Engineering 1892 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1892 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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ART Locomotive, Rothhorn Railway, 593, 626
Accident to H.M.S. " Apollo," 617
Accidents on German Railways, 459
Accumulators, Electrical, 471
Aconcagua, Torpedo Boat Attack on, E6
Acoustical Experiments, Siemens, 36
Additions to the Navy, 823
Administration Building, Chicago Exhibition, 361
Agitator (Electrolyte). London Metallurgical Company, 19
Agricultural Building, Chicago Exhibition, 801
Agricultural Implements in Canada, 651
Agricultural Implements, Reapers and Birders in Denmark, 446
Agricultural Implements at Smithfield Show, 729
Air, Compressed, at Portsmouth Dockyard, 275
Air Impurities, 347
Air Pump Levers, 354, 425
Aire and Calder Pollution, 596, 672, 743,771, 811
Alaska, Fort Wrangel, 754
Alaska, Yosemite, Yellowstone, and, 403, 439, 474, 519, 533, 563, 597, 623, 659, 688, 717, 745, 773, 807
Alcoholometer, Siemens, 97
Alhambra Theatre, Balcony Cantilever, 384. See Erratum, 447
Alloys, Ferro-Tungsten, 826
Alloys of Iron and Chromium, 399, 409, 433, 466, 495
Alloys of Iron, Manganese, and Aluminium, 346
Alloys, Phosphor-Bronze Bearing Metals, 145
Alternating Current, Power Transmission by, 225
Alternating Currents of High Tension, Siemens Experiments, 343
Alternating Currents, Visible Representations of, 35
Alternator, for High Tension Current, Siemens, 343
Alternator, Siemens, Prior to 1872, 282
Alternator. Bee Siemens Electrical Apparatus Aluminium, 720
Aluminium Alloys, 346
Aluminium Naphtha Yacht " Mignon " (Eecher Wyss and Co.), 820
Aluminium, The Properties of, 425
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 388
America. See Notes from United States America, Cost of Earthworks in, 301
America, Excursion Routes in, 87
America, Interoceanic Railway's of Central. See Railways
America, Labour Troubles in, Carnegie Strike, 141, 265
American Bridges on the Transandine Railway, 685. See LErrints, Bridges
American Cotton Spinning, 489
American Gun Construction, 147
American Guns. See Artillery
American Iron Trade, 423. See also Notes from United States.
American Iron Trade Association, Report, Si
American Naval Engineers, 17. See LETTERS,
Engine Room Coin plements
American Rail and Track, 30, 120, 214, 397, 495, 525
American Railroads, 454
American Railway Timber Bridges, 382, 446
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Trip to San Francisco, 403, 439, 474, 519, 533, 563, 597, 623, 659, 688, 717, 745, 773, 807
American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 759
Ammeter, Siemens, 158
Ammonia from the Blast Furnace, 390, 425. See LETTERS
Ammunition. Sec Artillery, Modern United States
Ammunition for United States Dynamite Gun, 37
Analysis of Iron and Steel ; International Standards, 347
Angle of Crank for Maximum Velocity of Piston, 83
Anti-Cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, 781
" Apollo," Grounding of the, 617
Apprentice Question, 515. See LETTERS
Arakan, 471
Arc Lamp (Kent), 19
Arc, Physics of the Voltaic, 317
Arctic Exploring Ship " Fram," 642
Argentina Armour-Clad " Libertad," 648
Argentina Government, McGregor's Sternwheel Steamer for (Messrs. Bow, McLachlan, and Co., Paisley), 748
Argentine Republic, Oil in the, 768
Armatures. See Siemens Electrical Apparatus
Armour-Clad Rsm " Libertsd," Argentine, 648
Armour-Clad Vessels. See Battle-Shi ps
Armour Plates ; Harvey Carbonibing Process, 116
Arms, Manufacture of Small, 703
Armstrong Quick-Firing Gun, 790
Armstrong v. Other Quick-Firing Guns, 421, 438, 790
Armstrong's Hydraulic Derricks ; H.M.S. " Vulcan," 629
Army Gun Factory, United States, 377
Army Gun, 12-1n. 52-Ton, United States, 286
Army Guns ; Weights, Dimensions, ac., United States, 406
Arsenal, Watervliet, United States, 377. See also 405
Artificers in American Navy, 17. See Lanus, Naval Engine-Room Complements
Artificers in the Navy. See Naval Engine-Room Complements

Artillery, Modern United States :

Ammunition for Dynamite Gun, 37
Army Gun Factory, 377
Army Gun, 12-In. 52-Ton, 286
Army Guns, Weights, Dimensions, &c., 405
Arsenal, Watervliet, 377. See also 405
Ballistic Particulars of Breechloading Guns of the United States Navy, 254
Ballistic Particulars of Mortars, 313
Ballistics of Driggs-Schroeder Rapid-Firing Gun, 637. See also 667
Breech Mechanism for the 6-In. Rifle, 126
Breech Mechanism of 12-In. 52-Ton Army Gun, 287
Breechloading Rifle, 16-In., 220
Broadside Carriages, 127
Canet 12-In. Mortar Carriage, 220
Carriages, Sea Coast, for Breechloading Rifles and Mortars, 220
Carriages for 6-In. Naval Guns, 127
Central Pivot Carriage, Naval Guns, 130, 192
Dimensions of Naval Guns, 71
Driggs-Schroeder Rapid-Firing Gun, 603, 636. See also 566
Dynamite Guns, Pneumatic, Model 1690, 3, 37
Factories, Gun (American), 377, 405
Firing Trials of 6-In. Naval Gun, 130
Gatling Gun, 443
Gravity Return Carriage Naval Guns, 130, 189
Hotchkiss Quick- Firing Gun, Driggs-Schroeder, 603, 536, WS
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, 413
Machine Guns, 443
Manufacture of an 8-In. Breechloading Steel Rifle at Watervliet Arsenal, 377
Mortars, Breechloading, 312, 313
Mortars, 12-In., Breechloading Carriages and Mounts for, 220
Mountings for Naval Guns, 251
Mounts for Breechloading Mortars, 220
Mounts for Quick-Firing Guns, 566
National Gun Factory, Watervliet Arsenal,
377. See also 905
Naval Gun Factory, 405
Naval Guns, 262. See also 71, 99, 126, 162, 408
Naval Guns, The Construction of, 71
Naval Guns, Weights, Dimensions, &c., 408
Navy 8-In. Breechloading Gun, 162
Navy 6-In. Breechloading Rifle, 99, 126
Pneumatic Carriage for Naval Guns, 192
Pneumatic Dynamite S:a Coast G-.ins, Model
1890, 3, 37
Projectiles for Dynamite Gun, 37
Projectiles for 6-In. Naval Gun, 130
Quick-Firing Gun, Driggs-Schroeder, 603, 536.
See also 566
Rapid-Firing Gun. See Quick- Firing
Rashazoff and Anderson's Mounts far 12-In.Mortars, 220
Revolving Cannon, Hotchkiss, 413
Rifle, Malufacture of 8-In. Breechloading Steel, 37
Sea Coast Carriages for Breechloading Rifles and Mortars, 220
Shrinkage in Guns, 377, 380
Spiller's Mount for 12 - In. Breechloading Mortar. 222
Teets of M aterial for Naval Guns, 71
Tests of 6-In. Naval Gun, 130
Time Required to Construct Guns, 405
Washington Gun Factory, 405
Watervliet Arsenal, 377. See also 405
Weights, &c., of Army and Naval Guns, 405, 408

Asphalte v. Wood Paving, 188. Sea 112, 113
Astbury's Capstan Lathe. 273
Astronomical and Civil Time, 290
Astronomy ; Meteors and Comets, 822
Atlantic Ferry (1Iaginnis' Book), 126. See also 148, 180, 210, 295, 325, 521
Atlantic Liners, New Cunard, 293, 321, 391. See also 621
Atlantic Record, 125, 149, 180, 210, 295, 326, 521
Atlantic Terminal Ports, 392. Sec 721
Atomic Weight of Oxyge n, 465, 544, 548
August Weather, 330
Austral-Otis Company's Pumping Engine for Hydraulic Mining, 478
Australia, Railways in Western, 621
Austria, Labour in, 360
Auxiliary Machinery on Board Ships, 154, 181, 276
Aveling and Porter Compound Traction Engine, 18

Ball's Lectures on Astronomy, 826. Sze also 822
Ball, Sir R. S. " Story of the Heal ens, Comets and Meteors, 822
Ballistic Particulars of Breechloading Guns of the United States Navy, 254
Ballistic Particulars of United States Mortars, 313
Ballistics of Driggs - Schroeder R Gun, 537. See also 567
Balloon Accident at the Crystal Palace, 61
Balloon, Electric Signalling (Bruce), 75
Baltic and North Sea Canal, 459
Barry, Pumps at, 635
Barry Railway Mineral Tank Locomotive (Vulcan Company, Newton-le-Willows), 692
Battery, Sources of Heat Generated in a Galvanic, 814
Battle-Ship Construction "Ramillies," 197, 412
Battle Ship " Libertad," Argentine, 618
Battle-Ships, Dimensions of, 52
Battle-Ships Launched 189?, 823
Battle-Ships " Royal Oak " and " Revenge," 612
Battleships, Typical, Built Portsmouth, 145, 162, 242
Beam, Girder, 471
Beams, Theoretical Strength of, 10, 79, 117, 148, 170, 201, 231, 262, 417
Bearings, Anti-Friction, 226, 274, 696
Bearings, Carboid Oilless, 696
Bearings, Phosphor-Bronze Metal, 146
"Beauty" Prospecting Drill (Bullock Company), 259
Beck's " Handy " Valve, 240 ,
Belfast, Boiler Explosion at, 270
Belfast Graving Dock, 642
Belfast Lough, Countermining of, 300, 331
Belfast, Shipbuilding in 1892, 814
Belgium, Council of Labour, 23
Belgium, Iron and Coal in, 361
Belgium, Labour in, 457
Belle, Indicator Board for, Smith Siemens Electrical Re-Setting Device, 250
Belt Clamp, Dougall's, 118
Ben Nevis Observatory, Meteorological, 290
Bending Rolls at Schulz-Knaudt's, 351
Bending Rolls, Vertical (Niles Tool Works, Hamilton. Ohio), 829
Bennett, Mr. W. B. G., on Southampton Sewage Work i, 176, 396
Berlin Electrical Underground Railway, 30
Berthelot's Calorimeter, 27, bl
Billington and Newton, Longport, Sluice Valve, 131
Billiter Buildings, London, Electric Lighting, 381
Binders and Reapers in Denmark, Trials, 446
" Blanco Encalaia," Torpedo Boat Attack on, 86
Blast Furnace, Ammonia from the, 390, 4?.5. See Letters
Block-Making Machinery, Portemouth Dockyard, 425
Board of Trade and Boiler Explosions, 821
Board of Trade Electrical Standards, 727, 732
Boiler, Boulton's Vertical Multitubular, 211
Boiler Experiments (Mr. Donkin and Professor Kennedy), 115. See LETTERS,
Boilers, French Boiler Experiments, Steam, Great Eastern Railway Locomotive (Mr. B. Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy), 501
Boiler Explosion on Lake Geneva, 206
Boiler Explosion at Leigh, 709
Boiler Explosion at Rotherham, 649
Boiler Explosions and the Board of Trade, 821
Boiler Explosions at Glasgow, Camborne, and Coathridge, 91
Boiler Explosions at Liverpool and Belfast, 270, 675
Boiler Explosion at Manchester-Canal Works, 781
Boiler Feeding Pump (Brush Company), 137
Boiler, Steam, Damper Regulator, Mason's, 278 Boiler, Thornycroft, 789
Boiler Tubeplate Protectors, Cowper's, 795
Boilers, Circulation of Water in Marine, 509
Boilers and Forced Draught. See Forced Draught.
Boilers, French or Elephant, 148, 170, 267
Boilers, Haystwk, " Lord of the Isles" (Messrs. Henderson, Glasgow), 26, 76
Boilers of H.M.S. " Ramillies"(Mes3rs. Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 197, 412
Boilers, High-Pressure, 227
Boilers, &c., Manchester Steam Users' Association, 44
Boilers, Navy, 48, 78, 117, 333, 384. See also Forced Draught.
Boilers, Petroleum, 303
Boilers, The Treatment of Marine, 528, 590, 619. See LsTrzas.
Boilermakers' and Iron Shipbuilders' Society, 436. See also 515
Bolt Forcer, Hydraulic (Messrs. Youngs, Birmingham), 723
Bores, Deep, 425
Boring and Drilling Machine (Newark Company, New Jersey), 735
Boring and Drilling Machine (Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Glasgow), 148
Boring Machine, Elliptical (Messrs. G. and A. H:-rvey, Glasgow), 748
Boring Machine (Sagar, Halifax), 677
Boring and Turning Mills, U.S. Gun Factory, Watervliet Arsenal (Niles Tool Works), 272
Borough Road Polytechnic, 423
Boulton's Vertical Multitubular Boiler, 211
Bracket, Alhambra Theatre Balcony, 384. See Erratum, 447
Bradford and the Chicago Exhibition, 54
Brain Closed Circuit System for Electric Tram Rails, 239, 329
Bramwell, Sir Frederick, on Sewage Works at Portsmouth, 176, 336
Brashear's Spectroscope for Halsted Observatory, 101
Brassey's Naval Annual, 1. See LErrsas, Source of Inspiration.
Brayton Petroleum Engine, 69
Brazilian Cruiser " Republica" and Armstrong Guns, 790
Brazilian Twin-Screw Steamers " Itaoca" and "Itaipu" (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 696
Breakwaters, Concrete in, 266, 359, 456. See Erratum, 480
Breath Figures, 23
Breech Mechanism of Guns. See Artillery, Modern United States.
Breech Mechanism of Schneider's 15Cent. Quick-Firing Gun, 348
Breech Mechanism of 12-In. 52 Ton United States Army Gun, 237
Breech Mechanism for United States 6-In. Breech-loading Rifle, 126
Breechloading Guns. See Artillery, Modern United States.
Breechloading Rifle, 16 In., United States, 220
Brewers' Exhibition, 548
Bridge, Channel, 373
Bridge Failure at Strathglass, Inverness, 329, 364. See LETTERS.
Bridge, Floating, at Portsmouth, 176, 463
Bridge, Siemens Electric Low Resistance, 217
Bridge between Sister Islands, Niagara, 403
Bridge, Tower, 380
Bridges, The Deformations of Metallic, 729. See Limns. Loads on Rivets.
Bridges. See Formosa and its Railways. Bridges on Glasgow Central Railway, 163, 218
Bridges, Loads on Rivets, 793. See 729
Bridges, Measurement of Strains in, 521
Bridges, Opening, 176, 963
Bridges, Renewing Railway Viaducts in Scotland, 291, 366
Bridges, Timber, on American Railroads, 382, 446
Bridges on the Transandine Railway, 695. See LETTERS.
Brienz and Rothhorn Rack Railway, 693, 626
Brigham Young, 638
Bristol and the Chicago Exhibition, 299
Britannia Company's Radial Drill, 460
Britannia Company's Sensitive Drill, 334
"Britannic" and "Germanic" Refrigerating Machinery (Hall's), 68. See LErTERs, Refrigerating Machine
British v. American Bridge-Building Practice, 695. See LETTERS, Bridges
British and American Metallurgy, 423
British and American Railways, 454

British Association :

Edinburgh Meeting, 174. See lamina, 231, 262 Mechanical Section.
Presidential Address, by Professor W. C. Unwin, 193
Columbian Exposition, by Mr. J. Dredge and Mr. R. S. McCormick, 193, 213
The Application of Destructorm, especially to the Electric Lighting of Edinburgh, by Professor G. Forbes, 193
Refuse Disposal, by Mr. G. Watson, 193, 369, 430
Absorption and Filtration of Sewage, by Mr. R. F. Grantham, 193
Shield Tunnelling in Loose Ground under Water Pressure, by Mr. G. F. Deacon, 194, 212
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, by Mr. D. A. Stevenson, 195
Mechanical Transmission of Parcels, by Mr. D. Cunningham, 195
Electric Locomotives on the City and South London Railway, by Mr. Alexander Siemem, 195, 245
Utilisation of the Energy of Flowing Water, by Messrs. F. Purdon and H. E. Walters, 196
Principle of the Hydraulic Ram, by Mr. H. D. Pearsall, 197. See Letter, 23
A New Form of Windmill for Electrical and
other Purposes, by Professor J. Blyth, 197 Flexible Metallic Tubing, by Mr. G. it. Redgrale, 197
Development of Graphic Methods in Mechanical Science Committee's Report, 223
On the Destruction of Lightning Protectors by Recent Municipal Legislation, by Mr. W. II. Preece, 223
On the Uses of Secondary Batteries in Telegraphy, by Mr. W. H. Preece, 224
Power Transmission by Alternating Current, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 225
An Electric Locomotive, by Mr. E. H. Woods, 226
Coin-Counting Machine, by Lieuterant W. B. Basset, R.N., 226
Anti-Friction Materials for Bearings used without Lubricants, by Mr. Killingworth Hedges, 226, 274. See also 696
Design of Steam Generators for High Pressures, by Mr. B. H. Thwaite, 227
Testing Small Chains, by Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw, 254. See also 427
Motors Used for Fog Signals in the Northern Lighthouse Service, by Mr. D. A. Stevenson, 255
On the Progress of the Dioptric Lens as Used in Lighthouse Illumination, by Mr. C. A. Stevenson, 255
On the Prevention of Smoke in Steam Boiler and other Furnaces, by Mr. A. R. Sennett, 256
London Sewage Disposal, by Mr. Crawford Barlow, 259, 3U6
City Sanitation, as Practically Conducted in Edinburgh, by Mr. J. Cooper, 259
Fire Extinction on Board Ship, by Mr. H. C. Carver, 259
Physical Section.
Presidential Address, by Professor Arthur Schuster, 287
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ;
Committee's Report, by Lord McLaren, 290 Meteorological Photography, by Mr. Clayden, 290
Seismological Phenomena in Japan ; Committee's Report, 290
Underground Temperature ; Committee's Report. 290
Preliminary Account of Oceanic Circulation, based on the Challenger Observations ; Committee's Report, by Dr. A. Buchan, 290
Advantages of Maleng Astronomical Time Agree with Civil Time, by Dr. Sandford Fleming, 290
Leaky Magnetic Circuits, by Professor Du Bois, 290
Influence of Neighbouring Electrical Discharges on the Electrical Resistance of Metallic Powders, by Dr. Dawson Turner, 290
On Primary and Secondary Cells in which the
Electrolyte is a Gas, by Professor A. Schuster, 291
On Electrical Discharges, by Professor E. Wiedemann, 313
On the Stability of Periodic Motion, by Lord Kelvin, 313
On the Specific Conductivity of Thin Films, by Professors Reinold and Rticker, 314
Sources of Heat in the Galvanic Battery, by Mr. Magnus McLean, 314
Some Experiments with a Ruhmkorff Coil, by Mr. Magnus McLean and Mr. A. Galt, 314
A Contribution to the Theory of the Perfect Influence Machine, by Mr. J. Gray, 314
On the Electric Conductivity of Bismuth and Copper in Magnetic Fields, by Dr. W. Peddie, 314
The Interference Method for Spectroscopic Analysis, by Professor Michelson, 314
Photographs of Electric Discharges, by Mr. Campbell Swinton, 316
Inducto-Script, by the Rev. F. J. Smith, 316. See Erratum, 370
The Periodic Velocity of Bubbles hi Vertical Tubes Containing Liquid, by Mr. Frederick Trouton, 316
Thermal Conductivity of Liquids, by Mr. C. H. Lees, 316
The Physical Laboratory at Grocningen, by Professor Schoute, 310
A National Physical Laboratory Discussion, 816
A Magnetic Curve Tracer, by Professor Ewing, 316
A Magnetic Balance and its Practical Use, 316
Electrical Standards ; Committee's Report, by Mr. Glazebrook, 316
The Clark Cell, by Dr. Kahle, 317
On Wire Standards of Electrical Resistance, by Dr. Lindeck, 317
British Association—continued.
On Nomenclature of Units ; Discussion, 317
Earth Current Storms in 1892, by Mr. Preece, 317
Dielectric of Condensers, by Mr. Preece, 317
The Physics of the Voltaic Arc, by Professor S. P. Thomson, 317
Volume Effects of Magnetisation, by Professor Cargill Knott, 317
Polarising Gratings, by Professor Du Bois, 317
On Dispersion in Double Refraction due to Electric Stress, by Dr. John Kerr, 317
Density of Illumination does not Affect Absorption, by Dr. Peddie, 317
Physical Condition of the Water of the English Channel, by Mr. H. N. Dickson, 317
Chemical Section.
Presidential Address by Professor Hefted McLeod, 316
Electrolytic Synthesis, by Professor Crum Brown, 346
Impurities in Chloroform, by Professor W. Ramsay, 316
Some Alloys of Iron,
Manganese, and Aluminium, by Mr. T. 11. Hogg, 316
A New Method of Measuring the Pressure produced in Gaseous Explosions, by Mr. B. Lean and Mr. W. A. Bone, 346
Luminosity of Hydrocarbon Flames, by Professor Vivian Lewes, 346
Experiments on Flame, by Professor A. Smithells, 347
Experiments on Flame Spectra, by Professor A. Smithells, 347
The Application of a Hydrogen Flame in the Safety Lamp to the Detection and Estimation of Inflammable Gases and Vapours in Air, by Professor F. Clowes, 317
International Standards for the Analysis of Iron and Steel, by Mr. T. Turner, 347
Effect of Small Quantities of Foreign Matter on the Propertlis of Metal ; Discussion, 347
The Impurities of Town Air, by Dr. C. H. Bailey, 347
Diffusion, by Dr. Svante Arrhenius, 347
Atomic Weight of Boron, by Professor Ramsay and Miss Aston, 317
Pure Glucina and the Atomic Weight of Glu-cinum, by Dr. J. Gibson, 347
Manganese Nodules, by Dr. Gibson, 318
On the Assumed Potential Difference between
Metals in the Solid and Molten State, by Professor Ostwald, 318
Iodides of Sulphur, by Professor McLeod, 348
British Battle-Ship " Ramillies" (Messrs. Thc m-son, Clydebank), 197, 412
British Battle-Ships " Royal Oak " and " Revenge," 612
British Columbia " Toothpicks," 208
British Cruisers " Indefatigable," " Intrepid," and " Iphigenia" (London and Glasgow Company), 131
British Cruisers " Pique," " Rainbow," and " Retribution," Engines (Palmer, Jarrow), 608, f 87, 620
British Official View, Chicago Exhibition, 459
British Rails Abroad, 147
British Railways, Signalling Systems in, 179
British Railways, Working of, 3S9
British Section, Chicago Exhibition, Prospects, 641
British Shipping Supremacy, 578
British Ships and the World's Trade, 55
British Steel Production, 392
British Trade Abroad, 544, 721, 761, 794
Brittany, Land Reclaimed from Sea, 610
Brixton Cable Tramway, 731
Broadside Carriages, 127
Bruce's Electric Signalling Balloon, 75
Brush Company's Boiler-Feeding Pump, 137
Brussels Labour Exchange, 488
Bubbles in Liquids, 316
Buildings in New York City, Use of Iron in, 2C8
Bulkhead Doors, 333
Bulkheads, The Scantlings of Ships', 490
Bullock Company's Prospecting Drill, 259
Burglar-Proof Safes, 753
Butt Connections of the Shell Platirg of Vessels, 832

Cable Tramway in London, 731
Cable Tramways, 773
Cables, Siemens, 218
Cables, Submarine, 824
Cabot Memorial, Bristol, 299
Cabot Memorial and the Chicago Exhibition, 299
Caisson at Portsmouth Dockyard, '476
Calder and Aire, River Pollution, 596, 672, 743, 771, 811
Caledonian Railway, 4E9
Caledonian Railway Bridges, Rene% ing, 291, 366
Caledonian Railway Terminal Station, Edinburgh, 424
Calorimetric Estimation of Fuel, 27, 61
Camborne, Boiler Explosion at, 91
Cambridge Electric Lighting (Parsons, Newcastle), 570. See LETTERS, Turbines
"Campania," New Cunard Steamer, 293, 321, 394. See also 621
Canada, Industrial Progress of, 23
Canada, Railroad Building in the North-West, 4E8
Canada, Wages in, 651
Canal, Baltic-North Sea, 469
Canal Directors, Panama, 669
Canal Lift, Hydraulic (Prttssmann's), 480, 601
Canal, Manchester. See Manchester Ship Canal
Canal at Panama, The Effect of a, 302
Canal, Proposed Forth and Clyde Ship, 195
Canal Schemes, New, 701
Canals, European, 639
Canals, Ladder Dredger for Cleansing (Stothert and Pitt), 492
Canals and Reservoirs, Indian, 486
Canet v. Krupp Quick-Firing Guns in French Navy, 204
Canet and other Quick-Firing Guns, 421, 438, 517. See also 790
Canet 12-In. Mortar Carriage, 220
Cannich Bridge, Strathglass, Failure, 129, 364. See LETTERS, Bridges.
Callon, Grand Ricer, 5]1, 514
Canon, Horseshoe, Ottawa, Ill., 440
Canon and Mountain R .ilvt ays, 472, 473, 476
Cantilever, Alhambra Theatre Balcony, 364. Se: Erratum, 417
Capstan Lathe (Mr. W. H. Astbury, Grantham), 273
Carhoid Oilless Bearings, 696
Carbonising Procesg, Harvey, 116
Cardiff New Water Works, 351
Career in India, 703
Carnegie Strike in America, 141. See also 265
Carpentry. Book on Manual Instruction, 222
Carriage for Schneider's 15-Cent. Quick-Firing Gun, 348
Carriage and Wagon Works of the London and
South-Western Railway Company, Eastleigh, 130, 178
Carriage Way Pavements. 112, 143. 183
Carriages for Guns. See Artillery, Modern United States
Carriages, Sea Coast, for United States Breechloading Rifles and Mortara, 220
Carriages for United States 6-1o. Naval Guns, 127
C irrcd Water-Softening Plant (Mr. John Bellamy, London), 523
Cars, Sleeping, for European Railways (Midland Car Company), 662
Cassel, Power Transmission Plant at, 225
Cast-Iron Test Bars, 117, 147, 231
C ttskill FAIN, 403
Cell, The Clark, 317
Cella, Measurement of the Internal Resistance of, 23
Cement " Bacillus," 22
Cement Mortar, Liverpool Water Works, 759
Centenary of Gas Lighting, 142
Central Pivot Carriage, United States Naval Guns, 130, 192
Central Railway. See Glasgow Central Railway Centrifugal Force, 11
Ceylon Tea Packing, Patent Litigation, 680
Chain-Making Machine, 427
Chain, " Triumph," Strength of, 254, 427
"Challenger " Observations and Oceanic Circulation, 290
Chamberlain's Labour Programme, 577
"Champion " Prospecting Drill (Bullock Company), 259
Channel Bridge, 373
Channel, Physical Conditi on of Water, 317
Charge for Electric Lighting, 607
Chatelier, M. L", on Measurement of Strains in Girders, 521
Chatelier, M. Le, on Resistance of Railway Curves, 387
Chatelier Pyrometer, 61
Chatterton Gas and Steam Engine (Milling Exhibition), 65
Chemical Annual, 249
Chemical Science Progress, 237
Chemistry (Professor McLeod's Presidential Address), 316
Chicago Exhibition. See Columbian Exposition
Chicago, Remuneration of Labour and Cost of Living, 55
Chicken Rock, Curious Eddy at, 49
Chili, Minerals in, 641
Chilian War, Torpedo Boat Attack, 86
Chilled Iron Rolls, Failure of, 410, 521, 544. See LErrzes
China from an Engineering Standpoint, 231
China, Railwaj s in, 459
Chinamen in America (Yosemite, &c.), 623
Chinese Railway Building, Formosa, 20
Chloroform, Impurities in, 346
Chromium and other Metal Alloys, 399, 409, 433, 465, 4P5
Circulation of Water in Boilers, 609
City and Guilds of London Institute, 642
"City of Paris" and Atlantic Record, 125, 148, 180, 325. 521

Civil Engineers, The Institution of: 809

Presidential Address by Mr. Harrison Hayter, 608
Halifax Graving Dock, Nova Sc:.tia, by Hon. R. C. Parsons, 642
Cockatoo Island Graving Dock, Ne le South Wales, by Mr. Ed. W. Young, 642
Alexandra Graving Dock, Belfast, by Mr. W. R. Kelly, 642
Construction of a Concrete Graving Dock at Newport, Mon, by Mr. R. Pickewell, 612
The Manufacture of Small Arms, by Mr John Rigby, 703
Clamp, Dougall's Belt, 118
Clark Cell, 317
Clark and Standfield Pontoon Dor.k, 620
Cleveland. See Notes from Cleveland
Cleveland Ironstone Mining, 653
Clinometer, Francis Surveying Comptms and, 168
Clipping Bureau at Chicago Exhibition, 801
Clocks, 97
Closed Conduit System of Electric Traction, 641
Cloud Measurements, 781
Clutch, Simplex (Moore and Norte, Leeds), 118
Clutch, Stevenson's Friction, 795
Clyde and Forth Ship Canal, Proposed, 195
Clyde Paddle Steamer " Glen Sannox " (Messrs. Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 372
Clyde Passenger Steamer " Lord of the Isles" (Messrs. Henderson, Glasgow), 26, 76
Clyde Shipbuilding in 1892, 814
Coal and Iron in Belgium, 361
Coal in Italy, 728
Coal Tipping Device, 355
Coal and what we Get from it, 37
Coatbridge, Boiler Explosion at, 91
Cockatoo Graving Dock, New South Wake, 642
Cockerill Company in Belgium, 610
Coin-Counting Machine, 226
Colliery Pumps, Electrically Dtiven (Messrs. Scott and Mountain, Newcastle), 197
Colliery Winding Engine (Messrs. Thornewill and Warham), 414, 478. See LETTER, Winding Gear
Colorado, Seven Falls, 440
Colorado, Trip to, 403, 439, 474, 519 633, 563, 697, 6230 659, f 88, 717, 746, 807
Colour Blindness, 297
Colour Vision, Topical Visual Sensitiveness, 447 Colours in Newton's Scale, Spectra of Various Orders of, 762
Columbia River, 687, 683

Columbian Exposition of 1893 :

Administration Building, 801
Agricultural Building, SO2
Bradford arid the Exposition, 54
Bristol and the Exposition, 299
British Official View, 459
British Section, Prospects, 641
Cabot Memorial, 299
Clipping Bureau, 801
Columbus Celebration at Huelva and New York, 485
Columbus Fleet (Santa Maria), 180
Communication in Exhibition Grounds, 7C6
Cost of Exhibiting, 328
Doulton's Exhibit, 675
Dredge, Mr. James, on the Exhibition, 764, 801, 830
Electricity Building, 351, 478, 750, E02, 811
Electric Launches, 766
Executive Staff, 765
Finances of the Chicago Exposition, 179
Fine Art Galleries, 831
Fisheries Buildings, 229, 26 ', 294, 321, 880, S31
Fleet of Columbus, 180
Freight Charges for Exhibits, 328
Government Building, 12, 46, 73, 137, 198, 833
Growth of International Commerce, 578
Horticultural Buildings, 604, 631, 661, 831
Japanese for the World's Fair, 498
Krupp at Chicago Exposition, 511
Liberal Arts Building, 166, 351, 537, 832
Lighting Auditorium Building, 667
Machinery Hall, 95, 228
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, 166, 351, 537, 832
Materials of Construction, 801
Mines and Mining Building, 802
Naval Exhibit, 478
Norwegian Viking Ship, 417
Paper read at British Association 1 y Mr. James
Dredge and Mr. R. S. M'Cormick, 193, 213
Plan of Buildings, 765
Pricing Goods, 17, 95
Progress in Constructing Buildings, 95, 229, 244, 351, 478, 537, 604, 765, 801, 830
Publicity, Department of, £01
Railroads to Exhibition Grounds, 765
Report to Royal Commission on Visit made, June, 1892, by the Secretary, 244
" Santa Maria," Columbus' Caravel, 180
Specifications for Iron Works, 198
Steamers to Exhibition Grounds, 765
Telescope, 45-In. Refracting, 584
Tower, 819
Transport Rates for Exhibits, 328
Transportation Building, 351, 694, 731, 830
U.S. Patent Office Exhibit, 45
Warship Model Exhibit, 478
Water Railway, 766
Water Ways to Chicago, 364
Women's Building, 832

Columbus Celebration at Huelva and New York, 485
Columbus Fleet (" Santa Maria"), 180
Combustion of Sewage, 430. See also 193, 369
Comets and Meteors, A Plea, 822
Common, Dr., on a 6-Ft. Reflecting Telescope, 657, 688, 616, 646, 678
Communication in Chicago Exhibition Grounds, 766
Compass and Clinometer, Francis' Surveying, 168
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compounding of Engines (Dr. Kirk), 487. See LETTER, 509
Compressed Air v. Hydraulic Power (Lifting Appliances), 175. See also 147 and 276. See LETTER, 833
Compressed Air at Portsmouth Dockyard, 275
Concrete as Fireproof Flooring, 239
Concrete in Harbour Works, 266, 359, 456. See Erratum, 480
Condensation in Cylinders, 479
Condenser Tubes, Arrangement of, 762. See. LETTER, 827
Condition of Iron Trade of America, 81
Condition of Labour in Hungary, 116
Conduction, Secondary, 291
Conductivity of Films, The Specific, 314
Conductivity in the Magnetic Field, Electric, 314
Conduits, Underground Electric (Johnstone's System), 19
Congress, Trades Union, 359
Connelly Tramway Motor, 15
Construction of a 5-Ft. Equatorial Reflecting Telescope, 557, 588, 616, 646, 678
Continental Railway Sleeping Cars (Midland Car Ccmpany), e62
Contracts for French Naval Engines, Conditions of, 424
Contracts, Unreasonable, 233
Converted Marine Engines (Messrs. Richardson, Hartlepool), 446
Copper, Ehnore's Deposited, 635
Copper Pipe, Geddes' Flange, 414
Copper Plates, Shearing Machincs for, Russworth's, 306
Collies Engine with Non-Detaching Gear, 260
Corliss Gear, Pitchford and Garrat's, 355
Corner, Mr. J. T., on Lifting and Hauling Machinery at Portsmouth, 147, 276. See LETTER, 333
Cornu-le-Chatelier Pyrometer, 61
Corrugated Furnaces for Locomotives at Schulz- Knaudt's, 351
Cost of Earthworks in America, 301
Cost of Exhibiting at Chicago, 328
Costa Rica, The Republic, 342. See also 235, 267
Cotton Manufacturing Industries, 66
Cotton Spinning in America, 989
Countermining of Belfast Lougb, 300, 331
County Councillor's Directory, 471
Cowper's Tubeplate Protectors, 795
Cranes, Floating, 333
Crewe Water Supply, Halliday's Filters, 119
Cristoval Lake, 473
Crompton, Mr. R. E., on Electricity in the Navy, 135, 146, 1H. See LETTER, l70
Cruiser Apollo," Grounding of the, 517
Cruiser " Jean Bart," French First-Class, 44
Cruiser "Republica" and Armstrong Guns, Brazilian, 799
Cruisers " Indefatigable," " Intrepid," and
" Iphigenia " Engines (London and Glasgow Company), 134
Cruisers Launched 1892, 823
Cru sere " Pique," " Rainbow," and " Retribution," Engines (Palmer, Jarrow), 508, 687, 820
Crushing Diamondiferous Soil, 459
Culvert for Burn, Glasgow Central Railway, 104
Cunard Steamers, New, 299, 321, 391. See also 521
Currenc ti's Needle, 472
Current, Earth, Storms of 1892, 317
Current Motor, A, 196
Currents in the Ocean, 293
Curves, Resistance of Railway, 387
Cyclones, Anti-, in the Southern Hemisphere, 781
Cylinder, Condensation in, 479

Dam, Periyar Irrigation Works, 654, 689, 713 Dam, Vyrnwy, 759
Dams, Loose Rock, 332
Damage to H.M.S. " Apollo," 617
Damaged Steamer " Koh-i-Noor," 78
Damper Regulator, Mason's Steam, 278
Dangerous Structures, 443
Danish Cruiser " Gaiser" and Thornycroft Boiler, 789
Davit, A New Ship's (Sample's), 460. See LETTER, 479
Day System of Elevated Railroad Construction, 332
Deacon, Mr. G. F., on Shield Tunnelling in Loose Ground, 191, 212
Deadman, Mr. H. E., on Electricity in the Navy, 135, 146, 182. See LETTER, 170
Dean's Convertible Broad and Narrow Gauge Locomotive for Great Western Railway, 44
Decimal System, Our Anti-, 11, 49, 79
Deflection of Bridges, 729. See LETTERS, Loads on Rivets
Dell's Automatic Weighing Machine, 13
Demonstrating Curves of Electric Current Flow in Conductors under Different Conditions, 35
Denmark, State Railways in, 332, 674
Denmark, Trials of Reapers and Binders, 446
Derricks, Hydraulic, H.M S. " Vulcan," 629
Desdouit's Ds namometer and Railway Curves, 387
Destructors and Electric Light, Refuse, 193, 269, 430
Diagrams, Graphic Methods in Mechanical Science, 223
Diagrams of Metal Prices, 58, 180, 334, 960, 584, 734, 828
Diamond Mining. South African, 790
Diamond - Pointed Exploring Drills (Bullock Company, Chicago), 259
Diamondiferous Soil, Treatment, 459
Dickinson's Screw Propeller, 570. See LisrrEits, Propellers
Dielectric of Condensers, 317
Diffusion of Light, 762
Dimensions of Physical Quantities ; Relation to
Direction in Space, 619. See also 24 Dimensions of United States Naval Guns, 71
Dimensions of Warships, 52
Dioptric Lens, 255
Discharge Phenomena (Electrical) in Vacuum Tubes, 313
Dispersion in Double Refraction due to Electric Stress, 317
Disposal of London and Edinburgh Sewage, 258, 259, 306
Disposal of Sewage, 364
Distribution, Heat, in Engines, 669
Distribution and Transmission of Power in Modern Ships, 154, 181, 276
Dock, Pontoon (Clark and Standfleld), 630
Dock Pumps at Portsmouth Dockyard, 276
Docks, Graving, 642
Docks, New Schemes, 702
Dockyard, Portsmouth, 168. See also 145, 152
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., on Locomotive Boiler Experiments, 501
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, Jun., Steam Boiler Experiments, 115. See LETTBRS. Boilers, French
Doors in Bulkheads, 333
Dougall's Belt Clamp, 118
Doulton's Exhibit for World's Fair, 675
Dredge, Mr. James, on the Chicago Exhibition, 764, 801, 830
Dredge, Mr. James, and McCormick, Mr. R. S., on Columbian Exposition, 193, 213
Dredger, F loating Elevator Transformed into (Mr. A. F. Smulder), 241
Dredger " Jupiter," Suction Pump (Messrs. Simons, Renfrew), 414
Dredger, Ladder, for Cleansing Canals (Stothert and Pitt), 492
Driggs-Schroeder Rapid-Firing Gun, 503, 636. See also 566
Drill, Radial (Britannia Company, Colchester), 460
Drill, Sensitive (Britannia Company, Colchester), 331
Drill, Siemens Electrical, 250
Drills, Diamond - Point( d Exploring (Bullock Company, Chicago), 259
Drills, Rock, for Ironstone Mining, 653
Drilling and Boring Machine (Newark Company, New Jersey), 736
Drilling and Boring Machine (Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Glasgow), 148
Dublin Electric Lighting Station, 301. See Erratum, 333
Dublin University Centenary, 87
Duplex Lathe (Hulse and Co)., 601
Dynamite Guns, Pneumatic, Model 1890, 3, 37
Dynamo and Engine, H.M.S. " Rupert" (Latimer Clark, Muirhead, and Co.), 107
Dynamo for Series Lighting (Greenwood and Batley, Limited), 493
Dynamo, Siemens, H. B., Direct Coupled Set, 311
Dynamo, Siemens Direct Current, 1867, 281
Dynamo F. See Siemens .electrical Apparatus Dynamos, Electric Transmission at Faria Miner, 4' 7
Dynamometer, Captain DeEdouit's, 387
Dynamometer, Siemens Astatic Potential, 218

Eardley-Wilmot, Captain, on Dimensions cf Warships, 52
Earn Viaduct, Renewing, 366. See also 291
Earnings of Labour and Cost of Living in C u icago, 65
Earth Current Storms of 1892, 317
Earthquakcs, Seismological Phenomena in Japan, 290
Earthwork in America, Cost of, 301
East Elliot Pit, Winding Engine (Thornewill and Warham), 414, 478. See LS1TERS, Winding Gear
Eastern Extension, Cable Compan3 '13 Operations, 702
Eastleigh Railway Carriage and Wagon Works (London and South-Western Railway Company), 130, 178
Eastney Sewage Works and Cumberland Fort, 176
" Eclair," French Torpedo Boat (Forges et Chantiers), 166. See also 201
Eddy at Chicken Rock, Curious, 49
Eddy, Mr., and New South Wales Railways, 357, 489, 516, 575
Edinburgh Sanitation, 259
Edinburgh Terminal Station, Caledonian Railway, 424
Edison Lamp Patent in America, 580
Education, Superficial Science and Art, 327
Educational Books, 222
Edwards' Valve Gear, 817
Efficiency of Fuel, 27, 61
Egypt, Patents in, 721
Egyptian Irrigation Works, 118
Eight Hours and other Labour Schemes, 173
Eight-Wheeled Coupled Locomotive for Mineral
Traffic, London and North-Western Railway,
760
Electric Accumulators, 471
Electric Bells, Indicator Board with Electrical
Re Setting Device, 250
Electric C ark s, 218
Electric Conductivity in the Magnetic Field, 314
Electric Discharges, Photographs of, 316
Electric Installation, Billiter Buildings, London,
381
Electric Lamp Patent in America, Edison, 680
Electric Laut;ches at Chic ago Exhibition, 766
Electric Light, The Advance of the, 423, 442
Electric Light and Gas, 651
Electric Light Installation at People's Palace,
606
Electric Light at Nottingham, 731
Electric Light Signalling Balloon, 75
Electric Lighting at Cambridge (Pardons, New-
castle), 570. See LErrPRs, Turbines
Electric Lightir g at Old America Exhibition,
Manchester (Siemens), 602
Electric Lighting Schemes, New, 702
Electric Lighting Station, Dublin, 301. See
Erratum, 333
Electric Locomotive, 195, 226, 245
Electric and Magnet Fields Experiments, 709
Electric Railway Schemes, New, 701
Electric Railway Signalling System, 365, 637, 639
Electric Supply, The Cost of, 607
Electric Supply Meter, Siemcns, 167
Electric Tram Rails, Brain Closed Circuit System
for, 239, 329
Electric Tramway System, Wynne's, 641
Electric Tramway Traction by Storage Bat-
teries, 489
Electric Tramways, 773
Electric Transmission at the Mines of Faria, 437
Electric Welding and Soldering, 376. See Errata,
417
Electrical Apparatus. See Siemens Electrical
Apparatus.
Electrical Appliances in Navy, 170
Electrical Discharges, 313
Electrical Fngineers, h e Instil ut ion of: The Conbtitution of the Council, 609. See albo 612
Dinner, 667
Electrical Engineering as a Profession (See LITERATURE), 222
Electrical Exhibition (Crystal Palace): Agitator (Electrolyte), London Metallurgical Company, 19
Conduits, Underground, Johnstone's System, 19
Kent Arc Lamp, 19
Siemens Exhibits, 19. See ,Siemens Electrical Apparatus
Welding (Messrs. Lloyd and Lloyd), 19
Electrical Indicator for Sewage Works, 176, 336
Electrical Resistance, Wire Standards of, 317
Electrical Sparks and Resistance, 290
Electrical Standards, Board of Trade, 316, 727, 732
Electrical Underground Railway in Berlin, 30
Electrical Welding (bleEsrs. Llo% d and Lloyd), 19
Electrically Driven Pumps at North Seaton Col-
liery (Scott and Mountain, Newcastle), 97
Electricity, 442
Electricity Building, Chicago Exhibition, 351, 478, 750, 802, 814
Electricity, Measurement cf the Internal Resistance of Cells, 23
Electricity from Mountain Streams, 269
Electricity in the Royal Dockyards and the Navy, 135, 146, 182. See LErricR, 170
Electricity in Sweden, 207
Electro-Magnet, 442
Electrolyte Agitator, London Metallurgical Company, 19
Electrolytic Synthesis, 316
Elephant Boilers, French or, 148, 170, 262
Elephant or French Boilers (Mr. Donkin afid Professor Kennedy), 116. See LEneRs. Elevated Railroad Construction, Day Sy steth, 332
Elevated Railroads at New York, 790
Elevator, Floating, Transformed into Dredger (Mr. A. F. Smulder), 241
Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 412, 462
Elliptical Boring Machine (Messrs. G. and A. Harvey, Glasgow), 748
Elmore's Deposited Copper, 635
Embankment, Periyar Irrigation Works, 651, 689, 713
Enfield Works, 703
Engine, Brayton Petroleum, 89
Engine, Compound Traction (Messrs. Aveling
and Porter, Rochester), 13
Engine, Corliss, with Non-Detaching Gear, 2e,0
Engine, Fire, Competition at Havre, 262, 303, 333, 385
Engine, Gas, Igniting Tubes, 720
Engine, Gas and Steam, Chatterton (Milling Exhibition), 55
Engine, Griffin Oil, 585
Engine, Oil, Priestman, from American Point of View, 105
Engine, Oil, " Trusty " (Weymaa and Hitchcock), 707
Engine, Rolling Mill (Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co.), 134
Engine, Steam, and Dynamo, H.M.S. " Rupert," 197
Engine, Steam, Professor Thurston's Manual to the, 282
Engine, 1600 Indicated Horse-Power Tandem Mill (Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.), 662
Engine, Traction (Ransomer, Sims, and Jefferies), 40
Engine, Winding, for Colliery (Thornewill and Warham), 414, 418. See Lamm
Engines, Compound Paddle, of the Steamer
" Glen Sannox (Thomson, Clydebank), 372
Engines, Converted Marine (Richardson, Hartlepool), 446
Engines, Diag3nal " Lord of the Isles " (Messrs. Henderson, Glasgow), 26, 76
Engines, French Marine (Forges et Chantiers),
262. See Erratum, 325
Engines, French Naval, Conditions of Contract, 424
Engines, Gas (Brewers' Exhibition), 648
Engines, Heat Distribution in, 659
Engines, Naphtha, of Aluminium Yacht " Mignon " (Escher-Wyss), 320
Engines, Oil, for Fog Signalling, 265
Engines, Pumping, for Hydraulic Mining, New
South Wales (Austral-Otis Company), 478
Engines, Pumping, for Sewage Works, 176, 336 Engines, Quadruple-Expansion Mill (Musgrave,
Limited, Bolton), 543
Engines at Smithfield Show, 729
Engines, Steam Jacketed, 649, 556, 667, 736, 766, 797. See LETTER.s, Steam Jacket8
Engines, Triple - Expansion, Brazilian Twin-Screw Steamers " Itaoca " and " Itaipu " (Thomson, Clydebank), 696
Engines, Triple-Expansion (Dr. Kirk), 487. See LETTER, 609
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of H. M. Battle-Ship " Ramillies" (Thomson, Clydebank). 197, 412
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of H.M.SS " Indefatigable," " Intrepid," and " Iphigenia" (London and Glasgow Company), 134
Engines, Triple Expansion, H.M.SS. "Pique," " Rainbow," and "Retribution " (Palmer, Jarrow), 508, 587, 620
Engine3, Triple-Expansion, of S.S. " Lovart " (Messrs. Ross and Duncan, Govan), 816
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of Yacht " Princeese Alice" (Penn), 780
Engineering in China, 234
Engineering Telegraph Code, 442
Engineering, Three Aspects of (Science, Art, Business), 111
Engineers, Amalgamated Society of, 388
Engineers, American Naval, 17. See Lsrms, Engine-Boom Complements
Engineers in India, 262, 354, 631. See also 703
Engineers, Naval, The Position of, 82
Engineers, Naval, Training (Greenwich), 40
Engineers in the Navy. See .Naval Engine-Room Complements
Engineers in the Navy. See Unification, 705, 720, 793, 827
Engineers, Wages of British Sea-Going, 23
English Commercial Enterprise Abroad, 641, 721, 761, 794
Escher-Wyss Aluminium Naphtha Yacht "Mig-non," 320
Ether Pressure Theory, 361, 465. 514, 648
"Etruria," Fast Steaming, 125, 148, 180, 325. See 521
European Canals, 639
Everett, Washington, 746, 754
Ewing, Professor, on Tests of Turbine and Superheated Steam, 570. See Unitas, Turbines
Excavating in Quicksand, 23
Excursion Routes in America, 87
Executive Staff, Chicago Exhibition, 765
Exhibition, Brewers', 548
Exhibition, Chicago. See Columbian Exposition
Exhibition, Milling, 55
Expansion of Long Rails, 703
Experiments with a High-Tension Alternating Current (Siemens), 343
Experiments, Steam Boiler, Great Eastern Railway Locomotive (Mr. B. Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy), 501
Exploring Ship, Arctic, 612
Explosion, Boiler, at Manchester Ship Canal, 781
Explosions. See Boiler Explosions
Explosions, Boiler, and the Board of Trade, 821
Explosions, Gaseous, 346

Factories, Gun (American), 377, 405
Faesch and Piccard Turbines for Niagara Utilisation, 787
Failure of a Bridge at Stratbglass, Inverness,
329, 364. See LETTERS, Bridge Failure Failure of Chilled Iron Rolf, 410, 524. See
LETTISR8
Fairfield Company, New Cunard Steamers, 298, 321, 394. See also 521
Fairfield Company, Thames Passenger Stcamer " Koh-i-Noor," 78
Faraday (Royal Institution), 113
Fares, Second•Class Railway Passengers', 699
Faria Mines, Electric Transmission at, 437
Farms, Sewage, 258, 25), 306
Farmer, The Late Mr. John Stinson, 780
Fay and Co.'s Yard, Southampton, 178
Feed HeaterP, &c., Manchester Steam Users' Association, 44
Ferro-Tungsten Alloys, 826
Ferrule for Navy Boilers, 195
Ferrules. See Cowper's Tubeplate Protector, 705
Ferry Steamer at Portsmouth (Floating Bridge), 176, 463
Films, The Specific Conductivity of Thin, 314
Filters for London and North-Western Railway Works, Crewe, Halliday's, 119
Finances of the Chicago Exhibition, 179
Fire Engine Competition at Havre, 262, 303, 333, 385
Fire Engine, Siemens Electrical, 251
Fire Extinction on Board Ship, 259
Fireboxes, Steel, in Locomotive, 421
Firemen and " Iona," Marine, 681
Firemen, Marine, 647. See Lismits
Fireproof Flooring, 239
Firing Trials of 3.94-In. Canet Quick-Firing Gun, 517
Firing Trials of U.S. 6-In. Naval Gun, 130
Fisheries Building, Chicago Exhibition, 229, 260, 294, 321, 380, 831
Flame, Hydrogen, in Safety Lamps, 347
Flames, Experiments on, 347
Flames, Hydro-Carbon, Luminosity of, 346
Flange for Copper Pipes, Geddes', 414
Flanging Flues and Boiler Ends at Schulz-Knaudt's, 351
Fleet of Columbus, 180
Flexible, Metallic Tubing, 197
Floating Bridge at Portsmouth, 176, 463
Floating Cranes, 333
Floating Elevator Transformed into Dredger (Mr. A. F. Smulder), 241
Floods and Sluices, 827
Flooring, Fireproof, 239
Flow of Water in Pipes, 239. See LETTERS
Fog Signalling, Marine, 255
Forced Draught and Marine Boilers, 608, 544, 581, 682, 613, 634, 635, 663, 704, 705, 760, 761, 793
Foreign Trade, British and other National, 678
Forges et Chantiers Torpedo Boat Engines, 262. See Erratum, 225
Forges et Chantiers Torpedo Boats, 166, 201
Formosa and its Railways, 20
Fort Wrangel, Alaska, 754
Forth and Clyde Ship Canal, Proposed, 195
Foundations, Levelling Subaqueous, 369
Francis Surveying Compass and Clinometer, 168
Freight Charges for Exhibits for Chicago, 328
Freights, 457
French or Elephant Boilers, 148, 170, 282
French or Elephant Boilers (Mr. Donkin and Professor Kennedy), 115. See LETTERS
French First-Class Cruiser " Jean Bart," 44
French Marine Engines (Forges et Chantiers), 262. See Erratum, 325
French Naval Machinery Contract Conditions, 424
French Navy, Quick-Firing Guns in, 204
French Steam Navigation, 269
French Torpedo Boats (Forges et Chantiers), 166, 201
Friction Clutch (idoore and KOrte), 118
Friction Clutch, Stevenson's, 795
Fritz John, 540
Froude, Mr. R. E., on Haslar Experimental Works, 176
Fryer, The Late Mr. Alfred, 780
Fuel Economy, 256
Fuel and its Efficiency, 27, 61
Furnace Combustion, 256
Furnace Company, Monongahela, McKeesport,
Penn., Plant of the, 140
Furnace Temperature Recorder, 390

"Gabriel Charmes," French Torpedo Boat (Forges et Chantiers), 201. See also 166
Gais and St. Gall Mountain Road Railway, Switzerland, 741, 805
Galvanic Battery, Sources of Heat Generated in, 314
Garbage Disposal, 37, 193, 369, 430
Gas Burneri, Results from, 142
Gas Coal, Petroleum as an Enricher of, 81
Gas Companies, 442
Gas and Electric Light in European Cities, 551
Gas Engine Igniting Tubes, 720
Gas Engines at the Brewers' Exhibition, 648
Gaseous Explosions, 346
Gas Lighting, Centenary of, 142
Gas, Oxygen, 721
Gas and Steam Engine, Chatterton (Milling Exhibition), 55
Gasholder Construction, Difficulties in, 29
Gatling Gun, United States, 443
Gauge Glasses, Scholt and Gens New Composite, 730
Gauges of Indian Railways, 421
Geddes Flange for Copper Pipes, 414
Generating Electricity by Hydraulic Power, 269
Geneva, Bailer Explosion on Lake, 206
German Railway Accidents, 459
"Germanic" and " Britannic" Refrigerating Machinery (Hall's), 58. See LETTERS, Refrigerating Machine
Germany, Iron and Iron Ore in, 116
"Ghelendjick," Russian Torpedo Boat (Forges et
Chantiers), 201
Gilbert's " De Magnete," 790
Girder Construction, 471
Girders, Measurement of Strains in Bridge, 521
Glaciers in Alaska, 774
Glasgow. See Notei from, the North
Glasgow, Boiler Explosion at, 91

Glasgow Central Railway :

Bridges, 163, 218
Culvert for Burn, 104
Kelvinside Section, 8
Stobcross Section, 8
Timbering Tunnels, ate., 7
Tunnelling, 7
Underground Stations, 70, 104
Underpinning, 7

Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company's Paddle Steamer " Glen Sannox" (Thomson, Clydebank, 372
"Glen Sannox," Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company's Steamer (Thomson, Clydebank), 372
Glenury Viaduct, Renewing, 291, 366
Glenwood Springs, 552
Government Building, Chicago Exhibition, 12, 46, 73, 137, 198, 832
Governmental Council of Labour, 23
Grand Trunk Railway, Doubling, 610
Granger's Steam Nozzle Ventilator, 334
Granolithic Fireproof Flooring, '239
Graphic Methods in Mechanical Science, 223
Gratings, Polarising, 317
Graving Docks, 642
Gravity Return Carriage ; United States Naval
Guns, 130, 189
Great Eastern Railway Locomotive Boiler Experiments ; Mr. B. Donkin, Jun., and Profesor Kennedy, 50
Great Western Railway Convertible Broad and
Narrow Gauge Locomotive, 44
Greathead, Mr., on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, 390
Green's Economisers ; Steam Boiler Experiments, 115. See Unitas, Boiler8, French Greenwich Naval Engineer Training, 40 Greenwood and Batley's Dynamo for Series Lighting, 493
Griffin Oil Engine, 586
Grinding Machine for Mirror of Telescope, 557. See also 588, 616, 646, 678
Groeningen, Physical Laboratory at, 316
Growth of International Commerce, 578
Guatemala Central Railway, 268. See also 235, 267, 365
Gun Construction in the United States ; Present Position, 147
Gun Manufacture in Sweden, 49
Guns. See Artillery, Modern United States Guns, Naval, 478
Guns, Quick-Firing, in French Navy, 204
Gunnery and Ordnance, A Course of Instruction in, 249

Hadfield, Mr. R. A., and Alloys of Iron and Chromium, 399, 409, 433, 465, 495
Halifax Graving Dock, Nova Scotia, 642
Halliday's Filters for London and North-Western
Railway Works, Crewe, 119
Hall's Refrigerating Machinery in " Britannic" and " Germanic," 58. See LETTERS, Refrigerating Machine
Halsted Observatory, Spectroscope, 101
Hammer, Steam, at Schulz-Knaudt's, 291
Hammers, Steam, 613
Harbour Schemes, New, 702
Harbour Works, Concrete in, 266, 359, 456. See Erratum, 480
Harris, Mr. H. G., on Floating Bridge at Portsmouth, 176, 463
Harvey Carbonising Process, 116
Harvey's Elliptical Boring Machine, 748
Haslar Experimental Works, 176
Hauling and Lifting Machinery at Portsmouth, 147, 176, 275. See LETTER, 333, 175
Hayward Tyler and Co.'s Rolling Mill Engine, 134
Heat Distribution in Engines, 659
Hedges, Mr. Killingworth, on Anti - Friction Materials, 226, 274, 696
Hele-Shaw, Professor, on Graphic Methods, 223
Henderson and Co. Steamer " Lord of the Isles," 26, 76
H.M.S. " Vulcan," 629
H.M.SS. " Indefatigable," " Iphigenia," and " Intrepid ' (London and Glasgow Company), 134
H.M.SS. "Pique," " Rainbow," " Retribution " (Palmer, Jarrow), 608, 587. 620
H.M.SS. " Royal Oak " and " Revenge," 612
Hertz Researches on Electro-Magnetic R2diation, Polarising Gratings, 317
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 1630 indicated Horse•
Power Tandem Mill Engine, 662
High-Tension Alternating Current, Experiment with a (Siemens), 343
Hill Climbing Motor, 610
Historical Machines (Siemens), 281
Holder Construction, Difficulties in Gas-, 29
Holland, Labour in, 298
Holle, Mr., on the Berlin Electrical Underground Railway, 30
Holtzapffel's Lathe for Rose Turning, 227
Homestead Strike, Carnegie ; Labour Troubles in America, 141. See also 265
Honduras Interoceanic Railway, 343. See also 235, 267
Horticultural Buildings, Chicago Exposition, 604, 631, 664, 831
Hotchkiss Quick-Firing Gun, Driggs-Schroeder, 603, 636, 666
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, 443
Howe Truss, Timber, 446. See also 382
Hulse and Co.'s Duplex Lathe, 601
Hungary, Condition of Labour in, 116
Hungary, Miners in, 179
Hydraulic Canal Lift (Prtissmann's), 480, 601
Hydraulic v. Compressed Air Power (Lifting Appliances), 175. See also 147, 275. See LETTER, 333
Hydraulic Derricks, H.M.S. "Vulcan," 6:9
Hydraulic Machinery, 723
Hydraulic Mining, Pumping Engine for, New
South Wales (Austral-Otis Company), 478
Hydraulic Power for Generating Electricity, 269
Hydraulic Ram, 197. See LETTERS, 231
Hydraulics, Flow of Water in Pipes, 239. See LETTERS
Hydrocarbon Flames, Luminosity of, 346
Hydrogen Flame in Safety Lamps, 347

I'Anson, Mr. J. C., on Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 663
Illumination, Density does not affect Absorption, 317
Imports and Exports of Colonies per Head of Population, 188
Impurities of Town Air, 347
Incandescent Lamp Patent in America, 580
Inclined Railway, Bridgnorth, 87
" Indefatigable," " Intrepid," and " Iphigenia," Cruisers (London and Glasgow Company), 134
"Independencia," Argentine Armour-Clad Ram, 648
Index to Engineering Literature, 269
India, Engineers in, 4, 25, 262
Indian Canals and Reservoirs, 485
Indian Public Works Department, 262, 354, 637 See also 703
Indian Railway' Gauges, 421
Indicator Board for Bells with Siemens Electrical Re-Setting Device, 250
Induction, Telegraphy by, 674
Inducto-Script, 316. See Erratum, 370
Industrial Notes, 26, 69, 89, 119, 150, 181, 211, 241, 273, 305, 335, 368, 395, 429, 461, 493, 523, 655, 585, 615, 646, 677, 707, 735, 763, 795, 829
Industrial Progress of Canada, 23
Influence Machine, The Theory of the Perfect, 314
Inspiration, The Source of (Brassey's Annual),49
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers, Institution of
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers, institution of
Institution of Naval Architects. See Naval Architects, institution of
Intermittent Currents, Visible Representations of, 35
International Commerce, The Growth of, 578
Interoceanic Railways of Central America. See Railways
" Intrepid," British Cruiser (London and Glasgow Company), 134
Inventors' Rights, 233
Inverness Bridge Failure, 329, 364. See Licrrins, Bridge Failure
" Iona," Marine Firemen of, 581
" Iphigenia," British Cruiser (London and Glasgow Company), 334
Irish Industrial Progress, 332
Irish Shipping, 332
Iron Alloys, 346
Iron and Chromium, Alloys of, 399, 409, 433, 465, 495
Iron and Coal in Belgium, 361
Iron Construction in New York City, 208
Iron, Elimination of Sulphur from, 412, 462
Iron Industry of Spain, 700
Iron and Iron Ore in Germany, 116
Iron Ore in Italy, 728
Iron and Ores in Sweden, 703, 791
Iron, The Reduction of, 580
Iron Rolls, Failure of Chilled, 410, 524. See LrivrErt, 544
Iron Shipbuilders and Boilermakers' Society, 486. See also 515
Iron, Siemens Apparatus for Testing Magnetic Qualities of, 312
Iron and Steel, Analysis of, International Standards, 347

Iron raid Steel Institute :

Notes on Fuel and its Efficiency, by Mr. B. H.
Thwaite, 27, 61
Liverpool Meeting—
On the Manufacture of Iron in its Relation with Agriculture, by Sir Lowthian Bell, 390. See Letter, 426
On an Apparatus for Autographically Recording the Temperature of Furnaces, by Professor Roberts-Austen, 390
On the Liverpool Overhead Railway, by Mr. J. H. Greathead, 390
Alloys of Iron and Chromium, by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 399, 409, 433, 465, 495
Failures in the Necks of Chilled Rolls, by Mr. Charles A. Winder, 410, 524. See LEITERS
The University College Walker Engineering
Laboratory and the Scheme of Engineering
Instruction, by Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw, 412
On a New Process for the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, by Mr.Saniter, 412, 462
On the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, by Mr. J. E. Stead, 412

Iron and Steel Production in Scotland, 621
Iron and Steel, Rolled, Sections, 827
Iron and Steel in Sweden, 703, 791
Iron Test Bars, Cast, 117, 147, 231
Iron Trade, American, 81
Iron Trade, British Finished, 824
Iron and Tungsten Alloy, 826
Ironfounders' Society, 638
Ironstone Mining in Cleveland, 653
Irrigation, b8
Irrigation in India, 485
Irrigation in New South Wales, 362
Irrigation, Sewage, 258, 259, 306
Irrigation Works, Egyptian, 118
Irrigation Works, Periyar, 664, 689, 713
Isla Viaduct, Renewing, 366. See also 291
Italy, Labour in, 608
Italy, Minerals, Industries, 728
" Itaoca" and " Itaipu." Brazilian Twin-Screw Steamers (Thomson, Clydebank), 696

Jackets, Steam, 649, 556, 567, 736, 766, 797. See Lsrms
Japan, Seismological Phenomena, 290
" Jean Bart," First-Class Cruiser, French, 41
Johnstone's Underground Electric Conduits, 19
Joinery, Book on Manual Instruction, 222
July Weather, 174
June Weather, 63
Juneau, Capital of Alaska, 764
" Jupiter," Suction Pump Dredger (Messrs. Simone, Renfrew), 414
" Kabyle," French Torpedo Boat (Forges et Chantiers), 166. See also 201

Kapp, Mr. Gisbert, on Power Transmission, 225
Kelvinside Section, Glasgow Central Railway, 8
Kennedy, Professor, on Steam Boiler Experiments, 116, 601. See LETTERS, Boilers, French Kent Arc Lamp, 19
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Stability of Periodic Motion, 313
Kirk, Dr. A. C., on Tests of Navy Boilers, 78, 333
Kirk, The Late Dr. Alexander C., 469, 487. See LETTER, 609
"Koh-i-Noor," Thames Passenger Steamer (Fairfield Company), 78
Krupp v. Canet Guns in French Navy, 204
Krupp at Chicago Exhibition, 641
Krupp v. other Quick-Firing Guns, 421, 438. See also 790

Laboratory at Groeningen, Physical, 316
Laboratory, National Physical, 316
Laboratories, Walker, Liverpool, 412
Labour in Austria, 360
Labour in Belgium, 467
Labour Exchange, Brussels, 488
Labour, Governmental Council of, 23
Labour in Holland, 298
Labour in Hungary, Condition of, 116
Labour in Italy, 608
Labour Movement, A New (Apprentice Question), 515. See LETTERS.
Labour in Parliament, 173
Labour Programme, Mr. Chamberlain's, 577
Labour Questions. See Industrial Notes.
Labour, Remuneration of, in Chicago, 55
Labour in Switzerland, Condition of, 327
Labour Troubles in America (Carnegie Strike), 141, 265
Ladder Dredger for Cleansing Canals (Stothert and Pitt), 492
Lamp, Kent Arc, 19
Land Reclamation from the Sea at Brittany, 610
Lathe, Capstan (Mr. W. H. Astbury, Grantham), 273
Lathe, Combination (Messrs. Lister), 308
Lathe, Duplex (Hulse and Co.), 601
Lathe for Rose Turning, Holtzapffel, 227
Latimer Clark, Muirhead, and Co., Dynamo (H.M.S. " Rupert"), 107
Launch of Pontoon Dock (Messrs. Clark and Stand field), 730
Launches at Chicago Exhibition, Electric, 766
Launches and Trial Trips, 32, 60, 92, 122, 148, 180, 209, 272, 303, 321, 355, 381, 425, 447, 482, 609, 541, 575, 601, 682, 696, 734. 749, 781, 816
Leaky Magnetic Circuits, 290
Leaky Tubes. See Forced Draught.
Leduc, Dr., and the Atomic Weight of Oxygen, 465, 644, 648
Leigh, Boiler Explosion at, 709
Leland Stanford University, &c., California, 598, 599
Lemon, Mr. James, on the New Royal Pier at Southampton, 176, 307
Lens, Lighthouse, 265
Lesseps, De, and Panama Canal, 669
Lever Motion Stone Breaker (Messrs. Mason, Leicester), 675
Liberal Arts Building, Chicago Exhibition, 166, 361, 537, 832
" Libertad," Argentine Armour-Clad Ram, 648
Life-Saving Deck Seats, " Lord of the Isles," 26. See also 76
Lift, Prttssmann's Hydraulic Canal, 480, 601
Lifting and Hauling Machinery at Portsmouth, 147, 175, 275. See LEI TER, 333
Light, Diffusion of, 762
Light, Electric, at Nottingham, 731
Lighthouse Lens, 255
Lighting Auditorium Building, Chicago Exhibition, 667
Lighting, Electric, at Old America Exhibition, Manchester (Siemens), 602
Lighting, Electric, Billiter Buildings, London, 381
Lighting, Electric, at Cambridge (Parsons, Newcastle), 5i0. See LETTERS, Turbines
Lighting, Electric, in the Navy, 135, 146, 182. See LETTER, 170
Lighting, Electric, Provisional Orders, 423, 442
Lighting, Series, Dynamo for (Greenwood and Batley, Limited), 493
Lighting Station, Dublin Electric, 301. See Erratum, 333
Lightning Conductors, 223
Linde British Refrigerating Company, Limited, 170
Linde, Refrigerating Machinery Tests, 66. See LErrEas, Refrigerating Machines
Liquid, Bubbles in, 316
Liquid Measure, 97
Liquids, Thermal Conductivity, 316
Lister's Combination Lathe, 308
Lister's Shaping Machine (Keighley), 645 Literature, 1, 37, 67, 97, 125, 187, 222, 249, 282, 376, 442, 471, 772, 809
Literature, Index to Current Engineering, 269 Liverpool, Boiler Explosion at, 170, 076 Liverpool Overhead Railway, 390
Liverpool Water Works at Vyrnwy, 769
Loads on Rivets, 793
Lobley, Mr. J. Logan, on the London Water Supply, 187
Lock and Block Signalling (Sykes), 639. See also 365, 537
Locomotive, Abt, Brienz and Rothhorn Rack Railway, 693, 626
Locomotive, Barry Railway (Vulcan Company, Newton-le-Willows), 692
Locomotive Boiler Experiments (Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy), 501
Locomotive Boilers, Corrugated Flues (Schulz-Knaudt's), 361
Locomotive, Eight-Wheeled Coupled, for Mineral Traffic (London and North-Western Railway), 780
Locomotive, Electric, 226
Locomotive Fireboxes, Steel in, 421
Locomotive, How it is Propelled, 49
Locomotive, Passenger, for the St. Petersburg and Warsaw Railway, 260, 320. See Erratum, 870
Locomotive Propulsion (Angle of Crank for Maximum Velocity of Pistons), 83
Locomotive for Swiss Mountain Railway, 805. See also 741
Locomotives. See also Traction Engines Locomotives, Electric, 195, 246
Locomotives for Great Western Railway, Convertible Broad and Narrow Gauge, 44
Locomotives on New South Wales Railways, 357, 489, 676, 616
Loewe and Company's Milling Machine, 656
Logging Camp, 746
London Cable Tramway, 731
London and Edinburgh Sewage, 258, 259, 306
London and Glasgow Company's Engines of H.M.SS. " Indefatigable," " Intrepid," and Iphigenia," 134
London and North-Western Railway Eight-Wheeled Coupled Locomotive for Mineral Traffic, 780

London Societies :

Royal Institution, 113, 206, 238, 716, 777, 825. See also 826
London and South-Western Railway Company's Carriage Works, Eastleigh, 130, 178
London Street Improvements, 702
London Streets, Paving of, 188. See 112, 143
London Tower Bridge, 380
London Water Companies' Legal Position, 611
London Water Supply, 187
London Water Supply Commission, 482, 522, 551, 611, 634, 708, 780
Long Island and Milford Haven, 392. See 724
"Lord of the Isles," Clyde Passenger Steamer (Messrs. Henderson, Glasgow), 26, 76
"Lovart," Triple-Expansion Engines of (Messrs. Ross and Duncan, Govan), 816
"Lucania," New Cunarder, 228, 321, 394. See also 521

M'Cormick, Mr. R. S., and Dredge, Mr. J., on Columbian Exposition, 193, 213
McGregor's Stern-Wheel Steamer for Argentine Government (Messrs. Bow, McLachlan, and Co.), 748
Machine Guns, 443
Machinery Hall, Chicago Exhibition, 95, 228
Machinery Taxation of, 513, 645, 5S2, 612
Mackenzie, Mr. A. T., on Periyar Irrigation
Works, 654, 689, 713
Magazine Rifles, English, 703
Maginnis, Mr. Arthur J., Book on Atlantic Ferry, 125. See Atlantic Record.
"Magnete, De," Gilbert's, 790
Magnetic Apparatus for Testing Iron, Siemens, 312
Magnetic Circuits, Leaky, 290
Magnetic Curve Instruments, 316
Magnetic Field, Electric Conductivity, 314
Magnetic Fields, Electric Experiments, 709
Magnetisation, Volume Effects of, 317
Magnetism, 442
Magnetism v. Electricity, 810
Mahler Calorimeter, 27, 61
Manchester Sanitation, 419
Manchester Sewage Disposal, 351

Manchester Ship Canal:

Boiler Explosion, 781
Commercial Prospects, 584
Contracts, 17
Coping of Docks (Letter), 201
Corporation Indebtedness, 385. See also
Finance
Finances, 75, 174, 299, 334, 684, 644. See LETTER, 201
Oldham Town Council and the Finances, 614
Progress, 174, 299, 334
Salford Corporation, 613, 584

Manchester Ship Canal, Coping for Docks, 201
Manchester Steam Users' Association, 44
Manchester, Technical Education in, 611
Manganese Alloys, 346
Maniton, City of, 441
Manning American Warships, 17
Manufacture of Small Arms, 703
Manufacture of a United States 8-In. Breechloading Steel Rifle at Watervliet, 377
Manufactures in Canada, 23
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Chicago Exhibition, 166, 351, 537, 832
Marey, Professor, and Photography of Moving Objects, 55
Marine Boilers. See Boilers
Marine Engineering in 'United Kingdom, 189?, 791, 814
Marine Engines. See Engines
Marine Firemen, 547. See LETTERS, Firemen
Mason's Lever Motion Scone-Breaker, 676
Mason's Pivoted Side Lights, 210
Mason's Steam Damper Regulator, 278
Materials of Construction, Chicago Exhibition, 801
Mayer, Robert Julius von, 758
Measurement of the Internal Resistance of Cells, 23
Measurement of Strains in Bridge Members, 521

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:

Electricity in the Royal Dockyards and the Navy, by Mr. H. E. Deadman, 135, 146, 182. See LETTER, 170
Shipbuilding in Portsmouth Dockyard, by Mr. W. H. White, 145, 162, 242. See also 169
Lifting and Hauling Machinery at Portsmouth, by Mr. J. T. Corner, 147, 175, 275. See LErno, 333
New Royal Pier at Southampton, by Mr. James Lemon, 175, 307
Portsmouth Sewage Outfall Works, by Sir Frederick Bramwell, 176, 336
Floating Bridge between Gosport and Portsmouth, by Mr. H. G. Harris, 176, 463 Southampton Sewage Works, by Mr. W. B.
G. Bennett, 176, 396
Haslar Experimental Works, by Mr. R. E. Froude, 176
Steam Jackets, Research Committee Report, 549, 556, 567, 736, 766, 797
Screw Propeller, Experiments on the Arrangement of the Surface of, by Mr. Walker, 670. See LETTERS

Excursions at Portsmouth Meeting :

Union Steamship Company's Ship Repairing Works, 126
Eastleigh Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, London and South-Western Railway Company, 130, 178
Eastney Sewage Works and Cumberland Fort, 176
Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, Gosport, 177 Southampton, 178
Northern Iron Works, 178
Fay and Company's Yard, 178
Southampton Corporation Water Works at Otterburne, 178
Round the Isle of Wight, 179
Proposed Visit to Middlesbrough, 491
Mechanical Transmission of Parcels, 195
Membrane, Siemens, 36
Mersey Aqueduct Tunnel, Shield Tunnelling in Loose Ground, 194, 212
Metal Prices, Diagrams, 68,180, 334, 460, 584, 734, 828
Metallurgy in Scotland, 521
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 290
Meteorological Photography, 290

Meteorological Society, Royal :

Thunderstorm, Cloudburst, and Flood at Langtoft, East Yorkshire, July 3, 1892, by Mr. J. Lovel, 642
Remarks on the Measurement of the Maximum
Wind Pressure and Description of a New Instrument for Recording the Maximum, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 642
Moving Anticyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, by H. C. Russell, 781
The Tracks of Ocean Wind Systems in Transit over Australasia, by Captain Hepworth, 781
Rainfall of Nottinghamshire, 1861-90, by Mr H. Mellish, 781
A New Instrument for Cloud Measurements, by Dr. Nils Ekholm, 781
Meteors and Comets, A Plea, 822
Meter, Electric Supply, Siemens, 157
Meters, Water, for Engine Trials, 205. See Erratum, 227
Metropolitan Water Supply, 187
Metropolitan Water Supply Commission, 482, 522, 551, 611, 634, 708, 780
Michaelis, Dr. Wilhelm, on "Cement Bacillus," 22
Microbes, Purification of Sewage by, 453. See LETTERS
Microphone, 442
Middendorf, Herr, on Butt Connections of the Shell Plating of Vessels, 832
Middlesbrough. See Notes from Cleveland
" Mignon," Aluminium Naphtha Yacht (Escher- Wyss), 320
Milford Haven and Long Island, 392. See 724
Mill Engine, Tandem, 1600 Indicated Horse-Power (Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.), 662
Mill Engines. Quadruple-Expansion (Musgrave, Limited, Bolton), 543
Milling Exhibition, 65
Milling Machine (Ludwig Loewe and Co., Berlin), 655
Mine Field at Belfast Lough, 300, 331. See also 521
Mines, Deep, 425
Mines and Mining Building, 802
Mineral Industries of Italy, 728
Mineral Rt sources of Chili, 641
Miners in Hungary, 179
Mining, Hydraulic Pumping Engine for (Austral Otis Company), 478
Mining Ironstone in Cleveland, 653
Miscellanea, 15, 46, 88, 109, 139, 167, 210, 240, 271, 304, 325, 364, 385, 417, 451, 483, 631, 654, 584, 614, 644, 667, 697, 725, 753, 765, 819
Moisture Figures, 24
Molecular Forces, 24, 619, 676. See Erratum, 706
Monongahela Furnace Company, McKeesport, Penn., Plant of, 149
Montana, 808
Monterey, California, 668
Moore and Mae, Leeds ; Simplex Clutch, 118
Mormon Temple, &c., 634
Morrison, Mr. D. B., on Steam Jacket Experiments, 649. See also 556, 567, 736, 763, 797. See LETTERS, Jackets
Mortar, Liverpool Water Works, 759
Mortars, United States Breechloading, 312, 313
Mortars, United States, 12-In., Breechloading, Carriages and Mounts for, 220
Motion, Stability of Periodic, 313
Motor, Connelly Tramway, 15
Motor Generator, 1883 (Siemens), 282
Motor Generator (Siemens, H. D.), 311
Motor for Steep Grades, 610
Motors for Street Railwa3 s, 770
Mountain Railway, Brienz and Rothhorn, 593, 626
Mountain Railways, Colorado, 472, 473, 474
Mountain Railways Compared, 805. See also 741'
Mountain Road Railway, St. Gall and Gais, Switzerland, 741, 806
Mountings for Guns. See Artillery, Modern United States
Mounts for United States Breechloading Mortars, 220
Mountings for United States Naval Guns, 254
Mounts for United States Quick-Firing Guns, 5E6
Mudd's Arrangement of Condenser Tubes, 762. See LETTER, 827
Mulhouse Society, Prizes of the, 87
Murdoch and Gas Centenary, 142
Murphy, Mr. E. 0., on Marine Firemen. See Llg TTER S, Firemen
Musgrave's Quadruple-Expansion Mill Engines, 643

Nansen's Arctic Exploring Ship, 642
Naptha Yacht " Mignon," Aluminium (Escher- Wy Es), 320
National Gun Factory, Watervliet Arsenal, United States, 377. See also 405
National Physical Laboratory, 318
Naval Annual, 1. See LETTERS, Source of Inspiration
Naval Architects, The Institution of, 23
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, American Society of, 769
Naval Boilers, 48, 78, 117, 333, 384. See Forced Draught
Naval Defence Programme, 823
Naval Engine-Room Complements, 46, 117
Naval Engineers, American, 17. See LErrsRs,
Naval Engine-Room Complements
Naval Engineers, The Position of, 82
Naval Engineers, Training (Greenwich), 40
Naval Exhibit, Chicago Exhibition, 478
Naval Gun Factory, United States, 406
Naval Guns, 478
Naval Guns, United States, 70, 252. See also 71, 99, 126
Naval Guns, Weights, Dimensions, &c., United States, 406
Naval Manoeuvres, 266, 300, 331
Navy Additions-Warships Launched 1892, 823
Navy Boilers. See Forced Draught
Navy 8-In. Breechloading Gun, United States, 162
Navy, Electrical Appliances in, 170
Navy Engineers. See Unification, 703, 720, 793, 827
Navy, 6-In. Breechloading Rifle, United States, 99, 126
Navy, Unification of the, 705, 720, 793, 827
Navy, United States, 828
Nevada, 563
New South Wales, Irrigation in, 362
New South \Vales Railway, 357, 489, 616, 675
New York Iron Buildings, 208
New Zealand Railways and other Works, 671
Newark Company's Boring and Drilling Machine, 735
Newbigging, Mr. Thomas, on the Difficulties in Gas Tank Construction. 29
Newport Graving Dock, Mon., 613
Newton v. Huygens, 11
Newton's Scale, Spectra of Various Colours in, 762
Niagara Falls, The Utilisation of, 787
Nicaragua Interoceanic Railway, 342. Ste also 235, 267
Niles Tool Company, Boring and Turning Mills, 272 ; Vertical Bending Rolls, 829
Nomenclature of Units, 317
Nordenfelt, Unreasonable Contracts, 233
North Sea-Baltic Canal. 459
Northam Iron Works (Day, Summers, and CO.),
Southampton, 178
Northern Pacific Railroad, 674
Norwegian Viking Ship for Chicago, 417
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 14, 57, 75, 107, 138. 171, 24 9, 229, 263, 304, C04, 324, 363, 394, 416, 450, 491, 510, 552, 583, 554, 643, 665, 692, 724, 750, 783, 817 498,
Notes, Foreign and colonial, 209, 230, 583, 768, 818
Notes from the North, 14, 66, 74, 108, 138, 171, 208, 230, 262, 294, 324, 362, 393, 415, 449, 490, 512, 553, 582, 605, 643, 666, 693, 724, 752, 784, 818
Notes from South Africa, 675, 732
Notes from the South-West, 15, 57, 92, 108, 128, 171, 215, 230, 271, 295, 325, 363, 394, 41C, 450, 491, 512, 653, 683, 605, 644, 666, 693, 724, 752, 784, 818
Notes from South Yorkshire, 15, 57, 75, 107, 138, 179, 209, 229, 263, 295, 324, 363, 394, 416, 451, 479, 522, 553, 582, 604, 643, 664, 692, 723, 750, 784, 817
Notes from the United States, 24, 58, 87, 1CF, 147, 167, 228, 302, 321, 381, 415, 447, 492, 522, 541, 581, 604, 664, 696, 732, 749, 816
Nottingham, Electric Light at, 731
Nottingham Water Supply, 301
Nottinghamshire Rainfall, 781
November Weather, 730
Nozzle Ventilator, Granger's Steam, 334
Nunhead and Shortlands Railway, 732

Obituary :

John Stinson Farmer, 780
Alfred Fryer, 780
D. C. Glen, Glasgow, 643
J. W. Grover, 304
Eben Kemp, 208
John Kemp, Agricultural Engineer, 263
Dr. Alexander C. Kirk, 4t9, 487. See also 569
M. Lavalley, 137
Daniel McDowall, Johnstone, 666
P. M. Parsons, 611
Dr. Rudolph Proell, 394
William Richardson, of Platt Brothers, 782
James Salkeld Robinson, Rochdale, 109
Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens, 727, 757

Ocean Winds, The Tracks of, 781
Oceanic Circulation, " Challenger" Expedition and, 290
October Weather, 579
Off-Shore Dock, Clark and Standfield, 630
Oil in Argentine Republic, 758
Oil, Connelly Tramway Motor, 15
Oil Engine, Brayton, 89
Oil Engine, Griffin, 586
Oil Engine, Priestnian, from American Point of View, 105
Oil Engines. See Petroleum, 707
Oil Engines for Fog Signalling, 256
Oil Engines at Smithfield Show, 729
Oil Fields, Soul h American, 475, 531. See also 768
Oil Industry, Russian, 392
Oil Launch " Mignon," Escher-Wyss, 320
" Orage," French Torpedo Boat (Forges et Chantiers), 166. See also 201
Ordnance and Gunnery, A Course of Instruction in, 249
Ores, Spanish Iron, 700
Ores in Sweden, Iron, 703
Oscillating Engine Valve Gsar, 817
Ouray Mountain and Town, 472, 473
Overhead Railroad Construction, Day Systsm of, 332
Overhead Railway, Liverpool, 390
Overlapping Propellers, 394
Oxychloride of Lime for Eliminating Sulphur from Iron, 412, 462
Oxygen, Atomic Weight of, 465, 644, 648
Oxygen Gas, 721

Pacinotti Ring Armatures, 36
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Paddle Steamer, Clyde, " Lord of the Isles" (Messrs. Henderson, Glasgow), 26, 76
Paddle Steamers. See Steamers
"Pallion," Converted Marine Engines of S.S. (Messrs. Richardson, Hartlepool), 446
Palmer, Engines of H.M. Cluisers " Pique,"
"Rainbow," and " Retribution," 508, 587, 620
Panama Canal Directors, 669
Panama Canal, The Effect of the, 302
Panama Interoceanic Railway, 842. See also 235, 267
Paper read at British Association by Mr. James Dredge and Mr. R. S. MeCcrmick, 198, 218
Parcels, Mechanical Transmission of, 195
Parliament, Labour in, 173
Parsons The Late Mr. P. M., 811
Parsons1 Turbine and Cambridge Electric Lighting, 670. See LITrsas, Turbines
Passenger Locomotive for the St. Petersburg and Warsaw Railway, 260, 320. See Erratum, 370
Passengers on British Railways, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 395
Passengers, Second-Class Railway, 699
Patent Fees, Reduction in, 147
Patent Litigation in Ceylon, 580
Patent Record, 33, 68, 93, 123, 155. 185, 215, 247, 279, 309, 839, 371, 401, 435, 469, 499, 529, 561, 591, 621, 651, 683, 711, 739, 769, 803, 835
Patents in Egypt, 721
Patents, Provisional Protection, 61
Pavements, 112, 143, 188
Pearsall's Hydraulic Engine, 197. See Lsrmits, 231
Penn's Engines for Yacht " Princesse Alice," 760
Pennsylvania Railroad (Excursion Routes in America), 87
People's Palace Electric Light Installation, 506
Perlyar Irrigation Works, 651, 689, 713
Peterhead Harbour, Levelling Subaqueous Foundations, 359
Petroleum. See Oil
Petroleum Boilers, 303
Petroleum as an Enricher of Coal G18, 81
Phosphor- Bronze Bearing Metals, 14b
Photographs of Electric Discharges, 316
Photography; Inducto Script, 316. See Erratum, 810
Photograhy, Meteorological, 290
Photography of Moving Objects, 55
Physical Condition of the Water of the English Channel, 317
Physical Laboratory at Groeningen, 316
Physical Laboratory, National, 316
Physical Science, Progress, 287

Physical Society :

On Breath Figures, by Mr. W. B. Croft, 24
On the Measurement of the Internal Resistance of Cells, by Mr. E. Wythe Smith, 24
On the Relation of the Dimensions of Physical
Quantities to Direction in Space, by Mr. W. Williams, 24, 619, 676
On Molecular Forces, by Mr. W. Sutherland, 24, 619, 676
On the Determination of the Critical Density, by9 Dr. Young and Mr. G. L. Thomas, B.Sc., 61
On the Determination of the Critical Volume, by Dr. Young, 619
On the Boiling Points of Different Liquids at Equal Pressures, by Dr. Young, 619
Experiments in Electric and Magnetic Fields, constant and varying, by Messrs. Riwington and Wythe Smith, 709
The Spectra of various Orders of Colour in Newton's Scales, by Mr. W. B. Croft, 762
The Diffusion of Light, by Dr. W. E. Sumpner, 762
Pictet Refrigerating Machinery Tests, 66. See LErrxas, Refrigerating Machines Pier, New Schemes, 702
Pier at Southampton, 176, 807
Pig Iron Production in the States, 423
Pike's Peak, 441
Pilot System of Tunnelling, 610
Pipe Facing Machine (Richards, Broadheath), 779. See Addendum, 816
Pipe, Flange for Copper, Geddes', 414
Pipes, Flow of Water in, 239. See Lisrrzas
" Pique," H.M.S., Engines (Palmer, Jarrow), 508, 687, 620
Piston, Angle of Crank for Maximum Velocity of, 83
Pitchford and Oarrat's Corliss Gear, 355
Plan of Grounds, Chicago Exhibition, 766
Planing Machine, Horizontal and Vertical (Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.), 779. See Addendum, 816
Planing Machine, Plate-Edge (Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co.), 763
Plating Ships, Butt Connections, 832
Pneumatic Carriage for United States Naval Uuns, 192
Pneumatic Dynamite Sea Coast Guns, Model 1890, 3, 37
Pollution of Aire and Calder, 598, 672, 743, 771, 811
Polytechnic, Borough Road, 423
Pontoon Dock, Clark and Standfield, 630
Population in the United States, 362
Portland Cement " Bacillus," 22
Portland Cement Manufacture in Australia, 170, 201, 231. See also 372
Portland Cement for Steam Joints, 721
Portland, Oregon, 687
Ports, Mason's Pivoted Side Lights, 210
Portsmouth Dockyard, 158. See also 146, 153, 242
Portsmouth Dockyard, Shipbuilding in, 145, 152, 242. See also 152, 158
Portsmouth Sewage Works, 176, 336
Potential Dynamometer, Astatic (Siemens), 218
Power Transmission by Alternating Current, 225
Power, Variable Water, 11
Precipitation, 37
Preece, Mr. W. H.. on Lightning Conductors, 223
Preller, Mr. Charles S. du Riche, on Rothhorn Railway, 593, 626
Preller, Mr. C. S. du Riche, on Swiss Mountain Railways, 741, 805
Presses and Pumps for Gun-Cotton Slabs (Taylor and Challen), 723
Pressure, Measuring Wind, 64?
Pricing Goods, Chicago Exhibition, 17, 95
Priestman Oil Engine from American Point of View, 105
" Princesse Alice," Engines of Yacht (Messrs. Penn, London), 780
Private Bill Legislation, 870, 701
Production of Steel in Great Britain, 392
Progress in Constructing Chicago Exhibition Buildings, 95, 229, 351, 478, 537, 604, 765, 801, 830
Projectiles. See Artillery, Modern Untied Stated
Projectiles for U.S. 6-In. Naval Gun, 130
Projectiles for U.S. Dynamite Gun, 37
Projectors in the Navy, 135, 146, 182. See Lwrrm, 170
Propellers, 670. See Lyrrsits
Protection, Provisional (Patents), 61
Prusemann's Hydraulic Canal Hoist, 480, 601
Pump, Boiler Feeding (Brush Company), 137
Pump Levers, Air, 364, 425
Pumps at Barry, 636
Pumps, Colliery, Electrically Driven (Messrs. &At and Mountain, Newcastle), 197
Pump, Dock, at Portsmouth Dockyard, 276
Pumps and Presses for Gun-Cotton Slabs (Messrs. Taylor and Challen), 723
Pumping Engines for Hydraulic Mining, New South Wales (Austral-Otis Company), 478
Pumping Engines for Sewage Worke, 176, 335
Pumping Plant, Electric Transmission, at Faria Mines, 437
Purdon's Staff-Changing Apparatus, 615 Purification of Sewage by Microbes, 463. See LEITSIt8
Purification of Thames, 2.78, 259, 806
Pyrometer and Blast Furnace Temperatures, 390
Pyrometer, Cornu-le-Chatelier, 61

Quadruple Engines. See Engines
Queensland, Railways in, 579
Quick-Firing Gun, Drigge - Schroeder, United States, 503, 536. See also 566
Quick-Firing Gun, Schneider's 15-Cent., 348
Quick-Firing Guns, 421, 438
Quick-Firing Guns, Armstrong, 790
Quick-Firing Guns, Canet, 517
Quick-Firing Guns in the French Navy, 204
Quicksand, Excavating in, 23

Rack Railway, Brienz and Rothhorn, 593, 626
Rick Railway, Swiss Mountain, 741, 803
Radial Drill (Britannia Company, Colchester), 460
Radiation, Density of Illumination and Absorption, 317
Radiation, Hertz Researches, Polarising Gratings, 817
Radiophone, 442
Rail and Track, American, 30, 120, 214, 397, 495, 625
Rails Abroad, Our, 147
Rails, Expansion of Long, 703
Railroad Building in North-West Canada, 488
Railroad Construction, Day's System of Elevated, 332
Railroad, Northern Pacific, 674
Railroads to Chicago Exhibition Grounds, 765
Railroads, Elevated, in New York, 790
Railways. See Glasgow Central Raitwat/.
Railway Bridges, Timber, American, 382, 446
Railway Bridges, Transandine, 685. See barrEtts,
Bridges, dm.
Railway, 13ridgnorth Inclined, 87
Railway, Brienz and Rothhorn Rack, 593, 623
Railway, Caledonian, 489
Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Eastleigh, (London and South- Western Railway Company), 130, 178
Railway Curves, Resistance of, 387
Railway, Doubling the Grand Trunk, 610
Railway, Electrical Underground, in Berlin, 30
Railway Gauges in India, 421
Railway, Liverpool Overhead, 390
Railway Passengers, First, Second, and Third, 392, 699
Railway Passengers, Second-Class, 699. See 302
Railway, St. Gall and Gais Mountain Road. Switzerland, 741, 805
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 670, 701
Railway, Shortlands and Nunhead, 732
Railway Signalling System, Siemens Electric, 65. See Lwrrisa, 170
Railway Signalling System on British Lines, 179
Railway Signalling System, Waterloo Station, 365, 537, 639
Railway Sleeping Cars for France (Midland Car Company), 662
Railway Staff-Changing Apparatus, Purdon's, 615
Railway Station, Edinburgh, Caledonian, 424
Railway, Trans-Siberian, 203
Railway Unpunctuality, 755
Railway Viaducts in Scotland, Renewing, 291, s66
Railway, Water, in Chicago Exhibition Grounds, 766
Railways, Accidents on German, 459
Railways, American and 13ritish, Compared, 454
Railways, British, A Year's Working of, 389
Railways of Central America, Inter. oceanic : 235, 167, 311
Costa Rica, The Republic of, 312. See also 235, 261
Guatemala Central Railway, 268. See also 235, 267, 355
Honduras Interoceanic Railway, 343. See also 235, '267
Nicaragua Interoceanic Railway, 342. See also 236, 267
Panama Interoceanic Railway, 342. See also 235, 267
Tehuantepec Interoceanic Railway, 313. See also 236, 267
Railways in China, 459
Railways in Denmark, New, 674
Railways in Denmark, State, 332
Railways, Formosa and its Railways, 20
Railways in Holland, 298
Railways, Irish, 332
Railways, Narrow-Gauge, in Scandinavia, 731
Railways, New South Wales, 357, 489, 516, 575
Railways in New Zealand, 671
Railways in Queensland, 579
Railways and Railway Men, 249
Railways in South Africa, 675, 727
Railways in Western Australia, 521
Railways, Working and Management of English, 67
" Rainbow," II.M.S., Engines (Messrs. Palmer, Jarrow), 508, 597, 620
Rainfall of Nottinghamshire, 781
Ram, hydraulic, 197. See LETTERS, 231
Ram, Ward, 72
" Ramillies," H.M. Battle-Ship (Messrs. Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 197, 412
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies' Traction Engine, 40
Rapid-Firing Gun, Schneider's 16-Cent., 348 Rapid-Firing Gun, United States. See Quick-Firing
Rapid-Firing Guns in the French Navy, 2G1 Rapid-Firing Guns, Various Types Compared, 421, 438, 790
Rashazoff and Anderson's Mounts for United States 12-In. Mortars, 220
Reapers and Binders in Denmark, Trials, 446 Reclamation of Land from the Sea in Brittany, 610
Reconstructing Railway Viaducts in Scotland, 291, 366
Reduction of Iron, The, 680
Reflection of Sound, Teh 645
Refraction Due to Electric Stress, On Dispersion in, 317
Refraction, Magnetic, and Leaky Coils, 290
Refrigerating Machinery in " Britannic" and " Germanic" (Hall's), 68. See Letters
Refrigerating Machinery, Linde British Refrigerating Company, Limited, 79, 148
Refrigerating Machinery, Tests of (Pictet and Linde), 66. See Letters
Refuse of Cities, 37
Refuse Destructors, 430. See also 193, 369 Refuse Destructors and Electric Light, 138, 369, 430
Refuse Disposal, 193, 369, 430
Regulator for Stage Lighting (Siemens), 312 Reichsanstalt Standard of Electrical Resistance, 317
Reliance Automatic Weighing Machine (Messrs. Dell, London), 13
Remuneration of Labour and Cost of Living in Chicago, 65
Renewing Railway Viaducts in Scotland, 291, 366
Report to Royal Commission, Chicago Exhibition, on Visit made June, 1892, by the Secretary, 244
" Republica," Brazilian Cruiser, and Armstrong Guns, 790
Reservoir, Cardiff New, 354
Reservoir Dams, Loose Rock, 332
Reservoir, Periyar Irrigation Works, 654, 639, 713
Reservoirs and Canals, Indian, 485
Residual Products from Gasmakinp.„ 142
Resistance, Bridge, 217
Resistance in Cells, Measurement of, 23
Resistance of Railway Curves, 387
Resistance, Wire Standards of Electrical, 317
" Itetribution," H.M.S., Engines (Messrs. Palmer, Jarrow), 508, 587, 620
" Revenge," British Battle-Ship, 612
Revolving Cannon, Hotchkiss, 443
Richards' Pipe Facing Machine, 779. See Addendum, 815
Richardson, Hartlepool. Converted Marine Engines, 446
Rifle, Manufacture of United States8-In. Breech-loading Steel, 377
Rifles, Manufacture of Magazine, 703
Rigby, Mr. John, on Manufacture of Small Arms, 70.1
River Pollution, Aire and Calder, 598, 072, 743, 771, 811
Rivets, Loads on, 793
Riveting Shell Plates of Vessels, 832
Roadways, 113, 143, 188
Rock Drills for Ironstone Mining, 653
R) ld Iron and Steel Sections, 827
Rolling Mill Engine (Messrs. Hayward Tyler and C ).), 134
Rolling Mill at Schulz-Knaudt's, 291
Rolling Stock for Swisi Mountain Railway, 805. See also 741, 593, 620
Rolls, Failure of Chilled Iron, 410, 621. See LETTERS, 644
Rolls, Vertical Bending (Niles Tool Works, Hamilton, Ohio), 829
Ross and Duncan, Triple-Expansion Engines of S. S. " Lovart," 816
Rotherham, Boiler Explosion at, 649
Rotthorn and Brienz Rack Railway, 693, 628
Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, Gosport, 177
Royal Institution, 113, 206, 238, 716, 777, 826, 826
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 651
" Royal Oak," British Battle-Ship, 612
Ruhnikorff Coil, Some Experiments with a, 314
Rushworth's Shearing Machines for Copper Plates, 306
Ittissian Passenger Locomotive, 260, 320. See, Erratum, 370
Russian Petroleum Industry, 392
Russian Torpedo Boat " Ghelendjick " (Forges ' et Chantiers), 201

Sacramento. Cal., 599, 600
Safes, Burglar-Proof, 753
Safety Lamps, Hydrogen Flames in, 347
Sagar's Boring Machines, 677
Sc. Gall road Uais Mountain Road Railway, Switzerland, 741, 805
Salford, Sanitation in, 680
Sample's Ship Davit, 460. See LyrrsR, 479
San terancisco, 699, 600
Sanitation at Manchester, 419
Sanitation in Salford, 680
Saniter, Mr. E. H., on the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 412, 462
" Santa Maria," Columbus' Caravel, 180
Scandinavian Narrow-Gauge Railways, 731
Scantlings of Ships' Bulkheads, 490
Schneider 15-Cent. Quick-Firing Gun, 348
Schneider v. other Quick-Firing Guns, 421, 438. See also 790
Scholt and Gene New Composite Gauge Glasses, 730
Sehonheyder Water Meter, 205. See Erratum, 227
Schultz-Khan lit Company, Limited. The Works el I he :
Bending holly, 351
Corrugated Furnaces for Locomotives, 361
Flanging Flue 3 and Boiler Ends, 351
Hammer, Steam, 291
Locomotive Boilers, Corrugated Flues, 351
Rolling Mill, 291
Shearing Machine, 291
Schuster, Professor, on Physical and Chemical
Science, Progress, 287
Science and Art Department Examinations, 327
Scotland. See Notes from the North
Scotland, Renewing Rahway Viaducts in, 291, 366
Scotland, Shipbuilding in, in 1892, 814
Scott and Mountain's Electric Pump 3, 197
Screw Propellers, 670. See LETTBRS
Screw Steamers. See Steamers.
Sea Coast Carriages for the United States Breech-loading Rifles and Mortars, 220
Sea Coast Guns. See Artillery, Modern United States.
Search Lights in Navy, 135, 146, 182. See LErrEtt, 170
Seattle, Washington, 719, 746
Second-Class Railway Passengers, 699. See 392
Secondary Batteries for Telegraphy, 224
Secondary Conduction, 291
Section List of Rolled Iron and Steel, 827
Seismological Phenomena in Japan, 290
Sellers, Dr. Coleman, on Priestinan Oil Engine, 105
Sennet's Smoke Prevention Device, 266
September Weather, 465
Series Lighting, Dynamo for (Messrs Greenwood and Batley, Limited), 493
Sewage Combustion, 430. See also 193, 369
Sewage Disposal, 354
Sewage, London and Edinburgh, 258, 259, 306
Sewage of Manchester, 419
Sewage Purification by Microbes, 453. See LyrrEns.
Sewage Works at Eastney, 176
Sewage Works at Portsmouth, 176, 336
Sewage Works at Southampton, 176, 396
Sewerage Absorption and Filtration, 193, 370, 430
Sewerage of Cities, 37
Sewerage of Level Towns, 674
Shafts and Boreholes, Deep, 425
Shank's Slotting Machine (Johnstone), 80
Shaping Machine (Messrs. Lister, Keighley), 645
Shearing Machine for Copper Plates (Kushworth's), 305
Shearing Machine at Schulz-Knaudt's, 291
Sheffield. See N9tes from South Yorkshire.
Shell Plating of Vessels, Butt Connections, 832
Shield Tunnelling in Loose Ground, Mersey Aqueduct Tunnel, 194, 212
Ship Canal. See Manchester Ship Canal.
Ship Model Experimental Works, Haslar, 176
Ship Plating, Butt Connections, 832
Ship Repairing Works, Southampton, Union
Steamship Company, 126
Ships' Side Lights, Mason's Pivoted, 210
Ships, British, and the World's Trade, 55
Ships' Bulkheads, The Scantlings of, 490
Ship's Davit, A New (Sample's), 460. See LgrraR, 479
Shipbuilding Apprentices, Leave Certificates, 615. See Larrms, Apprentices.
Shipbuilding in Belgium, 610
Shipbuilding in Portsmouth Dockyard, 146, 152, 242. See also 162, 168
Shipbuilding in Scotland and Ireland, 814
Shipbuilding Trade, 86, 467, 791, 814
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom, 86, 457, 791, 814
Shipping, French Steam, 269
Shipping and Shipbuilding, 457
Shipping Supremacy, British, 578
Shipwrecks, Lloyd's Three Months', 489, 759
Shipwrecks, Statistics of World's, 147
Shortlands and Nunhead Railway, 732
Shrinkage in United States Guns, 377, 380
Siberian Railway, Trans-, 203
Sibley College, 301
Sidelights, Mason's Pivoted Ship, 210
Siemens, Mr. Alex., on Electric Locomotives, 195, 246
Siemens' Automatic Nock signalling System, 65

Siemens' Electrical Apparatus :

Acoustical Experiments, s6
Alcoholometer, 97
Alternate Currents, Visible Representation of, 36
Alternating Currents of High Tension, Experiments, 343
Alternator, for High-Tension Current, 313
Alternator, Siemens, Prior to 1872, 282
Ammeter, 158
Bells, Indicator Board for, with Electrical Resetting Device, 25(1
Bridge, Low Resistance, 217
Cables, 218
Demonstrating Curves of Electric Current Flow in Conductors under Different Conditions, 86
Drill, Electric, 250
Dynamo, Direct Current, 1867, 281
Dynamo, Siemens, H. B., Direct Coupled Set, 311
Dynamometer, Astatic Potential, 218
Experiments with a High-Tension Alternating
Current, 848
Fire Engine, Electric, 251
High-Tension Alternating Current, Experiment with a, 343
Historical Machines. 281
Indicator Board for Belle, with Electrical Re- setting Device, 260
Intermittent Currents, Visible Representation of, 35
Iron, Siemens Apparatus for Testing Magnetic
Qualities of, 312
Magnetic Apparatus for Testing Iron, 312
Membrane, 36
Motor Generator, 1883, 282
Motor Generator, Siemens, H. D., 311
Pacinotti Ring Armatures, 36
Potential Dynamometer, Astatic, 218
Skin e ns' r 1 c rt tic id Apparatus—continued.
Regulator for Stage Lighting, 312
Resistance Bridge, 217
Signalling System, Mr. Alexander Siemens'
Automatic Blor-k, 65. See LETTER, 170
Stage Lighting, Regulator for, 312
Supply Meter, 1b7
Switch, Carbon Contact, 158
Testing Magnetic Qualities of Iron, Siemens' Apparatus, 312
Transformer for High - Tension Alternating Current, 343

Siemens Electric Lighting Plant, Old America Exhibition, Manchester, 602
Siemens, Dr. Ernst Werner von, 727. 757
Siemens Exhioits, Electrical Exhibition, 19. See
Siemens' Electrical Apparatus
Siemens' Inventions, 757
Signalling System at Waterloo Station, 365, 537, 639
Signalling Systems on British Railways, 179
Silver Smelting Works, Zeehan and Dundas, 201
Simplex Railway Signalling System, 365, 637, 639
Sitka, Alaska, 774
Sleeping Cars for French Railwa3 s (Midland Car Company), 612
SlOjd System of Manual Instruction, 222
Slotting Machine (Messrs. Shanks, Johnstone), 80
Sluice Valve (Messrs. Billington and Newton, Longportl, 137
Sluices and Floods, 827
Smelting Works, Silver, Zeehan and Dundas, 201
Smith Brothers and Co., Plate-Edge Planing Machine, 763
Smithfield Club Show, 729
Smoke Prevention, 256
Smulder, Transformation of Floating Elevator into Dredger, 241
Soap Films, The Specific Conductivity of, 314

Society of Arts:

Coniversazione, 15
Programme for 1892-93 Session, 613
Presidential Address, 641
Columbian Exposition, The World's, by Mr.
James Dredge, 764, 1:01, 830
Soldering by Electricity, 376. See Errata, 417
Soliani, Nabor, On the Transmission and Distribution of Power in Modern Ships, 154, 184, 276
Sound, The Reflection of, 645
Source of Inspiration, 49
South African Diamond Mining, 790
South African Railways, 675, 727
South African Trade. See Notes from South Africa
South American Oil Fields, 476, 631. See also 758
South Kensington Examinations, 327
South London Railway Electric Locomotive, 195, 245
Southampton, 178
Southampton Corporation Water Works at Otterburne, 178
Southampton Pier, 175, 307
Southampton Sewage Works, 176, 396
Spanish Iron and Ores, 700
Specification for Iron Work, Chicago Exhibition Buildings, 198
Spectra of Various Orders of Colours in Newton's Scale, 762
Spectroscope for Halsted Observatory, 101 Spiller's Mount for United States 12-In. Breech-loading Mortar, 222
Spinning Mill Engines, Quadruple Expansion (Messrs. Musgrave, Limited, Bolton), 543 Spokane Falls, Yellowstone, 808
Stack Pipes as Lightning Conductors, 223 Staff-Changing Apparatus, Purdon's, 615 Stage Lighting, Regulator for, Siemens', 312 Standards, Electrical, 316, 727, 732
Standards, Electrical, Board of Trade, 727, 732 Standards of Electrical Resistance, Wire, 317 State Railways in Denmark, 332
Station, Caledonian Railway, Edinburgh, 424
Steam Boiler Experiments (Mr. Donkin and Professor Kennedy), 115. See LETTERS, Boilers, French
Steam Boiler Experiments, Great Eastern Railway Locomotive (Mr. Bryan Donkin, Jun., and Professor Kennedy), 501
Steam v. Compressed Air at Portsmouth Dockyard, 275
Steam Engine, Professor Thurston's Manual to the, 282
Steam and Gas Engine, Chatterton's (Milling Exhibition), 55
Steam Hammers, 613
Steam Jackets, 549, 556, 567, 736, 766, 797. See LETTERS
Steam Joints, Portland Cement for, 721
Steam Pipe, Loss of Pressure in, 479
Steam Shipping Enterprise, 551
Steam, Superheated, Cambridge Electric Supply, 570. See LErrEas, Turbines
Steam Users' Association, Manchester, 44
Steamer " Glen Sannox," Glasgow and South Western Railway Company's (Thomson, Clydebank), 392
Steamer " Koh-i-Noor," Thames Passenger (Fairfield Company), 78
Steamer, " Lord of the Isles" (Messrs. Henderson, Glasgow), 26, 76
Steamer Plating, Butt Connections, 832
Steamer, Stern-Wheel, for Argentine Government, McGregor's (Messrs. Bow, McLachlan, and Co.), 748
Steamers, Brazilian, Twin-Screw, " Itaoca " and " Itaipu" (Thomson, Clydebank), 690
Steamers to Exhibition, 765
Steamers, New Cunard, 298, 321, 394. See also 621
Steel and Chromium, Alloys of, 899, 409, 433, 465, 495
Steel as a Constructive Material for Ships, 617 Steel in Fireboxes, 421
Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute Steel and Iron, Analysis of International Standards, 347
Steel and Iron Production in Scotland, 521
Steel and Iron in Sweden, 791
Steel Production in Great Britain, 392
Steel Trade, American, 81
Stern-Wheel Steamer for Argentine Government, McGregor's (Messrs. Bow, McLachlan, and Co.), 748
Steven and Son's Rotation Locking Signal, 3e5, 537, 639
Stevens' Institute of Technology, 84
Stevenson's friction Clutch, 795
Stobcross Section, Glasgow Central Railway, 8
Stone Breaker, Lever Motion (Mason, Leicester), 676
Storage System of Traction, 489
Stothert and Pitt's Ladder Dredger for Cleansing Canals, 492
Stowmat ket Water Softening Plant, 623
Strains, Measurement of, in Bridge Members, 521
" Stranton," Converted Marine Engines of S.S. (Richardson, Hartlepool), 446
Street Paving, 112, 143, 188
Street Railways, 773
Strength of Beams, Theoretical. See Beam
Strength of Chains, 254, 427
Stresses in Bridges, 729. See LETTERS, Loads on Rivets
Subaqueous Foundations, Levelling, 369
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 208, 702, 824
Suction Pump Dredger " Jupiter" (Messrs. Simons), 414
Sulphur from Iron, Elimination of, 412, 462
Superficial Education, 327
Superheated Steam (Cambridge Electric Supply), 570. See LETTERS, Turbines
Supply Meter, 157
Surveying Compass and Clinometer, Francis, 168
Sweden, Electricity in, 207
Sweden, Gun Manufacture in, 49
Sweden, Iron and Iron ore in, 703
Sweden, Iron and Steel in, 791
Swiss Mountain Railway, 741, 805
Switch, Carbon Contact, 158
Switch, Siemens Carbon Contact, 158
Switzerland, Labour in, 327
Sykes' Railway Signalling System, 365, 637, 639
Synthesis, Electrolytic, 346

Tacoma, Washington, 718, 719
Tandem Mill Engine, 1600 Indicated Horse-Power (Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.), 662
Tank Construction, Difficulties in, 27
Tank Locomotive, Barry Railway (Vulcan Company, Newton-le-Willows), 692
Taxation of Machinery, 513. 645, 582, 612
Technical Education in London, 642
Technical Education in Manchester, 641
Technical Literature, 221
Technico-Chemical Annual, 249
Technology, Stevens Institute of, 84
Tehuantepec Interoceanic Railway, 343. See also 236, 267
Telegragh Cables, Elstern Extension Company, 702
Telegraph Company, Anglo-American, 208
Telegraph Company, Western Union, 116
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 824
Telegraphy by Induction, 674
Telegraphy, Secondary Batteries for, 224
Telephone, 442
Telescope, Construction of a 5-Ft. Equatorial
Reflecting, 557, 688, 616, 646, 678
Telescope, 45-In. Refracting, for Chicago Exhibition, 584
Temperature of Blast Furnaces, Recorder, 390
Temperature, Underground, 290
Temperatures, Experiments on High, 11
Tequixquiac Tunnel, 761
Test Bars, Cast Iron. See Cast Iron
Tests of Material for United States Naval Guns, 71
Tests of Navy Boilers (Dr. A. C. Kirk), 78, 333
Tests of 6-In. United States Naval Gun, 130
Testing Magnetic Qualities of Iron, Siemens' Apparatus, 312
Testing Small Chains, 254, 427
" Teutonic," Fast Steaming, 125, 295, 325. See 621
Thames Passenger Steamer " Koh-i-Noor," (Fairfield Company), 78
Thames Purification, 258, 259, 306
Thermal Conductivity of Liquids, 316
Thermodynamics, Ether-Pressure Theory of, 361
Thompson, Professor Silvanus P., on Electro Magnets, 442
Thomson, Clydebank, Brazilian Twin Screw
Steamers " Itaoca " and " Itaipu," 696
Thomson, Clydebank, H. M. Battle-Ship " Ramillies," 197, 412
Thomson, Clydebank, Steamer "Glen Sannox," 392
Thornewill and Warham's Winding Engine for Colliery, 414, 478. See LErrisRs
Thornycroft Boiler, 789
Three Months' Shipwrecks, 759
Thunderstorms, 642
Thurston's, Professor, Manual to the Steam Engine, 282
Thwaite, Mr. B. H., on the Efficiency of Fuel, 27, 61
Ticket of Leave Apprentice, 615. See LETTERS, Apprentices
Timber in British Columbia, 208
Timber Structures on American Railroads, 382, 446
Timbering Tunnels, Glasgow Central Railway, &c., 7
Time, Astronomical and Civil, 290
Time Required to Construct American Guns, 405
Tipping Coal, Device for, 356
Toltec Gorge, 514
Torpedo Boat Attack, 86, 266, 300, 331
Torpedo Boat Engines (Forges et Chantiers), 262. See Erratum, 325
Torpedo Boat, Russian (Forges et Chantiers), 201
Torpedo Boat " Schichau," 381.
Torpedo Boats, French (Forges et Chantiers), 166, 201
Torpedo and Gun Circuits, Electricity in Navy, 183. See LETTER. 170
Torpedo Repairing Ship "Vulcan," 629
Tower Bridge, 380
Tower for Chicago Exhibition, 819
Towns Sewerage, Level, 674
Track, American Rail and, 30, 120, 214, 397, 496, 525
Traction Engine (Messrs. Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies), 40
Traction Engine, Compound (Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Rochester), 13
Traction by Storage Batteries, 489
Trade. See Notes from the 1Vorth, &c.
Trade Disputes. See Industrial otes
Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes
Trades Union Congress, 359
Trades Union Statistics, 388, 486, 638
Trades Unionism, New and Old, 577
Traffic across Dover Straits, 3;3
Train Unpunctuality, 755
Training of Royal Naval Engineers (Greenwich), 40
Tramway, Cable, in London, 731
Tramway, Electric, Brain Closed Circuit System for, 239, 329
Tramway Motor, Connelly, 15
Tramway Schemes, 702
Tramway System, Wynne's Electric, €41
Tramway Traction by Storage Batteries, 489
Tramways, 773
Tramways in Holland, 298
Transandine Railway, Bridges, 685. See LEITERS
Transatlantic. See A tlantic
Transatlantic Company, French, 269
Transformer for High-Tension Alternating Current, Siemens, 343
Transmission and Distribution of Power in Modern Ships, 154, 184, 276
Transmission, Electric, at the Mines of Faria, 437
Transmission of Parcels, Mechanical, 195
Transport Rates for Exhibits for Chicago, 328
Transportation Building, Chicago Exhibition, 351, 694, 731, 830
Trans-Siberian Railway, 203
Treatment of Marine Boilers, 528, 590, 619. See LETTERS
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Triple-Expansion Engines, The Jntroduction of (Dr. Kirk), 487 See LETTER. 509
"Triumph" Chain-Making Machine, 427
Truss Bridges, Timber, on American Railroads, 382, 446
"Trusty " Oil Engine (Weyman and Hitchcock), 707
Tubeplate Protectors, Cowper's, 795
Tubes, Condenser, Arrangement of, 762. See LETTER, 827
Tubing, Metallic Flexible, 197
Tubulous Boiler, Thornycroft, 789
Tungsten and Irt'n Alloy, 816
Tunnel, Tequixquiac, 761
Tunnel under West Point (West Shore Railway), 403
Tunnelling, Glasgow Central Railway, 7
Tunnelling, Pilot System, 610
Tunnelling Shield, in Loose Ground, Mersey Aqueduct Tunnel, 194, 212
Turbines. See " A Current Motor," 196
Turbines, Electric Transmission at Faria Mines, 437
Turbines for Niagara Falls Utilisation, 787
Turhine4, Parsons', 670. See LErrERs
Turbines for Sewage Works, 176, 336
Turning and Boring Mill.' (U.S. Gun Factory, Watervliet Arsenal), Niles Tool Works, 272
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines.
Twin-Screw Steamers. See Steamer.
Tyndall, Professor, and the Royal Institution, 716, 776, 825

" Umbria," Fast Steaming, 126, 210, 325. See 521
Underground Railway. See Glasgow Central Railway.
Underground Railway in Berlin, Electrical, 30
Underground Stations, Glasgow Central Railway, 70, 104
Underground Temperature, 290
Underpinning, Glasgow Central Railway, 7
Unification of the Navy, 705, 720, 793, 827
Union Steamship Company's Ship Repairing Works, Southampton, 126
Unit, Board of Trade Electrical Standard, 728
United Service Institution, Royal: 18 Premises, in Whitehall Banqueting Hall, 18 Dimensions of Modern Warships, by Captain S. M. Eardley-Wilmot, R.N., 62
United States. See America.
United States Artillery. See Artillery.
United States Navy, 826
United States Patent Office Exhibit, Chicago Exhibition, 45
United States Population, 362
Units and their Constitution, 24, 619, 676
Units, On Nomenclature of, 317
University Centenary, Dublin, 87
Unreasonable Contracts, 233
Utab, Map of, 534
Inilisation of Niagara Falls, 787
Utilising Energy of Flowing Waters, 196

Valve, Beck's " Handy," 240
Valve Gear, Corliss Engine with Non-Detaching, 260
Valve Gear, Edwards', 817
Valve, Sluice (Messrs. Billington and Newton, Longport), 137
Valves, Discharge Sewage, 176, 336
Vector and Scalar of Quantities and their Relation to Physical Units, 24, 619, 676
Velocity of Bubbles in Liquid Tubes. 316
Velocity of Piston, Angle of Crank for Maximum, 83
Ventilation, 788
Ventilation of Portsmouth Sewage Works, 176, 336
Ventilator, Granger's Steam Nozzle, 334
Viaducts in Scotland, Renewing. 291, 366
Victorian Colonial Statistics, 188
Victualling Yard, Royal Clarence, Gosport, 177
Voltaic Arc, Physics of the, 317
" Vulcan," Torpedo Repairing Ship, 629

Wages of British Seagoing Engineers, 23
Wages in Canada, 551
Walker Laboratories, Liverpool, 412
Walker, Mr. W. G., on Screw Propellers, 570. See LErrsRs, Propellers
Ward Ram, 72
Warship, Dimensions of, 52
Warship Lighting, Engine and Dynamo, 107
Warship Model Exhibit, Chicago Exhibition, 478
Warships. See Cruisers and Battle-Ships
Warships Launched 1892, 823
Washington, U.S., Gun Factory, 405
Washington State, 718, 719
Watches, 97
Water Companies' Legal Position, London, 611
Water Meters for Engine Trials, 205. See Erra-tum., 227
Water in Pipes, Flow of, 239. Sce LETTISR8
Water Power, Variable, 11
Water Railway in Chicago Exhibition Grounds, 766
Water Schemes, New, 701
Water-Softening Plant, Carrod (Mr. John Bellamy, London), 523
Water Supply Commission, London, 482, 622, 551, 611, 634, 708, 780
Water Supply, Halliday's Filters, 119
Water Supply of London, 187
Water supply of Nottingham, 301
Water Tube boiler, Tnornycroft, 789
Water Works, 442
Water Works, Cardiff New, 354
Water Works at Southampton, 178
Water Works at V) rnwy, Liverpool, 759
Waterloo Station Signalling System, 365, 537, 639
Watervliet Arsenal, United States American Naval Gun Factory, 377. See also 905
Waterways to Chicago Exhibition, 364
Watkins, Mr. J. Elfreth, on the American Rail and Track, 30, 120, 214, 397, 495, 525
Watson, Mr. G., on Disposal of Refuse, 193, 369, 4:30
Weather, 53, 174, 330, 455, 579, 730
Weighing Machine, Automatic (Messrs. Del London), 13
Weight of Oxygen, Atomic, 455, 644, 548
Weights, &c., of United States Army and Naval Guns, 405, 408
Welding, Electric (Lloyd and Lloyd), 19
Welding by Electricity, 376 See Arrata, 417
Well Sinking, South American Oil Fields, 475, 531
Wells, Deep, 426
West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, 521
West Shore Railway Map, 404
Western Australia, Railways in, 521
Western Union Telegraph Company, 651
Weyman and Hitchcock, " Trusty" Oil Engine, 707
Whaleback Steamers, 754
White, Mr. W. H., on Shipbuilding in Portsmouth Dockyard, 145, 162, 242. See also 158
Willan's Experiments on High Temperatures, 11
Wilson, Mr. W W.. on the Treatment or Marine
Boilers, 528, 590, 619. See BuVers, Treatment Of
Wind Pressure, Measuring, 642
Winds, The Track of Ocean, 781
Winder, Mr. Chas. A., on Failure of Chilled Iron Rolls, 410, 624. See LETTER, 544
Winding Engine for Colliery (Thornewill and Warham), 414, 478. See LETTERS
Windmill for Electric Generation, 197
Wire Chain-Making Machine, 427
Wire Standards of Electrical Resistance, 317
Women's Building, Chicago Exhibition, 832
Wood Paving v. Asphalte, 188. Sec 112, 143
Wood, Sir H. Truman, on Progress at Columbian Exposition, 244
Wooden Bridges on American Railroads, 382, 446
Wood-Working Machinery, 425
Working and Management of English Railways, 67

Works :

Eastleigh Railway Carriage and Wagon Works,
London and South-Western Railway Company, 130, 178
Fa‘ and Co.'s Yard, Southampton, 178
Monongahela Iron Works, 149
Northam Iron Works (Messrs. Day, Summers, and Co.), Southampton, 178
Portsmouth Dockyard, 158. See also 145, 153, 242
Schultz-Knaudt Company, Limited, 291, 351
Union Steamship Company's Ship-Repairing Works, Southampton, 126
Washington Gun Factory, 405
Watervliet Arsenal, American Naval Gun Factory, 377
Zeehan and Dundas Silver Smelting Works, 201

Works in Canada, 23
Works in New Zealand, 671
World's Fair. See Columbian Exposition
World's Shipwrecks, Statistics of, 147
Wormwheels, 333
Wrecks, Three Months' Ship-, 769
Wynne's Electric Tramway S3 stem, 641

Yacht Engines, " Princess Alice " (Penn), 780'
Yacht " Mignon," Aluminium Naphtha (Escher Wyss), 320
Yellowstone Park, 808, 809
Yosemite, Alsska, and the Yellowstone, 403, 439; 474, 619, 633, 663, 697, 623, 659, 688, 717, 745, 773, 807
Yosemite Valley, 624, 660, 661
Young's Hydraulic Bolt Forcer, 723

Zeehan and Dundae' Silver Smelting Works, 201

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