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 Sea 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
• Electricitüts, Werk der Stadt Warschau, Pro¬ject für das, von W. II. Lindley, 247
• l’Electricité Levins sur, Professtbi h l'Université de Lifcge, par Eric Gérard, 538
• Electricity Supply, Introduction to the Study of Central Stations, by Albert Gay and C. H. Yeaman, 587
• EicyclopéJie dos Aides-Mémoires: Analyse Microchimique et Spectroscopiqne, par M. E. Pozzi-Escot, 587
• Eacyclopédie Scientifiquo des Aides Mi-moire : Analyses Electroliques, Par Ad. Minet, 171
• Engineering and Electric Traction Pocket-book, by Philip Dawson, 247
• “ Express ” Hundredweights and Pounds Rec¬koner, by J. G. Inglis, 136
• Eye Accidents occurring in Trades, On the Pre¬vention of, Dr. Simeon Snell, 613
• Fireproofing of Steel Buildings, by J, K. Freitog, 523
• Flussbefestigungon, Projeotirung nnd Veraus-sehlagnng von, von R. Williams, 187
• Geometry, Practical Plane and Solid, for Ad¬vanced Students, by J. Garrison and G. A. Baxendall, 418
• Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical Calen¬dar for 1899-90, 171
• Gold-milling, Hand-book of, Hy. Louis, 121 ,
• Graphic Statics, Exercises in, with Examples of its Application to Practical Designing of Constructional Ironwork, by G. F. Charnock, 523
• Great Eastern Railway Company’s Tourist Guide to the Continent, Ed. Percy Lindley, 121
• Heat for Advanced Students, by Edwin Edser, 418
• Heat and Heat Engines : Study of the Princi¬ples underlying the Mechanical Engineering of a Power Plant, by F. R. Hutton, 347
• Highway Cases, Handbook of, Noted in the “ Surveyor and Municipal and County Engi¬neer,” by J. B. Reignier Condor, 613
• Huiles Essentielles, Essais des, par H. Labbé, 347
• Institution of Civil Engineers, Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the, Vol. cxxxvii., Session 1898-99, Part III., 301
• Institution of Naval Architects, "Transactions” of the, Vol. xlL, Edited by G. Holmes, 418
• Kelvin, Lord, Professor of Natural Philosophy 1 in the University of Glasgow, 1846—1899, by Geo. F. Fitzgerald, 613
• Kinetic Theory of Gases, Elementary Treatise with Mathematical Appendices, by Dr. O. M. Meye-, 538
• Latimer Collection of Antiquities from Porto , Rico in the National Museum and the Guesde Collection of Antiquities in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, West Indies, by Otis T. Mason, 377
• Lawyer, Every Man's Own, Handy Book of the Principles of Law and E juity, by A Barrister, 613
• Lean’s Royal Navy List, No. 87, July, 1899, 32
• Liqueurs, Traité de la Fabrication des, par P. Duplais ainé, 538
• Literature, Contents, Subject Index to General and Periodical, A. Cotgreave, 121, 347
• L'verpool Engineering Society, "Transactions” cf the, Vol. xx., 347
• Locomotive, La Machine, par Edouard Sauvage, 32
• " London Letter ” War Directory, The, 538
• London University, Guide for the Year 1899-1900, 377
• Maas Systems, Die Unitat des Absoluten, in Bezug auf Magnetische und Elektrische Grossen, von Franz Kerntler, 301
• Machine Design, Problems in, by Chas. H. Innes, 377
• Magnetism and Electricity for Beginners, by H. E. Hadley, 347
• Manchester, City of, Rivers’Dopertment Experts Report on Treatment of Manchester Sewage, 538
• Masonry Construction, Treatise on, by Ira O. Baker, 523
• Mathematics, Elementary Practical, by Frank Castle, 817
• Mathematics, Elementary Treatise on Practical, by J. Graham, 187
• Mechanical Movements, Powers, Devices, &c., Used in Constructive and Operative Machinery, and the Mechanical Arts, by G. D. Hiscox, 136
• "Mechanical World,” Pocket Diary and Year¬book for 1900, 538
• Metallurgy of Lead and Silver, by H. F. Collins, Part I., Lead, 538
• Mine Drainage, by Stephen Michell, 247
• Motenrs A Explosion, Etude h l’Usage des Constructeurs et Conducteurs d’Automobiles, George Moreau, 613
• Northampton Institute, City Polytechnic, Announcements for the Sossion 1899-1900, 347
• Optics, Hand-book of, for Students of Ophthal¬mology, by Wm. Norwood Suter, 418
• Over Pressure, by S. de Brath and F. Beatty, 347
• Patent Acts, Compulsory Licences under the, J. W. Gordon, 121
• Physics, Elements of, for Use in High Schools. Hy. Crew, 418
• Physics, Text-book of, by W. Watson, 418
• Picture Frames by Novel Methods, by C. G. Leland and T. Bolas, 613
• Portuguese Nyansaland: Account of the Discovery of Native Population, Agricultural and Mineral Resources, &c., W. Basil Wors¬fold, 523
• Professions for Boys, and How to Enter Them, by M. L. Perchell and J. J. Nolan, 171
• Railway Almanac, 1900, 613
• Railway Diary and Officials’ Directory, 1900, 613
• Railway Officials, Universal Directory of, S. Richardson Blundstone, 121
• Roads and Streets, Construction of, with Historical Sketch of the Development of the Art of Road-making, by W. H. Maxwell, 418
• Royal Agricultural Society of England, “ Journal ” of the, Vol, x., Part II., 32
• Royal Agricultural Society of England, “Journal ” of the, Vol. x., Part III , No. 39, 347
• Royal Navy List Diary and Naval Hand-book for 1900, 633
• Royal Navy List, Lein’s, No. 83, 377
• Royal United Service Institution, “Journal ” of the, Vol. xliii., No. 261, 687
• Surveying and Geodesy, Elements of Precise, by Mansfield Merriman, 347
• Surveying, Treatise on, Compiled by R. E. Middleton and Ombert Chadwick, 623
• Technological Examinations, Programme of, Examinations Department, Exhibition-read, London, 247
• Telegraphie sans Fils, par André Broca, 418
• Thallium, Index to the Literatare of, 1861-1826, by Martha Doan, 377
• Timber Measuring and Valuing, Principles and Practice of, by Tom Bright, 301
• “Timber Trades Journal,” List of Shipping Markson Deals, Battens, Boards, Timbers, &c., Exported from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Germany, Canada, United States, with English and French Classifications, 347
• Valley of Zermatt and the Matterhorn, Guide by Edward Whymper, 136
• Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia, Report to the Hon. S. H. Ashridge, Mayor of Philadelphia, on the Extension and Im¬provement of the, by R. Hering, 418
• Wolverhampton Sewage Works, by E. Barring¬ton, 171
• Wood Carving for Beginners, the Useful Arts and Handcrafts Series, No. 2, 638
• Woodwork Decorated, by Carving, Colouring, and Wire Inlaying, Chas. G. Leland, 613
• Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, Case Law ef the, to Supplement Part III. of Accidents to Workmen, R. M. Minton-Denhouse, 623
• Boring Machine, American Vertical Turret, 593
• Boring Machine, Craven Bros., Limited, 651
• Boring Machine, Horizontal, American, 593. 596
• Boring and Milling Machine, Niles Tool Works November 17th, 1899, viii.
• Boring and Turning Mill, American, 593, 596
• Borough and County Engineers at Cardiff, 6
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mineral Statistics of 355
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trade of, 373
• Boston Harbour, 372
• Bonld, Mr. W. S., Railway Signalling System Specially Suitable for Fog Signalling, 319
• Bowser, Mr. Howard, 275
• Boys, Mr. Chas. V., On Fluids in Motion and at Rest, 492
• Bradford Water Supply and the Drought, 167, 194, 218
• Bradley Hammer, Improved, 629
• Bradley Iron, Steel, and Tin-plate Works, Sale of the, 23
• Brakes, Air, for Tramcars, 305
• Brake Horse-power of Motor Cars, 357
• Brake for Luggage Trolleys, Automatic, 5
• Brakes, Railway—see Railway
• Bramwell, Sir F., On the Pneumatic Transmission of Energy, 176, 177
• Brand, M., 546
• Brass Trades of Birmingham, Demands of Opera¬tives in the, 569
• Brazil, Proposed Water-driven Electric Plant, 355
• Brewing of Lager Beer by Allsopp and Co., 473
• Breezs, Utilisation of, in the Cologne Gas¬works, 65
• Briansk Company, The Thomas-Gilchrist Basic Process adopted by, 194

Bridges:

• Atbara, 140, 143, 194, 218
• Braunstone Gate, Great Central Railway, 211
• Burma, Gokteik Gorge, 495
• Ceylon, Mahaveill River, Renewal of (Supple¬ment September lsf, 1899), 220
• Chicago River, Shifting of, 447
• Chicago, Scherzer Bascule, 519
• Chinese Railway, Eighteen Steel, Pctenixville Works, 144
• Connecticut, Cantilever, 357
• Diina, Pontoon carried away by Ice, 243
• Diina, Projected, a Permanent, 243
• Grenier, Dimensions of, 424
• Indian Foot, 578
• New Brunswick, St. John River, 276, 277
• New York Suspension, Wire and Cables for 627
• Niagara Suspension, 144
• Northwich, Operated Electrically, 519
• Pennsylvanian Railway, Renewal, 167
• South Indian Railway Extension, 167
• South Wales Saspension Foot, 546
• Sunderland, 495
• Thames, the New, 221
• Transvaal, Prompt Despatch of, by John Lysaght and Co., 473
• Tyne, Proposed, 280
• Walney Railway, 355
• Wear, Proposed, 243
• Zambesi, Proposed, 355
• Accident at Chicago, 243
• Bascule Draw, 342
• Building Interests in America, Consolidation of, 432
• Erection, American, 276, 277
• Iron Railway, Protection of, in France and Austria, from Fames of Locomotives, 323
• for Light Railways, Mr. L. H. Rugg on, 568
• Long Plate Girder, 494
• Removals, American, 334
• Testing Iron and Steel, 67
• Bright’s Quicksilver Fountain, 79
• Brighton, Sea Defence Works, 297
• Brightside Foundry and Engineering Company, Limited, Formation of the, 283
• Brindley’s Hydraulic Working Valve, 281
• Bristol Doeks Development, 360, 379, 400
• British and American Machine Tools. 414. 438 537, 559, 639

British Association:

• Presidential Address, Sir Michael Foster, £66
• Programme of Papers to be Read at Dover, 242
• Air Propellers, Experiments on the Thrust or Lifting Power of, Mr. W. G. Walker, 329
• Alloys of Iron, Electric Conductivity and Magnetic Properties of Various, Prof. W. F. Barrett and Mr. W. Brown, 319
• Alloys, Thermo-electric Properties of Some Iron, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 316
• Atomic Weights, Proposed International Com¬mittee on, 346
• Atoms, Existence of Masses Smaller than, Prof. J. J. Thomson's Research on, 346
• Chemistry, Section B, Communications in, Pre¬dent, Dr. H. T. Brown, 346
• Coast Erosion, Mr. G. Dowker and Mr. W. Whitaker on, 346
• Coal in Kent, Mr. R. Etheridge and Prof. B. Dawkins on, 346
• Coal in the Midland Counties under the Red Rocks. Mr. W. Gibson, 346
• Dover Harbour Works, Messrs. Matthews and Coode, 292
• Dymchurch Wall and Reclamation of Romney Marsh, Mr. Edw. Caso (Referred to p. 594), 407 ,
• Electric Current, Centenary of the, Prof. Fleming, 299
• Electrical Machinery on Board Ship, Mr. A. Siemens, 299, 305, 319
• Electro-Metallurgy to Mechanical Engineering, Applications of, Mr. S. Cowper-Coles, 319
• Geology, Section C, Communications in, Presi¬dent, Sir A. Geikie, 346
• Gravity Balance, Prof. Threlfall describes a, 346
• Lighthouses of the English Channel, Our, Mr. Jas. Kenwards, 319
• Mathematical and Physical Science, Section A, Communications io, President, Prof. J. H. Poynton, 346
• Mechanical Section, Address by Sir Wm. White, President of the, 277, 301
• Meteorites, Chondritic, Prof. A. Renard on the Origin of, 346
• Niclausse Steam Boiler, Mr. Mark Robinson, 292, 307
• Non-intlammable Wood and its Use in War¬ships, Mr. E. Marshall, 292
• Pliocene Deposits of the East of England, Mr. F. W. Harmer on, 347
• Power Generation, Comparative Cost by Steam Engine, Water Turbine, and Gas Engine, Mr. J. B. C. Kearshaw, 322
• Poynting, Prof. J. H., Address by, 325, 332
• Railway Signalling System specially suitable for Fog Signalling, Mr. W. S. Bould, 319
• Screw Gauges, The Association’s, 300, 305, 357, 372, 429
• Sigmoidal Curves, Mrs. Gordon on, 347
• Steam Navigation, Sir Wm. White on the Pro¬gress of, 277, 301
• Steamers, Fast Cross-Channel, The Hon. C. A. Parsons, 292
• Suez Canal to the Present Time, Engineering Works of the, Sir Chas. Hartley, 292
• Thermometers, Discussion, 346
• Torpedoes below Water, Discharge of, Captain Lloyd, 292
• Tunnel under tbo Straits of Dover, Prof. B. Dawkins on the Geological Conditions of a, 346
• Water and Sewage Examination Results, Re¬port by Committee of Section B, 319
• Water, Specific Heat of, Prof. II. F. Callender Mr. H. T. Barnes, 346
• Yermak, Trial Trip of the Ice-breaker, Admiral Makarolf on, 347
• British Association of Draughtsmen:
• Rapid Progress made by, 355
• British Fire Prevention Committee withdraw from participation in the Paris Exhibition, 569
• Guns for Turkey, 47
• Patents, 449
• Workmen and the Paris Exhibition, 424
• Bromilow, Mr. John, Electro-magnetic Separator, 550
• Brush, Deacon’s Pipe, 551
• Buckton and Co , Limited, Joshna, Electrically- driven Planing Machine, 391, 392
• Building Materials, Testing, International Con¬gress, 569, 623
• Bunsen Flame, Temperature of the, 144
• Bunsen, Professor, 165
• Buoys, Illuminated, Mr. J. R Wigham on, 38
• Buoy, The Wigham’s, in Portsmouth Harbour, 355
• Burges-Short, Major Geo., 447
• Burrator Reservoir, Outlet Valves at, 112
• Burton, Mr. Wm. Kinninmond, 634
• Buttons from Milk, Manufacture of, 546

C

• CABLES, Aluminium, 613
• French, Projected, 627
• Rope, D. H. and G. Haggie, 424
• St. Helena and Cape Town, 569
• Survey, Trans-Pacific, 546
• Testing, 538
• Wire and, for New York Suspension Bridge, 627
• Caird, Mr. John, on the Educational Needs of Engineering, 457
• Caisson, Launch of a, 223
• Caisson, New Form of, L. Astarchoff’s, 144
• Calcium Carbide, Cost of, 611
• Carbide, Electrical Energy Required to Produce a Ton of, 243
• Carbide Factory, Norway, 63
• Calcutta Filtered Water Supply, 645
• Calcutta, New Streets to be Constructed, 271
• Caledonian and Crinan Canals, 235
• Calendar, A Perpetual, 495
• California, Coke Imported into, 271
• California, Water-power and Electric Trans¬mission Plants in, 290
• Camborne Mining School, Cornwall, 114
• Canada, Canal System of, 437
• Coal Areas of, 569
• 1898, Coal Produced in, 218
• Engineers and, 550
• Hardware Trade in, 595
• Canadian Government, Telegraph Lino to tLe Yukon Goldfields, 167
• Canadian Iron and Steel Developments, 375

Canals:

• Canals, American, 254
• Automatic Guard Gate for, 39
• Bank, Fai'ure of, 294, 295
• Caledonian and Crinan, 235
• Canada, 437
• The Dortmund-Ems, 342, 343, 492
• Florida, Scheme for, 447
• Footbridge, 578
• German, 235
• Haulage, The Thwaite-Cawley System of Electric, 243
• Manchester Ship, 51,144, 235, 559
• Market Weighton, 235
• Marssilles to the Rhone, 232
• Mechanical Traction on, 316
• North Sea and Baltic, Vessels that Used it in One Month, and Dues Collected, 595
• Panama, Suggested Tidal, 495, 576
• Soulanges, 473
• of the Two Seas Scheme, 623
• Yorkshire J auction, 404
• Cane Sugar Industry, New Plant for tho, 620
• Cape Colony, Employment in, 11
• Cape Colony, Railway Extension Schemes, 361
• Capa of Good Hope, Penny Postage for the. 218
• Carbide, Cost of Production by Steam and Water Power Compared, 373
• Carbide Manufactories in France, 421
• Cardiff Docks, 404
• Cardiff, Municipalisation of the Gasworks, 421
• Cardiff Water Supply, Mr. Priestley on the, 6
• Carlsborg Viaduct, Denmark, 31, 44
• Carnegie, Mr. A., Christmas Gift to Dunfermline, 645
• Carnegie, Mr., Presentsd with the Freedom of Dumfries, 397
• Carnegie Company, Mr. Frick Resigns Official Connection with, 595
• Carnegie Steel Works, 226
• Carnegie Thin Krupp Armour for Russia, 395, 396
• Carpenter, Prof. R. C., On Fuel Economy of Engines in Electric Power Stations, 435 Carrier Pigeons Employed by the Hamburg-American Line, 144
• Carthagena, Iron Export from, 11
• Case, Mr. Edward, 319
• Case, Mr. E., Dymchurch Wall and Reclamation of Romney Marsh, 407, 594
• Caspian Sea, Taking Steamers by Inland Route to the, 302
• Cast Iron, Standard Tests of, 202
• Casting of Iron Pipes and Columns, Vertical,
• Direktor Pusch on, 397 Castings, Large and Difficult, 57
• Casting, A Record, Mort's Dock and Engineering Company, Sydney, 308
• Castner, Mr. H. Y., 407

Catalogues:

• Alldays and Onions, Improved Fans, 380
• Alley and McLellan, Description of their Esta¬blishment on the Clyde, 396
• American Pipe and Foundry Company, Cast Iron Plates, 100
• Andrews and Co., Limited, J. D. F., Concen- I trie Wiring, 257
• Atkinson, LI. B. and C. W., Commercial Laboratories, 25
• Baldwin Locomotive Works, Record of Recent Construction, No. 15, The Wootten Boiler, and Mr. S. M. Vauclain’s Paper, 396
• Bayley’s Limited, Steam Motor Vans, 613
• Beardshaw and Son, Limited, Steel Tools, 257
• Belfast Ropework Company, Limited, their Works, 257
• Belcher Smoke Preventer Company, 257
• Blackstone and Co., Oil and Gas Engines, 100
• Boby, Robert, Limited, Grain, Malt, and Seed¬ cleaning Machinery, 25, 532
• British Electric Transformer Manufacturing Company, Limited, Electric Transformers, 532
• British Thomson-Houston Company, The O. K. Ampère Hour Meter, 613
• British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, Enclosed Arc Lamp, 380
• British Th-.mson-Houston Company, Generators, 311
• British Thamson-Houston Company, Limited, Motors, Type M.P., 428
• British Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur¬ing Company, Limited, Circular Motors, Generators, &c. &o., 613
• Buck and Hickman, The, 1900 Tools and Machinery Catalogue, 613
• Bullivant and Co., Wire Ropeways, 25
• Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company, Direct Current Multi-polar Motors, 428
• Bullo:k Electric Manufacturing Company, Electric Driving, 131
• Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company, Electric Power System for Newspaper Presses, with the “ Teaser ” Method of Control, 396
• Callender and Co., G. M., Pure Bitumen Sheet¬ing, 613
• Clonbrock Steam Boiler Company, Morrin Climax Vertical Water-tube Boiler, 100
• Deighton’s Patent Flue and Tube Company, The Deighton Furnace, 504
• Denison and Son, Samuel, Weighing Machines and Weighbridges, 396
• Eigenwerk Wiilfel, Wiilfel Hannover, Friction Couplings, Hill’s Patent, 504
• Emerson Manufacturing Company, F. W., “Drafting Room ” Furniture, 257
• Estler Brothers, Mirrors, Lenses, Ships’ Lan¬terns, &c., 532
• Explosives Company, Limited, The New, Moulding Gun Cotton, 131
• Feiten and Guilleaume, Wire Cables, 50
• Grice and Sons, Limited, William, Birmingham Gas Engine, 380
• Griffin and Sons, Limited, John J., Pure Cbemica's, Reagents, Minerals, &c., 331
• Harper, Louis, Steel Ropes Suspension Bridges, 613
• Harvey and Co , Julius, Motor Vehicles, 331
• Henderson, John M., Cableways, Htisting and Conveying Devices, 100
• Holmes and Co., J. IL, Lundell Motors, 608
• Hudswell, Clarke, and Co., Pulleys, Shafting, Hangers, &c., 532
• Hunt and Co., Limited, R., Shafting, Cast Iron Pulleys, &c., 504
• Jenkins and Co., Limited, W. J., Fans, 228
• Jessop and Appleby Bros., Cranes and Hoist¬ing Machinery, 380
• Kerr and Co., Limited, Dick, Solenoid Blow-out Controllers for Electric Tramway Traction. 228
• Langdon-Davies Electric Motor Car Company, C Limited, 601
• Lawton and Parker, Modern Gas Engines, 428
• Linde British Refrigerating Company, Refrige¬ration and Ice-making, 50
• London Anto-car Company, Limited, Motors, Component Parts, &c., 657
• “ Long-arm” System Company, Water-tight Doors and Hatches, 311
• Mason, Scott, and Co., Limited, Wilson’s Auto¬matic Self-cleansing Filter, 100
• Mather and Platt, Limited, Engines, 380
• Motor Manufacturing Company, Limited, Motor Carriages, Vans, Cycles, 608
• Mather and Platt, Limited, Pocket Catalogue of Electrical Plant, Water Softening Appara¬tus, and Turbines, 331
• Nell, Fred., Smith Vaile Pumping Machinery, Condensers, Compressors, &c , 428
• Newbold and Co., Walter, Machine Tools, 532
• Nurse and Co., C., Engineers’ and Joiners Tools and Machinery, 504
• Parker, Limited, Thos., Bootle Corporation Electricity Supply Works, and Parker’s Works at Wolverhampton, 608
• Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company, Limited, Productions in Iron and Steel, 100
• Polland and Co., “Bees” Pocket Volt and Amphre Meter, 532
• Rooper and Harris, Emery Wheels and Emery Grinding Machinery, 100
• Royle, John J., Steam Users, 380
• Sellers and Co., Wm., Machine Tools, 131
• Shelby Steel Tube Company, Steel Boiler Tub¬ing, 25
• Sheridan, F. W. and C. B., Whitlock Printing Machines, 504
• Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, Engines, 228
• Spencer, Limited, John, Iron and Steel Tubes p and Fittings, 311
• Thorn and Iloddle, Acetylene Gas Generators and Appliances for Lighting, 396
• Trusty Engine Works, Limited, Gas and Oil Engines, 380
• Turner, E. R. and F., Corliss Gear, Turner-Pegg Gear, 657
• Unbreakable Pulley and Mill Gearing Company, Limited, Friction Clutch Countershafts, 532 p
• United Asbestos Company, Limited, Asbestos Goods, 613
• Walker Bros., Views of their Works at Wigan, 131
• Webster and Bennett, Machine Tools, 428
• Wellington, F. F., Motor Car Register and Advertiser, 228
• Whitmore and Binyon, Limited, Rice Milling, 50
• Whittaker and Co., Limited, Brick and Tile Making Machinery, 532
• Wolseley Sheep-shearing Machine Company, Limited, Machine Tools, 657
• Cement, Foreign, 322
• Gauging with Salt Water, Bad Practice, 424
• Hydraulic, in the United States, 331 Works and the Alkali Act, 137
• Ceylon, Plumbago Industry in, 271
• Ceylon, Survey of Land in, 167
• Chains and Anchors, Testing, 327
• Champness, Mr., on the Launch of a Battleship, 88, 96
• Cheap Fuels, their Influence on the Cost of Electrical Energy, 628
• Chemical Engineers, 650
• Chemical Manufacturing Firms, Amalgamation of two Great, 569
• Chicago Postal Service, Motor Vehicles for, 516
• Chicago Water Supply, 144, 397, 358
• Chimney Shaft, Steel, lined with Brick, London United Tramways Company’s Power House, 397
• China, Coal in, 271
• China, Openings for Mechanical Engineers in, 542, 547, 553, 577
• Chinese Ambassador at Sheffield, 495, 555 <
• Chlorine, Oxidation of Organic Matter by, 595
• Christie, Mr. Jas , Concrete described by, 65
• Christmas Eve Festival given by Mr. and Mrs. Jardine, 652
• Christmas Letters passing through Manchester, 1898, 1899, 645
• Chromo Leather Industry, A German, 74
• Chucks, Magnetic, 218
• Cincinnati, Recommendation to place all Electric Wires Underground, 191
• City of London College, 354
• City Subway, The New, 546
• Clayton and Shutt’.eworth, Road Locomotive, 419
• Cleansing of Large Cities, The, 276
• Cleveland Iron and Steel Works, Visit to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.’s, 163
• Cleverly, Mr. W. B., Works Management, Methods of Quick Production of Repetition Work, 604
• Clifford, Mr. Charles, Express Passenger Engine, a Great. Northern Railway of Ireland, 242, 244
• Clowes, Dr., On the Treatment of Raw Sewage, 346
• Club Rooms, Ward, 329
• Clydebank Company, Purchase of the, 323
• Clyde Riverside Quay Walls, 549

Coal:

• Coal, 401
• African, Gold in, 595
• Alabama, New Vein of, 194
• American, Exported to Great Britain, 297
• British Navy, Consumption of, 168, 215
• Canada, 218, 569
• at Cardiff, Price of, 495
• in China, 271
• Contracts with Merchants, New Clause for Regulating Prices on, 153
• Cutting Machine in the United States, 357
• English, for a Russian Railway, 373
• Field in Cape Colony, Immense, 243
• Field in South Yorkshire, 161, 512
• in Germany, No import Duty on, 519
• to Hull, Entry of, this and preceding Years, 645
• Imported into London, 1898, 424, 473
• Imported into the Rio Grande de Sub District, 1898, 218
• Imported into San Francisco, 271
• Question in Time of War, most Import¬ant for the Russian Navy, 144
• Coal in India, 447, 645 in Kent, 569
• Kent, Mr. R. Etheridge and Professor P. Dawkins on, 346
• Locomotive, 599
• Merchants and the New Contract Clause, 23
• Midland Counties, under the Red Rocks of the, 346
• Mines of Belgium, Annual Report, 373
• Natal, June Output, 289
• New South Wales, 473, 606
• Nova Scotia, 569
• in Philadelphia, Outcry against the use of Bituminous, 373
• Pits, Returns made to the Board of Trade, 243
• Prospects, Western Australian, 202
• Spontaneous Combustion of, United States Admiralty’s Experiments, 65
• Swedish, for Steam Raising on the Odin, 569
• Trade, The, 400
• Friction in South Wales, 119, 246
• in Japan, The, 282
• Outlook in the, 427
• Reconciliation, 410, 629
• The Spanish, 117
• Wages, 120
• Transvaal, Centres and Output, 424. 417
• United Kingdom, Consumpton in 1898, 92
• Output of, 1899, 447, 645
• Vistula Basin, 473
• Welsh Steam, for the Navy, 519
• Coast Defence, 219
• Erosion, Mr. G. Dowker and Mr. W. Whitaker on, 346
• Cobham, Electric Light for, 194
• Cockett Tunnel, The, 360
• Coke Conveyor, Hot, 177
• Dust into Briquettes, Conversion of, 424
• Imported into California, 271
• Output, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, 373
• Ovens, The Huessener, Adopted in Great Britain, 284
• in the Nord and Pas de Calais De¬partment of France, 447
• Simon Carve’», 163
• Cold Weather and Fire Outbreaks, 619
• Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Engines for the
• Sheffield Electric Tramways (Supplement October 27th, 1899), 416
• Colliers and the Miners’ Federation, 256
• Colliery Disputes in South Wales, 246
• Explosion, Japan, 152
• in Lincolnshire, Proposed New, 131
• Colomb, Admiral (with Portrait), 403
• Colt Machine Gun, The, 91
• Combustion and Forced Draught, Mr. R. E. Hodgson, 478
• Companies, New, 255, 256, 557
• Compressed Air, Novel Application of, 11
• Compressor, Air, Creston Mines, Colorado, 320
• Conciliation Board, Re-establishment of, Agreed to by the Durham Colliers, 410
• Mr. Waterhouse’s Summary Return to the, 101
• Condensers, Efficiency of Surface, 47
• Condenser, New Form of, 323
• Contracts, Importance of Speed in Fulfilling, 473

Contracts:

• Bulgarian State Railways, 175
• London County Council, 14
• London County Council and Engineering, 3
• Norwegian State Railways, 380
• Brake Vans for, 18
• Probably the Largest ever made, 65
• Rails and Fish-plates for Glasgow, 490
• for Manchester Tramways, 526
• Yorkshire Coalowners and the Railway Loco¬motive, 15
• Concrete of Remarkable Strength, A, 65
• Conveyor, Hot Coke, Ash, and Clinker, 177
• Coolgardie Reservoir, The, 654
• Water Supply, Piping and Plates for, 308
• Cooper’s Hill College, 191
• Copper, Australian, 472
• Conductors, Committee on, 629
• Market, Interesting Incident of the Pre¬sent State of the, 144
• Mattes in the Bessemer Converter, Treat¬ment of, Mr. James Douglas, 467
• Output and Consumption in the Present Century, 623
• Output this Century from Mines in the United Kingdom, 495
• Production, United States, 1898, 218
• and Tin, 94
• Corliss Gear, 149, 215
• Cornish Engines, High-pressure, 18, 47, 74, 93, i 149,201
• Cornish Engine and the Willans Engine, The, 116
• Corrosion of Certain Alloys and Metals, Tests to Determine, 117
• Costs of Steamers, Fluctuating Values in the, 645
• Cotton Mills, Madras, 271
• Cottrell, H. E. P., Incandescent Lamp and Trans¬former Construction in America, 364, 387
• Coulthard's Triple-expansion, 328
• Cowper-Coles, Mr. S., On the Application of Electro-Metallurgy to Mechanical Engineering, 319
• Cowper-Coles, Mr. S., Electrolytic Method of Sharpening Files, 490
• Cramp, Mr. Jacob C., 397
• Crandall, Mr. C. L., On Electric Power from Windmills, 546
• Crane, Cantilever, at Swan and Hunter’s Yard, Wallsend, 124
• Crane, Hydraulic Jib, 264, 265
• Creusot, Cost of the Strike, 373
• Crewe, Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to 190
• Cripps, Mr. E. W., 623
• Crompton, Mr. R. E., On the Influence of Cheap Fuels on the Cost of Electrical Energy, 628
• Crompton, Sam, Birthplace of, presented to the Mayor of Bolton, 645
• Crossley Brothers, Limited, Oil and Gas, 335
• Crossley Brothers, Pumping Machinery, Lime-house Dry Dock, 216
• Crossness, Bacterial Treatment of Crude Sewage 1 at, 389
• Crowley and Duxbury, Wood-working Tool, 433
• Crystal Palace Company’s Bill, 656
• Crystal Palace, New Roof at the, 469
• Cudwortb, Mr. Jas. Ianson, 479
• Cunliffe and Croom, Limited, Duplex Milling Machine, 33, 35
• Curtis, Mr. R. H., On the Diurnal Variations of the Barometer in the British Isles, 491
• Customs Union between Holland and Germany, A, 347
• Cutlers’ Feast, The 276th, 459, 469
• Cyanide Patents in Australasia, Litigation over, 232
• in Victoria for Gold Recovery to Pay Royalty, Users of, 22
• Works, Output, Lancaster, W. Mine, South Africa, 297
• Cycles, Applications for Letters Patent for Inven¬tions Connected with, 271
• Cycles, German v. English at Odessa, 595
• Cycle Shows to be held in 1899, 302
• Cycleway, An Elevated, California, 11
• Cyclists, Bye-law Pleasing to, 645
• and the Railways, A Deputation headed by Mr. H. Gladstone, 473

D

• DAIRY Factory in Natal, The First, 458
• Show, 1899, 405
• Dam, The Assouan, 140 (Supplement, Augustllth, 1899), 260, 410, 414
• The Potomac, 243
• on the River Niagara, Proposed, 555
• Movable, 306
• Stability of Low Masonry, 576
• Dangerous Trades, 262, 615
• Danish Viaducts, 41
• Dantzig, Rumoured Erection of Steel Foundry and Rolling Mills near, 323
• Darby Land Digger, 565
• Darjeeling, Landslip at, 544, 545
• Darlington Railway Plant and Foundry Company, Limited, Formation of, 255
• Darwen, Electricity Works at, 243
• Davey, Paxman, and Co., Air Compressor Plant,
• General Post-office, Liverpool, 161
• Davies, Mr. Thomas Goorge, 180
• Davies, Mr. J., On tho North Sydney Sewerage Scheme, 633
• Deacon’s Pipe Brush, 551
• Dean, Smith, and Grace, Heavy Shafting Lathe, 74
• De Laval Steam Turbine Motor for Running a Ventilating Plant, 243
• Delaware, Deepening of the, and Estimated Cost, 323, 397
• Denmark, Government Proposals for Steam
• Ferries, Telegraph Cable, and Railway Bridge across the Belt, 65
• Denton, Prof. J. E., On a System of Exhaust Steam Heating Proposed by the Narragansett Electric Lighting Company, 397
• Derrick, Travelling, Maryland Steel Company, Derwent Water Scheme, The, 519
• Devon Great Consols Mine, 113
• Dewey, Admiral, Electrical Illuminations in Honour of, 397
• Diamond Match Company, Limited, Works of the, 8, 9, 12, 36, 37
• Diamond Trade, The, 656
• Dickinson, Mr. Joseph, On Timbering of Mines, 505
• Discounts, Iron Trade, 11, 15, 23, 69
• Discount Question, The Birmingham Ironmasters and the, 11, 15
• Dnieper, Dredging Operations on the, 569

Docks:

• Antwerp, 59, 569, 615
• Archangel, Dry Deck, 473
• Avon, Dcckisation of the, 85
• Baltimore, Dry, 213
• Barrow, 397, 404
• Barry Dry Dock, 556
• Bills, Harbour and Dock, 615
• Black Sea Ports, Proposed Construction of Dry,
• in one of the, 595 Boston, Dry, for the Navy, 202
• Bremerhaven, The Largest in Germany, 291, 569
• Bristol, 379, 400
• Bute Dry Dock Extension, 310
• Cardiff, 154, 401
• Durban, 103
• Hull, Extension of the Alexandra Dock, 92, 297
• Japan, 152
• Keybam Extension Works, 112, 113
• Leitb, New Graving, 271
• Liverpool, 235
• Landon, 95, 216, 482, 544, 615
• Mersey, Annual Statement, 50
• Philadelphia, Dry, 39
• Port Talbot, Graving, 228
• Roath, 7
• Shanghai, Dry, 269
• Thames, Dry, 216
• Graving, 95
• South-Western India, Lengthening and Deepening of, 482
• Troon, Graving, 34
• United States Dry, Schemes for, 218
• Navy, Floating Dry. 11
• Portsmouth, Stone Dry, Specifi¬cations for, 218
• Valparaiso, Need of, 11
• Wear, Extension of Dock Works, 297, 581

Dockyard Notes:

• Admiralty Designs, Criticisms of the Latest, and their Danger, 369
• Admiralty Projects for a New Dockyard, 473
• Andromeda, The, to bo Commissioned for the Mediterranean, 175
• Anson, The, 600
• Aurore, First class Russian Cruiser, to be Launched in the Autumn, 186
• Babcock and Wilcox Boilers in the Sheldrake The, 319
• Balloons carrying Lyddite to Explode Down¬wards over Boer Positions, 353
• Barham, The, 175, 186, 406
• Barr and Stroud BaDge-fiodere ordered, 100 more, 35
• Blake, Re-fit of the, Completed, 477
• Boilers, Babcock and Wilcox, in the Sheldrake, 319
• A British, The Admiralty’s Duty to Find, 175
• Water-tube, The ‘‘Daily Chronicle” on, 88
• in the Different Navies, 88
• of the Seagull, Niclausse, 175, 319
• Borodino, New Russian Battleship, 186
• “Brassey Row” a Good Advertisement for the Naval Annual connected with Lord Brassey’s Name, 121
• Brazilian Ironclad Marechal Floriano, The, 59
• Breakdowns in British and in Foreign Ships, 35, 59
• Bullfinch Disaster, The, 88
• Calypso to be Commissioned, 149
• Camperdown, The, 59
• New 67-TonGun mounted in the, 477
• Canopus, The, 59, 303, 354, 489, 514, 575, 600
• Cervera, Admiral, his Orders and Correspond¬ence during the late War Published, 489 Channel Fleet, The, 441, 514
• Squadron Coaling Averages, The Last, 406
• Coal, Economy of, The Particular Service Squadron Uses no Electric Light, 575
• Coaling Point at Portsmouth an Utter Failure, 650
• Coal at Portsmouth, Spontaneous Combustion of, 650
• Colliers for Warships, The Ideal, 5
• Colomb, Admiral, 405
• Colossus, A “Daily Chroniole” “Special’s” Mistake, 5
• Contractor’s Steam Trial, A Word of Praise to an Account of, 35
• Cordite, Fumes in Connection with, 186
• Cresoent, H.M.S., The Tale about the Attempt to Sink, 489
• Cressy, Launch of the, 564, 573
• Destroyers, Breakdowns at High Speeds, 121
• Naval Opinion Says they should Carry Four Torpedo Tubes, 121
• Speed of, 121
• Dutch Ironclad Koningin Regentes, 186
• Earnest, The Destroyer, 630
• Edinburgh, The, Commissioned as Gunnery Tender at Sbeerness, 441
• Electra, The Destroyer, at Portsmouth, 514
• Elswick Cruisers, Allegations Made in America Against, 406
• The Influence of, on British Admiralty Designs, 319
• Essex Class of Armoured Cruiser, Our Guns and Mountings of, 630
• Fairy, The, 59
• Formidable, Masts up, 351, 430
• French Battleship Bouvet to be Repaired at Toulon, 354
• Devastation Reboilered, 477, 600
• Henri IV., The New, 221, 552
• Two New, Projected and Given up, 430, 489, 600, 630
• Iéna, Trials Begun, 477
• Jeanne d’Arc, “Le Yacht” on, 630
• Croiser-Corsaire Guichen, Speed Trials of the, 552
• Cruiser to be Built at Cherbourg, 552
• The Two Projected, Counter¬manded, 630
• Hallebarde, Speed Trial of, 233
• Destroyer Hallebarde, Run from Havre to Cherbourg, 121
• Indomptable, Change of Armament, 238
• Ironclads Courbet and Devastation. Change of Armament, 238, 575, 600
• Ironclad Turenne to be Used for Colonial Harbour Defepce, 121
• Naval Programme, Lieut. E. Duboc on Naval Policy and the, 573
• School, Transference of, from Modern Vessels to Ships of an Old Type, 369
• Stations, M. de Lanessan’s Re¬port on the Inadequacy of the, 600
• Navy, Expenditure on Now Ships and Coast Defence, 650
• Northern Fleet, Tho, 441
• Shipbuilding Programme and Naval Estimates, 369
• Ships, Changes in the Masts of, 35
• Submarine Boat Morse, 354, 406
• Torpedo Boat No. 212, Satisfactory
• Performance of, 477
• Torpedo Boats Building at Havre, 354 406
• German Ironclad Worth, 630
• German Navy, Increase in the, 441
• German Warships under Alteration, 221
• Glory, The, at Portsmouth, 600
• Goschen, Air., On Water-tube Boilers for Armoured Cruisers, 88, 94
• Guns for French Battleships, Big Modern, 575, 600
• Gun, The 110-Ton, in our Navy, 600
• Hagen, German Coast Defence Ship, to be Cut in Two and Lengthened, 221
• Hango Udd, Unsuccessful Attempt to Raise the Sunken Ironclad, 186
• Hermes, New Cruiser, to be Commissioned for North American Station, 221 Highflyer, Trials of tho New Second-class Cruiser, 303
• Highflyer, Her Fighting Tops, 319
• Hood, The, 600
• Hunter, Dsstroyer, The Damage!, 430
• Impérieuse, The, Arrives at Spithead, 175
• Impérieuse, Refit of the, 269
• Italian Cruisers, Lepanto and Italia, Altera¬tions in Progress, 221
• Italian Cruiser, the Vareso, Launch of, 221, 239
• Italian Ironclads, New, their Construction, 221
• Jane Naval War Game Adopted by the Dutch Admiralty, 35
• Jane Naval War Game, Ships Added to the, 233
• Japan, Naval, “ L9 Yacht” on, 477
• Japan, Uraga Dockyard, 152
• Japanese Battleship Mikase, 369
• Japanese Battleship Skikishima at Portsmouth, 269, 303, 319, 514
• Japanese Cruiser Idznmo, 319
• Japanese Cruiser, The Iwate, 5, 319
• Japanese Destroyer Sazanami at Brest, 552
• Kaiser Friedrich III., Gorman Battleship, at Spithead, 514
• Kearsarge and Kentucky, The, 320, 324, 353, 630
• Keyham Dockyard, 113, 127
• Koningin Regentes, Armament of the Dutch Ironclad, 186
• Kruger's Cruiser, The Story of, 552
• London, The Battleship, 303, 430
• Majestic, Coaling of the, 5
• Narwal, “ Lo Yacht” on the, 441
• Naval Kriegspiel Society, A, 353
• Naval Manoeuvres, The, 35, 59, 149
• Naval Manoeuvres, “ Le Yacht” on the, 303
• Naval Preparation, 477
• Naval War Game, Mr. F. T. Jano on the, 600
• Nelson’s Victory to be Turned into a Museum and Picture Gallery, 353
• Niclausse Boiler, Probable Funeral of the “Latest Type,” 406
• Niclausse Boilers in the Seagull, The Old, 319
• Ocean, The, Trial of, 303
• Old Ships in Reserve at Portsmouth, Triennial Trials of, 430
• Olympia, Legend Regarding the, 353
• Orlando's Quick-firers on the China Station, 514
• Portsmouth Harbour, Proposed Canal as an Outlet from, 186
• Powerful, The, 186, 238, 269, 303, 441
• Quick-firer at Shoeburyness, Trials with a 6in., 238
• Red Cross Ships, “ Le Yacht ” on, 430
• Reserve Fleet, Our, 441, 514
• Rurik, Reported Rotten Condition of the, 353
• Russian Baltic Fleet to Winter at Libau, 575
• Russian Battleship Borodino, 186
• Russian Battleships now Building, Names of, 354
• Rassiau Battleships, Report as to Armoured Bottoms for, 430
• Russian Black Sea Fleet, Reported Addition of Two Cruisers to the, 477
• Russian Circular ex-Yacht Livadia re-named the Experiment, 406
• Russian Cruiser Aurore, 186
• Russian Cruiser, The Ros3ia, 269
• Russian Cruiser Waryag, The, as compared to our New Cruisers, 369
• Russian Destroyers, Names of the Four New, 630
• Russian Gunboat Giliak, 406
• Russian Gunboat Khrabry, 354
• Russian Ironclad Apraksin aground, 552, 575, 630
• Russian Ironclad Kniaz Potemkin Tavsitchesky,
• Guns of the, and their Mounting, 149
• Russian Ironclad Petropavlovsk—see page 525
• of Vol. lxxxvi of The Engineer, 441
• Russian Torpedo Boats or Destroyers to be sent to the Far East, 489
• Russian Torpedo Catcher Some, 186
• Russian Torpedo Cruiser, Abrek, 406
• Scout Refitted, 489
• Seagull, The, Inspected by the Admiralty, 406
• Seagull, Niclausse Boilers of the, 175, 319
• Sfax with Three Masts, The Illustrations of the, 5, 35
• Ships we are at Present Building, Drawing in Le Yacht” of all the, 353
• Smoke made by the German Ships at Spithead, 514
• Some, Torpedo Catcher, to join the Baltic Squadron next Summer, 186
• Speed of Destroyers, Russian and French View as to, 477
• Spiteful, Destroyer, Duplieate Centre Funnel of the, 430
• Surly Trials with Liquid Fuel, 238
• Sutlej, Armoured Cruiser, Launched, 514
• Sweden, Three New Ironclads laid down by, 477, 489
• Swedish Ironclad Svea to be Reconstructed, 650
• Temjserloy Transporters, Engines for Working, Terrible, The, 186, 238, 303
• Torpedo Nets, How they are now got up, 35
• Training Squadron Ships, The, 477
• United States Battleships and Cruisers, Names of the New, 406
• United States Cruiser Atlanta, The, 630
• United States Naval Programme, Toe, 573
• United States Sailing Cadets’ Training Ship, the Chesapeake, 121 12in. High-explosive Shell, The, 88
• Wireless Telegraphy for the Navy, Final Ex¬periments, 552
• I)adds, Mr. T. W., 266
• Donaldson, Air. John, 354
• Donelly, Sir John, Presentation to, 595
• Donkin, Bryan, Utilisation of High Furnace Gases for Power in Gas Engines, 509, 561, 588
• Dortmund-Ems Canal, The, 492
• Harbour, Total Movement of Shipping in, 424
• Douglas, Air. James, On the Treatment of Copper Mattes in the Bessemer Converter, 467
• Dover Harbour Works, Messrs. Alatthews and Coode, 292, 323
• Dowlais Company into a Limited Liability, Re¬ported Transformation of the, 284
• Drainage of London, Main, 464, 573
• Schemes, Provision to be made for Re¬moving Rainfall, 519
• of the Tipton District, Messrs. Howl and Alarten, 22
• and Waterworks in Concepcion, Ten¬ders invited, 373
• Drawbridges, Bascule, 342
• Dredger tor tho Suez Canal Company, Hopper, 11,39
• Dredging, American Screw Pump for, 76
• Machine, A Hugo American, 226
• in the Rhine, Water Jet, 147
• Drill Forging Machine, Star, 306
• Drilling Machine, American Radial, 593
• Boiler Shell, 137
• Sensitive, Cburohill and Co. (Supplement, November lllh, 1899, xii.)
• Driving Machinery, Belt Conveyors, 651
• Ropes, Paper, 443
• Dnddon Estuary, Projected Sea Wall, 77
• Dum-Dum Bullet, The, 116
• DustCart Competition, Mr. H. Liw’s Award, 144
• Dutton and Co., Limited, Incorporated with J. F. Pease and Co., Limited, 38s
• Dymchurch Wall and Reclamation of Romney Marsh, 407, 594
• Dynamite Field Can, The, 582
• Dynamos—«e Electric

E

• EAST London Waterworks Company, leave of Absence and Half-pay Granted to its Reserve Men, 397
• East, Overland Routes to the, 326
• Economical Haulage—see Haulage Economical
• Eddystone Lighthouse, 113
• Educational System of the United States and Canada, Deputation from Birmingham to Inquire into, 595
• “Eggette ” Fuel Enterprise, The, 256

Electric:

• Apparatus, Permissible Rise in Temperature of, 301
• Auxiliaries on Ships of War, 548
• Auxiliary Machinery in the United States Navy, by Alton D. Adams, 233
• Batteries, Large, 526
• Cables, Aluminium, in the United States, 323
• Cable, The New German-American, 397
• Cars for the Glasgow Tramways, 397 Castings, 154
• Central Station, Milwaukee, 334
• Condenser, New Form of, 823
• Conductors made of Copper, Iron, and Alu¬minium, Costs of, 569
• Current, Anesthetic Effects of the, 447
• Current, Centenary of the, Professor Fleming oa, 299
• Current on the Trees in Brussels, Effect of the, 546
• Discharge, Experiments connected with, Death by the, 473
• Distribution of Motive Power, Generation and, 446, 482
• Driving at Messrs. I. Storey and Sons’ Works, 129
• Driving and Lighting in the Thames Ironworks and Engineering Company’s Works, 473
• Dynamic Ventilator, A, 194
• Dynamo driven by Water Jets, 654
• Dynamometer Friction, Prof. W. E. Dalby, 644
• Dynamometric Toe (Supplement, November 17t/i, 1899, xvi.)
• Dynamos for Power Purposes, 61
• Energy, Influence of Cheap Fuels on the Cost of, 628
• Engineering in Switzerland, 413
• Fire Wagon, Paris Fire Brigade, 21
• Fog-horn, 243
• Generating Plant, Heinriahsburg Canal Lift, 342, 343
• Generators, Same Large, 577
• Haulage on the Laois and Liverpool Canal, The Thwaite Cawley System of, 243 Hoisting Engines in toe United States, 422
• Illuminations in Admiral Dewey’s Honour, 397
• Incandescent Limps, Mr. B. L. Montel on High-efficiency, 546
• Industry of Germany, The 248
• Insulators, How they are Made, 519
• Launch on the Venice Canals, The First, 645
• Lift, Cost of Operating an, 447
• Light Plant employed in the Torcenay Tunnel, 297
• Light Railways—see Railways, Light
• Light Stations, Working of, 626
• Lighting Acts, 1882 to 1890, 372
• Lighting, Aigle, Switzerland, 236
• Lighting, Alternating-current Arc Lamps in America, 253
• Lighting Amenities, 528
• Lighting of th9 Batignollos Tunnel, 297
• Lighting Bombay, 373
• Lighting, Calcutta, for St. Paul's Cathedral, 473
• Lighting, Cobham, 194
• Lighting Companies and Consumer*, 571, 597
• Lighting Glow Limp of 5000 Candle-power,
• Lighting, Incandescent Lamp and Transformer Construction in America, 364, 387
• Lighting, Llanelly, 473 Lighting, London, Arc Lamps in Uss, 495
• Lighting of Ludgate-hill Station, 447
• Lighting, Newcastle, 309
• Lighting, Northallerton and Middlesbrough, 281, 297, 309
• Lighting of Railway Carriages, 270
• Lighting and Refuse Destructors, 332, 392, 393,
• 429, 576, 591, 627. 632, 633
• Lighting in Scotch Towns, Schemes, 355
• Lighting, Sheffield, 546
• Lighting Station in Edinburgh, 323. 417
• Lighting, Taree-wire Distributing System, 519
• Machinery on Board Ship, Mr. A. Siomons on, 299, 305
• Motors for Driving Pumping Plant, 645
• Machinery for Moscow, all Orders go to Ger¬many and Switzirlaud, 355
• Omnibus, Berlin, 373
• Planing Machine, American, 11
• Postal Service in France, 238
• Power Plant, Hydraulic, Brazil, 355
• Power Plant, Hydraulic, at Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, 424
• Power Plant, Illinois Steel Company’s Works,
• Power Plant for the Indian Head Factory for Making Smokeloss Powder, 424
• Power Plant, Mount Whitney, 492
• Power Plant at Niagara, 216, 645
• Power in the Simla Hills, Syndicate for Supply¬ing, 218
• Power Stations in America, Units used at, 447
• Power Station in Brazil, American and Canadian Company, 419
• Power Stations in New York, 546
• Power Supply for the Mining Companies, My¬ sore, 373
• Power Supply, New York, 355
• Power Supply Schemes in the North, Two New, 519
• Power, Theft of, Germany, 623
• Power from Windmills, Mr, C. L. Crandall on, 546
• Power in the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company’s Works, 458
• Resistance and Heating Company, Limited, Prospectus of, 78
• Resistance of Wires, Variations of Torsion upon the, 519
• Search-light Apparatus for New York Fire Brigade, 645
• Subways, San Francisco, 495
• Supply Station, Bombay, 623
• Supply Stations in the County of London, Boilers in use, 473
• Supply Station in Pennsylvania, Driven by a Natural Gas Plant, 355
• Telegraph Line from Lake Bennett to Dawson City, 519
• Testing Laboratory, London, Annual Report of Mr. A. A. Voysey, 495
• Traction, Effect of Large Systems of, on the Instruments in Greenwich and Kew Observa¬tories, 495
• Traction, Overhead, Magnetic Arrangement for doing away with Springs in the Trolley Base, 397
• Traction in South London, 140
• Tramcars and Light Railway Cars, G. F. Milnes and Co.’s New Works, 432
• Tramways—re« Tramways
• Transmission Plant, Allegan Dam, Michigan,
• Wires at Cincinnati, Underground, Recommen¬dation to Place all, 194
• Wires, Dangers of Overhead, 36
• Wires, Deterioration of Lead-covered, 519
• Wires, Underground, San Francisco, 167
• Wiring Rules, 166
• Works, Grimsby, 345
• Electrically-driven Planing Machine, 391, 392
• Ploughs in Prussia, 271
• Printing Presses, 636
• Tools, 224
• Electrically-propelled Ferry Boats, United States, 317
• Electricity in American Mines, 304
• Destruction of Wooden Bridge by, 355
• Generating Station for Salford, New, 595, 607
• in Glasgow, 161 in Glass-making, Use of, 323
• in Steel Works, 45
• Street Sweeping by, 194
• Supply, W. Kootenay, 452
• Thawing Water Pipes by, 595
• Theatre at Buenos Ayres Warmed by,
• Theft of, Not Punishable by Law, 271
• Works at Darwen, 243
• Works, Milan, 620, 621, 622
• Electro-galvanising Boiler Tubes, 379
• “ Electroid ” Gas at Scarborough, 297
• Electrolysis of Underground Pipes, 167
• on Water Pipes Tested, Action of, 39
• Electrolytic Alkali Company, Limited, The, 557
• Extraction of Mercury, 323
• Method of Sharpening Files, 490
• Electro-magnetic Separator, An, 550
• Electro-metallurgy to Mechanical Engineering, Mr. S. Cowper-Coles on Application of, 319
• Electromotive Force Produced in a Flame by Magnetic Action, 11
• Elgar, Dr. F., On the Distribution of Pressure over a Ship's Bottom in Dry Dock, 60
• Eliot, Mr., On the Mechanical Appliances in Use at Keyham Dockyard Extension Works, 112, 113
• Ellis, Mr. Thos., 102
• Elswick Cruisers, Mr. P. Watts on, 82, 99
• Elswick Works and Shipyard, 106
• Elwell, Mr., 432, 606
• Emigrants' Information Office, Particulars Fur¬nished by, 11
• Employment, In Search of, 166
• for Reservists, 429
• Engineering, On the Educational Needs of, Mr. John Caird, 457
• Exports, American, 75 Formula), 400
• Sentiment in, 450, 472
• Trade, Combination in the, 475
• Trade, Conference arising from the
• Dispute in the, 140 Works, Glasgow and South-Western
• Railway Company’s New, 473
• Engineers, Chemical, 650
• in China, Openings for Mechanical, 5/7
• and the Development of India, 220
• Grievances, Young, 518
• Machine Tools, 577
• Mechanical, Opening in China for, 542, 547, 553
• and Oil, 524
• Part in Getting the Naval Guns to Ladysmith, 519
• Patriotism amongst, 469
• Students, On the Practical Training of, Mr. R. Mayston on, 112, 128
• Training of, 169, 576, 604
• in the United States Navy, 235
• and Canada, 550
• and Chambers of Commerce, 274

Engines:

• Auxiliary, Speed obtained by the Exhaust Steam of, 519
• Basset High-pressure Cornish, 18, 47, 74, 93
• Blowing, American, 334
• and Boilers of H.M.S. Essex, John Brown and Co., 459
• at the Catrine Bleach Works, Ayrshire, that has Worked for Fifty Years, 144
• Corliss, for Sheffield Electric Tramways (Supplement, October 27th, 1899), 416, 443
• Cornish, Iligh-prcssure, 18, 47, 74, 93, 149, 201
• The Cornish and the Willans, 116
• Coulthard’s Triple-expansion, 328
• with Direct-connected Dynamos, 372, 393, 443
• Efficiency of Steam, 157, 209, 314, 339,356, 604, 632
• Efficiency of, R. H. Thurston, 604
• Electric Generating, Heinrichsburg Canal Lift, 342, 343
• Electric Hoisting, in the United States, 422
• Electric Traction, 296, 326, 330
• Forgotten Steam, 116, 145
• Gas, 88, 120, 588, 589, 590, 623
• Gas, High-power, 478, 479
• Gas, Using Producer Gas, Erie Railroad Shops, 623
• Gas, Utilisation of High Furnace Gases for Power in, 509, 561, 588
• Gas, Westinghouse, 88, 623 Guarantees, 245
• High-pressure Cornish, 18, 47, 74, 93, 149, 201
• High-speed, Professor Riedler’s Work on, 418
• Hoisting, Chihuahua Mines, Mexico, 320
• Internal Combustion, Means of Effecting Igni¬tion and Combustion in, 167
• of H.M.S. Ocean (Supplement, December 1st, 1899), 539
• Launch Oil, 540, 541
• Locomotives—see Locomotives
• Locomotive, Painting, 340
• Marine, 58, 69, 417, 420, 421, 539 (Supplement, December 1st, 1899)
• Marine, and Accessories, South Kensington Museum, 218
• Marine, Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., 58, 59
• Mil), Swiss v. English and German for Russia, 355
• Motor Car, Launch, and Yacht Requirements, The Ard wick Engine Company’s New Designs in, 635
• Oil, 77, 120, 335, 381, 399
• Oil, at the Edinburgh Show, 1899, Judges’ Report of the Trial of, 381
• Oil and Gas, Crossley Brothers, Limited, 335
• Oil, Vertical, Ardwick Engine Company, 77
• Pumping, for Chicago, 167
• Pumping, Cleveland Waterworks, 254
• Pumping, Test of, 155
• See also Railway Locomotives
• Sheffield Electric Tramways, 416
• Single-crank Compound, 470, 504, 577, 648
• Single-crank Compound, F. T. Harker on, 577
• Single-track Compound Screw, 527
• Smithfield Club Show, 565
• Steam Engine and Oil and Gas, by Professor Perry, 120
• S.S. America Maru, 417, 420, 421
• S.S. Ocean’s (Supplement, December lit, 1899), 539
• Tests, Some Modern Economical, Selected by Bryan Donkin (Supplement, October 13<A, 1899), 377
• Traction, Accident with a, 297
• Traction, for South Africa, 566, 567
• Traction, in War, 451
• Triple-expansion, Dutch Cruiser Noord Bra¬bant, 563
• Valve, A New Form of, 98
• Welsh Tank, 594
• England, North of, 23, 51, 77, 101, 130, 153, 179,
• 203, 227, 255, 283, 309, 335, 359, 383, 409, 433, 459, 484, 505, 531, 555, 581, 607, 635, 655
• England and Wales Surveyed, 1898, Area of, 224
• Epstein, Mr. Ludwig, 204
• Erie Canal Electric Traction Company, Storage
• Battery System Adopted, 495
• Ermack, The, at Tyneside for Repairs, 60
• Evans’ Ingot Stripper, 366, 367
• Evaporation in Tubes, Influence of Velocity on, Ewing, Prof., On the Grievances of Young Engi¬neers, 518

Exhibitions:

• Blackpool Health Exhibition, 18S
• Budapest, Acetylene, 141
• Canea, 623
• Cycle Shows, The Stanley and the National, 302, 525
• Glasgow, 1901, 144
• Islington, Motor Cars at, 10
• London Automobile, 95
• London, Brewers’, 421
• London, Dairy Show, 405
• London, Royal Aquarium, Gas and Allied Trades. 243
• London, Tramways and Light Railways, 424
• Paris, 43, 65, 74, 81, 261,272, 345, 127, 460, 495, 519, 556
• Paris, Motor Cars at, 43, 74
• United States Exbibit at, 65
• Railway, Proposed, 296
• Experimental Model Basin, Navy Yard, Washing¬ton, 109,110, 138, 139, 142
• Explosions, Boiler, 568
• at Burton-on-Trent, 656
• Colliery, Japan. 152, 282
• Llest Colliery, 255
• Rochdale Gasworks, 417
• St. Helens, Recent, 501
• Sheffield Boiler, COO Woolwich Arsenal, 92
• Explosives in Coal Mines, New Order relating to, 111
• Government Order for Unfilled Shell, 11
• High, called Thorite, 220, 323
• Shell against Armour, II-gb, 220
• Exports from Japan, New Ports of, 282

F

• FACTORY, Definition of a, and the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 639
• and Workshop Act, Home Secretary’s Notice under Section 8 respecting Sorting, Combing, Carding, &c., Wool, 645
• and Workshop Act, 1878, Special Exceptions in Section 52,
• Order of tho Secretary of State, 144
• Famine in Fuel, 627
• Faribault, Mr. E. R., Gold Measures of Nova Scotia, 11
• Fast Run on an Amorican Railway, 631
• Fast Travelling in the United States, 577, 595, 604
• Fast Travelling in the United States, N. D. Macdonald, 604
• Fell and Co., Electro-magnetic Separator, 550
• “ Thermoscopic Loop,” Steam Trap, Fight for Free Work, The, 193
• File Cutting, Dangers of the Trade of, 171
• Files, Electrolytic Method of Sharpening, 490
• Finedon Water Supply, 569
• Finland, Question of a Technical School for, 218
• Fire-arms, Results of Firing with Old and New, Experiments in Belgium, 218
• Fire Brigades Union, The National Camp, Exhi¬bition, and Review of, 39
• Engines for London, Improved, 166
• Engine for Russia, Swedish English and German, 595
• Float for the L.C.C., Steam, 20
• at Messrs. W. and T. Avery’s Works, 397
• Broom Mill Colliery, 556
• Messrs. Johnson and Phillips’ Works, 194
• North Woolwich Factory, 92
• Walker and Eaton's Works, 309
• Outbreaks, Cold Weather and, 619
• Tests, 503
• Wagon, Electric, Paris Fire Brigade, 21
• in the War, Our, 619
• Fireproofing of Floors, The, 583
• Firth, Mr. Lewis J., Presentation to, 554
• Flax Culture in this Country, Returns Issued, 447
• Fleming, Prof., Centenary of the Electric Cur¬rent, 299
• Fletcher, Mr. A. W., On the Effects of the Man¬chester Ship Canal, 559
• Mr. J. E., On Steel Castings, 491
• Son, and Fearnall, New Thames Dry Dock, 216
• Flexible Shaft, Novel Application of the, 546
• Floors, Fireproofing of, 583
• Floor of Steel Girders with Concrete Filling, Tested by Fire-prevention Committee, 397
• Flotations of Well - known Local Concerns in Lancashire, 129
• F.our Equal to Hungarian, Priz9 Offered at the Bakers’ Exhibition for, 218
• Flue Turning and Drilling Machine, 91
• Fluids in Motion and at Rest, Mr. Chas. V. Boys on, 492
• Fly-wheel for Stockton Ironworks, New, 65, 77
• Fog Horn, Electric, 243
• Fog Signalling Apparatus, Mechanical, 465
• Foley, Mr. N., On a New Method of Forced Draught, 60
• Forced Draught, Mr. N. Foley on a New Method of, 60
• Foreign Competition, 504
• Forests of Siberia, 201
• Forging Machine, The New Rico, 358
• Forging Machines, Star Drill, 306
• Formosa, Lead Import, 271
• Foster, Mr. Wm. Orme, 358
• Foundry on tbo Site of Messrs. T. Ilackworth and Co.’s Works, New, 101
• Fowler and Co., Limited, Messrs. J., Dinner of Employés, 595
• Traction Engines for South Africa, 566, 567
• Fownes Forge and Engineering Company’s Works, Fox, Mr. Theodore, 359
• Frankland, Sir Edward, 161
• Fraser and Chalmers, Mining Compressor and Hoisting Engine, 320
• Free Labour Congress, The, 380
• Movement, The, 376
• Free v. Unionist Labour, 269
• French Bounties, 573
• Bounties and Sailing Ship Construction, 568
• Cable, Projected, 627
• Government Foundries at Toulon, Erec¬tion of, 648
• Naval Manoeuvres, 243
• Frewen, Mr. Morten, Oa United States Currency and Finance, 75
• Friction of Compressed Air in Pipes, 429, 472, 504, 527
• in South Wales, 119
• Frodingham Iron and Steel Company’s Works, 45
• Fuels, Cheap, their Influence on the Cost of Electrical Energy, 628
• Economy of Engines used in Electric Railway Power Stations, Professor R. C. Carpenter, 485
• Famine, 627
• Furnaces, Blast, Largest Single Owner of, 218
• in Blast in Scotland this Year and Last, 284
• in Operation in Belgium, 595
• Smoke Preventing, Mr. D. E. Alves, 590
• Furness, Westgarth and Co., Limited, Smart Pieco of Engineering Work, 65, 77, 359

G

• GALLOWAY Boilers for the Paris Exhibition and for Salford and Liverpool and Stockton Elec¬tricity Stations, 555
• Galloways, Limited, Boiler Works of, 190
• Garvin Milling Machine, 517
• Gas Asphyxiation in San Francisco, Deaths from, 271
• Calorific Value of Blast Furnace, 323
• Gases, Action of, on Caoutchouc and Rubber Tires, 92
• Gas Consumption, Sir F. T. Mappin at the Sheffield Gas Company’s Meetings, 302
• " Eloctroid,” 297
• Escape from a Coal Mine in Japan, Singular Effect, 580
• Generators, Dr. Ludwig on, 141
• Gases, High Furnace, 561, 688, 604
• Gas Light, Incandescent, Experiments at New¬castle, 623
• Mains, Improvements in, America, 458
• Meters, Inspection and Stamping of, 495
• Meters, Popularity of the “ Penny-in-ths-Slot,” 243
• Producing and Engine Plant, New York, 606
• Supply of Indiana, U.S.A., Decrease in the Natural, 355
• Supply, A New Policy in, 297 Supply, Tokyo, 373
• Thermometers for High Temperatures, Messrs. L. Holborn and Day on, 695
• Tram Cars, 85, 86
• Gases, Utilisation of High Furnace, for Power in Gas Engines, by Bryan Donkin, 509, 561, 5S8
• Gas Works, Acetylene, Hawes, 368, 369
• Gate for Canals, Automatic Guard, 39
• Gefle in Sweden, Shipments of Iron and Steel from, 92
• Geological Congress, Paris, The International, 75
• Geological Survey of England and Wales, 1898, 373
• German Cable to the United States, 519 ,
• Canals, 235
• Consular Arrangements, 331
• Machinery at the Paris Exhibition, 345
• Pig Iron Output, 447
• Spanish Merchant Treaty, Alterations in the Duties on German Imports to
• Spain, 52
• Survey for the Bagdad Railway, 422
• Germany, Our Correspondent’s Notes from, 24,
• 52, 78, 102, 131, 155, 180, 204, 228, 256, 285, 310, 336, 360, 384, 410, 434, 460, 485, 507, 532, 556, 582, 609, 637, 657
• Girders, Machine for Notching, 217
• Girder Span in Theory and Fact, Effective, 166
• Gisholt Universal Tool-grinding Machine, 516
• Glasgow Corporation Tramway Contracts, 551
• Corporation Tramways and American Engines, The, 194, 195, 198, 199, 200, 215
• Electric Traction Engine Contract, The, 220
• Electricity in, 161
• Gas Supply, Contract with T. Glover and Co., Limited, 297
• Sewage Works, 155
• Glass, Diminution of Light by its Interception by, 447
• Making, Use of Electricity in, 323
• Manufactory at St. Helens, New System of Actomatic Blowing, 297
• Plate Cast with Wire Gauzo Enclosed, 373, 519
• Used in this Country of British Manufac¬ture, 447
• Glover and Co., Limited, Gas Lighting Contract with the Glasgow Corporation, 297
• Godaiming Water Supply, 65
• Gold in African Coal, 595
• Bearing Quartz in the Isle of Man, 236
• Deposits in Siberia, 447
• Export from West Australia, 447
• Fields in Japan, New, 580
• Fields, The West Australian, 271
• Measures of Nova Scotia, Mr. E. R. Fari¬bault on the, 11
• Mining, South Africa, Question of Dry or Wet Crushing, 25
• Obtained by Dredging in New Zealand, 519
• Production of the Transvaal in 1898, 447
• in Yukon, Royalty on the Output of, 546
• Goodfellow, Mr. Joseph, 17
• Goschen, Mr., On Armoured Cruisers, 88, 94
• Government Contracts in Japan, 634
• Graham, Mr. George (with Portrait), 7
• Grain-separatiDg Machines. Improved, 224
• Greatortx, Mr. A. D., Oa Electric Tramway Traction, 6
• Groenhill, Prof. A. G., The Lippincott Planimeter, 614
• Griffiths and Hawker, Tip Wagon, 359
• Grimsby, Electric Works, 345
• Grindrod, Mr. A. E., On the Disfavour shown by Fire Insurance Companies to the High-pressure Heating Apparatus, 65
• Grinkle Mining Company, The Newly-formed, 101
• Grover, Mr. F., On the Economics of Steam Raising, 452
• Guatemala, Machinery and Railway Materials Im¬ported by Germany and Great Britain to, Gilbert, Mons. A., On Diluted Acetylene for Lighting Railway Carriages, 452
• Gulf Stream, Proposed Diversion of the, 447
• Guns, American Idin., 126-Ton, its Range, 117
• Carriage, An American Motor, 218
• Colt Machine, 91 Dynamite Field, 582
• Elements of Power in English and Foreign New Type Field, 619
• in Possession of the Boers, List of, 595
• in the War, Our, 619
• Krupp, with Armstrong Breech, 542
• at Ladysmith, Our Naval, 522
• Naval, for the French Government, 648
• Naval, at Ladysmith, 519
• for Turkey, British, 47
• War Artists and Long, 650
• Gwynne and Co., Pumps for Egypt, 445
• Gwynne, Limited, J. and IL, Shares assigned to Employés, 632
• Gyroscopic Device termed “Oscillometer,” 167

H

• HADFIELD, Mr. R. A., Telford Premium and George Stephenson Medal Presented to, 484
• Haggio, D. II. and G., Largest Ropo Cable in the World. 424
• Halifax Sewage Works, 323
• Halliday, Mr. G., Heat Absorption Power of Water, 20
• On Influence of Velocity on Evaporation in Tubes, 653
• Hamburg, Proposed School of Naval Architec¬ture, 65
• Hamburg, Trade of the Port of, 447
• Hammer, Cushioned, 629

Harbours and Waterways:

• American Canals, 254
• Antwerp, New Docks, 615
• Barrow Docks, 397, 404
• Boston, 30, 372
• Bristol Dock Developments, 379
• Caledonian and Crinan Canals, 235
• Canals, Mechanical Traction on, 316
• Cardiff. 154, 404
• Civita Vecchia, 569
• Cronstadt and St. Petersburg Commercial, 144
• Dortmund-Ems Canal, The, 492
• Dover Harbour, 292, 323, 623
• Dover, Second New Landinc Stage, 323
• Durban Harbour Works, 530
• German Canals, 235
• Harbour and Doqk Bills, 615
• Hastings, 560