The Engineer 1875 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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Agricultural Engineers’ Association, 351
Air Gas Machines, 320
Alaska Silver Mine, 264
Allan, Mr., Floating Cabin. 180, 188
Allen’s Elastic Wheels, 111
Alley, Mr., Boiler, 282
American Iron Trade, 323
American Minerals and British Ironmasters, 13
American Railways, 66
Anchor, Messrs. Barford and Perkins’ Self-Moving, Savage’s Patent. 93
Ancient Engineering, its Methods and Appliances, 333, 460 • ,
Andrews, F.R.S., Matter in the Liquid and Gaseous States, 94
Antipodes, Unionism at the. 30
Aquarium and Winter Garden at Westminster, Designed by Mr. Bedborough, 231, 234, 238, 245, 250, 258 265 272
Ashby, Jeffery, and Luke, Messrs., Haymaker, 180
Associated Marine Engineers, 5
Association, Agricultural Engineers’, 351
Association, The British Iron Trade, 429. 447
Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding
Draughtsmen, Glasgow, 373
Opening Meeting, 271
Simple and Compound High Pressure Condensing Engines, Mr. Robert Thomson, 351
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The Leeds—
Dinner at the Great Northern Railway Station Hotel, 391
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London, 401
Art of Coining, Mr. Joseph Newton, A.I.C.E.. 118
History and Modern Modes of Manufacturing Watches and Clocks, Sir John Bennett, 406
Association, Manchester Steam Users’—
Deputation to the Home Secretary for Inquiry into
Boiler Explosions, 5
Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 27
Association of Municipal Engineers—
Stone Breaking Machinery, Mr. Arthur Jacob, C.E., 280
Astor Library, New York, 47
Atchison Bridge, Kansas, U.S., Messrs. Coolidge and Hemberle, 58, 59, 74, 80, 100, 101
Axle Bearings, A Study on, 380, 398
Axle Breakages in Germany, 8
Axles, Belgian, 168
Axles, Testing Railway Steel, 29
Bagshaw and Son, Messrs., Compound Beam Mill Engine, 316, 319
Bailey, Mr. W. H., Bursting of Water Supply Pipes in Winter, 48
Ball Cocks, Messrs. Bullen and Aske’s High Pressure. 246
Balloon Univers, 471
Baltimore Waterworks, 406
Bankers’ Strong Room, Messrs. Hobbs, Hart, and Co., 198
Banks-women, Business Aspect of the Employment of, 46
Barford and Perkins, Messrs., Self-Moving Anchor, Savage’s Patent, 93
Barrans and Co., Messrs., 1| cwt. Single Standard Steam Hammer. 128
Bastie Process of Glass Treating, 90, 182
Batho, Mr. W. F.. and Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., Compound Mill Engine for Howrah, 132, 135
Belgian College for South Yorkshire, 30
Belgian Iron in England, 30, 116, 262
Belgian Iron Question Again, 116
Belgian Iron Trade, 354, 391
Belgian Tires in England, 422
Bellegarde, Application of Water Power at, 73
Bell-Signalling Apparatus, Messrs. Siemens Brothers’ Magneto-Electric, 441
Bermejo, The, 285
Berthon’s Collapsible Boats, 427
Bessemer Steel in Sweden, 53
Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, 217
Birmingham Products, Good Taste in, 288
Blake, Mr. J.. Vertical Boiler, 465
Blasting in Coal Mines, 267
Boadicia, The, 200; Launch, 285
Board of Trade Surveyorships, 427
Boats, Submarine, 157
Boiler, Mr. J. Blake’s Vertical, 465
Boiler Engineering, Amateur, 64,134
Boiler Engineering, American, 254, 285
Boiler Explosion, Heathtown, 67
Boiler Explosion, The Marcasite, 23
Boiler Explosions and Coroners’ Juries, 394
Boiler Explosions, Delayed Ebullition as a cause of, 877, 398
Boiler Explosions, Steam, 5, 183
Boiler Feed Pipes, 27
Boiler fitted to the Red Rose, R.Y.S., Howard’s Safety,
Barrow Shipbuilding Company, 25, 32
Boiler, The Howard, 463, 466
Boiler Pipes, Bursting of Kitchen, 77
Boilers, American, 320, 397, 408, 453
Boilers, Corrosion of. 450
Boilers, Corrosion of Marine, 357, 377
Boilers, Naval, 63
Boilers, Priming of Steam, 279, 285, 397
Boilers, Rag, 288
Boilers, Water Tube, 302
Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., Messrs., 323
Bolt Forging Machinery, 42
Bourne, C.E., Mr. J., Recollections of Improvements which have been made in the Steam Engine during the last Half Century, 306, 350, 422, 440,462
Bourseul, M., Causes of Destruction to Wooden Posts 130
Brainerd Bridge, Mississippi, Destruction of. 118
Brake Blocks, Retarding Trains without the Application of. 61
Brakes Continuous. 1, 320
Bremner’s Steam Steering Screw, 298, 309
Bridge over the Danube Railway, 6, 8, 10
Bridge over the Severn on the Severn and Wye Railway. Mr. G. W. Keeling, C.E., and Mr. G. Wells Owen, C.E., 115, 152
Bridge at West Auckland, Old Railway, 214
Brjght Tin iu America, Manufacture of, 178
Brindley Memorial, The, 183
British Association at Belfast, 303
British Association at Bristol. Ths, 134, 803
Address of Professor Balfour Stewart, M.A., LL.D. F. R.S., to the Mathematical and Physical Section 266
Address of Mr. Froude, Section G.. 158
Address of Sir John Hawkshaw, 141, 146
Chrome Steel, Gen. II. B. Carrington, U.S. Army M.A., LL.D., &c., 178
Descrip ti®n of the Works at the Avonmouth Dock James Brunlees, C.E.,tF.G.S., 302
Machine for Obtaining j Motive Power from Wav Motion, B. Tower, 256
Methods for Giving Distinctive Characters to Light houses, Sir W. Thomson and Mr. J. Hopkinson 177
Optical Properties of a Titano-Silicic Glass, Professo Stokes and J. Hopkinson, 252
Report of the Council, 141
Report on Trades Unions, 182
Severn Tunnel. Mr. C. Richardson, Section G., 216
Steering, Joseph Woolley. LL.D., Section G., 324
Steering of Ships, Dr. Woolley, 177
Steering of Screw Steamers, Professor Osborne Reynolds. 177
Tidal Scour in Rivers, Mr. C. Richardson, 205 , Trials of Screw Steamers, Mr. W. Denny, Section G.
178
Vertical Motion of Vessels, Mr. Thorneycroft, 177
British North American Boundary Commission, 349
Bronze Field Pieces. The Return to, 235
Bruiser, Trials with H.M.S., 73
Brunlees, McKerrow, and Bell, Messrs., Proposed Alteration of London Bridge, 424
Brussels International Exhibition, 291
Bulkhead Doors, Coxhead’s Hydraulic, 181
Bulkheads. Water Tight, 251, 284
Bullen and Aske, Messrs., High Pressure Ball Cocks, 246
Burgoine, Messrs. C. and A., Royal Barge. 316
Burrell and Valpy, Messrs., Safety Wheel Tire, 465
Cabin, Allan’s Floating, 180, 188
Cabins. Floating, 200
Cable Testing,,Chain. 116
Cannel Coal at Ax well Colliery, 285
Carillon Machine, Shorediteh Parish Church, Messrs.
Gillett and Bland, 113, 114
Carillons, 181
Castalia, The, 341
Castleford and Whitwood Main Drainage Competition, 175
Causes of Destruction to Wooden Posts, M. Boursenl on, 130
Channel Tunnel, 5
Chapelhall Ironworks and the Ferrie Furnace, 77
Chimneys, Dwelling House, 220
China, Navvies for, 270
Chinese Armour-clad Vessel, Mr. J. Rennie, Architect, and Mr. J. M. Allan, Engineer, 318
Christmas Diaries, 457
Circular War Vessels, Cyclads, 459
Closed Hearth System, M. Liirmann, 290
Coal, More, 204
Coal, Spontaneous Combustion of, 136
Coal, Steam, 252
Collieries, Draining, 204
Colliers and Ironworkers, An Order of Merit for, 375
Colliery Enginemen, The Wages of, 46
Collision, The Kildwick, 186
Collisions at Sea. 29
Colls, Mr. F. W., Mercurial Safety Valve, 128
Compass, Mr. Casella’s New, 408
Competition, American, 204
Competition, French, 98
Continuous Brakes, 1, 320
Cooke and Sons, Messrs., New Electro-magnetic Clock at the London Post Office, 49
Co-operation, 213
Copyright of Designs, 66
Corrosion of Iron in Railway Bridges, Mr. W. Kent, 118
Corrosion of Metals, 200
Corrosion in Steam Pumps, 220
Cotswold Hills. 342
Coxhead’s Hydraulic Bulkhead Doors, 181
Crichton and Ciaig, Messrs., Audible Signals for Railways. 76
Crocodile, The, 328
Crose, C.E>, Mr. J R., Memoir of the Construction of a JMasonry Dam, American Society of Civil Engineers, 170, 217, 245
Crossley. Mr. W., Hot Blast Stove, Askam Ironworks, 422, 425
Croydon Town Sewage, 14
Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering, 365, 457
Crystal Palace, Technical Education, 112
Cudworth, Mr., Express Locomotive, South-Eastern Railway, 441, 448
Cullen’s Stone Gear, Newry Foundry Company, 58. 90, 147
Cumbrae Lighthouse Removal, 362
Danube, Railway Bridge over the, 6, 8, 10 •
Darlington, Exhibition of Locomotives at, 227, 243
Darlington Railway Jubilee, 212, 228, 232
Dartmoor Field Artillery Experiments, 102, 116, 125, 152, 167, 168, 187
Davey, Mr., Hydraulic Pumping Engine, Messrs.
Hathorne, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, 214, 215
Deakin, Parker, and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine for the Manchester Corporation, 304
Deep Shafts and Mines, 386
Deutschland, The, 61
Development and Improvement?of the^Tees, 243
Diagrams, Disc, 181
Dick and Stevenson, Messrs., Apparatus for Working Steep Gradients by Locomotives, 246
Dickinson, Mr., wheel Moulding Machine, 77
Distilling Apparatus, Mr. Kirkaldy, 282
Diving Apparatus, 147
Dixon, Mr. A., Radial Arm Test or Gauge Cock, 371
Dossor, Nelson and Weddall, Messrs., Lubricators, 421
Drainage, Proposed United System of, 307
Dredgers for St. Petersburg, 328
Drills, Radial, 303
Eames Petroleum Furnace. The, 230
Earl Derby on Machines, 288
Earle’s Shipbuilding Co., 457
Ebullition, Delayed, 453 ‘v
Education, Technical, 79, 213
Elce and Co., Messrs. J., Self-acting Planing Machine, 465
Elementary Lectures for Working Men at the Townhall, Shoreditch, 362
Engine, Messrs. J. Bagshaw and Son’s Compound Beam Mill, 316, 319
Engine, Mr. Davey’s Hydraulic Pumping, Messrs.
Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, 214, 215 j
Engine Economy, Marine, 320
Engine Economy, Steam, 303, 354, 408, 427
Engine for Egypt, 40-H.P. Horizontal, Reading Ironworks, 285, 286
Engine for Howrah, Mr. W. F. Batho and Messrs.
Hayward Tyler and Co.’s Compound Mill, 132, 135 Engine for the Manchester Corporation, Messrs.
I Deakin, Parker, and Co.’s Compound, 304
I Engine Performance, Steam, 236, 254, 408
Engine with Surface Condenser, Messrs. J. and H.
GWynne’s 30-H.P. Marine, 148, 152
Engine Tenters, Colliery, 358. 377
Engine, Willan’s Three-Cylinder, 230
Engineering in the Argentine Republic, 389
! Engineering at the Crystal Palace, 457
Engineering Improvements on the Tees, 168
J Engineering: its Methods and Appliances, Ancient, 333, 460
Engineers and Metallurgists, 394
Engineers, Naval. 288, 303, 307
Engineers in the Prussian Navy,'285
Engines, Great Northern, 274
\ Engines, Long Stroke, 269
Engines, Marine, 320
Engines, Old, 254
Engines, Quadruple, 274
Engines, Quadruple Cylinder, 203, 213
Engines, Rotary, 118
Engines, Three-Cylinder, 353, 376
Engines, Traction, 115
English Coal in Belgium. 366
English and Continental Field Guns, 459
English Steel and the ikmerican Centennial, 306 ‘
Erichsen and Maardt, Messrs.. Furnaces, 352
Exhibition of Locomotives at Darlington, 227, 243
Exhibition, The Manchester, 24, 60, 61
Exhibition, The Philadelphia, 46, 427, 450
Experimental Steam Boiler Explosions, 205
Experiments with Patent Fuel at Round Oak
Works, 388
Explosion on the Brigadier, 351
Explosions, The Late Colliery, 429
Extinction of Ships on Fire, 183
Factory Acts in Scotland, 183
Fawcett and Firth, Messrs., Double, Single, and Self-Acting Steam Hammers, 145
Feed Heating and Condensing Apparatus, Messrs.
Johnson and Allan, 282
Feed Water, 61
Field Artillery Experiments, Dartmoor/102, 116, 125,
152. 167,168, 187
Fire Boxes, Steel, 470
Fish Joints, 453
Flanging Machine, Piedboeuf’s Hydraulic, 351, 353
Floating Battery for 36in. Mortar, Mr. R. Mallet, C.E,, F.R.S., 464
Floods and Decreased River Discharge, 37, 82
Fog Homs, Automatic, 65
Foreign Boiler Legislation—Germany and Prussia, 60
Foundations in India, 267
Fox, Walker, and Co., Messrs., Locomotive for Steep Gradients, Handyside’s Patent, 163, 164
Fraserburgh Harbour, Extension of, 298
French Canals, 106
French Railway Reform, 401
French Street Tramways, 451
Frith’s Coal Cutter, 316
Fuel, Aitchison’s Peat Smelting, 303
Fuel, Gas as a, 252
Fuel, Patent, 254
Fuel, Peat, 354, 377
Fuel, Smokeless, 200
Fulton Ferry, New York, 322
Furnace, Mr. J. Ireland’s Continuous Peat Gas and
Charcoal. 468, 472
Furnaces, The Crampton, 82
Furnaces, Messrs. Erichsen and Maardt, 352
Furnaces, Supplying Air to Boiler, 98
Gas Companies, Chartered and Imperial, 287
Gas Machine, The Auto-Pneumatic, 353
Gas Machine, M’Avoy’s Auto-Pneumatic, 283
Gas, Natural, 412
Gas, Peat, 453
Gas Shadow, A, 465
Gases, Mechanical Properties of, 21, 55
Ganges Railway Bridge, 119
German Field Railway Department, 58
Gillett and Bland, Messrs., Carillon Machine, Shoreditch Parish Church, 113, 114
Girder Testing, 283
Glass, Toughened, 149, 316
Governor, Mr. Mein, 246
Greenock Harbour. 285
Gumpel Rudder, The, 326, 353
Gun, The 81-Ton. 1S6, 211, 367, 420
Gun Carriages, The Moncrieff, 385, 392, 408
Gun Gear, H.M.8. Thunderer’s Turret, 439
Gun Plough, A, 326
Guns, Breech-Loading, 64
(Juns, English and Continental Field, 459
Guns, Naval, 11
Gwynne, Messrs. J. and H., 30-H.P. Marine Engine with Surface Condenser, 148, 152
Gwynne, Messrs. J. and H., Pumping Machinery, Holland Drainage Works, 388, 395, 396
Gwynne and Co., Messrs., Pumping Machinery at the New Graving Dock, Dundee, 337, 340
Haag’s System of Warming Railway Carriages bv
Steam, 370, 377 J
Hamburgh Observatory, 74
Hamilton, C E , Mr. Schuyler, On the Fabrication of Beton Blocks by Manual Labour, American Society of Civil Engineers, 112
Hammer, Messrs. Barrans and Co.’s 11 cwt. Sino-le
Standard Steam, 128 8
Hammers. Messrs. Fawcett and Firth’s Double Single i and Selfacting Steam, 445
Haseley Waterworks, 7
Haswell. Mr. J., Narrow Gauge Locomotive, 412— (See also Working Drawing, Dec. Wth, 1875.)
Hawkshaw, Sir John, Address to the British Association, 141, 146
Haymaker, Messrs. Ashby, Jeffery, and Luke’s, ISO Hayward Tyler* and Co.’s, Messrs., Universal Pump, 220
i Hearths, Blast Furnace, 254
‘ Heath town Boiler Explosion, 67
j Hedge’s Boiler at Taunton, 61
! Hedley, Mr. R., Raising and Lowering Launches, 371 Hercules Screw Propeller, The, 326
Herzog, M., on Railways, 307
Hobbs, Hart, and Co., Messrs., Bankers’Strong Room, 19S
1 Hobson, Mr. A. H. G., Lock Nut, 441
- Holstein Maritime Canal, 427
Hose Rivet, New Kind of, 2S5
• Hot Blast Pig for Refined Iron, 441
i Howard Boiler, The, 463, 466
! Howard’s 8-H.P. “ Farmer’s” Engine, Taunton Show, 28, 32
- Howard’s Safety Boiler Fitted to the Red Rose, R. Y.S., Barrow Shipbuilding Company, 25, 32
- How the Gulf Cyclones Travel. 433
i Hydraulic and Chain Loading Gear for Heavy Ordnance, 297
Hydraulic Machinery, 147
Imperfect Eyesight in Engine Drivers, 427
Indian Engineering College, 53, 74, 81
Indian Railways. Comparative Statement of Fuel, &c., for the Half-year ending 31st Dec., 1874, 117
Indicator, Speed, 453
Industrial Changes and Chances, 89
Industrial Enterprise in Roumania, 465
Industrial Progress in Ireland, Mr. J. F. Hodges* Address to the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 405
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 126, 164, 195, 351
Designing of Ingot Moulds for Steel Rail Ingots, Mr. W. Hackney, A.l.C.E.,'222
Fire Clay and other Refractory Materials, Mr. Geo.
F. Snelus, F.C.S., 270
Further Improvements in Blast Furnace Hearths, Mr. Charles Wood, 232
High-pressure Steam and its Application to Quadruple Engines, Mr. Daniel Adamson, F.G.S., 189
Howard Boiler, Mr. D. Joy, 196
Price’s Retort Furnace, Mr. I. Lowthian Bell, M.P., F.R.S., 189
Rail Joints, Mr. Sandberg, 390, 397
Use of Caustic Lime in the Blast Furnace, Mr. I.
Lowthian Bell, M.P., F.R.S., 247
Visit to Manchester, 188, 195
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8, 27, 316, 320, 401 Brighton Intercepting and Outfall Sewers, Mr. J. G.
Gamble, B.A., A.I.U.E., 442
Experiments on the Movement of Air in Pneumatic Tubes, Mr. Charles Bon temps, 373
Manora Breakwater, Kurrachee, Mr. W. H. Price, M.I.C.E., 343
Pneumatic Transmission of Telegrams, Mr. R. S.
Culley, M.l.C.E.,and Mr. R. Sabine, M.I.C.E., 354 Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland, 354
Annual Dinner. The, 436
Institution of Marine Engineers, Proposed, 156
Institution of Naval Architects, 408
Relations existing between Shipbuilders, Shipowners, and Ship Insurers, Mr. W. M. Penning, 78 Ireland, Mineral Resources of, 411 Ireland, Mr. J., Continuous Peat Gas and Charcoal
Furnace, 468, 472
Ironclads, Circular, 168, 305, 323
Iron Coal, &c , Trades of Birmingham, &c., 19, 35, 53, 71, 87, 105, 123, 139.155. 175, 193, 209, 225, 241, 259, 277, 295, 313, 331, 347. 365, 383, 401, 417, 437, 457, 477
Iron and Coal Trade with China, 351
Iron, Corrugating, Mr. Johnson, 327
Iron Duke, The, 375
Iron, Machine-made Finished, 134
Iron Making in the Central Presidency, 116
Iron Making Experiments in India, 430
Ironmasters’ Difficulties, 46
Ironmasters and their Men, 394
Iron Mines, The Montreal, West Cumberland,’’255
Iron, Russian, 83
Iron and Steel Centres, Improvements in, 306
Iron, Swedish. 168, 200
iron Trade, The, 61, 82, 133, 150
1 ron Trade and the Floods. The, 412
Iron Trade of Germany, 441
Iron versus Steel, 47
Ironworkers. Payment of, 204
Ironworks, Day to Day Hiring, 323
Ironworks, St. Pancras, 181
Irrigation, Practical, 45
Jamin Magnet, The, 119
Japan, Blast Furnaces for, 13
Japan, Trade with, 236
Japanese Railways, 214
Johnson and Allan, Messrs., Feed-heating and Condensing Apparatus, 282
Johnson, Mr., Corrugating Iron, 327
Keeling, C.E., Mr. G. W., and Mr. G. Wells Owen, C.E., Bridge over the Severn on the Severn and Wye Railway, 145, 152
Kent,Mr. \V., on Corrosion of Iron in Railway Bridges, 118
Keokuk and Kansas City Railway, 307
Kirkaldy, Mr.. Distilling Apparatus, 282
Kettle, Successor to Mr. Rupert, 13
Kind-Chaudron System, The, 471
King’s College Scholarship, 285
Kirtley, Mr. W., Tank Locomotives, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Messrs. Neilson, Engineers, 410, 413, 426
Krupp Gun, The, 307
Labour Bills, The, Il
Labour and Coal, 380
Labour-saving Machine, 252
Lagging of Steam Pipes, 398
Lamp, Mr. T. Silver. 144
Lancashire Coal Field, Requirements of, 470
Landing Stage, The Liverpool, 101
Leading Articles :—
Air Pumps, 185
Amateur Boiler Engineering, 64, 134
American Competition, 204
Belgian Axles, 168
Belgian College fqr South Yorkshire, 30
Leading Articles (continued)
Belgian Iron Question again, 116
Belgian Pit Sinking, 358
Blast Furnaces Tuyeres, 252
Blast Furnaces for Japan, 13
Blast in Puddling, 93,186
Boilers of the Serapis, 269
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., Messrs., 324
Breech-loading Guns, 64
British Ironmasters and American Minerals, 13
British, Proposed Iron Trade Association, 429
Business Aspect of the Employment of Banks women. 46
Captain Webb’s Achievement, 220
Castalia, The, 341
Centennial Exhibition, 450
Chain Cable Testing, 116
Chartered and Imperial Gas Companies, 287
Circular Ironclads, 168, 305. 323
Coal Pit Explosion in North Wales, 412
Colliery Engine tenters, 358. 377
Colliery Explosions, The Late, 429
Collisions at Sea. 29
Collision in the Solent. 149
Coroners’ Juries’ and Boiler Explosions, 394
Corrosion of Marine Boilers, 357
Cotswold Hills, 342
Coupled Locomotives, 133
Crampton Furnaces, 82
Crewe Locomotive Works, 116
Day-to-day Hiring at Ironworks, 324
Diversion of Sewage from the Thames, 167
Draining Collieries, 204
Drainage works in Staffordshire, 64
Earl Derby on Machinery, 288
Early Locomotives, 219
Eighty-one Ton Gun, The, 186
Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 430
Engineers in the Navy, 287
English Experience of Belgian Iron, 30
English Steel and the American Centennial, 306
Flood Warnings, 82
Floods and the Iron Trade, 412
Fog Signals, 45
French Competition, 98
Gas as a Fuel, 252
Good Taste in Birmingham Products, 288
Goods Wagons, 470
Government and the Merchant Shipping Bills, 81
Improvements in Iron and Steel Centres, 306
Indian Engineering College, 81
Iron Duke, The, 376
Iron-making in the Central Presidency, 116
Iron-making Experiments in India, 430
Iron-making Machinery, 150
Ironmasters’ Difficulties, 46
a Ironmasters’ Profit, 13
Ironmasters and their Men, 394
Iron Pyrites, 220
Iron Trade, The, 133
Iron Trade Prospects, 82
Iron Trade of the United States, 323
Kettle’s Successor, Mr., 13
Kildwick Collision, 186
Labour Bills, The, 11
Labour Saving Machine, 252
Life Rafts, 469
Locomotives, Early, 219
Locomotives, Old and New, 376
Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1825 and 1875, 218
London Bridge, 469
London Street Macadamising, 375, 450
London Water Companies, 167
Long Stroke Engines, 269
Loose Screw Propellers, 430
Machine Made Finished Iron, 134
Makaroff’s Mats, 288
Manchester Sewage, 342
Marine Engines for Ships of War, 357, 375
Mechanical Aids to Puddling, 116
Merchant Shipping Legislation, 358
Metallurgists and Engineers, 394
Mineral Resources of Ireland, 411
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom, 430, 449
More Coal, 204
Natural Gas, 412
Naval Boilers, 63
Naval Guns, 11
Navvies for China, 270
Oil versus Gas, 450
Old and New Locomotives, 376
Order of Merit for Colliers and Ironworkers, 376
Our Navy, 203
Our Railways, 305
Paper War Ships, 219
Parliament and the London Gas Companies, 12
Payment of Ironworkers, 204
Philadelphia Exhibition, 46
Plimsoll, Mr., and the House of Commons, 82
Practical Irrigation, 45
Prices, 64
Promotion of Business by Trades Unions, 430
Quadruple Cylinder Engines, 203
Rag Boilers, 288
Railway Companies as Manufacturers, 449
Rail Slabs for Russia, 306
Railway Wagon Companies, 150
Ramming in Naval Warfare, 185
Registration of Trade Marks, 393
Requirements of the Lancashire Coal Field, 470
Return to Bronze Field Pieces, 235
Royal Agricultural Society, 97
Russian Steel Rails, 341
Sanitary Condition of the Seine, 251
Scarcity, 236
Science at Oxford, 30
Singular Announcement, Messrs. Firth and North,
and Letters Patent, 394
Steam Coal, 252
Steam Engine Performance, 236’
Steel Fire Boxes, 470
Strange Appeal, A, 270
Sub-Wealden Exploration, 30 >
Supplying Air to Boiler Furnaces, 98
Swedish Iron, 168
Taste, 236
Technical Education in Russia, 115
Testing Railway Steel Axles, 29
Thames Valley Drainage, 411
Toughened Glass, 149
Traction Engines, 115
Trade Marks, 450
Trade with Japan, 236
Unarmoured Ships, 63
Unionism at the Antipodes, 30
Unseaworthy Ships, 89, 97
Vanguard, Loss of H.M.S., 168, 236, 324
Wages of Colliery Enginemen, 46
Wages and Unionism, 450
Watertight Bulkheads, 251
What Next and Next, 470
Leeds, Proposed New Bridge in, 267
Legal Intelligence
Perkins v. The Yorkshire Engine Company, 135
Potter v. Berry, 118
Legislation, Merchant Shipping, 358
Lehigh Valley Railway, Passenger Locomotive, 24
Lespinasse Puddling Furnace, 398
Letters to the Editor :—
Air Gas Engines, Charles W. Hastings, 320
Aitchison’s Peat Smelting Fuel, Robert Ker Aitchi-son, 302
American Boiler Engineering, W. G., 254
American Boilers, K. W. Hedges, 408, 453
American Boilers, A. Marshall and Co., 285
American Boilers, W. G., 320, 397
Auto-Pneumatic Gas Machine, J. F. G. Kroms-chroder, 353
Axle Bearings, Phosphor Bronze Company, 398
Bastie, M. De la, Process of Treating Glass, David
Kirdaldy, 182
Belgian Tires, H. Seeger, 147
Letters to the Editor (continued)
Blast Furnace Hearths, C. Holste, 254
Blast Furnace Tuyeres, James Brownlee, 303
Blast Furnace Tuyeres, W. H. Heeley, 320
Blast Furnace Tuyeres, Edward Jones, 320
Blast Furnace Tuyeres, Nimrod, 303
Blast Furnace Tuyeres, R. H., 320
Blast Furnace Tuyeres, R. S., 303
Boiler Coatings, W. H. H. Villiers Sankey, 285
Bolt Forging Machinery. Charles Fairbairn, 42
British Association at Belfast, W. A. Trail], M.A.L,
303
Bursting of Kitchen Boiler Pipes, Win. Scarratt, 77
Carillons, P. W. d’A., 181
Circulating Tubes, William Pidgeon, 353
Continuous Brakes, T. Maude, 320
Copper Hose Rivets, Merryweather and Sons, 303
Copper Hose Rivets, J. Stone and Co., 320
Corrosion of Marine Boilers, 377
Cullen’s Mill Gear, Whitmore and Binyon, 90
Cullen’s Stone Gear, William Rennie, jun., 147
Delayed Ebullition, R. E. D., 453
Delayed Ebullition as a Cause of Boiler Explosions,
F. Y.. 377
Delayed Ebullition as a Cause of Boiler Explosions,
H. A. C. Mackenzie, 398
Disc Diagrams. H. Harrison, 181
Diving Apparatus, Siebe and Gorman, 147
Engine Performance, Robert Armstrong, 254
Engine Performance, Mylor Bridge, R.N., 408
Feed-water, John Watt, 61
Fireless Locomotives, T. C J., 397
Fish joints, W. Thomson, 453
Floating Cabins, P. France, 200
Fog Signals, H. Temple Humphreys, M.I.C.E., 61
Great Northern Engines, Thomas Maude, 273
Gum pel’s Rudder, Joseph Bernays, 353
Hedge’s Boiler at Taunton, K. W. Hedges, 61
Horse Rakes, Haughton and Thompson, 303 ■
Hydraulic Rams, Aries Minor, 427
Hydraulic Rams, Alfred Atkinson, 303, 354
Hydraulic Rams, Charles Louis Hett, 408
Hydraulic Rams, B Massey, 427
Hydraulic Rams, A Mathematical Vicar, 427
Hydraulic Rams, R. E. D., 377, 427
Hydraulic Rams, W. F. Roe, 320, 453
Irish Rainfall, Coorse Weather, 427
Iron Trade Prospects, Nimrod, 61
Jarrah Timber, William Eldridge, 118
Liquid Shells, C. A. M., 200, 253
Liquid Shells, John Mackintosh, 213, 253, 302
Locomotives, Fireless, 397
London Bridge, J. F. Boetius, 354
London Street Macadamising, H. C. Coulthard, 427
Manchester Exhibition, Beesley and Sons, 61
Marine Engine Economy, H. O., 320
Marine Engines, M. E., 320
Material for Construction of Piers, &c., George
Simpson, 273
Middlesbrough Iron Trade, John Jones, 118
Moncrieff Guns, A. Moncrieff, 408
Narrow Gauge Railways, W. Lauford, M.I.C.E., 398
Naval Engineers, Engineer, R.N., 303
New Kind of Hose Rivet, J. Stone and Co., 285
Old Engines, B. D. K., 254
Peat Fuel, Anti-Phosphorus, 377
Peat Fuel, Peat, 354
Peat Gas, J. Ireland, 453
Priming of Steam Boilers, E. A. Bourry, 397
Puddling at Woolwich, Vulcan, 213
Quadruple Cylinder Engines, Nevern, 213
Quadruple Engines, William Inglis, 273
Radial Drills, 1). Lavater, 303
Railway Rolling Stock, R. Price Williams, 253
Retarding Trains without the Application of Brake
Blocks. J. M., 61
Root Boilers at Sea, Brevity, 90
Root Boilers at Sea, Facts and Figures, 42
Rotary Engines, Charles E. Moss, 118
St. Pancras Ironworks, Pye, Smith, White, and
Elliot, A. S. Cameron, 181
Screw Propellers N. D. Spartali, 273
Screw Propellers, Henrietta Vansittart, 285, 408
Setting out Valve Gear, Robert Duncan. 42
Smokeless Fuel, Hardy Wells, C.E., 200
Speed Indicator, Charles E. Moss, 453
Steam Engine Economy, B. Donkin, 408
Steam Engine Economy, A Mechanical Engineer, 354
Steam Engine Economy, Sea-going Engineer, 408
Steam Engine Economy, T. Simpson, 303, 427
Steam Pumps in the American Navy, A. S. Cameron, 147
Steam Reversing Gear, Henry P. Holt, 285
Stokers in the Navy, Half Pay, 427
Stone Breakers, H. R, Marsden, 320
Sun Power, N. F. Gerard, 377
Swedish Iron, Lander and Larsson, 200
Technical Education, J. P. W., 213
Syphons, A. R. S., 453
Testing Steam Pumps, Joseph W. Banks, 200
Testing Steam Pumps, Theron Skeel, 90
Three-cylinder Engines, M. Arie, 353
Three-cyUnder Engines, John Penn and Sons, 377
Water in Aid of Steam, J. C. Bloomfield, 303
Water in Aid of Steam, John Kennedy, 303
Water Shells, F. A. Abel, 213
Watertight Bulkheads, James N. Dunstan, 284
Water Tube Boilers, John Watt, 302
Water Waste Preventer, Wallace and Connell, 182
Lewin, Mr. S., Narrow Gauge Tank Locomotive, 327
Liability of Marine Engineers, 118
Light Rafts, 469
Lightcliffe Church, Clock and Chimes at, 245
Lightning Conductors, 427
Literature :—
Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., 367, 431
Brinkley’s Astronomy, J. W. Stubbs, D.D., and
Francis Brunow, Ph.D., 1
Bristol and its Environs, Published under the Sanction of the Local Executive Committee of the British Association, 270
Elemente der Petrographie, Dr. A. Von Lasaulx, A.D., 99
Elements of Practical Construction, S. Downing, LL.D., 83
Engineering Papers, C. Graham Smith, 195
Examples in Heat, R. E. Day, M.A., 270
Jubilee Memorial of the Railway System, J. S. Jeans, 343
Mechanic’s Friend, W. T. Axon, M.R.S.L., F.S.S., 195
Military Travelling Carriages, Lieut. Col. F. Close, 83
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, with other Papers, James Forrest, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 471
Plattner’s Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blow Pipe, Professor R’chter, Translated by H. B. Cornwall, A.M., and J. H. Caswell, 65
Plattner’s Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with Blow Pipe, Professor Richter, Edited by T. Hugo Cookesley, 65
Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells, with Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed, Ernest Spon, 324
Principles of Mechanics, T. M. Goodeve, M.A., 195
Relative Merits of Simple and Compound Engines as applied to Ships of War, Prize Essay, Niel McDougall, A.I.C.E., 342
Report of the Deputy-Master of the Mint, 1874, The Fifth, 31
Six Lectures on Light, John Tyndall, D.C.L., LL D., F.R.S., 270
Sound, John Tyndall, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 270
Transactions, of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, 83
Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, R. Hunt, F.R.S., and F. W. Rudlcr, F.G.S., 47
Liverpool Landing Stage, 101
Liverpool Water Supply, 472
Lloyd, W.,_ Tuyere, 334
Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 1870, 362
Lock Nut, Mr, A. H. G. Hobson’s, 441
Locomotive, Express, South-Eastern Railway, Mr. Cudworth, 441, 448
Locomotive, The Hydraulic, 472
Locomotive, Mr. S. Lewin’s Narrow Gauge Tank, 327
Locomotive, Passenger, Lehigh Valley Railway. 24
Locomotive, London and Brighton Railway, Mr. W, Stroudlcy’s Express Passenger, 190, 202. 205
Locomotive for Steep Gradients, Handyside's Patent, Messrs. Fox, Walker, and Co., 163, 161
Locomotive, Tank, London, Chatham and Dover Railway, Mr. W. Kirtley, Messrs. Neilson, Engineers, 410, 413, 426
Locomotive Works, The Crewe, 116
Locomotives, American Light, Messrs. Porter, Bell, and Co., 351, 356, 379
Locomotives, Coupled, 133
London Bridge, 315, 354, 424, 432
Lurmann, M., Closed-hearth .System, 290
Macadamising London Streets, 375, 427, 450
M’Avoy Auto-Pneumatic Gas Machine, 283
Magnet, The Jamin, 119
Mallet, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. R. Floating Battery for 36in. Mortar, 464
Manchester Exhibition, 60, 61
Furness and Co., Messrs., Veitical Boring Machine.
Ill
Judges’ Awards, 126
Korting. M. E., Steam Jet Gas Exhauster, 92
Lynde, Mr. J. H., Valveless W^ste Water Preventer, 93
Vincent’s Bolt, Rivet, and Spike-making Machine, 92
Wilkinson and Crowther, Messrs., Safety Points, 24 Zimmermann’s Package Filling Machine, 264
1 Mann’s Boudoir Cars on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, 2
Marcasite Boiler Explosion, 23
Marsden’s Stone-breaking Machinery, 7
Matter in the Liquid and Gaseous States, Dr. Andrews, F.R.S., 94
Mats, Makaroff’s, 288
Mein, Mr., Governor, 246
Merchant Shipping Bill and the Government, 81
Metaline, Chemical Composition of, 56
Milling, Brewing, and Distilling Machinery at Vienna Exhibition, 300
Millwall Ironworks, 388
Mineral Oils, Experiments with, 472
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom, 430, 449
Mining in Algiers, 78
Miscellanea, 9, 26, 43, 57, 75, 91, 109, 127, 151,165, 179, 201, 221, 237, 249, 263, 281, 299, 317, 335, 355, 369, 387, 409, 423, 443, 467
Moncrieff Gun Carriages, 385, 392, 408
Montreal Iron Mines, West Cumberland. 255
Mountain Slip on tho Salzburg-Tiroler Railway, 13
Mowing Machines, Messrs., Samuelson and Son’s, 2-H.P, 62, 65 ’
Nara Exhibition. The, 147
Naval Warfare, Ramming, 185
Navy, Engineers in the, 287, 288
Navy, Our, 203
Neilson, Messrs., Tank Locomotive, London.Chatham, and Dover Railway, designed by Mr. W. Kirtley, 389
New and Co., Messrs., Shaping Machine, 286
New and Co., Messrs., Slotting Machine, 66
New York and Canada Railway, 67
North of England, 19, 35, 53, 72, 88,105, 124, 140. 155. 176, 209, 242, 260, 278, 296, 313, 332, 348, 366, 384, 402, 418, 437, 458, 477
Notes from Lancashire, 19, 35, 53, 71, 87, 105 12? 139
155, 175, 193, 209, 225, 241, 259, 277, 295, *313,’ 33L
347, 365,383,401,417,437,457,477
Notes and Memoranda, 9, 26, 43, 57, 75, 91 109 127 151, 165, 179, 201, 221, 237, 249, 263, 281’ 299,’ 317,’ 335, 355, 369, 387, 409, 423, 443, 467
Notes from Scotland, 20, 35, 54, 72, 87, 106, 124, 140
156, 176,‘194, 210, 225, 242, 260, 278, 296, 314.’ 332,’
348, 366, 384, 402, 418, 438, 458, 478
Notices to Correspondents, 11, 29, 45, 63, 81, 97 115 133, 149, 167, 185, 203, 219, 235, 251. 269, 287, 305. 323’. 341, 357, 374, 393, 411, 429, 449, 468
Obituary
Morandibre, M., 8
Schneider, M.E., 394
Vignoles, Mr. Charles Blacker, 359, 373
Wheatstone, F.R.S., Sir Charles, 285, 306
Oil versus Gas, 450
Owens College, 14
Owens and Co., Messrs., Accumulator Pump. Blake’s Patent, 445 •
Oxford, Science at, 30
Oxidised Money, 422
Packing of Raw Cotton, Improvements in, 386
Paper-making Grass of Algeria, 61
Paper, Manufacture of, M. Aimc Girard, 119
Parliament and the London Gas Companies, 12
Parliamentary Standing Orders, 412
Paris Clocks, 74
Paris Metropolitan Railways, 414
Parqueterie, Swiss, 67
Partridge and Cooper’s Diaries, Messrs., 386
Patent Laws, 3, 24
Patent Litigation, A New Form of, 5
Patent Office, 200
Patents, Specification of French, 321
Peacock and Sworder, Messrs., Stamp Perforating Machines, 131, 132, 147
Peat Fuel, Synoptical Table of different Mechanical Systems of Condensing Peat actually Worked, 68
Peat at the London Lead Company’s Peat Works, Utilisation of, 73
Pendred, Mr. H., on Screw Propellers, at the Society of Engineers, 336, 338, 344
Peter the Great’s Household Furniture, 5
Petroleum Furnace, The Eames, 230
Piece Work and Strikes, 454
Piedbmuf’s Hydraulic Flanging Machine, 351, 353
Pieri Rifle, The, 114, 144,145
Piers, and Materials for Construction of, 274
Pig Iron Manufacture, Progress of, 79
Pit Sinking, Belgian, 358
Planing Machine, Self-acting, Messrs. J. Elce and Co..
465 ’
Plimsoll, Mr., and the House of Commons, 82 Plumbago Mining in England, Revival of, 290 Pollution of Rivers, Mr. E. C. Potter on the, 27 Pomona Exhibition, Manchester, 128, 231
Alley, Mr., Boiler, 282
Field and Cotton, Messrs., Steam Pump, 129
Napier, Mr.. Friction Meter, 129
Prize Awards, 200
Siddelcy and Mackay, Messrs., Ice Making Machine, 129
Porcelain, American, 472
Porter, Bell, and Co , Messrs., American Light Locomotives, 351, 356, 379
Porter, Mr. R., Duplex Valve, 77
Potter, Mr. E. C., on the Pollution of Rivers, 27
Prices, 64
Prices Current of Metals,-Oils, Timber, &c. (See last page of every number). >
Priestman and Co., Messrs., Double Winch, 128
Priming of Steam Boilers, 279, 285
Private Bills of the Coming Session, 395
Private Bills in Parliament, 13, 30, 46, 05, 83, 90, 457
Profit of Ironmasters, 13
Propellers, Loose Screw, 430
Propellers, Screw, 273, 285, 408
Propellers, Screw, Mr. H. Pendred at the Society of
Engineers, 336, 338, 344 •
Puddling, Blast in, 98, 186
Puddling, Mechanical Aids to, 116
Pump, Blake’s Accumulator, Messrs. Owens and Co.. 445
Pumping Machinery, Holland Drainage Works, Messrs. Gwynne, 388, 395, 396
Pumping Machinery at the New .Graving Dock, Dundee, Messrs. Gwynne and Co., 337, 340
Pumps, Air, 185
Pumps in the American Navy, Steam, 147
Pumps, Testing Steam, 90, 95, 200
Purification of Sewage Water, 183
Pyrites, Iron, 220
Quebec Harbour, 67
Radial Arm TestAor Gauge Cock, Mr. A. Dixon, 17
Rail Slabs for Russia, 306
Railway Companies as Manufacturers, 449
Railway, The First, 262
Railway Matters, 9, 26, 43, 57, 75, 91, 109, 127,151,165, 179, 201, 221, 237, 249, 263, 281, 299, 317, 335, 355, 369, 387, 409, 423, 443, 467
Railway Rolling Stock, 125
Railway Wagon Companies, 150
Railway Working Expenses, 362
Railway Works, New, 298
Railways in Italy, 401
Railways, Narrow Gauge, 398
Railways, Our, 305
Rainfall, Irish, 427
Raising and Lowering Launches, Mr. R. Hedley, 371
Rakes, Horse, 303
Rams, Hydraulic, 303, 320, 354, 377, 408, 427, 453
Reading Ironworks, 40-H.P. Horizontal Engine for
Egypt, 285, 286
Recollections of Improvements in the Steam Engine during the last Half Century, Mr. J. Bourne, C.E., 306, 350, 422, 440, 462
Registration of Trade Marks, 23, 89, 390, 393
Regulation Works on the Danube, near Vienna, 360 .
Relations existing between Ship Builders, Ship
Owners, and Ship Insurers, Mr. W. M. Penning on the, 78
Retort Charging and Drawing Apparatus, 444, 446
Reversing Gear, Steam, 285
Rifle, The Pieri, 114, 144, 145
Rivers Pollution Commission, 358, 367, 386, 419, 450, 471
Rivets, Copper Hose, 303, 320
Rolling Forty-eight feet Rails, 49
Rolling Stock, Railway, 125, '253 «
Root Boilers at Sea, 42, 90
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 21, 37, 97
Ashby, Jeffery, and Luke, Messrs., Haymaker, 180
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Ploughing
Engine, 93, 96
Davey, Paxman, and Co., Messrs., Vertical Engine and Boiler, 66
Hayward Tyler and Co., Messrs., Universal Steam Pump with External Slide Valve, 42
Hedges and Co., Messrs., Boiler, 38
Hindley, Mr. E. S., Vertical Engine, 58
Howard, Messrs. J. and F., 8-H.P. “Farmer’s”
Engine, 28, 32
Marsden, Mr. H. R., Ballasting Machine, London and North-Western Railway, 76
Nalder, Messrs., Self Feeder and Guard, 22
Plan of the Show Ground at Taunton, 14
Prize Horse Rakes, 162
Results of Preliminary Dynamometer Tests of 1-H.P.
Mowing Machines, 39
Thrashing Machine Guards and Feeders, 40, 41, 42, 44
Royle’s Steam Trap, 144
Rudder, The Gumpel, 326, 353
Russia, Technical Education in, 115
Russian Manufactories, 135, 136
Sale of Machine Tools at Manchester, 413
Salzburg-Tiroler Railway, Mountain Slip on the, 13
Samuelson and Son, Messrs., 2-H.P. Mowing Machine,
62, 65
Saving Life at Sea, 7
Scarcity, 236
Scientific Education, 213
Screw Propeller, The Hercules, 326
Seine, Sanitary Condition of the, 251
Serapis, Boilers ofathe, 269
Settle and Carlisle Railway, 56
Settons Reservoir, France, 107, 110
Sewage, Manchester, 342
Sewage from the Thames, Diversion of, 167
Shah, H.M.S., 457
Shaping Machine, Messrs. New and Co., 286
Shearing 3in., Cables, Messrs. Tangye Brothers, Hydraulic Shears for, 379
Sheffield District, 20, 35, 54, 71, 88, 105, 128, 139, 156, 176, 194, 210, 226, 241, 259, 277, 295, 314, 331, 347, 365, 383, 401, 417, 437, 457, 477
Shells, Liquid, 200, 213, 253, 302
Shipments of Goods to the Centennial Exhibition, 267
Ships, Paper War, 219
Ships’ Pumps and Fire Engines, 451
Ships’ Pumps, Messrs. Stone and Co., 452
Ships, Steel, 90
Ships, Unarmoured, 63
Ships, Unseaworthy, 97, 98
Ships of War, Marine Engines for, 357, 375
Shirt, The Patent One-tailed, 217
Siemens’ Brothers, Messrs., Magneto-Electric. Bell-
Signalling Apparatus, 441
Signals, Fog, 45, 61
Signals for Railways, Messrs. Crichton and Craig’s, Audible, 76 . •
Silver Bath from Ditch Water, 378
Silver, Mr. T., Lamps, 144
Slag Bricks to Crushing Strains, Resistance of, 441
Slotting Machine, Messrs. New and Co., 66
Smithfield Club Show, 403
Baker’s Patent Feeder, 403
Carter’s Disintegrator, 421
Davenport’s Latch, 403
Dietz’s Boiler, 403
Ellis and Co.’s Drill, 421
Hornsby and Sons’ Paragon Mower, 407
Nalder’s Thrashing Machine, 403
Pearn’s Donkey Pump, 403
Powis and Co.’s Combined Sawing Machine, 403
Robey and Co.’s 6-H.P. Traction Engine, 428, 432, 433
Sinkwell and Tooley’s Elevating, Shooting, and Unloading Machine, 421
Small’s Horse Groomer, 421
Wallis and Steevcn’s Thrashing and Finishing Machine, 406
Wurr and Lewis’ Combined Sawing Machine, 403
Societies, Midland, 23 _
Society, The Chemical :—
Achrematite, Prof. J. W. Mallet, 50
Action of Chlorine on Acetanide, Dr. E. W. PreVost, 50
Action of Nitric Acid on Copper, Mercury, &e., Air.
J. J. Ackworth, 50
Action of Potassie Sulphite on the Haloid Derivatives of Phenol, Dr. H. E. Armstrong and Mr. G. Harrow, 447
Alkaloids contained in the Aconites, Part I., Dr.
C. R. A. Wright and Mr. G. H. Beckett, 361
Bismuthiferous Tesseral Pyrites, Dr. W. Ramsey, 433
Certain Bismuth Compounds, Mr. M. M. P. Muir, ; 433
Certain Sources of Error in the Ultimate Analysis of Organic Substances containing Nitrogen, Mr.
G. S. Johnson, 433
Compounds of Ether with Anhydrous Metallic Chlorides, Mr. P* P. Bedson, 447
Decomposition of Alcohol and its Homologues, by the Joint Action of Aluminium and its Halogen Compounds, Dr. J. H. Gladstone and Mr. A. Tribe,
Decomposition of Stearic Acid by Distillation under Pressure, Mr. G. Johnston, 361
Decomposition of Water by the Joint Action of Aluminium and Aluminium Iodide, Bromide, Chloride including Instances of Reverse Action, Dr. J. H. Gladstone and Mr. A. Tribe, 50
Ethyl-phenyl-acctylene. Mr. T. M. Morgan, 398
Fluorides of Arsenic, Phosphorus and Iodine, Mr. R. W. E. Mclvor, 361
Formation of Coumarine, Cinnamic, and other similar Acids, Mr. W. H, Perkin, 398
Incense Resin, Mr. C. E. Groves and. Dr. J. Sten-lionsc 433
Iodides of Antimony, Mr. R. W. E. Mclvor, 361
Isomeric Terpenes and their Derivatives, Part V.,
Dr. C. R. A. Wright and Mr. G. H. Beckett, 361
Liquid Carbon Dioxide in Mineral Cavities, Mr. W. Noel Hartley, 398
Narcotine, Cotarnine, and Hydrocotarnine, Dr. C.
R. A. Wright and Mr. G. H. Beckett, 398, 447
Nitrosyl Bromide, and on Sulphur] Bromide, Mr.
M. M. P. Muir, 50
Note on.the Action of Nitric Acid on Tribromophenol, Dr. H. E. Armstrong and Mr. G. Harrow, 447
Notes on the Chemistry of Tartaric and Citric Acid, Mr. R. Warrington, 50
Observations on Variations in the Composition of River Waters, Mr. J. Andrews, 447
Occurrence of Native Calcium Chloride at Guy’s
Cliffe, Mr. ,T. Spiller, 433
Reaction of Tungsten, Professor Mallet, 50
Sebates of the Alcoholic Series, Mr. E. Neison, 447
Simple Form of Gas Regulator for Maintaining
Constant Temperature, Mr. F. J. M. Page, 361
Spongy Iron, Mr. Gibbs, 244
Tolylphenyl, a New Hydrocarbon, Mr. T. Carnelly, 361
Society of Civil Engineers, The American
Fabrication of Bcton Blocks by Manual Labour, Mr.
Schuyler Hamilton, C.E., 112
Form, Weight, Manufacture, and Life of JRails, Mr.
Ashbel Welsh, C. E., 99
Memoir of the Construction of a Masonry Dam, Mr.
James R. Crose, C.E., 170, 217, 245
Society of Civil Engineers, Paris, 401
Society, Edinburgh and Leith Engineers’,
Education of a Civil Engineer, Mr. Graham Smith, 342 •
Society of Engineers, 178
Charging and Drawing Gas Retorts, Mr. F. W.
Hartley, 446
Government Brake Trials, Mr. Thomas Maude, 289, 308
Screw Propellers, their Shafts and Fittings, Mr.
Hamilton W. Pendred, 321
Society, King’s College, Engineering
Cement and Concrete, Mr. W. Led with, 343
Coffering and Tubbing Pit Shafts, Air. T. H. Bailey, 406
Light-houses and Light-ships, Mr. H. D. Fabricius, 433
Liverpool Landing Stage, Mr. R. L. Tapscott, 307
Locomotive, Mr. A. H. Leaf, 401
Marine Engineering, Mr. W. Bouchier, 359
Railway Time Tables, Mr. Crompton, 291
Severn Tunnel, Mr. Mackworth, 326
Tunnelling, Mr. J. B. Little, 373
Society, Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Combustion of Oils for the Generation of Steam,
Mr. W. Gadd, 50
Sea Telegraphy in Special Relation to the Loss of the Vanguard, Mr. W. H. Bailey, 473
Society, The Meteorological, 53
Continuous Self-registering Thermometer, W. Harrison Cripps, 368
Moon’s Influence in Connection with our Extremes of Temperature, Mr. George D. Brumham, F.D.S., 471
Rainfall at Calcutta, Mr. R. Strachan, F.M.S., 471
Reduction of Barometric Readings, with a Form of Table for Combining the Corrections of Index Error, Temperature, and Altitude, W. Marriott, F.M.S., 368
Registration of Sunshine, Mr. R. H. Scott, 471
Self-regulatingAtmometer, S.H.Miller, F.R.A.S., 368
Use of the Rotary Thermometer, Mr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 471
Society.of Municipal Sanitary Engineers ;—
Bursting of Water Supply Pipes in Winter, Mr. W.
H. Bailey, 48
Society, The Royal, 343
Society, The Royal Agricultural, 97
Society of Telegraph Engineers
Soiree, 451
Solent, Collision in the, 149
South Kensington Museum, 7, 23,76, 91, 106, 124, 136, 147, 176, 194, 205, 226, 242, 254, 278, 289, 307, 321, 339, 365, 377, 401, 417, 420, 457
South Wales Colliery Explosions, 412
South Wales Coal Question, 79
Specifications of French Patents, 230
Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, 136
Staffordshire Drainage Works, 64
Stamp Perforating Machines, Messrs. Peacock and Sworder, 131, 132, 147
Steam Machinery of the Navy, 372
Steam, Superheated, 419, 439
Steel Fire Boxes, 254
Steel, Hard, versus Soft, 321
Steel Rails, Russian, 341
Steering Screw, Bremner’s Steam, ,293, 309
Stockton and Darlington Railway Locomotives in 1825 and 1875. 218
Stokers in the Navy, 427
Stone Breakers, 320
Stone-breaking Machinery, Mr. Marsden, 7
Stone Gear, Cullen’s, Newry Foundry Co., 58, 90, 147
Stone and Co., Messrs., Ships’ Pumps, 452
Stove, Mr. W. Crossley’s Hot Blast, Askam Ironworks, 422. 425
Strike in South Wales, 164
Strike in Warwickshire. 187
Strikes in the States, 362
1 Stroudley, Mr. W., Express Passenger Locomotive, London and Brighton Railway. 199, 202. 205
Stroudley, Mr. W., Tender for Express Engine, Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 247, 268, 270
Sub-Wealdcn Explorations, 30, 264
Sulphur from Iron, Elimination of, 430
Sun Power, 377
Superheated Steam, 419, 439
Swedish Boiler Plates, 230
Syphons, 453
Tangye Brothers, Messrs, Hydraulic Shears for Shearing Sin. Cables, 379
Tank Locomotive, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Mr. W, Hartley, Messrs. Neilson, Engineers, 389
Tasmanian Tin, 213
Taste, 236
Tees, Development and Improvement of|the, 243
Telegraph Poles in Persia, 373
Telegraph System, A New, 213
Tender for Express Engine, London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Mr. W. Stroudley, 247, 268, 270
Testing Alloys, 79
Thames Tunnel, The Proposed, 436
Thames Valley Drainage, 264, 328, 411
Thorneycroft, Messrs. J., Torpedo Boat for tho Austrian Government, 204
Thunderer, The, 132
Thunderer’s Turret Gun Gear, II.M.S., 439
Timber, Jarrah, 118
Tires, Belgian, 147, 32S
Torpedo Boat for the Austrian Government, Messrs. J.
Thorneycroft, 204
Torpedoes, 157
Toughened Glass, 149, 316
Tower Subway, 156
Trade Marks, 450
Trade Marks, Registration of, 23, 89, 390, 393
Trades Unions, Promotion of Business by, 430
Tramway Rail Cleaner, 217
Trap, Royle's Steam, 144
Trials with H.M.S. Bruiser, 73
Trial of the Pyx, 169
Tubes, Circulating, 353
Tuileries, Restoration of, 236
Turkish Navy, The, 373
Turning Chilled Wheels, Mr. W. W. Lobdcll at the Car-builders’ Association, 433
Tuyere, Mr. Lloyd, 304
Tuyeres Blast Furnace, 252, 279, 303, 320
United States*‘Government Boiler Testing Experiments, 147
Valve, Mr. F. W. Colls’ Mercurial Safety, 128
- Valve Gear, Setting out. 42
Valve, Mr. R. Porter's Duplex, 77
Vanguard, Loss of the, 168, 184, 186, 236, 256, 285, 21
Ventilation of Cleveland Iron Mines, 401
Vesuvius, 471
Victoria, The Labour Market in, 316
Vienna Exhibition of Milling, Brewing, and Distilling Machinery, 300
Virginia City, 438
Wages and Unionism, 450
Wagons, Goods, 470
Wagtail, Steam Canal Tug, Messrs. Wilson and Co., Engineers, Mr. St. Claire J. Byrne, Naval Architect, 374, 379
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 20, 35, 54, 72, 88, 106, 124, 140, 156.194, 210, 226, 242, 260, 278, 296, 314 332, 348, 366. 384, 402, 418, 438, 458, 478
Wallace, Mr. J , On certain New Forms of Bunsen Burner, Newcastle-on-Tyne Chemical Society, 87 144
Warming Railway Carriages by Steam, Haag’s System, 370, 377
Waste of Coal in Cornish Mines, 213
Waste Water Preventers, 182
Water in Aid of Steam Power, 261, 303
Water Power at Bellegarde, Application of, 3
Waterworks Improvements, 131
Webb’s Achievement, Capt., 220
Welsh, C.E., Mr. Ashbel, On the Form, Weight, Manufacture, and Life of Rails, American Society of Civil Engineers, 99
Westminster Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden, Designed by Mr. A. Bedborough, 231, 234, 238, 245, 250, 253, 265, 272
West’s Retort Charging and Drawing Apparatus, 414, 446
West wood and Bailey, Messrs., Iron Bridge for Ceylon, 175
Wheel Moulding Machine, Mr. Dickinson, 77
Wheel Tire, Messrs., Burrell and Valpy’s Safety, 465
Wheels, Allens Elastic, 111
White Brass, 76
Wigan Boiler Explosion, 90
Willan’s 3-Cylinder Engine. 230
Wilson and Co., Messrs., Steam Canal Tug Wagtail, Mr. St. Claire J. Byrne, Naval Architect, 374, 379
Winch, Messrs., Priestman and Co.’s Double, 128
Woolwich Explosion, 5
Woolwich, Puddling at, 213
Working Steep Gradients by Locomotives, Messrs.
Dick and Stevenson’s Apparatus for, 216
Wrecks, 1873-4, 175
Yorkshire College of Science, 248
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