The Engineer 1894 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1894 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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1894, 9
“Absolute Zero,” The So-called, 70, 75
Abstracts of Consular and Diplomatic Reports, 484, 571
Accident to Goods Train near Leicester, 50
Accident on the Great North of Scotland Railway, 393
Accident at Ramsey Terminal Station, 50
Accident in a Shipyard, Harrowing, 415
Accidental Deaths on American Railways, 307
Accidents on American Railways, More, 50
Accidents in the Cumberland Mines, 245
Accidents to Engineers and Firemen, M. N. Forney’s Monthly List, 50
Accidents in London, Street, 415
Accidents, Mineral Oil Lamp, 157
Accidents, Railway, 478
Accidents, Railway, in 1893, 393, 437
Accidents to Railway Servants, Recent Returns of, 219
Accidents in the United States, Railway, 415
Achill Extension Railway, The, Parliamentary Note, 567
Acid Bichromates on Wood, Action of, 175
Accumulator, Sigmund Raudnitz’s, 437
Action of Pulleys, 230, 265
Adam’s Automatic Sewage Lift, 485
Adam’s Bridge Reef, 431
Adams, Mr. W., Four-Coupled Bogie Tank Engine, London and South-Western Railway (Supplements, June 15th and 29th, 1894), 517,
Adams, Mr. W., Portrait of, 571
Adams’ Sewage Lift, 501
Adams-Blair Steel-making Process, 3
Adamson and Co., Messrs. Daniel, Feat in Boilermaking, 479
Adeney, Mr. W. E., On the Reduction of Manganese Peroxide in Sewage, 307
Admiralty Orders and Clyde Docking Orders, 138
Admiralty and Thames Labour, Parliamentary7 Note, 567
Agricultural Machinery in South Russia, 549
Air Bubble Water Pump, Pohla’s, 358
Air Compressor, High-pressure, 228, 229
Air Compressor. Manchester Gas Works. 424 425
Aitchison, Professor, on Savage’s Method of Determining Stresses, 245
Aitken, Mr. John, on the Dust Particles in the Atmosphere of Certain Places in Great Britain and the Continent, 219
Albert Palace, Sale of the, 479
Albert Palace and Connaught Hall, Sale of the Materials of the, 501
Aldershot Gas and Water Co., Water Supply of the, 353
Allen and Co., Messrs. W. H., Removal of their Works to Bedford, 93
Allotropic Transformation of Iron under the Influence of Heat, Mr. Georges Charpy on the, 219
Alloys, Freezing Points of Triple, 50
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Mr. F. Osmond on, 245
Alsing, Mr. G. V., The Glasgow Sewage Disposal Works, 372
Alternating Currents, Electro-Chemical Method of Observation of, 374
Altitude on Temperature, Effect of, 50
Altrincham Station, Accident at Level Crossing, 374
Aluminium in the Naval Service, Use of, 437
Aluminium with other Metals, Coating, 50
Aluminium, Reduction in Price of, 415
Aluminium Yachts, 32
Am Ende, Mr. Max, Railway Bridge over the Lan-Ho, China, 365, 366, 367, 368
America, Doctored Armour Plates in, 311
America, Locomotives in, 47
America, Sheffield Trade with, 291
American Armour, Captain Jaques on, 399
American Armour Plate, Failure of to Pass the Test at Indian Head, 131
American Coal War, The, 505
American Engineering News, 18, 58, 80, 142, 166, 188, 208, 274, 318, 340, 382, 406, 426, 464, 488, 552, 576
American Engines, Distinctive Features of, 574
American Locomotives, Cabs, Running Boards, and Foot-plates, 157, 306
American Mails, 310
American Methods of Working, 400
American Notes, 19, 38, 60, 82, 104, 124, 166, 190, 210, 276, 298, 320, 342, 362, 385, 428, 466, 491, 512, 532, 554, 579
American Patent Law, 207
American Railroads, The Economist on, 93
American Railways, Accidental Deaths on, 307
American Shipbuilding, 174
American Torpedo Boat “Ericsson,” Launch of, 519
Amur, Projected Railway on the, 568
Analysis of Water ? 503
Analysis, Water, 525
Ancona, Mole at, 131
Anderson, Mr. J. C., Refuse Furnace, 543
Anderlues Mining Co. of Belgium put down a New Shaft, The, 497
Anderson, Mr. John, Report of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 338
Andrews, Mr. Thos., Tensile Tests of Wrought Iron Railway Axles, 36
Angola as Described by the British Consul at Loanda, 374
Angot, M. Alfred, On the Change of Vapour Tension at the Top of the Eiffel Tower, 327
Anthracite, Gas Engines and, 574
Anthracite, Large Gas Engines and Scotch, 510
Antimony, Blue, Mr. G. Sebor on, 261
ANTWERP EXHIBITION, THE, 325, 403, 411, 431, 469, 493
- Billiard and Fletcher’s Exhibit, 547
- British Carriage Manufacturers’ Institution, Exhibits of, 431
- British Exhibits, 431, 469, 493
- Chubb, Messrs., their Exhibit, 431
- Cockerill and Co., Messrs. John, their Exhibits at, 493
- Concrete Bridge at, 520
- Couillet Exhibit, The, 547
- De Naeyer and Co., Messrs., their Exhibits at, 493
- Diving Apparatus, Messrs. Siebe and Gorman, 431
- The English Consul on, 25
- English Electrical Engineers and the, 115
- Gould Company’s Exhibit, 547
- Hydro Electric Installation (Supplement, Marek 9th, 1894), 200, 205
- Key Presented by Sir George Chubb to King Leopold, 411, 431
- Machinery Hall, Exhibits in the, 493
- Maritime Section, Exhibits in the, 411
- Opening of, 403
- Picksley, Sims, and Co., Messrs., 6-Horse Power Portable Engine, 493
- View of Principal Entrance, 403
- Water Supply to, Messrs. Nyssens Frbres, 547
Apprentice Question, Mr. John Inglis, 314
Arable and Pasture Land in Great Britain in 1893, Proportion of, 519
Arc Lamps in London, Number of, 543
Argentine Republic, San Roque Dam, Cordoba Irrigation Waterworks, 350, 351, 354, 396
Armour, Mr. C. E. Ellis on Recent Experiments in, 216
Armour-piercing Shells, Projected Test of, at Sandy Hook, 287
Armour, Captain Jaques on American, 399
Armour-plate Competition, The Pola, 119
Armour Competition, The Texel, 97
Armour and Ordnance, British, 247
Armour-plates in America, Doctored, 311
Armour-plates for Battleships for Japan, 543
Armour-plates not Harveyised, Testing of Projectiles against, 568
Armour-plates, “Indiana,” 501
Armour-plate Scandal, The United States, 503
Armour-plates, Steel, Competitive Trial of, at Texel, 44, 46
Armour Train on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Experiments with, 437
Armstrong, Lord, Portraits of, 19
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Messrs. Sir W., Japanese Cruiser “Yoshino,” 128
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Sir W. G., Speed Trials of the Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” 517
Arnold, Prof. J. O., The Physical Influence of Elements on Iron, 388
Arrol, Sir Thos., The Old Hammersmith Bridge, and Genuine White Lead, 25
d’Arsonval, M. A., on Apparent Death Produced by Alternating Currents, and c., 497
Art in the Workshop, 183
Artesian Well, Remarkable Overflowing, 23, 24
Artesian Well, Sunk in New Street, Gravel-lane, 199
Artesian Wells, Power from, 501
Ashford, Mr. John, Ironfounding, 498
Ashton Improved Pop Safety Valve, The, 548
Ashwick, Petroleum at, 245
Association for the Advancement of Science, British, 379
ASSOCIATION, THE CLEVELAND IRONMASTERS’:—
- Election of President and Vice-President, 25
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, THE BIRMINGHAM :-
- Birmingham Sewage Disposal, The, 282
ASSOCIATION, THE GLASGOW FOREMEN’S SHIPBUILDERS
- Trades Unionism, Mr. Hugh Glen, 405
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, THE LEEDS :—
- Admission of Young Engineers not eligible as Associates, 26
- British and Metric Systems for Engineers’ Work, Mr. F. Howard Livens, 419
- Discussion on the Financial Prospects of the Manchester Ship Canal, 26
- Generation and Distribution of Electricity, Mr. Chas. J. Hall, 228
- History and Development of the Portable Engine, Mr. W. D. Wansborough, 124
- Traction Engine in New Zealand, Mr. H. Y. McLaren, 317
- Visit to the Middleton Colliery—Coal-washing Plant, 541
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, THE MANCHESTER:—
- Half-yearly Meeting—The Honour conferred upon the Mayor of Salford, 517
- Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Thos. Daniels, dealing mainly with the Silver Question, 57
ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, THE MANCHESTER (continued) :-
- Manchester Hydraulic Power Installation, Mr. Gilbert Lewis, 339
- Thirty-eighth Anniversary Dinner, 135
- Visit to Sheffield, 550
ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS DRAUGHTSMEN, THE LONDON :—
- Annual Meeting of, 56
- Meldrum Self-contained Dust Fuel and Forced Draught Furnace, Mr. Boby, 539
- Recent Developments in Marine Engineering, Mr. Jas. M. Dewar, 414
- Uses of Curve Diagrams or Picture Writings for Engineers, Prof. W. J. Lineham, 244
ASSOCIATION OF FOREMEN ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN, THE NEWCASTLE AND DISTRICT :—
- New System of Pumping by Ordinary or Hydraulic Pressure, Mr. G. Ralston, 249
ASSOCIATION, THE GEOLOGISTS’, 231
ASSOCIATION, LONDON SANITARY PROTECTION
- Thirteenth Annual Meeting of and Report, 219
ASSOCIATION, MASTER CAR BUILDERS’
- Committee appointed by, on Standard Sizes, 219
ASSOCIATION, MASTER MECHANICS’ :—
- Committee appointed by, to Report on Boiler and Fire-box Steel, 219
ASSOCIATION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE BIRMINGHAM
- Fourth Annual Dinner of, 148
- Lubrication, Mr. H. Railings, 231
ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS, THE INCORPORATED
- Arrangements for the Yorkshire District Meeting, 349
- Bradford Corporation Electricity Supply, Mr. James N. Shoolbred, 575
- Electric Street Tram ways, Mr. Robt. Hammond, 575
- Excursions, 575
- Experiments with Model Wheels and Road Coatings, Mr. Thos. Cod rington, 575
- Machinery as Applied to the Breaking up of Macadam, Mr. A. E. Collins, 340
- Papers Read on the First Day, Headings of, 575
- Presidential Address of the President, Mr. A. M. Fowler, 575
- Programme of the Annual Meeting, 527
- Seventeenth Voluntary Pass Examination, 397
- Some Municipal Works in Reading, Mr. Collins, 340
- Some Recent Extensions of Reading Waterworks and the Use of Potarite therein, Mr. A. T. Walker, 340
- Visits and Excursions of the Members, 340
Astronomical Telescope, Evolution of the, 486
Atlantic Cables, Dr. M airhead on, 379
Atlas Locomotive Works, Mr. Haldane’s Description of, 141
Atmospheric Electricity near the Top of the Eiffel Tower, Diurnal Variation of, 261
Atmospheric Nitrogen by Microbes Derived from Soil, Mr. Winogradsky on the Fixation of, 374
Audible Direction Indicator, Thackeray’s, 164
Aurora Display on the 30th March, 1894, 287
Australia, Railroad Construction in, 568
Australian Engineering Notes, 124, 464
Australian Shipping Trade, The, 47
Auto-motive Carriage, New, 415
Automatic Barrel Filling Crane, Crawford’s, 520
Automatic Brake, The, Parliamentary Note, 567
Automatic Door Closing ? 421
Automatic Water Tank, 543
Automobile Carriage Competition, The French International, 260
Auxiliary War Vessels, 179
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Spring Mounted Engine, 549
Avery, Mr. Thos., Death of, 153

BACTERIA in Reservoir and in River Water, 543
Bagnall, Messrs. W. G., Narrow Gauge Tank Locomotive, 77
Bahia, Railways of, 53
Bailey, Sir Wm. H., 438
Baillet and Audemar Continuous Current Pump, 76
Baker, Sir Benjamin, and Irrigation Schemes in Egypt, 115
Bakhuysen, Professor, on the Variation of Lati¬tude, 261
“Baku Standard,” Arrival of the Oil Tank Screw Steamer, 244
Balancing Locomotives, 203, 230, 241, 265
Ballasting System, The Rodger, 539, 548
Bamber, Mr. H. K., on the Analysis of Steel, 390
Barcelona, Floating Dock for, 261
Barker and Co., Messrs. T. B., Forward Gas Engine, 292, 293
Barnes, Mr. D. L., on the Differences between American and Foreign Locomotives, 57
Barnes, Mr. F. and John, Friction Driven Engine, 56
Barnton Branch of the Caledonian Railway, Opening of the, 199
Barrel-filling Crane, Crawford’s, 520
Barrels, Steel Oil, 261
Barrow Naval Construction Company’s Contract with the Admiralty, 25
Barrow, Proposal for Improving the Trade of, 50
Barrow, Steel Oil Barrels, 261
Barry and the Bute Docks, New Service of Trains between, 287
Bartissol, M., His Statement Relative to the Panama Canal Works, 287
Battling, Mr. A., Chimneys Heightened by, 93
Bartoli and Straeciati, M. M., Specific Heat of Water, 50
Basic or Thomas-Gilchrist Process, Progress of, during the Year ending December 31st, 1893, 183
Baterden, J. R,, Piles and Pile Driving, 41, 486
Battleship “Centurion,” H.M. Second-class, 223, 224
Battleships, Contracts for the New, 307
Battleships, Qualities and Performances of Recent First-class, Mr. W. H. White on, 213
Battleships Launched in 1893, 249
Battleships of the “Royal Sovereign” Type Rolling of, 85
Baudoux, Mr. L., v. Mr. L. Monnoyer, 431
Baum, Mr. F., on Coal-washing, 152
Bayley, Mr. F. C. C., on Rarefied Gases, 568
Bayley, Mr. G. H. and Mr. H. C., Illustrated Account of the Manchester Ship Canal, 327
Baxters Limited, Messrs., Steam Cable Gear, Designs of, Adopted by the Admiralty for New Cruisers, 50
Beare, Professor T. H., Research Committee on Marine Engine Trials, 100, 114, 165
Bechuanaland Railway Company, Prospective Completion of the Line, 479
Beguin, M. L , His Statistics on the Coefficient of Safety on English, French, and United States Railways, 353
Belgian Government and the Congo Railway, The, 393, 415
Belgian Government, New Boat for the Ostend- Dover Service, 393
Belgian State Railroads for 1892, Statistics of the, 374
Bell, Bart., Sir Lowthian, and the Cleveland Neighbourhood, 175
Bell, Commander L. K., Range-finder, 519
Bell, Mr. Geo., Tender for the Works of the Filtration Area at Davyhulme, 25
Bellamy, Mr. C. R., on the Progress of the Science of Gas Combustion, 261
Belleroche’s System of Heating Railway Carriages, 34
Belleville Boilers, 161, 499
Belliard and Fletcher’s Exhibit at the Antwerp Exhibition, 547
Bellmouth Tunnel at Stobcross, Size of, 353
Belt-driving and Bearing Friction ? 289
Belting, Link, 76
Bettisfield Station, The Collision at, 327
Ben Nevis Railway, The, 128
Bending Angle Iron ? 481
Bengal-Assam Railway, Funds for the, 568
Bengal, Landslip at Gohna in, 374
Berlin a Port, 327
Bermuda, Projected Channel through the Rock in the Open Sea, 244
Bert Colliery for Sale, The, 568
Berryman Feed-water Heater, Brown’s, 394
Berths for Shipbuilding, Closed in, 338
Berthelot, M,, on the Spontaneous Heating and Ignition of Hay, 245
Bessemer Ore from the Mesaba Range, 307
Bethnal Green Free Library, The, 419
Bicycle Journey of Mr. L. Jefferson, 219
Bicycle and Tricycle Runs, Long, 374
Bidwell, Mr. Shelford, New Phenomena in Optics, 527
Biles, Professor, on Keel and Centre-board Yachts, 55
Bilge Keels for the “Majestic” and “Magnificient,” 131
Bilge Keels in the “ Royal Sovereign” Class, 401
Bill Relating to the Suburban Sanitary Districts of Sheffield, Sunderland, and Wigan, 437
Bill of the Thames Conservancy, Petitions against the, 261
Bills of Metropolitan and Engineering Interest to Originate in the Lords, 175
Bills, New, 249
Birch and Co., Messrs. G., Wheel Cutting Machines, 374
Birmingham City Gas Department, Net Profit of the, 437
Birmingham and Henley-in-Arden Railway Passed, The, 519
Birmingham Ship Canal, 471
Birmingham Sewage Disposal, 282
Birmingham Water Supply, The, 115
Birmingham Water Supply, Interruption of, 25
Births and Deaths in Greater London, 437
Births and Deaths in London, 153
Births and Deaths Registered in London, 153, 175, 437
Blackfriars Railway Bridge Repairs, 393
Blackwall, Graving Dock Extension at, 335
Blagrove, Mr. G. H., on Fractures in Sewer Pipes, 543
Blaine, Mr. R. G., Lectures by, on Governing Arrangements of Engines, 22
“Blake-Marsden ” Lever Motion Stone-breaker and Steel Frame Elevating, Screening, and Loading Machine, 197
“Blanco Encalada,” Gunnery Trials of the Chilian Cruiser, 474
“Blanco Encalada,” Speed Trial of the, 517
Blast Furnaces, Capacity and Form of, 388
Blast Furnaces, Cleveland, Proposed Twenty-four Hours’ Stand at the, 579
Blast Furnaces in the Longwy District of France, Five New, 115
Bleicher, M., On Varieties of Rust, 374
Block System for Single Track Railways, The Moeser, 17
Board of Trade and Canal Tolls and Rates, 519
Board of Trade and Railway Accidents, 478
Board of Trade Report on the Accident at Upway Junction, 245
Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, The, 500, 523, 551
Boby, Mr. Wm., Meldrum Self-contained Dust Fuel and Forced Draught Furnace, 539
Bogie Tank Engine, Four-Coupled, Mr. W. Adams (Supplement, June 15th, 1894), 517
Bogie Tank Engine, South-Eastern Railway, Mr. Jas. Stirling (Supplement, January 19th. 1894), 46, 65, 66, 72
Boilermaking, Feat in, 479
Boilers, Belleville, 161, 499
Boilers, Circulation in, 182
Boiler, Circulation in the Thornycroft Water-tube, 238
Boilers, Cylindrical and Water-tube, Mr. Howden on their Comparative Merits, 238
Boiler Drilling Machine, Locomotive, 480, 484
Boiler Efficiency, 481
Boiler Experiments, Six German Steam, 508, 528
Boiler Explosion at Melbourne, 219
Boiler Explosions Act, Board of Trade Report on its Working, 175
Boiler and Fire-box Steel, Committee to Report on, 219
Boilers for Locomotive Engines, Mr. Burtt on the Construction and Working of, 232
Boilers in the Navy, Water-tube, 547
Boiler Shells, Report on the Internal Rusting of, 568
Boilers of the “Spanker,” Change in the, 573
Boilers of the s.s. “Turret-Age, ” 389
Boiler, Steel Tubular Elephant, Say Sugar Refinery, Paris, 201
Boilers for Torpedo Catchers, 225
Boilers, Tubulous, 156
Boiler Turning and Drilling Machine, Large, Messrs. Rushworth and Co., 48
Boilers, Water-tube, 22, 41, 63, 86, 87, 107, 127, 132, 133, 136, 179, 241, 249, 250, 251, 264, 293, 294, 310, 331, 522, 525, 538
Boilers, Water-tube, Locomotive, 525
Boilers, Water-tube, Marine, 132, 133
Boilers, Water-tube Marine, 249, 250, 251
Boiler, Water-tube, Messrs. Yarrow, 538
Bolt, The Lightning, 164
Bombay Dockyard Alterations, 497
Bombay Sewage Works, Pumping Engines, 223
Bookbinding, Mr. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, 120
Book and Paper Industries, International Exhibition of, in Paris, 219
Books Received, 33, 75, 139, 227, 269, 291, 401, 423, 483, 505, 547
Bordeaux, British Coal Imported to, 307
Boring, A Deep, Mr. R. N. Boyd, 429
Boring Machine for Cranks, 98, 135
Boring and Percussion Machinery, Messrs. Isler and Co., 23
Boring and' Turning Machine, Six Feet, The Nile Tool Works Company, Chicago Exhibition, 150
Boston and Maine Railroad Company s New Station, 519
Boughton Telephotos, The, 46
Boult, Mr. W. S., Methods of Regulating Pressure in Electric Light Circuits, 316
Bourn, Lincolnshire, Overflowing Well at, 23, 24
Box Spanner, 50
Boyd, Mr. R. Nelson, “A Deep Boring,” 429
Boyd-Dawkins, Prof., on the Coal Discovery at Dover, 115
Boyer-Corliss Engine, Patin Fly-wheel Alternator and, 88, 94
Boyle and Marriotte and Absolute Zero, The Law of, 70
Boynton Bicycle Railroad, Exhibition of the, 219
Boys, Prof. C. P., The Newtonian Constant of Gravitation, 551
Bradford Corporation Electricity Supply, 575
Bradford, Explosion of Gas Cylinder at, 23
Braila Landing Stage, Collapse of the, 381
Brake, The Automatic, Parliamentary Note, 567
Brake, Electric, 539
“Brandenburg,” The German Belted Cruiser, 158, 159
Brazil, Railways of, 120
Breach of Contract, Action for Damages for, 206
Brewster, Mr. E. H. G., on “Patents for Inventions,” 64
Brick and Tile Making Machinery at the Building Exhibition, 263
Brick-making and Surface Sanding Machine, Johnson’s, 413
Bricogne’s Railway Carriage Mat and Carpet Beater, 485
Brigg, Mr. T. H., Horse Haulage Attachments, 199
Brighton Line, Electric Lighting Plant on the, 497
Briquette Machinery, Mr. Wm. Colquhoun, 406
Briquette Making Machine, Middleton’s, 262, 263
Bridge, The Channel, Cost of Construction, 261
Bridge, Concrete, Antwerp Exhibition, 520
Bridge Disaster, Chester, 67
Bridge Disaster in the United States, 29
Bridge Floors, Mr. G. F. Jackson, 149
Bridges, Girder, on the Dore and Chinley Line, 353
Bridges at Grimsby, Steel Rope Suspension, Mr. L. Harper’s Designs, 307
Bridge, Kew, Public Meeting to Consider its Inadequacy, 336
Bridge, Lift, over the Chicago River, 307
Bridges over the Manchester Ship Canal, 135
Bridge over the Mississippi, Final Survey for the Great, 307
Bridges on the North-Western Railway in India, 497
Bridge over the Ottawa River and the Sawdust Beds, The, 318
Bridge, Pontoon, at Dundee, 353
Bridge, Railway, over the Lan-Ho, China, 365, 366, 367, 368
Bridge Repairs, Blackfriars Railway, 393
Bridge, The Tower, 218, 314
Bridge at Trent, New, 27, 28, 30
Bridges, The Trent, Midland Railway, 99
Bridge at Vauxhall, The Contemplated New, 437
Bridges ? Water Main, 545
Bridging the Water between Ceylon and India, 431
Bristol Electric Light Works, 432, 433, 434
Bristol Electrical Time Cheek, 184
Bristol Port and Harbour, Scheme for the Development of, 245
British Armour and Ordnance, 247
British Circulars, Useless, 52
British Coal Imported to Bordeaux, 307
British and French Navies and Carrying Trade, 1840-1874-1893, 54
British Guiana, Extension of the only Railway in, 307
British Locomotives, Modern, 159
British Machinery, The Foreign Demand for, 546
British Manufacturer Abroad, The, 137
British and Metric System for Engineers’ Work Mr. F. Howard Livens, 419
British South Africa Company to Reuter’s Agency Communication of the, 479
British Trade in Egypt, Parliamentary Note, 567
British Trade is Lost, How, 74
Broadbent and Co., Messrs. J. C., Silicate Cotton or Slag Wool, 67
Bromley, Sun Flour Mills, 476, 477, 478
Brownley Injector, The, 549
Brown’s Berryman Feed-water Heater, 394
Bruce, Mr. A. Fairlie, Cement and Concrete Testing, as carried out for the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks, 282
Bruce, Mr. A. F., on the Rosario Sewage Works, 135
Brunton, Mr. Thos., 245
Brussels Canal Funds, 484
Brussds Electric Light Supply Works, The, 116, 121, 150, 154, 155
Brush, Spring Coil Tube, 305
Bucharest Exhibition, The Fourth 393
Buckeye Portland Cement Pavement, 276
Budapest, Exhibition of Electrical Machine Tools at, 305
Buffer, The Platts-Turton Socket Plunger, 56
Buffer Stop Collision, Manchester, Major Yorke on, 437
Building Berths, Closed-in, 338
Building Exhibition, National, 263
Buildings, Transporting, 77
Buildings, Ventilation of, by Professor E. H. Jacob, 125
Builders’ Ironfoundry, 12in. Mortars, 175
Builders’ Price Book, Laxton's, 249
Bullet-proof Cuirass, The, 484
Burma, Gold in Lower, 519
Burmah Ruby Mines, Rubies of the, 402, 425, 435
Burning Hydrocarbons, Apparatus for, 412
Burson and Juppont, MM., on the Mutual Action of Bodies Vibrating in Fluid Media, 25
Burst Carbonic Acid Cylinders, 24
Burst Gas Cylinders, 25
Burton, Mr. C. V., on the Mechanism of Electrical Conduction, 437
Burton-on-Trent Electric Light Works, 506
Burtt, Mr. G. F., Construction and Working of Boilers for Locomotive Engines, 232
Bushe, Mr., Projected Elevated Railway at New York, 115
Buxton and the Railways, 422

CABLE System, Muirhead’s Duplex, 379
Cable Tramway in Paris, Projected, 261
Cable Tramway System, Messrs. Sturgeon and Davies’, 519
Cabs, Locomotive, 178
Cabs, Locomotive Engine, 198
Cahoon, Lieut., Three-wire Current System, 25
Cain, Mr. N., Propeller, 519
Caisson Foundations for Buildings, 17
“Caledonia,” Launch of the, 437
Caledonian Line, Signal Lights on, 153
Caledonian Railway Works, Activity at the, 261
Caledonian Railways, Subsidence on, 227
California, Climate of South, 55
California, La Grange Dam, 470
Californian Railways, Travelling Dangerous, 261
Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanac and Workshop Companion, 3
Cambrian Railways, Collisions on the, 327
Cambridge University Engineering Laboratory, Opening of the, 393, 426
Camera Club Photographic Conference, The, 139
Cammell and Co. and Vickers, Sons and Co., Armour Plates for the Japanese Government, 543
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Instrument, The, 568
Campbell Vertical Gas Engine, The, 53
Campion, Mr., Examiner on Standing Orders, His Investigation Resumed, 131
Canada, Railways in, 287
Canadian Government and the Royalty on Foreign Reprints of British Copyright Works, 307
Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s Report for 1893, 287
Canals, 67, 89, 131, 195, 199, 219, 261, 291, 304, 308, 309, 324, 393, 402, 415, 416, 437, 441, 459, 471, 475, 484, 498, 543, 568
Canal (Maritime) between the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, 543
Canal to Connect the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 131
Canal, Birmingham Ship, 471
Canal Boat Hauling, Trolley System of, 67
Canal, The Corinth, 304, 475
Canal, the Dismal Swamp, 416
Canal across Florida again Talked of, 219
Canal, The Forth of Clyde Ship, 199, 291
Canal Funds, The Brussels, 484
Canal, Manchester Ship—see Manchester Ship Canal
Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales, 498
Canals, The New York, 261
Canal, Nicaragua—see Nicaragua
Canal to Connect the Niemen and the Windau, 568
Canal as it is, The Panama, 308, 309
Canal across the Island of Rameswaram, 437
Canal, The Sheffield, 261
Canal, the Sulina, Opening of the New Cutting, 393, 415, 437
Canal Tolls and Rates, The Board of Trade and, 519
Canal Traffic in the United States, Increase in the, 47
Candle-making Machinery ? 311
Canet’s Central Pivot Quick-firing Gun Carriage, 281
Canet Turret Electric Mountings, The, 112
Caoutchouc, Patent for Artificial, 175
Car with Steel Underframe, Oil Tank, 336
Cars, Chief Use of Railway, 327
Caracristi, Mr. C. F. Z., on the Quarries at Magdalena, Colombia, 245
Carbon Papers, Typewriting, 393
Carbon Rails, High, 478
Carbon Steel, Bearing of the Results of Heat Treatment on Manganese Steel upon, 390
Cardew, Major, on the Electric Disturbance at Bournemouth, 175
Cardiff, Harbours and Waterways, 89
Carols Frbres, MM., Hydro Electric Installation, Antwerp (Supplement, March 9th, 1894), 200, 205
Cargo Steamer, “Turret-Age,” 220, 221
Carlisle, Mr. R. H., Velocipede Run, 415
Carnot, President, 569
Carnot and Modern Heat, 21, 41, 63, 85, 86. 99, 108, 127, 147, 237, 279, 323, 348, 371, 396, 411, 418, 436, 478, 522, 557
Carpenter’s Gauge, Improved, 347
Carpenter Projectiles, 462
Carpet-beating Machinery? 117
Carpet-beating Machinery, Bricogne’s, 485
Carnage Competition, French International Automobile, 260
Carriage, A New Automotive, 415
Carrington, Mr. W. T. H Wire Ropeway at Pinerolo, 68, 69
Carter, Mr J. Harrison, His New Works at Dunstable, 219
Carter, Mr. Thos., 67
Casting of Bell for Croydon Municipal Buildings, 519
Castings, Excessive Porosity in, and Remedies for, 153
Castle Cary, Collision at, 497
Castle Eden Colliery, Coupled Horizontal Compound Tandem Pumping Engines, 194, 195
Castle Line of Royal Mail Steamers, Launch of the “Tantallon Castle,” 93
Catalogues, 314, 360, 382
Cataract Electric Company, The, and Electric Locomotion on the Erie Canal, 307
Cattle Trade between Belfast and Manchester, 25
Cedar Block Paving on Slag Foundation, Chicago, 50
Cement and Concrete Testing, Mr. A. Fairlie Bruce, 282
Cements, The Testing of Hydraulic, 397
Central Construction Company, and Movable Platforms driven by Electric Motors, 153
Central Engine Works, Triple Expansion Engines of the s.s. “ Maori,” 113
Central London Railway Grants Bill, The, 543
Central London Railway, Standing Orders complied with, by the Promoters of the, 307
Centrifugal Crank Pin Oiler, Mitton’s, 520
Centrifugal Pumps ? Efficiency of, 9
Centrifugal Pumps—see Pumps, 130
“Centurion,” H.M. Second-class Battleship, 223, 224
Chaff Cutters, Accidents with, Legislation Unnecessary, 287
Chain Mortising Machine, The Expert, 263
Chalk, Faults in, 130, 204
Chalk, Hospitals on, and the Danger to the Water Supply, 327
Chandler, Mr. Alfred, Sunshine Recording Instruments, 497
Chandler, Mr. A., on the Torquay Climate, 50
Channel Bridge, Cost of Constructing and Maintaining the, 261
Channel Bridge and Railway Co. Bill, The, 353
“Chanzy,” Launch of the Armoured Cruiser, 93
Chaplin and Co., Messrs. Alex., Twenty-Ton Locomotive Steam Crane, 337
Chappuis, M. James, On Determining Critical Temperatures by the Critical Index, 415
Charcoal? Converting Waste Wood of Saw Mills into, 225
Charleswortb, Hall, and Co., Dissolution of Partnership, 175
Charpy, M. G., On the Transformation of Iron, 93
Charpy, M. Georges, On the Allotropic Transformation of Iron, 219
Chauveau, M. A. B., On Diurnal Variation of Atmospheric Electricity near the Eiffel Tower, 261
Cheesman, Mr. Herbert, Wire Ropes, 414
Chemical Industry, 14
Chesnau, Professor, Shale Oil Industry of France, 152
Chester Bridge Disaster, Mass., United States, 67
CHICAGO EXHIBITION, THE
- Attendance at, 5
- Barnes Co., The W. F. anl John, 16in. Friction Driven Engine Lathe, 56
- Boring and Turning Machine, Six-Feet, The Niles Tool Work Co., 150
- End of the Chicago Exhibition, 51
- Engineering Congress, The, 157
- Hendey Machine Co., Lathe with Variable Feed without Change Wheels, 56
- Locomotives, Compound Passenger, The Rhode Island Locomotive Works (Supplement, January 5th, 1894), 6, 7, 8
- Locomotives, Heavy Compound Passenger, Rhode Island Locomotive Works (Supplement, January 5th, 1894), 6, 7, 8
- Machine Tools at, 148
- Movable Side-walk, Sale of, 393
- Planing Machine, Twelve-feet Heavy, The Niles Tool Works Company, 148, 149
- Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Compound Passenger Locomotives (Supplement, January 5th, 1894), 6, 7, 8
- Sale of the Buildings of the, 353
- System of Awards, European Expert’s Opinion on, 138
Chicago, Paved Streets of, 131
Chicago, Railways Entering, 479
Chicago and St. Louis Electric Railway, 393
Chicago Shipbuilding Company, Dry Dock to be Built by the, 307
Chili Mining Society, Exhibition at the Quinta Normal, 50
Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” Speed Trials of the, 517
Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” Gunnery Trials of the, 474
Chimney Heightened without Stopping the Spinning Works, Mr. A. Bartling, 93
China, Completion of New Strategic Railway, 199
China and her Progress, 504
China, Railway Bridge over the Lan-Ho, 365, 366, 367, 368
Chromate Papers, Dangers of Spontaneous Combustion of, 479
Churchill and Co., Messrs. Chas., Friction-driven Lathes, 56, 82
Circular Tubes under Pressure, Behaviour of, 360
Circulars, Useless British, 52
Circulation in the Thornycroft Water-tube Boiler, On, 238
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, 182
Circum-Etna Narrow-gauge Railway, 568
City of Glasgow, The Steam Lifeboat, 426
City and Guilds of London Technical College Conversazione, 415
City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, Lectures and Syllabus of Lectures, 22
City of London Electric Lighting Company, Actions against, 360
Civil Engineering, 9
Clark’s Civil Service Annual, 93
Clark and Co., Messrs. Edwin, Compound Surfacecondensing Launch Engines, 329
Clark, Mr. Hyde, on Railways in India, 353
Clay cross Collieries, Lifting a Vertical Rising Main by Expansion, 112
Clayton, Howlett, and Co., Miller’s Patent Gas Engine, 358
Clayton-le-Moors and Great Harwood Sewerage Works, 353
Cleveland Blast Furnaces, Proposed Twenty-four Hours’ Stand at the, 579
Climate of South California, Dr. C. T. Williams on the, 55
Clubbe and Co., Messrs. E. J., Electrical Parcel and Advertising Van, 175
Clyde at Glasgow, Re-weiring the, 305
Clyde Shipbuilding, 119, 183, 374
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, Encouraging Position of the, 374
Coaching, Riding, Driving Exhibition, Projected, 199
Coal to Bordeaux, British, 307
Coal Briquette-making Machinery, 262, 263
Coal and Conciliation, 355
Coal Conciliation Board, 312
Coal for 1894, Contracts for Locomotive, 35
Coal-cutting Machines in Nova Scotia, 227
Coal Discovery at Dover, Prof. Boyd-Dawkins on the, 115
Coal Drill, Electric, 26
Coal-dust in Mines, 182
Coal-dust Motor, German, 67
Coal at Forest-row, Kent, Discovery of, 67
Coal-getting by Machinery, Mr. T. H. Wordsworth on, 152
Coal at Highholm, Dumfries, Important Discovery of, 245
Coal Mine in Tonquin, 219
Coal Mining Machine, The Jeffrey, 26
Coal Mining Profits in France, 483
Coal, Proposed Restriction of the Output of, 356
Coal, Revolt against Dear, 269
Coal for Scotch Railways, Northern, 579
Coal Shipments and Exports, 48
Coal Strike and the Railway Companies, The, 160
Coal Trade, Critical State of the, 505
Coal, Unscreened, Use of, on Indian Railways, 437
Coal War, The American, 505
Coal Washing, Mr. F. Baum on, 152
Coal Washing at the Middleton Colliery, 541
Coalfield in Derbyshire, New, 74
Coalfield, The Situation in the, 526
Coaling Jetty at Hong Kong, New, 568
Cobden-Sanderson, Mr. T. J., Bookbinding and its Ideal, 120
Cockerill, The Societe, New Boat for the Ostend- Dover Service, 393
Codrington, Mr. Thos., on the Construction of Roadways, 575
Cold Storage at Gibraltar, 119
Collier, Messrs. S. and E., The “Cummer” Auto¬matic Drier, 316
Colliery Accident at Glasshougbton, 374
“Colliery Guardian’s” Map of England and Wales, 50
Colliery, A New, 291
Colliery Owners and Railway Companies in Scot¬land, Differences between, 519
Collins, Mr. A. E , Machinery as Applied to the Breaking-up of Macadam, 340
Collins, Mr. A. E., on some Municipal Works in Reading, 340
Collision at Castle Cary, Report on, 497
Collisions on the Cambrian Railways, 327
Colouring Aluminium ? 159
Colouring Lantern Slides, Mr. J. A. Scott on, 327
Colquhoun, Mr. Wm., Briquette Fuel, 406
“Columbia,” United States Cruiser, 70
Combustion of Carbon in Air, Mr. R. Ernst on the, 67
Commans, Mr. Robt. E., Concentration and Sizing of Crushed Minerals, 29
Commercial Electrolysis of Fused Salts, 392
Commercial and Industrial Depression, Relation of Machinery to, 352
Compound Engines—see Engines, Compound
Comparative Tests of English and American Trains, 317
Compass, Simple Pencil Beam, 208
Compound Locomotive, Heavy (Supplement, January 5th, 1894), 6, 7, 8
Compound Pumping Engines, Castle Eden Colliery, 194, 195
Compound Underground Hauling Engines, 177
Compressed Air on Tramways in Paris, 261
Compressed Air, Professor Goodman on, 152
Compressed Hay for Paving, 519
Compression of Fluids, Professor Tait on, 131
Concentration and Sizing of Crushed Minerals, 29
Conciliation Board, The, 96
Concrete Bridge at the Antwerp Exhibition, 520
Condensation, Cylinder, 35, 46, 135
Condensation in Cylinders, Mr. Croll on, 267
Condensing Engines—see Engines, Condensing Conference on Technical Education, 561
Congo Railway, The Belgian Government and the, 393, 415
Congo Railway, Mr. Smet de Nayer’s Statement Concerning the, 497
Congress of interior Navigation, International, 546
Conic Sections, Elliptical, 46, 47, 99
Conical Hole Boring Machine for Cranks, 98, 135
Consett Steel Millmen, Sliding Scale of Wages, 287
Constant of Gravitation, The Newtonian, 551
Construction of Gasworks, Mr. Chas. Hunt on the, 318
Construction of the Modern Locomotive, 257, 301, 302
Consumption of Smoke, 47
Continuous Current Pump, 76
Contract, Breach of, Action for, 206
Contract for Machinery of New Battleship given to Messrs. Harland and Wolff, 307
Contracts for Locomotive Coal for 1894, 35
Contracts for Two of the New Battleships, 307
Convention Regarding Cession to Bulgaria of Certain Eastern Railways, 219
Cooking by Electricity, 547
Cooper’s Steam Digger, 564
Co-operative Coal Societies, The Midland Railway Company and, 287
Copper from Domestic Ores, Production of, 115
Copyright Works, Foreign Reprints of British, no longer to Pay Royalty in Canada, 307
Cordite Case, The, 96, 118, 138
Cordite Factory at Waltham, The Explosion at the, 393
Cordoba Irrigation Works, 350, 351, 354
Corinth Ship Canal, The, 304, 475
Corliss Engine Trials in Egypt, 286
Cornock, Mr. J. C., on the Strength of Knuckle Joints, 176
“Cornwall” Lock Nut, The, 336
Corollary to the Nebular Theory, A, 71
Corporate and Individual Life of London, The Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, 327
Corrosion of Bridge Ties, Blackfriars, 393
Corrosion of Cast Iron Water Mains, 496
Corrosion of Water Pipes, and c., Electric Railways and the, 115
Cost of Electrical Energy, The, 375
Cost of an Indicated Horse-power, 575
Cost of Light ? 159
Cost of Silver Production, The, 231
Cost of Steam and Water Power, 575
Cotton in Manchester, Arrival of, 55
Cotton Seed Oil ? 31
Couillet Exhibit at the Antwerp Exhibition, 547
County Councils, Rivers Conservancy and, 92
County Council’s Return to the Science and Art Department, 419
Coupled Horizontal Tandem Pumping Engines, Messrs. Fielding and Platt, 194, 195
Court, Mr. A., on Electric Lighting in Country Houses, 234
Cowper-Coles Cold Galvanising Process, The, 151
Coxe, Mr. Eckley B., On Carrying Steam to a Long Distance, 393
Crane, Crawford’s Automatic Barrel-filling, 520
Crane, Electric, Wembley Tower, 392
Cranes, Electric, 377, 392, 397, 418, 436, 461
Cranes, Electric Travelling and Jib, 377, 397
Crane, Locomotive, Messrs. J. H. Wilson, 463
Crane, Twenty-ton Locomotive Steam, 337
Cranks, Conical Hole Boring Machine for, 98, 135
Crank Pin Hole Boring Machine, 410
Crank Pin Oiler, Centrifugal, 520
Cramp and Sons, Messrs., and the British Admiralty, 376
Cramp and Sons, Messrs., Steamships for the American Line, 542
Cramps, Lewis and Allen’s Flooring, 475
Crawford’s Automatic Barrel-filling Crane, 520
Crewe Engineering Works, Full Time at the, 497
Crewe Railway Works to be Open on Fridays, 50
Crewe Station, Projected Alterations and Extensions of, 93
Crisis in the Gas Supply, 525
Critical Temperatures by the Critical Index, Method of Determining, 415
Croll, Mr., On Condensation in Cylinders, 267
Croll, Mr. D., Experiments with Triple Expansion Engines, at Reduced Powers, 230
Crompton, Mr., On the Cost of Electrical Energy, 375
Croom and Arthur’s, Messrs., System of Longitudinal Shipbuilding, 346, 347
Crosland, Mr. J. F. L., Trial of McPhail and Simpson’s Superheater, 121, 140
Crosshead, The Laird, 471
Crossley Gas Engine, Report on Trials of a, 507
Crossley and Co,, Messrs., Portable Oil Engine, 541
Crow, Harvey, and Co., Messrs., Shearing Machine, 184
Crude Iron Production, 291
Crushed Minerals. Concentration and Sizing of, 29
Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” The Chilian, 474, 517 Cruisers, First-Class, “Powerful” and “Terrible,” 29
Cruiser, United States, 70
Cruiser, “ Yoshino,” The Japanese, 128
Crushing Stone at New Bedford, Mass., Cost of, 175
Cuirass, The Bullet-proof, 484
Cuirass, Herr Dowe’s, 482
Cuirass, The Maxim, 521, 574
Cumberland Metalliferous Mines, Accidents in the, 245
Cumberland, Mining in, 527
“Cummer” Automatic Drier for Wet Materials, 316
Cunynghame, Mr. H., Instrument for Photomicrography, 379
Curie, M. P., on the Magnetic Properties of Iron at Different Temperatures, 374, 479
Curious Old Inventions, Mr. G. C. Douglas on some, 175
Curve Diagrams, or Picture Writing for Engineers, Prof. W. J. Lineham on the Uses of, 244
Curves of Stability and of Righting Moments, 214
Cushing, Mr. H. C., On the Necessity for Metallic Circuits for Electrical Currents, 437
Cut-off, Automatic, Messrs. T. and R. Lees, 245
Cutter and Hammer Manufacturing Co., Lighting and Extinguishing Street Lamps, 175
Cutting Telegraph Paper Coils ? 399
Cyanide of Potassium on Iron and Steel, Effects of, 131
Cycle Construction, Recent Developments in, 368
Cylinder Condensation, 35, 46, 135
Cylinders, Safety of Compressed Gas, 23

DALRYMPLE-HAY, Sir John, Opening Address as Vice-President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 213
Dam, La Grange, 470
Dana, Prof., His Retirement, 543
Daniels, Mr., On the Silver Question in Relation to Engineering, 57
Danish Government Railway Bills, Committee of the Folkething on the, 327
Danube, Pollution of the, by the Drainage of Vienna, 543
Danube Regulation Works, 326, 332, 472, 473, 474, 496, 502
Dastre, M. A., On Digestion without Digestive Ferments, 415
Davies’ Plural Drilling Machine for Locemotive Boilers, 480, 484
Davis and Son, Messrs. John, The Jeffrey Coal Mining Machine, 26
Dawes’ Evidence concerning the Collision at Man-chester, 437
Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, On Salt-bearing Marls in the Isle of Man, 519
Decline of the Laird Crosshead, 471
Defence of Theft, In, 495
Deherain, M. P. P., On Preservation of Timber from Insects, 199
Delame-Deboutaville Gas Engine, Screwboat fitted with, 543
Delaurier, M., Experiments in Wood Etching, 175
Delebecque, M., On the Composition of the Waters of the Dranse du Cablais and the Rhone, 50
Delebecque, M. A., Observations on Inland Lake Water 3
Dell and Son, Messrs. W. R., The Forty-eight Hours Week, 353
Della Casa Granite Quarries of Italy, Company for Working, 3
Denmark, Electric Railway in, 327
Denmark, Patent Law in, 295
Denmark, Patents in, 478
Denmark, Railways in, 261
Denny and Co., Messrs., Twin-screw Steamer “Southwark,” 90, 91
Density of Certain Gases and the Composition of Water, M. Leduc on, 67
Dent, Admiral C. B. C., 245
Death caused by Electric Currents, M. A. d’Arson- val on Apparent, 497
Death Rate, The Temperature and the, 261
Deaths Registered in 33 Great Towns of England and Wales, 3, 25, 50, 67, 93, 153, 175, 261, 287, 307, 327, 353, 393, 415, 437
Derby Electric Light Works, 266, 273, 395, 417, 466
Derby Electric Light Works, Arc Light Machine and Engine, 395
Derby Electric Light Works, Central Station, 266, 273
Derbyshire, New Coalfield in, 74
Design and Repairs, 438
Desulphurising Process, The Saniter, 47
Detector and Emitter of Electric Radiation, Prof. O. Lodge, 527
Devon and Cornwall, Industries of, 303
Devonport Clock, Return-signal from the, 543
Devonshire, The Duke of, on Technical Instruction, 353
Dewar, Professor, On Gaseous and Liquid Air 24, 55
Dewar, Mr. Jas. M., Recent Developments in Marine Engineering, 414
Dewar, Professor, On Some Scientific Uses of Liquid Air, 78
Dewar, Professor, Solid and Liquid States of Matter, 403, 425, 435
Dewrance and Co., Messrs., Wall’s Patent Glass Gauge Protector, 64
Digestion without Digestive Ferments, M. A. Dastre on, 415
Dines, Mr. W. H., On Duration and Lateral Extent of Gusts of Wind and their Measurement, 261
Dines, Mr. W. H., Relation between the Mean Quarterly Temperature and the Death Rate, 261
Direction Indicator, Audible, 164
Directories, Trades, 152, 157
“Dirigo,” First Voyage of the American Steel Sailing Ship, 543
Dismal Swamp Canal, The, 416
Ditte and Metzer, MM., Action of Metals upen Acid Solutions of their Chlorides, 25
Dixon and Sons, Messrs. Jas., Strange Discovery of Spoons bearing their Mark, 415
Dixon’s Sight-feed Lubricator? 333
Dock, Floating, for Ulna, 474
Dock, Graving, at Blackwall, 335
Docks, Southampton, 36
Donkin, Bryan, Six German Boiler Experiments with the same Coal (Ruhr), 508, 528
Donkin, Bryan, On the Systematic Production of Steam from Sixty-eight Boilers at the “Say ” Sugar Refinery, Paris, 201
Dore and Chinley Railway, Concerning the Opening of the, 245
Dore and Chinley Railway, Girder Bridges on the, 353
Dore and Chinley Railway, Inspection of the Works, 261
Dore and Chinley Railway, Opening of the, 568
Dore and Chinley Railway, Passenger Traffic, 393, 415
Dore and Chinley Railway, Tunnels on the, 79
Double-decking the Manhattan Elevated System, 287
Douglas, Mr. G. C., On Some Carious Old Inventions, 175
Doulton’s Metallo-Keramic Joint, 316
Dover Harbour, 475
Dover, Projected Quayside Harbours at, 67
Dowe’s Cuirass, Herr, 482, 484
Doxford and Son, Messrs. W., The Cargo Steamer “Turret Age,” 220, 221
Doxford and Sons, Messrs. W., Triple-Expansion Engines of the “Turret Age ” (Supplement, May 4th, 1894), 380
Drain Water Microbes, Action of Sunshine on, 261
Drainage System of Paris, 435
Drainage Tunnel Borings for the Valley of Mexico, 415
Drainage of the Valley of Mexico, 44
Drainage, Water-tight, and the Disposal of Sewage from Isolated Dwellings, 467
Drawings of the “Havock,” The Missing—Where are they ? 291
Drawings, Thefts of, 231, 291
Dredger for the Danube, 82
Dredger, Excavating, Panama Canal, 308
Dredgers and Rock-breakers, The Iron Gate and other Cataracts of the Danube, 326, 332
Dredger, An Oil-fired, 546
Dredger for the Russian Government, 153
Drier for Wet Materials, The “Cummer,” 316
Drill, The McKay Electric, 68
Drilling Machine for Locomotive Boilers, Davies’, 480, 484
Drumcondra and North Dublin Link Railway Bill, 175
Drummuir Station, Major Marindin on the Accident, 393
“Dryad,” H.M.S., 401
Dry Dock, The Largest on the American Lakes, 307
Dry Dock at Mode Wheel Locks, Opening of, 153
Drysdale and Co., Messrs., Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 373
Dublin Southern Tramways Co. and Electricity as a Motive Power, 25
Dublin, Typhoid Fever in, 97
Du Bois Raymond, Dr. A., On Lilienthal’s Experiments on Flying, 175
Ducal, Col. W. M., Inquiry into the Question of the Horfield Sewage Disposal, 50
Dudley Hill Station, Bridges at, 328
Duncan, Dr., On a Transmission Dynamometer, 393
Duncanson, Mr. Thomas, Notes on the Distribution of Water Supplies, 346
Dupre, M., On the Spontaneous Combustion of Chromate Papers, 479
Durant and Lencanches, MM., New Valve Gear, 187
Durham Coast Railway Scheme, Abandonment of the, 25
Dust Particles in the Air, Mr. John Aitken on the Number of, 219
Dust in Railway Cars, Poisonous, 307
Du Temple Water-tube Boilers for the Torpedo Gunboat “Spanker,” 573
Dykes, Mr. A. H., Construction and Working of Electromotors, 135
Dymchurch Sea Wall, Report on the Damage done to the, 199
“Dynamic,” The Steamer, brings Cattle from Belfast to Manchester, 25
Dynamical Theory of the Electrical and Luminiferous Medium, On a, 67
Dynamo, Fly-wheel, 88, 94
Dynamo, Prof. Forbes’, 519
Dynamometer, Transmission, 393

EARLE’S Company, Steamer for the Great Eastern Railway Company, 152
Earth Movements and Relative Glacial Conditions Professor Hughes on, 245
Earthquakes in Greece and Venezuela, 497
Eastern Railways, Convention Regarding Cession of, to Bulgaria, 219
Easton, Anderson and Goolden Company, The, 101
Eaton Hall Sewage Works, The, 199
Economist on American Railroads, The, 93
Economy of Steam in Rolling Mill Engines, Mr. Worth, 187
Education of Marine Engineers, 70
Edwards and Symes, Messrs., Orders placed with, 287
Efficiency of Centrifugal Pumps? 9
Egypt, British Trade in, 567
Egypt, Corliss Engine Trials in, 286
Egyptian Irrigation Scheme, The, 385
Egyptian Railway Department, Tenders Bridges and Railways, 219
Eight Hours Day, Government and the, 31
Eight Hours Experiment, 310
Elbing Works, Twin-screw Vessels for the North German Lloyd Company, 219
Electric Automatic Fire-alarm, Tunnard and Keay’s 242
Electric Brake, 539
Electric Coal Drill, 26
Electrical Conduction, Mechanism of, 437
Electric Conduit Street Railway, Mr. Love’s, 307
Electric Conduit Street Railway System, Mr. H. Petersen, 115
Electric Construction Company, Mr. A. A. Blackburn succeeds Mr. T, Parker as Chief Engineer of, 287
Electric Crane, Wembley Tower, 392
Electric Cranes, 175, 377, 392, 397, 418, 436, 461
Electric Cranes, Messrs. J. G. Statter and Co., 175
Electrical Currents, Destruction of Metal Pipes by, 415
Electrical Directory, The Universal, 157
Electric Discharge through Gases, 359
Electric Disturbance at Bournemouth, Cardew on the, 175
Electric Drill, The McKay, 68
Electrical Energy, The Cost of, 375
Electrical Energy, New Uses for, 44
Electrical Engineering in 1893, 1
Electrical Engineering, Prof. A. B. W. Kennedy on, 357, 404, 413
Electrical Engineering, Mr. Alexander Siemens on, 47
Electrical Engineering Work, 539
Electrical Engineers in Conference, German, 527
Electrical Equipment of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, 207
Electrical Generating Stations, Prof. J. A. Fleming on, 374
Electrical Indicator of a Ship’s Position in a Harbour, 184
Electrical Industry in 1893, Growth of, 67
Electric Light Circuits, Methods of Regulating Pressure in, 316
Electric Light Engines, 35
Electric Light Engines, Manchester Corporation, 391, 392
Electric Light, Gas and the, 376
Electric Light in London, 399
Electric Light, Naval Photography and the, 558
Electric Light Service, Removal of a 250ft. Mast used for, 3
Electric Light Supply Works, The Brussels, 116, 121, 150, 154, 155
Electric Light Works, Bristol, 432, 433, 434
Electric Light Works, Derby, 466
Electric Locomotion for Canal Boats on the Erie Canal, 307
Electric Locomotive, The Heilmann, 108, 111, 393
Electric Lighting on the Brighton Line, 497
Electric Lighting in Country Houses, Mr. A. Court, 234
Electric Lighting Company, Explosions in Boxes of the City of London, 115
Electric Lighting of the Ferris Wheel, 568
Electric Lighting of Flour Mills in the United States, 261
Electric Lighting of London, 440
Electric Lighting Mains, St. Pancras, Elevation of Lid of Manhole or Trap in connection with, 50
Electric Lighting, Metropolitan, 418, 422, 440
Electric Lighting Station Accidents, 73
Electric Lighting Station at Rheims, 374
Electrical Machine Tools at Budapest, Exhibition of, 305
Electric Mountings, The Canet Turret, 112
Electrical Operations of Lock Gates, 3
Electrical Plant, Test of an, 71, 99, 135
Electric Power Installations in Engineering Ironworks, 339
Electric Railway in Brooklyn, New York, Suburbs, 415
Electrical Railways and Corrosion of Water Pipes, andc., 115
Electric Railway in Denmark, 327
Electric Railway Regulations, 265
Electric Railway Scheme, Chicago and St. Louis, 393
Electric Railway System, The King, 519
Electric Railways and Tramways, Mr. Makowski, 362
Electric Resistance of Hardened Steel, 74
Electrical Road Schemes, 479
Electrical Sanitation, Experiments at Worthing in, 50
Electric Search Lights, Experiments with, at Sandy Hook, 287
Electric Sign Throwing, 436
Electric Signals for Warships, 270
Electric Street Railway Currents, Increase of Fire Risks by, 437
Electric Street Tramways, Mr. Robert Hammond, 575
Electric Supply Corporation, The London, 394
Electrical Time Check, The Bristol, 184
Electric Traction on American Canals, 17
Electric Traction, The Electrical World on, 25
Electric Traction Industry, The Locomotives Act and the, 393
Electric Traction, Latest Development of, 175
Electric Traction, Professor Kennedy and, 349
Electric Traction on Tramways, 252
Electrical Trades Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, Result of Meeting of, 93
Electric Tramway and Railway Regulations, 204
Electric Transmission of Power from the Perivar River, South India, 281
Electric Travelling and Jib Cranes, 377 397
Electrically Welded Continuous Rails, 415
Electrically Welded Rails in Boston, Breaking of, 219
Electrical World on Lieut. Cahoon’s Three Wire Current System, 25
Electrician Electrical Trades Directory and Handbook for 1894, 152
Electricity, Cooking by, 547
Electricity, Generation and Distribution of, 228
Electricity, Board of Trade Unit of, 500, 523, 551
Electricity as a Motive Power on Tramways, 25
Electricity and Steam Power in Switzerland, 22
Electricity and Town Refuse, 268, 295, 310, 331
Electro-chemical Method of Observation of Alter¬nating Currents, 374
Electrolysing Apparatus, The Hermite, 316
Electrolysis of Dissolved Alkaline Salts, Electro¬motive Force necessary for, 115
Electrolysis of Fused Salts. Commercial, 392
Electro-motors, Mr. A. H. Dykes on the Con¬struction and Working of, 135
Elementary Physics, Dr. J. Joly on the Teaching of, 153
Elliot, Mr. S., Refuse Destructor, 519
Elliptical Conic Sections, 46, 47, 99
Ellis, Mr. C. E., On Recent Experiments in Armour, 216
Elsass-Lothringen Railway Administration and Correspondence of Trains, 175
Elwell Fils, MM., High-pressure Air Com¬pressor, 228, 229
Emigrants, Information for Intending, 4
Employers and Employed, Industrial Union of, 271
Employers’ Liability Bill, The Engineering Trades and the, 4
Engineers, Education of Marine, 70
Engineers’ Gazette Annual and Almanack for 1894, The, 153
ENGINEER and the’’Miners’ Congress, Reynolds Newspaper on THE, 497
Engineers, Municipal and County-Home Counties at Reading, 340
Engineers for the Navy, 95, 134, 291, 294, 440
Engineers in the Navy, 291
Engineer Personnel of the Navy, 294
ENGINEER, THE, at Port Tennant, Reynolds' Newspaper v., 393
Engineers’ Work, The British and Metric Systems for, 419
Engineering and Allied Trades Section of the London Chamber of Commerce—Indian Railway Enterprise and Private Capitalists, 519
Engineering in Brazil, Senhor H. de A. Maia, 152
Engineering, Civil, 9
Engineering, Electrical, in 1893, 1
Engineering Experience at Sea, Mr. G. Lane and Mr. J. Hawthorn, 440
Engineering and Ironworks, Electric Power Installations in, 339
Engineering, Marine, Practical Problems in, 149
Engineering, Mechanical (See “Erratum,” page 51), 11
Engineering as a Profession, 436, 478, 482, 499, 522, 554, 552, 573, 574
Engineering, Sanitary, 16
Engineering Trades and the Employers’ Liability Bill, The, 4
Engineering Trades Section of the London Chamber of Commerce and the Antwerp Exhibition, 175
Engineering Trades and Short Hours, The, 526
Engineering Works on the Thames, 162, 283, 286, 535, 539
Engines, American, Distinctive Features of, 574
Engines and Anthracite Gas, 574
Engine, Boiler, and Employers’ Liability Com¬pany’s Annual Meeting, 174
Engine Cabs, Locomotive, 198
Engine, Compound Air or Gas, Dr. Oliver Lodge, 237
Engines, Compound Surface Condensing Launch, 329
Engines, Compound Underground Hauling, 177
Engines, Coupled Horizontal Compound Tandem Pumping, Messrs. Fielding and Platt, 194, 195
Engines, Economy of Steam in Rolling Mill, 187
Engines, Electric Light, 35
Engines, Electric Light, Manchester Corporation, 391, 392
Engine, The Fielding and Platt Gas, 197
Engines of the First-class Protected Cruisers “Theseus” and “Royal Arthur,” 246, 249
Engine, The Forward, 292, 293
Engine, Four-coupled Bogie Tank, London and South - Western Railway, Mr. W. Adams (Supplements, June 15th and 29th), 517, 572
Engine, Gas, The Campbell Vertical, 53
Engines, Gas, and Scotch Anthracite, 510
Engines, Governing Arrangements of, Mr. R. G. Blaine’s Lectures on, 22
Engines of the Gunboat “Antelope,” Messrs. Yarrow and Co., 67
Engine, Indicator Card of the Oil, 529
Engine, Inertia of the Reciprocating Parts of an, 500
Engines, Internal Combustion, Mr. P. F. Maccullum on, 47
Engines, Marine, Research Committee on, 100, 114, 165
Engines, New Express, Great Northern Railway Company, 219
Engine in New Zealand, The Traction, 317
Engines, Oil, 70, 379
Engines, Oil, Royal Agricultural Society’s Exhibi¬tion, Trials of, 295, 310, 331, 360, 397, 540, 566
Engines, Oil and Petroleum, 393
Engines, A Plea for the Traction, 482
Engine, The Portable, Mr. W. D. Wansbrough on, 124
Engines, Pumping, Bombay Sewage Works, 223
Engine, Pumping, Messrs. Drysdale and Co., 373
Engine, Raising of a Canadian Pacific Railway, 327
Engine-room Complements, 249
Engines, Rotary and Reaction Steam, 272, 273
Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 562, 563
Engine, A Runaway, 153
Engine, Single-cylinder Semi-portable, 499
Engine, Spring-mounted, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 549
Engine, Tandem Compound, Test of a, 317
Engine, Tank, South-Eastern Railway, Mr. Jas. Stirling (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 46, 65, 66, 72
Engines, Tank, v. Tender Engines, Major Marindin on, 50
Engine Tests, Marine, 135
Engines, Traction, Mr, G. W. Hawksley’s Plea for, 497
Engine, Trials of a Crossley Gas, 507
Engine Trials in Egypt, Corliss, 286
Engine Trials, Marine, 117, 165
Engines, Triple-expansion, Experiments with, at Reduced Powers, 230
Engines (Triple-expansion) of the s.s. Maori, 113
Engines, Triple-expansion, for the “ Poltava” and “Tri Sviatitelia” (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 54
Engine of the “Turret Age,” Triple-expansion (Supplement, May 1th, 1894), 380
Engine, The Woodfield Gas, 358
Engler and Singer, Messrs., on Paraffin and Lubricating Oil, 199
English Electrical Engineers and the Antwerp Exhibition, 115
English Methods of Street Railway Track Construction, Messrs. Moore and McCallum, 287
Entropy, 523
Entropy, On Temperature and, 411
Epping Forest Railway Bill, The. 3
Epsom Joint Hospital Board, The, and a New Fever Hospital, 327
Epsom Water Supply, 245
Equatorial Mounting for Reflecting Telescopes, 353
Edmenger’s Method of Testing Portland Cement, andc., by High-pressure Steam, 142
Ergometer, Torsional, The Rev. F. J. Smith, 379 “Ericsson,” Launch of the, 519
Erie Canal, Electric Locomotion for Canal Boats on the, 307
Ernst, Mr. R, “Combustion of Carbon in Air,” 67
Erosion of Sewer Inverts, The, 327
Erratum, 397
Errata, referring to pp. 172-174, 203
Erratum (First Column), 13 (see “Mechanical Engineering,” p. 11)
Erratum Relative to the New Type Torpedo Boat No. 93, 58
Estimating the Value of a Railway, 440
Estuaries, Mr. H. L. Partiot on, 360
Etchell’s “Non-drip” Shaft Bearing, 499
Etching on Wood, M. Delaurier’s Experiments in, 175
Ether Saturator for the Lantern, Mr. Gwyer’s, 359
Europe, Train Ferries in, 303
Evans, Mr. David, Elected President of Cleveland Ironmasters’ Association, 25
Evaporator, Morison’s, 176
Excavating Dredger, Panama Canal, 308
Excavator, Steam, 176, 180
Exhibition, The Antwerp, 25, 115, 325
Exhibition, The Antwerp—see also Antwerp Exhibition
Exhibition of Book and Paper Industries in Paris, 219
Exhibition at Bucharest, The Fourth, 393
Exhibition, The Building, 263
Exhibition, Chicago—see Chicago
Exhibition of Electrical Machine Tools at Budapest, 305
Exhibition, The Luxemburg, 526, 574
Exhibition, Projected Coaching, Riding, Driving, andc., 199
Exhibition of Yachts, 115
Exhibition, Santiago-Chile, Opening Deferred, but Exhibits can be Forwarded at Once, 50
Exhibition, The Vienna International, 144
Expansion by Cold, 99
Expansion, Lifting a Vertical Rising Main by, 112
“Expert” Chain Morticing Machine, The, 263
Explosion, Blast Furnace, in the Pas de Calais, 568
Explosion at the Torpedo Station, Newport, 415
Explosion at Waltham Abbey, 421
Explosion which Occurs when Water is Poured into Sodium, 479
Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, Temperature of Ignition of, 80
Explosive Mixtures, Experiments on the Limiting Proportions of, 327
Eyebar Test, An Instructive, 287

FACTORIES and Workshops Bill, 378
Factory Inspection, Over, 376
Factory and Workshop Inspectorships, 287
Fairburn and Hall, Messrs., Trial of Forty-eight Hours Week at the Works of, 437
Fairfield Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, River and Sea-going Passenger Steamer, “La Marguerite,” 315
Fan, Mine Ventilating, 485
Fan, Slow-speed Direct-acting, 373
Fastest Ship in the World, The, 558
Faults in Chalk, 130, 204
Fawcett, Mr. T. C., Brick and Tile making, 263
Feed-water, Lyons’ Apparatus for Purifying, 184
Feed-water Heater, Brown’s Berryman, 394
Feed-water, Purification of, 53
Female “Station-masters” in Victoria, 115
Ferries, Train, 303
Ferris Wheel, Mr. J. W. Schaub on the Method of Calculating the Stresses in the Ferris Wheel, 358
Fibre Treating Machinery 173
Fielding and Platt Gas Engine, The, 197
Fielding and Platt, Messrs., Stationary and Portable Oil Engines, 567
Filter, The Howatson Low-pressure, 4
Fire Alarm, Electric Automatic, 242
Fire-bars ? Destruction of, 181
Fire box Stay in Boiler, Failure of, 67
Fire-engine, Locomotive, 228
Fireproof Buildings and Sound, 230
Fire-pump Locomotives, 264
Fires, London, and the Brigade, 96
Fischer-Peters’ System of Water Filtration ? 225
Fisher, lhe Rev. O., On the Condition of the Interior of the Earth, 153
Fishguard Bay Railway and Pier Purchase Bill Passing of, 479
Fish Traffic over Russian Railroads, Live, 393
Flanges, Spencer, Welded Iron and Steel, 336
Fleet, Making of a Modern, 222
Fleet, A Volunteer, 523, 542
Fleming and Ferguson, Messrs., Water - tube Marine and Land Boilers, 132, 133, 136
Fleming, Professor J. A., On Various Electric Generating Stations, 374
Fleuss, Mr. H. A., Mechanical Air Pump, 379
Floating Dock for Barcelona, 251
Floating Dock for Ulna, 474
Floats in Glass Furnaces, 431
Flood, Dr Prestwick on the Tradition of the, 261
Flooring Cramps, Lewis and Allen’s, 475
Florida Central and Peninsular Railway, Blocked for Five Days, 261
Florida, Ship Canal Across, 219
Flour Mills in the United States and Canada, 497
Flour Mills in the United States, Electric Light in, 261
Flow of Water through New Cast Iron Pipe, 393, 543
Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, Joy’s, 436, 478
Fluid Valve Gear, Joy’s, 501
Fly-wheel Dynamo, 88, 94
Fly-wheels, Wood, 265
Flying, Lilienthal’s Experiments on, 175
Folk-lore on Public Works and Mining, M. Sebillot, 519
Forbes, Professor, his Patent for Construction of Dynamo, 519
Foreign Competition, A New Departure in, 376
Foreign Demand for British Machinery, The, 546
Foreign Tests of Steel, 371
Foreigners in France, Status of Professional, 67
Forging by Hydraulic Pressure, 161
Forney, M. N., Monthly List of Accidents to Engineers and Firemen, 50
Forrest’s Silver Bronze Rod Packing, 205
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, Proposed, 199, 291
Fortnightly Tickets on the Belgian State Railways, 245
Forty-eight Hours Week, The, 371
Forty-eight Hours Week and Mr. Mather’s Report, 330
Forty-eight Hours Week and Overtime, 311
Forty-eight Hours Week in Sunderland and in Manchester, 269, 289, 296
Forty-eight Hours Week in Government Fac tories, The, 315
Forward Gas Engine, The, 292, 293
Four-coupled Bogie Tank Engine, Mr. W. Adams 517
Fowler, Mr. A. M., His Presidential Address, 575
Fowler and Co., Messrs., Eight-furrow Turnover Steam, 562
Fowler and Co., Messrs. John, Burton-on-Trent Electric Light Works, 506
Fowler, Mr. H., “Testing of Materials,” 101
France, April Trade Returns in, 415
France, Coal-mining Profits in, 483
Fraser and Co., Messrs. W. J., Lyons’ Apparatus for Purifying Feed-water, 184
Freezing Points of Triple Alloys, Messrs. Heycock and Neville, 50
Freight Traffic on Prussian State Railways on Sundays, 393
French Budget and the Construction of New Railways, 479
French High Velocity Trial, 249
French International Automobile Carriage Com¬petition, 260
French Naval Programme, Delays in Carrying Out, 519
French Navy, Addition to, 93
French Railway Receipts, 543
French Railways, Reduction in the Working Hours upon, 437
French Railways, December 31st, 1892, Total Length of, 479
French Shipbuilding in 1894, 122
French Torpedo Boats, Trial of, 543
French Trade, Navigation, andc., 1893, 313
French Valve Gear, New, 187
Friction-driven Engine Lathe, 56, 82
Friction of Gases, 574
Frozen Meat from New Zealand, 339
Fuel, Oil, 500
Fuel Question at Limoges, The, 568
Fuel at Sea, Liquid, 291, 310, 360, 396
Funchal to the Mount, Opening of Railway from, 568
Furnaces, Blast, Mr. W. Hawdon on their Capacity and Form, 388
Furnaces, Five New Blast, in the Longwy District of France, 115
Furnaces, Floats in Glass, 431
Furnace, The Meldrum, 539
Furnaces, Smoke-preventing, Mr. G. R. Steward on, 174
Furnaces, Steel, 203
Fused Salts, Commercial Electrolysis of, 392
Future Bolt Company, Lightning Bolt, 164

GALLOWAY, Mr. John (with Portrait), 129, 187
Galloways Limited, Messrs., Compound Electric Light Engines for the Manchester Corporation, 391, 392
Galvanising Process, Cowper-Coles’, 151
Gardner’s Timber-preserving Process, 519
Garrard, Mr. C. R,, Recent Developments in Cycle Construction, 368
Garrett, Mr. Henry A., Torquay Sewerage, 510
Gas and Coal in London, Heat Value of, 131
Gas Combustion, Mr. C. R. Bellamy on the Science of, 261
Gas Cylinders, Burst, 25
Gas Cylinders, Safety of Compressed, 23
Gas and the Electric Light, 376
Gas Engines and Anthracite, 574
Gas Engine, The Fielding and Platt, 197
Gas Engine, The Forward, 292, 293
Gas Engines and Scotch Anthracite, Large 510
Gas Engine, Trials of a Crossley, 507
Gas Engine, The Woodfield, 358
Gas Engine—see also Engines, Gas
Gas, Enriching of Coal, by means of Oxy-oil Gas, 3
Gas-fired Steam Generators, 498
Gas Motor Tramcar, 548
Gas, Natural, Use of, in Indianapolis, 93
Gas in Paris, Consumption of, 497
Gas in the United States, Price of, 199
Gas Supply, 16
Gas Supply, Crisis in the, 525
Gaseous and Liquid Air, Prof. Dewar on. 24, 55
Gases, Electric Discharge through, 359
Gases, Friction of, 574
Gases, Kinematic Theory of, 542
Gases, Kinetic Theory of, 306, 349, 372
Gases Rarefied, Prof. Ramsay on, 568
Gasholder at Middlesbrough, Tenders for a, 519
Gasholder Construction, Mr. E. Lloyd Pease 286
Gasworks, The Construction of, 318
Gauge, Improved Carpenter’s, 347
Gauge Protector, Glass, 64
Gear, Fluid Pressure Reversing, 279
Gear, Joy's Fluid Valve, 501
Geared High Lift Pumps, 205
Geelong, Opening of the New Channel at 244
Gehre's Patent Steam Superheater, 121
Generators, Dry Steam, McPhail Simpson’s, 121, 140
Geological Congress, The International, 157
German Boats for the Navy, 401
German Contracts for the Royal Navy, 378
German Electrical Engineers in Conference, 527
German Railway and other Machinery Exports, 287
German Shipbuilding, 423
German Steam Boiler Experiments with the same Coal (Ruhr), 508, 528
Gibraltar, Cold Storage at, 119
Giffard Prize, Subject of the, in 1896, 393
Gigantic Wheel at Earl’s Court, The, 324, 379
Glasgow Corporation Tramways, New Tramcars, 239, 242, 243
Glasgow Iron and Steel Company, Extension of the, 479
Glasgow, New Cessnock Docks, Twenty-ton Loco-motive Steam Crane, 337
Glasgow, Re-weiring the Clyde at, 305
Glasgow Sewage Disposal Works, 42, 44, 372, 380
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Weather Report at St. Enoch Station, 497
Glasgow University Court, The, and Professor Jamieson, 131
Glass Furnaces, Floats in, 431
Glass Protector for Water Gauges, 64
Glasshoughton, Accident in new Colliery at, 374
Glen, Mr. Hugh, Trades Unionism, 405
Globe Engineering Company, Steam and Water Separators, 548
Glycerine, Use of, in the Preparation of Leather, 437
Goerz and Van Hoegh, of Barlin, Photographic Lenses, 573
Gold Car System of Heating Railway Carriages, 374
Gold in Lower Burma, 519
Gold Mining Machinery ? 31, 135
Gold Nuggets, Mr. Liversidge on the Origin of, 570
Gold Storage System, Safety of the, 131
Gonda, Bela von, The Danube Regulation Works, 496, 502
Goniometer, Miss Edna Walter and Mr. H. B. Bourne, 527
Goodman, Professor, On Compressed Air, 152
Goodman, Professor, On Compressed Gas Cylinders, 23
Goolden, Mr. W. T., on Electrical Engineering, 539
“Gothic,” The s.s., 5
Gouber, Mr. S., Iron and Concrete Construction, 184
Gould Company’s Exhibit at the Antwerp Exhibition, 547
Governing Arrangements of Engines, Mr. R. G. Blaine’s Lectures on, 22
Government and the Eight Hours Day, 31
Government Factories, The Forty-eight Hours Week, 315
Government Factories, Work in, 401
Government Workmen, 378
Governor, Marine, Mr. R. F. C. Keats, 222
Grafton, Mr. A. T., Self-adjusting Sand-pipe Nozzle for Locomotives, 378
Grandidier, M., on Soil and Climate of Madagas¬car, 415
Granite Quarries of Italy, The Della Casa, 3
Grantham, Mr. R. F., on the Protection of our Coasts, 153
Gravesend, Royal Terrace Pier, 29, 568
Graving Dock Extension at Blackwall, 335
Gravitation, The Newtonian Constant of, 551
Gravity Railway, A Miniature, 185
Gray, Professor Elisha, The Telautograph, 527
Gray, Mr. P. L., on the Minimum Temperature of Visibility, 393
Greathead and Fox, Messrs., Liverpool Overhead Railway, 207
Great Eastern Railway Company, Another Steamer for the, 152
Great Eastern Railway Company, Special Arrange¬ments Relative to the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Cambridge, 374
Great Northern Extension Lines in Yorkshire, 328
Great Northern Railway Company, New Express Engines, 219
Great Northern Railway Company and the Stam¬ford and Essendine Railway Company, 50
Great Northern of Sweden Trunk Railway to Boden, Completion of, 353
Great Western Railway Claim against the Swan¬sea Harbour Trust, Settlement of, 519
Great Western Railway, Rodger Ballasting System, 539, 548
Greece, Trade-marks in, 100
Green and Boulding, Messrs., Forrest’s Silver Bronze Rod Packing, 205
Gresham and Craven, Messrs., Self-adjusting Sand-pipe Nozzle for Locomotives, 378
Grierson, Mr. T. B., Appointment of, 175
Griffin, Mr. R. T., 287
Grinding Brass Foundry Dross (not Skimmings), 137
Groombridge’s Slow Speed Direct-acting Fan, 373
Grounding of the Granada in the Manchester Ship Canal, 3
Grubb, Sir Howard, Evolution of the Astronomical Telescope, 486
Grubb, Sir Howard, New Form of Equatorial Mounting for Monster Reflecting Telescopes, 353
Guide Book, A New, 550
Guilds Central Institution, Change of Name, 114
Gulpen, Lensing, and Gimborn, Conical Hole Boring Machine for Cranks, 98
Gun Carriage, Canet’s Central-pivot Quick-firing, 281
Gun Mountings, The Canet Electric Turret, 112
Gun Practice in Austria, Effect of Smokeless Powder on, 252
Gunnery Trials of the Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” 474
Guns, Machine, 439
Guns and Smokeless Powder, Tests of, at New York and Indian Head, 287
Gusts of Wind, Duration, andc., of, Mr. W. H Dines on, 261
Gwynne, Messrs. John and Henry, Centrifugal Pumps for Holland, 130
Gwynne, Messrs. John and Henry, Engineering Works, 283-286

HAAGE, Mr., on the Use of Petroleum for Removing Boiler Scale, 437
Hadfield, Mr. R. A., on the Results of Heat treatment on Manganese Steel, 390
Hague International Inland Navigation Congress, 310, 478
Hains, Colonel P. C., on Dredging Operations in the Potomac, 243
Haldane, Mr. J. W. C., on the Latest Locomotive Works, 141
Halifax, Utilisation of Town Refuse at, 141
Hall, Mr. Chas. J., “Generation and Distribution of Electricity,” 228
Hamburg - American Packet Company’s s.s. “Prussia,” 496
Hamburg-American Steamship Company, Yearly Report of the, 374
Hammersmith Bridge and Genuine White Lead, 25
Hammersmith Ironworks, 283-286
Hammond, Mr. Robert, Electric Street Tramways, 575
Handyside and Co., Messrs. Andrew, Bridge over the Trent, 27, 28, 30
Handyside and Co., Messrs. Andrew, Railway Bridge over the Lan-Ho, China, 365, 366, 367, 368
“Hannibal,” The Framing and Deadweight of the, 543
Harbours, Scotch, 89
HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS, 15, 194
- Bermuda, 244
- Birmingham Canal, 324
- Boston, 324
- Canals, 89, 195, 324, 402, 475
- Cape Town, 216
- Cardiff, 89, 324
- Clyde, The, 195
- Corinth Canal, 475
- Dock and Harbour Revenues, 194
- Dover Harbour, 475
- East Coast Harbour of Refuge, 216
- Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, 324
- Galveston, 324
- Geelong, 244
- Grand Canal Company of Ireland’s Increase of Traffic, 216
- Hull, 475
- King’s Lynn, 324
- Liverpool, 324
- Mersey, The, 402
- Methil, 324
- Milford, 324
- Navigation Congress, 324
- Newlyn, 402
- Potomac River, Washington, 243
- Russia, 244
- Rye Harbour, 475
- Scotch Fishery Harbours, 402
- Scotch Harbours, 89
- Severn, The, 402
- Southampton, 89
- Swansea, 89
- Thames, The, 89
- Trent Navigation, The, 402
- Wear, The, 402
Hardened Steel, Electrical Resistance of, 74
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Contract for Machinery of First-class Battleships given to, 307
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., s.s. “Gothic,” 5
Harland and Wolff’s Twin-screw s.s. “Prussia,” 496
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Twin-screw s.s. “Torr Head,” 305
Harley, Dr. Vaughan, Sugar as a Food in the Production of Muscular Work, 93
“Harnessing Niagara,” 153
Harper, Mr. Louis, Designs for Steel Rope Suspension Bridges at Grimsby, 307
Harvey Steel Car Company, Steel American Oil Tank Car, 336
Hatcher’s Tile Machinery ? 333
Haughton, Mr. H., Heroic Act of the Young Engineer, 393
Haulage, A Problem in, 73, 95, 137
Hauling Engines, Compound Underground, 177
Hauling Problem, 117
Havana, Tramways in, 543
“Havock,” H.M.S., at Portsmouth, 3
“Havock,” Missing Drawings of the, 231, 249, 291, 356, 400, 495
Hawdon, Mr. W., On the Capacity and Form of Blast Furnaces, 388
Hawksley, Mr. G. W., His Plea for Traction Engines, 497
Hawksley, Mr. Thomas, Personal Estate of, 261
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Messrs. R. and W., Twin-screw Steamer “St. Petersburg,” 507
Hay Imports during 1893, 353
Hay-making and Clover-making Machines, Prizes for, 304
Hay for Paving, Compressed, 519
Hay, Spontaneous Heating and Ignition of, 245
Haywood, Colonel William, 335, 497
“Hazard,” Completion of the Torpedo Boat
“Hazard,” Launch of the New Torpedo Gunboat 153
Hazeland’s Wood Paving Machine, Re, 574
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, Takes his Son into Partnership, and Transfers his Business to Westminster, 3
Heat, Carnot and Modern—See Carnot and Modern Heat
Heat, Mechanical Equivalent of, 379
Heat, Modern, 21, 41, 63, 85, 86, 99,108,127,147, 134, 178, 197, 198, 237, 279, 323, 348, 371, 396, 411, 418, 436, 478, 522, 557
Heat, Value of the Mechanical Equivalent of, 436
Heats of Steam, Latent, 542
Heats of Vapours, Latent, 574
Heat of Water, Specific, 50
Heats of Steam, Specific and Latent, 370, 419
Heater Condenser Company, Feed-water Softening and Heating Apparatus, 53
Heater, Feed-water, Brown’s Berryman, 394
Heating Metals by Electric Current, M. Lagrange and Hoho’s Process for, 568
Heating Railway Carriages, Belleroche’s System, 34
Heating Railway Carriages, The Gold Car System of, 374
Heating Tube, The Row Heating, 281
Heating Water by an Incandescent Electric Lamp in the Lighting Circuit, 353
Heatley District, Main Drainage of the, 543
Hedges, Mr. K., Transmission of Force by Balls, 379
Heilmann Electric Locomotive, The, 108, 111, 393
Hendey Machine Company’s Lathe with Variable Feed without Change Wheels, 56
Heycock and Neville on The Freezing Points of Triple Alloys, 50
Heywood, Colonel, Artesian Well sunk under his Superintendence in New Street, Gravellane, 199
Hematite Iron Trade and Railway Prospects, 183
Herbert and Co.’s Plant, Sale of Messrs., 69
H.M. Second-class Battleship “ Centurion,” 223, 224
H.M.S. “Daring,” The Fastest Ship in the World, 558
H.M.S. “Dryad,” 401
H.M.S. “tlalcyon,” Launch of, 315
H.M.S. “ Havock,” at Portsmouth, 3
H.M.S. “Hornet,” 249, 391
H.M.S. “ Lynx,” Launch of a New Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 104
H.M.S. “St. George,” 75, 101
H.M.S. “Speedy,” Launch of, 162
H.M.S. “Theseus” and “Royal Arthur,”Engines of the, 246, 249
Hermite Electric Treatment of Sewage at Worthing, 316
Hertz, The Work of, 510
Hett’s Pelton Wheel, 358
Hick, Mr. John, 120
High Carbon Rails—Light Railways, 478
High pressure Air Compressor, 228, 229
High-pressure Steam Testing of Portland Cement, 178
High-Velocity Trial, French, 249
Highgate Museum of Sanitary Appliances, The, 327
Hill and .Brett, Messrs., Apparatus for Burning- Hydro-carbons, 412
Hobson, Mr. William, Resignation of, 519
Holden, Mr., His System of Liquid Fuel with Coal for Locomotives, 193
Hole-boring Machine, Crank Pin, 440
Holme and King, Messrs., v. The Teddington Local Board, Mr. J. W. Barry’s Award, 93
“Homogeneous Division of Space,” Article on, 219
Hoosac Tunnel, Length of the, 25
Hopeful Trade Views, 52
Hopkinson, Dr. John, Relation of Mathematics to Engineering, 357
Hopper Dredger, “Hugh Andrews,” Launch of, 519
Horan, Mr. John, His Appointment as County Surveyor, 199
Horfield Sowage Disposal and the Bristol Sanitary Authority, 50
“Hornet,” The Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 249, 394, 516
Hornsby and Sons, Messrs., Stationary and Portable Oil Engines, 566
Horse Haulage Attachments, Mr. T. H. Brigg, 199
Horsley, Dr. Vic'.or, On Some Destructive Effects of Projectiles, 329
Hospitals on Chalk, and Danger to the Water Supply, 327
Howard, Mr. J. E., On Steel Rails, 153
Howatson Low-pressure Filter, Tne, 4
Howden, Mr., On Water-tube Boilers, 238
Hudswell Clarke and Co., Etchell’s Shaft Bearing, 499
Hughes, Mr. H. W., On Photography in Coal Mines, 152
Hughes, Prof., On Earth Movements and Relative Glacial Conditions, 245
Hull, 475
Hulse and Co., Messrs., Davies’ Plural Drilling Machine for Locomotive Boilers, 480, 484
Humphrys, Tennant, and Co., Messrs., Engines for the “Poltava” and Tri “Sviatitelia ” (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 54
Hungary, State Railways in, 115
Hunt, Mr. Charles, Construction of Gasworks, 318
Hutchinson, Major, on the Collision at Dover Town Station, 25
Huxley, The Right Hon. T. H., on the Corporation of London, 327
Hydraulic Cements, The Testing of, 397
Hydraulic Power Installation, Manchester, 339
Hydraulic Power Supplied by the Manchester Corporation, 115
Hydraulic Pressure, Forging by, 161
Hydraulic Propulsion, 64
Hydraulic Reversing Gear, Joy’s, 396, 436
Hydraulic Testing Machine, Phoenixville Ironworks, 98
Hydrocarbons, Apparatus for Burning, 412
Hydro-electric Installation, Antwerp (Supplement, March 9th, 1894), 200, 205
Hydrogen through a Palladium Septum, Passage of, 497
Hygiene and Demography, International Congress of, at Buda Pest, 222, 518

ICE-MAKING with Natural Gas, 543
“Illinois,” Removal of the Brick Battleship, 353
Imperial China Railway, Tientsin to Shanhaik- wan, 479
Imperial Chinese Railway, Bridge over the Lan- Ho, 365, 366, 367, 368
India, Discovery of Working Telephone in, 327
India, Railways of, 93
India-rubber Waterproof Cloth, 175
India Sanitary Measures, 1891-92, 571
Indian Railway Co.’s Bill, The, 353
Indian Railway Enterprise, Private Capitalists and, 519
Indian Railways, New Line from Singhia to Madaripore, 175
Indian Railways, Supplies for, 249
Indian State Railways, Narrow Gauge Locomo¬tive, 544, 550
Indian State Railways, Narrow Gauge Tank Engines, 568
Indiana Armour Plates, 501
Indicator, Audible Direction, 164
Indicator Card of the Oil Engine, 529
Indicator, Robertson’s Railway Station, 326
Industrial Occupations, 31
Industrial Union of Employers and Employed, 271
Industries of Devon and Cornwall, 303
Inertia of the Reciprocating Parts of a Steam Engine, 500
Ingersoll-Sergeant Rock Drill, Jeddo Tunnel, 93
Inglis, Mr. John, The Apprentice Question, 314
Ingot Tilting Gear, 561
Injector, The Brownley, 549
Inland Navigation, 303
Inland Waterways : Their Relation to Transportation, 387
Instantaneous Steam Generators ? 181, 203
Institute of Engineers, Meeting of the South Wales, 374
Institute of Engineers in Scotland, Graduate Section of
Internal Combustion Engines, Mr. P. F. Maccullum, 47
INSTITUTE, THE FRANKLIN:—
- Awards Granted by, 26
INSTITUTE, THE INCORPORATED GAS:—
- Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. John West, 541
INSTITUTE, THE IRON AND STEEL :—
- Autumn Meeting of, at Brussels, Arrangements for, 520
- Capacity and Form of Blast Furnaces, Mr. W. Hawdon, 388
- Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. E. Windsor Richards, 369
- Modification of the Ordinary Method of Analysing Steel, Mr. H. K. Bamber, 390
- Observations on the Relations between the Chemical Constitution and Ultimate Strength of Steel, Mr. W. R. Webster, 390
- Physical Influence of Elements on Iron, Prof. J. O. Arnold, 388
- On the Preparation of Specimens of Iron and Steel for Microscopic Examination, Mr. Stead, 390
- Programme of the Annual Meeting, 318
- Results of Heat Treatment on Manganese Steel, and their Bearing upon Carbon Steel, Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 390
- Walrand-Legandiisel Method of Making Steel Castings, Mr. G. J. Snelus, 369
Institute, Iron and Steel, Autumn Meeting of, at Brussels, 131
INSTITUTE OF IRON AND STEEL WORKS MANAGERS, THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE:—
- Oil and Petroleum Engines, Mr. H. M. Wayn- forth, 393
- Visit to the Manchester Canal and Liverpool Overhead Railway, 497
INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :—
- Fourth Annual Dinner, 547
- Pump Valves, Mr. W. E. Lilley, 78, 102
- Screw Propellers, Reversing Screw Propellers and Non - reversible Engines, Mr. Robert McGlasson, 17
INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, DUNDEE AND NORTH OF SCOTLAND:—
- Some Curious Old Inventions, Mr. G. C. Douglas, 175
INSTITUTE, THE SANITARY, 431:—
- Series of Lectures, 307
INSTITUTE, THE VICTORIA :—
- Possible Cause for the Origin of the Tradition of the Flood, Dr. Prestwich, 261
Institute, The Westminster Technical, 327
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS:—
- Awards for Papers read and discussed, 1893-4, 501
- Concentration and Sizing of Crushed Minerals, Mr. Robert E. Commans, 29
- Construction of Gasworks, Mr, Chas. Hunt, 318
- Council of the, 396
- Estuaries, Mr. H. L, Partiot, 360
- Examinations to be held at, 76
- “James Forrest” Lectures, Second of, 357
- Liverpool Overhead Railway, Construction and Electrical Equipment of, by Messrs. Greathead and Fox and Mr. J. Parker, 207
- Nineteenth Annual Dinner, 426
- Training of Rivers, The, Mr. L. F. Vernon- Harcourt, 359
- Tunnels on the Dore and Chinley Railway, Mr. Percy Rickard, 79
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, ASSOCIATION OF MANCHESTER STUDENTS :—
- Seventh Annual Dinner, 101
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, NEWCASTLE- ON-TYNE ASSOCIATION:—
- Bridge Floors, Mr. J. Watt Sandeman, 148
- Piles and Pile-driving, Mr. J. R. Baterden, 41, 463, 486
- Programme of a Visit to Liverpool, 547
- Water-tight Drainage and the Disposal of Sewage from Isolated Dwellings, Mr. G. S. W. Rogers, 467
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, THE:— Conversazione, 497
- Inaugural Address of Mr. Alexander Siemens, 47
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND :—
- Economy of Steam in Rolling Mill Engines, Mr. Worth, 187
- Electric Power Installations in Engineering and Ironworks, Mr. D. Selby-Bigge, 339
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS, HULL AND DISTRICT:—
- Boiler Management and Inspection, Mr. W, Pemberton, 234
- Water-tight Subdivision and the Pumping Arrangements of the First-class Cruisers recently completed, Mr. F. Somerscales, 135
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS, THE NORTH-EAST COAST:—
- Excursion to the Consett Iron Company’s Works, 527
Institution, Guilds Central, Change of Name, 114
INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :—
- Address by the President, Prof. Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 357, 404, 413
- Annual Dinner, 339
- Research Committee on Marine Engine Trials, Prof. T. H. Beare’s Report, 100, 114, 165
INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS, THE FEDERATED, 466
- Coal-getting by Machinery, Mr. T. H. Wordsworth, 152
- Coal-washing, Mr. F. Baum, 152
- Compressed Air, Professor Goodman, 152
- Four Other Papers taken as Read, 152
- Geology of the West Yorkshire Coalfield, Prof. Lupton, 152
- Photography in Coal Mines, Mr. W. H. Hughes, 152
- Programme for February, 112
- Shale Oil Industry of France, Prof. Chesneau, 152
- Visits of the Members, 152
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Report of Session 1893-4, 274
INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS, 120, 241
- Circulation in the Thorny croft Water Boiler, Mr. Thornycroft, 238
- Comparative Merits of Cylindrical and Watertube Boilers for Ocean Steamships, Mr. Howden, 238
- Experiments with Triple-expansion Engines at Reduced Powers, Mr. D. Croll, 230
INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS (continued):—
- Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, Mr. David Joy, 279
- Leaves from a Laboratory Note-book, Prof. V. B. Lewes, 279, 295
- Opening Address by the Vice-President, Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, Bart., 213
- Programme for the Session 1894, 183
- Qualities and Performances of Recent First- class Battleships, Mr. W. H. White, 213
- Recent Experiments in Armour, Mr. C. E. Ellis, 216
- Summer Meeting at Southampton, 523
- Vibrations of Steamers, Herr Otto Schlick, 259
- Water-tube Boilers, Mr. J. T. Milton, 250, 251
Institution, The Newsvendors’ Benevolent and Provident, Annual Meeting of, 93
Institution, Railway Benevolent, Duke of York to Preside at Dinner of, 245
Institution, Royal—see Royal Institution
Intercontinental Railway, Report on, 219
Interlaken and Lauterbrunnen, Mountain Railway between, 543
Internal Combustion Engines, Mr.P. F. Maccullum on, 47
International Navigation Company’s s.s.“South- wark,” 90, 91
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 222
International Congress of Interior Navigation, 546
International Geological Congress, The, 157
International Miners’ Congress, 461
Interior of the Earth, Rev. O. Fisher on the Condition of the, 153
Inverkeithing Collision, 3
Inwards, Mr., on Some Phenomena of the Upper Air, 353
Ireland, Surveyors in, 401
Irish Railway Working, 138
“Iron in Armatures,” Mr. Schultz on, 131
Iron on Barley, Influence of, 437
Iron Bars Subjected to Tension, Curves of, 245
Iron, M. G. Charpy on the Transformation of, 93
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 18, 36, 58, 80, 102, 123, 143, 166, 188, 208, 232, 253, 274, 296, 318, 340, 360, 382, 406, 427, 464, 488, 510, 530, 552, 576
Iron and Concrete Construction, 184
Iron at Different Temperatures, Magnetisation of, 374
Iron, Effect of Temperature on the Strength of, 3
Iron Gate and other Cataracts of the Danube, Regulation of the, 326, 332, 472, 473, 474
Iron, Magnetisation of Soft, 93
Iron and Nickel Wires, The Magnetisation of, 374
Iron, The Physical Influence of Elements on, 388
Iron Production, Crude, 291
Iron and Steel Flanges and Spigot and Socket Pipes, Spencer’s Welded, 336
Iron and Steel for Microscopic Examination, Preparation of Specimens of, 390
Iron and Steel in Shipbuilding, 32
Iron and Steel Trades in the United States, 25
Iron Trade and Railway Prospects, The Hematite, 183
Iron Trade, The Swedish, 335
Ironclad, Launch of a New Russian, 497
Ironclads, Re-armament of our Early, 355
Ironfounding, Mr. John Ashford, 498
Ironworks, Hammersmith, 283—286
Irresponsible Detectives, 530
Irrigation in Egypt, Sir B. Baker and, 115
Irrigation Works, Cordoba, 350, 351, 354
Ismid to Angora, Railway from, 437
Isler and Co., Messrs., Well for the Town of Spalding, 23, 24

JACOB, Professor Ernest H., Ventilation of Buildings, 125
Jack, Norton’s Compound Lifting, 413
Jacques, Captain, Submarine Artillery, 279
Jackson, Mr. G. F., Bridge Floors, 149
Jaffa and Jerusalem, Railway between, 261
Jamieson, Professor Andrew, Graduation at Gias gow University, 131
“James Forrest” Lectures, 357
Janet, M. P., Electro-chemical Method of Observation of Alternating Currents, 374
Japanese Competition, 315
Japanese Cruiser “Yoshino,” The, 128
Japanese Government, Battleships for the, 543
Japanese War Vessels, 505
Jaques, Captain, on American Armour, 399
Java, Trade of, 484
Jefferson, Mr. L., Bicycle Journey of, 219
Jeffrey Coal Mining Machine, The, 26
Jessop and Sons, Messrs. W., Propeller Shaft Brackets, 519
Jet of Vapour, Form, Pressures, and Temperatures of a, 115
Jetty at Hong Kong,, New Coaling, 568
Johnson’s Brick - making and Surface-sanding Machine, 413
Johnson, Mr. Emery R., Mr. W. H. Wheeler, on his Paper on Inland Waterways, 387
Johnson, Mr. Wm., Brick and Tile Making Exhibits at the National Building Exhibition, 263
Joint, Doulton’s, Metallo-Keramic, 316
Joly, Dr. J., Simple Methods in Teaching Elementary Physics, 153
Jones, Mr. 0. J., on the Viscosity of Liquids, 153
Joubin, M. P., on the Magnetisation of Soft Iron, 67, 93
Joule and Waterston-Kinetic Theory of Gases, 306
Joy, Mr. David, on a Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, 279
Joy’s Fluid Valve Gear, 310, 331, 396, 418, 419, 436, 478, 501
Jubilee of the Midland Railway Company, 397
Judd, Professor J. W., on Rubies, 402, 425, 435
Jukes-Brown, Mr. A. J., Total Amounts of Silica in Chalk with Flints and Flintless Chalk, 25

KAPP, Mr. Gisbert, Contradicts Erroneous Paragraph respecting Himself, 131
Kapp, Mr. Gisbert, and Mr. W. H. Preece, Bristol Electric Light Works, 432, 433, 434
Karachi Port, Extensions of Wharves of, 219
“Katahdin,” The United States Coast Defence Ram, 288, 293
Katni-Sangor Railway, Proposal to Start the Earthwork on, 568
Kearton, Mr. J. W., Magic Mirrors, 199, 379
Keat’s Marine Governor, 222
Kelly’s Directory of the Engineers’ and Iron and Metal Trades, 152
Kennedy, Professor Alexander B. W., his Presidential Address at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 357, 404, 413
Kennedy, Professor, and Electric Traction, 349
Kerr, Stuart, and Co., Messrs., Limited Liability Company, 287
Kerviller, M. Ren£, on the Projected Canal to Connect the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 131
Kew Bridge, Inadequacy of, and Public Meeting to Consider the Same, 336
Key List in Millimetres, Standard, 281
Key wood, Mr., Appointment of, 497
Khojah Tunnel, The, 202
Kinematic Theory of Gases, 542
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Joule and Waterston, 306
Kinetic Theory of Gases—Values of /3 and y in Natural Gases, 349, 370
King’s College, London, Annual Dinner of, 339
King Electric Railway System, Description of the, 519
King and Co., Messrs. C. S., Jeddo Tunnel in Pa., 93
King, Mendham, and Co., Messrs., Miles’ Electrical Time Check, 184
Kirby-in-Ashfield New Colliery, 291
Klemencic, Prof., on the Magnetisation of Iron and Nickel Wires by Rapid Electrical Oscillations, 374
Kolar Railway, The, 497
Korting Bros., Messrs., Removal of to 53, Victoriastreet, S.W., 245
Krupp Works, Heating Metals by the Electric Current, 568

LABOUR Commission, The Minority Report of the, 379
Labour Questions, Some, 181
Lac-lined Casks in a Brewery, Disastrous Results of the Employment of, 374
La Grange Dam, Cal., 470
Legrange and Hoho’s Process for Heating Metals by the Electric Current, 568
Laird Crosshead, Decline of the, 471
Lake of Geneva, Dissolved Matter carried into, by the Rhone and Affluents, 50
“La Marguerite,” Launch of the New Passenger Paddle-wheel Steamer, 359
“La Marguerite,” New Passenger Steamer, 560
Landslip, Railway Accident caused by, 67
Landslip on the South-Eastern Railway, 245
Lane, Mr. G., and Mr. J. Hawthorn, “Engineering Experience at Sea,” 440
Lancaster and Elrick, Messrs., Making Ice with Natural Gas, 543
Landslip in Bengal, 374
Larmour, Dr. J., on a Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium, 67
Latent Heats of Steam, 542
Latent Heats of Vapours, 574
Lathe, Friction Driven Engine, 56, 82
Lathe with Variable Feed without Change Wheels, 56, 82
Latitude, Professor Bakhuysen on the Variation of, 261
Launch of the “Caledonia,” 437
Launch of the “Hazard,” 153
Launch of a Pontoon Pier for Tilbury, 552
Launches and Trial Trips, 36, 75, 83, 104, 125, 153, 162, 168, 188, 208, 235, 249, 255, 277, 296, 315, 321, 343, 359, 363, 385, 409, 429, 437, 467, 491, 513, 519, 533, 552, 555, 579, 568
Lavezzari, M. A., Mechanisms for the Starting of Compound Locomotives, 579
Lavoisier, National Reparation to, 519
Law of Boyle and Marriotte, The, 70
Lawford, Mr. G. M., Staines Sewerage, 175
Laxton’s Builders’ Price Book, 249
LEADERS
- 1894, 9
- Admiralty Orders and Clyde Docking Facilities, 138
- Aluminium Yachts, 32
- American Coal War, The, 505
- American Methods of Working, 400
- Art in the Workshop, 183
- Balancing Locomotives, 203
- Boiler Efficiency, 481
- Boilers for Torpedo Catchers, 225
- Boilers, Water-tube Locomotive, 525
- British Armour and Ordnance, 247
- British Machinery, foreign Demand for, 546
- British Manufacturer Abroad, The, 137
- Buxton and the Railways, 422
- Captain Jaques on American Armour, 399
- Carpenter Projectiles, 462
- Catastrophe on Board the “Brandenburg,” The,
- Chemical Industry, 14
- Chicago Exhibition, The End of the, 51
- China and her Progress, 504
- Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, 182
- Civil Engineering, 9
- Clyde Shipbuilding, 118, 138, 183
- Coal and Conciliation, 355
- Coal Conciliation Board, The, 312
- Coal-cutting Machines in Nova Scotia, 227
- Coal Dust in Mines, 182
- Coal, Proposed Restriction of the Output of, 356
- Coal Strike and the Railway Companies, The, 160
- Coal Trade, Critical State of the, 505
- Coal War, the American, 505
- Coalfield, The Situation in the, 526
- Compression in Steam Cylinders, 569
- Conciliation Board, The, 96
- Cordite, 248
- Cordite Case, The, 96, 118
- Cordite Case, The Close of the, 138
- Cost of Electrical Energy, The, 375
- Crisis in the Gas Supply, 525
- Critical State of the Coal Trade, The, 505
- Croll, Mr., on Condensation in Cylinders, 267
- Crude Iron Production, 291
- Development of a New Coalfield in Derbyshire, 74
- Doctored Armour Plates in America, 311
- Dowe’s Cuirass, Herr, 482
- Dredger, An Oil Fired, 546
- Effect of Hardening Steel upon its Electrical Resistance, 74
- Electric Light in London, 399
LEADERS (continued):—
- Electric Lighting Station Accidents, 73
- Electric Tramway and Railway Regulations, 204
- Electricity and Town Refuse, 268
- Engineering as a Profession, 482
- Engineering Trades and Short Hours, The, 526
- Engineers for the Navy, 95
- Engineers in the Navy, 291
- European Expert Opinion on the Chicago System of Awards, 138
- Explosion at Waltham Abbey, The, 421
- Failure of Thick Harveyed Nickel Plates, The, 461
- Faults in Chalk, 204
- Foreign Demand for British Machinery, The, 546
- Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, The Proposed, 291
- Forty-eight Hours Week in Sunderland and in Manchester, 269, 289
- Forty-eight Hours Week and Overtime, 311
- Gas and the Electric Light, 376
- Gas Supply, 16
- Gas Supply, Crisis in the, 525
- German Shipbuilding, 423
- Government and the Eight Hours Day, 31
- Harbours and Waterways, 15
- Hematite Iron Trade and Railway Prospects, 183
- Hopeful Trade Views, 52
- How British Trade is Lost, 74
- Industrial Occupations, 31
- Improved Main Steam Pipes, 32
- Improvement of Trade, The, 97
- In Defence of Theft, 356
- International Congress of Interior Navigation, 546
- International Miners’ Congress, The, 461
- Irish Railway Working, 138
- Iron and Steel in Shipbuilding, 32
- Labour Questions, Some, 181
- Liquid Fuel at Sea, 291
- Liquid and Solid Fuel Supplies, 333
- London Fires and the Brigade, 96
- London Water Schemes, 226
- Machinery of the United States Navy, 51
- Marine Engine Trials, 117
- Mather, Mr., on the Eight Hours Day, 269, 289
- Maxim’s Cuirass, 504
- Mechanical Efficiency, 503
- Mechanical Engineering, 11
- Merchant Steam Shipping, Our, 183
- Metallurgy, 14
- Metropolitan Electric Lighting, 422
- Miners and the Liability Bill, The, 312
- Miners’ Eight Hours Bill Do ? What will the, 376
- Mining Engineering and Loss of Life, 335
- Modern British Locomotives, 159
- Naval Programme, The New, 247
- Navy Estimates, The, 267
- New Departure in Foreign Competition, A, 376
- North British Railway Works, 269
- North-Eastern Railway Projects, 160
- Northern Coal for Scotch Furnaces, 569
- Oil Engines at Cambridge, The, 569
- Oil Fired Dredger, An, 546
- Our Merchant Shipping, 483
- Over Factory Inspection, 376
- Pacific Telegraph Scheme, 526
- Paris a Seaport, 204
- Paris Underground Tramway, 462
- P. and O. S.S. Fleet, The, 505
- Petroleum in Somersetshire, 225
- President Carnot, 569
- Plea for the Traction Engine, A, 482
- Pola Armour Plate Competition, The, 118
- Profits of Coal Mining in France, 483
- Proposed Restriction of the Output of Coal, The, 356
- Proposed Twenty-four Hours Stand at the Cleveland Blast Furnaces, 569
- Railway Accidents, 421
- Railways for Trebizond, 335
- Railway Working in the Past Half-year, 74
- Re-armament of our Early Ironclads, The, 355
- Revival in Trade, The, 227
- Revolt against Dear Coal, 269
- Road and Railway, 482
- Rolling Stock in War, 401
- Royal Agricultural Society and the Press, The, 546
- Sanitary Engineering, 16
- Scotch Miners, The, 248
- Shipbuilding, The Movement in, 268
- Shipbuilding 13,000ft. above Sea Level, 160
- Short Roads to Knowledge, 545
- Situation in the Coalfield, The, 526
- Steamship Performance, 52
- Steel Furnaces, 203
- Strikes and Lockouts, 545
- Subsidence on Caledonian Railways near Glasgow, 227
- Swedish Iron Trade, The, 335
- Taxation of Machinery, The, 526
- Tea Curing Machinery, 32
- Technical Literature and Style, 400
- Tests of Cammell’s Harveyed-plates, 118
- Texel Armour Competition, The, 97
- Thermodynamic Puzzle, A, 334
- Train Resistances—English and American, 333
- Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, The, 118
- Typhoid Fever in Dublin, 97
- Underground Railway in Paris, 334
- U.S. Armour Plate Scandal, The, 503
- U.S. Press on Theft, The, 400
- Useless British Circulars, 52
- Utilisation of the Nile, The, 291
- War Materiel, 13
- Warships and Critics, 481
- Water Supply, 16
- Water-tube Locomotive Boilers, 525
- Where are the Missing Drawings ? 291
- Zuyder Zee, The, 400
Lead in the U.S., Production of, 115
Leaves from a Laboratory Notebook, Prof. V. B. Lewes, 279, 295
Leduc, M., on the Densities of certain Gases and the Composition of Water, 67
Lee-on-the-Solent, Light Railway at, 497
Lees, Messrs. T. and R., Automatic Cut-off, 245
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE
- Meux’s Brewery Company v. The City of London Electric Lighting Company, 360
- Muirhead and Another r. the Commercial Cable Company, 380
- North British Rubber Company, Limited, v. Mackintosh and Co., Limited, 518
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE (continued):—
- Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Company v. The Leeds Forge Company, 206
- Parkinson and Others v. Simon, 206, 252
- Shelfer v. The City of London Electric Lighting Company, 360
- Wise and Others v. Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, 381
Leicester Water Supply, The, 370
Lemoine, M. Georges, on the Action cf Light as an Exciting Agent, 245
Lens Colliery Company, “Canard” concerning a Borehole of the, 497
Lenses, Photographic, 573
Lentz, Mr., on Locomotive Designs, 44
Leproux, M., on the Distinctive Features of American Engines, 574
LETTERS to the Editor
- Action of Pulleys, Lever, 265
- Action of Pulleys, Sheave, 230
- Adams’ Sewage Lift, S. H. Adams, 501
- American Locomotives, Cabs, Running-boards, and Foot-plates, Hugh Sharp, 306
- American Locomotive Cars, Running-boards, and Foot-plates, Hugh Sharp, 157
- Analysis of Water? Analysis, 503
- Australian Shipping Trade, The, John Plummer, 47
- Automatic Door Closing ? Marine, 421
- Balancing Locomotives, Engineering English, 241
- Balancing Locomotives, H. Rolfe, 230
- Balancing Locomotives, Pulleys, H. Rolfe, 265
- Behaviour of Circular Tubes under Pressure, L. P., 360
- Belleville Boilers, For Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Ld., 499
- Belt Driving and Bearing Friction, G. O., 289
- Bending Angle Iron? Joseph Brown, jun., 481
- Board of Trade and Railway Accidents, H. Richardson, 478
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, Charge Man, 523
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, A Learner, 523
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, Ed. C. de Secundo,523
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, Town Councillor, 500
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, W. H. Tozer, 523
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, H. D. Wilkinson, 551
- Board of Trade Unit of Electricity, H. S. West, 523
- Brass Foundry Dross (not Skimmings) Grinding, Brassfounder, 137
- Candle-making Machinery, H. C. C., 311
- Carnot and Modern Heat, Peter Alexander, 396
- Carnot and Modern Heat, M. A., 348
- Carnot and Modern Heat, Wm. Donaldson, 418, 478, 522
- Carnot and Modern Heat, Gunner, 348
- Carnot and Modern Heat, R. H., 371
- Carnot and Modern Heat, Otto Cycle, 436
- Carnot and Modern Heat, P. Wilkins, 318
- Carpet-beating Machinery ? K. J., 117
- Chicago Exhibition, Engineering Congress, Robert Mansel, 157
- Colouring Aluminium ? P. W. D., 159
- Comparative Results of Certain Steamship Trials, Robert Mansel, 573
- Consumption of Smoke, Wigham Richardson, 47
- Contracts for Locomotive Coal for 1894, R. J , 35
- Converting Waste Wood of Sawmills into Charcoal? W. D., 225
- Corollary to the Nebular Theory, A. G. D. S., 71
- Cost of Light? J. C. Simonds and Son, 159
- Cotton Seed Oil ? A. E. L., 31
- Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, M. Inst. C.E., 396
- Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, T. C. D., 396
- County Council’s Return to the Science and Art Department, Geo. Halliday, 419
- Crank-pin Hole Boring Machine, Charles Williams, 440
- Cutting Telegraph Paper Coils? E. B., 399
- Cylinder Condensation, C. E. B., 46
- Cylinder Condensation, W. R. Cummings, 35, 135
- Destruction of Fire-bars? Inquire, 181
- Disposal of Town Refuse, Wm. Boby, 310
- Dixon’s Sight-feed Lubricator? F. G., 333
- Early Railway Days? S. Cotterell, 159
- Education of Marine Engineers, A. D., 70
- Efficiency of Centrifugal Pumps? Twirier, 9
- Eight Hours’ Experiment, A Novocastrian, 310
- Electric Light Engines, Electron, 35
- Electric Lighting of London, Bab, 440
- Electric Lighting of London, T. W. Baker, 440
- Electric Lighting in London, Gisbert Kapp, 418
- Electrical Cranes, J. B., 418
- Electrical Cranes? J. B., 461
- Electricity and Town Refuse, Arthur E. Collins, 331
- Electricity and Town Refuse, W. A. Martin, 295, 349
- Elliptical Conic Sections, Robt. Huckson, 46
- Elliptical Conic Sections, Jas. MacDonald, 46 99
- Elliptical Conic Sections, C. H. Mackenzie, 99
- Engineering as a Profession, A., 552
- Engineering as a Profession, E. C, A., 574
- Engineering as a Profession, E. R. Briggs, 522
- Engineering as a Profession, Denarius, 499, 552
- Engineering as a Profession, Dignatio, 574
- Engineering as a Profession, R. Dodd, 573
- Engineering as a Profession, Draughtsman, 551
- Engineering as a Profession, A Young Engineer, 478
- Engineering as a Profession, F. G., 522
- Engineering as a Profession, Guardian, 478
- Engineering as a Profession, Cecil Lightfcot 522, 574
- Engineering as a Profession, Mechanic, 499
- Engineering as a Profession, F. B. N., 552
- Engineering as a Profession, Pater, 436
- Engineering as a Profession, Pater Secundus 552
- Engineering as a Profession, Son, 522
- Engineering as a Profession, Student, 551
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued):—
- Engineering as a Profession, Stud. Inst. C.E., 522
- Engineer Personnel of the Navy, C. P., 294
- Engineers for the Navy, H. G. Gillmor, 134
- Engineers for the Navy, Certificated E. R. A., 134
- Engineers for the Navy, W. S. Clayton Greene, 134
- Engineers for the Navy, C. P., 440
- Engineers for the Navy, H. Lawrence Swin¬burne, 134
- Entropy, Robt. Mansel, 523
- Erdmenger’s (Dr. L.), Method of Testing Portland Cement, andc., by High-pressure Steam, C. H. Engrehart, 142
- Expansion by Cold, C. H. Wingfield, 99
- Fibre Treating Machinery ? Fibre, 73
- Fire-proof Buildings and Sound, F., 230
- Fire-pump Locomotives, W. Warren, 264
- Fischer-Peters, System of Water Filtration ? M.I.C.E., 225
- Foreign Tests of Steel, Thos. Andrews, 371
- Forty-eight Hours Week and Mr. Mather’s Report, John Batey, 330
- Forty-eight Hours Week and Mr. Mather’s Report, Early Bird, 330
- Forty-eight Hours Week, The, A Fitter’s Wife, 371
- Forty-eight Hours Week and Mr. Mather’s Report, A. PI. Hope, 330
- Forty-eight Hours Week, The, An Old Mauds'ayite, 371
- Forty-eight Hours Week and Mr. Mather’s Report, C. R. Parkes, 330
- Friction of Gases, X., 574
- Gas Engines and Anthracite, Tangyes Limited, 574
- Gigantic Wheel, The, Walter H. Maudslay, 379
- Gold Mining Machinery? R. H. H., 31
- Gold Mining Machinery, E. E. Russell-Tratman, 135
- Hague Inland Navigation Congress, 1891, L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, 478
- Hague International Inland Navigation Con¬gress, L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, 310
- Hatcher’s Tile Machinery ? R H., 333
- Hauling Problem, W. R. Hague, 117
- High Carbon Rails, Light Railways, E. E. Russell-Tratman, 478
- Indiana Armour Plates, W. H. Jaques, 500, 501
- Indicator Card of the Oil Engine, J. F. Conradi, 529
- Inertia of the Reciprocating Parts of a Steam Engine, Arch. Sharp, 500, 501
- Instantaneous Steam Generators ? J. B., 181
- Instantaneous Steam Generators ? John H. Knight, 203
- Institution of Naval Architects, Eiwin N. Henwood, 241
- Irresponsible Detectives, Enginewright, 530
- Joy’s Fluid Pressure Gear, S. J. Ross, 478
- Joy’s Fluid Pressure Reversing Gear, David Joy, 436
- Joy’s Fluid Valve Gear, David Joy, 501
- Joy’s Hydraulic Reversing Gear, Hy. M. Rounthwaite, 396
- Joy’s Liquid Valve Gear, David Joy, 331, 348, 418
- Joy’s Liquid Valve Gear, J. J. T., 310
- Joy’s Valve Gear, F. J. Ross, 419
- Jubilee of the Midland Railway Company, Clement E, Stretton, 397
- Kinematic Theory of Gases, C. E. Basevi, 542
- Kinetic Theory of Gases—Joule and Waterston, C. E. Basevi, 306
- Kinetic Theory of Gases—Values of /3 and y in Natural Gases, C. E. Basevi, 372
- Kinetic Theory of Gases—Values of v, /3, and y in Natural Gases, C. E. Basevi, 349
- Latent Heats of Vapours, Wm. Donaldson, 574
- Latent Heats of Vapours, Robt. Mansel, 542
- Law of Boyle and Marriotte and Absolute Zero, Wm. Donaldson, 70
- Lindsay’s Steam Packing, T. S., 181
- Liquid Air, Cum Grano Salis, 71
- Liquid Fuel at Sea, Edwin N. Henwood, 310, 396
- Liquid Fuel at Sea, F. L. Wanklyn, 396
- Locomotive Cars, Percy Caldecott, 178
- Locomotive Engine Cabs, Old Buffer, 198
- Locomotive Engine Cabs, Mernok, 198
- Locomotive Engine Cabs, Clement E. Stretton, 198
- London Water Supply and the London Water Companies, E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, 198
- Lubricated Surfaces — Pressure Necessary to Squeeze out Rape Seed Oil, 51
- Luxemberg Exhibition, The, J. Walter Pearse, 574
- Magnesite, Bricks? A. W. G., 117
- Marine Engine Tests, John William Howard, 135
- Marsh Steam Pump? The, W., 355
- Maxim Breast-plate, The, Hiram S. Maxim, 501
- Maxim Cuirass, The, C. Fred. Lowe, 574
- Maxim Cuirass Competitions, Hiram S. Maxim, 542
- Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Robt. Mansel, 379
- Melville’s Tube Stopper ? M. P., 375
- Mineral Oil Lamp Accidents, D. R. Stewart, 157
- Modern Heat, William Donaldson, 197
- Modern Heat, M. A., 99, 134, 178, 230
- Modern Heat, Oliver J. Lodge, 197
- Modern Heat, Student, 99
- Modern Heat, W. Wiseheart, 198
- Molybdenum, O. Berend and Co., 36
- Moments of Inertia of Riveted Girders? C. 0. B., 95
- Moving Locomotives through Streets, Isaac Watt Boulton, 179
- Naval Construction, G. W. Cobb, 294
- Note on the Subdominant Speeds of Steam Vessels, Robert Mansel, 178, 436
- Note on the Subdominant Speed of War Vessels, Robert Mansel, 178
- Oblique Arches, R. O. Rogerson, 137
- Oil Engines, R. Hornsby and Sons, 71
- Oil Fuel at Sea, T. G. Turner, 500
- Oil Gas Plant? R. W. W., 355
- Patent Law in Denmark, W. P. Thompson and Co., 295
- Patents in Denmark, E. P. Alexander and Son, 478
- Petroleum Storage Tanks? Drilling and Refining Plant, 73
- Piles and Pile Driving, Samuel H. Agnew, 500
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (continued):—
- Portland Cement Making Materials, Percy J. Neate, 500
- Problem in Haulage, A, Fred. Hovenden, 95
- Problem in Haulage? A, Fred. Hovenden, 137
- Problem in Haulage? Incline, 73
- Production of Ozone, Jensen and Son, 135
- Professor Kennedy and Electric Traction, Frank B. Lea, 349
- Proposed Standard for Measuring Sewage Influence in Air and Soil, Hill-Hartland, 178
- Reciprocals ? Calculator, 503
- Refrigerating Machines, J. and E. Hall, 99, 397
- Refrigerating Machine of To-day, The, J. and E. Hall, Limited, 35
- Refrigerating Machines, T. B. Lightfoot, 349
- Refrigerating Machinery, C. Linde, 70, 179
- Refrigerating Machinery, Frozen Mutton, 47
- Refrigerating Machine of To-day, The, Sam. Puplett, 135
- Rendering ? W. C., 525
- Reversing Screw Propellers, Robert McGlasson, 36, 574
- Rolling of Warship’, The, J. J. O’Neill, 156
- Rolling of Warships, The, Passenger, 156
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, Another Engineer, 360
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, Britannia Company, 397
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, Britannia Company, per A. M., 331
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, Engineer, 310
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, John Henry Knight, 310
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, Wm. H. Samuel and Co., 310
- R.A.S.E. Trials of Oil Engines, On Trial, 295, 331, 379
- Royal and Civil Engineers in India, M. Inst. C.E., 397
- Sale of Materials of the Albert Palace and Connaught Hall, 501
- San Roque Dam, Argentine Republic, Geo. P. Weight, 396
- Siniter Desulphurising Process, E. H. Saniter, 47
- Scott’s Moulding Machine? H. P., 137
- Sewage Separator, Wm. B. Bryan, 71
- Sewage Separator, S. S. Platt, 47
- Sewer Interceptor, Arthur E. Collins, 36
- Seymour’s Friction Clutch ? Friction Clutch, 95
- Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, J. A. Aiton, 179
- Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, Enquirer, 230
- Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, Hunter and English, 179, 295
- Specific and Latent Heats of Steam, T. B., 294
- Specific and Latent Heat of Steam, G. M. Clark, 306
- Specific and Latent Heats of Steam, W. Donaldson, 265, 371, 396
- Specific and Latent Heats of Steam, Wm. H. Harrison, 396
- Specific and Latent Heats of Steam, Robert Mansel, 294, 419
- Southampton Docks, John Dixon, 36
- Southampton Docks, B. W. Ginsburg, 99
- Steam at High Altitudes, Inca, 264
- Steam and Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, W. Warren, 241
- Steel Moulders’ Composition? P. Q., 9
- Substitute for Pipe Tongs, J. Parry, 419
- Substitute for Pipe Tongs, P. J. L., 419
- Taper Crank Pin-hole Boring Machine, G. B. Goodfellow, 135
- Taxation of Machinery, X., 551
- Tensile Tests of Wrought Iron Railway Axles, Tenacity, 36
- Test of an Electrical Plant, Consulting Engineer, 99
- Test of an Electrical Plant, Siemens Bros, and Co., Ld., 71, 135
- Testing Portland Cement by High-pressure Steam, C. H. R. Engleheart, 230
- Testing Portland Cement by High-pressure Steam, Henry Faija, 178, 265
- Testing Portland Cement by High-pressure Steam, W. T. Parrack, 230
- Thermodynamic Puzzle, Edward T. Dixon, 348
- Tobacco Pipe Machinery? J. C., 311
- Trade Marks in Greece, Reginald W. Barker, 99
- Train Resistance, English and American, A Constant Reader, 379
- Transatlantic Rivalry, A Briton, 523
- Train Resistance, English and American, C. B. Penlington, 379
- Trent Bridge on the Midland Railway, J. Wul- stan Twinberrow, 99
- Tubulous Boilers, W. Lindsay Milne, 157
- Tubulous Boilers, Ludlow Pattoy Perkins, 156
- United States Cruiser “Columbia,” R. Mansel, 70
- Value of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, G. M. Clark, 436
- Varley Testimonial, The, A. Stroh and R. E. Crompton, 198
- Ventilation of Public Buildings, Frank Ashwell, 241
- Ventilation of Public Buildings, The, Arthur Rigg, 156
- Volunteer Fleet, A, Britain, 542
- Volunteer Fleet, A, J. C. Merryweather, 523
- Volunteer Fleet, A, A. Would-be Volunteer, 574
- Warming Railway Carriages, Robert Bell, 71
- Water Analysis, H. T. W., 525
- Water Main Bridges'! Thirst, 545
- Water-tube Boilers, S. Barber, 179
- Water-tube Boilers, Horse Marine, 264
- Water-tube Boilers, Jas. Howden, 264
- Water-tube Boilers, H. Irwin, 179
- Water-tube Boilers, Fritz Krauss, 241, 293, 331
- Water-tube Boilers, Oliver J. Lodge, 293
- Water-tube Boilers, Robert Porter, 522
- Water-tube Boilers, A. N. Somerscales, 310
- Water-tube Boilers, John I. Thornycroft, 294
- Water-tube Boilers, John Watt, 331
- Water-tube Boilers, J. Lee White, 264
- Willans Memorial Fund, Alex. B. W. Kennedy, 295
- Wire Rope Breaking Strains, Simplex, 360
- Wood Match-making Machine ? B. K. C.,J 137
Level Crossing near Altrincham, Accident at the Public Road, 374
Leven Shipyard Awards Scheme, 7
Lewes, Professor, Leaves from a Laboratory Notebook, 279, 295
Lewis and Alien’s Flooring Cramps, 475
Lewis, Mr. Gilbert, on the Manchester Hydraulic Power Installation, 339
Lifeboats for the British Navy ordered of a Berlin Firm, 305
Lifeboat Saturday Movement, 128
Lifeboat, Steam, 426
Lift, Adams’ Sewage, 501
Lift in which the Ball-threaded Nut is Used, 374
Lift Bridge over the Chicago River, 307
Lift, Sewage, 486
Lift, Water-saving, 416, 420
Light, Action of, as an Exciting Agent, 245
Light ? The Cost of, 159
Light, Lord Rayleigh on, 120, 129, 164, 177
Light Railway at Lee-on-the-Solent, 497
Light to be Obtained by Different Systems for One Penny, 519
Lighthouse Stations in the World, Number of, 25
Lighthouse, Withernsea, 115
Lighting and Extinguishing Street Lamps, System of, 175
Lightning Bolt, The, 164
Lilienthal’s Experiments on Flying, 175
Lilley, Mr. W. E., Pump Valves, 78, 102
Limoges, The Fuel Question at, 568
Lindsay’s Steam Packing ? 181
Lineham, Prof. W. J., on the Uses of Curved Diagrams, 244
Link Belting, Walton’s, 76
Linotype Composing Machine, Work done upon a, 131
Liquid Air, 71
Liquid Air, Gaseous and, 24, 55
Liquid Air, Some Scientific Uses of, Prof. Dewar, 78
Liquid Fuel at Sea, 291, 310, 360, 396
Liquid and Solid Fuel Supplies, 333
Liquid Valve Gear, Joy’s, 310, 331
LITERATURE:
- Algebra of Coplanar Vectors and Trigonometry, by R. B. Hayward, 161
- Almanach Hachette : Petite Encyclopedic Populaire, 139
- British Locomotives: their History, Construction, and Modern Development, by C. J. Bowen Cooke, 291
- Chicago Exhibition : Official Catalogue of the British Section, 139
- Colliery Managers’ Handbook, The, by Caleb Pamely, 138
- Controle de la Route au Compas par Reperes Lumineux, par M. J. Lephay, 161
- Decorative Work for House and Home (in Three Parts), 335
- Drahtseilbahnen der Schweiz, Die, by K. Walloth, 53
- Drum Armatures and Commutators, F. Marten, Weymouth, 570
- Electrical Experiments, by G. Bonney, 401
- Electricity and Magnetism, by S. R. Bottone, 505
- Electricity up-to-date, John B. Verity, 547
- Elementary Metal Work, by Chas. G. Leland, 291
- Elementary Text-book of Coal Mining, by Robt. Peel, 291
- Elements of Graphic Statics, by L. M. Hoskins, 161
- Engineers’ Year-book of Formulae, Rules, Tables, Data, and Memoranda, for Civil Electrical, Marine, and Mine Engineering, by H. R. Kempe, 335
- Explosives and their Power (from the French of M. Berthelot), by C. N. Hake and Wm. Macnab, 423
- Guide to Electric Lighting, A, by S. Bottone, 356
- History of the Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Vol. II, Parts I. and II, by the late Isaac Todhunter, 483
- International Time, Scheme for Harmonising the Hour all the World Round, by the Hon. E. Noel, 161
- Irrigation Works in India and Egypt, by Robt. Burton Buckley, 33
- Manual of Naval Architecture, W. H. White, 547
- Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 97
- New Notation of Time, Report of the Special Committee on Uniform Standard Time, 161
- Original Papers on Electric Lighting, by John Hopkinson, 356
- Pocket-book for Plumbers, Architects, Sanitary Engineers, and others, by J. Wright-Clarke and W. Hibbert, 291
- Pocket-book of Useful Formulae and Memoranda for Civil and Mechanical Engineers, by Sir Guilford L. Molesworth, 183
- Practical Building Construction, by John Parnell Allen, 183
- Principles of Fitting, The, by a Foreman Pattern-maker, 269
- Principles of Waterworks Engineering, by J. H. T. Turner and A. W. Brightmore, 227
- Pumping Machinery, by Wm. M. Barr, 74
- Pumps and Pumping Machinery, Part I., by F. Colyer, 401
- Resistance of Ships and Screw Propulsion, by D. W. Taylor, 462
- Round the Works of our Great Railways, by Various Authors, 248
- Sewage Disposal in the United States, D. van Nostrand and Co., 526
- Systems of Car Lighting, New York: Engineering News, 505
- Text-Book of Gas, Air, and Oil Engines, or Internal Combustion Motors without Boilers, by Bryan Donkin, 160
- Theorie du Navire, par J. Pollard et A. Dudebout, 483
- Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, by A. E. H. Love, 483
- Water or Hydraulic Motors, by Philip H. Bjorling, 483
Livens, Mr. F. Howard, British and Metric System for Engineers’ Work, 419
Liverpool Corporation, Finance Committee, Pronouncement of Policy, 50
Liverpool Landing Stage, Improvements at the, 258
Liverpool and Manchester, Mercantile Railway ; between, 50
Liverpool and Manchester Ports, Limits of, 3
Liverpool Overhead Railway, The, 207
Liverpool Overhead Railway, The Cost of Working, 374
Liverpool Overhead Railway taken over by the Railway Company, 3
Liverpool Overhead Electric Railway, Result of First Half-year’s Working, 175
Liverpool-street Railway Station, Great Eastern Railway, Enlargement of, 494, 515, 516, 524, 559, 560
Liversedge, Mr., on the Origin of Gold Nuggets, 570
Lock and Footbridge, Richmond. 438
Lock-nut, The “Cornwall,” 336
Location Surveys for Railways, Mr. M. L. Lynch on, 57
Locomotion in London, London County Council and, 3
Locomotives Act in Relation to the Electric Traction Industry, The, 393
Locomotives in America, 47
Locomotives, Balancing, 203, 230, 241, 265
Locomotive Boilers, Water-tube, 525
Locomotive Building in Norway, 261
Locomotive Cabs, 178, 198
Locomotives, Cabs, Running Boards and Platform, American, 306
Locomotives, Cabs, Running Boards, and Footplates, American, 157
Locomotive Coal for 1894, Contracts for, 35
Locomotives, Compound, Mechanisms for the Starting of, 579
Locomotive, Construction of the Modern, 171, 217, 257, 301, 302, 345
Locomotive Crane, Manchester Ship Canal, 463
Locomotive Design, Mr.- Lentz on, 44
Locomotives, Differences between American and Foreign, by Mr. D. L. Barnes, 57
Locomotive Engine Cabs, 178, 198
Locomotive, Express Passenger, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Mr. T. Parker (Supplement, April 6th and 13th, 1894), 286, 304. 313
Locomotive Fire Engine, 228
Locomotives, Fire-pump, 264
Locomotive, The Heilman Electric, 108, 111, 393
Locomotives added to the Midland Railway Stock, 175
Locomotives, Modern British, 159
Locomotive, Narrow Gauge Tank, 77
Locomotives, Narrow Gauge Tank, for Indian State Railways, 544, 550, 568
Locomotive, Passenger Tank, South-Eastern Railway (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 46, 65, 66, 72
Locomotives, Rhode Island, at the Chicago Exhibition (Supplement, January 5th, 1894), 6, 7, 8
Locomotives, Self-adjusting Sand Pipe Nozzle for, 378
Locomotive Steam Crane. Twenty-ton, 337
Locomotives, Tank and Tender, Major Marindin, 50
Locomotive, Tank, London and South-Western Railway (Supplement, June 29th, 1894), 572
Locomotive, Test Run with a New Four-cylinder Compound, 199
Locomotive Thrashing Engines Bill, 378
Locomotives through Streets, Moving, 179
Locomotive, The Winby, 25
Locomotives, The Winterthur Company’s New, 67
Locomotive, Work done in a Year by the “870 ” of the New York Central, andc., 415
Locomotive Works, Mr. J. W. C. Haldane’s Descriptive Account of a Visit to the Latest, 141
Lodge, Dr. Oliver, Carnot and Modern Heat, 1, 21, 41, 63, 85, 86, 99, 108, 127, 147, 237, 279, 323, 348, 411
Lodge, Dr. Oliver, Sensitive Detector and Emitter of Electric Radiation, 527
Lodge, Dr. Oliver, The Work of Hertz, 510
London Births and Deaths, 3, 25, 50, 67, 93, 115, 153, 261, 287, 307, 327, 353, 393, 415, 437
London County Council Technical Elucation Board, 408
London County Council and the Water Companies The, 363
London Death Rate, 245
London, Electric Lighting of, 418, 422, 440
London Electric Supply Corporation, The, 394
London Fires and the Brigade, 96
London Geological Field Class, Summer Excursions, 287
London, High Wycombe, Great Marlow, Henley- on-Thames, and Reading Railway, Scheme for the, 131
London and North-Western Accounts for the Half-Year, Balance Shown by, 131
London and North-Western Railway Company’s London Road Station, Collision at the, 437
London and North-Western Railway, Report of Train Mileage, 131
London and North - Western Railway, Signal Alterations on the, 153
London Sewers, Total Length of, 519
London and South-Western Railway, Four- coupled Bogie Tank Engine (Supplement June 29th, Supplement June 15th, 1894), 517
London, Walthamstow, and Epping Forest Railway, 175
London Water, Composition and Quality of, 175
London Water Schemes, 226
London Water Supply and the London Water Companies, 198
London Water Supply, Royal Commission on the, 244
Long-distance Power Transmission, 497
Longitudinal Shipbuilding, Messrs. Croom and Arthur’s System, 346, 347
Love, Mr., Electric Conduit Street Railway, 307
Low-pressure Filter, 4
Lubricants, Their Use, Testing and Analysis, Mr. W. E. Seymour, 357
Lubricated Surfaces — Pressure Necessary to Squeeze out Rape Seed Oil ? 51
Lubricating Oil, Waste of, 479
Lubrication, Mr. H. Railings on, 231
Lubricators, Straker’s, 394
“Lucania’s” Passage, The, 327
Lupton, Professor, Geology of the West Yorkshire Coalfield, 152
Luxemburg Work Exhibition, 526, 574
Lynch, Mr. M. L., on Location Surveys for Railways, 57
Lyon’s Apparatus for Purifying Feed-water, 184

MACADAM, Machinery as Applied to the Breaking-up of, 340
Macadam Roads in Darby, Pa., 307
Maccullum, Mr. P. F., On Internal Combustion Engines, 47
MacDonald, Mr. J. A. M., Bridge over the Trent. 27, 28, 30
McDonald, Mr., His Report as Engineer-in-Chief of the Midland Railway, 131
McGlasson,Mr. R., Reversing Screw Propellers, 175
Machine Guns, Mr. Matthews on, 439
Machine Tools at the Chicago Exhibition, 148
Machinery as Applied to the Breaking-up of Macadam, 340
Machinery, Its Relation to Commercial and Industrial Depression, 352
Machinery, Sale of, 69
Machinery, The Taxation of, 526, 551
McKay Electric Drill, The, 68
McLaren, Mr. Henry, The Traction Engine in New Zealand, 317
M’Onie, Sir Wm., 111
McPhail and Simpson’s Superheater, Trial of, 121, 140
McGlasson, Mr. Robert, On Screw Propellers, Reversing, Screw Propellers, and Non-Reversible Engines, 17
Madagascar, M. Grandidier, on Soil and Climate of, 415
Madras Harbour, Tidal Observatory, 568
Magic Mirrors, Mr. J. W. Kearton, on Making, 199
Maginnis, Mr. J., Pencil Beam Compass, 208
Magnesite Bricks ? 117
Magnetic Field of a Current Running in a Cylindrical Coil, 3
Magnetic Properties of Iron at Different Temperatures, 374, 479
Magnetic Properties of Iron, Measurement of the, 353
Magnetisation of Iron and Nickel Wires by Rapid Electrical Oscillations, 374
Magnetisation of Soft Iron, 67, 93, 374, 479
Magnetisation of Soft Iron, On the Law of the, 67
Magnetism of the Earth, Mr. H. Wilde on the, 379
Maia, Senhor H. de A., On Engineering in, 152
Main, Mr., Cost of Steam and Water Power, 575
Main Steam Pipes, Improved, 32
Makowski, Mr., On Electric Railways and Tramways, 362
Makowski, Mr. A. W., On the Manchester Ship Canal, 142
Malacca Railway, Sanctioned by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 543
Manchester, Arrival of Cotton in, 55
Manchester Corporation, and Mr, Geo. Bell’s Tender, 25
Manchester Corporation, Electric Light Engines, 391, 392
Manchester Corporation, Hydraulic Power Supplied by, 115
Manchester, The Forty-eight Hours Week in, 289, 296
Manchester Gas Works, Air Compressor, 424, 425
Manchester Hydraulic Power Installation, 339
Manchester and Liverpool Ports, Limits of, Fixed, 3
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Express Passenger Locomotive, Mr. T. Parker (Supplements, April 6th and 13th, 1894), 286, 304, 313
MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL:—
- Advertisements from the Old Newspaper “John Bull,” 1825, 5
- Barton Swing Aqueduct, 448
- Biographical Notes, 454
- Bridges, The, 446
- Bridges over the, Mr. Marshall Stevens on the, 135
- Bridge Materials, 459
- Cattle Trade with Belfast by Means of, 25
- Construction of the Canal, The, 443
- Cotton-laden Vessels, Arrival of, 67
- Docks, The, 451
- Dredger “Manchester,” 457
- Dry Dock near Mode Wheel Locks, 153
- Early Schemes, 441
- Embankments, 445
- Excavations, 445
- Financial Prospects of the, 24, 26, 131, 327, 443, 497
- Flood Tide in, 65
- Grounding of the “Granada” in, 3
- Handbook Published.by the Company, 153
- Illustrated Account of, 327
- Liverpool and the Ship Canal, 101
- Locks, The Subsidiary, 445
- Locomotive Crane, 463
- Makovski, Mr. A. W., on, 142
- Mavor and Coulson, Messrs., Appoint Mr. H. T. Barnett as their London Agent, 374
- Minor Features, 451
- Opening of, 199
- Parliamentary Struggle, The, 441
- Pontoon and Dry Docks Company, Opening of Dry Dock, 153
- Queen’s Trip on the, 353
- Raising the Capital, 443
- A Retrospect, May, 1894, 441
- Returns of the, 24
- Returns of Vessels taken to Manchester by Way of, 93
- Rival Schemes, 441
- Storm Sluices, 446
- Structural Ironwork of, The Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company, 3
- Swing Bridges, 448
Manchester Ship Canal Company, Want of a Further Million, 131
Mandalay-Kunlon Railway, The, 568
Manganese, Greene and Wahl cn the Manufacture of, 287
Manganese Peroxide in Sewage, Reduction of, 307
Manganese Steel, Results of Heat Treatment on, 390
Manila to Taal, Sale of Railway from, 25
Manning, Mr., Comparative Cost of Steam and Water Power, 575
“Majestic,” Laying of the Keel of the, 115
“Majestic” and the “ Paris,” Passages of the, 437
Map of England and Wales useful to Mining Engineers and Colliery Proprietors, 50
Map of London, New, 67
Map of River, Cataracts and Irongate Rocks, 473
Map showing Underground Water Flow in Hertfordshire, 244
Marden, Stag and Horse Killed on the South- Eastern Railway at, 115
Marine Boilers, Water-tube, 132, 133, 249, 250, 251
Marine Engine Tests, 135
Marine Engine Trials, 117, 165
Marine Engine Trials, Research Committee on, 100, 114, 165
Marine Engineering, Practical Problems in, 149
Marine Engineering, Recent Developments in, 414
Marine Engineers, Education of, 70
Marine Governor, Keats’, 222
Marks, Mr. E. C. R., Pumping Machinery, 174
Marsden’s Stone Breaker, Elevator, and Screen, 197
Marsh Steam Pump ? 355
Marshall Stevens, Mr., on the Bridges over the Manchester Ship Canal, 135
Marston, Mr., on Accidents in the Cumberland Mines, 245
Maschinen Fabrik, Baum, Coal-washing Apparatus, 541
Mather, Mr., on the Eight Hours Day, 269, 289, 330
Mathewson’s Sand-blast Apparatus, 281
Matter and Co., Messrs., Screw Boat with Delame- Deboutaville Gas Engine, 543
Matter, Solid and Liquid States of, 402, 425, 435
Matthews, Mr., on Machine Guns, 439
Matthews, Mr., Summoned to Report on the Sandgate Sea-wall, 245
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., Engines of H.M.S. “Theseus” and “Royal Arthur,” 246, 249
Maxim Breast Plate, 501
Maxim Cuirass, The, 501, 504, 521, 542, 574
May, Mr. Decourcy, Cost of an Indicated Horse- Power, 575
Mayne, Mr. Charles, in London on Municipal Business, 568
Meade, Mr. T. de Courcy, Appointed City Surveyor of Manchester, 519
Meade, Mr. T. de Courcy, Highgate Museum of Sanitary Appliances, 327
Meat, Enormous Cargo of Refrigerated, 488
Mechanical Efficiency, 503
Mechanical Engineering (see Erratum, page 51), 11
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Value of the, 379, 436
Mechanics, A Spider’s Knowledge of, 307
Mechanism of Electrical Conduction, 437
Mechanism of Great Telescopes, 486
Meldrum Furnace, The, 539
Melton Mowbray Local Board and the Purification of their Sewage, 38
Melhuisb, Sons and Co., Messrs., Mitre Catting and Paring Machine, 76
Melville’s Tube Stopper 375
Merchant Shipping, Our, 483
Merchant Steam Shipping, Our, 183
Merry weather and Sons, Messrs., Locomotive Fire Engine, 228
Mersey, The, 402
Mersey Dock Board and the Railway Company’s Tolls, Rates, and Dues, Desired Reduction of, 50
Mesaba Range, Bessemer Ore from the, 307
Metal Pipes, Destruction of Underground by Electric Currents, 415
Metalliferous Mines in Cumberland and N. Lonsdale, Accidents in the, 245
Metallo-Keramic Joint, Doulton’s, 316
Metallurgy, 14
Metals, Action of Some on Acid Solutions of their Chlorides, 25
Meteorite Described by Mr. E. Goldsmith, 199
Metropolitan Electric Lighting, 418, 422, 440
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, The County Council’s Intentions with Regard to the, 131
Metropolitan Railway Company’s Servants, Meeting of, and the New Act for Shortening the Hours, 153
Metropolitan River Police, New Steam Launch for, 287
Metropolitan Water Supply, 265
Metropolitan Water Supply, Maps and Plans of Royal Commission, 245
Meux’s Brewery Company v. The City of London Electric Lighting Company—Shelter v. Same, 360
Mewburn and Ellis, Messrs., Partnership as Patent Agents, 374
Mexico, Drainage of the Valley of, 44
Michele, M., Portland Cement, 67
Middlesbrough Corporation, Tenders for a Gasholder, 519
Middleton, Mr. Robt., Coal Briquette Making Machinery, 262, 263
Middlings Purifier, known as the “New Reform,” Action Relative to Infringement of Patent, 206
Midland Railway, Accident Caused by Landslip, 67
Midland Railway Bridge over the Trent, 27, 28, 30
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Two-horse Forty-seat Tramcars, 239, 242, 243
Midland Railway Company and Co-operative Coal Societies, 287
Midland Railway, Meeting of the Proprietors of, 131
Midland Railway Report, Ha’f-Yearly Report, 153
Midland Railway Report, Mileage Statement of the, 131, 153
Midland Railway Report, of Mr. McDonald, Engineer-in-Chief, 131
Midland Railway Stock, Locomotives added to the, 175
Midland, Wagons Acquired and Hired out by the, 245
Midvale Tires, Records of Mileage Made by, 67
Milan Exhibition, Wine and Olive Oil Industries at the, Extension of Term for Applications, 50
Mileage, Train, on the Midland and on the North- Western Railway, 131, 153
Miles, Mr., The Bristol Electrical Time Check, 184
Mill, with Electric Light, Roller Flour, 307
Miller’s Patent, The Woodfield Gas Engine. 358
Milton, Mr. J. T., on Water-tube Boilers, 250, 251
Minehin, Prof., on the Magnetic Field of a Current Running in a Cylindrical Coil, 3
Mineral Oil Lamp Accidents, 157
Mineral Production of the U.S., 543
Miners’ Congress, International, 461
Mines in Cumberland and N. Lonsdale, Accidents in the Metalliferous, 245
Mines Eight Hours Bill, The—What will it do ? 376
Mmes and the Liability Bill, 312
Miners, The Scotch, 248
Mines, Coal Dust in, 182
Mines Drainage, S. Staffordshire, 115
Mine Ventilating Fan, Mortier’s, 485
Mines Ventilation, 426
Minimum Temperature of Visibility. Mr 13 T, Gray on the, 393
Mining Engineering and Loss of Life, 335
Mining Enterprise in Cumberland, Important, 527
Mining Property, Nationalisation of, 75
Minority Report of the Labour Commission, The, 379
Miscellanea, 3, 25, 50, 67,93, 115, 131, 153, 175, 199 219, 245, 261, 287, 307, 327, 353, 374, 393, 415, 479, 497, 519, 543
Miscellaneous Implements entered for Medals at the R.A.S. Show, 562
Mississippi, The, 475
Mitre-cutting Machine, Messrs. Melhuish, Sons, and Co., 76
Mitton’s Centrifugal Automatic Crank Pin Oiler, 520
Modern British Locomotives, 159
Modern Fleet, The Making of a, 222
Modern Heat, 99, 134, 178, 197, 198
Modern Heat, Carnot and, 371, 396, 418, 436, 522, 557
Modern Locomotive, Construction of the, 171, 217, 257, 301, 302, 345
Moeser Block System, The, 17
Mole at Ancona, 131
Molybdenum, 36
Monfalcone Cervignano Railway, Completion of, 543
Monmouth Electric Lighting Bill, 519
Monnoyer, Mr. L., Mr. L. Bandoux v., 431
Monro, Mr. Thos., Electric Operation of Lock Gates, 3
Montretout at St. Cloud, New Station at, 497
Moore and McCallum in English Street Railway Construction, 287
Moorgate street Railway Station, New Building, 50
Morgan, Mr. James, on Street Pavements, 175
Morison’s Evaporator, 176
Mortars, 12in., for the United States Government, 175
Mortier Exhaust Fan for Mines, 485
Mortising Machine, The Expert Chain, 263
Morton, Mr. Alexander, Rotary and Reaction Steam Engines, 272, 273
Morton, Mr. A. C., on Tramways’ Sunday Fares, 479
Morton’s Semi-portable Engine, 499
Moselbahn, Test Run on the, with a New Four-Cylinder Compound Engine, 199
Motor, Rollason’s Wind, 337
Movable Side Walk, recommended by the Central Construction Company, 153
Movable Side Walk at Chicago Exhibition, Sale of the, 393
Moving Locomotives through, 179
Mozambique, Telegraphs in, 29
Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway, Discontinuation of, 3
Muirhead and Another v. The Commercial Cable Company, 380
Muirhead, Dr., on Atlantic Cables, 379
Muirhead’s Duplex Cable System, 381
Mundella, Mr., His Letter to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 543
Municipal and County Engineers, Home Counties’ Meeting at Reading, 340
Municipal Works in Reading, Mr. Collins on some, 340
Murray, Dr. John, on the Floor of the Ocean at Great Depths, 219
Mutual Action of Bodies Vibrating in Fluid Media, 25
Myers, Mr. W. B., Great Northern Extension Lines in Yorkshire, 328

NAINI Tai, Shakiness of, 568
Nassau Electric Railway Co., 100 Miles of Electric Railway, 415
Natal Railway System, Extension of, 287
Natal and Transvaal Railway Convention Signed, 131
National Building Exhibition, 263
Nationalisation of Mining Property, 75
Natural Gas in Indianopolis, Use of, 93
Naval Architecture, Mr. J. Wilkins on, 223
Naval Construction, 294
Naval Engineer Appointments, 7, 28, 65, 111, 135, 161, 234, 255, 260, 317, 335, 412, 467, 510, 521, 547
Naval Ordnance Factory’s Oil Furnaces, Efficiency of the, 287
Naval Photography and the Electric Light, 558
Naval Programme, French, 519
Naval Programme, The New, 247
Navies, British and French, 1840—1874, 1893, 54
Navigation, Inland, 303
Navy, Engineers for the, 95, 134, 291, 440
Navy Estimates, The, 267
Navy, German Boats for the, 401
Neath Water Supply, 570
Nebular Theory, Corollary to the, 71
Neeson, Professor, Method of Coating Aluminium with other Metals, 50
Neilson, Mr. John F., Sir John Pender Gold Medal Awarded to, 440
Newlyn, 402
Newry Canal, Steam Lighters on the, 419
Newton, Chambers and Co., Limited, Pit Closed by, 374
Newtonian Constant of Gravitation, The, 551
Newbury Peat Beds, Remains of Pre-historic Animals Found in the, 479
New Caledonia, Nickel Ore in, 568
New York Canals, Deepening of the, 261
New York City, Traffic on the E’evated Railroads in, 437
New York Metropolitan Traction Company’s Offer of £10,000, The Electrical World on the, 307
New York and New Jersey Bridge Bill Passed, 568
New York, Underground Railways in, 199
New Zealand, Frczen Meat from, 339
Niagara Falls Power Station, Article on the, 519
Niagara, Harnessing, 153
Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, Sale of the, 568
Nicaraguan Canal Construction Company, Reorganisation of, 5
Nickel Ore in New Caledonia, 568
Nickel Plates, Failure of Thick Harveyed, 461
Nickel Steel for Ordnance in the United States Experiments with, 219
Nickel Steel Scrap in Government Yards in the United States, Secretary Herbert and the, 219
Niemen and the Windau, Proposed Canal to Connect the, 568
Niles Tool Works Company, Heavy Planing Machine, Chicago Exhibition, 148, 149
Niles Tool Works Company, The 6ft. Boring and wi Machine, Chicago Exhibition, 150
Nile, Utilisation of the, and see “Erratum,” 172, 173, 196, 203, 291
Nitrous Oxide, Physical Properties of, 479
North British Railway Company, Directors Half-Yearly Report, 245
North British Railway Receipts, 261
North British Railway Works, 269
North British Rubber Company v. Mackintosh and Company, 199, 518
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Alterations at Sunderland Station, 374
North-Eastern Railway Locomotive Shops at Darlington, Extensions at the, 327
North-Eastern Railway Company, New Lincs, 67
North-Eastern Railway Projects, 160
North-Eastern Railway, Report of the, 131
Northern Coal for Scotch Railways, 579
North of England, 18, 37, 59, 81, 103, 123, 143, 167, 189, 209, 234, 253, 275, 297, 319, 341, 361, 383, 407, 427, 465, 489, 511, 531, 553, 577
North German Lloyd Company and HerrSchichau, of Elbing, 219
Norton’s Compound Lifting Jack, 413
Norway begins to Build her own Locomotives, 261
Norwegian Navy, New Torpedo Boat for the, 568
North-Western Railway in India, Karachi to Kotri Section, 497
Notes from Germany, 19, 38, 60, 82, 104, 124, 144, 168, 190, 210, 234, 254, 276, 298, 320, 342, 362, 384, 408, 428, 466, 490, 512, 532, 554, 578
Notes from Lancashire, 18, 36, 58, 80, 102, 123, 143, 166, 189, 209, 232, 253, 275, 297, 318, 341, 361, 383, 406, 427, 464, 489, 510, 531, 552 576
Notes and Memoranda, 3, 25, 50, 67, 93, 115, 131, 153, 175, 199, 219, 245, 261, 287, 307, 327, 353, 374, 393, 415, 479, 497, 519, 543
Notes from Scotland, 19, 38, 60, 82, 103, 124, 144, 167, 190, 210, 234, 254, 276, 298, 320, 342, 362, 384, 408, 428, 466, 490, 512, 532, 554, 578
Notices to Correspondents, 9, 31, 51, 73, 95, 117, 137, 159, 181, 203, 225, 247, 267, 289, 311, 333, 355, 375, 399, 421, 503, 525, 545, 569
Nourisson, M. C., Minimum Electro-motive Force Necessary for the Electrolysis of Dissolved Alkaline Salts, 115
Nova Scotia, Coal-cutting Machines in, 227
Nozzle for Locomotives, Self-adjusting Sand-pipe, 378
Nunnery Colliery, New Shaft, 479
Nut, The “Cornwall” Lock, 336

OBITUARY:—
- Avery, Mr. Thomas, 153
- Brunton, Mr. Thomas, 245
- Carnot, President, 569
- Carter, Mr. Thomas, 67
- Dent, Admiral C. B. C., 245
- Galloway, Mr. John (with Portrait), 129, 190
- Griffin, Mr. R. T., 287
- Haywood, Colonel William, 335
- Hick, Mr. John, 120
- McOnie, Sir William, 111
- Owen, Sir Philip Cunliffe, 269
- Pilbrow, Mr. James, 175
- Prosser, Mr. William Henry, 153
- Reid, Mr. James, 570
- Scott, Mr. Henry Bowes, 67
- Tomlinson, Mr. Joseph (with portrait), 378, 402
Oblique Arches, 137
Ocean at Great Depths, The Floor of the, 219
O’Connor, Mr. Hy., On Pile Driving, 232
O’Ferrall, Governor, on Railways, 199
Ogle, Mr. P. J., Easily Opened Postage Wrapper, 149
Ogle’s Protractor, 77
Oil Barrels, Steel, 261
Oil in Calming Water, Dr. Richter on Use of, 287
Oil Engine, Indicator Card, 529
Oil Engines, 70
Oil Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 295, 310, 331, 360, 379, 540, 566, 569
Oil Fired Dredger, 546
Oil Fuel in the Navy, 249
Oil Fuel at Sea 500
Oil Furnaces in Blacksmiths’ Shops on the Pen- sylvania Lines, 153
Oil Furnaces of the Naval Ordnance Factory, 287
Oil Gas Plant ? 355
Oil Industry in France, The Shale, 152
Oil Lamp Accidents, Mineral, 157
Oil, A New Composition, A Vehicle for Paint, 131
Oil and Petroleum Engines, Mr. H. M. Waynfoith on, 393
Oil Tank Screw Steamer “Baku Standard,” Arrival of, 244
Oil Tank Car with Steel Underframe, 336
Oiler, Crank Pin, 520
Optics, New Phenomena in, 527
Ordnance, British Armour and, 247
Osborne and Co.’s Piston Rings for Engine Cylinders of H.M. Ships, 131
Osgood Dredge Company, Steam Excavator, 176, 180
Osmond, Mr. F., on Alloys of Iron and Nickel, 245
Ottawa River, The Sawdust Beds in the, 318
Our Merchant Shipping, 483
Overhead Railway, The Liverpool, 207
Owen, Sir Philip Cunliffe, 269
Owens College Physical Laboratory Testing Department, 58
Oxide, Physical Properties of Pure Nitrous, 479
Oxy-oil Gas and Coal Gas, 3
Ozone, Production and Utilisation of, 76, 135

PACIFIC Telegraph Scheme, 526
Packing, Silver Bronze Rod, 205
Palace Steamers Co., Ld., “La Marguerite,” 560
Palk’s Straits and the New Canal, The Two Routes through the, 437
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Co. v. The Leeds Forge Co., Action for Damages for Breach of Contract, 206
Panama Canal as it is, The, 308, 309
Panama Canal Completion, M. Bartissol’s Statement relative to the, 287
Panama Liquidator and M. Eiffel, Compromise between, 415
Paper Spindles, 93
Paraffin and Lubricating Oil, Detection of in the Distillates obtained from Train Oil, 199
Parenty, M. H., Experimental Studies concerning Form, Pressures, and Temperatures of a Jet of Vapour, 115
Paring Machine, Mitre-cutting and, 76
Paris Academy of Sciences, Prizes Awarded by, 50
Paris, Drainage System of, 435
Paris, Gas Consumed in, 497
Paris Railway Stations, Number of Arrivals and Departures, 3
Paris a Seaport, 204
Paris, Underground Railway in, 334
Paris Underground Tramway, 462
Paris, Wood Paving in, 307
Parker, Mr. Thos., 313
Parker, Mr. T., Electrical Equipment of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, 207
Parker, Mr. T., Express Passenger Locomotive (Supplements. April 6th and 13th, 1894), 286, 304, 313
Parker, Ld., Thos., 327
Parker, Messrs. T., New Works of, 543
Parkin, jun., Mr., His Appointment on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 25
Parkinson and Others v. Simon, 206, 252
Parliamentary Notes, 17, 29, 46, 161, 227, 249, 378, 401
- Admiralty and Thames Labour, 567
- Automatic Brake, The, 567
- Battleships Launched in 1893, 219
- Belleville Boilers, The, 161
- Bilge Keels in the “Royal Sovereign” Class, 401
- British Trade in Egypt, 567
- Dangerous Trades and Hours of Labour, 29
- Debate on the Navy, 17
- Eight Hours a Day in Government Departments, 29
- Engine-room Complements, 249
- Factories and Workshops Bill, 378
- Galway and Clifden Railway, The, 46
- German Boats for the Navy, 401
- German Contracts for the Royal Navy, 378
- Government Factories, Work in, 401
- Government Hours of Labour, 46
- Government Shipbuilding and Private Yards, 29
- Government Workmen, 378
- H.M.S. “Resolution,” 17
- Indian Troopships, 17
- Irish Light Railways, 227
- Locomotive Thrashing Engines Bill, 378
- Missing Drawings of the “Havock,” The, 249
- New Bills, 249
- New Ships and their Armaments, 46
- Oil Fuel in the Navy, 249
- Oil Fuel at Sea, 227
- Patent Agents, 378
- Patent Agents’ Bill, The, 291
- Post-office and the Telephones, The, 161
- Supplies for Indian State Railways, 227, 249
- Surveyors in Ireland, 401
- Whitebait at Woolwich, The, 378
- Workmen and Admiralty Contracts, 249
Partiot, Mr. H. L., “Estuaries,” 360
Passenger Locomotives—see Locomotives
Pasteur, M., on Sewage Farms, 353
Patent, Action relative to Infringement of, Messrs. T. and G. M. Parkinson, 206
Patent Agents, 378
Patent Agents’ Bill, The, 221, 378
Patent, Infringement of Letters, Action for, 199
Patent Law, American, 207
Patent Office, The U.S., 291
Patents, 1893, Applications for Grant of, 3
Patents in Denmark, 295, 478
Patents for Inventions, Mr. E. H. G. Brewster on, 64
Patents, Report of the United States Commissioner, 25
Patents in the U.S., 415
Patents, Mr. L. Wise and, 3
Paterson and Cooper, Messrs., The Hermite Electrolysing Apparatus, 316
Patin Fly-wheel Alternator and Transformer, Details, 88, 94
Paved Streets of Chicago, 131
Pavement, Buckeye Portland Cement, 276
Pavements, Street, 175
Paving, Cedar Block, on Slag Foundation, 50
Paving, Compressed Hay for, 519
Paxman, Mr. J., takes his Son, Mr. Wm. Paxman, into Partnership, 25
Pearson and Knowles Coal and Ironwork Company and their Work on the Manchester Ship Canal, 3
Pearson and Son, Messrs. Contract for Excavating Channel through the Rock, Bermuda, 244
Pease, Mr. E. Lloyd, Gasholder Construction, 286
Peddie,Dr. W., “Torsional Oscillations of Wires,” 131
Pelton Wheel, Hett’s, 358
Pemberton, Mr. W., Boiler Management and Inspection, 234
Pencil, Beam Compass, A Simple, 208
Pender Gold Medal, The Sir John, 440
P. and O.’s New Steamer “Caledonia,” Launch of the, 437
P. and 0. s.s. Fleet, The, 505
“Penny in the Slot,” Delivery of Railway Tickets in Berlin,” 175
Pennsylvania Lines, Oil Furnaces in the Blacksmiths’ Shops on the, 153
Pennsylvania Railway, Standard Gauge of the, 519
People’s Palace, Prize Distribution at the, by Sir B. Baker, 50
Percy, Mr. C. M., On Mine Ventilation, 426
Periyar Irrigation Works, Electric Transmission of Power, 281
Parken, Son, and Rayment, Messrs., Gwyer’s Ether Saturator for the Lantern, 359
Permanent Way, Continuous Rails, 415
Permanent Way, Terra Cotta Sleepers, 415
Patch’s Wheel Cap Wrench, 475
“Petersburg,” The Twin-screw Steamer, 507
Petersburg and the White Sea, Railway Communication between, 353
Petersen, Mr. H., Electric Conduit Street Railway System, 115
Petit, M., On the Influence of Iron on Barley, 437
“Petrolea,” A Run with, 193
Petroleum between Binegar and Shepton, Existence of, 153
Petroleum in Bulk, Transport of, 118
Petroleum, Railway Accident to Train Carrying, 374
Petroleum for Removing Boiler Scale, Pros and Cons. Regarding use of, 437
Petroleum in Somersetshire, 93, 219, 225, 245
Petroleum Storage Tanks, Drilling and Refining Plant? 73
Pettenkofer, Professor, On the Self-Purification of Water in Rivers, 219
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Gauge, 519
Phillips, Mr. C. G. W., Appointment of, 199
Phoenixville Ironworks, Hydraulic Testing Machine, 98
Photographic Lenses, Recent, 573
Photography in Coal Mines, Mr. H. W. Hughes on, 152
Photography, Naval, and the Electric Light, 558
Photo-mechanical Printing in Colours, 129
Photomicrography, Instrument for, 379
Physical Properties of Pure Nitrous Oxide, 479
Pier, Gravesend, Improvements at, 568
Pierson, Messrs. J. and O. G., Crossley Motor, 507
Pig Iron in the United States, Returns of the Stocks of Unsold, 131
Piggott and Company, Welded Steel Pipes for Bradford Water Supply, 261
Pilbrow, Mr. James, 175
Piles and Pile Driving, 41, 232, 463, 486, 500
Pile Driving, Mr. Henry O’Connor, 232
Piles and Pile Driving, Mr. J. R. Baterdenon, 41, 463, 486
Piltchikoff, Mr., Method for Studying the Electric Discharge, 471
Pinerolo, Wire Ropeway at, 68, 69
Pinkert, Mr. George, His Intended Passage of the Channel on a Tricycle, 497
Pipe Discharge, Cast Iron, 393
Pipe Sewers, Fractures in, 543
Pipe Tongs, Substitute for, 395, 419
Pipes, Steel Spigot and Socket, 336
Piraeus-Larissa Railway, A Royal Decree Relative to the, 307
Pitot, M. Leon, Arrangement for Heating Water by an Incandescent Electric Lamp in the Lighting Circuit, 353
Pitsea Marshes, Admiralty Survey of the, 568
Planing Machine, Heavy, The Niles Tool Works Company, Chicago Exhibition, 148, 149
Platforms Driven by Electric Motors, Moving, 153
Platts-Turton Patent Socket Plunger Buffer, 56
Plea for the Traction Engine, A, 482
Ploughs at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 562, 563
Plymouth Death Rate, 3
Pohle’s Air Bubble Water Pump, 358
Poisonous Dust in Railway Cars, 307
Pola Armour-plate Competition, The, 119
Pollit, Mr. Harry, His Appointment on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 25
Pontoon Bridge at Dundee, New, 353
Pontoon Pier for Tilbury, Launch of a, 552
Pope and Pearson’s Collieries, Messrs., 152
Porosity in Castings, Remedies for Excessive, 153
Port Talbot Company, Bill to Dissolve, Re-incor-porate, andc., the, 327
Port Talbot Company’s Bill, Alterations in the, 519
Port Tennant, Reynolds' Newspaper v. THE ENGINEER at, 393
Portland Cement, M. Michele’s, 67
Portland Cement Making Materials, 500
Portland Cement Pavement, Buckeye, 276
Portland Cement Testing by High-pressure Steam, 178, 230, 265
Portrait of Mr. W. Adams, 571
Portsmouth Electric Lighting Station, The, 496
Portsmouth Harbour Station, Report on the Fall of the Roof at, 175
Postage Wrapper, An Easily Opened, 149
Postal Telegraph Cable Co., On the Machinery in the, 374
Post-office and the Telephones, The, 161
Potomac River, Washington, Col. P. C. Hains on the Dredging Operations in the, 243
Power from Artesian Wells, 501
Power in Steel Works, 187
“Powerful” and “ Terrible,” First-class Cruisers, 29
Preece, Mr. W. H., C.B., 3
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Conveyance of Messages by Electro-magnetic Induction, 153
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Explosions in the Boxes of the City of London Electric Lighting Com¬pany, 115
Preece, Mr. W. H., and Mr. Gisbert Kapp, Bristol Electric Light Works, 432, 433, 434
Prestwich, Dr., on the Tradition of the Flood, 261
Press, The Royal Agricultural Society and the, 546
Press, Tittley Screw, 565
Private Bill Legislation, 48
Prizes for Hay - making and Clover - making Machines, 304
Problem in Haulage, 95
Proccacci, Dr., On the Action of Sunshine on the Microbes in Drain Water, 261
Profits of Coal Mining in France, 483
Projectiles against not-Harveyised Armour-plates, Testing of, 568
Projectiles, Carpenter, 462
Projectiles, Some Destructive Effects of, 329
Propeller, Mr. N. Cain, 519
Propeller Shaft Brackets, Messrs. W. Jessop and Sons, 519
Propellers, Reversing, 574
Propellers, Reversing Screw, 36
Propulsion, Hydraulic, 64
Prosser, Mr. W. H., Death of, 153
Protection of our Coasts, Mr. R. F. Grantham on the, 153
Protractor, Ogle’s, 77
Prussian State Railroads and Freight Traffic on Sundays, 393
Public Works Abroad, 120
Public Works in the United States, 438
Pulleys, Action of, 230, 265
Pulleys—Balancing Locomotives, 241, 265
Pumps, Centrifugal, for Holland, 130
Pump, Continuous Current, 76
Pumps, Geared High-lift, 205
Pump Valves, 78, 102
Pumps, Windmill, 307
Pumping Engines, Bombay Sewage Works, 223
Pumping Engine, Centrifugal, Messrs. Drysdale and Co., 373
Pumping Engines, Coupled Horizontal Compound Tandem, Messrs. Fielding and Platt, 194, 195
Pumping Machinery, by W. M. Barr, 74
Pumping Machinery, Mr. E. C. R. Marks on, 174
Pumping, New System of, 249
Punches, Tests of, Mr. Geo. S. Allen’s, 415
Purifier, Middlings, known as the “New Reform,” Action relating to Infringement of Patent, 206
Purifying Feed-water, Lyons’ Apparatus for, 184
Purifying Middlings by Sizing, 307
Pyne, Sir T. Salter, 274, 573
Pynegar, Mr. H., Williams’ Wedge Seam Joint Steel Tubes, 177
Pyritic Smelting, 561

RAILS, High Carbon, 478
Railway Accidents, 421
Railway Accidents on American Lines, 50
Railway Accidents, Board of Trade and, 478
Railway Accident at Dover Town Station, 25
Railway Accident with Petroleum Trucks, 374
Railway Accidents on the South-Eastern Railway and at Compiegne, 115
Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, 1893, 393, 437
Railway Accidents in the United States, 415
Railway, The Achill Extension, Parliamentary Note, 567
Railways, American, 93
Railway in Asia Minor built by the Germans, 437
Railway Axles, Tensile Tests of Wrought Iron, 36
Railways of Bahia, 56
Railway, The Ben Nevis, 128
Railway Benevolent Institution, Duke of York to Preside at the Dinner of, 245
Railway Bills this Session, 25
Railway Bills, Withdrawals and Petitions against, 327
Railways of Brazil, 120
Railway Bridge over the Lan-Ho, China, 365, 366, 367, 368
Railways, Buxton and the, 422
Railways in Canada, 287
Railway Carriage Mat and Carpet Beater, Bricogne’s, 485
Railway Carriages, Warming, 34, 71
Railway Carriage and Wagon Builders well Engaged on Home and Foreign Contracts, 327
Railway Cars, Poisonous Dust in, 307
Railway Companies and Colliery Owners’ Differences respecting Trucks, 519
Railway Companies, Street, 543
Railway Congress in London, Projected International, 199
Railway Days ? Early, 159
Railways in Denmark, 261
Railway, Elevated, at New York, on Mr. Bushe’s Plan, 115
Railways, Elevated, in New York City, Traffic on, 437
Railway, Estimating the Value of a, 440
Railway Extension in British Guiana, 307
Railways, Inclined, in Switzerland, K. Walloth on, 53
Railways in India, Mr. Hyde Clark on, 353
Railways of India, Lieut.-Col. R. A. Sargeaunt on the, 93
Railway from India to Ceylon, Proposed, 115
Railway between Interlaken and Lauterbrunnen, 543
Railway between Jaffa and Jerusalem, 261
Railways, Light, High Carbon Rails, 478
Railway, The Liverpool Overhead, 207
Railways, Location Surveys for, 57
Railway, Matters, 3, 25, 50, 67, 93, 115, 131, 153, 175, 199, 219, 245, 261, 287, 307,327, 353, 374, 393, 415, 479, 497, 519, 543
Railway Mileage in the United States, Total, 199
Railway, A Miniature Gravity, 185
Railways, New French, 479
Railway from the Piraeus or Athens to Larissa, Stoppage of the Works by the Greek Government, and Confiscation of the Line, 261
Railway Prospects, The Hematite Iron Trade and, 183
Railway Rates in France, 415
Railway Rates, Reduction of, by the North Staffordshire Railway Company, 93
Railway Rates, Struggle Continues, 50
Railway Receipts in France, 543
Railway Regulations, Electric Tramways and, 204
“Railways,” Remarks on, Relating to Proposed Railway between Birmingham and London, 393
Railway, Road and, 482
Railways in Russia, Opening of New, 219
Railway Servants, Act for Shortening the Hours of, and its Consequences, 153
Railway Servants Killed Yearly, Number of, 568
Railway Station Indicator, Robertson’s, 326
Railway Subsidence in Glasgow, 227
Railways, Swiss Mountain, 93
Railway System, Extension of the Natal, 287
Railway Ticket Delivery by “Penny in the Slot” Apparatus, 175
Railway Trains, Tests of English and American, 317
Railways and Tramways, Electric, 362
Railway Travelling in England, France, and the United States, Relative Safety of, 353
Railways for Trebizond, 335
Railway Working in the Past Half-year, 74
Railway Working, Scotch, 269
Rainfall during 1893, 568
Rainfall during March, 1894, 353
Rainfall in New York State, 1893, 543
Rainfall in the Thames Valley, April, 415
Rainfall in the Thames Basin, Deficient, 245
Raising of a Canadian Pacific Mogul Engine, 327
Railings, Mr. H., On Lubrication, 231
Ralston, Mr. G., New System of Pumping, 249
Ram “Katahdin,” The United States Coast Defence, 288, 293
Ramasamudrum Reservoir, Construction of, Sanctioned, 519
Ramsay, Professor W,, Passage of Hydrogen through a Palladium Septum, 497
Ramsay, Professor, on Rarefied Gases, 568
Ramsgate Post-office, Telephonic Communication with the Goodwin L’ghtships, 50
Range-finder, Commander L. K. Bell’s, 519
Rarefied Gases, On, 568
Rayleigh, Lord, on Light, 129, 164, 177
Reade, Mr. J. F., Application of Water-power, 196
Reading Gasworks, The, 340
Reading, Removing the Front Wall of a Warehouse at, 558
Reading, Some Municipal Works in, 340
Reading Waterworks, and the use of Polarite therein, Some Extensions of, 340
Re-armament of our Early Ironclads, 355
Reciprocals ? 503
Reclamations of the Zuyder Zee, 470
Reddaway and Co., Messrs., Purchase of the Business of the Sphincter Hose and Engineering Company by, 3
Redhill Tunnel, 27
Reduction in the Working Hours upon French Railways, 437
Redwood and Topley’s, Messrs., Report on the Discovery of Petroleum in Somerset, 219
Refrigerated Meat, An Enormous Cargo of, 488
Refrigerating Machinery, 35, 47, 70, 100, 135, 179, 349, 397
Refrigerating Machinery, Explosion of, 295
Refuse Destructor Apparatus, 519
Refuse Furnace at Chicago, 543
Regulating Pressure in Electric Light Circuits, Methods of, 316
Reid, James, 579
Reid’s Spring Coil Tube Brush, 305
Removing the Front Wall of a Warehouse at Reading, 558
Rendel, Sir Alex. M., on the Cracks in the Sun¬derland Quay, 261
Rendering? 525
“Renown,” Sheathing and Coating of the, 543
Reservoir, The Ramasamudrum, 519
Reservoirs, Storage, 130
Reunion, Condition of, 484
Reversing Gear, Joy’s Fluid Pressure, 396, 436, 478
Reversing Screw Propellers, 17, 36, 574
Revival in Trade, The, 227
Re-weiring the Clyde at Glasgow, 305
Reynolds' Newspaper v. THE ENGINEER at Port Tennant, 393
Rheims, Electric Lighting Station at, 374
Rhode Island Locomotives at the Chicago Exhibi¬tion (Supplement, January 5th, 1894), 6, 7, 8
Rhymney Railway and Steel Works, Rumour Concerning the, The Midland and the, 543
Richards, Mr. John, on Tangential Water¬wheels, 353
Richardson and Sons, Messrs. T., Morison’s Evaporator, 176
Richmond and Chandler’s Sifter, 564
Richmond Lock and Foot-bridge, 433
Richmond Lock and Tidal Weir, 415
Richmond Main Sewerage Board, Application by, for a Loan for Additional Works, 374
Richmond Weir and Lock and Foot-bridge, Open¬ing of, 353
Richter, Dr., on Use of Oil in Calming Water, 287
Rickard, Mr. Percy, Tunnels on the Dore and Chinley Railway, 79
Rising Main by Expansion, Lifting a Vertical, 112
Rivers Conservancy and County Councils, 92
Rivers, The Training of, 359
Riveted Girders? Moments of Inertia of, 95
Road and Railway, 482
Roadways, Mr. Thomas Codrington on the Con-struction of, 575
Robertson’s Railway Station Indicator, 326
Robey and Co., Messrs., Compound Underground Hauling Engines, 177
Robinson and Son, Messrs. Thos., Sun Flour Mills, Bromley, 476, 477, 478
Rochester Sewerage, 29
Rod Packing, Silver Bronze, 205
Rodger Ballasting System, The, 539, 548
Roebling, Mr. John A,, on Wire Ropes in the United States, 93
Roepsel, Dr., Measurement of the Magnetic Properties of Iron, 353
Rogers, Mr. G. S. W., Water-tight Drainage and the Disposal of Sewage from Isolated Dwell¬ings, 467
Roll Surface in a Roller Mill, The Quantity of, 327
Rollason’s Wind Motor, 337
Roller Flour Mill with Electric Light at West Superior, Wis., New, 307
Rolling Mill Engines, Economy of Steam in, 187
Rolling Mill Plant, Improvements in, 561
Rolling of Battleships of the “Royal Sovereign” Type, 85
Rolling of Ships, Mr. W. H. White on the, 213
Rolling of Warships, The, 156
Rolling Stock in War, 401
Romney Marsh Sea Wall, The, 277
Ropes, Wire, 414
Ropeway, Wire, at Pinerolo, 68, 69
Rosario Sewage Works, Mr. A. Fairlie Bruce on the, 135
Ross and Co., Messrs., Concentric Lens, 573
Rotary and Reaction Steam Engines, Mr. Alex Morton on, 272, 273
Rous-Marten, Charles, A Run with “Petrolea,” 193
Row Heating Tube, The, 281
Royal Agricultural Society’s of England’s Trials of Oil Engines, 295, 310, 331, 360, 379, 397
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 152, 438
- Annual Meeting of the Society, 438
- Prizes offered by, for Hay-making and Clover-making Machines, 304
Royal Agricultural Society and the Press, 546
Royal Agricultural Society, Projected Meeting at Darlington, 115
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show and the Great Eastern Railway Company’s Special Arrange-ments, 374
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S SHOW AT CAM-BRIDGE, 517, 540, 549, 562
- Aveling and Porter’s Spring Mounted Engine, 549
- Cooper’s Steam Digger, 564
- Crossley and Co., Messrs., Oil Engine, 540
- Engines, Oil, 540, 566
- Engines and Ploughs, 562, 563
- Fielding and Platt, Messrs., Stationary and Portable Oil Engines, 567
- Fowler and Co., Messrs., Eight-furrow Turnover Steam Plough, 562
- Hornsby and Sons, Messrs., Stationary and Portable Oil Engines, 566
- Miscellaneous Implements Entered for Medals, List of, 562
- Oil Engines, Portable, at, 540, 566
- Oil Engines, Trials of, 566
- Plan of the Showyard, 517
- Ploughs, 563
- Richmond and Chandler’s Sifter, 564
- Tittley Screw Press, 565
- Weyman and Hitchcock, Messrs., Oil Engine, 541
Royal and Civil Engineers in India, 397
Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply, Maps and Plans, 244, 245
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Exhibition of Photo-mechanical Process Work, 539
Royal Dublin Society—See Society, Royal Dublin
ROYAL INSTITUTION:—
- Bookbinding and Its Ideal, Mr. T. J. Cobden- Sanderson, 120
- Electric Discharge through Gasea, Professor J J. Thomson, 359
- Electric Generating Stations, Professor J. A. Fleming on Various, 374
- Ether Saturator for the Lantern, Mr. Gwyer’s, on View, 359
- Evolution of the Astronomical Te’escope, The, Sir Howard Grubb, 486
- Gaseous and Liquid Air, Professor Dowar, 24, 55
- Lecture Arrangements after Easter, 255
- Lectures on Light, Dates of, 120
- Lectures in Prospect for May, 358
- Light, Lord Rayleigh on, 129, 164, 177
- Newtonian Constant of Gravitation, Professor C. V. Boys, 551
- Photo-mechanical Printing in Colours, 129
- Projectiles, Some Destructive Effects of, Dr. Victor Horsley, 329
- Rubies, Professor J. W. Judd, 402, 426, 435
- Solid and Liquid States of Matter, Professor Dewar, 402, 425, 435
- Some Scientific Uses of Liquid Air, Professor Dewar, 78
- Work of Hertz, The, Professor Oliver Lodge, 467, 510
Royal Navy, German Contracts for the, 378
Royal Navy’s Representative at the Opening of the Tower Bridge, 497
Royal School of Mines, 101
Royal School of Mines, Annual Dinner of Old Students, 75
ROYAL SOCIETY, THE :—
- Conversazione of the, Exhibits by Mr. S. Bidwell, Mr. G. J. Snelus, Professor Elisha Gray, Professor O. Lodge, Mr. J. Wimshurst, Miss E. Walter, Mr. H. B. Bourne, Professor S. P. Thompson, the Postmaster - General, Mr. Claude Vautin, andc. andc., 380, 527
- Sugar as a Food in the Production of Muscular Work, Dr. Vaughan Harley, 93
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH:—
- Compression of Fluids, Professor Tait on, 131
- Torsional Oscillation of Wires, Dr. Peddie, 131
ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES:—
- Origin of Gold Nuggets, Mr. Liversidge on the, 570
“Royal Sovereign” Type, Rolling of Battleships of the, 85
Royalty on Foreign Reprints of British Copyright Works to Cease in Canada, 307
Rubies of the Burmah Ruby Mines, 402, 425, 435
Ruby Mines of Burmab, The, 568
Rush worth and Co., Messrs., Large Boiler Turning and Drilling Machine, 48
Russell, Mr. H. C., Effect of Altitude on Temperature, 50
Russia, Agricultural Machinery in Southern, 549
Russia, New Naval Stations, 244
Russia, Opening of New Railways in, 219
Russian Battleships, Triple-expansion Engines of the, Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant, and Company (Supplement, January 9th, 1894), 51
Russian Ironclad, Launch of a New, 497
Russian Railroads, Abolition of First-class Carriages on, 153
Russian Railway Statistics, 393
Russian, Volunteer Fleet, The, 507
Rust, On Varieties of, 374
Rusting of Boiler Shells, Report on the Internal, 568
Rye Harbour, 475

SAFETY Valve, Ashton Pop, 548
Sage, Mr. Russell, cn Double-decking the Manhattan Elevated System, 287
Saigon Public Works, 484
“St. George,” H.M.S., 101
Sale of Railway from Manila to Taal, by Spanish Government, 25
Salt-bearing Marls in the Isle of Man, Professor B. Dawkins on, 519
Sand Blast Apparatus, Matthewson’s, 281
Sandgate Sea Wall, Condition of the, 245
Sand-pipe Nozzle for Locomotives, Self-adjusting, 378
Sandy Hook, Firing Tests for Speed at, 568
Sanitary Appliances, The Highgate Museum of, 327
Sanitary Engineering, 16
Saniter Desulphurising Process, The, 47
San Roque Dam, Argentine Republic, 350, 351, 354, 396
Santiago-Chile Mining and Metallurgical Exhibition, Opening Deferred, but Exhibits can be Forwarded at once, 50
Sargeaunt, Lieut.-Colonel, R.A., on Railwava in India, 93
Savage’s Method of Determining Stresses, 245
Sawdust Beds in the Ottawa River, 318
Say Sugar Refinery, Paris, Steel Tubular Elephant Boiler, 201
Schaub, J. W., Method of Calculating the Stresses of the Ferris Wheel, 358
Sohenck, Prof., on the Self-purification of Water in Rivers, 219
Schichau, Herr, Twin-screw Vessels for the North German Lloyd Company, 219
Schlick, Herr Otto, on the Vibrations of Steamers, 258
Scotch Anthracite, Large Gas Engines and, 510
Scotch Fishery Harbours, 402
Scotch Harbours—Harbours and Waterways 89
Scotch, Miners, The, 248
Scotch Railway Extensions, 495
Scotch Railway, A New (Forfar to Brechin), 479
Scotch Railways, Northern Coal for, 579
Scotch Railway Working, 269
Scott, Mr. Henry Bowes, 67
Scott, Dr. J. Alfred, Method for Colouring Lantern Slides, 327
Scott, Capt. R. A., Electric Sign Throwing, 436
Scott’s Moulding Machine ? 137
Scrap Nickel Steel in United States Government Yards, 219
Screw Press, Tittley, 565
Screw Propellers, Reversing, 36, 574
Screw Propellers, Reversing Screw Propellers and Non-reversible Engines, Mr. Robt. McGlisson on, 17, 175
Screw-testing Machine at Cornell University, 131
Sea Wall, The Romney Marsh, 277
Sebillot, M., Folk-lore on Public Works and Mining, 519
Sebor, Mr. G., on the Preparation of Antimony Blue, 261
Seeley, Prof., H. G., on the Shaping of the Earth, 131
Seine, Project for Deepening the, 415
Seine, Tunnel under the, 231
Selby-Bigge, Mr. D., on Electric Power Installations in Engineering and Ironworks, 339
Selected American Patents, 40, 62, 84, 93, 106. 126, 146, 169, 192, 211, 236, 256, 278, 300, 321, 344, 364, 386, 410, 430, 468, 492, 514, 534, 556, 580
Self-adjusting Sand-pipe Nozzle for Locomotives, 378
Self-purification of Water in Rivers, A Factor in the, 219
Separators, Steam and Water, 548
Severn, The, 402
Severn and Wye Valley (Acquisition) Bill, 519
Sewage Disposal, Compulsory Acquisition of Lands from Sir John Ramsden for, 199
Sewage Disposal Works, Glasgow, 42—44
Sewage Farms, M. Pasteur on, 353
Sewage Influence in Air and Soil, Proposed Standard for, 177
Sewage for Isolated Dwellings, Disposal of, 467
Sewage Lift, Adams’ Automatic, 485, 501
Sewage Separator, 47, 71
Sewer Interceptor, 36
Sewer Inverts, The Erosion of, 327
Sewer, Long, at Los Angeles, Cal., 415
Sewerage, Rochester, 29
Sewerage of Staines, Shone System, 175
Sewerage, Torquay, 510
Sewers, Total Length of London, 519
Seymour’s Friction Clutch, 95
Seymour, Mr. W. F. E., Lubricants, their Use, Testing, and Analysis, 357
Shaft Bearing, Etchell’s, 499
Shale Oil Industry of France, Prof. Chesenau on, 152
Shalford, Mr. William, Indian Railway Enterprise and Concessions to Private Capitalists, 519
Shand, Mason, and Co., Fire Engine for East Stonehouse, 50
Shaping of the Earth, Professor Seeley’s Lectures on, 131
Shearing Machine, The Heaviest Machine Tool of its Class, 184
Sherley-Price, Mr. Sherley, Admitted Partner into the Firm of Wheatley Kirk, Price, and Goulty, 25
Sheffield Canal, The, 261
Sheffield, A Central Station for, 287
Sheffield Central Station and District Railway Bill, Withdrawal of the, 437, 479
Sheffield District, 18, 37, 59, 81, 103, 123, 167, 189, 209, 233, 253, 275, 297, 319, 341, 361. 383, 407, 427, 465, 489, 511, 531, 553, 577
Sheffield District, Called-up Share Capital and Present Market Value in the, 25
Sheffield Electric Light and Power Company, New Power Station, 245
Sheffield, Inspection of Site of Proposed New Central Station at, 327
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company, Arrangements of, for the Purchase of Canals, 479
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company’s Bill, 50
Sheffield Trade with America, 291
Shelter v. The City of London Electric Lighting Company, 360
Shelton Iron, Steel, and Coal Company and the Admiralty Contract, 50
Ship Canal, The Corinth, 304
Ship Canal, Manchester—See Manchester, andc.
Ship Canal from Wakefield to the Humber, Proposed, 393
Ship’s Position in a Harbour, Electric Indicator of, 184
Ship’s Telegraph, 270
Ship in the World, The Fastest, 558
Shipbuilding, American, 174
Shipbuilding, Clyde, 119, 183
Shipbuilding in 1894, French 122
Shipbuilding, German, 423
Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, 179, 230
Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, Steam, 241, 264, 295
Shipbuilding on the Longitudinal Flanged Girder System, 346, 347
Shipbuilding, The Movement in, 268
Shipbuilding 13,000ft. above Sea-level, 160
Shipbuilding Trade, The Clyde, 374
Shipbuilding on the Tyne, Expeditious, 401
Shipping, Our Merchant, 483
Shipping Returns from West Coast Ports, 543
Shipping Trade, The Australian, 47
Shoolbred, Mr. J. N., Bradford Corporation Electricity Supply, 575
Short Hours, The Engineering Trades and, 526
Short Roads to Knowledge, 545
Shunk, Mr.W. F., Report on the Intercontinental Railway by, 219
Siemens, Mr. Alexander, On Electrical Engineering, 47
Siemens Steel Production, 313
Siemens-Martin Steel Industry, and the Trade of Barrow, 50
Sifter, Richmond and Chandler’s, 564
Signal Alterations on the London and North- Western Railway, 153
Signal Lights on the Caledonian Linp, 153
Signal Transmission by Induction, Mr. J. Wimshurst, 527
Silica in Chalk, Mr. A. J. Jukes-Brown on the, 25
Silver Bronze Rod Packing, Forrest’s, 205
Silver-mounted Railway Truck, A, 119
Silver Production, The Cost of, 231
Silver Question in Relation to Eugineering Mr Thomas Daniels, 57
Simla Water Supply, The, 497
Simons and Co., Messrs., Dredger for the Danube, 82
Simons and Co., Messrs. Wm., Dredger for the Russian Government, 153
Simpson and Co., Messrs., Worthington Sewage Pumping Engines, 223
Situation in the Coalfield, The, 526
Sizing Middlings for Purification, 307
Slag Wool, Messrs. J. C. Broadbent and Co., 67
Sleepers, Terra Cotta, 415
Slip Dock at Glasgow, The Opening of a New, 144
Small Arms, United States Navy, 282
Smelting, Pyritio, 561
Smith, Mr. Thomas, Appoints Messrs. Barry and Higham as London Agents, 287
Smith, Mr. Wm., Testimonials to, on his Retirement, 437
Smith, The Rev. F. J., Torsional Ergometer, 379
Smoke-consuming Apparatus in Pans, Competition of, 479
Smoke Consumption, 47
Smoke Preventing Furnaces, Mr. G. R. Steward on, 174
Snelus, Mr. G. I., Walrand-Legenisel Method of Making Steel Castings, 369, 527
Snowstorms in New York, Costliness of, 287
SOCIETY OF ARTS
- Arrangements for the Season, and Papers to be Read, 7
SOCIETY, BATH AND WEST AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES :—
- Annual Exhibition at Guildford, 153
SOCIETY, THE BERLIN PHYSICAL :—
- Lilienthal’s Flying Experiments, Dr. A. Da Bois Raymond, 175
- Measurement of the Magnetic Properties of Iron, Dr. Roepsel, 353
SOCIETY, THE BRISTOL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ENGINEERING :—
- Engineering in Brazil, Senhor H. de A. Maia, 152
SOCIETY, THE CAMBRIDGE:—
- Condition of the Interior of the Earth, Rev. O. Fisher, 153
SOCIETY, CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL :
Earth Movements, Extent of, and its Bearing on the Question of the Cause of Glacial Conditions, Professor Hughes, 245
SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, THE LONDON SECTION OF THE:—
- Commercial Electrolysis of Fused Salts, M. Claude Vautin, 392
- Testing of Hydraulic Cements, Messrs. Stanger and Blount, 397
SOCIETY, THE CHILI MINING :—
- Exhibition at the Quinta Normal, 50
SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN :—
- Location Surveys for Railways, Mr. M. L. Lynch, 57
SOCIETY, CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS’ :—
- Application of Water Power, Mr. J. F. Reade, 196
- Cement and Concrete Testing as Carried out for the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks, Mr. A. F. Bruce, 282
- Electric Lighting in Country Hauses, Mr. Sydney A. Court, 234
- Patents for Inventions, Mr. E. H. G. Brewster, 61
- Rosario Sewage Works, Mr. A. Fairlie Bruce, 135
- Smoke Preventing Furnaces, Mr. G. R Steward, 174
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
- Deep Boring, A, Mr. R. Nelson Boyd, 429
- Election of Council and Officers for 1894, 19
- Gasholder Construction, Mr. E. Lloyd Pease, 286
- Pile Driving, Mr. Hy. O’Connor, 232
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, THE AMALGAMATED :—
- Annual Report by Mr. John Anderson, 338
SOCIETY OF GLASGOW, THE PHILOSOPHICAL:—
- Apprentice Question, The, Mr. John Inglis, 312
SOCIETY, THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING :—
- Practical Problems in Marine Engineering, Mr. John Weir, 148
- Relative Merits of Keel and Centre-board Yachts, Discussion on, opened by Prof. Biles, 55
SOCIETY, JUNIOR ENGINEERS’ :—
- Construction and Working of Electro Motors, Mr. A. H. Dykes, 135
- Engineering Experience at Sia, Mr. G. Lane and Mr. J. Hawthorn, 440
- Industries of Devon and Cornwall, Mr. Francis R. Taylor, 303
- Lubricants: their Use, Testing, and Analysis, Mr. W. F. E. Seymour, 357
- Ninth Anniversary Dinner of, 93
- Visit to the Battersea Polytechnic Institute,
- Visit to the London and South-Western Railway Works, 521
- Visit to the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway Works, 232
- Visit to the Tower Bridge Works, 303
- Visit to Wembley Tower, 550
SOCIETY, KING’S COLLEGE ENGINEERING :—
- Machine Guns, Mr. Matthews, 439
- Manchester Ship Canal, Mr. A. W. Makovski, 142
SOCIETY, THE LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :—
- Descriptive Account of a Visit to the Latest Locomotive Works, Mr. J. W, C. Haldane’s, 141
- Methods of Regulating Pressure in Electric Light Circuits, Mr. W. S. Boult, 316
- Notes on the Distribution of Water Supplies, Mr. Thos. Duncanson, 346
- Progress of the Science of Gas Combustion, Mr. C. R. Bellamy, 261
- Street Pavements, Mr. Jas. Morgan, 175
Society, Liverpool Engineering, List Volume of “Transactions” of the, 153
SOCIETY, THE MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL :
- Coal Discovery at Dover, Professor Bovd- Dawkins, 115
- Salt Bearing Marls in the Isle of Man, Professor Boyd-Dawkins, 519
SOCIETY, THE MASON COLLEGE ENGINEERING-—
- Ironfounding, Mr. John Ashford, 498
- Pumping Machinery, Mr. E. C. R. Marks, 174
- Recent Development in Cycle Construction, Mr. C. R. Garrard, 368
- Testing of Materials, Mr. H. Fowler, 101
SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN:—
- Method of Carrying Steam a Long Distance, Mr. Eikley B. Coxe, 393
SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL:—
- Audibility of Big Ben, Mr. W. Marriott 467
- Climate of South California, Dr. C. T. Williams on the, 55
- Duration and Lateral Extent of Gusts of Wind and the Measurement of their Intensity Mr W. H. Dines, 261
- Earth Temperature at Cronkbourne, Isle of Man, 1880—1889, Mr. A. W. Moore, 467
- Exhibition of Instruments, 296, 315
- Phenomena of the Upper Air Mr. Richard Inwards, 353
SOCIETY, THE METEOROLOGICAL—(continued}-.
- Relation Between the Mean Quarterly Temperature and the Death Rate, Mr. W. H. Dines, 261
- Relative Frequency of Different Velocities of Wind, Mr. W. Ellis, 467
- Series of Lectures, 307
- Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine, Grand Canary, Dr. J. Cleasby Taylor, 175
SOCIETY, THE PHYSICAL:—
- Experiments on the Relations of Pressure Volume, and Temperature, of Rarefied Gases, by Mr. E. C. C. Bayley and Professor Ramsay, 568
- Magic Mirrors, Note on New Mode of Making, Mr. J. W. Kearton, 199
- Magnetic Field of a Current Running in a Cylindrical Coil, Professor Minchin, 3
- Mechanism of Electrical Conduction, C. V. Burton, 437
- Minimum Temperature of Visibility, Mr. P. L. Gray, 393
- Passage of Sodium Through a Palladium Septum and the Pressure it Produces, Professor W. Ramsay, 497
- Viscosity of Liquids, Mr. Owen Glynne Jones, 153
SOCIETY, ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC :—
- Exhibition of Photo-mechanical Process Work, 539
SOCIETY, THE ROYAL DUBLIN :—
- Colouring Lantern Slides, Dr. J. A. Scott, 327
- Elementary Physics, D.-. J. Joly on the Teaching of, 153
- Equatorial Mounting for Monster Reflecting Telescopes, Sir Howard Grubb, 353
- Reduction of Manganese Peroxide in Sewage, Mr. W. E. Adeney, 307
SOCIETY, THE ROYAL EDINBURGH : —
- Compression of Fluids, Professor Tait, 131
- Dust Particles in the Air, Mr. John Aitken, 219
- Floor of the Ocean at Great Depths, Dr. John Murray, 219
- Torsional Oscillations of Wires, Dr. Peddie, 131
SOCIETY, THE STEAM ENGINE MAKERS’ :—
- Sixty-ninth Annual Report of, 139
SOCIETY, THE YORKSHIRE COLLEGE ENGINEERING :—
- Strength of Knuckle Joints, Mr. J. C. Cornock, 176
- Ventilation of Buildings, Professor E. H. Jacob, 125
- Wire Ropes, Mr. Herbert Cheesman, 414
Socket Pipes, Steel and Spigot and, 336
Sodium Dioxide and Aluminium Powder and Spontaneous Combustion, 497
Sodium Fluoride and Water Containing Lime or Magnesium Salts, 115
Sodium Silicate for Water Softening, 115
Solid and Liquid States of Matter, Professor Dewar, 402, 425, 435
Somerseales, Mr. F., on Watertight Bulkheads, 135
Somersetshire, Petroleum in, 225
Sound, Fireproof Buildings and, 230
Sound Production of the Lower Animals, 353
Southampton Docks and Harbour, 86, 89, 99, 413
Southampton, Harbours and Waterways, 89
Southampton Pier, Concert Pavilion on the, 519
South Eastern Railway Tank Engine, Mr. James Stirling (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 46, 65, 66, 72
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Commission, Engineering Operations of the, 374
South Wales Institute of Eigineers, Annual Meeting of, 374
“Southwark,” The Twin-screw Steamer, 90, 91
Southwark and Vauxhall Company’s Bill, The, 371
South Yorkshire Junction Railway, Completion of, 568
“Spanker,” Change in the Boilers of the, 573
Spanner, Box, 50
Specific and Latent Heats of Steam, 265, 294, 306, 370, 396, 419
Speed-Firing Tests for, at Sandy Hook, 568
Speed Log, Admiral Fleuriais’, Electric Ball Sub-stituted for the Telephone, 519
Speeds of Steam Vessels, Subdominant, 436
Speed Trials of the Chilian Cruiser “Blanco Encalada,” 517
Speed Trials of the “Umbria,” 518
“Speedy,” Launch of H.M.S., 162
Spelter in the United States, Production of, 131
Spencer’s Welded Iron and Steel Flange and Spigot and Socket Pipes, 336
Spezia-Parma Railway, Completion of the, 568
Spider’s Knowledge of Mechanics, Mr. R. Philip on the, 307
Spigot and Socket Pipes, Spencer’s Iron and Steel Flanges and, 336
Spindles, Paper, 93
Spring Coil Tube Brush, Raid’s, 305
Spring-gardens Engineering Works, Sale of 393
Square Drilling Machine Company, Box Spanners, 50
Staines Sewerage, 175
Stamford and Eisendine Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway Company, 50
Standard Key List in Millimetres, 281
Standard for Measuring Sewage Influence in Air and Soil, 177
Standard Sizes for Catalogues, Specifications andc., Committee on, 219
Standing Orders Committee and the London Tramways Company’s Bill, to extend the Streatham Cable Tramway, 307
Standing Orders Committee and the Petition against the London, Walthamstow, and Epping Forest Railway Bill, 307
Standing Orders of the House of Commons, Compliance with, 131
Standing Orders, Non-compliance and Compliance with, 67
Station, Great Eastern Railway, Enlargement of Liverpool-street Station, 419, 515, 516, 524
Statter and Co., Electric Cranes, 175
Statter and Co., Messrs J. G., Electric Lighting of the Ferris Wheel, 568
Stead, Mr., On the Preparation of Specimens of iron and Steel for Microscopic Examination, 390
Steam Crane, Twenty-Ton Locomotive, 337
Steam Digger, Cooper’s, 564
Steam to a Distance, Mr. E. B. Coxe on 393
Steam Economy in Rolling Mill Engines, 187
Stea, Engine Makers' Society, The Sixty-ninth Report of, 139
Steam Excavator, The Osgood Dredge Company 176, 180
Steam Generators? Instantaneous, 203
Steam Generators, Taylor’s Self-contained Gas- fired, 498
Steam at High Altitudes, 241, 264, 295
Steam, Latent Heats of, 542
Steam Lighters on the Newry Canal, 419
Steam Navigation, James Watt and, 260
Steam Pipes, Improved Main, 32
Steam Power in Switzerland, Electricity and, 22
Steam, Production of, from Sixty-eight Boilers, 201
Steam and Shipbuilding at High Altitudes, 241, 264, 295
Steam Shipping, Our Merchant, 183
Steam, Specific and Latent Heats of, 265, 294, 306, 370, 396, 419
Steam, Testing Portland Cement, andc., by High-pressure, 142, 230
Steam Traps, Turnbull’s, 521
Steam Vessels, Subdominant Speed of, 436
Steam and Water Separators, 548
Steam Yacht Building in 1893, 6
Steamer, The Cargo, “Turret Age,” 220, 221
Steamer for the Great Eastern Railway Company, 152
Steamer “La Marguerite,” New Passenger, 560
Steamer, River and Sea-going Passenger, “La Marguerite,” 315
Steamer “ Southwark,” The Twin-screw, 90, 91
Steamers, The Vibrations of, 258
Steaming of the “Columbia,” Tests of, 568
S.S. “Gothic,” The, 5
S.S. “Maori,” Engines of the, 113
Steamship Performance, 52
S.S. “Turret Age,” Engines and Boilers of the (Supplement, May 4th, 1894), 380, 389
Steamships “St. Louis” and “St. Paul,” for the American Line, 542
S.S. “Prussia,” The Twin-screw, 496
S S. “Torr Head,” The Twin-screw, 305
Steamship Trials, Comparative Results of Certain, 573
Steel American Oil Tank Car, 336
Steel, Analysis of, 390
Steel Armour at Texel, Competitive Trial of, 44, 46
Steel, Carbon, 390
Steel Castings, The Walrand-Legenisel Method of Making, 369, 527
Steel, Effect of Hardening, upon its Electrical Resistance, 74
Steel, Foreign Tests of, 371
Steel Furnaces, 203
Steel-making Process, The Adams-Blair, 3
Steel and its Manufacture, 179
Steel Manufacture, The Walrand-Legenisel Process of, 369, 527
Steel Moulder’s Composition ? 9
Steel Oil Barrels at Barrow, Making of, 261
Steel Pens, Utilisation by the Germans of Old, 402
Steel Pipes, Welded, for Bradford Corporation’s Water Scheme, 261
Steel Rails, Mr. J. E. Howard on, 153
Steel Rails in France in 1893, 261
Steel: Relations between its Chemical Constitution and Ultimate Strength, 390
Steel, Results Of Heat Treatmont on Manganoso, by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 390
Steel Sailing Vessel, Launch of the First, in Now England, 175
Steel Spigot and Socket Pipe, Spencer’s, 336
Steel Tubes, Williams’ Wedge Seam Joint, 177
Steel Tubular Elephant Boiler, Say Sugar Refinery, Paris, 201
Steel Wire, Hardening and Tempering, 287
Steel Works, Power in, 187
Stevens, Mr. Marshall, on Bridges over the Manchester Ship Canal, 135
Stevenson, Mr. C. A., Electric Indicator of Ship’s Position in a Harbour, 184
Steward, Mr. G. R., Smoke Preventing Furnaces, 174
Stewart, D. R., on Mineral Oil Lamp Accidents, 157
Stewart, Prof. Chas., Sound Production of the Lower Animals, 353
Stewart, Prof. H., Instrument for Photomicrography, 379
Stirling, Mr. J., Tank Engine, South-Eastern Railway (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 46, 65, 66, 72
Stirling, Mr. J., on the Victorian Coalfields, 25
Stockton Corporation Quay, The Crack in the, 25
Stockton, Corporation Quay, Reconstruction of the, 497
Stone Breaker, Elevator and Soreen, Marsden’s, 197
Stone equal in Beauty to Carrara Marble in Colombia, 245
Storage Reservoirs, 130
Straits’ Municipalities Decision as to Width of Tires, 478
Straker’s Lubricators, 394
Strategic Railway in China, Completion of New, 199
Street Pavements, Mr. James Morgan on, 175
Street Railway Companies, 543
Street Railway Track Construction, English, 287
Strength of Knuckle Joints, Mr. J. C. Cornock on the, 176
Stresses, Savage’s Method of Determining, 245
Strikes and Lockouts, 545
Strikes for Mischief, 401
Sturgeon and Davies’ New Cable Tramway System, 519
Subdominant Speeds of Steam Vessels, Note on the, 436
Subdominant Speeds of War Vessels, 178, 436
Subsidence on Caledonian Railways near Glasgow, 227
Subsidence on the Ground, and Comparative Merits of Stoneware and Cast Iron Pipes, 497
Suez Canal Traffic, 1893, 479
Sugar as a Food in the Production of Muscular Work, 93
Sulina Canal, Opening of the New Cutting, 393. 415, 437
Summerson, Mr. Robert, His Retirement, 67
Sun Flour Mills, Bromley, Elevators and Machinery, 476, 477, 478
Sundays, Tramway Fares not to be Doubled on. 479
Sunderland and Manchester, The Forty-eight Hours’ Week in, 289, 296
Sunderland Quay, The Cracks in the, 261
Sunderland Station, Proposed Alterations at, 374
Sunshine, Dr. Procacci on the Action of, on the Microbes in Drain Water, 261
Sunshine Recorded at Greenwich, 1893, Hours of, 568
Sunshine Recording Instruments and their Uses, 497
Superheater, Gehre’s, 121
Superheater, Trial of McPhail and Simpson’s, 121 140
SUPPLEMENTS:—
- Antwerp Hydro Electric Central Supply Station, M. F. Van Rysselberghe’s System, M. M. Carels, March 9th, 1894
- Compound Passenger Locomotives, Rhode Island Locomotive Works, January 5th, 1894
- Express Passenger Locomotive, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Mr. T. Parker, April 6 ch and 13th, 1894
- Four-coupled Bogie Tank Engine, London and South-Western Railway, Mr. W. Adams, June 15th and 29th, 1894
- Japanese Protected Cruiser “Yoshino,” The, Messrs. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant, and Co., February 16th, 1894
- Passenger Tank Locomotive, South - Eastern Railway, Mr. Jas. Stirling, January 19th,
- Triple-expansion Engines of the Russian Battleships “Poltava” and “Tri Sviatitelia,” Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant and Co., January 19th, 1894
- Triple-expansion Engines of the “Turret Age,” Messrs. Doxford and Son, May 4th, 1894
Surface-condensing Engines—See Engines, Surfacecondensing
Surveyors in Ireland, 401
Sutcliffe and Son’s Wood-working Machinery, 263
Swan and Hunter, Messrs, C. S., Closed-in Berths for Shipbuilding, 338
Swansea Harbour Bill, The, 327
Swansea, Harbours and Waterways, 89
Swedish Government, Completion of their Scheme of Railway Construction, 497
Swedish Iron Trade, The, 335
Swiss Mountain Railroads, Cable Road up the Stanserhorn, 93
Switzerland, Electricity and Steam Power in, 22
Switzerland, Inclined Railways in, 53
Syer and Co., Messrs. J. T., Improved Carpenter’s Gauge, 347
Symmetrical Aplanatic Objective, M. Ch. V. Zenger on the, 219
Syphon, Long, at Nusseerabad, 67
Syston, Force of Wind at, 131

TAIT, Prof., Compression of Fluids, 131
Tandem Compound Engine, Test of a, 317
Tangential Water-wheels, Mr. John Richards on, 353
Tangye, Sir Richard, 484
Tank Engine, South-Eastern Railway, Mr. James Stirling (Supplement, January 19th, 1894), 46, 65, 66, 72
Tank Locomotives—See Locomotives, 77
Tanner, Mr. J. E., C.B., 3
Taper Crank Pin-hole Boring Machine, 98, 135
Taxation of Machinery, The, 526, 551
Taylor, Mr. Francis R., Industries of Devon and Cornwall, 303
Taylor, Dr. J. Cleasby, on the Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine at Las Palmas, 175
Taylor’s Self-contained Gas-fired Steam Generators, 498
Tea Curing Machinery, 32
Technical Education, Conference on, 561
Technical Education in Relation to the London Industries, 497
Technical Instruction, the Duke of Devonshire on, 353
Technical Literature and Style, 400
Tehuantepac Railway, The, 519
Telautograph, Prof. Elisha Gray, 527
Telegraph, Helm, for Warships, 270
Telegraphs in Quilimane, Mozambique, 29
Telephone in India, Discovery of a Working, 327
Telephotos, The Boughton, 46
Telescopes, Equatorial Mounting for Monster Reflecting, 353
Telescopes, The Mechanism of Great, 486
Telephone of Wire Owned by the Western Union Telegraph and the American Bell Telephone Companies, 219
Temperature, Effect of Altitude in, 50
Temperature, its Effects on Iron, 3
Temperature and Entropy, On, 411
Temperature of Ignition of Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, 80
Temperature, Mean, at Greenwich, 1893, 568
Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine at Las Palmas, Dr. J. Cleasby Taylor on, 175
Temperature, Relation between the Mean Q larterly and the Death Rate, 261
Temperature of Visibility, on the Minimum, 393
TENDERS:-
- Works of the Filtration Area for the Manchester Corporation at Davyhulme, Mr. Geo. Bell, 25
Tenders for Bridges and Railways in Egypt, 219
Tensile Tests of Wrought Iron Railway Axles and Foreign Tests of Steel, 36, 371
Terra-cotta Sleepers, Trial of, 415
Test of an Electrical Plant, 71, 99
Test of a Tandem Compound Engine, 317
Testing Department, Owens College Physical Laboratory, 58
Testing of Hydraulic Cements, Messrs. Stanger and Blount on the, 397
Testing Machine, Hydraulic, Phoenixville Ironworks, 98
Testing of Materials, Mr. H. Fowler on the, 101
Testing Portland Cement by High-pressure Steam, 142, 177, 230, 265
Testing of Projectiles against not Harveyised Armour-plates, 568
Tests of English and American Railroad Trains, 317
Tetrarsk Railway, Increase of Traffic on, 568
Texel, Competitive Trial of Steel Armour at, 44, 46, 97
Thackeray’s Audible Direction Indicator, 164
Thames Basin, Deficient Rainfall in the, 245
Thames Conservancy, Opposition to the Bill for the Re-construction and Extension of Powers of the, 245
Thames, Engineering Works on the, 162, 163, 283, 286, 535, 539
Thames, The, Harbours and Waterways, 89
Theft, In Defence of, 356, 400, 495
Theft, United States Press on, 400
Thefts of Drawings, 231
Theory of Gases, Kinematic, 542
Thermodynamic Puzzle, 334, 348
“Theseus” and “RDyal Arthur,” Engines of H.M.S., 246, 249
Thompson, Professor S., His Illustrations of Polyphase Electric Currents, 379
Thomson, Professor Sylvanus P., Revolution of Objects by Induction, 527
Thorncliffe Ironworks and Collieries, Centenary of, 3
Thorne, Dr., Tests the Process of Enriching Coal Gas by Oxy-oil Gas, 3
Thornycroft Water-tube Boiler, Circulation in the, 238
Thornycroft’s Water-tube Boilers, for the New German Battleship, 67
Thornycroft and Co., Messrs. J. L , Engineering Works, 162
Thwaites Brothers, Messrs., The Howatson Low- pressure Filter, 4
Tickets, New Kind of Passenger Railway, 199
Tidal Wave, A, What it did, 112
Tilbury, Launch of a Pontoon Pier for, 552
Tilbury, New Landing Stage for, 287, 552
Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Company, Mathewson’s Sand Blast Apparatus, 281
Tilting Gear, Ingot, 561
Timber from Insects, On the Preservation of, 199
Timber-preserving Process, Gardner’s, 519
Time Check, Bristol Electrical, 184
Tins? Profitable Disposal of, 519
Tipton District, Measuring Stations, South Mines Drainage Commissioners, 115
Tires, Record of Mileage made by Midvale, 67
Tires and Rims, Rubber, North British Rubber Company, Limited, v. Mackintosh and Company, Limited, 518
Tires for Water Carts, Wide Wheel, 393
Tires, Width of, The Straits’ Municipalities Decision as to, 478
Tittley Screw Press, 565
Tobacco Pipe Machinery ? 311
Tomlinson, Mr. Joseph, 378, 402
Tonquin, Coal in, 219
Torpedo Boats for the Brazilian Government, 93
Torpedo Boat Destroyer, the “Hornet,” Trial of 115
Torpedo Boat Destroyer, A New, 104
Torpedo Boat Destroyer, “Hasty,” Launch of, 543
Torpedo Boat “Hazard,” Completion of, 543
Torpedo Boat Destroyers for Foreign Navies, 112
Torpedo Boat Destroyer for the Russian Government, 519
Torpedo Boat “ Ericsson,” Launch of, 519
Torpedo Boats for the Norwegian Navy, 568
Torpedo Boat, No. 93, Design of, 58
Torpedo Boats, Trial of French, 543
Torpedo Boats in the United States Navy, 54
Torpedo Catchers, Boilers for, 225
Torquay Sewerage, 510
Torquay, Mr. A. Chandler on the Climate of, 50
“Torr Head,” Twin-screw s.s., 305
Torsional Oscillations of Wires, Dr. W. Peddie, 131
Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway Company, Bill for Increased Capital, 3
Tow, The Largest, on the Mississippi, 353
Tower Bridge, The, 218
Tower Bridge, Bye-laws for Regulating Opening and Shutting, and Traffic over, 393
Tower Bridge, Opening of the, 314, 497
Tower Bridge Traffic, Regulation of, 479
Tower, Wembley Park, 390
Town Refuse, Disposal of, 310
Town Refuse, Electricity and, 268, 295, 310, 331
Track-laying, Rapid, 497
Traction Engines, Mr. G. W. Hawksley’s Plea for, 497
Traction Engine in New Zealand, The, 317
Traction Engine, A Plea for the, 482
Traction on Highways, 232
Trade, British, 74
Trade and the Flag Brought together in a Strange Way, 415
Trade Marks in Greece, 100
Trade Returns in France, April, 415
Trade, Revival in, 227
Trade Views, Hopeful, 52
Trades Unionism, Mr. Hugh Glen, 405
Train Accidents in the United States in December, 131
Train Ferries in Europe, 303
Train Mileage on the Midland and North-Western Railway, 131
Train Resistance, English and American, 333, 379
Training of Rivers, Mr. L. F. Vernon-Harcourt on the, 359
Tramcar Gas Motor, 548
Tramcars, New Two-horse Forty-seat, Glasgow Corporation Tramways, 239, 242
Tramways Bill, West London, 153
Tramways in Budapest and Electricity, 25
Tramways in Buenos, 307
Tramway Car Motors, Latest Street, in the United States, 353
Tramway, Croydon and Thornton Heath
Tramways in Dublin and Electricity, 25
Tramways, Electric, 204
Tramways, Electric Railways and, 362
Tramways, Electric Street, 575
Tramways, Electric Traction on, 252
Tramway Engine, Failure of a Fire-box Stay in Boiler of a, 67
Tramway, Extension of the Streatham Cable, 307
Tramways, Four New Cable, London Tramways Co., 3
Tramways, Glasgow Corporation, Tramcars, 239, 242, 243
Tramway, Steam, in Greece, 543
Tramways in Havana and Suburbs, 543
Tramways in Mass., Street, 199
Tramway Motor Company, The, 353
Tramways Opened in 1892-3 in the United Kingdom, 67
Tramways in Paris, Compressed Air on, 261
Tramway, Paris Underground, 462
Tramway, Projected Cable, in Paris, 261
Tramways, Sunday Fares, 479
Tramway System, New Cable, 519
Tramway, Wire, Pinerolo, 68, 69
“Transactions” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, Last Volume, 153
Transatlantic Rivalry, 523
Transcaspian Railway, Interest Paid by the, 353
Transformer Stations in London, 519
Transmission Dynamometer, 393
Transmitter, Wheatstone Automatic, 527
Transporting Buildings, 77
Traps, Turnbull’s Steam, 521
Travelling in its Relation to Tramways, 307
Trebizond, Railways for, 335
Tredegar, Lord, at the Royal Metal Trades Pension Society, 131
Trent Bridges on the Midland Railway, 27, 28, 30, 99
Trent Navigation, 223, 402
Trent, New Bridge at, 27, 28, 30, 99
Trewhella and Co., Permanent Way for the Circum-Etna Railway, 568
Tricycle, Mr. Geo. Pinkert’s Land and Water, 497
Triple Alloys, Freezing Points of, 50
Triple-expansion Engines at Reduced Powers, Experiments with, 230
Triple-expansion Engines of the Turret Age (Supplement, May 4th, 1894), 380
Triple-expansion Engines—See also Engines
Trolley System of Canal Boat Hauling on the Erie Canal, 67
Trucks for Coal Traffic, Differences respecting, 519
Tube Brush, Spring Coil, 305
Tube, The Row Heating, 281
Tubes under Pressure, Behaviour of Circular, 360
Tubes, Wedge Seam Joint Steel, 177
Tubulous Boilers, 156
Tunnard and Keay’s Electric Automatic Fire Alarm, 242
Tunnels on the Dore and Chinley Railway, Mr. Percy Rickard, 79
Tunnel under the East River, 281
Tunnel, Jeddo, 93
Tunnel, The Khojah, 202
Tunnel in Massachusetts, Length of the Hoosac, 25
Tunnel, Redhill, 27
Tunnel under the River Medina, Proposed, 93
Tunnel under the Seine, 231
Tunnel at Stobcross, The Bellmouth, 353
Turnbull’s Steam Traps, 521
“Turret Age,” Boilers of the s.s., 389
“Turret Age,” The Cargo Steamer, 220, 221
“Turret Age,” Engines of the s.s. (Supplement, May 4th, 1894), 380
Turret Electric Mountings, The Canet, 112
Tutton, Mr. A. E , Temperature of Ignition of Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, 80
Tweddell, Mr. R. H., Forging by Hydraulic Pressure, 161
Twenty-four Hours’ Stand at the Cleveland Blast Furnaces, 579
Twin-screw s.s. “Prussia,” The, 496
Twin-screw Steamer “ Southwark,” 90, 91
Twin-screw s.s. “Torr Head,” 305
Tyler, Hayward, and Co., Messrs., Geared High- lift Pumps, 205
Tyne, Expeditious Shipbuilding on the, 401
Typewriting Carbon Papers, Messrs. R. Wedgwood and Sons, 393
Typhoid Fever in Dublin, 97

UGANDA, Mr. Chamberlain on the Railway to, 93
Ulna, Floating Dock for, 474
Ulster, s.s. Company, Twin-screw s.s. “Torr Head,” 305
“Umbria,” Speed Trials of the Italian Warship, 518
Underground Hauling Engines, Compound, 177
Underground Railway in Paris, 334
Union of Employers and Employed, Industrial, 271
Unit of Electricity, Board of Trade, 500, 523, 551
U.S , Armour-plate Scandal, The, 503
U.S., Bridge Disaster in the, 29
U.S. Coast Defence Ram “ Katahdin,” The, 288, 293
U.S. Cruiser “Columbia,” 70
U.S. Cruiser “Columbia,” Tests of Steaming of the, 568
U.S., Increased Canal Traffic in the, 47
U.S., Iron and Steel Trades in the, 25
U.S., Mineral Production of the, 543
U.S. Navy, Machinery of the, 51
U.S. Navy Small-arms, 282
U.S. Navy 13in. 60-Ton Breech-loading Rifle Guns Tested at Indian Head, 287
U.S. Navy, Torpedo Boats in the, 54
U.S. Patent-office, The, 291
United States Patent-office Rules, Some Changes in the, 327
U.S. Press on Theft, The, 400
U.S., Price of Gas in the, 199
U.S., Production of Lead in the, 115
U.S , Public Works in the, 438
U.S. Railway, Construction in the, 115
U.S., Rainfall in the, 543
U.S., Street Railways in the, 115
Upwey Junction Accident and Long-working Hours, 245
Utilisation of the Nile, with Map and Errata, 172, 173, 196, 203, 291
Utilisation of Town Refuse at Halifax, 141
Uxbridge to Rick mans worth, Bill for Railway from, 3, 25

VALLEY of Mexico, Drainage Tunnel Borings, 415
Value of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 436
Value of a Railway, Estimating the, 440
Valve, Ashton Pop Safety, 548
Valve Gear, Fluid Pressure Reversing, Mr. D. Joy, 279
Valve Gear of an Air Compressor, West’s Gas Improvement Co., 424, 425
Valve Gear, Joy’s, 279, 310, 331, 418, 419, 501
Valve Gear, New French, 187
Valves, Pump, 78, 102
Van Rysselberghe’s System, M. M. Carels, The Antwerp Hydro - electric Central Supply Station (Supplement, March 9th, 1894), 200, 205
Vapour Tension, Variations of, 327
Varley Testimonial, The, 198
Vautin, Mr. Claude, On the Commercial Electrolysis of Fused Salts, 392
Vautin, Mr. Claude, Metal Specimens, 527
Vazarhelyi, M. Pau), Portrait, 472
Velocipede Run, Mr. R. H. Carlisle’s, 415
Ventilation of Buildings, Professor Ernest H. Jacob, 125
Ventilation, Mine, 426
Ventilation of Public Buildings, 156, 241
Vera Cruz to Jalapa, Removal of the Mule Train Line, 519
Vernon-Harcourt, Mr. L, F., The Training of Rivers, 359
Victoria, Employment of Women at Railway Stations, 115
Victoria Steamboat Association’s Steamer “La Marguerite,” 315
Victorian Coalfields, Mr. J. Stirling on, 25 “Victorious,” Internal Arrangements and Armament of the, 543
Villard, M. P., Physical Properties of Pure Nitrous Oxide, 479
Villeboeuf Colliery, Prosperous State of the, 568
Viscosity, Determination of, 199
Viscosity of Liquids, Mr. O. J. Jones on the, 153
Visibility, on the Minimum Temperature of, 393
Volunteer Fleet, A., 523, 542, 574
Vulcan Foundry Company, Messrs., Narrow Gauge Tank Engines for Indian State Railways, 568
Vibrations of Steamers, 258

WAGONS Acquired and Hired out by the Midland, 245
Wakefield to the Humber, Proposed Ship Canal from, 393
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 19, 38, 60, 82, 104, 124, 144, 168, 190, 210, 233, 254, 276, 298, 320, 342, 362, 384, 408, 428, 466, 490, 512, 532, 554, 578
Walker, Mr. A. T., on Extensions of Reading Waterworks and the Use of Polarite therein, 340
Walker, Mr. Wm. Eden, Elected Vice-president of the Cleveland Ironmasters’ Association, 25
Wall of a Warehouse at Reading, Removing the Front, 558
Wall’s Patent Glass Gauge Protector, 64
Wallaert Frferes Mill, Lille, Trials of a Crossley Gas Engine at, 507
Walloth Railway, on Inclined Railways in Switzerland, 53
Walmsley, Mr. A. T., His Appointment, 153
Walrand-LegSnisel Method of Making Steel Castings, The, 369, 527
Walter, Miss Edna, and Mr. H. B. Bourte, Goniometer, 527
Waltham Abbey, Explosion at, 421
Walter’s Link Belting, 76
Wansbrougb, Mr. W. D., History and Development of the Portable Engine, 124
War Material, 13
War Vessels, Auxiliary, 179
War Vessels, Japanese, 505
War Vessels, Note on Subdominant Speeds of, 178
Warming Railway Carriages, 34, 71
Warships and Critics, 481
Warships, Electrical Signals for, 270
Warships, the Rolling of, 156
Warship Tonnage Launched by the Naval Powers in 1893, 199
Warwick Station Destroyed by Fire, 437
Washington-Lyon Steam Disinfector, Infringement of Patent for, 93
Water ? Analysis of, 503
Water Analysis, 525
Water, London, 175
Water Main Bridges ? 545
Water per Head Supplied by the London Companies, Mean Consumption of, 479
Water Poured into Sodium, Cause of Explosion which Occurs, 479
Water Power, Application of, 196
Water Pump, Pohle’s Air Bubble, 358
Water in Rivers, Self-purification of, 219
Water-saving Lift, Waygood’s, 416, 420
Water Schemes, London, 226
Water Softening, Sodium Silicate for, 115
Water, Specific Heat of, M.M. Bartoli and Stracciati, 50
Water Supplies, Mr. Thos. Duncanson on the Distribution of, 346
Water Supply, 16
Water Supply, London, 198, 244, 265, 479
Water Supply of London, Royal Commission on, 244
Water Supply, Metropolitan, 265
Water Supply of Neath, 570
Water Supply System of Nusseerabad, Long Syphon Added, 67
Water Tank, Automatic, 543
Water-tight Draining and the Disposal of Sewage from Isolated Dwellings, 467
Water-tight Subdivision and the Pumping Arrangements of the First-class Cruisers Recently Completed, Mr. F. Somerscales on, 135
Water-tube Boilers, 22, 41, 63. 86, 87, 107, 127, 132, 133, 179, 241, 264, 293, 294, 310, 331, 522, 525, 547
Water-tube Boilers, Circulation in, 182
Water-tube Boilers, Locomotive, 525
Water-tube Marine Boilers, 67, 132, 133, 249, 250, 251
Water-tube Boilers in the Navy, 547
Water-tube Boiler, Mr. Thornycroft on Circulation in his, 238
Water-tube Boilers, Messrs. Thornycroft’s, for the New German Battleship, 67
Water-tube Boiler, Messrs. Yarrow, 538
Waterlow and Sons, Messrs., Photo-mechanical Printing in Colours, 129
Waterproof Cloth, India-rubber, 175
Waterways and Harbours (see Harbours and Waterways)
Waterways, Inland, Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 387
Waterworks at Arrab, Behar, New, 479
Watkin, Bart., M.P., Sir Edward, His Resignation, 475
Watson, Laidlaw, and Co., Messrs., The Cowper- Coles Cold Galvanising Process, 151
Watt, James, and Steam Navigation, 260
Waugh, Mr. John, Test of a Tandem Compound Engine, 317
Waygood’s Automatic Water-saving Lift and Hoist, 416, 420
Waynforth, Mr. H. M , Oil and Petroleum Engines, 393
Wear, The, 402
Weather Report at the St. Enoch Station, Glasgow, 497
Webb, Mr. Henry, Steel and its Manufacture, 179
Weber, Mr. C. O., on India-rubber Waterproof Cloth, 175
Webster,. Mr. W. R, Relations between the Chemical Constitution and Ultimate Strength of Steel, 390
Wedgwood and Sons, Messrs. R, Typewriting Carbon Papers, 393
Weir, Mr. John, Practical Problems in Marine Engineering, 149
Welded Iron and Steel Flanges, and Spigot and Socket Pipes, Spencer’s, 386
Welded Steel Pipes for the Bradford Corporation’s Water Scheme, 261
Well at Bourn, Remarkable Overflowing, 23, 24
Wembley Tower, The, 390, 550
West Highland Railway, Work on the Stations of the, 219
West Metropolitan Tramways Company, bale of, 519
West Middlesex Waterworks Company Bill, The, 3
West’s Gas Improvement Company, Air Compressor, 424, 425
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and their Long-distance Power Transmission Business, 497
Westminster Clock to Greenwich Observatory, The, Automatic Signals from the, 519
Weyman and Hitchcock, Messrs., Portable Oil Engine, 541
Wheatstone Automatic Transmitter, A, 527
Wheel Cap Wrench, Fetch’s, 475
Wheel Catting Machines, Messrs. G. Birch and Co., 374
Wheel at Earl’s Court, The Gigantic, 324, 379
Wheel, Hett’s Pelton, 358
Wheels and Road Coatings, Model, 575
Wheel Tires for Water Carts, Wide, 393
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., on Mr. E. R. Johnson’s Paper on Inland Waterways : Their Relation to Transportation, 387
White, Mr. W. H.. The Making of a Modern Fleet, 222
White, Mr. W. H., on Qualities and Performances of Recent First-class Battleships, 213
White, Mr. Thos. Wylie, Silver Mounted Railway Truck, 119
Whitebait at Woolwich, The, 378
White Lead, Genuine, Used for the Old Hammersmith Bridge, 25
White Star Line, s.s. “ Gothic,” 5
White Star Steamer “ Cevic,” Cargo of the, 131
Wilde, Mr. Henry, on the Permanent Magnetism of the Earth, 379
Wilkinson, Mr. H. D., Marriage of, 168
Wilkins, Mr. J., on Naval Architecture, 223
Willans Memorial Fund, 295
Willans and Robinson, Ld., Messrs., 222
Williams, Dr. C. T., on the Climate of South California, 55
Williams, Mr. Edward, 547
Williams and Co., Messrs. Alfred, Direct-acting Windmill Pumps, 307
Williams and Co., Messrs. F., Wedge Seam Jo’nt Steel Tubes, 177
Willing’s British and Irish Press Guide, 287
Wills, Mr. J. C., Fire Engine Presented by, to East Stonehouse, 50
Wilson and Co., Messrs. J. H., Locomotive Crane, Manchester Ship Canal, 463
Wilson and Son, Messrs. John, Purchase of Two Businesses, 3
Wimshurst, Mr. J., Signal Transmission by Induction, 527
Wimshurst, Holliek, and Co., Messrs., Electric Travelling and Jib Cranes, 377, 397
Winby Locomotive, “James Tolman,” The, 25
Windmills for Working Pumps, Use of, 307
Wind Motor, Rollason’s, 337
Wind at Syston, Force of, 131
Winogradsky, M., on the Phenomenon of the Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen by Microbes derived from Soil, 374
Winter, Mr. John Bradbury, Miniature Gravity Railway, 185
Winterthur Company, New Locomotives, 67
Wire Rope Breaking Strains, 360
Wire Ropes, Mr. Herbert Cheesman on, 414
Wire Ropes in the United States, Mr. J. A. Roebling, 93
Wire Ropeway at Pinerolo, 68, 69
Wise and Others v. Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, 381
Withernsea Lighthouse, The First Use of the, 115
Witz, M. Aime, Report on Trials of a Crossley Gas Engine, 507
Wolff and Son, Messrs. E, Maginnis’ Pencil Beam Compass, 208
Women Employed in Victoria as Stationmasters, 115
Wood Fly-wheels, 265
Wood Match-making Machinery ? 137
Wood Mitre-cutting and Paring Machine, 76
Wood Paving in Paris, 307
Woodfield Gas Engine, The, 358
Woodham Ferris, Scarlet Fever at, 67
Wood-working Machinery at the Building Exhibition, 263
Worcester and Birmingham Canal Diagram, 471
Wordsworth, Mr. T. H., on Coal-getting by Machinery, 152
Working Hours and the Accident at Upwey Junction, 245
Workmen and Admiralty Contracts, 249
Worth, Mr., Economy of Steam in Rolling Mill Engines, 187
Worthing, Health of, 327
Worthing, Hermite Electric Treatment of Sewage at, 316
Worthington Sewage Pumping Engines, 223
Wrench, Wheel Cap, 475
Wrought Iron Railway Axles, Tensile Tests of, 36
Wiirtemberg State Railways, New Passenger Tickets, 199
Wurtz, Henry, The Absolute Zero, 75

YACHTS, Aluminium, 32
Yacht Building in 1893, Steam, 6
Yachts, Discussion on the Relative Merits of Keel and Centre-board, 55
Yacht Exhibition at the Royal Aquarium, 115
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Engineering Works, 535-539
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Engines of the “Antelope,” 67
Yarrow and Co., H.M.S. ‘'Hornet,” 115, 249, 394, 516
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Launch of the “Hasty,” 543
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Torpedo-boat Destroyer for the Russian Government, 519
Yarrow and Co., Theft of the Drawings of the “Havock,” 231, 291, 356
Yarrow, Messrs., Water-tube Boiler, 538
Yorke, Major, on the Collision at Bellisfield Station, 327
Yorkshire Coalfield, Professor Lupton on the West, 152
Yorkshire, Great Northern Extension Lines in, 328
Yorkshire Miners’ Annual Demonstration, 543
“Yoshino,” The Japanese Cruiser, 128

ZENGER, M. Ch. V., on the Symmetrical Aplanatic Objective, 219
Zuyder Zee, The, 400
Zuyder Zee, Reclamation of the, 470

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