  • Nicholson and Son’s Pulveriser, 74
  • Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
  • Nile Floods, Impounding the, 241
  • Nile Steamer “ Ernest,” Thornycroft and Co.’s, 541
  • Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
  • Nordenfelt Submarine Boat, The, 334, 371
  • North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 434
  • North-Eastern and Midland Railways, The, 25
  • Northwich Water Works, Compound Pumping Engine for the, 304
  • Notes :
  • Admiralty Finance, 596
  • Admiralty Reform, 137
  • Alarm for Icebergs, 89
  • Alloys of Copper and Cobalt, 237
  • America, Position of, in Metallurgy, 357
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, 137
  • American Inventions upon the Locomotive, 308
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 456
  • Ammonia Soda Process, The, 574
  • Anemometer, A New, 136
  • Antwerp Exhibition, The, 41
  • Application of Electricity, A New, 65
  • Armour-Plate Manufactory, New Russian, 620
  • Artificial Oligist, 596
  • Atlantic Cable War, The, 110
  • Austrian Coal Mining, 307
  • Automatic Brakes, 548
  • Automatic Fire Extinguishers, 475
  • Balata, 161
  • Balloon Photography, 136
  • Belts us Grain Conveyers, 42
  • Ben Nevis Observatory, 66
  • Ben Nevis Observatory, Experiments at, 620
  • Berlin Telegraphic Congress, The, 162
  • Bessbrook Electrical Tramway, The, 285
  • Bichromate and Nitric Acid Cells, 547
  • Borax Supply in the United States, The, 183
  • Bourdon Gauges, 17
  • Bower-Barff Process for Protecting Iron, The, 41, 524
  • Breakage of Axles on German Railways, 285
  • Bridge Across the Yarra, New, 184
  • British Association, The, 162
  • British Territory, Newly Discovered, 307
  • Business of the Suez Canal, 405
  • Cable to Bermuda, A, 547
  • Cantilever Bridge, A New Type of, 405
  • Carbon Filaments, New, 596
  • Centenary Of the Dartford Iron Works, The, 65
  • Chatham and Devonport Roperies, The, 501
  • Cheap Sodium, 524
  • Clark and Low’s Indicator, 41
  • Classes for the Study of Electricity, 357
  • Coalfields of New South Wales, The, 547
  • Comet, The New, 572
  • Company, The John Cockerill, 382
  • Compass Disturbance, 333
  • Conveyance of Petroleum, The, 334
  • Copper in Damaraland, 258
  • Copper Telegraph Wires, 429
  • Cowles Electric Smelting Process, The, 431
  • Craniology, New Methods in, 211
  • Curious Effect of a Thunder, "orm, 380
  • Current of Telephone Transmitters, The, 517
  • Daily Variations of the Magnet Elements, 500
  • Danger in the Distribution of Electricity, A, 356
  • Decay of Iron Bridges, 380
  • Deepest Bore-Hole in the World, The, 17
  • Diamond Fields, The, 333
  • Difficulties in the Observation of Atmospheric
  • Temperature and Humidity, 162
  • Disputes of Colonial Engineers, The, 430
  • Drainage at Beverley, 211
  • Drainage of Victoria, British Columbia, The, 161
  • Draining the Pinsk Marshes, 457
  • Dynamite for Breaking Castings, 183
  • Early History of the Sewing Machine, 381
  • Earthquake Observations on Ben Nevis, Proposed, 184
  • Electric Illumination in Mills, 523
  • Electric Light in Military Operations, The, 161
  • Electric Light and Guns, The, 89
  • Electric Light at Lloyd’s, The, 500
  • Electric Light on Locomotives, 356
  • Electric Light at the Thalia Theatre in Chemnitz, 333
  • Electric Lighting at Boston, U.S., 183
  • Electric Lighting in Edinburgh, Proposed, 40
  • Electric Lights in Ovens, 110
  • Electric Resistance of Platinoid, The, 17
  • Electrical Exhibition, Another, 65
  • Electrical Furnace, An, 620
  • Electrical Weathercock, An, 136
  • Electricity, Action of, on “ Dust,” 184
  • Electricity at the Explosion of Flood Rock,
  • New York Harbour, 523
  • Electricity and Ventilation, 183
  • Electro-Dynamic Telephones, 17
  • Electro-Mechanical Clock, An, 500
  • Embanking the River Volga, 381
  • Endurance of Metals, The, 429
  • Engineers in the Navy, 458
  • European Railway Progress, 619
  • Evolutionary Squadron, The, 18
  • Notes—continued.
  • Examination of Cast Steel. 17
  • Excelsior,” 162
  • Explosive Gelatine, 184
  • Failure of the Shipping Bounties System in France, 65
  • Foreign-Built Torpedo Boats, 381
  • Forth Bridge, The, 430
  • Four-Masted Ship, The First American, 236
  • Gas Cavities in Rolled Iron, 331
  • Gasolene Vapour for Forges, 525
  • Glass, Perforating, by Electricity, 40
  • Gower, Mr., 236
  • Grain Elevators on the Black Sea, 162
  • Greely, Major, on the Polar Sea, 620
  • Gunboat Flotilla for the Amoor, Russian, 547
  • Gunboat, A New Russian, 356
  • Harvey Rolled Screw, The, 185
  • H.M.S. “Hero,” 429
  • Hudson’s Bay Trade Route, The Proposed, 457
  • Hull, Alexander Dock, 89
  • Hydrogen in Zinc Dust, 500
  • Hygrometers, New, 17
  • Iceberg Detection, 110
  • Improvements to Hell Gate, 381
  • Inaccuracies of Chilled Car Wheels, The, 572
  • Indicator for Electric Lighting, A Potential, 619
  • Industrial Growth of Warsaw, 457
  • Influence of Oil on Synchronism, 40
  • Insanitary Houses, 65
  • Insulating Stem, A New, 333
  • Integraph, A New, 333
  • Inventor of the Weigh Bridge, The, 429
  • Iron Conference in Russia, 285
  • Iron Lighthouses, 258
  • Iron and Steel Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
  • Jail, A Revolving, 619
  • Joining the Volga and Don, 334
  • John’s Automatic Sprinkler, 572
  • Lamps, Electric, The Macquaire-Street, 619
  • Lead-Encased Electric Conductors, 573
  • Lead Sheets, Making, by Hydraulic Pressure, 136
  • Light Standard, Edison’s Electric, 619
  • Lighthouse Illuminants, 212, 476
  • Lighting of the Suez Canal, The, 523
  • Lightning Conductors on Washington Monument, 212
  • Liquid Films, 41
  • Liverpool Water Works, 285
  • Loans for Public Works in New South Wales, 89
  • Locomotive Cars for the Transcaspian Railway, 500
  • Log Mines in the United States, 183
  • Longitudes of Paris and Milan, The, 596
  • Magnetic Survey of Scotland, 456
  • Manufacture of Magnesium, The, 522
  • Manufacture of Submarine Cables in France, The, 546
  • Measuring Undulatory Currents, 17
  • Mechanical Telephone, The, 89, 111
  • Mercurial Ammeter, A ,258
  • Metallurgical Industry, French, 524
  • Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 259
  • Michaelovsk Controversy, The, 381
  • Mineral Wealth of China, The, 307
  • Minerals in Central Asia, 285
  • Mining Conference at Warsaw, 524
  • Mining Exhibition at Glasgow, 237
  • Mortars, 212
  • Mount Kearsarge Railroad, 111
  • Mouthpiece to Telephones, 110
  • Natural Gas in America, 17
  • Natural Gas Commission, The, 357
  • Navigable Balloons, 547
  • Navigation of the Oxus, The, 572
  • New Zealand Railways, 137
  • Niagara Park, The, 500
  • Nicolaeff Dockyard, The Lease of, to Cockerill and Co., 621
  • Nitrous Soil in Tropical Regions, 258
  • Nuremberg Exhibition, 89
  • Obituary of a Howell Torpedo, The, 258
  • Operatic Telephony, 572
  • Overland Telegraph to India, The, 380
  • Paper Chimney, A, 356
  • Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 66
  • Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 65
  • Paris Metropolitan Railway and the 1889 Exhibition, The, 42
  • Peat Fuel, 501
  • Petroleum as Fuel, 572
  • Petroleum Steamers for the Black Sea, 308
  • Pipe Line for Central Asia, A, 284
  • Platinum Wire, Drawing, 40
  • Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 620
  • Port at Sebastopol, The New, 547
  • Poutiloff Canal, The, 42
  • Power Required on Elevated Railroads, 138
  • Prediction of Tornadoes, 523
  • Professional Inventor and the Fuel Problem A, 430
  • Propulsion of Vessels, A New Method of, 500
  • Protection to the Obelisk at New York, 547
  • Protractor, A New, 163
  • Purification of Copper, 40
  • Purification of the Thames, The, 111
  • Radiation from Incandescent Carbons, 18
  • Railway Accidents in Russia, 475
  • Railway Race to Herat, The, 258
  • Recession of Niagara, The, 212
  • Recovery of Tin from Tin Scrap by Electrolysis,
  • Reduction of Ore by Electrolysis, 333
  • Remarkable Solar Protuberance, A, 258
  • Removing Microbes from Water, 111
  • Rifle, The New Army Service, 405
  • Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 66
  • Russian Armaments, 162
  • Russian Duty on Steamers, Proposed, 357
  • Russian Naval Progress, 41
  • Russian Navy Estimates for 1886, 308
  • Russian Trade, 572
  • Sand Bags for Engineering Purposes, 333
  • Saponification by Electricity, 405
  • Scottish Mineral Oil Industry, The, 4C6
  • Sea Temperatures, 524
  • “ Section A” at the Forthcoming Meeting of the British Association, 40
  • Sewage at Leicester, 259
  • Signalling in War, 89
  • Silicon in Cast Iron, 40
  • Siphon Recorder, The, 212
  • Slag as the Basis of Cement, 524
  • Soaking Pits with Fires, 285
  • Solar Heat Recorder, A New, 259
  • South African Railways, 66
  • South African Telegraphy, 184
  • Spherical Mirrors for Solar Signalling, 596
  • Stealing Electricity, 572
  • Steamboat Subsidies in Russia, 258
  • Steel-Copper Electric Conductors, 522
  • Storms on Subterranean Telegraph Lines, 17
  • Submarine Cable Grappling, 161
  • Submarine Cables, New, 380
  • Subsidence in Euston-road, The, 596
  • Sunlight, Recent Researches on, 17
  • Telegraph Conference, The, 284
  • Telegraph Convention, The, 89
  • Telegraph Line, An Early, 137
  • Telegraph, an Underground One, The First American, 620
  • Telephone in France, The, 547
  • Telephone in Paris, The, 65
  • Teletopometer, The, 284
  • Telpher Railway, An Actual, 406
  • Thermal Telephone, The, 500
  • Tilbury Docks, The, 405
  • Timber Growth on the Pacific Coast of the United States, 161
  • Tornadoes in the United States, 259
  • Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A, 380
  • Torpedo Boat, A Russian, 500
  • Torpedo Boats, The New, 212
  • Torpedo Gunboats, The Proposed New, 429
  • Torpedo Scandal, A Russian, 475
  • Tower Bridge, The, 405
  • Towns at High Altitudes, 546
  • Tramways in the Low Countries, 212
  • Transmission of Signals by the Telephone, Automatic, 574
  • Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, The, 525
  • Treatment of Old Zinc, 405
  • Trevithick Memorial, The, 456
  • Tyndall Scholarships in America, 110
  • Unmagnetisable Steel, 380
  • Use of Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide The, 524
  • Use of Rice in Brewing, The, 137
  • Uses of Electricity in Coal Mining, The, 258
  • Utilisation of Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, 457
  • Volatilisation of Gold, 457
  • Volt, A Standard, 429
  • Water Famine in Liverpool, The, 619
  • Water Supply for New York, New, 184
  • Water Supply, Pure, 17
  • Water Wells at Samara, 162
  • White Lead Again, 458
  • Wind Producer, A, 308
  • Wind Velocity of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
  • Wire Belts for Stone Cutting, 546
  • Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
  • Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
  • Work Exhibition in Paris, 40
  • Works on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 258
  • Notes from Cleveland, 11, 33, 59, 92, 106, 128, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 471, 503, 516, 552, 567, 592, 609
  • Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 45, 90, 142, 192, 216, 432, 446, 471, 550, 578, 609
  • Notes from New York, 308
  • Notes from the North, 10, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 154, 179, 201, 238, 262, 279, 303, 334, 374, 401, 423, 448, 471, 495, 516, 552, 566, 592, 626
  • Notes from the South-West, 11, 32, 58, 91, 105, 128, 155, 178, 201, 238, 262, 278, 303, 335, 350, 383, 402, 436, 447, 470, 502, 517, 551, 579, 600, 626
  • Notes from South Yorkshire, 11, 32, 59, 92, 106, 129, 155, 179, 201, 238, 261, 279, 312, 335, 350, 374, 402, 423, 448, 470, 502, 516, 552, 567, 592
  • Notes from the United States, 19, 35, 80, 125, 151, 187, 213, 260, 287, 309, 322, 361, 372, 409, 419, 444, 469, 501, 515, 541, 577, 609
  • Nova Scotia Gold Mines, The, 370
  • Nuremberg Exhibition, 89
  • Nut, Lock, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, 433
  • Obelisk at New York, Protection to the, 547
  • Obituary: (Moved to separate index)
  • Obituary of a Howell Torpedo, The, 258
  • Observatory, Ben Nevis, 66
  • Observatory, The Ben Nevis, Experiments at, 620
  • Oil, Cotton Seed, The Manufacture of, 39
  • Oil and Guano, Menhaden, 3
  • Oil, Influence of, on Synchronism, 40
  • Oligist, Artificial, 596
  • Opera, the Paris, The Electric Light at, 522, 545
  • Operatic Telephony, 572
  • Operations, Military, The Electric Light in, 161
  • Ore, Rolls for Crushing, 463, 487
  • Ore Separator, Scott’s, 160
  • Ores, Reduction of, by Electrosis, 333
  • Ormerod, Grierson, and Co.’s Horizontal Tandem Engines at the London Portland Cement Co’s Works, Northfleet, 514
  • Otto v. Steel, 618
  • Ovens, Electric Lights in, 110
  • Overland Telegraph to India, The, 380
  • Oxus, The Navigation of the, 572
  • Pacific Coast of the United States, Timber Growth on the, 161
  • Palermo, Water Works for, 185
  • Paper Chimney, A, 356
  • Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 66
  • Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 65
  • Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, and the 1889 Exhibition, 42
  • Paris and Milan, The Longitudes of, 596
  • Paris Milling Exhibition, The, 2
  • Paris Opera, The Electric Light at the, 522, 545
  • Paris, The Telephone in, 65
  • Paris, Work Exhibition in, 40
  • Park, The Niagara, 500
  • Patent Agents, 593
  • Patent Law, The, 37, 61, 131, 425, 473
  • Patent Record, The, 22, 46, 68, 93, 114, 142, 164, 192, 216, 239, 266, 290, 315, 339, 363, 389, 411, 437, 461, 483, 507, 529, 553, 581, 601, 627
  • Paulista Railway, Brazil, Locomotives for the, 34, 614
  • Peat Breaker, Bracher’s, 73
  • Peat Fuel, 501
  • Pelton’s Hurdy-Gurdy Water-Wheel, 433
  • Peninsular and Oriental Steamer “Coromandel,” The New, 125
  • Penistone Railway Accident, 109 . .
  • Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder Printing Machine, Combined, 588
  • Perforating Glass by Electricity, 40
  • Performances, Locomotive, 282 .
  • Permanent Way at the Inventions Exhibition, 341 379
  • Perret’s Furnace for Dust Fuel, 401
  • Petroleum, The Conveyance of, 334
  • Petroleum, Crude, Transporting, 346
  • Petroleum as Fuel, 572
  • Petroleum Steamers for the Black Sea, 308
  • Petroleum, The Transport of, in Bulk, 525
  • Petroleum, The Transportation of, 108
  • Photography, Balloon, 136
  • Physical Science at the Inventions Exhibition, 398, 521, 594
  • Physical Society, The, 43, 506, 578,625
  • Picton Coalfields, The, 394
  • Pinsk Marshes, Draining the, 457
  • Pipe Joint, Corbett’s, 80
  • Pipe Line for Central Asia, A, 284
  • Pipe and Pipe Threads, Standard, 605
  • Pits, Soaking, with Fires, 285
  • Planing Machine, Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s, 224
  • Planing and Slotting Machine, Combined, 227
  • Plate-Flattening Machine, Rush worth and Co.’s, 9
  • Plate-Straightening Machine, Britton’s, 321
  • Plate-Straightening Machine, Scriven and Co.’s, 621
  • Platinoid, The Electric Resistance of, 17
  • Platinum Wire, Drawing, 40
  • Pneumatic Telegraphs, 482
  • Polar Sea, Major Greely on the, 620
  • Polytechnic Society, The Royal, Cornwall, 66
  • Porrit’s Sack Hoist, 80
  • Port Improvements in the Black Sea, 620
  • Port at Sebastopol, The New, 517
  • Portland Cement, On Testing, 145
  • Position of America in Metallurgy, 357
  • Pbutiloff Canal, The, 42
  • Power Required on Elevated Railroads, 138
  • Power, The Transmission of, by Gearing, 605
  • Poyser’s Railway Chair, 341
  • Prediction of Tornadoes, 523
  • Premiums Awarded ; The Institution of Civil Engineers, 287
  • Preserving Timber, 16
  • President of the American Institution of Mining Engineers, Address of the, 395
  • Prevention of Fire in America, 520
  • Price’s Candle-Making Machinery, 3
  • Printing Machine, Combined Perfecting and Duplex Single-Cylinder, 588
  • Private Bill Legislation, 158, 569, 603
  • Private Installations of Electric Lighting, 135,189 Producer, A Wind, 308
  • Professional Inventor and the Fuel Problem, A, 430
  • Propulsion, Hydraulic, 26, 584
  • Propulsion of Vessels, A New Method of, 500
  • Prospecting Drill, Portable, 443
  • Protecting Iron, The Bower-Barff Process for, 41, 524
  • Protection to the Obelisk at New York, 547
  • Protractor, A New, 163
  • Public Works in New South Wales, Loans for, 89
  • Pulveriser, Nicholson and Son’s, 74
  • Pump, Vacuum, The Weston Mercury, 139
  • Pump, Well-Sinking, Warner and Sons’, 397
  • Pump, The Worthington, 466
  • Pumping Engine, Compound ; Northwich Water Works, 304
  • Pumping Engine, 30-in. Centrifugal, Gwynnes’, 124, 215
  • Pumping Engines at Whitacre; Birmingham Corporation Water Works, 6, 68,151, 249, 298
  • Pumping Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 208, 395
  • Pumps, Centrifugal, for Aberdeen Graving Dock, 105 , .
  • Pumps for Dip Workings, Morison and Arm-strong’s, 468
  • Pumps, Well, Hathorn, Davey, and Co.’s, 54
  • Pure Water Supply, 17
  • Purification of Copper, 40
  • Purification of the Thames, The, 111, 181
  • Pyrometer, The Saintignon, 226
  • Radial Drilling Machine, Asquith’s, 250
  • Radiation from Incandescent Carbons, 18
  • Rag Engine, Umpherston’s, 199
  • Rail Joint, The Gibbon, 342
  • Railroad, Mount Kearsarge, 111
  • Railway Accident, Penistone, 109
  • Railway Accidents in Russia, 475
  • Railway, Canadian Pacific, 520
  • Railway Carriage Windows, Hill’s Fastening for, 160
  • Railway Carriages, Boyle’s System of Ventilating, 313
  • Railway Chair, Poyser’s, 341
  • Railway, Forth Bridge ; Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, R.E., 386
  • Railway, The La Guaira and Caracas, 299, 344, 372
  • Railway, The Meigs Elevated, 587
  • Railway, The Paris Metropolitan, 65
  • Railway, The Paulista, San Paulo, Brazil, Locomotives for, 34, 614
  • Railway Progress, European, 619
  • Railway Race to Herat, The, 258
  • Railway Signals, Davis’s, 536
  • Railway Signals, The London and North-Western, 468
  • Railway Speeds, Amerioan, 386
  • Railway, Telpher, An Actual, 406
  • Railway Works, The Great Northern, Doncaster, 123
  • Railways, The Expenses of English and American, 433
  • Railways in India, 615
  • Railways, The Midland and North-Eastern ; Rolling Stock, 25
  • Railways, New Zealand, 137
  • Railways, South African, 66
  • Railways, United States, for 1884, 208
  • Rainforth and Co.’s Adjustable Corn Screen, 73
  • Rankin, Mr. Daniel, 469
  • Ransome and Co.’s Cask-Making Machinery, 150
  • Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Horizontal Engine with Girder Frame, 55
  • Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Whippietrees, 77
  • Recent Researches on Sunlight, 17
  • Recession of Niagara, The, 212
  • Record, The Patent, 22, 46, 68, 93, 114, 142, 164, 192, 216, 239, 266, 290, 315, 339, 363, 389, 411, 437, 461, 483, 507, 529, 553,581, 601, 627
  • Recorder, A New Solar Heat, 259
  • Recorder, The Siphon, 212
  • Reduction of Ores by Electrosis, 333
  • Refining of Copper, Electrolytic, 13
  • Reform, Admiralty, 137
  • Registers, Time, Watchmen’s, 391
  • Remarkable Solar Protuberance, A, 258
  • Repairing Broken Crankshafts, 385
  • Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and
  • Major Marindin, R.E., on the Forth Bridge Railway, 386
  • Requirements of War Ships, The, 451, 543
  • Revolving Jail, A, 619
  • Rice in Brewing, The Use of, 137
  • Rifle, The New Army Service, 405
  • Rifle Ranges, Signalling and Interlocking Apparatus for, 623
  • Rimamurany-Salgo-Torjaner Iron Works, Blowing Engines at the, 419, 466
  • River Tessin, Bridge over the, 278
  • River Thames, The Purification of the, 111, 181
  • River Tunnels, Maynard and Cooke’s Method of Constructing, 154
  • River Volga, Embanking the, 381
  • Rivetted Joints, 19, 43
  • Rivetter, Portable Hydraulic, Higginson’s, 250
  • RivettingMachinery, Hydraulic, Smith and Co.’s, 321
  • Road-Sweeping Machine, Taylor’s, 337
  • Robey and Co.’s Engines, 135, 205, 263, 481
  • Rock Drill, The Barrow, 443
  • Rock Drill, The Beaumont, 442
  • Rock Drill, Cranston’s, 416
  • Rock Drill, Gulland’s Diamond, 510
  • Rock Drill, Holman’s, 418
  • Rogers’s Station Indicator, 160
  • Rolled Iron, Gas Cavities in, 334
  • Roller and Sphere Mechanism, 509
  • Rolling Stock on the Midland and North-Eastern
  • Railways, 25
  • Rolls for Crushing Ore, 463, 487
  • Roman Cities, The Water Supply of, 231
  • Roof, The Huddersfield Station, 385
  • Roperies, The Chatham and Devon port, 501
  • Rotary Blower, Beck and Co.’s, 398
  • Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, The, 66
  • Royal Meteorological Society, The, 512, 590
  • Rudder, Temporary, Lucas’s, 324
  • Rush worth and Co.’s Plate-Flattening Machine, 9
  • Russell and Co.’s Sixty-Ton Steam Derrick Crane at Port-Glasgow, 564
  • Russia, Iron Conference in, 285
  • Russia, Steamboat Subsidies in, 253
  • Russian Armaments, 162
  • Russian Armour-Plate Manufactory, New, 620
  • Russian Duty on Steamers, Proposed, 357
  • Russian Gunboat Flotilla for the Amoor, 547
  • Russian Gunboat, A New, 356
  • Russian Naval Progress, 41
  • Russian Navy Estimates for 1886, 308
  • Russian Torpedo Boat, A, 500
  • Russian Torpedo Scandal, A, 475
  • Russian Trade, 572
  • Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s Vertical Engine and Boiler, 54
  • Sack Hoist, Porrit’s, 80
  • Gear, Lewis and Massey’s Automatic, 441 baintignon Pyrometer, The, 226 ®ama^ water Wells at, 162
  • Sand Bags for Engineering Purposes, 333 baponification by Electricity, 405
  • Saw Sharpening Machine, Sterne and Co.’s, 319
  • Scales, Sliding, in the Iron Trade, 132
  • Scare, The Torpedo,” 62
  • Scholarships, Tyndall, in America, 110
  • 7n}®rican Association for the Advancement of, 137
  • Scotch Steel Trade, The, 228, 234 qn^nud’r.The Iron Trade 234, 337, 362 6 at the 62? C°aSt P°rt3’ A Year s ShiPbuiIdin= SenW?1nMiceraI Oil Ind«stry, The, 406
  • Scotts Ore Separator, 160
  • ?orPedo Cruiser, 111
  • Screen, Glover’s, 511
  • Screw Ferry Boats, 587
  • Screw, Rolled, The Harvey, 185
  • Scriven and Co.’s Plato-Straightening Machine, 621
  • Sea Temperatures, 524
  • Qnhocfnnnl The New Poit at, 54/
  • - Section A’’at the Forthcoming Meeting of British Association, 40
  • Self-Recording Meteorological Instruments,
  • Semi-Portable Engine, The Robey, 135, 481
  • Sewage at Leicester, 259
  • Sewage Works, The Boston 555
  • Sewing Machine, Early History of the, 381
  • Shallow Water Cable, The Life of a, 3a4
  • Shanks and Co.’s Combined Planing and Slotting Machine, 227 .
  • Shanks and Co.’s Union Iron Works, Johnstone, 319
  • Sharp’s Process of Coiling Metal Tubes, 485
  • Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s Planing Machine, 224
  • Sheaf Iron Works, The, 95
  • Sheppard’s Coal-Washing Machine, 511
  • Ship, Four-Masted, The First American, 236
  • Shipbuilding, American, 84•
  • Shipbuilding at the Scottish East Coast Ports, A Year’s, 621 ,
  • Shipping Bounties System m France, Failure of the, 65
  • Ships, War, The Requirements of, 451, 543
  • Shipyard and Engine Works, Napiers’, 271
  • Shipyard and Engineering .Works, The Clydebank, 269
  • Shipyard, The Leven, 219
  • Siemens Memorial, The, 543
  • Siemens System of Heating Furnaces by Radiation, The, 594
  • Signalling and Interlocking Apparatus for Ranges, 623
  • Signalling in War, 89
  • Signals, Automatic Transmission of, by the phone, 574
  • Signals, Davis’s Railway, 536
  • Signals, The London and North-Western way, 468
  • Silicon in Cast Iron, 40
  • Silicon Pig, The Value of, to the Ironfounder, 246, 263
  • Silo with Hydraulic Seal, Howard’s, 77
  • Silo Press, Blunt’s, 77
  • Silo and Silo Press, Bayliss, Jones, and Bayliss’s, . *6
  • Silver Ores, Amalgamation of, 558
  • Singer Manufacturing Company’s Works at Kil-bowie, The, 210, 224
  • Siphon Recorder, The, 212
  • Sixty-Ton Steam Derrick Crane at Port-Glasgow, 564
  • Size of Electric Mains, The, 14
  • Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, Utilisation of, 457
  • Slag as the Basis of Cement, 524
  • Sliding Scales in the Iron Trade, 132
  • Slotting and Planing Machine, Combined. 227
  • Smelting, Electric, 256
  • Smelting, Lead, A New Process of, 107
  • Smelting Process, The Cowles Electric, 431
  • Smith s Bridge Chair, 341
  • S1™th and Co.’s Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery,
  • Stevens’s Hydraulic Hoists, 366
  • Smithfield Club Show, The 562
  • Soaking Pits with Fires, 285
  • Society, The Physical, 43, 506, 578, 625
  • sX^Chetn® Enffineers’The- cis
  • Solar Heat, ‘531
  • Solar Heat Recorder, A New, 259 qnnaH\nrFtub^”ce’ A Bemarkable, 258
  • South Aandft’ The TeIe^aP*>s of the, 498 bourn African Railways, 66 *
  • qJJ? «rfri?an Telegfaphy, 184 IT 2M’ 383 409 J6J, 33o, 3a0,
  • Speeds, American Railway, 386
  • “ Staffordshire » Vp01^fcl0nary, 18
  • Stamp End Works0LinrniVhmke8’ 474
  • Standard Pine nnd’p- nC2,ln’ The> 93
  • Standard Volt,X 4^ Thl*eads’ 605
  • t sions, 579,f624ngth 35 Applied to Gauge Dimen-
  • Statistics, FmX 255 Wheld’ 385
  • Stealing Electricity. 572
  • Steam Boilers Amniri’ ”*
  • Steam Derrick Ton, 564 Cla,le at Port-Glasgow, Sixty-
  • glish’s, 566aer ‘TUbury.” Hunter and En- ands ps
  • Sons’, 113 a e> Lt8rht, Merryweather and Steam and Hydraulic and Co.’s, 9 J hc Reversing Engine, Allen
  • Steam NaVvv hunk 202 y’ Dunb« and Ruston’s, 135, 178
  • Steam Tram wav t « ’
  • Sons’ 227 Locomotive, Merryweather and
  • Steamboat Subsidies in i?
  • Steamer “CoromanrtJi 258 and Oriental, 125 ’ Tle Hew Peninsular
  • Steamer “Ernest;’Nne Thn „,541 le> Thornycroft and Co.’s
  • Steamers, Merchmi
  • Steamers, Petroleum %S Admiralty Cruisers 1ST
  • Steamers, Proposed ;i Orthe Black Sea 308 187
  • Steamship “ M^r ” Duty °"^7
  • Steel CaJ' En?‘nes and’Boilers of oueei bastings, 394
  • Steel Company of Scotland, The Works of the, 295
  • Steel-Copper Electric Conductors, 522
  • Steel and Iron Manufactures of Austria and Hungary, The, 619
  • Steel and Iron Works, The Dalzell, 455
  • Steel v. Otto, 618
  • Steel Shipbuilding and the Forth Bridge, 248, 264 , 265
  • Steel Trade, The Scotch, 228, 234
  • Steel, Unmagnetisable, 380
  • Steel Works, The Blochairn, 297
  • Steel Works, The Glengarnock, 175
  • Steering Gear for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s, 562
  • Stem, Insulating, A New, 333
  • Stern-Wheel Steamer for the Brazilian Government, 202
  • Sterne and Co.’s Saw-Sharpening Machine, 319
  • Sterne and Co.’s Twist Drill Grinding Machine, 319
  • Stetefeldt Furnace, The, 293
  • Stone Breaker, Baxter and Co.’s, 441
  • Stone Cutting, Wire Belts for, 546
  • Storms on Subterranean Telegraph Lines, 17
  • Subjects for Papers; The Institution of Civil Engineers, 287
  • Sublimation, White Lead by, 232
  • Submarine Boat, The Nordenfelt, 334, 371
  • Submarine Cable Grappling, 161
  • Submarine Cables, The Manufacture of, in France, 546
  • Submarine Cables, New, 380
  • Submarine Torpedo Boat, Gourbet’s, 531
  • Subsidence in Euston Road, The, 596
  • Suez Canal, Business of the, 405
  • Suez Canal, The Lighting of the, 523
  • Sunlight, Recent Researches on, 17
  • Supply, Water, of Roman Cities, The, 231
  • “Surprise,” and “Alacrity,” H.M.S., Engines and Boilers of, 346, 399, 447, 491, 536, 588
  • Survey of Scotland, Magnetic, 456
  • Surveying Level, 14-in., 398
  • Swansea, New Deep-Sea Channel, 302, 347
  • Sydney Tramways, The, 207, 281, 403
  • Tank Locomotive, La Guaira and Caracas Railway, 299, 372
  • Tar and Ammonia from Blast Furnaces, 235, 387, 409, 459
  • Tay Viaduct, The, 286
  • Taylor’s Road-Sweeping Machine, 337
  • Tehuantepec and Nicaragua, 615
  • Telegraph Conference, The, 284
  • Telegraph Convention, The, 89
  • Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 38, 618
  • Telegraph to India, The Overland, 380
  • Telegraph Indicator, Lieutenant Lloyd’s, 324
  • Telegraph Line, An Early, 137
  • Telegraph Lines, Subterranean, Storm? on, 17
  • Telegraph, an Underground one, The First American, 620
  • Telegraph Wires, Copper, 429
  • Telegraphic Congress, The Berlin, 162
  • Telegraphs, Pneumatic, 482
  • Telegraphs of the Soudan Expedition, The, 498
  • Telegraphy, South African, 184
  • Telephone at the Antwerp Exhibition, The, 330
  • Telephone in France, The, 547
  • Telephone, The Mechanical, 89
  • Telephone, A New Mechanical, 111
  • Telephone in Paris, The, 65
  • Telephone, The Thermal, 500
  • Telephone Transmitters, The Current of, 547
  • Telephones, Electro-Dynamic, 17
  • Telephones, Mouthpiece to, 110
  • Telephony, Operatic, 572
  • Teletopometer, The, 284
  • Telpher Railway, An Actual, 406
  • Temperatures, Sea, 524
  • Temporary Rudder, Lucas’s, 324
  • Tenoning Machine, Furness and Co.’s, 289
  • Tessin River, Bridge over the, 278
  • Testing Portland Cement, On, 145
  • Thames, The Purification of the, 111, 181
  • Thames Tunnel, A High Level, 154
  • Theatres, The Electric Light in, 333, 404, 453
  • Thermal Telephone, The, 500
  • Thornycroftand Co.’s Nile Steamer “Ernest,” 541
  • Thornycroft, Mr. Thomas, 260
  • Thunderstorm, Curious Effects of a, 380
  • Thwaite-Neville Hoisting and Traversing Crane, The, 610
  • Tilbury Docks, The, 405
  • “Tilbury,”Steam Dredger, Hunter and English’s 566
  • Timber Growth on the Pacific Coast of the United States, 161
  • Timber, Preserving, 16
  • Time Registers, Watchmen’s, 391
  • Tin, Recovery of from Tin Scrap by Electrolysis, 18 , , on.
  • Tip Wagon, Fowlers, 361
  • Tools, Machine. 583
  • Topography of Machines, 22
  • Tornadoes, Prediction of, 523
  • Tornadoes in the United States, 259
  • Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A, 380
  • Torpedo Boat, Gourbet’s Submarine, 501
  • Torpedo Boat with Hydraulic Propulsion, 26
  • Torpedo Boat, A Russian, 500
  • Torpedo Boats, Foreign-Built, 381
  • Torpedo Boats, The New, 212, 616
  • Torpedo Catcher, A, 512
  • Torpedo Cruiser “ Scout,” The, 111
  • Torpedo Gunboats, The Proposed New, 429
  • Torpedo, Howell, The Obituary of a, 258
  • Torpedo Scandal, A Russian, 475
  • “ Torpedo Scare,” The, 62
  • Tower Bridge, The, 405
  • Towns at High Altitudes, 546
  • Traction, Electric, at the Antwerp Exhibition, 571
  • Traction Engine and Crane, Aveling and Porter’s, 51 . ..
  • Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter’s Steering Gear for, 562
  • Trade, The Cleveland Iron, 616
  • Trade, The Iron, of Scotland, 234, 337, 362
  • Trade Route, The Proposed Hudson’s Bay, 457
  • Trade, Russian, 572
  • Trade, Steel, The Scotch, 228, 234
  • Train Communicator, Hall’s, 486
  • Train Pipe Indicator, Kapteyn s, 348
  • Tram Rail and Clamp, The Adlard, 342
  • Tramway Locomotive, Steam, Merry weather and Sons’, 227
  • Tramway Sleepers, Howard s, 77
  • Tramways, Cable, 270
  • Tramways, The Development of, 519
  • Tramways in the Low Countries, 212
  • Tramways, The Sydney, 207, 281, 403
  • Transit Instruments and Lamps, Clark’s, 398
  • Transmission of Power by Gearing, The, 605
  • Transmission of Signals by the Telephone, Automatic, 574
  • Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, The, 525
  • Transportation of Petroleum, The, 108
  • Transporting Crude Petroleum, 346
  • Treatment of Old Zinc, 405
  • Trent Iron Works, The Newark, 148
  • Trevithick Memorial, The, 456
  • Trial Trips and Launches, 20, 68, 81, 112, 129 192, 213, 261, 288, 336, 350, 383, 432, 446 47o’ 495, 566,625 ’ *
  • Trials, Engine, at University College, 317, 342
  • Tripier’s Spherical Eccentric, 147
  • Triple-Expansion Engines of the s.s. “Meteor ” 171
  • Tropical Regions, Nitrous Soil in, 258
  • Tubes, Coiling Metal, Sharp’s Process of, 485
  • Tubular Boilers, 409
  • Tunnel, Thames, A High Level, 154
  • Turbine, Waverley, Duncan Brothers’, 365
  • Twist Drill Cutting Machine, Double-Headed, 590
  • Twist Drill Grinding Machine, Sterne and Co’s 319 ’
  • Twist Drills, 587
  • Tyndall Scholarships in America, 110
  • Tyrer’s Spark Arrester, 54
  • Umpherston’s Rag Engine, 199
  • Undulatory Currents, Measuring, 17
  • Union Iron Works, Johnstone, The, 319
  • United States, The Borax Supply in the, 183
  • United States, The Forest Supply in the, 404
  • United States, Notes from the, 19, 35, 80, 125 151, 187, 213, 260, 287, 309, 322, 361, 372, 409’ 419, 444, 469, 501, 515, 541, 577, 609
  • United States Railways for 1884, 208
  • United States, Tornadoes in the, 259 t
  • United States, The Weston Systems of Electric Lighting in the, 86
  • University College, Engine Trials at, 317, 342
  • Unmagnetisable Steel, 380 _ .,
  • Use of Liquefied and Solidified Carbon Dioxide, The, 524
  • Use of Rice in Brewing, The, 137
  • Uses of Electricity in Coal Mining, The, 258
  • Utilisation of Slag from the Basic Bessemer Process, 457
  • Vacuum Brakes, Automatic, 182
  • Vacuum Pump, The Weston Mercury, 139
  • Value of Silicon Pig to the Ironfounder, The, 246, 263
  • Valve Gear, Davey’s Differential, 225
  • Valve, Messenger’s, 43
  • Variations of the Magnetic Elements, Daily, 500
  • Velocity, Wind Force and, 28
  • Velocity, Wind, of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
  • Ventilating Railway Carriages, Boyle’s System of, 313
  • Ventilation and Electricity, 183
  • Vertical Engine and Boiler, Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s, 54
  • Vertical Tandem Engine, Douglas and Grants Corliss Compound, 609
  • Vessels, A New Method of Propulsion of, 500
  • Viaduct, The Tay, 286 .
  • Victoria, British Columbia, The Drainage of, 161
  • Vipan and Headley’s Whippietrees, 77
  • Volatilisation of Gold, 457
  • Volga and Don, Joining the, 334
  • Volt, A Standard, 429
  • “Volta,” The Electric Launch, 230
  • Wagon, Fowler’s Tip, 361
  • Waltham Watch Company, The, 15, 62, 85
  • War, The Atlantic Cable, 110
  • War Ships, The Requirements of, 451, 543
  • War, Signalling in, 89
  • Warner and Sons’ Well-Sinking Pump, 397
  • Warsaw, Industrial Growth at, 457
  • Warsaw, Mining Conference at, 524 307
  • Washington Monument, Lightning Conductors on, 212 kqq
  • Waste-Water Meter System, Deacon s, 490, oao
  • Watchmen’s Time Registers, 391
  • Water Gas, 426
  • Water Famine in Liverpool, The, 619
  • Water Motor, Allin’s, 487
  • Water, Removing Microbes from, 111
  • Water Supply, The Metropolitan, 259,354,45»,
  • Water Supply, New, for New York, 18*
  • Water Supply, Pure, 17 -
  • Water Supply of Roman Cities, The, 231
  • Water Wells at Samara, 162
  • Water-Wheel, Pelton’s Hurdy-Gurdy, 43d
  • Water Works, Liverpool, 285
  • Water Works for Palermo, 185 pnn-min^
  • Water Works, Whitacre, Birmingham, Pumpii o
  • Engines at, 6, 68,151, 249, 298 ,
  • Waverley Turbine, Duncan Brothers , doo Weather, The, 14,132, 256, 356, 454, 571
  • Weathercock, An Electrical, 136
  • Weigh-Bridge, The Inventor of the, 4za
  • Welford’s High-Speed Engine, 38o
  • Well Pumps, Hathorn, Davey, and Co. s, o
  • Well-Sinking Pump, Warner and Sems, dv/
  • Wellington Foundry and Machine Woiks,
  • Wells’s Balanced Compound Engine, 409
  • Weston’s Centrifugal Machine, 486 Weston Incandescent Lamp
  • Weston Mercury Vacuum Pump, The,13J
  • Weston Systems of Electric Lioht o
  • United States, The, 86
  • Whippietrees, Corbett’s, 77 77
  • Whippietrees, Davey, Sleep, and Co s, 1I
  • Whippietrees, Kell, Meats, and Co. s, 77
  • Whippietrees, Knapp and Co. is, u Tefferies’, 77
  • Whippietrees, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies,
  • Whippietrees, Vipan and Headley s, 7/ . ham
  • Whitacre, Pumping B,'g'"esf.L’ 249? 298 Corporation Water Works, 6, 68, 151, 3*3,
  • White Lead Again, 458 „
  • White Lead by “ Sublimation, 232
  • White Light, Standards of,,578
  • Whittle’s “ Staffordshire Bo1^’.474 The 18
  • Willans Receiver Compound Engine, Wind Force and Velocity, 28
  • Wind Producer, A, 308
  • Wind Velocity of over a Hundred Miles an Hour, 357
  • Wire Belts for Stone Cutting, 546
  • Wire Safety Fuzes, 183
  • Wolstenholme’s Compound Pumping Engine, Northwich Water Works, 304
  • Woodhouse and Rawson’s Electric Clip Light, 284
  • Wood’s Corn Mill, 73
  • Wood-Working Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 150, 418
  • Work Exhibition in Paris, 40
  • Works, The Boston Sewage, 555
  • Works, The Britannia Iron, Gainsborough, 117
  • Works, Chemical, The Addiwell, 232
  • Works, Clark’s Crank and Forge, 147
  • Works, The Dalzell Steel and Iron, 455
  • Works, Engine, Messrs. Denny and Co.’s, Dumbarton, 221
  • Works, The Fairfield, Govan, 244
  • Works, The Forth Bridge, 249
  • Works, The Globe Iron, Lincoln, 167
  • Works, The Great Northern Railway, Doncaster, 123
  • Works, The Hallside, 295
  • Works on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 258
  • Works, Iron, The Sheaf, 95
  • Works, The Singer Manufacturing Co’s, at Kilbowie, 210, 224
  • Works, The Spittlegate Iron, 71
  • Works, The Stamp End, Lincoln, 98
  • Works, Steel, The Blochairn, 297
  • Works of the Steel Company of Scotland, The 295
  • Works, Steel, The Glengarnock, 175
  • Works, The Trent Iron, Newark, 148
  • Works, The Union Iron, Johnstone, 319
  • Worssam’s Wood-Working Machinery, 418
  • Worthington Pump, The, 466
  • Wrought Iron, The Crystallisation of, 605
  • Yarra, New Bridge Across the, 184
  • Year’s Shipbuilding at the Scottish East Coast Ports, A, 621
  • Zinc Dust, Hydrogen in, 500
  • Zinc, Old, Treatment of, 405

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