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ABEL, Sir Frederick, Presidential Address, Iron and Steel Institute, 663, 564
Aberdeen, Boiler Explosion near, 647
Aberdeen Shipbuilding in 1890, 113
Accident Preventing Devices for Machines, 89
Adhesion and Rack Railway, Visp-Zermatt, 660
Adjustable Wheel and Engine for Stern-Wheeler (Messrs. Kincaid, Greenock), 168
Administration Buildings, Chicago Exhibition, 667
African (South) Mail Steamer. See South Agricultural Buildings, Chicago Exhibition, 635

Agricultural Society, Royal, Doncaster Show : 752

Andrew and Co.'s Gas Engine, 753
Brickmaking Machinery, 766
Crossley Brothers' Gas Engine, 762
Crossley Brothers' Oil Engine. 752
Dairy, 756
Fielding and Platt's Gas Engine, 753
Hornsby and Sons' Oil Engine, 752
Implements, 755
Midland Gas Engine, 753
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 756
Penny and Co.'s Oil Engine, 752
Priestman Brothers' Oil Engine, 752
Robson's Gas Engine, 753
Taylor and Son's Gas Engine, 753
Trent Gas Engine, 753
Weatherhogg Oil Engine, 752
Wells Brothers' Gas Engines, 753
Weyman and Co.'s Gas Engine, 753
Weyman and Co.'s Oil Engine, 753

Ahrbecker's Water Meter, 143
Ahren's Erecting Prisms, 539
Air, Circulating, and Feed Pumps for Electric Station (Brush Company), 671. See Erratum, 701
Air and Circulating Pumps for United State
Battleship " Maine" (Blake Manufacturing Company), 615
Air, Compressed, System of Paris, 297, 327, 419, 513. See LErrittts, 376
Air Compressors at Transandine Railway Works, (Messrs. Burckhardt, Basle), 603. See also 481
Air Pumps, Separate, 81
"Alaska," S.S., Performances, 545
Alexandra Centrifugal Cream Separator (Messrs. Lister, Dursley), 537
Allen, Mr. W. H., on Auxiliary Engines on Shipboard, 81
Alloys, Sir Frederick Abel on, 564
Alluvial Deposits, Dredger for Excavating (Messrs. Lacour and Figee, Haarlem, Holland), 39
"Almirante Lynch" and " Condell," 536. See also 652, 677. See LETTERS, Torpedoes in Action
Alternating Current Phenomena, 710
Alternating Currents, Interference with, 383
Aluminium Process, The Stefanite, 109
Aluminium Works, Lauffen-Neuhausen, 229. See Erratum, 243
Amalgamating and Dredging Plant, Placer's (Bennett Amalgamator Company), 380
Amalgamating Plant, Gold (Messrs. Harvey, Cornwall), 426
Amalgamation of Scotch Railways, 143
America, Artesian Wells in, 47
America, Stationary Engine Practice in. See Engines
"America," S.S., Performances, 545
American Cruiser " Maine," 51
American Iron Production, 592
American Lakes, 207
American Mail Service, 316, 592
American Patent System, Centenary of, 375, 679
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The, See Mechanical Engineers
American Steamer " Puritan" (Fall River Line) (Mr. John Roach, Chester, Pa.), 64, 94. See Miscellanea, 256
American Steamers' Subsidies, 312
American Tariff and Wages, 80
American Trade Notes. See Notes from United States
American Warships, 365, 379, 382, 413, 492
Ammonia Compression Refrigerating Machine, 90
Ammonia Vapour Engine, 61
Ammunition (Field Artillery), 373. See also 497
Ammunition for Hotchkiss Guns, 152, 210, 271
Ammunition for Rifles, Miniature (Morris). See Rifles
Anderson, Dr. William, on Steel for Artillery, 578, 599. See LETTERS
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 633
Apparatus for Firing Torpedoes, 4, 30
April Weather, 592
Aqueduct, Repairing the Croton, 711
Arc Lamps v. Sunbeam Lamps, Cost of, 501
Argentine Government Torpedo Boats (Messrs. Thornycroft, London), 729
"Arizona's," S.S., Performances, 645
Armament of Warships, 331, 361, 365, 382
Armour Plate Bolts, 693
Armour-Plate Construction in America, 255, 608
Armour for Ships, 393
Armour, Steel, 109
Armour, Warship (American Ships), 365
Armoured Forts, 421, 458, 486
Armoured Ship " Trident," French, 215
Armstrong, Lord, as Bessemer Medallist, Iron and Steel Institute, 564
Army, Expenses of European Powers, 46. See LETTERS, Cost of Defence and Officers' Pay Aries Pneumatic Hammer for Railway- Tyres, 399
Arrangement of Buildings and Prospects, Chicago Exhibition, 372, 520, 635
Art of Mining, Progress of the, 200, 261, 351
Artesian Wells in the United States, 47
Artillery, 270, 373, 497. See LETTEks, Guns, &c, Artillery, Field. By Lieut.-Col. Walford, R.A., 270, 373. See also 497

Artillery, Modern French :

Ammunttion for Hotchkiss Guns, 152, 210, 271
Apparatus for Firing Torpedoes, 4, 30
Armoured Forts, 421, 458, 486
Ballistical Efficiency of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 4, 5, 32, 274, 355, 337
Breach Mechanism of Hotchkiss Guns, 210
Canet, Biographical Sketch of, 78
Canet System, General Principles of, 78
Carriages (Naval and Field) for Hotchkiss Guns, 91, 125, 242, 301, 327, 355
Carriages for Torpedoes (Canet), 30
Creusd de Latouche System of Armoured Forts, 458
CreusOt and Hotchkiss Iron-Protected Forts, 421
Data, Ballistic, of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 4, 5, 32, 274, 355, 387
Deck Mount for Guns, 271, 327
Desmarest Percussion Fuze, 271
Efficiency, Ballistic, of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 4, 5, 32, 274, 355, 387
Field Artillery (Lecture by Lieut-Col. Walford, R.A.), 270
Field Gun, Hotchkiss, 91, 152, 2, 327
Firing Particulars of Hotchkiss Revolver Cannon, 152, 180, 210
Flank Defence Gun, Hotchkiss, 125, 152
Forts, Armoured, Fixed and Travelling, 421, 458, 486
Fuzes, 271
Hotchkiss and CreusOt Iron Protected Forts, 421
Hotchkiss Guns (Naval and Field), 125, 152, 1 80, 210, 242, 271, 301, 327, 355, 387
Hotchkiss and Schneider's Armoured Forts, 458, 486
Limber for Mountain Gun, 327
Machine Guns (Hotchkiss), 91, 125,152 Mountain Guns and Carriage, 327
Mountings for Hotchkiss Guns, 180, 242, 301, 327, 355
Naval Hotchkiss Guns, 91,162, 180, 242, 301, 355
Naval Recoil Mounts, 65-Millimetre (9-Pounder) Gun, 301
Penetration of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 387
Pivot Mountings, Centre, 355
Projectiles for Hotchkiss Revolving Gun, 152, 210
Quick-Firing Guns (Hotchkiss), 91, 181, 210, 242, 301, 327, 355, 387
Quick-Firing Guns, Hotchkiss, 1, 3, 6, and 9-Pounders, 180, 210, 242, 301
Rapid-Firing Guns. See Quick-Firing Guns Recoil Mount (3-Pounder Gun), 301
Revolving Cannon, Hotchkiss, 91, 125, 152, 180, 210
Schneider and Hotchkiss's Armoured Forts, 486 10-Centimetre (3.39-In.) Hotchkiss Gun, 271, 301
Torpedo Boat Mounts for Hotchkiss Guns, 327 Torpedo Firing (Canet System), 4, 30

Artillery, Steel, 578, 699. See LETTERS Asquith's Lathe with Adjustable Gap, 267
Assistant Cylinder, 425, 430. See Lama, Joy's Gear
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, 435
Aston Manor, Health of, 194
Atkinson, Messrs. Llewyn B. and Claude W., on Electric Mining Machinery, 198
Atlantic Mail Service, Duration of Passages, 316, 592
Atlantic Passages. See Trawatlantic Records and LETTERS, " Teutonic"
Atlantic Records (Historical), 423, 483, 517, 646, 724. See LETTERS, Atlantic Records and " Teutonic"
Atlantic Steamer for Five-Day Passage (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 767
Atlantic Steamer, French Company's " Bourgogne," 593
Atlantic Steamers and the Mail Service, 692
Atlantic Steamers for Spain, 127
Atlantic Steamers " Spree" and " Havel," 487. See also 566
Auditorium at Chicago, 400, 490
Australia, Brake Trials in, 314
Australia (South) Minerals in, 44. See Paragraph, Queensland, 73
Australian Irrigation Colonies, The, 632
Automatic Railway for Dundee Harbour, Proposed, 533
Auxiliary Engines on Shipboard, 81
Auxiliary Yacht " Princess Alice " (Messrs. Green, London), 215
Ayrton, Professor, on Alternate Current and Potential Difference Analogies in the Methods of Measuring Power, 740
Ayrton, Professor W. E., and Sumpner, Dr., on Alternating Currents, 383
Ayrton, Professor W. E., and Taylor, Mr. J. F., on Tests of a Transformer, 321

Babcock and Wilcox Water-Tube Marine Boiler, 616
Bagshaw, Mr. W., on the Treatment of Moulding Sand, 157, 259. See also 255
Baker, Sir B. and Mr. Binnie, on the Drainage of London, 316
Balancing Slide Valves, 425, 430. See LETTER, Joy's Gear
Baling Press, Ladd's Hay and Straw (Messrs. Howard, Bedford), 730
Ball, Dr. E. J., on the Changes in Iron Produced by Thermal Treatment, 582, 630
Ballistical Efficiency of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 4, 5, 32, 274, 355, 387
Barba, M., on Ships' Armour, 393
Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, on the Protection of Ships, 56
Barrow Shipbuilding in 1890, 26
Barton Aqueduct, Manchester Canal, 188
Barton Section, Standard Cutting in, Manchester Canal, 380
Basic Linings in Copper Smelting, 76
Basic Steel, 135. See Erratum, 161
Battleship Destroyed by Torpedo, 536, 652. See
Miscellanea, 566, 677. See LETTERS, Torpedoes in Action
Battleships, British and Foreign Compared, 251, 283. See also 331, 361, 382
Battleships, New British, 251, 283. See also 331
Bazalgette, The Late Sir Joseph, 342
Beam Engine, Compound, of " Puritan " (Mr. John Roach, Chester, Pa.), 64, 91. See Miscellanea, 256
Beams, Concrete, and Iron Tests of, 622. See LETTERS
Bearing, Method of Oiling, 681
Bearings (Independent), Engines with (American Practice), 3
Bearings, Main (American Practice), 59
Bearings, Shaft, of " City of Paris," 659
Bedplates of American Engines, 2
Belting, Rope Driving, 89
Bennett Amalgamator Company's Plant (Placer's), 380
Berkefeld Filter, 703
Berry's Vertical and Horizontal Planing Machine, 82
Berry's Wall Planing Maehine, 380
Bessemer Medalist ; Iron and Steel Institute (Lord Armstrong), 564
Bethlehem Iron Company and Armour Plate Construction, 255, 608 Sickle Rock Drill, 360
Biles, Mr. J. H., on American Warships, 365, 382, 413
Binnie, Mr., and Sir B. Baker, on Drainage of London, 316
Birmingham Water Supply, 440
Blackwall Tunnel, The Proposed, 226
Blaine, Mr. Robert Gordon, on Hydraulic and Electric Transmission of Power, 612, 665
Blakesley, T. H., on the Iron Cores of Electrical Apparatus, 53
Blakesley's Method of Measuring Power in Transformers, 689
Blakesley, Mr., on Proof of the Generality of certain Formula) published for a Special Case, 321
"Blanco-Enc,alada" Battleship Destroyed by Torpedo, 536. See also 566, 652, 677, and LErrERS, Torpedoes in Action
Blooming Mill at Scranton, U.S. A., 100, 585
Board of Trade Electric Standards, 232
Boiler Construction adapted to Forced Draught, 335, 373, 388. See LETTERS
Boiler Construction (Mudd's Method), 424, 444
Boiler Deposits, 368, 639
Boiler Experiments by Mr. Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, 235, 677
Boiler Explosion near Aberdeen, 647
Boiler Explosion at Cheam, 384
Boiler Explosion at Jarrow, 98
Boiler (Locomotive) Explosion near Leeds, 257
Boiler Explosions at Liverpool, Wellington, and West Butterwick, 40
Boiler Explosions at Newcastle and Bury, 768
Boiler Flues, Overheated, 145, 202, 290, 321. See LETTERS
Boiler Inspection and Registration Bill, 1891, 316, 403. See LETTERS
Boiler Shell Drilling Machine (Messrs. Booth, Halifax), 475
Boiler, Teat of the Stanley Marine, 646. See LETTERS
Boiler, Water-Tube Marine, Babcock and Wilcox, 616
Boiler, Yarrow's Water-Tube, 81
Boilers, Circulation of Water in. See LETTERS Boilers at Frankfort Exhibition, 641, 672, 699 Boilers with Howden's Forced Draught, S.S.
"City of Paris," 559
Boilers with Howden's Forced Draught, S.S. "City of Vienna" (Messrs. J. and J. Thomson), 398
Boilers with Machine Stoking, 172
Boilers of S.S. " Indra" (Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co.), 525
Boilers, Strength of Short, 468. See LErritas and Erratum, 493
Boilers, United States Cruiser " Yorktown " (Quintard Company), 492
Bolivia, Mineral Resources of, 453. See LETTER, 527
Bolts, Drift, The Holding Power of, 314
Bonwick Syphon Stopper, The, 199
Booth's Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 475 Boring Machine, Universal Horizontal (Mcesrs. Shepherd, Hills, and Co., Leeds), 100
Boring Machine at the Washington Navy Yard (Newark Machine Tool Company, Newark, N.Y.), 23
"Bourgogne," The French TrAnsatlantic Steamer, 593
Brake Trials in Australia, 314
Brassey, Lord, on Future Policy of Warship Building, 331, 364. See LETTER, Engineers fur Navy
Breaker, Gates' Ore, 727
Breakwater at Yokohama, 632
Breakwaters, Concrete in, 469
Breakwaters, Construction of, 343
Breech Mechanism of Hotchkiss Guns, 210
Brickmaking Machinery at Doncaster Show, 756
Bridge, Clarence, over River Taff, Cardiff, 127, 1 85, 276, 349. See LErrms, Eye-Bars, 243, 288
Bridge (Railway) over Thames River, New London, Conn., U.S., 428, 557
Bridge, St. Louis Merchants', over Mississippi River, 597, 686, 728
Bridge, Swing, at Moorlane, near Warrington Manchester Canal, 188
Bridge, Verrugas, Oroya Railway, Peru, 80, 460.
See LErrsas, European v. American Bridges Bridge, Wooden, over the River Barrow, 703
Bridges, Constructive Material for London and Brighton Railway (Norwood Accident), 739
Brine Pumping, The Effects of, 529, 677. See Miscellanea, 587
Briquettes, Converting Lignites into, 226
British Corporation for the Survey and Register of Shipping, 255
British East African Company's Stern-Wheel Steamer " Kenia" (Messrs. Kincaid and Co., GreenQek), 158
British and Prussian Railways, 371
British Trade and Colonial Development, Ten Years of, 311
Broadwell-Durst Magazine for Rifles, 766
Brock's Engine for Fast Paddle Steamers, 39
Bromfield-Ingersoll Rock Drill, 360
Brooklyn Sugar Refinery Company's Pier Hydraulic Hoisting Apparatus, 61. See LETTER, 1 12
Brown's Controlling Gear on " City of Paris," 659
Brush's Residence, Light and Power Installation, 624
Bryce•Douglas, The Late A. D., 428, 566. See LETTERS
Buckland's Stanley Marine Boiler, Test of, 616.
See LETTERS, Stanley Boiler
Budapest Exhthition, 262
Builders' Exhibition, 533
Bulkheads, Board of Trade Committee on, 681 763
Burner, Wigham's Improved Lighthouse, 533
Burning Petroleum, Tweddle's System, 622
Burrell's Steam Road Roller, 646
Bury, Boiler Explosion at, 768

Cable Conduits (Electric) of Paris. See Electric Mains
Cable, Submarine, Telegraph Enterprise, 471, 533
Cable Traction Railroad Construction in America, Light, 36 '
Calculating Furnace Charges, 608
Cambridge University, Engineering at, 470
Cammell's Exhibit at Naval Exhibition, 670, 693
Cammell's Steel Works at Sheffield, 670, 693
Canadian Pacific Route to East, 624
Canal, Japan, The Kioto-Fu, 738
Canal from Sheffield to the Sea, 109
Canet, Biographical Sketch of, 78
Canet Gun, Trial of 66-Ton, 249
Canet Guns, General Principles of, 78
" Capitan Prat," Chilian Ironclad, 22
Carbutt, Mr. E , and Davey, Mr. H , on Rock Drills, 360
Cardiff, Clarence Bridge over River Taff at, 127, 1 85, 276, 349. See LETTERS, Eye-Bars, 243, 288
Carriage Lock (Railway), Zippmann and Furthmann's, 199
Carriage, Passenger, for the Hoellenthal Railway, 243, 304. See also 153
Carriage, Serpollet Steam, 315
Carriages (Naval and Field) for Hotchkiss Guns, 91, 125, 242, 301, 327, 355
Carriages for Torpedoes (Canet), 30
Carrington, Mr. W. T. H., on the Storage of Petroleum, 449
Casey, Dr. John, F.R.S., 144
Cast-Iron Cutting Tools, 375
Castings, Heavy Steel, in America, 255. See 608
Castings, Steel, The Manufacture of, 765
Castle Liner " Dunottar Castle" (Fairfield Com party), 10, 159, 339, 535
Cattle-Carrying Ships, The Board of Agriculture and, 712
Cement Grinding Machinery (Neate's, Rochester), 1 31
Cement Testing Machine, A New, 738
Cement Testing at St. Louis Water Works Extension, 285
Centenary of American Patent System 376, 679
Central London Railway Bill, The, 286, 304 See Paragraphs, 643, 761
Centre-Board Yachts Building on the Clyde, 262
Certain Phenomena of Compression, 369
Chains, Weldless Steel, 524
Chandler Engine and Crompton Dynamo, 645
Changes in Iron Produced by Thermal Treatment, 582, 630
Channel Telephone Cable, The, 348. See also 643
Channel Tunnel, Irish, 225
Charcoal (Oak) for Moulding, 157, 259
Chatelier Pyrometer, La, 561, 581
Chatterton, Mr. A., on Periyar Irrigation Works, 1 65
Cheesewright, Mr. F. H., on Harbours Natural and Artificial, 843

Chicago :

Auditorium Buildings, 400, 490
Electric Lighting, 721
Seaport, 207

Chicago Exhibition, 1893:

Administration Buildings, 667
Agricultural Buildings, 635
Arrangement of Buildings and Prospects, 372, 520, 635
Commission and Delegates to Britain, 736
Congress on Social and other Progress, 650
Electricity Building, 700
Illinois State Buildings, 461
International Engineering Congress, 707
Machinery Hall, 758
Mining Buildings, 636
Prospects of British and Foreign Countries
Participating, 16, 222, 736
United States Government Buildings, 245

Chignecto Ship Railway, The, 285
Chili, War in, 536, 566, 652, 677. See LETTERS
Chilian Ironclad " Capitan Prat," The, 22
Chimney Draught, 60
Churchill's Controlling Apparatus for Multiple
Cylinder Engines (Messrs. Durham,' Churchill, and Co., London), 715
Cinder Puddling, 605
Circulating, Air, and Feel Pumps, for Electric Station, 671 (Brush Company, London). See Erratum, 701
Circulating and Air Pumps for United States Battleship " Maine" (Blake Manufacturing Company), 615
Circulating Pumps, 81
Circulation in Boilers. See LErricas
" City of Brockton," American Fall River Steamer, 95
" City of Paris" and " City of New York," S.S.'s, Performances, 545, 724. See LErrnts, Atlantic Records
" City of Paris," Inman Liner, 47, 545, 559, 617, 675, 724. See LETTER, 696. Paragraph, 617
" City of Rome's" Performances, 724
City and South London Electric Railway, Electric Interlocking of Signals, 80
City and South London Electric Railway to Islington, 346. See also 435

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 22, 566, 643

Annual Report and Meeting, 643
Auxiliary Engines in Connection with the Modern Marine Engine, by Mr. W. H. Allen, 81
Historical Sketch of Institution, 22
Machine Stoking, by Mr. John Frederick Spencer, 172
Electric Mining Machinery, by Messrs. Llewelyn B. and Claude W. Atkinson, 198
On the Subterranean Water in the Chalk Formation of the Upper Thames and its Relation to the Supply of London, by Mr. J. Thornhill Harrison, 285
The Cost of the Generation and Distribution of Electrical Energy, by Mr. R. E. B. Crompton, 442
On the Reception and Storage of Refined Petroleum in Bulk, by Mr. W. T. H. Carrington, 449
Railway Train Lighting, by Mr. William Langdon, 600
Receptions, 22, 80
" Clacton Belle," Fast Paddle Steamer (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39
Clarence Bridge over River Taff, Cardiff, 127, 1 85. 276, 349. See LETTERS, Eye-Bars, 243, 288 Clark's Granite Roller Paint Mill, 627. See Erratum, 647
Clayton, The Late Mr. Nathaniel, 17
Cleaning and Washing Coal at Messrs. Merry and Cuninghame's (Luhrig's System), 184
Cleveland. See Notes from Cleveland Climax Rock Drill (Stephens'), 360
Clock giving Direction of the Earth's Orbital Motion in the Ether, 740
Cloth Pressing Machine (Nusseys and Leach-man, Leeds), 276
Clyde River Improvements, 106
Clyde Shipbuilding in 1890, 113
Coal Cleaning and Washing Plant, Luhrig's, 184
Coal Endurance of Warships (Naval Manoeuvres), 15, 43
Coal in Tonquin, Smokeless, 80
Coast Defence, Railways for, 589
Coast Defense Ships, 364, 365, 382
Cobalt Glass, Absorption Spectrum of, 215 Cockerill Air Compressors, 298, 327, 419, 513. Sec !Arms, 376
Coles' Rock Drill, 360
College (University), London, 128
Collins v. Cunard Line, 483
Collisions at Sea, Important Enactment regard. ing, 110
Colonial Development and British Trade, Ten Years of, 341
Colonial Exhibition at Paris, The 1893, 470 Colonial Federation (The War of.Tariffs), 343 Colonies. See Rotes, Foreign and Colonial Colour Printing (Oldtleld's), 653
Colour, A Standard of, 651. See LETTERS Columbian Exhibition of 1893. See Chicago Exhibition
Commercial Treaties, International (The War of Tariffs), 343
Commission and Delegate to Britain re Chicago Exhibition, 736
Compagnie Parisienne de l'Air Comprime, The, 119, 149
Compound Condensing Engine (Musgrave, Bolton), 663
Compound Engines, American Practice, 750 Compound Engines, Single-Acting (Westinghouse), 89
Compound Locomotive, Lindner's System, 13 Compound Marine Engines. See Engines Compressed Air System of Paris, 297 327, 419, 613. See LErrER, 376
Compressibility of Liquids, Measuring, 628 Concrete in Harbour Works, 469
Concrete and Iron Beams, Tests of, 522. See LETTERS
Condenser, Regulation of Injection Water to, 61.
Conduits, Electric Cable, of Paris. See Electric Mains
Congo, Steamer for the (Thornycroft), 246
Congress at Chicago in 1893, An International Engineering, 707
Congress of Hygiene (International), 313, 596
Congress on Social and other Progress, Chicago Exhibition, 650
Connecting-Rods of American Engines, 121
Construction of Boilers adapted to Forced
Draught, 335, 373, 388. See LErrERs
Controlling Appliance for Multiple Cylinder Engines (Durham, Churchill, and Co.'s), 715
Controlling Gear for Engines of " City of Paris," (Messrs. Brown Brothers, Edinburgh), 659
Copper-Depositing Process, Elmore's, 141. See LETTER, 170
Copper Joints, The Strength of Rivetted, 497
Copper Smelting, Basic Linings in, 76
Copper Smelting at Leeds, 653
Cores (Iron) of Electrical Apparatus, 53
Cornea Engines. See Engine Practice in America Corner to Advance Shipping Freights, 601
Cornish Boiler Experiments, 677
Cornish Mining Rock Drills, 360
Corrosion, Protection of Ships' Bottoms by Lacquering, 196
Cost of Arc and Sunbeam Lamps Compared, 501
Cost of National Defence, 46. See LErrns on Cost of Defence and Officers' Pay
Cost of Transmitting Power, 223, 250, 284. See Erratum, 243. See LETTERS, Electric Traction Data
Counsel's Practice on Private Bills, 252. See also 305, 465
Crane Excavator (Steam), 70
Crane, Fairbairn Steam, 60-Ton, 671
Crane, Locomotive Steam (Mr. Thos. Smith, Rodley), 743
Cranes, Hydraulic Travelling, 89
Cranks, Crankshafts, and Crankpins of American Engines, 59
Crankshaft (Fractured) of H.M.S. "Crocodile," 1 98
Crankshafts, 424, 444
Cream Separator, Alexandra Centrifugal (Messrs. Lister, Dursley), 637
Creud de Latouche System of Armoured Forts, 458
CreusOt and Hotchkiss Iron-Protected Forts, 421
Crompton Dynamo, Chandler Engine and, 645
Crompton, Mr. R. E. B., on Electrical Energy, 442
Crookes, Mr. Wm., Address to Electrical Engineers, 107
Croton Aqueduct, Repairing the, 711
Cruiser " Maine," United States Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 51
Cruiser " Pelayo," The Spanish (Forges et Chantiers), 334
Cruiser (Second-Class) " Sybille" (Messrs. R. Stephenson and Co., Hebburn), 23
Cruiser (Second-Class) for British Navy, Trial of " Latona," 169, 189. See LETTERS, " Latona "
Cruisers, American, 365, 382, 379, 413, 492
Cruisers, New British First-Class, 251, 283. See also 331
Crushing Plant, Gold (Messrs. Harvey, Cornwall), 426
Cunard v. Collins Line, 483. See also 420, 517, 645, 724. See LETTERS
Cupolas, Apparatus for Feeding Borings into, (Hansen, Holland), 257
Current Phenomena, Alternating, 710
Cut-Off Engines, American Practice, 456, 522, 647, 696
Cutting Spurwheels, A New Mode of, 66, 90
Cutting Tools, Cast-Iron, 375
Cylinder, Assistant, 426, 430. See LErrER, Joy's Gear
Cylinders of American Engines, 210

Dairy at Doncaster Show, 766
Darlce's Inkstand, 100
Data, Ballistic, of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 4, 5, 32, 274, 356, 387
Davey, Mr. H., and Carbutt, Mr. E., on Rock Drills, 360
Daw Rock Drill, 360
Dawson, Mr. Bernard, on Gas Furnaces, 155, 607, 511. See Erratum, 189
De Naeycr's Water-Tube Boiler, Experiments by Mr. Br} an Donkbo, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, 236
Debts of the Colonies, 841
December Weather, 45
Deck Mount for Guns, 271, 327
Deep Tunnel Railway ; Central London, 286, 301. See Paragraph, 643
Deep Tunnel Railway s, New York, 435. See also 1 61, 397
Defects in Projectiles, Sir Frederick Abel en, 664
Defence, The Cost of National, 46. See LErrEas, Cost of Defence and Officers' Pay
Defence, Imperial, 311. See also 331, 364
Defence, Railways for Coast, 589
Deflections on Ships due to Water Pressure, 397. See also 396, 447, 629
Denny, Dr., on Marine Engineering Practice Forty Years Ago, 768
Denny's Compound Engines for Fast Paddle Steamers, 39
Design, The Elements of Machine, 486
Designs of Battleships, Lord Brassey on, 331, 364. See LErrEits, Engineers for Navy
Desmarest Percussion Fuze, 271
Development of the Art of Mining, 200, 261, 351
Diagram of Shipbuilding Production, 113
Discharge of Pipes, 194
Dissociation into Ions, Theory of, 450
Distortion of Steel Vessels due to Loading, 396. See also 397, 446
Distribution of Compressed Air, 327, 419, 513. See LairrEns, 376
Distribution of Electrical Energy, 442
District Messenger Service, The, 128
Dixon, The Late Mr. John, 168, 344
Dock, Graving, at Newport News, U.S.A., 120
Dock, Salford (Manchester Canal), 72
Dockers' Balance Sheet, 620
Doncaster Show, 752
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, on Boiler Experiments (Water-Tube), 236, 577
" Dorothy," Steam Tug (Newport News Dry
Dock and Shipbuilding Company), 758
Dover Harbour Improvement, 106
Drainage of London, 316
Draught, Chimney, 60
Draught Fans, Forced, 81
Dredger-Elevatol, Floating, and Spoil Distributor, Smulders', 214
Dredger for Excavating Gold-Bearing River Beds (Messrs. Lacour and Figee, Haarlem), 39
Dredging and Amalgamating Plant, Placer's, (Bennett Amalgamator Company), 380
Dredging Plant for River Weser Improvement (Werf-Conrad Shipbuilding and Engineering Company), 70
Drift Bolts, The Holding Power of, 314
Drill and Carriage at Transandine Railway Works (Ferroux), 603
Drill, Radial (Universal Company of Cincinnati), 702
Drilling Machine, Boiler Shell (Messrs. Booth, Halifax), 475
Drilling Machine, Swing-Jib Countersunk (Jones, Burton, and Co., Liverpool), 682
Drilling Plant, Transandine Railway, 481, 603
Drummond's Glow Lamps, Shades, and Protectors, 257
Dry Dock at Newport News, U.S.A., 120
"Duchess of Hamilton," Fast Paddle Steamer (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39
Dumbartonshire, Caledonian Railway, 767
Dundee Harbour, Proposed Automatic Railway for, 632
Dundee Shipbuilding in 1800, 113
"Dunottar Castle," South African Mail Steamer (Fairfield Company), 10, 158, 339, 535
Dynamo, Chandler Engine and Crompton, 645
Dynamo and Engine Combined (Messrs. W. Smit and Co., Holland), 702
Dynamo, Turbine (Steam) and Alternate Current, 504
Dynamos and Engine for Ship Lighting, 82
Dynamos at Lauffen-Neuhausen's Aluminium Works, 229. See Erratum, 243
Dynamos, Schuckert, at Frankfort Exhibition, 613
Dynamos at Transandine Railway Works (Escher, Wyss, and Co., Zurich), 603. See also 481

Eastern Telegraph Company's Operations, 471
Eastham Locks, Manchester Canal, 306, 767
Eastham Section, Manchester Canal, Flooding the, 767
Eclipse Rock Drill (Hathorn), 360
Economics of Electrofusion, Notes on the, 503
Economy of the Steam Jacket, 60
Edinburgh and its Railways, 374, 432
Edison Company's Paris Electric Lighting Installation, 236
Edison, The Sims-Edison Torpedo, 636
Edison's Kinetograph, 678
Education of Engineers, The, 285
Egypt, The Railways of, 687
Eiffel Tower, The New Mercurial Pressure Gauge on, 469
Electric Alternating Current Phenomena, 710
Electric, Comparative Cost of Arc and Sunbeam Lamps, 501
Electric Currents, Measuring the Power of, 740
Electric Elevator, The Otis, 671
Electric Exhibition, The St. Pancras, 344
Electric and Hydraulic Transmission of Power, by Mr. Robert Gordon Blaine, 612, 665
Electric Incandescent Lamps, The Deterioration of, 105
Electric Interlocking of Signals, City and South
London Electric Railway, 80
Electric Light Company, Limited, St. James's and Pall Mall, 255
Electric Light and Power Installation (Brush's Residence), 621
Electric Lighting in Chicago, 721
Electric Lighting, Engines and Dynamos for Shipboard, 82
Electric Lighting, Glasgow Corporation and, 712

Electric Mains of Paris :

Compagnie Parisienne de l'Air Comprime, Systeme Victor Popp, 119, 149
Edison Company, The, 236
Place Clichy Company, 149, 177
Societe d'F,clairage et de Force par l'Electricite, 180, 211

Electric Mining Machinery, 198
Electric Monarch Magnetic Ore Separator, 501
Electric, Parsons' Turbo-Electric Generator, 504
Electric Pinnace for Government, 309
Electric Railway to Islington, Proposed, 345. See also 435
Electric Railway, Shepherd's Bush and Cornhill, 286, 304. See Paragraphs, 643, 761
Electric Railway Signalling (Martin and Theodor Perls), 315
Electric Standards, 232
Electric Tramway, Cost of Working., 223, 250, 284. See Erratum, 243. See LETFER8, Electric Traction Date
Electric Transmission of Power. See Electric Tramway
Electrical Apparatus, Iron Cores, 63
Electrical, Combined Engine and Dynamo (Messrs. W. Smit and Co., Holland), 702
Electrical Current Transformer (Lahmeyer and Co., Frankfort), 642
Electrical Energy, Generation and Distribution of, 442
Electrical Plant at Lauffen-Neuhausen Aluminium Works, 229. See Erratum, 243
Electrical, Royal Society Conversazione, 561
Electrical Torpedo, The Sims-Edison, 536
Electrical, Wimshurst's Alternating Influence Machine, 461
Electricians' Exhibition, London, 633
Electricity Building, Chicago Exhibition, 700
Electricity, Chronological History of, 682, 689, 717, 744
Electricity, Glow Lamp Shades and Protectors (Drummond), 257
Electricity, Suez Canal Night Traffic, 375
Electro-Motors at Transandine Railway Works (Oerlikon Company, Zurich), 603. See also 481
Electro-Technical Exhibition, Frankfort, 561, 613, 622, 641, 671, 672, 680, 699, 711, 737, 765 Electrofusion, Notes on the Economics of, 503 Electrolysis, Some Points in, 450
Electrolytic Deposition of Copper, Elmore's Process, 141. See LETTRR, 170
Electrostatic Wattmeter, Note on, 383
Elements of Machine Design, The, 486
Elevation Indicator and Range Finder, Fiske's, 505
Elevator, Floating, and Spoil Distributor, Smulder's, 214
Elevators, Otis Passenger, 613, 671
Ellesmere Port, Jetty at, Manchester Canal, 243
Elmore's Copper-Depositing Procese, 141. See LETTBR, 170
Engine, Compound Condensing, for Bombay Cotton Mill (Musgrave, Bolton), 653
Engine, and Crompton Dynamo, Chandler, 645
Engine Drivers' Hours of Employment, 137, 243, 315. See LErrxa, 169
Engine and Dynamo, Combined (Messrs. W. Smit and Co., Holland), 702
Engine (Marine), Development of the, 84. See Lierritits, Boilers in the Navy
Engine, Priestman's Oil, 730, 764
Engine-Room Practice, by Mr. Wm. W. Wilson, 658

Engine (Stationary) Practice in America:

Bearing (Independent), Engines with, 3
Bearings, Main, 69
Bedplates, 2
Compound Engines, 760
Connecting- Rods, 121
Corliss Engines. See Cut-Off Engines
Cranks, Crankshafts, and Crankpins, 59
Cut-Off Engines, 455, 622, 647, 696
Cylinders, 210
Flywheels, 210
High-Speed Automatic Cut-Off Engines, 455 522, 547, 637, 696
Independent Bearing, Engines with, 3
Introduction, 1
Main Bearings, 59
Pistons and their Rods, 210
Releasing Gear on High-Speed Automatic Cut-off Engines, 637
Throttling Engine, 295

Engine Trials, 453. See LETTER, 527
Engine Trials, Marine, 647, 568. See Erratum, 696. See LETTER, " Iona's" Trials
Engine, Wolf's Semi-Portable Compound, 727
Engineering at Cambridge Univereity, 470
Engineering Congress at Chicago, 1895, An
International, 707
Engineering Forty Years Ago, 768
Engineering Industries, 73
Engineering (Marine) and Shipbuilding in 1890, 26, 113
Engineering Practice, Marine (Mudd's Methods), 424, 444
Engineers, The Education of, 285
Engineers' Exhibition, 533
Engineers, Naval, 467. See Miscellanea, 491. See LETTERS
Engineers in the Navy. See LETTERS
Enginemakers' (Steam) Society, 591
Engines, Auxiliary, on Shipboard, 81
Engines (Compound Beam) of " Puritan" (Mr. John Roach, Chester, Pa.), 64, 94. See Miscellanea, 256
Engines, Compound, for Fast Paddle Steamers (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39
Engines and Dynamo for Ship Lighting, 82
Engines, Experimental, for Japan College (Messrs. Ross and Duncan, Govan, Glasgow), 171
Engines, Gas v. Steam, 463. See LETTER, 627
Engines, Oil, Gas, and Steam, at Doncaster Show, 752
Engines, Pumping, Standard Method of Conducting Duty Trials of, 36
Engines, Quadruple-Expansion Launch (Messrs. Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 667
Engines, Reversing, 82
Engines, Single-Acting Compound (Westinghouse), 89
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of " City of Paris" (Inman Liner), Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, Limited, Clydebank, 659. See LErnot, 596
Engines, Triple-Expansion, with Morton's Valve Gear, S.S. "City of Vienna" (Messrs. J. and J. Thomson, Glasgow), 398
Engines (Triple-Expansion), South African Mail S.S. " Dunottar Castle" (Fairfield Company), 10, 158, 339, 635
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of S.S. " Indra " (Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co., Liverpool), 525
Engines of United States Cruiser " Yorktown "
(Horizontal Triple-Expansion Surface Condensing) (Quintard Company), 370, 492
Engines, Vapour, 61
Erecting Prisms for Optical Lanterns, 639
Ericcson, Life of John (Literature), 177
Estimates, The Navy, 249, 281, 311
" Etruria" Performances, 545. See LETTERS, Atlantic Records
Rupee Flachat, 664
European Armies and Navies, The Cost of, 46. See Litrricas, Cost of Defence and Officers' Pap European Railway Passenger Fares, 109, 371
Evaporators, Weir's, S.S. " Dunottar Castle," 10
Ewald, Mr. W., on the Motions Observed in the Hawkesbury Bridge, 173. See Lamm Excavating Gold-Bearing River Beds, Dredger for (Messrs. E. F. Laoour and Thos. Figee, Haarlem, Holland), 39
Excavator, Steam Crane (Messrs. Wilson, Liverpool), 70
Excel Grinding Mill (Leachman's, Leeds), 199
Excursions of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 120
Exhibition at Budapest, 262
Exhibition (Chicago) of 1893. See Chicago Exhibition
Exhibition, The 1892 Colonial, at Paris, 470
Exhibition, Disposal of Surplus of Glasgow, 168
Exhibition, Electricians', Engineers', Builders', and Ironmongers', 633
Exhibition, Frankfort Electro-Technical, 561, 613, 622, 641, 671, 672, 680, 699, 711, 737, 765
Exhibition, Meteorological Society's, 276, 845
Exhibition, Naval, 192, 630, 670
Exhibition (Paris) Diplomas, 47. See Lamas, 68
Exhibition, The St. Pancras Electric, 344
Exhibition, The Tasmanian, 167
Exhibition, Trials of Rock Drills at Mining, 360
Expansion Gear for Compound Locomotives, 196
Experimental Engines for Japan College (Messrs. Ross and Duncan, Govan, Glasgow), 171
Experiments with Red-Hot Furnace Crowns, 145, 202, 290, 321, 476. See Lamas
Experiments, Steam Boiler, by Mr. Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, 236, 577
Explosion, Boiler, near Aberdeen, 647
Explosion, Boiler, at Cheam, 384
Explosion, Boiler, at Jarrow, 98
Explosion, Locomotive Boiler, near Leeds, 267
Explosions, Boiler, at Liverpool, Wellington, and West Butterwick, 40
Explosions, Boiler, at Newcastle and Bury, 768
Explosives, High, 270, 373

Fairbairn Steam Crane, 50-Ton (Messrs. Cowan, Sheldon, and Co., Limited, Carlisle), 671
Fall River Line of Steamers, 64, 94. See Miscellanea, 256
Falls of Niagara, The Utilisation of. See Niagara Fans for Forced Draught, 81
Faraday Centenary, 785
Fares on European Railways, 109, 371
February Weather, 282
Federation, Australasian (The War of Tariffs), 343
Feed, Air, and Circulating Pumps for Electric Station (Brush Company), 671. See Erratum, 701
Feeding Borings into Cupolas, Apparatus for (Hansen's) 257
Ferroux Rock Drills at Transandine Railway Works, 603. See also 481
Field Artillery by Lieut.-Colonel Walford, R.A., 270, 373. See also 497
Field Gun, Hotohkiss, 91, 152, 242, 327
Field Guns, 270, 373. See Lsrraas, Guns, (Dc.
Fifeshire Caledonian Railway, 767
Figee's Dredgers, 39
Filter, Berkefeld, 703
Fireproof Building Construction, 436
Firing Particulars of Hotokiss Revolver Cannon, 1 52, 180, 210
Flake's Range Finder and Elevation Indicator, 505
Flank Defence Gun, Hotchkiss, 126, 152
Fletcher, Mr. Lavington E., on Red-Hot Furnace Crown Experiments, 145, 202, 290, 321, 476. See LErrzas
Flexible Tubing, 60
Floating Elevator and Spoil Distributor, Smulders', 214
Flooding the Eastham Section of Manchester Canal, 767
Flow of Water through Pipes, The, 194
Flues, Overheated, Experiments with, 145, 202, 290, 321, 476. See LETTER, 318
Flying Machine. See LETTERS
Flywheels of American Engines, 210
Focometer ; Royal Society Conversazione, 661
Foot Press (Richardson's), 319. Sec Erratum, 369
Forced Draught, The Construction of Boilers adapted to, 335, 373, 388. See Larrzas
Forced Draught, Howden's, in " City of Paris," 47, 659. See Lanza, " City of Paris," 596
Forced Draught, Howden's, S.S. " City of Vienna," 398
Forced Draught Trials (Mechanical Engineers), 647, 668. See Erratum, 696. See Lamas, " Iona's" Trials
Foreign Artillery, 270, 373. See also 497
Forgings in the United States, 608
Forth Shipbuilding in 1890, 118
Forts, Armoured, Fixed and Travelling, 421, 468, 486
Foster, Pi ()tenor C. Le Neve, on Progress of the Art of Mining, 200, 261, 851
Fouling, Protection of Ships' Bottoms by Lacquering, 19§
Fractured Crankshaft of H.M.S. " Crocodile," 198
Frankfort Electro-Technical Exhibition, 661, 613, 622, 641, 671, 672, 680, 699, 111, 731, 765
Freight Corner, 501
French Artilley, Modern. See Artillery
French Central Battery Ironclad, " Trident," 215
French Prosecutions of Turpin re Melinite, 616. See Miscellanea, 733
French Shipping Subsidies, 281. See also 312
French Transatlantic Company's Steamer " Bourgogne," 593
Friction, An Experiment with a Lubricant, 89
Friction, Research Committee on (Institution of Mechanical Engineers), 357, 478
Frost of 1890.91, The Great, 227
Froude's Appliance for Testing Speed of Ships (H.M.S. " Vulcan"), 524
Fuel Economy and Machine Stoking, 172
Fuel, Petroleum as, on the Pacific Coast, 621
Furnace Charges, Calculating, 608
Furnace Crown Experiments, Red-Hot, 145, 202, 290, 321, 476. See LETTER, 318
Furnaces, Gas, 155, 607, 541. See Erratum, 189
Furthmnann and Zippmann's Railway Carriage Locks, 199
Fuzes, 271

Galvanism, Chronological History of, 682, 689, 717, 744
Gardner Typewriter, The, 646
Gas Engines, 752
Gas Furnaces, 165, 507, 541. See Erratum, 189
Gas v. Steam Power, 453. See LETTER, 527 Gas, Water. See LErrERs
"Gascogne," The French Transatlantic Steamer, 693
Gates' Ore Breaker, 727
Gauge, New Mercurial Pressure, on Eiffel Tower, 469
Gauges, Rain and Evaporation, 275, 345
Gear Wheel Cutting, New Mode of, 55, 90
German Magazine Rifle, 675. See also 163, 221, 228, 309, 405
Glasgow. See Notes from the North
Glasgow Corporation and Electric Lighting, 712
Glasgow Exhibition Surplus, Disposal of, 168
Glasgow Barbour Improvements, 106, 439
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Amalgamation, 143
Glass, Absorption Spectrum of Cobalt, 215
Glasses, The Jena Optical, 499, 514. See LBTVIRS
Glazebrook, Mr. R. T., on the Resistance of some Mercury Standards, 628
Glow Lamp Shades and Protectors (Drummond), 267
Gold-Bearing River Beds, Dredger for Excavating (Messrs. Lacour and Figee, Haarlem), 39
Gold-Crushing and Amalgamating Plant (Messrs. Harvey, Cornwall), 428
Governing Engines, " City of Paris," 659
Government Employds as Patentees, 221. See LETTERs, Patentees
Granite Roller Paint Mill, Clark's, 627. See Erratum,, 647
Graving Dock at Newport News, U.S.A., 120
Gravity. Acceleration of, 98
Grays Sewerage, 701
Green, Mr. J. F., on Steam Lifeboats, 97 Greenwich Weather Observations in 1890, 77
Greig, The Late David, 378, 407. See LETTERs Grinding Machinery, Cement (Neate's, Rochester), 1 31
Grinding Mill, The Excel (Messrs. W. B. Leach-man and Co., Leeds), 199
Guards, Railway, Hours of Employment and Overtime, 223, 213, 315
Gun Castings, Sir Frederick Abel on, 663
Gun Manufacture in the United States, 608
Gun, 6-In. Quick-Firing, Trials on H.M.S. " Kite," 218. See Miscellanea, 256
Gun, Trial of a 16-Ton Canet, 249
Gunboat, Stern-Wheel, for the Russian Government (Messrs. Yarrow), 699
Guns, Big, 270, 373, 497. See LETTERS

Hammer, Pneumatic, for Tyres (Messrs. Breuer, Schumacher, and Co., Kalk), 399
Hammer, Suspension Pneumatic Power (Thwaita), 306
Hansen's Apparatus for Feeding Borings into Cupolas, 257
Harbour Improvements at Glasgow,106, 439
Harbour Schemes, New, 106
Harbour Works, Concrete in, 469
Harbour Works at Yokohama, 632
Harbour s, Natural and Artificial, 843
Hardening, Oil, of Steel, 573, 599. See Lama, Artillery Steel
Harrison, Mr. J. Thornhill, M. Inst. C.E., on the Water Supply of London, 285
Harvey's Gold - Crushing and Amalgamating Plant, 426
Hassard and Tyrrell's Scheme for London Water Supply, Welsh Scheme, 194
" Havel," North German Lloyd, S.S., 487. See also 568
Hawkesbury Bridge, Motions in the, 173. See LETTERS
Hawkshaw, Sir John, F.R.S., 679
Hay and Straw Baling Press, Ladd's (Messrs. Howard, Bedford), 730
Heat Transmission through Cast•Iron Plates, 61
H.M.S. " Bellona's" Trials (Mr. R. Mansel on Coefficient), 266
H.M.S. " Crocodile," The Fractured Crankshaft of, 198
H.M.S. " Latona," 169, 189. See Unitas H.M.S. " Philomel's" Trials, 369. See Lamm H.M.S. " Sybille" (Messrs. It. Stephenson and Co., Hebburn), 23
H.M.S. " Vulcan," 524
High Speed Automatic Cut-Off Engine, American, 466, 622, 547, 637,696
Historical Sketch, Institution of Civil Engineers, 22
History (Chronological) of Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, and the Telegraph, 682, 689, 717, 744
Hoellenthal Rack Railway, 139, 163, 243, 304. See LwrrEits, 376, 441
Hoisting (Hydraulic) Apparatus at Brooklyn, 01. See Lorrzal 112
Hoists, Otis Passenger, 613, 671
Horizontal Triple-Expansion Surface Condenser Engines for United States Cruiser " Yorktown" Nuintard Company), 379, 492
Hotchkiss and CreusOt Iron Protected Forts, 421
Hotchkiss Gun, 10-Centimetre (3.39-In.), 271, 301
Hotchkiss Guns (Naval and Field), 91, 125, 162, 1 80, 210, 242, 271, 301, 327, 355, 387
Hotchkiss and Schneider's Armoured Forts, 468, 486
Houldsworth's Boiler Inspection and Registration Bill (1891), 316, 403. See LETrints on Boiler Inspection
Hours of Labour in Various Trades, 404
Hours of Railway Employds, 137, 193, 223, 243, 316 See Lima, 169
Household Refuse, 590
Howden's, Forced Draught " City of Paris," 47, 659. See LETTsR, "City of Paris," 596
Howden's Forced Draught, S S. " City of Vienna," 398
Hydraulic and Electric Transmission of Power, by Mr. Robert Gordon Blaine, 612, 665
Hydraulic Hoisting Apparatus at Brooklyn Sugar Refining Company's Pier, 61. See LwrrER
Hydraulic Machinery for Guns, 331, 364 Hydraulic Propulsion of Lifeboats, 97
Hydraulic Travelling Cranes, 89
Hydraulics, Flow of Water through Pipes, 194 Hygiene, The International Congress of, 313, 596

Illinois State Buildings, Chicago Exhibition, 461
Imperial Defence, 311. See also 331, 3E3
Implements at Doncaster Show, 755
Incandescent Lampe, The Deterioration of, 105
Incrustation of Boilers, 368, 539
Independent Bearing, American Engines with, 3
Industrial Notes, 24, 51, 83, 115, 143, 171, 199, 231, 257, 289, 319, 350, 381, 411, 443, 475, 506, 537, 567, 598, 627, 667, 685, 715, 743, 771 Industries of Richmond, U.S.A., 120
Influence Machine, Wimshuret's Alternating, 461
Ingersoll Hand Power Rock Drill, 380
Ingersoll-Mayne Rock Drill, 360
Injection Water to Condenser, Regulation of, 61 Inkstand, Darke's, 100
Inman Line, Historical, 517. See also 646
Inman Liner " City of Paris," Trials of, 659, 617, 675. See LETTER, City of Paris, 596. Paragraph, 617
Inspection of Boilers, Compulsory, 316, 403
Inspection of Iron and Steel. Sir Frederick Abel on, 564
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Naval Architects. See Naval Architects
Instruments, Surveying and LevetNng, 456
Interlocking of Signals, Electric ; City and South London Electric Railway, 80
International Congress of Hygiene, 313, 596
International Engineering Congress, 707
Ions, Experiments on the Velocities of the, 628
Ions, Theory of Dissociation into, 450
Ireland, Shipbuilding in 1890, 26
Irish Channel Tunnel, 225
Irlam Sluices, Manchester Canal, 306
Iron Beams and Concrete, Teets of, 522. See LErrE as
Iron Oores of Electrical Apparatus, 53
Iron Production, American, 592
Iron Trade, Scotch Statistics, 17

Iron and Steel Institute :

Bessemer Medal Presented to Lord Armstrong, 664
On Tests for Steel Used in the Manufacture of Artillery, by Mr. William Armstrong, D.C. L., 578, 599. See LErrms, Artillery Steel
On Certain Pyrometric Measurements and the Method of Recording Them, by Professor Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S., 681 See also 561
On the Micro-Structure of Steel, by M. Os-mond, 582, 716
On the Changes of Iron Produced by Thermal Treatment (Supplementary Paper), by Dr. E. J. Ball, 582, 630
On Economical Puddling and Puddling Cinder, by Mr. Thomas Turner, 605
On a Graphic Method of Calculating the Composition of Furnace Charges, by Mr. II. C. Jenkins, F.C.S., 608
On the Manufacture of War Material in the
United States, by W. H. Jacques, 608 Presidential Address by Sir Frederick Abel, 563
Report of Council, 563
Iron Works, The Tredegar, U.S.A., 120
Ironclad " Capitsn Prat," The Chilian, 22
Ironclad, French, " Trident," 215
Ironclads, New British, 251, 283. See also 331
Ironfounders' Society, 708
Ironmongers' Exhibition, 533
Ironmoulders of Scotland, Associated, 435
Irrigation Colonies, The Australian, 532
Irrigation Works, Periyar, 165
Islington Deep Tunnel Railway Bill, The, 345. Sec also 435

Jacques, Mr. W. H., on Manufacture of War Materials in United States, 608
January Weather, 165. See also 227
Japan College, Experimental Engines for (Messrs. Ross and Duncin, Govan, Glasgow), 171
Japan, The Kioto-Fu Canal, 738
Jarrow, Boiler Explosion at, 98
Jars, Leyden, Some Experiments with, 740
Jena Optical Glasses, 499, 514. See LETTERS
Jenkins, The Late Professor, 739
Jenkins, Mr., on Calculating Furnace Charges, 608
Jet-Propelled Lifeboat, 97
Jetty at Ellesmere Port, Manchester Canal, 243
Jib (Swing) Countersink Drilling Machine (Jones, Burton, and Co., Liverpool), 682
John, The Late Mr. William, 21
Joints, Rivetted, Copper, The Strength of, 497
Jones's Two Reel Lock-Stitch Sewing Machine, 597
Joy, Mr. David, on Assistant Cylinder, 425, 430. See lir:n=3, Joy's Gear

Kenia Stern-Wheel Steamer for Imperial British East African Company, 158
Kennedy, Professor, and Dunkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., on Boiler Experiments (Water-Tube), 236, 577
Kennedy, Professor, on Marine Engine Trials (S.S. "Iona"), 547, 653. 568. See Erratum., 696. See Lamm
Kew Observatory and Photographic Lenses, 470
Kincaid and Co.'s Adjustable Wheel and Engine for Stern-Wheel Steamer, 158
Kinetograph, Edison's, 678
Kinipple's System of Grouting up Walls, 106 Knots, Use of Term. See Lwrrnns
Kupka, Mr P. F., on the Railways of Egypt, 687

Laboratory, Proposed, at Cambridge University, 470
Labour, Hours of, in Various Trades, 404
Labour Questions, Royal Commission on, 219, 247, 315
Lackawanna Company's Mill for Rolling Blooms at Scranton, U.S.A., 100, 585
Lacquering Ships' Bottoms for Protection, 195
Ladd's Hay and Straw Baling Press (Messrs Howard, Bedford), 730
Lahmeyer and Co.'s Electrical Current Transformer, 642
Lakes of America, 207
Lambert, Professor, on Sounding Machines, 704
Lamps, Cost of Arc and Sunbeam, 501
Lamps, Glow, Shades and Protectors (Drummond), 257
Lamps, Incandescent, The Deterioration of, 105
Langdon, Mr. W., on Railway Train Lighting, 600
Lantern Stereoscope, Schobben's System, 689
Lathe with Adjustable Gap (Asquith's), 257
Lauffen-Neuhausen Aluminium Works, 229. See Erratum, 243
Launch Engines, Quadruple-Expansion (Messrs. Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 657
Launches and Trial Trips, 22, 99, 174, 198, 232, 292, 824, 385, 416, 442, 474, 607, 632, 660, 718, 746, 757
Law Relating to Civil Engineers, Architects, and Contractors (Literature), 270
Laws of Steamship Propulsion, On the. By Mr. It. Manse', 266
Leachman's Grinding Mill, 199
Leachman and Nusseys' Cloth Pressing Machine, 276
Leaky Tubes, 336, 373, 888. See LErrnRs
Lee-Speed Rifle, 168. See also 221, 228, 309, 406, 675
Leeder's Sand Moulding Machine, 255
Leeds, Copper Smelting at, 653
Leith Shipbuilding in 1890, 113
Lenses, The Testing of Photographic, 470
Lentz's Stayless Locomotive Boiler, 48, 133
Level, Polar, 653
Levelling and Surveying Instruments, 466 639
Lewes, Professor V. B., on Boiler Deposits, 368,
Lewthwaite's, Mr. John, System of Breakwater Construction, 343
Leyden Jars, Some Experiments with, 740
Liability of Engineers and Architects, 270
Life Members of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 153
Lifeboat, A Steam, 97
Light and Power Installation (Brush's Residenc0, 624
Lighthouse Burner, Wigham's Improved, 533
Lighting, Electric. See Electric Lighting Lighting, Railway Train, 600
Lignites into Briquettes, Converting, 226
Limber for Mountain Gun, 327
Lindner's System of Compound Locomotive, 13
Linings (Basic) in Copper Smelting, 76
Liquids, Measuring Compressibility of, 628
Lister's Punching and Shearing Machines, 771
Literature, 29, 90, 177, 270, 300, 456, 486, 519, 675
Liverpool, Boiler Explosion at, 40
Liverpool Harbour Extensions, 106
Liverpool Shipping Enterprise, Growth of, 681
Lloyd's, New Corporation in Opposition to, 255
Loading of Steel Vessels, The, 396, 446
Lock, Railway Carriage, Zippmann and Furth-mann's, 199
Locks at Eastham, Manchester Canal, 306, 767
Locomotive Boiler Explosion near Leeds, 257
Locomotive Boiler, Lentz's Stayless, 48, 133
Locomotive, Compound, Lindner's System, 13
Locomotive Drivers' Flours of Employment, 137, 243, 315
Locomotive, Hoellenthal Rack Railway, 153, 243, 304. See Litrrsits, Schmidt Brake
Locomotive, Passenger, for the North London Railway, 37
Locomotive Steam Crane (Mr. Thomas Smith, Rodley), 743
Locomotive Works, The Richmond, U.S.A., 120
Locomotives, Expansion Gear for Compound, 196
Locomotives in South Australia, 766
Lodge,O. Dr., On Experiments with Leyden Jars, 74
Lodge, Professor, on Clock giving Direction of Earth's Orbital Motion in the Ether, 740
London, The Drainage of, 316
London-Paris Telephone, The, 348. See also 643
London Sewers (Sir Joseph Bazalgette), 342
London Societies. See Societies, London
London Water Supply, The, 194, 285, 593. See also 133, 228, 693
Lubricant, An Experiment with a, 89
Lubricants, Effect of, in Boilers, 368, 639
Lubrication of Bearings, 357, 478
Luhrig's Coal Cleaning and Washing Plant, 184

Machine, Ammonia Compression, Refrigerating, Machine Performances, 90
Machine, Boring, Universal Horizontal, 100
Machine, Boring, at the Washington Navy Yard, 23
Machine Design, The Elements of, 486
Machine Guns (Hotchkiss), 91, 125, 154
Machine Stoking, 172
Machinery, Electric, in Mines, 198
Machinery Hall, Chicago Exhibition, 768
Machinery, The Rating of, 282
McKinlay Tariff and Wages, 80
Magazine Rifle, German, 676. See also 163, 221, 228, 309, 406, 676
Magazine Rifle, The (Lee-Speed), 163. See also 228, 309, 221, 405, 676
Magazine Rifle, The Mannlicher, 266 See also 1 63, 221, 231, 309, 405, 676
Magazine Rifle, Blamer, 405. See also 163, 221, 228, 309, 675
Magazine for Rifles, A New, 766
Magnet Shunts, Property of, 638
Magnetic Ore Separator, Monarch, 601
Magnetic Proof Pieces and Planes, 450
Magnetism, Chronological History of, 682, 689, 717, 744
Mail Service on Atlantic, 316, 592
Mail Subsidies, American, 312
" Maine," United States Cruiser (Brooklyn Navy Yard), 61
Mains, Electric Lighting, Paris. See Electric Mains
* Majestic" and "Teutonic," S. S.'s, Performances, 545, 724. See LETTERS, Atlantic Records
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Extension to London, 622, 583, 624, 682, 701, 729

Manchester Ship Canal :

Barton Aqueduct, 188
Barton Section, Standard Cutting in, 380
Borrowing Powers (New Bill in Parliament), 491, 643, 714
Bridge, Swing, at Moorlane, near Warrington, 1 88
Contractors, 168
Eastham Locks, 306, 767
Ellesmere Port, Jetty at, 243
Financial Arrangements, 168. See also Miscellanea, 378
Flooding of Eastham Section, 767
Irlam Sluices, 306
Jetty at Ellesmere Port, 243
Locks at Eastham, 306
Progress Report, 168
Quay Walls, Salford Dock, 72, 380
Salford Dock, 72, 380
Sluices at Irlam, 306

Manchester Steam Users' Association's Experiments with Overheated Flues, 145, 202, 290, 321, 476. See LETTERS, 318
Mannlicher Magazine Rifle, German, 265. See also 163, 221, 228, 231, 309, 406, 676
Manceuvres, Naval, of 1890, The, 15, 43
Manometer on Eiffel Tower, 469
Mansel, Mr. R., on the Laws of Steamship Pro-pulsion, 268
March Weather, 1891, 405
Marine Artillery, 497. See also 270, 273. See LETTERS, Guns, (LT.
Marine Boiler, Test of the Stanley, 646. See LITTERS, Stanley Boiler
Marine Engine, The Development of the, 81. See LETTERS, Boile7s in the Navy
Marine Engine Trials, 647, 668. See Erratum, 696. See LETTERS, "iOnCe8 " Trials
Marine Engineering Practice Forty Years Ago, 768
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1890, 26, 113
Marinoni Web-Printing Machine, 169
Mauser Magazine Rifle, 405. See also 163, 221, 223, 309, 405, 575
May Weather, 710
Measurements with the Pneumatic Bridge, 629
Measures, Dictionary of, 457
Measuring Compressibility of Liquids, 628
Measuring Power of Electric Currents, 740
Measuring Power in Transformers, Blakesley's
Method of, 689
Mechanical Engineers, The American Society of:
Excursions, 120
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company's Works, 121
Standard Methods of Conducting Duty Trials of Pumping Engines (Report), 36
An Engineering Problem at Richmond, by Mr. W. H. Adams, 36
Light Cable Road Construction, by Frank van Vleck, 36
What Saving is Effected by the Use of the
Steam Jacket, by Professor Thurston, 60 Chimney Draught, by Professor Thurston, 60 A Novel Form of Flexible Tubing, by Mr.
Almond, 60
Heat Transmission through Cast-Iron Plates Pickled in Nitric Acid, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 61
Some Properties of Ammonia, by Professor de Volson Wood, 61
Mechanical and Physical Properties of Sulphur Dioxide SO2, by Professor de Volson Wood, 61
Theoretical Investigation of Efficiency of Vapour Engines, by Professor de Volson Wood, 61
Experimental Determination of the Latent Heat of Ammonia, by Professor D. S. Jacobus, 61
The Automatic Regulation of Injection Water to Vapour Condensers, by Mr. Jas. McBride, 61
Hydraulic Hoisting Plant for a Pier of the Brooklyn Refining Company, by Mr. Engel, 61. See LETTERS
Hydraulic Travelling Cranes, by Mr. Graves, 89 A Single-Acting Compound Engine, by Mr. Bole, 89
Rope Driving, by Mr. Chas. W. Hunt, 89
Acoident Preventing Devices for Machines, by Mr. J. H. Cooper, 90
An Interesting Experiment with a Lubricant, by Mr. G. W. Bissell, 90
Mechanical Engineers, The American
Society of—continued.
A New Process for Generating and Cutting
the Teeth of Spurwheels, by Mr. Ambrose
Swasey, 65, 90
The Performance of 76-Ton Refrigerating Ma-
chine of the Ammonia Compression Type, by
Professor Jas. E. Denton, 90
Reports Regarding Society, 33
Richmond, Descriptive Sketch of the City of, 1 20
Richmond Locomotive Works, 120
Richmond, Welcome by Mayor of, 33
Tredegar Iron Works, 120
Virginia, Descriptive Sketch of, 33
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: 533
Bye-Laws, Proposed Alteration by Mr. J. Macfarlane Gray, 164
Life Members, Proposed New Arrangement, 154
Some Different Kinds of Gas Furnaces, by Mr. Bernard Dawson, 155, 507, 541. See Erratum, 189
On the Mechanical Treatment of Moulding
Sand, by Mr. Wm. Bagshaw, 167, 259 Research Committee on Friction, Fourth
Report of the, 367, 478
Recent Trials of Rock Drills, by Messrs. Car-butt and Davey, 360
Research Committee on Marine Engine Trials, on the Trial of the Steamer " Iona," by Professor Alex. B. W. Kennedy, 547, 668. See Erratum, 696. See LErricits "Jona'y" Trials
Report of the Council, 163
Mechanical Stoking, 172
Melinite Disclosures, 646. See Miscellanea, 733 Merchant Cruisers, 364, 365, 382
Mercurial Pressure Gauge on Eiffel Tower, 469 Mercury Standards, Resistance of, 628
Merry and Cuningharue's Coal Cleaning and Washing Plant, Luhrig's, 184
Mersey River Improvements, 106
Mersey Shipbuilding in 1890, 26
Mersey Shipping Enterprise, The Growth of, 681 Messenger Service, The District, 128
Metal Price Diagram, 60, 170, 319, 443, 567, 686 Metallic Packing, Tripp's, 697. See Erratum, 632
Metallurgical Exhibition Trials of Rock Drills, 360
Metallurgy, An Introduction to the Study of, 300 Meteorological Lustrum, 1886-90, 437 Meteorological Society's Exhibition, 275 Meteorological Society, The Royal, 99, 227, 276, 345, 660, 741
Meter, Ahrbeoker's Water, 143
Meter for Measuring Air (Rock Drills), 261 Michigan, Lake, 207
Micro.Structure of Steel, 682, 716
Microscopic Inspection of Iron and Steel, Sir Frederick Abel on, 664
Military Tactics, 270, 373
Mill, Clark's Granite Roller Paint, 627. See Erratum, 647
Mill Engine, Compound Condensing (Musgrave, Bolton), 553
Mill, Five-Stamp (Messrs. Harvey, Cornwall), 426
Mill, Grinding (Messrs. W. B. Leachman and Co., Leeds), 199
Mill for Grinding Portland Cement (Neate's), 131
Mill, Rolling Blooms, at Lackawanna Company's Scranton Works, 100. See also 585
Minchin, Mr. Jobn B., On Mineral Resources of Bolivia, 453. See Limn., 627
Mineral Resources of Bolivia, 953. Sec LICTTSR, 527
Mineral Wealth of South Australia, The, 44. See Paragraph, Queensland, 73
Minimum N'reight Association, 501
Mining Buildings, Chicago Exhibition, 636 Mining Exhibition, Trials of Rock Drills, 360 Mining Machinery, Electric, 198
Mining, Progress of the Art of, 200, 261, 351 Miscellanea, A, 50, 82, 103, 133, 161, 197, 227, 256, 279, 309, 348, 378, 401, 433, 465, 491, 635, 666, 587, 626, 643, 676, 714, 733, 761
Mississippi River, St. Louis Merchants' Bridge over (Union Bridge Company, New York), 597, 686, 728
Models of Ships and Guns at Naval Exhibition, 530
Monaco, Prince of, Yacht " Princess Alice" (Messrs. Green, London), 216
Monarch Magnetic Ore Separator, 601
Morris's Miniature Ammunition for Rifles, 228 Morton's Valve Gear, S.S. " City of Vienna," 398 Mottelay, Mr. P. F., on a Chronological History
of Electricity, 682, 689, 717, 744 Moulders(Iron) of Scotland, AesociatEd, 435 Moulding (Sand) Machine, Leeder's, 265. See 1 67, 269
Moulding Sand, The Treatment of, 167, 259. See also 256
Mountain Guns and Carriage, 327
Mountings for Hotchkiss Guns, 180, 242, 301, 327, 355
Mudd, Mr. Thomas, on Marine Engineering, 424, 444
Multiple Despatch Railway, 63
Musgrave, The Late Mr. Joseph, 73
Musgrave's Compound Condensing Mill Engine, 553
National Defence, The Cost of, 46. Sec Lgrrnits, Cost (if Defence and ()Ulcers' Pay
Naval Architects, The Institution of: 313, 681
Council's Report, 330
The Future Policy of Warship Building, by Lord Brassey, 331, 364. See LErrwts, Engineers for Navy.
Some Recent American Warship Designs for the United States Navy, by Mr. J. H. Biles, 365, 882, 413
Boiler Deposits, by Professor Vivian B. Lewes, F.C.S., 368, 539
Certain Phenomena of Compression, by M. Marchal, 368
Naval Architects, The Instillation of--con-thoicd.
On the Construction of Boilers adapted to Forced Draught, by Mr. F. A. Yarrow, 336, 388
Recent Improvements in Armour for Vessels, by M. Barba, 893
On the Alterations in Form of Steel Vessels due to Different Conditions of Loading, by Mr. Thomas Phillips, 396, 446
The Internal Stresses in Steel Plating due to Water Pressure, by Mr. J. A. Yates, 397, 629
Some Details in Marine Engineering, by Mr. Thomas Mudd, 424, 444
An Assistant Cylinder for Marine Engines, by Mr. David Joy, 425, 430. See Lwrrzits
President's Address, by the Earl of Ravens-worth, 330. See LETTER, North-East Coast Institution, 376
Naval Defence Programme, 251, 283. See also 331
Naval Engineers, 467. See Miscellanea, 491. See Lwrrsas
Naval Exhibition, 192, 530, 670
Naval Expenses of European Powers, 46. See LETTERS, Cost of Defence
Naval Hotchkiss Guns, 91, 162, 180, 242, 301, 355
Naval Manoeuvres of 1890, The, 15, 43
Naval and Mercantile Shipbuilding in Spain, 127
Naval Programme, Proposed New, by Lord Brassey, 331, 364. See LErrEas, Engineers for Navy
Naval Recoil Mounts, 65-Millimetre (9-Pounder) Gun, 301
Naval Tactics, 331, 364. See LErrEas, Engineers for Navy and Our Guns
Naval Topics, 764
Naville-Neher, Mr., and the Lauffen-Neuhausen
Aluminium Works, 229. See Erratum, 243 Navy, British, H.M.S.'s " Royal Sovereign" and
" Royal Arthur," 251, 283, 331
Navy Estimates, The, 249, 281, 311, 764
Navy, French Ironclad " Trident," 215
Navy, Proposed Additions to, 331, 364. See LErrEfts, Engineers for Navy and Our Guns Navy Stokers, The Training of, 75
Navy, United States Cruiser " Maine," 51 Neate's Portland Cement Machinery, 131
New London, Railway Bridge over River (Union
Bridge Company, New York), 428, 657 New South Wales, Railway Institute at, 738 New South Wales Railways, 108
New York Deep Tunnel Railway, 435. See also 161, 397
Newark Company's Boring Machine at Washington, 23
Newcastle, Boiler Explosions at, 768
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company's Works, 121
Niagara, Utilisation of Falls of :
Prizes for Utilisation and Transmitting Plant, 197, 235
Recent Recession, 535 (Miscellanea paragraph) Recession of Falls, 19
Volume of Water at Falls, 235
Nickle Armour Plates in United States, 608 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Historical, 487. See also 666
North German Lloyd Company, Historical
(" Spree" and " Havel " ), 487. See also 666 North London Railway, Passenger Locomotive
for the, 37
North, Notes from the. See Notes
Norwegian Mining Practice (Rock Drills), 361 Norwood Accident, The (Board of Trade Report), 739
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 9, 49, 73, 102, 129, 160, 189, 219, 247, 278, 308, 347, 377, 409, 432, 464, 501, 535, 566, 686, 617, 656, 674, 713, 732, 769
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 103, 287, 617, 742, 761
Notes, Industrial See Industrial
Notes from the North, 8, 49, 72, 101, 128, 169, 188, 218, 246, 278, 308, 346, 377, 408, 432, 462, 490, 531, 565, 586, 616, 656. 673, 712, 732, 760
Notes from the South-West, 8, 54, 73, 102, 129, 161, 189, 219, 247, 287, 309, 348, 369, 409, 460, 464, 507, 634, 553, 686, 617, 656, 674, 713, 732, 760
Notes from South Yorkshire, 8, 37, 73, 102, 129, 160, 189, 219, 247, 278, 308, 347, 377, 409, 432, 464, 491, 634, 665, 586, 616, 656, 674, 713, 732, 760
Notes from United States, 12, 68, 96, 132, 214, 266, 274, 345, 401, 429, 462, 507, 533, 565, 583, 013, 642, 872, 700, 731, 768
Nozzle for Burning Petroleum, Twcddle's System, 622
Nusseys and Leachman's Cloth Pressing Machine, 276
Nut Lock Washer, 319

Oak-Charcoal for Moulding, 167 269

Obituary :

Sir Joseph Bazalgette, 342
John Bell, Wishaw, 464
A. D. Bryce-Douglas, 429. See Minims
Dr. John Casey, F.R.S., 144
Nathaniel Clayton, 17
John Dixon, C.E., 168
G. Fisher, Taff Vale Railway, 553
Joseph Garland, Dundee, "The Oldest Shipbuilder in Scotland," 565
David Greig, 378, 407. See LETTERS
Sir John Hawkshaw, F.R.S., 679
Professor Philip Jenkins, 739
William John, 21
W. W. Kell, 127
David Kinghorn, Shipbuilder, Glasgow, 565
James Macarthur, Shipbuilder, Paisley, 665
Joseph Musgrave, Bolton, 73
Robert Mushet, 189
Richard John Napier, Lloyd's Surveyor, 219
Dr. Otto, 168, 346
Thomas Richardson, Hartlepool, 21
W. Richardson, Birmingham, 567
Hugh Smellie, Locomotive Superintendent Caledonian Railway, 491
Benjamin Walker, 472

Official Patentees, 221. See LETTERS, 473. See also 163, 228, 309, 405, 676
Oil, Gas, and Steam Engines, 752
Oil Hardening of Steel, 578, 599. See LETTER, Artillery Steel
Oil (Petroleum), The Storage of, 449
Oiling Bearings, Method of, 681
Optical Glasses, Jeria, 499, 514. See Limns
Orbital Motion in the Ether, Clock giving Earth's, 740
Ordnance Steel, Tests for, 578, 599. See LETTER,
Artillery Steel
Ordnance Survey, 254
Ore-Breaker, Gates', 727
Ore Separator, Monarch Magnetic, 501
" Oregon," S.S., Performances, 645
Orlando Brothers' Quadruple-Expansion Launch Engines, 657
Oroya Railway, Peru, Verrugas Viaduct, 460.
See also 80. See Litmus, Luropean v. American Bridges
Osmond, M., on the Micro-Structure of Steel, 682, 716
Otis Passenger Elevators, 613. See also 671
Otto, The Late Dr., 168, 345
Oury's Weldless Steel Chains, 524
Overhead Wires and Sky Signs, 369
Overheated Furnace Crown Experiments, 145, 202, 290, 321, 476. See LETTER., 318
Overtime of Railway Servants, 137, 193, 223, 243, 315. See LErrmR, 169

Pacific Passage, Route to East, 624
Packing, Tripp's Metallic, 597. See Erratum, 632
Paddle Steamers, Some Recent Fast (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39. Sec Steamers
Paint Mill, Clark's Granite Roller, 627. See Erratum, 647
Pall Mall (and St. James's) Electric Light Company, Limited, 256
Palmer's Ordnance Works, Sulzer Engine for, 275
Paris, The 1892 Colonial Exhibition at, 470
Paris Electric Lighting Mains. See Electric Mains
Paris Exhibition Diplomas, The, 47. See LETTER, 68
Paris - London Telephone, The, 348. Ste alto 643
Paris Water Supply, 624
Parliament, Private Bill Procedure, 352, 470. See also 305, 465
Parliament, The Rating of Machinery, 282 Parliamentary Bar and Private Bill Committees, 362. See also 306, 466
Parsons' Turbo-Electric Generator, 604 Passenger Carriages for Hoellenthal Railway, 139, 153, 243, 3U4
Passenger Fares (Railway) in Europe, 109, 271 Patent Record, 27, 67, 87, 117, 147, 175, 205, 233, 263, 293, 325, 353, 385, 417, 451, 479, 511, 543, 573, 601, 633, 661, 691, 719, 747, 773
Patent System, Centenary of American, 376, 679
Patented Machines, Repairs of, 440, 473 Patentees in Government Service, 221. See LETTER, 473. See also 163, 228, 3I,9, 405, 575
" Pelayo,'"fhe Spanish Cruiser (Forges et Chantiers), 334
" Pelayo," Telephones in Spanish Ironclad, 461 Penetration of Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Guns, 387
Periyar Irrigation Works, 165
Perls' Electric Railway Signalling, 316
Perry, Professor, on Blakesley's Method of Measuring Power in Transformers, 689
Perry's Engine Indicator, '136
Petroleum Engine, Priestman's, 730, 754
Petroleum as the Future Fuel of the Pacific Coast, 621
Petroleum, The Storage of, 440
Phillips, Mr. Thomas, on the Alteration in Form of Steel Vessels due to Different Conditions of Loading, 396, 446
Phosphorescence (Radiant Matter), 107
Photo-Electricity, 98, 217
Photographic, Continuity of Vision, 678
Photographic Lenses, The Testing of, 470
Photographic Surveying, 653
Photography in Natural Colours, 226

Physical Society :

Photo-Electricity, by Professor G. M. Minchin, 98. Experiments, 217
Determination of Acceleration due to Gravity, by Professor F. R. Barrel, B.A., 98
The Change in the Absorption Spectrum of Cobalt Glass produced by Heat, by Sir John Conroy, M.A., 216
Proof of the Generality of Certain Formuls published for a Special Case, by Mr. Blakesley, 321
Tests of a Transformer, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Mr. J. F. Taylor, 321. See Addendum, 384
Note on Electrostatic Wattmeters, by Mr. James Swinburne, A83
Interference with Alternating Currents, by Professor W. E. Ayrton and Dr. Sumpner, 383
Theory of Dissociation into Ions and its Consequences, by Professor S. U. Pickering, F.R.S., 460
Some Points in Electrolysis, by Mr. J. Swin-burne, 460
On the Variation of Surface Tension with Temperature, by Professor Selly, 450
Magnetic Proof Pieces and Proof Planes, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 450
On a Property of Magnetic Shunts, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 538
On Erecting Prisms for the Optical Lantern and on a New Form of Erecting Prisms made by Mr. Ahrens, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.So., 539
Visit to Banks of the Cam, 628
auIue r.xpo,ituelitts on the E:e3tric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes, by Professor J. J. Thomson, M.A., F.R.S., 628
Some Experiments on the Velocities of the Ions, by Mr. W. C. D. Whetham, B.A., 628
On the Resietance of Some Mercury Standards, by Mr. R. T. Olazebrook, M.A., ELLS., 628
On an Apparatus for Measuring the Compres-aihility of Liquids, by Mr. S. Skinner, M.A., 828
Some Measurements with the Pneumatic Bridge, by Mr. W. N. Shaw, M.A., 629 Lantern Stereoscope Exhibited, 689
On Blakesley's Method of Measuring Power in Transformers, by Professor Perry, F.R.S., 689
Atternate Current and Potential Difference Analogies in the Methods of Measuring Power by Professor Ayrton and Dr. Sumpner, 740
A , L. . 0 r Pointing out the Direction of the Earth's Orbital Motion in the Ether, by Professor 0. Lodge, 740
Some Experiments with Leyden Jars, by Dr. Lodge, 740
PickerinL'. Professor S. U., on Dissociation in Ions, 450
Pinuaze, Slectric, for Government, 309
Pipes, Flow of Water through, 194
Piping, Flexible, 60
Piston Packing, 424, 444
Pistons and their Rothi(American Engines), 210
Pivot Bearings, 357, 478
Pivot Mountings, Centre, 335
Place Clichy, Electric Lighting Company, Paris, 1 49, 177
Placer Mining in America (Bennett Company's Amalgamating Plant), 380
Planing Machine (Messrs. G. Richards and Co., Broadheath, Manchester), 2S3
Planing Machine, Vertical and Horizontal (Messrs. Berry, Sowerby Bridge). 82
Planing Machine, New Wall (Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge), 380
Plumbago for Moulding, 157, 259
" Plymouth," Steame-, American Fall River Line, 95
Pneumatic Bridge, Measurements with the, 629
Pneumatic Power Hammer, Suspension (Thwaites'), 306
Pneumatic Tyre Hammer (Messrs. Breuer, Schumacher, and Co., Kalk), 399
Polar Level, 653
Popp Company's Electric Mains, Paris, 119, 149, 1 77
Popp, Mr., and Compressed Air in Paris, 298, 327, 419, 513. Sce Lirrrita, 376
Portland Cement Grinding Mills (Neate's), 131
Post Office and Fast Atla "tic Steamers, 592
Practice in Engine.-Room4, by Mr. William W. Wilson, 658
Practice and Theory. See LETTERS
Press, Foot (Richardson's), 319. See Erratum, 369
Press, Ladd's Hay and Straw Baling (Messrs. Howard, Bedford), 730
Pressing Machine, Cloth (Messrs. Nusseys and Leachman, Leeds), 275
Priestman's Oil Engine, 730, 754
Prince of Monaco's Yacht " Princess Alice" (Messrs. Green, London), 215
" Princesse Henriette" and " Princesse Josephine," Fast Paddle Steamers (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39
" Princess Victoria," Fast Paddle Steamer (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39
Printing, Marinoni Web, Machine, 159
Printing Several Colours Simultaneously, 653
Prisms, Erecting 539
Private Bill Inquiries, Procedure at, 352, 470. See also 305, 465
Production, American Iron, 592
Production of New Shipping, Diagram, 113
Profit-Sharing Enterprises, 191
Progress of the Art of Mining, 200, 261, 351
Projectiles, 270, 373. See Artillery, French Projectiles, Defects in, Sir Frederick Abel on, 564
Proof Pieces and Planes, Magnetic, 450
Propeller, United States Cruiser " Yorktown" (Brooklyn Navy Yard), 492
Propulsion, On the Laws of Steamship, by Mr. R. Mansel, 266
Prospects of Trade, 530
Protection of Commerce, 331, 364, 365, 382
Protection of Ships, The, 66
Protection of Ships' Bottoms by Lacquering, 195
Prussian and British Railways, 371
Puddling, Iron, 605
Pump (Centrif ugal), The Inventor of the, 48
Pumping Brine, The Effects of, 529, 677. See Miscellanea, 587
Pumping Ei.gines, Standard Method of Conducting Duty Trials of, 36
Pumps, Air and Circul sting, for United States Battleship " Maine " (Blake Manufacturing Company), 616
Pump; Circulating and Separate Air, 81
Pumps, Independent Air, Circulating, and Feed, 671. See Erratum, 701
Punching and Shearing Machine (Messrs. Lister, Keighlev), 771
" Puritan," Fall River Steamer (Mr. John Roach, Chester, Pa.), 64, 94. See Miscellanea, 256
Pyrometer, Le Chatelier ; Royal Society Conversazione, 561, 581

Quadruple - Expansion Engines of Steam Tug " Dorothy " (Newport News Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company), 768
Quadruple-Expansion Launch Engines (Messrs. Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 657
Quai de la Gare, Compressed Air Station at Paris, 297, 327, 419, 573. See LwrrsR, 376
Quay Walls, Salford Dock, Manchester Canal, 380
Quick, Mr. George, R.N., on Heavy Guns and Heavy Shell v. Light Guns and Light Shell, 497. See Limns, Guns
Quick-Firing Guns, Hotchkiss, 1, 3, 6, and 9-Pounders, 180, 210, 242, 301
Quick-Firing Guns (Hotchkiss), 91, 181, 210, 242, 301, 327, 356, 387
Quick-141ring Guns, 6-In., Trials on H.M.S. " Kite," 218. See Miscellanez, 256

Racing, Yacht, 90
Rack and Adhesion Railway, Visp Zermatt, 660
Rack Railway, Hoellenthal, 139, 153, 243, 304. See LarrEas. 376, 441
Radial Drill (Universal Radial Drill Company of Cincinnati), 702
Radiant Matter, 107
Railroad, Light Cable Traction, Construction in America, 36
Railway Amalgamation in Scotland, 143
Railway Bridge over Thames River, New London, Conn., U.S.A. (Union Bridge Company, New York), 4211, 557
Railway Carriage Look, Zippmann and Furthmann's, 199
Railway, The Chignecto Ship, 285
Railway for Dundee Harbour, Proposed Automatic, 533
Railway, Electric, to Islington, Proposed, 345. See also 435
Railway (Electric) Signalling (Martin and Theodor Perli), 315
Railway Employd,' Hours of Employment, 137, 1 93, 223, 243. See LETTER., 169
Railway Fares in European Railways, 109, 371
Railway, Hoellenthal Rack, 139, 153, 243, 304. See LETTarts, 376, 441
Railway Institute at New South Wales, 738
Railway to London, Proposed New, 522, 583, 624, 682, 701, 729
Railway, Multiple Despatch, 63
Railway Rates, Zone, 619. See Paragraph, 501
Railway Results Compared, 108, 371
Railway Servants' Hours, 137, 193, 223, 243, 315. See LETTER, 169
Railway Train Lighting, 600
Railway, Transandine, Tunnelling Plant, 481, 603
Railway, Trunk, from East to West of England, 693
Railway Tyres, Pneumatic Hammer for (Messrs.
Breuer, Schumacher, and Co.), 399
Railway, Visp • Zermatt, Adhesion and Rack, 660
Railways, British and Prussian, 371
Railways for Coast Defence, 589
Railways of the Colonies, 341
Railways, Deep Tunnel (New York), 435. See also 161, 397
Railways in Edinburgh, 374, 432
Railways of Egypt, The, 687
Railways in New South Wales, 108
Railways, Scotch, Revenues, &c., 344
Railways, Two New Scotch, 767
Railways. Victorian, 122, 267, 438
Rain Gauges, 275, 345
Range Finder and Elevation Indicator, Fiske's, 505
Rapid-Firing Guns. See Quick-Firing Guns
Rating of Machinery, 282
Ravensworth, Earl of, Presidential Address to Naval Architects, 330. See 'Arnim, North-East Coast Institution, 376
Rayleigh, Lord, on Faraday's Electrical Work, 735
Reception (First) at Institution of Civil Engineers, 22, 80
Recoil Mount (3-Pounder Gun), 301
Record, Patent. See PATENT RECORD
Red-Hot Furnace Crown Experiments, 145, 202, 290. 321, 476. See LETTER, 318
Refrigerating Machine, Ammonia Compression, 90
Refrigerating Machines, 450
Refrigerating Machines at Paris Exhibition, 29
Refuse, Household, 590
Releasing Gear on High-Speed Automatic Cut-Off Engines (American), 637, 696
Repairs of Patented Machines, 440, 473
Repeating Rifle. See Rifle
Research Committee on Friction (Institution of Mechanical Engineers), 357, 478
Resistance of Some Mercury Standards, 623
Revenue of the Colonies, 341
Reversing Engines, 82
Richards and Co.'s Side-Planing Machine, 286
Richardson, The Late Mr. Thomas (Hartlepool), 21
Richardson's Foot Press, 319. See Erratum, 369
Richmond Locomotive Works, U.S.A, 120
Richmond, U.S.A., Industries, 120
Riedinger Compressed Air Engines, 327. See also 297, 419, 513
Riedler, Professor, and Compressed Air in Paris, 298, 327, 419, 513. See LETTER, 376
Rifle, German Magazine, 575. See also 163, 221, 228, 309, 405
Rifle, The Magazine (Lee-Speed), 163, 221, 405, 575. See also 228, 309
Rifle, The Mannlscher Magazine, 265. See also 1 63, 221, 231, 309, 406, 575
Rifle, Mauser Magazine, 405. See also 163, 221, 228, 309, 405, 575
Rifles, Miniature, Ammunition for (Morris'), 228
Rifles, A New Magazine for, 766
Rio Tinto Rock Drill (McCulloch), 360
River Improvement Schemes, 106
Rivetted Copper Joints, The Strength of, 497
Road Roller, Burrell's Steam, 646
Rock Drill, Ferroux, at Transandine Railway Works, 603. See also 481
Rock Drills, 360
Roller, Burrell's Steam Road, 640
Rolling Mill at Scranton, U.S.A., 100, 585
Rolling Stock for Hoellenthal Railway, 15; 243, 304, 376. See also 139
Rope Driving, 89
Ropes (Wire), Transportation in United States, 428
Route to the East, The New, 624
Royal Agricultural Society Show, 752
" Royal Arthur," H.M.S., 251, 283. See also 331
Royal Society, 604, 639, 663, 697, 722, 749
Royal Society's Soirde, 661, 736
" Royal Sovereign," H.M.S., 251, 283. See also 831
Royal United Service Institution, The, 226, 270, 373, 589
Rupture of Steel by Longitudinal Stress, 709
Russian Stern-Wheel Gunboat (Messrs. Yarrow), 699

Sagging of Vessels due to Loading, 396, 397, 446
Sail Power for Warships, 331, 364
St. Fargeau, Tests of Compressed Air at, 298, 327, 419, 513. See LETTER, 376
St. James's and Pall Mall Electric Light Company, Limited, 256
St. Louis Merchants' Bridge over Mississippi River, 597, 686, 728
St. Louis Water Works Extension, Cement Testing at, 285
St. Pancras Electric Exhibition, 344
Salford Dock ; Manchester Canal, 72, 380
Saloon Arrangements of American Steamers, 94
Sand Moulding Machine, Leeder's, 255. See 167, 259
Sand, The Treatment of Moulding, 157, 259. See also 255
Schmidt Brake ; Hoellenthal Railway, 139, 163, 213, 304. See LETTERS
Schmidt, M. Max. E., on Multiple Despatch Rail way, 53
Schneider's and Hotchkiss's Armoured Forts, 486
Schobben's Lantern Stereoscope, 689
Schuckert Dynamos at Frankfort Exhibition, 613
"Scot," Union Line South African Mail Steamer (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 21, 647, 718
Scotch Iron Trade Statistics, 17
Scotch Railway Amalgamation Scheme, 143
Scotch Railways, The Revenue, &c., of, 314
Scotch Railways, Two New, 7(37
Scotland, Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in, 113
Seaton, Mr. A. E., on the Marine Engine, 84. See LErrgits, Boilers in the Navy
Second•Class Cruiser for Navy, Trial of II. M.S. " Latona," 169, 189. See LETTERS, "Latona "
Selly, Professor A. L., on Variation of Surface Tension, 450
Separator, Alexandra Centrifugal Cream (Messrs. Lister, Dursley), 537
Separator, Monarch Magnetic Ore (Electrical Engineering Corporation), 501
Serpollet Steam Carriage, 315
Sewerage, Grays, 701
Sewers of London (Sir Joseph Bazalgette), 342
Sewing Machine, Two-Reel Lock•Stitch (Jones), 597
Shafting, Marine, 424, 444
Shaw, Mr. W. N., on Measurements with the Pneumatic Bridge, 629
Shear Table of the Lackawanna Company's Blooming Mill, Scranton, 585
Shearing and Punching Machine (Messrs. Lister, Keighley), 771
Sheerlegs on Deck of S.S. " Irene." 585
Sheffield. See Notes from South Yorkshire Sheffield Canal, 109
Sheffield Line to London, 522, 583, 624, 682, 701, 729
Shepherd-Hills' Horizontal Boring Machine, 100
Shepherd's Bush Railway, 286. 304. See Paragraphs, 643, 761
Ship Losses, Three Months', 439
Ship Protection. 56
Ship Railway, The Chignecto, 285
Shipbuilding arid Dry Dock Company, Newport News, U.S.A., 120
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1890, 26, 1 13
Shipbuilding Prospects, 530
Shipbuilding in Spain, 127
Shipping Subsidies, American, 312
Shipping Subsidies in France, 281. See also 312
Ships' Armour, 393
Ships' Bulkheads, Board of Trade Committee on, 681, 763
Ships, The Loading of Steel, 396, 446
Ships' Plates, Internal Stress due to Water Pressure, 397, 629
Shunts, Magnetic Property of, 538
Side-Planing Machine (G. Richards and Co., Broadheath, Manchester), 286
Signalling, Electric Railway (Martin and Theodor Perls'), 315
Signalmen's Hours of Employment, Overtime, 1 93, 243
Signals, Electric Interlocking of, City and South London Electric Railway, 80
Silicon in Cast Iron, Sir Frederick Abel on, 564
Silicon in Puddling Iron, 605
Silsbee and Schmidt's Multiple Despatch Railway, 53
Simplex Gas Engine Trials, 453. See LETTER, 527
Sims-Edison Torpedo, 536
Single-Acting Compound Engines (Westinghouse), 89
Skinner, Mr. S., on Apparatus for Measuring Compressibility of Liquids, 628
Sky Signs, 369
Slide Valves, 425, 430. See LETTER, Joy's Gear Slow-Burning Construction, 436
Sluices at Irlam, Manchester Canal, 306
Smelting Copper at Leeds, 663
Smith, Mr. Charles Weston, on Steel Armour, 109
Smokeless Powder, 270, 373
Smulders' Floating Elevator ani Spoil Distributor, 214
Socidtd d'Eclairage et de Force par l'Electricite, 1 80, 211
Sociotd du Secteur de la Place Clichy, 149, 177

Societies, London:

Royal Society, 604, 639, 663, 697, 722, 749
Society of Arts, Annual Review, 708
Sounding Lead for Shaft of " City of Paris," 669
Sounding Machines, 764
South African Mail Steamers " Dunottar Castle" (Fairfield Company), 10, 168, 339, 535
"Scot" (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 21, 647, 718
South Australia, Locomotives in, 766
South Australia, The Mineral Wealth of, 44. See Paragraph, Queensland, 73
Southampton, Shipbuilding in 1890, 26
Spanish Cruiser " Pelayo," The (Forges et Chantiers), 334
Spanish Line of Atlantic Steamers, 127
Spanish Naval and Mercantile Shipbuilding, 127
Spectrum, Absorption, of Cobalt Glass, 215
Spence, Mr. J. C., on Short Boilers, 468. See LETTERS and Erratum, 493
Spencer, Mr. John F., on Machine Stoking, 172
Spiders and Engineers, 738
Spoil Distributor, Floating Dredger Elevator, Smulders', 214
" Spree," North German Lloyd S.S., 487. See also 566
Spurwheel Cutting, A New Mode of, 55, 90
Stamp Mill, Five- (Messrs. Harvey, Cornwall) 426
Standard of Colour, A, 651. See Larrzits Standards, Electric, 232
Stanley Boiler, 646. See LETTERS
Stanwcod, Mr. James B., on Stationary Engine Practice in America. See Engines, Stationary Stationary Engine Practice in America. See Engine
Steam Carriage, Serpollet, 316
Steam Enginemakers' Society, 591
Steam Engines, 752
Steam v. Gas Power, 453. See LETTER, 527
Steam Jacket, Economy of the, 60
Steam Lifeboat, A, 97
Steam Tug " Dorothy" (Newport News Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company), 758
Steamer Bourgogne," French Transatlantic Company, 593
Steamer for the Congo (Thornycroft, London), 246
Steamer for a Five-Day Transatlantic Passage (Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 767
Steamer " Plymouth," American Fall River Line, 95
Steamer " Puritan," Fall River Line (Mr. John Roach, Chester, Pa.) 64, 94. See Miscellanea, 256
Steamer Runs on Atlantic, 420, 483, 517, 545, 724. See LErnots, Atlantic Records
Steamer, Stern-Wheeler (Mesbrs. Kincaid and Co., Greenock), 158
Steamers, Fast Paddle, " Princesqe Henriette" and " Princesse Josephine," " Clacton Belle," " Duchess of Hamilton," and " Princess Victoria" (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 39
Steamers " Spree" and " Havel," North German Lloyd's, 487. See also 566
Steamship "City of Vienna," Boilers and Engines (Messrs. J. and J. Thomson, Glasgow), 398
Steamship " Indra," Engines, Boilers, &c. Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co., Liverpool), 525
Steamship " Iona" Trials (Mechanical Engineers), 547, 568. See Erratum, 596. See LETTERS Steamship " Irene" with Sheerlegs on Deck, 585
Steamship Passages on Atlantic, 420, 483, 517, 545, 724. See LErrERs, Atlantic Records and "Teutonic"
Steamship Propulsion, On the Laws of, by Mr. R. Manse). 266
Steel Armour, 109
Steel for Artillery, 579, 599. See LETTERS
Steel, Basic, 135. See Erratum, 161
Steel Castings, The Manufacture of, 765
Steel Manufacture in the United States, 608
Steel, Micro-Structure of, 582, 716
Steel for Rock Drills, 361
Steel, Rupture by Longitudinal Stresses, 709
Stefanite Aluminium Process, The, 109
Stephenson, R., and Co., Hebburn-on-Tyne, and Warship Building, 23
Stereoscope, Schobben's System of Lantern, 689
Stern Tubes, 424, 444
Stern-Wheel Gunboat for the Russian Government Messrs. Yarrow, London), 699
Stern-Wheel Steamer " Kenia" for Imperial British Africa Company (Messrs. Kincaid, Greenock), 168
Stokers in the Navy, The Training of, 75
Stoking, Mechanical, 172
Stopper, The Bonwick Syphon, 199
Storage of Petroleum, The, 449
Strength of Rivetttd Copper Joints, 497
Strength of Short Boilers, 468. See LETTERS.
See Erratum, 493
Strength of Steel, Rupture by Longitudinal Stresses, 709
Stresses under Concentrated Loads, 457
Stresses (Internal) on Ships' Plates due to Water Pressure, 397, 629
Stresses in Steel Guns, Sir Frederick Abel on, 564
Sturgeon Air Compressors, 376. See also Paris, Compressed Air
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 470, 533
Subsidies, American Steamers, 312
Subsidies, French Shipping, 284. See also 312
Subway to Islington, Proposed, 345. See also 435
Subway, Shepherd's Bush and Cornhill, 286, 304. See Paragraphs, 643, 761
Suez Canal Traffic, 375
Sulzer Engine, The, 275
Sunbeam v. Arc Lamps Cost, 501
Supply of Water for London, 194. See also 133, 228, 593
Surface Tension, Variation with Temperature, 450
Surplus of Glasgow Exhibition, Disposal of, 168
Survey, Ordnance, 254
Surveying and Levelling Instruments, 456
Surveying, Photographic, 653
Surveying and Registering Ships, New Corporation, 255
Swasey. Mr. Ambrose, on a New Process of Cutting the Teeth of Spurwheels, 55, 90
Swinburne, Mr. Jas., on Electrolysis, 450
Swinburne, Mr. Jas., on Note on Electrostatic Wattmeter, 383
Swing-Jib Countersink Drilling Machine (Jones, Burton, and Co., Liverpool), 682
Syphon Stopper, The Bonwick, 199

Taff, River, Cardiff, Bridge over, 127, 185, 276, 349. See LETTERS, Eye-Bars, 243, 288
Tariff and Wages in America, 80
Tariffs, The War of, 343
Tasmania, Mineral Progress and Historical Resume of, 167
Tasmanian Exhibition, The, 147
Taxation of Machinery, 106, 218, 664
Taylor, J. F., and Ayrton, Professor, on Tests of a Transformer, 321.
Telegraph, Chronological History of, 682, 689, 717, 744
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 470, 533
Telephone, The London-Paris, 318. See also 613
Telephones on Shipboard, 461
Temperature Effects on Iron, 582, 630
Testing Cement at St. Louis Water Works Extension, 285
Testing Materials (Hr. Kirkald?s Works), 575
Testing Photographic Lenses, 470
Testing Rupture of Steel by Longitudinal Stresses, 709
Testing Single-Acting Compound Engine, 89
Tests of a Transformer by Professor Ayrton and Mr. J. F. Taylor, 321
"Teutonic," 48, 700. See Transatlantic Records and LETT nits
" Teutonic" and " Maj?stic'e," Performances, 545, 724. See Llamas, Atlantic Records
" Teutonic's" Record. See LirrrEas
Thames River Bridge (Railway), New London, Conn., U.S., 428, 557
Thames Shipbuilding in 1890, 25
Theory and Practice. See Dams
Thermal Treatment of Iron, Changes due to, 582, 630
Thompson, Professor S. P., on Magnetic Proof Pieces and Planes, 450
Thompson, Professor S. P., on Magnetic Shunts and on Erecting Prisms, 538, 539
Thomson, Professor J. J., on Experiments on
the Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes, 628
Thornycroft't Twin-Screw Turbine Steamer for the Congo, 246
Three Months' Ship Losses, 439
Throttling Engines, American, 295
Thwaites' Suspension Pneumatic Power Hammer, 306
Tin Mines in Bolivia, 453. See LETTER, 527
Tin in Victoria, Discoveries of, 738
Tonnage of Colonial Shipping, 341
Tonquin, Smokeless Coal in, 80
Tools, Cast-Iron Cutting, 375
Torpedo Boat Mounts for Hotchkiss Guns, 327
Torpedo Boat Warfare (Manoeuvres), 43
Torpedo Boats for Argentine Government (Messrs Thornycroft). 729
Torpedo Firing, Canet System, 4, 30
Torpedo, Sims-Edison, 536
Torpedo (Whitehead) in Action, 636. See LETTERS. See Mi.yeencinea, 666. See also 652, 677
Trade Prospects, 530
Trade Unionism (Literature), 519
Train Lighting, Railway, 600
Tramways, Electric, Cost of Working, 223, 250, 284. See Erratum, 243. See Limnos, Electric
Traction Data
Transandine Railway, Tunnelling Plant, 481, 603
Transatlantic Mail Service, Duration of Passages, 316, 592
Transatlantic Records, 8, 48, 316, 409, 617, 675, 700, 729. See LETTERS, " Teutonic "
Transatlantic Records (Historical), 420, 483, 517, 545, 724. See LETTERS, Atlantic Records and " Teutonic"
Transatlantic Steamer, French, " Bourgogne," 593
Transatlantic Steamer for Five-Day Passage
(Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank), 767
Transformer, Electric Current (Lahmeyer and Co. Frankfort), 642
Transformer, Tests of a, by Professor Ayrton and Mr. J. F. Taylor, 321
Transformers, Blakesley's Method of Measuring Power in, tico
Transmission of Heat through Cast-Iron Plates, 61
Transmission of Power, Electric and Hydraulic, by Mr. Robert Gordon Blaine, 612, 665
Transmitting Power by Electricity, 223, 250, 284. See Erratum, 243. See Limnos, Electric Traction Data
Transportation of Wire Ropes in United States, 428
Travelling Cranes, Hydraulic, 89
Treaties, International (The 'War of Tariffs), 343 Tredegar Iron Works, The, U.S.A., 120
Trial of a 66-Ton Canet Gun, 219
Trial of H.M.S. " Latona" (Second-Class Cruiser), 169, 189. See LitrTRRS, "Latona"
Tri%l Trips. See Launches and Trial Trips Trials (Duty) of Pumping Engines, Standard Method of Conducting, 36
Trials of a 6-In. Quick-Firing Gun on H.M.S. " Kite," 218. See Miscellanea, 256
Trials of Rock Drills, 360
" Trident," French Central Battery Ironclad, 215
Triple-Expansion Marine Engines. See Engines Tripp's Metallic Packing, 597. See Erratum, 632
Trunk Railway from East to West England, 693 Tubes, Experiments on the Electric Discharge in Vacuum, 628
Tubing, Flexible, 60
Tubular Railway Wagons, 472, 682, 770
Tubulous Boiler Experiments by Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, 236
Tubulous Boiler, Yarrow's, 81
Tubulous Boilers at Frankfort Exhibition, 641, 672, 699
Tubulous Marine Boiler (Babcock and Wilcox), 616
Tug " Dorothy " (Newport News Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company), 758
Tunnel in Edinburgh, Proposed, 374, 433
Tunnel, Irish Channel, 225
Tunnel, The Proposed Black wall, 226
Tunnel Railways, Deep, New York, 435. See also 161, 397
Tunnelling Plant, Transandine Railway, 481, 603
Turbine (Steam) and Alternate Current Dynamo (Parsons'), 504
Turner, Mr. Thomas, on Economical Puddling and Puddling Cinder, 605
Turpin and Melinite, 646. See Miscellanea, 733
Typewriter, The Gardner, 645
Typewriting Machine, Yost, 551. See Erratum, 615
Typewriting Machines, 296
Tyres, Pneumatic Hammer for (Messrs. Breuer, Schumacher, and Co., Kalk), b99
Tyrrell and Hassard's Scheme for London Water Supply, Welsh Scheme, 194

" Umbria" and " Etruria" Performances, 545, 724. See LETTERS, alqo Atlantic Records Union Liner " Scot" (Mtsers. Denny, Dumbarton), 21, 647, 718
Unionism, Trade (Literature), 519
United Service Institution, The Royal, 2'6, 270, 373, 589
United States. See Notes from United States United States Cruiser " Yorktown " (Messrs. Cramp), 379, 492
United States Government Buildings at Chicago Exhibition, 245
United States Law regarding Collisions at Sea, 110
United States Navy, 365, 382, 379, 413, 492
Universal Company's Radial Drill at Carnegie's Steel Works, 702
University College. London, 128
Unwin, Professor, Work on Elements of Machine Design, 486
Utilisation of Compressed Air, 327, 419, 513. See LETTERS, 376
Utilisation of Falls of Niagara. See Niagara Utilising Power of James River, Richmond, 36

Vacuum Tubes, Experiments on the Electric Discharge in, 628
Vacumn Tubes (Radiant Matter), 107
Value of "g," Determination of, 98
Valve Gear, Sulzer. 275
Vapour Engines, 61
Velocities of the Ions, Experiments, 628
Ventilation of Warships, 364
Verrugas Viaduct, Oroya Railway, 80, 460. See LETTERS, European v. American Bridges
Vessels, The Loading of Steel, 396, 446
Viaduct, Verrugas, Oroya Railway, Peru, 460. See also 80. See LETTERS, European v. American Bridges
Victoria, Discoveries of Tin in, 738
Victorian Lignites Suitable for Briquettes, 226
Victorian Railways, 122, 267, 438
Vigo and New York Atlantic Liners, 127
Virginia, Descriptive Sketch of, 38
Visp-Zermatt Adhesion and Rack Railway, 660

Wagon, Open Goods, for Hoellenthal Railway, 304. See also 139, 153, 243
Wales Shipbuilding in 1890, 26
Walford, Lieut.-Col., R.A., on Field Artillery, 270, 373. See also 497
Walker, The Late Mr. Benjamin, 472
Wall Planing Machine (Messrs. F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge), 380
War in Chili, 536, 566, 652, 677. See LETTERS
War Material in the United States, 608
Warship Building, Future Policy of, by Lord Brassey, 331, 364. See LETTERS, _Engineers for Nary
Warship Coal Endurance (Naval Manctuvres), 16, 43
Warship, French, " Trident," 216
Warships, American, 365, 379, 382, 413. 492
Warships Lost in Fifty Years (British), 712
Warships, New, 261, 283. See also 331, 364, 366, 382
Wa4her, A New Spring, 319
Washington Navy Yard, Boring Machine at the, 23
Water Gas. See LETTERE
Water Meter, Ahrbecker'a, 143
Water Supply, Birmingham, 410
Water Supply, The London, 191, 285, 593. See also 133, 228, 593
Water Supply of Paris, 624
Water-Tube Boiler Experiments, by Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy, 236
Water-Tube Boiler, Yarrow's, 81.
Water-Tube Marine Boiler, Babcock and Wilcox, 616
Wattmeters, Notes on Electrostatic, 383
Waverley Station in Edinburgh, 374, 432
Weather, 45, 94, 165, 282, 405, 437, 592, 710. See also 77, 99, 227, 275, 345, 660, 741
Weather Observations at Greenwich in 1890, 77
Web Printing Machine, Marinoni, 159
Weir's Evaporators, S.S " Dunottar Castle," 10
Weir's Feed Heaters, Professor Cotterill on, 170 Weldless Steel Chains, 524
Wellington, Boiler Explosion at, 40
Wert-Conrad's Dredging Plant for Weser River, 70
Weser River Improvement, Dredger for, 70
West Butterwick, Boiler Explosion at, 40
Westinghouse Brake Trials in Australia, 314
Westinghouse Engine Test, 89
Wheel Cutting, A New Mode of, 55, 90
Whetbam, Mr. W. C. D., on Velocities of the Ions, 628
Whitehead Torpedo in Action, See LETTERS,
Miscellanea, 566, and also 652, 6/7
Wigham's Improved Lighthouse Burner, 633
Wilson, Liverpool, Steam Crane Excavator, 70
Wilson, Mr. Wm. W., on Engine-Room Practice, 658
Wire Ropes Transportation in United States, 428
Wire Table, 457
Witz, Professor, on Trials of Gas and Steam Engines, 453. See LETTER., 527
Wolf's Semi-Portable Compound Engine, 727
Wooden Bridge over the River Barrow, 703

Works :

Caw well's Steel Works at Sheffield, £70, (93
Lauffen-Neuhausen Aluminium Works, 229.
See Erratum, 243
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company, 121
Patent Sand Moulding Machine Company, 255. See 157, 259
Richmond Locomotive Works, 120
Tredegar Iron Works, 120
World's Fair. See Chicago Exhibition
Wrecks, Three Months', 439

Yacht, Auxiliary, " Princess Alice" (Messrs. Green), 215
Yacht Racing, 90
Yachts, Centre-Board, Building on the Clyde, 262
Yarmouth Harbour Works, 106
Yarrow, Mr. A. F., on the Construction of Boilers adapted to Forced Draught, 385, 373 388. See LETTERS
Yarrow's Water-Tube Boiler, 81
Yates, Mr. J. A., On Internal Stresses of Ship Plates due to Water Pressure, 397, 629
Year's Weather, 94
Yokohama Harbour, 632
Yorkshire, South, Notes from. See Notes
"Yorktown," United States Cruiser, Engines and Ship Plans (Cramp and Quintard Company), 379, 492
Yost Typewriting Machine, 554. See Erratum, 616

Zipproann and Furthmann's Railway Carriage Locks, 199
Zone Railway Rates, 619. See also 601

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 * [[W. W. Kell]], 127
 * [[David Kinghorn]], Shipbuilder, Glasgow, 565
-* [[James McArthur]], Shipbuilder, Paisley, 665
+* [[James Macarthur]], Shipbuilder, Paisley, 665
 * [[Joseph Musgrave]], Bolton, 73
 * [[Robert Mushet]], 189

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