The Engineer 1873 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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Abouchoff Steel Works, Russian 40-ton Gun, Vienna Exhibition, 398 .
Accident, A Singular Railway, Padua Train, 118
Accidents on the United States Railway, 174
Act of Parliament, According to, 250
Agricultural Engineers in France, 80
Agricultural Society of East Belgium, 124
Air Power, 128
Albert Bridge, Battersea, Mr. F. W. Bryant, C.E. 62, 68-Scaffolding and Gangway, 84,114
America, Launch of the Steam Yacht, 214
American Exhibitors at the Vienna Exhibition, 199
American Opinion on English Patent Reform, 207
American Railway Progress, 71
American Rolling-Mill Engines, 51, 71
Ansell, Mr., Breech-loader, 383, 384
Appeal for Messrs. Downing’s Workmen, 233
Aronson, Mr. J., Lantern Globes for Street Lamps, 64
Art of Getting Done, The, 285
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London. 6:— Annual Meeting, 23
Association of Gas Managers, The British
Address of the President, Mr. A. Angus Croll, 364
Coal Gas as a Fuel, Mr. F. W. Hartley, 365
Coal Wasted in Gasworks, Mr. Methven, 365
Lost or Unaccounted for Gas, Mr. W. B. Emmerson, 365
Substitutes for Coal in the Production of Gas, Mr. Gore, 365
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 174
Annual Report, 202
Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors Inaugural Meeting, 282
Association, The News vendors’, 113
Atlantic Telegraph Expedition, 372
Australia, Steam to, 165
Axle-boxes, Locomotive, 25, 39, 112
Azof! Coal Company, 214
Balloons, Navigable, 22, 39
Barrow-in-Furness, Port of, 113
Battery, A New, M. Cauderay, 101
Baxter, Mr., Engine, 51
Baynton, Mr., Rotary Puddling Furnace, 249
Bclpaire, M. M. A., a 6-Coupled Passenger Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 367
Bermondsey Explosion, 7, 38
Bismarck’s Varzin Paper Mills, Prince. 101
Blake’s Stonebreaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon Railway, 110
Boat Lowering Apparatus, Mr. B. J. Kerridge, Northfleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
Boat-plugs. 128
Bohlken’s Earth-borers, 80
Boiler, The “Downtaker,” 112
Boiler Explosion, The Bermondsey, 7, 38
Boiler Explosion, A Cui ions, 22 38, 53, 83, 141
Boiler Explosion, The Wapping, 371
Boiler Explosions, 397
Boiler Explosions, Kitchen. 128
Boiler, Mr. F. Hazeldine’s Spiral Tube, 80
Boiler, Mr. N. F. Suckling’s Sectional Steam, 127
Boilers, Circulation in, 25, 53
Boilers, Clothing, 184
Bolivian Railway, The, 320
Boomerang, An Iron, 56
Boot-soleing Machine, Mr. H. Kuhlman, 64
Boulogne Dock Gates, 272
Brake, North London Railway, Mr. J. Olmstead’s Magneto-Electric, 154
Brakes, A ction of, 219
Brakes, Continuous, 159, 171, 173, 189
Brakes, Power of, 202
Breakwater, The Kurrachee, 141
Breakwaters, Floating, 53
Breech-loader. Mr. F. Ansell’s, 383, 3S4
Bremner, Captain, Steering Screw, 110
Bridge over the Danube Canal at Vienna, 294, 302
Bridge in Edinburgh, New North, 124
Bridge over the Neva at St. Petersburg, 365
Bridge, The Tay, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
Bridge over the Tees, at Middlesbrough, Proposed Lifting, Mr. T. E. Laing, C.E., 128,130
Brighton Locomotive and Carriage Works, 5—Roof of Workshops, 20, 23
British Jurors at the Vienna Exhibition, 182
Broomhall, Mr., Puddler, 279
Bronze, Ancient, 266
Bronze, Phosphorised, 171, 191
Bryant, C.E., Mr. F.W., Scaffolding and Gangway of the Albert Bridge, Battersea, 62,68, 84, 114
Canadian Patent Laws, 346
Cannon, Phosphorised, Bronze for, 132
Carbon, Manufacture of, 18
Carriage, Composite, Mr. C. Sacre, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
Carriages and Rockets at Shoeburyness, Experiments in, 123
Carriages, Sleeping, North British Company, 92
Carriages and Wagons, Railway, 179—Table of Working Expenditure and Maintenance, Half-year Ending December, 1871, 187
Carrington and Plate, Messrs., Fire-grates, 110
Catechism of the Steam Engine in Chinese, 53
Causes of the Racing of Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated— Mr. Osborne Reynolds at the Institution of Naval Architects, 295
Centering and Scaffolding, 47, 62, 86, 116, 146
Chance Brothers, Messrs., Harbour Light, 216
Chandler and Co., Messrs. J., Compound Lever Ball Valve, 21
Chaplin and Co., Messrs., Portable Winding Engine for Mining Purposes, 299
Chatham, Gun-cotton, Experiments at, 389
Chinese Colliers, 247
Chronograph, Lc Boulcngc, Major Navcz, 213
Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Appointed as Governor of the Straits Settlements, 349
Clarke, R.E., C.B., Colonel Sir A., Greenwich Royal Naval College School and Gymnasium, 328, 329, 346, 347, 382
Clayton, Son and Howlett, Messrs., Peat Condensing, 86, 107, 111, 206
Cleveland District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 105, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 275, 292, 310, 325, 344. 360, 378, 393, 408
Coal, The Committee on, 303
Coal Economies, 145, 223, 253
Coal Explorations in Notts and Lincolnshire, 238
Coal, Export of, 118
Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
Coal Importation of, 131
Coal in Ireland, 166
Coal Market, The London, 349
Coinage, International, 174
Cole, Mr. J. C., Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, 155
Compound Engines, 180, 199, 219, 222, 233, 250, 349
Concrete Chimney at South Docks, Sunderland, 332
Condensing with Hot Water, 96
Construction, Ancient, 403
Converters, Lining, 314
Co-operation, 238
Cork Represented at Vienna, 260
Corliss Engine at the Waterloo Flour Mills, Messrs.
Hick and Co., 21, 24
Coxhead and Miller, Messrs., Regulator Valve, 127, 153
Cranes, Testing, 206, 219
Crane, Mr. T. Grosse’s Travelling, 295
Cranes, Travelling, 191
Crichton and Co., Messrs. W., Engines of the Steam
Launch Bujak Dere and General Admiral. 185, 188
Cropper, Mr. 8., Platen Printing Machine, 65
Crystal Palace District Gas Company, 191
Crystal Palace, Practical Engineering at the, 7
Crystal Palace Practical Engineering School, 262
Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific Education, 33
Banks’ Furnace, 156
Dawson, Mr. W., Safety Valve, 155
Day and Summer’s, Messrs., Engines and Boilers of the
SS. Liffey, 234, 236
Deep Sea Surveying Expedition, 125
Defective Steam Pipes, 180
Devastation, The, 237, 354
Dictionary, Tolhausen’s Technological, 315
Dispute at the International Exhibition, 240
Dixon, Mr. Piers—Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, Upgaug Viaduct, 158
Dock Gates, Boulogne Harbour, 272
Dock Gates, Construction of, 81, 93, 123, 169, 218 271
345, 389 ’ ’
Dock Gates, Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
Dock Gates at Jarrow and the Surrey Docks, 217
Docks, Liverpool, Mr. G. F. Lyster, C.E., 117
Sunderlaud» Concrete Chimney at the South,
Messrs. J- and W., Engines of SS. Ruahiue,
Zo4, 2oo, 312 '
Dungeness, The Lesson from, 70, 85
Dunkirk, St. Nazaire, and Havre Dock Gates, 94
Dynamical Terms, Use and Abuse of, IS
Earth Borers, Bohlken’s, 80
Eastbourne, Gun Cotton Experiments at 300
Easton and Anderson’s, Messrs., Brake 20-horse Fric-
, Im-
tiou—Vienna Exhibition, 373
| Economy in Manufacture of Finished Iron portant, 125 ’
Edson’s Gauge, 127
Education, Dangers of Uniformity in Scientific, 33
Egyptian Railway, 123
Electro Diapason, M. Mercadier, 388
Elwell, Mr., Safes, 398
Engine, Mr. Baxter’s, 51
Engine, M. M. A. Belpaire’s 6-coupled Passeno-ar Vienna Exhibition. 367, 368 P ™sseugei.
EpKHeadandSchernioths, Straw-burning Portable, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313,
Engine for Metropolitan Traffic, South London Railway, Mr. W. Stroudley’s Tank, 34 40
Messrs. Chaplin and Co.’s Portable Winding, 299
Moy aud Shill’s> Non-radiating, 48,
Engine, M. Nolet’s Expansive, 168. 172
FnSn»’ RUDton au?. I>roctor'K. Portable, 7
netai’u kA?036 ??!'’ Sectio'13 of Cylinder, and Sons, 38?38TPOUn MeS31'3- R- Napier aud
^-Southern Railway of Austria, Herr G. Sigi’s 8-Wheeled Goods, 336 b
Engine, The Steam Fire, 174
Engine, Mr. W Stroudley’s 6-Coupled Tank, London ^upplSnQdS°Uth C°aSt Railway’ 125’
Engineering College in Japan, 214
Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, 315
Engineering at the Crystal Palace, Practical, 7 Engineering, Domestic, 349
Engineering School, Crystal Palace, Practical, 262
Engineers, Education of Young Mechanical, 141
Engineers, Naval, 405
Engines, American Rolling Mill, 51
Engines in Australia, Portable, 23
Engines of the Steam Launches, Bujak Dere and General Admiral, Messrs. W. Crightou and Co., 185 loo ’ ’
E 231ieS afc Cardiff> Results of the trial of Portable,
E^!8J?:d afc Cardiff’ SiZ3s and instruction of JL O1 CclDlCj ZoU
Engines, Compound, ISO, 199, 219, 222 233. 250 349
Engines, Compound and Non-compound, 388 *
Engines, Compounding Beam, 202 ’
Engines, Furnace Gas, 69
Engines of the 88. Gael, 80. (See also Supplement)
LllSuncb 4-' F' J‘ Harker’s Uouble Cylinder Steam JUclUUCQ; 4:
Engines _ for the Indian State Railways, Messrs.
Hathoin, Davis, and Campbell’s, Pumping, 23, 137
Engines, Mr. J. Mason’s Steam Launch 233
Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
Engines. Non-Compound Marine, 254
Engines, Portable, 221
E^LrcBEr:7'L3Do“FBkT8i5pour’w-j-m-Ran- Kuahiue,Messre- J- and W. Dudgeon, -juO, UlZ
E199in4iS ?'? Y?aofcrShaU We do with our old Steam, “J-, u>, oo, yo
Ericsson, Captain, Torpedo, 21
E383ie" ErSL°’ Brttnuer’ Cesselschaft, Pumping, 381,
Exhibition, Dispute at the International 240
Exhibition, 1873, London International 18
Exhibition, The Northfleec Relief Fuad 239
Exhibition, Opening of The International 229
foPcaturi^caoP,1155 UOUPliUg8’ Uuited «^Manu-
Expansion of Water in Freezing, 277
Expenditure, Railway, 145, 185
Explosions, Coal Pit, 38
Explosions, Produced by High Notes. 71
Fi^i7tecforsW3fo’ Ga3’raakinS Apparatus, 316
Fire Engine, Mr. F. Walser’s, 317, 318
Fhe Grates, Messrs. Carrington and Plate. 110
^|rc at Messis. J. and G. Rennie’s, Blackfriars, 82
Hax, Pre-Historic Culture of, 244
Floods, Prevention of, 270
^Whirnnr’ L°ng'tudiual Section of Waterloo, Messrs.
Action 50 ’ d Bluyou’ 84’ 36> 95> 98-Transverse
fiv whA Mr-Seth Taylor> 21
I ly-wheel, Bursting of a, Bolton Iron aud Steel Works,
Fly-wheels, 155
Eor<Jek mass> inertia, and momentum, 47
Fuel Economiser, Mr. R. Mill, 183
Fuel, Economy of, 171, 184
Fuel, by Old Steam Engines. Means of Reducing the Consumption of, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153, 184, 245 g
Furnace, Mr. Baynton’s Rotary Puddling, 249
Furnace at Summerlee, New Blast, 101
Furnaces, Hot Air, 22, 38, 53, 66, 96
Furrell, C.E., Mr. E., Life Saving Raft, 282
Gas Coal Substitutes, 207
Gas, Latest Novelty in, 85
gS, Patent ^ParatUS- Mr- W- G- Fear“^< 316
Gas Producer, Mr. Wright 182
GStFurLTw^’’SApParatUS f0r C01190ti"g
Gauge, Edson’s Recording, 127
Co^r4 G°°d Steam> Me88rS' William3> Jones, aud Gauge, Mr. King’a Combined Pressure and Vacuum,
Gauge in India, Break of, 219
Gayer, Mr. E. J., Micro-Spectroscope, 332
Gilbert, Mr. E.» Electrical Communication in Trains, 326
Girders, The Tay Bridge, 237
Glasgow Subway, Proposed, 67
Glycerine, on Hydrate of Chloral, Action of, 38?
Governor, Mr. R. Runquist’s Oscillating. 265, 266
Grasshopper Locomotive, Baltimore Railway, 182.
Great Grimsby and Canada Docks, Birkenhead, 169
Greenwich Royal Naval College, School, and Gymnasium, Col. Sir A. Clarke, R. E., C.B., 329, 346, 347, 382
Grosse, Mr. T., Travelling Crane, 295
Gunboats, New, 101
Gun Carriage of the Future, The English, 61
Gun Carriage for Turret Use, The 18-Tou, 333, 349
Gun Cotton Experiments at Chatham, 389
Gun Cotton Experiments at Eastbourne, 300
Gun of the Future, The French, 281
Guns, Breeoh-loading, 250
Guns, British and German Heavy, 205
Guns, Steel, 92
Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, Messrs. Wilson’s 35-Ton Double-acting Steam, 250. 252
Harbour Light, Messrs. Chance, Brothers, 216
Harbours, Our Indian, 337
Harker, Mr. F. J., Double Cylinder Steam Launch
Engines, 4
Harwood’s London Machine Works Co., 156
Hathorn, Davis, and Campbell. Messrs., Steam Pumping Engine for India State Railways, 137
Hautchin, M. J., Mixing Moulding Sand, 332
Hazeldine, Mr. F., Spiral Tube Boiler. 80
Head and Scherniotb, Messrs., Straw-burning Portable
Engine, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 313, 319
Heater, Messrs. Payne’s Feed-water, 183
Heavy G uns at Sea, 69
Henry, Mr., Spindle Step, 398
Hicks and Co., Messrs., Corliss Engine at the Waterloo
Flour Mills, 21, 24
Hotspur, Fixed Turret of H.M.S., 37
Hot Water, Condensing with. 112
Ilfracombe Beds. Experiments in Smelting Tasmanian Iron Ore from, 116
Institute, The Iron and Steel
Address of the President, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 264
Combustion of Powdered Fuel in Revolving Furnaces, Mr. T. R. Crampton, 277
Oxide Dry Bottoms for Mill Furnaces, Mr. T.
Greener, 278
Rolling Mill Clutches, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 278
Utilisation of Blast Furnace Slag, Mr. Charles Wood, 278
Wire Rope Tramway, Mr. H. M. Morrison, 278 Institution of Civil Engineers, 23, 34, 77, 142, 199, 344
Annual Dinner, 207
Conversazione at South Kensington, 335
Cylindrical Foundations in Concrete, Brick, and
Stonework, Mr. John Milroy, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 78
Mont Cenis Tunnel, Mr. T. Sopwith, jun., M.I.C.E., 191
Practice and Results of Irrigation in North India, Colonel W. H. Greathed, QB., R.E., 52
Relative Advantages of the 5-ft. 6-in. Gauge, and of the Metre Gauge for the State Railways of India, Mr. W. T. Thornton, 108
Rigi Railway, Dr. W. Pole, F.R.S., M. Inst. C.E., 272
Rise and Progress of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads, Mr. John Head, A.I.C.E., 239
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland, 229
Institution of Foremen Engineers, 67
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Governors, Mr. F. W. Kitson, C.E.. 279
Wenham, Mr. F. H., Heated Air Engine, Mr. Conrad W. Cooke, 279
Working and Interlocking Railway Signal and Points, Mr. W. Baines, 71
Institution of Naval Architects, 126, 207
Auxiliary Power for Ocean Navigation, Mr. Henry Claughton, 207
Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers Investigated Theoretically and by Experiment, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 295
Devastation, Thunderer, Fury, and Peter the Great, Mr. N. Barnaby, 223
Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. Wigham Richardson, 281
President’s Address, 223
Waves in Liquids, Late Professor W. J. Macquorn
Rankiue, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., &c, 330
Institution, The Royal Polytecnnic, 156
Invention, An Old, 365
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, &c., 15, 31, 45, 59, 75, 89, 105, 121, 135, 149, 163, 177, 195, 201, 227, 213, 259, 275, 291, 309, 325, 343, 359, 377, 393, 407
Iron, Important Economy in the Manufacture of Finished, 125
Iron and Steel, Tensile Strength of American and
English, 138
Irrigation, Italian, 91
Italian Irrigation, 91
Japanese Mint, The, 282
Jarrow and the Surrey Docks Dock Gates, 217
Juries at the Vienna Exhibition, 156, 182
Kastenbein, M., Type Composing and Distributing Machine, 262, 263
Kerridge, Mr. B. J., Boat Lowering Apparatus, Northfleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 295
Kessler, Herr E., Passenger Locomotive for the Carl-Ludwigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355 366 368 *
Killaloe, Water-power on the Shannon above, 299
King’s Combined Pressure and Vacuum Gau°-e 126
Krupp Guns, 96
Kuhlmann, Mr. H., Boot Soleing Machine, 64
Ku tab Pillar, The, 22, 39, 53, 66, 83, 96, 153
Laing, C.E., Mr. T. E., Proposed Lifting Bridge over the Tees at Middlesbrough, 128, 130
Lamps, Mr. Yates’ Safety, 183
Lantern Shades for Street Lamps, Mr. J. Aronson, 64
Leaders:—
Alexandra Palace, The, 371
Ancient Construction, 403
Annual Article, 1873, lo
Art of Getting Done, The, 285
Ashantee War, The, 320
British and German Heavy Guns, 205
Circulation in Boilers. 25
Coal Economies, 145
Coal Famine, The, 99, 115
Committee on Coal, The, 303
Competition between British and Foreign Shinbuilders, 353 1
Compound and Non-compound Engines, 388
Continuous Brakes, 159, 173, 189
Contract System, The, 372
Co-operation, 238
Devastation, The, 237, 354
Disposal of Sewage, 319
Economisation of Small Coal and Dust. 253
End of the Strike, 173
Engineer in the Streets, The, 285
Furnace Gas Engines, 69
Leaders :—
Heavy Guns at Sea, 69
Importation of Coal, 131
Ironclad Ships, 221
Iron and Steel Tires. 403
Justus Liebig, 253
Latest Novelty in Gas, 85
Lesson from Dungeness, 70, S5
Locomotive Axle Boxes, 25
Locomotive Engines for Metropolitan Traffic, 131
Non-compound Marine Engines, 251
Offensive Use of Torpedoes in Naval Actions, 159
Our Indian Harbours, 337
Over the Semmering, 333
Patent Gas, 55
Patent Gas Report, The, 42
Portable Engines, 221
Prevention of Floods, 270
Professional Training, 337
Proposed Patent Law Reform, 115
Railway Expenditure, 145
Railway Routes to India, M. Lesseps’ Project, 3S7
Ransome and Co’s Straw-burning Locomotive
Messrs., 319
River Tees, The, 303
Strike in South Wales, 41
Supply of Nickel, 353
Tay Bridge Girders, 237
Testing Cranes, 206
Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
United States Navy, The. 99
Vienna Exhibition, 42, 2o6, 238, 269, 270, 236
Wapping Boiler Explosion. The, 371
Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
Westinghouse Brake on the .Metropolitan District
Railway, 100
What Shall we do with our Old Steam Engines? 41
Wooden Railroads, 26
La Boulenge Chronograph, Major Navez, 213
Legal Intelligence : —
Binney versus Feldtmann, 48, 348
Blake’s Patent, Sewing Boots, &c., 39
Carr's Patent, Disintegrator, 39
Mortar and Concrete, Mr. R. C. Reid, C.E., 316
Saxby versus Stennett, 34S
Smith versus Bullen, 348
Society Edinburgh and Leith Engineers
Lessner, Herr G. 25-horse Condensing Expansive
Engine, Vienna Exhibition, 399, 402, 405
Letters to the Editor : —
“According to Act of Parliament,” Tommy Merton.
250
Action of Brakes, F. N. T., 219
Alexandria Obelisk, T. A. A , 96
Alexandria Obelisk, W. A. Wharton, 82
Appeal for the Workmen of Messrs. Downing’s Floorcloth Factory, J. Abbott, 238
Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, H. M‘C., 7 Bermondsey Boiler Explosion, W., 38
Block System of Signalling on Railways, W. H.
Clapp, 368
Boat Plugs, II. Walker, 129
Boiler Economy, W. B. P., 184
Break of Gauge in India, Hardy Wells, 219
Breechloading Guns, L. H. Broadwell, 250
Channel Steamers, A. Alexander, 22
Circulation in Boilers, E. Mirchin, 53
Clothing Boilers, a Constant Reader, 184
Coal Pit Explosions, Robert James, 38
Compound Engines, Another Working Engineer 184
Compound Engines, Chiaja, 234
Compound Engines, H. R., 219
Compound Engines, W. McNaught, 234 250
Compound Engines, J. MoJcsworth, 233
Compound Engines, Working Engineer, 219
Compound Engines, X. Y., 349
Compounding Beam Engines, S. C. Harris, 202 Condensing with Hot Water, W. R. R., 96, 112 Continuous Brakes, W. Chapin, 171
Continuous Brakes, F. N. T., 171
Corliss Valves, Douglas and Grant, 202
Coxhead and Miller’s Regulation Valve, Mac., 153 Curious Boiler Explosion, William Bishop. 53 Curious Boiler Explosion, Horticulturist, 22, 82 Curious Boiler Explosion. Inspecting Engineer, 141 Curious Boiler Explosion, Metallurgist, 38 Depths of Plate Girders, Wm. Donaldson, 22 Domestic Engineering, R. C., 349
“ Downtake ” Boiler, Richard Pollit, 112
Economy of Fuel, J. Jeavons, 171
Education of Young Mechanical Engineers, 141 Explosions of Kitchen Boilers, C. L. Riker, 129 Fitting Screw Propellers, Robert Griffiths, 382 Floating Breakwaters, Herefordshire Incumbent, 53 Gun Carriage, The 18-Ton, Stephen Holman, 349 Hot Air Furnaces, T. Milnes Fa veil, C.E., F.G.S., 38, 66
Hot Air Furnaces, Andrew Howatson, 53 Hot Air Furnaces, W. C. Rawlins, 53, 96 Hot Air Furnaces, J. Slater, 53
Hot Air Furnaces. Working Engineer, 66
Indian Railway, Narrow Gauge, 368, 400
Kurachee Breakwater, R. S., 141
Kutab Pillar, The, C. W., 82
Kutab Pillar, The, David Forbes, 22
Kutab Pillar, The, George M. Fraser, 66, 96
Kutab Pillar, The, Robert Mallett, 39, 153
Kutab Pillar, The, S., 66
Kutab Pillar, W. F. G., 53
Laws of Combustion in Connection with Hot Air Furnaces, John Downes, 22
Lining Converters. W. Yates, 314
Locomotive Axle Boxes, John Davis, 39
Locomotive Axle Boxes, Chas. H. Westley, 142
Locomotive for Steep Gradients, Henry Appleby, 184 Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Robert F. Fairlie, 184
Locomotives for Steep Gradients, G. Gibson, 171 Locomotives for Steep Gradients, J. H. B., 334 Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Thomas Midelton 282
Locomotives for Steep Gradients, Observer, 250
Mechanical Means of Removing the Prostrate Obelisk of Alexandria to England, J. L. Haddan A.I.C.E., 67
Midland Railway, The, W. Adams. 368
Moy and Shill’s Non-radiating Engine,N. P. Burgh 112
Navigable Balloons, Thomas Moy, 39
Navigable Balloons, X. Y., 22
New Lord Chancellor and Patent Law, Edmund Hunt, 38, 53
New Magneto-Electric Machine, S. Alfred Varley, 142 Nolet Engine, Douglas and Grant, 184
Non-Radiating Steam Engine, Moy and Shill, 66 Overloading of Steamers, W, Brodie, 314, 349 Phosphorised Bronze, G. Montefiore Levi, C.E., 171 Power of Brakes, George G. Andre. C.E., 202 Pre-Patent Protection, E. K. Dutton, 82
Pre-Patent Protection, A Patentee, 53
Prevention of Sea Sickness, Lawrence Hargrave, 349 Public Works in Turkey, J. Lewis Farley, 7
Pumping by Windmills, B. B., 129
Railway Expenditure, H. Howells, 185
Recoil or Self-Acting Loader for Armstrong or
Heavy Guns in Forts or Ships, John W. Mason, 233 Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, James Sutcliffe, 184 Reducing Fuel in Old Engines, W. W. S., 142 Ruston and Proctor’s Portable Engine, S. C. Harris, 7 Safety Valves, X., 185
Ships’ Lines, J. Simeon Barlow, 334 Ships’ Lines, Edward Jackson, 313 Signalling at Sea, W. H. Clapp, A.M.S.T.E., 9G
Letters to the Editor:—
Social Engineering Considered as a Source of Profit, W. H. H„ 315
Steam Packed Pistons, M. Y. R., 250
Steam Packed Pistons, Oswald Rose, 282
Steam Packed Pistons, T. Simpson, 282
Street Tramways, John Page, 334
Testing Cranes, J. Fortescue Flannery, 219
To^hausen’s Technological Dictionary, A. Tolhausen, Tram Plates at Woolwich Arsenal, W. M. Phipson, 53 Ventilation of Coal Mines, John Newsland, F.C.S., 153, 250
Ventilation of Mines, J. Hacking, 184, 282
Wave Propulsion, J. M., 7
What shall we do with Our Old Engines ? Coal Economisers, 22,66
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? Compound, 96
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines ? J. B.,53
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? A. E. Taylor, 53
What shall we do.with Our Old Steam Engines? T. G.. 153
What shall we do with Our Old Steam Engines? Working Engineer, 153
Lifeboat, Mr. W. Petersen’s Steam, 126
Lighthouses for Trinity Shoals and Timbalier, Gulf of M exico,
Limestone Chalk in County Tyrone, Ireland, 398
Lisbon, Steam Tramways in, 18
Lisbon, Steam Tramways, Mr. Trevithick, 232, 233 Literature
Bovill Patent, The, W. W. Wynne. 379
City of London Directory for 1873, W. II. and L Collingridge. 190
Dictionnaire Technologique, &c., M. Louis Tol-hausen, 304
Elements of Mathematical Drawing, J. F. Heather, M.A., 190
Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, Professor Luigi Palmieri, 137
Illustrated Guide and Directory of Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland, 8. Deacon and Co., 190
Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1873, G. Street and Co., 229
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 70
Mineral Surveyor’s Guide, William lantern, 138
Modern Marine Engineering, N. P. Burgh, 165
Natural Philosophy, Elementary Treatise on, A.
Privat Deschanel, 138
Peat as a Substitute for Coal, Ralph Richardson, 245
Railway Map for England and Wales, Price Williams M.I.C.E., 165
Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1870, E. and F. N. Spon, 246
Statistical Report of the National Association of Iron Manufacturers for 1872, 229
Strength of Materials and Structures, John Ander-son, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S.E., 190, 304
Water Supply of Bombay, Major Tulloch, 379
Works in Iron Bridge and Roof Structures, Ewing Matheson, 165
Loader for Heavy Guns, 233
Locomotive, Details of Tank, Mr. W. Stroudley
London and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
Locomotive, The Grasshopper, Baltimore Railway, 182 Locomotive, Herr E. Kessler’s Passenger, Carl-Lud-wigsbahn, Vienna Exhibition, 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
Locomotives on Roads Bill, 255
Locomotives for Steep Gradients, 171, 184, 202, 250, 282, 334
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, 255
London and County Bank, Half-yearly Report, 92
Louvet, M., Scaffolding used in Repairing the Pantheon, Paris, 144,146
Lundquist, Mr. Erick, Smelting Apparatus 383 Luxuries of Labour, 142
Lyster, C.E., Mr. G. F., Liverpool Docks, 117
Magneto-Electro Machine, 132. 142
Mallet, Mr.. Producing Oxygen, 64
Mallet, C.E.. F.R.S., Mr. Robert, On the Thickness Necessary for Conduit Pipes to enable them to Resist the Shock of Suddenly Arrested Water, 327
Markets, Metal, Oil, Timber, &c. (See last page of every number.) x 1 J J
Mason, Mr. J., Launch Engines, 233
Means of Reducing Consumption of Fuel by Old Steam
Engines, 77, 91, 107, 142, 153. 184, 245
Mercadier, M., Electro-Diapason, 388
Mersey Tunnel Scheme, 382
Mexico, A Trip through, 132
Microgoniometer, The. 179
Micro-Spectroscope, Mr. E. J. Gayer, 332
Midland Railway, Appointment of Mr. W. Adams, 346, 368 ’
Military Saddles. 250
Mill, Mr. R., Fuel Economiser, 183
Mine Ventilation, 250, 282
Mines, Ventilation of Coal, 153,184
Mint, The Japanese, 282
Miscellanea, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109 129 139 157
JoZ’ IS’ 203’ 215’ 235’ 2C8> 283> 297> 32]. 361, 352,369; «5ob, 401
Mixing Moulding Sand. Mr. Jules Hautchin. 332
Mortar and Concrete, Mr. Reid, C.E., at the Edinburgh and Leith Engineers Society, 316
Motion, or Velocity and Acceleration, 33
Moy and Shill, Messrs., Non-Radiating Steam Engine, 48, 54, 66, 112
Napier and Sons, Messrs. R., Sections of Cylindersand Details of Compound Marine Engine, 270-H.P., 383 348 ’ ’
Naval Engineers, 405
Navy, The United States, 99
Neuberg Steel Works, Styria, 361, 370, 404
New Gas Company, Prospectus, 71
Newport Mills Industrial Partnerships, Annual Meeting, 142
Newsvendors’ Benevolent and Provident Institution, 219 ’
New Zealand. Progress in, 126
Nickel, The Supply of, 353
JJolet, M., Expansive Engine, 168, 172, 184
North fleet Relief Fund Exhibition, 239
Notes from Lancashire, 32. 45, 60, 75, 89 105 121 185
,3U9-$-
321, 352, 361,369, 386, 401 ’ ’ ’
N^aS Scotland» 16, 32, 46, 60. 75, 90. 106 121 136
35 ’ - ’ 2111 243' 260’ 276> 292> 31®: 32M446:
oil, o>M,
Notices to Con-espondents, 10, 25, 41, 55, 69, 85, 99, Ila, 131, 14a, la8, 173, 189, 205, 221, 237 253 269 285,303, 319,337, 353, 371, 387. 403 ’ ’ '
Obelisk of Alexandria, Mechanical Means of Removing, 67, 83, 96
Obituary
Barrett, Mr. Alfred. 6
Condres, Louis de, 86
Greenwood. Mr. Thomas, 113
Jones, Dr. H. Bence, 251
Liebig, Baron Justus, 253
Rankine Professor W. J. Macquorn, Notice in the
Journal of the Franklin Institute, 282
Thomson, Mr R. W., 156
Tite, Sir William, 255
Olmstead, Mr. J., Magneto-Electric Brake North
London Railway, 154
Opening of the International Exhibition, 229
Overloading of Steamers, Mr. J. W. Richardson nt th a
Institution of Naval Architects, 281 the
Oxford Main Drainage. 142
Oxygen, Mr. Mallet’s Method of Producing 64
Oyster, A Patent, 198
Palace, the Alexandra, 371
Pasteur, Al. J. D., Submarine Lamp, 151
Patent International Congress, 185
Patent Law and the New Lord Chancellor, 38
Patent Law in Prussia, 261
Patent Law Reform, Proposed, 115
Payne, Messrs., Feed-water Heater, 183
Peat Condensing, Messrs. Clayton and Howlett, 86, 107. Ill, 20.6
Peat Works, Mr. F. Healy, 206
Petersen, Mr. W., Steam Lifeboat, 126
Petherick and Rock, Messrs., Safety Valves, 380 Phosphorised Bronze for Cannon, 132 Piles, Protecting, 174
Piston, Steam Packet, 250, 282
Planing Machine, Duplex, Mr. A. Moore Thompson, loZ
Plate Girders, On the Depths of 22
| Port Patrick Cable, The, 7
Portugal, Steam Tramways in, 166
“ Power Jumper,” The, 125
Pre-Patent Protection, 42, 53, 82
Printing, Air. S. Cropper’s Platen, 65
Private Bills, 71, 132. 180, 207
Private Bills Deposited, 2
Private Bills, the Estimates, 26
Propellers, Fitting Screw, 382
Protection of Inventions at tho Vienna Exhibition, 23 Prussia, Patent Law in, 261
Public Works of the Second Empire, 100
Public Works in Turkey, 7
Ruddier, Air. Broomhall, 279
Pulp-making Machinery, Demand for, 113
Pump, Mr. Schmid’s, 216
Raft, Mr. E. Farrell’s, C.E., Life Saving, 282 Railroads, Wooden, 26
Railway Carriagesand Wagons, 179—Table of Working Expenditure, Half-year, December 1871, 187
Railway, Egyptian, 123
Matters, 3, 19, 35, 49, 63, 79, 97, 109, 129, 139, 3697: «i’ 21s> 236’ 25112681283-297- 821’361-
Railway Routes to India, 382, M. Lesseps’ Project, 387 Railways in Central Asia, 348 Railways in China, 71 Railways, Indian, 368, 400 Railways, Narrow Gauge, 214 Railways in Victoria, 127 Railways in War, 301
Rankine, Professor, and the Highland and Agricultural Society, 52 &
Rankine C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., W. J. M., Remarks on Binary Vapour Engines, 395
Rankine, The Late Professor, On Waves in Liquids, Out)
Regulating Alarine Engines, Air. Menton, 207 itei^d, C.E., Mr. R. C., On Mortar and Concrete, at the
Edinburgh and Leith Engineers’ Society, 316
Report. The Patent Gas, 42
Resistance of Woods to Torsional Strain, 310
Results of the Trials of Portable Engines at Cardiff, 231
Reynolds, M-A., Air. Osborne, Causes of the Racing of the Engines of Screw Steamers—Institution of Nava Architects, 295
Richardson, Air. J. W., On the Overloading of Steamers —Institution of Naval Architects, 281
Robertson, Air. J., Rolling Fluid Steel, 2, 4
Robey and Co., Messrs., 8-Horse Power Horizontal Engine. Vienna Exhibition, 298
Rochussen and Daelen, Messrs., Steel, 249 Rolling Fluid Steel, Air. J. Robertson, 2, 4 Rolling Stock, Improved Railway, 23 Routes to Vienna, 287
Ruahine and Liffey, Engines and Boilers, Messrs.
Day and Summers, 234, 236
Runquist, Air. R., Oscillating Governor, 265, 266 Russian Alinistry of Marine. 296
Sacre, Air. C., Composite Carriage, Alanchester, Shef-field, and Lincolnshire Railway, 266, 267
Saddles, Alilitary. 250
Safes, Mr. Elwell’s, 398
Safety Valve Competition for £100, 247
St. Gothard Railway, Tho, 65, 94, 168
Sale of Wood Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, 146
Sam al and Berouson, At Al., Bleaching, 71
Scaffolding used in Repairing the Paris Pantheon, M. Louvet, 144, 146
Schmid, Air., Pumps, 216
Science in Japan, Progress of, 377
Sea Sickness, Prevention of, 349
Semmering. Over the, 338
Sewage, Disposal of, 319
Sewing Alachine for Heavy Work, Wheeler, Wilson, and Co., 80 ’
Shaw s Tuyere, for Smiths’ Hearths, Messrs. Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
Sheet Iron on Railways, 380
Sheffield District, 16, 31, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 135, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 259, 276, 292, 310, 326, 360. 378, 394, 408
Shipbuilders’ Competition between British and Foreign, 353 -
Ship Canal, Proposed—India and Ceylon, 377 Shipping Trade, 151
Ships, Ironclad, 221
Ships’ Lines, 313, 334
Ships, Wooden, 156
Shoeburyness, Experiments on Carriages and Rockets, 123
Sicilian Resources, 127
Siebe, Gorman, and Christy’s, Ship Raising Steamer,
Siemens, Air. C. W., Steel Process, 185
Signalling Apparatus, as Fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, Air. S. A. Varley, 395
Signalling on Railways—Block System, 368
Signalling at Sea, 96
Signalling, Submarine Friction, Dynamometers'and Deep Sea Soundings, Sir W. Thomson, Ou, 174
Sigi, Herr G., 8-Wheeled Goods Engine, Southern Railway of Austria, 336
Sizes and Construction of the Portable Steam Engines tried at Cardiff. Messrs. Eastons and Anderson, 230 Smelting Apparatus. Air. Erick Lundquist, 383 Society, The Agricultural:—
List of Prizes, 349
Society, Amalgamated Engineers’, 207
Society of Arts :—
Gas Lighting by Electricity, Air. W. Lloyd Wise,, C.E., 142
Society for Buenos Ayres, The Scientific, 372
Society, Cail and Co., Paris, 6
Society, The Chemical, 185
Action of Bromine on Alizarine, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S.,397
Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Codeine, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 156
Action of Sodium on Aniline, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 92
Air Bath of Constant Temperature between 100 deg. and 200 deg. C2, H. Springel, 156 Anthrapurpurine, Air. W. H. Perkin, 92
Aurin, Air. R S. Dale, B.A., and Air. C. Schorlem-mer, F.R.S.,128
Communication from the Laboratory of the London Institution, Dr. H. G. Armstrong, 224
Cymene from Different Sources Optically Considered, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 397
Cymenes from Various Sources, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 224
Decomposition of Tri-Calcic Phosphate by Water, Air. R. Warrington, 397
Detection of Ammonia in the Atmosphere, Air. I. H. Snell, 128
Determining with Great Exactness the Specific Gravity of Liquids, Dr. H. Sprengel. 224
Dioxides of Calcium and Strontium, Sir J. Conway, Bart,ALA., 364
Society, The Chemical :—
Estimating Nitric Acid, T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.E., 156
Ethyl Amyl, Mr. Harry Grimshaw, 67
Heat Produced by Chemical Action, Dr. Debus, 254
Hepbanes from Petroleum, Dr. C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 67
Influence of Pressure on Fermentation. Part II., Influence of Reduced Pressure on Alcoholic Fermentation, Mr. Horace T. Brown, 397
Iodine Nonochloride, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
Isomerism, Dr. Armstrong, 311
Isomerism in the Terpene Family of Hydrocarbons, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 92
Mercury Estimation and Mercury Salts, J. B. Hannay, 156
Nature of the Black Deposit in the Copper Zinc Couple, Dr. Gladstone, and G. Tribe, F.C.S., 156
Nature and Some Derivatives of Coal Tar Cresol, H. E. Armstrong and C. L. Field, 397
New Class of Explosives, Dr. H. Sprengel, 281
New Tellurium Mineral, with Notes on a Systematic Mineralogical Nomenclature, J. B. Hannay, 397
Note on the Relation among the Atomic Weights, J. A. R. Newlands, 397
Notes on Various Chemical Reactions, Mr. Davies, 67
Oxidation and Decomposition Products of Morphine Derivatives, E. L. Mayer and C. R. A. Wright, 397
Pyrogallate of Lead, and on Lead Salts, Mr. W. H. Deering, 281
Reaction of the Acetates upon Lead Salts, Mr. F. Field, F.R.S., 156
Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribo, 198
Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies, Iodides of Amyl and Methyl, Dr. Gladstone, &c., and A. Tribe, 224
Researches on the Action of the Copper Zinc Couple on Organic Bodies III. on Normal and Isopropyl Iodides, Dr. Gladstone and A. Tribe, 397
Solidification of Nitrous Oxide, Mr. T. Wills. 128
Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
Sulphur Bromide, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 364
Triferrous Phosphide, Mr. R. Schenk, 364
Vanadates of Thallium, Mr. Thomas Carnelly, 67 Zirconia, Mr. J. B. Hannay, 281
Society of Civil Engineers, American :— • Experiments on the Resistance of Stones to Crushing, C. B. Richards, M.E., 92
Pneumatic Foundations, Gen. W. Sovy Smith, 300
Pneumatic Piles, Mr. R. Cartwright, C.E.. 301
Rail Economy, C. P. Sandberg, C.E., 6, 382
Record of Some Experiments Showing the Character and Position of Neutral Axes as Seen by Polarised Light, Louis Nickerson, C.E., 78
Retaining Walls, Mr Casinni Constable, 166
Rock Drilling, F. Collingwood, C.E., 92
Screw Piles for Supporting a 24in. Water Main Across the Providence River, Mr. C. D. Ward, C.E., 301
Shaw’s Gunpowder Pile-driver, Samuel R. Probasco, C.E.,882
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 368
Various Kinds of Condensing Apparatus for Engines, Mr. E. Perrett, 108
Visit to the Extension Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 18
Society, The Cornwall Polytechnic, 298
Society of East Belgium, The Agricultural, 124
Society of Engineers, 47, 397
Charging and Drawing Gas Retorts, Mr. John Somerville, 362
Continuous Railway Brakes, Mr. W. H. Fox, C.E., 142, 152
Horse Railways and Steam Tramways, Mr. Henry Gore, 246
Railway Train Intercommunication, Mr. S. A. Varley, 395
Visit to the Albert Bridge, 315
Society of Engineers, Manchester, 96
Society, Manchester Scientific and Mechanical 234, 250, 332
Steam Jacket, its Advantages and Disadvantages—is it Truly Economical? Mr. A. Hildebrandt. 113
Strength of Materials, Especially Considering the Effects of Sudden Fluctuations in the Shape of Structures, Professor Osborne Reynolds, 71
Travelling Cranes, Mr. Theodore Grosse, 191
Ventilation of Mines, Mr. J. Hecking, 138
Society, The Meteorological:—
Land and Sea Breezes, Mr. J. K. Laughton, 348
Land and Sea Breezes, Rev. L. W. Stow, 348
Society, The Royal:—
Action of Light on the Electrical Resistance of Silenium, Lieut. Sale, R.E., 335
Ah* Battery, Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Tribe, 254
Anatomy and Histology of Land Planarians of Ceylon, Mr. Moseley, 171
Bacteria, Mr. H. Charlton Bastian, 171, 280
Bakerian Lecture, Earl of Rosse, 254
Condensation of a Mixture of Air and Steam upon Cold Surfaces, Mr. Osborne Reynolds, 280
Curvature and Orthogonal Surfaces, Professor Cayley, 171 J
Distribution of the Invertebrate in Relation to the Theory of Evolution, Dr. Macdonald, 254
Durability and Preservation of Iron Ships, and on Riveted Joints, Sir William Fairbairn, 280
Effect of Pressure on the Character of the Spectra of Gases, Messrs. Steam and Lee, 281
Employment of Meteorological Statistics in Determining the Course for a Ship whose Sailing Qualities are Known, Mr. Francis Galton, 280
Ethyl and Methyl Aniline, Mr. J. Spiller, 171
Further Remarks on the Sense of Sight in Birds, Mr. R. J. Lee, 67
Heat and Electricity, Mr. F. Guthrie, 171
Leaf Arrangement, Dr. Herbert Airy, 171
Magnetic Observations in the Britannia and Conway Tubular Iron Bridges, Sir George Biddell Airy, 67
Magnetic Survey of Belgium, Rev. S. J. Perry, 171
Motion of a Body About a Fixed Point, Mr. E. J. Routh, 254
New Formula for a Microscopic Object Glass, Mr. J. H. Wenham, 83
New Locality of Amblygonite, and on Montebrasite, M. des Cloiseaux, 171
New Method of Viewing the Chromosphere, Messrs.
J. N. Lockyer and G. M. Seabroke, 67
Note on an Erroneous Extension of Jacobi’s Theorem, Mr. J. Todhunter, 83
Observations on the Temperature of the Arctic Sea near Spitzbergen, Captain J. C. Wells, R.N., 67
Organisation of Certain Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, Professor W. C. Williamson, 67
Osteology of Hyopotamidaj, Dr. W. Kowalevsky
Periodicity of Rainfall in Connection with the
Sun Spot Periodicity, Mr. C. Meldrum, 335
Researches in Spectrum Analysis in Connection with the Spectrum of the Sun, Mr. J. N. Lockyer
Structure of Striped Muscular Fibre, Mr. Schafer, 254 ’
Supersaturated Saline Solutions,
171
Mr. C. Tomlinson,
Synthesis of Marsh Gas and Formic Acid, and on the Electric Decomposition of Carbonic Oxide, Sir B. C. Brodie, 254
Temperature at which Bacteria, &c., and their Supposed Germs are Killed when Immersed in Fluid, or Exposed to Heat in a Moist State, Dr. Bastian. 254
Union of Ammonia Nitrate with Ammonia, Dr. E. Divers, 67
Vapour Density of Potassium, Mr. J. Dewar and Mr. W. Dittmar, 171
Visible Direction, Dr. James Jago, 171
Wide Slit Method of Viewing Solar Prominences, Mr. Higgins, 98
Society, The Royal Microscopic :—
Crystallisation of Metals by Electricity under the Microscope, Mr. Philip Braham, 216
Society of Telegraph Engineers. 130, 334
Address of the President, Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, 33
Block System of Working on Railways, Captain Mallock. 296
Block System of Working on Railways, Mr. W. H.
Preece, 296
Common Source of Error in Measurement of Currents of Short Duration, when Using Galvanometers with Shunts, Mr. Latimer Clark, 83
Direct Method of Determining Battery Resistances, Mr. Von Chauvin, 31
Earth Currents, Mr. Stout, 201
Earth Currents, Mr. G. K. Winter, 201
Experiences in India. Mr. Ayrton, 254
ImprovedTom of Joule’s Tangent Galvanometer, Sir W. Thomson, 34
Iron Telegraph Poles, Mr. W. Siemens, 143
Lightning and Lightning Conductors, Mr. Graves, <54
Measurement of Electrostatic Capacity, Sir W.
Thomson. 83 J
Riband Telegraph Poles, Mr. Robert Bristow Lee, 143
Telegraph Poles, Lieut. Jekyll. R.E., 143
Telegraph Poles, Major Webber, 143
Testing Lengths of Highly Insulated Wire, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., 254
Somerset Dock at Malta, 56
South Cleveland Ironworks, Limited, 142
South-Eastern Railway, New Suburban Station, New Cross. 377
South Kensington Museum, 7, 23, 53. 76, 80, 110, 128, 143, 207, 228, 238, 247, 276, 282, 296, 312, 330, 346, 365, 384, 400
Sparrow, Mr. J. W., Collecting Blast Furnace Waste
Gases, 37
Special Rules at the Lancashire Collieries, 377
Spindle Step, Mr. Henry, 398
Spontaneous Ignition of Oiled Cotton or Silk Waste 174
Steam to Australia, 165
Steamers, Channel, 22
Steamers, Overloading of, 281, 314, 349
Steamers to South America, N.w Line of, 372
Steel, Prize for, Council of the Society of Arts, 92
Steel Process, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 185
Steel, Producing Direct from the Ore, Messrs. Rochus-
sen and Daelen, 249
Steel ? What is, 364, 393
Steel Works in Styria, The Neuberg, 361, 370, 404
Steering Screw, Captain Bremner, 110
Stone Breaker and Traction Engine for the Ceylon
Railway, Mr. Blake’s, 110
Stone and Ore Crushing Machine, Mr. J. C. Cole’s, 155
Streets, The Engineer in the, 285
Strike, The End of the, 173
Strike in South Wales, 41. 55
Stroudley, Mr. W., Six-Coupled Tank Engine, London
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 1^5. (See also Supplement.)
Stroudley, Mr. W., Details of Tank Locomotive, Lon-don and Brighton Railway, 140, 186, 191
W., I’ank Engine lor Metropolitan
Traffic, South London Railway, 34, 40
Stuffing Boxes, Mr. Watteeu’s, Metallic, 216
Submarine Mine Experiments, Stokes Bay, 263, 298
Sub-Wealden Exploration, 125
Suckling, Mr. N. F., Sectional Steam Boiler, 127
Suez, Construction of a New Port at, 400
Swedish Iron Rolling Stock and Implement Works, 241
Swedish Pig Iron, 191
System, The Contract, 372
Tay Bridge, The, 197, 200, 204, 209, 220
Taylor, Mr. S., Waterloo Flour Mills, 21
Tees, The River, 303
Telegraphy, Practical Papers on, 339
Tensile btreagth of American and English Iron and
Steel, 138
Thickness Necessary to bo Given to Conduit Pipes to Enable their Walls to Resist the Shock of the Moving Liquid Column when Suddenly Arrested, Mr. Robt. Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., 327
Thompson, Mr. A. Moore, Duplex Planing Machine, 182
Thomson, Sir W., On Submarine Signalling, Friction
Dynamometers and Deep Sea Soundings, 174
Thwaites, C.E., Mr. C., Appointment to the Office of
City Engineer and Surveyor for Norwich, 143
Time at the Antipodes, 108
Tires, Iron and Steel, 403
Torpedo, Captain Ericsson, 21
Torpedo Launch, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley’s, Steam, 51
Torpedoes in Naval Actions, Offensive Use of, 159
Tracing Paper, 166
Trade in Sheffield, 380
Trades Unions and Legislation, 55
Training, Professional, 387
Trains, Mr. E. Gilbert’s Electrical Communication for, 326
Tramways of Bahia, Central, 94
Tramways in Lisbon, Steam, IS
Tramways at Lisbon, Mr. C. F. Trevithick, 232, 233
Tramways in Portugal, 166
Tramways, Street, 334
Tramways, Street, Mr. H. Gore, at the Society of Engineers, 248
Trial of Breech-loading Arms at the Springfield
Armoury, 2
Tunnel, Mont Cenis, 174
Turf Fuel in Holland, Production of, 400
Turret of H.M.S. Hotspur, Fixed, 37
Tuyere for Smiths’ Hearths, Mrs. Shaw, Messrs,
Crowley and Co., Makers, 110
Type, Composing and Distributing Machine, M. Kas-tenbein, 262, 263
Underground Railways in America, 346
United States Manufacturing Company, Expanding Tap for Couplings, 155
Utilising Old Iron, 382
Valve, Messrs. J. Chandler and Co.’s Compound Lever Ball, 21
Valve, Messrs. Coxhead and Miller’s Regulator, 127, 153
Valve, Mr. W. Dawson’s Safety, 155
Valves, Corliss, 202
Valves, Messrs. Petherick and Rock’s Safety, 380
Valve, Safety, 185
Varley, Mr. S. A., Signalling Apparatus, as fitted to the Royal Train, London and North-Western Railway, 395
Varnish for Labels, 382
Viaduct on the Whitby, Redcar, and Middlesbrough Railway, 151, 158
Vienna Exhibition, 42, 238, 269, 270, 286, 293, 311, 345 ’
Brake, Messrs. Eastons and Anderson’s 20-horse power Friction, 373
Building, Cross Section of Nave and Transepts, 17, 26 >
Engine, Herr G. Lcssner’s, 25-horse power Condensing Expansive, 399, 402, 405
Engine, Pumping, Erste Brunner Maschinen
Fabriks Gesselschaft, 381, 385
Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co.’s, 8 horse-power Horizontal, 289
Engines, 293
Gun, Russian 40-ton, Abouchoff Steel Works 398
Jur.es, . 56, 182
Locomotive. Passenger, for the Carl Ludwigsbahn, Herr E. Kessler. 350, 351, 355, 366, 368
Map of Routes, 287
Protection of Inventions, 23
Rotunda of the Building, 287
Vienna Exhibition and the United States, 34
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 46, 60, 76, 90, 106, 122, 136, 150, 164, 178, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 276, 292, 310, 326, 344, 360, 378, 394, 408
Walser. Mr. F., Fire Engine, 317, 318
War, The Ashantec, 320
Water Power on the Shannon at Killaloe, 299
Water Power in Relief of Steam, 189
Water Supply, Metropolitan, 199
Watteeu, Mr., Metallic Stuffing Boxes, 216
Wave Propulsion, 7
Waves in Liquids, Late Professor Rankine, 330
Weight of Railway Iron per Mile, 382
Westinghouse Brake on the Metropolitan District
Railway, 100, 113
Wheeler and Wilson Company’s Sewing Machine for
Heavy Work, 80
Whitby and Middlesbrough Railway, Mr. Dixon’s Piers, 151
Whitmore andBinyon’s, Messrs., Longitudinal Section of Waterloo Flour Mills, 34, 36, 95, 98—Transverse Section, 50
Wigan Colliery Explosion, 365
Wilson, Messrs., 35-ton Double Acting Steam Hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, 250, 252
Windmills, Pumping by, 128
Wood-Working Machinery, Burdett-road, Limehouse, Sale of, 146
Woolwich Arsenal, Tram Plates at, 53
Woolwich Infant, Interior of the late, SI
Work Done. Accumulated Work, or Kinetic Energy, and Pis Viva, 61
Wright’s Gas Producer, 182
Yarrow and Hedley’s, Messrs., Steam Torpedo Launch 51
Yates, Mr., Safety Lamp, 183
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