The Engineer 1874 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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Accident, The Merthyr, 405
Accidents, Railway, 153, 185 .
Admiralty Appointments, 417
Admiralty Experiments on Screw Propulsion, 188
Aeronautical Experiment of I’Etoile Polaire, 248
African, S.S., 115
African, Boiler of S.S., Mr. J. Key, 114, 116
African, S.S., Compound Engines of the Union S.S.
Co.’s, Mr. John Key, 97, 99, 100, 164,172
Agricultural Machinery for Russia, 343
Agricultural Society’s Show at Bedford, The Royal, 406
Albert Hall, The, 167
Alexander and Hoskin, Messrs. 10-H.P., Horizontal
Engine, with Variable Expansion, 404
Algeria, Works in, 42
Alloys of Iron and Manganese, 12
Amazon, Navigation of the, 314
American Cannel, 68
American Competition in Birmingham, 838
American Iron Trade, 65
American Ordnance, 12
American Pig Iron Market, 58
American Ships of War, 270
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Double Plunger Steam
Fire Engine, 96
Anchor Thread Works, Paisley, 22
Annual Article, 7
Application of Electric Semaphores to the Block
System, 416
Asphalte, Granite, and Wood, 43
Association of Engineers and Shiijbuilders’ Draughtsmen, 295
Association oe Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London, 80,89, 166, 219
Dinner, 219
Association of Foremen Engineers (continued'):— Drainage in Reference to Health, and Sewage as a
Fertiliser, Mr- R- Winder, 110
• Higher Education of Artisans, Rev. H. Solly, 398 Luke’s Safety Point Locks, Mr.W.Smith,A.I.C.E.,245 Power Couplings for Heavy Machinery, Mr. Fred.
Varley, 398
Pumping Machinery for Emptying New Graving Docks, Chatham, Mr. George Banks Rennie, 310
Self-regulating and Adjusting Apparatus for Distance Signal Wires, for Railways, Mr. G. W. Benyon, 398
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 368
Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, 4, 162
Address of President, Mr. Lewis Angell, 402 Building and Sanitary Bye-laws, Mr. Lemon, 402 Cement Process, Major-General Scott, C.B., 403 Drying Process, Mr. Milburn, 403
Gas Street Lighting, Mr. T. A. Skelton, 403 Phosphate Process, Mr. Tanner, 403 Sewage Difficulty, Mr. E. Monson, 402 Sewage of Wrexham, Col. Jones, V.C., 403
Sewer Ventilation, Mr. E. P. Ellice Clarke, C.E., 402 Sulphate of Alumina Process, Dr. Anderson, 402 Whitthread’s Process, Mr. Prange, 402
Arbitration, 277
Armstrong Gun at Shoeburyness, The, 243
Arsenal, A Central, 361
Artillery, French, 73
Artistic Mouldings and Ornament as applicable to Engineering, 61, 86, 99
Bath and West of England and Southern Counties Society, 393
Bearings, Cohne’s Anti-Lubricative, 185, 237
Bell Casting in Ireland, 343
Bellegarde, 195, 198, 209, 213, 216, 227, 234, 247, 250, 291
Bell’s Economisers, 264
Benbow, Explosion on Board the, 135,157
Bessemer Saloon Steamer, The, 420
Bessemer Steel Rail, Age of, 11
Birmingham Sewage Schemes, 126
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 166, 275, 293, 296, 315, 323, 326, 842, 370, 391, 418
Blasting with Dynamite exploded by Electricity in rhe Forest of Dean, 401
Block System, Application of Electric Semaphores to the, 416
Boat Lowering Apparatus, Mr. A. C. Folkard, C.E., 221
Boiler Explosion, The Blackburn, 166, 275, 293, 296, 315, 323, 326, 342, 376, 391, 418
Boiler, Messrs. Dennis and Co.’s Hot Water, 401
Boiler Explosion, The Bolton, 80
Boiler Explosions, 299, 324, 326, 385
Boiler Flues, Cleaning, 886
Boiler, Mr. Hill’s Vertical, Manchester Exhibition, 78
Boiler, Messrs. Jones and Son’s Water Tube, 231
Boilers, M.-Dingier, 262
Boiler Tubes as Stays, 149
Boilers of S.S. African, Mr. John Key, 114, 116
Boilers, Mr. W. Bowker, 324
Boilers, Donkey, 314
Boilers, Horse-Power of, 25, 42
Boilers in the Navy, 329
I Boilers, Steel for, 89
l Boilers, Water Tube, 385
Bolton Boiler Explosion, 80
Bowker, Mr. W., Boilers, 324
Boxer-Shrapnell, The, 12
Brake, The Heberlein, 42, 49, 61
Brake, Trials with Clarke’s Patent, 341
Brake, The Westinghouse, 296
Bridge over the Neva, Messrs. Ordish and Am Ende, 4, 6, 86, 67, 76
Bridge between St. Servan and St. Malo, M. Leroyer’s
Rolling, 386
Bridge, Wandsworth, 99
British Association
St. Gothard Tunnel, M. Charles Bergeron, C.E., 19
Bronze Casting under Artificial Pressure, Col.
Lavroff, 22
Buildings, Fireproof, 167
Buoy, M. Roturier’s Life, 22
Cabs, Improved, 343
Caithness, Earl of, Gravitation Compass, 307, 308
Canadian Sawdust Furnaces, 186
Cannon Revolver, The Hotchkiss, 40
Capital and Labour, 235, 245, 296
Capital and Labour in France, 324
Carpenter, Prof., On the Results of the Temperature Survey of the Atlantic by H.M.S. Challenger, 309, 325, 348, 374, 387
Carriages with Gas, Herr Pintsch's System of Lighting Railway, 417, 419
Cars and Omnibuses, Dimensions of Street, 219
Cask Making Machinery, M. Gaillon, 312, 316
Cement, Testing, 56
Chance for Younger Sons, 310
Channel Steamer, The Dicey, 377
Chemical Prizes, 103
Chemical Trade in 1873, IS
Cheque Payments, 278
Chimney Straightening at the Royal Arsenal, 248
Chinese Arsenal, 115,
Chinese Frigate, Launch of, 238
Chinese Lacquer, 268i
City of London Directory, 167
Clarke’s Brake, Trials with, 341,
Cleveland District, 16, 34, 63, 71, 92, 108, 125, 144,160 i Cleveland Mines Ventilation, The, 344,
Clocks, Electro Sympathetic, 167
Clough Hall Tunnel, North Staffordshire Railway, >
Mr. J. C. Forsyth, C.E., 388, 390
Clyde, New Works on the, 30i
Coal Cutting Machinery, Messrs. Hurd and Simpson, 263, 266I
Coal, Eeonomy of, 54
Coal Gas, Substitutes for, 103
Coal in India, 139
Coal Mining in China, 75
Coal Mining, The Possible of, 201
Coal at Sandwell Park, 237, 264
Coal Trade Revelations, 274
Coal,' Weathering of, 120
Colliers’ Strike at Bristol, 421
Comparative Strain of Dead Weight Levers and
Hydraulic Indicator, 412
Compass, Earl of Caithness’ Gravitation, 307, 308
Competition, Belgian, 185
Condenser, Messrs. C. and W. Walker’s Annular
Wrought Iron, 294
Condensers, Low Pressure, 202
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 345
Co-operation, 251
Corrosion of Boilers, 74,115
Cowan, Mr., Heating Apparatus, 386
Crane, Messrs. Gardie and Co.’s Portable Steam, 237
Crane, Mr. C. E. Loribre, Vienna Exhibition, 58
Crichton, Messrs., Steam Launch for the Emperor of
Russia’s Yacht Dershafva, 387
Crown, Contracts of the, 391
Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering, 293
Cube Roots, Extracting, 115
Cubic Contents of a Ton, 4
Cupola, Voisin’s Flameless, 418
Cupolas, Ireland’s, 385
Curves, Tracing, 149
Cylinder Question, The, 115
Cylinders, Condensation in Steam, 217, 267, 280
Cylinders, 8teel, 64
Danks Furnace, Messrs. Robson, Coles, Price, and Co.’s Combined Squeezers and Bloom Dividers for the, 401
Deacon, C.E., Mr., WasteWater Meter, 59, 60
Deep Coal Working in the Future, 313
Dennis and Co., Messrs., Hot Water Boiler, 401
Derham, Mr. J. J., Horizontal Engine, 196
Design, Prize, 83,99
Destruction of Sound by Fog and the Inertness of a Heterogeneous Fluid, Prof. O. Reynolds, M.A., Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 88
Dictator, The, 264
Dingier, M., Boilers, 262
Disappearing Guns, Moncrief! and other Systems, 127, 145
Drainage, Dublin Main, 38, 268, 418, 419
Dundee Water Works, 4
Duplex Telegraphy, 337
Duties in France, Proposed New, 22
Dynamite, Dangers of, 204
Dynamite, Experiments with, 188
Dynamometer for the Royal Agricultural Society, Messrs. Eastons and Anderson’? Horse, 358, 363
Earth, The Temperature of, 227
Eastons and Anderson, Messrs., Horse Dynamometer for the Royal Agricultural Society, 358, 363
Edinburgh University, 261
Eickemeyer Engine, 24
Eider Ship Canal, The, 103
Electric Light, Messrs. Ladygin and Kosloff, 807
Embankments, River, 362
Engine, Blackwell Colliery, Messrs. Mather and
Platt’s Underground Hauling, 262
Engine for the Bhore Ghaut Incline, Messrs, Neilson and Co.’s 8-Wheeled Tank, 3
Engine and Carriage Builders, Russian, 102
Engine, Mr. J. J. Derham’s Horizontal, 196
Engine Economy, 55
Engine, The Eickemeyer, 2, 4
Engine, Messrs. Field and Cotton’s Expansive, 230
Engine of the Oliver Wolcott, 418
Engine for the Pittsburgh Waterworks, Mr. A.
Hartupee, 359, 363, 373
Engine and Pumps, Messrs. Leete, Edwards, and Norman’s Combined, 400
Engines, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 12-11. P.
Portable, South Kensington, 376
Engine, Mr. A. Rigg’s, Rotary Hydraulic, 230
Engine, Messrs. Scheller and Berchtola, 151, 156 {See 1 also Supplement.)
Engine, Messrs. Tangye Brothers and Holman’s l 18-H.P. Horizontal Expansive, 62, 66
Engine of S.S. Terniers, 120-H.P. Nominal, Messrs.
John Jones and Sons, Compound, 22
Engines with Variable Expansion, Messrs. Alexander and Hoskins, 10-H.P. Horizontal, 404
Engine, Messrs. Wyss and Studer’s, Water Pressure, 278 Engineering, Crystal Palace School of Practical, 203 Engineers in the U.S. Navy, 324
Engines of the S.S. African, Mr. John Key, 97, 99, 100, 164,172
Engines, American Marine, 20
Engines, Compound, 185, 197
Engines, Doc Park Colliery, Messrs. Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, 165,168
Engines, Fairlie, 130
Engines, Four Coupled Traction, 24,42, 86
Engines, Messrs. Leather, Matthews, and Co.’s Winding, 220
Engines at Morton Colliery, Mr. W. Howe’s 200-H.P.
Winding, 279, 280, 282
Engines at the New Post Office, The Blowing, 270
Engines, Single Marine, 26, 42, 61, 115, 149,185, 197
Engines, Spanish Marine, 89
Engines, Messrs. Verey and Lange’s Steam Launch,, 401
Engines at Vienna, 246
English Work Abroad, 342
Estimating Brick in Furnace Lining, 277
Euclid, 167
Evans, Mr. C. A., Stability of Towers and Chimneys, 37 Exhibition, The London International, 43, 55, <60, 267, 413
Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Messrs. 12-H.P. Porta Die Engine, 376
Exhibition at Manchester, 2, 47, 77, 93, 112, 132, 140, 172, 182, 197, 203
Exhibition of Sanitary Appliances, 396
Explosion, The Ashton Colliery, 280
Experiments with the Bow and Stern Screw Propeller, 171
Experiments with Compressed Gun Cotton, 897
Facts for Steam Users, Mr. Fleming, Glasgow, 310
Fan Ventilation of Mines, Testing a New Patent at;
Darfield Main Cslliery, near Barnsley, 202
Faraday, Launch of the, 174, 335
Fastest Steamer in the World, The, 285
Feed Heater, Sambrook’s, 167, 185, 197
Field and Cotton, Messrs., Compound Steam Pumps, 335
Field and Cotton, Messrs., Expansive Engine, 230
Filter Pump, Prof. Foote on thv Modification of the
Jagu Vacuum, or, 231
Fire Alarm, Messrs. Sparkes and Marsh, 374
Fire Brigade, the London, 68
Fire, Conquering, 280
Fire Engine, Double Plunger Steam, Amosks^gManufacturing Company, 98
Fire Engine for the Metropolitan Fire Brigad^.’ Messrs. Shand, Mason, and Co.’s Single Horizontal .Steam. 413, 416
Fireless Locomotive, The, 135'
Floating Bath on the Thames 343’
Floors, Mr. J. Whichcord’s Firoproof, 400
Flushing Harbour, 61 . , .
Folkard, Mr. A. C., Boat Lowering; Apparatus, 221
Foote, Prof., Ona Modification of the Jagu \ acuumor
Filter Pump, 231
Force and Matter, 187.
Forsyth, C.E., Mr. J. C., Clough Hall Tunnel, North
Staffordshire Railway, 196, 199
Fothergill, Mr. B., Subscription for, 404
Foundations, Concrete, 217,
Fownes and Co., Messrs. H., Stern Brackets foi
Chilian Ironclads, 400
French Artillery, 73
Fuel Economisers, 185, 237, 280, 296
Fuel, Patent, 202
Fuel, Peat, 130 _r.
Furnace Feeder at the New Post Office, Messrs. Vicars
and Smith, 136
Furnace Lining, Estimating Brick m, 277
Furnace, The Pohsard, 66
Furnace, The Woolwich, 300
Furnaces, Canadian Sawdust, 186
Furnaces, Improvements in Cupola, 342
Gaillon’s Cask Making Machinery, 312, 316
Garvel Graving Dock, Greenock, 248
Garvie and Co., Messrs., Portable Steam Crane, 23S ,
Gas Meter in the World, The Largest, Oldham Company, 295
I Gas Revision, 169
Gauges, Steam, 61
Gauging, Hydraulic Formulas for, 245
I Geographical Congress and Exhibition, 2>SI
1 Geometrical Teaching, Association for the Improvc-
I ment of, 101I
I German Fortification, 74
I German Ironclad Fleet, The, 204,
Gibson and Vowell, Messrs., Governor, 2
Gold Mining in New Zealand, Pumping Station,
■ Imperial Crown Mine, 179i
I Governor, Messrs. Gibson and Vowell, 2
I Governor, Mr. W. Mein, 416 .|
Grafton and Beal, Messrs., Wheel Tire, 400
I Graving Dock, Accommodation at Belfast, 115j
I Guattari’s Pneumatic Telegraph, 340, 842
Gunboats for Germany, 72 <
Gun Carriages, Major Moncncff s Hydro-Pneumatic, 28
GunCotton. Experiment with Compressed, 397
I Gun at Shoeburyness, The Armstrong, 243 |
Gun, The 81-Ton, 275
I Gun, The Vavasseur Ribbed, 170
Guns and Armour, 201 .
I Guns and Carriages for H.M.S. Hotspur, Captain | Scott, 20, 23
I Guns, Disappearing, 167
I Haddan, Mr. J. L., Pioneer, or Steam Caravan, 82, 86.
Hammer, Woolwieh, 35-Ton Steam, 369
I Hammers, Messrs. Thwaites and Carbutt’s, Steam, Sir
W. G. Armstrong and Co.’s Works, 326, 344
Hartupee, Mr. A., Pumping Engine, Pittsburgh Waterworks, 359, 363, 373
I Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Messrs., Differential Pumping Engines at Doe Park Colliery, 165,168
Heating Apparatus, Mr. Cowan’s, 386
I Heat and Water, 405 I
I Heaton Steel Process, The, 338
I Heberlein Brake, Tho, 42, 49, 61
I Hee-hawing by Machinery, 256
I Holbom Viaduct Station. 148
Horton and Rowan, Messrs., Water Tube Beilers of
I S.S. Propontis, 295, 299
Hotchkiss, Mr. B. B., Cannon Revolver, 40
Hotspur, Guns and Carriages for the, Capt. Scott,
I 20 23
Hou’get, Tcston, Bcdo, and Co., Messrs., Wool-Spin-
I ning Frame, 363, 372
Howe, Mr. W., 20--H.P. Winding Engines, Morton Colliery, 279, 280, 282
Hurd and Simpson, Messrs., Coal Cutting Machinery,
2, 63, 266
Hydraulic Motors, 261
India, Irrigation Works in, 383
India-rubber for Steam Pipes. 190
Indian Irrigation versus Famine, 397
Indicators for Ship’s Revolution, 56
Industry, Scientific, 63
Inflexible, The, 196
Institutute of British Architects :—
Dome of the Vienna Exhibition, Mr. J. Scott I
Russell, C.E., F.R.S., 120
Institute, the Iron and Steel, 313, 321
Absorption of Hydrogen by Grey Pig Iron, Mr.
John Parry, 822, 331 ,, , T
Annual Meeting, Address of President, Mr. 1. Lowthian Bell, 305
Condition in which Silicon exists in Pig Iron, Mr. E.
Handfield Morton, 331
Feed-water Heater, Mr. Berryman, 822, 331
Furnace, Mr. Peter’s, 322, 331
Iron Ores of Lake Champlain Region, U.S., Mr.
George Maynard, 322, 331, 342
Power Coupling for Rolling Mills, Mr. F. T. Varley and Mr. B. Furness, 323, 332
Shaping Metals by Solid Emery Wheels, Mr. A. Pye Smith, 321, 330
Spathic Iron Ore Districts of Europe, Mr. Charles
Smith 322
Spiegeleisen, Mr. G. Snelus, 322, 330
Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, 34, 37, 94, 110, 134, 166, 167. 248, 268, 274, 277, 336
Address of Mr. Thomas E. Harrison, 38
Annual Dinner, 214 ,
Brighton and Hove General Gas Company’s Works, Portslade, Mr. J. Birch Paddon, M.I.C.E., 119
Construction of Harbour and Marine Works with Artificial Blocks of Large Size, Mr. Bindon Blood
Stoney, M.A., M.I.C.E., 119
Conversazione, 345
Fixed Signals of Railways, Mr. R. Christopher Rapier, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 244
Great Basses Lighthouse, Ceylon, Mr. W. Douglass,
Gun Carriages and Mechanical Appliances for Working Heavy Ordnance, Mr. G. W. Rendel, M.I.C.E., 189
Hawksley, Mr., Farewell Dinner, 2
Mechanical Production of Cold, Mr. Alex. Carnegie Kirk, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 76
Peat Fuel Machinery, Mr. J. Macarthy Meadows, 843 Roads in Mountainous Tropical Countries, Major J.
Browne, R.B., 189
Water Supply of the City of Dublin, Mr. Parker Neville, M.I.C.E., 162
Institution of Civil Engineers (Ireland):— Failure of the Aldern Rocks Beacon in Crookliavcn
Bay, Mr. Charles P. Cotton, 58
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland
Coal Cutting by Machinery : its Probable Influence on the Future of Coal Mining Industry, Mr. J. 8. Jeans, 66,155
Slag Bricks, Captain Bodmer, 204
Tramways for the Cleveland District, Mr. Alfred Dowson, 134
Utilisation of Peat Fuel for Heating and Lighting, Mr. C. E. Bainbridge, 66
Institution of Engineers, Glasgow Graduates’ Sections :—
Address of Mr. James Gilchrist, 61
Institution of Engineers and ShiIWIlders in Scotland
Advantages of Springs for Loading Government Safety Valves of Marine Boilers instead of Dead Weight, Mr. Hazelton R. Robson, 121
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 102, 264, 280 Hydraulic Machinery for Steering, Reversing, and Discharging Cargo, Mr. A. Betts Brown, 103
Shaping Models of Ships, Mr. W. Froude, F.R.S., 183 Institution of Naval Architects, 126, 214
Effect of Imersion on Screw Propellers, Prof. Osborn Reynolds, 228
Institution of Naval Architects w
Experiments with H.M.S. Greyhound, Mi. w. Highspeed1’Channel Steamers, Mr. H. Bowlby NeTcomse2 Corrector, called “ The Universal
Promo scone.” M. Victor Lutschaunig, - >
Ships of War for the British Navy Armoured and
Unarmoured, Mr. Nat. Barnaby, 2Jo
I Steam Lifeboat, Herr Gustav A. Mitzlaff, 23a
' Strophome ter, or Speed Indicator, Mr. 1. A. near
Three-Throw Crank Engines of the ComP°u^ System, H.M.S. Boadieea and Bacchante, Mr. u.
B. Rennie, 238 . _ . . . nf
Useful Displacement as Limited by ^c^lfcw
Structure and of Propulsive Power, Mr. W.
Froude, F.R.S., 269
Institution, The Royal, 166
Results of the Temperature Survey of the Atlantic bv H.M.S. Challenger, Prof. Carpenter M.D., LL.D, F.R.S., 309, 325,348,374, 387
International Tonnage Commission, Imai Report oi
the, 284
Ireland, Public Works Department, 18b
Irish Iron Ore Mines, 370
Iron Abroad, Railway, 88
Ironclad Dictator, 22
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, &c., 15, 33, 53, 71, 91, 107, 125, 143, 159, 177, 193, 207, 225, 241, 259, 273, 289, 303, 319, 335, 353, 367, 381, 39o, 411, 425
Iron by Coloration, Estimation of, 226
Iron Columns from Fire, Protecting. 78
Iron from the Ore, Wilson Process of Making, 308
Iron, Floating Cast, 11, 24
Iron and Manganese, Alloys of, 12
Iron Manufacture in the Colonies, 20
Iron Mines of Ireland, 320
Iron, New Zealand, 167
Iron, Purifying, 371
Iron Shipbuilding at Belfast, 60
Iron Trade of America, 65, 209
Iron Trade of 1873, The, 1
Iron Trade of France, 4
Iron at Various Temperatures, Strength of, 61
Irrigation Works in India, 92, 383
Jackets, Steam, 115
Jersey Accident, 58 . .
Jones and Sons, Messrs. John, Compound Engines ot the S.S. Terniers, 120-H.P. Nominal, 22
Jones and Son, Messrs. W., Water Tube Boiler, 231
Key, Mr. J., Boilers of S.S. African, 114, 116
Key, Mr, J.. Compound Engines of the Union S. S.
Company’s S.S. African, 97, 99, 100, 164, 172
Kilkenny Coal Fields, The, 144
Knowles’ Process, Sir Francis, 11
Kurrachee Harbour, 20
Ladygin and Kosloff, Messrs., Electric Light, 307
Largest Belt in the World, The Chicago, 155
Launch of the Emperor of Russia’s Yacht Dershafva,
Messrs. Crichton, Steam, 387
Launch, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley’s Steam, 75, 79
Lavroif, Col., Bronze Casting under Artificial Pressure 22
Leading Articles
Association foi the Improvement of Geometrical
Teaching, 101
Annual Article, 1874, 7
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, The, 391
Boiler Explosions, 299
Boilers in the Navy, 329
Capital and Labour, 235
Central Arsenal, 361
Central Railway Board, 187
Concrete Foundations, 217
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 217, 267
Co-operation, 251
Contracts of the Crown, The, 391
Deep Coal Working in the Future, 313
Destruction of the Pantechnicon, 137
Dicey Channel Steamer, The, 377
Dublin Main Drainage, 268, 419
Dublin Waterworks, 252
Excursion of the Society of Engineers, 420
Force and Matter, 187
Gas Revision, The, 169
Guns and Armour, 201
Heat and Water, 405
Heavy Locomotives, 101
Horse Power of Boilers, 25
International Exhibition, The, 267
Institution of Civil Engineers. 25
Iron and Steel Institute, The, 313
Lighting Railway Carriages, 419
Loss of the Ville du Havre, 45
Low Pressure Condensers, 202
Marine Safety Valves, 117, 138, 154
Men and Masters, 283
Merthyr Accident, The, 405
Modern Locomotives, 345, 377
Our Future Navy, 235
Patent Museum, 63
Possible in Coal Mining, The, 201
Prize Designs, 85
Protection of Russian Engine and Carriage
Builders, 102
Railway Accidents, 153
Railway Signals, 45
Rail Trade of the Future, 284
River Embankments, 362
Scientific Industry, 63
Screw Propellers, 64, 83
Screw Propulsion, 170
Single Marine Engines, 26
Sir Francis Knowles on the Manufacture of Steel, 117
Standard Measures, 137
Steam Regeneration, 300
Steel Cylinders, 64
Strikes, 329
Vavasseur Ribbed Gun, 170
Watkin, Sir E., Motion on Ships of War, 345
Woolwich Furnace, The, 301
Leather, Matthews, and Co., Messrs., Winding Engines, 220
Lebu, Peru, Wire Tramway at, 398
Leeds Steam Road Roller for Windsor Royal Gardens, 293
Leete, Edwards, and Norman, Messrs., Combined Engine and Pump, 400
Legal Intelligence :—
Chatwood's Patent Safes, 285
Clements v. Holdsworth, 57
Dudgeon, v Thomson, 218
In rc Warner’s Patent, 403
Lister v. Marsland, 252
Re Anthony’s Application, 156
Re Forward's Application for Patent. 77
Re Frecston and Humphris’ Patent, 218
Richards v. Williamson, 403
Saxby v. South-Eastern Railway Company, 56
Seed v. Rawcliff e and Others, 218
Thorne v. the Corporation of London, 316
Leicester Sewerage, 128,140
Letters to the Editor :—
Action of Steam in Locomotives, W. Waller 130 149 African S.S., D. Smith, 115 ’ ’
Age of a Bessemer Steel Rail, which was the first Bessemer Steel Rail, and first Cast Steel Rail ever laid down, R. F. Mushet, 11
Albert Hall, The, M. W., 167
American Patent Office, Charles Barlow, 245
Artistic Mouldings and Ornament, as applicable to Engineering, C. B. A., 61
Ashton Colliery Explosion, George M. Fraser, 280 Asphalte, Granite, and Wood, Woulfc Brenan, 43
Belgian Competition, A. Sparrow and Co 185 Bell’s Economisers, Andrew Bell, 264, 296* Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Boiler, 371 385 Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Boiler Maker, 326 Blackbum Boiler Explosion, Walter R. Browne, 290
Letters to the Editor (continued): —
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, A Foreman Boiler Maker, 418
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, G. H., 326
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Marine Engineer, 418
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Moscow, 326
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Q. E. D., 371
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, W. G. Strype, 342
Blackbum Boiler Explosion, Robert Tonge, 342
Blackbum Boiler Explosion, W. W., 371
Blackburn Boiler Explosion. Robert Wilson, 323, 418
Boiler Explosions, John Ramsbottom, 326
Boiler Tubes as Stays. Robert Wilson, 149
Boxer Shrapnel, W. Hope, 12
Brick Tanks, II. M., 149
Capital and Labour, J. W. Bourdon, 296
Capital and Labour, J. W. Gordon, 245
Capital and Labour, Yorkshire Tike, 296
Charges of Naval Architects, H., 371
Circulating Pumps as Bilge Pumps, Charles Fairbairn, 114
Circulating Pumps. Geo. Rutter, 86
Clearing Water Mains, Theobald Forstall, 296
Cohne’s Anti-Lubricative Bearings, M. A. Soul, 185, 237
Compound Engines, Anglicus, 185, 197
Concrete Sewers, J. Lochtie, 237
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, J. McGilray, 280
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, W. C. Rawlins, 280
Corrosion in Marine Steam Boilers, C. Humfrey, 115
Cylinder Question, Richard Me Duff, 115
Disappearing Guns, A. Moncrief!, 167
Donkey Boilers, Durham, 314
Dublin Main Drainage, L. J., 418
Dublin Waterworks, The, John Gray, M.P., 264
English Work Abroad, An Old Fitter, 342
Eu lid, Argucr, 167
Extracting Cube Roots, G. W. II., 115
Fairlie Engines, Geo. Boyce, 130
Fire, Conquering, Richard McDuff, 2S0
Fireproof Buildings, P. B. E., 167
Floating Cast Iron, J. Beck, 11
Floating Cast Iron, W. J. M., 24
Four Coupled Traction Engines, J. W. Lee. 42
Four Coupled Traction Engine, W. Morshoad 24, 86
Fuel Economisers, Durie and Davis, 237
Fuel Economisers, Joseph Twibill, 185, 280
Harbour at Flushing, Henry von Schmidt, 61
Heavy Locomotives, George Herbert Royce, 114
Heavy Locomotives, D. K. Clark, 130
Heberlein Brake, The, John II. Bamford. 61
Horse Power of Engines, C. L. Heaton, C.E., 43
Horse Power of Engines, U. Ellis Hill, 42
Hydraulic Formulas for Gauging, W. Paterson
Orchard, B.E., 245
Improvements in Cupola Furnaces, Lo Lubez, 342
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, M.I.M.E., 264
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, A Member
I.M.E., 280
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Fiat Justitia, 280
International Patent Law, W. Spence, A.I.C.E., 237 Ireland’s Cupolas, J. Ireland, 385
rion and Steel Institute, The, George W. Maynard, 342
Knowles’ Process, Sir Francis F. C. Knowles, 11
“ Locomotive/’ Number One, J. W. S , 130
Loss of the Ville du Havre, A. B., 24
Loss of the Ville du Havre, An Engineer, 24
Loss of the Ville du Havre, Boosted and Dunbar, 43
Loss of the Ville du Havre, John Grantham, 11
Loss of the Ville du Havre, M. Surmont, 11
Manchester Exhibition, G. L. Shorland, Shillito
Shorland, 197
Marino Safety Valves, W. G., 342
Metaline, Joseph Newton, 61
Metaline, W. Thomas, 86
Merthyr Accident, The, P. R. B., 418
Mouldings, A. B. C., 86
Mouldings as applied to Engineering, F. R. S., 99
New Zealand Iron, W. Morshead, 167
Navigation of the Amazon, G. Tucker, 314
Patent Law, Charles Barlow, 197
Patent Law, Juvenis, 167
Peat Fuel, Arthur W. Eastwood, 130
Pensions in the P. W. D., M.I.C.E., 418
Phosphorus in Steel, W. B., 342
Prize Designs, Whitaker and Perrett, 99
Problem, A., H. B., 280
Purifying Iron, A Looker-on, 371
Railway Accidents, A Railway Passenger, 185
Railway Signals, B. Bagsland, 114
Railway Signals, J. D., 61, 115
Railway Signals, W. II. Villiers Sankey, C.E., 115
Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists of the English
School, Frank Rede Fowke, 86
Rolled Screws, J. Campbell Evans, 115
Rolled Screws, Charles Fairbairn, 42, 149
Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s Engine at Smithfield
Show, G. D., 11
St. Gothard Tunnel, C. Williams, 43
Sambrook’s Feed Heater, James Barton, 1S5
Sambrook’s Feed Heater, J. G., 185
Sambrook’s Feed Heater, J. K., 167
Sambrook’s Feed Heater, Mechanic, 197
Sambrook’s Feed Heaters, G. W. Pickering, 185
Sambrook’s Feed Heater, W. Sambrook, 185
Saving Life at Sea, W. Fletcher, 24
Screw Propellers, H. C. Browne, 11
Screw Propellers, Matthew Browne, 21, 197
Screw Propellers, W. Crichton, 185
Screw Propellers, R. Griffiths, 99, 197, 237
Screw Propellers, W. 11. M., 197
Screw Propellers, H. Vansittart, 99
Screw Propulsion, C., 43, 99
Shannon, The, Civil Engineer, 342
Shannon, The, Shannonside, 314, 371
Shannon, Belhaven Lake, Lough Gill, and Sligo, Bun-Ade, 371
Sierra Madre Tunnel, A Late Employe of the Company, 43
Single Marine Engines, Anglicus, 149, 197
Single Marine Engines, Arthur Ayres, 115, 185
Single Marine Engines, H. F., 61
Single Marine Engines, N. J. Suckling. 42
Spring Loaded Safety Valves, Hazelton k. Robson, isn 7
Steam Gauges, J. W. Wilson, 61
Steam Jackets, J. R. A., 115
Strength of Iron at Various Temperatures, R. II.
Thurston, 61
Tracing Curves, H. L. Machcll, 149
Trial of Patent Cases, William Spence, Assoc. Inst.
C.E., 385, 418
Torpedoes, George Hawkslcy, 237
Utilisation of Waste Steam, Loftus Perkins, 130
Voisin’s Flameless Cupola, Le Lubez. 418
Wandsworth Bridge, C. de Bergue and Co., 99
Water Tube Boilers, Throttle Valve, 385
Lightning Conductors, 73
Liteinaia Bridge over the Neva, Mi-. R. ;M. Ordish and Am-Ende, 4, 6, 86, 67, 76
Literature
Barlow on How to Make Money by Patents, 46 Boilers and Boiler Making, N. P. Burgh, M.I.M.E.,98 Economics of Construction in relation to Framed
Structures, Robt. H. Bon, C.E., F.R.S.E., 355
Electricity and Magnetism, Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell, M.A., F.R.S., 84
Griffiths’ Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain, 118
Hydraulics of Great Rivers, J. J. Revy, 161
Manual for Railroad Engineers and Engineering Students, George L. Vose, 85
Mineral Statistics of Great Britain and Ireland for 1872, Robert Hunt, F.R.S., 118
Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, Sir W. Thomson, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.8., 84
Tables for the Use of Engineers and Architects in Taking out Quantities of Masonry, Ironwork, &c., C. J. Bellamy, C.E., 236
Literature, Foreign
Eubergangescurven fur Eisenbahn-goleise, &c., Pie, von F. R. Helmert, 46
Vergasung-endiger Braunkohle, Field. Neumann, 46
Liverpool Water Supply, 383
“ Locomotion,” Number One, 130
Locomotive, The Fireless, 135
Locomotives, Action of Steam in, 130, 149
Locomotives, Heavy, 101,114, 130
Locomotives, Modern, 345, 377
London Fire Brigade, The, 68
Loribre, Mr. C. E. de, Crane, Vienna Exhibition, 58
Mains, Clearing Water, 296
Manchester Exhibition, 2, 47, 77, 93, 112, 132,149, 172, 182, 197, 203
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 88
Markets—Metal, Oil, Timber, &c. (See last Page of Every Number.)
Mather and Platt, Messrs., Underground Hauling Engine, Blackwell Colliery, 262
Measures, Standard, 137
Men and Masters, 283
Mein, Mr. W., Governor, 416
Metaline, 38, 61, 86
Metal Returns, 118
Meter, Mr. Deacon, C.E.’s Waste Water, 59, 60
Merthyr Accident, The, 404, 418
Mills, Mr. W. H., Splicing Railway Carriages. 37
Millwall Docks, 60-Ton Riveting Machine, 279
Miners. Interesting to, 20
Mining Company of Ireland, 47, 94
Miscellanea, 5, 21. 39, 57, 81, 95, 111, 131, 152, 163, 181, 200, 211, 229, 249, 265, 281, 297, 311,327, 339, 360, 375, 389, 399, 415
Moncrieff, Major, Hydro-Pneumatic Carriages, 28
Monthly Returns from United States, Blast Furnaces, for March 1st, 1874, 256
Museum, the Patent, 63
Naval Architects, Charges of, 371
Naval Engineers, 78
Naval Relic, A, The Frigate Constitution, 226
Navigation, Sir W. Thomson on, 238
Navy, the American, 86
Navy, The Austrian, 372
Navy, Our Future, 235
Navy, Our Ironclad, 285
Neilson and Co., Messrs., 8-Wheeled Tank and Engine for the Bhore Ghaut Incline, 3
Newport Rolling Mills, 174
New York, Our Ironclads and, 78
New York Railway Signal Office, 236
Nickel Coinage, 118
North of England, 178, 194, 208, 242, 259, 274, 289, 304, 319, 335, 354. 368, 382, 396, 412, 425
Notes from Lancashire, 16, 33, 54, 71, 92, 108, 126,143,
159, 177, 193, 207, 226, 241, 259, 273,289,303,319.353. 367, 381, 395, 411, 425
Notes and Memoranda, 5, 21, 39, 57, 81, 95, 111, 131, 152, 163, 181, 200, 211, 229, 219, 265,281, 297,311, 327, 339, 360, 375, 389, 399, 415
Notes from Scotland, 16, 34. 54, 72, 92, 108, 126, 144,
160, 178, 194, 208, 225, 242, 260, 273, 290,304,320, 336, 354, 367, 381, 395, 411, 426
Notices to Correspondents, 7, 25, 45, 63, 83, 101, 117, 137,153, 168, 186, 201, 217, 235, 251, 267, 283, 299,313, 329, 345, 361, 377, 391, 405, 419
Obituary :—
Arnott, Dr., 171
Fox, Sir Charles, 404
Glass, Sir Richard A., 4
Grissell, Mr. T., 364
Harrison, Mr. Joseph, 28o
Hopkins, Mr. James I., 364
Lloyd, Q.C., Mr. Horace, 230
Martley, C.E., Mr. W., 126
Mordan, Mr. G. R , 171
Morris, Mr. William Richard, 42
Phillips, Prof. 293
Samuel, C.E., Mr. J., 364
Scott, Mr. John, 43
Smith, Sir Francis Pettit, 139
Williams, Mr., 54
Williamson, C.E., Mr. Richard, 295
Oliver Wolcott, Engine of the, 418
Opening of the North Lancashire and Cumberlanc Exchange, 269
Ordnance, American, 12
Osborne, The, 244
Our Ironclads and New York, 78
Pacific, Bed of the, 277
Pantechnicon, Destruction of the, 137
Parliament, Atmosphere of, 221
Parliament, The New, 197
Patent Cases, Trial of, 385, 418
Patent Law, 167, 197
Patent Law, International, 237
Patent Office, American, 245
Patent Systems, Assimilated, 295
Pavement, 33
Peacock and Sworder, New Feed Motion for Pe: forating Stamps, 417
Peat in Germany, and the Cost of Working it, 88
Pensions in the P.W.D., 418
Perkins, Mr. T., On Machinery as applied to tl:
Manufacture of Watches, 27
Peruvian Railway, 219
Philadelphia Exhibition, 94, 100
Pickles, Mr. J., Puddling Machine at Kirkstall Forg 340, 341
Pigeon Post in Hungary, 130
Pintsch, Herr, Lighting Railway Carriages with Ga 417, 419
Pioneer, or Steam Caravan, Mr. J. L. Haddan, C.I 82, 86
Pistons, Balancing, 371
Pittsburgh Blast Furnaces, 374 !
Pneumatic Transmission, 109
Ponsard Furnace, The, 66
Power Loom, The Largest versus the Smallest, 344
Powis, James, Western and Co., Messrs., Saw for Cutting Bent Timber, 309, 310
Preservation of Wood by Sulphate of Copper, 228
Private Bills in Committee, 24, 114, 314, 326, 347, 362, 392
Problem, A, 280
Professional View of the Coal and Iron Trade, 185
Propellers, Screw, 11, 24, 43, 64, 76, 83, 99, 170, 185, 197, 237
Propontis, Messrs. Horton and Rowan’s Water Tube Boilers of S.S., 295, 299
Public Works in France, 38
Puddling Machine at Kirkstall Forge, Mr. J ; Pickles, 340, 341
Pumps, Steam, Zoological Gardens, Frankfurt, 310
Pumps, Circulating, 86, 114
Pumps, Messrs. Tangye’s Special Steam, 180
Punching Cold Iron, Remarkable Experiments in, 134
Rail Trade of the Future, The, 284
Rails, Stagnation in, 341
Railway Enterprise in Greece, 47
Railway Board, A Central, 187
Railway Guide, New, 420
Railway Matters, 5, 21, 39, 57, 81, 95, 111, 131, 152,163, 181, 200, 211, 229, 249, 265, 281, 297, 311, 327, 339, 360 375, 389, 399, 415
Railway Works and Projects, 1874, the Midland, 397
Raising Sunken Ships, 202
Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Messrs. 12-H.P. Portable Engine, South Kensington, 376
Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists of the English School, 86
Revolution Indicate for Ships, 56
Reynolds, M.A.. Prof. O., Destruction of Sound by Fog, and the Inertness of a Heterogeneous Fluid, 88
Rigg, Mr. A., Rotary Hydraulic Engine, 230
Riveting Machine, Millwall Docks, 60-Ton Hydraulic, 279
Robson, Coles, Price, and Co.’s. Messrs., Combined Squeezer and Bloom Divider for the Danks Furnace, 401
Rolling Mill Pinions, 426
Rotary Motions, 1
Roturier, M., Life Buoy, 22
Royal Counties and Berks and Hants Agricultural Show, 414
Ruston and Proctor, Messrs., Engine at Smithfield, 11
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 98
St. Gothard Tunnel, Mr. C. Bergeron, C.E., on, 19, 43 Saint Servan and St. Malo, Rolling Bridge between, M. Leroy, 386
Sandwell Park Trial Sinking, 406
Sanitary and Educational Exhibition, 245
Saving Life at Sea. 24
Saw for Cutting Bent Timber, Messrs. Powis, James, Western, and Co., 309, 310
Scheller and Berchtold, Messrs., Engine, 151,156 (See also Supplement.)
Scholarships and Examinations for Natural Science at Cambridge, 1874, 34
Scott, Capt., Guns and Carriages for the Hotspur, 20 23
Screws, Rolled, 28, 42,115, 149
Sewerage, Leicester, 128, 140
Sewers, Concrete, 237
Sewing Machines, Peculiarities in the Manufacture of, 278
Shand and Mason and Co., Messrs., Single Horizontal Steam Fire Engine for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 418, 416
Shannon, The, 314, 342, 371
Sheffield District, 16, 33, 53, 72, 92, 108, 125, 144, 160, 178,194, 208, 226, 2D, 260, 274, 290, 303, 320, 336,353, 367, 381. 395, 412, 426
Shipbuilding on the Clyde, 144
Ship, A Curious, Mr. Nehcmiah Gibson, East Boston, 294
Ships’ Boats, 166
Ships, Stability and Steadiness of, 146, 337
Ships of War, Sir E. Watkins’ Motion on, 345
Sidonian and Australian Steamships, 121
Siemens Regenerative Gas Furnace and Peat Fuel, 166
Siemens Telegraph Works, The, 305
Signals, Railway, 45, 61, 86, 114
Socidtd des Ingenieurs Civil, 20
Society of Arts, 43
Society, the Chemical:—
Acidity of Normal Urine, Mr. J. Resch, M.A., 398
Action of Ammonia on Phenyl and Cresyl, Chloracetamide, Dr. D. Tommasi, 343
Action of Chloride of Benzyl on Camphor, Dr. D. Tommasi, 244
Action of Chlorides of the Acids of the Sulphur Series on Organic Compounds. H. E. Armstrong and W. II. Pike, 414
Action of Chlorine, Bromine, &c., on Isodinaphthyl, W. Smith, 414
Action of Earth on Organic Nitrogen, E. C. Stan ford, 414
Action of Pentasulphide of Phosphorus on Terpenes, and their Derivatives, Dr. C. R. A. Wright, 284
Action of Sodic Ethylate on Ethylic Oxalate anc other Ethereal Salts, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 67
Action of Trichloracetyl Chloride on Amines, D Tommasi and R. Meldola, 67
Aniline and its Homologues in Coal Tar Oils, Mr W. Smith, 414
Apparatus for Determining the Moisture and Car bonic Anhydride in the Air, Dr. D. Tommasi, 414 Aqua Regia, and the Nitrosy 1 Chlorides, Dr. C. W Tilden, 284
Cajeput Oil, Dr. Wright and S. Lambert, 284
Coal Tar Creosols, and some Derivatives of Para cresol, H. E. Armstrong and C. L. Field, 414
Coals from Cape Breton, Henry How, D.C.L., 122 Cobalt Bromides and Iodides,Mr. W. Noel Hartley,24 Compounds of Albumen with the Acids, Mr. G. S
Johnson, 398
Society, The Chemical (continued):—
Constitution of Urea, Dr. D. Tommasi, 414’ !
Decomposition of Dichloronitrophcnol, If. E. Armstrong and F. D. Brown, 414
Dendritic Spots in Paper, Mr. H. Adrian, 398
Detection of Adulteration in Articles of Food and
Drink, Mr. J. Bell, 157
Dissociation, Prof. James Dewar, 222
Determining Ozone in the presence of Chlorine and
Nitric Oxide, Dr. D. Tommasi, 414
Distillation of Sodium Ricinolate, Mr. E. Neison, 244
Haloid Derivatives of the Nitrophenolsulphonic
Acids, H. E. Armstrong and F. D. Brown, 414
Hydrogen Persulphide, Dr. W. Ramsay, 414
Ipomoeic Acid, Messrs. E. Neison and J. Bayne, 398
Isomeric Terpenes and their Derivatives, Dr. C. R.
A. Wright, 284
Isomeric Terpenes and their Derivatives, Part III., On the Essential Oils of Wormwood and Citronelle, Dr. C. R. Wright, 122
Note on a New Mineral from New Caledonia, Mr.
A. Liversidge, 343
Note on New Zealand Kauri Gum, M. M. P. Muir,398 Ozone as a Concomitant of the Oxidation of the
Essential Oils, Mr. C. T. Knigzett, 244
Preliminary Notice on the Action of Benzyl Chloride on the Camphor of the Lauracse, Donato Tommasi, 122
Preliminary notice on the Perbromates, M. M.
Pattison, Muir, F.R.S.E., 122
Preparation of Ethyl Chloride and its Homologues, Mr. C. E. Groves, 343
Preparing Toluene, Dr. D. Tommasi, 398
Products of Decomposition of Castor Oil, Mr. E. Neison, 67
Products of Decomposition of Castor Oil, No. III., Decomposition by excess of Alkaline Hydrate, Mr. E. Neison, 414
Reaction of Gallic Acid, Mr. H. R. Procter, 244
Restitution of Burnt Steel, S. L. Davies. 414
Sewage Question, from a Chemical Point of View, Dr. W. H. Corfield, 370
Simple Method of Estimating Urea in Urine, Dr.
Russell and Mr. West, 398
Solubility of Plumbic Chloride in Glycerine, Mr. C.
II. Piesse, 244
Spontaneous Combustibility of Charcoal, Mr. A. F.
Hargreaves, 180
Suberonc, Dr. C. Schorlemmer and Mr. R. S. Dale,414
Sulphite of Acetyl, Dr. D. Tommasi, 398
Sulphocyanide of Ammonium and Sulphocyanogen, Dr. T. L. Phipson, 244
Society of Civil Engineers, American
Resistance of Materials, Robert H. Thurston, 138
Rumford’s Determination of the Mechanical Equivalents of Heat, Prof. Thurston, 134
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 357
Society, The Edinburgh Geological, 237
Society of Engineers, 385:—
Address of the President, Mr. McGcorge, 98
Excursion to Messrs. Westwood and Baillie’s Works, and Messrs. Ransome and Co.’s Works, 420
Modern System of Generating Steam, Mr. N. J. Suckling, 355
Tin Dressing Machinery, Mr. S. Herbert Cox, C.E.,
F.R.S., 210
Ventilation of Coal Mines, Mr. George G. AndrS, 347
Society, Liverpool Polytechnic, 184
Society, The Meteorological, 43
Address of President, Dr. R. J. Mann, 75
Alcohol Thermometers, James J. Hicks, F.M.S., 154
Atlantic Hurricane of August 20th to 24th, 1873, W.
R. Birt, F.R.G.S., 290
Attempt to establish a Relation between the Velocity of the Wind and its Force, Robert II. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., 219
Climate of Patnas, Rev. H. A. Boys, 290
Connection between Colliery Explosions and the Weather of the Year 1872, Robert II. Scott, F.R.S., and W. Galloway, 421
Daily Inequalities of the Barometer and Thermometer, as illustrated by the Synchronous Observations made during May, 1872, W. W. Rundell, F.M.S., 421
Diurnal Variations of the Barometer, John Knox Laughton, F.R.A.S., 290
Meteorology of December in the Southernmost Parts of the South Indian Ocean, Robert H. Scott, F.R.S., 290
Sensitiveness of Thermometers,Mr. G. J. Symonds,219 Vacuum Solar Radiation Thermometer, James J.
Hicks, F.M.S., 154
Waterspout in Argyllshire, Robert H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., 154
West India Cyclones, F. H. Jahneke, 154
Society for the Promotion of Scientific Industry :
Address of the Earl of Derby, 64
Society, The Royal :—
Actioi/of Heat on Gravitating Masses, Mr. Crookes, 12 Atmosphere as the Vehicle of Sound,Prof. Tyndal, 120 Brom-Iodides, Dr. Maxwell Simpson, 120
Double Reflection in a Viscous Fluid in Motion, Prof.
J. Clerk Maxwell, 12
Electro-Torsion, Mr. G. Gore, 120
History of the Orcins, Mr. J. Stenhouse, 120
Localisation of Function in the Brain, Mr. David Ferrier, 243
Measuring the Intensity of the Chemical Action of Daylight, Prof. H. E. Roscoe, 243
Nervous System of Actinia, Prof. Duncan, 12
Quantitative Investigation of Certain Relations between the Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid States of Water Substances, Prof. J. Thomson, 12
Solar Spectrum, Mr. J. B. N. Hennessey, 243
Sound, Mr. John Cottrell, 243
Transformation of Elliptical Functions, Prof. Caley, 120
Winds of Northern India, Mr. H. F. Blandford, 243 Society, Royal Agricultural, Prizes, 87
Society of Telegraph Engineers, 68
Address of Sir William Thomson, 68
Condensers in Connection with Duplex Telegraphy,
Mr. R. S. Culley, 248
Duplex Telegraphy, Mr. Culley, 119
Electric Torpedoes, Mr. N. J. Holmes, 195
Note on Mr. Latimer Clark’s Method of Measuring Differences of Electric Potential, Professor Adams, 248
Telegraph Key, Mr. J. J. Fahie, 248
South Kensington Museum, 4, 34, 47, 85, 99, 118, 139, 160, 167, 182, 197, 221, 233, 269, 310, 325, 372, 388, 400, 418
Spanish Marine Engines, 89
Spence’s Valve Box, 416
Splicing Railway Carriages, Mr. W. H. Mills, 37
Spontaneous Combustion, 122
Stability and Steadiness of Ships, 146, 337
Stacey, Mr. G., Stone Dressing Machine, 139
Staffordshire Coal Discoveries, 371
Stamps, Messrs. Peacock and Sworder’s Feed Motion for Perforating, 417
Standing Orders, by “ An Old Hand,” 147, 291
Stapfer, M. D., on Steam Jackets, Scientific Industrial
Society, Marseilles, 28
Steamer, The First Swedish, 96
Steam Jackets, M. D. Stapfer, Scientific Industrial
Society, Marseilles, 28
Steam Locomotives on Roads, 385
Steam Regeneration, 300
Steam Syren or Fog Horn, 324
Steam, Utilisation of, 130
Steel, Sir Francis Knowles on the Manufacture of, 117
Steel in Germany, 256
Steel for Boilers, 89
Steel, Phosphorus in, 344
Steel Rails in Russia, 38
Stern Brackets for Chilian Ironclads, Messrs. H.
Fownes and Co., 400
Stevens’ Winding Engine, 75
Stone Dressing Machine, Mr. G. Stacey, 139
Strikes, 324, 329
Sub-Wealden Exploration, 236, 4C6
Suez Canal, Proposed Purchase of the, 46
Surgical Instruments, 104
Swedish Steamboat, The First, 96
Tangye Brothers and Holman, Messrs., 18-Horsc Power Horizontal Expansive Engine, 62, 66
Tangye, Messrs., Special Steam Pumps, 180
Tanks, Brick, 149
Telegraph at the Gold Coast, 56
Telegraph, Guattari’s Pneumatic, 340, 342
Telegraph Works, The Siemens, 305
Telegraphy, Duplex, 337
Temperature of the Earth, The, 227
Thomson on “Navigation,” Sir William, 238
Thwaites and Carbutt, Messrs., Steam Hammers, Si
W. G. Armstrong and Co.’s Works, 326, 344
Tin Dressing Machinery, 212
Tire, Messrs. Gratton and Beal’s Wheel, 400
Torpedo Detector, 148
Torpedo Explosion at Woolwich, 85, 139, 209
Torpedo, The Whitehead, 141
Torpedoes, 237
Torpedoes a Century Old, 174
Tower Tallei’ than Babel, America, 20
Tramways, Power of, 33
Transit of Venus, 17, 35
Transit of Venus, American Preparations for, 371
Trasit of Venus Expedition, Instrument, 321, 328
Tunnel, The Clough Hall, North Staffordshire Railway. Mr. J. C. Forsyth, C.E , 196, 199, 388, 390
Tunnel, The St Gothard, 19, 43, 98
Tunnel, The Sierra Madre, 43
Valve Box, Mr. Spence’s, 416
Valves, Marine Safety, 117, 138, 154, 342
Valves of the Sidonian and Australia Steamships, 121
Valves, Spring Loaded Safety, 130
Venus Expedition, The Transit of, Instruments,321,328
I Venus, Transit of, 17, 35
I Vercy and Lange, Messrs., Steam Launch Engines, 401
Vicars and Smith, Messrs., Furnace Feeder at the New Post-office, 136
Vienna Waterworks, The, 41, 44, 47, 48
Ville du Havre, Loss of the, 11, 24, 43, 45, 104
Wakefield Wire Fence, The, 231
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 16, 34, 54, 72,92, 108, 126, 144, 160, 178, 194, 208, 226. 242, 260, 271 290, 304, 320, 336, 354, 36S, 382, 396, 412, 426
Walker, Messrs. C. and W., Annular Wrought Iron Condenser, 294
Warwick Waterworks, 324
Washers, Mr. E. Price, 320
Watches, T. Perkins, 27
Water Main Cleaning Apparatus, 68
Water Supply, Liverpool, 383
Waterworks, Dublin, 252, 264
Waterworks,The Vienna, Map of Aqueduct, 41, 44,47,48
Westinghouse Brake, The, 296
Westinghouse Brake on the Midland Railway, 261
Westinghouse Brake on the North-Eastern Railway, Experiments with, 196
Wire Fence, The Wakefield, 231
Whichcord, Mr. J., Fireproof Floors, 4C0
Whitehead Torpedo, The, 141
Wilson Process of Making Iron direct from the Ore, 30
Winding Engine, Mr. Stevens, 75
Wire Tramway at Lebu, Peru, 398
Wool Spinning Frame, Messrs. Houget, Teston, Bede, and Co., 363, 372
Woolwich Furnace, The, 300
W oolwich 35-ton Steam Hammer, 369
W oolwich Subway, 30
W yss and Studer, Messrs., Water Pressure Engine,,278
Yarrow and Hedley, Messrs., Steam Launch for the Brazilian Government, 75, 79
Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, 400