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ACCIDENT to Bridge over the Forth at Alloa, 606
Accidents ou Electric Railways, 235, 828

Accidents. Railway :

American Accidents (Railway, &c.), 185, 437
American Railroad Fatalities, 670
Derailment at Talycafn,
Hen Valley Light Railway, Dewsbury Collision, 128
Live Rail Fatalities, 285, 823

Accumulators. See Electric

Acetylides, Double, 961
"Achilles," H.M.S., 651
Acid Open-Hearth Manipulation, 623
Acts of Parliament. See Legol
Adams, The late Mr. William, 210
Admiralty Committee on Design of Warships, 00
Admiralty and the Navy Programme, 407. See 10, 651
Admiralty Problems. See Navy and warships
Admiralty Reform, 825
Admiralty Steel Impact Tests, 701, 728, 765. See also Microscopic Observations and Heat Treatment
Aerial Cableways; Brake Horse-Power of Haulage Plant, 466
Aerial Wire Ropeway, 503
Aero-Plane. Development of the, 401
"Africa," Austrian T. -S.S., Engines, Boilers, &c., 55, 309, 371
Africa. See also South Afrka
African, Central Smith, Locomotive, Passenger, for Railway, 13
Ageing of Dynamo Iron Sheets, 25

Agricultural Society, Royal :

Awards, 25
Conclusion and Receipts, 25
Dairy Appliances, 23
Finance, 509, 552, 720
Implements, 23
Miscellaneous, 24
Oil-Engines, 24
Windmills and Pumps, 21
Air and Barometric Pressure, Electric Conductivity of, 368
Air-Blast for Furnaces, Dry, 656, 661
Air-Brake, Christensen (National Electric Company), 784
Air-Brake and Steam-Pipe (Westinghouse), 414
Air-Circulation and Pressure Temperature over
the South Atlantic, 400
Air, Compressed, and Pneumatic Tools in Engineering Works, 233
Air-Compressors (Alley and Maclellan, Limited, Glasgow), 781
Air-Compressor and Engine, Reavell's, 113
Air-Compressor, 'Oster, 606
Air - Compressor at Portsmouth Dockyard (Brotherhood), 148
Air in the New York Subway, 865
Air-Pumps, Separate, Weir's, 423
Air in Relation to Boiler Feeds, 486
Air and Steam-Pipe Automatic Coupling, Westinghouse, 414
Air Temperature in Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones
at the Blue Hill Observatory, 401
Aix-les-Bains, Radioactivity of the Hot Springs
of, 365
Alarm, Electrical Temperature, 333
Alkali Trades, 87
Alkyl Derivatives of Sulphur, Selenium, and
Tellurium, 459
Alley and Maclellan Air Compressors, 781
Allgemeine Electricitats - Gesellschaft SteamTurbine Construction, 231, 329
Allis - Chalmers-Bullock Company's Exhibit at
the St. Louis Exhibition, 807
Alloa, Accident to Bridge over the Fcrth, 606
Alloys, Aluminium, Electrical Conductivity of,
as Affected by Exposure to London Atmosphere, and a Note on their Micro-Structure, 33
Alloys of the Copper-Tin Series, 459
Alloys, Iron, Electric and Thermal Conductivities of, 397
Alloys, Magnetic, not Containing Iron, 412.
See 303
Alloys, Production of Magnetic, from NonMagnetic Metals, 308. See 68, 412
Alpine Tunnel Ventilation, 642, 799
Alternating Stresses on Structural Steel, 307.
See 871 and Impact Tests
Alternators. See Electric
Aluminium Alloys, Electrical Conductivity of, as
Affected by Exposure to London Atmosphere,
and a Note on their Micro-Structure, 333
Amendment of the Electric Lighting Acts, 126
Amerieft. F'ee 4189 United Stgteo
American Copper Production, 653
American Engineering Congress at St. Louis, 31, 568, 600, 610. See Engineering Congress
and Iron and Steel Institute and Electrical
Engineers
American Iron Export Revival, 123
American Iron and Steel Production, 155
American Iron Trade for 1903, 2.48, 756
American Lake Ore Steamers, 620
American Lead and Zinc, 546
American Locomotive Practice, 569
American Locomotives, 745. See St. Louis
Exhibition and Locomotive
American Machine-Tools. See Machine-Tools
American Manganese Production, 513
American Mica Production,412
American Passenger-Elevators, 603
American Railroad Construction, 125
American Railway Organisation, 311
American Sewage Disposal, 601
American Shipping,Decay of, 862
American Steel an the Tariff, 8.6
American Steel Trust, 580
American Steel and Wire Company, 713
American Steel Works, Details of P:actice, 328, 59, 391, 428. See also Works
American Telegraphy, 60
American Tunnel Ventilation, 642, 799
American Visit. See Iron and Steel Institute,
Civil Engineers, Electrical Enjineers, and
Engineering Congress
American Water Supply, Purification of, 531
" Amethyst's " Trials with Turbine, 639, 719.
See 423, 499, and LETTERS, 466, 749
Ammonia, Decomposition and Synthesis of, 459
Ammonia Manufacture, 585
Ammonia Recovery in Chemical Industry, 662
Ammonium Salts and Metals, Reactions Between, 461
Amorpho:Is and Crystalline States, Relation
Between, as Disclosed by the Surface Flow of
Solids, 459, 474.. See 281, 829
Analogies, Physical, 755
Anal) sis, Harmonic, Rapid Method of Approximate, X71
Anatomy of Bridge-Work, 670, 773, 811
Ancient Tilting-Hammer, 96
Andrews's Gas-Engine, 797. See LETTERS
Andrews, Thomas, on Microscopic Observations
of Naval Accidents, 737, 778, 810. See Impact
Tests
Annealing and Strain, Effects of, 9
Annuals. See LITERATURE
Annuals and Year-Books, 866
Anomalous Dispersion, Kundt's Law of Direction in, 368
Antarctic Expedition, 796
Anthracite, Origin of, 110
Antimony. See Metal Price Diagrams
" Antrim, 'Midland Railway Company's Steamer, 23
Antwerp Petroleum Explosion, 315, 513. See
LETTER, 621
Apparatus, New, for Producing Magnetic Fields
of Force, 397
Applied Science, Introduction to (Measurement
and Calculation and Nomenclature), 744
Apprenticeship. See Technical Edu,cati)n and
Traininj
Arbitrators' Fees, 344
Arc, The Electric, 315, 878
Arc Lamp. See Electric
Arcs between Cooled Electrodes, 315
Archangel, Mineral Wealth of, 724
Argentine Railway Progress, 519
Armament of Ships. See Warships
Armatures, Distribution of Magnetic Induction
in Multi-Polar, 301
Armoured Concrete Bridge, 582
Armoured Concrete Structures, 315, 350, 569
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armstrong and Day's Water-Tube Boiler, 820
Army Field Artillery and the Russo-Japanese
War, 545, 791, 900
Arsenic in the Body and in the Kidneys, 461
Artesian Well at Heysham Harbour, 295 •
Artificial Gutta-Percha Cables, 89
Artificial Waterways, 601
Artillery, Field, for the British Army, 900. See 15, 791
Artillery. See also Guns
Ash, Coal, 348
Asphalt in the Indian Terri Cory, 261
Astronomy Papers at the British Association, 99, 442
Astronomy, Problems of, 443
Atlantic Shipping Trust, 156
Atlantic, South, Pressure Temperature and Air
Circulation over the, 400
" Atlantic " Type Locomotive, 745. See St. Lola
Exhibition
Atmosphere, Ionisation of, 396
Atmospheric Pressure, Fluctuations in, 859
Atmospheric Radioactivity, 666
Atoms, Combination of, to have the Properties of
Polonium and Radium, 365
Australian Bridge Competition, 61.8
Australian Commonwealth Patent Act, 96, 433
Australian Federal Trade-Marks, 283, 576
Australian Leather Trade, 516
Australian Railways, Queensland, 756 ; New
South Wales, 617 ; New Zealand, 441 ; Victorian Railways, 827
Australian Siderites, 461
Australian Timber, 866
Austrian Lloyd's Liner, Twin-Screw, " Africa,'
Engines, Boilers, &o., 255, 309, 371.
Auto-Cars. See Motor-Cars ant Set/-Propellezl
Cars
Automatic Boiler Feed, Brooke's, 711
Automatic Coupling for Shafts, The " Ten ix," 14. See also Clutch
Automatic Regenerative Control for Tramcars, 161
Automatic Rifles, Rexer and Halle, 115
Automatic Saw-Sharpening Machine, 679
Automobile Battery of Schneider-Canet Howitzers, 715
Automobiles. See Motor-Cars
Auxiliary Power Yacht " Mollihawk II.," with
Oil-Engine, 466
Axle Lathe, Heavy Double, 538
Azimuth and Range-Finder, 583

Babcock and Wilcox Weer-Tube Boiler, H.M.S.
" Hermes," 345. See 187, 192, 263
Bacterial Treatment of London Sewage, Experimental, 74
Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 601, 897
Bagnall and Price's Valve Gear, 339
Bahr-el-Gebel Irrigation Scheme, 222, 301, 476
Baikal, Lake, Railway, 687
Ballonet Balloons, 126
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ; Consolidation Type
Locomotive at the St. Louis Exhibition, 811
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Locomotive, 745
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ; Mallet Articulated Locomotive, 178
Bar-Dredging, Ocean, 611
Bar Rolling-Mill Plants, Wire-Rod and, 855
Barometric Depression, Unsymmetrical Distribution of Rainfall about the Path of the, 400
Barometric Pressure, Fluctuations in, 859
Barometric See-Saw and Rainfall, Short Period, 00
Barrage of the River Thames, Proposed, 333
Barrow's Boring-Machine for Steam-Turbine Casings, 659
Batteries. See Electric
Battery, Howitzer, 715
Battery, Semi-Globular Naval, 791
Battleships. See Warships
Baxter's Steam Capstan and Windlass, 499
Beach Travel and Harbours, 531. See 240, 641, 699
Beardmore's New Works at Dalmuir, 455
Beardmore's Works at Parkhead ; Machine-Tools, 81.
Beare, Professor T. H., on Timber, its Strength and How to Test it, 783
Bearings for Bridge Girders, 670, 773, 844
Beds, Foundry, 418
Belfast Gas.Driven Power-Stations, 835
Belgian John Cockerill Company, 612
Belgian Locomotive ; Schmidt Smoke - Tube Steam-Superheater, 858
Bell, Arthur L., on Tacheometry ; A Comparison of Systems, 528
Bell, Bart., The late Sir Isaac Lowthian, 863
Belleville Boilers in Warships ; Committee's Report, 187, 192. See Water-Tube
Belt-Fabric Stitching-Machine, Hyatt, 79
Ben Nevis, Meteorological Observations on, 400
Bench, Link-Motion, for the Technical College, Finsbury, 48
Bench-Vice, Taylor's " Instanter," 716
Bending Moments and Shearing Forces of Japanese Warships, 224
Berth, Shipbuilding, at Beardmore's Works, 455
Bessbrook Factory ; Tests of Power-Plant, 146, 65, 196
Bethlehem Company ; Range and Azimuth Finder, 586
Bethlehem Steel Company's Works, 709
" Big Four Route " Locomotive, 327, 361, 398. See Erratum, 480
Billinton, The late R. J., 658
Bilston Boiler Explosion, 321.
Birmingham Corporation Water Works, 103
" 1)14cic Prince?" 11.g.S.1 051
* Blast-Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas
Blast-Furnace Gas, Theisen's Washer for, 78, 383
Blast for Furnaces, Coolers for Dry Air, 036, 661
Bleaching-Powder Trade, 87
Block, Electric Pulley, 869
Blowing-Engines. See Enyines, Blowing
Blue Hill Observatory, Air Temperature in
Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones at the, 401
Blue Print Producing Apparatus, 171
Board, Drawing, Patschke's, 182
Board of Trade and Boiler Explosions. See Boiler
Board of Trade on Rates of Wages, 253
Board of Trade's Regulations as to Electric
Supply, 2S2
Boat Trials, Motor, 157, 191, 218
Boats. See Launches ; Yachts
Boilers, Austrian Lloyd T.-S.S. " Africa," 255, 09, 371
Boiler, Cochran Donkey, 93
Boiler Explosion at Bilston, 321
Boiler Explosions, Board of Trade and, 210, 248
Boiler Explosion near Cambridge, 523
Boiler Explosion at Cork, 148
Boiler Explosions, Oldbury, 240, 213
Boiler Explosion at Wigan, 283
Boiler Explosion near Winchester, 485
Boiler Failures, 280
Boiler-Feed, Brooke's Automatic, 714
Boiler Feed-Water Purification, 531
Boiler Feed-Water Regulator, Mumford and
Anthony, 242
Boiler-Feeds, Air in Rel ttion to, 486
Boiler Furnaces, Welded, 286
Boiler-Leakage and Non-Conducting Coatings, 39
Boilers of Locomotives. See Locomotives
Boilers, Maintenance of, 833
Boiler, Navy. See Warship3 and Water-Tube
Boilers
Boiler Temperature Gas Emission Curve, 486
Bailers, Thermo-Circulator for Steam, 489
Boiler-Tubes, 467
Boilers, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boilers
Boiling Points and Molecular Weights, Properties
of Mixtures, 443
Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway, 831
Bore-Hole and Pumps at Heysham Harbour, 295
Boring-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Borsig's Locomotive, State Passenger, for Portuguese Railway, 111, 150
Boston Subway, 602
Bottling Machinery at Brewers' Exhibition, 547
Box-Wrapping Machine, Forgrove, 287
Bracing of Bridges, 814. See also 670 and 773
Brake, Christensen, Air (National Electric Company), 784
Brake-Coupling, Westinghouse Automatic Air
and Steam-Pipe, 414
Brake Horse-Power of Haulage Plant, 468
Branches, Projecting, 412
Bra 520 haw's Salt-Bath Steel-Hardening Furnace,
Brazil Manganese Production, 513
Brazing Steel, Solders for, 575. See LETTER., 621
Breaker, Rock and Ore, 572
Breaking Ropes in Testing-Machine, 503
Breakwater Construction, Folkestone Harbour, 37
Breakwaters at Heysham Harbour, 139. See LETTER, 283
Brewers' Exhibition, 517
Bridge Accident on the Forth at Alloa, 606
Bridges, Anatomy of, 670, 773, 841
Bridges for Birmingham Aqueduct, 103
Bridge Competition, Australian, 618
Bridges, Concrete Steel, 569
Bridge, Ferro-Concrete (Hennebique System) at
Purfleet, 582
Bridges, Live Loads on, 641
Bridges, New York East River, 678
Bridge Reconstruction on the Great Western
Railway at Stoke Canon, 658
Bridge over the River Swale, Scherzer, 657
Bridges for Roads and Railroads, 611
Bridge, Sf•herzer,Litt, 713. See 657
Bridges, Steel, 121
Bridges on the Tokio Metropolitan Railway, 637
Bridge over the Wear at Sunderland, 515
Bridgework, Anatomy of, 670, 773, 814
Brillio Automobile, with Schneider-Canet Du
Bocage Battery, 715
Brine-Coolers for Dry-Air Blast for Furnaces, 636, 61

British Aesociation:

47, 251, 269, 290, 291, 301, 332, 336, 364 96, 399, 442, 413, 458
Opening Proceedings, 247
Presidential Address, by the Right non. A J. Balfour, 247
Lectures, 26Q
Engineering Section, 251, 269, 301, 332
Presidential Address, by the Hon. C. A.
Parsons, on Turbines and Patent Problems, 261, 269
Presentation of the Gold Medal of the
Society of German Engineers to Mr.
Parsons, 271
The Origin of Sand Ripples, Lecture, by Mrs. Ayrton, 271
Flame Temperature in Internal-Combustion
Motors, by E. Dugald Clerk, 272
Specific Beat of Gases at High Tempera.
tures, by Professor II. B. Dixon, 272
Exhaust-Gas Calorimetry, by Professor B.
Hopkinson, 272, 290
Receiver Drop in Compound Engine, by J.
W. Hayward, 273
Superheated Stearn ; by A. H. Peale, 273
Electricity from Water-Power, by A. A.
Campbell Swinton, 273
Use of Electricity on the North-Eastern
Railway, by C. II. Merz and W. McLellan, 76
Energy Losses in Magnetising Iron, by
W. M. Mordey and A. G. Hansard, 277
Hopkinson Test as Applied to Induction
Motors, by Dr. W. E. Sumpner and R.
W. Weeks, 301
The Distribution of Magnetic Induction in
Multipolar Armatures, by Dr. W. M.
Thornton, 301
Large Bulb Incandescent Electric Lamps as
Secondary Standards of Light, by Professor J. A. Fleming, 301
Some Investigations on the Ten CandlePower Harcourt Pentane Lamp made at
the National Physical Laboratory, by
Clifford C. Paterson, 291, 301
Mersey Tides ; Committee's Report, 304
The Control of the Nile, by Major Sir Hanbury Brown, 304. See 476
Universal Testing-Machine of 300 Tons for
Full-Size Members of Structures, by J.
H. Wicksteed, 305, 321. See 211, 503,
and LETTERS
The Effect of Rapidly Alternating Stresses
on Structural Steels, by Professor J. 0. Arnold, 307
The Production of Magnetic Alloys from
Non-Magnetic Metals, by R. A. Hadfield, 08. See 58, 412
Mechanical Properties of Iron at very Low
Temperatures, by R. A. Hadfield, 308
Side-Shp in Motor-Cars, by Horace Darwin
and C. V. Burton, 332, 352. See LETTERS, 81, 433
An Electrical Temperature Alarm, by
Horace Darwin, 333
Electrical Conductivity of Certain Aluminium Alloys as Affected by Exposure to
London Atmosphere, and a Note on their
Micro-Structure, by Professor Ernest Wilson, 333
Proposed Barrage of the River Thames, by
James Casey, 333
Testing of Alternate-Current Motors by
Continuous Current, by William Cramp, 33
Action of Lightning Strokes on Buildings,
by Killingworth Hedges, 333
The Physical and Chemical Sections, 336, 364, 96
Presidential Address to Section A, by Professor Horace Lamb, 336
Does the Ether Move with the Earth or
Not? by Professor W. Wien, of Wurzburg, 37
A Modification of Fitzgerald's Model of the
Ether, by J. Butler-Burke, 337
Tangential Stress Produced by the Oblique
Impact of Light, by Professor J. H. Poynting, 364
Radiation in the Solar System, by Professor
Po) nting, 364
Reaction of Radiation on a Moving Electron,
by Professor M. Abraham, 364
The Relation of Röntgen Rays to Ordinary
Light, by Professor Larmor, 364
Standards of Wave-Lengths, by Professor H.
Kayser, 364
Radioactivity of Ordinary Matter, by Professor J. J. Thomson, 364
Radioactivity of the Hot Springs of Aix-lesbains, by Dr. G. A. Blanc, 365
Plan of Combination of Atoms to have the
Properties of Polonium and Radium, by
Lord Kelvin, 365
A Volatile Product of Radium Emanation,
by Dr. C. D. Whetham, 365
Changes Produced by the # Raye, by Sir
William Ramsay, 365
Radium and Oxidation in Presence of Iron,
by Professor H. H. Fenton, 365
The Bearing of Colour Phenomena Presented
by Radium Ccmpounds, by W. Ackroyd, 65
N Rays ; discussion opened by Professor 0.
Lummer, 365
Diffraction of Röntgen Rays, by Dr. Wind, 66. See LETTER, 467
The Separation of the Finest Lines of the
Spectrum, by Dr. 0. Lummer, 366
Anomalous Dispersion of Sodium Vapours,
by Professor R. W. Wood, 367
Kundt's Law of Direction in Anomalous
Dispersion, by Professor Larmor, 368
Diffraction Process of Colour Photography,
by Professor Wood, 368
Reststrahlen and the Optical Qualities of
Metal, by Professor H. Rubens, 368
Electric Conductivity of Air and Barometric
Pressure, by John Don, 368
The Ionisation of the Atmosphere, by Professor A. Schuster, 396
Electrical Conductivity of Flames, by Dr.
H. A. Wilson, 396
Electrical Properties of Hot Bodies, by Dr.
A. W. Richardson, 396
Magnetic Double Refraction of Colloidal Iron
hydrate, by Dr. A, D, Denning, 39Q
Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Nickel
at High Temperatures, by Professor Cargill Knott, 396
New Apparatus for Producing Magnetic
Fields of Force, by Professor Marcus Hartog, 397
Electric and Thermal Conductivities of Iron
Alloys, by Professor W. F. Barrett and
R. A. Hadfield, 397
Propagation of Electric Waves along Spiral
Wires. Measuring Wave-Lengths Used in
Wireless Telegraphy, by Professor J. A.
Fleming, 397
Eddy Current Losses in Three-Phase Cablc
Sheaths, by M. B. Field, 397
The Construction of Practical Standards for
Electrical Measurements ; Committee's Report, by Dr. Glazebrook, 397
Experimental Verification of Newton's
Second Law, by W. D. Eggar, 397
The Kinetic, Theory Determination of the
Size of Molecules, by J. H. Jeans, 397
Grindley's Experiments on Steam and the
Ether Pressure Theory, by J. Macfarlane
Gray, 397
Thermal-Dilatation of Compressed Hydrogen,
by Dr. Witkowski, 398
Recent Work of the National Physical
Laboratory, by Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 398
Cosmical Physics and Astronomy, 399, 442
The Meteorology of India and the British
Empire ; Presidential Address, by Sir John Eliot, 399
Uniformity of Meteorological Units, by Dr. W. N. Shaw, 400
The Theory of Correlation applied to Meteorology, by Miss F. E. Cave, 400
The Short-Period Barometric See•Saw and
Rainfall, by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 400
Pressure, Temperature, and Air Circulation over the South Atlantic, by Commander Campbell Hepworth, 400
Unsymmetrical Distribution of Rainfall
about the Path of the Barometric Depression, by Dr. H. R. Mill, 400
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis in 903, by Dr. Buchan, 400
Underground Temperature ; Committee's
Report, by Professor Everett, 400
Seismological Investigations ; Committee's
Report, by John Milne, 400
Kite Experiments in the Mediterranean, by
Teisserenc de Bort, 400
Report of the Kites Committee, by Dr. Shaw, 01
Air Temperature in Cyclones and AntiCyclones at the Blue Hill Observatory, by
A. Laurence Rotch, 401
Development of the Aero-Plane, by Major
Baden-Powell, 401
Sun-Spots and Polar Aurora, by Professor
Kr. Birkeland, 442
Relation between Sun-Spot Minimum and
the Following Maximum, by Mr. Angot, 42
The Spectra of Sun-Spots, by Rev. A. L.
Cortie, 442
The Spectro-Heliograph of the Solar Physics
Observatory at South Kensington, by Dr.
W. J. S. Lockyer, 443
Problems of Astronomy, by Sir David Gill, 43
The Masses of the Stars, by Dr. H. N.
Russell, 443
Temperature of the Stars, by Sir Norman
Lockyer, 443
Criteria on Stellar Temperatures, by H. F.
Newall 443
Chemical Section, 443, 458
Boiling Points and Molecular Weights •, Properties of Mixtures ; Presidential Address,
by Professor Sydney Young, 443
Energy of Water and Steam at High Temperatures, by Professor C. Dieterici, 444
Opalescence in the Neighbourhood of Critical States, by Dr. F. G. Donnan, 444
Crystal Structure and Chemical Constitution, by Professor Paul Groth, 444
Formation of Salts in Solution, especially
among Tautomeric Compounds, by Professor Briihl, 458
Alloys of the Copper-Tin Series, by C. T.
Heycock and F. H. Neville, 459
Relation between the Crystalline and Amorphous States as Disclosed by the Surface
Flow of Solids, by G. T. Beilby, 459, 474
Alkyl Derivatives of Sulphur, Selenium, and
Tellurium, by Dr. A. Scott, 459
Change of Conductivity in Solutions during
Chemical Reaction, by P. V. Bevan, 459
The Velocity of Osmosis, Solubility and the
Theory of Narcosis, by Professor I. Traube, 59
Precipitations of Silver Chromate in Gelatine, by Professor Traube, 459
Dynamic Isomerism, by Dr. T. M. LoVry, 59
The Stereo-Chemistry of Nitrogen ; Discussion Opened by H. 0. Jones, 459
Constitution of Phthalein Salts, by Professor
Richard Meyer, 459
Decomposition and Synthesis of Ammonia,
by Dr. E. P. Perman and G. A. S. Atkinson, 469
The Union of Hydrogen and Oxygen in Contact with Hot Surfaces, by Dr. W. A. Bone
and Mr. R. V. Wheeler, 460
On Active Chlorine, by C. H. Burgess and
Mr. D. L. Chapman, 461
Reactions between Ammonium Salts and
Metals, by Professor W. R. E. Hodgkinson and Mr. A. H. Coote, 461
Double Acetylides, by Major A. E. Edwards and Professor Hodgkinson' 461
Arsenic in the Body and in the Kidneys, by W. Thomson, 461
Australian Siderites, by Professor A. Liversidge, 461
Sulphur Lines in Spark Spectra of Minerals, by Comte A, de Orpimmont,
New Low-Temperature Phenomena and their
Scientific Application, by Sir James Dewar, 62
Ripple Marks and Sand Dunes, by Professor
G. H. Darwin, 462
Palaeontological Discoveries of the Rocky
Mountains, by Professor H. Fairfield Osborn, 462
Concluding Remarks, 462

British Iron and Steel Production, 155
British Patents Act, 419. See also Patents
British Patents and Inventions, 206
British Patents Rules, 789, 861
British Railway Construction, 417
British Railways, 316, 376, 448. See also Railways
British Railways, Zone System on, 283
British Telegraph System, 340
British Warships. See Warships
British Westinghouse Electric Company ; Mond Gas Electric Power Station at Heysham Harbour, 295
Brooks Locomotives. See Locomotives
Brooke's Automatic Boiler-Feed, 714
Brown's Sheffield Hydraulic Press Shops, 644
Buckton's 300-Ton Testing-Machine, 211, 305, 21, 503. See LETTERS, 211
Budapest Fire Congress, 222, 411 Buenos Ayres Railway Progress, 519
Buildings, Action of Lightning Strokes on, 333
Building Act, Amendment to London, 687
Building Construction and Concrete Steel, 569
Building Construction, Record in, 315
Building Material; Fire-Resistance Standards, 191
Building Materials, Fictitious Fireproof, 439
Buildings of Steel, 121, 130, 569
Buildings, Tall Office, New York, 130
"Bullfinch," Microscopic Observations on Accident to Engines of, 737, 778, 810. See Impact
Tests
Burner, Kermode's Liquid-Fuel, 338. See 859
Burton, C. V., and Darwin, Horace, on SideSlip in Motor-Cars, 332, 352. See LETTERS, 381, 33
Business and Science in Training, 769

Cabinet Factory, Singer's ; Record in Building
Construction, 315
Cables of Artificial Gutta-Percha, 89
Cable Companies, Submarine, 164, 692
Cable Sheaths, Eddy-Current Losses in, 397
Cables, Submarine, 692
Cable, Telegraphic, Current Retardation, 871
Cable-Testing Device, 495
Cableway; Brake-Horse-Power of Haulage Plant, 66
Cableway, White's, 503
Caisson Design for Dry Docks, 449. See LETTER, 39
Calcium Carbide as a Resistance Material, 516
Calculation in Applied Science, 744
Calorific Power, Relation of, to Illuminating Gas, 60
Calorimetry, Exhaust-Gas, 272, 290
Cambrian Railway, Corridor Carriage for, 819
Cambridge Boiler Explosion, 523
Camden Coke Company's Works, 712
Campbell, H. H., on The Influence of Carbon, Phosphorus, Manganese, and Sulphur, on the
Tensile Strength of Open - Hearth Steel, 674, 95, 732
Campbell, Hugh, on Gas-Engines for Central Stations, 835
Canada, Fisheries-Protecting Cruiser for, 261
Canada, Labour in, 59
Canada, Patent Law, 608
Canadian Fisheries Cruiser and Lightships, 251
Canadian Locomotive for Prince Edward Island Railway, 44
Canadian Railways, 630
Canadian Sand-Pump Dredger, 556
Canals, 600
Canal, Chicago Drainage, 42
Candle-Power of Electric Lamps, Determination
of Mean,Spherical, 765. See 301 andPhotometry
Canet-Schneider Du Bocage Automobile Battery, 15
Capstan Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Capstan, Steam, and Windlass, Baxter's, 499
Car-Coupling, Westinghouse Automatic Air and
Steam-Pipe, 414
Car, Dining, for the Great Western Railway, 319.
See LETTER, 381
Cars, Motor. See Motor-Cars and Self-Propelled
Oar-Truck (Brill), with Motor and Brake Equipment (Westinghouse), 598. See also Truck
Carlingford Granite Works ; Aerial Wire Ropeway, 503
Carnegie Steel Works, 713
" Caronia," New Cunard Liner (Brown), 91
Carriages. See Motor-Cars, Railways, and
Tramways
Carriage-Building, Woodworking Machinery for, 88
Carriage, Bogie, for Liverpool and Southport
Electric Railway, 468
Carriage, Corridor, for Cambrian Railway, 819
Carriages, Railway, Self-Propelled, for United
States, 348
Carriage, Saloon, for South-Eastern and Chatham
Railway, 573
Carriage, Self - Propelled. See Motor-Cars and
Self-Propelled
Cast Iron, Strength, Composition, and Specification of, 9
Casting Type, Early Methods of, 491
Castings, Methods of Making Beds for, 418
Castings, " Mitis," 381, 433
Catalogues, 66, 96, 128, 162, 200, 292, 356, 413, 62, 483, 519, 560, 596, 621, 699, 910. See PARAGRAPH INDEX for list of firms
Cells, Standard, 878
Cellulose Industry in Scandinavia, 619
Cement and Concrete, 669
Cement in Southern Russia, 412
Cement, Tests of, 644
Central South African Railway, Passenger Locomotive for, 13
Central Stations. See Electric and Power
Centrifugal Pump and 2000 Horse-Power Alternator (Westinghouse), 59S
Cesspool-PNbauster1 Irticupw(Merrywothe9,727
Chain-Blocks, Electric, Lacy Hulbert, 869
Charging-Machines for Gas Retorts, 721
Chassis. See Motor-Cars
Chemical Composition, Influence of, on Strength of Steel, 674, 695, 732
Chemical Constitution and Crystal Structure, 44
Chemical, Electro-, Series of the Metals, 877
Chemical Fire-Engine, Self-Propelled (Wolseley), 51
Chemical Industry, Invention in, 652
Chemical Papers at the British Association, 336, 64, 396, 443, 458
Chemical Reaction, Change of Conductivity in
Solutions during, 459
Chemical Trade, Position in Heavy, 87
Chemical Treatment of Sewage, 897
Chemistry of Electro-Plating, 878
Chemistry of Explosive Mixtures, 442
Chemistry ; Phase-Rule and its Applications, 741
Chemistry ; Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 76
Chicago Drainage Canal, 42
Chicago, Electric Distribution at, 39
Chicago, Lewis Institute at, 41
Chicago Tunnel Scheme, 12
China ; Hong Kong Trade, 384
China Railway Six-Coupled Locomotive, 431.
See Erratum, 471
China, Railways and Mines in, 579
China, Richest Province in, 760
China, Trade in, in 1903, 551
China, Trade Marks in, 350, 621
China ; Trade of Tientsin, 830
Chinese Coal and Railway Development, 899
Chlorine, Active, 461
Christensen Air-Brake (National Electric Company), 784
Chromate, Silver, and Gelatine, Precipitations of, 459
Chrome-Vanadium Steel, Heat Treatment of, 46, 871, 903, 904. See Impact Tests and Erratum, 903
Churchward, C. J., on Locomotive Testing in England, 9. See LETTER, 59
Circulation of Air and Pressure Temperature over the South Atlantic, 400
Circulator, Thermo-, for Steam Boilers, 488

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Visit to America, 125. See Engineering
Congress at St. Louis
Presidential Address, by Sir G. L. Molesworth, on The Engineer in India, 614
Coast Erosion, by A. E. Carey, 699
Erosion on the Holderness Coast of Yorkshire, by E. R. Matthews, 699
Distribution of Electrical Energy, by John F. C. Snell, 761
Clarkson Steam Motor-Omnibus, 381, 483
Clero Pulverising-Machine, 606
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis
Railroad Locomotive, 327, 361, 396. See Erratum., 480

Cleveland Iron. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Cleveland and North Counties Notes, 16, 50, 83, 18, 52, 185, 215, 244, 284, 316, 340, 372, 404, 36, 70, 606, 42, 576, 612, 649, 682, 726, 752, 87, 22, 867, 95
Clutch, Coil, for Reversing-Gear, 820
Clutch, Holden Magnetic, 750
Clutch, Tenax Automatic, for Shafts, 714
Clydebank Shipyard ; Boring-Machine for SteamTurbine, 659
Coal, Anthracite, Origin of, 110
Coal Ash, 348
Cool Consumption of Belleville Boilers on H.M.S."Terrible," 686
Coal Consumption and Turbine Machinery, 678, 89, 719. See 423, 499, and LETTERS, 466, 749.
See also Turbines
Coal-Conveyors ; Gas Exhibition, 721
Coal-Gas. See Gas
Coal and Iron in New South Wales, 344
Coal and Iron in America, 248. See 756
Coal-Mining Machines in the United States, 222
Coal Production in Japan, 436
Coal and Railway Developments, Chinese, 899
Coal-Whip, Electric, 869
Coaling Warships at Sea, 818
Coast-Defence buns, 572
Coast Erosion, 699. See 240, 531
Cochran Donkey Boiler, 93
Cockerill Company, 612
Coherer Action, 877
Coil-Clutch Reversing-Gear for Rolling-Mills, 20
Coke, Camden, Company's Works, 712
Coke-Oven Gas and Tar as Fuel, 477
Cole Four-Cylinder Balanced Compound Locomotive for the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad, 530
Coliseum, London, 782
College. See Technical
Colliery Exhibition, International, 21
Collimator, Gyroscopic, 66
Collision. See also Accidents, Railway
Collision between Ship and Bridge at Alloa, 606
Colloidal Iron Hydrate, Magnetic Double Refraction of, 396
Colonial and Foreign Notes, 185
Colonial Railways. See Australian Railways
" Colorado," United States Armoured Cruiser, 12, 818
Colour Phenomena Presented by Radium Compounds, Bearing of, 365
Colour Photography, Diffraction Process of, 368
Columns of Railway Station at Heysham Harbour, 235
Combination of Atoms to have the Properties of
Polonium and Radium, 365
Combine. See Trusts
Commission, Fire Service ; Visit to Central
Europe, 222, 411
Commissions, Secret, 552
Committee on Design of Warships, 900
Commonwealth," H.M.S., Trials of, 26
Company Laws. See Legal
Company Names, Proprietary Right in, 547
Compensation Act, Workmen's, 219, 410
Compensation Act, Workmen's, Cases in, 189
V9mpetition1 A9stmliqn 8rid5e7 IN§
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compounds, Explosive, Chemistry of, 442
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives
Compressed Air and Pneumatic Tools in Engineering Works, 233
Compressor, Air, and Oil-Engine, Direct-Coupled
(Reavell), 113
Compressor, Air, for Portsmouth Dockyard
(Brotherhood), 148
Compressors, Air (Alley and Maclellan', 781
Compressor, Air (Koster), 606
Concentration Plant, Ore, 464
Concrete-Block Setting at Folkestone Harbour, 7
Concrete and Building Construction, 315
Concrete and Cement, 569
Concrete and Concrete Steel, 569
Concrete, Ferro-, Bowstring Bridge (Hennebique
System) at Purfleet, 582
Concrete and Iron, 350
Condensation Nuclei, 877
Condenser, Vacuum Intensifier (Parsons), 499
Condensers, Maintenance of Marine, 853
Condensing Machinery, 783
Conditions of Warship Trials, 615. See 607
Conduction and Convection, Heat Losses from
Glowing Filaments by, 657
Conductivities, Electric and Thermal, of Iron
Alloys, 397
Conductivity. See also Electric
Conductivity, Electric, of Air and Barometric
Pressure, 368
Conductivity, Electric, of Gases, 666
Conductivity, Electrical, of Certain Aluminium
Alloys, as Affected by Exposure to London
Atmosphere, and a Note on their Micro-Structure, 333
Conductivity of Flames, Electrical, 398
Conductivity in Solutions during Chemical Reaction, Change of, 459
Conduit versus Overhead Tramway Construction ;
Local Veto, 653
Confidence of Employers, 474. See LETTER, 539
Congress, Engineering, at St. Louis, 531, 568, 600, 10. See Engineering Congress, iron and Steel
Institute, and Electrical gngineers
Congress, Fire, at Budapest, 222, 411
Congress, International, of Navigation, 114
Congress, Trades Union, 375
" Connecticut," United States Battleship, 678, 834
Connecting-Rod and Shaft, Wear of, 479
Connecting-Rods, Observations on Accidents to, 37, 778, 810. See Impact Tests
Consolidation Type Locomotives, 745, 811.
See St. Louis Exhibition and Locomotive
Constitution, Chemical, and Crystal Structure, 44. See 333
Construction of Buildings, Record in, 315
Construction of Practical Standards for Electrical Measurements, 397
Construction of Tall Office Buildings, New York, 30
Constructional Material, Tests of, 611. See 191, 39
Consumption of Iron and Steel, The World's, 155
Contract Restrictive Covenant, 86, 791
Contracts, Navy, and the Royal Dockyards, 440. See 407
Control of the Nile, 304. See 222, 476
Controlling Devices for Engine?, 539. See
Governors
Convention, International Patent, 576
Cooler for Dry-Air Blast for Furnaces, 656, 661
Copper-Mining in Peru, 834
Copper Ore Deposits at Kara-Dagh, 780
Copper Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Copper Production in America, 653
Copper Supplies, 160
Copper and Tin, 504
Copper-Tin Series, Alloys of the, 459
Cork Boiler Explosion, 148
Cork, 500-Kilowatt Curtis Turbine Set for, 678
Corliss Winding-Engines for Kalgoorlie, Western
Australia, 857
Cornwall Royal Polytechnic Society, 292
Correlation, Theory of, Applied to Meteorology, 00
Corridor Carriage for the Cambrian Railway, 819
Cosmical Physics Papers at the British Association, 399, 442
Cost of Power, Water versus Steam, in the
British Isles, 843
Costs of Opposition in Electric Schemes, 160
Cost of Production, 685
Costs, Workshop, 75
Cotton Mules, Safety Appliances for, 740
Coupling. See also Clutch
Coupling for Shafts, The " Tenax " Automatic, 14
Coupling, Westinghouse Automatic Air and
Steam Pipe, 414
Coverings, Boiler Non-Conducting, 539
Cowlyd Water Works, 478
Crab for Electric Travelling Crane, 713. See
Cranes
Crabtree, J. H., on Recent Safety Appliances for
Cotton-Mules, 740
Cramp Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 711
Cranes. See also Electri;
Crane, 150-Ton, at Beardmore's New Works, 455
Crane, Electric Coal-Whip, 869
Crane, Electric, 50-Ton, at Southampton Docks, 10
Crane, Travelling, Crab for Electric, 713
Crane, Travelling, 60-Ton, 857
Crane, Wharf, &c., Electric, at Heysham Harbour, 295
Crank-Shaft Impact Tests, 701, 728, 765. See also
Microscopic Observations and Heat Treatment
Crank-Shaft, Wear of, 479
Criteria on Stellar Temperatures, 443 •
Cruisers. See Warships
Cruisers with Turbines and Engines Compared, 9, 719. See 423, 499. See LET l'ER8, 465, 749
Crushing-Machine, Clero Ore, 106
Crushing Mach.nery, Hadfield's Ore, 572
Crystals and the Phenomenon of Luminous Rings, 801
Crystal Structure and Chemical Constitution, 444
Crystalline and Amorphous States, Relation
between, as Disclosed by the Surface Flow of
Solids, 459, 474. See 281, 8.9
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See MicroPhotograph8
Crystalline Structure of Steel (Solid Bodies), 281, 59, 474, 829
Cunard Steamer " Caronia" (Brown), 91
Cunningham, Brysson, on the Modernisation of
Ancient Docks, 881
Current Retardation, Telegraphic Cable, 871
Curtis Steam-Turbine, 97, 171, 202, 679
Cycle Show, Stanley, 722
Cycles of Gas-Turbines, 564, 590
Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones, Air Temperature in, at the Blue Hill Observatory, 401
Cylinder Covers of Gas-Engines, Strength of, 55
Cylinder Foundations for Folkestone Harbour 7

Dairy Machinery, 23
Dalby, W. E., on Link-Motion Bench, 48
Dalmuir Shipbuilding Works, 445
Dam, Proposed, for Thames, 333
Dams for Birmingham Reservoirs, 103
Dams, Rolling, 600
Darwin, Horace, and Burton, C. V., on " SideSlip in Motor-Cars," 332, 332. See LETTERS, 81, 433
Davy's High-Speed Hydraulic Forging-Presses, 14
Day, Summers, Water-Tube Boiler, 820
Decay of American Shipping, 862
Decking for Bridges. See Bridges
Decomposition and Synthesis of Ammonia, 459
Density and Flow of Metals, 459, 474, 829. See also Micro-Photographs
Depreciation and Glasgow Telephones, 86, 157. See LETTERS
Depreciation and Sinking Funds See Municipal
Derailment. See Accidents, Railway
Design and Function of Warships, 651, 792, 825, 00
Design of Graving Docks, 449, 644, 881. See
LETTER, 539
Design of Warships, Committee on, 900. See
also 407, 440, 651, 792,825
Destroyers. See Warsips
Destroyer 'sEngine Connecting-Rods; Microscopic
Observations on Accidents, 737, 778, 810. See
Impact Tests
Destroyers, Speed and Strength of, 53, 114, 898
Destructors, ReNse, for Works and Hospital
Use, 856
" Deutschland," German Battleship (Krupp), 761
Dewsbury Light Railway Collision, 128
Diagram of Metal Prices, 60, 194, 318, 480, 622, 62, 902
" Diamond," with Reciprocating Engines versus
Turbine Cruisers, 689, 719. See 423, 499. See
LETTERS, 466, 749
Difficulties in Getting on, 769
Diffraction Process of Colour Photography, 368
Diffraction of Röntgen Rays, 366. See LETTER, 67
Diffusers, Lamp, 425
Dining-Oar for the Great Western Railway, 319.
See LETTER, 381
Direct United States Cable Company, 164
Directories. See LITERATURE
Disentegrating Machine. See Crushing Ma
Dispersion, Anomalous, Kundt's Law of Direction in, 368
Dispersion, Anomalous, of Sodium Vapours, 367
Displacement, Sub-Division of Weights in Ships',
SL9
Disposal of Municipal Refuse, 641
Disposal of Sewage, 60], 897
Distribution of Magnetic Induction in Multipolar
Armatures, 301
Distribution of our Naval Force, 825
Doble Needle Regulating-Nozzle, 522
Dock at Beardmore's New Works, 455
Docks, Dry, 614
Dock Dues and Ships' Tonnage, 20
Dock Engineering, 206
Dock, Graving, Design, 449, 881
Docks, Midland Railway Company's, at Heysham, 39, 201, 235, 295. See 233
Docks, Modernisation of, 831
Dock at Swansea, New, 162
Dock Work in New York, 641
Dockyards, Royal, and Navy Contracts, 440.
See 407
"Dominion," H.M. First-Class Battleship, 607.
See 615
"Donegal." See Midland Railway Company's
Steamer
Donkey Boiler, Cochran, 93
Double Refraction under Mechanical Stress and
the Neutral Zone, 618
Dover Harbour, 531
Drainage Canal, Chicago, 42
Drawing-Board, Patschke's, 182
Dredger, Hydraulic, " J. Israel Tarte," 655
Dredgers, 641
Drill-Grinding Machine, 485. See Tool-Grinding
Drilling-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Driving by Rope, 194
Drop-Valve Engines, 749. See Erratum, 786
Dry-Air Blast for Furnaces, 656, 661
Dry-Dock Design, 449, 644, 881. See LETTER, 39
Dry Docks, 449, 644, 881
Du Bocage Automobile Battery, SchneiderCanet, 715
Dublin Electric Lighting, 890
Dues, Dock, and Ships' Tonnage, 20
" Dufferin," Indian Troopship, 379, 890
Durban Harbour and Prospects of Natal, 313.
See LETTERS, 381
Diirr Water-Tube Boiler for H.SI.S " Medusa," 63. See 187, 192, 345
Dutch Waterways, 600
Dynamic Isomerism, 459
Dynamo. See Electric
Dynamometer Experiments with Tool Steels, 9, 9, 62

Earth ; Does the Ether Move IA ith the Earth or not? 337
Earth Radioactivity, 666
Earthquake Investigations, 400
East India Railway, 831
Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, 692
Eastern Telegraph Company, 164, 692
Economics, Electrical Railway, 491
Economy of Steam-Turbines in Cruisers, 639, 719.
See 423, 499 ; LETTERS 466, 749
Eddy-Current Losses in Three-Phase. CableSheaths, 397
Edinburgh Exhibition, 796
Edison Company, New York, Generating Station of, 678
Edison Electric Exhibits at St. Louis, C05
Edison Storage Battery, 1
Education of Electrical Engineers, 769
Education, Engineering, 614
Effect of Torpedoes on Japan Mail Steamship
" Sado Maru," 468
Effects of War on Japanese Shipping, 830
Efficiency, Potential, of Prime Movers, 256
Egypt, United States, and Hawaii, Irrigation in, 72
Egyptian Irrigation, 304. See 222, 476, 616, 897
Elan Valley Reservoirs, 103
Elasticity and Resistance of Materials of Engineering, 176
Elasticity and Strength of Metals, 473

Electric : See also Electrical Engineers, Physical Society, and British Association

Accumulator, Edison, 1
Air, Electric Conductivity of, 368
Alternator and Centrifugal, 2000 HorsePower, Pump (Westinghouse), 598
Alternator, A High Frequency, 871
Alternator, 1500-Kilowatt (National Company), 669
Alternating Current Propagation along
Telephone Cable, 66
Alternating-Current System, Voltage-Regulation in, 135, 199, 258
Alternators, Design of, 135, 193, 258
Aluminium Alloys, Conductivity, 333
American Practice,510
American Telegraphy, 60
Arc, The Electric, 878
Arc Lamps at Dublin, 893
Arcs between Cooled Electrodes, 315
Armatures, Destruction of Magnetic Induction, 301
Automatic Feeder Regulator, 495
Automatic Regenerative Control for TramCars, 161
Brake, Electro-Magnetic, 703
Brill Truck, Motor and Brake Equipment
(Westinghouse), 598
British Telegraph System, 340
Cable-Testing Device, 495
Cables of Artificial Gutta-Percha, 89
Carriage, Motor Bogie, 468
Cells, Standard, 878
Central Stations with Gas-Engines, 835
Chain-Blocks, Lacy-Hulbert, 869
Clutch, Magnetic, 703
Coal-Whip, 869. See 713
Coherer Action, 877
Compensated Motor Railway Equipment,
Schenectady Railway, 775. See 202, 534, 23
Condensers for High-Tension Discharges, 865
Conductivity of Flames, 396
Conductivity of Iron and Alloys, 333, 397
Conductivity of Air and Barometric Pressure, 368
Congress at St. Louis Exhibition. See Electrical Engineers
Controllers for Motors, 703
Crab for Travelling Crane, 713. See 869
Crane at Heysham Harbour, 295
Crane, 50-Ton, 210
Crane, 60-Ton Travelling, 857
Cranes, 150-Ton, at Beardmore's Yard, 455
Diffusers, Lamp, 425
Distribution at Chicago, 39
Distribution of Energy, 761
Distribution System, Polycyclic, 282
Dynamo Sheets, Ageing of, 25
Dynamos. See Alternators and Generators
Eddy Currents in Cable Sheaths, 397
Edison Exhibits at St. Louis Exhibition, 605.
See 678
Edison Storage Battery, 1
Electrical Instruments, Exhibition of, 765
Electr:cal Power, 563
Electrician's Practical Manual, 495
Electro-Magnetic Machinery, 886
Electro-Plating, The Chemistry of, 878
Electrolytic Conduction, 666
Elevator. See Hoist
Energy, Electric Distribution of, 761. See
also Power
Exhibition at Shoredit3h, 551
Exhibition at St. Louis, 69, 107. See also
St. Louis
Experimental Work at the Reichsanstalt, 176
Factory Supply ; Board of Trade Rules, 282
Falling Telegraph Wires (Legal), 159
Feeder-Regulator, Automatic, 495
Field, Revolving, of 400-Kilowatt TurboGenerator (Westinghouse), 527
Flames, Conductivity of, 396 •
Furnaces, Calcium Carbide as a Resistance
Material, 516
Furnaces and Industrial Application, 886
Galvanometer, Fibre, 620
Gases, Conductivity of, 666
General Electric Company's Exhibit at the St.
Louis Exhibition, 237, 268, 299, 368, 426, 495
General Electric Company's Works, Schenectady, 171, 202
Generating Sets, Curtis Turbine (General
Electric Company), 202. See 171
Generators, A.E.-G. Turbine, 231, 329
Generator, 2000-Kilowatt, and Compound
Engine (Westinghouse), 79
Generator (Crocker-Wheeler Company), 639
Generator and Governing Appliance (AllisChalmers Bullock Company), 807
Generator, Motor, 163, 268
German Pocket-Book, 144
Governor and Synchronising Motor for 000-Kilowatt Steam-Turbines (General
Electric Company), 202. See 171
* Electric-continued.
Harmonic Analysis, Rapid Method of Approximate, 871
Heaters ; Calcium Carbide as a Resistance
Material, 516
High-Frequency Currents, Physiological
Effects of, 441
High-Tension Currents, Direct, 379
Hoist at Heysham Harbour (Waygood), 293
hot Bodies, Electrical Properties of, 393
Ignition of Motor-Cars, 796
Ionisation of Atmosphere, 396
Ionisation by Collision, The Theory of, 877
Lamps, 291, 301, 425. See also Arc
Lamps, Edison, 605
Lamps, Heat Losses from Glowing Filaments
by Conduction and Convection, 657
Lamps, Incandescent and Arc, Determining
Candle-Power, 765
Lifts. See Hoists
Lighting Acts Amendment, 126
Lighting Dublin, 890 .
Lighting Schemes in Parliament, 769
.Locomotive, Goods, North-Eastern Railway, 04
Locomotive Motors, 495
Locomotives, Mining, 495
Magnetic Alloys without Iron, 58, 308, 412
Magnetic Clutch, IIolden, 750
Magnetic Effect of Moving Charges, 666
Magnetic Field, New Apparatus for, 397
Magnetic Flux in Tooth-Core Armatures, 755
Magnetic Hysteresis with Frequency, Investigation and Variations of, 765
Magnetic Induction in Multipolar Armatures, 301
Magnetic Properties of Nickel at High Temperatures, 396
Magnetic Refraction of Colloidal Bodies, 396
Magnetic Testing of Iron, 828
Magnetisation of Wires under Torsion, 515
Magnetising Iron, Losses in, 277, 828
Magnetism, Elementary Text-Book, 463
Metals, Electro-Chemical Series of the, 877
Mine Locomotives, 495
Mining Machinery, 21
Motor, Compensated, for Schenectady Railway (General Electric Company), 775. See 02, 534, 623
Motor Generator (Mather and Platt), 163
Motor Generator Sets, 268
Motors, Railway, 495
Motors, Railway, for Single-Phase Alternating Current (Oerlikon), 623. See 202, 534, 75
Motors, Single-Phase Current, 531, 623, 775
Motor Switches, 495
Motors, Testing, with Alternating Current, 33. See 79
Motors, Tests of Induction, 301
Municipal Undertakings, 15, 25, 67, 59, 86, 22, 160, 760
Municipalities and Cost of Opposition, 160
Niagara Power Supply, 512
Nickel, Electric and Magnetic Properties of, 96
Phase, Measurement of Differences of, 804
Power Installation, Montlucon Water, 162
Power-Plant Failures, 280
Power-Stations in America, 510. See Water
Power
Power-Stations with Gas-Engines, 835
Power-Station, General Electric Company's
Works, 205
Power-Station, Mond Gas, Heysham Harbour, 295
Power-Station of the New York Edison Company, 678
Power-Station of the New York Rapid
Transit Subway, 676
Power Station, Schneider's Works, 887
Projectors, 425
Pump-Driving for High-Speed Presses, 644
Pyrometer, Telescope, 724
Radioactivity of the Atmosphere and the
Earth, 666
Railway Accidents, 828
Railway Compensated Motor System, Schenectady Railway, 775. See 534, 623
Railway Economics, 494, 568
Railway, London Metropolitan, 829
Railway Motors, 202, 495, 634, 599, 623, 75
Railway Motor Results (Westinghouse), 598
Railway Motors for Single-Phase. Alternating Current, 202, 534, 623, 775
Railway, North-Eastern, 276, 504
Railways, Trespassers on, 26
Railways in Germany, 650
Railways, Russian, 478
Raworth's Automatic Regenerative Control
for Tram-Cars, 161
Regulation, Voltage, in Alternating-Current
Systems, 135, 199, 258
Relays, Time-Limit, 495
Schneider's Electric Works, 887
Single-Phase Alternating-Current Railway
Motors, 202, 534, 623, 776
Solenoid, Magnetic Cushion, 703
Sprague - General Electric Train - Control
System, 368
St. Louis Exhibition. See St. Louts
Standardisation, 221, 397, 878
State Telephones, 281. See 86, 157, and
LETTERS
Storage-Battery, Edison, 1
Submarine Cables, C6, 89, 397, 495, 692, 871.
See 164, 692
Supply Regulations, Board of Trade, 282
Switches (General Electric Company), 776
Telautograph (Gray', 747
Telegraph, 60, 169, 164, 313, 340, 397, 692 47, 829, 871, 877. See Glasgow
Telegraph, Pollak-Virag Writing, 829
Telegraphs, Submarine, 161, 692
Tele7graphic Cable Current Retardation, 1
Telegraphy and Telephony, Simultaneous, 78
Telegraphy, Wireless, Wave Lengths in, 396
Telephones, 15, 59, 86, 123, 157, 281, 313. See
Lurnms
* Eleetrie—continued.
Telephone Cable, Propagation of Alternating
Current Along, 66
Temperature Alarm, 333
Testing of Motors, 73, 301, 333
Text-Book of Electricity and Magnetism, 463
Therapeutic Agents, 578
Third Rail, 621, C58
Traction in America, 510
Traction Commission, St. Louis Exhibition, 40
Traction Motors, Single-Phase Current, 534,
See 775
Traction in Russia, 478 '
Traction on the Schenectady Railway
(General Electric Company), 171, 202, 775
Traction System, Single-Phase, Oerlikon, 23
Train - Control System, Sprague-General
Electric, 368
Train Control, Westinghouse Multiple Unit, 1
Tram-Cars, kutomatic Regenerative Control for, 161
Tramway Construction, Overhead versus
Conduit, Local Veto, 653
Tramways in Germany, 161
Tramways, Glasgow, 122
Tramways, London, 57, 402, 410
Tramway Running Powers, 25, 55, 760
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 723, 758
Tramway Track Work, Cast-Steel, 402, 410
Transformers, Elihu Thompson's Constant
Current, 299
Transformers, 268, 299
Transformer, Schenectady Railway, 775
Transit Subway, New York Rapid, 675
Truck, Brill, with Compensated Motor,
Schenectady Railway, 775
Truck, Motor-Carriage, 463
Turbine, Steam, Tests, 679
Turbo-Alternator, Metropolitan Railway, 829
Units, International, 878
Voltage-Regulation in Alternating•Current
Systems, 135, 199, 258
Voltameter, The Silver, 873
Water-Power, Electricity from, 273, 843
Water-Power Installation, Montlucon, 162
Wave-Lengths, Electric and Thermal, 878
Wave-Lengths in Wireless Telegraphy, 396
Westinghouse Manufacturing Company's
Works, East Pittsburg, 712
Wireless Telegraphy ; Measuring WaveLengths, 396
Wireless Telegraphy, Present State of, 877
Wires and Cables ; General Electric Company, 171, 205
Wires under Torsion, Magnetisation of, 615

Electrical Conductivity of Certain Aluminium Alloys as Affected by Exposure to London Atmosphere, and a Note on their Microstructure, 333. See 397
Electrical Conductivity of Flames, 396

Electrical Engineers' Congress at St. Louis:

Impressions of Electrical Engineering in America, 510
Power-Stations in America, 510
Traction, Electric, in America, 510
Niagara Power Supply, 512
Visit to New York, 514
On the Different Methods and Sy steins of
using Alternating Current in Electric
Railway Motors, by B. J. Arnold, 534
Excursions, 584
Abstracts of Some Papers, by Dr. M. F.
O'Reilly, 666, 877
The Magnetic Effect of Moving Charges, 666
Radioactivity of the Atmosphere and the Earth, 666
Electrical Conductivity of Gases, 666
Electrolytic Conduction, 666
The Electro-Chemical Series of the Metals, 77
On the Theory of Ionisation by Collision, 877
Condensation Nuclei, 877
The 877Spectra of Gases at High Temperatures,
Present State of Wireless Telegraphy, 877
Coherer Action, 877
Thermal and Electric Wave-Lengths, 78
Therapeutic Agents, 878
The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 878
Standard Cells, 878
Silver Voltameter, 878
Photometry, 878.
International Electric Units, 878
Standardisation, 878
The Electric Arc, 878
Simultaneous Telegraphy and Telephony, 878
Chemistry of Electro-Plating, 878
Electrical Engineer's Impressions of America, An, 510

Electrical Engineers, Institution of:

Presidential Address, by Alexander Siemens,
on the Cost of Production, 685
Application of Stream Theory to the Investigation of the Magnetic Flux Distribution
in Toothed-Core Armatures, by Professor
Hele-Shaw, Dr. Hay, and P. H. Powell, 755
Some Difficulties in Getting on, by J. Swinburne ; Address to Students, 769
Studiei in Magnetic Testing, by G. F. C.
Searle, 828
Electrical Engineers' Training, 769
Electrical, Ironmongery, and Hardware Trades' Exhibition, 125
Electrical Machinery, Standardisation of, 221, 78
Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Nickel at
High Temperatures, 890
Electrical Measurements. See Measurements
Electrical Papers at the British Association. See
British Association
Electrical Power versus Steam, 568
Electrical Properties of Hot Bodies, 396
Electrical Temperature Alarm, 333
Electrical Waves, Propagation of, Along Spiral
Wires • Measuring Wave-Lengths Used in Wireless Telegraphy, 397
Electrician's Practical Manual, 495
* Electricity and Magnetism, Elementary TextBook 04, 463
Electricity Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 74
Electricity, Use of, on the North-Eastern Railway, 276, 504
Electricity from Water Power, 162, 273, 843. See
also Niagara
Electricity Works, Schneider's, 887
Electrification of the Metropolitan Railway, 829
Electrodes, Arcs between Cooled, 315
Electron, Reaction of Radiation on a Moving, 64

Elevators. See Hoists
Embankments for Birmingham Reservoirs, 103
Emmet, W. L. R., on The Steam Turbine and Modern Engineering, 97
"Empire " Spring Wheel, 833
Employds and Masters' Cases. See Legal
Employer's Confidence, 474. See LETTER, 639
Employment of an Engineer, 898
Enamel, Oil-Proof, 433
Energy Distribution. See also Power
Energy Losses in Magnetising Iron, 277, 828
Energy of Water and Steam at High Temperatures, 444
Engine, Boiler, and Employers' Liability Insurance Company's Report, 280
Engine, Compound, and 2000-Kilowatt Generator
(Westinghouse), 79
Engines, Componnd, Receiver Drop in, 273
Engine Connecting-Rod and Crank-Shaft, Wear
of, 479; Breakage of, 737, 778, 810
Engine Controlling Devices, 639, 807
Engines, Drop-Valve, 749. See Erratum, 786
Engines, Factory, Tests of, 146, 165, 196
Engine Failures, 280
Engine, Fire-. See Fire-Engine
Engines, Gas, 95
Engines, Gas, at Brewers' Exhibition, 547
Engine, Gas, Calorimetry of, 272, 290
Engine, Gas, for Central Stations, 835
Engine, Gas, Design, 832
Engine, Gas, Exhibition, International, 721
Engines, Gas, Failures, 280
Engine, Gas, 250 H.-P. (J. E. H. Andrew and Co.), 97. See LETTERS
Engine, Gas, Lister Two-Cycle, 351
Engine, Gas-Producer, 295
Engines, Gas ; Strength of Cylinder-Covers, 65
Engines, Gas, Treatise on, 236
Engine, Hauling, 8 H.-P., Compound, 13
Engines, Internal-Combustion. See also Engines,
Gas, and Engines, Oil, Motor-Cars
Engines, Internal-Combustion, Flame Temperature of, 272
Engine, Marine ; Austrian T.-S.S. "Africa," 265, 09, 371
Engines, Marine; of H.M.S. " Dominion," 607.
See 615
Engines, Marine, of Italian Battleship " Regina
Margherita," 716
Engines, Marine, of Japanese CruiSer " Kasuga," 40
Engines, Marine, Maintenance of, 853. See 479
Engines, Marine, of Midland Railway Company's
T.-S.S. " Donegal," 423
Engines, Marine, v. Parsons Turbines ; Midland
Railway Company's Steamer, 423, 499. Cruisers, 80, 719. See LETTERS, 466, 749
Engines, Marine. Seo also Turbines
Engine, Marine, Superheaters, 749
Engines, Oil, 24, 95
Engine, Oil, and Air-Compressor (Reavell), 113
Engine, Oil, Failures, 280
Engines, Oil, on Launches, 157, 191, 218
Engine, Oil, Lister Two-Cycle, 351
Engine, Oil, of Yacht " Mollihawk II.," 466
Engine, Petrol, Indicator Diagrams of, 68
Engine, Pumping, at the Odessa Water Works, 27
Engines, Reciprocating, versus Turbine, 423, 99, 689, 719. See Dorms, 468, 749
Engines, Steam, Potential Efficiency of, 256
Engines, Traction, and Heavy Street Traffic, 40
Engines, Traction, at the Smithfield Show, 791
Engine Valve-Gear, Bagnall and Price's, 839
Engines, Winding, Corliss, for Kalgoorlie,
Western Australia, 857
Engines, Winding, Valve • Gear for, 286
Engineer, Employment of, 893
Engineer, The, in India, 616
Engineers, Institutions of. See Civil Engineers,
Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers,
Naval Architects, Iron and Steel Institute,
Physical Society, and Society of Arts
Engineer, Japanese, in War, 343
Engineer's, Mechanical, Reference-Book, 141
Engineers, Naval. See also Naval
Engineers' Training See Education and Training
Engineers' Visit to America. See Iron and
Steel Institute, Electrical Engineers' Congress and Engineering Congress

Engineering Congress at St. Loafs, International : 31, 508, 600, 640

Harbours, 531
British Harbours, by William Matthews, 31
Purification of Domestic Waters, by Alan
Hazan, 531
Railroad Terminal Stations (three papers),
by Elmer L. Corthell, New York, W. T.
Foxlee, London, and Ernest Pontzen,
Paris, 534
Mechanical Section, 534, 568
The Purification of Water for the Production
of Steam, by James 0. Handy, Pittsburg, 34
Turbines and Water-Wheels, by Gardner S.
Williams, 534
Electrical Power, 668
The Substitution of Electricity for Steam as
a Motive Power (two papers), by J. G.
White and Alexander Siemens, 668
Electrical Power Generating Stations and
Transmission, by S. T. Stillwell, 568
Railway Rolling - Stock (two papers), W.
Forsyth and Professor E. Sauvage, 569
Manufacture of Steel (two papers), by William Metcalf and Bradley Stoughton, 569
The Manufacture of Cement, by It. W.
Lesley, 569
Concrete and Concrete Steel (four papers),
by Edwin Thacher, Captain J. S. Sewell,
Fr. von Emperger, and Armand Considere, 69
Ordnance, 572
Ammunition for Cannon, by Captain Tholes
L. Ames, 572
Gun Construction in the United States, by
Captain Odus 0. Homey, 672
Sea Coast Gun-Carriage Design and Construction, by Captain E. P. O'Hearn, 672
Irrigation (five papers), by Elwood Mead, Sir
Hanbury Brown, J. 1. de Mayier, P. L.
Salvador, and M. M. O'Shaughnessy, 672
Waterways, 600
Rollin°.e' Dams, by K. E. Hilgard, 600
Dutch Waterways, by A. B. Marinkelle, 00
Artificial Waterways (four papers), by Captain W. L. Sibert, W. H. Hunter, J. A.
de Lint, L. F. E. van Hoogenhuyze, and
A. Chargueraud, 600 .
Sewage Disposal (two papers), by George W.
Fuller and M. Bechmann, 601. See 74, 897
Underground Railways (three papers), by W.
B. Parsons, Basil Mott, and David Hay
and L. Biette, 602
Passenger Elevators, by Thomas E. Brown, 02
Naval Architecture, by Sir Win. H. White, 01
Marine Engineering, by W. F. Durand, 601
The Concurrent Development of Traffic on
Improved Waterways and on Railroads, by
E. P. North, 640
Highway Construction (two papers), by J.
Owen and Professor G. Forestier, 640
Deep Foundations, by W. F. Druyvesteyn, 40
Operation of Mines in France, by E. Gruner, 40
Dredgers and Dredging, by A. W. Robinson, 41
Hydraulic Dredging in the Mississippi River,
by F. B. Maltby, 641
Dredging Ocean Bars, by Major J. G. Sandford, 611
Observations on Dockwork in New York
Harbour, by J. A. Bensel, 641
Disposal of Municipal Refuse, by Rudolph
Hering, 641
Removal of, and Utilisation of, Municipal
Refuse in French Cities, by P. Tur, 641
Live Loads for Railway Bridges, by H. W.
Hodge, 611
Ventilation of Tunnels (two papers), by C.
S. Churchill and Francis Fox, 642, 799
Tests of Materials of Construction (five
papers), by E. Candlot, L. Bach, W. R.
Webster, Gaetano Lanza, and W. A. Aiken, 14
Pumping Machinery (two papers), by Irving
H. Reynolds and W. M. Venable, 644. See
Erratum, 683
Lighthouses and Aids to Navigation (three
papers), by Lieut.-Colonel D. W. Lockwood, Thomas Matthews, and C. Ribiere, 44
Dry Docks, 644
Engineering Education, 814
Surveying, 614
Engineering Dock, 206
Engineering Education. See Education
Engineering Exhibits at St. Louis Exhibition. See St. Louis Exhibition,
Engineering, Irrigation, 744
Engineering, Marine, 604. See Engines, Marine
Engineering Materials, Elasticity and Resistance of, 176. See also Micro-Photography
Engineering Papers at the British Association, 69, 301
Enginee ring Plant on the Hire-Purchase System, 79
Engineering Schemes in Parliament, 722, 768, 794
Engineering Works, Compressed Air and Pneumatic Tools in, 233 •
England, Locomotive Testing in, 9. See LETTER, 9
Erosion of Coast, 699. See 581
Ether : Does It Move with the Earth or Not ? 37
Ether, A Modification of FitzGerald's Model of, 37
Ether Pressure Theory, Grindley's Experiments on Steam and the, 397
Exhaust-Gas, Calorimetry of, 272, 290
Exhaust-Steam Turbines in Steel Works, 796. See Erratum, 831
Exhauster, Vacuum Cesspool (Merryweather), 27
Exhibition, Brewers', 647
Exhibition, Colliery, International, 21
Exhibition, Electrical, at Shoreditch, 561
Exhibition, Gas, International, 721
Exhibition, Ironmongery, Hardware, and Elec.
trical Trades, 125
Exhibition, Scots' National, 796
Exhibition. See also St. Louis
Exhibition, Smithfield, 791
Exhibition, Stanley Cycle, 722
Expedition, Antarctic, 796
Experimental Bacterial Treatment of London
Sewage, 74, See 601, 897
Experiments, Some Recent, at the United
States Mod. 1 Basin, 815, 838
Experiments with Lathe-Tool Dynamometer, 9, 9, 62
Experiments. See also Tests
Explosion, Petroleum, at Antwerp, 315, 648.
See LETTER, 621
Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions
Explosive Mixtures, Chemistry of, 442
Explosives, 672
Exports. See Trade
Expo-ition. See Exhibition and St. Louis
Extensometers, Interference Apparatus for Calibration of, 622

Factories and Fire-Escapes. See Legal
Factories Law of Landlord and Tenant, 613
Factory Act and Hoists, 190
Factory Cases. See Legal
Factory Electric Supply; Board of Trade Regulations, 282
Factory Power-Plant, Tests of, 146, 165, 196
Failures in Power-Plant, 280
Falling Telegraph Wires, 159
Fast-Cutting Steel. See Tool Steel
Fatigue of Metals, 473. See Micro-Photography
Feed Apparatus. Brooke's Automatic Boiler, 714
Feed-Water Purification, 534
Feed-Water Regulator ; Mumford and Anthony, 42
Fees, Arbitrator's, 314
Ferro-Concrete Bowstring Bridge (Hennebique
System) at Purfleet, 582
Ferro-Concrete Structures, 315, 350, 589, 582
Ferrolithic Building Construction, 315
Fibre Galvanometer, 620 •
Fictitious Fire-Proof Materials, 439
Field Artillery for British Army, 545, 791, 900
Field Artillery and the Russo-Japanese War, 545, 91, DUO
Fields of Force, New Apparatus for Producing
Magnetic, 397
Fielden, Frank, on Compressed-Air and Pneumatic Tools in Engineering Works, 233
Filaments, Heat Losses from Glowing, by Conduction and Convection, 657
Filtration of Water Supply, 531
Finsbury Technical College, Link-Motion Bench
for, 48
Fire Brigades in Europe, 411. See 222
Fire-Engine, Self-Propelled Chemical (Wolseley), 51
Fire-Engine, Self-Propelled ; Kermode's LiquidFuel System (Merryweather), 338. See 859
Fire-Escape from Buildings, 687
Fire, Petroleum, at Antwerp, 315, 548. See
LETTERS, 621
Fire Regulations for Theatres, 379. See 222
Fire Resistance, Standards of, 191, 439
Fire Service Commission to Central Europe, 222, 11 •
Fireproof Materials, Fictitious, 439. See 191
Fisheries, Canadian, and Lightships, 251
FitzGerald's Model of the Ether, A Modification
of, 337
Flame Temperature in Internal - Combustion
Motors, 272
Flames, Electrical Conductivity of, 396
Fleet, Naval. See Warships
Fleets, Ve-Arrangement of British Naval, 825
Floors of Bridges, 670, 773, 844
Flow and Density of Metals, 829. See also
Micro-Photography
Flow of Metals, Surface, and Hard and Soft
State, 474. See 281, 459, 829
Fog in London, 682, 859
Folkestone Pier and Harbour Works, 37
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 185
Foreign Enterprise in Japan, 657
Foreign Methods of Dealing with the Unemployed, 725
Forging Presses, High-Speed Hydraulic (Davy,
Sheffield), 644
Forgrove Wrapping-Machine, 287
Formation of Salts in Solution, especially among
Tautomeric Compounds, 458
Formosa, Progress in, 478
Forth Bridge ; Accident at Alloa, 606
Foundations, Deep Subaqueous, 640
Foundations, Midland Railway Harbour, 201.
Founding, Type, Early Methods of, 491
Foundry Beds, 418
Fowler's Engineer's Pocket-Book, 782
Fox, Sir Douglas, on Locomotive Testing in
England, 9. See LETTER, 59
France, Alining Operations in, 610
Freezino•e• Process of Sinking Mine-Shafts, 640
French Garbage Disposal, 641.
French Torpedo-Boat with Parsons Turbines
(Normand), 183
French Trans-Pyrenean Railway, 319
Friction of Liquids in Tubes at very Small Velocities, 550
Friction of Sliding Keyways, 467
Fuel. See Coal
Fuel, Gas, and Tar from Coke Ovens, 477
Fuel, Liquid. See Liquid Fuel
Function and Design of Cruisers, 651
Furnaces, Boiler, Maintenance of, 853
Furnace, Brayshaw's Steel-Hardening, 520
Furnace, Dry-Air Blast, 656, 661
Furnace ; Electric. See also Electric
Furnaces, Electric, Calcium Carbide as d
sistance Material, 616
Furnaces, Electric, and their Industrial Application, 886
Furnace Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas
Furnace, Steel, Acid Open-Hearth Manipulation, 28
Furnaces, Welded Boiler, 288
Furness Railway, Sandberg "Goliath" Rails on the, 126
Future of the Steam-Turbine, 719. See 423, 99, 689. See LETTERS, 466, 749

Galvanometer, Fibre, 620
Garbage Disposal, 641
Gas, Blast-Furnace, Theisen's Washer for, 78, 383
Gas-Engines. See Engines, Gas
Gas Exhibition, International, 721
Gas, Relation of Calorific, to Lighting Power, 660
Gas-Pipe, Mephan Ferguson Lock-Bar, 550
Gas, Power, Mond, Electric Station, Heysham
Harbour, 295
Gas-Power. See also Power
Gas-Producer for Bituminous Coal, 540. See
LEirsits, 621, 692
Gas-Producer, Test of Pierson's Suction, 285
Gas, Radioactivity of Natural, 282
Gas Schemes in Parliament, 759
Gas and Tar from Coke Ovens as Fuel, 477
Gas Turbine Cycles, 564, 590
Gas-Washer, Centrifugal, Theisen's, 78, 383
Gas.Works Practice in Germany, 886
Gases, Specific Heat of Hot, 272
Gases7, The Spec' ra o f, at High Temperatures 7
* Gauge-Glass, Duplex, 621
Gauge, Parker's Automatic Water, 371
Gayley, James, on the Application of Dry-Air
Blast to the Manufacture of Iron, 666, 681
Gelatine and Silver Chromate, Precipitations of, 59
General Electric Company's Works, Schenectady, 71, 202
German Battleship " Deutschland" (Krupp), 761
German Electric Pocket-Book, 144
German Electric Railways, 550
German Electric Tramways, 161
German Fire Brigades, 411. See 222
German Iron and Steel Production, 155
German Naval Architecture Year-Book, 75
German Reichsanstalt, 173
German Salvage Steamers, 585
Gibson's Valve Re-Seating Machine, 621
Girder Bridges. See Bridges
Girders of Bridges, 670, 773, 844. See Bridges
Glasgow, Notes from. See North, Notes from
Glasgow Telephones and Depreciation, 15, 19, 6, 157. See LETTERS, 123, 281
Glasgow Tramways, 122
Glass, Gauge, 371, 621
Glover, The late Mr. T. Craigie, 96, 114
Glyda Spring Hub, 481
Goodman, Professor J., on the Governing of
Impulse Water-Wheels, 597. See LETTERS, 832
Governing Devices for Engines, 539
Governing Impulse Water-Wheels, 597. See
LETTERS, 832
Governor for Allis-Chalmers-Bullock Company's
Electric Plant, 807
Governor for Turbines, A.E.-G., 231, 329
Government Telephones, 123, 281. See Glasgow
Telephones
Graving Dock Design, 449. See LETTER, 539
Graving Docks, 644
Graving Docks, Modernisation of Ancient, 881
Gray Telautograph, 747. See 829
Great Central Railway, 448
Great Central Railway Eight-Coupled Goods
Locomotive, 693
Great Central Railway, Express Passenger Locomotive tor, 889
Great Central Railway Zone System, 283
Great Northern Railroad, U.S.A., Locomotive, 45, 811
Great Western Locomotive ; London to Plymouth
without a stop, 88
Great Western Railway Bridge, Reconstruction
of, at Stoke Canon, 658
Great Western Railway Dining-Car, 319. See
LETTER, 381
Grinding-Machine, Drill, 485
Grinding-Machines, Tool, 5, 72, 268, 429, 566, 633, 08, 814. For details see INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Grindley's Experiments on Steam and the EtherPressure Theory, 397
Guards for Cotton-Mules, 740
Guernsey Power-Stations with Gas-Engines, 835
Gunboats. See Warships
Gun-Power of Warships, 407, 440, 651, 792, 825, 00
Guns. See also Warships
Guns, 572, 715
Guns ; Automatic Rifles, 115
Guns, Field, and the Russo-Japanese War, 645, 91, 900
Guns, Howitzers, 715
Guns, New, for the Army, 900. See 546, 791
Gunpowder, Invention of, 379. See LETTER, 413
Gutta-Percha, Artificial, for Cables, 89
Gyroscopic Collimator, 66

Hadfield's Cast-Steel Track-Work, 402, 410
Hadfield's Rock and Ore-Crushing Machinery, 72
Halle Self-Loading Rifle, 115
Hammer, Ancient Tilting, 96
Hanbury, H. W. ; Central South African Railway Locomotives, 13
Hanbury, H. W., on Locomotives at St. Louis Exhibition. See Locomotives under St. Louis Exhibition
Hannoverische Locomotive, with Pielock Superheater, 41, 111
Harbour, Durban, and Prospects of Natal, 313.
See LETtER, 381
Harbour Engineering, 206
Harbours in England, 531
Harbour, Heysham, 139, 201, 235, 295, 499. See 83
Harbour, Madras, 240
Harbour and Pier Schemes in Parliament, 794
Harbour and Pier Works, at Folkestone, 37
Harbour Protection and Beach Travel, 240, 531, 99
Harbour, Swansea, 162
Harbour Work, New York, 641
Harcourt Pentane Lamp, Some Investigations on
the Ten Candle-Power, made at the National
Physical Laboratory, 291, 301
Hardening-Steel Furnace, Brayshaw's Salt-Bath, 20
Hardware, Ironmongery, and Electrical Trades
Exhibition, 125
Hatfield, William H., and McWilliam, Andrew,
on Acid Open-Hearth Manipulation, 628
Haulage Plant, 466
Hauling-Engine, 8 1I.-P. Compound, 13
Hawaii, Egypt, and United States, Irrigation in, 72
Heat Losses from Glowing Filaments by Conduction and Convection, 657
Heat, Mechanical Equivalent of, 878
Heat Res earth Work at the Reichsanstalt, 173
Heat, Specific, of Gases at High Temperatures, 72
Heat - Treatment of Chrome - Vanadium Steel, 46, 871, 903, 904. See Impact Tests and
Erratum, 903
Heat Treatment of Steel, Microscopic Observations of, 737, 778, 810
Heaters, Electric ' • Calcium Carbide as a Resistance Material, 516. •See also 886
Heating and Ventilating Apparatus for Ships,
Thermo-Tank, 499
Hebden Bridge Gas-Driven Station, 835
Heeling and Rolling of Ships, 15, 194, 241, 881
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Hen Valley Light Railway Collision, 128
Hennebique Concrete Steel, 569
Hennebique System ; Ferro-Concrete Bridge at
Purfleet, 582
"Hermes," H.M.S., Babcock and Wilcox WaterTube Boiler for, 345. See 187, 192, 263
Heysham Harbour, 139, 201, 235, 295, 499. See
LETTER, 283
High-Frequency Currents, Physiological Effects of, 441
High-Speed Tool-Steel. See Tool Steel
Highway Construction, 640
Hiller, Edward G., on Modern Steam-Power
Plant, 146, 165, 196
"Hindustan," Steam Trials of H.M.S., 866
Hire of Motor-Cars, Legal, 250
Hire-Purchase System ; Engineering Plant, 279
H.M.S. See Warships
Hoist, Electric Coal-Whip, 869
Hoists, Electric, at Heysham Harbour (Waygood), 295
Hoists and the Factory Act, 190
Hoists, Passenger, 603
Holden Magnetic Clutch, 760
Holden's Liquid-Fuel Apparatus ; Yacht " Tarantula," 148
Hong Kong, Trade of, 384
Hopkinson, B., on the Calorimetry of Exhaust
Gases, 272, 290
Hopkinson's Centre-Pressure Stop-Valve, 517
Hopkinson Test as Applied to Induction Motors, 01
Horner, Joseph, on Tool-Grinding Machines, 5, 2, 268, 429, 566, 633, 708, 814. For Details see INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Horn's Portable Tachometer, 61
Hospital and Works, Refuse-Destructors for Use in, 856
Hot Bodies, Electrical Properties of, 396
Hours of Labour and Wage Rates, 253
Howitzers, Schneider-Canet Du Bocage Automobile Battery of, 715
Hoy's Motor-Bogie, 468
Hub, Glyda Spring, 481
Hudson River Tunnels, 678
Hunt, The late Edmund, 830
Hyatt Belt-Fabric Stitching-Machine, 79
Hydrate, Iron, Magnetic Double Refraction of
Colloidal, 396
Hydraulic Dredger " J. Israel Tarte," 555
Hydraulic Dredging on the Mississippi, 641
Hydraulic Forging Presses, High-Speed (Davy,
Sheffield), 644
Hydraulic Power versus Steam Power in the
British Isles, 843. See also 162, 273
Hydrogen .and Oxygen, Union of, in Contact
with Hot Surfaces, 460
Hydrogen, Thermo-Dilatation of Compressed, 398
Hygrometer, Sensitive, 622
Hysteresis, Magnetic, Investigation of Variations of, 765

Illinois Central Railroad Locomotives (Rogers), 45
Illinois Steel Works, 13
Illuminating Gas, Relation of Calorific Power
to, 660
Illustrations. See INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Impact Tests of Steel and Iron, 704, 728, 765.
See also Microscopic Observations and Heat
Treatment
Implements, Agricultural, 23. See also Smithfield Show
Incandescent Lamps. See Electric Lamps
India and the British Empire, Meteorology of, 99
India and the Engineer, 616
Indian Asphalte, 251
Indian Railway Organisation, 311
Indian Railway Property, 831
Indian Students in Japan, 620
Indian Troopship " Dufferin," 379, 890
Indicator Diagrams of Petrol Motor, 66
Induction Motors, Hopkinson Test as Applied
to, 301
Induction in Multipolar Armatures, Distribution
of Magnetic, 301
Industrial Notes, 27, 61, 93, 128, 163, 195, 223, 55, 287, 320, 351, 383, 416, 447, 481, 517, 653, 87,.625, 659, 693, 727, 763, 797, 833, 870, 901
Institute, Lewis, at Chicago, 41
Institutions, Technical. See Civil Engineers,
Electrical Engineers, Engineering Congress,
.fton and Steel Institute, Mechanical Engineers, Naval Architects, Physical Society and
Society of Arts
Insurance against Unemployed, 725
Intensity and Velocity of Light, 412
Interference Apparatus for the Calibration of
Extensometers, 622
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines,
Gas, and Engines, Oil, and Motor-Cars
Internal-Combustion Motors, 95
International Congress of Navigation, 114
International Engineering Congress at St. Louis,
See Engineering Congress, Electrical Engineers, and Iron and Steel Institute
International Patent Convention, 576
Invention in Chemical Industry, 652
Invention of Gunpowder, 379. See LETTER, 413
Inventions. See Patents
Investigations on the 10-Candle-Power Harcourt
Pentane Lamp Made at the National Physical
Laboratory, 291, 301
Ionisation by Collision, The Theory of, 877
Ionisation of the Atmosphere, 396
Iron Alloys, Electric and Thermal Conductivities
of, 397
Iron Castings, Methods of Making Beds for, 418
Iron and Coal in New South Wales, 344
Iron and Coal Production in America, 248. See 56
Iron, Composition of. See Micro-Photography
Iron and Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Iron, Energy Losses in Magnetising, 277, 828
Iron Export, Revival of American, 123
Iron Furnace Dry-Air Blast, 656, 661
Iron Hydrate, Magnetic Double Refraction of
Colloidal, 396
Iron at Low Temperatures, Mechanical Properties of, 308
Iron, Magnetic Testing of, 828
Iron Output per Head of Population and Waterway Development, 640
Iron, Presence of Radium and Oxidation in, 366
Iron and Steel Bridges. See Bridges
Iron and Steel, Plastic Yielding of, 351, 385
Iron and Steel Production, The World's, 155. See 48, 766

Iron and Steel Institute :

Proceedings, Vol. LXV., Review, 348
Acid Open-Hearth Manipulation, by Andrew
MoWilliam and William H. Hatfield, 628
American Meeting, 655, 674, 709 :
Preliminary Proceedings at New York, 655
Presidential Address, by Mr. Carnegie, 655
Bessemer Medal Presented to Mr. Carnegie, 56
Excursion on the Hudson, 656
The Reading of Papers, 656, 074, 709
Next Autumn Meeting and the Succeeding President, 656
The Annual Dinner, 656
The Application of Dry-Air Blast to the
Manufacture of Iron, by James Gayley. 56, 661
Election of New Members, 657
The Influence of Carbon, Phosphorus, Man.
ganese, and Sulphur on the • Tensile
Strength of Open-Hearth Steel, by H. H.
Campbell, 674, 695, 732
Iron and Steel Exhibits at the St. Louis Ex.
hibition, by Professor H. Bauerman, 674 •
A West African Smelting-House, by C. V.
Bellamy, 674
High-Speed Tool Steels, by J. M. Gledhill, 75. See 9, 29, 62, 349
The Excursions, 675
New York Rapid Transit Subway, 675
The Power-House of the Subway, 676
New York Navy Yard and Battleships, 677
Generating Station of the New York Edison
Company, Waterside, 678
The Hudson River Tunnels, 678
New York East River Bridges, 678
Bethlehem Steel Company's Works, 709
Cramp Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 11
The United States Cruiser " Colorado," 712
The League Island Navy Yard, 712
The New York Shipbuilding Company, 712
The Camden Coke Company's Works, 712
Other Excursions, 712
Reception by the President of the United
States, and Excursions at Washington, 712
Visit to Pittsburg, 712
Carnegie Steel Works, 712
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company's Works, East Pittsburg, 712
Visit to Cleveland and St. Louis Exhibition, 13
The American Steel and Wire Company, 713
Scherzer Lift-Bridge, 713
Dinner at' Cleveland, 713
Other Works at Cleveland, 713
Visit to Buffalo, 713
Iron and Steel Exhibits at the St. Louis Exhibition, 674. See St. Louis
Iron Trade for 1903, American, 248, 756. See 155

Ironclads. See Warships
Ironmongery, Hardware, and Electrical Trades
Exhibition, 125
Irrigation in Egypt, 222, 304, 476, 672
Irrigation Engineering, 744
Irrigation of India, 616
Irrigation, Sewage, 897
Irrigation in United States, Egypt, and Hawaii, 72
Isomerism, Dynamic, 459
"Israel Tarte," Dredger,555
Italian Battleship " Rgina Margherita," and Engines, 716

" J. Israel Tarte," Dredger, 555
Japan in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, 282
Japan, Coal Production in, 436
Japan, Foreign Enterprise in, 657
Japan, Indian Students in, 620
Japan Railway Enterprise in Korea and Manchuria, 619, 901
Japan Railway and Shipping, 124
Japan-Russian War. See War
Japan Trade, 159
Japanese Armoured Cruiser " K asuga," and
Engines, 540
Japanese Engineer in War, 343
Japanese Mail S.S. " Sado Maru," Effect of Torpedoes on, 468
Japanese Mint, 585
Japanese Navy, 224, 540. See also War
Japanese Progress in Formosa, 478
Japanese Shipbuilding and Shipping, 445
Japanese Shipping, War Effects on, 830
Japanese Steamship Company, 477
Japanese (Tokio) Metropolitan Railway, 637
Jarrah Timber, 866
Jet, Adjustable, for Pelton Wheel, 522
Joiners' Cross-Cut Saw-Bench, 576
Jude, A., and Seaton, A. E., on Impact Tests, 01, 728, 765. See also Microscopic Observations and Heat Treatment
Junior Institution of Engineers, 380. See PARAGRAPHS

Kaffirs, and the Native Problem in South Africa, 83
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Corliss WindingEngines for, 857
Kara-Dagh Copper Deposits, Persia, 780
"kasuga," Japanese Armoured Cruiser, and Engines, 640
Kensington, South, Spectro-Heliograph of the
Solar Physics Observatory at, 443
Kent Smith, J., on Heat Treatment of
Chrome-Vanadium Steel, 846, 871, 904. See 03 and Impact Tests. See Erratum, 903
Kermode's Liquid-Fuel System for Fire-Engine, 38. See 859
Kerr, 0. V., on The Potential Efficiency of Prime-Movers, 266
Keyways, Friction of Sliding, 467
Kidneys, Arsenic in the Body and, 461 ,
Kinetic Theony-Determination of the Size of
Molecules, 397
King's Navy. See Warships
Kite Experiments in the Mediterranean, 400
Kites Committee, Report of the, 401
Korea and Manchurian Railway Enterprise, 619, 00
Korea, Trade of, 189
Koster Air-Compressor, 606
Kundt's Law of Direction in Anomalous Dispersion," 368

Laboratory, National Physical, Grants to, 688. See Erratum, 717. See 301, 398, 675
Laboratory Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 73
Labour in Canada, 59
Labour Legislation in France, 191
Labour Questions. See Industrial Notes and
Legal
Lacy-Hulbert Electric Chain-Blocks, 869
Lake Baikal Railway, 687
Lake Shipbuilding, United States, 748
Lamb, Horace, Presidential Address, British
Association, Physical and Chemical Sections. 36
Lamp, Harcourt Pentane, Some Investigations on the 10 - Candle Power, made at the National Physical Laboratory, 291, 301
Lamps. See also Electric and Photometry
Lamps, Large-Bulb Incandescent Electric, as Secondary Standards of Light, 301
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 448, 468
Land Boilers. See Boilers and Water-Tube Boilers
Landing-Stage at Heysham Harbour, 201. See 83
Landlord and Tenant in Factories, 613
Lasche, 0., on Steam-Turbine Construction, 231, 29
Lateral Resistance, The Position of the Centre
of, 818
Lathe-Tool, Dynamometer Tests of, 9, 29, 62. See , 675
Lathes. See Machine-Tools
Launch Trials, Motor, 167, 191, 218
Launches and Trial Trips, 34, 47, 100, 127, 161, 96, 229, 264, 292, 309, 354, 388, 413, 480, 522, 52, 585, 630, 666, 700, 734, 762, 804, 840, 868, 03
Laval Turbine, 85. See also Turbines
Lead and Zinc, American, 546
League Island Navy Yard, 712
Leather Trade, Australian, 516
Leek and Manifold Light Railway, 21

Legal :

Amendment of Workmen's Compensation
Act, 219
Arbitrators' Fees, 344
British Patents Act, 409
Electric Lighting Acts Amendment, 126
Employer's Confidence, 474. See LETTER, 539
Employment of an Engineer, 898
Falling Telegraph Wires, 159
Hire of Motor-Cars, 250
Hire-Purchase System, Engineering Plant on the, 279
Heavy Street Traffic, 440
Hoists and the Factory Act, 190
Labour Legislation in France, 191
Law of Landlord and Tenant, 513
Master and Servant Cases, 189, 219, 289, 32
Mersey Dock Bill, 119
Motor-Car Case, 260
National Boot and Shoe Operatives' Union
Case, 627
Out•Door Relief Bill, 256
Overcrowding on Underground Railway, 58
Overhanging Branches, 412
Patents and Patent Law, 717
Pilkington v. Massey, 181
Private Bill Promotion, 649
Restrictive Covenants, 86, 791
Sale by Sample, 379
Secret Commissions, 582
Servant and Master Cases, 189, 219, 289, 32
Shop-Hours Bill, 256
Smoke Nuisance, 441
Street Obstructions, 90
Telephone Wayleaves, 313
Trade Names, 547
Trespassers on Electric Railways, 26
Workmen's Compensation Act, 189, 341, 410, 54

Legislation. See also Legal
Legislation, Labour, in France, 191
Lemp Motor-Car Steering-Check, 524
Lenses, Determining the Curvatures of, 804
Lenses, Note on the Property of, 622
Lenses, Photographic, 862
Letters to the Editor, 15, 59, 95, 114, 149, 194, 40, 283, 318, 350, 380, 413, 433, 466, 603, 539, 76, 621, 668, 692, 748, 832, 866, 891
Lewis Institute at Chicago, 41
Life of Robert Napier, 741
Lifting-Bridge, Scherzer, over the River Swale, 37. See 713
Light of Different Intensities, Velocity of, 412
Lights, Navigation, Canadian, 251
Light, Ordinary, Relation to Röntgen Rays, 64
Light Railway, Leek and Manifold, 21
Light, Tangential Stress Produced by the
Oblique Impact of, 364
Light, Ultra-Violet, Photo-Micrography with the
Aid of, 760
Lighthouses and Aids to Navigation, 644
Lighthouse at Folkestone Harbour, 37
Lighthouse at Heysham Harbour, 236
Lighting, Electric and Gas, Schemes in Parliament, 758
Lighting Stations. See Electric
Lightning, Action of, on Buildings, 333
Link-Motion Bench for the Technical College,
Finsbury, 48
Liquid Friction in Tubes at very Small Velocities 50
Liquid-Fuel Apparatus on Turbine Yacht " Tarantula," 148
Liquid Fuel and its Combustion, 338, 463
* Liquid Fuel System, Kermode's, for Fire-Engines, 38. See 859
Lister Two-Cycle Internal-Combustion Motor, 51
Literature, 74, 141, 176, 206, 236, 462, 494, 741. 82, 866, 883. See LITERATURE INDEX
Litigation. See Legal
Littoral Drift, 531, 699, 8:31
Liverpool Docks, Modernisation of, 831
Liverpool and Southport Electric Railway MotorBogie, 468
Lloyd's List of Shipping Casualties, 251
Lloyd's Registry for Building Yachts to Classes,
On the Rules of, 818
Lloyd's Registry and Experiments, 512. See 58, 17
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 58, 512. See 251, 717
Locomotive, American. See also St. Louis Exhibition
Locomotive, American, Consolidation Test, 484
Locomotive, "Atlantic," 745
Locomotive, Belgian, Schmidt Smoke - Tube
Steam-Superheater for, 858. See 44, 111
Locomotive for the " Big Four Route," 327, 361, 96. See Erratum, 480
Locomotive Builder, The late William Adams, 10
Locomotive-Building, Smart Piece of, 191
Locomotive, Cole Four-Cylinder Balanced Compound, for the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad, 530
Locomotive, Compound Express, 41
Locomotive, Compound Passenger, for Portuguese Railway, 111, 159
Locomotive, Consolidation, 745, 811
Locomotive, Eight-Coupled Goods, for Great
Central Railway, 693
Locomotive, Electric Goods, for North-Eastern
Railway, 504
Locomotive Electric Motors, 495
Locomotive, Express, for London and SouthWestern Railway, 416
Locomotive, Express Passenger, for the Great
Central Railway, 889
Locomotive, Four-Coupled, for Prince Edward
Island Railway (Canadian), 44
Locomotive, Great Central ; Smart Piece of
Building, 191
Locomotive,Great Western ; London to Plymouth
without a Stop, 88
Locomotive, Hannoverische, with Pielook Superheater, 44, 111
Locomotive ; Historical Collection at St. Louis, , 44
Locomotive for the Londonderry and Lough
Swilly Railway, 277
Locomotive, Mallet Articulated, 178, 645
Locomotive, Mining, 495
Locomotive, " Mogul," 745, 811
Locomotive, Passenger, for Central South African
Railway, 13
Locomotives, Road, and Heavy Street Traffic, 440
Locomotives, Rogers, at the St. Louis Exhibition.
See St. Louis, 745, 811
Locomotive, Sandusky, 745
Locomotive, Six-Coupled, for the Peking Syndicate Railways, 434. See Erratum, 471
Locomotives, Superheated Steam, 44, 111, 858
Locomotive, Ten-Wheeled, 745, 811
Locomotive-Testing Plants, 9, 69
Locomotive Traction at High Speeds, Resistance to, 56
Locomotive Turntable, 70-Ft. American, 393
Locomotives, United States and French, 569
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway ;
Reconstruction of Victoria Station, 868
London Building Act Amendments, 687
London Coliseum, 782
London County Council and Local Veto on
Tramway Construction, 653. See also Municipal, &c.
London County Council and Smoke, 441
London County Council Steamboat Service, 581
London County Council Tramways, 57
London Fog, 682, 859
London Metropolitan Railway, Electrification
of, 829
London Municipal Trading. See Municipal
Trading and Tramways
London and North-Western Railway, 448
London Post Office Telephones, 123, 281. See
Glasgow Telephones
London to Plymouth without a Stop, 88
London Sewage, Experimental Bacterial Treatment of, 74, (301, 897
London and South-Western Railway Locomotive, 415
London Subway, 602
London Underground Railway Electrification, 29
London Underground Trains, Overcrowding, 58
Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, Locomotive for, 277
" Londonderry," Midland Railway Company's
Steamer, 423, 499. See 689, 719, and LETTERS, 66, 749
Lorries. See Motor-Cara and Wagons "Louisiana," United States Battleship, 834
Low Temperature Phenomena, New, and their
Scientific Application, 462
Luminous Ring Crystals, and the Phenomenon of, 804

Machine-Tools

Axle-Lathe, Heavy Double, 538
Boring and Drilling - Machine, Horizontal
(Betts), 337
Boring and Drilling-Machines at the St. Louis
Exhibition, 538
Boring-Machine for Gun Ingots, DoubleHeaded, 681
Boring-Machine for Steam-Turbine Casings, 59
Boring and Turning-Mill (General Electric
Company), 171
Compressed-Air and Pneumatic Tools in Engineering Works, 233
Cutting-Machine for Cutting off the Ends of
Gun Ingots, 681
Drill-Grinding Machine, 485. See also Grinding
Drilling and Boring • Machine, Horizontal
(Betts), 337
* Machine.Tools-continued.
Drilling and Boring-Machines at the St.
Louis Exhibition, 538
Drilling-Machine, Six-Spindle Vertical Wood
(Pickles, Hebden Bridge), 888
Grinding Machines, Tool, 5, 72, 268, 429, 586, 33, 708, 814. For Details see INDEX OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
Hydraulic Forging-Presses (Davy, Sheffield), 44
Ingot-Cutting Machine, 681
Joiners' Cross-Cut Saw-Bench, 575
Lathe, Axle, Double, Heavy, at the St. Louis
Exhibition, 538
Lathe-Carrier, " Saltley," 692
Lathe, Combination Turret (A. Herbert,
Limited, Coventry), 892
Lathes by Niles-Bement-Pond Company at
St. Louis, 538
Lathe-Tool Dynamometer Experiments, 9, 9, 62. See 349, 675
Lathes, Turret (Pratt and Whitney), 308
Lathe, Vertical, 171
Lathe, Vertical (Betts), 337
Milling, Boring, and Drilling Machines, 638
Niles-Bement-Pond Company; Machine-Tools
at the St. Louis Exhibition, 538
Planing-Machine (Betts), 337
Planing-Machine, Electrically-Driven (NilesBement-Pond Company, New York), 538
Planing-Machine, Large Rotary, 171
Pneumatic Tools in Engineering Works, 233
Saw-Bench, Joiners' Cross-Cut, 575
Saw-Sharpening Machine, Automatic, 679
Shears for Plates, Rotary, 417
Slotting-Machine, 15-In. (Betts), 337 .
Slotting-Machine, Electrically-Driven, 371
Slotting-Machine, Heavy (Newton), 171
Tenoning-Machine (Pickles, Hebden-Bridge), 88
Tool-Grinding Machines, 5, 72, 239, 268, 429,, 66, 633, 708, 814. For details see INDEX OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
Tool Steel, Dynamometric Tests of, 9, 29, 62..
See 675
Turbine-Blade Cutting-Machine, 202
Turning and Boring Mill (General Electric
Company), 171
Valve-Reseating Machine, Gibson's, 521
Woodworking Machinery for Railway Carriage Building, 888

Machinery Failures, 280
Machinery on the Hire-Purchase System, 279
Machinery, Maintenance of, in Merchant Ships, 53
Machinery, Pumping, 644. See Erratum, 683
Machinery at the Smithfield Show, 791
Machinery, Standardisation of Electrical, 221
Machinery of Tall Office Buildings, New York, 30
Machinery, Wear of, 479
M'Intosh, J. F., on Locomotive - Testing in
England, 9. See LETTER, 59
Macdonald, The late J. Allen, 865
McWilliam, Andrew, and Hatfield, William H.,
on Acid Open-Hearth Manipulation, 628
Madras Harbour, 240. See 631, 699
Madras Railway, 831
Magnetism See Electric and Physical Society
and Iron
Magnetism and Electricity, Elementary TextBook, 463
Maintenance of Machinery in Merchant Ships, 53
Mallet Articulated Locomotive, 178, 645
Manchurian and Korean Railway Enterprise, 19, 901
Manganese Production, 513
Manganese Steel for Rock-Breakers, 572
Manufacture of Ammonia, 585
Manufacture, Cost of, 685
Manufacture of Steel, 569. See also Steel
"Manxman," Midland Railway Company's Steamer, 423, 499. See 689, 719, and LETTERS, 66, 749
Marine Boilers. See Boilers and Water-Tube Boilers
Marine Engines. See Engines, Marine
Marine-Engine Superheaters, 749
Marine Engineering, 604
Marine Engineering. See Engines, Marine,
Naval Architects, and Warships
Marine Shafts. See Shafts
Marine Steam-Turbines. See Turbines, Steam,
Marinoni All-Size and Continuous Set-Off Perfecting Printing-Machine, 433
Masses of the Stars, 443
Master and Servant Cases. See Legal
Material, Standards of Fire-Resistance, 191
Materials of Construction, Test of, 644
Materials of Engineering, Elasticity and Resistance of, 176
Materials, Fictitious Firepfoof, 439
Matter, Radioactivity of Ordinary, 364
Measurements in Applied Science,744
Measurement of Small Differences of Phase, 804
Measurement of Electric Wave-Lengths, 397

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :

The American Visit, by the President, 144
Design and Test of a Modern Steam-Power
Plant, by Edward G. Hiller, 146, 165, 196
A Scientific Investigation into the Possibilities of Gas-Turbines, by R. M. Neilson, 64, 590
Impact Tests on the Wrought Steels of
Commerce, by A. E. Seaton and A. Jude, 04, 728, 765. See also Microscopic Observations and Heat Treatment
Heat Treatment of Chrome - Vanadium
Steel, by Captain Riall Sankey and J.
Kent Smith, 846, 871, 903, 904. See Erratum, 903
Mechanical Engineers ; Joint Meeting at Chicago
The Effects of Strain and of Annealing, by
William Campbell, 9
Cast-Iron, Strength, Composition, and
Specification of, by W. J. Keep, 9
Experiments with a Lathe-Tool Dynamometer, by Dr. J. T. Nicolson, 9, 29, 62. See 75
Road Tests of Consolidation Freight Locomotives, by Professor E. A. Hitchcock, 9
Locomotive - Testing Plants, by Professor
W. F. M. Goss, 9
Locomotive-Testing in England, by G. J.
Churchward, W. F. Pettigrew, J. F.
DI'Intosli, Sir Douglas Fox, T. Hurry
Riches, 9, 28. See LErrEa, 59
Concluding Proceedings, 12
Visits and Excursions, 12
The Chicago Tunnel System, 12
Illinoie Steel Works, 13
Electric Distribution at Chicago, 39
Reception at the Art Institute, 41
Lewis Institute at Chicago, 41
Chicago Drainage Canal, 42
Concert in the Auditorium Theatre, 42
Reception by Colonel Watson, 42
Excursion on the Mississippi, 42
Visit to Cincinnati, 42
The Power Plant of Tall Office Buildings, by
James Hollis Wells, 130
The Steam-Turbine in Modern Engineering,
by W. L. R. Emmet, 97
Mechanical Engineers' Reference-Book, 141
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 878
Mechanical Power and the New Epoch, 236
Mechanical Properties of Iron at Low Temperatures, 308
Mechanical Stress and the Neutral Zone, Double
Refraction, 618
Mechanics' Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 73
"Medea," H.M.S., Yarrow Water-Tube Boiler for, 263. See 187, 192, 345
Mediterranean, Kite Experiments in the, 400
"Medusa," H.M.S., Diirr Water-Tube Boiler for, 63. See 187, 192, 345
Meldrum's Refuse-Destructors for Works and Hospital Use, 856
Mephan Ferguson Lock-Bar Pipe, 550
Merchant Ships, Maintenance of Machinery in, 53
Mergers. See Trusts
Merryweather's Self - Propelled Fire - Engine ;
Kermode's Liquid-Fuel System, 337. See 859
Merryweather's Vacuum Cesspool-Exhauster, 727
Mersey Dock Dues and Ships' Tonnage, 20
Mersey Tides, 304
Metallurgical Furnace, Electric ; Calcium Carbide as a Resistance Material, 516
Metals. See Steel, Iron, Tin, Copper, Aluminium, Alloys, and Micro-Photography
Metals and Aminonium Salts, Reactions between, 61
Metals, Density and Flow of, 474, S29. See 281, 459
Metals, Fatigue of, 473
Metal-Price Diagrams, 60, 194, 318, 480, 622, 762, 04
Metals, Production of Magnetic Alloys from
Non-Magnetic, 308. See 58, 412
Metal and Reststrahlen, Optical Qualities of, 368
Metal, Structure of. See Micro-Photographs
Metals, Surface Flow and Hard and Soft State in, 474. See 281, 459, 829
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 400
Meteorological Papers at the British Association, 399, 442

Meteorological Society, Royal :

Meteorological Observing in the Antarctic,
by Lieut. C. Royds, R.N., 682
Decrease of Fog in London during Recent
Years, by F. J. Brodie, 682
Hurricane in Fiji, January 21 and 22, 1904, by R. L. Holmes, 682
Discussion on Decrease in Fog in London, 859
The Study of the Minor Fluctuations in Atmospheric Pressure, by Dr. W. M. Shaw
and W. H. Dines, 859
Meteorological Uniti, Uniformity of, 400
Meteorology of India and the Empire, 399
Meteorology, The Theory of Correlation Applied to, 400
Metropolitan.. See also London
Metropolitan Railway, Electrification of, 829
Meyer, H. S., on the Voltage Regulation in
Alternating Current Systems, 135, 199, 258
Mica Production in United States, 412
Micrometer, Newall Internal, 414
Micro-Photographs with the Aid of Ultra-Violet Light, 760
Micro-Photographs of the Heat Treatment of Chrome-Vanadium Steel, 816, 871, 903, 904. See Erratum, 903
Micro-Photographs of Impact Tests of Steel, 704, 28, 765
Micro-Photographs of the Plastic Yielding of
Iron and Steel, 354, 385
Micro-Photography of Aluminium, 333
Micro-Photography Observations on Naval Accidents, 737, 778, 810. See Impact Tests
Microscopic Observations on Naval Accidents, 37, 778, 810. See Impact Tests
Midland Railway Company's Steamers and Harbour, 139, 201, 235, 295, 423, 499. See 466, 689, 16, 749, and LETTER, Heysham
Military Motor Wagons, 56, 716
Milling-Machine. See Machine-Tools
Mills, Power in 146, 165, 196
Mills, Rolling, for Silver Strip, 371
Mills, Safety Appliances in, 740
Mine Operations in France, 640
Mines and Railways in China, 579
Mineral Industries of New South Wales, 344
Minerals, Sulphur Lines in Spark Spectra of, 462
Mineral Wagons, See Wagons
Mineral Wealth of Archangel, 724
Mining Locomotives, 495
Mining Machinery. See Winding and Electric
Mining Machinery at the Colliery Exhibition, 1
Mining Machines, Coal, in the United States, 22
Mining, Peruvian, 314
Mining and Quarrying, Elements of, 463
Mining Treatise, 207
" Minotaur," H.M.S., 651
Mint, Japanese, 585
Mirrlees Watson and Co.'s Windlass and Capstan, 499
* Miscellanea, 17, 51, 91, 119, 153, 181, 215, 215, 85, 317, 341, 373, 405, 437, 471, 507, 543, 577, 13, 649, 683, 717, 753, 787, 823, 859, 895
Mississippi, Hydraulic Dredging of the, 641
" Mitis ' Castings, 381, 433
Model Basin, United States, Some Recent Experiments at the, 815, 838
Models, Skeleton, of Warships, 249
Modernisation of Ancient Docks, 881
Modification of Fitzgerald's Model of the Ether, 37
" Mogul " Locomotive, 745, 811. See St, Louis
Exhibition
Molecular Weights and Boiling Points ; Properties of Mixtures, 413
Molecules, Kinetic Theory Determination of the Size of, 397
Moleswortb, Sir G. L., on Engineers in India, 14
" Mollihawk II.," Auxiliary Power Yacht, with
Oil-Engines, 466
Mond Gas Power-Station at Heysham Harbour, 95
Montlucon Water-Supply and Power Installation, 62
Motors. See Boat, Electric, Engines, Motor-Cars,
Steam and Self-Propelled
Motor-Boat Trials, 157, 191, 218
Motor-Cars, Electric Ignition, 798
Motor-Car, " Empire " Spring Wheel, 833
Motor-Car, " Glyda " Spring Wheel, 481
Motor-Car, Legal Case, 250
'Motor-Cars, Reliability Trials of Small, 377
Motor-Cars, Side-slip in, 332, 352. See LErms, 81, 433
Motor•Car Steering-Check Lemp, 524
Motor Carriage, Steam. See Self-Propelled Cars
Motor-Cycles at the Stanley Show, 722
Motor-Driven Battery of Schneider-Canet Howitzers, 716
Motor-Driven Chemical Fire-Engine (Wolseley), 51
Motor Fire-Engine, with Liquid Fuel, 338. See 59
Motors, Induction, Hopkinson Test as Applied to, 01
Motors, Internal - Combustion, 95. See als6
Engines, Oil, and Engines, Gas
Motor, Internal-Combustion, Lister Two-Cycle,
• 351
Motor, Oil, of Yacht " Mollihawk II.," 466
Motor-Omnibus in London, 433. See 381
Motor-Omnibus, Steam, Clarkson's, 381, 483
Motor, Petiol, Indicator Diagrams of, 66
Motors, Testing of Alternate-Current, by Continuous-Current, 333
Motor Vehicles for Military Purposes, 56, 715
Motor-Wagons at the Brewers' Exhibition, 547
Motor-Wagon with Schneider-Oanet du Bocage
Howitzers, 715
Moulding Foundry-Beds, 418
Multiple-Unit Train-Control, Westinghouse, 21
Mumford and Anthony Feed-Water Regulator, 42 •
Mumford Water-Tube Boiler, 242
Municipal Control over Tramway Construction, 63
Municipal Electric Undertakings, 25
Municipal, Glasgow, Telephones and Depreciation, 15, 59, 86, 157. See LETTERS
Municipal Trading and Costs of Opposition, 160
Municipal Trading ; Thames Steamboat Service,. 81
Municipal Tramways, Glasgow, 122
Municipal Tramways, London, 57, 653
Municipal Tramways and Running Powers, 25, 5, 760

N Rays, 365
Nagasaki,Shipbuilding and Shipping in, 445
Names o Firms in Trade, 547
Napier, Robert and David, 741
Napier's Hand and Steam Steering-Gear, 447
Narcosis, Velocity of Osmosis, Solubility and the Theory of, 459
Nasmith, Joseph, The late, 823
Natal Railways and Trade, 313. See LErrEas; 81
National Physical Laboratory, Grants to, 688. See Erratum, 717
National Physical Laboratory, Recent Work of, 98, 575. See also Reichsanstalt
National Physical Laboratory ; Investigations on 0-Candle-Power Harcourt Pentane Lamp, 301, 91
National Physical Laboratory ; Tests made on
Solders for Steel Brazing, 575. See LETTER, 21
Native Problem in South Africa, 883
Nature of Solid Bodies, 281, 459, 474, 829
Naval Accidents, Microscopical Observations on, 37, 778, 810. See Impact Tests

NaVal Architects, American Society of New York Meeting, 792

President's Address, by Rear - Admiral Bowles, 792
Simple Methods in Warship Design a Necessity, by George W. Dickie, 792
Semi-Globular Naval Battery, by Anson Phelps Stokes, 794
Sea-Going Battleships, by Commander W. Hovgaard, 815
Some Recent Experiments at the United
States Model Basin, by Naval Constructor
D. W. Taylor, 815, 838
Some Further Notes on the Performance of
the Torpedo-Boats of the United States
Navy at Sea, by Lieut. L. H. Chandler,, 15
The United States Armoured Cruiser
" Colorado," by Assistant Naval Constructor J. M. Powell, 818
Coaling Warships at Sea, Recent Developments, by Spencer Miller, 818
Time Allowance for Steam-Yacht Races, by
Rear-Admiral G. W. Melville, 818
On the Rules of Lloyd's Registry for Building
Yachts to Classes, by George Stanbury, 18
The Position of the Centre of Lateral Resistance, by L. E Bertin, 819
Subdivision of Weights in Ships' Displacement, by Colonel Nabor Soliani, 819
Maintenance of Machinery in Merchant
Ships, by Robert Haig, 853
Other Papers, 855

Naval Architects', German, Year-Book, 75
Naval Architecture, 604
Naval Battery, Semi-Globular, 794
Naval Boilers. See Boilers and Water-Tube
Boilers
Naval Conditions, 217
Naval Construction in 1904, 898
Naval Engineers. See Engineers and Training
Naval Force, Distribution of, 825
Naval Guns. See Guns
Naval Machinery See Warships, and Engines,
Marine
Naval Ships. See Warships .
Navigation, International Congress of, 114
Navigation, Lighthouses and Aids to, 644
Navigation Lights, Canadian, 251 •
Navvy, Steam, 679
Navy Boiler Committee's Report, 187, 192, 263, 45
Navy Boilers. See Water-Tube Boilers
Navy Contracts and the Royal Dockyards, 440.
See 407, 651, 900
Navy Estimates, United States, 901
Navy Programme, Admiralty and, 407. See 440, 51, 900
Navy, United States, 350, 677, 712, 815, 818, 834, 38, 901
Navy, United States ; Progress of Building, 350
Navy Yard and Battleships, New York, 677
Navy Yard at League Island, 712
Neilson, R. M., on the Possibilities of Gas-Turbines, 564, 590
New South Wales Mineral Industries, 314
New South Wales Railways, 617
New York.Central and Hudson River Railroad ;
Cole Four-Cylinder Balanced Compound Locomotive, 530
New York Dockwork, 641
New York East River Bridges, 678
New York Edison Company, Generating Station
• of, 678 •
New York Navy Yard and Battleships, 677
New York Rapid Transit Subway, 675, 676
New York Shipbuilding Company, 712
New York Subway Air, 865
New York Tall Office Buildings, 130
New York Underground Railway, 602
New Zealand Railways, 441
Newall Internal Micrometer, 414
Newton's Second Law, Experimental Verification of, 397
Nicholson, Dr. J. T., Experiments on Lathe-Tool
Dynamometer,9, 29, 62. See 349, 675 •
Nickel, Electrica and Magnetic Properties of, at
High Temperatures, 396
Nile, Control of, 304. See 222, 476
Nile Irrigation, 222, 304, 476
Niles-Bement-Pond Company's Machine-Tools
at the St. Louis Exhibition, 538
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 477
Nitrogen, Stereo-Chemistry of, 459 .
Nomenclature in Applied Science, 741
Non-Conducting Coatings and Boiler Leakage, 39
Norddeutscher Lloyd's Steamer " Prinz Eitel
Friedrich," 60
Normand's Torpedo-Boat with Parsons Turbine, 83
North-Eastern Railway Electric Goods Loco. motive, 504 North-Eastern Railway, Electricity on, 276 '
North, Notes from, 16, 50, 82, 118, 152, 184, 214, 44, 284, 316, 340, 372, 404, 436, 470, 506, 542, 76; 612, 648, 682, 725, 752, 786, 822, 894
Notching Tests of Steel Rails, 89
Notes. See Cleveland, North, South - West,
South Yorkshire, United States, Industrial,
Foreign, Colonial, and Miscellanea
Nozzle, Doble Needle Regulating, 522

Obituary:

Observatory, Solar Physics, at South Kensington, Spectro-Heliograph of the, 443
Obstructions, Street, 90
Ocean Bar Dredging, 641
Odessa Water Works, Pumping-Engine at, 627
Oerlikon Railway Motors for Single-Phase Alternating Current, 623 •
Oil-Engines. See Engines, Oil, Internal-Combustion Engines, Petrol, and Motor-Cars
Oil Fuel. See Liquid Fuel
Oil-Proof Enamel, 433
Oldbury Boiler Explosions, 240, 248
Omnibus, Clarkson's Steam-Motor, 381, 483
Opalescence in the Neighbourhood Of Critical States, 444
Open-Hearth Manipulation, Acid, 628
Opposition in Electric Schemes, Costs of, 160
Optical Interference Apparatus for Measdrement
Tests, 618, 622
Optical Qualities of Metal and Reststrahlen, 368
Optics, Photographic, Modern Physics in Relation to, 852
Ordnance. See also Guns
Ordnance in United States, 569
Ore, See Iron Ore
Ore-Crushing Machine, Clero, 606
Ore-Crushing Machinery (Hadfield); 572
Ore-Concentration Plant, 464
Ore Deposits at Kara-Dagh, 780
Ore-Steamers on the Great Lakes, 620
Orenburg-Tashkend Railway, Turkestan, 760
Organisation, Railway, 311
Origin of Anthracite, 110
Origin of Sand Ripples, 271, 462
Osmosis, Velocity of, Solubility and the Theory
of Narcosis, 459
Overcrowding of the Underground Railway
Trains, 58
Overhanging Tree Branches, 412
Overhead versus Conduit Tramway Construction ;
Local Veto, 653
Oxidation and Radium in Presence of Iron, 365
Oxygen and Hydrogen, Union of, in Contact with Hot Surfaces, 460

Paleontolog:cal Discoveries of the Rocky Mountains, 462
Paper, Cellulose for, 619
Paris Sewage Diiposal, 601
Parker's Automatic Water-Gauge, 371
Parkhead Works, Beardmore's, Machine-Tools at, 81
Parliament. See Legal
Parliament and the Navy, 217. See also Naval and Navy
Parliamentary Private Bill Schemes, 722, 758, 94
Parsons, 0. A., on Turbines and Patent Problems, 251, 269
Parsons Steam-Turbines in Cruisers, 689, 719.
See 423, 499 ; LETTERS, 466, 749, and Turbines
Parsons Turbines versus Reciprocating Engines ;
Midland Railway Company's Steamer, 423, 499.
See 689, 719 ; LETTERS, 466, 749
Parsons Vacuum Intensifier, 499
Passenger Classes of Railways, 376
Passenger-Elevators, 603
Patent Act, Australian Commonwealth, 96
Patents Act, The New British, 350, 409, 692, 789, 61
Patent Convention, International, 576
Patents and Inventions, British, 206
Patent Law, Canadian, 608
Patent Law Regulations, 350, 409, 692, 789, 861
Patent Office, Australian Commonwealth, 433
Patent Problems, 251, 269
Patent Record, 35, 67, 101, 137, 169, 230, 261, 293 25, 357, 389, 421, 453, 489, 625, 661, 631, 667 01, 735, 771, 805, 841, 879, 911
Paterson, Clifford C., on Some Investigations on
the Ten-Candle-Power Harcourt Pentane Lamp
made at the National Physical Laboratory, 301, 91
Patschke's Drawing-Board, 182
Pearlitic Forged Steel Impact Tests, 704, 728, 65. See also Microscopic Obse) vations and
Heat Treatment
Peking Railways, Six-Coupled Locomotive, 434.
See Erratum, 471
Pelton Water-Wheel, Multiple-Nozzle, 93
Pelton-Wheel Nozzle, Doble Regulating, 522
Pelton Wheels, Governing, 599. See LETTERs, 32, and Water-Wheels
Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive Test at St.
Louis Exhibition, 484
Pentane, Harcourt, Lamp, Some Investigations
on the Ten-Candle-Power, made at the National
Physical Laboratory, 291, 301
Performance of the Torpedo-Boats of the United
States Navy at Sea, 815
Persian Copper Deposits, 780
Peruvian Mining, 314
Petrol-Cars. See Motor-Cars
Petrol-Engines. See otor-Cars and Engines, Oil
Petroleum. See also Engines and Oil
Petroleum Explosion at Antwerp, 316, 548. See LETTER, 621
Pettigrew, W. F., on Locomotive Testing in
England, 9. See LETTER, 59
Phase-Rule and its Applications, 741
Photographic Optics, Modern Physics in Relation to, 862
Photographic Print-Producing Apparatus, 171
Photographs, Micro-. See Micro-Photography
Photography, Colour, Diffraction Process of, 68
Photography by Ultra-Violet Light, 760
Photometric Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 176
Photometry, 878
Photometry of Electric Lamps, 765
Photometry ; The Harcourt Pentane Lamp, 291, 01
Photometry, Standards of Light in,301
Phthalein Salts, Constitution of, 45
Physical Analogies, 755
Physical and Chemical Sections, British Association, 336, 364, 396

Physical Society :

Projection of the Indicator Diagrams of a
Petrol-Motor, by Professor H. L. Callendar, 66
A Model Illustrating the Propagation of an
Alternating Current along a Telephone
Cable, and a Simple Theory of the Same, by Professor J. A. Fleming, 66
Gyroscopic Collimator, by M. E. J. Gheury, 6
A Note on the Property of Lenses, by Dr. G. E. Allan, 622
An Interference Apparatus for the Calibration of Extensometers, by John Morrow and E. L. Watkin, 622
A Sensitive Hygrometer, by Dr. W. M. Thornton, 622
Measurement of Small Differences of Phase, by Dr. W. E. Sumpner, 804
Direct Determination of the Curvature of
Small Lenses, by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 804.
Exhibition of Specimens of Crystal Showing
the Phenomenon of Lurninous Rings, by
Professor S. P. Thompson, 804
Rapid Method of Approximate Harmonic
Analysis, by Professor Thompson, 671
The Investigation of the Variations of Magnetic Hysteresis with Frequency, by Professor T. R. Lyle, 765
The Practical Determination of the Mean
Spherical Candle-Power of Incandescent
and Arc Lamps, by G. B. Dyke, 765
Er-chic-1 Inc!ruirents Exhibited by R. W. Paul, 765
A High-Frequency Alternator, by W. Duddell, 871
Exhibition of Experiments to Show the Retardation of Cable Electric Currents, by
Professor W. E. Ayrton, 871

Physics, Modern, in Relation to Photographic Optics, 862
Physiological Effects of High-Frequency Currents, 441
Pielock Superheater for Locomotives, 44, 111
Pier and Harbour Works at Folkestone, 37
Pierson Suction-Gas Producer, Test of, 285
Pig Iron, American, 248, 766
Pig-Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Pipe, Mephan Ferguson Lock-Bar, 650
Pipes, Water Friction in, at Small Velocities, 650
Pitman's Multiple-Nozzle Pelton Water-Wheel, 3
Planing Machines. See Machine-Tools
Plastic Yielding of Iron and Steel, 354, 385
Plates, Rotary Shears for, 417
Pneumatic. See Air
Pneumatic Tools in Engineering Works, 233
Points and Crossings for Conduit Tramways, 402, 10
Polar Aurorae and Sun-Spots, 402
Pollak-Virag Writing Telegraph, 829
Pollution. See River Pollution and Sewage
Pollution, Rivers, West Riding, 42
Polonium and Radium, Plan of Combination of
Atoms to have the Properties of, 365
Polycyclic Electricity Distribution System, 282
Polytechnic Society, Royal Cornwall, 292
Pond Lathe, Electrically-Driven, 538
Portsmouth Dockyard, Air - Compressor at
(Brotherhood), 148
Portuguese State Railway, Compound Passenger
Locomotive for, 111, 150
Position of the Centre of Lateral Resistance, 818
Post Office Telephones, 123, 281. See Glasgow
Telephones
Potential Efficiency of Prime Movers, 256
Power, Calorific, and Illuminating Gas, 660
Power-Driving by Rope, 194
Power, Electncal, versus Steam, 668
Power, Electrical, from Water, 273, 843
Power-Gas. See also Engines, Gas, and Producers
Power-Gas Electric Station at Heysham Harbour, 95
Power-Gas Producers, 540. See LErrEas, 621, 692
Power, Mechanical, and a New Epoch, 236
Power Plant. See also Electric
Power Plant of Tall Office Buildings, 130
Power-Stations. See Electric
Power-Stations with Gas-Engines, 835
Power, Water, versus Steam in the British
Isles, 843
Precipitations of 'Silver Chromate and Gelatine, 69
Premium System, Trade Unions and, 408. See 53
Presses, High-Speed, Forging, Hydraulic (Davy,
Sheffield), 644
Pressure, Fluctuations in Atmospheric, 859
Pressure Temperature and Air Circulation over
the South Atlantic, 400
Pressure of Wind on Roofs, 15
Printing-Machine, Marinoni All-Size and Continuous Set-Off Perfecting, 433
" Prinz Eitel Friedrich," Norddeutscher Lloyd
Steamer, 60
Private Bill Legislation, 86
Private Bill Schemes in Parliament, 722, 758, 794
Producer, Coal Gas, for Bituminous Coal, 540.
See LErrEas, 621, 692
Producer Gas, Mond, Electric Station, 295
Producer, Gas, Test of Pierson's Suction, 285
Production, Cost of, 685
Production of Coal, Iron, and Steel in America, 48, 756. See 155
Production of Iron and Steel, The World's, 165.
See 248, 756
Production of Manganese, 513
Projectors, 425
Propagation of Electric Waves Along Spiral
Wires; Measuring Wave-Lengths Used in Wire •
less Telegraphy, 397
Propeller Slip, Turbine, and Reciprocating
Engines, 499. See LETTERS, 406, 749
Propelling Engines. See Engines, Marine
Properties, Mechanical, of Iron at Low Temperatures, 308
Proprietary Right in Trade Names, 647
Public Authorities. See Municipal Authorities
Pulley-Block, Electric, 869
Pulley-Guards for Cotton-Mules, 740
Pulverising Machines, Clero, 606 ; Hadfield, 572
Pump, Centrifugal, and 2000 - Horse - Power
Alternator (Westinghouse), 698
Pump, Centrifugal, for Hydraulic Dredger, 656
Pumps, 24
Pumps, Electrical and Steam, for High-Speed
Presses, 644
Pumps, Weir's Separate Air, 423
Pumping Dredger " J. Israel Tarte," 555
Pumping-Engine at the Odessa Water Works, 27
Pumping Machinery, 644. See Erratum, 683
Purfleet Ferro-Concrete Bridge (Hennebique
System), 582
Purification of Domestic Water, 531
Purification of Water by Sunlight, 26
Pyrenean Railway, 349
Pyrometer, Telescope, 724

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quarrying and Mining, Elements of, 463
Quay, Deep, Foundations, 640
Quay Walls at Heysham Harbour, 139, 201, 235.
See 283
Queensland Railways and Trade, 756
Quick•Firing Guns. See Guns
Quicksilver. See Metal-Price Diagrams

Races, Time Allowance for Steam-Yacht, 818
Radiation, Reaction of, on a Moving Electron, 64
Radiation Research Work at the Reichsanstalt, 73
Radiation, in the Solar System, 361
Radioactivity of the Hot Springs of Aix-lesBains, 365
Radioactivity of Natural Gases, 282
Radioactivity of Ordinary Matter, 364
Radium Compounds, Colour Phenomena of, 365
Radium Emanation,Volatile Product of, 365
Radium and Oxiation in Presence of Iron, 65
Radium Papers at the British Association, 864
Radium and Polonium, Plan of Combination of
Atoms to have the Properties of, 365
Radius of Action in Cruisers, 689, 719. See 23, 499 ; LETTERS, 466, 749
Rails, Sandberg " Goliath," on the Furness Railway, 126
Rail Stresses, 312
Rail-Testing, 89
Rail, The Third, 621, 658
Railroad Freights per Head of Population, 640
Railroad and Road Bridges, 641. See also Bridges
Railroad Terminal Stations, 534
Railroad and Traction Exhibits at Dfisseldorf
Exhibition, 462
Railway Accidents ; Derailment at Talycafn, 696
Railways, Argentine, Progress of, 519
Railway Auto-Car. See Self-Propelled Car
Railway, Boston Rapid Transit, 602. See 675
Railway Brake, Christensen, 784
Railway Bridge, Stoke Canon, Reconstruction, 58
Railways, British, 316, 376, 417, 448
Railways, Canadian, 630
Railway Car - Coupling, Westinghouse Automatic Air and Steam-Pipe, 414
Railway-Carriage Building, Woodworking Machinery for, 888
Railway, Carriage for Cambrian, 819
Railway, Carriage, Saloon, for South-E*.stern
and Chatham, 673
Railway Carriages, Self-Propelled, for the United
States, 348
Railway and Coal Developments, Chinese, 899
Railway Collision at Dewsbury, 128
Railway Company, Midland. See Midland Railway Company
Railway Construction, American, 125
Railway Construction, British, 417
Railway Dining-Car for the Great Western Railway, 319. See LETTER, 381
Railway Economics, 316, 448
Railways, Electric. See Electric
Railways, Electric, 140
Railways, Electric, Accidents on, 828
Railway, Electric, Compensated Motor System,
Schenectady (General Electric Company), 775
Railway, Electric, Economics, 494
Railways, Electric, in Germany, 550
Railway, Electric, Motor, 495, 699
Railway, Electric Motors for Single-Phase Alternating Current, 202, 534, 623, 775
Railway, Electric, Russian, 478
Railways, Electric, Trespassers on, 26
Railways, Electrical versus Steam, 568
Railway Enterprise in Korea and Manchuria, 619, 01
Railway ; Historical Collection at St. Louis, 6, 44
Railways in India, 616
Railways in Korea, 900
Railway, Lake Baikal, 687
Railway, Light, Leek and Manifold, 21
Railway Locomotives. See Locomotives and SelfPropelled Cars
Railway, Metropolitan, Electrification of, 829
Railway Mineral Wagons. See Wagons
Railways and Mines in China, 579
Railway Motor-Bogie for the Liverpool and
Southport Electric Railway, 468
Railway Motors, 202, 495, 534, 599, 775
Railway ; Multiple-Unit System of Train-Control, 21
Railways, New South Wales, 617
Railway, New York Rapid Transit, 675. See 602
Railways, New Zealand, 441
Railway, North-Eastern, Use of Electricity on, 76
Railway Organisation, 811
Railway, Orenburg-Tashkend, 760
Railway Property, Indian, 831
Railways, Queensland, 756
Railway ; Resistance to Traction, 56
Railway Rolling-Stock. See also Carriages,
Wagons, Locomotives, and Self-Propelled Cars
Railway Rolling-Stock, 569
Railway, Run on Great Western,88
Railways, Russian Electric, 47
Railway Schemes in Parliament, 723, 758
Railways, Scotch, 483
Railways and Shipping of Japan, 124
Railway, Single-Phase, Motors, 202, 534. See 495, 99, 775
Railways, Spanish, 47
Railway Stations. See Stations
Railway, Tokio Metropolitan, 637
Railway Trackwork, Cast-Steel, 402, 410
Railways and Trade in Natal,•313. See LETTERS, 81
Railway Traffic, British, 316, 376, 448
Railways versus Tramways, 376
Railway, Trans-Pyrenean, 349
Railway Turntable, American 70-Ft., 396
Railways, Underground, 602, 675, 829
Railways, Victorian, 827
Railway and Waterway Development, 640
Rainfall about the Path of the Barometric
Depression, Unsymmetrical Distribution of, 00
Rainfall, Short-Period Barometric See-Saw and, 00
Range and Azimuth Finder, 586
Rapid Transit Subway, New York, 675. Boston, 2
Rateau Turbine-Driven Torpedo-Boat, 90
Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour, 253. See 08
Raworth's Regenerative Control for Tram-Cars, 61
Rays, N, 366
Rays, Changes Produced by the p, 365
Reaction, Change of Conductivity in Solutions
during Chemical, 469
Reaction of Radiation on a Moving Electron, C4
Reactions between Ammonium Salts and Metals, 61
Reavel's Oil-Engine and Air-Compressor, DirectCoupled, 113
Receiver Drop in Compound Engine, 273
Reconstruction of the Great Western Railway
Bridge at Stoke Canon,658
Reconstruction of Victoria Station, London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 868
Refraction, Double, under Mechanical Stress and
the Neutral Zone, 618. See 622
Refraction, Magnetic Double, of Colloidal Iron
Hydrate, 396
Refuse-Destructors for Works and Hospital Use, 56
Refuse-Disposal, Town, 641
Regenerative Control for Tram-Cars, Automatic, 01
"Regina Margherita," Italian Battleship, and
Engines, 716
Regulations as to Electric Supply, Board of
Trade, 282
Regulations, Naval, for Warship Trials, 615. See 07
Reichsanstalt Rerearch Work, 173
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Relation of Calorific Power to Illuminating Power
of Gas, 660
Relation Between the Crystalline and Amorphous States as Disclosed by the Surface Flow
of Solids, 459, 474. See 286, 829
Relays, Time-Limit, 495
Reliability Trials of Motor-Boats, 157, 191, 218
Reliability Trials of Small Motor-Cars, 377
Relief for the Unemployed, 725
Report of the Navy Boiler Committee, 187, 192, 63, 345
Reservoirs, Birmingham Water Works, 103. See
also Nile Irrigation
Residual Product Recovery in Chemical Industry, 652
Resistance and Elasticity of Materials of Engineering, 176
Resistance to Locomotive Traction at High
Speeds, 56
Resistance Material, Calcium Carbide as, 516
Resistance, The Position of the Centre of Lateral, 18
Restrictive Covenants in Contracts, 86, 791
Reststrahlen and Optical Qualities of Metal, 368
Retardation, Telegraphic Cable Current, 871
Reversing-Gear, Coil-ClutO, for Rolling-Mills, 20
Revolution-Counter, Horn's, 61
Rexer Automatic Rifle, 115
Riches, T. Hurry, on Locomotive Testing in
England, 9. See LETTER., 59
Rifles, Rexer and Halle, 115
Rings, Luminous, Crystals and the Phenomenon
of, 804
Ripple Marks and Sand Dunes, 271, 462
Ristori, E., on Water-Power in British Isles, 843
River Bridges, New York, 678
River Pollution, West Riding, 42
River Swale, Scherzer Bridge, 657
River Thames, Proposed Barrage of, 333
River Tunnels, Hudson, 678
Road Locomotive, 8-Horse-power Compound, 13
Road Locomotion. See Motor-Cars and Wagons
Roads and Railroad Bridges, 641. See also
Bridges
Road-Roller, Steam, Universal, American, 401
Road Steam Wagons. See Wagons
Roadway Construction, 640
Roberts, David E., on American Steel Works, 328, 59, 391, 428
Robins, A. G., on London to Plymouth without a
Stop, 88
Robinson, A. W., on the Hydraulic Dredger
" J. Israel Tarte," 555
Rock and Ore-Crushing Machinery, 572, 606
Rod Rolling-Mills, Wire, 15
Rod, Wire, and Bar Rolling-Mill Plants, F55
Rogers' Locomotives at the St. Louis Exhibition, 45, 811
Roller Sluice-Gates, 600
Roller, Steam Road, Universal, American, 401
Rolling Dams, 600
Rolling and Heeling of Ships, 15, 191, 241, 381
Rolling-Mill Plants, Wire, Rod, and Bar, 16, 855
Rolling-Mills in America, Details of Practice, 328, 59, 391, 428
Rolling-Mills, Coil-Clutch Reversing-Gear for, 820
Rolling-Mills for Silver Strip, 371
Rolling-Mills, Wire-Rod, 15, 855
Rolling Stock. See Carriages, Wagons, Locomotives, and Self-Propelled
Rontgen Rays, Diffraction of, 366. See LErrga, 67
Rontgen Rays to Ordinary Light, Relation of, 64. See also Rays
Roofs, Wind Effect on, 15
Rope-Breaking and Testing-Machines, 603
Rope Drive, 194 Ropeway, Aerial Wire, CO3
Ropeways ; Brake • Horse - Power of Haulage
Plant, 466
Rosenhain, Walter, on Plastic Yielding of Iron
and Steel, 354, 385
Rotary Shears for Plates, 417
Rotterdam Waterways, 600
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
Royal Agricultural Society of England Finance, 09, 552, 720
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 292
Royal Meteorological Society. See Meteorological
Rules of Lloyd's Registry for Building Yachts to
Classes, On the, 818
Running Powers of Municipal Tramways, 25, 55, 60
Russia, Cement Production in Southern, 412
Russia, Electric Traction in, 478
Russia, Mineral Wealth of Archangel, 724
Russian Manganese Production, 513
Russo-Japanese War. See War

Sa-Sow, Rear-Admiral, on the Japanese Navy, 24
"Sado Maru," Effect of Torpedoes on Japanese Mail S.S., 468
Safety Appliances for Cotton-Mules, 740
Sale by Sample, 379
Saloon Carriage, South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 673
"Saltley " Lathe•Carrier, 692
Salts, Ammonium, and Metals, Reactions Between, 461
Salts, Formation of, in Solution, especially
among Tautomeric Compounds, 458
Salts, Phthalein, Constitution of, 459
Salvage Steamers, German, 585
Salvage of Steamship after Torpedo Attack, 68
Sample, Sale by, 379
Sand Dunes and Ripple Marks, 271, 462
Sand-Pump Dredger " J. Israel Tarte," 555
Sand Ripples, Origin of, 271, 462
Sand Travel on Beaches, Madras Harbour, 240.
See Coast Erosion
Sandberg's " Goliath " Rails on the Furness Railway, 126
Sankey, Captain Riall, on Heat Treatment of
Chrome-Vanadium Steel, 846, 871, 903, 904.
See Impact Tests. See Erratum, 903
" Sapphire " with Reciprocating Engines versus
Turbine Cruiser, 689, 719. See 423, 499 ;
LETTERS, 466, 749
Saturated and Superheated Steam for Locomotives, 44, 111. See 858
Saw-Bench, Joiners' Cross-Cut, 675
Saw-Sharpening Machine, Automatic, 679
Scandinavian Cellulose Industry, 619
Schenectady Railway, Electric, Compensated
Motor System for (General Electric Company), 75. See also Oerlikon
Scherzer Bridge over the River Swale, 657
Scherzer Lift-Bridge, 713
Schmidt Smoke-Tube Steam-Superheater; Belgian
Locomotive, 858. See 44, 111
Schneider-Canet du Bocage Automobile Battery, 15
Schneider's Electricity Works, 887
Science, Applied, Introduction to (Measurement,
Calculation and Nomenclature), 744
Science and Business in Training, 769
Science, Subsidies to, 688. See Erratum, 717
Scotch Private Bill Legislation, 86
Scotch Railway s, 483
Scots' National Exhibition, 796
Scouts. See Warships
Screen, Stone and Ore, 572. See Crushers
Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Machine-Tools
Seasoning of Timber, 114
Seaton, A. E.,
and Jude, A., on Impact Tests, 04, 728, 765. See also Microscopic Observations and Heat Treatment
Secret Commissions, 582
Secrets of an Employer, 474. See LETTER, 539
Sections, Standard Steel, 883
Seismological Investigations, 400
Selenium, Tellurium, and Sulphur, Alkyl Derivatives of, 459
Self-Propelled Fire-Engine, 338, 751
Self-Propelled Railway Carriages for the United
States (Wolseley), 348
Self-Propelled Vehicles. See Motor-Cars, Wagons,
and Carriages
Semi-Globular Naval Battery, 791
Separation of the Finest Lines of the Spectrum, C6
Separator, Grease, 196
Servant and Master Cases. See Legal
Sewage-Disposal, 601, 897
Sewage, London, Experimental Bacterial Treat111E nt of, 74, 897
Sewage, River Pollution, West Riding, 42
Sewage ; Vacuum Cesspool-Exhauster (Merryweather), 727
Shaft, Crank, and Connecting-Rod, Wear of, 79
Shaft ; Sliding Keyways, Friction of, 467
Shafts, The "Ten ax"Automatic Coupling for, 14. See Clutch
Sharpening Machine, Automatic Saw, 679
Shearing Forces and Bending Moments of
Japanese Warships, 224
Shears. See Machine-Tools
Ship's Steam Steering-Gear, 447
Ships. See also Steamers, Steamships, and
Warships
Ships' Displacement, Subdivision of Weights in, 19
Ships, Heeling and Rolling of, 15, 194, 241, 381
Ships, Merchant, Maintenance of Machinery in, 53
Ships' Tonnage and Dock Dues, 20
Shipbuilding. See Warships and .Naval Architee is
Shipbuilding Berths at Beardmore's New Works, 55
Shipbuilding Company, New York, 712
Shipbuilding Design, 604
Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, Cramp's, 11
Shipbuilding Experiments by Lloyd's, 612. See 8, 717
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, 748
Shipbuilding and Shipping in Nagasaki, 445
Shipbuilding Trade, Lloyd's Returns of, 58, 512.
See 717
Shipping Casualties and Wrecks, 251
Shipping, Decay of American, 862
Shipping, Japanese, War Effects on, 830
Shipping and Railways in Japan, 124
Shipping Trust, Atlantic, 156
Shop Management ; Cost of Production, 685
Shoreditch Electrical Exhibition, 551
Shovel, Steam, 679
Siberian, Lake Baikal, Railway, 687
Siderites, Australian, 461
Side-Slip in Motor-Cars, 332, 352. See LETTERS, 81, 433
Silicon, Elimination of, in Acid Open - Hearth Steel, 628
Silver Chromate and Gelatine, Precipitations of, 59
Silver-Mining in Peru, 314
Silver Strip, Rolling-Mills for, 371
Silver Voltameter, 878
Simplicity in Design of Warships, 792
Singer's Cabinet Factory ; Record Building Construction, 316
Skeleton Models of Warships, 249
Sliding Keyways, Friction of, 467
Slip of Propeller of Reciprocating and TurbineEngine Ships, 499. See LErrERs, 466, 749
Slotting-Machines. See Machine-T0018
Sluice-Gates, Roller, 600
Smelting-House, West African, 674
Smith, J. A., on Air in Relation to Boiler-Feeds, 86
Smith, The late William Ford, 782
Smithfield Show, Machinery at, 791
Smoke Nuisance, 441
Smokeless Powder in the United States, 569
Societies. See Institutions and Royal

Society of Arts:

Chairman's Address on Subsidies to Science,
by Sir William Abney, 688. See Erratum, 17
Sodium Vapours, Anomalous Dispersion of, 367
Solar Physics Observatory at South Kensington,
Spectro-Heliograph of, 443
Solar System, Radiation in, 364
Solders for Steel Brazing, 576. See LETTER, 621
Solids, Relation Between the Crystalline and
Amorphou3 States as Disclosed by the Surface
Flow of, 281, 459, 474. See 829
Solubility and the Theory of Narcosis, Velocity of Osmosis, 459
Soudan Irrigation, 222, 304, 476
South African Locomotive, 13
South African Native Problem, 883
South African Port, Natal, 313. See LErrERs,"381
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Bridge
over the River Swale (Scherzer), 657
South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Saloon Carriage, 573
South London Tramway Trackwork, Cast Steel
(Hadfield), 402, 410
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16, 50, 83, 118, 152, 85, 214, 244, 284, 316, 340, 372, 401, 436, 470, 06, 542, 576, 612, 648, 682, 726, 752, 786, 822, 67,894 a
South-West, Notes from, 16, 51, 83, 118, 152, 85, 215, 244, 285, 317, 341, 373, 405, 437, 471, 07, 542, 577, 613, 647, 683, 726, 753, 787, 823, 67, 895
Southampton Dock 50-Ton Electric Crane, 210
Spanish Manganese Production, 513
Spanish Railways, 47
Specific Heat of Gases at High Temperatures, 272
Specification, Composition and Strength of Cast
Iron, 9
Spectra of Gases at High Temperatures, 877
Spectra of Sun-Spots, 442
Spectro-Heliograph of the Solar Physics Observatory at South Kensington, 443
Spectrum, Separation of the Finest Lines of, 366
Speed Indicator, Horn's, 61
Speed and Strength of Destroyers, 53, 114, 898
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Spelter Production, 250
Spinning-Mill, Tests of Power Plant, 146, 165' 196
Sprague-General Electric Train-Control System, 68
Solid Bodies, Nature of, 281, 459, 474, 829
Spring Wheel, Motor, 481, 833
Springs of Aix-les-Bains, Radioactivity of, 365
Ssuch)wan, Richest Province of China, 760
St. Lawrence River Dredger, 655

St. louts Exhibition :

Allis-Chalmers-Bullock Company's Exhibit, 07
Alternator, 1500-Kilowatt (National Electric
Company), 669
Armature Showing Ventilation (Westinghouse), 563
Crab for Electric Travelling-Crane, 713
Crocker-Wheeler Company's Electric Exhibit, 669
Drill-Grinding Machine, 485
Edison Electrical Exhibits, 605
Edison Storage Battery, 1
Electric Alternators and Motors (Westinghouse), 698
Electric Control and Supply Company,
Cleveland, Exhibit of, 703
Electric Controllers, Clutches and Brakes, 03
Electric Traction Commission, 140 •
Electrical Engineers' Visit. See Electrical
Engineers' Congress
Electrical Exhibits, 69, 107
Engine, Compound, and 2000-Kilowatt Generator (Westinghouse), 79
Engine-Controlling Devices, 539
Engineering Congress. See Engineering
Congress
General Electric Company's Exhibit, 237, 268, 99, 368, 426, 495
Generator, Electric (Crocker-Wheeler Company), 669
Hannoverische Locomotive with Pielock
Superheater, 44, 111. See 858
Iron and Steel Exhibits, 674
Iron and Steel Institute Visit. See Iron
and Steel Institute
Lathes, Turret (Pratt and Whitney), 308
Locomotive for the " Big Four Route," 327, 61, 396. See Erratum, 480
Locomotive, Cole Four-Cylinder Balanced
Compound, for the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, 530
Locomotive, Compound Express (Henschel), 4
Locomotive, Consolidation, Test, 484
Locomotive, Consolidation Type, Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, 745, 811
Locomotive, Four-Coupled, for Prince
Edward Island Railway (Canadian), 44
Locomotive, Great Northern Railroad,
U.S.A., 811
Locomotive Historical Collection, 6, 44
Locomotive, Mallet Articulated (American
Locomotive Company, Schenectady), 178, 45
Locomotive, " Mogul." St. Louis SouthWestern Railroad, 811
Locomotives, Rogers, 745, 811
Locomotive, Sandusky, 745
Locomotive-Testing Plant, 69. See 9
Locomotive Turntable, 70-Ft., American, 396
Machine-Tool Exhibit by Betts Machine
Company, Wilmington, 337
* St. Louts Exhibition - continued.
Machine-Tools ; Exhibit by Niles-BementPond Company, New York, 538
Mallet Articulated Locomotive ; Baltimore
and Ohio Railway, 178, 645
Motor-Car Steering-Check, Lemp, 524
Motor-Starting Device (Westinghouse), 563
National Electric Company's Exhibit, 669
Niles-Bement-Pond Machine-Tools, 538
Ore Concentration Plant, 464
Range and Azimuth Finder, 686
Road-Roller, Steam Universal, American, 11
Steam-Shovel, 679
Tool-Grinding Machines, 239
Turntable, 70-Ft., American, 396
Welded Boiler Furnaces, '286
Westinghouse Company's Exhibit of Electric Motors, 527, 563, 598

St. Louis, International Engineering Congress at,
See Engineering Congress, Electrical Engi' neer.% and Iron and Steel Institute
St. Louis South-Western Railroad Company's
Locomotive, " Mogul,' at St. Louis Exhibition, 11
St. Louis South-Western Railroad Locomotive, 45
Staging for Docks at Heysham Harbour, 201.
Standard Cells, 878
Standard Sections, Steel, 883
Standards for Electrical Measurements, Construction of Practical, 397
Standards of Fire-Resistance, 191
Standards of Light, Large-Bulb Incandescent
Electric Lamps as Secondary, 301. See Photometric
Standards of Wave-Lengths, 364
Standardisation, 878
Standardisation of Electrical Machinery, 221
Stanley Cycle Show, 722
Stanley Universal Theodolite, 680
Stars, Masses of the, 443
Stars, Temperature of, 443
State Telephones, 123, 281. See Glasgow Telephones
Station, Electric. See Electric and Power
Stations, Railway, Terminal, 534, 868
Station, Railway, at Heysham Harbour, 235
Stations of the Tokio Metropolitan Railway, 637
Station, Victoria, Reconstruction of, London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 868
Steam Boilers. See Boilers and Water-Tube Boilers
Steam Capstan and Windlass, Baxter's, 499
Steam Consumption of Naval Machinery, 607, 89, 866. See also Steam Trials
Steam versus Electrical Power, 568. See £43
Steam-Engines. See Engines
Steam and the Ether Pressure Theory, Grindley's
Experiments of, 397
Steam-Lorries. See Motor-Cars and Wagons
Steam Motor-Omnibus, Clarkson's, 381, 483
Steam Motor Vehicles. See also Motor-Cars and
Self Propelled Cars
Steam-Pipe and Air-Coupling, Automatic, Westinghouse, 414
Steam Power versus Water Power in the British
Isles, 843. See 568
Steam Production, Cheat), 866, 891
Steam-Shovel, 679
Steam Steering-Gear, Napier's, 447 •
Steam Stop-Valve, Hopkineon's Centre-Pressure, 17.
Steam, Superheated, 273
Steam-Superheater, Pielock, for Locomotives, 44, 11
Steam - Superheater, Schmidt Smoke - Tube
Belgian Locomotive, 858 •
Steam-Superheaters. See also Superheaters
Steam Trials. See also Warships and Launches
and Trial Trips
Steam Trials of the Indian Troopship " Dufferin," 890. See 371
Steam Trials of Warships, Conditions of, 615.
See 607, S66
Steam-Turbines. See Turbines
Steam and Water, Energy of, at High Temperatures, 444
Steam-Yacht Races, Time Allowance for, 818
Steamboat Service, Thames, 581
Steamers. See also Steamships, Ships, and
Warships
Steamer, Austrian Lloyd, " Africa ; " Deck
Plans, Interior Views, and Boilers, 255, 309, 71
Steamer " Caronia," Cunard (Brown), 91
Steamers' Engines. See Engines, Marine
Steamers, Ore, on the Great Lakes, 620
Steamer " Prinz Eitel Friedrich," Norddeutschet
Lloyd, 60
Steamers, Salvage, German, 585
Steamship, Indian, " Dufferin," 379, 890
Steamships, Japanese, 477
Steamship " Sado Maru," Effects of Torpedoes on
Japanese, 468
Steamship Service of Midland Railway Company. See Midland Railway Company
Steel, American, and the Tariff, 826
Steel Brazing, Solders for, 575. See LETTER, 6'1
Steel Buildings, Fictitious Fireproof, 439
Steel, Chrome-Vanadium, Heat Treatment of, 46, 871, 903, 904. See Impact Tests
Steel Company's, Bethlehem, Steel Works, 709
Steel, Crsstalline Structure of (Solid Bodies), 281, 59, 474, 829
Steel, The Effect of Rapid Alternating Stresses
on Structural, 307
Steel Furnace ; Acid Open-Hearth Manipulation, 28
Steel Girders. See Bridges
Steel-Hardening Furnace, Brayshaw's Salt-Bath, 20
Steel, Heat Treatment of, Revealed by Microscopic Observations, 737, 778, 816
Steel, High-Speed Tool, 349, 676. See 29
Steel Impact Tests, 704, 728, 765. See also Microscopic Observations. See Heat Treatment
Steel and Iron Exhibits at the St. Louis Exhibition, 674
Steel and Iron Institute. See Iron and Steel
Institute
Steel and Iron, Plastic Yielding of, 354, 385
* Steel and Iron Production, The World's, 155, 248, 56
Steel Manganese, 572
Steel Manufacture, 569
Steel, Micro-Structure. See Micro-Photographs
Steel-Pipe, Mephan Ferguson Look-Bar, 550
Steel Rail Testing, 89
Steel Standard Sections, 883
Steel, Structural, 121 833
Steel Tall Office Buildings, New York, 130
Steel, Tensile Strength of Open-Hearth, 674, 695, 32
Steel-Testing Machine, 800•Ton, Buckton, 805, 21. See 211. See Lwrrsits, 503
Steel, Tests of, 644
Steel, Tool, 9, 29, 62. See 349, 075
Steel Trackwork for South London Tramways,
Cast (Hadfield), 402, 410
Steel Trade for 1903, American, 756. See 155, 48
Steel Trust, American, 680
Steel and Wire Company, American, 713
Steel Works in America ; Details of Practice, 328, 59, 391, 428
Steel Works, Carnegie, 712
Steel Works, Illinois, 13
Steering-Check, Motor-Car, Lemp, 524
Steering-Gear, Hand and Steam, Napier's, 447
Stellar Temperatures, Criteria on, 443
Stereo-Chemistry of Nitrogen, 459
Stewart's Thermo-Tank Heating and Ventilating
Apparatus, 499
Stitching-Machine, Hyatt's, Belt Fabric, 79
Stoke Canon Bridge on the Great Western Railway, Reconstruction of, 658
Stone-Crushers, 572, 606
Stoney Roller Sluice-Gates, 600
Stop-Valve, Hopkinson's Centre-Pressure, 517
Storage-Battery, Edison, 1
Strain and Annealing, Effects of, 9
Stream-Line Theory Applied to Magnetic Flux, 55
Street Building Act, London, 687
Street Obstructions, 90
Street Traffic, Heavy, 440
Strength, Composition and Specification of Cast,
Iron, 9
Strength of Cylinder-Covers of Gas-Engines, 55
Strength and Elasticity of Metals, 473. See
Micro-Photographs and Crystalline
Strength and Speed of Destroyers, 53, 111. See
Strength of Timber, Testing of, 783
Stress, Mechanical, and the Neutral Zone, Double
Refraction of, 618. See also Optical
Stress, Tangential, Produced by the Oblique
Impact of Light, 361
Stresses, Rail, 312
Stresses on Structural Steel, Effect of Rapidly
Alternating, 307. See also Micro-Photographs
Strikes, Trade Unions and, 901. See Industrial
.Notes
Strokes, Lightning, Action of, on Buildings, 333
Structural Steel, 121, 883
Structural Steel, Effect of Rapidly-Alternating
Stresses on, 307
Structure, Crystal, and Chemical Constitution, 44
Structure, Crystalline, of Steel (Solid Bodies), 281, 59, 474, 829
Structure of Metals, Surface Flow and Hard and
Soft State in, 281, 474, 829. See 459
Structure of Steel Metals. See Photo-Micrographs
Students. See Training and Education
Students in Japan, Indian, 620 •
Studs, Impact Tests of Steel, 701, 728, 765. See
also Microscopic Observations and Heat Treatment
Subaqueous Foundations, 640
Subdivision of Weights in Ships' Displacement, 19
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 164, 692
Subsidies to Science, 633. See Erratum, 717
Subway Air in New York, 865
Subway, New York Rapid Transit, 675, 676
Sulphur Lines in Spark Spectra of Minerals, 462
Sulphur, Selenium, and Tellurium, Alkyl Derivatives of, 459
Sun Print-Producing Apparatus, 171
Sun-Spot Minimum and the following Maximum,
Relation between, 442
Sun-Spots and Polar Aurorae, 402
Sun-Spots, Spectra of, 442
Sunderland, Wear Bridge, 515
Sunlight, Water Purification by, 25
Superheated Steam, 273
Superheated Steam, Potential Efficiency of, 256
Superheater, Belgian Loeomoti ye, Schmidt
Smoke-Tube Steam, 858
Superheater, Pielock, for Locomotives, 44, 111
Superheaters, Marine Engine, 749
Surface Flow of Solids, Relation between the
Crystalline and Amorphous States as Disclosed by the, 281, 459, 474, 829
Surveying, 644
Surveying (Tacheometry), 528
Surveying Theodolite, 6S0
Swale River Bridge, Scherzer, 637
Swansea New Dock, 162
Sweetmeats, Forgrove Wrapping - Machine for, 87
Swinburne, J., on Some Difficulties in Getting on, 769
Swiss Tunnel Ventilation, 642, 799
Switches, Motor, 495
Symbols in Applied Science, 744
Synthesis and Decomposition of Ammonia, 459

Tacheometry : A Comparison of Systems, 628
Tachometer, Horn's Portable, 61
Tall Building in London, 687
Tall Office Buildings, New York, 130
Tangential Stress Produced by the Oblique
Impact of Light, 364
Tank Experiments, United States Ship, 815, 838
Tar and Gas from Coke-Ovens as Fuel, 477
"Tarantula," Yacht, with Liquid-Fuel Apparatus, 48
Tariffs and Iron and Steel Production, 165, 826
Tautomeric Compounds, Formation of Salts in Solution among, 458
Taylor, D. W., on Some Recent Experiments
in the United States Model Basin, 838. See 815
Taylor's " Instanter" Bench-Vice, 715
Teaching. See Education and Training
Technical College, Finsbury, Link-Motion Benoh for, 48
Technical Education. See Education
Telautograph, Gray Electric, 747
Telegraph, Wireless, 877. See 397
Telegraph Cable Companies, 164, 692
Telegraph System, British, 340
Telegraph Wayleaves, 313
Telegraph Wires, Falling, 159
Telegraph, Writing, Pollak-Virag, 829
Telegraph, Writing (Telautograph), 747
Telegraphic Cable-Current Retardation, 871
Telegraphy, American, 60
Telegraphy, Wireless, Propagation of Electric
Waves along Spiral Wires, Measuring Wav
Lengths Used in, 397. See 877 eTelephones. See also Electric
Telephones and Depreciation, Glasgow Corporation, 15, 59, 86, 157. See LETTERS
Telephones, State, 123, 281.
Telephone Wayleaves, 313
Telescope Pyrometer 724
Tellurium, Selenium, and Sulphur, Alkyl Derivatives of, 459
Temperature of Air in Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones at the Blue Hill Observatory, 401
Temperature Alarm, Electrical, 333
Temperature, Flame, in Internal - Combustion
Motors, 272
Temperature, Emission Curve, Boiler Gas, 986
Temperature, Pressure, and Air Circulation over
the South Atlantic, 400
Temperatures, Mechanical Properties of Iron at
Low, 308
Temperatures, Underground, 400
Tenant and Landlord in Factories, 513
" Tenax " Automatic Coupling for Shafts, 714
Tenders of Locomotives. See Locomotives
" Tennessee," United States Cruiser, 834
Tensile Strength of Open-Hearth Steel, 674, 695, 32
Terminal Stations, Railroad, 534
"Terrible," Boiler Performance of, on China
Voyage, 686
Test of Broken Connecting-Rod, 737, 778, 810
Tests, Impact, of Steel and Iron, 704, 728, 765.
See also Microscopic Tests and Heat Treatment
Test of 400-Kilowatt Westinghouse-Parsons Turbine, Steam, 559
Tests of Lathe Tools by Dynamometer, 9, i9, 62.
See 349, 675
Test-Loads on Pier Gangways, 381
Tests of Materials of Construction, 644
Test of a Pierson Suction Gas-Producer, 285
Tests. See also Trials
Tests on Solders for Steel Brazing, 675. See
LETTER, 621
Testing of Alternate-Current Motors by Continuous Current, 333
Testing Device, Cable, 495
Testing ; Double Refraction under Mechanical
Stress and the Neutral Zone, 018
Testing Iron at Low Temperatures, 308
Testing of Iron, Magnetic, 828 •
Testing Locomotive Plant, 9, 69
Testing-Machine, 300-Ton Steel (Buckton), 305, 21. See 211. -See LETTERS, 503
Testing-Machines, Breaking Ropes in, 503
Testing Plants, Locomotive, 9, 69
Testing Rails, 89
Testing Steel by Alternating Stresses, 307. See 71
Testing Timber, 783
Testing, Universal, Machine of 300 Tons for FullSize Number of Structures, 305, 321. See 211,
and LETTER, 603
Textile ; Safety Appliances for Cotton-Mules, 740
Thames, Proposed Barrage of River, 333
Thames Steamboat Service, 581
Theatre Fire Appliances, 411. See 222 and Fire
Theatre Fire Regulations, 379. See 222
Theatre, London Coliseum, 782
Theisen's Centrifugal Gas-Washer, 78, 383
Theodolite, Universal, 680
Therapeutic Agents, 878 •
Thermal and Electric Conductivities of Iron
Alloys, 397
Thermal and Electric Wave-Lengths, 878
Thermo-Circulator for Steam Boilers,488
Thermo-Dilatation of Compressed Hydrogen, 398
Thermo-Tank Heating and Ventilating Apparatus
for Ships, 499
Thornley Valve-Gear for Winding-Engines, 286
Thorpe, W. H., on the Anatomy of Bridgework, 70, 773, 844
Tides, Mersey, 304
Tientsin Trade, 830
Tilting-Hammer, Ancient, 96
Timber Piles for Submarine Work, 866
Timber Seasoning, 114
Timber Staging at Heysham Harbour, 201. See 83
Timber, Strength and Testing of, 783
Time Allowance for Steam-Yacht Races, 818
Tin and Copper, 504
Tin-Copper Series, Alloys of the, 459
Tin Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Tinfoil Wrapping-Machine, Forgrove, 287
Tokio Metropolitan Railway, 637
Tonnage, Ships', and Dock Dues, 20
Tools. See Machine-Tools
Tool-Grinding Machines, 5, 72, 239, 268, 429, 666, 33, 708, 814. For details, see INDEX or ILLUSTRATIONS
Tools, Pneumatic, in Engineering Works, 33
Tool Steel Dynamometric Tests, 9, 29, 62
Tool Steel, High-Speed, 349
Tool Steels, High-Speed, 675
Topaze," with Reciprocating Engines, versus
Turbine Cruiser, 689, 719. See 423, 499, and
LETTERS, 466, 746
Torpedo Attack, Russo-Japanese War, 19
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Torpedo Effects on Japanese Mail S.S. " Sado
Marti," 468
Torpedo Warfare? 891
* Town Refuse Disposal, 641. See 860
Trackwork for South London Tramways, CastSteel (Hadfield), 402, 410
Traction, Electric. See Electric Tramways and
Railways
Traction, Electric, and the Third Rail, 621, 658
Traction-Engine, 8-Horse-Power Compound, 13
Traction-Engines. See also Motor-Cars and
Wagons
Traction-Engines and Heavy Street Traffic, 440
Traction-Engines at the Smithfield Show, 791
Traction, Locomotive, Resistance to, at High
Speeds, 66
Traction, Mechanical. See Motor-Cars, Wagons,
and Electric
Trade, Chemical, Position in Heavy, 87
Trade in China in 1908, 551
Trade of Hong Kong, 884
Trade, Iron and Steel, in America, 1903, 248, 756
Trade of Japan, 159
Trade of Korea, 189
Trade-Marks, Australian Federation, 283, 5;0
Trade-Marks in China, 350, 621
Trade-Names, 547
Trade and Railways in Natal, 313. See LETTERS, 81
Trade with Richest Province in China, 760
Trade, Shipbuilding ; Lloyd's Returns, 68, 512.
See 717
Trade at Tientsin, 830
Trades Union Annual Report, 901
Trade Union Laws. See Legal
Trade Unions. See also Industrial Notes
Trade Unions and the Premium System, 408
Trade Unions and the Unemployed, 'i25
Trades Union Congress, 875
Traffic, Heavy Street, 440
Traffic Railways, British, 316, 376
Train-Control, Multiple-Unit, Westinghouse, 21
Train.Control System, Sprague-General Electric, 68
Trains. See also Railways, Locomotives, and SelfPropelled
Training of Electrical Engineers, 769
Tramcars. See also Electric Tramways -Tramcars, Automatic Regenerative Control for, 61
Tramway Construction, Municipal Control over, 653
Tramways, Electric, 140
Tramways, Electric, German, 161
Tramways, Glasgow, 122
Tramways, London County Council, 57, 402, 410
Tramways versus Railways, 376
Tramway Running Powers, 25, 55, 760
Tramway Schemes in Parliament, 723, 768
Tramway Track, Cast-Steel, for South London
Tramways (Hadfield), 402, 410
Tramways, Tyneside, and Running Powers, 25; 6, 760
Trans-Pyrenean Railways, 349
Transmission of Electric Power by the Third
Rail, 821, 658
Transmission of Power, See Electric
Travel of Beaches and Harbours, 240, 531, 699
Travelling-Crane, 60-Ton, 857
Travelling-Crane, Crab for Electric, 713
Treatment, Heat, of Chrome-Vanadium Steel, 46, 871, 903, 904.. See impact Tests and
Micro•Photographs and Erratum, 904
Trespassers on Electric Railways, 26
Trials of Steamers. See Warships and Launches
and Trial Trips
Trials of Warships, Conditions of, 615. See 607
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Troopship " Dufferin," Indian, 379, 890
Truck, Motor-Carriage, 468
Truck for Railway Car (Brill) Motor and Brake
Equipment (Westinghouse), 598
Trust, American Steel, 680. See 248, 766
Trust, Atlantic Shipping, 156
Tubes, Boiler, 467
Tubes, Friction of Water in, at Very Small Velocity, 550
Tubes, Mephan Ferguson Lock-Bar, 550
Tube Railways See also Tunnels
Tube Railways, 602
Tunnel, Boston Subway, 602
Tunnel, Chicago, Scheme, 12
Tunnels, Hudson River, 678
Tunnel Ventilation, 642, 799, 865
Tunnel Ventilation, New York Subway, 865
Turbine, Boring-Machine for, Casings, 659
Turbine-Driven Torpedo-Boat, Yarrow, 90
Turbines, Exhaust-Steam, Rateau, in Steel
Works, 796. See Erratum, 881
Turbine, Gas, Cycles, 664, 590
Turbines and Patent Problems, 261, 269
Turbine, Steam, Construction, Actien Electricitats-Gesellschaft, 231, 329
Turbine, Steam, Curtis, 97
Turbine, Steam, Curtis (General Electric Company), 171, 202
Turbine, Steam, in Destroyers, 53, 114, 898
Turbine, Steam, Future of, 689, 719. See 423, 99, and LETTERS, 466, 749
Turbine, Steam, in Modern Engineering, 97
Turbines, Steam, Parsons, in French TorpedoBoat, 183
Turbines, Steam, Parsons, versus Reciprocating
Engines ; Midland Railway Co.'s Steamers, 23, 499 ; H.M. Cruisers, 689, 719, and LETTERS, 66, 749
Turbine, Steam, Potential Efficiency of, 266
Turbine, Steam, Progress, 85, 719
Turbine, Steam, Tests, 679
Turbine, Steam, Tests of Westinghouse-Parsons, 59 ; Metropolitan Railway Station, 829
Turbines, Water, Governing, 697. See LETTERS, 32. See also Water-Wheels
Turbo-Alternator, Metropolitan Railway, 829
Turning-Machines. See Machine-Tools
Turntable, American 70-Ft. Locomotive, 396
Tyneside Tramways Bill ; Running Powers, 26, 5, 760
Type-Founding, Early Methods of, 491

Underground Railways, 602, 829
Underground Railways. See also Tunnels
Underground Temperatures, 400
Underground Trains, Overerowdingt 58
Underpinning Dock Walls, 881
Unemployed, Methods of Dealing with, 725, 901
Uniformity of Meteorological Units, 400
Union of Hydrogen and Oxygen in Contact with
Hot Surfaces, 460
Union, Trades. See Trade Unions, Industrial
Notes, Sand Legal
United States Battleship " Connecticut," 678
United States, Coal-Mining in, 222
United States Cruiser "Colorado," 712, 818
United States, Egypt and Hawaii, Irrigation in, 72
United States Great Lakes, Shipbuilding on, 748
United States Model Basin, Some Recent Experiments at, 815, 833
United States Navy, 834
United States Navy Estimates, 901
United States Navy, Progress of Building, 350
United States Navy; Some Further Notes on the
Performance of Torpedo-Boats at Sea, 816
United States Notes, 16, 90, 126, 149, 181, 222, 40, 283, 404, 468, 502, 542, 574, 610, 681, 717, 48, b20, 858, 902
United States Trusts. See Trusts
Units in Applied Science, 744
Units, Uniformity of Meteorological, 400

Vacuum Cesspool-Exhauster (Merryweather), 727
Vacuum Intensifier (Parsons), 499
Valve Gear, Bagnall and Price's, 339
Valve Gear for Winding Engines, Thornley, 280
Valve, Hopkinson's Centre-Pressure Stop, 517
Valve Motion, Model for, 48
Valve-Ref eating Machine, Gihsbn's, 621
Valve Tower at Birmingham Reservoir, 103
Vanadium-Chrome Steel, Heat Treatment of, 46, 871, 903, 904. See impact Tests and Erratum, 903
Vapours, Sodium, Anomalous Dispersion of, 367
Vehicles, Self-Propelled. See Carriages, MotorCars, Self-Propelled Cars, and Wagons
Velocity of Light of Different Intensities, 412
Velocity of Osmosis, Solubility, and the Theory of Narcosis, 459
Ventilating and Heating Apparatus for Shit Thermo-Tank, 499
Ventilation in New York Subway, 865
Ventilation of Tunnels, 642, 799
Veto, Local, Overhead versus Conduit Tramway
Construction, 653. See also Municipal
Vice, Bench, Taylor's " Instanter," 715
ViCtoria Station, Reconstruction of, London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 868
Victorian Railways, 827
Volatile Product of Radium Emanation, 365
Voltameter, Silver, 878

Wage Rates and Hours of Labour, 253
Wages ; Trade Unions and Premium System, 403
Wagons, Motor, for Military Purposes, 56
Wagons, Motor, for Gun Battery, 715
Wagons, Steam. See Motor-Cars
War ; Effects on Japanese Shipping., 830
War ; Effects of Torpedoes on Japanese Mail
Steamer, 468
War, Japanese Engineer in, 843
War, Russo-Japanese, and Field Artillery, 515, 91, 900
War, Russo-Japanese ; Torpedo Attack, 19, 468. See 891
Warehouses and Stores Fire Appliances, 411. See 222
Warfare, Torpedo, 891

Warships :

Battleships, Sea•Going, 815
Boiler Committee Report, 187, 192, 263, 345
Canadian Fisheries-Protecting Cruiser, 251
Coaling Warships at Sea, 818
Committee on Design of, Admiralty, 900
Design of Warships, 407, 441, 516, 651, 792, 98, 900
Distribution of British Fleets, 825
Displacement, Sub-Division of Weights, 819
Engines of H.M.S. " Dominion," 607. See 15
Engines, Naval, Microscopic Observations on Accidents, 737, 778, 810. See Impact Tests
German Battleship " Deutschland" (Krupp), 61
Gun-Power of Warships, 651. See Design
H.M.S.S. Launched in 1904, 893
H.M.S. "Amethyst," with Turbines, versus
Ordinary Engine Cruisers, 689, 719. See 23, 499 ; LETTERS, 466, 749
H.M.SS. " Black Prince," " Achilles," and
" Minotaur," 651, 666
H.M.S. "Blank Prince," Launch of, 651, 666
H.M.S. "Britannia," Launch of, 867
H.M.S. " Commonwealth," Trials of, 26
H.M.S. Destroyers, Speed and Strength of, 3, 114, 868
H.M.S. " Dominion, 607. See 615
H.M.S. " Hermes ;" Babcock and Wilcox
Boiler, 345. See 187, 192, 263
H.M.S. " Hindustan," Trials of, 866
H.M.S. "Lord Nelson," 408, 516, 651, 900.
See 440
H.M.S. " Medea, ;" Yarrow Water - Tube
Boiler, 263. See 187, 192, 345
H.M.S. " Medusa ;" Dim. Water-Tube Boiler, 63. See 187, 192, 345
H.M.S. " Minotaur," 407. See 440
H.M.S. Steam Trials: "Amethyst," " Topaze,"
" Sapphire," and " Diamond," 689 ; " Commonwealth," 26 ; " Dominion," 607, 615 ;
Hindustan, 866. See also Water-Tube
Boiler Committee Report
H.M.S. "Terrible," Belleville Boiler Performance on Tiial of Ship, 686
H.M.S. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer "Welland "
(Yarrow), 49
H.M.SS. " Topaze," "Sapphire," and " Diamond," with Reciprocating Engines, versus
Turbine Cruisers, 689, 719. See 423, 499,
and LETTERS, 466, 749
Italian Battleship " Regina Margherita,"
and Engines, 716
Japanese Armoured Cruiser " Kasuga," and
Engines, 540
Japanese, Navy, 224. Se9 also IVO
* Warships—continued.
Launch of " Black Prince," 651, 660 ; " Britannia," 867
Microscopic Observations on Naval Engine
Accidents, 737, 778, 810. See Impact Texts
Naval Conditions, 217
Navy Contracts and Royal Dockyards, 440.
See 407
Semi-Globular Naval Battery, 794
Skeleton Models of Warships, 249
Torpedo Attack ; Russo-Japanese War, 19
Torpedo-Boat (Yarrow), Rateau Turbine, 90
Torpedo-Boat No. 293, for French Navy
(Normand), with Parsons Turbines, 183
Torpedo Warfare, 19, 468, 891
Trial Conditions of British Ships, 615. See 617
Trials. See H.M.S. Steam Trials under Warshjps
United States Armoured Cruiser " Colorado," 712, 818. See 834
United States Battleship " Connecticut," 78, 712, 834
United States Cruiser " Tennessee," 834.
See 712, 818
United States Model-Tank Experiments, 815, 38
United Stat.18 Navy Construction Programme, 350
United States Navy Estimates, 901
United States Navy Yards, 677, 711, 712
United States Torpedo-Boats at Sea, 815
Water-Tube Boiler Committee's Report, 187, 192, 263, 345
Washer, Theisen's, for Blast-FurnaceiGas, 383
Washer, Theisen's Centrifugal Gas, 78
Water Consumption of Reciprocating-Engines, 07, 689, 866
Water Consumption of Turbines in Cruisers, 689, 19. See 423, 4C9, and LETTERS, 466, 749
Water Friction in Tubes at Very Small Velocity, 550
Water-Gauge, Parker's Automatic, 371
Water-Pipe, Mephan Ferguson Lock-Bar, 550
Water-Power, Electricity from, 162, 273
Water-Power versus Steam-Power in the British Isles, 843
Water-Pump. See Pump
Water Purification, Boiler-Feed, 534
Water Purification by Sunlight, 25
Water Schemes in Parliament, 794
Water and Steam, Energy of, at High Temperatures, 444
Water Supply at Heysham Harbour, 295
Water Supply and Power Installation, Montlucon, 62
Water Supply, Purification of, 631. See also River
Water-Tube Boiler, Armstrong and Day's, 820
Water-Tube Boiler, Babcock and Wilcox, H.M.S.
" Hermes," 345. See 187, 192, 263
Water-Tube Boiler, Belleville, in " Terrible," 86
Water-Tube Boiler Committee's Report, 187, 192, 63, 345
Water-Tube Boiler, DUrr, H.M.S. "Medusa," 63. See 187, 192, 345
Water-Tube Boiler, Mumford, 242
Water-Tube Boilers, Voyage of H.M. S. "Terrible," 86
Water-Tube Boiler, Yarrow, H.D1.S. " Medea," 63. See 187, 192, 345
Water-Turbine. See Turbine
Water-Wheels, Govering, 597. See LETTERS, 32
Water-Wheels, Govering Impulse, 832
Water-Wheel, Multiple-Nozzle, Pelton, 93
Water-Wheels, Potential Efficiency of, 256
Water-Wheel, Regulating Nozzle for, 622
Waterways. See also Rivers and Canals
Waterways, Artificial, 600
Waterways and Railroad Developments, 640
Water Works, Birmingham, 103
Water Works, Cowlyd, 478
Water Works, Pumping Engine at the Odessa, 27
Wave-Lengths, Standards of, 364
Waves and, Beach Travel, 248, 531, 699
Waves, Propagation of Electric, along Spiral
Wires ; Measuring Wave-Lengths used in Wireless Telegraphy, 397
Waves, Size and Periodicity of (Harbours), 531
Waygood's Electric Hoists at Heysham Harbour, 95
Wayleaves, Telephone, 313
Wear Bridge at Sunderland, 515
Wear of Crank-Shaft and Connecting-Rods, 479
Web Girders. See Bridges
Webber, The late Major-General, 445
Weights, Molecular, and Boiling-Points; Properties of Mixtures, 443
Weights in Ships' Displacement, Sub-Division of, 19
Weir, Rolling Dams, 600
Weir's Separate Air-Pumps, 423
Welded Boiler-Furnaces, 286, 854
Well, Artesian, at Heysham Harbour, 295
" Welland," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 9
Wells, James Hollis, on the Power Plant of Tall
Office Buildings, 130
Welsh Water Works and the London County
Council, 478
West African Smelting-House, 674
West Riding River Pollution, 42
West, Thomas D., on Standard and Systematic
Methods for Making Foundry-Beds, 418
Western Telegraph Company, Limited, 692
Westinghouse Automatic Air and Steam Pipe
Coupling, 414
Westinghouse Company's Exhibit at St. Louis
Exhibition, 527, 563, 578
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company's
Works, East Pittsburg, 712
Westinghouse 2000-Kilowatt Compound Engine
and Generator, 79
Westinghouse Multiple-Unit Train-Control, 21
Westinghouse-Parsons Steam-Turbine, Tests of, 59. See Turbines
Wheat Grown per Acre and Waterway Development, 640
Wheel, " Empire" Spring, 833
Wheel, Glyda Spring Hub, 481
Whip, Coal, Electric, 869
White's Aerial Wire Ropeway, 503
Whitworth High-Speed Tool-Steel, 9, 29, 62, 675.
See 349
Wicksteed, J. H., on Universal Testing-Machine
of 300 Tons for Full-Size Members of Structures, 05, 321. See 211, 305, and LETTER, 503
Wigan Boiler Explosion, 288
Winchester, Boiler Explosion near, 485
Wind Effect on Roofs, 15
Winding-Engines, Corliss, for Kalgoorlie, Western
Australia, 857
Winding - Engines, Thornley Valve Gear for, 86
Windlass and Capstan, Steam, Baxter's, 499
Wind-Mills, 24
Wire, Aerial Ropeway, 318, 466, 503
Wires, Falling Telegraph, 159
Wire-Rod and Bar Rolling-Mill Plants, 855
Wire-Rod Rolling-Mills, 15
Wire and Steel Company, American, 713
Wireless Telegraphy, The Present State of, 877
Wireless Telegraphy, Propagation of Electric
Waves along Spiral Wires Measuring WaveLengths used in, 397
Wolseley Self-Propelled Chemical Fire-Engine, 51 ; Railway Car, 348
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine-Tool8
Woodworking Machinery for Railway CarriageBuilding, 888
Workmen's Cases. See Legal
Workmen's Compensation Act, 410
Workmen's Compensation Act, Amendment of, 19
Workmen's Compensation Act Cases, 189
Workmen's Compensation Cases. See Master and
Servant Cases under Legal
Workmen and Cost of Production, 685

Works:

Allgemeine Electricitats Gesellschaft SteamTurbine Construction, 231, 329
The American Steel and Wire Company, 713
American Steel Works Practice, 328, 369, 91, 428
Beardmore's New Shipbuilding and Engi•
neering Works, 455
Bethlehem Steel Company's Works, 709
The Camden Coke Company's Works, 712
Carnegie Steel, 712
Cramp Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 11
General Electric Company's Works, Schenectady, 171, 202
Illinois Steel Works, 13
The League Island Navy Yard, 712
New York Navy Yard and Battleships, 677
The New York Shipbuilding Company, 712
Schneider's Electricity Works, 887
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company's Works, East Pittsburg, 712
Works and Hospitals, Refuse-Destructors for Use in, 856
Works, Steel, Illinois, 13
Workshop Costs, 75
Workshop Tools. See Machine-Tools
Wrapping-Machine, Forgrove, 287
Wrecks and Shipping Casualties, 251
Writing Telegraph, 747, 829

Yacht, Auxiliary Power, " Mollihawk II.," with Oil-Engine, 466
Yachts, Rules of Lloyd's Registry for Building, 818
Yacht " Tarantula ;" Liquid-Fuel Apparatus, 148
Yachts, Time Allowance in Racing, 818
Yarrow Water-Tx1313 Boiler for H.M.S. "Medea," 63. &Aar,- 192, 345
Year-Book of Naval Architects in Germany, 75
Year-Books. See LITERATURE
Year-Books and Annuals, 782, 866
Yorkshire Coast Erosion, 240, 531, 699
Young, Alfred W., on the Design of a Dry Dock, 49. See LETTER, 539

Zinc and Lead, American, 546
Zinc, Production of, 260
Zone System on British Railways, 283

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 * Empire ; Presidential Address, by Sir John Eliot, 399
-* Uniformity of Meteorological Units, by Dr. W. N. Shaw, 400
+* Uniformity of Meteorological Units, by Dr. [[William Napier Shaw|W. N. Shaw]], 400
 * The Theory of Correlation applied to Meteorology, by Miss F. E. Cave, 400
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