Engineering 1897 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1897 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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ACETYLENE and Ethane Mixture, 59
Acetylene, Heat of Combustion of, 745
Acetylene Industry, 538
Accident Compensation Bill, 51
Accident to Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 444, 658. See LETTER, 477

Accidents, Railway :

Accident at Gunnersbury, 481
Collision at Brinnington Junction, Fatal, 244
Collision, Buffer Stop, at Lowestoft, 308
Collision at Burnley on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 174
Collision at Buxton, Fatal Buffer-Stop, 587
Collision at Dinas, Butt, 587. See Erratum, 621
Collision at Doncaster Station, 678
Collision, Double, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 364
Collision on Liverpool Overhead Railway, 55
Collision at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 576
Collision, Pitsea Junction, 278
Collision, Rear, at Ardsley Station, 576
Collision with Shunted Train at Rimington, 587
Collision, Side, Borough Market, 424
Collision, Side, at New Cross, 390
Collision at Sutton Bridge, near Shrewsbury, 587
Collision at Yeovil Junction, London and South-Western Railway, 407
Derailment (Fatal), near Mayfield, 696
Derailment at Newcastle-under-Lyme, 320
Derailment near Sole-Street, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, 587
Derailment at Welshampton, Fatal, 319
Grouping of Signals for Parallel Lines, 481
Mistaking Hand-Signals at Cambridge, 257
Overrunning Badly-Lighted Signal at Walkden, 750
Returns for 1896, 17
Runaway Carriages at Victoria Station, Manchester, 736
Statistics of Accidents, 739
Viaduct Fatality at Coldreneck, Great Western Railway, 257

Accounts by Diagram, 582, 603
Accumulators, Electric Traction by, 625, 680, 775
Accumulator Plates, Riley's, 749
Accumulator, Werner Electric, 689
Additions to the Navy in 1897, 774
Adiabatics of Saturated Vapour, 224
Adulteration of Portland Cement, 567
Aerial Torpedo, Maxim, 235
Aesthetic Side of Engineering, 537. See LETTERS
Africa, 608
Agricultural Show, Smithfield, 717
Agricultural Show at Manchester, 5
Air Compressor and Rock Drill (Francois, Seraing), 289, 365
Air Pump, Edwards', 768
Air Waves, 719
Alcohol Engines, 661
Alkali Manufacture, Electrolytic Cell, 540
Alloys, Nickel, 528
Alloys, Steel and Iron, 59
Alma Tube Works (T. Russell and Co., Birmingham), 130. See LETTER, 208
Aluminium Industry, 361
America. See United States.
Ammonia Refrigerating Plant (Lebrun, Belgium), 494
Amslees Planimeter, 748
Analysis of Inertia Forces of the Moving Parts of Engines, 511, 543
Analysis, Spectrographic, Iron Ores, &o., 395
Analysis of Speed Trials of Ships, 547
Andrews, Thomas, on Microscopic Observations of Steel Rails, 99, 249, 298, 676, 458
Angles of Pipe Bends, 478
"Annett," Steam Yacht (Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 350
Anthropology, 265, 297
Arid Districts and Water Supply, 85
Armament Trials, of the Japanese Battleship "Yashima," 445. See 171
Armour. See Vickers
Armour-Plate Bending Press (Hayward, Tyler, and Co.), 135
Armour-Plate, Manufacture of, 521, 555, 583, 607
Armour-Plate Trials, 288
Armour-Plates, Harvey Process, 35, 150, 211
Armoured Cruisers, 141
Armoured Cupola for Fort Waelhem, 779
Armstrong, Lord, on Electrical Movements, 810
Arnold, J. 0., on Influence of Sudden Cooling of Iron, 48. See also 514 and LETTERS
Artificial Stone, Owen's, 570
Artillery. See Gun8
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Boiler Explosion, 783
Astronomical Time, Unification of, 423
Atlantic City Railroad Locomotive, 351
Atlantic Liner (German), " Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse " (Vulcan Company), 415, 689
Atlantic Speed Record, 689
Atlantic Trade, Bristol and the, 683
August Weather, 327
Australian Railway, South, 49
Automatic Booking Clerk Controller, 570
Automatic Finboats, 506
"Avon," Carron Company's T.S.S. (Wigham Richardson and Co.), 631, 735

Baden Railway Reform, 268
Balanced Locomotive, 559. See LFTTERs Balancing Engines (Yarrow-Schlick-Tweedy System), 631, 735
Ballast, Water, for Colliers in the Pacific, 788
Ballooning, Scientific, and Temperatures, 460, 486, 554, 609, 689, 719
Baltic and Black Sea Canal, 628
Baltic-North Sea Canal, 329
Bank, Japan Industrial, 116
Barges and Grain Elevators, 9
Barges, Steam, for Shallow River Volga, 102, 248, 309, 427, 524, 612, 727
Barnaby, Mr. Sydney W. on Cavitation with Screw Propellers at High Speed, 71, 75. See LETTER, 135
Barr and Stroud Range Finder, &c., 575. See LETTER, 600
Barry Docks, 194
Battleship and Cruiser, Models at the Brussels Exhibition, 47
Battleships. See Warships
Bavarian State Railways, Electro - Pneumatic Signalling, 662. See 679
Bearings, Lubrication of, 169
Beetroot Sugar, 778
Belt Conveying Coal Shipment, 195
Belt Conveyor for Shipping Coal, 172
Behr's Monorail Railway, 40, 538
Belgian Company, John Cockerill, 633
Belgian Gas Engines, 674
Belgian Locomotives, 617. See 648, 706, 731
Belgian Railway Exhibits, 707
Belgian State Railways Express Locomotive, 583, 617, 648. See lArrEas
Bending Press, Armour-Plate (Hayward, Tyler, and Co.), 135
Benjamin, Mr. Charles H., on Electricity im the Machine Shop, 366. See 346
Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin, Conn., 464
Bertin, M. Emile, on Hardened Plates and
Broken Shells, 35, 150, 211
Bicycles. See Cycles
Biles, Professor J. H., on Nickel Steel Ships, 25
Birmingham Water Works, 146, 278
Blackburn Mission in China, 268
Blackwell's Electric Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition, 29, 84
Blast-Furnace, Handling Material at, 407, 496, 529
Blast-Furnacemen and the Eight-Hours' Day, 46
Boat, Lambert's Gliding, 421. See Lmrrxms
Boats, Automatic Fin, 506
Boats for Canals, 428, 487, 524, 612, 727
Boiler Disincrustator, Lunkenheimer, 576
Boiler Explosion at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 783
Boiler Explosion at Halifax, 58
Boiler Explosion on the Thames, 451
Roiler Explosion at Weymouth, 304
Boiler Feed Regulator, Normand's, 227
Boiler Installation, Combined Water-Tube and Tank, 597
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boiler
Boilers, Staying of Locomotive, 626, 743
Bolts, Strength of Stay, 224
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 783
"Bon Marche" Oil Motor, 674
Booking Clerk Controller, Automatic, 570
Books Received, 31, 205, 219, 310, 348, 521, 641
"Boon" Metallic Packing, 576
Boring Machine, Electrically-Driven, 674, 761, 791
Boston Police Boat, Progressive Speed Trials, 765
Brake for Bicycles, Simplex, 609
Brake, Phillips' Cycle, 666
Breakage of Screw Shafts, 447, 507, 542, 671
Breakdowns in Engines, Cause, 442
Brickmaking Machinery, 8
Bridge, Alexander III., at Paris, 219, 790
Bridge Building in Egypt, 20, 39, 50. See LETTERS
Bridge Design, 'Esthetics in, 537. See Liirrims
Bridge Design and Statically Indeterminate Structures, 173
Bridge, Floating, at Southampton, 648
Bridge Members, Actual Stresses in, 183
Bridge Members, Tests of Full-Sized, 50
Bridge, Turning, over the Calumet River, South Chicago, 23
Bridge Works, Berlin, Conn., 464
Bridges, Actual Stresses in, 239
Bridges. See Photo-Theodolite, 314
Brighton Lee Link, 505
Bristol and the Atlantic Trade, 683
Britain, Japan, and Hawaii, 330

British Association :

143, 265, 297, 312, 372, 423, 456, 481, 528, 547, 608
Presidential Address (Sir John Evans) on Anthropology, 265, 297
Mechanical Section :
Presidential Address by Mr. G. F. Deacon on
Engineers' Training, 265, 466
Mathematical Section, 312, 372
Mathematical Symbols, 313
Mathematical Section. Presidential Address, by Dr. Forsyth, 372
Unification of Time, by John A. Paterson, 423
Some Experiments on the Condensation of Steam, by Professor H. T. Callendar and Professor J. T. Nicolson, 481
Canadian Metals, by Professor Roberts-Austen, 628
Analysis of Speed Trials of Ships, by Wm. George Walker, 647
Geographical Section. Dr. Keltie's Presidential Address, 608
Presidential Address, Chemical Section, Professor Ramsay, 429
Electric MethoD of Measuring Temperature of Metal Surface on which Steam is Condensing, by H. L. Callendar, 482

British Court, Brussels Exhibition, 378
British Industries and Foreign Competition, 300
British made Projectiles 329
British Railway Construction, Current, 238
British Railway Results, 414
British Trade in China, 625
British Warships. See S.M.S.
Brown's Armour-Plate Trials, 288
Brussels Exhibition Awards, 536

Brussels Exhibition : 378

Air Compressor and Rock Drill (Francois Seraing), 289, 365
Ammonia Refrigerating Plant (Lebrun), 494
Behr Monorail Railway, 40, 638
Belgian Railway Carriage, 731
Belgian Railway Exhibits, 707, 731. See Erratum, 769
British Court, 378
Electric Exhibits, Mr. Blackwell's, 29, 84. See Erratum, 167
French Railway Exhibits, 707. See Erratum., 769
Gas and Petroleum Exhibits, 616, 674
Horizontal Steam Engine (Lebrun, Nimy), 381
Juries, 16
Jury Awards, 142, 536
Locomotive Exhibits, 617, 618, 707
Oil and Gas Motors, 616, 674
Railway Exhibits, 617, 648, 707, 731. See Erratum, 769
Ship Models, 47

Bucknill, Lieut.-Col., on Explosions and the Radii of Danger, 186, 251, 284, 314
Buenos Ayres Railways, 548
Bulkhead Doors, Water-tight, 731
Buluwayo Railway, 502
Buluwayo Railway, Opening, 720
Bute Docks, 194
Butler's Oil Engine, 674

Cable-Haulage Clip, Watts-Collier, 601
Cabs, Electrical, 242
Calcium Carbide Industry, 538
Calendering Machines for Linoleum, 257. See 155
California and Districts Water Supply, 85
Callendar, Professor H. L. on Experiments on
Condensation of Steam, 481
Calumet River, South Chicago, Turning Bridge, 23
Campbell, Kr. E. D., on Diffusion of Sulphides through Steel, 173, 335
Canadian Railways, 147
Canal Diversion and Railway Tunnelling, 266
Canal, Elbe-Trave, 805
Canal, Great Russian, 628
Canal, Manchester Ship, 268, 597
Canal, Nicaragua, 219
Canal, North Sea-Baltic,329
Canal Projects, Trans-uropean, 171
Canal. See also Chicago Drainage Canal
Canals, Electric Towage on, 252, 374, 402, 428, 487. See LErrEits
Cantilever Bridge at Paris, 219, 790
Car, Motor, Electric, 187, 242
Car, Steam Dust, 350
Cars, Motor, 8, 187, 242, 350
Cars, Motor, in France, 551, 645
Cars, Motor, Trials of, 628
Carbon and Iron, 191
Carburetted Water Gas Plant at Birmingham, 108
Carriage. See Cars, Motor
Carriage, Electric Motor (Pope Company, Hartford, U.S.A.). 187
Carriages, Corridor, for the Eastern Railway of France, 318
Carriages, Corridor, for South-Eastern Railway, 330, 352, 378
Carriages, Lighting of Railway, 776
Carron Company's T.-S.S. " Avon " (Wigham Richardson and Co.), 631, 735
Cast Welded Joints, Electric Car Lines, 417
Casting Ingots, 458
Castings, Contraction in Cooling, 379
Catch Sidings for Railway Gradients, 709
Cavitation with Screw Propellers at High Speeds, 71, 76. See LETTER, 135
Cells, Temperature Compensators for Standard, 750
Cement, Adulteration of Portland, 567
Cement, Portland, 683, 720, 747, 778, 807
Central Stations, Electric, 398
Centrifugal Pump Dredging in New South Wales, 206
Chainless Bicycle, 679, 723. See LETTERS
Chair, Railway, for L. and N.-W., 303
Channel Steamer Service, 380. See 449. See Erratum, 411
Chapman-Hunter Pocket Pitchometer, 479
Chavornay and Orbe Electric Railway, 406
Chemistry and Sanitation, 444

Chicago Drainage Canal : 34, 135, 77, 1:35, 255

Dam, " Bear Trap," 77. See 135
Gates, Sluice, 34, 135
Navvy, Warrington Steam, 255
Regulation Works, Details, 34, 135, 255
Shovel, Warrington Steam, 255
Sluices and Gates, 34, 135
Warrington Steam Shovel, 255

Chicago, South, Turning Bridge at., 23
Chilian Torpedo-Boat " Injeniero Hyatt" (Yarrow), 315
Chimney, Wrought-Iron, 522
China, Blackburn Mission in, 268
China and British Trade, 625
China, Condition of Trade, 45
China and Denmark, 362
China, Developing Resources of, 776
China, Foreign Trade of, 503
China, International Institute, Pekin, 473
China, Railways in, 82
China Trade Promotion, 202
Chitty Dynamo and Motor, 720, 747
City Great Fire, 656, 716, 772, 801

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Examinations, 475. See LErms, Qualifications of Engineers
Presidential Address (Sir J. Wolfe Barry), 566
Premiums, 437
Manchester Ship Canal, by Sir E. Leader Williams, Mr. Whately Eliot, and Mr. W. O. E. Meade-King, 597
The Law of Condensation of Steam, by Messrs. Hugh L. Callendar and John T. Nicolson, 678
Clark Cells, Electromotive Force of, 634
Clip, Watts-Collier Rope Haulage, 601
"Clutha " Steamers at Glasgow Harbour, 756
"Clyde," Old Clyde Trust Tug's Paddle Engine, 133
Clyde Passenger Steamer and Water - Tube Boilers, 627
Coal Cargoes, Dangers, 386
Coal, Indian, 389
Coal Shipment Derricks, 195
Coal Shipping Machinery, 172, 195
Coal Supply of United Kingdom, 745
Coal, World's Supply, 265, 297
Coals, Hygrometric Properties of, 269
Cockerill Company, The John, 633
Collective Bargaining, 742
Colliers in the Pacific, Water Ballast for, 788
Collisions, Railway. See Accidents
Colonial Trade, 357
Colouring Glass by Penetration, 173
Columbia Motor Car, 187
Columbia University, 1
Commerce of the Great Lakes, 765
Commercial Bureau in Germany, 742
Compensation for Accidents Bill, 21, 39, 51
Competition in Colonial Trade, 357
Compound Engine. See Engines
Compressor, Air, and Rock Drill (Francois), 289, 365
Conciliation Report for Year, 233
Condensation of Steam, Experiments, 481
Condensation of Steam, Law of, 678
Condensation, The Laws of Cylinder, 346
Conference on Workmen's Hours. See Engineering Dispute
Congress, Trades Union, 325, 359
Construction of Cycles, 146, 337
Consuls and Trade, 234
Contraction of Castings in Cooling, 379
Contracts of Municipal Authorities, 542
Conveyors at Blast-Furnaces, 407, 496, 529
Cooling of Iron, Influence of Sudden, 48, 514. See LETTERS
Copper, Electrolytic, 174
Cordite and Lee-Enfield Rifle, 147
Corliss Valve, Proell Cut-Off with, 22, 39 •
Corridor Carriages for the Eastern Railway of France, 318
Corridor Carriages for South-Eastern Railway, 330, 352, 378
Cost Accounts by Diagrams, 582, 603
Cotton Industry, Lancashire, 475
Cotton Mills in Hong Kong, 540
Crane, 100-Ton Gantry, 791
Crane, Ladle, for Steel Works, 589
Crane, 150-Ton Travelling Steam, 555. See 607
Cranes, &c., at Steel Works, 457, 791
Cranes, '25-Ton Self-Propelling (Russell, Motherwell), 12
Crank Shafting, 639
Crank and other Shafts, 79, 74. See LETTER 136
Cripplegate Fire, 650, 716, 772, 801
Cruisers. See Warships
Cupola, Armoured, for Fort Waelhem, 779
Cycle Brake, Phillips', 166
Cycle Brake, Simplex, 509
Cycle Construction, 146, 387
Cycle Efficiency, Tests of, 463. See LErrEas
Cycle Gearing, 571, 682, 720
Cycle Machinery, United States, 687, 679, 723
Cycle Manufacture, 65, 131. See 679, 723
Cycle Show, National, 718
Cycle Show, Stanley, 659, 687. See LETTER, 720 See Erratum, 748
Cycle, The American, 679
Cycle, The Rise of the, 347
Cylinder Condensation, Laws of, 346. See also. 481

Dairy Machinery, 7
D'Auria Pumping Engine, 430
Dam, Boar Trap, 77
Dam Failures in United States, 206
Damage to Destroyer " Thrasher," 444, 058. See LETTER, 477
Dangers of Coal Cargoes, 886
Danish Ferries and Ice-Breaking Steamers, 69 88
Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, 360
Davey, Mr. Henry, on Birmingham Water Works, 146, 276
Dawson, Mr. P., on Electric Traction, 582
Deflection in Steamers, 331, 363, 392
Denmark and the Far East, 362
Denmark, New Zone Tariff, 116
Denmark Shipbuilding and Engineering, 482
Design of Torpedo Boats, 763
Destroyers' Engines, Self-Lubricating (Belliss), 158, 169, 177, 214
Destructors, Refuse and Electric Light (Shoreditch), 19
Diagram Accounts, 682, 603
Diagram, Metal Prices, 22, 176, 302, 448, 572, 692, 806
Diagrams of Strength of Gear Teeth, 223
Diffusion of Sulphides through Steel, 173, 335
Disincrustator, Lunkenheimer Boiler, 676
Dispute as to Eight-Hours Day, Engineers'. See Engineering Trade Dispute
Dock, First English Diy, 689. See Erratum, 719
Dock, Floating, for San Paulo de Loanda, 315
Dock, Floating, S wan and Hunter, 300. See LErrEits
Dock Schemes in Parliament, 699
Docks, Glasgow, 330
Docks, London, 73
Docks in South Wales, 194
Dowlais Cardiff Works, 194
Drainage Canal. See Chicago Drainage Canal
Dredger " Octopus" Suction Pump (Simons), 229
Dredging in New South Wales, Centrifugal Pump, 206
Dredging of Rivers, Automatic, 21, 119
Dresdner Gasmotoren Fabrik Oil and Gas Engines, 674
Drill, Rock and Air Compressor (Frangois), 289, 365
Drury Lane, Stage Accident, 419
Dry Dock, First English, 689. See Erratum, 719
Dulac's Piling Engine, 220
Dumbartonshire Railway Extension, 266
Durston, Sir A. J., on Engineering Progress, 37, 62, 91
Dutch Cruiser with Water - Tube and Tank Boilers, 597
Dynamo and Engine 20-Kilowatt, Electrotechnische Industrie, 333
Dynamos, 117, 274, 305
Dynamometer, Transmission, 226

Earth's Magnetism, New Theory, 59
Edison, Magnetic Iron Ore Separation, 579
Education, Technical, 295, 630
Education, Technical, in Germany, 537
Edwards' Air Pump, 768
Efficiency of the Bicycle, Tests of the, 463, 679. See LwrrERs
Egypt, Bridge Building in, 20, 39, 50. See LETTERS
Egpyt, Engineering Failures in, 50
Egyptian Government Light-Draught Gunboat (Thornycroft), 491
Egyptian Government Light-Draught Gunboat (Yarrow), 435
Eight-Hours Day and Blast-Furnacemen, 46
Eight-Hours Day, Engineering, 16, 81, 201, 264, 385, 413, 441, 471, 501, 535, 565, 593, 623, 657, 685, 707, 713, 741, 742, 771, 802. See LETTERS
Elbe-Trave Canal, 802
Electric Accumulators for Traction, 625, 686, 775
Electric Accumulator, Werner, 689
Electric Accumulator Plates, Riley's, 749
Electric Cabs, 242
Electric Car Lines, Cast Welded Joints, 417
Electric Cells, Temperature Compensators for Standard, 750
Electric Central Stations in Germany, 389
Electric Dynamo and Engine, 333
Electric Dynamos, 117, 274, 305
Electric Exhibits, Mr. Blackwell's, at Brussels, 29, 84. See Erratum, 167
Electric Furnace Work, Moissan's, 329
Electric, German Silver and Platinoid Resistances, 695
Electric Launch " Plante " (Dutch), 530
Electric Light by Refuse Destructor (Shoreditch), 19
Electric Light Station, Pupils for, 20
Electric Lighthouses in Japan, 128
Electric Lighting, Her Majesty's Ships, 807
Electric Motor Carriage, Columbia, 187
Electric Motor, 5 Horse - Power (Phcenix Company, Bradford), 271
Electric Motors, &c., Behr Monorail Railway, 40, 638
Electric Power Plant, 457, 639
Electric Power Plants, Rating, 346
Electric Railway, Orbe and Chavornay, 406
Electric Towage on Canals, 252, 374, 402, 428, 487. See LETTERS
Electric Traction, 582
Electric Traction by Accumulators, 625, 686, 775
Electric Traction Exhibits at Brussels, 29, 40, 84, 538
Electric Trolley for Tramways, 84
Electric Waves in Wires, Attenuation of, 59
Electric Welding, 662

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Accumulator Traction on Railways and Ordinary Roads, by Mr. Epstein, 625, 686, 775
Electrical Method of Measuring Temperature of Metal Surface, 482
Electrical Movements in Air and Water (Lord Armstrong's Book), 310
Electrical Plant at Kimberley, 300
Electrical Schemes in Parliament, 699
Electrically-Driven Tools, 674
Electricity in Workshops, 346, 366, 457, 639
Electrified Ellipsoid, Steady Motion of an, 59
Electro-Pneumatic Signalling : Bavarian State Railways, 662. See 679
Electrolytic Cell for Alkali Manufacture, 540 Electrolytic Copper, 174
Electromotive Force of Clark Cells, 634
Elevators, Floating Grain (Stott), 9
Ellipsoid, Steady Motion of an Electrified, 69
Ellis, Mr. Charles, on Non-Flammable Wood, 36, 41
Elongation, Mirror Extensimeter, 462
Employers, Federation of, 264. See also Engieering Trade Dispute
Enfield Factory Management, 263
Engine for Armour-Plate Rolling Mill, 583. See 607
Engine Boilers and Employers' Liability Insurance Company's Report, 442
Engine, Fire (Merryweather), 663
Engine, Fire, Self-Propelled, 462
Engine, Gas (National Company, Ashton-under-Lyne), 53
Engine, Gas, Thermodynamics of, 207
Engine, Horizontal Steam (Lebrun, Belgium), 381
Engine, Hult's Rotary, 765
Engine, Indicator, Continuous, 462, 516
Engine and 20-Kilowatt Dynamo, 333
Engine, Oil, Blackstone and Co., Limited, 5
Engine, Oil, Ruston, '258
Engine, Old Clyde Trust Paddle Tug's, 133
Engine Proportions, Current Practice in, 634, 666
Engine Tests, Sulzer, 346
Engine, Trusty Oil, 808
Engine, Vertical (Clayton and Shuttleworth), 7
Engine, Weak Points, 442
Engines, Analysis of the Inertia Forces of the Moving Parts of, 511, 543
Engines, Balancing, 511, 543
Engines, Balancing, Yarrow - Schlick - Tweedy
System, 631, 735
Engines, Felt Mats for Rails and, 776
Engines, Gas, 616, 674
Engines, Gas, in French Flour Mills, 190
Engines, Oil, 616, 674
Engines, Oil, Gas, and Steam, at Smithfield Show, 717
Engines, Paddle, with Joy Gear, 258
Engines, Pumping, D'Auria, 436
Engines, Self-Lubricating High-Speed, 158, 169, 177, 214
Engines, Steam and Oil, at Agricultural Show, 5
Engines of the Steam-Yacht " Annett " (Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 350
Engines, T.-S.S. " Avon" (Wigham Richardson and Co.), 631, 735
Engines, T. -SS. " Roebuck " and " Reindeer," Channel Steamers (Vickers, Barrow), 380, 449. See Erratum, 411
Engines, Traction, at Smithfield Show, 717
Engines, Triple-Expansion, SS. " Spaniel " and Pointer " (Inglis), 11
Engines Worked with Alcohol, 661
Engineer Officers, Royal, 683, 747, 808
Engineer, School v. Shop, 597
Engineers, Examination for Civil, 475
Engineers and Hours of Labour. See Engineering Trade Dispute
Engineers on Tea Estates, 332
Engineers' Training, 265, 295, 457
Engineers, United States Naval, 595
Engineering and Architecture in Sanitation, 416
Engineering, 'Esthetic Side of, 537. See LETTERS
Engineering Failures in Egypt, 60
Engineering, Progress of Marine, 37, 52, 91
Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1897, 781, 794
Engineering Trade Dispute, 16, 81, 201, 264, 385, 413, 441, 471, 501, 535, 565, 593, 623, 657, 685, 707, 713, 741, 742, 771, 802 See LETTERS
English v. American Locomotives in Japan, 85
English Dry Dock, First, 689. See Erratum, 719
Eophone, 393. See LETTERS
Epicyclic Indicator for Water-Tight Doors, Gibson's, 530. See Erratum, 558
Ethane and Acetylene Mixture, 59
Ether, Isothermals of, 634
Examination of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 475
Excavator, Steam, 255
Exhibition. See also Brussels Exhibition. See LETTERS
Exhibition Awards, Brussels, 536
Exhibition, National Cycle, 718
Exhibition, Paris, 1900, 219, 686, 770
Exhibition, Stanley Cycle, 659, 687. See LETTER, 720. See Erratum, 748
Exhibition, Stockholm, 226, 343, 489, 644, 760. See LETTERS
Explosion. See Boiler Explosions
Explosion of a Tar Still, 239
Explosion, Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 444, 658. See LETTER, 477
Explosion at Worcester, Fatal, 163
Explosions and the Radii of Danger, 186, 251, 284, 314
Explosives in 1896, 360
Explosives, High, 135
Extensimeter, Mirror, 462

Fair Wages, 655
"Fame, " H.M. Destroyer (Thornycroft), 796
Fans, Ventilating, 55, 122, 568, 669, 751, 752. See LETTERS,
Fans, 8, 807
Fatigue in Steel Rails, Microscopic Observations, 99, 249, 298, 455, 676
Federation of Employers, 264. See also Engineering Trade Dispute
Feed Regulator, Normand's, 227
Felt Mats for Rails and Engines, 776
Ferries and Ice-Breaking Steamers, Danish, 69, 88
Ferry System of Glasgow, 756
Ferry, Vehicular, at Southampton, 648
Feux-Eclairs, 545. See Erratum, 687
Fielding and Platt's Gas Engine, 674
Filtering Water (Wright's) Plant, 631
Filtration, Sewage, 506. See 473
Finance, Japanese Industrial, 170
Finboats, Automatic, 506
Fire Engines (Merryweather), 663
Fire Engine, Self-Propelled, 462
Fire, Great City, 656, 716, 772, 801
Fire Prevention Committee, 649
Fire Protection of Public Halls, 236
Fireboxes of Locomotives, Staying of, 626, 743. See LETTERS

Fire Protection in Europe :

31, 103, 183, 371, 552, 641, 730. See LErrERE
Berlin Fires, 552, 641, 730
Brigades, 183. See LETTERS
Combating Fire, 103, 183
Engines, Fire, 183
Escapes, 183
Fire Calls, 103
Fire Prevention, 371, 552, 641
Firemen, 183
German Legislation re Fire Prevention, 552, 641, 730
Hamburg Fires, 552, 641
Legislation, 371, 552, 641, 730
London Fires, 31
Manuals, Fire, 183
Prevention, Fire, 31
Self-Help, 103
Vienna Panorama Fire, 730
Warehouse Fires in Germany, 552, 641

Fireproof Construction, 683
Flanging Press, Hydraulic (Morgan Company, Alliance, Ohio), 162
Flash Lights, Lightning, 545. See Erratum, 587
Floating Bridge at Southampton, 648
Floating Dock for San Paulo de Loanda, 315
Floating Dock, Swan and Hunter, 300. See LETTERS
Floating Sheers, 60-Ton (Day, Summers, and Co.), 194
"Flood v. Page," 741
Floorcloth, 155, 257
Flow of Water through Long Pipes, 135
Fluorine at Low Temperatures, 627
Folometer, 576
Foreign Competition, 300
Formosa and Japan, 328
Formosa, Railways in, 687
Fort Waelhem, Armoured Cupola for, 779
Foster's Full-Bore Pressure Reducing Valve, 812
Foundations of Alexander III. Bridge, Paris, 790. See 219
Foundry Metals, Comparative Fusibility of, 338
Fractures of Crankshafts, 70, 74. See LETTER, 135
France, Road Motors in, 551, 644
France Railway, Northern of, 319
Francois' Air Compressor and Rock Drill, 289, 365
Frank's Hydrometer Tube, 351
Free Labour, 471
Freezing Brighton Lee Rink, 505
Freight Rates in United States, 390
French Locomotives, 706, See Erratum, 769
French Motor Cars, 551, 645
French Naval Manoeuvres, 348, 375
French Navy, 21, 805
French Railway Corridor Carriages, 318
French Railway Exhibits, 707
Funnel Shroud Compensator, 601
Furnace for Carburising Armour-Plates, 583. See 607
Furnace Gases, Testing, 247
Furnace, Moissan's Electric, 329
Furnaces Open Hearth, 458
Furnival's Gas and Oil Engine, 616
Fusibility of Foundry Metals, Comparative, 338

Gantry Crane, 100-Ton, 791
Gas, Acetylene, 538
Gas Engine (National Company, Ashton-under-Lyne), 53
Gas Engines. See also Engines
Gas Engines in French Flour Mills, 190
Gas and Petroleum Engines, 616, 674
Gas Plant, Carburetted Water, at Birmingham, 103
Gas Producer, Economy of Wilson's, 630
Gas Producers, 458
Gas Producers, A Suggested Thermal Chemical Law, 808
Gas Schemes in Parliament, 699
Gases, Testing Furnace, 247
Gasholders, Spiral Guided, 55
Gauge for Measuring High Pressures, 464
Gear Teeth, Strength of, 223
Geography, 608
Geology and Sanitation, 444
German Electric Industry, 414
German Electric Lighting, 389
German Gas and Oil Engines, 674
German Lesson, 742
German Patents, 507
German Railways, 362
German Silver and Platinoid Wires, Failure of, 695
German Trade, 387
Germany, Shipbuilding in, 237
Germany, Technical Education in, 537
Gibson's Epicyclic Indicator for Water-Tight Doors, 530. See Erratum, 558
Girders, Actual Stresses in, 183
Girders, Tests of Full-Sized, 60
Gisholt Combination Lathe, 317
Glasgow Corporation and Tramway Profits, 116
Glasgow District Subway, 219
Glasgow Ferry System, 756
Glasgow Harbour and Docks, 330
Glass Colouring by Penetration, 173
Gliding Boat, Lainbert's, 421. See LETTERS
Gold-Mining, Transvaal, 162
Governor for Engine (Clayton and Shuttleworth), 7
Gradients and Railway Loads and Speeds, 203
Grain Elevators (Stott), 9
Grant, The Late Mr. John, 495
Graphic Aid in Approximating Hull Weights, 70, 121
Graphite, 326
Gray, Professor, on a Continuous Steam Engine Indicator, 462, 515
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 783
Great Western Railway Channel Steamers (Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness), 380, 449. See Erratum, 411
Grinding Machine for Armour, 607
Gun Trials, 791
Guns. See also Vickers
Guns, Construction of, 760, 791
Gunboat, Light-Draught (Yarrow), 434

Hadfield, Mr. R. A., on Steel and Iron Alloys, 69
Hadfield Projectiles, 329
Hagan's Coupled Locomotive (Henschel, Cassel), 437
Halifax Boiler Explosion, 58
Halls, Fire Protection of, 236
Hammond, Mr. George B., on Tin-Plate Manufacture, 289. See 173
Handling Material for Blast-Furnaces, 407, 496, 529
Harbour, Development in Vladivostock, 418
Harbour Ferries, Glasgow, 756
Harbour, Glasgow, 330
Harbour Schemes in Parliament, 699
Hardening Armour, 521, 555, 583, 607
Hardening Power of Low Carbon Steel, 48, 507, 514, 599, 741
Hartlepool Shipbuilding, 795
Hartley, W. N., and Ramage, Hugh, on Spectrographic Analysis of Iron Ores, &c., 395
Harvey Process, Armotir-Plates, 35, 150, 211
Harveyised Process of Hardening Armour, 521, 555, 583, 607
Hawaii, Japan, and Britain, 330
Haythorn Water-Tube Boiler for Clyde Steamer, 627
Heating Water (Wright's) Plant, 631
Hele-Shaw, Professor H. S., on Surface Resistance, 71, 90
Henning's Recorder for Metal Tests, 241
H.M. Battleships and Armoured Cruisers (New Navy Estimates), 141
H.M. Destroyer " Fame" (Thornycroft), 796
H.M. Destroyer, Trial Results, 775
H.M. Destroyers, Self-Lubricating Engines (Belliss), 168, 177, 214
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers " Lynx " and " Thrasher," Accident, 444, 658. See LIcrrER, 477
H.M. Ships, Electric Lighting, 807
H.M.S. " Powerful," Progressive Speed Trials, 476
High Explosives, 135, 235
High-Speed Self-Lubricating Machinery, 158, 177, 214
Himalayan-Darjeeling Railway, 360
Historical, Vickers' Works, 403
History of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 148, 179
Holden, Bart., The Late Sir Isaac, 237
Hong Kong Cotton Mills, 540
Horizontal Steam Engine (Lebrun, Nimy), 881
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Machine - Moulded Wheels, 4, 63, 127, 285, 399, 485, 705, 755
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on the Stanley Show, 687
Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, 674
Horseless Carriage. See Cars, Motor
Hours of Labour. See Engineering Trade Dispute
Howe, Mr. H. W., on Hardening Power of Low Carbon Steel, 514. See LErrEits
Hull Weights, Approximating by Graphic Aids, 90, 121
Hult's Rotary Engine, 765
Hunter, Mr. Robert, on Spiral Guided Gasholders, 55
Hydraulic Flanging Press (Morgan Company, Alliance, Ohio), 162
Hydraulic Forging Press, 8000-Ton, 555
Hydraulic, Gantry Crane, 100-Ton, 791
Hydraulic Machinery, 347
Hydraulic Press, Armour-Plate (Hayward, Tyler, and Co.), 135
Hydraulic Press for Cogging Tyres, 703, 729
Hydrometric Tube, Frank's, 351
Hygrometric Properties of Coals, 269

Ice-Breaking Steamers, Danish Ferries and, 69 88
Implements, Agricultural, 8, 717
India, Railways and Trade in, 236
India-Rubber Goods, Testing, 115
India-Rubber, Manufacture, 131
Indian Coal, 389
Indian Railways, 783
Indian Railways and Telegraphs, 54
Indicator, Continuous Steam Engine, 462, 515, 720
Indicator for High Speeds, Mean Pressure, 332. See LwrrERs
Indicator, Little's Continuous Recording, 720
Indicator for Water-Tight Doors, Gibson Epicycle, 530. See Erratum., 558
Industrial Finance, Japanese, 170
Industrial Notes, 23, 53, 87, 120, 149, 175, 210, 243, 271, 303, 333, 365, 393, 421, 450, 479, 509, 544, 573, 601, 632, 663, 694, 722, 749, 779, 811
Industry, German, 414
Inertia Forces of the Moving Parts of Engines, Analysis, 511, 643
Influence of Sudden Cooling of Iron, 48. See also 514 and LETrzits
Inglis, A. and J., Jubilee, 133. See LETTErts, 239
"Ingeniero Hyatt," Chilian Torpedo-Boat, 315
Ingot Head Cutter, 639
International Congress of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. See Naval Architects
Intimidation in Labour Disputes, 741
Ireland, Railway Shipping and Banking, 300
Iron and Carbon, 191
Iron, Influence of Sudden Cooling of, 48. See also 514 and LE'rrER.s
Iron Ore Separation at Edison, Magnetic, 579
Iron Ore, &c., Spectrographic Analysis, 395
Iron, Positive and Negative Stresses, 464
Iron Refining, Thermo-Chemical Study, 191 Iron and Steel Alloys, 59
Iron and Steel Industry, Swedish, 343

Iron and Steel Institute :

Cardiff Meeting, 172, 190
Application of the Travelling Belts to the Shipment of Coals, by Mr. Thomas Wrightson, 172, 195
Manufacture of Tin Plates, by Mr. G. B. Hammond, 173, 289
On Passive Iron, by Mr. J. S. de Benneville, 173
The Diffusion of Iron Sulphides through Steel, by Mr. E. D. Campbell, 173, 335
A Thermo-Chemical Study of the Refining of Iron, by Professor Honore Ponthiere, 191
Carbon and Iron, by Mr. E. H. Saniter, 191
A Portable Recorder for Tests of Metals, by Mr. G. C. Henning, 191, 241
On the Spectographic Analysis of Iron Ore, by Professor W. N. Hartley and Hugh Ramage, 193, 395
On Improvements in Shipping Appliances in the Bristol Channel, by Sir W. T. Lewis, 193
On the Iron Industry of Hungary, by Mr. D. A. Lewis, 193
Excursions and Entertainments, 193, 194
Bute Docks, 194
Dowlais Cardiff Works, 194
Penarth Dock and DIelingriffith Tin - Plate Works, 194
Cyfartha, 194
Newport and Barry Docks, 194

Iron and Steel Yield Point, 4e4
Iron, United States, 114
Isothermals of Ether, 634

Jameson, Mr. J., on Diagram Accounts, 582, 603
Japan, American v. English Locomotives in, 85
Japan and Denmark, 362
Japan, Engineering in, 715
Japan, Foreign Trade, 144
Japan, Foreigners in, 539
Japan and Formosa, 328
Japan and Hawaii, Britain, 330
Japan Industrial Bank, 116
Japan Industry, 696
Japan, Marquis Ito's Advice to, 745
Japan, Notes from, 329
Japan and the Paris Exhibition, 237
Japan, Patents, Trade Marks and Designs, 362
Japan, Public Opinion in, 665
Japan, Pure Science in, 20
Japan and Russia, Naval Expansion, 689
Japan Shipbuilding, 805
Japan, Shipping in, 358
Japan, Shipping at Yokohama, 506
Japan Steel Works, Proposed, 330
Japan and United States Competition, 174
Japan and United States Tariff, 370
Japan Welcome Society, 206
Japan (Yokohama) Trade, 801
Japanese Battleship " Yashima," 171, 415
Japanese Electric Lighthouses, 128
Japanese Industrial Finance, 170
Japanese Industry and Commerce, Aids to, 83
Japanese Opinion of Japanese Progress, 576
Japanese Railways, 519
Japanese Shipping, 268
Japanese Tariff, 50
Japanese Warships of the Line, 528
Johnson, Mr. J., on Graphic Aid in Approximating Hull Weights, 90, 121
Joy Gear on Paddle Engines, 258
Jubilee of A. and J. Inglis, 133. See LETTHRS, 239
July Weather, 172
June Weather, 47
Juries at the Brussels Exhibition, 16
Jury Awards, 142, 536

"Kaiser Friedrich," North German Lloyd T.-S.S. (Schichau), 448
"Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse," North German T.-S.S. (Vulcan Company) 415, 689
Kelvin's Absolute Method of Graduating a
Thermometer, 750
Kermode's Steam Steering Gear, 106
Kiinoerley Electrical Plant, 300

Labour, Free, 471
Labour Legislation, 113
Ladle Crane for Steel Works, 589
Lambert's Gliding Boat, 421. See limns
Lancashire Cotton Industry, 475
Lancaster Metallic Packing, 368
Lathe, Gisholt Combination, 317
Lathes, Electrically-Driven, 674
Lathes for Shafting and Guns, 639, 760
Launch, Boiler Explosion, 451
Launch, " Plante "Electric (Dutch), 530
Launches and Trial Trips, 22, 59, 86, 124, 176, 208, 244, 270, 306, 340, 368, 396, 424, 478, 495, 548, 575, 587, 447, 665, 696, 751, 812
Laval Steam Turbine, 644
Law of Condensation of Steam, 678
Law, Patent, 30
Lawson's Metallic Floating Packing, 436
Lee Brighton Link, 505
Lee Enfield Rifle and Cordite, 147
Legislation, Labour, 113
Letters to the Editor, 21, 39, 75, 118, 135, 163, 207, 239, 270, 301, 331, 363, 390, 418, 445, 476, 506, 541, 570, 598, 628, 649, 720, 746, 777, 807
Light-Draught Gunboat (Yarrow), 434
Light-Draught River Steamer (Simpson, Strickland, and Co.), 163
Light 5000 Candle-Power Emergency (Wells), 445
Lighthouses in Japan, 128
Lighting Railway Carriages, 776
Lights, Lightning-Flash, 545. See Erratum, 587
Linuleum-Making Machinery, 155, 257
Linoleum Works, 155
Literature, 30, 205, 219, 310, 347, 520, 640
Little's Continuous Recording Indicator, 720
Lloyd's Return of Ship Losses, 362
Loading Vessels, Regulations for, 735
Lock, New Thames, 327
Look-Out in Engineering Trades. See Engineering Trade Dispute
Locomotive, American, v. English, in Japan, 85
Locomotive, Atlantic City Railroad, 351
Locomotive, Balanced, 559. See LErrztui
Locomotive, British v. American Cost of, 747
Locomotive Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition, 617, 648, 707
Locomotive Express, Belgian Railways, 588, 617, 648. See LErriuts
Locomotive Fireboxes, Staying of, 626, 743. See LETTNR8
Locomotive, Hagan's Coupled (Henshel, Cassel), 437
Locomotive, Illinois Central Railroad Passenger (Brooks) 209
Locomotive, A Large United States, 718
Locomotive, London and North-Western Railway, 4-Cyinder Compound, 693
Locomotive, London and North-Western Railway with its Equivalent in Raw Material, 791
Locomotive, Midland Railway Express, 466
Locomotive for Soudan Military Railway, 106
Locomotive, Sumatra Rack Railway, 281
Locomotives at Brussels Exhibition, 617, 618, 706, 731
Locomotives, French, 706. See Erratum., 769
Locomotives, Tank, 331, 363, 392, 420, 477, 607 London Docks, 73
London Fire, Great, 656, 716, 772, 801
London and Maidstone Water, 476
London and North-Western 4-Cylinder Compound Locomotive, 693
London and North-Western Locomotive with its Equivalent in Raw Material, 794
London and North-Western Railway Chair, 303 London Railways, Greater, 207
London and Typhoid Fever, 476
Low Carbon Steel, Hardening Power of, 514. See LETTIM
Lubricating Machinery, 158, 169, 177, 214
Lubrication of Bearings, 169
Lunkenheimer Boiler Disincrustator, 676
" Lynx " and " Thrasher " Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, Accident, 444, 658. See LETTER, 477

McAlpine, Mr. John H. on Analysis of the Inertia Forces of the doving Parts of an Engine, 511, 643
Machine-Moulded Wheels, 4, 63, 127, 285, 399, 485, 705, 756
Machine - Tool Makers, Suggestions for the Future, 747, 777, 807
Machine-Tool Question. See Engineering Trade Dispute .
Machinery for Making Linoleum, 155, 257
Machinery, Weights of, 790
Madras Railway, 783
Magnetic Iron Ore Separation at Edison, 579
Magnetism, New Theory of Earth's, 59
Maidstone and London Water, 476
Man, .Age of, 265, 297
Manchester Ship Canal, 268, 597
Manchester Show, Royal Agricultural, 5
Manuel, Mr. G. W., on Crank and other Shafts. 70, 74. See LEITER 135
Marine Engines, Lubrication of, 158, 169, 177
Mathematical Symbols, 313
Mathematical Theory of Naval Architecture, 67, 106, 215, 239, 272
Matter and Co.'s Gas Engines in French Flour Mills, 190
Maxim-Schiipphaus Smokeless Powder, 235. See LETTERS
Measuring High Pressures, 464

Mechanical Engineers, American Inst of:

222, 247, 346, 462
Hartford, 222
Reception by the Mayor, 222
International Tests of Materials, 223
Diagrams for the Relative Strength of !Aar Teeth, by Professor Forrest R. Jones ; .23 Strength of Stay Bolts, by Mr. Fru i 'is J. Cole, 224
Adiabatics of Saturated Vapour, by Pr. f msor de Volson Wood, 224
A New Form of Transmission Dynamometer, by Dr. Frederick Bedell, 220
Fuel Gas Analyses in Boiler Tests, by Mr. Robert S. Hale, 228, 247
Testing Furnace Gases, by Mr. Hale, 247
Hygrometric Properties of Coal, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 247, 269
Excursions, 247
Electricity in Workshops, by Professor Charles H. Benjamin, 346, 360
Electric Power Equipment for General Factory Purposes, by Professor Jackson, 346
Volumnar Contraction of Castings in Cooling, by Mr. Francis Schumann, 346, 379
The Laws of Cylinder Condensation, by Mr. A. L. Rice, 346
Tests of Three Sulzer Engines, by Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, 346
The Method of Accounting to Determine Shop Cost and Minimum Selling Price, by Mr. Harry M. Lane, 346
Rating Electric Power Plants upon the Heat .Unit Standard, by Professor William S. Aldrich, 346, 462
The Rise of the Bicycle, by Dr. Leonard Waldo, 347
Mirror Extensimeter, by Mr. Gus. C. Henning, 462
Current Practice in Engine Proportions, by Professor J. H. Barr, 462, 634, 666
A Continuous Steam Engine Indicator, by Professor Thomas Gray, 462, 515
Tests of the Efficiency of the Bicycle, by Mr. John G. D. Mack, 463. See LErrEas Excursions, Berlin Bridge Works (Conn.), 464
Portable Recorder for Tests of Materials, by Mr. Gus. C. Henning. See 241
The Effect of Alternate Positive and Negative Stresses on Iron and Steel, by Professor Gray, 464
The Yield Point of Iron and Steel, by Professor Gray, 464
An Apparatus for Accurately Measuring Pressures of 10,000 Lb. per Square Inch and over, by Professor Jacobus, 464
Tests to show the Influence of Moisture in Steam on the Economy of the Steam Turbine, by Professor Jacobus, 465
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: 55, 145, 160, 568, 582
Ventilating Fans, by Mr. W. G. Walker, 55, 122, 568
Birmingham Jubilee Meeting, 145
Lord Mayor's Welcome, 145
President's Address on the History of the Institution (Mr. Windsor Richards), 145, 148, 179
Mr. Bache's Retirement, 145
Testimonial to Mr. Forrest, 146
Some Points in Cycle Construction, by Mr. F. J. Osmond, 146, 337
City of Birmingham Corporation Water Works, by Mr. Henry Davey, 146, 276
High-Speed Self-Lubricating Engines, by Mr. A. Morcom, 146, 158, 177, 214
Annual Dinner, 146
Visits to Works, &o., 146, 160
Concluding Proceedings, 160
Alma Tube Works, 130. See LETTER, 203
New Secretary, 568
Experiments upon Propeller Ventilating Fans, and upon the Electric Motor Driving Them, by Mr. William George Walker, 568, 751. See LETTER, 807. See LETTERS, Fans
Diagram Accounts for Engineering Work, by Mr. John Jameson, 582, 603

Mechanical Features of Electric Traction, by Mr. Philip Dawson, 582
Melingritlith Tin-Plate Works, 194
Mercantile Marine, History of, 640
Mercantile Marine and Naval Expenditure, 662
Merryweather Steam Fire Engine, 663
Metal Prices Diagram, 22, 176, 302, 448, 572, 692, 806
Metal Test Recorder, Henning's, 241
Metal Test Recorder, Portable, 191, 241
Metals, Comparative Fusibility of Foundry, 338
Metallic Packing " Boon," 576
Metallic Packing, Lancaster, 368
Metallic Packing, Lawson's, 436
Metallurgy in Sweden, 745

Meteorological Society, Royal :

Rainfall of Seathwaite, Cumberland, by Mr. W. Marriott, 777
Results of a Comparison between the Sunshine Records obtained Simultaneously from a Campbell-Stokes Burning Recorder and from a Jordan Photographic Recorder, by Mr. R. H. Curtis, 018
Non-Instrumental Phenomena, by Mr. R. C. Mossman, 777
Meteorology and Sanitation, 444

Metropolitan. See London
Metropolitan Railway Ventilation, 542
Microscopic Observations on Steel Rails, 99, 240, 293, 455, 676
Midland Railway Express Locomotive, 466
Milling Machine, Horizontal Duplex (Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 709
Milton, Mr. John T., on Engineering Progress, 37, 52, 91
Mining in Sweden, 745
Mirror Extensimeter, 462
Miscellanea, 10, 43, 79, 119, 139, 167, 199, 231, 261, 302, 323, 364, 383, 411, 439, 469, 499, 533, 563, 591, 621, 653, 692, 711, 739, 777, 799
Mississippi, Control of, 417
Mixers for Linoleum, Cement, 155, 257
Moberley, Mr. C. H., on the River Volga, 102, 248, 309, 427, 524, 612, 727
Moissan's Electric Furnace Work, 329
Moisture in Steam, Testing Influence in Turbines, 465
Monorail Railway, Behr, 40, 538
Morcom, Mr. A., on Self-Lubricating Machinery, 158, 177, 214
Mordey, Mr. W. M., on Dynamos, 117, 274, 305 Morison, Mr. Geo., on I3alanced Locomotives, 559. See LETTERS
Motion of a Top, Stereoscopic Representation, 310
Motor Cars. See Cars, Motor
Motor, 5 Horse-Power Electric (Phwnix Company, Bradford), 271
Motor Vans, Trials of, 628
Moulding Wheels by Machine, 4, 63, 127, 285, 399, 485,706, 755
Moutain Railway, Electric, 406
Mulhouse, La Socidtd, Prizes, 146
Multiplex Reducing Valve (Schaffer and Buden-berg), 479
Municipal Authorities and Contractors, 542 Municipal Electrical Association, 20

Nagasaki Shipbuilding, 805
Natal, Suction Pump Dredger " Octopus," 229
National Cycle Show, 718

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. American Society of :

731, 763
Water-tight Bulkhead Doors, by Mr. W. Barnum Cowles, 731
Regulations for Loading Vessels, by Mr. Lewis Nixon, 735
Torpedo-Boat Design, by Assistant Naval Constructor H. G. Gilmor, 763
The Commerce of the Great Lakes, by Mr. C. Wheeler, 765
Progressive Speed Trials of the Boston Police Boat "guardian," by Professor Peabody, 765
An Experimental Study of the Influence of Surface on the Performance of Screw Propellers, by Professor W. F. Durand, 787
Speed Trials of United States Battleships, by
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn, 787
Use of Water Ballast for Colliers in the Pacific Coast Trade, by Mr. H. P. Frear, 788
Estimated Weights of Machinery, by Professor George R. M`Dermott, 790
Navy Yard Expenses, by Naval Constructor W. J. Baxter, 790
Pneumatic Steering Gear of the United States Monitor " Terror," by Mr. H. A. Spiller, 790 Election of Officers, 790
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, International Congress :
13, 36, 67
Opening Proceedings (Prince of Wales), 35 Presidential Address (Earl of Hopetoun), 35 Hardened Armour-Plates and Broken Project
tiles, by Monsieur Emile Bertin, Directeur
des Constructions Navales, Ministry of
Marine, Paris, 36, 160, 211
Non-Flammable Wood, by Mr. C. Ellis, 35, 41. See LErritits
A Review of the History and Progress of Marine Engineering in the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine from the Foundation of the Institution of Naval Architects to the Present Date, by Sir A. J. Durston and Mr. J. T. Milton, 37, 52, 91
avail Architects-continued.
Water-Tube Boilers in High - Speed Ocean Steamers, by Monsieur Pierre Sigaudy, 88, 195
Reception at the Mansion House, 39
On the Advancement of the Mathematical Theory of Naval Architecture during the Existence of the Institution of Naval Architects, by Sir Edward Reed, 62, 106, 215, 239, 272
Dapish Steam Ferries and Ice - Breaking Steamers, by Captain I. C. Tuxen, 09, 88
On Graphic Aid inApproximating Hull Weights, by Mr. J. Johnson (of Gothenburg), Member, I.N.A., 70, 121
Crank and other Shafts used in the Mercantile Marine, by Mr. G. W. Manuel, 70, 74. See Lwrria, 135
Experimental Investigation of the Nature of Surface Resistance .on Ships and in Pipes, by Professor Hele-Shaw, LL.D., 71, 90
The Formation of Cavities in the Water by Screw Propellers, at High Speeds, by Mr. Sydney Barnaby, 71, 75.
Entertainments and Excursions : 72, 73
London Docks, 72
Portsmouth and Southampton, 73
Scotland, 73, 78
Newcastle, 73

Naval Architecture, Mathematical Theory, 67, 106, 215, 239, 272
Naval Engineering Progress, 37, 52, 91
Naval Engineers, United States, 595
Naval Expansion of Russia and Japan, 689
Naval Expenditure and the Mercantile Marine, 662
Naval Manoeuvres, French, 848, 376
Naval Review, 16
Naval Shipbuilding, 774
Navy Estimates, 141
Navy, French, 21, 805
Navy Yard Expenses, 790
Navvy, Steam, 255
New South Wales Centrifugal Pump Dredging, 206
New South Wales Coal Cargo Dangers, 386
New York Water Supply, 20
Newport Docks, 194
Newport Water Works Scheme, 465
Nicaragua Canal, 219
Nicholson, Professor J. T., on Experiments on Condensation of Steam, 481
Nickel-Steel Armour-Plate Trials, 288
Nickel-Steel, Canadian, 628
Nickel-Steel for Ships, 25
Nile Gunboat (Thornycroft), 491
Nile Gunboat (Yarrow), 434
Non-Flammable Wood, 35, 41. See Limns
Normand's Feed Regulating Arrangement, 227
North-East Coast Shipbuilding, 794
North German Lloyd T.-S.S. " Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse " (Vulcan Company), 415, 689
North German T.-S.S. " Kaiser Friedrich" (Schiohau), 448
North Sea-Baltic Canal, 329
Northern of France Railway, 819
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 13, 42, 78, 111, 138, 166, 198, 230, 259, 293, 322, 355, 380, 410, 438, 468, 498, 532, 562, 591, 620, 652, 691, 711, 738, 769, 799
Notes from the North, 12, 42, 78, 110, 138, 165, 198, 230, 260, 292, 321, 354, 382, 410, 438, 468, 498, 532, 562, 690, 620, 652, 690, 709, 737, 768, 798
Notes from the South-West, 13, 43, 78, 111, 138, 166, 198, 230, 260, 293, 822, 355, 383, 410, 439, 469, 499, 533, 562, 590, 620, 650, 691, 711, 738, 769, 799
Notes from South Yorkshire, 13, 42, 77, 110, 138, 166, 197, 230, 260, 292, 322, 355, 382, 410, 438, 468, 497, 531, 562, 590, 620, 653, 690, 710, 738, 768, 798
Notes from the United States, 9, 51, 77, 117, 147, 197, 259, 301, 319, 354, 418, 435, 379, 476, 531, 558, 586, 617, 652, 678, 709, 737, 797
November Weather, 715

Obituary :

Robert Dundas, C.E., 12
John Grant, 495
R. J. Harrison, 572
Sir Isaac Holden, Bart., 237
William Kirkhouse, 411
J. E. Lowe, 495
John Mallaband (Early Steel Casting Worker), 260
John Phillips, 203
James Platt, 797
George Pullman, 495

October Weather, 626
"Octopus" Suction Pump Dredger (Simons), 229
Oil. See also Petroleum
Oil Engines. See Engines
Oil and Gas Motors at Brussels Exhibition, 616, 674
Opera Houses and Theatres, 205
O'Reilly, Dr. F. M., on University of Columbia, 1
Orbe and Chavornay Electric Railway, 406
Ordnance. See also Guns
Ordnance, Swedish, 343
Ore, Handling, at Blast-Furnace, 407, 493, 629
Ore Separation, Magnetic, at Edison, 579
Osmond, Mr. F. J., on the Construction of Cycles, 146, 337
Owen's Artificial Stone, 570

Pacific Railroads, 656
Packing, " Boon " Metallic, 570
Packing, Lancaster Metallic, 368
Packing, Lawson's Metallic Floating, 486
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Paris Bridge, Alexander III., 219, 790
Paris Exhibition, 1900, 219, 686, 790
Paris Exhibition, Japan and the, 237
Parliamentary Schemes for Railways, Docks, &c., 660, 671, 699
Parsons' Steam Turbine and Turbinia, 18. See LETTERs
Passenger Steamers on the Thames, 116
Patent Law, 30, 571
Patent Record, 27, 61, 97, 125, 153, 181, 217, 245, 279, 307, 341, 369, 397, 425, 453, 483, 617, 549, 577, 605, 637, 669, 697, 725, 753, 785, 813
Patent Specifications, Abridgments, 475
Patent Trade Marks and Designs in Japan, 362
Patents, German, 507
Patents, United States, 420
Paterson, John A., on Unification of Time, 423
Pekin International Institute, 473
Penarth Docks, 194
Pernambuco Railways, 548
Petroleum Engines. See Engines
Petroleum and Gas Engines at Brussels Exhibition, 616, 674
Petroleum in Sweden, 489
Phillips' Cycle Brake, 663
Phillips, The Late John, 203
Photo-Theodolite, Bridges-Lee, 314

Physical Society :

A New Theory of the Earth's Magnetism, by Mr. Sutherland, 59
Experiments on Critical Phenomena, by Dr. Kuenen, 69
The Attenuation of Electric Waves in Wires, by Dr. Barton, 59
The Steady Motion of an Electrified Ellipsoid, by Mr. G. F. C Searle, 59
Barr and Stroud Range Finder, by Professor
Stroud, 575. See Lynn., 600
Folometer and Spherometer, by Professor Stroud, 575
Isothermals of Ether, The, by Mr. J. Rose�Innes, 634
Variations in the Electromotive Force of the
H-Form of Clark Cells with Temperature, by
Messrs. F. S. Spiers, F. Twyman, and W. L. Waters, 634
The Failure of German Silver and Platinoid
Wires, by Mr. Rollo Appleyard, 695
Thermo-Dynamics, by Professor Perry, 695
Temperature Compensators for Standard Cells, by Mr. Albert Campbell, 750
Lord Kelvin's Absolute Method of Graduating a Thermometer, by Mr. J. Rose-Innes, 750

Picketing, 520
Picketing in Disputes, 741
Piling Engine, Dulac's, 220
Pipe Bends, Angles of, 478
Pipes, Flow of Water through Long, 135
Pipes, Surface Resistance, 71
Pitchometer, Chapman-Hunter Pocket, 479
Planimeter, Amsler's, 748
Planing Machines, &c., for Armour, 607
Planing Machine, Plate-Edge (Asquith), 39
Planing Machines, Wood (Stockholm Exhibition), 760
Plate-Edge Planing Machine (Asquith), 39
Platinoid and German Silver Wires, Failure of, 695
Plumbago, 326
Pneumatic Electric Signalling : Bavarian State Railways, 662. See 679
Pneumatic Steering Gear, 790
"Pointer," S.S. (Inglis), 11
Polar Geography, 609
Polke (Vienna) New Gas Engine, 674
Pollution, River, 388, 443
Pope Cycle Works (Hartford, U.S.A.), 65, 131. See 679, 723
Pope Electric Carriage, 187
Portland Cement, 683, 720, 747, 778, 807
Portland Cement, Adulteration of, 567
Powder, Maxim-Schiipphaus Smokeless, 235. See LETTERS
Power Plant, 457, 639
" Powerful," Progressive Speed Trials of H.M.S.,, 476
Preller, Dr., on Orbe and Chavornay Electric Railway, 406
Press, Armour-Plate Bending (Hayward, Tyler, and Co.), 135
Press for Forging Armour-Plates, 555, 607
Press, Hydraulic, for Cogging Tyres, 703, 729
Press, Hydraulic Forging (Morgan Co., Alliance, Ohio), 162
Pressure Indicator for High Speeds, 332. See LETTERS
Pressures, Measuring High, 461
"Princess Mary," Roumanian T.-S.S., 288
Production and Sale Price, Relation, 346
Proell Cut-Off with Corliss Valve, 22, 39
Profit-Sharing and the Engineering Strike 565. See LETTERS
Progress of Marine Engineering, 87, 52, 91
Progressive Speed Trials, Boston Police Boat " Guardian," 765
Progressive Speed Trials of H.M.S. " Powerful," 476
Projectiles, Hadfield, 329
Projectiles with Caps, 35, 150, 211
Propellers at High Speed, Cavitation with, 71, 75. See LErrER, 135
Propellers, Performance of Screw, 787
Propellers, Screw, 135
Proportion of High-Speed Engines, Current Practice, 634, 666
Protection from Fire in Public Halls, 236
Protection of Warships, 85
Pullman, The Late Mr. George, 495
Pump Dredging, Centrifugal (New South Wales), 206
Pump, Edwards' Air, 768
Pumps, Birmingham Water Works, 146, 276
Pumping Engines, D'Auria, 436
Pupils for Electric Light Stations, 20
Purdue University Balanced Locomotive, 559. See LETTERS
Purves, Mr. John A., on Lightning-Flash Lights, 645. See Erratum, 587

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Eng inert

Rack Railway Locomotives, Sumatra, 281
Rail Joint, Suspended or Supported, 682
Rail Joint, Webb's, 303
Rail Joints, Cast Welded, 417
Rail, Travelling of Left-Sided, 75, 110
Railroads, Pacific, 656
Rails and Engines, Felt Mats for, 776
Rails, Microscopic Observations of Steel, 99, 219, 298, 458, 676
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railway Accidents in 1896, 17
Railway, Behr Monorail, 40, 538
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railway, Buluwayo, Opening of, 720
Railway Carriages, Lighting of, 776
Railway Carriages, South-Eastern Corridor, 353, 378
Railway Joint Chair for London and North-Western Railway, 303
Railway, Construction in England, Current, 238
Railway Corridor Carriages, Eastern Railway of France, 318
Railway, Corridor Carriages, South-Eastern, 330
Railway, Darjeeling Himalayan, 360
Railway, Electric, Orbe and Chavornay, 406
Railway Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition, 617, 648, 706
Railway Extension in Dumbartonshire, 266
Railway Ferries and Ice-Breaking Steamers, Danish, 69, 88
Railway Gradients, Catch Sidings for, 709
Railway Gradients and Speeds and Loads, 203
Railway Material Department, 703, 729
Railway Museum, 85
Railway, Northern of France, 319
Railway Property, Scotch, 494
Railway Reform, Baden, 268
Railway Results, British, 414
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 660, 671, 699
Railway Service, Past Summer, 504. See LETTERS
Railway Signalling, Electro - Pneumatic,. in Bavaria, 662. See 669
Railway Station Booking Clerk Controller, Automatic, 570
Railway Zone Tariff, Denmark, 116
Railways, Canadian, 147
Railways in China, 82
Railways in Formosa, 687
Railways, German, 362
Railways, Greater London, 207
Railways, Indian, 55, 783
Railways in Ireland, 300
Railways in Japan, 715
Railways, Japanese, 519
Railways, Rhodesia, 502
Railways, South African, 147
Railways, South American, 548
Railways, South Australian, 49
Railways and Trade in India, 236
Railways, United States, 388, 514
Rainfall at Seathwaite, 777
Ramage, Hugh, and Hartley, W. N., on Spectrographic Analysis of Iron Ores, &c., 395
Range Finder, Barr and Stroud's, 575. See LETTER, 600
Rating Electric Power Plants, 346
Rating of Machinery Bill, 477, 503
Recorder for Metal Tests, Henning's, 241
Recorder, Portable Test, 191, 241
Recording Indicator, Little's Continuous, 720
Reducing Valve, Foster's, 812
Reducing Valve, Multiplex (Schaffer and Budenberg), 479
Reed, Sir E. J., on Mathematical Theory of Naval Architecture, 67, 106, 215, 239, 272
Refining of Iron, Thermo-Chemical Study, 191
Refrigerating Plant, Ammonia (Lebrun, Belgium), 4Q4
Refrigeration, Brighton Lee Rink, 505
Refuse Destructor and Electric Light (Shoreditch), 19
Regulations for Loading Vessels, 735
"Reindeer," Great Western Railway Channel T.-S.S. (Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness), 380, 449. See Erratum, 411
Reservoir Failures in United States, 206
Reservoirs, Birmingham, 146, 276
Resistance, Surface, in Pipes and Ships, 71, 90
Review, Naval, 15
Rhodesia Railways, 502
Richards, Mr. E. Windsor, on History of Mechanical Engineers, 148, 179
Rifle, Lee-Enfield, and Cordite, 147
Riley's Accumulator Plates, 749
Rink, Brighton Lee, 505
River Gunboat (Thornycroft), 491
River Mississippi, Control of, 417
River Pollution, 388,443
River Steamer, Light-Draught (Simpson, Strickland, and Co.), 163
River Volga, as a Water-way, 102, 248, 309, 427, 524,- 612, 727
Rivers, Automatic Dredging of, 21, 119
Roads, Traction on, 146
Robey's Gas and Oil Engine, 616
Rock Drill, Air Compressor and (Frangois), 289, 365
"Roebuck," Great Western Railway Channel
T.-S.S. (Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness), 380, 449. See Erratum, 411
Rogers' Telegraphic System, 83
Roggen, Mr. D. L. Graadt van, on Sumatra
Rack Railway Locomotives, 281
Rolling Mill for Armour-Plates, 683. See 607
Roofs at Vickers' Works, 430
Rope Driving, 362
Rope-Haulage Clip, Watts-Collier, 601
Rotary Engine, Hult's, 765
Royal Agricultural Show at Manchester, 5
Royal v. Civil Engineers, 263
Royal Engineer Officers, 683, 747, 808
Roumanian T.-S.S. "Princess Mary," 238
Rubber Tyres, Making, 131
Russell and Co., John, Birmingham Alma Tube
Works, 130. See LETTER, 208
Russia and Japan Naval Expansion, 669
Russia Metallurgical Undertakings, 50
Russian Canal, Great, 628
Russian Internal Water-way, River Volga, 102, 248, 309, 427, 524, 612, 727
Ruston Oil Engine, 258

Sachs, Mr. Edwin 0. See Fire Protection in Europe
Sahlin, Mr. Axel, on Handling Material at Blast
Furnaces, 407, 496, 529
Sale Price, Production and, 846

Sanitary Congress:

388, 416, 443, 473
Presidential Address (Dr. Farquharson), 388
River Pollution, by Major Flower (Conference), 388
Engineering and Architecture, 416
Sanitary Science, 416
Pollution of Rivers, 443
Chemistry, 444
Meteorology, 444
Geology, 444
Treatment of Sewage, 473
Sewage Treatment, 473
Septic Tank System of Sewage Treatment, 475

Saturated Vapours, Adiabatics of, 224
Saw Sharpening Machine, Schmaltz's, 14D
Science and Art Department and their Certificate, 118
Science in Japan, Pure, 20
Schliok - Tweedy - Yarrow System, Balancing Engines, 631, 735
Schmaltz's Saw Sharpening Machine, 149
Schumann, Mr. F., on Volumnar Contraction of Castings in Cooling, 379
Scientific Ballooning, 689
Scotch Railway Property, 494
Scotte Motor Car, 551, 644
Screw Engines. See Erujines
Screw Propellers, 71, 75, 135
Screw Propellors,Performance of, 787
Seathwaite, Rainall at, 777
Self-Lubricating Machinery, High Speed, 158, 177, 214
Separation, Magnetic Ore, at Edison, 579
September Weather, 473
Septic Tank System of Sewage Treatment, 473, 506, 475
Sewage Filtration, 506. See 473
Sewage Systems, 203 •
Sewage Treatment, 473, 506, Septic Tank, 475
Shafting. See also Vilicers
Shafting, Manufacture of, 639
Shafts, Breakage of Screw, 447, 507, 542, 571
Shafts, Crank and other, 70, 74. See LETrEn, 135
Shallow-Draught Gunboat (Thornycroft), 491
Shanghai, Trade of, 296. See LETTERS
Sheers, CO-Ton Floating (Day, Summers, and Co.), 194
Sheffield Works, 404, 430
Ship Canal, Manchester, 268, 597
Ship Losses, Three Months',362
Ship Models at Brussels Exhibition, 47
Ship Steering Gear, liermode's, 106
Ship Surface Resistance, 71, 90
Ship Windlasses and Winches (United States), 573
Ship's Bulkhead Doors, 731
Ships, Electric Lighting of H.M., 807
Ship's Funnel Shroud, Compensator, 601
Ships, Nickel Steel, 25
Ships, Regulation for Loading, 736
Ships, Speed Trials, Analysis of, 547
Ships,Weights of Hulls, 90, 121
Shipuilding in Denmark, 482
Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1897, 781, 794
Shipbuilding in Germany, 237
Shipbuilding Materials and Workmanship, 25
Shipbuilding, Mathematical Theory of, 67, 106, 215, 239, 272
Shipbuilding at Nagasaki, 805
Shipbuilding, Naval, 774
Shipbuilding and Shipping (Lloyd's Returns), 472
Shipbuilding Statistics, 83
Shipbuilding in United States, 147
Shipment of Coal, Derricks, &c., 195
Shipping Coal Machinery, 172
Shipping History, 640
Shipping in Ireland, 300
Shipping in Japan, 358
Shipping, Japanese, 268
Shipping and Naval Expenditure, 662
Shipping to and from Yokohama, 506
Shoals, Floating Boats over, 428, 487, 524, 612, 727
Shoreditch Refuse and Light, 19
Shovel, Steam, 255
Shroud Compensator Funnel, 601
Sidings, Catch, for Railway Gradients, 709
Sigaudy, Mons. P., on Water-Tube Boilers in High-Speed Steamers, 38, 195
Signalling, Electro-Pneumatic, Bavarian State Railways, 662. See 679
Silver and Platinoid Wires, Failure of German, 695
Simplex Bicycle Brake, 509
Skin Resistance in Ships and Pipes, 71, 90
Slotting Machine and Automatic Feed, 639
Sluice. See Chicago Drainaje Canal
Smithfield Club Show, 717
Smokeless Powder, Maxim - Schtippha,us, 235. See LETTERS
Softening Water (Wright's) Plant, 631
Soudan Military Railway Locomotive, 106
South African Gradients and Railway Loads and
Speeds, 203
South African Railways, 147, 502, 720
South American Railways, 548
South-Eastern Railway Corridor Carriages, 330, 353, 378
South Mahratta Railway, 783
Southampton, Floating Bridge, 648
"Spaniel," S.S. (Inglis), 11
Specifications, Charges for, 649
Spectrographic Analysis of Iron Ores, &c., 395
Speed, 55A- Miles an Hour, 351
Speed Trials, Analysis of Ship, 547
Speed Trials (Progressive) of H.M.S. "Powerful," 476
Speed Trials of United States Battleships, 787
Speeds of Railways, Summer, 504. See LETTERS
Spherometer, 575
Spiral-Guided Gasholders, 55
Spontaneous Combustion, 386
Stage Accident at Drury Lane, 419
Stages, Theatre, 205
Standard System of Testing Materials, 116
Stanley Cycle Show, 659, 687. See LETTER., 720. See Erratum, 748
Statically Indeterminate Structures, Use of, 173
Statistics, Shipbuilding, 83
Stay Bolts, Strength of, 224
Staying of Locomotive Fireboxes, 626, 743. See LETTERS
Steam, Adiabatics of, 224
Steam Condensation Experiments, 481
Steam Dust Cart, 350
Steam Engines, Accidents to, 442
Steam, Law of Condensation of, 678
Steam Reducing Valve, Foster's, 812
Steam Steering Gear, Kermode's, 106
Steam Turbine, Laval, 644
Steam Turbine and " Turbinia," Parsons', 18. See LETTERS
Steam Turbines, Influence of Moist Steam, 465
Steam Yacht " Annett" (Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 350
Steamer, Boston Police, Progressive Speed Trials, 765
Steamer, Light-Draught River (Simpson, Strickland, and Co.), 163
Steamer, T.-S. " Avon," Carron Company's (Wigham Richardson and Co.), 631, 735
Steamer, T -S., " Kaiser Friedrich," North German Lloyd (Schichau), 448
Steamer, T.-S., "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (Vulcan Company), 415, 689
Steamer, T.-S., " Princess Mary," Roumanian, Orlando, Leghorn, 288
Steamers, T.-S., " Roebuck " and " Reindeer," Great Western Railway (Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness), 380, 449. See Erratum, 411
Steamers and Coal Cargo Dangers, 386
Steamers, Deflection in, 331, 863, 39s
Steamers, Ferry, at Glasgow, 756
Steamers " Pointer " and Spaniel" (Inglis), 11
Steamers, Railway Ferry and Ice Breaking, 69, 88
Steamers for River Volga, Shallow, 102, 248, 309, 427, 524, 612, 727
Steamers on the Thames, 116
Steamers, Water Ballast for Pacific, 783
Steamship Appliances on the Great Lakes, 765
Steamship Speed Record, 689
Steel, Diffusion of Sulphide through, 173, 335
Steel, Hardening Power of Low Carbon, 507, 514 599, 748. See LETTERS
Steel and Iron Alloys, 59
Steel and Iron Industry, Swedish, 343
Steel Manufacture, 458
Steel, Nickel, for Ships, 25
Steel, Positive and Negative Stresses, 461
Steel Rails, Microscopic Observations on, 99, 249, 298, 455, 676
Steel, United States, 114
Steel Works in Japan, Proposed, 330
Steel Works Ladle Crane, 589
Steel Works, &c.,in Russia, 50
Steel, Yield Poit of, 464
Steering Gear, Kermode's Steam, 106
Steering Gear, Pneumatic, 790
Stereoscopic Representation of the Motion of a Top, 310
Stockholm Exhibition, 226, 343, 489, 614, 760. See LETTERS
Stone, Owen's Artificial, 570
Strata, Higher, of Atmosphere, Scientific Ballooning, 460, 486, 554, 609, 689, 719
Strength of Gear Teeth, 223
Strength of Stay Bolts, 224
Stress in Bridges, Actual, 183, 239
Stresses, Positive and Negative, in Iron and Steel, 464
Strike in Engineering Trade. See En3ineering Trade Dispute
Strikes and Conciliation, 233
Stroud and Barr's Range Finder, &c., 575. See LETTER, 600
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 540
Subway, Glasgow District, 219
Suction Pump Dredger "Octopus" (Simons), 229
Sulphide Diffusion through Steel, 173, 335
Sulzer Engine Tests, 346
Sumatra Rack Railway Locomotives, 281
Sunshine Recording Apparatus, 618
Surface Resistance in Pipes and Ships, 71, 90
Sweden, Mining and Metallurgy in, 745
Swedish Iron and Steel Industry, 343
Swedish Mining and Minerals, 489
Swedish Ordnance, 343
Symbols, Mathematical, 313

Tangye's Books, 947
Tangyes' Gas and Oil Engine, 616
Tank Explosion at Worcester, 163
Tank Locomotives, 331, 363, 392, 420, 477, 507
Tar Still Explosion, 239
Tariff, Japanese, 50
Tea Estates, Engineers on, 332
Technical Education, 630
Technical Education in Germany, 537
Technical Training, 295. See LETTERS
Technical Training, School v. Shops, 597
Tees Shipbuilding, 795
Teeth, Strength of Gear, 223
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 540
Telegraph, Zerograph Printing, 597
Telegraphs, Indian, 55
Telegraphs in Japan, 715
Telegraphy, Rapid, 83
Temperature Compensators for Standard Cells, 750
Temperature, Measuring by Electrical Method, 482
Temperatures at Great Altitudes, Scientific Ballooning and, 460, 486, 554, 609, 689, 719
Test Recorder, Portable, 191, 241
Testing India-Rubber Goods, 115
Testing Furnace Gases, 247
Testing Materials, Standard System, 116
Tests of Armour-Plates, 521. See 655, 583, 607
Thames Lock, New, 327
Thames Penny Steamers, 116
Theatre Stages, 205
Theodolite, Bridges-Lee, Photo-, 314
Theory of Shipbuilding, 67, 106, 215, 239, 272
Thermal Chemical Law for Gas Producers, 808
Thermo-Chemical Study of Iron Refining, 191
Thermo-Dynamics, 695
Therniometer, Kelvin's Absolute Method of Graduating a, 760
Thornycroft Steam Dust Cart, 350
" Thrasher" and " Lynx " Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, Accident, 444, 658. See LETTER, 477
Thrashing Machine at Smithfield Show, 717
Time, Unification of, 423
Tin-Plate Manufacture, 173, 289, 291
Top Motion, Stereoscopic Representation, 310
Torpedo-Boat Design, 763
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See also Warships
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 747, 778, 807
Torpedo-Boat " Turbinia," Parsons' Steam Turbine, 18. See LETTERS
Torpedo-Boats. See also Warships
Torpedo, Maxim Aerial, 235
Towage on Canals, Electric, 252, 374, 402, 428, 487, See LETrEas
Traction. See also Electric Traction
Traction, Electric, 582
Traction, Electric, by Accumulators, 625, 686, 775
Traction Engines at Smithfield Show, 717
Traction, Work of, 146
Trade, Consuls and, 234
Trade of Germany, 387
Trade and Railways in India, 236
Trade Unions, Organisation and Benefits, 142
Trades Union Congress, 325, 359
Trades Union Picketing, 520
Trades Union Principles, 629
Trades Unionism and Collective Bargaining, 742
Trades Unionism, Fifty Years of, 713. See LETTERS
Train Service, Past Summer, 504. See LETTERS
Train Speeds and Loads and Gradients, 203
Training Engineers, 265, 295, 457
Tramway, Electric, Cast Welded Joints, 417
Tramway, Rapid Construction, 804
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 699
Tramway Traction, Electric, 582
Tramways, Glasgow Corporation and Profits of, 116
Trans-European Canal Projects, 171
Transmission Dynamometer, 226
Transvaal, Progress of, 162
Trave-Elbe Canal, 805
Travelling Crane, 100-Ton, 791
Travelling Cranes, 25-Ton (Russell, Motherwell), 12
Treatment of Sewage, 473, 506 Septic Tank, 475
Trial of Motor Vans, 628
Trials, Progressive Speed, Boston Police Boat "Guardian," 765
Trials, Speed, of United States Battleships, 787
Trials of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 774
Trials of Warships, 774
Tricycles. See Cycles
Triple-Expansion. See Engines
Tube Tunnel, 414
Tube Works, Alma, J, Russell and Co., Binningharh, 130. See LETTER, 208
Tunnel, A Tube, 444
Tunnel under Canal, 266
Tunnel Ventilation, Metropolitan, 542
Turbine, De Laval Steam, 644
Turbine, Mr. Parsons on " Turbinia," 18
Turbines, Steam, Influence of Moist Steam, 465
Turning Bridge over the Calumet River, South Chicago, 23
Tuxen. Captain, I. C. on Ferries and Ice-Breaking Steamers, 62, 8's
Tweedy-Schlick-Yarrow System Balancing Engines, 631, 735
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Tyne Coal Shipment Apparatus, 195
Tyne Shipbuilding, 794
Tyre Mills, &c., 703. See 729
Tyres, Making Rubber, 131

Unification of Time, 423
Unionism and Collective Bargaining, 742
Unionism, 50 Years of, 713. See LETTERS
United States Battleships' Speed Trials, 787
United States Bicycle, 679, 723. See LETTERS Chainless Cycles
United States Bicycle Manufacture, 65, 131. See 679, 723
United States Competition in Britain, 300
United States Embankment Failures, 206
United States v. English Locomotives in Japan, 85
United States Foreign Trade, 297
United States Freight Rates, 370
United States Iron and Steel, 114
United States and Japan Competition, 174
United States Lakes Commerce, 765
United States Locomotive, A Large, 778
United States Locomotive, Balanced, 559. See LETTERS
United States Locomotives, Cost of British v., 747
United States Machinery for Bicycles, 679, 687, 723
United States Naval Engineers, 595
United States Navy Yard Expenses, 793
United States Patents, 420
United States Progress in Manufacture, 297
United States Railways, 388, 514
United States Reservoir Failures, 206
United States Shipbuilding, 147
United States Tariff, Japan and, 370
United States Torpedo-Boat Design, 763
University of Columbia, 1

Valve, Foster's Reducing, 812
Valve Gear, Joy, on Paddle Engines, 258
Valve, Multiplex Reducing (Schaffer and Budenberg), 479
Vapours, Adiabatics of Saturated, 224
Vehicular Ferry at Southampton, 648
Ventilating Fans, 55, 122, 123, 124, 568, 751, 752. See Timms, Fans, and 807
Ventilation of Metropolitan Railway, 512
Vestibule Train for South-Eastern Railway, 330
Vickers' Gun Trials, 791

Vickers' Works at Sheffield :

403, 430, 457, 521, 555, 583, 607, 639, 674, 703,
Armour-Plate, Manufacture of, 521, 555, 583, 607
Boring Machine, Electrically-Driven, 674, 761, 791
Casting Ingots, 458
Chimney, Wrought Iron, 522
Crane, 100-Ton Gantry, 791
Crane, 150-Ton Travelling Steam, 555. See 607
Cranes, &c., 457
Crank Shafting, 639
Electric-Power Plant, 457, 639
Electrically-Driven Tools, 674
Engine for Armour-Plate Rolling Mill, 583. See 607
Furnace for Carburising Armour-Plates, 583. See 607
Furnaces, Open-Hearth, 458
Gas Producers, 458
Grinding Machine for Armour, 607
Gun Trials, 791
Guns, Construction of, 760, 791
Hardening Armour, 521, 555, 583, 607
Harveyised Process of Hardening Armour, 521, 555, 583, 607
Historical, 403
Hydraulic Forging Press, 8000-Ton, 555
Hydraulic Press for Cogging Tyres, 703, 729
Ingot Head Cutter, 639
Lathes, Electrically-Driven, 674
Lathes for Shafting and Guns, 639, 760
Vickers' Works at Sheffield—continued.
Planing Machines, &c., for Armour, 607
Power Plant, 457, 639
Press for Forging Armour-Plates, 555, 607
Press, Hydraulic, for Cogging Tyres, 703, 729
Railway Material Department, 703, 729
Rolling Mill for Armour-Plate, 583. See 607
Roofs, 430
Shafting, Manufacture of, 639
Sheffield Works, 404, 430
Slotting Machine and Automatic Feed, 639
Steel Manufacture, 458
Tests of Armour-Plate, 521. See 555, 583, 607
Tyre Mills, &c., 703. See 729
Wire Winding Guns, 760. See 791
Vickers' Works, Sheffield. See Vickers
Vladivostock, Development of, 418
Volga as a Water-way River, 102, 248, 309, 427, 524, 612, 727
Volumnar Contraction of Castings in Cooling, 379. See 346

Wages, Fair, 655
Wagons for Blast-Furnace Materials, 407, 496
Waldo, Dr. L., on the American Cycle, 679, 723, See LETTERS, Chainless Cycles
Walker, Mr. W. G., on Analysis of Speed Trials of Ships, 547
Walker, Mr. W. G., on Ventilating Fans, 55, 122, 668, 751. See LETTER.% Fans, and 807
Warship Protection, 85

Warships :

Additions to the Navy in 1897, 774
Battleship and Cruiser Models at the Brussels
Exhibition, 47
Chilian Torpedo-Boat "Injeniero Hyatt," (Yarrow), 315
Dutch Cruiser with Water-Tube and Tank Boilers, 597
Egyptian Government Light-Draught Gunboat (Thornycroft), 491
Egyptian Government Light-Draught Gunboat (Yarrow), 435
French Navy, 805
H.M. Battleships and Armoured Cruisers (New Navy Estimates), 141
H.M. Destroyer " Fame" (Thornycroft), 796
H.M. Destroyers "Lynx" and "Thrasher," Accident, 444, 658. See LETTER, 477
H.M. Destroyers Self - Lubricating Engines (Belliss), 158, 177, 214
H.M. Destroyer Trial Results, 775
H.M. Ships, Electric Lights of, 807
H.M.S. "Powerful," Progressive Speed Trials, 476
Japanese Battleship " Yashima," 171, 445
Japanese Warships of the Line, 528
Torpedo-Boat " Turbinia," Parsons' Steam
Turbine, 18. See LErrErts
U.S. Torpedo-Boat Design, 763
U.S. Battleship Speed Trials, 787

Water Ballast for Colliers in Pacific, 788
Water Finding, 21, 75
Water Flow through Long Pipes, 135
Water-Gas Plant, Carburetted, at Birmingham, 104
Water Softening, Heating, and Filtering Plant (Wright's), 631
Water Supply in Arid Districts, 85
Water Supply of New York, 20
Water-Tube Boiler Feed Regulator, Normand's, 227
Water-Tube Boilers, for Clyde Passenger Steamers, 627
Water-Tube Boilers in French Navy, 21
Water-Tube Boilers in Ocean Steamers, 38, 195
Water-Tube and Tank Boilers in Dutch Cruiser, 597
Water Works, Birmingham, 146, 276
Water Works, Early Publication, 719
Water Works, Newport, 465
Water Works Schemes in Parliament, 699
Water-Tight Bulkhead Doors, 731
Water-Tight Doors, Gibson's Epicyclic Indicator for, 531. See Erratum, 558
Watts-Collier Rope-Haulage Clip, 601
Waves, Air, 719
Wear Shipbuilding, 795
Weather, 47, 172, 327, 473, 626, 715
Webb's Railway Chair (London and North�Western), 303
Webb's Four-Cylinder Locomotive, 693
Weight of Ship's Hull, Approximating by Graphic Aids, 90, 121
Weights of Machinery, 790 ,
Welded Joints, Cast, Electric Car Lines, 417
Welding, Electric, 662
Wells Light, 5000 Candle-Power "Emergency," 445
Werner Electric Accumulator, 689
West, Mr. H. H., on Materials for Ships, 26
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Comparative Fusibility of Foundry Metals, 338
Westman's Wood-Planing Machine (Stockholm Exhibition), 760
Weymouth, Boiler Explosion, 304
Wheels, Machine-Moulded, 4, 63, 127, 285, 399, 485, 705, 755
Wilson's Gas Producers, Economy of, 630
Winches and Windlasses, Ship (United States), 573
Windlasses and Winches, Ship (United States), 573
Wire Guns, Winding, 760. See 791
Wire Ropes, Treatment of, 331, 363
Wires, German Silver and Platinoid, Failure of, 695
Wood, Non-Flammable, 35, 41. See LErrsits
Wood-Working Machinery (Stockholm Exhibition), 760
Wool-Combing Machinery, Holden's, 237
Woolwich Arsenal Management, 263
Worcester, Explosion at, 163
Workmen's Compensation for Accidents Bill, 21, 39, 51

Works :

Alma Tube Works (J. Russell and Co., Limited,
Birmingham), 130
Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin,
Conn., 464
Linoleum Works, 155
Magn579etic Iron Ore Separation at Edison,
Pope Cycle Works, Hartford, U.S.A., 65, 131. See 679, 723
Vickers' Works. See Vickers

Workshops and Electricity, 346, 366
Wrightson, Mr. Thomas, on Coal-Shipping Machinery, 172
Wrought-Iron Chimney, 521

Yacht, " Annett," Steam (Dunlop, Port Glasgow), 350
Yarrow - Schlick - Tweedy System, Balancing Engines, 631, 735
"Yashima," Japanese Battleship, 171, 445
Yield Point of Iron and Steel, 464
Yokohama Shipping, 506
Yokohama Trade, 804

Zerograph Printing Telegraph, 597
Zone Tariff, Denmark, New, 116

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