The Engineer 1897 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1897 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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A

ABBE, Professor, Determining the Heights of Clouds, 285
Abernant Dispute, The, 486
Acceleration, Experiment in, 542
Accidents Bill, Compensation for, 12, 32, 111
Accident, The Coldrenick Viaduct, 3
Accident with a Coal Elevator, 302
Accidents, Compensation for, 184
Accident connected with the Electric Car Service in London, 302
Accident to the Drury-lane Stage, 322
Accident, Fly-wheel, 423
Accident in France, Bridge, 82
Accident Insurance in Switzerland, Compulsory, 384
Accident, Lift, at the General Post-office, 352
Accident, Railway, Bangalore-Mysore, 331
Accident, Railway, Buffalo to New York Line,449
Accident, Railway, at Buxton, 157
Accident, Railway, near Copenhagen, 66
Accidents, Railway, Germany, 371
Accidents, Railway, India, 109
Accident, Railway, L. B. and S. C., 223
Accident, Railway, London, Chatham, and Dover Line, 201, 334, 647
Accident, Railway, on the London and North- Western, 346, 625
Accident, Railway, Manchester, 449
Accident, Railway, Marlborough to Grafton, 33
Accident, Railway, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 181, 397
Accident, Railway, Newry, 84
Accidents, Railway, in the United Kingdom during Half-year, 33, 66, 84, 181, 201, 223, 334, 346, 396, 397, 449, 625, 647
Accidents, Railway. U.S., October, 1897, 650
Accident, Railway, at Vohuinkel Station, 223
Accident, Railway, Welshampton, The Jury’s Recommendation, 16
Accident, Railway, Yeovil Junction, 66
Accidents, Shell, at Bull Point, 577
Accidents on Street Railways in Massachusetts, Inspectors to Investigate, 397
Accumulator Railway Wagon Acquired by the Saxony Government Railways, 423
Acetylene for Driving Engines, 423
Acetylene Equivalent to One Horse-power for One Hour, 635 Cubic Feet of, 650
Acetylene Gas, 356
Acetylene Gas and Carbids Works, Manchester, 535
Acetylene Gas Generator, Kay’s Patent, 656
Acetylene Gas, Heating, and Smelting with, 158
Acetylene Gas Motor, An, 442
Acetylene Gas, Motor Cycles Propelled with, 650
Acetylene Gas, The Rate of Decomposition Increases with the Pressure, 550
Acetylene, Totis in Hungary, the First Town Lighted by, 650
Ackerman’s, Mr., Two Experiments Exhibited by, 473
Acme Feed Heater and Purifier? 279
Acton, Friars Place Estate, Electricity for Public and Private Purposes, 499
Adams, Messrs. Geo. N. and T. B., Works Pur¬chased by, 121
Adeney, Mr. Walter Ernest, Degree Conferred on, 423
Ader, Mr., New Cable Recorder, 181
Ader, Mr., On a Self-Registering Apparatus for Submarine Cables, 158
Admiralty, The, Measures to Prevent Accidents at Target Practice, 499
Admiralty, The, Round Bottom Vessel for Teach¬ing Gunners to Fire from a Rolling Platform, 499
Admiralty Warrant, The New, 555
“ Aeronautical Annual,” The, 15
Aerial Torpedoes. 58
Africa, German Railways in, 528
African Railway, An, 572
African Railways, Capetown and Buluwayo, 473
African (Menelik’s Empire) Railways, 122
Ageing of Whiskey, Artificial, 397
Agricultural Implements for Russia, American, 332
Agricultural Machinery in Russia, 552
Agricultural Machinery in Smyrna, Opening for, 573
Aktiebolaget Company, The Radiator Machine for making Pasteurised Butter, 6
Alarm for Boilers, 142
Alaska, Projected Narrow Gauge Railway in, 371
Albert Medal Awarded to Mr. G. J. Symons, 33
Alcohol Motors, Mr. Max Ringelmann’s Researches with, 449
Alcohol and Water under Prosiuro, Reduction in Volume of, 302
Algeria, Cork Forests in, 346
Algeria Petroleum, 346
Algerian Wine, 397
Algiers as a Coaling Station, 423
Algraphy, Mr. Scholz’s Patent, 273
“All the World’s Fighting Ships,” An Annual, Allen v. Flood, 601
Allen, Mr. Horace, a Modern Gas Power Plant, 420, 421
Allen, Mr. Percy, Lifting Bridge over the Murray River, 497, 500, 507
Allen, Son, and Co., Messrs. W. H., Dinner to their Employés, 550
Alloys-Aluminium, their Strength and Rigidity,
Alloy, A New Nickel-Iron, 16
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Elastic Limit, &c., in, 33
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Properties of Some, 473
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Structure of, 33
Aluminium, 117
Aluminium Alloys, Strength and Rigidity of, 473
Aluminium Castings, How to obtain Sound, 254
Aluminium Cathode, a Chief Feature of the Cowper-Coles Gold Recovery Process, An, 273
Aluminium and Common Metals, Relative Weight of Cast, 109
Aluminium ? Depositing, 229
Aluminium, Melting Point of, 131
Aluminium, New Application of, 273
Aluminium in place of Wood and Rubber in Machinery, 331
Aluminium Plates, 123
Amalgamated Society of Engineers—see also Society of Engineers, Amalgamated, 413
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Ths Board of Trade and the, 425
Ameer of Afghanistan’s Gun Factories, The, 175, 179

America:

American Agricultural Implements for Russia, 332
American Armour-piercing Projectiles, 504
American Blooming Mill, Mr. R. Crooker, inn., on the, 371
American Cars for English Railways, 369
American Competition with Gorman and other European Firms, 181
American Competition in Iron and Steel Goods, 384
American Competition in the Matter of Railway Material, 66
American Compressed Air Locomotives, 137

American Engineering News:

17, 43, 91,190, 212,261, 236, 379, 408, 433, 510, 533, 557, 581, 635, 654
American v. English Railway Bridges, 15, 32, 59, 81, 105, 159, 227
American and English Tenders and Orders from Japan, 66
American and European Competition in Machine Tools, 223
America, Fast Railway Run in, 144
American Ingenuity, 557
American Locomotives for Chinese Railways, 377
American Locomotives in Japan, 484, 636
American Locomotives and Permanent Way, Japan, 484
American Locomotive Tests of the Olden Days, 24
American Machine Tools, Competition with English, 223
American Merchant Marine, Mr. C. H. Cramp on the, 526
American Naval Boilers, 82

American Notes:

20, 47, 72, 94,122, 168,215, 241, 265, 288,312, 335, 354, 384, 437, 460, 486, 536, 560, 586, 612 660
America, Pig Iron and Coke in, 136
American Pipss for Glasgow, 401
American Rails for India, 654
American Railways, 84
American Saloon Carriage, 443, 445, 450
America, Shipbuilding on the Great Likes, 635
American Steam Car for Branch Lines, 634
American Steel Rails for Ireland and Japan, 254
American Tariff, The New, 112
American Trade in German Needles, Messrs. H. Milward and Sons on the, 223
American War of Rebellion, Book on the, 273
American Workshops very Anxioo9 for Work, 355
Ameye, M. Camillle, Machine for Gasifying Beer, 454
Ammonia Gas 183
Anatolian Railways, The Extension of, would Shorten the British Overland Route, 599
Anderson, Mr. Jas., 260
Andus, Mr. T., Retirement of, 526
Anemometer, The Dines, 496
Angola, Demand for Corrugated Iron in, 346
Angola, Demand for Machinery, 599
Annan, Mr. D. J., Window-cleaning Apparatus,
Annealing Graphite Crucibies, The Best Mode of, 109
Antwerp, 305
Antwerp, New Railway Station at, 302
Apparatus for Burning Weeds on the Railway,
Applied Mechanics, Professor John Galbraith's Address on, 302
Appointment of Mr. W. Carr, 654
Aqueduct Embankment, The Croton, 316
Ardwick Engineering Company, Compound Launch Engines, Improved Design, 71
Argentina, Electric Traction in, 642
Argentine Training Ship “ Presidente Sarmiento ” 236
Armatures, Mr. G. Moffat, On the Working Capacity of, 33
Armour, British, French, and German, 493
Armour-piercing Projectiles, 277, 307, 35y, 504
Armour-piercing Projectiles, Attack of Ilarveyed Armour Plates by, 359
Armour-piercing Projectiles, American. 504
Armour Plates by Armour-piercing Projectiles, The Attack of, 359
Armour Plate3, 633
Armour Plate, American Commission to Investi¬gate Construction of, 212
Armour Plates, British, 135
Armour Plates and Broken Projectiles, Hardened. 25 49
Armour Plates, Cammell 4in., 529
Armour Plates, Comparative Efficiency of Two Thin Superimposed, and a Single Thick Plate, 84
Armour Plates, Developments in the Manufacture of, 33
Armour Plate at £85 per Ton, for the United States Navy, 66
Armour Plates, The First Rolled, turned out in the United States, 650
Armour Plates, Schneider, Creusot, and Temi, 630
Armour Plate, Steel Shell, and Railway Material Trade in 1897, 636
Armour Plate, Trial of a 4ft. square, 4in. thick, 93
Armour Plate, Trial of a Nickel Steel Harveyed, 201
Armour Plates, Trial of, at Portsmouth, 181
Armour Trials, Recent, 205
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Sir Wm., The Chinese Cruiser “ Hai Tien,” 595, 597
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Sir W. G Profit for the Year, 311
“ Arrogant” Type, The, 413
Arrol and Co., Messrs. Sir Wm., Contractors for the New Clyde Bridge, 109
Artesian Well System Adoptedat Newington, 181
Articulated Locomotive, An, 390
Artificial Diamonds, Process for Producing, 331 I
Artillery, Mountain, India, 454
Artillery, New Mountings for Coast, 590
Asbestos Adapted to Electrical Purooses, 526
Ashmore, Benson, Pease, and Co., Giving Way of their Patent Rope-guided Gasholder, 71
As Others See Us, Prominent Americans on the British Navy, 230
Asphalt, Trinidad, What is It? 630
Asphalted Streets in Jersey City, Regulation of Traffic in, 158

Association fop the Advancement of Science, The Australasian: 131

Association, American Railway Master Mechanics’:

Conclusions Arrived at by the Committee
Appointed to Report on the Ratio of Grate Heating Area and Cylinder Volume, 33

Association of America, The Roadmasters’ :

Notes on the R>admaster and his Work, Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman, 508

Association, The British —»« British Association.

Association, Chainmakers':

Engineers’ Strike, Mr. Sitch on the, 409

Association of Civil Engineering Stu¬dents, The Manchester:

Presidential Address of Mr. W. II. Worthing¬ton, 559

Association, Cleveland Ironmasters’:

Arrangements for Jubilee Day, 19
Resolution as Regards the Eight Hours Day, 19

Associations, The Employers’ Federation of Engineering:

Action in the Eight Hours Question, 19

Association of Engineers, The Leeds :

Economic Development of the Steam Engine, Mr. Alfred Towler, 440

Association of Engineers, The Manchester:

Opening Address of Mr. J. Nasmith, the Presi¬dent, 383
Quarterly Meeting, 287
Roller Bearings and their Application, Mr. Tnos. W. How, 435
Syllabus of Papers for the Ensuing Session, 355

Association, Iron Trades Employers’:

Conference on the Eight Hours Question, 19

Association, The Liege Engineers:

Jubilee of the, 418

Association, Manchester Steam Users':

Appointment of Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 160

Association of Mechanical Engineers,

The Birmingham:
Visit to Messrs. Mitchell’s Brewery, Cape Hill, 363

Association of Municipal and County Engineers, The Incorporated :

Twenty-fourth Voluntary Pass Examination,

Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Midland Counles Branch of the Incorporated:

Artificial Filtration of Sewage by Coal, Dr. G. Reid on, 18
Visit to Messrs. Aveling and Porter’s Works, Rochester, 52

Association, Municipal Electrical:

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. C. H.
Wordingham, 13
Distributing Systems, Mr. J. R. Blaikie, 51
Distributing Systems, Mr. J. A. Jeckell, 51
Electricity Meters, Mr. T. P. Wilmshurst, 41
Generation of Steam, Mr. F. C. Snell, 14
Generation of Steam, Mr. J. J. Steinitz, 14
Localisation of Faults in Underground Mains, Mr. R. C. Quin, 52
Municipal Aids to Wiring, Mr. Gibbings, 15, 40
Prepayment Meters, Mr. H. W. Couzens, 42
Private Business Meeting, 59
Public Street Lighting, Mr. H. L. P. Boot, 40
Street Lighting by Electricity, Mr. S. E. Fedden, 40
Street Lighting by Means of Rectifiers, Mr. C. D. Taite, 40

Association, The National Free Labour:

277, 351, 367, 371

Association, The National Hardware:

Cycle Trade, Mr. W. Hobart Bird on the, 573

Association, The National Traction Engine Owners’:

Annual Meeting and Report, 573

Association of Stationary Engineers: Sixteenth Annual Convention at Columbus, Ohio, 397

Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, The British:

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. H. A. Hill, Containing Particulars of Water Supply of Twenty-six important Towns, 82, 101
Programme of Proceedings and List of Papers to be read, 73
Venturi Water Meter, The, Mr. W. G. Kent, 210
William Radcliffe Pumping Engine, Aubrey- street, Liverpool, By Alf. Towler, 380
Asterionella, Growth of, 177
Atkinson, Mr. A. A., his Appointment in New South Wales, 59
Atlantic Cable, Mr. C. W. Field’s Papers Relating to the First, 526
Atlantic City Express, The, 277, 300, 323, 352, 393, 469, 498
Atlantic City Railway Rnn, The, 323
Atlantic Passage, Tae, 356
Atmospheric Burner, The Theory of tin, 26
Atmospheric Engine, Polsounow's, 275
Atomic Weights, 32
Aubrey street Pumping Engine, Liverpool, 380
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Seventh Session, 131
Australian Colonies, Yield of Gold in the Four, 158
Australia, Light Riilways in, 16
Aostralia, Mineral Wealth o', 302

Australian Notes:

91,192, 433, 557, 610
Australia, The Provision of Engineering in, 522
Australia, Railway Eiterpr.se in South and West, 181, 241
Australian Railway Extension, 181, 211, 397, 653
Australia, South, 656
Australia, West, Gold Produced, 1896—97, 371
Australia, West, Railways in, 181, 241, 656
Austrian Lloyd Co., Steamers from Aden to Zanzibar, 84
Austrian Governmental Inquiry into the Dangers of Petroleum Vapour about the Tanks of Steamers, 84
Austrian State Railways, Yearly Vacations for the Employees, 201
Austro-Hungarian Import and Export in Iron Ore, Metals, Machines, and Coal, 585
Austro-Hungarian Iron Industry Reports—see Notes from Germany, End of each Number
Automatic Comptroller for Railways, 482
Automatic Couplers on American Railways, Ad¬vantages of, 599
Automatic Fog Signal, Pratt's, 17
Automatic Machine Tools, Hartford, 467
Automatic Railway Brakes, Mr. E. E Joynt on, 477
Automatic Sampling Water. 189
Automatic Sun Blind, An, 650
Automatic Tool Stop, 206
Automobile Cars for Peking, 397
Auxiliary Engines, As to the Coal Consumption in, 273
Aveling and Porter’s Works, Rochester, Visit to Messrs., 52
Avonmouth Dock, 375, 397, 592—see also Harbours and Waterways
Avonmouth Lock, 4
Avonmouth, Scheme for a Granary and Jetty at, 181
Axles for Locomotives, Steel, 533
Axles of Steel and Nickel, Locomotive, 473

B
BACTERIOLOGICAL Sewage Purification, 441
Bailey and Co.’s Albion Works, Salfcrd, Messrs., 622, 626
Bailey and Co., Limited, Messrs., Treble Ram Pumping Engine and Davidson Independent Pump, 311
Bailey, Mr. Elw., his Claim and the Employers’ Liability Act, 142
Bailey, Sir W. H., On Technical Education and Foreign Competition, 396
Bikan, Harbour Works Projected at, 16
Balanced Locomotives, 43, 230
Baldwin Works, Locomotives for South Africa, 244
Baldwin Works, Orders Heretofore Awarded to English Makers placed with, 550
Baldwin Works, Vauclain Locomotive, 252
Ball Gold Dredger, The, 341, 430
Ballast, Coatly, 265
Balloon, Experiments with an Alleged Steerable, 499
Balloon, Force of Traction Derived from a, Moun¬tain Railway in Bavaria, 550
Baltic and Black Sea Canal, The, 645
Baltic as a Fresh Water Lake, The, 32
Bamford, Messrs., Grinding Mill and Sifter, 38
Banister, Mr. Fred. Dale, 650
Barcelona and Madrid Tramway Systems, Electric Equipment of, Placed with the British Thomson-Honston Co., Ltd., 423
Barker’s Compound Crank for Cycles, 155
Barker’s Compound Crank, F. W. Chase’s Brilliant Record with, 201
Barley Dressing Plant, Mr. Robert Bury, 37
Barnaby, Mr. N., On Cavitation, 49, 59, 85
Barnaby, Mr. Sidney W., On the Formation of Cavities in Water by Screw Propellers at High Speed, 49, 59, 85
Barnes, Mr., Trades Unionism and, 163, 475, 493, 533, 534—set also Strike and Lock-out Barnes, Mr. G. N., his Statement in Reply to the Employers’ Manifesto, 163
Barnsley, Opening of the New Line to, 19
Barometer at Greenwich. Mean Reading of, for the Second Quarter of 1897, 158
Barr, Prof. Arch., Microscopic Structure of Iron and Steel, 440
Berrels, Steel, 83

Barrow Business —see Notes from Lan¬cashire:

Barrowman, Mr. Jas., Slavery in the Coal Mines of Scotland, 272
Barry, Sir John Wolfe, his Inaugural Address, 444
Barton, Mr. Jas , On the Irish Channel Tunnel, 272
Bascule Bridge over Chicago River, Rolling, 516
Battersea Park, Proposal for an Embankment along the whole River Frontage of, 20
Battleships, Fighting Powers of our lane of, 111
Battleship Machinery, French, 401
Battleehip “Yashima,” Speed Trials of the Japanese, 137

Battleships -see also Warships, Cruisers, and H.M.S.S.

Baudot, M. de, On the Exteriors and Interiors of Railway Stations, 599
Baudry, Mons. C., Express Locomotive, 257
Baxendale and Co., Messrs., Lamp for Street Lighting, 213
Bayly, L., The Jungfrau Railway, 320, 321
Bearings, Roller, 237
Behar, New Railways in, 498
Behr Lightning Express, Tervueren, 196
Belgium, Business in Coal and Coke, and Foreign Trade in Ore, Ac., 263
Belgium, Coal Production in, 302
Belgium, Labour Disputes in, 131
Belgium, Light Railways in, 127
Belgium, Railway Lines to be Taken Over by Government, 302
Belgium State Railways, Electric Traction on, 650
Belgium, Works for the Rectification of the Scheldt, 525, 615
Ball and Bourne, Messrs., Commission to China, 419
Bell, Mr. R. G., On the Principles and Elements of Electric Driving, 611
Beiliss and Co., Messrs. G. E., Compound High-¬speed Self-lubricating Engine. 158, 166
Beiliss Engines. The, 128, 137, 166
Helper Sewage, 509
Belts Running Out of Truth, 431
Belts, Travelling, Applied to Coal Shipment, 132
Bending Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel of
Various Kinds, On the Influence of Cold on the, 371
Bennett, Sir JohD, 33
Benzot, Dr. Kraemar on, 131
Berend and Co., Messrs., Speed Counter, 42
Berg, Mr. S., The Versam Bridge, 202, 244, 245, 248
Berlin Electricity Works, Motors Connected to the Mains of the, 84
Borlin, Underground Electric Railway, 66
Berne, Electric Supply Station for, 65
Bertin, M. Emile, On Hardened Armour Plates and Broken Projectiles, 25, 49
Bethlehem Iron Company, The First Rolled Armour Plates Turned out in the U.S., 650
Bevan, Mr. William, 144
Beyrouth-Damascus Railway, Profits Made by, 131
Bicycle Attachment, Brigg’s, 367, 405
Bicycles, Chainless, The Pop3 Company’s, 581
Bicycles, Excentric Pedal Motion for, 483
Bicycles, Experiments as to the Comparative Efficiency of Sprockets of Different S.'z?s, 223
Bicycles in Honolulu, 558
Bicycle Machine Tool, A, 635
Bicycle Mechanics, 251
Bicycles by Rail in the U.S., Arrangement for Carriage of, 84
Bicycle Trade, Defective Castings in the, Law¬suit connected with, 158
Bicycle Wheels, On, 201
Bicycle Wheels, Tension of Spokes, 353
Bicycling Organisations in the U.S , Building of Cinder Paths by, 16
Bicycles—tee alto Cycles Bilbao, Ore from, 168
Bills, The Bute Dock, and the Amalgamation of Railways Docks (Newport), 72
Bills, The Bute Dock and the Taff, 20
Bill, Compensation for Accidents, 12, 18, 19, 32, 71, 94, 111, 136
Bill, The Compensation, Mr. J. F. Cay’d Lettsr on, 18
Bill, The Compensation, Protest Against, 19
Bills Deposited, Railway, 638, 650
Bill Deposited for the Construction of the Whitechapel and Bow Railway, 650
Bill Deposited for Incorporating the City and Brixton Railway Company, 650
Bill, Metropolitan Railway Company’s, 625
Bill Proposing to give one Company Power to Erect Generating Stations on One Spot in Marylebone, 650
Bill, A Scotch Railway, 16, 33
Bills, Tramway, 573
Bill for Undercunnelling the District Railway, 84
Bill, Withdrawal of the Rating of Machinery Suspensory, 33
Bingham, Colonel, Presentation by the King of the Belgians to, 355
Birchill8 Hall Ironworks, The, 533
Birmingham, Ala., Steel Plant in, 201
Birmingham District, Proposal to hold the Royal Agricultural Show in the, 484 *Birmingham Meat Market, Cold Storage Ma¬chinery and Plant laid down under the, 610
Birmingham Small Arms Company, Dividend of 20 per cent., 354
Birmingham Water Department, Report of the, 18
Birmingham Waterworks, Mr. Henry Davey on the, 117
Birmingham Waterworks at Rhayader, 346
Bisset, Sir Wm. Sinclair Smith, his Appointment, 526
Blackall and Alsop’s Refrigerator, 187
Blackwall Tunnel, The, 502
Bland, Mr. John, Presentation to, 71
Blast Fired by Lightning, U.S. A., 66
Blast Furnacemen and the Eight Hours Day, 62
—see alto Strike and Lock-ont Blohmand Voss Shipbuilding Company, Steamers
Delivered by, 449
Blooming Mill, Mr. R. Crooker, jun., on the American. 371
Blyth, New Graving Dock at, 480, 495
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration’s Deputatation to the Home Secretary, 520 Board of Trade and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 425, 434
Board of Trade Electrical Standardising Labora¬tory, 363
Board of Trade Report for 1897 on the Sight Tests in the Mercantile Marine, 625
Board of Trade Report on Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, 396, 397, 631
Board of Trade Returns for October, Machinery Exports, 473
Board of Trade Returns of Railway Accidents in 1896, 331, 396, 397
Board of Trade Returns on the State of the Labour Market, 550, 599
Boby, Mr. Robert, Barley-dressing Plant, 37
Boer Government, the Enemy of Progress, The, 33
Boilers, Alarm for, 142
Boilers, American Naval, 82
Boiler Bracing, Mr. F. J. Cole on Experiments in, 158
Boiler of the Coil Type, A Novel, 599
Boiler, Dubian’s, 353
Boiler End Finishing Machine, Messrs. Campbells and Hunter, 187
Boilers and Engines and Nava. Manoeuvres, 85
Boiler Explosion at Devonport Dockyard, 321, 550
Boilers, Factor of Safety under the Madras Steam Boilers and Prime Movers Act, 84
Boiler Flues, Fairbairn's Formnla for the Strength of, 449
Boiler Fuel, Cost of Oil as, 656
Boiler, In the Case of the Heating Surface of a, What is the Question ? 109
Boiler Jackets ' Which are the most Economical, 16
Boilers, Latest Tube, 477
Boilermakers, The, 222
Boiler-making Machines, Some, 186
Boilers, Navy, 43
Boilers, Proportions of Locomotive, 183
Boiler Riveter, Hydraulic, 43
Bnler Shell Plate, A Cracked Steel, 331
Boilers and Steam Pipes with Infusorial Earth Covering, 223
Boilers and Steam Plant, Mr. A. B. Mountain on the Management of, 611
Boiler Suit, A Remarkable, 261
Boiler Tube Cleaner, 510
Boilers for Two New Gunboats, Mr. Long from Keyham Factory, to Oversee, 254
Boilers of the “ Vengeance,” Mr. J. Scott, from Keyham Factory, to oversee the, 254
Boilers, Washing-out Locomotive, 557
Boilers, Mr. J. A. L. Waddell on the Working of Soft Steel for, 550
Boilers, Water-tube, 456, 546, 556, 636
Boilers, Water-tube, H.M.S. “Salamander"
{Supplement, December 3rd, 1897), 556
Boilers, On Water-tube, Mr. F. J. Rowan, 456, 636
Boilers, Yarrow Water-tube, for Swedish Torpedo Boats, 66
Boiling Corrosive Liquids by Steam? 303
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., Wages Advance Granted, 191. 213
Bolling, Mr. C. E , Reports on the Water Con¬sumption of Richmond, U.S.A., 273
Bolts, Hook, 422
Bombay, Renovation of, 399
Bombay, Sanitary Reformation of, 331
Bonell, Mr. T. H. M., his New Appointment, 473
Book, The Most Expensive, ever Published, 273
Books Received:
37. 64, 86. 113, 140, 161. 185,196,231, 246, 281, 294, 327, 339, 362, 370, 401. 427, 453, 477, 503, 520, 542, 577, 603, 629, 653
Boot, Mr. H. L. P., Public Street Lighting, 40
Boring Mill, A Large, 592
Borries, Mr. A. von, Lead for Locomotive Valves, 141
“Boscobel." Great Central Railway Terminus, 473 '
Bouzey Dam, Failure of the, 256
Bowden, Mr., Power Transmission Through Slack Wires, 330
Bradbury, Mr. Wm., Exhibits at the Royal Agri¬cultural Society’s Show, 5
Bradbury’s Grindstone Rest., 5
Bradford, Electric L;ght in, 362, 391, 419
Bradford Electric Light Station, Engines and Dynamo, 391, 419
Bradley, Mr. Thos., 610
Bradley, Mr. T., Bench Drilling Machine, 435
Bradley Ironworks. Restarting of, 484
Brady, Mr. Alf. B., Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, 274, 278
Brakes, Automatic Railway, 477
Brakes, Continuous and Automatic, Extent to which they are Employed, 66
Brakes, Continuous, Return for the Last Half- year, 1896, 302
Brakes, Electric, Mont Cenis Line, 302
Brake for Express Trains, The New, 39
Brake, New Pneumatic, 121
Brake Shoe, A New, 473
Brakes, Siemens and Halske’s Electric, 201
Brattice Cloth Tarring Machine ? 475
Brazil, Waterworks for, 188
Breakdown of an Engine, A Curious, 327
Brewers’ Exhibition, The, 454
Brick Paving for Carriage Ways, Mr. J. T. Eayrs on, 95
Bricks, Roman, Found at Bath, 432
Brick and Tile-making Machinery at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Bridge Accident in France, 82
Bridge, Brisbane, The Victoria, 274, 278, 300
Bridge Building for Egyptian Railways, 90
Bridge, Canada, The Victoria Jubilee. 328, 329
Bridge over Carnarvon Harbour, A, 371
Bridge across the Clyde, New, 109
Bridge over the Danube, A New, 423
Bridges, Egyptian, 76, 136
Bridges, English v. American Railway’, 15 32, 59, 81, 105, 159, 227, 343
Bridge Erection, Rapid, 190
Bridge over the Godavarie River, India, 312
Bridges Hinged at the Crown and Abutments, 449
Bridge, Lifting, over the Murray River, 497, 500, 506, 507
Bridges, L'ght Railway, 617
Bridge over the Medway, Proposed New, 57
Bridge Members, Recent Tests of, 123
Bridge over the Nene, Swing (Supplement, July 23rd, 1897), 77, 79
Bridge over the Niagara, New, 222
Bridge in Paris, The Stephenson, 221
Bridge, The Pennsylvania Railroad, Iron Span Replaced by a Steel Span, 449
Bridge, Railway, Quebec, 212
Bridge, The Redheugh, 23, 24
Bridge, Rolling Bascule, over Chicago River, 516
Bridge, St. Lawrence River, 434
Bridge across the Sbimoaoseki Straits, Japan, Projected, 413
Bridge at Tarbes, Fall of a, 304
Bridge, The Versam, 202, 245, 247, 248
Brigg’s Bicycle Attachment, 367, 405
Brighton and RottiDgdean Electric Railway, 84
Brindisi, 400
Brisbane, Electric Tramway Installation, 223
Brisbane, Victoria Bridge, 274, 278, 300
Bristol, City of, Mr. W. J. Steele Appointed Engineer, 408 Bristol Docks, 375
Bristol, A New Dock at Avonmouth, 397, 592
Bristol Town Council and the Proposed New Docks at Avonmouth, 499
British and American Permanent Way, 527
British Armour Plates, 135
British Association:
Analysis of Speed Trials of Ships, by Wm. Geo. Walker, 433
Opens at Toronto, Programme, 136, 157
Properties of Metals, Prof. C. Roberts-Austen on Some, 211
Springs and Wells for Town Supplies and Works connected with the same, Mr. U. W. Pearson, 566
British Ccal at Odessa, Russian Coal a Rival to.
331.
British Columbia Government, Railway to be Subsidised by, 423
British Colombia, Land Slides in, 616
British Consul in Denmark on the Registration of Trade Marks According to Danish Law, 201
British Consul in Russia to British Manufacturers, The, 201
British Electric Traction Company’s Interest in the North Shields and Tynemouth Tramways, 81
British Empire, Trade of the, 279, 322
British Engineer, not so far Behind the Times, after all! The, 181
British, French, and German Armour, 493
British Manufacturers and Japanese Railways, 42
British Motor Syndicate Patents, 555
British Navy, Lectures on the, 573
British Navy, Prominent Americans on the, 230
British Railways, “Paid-up” Capital Invested in, 319
British Steamships Sold to Foreigners, 350
British Trade, Consul Mallet on, 81
British Trade, Eight Months of, 257
British Trade in Germany, 345
British Vessels Trading in the Danube, Average Registered Tonnage, 16
British Workpeople Involved in Disputes, 346
Broadbent, Mr. J. K., Patented Arrangement in Connection with the Furnaces of Steam Boilers, 333
Bromley, near Pensnett, Coal Enterprise, 191
Bromwell Patents Co., The Clinker Filter, 482
Brooks Locomotive Works, Monster Locomotive for Mexico, 510
Brooks Locomotive Works, Passenger Locomotive, 408
Brooks Works, The, Locomotives for Japan, 33
Brown’s Low-water Alarm for Steam Boilers, 142
Brown, Mr. Forster, Coalfield of the Transvaal, 46
Brown and Co., Messrs John, Government Orders for Armour Plates, 239
BrowD, Mr. J. H., lOin. Wire-wound Gun, 223
Broxburn Oil Company, Visit to the Albion Works of the, 318
Brunner, L., Project for Constructing an Artificial Lake in Switzerland, 158
Brussels Awards, 469
Brussels Exhibition, English Firms that Received Awards at, 383
Bryansk Ironworks Company, Kertcb, 397
Bryant Circular Saw, The, 17
Buck and Hickman’s Cup and Cone Grinding Machine, 531
Buck and Hickman’s Sprocket Facing Machine, 531
Buckton and Co., Messrs. J., 100-Ton Testing Machine, 376
Buenos Ayres and BelgraDO Tramways Company, Electric Traction over its Whole System, 492
Building Material called “Owen’s Stone,” The New, 499
Building, A Twenty-six Storey, 236
Buildings Committee of the London County Council’s Report on the Erection of Stands for tbe Jubilee, 33
Bulawayo and Capetown Railway, Opening of, 331, 473
Bulawayo Railway, Service suspended, 526
Bulgaria, Railway Enterprise in, 181
Bulkheads, Early Use of Water-tight, 389
Bulkheads, Water-tight, 522
Bull Point, Shell Accidents at, 577
Burglars use Electric Current in Ohio, 33
Burmeister and Wain, Messrs , Ice-breaking steamer, “Sleipner,” 88, 209
Burmeister and Wain, Messrs., Railway Ferry steamer, “ Kjobenhvn,” 89
Burner, The Atmospheric Gas, 26
Burnet-, Mr. C., Presentation to, 511
Burning Weeds on the Railway, Apparatus for, 223
Burns, Mr. John, and the Strike, 347
Burrell and Sons, Messrs. Chas., Compound Portable Eogine, 649
Burt, Mr. Philip, his Appointment, 223, 240
Buse, Mr., On Covering Boilers, Ac., with Infusorial Earth, 223
Bushell, Mr. Harry, 302
Bute Docks Company, Change of Name, 94
Buxton, Railway Accident at, 157, 189

C

CABLE between Brest and New York, A New, 16
Cable Recorder, M. Ader, 181
Cables, Repairing of Submarine, 86
Cabry, Mr. Joseph, 436
Cadell, Mr. H. M., On Submarine Coal-minim? at Bridgeness, N.B., 272
Caird, Mr. Robert, A Graphic Log, 546
Caisson Foundations for a Building, New York, Calcium, Carbide of, 113
Calcium Carbide, Analysis of Commercial, 625
Calcium, Carbide of, and the Petroleum Acts, 313
Calcium, Carbide of, Production of, 346, 371, 625
Calcutta Suburban Drainage, Messrs. Burn and Co., Contractors, 33
Calder, Purification of the River, 345
Caledonian Railway, Jubilee of the, 273
California, Electric Enterprise in, 131
California, Gold Dredging in, 631
Californian Market, Opening for English Pruning Implements in the, 346
Californian Railways, 397
Callender and Nicholson, Messrs., On the Liw of Condensation of Steam, 609
Calyx Boring Machine, 255
Cameron, Mr. John, Punching and Shearing Machine, 635 6
Cameron, Mr., Septic Treatment of Sewage Described by, 473
Cammell 4in, Armour Plates, 529
Cammell and Co., Limited, Messrs., Armour Plates for the British and Foreign Govern¬ments, 652
Campbell, Mr. Albert, Exoeriment to Illustrate Alternate Exchange of Kinetic Energy, 599
Campbells and Hunter, Messrs., Boiler End Finishing Machines, 187
Campbell-Stokes Recorder, A, 581
Canada, The Crow’s Nest Pass Railway, 273
Canada, Fast Steamship Service between this Country and, 33
Canada, Leather Export from, 331
Canada, Oa the Metals of, 599
Canada, Victoria Jubilee Bridge, 328, 329
Canadian Ferry Steamer, " Chebucto,” 344, 345,
Canadian Mail Service, The New, 11
Canadian Pacific Raiway Company, Steamers between San Francisco and Japan and China, Canadian Produce, 69
Canadian Railways, Privileges Granted to Mem¬bers of the British Association by, 109
Canals:
Canals, 418
Canal between Kirk Bromwith and Sykehouse, 346
Canal between the Volga and the Don, Scheme for a, 84
Canal, Baltic and Black Sea, 254, 645
Canal Beats in Franco, Company to Promote Electric Traction of, 181
Canal, Chicago Drainage, 125, 129, 147, 153, 172, 1&2, 341, 433, 492
Canal Developments and Canal Directors, 118,189
Canal, Manchester Ship, 167, 213, 220, 275, 495
Canal, The Panama, 4, 112
Canal Schemes, Some Ship, 453, 518
Canal Schemes in France, 346
Canal, Ship, across the Florida Settlement, 499
Canal, Suez, 4
Canal, Ten Lock, Panama, 66
“ Canopus," Launoh of H.M.S., 366, 372
Cape Government Railways, Narrow Gauge Engine, 556
Cape Railways, 284
Cape Transit Rates to the Transvaal, 499
Capital Invested in British Railways, 319
Carbide, Analysis of Commercial Calcium, 625
Carbide of Calcium, 113
Carbide of Calcium and the Petroleum Acts, 313
Carbide of Calcium, M. Regnolei - Memmo’s
Electric Furnace for the Production of, 371
Carbide of Calcium Works in Savoy, 346
Carbides, New Method of Preparing, 625
Carbon in Cast Iron and Steel, On the State in which other Elements occur than, 131, 181
Carbon in the Human Furnace and Coal under a Boiler, Comparative amount of Work done by, 331
Carbon and Iron, Mr. Saniter on, 150
Carbon Manufacture, 168
Carbon in Pig Irons and Steels, The Various Dis¬tinct Forms under which it Exists, 499
Carborundum Manufacture and Properties of, 495
Carburetting of Illuminating Gas, On the, 26
Carburine as an Enricher, Three Years’ Use of, 26
Cardew, Major P., Bonus Sanctioned by the Indian Government to, 473
Cardiff, New Dock, 144, 419
Cardiff Railway Projecte, 536
Cardiff Waterworks Engineer on the Penarth Water Supply, 16
Cardiff Waterworks Opened, 346
Cardiff Waterworks, Sale of Plant, 144
Carey, Mr. A. E., Proposed Harbour at Licata, 30
Carlisle, Waterworks, Electric Light, New Plant for Gasworks under Consideration for, 650
Carnarvon Harbour, A Swing Bridge over, 371
Carnegie, Mr. Andrew, Rumoured Retirement from Business of, 16
Carnegie Company and the Steel Girder Rail Trade, 650
Carnot and Gontal, MM., on the Elements in Cast Iron and Steel, 131, 181
Carnot and Gontal, MM., on tho Various Forms in which Carbon exists in Ferreous Products, 499
Carr, Mr. W., bis Appointment by the Natal Government, 654
Cars for English Railways, American, 369
Cars for Express Trains, United States, 43
Cast Iron Cutters on Milling Machines in the United States, Successful Use of, 223 Cast Iron or Steel, MM. Carnot and Gontal on the Elements in, 131, 181
Cast Steel Shafts, 81
Casting intended for Use as a Steam Hammer, Blocks, Transit and Arrival of a Heavy, 526
Casting, A Great, 457
Casting, A Large, Messrs. Moorwood Sons and Co., 535
Casting Machine, New Pig Iron, 585
Costing Steel in Vacuum, 289
Casting Weighing Forty-three Tons, 238
Castleford Service Reservoir, Singular Fissure, 440
Catalogues:
59,116, 227, 281, 295, 460, 512, 556, 577, 595, 621, 647
Caucasus, Construction of Large Engineering and Locomotive Works in the, 637
Cavitation, Mr. N. Barnaby on, 49, 59, 85
Cavities in Water by Screw Propellers at High Speed, On the Formation of, 49, 59, 85
Cawkwell, Mr. Wm., Personalty Left by, 181
Cay, Mr. J. F., on the Compensation Bill, 18
Cei, Captain, Quick-firing Rille Invented by, 59, 2/3
Cellulose Industry in Norway and Sweden, The, 625
Cement, Acid, House’s Cement Co., 213
Cement, Addition of Ragstone to Portland, 550
Cement, Portland, Chemical Constitution of. 615
Central London Railway, Progress of the, 371
Central Marine Engineering Co., Output of Engines Reported by, 611
“ Century " Water Heater, The, 87
Cesspool System of Drainage, The, 599
Ceylon, Railways in, 480
Ceylon, Railways Open in 1896 in, 273
Ceylon Railways, Profits on the, 650
Ceylon, Railways, Roads, and Bridges for, 465
Ceylon, Value of Import and Export Trade of, 33
Chadock, Captain, Iron Sliding Hatches, 288, 399
Chaff Cutters at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Chainless Bicycles, The Pope Co., 581
Chainmakers, Meeting of, at Cradley, 409
Chambers, Mr. W. Hoole, 254
Chang, Mr., 13
Channel Steamers, French-built, 426
“Cbantiers de La Loire,” Sailing Ship of 5000 Tons, 397
Chatelier, M. C., Analysis of Commercial Calcium Carbide, 625
Check Valve for Locomotives, Inside, 657
Cheltenham, Electric Light at, 302
Cheltenham Electrioity Works, 547
Chemulpo and Söul, Itailway between, 84
Cherry’s Helical Centrifugal Pump, 569
Chester, Mr. W. R., On the Automatic Regula¬tion of Pre8sare in the Distributing Mains, 26
Chicago Drainage Canal, The, 125, 129, 147, 153,
172, 182, 341, 433, 492, 655
Chicago and tho Erie Canal, 655
Chicago River, Improvement of, 212
Chicago River, Rolling Bascule Bridge over, 516
Chili, Development of Iron and Steel Foundries in, 254
Chili, First Torpedo Boat for, 201
Chili, The Trans-Andine Railway, 397
Chilled Pig Metal, Advantages and Economy in Use of, 449
Chimney Construction? 303
China, The Blackburn Commission to, 419
China, British Exports to, 223
China, Electric Lighting in, 621
China, Mineral Wealth in, 449
China’s Need and England’s Opportunity, 281
China, Railway Extension ana General Progress in, 201, 273
Chinese Cruiser “ Hai Tien,” The New, 595, 597
Chinese Developments, 206
Chinese Iron, The Province of Shansi Contains the Purest Quality, 84
Chinese Railways, 84, 273, 427
Chipstead Valley Railway Opened, 523
Chitty Dynamo and Motor Company, Limited, The, 582, 598
Choice of a Profession, The, 407
Christiania, From H.M. Consul-General at, Tenders Invited, 33
Christy and Norris, Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Churchill and Co., Messrs. C., First and Second Operation Hub Machines, 532, 608
Cinder Paths for Bicyclists in the U.S., 16
Cinnabar in British Columbia, 65
City and Guild Examinations, 155
Civil Engineering Feat in Corea, 66
Civil War, The, 61
Claus System of Purification at Belfast, Mr. J. Stelfox on the, 26
Clay Plug, Perforation of Iron Plate by, 321
Clayton and Sbuttleworth’s Engine and Boiler, 5
Clayton and Shnttlewortb, Messrs. S., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 5
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Oil Engine, 579
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Thrashing Machine and Grist Mill, 579
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Traction Engine, 578
Cleaner, Boiler Tube, 510
Cleveland Ironmasters’ New Departure in regard to the Hours worked at their Furnaces, 585
Clinker Filter, The, 482
Clouds, Determining the Heights of, 285
Clyde Bridge, The New, 109
Clyde, Engineering Crisis on the, 37
Clyde, Free Ferries across the, and the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 397
Clyde, Purification of the, 6, 80
Clyde Shipbuilding, 75, 334, 350, 449, 576
Clyde Shipbuilding and the Engineering Diffi¬culties, 449
Clyde Shipyards, Ships Launched from, in Septem-
Clyde and Tyne Shipbuilding and Engineering,
Visit of the Naval Architects to the, 75
Coal:
Coal, Benzol, Liquor Tar, and Coke produced by
Carbonising One Ton of, 254
Coal Boring at Himley, 310
Coal Car Distillation, Mr. W. J. Pope on, 405
Coal-carrying Trade from England to North Germany and tho Exceptional Tariffs agreed on by the German Railways, 625
Coal a Cheap Medium for Sewage Purification, 18
Coal Consumption in Russia, British and Russian, 254
Coal Contract, The Cie. Générale Transatlantique, 460
Coal Conveyor, 100
Coal Conveyor, Messrs. Head, Wrightson, and Co., 132, 151
Coal Cutting Machinery, 301
Coal Field of the Transvaal, Mr. Forster Brown, 46
Coal Gas, Weight of, 254
Coal Industry in the United Kingdom, Improve¬ment in the Employment in, 423
Coal in Kent, 142
Coal Mines of Scotland, Slavery in the, 272
Coal Mining at Bridgeness, N.B., Submarine, 272
Coal as a Mode of Generating Power, Efficiency of, 331
Coal, Moisture in, 73
Coal at Odessa, Russian v. British, 331
Coal Output, Control of the, 144
Coal Output, New South Wales, 201
Coal Output in the United Kingdom, 371
Coal and Pig Iron Exports in August, British, 273
Coal Pits, Electric Locomotives to Work in, 201
Coal Production in Belgium, 302
Coal Production in Japan, Annual, 122
Coal Production of the United States, 66
Coal and Shale Mines in New South Wales, 204
Coal Shipment, Application of Travelling Belts to, 132
Coal and Sugar, 586
Coal Supply, The, 629
Coal Trade, Outlook in the, 602
Coal Trade, Truth about the, 238
Coal Traders’ Associations, Coalition of, against the Railway Companies, 637
Coal Wagons, North Country Coal Trade, Lack
Coast Defences, Completion of our, 374
Cochran and Co., Messrs., Removal of their Works to Annan, 550
Coking Plant, Messrs. Whigham and Sohombnrg, 33
Colchester Port, 4
Cold upon the Bending Properties of Metal.Influence of, 371
Coldrenick Viaduct Accident, The, 3
Cole, Mr. F. J., On Experiments in Boiler Bracing,
Collier, Mr. Alf., his Appointment, 486
Collieries, Abandonment of Yorkshire, 186 Collieries in the Market, 240, 263, 288, 312
Colliery Disputes, Nixon’s Mountain Ash, 512
Collision with an Iceberg, s.s. “Knight Bachelor ” after, 275
Collins, Sir R. Henn, his Appointment, 449
Colombo Harbour, 183, 443
Colonial Railway Reports, 656
Colours, Our Railways’, 650
Columbia Motor Carriage, 209
Commercial Missions in the Far East, 419
Commercial Steel Company of Great Britain, Limited, 581
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, New Boats for the, 624
Companies Registered in Wales, New, 486
Compensation for Accidents, 12, 18, 19, 32, 111,
Compensation Bill, Mr. J. F. Cay on the, 18
Compensation Bill, Workmen’s, Protest against, 19
Compound Engines -i« Engines, Com¬pound
Compressed Air, On the Dangers and Value of, Compressed Air Diving Bell, Lake Huron, 433
Compressed Air Locomotives, American, 137
Compressed Air Locomotives in New York, 18
Compressed Iron Tires, Physical Proporties of, 217
Compressed Air Motor Cars on the New York Elevated Railway, Success of, 84 Compressed Air Tramcars in New York, Cost of Operating, 657
Compression and Tension ? What are, 420
Compulsory Benefit, 326
Concert, 608
Concession to Naval Mechanics. 634
Concrete, Manufacture and Use of, Mr. W. J. Shelley, 516
Condensation of Steam, On the Law of, 609
Condensation of Steam in Steam Engines and its Measurement, 641
Condensing Purposes, Formula to Estimate the Value of Water for, 158
Conductivity of Electrolytes, Professors Fleming and Dowar on the, 273
Conference, The, 551, 580, 610
Conference, After the, 527, 534
Congo State, Railway in the, 131
Congress on Navigation, International, 376
Consular Advice from Morocco, 346
Continuous Brake Return for the Last Half-year, 1896, 302
Continuous Rails, 35
Contracts:
Contract Delayed by Strike, Fulfilment of, 625
Contracts, Foreign, 552, 655
Contract Open, City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull Tramways, 505
Contracts Open, Railway Gasholder, Indian Railway, 260
Contracts Open, W. L. and W. Railway, Ireland, 305
Contracts Open, Wagon Frames, 432
Contract System, The, 241
Controller of the Navy, The, 236
Conveyor, Coal, 100
Cook, Mr. William, Hand-power Tire-bender, 38
Cooke, Mr. C. J. Bowen, on Engine Drivers and their Doties, 181
Copper Chloride, Dissolving Pig or Cast Iron by Cold and Neutral, 499
Copper Mining in England, Decrease in the, 371
Copper, Presence of Arsenic and Antimony in Crude, 449
Copper, Tensile Strength of Copper, 66
Copper on the West Coast of Newfoundland, 371
Corea, Civil Engineering Feat in, 66
Corean Government Steamers, An Unsuccessful Enterprise, 84
Cork Electric Tramways, The, 661
Cork Forests in Algeria, 346
Cornwall, Newquay and Junction Railway, 397
Coro and La Vela, Railway to Connect, 329
Corridor Train on the South-Eastern Railway, Now, 302
Corunna, Names of Importers of Machinery, Iron and Metal Work and Steel, 259
Cost of Oil Fuel for Steam Boilers, 656
Cost of Steam Power in the United States, On the, 636
Cost of Working Drawings, 555, 633, 655
Costly Ballast, 265
Cotton-spinning Industry, Japan, 484
Coupling Cars in America, Accidents to Em¬ployés in, 599 Couplings, Railway, 431
Couzens, Mr. H. W., Prepayment Meters, 42
Coverings for Boilers, Use of Scrap or Refuse Mica as, 254
Cowper-Coles Gold Recovery Process, The, 273
Cramp, Mr. Chas. H., On the American Merchant Marine, 626
Crampton, Mr. Willoughby, 366
Crank for Cycles, Barker’s Compound, 155, 201
Crank and Propeller Shafts, Mr. Manuel on, 49, 69
Crank Webs, Saw for, 87
Craven, Mr. Geo., New Nail, 252
Cravens, Limited, Messrs., Saloon Carriage for the King of Siam, 346
Creosoting Plant? 61
Creosoting Plant, 510
Crewe, Visit to, 287
Critchley, Mr. J. S., On the Daimler Motor and its Application to Auto-cars, 638
Crooker, jun., Mr. R., Development of the
American Blooming Mill, 371 Crookes, Sir W., President of the British Associa¬tion, 526
Crossgates and Wetherby, Doubling the Line between, 371
Crossley Bros., Messrs., Generating Station, Lausanne Electric Tramways, 60, 65
Croton Aqueduct Embankment, 316
Crowley and Co., Limited, Messrs., Gold Medal at the Dutch Agricultural Society’s Exhibi¬tion, 311
Cruisers for the French Navy, Now, 289
Cruiser, A New Japanese-built, 636
Cruiser “Vindictive,” H.M. Ram, 424
Crusher, The Jelman-Wepp, 653
Crystal Palace School of Engineering, 155
Cuba, Floating Dock for, 238
Cubical Contents, Correct, 155
Curious Engineering Expedients, 4
Curtis, Mr. R. H., On Sunshine Records obtained from a Campbell-Stokes Recorder and a Jordan Photographic Recorder, 581
Cutlery to the United States, Export of, 143
Cuttack, Ordnance and Gunshed Buildings at,
Cutter Bar, Messrs. Sargeant, 5
Cutting off Piles by Dynamite, 289
Cycles—tee alto Bicycles
Cycle Construction, Some Points in, 116
Cycles of Oil and Gas Engines, 583
Cycles of Gas and Oil Engines, Mr. J. D. Roots, 218, 268, 291, 315, 337, 360, 387, 413, 439, 466 490
Cycles, German and English, 397
Cycles of Internal Combustion Engines, 823
Cycles, Motor, Propelled with Acetylene Gas, 650
Cycle Show at the Crystal Palace, 550
Cycle Show, The National, 569
Cycles, &c , Show, The Stanley, 531
Cycle Spokes, Tension of, 353, 422
Cyclist's Bolls in France to be Audible at Fifty Yards' Distance, 1C9
Cyclists in Berlin, N umber of, 625
Cyfartha Iron and Steel Works, Visit to the, 171
Cylinder Clearance, Mr. Sinclair’s Remarks on, 84
Cyprus, Irrigation Works in, 516

D

DAIMLER Motor and its Application to Auto-cirs, On the, 638
Dairy Section, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Prizes Awarded in the, 6
Dairy Show, The, 396
Dam, Failure of the Bouzay, 256
Dam in a Mining Drift, Construction of a, 533
Dam, The Muchkundi, Bombay Presidency, 398,
Dangerous Trades, Report of the Committee on, 66
Danks and Co., Visit to the Boiler Works of Messrs., 186
Danube, New Bridge over the, 423
Danube, Tonnage of British Vessels Trading in, 16
Dauubius, Schoenichen and Hartmann Company, Hungarian Paddle Steamer (Supplement, Augutt 27(A), 207, 245
Darlington Technical College, Opening of, 312
Dartmouth, Naval College at, 273
Davenport, Mr. J. Aldersey, his Report to the Nantwich Rural District Council, 441
Davey, Mr. Henry, City of Birmingham Corpora¬tion Waterworks, 117
Davey, Pazman, and Company’s Works, Colches¬ter, Messrs., 570, 571, 574, 600, 604, 605, 606
Davidson Independent Air Pump, The, 311
Davis’s Motor Car Steering Gear, 519
Davis, Mr. J., on Three Years’ Use of Carbnrine as an Enricher, 26
Dawson, Mr., Mechanical Features of Electric Traction, 465, 483
Day, Mr. H. D., on the Magnetic Increment of Rigidity in Strong Fields, 16
Dean, Mr. F. W., on the Cost of Steam Power in the United States, 636
Dean, Mr. William, Minera, Engine, Great Western Railway [Supplement, November 5th, 1897), 442
Dean, Mr. W., Passenger Locomotive, Great Western Railway, 344
Deane Sinking Pump, 340
Death-rate in England and Wales, Second Quarter of 1897, 158
Decimal Classification ? 627
Dee Estates, Development of the, 354
Deeley, Mr. R. M., Economical Driving and Firing of the Locomotive Engine, 243
Denmark, Consul J. Boyle on the Trade and Finance of, 201
Denny and Bros., Messrs. W., The Paddle Steamer “ Walton Belle,” 64
Denny and Bros., Messrs. T., Triple-expansion Engines s.s. “ Walton Belle,” 53, 64
Depilatory Agent, X Rays used as a, 302
Deputy Director-General of Ordnance, 621
Derby, The Sewage Scheme for, 625
Design in Relation to Maintenance, Mr. W. B. Worthington on, 581
Devil’s Dyke Railway, Brighton, Steep Grade Railway, 118
Dewhurst and Son, Limited, Electric Light Installation for the Treeton Colliery Company,
Diagram Accounts for Engineering Works, Mr. Jamieson on, 465
Diamond Mine in the Transvaal, Discovery of the First, 449
Diamonds, Process for Producing Artificial, 331
Diamond S. Shoe, The Sargent Company’s, 473
Diaries and Calendars:
595, 647
Dickson, Mr. J. D. Hamilton, On the Connection between Electric Resistance and Temperature, 625
Dielectrics, Testing the Admixtures of Iron in Sulphur and other, 526
Dies, Hard Steel, 361
“ Diesel ” Oil Engine, The, 864, 391
Dines Anemometer, The, 496
Dingley, Tariff Influence of the New, 142
Direct Connection and Belt Driving, Comparative Tests of the Relative Efficiency, 650
Dispatch Boats for the German Navy to be Dis¬continued, Construction of, 371
Disputes, labour and Wages -tee alto Strike and Lock-out Disputes, Labour, 332
Disputes, Number of British Workpeople In¬volved in, 346
Dissolving Pig or Cast Iron by Cold and Neutral Chloride of Copper, 499
Distributing Systems, Abstracts of Three Papers on, 51
District Railway, Bill for Undertunnelling the, 84
Divination, 304, 343, 422, 469
Diving Bell, Compressed Air, Lake Huron, 433
Dixon and Co., Messrs. Raylton, Largest Vessel ever Constructed in the Tees, 312
Dock Accommodation at West Hartlepool, Pro¬jected, 526
Dock at Avonmouth, A New, 375, 397, 592
Dock at Blyth, New Graving, 480, 495
Docks, Bristol, 375, 397, 592
Dock for Cuba, Floating, 238
Dock, Dry, Port Orchard, U.S.A., 245
Dock, Electric Installation at a Graving, 611
Dock Extension at Ipswich, The Proposed, 499
Docks at Hamburg, New, 252 Docks, Hull, 83, 616
Dock, Large Floating, 431
Docks, Liverpool, 616
Docks, Portsmouth New, 632
Dock Railway Branch, Gloucester, A New, 236
Dock Scheme, West of the River Taff, 334
Dock at Troon, Now Graving, 254
Docks, Use of Dynamite in Graving, 13
Docks, Weymouth, 616
Donaldson’s Gas Engine, 260
Donaldson, Mr. Hay Fred., his Appointment, 621
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, On the Edison Ore Extract¬ing Works, 448
Door, Revolving, for Water-tight Bulkheads, 106
Dorman, Long, and Co., Annual Meeting of the Shareholders, 585
Dorman, Long, and Co., Limited, Annual Report, 535
Doubling of the Line between Brest and Rennes, 16
Doubling the Line between Crossgates and Wetherby, 371
Doubling of Railway Lines in Japan, 636
Douglas, Isle of Man, Proposed Breakwater and Pier for, 643
Doulton, Sir Berry, 490
Dover Corporation, A Municipal Telephone Exchange Discussed by, 625
Dover, Tha New Harbour, 375, 592
Dover and Somersetshire Coalfields, On the Corre¬lation of the, 611
Drainage and Sewage Disposal Scheme Approved by the Local Government Board, 16
Drainage System of Naples, The Now, 316
Drawbrige Built at Buffalo, New Type of, 286
Drawbridge at Toronto, An Unequal-arm Electric, 379
Drawings, Unfair Use of, 105, 140
Dredger, Tho Ball Gold, 341
Dredger “ Casuarina,” Sand Pump Suction, 644, 619
Dredger, Suction and Bucket, Messrs. A. F. Smulders and Co., 199
Drilling Machines, Bench, 435
Dry Dock, Government, at Port Orchard, U.S.A., 215
Dryness of July, 1897, 131
Duane, Mr. W., Rival Spectroscopy, 526
Dubiau’s Boiler, 353
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, Defen¬sive Works on the, 223
Diibs and Co., Messrs., Contracts for Locomotives, 625
Ducru, M. 0., On the Electrolytic Separation of Nickel and Cobalt from Iron, 331
Dudley, Tramways of, 573
Dum Dum Ballet, The, 598
Duncan, D. Ebenezcr, On the Attitude of the Modern Workman to Machinery, 636
Dundee, Shipbuilding in, 577
Dunkerley, Mr. Stanley, bis Appointment, 181
Dunkirk, Limited Company Formed at, for Fish¬ing with Steam Trawler, 346
Durston, Sir A. J., Review of the History of Marine Engineering from the Founding of the Institution to the Present Date, 25, 27
Dust Destruction, Electricity and, 7, 8, 9, 10
Dust Destructors, Erratum in the Notice of, 26
Dust Destructors, Shoreditch, 113
Dutch Agricultural Society’s Exhibition, Gold Medal Awarded to Messrs. Crowley and Co., Ltd., 311
Dyeing in India, Possible Disappearance of the Art of, 16
Dynamics, Prof. J. Galbraith on the Science of, 302
Dynamics, Teaching of, 113
Dynamics, Theoretical, 469, 523, 555, 583, 638,655
Dynamite, Cutting Off Piles by, 289
Dynamite in Graving Docks, Use of, 13 Dynamite Outrage in Japan, 636
Dynamo, The Largest in the World, 423
Dynamo, A Three-phase 1500-Kilowatt, 533
Dynamometer ? Wallace’s Graphic, 551

E

EARDLEY-WILMOT, Capt. S., Lectures on the British Navy, 573
Early Propellers, 393
East London Technical College, The, 317
Eastbourne Water Supply, 109
Eayrs, Mr. J. T., On Brick Paving for Carriage Ways, 95
Echota, Works for the Manufacture of Phos¬phorus, 346
Economical Freight Movement, 657
Eddy, Mr. (with Portrait), 131, 161
Edison’s Opinion as to the Motor Carriage Problem, 66
Edison’s Ore Extracting Works, 448
Edge Tool Trade, Dispute in the, 143
Edged Tools, Playing with, 305
Efficiency, Fan, 583, 633
Efficiency of Steam Turbines, 583
Egypt, Light Locomotives for, 484
Egypt, Railway Extension, 371
Egyptian Bridges, 76, 90, 136
Egyptian Government, Gunboat for the, 371
Egyptian Government threatens to Cancel Orders for Tools in England not Delivered on Account of Strike, 371
Egyptian Railways, Bridge Building for, 90
Egyptian Towns, Population of the Chief, 334

Eight Hours Day:

Eight Hours Day, The, 11,19, 45, 62, 70, 71, 72,
93, 105, 107, 120, 140, 143, 155, 414, 435
Eight Hours Day, Blast Fumacemen and the, 62
Eight Hours Day at the Blast Furnaces in the North, 435
Eight Hours Day, The, What it Means, 120
Eight Hours Day, Forward Policy of the Amalga¬mated Society of Engineers with regard to the, 414
Eight Hours Question in America, The, 158
Eight Hours Shift at the Blast Furnaces, Question of the, 143
Elan Valley Waterworks, Visit to the, 238
Elder, Dempster, and Co., Steamers Building for, 435, 436

Electric News:

Electrical Apparatus for Regulating Pressure in Distributing Gas Mains, 26
Electric Arc Lamps, A 35-Watt Standard Advo¬cated for, 331
Electric Association, Municipal, 13
Electric Brakes on the Mont Csnis Line, Trial of, 302
Electric Brakes, Siemens and Halske’s, 201
Electric Brazing, Apparatus for, 654
Electrical Cab, London, 190, 206
Electric Cabs, New York, 227
Electric Cab Service in London, Accident con¬nected with the New, 302
Electric Cars for Leeds, with regard to Messrs. Greenwood and Batley’s Contract for Supply of, 625
Electrical Cars in London, 277
Electric Charging Machine for Open-hearth Furnaces, Mr. J. Head on, 311
Electrical Communication with Lighthouses, 434
Electric Conduits for Street Cars in New York, 331
Electric Construction Company, Annual Meeting and Report, 121
Electric Construction Company, Illustrated Pamphlet issued by, 254
Electric Construction Company, Limited, Exten¬sion of their Works, 510
Electrical Construction Company, Orders for Halifax, 262
Electric Current Generator, Three phase Alternating, 423
Electric Current used by Burglars, 33
Electric Device attached to the Turntable, Cost of Turning a Locomotive by an, 650
Electric Drawbridge, Toronto, An Unequal-arm, 379
Electric Drill to Excavate the Simplon Tunnel, 331
Electric Energy, Distribution of, 485
Electric Engineering, On Some Recent Applica¬tions of, 612
Electric Enterprise in California, 131
Electric Equipment for Factory Purposes, Pro¬fessor D. E. Jackson, 20
Electric Light Extension in England, 526
Electric Light in Bradford, 362
Electric Lighting of Cheltenham, 302, 547
Electric Lighting in China, 621
Electric Lighting in Columbia University Library, Novel System of, 646
Electric Lighting Dspartment, Hampstead Vestry, Report of, 131
Electric Light and Dust Destruction Works, Shoreditch, 113
Electric Lighting at Gloucester, 222
Electric Lighting at Leicester, 61
Electrically Lighting the Ocean Track between New York and European Ports, Scheme for, 650
Electric Light for Quarry Work, 18
Electric Lighting, Rangoon, 431
Electric Lighting at St. Etienne, 55
Electric Light for the Thames Embankment, 86
Electric Lighting of Villages, 352
Electric Light in a Yorkshire Village, 423
Electric Locomotives to Work in Coal Pit3, 201
Electric Motor Carriage, 507
Electric Motors in a Factory in America, 379
Electric Motors for Heavy Machinery, 212
Electric Motors in Shops, Methods of Applying, 47
Electric Omnibus, 212
Electric Oscillations in Wires, Mr. H. C. Pock- lington on, 499
Electric Plant, Another Water Power and, 408
Electric Power Plant of the New York Clearing House, 212
Electric Plant, Question of a Unit for Rating the Efficiency of, 66
Electric Ploughing Installation, M. Felix Prat, 201
Electric Power Development, 503
Electric Power Plant, Hydraulic, 43
Electrically-propelled Delivery Wagon, 423
Electric Railway, Brighton and Rottingdean, 84
Electric Railway Construction near Bound Brook, N.J., Rapid, 599
Electric Railway, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 286
Electric Railway up the Görner Grat, Trial Trips on, 625
Electric Railway, Proposed, 661
Electric Railways in the United States., Develop¬ment of the, 512
Electric Resistance and Temperature, Relation between, 625
Electric Seismoscope, 526
Electrical Standardising Laboratory, Board of Trade, 363
Electric Supply Station for Berne, 65
Electric Telegraph, Prof. O. Lodge on the Prin¬ciples of the, 495
Electric Traction, 330, 476
Electric Traction in Argentina, 642
Electric Traction on Belgian State Railways, 650
Electric Traction of Canal Boats in France, 181
Electric Traction, On the Mechanical Features of, 465, 483
Electric Traction, Third Rail, 43
Electric Traction in the United States, 498
Electric Tramcar, Double Rail, 654
Electric Tramways, Brisbane, 223
Electric Tramways, The Cork, 661
Electric Tramways in Dublin, 430
Electric Tramway Engine, Gasoline and, 635
Electric Tramways, Lausanne, 60, 65
Electric Tramways, Leeds, 346
Electric Tramays, Middlesbrough, Thornby, and Stockton, 331
Electric Tramways, Montreal, 331
Electric Tramways in Rome, 405
Electric Tramways for St. Petersburg, 302
Electric Tramway Service in Leeds, Breakdown in, 397
Electric Tramway, Surface Contact, 635
Electric Tramways—see also Tramways Electric Typewriter, An, 449
Electric Umpire, An, 482
Electric Underground Railway, Berlin, 65
Electrical Work in England and Abroid, Alderman Higginbottom on, 449
Electricity in our British Navy, Important Part Played by, 550
Electricity Distribution Apparatus known as the “Oxford System,” 254
Electricity and Dust-Destruction in Shoreditch, 7, 8, 9, 10
Electricity Meters, Mr. T. P. Wilmshurst, 41
Electricity in an Office Building, 91
Electricity for Power Purposos to South Stafford¬shire Industrial Centres, Scheme for Formation of a Company to Supply, 558
Electricity, Railway Signalling by, Messrs. Currie and Timmis’ Petition, 595
Electricity, Regulations recommended by the Committee on Dangerous Trades, 66
Electricity, Street Lighting by, 40
Electricity Works of the Islington Vestry, The, 530
Electro-Burglary, 13
Electrolytes, The Conductivity of, 273
Electrolytic Apparatus, Rhodin’s, 458
Electrolytic Condenser and Current Rectifier, 33
Electrolytic Separation of Nickel and Cobalt from Iron, 331
Elements of Train Resistance, 392, 400, 431
Elevated Railway, Raising an, 212
Elevating Railway Tracks, 581
Ellery, Mr. C. S., his Presidential Address, 26
Ellis and Atherton’s Meter, 42
Ellis, Mr. C., On Non-inflammable Wood, 25, 29
Ellis, Mr. J. D., on the Developments in the Manufacture of, 33
Ellis-May Vacuum Steel Syndicate, First Meeting, 289
Emigration, German Transmarine, 109
Emigration in November of 1897, 625
Empire State Express, The, 277
“ Empress Queen,” Paddle Steamer (Supplement, September 16th, 1897), 220, 228, 211, 253
Engineering- and Engines:
Engineering io Australia, The Profession of, 522
Engineering Crisis on the Clyde, The, 37
Engineering Difficulties and the Clyde Shipbuild¬ing Trade, 449
Engineering Dispute, The—see ah) Strike and Lock-out, 45, 70, 71, 72, 93, 107, 117, 206
Engineering Expedients, Curious, 4
Engineering Features of the Sinking and Equip¬ment of a Modern Colliery, 586 *Engineering Firms, Representatives of, in Japan, 636
Engineering and Locomotive Works in the Caucasus, 637
Engineering in Madagascar, 195
Engineering and Metal Trades, Employment at, During November, 599
Engineering Research, The Value of, 374
Engineering, Smart, 629
Engineering Trade Dispute, The—see also Strike and Lock-out and Engineers’ Strike, 107, 117
Engineering Trade, Strike In the-»:
Strike and Lock-out, The:
Engineering Works, On Diagram Accounts for, 465
Engineers at the Camera Club, 457
“Engineer” Cycle Works, Limited, The, 87, 113
Engineer, An English v. an American, for the
Electric Tramway in Liverpool, 158
Engineer in Japan, Caances of the Foreign, 377
Engineers' Strike, The, 130, 161, 179, 207, 213, 258, 285, 305
Engineer Students for the Navy, Result of the
Examination of, 131 Engineers and Town Councils, 476
Engines, Acetylene for Driving, 423
Engine, Acetylene Gas, 442
Engine, Atmospheric, Polsounow’s, 275
Engine Auxiliaries in the Mercantile Marine, On Main, 658
Engine, Ballasting and Shunting, Imperial Japanese Railways (Supplement, November Ï6th, 1895, 525
Engines, The Beiliss, 128, 137, 166
Engine and Boiler, Messrs. 9. Clayton and Shnttlewortb, 5
Engine, Compound High-speed Self-lubricating, Messrs. Billina Co., 156, 166
Engines, Compound Launch, 71
Engine, Compound Mastodon, 54
Engines, Compound Mill, Messrs. Whitmore and Binyon, 324, 329
Engines, Compound Portable, 649
Engines, Cycles of Gas and Oil, 218, 238, 291, 315, 337, 360, 387, 439, 466, 490, 583
Engines, Cycles of Internal Combustion, 323
Engine, The “Diesel” Oil, 364, 391
Engine, Donaldson’s Gas, 250
Engine Drivers and their Duties, Mr. C. J. Bowen Cooke, 181
Engines and Dynamo for the Bradford Electric Light Station, 391, 419
Engine, Economic Development of the Steam, 440
Engine, Gas, Messrs. Wells Brothers, 596, 610
Engine, Gasoline and Electric Tramway, 635
Engine, Gas, 140-horse Power Duplex, 420, 421
Engine, Gas, Thermodynamics of the, 468
Engine Governors, 539, 555, 563, 598, 583
Engine Governors, Professor R. H. Smith, 515
Engines, High-speed, Self-lubricating, Mr. Morecorn, 104, 128, 137, 166
Engine, The Ideal Oil, 282
Engine Indicators, 317
Engine Indicator, High-speed, 185
Engines for Japan, Pumping (Supplement, August 6th, 1897), 132,133
Engines—see also Locomotives Engines, Main and Auxiliary, their Relative Coal
Expenditure, 273 Engines, Oil, 104
Engine, OJ, Knight’s Experimental, 583
Engines, Oil and Gas, 422, 469
Engines, Oil, in Lighthouses, 503, 523, 554
Engine, Oscillating, 469
Engines in Prussia on October 1st, Steam, 599
Engine and Pump Oil, Messrs. J. B. Petter and Sons, 38
Engines, Pnmping, Hereford Waterworks, 114
Engines, Pumping, at Liverpool, 380, 555
Engine Pumping, Low Field Mine, 110, 118
Engines, Pumping, in the United States, 495
Engines, Pumping, West Middlesex Waterworks,
Hampton (Supplement, September Uth, 1897), 308
Engines—see also Pumping Engines
Engine-room Artificers in the Navy, 451
Engine-room Artificers, Re-engagement of, En¬couraged by the Admiralty, 573
Engine-room Staffs Commended by the Admiral, 131
Engine-room Warrant Officers, 584
Engine, Thermo-Dynamics of the Gas, 155, 189
Engines, Traction and Agricultural, Royal Agri¬cultural Society’s Show, 5
Engines, Triple-expansion, s.s. “Walton Belle," 63, 64
Engines, Two New Tramway, 302
Engines, Winding, 341
Engines, Winding, Messrs. Nasmyth, Wilson, and Co., Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co. (Supple¬ment, October 10th, 1897), 342
English Ambassadors’ Yacht, The Thames Iron¬works Co., 478, 481
English and American Prices for Railway Material, 66
English v. American Railway Bridges, 15, 32, 69, 81, 105, 159, 227, 343
English Locomotives, Trials of, 491
English Railways, American Cars for, 869
English Shipbuilders, Vessels Launched in October by, 473
English Shipbuilding, A Year’s, 599
English Steamers under Foreign Flags, 63
Englishmen, German-made, 112
Enomoto, Count (Portrait), 317
“ Ernest Bazin’’ for Sale, The Roller Steamer the, 650
Erratum in the Notice of Dust Destructors, 26
Eton Sewerage, 29
^Vain89')U 13’n^33"Q^ne ^up^emenl> August 6th,
Evaporation of Water, Apparatus for Measuring ’ the, 215
Evesham Villages Water Supply, 612
Exhibitions:
Exhibition, The Brewers’, 423, 430, 454
Exhibition, The Bru?sols, Closing of, and Awards at, 397, 469
Exhibition at DijoD, Universal and International, 599
Exhibition of Engineering, Shipbuilding. M'nhg, and Engineering, The Sunderland, 535
Exhibition, 1901, Glasgow International, 375. 570
Exhibition of Spanish Industries, Madrid, 150
Expensive Book ever Published, The Most, 273
Explosion on Board an Italian Warship, 33
Explosion, Boiler, at Devonport Dockyard, 321
Explosion of Cartridges, Rnstchuk, 163
Explosion, Colliery, 177
Explosion at the Factory of Nobel’s Explosives Company, Col. Ford’s Report on, 109
Explosion in a Machine Factory in Kiew, Fearful, 660
Explosive Compound, Smokeless Powders and their Ballistic Results, 97
Explosives in Mines, Use of Dangerous, made Prohibitive by the Home Secretary, 650
Explosives and Modern War Vessels, High, 615
Explosives, New System of Throwing High, 4
Explosive Oils, Raising of the Flash Point to be Recommended, 371
Explosives for Use in Coal Mines, No Absolutely Safe, 625
Exports and Coastwise and Foreign Shipments, Nine Months’, 355
Express, The Empire State, 277
Express Train, Fast, 300
Express Trains, New Cars for, United States, 43

F

FACTORIES in the Central Provinces of India, 331
Factories of Explosives in Great Britain, 254
Failure of Steam Pipes, 343, 393, 431
Fairbairn’8
Formula for the Strength of Plain
Cylindrical Boiler Flues, 449
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, s 8. “Empress Queen,” 220, 228, 244, 253
Fan Efficiency, 327, 583, 633
Fans, Experiments npon Propeller Ventilating, 419
Fans, Propeller Ventilating. 453
Fans, Ventilating, 522
Farming on Sewage Filter Beds in America, 17
Fast Express Train, 252, 300
Fast Run Fifty Years ago, A, 607
Fast Railway Run in America, 144
Faucet, A Sliding, 206
Feathering Propellers, Sheathing or, 498
Fedden, Mr. S. E., Street Lighting by Electricity, 40
Federated Engineering and Shipbuilding Em¬ployers, Statement on Behalf of the Employers. 134
Felix, Hadley, and Co., Dispute at the Works of, 354
Female Labour in German Factories, 331
Ferguson, Mr. Louis A., Combination of the Alternating and Direct-current Systems for Electric Light and Power Circuits, 599
Ferry Steamer “ Chebucto,” Canadian, 163, 344, 345, 349
Field, Mr. Cyrus W., his Private Paper relating to the First Atlantic Cable, &c., 526
Field Gun Carriage, Piffard’s, 341
Fielding and Platt, Messrs., Hydraulic Riveter, 417
Fighting Powers of our Line-of-Battle Ships, 111
Files for the Continent, 383
Filter, The Clinker, 482
Filtering Sewage through Coal Dust, 473
Finance Committee of the London County Council, Report of, 599
Fire-arms, Captain Cei’s New Rifle, 59, 273
Fire-boxes, Locomotive, 522
Fire Brigade Committee of the London County Council, Reorganisation of the River Service Recommended by the, 625
Fire in Cripplegate, The Improvements Com¬mittee of the London County Council in rela¬tion to the, 625
Fire in London, The Great, 526
Fire Prevention, 553
Fireproof Floors, Test of, 17
Fire at the Woking Factory of the International
Electric Supply Co., 118
Firing at Portsmouth heard at Hungerford, Wilts, 24 6
Firth, Mr. J. Loxley, 652
Fishguard, Deep-water Harbour Construction at, 603
Fish-joint, The, 594
Fish Market, A Floating, 276
Fishing with Steam Trawler at Dunkirk, 346
Fleet Illuminations at Spithead, June, 1897, 103
Fleming and Dewar, Professors, On the Con¬
ductivity of Electrolytes at Temperatures below Freezing Point, 273
Fleming and Ferguson, Limited, Messrs., Sand Pump Suction Dredger, 644, 649
Fletcher, Mr. Lavington E., 65
Fletcher, Russell, and Co., Extension of their
Works, 535
Flight and Flying Machines, Major Fullerton on, 201
Floating Dock for Cuba, 238
Floating Dock, Large, 431
Floating Hotel for Non-Unionists, A, 214
Floor for a Machine Shop, A good Basement, 201
Floors, Test of Fireproof, 17
Floorcloth Printing Machines ? 424
Florida Peninsular, Ship Canal across the, 371
Flow of Air, 523
Flow in Canals ? 527
Flow of Steam, Velocity of tho, 66
Fluids, Vortox Motion of, 181
Fluorine, Liquefaction of, 423
Flying Machine, A New, 625
Fly-wheel Accident, Disastrous, 423
Fly-wheel of New Design, 449
Fly-wheels, Safety, 635
Fly-wheels, Steel Plate, 29
Foerster, Professor, Experiments with Nickel, 599
Fog Signal, Pratt’s Automatic, 17
Fog Signals, A System of, 370
Foleshill, Sewage Scheme for, 66
Forage Preparing Machine, 451
Forced Lubrication ? 183
Ford, Mr. Isaac, 287
Foreign Competition, 136
Foreign Contracts, 552, 655
Foreign Warships at Spithead (Supplement. Jah 2nd, 1897) i
Foreign Weights and Measures?
Formosa, Naval Station for, 302
Fortescue-Flannery, Mr., his Presidential Address to the Institute of Marine Engineers, 573
Fortescue-Flannery, Mr., The Reduction of the Combined Weight of Machinery, Fuel the Essence of Past Progress, 625
Fortifications on Points Wilson, Marrowstone and Admiralty, Erection of, 254
Fortification Work in the United States, Sscrecy in regard to, 273
Forwood, Sir Arthur, on the Compressed Air System, v. the Trolley Overhead for Tram¬ways, 331
Foster, Mr. C. S., 191
Foundations, Mr. C. F. B. N. Weston on, 457
Foundry Test Bars, Mr. Moldenke on the Use of, 654
Fowler and Co., Messrs. John, Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 5
Fox, Mr., Non-inflammable Wood, the Invention of, 33
France, Bridge Accident in, 82
France, Canal Communication in, 346
France, Experiments on the Effects of Shell Fire, 331
France, Formation of a Company in, to Promote Electric Traction of Canal Boats, 181
France, Locomotives Ordered at Creusot, 273
France, The Motor Car Industry in, 23
France, Motor Car Race in, 102
France, Naval Constructions in, 453
France and her Navy, 206
France, Yves Guyot on Industry and Commerce in, 158
Free Labour e. Trade Unionism, 367
Freight Movement, Economical, fc57
French Battleship Machinery, 401
French-built Channel Steamers, 426
French Cable between Brest and New York, A New, 16
French Imports and Exports during Eight Months, Value of, 302
French Mercantile Marine, The, 160
French Navy, The, 552
French Navy and the British, the Figaro on the, 158
French Navy, New Cruisers for the, 289
French Railways, Doubling of the Line between Brest and Rennes, 16
French Shipbuilding, 430
French Shipping, Marseilles and, 276
French Soudan, Extension of the Military Rail¬way in, 158
French State Railways, Construction and Recon¬struction of Rolling Stock, 473
Friction Driving, Experiments on, 650
Fuel Economy, 530
Fuller, Mr. Harnett John, Preparation of Parlia¬mentary Plans for Railways, 439, 463, 489, 523, 581
Fuller, Mr. H. J., Sliding Faucet, 206
Fullerton, Major, On Flight and Flying Machines, 201
Furnaces in B'ast in Sweden, 273
Furnace, Geber's, 201
Furnace for Production of Carbide of Calcium, Electric, 371
Furness Railway, Corridor Carriages on the, 93
Furness Railway Company, Holidays for their Men, 273
Future, Into the, 651
G
GADD and Mason Spiral Guided Holder at the Chester Works, Tne, 26
Galatz, Falling Away of the Timber Trade from, 16
Galatz, Trade in Staves in, 16
Galatz, The Wharfage Accommodation at, 16
Galena, New Method of Smelting, 346
Galvanised Iron Steam Piping? 303
Galvanised Sheets Made of Steel with the Oxide Removed and Coated with Spelter, Advan¬tages of, 223
Galvanisers’ Pickle, The Question what should be done with, 142
Galvanising Tanks, 15
Galvanising Wire, New Process of, 650
Galbraith, Prof. John, Address on “ Applied Mechanics,” 302
Gangout, The, 13, 50
Garrard, Mr. E. C., Specialised Machine Tools, 505 i
Gas, Acetylene, 356 i
Gas, Acetylene, Rate of Decomposition Increases under Pressure, 550
Gas-burner, Theory of the Atmospheric, 26
Gas, Carburetting of Illuminating, 26 i
Gas, On Cooking and Ventilation by the Aid of, 26
Gas Engine, Donaldson’s, 250
Gas Engines, Oil and, 469
Gas Engine, Thermo-Dynamics of the, 155, 189, 468
Gas Furnace, Toe Arabian Alchemist Geber's, 201
Ga3 Holders, Railway, 260
Gas Mains in Johannesburg, 331
Gas Manufacture in the Metropolis, 128
Gas Manufacture, On Naphthalene in Modern, 26
Gas Motor, An Acetylene, 442
Gas Power Phnt, A Modern, 420, 421
Gas Pressure by Electricity, Automatic Regulation of, 26
Gas Purification at Belfast, The Claus System of, 26
Gas in Sussex, Discovery of Natural, 625
Gas, Weight of Coal, 254
Gasholder, Giving Way of a Patent Rope-guided,
Gasholder at the Chester Works, The Gadd and Mason Spiral Guided, 26
Gasoline and Electric Tramway Engine, 635
Gates, Ths Largest Steel Lock, 635
Gauge Glass Protector, 482 i
Gauges, Light Railway, 32, 35, 251
Gauge for Very High Pressures, 43
Geber’s Gas Furnace, 201 i
Generation of Steam, Mr. J. C. F. Snell and Mr. J. J. Steinitz on the, 14
Genoa, Harbour. Improvements at, 84
German Blast Furnaces, September Output, 550 I
German Cycles and English Competition, 397
German Import and Export in Iron, Ore, Metals, Machines, and Coal, 192
German Inland Waterways, 275
German-made Englishmen, 112
German Manufactures in South America, 397
German Navy, The, 230
German Needle Trade, The, 223
German Railway Accidents, 371
German Railways in Africa, 523
German Technical School comes to England for Engineering Appliances, A, 181
German Textile Industry, Development of the, 331
German Tin-plate Trade, 401
German Torpedo Boat “S. 26,” Loss of the, 331
German Transmarine Emigration for June of the Present Year, 109
Germany, British Trade in, 345
Germany, Census of Mechanics and Working People in, 331
Germany, Englishmen Made in, 112
Germany, Made in, 313
Germany, Output of Pig Iron in, 273
Germany and the Paris Exhibition, 375
Germany, Sewing Needles in, 518
Germany, Steamship Lengthening in, 506
Geriistpfeiler Viaduct, The Bridge, 617
Gibbings, Mr., Municipal Aids to Wiring, 41
“ Giovanni Bausan," Explosion on Board the, 33
Girders, Proportions of, 633
Glamorgan Railway, Opening of, 550
Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901, 375, 576
Glasgow, Sewage Disposal on the South Side of, 302
Glasgow and South-western Railway Report, 254
Glasgow Town Council, Tenders for Cast Iron Pipes Advertised for, 346
Glasgow, A Tramway System for, 331
Glasgow Water Supply, An American Firm’s Tender for Cast Iron Pipes, 612
Glasgow, Mr. W. A. Chamen Appointed Elec¬trical Engineer for, 650
Gloucester, Electric Lighting at, 222
Gloucester, New Dock Railway Branch, 236
Gold in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania, Yield of, 192
Gold Coin called in and Rehabilitated by the
Government, 254 Gold Dredger, The Ball, 341
Gold Dredging in California, 631
Gold Export from Western Australia during Six Months, 33
Gold Exports from Westralia, 158
Gold Mining in Johannesburg, Deep Level, 655
Gold Mining in New South Wales, 109
Gold Produced from tho Mines of Western Australia, 371
Gold Recovery Process, An Aluminium Cathode a Chief Feature of the Cowper-Coles, 273
Gold Standard, Japan, 484
Gold in Sweden, 625
Gold and Tin in Tasmania, 181
Gold in the United Kingdom, Production of, 371
Gold in Western Australia, Yield and Output, 254
Gooday, Mr. J. F. S., Succeeds Sir Allen Sarle, 573
Goodby and Sons sued by Mr. H. W. Lindop, 158
Göttingen Heliometer, Jupiter’s Diameter Measured by, 33
Government Laboratories, The New, 342
Government Returns of Orders placed with Foreign Contractors, 371
Governors, Engine, 539, 555, 563, 583, 598
Governors, Engine, by Prof. R. H. Smith, 515
Governor, Thunderbolt’s Marine Engine, 609
Grain Silo at Manchester, 497
Granite Quarry in Newfoundland, Unique, 346
Grant, Mr. John, 397
Grantham, Mr. R. F., On Sea Defences, 442
Graphic Aid in Approximating Hull Weights, On, 119
Graphite Crucibles, The Bast Annealing for, 109
Grate Area to Cylinder Volume, Ratio of, 33
Gravell, Mr., On ths Causes of the Breaking of Tail-end Shafts, 397
Graving Dock at Troon, New, 254 Graving Docks, Use of Dynamite in, 13
Gray and Co., Sir Wm., Extension of their Works, 511
Great Britain, Mileage of Passenger and Goods Trains, 346
Great Central Railway, The, 221
Great Central Railway at Nottingham, The, 269
Great Central Railway Terminus, Names Proposed for, 143, 473
Great Central Railway Works, The, 653
Great Eastern Cromer Express, A Run with the, 283
Great Eistern Railway Company’s Works, Two New Tramway Engines, 302
Great North of Scotland Railway Report, 254
Great Northern Railway Company, Line from Luton to Dunstable to be Doubled, 397
Great Northern Railway Company, Narrow Escape of an Express Train, 526
Great Northern Railway Report, The, 158
Great Western Railway Bill in Respect of Wey¬mouth, 573
Great Western Railway Extension, The Bristol and South-Western Direct Railway, 573
Great Western Railway, Light Railway from Pewsoy to Salisbury, 550
Great Western Railway, New Class of Locomo¬tives for the, 302
Great Western Riilway, Passenger Locomotive, 344
Great Western Railway, Scheme for a Light Rail¬way from Salisbury to Pewsey, 423
Great Yarmouth, Revolving Observation Tower at, 84
Greece, Railway Extension in, 526
Greenwell, Mr. G. C., On the Correlation of the Dover and Somersetshire Coalfields, 611
Greenwich Tunnel, The, 499
Greenwood and Batley’s Contract to Supply Electric Cars for Leeds, with regard to, 625
Greiner, Mr. J. E., Recent Tests of Bridge Mem¬bers, 123
Gresham and Craven’s Combination Injector, 5
Griffith’s Screw Propellers, 624
Grimesthorpe Colliery, The Barnsley Bed Won, 457
Grinding Mill and Sifter, Messrs. Bamford, 38
Grindstone Rest, Bradbury’s, 5
Grover, Mr. Fred., On the Physical Properties of Compressed Iron Tires, 217
Guatemala, Consular Report on the Trade, 109
Guatemala, New Railway in, 127
Guillaume, Dr. Chas., his New Nickel-iron Alloy, 16
Guillaume, M., On tin Properties of Alloys of Nickel and Iron, 473
Gunboat, A Now, 470
Gunboats, United States Navy, Light Draught (Supplement Duem'ier 31»!, 1897), 541, 542, 518, 651
Gun Carriaga, P.ffard’s, 311
Gun Casting io the United States, The Largest ever Made, 251
Gun Factories, The Ameer of Afghanistan’s, 175, 179
Gun, A lOin. Wire-wound, Mr. J. H. Brown, 223
Gun, Vickers’ New 6in. Quick-fire, 602
Guns for the Government, Messrs. Vickers, S.ins, and Co., 239
Gunpowder in Spain, Reported Publication of a Law Establishing a Monopoly for the Manu¬facture and Sale of, 16
Guyot Yves, On Industry in Commerce in, 158

H
HADFIELD Projectiles, 239, 260
Haggan Articulated Locomotive, The, 469
Hailstorms, Prevention of, by Means of Explosions, 222
Haldane, Dr., Result of bis Investigations in the Ventilation of the Tunnels of the Metropolitan Railway, 371
Hamburg-American Line, Tenders Invited for Large Steamer by the Directors of, 625
Hamburg, New Docks at, 252
Hamburg, Shipping Trade of, 84
Hamilton, Mr. H. A. P., his Appointment, 526
Hamilton, Mr , Signal Light Indicator, 72
Hammond, Mr., Manufacture of Tin-plates, 133
Hammond, Mr. G. D., on the Tin-plate Trade, 131
Hankow, Report upon the Trade of, 66

Harbours and Waterways:

564
Australia, Harbours and Rivers, 433
Avonmouth, 4, 592
Bakan, Harbour Works at, Projected, 16
Bristol Docks, 375, 592
Canals, 418
Cardiff, Dock Scheme, 419
Colchester, 4
Colombo Harbour, 183, 445
Dover Harbour, 375, 592
Genoa, Harbour Improvements at, 81
German Inland Waterways, 275
Heysham Harbour, 564
Hull Docks, 83, 616
Kurrachee Harbour, 430
Licata, Harbour at, Proposed, 30
Liverpool Docks, 616
Manchester Ship Canal, 275
Marseilles and French Shipping, 276
Middlesbrough Docks, Enlargement Schema, 115
Panama, 4 Plymouth Port, 564
Providence Harbour, U.S.A., Improvement of, 16
Ribble Improvement Works, 616
San Diego Harbour Works, 346
Suez Canal, 4
Swakop Harbour, 391
Thames Conservation, The, 115
Thames, Weir and Lock below Putney Bridge, 419
Tyne, Appointment of Mr. Jas. Walker, 592
Tynemouth Piers, 4 Vera Cruz Harbour, 529
Weymouth Docks, 616
Hard Steel Dies, 361
Hardened Armour Plates and Broken Projectiles, M. E. Bertin, 25
Hardware and Cutlery, Our Foreign Trade in, 263
Hardy and Padmore, Limited, Messrs., Ideal Oil Engine, 282
Hardy Patent Pick Co., Machine for Packing Tea, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., A New Steamer for the White Star Line, 370
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., South African Mail Steamer “Briton,” 470
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., White Star Liner “Cymric,” 403
Harrison Bros, and Howson, Messrs , New Cutlery Premises, 191
Harrison, Mr. W. H., 166
Harrow and Uxbridge Railway Bill, The Metro¬politan District Railway Company’s Agree¬ment with the Promoters of, 109
Hartford Automatic Machine Tools, 467
Hartley and Petyt, Messrs., 140-H.P. Duplex Gas Engine, 420, 421
Harveyed Armour Plates by Armour-piercing Projectiles, Attack of, 359
Hastings Corporation, Project for New Parade from St. Leonards to Glynde Gab, 625
Haswell, Mr. John, 31
Hatches, Iron Sliding, 288
Hatch Cleat, Mr. John McIntosh, 212
Hathorn, Davey, and Co., Messrs., Pumping Engine, Low Field Mine, 110, 118
Hathorn, Davey, and Co., Messrs., The William Radcliffe Pumping Engine, Liverpool, 380
Haughton, Prof., 457
Hawaii, Railways in, 302
Hay Press, Leeming-Smith, 580
Haythorn Tubulous Boiler Syndicate, Water-tube Boilers for the “ Meg Merrilees,” 477
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, Electric Charging Machine,
Head, Wrightson, and Co., Coal Conveyor, 132, 151
Headland's Patent Electric Storage Battery Company, Limited, 507
Heat, Effect of, on 1 lb. of Water and 1 lb. of Air, 84
Heat Lost in Wire-drawing Steam? What Becomes of it ? 511
Heat Transmission from a Heated Pipe to Colder Water Flowing through it, Rate of, 16
Heater, The “ Century ” Wator, 87
Heath and Sons, Messrs. Robert, Extension of their Works, 382
Heating Feed Water, Saving Rssults from, 158
Heating and Smelting with Acetylene Gas, 158
Heating Surface of a Boiler, In the Case of the, What is the Question ? 109
Heddle, Dr. Matthew Forster, 550
Heilmann Electric Locomotive, Trials of the, 605
Hele-Shaw, Prof. H. S., On Surface Resistance in Pipes and on Ships, 164
Hemp Rope Making Machinery 1 205
Henning, Mr. G. C., Pocket Recorder for Tests of Metals, 188
Hereford, Lord James of, Gold Pass Presented to, by the North-Eastern Railway Company, 263
Hereford Waterworks, Pumping Engines, 114
Hering, Mr. D. W., On Tension of Spokes in Bicycle Wheels, 353
H.M.S. “Canopus,” 366, 372
H.M.S. “ Earnest,” 288
H.M.S. “ Leander,” 323, 417, 469, 498, 533, 534, 555, 633
H.M.S. “Panther,” 72
H.M.S. “ Pomone,” 521, 525
H.M.S. “Powerful,” 516
H.M. Cruiser “Doris," Steam Trial of, 526
H.M. Cruiser “Vindictive,” 424, 573
H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Crane,” Trials of, 573
H.M. Torpedo Destroyers “Thrasher” and “ Lynx." Collision between, 334
Heysham Harbour, 564
Hickman, Sir Alfred, Development of his Iron¬stone Mines, 382
High Explosives and Modern War Vessels, 615
High Explosives, New System of Throwing, 4
High-pressure Steam, Conservatism and the Use of, 33
High-speed Craft and the Paint Manufacturers, The Development of, 84
High-speed Engine Indicator, Professor W. Ripper, 185
High-speed Self-lubricaticg Engine, Compound, 156,166
High-speed Self-lubricating Engines, Mr. More- corn, 104, 128,137, 166
Highgate Hill Cable Tramway, Breakdown on the, 625
Hill and Sons, Messrs. Isatc, 87
Hirnley, Coal Boring at, 310
Hoffmann, Mr. Albert, 311
Hoist Magnet, A, 294
Holden and Brooke, Limited, Steam Dryer for a German Technical School, 181
Holden, Sir Isaac (with Portrait), 178, 204
Holden, Sir Isaac, as an Inventor, 204
Holidays for Railway Employés, 273
Holland Submarine Boat, Alterations to the Machinery, 223
Hollow Ware Machinery? 347
Holloway, Discontinuance of Ticket Collecting at, 33
Holloway, Mr. J. F., Extract from an Article by, on American Locomotive Tests of the Olden Days, 24
HongKong, Improvements on the Sea Face of the City, 573
Honolulu, Bicycles in, 558
Hook Bolts, 422
Hopetoun, The Earl of, his Presidential Address 25
Hornsby, Messrs., Oil Traction Engine, Prize Awarded to, 6
Horseless Carriage Notes:
223
Horseless Vehicles within the Reach of Every¬body, 66
“ Hotspur,” Rejuvenescence of the, 33
Houghton, Mr. W. D., his Representatives for South Africa, 543
Hours of Labour in the United States, 277
House, A Steam, M. Jeantaud, 419
House’s Cement Co., A New Acid Cement, 213
Housman, Mr. R. H., On Transmission of Electric Power, 608
How, Mr. T. W., Roller Bearings and their Appli¬cation, 435
Howaldtswerke, The Three-hundredth Vessel Built at, 273
Hub Machines, First and Second Operation, 532, 608
Huddersfield, Applicants for the Borough Surveyorship of, 550
Hughes, Mr. T. Vaughan, his Suggestion as to the Erection of Co-operative Steel Works in Staffordshire, 558
Hull Docks, 83
Hull Dock Estate, Projected Bill for the Improve¬ment of, 473
Hull Docks Extension Scheme, 616
Hull Weights, Graphic Aid in Approximating, 119
Hulse and Co., Messrs., Combined Horizontal and Vertical Planing Machine, 31, 32
Hulse and Co , Messrs., Machine Tools, 549
Humpage, Jacques and Pedersen’d Works, Arrangement of Shafting at Messrs., 645
Hunan, Installation of Telegraphs into, 254
Hungarian Paddle Steamer “ I. Ferencz Joseph” (Suppfrmenri A ugvst 27M, 1897) 207, 245
Hunter, Mr. H., On the Gadd and Mason Spiral- guided Holder at the Chester Works, 26
Hydrant, Merryweather’s Improved, 282
Hydraulic Boiler Riveter, 43
Hydraulic Electro Power Plant, 43
Hydraulic Riveter for Locomotive Boilers, 417
Hydraulicity of Lime, On the, 84
Hygienic Improvements on the Rate of Mortali y in Eight Cities, 302

I

ICEBREAKER, A Powerful, 209
Ice Breaking Steamer “ Sleipner,” The, 88
Ice, Thermal Conductivity of, Method of Deter¬mining the Coefficient for, 650
Idiosyncrasy in Mechanical Engineering, 452
Illumination, Experiments in Outdoor Vacuum Tube, 302
Imperial Japanese Railways, Ballasting and Shunting Engine (Supplement, November 26lh, 1895), 525
Imperial Tramways Company, Limited, Tram¬ways for Middlesbrough, Thornby and Stockton, 331
Import of Pig Iron and Steel Billets from the United States in 1897, Total, 423
Inchicore Engineering Society, 406
Inconsistency with Regard to Pumping Equip¬ment and in Marine Practice, 273

India:

India, Achievements of the Ordnance Depart¬ment of, in Five Years, 526
India, The Art of DyeiDg in, On its Possible Dis¬appearance, 16
India, Bridge over the Godavari River, 312
India, Eitimates Sanctioned by the Government of, 273
India, Factories in the Central Provinces of, 331
India, Irrigation Revenue and Expense, 473
India, Light Railways in, 227
India, North-Western Riilwiyof, Mr. H. L. Monk Appointed Engineer-in-Chief, 84 India, Use of Vaonum Brake Stopped on Mixed Trains in, 223
Indian Frontier Fighting Tower, An, 301
Indian Railways, Accidents on, 109
Indian Railways, American v. British Tenders for Steel Rails for, 382
Indian Railways, Assam-Bengal Line, 209
Indian Railways, Behar, 498
Indian Railway Company's Orders Placed in the United States, 6S .
Indian Railways, Damage done by the Monsoon on the Nilgiri Railway, 599
Indian Railway Extension, 16, 84
Indian Railway Extension, The Kalka-Simla Line, 66
Indian R always, Hyderabad-Godavery Valley, 201
Indian Railways, Light and other, 227, 499
Indian Railways, Line from Lana via to Poona to be Doubled, 302
Indian Railway Material Imports, 131
Indian Railways, Metre-gauge Line from Bezvada to Masulipatam, 301
Indian Railways, The New Government Director of, 526
Indian Railways, Orissa Branch of the Bongal-Nagpur Line, 573
Indian Railways, Passenger Terminus of the Bengal-Nogpur Line, 273
Indian Railways, Points and Signals on, 302
Indian Railways, Progress of the Tapti Valley Line, 109
Indian Railways, Proposed Line from Pettad to Cambay, 699
Indian Railways, Qiarterly Return of Accidents on, 550
Indian Railways, Radhanpur, 209
Indian Railways, Refreshment Cars on, 526
Indian Railways, The SLadipalli-Balotra Line, 109
Indian Railways, Survey Operations for Branch Lines in N. E. Bengal, 650
Indian Railways, Tank Locomotive, Working Drawing of [Supplement, October 3rd, 1897), 332
Indian Railways, A Terrihle Disaster on the S. Mahratta Railway, 423
Indian Railways, Water Softening Process on, 131
Indicator for High Rotational Speeds, Mean Pressure, 185
Indicator, Metcalfe's Speed, 406
Indicators, Steam Engine, 317
Infusorial Earth for Covering Boilers and Steam Pipes, 223
Injector, Combination, Messrs. Gresham and Craven, 5, 6

Inquiries:

11, 35, 61, 159, 183, 205, 228, 265, 279. 303, 347, 399, 425, 451, 475, 501, 527, 551, 627, 651
In3ide Check Valve3 for Locomotives, 657

Institute, City and Guilds of London:

List of those on whom Diplomas have been Conferred, 113

Institute of Engineers, South Wales:

Coal Field of the Transvaal, Mr. Forster Brown on the, 46

Institute, The Franklin, Philadelphia:

New Process of Galvanising Wire, Mr. G. C. Raese, 650

Institute, The Goldsmiths’, New Cross:

Coal Tar Distillation, Dr. W. J. Pope, 405

Institute, The Imperial:

Metals of Canada, Prof. Roberts-Austen on the, 599

Institute, The Incorporated Gas:

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. C. Stafford Ellery, 26
Automatic Regulation of Pressure in the Distri¬buting Main3, Mr. W. R. Chester on Mr. Wm. Cowan’s, 26
Claus System of Purification at Belfast, Experi¬ments with the, Mr. J. Stelfox, 26
Cooking and Ventilation by the Aid of Gas, Mr. Wm. Sugg, 26
Gadd and Mason, Spiral-guided Holder at the Chester Works, Mr. R. Hunter, 26
Naphthalene in Modern Gas Manufacture, and the Carburettiog of illuminating Ga9, Messrs.
W. Young and T. Glover, 26
Theory of the Atmospheric Burner, Prof. V. B. Lewes, 26
Three Years’ Use of Carhurino as an Euricher, Mr. J. Davis, 26
Institute, The Iron and Steel:
Application of Travelling Balts to the Shipment of Coal. Mr. Wrightson, 132
Carbon and Iron, Mr. Saniter, 150
Electric Charging Machine for Open-hearth Furnaces, Mr. J. Head, 311
Invitation to Hold the Autumn Meeting, 1898, at Stockholm, 550
Outline Programme of the Cardiff Meeting, 70
Portable Recorder for Tests of Metals, Mr. G. C. Honning, 188
Reception of the President, Mr. E. P. Martin, 132
Review of the Condition and Prospects of the Iron and Steel Trade, Mr. E. P. Martin, 20
Thermo-Chemical Study of the Refining of Iron, Prof, llonord Ponthifcre, 150
Tin-plate, Manufacture of, Mr. Geo. D. Ham¬mond, 131, 133
Visit to Wales, Excursions to Old Dowlais and Cyfarthfa Works, 144, 171

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Ninth Annual Convorsazione, Programme, 519

Institute, Marine Engineers (Bristol Channel Centre):

Visit to the Melingriffith Tin-plate Works and the Pentyrch Hematite Mine, 312

Institute of Mining Engineers, The American:

Construction of a Dam in a Mining Drift, Mr. Wm. Kelly on the, 533

Institute, West of Scotland Iron and Steel:

Attitude of the Modern Workman to Machi¬nery, D.\ Ebenezer Duncan, 636

Institution of Civil Engineers:

Inaugural Address of the President, Sir John Wolfe Barry, 444
Decision of the Coanoil to Accept the B.Sc. Examination for Honours in Engineering of the Owens College, Manchester, and Mr, H. S. Hele-Shaw's Latter on the Subject, 599, 631
Great Land Slides in British Columbia, Mr. Robt. B. Stanton, 616
Law of Condensation of Steam, Messrs. Callen¬der and Nicolson, 609
List of Awards, 830
Manchester Ship Canal, Foar Papers dealing with the, 495

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Annual Dinner and Speeches, 525

Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland :

Principles and Elements of Electric Driving, 611

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Annual General Meeting, Council’s Report, &c , 432
Main Engine Auxiliaries in the Mercantile Marine, Mr. Basil H. Joy, 658
Visit to the Electricity Works of the Islington Vestry, 531
Visit to the Electric Light an 1 Dust Destruc¬tion Undertaking of the Shoreditch Vestry, 113
Visit to the Engineering Laboratory at Cam¬bridge, 59
Visit to the Queen’s-road Station of the Central London Railway, 457
Visit to Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co.’s s.8. " Aotea,” 581

Institution of Marine Engineers:

Presidential Address by Mr. Fortescue-Flan¬nery, 573
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Windsor Richards, 104
Birmingham Waterworks, The, Mr. Davey, 104, 117
Diagram Accounts for Engineering Works, Mr. Jamieson, 465
Final Meeting of the Committee which Carried out the Local Arrangements for the Jubilee Meeting, 409
High-speed Self-lubricating Steam Eagines, Mr. Morecom, 104, 128, 137, 155, 166
Mechanical Features of Electric Traction, Mr. Dawson, 465, 483
Propeller Ventilating Fans, Mr. Walker, 453
Some Points in Cycle Construction, Mr. Osmond, 104, 116

Institution of Mining Engineers, The Federated:

Brown Hydraulic System for Underground Pumping and Haulage, Mr. W. F. Lang, 295
Irish Channel Tunnel, The, Mr. Jas. Barton, 272
Latest Developments and Practical Application of Alternating Multiphase Machinery for Electric Power Transmission, Mr. W alter Dixon, 272, 294
Observations on some Gold-bearing Veins of the Coolgardie, &c., Goldfields, Western Australia, Mr. E. Halse, 295
Oue-Rail or Trestle System of Light Railway, Mr. F. J. Rowan, 295
Slavery in the Coal Mines of Scotland, Mr. Jas. B. Hamilton, 272
Some Dangers attending the Use of Steam Pipes, Mr. A. L. Steavenson, 65
South Rand Coalfield and its Connection with the Witwatersrand Banket Formation, Mr. A. R. Sawyer, 295
Submarine Coal Mining at Bridgeness, N.B., Mr. H. M. Cadell, 272
Visit to the Lady Victoria Pit of the Lothian Coal Company, Limited, Newbattle, and to the Albion Works of the Broxbourne Oil Company, 318

Institution of Naval Architects:

Advances Made in the Mathematical Theory of Naval Architecture, Sir Edward J. Reed, 67, 80, 119
Cavitation, On, Mr. S. W. Barnaby, 49, 59
Conversazione at the Hotel Cecil, and Opening of the International Congress at the Imperial Institute, 25
Crank and Propeller Shafts, Mr. Manuel, 49, 69
Danish Steam Railway, Ferries, and Ice¬-breaking Steamer, Capt. L. C. Tuxen, 88
Graphic Aid in Approximating Hull Weights, Mr. J. Johnson, 119
Hardened Armour Plates and Broken Pro¬jectiles, M. Emile Bertin, 25
Non-inflammable Wood, Mr. C. Ellis, 25, 29
Opening Address of the President, Earl of Hopetoun, 25
Review of the History and Progress of Marine Engineering in the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine from the Founding of the Institution to the Present Date, by Sir Albert J. Durstonand Mr. J. T. Milton, 25, 27
Visit to the Clyde and Tyne Shipbuilding Firms, 75
Visit to the St. Katharine and London Docks, and Windsor, and Termination of the Pro¬ceedings of the Congress in London, 50
Water-tube Boilers for High-speed Ocean Steamers, M. Pierre Sigaudy, 25, 29

Institution of South Wales Mining Engineers:

Lectures daring the Winter Months, 550
Insurance, The National, 469 Insurance against Strikes, 451, 469
Insurance, Unemployed, 354
Interlocking Plant, Large, U.S., 17
International Sleeping Car Company’s Winter Train de Luxe Services, 473
Ipswich, Proposed Dock Extension at, 499
Ireland, Railway Schemes, 449
Irish Channel Tunnel, Mr. Barton on the, 272
Iron Bars and Hoops can be Produced at less Cost than Steel, 510
Ironclad, the “ Pothuau,” Condition of the French, 131

Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Bir¬mingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts:

18, 44, 70, 92, 120, 142, 167, 191, 212, 238, 262, 286, 310, 332, 354, 382, 409, 431, 458, 484, 510, 531, 558, 584, 610, 636, 658
Iron for Construction in Angola, Demand for Corrugated, 346
Iron Export from Sweden, 630
Iron Foundries Working in South Russia, 63
Iron Industry in European Russia, The, 331
Iron Industry in Nova Scotia, 331
Iron Industry, The Upper Silesian, 134
Iron Ingot Mould, A large, 535
Iron Manufacture, Waste Products in, 199
Iron Mining during September, Employment in, 423
Iron Mining Employment, Returns of the Labour Department of the Board of Trade, 84
Iron and Nickel, Elastic Limit, &c., and Structure of Alloys of, 33
Iron Ore Export from Malaga, 251
Iron Ore from the Gelhvara Mines in Stockholm, 109
Iron Ore in the Kertch District, Russia, 397
Iron Ore Production, Ohio’s, 240
Iron Ore on the Projacted Road to Salt Lake City, 346
Iron Ore within 100 Miles of Sydney, 302
Iron by Paint, Protection of, 389
Iron Pipes for Waterworks from England for Japan,484
Iron Plate by Clay Plug, Perforation of, 321
Iron-producing Districts in the United States, 397
Iron Sliding Hatches, 288
Iron Steamer, The First, 231
Iron and Steel, MM. Carnot and Gontal on the Elements in Cast, 131, 181
Iron and Steel Industries, China, 84
Iron and Steel Industries, Swedish, 109
Iron and Steel, Microscopic Structure of, 440
Iron and Steel Trade, Mr. E. P. Martin’s Review of the Condition and Prospects of, 20
Iron and Steel Works, The Cyfarlhfa, 171
Iron, Thermo-chemical Study of the Refining of, 150
Iron Tires, Physical Properties of Compressed, 217
Iron Trade Association and Board of Trade, 184
Iron Trades, January Quarterly Meetings of the, 658
Iron Trade Wages Board, Selling Prices of Iron, 558
Iron, Upper Silesian, 397
Ironworks in Kent and Sussex, Re-establishment of, 201
Irresponsibility of the Press, The, 481
Irrigating Wheel, A New, 180
Irrigation in America, 91
Irrigation Revenue and Expense, India, 473
Irrigation Works, Rio Grande, 190
Irrigation Works in Cyprus, 516
Irrigation in Utah, 408
Irrigation Works in Venezuela, 540
Isle of Man, Electric Tramway Lins, Projected, 254
Isle of Man Tramways and Electric Power Com¬pany, Limited, Increase the Preference Share Capital, 273
Italian Budget, Large Surplus to be Spent on Railway Construction, 599
Italian Public Works to be Executed during the Coming Year, 650
Ivory Sales, 143, 459
Ivory Trade, The, 263

J

JACKSON, Mr. II. D.,0n Ordnance, 497
Jackson, Prof. D. C., On Electrical Equipment for Factory Purposes, 20
Jackson and Sharp Co., American Care for English Railways, 369
Jackson and Sharp, Messrs., Saloon Carriage, 443, 445, 450
Jacksonville, Company Formed at, for the Con¬struction of a Ship Canal, 371
Jacobus, Mr., Apparatus for Measuring very High Pressures. 43
Jacobus, Prof. D. S., Tests to Show the Influence of Moisture in Steam on the Economy of a Steam Turbine, 44
Jamieson, Mr., On Diagram Accounts for Engi¬neering Works, 465
Janson, Mr. Jas., his Appointment at Darlington Technical College, 312
Japan, Chances of the Foreign Engineer in, 377
Japan, Coal Production in, 122
Japan, Importance of the Port of Kobe iD, 473
Japan, A Lesson from, 63
Japan, American Locomotives for, 91
Japan, Locomotives for, 33
Japan, Modern, Chances of the Foreign Engineer, 75
Japan, Molern, Industrial and Scientific, 75, 86, 249, 267, 317, 337. 387, 544, 567
Japan, Notes from, 477, 484
Japan, Petroleum Well Sinking, 223
Japan, Projected Bridge across the Shimonoseki Straits, 413
Japan, Projected Harbour Works at Bakan, 16
Japan, Protocol between Great Britain and, 449
Japan, Pumping Engines for (Supplement, Av/us'. 6th, 1897), 132, 133
Japan, Railways of, 42, 66, 346, 526, 599
Japan, Representatives of Foreign Engineers in, 633
Japan Sends Large Order for Rails to America at a Price below English Tenders, 66
Japan, Shipbuilding Progress in, 576
Japan Steamship Company, Failure of the, as regards Competition with other Lines, 201
Japan, Trade of, 646
Japan, University of, 582
Japanese-built Cruiser, A New, 636
Japanese Cotton Yarns, Exports of, for 1896, 473
Japanese Government, Doubling of all the Lines of the State Railways, 599
Japanese Government, List of Vessels in hand for the, 131
Japanese Government, Orders for Ironworks all placed in Germany, 410
Japanese Matting Industry, The, 473
Japanese Railways, British Manufacturers and,
Japanese Railways, Mr. Lowther's Report, 66
Japanese Steamship Company, A, 260
Jelman-Wepp Crusher, The, 653
Johannesburg Electric Tramways, 201
Johannesburg, Deep Level Gold Mining in, 655
Johannesburg, Length of Roads and Streets in, Johannesburg, Rain at, 331
Johnson’s Iron and Steel Company, 286
Johnson, Mr. J., On Graphic Aid in Approxi¬mating Hull Weights, 119
Jordan Pnotographic Recorder, A, 581
Joy, Mr. Basil H., on Main Engine Auxiliaries in the Mercantile Marine, 658
Joyner, Mr. R. B., Muchkundi Dam, 398, 402
Joynt, Mr. E. E., Automatic Railway Brakes, 477
Jubilee Day, Railway Tratfij on, 66
Jubilee Party, A, 15
Jubilee Week, Railway Traffic, 50
Jungfrau Railway, by L Bayly, 320, 321
Jupiter’s Diameter measured by tbs Gbiting;n Heliometer, 33

K

KAOLIN and China Clay, Difference between 423
Kassel, Electricity for, 346
Kay’s Patent Acetylene Gas Generator, 656
Kay’s Patent Gas Producers, ice., 535
Keith’s Automatic Liquid Elevator, Brewers’ Exhibition, 454
Kelly, Mr. Wm., C instruction of a Dam in a Mining Drift, 533
Kelvin’s, Lord, Patents, 545
Kenuington-road Batli3, The, 95 Kent, Coal in, 142
Kent, Mr. W. G., On the Venturi Water Meter, 210
Kertch Steelworks, The, 397
Kiew, Machine Factory in, 312
Killin Sewage Disposal Works, 140
Kincaid, Waller, and Manville, Messrs., Elec¬tricity and Dost Destruction in Shoreditch, 7, 8, 9, 10
Kincbling, Mr. E., Apparatus for Measuring Evaporation of Water, 215
Kinetic Energy, Experiment to Illustrate Alter¬nate Exchange of, 599
Kinetic Theory of the Equations of the Vortex Motion of Fluids, 181
Kingstonupon-Hull Tramways, City and County of, 595
Kirkaldy’8 Revolving Door for Water-tight Balk- heads, 106
Kislakoff and Herzfeld, Messrs., Electric Tram ways for St. Petersburg, 302
Kites Applied to the Preservation of Life, Capt. Spiers’, 625
K'tson and Co., Messrs., Locomotives for the Waterford, Limerick, and Western Rai.way {Supplement, August 13<A, 1897)
Klondike, Meteorological Conditions under which Mining is carried on at, 573
Knapp, Mr. Francis, Trial of his Roller Boat, 526
Knight, Mr. J. H., A Novel Boiler of the Coil Type, 599
Knight's Exporim9ntal Oil Engine, 583
Knight Water-wheel Regulator, The, 635
Knott, Prof. C. G., On Magnetic Strains, 16
Kobe in Japan, Importance of the Port of, 473
Koch Coal Conveyor, The, 100
Kohn, Dr. Chas., On the Manufacture and Properties of Carborundum, 495
Königsberg, Projected Free Haven in, 273
Kraemer, Dr., On Benzol, 131
Krupp’s Process of Hardening Steel Armour, The Use of, acquired by American Firms, 473
Kurrachee Harbour, Mr. A. J. West on, 430
Kynochs, Limited, of Birmingham, New Meta¬morphosis, 18

L

LABORATORIES, The New Government, 342
Laboratory, Board of Trade Electrical Standardis¬ing, 363
Labour and Capital, 255
Labour Department of the Board of Trade, Iron Mining Employment Returns, 84
Labour Department of the Board of Trade, Returns of, 84
Labour Disputes in Belgium, 131
Labour Market, Board of Trade Returns on State of, 550
Labour Market in October, State of the Skilled. 599
Laing, Mr. Samuel (Portrait), 157
Laird Bros. Work in 1897, 609
Lake Steamers, Large, 17, 533
Lamp for Street Lighting, Messrs. Baxendale and Co., 213
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, Shareholders’ Meeting, 109
Lancashire Steam Motor Company, Steam Parcel Van, Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 6
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's Two New Projects, 499
Lancaster and Tonge, Limited, Messrs., Exten¬sion of their Works, 121
Land Slides in British Columbia, 616
Landis, Mr. H. K., The Croton Aqueduct Embankment, 316
Lang and Sone, Messrs. John, Fly-wheel Accident at their Works, 423
Lardner and Steam Navigation, 62
Largest Paddle Steamer Afloat, The, 300
La Rivicro, Mons. G., On Bridge Construction. 449
Last Straw, The, 13
Lathes with Compound Rests, The Question of the Utility of Small, 223
Lathe for Turning Projectiles, 261, 271
Launch Engines, Compound, Ardwick Engineer¬ing Company, 71

Launches and Trial Trips:

18, 43, 66, 70, 72, 92, 117, 129, 143, 145, 166, 193, 214, 241, 265, 289, 313,
335, 346, 357, 366, 371, 385, 403, 408, 434, 457, 469, 470
473, 510, 558, 573, 608, 638, 654
Lausanne Electric Tramways Generating Station, 60, 65
Lawn Mower and Small Portable Engine, The Lancashire Steam Motor Company’s, 38
Liws of Nature, Some Unrecognised, 183, 204
L^iiof PipeS under Lawns without Excavating,
Lead for Locomotive Valves, Mr. A. von Berries on, 141
Lead Seals ? 475
Lead Shot Plant 1 551

Leaders:

After the Conference, 527
Agricultural Machinery in Russia, 552
Allen t. Flood, 601
American and English Bridges, 159
American Pipes for Glasgow, 401
American Tariff, Tho New, 112
Antwerp, 305
As Others See Us, 230
Balanced Locomotives, 230
Blackwall Tunnel, The, 502
Blast Furnacemen and the Eight Hours Day, 62
Board of Trade and the Amalgamated Engineers, 425
Boilers and Engines and Naval Manccivres, 85
Boilers, Proportions of Locomotive, 183
Brindisi, 400
British Armour Piates 135
British Steamships Sold to Foreigners, 350
Bullet-proof Clothing, 185
Bnrn9, Mr. John, and the Strike, 317
Canadian Mail Service, The New, 11
Canal Scheme, Another, 453
Central Trade Bureau, A, 257 Chang, Mr., 13
China’s Need and England’s Opportunity, 231
Chinese Developments, 206
Colombo Harbour, 183
Chinese Railway, 427
Civil War, The, 61
Clyde Shipbuilding, 350, 576
Coal Supply, The, 629
Compensation for Accidents, 184
Compensation for Accidents Bill, The, 12, 111
Complotion of our Coast Defences, The, 374
Compulsory “Benefit” (Insurance of Work¬men against Non-employment in Switzer¬land), 326
Conference, The, 551, 575, 602, 627
Continuous Rails, 35
Curious Breakdown, A, 327
Defending a Trade Mark, 327
Divination, 304
Egyptian Bridges, 136
Eight Hours Day, The, 11
Eight Months of British Trade, 257
Electric Lighting at Leicester, 61
Electric Power Development, 593
Electric Traction, 476 Electro-Burglary, 13
Engineering Dispute, The, 206
Engineers and Town Councils, 476
Engine-room Artificers in the Navy, 451
English Steamers under Foreign Flags, 63
Failure of the Bouzey Dam, 256
Fall of a Bridge at Tarbes, 394
Fan Efficiency, 327
Fighting Powers of our Line-of-Battle Ships, 111
Fire Prevention, 553
Foreign Competition, 136
Foreign Contracts, 552
France and her Navy, 206
French Battleship Machinery, 401
French-built Channel Steamers, 426
French Mercantile Marino, The, 160
French Navy, The, 552
Gangout, The, 13
German-made Englishmen, 112
German Navy, The, 230
German Railways in Africa, 528
German Tin-plate Trade, 401
Germany and the Paris Exhibition, 375
Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901,576
Idiosyncrasy in Mechanical Engineering, 452
Institution of Naval Architects, The, 13
Insurance against Strikes, 451
Into the Future, 651
Irish Railway Working, 185
Iron Trade Association and Board of Trade, 184
Japan, A Lesson from, 63
Japan, Modern, 86
Jonage Canal, The, 185
Labour and Capital, 255
Lardner and Steam Navigation, 62
Last Straw, The, 13
Lesson from Japan, A, 63
Light and Heavy Rolling Stock, 255
Light Railways, 348
Light Railway Gauges, 35
Locomotive Building, English and American, 576
Machine Tools, 348
Maidstone Epidemic, The, 325
Manchester Sewage, 477
Massena Power Scheme, The, 279
Modern Japan, 86
Naval Constructions in France, 453
Naval Engineers and Artificers, 160
New Zealand, 230
North Atlantic Freeboards, 303
Notes from Japan, 477
Oil Engines in Lighthouses, 503
Ordnance Factories, Our, 185, 229, 281
Outlook in the Coal Trade, The, 602
Panama Canal, The, 112
Penrhyn Dispute, The, 206
Permanent Way, British and American, 527
Pig Iron and Coke in America, 136
“ Playing with Edged Tools,” 305
Powder Pressures, 399
Practical Thermodynamics, 502
Progress in Naval Ordnance in the United States, 628
Progress of the Steel Trade, 401
Proportions of Locomotive Boilers, The, 183
Railway Companies and the Tradors, The, 86
Railways and Irrigation for India, 160
Railways and Railwaymcn, 425
Railway Speeds, 501, 551, 601
Recent Armour Trials, 205
Renovation of Bombay, The, 399
Repairing of Submarine Cables, The, 86
Resident Traveller, A, 36
Royal Ordnance Factories, 185, 229, 281
Russian Trade, 206
Sanitation in Excelsis, 205
Scottish Railway, Working, 257
Screw Propulsion, 85
Secrets in the Dockyards and Royal Ordnance Factories, 185
Shipbuilding on the Clyde, 36
Shipbuilding Progress in Japan, 576
Shipbuilding Returns, 602 Shoddy, 305
Sincerest Flattery, 63
Smart Engineering, 629
Smoke Abatement in Sheffield, 36
South Kensington Musoum, 136
South Wales Sliding Scale, The, 426
Special Steels for Ship and Boiler Construction, Splendid Scheme, A, 2C6
Strike, Mr. John Burns and the, 347
Strike and Lock-out, The, 135, 303, 325
Suburban Railway Traffic, 628
Suddenly Imposed Loads, 528
Taylor and Hobson’s Scheme, Messrs., 280
Technical Education, 502
Tipton Engineering Scheme, The, 350
Trade of the British Empire, The, 279
Trade in Madagascar, 427
Trade Revival and Wages, 327
Trades Union Congress, The, 257
Trades Unionism and Mr. Barnes, 475
Train Resistance, 400
Transatlantic Trade Improvement, 375
Trial of Vickers’ Quick-fire 6in. Gun, 417
Tunnel Projects in Switzerland, New, 375
Use of Dynamite in Graving Docks, Tho, 13
Value of Engineering Research, Tho, 371
Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 373
Vera Cruz Harbour, 529
Vickers’ New 6in. Quick-fire Gun, 602
War, The, 373, 651
Wire-drawn Steam, 326
Wire Trade Convention in Germany, 553
Working Expenses of Railways, 160
Workmen’s Compensation Bill, The, 136
Zaluland Coalfields, 375
Leaks in a Steam Plant, Importance of, 84
“ Leander,” H.M.S.—see H.M.S. “ Leandor ” Leather Export from Canada, 331
Leeds Electric Tramway System, The, 346
Leefe, Mr. C. O., 66
Leeming-Smith Hay Press, 580
Legal Intelligence:
Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Com¬pany, Limited, and Hiram Stevens Maxim v. Anderson, 58
Leighton, Mr. John, 625
Lengthening Steamships, 506

Letters to the Editor:

Accident to the Drury-lane Stage, Edwin O. Sachs, 322
Aerial Torpedoes, Hudson Maxim, 58
“Aëoronautical Annual, The,” Sidney H. Hol¬lands, 15
Acme Feed-heater and Purifier ? Acme, 279
American v. English Railway Bridges, C., 15
Ammonia Gas? E. S., 183
Armour-piercing Projectiles, R. A. Had field, 307
Armour-piercing Projectiles, Your Sheffield Correspondent, 277
Armour Plates, Schneider et Cie., 633
Atlantic City Express, An American, 352
Atlantic City Express, F. W. Brewer, 352
Atlantic City Express, The, Clement E. Stretton, 277, 469, 498
Atlantic City Railway Run, The, Heretic, 300
Atlantic City Railway Run, The, Another Heretic, 323
Atlantic City Railway Run, The, Norman D. McDonald, 300
Atomic Weights, H. A. Hensman, 32
Automatic Sampling Water, J. and T. Rodda, 189
Baltic as a Fresh-water Lake, The, H. W., 32
Barker's Compound Crank for Cycles, P. E. L. Hayley, 155
Beits Running out of Truth, John S. V. Bick¬ford, 431
Bicycle Mechanics, H., 251
Birmingham Waterworks, Testing Coal, Henry Davey, 140
Boiling Corrosive Liquids by Steam? Vulcan, 303
Brattice Cloth Tarring Machine ? B. C., 475
British Motor Syndicate Patents, Petrol, 555
Brussels Awards, Chas. P. Martin, 469
Calyx Boring Machine, The, J. P., 255
Canal Developments and Canal Directors, N.,
Canal Developments and Canal Directors, Observer, 189
Carborundum and Emery Wheels ? W. W. B., 501
Cast Steel Shafts, John Spencer and Sons, Limited, 81
Chances of the Foreign Engineer in Japan, One of Her Majesty’s Officials, 377
Chicago and the Erie Canal, a Correction, E. E. Russell Tratman, 655
Chimney Construction ? B. H. A., 303
Chitty Dynamo and Motor Company, Limited, H. W. Evans, 598
Chitty Dynamo and Motor Company, Limited, The, Willans and Robinson, Limited, 582
City and Guilds Examinations, G. F. B., 155
Compensation for Accidents Bill, The, Clement E. Stretton, 32
Compound Locomotives, H. Bonghey Burgess, 204
Correct Cubical Contents, S. Smeaton, 155
Cost of Working Drawings, Experience, 655
Cost of Working Drawings, Fair Play, 633
Cost of Working Drawings, The, McAndrews, 555
Creosoting Plant ? Crossed Crossley, 61
Cycles of internal Combustion Engines, J. D. Roots, 323
Cycles of Oil and Gas Engines, John Henry Knight, 583
Deoimal Classification? X. Y., 627
Depositing Aluminium? W. J., 229
Divination, Convinced, 422
Divination, Duncan A. Morton, 313
Divination, H. B. Murray, 469
Dum Dum Bullet, The, M. T., 598
Early Propellers, David Dehane Napier, 393
Efficiency of Steam Turbines, The, John Batey, 583
Eight Hours Day, The, Laird Brothers, 155
Eight Hours Day, Tho, For Now Conveyor Company, Limited, Gilbert Little, 105
Eight Hours Day, The, Saxby and Farmer, Limited, 105
“Eight Hours Day,” Joseph Whitworth Hulse, 140
Electric Lighting of Villages, William Harrison Barwell, 352
Electric Traction in the United States, Robert H. Smith, 498
Electrical Cars in London, Walter C. Bersey, 277
Elements of Train Resistance, H. Leahy, 392
Elements of Train Resistance, Hy. Simson, 431
Empire State Express, The, F. W. Brewer, 277
Engine Governors, W. Mack Hutton, 598
Engine Governors, John S. Ra worth, 555
Engine Governors, Robert H. Smith, 583
English v. American Railway Bridges, Julias Decker, 105
English and American Railway Bridges, J. Jennings, 227
English v. American Railway Bridges, M. I. and S. last., 32, 81
English v. American Railway Bridges, Alfred Ottewell, 32, 59, 105, 189, 250,343
English v. American Railway Bridges, W. H. Thorpe, 105
Experiments upon Propeller Ventilating Fans, W. G. Walker, 469
Failure of Steam Pipes, John Batey, 343, 431
Failure of Steam Pipes, Sidney H. Hollands, 393
Fan Efficiency, G. M. Capell, 633
Fan Efficiency, W. G. Walkor, 583
Fan Efficiency, Wigan, 583
Fast Express Train, A, An Engineer, 300
Floorcloth Printing Machinery ? Inventor, 425
Flow of Air, Octogenarian. 523
Flow in Canals ? Reader, 527
Forced Lubrication ? R., 183
Foreign Competition in Bridge Building, Thos. Wrightson, 140
Foreign Contracts, C.E , 655
Foreign Weights and Measures ? G. S. and Co , 12
Galvanised Iron Steam Piping? H. W., 303
Galvanising Tanks, H. Ingold, 15
Haggan Articulated Locomotive, The, Jas. Dunlop, 469
Hemp Rope Making Machinery? N. Y., 205
H.M.S. “ Loander,” Jack Ashore, 498, 555
H.M.S. “ Leander,” Geo. Hichens, 323
H.M.S. “ Leander,” H. Y. Powell, 469, 534, 633
H.M.S. “ Leander,” O. S.. 633
Hollow Ware Machinery 1 Exporter, 347
Hook Bolts, Ferrari Attilio, 422
Institution Examination, The, H. S. Hele Shaw, 633
Insurance against Strikes, J. S. V. Bickford, 469
Inventor of the Lucifer Match, The, Robert Phillips, 227
Largest Paddle Steamer Afloat, The, B. R. Body, 300
Late Sir Isaac Holden as an Inventor, The, Masham, 204
Laying Out Carves, S. Smeaton, 140
Lead Seals ? J. H. S , 475
Lead Shot Plant? K. C., 551
Lift Accident at the G. P. O., H. K. Baynes, 352
Lignozote D. Hart and Co., 183
Light Railway Ganges, F. R. Johnson, 32, 251
Light Railways in India, J. Griffyths Martyn,
Liquid Fuel for Motor Cars, J. S. V. Bickford, 58
Lloyd’s Rules, Longmans, Green, and Co., 189
Locomotive Fire-boxes, Hy. Simpson, 522
Magnesia Pipe Covering ? Magnesia, 183
Manchester Sewage Problem, T. W. Baker, 276, 469
Manchester Ship Canal, The, Mem. Inst, 523
Master Patents, A Wallaby Boy, 583
Molecular Texture of Steel and Iron, Cupola, 227
Moment of Resistance, Wm. Donaldson, 58
Motor Cars, Hy. G. Cooper, 251
Motor Cara, J. Fred. Spencer, 15
Motor Cara, J. G. S., 633
Moving Houses ? R. E. V., 425
National Free Labour Association, W. Collison, Gen. Sec., 277
National Gas Engine ? The, G. H. B., 205
National Insurance, Thos. A. Welton, 469
Note on some Warships’ Steam Trials, Robert Mansel, 621
Naval Hare and Honnds, The, C. Scott Snell, 58
Oil Engines and Lighthouses, Hugh Campbel), 554
Oil Engines in Lighthouses, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 523
Oil and Gas Engines, Fred. Grover, 422
Oil and Gas Engines, J. H. Knight, 422
Oil and Gas Engines, James D. Roots, 469
Oil Motor Care, J. and C. Stirling, 300
Oscillating Engine, The, Richard B. Prosser, 469
Paris International Fire Prevention Congress, Marechal, 105
Patent-office Curiosity, Ernest C. Kendal, 105
Patent Searcher, A, II. Austin, 352
Permanent Way, British and American, Clement Stretton, 555
Permanent Way Gauges, R. T. M., 323
Pipes and Connections ? Piping, 159
Popular Science, Bumble Bee, 498
Problem in Steel, A, J. McG., 393
Profession of Engineering in Australia, Assoc. M. Inst., 522
Proportions of Girders, J. C. Rome, 633
Pumping Engines at Liverpool, W. F. D. Van Ollefen, 555
Pumping Engine Trials, Alfred Towler, 377
Puzzle, A, Bal! Castor, 422
Rails for Toy Railways, Locomotive, 551
Railway Couplings, Digna Sequamur, 431
Railway Speeds, W. M. Acwortb, 554
Railway Speeds, F. W. B., 554, 582
Railway Speeds, Carbrook, 554
Railway Speeds, R. Collier, 534
Railway Speeds, James Craig, 554
Railway Speeds, S. E. B., 534, 598
Railway Speeds, W. H. Dines, 632
Railway Speeds, An Inquirer, 554
Railway Speeds, An Interested Traveller, 598
Railway Speeds, A. McCree, 598
Railway Speeds, Norman D. McDonald, 598, 632
Railway Speeds, No. 170, 632
Railway Speeds, E. L. P., 582
Railway Speeds, Running Board, 598
Railway Speeds, R. Showard, 582
Railway Speeds, Clement E. Stretton, 582, 632
Railway Speeds, Count Fred. Szapary, 554, 655
Railway Speeds, A. Woodroffe Manton, 655
Railway Speeds, W., 598
Reckoning the Speed of Trains, Joseph Bernays, 300
Reckoning the Speed of Trains, Digna Sequamur, 276
Reckoning the Speed of Trains, H. A. O. Mackenzie, 343
Reckoning the Speed of Trains, Clement E. J Stretton, 319, 393
Representatives of Foreign Engineers in Japan, Representative of British Engineers in Japan, 633
Rhodin Cell, The, Louis C. Kemp, 523
River Wey Navigation, John Henry Knight, 469
River Wey Navigation, J. D. Roots, 422
Roots’ Classification of Oil Engines, C. T. Wordsworth, 276
Rssian Trade, C. P., 277
Sanitation in Excelsis, F. Batting, 377, 393
Sanitation in Excelsis, Western, 377, 422
Screw Propulsion, Auguste Jean Bonbon me, 105
Screw Propulsion, Robert MtGlasson, 105
Screw Propulsion, R. M. S., 105
Sheathing or Feathering Propellers, A., 498
Some Unrecognised Laws of Nature, J. Singer, Lewis H. Borens, 183
Some Unrecognised Laws of Nature, Your Reviewer, 204
Steam Engine Indicators, Superintendent Engineer, 319
“Steelite” Fire Bars? J. A., 347
Straw Working Machinery? L. A., 229
Strike and Lock-out, The, A. N. Adams, 392
Strike and Lock-out, The, Anxious Onlooker, 227
Strike and Lock-out, The, Apprentice, 307, 393
Strike and Lock-out, The, Boilermaker, 227
Strike and Lock-out, The, Ben Bolt, 343
Strike and Lock-out, The, J. S. V. Bickford, 227, 306, 322, 343, 377
Strike and Lock-out, The, H. Bollinckx, 377
Strike and Lock-out, The, 6. F. Buck, W. E. Buck, 307
Strike and Lock-out, The, W. G. C., 277
Strike and Lock-out, The, R. J., 582
Strike and Lock-out, The, Frank Lane, 277
Strike and Lock-out, The, Arnold Lupton, 277
Strike and Lock-out, The, Gilbert Little, 469, 534
Strike and Lock-out, The, Fred Miller, 307
Strike and Lock-out, The Multiple Manu¬facturer, 377
Strike and Lock-out, The, Non-unionist Fitter, 251
Strike and Lock-out, The, One of the Rank and File, 323, 377, 431
Strike and Lock-out, The, C. R. Parkes, 307, 822
Strike and Lock-out, The, John Parker, 342, 392
Strike and Look-out, The, Reason, 633
Strike and Lock-out, The, Rex, 277, 323
Strike and Lock-out, The, Chas, Richardson and Co., 393
Strike and Lock-out, The, W., 343
Tabloid Machinery, W. Duff and Co., 35
Technical Education, J. O. Arnold, 299, 319
Technical Education, G. F. B., 555
Technical Education, Delta, 251, 300
Technical Education, Arthur Herschmann, 300
Technical Education, Improver, 319
Technical Education, Laudator Temporis Acti, 319, 352
Technical Education, Limited Liability, 227
Technical Education, Radix, 227, 277
Technical Education, Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson, 251, 299
Tension of Cycle Spokes, J. S. V. Bickford, 422
Tension of Cycle Spokes, T. D. Dixon, 422
Theoretical Dynamics, T. B., 555
Theoretical Dynamics, J. S. V. Bickford, 523, 655
Theoretical Dynamics, W. A. S. E., 633
Theoretical Dynamics, A. M. I., 583
Theoretical Dynamics, Alf. Jingle, 469, 555
Theoretical Dynamics, F. H. L , 583
Theoretical Dynamics, Llandrindod, 633
Theoretical Dynamics, S. Pyecroft, 598
Theoretical Dynamics, Old Rifleman, 655
Theoretical Dynamics, Herbert D. Paine, 523
Theoretical Dynamics, Shade of Pickwick, 523
Theoretical Dynamics, Nathaniel Winkle, 555
Thermodynamics of the Gas Engine, Fred. Grover, 189
Thermodynamics of the Gas Engine, E. Claudio da Silva, 155, 468
Trade of the British Empire, S. H. N., 322
Trade of the British Empire, A Trader, 322
Trades Unionism and Mr. Barnes, Jack O'Both Sides, 534
Trades Unionism and Mr. Barnes, Live and Let Live, 498
Train Resistance, Edw. J. M. Davies, 523
Tramways in Switzerland, Gebruder Sulzer, 189
Unfair Use of Drawings, Fair Play, 140
Unfair Use of Drawings, Pro Bono Publico, 105
United States Patents, Abel and Imray, 323
University of Japan, The, Robert H. Smith, 582
Ventilating Fans, G. M. Capell, 522
Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, F. Botting, 393
Ventilation of the Metropolitan, The, Jas. Holden, 431
Venturi Meter, The, Geo. Kent, 277
Vertical or Sloping Piers, W. B., 323
“Victory,” The, Rich. B. Prosser, 251
“ Victoria and Albert,” The, Hy. Warriner, 431
Volition of “Things,” The, H. J. Fuller, 522
Wallace’s Graphic Dynamometer? C. M., 551
Water Finding, Leicester Gataker, 15
Water-tight Bulkheads in Ships, Rbys Jenkins, 523
Water-tight Bulkheads in Ships, Rich. B. Prosser, 523
Weight of Railway Rolling Stock, Loco., 343
What are Compression and Tension? H. J. Fuller, 420
Wire drawn Steam, John J. Royle, 342
Wire Nail-making Machinery? G. J. C., 229
Leviathan Steamer for the White Star Line, A New, 370
Lewis, Mr. H. W., 288
Lewes, Prof. V. B., The Theory of the Atmo¬spheric Burner, 26
Licata, Proposed Harbour at, 30
Liege Engineers’ Association— Asso¬ciation, Liege Engineers’.
Lifeboat, “The Queen,” Assigned to New Brighton, The Steam, 625
Lifeboats under the Charge of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution, 473
Lift Accident at the General Post-office, 352
Lifting Bridge over the Murray River, 497, 500 506, 507

Light Railways.

Light Rrlways, 348
Light Riilways in Acton, Ealing, and Hanwell, 427
Light Railways in Australia, The Consular Journal on, 16
Light Railway, Basingstoke and Alton, 656
Light Railways in Belgium, 127
Light Railway, Tho Biaok Country, 625
Light Railway from Cheddleton Junction to Leek, Scheme for, 423
Light Railway Commission, New Projects to be Considered by, 591
Light Railway between Derby and Ashbourne, Inquiry with Reference to, 382
Light Railway, Essex, 201
Light Railways, India, 227, 499
Light Railway, Isle of Sheppoy, 423
Light Railways, List of Applications for Orders Authorising, 66
Light Railways, List of Projected, 596
Light Railway from Loch Long to Looh Fyne Granted, 302
Light Railways, Manchester, 550
Light Railway from Peakirk, 201
Light Railway from Salisbury to Pewsey, Scheme for, 423
Light Railway Bridges, Notes on, 617
Light Railway Gauges, 32, 35, 251
Lightest Substance Known, 181
Lighthouse, Brittany, A New, 397
Lighthouses, Electrical Communication with, 434
Lighthouses, Oil Eogines in, 503, 523, 554
Lighthouse under Construction on North Head, United States America, 254
Lighting Dark Rooms by Reflected Light, 91
Lignozote ? 183
Lima and Pesco, Projected Line from, and Govern¬ment Concessions, 423
Lima Railways, Report of, 331
Lime, On the Hydraulioity of, 84
Limerick, Adoption of Steam Rolling in, 33
Limitations of Government in Water-power Plants, 44
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and Five Railway Companies, 499
Lindop, Mr. W. H., Sues Messrs. Goodby and Sons, 158
Lion Tube Works, Re-starting of, 484
Liquefaction of Fluorine, The, 423
Liquid Fuel Engineering Company, Steam Motor Road Train, 595
Liquid Fuel for Motor Cars, 58
Lisbon, Subsidence of a Wide Masonry Wharf at, 526
Lisbon, Tenders invited for the Sanitary Improve¬ment of, 550
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Essentials of Gearing, The : A Text-book for Technical Students and for Self-instruction, containing numerous Problems and Practical Formulas, by Gardner C. Anthony, 520
Field Manual for Railway Engineers, by J. C. Nagle. 540
First Principles of Electricity and Magnetism, by C. H. W. Biggs, 339
First Stage, Sound, Light, and Heat, by J. Don, 246
Floods of the Mississippi River, with Account of their Principal Causes and Effects, and a Description of the Levee System and other Means Proposed and Tried for the Control of the River, with a particular Account of the Great Flood of 1897, by Wm. Starling, 427
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smith¬sonian Institution, 1892—93, J. W. Powell, 196
Gas, Gasoline, and Oil Vapour Engines, by Gardner D. Hiscox, 231
Geological Map of the British Isles, Scale 14in. to 1, 362
Glasgow District Subway: Its Construction, Plant, and Working, by Andrew Home Morton, 113
Glossary of Mining Terms, with Illustrations and Geological Survey Map Signs, compiled by Captain C. C. Longridge, 78
Guide to South Africa : For the Use of Tourists, Sportsmen, Invalids, and Settlers, with Coloured Maps and Diagrams, by A. Somler Brown and G. Gordon Brown, 427
Handbuch der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Vier ter Band, Die Baumaschinen, Part I., Edited by F. Lineke, 629
Hazell’s Annual for 1898, A Cyclopaedic Record of Men and Topics of the Day, 603 House Drainago Manual: Guide to the Design
and Construction of Systems of Drainage and Sewage Disposal from Houses, by W. M. Spinks, 542
Hydraulic Cement: Its Properties, Testing, and Use, by Fred. P. Spalding, 37
Il Canottaggio : A Remi, a Vela, ed a Vapora, Per Giorgio Croppi, 339
Institution of Junior Engineers: Record of Transactions, Vol. vi., 327
Intermediate Course of Practical Physics, by Arthur Schuster and Cbas. H. Lees, 113
Journal of Acetylene Gas Lighting and Carbide of Calcium Review: The Pioneer Journal of a New Industry, 629
Kelly’s Directory of the Engineers and Iron and Metal Trades and Colliery Proprietors, comprising every Trade and Profession in any Way connected with the above trades throughout England, Scotland, and Wales, and the Principal Towns in Ireland and the Isle of Man, 113
Land of Promise, A: A Brie£ and Authentic Account of the Condition and Resources of Western Australia, 629
Land Selector’s Guide to the Crown Lands of Western Australia, &?. &?., issued by Direc¬tion of the Hon. Geo. Throssell, 629
Lectures on Explosives: Course of Lectures Prepared especially as a Manual and Guide in the Laboratory of the U.S. Artillery School, by Willoughby Walke, 231
Le Four Electrique, par M. Henri Moissan, 401
Lss Ballons - Sondes de MM. Hermite et
Besancon et les Ascensions Internationales, precédé d’une Introduction par M. Bouquet de la Grye, 339
Lessons in Elementary Practical Acoustics, by C. L. Barnes, 3
London Manual for 1897—98,
Edited by Robert Donald, 64
Manual of Electrical Undertakings, 362
Manufacture of Iron and Steel Tubes, by Ed. C. H. Marks, 281
Marine Engineers’ Record Book, by Bryan C. Bartley, 427
Masonry Dams, from Inception to Completion, including Numerous Formula), Forms of Specification and Tender, Pocket Diagram of Forces, &c., by C. F. Courtney, 293
Materials of Construction : A Treatise for Engineers on the Strength of Engineering Materials, by J. B. Johnson, 63
Mechanical World, The, Pocket Diary and Year-book for 1898, 520
Metallurgy of Cast Iron, by T. D. West, 362
Model of a Locomotive, with a Historical Sketch and Brief Description of the Working Parts, by Christopher Volkert, 629
Modern Engineer and Amateur Electrician: A Journal of Mechanics and Electricity for Amateurs and Studdnts, Vol. i., No. 1, 653
Modern Gas and Oil Engines, by Fred. Grover, 427
Naval Annual for 1897, by the Hon. T. A. Brassey, 195
Naval Gunnery, Description and History of the Fighting Equipment of a Man-of-War, by Capt. H. Garbett, 293
Organic Chemical Manipulation, by J. T. Hewitt, 149
Our Coal Resources at the Close of the Nine¬teenth Century, by Edward Hull, 113
Paper-makers’ Directory of all Nations, containing the Principal Paper and Pulp Mills of the World, 118
Pedaller Abroad, A : being an Illustrated Nar¬rative of the Adventures and Experiences of a Cycling Twain during a 1000-Kilometre Ride in and around Switzerland, by C. F. Simond, 231
Photography Annual: Compendium of Photo¬graphic Information, with a Record of Pro¬gress in Photography for the Past Year, edited by H. Sturmey, 150
Pocket-book of Marine Engineering Rules and Tables for the Use of Marine Engineers, Naval Architects, he. he., by A. E. Seaton, 603
Potentiometer and its Adjuncts, The, by W. Clark Fisher, 453
Power Distribution for Electric Railroads, by Louis Bell, 339
Practical Building Construction and Handbook for Students Preparing for the Examinations of the Science and Art Department, the Royal Institute of British Architects, he., by J. P. Allen, 427
Practical Coal Mining: Sixty Collotype Illustra¬tions of Mining Machines and Methods, with Explanatory Text, by Herbert Perkin, 231
Practical Engineer, Pocket-book for 1898, 477
Practical Instruction on the Compound Locomo¬tive Engine fitted with Joy’s Valve Motion, with Coloured Diagrams, by George Adamson, 86
Practical Treatise on Mineral Oils and their By-products, by Iltyd J, Redwood, 36
Practical Treatise on Organ Building, with 1
Plates and Appendices, by F. E. Robertson, 216
Proceedings of the Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Vol. xxii., 629
Process Year-book for 1897, Vol. iii., Conducted 1 by Wm. Gamble, 150
Prospector's Handbook: Guide for the Prospector and Traveller in Search of Metal¬bearing or other Valuable Minerals, by J. W. 1 Anderson, 629
Purification of Sewage and Water, The, W. J. Dibdin, 602
Rails and Accessories, by Thos. W. Ward, 520
Ready Reckoner, by which Multiplication of Factors from 1 by 1 to 999 by 999 can be seen at a glance, &c. &o., Compiled by Adolf 1 Henselin, 216
Refrigerating and Ice-making Machinery: Descriptive Treatise for the Use of Parsons Employing Refrigerating and Ice-making Installations and Others, A. J. Wallis-Taylor, 503
Royal Navy List Diary and Naval Handbook J for 1898, 477
Science of Brlckmakiog, The, by Gee. F. ) Harris, 281
Set of Twolve Diagrams Illustrating the Prin¬ciples of Mining, by F. T. Howard and E. W. 1 Small, 291
Shippers’ Guide to S. and E. Africa, with Coloured Railway Map, edited by W. D. M. Cotts, 150
Some Unrecognised Laws of Nature : Inquiry into the Causes of Physical Phenomena, with Special Reference to Gravitation, by Ignatius Singer and Lewis H. Berens, 78
Stamp Milling of Gold Ores, The, by T. A. Rickard, 576
Statistical Year-book of Canada for 1896, 503
Steam Boilers, by George Halliday, 327
Text-book on Applied Mechanics, Specially Arranged for the Use of Science and Art, City and Guilds of Loudon Institute, and other Engineering Students, Vol. II., by Andrew Jamieson, 629
Torpedo Book : A Series of Sketches with Tor¬pedo Craft in Fair Weather and Foul, by Fred. T. Jane, 86
Tracó d'un Chemin de Fer, par Albert Dufour, 576
Traction MtScanique des Tramways, Etudes des D.fférents Systhmes Comparaison et Prix de Revient, par Raymond Godfernaux, 629
Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. IV., 503
Treatise on Arches, Designed for the Use of Engineers and Students in Technical Schools, by Malverd A. Howe, 230
Tunbridge Wells of To-day, by M. Stanley Martin and B. Prescott Row, 113
Universal Directory of Railway Officials, 1897, 196
University Tutorial Ssrie3—Euclid, Books I.— IV., by Robert Doakin, 281
University Tutorial Series, Tutorial Trigono¬metry, by Wm. Briggs, 362
Valley of Zermatt and the Matterhorn, Guide, by Edward Whymper, 231
War Map of the North-West Indian Frontier, W. and A. K. Johnston, 291
Water Companies’ Directory and Statistics, 1897, and Gas and Electric Lighting Com¬panies’ Directory and Statistics, 281
Water and Public Health : The Relative Purity of Water from Different Sources, by Jas. H. Fuertes, 112
Whittaker’s Mechanical Engineer’s Pocket¬book, by Philip R. Björling, 603
Wood-Paving in Australia : Its Origin and Sub¬sequent Development, oompiled by A. C. Mountain, 327
Little, Mr. Gilbert, On the Strike and Lock-out, 533
Little, Mr. Muirhead, An Electric Umpire, 482
Liverpool Docks, 616
Liverpool and Douglas, Projected Steamship Service between, 254
Liverpool, Pumping Engines at, 380, 555
Liverpool, University College, Faculty of Engi¬neering, 352
Lloyd’s Register New Boiler RuleB, 441
Lloyd’s Register of Vessels Lo3t, Condemned, &c., in 1896, 346, 371
Lloyd’s Rules, 189
Loads, Suddenly Imposed, 528 Loanda, Demand for Machinery at, 346
Local Government Board, The Sewage Disposal of Towns to be Inquired into by the, 131
Localisation of Faults in Underground Mains,
Abstract of Paper on the, 52
Lock Canal Scheme, Panama, 66
Lock Gates, The Largest Steel, 635
Lock-out in Sheffield, The— see also Strike and Lockout, 191

Locomotives:

Locomotives, American Compressed Air, 137
Locomotives, American, in Japan, 636
Locomotive, Articulated, 390
Locomotives, Balanced, 43, 230
Locomotive Ballasting and Shunting, Imperial Japanese Railways (Supplement, November 26M, 1897), 525
Locomotive Boilers, Proportions of, 183
Locomotive Building, English and American, 576
Locomotives Burning Oil Fuel on the S. Pacific Railway, Reported Conversion of, 16 Locomotives for the Cape Government, South Africa, 244
Locomotives for Chinese Railways, American, 377
Locomotives, Compound (Supplement, Juhi 16 (1897), 54, 91, 201
Locomotive, Compound Goods, North Pacific Railway (Supplement, July 16th, 1897) Locomotive, Compound Mastodon, 54
Locomotives, Compound and Simple, American, 91
Locomotive, A Curious Tunnel, 647
Locomotive Cylinders, Irregular Wear of, 119
Locomotive Designer, What, says Oassier’s Maga¬zine, is required of the, 109 Locomotive, Economical Driving and Firing of the, 243
Locomotives for Egypt, Light, 484
Locomotive by an Electrical Device, Cost of Turnings, 650
Locomotive, Express, Paris, Lyons, and Medi¬terranean Railway, 257
Locomotive Fire-bexei, 522
Locomotives for the Groat Western Railway, New Class of, 302
Locomotive, The Haggan Articulated, 469
Locomotives, Heavy Passenger, American Rail¬ways, 434
Locomotive, Heilmann Electric, Trials of the, 505
Locomotives, Inside Check Valves for, 657
Locomotives for Japan, American ami English, 66, 91
Locomotives for Japan, The Brooks Works, 33
Locomotives may be used on Highways if the Driving Wheels ara shod with Wooden Blocks, 550
Locomotive for Mexico, 510, 635
Locomotive on the Michigan Central Railway, An Interesting, 16
Locomotive, A Model, How it was made, 239
Locomotive, Narrow Gauge, Capo Government Railways, 556
Locomotives in New York, Compressed Air, 18
Locomotives for the North of France Railway Company, Ordered at Creusot, 273
Locomotive Operation, 533
Locomotive, Passenger, Brooks Locomotive Works, 403
Locomotive, Passenger, Great Western Railway, Mr. W. Dean. 344
Locomotive, Rack-rail, for Mexico, 635
Locomotive, The Rockwood, Compound, 651
Locomotives in Russia, 131, 650
Locomotives, Size of Steam Ports on, 557
Locomotives, Slide Valvo for, 39
Locomotives for South America, American, 91
Locomotive Spring, Movements of a, 141
Locomotives, Steel Axles for, 533
Locomotive, The Strong, 232
Locomotive Tank, Indian State Railways, Work¬ing Drawing of (Supplement, October 3rd, 1897), 332
Locomotive, Ten-wheeled Mineral, Great Western Railway, Mr. Wm. Dean (Supplement, Novem¬ber 5:A, 1897), 442
Locomotive Tests of the Olden Days, American, 24
Locomotives and their Work, North-Eastern, 292
Locomotive Trade, Mr. Angus Sinclair on the Russian, 650
Locomotives, Trials of English, 491
Locomotive Valves, Laad for, Mr. A. von Borries, 141
Locomotive, Vauclain, 252
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Accident on, 223
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Mr. J. F. S. Gooday Appointed General Manager, 573
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, Cheap Excursion to the Riviera, December 23rd, 473
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, Train de Lnx9 from Calais to Romo, 423
London-Gibraltar Express, New Service to be Called the, 158
London, Chatham, and Dover, Accident on the, 201
London, The Great Fire in, 526
London, New Railway Works in South, 518
London and North-Western Railway and tho
Board of Trade Returns of Railway Accidents in 1896, 331
London and North-Western Railway, Projected Diversion of the Main Line, 449
London and North-Western Railway Report, The, 158
London and North-Western, Signals on the, 181
London and South-Western Company, Proposed Railway from Budleigh Salterton to Exmouth, 550
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, Four- coupled Bogie Tank Engine, Mr. Thos. Whitelegg (Supplement, December 17th, 1897), 607
London Water Supply, 81
Long Buckley Water Supply, 92
Longchamps, Mr. H., Experiments on Friction Driving, 650
Longton, Light Railways and Electric Light for,
Lothian Coal Company, Limited, Visit to the Victoria Coal Pit, 318
Low Field Mine, Pumping Engine, 110, 118
Low-water Alarm for Boilers, 142 Lowe, Mr. J. E.j 405
Lowther, Mr., his Report on Japanese Railways, 66
Lubricants, and how to Ascertain their Tendency to “Gum,” Mr. A. E. Tucker, on a Number of Well-known, 316
Lucifer Match, Inventor of the 227,
“Lüders’ Lines,” 473
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, The, 223, 310
Lyster, Mr. G. F., his Retirement, 90

M

McCULLOCH'S Round Shaft Sinking Frame, 428, 429 6
McDonald, Mr. J. A., Swing Bridge over the Nene (Supplement, July 23rd, 1897), 77, 79
Machines for Cracking Cocoa Nute Wanted in Paraguay, 223
Machine Factory in Kiew, 312
Machine Labour Qaestion, Threatened Dispute in
the Bolton Engineering Trades on, 19
Machine Lubricants, Japan, 484

Machine Tools:

348
Machine Tool, A Bicycle, 635
Machine Tools in the Future, 594
Machine Tools, Hartford Automatic, 467
Machine Tools, Messrs, llulse and Co., 549
Machine Tools, Note Relative to the Improve¬ment in, 499
Machine Tools, Specialised, 505
Machine Tools supplied from America, 459
McIntosh, Mr. John, Hatch Cleat, 212
Maclean, Dr. Magnus, on Lard Kelvin’s Patents, 545
Machinery, Attitude of the Modern Workmen to, 636
Machinery Demands in Smyrna, British India. Angola, 673, 599
Machinery Exports, Bard of Trade Re’urns for October, 473
Machinery Exports, The Half-year’s, 78
Machinery, Sectionalised, 131
Machinery into Sweden, Importation of, 109
Machinery Wanted at Loanda, 3 IS
Madagascar, Engineering in, 195
Madagascar, Trade, in 427
Made in Germany, A Broken Shaft, 313
Madras Steam Boilers and Prime Movers Act, Factor of Safety under the, 8i
Madrid Exhibition of Spanish Industries, 150
Magellan Straits, British Line of Steamers through the, much needed, 66
Magnesia Pipe Covering? 183 Magnet, A Hoist, 294
Magnetic Increment of Rigidity in Strong Fields, Mr. H. D. Day on, 16
Magnetic Separation, A New Method of, 650
Magnetic Strains, Prof. C. G. Knott on, 16
Maidstone Eoidemic, The, 325
Mail Tubes, Pneumatic, 557 1
Mails, English and French, Conference at Dover respecting Quicker Dispatch of, 499 Majorana, Dr. Quirine, Process for Producing Artificial Diamonds, 331
Malaga E'eclricity Company, Limited, 405
Malaga, Iron Ore Export from, 251
Mallaband, Mr. John, 239
Malleable Iron Castings, Process of Producing, 397
Malt and Grain, Drying Apparatus, The Paine and Ellis, 581
Manchester Acetylene Gas and Carbide Com¬pany’s Works, The, 534
Manchester, Artificial Filtration Scheme for, 181
Manchester Ass'ze Courts, Re-draining of the, 485
Manchester Business—see Notes from Lancashire Manchester, Electric Lighting and Traction, 473
Manchester, Grain Silo at, 497
Manchester, Light Railway, 550
Manchester Sewage Problem, The, 195, 244, 276, 346, 423, 469, 477
Manchester, The Sewage Effluent Culvert Scheme, 423
Manchester Sewage, Works to Convey the Sewage from Davyhulme, 346
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Change of Name, 65, 143
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway,
Progress of the New London Line, 109
Manchester Ship Canal, 167, 181, 213, 220, 275, 495, 523
Manchester Ship Canal Dock Warehouses. 1C6
Manchester Ship Canal Traffic Returns, 181
Manchester Ship Canal, Confidence of Share¬holders in the Management of, 213
Manchester Tramways, Electricity as the New Motive Power, 181
Manchester— see alto Notes from Lancashire Manchurian Railway, The, 81 Mandalay-Kunlon Railway, Progress of the, 254
Manganese Bronze Free from Iron, The Prepara¬tion of, 625
Manganese Ores, Export from Spain, 650
Manganese Steel, 301
Manganese Steel Applied to Large Curves, 262
Manlove, Alliott, and Co., Messrs., Dust De¬structors at Shoreditch, 7, 8, 9, 10
Manuel, Mr., Crank and Propeller Shafts, 49, 69
Mappin and Webb, Messrs., Appointed Gold¬smiths and Cutlers to the Shah and the Persian Court, 558

Maps:

Bosphorus, 490
Chicago Drainage Canal, 125
Dominion of Canada, 125
Sty Head District, 642
Vale of Glamorgan Railway, 572
Marine Engineering, Progress of, from the Found¬ing of the Institute of Naval Architects to the Present Date, 25, 27
Marine, French Mercantile, 160
Marquis of Londonderry’s Collieries to be Trans¬ferred to a Limited Liability Company, 72
Marseilles and French Shipping, 276
Marseilles Trade, Decrease of toe, 181
Marshall, Sons, and Co., Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 5
Martello, The, 131
Martin, Mr. E. P., Reviews the Condition and Prospects of the Iron and Steel Trade, 20
Maryport and Carlisle Railway Report, 201
Mason College, New Mechanical Equipment for, 121
Mason, Messrs. W. F., their New Works, 143
Massena Power Scheme, The, 279
Massey, Mr. Fred. H., 573
Master Patents, 583
Mastodon Eogine, Compound, 54
Matlock, Cable Tramway Presented to, 573
Mathematical Theory of Naval Architecture, Advances made in the, 67, 80, 119
Matthews, Mr. Thomas, Pump put down at a Bleaching Eitablishment, 263
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., Work Turned out by, 594
Mavor, Mr. H. A., Recent Applications of Elec¬trical Engineering, 612
Maxim, Mr. Hiram S., on Extra Hard Steel, 6
Maxim, Mr. Hiram S., on Smokeless Powders and their Ballistic Results, 97
Maxim, Mr. Hudson, on a New System of Throw¬ing High Explosives, 4
Maxim-Nordenfelt Guos and Ammunition Com¬pany, Limited, and Hiram Stevens Maxim v. Anderson, 58
Maxim Rills, Calibre Machine Guns, Royalties on, 33
Maxim-Scbupphaus Powder, 97
Mayer, Professor A. M., 188
Measuring the Evaporation of Water, Apparatus for, 215
Measuring very High Pressures, Apparatus for, 43
Mechanical Engineering, Idiosyncrasy in, 452
Mechanical Engineers of Smethwick, 363
Mechanical Features of Electric Traction, Mr. Dawson on, 465, 483
Mechanical Power, The Chief Characteristic in the Development of, 625
Mechanics and Working People in Germany, I Census of, 331
Melting of Metals when under Extended Pressure, Mr. Bischof on the, 650
Men Wanted for the Mombassa-UgaDda Railway, 1 201 „ 1
Merchant Marine of the United States, 66
Merry weather’s Improved Roof Hydrant, 282
Merry weather, Messrs., Vacuum Cesspool Apparatus, 599 ;
Mersey Bir, Report on the Operations at the,
Mersey North Docks to be Deepened, The, 223
Mersey Decks and Harbour Beard, New Pump¬ing Machinery for the Herculaneum Graving Dock, 550
Messioa, Tarsus and Adana Railway Report, 131
Metals of Canada, Professor Reberts-Austen on the, 599
Metal Cutting, Sawing Mach'nes for. 654
Metal for Cylinders, Valves and Valve Seats, Mixture used in Slaking, 109
Metal, A New, Casting, 557
Metals, Pocket Recorder for Tests of, 188
Metals, Some Proporties of, Prof. C. Roberts-Austen, 211
Metals under Extended Pressure, Oa the Melting o’, 650
Metcalfe’s Speed Indicator, 408
Meteorological Office, Weekly Weather Reports, 397
Msters, Electricity. 41
Meter, E'lis and Atherton’s, 42
Meters, Prepayment, 42
Metor, Steam. 91
Meter, The Venturi, 210, 277
Metre Gauge, Conversion of Indian Railways to the, 109
Metropolitan Railway Company's B ll, 625
Metropolitan Railway Company, Mr. H. A. P. Hamilton’s Appointment, 523
Metropolitan Railways, Progress of the Waterloo and City Line, 371
Metropolitan Railways, Report on the Ventilation of the Tunnels of, 371
Metropolitan Railways, Whitechapol and Bow, 650
Mexican Railway Extension, 209, 599
Mexico, Rack Rail Locomotive for. 635
Mexico, Sulphur Production in, 473
Meyer, Prof. Victor, 181
Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, Statistics for the Quarter, 410
Middlesbrough Docks Enlargement, 115, 511
Middlesbrough, Electric Light for, 401
Middlesbrough, Mrs. Thompson's Gift to the Corporation of, 71
Middleton Sewage, 352
Midland Iron and Steel Wages Board, Fall in the Price of Iron announced for Next Summer, 354
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company's Meeting, 167
Midland Railway Company's New Dock Branch, Gloucester, 236
Midland Railway Company, New Line from Sheffield to Barnsley opened, 33
Midland Railway Company's Plans, 346
Midland Railway Report, The, 158
Midland Railway System, Extension of the, 473
Mill Eogines, Compound, 324
Mill, A Large Boring, 592, 593
Mill Race as a Receptacle for Waste Heat, The, 134
Mill and Sifter, Grinding, Messrs. Bamford, 38
Milling Cutter and Twist Drill Grinding Machine, 549
Milo Manganese Mines, 586
Milton, Mr. A. T., History of Marine Engineer¬ing, from the Founding of the Institute of Naval Architects to the Present Date, 25, 27
Mineral Wealth of Australia, 302
Miners’ Provident Society, Statement to the
Members, 214
Mining in the Ural, 474, 479
Minnitt, Mr. H. W., on the Manufacture of Steel, 486

Miscellanea

16, 33, 66, 84, 109, 131, 158, 181,201, 223, 254, 273, 302, 331, 346, 371, 397, Wi, 449, 473, 499, 526, 550, 573, 599, 625, 650
Mitchell, Mr. C. H., Uses for Scrap or Refuse Mica, 254
Mixter, Prof., on Acetylene Gas, 550
Model Locomotive was Made, How a, 269
Modern Japan, Industrial and Scienti6c, 75, 249,
267, 317, 337, 387, 544, 567
Modern Japan, Industrial and Scienti6c, Chances of the Foreign Engineer, 75
Modern Workman to Machinery, Attitude of the, 636
Moir, Mr. E., Presentation to, 181
Moissan, M , New Method of Preparing Carbides, 625
Moissan and Dewar, Profs., Liquefaction of Fluorine, 423
Moisture in Cial, 73
Moisture in Steam on the Economy of a Steam Turbine, Tests to Show the Influence of, 44
Molecular Texture of Steel and Iron, 227
Molybdenum Steel, Result of Tests on, 223
Mombassa-Uganda Railway, The, 201, 275
Mombassa-Uganda Railway, Men Wanted for the, 201
Moment of Resistance, 58
Monk, Mr. H. L., his Appointment, 84
Montreal, Electric Tramways, 331
Montrose, The, Sir R. Dixon and Co., Limited, 312
Moore, Msj ir R. F., Experiments in the Pro¬duction of Mechanical Flight, 550
Moore, Mr. D. McFarlan, Experiments in Out¬door Vacuum Tube Illumination, 302
Moorwood, Sons, and Co., A Large Iron Ingot Mould, 535
Morecom, Mr., Highspeed Self - lubricating Engines, 104, 128, 137, 166
Morgan, Mr. Thos. R , 331
Morocco, Only Cheap Goods Required in, 346
Mortality of 1882 and 1895 in Eight Leading Cities, 302
Motors, Alcohol, M. Max Ringelmann's Re¬searches with, 449

Motor Cars:

Motor Car Club, Annual Meet of the, 499
Motor Car Industry in France, The, 23
Motor Cars, Liquid Fuel for, 58
Motor Car Notes, 419, 581
Motor Cars, 15, 251, 300, 397, 419, 581, 633
Motor Care, Oil, 300
Motor Care for Peking, 397
Motor Car Steering Gear, Davis’s, 519
Motor Car Trials in France, 102, 176, 181
Motor Car Trial, Mr. T. Parker and Mr. E. Cirle, 120
Motor Carriage, Columbia, 209
Motor Carriage, Electric, 507
Motor Carriages, The Pope Works, 43
Motor Carriage Problem, Edison's Opinion on the, 66
Motor Cycles Propelled with Acetvlone Gas in Italy, 650
Motor Cycle Race in France, 64
Motors Connected to the Mains of the Barlin Electricity Works, 81
Motor - driven Vehicles for Common Roads,
Present Statos of, 119 Motor Vans, Post-oflico, 631
Motor Vehicles, Trial of, 507 Motor Wagons for Scavenging Purposes, 650 Mountain, Mr. A. B., on the Management of
B jilers and Steam Plant, 611
Mountain Artillery on the Indiao Frontier, 454
Mountain Railway on a New System in Bavaria, 550
Mountings for Coast Artillery, New, 590
Moving Houses? 421
Mower and Portable Engine, Lancashire Steam
Motor Company’s, 38
Muchkundi Dam, Bombay Presidency, 398, 402
Multiplate Static Machine, Messrs. Waite and Bartlett, 397
“ Multiplex ” Reducing Valve, 376
Mumford, Mr. A. G., Water-tube Bailers and Feed Apparatus, H.M.S. “Salamander”
{Supplement, December 3rd, 1897), 556
Mundella, Right Hon. A. J., 87
Munich, Government Gift to the Technical Insti¬tute in, 573
Municipal Aids to Wiring, Mr. Gibbings on, 40
Municipal Electrical Association, 13
Municipal Tramways, 65
Murray River, Lifting Bridge ovor the, 497, 500, 506, 507

N

NAIL, A New, 252
Naphtha Industry in Russia, Growth of the, 371
Naphthalene in Modern Gas Manufacture, On, 26
Naples, The New Drainage System of, 316
Nares, Vice-Admiral Sir G. S., Report for 1836 on the Operations at the Mersey Bar, 181
Nasmith, Mr. Joseph, Patents and Patent Laws, 355, 383
Nasmyth, Wilson, and Co , Limited, Messrs., Winding Engines, Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Company {Supplement, October lOzA, 1897). 342
Natanson, Dr. L., his Kinetic Theory of the Equations of Vortex Motion of Fluids, 181
National Association of Stationary Engineers at Columbus, Ohio, 397
National Boiler and General Insurance Company’s Enclosed Safety Valve, 333 National Free Labour Association, 273, 277, 351, 371
National Gas Engine ? The, 205
National Hardware Association, 573
National Insuranco, The, 469
National Physical Laboratory, A Proposed, 158
National Traction Engine Owners’ Association, 573
Naval Architecture, Advances Made in the Mathe¬matical Theory of, 67, 80, 119 Naval Boilers, American, 82 Naval College at Dartmouth, Concerning the, 273
Naval Constructions in France, 453
Naval Engineers, 406 Naval Eogineers and Artificers, 160
Naval Engineer Students to Undergo a Course of Musketry, &c., 371

Naval Engineer Appointments:

29, 59, 94, 104,149 166, 183, 214, 323, 354, 395, 431, 460, 491, 553, 596, 621, 654
Naval Establishments of Portsmouth, Admiralty Inspection of, 423
Naval Gunnery, Degree of Accuracy Attainable in Modern, 371
Naval Hare and Hounds, The, 58
Naval Mechanics, Concession to, 634
Naval Ordnance in the United States, Progress in, 628
Naval Review of 1897, 13
Naval Station for Formosa, Kelung, The, 302
Navigation, Internal, Congress on, 376
Navy Boilers, 43
Navy, The British, Some Leading Americans on, 230
Navy, The French, 206, 552
Navy, The German, 230
Needham, Mr. John, his Visit to America, 355
Needle Trade, The American, Garman, and British, 223
Needles in Germany, Sewing, 518
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Tank Locomotive, Indian State Railways, Working Drawing {Supplement, Cclober 1st, 1897)
Nene, Swing Bridge over tne {Supplement, July VSrd, 1897), 77, 79
Netherlands, Population of th9, 66
New Brighton Tower Works, Visit to the, 167
New Company, A, 87, 113
New Conveyor Company, Limited, Contracts Entrusted to the, 610
Newfoundland, A Unique Granite Quarry in, 346
Newington, Artesian Well System Adopted at, 181
Newnes, Sir George, Presents the Cable Tramway to Matlock, 573
Newport Abarcarn Black Vein Steam Coal Com¬pany’s Annual Report, 122

Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Report:

241, 265, 286, 312, 334, 356, 384, 410, 437, 462, 486, 512, 536, 560, 586, 612
Newport Water Supply, 346
Newquay and Junction Railway, 397
Newry, Railway Accident at, 84
New South Wales, Agricultural Statistics of, 158
New South Wales, Coal Output, Men Employed in Collieries, and Colliery Accidents in, 201
New South Wales, Coal and Shale Mines in, 204
New South Wales Government, Colonial and English Prices for Steel Rails, 66
New South Walos Government, Dredge Service of the Harbours and Rivers Branch of the, 557
New South Wales, Gold Mining in, 109
New South Wales orders Steel Rails in America, not in England, 354
New South Wales, Platinum in, 109, 254
New South Wales Rofrigorator, A, 187
New South Wales Rolling Stock, 197, 198
New South Wales Railway, Train Miles run lsst year, 331
New South Wales, Tramways in, 302
New York, Compressed Air Locomotives in, 18
New York Elevated Railway, Compressed Air Motor Cars on tho, 84
New York and tho Great Lakes, 645
New York Harbour and Docks and Decrease of the Commerce, 131
Now York, Underground Railways in 650
New Zealand, Railway Mdeage in, 550
New Zealand Revenue Returns, 43
Niagara Falls Power Company, Extension of thtir Station, 273
Niagara Falls Power Plant, Enlargement of, 557
Niagara, New Bridge over the. 222
Nicaraguan Railways, Sale or Lease of, 573
Nice-Cimiez Line, System of Traction on the, 55
Nickel Experiments, Prof. Foerstor’e, 599
Nickel Iron Alloy, Discovery of a New, 16
Nickel Steel to the Attack of Water, Resistance of, 573
Nickel Steel, Engine Columns for United States Battleships, 599
Niekel Steel Tubing ? 399
Nicolaiev, Belgian and French Works at, 220
Niles Tod Works Company, A Large Boring Mill, 592 593
Non-intlammable W.'ol, Mr. C. Ellis, 25, 29
Non-inllammable Wood to be tried at Chatham, 33
Non-Unionists, A Floating Hotel for, 214
North Atlantic Freeboards, 303
North-Eastern Dispute, The, 130
North-Eistern Engines and their Work, 292
North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company, Work turned out During the Strike, 525
North-Eastern Railway, Mr. P. Burtt appointed Superintendent, 223
North-Eastern Railway at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Accident on, 397
North-Eastern Railway, Widening of Lino be¬tween Shipton and Tollerton, 410
North-Eastern Railway Company, Bill for Im¬provement of the Hull Dock Estate, 473
North-Eastern Railway Company, Projected Dock Improvements, 312, 526
North-Eastern Railway Company, Wages and Hours Arbitration, 143
North German Lloyd Company’s Steamer “ Kaiser Friedrich ” Launched, 346
North German Lloyd Steamer “ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” Initial Run of the New, 331
North Head, United States America, The Light¬house on, 254
North Board of Conciliation, Statistics Furnished to, 559
Northern Finished Iron Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Official Statistics Furnished to the, 333
Norway, Growing Demand for British Machinery in, 158
Norway, Tenders invited for Steel Rails, Fish¬plates, and Railway Points, 254
Norway, The Wood Pulp and Cellulose Industry in, 625
Norwegian Railway Coach, 3S3
Notre Dame de Brian<;on, Carbide of Calcium Works, 346
Nottingham, The Great Central Railway at, 269
Nova Scotia, The Iron Industry in, 331
November Gale and the Tides, The, 589

North of England:

45, 71, 93, 121, 143,167,191, 213, 239, 263, 287, 311, 333, 355, 383, 409, 435, 459, 485,511, 534, 559, 585, 611, 637, 659

Notes and Memoranda:

16, 33, 66, 84, 109, 131,158,181, 201, 223, 254, 273, 302, 331, 346, 371, 397, 423, 449, 473, 499, 526, 550, 573, 599, 625, 650

Notes from Germany:

46, 72, 94, 122, 168. 192, 214, 240, 264, 283, 312, 334, 356, 384, 410, 437, 460, 486, 512 536, 560, 586, 612, 638, 660

Notes from Japan:

477, 484, 636

Notes from Lancashire:

18, 44, 70, 92, 121, 143, 167, 191, 212, 238, 262, 286, 310, 332, 355, 382, 409, 434, 458, 484, 510, 534, 559, 584, 610, 637, 658

Notes from Scotland:

20. 46, 72, 93, 122, 163, 191. 214, 240, 264, 237, 312, 333, 356, 384, 410, 436, 460, 485, 512, 534, 560, 586, 611, 659

Notices to Correspondents:

11, 35, 61, 85, 111, 135, 159,183, 205, 228, 255, 279, 303, 347, 373, 399, 425, 451, 475, 501, 527, 551, 575, 601, 627, 651

O

Obituary:

Anderson, Mr. Jas., 260
Banister, Mr. Fred. Dale, 650
Bennett, Sir John, 33
Bevan, Mr. Wm., 144
Bradley, Mr. Thos., 610
Bushell, Mr. Hy., 302
Cabry, Mr. Joseph, 436
Chambers, Mr. W. Hoole, 254
Crampton, Mr. Willoughby, 355
Doulton. Sir Hy., 490
Eddy, Mr. E. M. G., 131, 161
Firtb, Mr. J. Loxley, 652
Fletcher, Mr. E. Lavington (with Portrait) 65
Harrison, Mr. W. H , 166
Haswell, Mr. John (with Portrait), 31
Haughton, Prof., 457
Hoffmann, Mr. Albert, 311
Holden, Sir Isaac (with Portrait), 178
Laing, Mr. Sam. (with Portrait), 157
Leighton, Mr. John, 625
Lowe, Mr. J. E., 405
Mallaband, Mr. John, 239
Massey, Mr. Henry Fred, 573
Mayor, Prof. A. M., 188
Meyer, Prof. Victor, 181
Mundella. Mr. Anthony John, 87
Ogilvie, Mr. Graeme, 144
Petzold, Dr. W., 181
Platt, Mr. Jas., 653
Pullman, Mr. Geo. M., 405
Reid, Mr. Robt., 273
Riley, Mr. John, 223
Robson, Colonel A., 511
Smith, Mr. Henry, 356
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M., 207
Thomas, Mr. Elwin, 499

“ Oceinic,” The, 267
Ogilvie, Mr. Graeme, 141
Ohio’s Iron Ore Production, 240
Oil Burners on the South Pacific Railway, Facts about their Reported Conversion, 16
Oil Engines, 104
Oil Engine, The Diesel, 364, 391
Oil Engine, The Ideal, 282
Oil Engines in Lighthouses, 503, 523, 554
Oil Engine and Pump, Messrs. J. B. Petter and and Sons, 38

Oil Engines— see also Engines:

469
Oil Fuel for Locomotives, Wabash Railway, 201
Oil Fuel for Steam Boilers, Cost of, 656
Oil Used for Laying the Dust on an American Railway, 66
Oilfields in South Africa, New, 254
Oil Motor Cars, 300
Oil Trade in Japan, Vagaries in the, 636
Oils, Apparatus for Ascertaining the Viscosity of, 302
Oils to “ Gum,” How to Ascertain the Tendency of, 346
Okuma, Viscount, (Portrait), 317
Old Dowlais Works, Visit to the, 171
Oldbury Carriage and Wagon Co., Report, 238
Operating Compressed Air Tramcars, Cost of, in New York City, 657
Orders Placed Abroad on Account of the Strike, 638
Ordnance Factories, Oar, 185, 229, 281
Ordnance Factories, Secrets in the Dockyards and Royal, 185
Ordnance, Mr. H. D. Jackson on, 497
Ore from Bilbao, Twenty Years More of, 168
Ore Deposits in Kertch and Taman, 251
Osmond, Mr. F. J., Some Points in Cycle Con¬struction, 116
Outlook in the Coal Trade, 602
“Owen Stone,” The New Artificial Building Material, 499
" Oxford System,” Electricity-distribution Appa¬ratus Known as the, 251
Ozone, 553

P

PADDLE Steamer “Empress Queen, ”220, 228, 244
Paddle Steamer “ Walton Belle”, The, 64
Paine and Ellis Grain-drying Apparatus, The, 581
Paints for High-speed Craft, 84
Paint, Protection of Iron by, 389
Paints, Protective, Prcf. Spennrath on, 16
Palmer’s Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Ltd., Thirty-second Annual Report, 311
Panama Canal, The, 4, 66, 112
Paraguay, The Railway in, 131, 223
Paraguay, Small Machines Wanted for Cracking Cocoanuts, 223
Parallelograms of Velocities and Accelerations, Mr. Muirhead on the Old Treatment, of, 550
Parcel Mails between London and Redbill, Con¬tract with Messrs. Julius Harvey and Co. for Conveyance of, 599
Pare St. Maur Observatory, New Magnetic Departments, 550
Paris Exhibition, Germany and the, 375
Paris Iuternatisnal Fire Prevention Congress, 105, 140
Paris it Orleans Railway Extension, 449
Paris, The Stepbepson Bridge io, 221
Park Hospital, Hither Green, The, 56
Parliamentary Plans for Railways, Preparation of, 439. 463, 489, 523
Parsons, Hon. C. A., Vessel of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer Typs to Steam 36 to 40 knots per Hour, 473
Parsons Turbinia Company, Extension of Premises, 535
Passengers from and to the United Kingdom in June, 1896 and 1897, 131
Patent-office Curiosity, A, 92, 105
Patent Searcher, A, 352
Patents, Master, 583
Patents for Multiple Switchboards Mile, B. Kellog’s, 124, 526
Patents and Patent Laws, Mr. J. Nasmith on, 355, 383
Patents, United States, 323
Patterson, Mr. W. A., his Appointment, 118
Pedal Motion for Bicycles, Excentric, 483
Peking, Automobile Cars for, 397
Pelton Impulse Water Wheels. Contract to Supply a Kobe Firm with 500-H.P., 181
Penarth Water Supply, The, 16
Penn’s Double Trunk Engines, 623
Penn’s Screw Lifting Frame, 624
Penrhyn Dispute, The, 206
Penrhyn Slate Quarry, End of Strike. 214
Pennsylvania Railway, Automatic Electro-pneu¬matic Block Signals on the New York Divi¬sion, 573
Perforation of Iron Plate by Clay Plug, 321
Periyar Tunnel to be Fitted with a Stoney’s Shutter, 302
Perkin, Mr. H., Engineering Features of the
Sinking and Equipment of a Modern Colliery, 586
Permanent Way, British and American, 527, 555
Permanent Way, Colonial and English Prices. 66
Permanent Way for the Eastern Chinese (Man¬churian Railway), 646
Permanent Way, Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman on, 509
Permanent Way Gauges, 323
Permanent Way at 125 Dollars a Ton, made in 1863, 526
Permanent Way for India, American Steel. 654
Permanent Way for Japan, American Tenders Lower than English, 66
Pernambuco, Tenders for Port Works at, 449
Petersen and Tate, Messrs., Fast Steamers to Run between Canada and this Country, 33
Petroleum in Algeria, 346
Petroleum Industry, Japan, 484
Petroleum Vapour Hanging About the Tanks of Tank Steamers, Dangers of, 84
Petroleum Well Sinking, Japan, 223
Pettee, Mr. E., Cost of Operating Compressed Air Tramcare in New York City, 657
Petter and Sons, Messrs Jas. B., Oil Engine and Pump, 38
Petzold, Dr., 181
Pailadelphii Steel Rail Pool, The, 397
Phosphate Rock io France and Algeria and Other ' Countries, 302
Phosphor Bronzs, Mr. M. H. Wickhorst, on the Manufactore of, 419
Phosohorus by the AUbr’ght Process, at Eohota, Works for Manufacture of, 346
Photography Applied to Stel’ar Charting, 33
Physical Laboratory, A Proposed N »tional. 153
Pier, Tynemouth, Failure of the North, 273
Piccadilly Circus and Brompton Railway Route, The Proposed, 423
Pier Extension, Queen’s, Ramsay, Isle of Man, 346
Piers, Vertical or Sloping, 323
Piffard’s Field Gun Carriage, 341
Pig or Cast Iron by Cold and Neutral Chloride of Copper, Dissolving, 499
Pig Iron Casting Machine, Mr. J. W. Miller, 585
Pig Iron and Coke in America, 109, 136,181
Pig Iron in Germany, Output of, 273
Pig Iron Production, 430
Pig Iron Production io the United States, 109, 136, 181
Pig Iron Shipments this Year and Last, A Week’s Scotch, 109
Piles by Dynamite, Cutting off, 289
Pipes and Connections, 159
Pipes, Failure of Steam, 313
Pipss for Glasgow, American Gas, 401
Pipe Laying without Excavating, 302
Pipe, Re-ecvering a Line of Water, 357
Piping, A New Style of, Mr. Mephan Ferguson,
Pith of the Sunflower, Buoyancy of the, 181
Pittsburgh Wants a Ship Canal to Lake Erie, 16
Planetoids between Mars and Jupiter, Discovery of, 33
Planing Machine, Combined Horizontal and Ver¬tical, 31, 32
Planing, Slotting, and Drilling Machine, Circular, 186
Plans, The Preparation of, 439,463, 489, 523, 581
Plates, Cammell 4in. Armour, 529
Plates, Schneider 14’9in , 493
Plates, Schneider, Creusot, and Terni, 630
Plate, Vickers’ 11 {Jin., 493
Plate-bending Rolls, 186
Platina Output in New South Wales, The, 109
Platinum in New South Wales, 254
Platinum in Russia, Production of, 181
Platt, Mr. James. 653
Player, Messrs. W. and J., An Absolutely True Wheel, 121
Ploughing, Electric, 201
Plymouth Harbour, 561
Plymouth, Railway Facilities Required at the Great Western Docks, by the Great Western Railway Company under Consideration, 371
Pneumatic Brake, A New, 121
Pneumatic System on the United States Monitor “Terror,” 302
Pneumatic Tires, Their Superiority over those of Iron, and Solid Rubber, 223
Pneumatio Winch, 646
Pockliogton, Mr. H. C., on Electric Oscillations in Wires, 499
Policy of Secrecy (Drawings of the New Royal Yacht), 262
Pollak, M. Ch., on a New Electrolytic Condansor and Current Rectifier, 33
Polsounow’s Atmospheric Engine, 275
“ Pomone,” H.M S., 525
Ponthibre, Professor Honoré, Thermo-Chemical Study of the Refining of Iron, 150
Pooley and Son, Limited, A Large Weighbridge, 209
Poore, Dr., Water Supply and Enteric Fever,
Popular Science, 498
Port Cutting and Slot Drilling Machine, Messrs. Hulse and Co., 549
Port Talbot Graving Dock and Shipbuilding, Company, Announced, The, 144
Port Works at Pernambuco, Tenders invited for, 449
Portland Cement, As to the Addition of Kentish Ragstone to, 550
Portland Cement, Chemical Constitution of, 615
Portland Cement, Japan, 484
Portland General Electric Company, Electric
Power Station Constructed by the, 254

Portraits:

Eddy, Mr. E. G. M., 161
Fletcher, Mr. L. E., 65
Haswell, Mr. J., 31
Holden, Sir Isaac, 178
Japanese Ministers, Two, 317
Laing, Mr. Sam., 157
Pioneers of Modern Engineering Education in Japan, 566, 569
Pyne, Sir T. S., 179
Smith, Mr. F. P., 297
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M., 20
Ports in France, Improvement and Extension of Maritime, 441
Portsmouth, Electric Lighting of the Naval
Establishments at, 423 Portsmouth, New Docks at, 632
Post-office Motor Vans, 631
“Pothuan,” Condition of the French Ironclad, The, 131
Powder Pressures, 399
Power, Transmission of, 1
Practical Thermo-dynamics, 502
Prat, M. Felix, Electric Ploughing Installation, 201
Pratt’s Automatic Fog Signal, 17
Pratt and Whitney, Messrs. Hartford, Automatic Machine Tools, 467
Preece, Mr. W. H., London Electrical Cab, 190, i 206
Premier Gas Engine, 200-H.P., 596
Prepayment Meters, Mr. H. W. Couzens, 42
Press, Irresponsibility of the, 481
Pressures, Apparatus for Measuring very High, 43
Pressure of Steam in Inches of Mercury, Computation of the, 84
Private Bills for 1898, 566
Problem in Steel, A, 407
Profession, The Choice of a, 407
Projectiles, American Armour-piercing, 504
Projectiles, Armour-piercing, 277, 307
Projectiles, Iladfield’s, Recent Trial of, 260
Projectiles, Lathe for Turning, 261, 271
Projectile at a Range of Five Miles, Energy of a 12in. Mortar, 223
Projectiles Recorded as Perforating Harveyed or Krupp Treated Plates, 359
Propeller Shafts, Crank and, 49, 69
Propeller Ventilating Fans, 453, 469
Propeller*, Early, 393
Propellers, Sheathing or Feathering, 493
Proportions of Girders, 633
Protection of Iron by Paint, The, 389
Protective Paints, Prize for Best Essay on, Won by Professor Spennrath, 16
Protocol between Great Britaia and Japan, 449
Providence Harbour, U.S.A., Improvement of, 16
Pruning Implements for the Californian Market, Opening for English, 346
Prussian State Railways, Complaints and Acci¬dents, 449
Prussian State Railways, Revenue of the, 423
Public Street lighting, Mr. H. L. P. Boot, 40
Pallman, Mr. Geo. M., 405
Pulsometer, Engineering Company, Deano Sink¬ing Pump, 340
Pump, Cherry’s Helical Centrifugal. 569
Pump, Davidson Independent Air, 311
Pump, Direct-acting Steam, 408
Pump, A Large Sinking, 340
Pump, Mr. Thos. Matthews, 263
Pumping Engine, Aubrey-street, Liverpool, 3S0
Pumping Engines and their Boiler Plant, and their Boiler Feed Pumps, 273
Pumping Engines, Buffalo, U.S., 433
Pumping Engines, Hereford Waterworks, 114
Pumping Engines for Japan (Supplement, August 6th, 1897), 132, 133
Pumping Engines at Liverpool, 555
Pumping Engine, Low Field Mine, 110, 118
Pumping Engine, Treble Ram, Messrs. Bailey and Co., Limited, 311
Pumping Engine Trials, 377
Pumping Engines in the U.S., 495
Pumping Engines, West Middlesex Waterworks, Hampton {Supplement, Sep'embcr 2ith, 1897), 308
Punches, Ticket, 6
Punching and Shearing Machine, 635
Purification of the River Calder, 315
Puzzle, A, 422
Pyne, Sir T. Salter (with Portrait), 179
Pyne, Sir T. Salter, The Ameer of Afghanistan’s Gun Factories, 175, 179

Q

QUARRY Bank, Progress of Mining Operations at, 484
Quarry Work, Electric Light for, 18
Quicksilver Shipped from Cartagena, 257
Quin, Mr. R. C., On the Localisation of Faults in Underground Mains, 52

R

RACK Rail Locomotive for Mexico, 635
Radiator Machine for the Extraction of Butter from New Milk direct, 6
Ragstone, Addition of, to Portland Coment, 550
Rails for Toy Railways ? 551
Rai's, Continuous, 3o
Railway Accident at Buxton, 157, 189
Railway Accident near Copenhagen, 66
Railway Accidonts in 1896, 295
Railway Accidents, India, 109
Railway Accident, London, Brighton, and South Coast, 223
Railway Accident, London, Chatham, and Dover Line, 647
Railway Accident, London and North-Western, 625
Railway Accident, Manchester, 449
Railway Accident, Marlborough to Grafton, 33
Railway Accident at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 181
Railway Accident, New York and Buffalo Line, 449
Railway Accident, Newry, 84
Railway Accidents, United States, October, 1897, 650
Railway Accident at Vohuinkel Station, 223
Railway Accident, Yeovil Junction, 66
Railways, Accidents on German, 371

Railway Accidents—.’ also Accidents,

Railway

Railways in Africa, German, 528
Railway, An African, 572
Railways, Australian, 397
Railways, Australian, Mr. R. J. Gray’s Report, 557
Railways in Bebar, New, 498
Railway Bill, The Lochearnhead, St. Fillans, and Comrie, 16, 33
Railway Bridge, Quebec, 212
Railway to Bulawayo, Opening of the, 331
Railways, Cape, 284
Railways, Capital Invested in British, 319
Railways in Ceylon, 480
Railway, Chemulpo and Soul, 84
Railways, Chili, 397
Railways, Chinese, 427
Railway Companies, Coalition of the Coaltraders’ Associations Against the, 637
Railways’ Colours, Our, 650
Railway Companies and the Traders, 86
Railway Construction in Italy, 599
Railway Couplings, 431
Railway Earnings in the United States, 331
Railway Extension in Italy, 599
Railway Extension, Japan, 484
Railway Extension in Slexico, 599
Railway in French Soudan, The, 158
Railway Gas Holders, 260
Railway, The Great Central, 221, 269
Railways and Health, 163
Railways, Indian—see Indian Railways
Railways of Japan, 346
Railway Lines in Japan, Doubling of, 636
Railway, The Jungfrau, 320, 321
Railways, Lima, 331
Railway, Lynton and Barnstaple, 340
"Railway Magazine,” Christmas Number of the, 573
Railway Material Trade in 1897, 636

Railway Matters :

16, 33, 66, 84. 109, 131, 158, 181, 201, 223, 254, 273, 302, 331, 346, 372, 397, 423, 449, 473, 499, 526, 550, 573, 599, 625, 650
Railway Maximum Speeds, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 652
Railway, Mexican, 209
Railway Mileage, British and Other, 132
Railway Mileage of the Five Great Continents, 254
Railway Mileage, Turkish, 650
Railway, a Mountain, on a New System, in Bavaria, 550
Railway Museum, A National, 397
Railway, A Novel, 301
Railways, Preparation of Parliamentary Plans for 439, 463, 489, 523
Railways and Railway Men, 425
Railway, Raising an Elevated, 212 _
Railway Rates in Scotland, Reduction of, 201
Railway Receipts for June, 1897, United Kingdom, 131
Railway Regulation Act, The, 482
Railway Reports, Colonial, 656
Railway Revenues, Prussian State, 423
Railways, Roads, and Bridges for Ceylon, New, 465
Railway Run in America, Fast, 144
Railways, Russian, 131, 223, 273, 397
Railways, Scottish, 257
Railway, Shanghai to Woosung, 84
Railway Signal, U.S.A.. Trial of a New, 371
Railway Signalling by Electricity, Messrs. Currie and Timmis’ Petition, 595
Railway Speeds, 501, 533, 534, 551, 554, 582, 598, 601, 632, 655
Railway, South America, 329
Railways, South Australian, Report for the Year, 610
Railway Stations, M. de Baudot on the Exteriors and Interiors of, 599
Railway Statistics of the United S'ates, 519
Railway System of South Africa, The, 448
Railway Ticket Pi intiüg Machine, 482
Railway Tracks, Elevating. 581
Railway Traffic on Jubilee Day, 66
Railway Traffic, New South Wales, 331
Railway Traffic, Suburban, 628
Railways, Transvaal, 397
Railways in the United Kingdom, 331
Railways of the United States and Great Britain, Cost of, 573
Railway, Vale of Glamorgan, 572
Railways, Victorian, 457
Railways, Working Expenses of, 160
Railway Works, The Great Central, 653
Railway Works in South London, New, 518
Railways, Western Australia, 241
Rain at Johannesburg, 331
Rainfall of the British Isles, Mr. G. J. Symons’ Observations of the, Rewarded by the Albert Medal, 33
Raising an Elevated Railway, Chicago, 212
Ram Cruiser “Vindictive,” H.M., 424
Rangoon Electric Lighting, 431
Rangoon Sewerage, 376
Rates to the Transvaal, Sir D. Tennant, on the Cape Transit, 499
Rating of Iron and Steel Articles, Railway, 121
Ratio of Grate Area, Heating Area, and Cylinder
Volume, Report on the, 33
Really Fast, 29
Reckoning Speed of Trains, 276, 317, 343, 393
Record Passage, 313
Recorder for Tests of Metals, A Pocket, 188
Recorders, Mr. R. H. Curtis, on Two Sunshine, 581
Re-covering a Liue of Water Pipe, 357
Rectifiers, Street Lighting by, 40
Redheugh Bridge, The, 23, 24
Redpath, Brown, and Co., Visit to the Works of Messrs., 273
Reducing Valve, “ Multiplex,” 376
Reduction of Second-class Fares, Effect of, 331
Reed, Sir E. J., Advances Made in the Mathe¬matical Theory of Naval Architecture, 67, 80, 119
Reese, Mr. Goo. C., New Process of Galvanising Wire, 650
Refrigerating Medium, Anbydric Sulphurous Acid a, 457
Refrigerator, A New South Wales, 187
Refuse Destructor, The Willoughby, 271
Regnolei-Memmo’8 Electric Furnace for Produc¬tion of Carbide of Calcium, 371 Reid, Dr. G , Oa Artificial Filtration of Sewage by Coal. 18
Reid, Mr. Robert, 273
Repairing of Submarine Cables, 86

Replies:

11, 35. 61, 85 111, 135, 159, 183, 205, 228,
279, 325, 347, 373, 399, 425, 451, 475, 501, 527,
551, 575, 601, 627
Replogle, Mr. Mark A., Limitations of Govern¬ment in Water-power Plants, 44
Reservoirs, Minneapolis, New, 510
Resident Traveller, A, 36
Resistance, Moment of—ice Moment of Resistance Revolving Door for Water-tight Bulkheads, 106
Rhodin Cell, The, 522
Rhodin's Electrolytic Apparatus, 458
Rhymney Iron and Steel Company, Circular to Shareholders, 334
Ribble, The, 616
Richmond, U.S.A., Project for Utilising the Water Power at, 223
Ridyard, Mr. John, On the Utility of Association, 485
Rifle, Quick-firing, Invented by Capt. Cie, 59, 273
Rights of Trade Unions, The, 259
Riley, Mr. John, 223
Ringelmann, Mr. M., Researches with Alcohol Motors, 449
Rio Grande Irrigation Works, 190
Ripper, Prof. W., Moan Pressure Indicator for
High Rotational Speeds, 185
Risdon Gold Dredger, 631
River Calder, Purification of the, 345
River Tyne, Reconstruction of North Pier, 213, 240
River Concrete Wall, Philadelphia, 286
Riveter, Hydraulic, 417
Riveter. Hydraulic Boiler, 43
Riveting Machine r. Hxnd, 449
Roadmaster and his Work, Some Notes on the, 508
Road Train, A Steam Motor, 595
Roberts-Austen, Prof. C, on the Metals of Canada, 599
Roberts-Austen, Prof. C., on Some Properties of Metals, 211
Roberts, Messrs. J. and S., Rolling Plant for Weardale Ironworks, 262
Robey and Co., Ltd., Visit to the Works of Messrs., 178
Robson, Colonel A., 511
Rockefeller, Mr., Mr. A. Carnegie about to sell his Interest in the Carnegie Works, to, 16
Rockwood Compound Engine, The, 654
Rodgers, Mr. Maurice Georgo elected Master Cutler, 143
Rodgers and Sons, Ltd., Defending their Trade Mark, 327
Rollor Bearings, 237
Roller Bearings and their Application, Mr. T. W. How, 435
Roller Boat Tested, Mr. Francis Knapp’s, 526
Roller-ship, Ernest Bazin, Speed attained by, 37
Roller Steamboat “Ernest Bazin ” for Sale, Tho, 650
Rolling Bascule Bridge over Chieago River, 516
Rolling Stock, American Saloon Carriage, 443, 445, 450
Rolling Stock, Construction and Reconstruction of French, 473
Rolling Stock in Course of Making, 121
Rolling Stock, Light and Heavy, 255
Rolling Stock, New South Wales, 197, 198
Rolling Stock, Norwegian, 363
Rolling Stock of the South Eastern Railway, 331
Rolling Stock, Weight of Railway, 343
Roman Bricks found in Excavations at Bath, 432
Rome, Electric Tramways in, 405
Röntgen Rays, Energy Conditions necessary to Produce the, 16
Roots, Mr. Jas. D., Classification of Oil Engines, 276
Roots, Mr. Jas. D., Cycles of Gas and Oil Engines,
218, 268, 291, 315, 337, 360, 387, 413, 439, 466, 490
Ropes to do the Work of Baits, Adaptibility of,
Rose and Co., Messrs. Wm„ Extensions and
Alterations of their Works, 71
Rosher, Mr. N. B., On the Electric Lighting of a Private House, 391
Round Bottom Vessel for Teaching Gunners to Fire from a Rolling Platform, 499
Round Shaft Sinking Frame, McCulloch’s, 428,429
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., North-Eastern Engines and their Work, 292
Reu6-Marten, Mr. Chas., The Summer Train Ser¬vices, 99
Rous-Marton, Mr. Chas., Railway Maximum Speeds, 652
Rowan, Mr. F. J., On Water-tube Boilers, 456, 636

Royal Agricultural Society:

529
Application to S-'otch Railway Managers for a Reduction of Rates, 201
Birmingham Meeting, 1898, 609
MoetiDg at Maidstone, 223

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show:

Aktiebolaget Co., Radiator Machine for the Extraction of Butter from New Milk, 6
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Traction and Agri¬cultural Engines, 5
Bamford and Sons, Messrs., Grinding Mill and Sifter, 38
Bennett and Sayer, Messrs., Brick and Tile¬making Machinery, 6
Bentall, Messrs., Safety Clutch for Chaff- cutters, 6
Boby, Mr., Barley Dressing Plant, 38
Bradbury, Mr., General Wheelwright Machine and Safety Grindstone Rest, 5
Bradley and Craven, Messrs., Brick and Tile¬making Machinery, 6
Christy and Norris, Messrs., Combination Dis¬integrator and Electric Motor, 6
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Steam Engines, Petroleum Engines, and Farm Im¬plements, 5
Cook, Mr. Wm., Hand Power Tire Bender, 38
Dairy Supply Co., The, Gerber “Rapid” Butyrometer, 6
Edwards, Mr. Sam., Safety Lever for Chaff- cutters, 6
Fawcett, Mr. T. C., Brick and Tile-making Machinery, 6
Fowler and Co., Messrs. John, Diggers, &c., 5
Gresham and Craven, Messrs., Injectors, 5, 6
Hardy Patent Pick Co., Machine for Packing Tea, &c., 6
Hindiey, Mr. E. S., Engines and Boilers, 6
Hornsby, Messrs., Oil Traction Engine, 6
Johnson and Sons, Messrs. W., Ore and Stone Crusher, 6
Lancashire Steam Motor Co.'s Lawn Motor and Small Portable Engine, 38
Lancaster and Tonge, Messrs.. Steam Traps and Packings and Simple Oblique Engine, 6
Lancashire Steam Motor Co., Steam Parcel Van, 6
Lister and Co., Messrs. R. A., The Lister- Gerber Milk Tester, 6
Luke and Spencor, Messrs., Automatic Emery Tools, 6
Marshall, Sons, and Co., Messrs., Engines, 5
Petter, Messrs. Jas. B., Oil Eogine and Pump, 38
Richmond and Chandler, Messrs., Safety Device for Chaff Cutters, 6
Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., The “Ruston” Oil Engine, 6
Sargeant, Messrs., Cutter Bar and Basic Slag Distributor, 5, 6
Schaffer and Budenburg, Messrs., Silent Pawl and Ratchet for Sight-feed Lubricator, 6
Scholefield, Mr. R., Semi-dry Brick Machine, 6
Stanford and Co., Messrs., Seed Threshing and
Shelling Machine, 6
Swinney Bros., Messrs., Brick and Tile-making Machinery, 6
Tangyes Ltd., Messrs., Oil and Gas Engines, 5
Tasker and Sons, Messrs. W., Rack Saw Bench, 6
Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., Horizontal Engine, Double-cylinder Winding Engine and Flour Milling Machinery, 6
Wallis and Steevens, Ltd., Messrs., Road Loco¬motives and Traction Engines, 6
Wost’s Tire Setter, 38
Wolesey Sheep Shearing Machine Co., Ltd., Lathe Milling Machine, 5

Royal Institution:

Monthly Meeting; Election of Members; and Vote of Thanks to Sir A. Noble, 29
Monthly Meeting, Election of New Members, Lacturo Arrangements before Easter, 569
Principles of the Electric Telegraph, Prof. O. Lodge on the, 495
Royal Mail Motor Van, 631
R.M.S. Briton, Royalty and the, 271
Royal Medical Society:
Water Supply and Enteric Fever, Dr. V. G. Poore, 547
Royal Meteorological Society:
Resultsofa Comparison between Sunshine Records obtained from Two Recorders, by Mr. R. H. , Curtis, 581
Royal Naval College, Greenwich, The, 231
Royal Ordnance Factories, Our, 229, 281
Royal Society, The:
Magnetic Strains, Prof. C. G. Knott on, 16 i
Royal Trans-African Railway, The, 92
Royalties on Maxim Rifle-calibre Machine Guns, 33
Royalty and the R.M.S. Briton, 271
Royton, Local Government Board and the Sewage Filtration Scheme for, 201
Rudelefif, Prof. M., on the Influence of Cold upon the Bending Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel of Various Kinds, 371
Russia, American Agricultural Implements, 332
Russia, Agricultural Machinery in, 552
Russia, Belgian and French Enterprise in, 220
Russia, Iron Foundries Working in, 66
Russia, The Iron Industry in, 331
Russian Ironworks, Production of, for 1896, 436
Russia, Locomotives in, 131
Russia, Locomotives Ordered in the United States for, 650
Russia, Naphtha Industry in, 371
Russia, Production of Platinum in, 181
Russia, The Projected Canal from the Baltic to the Black Sea, 254
Russia and the Turkish Fleet, 490
Russian Coal Statistics, 254
Russian Coast Defence Ship, Transverse Parti¬tions Tested, 526
Russian Government Grant for a Chemical Laboratory at Riga, 583
Russian Markets for their Goods, To British Manufacturers, if they wish to make Further Way in the, 201
Russian Railways, 131
Russian Railways in 1896, Gross Earnings of, 223
Russian Railways, Line from Moscow to Windau, 397
Russian Railway, Line from Ostrolenka to Pilawa, 273
Russian Thrashing Machines, 332
Russian Trade, 206, 210, 277
Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Ryan, Prof. J., on the Choice of a Profession, 407

S

SADLER and Co., Limited, Messrs., Profit for the Year, 312
Safety Fly-wheels, 635
Safety Valve, Enclosed, 333
Sagnac, M. G., On the Transformation of the X Rays by Metals, 625
Sailing Vessel, The Largest that ever went up the Rhine, 273
St. Etienne, Electric Lighting at, 55
St. Lawrence River Bridge, 434
St. Lawrence Water-power Scheme, 262
St. Petersburg, Electric Tramways for, 302
Salford Docks, New Warehouses, 107
Salford, Sewerage Scheme for, 82, 158, 201
Salford, Statement in last Issue respecting Sewage Scheme for, is not True, 201
Salt Mines in Alsace-Lorraine, Output of, 176
Sampling, Water, Automatic, 189
San Diego Harbour Works, 346
San Francisco, Consular District Railways Constructed during the Past Year in, 16
San Francisco Manufacturer Contracts with a Kobo Firm with 500 H.P. Pelton Impulse Water Wheels, 181
San Francisco Tramways, 661
Sandemann and MoncriefF, Messrs., The Red- heugh Bridge, 23, 34
Sand Pump Suction Dredger, “ Casuarina,” 644, 649
Sanitation in Excelsis, 205, 393, 377, 422
Saniter, Mr., On Carbon and Iron, 150
Sargeant, Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agri¬cultural Society’s Show, 5, 6
Sargeant Company’s New Brake Shoe, The, 473 ,
Sarle, Sir Allen, his Resignation, 423
Saving in Condensation Water, Use of Infusorial . Earth, a, 223
Saw for Crank Webs, 87
Saw on Rotating Base, The Bryant Circular, 17
Sawing Machines for Cutting Metal, 654
Scarborough, Sanitary Matters in, 158
Scarborough and Whitby Railway, The, 659
Schaffer and Budenberg, Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Scheldt, The Scheme for Rectifying the Course of the, 625, 645
Schenectady Locomotive, North Pacific Railway, Compound Goods Locomotive (Supplement, July Wth, 1897)
Schlagaenhauffen, M., On the Presence of Arsenic and Antimony in Crude Copper, 449
Schneider, Creusot, and Terni Plates, 630
Scholz, Mr., Algraphy, 273
Scotch Pig Iron Shipments, A Week’s, 109
Scotch Railway Bill, 16, 33
Scotch Railway Working, 257
Scotch Shipbuilders, Vessels Launched in October by, 473
Scotch Shipbuilding, A Year’s, 599
Scotland, Light Railway from Loch Long to Loch j Fyne, 302
Scotte’s and De Dion’s Self-propelled Motor Vehicles, 302
Scotter, Sir Chas., Retirement of, 131 .
Scrap or Refuse Mica, Utilisation of, 254
Screw Propellers at High Speed, On the Formation of Cavities in Water, by, 49, 59, 85
Screw Propulsion, 85, 105
Sea Defences, Mr. R. F. Grantham, 442
Secrets in the Dockyards and Royal Ordnance Factories, 185
Sectionalised Machinery, 130
Seismoscope, Electric, 526

Selected American Patents:

22, 48, 74, 96, 124, 146,170,194,216,242, 266, 290, 313, 336, 358, 380, 412, 438, 462,488, 514, 1 538, 562, 588, 614, 640, 662
Self-propelled Motor Vehicles, Scotte’s and De 1 Dion's, 302
Self-registering Apparatus for Submarine Cables, 158
Selig, Sonnenthal, and Co., Spoke Screwing Machine and Standard Inside Grinding Machine, 531
Selig, Sonnenthal, and Co., Standing Outside Grinding Machine, 531
Semi-steel,” A New Casting Metal called, 557
Servia, Projected Strategical Railways in, 251
Severn, Mr. W. H., Agent for the Projectile Lathes of the Southgate Engineering Com¬pany, 271
Sewage Disposal, Derby, The, 625
Sewage Disposal, Eton, 29
Sewage Disposal, Killin, 140
Sewage Disposal, Rangoon, 376
Sewage Disposal, The Stafford Corporation, 288
Sewage Disposal, Worcester, 29, 66
Sewage Disposal of Towns, Appointment of a Departmental Board to Inquire into the, 131
Sewage through Coal Dust, Filtering, 18, 473
Sewage Effluent Culvert Scheme, Manchester, 423
Sewage Filtration by Land for Roy ton, The Local Government Board Requires, 201
Sewage Problem, The Manchester, 195
Sewage Purification Bacteriological, 441
Sewage Purification by Coal, 18, 473
Sewage, “Septic ” Treatment of, 473
Sewer Work in New York, Heavy, 379
Sewing Needles in Germany, 518
Shafting at Messrs. Humpage, Jaques, and Pedersen’s Works, 645
Shafts, On the Causes of the Breaking of, 397
Shafts, On Crank and Propeller, 49, 69
Shafts, New System of Hanging, 645
Shanghai and Woosung, Railway between, 84
Shansi Coal and Iron, 84
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Limited, Narrow Gauge Engine, Imperial Japanese Railway (Supple¬ment November 26th, 1895), 525
Sbaw, Mr. H. S. Hele, The Institution Examina¬tion (Relative to Paragraph, p. 5991, 634
Sheathing or Feathering Propellers, 498
Shearer and Sons, Messrs., Canadian Ferry Steamer, 344, 345, 349
Sheffield Corporation Defeated in their Applica¬tion to put in Force the Purchase Clause in Respect of the Sheffield Electric Light and Power Company, 599
Sheffield Corporation Tramways, 189

Sheffield District:

19, 45, 71,93,121, 143,167,191, 213, 239, 263, 287, 311, 333, 355, 383, 409, 435, 459, 485, 511, 534, 559, 585, 611, 637, 659
Sheffield District Railway Extension Projects, 626
Sheffield Exports to the United States, Return of, 449
Sheffield, New Midland Station at, 473
Sheffield, Smoke Abatement in, 36
Sheffield Tramways Extension, 201
Shell Accidents at Bull Point, 577
Shell Fire, Experiments on the Effects of, 331
Shelley, Mr. W. J., Manufacture and Use of Concrete, 516
Sherviogton, Mr. T. B., Ballasting and Shunting Engine, Imperial Japanese Railways (Supple¬ment, November 26th, 1897), 525
Shifts, Three instead of Two, at the Blast Furnaces, 611
Shipbuilders in October, Vessels Launched by Scotch and English, 473
Shipbuilding, Clyde, 36, 423, 576
Shipbuilding in Dundee, 577
Shipbuilding and Engineering Works in Russia, Belgian and French, 220
Shipbuilding in England and Scotland, 214, 371, 473, 573, 599
Shipbuilding, English, September and October Output, 371. 473
Shipbuilding, French, 430
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, 635
Shipbuilding in Japan, 576
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the Thames in the Victorian Era, 224, 296, 368, 394, 415, 447, 470, 524, 565, 623
Shipbuilding Returns, 95, 595, 602, 611
Shipbuilding Returns, Lloyd’s Register, 95
Shipbuilding in Scotland, 214, 371, 473, 573, 699
Shipbuilding in Scotland, September and October Output, 371, 473
Shipbuilding, Swedish, 397
Shipping Company at Trieste, New, 84
Shipping Industry in England and the United Kingdom, The Protection of, 573
Ship Canal Across the Florida Peninsula, Pro¬posed, 499
Ship Canal Dock Warehouses, Manchester, 106
Ship Canal Schemes, Some Early, 518
Ship of 5000 Tons, A Sailing, 397
Ships, Analysis of Speed Trials of, 433
Shigs, Early Use of Water-tight Bulkheads in,
Ship on the Transatlantic Trade with Triple- expansion Engines, The First, 131
Ships, Testing Transverse Partitions, 526
Ships, Water-tight Bulkheads in, 523 Shoddy, 305
Shoreditch, Electrioity and Dust Destruction, 7, 8, 9, 10
Short Time, Firms compelled to put their men on, 585
Siam, Railway Carriage for the King of, 346
Siam, Mr. Vernie on, 158
Siberian Railway Progress in 1896, 286
Siddons, Limited, Messrs. J. and J., Dispute with their Men, 332
Siemens and Halske, Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Firm of, 371
Siemens and Halske’s Electric Brakes, 201
Sigaudy, M. Pierre, On Water-tube Boilers for
High-speed Ocean Steamers, 25, 29
Sight Tests used in the Mercantile Marine, On the, 625
Signal Light Indicator, Mr. Hamilton, 72
Signals on the London and North-Western Rail¬way, 181
Signals, Pratt’s Automatic Fcg, 17
Signals, A System of. 370
Signalling, Railway, by Electricity, 595
Signal in the U.S.A., Trial of a New Railway, 371
Signalling across Space, Prof. Silvanus P. Thomp¬son on, 573
Signalling Station at the Month of the Tees, Proposed, 122
Signalling Station on the South Gare Breakwater, 143
Signalling Systems on Indian Railways, 302
Silesia, Upper, The Iron Industry in, 134
Silicon in Silico-spiegel and Ferro-silicon, Deter¬mination of, 223
Silo at Manchester, Grain, 497
Simplon Tunnel. Electric Drill faced with Car¬borundum to Excavate the, 331
Simplon Tunnel, Subventions for the Boring of, 223
Simplon Tannel, The Swiss Railway Nationalisa¬tion Scheme and the, 699
Simpson and Co., Messrs. Jas., Vertical Pumping Engines, West Middlesex Waterworks, Hamp¬ton [Supplement, September 2ilh, 1897), 308
Sincerest Flattery, 63
Sinclair, Mr., On Cylinder Clearance, 84
Sinking Frame, Round Shaft, 428, 429
Sinking Pump, A Large, 340
Sixty Years of Thames Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, 224
Skinner, Mr. F. W., Chicago Drainage Canal, 125, 129, 147, 153, 172, 162
Skinningrove Ironworks, Breakdown of a Hoist Engine, 122
Slack Wires, Power Transmission through, 330
Slag Distributor, 6
Slavery in the Coal Mines of Scotland, 272
Slide Valve for Locomotives, A New, 39
Sliding Faucet, A., 206
Sliding Scale, The South Wales, 426
Sliding Scale in Wales, Ballot for the Continuance or Not of a, 312
Smelting Galena, New Method of, 346
Smethwick, Mechanical Engineers at, 363
Smith, Mr. F. P., Portrait, 297
Smith, Mr. Godfrey, Resignation after Fifty-two Years’ Service, 638
Smith, Mr. Henry, 356
Smith, Prof. R. H., Engine Governors, 515

Smithfield Club Show :

Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., General Purpose Traction Engine (illustrated), 578
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Oil Engine (Illustrated), 579
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Thrashing Machine and Grist Mill (Illustrated), 579
Lseming-Smith Hay Press, The (Illustrated), 580
Smoke Abatement in Sheffield (Illustrated), 36
Smokeless Powders and their Ballistic Results, by Hudson Maxim, 97
Smulders and Co., Messrs. A. F., Suction-and- Bucket Dredger, 199
Smyrna, Agricultural Machinery Wanted in, 573
Snell, Mr. J. F, C., On the Generation of Steam, 14
Soaring Machines, Mr. Pilcher’s, 625

Society, The Aeronautical:

Application of Kites to the Preservation of Life, Capt. Spiers’ Apparatus, 625

Society of Arts:

Programme of the Opening Session, 486

Society, Berlin Industrial:

Benzol and its Importance as an Illuminant, Dr. Kraemer on, 131

Society, The Cambridge Philosophical:

Electrical Oscillations in Wires, Mr. H. C. Pocklington, 499

Society of Chemical Industry, Liverpool :

Manufacture and Properties of Carborundum, Dr. C. K. Kohn, 495

Society of Civil Engineers:

Recent Tests of Bridge Members, 123
Working of Soft Steel for Boilers, Mr. J. A. L. Waddell, 550

Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers:

Deputation from, Received by the Prince of Wales, 113

Society, Crystal Palace Engineering :

Papers read and disonssed last Session, 589

Society of Electrical Engineers, The Northern:

Distribution of Electrical Energy, Mr. W. C. Wordingham, 485

Society of Engineers:

Annual Meeting and Election of New Mombers 589
Sea Defences, Mr. Rich. F. Grantham, 442
Visit to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 362

Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated :

Board of Trade and the, 425, 434
Review of its Career up to the Present Timo, 414
Statement issued by Mr. G. N. Barnes in Reply to the Employers5 Manifesto, 163

Society, Glasgow University Engineering:

Lord Kelvin’s Patents, Mr. Magnus Maclean, 545
Microscopic Structure of Iron and Steel, Prof. Arch. Barr, 440
Ordnance, Mr. Harold Jackson, 497
Programme for Approaching Session, 430
Recent Applications of Electrical Engineering,
Mr. H. A. Mavor, 612

Society, Glasgow and West of Scot¬land Technical College, Scientific:

Syllabus of Lectures for the Continuation of the Present Session, 634

Society, Gloucestershire Engineering:

Visit to the Cheltenham Electricity Works, 547

Society, Inchlcore Engineering:

Automatic Railway Brakes, Mr. E. E. Joynt,
477
Production of Acetylene Gas, Mr. C. B. Ortcn, 406

Society, King’s College Engineering:

Annual Dinner, 581
Electric Lighting of a Private House, Mr. N. B. Rosher, 391
Foundations. Mr. C. F. R. N. Weston, 457
Kurrachee Harbour, Mr. A. J. West, 430
Manufacture of Steel, Mr. H. W. Minnitt, 486
Manufacture and Use of Concrete, Mr. W. J. Shelley, 516
Telephones, Mr. E. G. Summers, 555

Society, Liverpool Engineering:

Opening Meeting and Scheme of Papers to be Read, 434

Society, Manchester Geological:

Annual Meeting and Report, 383
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. J. St
Ridyard, on the Utility of Association, 485
St Society, Mason College Engineering:
Specialised Machine Tools, Mr. E. C. Garrard,
Transmission of Electric Power, Mr. R. H. q. Housman, 608

Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American :

Electrical Equipment for Factory Purposes, S Prof. D. C. Jackson, 20
Rockwood Type of Compound Engine, Discus¬sion on the, 651
Society of Mining Students, The Bristol:
Annual Meeting, 223

Society, Physical:

Experiments shown by Mr. Ackermann, 473
Experiments to show Alternate Exchange of kinetic Energy, Mr. Albert Campbell, 599
Society of Railway Servants, The Amalgamated:
Membership of the, 550

Society, Yorkshire College Engineering:

Annual Dinner, 480
Daimler Motor and its Application to Auto-cars, Mr. J. Sydney Critchley, 638
Double-cutting Planing Machine, Mr. J. H. Wicksteed, 402
Sorby and Sons, Limited, New Works, 213
Soudan, French, Extension of the Military Rail¬way, 158
South African Mail Steamer “ Briton,” 470
“ Southampton,” On Board the, 353
South Australia, Net Revenue for the Year, 656
South Australian School of Mines and Industries, Yearly Cost of, 254
Southgate Engineering Co., Lathe for Turning Projectiles, 261, 271
Snath-Eastern Railway, American Saloon Carriage, 443, 445, 450 :
South-Eastern Railway Co., Colour of their Rolling Stock, 499
South-Eastern Railway, New Corridor Train, 302
South-Eastern Railway, Rolling Stock of the, 331
South-Eastern Railway, Vestibule Train on the, 346
South-Eastern Railway, Works on the, 238

South Kensington Museum: 136

South Pacific Railway Company’s New Lines, 397
South Wales Primrose Company, Seam of Coal Struck by, 312
South Wales Sliding Scale, The, 426
South Wales Railway Struggle, 549
South-West London Polytechnic Institute, Prospectus of Classes, 331
Spain, Manganese Ores Export from, 650
Spain, Monopoly for the Manufacture and Sale : of, 16
Spain, New Ironclad and Cruisers for, 235
Spain, Quicksilver Shipped from Cartagena, 257
Spain, Railway Connecting Granada with Calahonda, 254
Spain, Steel Production in, 302
Spain, The United States and, 316
Speed Counter, A New, 42
Speed Indicator, Metcalfe’s, 406
Speeds, Railway-.’ Railway Speeds :
Spoed and Stops on the Central Underground Railway, London, 181
Speed of Trains, Reckoning the, 276, 300, 317, 343, 393
Speed Trials of the Imperial Japanese Battle¬ship “ Yashima,” 137
Speed Trials of Ships, Analysis of, 433
Speed in Warships, Importance of, 123
Speedwell ” Torpedo Gunboat, New Engines and Boilers for the, 443
Spencer and Sons, Messrs. John, Dividend De¬clared by, 168
Spithead, June, 1897, Fleet Illuminations at, 103
Spithead, June, 1897, Foreign Warships at (Supplement, July 2nd, 1897)
Splendid Scheme, A, 206
Spokane, Washington, The Electric Power Station at, 254
Spokes in Bicycle Wheels, Tension of, 353, 422
Stafford Corporation Sewage Works, The, 288
Standard Arc Lamps in America and Here, 331
Stands and Balconies for the Jubilee Condemned, 33
Stanford and Co., Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Stanger and Blount, Messrs., their Experiments for the Cement Trade Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, 550
Stanley Show, The, 531
Stanton, Mr. Robt. B., on the Land Slides in British Columbia, 616
Stanton. Mr. T. E., on the Rate of Transmission of Heat from the Walls of a Heated Pipe to Colder Water Flowing Through It, 16
Static Machine, Large Multiplate, 397
Staveley Coal and Iron Company’s Report, 286
Staves for Barrels in Galatz, Trade in, 16
Steam, Mr. J. F. C. Snell and Mr. J. J. Steinitz, on the Generation of, 14
Steam Car for Branch Lines, American, 634
Steam Engine Indicators, 317
Steam House, M. Jeantaud’s, 419
Steam, On the Law of Condensation of, 609
Steam Meter, 91
Steam Motor Road Train, A, 595
Steam Navigation, Lardner and, 62
Steam Pipes, Failnre of, 343, 393, 431
Steam Pump, A Direct-acting, Fitted with the d’Autia Device, 408
Steam Plant, Importance of Leaks in a, 84
Steam Ports on Locomotives, Size of, 557
Steam Power in the United States, On the Cost of, 636
Steam in Steam Engines, Condensation of, and its Measurement, 641
Steamers and Steamships Steamships from Aden to Zanzibar, Line of, 84
Steamship “ Briton,” South African Mail, 470
Steamship, Canadian Ferry, 344, 345, 349
Steamship “Dachessof Devonshire,” Kirkaldy’s Revolving Door for Water-tight Bulkheads, 106
Steamship “ Empress Queen,” Paddle {Supplement, September 15M, 1897), 220, 228, 244
Steamship, The First Iron, 231
Steamships, French-built Channel, 426
Steamship and an Iceberg, Effect of a Collision between, 275
Steamship, Ice-breaking, Burmeister and Wain, £ 88
Steamship ‘ ‘ Knight Bachelor ” after Collision £ with an Iceberg, 275
Steamships, Large Lake, 17, 533
Steamship Lengthening in Germany, 506
Steamship “ Presidente Sarmiento,” 236 ,
Steamship, Railway Ferry, Burmeister and Wain, 89
Steamship (2000 ton), for Tientsin, 273
Steamship “Walton Belle,” The Paddle, 64
Steamship for the Whito Star Line, A New Leviathan, 370
Steam Turbine, Mr. van Gink and Mr. W. J. Holsboer, 550
Steam, Wire-drawn, 326, 342
Steel Alloyed with Nickel, Property of, 181
Steel Armour, Krupp’s Process of Hardening Acquired by American Firms, 473
Steel Axles for Locomotives, 533
Steel Barrels, Manufacture of, 83
Steel for Boilers Constructed under Lloyd’s Rules,
Tensile Strength Required, 66
Steel for Boilers, On the Working of Soft, 550
Steel Boiler Plate, A Cracked, 331
Steel, Colour of, under Different Degrees of Heat, 254
Steel Dies, Hard, 361 Steel, Extra Hard, 6
Steel Girder Rail Trade, The Carnegie Co. and the, 650
Steel Jetties instead of Solid Stone Piers in Hong
Kong Harbour, 573 Steel Lock Gates, The Largest, 635
Steel, Manganese, 301
Steel, Mr. H. W. Minnitt,on the Manufacture of, 486
Steel, Molybdenum, Result of Teste in, 223
Steel and Nickel, Locomotive Axles of, 473
Steel Plant in Birmingham, Ala., 201
Steel Plate Fly-wheels, 29
Steel Plate Stacks and Chimneys for Brick, Substitution of, 223
Steel, A Problem in, 393
Steel Rails for India, American, 654
Steel Rails for Ireland and Japan Ordered in America, 254
Steel Rails for Indian Railways, American v. British Tenders, 382
Steel Rail Manufacture, Another Step in the Improvement of, 599
Steel Rails for New South Wales Ordered in America and not England, 346, 354
Steel Rail Pool, The Philadelphia, 397
Steel Rails, Tenders Invited by the New South Wales Government for, 66
Steel Shafts, Cast, 81
Steel Sheets Coated with Spelter, Advantages of, 331
Steel Shell Trade in 1897, 636
Steels for Ship and Boiler Construction, Special, 503
Steel in Spain, Production of, 302
Steel Trade, Progress of, 401
Steel Tramways for Roads, 190
Steel in Vacuum, Casting, 289
Steel Works, Employment at, during November, 599
Steel Works, The Terni and Savona, 352
Steelite Fire-bars ? 347
Steep Grade Railway, Devil’s Dyke, Brighton, 118
Steering Gear, Davis’s Motor Car, 519
Steinitz, Mr. J. J., on the Generation of Steam, 14
Stelfox, Mr. J., Experiments with the Claus
System of Purification at Belfast, 26
Stephens, Mr. Michael, Narrow Gauge Engine, Cape Government Railways, 556 Stephenson Bridge in Paris, 221
Stevenson and Cowper, Messrs., Dissolution of Partnership, 19
Stiger, Mr. A., Prevention of Hailstorms by Means of Explosions, 222
Stoddart, Major and Mrs., Presentation to, 311
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M. (with Portrait), 207
Stoney’8 Shutter to be Fitted to the Periyar Tun¬nel, 302
Stored Energy, The Most Economical Form of, 331
Stourbridge and Kinver Railway, 533
Straneo, Signor Paolo, Method of Determining the Coefficient for the Thermal Conductivity of Ice, 650
Straw-working Machinery 229
Street Lighting by Electricity, 40
Street Lighting, Public, 40
Street Lighting by Rectifiers, Mr. C. D. Taite, 40
Street Sprinkling with a Disinfectant, Brussels, 109
Stresses in Metals, On the Measurement of, 526
Strike and Lock-out, The :
Strike and Lock-out, 18,19, 46, 70, 71, 72, 91, 93, 107, 117, 130, 134, 135, 161, 179, 191, 207, 213, 227, 232, 251, 312, 347, 353, 379, 392, 393, 403, 409, 419, 429, 431, 451, 455, 469, 472, 491, 525.
527, 529, 534, 550, 582, 589, 598, 620, 633, 617
Strike, The, After the Conference, 527, 534
Strike at Ashinton Colliery Ended, 19
Strike of Blast Furnacemen in Cleveland, Threatened, 18
Strike, Mr. John Burns and the, 347
Strike in the Edinburgh Printing Trade, 598
Strike, The Effect of, on British Industries, 559
Strike Funds, Perversion of, 419
Strikes, Insurance Against, 451, 469
Strikes and Lock-outs in 1896, 589
Strike and Lock-out in Sheffield, 191
Strikes in Wales, Coal, 312
Strike, Work Turned Out during the, 525
Strike, Messrs. Yarrow and Company’s Method of Combating the Strike, 353
Strong Locomotive, The, 232
Sty Head Pass, Proposed Road through the, 642
Submarine Boat, The Holland, 223
Submarine Cables, Repairing of, 86
Submarine Coal Mining at Bridgeness, N.B., 272
Submarine Craft on Simon Lake, Baltimore, 526
Subterranean Temperatures, Recent Notes on, 210
Suburban Railway Traffic, 628
Subways for the London Streets, 254
Suddenly Imposed Loads, 528
Suez Canal, 4, 397
Sugar, Coal and, 586
Sugar Exports from Queensland, 625
Sugg, Mr. Wm., On Cooking and Ventilation by T the Aid of Gas, 26
Sulina, Roumania, Total Number of Vessels that Passed through the Port of, 4
Sulphur Production in Mexico, 473
Summers, Mr. G. E., Oa Telephones, 555
Sun Blind, An Automatic, 650
Sunday Labour, Total Abolition of, Impossible, 19
Sunlight Works, Visit to the, 71
Sunshine Records Obtained from a Campbell-Stokes Recorder and a Jordan Photographic T Recorder, 581
Supplements:
Ballasting and Shunting Engine, Imperial Japanese Railways, Mr. T. B. Shervington, 7
November 26th, 1897
Compound Goods Locomotive, Northern Pacific Railway, The Schenectady Waterworks, July 16th, 1897
Foreign Warships at Spithead, July 2nd, 1897
Four-coupled Bogie Tank Engine, London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, and Port- folio Working Drawing of same (coloured), Mr. Thomas Whitelegg, December 17th, 1897
Hungarian Paddle Steamer, I. Ferencz Josef, 7
Messrs. The Danubius Sohcenischen and Hartmann Ship and Machine Construction Company, August 27th and September 10th, 1897
Light Draught Gunboats, U.S.A., December 31st, 1897
Locomotives for the Waterford, Limerick, and Western Railway, Messrs. Kitson and Co. August 13th 1897
Pumping Engines, Miike Coal Mines, Japan, Messrs. Joseph Evans and Sons, August 6tb, 1897
Swing Bridge over the Nene, Mr. J. Allen McDonald, July 23rd, 1897
Tank Locomotive, Indian State Railways,Messrs. Neilson and Co., October 3rd, 1897,
Working Drawing Ten-wheeled Mineral Engine, Great Western 7
Railway, Mr. Wm. Dean, November 5th, 1897 Vertical Pumping Engines, West Middlesex Waterworks, Hampton, Messrs. Jas. Simpson and Co., Limited, September 24th, 1897
Water-tube Boilers and Feed Apparatus, H.M.S. “Salamander,” Mr. A. G. Mumford, Decern- 3rd, 1897
Winding Engines for the E'obw Vale Steel,
Iron, and Coal Company, Limited, Messrs. Nasmith, Wilson,and Co., October 10th, 1897 Surface Resistance in Pipes and on Ships, Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 164
Sussex, Natural Gas Discovered at Waldron in, 625
Swakop Harbour, 391
Swan and Hunter, Messrs. C. S., Effect of Strike on their Output of Steamers, 638
Swansea Tin-plate Trade, Sir J. J. Jenkins on the, 334
Swaziland, Coal Prospecting, 313
Sweden, Cellulose Industry in, 625
Sweden, Furnaces in Blast in, 273
Sweden, Gold in, 625
Sweden, Importation of Machinery into, 109
Swedish Government, The Yarrow Type of Water-tube Boiler adopted by, 66 Swedish Iron and Steel Industries, Improvement in the, 109
Swedish Shipbuilding Trade, Inactivity in, 397
Swing Bridge over the Nene (Supplement, July 23rd, 1897), 77, 79
Swiss Confederation, The Five Chief Swiss Railways to be Purchased by the, 371
Switzerland, Electric Tramways in, 60, 65
Swiss Railways, Nationalisation of the Whole System of, 16, 371, 573, 599
Swiss Railway Nationalisation Scheme and the Simplon Tunnel, The, 599
Swiss Watch Industry, The, 331
Switzerland, New Tunnel Projects in, 375
Symons, Mr. G. J., Receives the Albert Medal, 33 7

T

TABLOID Machinery, 35
Tachometer, A New, 397
Tail-end Shafts, Mr. Gravell on the Causes of the Breaking of, 397
Taite, Mr. C. D., Street Lighting by Rectifiers, 40 ,
Tangyes Limited, Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show, 5
Tanks, Galvanising, 15
Tank Locomotive, Indian State Railways, Working Drawing of (Supplement, October 3rd, 1897), 332
Tank for Testing Naval Models, Washington Navy Yard, 654
Tarbes, Fall of a Bridge at, 304
Tariffs, The Canadian, United States, British, and Newfoundland, 201
Tasmania, Gold and Tin Ore in, 181
Tasmania Railway, Extension in, 449
Tasmanian Great Western Railway Scheme, The, 109
Tasker and Sons, Messrs. W., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Taunton Waterworks Extension Scheme, 302
Taylor and Hobson’s Scheme, Messrs., 280
Tees Conservancy Commissioners, Electric Installation at their Graving Dock, 611

Tenders and Contracts:

Government Contracts, India Office, 547
Port Works at Pernambuco, 547
Railway in Brazil, 547
Teak for Structural and Mechanical Purposes, Value of, 158
Technical College, East London, 317
Technical Education, 227, 251, 277, 299, 300, 319, 352, 396, 602, 555
Technical Education and Foreign Competition, Sir W. H. Bailey on, 396
Tees, Largest Vessel ever Constructed on the, 312
Telegraph System, Total Length of the World’s,
Telegraphy Vibration, 473
Telegraphy, Wireless, 222
Telephone Exchange for Dover, A Municipal, 625
Telephones, Mr. G. E. Summers on, 555
Telephoning on the Erie Canal, 286
“Telescriptor,” The, 449
“Temper’’ as used in Steel Manufacture, The Word, 254
Temperature, Mean Annual, at the Surface of the Sea Round England, in the Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea, 371
Temperatures, Recent Notes on Subterranean, 210
Tenders, American v. British, for Steel Rails for India, 382
Tenders for Railway in Brazil, 547
Tenders Invited, from H.M. Consul-General at Christiania, with regard to, 33
Tenders invited for the Sanitary Improvement of Lisbon, 550
Tenders for Large Steamer invited by the Hamburg-American Line, 625
Tenders opened at Sofia, 181
Tenders for Port Works at Pernambuco, 547
Tennant, Sir D., on the Cape Transit Rates to the Transvaal, 499
Tensile Strength to the Composition of Structural Steel, Relation of, 84
Tension of Cycle Spokes, 353, 422
Tension of Spokes in Bicycle Wheels, 353
Torni and Savona Stool Works, The, 352
“Terror,” Pneumatic System on Board the, 302
Test Bars, Mr. Moldenke on the Use of Foundry, 654
Test of Fireproof Floors, 17
Test of Metals, Pocket Recorder for, 188
Testing Machine, 100-Ton, 376
Thames Embankment, Electric Light for the, 86
Thames Ironworks Company, English Ambas¬sador’s Yacht, 478, 481
Thames, New Flood Channel through the Lock Island at Teddington, 526
Thames, New Weir and Lock, 419
Thames, The Conservators’ Report, 115
Thames, Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the, in the Victorian Era, 224, 296, 368, 394, 415, 447, 470, 524, 565, 623
Theoretical Dynamics, 523, 555, 583, 598, 633, 655
Thermal Conductivity of Ice, Determining the Coefficient for the, 650
Thermo-Chemical Study of the Refining of Iron, 150
Thermo-Dynamics of the Gas Engine, 155, 189, 468
Thermo-Dynamics, Practical, 502
Third-rail Electric Traction, 43
Third-rail Propulsion for Steam Railroads, Ex¬periment in, 397
Thomas, Mr. D. A., and the Control of the Out¬put Scheme, 122
Thomas, Mr. D. A., on Dovetailing the Control Scheme into the Sliding Scale, 384
Thomas, Mr. D. A., on the Wages Appeal Case, Plymouth, 486
Thomas, Mr. Edwin, 499
Thompson, Prof. Silvanus P., on Signalling across Space, 573
“Thrasher,” Progress of Work on the, 371
Three-phase Alternating Current Generator, A Largo, 423
Threshing Machines, Russian, 332
Throwing High Explosives, New System of, 4
Thunderbolt's Manne Engine Governor, 609
Thureau, Prof, C., on the Mount Cameron Gold and Tin Ore Veins, 181
Thwaite and Holden, Messrs., New Process of Producing Malleable Iron Castings, 397
Ticket Collecting at Holloway to be Discontinued, 33
Ticket Punches, 6
Timber Trade from Galatz, Falling Away of the, 16
Tin-plate, Exports to the United States, 550
Tin-plate Plant, United States, A Large, 212
Tin-plate Trade, Further Decline of, 84
Tin plate Trade, Mr. George D. Hammond on the, 131, 133
Tin-plate Trade, German, 401
Tin-plates from the United States, America, Ex¬port of, 223
Tipton Engineering Scheme, The, 350
Tire Bender, Hand-power, Mr. Wm. Cook, 38
Tires, Pneumatic, their Superiority Over Iron and Solid Rubber Tires, 223
Tire Setter, West’s, 39
Tires, Physical Properties of Compressed Iron, 217
Tokyo University, 544, 553, 567
Took for the Egyptian Government, Non-delivery of, Owing to the Strike, 371
Tools, Hartford Automatic Machine, 467
Tools, Machine, 348, 467, 505, 549
Tools, Specialised Machine, 505
Tool Stop, Automatic, 206
Torpedoes, Aerial, 58
Torpedo Boat for the Chilian Government, Arrival of the First, 201
Torpedo Boats and Fast Steam Yachts, Power Developed by the Boilers of, and Conditions under which they are Used, 109
Torpedo Boat “ S. 26,” Loss of the German, 331
Torpedoes of the Whitehead Class, Experiments with Apparatus for the Guidance of, 423
Torrington and Okehampton Railway, The Pro¬jected, 181
Tower Bridge Approaches, Estimates for, 436
Tower, Indian Frontier Fighting, 301
Towler, Mr. Alfred, Economic Development of the Steam Engine, 440
Toyn, Mr. Joseph, Presentation to, 71
Trans-African Railway, The Royal, 92
Trans-Andine Railway, The, 397
Transatlantic Trade Improvement, 375
Transvaal Customs, Exorbitant, 18
Transvaal, Coalfield of the, 46
Transvaal, Cape Transit Rates to the, 499
Transvaal Railway Extension, 397, 499
Transverse Partitions in Ships Tested, 523
Transmission of Power, The, 1
Transmission of Power through Slack Wires, 333
Tratman, Mr. E. E. Russell, 508
Traveller, A Resident, 36
Trawler, A Steam, 346
Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, Encouraging Report, 72
Trials of English Locomotives, 491
Trieste, Formation of a New Shipping Company at, 84
Trinidad Asphalt ? What is, 630
Troon, New Graving Dock at, 254
Trow, Mr., his Services to be Recognised, 240
Trowbridge, Prof. John, on the Energy Conditions Necessary to Produce the Röntgen Rays, 16
Truck Act, The Home Secretary on Exemptions from the, 610
Truth about the Coal Trade, 238
Traction Engine Wheels Shod with Wooden Blocks, 550
Trade of tho British Empire, 257, 279, 322
Trade Bureau, A Central, 257
Trade and Business Announcements:
29, 59, 92, 168,192, 206, 238, 262, 295, 334, 354, 362, 405, 430, 448, 470, 503, 520, 549, 595, 631
Trade of the Country, The, 166
Trade Dispute?, 3
Trade, Eight Months of British, 254
Trade of 1897, The, 654
Trade in Germany, 271
Trade of Japan, 646
Trade in Madagascar, 427
Trade Mark, Defending a, 327
Trade Revival and Wages, 327
Trade Rivalry in South and Central America, Cheapness the Point Existing in, 84
Trade Marks should be Registered according to Danish Law, All, 201
Trade Union Case, A Remarkable, 473
Trade Union Correspondent on the Results that have Accrued to Labour during Her Maiostv’s Reign, 19
Trades Union Congress, The, 257
Trades Unions, Tho Rights of, 259
Trades Unionism, The New, 636
Trades Unionism and Mr. Barns, 475, 498, 533, 534
Trades Unionism, Free Labour v., 337
Traffic on Asphalted Streets in Jersey City, Regulation of, 158
Trafford Park, Manchester, Development of, 71
Train, Fast Express, 300
Trains, Reckoning the Speed of, 300, 317, 343
Train Resistance, 392, 400, 431, 523
Train, A Steam Motor Road, 595
Train Services, Summer, by Chas. Rous-Marten. 99
Trains Provided for the Ural Excursion of the Geological Congress, 302
Tramcars in New York, Cost of Operating Com¬pressed Air, 657
Tramcar, Double Rail Electric, 654
Tramways, Australia, 433
Tramways, City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, 595
Tramways, The Cork Electric, 661
Tramways of Dudley, 573
Tramway, Electric, Brisbane, 223
Tramways, Electric, Johannesburg, 201
Tramways, Electric, Lausanne, 60, 65
Tramways, Electric, Leeds, 346
Tramways, Electric, for St. Petersburg, 302
Tramways, Electric, Middlesbrough, Thornby, and Stockton. 331
Tramways, Japan, 484
Tramway Lines into Electric Roads, Conversion of, 143
Tramways in Manchester, Electricity as Motive Power, 181
Tramways in Massachusetts to be Under State
Supervision, 397 Tramways, Municipal, 65
Tramways in New South Wales, 302
Tramways, San Francisco, 661
Tramways, Sheffield, 189, 201
Tramways, Steel, 190
Tramway, Surface Contact Electric, 635
Tramways in Switzerland, 189
Tramway Traction, Sir A. Forwood on the Best System for, 331
Tramway Bills for the Coming Session, 573
Tramway Engine, Gasoline and Electric, 635
Tramway Engines, Two New, 302
Tubes, Aluminium and Steel, Their Comparative Strength and Rigidity, 473
Tube Boilers in Passenger Steam Boats, 477
Tube Manufacturers, Combination to Put an End to the Cutting of Prices, 238
Tucker, Mr. A. E., on Lubricant?, 346
Tucking Mill Foundry Co., Round Shaft Sinking Frame, 428, 429
Tunnel, The Blackwall, 502
Tunnel to be Fitted with a Stoney’s Shutter, A, Periyar, 302
Tunnel, The Greenwich, 499
Tunnel, Ou the Irish Channel, 272
Tunnel Locomotive, A Curious, 647
Tunnels of the Metropolitan Railway, Report on the Ventilation of the, 371
Tunnel Projects in Switzerland, New, 375
Tunnel between Ratcliff and Rotherhithe, Pro¬posed, 346
Tunnel, The Simplon, 223, 331
Tunnel, Water Supply, from Lake Erie, 17
Turbines, Efficiency of Steam, 583
Turbine, Tests to Show the Influence of Moisture in Steam on the Economy of a, 44
Turkish Railway Mileage, 650
Turner, Mr. C. A. P., On Determining Stresses in Metals by Measuring the Fluctuations of Temperature when a Load is Applied, 526
Turner, Limited, Messrs. F. R. and F., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6
Tuyere for Blast Furnaces, A New, 654
Tyne, The, 592
Tyne Shipbuilding Returns for the Year, 650
Tynemouth Pier, Damage to and Rebuilding of, 273, 499, 511
Typewriter, An Electric, 449

U

UNDERGROUND Mains, Localisation of Faults in, 52
Underground Railways in New York, 650
Undertunnelling the District Railway, Bill for, 84
Unfair Use of Drawings, 105, 140
Unemployed Insurance, 354
Unemployed at the End of September, Returns of the, 423
Unemployed, Percentage of, in the Trade Unions Making Returns, 109
Uganda Railway, Progress of the, 66
Union Steamship Company at the Brussels Exhi¬bition, Gold Medal Awarded to the, 379
Unit for Rating the Efficiency of an Electric Plant. 66
United Kingdom, Coal Output in the, 371
United Kingdom, Railway Lines Open in, 331
United Kingdom, Total Railway Receipts for June. 1897, 131
United States, Chief Iron-producing Districts in the, 397
United States, Coal Production of the, 66
United States, On the Cost of Steam Power in the, 636
United States, Earnings from Freight and Traffic on Railways in, 331
United States, Electric Traction in the, 498
United States, Fortifications to bo Erected in the, 254
United States, Hours of Labour in the, 277
United States, Indian Railway Companies place large Orders for Rails in the, 66
United States, Large Interlocking Plant, 17
United States, Merchant Marine of the, 66
United States Navy, Annual Report, 526
United States Navy Department, Test at Indian Head of the Comparative Efficiency of two thin and one thick Armour Plates, 84
United States Navy, Light Draught Gunboats (Supplement, December 31j<, 1897), 541, 542, 548, 654
United States, October Record of Railway Acci¬dents in the, 650
United States Patents, 323
United States, Pig Iron Production in the, 109
United States, Progress in Naval Ordnance in the, 628
United States, Pumping Engines in the, 495
United States, Railway Accidents, 201
United States, Railway from Astoria, 254
United States, Railway Extension and Improve¬ments in, 273
United States, Railway Statistics of the, 519
United States, Secrecy in regard to Fortification Work in the, 273
United States and SpaiD, The, 316
U.S.A., Tin-plate Export from the, 223
United States Torpedo Boat "Porter,” Official Trial Trips of, 66
University College, Liverpool, Faculty of Engi¬neering, 352
University of Japan, 582
Ural Excursion of the International Geological Congress, 178
Ural, Mining in the, 474, 479 Utilisation of Water Power, 284

V

VACUUM Brakes in India, Regulations as to, 223
Val de Noche, Quay and Breakwater at, 573
Vale of Glamorgan Railway, 572
Valve for Locomotives, New Slide, 39
Valve, Multiplex Reducing, 376
Valve, Enclosed Safety, 333
Vans, Post-office Motor, 631
Varna Harbour Works at a Dead Stop, 273
Vauclain Locomotive, 252
Velocity of Sound in Water, 371
Venezuela, Irrigation Works in, 540
Ventilating Fans, 522
Ventilating Mines, Bonus Offered for the Inven¬tion of a Method of, 187
Ventilating Mines, Bonus Offered by the Victorian Government for a Device for, 109
Ventilation of the Metropolitan Railway, 254, 373, 393, 431
Ventilation of the Tunnels on the Metropolitan Railway, Report on the, 371
Venturi Wator Meter, The, 210, 277
Vera Cruz Harbour, 529
Versam Bridge, The. 202, 245, 247, 248
Vertical or Sloping Piers, 323
Vestibule Train on the South-Eastern Railway, 346
Viaduct on the Saupersdorf Wilzschhauser Line, 617
Vibration Telegraphy in India, 473
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Acquisition of the Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co., 121, 333
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Armour Plate Trial, 213
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, Financial Report, 535
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Messrs., 4ft square, 4in. thick Armour Plate, 93
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Government Orders for Armour Plates, 239
Vickers, Sons, and Co. and the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition Co., Agreement between, 273
Vickers, Sons, and Co.’s Nickel Steel Harveyed Armour Plate, 201
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Their Purchase of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammuni¬tion Co., 311
Vickers, Sons, and Co., New 6in. Quick-fire Gun, 427, 526, 602
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Recent Orders Booked by, 287
"Victoria and Albert," The, 431
Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, The, 274, 278. 300
Victoria Jubilee Bridge, Canada, 328, 329
Victorian Railways, 457
Victoria, Railways of, Improved System of Light¬ing the Carriages, 181
" Victory,” The, 251
Vincent, Col. Sir H., On Sheffield and Foreign Manufactures, 409
"Vindictive,” H.M. Ram Cruiser, 424
Viscometers, 302
Vivonaise, La (Irrigating Wheel), 180
Volition of “Things,” The, 622
Vortex Motion of Fluids, Kinetic Theory of the Equations of, 181

W

WADDELL, Mr. J. A. L., On the Working of Soft Steel for, 660
Wages Appeal Case—William Roberts, a Ply¬mouth Workman, v. Hill’s Plymouth Co., 486
Wages Board, The Midland Iron and Steel, 382
Wages Disputes, 486
Wages and Hours Arbitration, North-Eastern Railway Co., 143
Wages Question, Japan, 484
Wages, Trade Revival and, 327
Wagon, Electrically-propelled Delivery, 423
Wagon Frames, Contracts Open, 432
Waite and Bartlett, Messrs., Multiplate Static Machine, 397
Wales and Adjoining Counties:
20, 46, 72, 94, 122, 168, 192, 214, 240, 264, 288, 312, 334, 356, 384, 410, 436, 460, 486, 612, 636, 560, 586, 612, 638, 660
Wales, Light Railway in Lleyn, Projected, 223
Wales, New Industrial Establishments, 473
Walker, Mr., on Propeller Ventilating Fans, 453
Walker, Mr. James, his New Appointment, 511
Walker, Mr. William George, Analysis of Speed Trials of Ships, 433
Walker and Hall, Messrs., Awards to, at the Brussels Exhibition, 355
Wallace’s Graphic Dynamometer 551
Wallach Bros., Messrs., Gauge-glass Protector, 482
Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6 “ Walton Belle,” The Paddle Steamer, 64
War, The, 373, 651
Warner and Swasey, Messrs., First Operation Hub Machine, 608
Warships-*, ofro H.M. s.s.:
Warships, Gunnery Practice on French, 158
Warships, Importance of Speed in, 123
Warships, New Method of Trial for, 18
Warships at Spithead, Foreign (Supplement, July 2nd, 1897)
Warships’ Steam Trials, Note on Some, 621
Warships under Construction in the United Kingdom, June 30th, 1897, 84
Warships, High Explosives and Modern, 615
Washing out Locomotive Boilers, 557
Waste Products in Iron Manufacture, 199
Watch Industry, The Swiss, 331
Water and Air Effect of Heat on 1 lb. of each, 84
Water, Automatic Sampling, 189
Water Consumption, Richmond, Va., United States, 223, 273
Water Finding, 15
Water Heater, The “Century,” 87
Water Meter, The Venturi, 210, 277
Water Power and Electric Plant, Another, 408
Water Power Plants, Limitations of Government in, 44
Water Power at Richmond, United States, America, Project for Utilising the, 223, 273 Water Power, Utilisation of, 284
Water Required to Condense Steam from an Engine, 158
Water Softening Process for Locomotives on Indian Railways, 131
Water Supply, Eastbourne, 109
Water Supply and Enteric Fever,'547
Water Supply, London, 81
Water Supply, Newington, 181
Water Supply at Penarth, Inadequate, 16
Water Supply Tunnel, Cleveland, U.S.A., 17
Water Supply of Twenty-six Important Towns, Particulars of, 101
Waterford, Limerick, and Western Railway, Pro¬gress of, 181
Waterhouse, Mr., his Return to the Conciliation Board, 122
Watering Streets with a Disinfeotant, Brussels, 109
Waterloo and City Railway, Progress of the, 371
Water-tight Bulkheads in Ships, 523
Water-tight Bulkheads in Ships, Early Use of, 389
Water-tube Boilers, 25, 29, 66, 456, 477. 546, 636
Water-tube Boilers, Mr. F. J. Rowan, 456, 636
Water - tube Boilers for High - speed Ocean Steamers, M. Pierre Sigaudy, 25, 29 Water-tube Boilers in Passenger Steamboats, Latest, 477
Water-tube Boilers for Swedish Torpedo Boats, 66
Waterways, German Inland, 275
Water-wheel Regulator, 635
Waterworks for Brazil, 188
Waterworks, City of Birmingham Corporation, 117
Watkeys, Mr. H., Slide Valve for Locomotives, 39
Wearhead to Alston, Projected Railwav from, 511
Weather Reports, The Weekly, 397
Weideknecht, Mons. F., Articulated Locomotive, 390
Weighbridge, A Large, 209
Weights, Atomic, 32
Weights of Cast Aluminium, Castings of Common Metals, Relative, 109
Weight of Machinery per Unit of Power, The Reduction of the, 625
Weights and Measures ? Foreign, 11
Weight of Railway Rolling Stock, 343
Welburn, Mr. John, 158
Wells Bros., Messrs., 200-H.P., Premier Gas Engine, 597, 610
Welsbampton Railway Accident, The Jury’s Recommendation, 16
West, Mr. A. J., On Kurrachee Harbour, 430
West Hallam Colliery, Visit to, 287
West Hartlepool, Commercial Exchange for, 312
West Hartlepool Dock Improvements, 626
West’s Tire Setter, 39
Westinghouse Brake for Express Trains, The New,39
Weston, Mr. C. F. B. N., On Foundations, 457
Weymouth, New Docks for, 616
Wey Navigation, The River, 422, 469
Wheat Sowing in East Anglia, 473
Wheels, Tension of Spokes in Bicycle, 853
Wheels, Bicycle, 201
Whigham and Schomburg’s New Coking Plant, S3
Whisky, Artificial Ageing of, 397
White Star Liner “Cymric,” The, 403
White Star Liner “ Oceanic," The, 267
White Star Line, A New Steamer for the, 370
Whitmore and Binyon, Messrs., Compound Mill Engines, 324, 329
Whitwell, Mr. Wm., Presentation to, 19, 46
Wickhorst, Mr. M. H., On the Manufacture of Phosphor Bronze, 419
Widnes Foundry Company, Queen’s Pier Exten¬sion, Isle of Man, 346
Willoughby Refuse Destructor, The, 271
Wilmshurst, Mr. T. P., Electricity Meters, 41
Wilson, Rear-Admiral, Controller of the Navy, 236
Wilson, Sir Alex , his Appointment, 550
Winch, Pneumatic, 646
Wind, Velocity and Pressure of the, and its Measurement, 496
Winding Engines, 341, 342
Winding Engines, Messrs. Nasmyth Wilson and Co., Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co., (Supple¬ment, October lOzA), 342
Window Cleaning, Apparatus for, 482
Wine, Algerian, 397
Winslow, Mr. F. I., Re-covering a Line of Water Pipe at Boston, 357
Winter, Dr. J. Bradbury, his Model Locomo¬tive, 269
Wire-drawn Steam, 326, 342
Wireless Telegraphy, 222
Wire Nail Making Machinery? 229
Wires, Power Transmission through Slack, 330
Wire Trade Convention in Germany, The, 553
Wiring, Municipal Aids to, 40
Wirral Railway Co.’s Extension Projects, 526
Wirral Railway Co.’s New Line, 550
Wheelbarrows as a Passenger Vehicle in Shanghai, Use of, 473
Wolesley Sheep Shearing Machine Company, Limited, Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 5
Wood, On Non-inflammable. 26, 29, 33
Wood, Non-inflammable, Trial of, Ordered by the Admiralty, 33
Wood, Mr. Chas., Commences Business on his own Account, 611
Wood, Mr. Frank, Some Considerations on the Designs of Town Sewerage Schemes, 464
Wood Pulp and Cellulose Industry in Norway and Sweden, The, 625
Wool Returns, New South Wales, 192
Worcester, Sewage Disposal Scheme, 29, 66
Wordingham, Mr. C. H., his Presidential Ad¬dress, 13
Wordingham, Mr. C. H., on the Distribution of Electric Energy, 485
Work Turned Out During the Strike, 525
Working Drawings, Cost of, 555, 633
Working Expenses of Railways, 160
Workington Docks, Scheme for Purchase of, 643
Workman to Machinery, Attitude of the Modern, 636
Workmen’s Compensation Bill, 71, 94, 136, 434
Workmen’s Compensation Bill, Mr. F. Glazebrook on the, 434
Workmen’s Trains, Returns Furnished by Fourteen Railway Companies on the Subject of, 550
Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., Pumping Engines, 114
Worthington, Mr. Edgar, his Appointment, 453
Worthington, Mr. W. B., his Presidential Address, 559
Worthington, Mr. W. B., Design in Relation to Maintenance, 581
Worthington Pumping Engine, Triple-expansion Vertical High Duty (Supplement, September VAth}, 308
Wrightson, Mr., Application of Travelling Belts to Coal Shipment, 132

X

X-RAYS, by Metals, On the Transformation of the, 625

Y

YACHT, English Ambassador’s, 478. 481
Yarrow, Mr. A. F.,_on the Strike and Lock¬out, 91
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Floating Hotel for Non- unionists, 214
Yarrow and Co., Launch of Gunboat for the Egyptian Government, 371
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., their Method of Com¬bating the Strike, 353
Yarrow Type of Water-tube Boiler Adopted by the Swedish Government, 66
Yorkshire Collieries, Abandonment of, 186
Yorkshire Steam Coal Trade, 163
Yost Typewriter Received the First-class Award at the Queensland Exhibition, 331
Young and Glover, Messrs., On Naphthalene in Modern Gas Manufacture and the Carburet- ting of Illuminating Gas, 26
Yukon District of Canada, Account of the, 131
Yukon District, Meteorological Conditions, 573

Z

ZERMATT Görner-Grat Railway, The, 132
Zululand Coalfields, 375

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