The Engineer 1899 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

• ABERNANT Collieries, The, 255, 234, 360
• Abt, Herr A., On Steels suitable for Magnets, 39
• Accident in the Barton Docks of the Manchester Cana), 546
• Boiler Explosion, Pymc re Wine Factory, 495
• Boiler Explosion in Sheffield, 460
• Bridge, Chicago, 243
• Bridge, Chile, 297
• Coal and Sewer Gas Explosion at Burton- on-Trent, 656
• Explosion at the Rochdale Gasworks, 447
• Explosion at St. Helen’s, 501
• Fall of Chalk at Dover, 373
• Fly-wheel at the Stockton Malleable Ironworks, 65, 77
• Landslip at Darjeeling, 544, 545
• Manchester Corporation Electricity Works, 329
• in Mines, 165, 285, 297
• Motor Car, 297
• National Harbour Works, Dover, 546
• Overhead Electric Wires and their Danger, 36
• Traction Engine, 39, 297
• Accumulator, A New, 518
• Acetylene Congress at Nürnberg, 488
• Deterioration of, when kept in its Holder, 271
• Exhibition and Congress at Budapest, 141
• Explosive Properties of, M. Bertbelot, 141
• Gas, 199
• Generator, Messrs. W. Bailey and Co., 226
• for Military Purposes, New use for, 92
• Purification of, Professor F. Ahrens cn, 141
• Purification of, Dr. Ullman’s Process, 65
• Purification of, by Means of Chloride of Lime, 437, 443
• Works, Hawes, 368, 369
• for Railway Carriage Lighting, 452, 645
• Lampblack, Dr. A. Ludwig on, 141
• Adams, Alton D., On Electric Auxiliary Ma¬chinery in the United States Navy, 233
• Prof. H., Presidential Address at the :
• City of London College, 354
• Africa, South, Engineering Notes from, 25, 79,
• 103, 155, 181, 361, 385, 411, 435, 458, 530
• Agnew, Mr. George, 150
• Agricultuial Implements, Abolition of Duty on, by Russia, 546
• in Angora, Turkey, J Stumbling Block to their introduction, 355
• in Turkey, Demand for, 5
• Air Compressor, A Four-stage, 98
• Portable, 98
• Plant, G.P.O. Liverpool, 164
• Air Propellers, Experiments on the Thrust or Lifting Power of, 329
• Air in Pipes, Friction of Compressed, 429, 472
• Air, Raising Water by, 594
• Alabama, New Vein of Coal Discovered, 194
• Allen, Mr. Grant, 434
• Mr. John Prosser, 546
• Alloys and Metals, Tests to Determine Corrosion of Certain, 117
• Allport, Mr. 8. B., 428
• Allsopp and Co., Brewing of Lager Beer by, 473
• Alluvial Deposits in Tasmania, 569
• Almanacs and Diaries, 618, 657
• Aluminium Alloyed with Magnesium, 519
• as a Bearing Metal for Shafting, 569
• Cables, 613
• Cables in the United States, Use of, and Saving in Cost, 323
• Electrical Conductors at Northaller¬ton, 373
• in Incia, 270
• in India, Domestic Utensils of, 5C9
• Romance of, 252
• Tensile Strength of, 213
• Alves, Mr. D. E., Smoke-preventing Furnace, 590
• America, Engineering News from, 50. 76, P8, 152. 202, 226, 251, 331, 357, 132, 158, 530, 606, 651
• America, Notes from, 24, 53, 78, 102, 154, 181, 205, 229, 256, 285, 311, 361, 384, 411, 431, 460, 485, 506, 533, 556, 608, 637, 657
• American Agricultural Machinery and Imple¬ments for France, 623
• Coal Exported to Great Britain, 297
• Commercial Expansion, 601
• Competition, 356, 527, 551
• Competition for a Name for an Elec¬trically-propelled Carriage, 117
• Engineering Exports, Examples of,
• 75
• Enterprise for Brazil, 419
• Iron Developments, 213
• Iron Trade Conditions, 649
• Locomotives—see under Railway Locomotives and Paddle-wheel Steamers, 591
• Machine Tools—set Machine Tools, American and British ; Machine Tools, British and American
• Machine Tools for England, 593, 5f 6
• Machinery Exports, 251
• Minos, Electricity in, 304
• Navy, The Marconi System not adopted by, 645
• Steel Trade, The, 401
• Trade in South Africa, 627
• Ammunition at Bisley, 42, 74
• The Mark IV., 57
• Anaesthetic Effects of the Electric Current. 417
• Anchor Bolts, Holding Power of, Mr. M. M. Wilcox’s Tests, 144
• Anchors and Chains, Testing, 327
• Anderson, Mr. James, 484
• Andros, Greece, Company Formed to Work the Iron and Copper Ore Deposits, 144 Anglesea, Water Scheme for, 154
• Anthracite Coal Trade of Philadelphia, 297
• Anthracite Mines in Ireland, The, 271
• Antwerp Docks, 615
• Appointments and Retirements:
• Allison, Mr. H. T., Retirement and Appoint¬ment, 130
• Birt, Sir Wm., Retirement, 65, 218, 355
• Blackler, Mr. F. W., Appointment, 582
• Brancker, Mr. John, 623
• Button, Mr. P. M., Appointment, 102
• Cleveland, Admiral, bis Retirement and Successors, 284
• Copperthwaite, Mr. H., Retirement, 581
• Cornish, Mr. H. J., 623
• Crawford, Mr. Jas., Appointment, 130
• Cummings, Mr., Appointment, 473
• Gooday, Mr. J. F. S., Appointment, 355
• Hadfield, Mr. R. A., Appointment and Installa¬tion, 153, 255
• Harper, Mr. G. T., Appointment, 546
• Hobson, Mr. Mcses, Appointment, 410
• Hood, Mr. Archibald, Appointment, 24
• Hunter, Mr. Summers, Appointment, 77
• Jones, Mr. J. Cecil, Appointment, 410
• Kirkup, Mr. Philip, Appointment, 102

• Knight, Mr. Robt., Retirement, Candidates for Post, 77
• Loverick, Mr. J., Appointment, 410
• Lewis, Sir W. T., Resignation, 14, 24, 52, 78
• McKechnie, Mr. James, Appointment, 117
• Massa, Signor, Retirement, 243
• Morgan, Mr. A. L , Appointment, 595
• North-Eastern Railway Company’s Appoint¬ments, 284
• Perrin, Mr. Chas., Appointment, 595
• Reynolds, Mr. C. H., Appointment, 51
• Reynolds, Mr., Retirement, Tredegar Collieries, Rontledge, Mr. W. II., Reported Retirement, 102
• Scott, Mr. E. Kilburn, Appointment, 568
• Smith, Mr. J. J., Appointment, 581
• Smith, Mr. J. Law, Appointment, 255
• Spence, Mr. W. L , Appointment, 432
• Swan, Mr. J. G., Appointment, 383
• Turner, Mr. Geo. Hy., Appointment, 473
• Welsh, Mr. John, Retirement, 546
• Appreciation, An, 632
• Arch Principle, Development of the, 341
• Arch, Three-hinged, 536
• Archdale and Co., Messrs. Jas., Electrically- driven Lathe, 224
• Ardsley, Hoyle Mill and Measbrongh Dyke Sewage Disposal, 654
• Ardwick Engineering Company’s Special Engines for Motor Car, Launch, and Yacht Require¬ments, 635
• Ardwick Engineering Company, Vertical Oil Engine, 77
• Area of the Circle, 166, 200, 215
• Armatures, How best to Test the Balance of, 323
• Armour for Battleships and Cruisers, Orders
• Placed by the Government for, 635
• for Russian Ships, Krupp Process, 468
• High Explosive Shell against, 220
• for Japan, 238, 575
• Krupp and Harvey ised, Relative Merits of, Tested by the United States Navy Department, 473
• Sheffield, Firms, 645
• Schneider Hard-faced, 544
• Test at the Indian Head Proving Grounds, 218
• Vaults, Steel, 39
• Armoured Trains, 518
• Armour-protected Troops, 446
• Armoured Treasure Vault, 652
• Army Service Corps, Road Locomotive and Train, 291
• d’Arsonval, M., on the Action of Gases on Rubber Tires, 92
• Artificial Flight, Mr. A. A. Merrill’s Experiments on the best Forms of Curves for Use with Soaring Machines, 65
• Asbestos in Ceylon, 271, 631
• Asbestos and Lignite in Nishni-Novgorod, 271
• Ashbury, Mr. Tnos., Presentation to, 650
• Asphalt Pavements in America, Constituents employed in the Manufacture of, 218
• Aspinall, Mr. T., Oxidation of Organic Matter by Chlorine, 595
• Assiout Barrage, The, 441

Association of America, The Road- masters’ :

• Permanent Way, Long Rails and Mitre-cnt Rail Eads, Committee Re¬port oo, 557
• Work, Modern Develop¬ment of, E. E. Russell Tratman, 491, 529

Association, American Iron and Steel:

• Half-yearly Report, 137

Association, American Railway Master Mechanics’:

• Annual Meeting and Principal Subjects reported on, 65
• Association of Borough and County Engineers:
• Presidential Address, Mr. Wm. Harpur’s, 6
• Borough Sanatorium, Visit to the, 7
• Cardiff-Dowlais Works, Visit to the, 7
• Cardiff, Summer Session, Papers read at, 6
• Electric Tramway Traction, Mr. A. D. Greatorex, 6
• Roath Dock, Visit to the, 7
• Taff Valley Viaduct, Mr. Alf. Pearce on the, 7

Association, British—«« British Association:

Association, British Dairy Farmers’:

• Dairy Show, 1899, 405

Association of Draughtsmen, British:

• Meeting, November 2nd, 430
• Newcastle, Proposal to form a Branch in, 108

Association of Engineers, The Leeds:

• Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Joe A. Tempest, 361
• Visit to the Cleveland Iron and Steel Works 5 of
• Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., 163

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

• Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Hy. Webb, 409
• Election of President and Officers for 1900, 607
• Engineers’ Machine Tools, Mr. A. R. Bellamy,
• Generation and Electrical Distribution of Motive Power, Mr. J. S. ltiwortb, 446, 482
• Programme of Papers to be Read daring the Session, 335
• Steel Castings, Mr. J. E. Fletcher on the Manufacture of, 491
• Wire Ropes and Chains for Lifting and Traction, Relative Merits of, Discussed, 637
• Association of the Institution of Me¬chanical Engineers, Graduates:
• Visit to the Westminster Pumping Station of the London Hydraulic Power Company, 554

Association, Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic:

• Annual Meeting and Dinner and Third Report, 373,393
• No Report to Appear in November, 144
• Report on the Trials with Heavy Vehicles, 618,

Association of Mechanical Engineers;

• Opening Meeting and Financial R9port, 385

Association of Mechanical Engineers Birmingham:

• Combustion and Forced Draught, Mr. R. B, _ Hodgson, 478
• Power Distribution in Mills and Factories, Mr, W, H. Thornbery, 622

Association, National Free Labour;

• Seventh Annual Report, 269

Association, Railway Master Mechanics :

• IS Flanged Tires for Locomotives, Report respit¬ing, 78
• Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, The British:
• Secretaryship, Mr. P. Griffiths Succeeds Mr. W. H. Brothers, 604
• Assouan Dam, The (Supplement, August lltlt, 1899), 1 10, 440, 444
• Assouan Dam, Hospital at the, 266
• Atbara Bridge, The, 140, 143, 194, 218
• Atlas Engineering Company, Double-geared Ver¬tical Miller, 329
• Atlas, New Physical, 318
• Austin, Mr. H., Vertical CrossTarret Lathe, 348, 319, 350
• Australia, West, Coal Prospects, 202
• Gold Export from, 447 Revenue Roturns for, 197
• Australian Copper, 472
• Notes, 22, 76, 308, 358, 431, 530, 606, 654
• Quicksilver, 461
• Austrian Export in Scythes and Sickles, 102
• Automatic Couplers on American Freight Cars,
• 1, 27, 55, 105, 133, 185, 207, 203, 209
• Coup’ings, Royal Commission on, 9, 34,61, 90, 124, 129, 148, 167
• Lock for Luggage Trolleys, 5
• Machine Tools (Supplement, November 17M, 1899, i. xvi.), 516
• Automobile Club, Branch at Manchester, 546
• Competitions. 47
• Meeting at, 95
• Auxiliary Machinery in Snips of War, 522
• Avery, Messrs. W. and T., Fire at their Works, 397
• Avon, Dockisation of the, 85

B

• BACTERIOLOGICAL Sewage Works at Hampton-on-Tbames, 404
• Bacteriological Treatment of Sewage at Birming¬ham, 297
• Bacterial Treatment of Sewage at Crossness, 389
• Bahamas, New Providence, Premiums offered for Designs for Public Market, 297
• Baku Naphtha Company, Central Electric Station for, 144
• Baldwin Locomotives on the Midland—see Rail¬way
• Ball Mill, 281
• Balloons in South Africa, 549
• Baltic and Finnish Ports, The Siberian Railway and the, 268
• Barometer in the British Isles, Diurnal Variations of the, Mr. R. II. Cur . s, 491
• Barr, Professor Archibald, Presidential Address, 580
• Barrhead, Septic Sewage Pari&cation Works at, 30
• Barrow Docks, 404
• Griffin and Iron and Steel Company, Formation of, 655
• Steel Casting Company’s Works, Pur¬chase and Re-opening of, 227
• Water Consumption at, and further Schemes, 373
• B irry to Ilfracombe, Steam Service from, 92
• Barry, Sir J. Wolfe, On the Overcrowding of London Streets, 529
• Bascule Drawbridges, 312
• Basic Slag, Use and Market Price of, 495
• Basset High-pressure Cornish Engine, 18, 47, 74, 93, 201
• Bauxite Ores in New South Wales, Discovery of, 92
• Beams, Problem in the Theory of, 18
• Bedstead Trade and the War, 519
• Beech or “ Myrtle,” Tasmanian, 297
• Belgian Miners' Strike and Foreign Competition resulting from it, 424
• Belgian Tax on Automobiles, 473
• Belgium, Blast Furnaces in Operation, 595
• Belleville Boilers—see Boilers, Water-tube Bells, Mechanism for Ringing the Chime of, 243
• Bell Telephone Company, Now Plant in Ottawa, 92
• Bellamy, Mr. A. R., On Engineers Machine Tools, 577
• Belmont Iron Mines, 271
• Belmont Iron Mines, Ore shipped to Glasgow from, 323
• Bells, Metal Used in Casting of, 546
• Belts, Construction of Woven Leather, 122
• Belt Conveyors, American, 654
• Belt Shifter, Lightning, Burton, Griffiths, and Co. (Supplement, November 17th, 1899, x.)
• Bennio and Sons, Messrs. Jas., New Works, 161
• Beresford, Lord Charles, On the Opening for Mechanical Engineers in China, 542, 547, 553
• Berlin Academy of Sciences, Second Centenary, 645
• Bessemer Converter, Treatment of Copper Mattes in the, 467
• Bessemer Rails, The First Rolled, 424
• Beyer, Peacock, and Co., A Big Shaft Lathe, 303
• Bicycles for Bombay, German, British, and Ameri¬can, 271
• Eight-guinea, 377
• German, Import Duty on, Increased, 243
• Highest-geared, ever constructed, 271
• Postal Service round Grantham, 323

Bills:

• Crystal Palace, 656
• East London Waterworks Company’s Bill Re¬jected, and their Consequent Statement, 65
• Harbour and Dock, 615
• Harrow and Uxbridge Railway, 92
• Irish Railways, Bill thrown out for Amalgama¬tion of Two, 92
• Rating of Machinery, 62
• Birmingham, Scarcity of Water and Restrictions, 65
• Sewage of, Bacteriological Treat¬ment to be tried, 297
• University Scheme, The, 424
• Births and Deaths Registered in England and Wales for the Third Quarter of the Year ending September 30ib, 1899, 473
• Bisley, Ammunition at, 42, 74
• Bituminous Coal and Anthracite Mined in the United States, 271
• Blackpool Gasworks, The, 233
• Promenade, Extension of the, 417
• Black Sex Ports, A Dry Dock to be Constructed in one of the, 595
• Blake, Mr. Henry Wollaston, 5
• Blakeslcy, Mr. J. H., Fireproofing of Floors, 583
• Blast Furnace Gas, Calorific Value of, 323
• Blasting Gelatine in Burma, Regulations Regard¬ing, 473
• Blast Furnaces, Largest Single Owner in the World of, 218
• Monster in Argyllshire Quarries, 144, 519
• Blomfield, Sir Arthur, 447
• Blondlot, M. R., On the Electromotive Force Produced in a Flame by Magnetic Action, 11
• Blue “ Ironware” Pipes, 267
• Board of Conciliation and Arbitraticn for the Manufactured Trade of the North of England, New Works admitted into Membership; Election of Officers, 130
• Brer Warfare, Elements of, 375
• Bolder, Mr. Alfred, 433
• Brilersof the Austro-Hnngarian Cruiser Zenta, 225
• Belleville, for the New Royal Yacht, Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant, and Co.’s Action in Connection with, 297
• Belleville—see Boilers, Water-tube in Calcutta at the Close of 1898, 473 of Certain Recent Cruisers, 71, 73, 83, 99
• Covering, Lawson's Patent, 382
• for the Dowlais Furnace, American, 256
• and Engines in the Transvaal, Increasing Use of, 323
• Explosions, 11, 460, 495, 568, 572, 600
• Explosions, Mr. Henning on, 11
• Explosions and Inspection, 572
• feeding Purposes, Water for, Procured from the Chalk, 11
• Fire-box, Marine, 254
• Flue-turning and Drilling Machine, 91
• Galloway, 555
• Marine, of the Haystack Type, 582
• Morrin, 332
• Niclausse, 292, 307, 357, 546
• Mr. Mark Robinson on, 292, 307
• for U.S. Warships, 546
• Shell Drilling Machine, 137 Testing. The American Code Revised, 11 Tubes, Electro-galvanising, 379 Tube, New, 253
• in Use in Electric Supply Stations of the County of London, 473
• A Warning, 472
• Water-tube, 11, 70, 72, 73, 83, 92, 93, 175, 625
• Mr. W. Allan on the Failure of, 92
• Commodore Melville on, 625 Mr. Goschen on, 92
• in the Navy, 93 J. K. Robinson on, 11
• Mr. A. F. Yarrow on their
• Durability, 70, 72, 73, 83
• Boilermakers’ Union, 472
• Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.’s Works at Middles¬brough, Chinese Ambassador’s Visit to, 555
• Bombay, Electric Lighting, 373, 623
• Renovation of, 183, 368

Books Received :

• American Institute of Electrical Engineers, “Transactions” cf, Vol. xv., 136
• American Shipping, Blue-book of, Established 1S96, 121
• Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical, by J. S. Mackay, 377
• Advance of Knowledge, by W. Sedgwick, 613
• Ajax Loquitur, or the Biography of an Old Locomotive Engine, by R. Weatherburn, 121
• Automobile Club Show, Richmond, Judges
• Reports, Awards, and Results of Official Trials, 523
• Bandages Pneumatiques et la Resistance au Roulement, par Bon do Maurri, 121
• Bicycle, Modern Safety, H. A. Garratt, 613
• Board of Trade Labour Department, Report on Changes in Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour in the United Kingdom in 1898, with Statistical Tables, 301
• Brunnen-Ergiebigkeit, Ac., Anleitung zurBeur- theilung und Bestimmung der, von A. Perenyi, 377
• Canada, Statistical Year-book of, for 1898, 538
• Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc, Guide by E. Whymper, 171
• Chemical Trade Journal of Chemical Manufacturers, Merchants, Agents, Ac., in Great Britain and Ireland, 418
• Chimique Qualitative, Analyse, par M. E Pozzi-Escot, 418
• Chimney Design and Theory: Book for Engi¬neers and Architects, by William Wallace Christie, 523
• Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Pocket-book of Useful Formula) and Memoranda for, by Sir G. L. Molesworth and H. B. Molesworth, 171
• Contents, Subject Index in General and Periodi¬cal Literature, Compiled by A. Colgroave,
• Dams, Design and Construction of, by Edward Wegmann, 347
• Doutscher Ingénieurs in Nürnberg, Festschrift zur Hauptversammlung des Vereines, 40, 187
• Directory (Revised in July, 1899), with Regu¬lations for Establishing and Conducting Science and Art Schools and Classes, 247
• Distances from Port to Port, Tables of, C. H. Bailey’s, 587
• Dyes, Stains, Inks, Varnishes, Polishes, Ac., How to Make and Use them, by T. Bolas, 613
• Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, Calendar, 301
• Egyptian Irrigation, by W. Willcocks, 136
• Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting, Four Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institute, by J. A. Fleming, 613
• Electric Motive Power, Transmission and Dis¬tribution of, by Continuous and Alternate Currents, with a Section on the Applications of Electricity to Mining Work, by A. T. Snell, 171
• Electric Wiring, Fittings, Switches, and Lamps, by W. Perren-Maycock, 377