The Engineer 1870 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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A. B. C. Process at Hastings, 6
A. B. C. Process at Leamington, Abandonment of, 188, 193
Abouchoff Cast Steel Works, St. Petersburg, 107,110, 159
Abstract of a Paper on “ Thermodynamic Acceleration and Retardation of Streams,” PiofessorRankine, 242
Abstract of Report of Brit. Assoc. Com. on Underground Temperature, Prof. J. D. Everett, 261
Accident, Colliery, 175
Accident to the Irish Mail, 204
Accident to the Mail Train from Dublin, 328
Accident at Newark, 923
Accident at Tam worth, 234
Administration, Naval, 331
Admiralty, Appointments at the, 418
Admiralty, The Change at the, 44
Agricultural Show, Lille, 1
Air, The Sewage of the, 231
Alarm Signals for Trains, 197
Albert Hall, The Royal, 339, 427
Albion Ironworks and Patent Punched Steel Tube Works, Staffordshire, Sale at, 345
Abbot, Messrs. J., 250-ton Hydraulic Chain Testing Machine, 398
Allibon and Noyes, Messrs., Boilers and Engines of the Kirkstall, 325, 326, 330
Alloys of Copper, Tin, Lead, Zinc, with Manganese, J.
F. Allen, Esq.. F.C.S., 342
American Iron Trade, 67
American Patent Law, 88
American Shipping, 160
Angular Instruments, Latitudes without, 360
Application of the Centre Rail System to a Railway in Brazil, and to other Mountain Lines; also on the Advantages of Narrow Gauge Railways, Mr. J. B. Fell, 229, 230
Appointment of Trustees to Owen’s College, Manchester, 55
Arches, Iron, 447
Arithmetic for Schools, A. Sonnenschein and H. A.
Nesbitt, M.A., 414
Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical, W. H. Girdlestone, M.A., 414
Army, Surgical and Commissariat Appliances, 142,150, 190, 255, 385
Artillery, Field, 195
Artillery, French, 273, 277, 289, 305, 323
Artillery, Indian Field, 141
Artillery, Steam, 281
Ashpit System of Manchester, Aiderman Rumney, 223
Association, Annual Meeting of the Batley Branch of the National Engineers’, 33
Association, Manchester Steam Users’, 328
Association, Brit., Units, 245, 261, 278, 328
Assurances, Boiler, 344
Aveling, Mr., Testing Engines, 358
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., 20-H.P. Double-cylinder Ploughing Engine, 408
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., 5-H.P. Self-moving Engine, 75
Axles, Breakage of Railway Wagon, 399
Axles, Fracture of, 41
Balloon Guns, Herr Krupp’s, 408
Balloons in War, Use of, 281
Barometric Prediction of Weather, Mr. F. Galton,
F.R.S., 240
Baths at Southport, Lancashire, Mr. Chas. H. Beloe, C.E., 359, 362, 365
Batteries, Railway, 399
Bavarian Troops, Rifle of, 135
Beaming Machine, Messrs. Howard and Bullough’s Self-stopping, 168
Bedford and Northampton Railway, 370
Belgian Iron Trade, 86, 114, 126
Belgian Mechanical Undertakings, 333
Belgium and its Coal and Iron Districts, Visit of English Engineers to, 27, 36, 80, 114, 177
Beloe, C.E., Mr Chas. H., Baths at Southport, Lancashire, 359, 362, 365
Berger Spence, and Co’s. Weekly Chemical, Mineral and Metal Report, 321
Betts, Mr., The Contractor, 209, 234
Beuther, Herr, Axle-box, 309, 344
Birkenhead Railway Extension, 360
Birmingham Gun Trade, 174
Birmingham at Work, 15, 49, 67, 85, 119, 147
Bitumen, Gas from, 98
Blackburn, Mr., Oil Lubricator for Grease Boxes, 326
Blast Furnace Hoists of the Cleveland District,
Blast Furnace Slag at Autnege, Belgium, 315
Board of Trade, Notice of Examinations, 266
Board of Works and Leicester-square, 340
Boiler applied to a Ball Furnace, 22-H., Miller’s Safety
Isca Foundry Co., 342
Boiler, 60-H.P., Cone Paper Mills, Lydney, Mr. J. A Lee, 169
Boiler and Engine, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, anc Davey’s 4-H. Vertical, 258, 263, 279, 315
Boiler Explosion, 131
Boiler Explosion Committee, 27
Boiler Explosion, The Lanesfield, 11, 18
Boiler Explosion Legislation, 206
Boiler Explosions, Mr. E. B. Marten on, 207
Boiler, The Field, 410
Boiler Flues, Tapered, 221
Boiler, The Howard Safety, 360
Boiler, Mr. J. Pinchbeck’s Self-cleansing Water Tube, 346
Boiler Setting, Messrs. Hyde and Bennett, 124
Boiler, Trials with Miller’s Cast Iron Safety, 441
Boilers and Engines of the Steamship Kirkstall, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 326, 330
Boilers, Mr. Jeremiah Head on the Efficiency and Durability of Plain Cylindrical, 169
Boilers for the Houses of Parliament, Messrs. Clayton, 375, 376
Boilers, Land and Marine, Messrs. Hawksley, Wild, and Co., 246
Boilers at Oxford, Relative Efficiency of, 69, 74, 77, 96, 98
Boilers, Second-hand Steam, 398
Boilers, Steel, 410
Boilers, Tubulous, 77, 98, 126
Boilers, Vertical, 126, 193, 313,-328, 344, 360, 373, 399, 410, 452
Boring, Rapid, 171
Bow Station, North London Railway, Mr. T. Matthews and Mr. E. H. Horne, 151,155, 156
Bridge over the Abvodnoi Canal, St. Petersburg, Messrs. Handyside, 388, 394
Bridge Construction. Principles of, 264
Bridge over the Nesbor, Bucharest Railway, Mr.
McCandlish, 24, 28
Bridges without Scaffolding, Erecting, 306
Britannia Ironworks, Bedford, 187
Britain’s Strength, 173
British Association, 116, 175,193, 210, 213, 214, 228
Abstract of an Investigation of the Mathematical Theory of Combined Strains, Professor Rankine, 225
Address of the President, Professor Huxley, 185,197
Address of Mr. J. Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., F.R.S., President of Section A, 198
Address of Professor Roscoe, F.R.S., President of Section B, 200
Address of Mr. C. B. Vignoles, C.E., F.R.S., President of Section G, 201
Alloys of Copper, Tin, Lead, and Zinc with Manganese, J. F. Allen, Esq., F.G.S., 342
Application of the Centre Rail System to a Railway in Brazil and to other Mountain Lines. Also on the Advantages of Narrow Gauge Railways, Mr. J. B. Fell, 229
Ashpit System of Manchester, Aiderman R. Rum-ney, 223
Barometric Prediction of Weather, Francis Galton, F R.S., 240
Binocular Microscope, Mr. S. Holmes, 258
Boiler Explosions, Mr. E. B. Marten, 207
Colour Visions at Different Points of the Retina, J.
Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., F.R.S., 268
Construction of Sewers in Running Sand, Messrs. Reade and Goodison, 227
Efficiency of Furnaces and Mechanical Firing, Mr.
G. F. Deacon, C.E., 226
Electric Time Signal at Port Elizabeth, S. A. Varley, C.E., 240
Electro-Deposition of Copper and Brass, Mr. W. H. Walenn, F.C.S., 393
Existence of two Spectra of Carbon produced at the same Temperature, Mr. W. M. Watts, 318
Extent to which Existing Works and Prevailing Practices Militate against the Profitable Utilisation of Sewage, Mr. J. Bailey Denton, C.E., 224
Faure’s Battery, Mr. C. Becker, 239
Frictional Screw Motion, Mr. G. Lauder, C.E., 261
Gauge for the Railways of the Future, Mr. R. F.
Fairlie, C.E., 214
Hammering and Stone Dressing Machinery, Dr. Lloyd, 205
Hills and Dales, J. Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., &c., 239 Hydraulic Bucketing Engine for Graving Docks and
Sewerage, Mr. Percy Westmacott, 209
Hydraulic Machinery for Steering and Reversing Heavy Steam Engines, and for Discharging Cargoes, Mr. A. B. Brown, 327
Improved Appliances for the Production of Heavy Forgings, as used at the Birkenhead Forge, Lieut.-Col. Clay, 246
Improved Ships of War of Moderate Dimensions, Mr. Michael Scott, C.E.N.A., 217, 232, 239
Mechanical Stoking, Mr. Smith, 216
Mode of Action of Lightning on Telegraph Circuits, and New Methods of Constructing Telegraph Coils, S. A. Varley, C.E., 267
New Electro-Magnetic Anemometer, M. J. J. Hall, 266
New Field of Magnetic Research, Fred. Varley,
F.R.A.S., 318
New Method of Obtaining Chlorine, Mr. Henry Deacon, 316
Numerical Theorem with Practical Applications, Mr. W. H. Walenn, 375
Pneumatic Transmission through. Tunnels and Pipes, Mr. R. Sabine, 260
Policy and Provisions of a Patent Law, Mr. R. M. Paukhurst, LL.D., 334
Proposed Rearrangement of the Registration Districts of England and Wales to Facilitate Scientific Inquiries, Mr. A. Haviland, 240
Rainfall--its Variation with Elevation of the Gauge, Chas. Chambers, F. R.S., 318
Rolling Machine for Shaping Axles, Mr. A. Bowater, 226
Sewage of Liverpool- -its Collection and Ultimate Disposal, Mr. J. N. Shoolbred, C.E., 225
Stability, Propulsion and Sea-going Qualities of Ships, Professor Rankine, 209, 218
Steam Lines and Waves in Connection with Naval Architecture, Professor Rankine, 218
Steam Power Meter, Mr. Ashton, 216
Testing the Quality of the Malleable Metals and Alloys, Professor G. Bischof, 243
Weldon Process for the Manufacture of ^Chlorine, Mr. Walter Weldon, 292
Bronze Guns, 17
Bryant and Cargill, Messrs., Vernon Bridge over the
Mersey, at Stockport, 123, 128
Bucholz System of Flour Making, 125
Buddhist Gateway, A, 429
Burgh, Mr. N. P., Steam Donkey Pump, 242
Campbeltown Harbour, New Works in, 166
Camrouse and Co., Messrs., Stone Crushing Machine, 38
Canal, Eastern Ganges, 276
Captain, H.M.S. The, 195, 208, 234, 245, 246, 247, 263, 278, 295, 297, 315, 433
Captain and The Monarch, 103
Carriages, Naval Gun, 157
Cartridges in Paris, Manufacture of, 416
Carvalho’s Ships’ Lines, 61, 64
Carving Machinery, Mr. Jordan, 327
Cassell’s Technical Manuals, Ellis A. Davidson, 415
Cement, Portland, 72, 126
Cement Testing Machine, Messrs. Michell and Carrington, 426
Cements, Strength of, 347
Central Cottages Improvement Society, Labourers’ Cottages, 259
Certain Systems which have been Proposed for Effecting the Electric Transmission of Telegraph Signals, 355
Cast Steel Works, Abouchoff, St. Petersburg, 107, 110, 159
Chain Testing Machine, Messrs. J. Abbot’s 250-ton Hydraulic, 398
Channel Tunnel, The, 6
Charging and Discharging Gas Retorts, Mr. J. J.
Holden, 411, 412
Chatham Dockyard Extension Works, 172
Chatham Dockyard Extension Works, Visit of Civil
Engineers to the, 35
Chat wood, Mr , New Safe, 23
Cherbourg and the Channel Islands, Works at, 6
China Grass, 27
Chinese Gold Lacquer, 55
Chinese Grass Machine Competition, 299
Chlorine, New Method of Obtaining, Mr. Henry
Deacon, J.P., 316
Clayton, Messrs., Boilers for Houses of Parliament, 375, 376
Cleveland District, 15, 31, 49, 67, 85, 102, 120, 134, 148,
163, 182, 204, 221, 237, 254, 271, 258, 303, 322, 338, 354, 368, 383, 404, 422, 437, 456
Cleveland District, Blast Furnace Hoists of the, 2
Coal-getting Machine, Mr. Grafton Jones, 124
Coal in the Hasdo River, India, 46
Coal Traffic to London by the New Route, 283
Coal, Welsh and North Country, 138
Coals in Germany, 441
Coasts and Harbours, Defences of our, 141
College, Indian Civil Engineering, Cooper’s-hill, Surrey, 106, 374, 377, 399
Colliery Machinery in South Staffordshire and Shropshire, 112
Colliery Waste and Coal Supply, 153
Collision, The Harrow, 395, 411, 413
Collision on the South Yorkshire Railway, 64
Colour Blindness and Railway Officials, 250
Colour Vision at Different Points of the Retina, J.
Clerke Maxwell, LL.D., &c., 268
Commercial Metal and Mineral Report, 148, 403
Compagnie Beige, Brussels, Russian Goods Engine, 256, 262
Compagnie Beige, Brussels, 200-H.P. Winding Engines, Houssu Collieries, Central Belgium, 430, 433
Compensation from the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, 52
Condensation of Steam, 149, 209
Condensers Surface, 193, 278
Construction, Elementary Papers on, 450
Consumption of Coal on Board H.M. Ships, 188
Contract for the Atlantic and Erie Railway, 112
Cornish Engine, 239, 306, 310
Cornish Pumping Engines, 10, 192
Cost, Prime, 428
Cottages, Labourers’, Central Cottage Improvement Society, 259
Cottages, some Hints on Improved Miners* and A gri-cultural Labourers’, 410
Cotterill, Mr. E., Locks, 372
Court Martial on the Loss of the Captain, 278
Cow bridge Line, 56
Cooke and Sons, Messrs. T., Engraving Machine, 373
Crane, Messrs. Taylor and Co.’s Direct-acting Steam, 426
Crickmer, Mr. R., Anti-priming Valve, 28
Crushing Machine, Messrs. Camroux and Co.’s Stone, 38
Cultivator, A Novel, 345
Curves and Gradients, Experimental Trips of the Progress, 12
Davey, Paxman, and Davey, Messrs., 4-Horse Vertical Boiler and Engine, 258, 263, 279, 315
Defence, The Admiralty, 447
Defences of Paris, 138
Description of an Experiment on the Strength of a Lattice Road Girder at the Boyne Viaduct, Mr. B. B. Stoney, M.I.C.E., 452
D eutsches Berg worterbuch MitV elegen, HeinrichV eith, 62
Devon and Somerset Railway, 295
Diamond Fields of South Africa, the Recently-discovered, 339
Doors, Mr. Warhurst’s Apparatus for Closing the Bottoms of, 326
Drainage Machinery, 72
Dredging Operations on the Mississippi, 89, 90
Drewry, Mr. C. Stewart, on a Concise and Familiar View of the Law of Patents, 405, 446
Drilling and Recessing Machine, Messrs. J. and J. Kershaw’s Quadruple, 442
Duke of Sutherland’s Railway, 334
Ealing Sewage Works, 358
Eastbourne Gasworks, Mr. A. 'Williams, 443, 444, 446
Eclipse of the Sun on December 22nd, 250, 434
Electric Lights, Intermittent, 177
Electric Time Signal at Port Elizabeth, Mr. 8. A.
Varley, C.E., 240
Electric Transmission of Telegraph Signals, Systems which have been Proposed for Effecting the, 405
Electro-Deposition of Copper and Brass, Mr. W. H.
Walenn, F.C.S., 393
Electro-magnetic Anemometer, Mr. J. J. Hall, 266
Engine, Messrs. Aveling and Porter’s 5-Horse Selfmoving, 75
Engine, Messrs. Aveling and Porter’s 20-Horse Doublecylinder Ploughing, 408
Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Messrs. Gwynne, 57
Engines, Cornish Pumping, 10, 192
Engine, 10-Horse Fixed, Mr. Underhill, 152
Engine, Messrs. Garstang and Co.’s Pumping, Swinley Colliery, 442
Engine, Messrs. Marshall’s 10-H.P. Horizontal, 38
Engine, A Novel, 409
Engine, Parker’s Air-jet Steam, 249
Engine, Russian Goods, Compagnie Beige, 256. 262
Engine, Messrs. Shand and Mason’s Treble-cylinder Equilibrium Steam Fire, 57
Engine, Tank, on the Vaessen System, 284
Engine, Messrs. E. and R. Turner’s 10-Horse Fixed, 106
Engine, The “White Cloud,” 388
Engineering in India, 171, 234
Engineering Colleges, 181
Engineers, College for Indian Civil, 9
Engineers, Education of, 171, 234
Engineers, Naval, 5, 23, 41, 181
Engines, Mr. Aveling’s System of Testing, 358
Engines, Competitive, at Oxford, 91, 126, 140
Engines, Compound, 25, 27
Engines with Double-acting Pump, Messrs. Mather and Platt’s Pumping, 312
Engines of H.M.S. Druid, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, 6, 8
Engines, Messrs. Fletcher, Jennings, and Co.’s Coupled Hori^yntal Winding, 78
Engines of the Hindostan, P. and O. Co., 274. See also Supplement
Engines, 200-H.P., Houssu Collieries, Compagnie
Beige, 430, 433
Engines, Marine, 129
Engines, Mountain Railway, 98
Engines, Oscillating, without Surface Condensers, 101
Engines, Pumping, 154
Engines, Pumping, Berlin Waterworks, Messrs. Simpson and Co., 208, 212
England, Steam Road Rolling in, 158
Engraving Machine, Messrs. T. Cooke and Sons, 373
Epidemic, The Small Pox, 428
Essay on Sewage Irrigation, 164
Evrard, Mr. C., Compagnie Beige, Brussels, 200-H.P.
Winding Engines, Houssu Collieries, Central Belgium, 430,433
Examination, India Public Works, 43, 44, 63, 76, 80, 95, 139
Examinations, Competitive, 155
Examples of American Naval Architecture, 55
Exhibition, Annual International, 290, 324, 326, 423
Exhibition, The Working Men’s International, 35
Existence of Two Spectra of Carbon Produced at the same Temperature, Mr. W. Watts, 318
Expansion Gear, Mr. Walker’s Self-acting, 56
Explosion near Tredegar, 177
Explosions, Boiler, 77, 344
Explosive Compounds, M. A. Noble, 124
Explosive Energy of Heated Liquids, Professor Ran-kine, 323, 423
Exports of Railway Iron from Cardiff to the United States, 295
Fairlie, Mr., Trial of the Progress Curves and Gradients, 12 .
Farcy Gunboat on the Seine, Siege of Paris, 346
Faure’s Battery, Mr. C. Becker on, 239
Fehti Bulend, Trial of the Turkish Ironclad Corvette, 86
Fell, C.E., Mr. J. B., Mid-rail Locomotive, Ganta
Gallo Railway, 243
Fcstiniog Railway, Captain Tyler on the, 46
Fire-arms, Some Characteristics of Modern, 130
Fire Engines for France, 421
Fletcher, Jennings, and Co., Messrs., Coupled Horizontal Winding Engines, 78
Flour-making, Bucholtz System, 125
Flour, Manufacturing True, 171
Formation of a New Association of Engineers in
Yorkshire, 232
Formula, An Ideal, 98
France, Reaping Machine Competition in, 17
French Experimental Squadron, 136
Frictional Screw Motion, Mr. G. Lauder, C.E., 261
Froelich Gas Furnace, 325
Furnace, The Froelich Gas, 325
Furnace, Mr. Tenwick’s Annealing, Leiston Works, Suffolk, 372
Furnace, Messrs. T. Vicars’ Self-stoking Smokeless, 216
Furnaces and Mechanical Firing, Mr. G. F. Deacon,
C.E., on the Efficiency of, 226
Galloway’s Motive Power, 131
Garrett and Sons, Messrs., Scantling Machine, 409, 428
Garstangand Co., Messrs., Pumping Engine, Swinley
Colliery, Wigan, 442
Gas in Long Conduits, 56
Gas Retorts, Charging and Discharging, Mr. J. J.
Holden, 411, 412
Gases, Occlusion of by Electro Deposited Iron, 17
Gateway, A Buddhist, 429
Gatling Gun, 139
Gauges, The Battle of, 347
Gauges of Future Indian Railways, 23
Gauge for the Railways of the Future, Mr. R. F.
Fairlie, C.E., 214
Gauges, Steam, at Oxford, 82
Geography, Physical, Historical, and Military, from the French of T. Lavall6e, Captain Lendy, 144
German Percussion Shells, 358
Girders, Cross, 79
Girders, Erection of, 395
Glasgow University, Opening of, 325
Glasgow University, Proposed Degree in Engineering
Science, 315
Glastonbury, Drainage of, 343
Glucose, Manufacture of in Germany, 318
Glycerine and Red Lead Cement, 171
Gough, Mr., Printing and Arming Press, 4
Government, the Astronomers and the Coming
Eclipse, 325
Government and Inventors, 72
Government and Science, 225
Governor, An Improved, 153
Governor for Marine Engines, Weir’s Centrifugal,
Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., 358
Guattari, Signor, Pneumatic Telegraph, 49
Gun Carriages, Iron Wheels for, 26
Gun, The Gatling, 139
Gun for India, 9-pounder Bronze Muzzle-loading Rifled, 138
Gun, A Novel and a New Metal, 154
Gun, Progress of the 35-ton, 157
Gunpowder, its Nature and Action as Exemplified by
Recent Researches, 165, 183
Guns, Bronze, 17
Guns, Prussian, 51, 60, 121
Guns, Steam, 313
Gwynne, Messrs., Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 57
Haddan, Mr. J., Proposed Tunnel under the Bosphorus, 114
Hafod Deep Pits and the Bagillt Sea Sinking, North Wales, 268
Hall, The Royal Albert, 339
Hammering and Stone Dressing Machinery, Dr. J. H.
Lloyd, 205
Hammers, Messrs. C. Merrill and Son’s Drop and Air Spring Forging, 198
Handyside, Messrs., Bridge over the Abvodnoi Canal, St. Petersburg, 388, 394
Harbour Accommodation for Renfrew, 193
Harbour Extension at Irvine, 242
Harrison, Mr., Ventilating and Flushing Sewers, 5
Hastings, A. B. C. Process at, 6
Hawskley, Mr., Ventilator, 409
Hawskley, Wild, and Co., Messrs., Land and Marine Boilers, 246
Heavy Breech-loading and Rifled Artillery of France, 273, 277, 284, 305, 323
High Speeds as Applied to Wood Working Machinery,
Hills and Dales, Dr. Clerke Maxwell on, 239
Hindostan, Engines of the P. and O. Co., See also Supplement, 274
Hint to Local Boards of Health and Water Companies,
Holborn Viaduct Station, 411
Holden, Mr. J. J., Charging and Discharging Gas Retorts, 411, 412
Homersham, C.E., Mr. W. C., Joints for Gas and Water
Pipes, 242
Horse and Sheep Clippers, American, 408
Howe Testimonial Fund, 343, 360
How to Roll your Roads, 98
Huggins and Horsenaill’s Diamond Millstone Dressing Machine, 172
Hyde and Bennett, Messrs., Boiler Setting, 124
Hydraulic Bucketing Engine for Graving Docks and Sewerage, Mr. Percy Westmacott’s Description of, 92, 209
Hydraulic Machinery for Steering, Reversing Heavy Steam Engines and for Discharging Cargo, &c Air A. B. Brown, 327
Ice Making, 76, 126
Important Patent Decision, 242
Important Prosecution in the Iron Trade, 318
Improvement, Locomotive, 363, 377, 409, 414
Inclining a Ship in Order to findjier Centre of Gravity, Process of, W. J. M. R., 339
India, Engineers in, 154
India, The Great Trigonometrical Survey of, 1, 33
India, Pendulum Operations in, 386
India, Public Works in, 62
India, Public Works Department Examination, 43, 44, 63, 76, 80, 95, 139
India, Railways in, 25
Indian Civil Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, Surrey, 106, 374, 377, 399
Indian Railway Gauges and Rolling Stock, 369, 415, 439
Indian State Railways, 71
Inspection, Boiler, 279
Institution of Civil Engineers, Minutes of Proceedings, 174, 314
Institute of Engineers, North of England, and Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders :— Carboniferous Formation of Scotland, Mr. J. Geikie 105
Duty of Cornish, &c., Pumping Engines, Mr. J. B. Simpson, 105
Institute of Engineers, North of England, and Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders
Economical Advantages of Mechanical Ventilation, Mr. D. P. Morrison, 105
Expansion Valve, Mr. Barclay, 112
Grafton Jones, Mr., Coal Getting Machine, Mr. Arnold
Magnetic’ Ironstone in Rosetalet West, Mr. J.
Marley, 105
Meeting in Scotland, 105
Pumping Engine, Mr. Barclay, 11-
Institute of Engineeis, South Wales, 245, 426
Institute of Engineers and Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Meeting of, lOo
Institute The Iron and Steel, loo, 158, i/o
Efficiency and Durability of Hain Cylindrical Boilers, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 169
Pumping and Winding Machinery at Castle l it, Cyfarthfa, Property of Mr. R. T. Crawshay, Mr.
G. C. Pearce, 168 .
Institution of Civil Engineers, 27, 41, 274, 304, 314, 424
Subjects for Premiums, Session, 1870-71, 300
Visit to Chatham Dockyard Extension Works 35
Water Supply of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Mr. A.
Leslie, 357 _
. Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Annual Meeting at Nottingham, 92, 100, 112
Conclusions Derived from the Experience of Recent Boiler Explosions, Mr. G. F. Marten, 92 .
Self-acting Machinery for Knitting Hosiery by Power, Mr. Arthur Paget, 92
Self-acting Safety and Fire Extinguishing Valve foi Steam Boiler, Mr. G. D. Hughes, 92
Steam Road Roller, Mr. Batho and Mr.. Avehng, 9-
! Warsop Aero-steam Engine, Mr. R. Katon, 340
"Wire Rope Bridge at Landore Steel Works, Mr. . Hackney, 340
Working Coal on the Midland Counties, Mr. George Fowler, 92 .
Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Nottingham, Annual Meeting, 92
Institution of Naval Architects, 300
Institution, The Royal Lectures :—
Astronomy of Comets, Professor Grant, F.R.S., 93
Atoms, Professor Williamson, F.R.S., 93
Descent of Glaciers, Rev. Henry Moseley, M.A., F.R.S.,12
Electrical Phenomena and Theories, Dr. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 21
Electricity, Professor Tyndall, 93,116
History, Professor Seeley, 93
Moral and Political Philosophy, Professor Blackie, 93
International Exhibitions, Annual, 271, 290, 324, 326
Intrenching Tools, 408
Ironclads, Stability of our, 290
Ironclads, Top Heaviness of, 234
Iron, Coal, &c., Trades of Birmingham, &c., 15, 31, 49, 67, 85. 101, 119, 134, 147, 163, 181, 203, 221, 237, 253, 271, 287, 304, 321, 337, 353, 367, 383, 403, 421, 437, 455
Ironmasters in France, 178
Iron Railway, 428
Iron Trade, American, 67
Iron Trade of France, 188
Ironworks at Bedford, The Britannia, 187
Ironworks, Round Oak, 276
Irrigation and Sewage, 63, 138
Isca Foundry Co., 22-H.P. Miller’s Safety Boiler applied toaB'll Furnace, 342
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, 261
Jacob, Mr. A., Sewer Ventilator, 56
. n, Progress in. 314
Job is for Pipes, Mr. W. C. Homersham, C.E., 242
Jones Mr. Graf con, Coal-getting Machine, 124
Jord u , Mr.. Carving Machinery, 327
Kershi '. Messrs. J. and J., Quadruple Drilling and Recessing Machine, 442
Kilnhurst Swing Bridge over the River Dun Navigation, Mr. W. N. Swettenham, C.E., 292, 296
King, Mr. J., Safety Hook and Cage for Mines, 227
Kirstall, Boilers and Engines of the, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 325, 326, 330
Kirstall, Trial Trips of the, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 306, 358
Krupp’s Balloon Guns, 408
Lanes^eld Boiler Explosion, 11, 18
Lange, Mr. C., Improvements in Watches and Clocks, 4
Lathe Pulleys, Radii of, 154
Lathe, M. and J. Woolfield’s Screw-cutting and
General Purpose, 227
Launch of the Atacama, 139
Launch of the John Elder, 158
Launch of a Screw Steam Yacht, 97
Launch of Two Iron Steamers, 23
La Vapeur, L’Usage Economique de, 75
Law of Patents, Mr. C. Stewart Drewry on a Concise and Familiar View of the, 405, 423, 440
Leading Articles :—
Admiralty Defence, The, 447
American Neutrality, 250
Atlantic Yacht Match, 80
Battle of the Gauges, 347
Bombardment of Paris, 331
Britain’s Strength, 173
British Association, 213
British Museum and South Kensington, 95
Change at the Admiralty, 44
Childers’, Mr., Minute, 431
Chinese Grass Machine Competition, 298
College for Indian Civil Engineers, 9
Compound Engines, 25
Cross Girders, 79
Davey-Paxman Boiler, 263
Defence of our Coasts and Harbours, 141
Erection of Girders, 395
Explosive Shells for Small Arms, 95
Field Artillery, 195
Forms of Ships, 61
French Mitrailleuse, The, 396
Good and Bad Stoking, 348
Harrow Collision, The, 395, 413
India Public Works’ Examination, 43, 95
Indian Civil Engineering College, The, 377
Indian Field Artillery, 141
Indian Railways and the Public Works Department, 231
Iron Arches, 447
Latest Results of Sewage Irrigation, 363
Laying Out of Sewage Farms, 432
Locomotive Improvement, 363, 377, 414
Loss of the Captain, 195, 247, 263
Manufactories and Rivers, 43
Marine Engines, 129
Martini-Henry Rifle, 129
Mechanical Engineers at Nottingham, 112
Military Breech-loaders in the United States, 142
Naval Administration, 331
Naval Gun Carriages, 157
Parker’s Air-jet Steam Engine, 249
Past, Present, and Future of the Serpentine, 61
Principles of Bridge Construction, 264
Prof. Huxley’s Address, 214
Progress in Japan, 314
Progress of the 35-ton Gun, 157
Public Works in India, 62
Purification of Sewage, 111
Railway Accident at Newark, 9
Railways in India, 25
Reed, Mr., on the Loss of the Captain, 297
Rotary Cutter for Wood, 250
Saint Gothard Railway, 173
Sewage of the Air, 231
Sir William Armstrong on Trades’ Unions and Patents, 249
Some Characteristics of Modern Fire-arms, 130
Steam Artillery, 281
Steam Guns, 313
Steam Road Rolling in England, 158
Strength of Cements, 347
The War, 79
Leading Articles
Use of Balloons in War, 281
Vertical Boilers, 313
Why 'theltoa^dway o^the Victoria Embankment was not Steam Rolled, 174
Lejons de^Geologie1 Pratiques, Professfis au College de
Le^Mr.’ K ^“^Pa^ Mills,
Lydney, 169
Legal Intelligence, 123 _ _ . on.
Legislation, Steam Boiler Explosion, 206
Episton Works, Suffolk, 379
Leiston Works, Suffolk, Ten wick’s Annealing Furnace,
Lever, Reversing, Nicholas Railway, Worcester Engine Co., 176
Lighting, Proposed New System of, 231
Lightning on Telegraph Circuits, and New Method of Constructing Telegraph Coils, Mr. b. A. Varley, C.E., 267
Lille Agricultural Show, 1
Link Motion, 6, 23, 41
LlIx?thmetic, Theoretical and Practical, W. H. Girdle
stone, M.A., 414
Board of Trade Railway Returns, 378
Cassell’s Technical Manuals, Ellis A. Davidson, 415
Deutsches Bergworterbuch Mit Velegen, \ on
Henrich Veith, 62
Geography, Physical, Historical, and Military, from the French of T. Laval6e, by Capt. Lendy, F.G.S., 144
Leeons de Geologic Pratiques, Professes au College de France, parM. L. Elie de Beaumont, M.I., 62
Military Resources of Prussia and France, by Lieut. -
Col. Chesney, R.E., and Henry Reeve, D.C.L., 143 Mines Metalliques de La France, par A. CaUlaux, 62 Minutes of Proceedings of the Inst, of Civil Eng.,
James Forrest, C.E., 174, 314
Post Office Directory of Engineers and Iron and
Metal Trades, Messrs. Kelly and Co., 432
Promenades de Paris, Mons. A. Alphand, 332
Quarterly Weather lieport of the Meteorological
Office, Part I., 174
Science and Art of Arithmetic for Schools, A.
Sonnenschein and H. A. Nesbitt, M.A., 414
Tabulated Weights of Angles, T. Bulb, &c., Chas. U.
Jordan, M.I.N.A., 175
Traite de Fortification Polygonale, par A. Brialmont,
63
Tri tone, The, Joseph Green, 415
Locking Points on the North-Eastern Railway, 343
Locks, Mr. E. Cotteiill, 372
Locomotive, Mid Rail, Canta Gallo Railway, Mr. J.
B. Fell, C.E., 243
Locomotive, Mr. Nairn’s Mountain, 308
Locomotive, Quadruple Bogie, Mr. G. Percy Spooner,
C. E., 20
Locomotive, Tank on the Vaessen System, Societe de
Liege, 280
Lubricator for Grease Boxes. Mr. Blackbum, 326
Letters to the Editor:—
A. B. C. Process at Hastings, J. F., 6
Accident at Tam worth, A Timid Traveller, 234
Administration of the Patent Law, W. Spence, C.E.,
234, 344
JEronautical Science, F. Sheward, 373
An Ideal Formula, C. M. Poole, 98
A New Metal and a Novel Gun. One who Believes that the Colour of a Metal has much to do with its Merits, 154
Balanced Slide Valves, G. W. Elliott, 140
Belts and Pulleys, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 234,
245
Beuther’s Axle Box, R. H. Burnett, 344
Blowing Engines for the Weldon Process, Walter
Weldon, 374
Boat Ram, H. Walker, 234
Boiler Assurance, Robert Briggs, 344
Boiler Explosions, John Swift, 344
Boiler Explosions, United Society of Boiler Makers,
77
Boiler, the Field, Lewis Olrick, 410
Boiler Inspection, Henry Miller, 279
Boiler Inspection in the United States, An Inspector,
452
Boiler Repairing, Robert Jenkins, 6
Breakage of Railway Wagon Axles, H. S. Harland, 399
British Association, J. P. Joule, 193
British Association Units, Cromwell F. Varley, 245
British Association Units, X. X. X., 278
British Association Units of Electrical Measurement,
Desmond G. FitzGerald, 261, 328
Captain and the Court Martial, F. F., 278
Caulking Tubes, 410
Centrifugal Pumps, Plodder, 154
Coal Supply and Colliery Waste, G. Ryland, 153
Colliery Tub Wheel, J. H. L., 315
Colliery Tub Wheels, W. R. R., 295
Competitive Boilers at Oxford, Edward Field, 98
Competitive Engines, Omega, 140
Davey-Paxman Boiler, Andrew Barclay, 315
Davey-Paxman Boiler, E. D. B., 279
Davey-Paxman Boiler, F. C., 279
Davey-Paxman Boiler, W. Roberts, 315
Davey-Paxman Boiler, Thomas Wilkins, 279
Disposal of Sewage, A. B.C. Process, T. W. Cowan, 193
Disposal of Sewage, Two Sides of the Question, F.
Jones, 155
Drainage of Glastonbury, H. J., 343
Duty of Cornish Engines, One and All, 193
Education of Engineers, A. J. C., 171
Education of Engineers, Sold, 234
Elastic Tires for Traction Engines, L. Sterne, 428
Engine Tests, C. J. W., 155
Engine Trials, W., 171
Engine Trials at Oxford, Lewis Olrick, 77
Engineering in India, Arthur Jacob, 234
Engineers in India, M. I. C. E., 154
English Mechanic’s Scientific and Mechanical Society, F. G. Wood, 343
Examinations of the Science and Art Department,
John Henry Ohlsen, 261
Extracting Tallow, A. L., 428
Extracting Tallow, George Bennie and C®., 428
Fell’s Mountain Locomotive, Locomotive, 76
Fishing up Torpedoes, 343
Flow of Water Through Pipes, A. W. E., 140
Fog Signals, W. Wright, C.E., 428
Fracture of Axles. W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 41
Frictional Screw Motion, G. Lauder, 345
Gas from Bitumen, A. Cochrane, 98
Gauges of the Railways of the Future, Delta, 360, 399
Hancock’s Screw Propeller, W. Scott, 6
Hancock’s Screw Propeller, Henrietta Vansittart, 6
Hint to Local Boards of Health and Water Companies, Illogicus, 41
Historic Meteoiology, Thomas Measam, 76
H.M.S. Captain, G. Featherstone Griffin, C.E., 234
H.M.S. Captain, Heincke and Davies, 315
Howe Testimonial Fund, N. P. Burgh, 360
Howe Testimonial Fund, Justice, 343 i
Hydraulic Ram, Hydraulicus, 155
Ice Making Machines, B., 76
Ice Making Machines, H. C., 126
Improved Governors, J. A. Z., 153
Indian College, A. Tutor, 399
Indian Engineer Examinations, Another Teacher I 140, 155
Indian Engineer Examinations, A Leveller, 139
Indian Public Works Examination, A Teacher, 63, 76, 140
Iron Wheels for Gun Carriages, T. M. C., 261
Latitude Without Angular Instruments, C. M
Poole, 360
Locomotive Improvement, B. P., 409
Loss of the Captain, Anti-Humbug, 295
Lowe-Vansittart Propeller, H. Vansittart, 76
L’Usage Economique de la Vapeur, F. Griveaux,
75
Letters to the Editor:—
Machinery for Manufacturing Fine Flour A Z Gias, 171
Messrs. B. Garrett and Son’s Scantling Planing Machine, Samuel Worssam and Co., 428 6
Mountain Railway Engines, A. A., 98
Narrow Gauge Railways, Delta, 410
Narrow Gauge Railways, Robert F. Fairlie, 278 399 428 ’ ’
Narrow Gauge Railways, M. Inst, C.E., 261
Narrow Gauge Railways, C. Spooner, 429
Naval Engineers, J. H. E., 5
Naval Engineers, Only an Engineer, 41
Naval Engineers, Resigned in Disgust, 23
Naval Engineers, Union is Strength, 23
New Naval Reserve, J. Orrell Lever, 278
New Postal Delivery into Paris, R. M., 453
Novel Engine. A, 409
Our Ironclad Ships, W. McNaught, 374
Pneumatic Postal Tubes, Robert R. Gibbs, 76 Portland Cement, C. Russell and Co., 126 Prime Cost, Alpha, 428
Prime Cost, J. B., 428
Prime Cost, Q. E. D., 428
Pumping Engines, Thomas Sampson, 154
Purifying Water, D. P., 76
Question in Screw Propulsion, C., 126
Radial Rolling Stock, Wilkin and Clark, 453
Radii of Lathe Pulleys, E. E. S., 154
Railway Accident at Newark, H. Weaver, 23
Railway Battaries, Thos. Almgill, 399
Railway Iron, Senex, 428
Railway Points and Crossings, Sisson C. Norris, 2 Raising the Captain, William Morgans, 245 Rapid Boring, H. N. McKie, C.E., 171 Rigi Railroad, W. E. Clayton, 4 Rigi Railroad, J. H. K., 41
Royal Agricultural Society’s Engine Tests, John Pinchbeck, 126, 142, 154
Screw Propellers, G. F. G. Des Vignes, 279 Secondhand Steam Boilers, Henry Hiller, 399 Sewage Irrigation, A. Scott, 63
Sewage Purification, C. M. Barker, C.E., 154
Sewage Utilisation, A. B. C. Process, C. Rawson 295 ’
Shipbuilding at Newcastle, Maudslay, Sons and Field, 399
Siege of Paris, J. Scoffern, M.B., 453
Small-pox Epidemic, Robert R. Carr, 428
Soft Studded Projectiles, W. F. Pad wick, 76
Some Hints on Improved Miners’ and Agricultural Labourers’ Cottages, C. B. A., 410
Steam on Common Roads, S. Darton, 23
Steam on Common Roads, W. B. Wood, 6 Steel Boilers, A Scotch Engineer, 409 Surface Condensers, J. Henderson, 193 Surface Condensers, Scotus, 278 Syphons, A. J., 295
Syphons, Peter Jensen, 328
Syphos, John Jones, 343
Thomson’s Road Steamers, Dunmore, 428 Top Heaviness of Ironclads, A. M., 234 Tramroads, “Tram,” 295
Tubulous Boilers, H. Kesterton, 77
Tubulous Boilers, E. Mirchin, 98, 126
Vertical Boilers, C. J. W., 193
Vertical Boilers, Gardiner and Macintosh, 328
Vertical Boilers, II. A. F., 126
Vertical Boilers, J. P., 344
Vertical Boilers, Lewis Olrick, 344
Vertical Boilers, James Macpherson, 399
Vertical Boilers, Lewis Olrick, 126
Vertical Boiiers, J. Pinchbeck, 399, 452
Vertical Boilers, S. Smart, 373, 41U
Vertical Boilers, X. Y. Z., 360
Westminster Offices, An Engineer, 245
Who Invented the Link Motion? W. Lawrence Williams, 23
Who Invented the Link Motion ? W. Waller, 6
Who Invented the Link Motion? W. T., 41
McGregor, C.E., Mr. J., Appointment of, as Chief Engineer to H.M. Kidderpore Dockyard, 36
Madeley and Dudley, Sales of Colliery Plant at, 131
Madrid Tramway, 372
Mail Contracts, 155
Mansion House Station, Metropolitan District Railway,
Manslaughter at Amington Colliery, 433
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., Engines of H.M.S.
Druid, 6, 8
Marine Engine Economy, 265
Markets, Metal, Oil, and Timber, Prices Current, See last page of each Number
Marsden, Mr., Road Metal Breaking Machine, 149
| Marshall, Messrs., 10-H.P. Horizontal Engine, 38 Mathematical Theory of Combined Strains, Abstract of an Investigation of the, Prof. Rankine, 225
Mather and Platt, Messrs., Pumping Engines with Double Acting Pumps, 312
Medway Forts, 176
Meeting of North of England Institute of Engineers, and Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 105
Merill and Sons, Messrs., Drop and Air Spring Forging Hammers, 190
Mersey, Defences of, 140
Metal Whitworth, 298
Meter, Mr. Aghton on a Steam Power, 216
Meteorology, ifistoric, 76
Michele and Carrington, Messrs., Cement Testing Machine, 426
Microscope, Mr. S. Holmes on the Binocular, 258
Mid-London Road and Railway, 18
Milner’s Safe Works at Liverpool, 28
Miller’s Cast Iron Safety Boiler, Trials with, 441 Millstones, Dressing, Messrs. Huggins and Horsenaills, 172
Mines, Metalliques de la France, Alfred Caillaux, 62 Minute, Mr. Childers’, 431
Miscellanea, 7, 19, 37, 59, 73, 89, 113, 127, 137, 151, 167, 189, 211, 233, 241, 257, 275, 291, 307, 329, 341, 361, 371, 389, 407, 425, 445
Mississippi, Dredging Operations on the, 88, 90
Mitrailleur, The, 135
Mitrailleuse, The French, 396
Monarch and Vanguard, H.M.S., 324
Mont Cenis Tunnel, 449
Moody, Capt., Telegraph Ship, 11
Mossley Board of Health, 284
Moulding Machine, Messrs. Ransome and Co.’s High-Speed Force-Cutter, 94
Mountain Locomotive, Fell’s, 76
Murray and Co., Messrs., Double-Furrow Plough, 309
Nagant, M., A New Photometer, 68
Nairn, Mr., Mountain Locomotive. 308
Nairn, Mr., 8-H.P. Road Steamer for Traction of Soft Ground, 254
Naval Architecture, Some Examples of American, 55
Navy, Oui Ironclad, 1U4
Naval Reserve, a New, 278
Neutrality, American, 250
Newark, Railway Accident at, 9,23
Newcastle, Shipbuilding at, 399
New Field of Magnetic Research, Fred. Varley. F.R.A.8.,318
New Line of Railway from Hassop to Castleton, 322
New Sult for Intense Electric Currents, 124
New Zealand Railway, 318
Nils Ericson, 197
Noble’s Chronoscope and Section of Powder-Testing Gun, 183
North-Eastern Railway, Locking Points on the, 343
Norwood, Sewage Farm at, 10
Notes from France, 10
Notes and Memoranda, 7, 19, 37, 59, 73, 89, 113, 127, 137, 151, 167, 189, 211, 233, 241, 257, 275, 291, 307, 329, 341, 361, 371, 389, 407, 425, 445
Notes from the Northern and Eastern Counties, 16, 32, 60, 68, 86, 102, 120, 134, 148, 164, 182, 204, 222, 238, 254, 272, 258, 3u4,322, 338, 354, 368, 384, 404, 422, 438<
Notes from Paris, 36, 63, 81, 101, 116, 130,144, 160 196, 265, 282, 299, 315, 333, 364, 397, 449
Notes from Manchester, 354, 384, 421
Notes on the Russian Exhibition of 1870, 355
Notes from Scotland, 15, 31, 49, 67, 85, 102, 119, 134, 148, 163, 182, 203, 221, 238, 2-53, 258, 272, 303, 322, 337, 353, 368, 384, 404, 421, 438, 456
Notices to Correspondents, 9, 25, 43, 61, 79.95, 111, 129, 141,157, 173, 195, 213, 231, 247, 263, 281, 297, 313, 331, 347, 363, 377, 395, 413, 431, 447
Numerical Theorem, with Practical Applications, Mr.
W. H. Walenn, 375
Obituary :—
Bischof, Professor, 433
Braithwaite, Mr. John, 237
Brassey, Mr., 407
Coates, Major, 34
Cresy, E., 409
Dahlgren, Admiral, 88
Ewbank, Mr. T., 246
Hughes, Mr. Samuel, 358
Miller, Professor W. A., 242
Simoneau, Gustave, 34
Taylor, Mr. Philip, 20
Thornbury, Mr. David, 345
Thwaites, Sir John, 115
Wilson, Mr. G., 441
Occlusion of Gases by Electro-Deposited Iron, 17
Offices, Westminster, 245
Our Iron-clad Navy, 104
Our Naval Strength, 441
Oxford Engine Trials, Report of Judges, 244, 268, 283, 294, 316
Oxford, The, Royal Agricultural Show at, 33, 53, 74, 81, 82, 87, 91, 154, 155, 171, 192
Paper, 380
Paper and Paper Stock, 88
Paraffin, Purification of, 332
Paris, Bombardment of, 331
Paris, Defences of, 138
Paris, Manufacture of Cartridges in, 416
Paris, A New Postal Delivery into, 453
Paris, Les Promenades de, A. Alphand, 332
Paris, The Siege of, 453
Parks and Promenades of Paris, 271
Patent Law, Administration of, 234. 344
Patent Law, The United States, 1870, 349, 356
Patent Office, 178
Paving Machine in France, 26
Pendulum Operations in India, 386
Petroleum in North America, 448
Phenomenon, A Strange, 11
Photometer, A New, Mr. Nagant 68
Pier, New Iron, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Mr. J. W.
Grover. C.E., 193, 194
Pinchbeck, Mr. J., Self-cleansing Water Tube Boiler, 346
Pipes, Flow of Water through, 140
Plough, Messrs. G. W. Murray and Co.’s Double Furrow, 309
Plough, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, Head, and Co.’s Double Furrow, 82, 114
Pneumatic Aids to State Telegraphy, 38, 42
Pneumatic Despatch, Mr. R. Sabine on, 260
Pneumatic Telegraph, A, 49
Points and Crossings, Railway, 23
Poisoning by Waste Gas, 26
Policy and Provisions of a Patent Law, R. M. Punk-hurd, LL.D., 334
Pollution of Rivers, 271
Polytechnic, The Royal, 301
Portland Cement, 72, 126
Postal Tubes, Pneumatic, 76
Postal Directory of Engineers, and Iron and Metal Trades, Messrs. Kelly and Co., 432
Power, Transmitting, 328
Press, Mr. Gough’s Printing and Arming, 4
Private Bills, 10, 378, 396, 438
Process of Inclining a Ship in Order to Find her Centre of Gravity, W. J. M. R., 339
Production of Heavy Forgings, as used at the Birkenhead Forge, Lieut.-Col. Clay, 246
Progress in the Potteries, 340
Projectiles, Soft Studded, 76
Propeller, Hancock’s Screw, 6
Propeller, The Lowe-Van sittart, 76
Propellers, Screw, 279
Provisional Instructions for the use of Breech-loading Guns of 16, 19, and 24 Centimetres, Pattern 1864, 349
Prussia and France, Military Resources of, Lieut.-Col.
Chesney and Henry Reeve, D.C.L., 143
Prussian Guns, 51, 60, 121
Public Works at Constantinople, 346
Public Works Department and Indian Railways, 231
Public Works in Turkey, 106
Pulley, Mr. G. Watson’s Patent, 56
Pulleys and Belts, 234, 245
Pump, Mr. N. P. Burgh’s Steam Donkey, 242
Pumping and Winding Machinery at the Castle Pit, Cyfarthfa, Mr. Pearce, 168
Pumps, Centrifugal, 154
Purification of Paraffin, 332
Purification of Sewage, 154, 155
Quarterly Journal of Science, 239
Quarterly Weather Report of the Meteorological Office,
Quebec and Gosford Wooden Railway, 268
Queries respecting Ether, Charles Brooke, M.A., F.R.S., 325
Rails, Belgian, 372, 43S
Railroad, The Rigi, 41
Railway, Duke of Sutherland’s, 334
Railway in the High Peak of Derbyshire, a Proposed New, 279
Railway Matters, 7, 19, 37. 59, 73, 89,113, 127, 137,151, 167, 189, 211, 233, 241, 257, 275, 291, 307, 329, 341,361, 371, 389, 407, 425. 445
Railway Returns, Board of Trade, 378
Railway, 'I he St. Gothard. 173
Railways, Foreign and Colonial, 144, 357
Railways of the Future, Gauges of the, 360, 399
Railways, Gauge of Future Indian, 23
Railways in India. 25
Railways, Indian State, 71
Railways, Indian, 168
Railways, Narrow Gauge, 261, 278, 399, 410, 428, 442
Railways in New Zealand. 171
Rainfall, its Variation with Elevation of the Gauge,
Chas. Chambers, F.R.S., 318
Rainforth, Messrs. Screen, 373.
Ram, A Boat, 234
Ram, Hydraulic. 155
Ransome and Co., Messrs., High Speed Four Cutter Moulding Machine, 94
Ransomes, Sims, Head, and Co., Messrs., Double Furrow Plough, 82, 114
Rating Mines, 139
Reaping Machine Competition in France, 17
Rearrangement of the ’Registration Districts of England and Wales to Facilitate Scientific Inquiry, Mr.
A. Haviland on, 240
Recovery of Treasury Lost in the Ham ilia Mitchell, 155
Reed, Mr., on the Loss of the Captain, 297
Relative Efficiency of Rollers Tested at Oxford, 69, 96, 98, 74,
Renfrew Harbour Extension Works, 276
Repairing Boilers, 6
Revolver, Breech-loading, for the Russian Navy, 276
Rifle, The Martini-Henry, 129
Rifle of the Bavarian Troops. 135
Rio Sao Goncalo Navigation, 295
Rivers and Manufactories, 43
Rivers Pollution Commission, 174
Road Metal Breaking Machine, Mr. Marsden, 149
Road and Railway. Mid-Lnndon, 18
Road Steamers, Mr. Thomson, 428
Road Steamer for Traction on Soft Ground, Mr.
Nairn’s 8-H.P., 259
Road Steamer for Woolwich’Arsenal,’Messrs. Robey and Co., 370, 387, 390
Roads, Steam on Common. 6, 23
Robey ami Co., Messrs., Thrashing Machine, 82
Robey and Co., Messrs., Road Steamers for Woolwich Arsenal, 370, 387, 390
Rolling Machinery for Shaping Axles,’Mr. A. Bowater, 226
Rolling Stock for the Honduras Railway, Messrs.
Wilkin and Clark's Radial, 427
Rolling Stock, Radial, 453
Romford Sewage Farm, 123
Round Oak Ironworks, 276
Royal Agricultural Show at Oxford, The, 33, 53, 74, 81, 82, 87, 91. 154, 155, 171. 192
Russian Exhibition of 1870, Notes on, 355, 370, 417, 432
Russian Navy, Breech-loading Revolver for the, 276
Russian Railways and the South Wales Iron Trade, 342
Saarbruck Collieries, 136
Safe. A New, Mr. Chatwood, 23
Safety Hook and Cage for Mines, Mr. J. Ki ng, 227
Safe Works at Liverpool, Messrs. Milner, 28
St. David’s Railway, 68
Sale at the Albion Iron Works and Patent Punched
Steel Tube Works, Staffordshire, 345
Sales of Colliery Plant at Madeley and Dudley, 131
Scantling Machine, Messrs. R. Garrett and Sons, 409, 428
Scholarship and Exhibition^t Merton College, Oxford, Natural Science, 283
Scholarships, Whitworth, 1C6
Science, Aeronautical, 373
Science and Art Department, Examinations of, 261
Science and Education, 448
Science in War, Early Use of, 234
Screen, Messrs. Rainforth, 373 —
Screw Propulsion, Michael Sefi, 397, 418
Screw Propulsion, a Question in, 126
Serpentine, the Past, Present, and Future of the, 61
Setting out Driving Lines, by J. S. Tate, C.E., 52
Sewage Difficulties, Further, 295
Sewage Farm, Romford, 123
Sewage Farms, Laying out of, 432
Sewage Grown Grass, 208
Sewage Irrigation, Latest Results of, 363
Sewage of Liverpool and the Neighbourhood, its Collection and Ultimate Disposal, Mr. J. N. Shool bred, C.E., 223, 225
Sewage Problem, 256
Sewage, Purification of, 111
Sewage Utilisation, 295
! St-wer Ventilation, 388
Sewers, Mr. Harrison’s Apparatus for Ventilating anc Flushing. 5
Sewers in Running Sand, Messrs. Reade and Goodisoi on the Construction of, 227
i Sewers, Ventilating, Mr. A. Jacob, 56
Sewers, Ventilating, Mr. T. C. Thorburn, C.E., 57
I Shand and Mason, Messrs.,Treble Cylinder Equilibrium
I Steam Fire Engine, 57
Sheffield, Effects of the War in, 88
Shipbuilding in Belgium, 208
Ship of War of Moderate Dimensions, Mr. Scott on, 217, 232, 239
Shipping Trade, 253
Ships, Forms of, 61
Ships Lines, Senhor Carvalho, 61, 64
Ships, Our Ironclad, 374
Ships, Report on the Stability, Propulsion,and Seagoing Qualities of, 209, 218
Siege of Paris, Farcy Gunboat on the Seine, 346
Signalling Underground in Collieries, 150
Signals, Fog, 428
Simpson and Co., Messrs., Pumping Engines, Berlin Waterworks, 208, 212
Slide Valve, Messrs. Wilson and Peebles’ Equilibrium, 5
Slide Valves, Balanced, 140
Small Arms and Accoutrements, 122
Small Arms, Explosive Shells for, 95
Smith Brothers and Co., Messrs., Weir’s Centrifugal
Governor for Marine Engines, 358
Smithfield Club Show, 391
Smithsonian Institute of Washington, 219
Smoking in Railway Carriages, 175
Snider Redivivus,jThe, 144
Society, the Amateur Mechanical, 372
Society, The Chemical, 333, 357
Composition of Hyposulphites, Mr. E. A. Letts, 333 Determination of Sulphur in Cast Iron, Mr. Elliott, 333
Mineralogical Notices, Prof. Mackelyne and Dr. Flight, 357
Production of the Sulphates of the Alcohol Radicles from the Nitrites by the Action of Sulphurous Acid, Mr. E. T. Chapman, 333
Some Derivatives of Anthracene, Mr. Perkin, F.R.S., 393
Some New Derivatives of Coumarin, Mr. Perkin,
P.R.S., 441
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 12, 424
Society. Engineering, 29 >, 306, 328, 345, 364: —
Bessemer Process, Mr. J. Wilson, 295
Brickmaking, Mr. A. E. Baldwin. 328
Design and Construction of Harbour and Breakwaters, Mr. Reid, 408
Experimental Magnetism, Mr. Gordon, 295
Fuel, Mr. Courtney, 372
Gohl Fields of Great Britain, Mr. Milne, A.KC., 345
Progress and Construction of Artillery, Mr. Carey, 306
Sewage Utilisation, Mr. Bluett, 393
Telegraphy, Air. Baynes, 364
Society of Engineers, 23, 88, 193, 219, 3 88. 437:—
Theory of Screw Propulsion, Michael S sfi. 3J»7
Society, English Mechanics’ Scientific and Much miual, Manchester, 301, 343, 411
South-Eastern, Bath and Washhouse’s, Company, 31
South Kensington and the British Museum, 96
South Kensington Museum, 11, 23, 35, 81, 88, 106, 124, 147, 149, 172, 189, 237, 245, 271,284, 301, 335, 360,372, 404, 418, 424, 456
Spooner, C.E., Mr. G. Percy, Quadruple Bogie Engine, 20
Springs, Thomson’s Cushion Spiral, 176
Station, The Hol born Viaduct, 411
Steam Lines and Waves in Connection with Naval Architecture, Prof. Rankine, 218
Steam Road Roller as an Engine of War, 74
Steam Road Rolling Company in London, 149
Steamship Freight and the War, 177
Steamship Trade of New York, 442
Stoking, Good and Bad, 318
Stoking, Mr. Smith on Mechanical, 216
Stoney, M.A., M.I.C. E., Mr. B. B., Description of an Experiment on the Strength of a Lattice Road Girder at the Boyne Viaduct, 452
Subways, 11
Suez Canal Company, 388
Sugar, Manufacture of, 70
Sultan, H.M.S., 388
Sun, Total Eclipse of the, 434
Supplying Water to Locomotives, 171
Swettenham, C.E., Mr. W. N., Kilnhurst Swing
Bridge over the River Dun Navigation, 292, 296
Swiftsure, The, 109
Syphons, 295. 328, 343
Systems which have been Proposed for Effecting the
Electric Transmission of Telegraph Signals, 405
Tallow Extracting, 428
Tarapaca, The, 139
Tate. C.E., Mr. J. S., Setting out Driving Lines, 52
Taylor and Co., Messrs., Direct Acting Steam Crane, 426
Telegraph in Russia, 5
Telegraph Ship, Captain Moody’s II
Telegraph Signals, Certain Systems which have been Proposed in Effecting the Electric Transmission of, 355
Telegraph System, German Field, 181
Telegraphy, Pneumatic Aid to, 38, 42
Teuwick, Mr., Annealing Furnaces, Leiston Works, Suffolk. 372
Testing Malleable Metals and Alloys, Prof. G. Bischof, 243
Thermodynamics, On, 136
Thomsons Cushioned Spiral Springs for Railway Buffers, &e., 176
Thorburn, C. E., Mr. T. C., Ventilating Sewers, 57
Thrashing Machine, Messrs. Robey and Co., 82
Tires, Elastic, for Traction Engines, 428
Titanic Steel, 299
Torpedoes, 72
Torpedoes, Fishing up, 343
Trades Unions and Patents, Sir W. Armstrong" on, 249
Traite de Fortifications Polygonale, A. Brialmont, 63
Tramroads, 295
Tramways in Glasgow, Projected, 176
Trial of an Aveling and Porter Steam Road Roller at Orange, New Jersey, U.S., 299
Trial of Beuther’s Axle-box on the Metropolitan Railway, 309, 344
Trial of Compound Armour Plates of Iron and Steel, 290
Trial of the Ironclad Corvette, Fetid Bulend, 86
Trial Trip of the Kirstall, Messrs. Allibon and Noyes, 306,358
Trial Trip of a Steam Launch, 108
Trials with Miller's Ca^t Iron Safety Boiler, 441
Trigonometrical Survey of India, The Great, 1, 33
Tri tone, The, Joseph Green, 415
Truck Act in South Wales, 237, 266
Trucks on the Great Northern, 314
Tube Making at Wednesbury, 450
Tubes, Caulking, 410
Tabulated Weights, by C. H. Jordon, M.I.N.A., 175
Tunnel under the Bosphorus, Mr. J. Haddan’s Proposed, 114
Tunnel, Mont Cenis, 449
Turner, Messrs. E. and R. 10-horse Fixed Engine, 106
Tyler, Captain, on the Festiniog Railway, 46
Underhill, Mr., 10-horse Fixed Engine, 152
United States, Boiler Inspection in, 452
United States, Military Breech-loaders in the, 142
United States, Patent Law, 1870, 349, 356
University of Glasgow, 88
Utilisation of Cotton Seed, 116
Utilisation of Sewage, Mr. Denton's Remarks on the Extent to which Existing Works and Prevailing Practice Militate against the Profitable, 224
Vaessen System,Tank Engine for Steep Gradients and Sharp Curves, 284, 300
Vaesseu System, Tank Locomotive, 280, 300
Valve, Mr. R. Crick mer’s Anti Priming, 28
Ventilator, Mr. Hawkslcy, 409
Vernon, Bridge over the Mersey at Stockport, Messrs.
Bryant and Cargill, 123, 128
Vicar’s, Messrs. T., Self-stoking Smokeless Furnace, 216
Victoria Embankment, Why it was not Steam Rolled, 174.225
Vidal, Mr. U. B , and Street Cars, 254
Visit of English Engineers to Belgium, its Coal and Iron Districts, 27, 36, 80
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 50, 58, 102,120 134, 148, 164, 182, 204, 222, 238, 254, 272, 258, 304 322, 338. 354, 368, 384, 401, 422, 438, 456
Walker, Mr., Self-acting Expansion Gear, 56
War, The, 79
War, The Influences of, 155
War, The, Steam Fire Engines for Paris, 222
Warhurst, Mr., Apparatus for Closing the Bottoms of Doors, .-$26
Warren, Captain, Cooking Apparatus, 3-12
- • Waste” at our Ironworks, 64
Watches and Clocks, Mr. C. Lange’s Improvements in 4
Water, Purifying, 76
Water’ Supply of Newcastle, 233
Watson, Mr. G., Pulley, 56
Wear of Taylor Steel Tires, 150
Wednesbury, Tube Making at, 450
Weir’s Centrifugal Governor for Marine Engines, Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., 358
Weldon Process, Blowing Engines for the, 374
Weldon Process for Manufacturing Chlorine, Mr. W.
Weldon, 292
Welsh Trade, 136
Wheels, Colliery Tub, 295, 315
Whitworth Scholarship, 106
Whitworth Steam Hammer for Turkey, 256
Wilkin and Clark, Messrs, Radial Rolling Stock, Honduras Railway, 427
Williams, Mr. A., Eastbourne Gasworks, 443, 444, 446
Wilson and Peeble, Messrs., Equilibrium Slide Valve, 5
Winlock, Professor. Photographing the Sun, 124
Wood, A Rotary Cutter for, 250
Wood Working Machinery, High Speeds as applied to, 91
Woolfield, Mr. J., Screw Cutting and General Purpose Lathe, 227
Woolwich Arsenal, 77
Woolwich Arsenal, New Iron Pier, Mr. J. W. Grover, C.E.,193, 194
Working Load, 213
Working Men’s International Exhibition, 35
Workshops’ Act, 345
Wreck from New York Harbour, Removal from, 172
Yacht Match, The Atlantic, 80
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