The Engineer 1881 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous
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1881, 11
Accidents miscellaneous’ on English Railways, 1880,
Admiralty and New Alloys, The, 457
Air Brake, Mr. James Paterson, 120
Algeria and the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 225
Allan Line, The, 158
Alloys, New, The Admiralty and, 457
iiiU1 vffnt? ^rOc£n\” Argentine Cased Corvette, and l„rE?ecfc ?fr Ste,e. Hulls and Steel-faced Armour on Future War-ships, On the, Mr. J. D’A. Samuda,
“ Almirante Brown,” Trial Trip of the, 457
American Held Implements in South Russia, 103
American High Speed Locomotives, 107 American Patent Office Report, 127
American Patents, Curiosities of, 164
American Patents, Selected, 91, 98, 116, 134, 152, 173, 268> 286> 304’ 322’ 344’ 384>401’
Anderson’s, Mr., Patent of Inventions Bill, 447 Anthracite, The, 8
Anthracite as a House Coal, 125, 136, 166
Anthracite House Fire Grate, 255
Appointment of a City Engineer in Cork, 32 49
202°US Vapour’ Bemoval of, from the Atmosphere, Arizona, The, 64
4 V«8r0Ximate Kules fOr’ 23 a!S??red defences, Present Condition of, 326, 334
A^nrr m reature® 1Q the Navy Estimates. 241
Association of Foreman Engineers, The London, Amf?AtL°7t°P Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London, 9, 200
^^ocmtkjn of Gas Managers, The British— nosW both for Heating and Illuminating Pur-poses, Dr. Siemens, 462
4 Mr. I? ^^eneS«2U “ St “
OppJcmS; 146°NDON A™ Buetoew Railway Accnr!^I0N’ M^tchesteR Steam Users’, 304 Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers, A tai anta, The, 119
st“’268
Bford^467nd C0'* MeSSrS' W’ H’’ Albion Works. Sal-
Balloon, To the Derby in a, 420
Barnsley Miners, The, 184
B Char^S^nd C? w“b Self-acting Feed, Messrs.
bX° Pro^Th?'^ ProCeSS> The’ 4
Berlin Electric Railway, 184
Berlin, Exhibition of Railway Plant in 145
B 40? Gear CuttiDg Macbines, The Tighe-Hamilton,
Bilbao Ores, 375
Birmingham, Drainage of, 217
Gasworks, Balance-sheet of 196
Blackheath Subsidences, The, 83, 123 195
Board of Trade and Steel, 264
Boiler Explosion at Batley, 101
Boiler Explosion at Huddersfield, 138
5xPjos}on’ The Rainton, 408, 410
Boiler Explosions, 104, 118
Boiler Explosions, Fatal, 53
Boiler Explosions in Germany, 53
Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, 51, 64, 91, 104 123
RnHler FxPlosions at Ruabon and Hughen’den 2
S°?}er J,nsurarice and Inspection, 33 ’
Boiler Scavenger, Watkin’s Patent, 468
Boiler Steam Carriage, The 431
Boiler, Vertical, Mr. Jones, 64 I
Boilers, Red-hot, 354
meceJv®d’ 33’ 1<55, 207, 278, 467
5^in^Tool, Expanding, Mr. Timms, 120 Borough Surveyorships, 71
Bradford, U.S. Oil Fields, 384
Brake, Automatic Continuous, Mr. Smith 327
BrBlVReeS,am CBaiD’
Brake Conference, The Continuous, 335
Que^n, Latest Aspect of the, 259
way ’242 U°Uf'’ °n th® London and N.-W. Rail- 188
S, %V106rter T°Wer Stea“’ Mr- Arthur Brewry, Fifty-quarter, Messrs. Eldridge, Pope and
> Dorchester; Messrs. Scamell and Colyfr and Mr..G. R. Crickmay, 392, 395 ana
Brewery, New, Dorchester, 372 375
Brewery with Raw Grain Plant, Proposed Arrant ment of, Messis. Wilson, 33, 34 P rrange“
Brewing Apparatus, Mr. Johnson, 99
Brewmg England, 33, 99, 102, 106, 395 1
Bridge Between New York and Brooklyn 390
Bridge over the Clyde, Limitation of Traffic 100 dShoo’ ConYay Suspension, Repairing, 27 ’
Bridge over the Douro, New, 175, 182 427
Bridge, Ohio River Railway 7 16 *
Bridge, Stockton, 394 ’
Bridges, On the Design of Movable, 64
Bridges, Large Girder, Designing, 411
Brighton Beach, 277, 313, 329, 354
British Armoured Forts, 326, 334
Bristol Steam Tramways, 9
£5S®£ As“oiation The, at York, 300
British Trade m February, 210
Brush and Broomhead, Boring Machine 236 Buffer Springs, Mr. Turton’s, 27 ’ 36
Building Exhibition, 273 ‘BSSSFs s
Bye-products of the Iron Manufacture, 0
Cable, New Atlantic, 434
Caithness, Earl of, his Inventive Genius 930
Calcareous or Basic Linings used intron39
Cast Iron into Steel 8 gs used lu Conversion of
Carlscrona Fire Engine Trials 405
Casartelli and Potter, Messrs./indicator 61 Catapult, Mr. Smith’s, 298 uicator, 61
Cham Towing on the Elbe, 136
Channel Tunnel Scheme, The 465
Chilled Castings, No II i ’
Uhlln8:’204°al’mining Plaut’’ KaI-BW. Mr. R. R. Burnett
Civil Engineers, their Exemption from Jurors’ Duties, r!nVieIr^d T1ron Slidin£ Scale, 32
h-eck? 4S40n Works, Salford 468
Co., 19™ 204,249” 237,h242Se Engi“erWand Mining
Coal Trade, Crisis in, 126
Coal Wagons for the Indian State Railways, 406
Cold Air Machines, The Theory of, 8, 28
Cold Air Machines, 79, 377, 388, 426, 445
Colliery Riots in Lancashire, 32
“ Colossus,” The s.s., 402
Competitive Plans, 8
Compressed Air Diagrams, 101
Compressed Air Tramway Locomotives, 164
Compression of Air, The, 52, 66
Compressor, Hydraulic, for Naval Gun Carriage, 440, 443
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 241
Condenser, A New, 179, 196, 216
Conservation of Energy, 25, 256
Contracts Open:—
Conway Suspension Bridge, 27
Coal Wagons for the Indian State Railways, 406
Giant’s Causeway Tramway, 219
Post-office Vans for the Spanish Government, 388
Railway from Zaffra to Huelva, Spain, 426
Sligo Corporation Waterworks, 160, 162
Telescope Gasholder for Halifax, 460, 462
Conversion Tables, and Supplement to The Engineer,
January 7th, 1881, 3
Cork, Appointment of a City Engineer in, 32, 49
Cousinly Amenities, 218
Crank Shafts, 271, 298
Crucible Steel Casting, A Great, 71, 98
Cunard s.s. Servia, The, 161
Curves of Resistance and Progressive Measured Mile Speed Curves, 291
Cut-off and Length of Stroke, Influence of, on the Working of Steam Engines, 271
Dalzell Steel Works, Motherwell, N.B., 198
Damping Down Blast Furnaces, 203
Darke, Mr., Indicator, 61
De Bay Propeller, The, 8, 135, 156, 185, 388
Die Stocks and Tube Cutters, Mr. Buckley, 200
Directory for 1881, The City of London, 236
Dock, Floating, for Barrow, 23
Dock at Sutton Bridge, New, 390
Docks, Floating and Depositing, 332
Dog Lathe, 138
Dorchester, New Brewery, 372, 375
Doterel, Loss of H.M.S., 336, 411, 413, 426
Double-saw Timber Frame, Horizontal, 255
Douro, Proposed New Bridge over the, 175, 182, 364, 365, 405, 427, 459
Dover and Calais Route to the Continent, 462
Drainage, Subsoil and Surface, 126
Dredging Shot and Shell, 350
Drilling Machine, Self-feeding, Messrs. J. and R.
Lees, 197
Drilling in Mines by Machinery, 374
Durham Salt Deposits, 296
Earthwork, Actual Lateral Pressure of, 292
Eastern Shipping Trade, The. 465
Economiser and Lime Depositor, 327
Eddystone Lighthouse, Completion of, 370
Egyptian Obelisk in New York, 197
Electric Currents of Great Strength, Measuring, 280
Electric Lamps, Swan’s, 49
Electric Light, Application of, at the Free Public
Library, Liverpool, 201
Electric Light, The Brush, New York, 15
Electric Light in the City, 239
Electric Light in London, 329
Electric Light in its Naval and Military Applications,
Electric Lighting, Mr. St. George Lane Fox’s System of, 197
Electric Lighting in Steel Works, 296
Electric Railway, Berlin, 184
Electrical Appliances, Future Development of, 244
Electrical Exhibition, Paris International, 130, 164, 184, 200
Electrical Railroads, 374
Elasticity Viewed as Possibly a Mode of Motion, 367
Electro-dynamometer for the U.S. Torpedo Station, 276, 280
Employers’ Liability Act, 67, 89
Endowment of Research and the Transit of ’82, 458
Engine, Coke-drawing, Messrs. A. Chaplin and Co., 139
Engine, 14-H.P. Compound Portable, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 201
Engine, Corliss Mill, for 1000 Indicated Horse-power, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 309, 312
Engine, Double-cylinder Semi-portable, for the Indian State Railways, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 464 467
Engine, Goods, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
Engine, The Great Corliss, 362
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, Society Anonyme de
Construction Mecanique, 350, 352 376
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, 444, 446
Engine, Hot Air, Mr. John Ericsson, 273
Engine,^Passenger, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway,
Engine-room Artificers, 445
Engine-room Artificers in the Navy, 459
Engine, Six-coupled Goods, Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, Vulcan Foundry Company, 6
Engineering Trade Prospects, 242
Engineers by Act of Parliament, 329
Engineers, Scotch, Social Gathering of, 4
Engineers, The Education of, 377, 388, 429 458
Engineers in the Navy, 256, 313 ’
Enginemen, Certificated, 8
Engines, Agricultural, at the Melbourne Exhibition
1 *
Engines, American and Fairlie, 49
Engines, Electro-motive, Prof. Tyndall on 390
Engines, Gas, 185
Engines, Goods, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Specification for, Mr. Barton Wright, 280 290 °91 ’
Engines, High Speed, 104, 107, 123, 166, 217, 261
Engines, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion
Gear, Messrs. Buffaud frbres, 46
Engines, Horizontal Blowing, Staveley Ironworks 27
64 ’ *
Engines Let Out on Hire, Name Plates on, 394
Engines, Light Traction, 24, 49
Engines, Low Temperature Heat, 373
Engines, Portable, at the Melbourne Exhibition 126
Engines, Steam Fire, in the North of Europe 390
English Pleasantry, 239
Exhibition, Agricultural, Hungary, 216
Exhibition, The Building, 273
SXSu-Son Electricity, Paris International, 200
Exhibition, International, of Flour Mill Machinery
EXuS?90n’ International Machinery, at Altona, 338
Exhibition, International Wool, 166
Exhibition, Linen, in Hungary, 298
Exhibition, Melbourne, 262
^^6^427^39^44^445^.828, 345' 368’ 369’ 385' 405>
Exhibition, Paris International Electrical, 164, 184,
Explosion of Heated Water, 51, 67, 104 176
Explosion, Maidstone, 14 ’
Express Atlantic Steamers, 259
Factory and Workshop Inspection, 31
I Fare Registering and Ticket Punching Apparatus, 3}
Fast Time on Freight, 28
Filtering Apparatus, The Farquhar, 82
Fire-box Roof Stay Bolts, Hanging, Mr. S. Perkins 179, 203
Fire-box Roof Stays, 217
Flanges of Leading Wheel Tires, 179
Fletcher, Mr. James, 217
Flues, Boiler, The Strength of, 426, 429
Forth Bridge, The, 373
Fossick’s Fifty Years’ History of the Iron Trade, 136
French Army, Strength of the, 456
French Tariff, New, 336
French Tariff, Proposed, 466
Furnace Bridges, Smoke-consuming, 120
Furnaces, Collapsed Marine Boiler, 219
Furnaces, Portable, for Melting Metals, 198
Gas Bath-heaters, Poisoning by, 176
Gas, Compressed, Illumination by, 256
Gas Fixtures, Ventilating, Messrs. Boyle and Son, 54
Gas-holder, Telescope, for Halifax, 460, 462
Gas Production in Cleveland, 90
Girder Bridges, Weight and Limiting Dimensions, 167
Glass Eyes 278
Governor, Automatic, for Waste Water Pipes, 139
Grain Storage and Transport at Millwall, 118
Giant’s Causeway Tramway, 219
“ Grappler,” s.s , Telegraph Cable Repairing Steamer, 255, 258
Great Western Railway, 198
Gun, The Angamos, 108
Gun Building, 24
Gun Competition, Machine, 175
Gun, Five-barrelled Gatling, 42
Gun, The New 43-ton Breech-loading, 32, 236
Gun, The Nordenfelt. 41,178
Gun, Sir William Palliser’s 7in., 62
Gun Question, The, 353
Gunpowder, Persuasion by, 164
Guns, The Gardner and Platt-Whitney Machine, 43
Guns, Machine, Competitive Trial of, 42,117
Guns, Naval and Coast Defence, 427
Hall-marking in Switzerland, 366
Hartlepool Breakwater Works, 145
Harvesting Machinery, 79
Head, Mr. John, 396, 413
Helmholtz, Prof.. 332
Horsehide Belt Lacing, 445
Hurd, Mr. F., Wire Rope Gear, 10, 15
Ice, Hot, 23
Ice Making Machinery, 123
India, Trade and Navigation Reports of, 384 Indicator, The, 61
Institute, City and Guilds of London, for Technical Education, 206
Institute of Great Britain, Sanitary, 390, 430
Law in Relation to Sanitary Progress, Mr. W II Michael, 225
Present State of the Sewage Question, Prof W H Corfield, 462
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 217
Economical Advantages of Steel Shipbuilding. Air Denny, 323 &
Experiments made to Determine Certain Physical Properties of Cast Iron, Air. Charles Markham, 347 Hydraulic Machinery for Steel Works, Mr. Michael ocott, 363
H£dro£en and Carbonic Oxide in Iron and SteeL 363
Iron and steel Permanent Way, Mr. Price Williams, 347
Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails in the United States, Capt. W. R. Jones, 347
Manufacture of Steel and Steel Plates in Russia, Air Sirgius Kim, 324
New Alethod for the Determination of Oxygen in Iron and Steel, Mr. A. D. Tucker, 363
Preservation and Ornamentation of Iron and Steel Surfaces, Air. G. Bower, 363
President’s Address (Air. Smith), 323
Relative Corrosion of Iron and Steel, Air. Parker, Institution OF Civil Engineers, 4, 91, 161, 256, 337 412, 422, 425 ’
■A-ctua! Lateral Pressure of Earthwork, Air. Brunlees, Comparative Endurance of Iron and Alild Steel when
£xp°scd to Corrosive Influences, Mr. D. Phillips
Deep Winning of Coal in South Wales, Alessrs. Thomas Forster Brown and George Fred. Adams,
Portsmouth Dockyard Extension Works, Air. Charles Colson, 100
Dockyard Extension, Temporary Works and Plant at, Air. C. H. Aleyer, 129
President’s Address (Mr. Abernethy), 48
Production of Paraffin and Paraffin Oils, Air. R. H Brunton, 422 *
v n’-lG of Ti£al and uPland Waters in Main-EJtuaries and Harbours, Mr.
Walter R. Browne, 337
Tide Gauge, Tidal Harmonic Analyser and Tidal Predictor, Sir Wm. Armstrong, 202
M? Ik amende,”fg?1”1'11810118 °f Girdcr Bridges, NSTITUTION OF ClVIL ENGINEERS, IRELAND ’ Narrow Gauge Railways, Ireland, Mr. Wm. Lewis, Torpedo Boats and Light Yachts for High Sneed
Steam Navigation, Air. J. T. Thornveroft 366 NSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, The CLEVELAND 25 NSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
Scotland, 322 JSN0INEEKS AND Shipbuilders in NSTITUnON OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 25, 63, 256, C°fodo^80Producing Machinery, Mr. T. B. Light-Fm^82 FiItering APParatus, Mr. Henry Chap-£??? Machinery, Mr. Samuelson, 79 Rivetted Jomts, Results of Experiments on, Prof
A. B. W. Kennedy, 305, 324 ’
TweddMlj25liSh Pra°fclC° TabIe of- R IL R“ognWCUuz^,°^ ?2e4ferenCe t0 ShiPWork. M-StMre?rier?8gJUOhin'ry,Mr'J- D’ Brunton and Transmission of Power to a Distance, On the Vari
'ous Modes of» M. A. Achard, 79 e >an-
isnTUTiof F Worby Beaumont, 325
ibTITUTION 01 NAVAL ARCHITECTS. TlIE 239 Influence of the Cut-off and Length of Stroke on OnW°rk’"gSteam Eugines- Mr. C St~e On^he Rolling of Sailing Ships, Mr. W. ll/whi’te' dent798ON’ Newsvendoee'. Benevolent and Provi-mentions, Property in, 44 on Cast, Physical Property of, 347
Iron Crude, Prices of, 412
Iron Manufacture, Bye-Products of, 9
Iron and Mild Steel, Comparative Endurance of, when
Exposed to Corrosive Influences, 256
Iron and Mild Steel, Corrosion of, 353, 376, 387
Iron Ore, Conversion of, into Steel, 405
Iron Shipbuilding in the North, 466
Iron and Steel, Hydrogen and Carbonic Oxide in, 363
Iron and Steel, New Method for the Determination of
Oxygen in, 363
Iron and Steel, Relative Corrosion of, 323
Iron and Steel Permanent Way, 347
Iron and Steel Surfaces, Preservation and Ornamentation of, 363
Iron Trade, Foreign, The, 254
Iron Trade, Northern, 242, 448
Ivory, Utilsation of Waste, 14
Jetties in Course of Construction in South Australia 174
Johnson, Mr. Wm., Balanced Slide Valve, 425
Kenilworth, Tenders for Sewerage of, 299
Kenedy, Prof., Interior of his Laboratory, 139, 142
Kennedy, Prof., his Testing Machine, 139
Kenyon, Mr. Indicator, 61, 91
Kitchen Boiler Explosions, 51, 61, 91, 101, 123, 176
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 207
Language of Physical Science, 143
Launch of the De Bay, 406
Launch of the s.s. City of Rome, 441
Launch on the Tyne, 91
Law and Clark’s Civil Engineering, 427, 445, 459
Leading Articles :
1881, 11
Algeria and the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 225
American Field Implements in South Russia, 109
American Patent-office Report, 127
American Patents, Curiosities of, 164
Anderson’s, Mr., Patents for Inventions Bill, 447
Angamos Gun, 108
Anthracite as a House Coal, 125
Appointment of City Engineer in Cork, 32
Artillery Features in the Navy Estimates, 241
Barnsley Miners, The, 181
Berlin Electric Railway, 184
Boilers, Red hot, 354
Borough Surveyorships, 71
Brake Question, The Latest Aspect of, 259
Brakes on the London and North-western Railwar, 185, 242
Brighton Beach, 277, 313, 354
Channel Tunnel Scheme, The, 465
City and Guilds of London Institute for Technical
Education, 206
Cleveland, Gas Production in, 90
Cleveland Iron Sliding Scale, 32
Coal Trade, Crisis in the, 126
Colliery Riots in Lancashire, 32
Condensation in Steam Cylinders, 241
Continuous Brake Conference, The, 3.35
Corrosion of Iron and Mild Steel, 353
Crude Iron Prices, 412
Designing Large Girder Bridges, 411
“ Doterel,” Destruction of the, 411
“Doterel,” Loss of the, 336
Drainage of Portsmouth, 466
Drainage, Subsoil and Surface, 126
Drilling in Mines by Machinery, 375
Durham Salt Deposits, 296
Eastern Shipping Trade, 465
Education of Engineers, 429
Electric Light in its Naval and Military Applica tions, 71
Electric Lighting in Steel Works, 296
Electrical Exhibition, International, 164, 1S4
Electrical Railroads, 374
Employers’ Liability Act, 89
Engineering Trade Prospects, 242
Engineers by Act of Parliament, 224
Engineers in the Navy, 313
Engines, Low Temperature Heat, 373
Engines, Portable, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 126
Explosion of Heated Water, 51
Explosions, Kitchen Boiler, 51
Express Atlantic Steamers, 259
Factory and Workshop Inspection, 31
Forth Bridge, The, 373
French Tariff, The New, 336, 448
French Tariff, Proposed, 466
Gun, 43-ton Breech-loading, 32
Gun Question, The, 353
Gunpowder, Persuasion by, 164
Hartlepool Breakwater Works, 145
Institution of Civil Engineers, 412
Iron Ship-building in the North, 466
Iron Trade, Northern, 242
Ivory Waste, Utilisation of, 14
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 207
Letters Patent, Extension of, 70
Locomotive of the Future, 3r
Locomotives, American High Speed 107
London Water Supply, 184
Maclean’s, Dr. J. H., “ Peace Makers,” 89
Magnets and Dynamo-Electric Machines, 277
Maidstone Explosion, 14
Metropolitan Railway, 52
Middlesborough Water Supply, 296
Mild Steel v. Iron for Shipbuilding, 393
Name-plates on Engines, Let Out on Hire, 394
Navy Estimates, 223
North-Eastern Dock Accommodation, 429
North-Eastern Railway, The, 145
North-Eastern Railway, Locomotive Explosions On,
207 ’
Northern Gas Production, 355
Northern Iron Trade, 448
Northern Trade Extension, 336
Ordnance Committee, The New, 205
Palliser Gun Experiments, 145
Paris International Electrical Exhibition, 164, 184
Parliament and the Rivers, 69
Patents, Cheap, 109
Patents, Official Examination of, 206
Patents, Value of, 70
Peaty Discoloration of Drinking Water, 225
Physical Science, The Language of, 143
Punching Steel and Iron Plates, Effects of, 205
Railway Coal Rates, 314
Railway Dividends, Forthcoming, 14
Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire, 207
Railway, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 90
Railway, The Midland, 127
Railway, North Eastern, 145
Railway Plant Exhibition in Berlin, 145
Railway Rates, 260
Railway Rates in South Staffordshire, 375
Railways as State Property, 69
Registration of Tonnage, 429
School of Mines, 70
Sliding Scale, Northern, 260, 314
Snow and Floods in London, 52
Solway Viaduct, 278
Steam Jackets, Value of, 393
Steel, Board of Trade on, 183
Steel, The Mystery of, 295
Steel Rails, The Life of, 163
Stephenson Centenary, 278, 314
Leading Articles (continued) —
Stephenson Centenary at Newcastle, 429
Stockton Bridge, 394
Storage of Electrical Energy, 447
Strength of Boiler Flues, 429
Strike, Cost of a, 207
Tandem Engine, Efficiency of, 144, 184
Telegraphy, Quintuple, <52
Theory and Practice of Retaining Walls, 335
Tees Bridge Scheme, 225
Telephone, and What it Might do for London, 224 Tonnage Rates for Coal from South Yorkshire, 412 Tonnage Rates for Coal from Yorkshire and Durham, 466
Tramway Locomotives, Compressed Air, 164
Vacuum, Value of a, 108
Valve Gear for High-speed Locomotives, 125
Water Supply in the Midlands, 355
Zero Motor, 295
Legal Intelligence :
Aveling v. McLaren, 179, 275
Edison’s Telephone Co. v. India-rubber and Telegraph Works Co., 208
Hayward v. Hamilton and another, 140
Hayward v. Hamilton, 408
Hill v. Tombs, 274
Otto v. Linford, 233, 238, 274
Plating Co., Limited, v. Farquharson, 140, 165
Re Adair’s Patent, 71
Re Crabtree’s Patent, 140
Re Dixon’s Patent, 44
Re Johnson’s Patent, 275
Re Martin’s Patent, 44
Re Morton’s Patent, 274
Re Napier’s Patent, 44
Re Newton’s Patent, 208
Re Reece’s Patent, 101, 207
Simmons v. Hitchman, 101
Letters to the Editor—
Agricultural Exhibition in Hungary, F. Krapf, 216 “ Alliance ” Magneto-electric Machines, F. H.
Holmes, 298
Alloys of Antimony and Zinc, J. H. K., 51
Angle of Rest of Iron ? Draughtsman, 223
Angus Smith’s, D., Solution? Pure Sea Water Bath, 465
“ Anthracite,” The, Marine Engineer, 8
Anthracite as a House Coal, W. Foley, 136
Anthracite as a House Coal, R. H. Hepburn, 166
Anthracite as a House Coal, Y. R., 166
Arguzoid ? Enquirer, 465
“ Atalanta,” The, Nathl. Barnaby, 9
Aveling v. McLaren, Draughtsman, 261, 298
Aveling v. McLaren, Thos. Aveling, 203, 275
Barton’s Feed-water Heater ? J. C., 11
Beetroot Sugar Presses? B. I. C. E., 447
Bell Metal Slide Valves, Foundryman, 465 Blackheath Subsidences, T. V. Holmes, 196 Blackheath Subsidences, Alfred W. Morant, 123 Bogie Rolling Stock, Viator, 28
Boiler Composition? J. M., 107
Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, Correspondent, 91 Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, Thos. Fletcher, 91 Boiler Explosions, Kitchen, Robert Renwick, 104 Boiler Incrustations ? Removing, Engine Driver, 69
Bridge over the Douro, Proposed, A Common Five-Eight, 405
Bridge over the Douro, Proposed, II. Reilly, 427 Brighton Beach, E. B. Ellice-Clark, 329, 353 Bristol Steam Tramways, Henry Hughes, 9
Bye Products, of the Iron Manufacture, James Henderson, 9
Calcareous or Basic Linings used in the Conversion of Cast Iron into Cast Steel, J ames Henderson, 8
Carlscrona Fire Engine Trials, Merryweather and Sons, 405
Carlscrona Fire Engine Trials, Shand, Mason, and Co., 405
Cast Iron Spur Wheels? Weight of, Young Draughtsman, 143
Castings? Painting, Zeta, 31
Central Railway Station for London, W. F. F., 329 Certificated Enginemen, Michael Reynolds, 8 Chain Towage, L., 262
Chain Towing on the Elbe, H. Hargreave, 136
Cheap Patents, Wm. Davis, 405
Cheap Patents, G. S., 104
Cheap Patents, P. J., 9
Cheap Patents, Fell and Wilding, 49
Cheap Patents, Frank W. Grierson, 9
Cheap Patents, John Standfield, 49
Cheap Patents, Wm. P. Thompson, 176
Clark and Webb Chain Brake and the Continuous Brake Returns, J. N. Armitage, 297
Cold Air Machines, J. J. Coleman, 377, 426, 445
Cold Air Machines, Ice, 445
Cold Air Machines, T. B. Lightfoot, 388, 445
Cold Air Machines, Zero, 426
Collapsible Tube-making Machines ? X. and Co., 465 Competitive Plans, Assoc. M. Inst. C.B., 8 Compressed Air Diagrams, T. W. Lightfoot, 104 Compression of Air, On the, with Hypothetical
Considerations Regarding the Nature of Heat, 66 Confectionery and Chocolate Machinery? W. K., 223 Condenser, A N ew, Peter Dunlop, 216 Condenser, A New, J. Fortescue Flannery, 196 Conversion of Iron Ore into Steel, Robt. H. Collyer, 405
Cork, Appointment of City Engineer in, John Horan, 49
Corrosion of Iron and Mild Steel, Frank W. Dick, 388
Corrosion of Iron and Steel, Shipowner, 376
Crank Shafts, Frank B. Salmon, 298
Cutting Vulcanised India-rubber, C. R. C., 125 Damping Down Blast Furnaces, George Dove, 203 De Bay Propeller, The, W. T. Tanner, 8, 388 “Doterel,” Loss oi H.M.S., John Hayes, 426 Double Slide Valve for Slow Speed Engines, A.
Munyard, 262
Douro, Proposed Bridge over the, A Common Five-Eight, 459
Dredging Shot and Shell, Arthur Folkard, 350
Dunn’s Fire-bars? G. II., 223
Education of Engineers, E. Gobert, 377, 388
Endowment of Research and the Transit of ’82, C.
Bruce Allen, 458
Engine-room Artificers in the Navy, E. X., 459
Engine-room Artificers, R. N., 445
/ Efficiency of a Tandem Engine, Crux, 166 Engineers by Act of Parliament, J. Shanly, 329 Engines, Agricultural, at the Melbourne Exhibition, Ransomes, Head, and Jefferies, 136
Engines, American and Fairlie, C. R. M., 49
Engines, Light Traction, Agriculturist, 49
Etching in Steel? A. R., 313
Explosion of Heated Water, N. Chandler, 1C4
Explosion of Heated Water, J. H. B., 176
Explosion of Heated Water, Pm., 67
Fire-box Roof Stays, Stanhope Perkins, 217
Fire-box Roof Stay Bolts, Perkin’s Hanging, Edw.
G. Sheward, 203
Fire-engines at Melbourne Exhibition, Merryweather and Sons, 91
Furnaces of Steam Boilers, Supplying Air to, Hamilton W. Pendred, 104 .
Ganister Bricks ? Constant Reader of The Engineer, 51
Geometrical Problem, E. J. Chambers, 143
Geometrical Problem, M. P., 143
Geometrical Problem, An Old Millwright, 125
Geometrical Problem, N. B., 143
Geometrical Problem, Janj.es Tomkins, 143
Harris’s Belt Fastener ? W. J. M., 69
High-speed Engines, II. B., 125, 166
High-speed Engines? J., 143
High-speed Engines, Norwood Earle, 261
High-speed Engines, Veritas, 217
High-speed Locomotives, B., 176, 297
High-speed Locomotives, Ed. Barrows, 350
High-speed Locomotives, C. N. G., 376
High-speed Locomotives, James Cleminson, 329 High-speed Locomotives, Fred. H. Cridland, 261,176
Letters to the Editor (continued)—
High-speed Locomotives, D., 136
High-speed Locomotives, S. Darton, 297
High-speed Locomotives, F. S. H., 176
High-speed Locomotives, Fair Play, 203
High-speed Locomotives, G. N. R., 217
High-speed Locomotives, E. Gobert, 217, 3S7
High-speed Locomotives, H. B. M., 217
High-speed Locomotives, J. J. T., 297
High-speed Locomotives, Kitson and Co., 405
High-speed Locomotives, Looker On, 123
High-speed Locomotives, Nemo, 203
High-speed Locomotives, E. L. Pearce, 310, 350, 405
High-speed Locomotives, Running Board, 123, 377, 203
High-speed Locomotives, S. R., 261
High-speed Locomotives, Ernest Smith, 136
High-speed Locomotives, Wm. E. Sparkes, 123
High-speed Locomotives, C. W. Vincent, 166
High-speed Locomotives, W. S., 297
High-speed Locomotives, W. T., 217, 262, 297
High-speed Locomotives, John C. Wilson, 329, 405
Ice-making Machinery, A. C. Kirk, 123
Inkie’s Diving Suits? F. and C., 125
Kitchen Boiler Explosions, W. H. Bailey, 123
Kitchen Boilers, J. H. B., 176
Law’s Civil Engineering, Henry Law, 427
Law and Clark’s “Civil Engineering,” D. K. Clark, 445
Law and Clark’s “Civil Engineering,” Henry Law, 459
Letters Patent, Extension of, W. A. Martin and Co., 104
Light-draught Steamers, John Tobin, 405
Lighthouse Signals, Will. Young Black, 262
Lighting Railway Carriages, Anthony Spencer Bower, 350
Lighting Railway Carriages, W. B. Rickman, 310
Linen Exhibition, F. Krapf, 298
Links in the History of the Locomotive, Thos.
Cargill Fyfe, 216
Links in the History of the Locomotive, S. H. Papps, 298
Locomotive of the Future, F. W. Dean, 28
Locomotive of the Future, A. E. Gobert, 28
Locomotive Engine Brasses, Foundryman, 328, 377
Locomotive of the Future, Wm. E. Sparkes, 28
Locomotive of the Future, X., 104
Locomotives, High-speed, Sam. Worssam, 104
Melting Steel ? Cost of, Mild Steel, 241
Mexican Fibre - producing Machinery? Mexican Fibre, 69
Mild Steel for Shipbuilding, Bm., 196
Milling Exhibition, The, J. S. Arnold Buchholz, 405
Milling Exhibition, The, Theodore Voss, 459
Milling Machinery, Modern, at the Milling Exhibition , French Burr, 427
Milling Machinery, Modern, Mill Pick, 445
Milling Machinery, Modern, at the Milling Exhibition, Quern, 427
Mineral Oil Fuel? C. J. M., 183
Naval and Coast Defence Guns, A Few Data about, W. B. Olsson, 427
Oil? Purifying, Olive Oil, 223
Packing Machinery? G. M., 51
Patent Law Proposal, W. II. Baxter, 123
Patent Laws, Robt. D. Napier, 67
Peat and Concrete Machinery? J. W. S. and Co., 447
Pillar and Stall Mining? H. O., 295
Plant for Distilling Stearine? J. W., 259
Pneumatic Stamps? J. D., 183
Poisoning by Gas Bath Heaters, Thos. Fletcher, 176
Postage Stamp Machines ? B. B., 31
“Pot” Boilers? F. W. J., 205
Problem of the Condensation of Steam ? A Muddle, 223
Problem in Deflection ? S. R., 259,277
Problem in Winding Gear, J. Forrest Brunton, 205, 241
Problem in Winding Gear, A Young Mechanic, 183
Problem in Winding Gear, R. R. N., 223
Quick Return Motions, Thos. Shanks and Co., 261
Railway Carriage Lighting, Anthony Spencer Bower, 298
Railway Carriages, Warming, G. H. J., 104
Regenerators? B., 11
Regenerators, Wm. Gorman, 350
River Conservancy, Will. Young Black, 166
Rock Drills ? A. T., 353
Safety Valves, Use of, Inquirer, 136
Safety Valves, Chief Engineer, 297, 328, 387, 426
Safety Valves, Billy Fairplay, 387
Safety Valves, J. H. W., 310, 350, 405
Safety Valves, Thos. Messenger, 297
Safety Valves, Tommy Play Fair, 459
Safety Valves, John Robinson, 328
Safety Valves, Truth, 350
Safety Valves, John C. Wilson, 297
Safety Valves, X. X., 217
Safety Valves, Efficiency of, Thos. Adams, 262
Safety Valves, Efficiency of, Thos. Messenger, 196
Safety Valves, Efficiency of, John C. Wilson, 196
Safety Valves, Efficiency of, X. X., 196
Sanders and Clayton Brakes, The, Michael Reynolds, 458
Sanders and Clayton Brakes, Shoe, 458
Screw Propulsion, Charles Hall, 329
Seage’s Apparatus for Ringing Bells, E. W. B., 295
Sea-view Pier, Engineering Draughtsman, 388
Sea-view Pier, Frank Caws, 377
Sea-view Pier, Edwin W. de Rusett, 350
Sewage Irrigation, W. J. W., 107
Silver or Galvanised Iron Coloured Paint? M. L., 205
Soldering Aluminium ? J. W. B., 465
Sound Steel Castings, W. H. Greenwood, 298
South London Tramways, H. Cameron Richardson, 217
Steam Rock Drills, P. R. TL, 241
Steel, Burnt, Restoring, G. C. B., 11
Steel v. Iron, Alex. B. W. Kennedy, 405
Strength of Steel, Robt. H. Smith, 329
Strength of Steel Plates, A. Alexander, 298
Stubb’s Gauge? J. P. C., 353
Sugar Plant, Cheap? Sugar, 143
Swan’s Electric Lamps, W. G. Armstrong, 49
Tandem Engine, Efficiency of, J. Casartclli, 261
Tandem Engine, Efficiency of, J. R., 217
Tandem Engine, Efficiency of a, M. Longridge, 203
Tapioca Machinery ? R. 69
Telemeters, Britisher, Civil Engineer, 262
Templeton’s Workshop Companion, J. J. T., 465
Theory of Cold Air Machines, G. R. Bodmer, 8
Theory of Cold Air Machines, </>. tt., 28
Thorburn’s Tube Expander, W. Thorburn, 376
Tide-predicting Machine, Sir Wm. Thomson’s, Wm. Thomson, 216
Transit, The, and its Optical Difficulties, C. Bruce Allen, 123
Valves, Slide, Bell-metal, Engineer, 447
Valves, Slide, Bell-metal, Foundry Manager, 429
Watch Fusee Chains ? Time, 353
Weston’s Friction Clutch ? Manager, 107
Wood-centred Railway Wheels, Robt. W. Davidge, 275
Wood-centred Railway Wheels, R. Richardson, 217
Zero Motor, The, T. B. Lightfoot, 310
Zero Motor, The, S., 310
Letters Patent, Extension of, 70, 104
Literature : .
Aid to Survey Practice, by Lowis D A. Jackson, 33 Beilage zum Ingcnieur Kalcnder, by Von H. Feh-
land, 430 , . „ L. ,
Complete Course of Problems in Practical llane
Geometry, with Introduction to Elementary Solid Geometry, by J. W. Palliser, 127
Construction of Gasworks, and the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal Gas ; originally written by Sam. Hughes; re-written by Wm. Richards, 278
Electrotyping: Practical Manual, by J. W. Urquhart, 145
iterature (continued)— |
Elementary Theory and Calculations of Iron Bridges and Roofs, by August Ritter, 225
Elements of Mechanism, The, By T. M. Goodeve, 207
Engine Driving Life, &c., by Michael Reynolds, 15
Examples of Steam, Air and Gas Engines as Employed in Mines, Factories, &c. &c., by John Bourne, 260
Graphical Determination of Forces in Engineering Structures, by J. B. Chalmers, 448
Horticultural Buildings, Their Construction, Heating, &c., by F. A. Fawkes, 395
How to Manage a Steam Engine, by M. Powis Bale, 71
Laxton’s Builders’ Price Book for 1881, 127
Lessons in Elementary Mechanics, Introductory to the Study of Physical Science, by Philip Magnus, 315
Lighthouse Construction and Illumination, by Thos. Stevenson, 336
Magnetic Surveying and Angular Surveying, by Wm. Lintcrn, 233
Materials and Construction, &c., by Francis Campin, 109
Notice sur les Phares, Fanaux Bonds et Signaux Sonores, par L. Sautter, 326
Old Ireland Improved and Made New Ireland, by John P. Doyle, 375
Principles of Graphic Statics, The, by Geo. Sydenham Clarke, 90
River Bars. Notes on the Causes of their Formation &c., by Isaac J. Mann, 296
Rudiments of Civil Engineering, by Henry Law, including a Treatise on Hydraulic Engineering, by George Burnell, 412
Rules for Engine Drivers, Mounted Sheet on Rollers, 71
Scientific English Reader for German Students, by Dr. F. J. Wershoven, 109
Society of Engineers’ Transactions for 1880, 355
Steam Boilers: Their Design, Construction, and Management, by Wm. H. Shock, 164
Steam and the Steam Engine, Land, Marine, and Locomotive, by H. Evers, 52
System of Practical Arithmetic, by S. Young, 185
Uber Compound Maschincn, by V. Carl Ocrtling, 467
Worked Elementary Examples in Geometrical Drawing, by the Rev. John Hunter, 185
Zeitschrift fur Instrumenten Kunde, ler Jahrgang, 127
Lifeboat Work, A Year of, 375
Lighting, Railway Carriage, 298, 310, 350
Lincoln and Spalding Railway, 367
Livadia, The, 101
“ Livadia,” Fractured Boiler of the, 254
“Livadia,” The, Injuries Sustained by, in the Bay of Biscay, 290
“ Livadia,” The Russian Imperial Yacht, 288
“ Livadia,” The Steel Plates of the, 251
Local Education in Naval Architecture, Mr. W.
Denny, 270
Locomotive Boiler Explosions on the N.-E. Railway, 207
Locomotive Engine Brasses, 328, 377
Locomotive Engine Building in America, 176
Locomotive, Express, American, 101, 103
Locomotive, Express, for the Holland State Railway, Messrs. Beyer, Peacock, and Co., 159
Locomotive, Fast Express, with Mr. E. Wootton’s Firebox, for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, 84, 103
Locomotive of the Future, 28, 31,104
Locomotive, the Poetry of the, 53
Locomotive Springs, Mr. James Jenkins, 103
Locomotives, American High-speed, 107
Locomotives, High-speed, 104, 107, 123, 136, 166, 176, 203, 217, 261, 297, 310, 329, 350, 376, 377, 387, 396
Locomotives, High-speed, Valve Gear for, 125
Locomotives, Links in the History of, 193, 216, 298, 432
Locomotives, English and American, 24
Locomotives, Weighing, 24
London Fires, 401
London Water Supply, 184, 332
Lundborg’s, Captain, High-speed Steamships, 457, 461
Machine Gun Competition, 42, 117, 175
Maclean’s, Dr. J. H., “ Peace Makers,” 89
McNaught, Mr. Wm., 53
Magneto and Dynamo Electric Machines, 277
Magneto-electric Machine, The Alliance, 298
Maidstone Explosion, 14
Manitoba, Daily Paper in, 344
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway, 90
Manhole, An Improved, 6
Mekarski Compressed Air Traction Company, Limited, 141
Mekarski Tramway Locomotive and Compressed Air
Tram-car, The, 154, 155, 164
Melbourne Exhibition, 262
Melbourne Exhibition, Agricultural Engines at, 136
Melbourne Exhibition, Portable Engines at, 126
Mersey Tunnel, The, 462
Messageries Maritimes, Alteration in the Service of, 74
Metropolitan Railway, 52
Metropolitan Water Supply, 431
Middlesbrough, Water Supply of, 296
Milan, Snow Clearing in, 49
Milford Docks, 8
Mill and Machinery, Messrs. Nagel and Kaemp, 424, 425
Milling Exhibition, The, 328, 345, 368, 369, 385, 405, 406, 424, 439, 442, 459
Milling Industry in Minneapolis, 322
Milling Machinery, Modern—see Exhibition, Milling.
Milling System, Messrs. Dell and Son, Milling Exhibition, 385
Miners, Suggested National Sliding Scale for, 314
Miscellanea, 5, 29, 45, 63, 87, 105, 119, 137, 157, 177, 199, 221, 243, 257, 279, 293, 311, 333, 351, 371,391, 414, 423, 441, 463
Mitre Gear, s.s. Cora Maria, 135
Molecular Magnetic Induction, 220
Molecular Torsion of Conducting Wires Produced by the Passage of an Electric Current, 462
Motor, A New High-speed, 396
Motor, The Zero, 295, 310
Murdoch’s Locomotive 1781, 432
Nagel and Kaemp, Messrs., Mill and Machinery, 424, 425
Naval Architecture, Local Education in, 270
Naval Engineer Appointments, 25, 44, 86, 104, 178 201, 218, 274, 308, 332, 362, 375, 388, 462
Naval Gun Carriage, Hydraulic Compressor for, 440 443
Navy Estimates, 223
Newfoundland Railway, The, 456
New York, The Brush Electric Light in, 15
Nickel Plating, A Feat in, 239
Nordenfelt Gun, The, 178
North-east Dock Accommodation, 430
North-Eastern Railways, The, 145
North of England, 17, 35, 55, 73, 93, 111, >30, 147, 167 186, 209, 226, 245, 264, 299, 316, 338, 356, 378, 415, 433 451, 469
Northern Gas Production, 355
Northern Sliding Scale, 260
Northern Trade Extension, 336
Notes from Scotland, 17, 36, 55, 73, 93, 112, 130, 147 168, 186, 210, 226, 245, 263, 282, 300, 316, 338, 356, 378 396, 415, 434, 450, 469
Notes from Lancashire, 16, 35, 55, 73, 92, 111, 129, 146 167, 186, 209, 226, 245, 263, 281, 299, 315, 338,356,378 396, 415, 433, 450, 469
Notes and Memoranda, 5, 29, 45, 63, 87, 105, 119, 137 157, 177, 199, 221, 243, 257, 279, 293, 311, 333, 351, 371 391, 414, 423, 441, 463
Notices to Correspondents, 11, 30, 51, 68, 89, 10*7, 125, 143, 163, 183, 205, 223, 241, 259, 277, 295, 313, 335, 353, 373, 393, 411, 429, 447, 465
Obituary :
Fletcher, Mr. James, 217
Head, Mr. John, 396
McNaught, Mr. Wm., 53
Weber, Baron Max von, 298
Ohio River Bridge at Beaver, Pa., 7, 16
Oils on Metals, The Action of, 72
Oil Mill, Wateringbury, Kent, 330, 331
Oleojector, Royle’s, Albion Works, Salford, 467
Ordnance Committee, The New, 205
Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in Water, 176
Palliser Gun, The Destruction of, 403
Palliser Gun Experiments, 62, 145
Panama Canal, The, 161
Paraffin and Paraffin Oils, Production of, 422
Paris Water Supply—Standard Meters, M. Samain and
MM. Mathelen and Garnier, 124, 127
Parliament and the Rivers, 69
Patent Law Proposal, A, 123
Patent Laws, The, 67
Patents, Cheap, 9, 49, 104, 109, 176, 405
Patents, Commissioners of, 14
Patents, Official Examination of, 206
Patents, Selected American, 91
Patents in the United States, 140
Patents, The Value of, 70
Pattern and Trade Mark Protection in Austria, 260
Pease, Mr. Henry, 413
Peaty Discoloration of Drinking Water, 225
Peculiarities, On the, of Steel Plates Supplied for the Boilers of the Imperial Russian Yacht, “Livadia,” Mr. W. Parker, 251
Perkins, Mr., Hanging Fire-box Roof Stay Bolts, 179, 203
Peterborough Corporation Sewerage Works, 3
Photophone, Professor Graham Bell, 47
Photophone, Theory of the, 195
Ploughing Tackle, Steam, Mr. R. II. Fisken, 65
Portsmouth Dockyard Extension, Temporary Works and Plant at, 129
Portsmouth, Drainage of, 466
Post-office Vans for Spain, 388
Propeller, The De Bay, 8, 135, 156, 185
Propeller, Split Boss, Messrs. Cooke and Mylchrcest, 262
Propellers, Screw, Experiments on the Influence of Position on their Efficiency, 23
Pulverising Machine, Messrs. Jordan and Son, 218
Pump-swivel Valve, Albion Works, Salford, 468
Pump, Tar, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 200
Pumping Engines, Compound, Detroit Waterworks, U.S.A., Mr. J. E. Edwards, 158
Pumping Machinery, Rajawellc, Ceylon, 218, 223
Pumping and Winding Engines, Kai-ping Colliery China, Messrs. Hathorn, Davey, and Co., 237, 240, 242 '
Purifiers —see Milling Machinery Exhibition.
Putty, Metallic Substitute for, Mr. Fletcher, 201
Pyramids of the Sixth Dynasty, Discovery of, 71
Quick Return Motions, 261
Radiograph, Mr. D. Winstanley, 138
Rail Trade, The Export, 44
Railway Carriage Lighting, 298, 310, 350
Railway Carriages, Warming, 104
Railway Clearing House, 421
Railway Coal Rates, 314
Railway Dividends, Forthcoming, 14
Railway Matters, 5, 29, 45, 63, 87, 105, 119, 137, 157, 177, 199, 221, 243, 257, 279, 293, 311, 333, 351, 371, 391, 414, 423, 441, 463
Railway, Midland, The, 127
Railway, Opening of a New, 434
Railway Rates, 260
Railway Rates in South Staffordshire, 375
Railway Station, for London, Central, 303, 329
Railways, Ireland, Narrow Gauge, 128
Railways as State Property, 69
Rainton Boiler Explosion, 408, 410
Refrigerator, Horizontal Dry Air, Messrs. J. and E.
Hall, 349
Regenerators, 350
Registration of Tonnage, 430
River Conservancy, 166
Rivetted Joints, Results of Experiments on, made for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 305, 324
Rivetting with Special Reference to Shipwork, 305, 324
Rivetting, English Practice in, Table of, R. H. Twed-dell, 325
Roller Mills and Dressing Machines at the Milling Exhibition, 368, 369—see Exhibition, Milling.
Rolling Stock, Bogie, 28
Royal Agricultural Show, The, 239
Royal Institution, The:
Electromotive Engines, Prof. Tyndall, 390
Royal Society, The:
Permanent Molecular Torsion cf Conducting Wires produced by the Passage of an Electric Current, Professor D. E. Hughes, 462
Russian Imperial Yacht “ Livadia,” On the, Capt. E. Goulaeff, 289
Society or Arts, 25, 434
Cantor Lectures, Subjects of, 154
Society, The Chemical :
Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in Water, Estimation of, Mr._M. W. Williams, 176
Society of Civil Engineers of Paris and French Ports, 139
Society of Engineers :
Address of the President (Mr. Joseph Bernays), 100
Floating and Depositing Docks, Mr. John Stand-field, 332
Gas Engines, Mr. Charles Gandon, 185
Illumination by Compressed Gas, Mr. P. F. Nursey, 256
Prevention of Smoke, Mr. A. C. Engert, 440
Visit of the Members to the Mint, 467
Society, Glasgow Philosophical, Chemical Section :
Removal of Aqueous Vapour from the Atmosphere, Mr. J. J. Coleman, 202
Society, King’s College Engineering, 450
Notes on the Construction and Management of Waterworks, Mr. E. K. Burstal, 425
Stone v. Iron for Bridge Construction, Discussion on the Merits of, 91
Style in Architecture, Mr. Cuthburt Bradley, 138 Society, Leeds Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 49
Photophone, The, Mr. L.- Boyd, 158
Pumping Engines, Mr. F. W. Armitage, 236
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
Application of the Electric Light at the Free Public
Library, Liverpool, Mr. J. 8. Brodie, 201
Automatic and Non-automatic Vacuum Brakes, 146
On the Design of Movable Bridges, Mr. C. F. Findlay, 64
Society of Mining Students, British, 413
Sanitary Houses, 128
Saw, Double-band, Mr. Aylesbury, 294, 287, 299
Saw Frame, Double Horizontal, Messrs. Thos. Robinson and Son, 348, 350
Saw Gumming Machine, 370
Saw Tree, Cross-cut, Messrs. S. Worssam and Co., 103
School of Mines, 70
Screw Propulsion, 329
Sea-view Pier, 350, 377, 388
Sea-water to London, Conveyance of, 6
Sewers, Type Drawings of Main, Mr. Robt. Rawlinson, 65, 68
Sheffield District, Notes from, 16, 35, 55, 73, 92, 111,
129, 147, 1G8, 186, 209, 227, 245, 263, 281, 299, 316,338,
356, 378, 396, 415, 433, 451, 469
Ship Launch, 316
Ships, Merchant, Stability of Certain, 269
Ships, Rolling of Sailing, 287
Ships, Wave-making, Resistance of, 288
Signals, Lighthouse, 262
Skeldergate Bridge, York, 181
Sligo Corporation Waterworks, 160, 162
Smoke, Prevention of, 440
Snow Clearing in Milan, 49
Snow and Floods in London, 52
Soldering by Electricity, 308
Solway Viaduct, 110, 278
South Kensington Museum, 22, 93, 116, 152, 174, 214, 220, 250, 268, 286, 304, 316, 344, 362, 375, 406, 438
Spain in the Levant, 239
Stability of Certain Merchant Ships, Mr. W. H. White, 269
Stapleton, near Bristol, Sewerage, 225
Staveley Ironworks, Horizontal Blowing Engines, 27, 30, 64
Staveley Pump Valve, The, 64
Steam Jackets, Value of, 393
Steam Navigation, Progress in, 156
Steam Shipping Trade, The, 141
Steamer, High-speed Passenger, Capt. Lundborg, 457, 461
Steamers, Light Draught, 405
Steamship Cora Maria, Mitre Gear, 135
Steamship Register, 315
Steamship Servia, The Cunard, 161
Steamships, Early, 370
Steamships, Iron, 432
Steel, Bessemer, and Steel Rails in the United States, 347
Steel, Board of Trade on, 183
Steel Castings, Sound, 153, 215, 298
Steel Hulls and Steel-faced Armour, their Effect on
Future War Ships, 251
Steel v. Iron, 405
Steel, Increased Use of, in Shipbuilding, 253
Steel, Mild, v. Iron for Shipbuilding, 393
Steel, Mild, used for Shipbuilding in the French Dockyards, 269
Steel, Mild, in the Workshops, 303
Steel, The Mystery of, 295
Steel Plates, The, of the Livadia, 251
Steel Plates, Strength of, 298
Steel Rails, Life of, 163
Steel for Shipbuilding, Bureau Veritas and Mild, 41,
50, 196
Steel Shipbuilding, Economical Advantages of, 323
Steel and Steel Plates, Manufacture of, in Russia, 324
Steel, Strength of, 329
Steel Testing Machine for the Bureau Veritas, Mons.
II. Thomasset, 50
Steel Trade, The, 3
Steel Works, Hydraulic Machinery for, 363
Stephenson Centenary, The, 239, 278, 314, 425, 430
Stone-dressing Machinery, 82
Stone v. Iron for Bridge Construction, 91
Storage of Electrical Energy, 447
Street’s Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for
1880-81, 101
Strength of Crank Shafts, Mr. J. T. Milton, 271
Strike, Cost of a, 207
Strike on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, 430
Suez Canal, The, 239
Surveying, Underground, Instrument fcr, 24
Swan’s Electric Lamps, 49
Swift, The, Stockton and Darlington Railway, 432
Switches and Crossings, Mr. Price Williams, 348
Style and Architecture, On, 138
Tandem Engine, Efficiency of a, 144, 166, 184, 203, 217, 261
Tangye Bros., Messrs., Catalogue, 136
Tap, Acid, Albion Works, Salford, 468
Target, Self-registering, 431
Tees Bridge Scheme, The, 225
Telegraph Cable-repairing Steamer “Grappler,” 255, 258
Telegraph Instrument, New, 116
Telegraphy, Quintuple, 52
Telemeters, 262
Telephone, and What it Might Do for London, 224
Telephonic Exchanges, 264
Telescope, A Great Refracting, 108
Tenders :
Addition to the Plant of Messrs. A. Gordon and
Co.’s Brewery, Peckham, 25
Erection of a New Brewery at Portslade, near Brighton, -25
Goods Engine, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 290, 291
Kidderminster Town Council - Corporation Sewage Farm, 109
Making, Metalling, Curbing, Channelling, and Sewering Private Roads in the Borough of Not- | tingham, 25
Ornamental Wrought Iron Gates and Railings for the Public Park, Hastings, 467
Pile Driving, &c., in Extension of Ballast Bank, Portmadoc Harbour, Mr. Thomas Roberts, 467 '
Portslade Brewery and Plant, 127
Saltley—Birmingham—Sewerage Works, 161
Tenders {continued)—
Sewage Farm, The, 299
Sewerage Works, Caine, Wiltshire, 242
i Sewerage of Kenilworth, The, 299
Southam Sewage, Outfall Works, 3
Stapleton, near Bristol, Sewerage, 225
Testing Machine, Mr. Kennedy, 139
i Testing Machines, 50-ton, Steel Company of Scotland, i Mr. Thos. Williamson, 389
I Tests, Steam Engine, 337
Thomas and Gilchrist Process, The, 25
Thorburn’s Tube Expander, 376
Thrashing Machines, Mr.W. Worby Beaumont, On, 325 ! Tidal and Upland Waters, Relative Value of, in Maintaining Rivers, Estuaries, and Harbours, 337
| Tide Gauge, Tidal Harmonic Analyser and Tide Pre-
I dieter, 202
i Tide Predicting Machine, Sir Wm. Thomson, 216
I Tighe-Hamilton Bevel Gear Cutting Machines, 407
■ Tonnage Rates for Coal from Yorkshire and Durham, 466
i Tonnage Rates for Coal from South Yorkshire, 412
| Torpedo Boat Building, Rapid, 136
Torpedo Boats, 6
Torpedo Boats and Light Yachts for High-speed Steam
Navigation. 366
Torpedo, A Stray, 274
Towage, Chain, 262
Towing System, The Belgian Steam Cable, 44
I Tramway Locomotive and Compressed Air Tram-car, The Mekarski, 154, 155, 164
Tramways, Ashton and Stalybridge, 438
Tramways, South London, 217
Tramways, Steam, 274
Transit, The, and its Optical Difficulties, 123
Transmission of Power to a Distance, 79
Trial Trip of the Steel Steamer “Aristides,” 390
Tube Expander, Mr. W. Thorburn, 376
Tube Plate Cutter, Mr. E. H. Bennett, 200
Twenty Minutes on the Increased Use of Steel in Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, Mr. John R. Ravenhill, 253
Use of Mild Steel for Shipbuilding in the French , Dockyards, 269
Vacuum, The Value of a, 108
Valve, Balanced Slide, 425
Valve, Cylinder Relief, Albion Works, Salford, 467
Valve Gear, Mr. Albert Zimmermann, 376
Valve Gear for High-speed Locomotives, 125
Valve, Reversible, Albion Works, Salford, 467
Valve, The Staveley Pump, 64
i Valves, Double-slide, for Slow-speed Engines, 262
Valves, Lock-up Safety, Albion Works, Salford, 468
Valves, Safety, 126, 217, 262, 310, 328, 350, 387, 405, 426, 459
Valves, Safety, Efficiency of, 196
■ Valves on Traction Engines, Locked-up Safety, 25
- Vavasseur’s Naval Gun Carnage, 440
Visits in the Provinces—Messrs. W. H. Bailey and Co.’s Albion Works, Salford, 467
Weber, Baron Max r., 298
Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 65
Westinghouse Brake in France, 118
Wheel, Wood Centre, Mr. W. H. Kitson, 197
Wheels, Railway, Wood-centred, 217, 275
Whitby, Harbour Works at, 402
Wick Harbour, 127
Winstanley, Mr. D., Radiagraph, 138
Wire Rope Gear at Penruifufer, Llwrynypie, and Lochelly Collieries, 10, 15
Wood-centred Railway Wheels, 217, 275
Wood Pulp Making Machinery, Mr. T. and F. Bell, 85, 88
Wool Exhibition, International, 166, 449
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 17, 36, 74, 93, 112, 130, 147, 168, 186, 210, 227, 245, 264, 282, 300, 316, 338, 356, 378, 396, 416, 434, 451, 470
Walls, Retaining, Theory and Practice of, 335
Water, Purification of, 462
Water, Purification and Softening of, Plant for, Mr. J.
H. Porter, 121, 122
"Water Supply in the Midlands, 355
Waterworks, Constiuction and Management of, 425
Wave-making, Resistance of Ships, Mr. Froude, 288
Waves Raised by Paddle Steamers, and their Positions Relatively to the Wheels, 269
Yorkshire Boiler Insurance and Steam Users' Company, 139
Yorkshire Freemasonry, 4
Zarskoje-Selo Railway. The, 289
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