Engineering 1902 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

Engineering 1902 Jul-Dec: General Index.

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AACHEN, Technical High School of, 501
Abatement of Stroke, 363
Abel, The late Sir Frederick, 353. See also 525
Absorption of Ammonia from Water by Alga, 02
Absorption and Radiation, Some Experiments on, 500
Acceleration, Piston, Graphical Determination of, 288
Acceleration Tests, Steam versus Electric Locomotive, 583, 667
Accidents to Engines, 511

Accidents, Railway :

Collision on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 485
Collision on the South Wales Mineral Railway, 85
Crewe, Accident at, 485
Derailment at the Elephant and Cas le, 485
Stanley Works Junction Accident, 781
Acetylene, Formation of Calcium Carbide, 187
Accountant, Mechanical, 165, 840
Accounts of British Railways, 799
Accounts, Glasgow Municipal Electric Tramway, 83
Accumulator, Tudor, 549, 749
Accumulators, Electric, 501, 633. See LErnsa, 19, 749
Ackworth on British Railway Statistics, 799
Adhesion of Concrete to Iron and Rock, 422, 445
Adler, Mr. H. M., on a Session of Tramway Legislation, 252, 295
Admiralty Officers and Coronation Honours, 23
Admiralty. See _Naval
Ados Furnace Combustion Controller at the Dusseldorf 'Exhibition, 265
Advertising by Consulting Engineers, 547
Africa. See South Africa
Agricultural Machinery in China and Siberia, 306
Agricultural Motor, Petrol, 787
Agricultural Show, Smithfield, 786

Agricultural Society, Royal : See 17
Carlisle Show, 39
Dairy Machinery, 44
Engines, Steam, 40
Finances, 17
Gas and Oil Engines, 41
Implements, 42
McCormick Side - Delivery Reaping Attachment, 42. See Erratum, 147
Milk Separator, 44
Miscellaneous, 43
Oil and Gas Engines, 41
Potato Harvester (Moultons, Limited), 42
Shaft-Sinking Equipment, 43
Swath Turner (Blackstone, Stamford), 42
Windmills, 43

Air, Compressed, in Tunnels, Sickness due to, 86
Air-Compressor, Daw, 408
Air-Compressor and Engine, Corliss, 442, 574
Air-Compressor for the Harpener Mining Company (Schiichtermann and Kremer), 776
Air-Compressor, Vertical (King-Riedler Type), 51
Air, Liquid, 614
Air and Steam at Constant Pressure and Volume, Ratio of Specific Heats of, 758
Aldershot Trials of Self-Propelled Vehicles, 573
Alkali Waste, 222
Alkylation of Sugars, 599
Alloys, Destruction of Cathodes by Formati"r of, 857
Alloys, The Nature of, British Association Co mittee's Report, 600
Almanacks. See Literature Index
Alternators. See Electric
Alternators, Single-Phase, on Polyphase Circuits, 66
Altitudes, Temperature of the, 564, 805
Aluminium Alloys, The Electrical Conductivity of, as Affected by Exposure to London Atmosphere, 405
Aluminium Anode, Theory of, 758
Aluminium Thermit Exhibits at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 135
America. See United States
American and English Workmen, 265
American Institute of Mining Engineers. See Mining Engineers
American Invasion, 845
American Locomotives. See Locomotives
American Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
American Ships and Shipping Interests, 341, 549, 17, 650
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Ammonia, The Absorption of, from Water by Alga, 602
Analysis, Chemical, Proposed Standardisation of Methods of, 602. See LETTER, 720
Analysis of Foods, Electrolytic, 645
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, on the Crystalline Structure of Igneous Rocks, 300
Andrews, Mr. T., on the Effect of Segregation on the Strength of Steel Rails, 653, 687, 721. See Drams
Andrews, Mr. Thomas and Mr. C. R., on Microscopic Effects of Stress on Platinum, 127. See Erratum, 190
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 156
Animal Thermostat, 528
Annealing and Overheating of Steel, 332, 357, 392
Annuals. See Literature Index
Anode, Theory of Akuminium, 768
Anstalt Humboldt, Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater (German), 634
Anthracite Coal-Mining in Pennsylvania, 264
Antimony. See Metal Price Diagrams
Anti-Friction Metal Wanted, 649, 821
Apprenticeship and Education, Alternation of, 50. See also Educatiot
Arbitration or Litigation ? 149
Armoured Concrete, 385, 569, 581, 681
Armoured Concrete at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 33
Armoured Cruisers. See Warships
Aromatic Diazo Compounds, Our Present Knowledge of, 599
Arresters, Lightning, 668
Artificial Limestone Bricks, 125
Artillery. See Guns
Artists' Colours at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 119
Asbestos at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 4C0
Ashley Pump, Hydraulically Balanced, 320, 387
Asphalte at the Dii*eldorf Exhibition, 400
Assembling Commutators, Hydraulic Press for, 5
Astronomy and Cosmical Physics, Papers of the British Association, 529, 564
Aswan Dam, 783
Asyitt Barrage, 783
Atlantic Arc Station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of Boston, Recent Construction at the, 257
Atlantic Liner " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 204, 269, 39. See LETTER, 321. (Thipbuilding Berths), and 249
Atlantic Liners, Table of Dimensions of Famous, 04. See 249
Atlantic Shipping Trade, 249, 451, 479. See 662
Atlantic Shipping Trust, 249. See 204
Atmosphere, Investigation of the Upper, by Means of Kites, 564
Atmosphere, Temperature of the Higher, 805
Atmosphere, The Positions of Hydrogen and Helium in Relation to the Earth's, 532
Atmospheric Corbonic Anhydride on Board the "Discovery," Determination of, 602
Atomic Theory without Hypothesis, 568
Atomic Weight, Telluric Distribution of the Elements in Relation to their, 602
Atomic Weights and Spectra of Elements, 620
Atoms, Size of, 620, 752
Autographic Load - Strain Recorder for Test Specimens, 805
Automatic Lubricator, Sinol System, 355
Automatic Machines. See Machine Tools
Automobiles and Bicycles in Japan, 352
Automobiles. See Motor Cars
Axial Flow of Screw Fans, 797. See also 627, 32
Axles of Motor Cars, 621. See also 525, 551, 88, 603, 701

Babcock and Wilcox Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater (German), 636
Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage, Manchester, 491, 552
Bagnall's Narrow-Gauge Locomotive for Indian States Military Light Railways, 846
Bairstow, Mr. L., and Horsley, Mr. E. C., on Experiments on Gas Explosions in a Closed Cylinder, 723
Balanced, Hydraulically, Ashley Pump, 320, 387
Balancing Locomotives, 319, 445, 585
Balancing Marine Engines, 59
Balata and its Employment, 513
Ball-Bearings, Steel, 833
Balloons in the Higher Atmosphere, 805. See 561
Bamborough Castle, Visit of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to, 204
Barges, Sea, Trade, 66
Barlow, The late W. H., 680
Batteries, Electric Storage, 749. See LEITERS, Single-Phase Electric _Railway and Accumulators
Battleships. See Warships
Beach Protection, 238
Beam Engine of 1767, Survival of, 488
Bearings, Kynoch's Roller, 211
Bearings, Steel Ball, 833
Becquerel Rays and Radio-Activity, 565
Belfast Harbour Works, 370
Belgian Metallurgy (Cockerill Company), 619
Belleville Boiler Committee's Report, 61, 54, 81, 0. See LETTER, 444
Belleville Boiler Repairs, 645
Belleville Boilers of H.M.S. " Powerful," 51
Belliss and Morcom's Works at Birmingham, 371
Belt versus Rope-Driven Electric Cranes. See Electric Cranes
Ben Nevis Observatory, British Association Committee's Report on, 565
Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Rupnarayan Bridge, 822
Berths, Shipbuilding, 204. See LETTERS, 320, and pages 249, 269, 339
Bessemer Process for Small Charges, 70
Bicycles and Automobiles in Japan, 352
Biology and Engineering, 656, 686
Birdnesting and Boiler-Tube Ferrules, 91. See 1, 54, 81, 90. See LErrtai, 444, and Engineers in the Navy
Blast-Furnace Gas Economy, 544
Blast-Furnace Gas Engine (Deutz), 308
Blast-Furnace Gas Engines, 370, 375, 426, 444, 58, 520, 787, 794, 809. See LEmits
Blasting Powder at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 83
Bleaching Powder, 789
Blowing Engines Operated by Blast-Furnace Gas, 70, 375, 426, 444, 458, 520, 787, 794, 809. See LETTER
Boats, Submarine, 313, 733
Bochum Pavilion at the Dtisseldorf Exhibition, 84
Bogie for Electric Cars, 698. See also 431. 495, 773
Boiler Arrangements in British Battleships. 283
Boiler, Cornish (Kolni sc heMaschinenbau E.G.), 37
Boiler, Cylindrical and Water-Tube, Combined (Steinrntiller), 746
Boiler Explosion near Sheffield, 226
Boiler Feeding, Condensed Exhaust Steam and, 19
Boiler Mudhole Covers, Failure of, 27
Boiler, Navy, Report of Committee on, 54, 81, 0. See also 61. See LETTER, 444, and Engineers in the _Navy
Boiler-Plates, Forgings and Castings, Standard Specification for Steel, 225
Boiler Protection, Zinc Plates for, 550
Boiler Repairs, Navy, 645
Boiler-Room, Manchester School, 469
Boiler, Solignac, 433
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boiler
Boiler Works, Wallsend Slipway, 695
Boilers, Corrosion of, by Magnesium Chloride, 482
Boilers, Navy, 444. See Water-Tube Boilers
Boilers for Prevention of Smoke, 433
Boilers and Superheaters, German, 669, 633, 707, 36
Bolometer, New, for Recording the Total Daily Solar Radiation, 532
Book-Printing, History of, 801
Books Received, 10, 238, 265, 299, 451, 536, 569, 29, 659, 731, 773, E04, 837
Boring Machines. See Machine Tools
Boundary Survey, Mexican, 253
Box, Morison's Open-Fronted Mortar, 145
Boycott, Co-Operative, 681
Bracket Ball-Bearings, 835
Brakes for Electric Trame,ars 804
Brakes used in Launching T. S.S. " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 269. See also 204, 339, and LETTER, 20, " Shipbuilding Berths," and 249
Brakes for Motor Cars, 624. See also 525, 554, 88, 603. 701
Brazilian Iron and Manganese, 253
Breakdowns of British and United States Tramway Engines, 250, 348. See LETTERS
Breakdowns of Engines, 511
Breaking Machine, Pig Iron, 549
Breakwater Reconstruction, Tyne, North Pier, 33, 176
Bremen Harbour, 101
Bremerhaven, 101
Brewers' Exhibition, 548
Brickmaking Machine, Fire and Glaze, 111
Bricks, Artificial Limestone, 125
Bridge at Chicago, Scherzer Rolling Lift, 670, 57, 807
Bridge Foundation Building under Compressed Air, Sickness Due to, 186
Bridge Girders. See Girders
Bridge, London, Widening of, 743
Bridge, Rio Grande, Costa Rica, 537, 607
Bridge, Rupnarayan on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 822
Bridge, Scherzer Rolling Lift, 670, 757,807
Bridgebuilder, The late. Mr. W. H. Barlow, 680
Briquette and Coal Washing and Sorting Machinery, 239, 441
Briquettes, Manufacture of, 644

British Association : 49, 366, 370, 401, 416, 432, 464, 497, 527, 564, 99, 631, 662. See 381, 512. See LETTERS, Education.

Presidential Address by Professor Dewar on Education, Chemistry, Compressed Gas, and Liquid Air, Helium, and Effect of Cold on Life (Micro-organisms), 367
The Engineering Section, 370, 401, 432
President's Address, by Professor Perry, on Education, 370, 381, 395, 427. See LETTERS, Education
Recent Progress in Large Gas Engines, by Mr. H. A. Humphrey, 370, 375, 426, 458, 520
Belfast Harbour Works, Excursion, 310
Steam Turbine, by the lion. C. A. Parsons, 70. See also 375
The Resistance of Road Vehicles to Traction, by Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw, 371, 456
The Science of the Workshop, by Mr. W. J. Taylor, 394, 408
The Action of Sledges on Roads, by Mr. Von Cornish, 401
A New Elastic Wheel, by Mr. John Brown, 403
An All Stations Railway Express, by Mr. John Brown, 404
A Direct Reducing Levelling Staff, by Mr. G. W. Herdman, 404
The Rainfall in Ireland, by Dr. Mill, 404
Water Power in Ireland, by Mr. F. J. Dick, 04, 430
The Future of the Telephone in the United Kingdom, by Mr. J. E. Kingsbury, 404
A Magnetic Testing Instrument, by Mr. F. Holden, 405
The Electrical Conductivity of Certain Aluminium Alloys as Affected by Exposure to London Atmosphere, by Professor Ernest Wilson, 405
Some Electrical Instruments, by Mr. M. B. Field, 407
A New Flashing Lighthouse bight without Intervals of Darkness, by Mr. J. R Wigham, 08
The Training of Engineers ; Joint, Discussion with Educational Section, 432. See LETTERS, Education, 548
Small Screw-Gauges, Committee's Report, 433
Smokeless Combustion of Bituminous Coal, by Mr W. H. Booth, 433
The Prevention of Smoke, by Mr. J. S. Raworth, 433
Solignac Boilet, by Mr. W. H. Booth, 433
An Infantry Range-Finder, by Professor G. Forbes, 436
The Making of Dynamos, by Mr. Mayor, 436
Ocean Currents, by Mr. R. G. Allanson-Winn, 36
The Physical and Chemical Sections, 464, 497, 27
Presidential Address, by Prof. Purser, on the Irish School of Mathematics and Physics, 461
The Accurate Conservation of Weight in Chemical Reactions, by Lord Rayleigh, 497
Does Motion through the Ether cause Double Refraction ? by Lord Rayleigh, 497
On the Application of the Method of Entropy to Radiant Energy, by Dr. J. Larmor, 498
The Relation of Voltaic Potential to Temperature, by Dr. Larmor, 498
Luminosity and Kinetic Theory, by Mr. J. Butler-Burke, 499
Some Experiments on Radiation and Absorption : a Preliminary Study for a Standard of Light, by Mr. J. E. Petavel, 500
Improvements in Huggens's Construction, by Dr. G. J. Johnstone Stoney, 500
How to Apply the Resolution of Light into Uniform Undulations of Flat Wavelets to the Investigation of Optical Phenomena, by Dr. G. J. Johnstone Stoney, 500
The Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, by Mr. E. T. Whittaker, 500
The Physical Aspects of a Theory of Colour Vision, by Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, 500
A Triple Lens for Ultra-Violet Therapy, by Mr. J. W. Gifford, 500
Prevention of Dew Deposits on Lenses of Projecting Lanterns, by Professor Schuster, 500
Theory of Gases at Critical and other Temperatures, by Mr. H. H. F. Hyndman, 500
On the raphical Representation of Ita.asay and Young's Law for the Comparison of
Vapours at Equal Pressures, by Professor J. D. Everett, 600
Variation of the Critical Velocity ".1 Water with Temperature, by Dr. IL T. Barnes, 527
Motion of a Detached Thread of Liquid through a Capillary Tube, by Prof. W. B. Morton, 28
On the Vibration of a Plucked String, by Professor Morton and Mr. T. B. Vinycomb, 523
On Continuous Motion Produced by Vibrations, by Professor Morton and Mr. A. McKinstry, 528
Mr. Petavel's Recording Gauge as Applied to Ordnance and Small Arms, by Captain J. Bruce-Kingsmill, 528
Variation of the Specific Heat of Mercury with Temperature, by Dr. H. T. Barnes and Mr. H. L. Cooke, 528
Animal Thermostat, by Lord Kelvin, 528
Dependence of Pitch of Minute Closed Pipes on Wind-Pressure, by Mr. C. S. Myers, 528
Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for Electrical Measurements, Committee's Report, 528
Magnetic Detectors in Space Telegraphy, by Professor E. Wilson, 529. See 583
A New Receiver for Hertzian Oscillations, y Professor G. Minchin, 529
A Graphical Method of Determining the Discharge of a Condenser through Variable SelfInductions, by Dr. E. W. Marchant, 529
Seamless Aluminium Tubes, by Mr. H. F. Nalder, 529
Experiments on Gas Explosions in a Closed Vessel, by Mr. L. Bairstow and Mr. E. C. Horsley, 723
* Department of Astronomy and COVIlical Physics, 29, 564
Opening Address, by Professor Schuster, on Meteorology, 529
Minimum Sun-Spots and Terrestrial Magnetism, by the Rev. A. L. Cortie, Stoneyhurst, 52). See LErrEa, 573
Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations Committee's Report, 529
Evolution of Stellar Systems, by Dr. Isaac Roberts, 629
Celestial Photographs from the Yerkes Observatory, by Mr. G. W. Ritchey, 531
The Nebula on Nova Persei, by Mr. Hinks, 531
Relative Apparent Motions of Bright and Faint Stars, by Professor H. H. Turner, 531
Standard Scale for Telescopes, by Mr. Percival Lowell, 532
Expedition to Ascertain the Best Location for Observatories, by Mr. P. Lowell, 532
Spectograms of Jupiter and Uranus, 532
Forbes's Hypothetical Extra Neptunean Planet, by Dr. W. E. Wilson, 532
Possible Changes in the Moon, by Mr. S. A. Saunder, 632
The Uncertainty of our Knowledge of the Distance of the Sun, by Mr. A. R. Hinks, 532
The Positions of Hydrogen and Helium in Relation to the Earth's Atmosphere, by Professor G. IL Bryan, 532
Radiation in Meteorology, by Dr. W. N. Shaw, 32
New Bolometer for Recording the Total Daily Solar Radiation, by Dr. W. E. Wilson, 532
The Figure of the Earth, by Major S. G. Burrard, 564
Earthquakes, Seismological Committee's Report, by Mr. J. Milne, 561
Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Kites, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 561
Ben Nevis Observatory, Committee's Report, by Dr. A. Buchan, 665
Evening Lectures.
Becquerel Rays and Radio-Activity, Lecture by Professor J. J. Thompson, 565
Inheritance, Lecture by Professor W. F. R. Weldon, 565
* Mathematical Section, 565
The Longitudinal Stability of Aerial Gliders, by Professor G. H. Bryan, 565
The Teaching of Mathematics ; Joint Discussion by Mathematical, Physical, and Educational Sections, 565. See Liirritas, Education
* The Chemical Section, 568, 599
Presidential Address, by Prof. E. Divers, on the Atomic Theory without Hypothesis, 568
Hydro - Aromatic Compounds with Single Nucleus, by Dr. Arthur W. Crossley, 599
Our Present Knowledge of Aromatic DiazoCompounds, by Dr. Gilbert Th. Morgan, 599
Isomorphous Sulphonic Derivatives of Benzine, by Professor H. E. Armstrong, 599
Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives, by Professor Armstrong, 599
The Method of Causing Isomeration, by Professor R. Meldola, 599
Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic Substance, Committee's Report, 99
Wave-Length Tables of the Spectra of Elements and Compounds, Committee's Report, 99
Synthetical Researches in the Glucoside Group, by Dr. E. Frankland Armstrong, 599
The Synthetical Action of Enzymes, by Dr. E. Frankland Armstrong, 599
The Alkylation of Sugars, by Professor T. Purdie and Dr. J. C. Irvine, 599
A Fourth Methylmorphimethine, by Mr. J. Hawthorne, 599
The Decomposition of Urea, by Dr. C. E. Fawsitt, 599
Acid Esters of Methylsuccaric Acids, by Prof J. J. Sudborough and Mr. W. A. Bone, 599
Compounds of Trinitrobenzines and Alkylated Naphthylamines, by Professor Sudborough and Mr. H. Hibbert, 599
Action of Akalis on Cinnamic Acid Dibromide and its Esters, by Professor Sudborough and Mr. K. J. Thompson, 593
The Reduction of Some Metallic Chlorides by Calcium Carbide, by Major W. E. Edwards,
Captain C. H. Liveing, and Professor W. R. Hodgkinson, 599
The Colour of Iodine Compounds, by Miss Ida Smedley, 599
The Nature of Alloys, Committee's Report, 600
Effect of Gases on Metals, Committee's Report, 01
Action of Distilled Water on Lead, by Dr. F. Clowns, 601
Corrosion of Copper Pipes by Sea Water, by Dr. E. A. Letts, 602
The Amount of Carbonic Anhydride Absorbed from Sea Water by Air, by Professor Letts and Mr. W. Caldwell, 602
Determination of Atmospheric Carbonic Anhydride on Board the " Discovery," by Professor Letts, 602
The Absorption of Ammonia from Water by Alga, by Professor Letts and Dr. J. S. Totten, 602
The Telluric Distribution of the Elements in Relation to their Atomic Weights, by Mr. W. Ackroyd, 602
Proposed Standardisation of Methods of Chemical Analysis, by Dr. B. Blount., 602. See LETTER, 720
Statistics on the Training, of Chemists in English Industries, Committee's Report, by Prof. G. G. Henderson, 602. See 512
Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Diamonds, by Dr. John Hall Gladstone, 603
Colloids of Zirconium and those of other Metals of the Fourth Group, by Dr. Gladstone and Mr. W. Hibbert, 603
Economic Section, 631, 662
Presidential Address, by Dr. Edward Carman, on the Teaching of Economics, 631
The Localisation of Industry, by Dr. W. Cunningham, 632
The Influence of Economic History on Economic Theory, by Mr. A. G. Clarke, 633
The Position of Economics and the Applied Sciences in a University of Training of Men for Commercial Life, by Dr. W. R. Scott, 633
Trusts, from the Point of View of Economic Theory, by Professor W. Graham, 633
Shipping Combination, by Dr. . B. Gins• berg, 662. See 219, 479
Municipal Trading, by the Hon. R. P. Porter, 90, 663
Municipal Policy and State Control, by Mr. P. Ashley, 663
Educational Section, 663. See LETTER
Presidential Address, by Professor H. E. Armstrong, 663
A Universal Language, by Sir Frederick Bramwell, 663

British Battleships, New, 283
British Railway Construction, 322
British Railways, 582
British Sea Commerce and British Shipping, 54
British Thomson-Houston Company, Works of, 46
British versus United States Tramway Engines, 50, 348. See LETTERS
British Warships. See Warships
British Westinghouse Co. See Westinghouse
Brittleness Due to Overheating of Steel, 332, 357, 92
Bronzes at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 306
Brotherhood, The late Mr. Peter, 515
Brugmann, Mr. W., on the Progress in the Manufacture of Pig Iron in Germany, 324, 332, 60, 425
Bryan Planimeter, 742
Building Construction and Materials at the Dfisseldorf Exhibition, 336, 400
Building Legislation for Fire-Prevention, 616, 819
Building, Steel and Concrete Coal-Storage, 289
Buildings of Concrete at the Dfisseldorf Exhibition, 333
Buildings, Rapid Construction of, 649
Buildings, Slow-Burning Construction, 547
Buildings, Steel Preservation in, 682
"Bullfinch," Accident on H.M.S., 690
Bumetead and Chandler Fan, 797. See also 627, 32
Burners for Liquid Fuel, 163, 158. SeeLBrrisits, 777
Burning Steel, 332, 357, 392
Business, Science of, 677. See LErrEas and Economics
Butler's Gas and Oil Engine Combined, 842
Buttner Boilers and Superheaters (German), 569

Cab Accumulators, 504, 533. See LETTER, 549
Cable Companies, Submarine, 166, 647
Cable i at the DlIsseldorf Exhibition, 401
Cables, Electric, Insulating, 749. See LErrEas, Single-Phase Electric Railway
Caisson Disease, 186
Calcium Carbide, Formation of, 187
Calcium Carbide Furnaces, 824
Caledonian Six-Wheeled Coupled Passenger Locomotive, 275
Calendars. See Literature Index
Calorimeters, Vacuum, 620
Cameras for Surveying, 38
Cams for Motor-Car Engines, 703
Canada, Industrial Progress in, 787
Canada,Metallurgical Industry and Trusts, 341, 49, 17, 650
Canadian Patent Law and Foreign Patents, 381
Canal Barges, Sea-Going, 66
Canal, Kaiser Wilhelm, 101
Canal Locks, Gates, &c., 20, 34, 38
Canal, Panama, 3
Canal, Thames and Medway, 515
Canal Towage, Electric, 100, 515
Canals with Large Locks, 20, 38
Canals and Rivers, Resistance to Ship's Motion, 67
Canals and Sea Transport, 654
Cane-Sugar Factories, 853
Cape Government Locomotives, Balancing, 319, 45
Cape Government Railways, 361
Cape Town Railway Station, Consulting Engineers' Fees, 82
Capell Fans, 732. See 627
Capillary Tube, Motion of a Detached Thread of Liquid through a, 529
Capital, Foreign, in Japan, 222
Capped Projectiles and Naval Efficiency, 777.
See Erratum, 813
Capstan Lathes. See Machine Tools
Caramel-Cutting Machine, 108
Carbonic Anhydride Absorbed from Sea Water by Air, the Amount of, 602
Carbonic Anhydride, Atmospheric, Determination of, on Board the " Discovery," 602
Carbonite at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 483
Carburetters and Carburetting, 525, 554, 588, 592, 03, 626, 701
Carpet-Sweeping by Machinery, 187
Cars, Petrol-Driven Railway Inspection, 20
Cars without Rails, on Trolley System, 621
Cars. See Motor Car, Railway and Tramway
Cars, South London, London County Council, Tramways, 698, 733. See 431, 495
Cars, Tramway, Ball-Bearings, 834
Cars, Tramway, Brakes for Electric, 804
Cars, Tramway, at the Tramways Exhibition, 23, 1
Carriage, Railway, Works (Laycock), 449
Carriages. See Railway
Cast-Iron Testing Machine, 504
Castings, Copper, 341, 837
Castings, Forgings, and Boiler Plates, Standard Specification for Steel, 70, 225
Catalysis and its Application, 155
Cathodes, Destruction of, by Formation of Alloys, 57
Caustic Soda, 789
Celestial Photographs from the Yerkes Observatory, 631
Cement-Burning Kilns, Rotary, 50, 79
Cement and Concrete, Armoured, at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 333. See also Ferro-Concrete
Cement Industry, 39
Cement Pipes, Kielberg Machine for Making, 813
Cement as a Preventive of Russ in Steel, 682
Cement-Testing Apparatus at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 333
Census-Counting Machine, 165,840
Census Return, U.S., Locomotive Building, 545
Census, United States Electrical Industry, 382
Census, United States Iron and Steel, 415
Centenary of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 646
Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool (Sir W. Gray and Co.), 203
Central Station. See Electric and Power
Central Station at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 768
Centrifugal Fans, 627, 732, 797
Centrifugal Machine, Electrically-Driven, 808
Centrifugal Machines for Cane-Sugar, 853
Centrifugal Pump Dredgers, 290
Centrifugal Pumps, Flow Through, 762
Centrifugal Pumps for New Orleans Drainage, 03
Ceramics at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 400
Ceylon Railways and Trade, 617
Chain, The Locke Steel Machine, 213
Chance-Claus Process for Alkali Waste, 222
Change Speed Gear of Motor Cars, 592. See also 25, 554, 603, 626, 701
Channelling Machine, Oilway (Ward, Haggas, and Smith), 10. See Addendum, 66
Charcoal-Burning in the Lake District, 417
"Charles Dickens " Locomotive, '283
Chemical Analysis, Proposed Standardisation of Methods of, 602. See LETTER, 720
Chemical Department at the Reichsanstalt, 563
Chemical Fire Engine, 121. See D.:17 Rs
Chemical Industries Section at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 119, 135, 186, 239, 265, 305, 333 99, 482, 501, 533
Chemical Outlook, 789
Chemical and Physical Papers of the British Association, 461, 497, 527, 568, 599
Chemical Training and Industrial Progress, 512, 03
Chemical Treatment of Sewage at Manchester, 91, 552
Chemical Works, Effluvia from, 152
Chemistry Department, Manchester School of Technology, 472
Chemistry, Electra-, at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 01
Chemistry, Electro-, High Temperature, Notes on Technical Electric Furnaces, 824
Chemistry, Prof. Dewar on, 367. See 381, 512, 602
Chemists Employed in English Industries, Statistics on the Training of, 602. See 367, 381, 512
Chiclgo Railway, Scherzer Rolling Lift-Bridge, 70, 757, 807
Chillingham Castle, Visit at Institution of Mechanical Engineers to, 204
China, Japan Enterprises in, 121
China and Japan Relations, 646
China, Japanese Shipbuilding for, 187
China and Siberia, Agricultural Machinery, 306
Chucking, Engineering Workshop Practice, 263
Churchill's Motor-Car Details, 455

Civil Engineers, American Society or; Washington Meeting, 437

Presidential Address by Mr. Robert Moore, on the Engineer of the Twentieth Century, 437
Cabin, John Bridge, Visit to, 440
American Institutions, Discussion, 440
Washington Monument, 440
Electric Railways and Parks of Washington, 440
George Washington, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, by Herbert M. Wilson, 441

Civil Engineers, Institution of :
Presidential Address of Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw, 22, 654, 686. See alio 615
Electric Tramways, by Mr. C. Hopkinson, Mr. B. Hopkinson, and Mr. E. Talbot, 671
High-Speed Electrical Generating Plant, by Mr. T. H. Minshall, 741
The Rupnarayan Bride, Bengal-Nagpur Railway, by Mr. N. Martin Leake, 822
Clark, Messrs. George, Limited, Southwick Engine Works, 178

Classification of Russian Coke Pig Iron, 86
Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Cleveland and Northern Counties, Notes from,
14, 247, 276, 311, 344, 4, 47, 87, 112, 146, 181, 79, 413, 453, 476, 509, 510, 576, 610, 640, 674, 10, 746, 780, 812, 819
Climate of Cyprus, 821
Climatology, English, 1881 - 1900, by Mr. F. Campbell Bayard, 673
Close Electric Power Works, Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company's, 153, 161. See 179
Clubs' Act, Shop, 1902, 282
Clyde Turbine Steamer "Queen Alexandra," 75. See 370
Coal-Conveying Plant at Electric Power Works, 53, 161. See 179
Coal Depreciation through Transport, 65, 94
Coal Economy and Gas Engines, 816
Coal Economy in Pits and Iron Works, 514
Coal Gas See Gas
Coal, Genesis of, 416
Coal Mines, Mechanical Appliances in, 155, 175, 27, 260. See also Mining Pumps and Winding
Coal-Mining in Pennsylvania, 264
Coal Mining and Treatment Machinery at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 138, 186, 239
Coal in St. Petersburg, Russian or Foreign, 121
Coal, Smokeless Combustion of Bituminous, 433
Coal Sorting, Washing, and Briquette Making Machinery, 239, 441
Coal Staithes, Tyne Commissioners, 176
Coal-Storage Plant, Steel and Concrete, 289
Coal Supply, World's, 655
Coal Wagon, 40-Ton, for the North-Eastern Railway, Tests of, 811
Coal-Washing Machinery, 239
Coaling Crane, Rapier's, 412
Coast, Erosion of the Sea, 238
Cochrane, Mr. C. A., on Blast-Furnace Gas Engines, 787, 794, 809. See LicrrERs
Cock, Indicator,283
Cockburn's Double Safety Valves, 487
Cockerill Blast-Furnace Gas Engines, 787, 791, 09: See LETTERS.
Cockerill Company, 619. See also 794, 809
Coherer, Minchin's, 583
Coke Breakers, &c., at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 239
Coke Depreciation by Shipment, 65, 94
Coke Ovens and Coke By-Products at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 239
College, Cooper's Hill, 223
Collieries, Management and Rating of, 450
Colliery, Hylton, 178
Collision on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, 485
Collision on the South Wales Mineral Railway, 85
Colloids of Zirconium and those of other Metals of the Fourth Group, 603
Colonial and Foreign Notes. See Foreign and Colonial Xotes
Colonies and Naval Defence, (313
Colour of Iodine Compounds, 599
Colour Vision, The Physical Aspects of, 600
Colours, Artists', at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 19
Combination, Shipping, 219, 479, 662
Combines, 677
Combines, from the Point of View of Economic Theory, 633
Combines. See also ?trusts
Combustion of Bituminous Coal, Smokeless, 433
Combustion Controller, Ados Furnace, at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 265
Commercial Disputes; Arbitration or Litigation ? 49
Commercial Education. See Education
Commercial Education in Janan, 22
Commissioners, New, for the Port of London, 49 40
Commutators, Assembling, Hydraulic Press 5
Companies' Liabilities. See Legal
Compensation Water Supply, Rights of Riparian Proprietors, 817
Competition, Steam Shipping, 249. See 204, 479, 62 and Atlantic
Competition, United States. 298, 845
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotives See Loconotive.y
Compound Mad Locomotive for Johannesburg, 72
Compounding Electric Machines, 636
Compressed Air in Tunnels, Sickness Due to, 186
Compressed Gas, Professor Dewar on, 367
Com pressed Gas Industries, 5E3
Compression of Steel Ingots, 726, 758, 792
Compressor, Air, and Corliss Engine, 412, 574
Compressor, Air, The Daw, 408
Compressor, Air, for the Harpener Mining Company (Schlichtermann and Kremer), 776
Compressor, Air, V rt cal, King-Riedler Type, 51
Compulsory Purchase. See Legal
Comstock Mines in Nevada, Electric Power, 632
Concentration of Iron Ores, Electric, 484
Concrete, Adhesion to Iron and Rock, 422, 445
Concrete, Armoured, Strength of, 385
Concrete and Cement Armour at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 333
Concrete, Ferro-, 333 385 569, 581, 681
Concrete Pipes, Kielberi Machine for, 843
Concrete and Steel Coal-Storage Plant, 289
Condensed Exhaust Steam and Boiler Feeding, 49
Condensing Water-P.mping Plant, 141, 153
Conductivity, Electrical, of Aluminium Alloys as Affected by London Atmosphere. 405
Conduit System of Electric Traction, 211, 431, 95, 698, 671, 773
Confectionery Machinery, 108
Congress at Diisseldort. See Navigation Congress
Congress, Trades Union, 347
Conical Drum-Winding Engine, 607
Connecting Rod Strength, Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Bullfinch," 690
Conservation of Weight in Chemical Reactions, The Accurate, 497
Construction, Improvements in Huggens's, 500
Consulting Engineers and Advertising, 517
Consulting Engineers' Fees, 8?.
Consumption Results of Blast-Furnace and Producer Gas Engines, 544
Consumption of Ste am of Reciprocating Engine and Parsons' Turbine, 142, 153 176, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Contact, Surface, System of Tramways, Cruvellier, 211 ; Diatto and Dolter, 671
Continental Traffic and the Customs, 318
Contract Repudiation, 86
Controller, Ados Furnace Combustion, at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 265
Controllers for Tramway Cars, 773. See also 31, 495, 698
Converters. . See Electric
Conveyor, Coal, at Electric Power Works, 153, 61. See 179
Conveyor, Coal, Steel and Concrete Plant, 289
Co-Operative Boycott, 634
Cooper's Hill College, 223
Copper, 119, 383, 679
Copper Castings, 341, 387
Copper Consumption, 119, 3S3, 679
Copper at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 303
Copper Pipes, Corrosion of, by Sea Water, 602
Copper Position, 119, 383, 679
Copper Prices. See Metal Price Diagram,
Copper Sulphide, Electrolytic, 318
Copying, Photo-, 673
Corbett, Mr. J., on the Salford Sewage Works, 65
Core-Wire-Straightening Machine (de Laval and Chisholm), 45
Corliss Engine and Air-Compressor Combined, 42, 574
Corliss Engines, 700 Horse-Power (Cole, Marchant, and Morley, Limited), 56
Corliss Marine Engine for Driving Generators (Wallsend Company), 313
Cormack, Professor J. D., on the Technical Education at the University of London, 593. See LETTER, 650
Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Royal, 321
Coronation Honours, 23
Corporations and Tramways and Lighting, 738
Corpuscles. See Electron
Corrosion of Boilers by Magnesium Chloride, 82
Corrosion of Copper Pipes by Sea Water, 602
Corrosion in Steel Buildings, 682
Cosmical Physics and Astronomical Papers of the British Association, 529, 564
Cost of Mining by Hand and Machinery, 165, 75, 227, 260
Cost and Power Required for Steam and Electric Railway Trains, 583, 667
Costs Accounts, Mechanical System, 840
Cost of Production, United States Iron and Steel. Trade, 415
Cost of Repairs to United States vorstis BritishTramway Engines, 250, 318. See LErrBas
Costs, Manufacturers', and Drawing-Office, 56, 09
Cotton Mills, Electricity in, 288
Coupling, Fire-Hose, Nunan's, 487
Coverings, Steam Pipe, Tests of, •266
Covers, Failure of Boiler Mudhole, 27
Cragside, Visit of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to, 204
Crane Ball-Bearings, 835
Crane, Rapier's Coaling, 412
Cranes for Docks, 66
Cranes, Electric. See Electric Cranes
Cranes, Electric, Shipbuilding Berths, 204. See LErrEas, 320, and pages 249, 269, 339
Crewe, Accident at, 485
Critical Temperatures, Theory of Gases at., 600
Crossley Vertical Gas Engine, 110
Cruiser Design, 613
Cruiser, Russian. " Novik," 649
Cruisers. See Warships
Crusher Gauge, Petavel's Substitute for, 628
Cruvellier Surface Contact System of Tramways, 11
Crystalline Structure of Igneous Rooks, 300
Crystalline Structure and Overheating of Steel, 32, 357, 392
Cultivator, Martin, 787
Cunard Atlantic Liners, Subsidy to, 451, 479. See 201, 249, 602
Curves, Speed-Time, 666
Curve-Tracing Instrument, Owen's, 741
Customs and International Express Traffic, 318
Cutting, Coal, and Drilling Machinery, 155, 175, 27, 260
Cycles, Motor. See Motor Cars
Cyclone, The Eclipse, of 1901, 821
Cylinder, Repairing a Broken, 302
Cylinders, Experiments on Gas Explosions in, 723
Cylindrical Valves for Locomotives, 155, 174, 193 See Erratum', 310
Cyprus, Climate of, 821

Daelen, Mr. R. M., on Progress in Steel Works Practice in Germany since 1880, 326
Dairy Machinery at the Royal Agricultural Show, 44
Dalby, Profess)r W. E., on Balancing Marine Engines, 59
Dam, Aswftn, 733
Damage by Lightning to Midland Railway, 11
Daw Air-Compressor, 408
Dawson Producer-Gas, Uralite Works, 221. See Erratum, 247. See LETTER, 286
Day Off, Miners' Legal Case, 219
Deep-Tunnel Railways, London, 116, 517, 579, 14. See 751
Deep-Tunnel Railway Ventilation, 845
Defence, Naval, and the Colonies, 613
Deformation Indicator, Messenger's Furnace, 342
Depreciation Allowances, 677. See LETTERS, Science of Business
Depreciation of Coal and Coke by Shipment, 5, 94
Deptford Yard, Sunderland (Messrs. J. Laing and Sons), 178
Derailment at the Elephant and Castle, 485
Design of Cruisers, 643
Design of Engines, Tendency in, 314
Destroyers. See lVarsh ips
Destruction of Cathodes by Formation of Alloy, 57
Detectors, Magnetic, in Wireless Telegraphy, 529
Determining the Temperature of Exhaust Gases, 86
Deutz Gas Engines, 308, 370, 375, 426, 458, 620
Dew on Lenses of Projecting Lanterns, 600
Diagram of Metal Prices, 24, 190, 320, 454, 620, 56, 858
Diagrams for Determining Weight of Girdera, 126
Diamonds, Fluorescent and Phosphorescent, 603
Diazo-Compounds, Aromatic, 599
Dickinson, Messrs. J., and Sons, Palmer's Hill Engine Works, 178
Die-Stamping of Sheet Metal, 302
Dielectric Hysteresis, 668
Digby, Mr. William P., on Piscicelli Taeggi's Electric Post, 419. See Erratum, 460
Directories. See Literature Index
"Discovery," Determination of Atmospheric Carbonic Anhydride on board, 602
Disintegrators at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 399
Disputes ; Arbitration or Litigation ? 149
Distilled Water on Lead, Action of, 601
Distilling Plant, A New Type of, 616
Distilling Ship "Edgewater," H.M., 551
Distribution of Power at Exhibitions, 771
Divers and Diving Plant, 773
Dock Installations, 66
Dock, Japanese Dry, 242
Dock on the Tyne, Smith's, 176
Docks, Graving versus Floating, 66
Docks, Pontoon, on the Tyne, 176 ,
Docks, Sunderland, 177
Dockyards in the United States, 678
Dolter System of Tramways, 671
Dominica, Rainfall of, 673
Dortmund Colliery Miners' Exhibits at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 186
Downey's High-Pressure Piston Packing, 685
Doxford, Messrs. W., Pallion Shipyard, 178
Drainage of New Orleans, 103
Draining Pumps, Mine, 57, 108. See also Pumps
Draughtsmen and the Estimate of Costs, 56, 109
Drawing and Machine Construction, Teaching, 35. See Education,
Drawing - Office and Manufacturers' Costs, 56, 09
Drawings, Photo-Copying, 673
Dredger, J. Israel Tarte, 165
Dredging Machines, 290
Drilling and Coal-Cutting Machinery, 155, 175, 27, 260
Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools
Dues, Shipping, 35
"Duke of Edinburgh," H.M.S., 644
Durability and Strength of Heavy Rails, 514
Diirr Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater (German), 636
Diisseldorf Exhibition, Congresses. See Iron and Steel Institute, and Navigation Congrage

Dusseldorf Exhibition : 47
Accumulators, Electric, 601, 533. See LETTER, 49
Ados Furnace Combustion Controller, 265
Air - Compressor for the Harpener Mining Company (Schfichtermann and Kremer), 776
Aluminium Thermit Exhibits, 135
Armoured Concrete, 333
Artists' Colours, 110
Asbestos, 400
Asphalte, 400
Attendance, 647
Blasting Powder, 483
Bochum Pavilion, 85
Boilers and Superheaters, 569, 633, 707, 736
Briquette Machinery, 239, 441
Bronzes, 306
Building Construction, 336
Building Materials, 400
Buildings of Concrete, 333
Cab, Electric, Accumulators, E01, 533. See LETTER, 549
Cables, 401
Carbonite, 483
Cement and Concrete Armour, 333, 399
Cement-Testing Apparatus, 333
Ceramics, 400
Chemical Industries Section, 119, 135, 186, 239, 65, 305, 333, 399, 432, 501, 533
Chemistry, Electro-, 501
Closing Proceedings and Result, 547
Coal-Mining and Treatment Machinery, 138, 86, 239
Coal-Washing Machinery, 239, 441
Coke Breakers, 239
Coke Ovens and Coke By-Products, 239
Colours, Artists', 119
Combustion Controller, Ados Furnace, 265'
Concrete and Cement Armour, 333
Controller, Ados Furnace Combustion, 265
Copper, 306
Cornish Boiler (Kolnische Maschinenbau A.-G.), 737
Cylindrical and Water-Tube Boiler Combined (Steinmiiller), 736
Deutz Gas Motor and Engine, 308. See 370, 75, 426, 458,:520
Disintegrators, 399
Dortmund Colliery Miners' Exhibit, 186
Electric Accumulators, 601, 533. See LETTER, 49
Electric Central Station, 768
Electric Furnace, 120
Electro-Chemistry, 601
Engine, 300 Horse-Power Compound HoriZmital (Schiichtermann and Kremer), 308
Engine, 60) Horse - Power Electric-Driving (Dingier Company), 408
Engine, with Generator, 3000 Indicated HorsePower Triple - Expansion (Gutehoffnungshiitte), 179, 210
Engine, Steam, 550 Horse-Power Vertical Dynamo (Moller), 340
Engines and Electric Generators, Table giving Particulars, 769
Explosives, 482
Ferro-Concrete, 333
Firebricks, 400
Floor Materials, 400
Foodstuffs, 120
Furnace Combustion Controller, Ados, 265
Furnace, Electric, 120
Fuses, Ignition Devices, &c., 484
Gas, Illuminating, 265
Gas, Producer, 265
Gelatines, 138
Generators and Engines, Table giving Particulars, 769
Germania Works Exhibits (Krupp), 166
Glass, 400
Glues, 138
Goldschmidt Pavilion, 135
Gruson Exhibits (Krupp), 165
Gunpowder - Making Machinery at Gruson Works, 166
Gunpowders, 482
Gutehoffnungshiitte Company Exhibit, 351
Hoerde Pavilion, 84
Hydraulic Press, Huber System (Gruson Works), 165
Illuminating Gas, 265
Iron-Mining, 138, 186, 239
Iron and Steel Exhibits, 323
Krupp Magnetic Ore Separators, 268
Lamps, Miners' Safety, 186, 239
Lighting, 771
Lignite, 187
Linoleum Calenderi lig R oils (Gruson Works), 165
Metallic Art Objects, 135
Magnetic Separators for Ore, 268
Manganese, 306
Metallurgical Industries Section, 119, 36 , 186 39, 265, 305, 333, 399, 482, 501, 533
Metallurgical Mining and Treatment Machinery, 138, 186, 239
Mine-Draining Pump, 37, 108, 268;670
Mine Pump, Double-Acting High-Speed, Hoerbiger-Rogler System, 245
Miners' Safety Lamps, 186, 239
Mining Exhibits, 138, 186, 239
Mosaics, 400
Nitro-Cellulose Powders, 482
Nitro-Glycerine Powders, 482
Oils, 138
Ore-Dressing and Magnetic Separators, 268
Phoenix Powder, 484
Platinum, 120
Portable Dwellings, 400
Powders, 482
Producer Gas, 265
Pumps, Klein Double-Acting High Speed
Mining, 268, 670. See also Mine
Refrigerator Waste Heat Ammonia, 306
Roburite, 483
Rolling, Mills, Universal (Duisburger Company), 537
Rottweil Powders, 482
Rubber, 401
Safety Lamps, Miners', 186, 239
Salvage and Safety Lamps, 196, 239
Schulz Water-Tube Boiler, 166
Sieglander Collective Exhibits, 186
Siller and Dubois Ore-Separators, 268
Slag Cements, 399
Soap, 138
Softeners, Water, 170, 266, 670
Steam Boilers, 669, 633, 707, 736
Stoneware, 400
Sulphuric Acid Exhibits, Ammonia Refrigerators, Waste Heat, 306
Superheaters, 569, 633, 707, 736
Technical High School of Aachen, 501
Thermit, Aluminium, Exhibits, 135
Tin, 306
Torpedo-Boat Engines (Krupp), 166
Tramways, Electric Accumulators, 604, 533. See LETTER, 549
Varnishes, 138
Water-Softeners, 170, 266, 670
Water-Tube Boiler with Superheater (Steinmiiller), 736
Water-Tube Boiler with Superheater (Willmann, of Dortmund), 737. See also 569, 633, 07
Water-Tube and Cylindrical Boiler Combined (Steinmiiller), 736
Wax, 138
Winding Engine, Conical Drum, 607
Winding Engines, Electrically-Driven, 12, 136
Wires (Felten and Guilleaume), 401
Wiring, Electric, 771
Zinc Exhibits, 305

Dust, 363
Dynamos, 659
Dynamos. See Electric,
Dynamos, The Making of, 436

Early English Railways, History of, 836
Earth, The Figure of the, 661
Earthquakes, Seismological, B. A. Committee's Report, 564
Earthquakes, Volcanic Phenomena in the Windward Islands, 448
Earth's Atmosphere, The Positions of Hydrogen and Helium in Relation to, 532
Eastern Telegraph Company, 156
Economic Papers at the British Association, 631
Economical Effect of Receiver, Reheating, 155, 73, 197. See LETTERS, 255, 285
Economics of Production, 415
Economics, Teaching of, 631, 677
Economiser, Explosion of a Fuel, 127
Economy of Gas versus Steam Engine, 814
Economy of Steam Engines, Some Experiments, 55, 173, 197. See LETTERS, 255, 285
Economy. Steam, of Reciprocating Engine and
Parsons Turbine, 142, 153, 176, 179. See LETTERS, 188
"Edgewater," H.M. Distilling Ship, 551
Edison Cement Works, 69
Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of Boston, Recent Construction at the Atlantic Arc Station of the, 257
Education, 381. See also LETTERS, 367, 370, 395, 01, 427, 432
Education, Chemical, and Industrial Progress, 67, 381, 512, 602
Education, Commercial, in Japan, 22
Education, Electrical Engineers, 381, 636
Education of Engineers, 11, 56, 78, 223, 255, 285, 22, 486, 517, 548, 651, 683, 755, 778, 820, 845
Education, Faulty Technical, 279. See Erratum', 18
Education, Manchester Municipal School of Technology, 466
Education of Naval Engineers, 750, 857, See LETTERS
Education, Prof. Dewar on, 367. See 381, 512, 602
Education, Professor Perry on, 370, 381, 395, 427
Education, Science and Practice, 217, 677
Education, the Teaching of Mathematics, 565. See LETTERS, Education
Education, Technical, 370, 381, 395, 427, 466. See LETTERS
Education, Technical, Electrical Engineer of, 742
Education, Technical, in the Navy, 581
Education, Technical, at the University of London, 593. See LETTER, 650
Educational Papers at the B.A., 381, 663
Effect of Cold on Life, Professor Dewar on, 367
Efficiency, Naval and Gunnery, 777. See Erratum., 13
Effluvia from Chemical Works, 152
Egyptian Aswan Dam and other Works, 783
Elastic Wheel, A New, 403
Elasticity and Strength, 731
Electric. See also Electrical EngincPrs, Thc .Imcrican

Institute of, and Electrical_Engineers, Institution of :
Acceleration Tests, Steam versus Electric Locomotive, 583, 667
Accumulators, 501, 504, 533, 749. See LETTER, 49
Alternator, 1400 Horse-Power, 142 ; Turbo Alternator, 161, 179 ; 3000 Horse-Power Three-Phase, 179, 210 ; Single-Phase, 666 ; Sheldon and Mason on Alternators, 659 ; Kapp on Alternators, 772. See also Engine and Alternator and Generator Alternators, 772
Alternators, Single-Phase on Polyphase Circuits, 666
Batteries, Storage, 749. See LETTERS, SinglePhase Electric Railway and Accumulators
Blow-Out for Tramcar Controllers, Magnetic, 73. See also 431, 495, 698
Bogie for Electric Cars, 698. See also 431, 495 73
Brakes for Tram-Cars, 801
British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, Rugby, Works of, 546
Bulk Schemes. See Power Distribution
Cab Accumulators, 504, 533. See LETTER, 549
Canal Towage, 100, 515
Cars without Rails on Trolley System, 621
Cars, South London L.C.C. Tramways, 698, 73. See also 431, 495
Central Station at Dfisseldorf Exhibition, 768. See also Power Station
Chemistry, Electro-, at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 601
Coal-Cutting and Drilling Machinery, 156, 175, 27, 260
Commutators, Hydraulic Press for Assembling, 5
Compounding Machines, 636
Concentration of Iron Ores, 484
Controllers for Tramway Oars, 773. See also 31, 495, 698
Converters, Rotary, 772
Cranes, 284, 387, 422, 444, 486, 516, 673, 649
Curve Tracer, Owen's, 741
Deep-Tunnel Railways, 116, 647, 579, 714, 845. See 751
Dielectric Hysteresis, 668
Dynamos, Alternating-Current, 659
Dynamos, 772. See also Generator and Alternator
Dynamo-Electric Machines, Calculation of, 535
Dynamos, The Making of, 436
Edison, Illuminating Company of Boston, Recent Construction at the Atlantic Arc Station of the, 257
Education, Electrical Engineers, 636
Electrolytes, 318, 645, 749. See LETTERS, SinglePhase Electric Railway
Electrolytic Interrupters, Wehnelt, 752
Electrons, 752
Engine with Dynamo, High-Speed Compound, 90
Engine and Dynamo, 300-Kilowatt Triple-Expansion, Middlesbrough Electricity Works, 47
Engine and Generator, 600 Horse - Power Vertical Compound (Dingier Company), 408
Engine (Gutehoffnungshiitte) and Generator (Lahmeyer), 3000 Indicated Horse-Power, 79, 210
Engine, Steam, 550 Horse-Power Vertical Dynamo (Moller), 340
Engines, Blast-Furnace Gas, and Generators, 70, 375, 426, 458, 620
Engines, Corliss, for Driving Generators at Shoreditch Station (Wallsend Company), 343,
Engines and Dynamos (Belliss and Morcom) Tests, 374
Furnace, 120
Furnaces for High - Temperature ElectroChemistry, 824
Future, and its Limitations, 749. See LETTERS, Single-Phase Electric Railway
Generating Plant, 714
Generating Plant at Niagara Falls, 637. See LET rER 8
Generating Plant, Portable (Allen, Bedford), 180
Generator, 65 Horse-Power, 110 ; Portable, 180 ; 50 Horse-Power, 340 ; 600 Horse-Power, 408 ; Compounding, 636 ; 300-Kilowatt, 847. See also Engine and Generator, Alternator, and Dynamo Generator, Peebles', and Engine, Willans', for Traction and Lighting, 321
Generator Sets, Details of Direct Uonnective, 88
Glass Works, 121
Heating of Railway Motors, 667
Hollerith Tabulating Machine, 165, 840
Hydro-Electric Works in Switzerland, 810
Industry in America, Progress of, 382
Insulating Cables, 749. See LETTERS, Singh:Phase Electric Railway
Lighthouse at l'Ile Vierge, 233
Lighting and Power Schemes in Parliament, 39
Lighting and Tramway Plant, 321
Lightning Arresters, 668
Locomotive Acceleration Tests, Steam versus Electric, 583, 667
Magnetic Blow-Out for Tramcar Controllers, 73. See also 431, 495, 698
Magnetic Detectors in Wireless Telegraphy, 529
Magnetic Investigations at the Reichsanstalt, 61
Magnetic Separators for Ore at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 268
Meters, Testing, at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Midland Corporation Power Distribution, 201, 29
Mine-Draining Pumps, 57. See 109 and Pumps
Mine, Winding Engine, Electrically Driven, 2, 136
Mining, Plant for Coal, 155, 175, 227, 260
Motors, 772
Motors, Tramcar, 773. See also 431, 495, 698
Nernst Lamps in Vacuo, 485
Ore Dressing and Magnetic Separators at the Dfisaeldorf Exhibition, 268
Parliament. See also Legislation and Municipal Trading
Piscicelli Taeggi's Post, 419. See Erratum, 460
Plough, Electric, for Tramcar, 698. See also 31, 495, 773
Points and Signals, 681
Portable Generating Plant (Allen, Bedford), 80
Power Distribution, Midland Corporation, 201
Power in Iron and Steel Works, 333, 488
Power and Lighting Schemes in Parliament, 39
Power Plant at Niagara Falls, 637. See LETTERS
Power Required and Cost for Steam and Electric Railway Trains, 667
Power Scheme, Yorkshire, 64, 65
Power Station at Comstock Mines, Nevala, 32
Power Station, Midland, 201, 629
Power Station at Neptune Bank, Newcastleon-Tyne, 142, 153, 176, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Power Station, Newcastle and District Company's, 153, 161. See 179
Power-Transmission Plant on the Pacific Coast, 272
Practical Standards for Measurements, 528
Public Authorities' Protection Act, 184
Radiators, 684
Railway Electrification, North-Eastern, 218
Railway Problem, 666
Railway, Single-Phase El ctric, 667, 749, 778
Railway Trains, Power and Cost of Steam versus Electric, 583, 667
Railway, Underground, at Stassfurt. 584
Railways, Deep-Tunnel, 116, 547, 579, 751
Railways, Single-Phase, 776
Railways of Washington, U.S.A., 440
Receiver, A New, for Hertzian Oscillations, 629, 83
Relation of Voltaic Potential to Temperature, The, 498 •
Rotary Converters, 772
Signailing, Damage by Lightning on Midland Railway, 11
Standardisation, Electric Plant, 687
Stations. See Power Stations
Steam versus Electric Trams, 583, 667
Supply Station at Manchester School, 469
Towage and Canals, 100
Traction on Medway and Thames Canal, 100, 519
Train-Lighting in Germany, 480
Trains, Power and Cost of, Steam versus Electric, 583, 667
Tramcar Motors, 773. See also 431, 495, 698
Tramway Accumulators, 501, 504, 533. See LETTERS, 549, 749
Tramway Engines, Glasgow, 250, 348. See LETTERS
Tramway Finance (Glasgow), 183
Tramway Legislation, A Session of, 252, 295
Tramway and Light Railways Exhibition, 23, 51
Tramway and Lighting Set, 321
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 738
Tramway, Surface Contact, Cruvellier System,
X11; Diatto and Dolter Systems, 671
Tramways, South London, 431, 495, 698, 773
Transformer, 772
Turbine Generators at Niagara Falls, 637. See LETTERS
Turbo • Alternator, 1500-Kilowatt (Parsons), 79. See 142, 163, 161, 176, 188
Waterfalls and Electric Power, 656
Wattmeter, Electrostatic, 668
Westinghouse, Mr. Geo., on Future of Electricity, 816
Winding Engines, Electrically-Driven, 12, 138
Yorkshire Power Scheme, 54, 65

Electrical Engineers, American Institute of :
Great Barrington Meeting, 636, 666, 741
Presidential Address by Mr. C. P. Steinmetz, on Electrical Engineers' Education, 636
A Method of Compounding Alternating-Current Generators and Motors, Direct-Current ;Generators, Synchronous Motor Generators, and Synchronous Converters, by Mr. F. G. Baum, 636
The New Generating Plant of the Niagara Falls Power Company, by Mr. H. W. Buck, 37. See LETTERS
Stanley Instrument Company, Visit to Works, 39
An Experiment with Single-Phase Alternators on Polyphase Circuits, by Mr. C. 0. Mailloux, 666
Notes on the Plotting of Speed-Time Curves, by Mr. C. 0. Mailloux, 666
A Study of the Heating of Railway Motors, by Mr. A. H. Armstrong, 667
A Method of Ascertaining by Means of a Dynamometer Car the Power Required to Operate Trains and the Relative Cost of Operation by Steam and Electricity, by Mr. B. J. Arnold, 667
Comparative Acceleration Tests with Steam Locomotive and Electric Motor Cars, by Mr. B. J. Arnold and Mr. W. B. Potter, 667. See also 583
A Single-Phase Railway System, by Mr. B. J. Arnold, 667
Standardisation Report by Committee, 667
The Functions of Shunt and Series Resistance in Lightning Arresters, by Mr. P. H. Thomas, 68
The Electrostatic Wattmeter in Commercial Measurements, by Mr. Miles Walker, 668
Energy Lost 'in Commercial Insulating Materials when Subjected to High Potential Stress, by Mr. C. E. Skinner, 668
A New Curve-Tracing Instrument, by Professor R. B. Owens, 741
Concerning Uniformity in the Electrical Engineering Courses in the United States, by Dr. Sainuei Sheldon, 742
The Equipment of an Electrical Engineering Laboratory, by Profess n• R. B. Owens, 742
Electrical Engineering Courses at College and the Education of the Electrical Engineer, by Professor William Esty; 742
The Education of the Electrical Engineer, by Mr. H. W. Buck, 742
A Proposed 'Reform in Technical Training, by Mr. E. B. Raymond, 742
Electrical Engineers, Institution of:
Standard of Professional Etiquette for Consulting Electrical Engineers, 547
Tudor Accumulator, 549
Presidential Address by Mr. James Swinburne, on the Future and its Limitations, 49. See Lwrrzas, Single-Phase Electric
Railway and Entropy Electrons, by Sir Oliver Lodge, 752
Electrical Conductivity of Certain Aluminium Alloys as Affected by Expbsure to London Atmosphere, 405
Electrical Engineering Department, Manchester School of Technology, 472
Electrical Engineers' Education, 636. See 381 and Education
Electrical Engineers, Technical Education of, 742

Electrical Instruments, 407
Electrical Measurements, Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for • British Association Committee's Report, 528
Electrical Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Electrical Resonance of Metal Particles for Light Waves, 96
Electrically-Driven Centrifugal Machine, 808
ElPetricallv-Driven Centrifugal Pumps in Spanish Mines, 72, 188
Electrically-Driven 'Winding Engines, 12, 138
Electricity in Cotton Mills, 288
Electricity Works of Switzerland, and Water Power, 840
Electrification on the North-Eastern Railway, 218
Electrification of the South London Tramways, 31, 495, 698, 773
Electro-Chemistry, 656
Electro-Chemistry at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 01
Electro-Chemistry, High Temperature, Notes
on Experimental Technical Electric Furnaces, 24
Ele3tro• Pneumatic Signals and Coal Staithes.176
Electrolytes, 740. See LETTERS, Single-Phase Electric Railway
Electrolytic Copper Sulphide, 318
Electrolytic Determination of Traces of Metals in Foods and Organic Residue, 615
Electrolytic Interrupters, Wehnelt, 752
Electrons, 752
Electrostatic Wattmeter, 668
Elethents, Distribution of, by their Atomic Weight, 602
Elevator Safeties, 256
Elevators. See also Hoists Elswick Works, 151
Embankment Reconstruction, Tyne, North Pier, . 33, 176
Emery Wheels for Grinding Machines, 1, 99
EncyclopEedia Britannica, 237
Engine. See also Locomotives
Engine, Air-Compressing, The Daw, 408
Engine, Air-Compressing, for the Harpener Mining Company, 776
Engine-Balancing, Locomotive, 585
Engine, Beam, of 1767, Survival of, 486
Engine Boiler and Employers' Liability Report, 11
Engine, 300 Horse-Power, Compound Horizontal, (Schtichtermann and Kremer), 308
Engine Connecting-Rod, Strength of, Torpedo Boat Destroyer (H.M.S. " Bullfinch "), 690
Engine, Corliss, and Air-Compressor, 442, 574
Engine Cylinder, Repairing a Broken, 302
Engine Design, Tendency in, 314
Engine and Dynamo, 300 Kilowatt Triple-Expansion, Middlesbrough Electricity Works, 847
Engine, Fire, Motor (Merryweather), 25
Engine, Gas, Blast-Furnace (Deutz), 808. See also Engines, Gas
Engine, Gas, Economy, 816
Engine, Gas, Explosions, Preliminary Note on, 90. See 'Arms, 517, 549
Engine, Gas and Oil, Combined, Butler's, 842
Engine, Gas and Oil, Laboratory at Manchester School of Technology, 470
Engine, Gas, Temperatures, 156
Engine, Gas, Test, 286
Engine, Gas, Vertical (Crossley Brothers), 110
Engine (Gutehoffnungshiitte) and Generator (Lahmeyer), 3000 Indicated Horse-Power, 179, 10
Engine, High-Speed Compound, 490
Engine, Hult Rotary Steam, 506
Engine, 500 Horse-Power, lidding Gas, 410
Engine Piston Acceleration, Graphical Determination of, 288
Engine Piston Packing (Downie's), 685
Engine Shaft Governor (Robinson's), 791
Engine-Shafts. See Shafts
Engine, Steam, 550 Horse-Power Vertical Dynamo (Moller), 340
Engine, Steam, 600 Horse-Power Vertical Compound, with Generator (Dingier Company), 08
Engine, Traction, for Johannesburg, 672
Engine Valves at the Tramway and Light Railways Exhibition, 23, 51
Engine (Willans) and Generator (Peebles) for Traction and Lighting, 321
Engine, Winding,. with Conical Drum, 607
Engine, Winding, Electrically-Driven, 12, 138
Engine Works, Palmer's-Hill (Messrs. J. Dickinson and Sons), 178
Engins Works and Shipyards on the Wear, 177
Engines, Bellis and Morcom, 374
Engines, Blast-Furnace Gas, 787, 794, 809. See L krrEas
Engines, Blast-Furnace and Producer-Gas, Consumption Results, 541
Engines, 700 Horse-Power, for Electric Driving (Cole, Marchant, and Morley, Limited), 46
Engines, Corliss, for Driving Generators at Shoreditch Station (Wallsend Company), 343
Engines and their Defects, 511
Engines, Gas, Blast-Furnace; 370, 375, 426, 444, 58, 520, 787, 794, 809. See LBTTER
Engines, Gas, Experiments on Explosions in Cylinders, 723
Engines, Gas, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 41
Engines, Gas, at the Smithfield Club Show, 786
Engines and Generators at the Diisseldorf Exbibition, Table of Particulars, 769
Engines, High-Speed and Generating Plant; 744
Engines, Large Power Gas, 444
Engines, Marine, Balancing, 59
Engines, :Oil, for Marine Work, 188, 777
Engines, Oil, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 41
Engines, Oil, at the Smithfield Club Show, 786
Engines, Quadruple, 40,000 Indicated HorsePower, of T -S.S. " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 339. See also 204, 269 ; and LETTER, Shipbuilding Berths, 249, 320
Engines, Rolling Mill (Duisburger Company), 537
Engines, Steam, for Electric Driving, at the Tramways Exhibition, 23, 51
Engines, Steam, Economy, Experiments in, 155, 73, 197. See Dermas, 255, 285
Engines, Steam, at the Smithfield Show, 786
Engines, Steam, and Generator, Portable Electric, 180
Engines, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 0
Engines, Steam, Standardised System of Testing., 105
Engines, Steam, versus Parsons' Turbine, Steam Consumption, 142, 153, 176, 179. See 'Arms, 88
Engines, Torpedo-Boat (Krupp), 166
Engines, Traction, at the Smithfield Club Show, 86
Engines, Tramway, Glasgow, 260, 348. See LETTERs
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the Steam Yacht "Vanessa(Day, Summers, and Co., Limited), 23
Engines, Winding, Electrically-Driven, 12, 138
Engineer of the Twentieth Century, 437
Engineers and Advertising, 547
Engineers' Education. See Education
Engineers Electrical, Education, 381, 636
Engineers' Fees, Consulting, 82
Engineers, Institutions of. See Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers,Mining Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Naval Architects, Iron and Steel I 'Institution, and Navigation Congress at Dusseldorf':t
Engineers in the Navy, 116. See LETTERS, 280, 50, 785, 857
Engineers in the Navy. See Naval Engineers'Question
Engineers, Naval, 581 See Naval Engineers
Engineers, Society of, 830
Engineers, Technical Education of Electrical, 42
Engineers, The Training of, 432. See Minims,
Education, and 548
Engineering in Formosa. 350
Engineering and the Forces and Supplies of Nature, 622, 654, 686
Engineering Laboratories at Manchester School of Technology, 466
Engineering Papers at the British Asso:iation, 70, 401, 432. See 381
Engineering Progress, 615, 622
Engineering Schemes in Parliament, 714, 718, 38, 751
Engineering in the United States Navy, 678
Engineering Works and Wallsend Slipway Company, 695
Engineering Workshop Practice, 263
English and American Workmen, 256
English Climatology, 1881-1900, 673
Engravings for Books, History of, 801
Enterprise, Tendency of, 816
Entropy, An Application of the Method of, to Radiant Energy, 498
Entropy; 749, 843. • See Limns, Single-Phase Electric Railway
Enzymes, The Synthetical Action of, 699
Erosion of the Sea Coast, 238
Essen Works, 101
Estimates, Naval. See Naval
Ether, Does Motion Through the, Cause Double Refraction ? 497
Etiquette, Professional, 547
Evolution of Stellar Systems, 529
Ewing's Hysteresis Tester, Standards in, 223
Exhaust Gases, Determining Temperature of, 286
Exhibition, Brewers', 548
Exhibition at Diisseldorf. See DiimeWorf
Exhibition, Fire, 679. See LETTER, 720
Exhibition, Osaka, 853
Exhibition, Shoe and Leather, 617
Exhibition, St. Louis, 83, 207, 436, 513, 581
Exhibition, Tramways and Light Railways, 23, 1
Exhibition of United States Machine Tools, 6
Experimental Tank, Shipbuilding, 752
Experimentation in Impact at the Purdue University Laboratory, 28 •
Experiments on Gas Explosions in a Closed Vessel, 723
Experiments in Steam Engine Economy, 155, 73, 197. See LETTERS, 255, 285
Explosion of Fuel Economiser, 127
Explosions in Gas-Engine Cylinders, Experiments, 723
Explosions in Gas Engines, Preliminary Note on, 490. See LETTERS, 517, 549
Explosions. See also Boiler Explosions
Explosives at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 482
Exposition. See Exhibition
Express, An All-Stations Railway, 404
Extensometer, 422, 445

Factories for Cane-Sugar,853
Factory Cases. See Legal
Failure of Mudhole Covers, 27
Fans, Modern, 627, 732, 797
Faulty Technical Training, 279. See Erratum, 18
Feed, Boiler, Condensed Exhaust Steam for, 619
Feed-Water Filter, Harris-Anderson, 210. See LETTERS
Fees for Consulting Engineers' Plans, 82
Fergusson, John U. on Fergusson's Surveying Circle and Percentage Unit of Angular Measurement, 128
Ferro-Concrete, 333, 385, 569, 581, 681
Ferro-Concrete, Strength of, 385. See also Armoured Concrete
Ferrules and Birdnesting Boiler Tube, 91. See also 51, 54, 81, 90 ; LETTER, 444 ; and Engineers in the Navy
Field Guns. See Guns
Fight for Underground London, 581. See also Deep-Tunnel Railways.
Filter for Boiler Feed-Water, 210. See LETTERS and Separators.
Filtration, Mechanical, of Water Supplies, 23
Filtration, Sewage, Salford, 253. See LETTER, 85
Finance, Municipal Electric, Tramway (Glasgow), 83
Fire-Brigade Appliances, 121, 151. See LETTERS
Fire Brigade of London, L.C.C., 545. See LETTERS
Fire Brigade, London, Reorganisation, 18, 121, 16, 789, 819
Fire Engine, Motor (Merryweather), 25
Fire Escape and Combined Hose Tender, Horsed (Merryweather), 75
Fire Exhibition in London, International, 679. See LETTER, 720
Fire-Ex' anguishing Appliances, First -Aid, 121 See LETTERS
Fire and Glaze Brickmaking Machine, 111
Fire-Hose Coupling, Nunan's, 487
Fire-Prevention and Building Regulations for London, 616, 819
Fire, Tug, and Police Boat for the Mexican Government (Merryweather), 536
Firebticks at the Ditsseldorf Exhibition, 400
Fires, Slow-Burning Construction, 547
First -Aid Fire-Extinguishing Appliances, 121. See LETTERS
Fish-Plate, Schuler, 587
Flashing Lighthouse, A New Light, without Intervals of Darkness, 408
Fleet, Naval. See Warships
Fletcher's Oil and Grease Separator, 355
Floating Docks, 66
Floor Materials at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 00
Flow through Centrifugal Pumps, 762
Flow of Water in Pipes of Varying Sections, 664
Flow of Water in Rivers and Canals, 67
Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Diamonds, 603
Foods, Electrolytic Determination of Traces of Metals in, and Organic Residue, 645
Foodstuffs at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 120
Forbes Range-Finder, 436
Forced-Draught Fans, 627, 732, 797
Forced Draught (Howden) for Liquid Fuel, 153, 58. See LErrEas, 777
Fore River Shipyard, U.S.A., 288
Foreign Capital in Japan, 222
Forestry, 624
Forgings, Castings and Boiler Plates, Standard Specifications for Steel, 225
Forgings, Steel, Specifications of, 70
Formosa, Engineering in, 360
Formosa, Trade, 125
Foster High-Speed Compound Engine, 490
Foundry Practice, 263
Fowler, G. J., on the Treatment of Manchester Sewage, 491, 552
Fracture of Thirlmere Aqueduct Pipe, 550
French Lighthouse at l'Ile Vierge, 233
French Messageries Maritimes, 10
French Naval Manoeuvres, 336, 383, 418
French Naval Programme, 713
French Railway Goods Locomotive, 10, 76
French Submarine Naval Tactics, 616
Friction, Anti-Friction Metal Wanted, 619, 821
Friction of Canals and River Waters ; Ships' Motion, 67
Fuel Combustion, Liquid, 287
Fuel Economiser, Explosion of, 127
Fuel Economy in Coal Pits and Iron Works, 544
Fuel Gas Analysis, 205
Fuel, Liquid, for Steamships, 153, 158. See LETTERS
Fuel, Manufacture of Briquettes, 2:39, 441, 644
Fuel, Peat, as a Substitute for Coal, 547. See also 655
Furnace-Combustion Controller, Ados, at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 265
Furnace, Electric, 120, 824
Furnace Gas Engines. See Blast Furnace
Furnace, Messenger's, Deformation Indicator, 42
Furnaces, Electric, for High Temperature Electro-Chemistry, 824. See 120
Furnaces for Puddling, 38
Furness, Withy, and Co.'s Shipyard, 203
Fuses, Ignition Devices, &c., at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 484
Future and its Limitations in Electricity, 749. See LETTERS, Single-Phase Electric _Wawa and Entropy.

Galton Whistle, Dependence of Pitch of Minute Closed Pipes on Wind-Pressure, 528
Garvie's High-Pressure Stop-Valve, 343
Gas-Engine Explosions, Preliminary Note on, 90. See 723. See also Lawns, 517, 549
Gas Engine, 600 Horse-Power. KOrting, 410
Gas-Engine Temperatures, 156
Gas Engines, Mr. H. A. Humphrey, on the Recent Progress in Large, 370, 375, 426, 458, 20
Gas Engines, Large-Power, 444
Gas Engines. See also Engines, Gas
Gas Explosions.in a Closed Vessel, 723
Gas, Illuminating, at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 65
Gas Industries, Compressed, 583
Gas Motor Works, Deutz, 30S
Gas Producer, Dawson, Uralite Works, 221 See Erratum, 247. See LETTER, 285
Gas Producer at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, `z.65
Gas Schemes in Parliament, 739
Gases, Effect of, on Metals, 601
Gases, Exhaust, Determining the Temperature of, 286
Gases, Theory of, at Critical and other Temperatures, 500
Gates for Canal Locks, 20, 34, 38
Gateshead and Newcastle Water Works, 202
Gauge, Pressure, Recording, for Ordnance, Mr. Petavel's, 528
Gauges, Pressure, at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Gelatines at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 13S
Generating Plant at Niagara Falls, 637. See LETTERS
Generators, Electric. See Electric
Genesis of Coal, 416
Geneste Hersher Fan, 797. See also 627, 732
Geology and Engineering, 686
George Washington, 440
German and American Steamship Competition, 49. See 204
German High-Speed Liner " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 04, 269, 339. See LETTER, 320, Shipbuilding Berths, and 249
German Industries. See Diisseldorf Exhibition
German Merchant Service Training Ships, 819
German Pig Iron Manufacture, 324, 332,.360, 425
German Steel Exhibits at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 84
German Steel Works Practice, Progress in, 326
German Water-Tube Boilers and Superheaters, 69, 633, 707, 736
Germania Works Exhibits at Diisseldorf Exhibition, 166
Germany, Electric Train-Lighting in, 480
Girder-Testing by Extensometer, 422, 44E
Girders, Weight of, 126
Glasgow Bridge Foundation Building under Compressed Air, Sickness Due to, 186
Glasgow Electric Tramway Accounts, 183
Glasgow, Notes from. See North, Notes from
Glasgow Royal Philosophical Society, Centenary, 6 •
Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Collision on, 486
Glasgow Tramway Engines, 250, 348. See LETTERS
Glass at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 400
Glass Works, Electric, 121
Gincoside Group, Synthetical Researches in the, 99
Glues at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 138
Going Mine, What is a'? 23
Gold-Mining, Morison's Mortar-Box, 145
Goldschinidt Pavilion at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 135
Goniometer, Three-Circle, 95
Goodman, Professor, on Autographic Load-Strain Recorder for Test Specimens, 805
Goods Wagons Transport over Narrow-Gauge Tramways, 385
Governor, Robinson's Shaft, 791
Graving Dock, Japanese, 242
Graving versus Floating Docks, 66
Gravitation of Education in Engineering, 78, 17. See Education
Gray, Sir W., and Co., Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool, 203
Grease and Oil Separator, Fletcher's, 355
Grease and Oil Separator, Shelby, 12
Green's Fuel Economiser, Explosion of, 127
Grinder, The Bath Automatic Universal Combination, 721
Grinding Machines, 1, 99, 166, 234, 295, 365, 463, 05, 526, 697, 659, 767, 838
Grinding Machine, Norton, 505
Groyne for Beach Protection, 238
Grubb Hand-Surveying Instruments, 33
Gruson Exhibits (Krupp) at Diisseldorf Exhibition, 165
Guard for Electric Tramcar, 698. See also 431, 95, 773
Guibal Fans, 732. See 627
Gunboats. See Warships
Gunboats, United States, Built in Japan, 762
Gunnery and Naval Efficiency. See LErrEas and Errat Ma, 813
Gunpowder Machinery at Gruson Works, 166
Gunpowders at the Diisseldorf, Exhibition, 482
Gun-Power of Cruisers, 613
Gutehoffnungshiitte Exhibit at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 351
Gutta-Percha and Balata, 613

Hamburg Harbour, 101
Hand - Surveying Instruments, Sir Howard Grubb's, 33
"Hanoverian," T.-S.S. (Hawthorn, Leslie), 572
Harbour Schemes in Parliament, 740
Harbour Works, Belfast, 370
Harbour Works, Roca, 177
Harbour Works, Wear, 177
Harbours, Bremen, Bremerhaven, and Hamburg, 01
Hamlet, Herr A., on Compression of Steel Ingots, 26, 758, 792
Harpener Mine (Dortmund), Electrically-Driven Winding Engine, 133
Harpener Mining Company, Air-Compressor for (Schfichtermann and Kremer), 776
Harpener Mining Company, Winding Engine, 07
Harris-Anderson Feed-Water Filter, 210. See LETTERS
Hartlepool Engine Works (Messrs. Richardsons, Westgarth, and Co.), 203
Hartlepool Shipyard (Messrs. W. Gray and Co.), 03 Hartlepools, 203
Harvester, Potato, at the Royal Show, 42
Hatt, W. K., an 1 Turner, W. P., on New Apparatus for Testing Material at Purdue University Laboratory, 28
Hawaiian Cane-Sugar Facto, ies, 853
Hawkshaw, Mr. J. C., Presidential Address at Institution of Civil Engineers, 622, 654, 686. See also 615
Head, Mr. A. P., on Russian Iron Industry, 860
Health Act, Public, Practical Guide to, 628
Heat, Equivalent of, Mechanical, Electrical Experiment, 96, 809
Heat Evolved when a Liquid is brought in Contact with a Finely-Divided Solid, 95
Heats of Air and Steam at Constant Pressure and Volume, Ratio of Specific, 758
Heaters, Electric, 631
Heating of Railway Motors, 667
Heenan and Gilbert Fan, 628
Helium and Hydrogen, The Positions of, in Relation to the Earth's Atmosphere, 532
Helium, Professor Dewar on, 367
Hematite Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Herbert's Machine Tools at the National Cycle Show, 707
Hertzian Oscillations, Receiver for, 529, 583 •
Heyn, Mr. E., on the Overheating of Mild Steel, 32, 357, 392
High-Speed Electrical Generating Plant, 744
High-Temperature Electro-Chemistry, Notes on Experimental and Technical Electric Furnaces, 24
"Hindustan," H.M.S., Boiler Arrangements in, 83
H.M. Distilling Ship " Edgewater," 551
H.M. Ships. See Warships
H.M. Navy, Colonial Contribution to, 613
H.M. Scouts, 616
H.M. Ships Built and Tried in 1902, 818, 855
H.M. Submarines and Naval Tactics, 616
H.M.S. " Duke of Edinburgh," 818
H.M.S. " Hindustan," Boiler Arrangements in, 83
H.M.S. " Powerful," Water-Tube BJilers of, 51
History of the Midland Railway, 836
History of Printed Books, 801
Hoerbiger-Rogler System of Double-Acting
High-Speed Mine Pump, 243
Hoerde Pavilion at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 81
Hoists, Safety, 256
Hoists. See also Elevators
Hole-Grinders, 767, 838
Holland Submarine Boat, 313, 733
Hollerith Tabulating Machine, 165, 810
Honours, Coronation, 23
Hopkinson, Mr. Charles, on Pumping Plant for Condensing Water, 141, 153
Hopkinson, Original Papers by the late John, 6
Horcajo Mines, Electrically-Driven Centrifugal Pumps for, 72, 188
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Grinding Machines and Processes, 1, 99. 160, 234, 295, 365, 463, 505, 26, 597, 659, 767, 838
Horsley, Mr. E. C., and Bairstow, Mr. L., on Experiments on Gas Explosions in a Closed Vessel, 723
Hose Coupling, Nunan's, Fire, 487
Hose Tender and Horsed Fire Escape Combined, 5
Hours of Labour and Wages in 1901, 316
llowaldt Works, Germany, 102
Howden's Forced Draught for Liquid Fuel, 53 58. See 'Arms, 777
Hub, Motor-Car, Tools for (Herbert), 708
Huber System of Hydraulic Press (Gruson Works), 165
Huggens's Construction, Improvements in, 500
Hult Rotary Steam Engine, 506
Humphrey, Mr. • H. A., on Blast-Furnace Gas Engines, 370, 376, 426, 458, 520
Hunter, Mr. W. D., on Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company's Power Station, 53, 161. See 179
Hutton, R. S., and Petavel, J. E., on HighTemperature Electro-Chemistry; Notes on Experimental and Technical and Electric Furnaces, 824
Hydraulic Appliances for Coal-Mining 155, 176, 27, 260
Hydraulic Laboratory, Manchester School of Technology, 470
Hydraulic Press for Assembling Commutators, 75
Hydraulic Press for Compressing Steel Ingots, 26, 758, 792
Hydraulic Press, Huber System (Gruson Works), 65
Hydraulically-Balanced Ashley Pump, 320, 387
Hydro-Aromatic Compounds with Single Nucleus, 99
Hydro-Electric Works in Switzerland, 810
Hydro-Extractor, Electrically-Driven, 808. See also Centrrfagal
Hydrogen and Helium, The Positions of, in Relation to the Earth's Atmosphere, 532
Hylton Colliery, 178
Hysteresis Tester, Standards in, Ewing's, 223

Ice. See Refrigeration
Idle-Day Case, 219
Illuminating Gas at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 65
Illustrations for Books, History of, 801
Impact Testing at the Purdue University, 28
Implements at the Royal Agricultural Show, 42
Implements at the Smithfield Club Show, 781
Imray, The late Mr. John, 518
Inclinometer, Grubb's, 33
Indian Railway Bridge, Rupnarayan, 822
Indian Railway Property, 822
Indian Railways and Trade, 118
Indian Service Education, Cooper's Hill, 223
Indian States Military Light Railway Locomotive, Narrow Gauge for, 846
India-Rubber, Balata as a Substitute for, 513
Indicator Cock, 288
Indicator, Furnace Deformation, 342
Industrial Notes, 25, 58, 89, 123, 157, 191, 224, 59, 289, 321, 355, 389, 423, 455, 487, 619, 551, 87, 621, 652, 685 722, 757, 791, 823, 859
Industrial Progress in Canada, 787. See also Canada
Industrial Progress and Chemical Training, 512
Industries, Compressed Gas, 583
Industries in Germany. See Dusseldorf Exhibition
Industry, Electrical, in America, 332
Industry, Localisation of, 632
Ingots; Steel, Compression of, 726, 758, 792
Innes, Mr. C. H., on Modern Fans, 627, 732, 797
Inspection Cars, Petrol-Driven Railway, 720
Institutions, Technical. See Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Mining Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute, and Navigation Congress at Dusseldorf
Instrument, Owen's New Curve-Tracing, 741
Instruments, Hand Surveying (Sir Howard Grubb), 33
Insulating Cables, 749. See LurrEas, SinglePhase Electric Railway, also Dielectric Hysteresis and ELECTRIC
Integrator for Water-Meter Diagrams, 742
International Convention Relating to Patents, 11, 519
International Express Traffic and the Customs, 18
International Navigation Congress. See Navigation Congress
Interrupters, Theory of Wehnelt, 752
Inventions and Patents, 79, 311, 331, 422, 415, 49, 851
Iodine Compounds, Colour of, 599
Ireland, The Rainfall in, 404
Ireland, Water Power in, 404, 430.
Irish School of Mathematics and Physics, 464
Iron Breaking Machine, Pig, 549
Iron, Classification of Russian Pig, 86
Iron Concrete at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 333
Iron Concrete, Strength of, 385, 563, 581, 681
Iron Exhibits at Diisseldorf, 323
Iron Industry in South Russia, 860
Iron and Manganese, Brazilian, 253
Iron Manufacture in Germany, 324, 332, 360, 425
Iron-Mining at the Nisseldorf Exhibition, 138, 86, 239
Iron Ores, Concentration of Electric, 484
Iron Produced by Puddling, 38
Iron and Rock, Adhesion of Concrete to, 422, 45
Iron and Steel Girders. See Girders
Iron and Steel at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 323
Iron and steel Institute-Dusseldorf Meeting. 18, 331
Reception, 331
The New President, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 332
The Progress of the Manufacture of Pig Iron in Germany since 1880, by Mr. W. Briigmann, 324, 332, 360, 425
The Progress of Steel Works Practice in Germany since 1880, by Mr. R. M. Daelen, 326, 32
The Overheating of Steel, by Mr. E. Heyn, 32, 357, 392
The Compression of Steel in Ingot Moulds, by Mr. A. Harmet, 332, 726, 759
The Application of Electricity in the Manufacture of Iron, by Mr. D. Selby-Bigge, 333, 488
Electric Plant in Steel Works, by Mr. Kylberg, 33
The Probable Existence of a New Carbide of Iron, by Messrs. E. D. Campbell and M. B. Kennedy, 333
The Results Obtained in the Equalisation of the Temperature of Hot Blast, by Messrs. L. F. Gjers and J. H. Harrison, 333
Iron and Steel Trade, United States, Cost of Production, 415
Iran and Steel Works, Power in, 333, 483
Iran Testing Machine, Cast, 501
Iron clads. See Warships
Irrigation Works in Egypt, Aswan Dam, 783
Irvine's Shipyard and Dry Dock, 201

Japan, Automobiles and Bicycles in, 352
Japan and China Relations, 646
Japan, Commercial Education in, 22
Japan Enterprises in China, 121
Japan, Financial and Economical Annual, 632
Japan, Foreign Capital in, 222
Japan, Mineral Resources, 318
Japan, Notes from, 412, 413, 858
Japan Steel Works, 449
Japan, Telegraphs and Telephones in, 385
Japan, University at Kyoto, 299
Japan, Yokohama Trade, 185
Japanese Dry Dock, 212
Japanese Exhibition at Osaka, 853
Japanese Labour Cost, 350
Japanese Maritime Association, 156
Japanese Navy, Increase of, 617
Japanese Opinion on Navy Boilers, 411
Japanese Post-Office, 253
Japanese Shipbuilding, 752
Japanese Shipbuilding for China, 187
Johannesburg, Compound Road Locomotive for, 72
Joint, Rail, Schuler, 687
Joints, Standard Pipe, 225
Joint, Swivelling, for Steam Main, 286
Joule, Determination of the, 809
Jupiter and Uranus, Spectograms of, 532

Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, 101.
"Kaiser Wilhelm II.," New German High-Speed Liner, 201. 269, 339. See LETTER, 320, Shipbuilding Berths, and 249
Kawasaki Dry Dock, Kobe, Japan, 242
Kernot, Professor W. C., and the Balancing of Locomotive Engines, 585
Kiel Shipbuilding Yard, 102
Kielberg Machine for Making Cement Pipes, 813
Kiln, Cement-Burning Rotary, 50, 79
Kinetic Theory and Luminosity, 499
"King Alfred," Steam Trials of H.M.S., 315
King-Riedler Vertical Air-Compressor, 651
Kites, Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of, 564, 805
Klein High-Speed Mining Pumps, 670
Kobe, Japan, Graving Dock at, 212
Koch Boiler and Superheater (German), 569
Korean Trade, 282
Korting Gas Engine, 500 Horse-Power, 410
Kortine Gas Engine, 370, 375, 426, 458, 520
Krupp, The late F. A., 715
Krupp Exhibit at Diisseldorf, 165, 166
Krupp Magnetic Ore Separators at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 263
Krupp's Germania Works, 102
Krupp's Works at Essen and Germania, 101, 102
Kynoch's Roller Bearings, 211
Kyoto University, 299

Laboratories at Manchester Municipal School of Technology, 466
Laboratory Apparatus for Material Testing at the Purdue University, 28
Laboratory, National Physical, 451, 819
Laboratory Practical Tests, 217
Laboratory Test-Work at the Reichsanstia in 901, 561
Labour Cost in Formosa, 350
Labour Disputes ; Arbitration or Litigation ? 149
Labour Economising and Production, 415
Labour, Hours of, and Wages in 1901, 316
Labour Problem, 347
Labour Question. See industrial Notes
Ladder Dredgers, 290
Laing, Messrs. J., and Sons, Deptford Yards, Sunderland, 178
Lake District, Charcoal-Burning in, 417
Lake Erie Water Level, Winds and, 485
Lake Submarine Boat, 313, 733
Lamps, Miners' Safety, at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 186, 239
Lamps in Vacuo, Nernst, 436
Lancashire Boilers and Superheaters, German, 69, 633, 707
Land Boilers. See Boilers and Water-Tube Boilers
Lanterns, Dew Deposits on Lenses of, 500
Lathes. See Machine Tools
Launches, Oil Engines for, 188, 777
Launches and Trial Trips, 30, 62, 96, 130, 161, 93, 230, 262, 292, 328, 362, 388, 430, 460, 492, 8 1176, 550, 594, 619, 650, 692, 728, 761, 796, 830,
Launching Large German Liner " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 269. See also 201, 339, and LETTER, 20 (Shipbuilding Berths), and 243
Laundry Centrifugal Machine, ElectricallyDriven, 808
Law of Master and Servant, 122, 189, 275, 328, 44, 462, 866
Law. See Legal
Law, Patent, 79, 341, 384, 549, 851. See 422, 445
Lead, Action of Distilled Water on, 601
Leather and Shoe Fair, 617
Lecture Experiment for the Determination of Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 809

Legal ;
Accident on H.M.S. " Bullfinch," 690
Arbitration or Litigation ? 149
Canadian Patent Law and Foreign Patents, 84
Composition of Steel, 311, 379, 476, 540
Consulting Engineers' Fees, 82
Contract Repudiation, 86
Effluvia from Chemical Works, 152
Law of Master and Servant, 122, 189, 275, 328, 44, 452, 866
Management and Rating of Collieries, Digest of the Statutory Law Relating to the, 450
Mine, What is an Open ? 23
Miners' Idle-Day Case, 219
Municipal Tramways and the Law, 118
Patent Act, 79, 341, 384, 549, 851. See 422, 445
Practical Guide to the Public Health Act, 628
Property in a Name, 481
Public Authorities' Protection Act, 1893, 184
Rights of Riparian Proprietors (Compensation Water Supply), 817
Shop Clubs' Act, 1902, 282
Stop-Day Case, 219
Terminal Charges, Railway, 155
Traction Engine Case Decision, 190
Trade Union Law ; The Taff Vale Case, 852
Tramway Legislation, A Session of, 252, 295
Underground Water, 251

Legislation for Fire-Prevention, 616
Legislation. See Legal
Legislation, Tramway, A Session of, 252, 295
Lens for Ultra-Violet Therapy, A Triple, 500
Lenses of Projecting Lanterns, Prevention of Dew Deposits on, 500
Letters to the Editor, 11, 56, 78, 109, 156, 188, 23, 255, 284, 319, 340, 886, 422, 444, 486, 616, 48, 572, 617. 647. 682, 720, 754, 776, 820, 843
Levelling Staff, A Direct-Reducing, 404
L'Ile Vierge Lighthouse, 233
Liabilities. See Legal
Liability of Trade Unions ; Taff Vale Case, 852
Life, Effect of Cold on, 367
Lift-Bridge at Chicago (Scherzer), 670, 757, 807
Lift, Safety, 256
Light, A New Flashing Lighthouse, without Intervals of Darkness, 408
Light Distribution in a Grating Spectrum, 96
Light-Draught Steamer for River Navigation, 54
Light Railways, Locomotive, Narrow-Gauge for Indian Military, 846
Light Railways and Tramways Exhibition, 23, 1. See 718, 751
Light Railways, Transport of Goods Wagons over, 385
Lighters, Sea, Trade, 66
Lighthouse at l'Ile Vierge, 233
Lighthouse Light, A New Flashing, without Intervals of Darkness, 408
Lighting at Diisseldorf Exhibition, 771
Lighting and Power Schem 3s, Electric, in Parliament, 739
Lighting, Train, Electric, in Germany, 480
Lightning Arresters, 668
Lightning, Damage by, on Midland Railway, 11
Lignite at the DUsseldorf Exhibition, 187
Limestone Bricks, Artificial, 125
Limit Gauges, 263
Limitations of Future, 749. See LETTERS, Entropy and Single-Phase Railways
Linde, Dr., on Liquid Air. 614
Linoleum Calendering Rolls (Gruson Works), 165
Liquid Air, 367, 614
Liquid through a Capillary Tube, Motion of a Detached Thread of, 528
Liquid Fuel Combustion, 287
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel
Liquid Fuel for Steamships, 153, 153. See LErmas
Liquid Still, A New Type of, 646
Literature, 6, 237, 261, 298, 450, 535, 569, 628, 59, 731, 772, 801, 836
Litigation or Arbitration ? 149
Littoral Drift on the Sea Coast, 238
Lloyd's Return of Shipbuilding, 86, 514
Lloyd's Return of Shipwrecks, 352, 420, 641, 756
Load-Line Question ; The late Benjamin Martell, 5
Load-Strain Recorder for Test Specimens, Autographic, 805
Local Authorities and Tramways and Lighting, 38
Localisation of Industry, 632
Locke Steel Chain, 243
Locks for Canals, and their Gates, 20, 21, 34, 38
Locomotive Acceleration Tests, Steam versus Electric, 683, 667
Locomotive Balancing, 585
Locomotive Boiler - Feeding with Condensed Exhaust Steam, 649
Locomotive -Building in America, 545
Locomotive, " Charles Dickens," 283
Locomotive, Goods, for the Southern Railway of France, 10, 76
Locomotive for Johannesburg, Compound Road, 72
Locomotive Mechanical Stokers, 288
Locomotive, Metre-Gauge, Mallet System, 139
Locomotive, Narrow-Gauge, for Indian States Military Light Railway, 846
Locomotive, Six-Wheeled Coupled Passenger, Caledonian Railway, 276
Locomotive Tank for French Suburban Traffic, 40
Locomotive, Three - Cylinder Four - Wheeled, Midland Railway, 213
Locomotives, Balancing, 319, 445
Locomotives, Cylindrical Valves for, 155, 174, 193. See Erratu»t, 310
Locomotives for Suburban Traffic, Heavy American, 410
Locomotion and Roads. See Motor Cars
Lodge, Sir Oliver, on Electrons, 752
London Bridge, Widening of, 743
London, Building Regulations for, 819
London County Council Fire Brigade, 645. See LETTER
London County Council Technical Education Report, 217
London Deep Tunnel Railways, 116, 547, 579, 531, 14. See 751
London Deep-Tunnel Railways, Ventilation of, 45
London Fire Brigade Appliances, 161
London Fire Brigade Reorganisation, 18, 789. See 121, 616, 819
London and North - Western Locomotive, "Charles Dickens," 283
London and North-Western Railway Points and Signals, Electric, 681
London Port Commissioners, 44, 740
London Show Ground of the Royal Agricultural Society, 17
London Tramways, Electrification of, 431, 495, 98, 773
London University, Technical Education, 593. See LETTER, 650
Longridge, Captain C. C., on Oil Motor Cars of 902, 525, 554, 588, 603, 621, 701
Lorries. See Motor Cars
Lozenge-Making Machine 108
Lubrication of Motor Cars, 624. See also 525, 54, 588, 603, 701
Lubricator Automatic, Sinol System, 355
Luminosity and Kinetic Theory, 499

Machine Design, Tendency in, 314
Machine Construction and Drawing, Teaching, 85. See Education
Machine-Testing Laboratory, Manchester School of Technology, 471

Machine Tools :
American Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 6
Boring Machine, Two-Spindled Horizontal (Ward, Haggas, and Smith, Keighley), 272
Chainmaking Machinery, The Locke Steel, 243
Channelling Machine, Oilway (Ward, Haggas, and Smith), 10. See Addendum, 56
Drill, 3-Ft. Radial (Smith, Limited; Halifax), 9
Grinder, The Bath Automatic Universal Combination (American Watch-Tool Company, Waltham, Mass.), 721
Grinding Machines and Processes, 1, 99, 166, 34, 295, 365, 463, 505, 526, 597, 659, 767, 83S
Grinder, Norton, 505
Hu') - Finishing Tools, Motor-Car (Herbert), 08
Lathe, Automatic Screw-Cutting (Parkinson, Shipley), 78
Lathe, 8-In. Heavy (Ward, Haggas, and Smith, Keighley), 670
Lathe, Railway Wheel (Britannia Company, Colchester), 612
Lathe, Screw-Cutting, Automatic (Parkinson), 8
Norton Grinding Machine, 505
Planing Machine, Universal Double (Ward, Birmingham), 46. See Addendum, 88
Screw Machine, Magazine (Herbert), 10
Shears, The Flying, 302
Tool Steel, A New High-Speed, 190
Vices, Swivelling (Herbert's), 709
Wire - Straightening Machine, Core (de Laval and Chisholm), 45
Workshop Practice, 263

Machine-Tools at the National Cycle Show, 707
Machinery, Agricultural, in China and Siberia, 03
Machinery for Cane-Sugar, 853
Machinery at the Dusseldorf Exhibition. See Dusseldorf Exhibition
Machinery of Naval Ships, 91. See also 5, 51, 1, 90. See LErrEft, 444, and Engineers in the Navy
Magazine Screw Machine (Herbert), 10
Magnesium Chloride, Corrosion of Boilers by, 482
Magnetic Detectors in Wireless Telegraphy, 529
Magnetic Observations, Comparing, 629
Magnetic Separators for Ore at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 268
Magnetic Testing Instrument 405
Magnetism. See also Electric
Magnetism, Terrestrial, and Minimum SunSpots, 629, 573. See LETTER, 573
Malay States, Ordnance Survey of, 352
Mallet System, Metre-Gauge Locomotive, 139
Management and Rating of Collieries, 450
Manchester Municipal School of Technology, 466
Manchester Sewage Treatment, 491, 552
Manganese at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 306
Manganese and Iron, Brazilian, 253
Manoeuvres, French Naval, 336, 383, 418
Manufacture of Briquettes, 644. See 239, 441
Manufacture of Uralite, 221. See Erratum, 217. See LWITISR, 285
Manufacturers' Costs and Drawing-Office, 56, 109
Manufacturers with Railway Sidings ; Should they l'ay Terminal Charges'? 155
Marconi Telegraphy, 317. See Wireless Telegraphy
Marine Boilers. See Bjilers and Water-T0e Boilers
Marine Engineering. See Engineering and Warships
Marine Engines. See Engines
Marine Experimental Tank, 752
Marine Propellers. See Propellers
Marine Shafts. See Skafts
Marine Work, Oil Engines for, 183, 777
Maritime Association, Japanese, 156
Market, Randt, 777
Martell, The late Mr. Benjamin, 85
Martinique Earthquake, 448. See 564
Master and Servant, Law of, 122, 189, 275, 328, 44, 452, 866
Material-Testing Apparatus at the Purdue University Laboratory, 28
Materials, Testing Laboratory, Manchester School of Technology, 471
Mathematics and Phy ales, The Irish School of, 64
Mathematics, The Teaching of, 565. See Education
McCormick Side-Delivery Reaping Attachment, 2. See Erratum., 147
Measurements, Electrical, Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for ; B.A. Committee's Report, 52S
Measuring the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Simple Apparatus, 96, 809
Mechanical Accountant, 165, 840
Mechanical Appliances in Mines, 155, 175, 227, 60

Mechanical Engineers, American Society of: 04, 225, 256, 286, 302
Boston Meeting :
Inaugural Proceedings, 101
Standardised System of Testing Steam Engines,
Committee's Report, 105
Standard Pipe Unions, Committee's Report, %25
Specifications for Steel Forgings, Steel Castings, and Steel Boiler Plates, by Mr. W. R. Webster, 225
Tests of Steam-Pipe Coverings, by Mr. G. H. Barrus, 256
Elevator Safeties, by Mr. C. R. Wright, 253
Recent Construction at the Atlantic Arc Station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of Boston, by Messrs. I. E. Moultrop and R. E. Curtis, 257
A Swivelling Joint for a 16-In. High Pressure Steam Main, by Mr. R. E. Curtis, 286
Gas-Engine Test, by Mr. R. II. Fernald, 286
A Method of Determining the Temperature of Exhaust Gases, by Mr. R. H. Fernald, 286
Liquid Fuel Combustion, by Mr. C. E. Lucke, 87
Mechanical Stokers for Locomotives, by Mr. J. H. Corwin, 288
New and Improved Indicator Cock, by Mr. A R. Mansfield, 288
Electricity in Cotton Mills, by Mr. W. D. Smith-Wha'ey, 288
Some Details of Direct-Connected Generator Sets, by Mr. W. H. Bryan, 288
A Graphical Determination of Piston Acceleration, by Mr. J. N. Le Conte, 288
Excursions to Fore River Ship and Engine Companies' Yards, 238
Steel and Concrete Coal Storage Plant, by Mr. F. M. Bowman, 289
Repairing a Broken Cylinder, by Mr. H. M. Lane, 302
The Flying Shears, by Mr. V. E. Edwards, 302
Cold Working Sheet Metal in Dies, by Mr. J. W. Riggs, 302
Proposed Standard for Machine Screw Thread Sizes, by M. C. C. Tyler, 303
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: Newcastle Meeting : 53, 173, 203
Mayoral Reception, 153
Liquid Fuel for Steamships, by Mr. Edwin L. Orde, 153, 158
Pumping Plant for Condensing Water, by Mr. Charles Hopkinson, 141, 153
Newcastle and District Eleotric Lighting Company's Power Stations, by Mr. W. D. Hunter, 153, 161. See 179
The Electric Supply Power Station at Neptune Bank, Newcastle-on-Tyne, by Mr. W. B. Woodhouse, 142, 153, 176. See LETTERS, 179, 88
Visit to Elswick Works, 154
The Institution Dinner, 155
Some Experiments on Steam Engine Economy, by Professor R. L. Weighton, 155, 173, 197.
See LErms, 255, 285
The Application of Cylindrical Steam-Distri. huting Valves for Locomotives, by Mr. W. M. Smith, 155, 174, 193. See Erratum, 310
On Mechanical Appliances in Coal Mines (CoalCutting and Drilling), by Mr. R. H. Wainford, 155, 175, 227, 260
Telegram from the King, 175
Concluding Proceedings, 176
Excursions, 176
The Tyne North Pier Reconstruction, 133, 176
Palmer's Shipyard and Engine Works, 176
Electro-Pneumatic Signals and Coal Staithes, 76
Tyne Commissioners' Coal Staithes, 176
Smith's Dock on the Tyne, 176
Pontoon Docks on the Tyne, 176
Works at Wallsend, 169,177, 693
C. S. Swan and Hunter's Shipbuilding Works, 69, 177. See Erratum, 223
Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company's Works, 177, 695
Conversazione at Jesmond Dene, 177
Visit to Sunderland, 177
Roca Harbour Works, 177
Sunderland Docks, 177
Wear Harbour Works, 177
Engine Works and Shipyards on the Wear, 177
North Sand Works (Messrs. J. L. Thompson and Sons), 177
Palmer's-Hill Engine Works (Messrs. J. Dickinson and Sons), 178
Deptford Yard, Sunderland (Messrs. J. Laing and Sons), 178
Pallion Shipyard (Messrs. W. Doxford and Sons), 178
Southwick Engine Works (Messrs. George Clark, Limited), 178
Hylton Colliery, 178
Dinner at Sunderland, 178
Newburn Steel Works (Messrs. John Spencer and Sons), 134, 202
Newcastle and Gateshead Water Works, 202
The Hartlepools, 203
South Durham Steel and Iron Works, 203
Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool (Sir W. Gray and Co.), 203
Hartlepool Engine Works (Messrs. Richardsons, Westgarth, and Co.), 203
Hartlepool Shipyard (Messrs. W. Gray and Co.), 203
Furness, Withy, and Co. Shipyard, 203
Irvine's Shipyard and Dry Dock, 204
Bamborough Castle, 204
Chillingham Castle, 204
Cragside, 204
London Meetings: 603, 701, 853
Oil Motor Cars of 1902, by Captain C. C. Longridge, 525, 554, 588, 603, 624, 701
Recent Practice in the Design, Construction, and Operation of Raw Cane-Sugar Factories in the Hawaiian Islands, by Mr. J. N. S.
Williams, 853
The late Sir Frederick Abel, 525. See 353
The late Mr. Samuel Platt, 525. See 353
The late Sir William Roberts-Austen, 853. See 17

Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Simple Apparatus for Measuring, 93, 809
Mechanical Filtration of Water Supplies; 23
Mechanical Stoker for Locomotives, 288
Mechanical Tabulation, 165, 840
Mechanical Traction for Military Purposes, 514, 43, 573
Medway and Thames Canal, 515
Meijer's Oil-Fuel Arrangement for Steamers, 777
Merryweather's Fire, Tug, and Police Boat for the Mexican Government, 536
Merryweather's Horsed Fire Escape and Combined Hose Tender, 75
Merryweather's Motor Fire Engine, 25
Messageries Maritimes, 10
Messenger's Furnace Deformation Indicator, 312
Metal, Anti-Friction, Wanted, 649, 821
Metal Price Diagrams, 21, 190, 320, 454, 620, 756, 58
Metal Test Specimens, Autographic LoadStrain for, 805
Metal-Working Machinery. See Machine Tools
Metallic Art Objects, 135
Metallurgical Industries Section at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 119, 135, 186, 239, 265, 305, 33, 399, 482, 501, 533
Metallurgical Industry in the States and Canada, 11, 649, 617, 650
Metallurgical Mining and Treatment Machinery at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 138, 186, 239
Metals, Effect of Gases on, 601
Metals in Foods, Electrolytic Determination of Traces of, and Organic Residue, 615
Metals. See Steel, Iron, Tin, Copper, Aluminium., Alloys

Meteorological Society, Royal:
English Climatology, 1381-1900, by Mr. F. Campbell Bayard, 673
The Rainfall of Dominica, by Mr. C. V. Bellamy, 73
Climate of Cyprus, by Mr. C. V. Bellamy, 821
The Eclipse Cyclone of 1901, by Mr. H. H. Clayton, 821
Meteorology, 529
Meteorology, Radiation in, 532
Meteorology, Temperature of the Higher Atmosphere, 805
Meter, Water, Planimeter for Evaluating Quantities, 742
Metre-Gauge Locomotive, Mallet System, 139
Metropolitan Deep-Tunnel Railways, 116, 547, 79, 714. See 751
Metropolitan. See also London
Mexican Boundary Survey, 253
Mexican Government, Fire, Tug, and Police Boat for (Merryweather), 536
Micro-Organisms, Effect of Cold on, 367
Micro-Photograph of Igneous Rock, 300
Micro-Structure and Overheating of Steel, 332, 57, 392
Microscopic Effects of Stress on Plantinum, 127. See Erratum., 190

Middlesbrough Electricity Works, 300-Kilowatt Triple-Expansion Engine and Dynamo, 347
Midland Electric Power Distribution, 201
Midland Electric Power Station, 629
Midland Railway, Damage by Lightning to, 11
Midland Railway Four-Wheeled Coupled ThreeCylinder Locomotive, 213
Midland Railway, History of, 836
Military Light Railways, Indian, Locomotive, Narrow-Gauge, for, 846
Military Motor Wagons, 573
Military Purposes, Mechanical Traction for, 26, 14, 543, 573
Milk Separator at the Agricultural Show, 44
Milling Machines. See Machine Tools
Mills, Electricity in Cotton, 288
Mills, Rolling, in Germany, 326
Mills537 , Rolling, Universal (Duisburger Company), Mine-Draining Pumps, 57, 108. See also Pumps
Mine Pump, Double-Acting High-Speed, Hoerbiger-Rogler System, 245
Mine, What is an Open ? 23
Mine Winding-Engine, Conical Drum, 607
Mine Winding-Engine, Electrically-Driven, 12, 38
Mines, Management and Rating of, 450
Mineral Resources of Japan, 318
Miners' Idle-Day Case, 219
Miners' Safety Lamps at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 186, 239
Mining Air - Compressor (Schiichtermann and Kremer), 776
Mining, Coal-, in Pennsylvania, 264
Mining Economies, 544
Mining Electric - Power Station, Comstock, Nevada, 532

Mining Engineers, America,' Institute of:
Philadelphia Meeting, 38, 69
Puddled Iron and Mechanical Means for its
Production, by Mr. James P. Roe, 38
The Use of Ordinary Cameras in Accurate Photographic Surveying, by Mr. Howard W. Du Bois, 38
The Cement Industry, by Mr. R. L. Humphrey, 39
The Development of the Bessemer Process of Small Charges, by Mr. B. Stoughton, 70
Steel Rails, Relation between Structure and Durability, by Mr. Robert Job, 70
Specifications for Steel Forgings and Castings, by Mr. W. R. Webster, 70
Some Principles Controlling the Deposition of Hydro-Carbons, by Mr. George I. Adams, 71
Gold-Mining iu McDuffie County, Georgia, by Mr. W. H. Fluker, 71
Mineral Crest, or the Hydrostatic Level Attained by the Ore-Depositing Solutions in Certain Mining Districts in. Great Salt Lake Basin, by Mr. Walter P. Jenney, 71

Mining Exhibits at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 38, 186, 239
Mining, Mechanical Appliances in Coal-, 155, 175, 27, 260
Mining Pumps, Electrically-Driven Centrifugal, in Spain, 72, 188
Mining Pumps, Klein Double-Acting HighSpeed, 670
Miscellanea, 16, 56, 88, 113, 147, 189, 215, 217, 77, 307, 345, 388, 421, 454, 477, 518, 541, 577, 11, 611, 675, 711, 747, 781, 813, 849
Moberley, The late Mr. C. H., 353
"Mode," Swedish Torpedo - Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 375
Model Experimental Tank, Shipbuilding, 762
Mont Pelde Earthquake, 448
Moon, Possible Changes in the, 532
Moriarty Submarine Boat, 313, 733
Morison's Open-Fronted Mortar-Box, 145
Mortar-Box, MorisDn's Open-Fronted, 145
Mortier Diametrical Fans, 732. See 627
Morton, The late Mr. Henry, 75
Mosaics at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 400
Motion, Continuous, from Vibrations, 528
Motion through the Ether, Does it Cause Double Refraction ? 497
Motions, Relative Apparent, of Bright and Faint Stars, 531
Motor-Car Ball-Bearings, 834
Motor-Car Details, 455
Motor Car Driven from Trolley Wire, 621
Motor Car of the Future, Reliability of, 420
Motor-Car Hubs, Tools for (Herbert), 708
Motor Car for Railway Inspection, 720
Motor Cars in Japan, 352
Motor Cars, Military, 26, 514, 543, 573
Motor Cars, Oil, 525, 554, 588, 603, 624, 701
Motor Cars, Road Resistance to, 371, 456
Motor Fire Engine (Merryweather), 25
Motor, Petrol, Agricultural, 787
Motor Traction and Roads, 655
Motors of Motor Cars, 592. See also 525, 534, 88, 603, 626, 701
Motors. See also Electric
Motors, Tramway-Car, 773. See also 431, 495, 698
Mudhole Covers, Failure of, 27
Municipal Authorities and Tramway Legislation, 252, 295'
Municipal School of Technology, Manchester, 466
Municipal Telephones, Tunbridge Wells, 815
Municipal Trading, 390, 663, 815. See also Legal
Municipal Trading and Tramways and Electric Lighting, 738
Municipal Trading, Public Authorities' Protection Act, 184
Municipal Tramway Accounts (Glasgow), 183
Municipal Tramways and the Law, 118

Name, Property in a, 481
National Cycle Show, Machine Tools at, 707
National Physical Laboratory, 451, 819
Nature's Supplies and Forces in their Relation to Engineering, 622, 654, 686
Naval Architects, Institution of, and a Marine Experimental Tank, 752
Naval Defence, The Colonies and, 613
Naval Efficiency and Gunnery, 777. See Erratum, 13. See also Navy
Naval Engineer, 581, 750, 857
Naval Engineers and Officers, 785, 857
Naval Engineers' Question, 109, 115, 280, 319, 86, 444, 548, 572, 581, 618, 647, 632, 750, 751, 85, 820, 857
Naval Engineering in the United States, 67
Naval Engines, Balancing, 59
Naval Guns. See Gun.
Naval Machinery. See Engines and Warships
Naval Machinery, 91. See also 51, 54, 81, 90. LErrER, 444, and " Engineers in the Navy "
Naval Manceuvres, French, 336, 383, 418
Naval Officials and Coronation Honours, 23
Naval Programme, French, 713
Naval Ships. See Warships
Naval Tactics and Submarines, 616
Naval Training Ship, 819

Navigation on Congress at Dusseldorf International :

Overcoming Great Heights by Canals, 20, 38
Lock Gates and their Materials, 21, 34
Shipping Tolls, 35
Depreciation of Coal through Transport by Water, 65, 94
Sea Lighter Trade, 66
Dock Installations, 66
Dredging Estuaries, 67
Resistance to Ships' Motion in Water, 67
Electric Towage on Canals, 100
Excur.yioa,:
Krupp's Works, 101
Bremen Harbour, 101
Bremerhaven, 101
Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, 101
Kiel Shipbuilding Works, 102
Germania Works, 102
Howa!dt Works, 102
Hamburg, 103

Navy Boiler Repairs, 645
Navy Boilers, 444
Navy Boilers, Report of Committee on, 54, 81, 90. See also 51. See Lzrrita, 444 ; and " Engineers in the Navy."
Navy Engineers, 115, 280. See Naval Engineers. See LErrints
Navy, Increase of Japanese, 617
Navy, Reorganisation of the Personnel, 857
Navy. See also Nava/ and Warships
Navy and Technical Education, 5S1
Navy, Undermanning. See Naval Engineers
Navy, Water-Tube Boilers. See Water-Tithe Boilers
Nebula Surrounding Nova Persei, 531
Neptune Bank Electric Station, Newcastle-onTyne, 142, 153, 1.76, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Neptunean Planet, Forbes's Extra, 532
Nernst Lamps in Vacuo, 485
New Orleans Drainage, 103
New South Wales, Railway Economics, 811
New York, Central and Hudson River Railroad Locomotives for Suburban Traffic, 410
New York, Important Railway Work, 451
Newburn Steel Works (Messrs. John Spencer and Sons), 134, 202
Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company's Power Station, 153, 161. See 179.
Newoaatl!. Electric Power Station, 142, 153, 161, 76, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Newcastle and Gateshead Water Works, 202
Nickel Steel for Motor Cars, 626
Nile Dam, 783
Nitro-Cellulose and other Powders at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 482
Non-Conducting Coverings, Tests of, 256
Normand, Mr. J. A., on the Strength of HighSpeed Vessels, 354
North Eastern Railway, Coal Wagon for, Tests of, 811
North Eastern Railway Electrification, 218
North-Eastern Railway Locomotives, Cylindrical Valves for, 155, 174, 193. See Erratum, 310
North German Lloyd, T.-S.S. " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 204, 269, 339. See LETTER, Shipbuilding Berths, 249, 320
North, Notes from the, 14, 46, 87, 112, 146, 18'1, 14, 246, 276, 310, 344, 378, 412, 462, 476, 508, 99, 576, 610, 640, 674, 710, 746, 788, 812, 848
North Sand Works, Sunderland (Thompson and Sons), 177
Northern Railway of France, Tank Locomotive for Suburban Traffic, 340
Norton Grinding Machine, 505
Notes. See Cleveland,Japan,,North, South-West, South Yorkshire, and United Stales.
Nova Persei, Nebula Surrounding, 531
"Novik," Russian Cruiser, 649
Nunan's Fire-Hose Coupling, 487

Oban and Callander Railway Locomotive, 275

Obituary :

Sir Frederick Abel, 353. See also 525
T. A. Arrol, 610
W. H. Barlow, 680
Peter Brotherhood, 515
Arthur Dennis, 147
W. F. Faviell, 47
John Barraclough Fell, 550
E. P. Hannaford, 311
John Imray, 548
Fried. A. Krupp, 715
William Lindley, 746
Benjamin Martell, 85
Charles Henry Moberley, 353
Henry Morton, 75
Samuel Oates, 87
Edward Palmer, 276
Samuel Radcliffe Platt, 363. See also 625
George W. Rendel, 513
Hamilton Owen Rendel, 411
Sir W. C. Roberts-Austen, 1CC.B., 717. See 53
John Robinson, 83
Professor S. H. Short, 585
William Simons, 576
Henry Slatter, 90
Frank Steel, 379
J. E. Townsend, 710

Object-Lesson in Municipal Trading, 815
Observatories, The Best Location for, 532
Observatory, Ben Nevis, British Association
Committee's Report on, 565
Observatory, the Yerkes, Celestial Photographs from, 531
Ocean Currents, 436
Ocean Liners, Modern, 249. See 204
Oechelhaueser Gas Engine, 370, 375, 426, 458, 520
Office and the Shops, 447
Oil Engines for Marine Work, 188, 777
Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil, and Motor Cars
Oil Fuel Combustion, 287
Oil Fuel for Steamships, 153, 158. See LETTERS
Oil and Grease Separator, Fletcher's, 355
Oil and Grease Separator, Shelby's, 123
Oil Motor Cars of 1902, 525, 554, 588, 603, 624, 701
Oil Vis2ocity Meters, at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Oils at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 138
Oilway Channelling Machine (Ward, Haggas, and Smith), 10. See Addendum, 56
Old Engine of 1767, Survival of, 486
Old Inventions and Patents, 422, 445
Open Mine, What is an ? 23
Optical Department at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Optical Phenomena, How to Apply the Resolution of Light into Uniform Undulations of Flat Wavelets to the Investigation of, 5t,0
Optical Pyrometer at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Orde, Mr. E. L., on Oil Fuel, 153, 168. See LETTER, 777
Ordnance. See Guns
Ordnance and Rifles, Mr. Petavel's Recording Gauge as Applied to, 528
Ordnance Survey of the Malay States, 352
Ore Dressing and Magnetic Separators at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 268
Ores, Electric Concentration of Iron, 484
Origin of Coal, 416
Osaka Exhibition, 863
Oscillations, Hertzian, Receiver for, 529, 583
Overheating of Steel, 332, 357, 392
Owen's Curve-Tracing Instrument, 741
Ozone, Purification of Water by, 420

Pacific Coast Power Plant, 272
Pacific Railway Bridge 537, 607
Packing, Downie's High-Pressure, 685
Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland (Messrs. W. Loxford and Sons), 178
Palmer's Hill Engine Works, Sunderland (Messrs. J. Dickinson and Sons), 178
Palmer's Shipyard and Engine Works, 176
Panama Canal, 3
Papers by the late John Hopkinson, Original, 6
Parallel Plumb Line, 11
Parliament, Railway Schemes in, 714, 718, 751. See 738
Parsons' Steam Turbines, 370. See also 375
Parsons' Turbine Alternator, 1500-Kilowatt, 179. See 142, 153, 161, 176, 188
Parsons' Turbine versus Steam Engine, Steam Consumption, 142, 153, 176, 179. See LETTERS, 83
Particles, Metal, Electrical Resonance of, for Light Waves, 96
Patent Law, Canadian, and Foreign Patents, 384
Patent Law, The New, 79, 851
Patent Record, 31, 63, 97, 181, 199, 200, 231, 293, 29, 397, 461, 493, 624, 659, 595, 657, 693, 729, 65, 831, 867
Patents, International Convention Relating to, 41, 549
Patents and Old Inventions, 42 !, 445
Peat as a Substitute for Coal, 547. See 655
Pelzer Fan, 797. See also 627, 732
Pennsylvania Coal-Mining, 264
Pensions and Municipal Trading, 390, 663
Pensions, Old Age, 347
Permanent Show Ground of the Royal Agricultural Society, 17
Perrine, Dr. F. A. C., on Power Plants on the
Pacific Coast, 272
Perry, Professor, on Education, 370, 381, 395, 27 See 381
Perry, Professor, on Slide Rule, 808
Personnel of the British Navy. See Navy and Naval Engineers
Petavel, J. E., and Hutton, R. S., on High Temperature Electro-Chemistry, Notes on Experimental and Technical Electric Furnaces, 24
Petavel's Recording Gauge for Rifles, &c., 628
Petrol Agricultural Motor, 787
Petrol-Driven Railway Inspection Car, 720
Petrol Motor Cars, 626, 654, 588, 603, 624, 701
Petrol. See Oil, and Engines, Oil, and Motor Car
Petroleum. See Oil, and Engines, Oil
Petry-Dereux Water-Tube Boiler, 633
Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Centenary, 616
Phoenix Powder at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 481
Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Diamonds, 603
Photo-Copying, 673
Photograph of Cross-Sections of Hollow Pencils Formed by Oblique Transmission Through an Annulus of a Lens, 620
Photographic Surveying, 38
Physical and Chemical Papers of the British Association, 464, 497, 527
Physical Laboratory, National, 819

Physical Society :

Three-Circle Goniometer, by Mr. G. F. Herbert Smith, 95
On the Heat Evolved or Absorbed when a Liquid is Brought in Contact with a Finely Divided Solid, by Mr. G. J. Parks, 95
On a Remarkable Case of Uneven Distribution of Light on a Diffraction Grating Spectrum, by Professor R. W. Wood, 96
On the Electrical Resonance of Metal Particles for Light Waves, by Prof. R. W. Wood, 96
Simple Apparatus for Measuring the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, by Professor H. L. Callendar, 96, 809
On the Existence of the Relationship Between the Spectra of Some Elements and the Squares of their Atomic Weights, by Dr. W. M. Watts, 620
The Size of Atoms, by Mr. H. V. Ridout, 620
Vacuum Calorimeters, by Professor H. L. Callendar, 620
Photograph of Cross-Sections of Hollow Pencils Formed by Oblique Transmission Through an Annulus of a Lens, by Miss A. Everett, 20
The Theory of the Aluminium Anode, by Mr. W. W. Taylor and Mr. J. K. H. Inglis, 758
A Determination of the Ratio of the Specific Ileats at Constant Pressure and at Constant Volume for Air and Steam, by Mr. Mackower, 758
A Slide Rule for Powers of Numbers, by Professor Perry, 808
Lecture Experiment for the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, by Professor H. L. Callendar, 96, 809
Physics Laboratory, Manchester School of Technology, 471

Piecework versus Premium System, 447
Piedboeuf Boiler and Superheater (German), 707
Pier Reconstruction, Tyne North, 133, 176
Pier Schemes in Parliament, 740
Pig-Iron Breaking Machine, 549
Pig Iron, Classification of Russian Coke, 86
Pig Iron Manufacture in Germany, 324, 332, 360, 25. See also Iron.
Pig Iron Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Pipe Covering, Tests of Steam, 256
Pipe, Fracture of Thirlmere Aqueduct, 550
Pipe Joints, Standard, 225
Pipes, Cement, Kielberg Machine for Making, 43
Pipes, Copper, Corrosion by Sea Water, 602
Pipes of Varying Sections, Water Flow in, 664
Piscicelli Taeggi's Electric Post, 419. See Erratum, 60
Piston Acceleration, Determination of, 238
Piston Packing, Downie's High-Pressure, 685
Piston Valves for Locomotives, 155, 174, 193. See Erratum, 310
Pitch of Minute Closed Pipes, 528
Planet, Neptunean, Forbes's Extra, 532
Planimeter for Evaluating Quantities of Water, Bryan, 742
Planing Machines. See Machine Tools
Plans, Fees for Consulting Engineers', 82
Plates, Boiler, Forging's. and Castings, Standard Specifications for Steel, 225
Platinum, Scarcity of, 152
Platinum at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 120
Platinum, Stress Effects on, Microscopic Views, 27. See Erratum, 190
Platt, The late Mr. S. R. 353. See also 525
Plumb-Lines, Parallel, 11
Pneumatic Plant for Carpet, &c., Cleaning, 187
Pneumatic Signals and Coal Staithes, Electro-, 76
Police Boat and Fire Tug for the Mexican Government (Merryweather);536
Polyphase Alternators. See Electric
Polytechnic Society, Royal, Cornwall, 324
Pontoon Docks, 66
Pontoon Docks on the Tyne, 176
Port of London, New Commission, 49, 740
Portable Dwellings at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 00
Portable Electric Generating Plant, 180
Portable Engines. See Engines
Porter, Hon. R. P., on Municipal Trading, 390, 663
Post-Office, Japanese, 253
Post, Piscicelli Taeggi's Electric, 419. See Erratum., 460
Potato Harvester at the Royal Show, 42
Potential, Voltaic, The Relation of, to Temperature, 498
Powders at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 482
Powell Duffyrn Colliery, Air-Compressor, 647
Power Distribution, Midland Electric, 201
Power Distribution, Yorkshire, 64, 65
Power Gas. See Engines, Gas, and BlastFurnace Gas
Power in Ireland. Water, 404, 430
Power in Iron and Steel Works, 333, 488
Power and Lighting Schemes, Electric, in Parliament, 739
Power Plant at Niagara Falls, 637 See LETTERS
Power Plant. See also Electric
Power Plants on the Pacific Coast, 272
Power Required and Cost for Steam and Electric Railway Trains, 667
Power Scheme, Yorkshire, Electric, 54, 65
Power Station at Comstock Mines, Nevada, 532
Power Station at the Dfisseldorf Exhibition, 768
Power Station, Midland Electric, 201, 629
Power Station at Neptune Bank, Newcastle-onTyne, 142, 153, 176, 179. See LErrERs, 188
Power Station, Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company's, 153, 161. See 179
Power, Water and Electric in Switzerland, 840
Preece, Sir William H., on the Science of Business, 677. See LF.rrEits
Premier Gas Engine, 370, 375, 426, 458, 52)
Premium System of Paying Labour, 447
Preservation of Steel in Buildings, 682
Press, Hydraulic, for Commutators, 75
Press, Hydraulic, Huber System (Gruson Works), 65
Presses, Hydraulic, for Steel Ingots, 726, 758, 792
Pressure - Recording Gauge, Mr. Petavel's, as Applied to Ordnance and Rifles, 528
Prevention of Dew on Lenses of Lanterns, 500
Prevention of Smoke, 433
Prime Movers and their Ailments, 511
Printed Books, History of, 801
Producer Gas, Dawson, Uralite Works, 221, See Erratum, 247. See LETTER, 286
Producer Gas at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 265
Producer Gas for Engines, 370, 376, 426, 458, 520, 44
Producer Gas Motors. See Engines, Gas
Production, Economics of, 415
Professional Etiquette, 647
Profit-Sharing, 85
Progress of Electrical Industry in America, 382
Progress, Industrial, and Chemical Training, 512
Progress of Locomotive Building in America, 546
Projectiles and Naval Efficiency, 777. See Erratum, 813
Property in a Name, 481
Proprietors, Riparian, Rights of (Compensation Water Supply), 817
Protection, Boiler, Zinc Plates for, 560
Protection of the Coast, 238
Public Authorities' Protection Act, 1893, ]84
Public Health Act, Practical Guide to, 628
Puddled Iron and Means for its Production, 38
Pump, Double-Acting High-Speed Mine, Hoerbiger-Rogler System, 245
Pump Dredgers, 290
Pumps, Centrifugal, Electrically - Driven, in Spanish Mines, 72, 188
Pumps, Centrifugal, Flow Through, 762
Pumps, Hydraulically-Balanced Ashley, 320, 387
Pumps, Mine-Draining, 57, 108
Pumps, for New Orleans Drainage, 103
Pumps, Double-Acting High-Speed Mining, 670
Pumping Plant for Condensing Water, 141, 153
Purdue University Laboratory, New Apparatus for Testing Material, 28
Purification of Salford Sewage, 253. See LETTER, 86
Purification of Sewage, 865
Purification of Water by Ozone, 420
Purifying Feed Water, 210. See LErrEtts

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quartz-Crushing, Morison's Mortar-Box, 145
Queen Alexandra," Turbine Steamer, 375. See 70
Quick-Firing Guns. See Guns
Quicksilver. See Metal Price Diagrams

Radiant Energy, The Application of the Method of Entropy to, 498
Radiation and Absorption, Some Experiments on, 500
Radiation, New Bolometer for Recording the Total Daily Solar, 532
Radiators, Electric, 681
Radio-Activity and Becquerel Rays, 565
Rail-Joints, Schuler, 687
Railroad War in the United States, 281
Rails, Heavy, Strength and Durability of, 514
Rails, Relation Between Strength and Durability, 70
Rails, Steel. See Microstructure
Rails, Strength of, 653, 687, 724. See LErrERs, Steel Rails, tt.c.
Railway Bridge, Costa Rica, 537, 607
Railway Bridge, Rupnarayan, India, 822
Railway Carriage Works (Laycock's), 449
Railway, Chicago Terminal, Scherzer Rolling Lift-Bridge, 670, 757, 807
Railway Coal Wagon, 40-Ton, 811
Railway Companies and Tramway Legislation, 52, 295
Railway Construction in Britain, 322
Railway Economics of New South Wales, 841
Railway Electric Problem, 666
Railway Express, An All-Stations, 404
Railway Express Traffic and the Customs, 318
Railway Inspection Cars, Petrol-Driven, 720
Railway Locomotive. See Locomotive
Railway, Midland, History of, 836
Railway Motors, Heating of, 667
Railway, North-Eastern, Electrification of, 218
Railway Points and Signals, 681
Railway Rolling Stock Ball-Bearings, 834
Railway Rolling Stock. See Carriages, Wagons, and Locomotives
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 714, 718, 751. See 738
Railway Sidings, Should Manufacturers with, Pay Terminal Charges? 155
Railway Statistics, 799
Railway System, A Single-Phase, 667, 776
Railway versus Trade, 618
Railway Traffic, Suburban Electric, 683, 667
Railway Trains. See Trains
Railway Trains, Power and Cost of Steam versus Electric, 583, 667
Railway, Underground, at Stassfurt, 584
Railway Wagons, Transport over Narrow-Gauge Tramways, 385
Railway Wheel Lathe (Britannia Company, Colchester), 612
Railway Work in Formosa, 350
Railway Work in New York, 451
Railways, British, 582
Railways, Cape Government, 361
Railways, Deep-Tunnel, 116, 547, 579, 714. See 51
Railways, Electric. See also Electric
Railways, Electric, Single-Phase, 776
Railways, Electric of Washington, 440
Railways, Electro-Pneumatic Signals and Coal Staithes for, 176
Railways in India, 822
Railways, Light, and Tramways Exhibition, 23, 1
Railways and Trade, Ceylon, 617
Railways and Trade, Indian, 118
Rainfall of Dominica, 673
Rainfall in Ireland, 404
Randt Market, 777
Range-Finder, An Infantry, 436
Rank of Naval Engineers. See Naval Engineers' Question
Rapid Building, 649
Rapier's Coaling Crane, 412
Rateau Fan, 628
Rather Company's Boiler and Superheater (German), 707
Rating and Management of Collieries, 450
Ratio of Specific Heats of Air and Steam at Constant Pressure and Volume, 758
Reaping Attachment, McCormick Side•Delivery, 2. See Erratum, 147
Receiver for Hertzian Oscillations, 529, 583
Receiver, Reheating, Economical Effect of, 155, 73, 197. See LETTERS, 255, 285
Recorder, Load•Strain, Autographic, 805
Refraction, Does Motion through the Ether Cause Double 't 497
Refrigerators, Waste Heat, Ammonia, at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 306
Reichsanstalt Work in 1901, 561
Reliability Tests of Motor Cars, 420
Rendel, The late Mr. Hamilton Owen, 411
Repairs of Navy Boilers, 645
Repairs to United States versus British Tramway Engines, Cost of, 250, 348. See LETTEas
Report of the Committee on Naval Boilers, 54, 1, 90. See also 51. See LETTERS, 444, and Engineers in the Navy
Repudiation of a Contract, 86
Research Work at the Reichsanstalt in 1901, 561
Reservoir, Aswan, Nile, 783
Resistance of Road Vehicles to Traction, 371, 456
Resistance to Ships' Motion in Water, 67
Resonance, Electrical, of Metal Particles for Light Waves, 96
Reversing Steam Turbines, 819
Richardsons, Westgarth, and Co., Hartlepool Engine Works, 203
Rifles and Ordnance, Mr. Petavel's Recording Gauge as Applied to, 528
Rights of Riparian Proprietors (Compensation Water Supply), 817
Rio Grande Bridge, Costa Rica, 537, 607
Riparian Proprietors, Rights of (Compensation Water Supply), 817
River Navigation, Light-Draught Steamer for (Yarrow), 254
Rivers and Canals, Resistance to Ships' Motion, 7
Rivers, Mr. E. G., on First-Aid Fire Extinguishing Appliances, 121. See LETTERS
Road-Cars with Overhead Electric Trolleys, without Rails, 621
Road Locomotive, Compound, for Johannesburg, 672
Road Locomotion. See Motor Cars
Road Vehicles, Res!stance of, to Traction, 341, 456
Roads, The Action of Sledges on, 401
Roberts-Austen, The late Sir W. C., 717. See 53
Robinson, The late Mr. John, 83
Robinson's Shaft Governor, 791
Roburite at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 483
Rock-Drills for Coal-Mining, 155, 175, 227, 260
Rock and Iron, Adhesion of Concrete to, 422, 45
Rocks, Igneous, Crystalline Structure of, 300
Roller Bearings, Kynoch's, 211
Rolling Lift-Bridge (Scherzer), 670, 757, 807
Rolling Mills in Germany, 326
Rolling Mills, Universal (Duisburger Company), 37
Rolling Stock. See Carriages, Wagons, and Locomotives
Rolls, Linoleum Calendering, 165
Rope versus Belt-Driven Electric Cranes. See Electric Cranes
Rotary Kiln for Cement-Burning, 50, 79
Rotary Steam Engine, Hult, 506
Rottweil Powders at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 82
Rowan's Premium System of Wage, 447
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological Society
Rubber at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 401
Rupnarayan Bridge, Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 822
Russian Coke Pig Iron, Classification of, 86
Russian Cruiser ' Novik," 649
Russian or Foreign Coal in St. Petersburg, 121
Russian Iron Foundry, 860
Rusting of Steel in Buildings, 682

Saccharimeter Test at the Reichsanstalt, 563
Safeties, Elevator, 256
Safety Lamps, Miners', at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 186, 239
Safety Valves, Cockburn's Double, 487
Saint. See St.
Salford Sewage Purification, 253, 865. See LETTER, 85
Salvage and Safety Lamps at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 186, 239

Sanitary Institute : 51, 363

Congress at Manchester, 351, 363
Exhibits, 351
Smoke Abatement, by Mr. W. N. Shaw, 363
Dust, by Sir J. Crichton-Brown, 363
Sewer Ventilation, by Councillor W. F. Dearden and Mr. A. M. Fowler, 363
Sewer-Scouring Device, by Mr. J. Corbett, 364
Salford Sewage Works, by Mr. J. Corbett, 865
Scarcity of Platinum, 162
Scherzer Rolling Lift-Bridge at Chicago, 670, 757, 07
Scholarships, Whitworth, 449. See LETTER, 486
School of Technology, Manchester, 466
Schuler Rail-Joint, 587
Schulz Water-Tube Boiler, 166
Science of Business, 677. See LETTER
Science and Practice, 217
Science of the Workshop, 394, 408
Scouring Device, Sewers, 364
Scouts for the British Navy, 25-Knot, 616
Screw-Cutting Lathc-. See Machine Tools
Screw-Gauges, Small, British Association Committee's Report, 433
Screw-Machine, Magazine (Herbert), 10
Screw-Thread Sizes, Standard for, 303
Sea-Going Barges, 66
Seamen's Training Ships, 819
Sea-Water, the Amount of Carbonic Anhydride Absorbed from, by Air, 602
Segregation Effect on the Strength of Steel Rails, 653, 687, 724. See LErrigas
Seismological, British Association Committee's Report on Earthquakes, 564. See 448
Selby-Bigge, Mr. D., on Electric Power in Iron and Steel Industries, 333, 488
Self-Propelled Vehicles at Aldershot, 573. See Motor Cars, Military
Separator, Milk, at the Agricultural Show, 44
Separator, Oil and Grease, Fletcher's, 355
Separator, Oil and Grease, Shelby's, 123
Separator, Water, for Liquid Fuel, 163, 158.
See LEVrERs, 777
Ser Fan, 732. See 627
Servant and Master, Law of, 122, 189, 275, 328, 44, 452, 866
Sewage, Purification by Alga, 602
Sewage, Purification of Salford, 253, 865. See LETTER, 285
Sewage, Treatment of Manchester, 491, 552
Sewage Works, Salford, 253, 285, X65
Sewer-Scouring Device, 364
Sewer Ventilation, 363
Shaft Ball-Bearings, 835
Shaft Governor, Robinson's, 791
Shaft-Sinking Equipment, 43
Shears, Flying, 302
Sheet-Metal Die-Stamping, 302
Sheffield, Boiler Explosion near, 226
Sheffield, Notes from. See South Yorkshire
"Sheffield," Railway Inspection Car, 720
Shelby Oil and Grease Separator, 123
Shimonoseki, Trade of, 616
Ship, Distilling, " Edgewater," H.M., 551
Ships' Load-Lines, the late Benjamin Martell, 85
Ships' Motion in Canals and Rivera, Resistance to, 67
Ships. See Steamers
Ships, Training for the German Merchant Service, 819
Shipbuilding Berths, Vulcan Company's Works, 04. See LErrEas 320 ; and 249, 269, 339
Shipbuilding Experimental Tank, 752
Shipbuilding in Japan, 187, 752
Shipbuilding. See also Warships and Naval Architects
Shipbuilding Trade, 86
Shipbuilding Trade, Depression in the, 514
Shipbuilding in the United States and Canada : Effect of Trusts, 341, 549, 617, 650
Shipbuilding Works, C. S. Swan and Hunter's, 69. 177. See Erratum, 223. See also Shipyard and Works.
Shipping Combination, 479, 662
Shipping Dues, 35
Shipping Fleets of the World, 420
Shipping, Foreign Competition, 54
Shipping, French, Messageries Maritimes, 10
Shipping, Japanese, 156
Shipping Trade, Atlantic, Subsidy to Cunard Company, 451, 479. See 662
Shipwrecks, 352, 420, 641, 756
Shipyard, Deptford, Sunderland, 178
Shipyard and Dry Dock, Hartlepool, Irvine's, 204
Shipyard and Engine Works, Palmer's, 176
Shipyard, Furness, Withy, and Co's., Hartlepool, 03
Shipyard, Hartlepool (Messrs. W. Gray and Co.), 03
Shipyard, Pallion, Sunderland (Messrs. W. Doxford and Sons), 178
Shipyards and Engine Works on the Wear, 177
Shoe and Leather Fair, 617
Shop Clubs' Act, 1902, 282
Shops and the Office, 447
Short, The late Professor S. H., 585
Show Ground of the Royal Agricultural Society, 7
Show, Smithfield Club, 786
Siberia and China, Agricultural Machinery in, 306
Sickness Due to CompreRsed Air in Tunnels, 186
Sidings, Railway, Should Manufacturers with, Pay Terminal Charges ? 155
Sieglander Collective Exhibits at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 186
Signals and Coal Staithes, Electro-Pneumatic, 76
Signals, Electric Railway Points and, 681
Siller and Dubois Ore Separators at the Diisseldorf Exhibition,268
Single-Phase Electric Railways, C67, 776
Sinking, Shaft and Well, Equipment, 43
Sinol System of Automatic Lubricator, 355
Slag Cements at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 399
Sledges, The Action of, on Roads, 401
Slide Rule for Powers of Numbers, 808
Slipway, %Vallsend, and Engineering Works Company, 695
Slow-Burning Construction, 547
Smith, J. A., on Some Experimental Research on Internal Flow in Centrifugal Pumps and Allied Machines, 762
Smith, Mr. W. M., on Cylindrical Valves for Locomotives, 165, 174, 193. See Erratum, 310
Smith's Dock on the Tyne, 176
Smithfield Club Show, 786
Smoke Abatement, 863
Smoke, The Prevention of, 433
Smokeless Combustion of Bituminous Coal, 433
Soap at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 138
Socialistic Tendencies in New South Wales, 841
Society, Centenary of Glasgow Philosophical, 646
Society of Arts, Chairman's Address on the
Science of Business, by Sir W. H. Preece, 677.
See LETTERS, Science of Business
Society of Engineers, 830
Soda and the Commercial Outlook, 789
Softeners, Water, at the Dtisseldorf Exhibition, 66, 268, 670
Solar Radiation, New Bolometer for Recording the Total Daily, 632
Solignac Boiler, 433
South African Market, 777
South African War, Steam Wagons in, 26
South Durham Steel and Iron Works, 203
South London Tramways, Electrification of, 431, 96, 698, 773
South Russian Iron Industry, 860
South Wales Mineral Railway, Collision on, 485
South-West, Notes from, 15, 47, 87, 113, 146, 181, 15, 247, 276, 311, 345, 379, 413, 453, 477, 509, 40, 576, 610, 640, 674, 711, 747, 781, 813, 819
12, 146,
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 14, 47, 87, 81, 214, 246, 276, 311, 344, 379, 412, 453, 476, 09, 540, 576, 610, 640, 674, 710, 746, 780, 812, 48
Southern Railway of France, Goods Locomotive, 0. 76
Southwick Engine Works, Sunderland (Messrs. George Clark, Limited), 178
Spanish Mines, Electrically-Driven Centrifugal Pumps for, 72, 188
Specific Heat, Variation of the Specific Heat of Mercury, with Temperature, 528
Specifications of Steel Forgings and Castings, 70
Specifications for Steel Forgings, Castings, and Boiler-Plates, 225
Spectra of Elements and their Relation to the Square of their Atomic Weight, 620
Spectrograms of Jupiter and Uranus, 532
Spectrum, Light Distribution in a Grating, 96
Spelter Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams Spencer, Messrs. John, and Sons, Newburn Steel Works, 134, 202
Spring-Cleaning by Machinery, 187
Springs of Motor Cars, 624. See also 525, 554, 88, 603, 701
Springs, Underground Water, 251
St. Lawrence River Dredger, 155
St. Lawrence River Dredging, 290
St. Louis Exhibition, 83, 207, 436, 513, 584
St. Petersburg, Russian or Foreign Coal in, 121
St. Vincent Earthquake, 448. See 561
Staff, Engineer, of Naval and Merchant Ships.
See Naval Engineers' Question
Stahl and Eisen. A. G., Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater (German), 633
Staithes, Tyne Commissioners' Coal, 176
Stamping Sheet-Metal in Dies, 302
Standard for Machine Screw-Thread Sizes, 303
Standard Pipe Unions, 225
Standard Specification for Forgings, Castings, and Boiler-Plates, 70, 225
Standards for Electrical Measurements, Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical, B.A. Committee's Report, 528
Standards in Ewing's Hysteresis Tester, 223
Standardisation, Electric Plant, 667
Standardisation, Proposed, of Methods of Chemical Analysis, 602. See LETTER, 720
Standardised System of Testing Engines, 105
Stanley Instrument Company's Works, Great Barrington, Mass., 639
Stanton, Mr. T. E., on Some Characteristics of the Flow of Water in Channels of Varying Sections, 664
Stars, Relative Apparent Motions of Bright and Faint, 531
Stassfurt Electric Underground Railway, 581
Stations, Electric. See Power Stations, Electric, Engines, and Engines, Gas
Statistics of British Railways, 799
Statistics-Tabulating Machine, 165, 840
Statistics on the Training of Chemists Employed in English Chemical Industries, 602. See 512
Status of Naval Engineers. See Naval Engineers' Question
Steam and Air at Constant Pressure and Volume, Ratio of Specific Heats of, 758
Steam Boiler. See Boiler and Water-Tube Boilers
Steam Consumption of Reciprocating Engine and Parsons' Turbine, 142, 153, 176, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Steam-Distributing Valves, Cylindrical, for Locomotives, 155, 174, 193. See Erratum, 310
Steam versus Electric Trains, Cost and Power, 83, 667
Steam-Engine Economy, Experiments in, 155, 73, 197. See LETTERS, 265, 285
Steam Engine, Hutt Rotary, 506
Steam Engines. See Engines
Steam Engineering Laboratory at Manchester School of Technology, 467
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steam Lorries. See Motor Cars
Steam Main, Swivelling Joint for, 286
Steam Motor Vehicles. See Motor Cars
Steam Pipe Coverings, Tests of, 2b6
Steam Pipes. See Pipel
Steam Pressure Gauge at the Reichsanstalt, 61
Steam Stop-Valve, Garvie's High-Pressure, 343
Steam Trials of H.M.S. "King Alfred," 315
Steam Trials of H. M. Ships in 1902, 818, 855
Steam Turbine Alternator, 1500 - Kilowatt (Parsons'), 179. See 142, 163, 161, 176, 188
Steam Turbine versus Engine, Consumption, 42, 153, 176, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Steam Turbine, 370. See also 376
Steam Turbines, Reversing, 819
Steam Turbines. See also Turbines
Steam Wagons on Military Service, 26. See also Motor Cars
Steam Yacht " Vanessa," Triple-Expansion Engines of the (Day, Summers, and Co., Limited), 423
Steamer, Fire, Tug, and Police, for Mexican Government (Merryweather), 536
Steamer, Light-Draught, for River Navigation (Yarrow), 264
Steamer, Turbine, " Queen Alexandra," 376. See 370
Steamer, Twin-Screw, " Hanoverian" (Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co.), 572
Steamer, Twin-Screw, " Kaiser Wilhelm II.," 04, 269, 339. See LETTER, 320, Shipbuilding Berths, and 249
Steamers' Engines. See Engines
Steamers, Liquid Fuel for, 153,158. See LETTERS
Steamers, Modern Ocean Liners. 249. See 204
Steamers. See also Ships and Warshilm
Steamers, Strength of High-Speed, 251
Steel Ball-Bearings, 833
Steel by Bessemer Process, 70
Steel Chain, The Looke, 243
Steel and Concrete Coal-Storage Building, 289
Steel Exhibits at Diisseldorf, 323
Steel Extensometer, 422, 445
Steel Forgings, Castings and Boiler-Plates, Standard Specifications for, 70, 225
Steel Girders. See Girders
Steel Industry in South Russia, 860
Steel Ingots, Compression of, 726, 758, 792
Steel and Iron Trade, U.S., Cost of Production, 15
Steel and Iron Works, Electric Power in, 333, 88
Steel and Iron Works, South Durham, 203
Steel, Nickel, for Motor Cars, 626
Steel and other Trusts in the United States, 341, 49, 617, 650
Steel, Overheating of, 332. 357, 392
Steel Preservation in Buildings. 682
Steel Rails, Strength of, 653, (87, 724. See LETTERS
Steel Rails, Strength and Durability of, 70
Steel Situation in the States, 117
Steel, Tool, A New High-Speed, 190
Steel Works in Japan, 449
Steel Works in New South Wales, 841
Steel Works, Newburn (Messrs. John Spencer and Sons), 134, 202
Steel Works Practice in Germany, Progress, 326
Steering Gear of Motor Cars, 592. See also 525, 54, 603, 626, 701
Steinmiiller Water-Tube Boiler with Superheater, 36
Stelkens, Mr., on the Depreciation of Coal and Coke by Shipment, 65, 94
Stellar Systems, Evolution of, 529
Still, New Type of, 646
Stirling Water-Tube Boiler at the Newcastle Electric Power Works, 153, 161. See 179
Stoker, Mechanical, for Locomotive, 288
Stoneware at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 400
Stop-Day Case, 219
Stop-Valve, Garvie's High-Pressure Slide, 343
Straightening Machine, Core-Wire (de Laval and Chisholm), 46
Strain Recorder, Load, Autographic, 805
Straw Press, Howard's, 787
Stream Lines through Centrifugal Pumps, 762
Strength and Durability of Heavy Rails, 514
Strength and Elasticity, 731
Strength of Ferro-Concrete, 385. See 333, 569, 81, 681
Strength of High-Speed Vessels, 354. See 56
Strength of Rails, 653, 687, 724. See LETTERS,
Steel Rails, d•c.
Strength of Torpedo-Boats, 56, 354
Stress, Effects on Platinum, Microscopic Views, 27. See Erratum., 190
String, The Vibration of a Plucked, 528
Structure of Steel. See Microstructure
Students, Engineering. See Education of Eng sneers
Submarine Boats, 313, 616, 733
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 156, 647
Submarines and Naval Tactics, 616
Subsidies, Ocean Liner, 249. See 204
Subsidy to Cunard Atlantic Liners, 451, 479. See 662
Subterranean Channel, 251
Suburban Electric' Railway Traffic, 583, 667
Suburban Locomotive, Northern Railway of France, 340
Suburban Traffic Locomotive, American, 410
Suction Dredgers, 290
Sugar Centrifugal Machine, Electrically-Driven, 08
Sugar Factories, 853
Sugars, The Alkylation of, 599
Sulphide, Electrolytic Copper, 318
Sulphuric Acid by Catalysis, 155
Sulphuric Acid Exhibits, Ammonia Refrigerators, Waste Heat, at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 306
Sun-Spots, Minimum, and Terrestrial Magnetism, 29. See LETTER, 573
Sun, The Uncertainty of our Knowledge of the Distance of the, 632
Sunderland Docks, 177
Sunderland, Visit of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to, 177
Superheaters and Boilers, German, 569, 633, 707, 36
Surface-Contact System of Electric Traction, 671
Surface-Contact System of Tramways, Cruvellier, 11
Survey, Mexican Boundary, 253
Survey, Ordnance, of the Malay States, 352
Surveying by Camera, 38
Surveying, Fergusson's System of, 128
Surveying Instruments, Hand (Sir Howard Grubb), 33
Survival of a Beam Engine of 1767, 486
Swan and Hunter's Shipbuilding Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 169, 177. See Erratum, 223
Swath Turner at the Royal Agricultural Show, 42
Swedish Torpedo - Boat Destroyer " Mode " (Yarrow), 374
Sweeping Carpets by Machinery, 187
Switzerland Works and Electric Power, 810
Swivelling Joint fora 16-In. Steam Main, 286
Synthetical Action of Enzymes, 599
Synthetical Researches in the Glucoside Group, 99
Tabulation, Mechanical, 165
Tabulation, Mechanical, of Works Accounts, 840
Tactics, Naval, and Submarine, 616
Taff Vale Case ; Trade Union Law, 852
Tank, Marine Experimental, 762
Taylor, Mr. William, on the Science of the Workshop, 394, 408
Teaching of Economics, 631
Teaching Machine Construction and Drawing, 85. See Education
Teaching of Mathematics, 565. See LETTERS, Education
Technical Education, 370, 381, 395, 427. See LETTBRS
Technical Education of Electrical Engineers, 712
Technical Education in the Navy, 631
Technical Education, Professor Perry on, 370, 81, 395, 427
Technical Education, Science and Practice, 217
Technical Education. See Education
Technical Education at the University of London, 593. See LETTER, 650
Technical High School of Aachen, 501
Technical Training, Faulty, 279. See Erratum, 18
Technology, Manchester School of, 4f6
Telegraph Companies, Submarine, 156, 647
Telegraphs and Telephones in Japan, 385
Telegraphy. See also Wireless
Telegraphy, Wireless, 317
Telegraphy: Wireless, Magnetic Detectors in, 529
Telephone in the United Kingdom, The Future of the, 404
Telephones, Municipal, Tunbridge Wells, 815
Telephones and Telegraphs in Japan, 385
Telescoped, Standard Scale for, 632
Telluric Distribution of the Elements in Relation t3 their Atomic Weight, 602
Telpherage Post, Taeggi's, 419. See Erratum, 960
Temperature of Exhaust Gases, 286
Temperature of the Higher Atmosphere, 803
Temperature, The Relation of Voltaic Potential to, 498
Temperature, Variation of the Critical Velocity of Water with, 527
Temperature, Variation of the Specific Heat of Mercury with, 528
Temperatures, Theory of Gases at Critical and other, 500
Temperatures, Gas-Engine, 156
Temperatures in Steel Manufacture, 332, 357, 3W
Tendency of Enterprise, 816
Tendency in -Machine Design, 314
Terminal Charges, Should Manufactuers with Railway Sidings Pay 7155
Terrestrial Magnetism and Minimum Sun-Sr 'As, 29. See LETTER, 573
Test Specimens, Autographic Load-Strain Recorder for, 805
Test of Submarine Boats, 313, 616, 733
Tests of Coal-Wagon for the North-Eastern Railway, 811
Tests of Steam-Pipe Coverings, 256
Tests of Steel Rails, 653, 687, 724. See Lserrsas
Tester, Ewing's Hysteresis, Standards in, 223
Testing at Belliss and Morcom's Works at Birmingham, 374
Testing Engines, Standardised System, 105 .
Testing Instrument, A Magnetic, 405
Testing Machine for Cast Iron, 504
Testing Materials in the Purdue University Laboratory, 28
Textile Industries Department, Manchester School of Technology, 472
Thames Conservancy and New Port Commissioners, 49, 740
Thames and Medway Canal, 515
Theodolite, Fergusson's System of, 128
Theory of Gases at Critical Temperatures, 500
Theory of Wehnelt Interrupters, 752
Therapy, A Triple Lens for Ultra-Violet, 500
Thermal Researches at the Reichsanstalt,t61
Thermit, Aluminium, Exhibit at Diisseldorf, 135 '
Thermo-Dynamics, Heat Evolved or Absorbed when a Liquid is Brought in Contact with a Finely-Divided Solid, 95
Thermostat, Animal, 528
Thermostat at the Reichsanstalt, 561
Thirlmere Aqueduct Pipe, Fracture of, 550
Thompson, Messrs. J. L., and Sons, Sunderland, 77
Thornycroft's Steam Wagons on Military Service, 26
Thread Sizes, Standard for Machine,303
Three-Phase Alternators. See Electric
Timber Supplies, The World's, 623, 624, 654, 656
Tin at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 336
Tin Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Tipton Power Station, Midland, 201
Tolls, Shipping, 35
Ton-Mileage of British Railways, 793
Tool-Room Equipment, 263
Tool Steel, A New High-Speed, 190
Tools. See Machine Tools
Torpedo-Boat Craft, Strength of. 56, 354
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships
Torpedo-Boat Engines (Krupp). 166 '
Torpedo-Boat, Strengths, 56, 354
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Towage and Canals, Electric, 100
Towing Barges at Sea, 66, 515
Tracing Instrument, Owen's New Curve-, 741
Tracings, Photo-Copying, 673
Traction, Electric, Mr. Westinghouse on, 816
Traction, Electric. See ELECTRIC, Tramways and Railways
Traction Engine for Johannesburg, 672
Traction, Mechanical, for Military Purposes, 514, 43. See also Motor Cars
Trade of Formosa, 125
Trade of Korea, 282
Trade versus Railway, 618
Trade and Railways, Ceylon, 617
Trade and Railways, Indian, 118
Trade of Shimonoseki, 516
Trade Union Law ; The Taff Vale Case, 853
Trade Union Law. See Legal
Trade of Yokohama, 185
Trades Union Congress, 317
Trading, Municipal, 390, 663, 815. See also Legal
Traffic Arrangements of Railways Criticised, 618
Train-Lighting, Electric, in Germany, 480
Train, Railway Express, All-Stations, 404
Trains. See Railway Trains
Trains, Power and Cost of, Steam versus Electric, 83, 667
Training, Chemical, and Industrial Progress, 12
Training of Engineers, 432. See also IATTERs,
Education, and 648
Training, Faulty Technical, 279. See Erratum, 18
Training of Naval Engineers, 750, 857
Training Ships, German, 819
Tramcar Motors, 773. See also 431, 495, 693
Tramcars, Brakes for Electric, 804
Tramway-Car Ball-Bearings, 834
Tramway Cars at the Tramway Exhibition, 23, 51
Tramway Engines, Glasgow, 250, 348. See LETTERS
Tramway Finance (Glasgow), 183
Tramway Legislation, A Session of, 252, 295
Tramway and Lighting Generating Plant at the Wolverhampton Exhibition, 321
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 738
Tramways, Bournemouth Municipal, 118
Tramways, Electric, 671
Tramways, Electric Accumulators, 504, 533. See LETTER, 549
Tramways, Electrification of South London, 431, 95, 698, 773
Tramways and Light Railways Exhibition, 23, 51
Tramways and Municipal Tracing, 390, 663
Tramways, Surface Contact System, 211
Tramways, Transport of Goods Wagons over Narrow Gauge, 385
Transit. See Railways and Tramways
Transmission of Power on the Pacific Coast, 272
Transmission of Power. See also Power Distribution.
Transport of Goods Wagons over Narrow-Gauge Tramways, 385
Transport by Water, Depreciation of Coke and Coal, 65, 94
Transvaal Market, 777
Treatment of Manchester Sewage, 491, 552
Trials, Steam, of H.M. Ships in 1902, 818, 855
Trials, Steam, of H.M.S. " King Alfred," 315
Trip Valve Gear, 3000 H.-P. Triple-Expansion Electric Driving Engine, 179, 210
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Trusses, The Weight of, 126
Trusts, Ocean Liner, 249. See 204
Trusts, from View of Economic Theory, 633
Trusts. See also Combines
Trusts in the United States, 341, 549, 617, 650
Tube-Making in Germany, 326
Tube Ventilation, 845
Tubes, Deep-Tunnel Railway, 116, 547, 579, 714. See 751, 845
Tudor Accumulator, 549
Tug, Fire, and Police Boat for Mexican Government (Merryweather), 536
Tunnel Ventilation, Tube, 845
Tunnelling under Compressed Air, Sickness due to, 186
Turbine, Hult Steam, 506
Turbine, Parsons, versus Steam Engine, Steam Consumption, 142,153, 176, 179. See LETTER, 188
Turbine, Steam, 370. See also 375
Turbine Steamer " Queen Alexandra," 375. See 70
Turbines, Steam, Reversing, 819
Turbo-Alternator, 1500-Kilowatt (Parsons), 179. See 142, 153, 161, 176, 188
Turbo-Generators at Niagara Falls, 637. See LETTERS
Turner, Swath, at the Agricultural Show, 42
Turner, W. P., and Hatt, W. K.,on Testing Materials at Purdue University, 8
Turning Machines. See Machine Tools
Two Million Miles of Locomotive Running, 283
Tyne Commissioners' Coal Staithes, 176
Tyne North Pier Reconstruction, 133, 176
Tyne, Pontoon Docks on the, 176
Tyne, Smith's Dock on the, 176
Tyre, Railway, Lathe (Britannia Company, Colchester), 612
Tyrrell, Mr. H. G.,on Diagrams for Determining the Weight of teel Girders, 126

Underground Railways. See Deep-Tunnel Railways
Undergrouni Water, 251
Undermanning in the Navy. See Naval Engineers
Union, Trades. See Trades Union
Unions, Standard Pipe, 225
United States and American Steamship Competition, 249. See 201
United States versus British Tramway Engines, 50, 348. See LETTERS
United States Census-Counting Machine, 165, 840
United States Coal-Mining, 264
United States Competition, 298, 845
United States Electrical Industry, 382
United States Iron and Steel Trade, Cost of Production, 415
United States, Locomotive Building in, 545
United States Locomotives, 410
United States Machine Tools, Exhibition, 6
United States Naval Engineering Report, 678
United States, Notes from, 14, 86, 111, 180, 214, 45, 284, 307, 342, 385, 412, 444, 476, 518, 540, 75, 608, 646, 719, 746, 790, 848
United States Power Plants on the Pacific Coast, 272
United States Railroad War, 284
United States Steel Situation, 117
United States Steel Trusts, 341, 549, 617, 650
United States Submarine Boat Experience, 313, 33
United States Trusts. See Trusts
University, of Kyoto, 299
University of London Technic i1 Education, 593. See Ltearrn, 650
Uralite, 221. See Erratum, 247. See LETTER, 285
Uranus and Jupiter, Spectrograms of, 532

Vacuum Calorimeters, 620
Vacuum, Economical Effect of Degree of, 155, 73, 197. See LETTERS, 255, 285
Vacuum Machinery for Carpet-Cleaning, 187
Valve, Cockburn's Double Safety, 487
Valve Design, Tendency in, 314
Valve Gear, 3000 Horse-Power Triple-Expansion, Electric Driving Engine, 179, 210
Valve, Garvie's High-Pressure Steam Stop, 343
Valve, Steam (Coleman's), 308
Valves, Cylindrical, for Locomotives, 155, 174, 93. See Erratum, 310
Valves for Motor-Car Engines, 605
"Vanessa," Triple - Expansion Engines of the Steam Yacht (Day, Summers, and Co., Ltd), 423
Vapourising Liquid Fuel, 153, 158. See LErrarts, 77
Varnishes at the Diisseldorf Exhibition, 138
Vegetation and Water Supply, 687
Vehicles, Motor, for Military Purposes, 514, 543. See also Motor Cars
Vehicles, The Resistance of Road, to Traction, 71, 456
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Motor Cars
Velocity of Water with Temperature, Variation
of the Critical, 527
Ventilation, Sewer, 363
Ventilation of Tube Railways, 845
Vessels, Strength of High-Speed, 354
Vibration of a Plucked String, 528
Vibrations, Continuous Motion Produced by, 528
Victoria Works, Millhouses, Sheffield (Laycock's), 49
Vision, The Physical Aspects of a Theory of Colour, 500
Volcanic Phenomena in the Windward Islands, 48. See also 564
Voltaic Potential, The Relation of, to Temperature, 498
Vulcan Company, Stettin, and Large Atlantic Liners, 204, 269, 339. See LETTER, 320

Waddle Fan, 797. See also 627, 732
Wage Problem, 347
Wage System, 447
Wages and the Economics of Production, 415
Wages and Hours of Labour in 1901, 316
Wagon, Coal, for the North-Eastern Railway, Tests of, 811
Wagons over Narrow-Gauge Railways, Transport of Goods, 385
Wagons, Steam, on Military Service, 26
Wagons, Steam Motor. See Motor Cars
Wainford, Mr. R. H., on Mechanical Appliances in Mines, 155, 175, 227, 260
Wallsend and Hebburn Coaling Crane, 412
Wallsend Slipway Company's Engine Economy, 42, 153, 176, 179. See LETTERS, 188
Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company's Works 695
Wallsend, Works at, 169, 177, 695
War Office Distilling Ship, 551
Warning to Manufacturers as to Old Inventions, 22, 445
Warship Building in 1902, 818, 855

Warships :
Accident on H.M.S. " Bullfinch," 690
Boiler Repairs, 645
British Boiler Committee's Report, 54, 81, 90.
See also 51. See LETTER, 444, and Engineers in the Navy
Colonial Contribution to Navy, 613
Engines, Balancing, 69
French Naval Manoeuvres, 336, 383, 418
French Naval Programme, 713
French Submarines, 616
His Majesty's Ships Built and Tried in 1902, 18, 855
H.M. Scouts, 616
H.M. Distilling Ship, 551
H.M.S. " Duke of Edinburgh," 644, 818
H.M.S. "Hindustan," Boiler Arrangements in, 83
ILM.S. " King Alfred," Steam Trials of, 315
H.M.S. " Powerful," Boilers of the, 51
Japanese Navy Increase, 617
Machinery of Naval Ships, 91. See also 51, 54, 1, 90. See LETTER, 444, and Engineers in the Navy
Naval Engineers. See Naval Engineer.' Question
Russian Cruiser " Novik," 649
Shallow-Draught Steamers, Yarrow, 254
Steam Trials of His Majesty's -Ships in 1902, 18, 855
Strength of Torpedo-Boat Craft, 354
Strength of Torpedo-Boats, 56
Submarines and Naval Tactics, 313, 616, 733
Swedish Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Mode ' (Yarrow), 375
Torpedo-Boat Engines (Krupp), 166
United States Gunboats Built in Japan, 752
United States Naval Engineering, 678
United States Ships at Fore River Works (Quincy), 288
United States Submarine Boat Experience, 13, 733. See 616

Washing, Centrifugal, Machine, ElectricallyDriven, 808
Washington City Attractions, 440
Washington Monument, 440
Waste, Alkali, 222
Water, The Absorption of Ammonia from, by Alga 602
Water Condensing Pumping Plant, 141, 153
Water-Distilling Ship, 551
Water and Electric Power in Switzerland, 810
Water Filter, Harris-Anderson Feed, 210. See LETTERS
Water Flow in Pipes of Varying Sections, 664
Water Flow through Centrifugal Pumps, 762
Water-Level Fluctuations on Lake Erie, 485
Water on Lead, Action of Distilled, 601
Water Main, Fracture of a Thirlmere, 550
Water Power in Ireland, 404, 430
Water Power at Niagara Falls, 637, See LETTERS
Water Power Plants on the Pacific Coast, 272
Water Pumps. See Pumps
Water Purification by Ozone, 420
Water Quantity Evaluating by Planimeter, 742
Water Separator for Liquid Fuel, 153, 158. See LETTERS, 777
Water Softeners, 266, 268, 670
Water Supply, Compensation,817
Water Supply, Mechanical Fitration, 23
Water Supply and Vegetation, 687
Water with Temperature, Variation of the Critical Velocity of, 527
Water-Tube Boiler Arrangements in British Battleships, 283
Water-Tube Boiler Repairs, 645
Water-Tube Boiler, Schulz, 166
Water-Tube Boiler, Solignac, 433
Water-Tube Boiler, Stirling, at the Newcastle Electric Power Works, 153, 161. See 179
Water-Tube Boiler with Superheater (Steinm tiller), 736
Water-Tube Boiler with Superheater (Willmann, of Dortmund), 737
Water-Tube Boilers, 444
Water-Tube Boilers of H.M.S. " Powerful," 51
Water-Tube Boilers in the Navy, 855. See 818
Water-Tube Boilers, Report of Committee on, 54, 1, 90. See also 51. See LETTER, 444 ; and Engineers in the Navy
Water-Tube Boilers and Superheaters, German, 69, 633, 707, 736
Water-Tube Boilers in United States Navy, 678
Water-Tube and Cylindrical Boiler Combined (Steinmiiller), 736
Water Turbines. See Turbines
Water, Underground, 251
Water Works, Newcastle and Gateshead, 202
Waterfalls and Electric Power, 656
Waterways. See Canals
Waterworks Schemes in Parliament, 739
Wattmeter, Electrostatic, 668
Waves, Electrical Resonance of Metal Particles for Light, 96
Wax at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 133
Wear, Engine Works and Shipyards on the, 177
Wear Harbour Works, 177
Web Girders. See Girders
Wedding, Professor H., on Iron and Steel at Dusseldorf Exhibition, 323
Wehnelt Interrupters, The Theory of, 752
Weight in Chemical Reactions, 497
Weight of Girders, 126
Weighton, Professor R. L., on Some Experiments in Steam Engine Economy, 155, 173, 197. See LETTERS, 255, 285
Well-Sinking Equipment, 43
Westinghouse Gas Engine, 370, 375, 426, 458, 520
Westinghouse, Mr. Geo., on Electric Traction, 6
Wharf Crane, Rapier's Coaling, 412
Wheel Lathe, Railway, 612
Wheels, Emery, for Grinding, 1, 99
Wheel, A New Elastic, 403
Whistle, Galton, Pitch of Pipes, 528
Whitworth Scholarships, 448. See LETTER, 486
Widening of London Bridge, 743
Wilkinson, J. P., on the Biological Treatment of
Manchester Sewage, 553. See 491
Winn] an n Water-Tube Boiler and Superheater, 737 '
Wimperis, Mr. H. E., a Note on Gas-Engine Explosions, 490. See LETTERS, 517, 549
Wind and Power, 686
Wind-Pressure, Dependence of Pitch of Minute Closed Galton Whistle Pipes on, 528
Winding Engine, Electrically-Driven, 12, 138
Winding Engine, Conical Drum, 607
Windmills at the Royal Agricultural Show, 43
Winds and Level Fluctuations on Lake Erie, 485
Windward Islands, Volcanic Phenomena, 448 .
Wire-Drawing During Solidification of Steel Ingots, 726, 768, 792
Wire-Straightening Machine, Core, 45
Wires (Felten and Guilleaume) at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 401
Wireless Telegraphy, 317
Wireless Telegraph3, Magnetic Detectors in, 529
Wireless Telegraphy, Minchin's Receiver, 583
Wiring, Electric, at Diisseldorf Exhibition, 771
Wise, Mr. W. Lloyd, on Canadian Patent Law and Foreign Patents, 384
Wood Fuel, 655
Woodhouse, Mr. W. B., on Electric Supply Power Station at Neptune Bank, 142, 153, 176, 79. See LETTERS, 188
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools
Working Sheet Metal in Dies, 302
Workmen, English and American, 255
Workmen's Compensation. See Servants and Masters under Legal

Works:
Belliss and Morcom, Limited, Birmingham, 371
British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, at Rugby, Works of, 546
Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool (Sir W. Gray and Co.), 203
Deptford Yard. Sunderland (Messrs. J. Laing and Sons), 178
Edison Cement, 69
Elswick Works (Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited), 154
Engine Works and Shipyards on the Wear, 177
Fore River Shipyard (Quincy), 288
Furness, Withy, and Co., Shipyard, Hartlepool, 203
German Steel Works Practice, Progress in, 326
Germania Works, Krupp's, 102
Hartlepool Engine Works (Messrs. Richardsons, Westgarth, and Co.), 203
Irvine's Shipyard and Dry Dock, Hartlepool 04
Kiel Shipbuilding Yard, 102
Krupp's Works at Essen, 101
Laycock's VicOria Works, Millhouses, Sheffield, 449
Newburn Steel Works (Messrs. John Spencer and Sons), 134, 202
North Sand Works, Sunderland (Messrs. J. L Thompson and Sons), 177
Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland (Messrs. W. Doxford and Sons), 178
Palmer's Hill Engine Works, Sunderland' (Messrs. J. Dickinson and Sons), 178
Palmer's Shipyard and Engine Works, 176
South Durham Steel and Iron Works, 203
Southwick Engine Works, Sunderland (Messrs. George Clark, Limited), 178
Stanley Instrument Company's Works, Great Barrington, Mass., 639
Swan and Hunter's Shipbuilding Works, 169, 77. See Erratum, 223
Uralite Works, Higham, near Gravesend, 221.
See Erratum, 247. See LETTER, 285
Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Works Company, 695
Wouldham Cement Company's Works, 50, 79

Works Accounts Mechanical System, 840
Works Effluvia, Chemical, 152
Works, Salford Sewage, 865
Workshop Management, 447
Workshop Practice, 263
Workshop, The Science of the, 394, 408
Workshop Tools. See Machine Tools

Yacht, Steam, " Vanessa," Triple - Expansion Engines of the (Day, Summers, and Co., Limited), 423
Yarrow Light Draught Steamer for River Navigation, 254
Yerkes, Mr. See Tube Railways
Yerkes Observatory, Celestial Photographs from the, 531
Yokohama Trade, 185
Yorkshire Electric Power Scheme, 54, 65

Zinc Exhibits at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 305
Zinc Plates for Boiler Protection, 550
Zinc Prices. See•Metal Prices
Zirconium, Colloids of, and those of other Metals of the Fourth Group, 603

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