The Engineer 1899 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

• 1898, 13
• Accidents, Colliery, Government Returns, 44
• Cage, in the Derbyshire Coalfield, 350 to a Daimler Motor Wagonette, 213 Government and, 215
• Industrial, Number of Workpeople killed in, in 1898, 213
• in Mines and Quarries, Deaths from, 313, 350
• Motor Car, 213, 621
• Railway — see Railway Accidents,
• British and Foreign
• Strange Steam Pipe, 273
• with a Thrashing Machine, A Peculiar Case, 59
• Accumulator Trials, 634
• Acetylene, M. G. Claude on the Explosive Power of, 164
• Gas Engines, 145,169
• Gas Generator, Messrs. J. Stott and Co., 632
• Gas Lighting in Greece, 491
• Gas for Lighting Purposes in Prussia, 317
• as an Illuminant, Real Value of, 303
• Gas, Maximum Explosive Effect pro¬duced with 12A
• Volumes of Air and one of, 33
• Gas v. Coal Gas, 373
• Gas combined with Resin Oil, Experi¬ments with, 491
• Ackroyd, Mr. W., His Investigations on Moorland Waters, 542
• Adamson and Co., Messrs. Joseph, 50-Ton Electric Travelling Crane, 601
• Admiralty and Naval Engineers, The, 495
• Advertising on False Pretences in Leading Engi¬neering Papers, 655
• Aetheric Telegraphy, Mr. W. H. Preece on, 445
• Aetheric — see also Wireless Telegraphy and Telegraphy, Wireless
• Agricultural Machinery for the La Rochelle District, and Why American v. English, 439
• Machinery in Poland, Demand for, 439
• Machinery, South African, 376 Machinery, Steam Flour Mills, Mine
• and Quarries, &c., Opening for in Tunis, 621
• Machines at the Maidstone Show, 617 , Machines for Russia, British and J
• Foreign Competition, 655
• Air Power Company, Organisation of an Interna¬tional, 11
• Air Ships, The Aerial Navigation Company, San ' Francisco, 595
• Alabama, Coal6elds of, 237
• Pig Iron Output in, 237
• Alfheim Company, Limited, Permanent Machinery Exhibition, Christiania, 11
• Algeciras, Growing Importance of the Town of, 365
• Alleu and Co., Messrs. W. H., Compound Con¬densing Plant, 389
• Alloy called “ Bronze Gaulois,” The, 491
• Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Mr. R. A. Hadfield on, 348
• Iron and Nickel, Mr. F. Osmond on, 164
• Nickel and Aluminium, Characteristic ’ of, 287
• Alloy, A New Nickel-manganese-iron, 438
• Alloys Research Committee, Sir Wm. C. Roberts-
• Austen’s Report, 160, 166
• Almanacs and Diaries, 8, 45, 73, 91, 141, 183
• Aluminium and Copper as Conductors of Electric Currents, Rivalry between, 213
• Progress of, 155
• Effect of Washing Soda on, 33
• Seamless Tubes, 187
• Water Steriliser, 147
• Writing Capacity of, 313
• Amalgamation of German Electrical Interests, 547
• Two Well-known Firms, 547
• American Bridges, English Engineers and, 391
• Coal, 650
• Colonial Expansion, The Little Bill, 317
• Commercial Enterprise, Its Keenness, 377
• Commercial Enterprise, How it is that the Yankees are Beating the English on their own Ground, 453
• Competition, 29, 453, 498, 538, 603
• in the Engineering Trade, 538
• Industries, An English Report on, 301
• Interoceanic Canal, 351 Locomotives — see Railway Rolling
• Stock, &c. &c., Locomotives, 603
• Machine Tools, British and, 29, 66, 67
• Manufacturers’ Success in Foreign
• Markets, The Secret of, 453
• Navy, Niclausse Boiler and the, 195
• Paddle-wheel Steamers with Beam
• Engines, 26, 48, 107, 154, 252, 277
• Patents, Selected –see Patents, Selected American
• Thin Armour Trial, 545
• Trade Invasion, 409, 435, 474
• Ammonium Borate as a Hardening Liquid for Plaster of Paris, 237
• Ammunition, The Lee-Metford and Martini- Henry, Experiments with, 59
• The New British Service Bullet, 59
• Amos, Mr, E. C., on Machine Tools, 372
• Amsterdam, Telephone System of, 595
• Ancona, The New Mole at, 337
• Andrew and Co., J. E. H., Gas Engine, 470
• Anthracite Coal Removed from the List of Free Imports at San Francisco, 542
• Appert, M. L., New Method of Moulding Glass, 621

Appointments and Retirements:

• Appleyard, Mr., 439
• Arrandale, Mr. M., Address, Machine Workers’ Association, 487
• Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., 512
• Bayley, Mr. C. W.,542
• Becbler, Captain, 412
• Black, Mr. Thos., 399
• Cassatt, Mr. A. J., 629
• Charles, Mr. A. L.,621
• Crowe, Mr. Hy., 119
• Evans, Mr. David, 607
• Fay, Mr. S., 365
• Fenwick, Mr. Luke, 378
• Forbes, Mr. Wm., 542
• Franklin, Alderman Geo., 478
• Gavey, Mr. J., 187
• Glover, Mr. John, 413
• Grierson, Mr., 365
• Heald, Mr. Horace, 621
• Henderson, Mr. Alexander, 465
• Hookey, Mr. J., 187
• Hopkinson, Mr. Chas., 607
• Howell, Mr. Walter J., 435
• Hoy, Mr. H. A., 542
• Hunter, Mr. David, 21
• Ingham, Mr. Oswald, 399
• Irwin, Mr. J. C., 542
• Jamieson, Prof. Andrew, 387, 413
• Katté, Mr. Walter, 465
• Knaggs, Mr. W. T., 504
• Knight, Mr. Robert. 72
• Laird, Sir Wm.,365
• Maclean, Mr. Magnus, 645
• McNeil, Mr. Jas., 72
• Nisbet, Mr. W. H , 592
• Purkess, Mr. Jas., 365
• Richmond, Mr. J. H., 119
• Sadler, Col., 607
• Salamons, Sir Julian, 270
• Siburn, Mr. Jas., 72
• Squire, Mr. W. W., 605
• Stafford, Mr. J. H., 542
• Sykes, Mr. Wm., 271
• Trotter, Mr. A. P., 365
• Walker, Mr. Arthur Tannett, 313
• Ward, Mr. Thos. F., 504
• Wharnclitfa, Earl of, 465
• Wilgus, Mr. W. J., 465
• Wood, Sir Lindsay, 72

• Archangel, Projected Improvement of the Port of, 491
• Arctic Currents, Casks for Testing, 337
• Ardwick Engineering Company, High-speed Vertical Engine, New Design, 377
• Argentine Republic, Meat Export from, 137
• Arnold, Prof, and Mr. Andrew MacWilliam, On the Diffusion of Elements in Iron, 461
• Armour-plate Situation in the U.S.A., 348
• Armour Trial, American Thin, 515
• Arth, Prof., On the Utilisation of Blast Furnace Gas, 387

Association, American Foundrymen’s:

• Compression Tests of Jin. Cubes of Ingot
• Mould Iron and of Bessemer Mixture, 313

Association, Chicago Electrical:

• Patent Systems of the United States and Foreign Countries Compared, Mr. W. C. Jones, 416 |

Association of Civil Engineering Students, Manchester:

• Annual Dinner, Twelfth, 93
• American Grain Elevator, The Manchester Ship Canal Company’s, Mr. Percy F. Gask on the, Electric Welding, Mr. O. Winder, 247
• Prospecting for Minerals, Mr. H. T. Hildage,

Association, Cleveland Blast Furnace- men’s :

• Election as President, of Mr. P. Trainer, and names of Candidates for the Secretaryship,

Association, The Cleveland Iron¬masters’ :

• Election as President and Vice-president of
• Mr. J. F. Wilson and Mr. C. A. Cochrane, 119

Association, Coal Trade Benevolent: 477

Association of Draughtsmen, British:

• Formation of, 162

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

• Chains, On the Making and Testing of Welded Steel, Mr. E. J. Taylor, 111
• Excursions Planned for the Summer Months, 377
• Flooring for Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best, 229
• Forty-third Annual Report and Anniversary Dinner, 71, 158
• Gas Engines as Motive Power in Engineering Works, Mr. A. R Bellamy, 327
• Gas Exhausters and Gas-exhausting Plant, Mr. ' R. Hargraves, 320
• Heating Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best Method of, 229
• Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Hy. Webb, 73
• Odontograph described by Mr. Michael Longridge, 71
• Switches, Liquid and Metallic, The Question of the Relative Merits of, 229
• Utilising Furnace Gases as a Motive Power in Certain Gas Engines, Question of, 325

Association of Engineers, Leeds:

• Electricity, Mr. Joe A. Tempest, 330
• Machine Tools, English v. American, Mr. Alfred Towler, 230
• Mineral Oils, Mr. B. Holgate, 146

Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London:

• Forty-sixth Anniversary Festival, 469

Association, Geologists’:

• Excursion to Brittany, 412

Association, Lancashire Coal Sales :

• Resolution with regard to Contracts to be made with Merchants for the ensuing Twelve months, 477, 503

Association, Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic:

• Motor-Vehicle Design, Some New Features in, Mr. T. H. Parker, 269
• White, Mr. J. W., Appointed Hon. Treasurer, 237

Association, Manchester and Salford Sanitary:

• Lamps which have Exploded in Manchester, and the Oils used therein, Mr. W. Thomson’s Report on, 400

Association, Manchester Steam Users’:

• Annual Report—Boilers under the Care of, 439
• Annual Memorandum of Chief Engineer Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 599

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

• Inaugural Address of Mr. J. Cox, 42

Electric Traction:

• Its Application in Large Towns, Mr. G. Conaty, 269

Association, Mechanical Engineers', The Wltwatersrand:

• Compressed Air as Power, Discussion on the Utilisation of, 298

Association, The Miners’:

• “Character Note” Question, Mr. E. Cowey and Mr. W. Parrott on the, 442

Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Incorporated:

• Examination of Candidates for Municipal Surveyorehips, Twenty-seventh Voluntary Pass, 401
• Yorkshire District Meeting Programme, 551

Association, National Free Labour:

• Manifesto issued by, showing where Strike Funds come from, 89

Association of Old Students of the Central Technical College:

• Second Annual Dinner of, 575

Association, South Wales Miners’:

• Annual Conference : Address of Mr. Abraham —" Mabon ”—44

Associations, Trade:

• Recently-formed, 477

Association of Trade Protection Societies:

• Fifty-first Annual Meeting, 421

Association, Unmarked Bar Iron:

• Prices Advanced 10s. per Ton, 542

Association of Waterworks Engineers, The British:

• Papers to be Read at the Fourth Annual Meet¬ing, 491
• Atbara Bridge Contract, The, 297, 408
• Bridge, The (Supplement, June 2nd, 1899)
• 297, 367, 395, 408, 539, 543 :
• Bridge and Standardisation, The, 367, 395
• Atlas Engineering Company, Machine Tools, 423
• Australia, West, Rainfall, 246
• Auto-cars, Compressed Air as a Motive Power for 195
• Autocrat of the Pit, 468
• Automatic Couplers, 263, 616, 644
• Couplings—tie alto Couplings, Auto¬matic
• Coupling, The Janney, 644 Automobile Club, 150
• Particulars of the Forthcoming Trials and Awards, 439
• Show, Richmond, 37, 577, 627, 652
• Show, Richmond, 1899, Awards at the, 652
• Tours of the, 296, 496
• Auxiliary Machinery cn Board Ships, Mr. E. Nicholl on, 164
• Avery, Messrs. W. and T., Rail-weighing Ma¬chine, 196
• Ayrton, Mrs., On the Hissing of the Electric Arc, 321
• Ayrton, Prof., On Electric Meters, 611

B

• BABCOCK, Mr. W. I., on Portable Pneumatic Riveters in Shipbuilding, 147, 321
• Babcock and Wilcox Boilers, 55
• Bacon Air Lift Pump, 422, 490
• Bacteria Bed System, Mr. Dibdin's and not Pro¬fessor Roscoe's, 164
• Bactolite, The, 631
• Bailey and Co., Limited, Messrs. W. H., Branch Works at Patricroft and Extension of Business, 377
• Brillie, Mr. Robt., 351
• Baillie-Weaver, Mr. H., New Process of Season¬ing and Preserving Timber and other Fibrous Substanoes, 599
• Baker, Sir Benjamin, Visits Egypt, 33
• Baku, Water Supply Scheme for, 577
• Balancing of Engines, Prof. W. E. Dalby on, 310
• Baldwin Locomotive Works, Extraordinary Acti¬vity at, 453
• Locomotives for the Great Central and the Midland, 517, 527
• The Year's Output, 187
• Ballasting of Steamers, 289
• Band Ropes, Slow-moving, for Transmission of Power Underground, 599
• Barbed Wire in Italy, Use of, 213
• Barking Boiler Explosion, The, 31, 34, 35, 118, 145, 241
• Barnaby, Sir N., on Steam Speeds at Sea, 92
• Barnes, Mr. Geo. N., Introductory Address, Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 4S7
• Barnum and Bailey’s Special Trains, 360
• Barrett, Professor W. F., On the Thermo-electric Behaviour of Alloys of Nickel Steel, 337
• Basalt, Lava Stone, and Trass, 525
• Basset Mines, Cornish Engine, 471, 513, 575, 656
• Bath and West of England Show, The:
• Implement Department, Agricultural, 546
• Oil and Gas Engines, 546
• Traction and Agricultural Engines, 546
• Battery Calculator, An Ingenious, 313
• Bauermann, Prof. H., On the Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, 461
• Baxter, Mr. G. H., On the Pumping Machinery at the Clyde Trustee»’ Graving Dock, 405
• Beams, Problem in the Thoory of, 652
• Bearings, Hot, 374
• Beattie, Prof. J. C., On the Leakage of Electricity, 542
• Becher, Mr. Septimus J., 174
• Becks, Mr. Geo. A., Gold Coast Ice Factory, 219
• Beckton Gasworks, The, 557, 561
• Beeby’s Brick Company, Limited, Yaxley Vi-it to, 600
• Begbie and Co., Limited, Messrs., Their New Plant, 324
• Beit, Mr., 22
• Belgian Coal Strike, 478
• Belgian Trade in Coal, 1897-8, 224
• Belgians in Russia, 115
• Bell Bros., Messrs., A Limited Company, 43
• Belleville Water Separator, 383
• Beilis and Co., Messrs. G. E„ Formation into a Public Company of their Business, 657
• Belper Sewage Schemes, 33
• Belts, Joining Machine, 209
• Benischke, Dr., Apparatus for Measuring the Speed of Electric Motors, 491
• Berry and Sons, Messrs. Francis, Horizontal Cylinder Boring Machine, 362
• Bessemer Pig Iron, Advance in Price of, 527
• Bessemer Steel Ingots in the United States Pro¬duction of, 262
• Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Tank Engine for South Africa, 440, 443
• Bickford Burners Company, Messrs., the Liquid Fuel Furnace, 168
• Bicycles, Duty on, in France, 265
• Bicycles, English, and Foreign Rivals, 570
• Bicycles, Reduction in Prices of, 137
• Bicycle Tire Tests, Professor R. C. Carpenter, 137
• Bilbao, College of Mechanical Engineering, for, 517
• Bilbao, Eibar Work at, 517
• Bilbao, Pig Iron Export, 517
• Biles, Mr. J. Harvard, On Using Merchant Steamers for War Purposes, 566, 584
• Bill, The Education of Children, 241
• Bill, The Government Telephone, 240
• Bills in Parliament, Private, 405
• Bills Relating to Railway Canals, Tramways, &c., deposited for the present Session, 287
• Bills thrown out of the List this Session, 213
• Billericay, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Schemefor, 237
• Bing, Director E., A New Geometrical Quadra¬ture of the Circle, 136
• Birch and Co., Messrs. Geo., Their Machine Tools. 349
• Birmingham University, The, 172, 187, 494, 502
• Blackening of Moulds in Foundries by means of Compressed Air, 542
• Blake and Knowles Steam Pump, 40, 41, 118, 345
• Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Gases, On the Use of, 461
• Blast Furnaoe Gases, Utilisation of, 140, 387, 461,
• Bleaching Lye, Electrical Production of, in Ger¬many, 137
• Blechynden Feed-water Regulator, 142
• Blocks, On Graving Dock, 641
• Blowing Engines, Messrs. Bolzano, Tedesco, and Co., 393
• Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the
• Manufactured Iron Trades of the North, Meeting of, 119
• Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Mr. Waterhouse's Official Returns to the, 326. 349, 528
• Board of Trade and Automatic Couplings, The. 317
• Bofors Plant, 29
• Bolzano, Tedesoo, and Co., Blowing Engines, 393

Boilers:

• Boilers, Anti-Incrustation Composition for, 399
• Babcock and Wilcox, 55
• Belleville, of the Spartiate, 332, 333, 335
• Built since 1872,
• Working Stress for, 621
• Circulation in, 140, 169
• Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890, Working of the, 212
• Barking, 31, 34, 35, 118, 145, 241
• at the Halliwell Dyeing Com¬pany’s Works, The, 11
• Phenomena of, 67 in Prague, A Marine, 162,163
• of a year, 91
• Express, in Warships, 511, 522
• Feed-water heaters for, 500
• of the Future, The Naval, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
• for a Japanese Destroyer, 511, 522
• for Large Powers, Yarrow, 390
• Liquid Fuel for, 169
• Marine, 394, 493, 511, 518, 522, 529, 576
• High-pressure Steam, at Sea, 493
• Naval, of the Future, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
• Niclausse, and the American Navy, 195
• Okes-Servo Wator-tube, 92
• of Pactolns, Regulator as Fitted to, 142
• Plates, Large, 192
• Practical Experience on the Strength of, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 309
• Prevention of Explosions in, Mr. D. T. Lawson’s Patent for, Extension of Applied for, 287
• The Belcher Apparatus and others for the Prevention of Smoke from, 444
• Statistics, Massachusetts, 187
• Tubes for the United States Navy, Mate¬rial to be Used in the Construction of, 337
• Under the Care of the Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 439
• Water-tube, 194, 263, 269, 290, 394, 496, 511, 518, 529, 569, 576, 603
• Water-tube, Messrs. Anderson and Lyall, 496
• Constructional Failures of, 569
• Knap's, 194
• Mr. Milton on, 263, 269 in the Navy, 394, 529
• in Passenger Steamers, 511, 518
• s.s. Orlando, 576
• Boiling Point of Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dewar on, 365
• Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.'s Balance-Sheet, 223
• Bombay, Mr. S. Crimp to Advise the Municipality on the Sanitation of, 577

Books Received:

• Abaques des Efforts Tranchants et des Moments de Flexion développés dans les poutres a une travéa par les surchages du Réglement du 29
• Aoüt, 1891, sur les Fonts Métalliques, par Marcelin Duplaix, 369
• Acetylene Generators at the Imperial Institute, Report of the Committee on the Exhibition of, 256
• Advertising, The Art of, Its Theory and Practice fully Described, by Wm. Stead, jun., 599
• Aide - Mémoire de l’Officer de Marine de Edouard Durassier, continué par Charles Valentine, 141
• Americaine : La Vie Ranches, Fermes, Usines, by Paul de Rousiers, 642
• American Institute of Architects, Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Convention of 545
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Transactions of, Vol. six., 63
• American Trade Index, 37
• Animals in Motion: Electro-photographic
• Investigation of Consecutive Phases of
• Locomotive Engineering, Manual of, with an
• Historical Introduction, by Wm. Frank Pettigrew, 291
• London Water Supply, The, by Arthur Shad¬well, 241
• London Water Supply: Being a Compendium of the History, Law, and Transactions relat¬ing to the Metropolitan Water Companies from Earliest Times to the Present Day, by H. C. Richards and W. H. C. Payne, 511
• Machine Design, Part II.: Form, Strength, and Proportions of Parts, by Forrest R. Jones, 291
• Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, and Miscellaneous Improvements, 256
• Marine Steam Engine, The, by Carl Bosley, 63
• Mathematical and Physicial Tables for the Use of Students in Technical Schools and Colleges, by Jas. G. Wrapson and W. W. Haldane, 37
• Mathematical Theory of Attraction, Introduc¬tion to the, by F. A. Tarleton, 89
• Matriculation Directory, No. xxv., 191
• Measurement and Weighing: First Year's Course in Elementary Practical Physics, Edwin Edser, 191
• Measuring and Valuing Artificers’ Work, Student’s Guide to the, Edited by E. Dobson, with Additions by E. W. Tarn, 625
• Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Easy Lessons in, by J. G. A. Meyer, 291
• Mechanics Applied to Engineering, by John Goodman, 469
• Mechanics, Text-book on Applied, Specially arranged for Engineering Students, by Andrew Jamieson, 642
• Merchants’ Hand-book of Money, Weights, and Measures, with their British Equivalents, W. A. Browne, 625
• Mersey, Report on the Present State of the Navigation of the, by Vice-Admiral Sir G. S. Nares, 599
• Metallurgical Analysis for Laboratory Use, Tables for Quantitative, by J. J. Morgan, 545
• Metallurgy, Hand-book of, by Dr. Carl Schnabel, 63
• Microscopy of Drinking Water, The Geo. T. Whipple, 291
• Mine Surveying, Treatise on, by Bennett H. Brough, 599
• Mines and Agriculture, New South Wales, Annual Report for 1897, 317
• Motor Car Manual, by R. Moffat Ford, 384
• Municipal Electricity Supply, Commercial and Business Aspects of, Alf. H. Gibbings, 418
• Municipal Trading, the Cost of, by Dixon H. T. Davies, 291.
• Naval Annual, 1899, Edited by T. A. Brassey, 443
• Naval Architecture, Text-book of Theoretical, by E. L. Attwood, 91
• Physical Chemistry, Outlines of, by A. Reychler, 384
• Physics in its Elementary Branches, History of, by Florian Cajorie, 256
• Physics; Experimental and Theoretical, Vol. i.. Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Heat, and Acoustics, by R. H. Jude, and partly from the French Third Edition of II. Gossin, 642
• Portland Cement, its Manufacture, Testing, and Use, by D. B. Butler, 642
• Railway Year-book for 1899, Edited by G. A. Sekon, 317
• Retrospect of Eight Decades, Rev. E. L. Ber- thon, 191
• Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of, Third Series, Vol. ix., Part IV., No. 36, 20
• Royal United Service Institution, Journal of the, 559, 642
• Russian Province of the North, by Alexander Platonovich Engelhardt, Translated from the Russian by Hy. Cooke, 511
• Sanitary Science, Examinations in, Questions with Suggestive Answers, by E. R. Matthews, 625
• Science and Art Department, Calendar, History and General Summary of Regulations of, 191
• Sewage Analysis, Practical Treatise on the Examination of Sewage and Effluents from Sewage, by J. A. Wanklyn and W. J. Cooper, 495
• Sewer Design, by H. N. Ogden, 559
• Ship, Know your Own, Explanation of the Stability, Trim, Construction, Tonnage, and Freeboard of Ships, &c., by Thos. Walton, 545
• "Shipping World” Year-book, Desk Manual in Trade, Commerce, and Navigation, Edited by E. R. Jones, 191
• Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents, 20, 511
• Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1898, and General Index, 1857 to 1898, Edited by G. A. P. Cnxon, 545
• South African Association of Engineers and Architect®, Proceedings of, Vol. iv., 469
• Specification—now Illustrated—for Architects, Surveyors, and Engineers, when Specifying, No. 3, 256
• Steam Engine and Gas and Oil Engines, Book for Students who have Time to Make Experi¬ments and Calculations, by John Perry, 559
• Steam Engine Indicator, Directions for Selec¬tion, Care, and Use of the Instrument, and the Analysis and Computation of the Diagram, Compiled from the Issues of “ Power,” 469
• Steinbruchindustrie nnd Steinbruohgeologie: Technische Geologie nebst praktischen Winken fiir die Verwertung von Gesteinen unter Heingehender Beriicksichtigung der Steinindustrie des Kiioigreichs Sacnsens, von Dr. 0. Herrmann, 511
• Telegraphy, by W. H. Preeoe and J. Sive- wright, 191
• Trains Rapides, Les Services Actuels, Belgique, Angleterre, France, Suisse, Notes de Voyage, 1897-8, par Camille Barbey, 291
• Tramways, Omnibuses, and Eleotric Railways, Duncan’s Manual of, 599
• Transport und Lagerungseinrichtungcn fur Getreide und Kohle, von M. Buhle, 545
• Trigonometry, Spherical, Theoretical and Prac¬tical, W. W. Lane, 20
• United States Naval Institute, Proceedings of the, Vol. xxv., No. 1, Edited by G. F. Cooper, 443
• Water Supply of Sussex from Underground Sources, by Wm. Whitaker and Clement
• Reid, 317
• Willing's Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Direc¬tory and Hand-book, Jas. Willing, jun., 291 l
• Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, with Notes and an Appendix Containing the Rales and Regulations under the Act, Toe Employers' Liability Act, 1880, by W. Adding¬ton Willis, 642
• Bore Holes, Vogt’s Patent for Sinking, 423
• Boring Machine, Corliss Cylinder, 210, 220
• Horizontal Cylinder, 362 1 A Large Snout, 279, 280
• Botley, Mr. C. F., Practical Working of Carburetted Water Gas, 457
• Boult, Mr. W. S., Various Systems of Railway Fog Signalling, 563
• Boulton, Mr. Isaac Watt, 620
• Boyle, Mr. Robert, The Bactolite, 631
• Bradbury and Co., Cam-cutting Machine, 372
• Brake, Clarke’s Field Carriage, 79
• Brassey, Lord, on the Empire, 571
• Braunkohle, Hating Power and Production of German, 262
• Brazil, Coffee Tabloids prepared by Compression, i 595
• Brazil, Mining of Manganese Ore, 595
• Breakwaters, On the Effect of Waves on, Mr. Wm. Shield, 584
• Brett, Mr., On Forgings and the Machines Used in Producing them, 566
• Brick or Stone Impervious to Water, Portland ' Cement the Best Material for Rendering, 119
• Brick-making Appliances at the International
• Building Trades Exhibition, 444

Bridges:

• Bridges, American, and English Engineers, 391
• The Bonn, and its Ornamentation, 465
• Builders, English and American, 453
• Collapse of a Roadway, Iowa, 237
• across the Danube at Ratisbon to be
• Removed, The Old, 595
• English v. American, 498
• Glasgow New, 520, 539, 540, 541
• Bridge over the Indus, The New, 413
• at Kalrebodstrand, 651
• of Mans, The, 222
• Melan Concrete, 360
• New Niagara River, Suspension, 172
• Plate-girder Arched, 270
• Railway, American, for a Bnrmah Rail¬way, 655
• Railway, over the Atbara River, (Supple¬ment, June 2nd, 1899), 297, 539, 543
• Railway, The Atbara, and Standardisa¬tion, 367, 395
• Railway, Bechuana Land, 45
• Railway, The Inkissi, Congo Railway, 218
• Railway, Moving, 198
• Railway, Siberian, across the Yeuissei, 174
• Railway— see also Railway Rolling Stock and Material, Permanent way, &c.
• for Sydney, New, 500
• Vanxhall, The New Road, and its Orna¬mentation, 262, 465
• over the Wear, Proposed Erection of, 517
• Work, Standard, 408
• Bright, Mr. Chas. Coast Telegraphic Communica¬tion, 153, 205, 227, 251
• Brighton, New Eiffel Tower, Electric Lifts for, 3, 4, 5,12
• Marine Parade Pier, 536
• Bristol Channel, The Midlands and the, 644
• Britain's Competitors, 519
• British and American Machine Tools, 29, 66, 67, 80

British Association:

• Presidents of the Various Sections, 542
• British Imports for 1898 and 1897, 119
• Fire Prevention Committee, The, 110, 224
• Railways, Limitations of, 520
• Refrigeration and Allied Interests, 150
• Shipping and the " Rings ” 623
• Steam Engines Abroad, 122
• Trade with Italy, Real Cause of its Decline, 291
• Trade Marks Abroad, 91
• Trade with the Orient, Decline of, 465
• Trade in South America, Report on, and how Business goes away from us, 313
• Brodie, Mr. F. J., On the Prolonged Deficiency of Rain in 1897-98, 287
• “Bronze Gaulois,” The Alloy called, 491
• Brooklyn, Bursting of the Retaining Tank of a Gasholder, 11
• Fracture of a 48in. Water Main, 33
• Browett, Lindley, and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine and Dynamo, 374
• Brown and Co., Limited, Messrs. John, Extension of Business, 607
• and Co., Limited, Messrs. John, Meeting of Shareholders, 621
• Brown, Mr. T. F., On the Coal Supplies of the United Kingdom, 465
• Brown, Mr. W. Walton, Mechanical Ventilators for Mines, 599
• Bruno, Professor, Experiments with the New British Service Bullet, 59
• Bryant, Mr. C. H., Oil Engine, 278
• Buckton and Co., Messrs. Joshua, A Large Snout Boring Machine, 279, 280
• Buenos Ayres, Frozen Meat Factory, 137
• Buffalo Bav, Deepening of, 542
• “Builder " on the Ugliness of the Great Central Railway Bridges, &c. &c., 387
• Buildings in New York, The Highest, 33
• New York, Moving a Five-storey, 59
• Trade Dispute, The, 217
• Bulkheads, Testing, 67
• Bulman, Mr. H. F., Kalgoorlie Coal Mines, West Australia, 534
• Bumsted and Chandler’s Fan and Engine for Forced Draught, 370, 871
• Buoy at the Manacles, New Gas-lighted Automatic Sound-producing, 491
• Burner, Petroleum, 322
• Burrator Reservoir, Plymouth Corporation, 186
• Burrows, Captain Guy, “The Land of the Pig¬mies,” 33
• Burrows, Mr. J. II., 423
• Bursting of Fly-wheels, 29
• Burton, Griffiths, and Co., Mossrs. C. W., Gisholt Lathe, 293
• Butt Hinges, American Patented Process, 43
• Butter Exported from Denmark, 134
• Bya, M. Hubert, On the Manufacture of Iron C and Steel Plates, 164

C

• CABLE Armour, Stallibrass’s Chain, 227
• Cable, Fire-detective, 575
• Indicator Submerged, for Warning Ships off Dangerous Coasts, 439
• New Submarine, 368
• United States Pacific, 362
• Cableway across the Thames, 65, 193
• Cadastral Survey, A Great, 331
• Cairo Electric Tramway, 436, 438
• Caisson Disease, 365
• for Pneumatic Foundations, Wooden, 40
• Calcium Carbide, New York Regulations as to the Sale and Use of, 11
• Output, Niagara Falls Plant, 513
• Plant at Meran driven by Water Power, 655
• Californian Wine, Concrete Tank for Storage of, 187
• Cam-cutting Machine, 372 Cambered Keels, 26
• Camera, Gun, 337 Campbell, Mr. W. R., 33
• Canada, Exports to, nnrier the full Preferential Tariff, 11
• Graving Dock at Liverpool, The New, 516
• Statistics of Exports to. 11
• Canadian Hydraulic Canal Lift, 529

Canals:

• Canals, American Interoceanic, 651
• Amsterdam, 182
• Canadian, 182
• to Connect the Rhine, Weser, and Elbe, 378
• Dortmund-Ems, 577, 630
• German, 111, 252, 387, 577, 606, 621, 630
• The Kaiser Wilhelm, 111
• Manchester Ship, 63, 187
• Lift, Canadian Hydraulic, 529
• Nicaragua, 329, 337
• North Sea and Baltic, A Year's Official Statistics, 621
• Panama and Nicaragua, 217
• Sheffield and South Yorkshire, 606
• Soulanges, 409
• Between Stettin and Berlin, Projected, 252
• Suez, Traffic for 1898, 137
• Thames and Severn, 182
• Yumniden, 40
• Canterbury Electricity Supply, 265
• Cantor Lectures, On Cycle Construction and Design, Mr. A. Sharp, 146
• Cape Colony, Government Abuses iD, 603
• Capetown Corporation, Machinery for 60,000 Lights Ordered from the United States, English Firms too Busy, 578
• Capstan Lathe, 419
• Carbon - consuming Batteries and their Possi¬bilities, Mr. W. R. Cooper on, 233
• Carbon in Electrolysis, on the Combustion of, Mr. S. Skinner, 313
• Carbonic Acid in Water on Iron Pipes, Action of, 491
• Carlsborg Viaduct, Works for the, 651
• Carlton, Mr. Thos., 43, 607
• Carnegie Steel Company, The, its Capital, 517
• Carpenter, Mr. C. C., Gas Distribution, 457
• Carpenter, Prof. R. C., Bicycle Tire Tests, 137
• Carriages, Gun, of the Horse and Field Artillery, Alterations Ordered, 262
• Carr, Mr. Wm., On the Evolution of the Hydraulic Main, 594, 626
• Casks for Testing Arctic Currents, 337
• Castings, A Record Contract for, 119
• Casting Temperature upon Steel, On the Influence of, 640

Catalogues:

• Alldays and Onions, Pneumatic Engineering Company, Limited, Turbines, 7
• Alley and Maclallan, Wall-card Illustrating a 250-H.P. Tandem Compound High-speed En¬gine Driving Alternating current Generator, 443
• Andrew and Co., Limited, J. E. H., Stockport Gas Engines, 136
• Archdale and Co., James, Machine Tools, 603
• Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, Water-tube Boilers, 312
• Bailey, Chas. S., Adjustable Utensils, 400
• Baldwin and Co., Jas., Safety Boiler Mountings, 634
• Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 603
• Beck and Co., Imperial Positive Water Meter, 520
• Bedford Engineering Company, 7
• Bever, Dorling, and Co., Limited, Mill Engines,
• Winding and Hanling Machinery, 340
• Bradbury and Co., Limited, No. 6 Capstan Lathe, 520
• British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, Applications of Electric Power, 42
• Brush Electrical Engineering Company, ' Limited, The Universal Steam Engine, 96
• B, and S. Folding Gate and Lift Company, Interlocking Rubber Tile Flooring, 443
• Campbell Gas Engine Company, The Campbell ' Oil Engine, 340 1
• Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, Ballistic Tests of Armour Plate, 400
• Central Cyclone Company, Limited, Description of the Cyclone Pulveriser, 469
• Chambers and Son, Limited, Mining and Gene¬ral Machinery and Engineers’ Requisites, 520 1
• Chloride Electrical Storage Syndicate, Limited, Renewals Catalogue, 248
• Clayton, James, Clayton Compressors, 603 1
• Cox, Limited, H. W., X-ray Apparatus, Vacuum
• Tubes, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephones, 520
• Croft and Perkins, Friction Clutches and Pul¬leys, 221
• Curtis and Company Manufacturing Company, Air Compressors, Air Hoists, and Air Appli¬ances, 652
• Davies and Son, John, Electric Mining Appli¬ances, 136
• Electrical Company, Limited, Measuring and Testing Instruments, Electricity Meters, 136
• Ellison and Co., Limited, W. T., Niagara Falls Double-acting Pulsating Pump, 634
• Fairbank, Brearley, Steam Engines, 7
• Geretti and Tanfani, Chemins Aériens, 469
• Glad step Company, The Patent, Pedestals, C Puleys, and Sockets for Shafting, 469
• Greenwood, Thomas, Engineers' Tools (New C and Second-hand), Woodworking Machinery, and Contractors’ Plant, 136
• Gresham and Craven, Limited, Injectors, Ejectors, and Railway Specialities, 42
• Harpers Limited, Belt and Rope Pulleys, Gear- wheels, Cone Pulleys, &c., 312
• Haryer, C., Dehne’s Filter Presses, 400
• Hills and Jones Company, Machine Tools, 7
• Hohdell, Way, and Co., Limited, Heat-insulating Materials and Packings, Belting, Ac., 340
• Holden and Brooke, Limited, Steam Users' Specialities, 248
• Jackson and Co., Limited, P.R., Gear Wheels and Pistons, and Electrical Plant, 443
• Jenkins Bros., Valves, Cocks, and Packings, 340
• Lang and Sons, John, Lathes, 42
• Langdon-Davies Electric Motor Company, Limited, 340
• McNeil, Cbas., Steel Manhole Doors, Sludge Doors, fee., 221
• Milwaukee Harvester Company, Agricultural Implements, 42
• Muntz’s Metal Company, Limited, 221
• National Boiler and General Insurance Com¬pany, Limited, Double-cone Fusible Plugs, 400
• Niles Tool Works Company, Machine Tools, 42
• Owen, Brazil, and Holborow, Steam Engines and Pumps, 634
• Peirson and Co., High-class Constructional Steel and Ironwork, 96
• Platt, Samuel, Shafting, Shaft Fittings, Pulleys, Gearing, &c., 652
• Polland and Co., Descriptive Pamphlet of the “ Beezy ” Pocket Voltmeter, 469
• Ransome and Co., Limited, Wood-working, Sawmill, Cooperage Machinery, 7
• Ramsomes and Rapier, Limited, Rapier’s Patent Coaling Plant, 443
• Reaveil and Co., Limited, High-speed Enclosed Constant-thrust, Compound Engines, 469
• Renold, Hans, Cycle Roller Chains, 221
• Sagar and Co., Builders’ and Joiners’ Machinery, 469
• Scott and Mountain, Limited, Ernest, Com¬pound Double-acting Self-lubricating Enclosed Engines, &c., 520
• Shaw and Co., John, Cast Iron Pipes, Columns, Bends, &c., 340 (
• Shippey Bros., Limited, Self-propelled Electric Carriages and Motor Cars on the Riker System, 520
• Snowden, Sons, and Co., Limited, Lubricators ( and Asbestos, Materials of the "Snowdrift" Brand, 340
• Spencer, Limited, Mr. John, Pipes and Fittings, 136
• Standard Pneumatic Tool Company, 7
• Standard Steel Works, Locomotive Tires and Wheels, 652
• Stewart, Robt D., Paints, Colours, Oils, and Varnishes, 340
• Stone and Co., J., Electric Lighting for Railway Carriages, 42
• Tangyes Limited, Chain Blooks and Chains, 603
• Thornton, A. G., English Drawing Instruments, 400
• Tolch and Co., Oil Engines and Launches, 42 ,
• Tosi, Franco, Electric Light and Power Instal¬lations, 136
• Unbreakable Pulley and Mill Gearing Company, Limited, 248
• United Asbestos Company, Limited, Salamander Decorations for Walls, Ceilings, fee., 469
• United States Metallic Packing Company, Limited, Metallic Packing for Locomotive, Marine, and Stationary Engines, 443 1
• Wallach Brothers, " Pneumatophor,” 7 s
• Ward and Co., H. W., Machine Tools, 312
• Whitecross Company, Limited, Rolled and Drawn Steel, Cast Steel and Iron Wire,
• Wire Rope Nails, and Netting, 443
• Whitmore and Bioyon, Limited, Bnrnay’s Centrifugal Pumps, 469
• Whitmore and Binyon, Limited, Rice Mill Machinery, 603
• Willcox and Co., Limited, W. H., Semi-Rotary Wing Pumps, 136
• Wilson, Alfred, Wilson Gas Producer Described, 603
• Wood, W. A., Agricultural Implements, 312
• Wright and Co., Joseph, Feed-water Heaters, Filters, Condensers, &c., 186
• Zadig and Co., C. A., Light Railway Plant, 603
• Cement Industry of Ghent, 337
• On the Mechanism of the Disintegration of Hydraulic, 365
• Tensile Requirements of, for Recent Works in United States, Mr. R. W. Lesley on, 262
• in the United States, Natural, 370
• Works, The Wickham, 644
• Central Electric Supply Company’s Bill, 655
• Chain Pitch, Mr. V. W. Staunton, 11
• Chains, Welded Steel, Mr. E. J. Taylor on the Making and Testing of, 111
• Charing Cross Station, 378
• Charlock by Spraying, Destruction of, 542
• Chatham, Admiralty’s Scheme for Perfecting the Naval Establishment at, 187 i- Chemistry, 1898, 19
• in England, The Teaching of Industrial, 481
• Chesterfield Town Council, Electric Light and Power for the Borough, 620
• Children in Factories, 241
• Chimney Construction, Mr. S. E. Loring’s New Method of, 365
• Shaft, A Large, 323
• Tall, in the United States, Saxony, and England, 33
• China and Japan, Metal and Machinery Imports of, 431
• Chinese Iron Trade Development, 697
• Circle, A New Geometrical Quadrature of the, 136
• City of London Electric Lighting Company, The, d 232, 233, 458, 460
• Clarke’s Field Carriage Brake, 79 s
• Clarke, Mr. W. J., Apparatus for Detecting the Presence of Ships or Icebergs by Wireless Telegraphy, 655
• Cleaver, Henry, Sentenced to Hard Labour for Advertising on False Pretences, 655
• Cleveland Iron, Open-hearth Steel from, 37
• Clock, Electric, at Liverpool-street Station, 465
• Clyde Purification, 136
• Trustees’ No. 3 Graving Dock, Performances of Pumping Machinery at, Mr. G. H. Baxter on, 406

Coal:

• Coal, 62
• American, 650
• American, Shipped to European Ports, 262
• Artificial, Manufacture of, 621
• Boring at Barham, 313
• and Coal Dust at Nantes, Importation of, 439
• “Combine,” The, 451
• Kentish, 508
• The South Yorkshire Coalfields, 624
• Wages in the Coalfields, 140
• Area of the Principal Coalfields of the World, 465
• Industry of South Africa, 262
• Lignite, Production and Heating Power of German "Braunkohle,” or, 262
• Mining in Natal, 413
• Mining—Winding from Deep Mines, Modern Improvements in, 586
• Mines, Mr. F. A. Legge on, 580
• Natel, 213
• Ootput of the British Empire, 313
• Output in this Country in 1898, 387
• Pocahontas, Analysis of, 387
• Production, France, Great Britain, United States, Germany, and Belgium, 119 in Russia, Donetz Deposits Inexhaustible, 577
• and Salt Springs in the Soest District, 11
• Shipments on the Elbe, 1898, Bohemian Brown, 124
• Smoke Abatement Society, 245
• South African, and British Steam Coal, 533
• Supplies, Our Present and Future, Mr. J. A. Longdon on, 534
• Supplies of the United Kingdom, Mr. T. F. Brown on, 465
• Trade, The Yorkshire, 36, 368
• in the Vicinity of Chabarovsk, Discovery of, 85
• White, A Substitute for Mineral Fuel, 517
• Coast Defences, Our, 52, 53
• Telegraphic Communication, Mr. Charles C Bright, 153, 205, 227, 251
• Coke-handling Plant, On, 457 C
• Ovens, By-products, 640 Ovens in Course of Erection, 123
• Cold Storage Depöt, Munich, 655
• Plants at the Cape Porte, The De Beers Company’s Scheme, 376
• South Africa, 376, 505
• Cold Treatment of Patients, by a Foreign Physi¬cian, 262
• Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Messrs., Large Horizontal Engine, 310
• Colley, Mr. James. Presentation to, 477
• Colliers in South Wales, Registration of, 649
• Visions, 544
• Collision Mate, 195
• Colomb, Admiral, On the Lessons of the Spanish-
• American War, 278
• Colour Photography at Kieff, 119
• Combustion, New Process of, M. P. J. Schlicht on a, 164
• Commercial Agents to be Appointed at Foreign Commercial Centres for the Develop¬ment of British Trade, 621
• Education in Japan, 517
• Law, Russia, The New, 465
• Travellers, Licence required in the Netherlands by, 262
• Compass, Swedish Miners’ Dipping, 461
• Compensation Act, Mr. Pickard cn the, 390
• Cases—tee Workmen’s Compensa¬tion Cases and Wilful Misconduct, 516
• Compressed Air as a Motive Fluid for Auto-Cars 195
• as Power, Discussion on, before the Mechanical Engineers' Association of the Witwatersrand, 298
• used to Blacken Moulds, 542
• Compression Teste of an iDgot Mould Iron of Soft Bessemer Mixture, 313
• Compressor Plante, Three-stage, Mr. R. P. White- law on, 298
• Conaty, Mr. G., On Eleotric Traction in Large Towns, 269
• Conciliation Board, Accountants’ Returns, 550
• Concrete-mixing Machine, A Rotary (American) 398
• Storage Tank for Californian Wine, 187
• Condensers, Evaporative, 432, 442, 447, 498, 513
• in the Navy, 342
• A Novel, 146
• Condensing Plant, Compound, Messrs. W. H. Allen, Son, and Co., 389
• for Factory Purposes, Sepa¬rate, Sir A. S. Haslam on, 614
• Conductivity of an Incandescent Lamp Filament, Increase and Decrease of the, 365
• Considère, M., On the Value of Metallic Cores in , Building, 387

Contracts Open:

• Dock Pumping Machinery for the Norwegian Government, 523
• Indian State Railways, Radial Drilling Machine and Cylinder Boring Machine, 629
• Steel Barges, 418
• Works for the Carlsberg Viaduct, 652
• Cooke, Mr. J., 423
• Cooled Bars, Transference of Heat in, 29
• Coolgardie Water-pipe Contract, The, 132
• Cooper, Mr. R. E., On Earthslips in Railway Slopes and Cuttings, and How to Prevent them, 612
• Cooper, Mr. W. R., On Carbon-consuming Batteries, 233
• Coppée, M. Evenie, On By-product Coke Ovens, b 640
• Copper and Aluminium as Conductors of Electric Currents, Rivalry between, 213
• Casting, How to Make a Sound, by the
• Addition of Phosphorus, 313
• Combination, 417, 443
• Mines of America and the Rothschilds, The, 505
• Position of, 216, 570
• Tin and, 114
• and Tin, Position of, 216, 670
• Copper Trade of the United States, 59
• Copper Wire Production in Japan, 413
• Cores, Metallic, Their Value in Building, 387
• Corliss Cylinder Boring Machine, 210, 220
• Cornish Engine, High-pressure, 471, 513, 575, 650
• Corporation Competition in Engineering Work in South Africa, 635
• Cory and Sons, Messrs. Wm., Works of, 556
• Cotton, Mr. E. J., 621
• Manufacturing State, South Carolina the Chief, 365
• Mills in the Federal District and State of Rio de Janeiro, 595
• Saturated with Liquid Air, Explosive Power of, 655
• Trade, Threatened Strike in the, 290
• County Council Contracts, 115, 144
• Couplings, Automatic, 263, 317, 616, 632, 644, 645
• American, 632
• and the Board of Trade, 317
• see also Railway Material Coupling, The Janney Automatic, 644
• Cox, Mr. Job, His Inaugural Address, 42
• Crane, 50-Ton Electric Travelling, 8, 129, 133
• 50-Ton Electric Travelling, Messrs. Joseph Adamson and Co., 601
• and the Power to be Used with Them, Mr. Pitt, 614
• Crank Pinning a Crank Shaft, 312
• Shafts, Turning, 373
• Craven Brothers, New Took, 134,135
• Creuzot, Strike at, 542
• Works, Schneider, Projected Blast Furnaces in Piombino, 224
• Critchley, Mr. J. S., Motor Car Lecture by, 258
• Croft and Perkins, Messrs., Crown Friction Clutch, 259
• Cromer Gas Company’s Works, New Site of the, 337
• Crossley Brothers, Limited, Combined Gas Engine and Air Compressor, 68
• Croton Aqueduct, Mr. A. W. Hall’s Experiments on the, 119
• Crucibles, Cracking of, and its Cause, 387
• Cuningbam, Mr. G. C., On Mechanical Traction by Electricity, 611
• Cunliffe and Croom, Messrs., Vertical Milling and Profiling Machine, 398
• Cutlery, Foreign Trade in, during May, 607
• Cuxhaven, Dry Dock at, 387
• Cyanide Plants on the Rand, Steel Wheels instead of Pumps for Lifting, 125
• in South Africa, 479
• Cycle Construction and Design, Mr. Archibald Sharp on, 146
• Tax and Licence in France, 33
• Cycle Trade, Greater Activity in the, 337
• Results in Schweinfurt of Over-pro¬duction and Depression in, 655
• Cycling Track on a Hotel Roof, 85
• Cyclists in Hamburg, Special Paths for, 639
• Laws and Bye-laws affecting, Pamphlet issued by the Cyclists’ Touriüg Club, 287
• Cylinder Boring Machine, Contract Open, 629
• Ratios for Compound Engines, Mr. G. L. Rockwood on, 164
• Cyprus, Irrigation Works in, 445

D

• DALBY, Prof. W. E., On the Balancing of Engines, 310
• Dales, Mr. J. H., On High-speed Engines, 70
• Dalzell Steel and Ironworks, Record Output in Steel Smelting, 577
• Dam across the Nile, Foundation Stone Laid, 164
• Dangerous Trades of England, The, 390
• Daniel, Mr. B., 634
• Dartmoor Water, Purification of the, 262
• Daudeteau, Captain, Small-bore Repeating Rifle, 517
• Davey, Mr. H., Cornish Engine, Basset Mines, 471, 513, 575, 656
• Davey, Paxman, and Co., Electric Lighting Installation, Johannesburg, 505
• Davidson, Mr. Robert Cope, On Locks and Entrances and Graving Docks, having regard to the Increasing Sizes and Shapes of Vessels, 564
• Davies, Mr. D. H., On the Cost of Municipal Enterprise, 239
• Davies, Mr. John, 504
• Davis and Sons, Report for the Past Year, 200
• Davy Bros., Electric Light Installation at Sheffield, 337
• Dawson, Mr. Philip, On Electric Traction and its Application to Metropolitan Railways, 313
• Deans, Mr., Pneumatophor Rescue Appliance for Mines, 503
• De Beers Company, Cold Storage Plants at the Cape Ports, 376
• Decauville Engineering Works, Fire at the, 85
• Defences, Our Coast, 52, 53
• Defries and Son, Filtration Plant for the Drinking Water on the “ Oceanic,” 86
• "Dekko,"The New Photographic Printing Paper, 387
• Delagoa Bay, Harbour Works, 505, 609
• Demenge Process of Hardening Steel Ingots, 655
• Denmark, Butter Export from, 134
• De Rueett, Mr. Edwin Wm., On Recent Develop¬ments in Cargo Steamers, 567
• Derwent Waters, Fight for the, 624 Water Supply, The, 499
• Destructor, The Horsfall, 260
• Devonport Dockyard, Programme of New Works in, 262
• Dewar, Prof. J., Boiling Point of Liquid Hydrogen it 365
• On Exhausting Vacuum Tubes by k- Means of Liquid Hydrogen, 59
• On the Properties of Liquid Air, 439
• Dexter, Mr. F. G., On the Influence of Carbonic Acid on the Combustion of Coal and Car¬buretted Water Gas, 626
• Diatto System of Electric Traction, 523
• Dieppe, Ivory Carving at, Project of Reviving the Handicraft of, 276
• Disc Fans, Prof. J. H. Kinealy’s Formulae, 187 s,
• Discharge and Re loading of Large Steamers, Mr. W. H. Hunter, 564
• Discount in the Iron Trade, 617
• Diedier, Mr. Enrique, On the Use of Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Gases, 461