Engineering 1876 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABBOTS Ripton Collisions, The, 78.111, 280
Abolition of Patents in Holland, The, 488, 496
Accident at St. George's Hospital; Dangerous Tanks, 535
Accidents on Prussian Railways in 1874, 285
Accidents, Railway, Board of Trade Summary of, for 1875, 313
Accidents on Railways, The Cost of, 470
Acid. Sulphuric, The Concentration of, 145
Act, The Artisans' Dwellings, 467
Action of Light on Silenium, 161
Acts, The Factory, 233
Adamson, D., and company's Works, Hyde Junction, 291
Address, Inaugural, of N. P. Burgh, First President of the Institution of Marine Engineers; Presidential Gems, 198
Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, 46
Address of Dr. C. W. Siemens at the Mechanical Section of the Conferences at South Kensington, 493
Addresses of the President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 61, 70, 91, 241, 265
Admiralty, The First Lord of the, and the " Devastation: 560
Agricultural Implements at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 499, 524
Agricultural Machinery; Memorandum from the Agricultural Engineers' Association, 105
Air-Compressing Pump, Wyllie's, 517
Air Compressor, Francois and Dubois', 249
Air Compressor for the St. Gothard Tunnel, 273
Air Pump and Separate Condenser, Davey's, 37
Ainscow's Patent Tyre Fastener for Railway Wheels, 376
Aird, John, 382
Alarm, Kenyon's Low-Water, 168
Albert Bridge, The Royal, Proposed, across the River $t. Lawrence, 249
Alley's Bearing Feelers, 98
America, Patents in, 145
American Bessemer Steel Production, 422 '
American Institute of Mining Engineers (See Engineers, American Institute of Mining)
American Locomotive Boilers; Report to the " Master Mechanics' Convention," Philadelphia, 517, 530, 567
American Navy, The, 13
American Railroads, 2
American Society of Civil Engineers (See Engineers, The American Society of Civil)
American Teats of Iron and Steel, 376
Ammoniacal Liquor, The Valuation of, 515
Ancient and Modern Water Works, 403, 457, 500
Aneroid, The; its Construction, Principles, and Uses, 223, 490
Annual Dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 263
Annual Meeting of the British Association of Gas Managers, 513
Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 234
Apparatus, Scientific, The Exhibition of, 393, 395, 418, 434, 465, 477, 525, 550
Applied Mechanics; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 550
Arched Bridge, Wrought-Iron, at Pittsburgh, to. Pa., U.S.A., 529
Arched Ribs and Suspension Bridges, with their Auxiliaries, 63, 183
Art and Engineering Science, The Inadequate Union of. Address of Mr. Holley, President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 241, 265
Art of Measuring, The; Opening Address of Dr. C. W. Siemens at the Mechanical Section of the Conferences, South Kensington, 493
Artisans' Dwellings Act, The, 467
Asbestos-Packed Cocks, Dewrance's, 68
Ashworth's Steam Domes, 433
Ashworth's Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Compound Engine with, 315
Association, The British Iron Trade, 163, 174
Athletic Cables, The, 535
Atlantic, The First Steamer to Cross the, 376
Atlantic to Pacific, From, 560
Atom's Combined Duplex Boring, Turning, and Keyway Grooving Machine, 312
Automatic Block Signals for American Railway TraftiV28

Babbage's " Economy of Manufactures," 309
Baird, James, 654
Balanced Slide Valve, Weatherhogg's 168
Band Sawing Machine for Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 454
Banquet at Crewe Works on the Completion of the 2000th Locomotive, 458
Barker's Hydraulic Brake, 187
Barker's Self-Landing and Self-Delivering Hoist, 389
Barrage of the Diver Nile, The, 40, 101, 143, 218, 20, 338, 379

BARRELS, RICHARDS' MACHINERY FOR MAKING:
Band Sawing Machines for Staves, 434
Chiming and Crozing Staves, 547
Cross-Cutting Stave Blocks, 453
Cylinders for Staves, 502
Jointing and Bevelling Staves, 503 .
Preparing Ends or Heads, 548
Rolling or Compressing Staves, 602
Sawing Flat Staves, 453
Sawing Stave Blocks. 452
Trussing or Erecting Barrels, 647

Bath, Zinc, for Galvanising Iron Wire, Thum's, 481
Bathometer, A, 259
Beam Compass, Johnson's, 18,9
Beam Engine, Corliss (1400 H.P. Nominal) at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 413
Beam of Light " Weighing" a, 133, 281
Bearing Feelers, Alley's, 98
Beckton Gas Works, The Pier and Railway System at, 538
Belfast Boiler Explosion, The; Report of Mr. MacColl to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 189
Bells, Lightfoot, and Co's Pumping Engines at Hull Water Works, 433, 461
Bement's Drilling Machines, 551
Bement and Sons' Car Wheel Boring Machine, 505
Berlin Kinematic Models; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 465
Bessemer Steel Production, American, 422
Bevelling and Jointing Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 503
Beyer. Charles, 505
Bill, The Merchant Shipping, 154, 173, 213, 279, 367, 394
Bill, The Patent, 193, 215, 258, 265, 393, 417, 441, 472
Binder, Wood's Sheaf, 68
Black Sea and the Caspian, H. C. Spalding on the, 350
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, Mr. Fletcher's Report on the, 6
Blast Furnace Charging Apparatus, Weimer and Birkenbine's, 98
Blast Furnace Gases, 262, 275, 306
Blast Furnace Slag, Glass from, 491
Blast Furnaces, Inclined Plane and Gallery for, at the Meier Iron Works, at Bessemer, Ill., U.S.A., 462, 486
Block Signals, Automatic, 428
Blower, The Cyclops, for Forges, 8
Board of Trade, The, and Marino Engine Builders, 561
Board of Trade Report, The, on the Abbotts Ripton Accident, 280
Board of Trade Summary of Railway Accidents in 1875, The, 313
Boat, The Thames Steam Ferry, 171
Boat, Tug, Howden's Double-Screw, 253
Boats, Tug, Trip-Hook for, 295
Boiler, Davies' Steam, 175
Boiler Explosions, The, on Board the Steamship " Propontis," 217
Boiler Explosions; Communication from the Manchester Steam Users' Association to all Members of Parliament, 288
Boiler Explosions in 1875; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 201, 221
Boiler Explosions; Statement of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 162
Boiler Flues, The Strength of, 511
Boiler Houses at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, 324, 331
Boiler, The Howard, 14
Boiler, The Lancashire, 370, 397
Boiler Tube Stoppers, Ley and Shearer's, 26
Boilers, American Locomotive; Report to the "Master Mechanics' Convention," Philadelphia, 517, 530
Boilers and Engines of the Russian Circular Ironclad " Novgorod," 275
Boilers and Engines for U.S. Steam Launch and Cutters at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 436, 509
Boilers, The, of H.M.S. " Serapis," 215
Boilers, Internally v. Externally Fired, 5, 21, 56, 84, 175
Boilers, Steel, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, Galloway's, 455
Boilers, Steel, The Engineer on, 15
Boilers, The Strength of, 392, 415, 441, 611, Boilers, Water-Tube, 318, 319
Boomer and Boschert Press, The, 564
Boring Curved Nozzles, 376
Boring, Turning, and Keyway Grooving Machine, Atock's Combined Duplex, 312
Box Freight Car for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 444
Box, Paper, Machinery for Making, 238
Brake, Barker's Hydraulic, 187
Breach of Contract : Legal Intelligence, 159
Breakages in the Direct Cable, The, 196, 535
Bremerhaven Explosion, The, 134
Brickmaking Machine, Durand and Marais', 262
Bridge, The Chenab, 161
Bridge, The East River, New York, 139
Bridge Improvements, Stepney Railway, 370,8 420
Bridge, The Lansdowne Valley, 90
Bridge, London; Special Meeting of the Court of Common Council, 113
Bridge, The New Portage, 382
Bridge, Railway, Oxley Creek, Brisbane, 658
Bridge over the River Douro, 108, 149
Bridge, The Proposed Royal Albert, across the River St. Lawrence, 249
Bridge over the Thames, Proposed Rolling, Bruce's. 188
Bridge, Wrought-Iron Arched, at Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A., 529
Bridges, Suspension, and Arched Ribs, with their Auxiliarie4, 63, 183
Bristol Mining School, The, 564
British Association of Gas Managers, The (See Gas Managers, The British Association of)
British Catalogue, The; Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 475
British bon Trade Association, The, 163, 174
British Ironclad Navy, The Strength of, 193, 258
Broadwell Ordnance Company's 16-Pounder Jacketted Field Gun, 17
Bronze, Manganese, 152
Brotherhood's Centrifugal Pump and Three-Cylinder Engines, 534
Brown and Carver's Paper-Cutting Machine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 527
Brown's Four-Cylinder Engine, 126
Bruce's Proposed Rolling Bridge over the Thames, 188
Brunner's Steam Tramcar (Fairlie's System) for Narrow Gauge Tramways, 252
Brussels International Exhibition, 1876, The, 561
Bucket-Plunger Pump, Wright's, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 420
Building and Tools of the Japanese at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 348
Butler's Emery Wheel, 26

Cable, The Direct, Breakages in the, 19G
Cables, The Atlantic, 535
Cables and Land Lines, Telegraphic, 75, 135
Cables, Submarine, and International Law, 233
Cables, Submarine, and Malice, 151, 535
Cables, Telegraph, The Repairs of, 135
Canal Lift, Hydraulic, at Anderton, 227 ,
Capacity of Rolling Stock, The, 425 f!
Capital and Labour; Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 46
Car, Box Freight, for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 444
Car Wheel Boring Machine. By William B. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 605
Carbon Deposits in Blast Furnaces, 262, 275, 305
Carlingford Lough and Greenore, 140
Carlisle and Settle Railway, Opening of the, 439
Carmichael, James, Dundee, Statue of, 538
Carriages, Double-Bogie, for the Midland Railway, 532
Carter's Patent Disintegrator, 129
Cask-Making Machinery, Richards'. By A. Ran-some and Company, 95
Casson-Dormoy Puddling Furnace, The, 265
Caspian and the Black Sea, H. C. Spalding on the, 350
Casting Siemens-Martin Steel, 293
Cast-Iron Railway Wheels, 512
Cast Iron, The Strength and Fracture of, 373
Catalogue, The British; The Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 475
Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia (See Exhibition, The Centennial)
Centrifugal Pump and Brotherhood's Three Cylinder Engines. By Brotherhood and Hardingham, London, 534
Channel Tunnel, The, and its Effects on the English and Continental Railway Systems, 489
" Cheap Railways," Longridge's Locomotive, 216, 282, 345
Chenab Bridge, The, 161
Chernoff, M, on the Structure of Steel, 559
Cheshire Lines Committee, The, 301
Chiming and Crozing Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 547
Circuit Closers; Notes on Torpedoes, 96, 153, 224, 404
Circular by the British Commission to the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 33
Circular Ironclads, 112, 284, 299, 307
City and Metropolitan Gas Question, The, 55, 258
Civil Engineers, The Institution of (See Institution of Civil Engineers)

CLAUSTHAL ORE DRESSING WORKS, THE :
35, 64, 102, 167, 210, 249, 303, 356
Auxiliary Washing House, 356
Coarse Jigging House, 167
Coarse Rolls, 104
Coarse Separation House, 65
Conveyance of the Ores, 36
Corliss Engines of the New Dressing Works, 366
Crushing and Sorting of the Ore, 64
Dressing Coarser Produce from Coarse Separation, 103
Fine Jigging House, 210
Fine Separation, 102
Middle and Fine Rolls. 167
New Dressing Works, 85
Stamp House ("Pocharbeit"), 803

Cleveland, Notes from, 19, 29; 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179, 199, 211, 238, 247, 285, 324, 840, 372, 890, 419, 448, 462, 483, 510, 510, 558
Clyde Shipbuilding in 1875, 18
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, The; Prospects for 1876, 51
Coal and Materials on Railways, 227
Coarse Rolling; Clausthal Works, 104
Coarse Separation; Clausthal Works, 65
Corks, Dewrance's, Asbestos-Packed, 68
" Colima," Steamship, Repairing the Crankshaft of the, 492
Collier and Company's Shearing Machine and Engine, 479
Collisions, The Abbotts Ripton, 73, 111, 280
Combined Thrashing and Finishing Machine, Nalder and Nalder's, 207
Commission, The Railway; Legal Intelligence, 186
Committee, The Cheshire Lines, 301
Companies, Joint Stock, in Prussia, 991
Compass, Johnson's Beam, 139
Compound Corliss Engine, 187
Compound Engines, 305
Compound Horizontal Engine with Ashworth's Variable Expansion Gear, 315
Compound and Non-Compound Engines; Report of Trials with American Revenue Steamers, 121
Compound Steam Engine, An Experimental. By B. Donkin and Company, London, 203
Compound Steam Launch Engines. Designed by N. Selfe, Sydney, 129
Compressing or Rolling Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 502
Concentration of Sulphuric Acid, The, 145
Concrete Tanks, Further Experience with, 510, 514
Condenser, Davey's Separate, and Air Pump, 37
Condensers and Purifiers at the Beckton Gas Works, 538
Conferences, Scientific, at South Kensington, 395
Conner, Benjamin, 135
Construction, Principles, and Uses of the Aneroid, The, 223, 490
Contract, Breach of : Legal Intelligence, 159
Contractor's Plant, 424, 448
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 490
Corliss Beam Engine (1400 HP. Nominal) at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By George H. Corliss and Company, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 413
Corliss Engine, Compound, 187
Corliss Engine, Horizontal Compound (1000 Ind. HP.) for Bombay. By Douglas and Grant, Kirkcaldy, 414
Corn,* Engines of the New Dressing Works; The Clausthal Works, 356
Corvette, Screw, H.M., "Rover," Engines of the, 191, 211, 228
Cost of Railway Collisions, The, 470
Cramp and Sons' Single-Cylinder Marine-Screw Engine, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 479
Crane and Hydraulic Rivetter, Portable, at Crewe Works, Tweddell's, 116
Crankshaft of the Steamship "Colima," Repairing the, 492
Cranston's Rock Drill, 87
Crewe Demonstration, The, 458
"Crocodile," Indian Troopship, Work done by the,463
Crohn's Unison Expansion Gear, 516
Crookes' Radiometer; " Weighing" a Beam of ."4,ight, 133, 281
Cross-Cutting Stave Blocks; Machinery for Making Barrels, 453
Crossley's Boomer and Boschert Press, 564
Crushing and Sorting of the Ore; Clausthal Works, 64
Cunningham's Hydraulic Experiments at Roorkee, 10
Curved Nozzle Boring, 376 ,
Cutters and Launch, Steam, U.S., Boilers and Engines for, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 43e009
Cutting Machine, Keyway, 88
Cyclops Blower for Forges, The; 8
Cylinder Saw for Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 502

Dangerous Tanks, 535
Dantzig, Sewage Utilisation at, 301, 526
Danube Works, The New, at Vienna, 225
Davey, Paxman, and Company's Semi-Portable Winding Engine, 149
Davey's Separate Condenser and Air Pump, 37
Myles' Steam Boiler, 175
Daywork or Piecework in Gas Works, 513
Depth of the Sea, Dr. Siemens' Instrument for Measuring the; A Bathometer, 259
" Devastation," The, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, 560
Dewrance and Company's Asbestos-Packed Cocks, 68
Dhu Heartach Lighthouse, The, 376
Diamonds and their Technical Uses, 377
Dinner, Annual, of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 253
Direct Cable, The Breakages in the, 196
Disintegrator, Carter Brothers',129
Dock Extension, The Victoria, Domes, Steam, Ashworth's, 433
Donkin's Experimental Compound Steam Engine, 203
Dordrecht, Pumping Machinery at. By Gwynne, and Company, 198
Dortmund District, The Production of Iron and Steel in, 227
Double-Bogie Carriages for the Midland Railway, 532
Double-Screw Tug-Boat, Bowden's, 253
Douro, Bridge over the River, 108, 149
Draining of Lake Fucino, The, 17, 33
Dredging Plant, Pneumatic, at the Millwall Docks, 136
Dressing of the Coarser Produce from the Coarse Separation; The Clausthal Works, 103
Dressing Works, New; The Clausthal Works, 35
Drill, Cranston's Rock, 87
Drilling Machine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By Ferris and Miles, Philadelphia, 437
Drilling Machines, Fixed and Radial. By W. B. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 551
Dubied's Method of Turning Piston Rings, 107
Dubois and Francois' Air Compressor, 249
Dubois and Francois' Rock-Boring Machinery at the St. Gothard Tunnel, 45
Dabs, Henry, 366
Duckham's Dredger at the Millwall Docks, 136
Dudley, Workmen's Dwellings in, 269
Durand and Marais' Brickmaking Machine, 262
Dutch and Patents, The, 495
Duties of the Judges at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 479
Dwarf Mortar Mill. By W. M. Ward and Company, Tipton, 79
Dwellings Act, The Artisans', 4C7
Dynamite, Frozen, Report of Experiments with, 531

East River Bridge, New York, The, 139
East and West Junction Railway Company, The, v. The Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway Company; Legal Intelligence, 186

ECONOMIC AND MECHANICAL EFFECT OF MACHINES, THE:
Babbage's Economy of Manufactures, 309
Machine Effect compared with Handwork, 355
Manufacturing, 309
Standards for Determining Machine Effect, 310
"Economy of Manufactures," Babbage's, 3G9
Education, Engineering in Japan, 152
Educational Collections; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 550
Efficiency of Screws, The Relative Propelling, 81, 119, 181
Eighteen-Seventy-Four, Accidents on Prussian Railways in, 285
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, Clyde Shipbuilding in, 18
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, The Gas Question in, 55, 258
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, The Importation of Timber in, 37
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, The Scotch Iron Trade in, 37
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, Steam Boiler Explosions in; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 201, 221
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, Water Supply in, 31
Eighteen-Seventy-Six, Legislation in, 151
Eighteen-Seventy-Six, Prospects of the Clyde Shipbuilding Trade for, 51
Eighteen-Seventy Six, Soiree of the Royal society, 3
Eighty-One Ton Gun, Experiments the, 11t, 636
Ekman, Gustaf, 420
Electric Machine, The Gramme Magneto, 147
Electrical Circuit, Proposed Now Arrangement to Avoid the Accidental Closing of. Notes on Torpedoes
Electrical Torpedoes; Notes on Torpedoes 23
Electricity and Magnetism; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 418, 434, 477
Electro-Contact Torpedoes; Notes on Torpedoes, 24
Electro-Mechanical Torpedoes; Notes on Tone-does, 24 •
Emery Wheel, Butler's
Engine and Boilers for U.S. Steam Launch and Cutters, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 486, 509
Engine, Brown's Four-Cylinger,126
Engine Builders, Marine, and the Board of Trade, 561 r.
Engine, Compound Corliss, 187
Engine, Compound, An Experimental-Steam. By B. Donkin and Company, London, 208
Engine, Corliss Beam (1400 HP. Nominal) at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelph19 By George H. Cornea and Company, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 918
Engine, Four-Coupled Tank, for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. Designed by W. Stroudley, 27, 48, 68
Engine Guide of Motion Bars, Marking Out, 330k Engine, Horizontal Compound Corliss (1000 In‘. HP.) for Bombay. By Douglas and Grant, Kirkcaldy, 414
Engine, Ho4zontal, with Variable Expansion Gear. By the General Engine and Boiler Company, London, 859
Engine, Main, and Boiler Houses, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 324, 331
Engine, Marine, Single-Cylinder, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the William Cramp and Sons' Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, 479
Engine, Pumping, at the Hull Water Works By Bells, Lightfoot, and Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 433,461
Engine, Semi-Portable Winding. By Davey, Taxman, and Company, Colchester, 149
Engine and Shearing Machine. By W. Collier'
and Company, Manchester, 479
Engine, Steam Fire, The "Gould," at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By B. S. Nichols and Company, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., 433
Engine, Three-Cylinder Rolling Mill, at the Cyclops Iron Works, Openshaw, 341
Engineer, The, on Steel Boilers, 15
Engineering Education in Japan, 152
Engineering Science and Art, The Inadequate Union of. Address of Mr. Holley, President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 241, '265
Engineering Students, 95

ENGINEERS, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING :
Addresses of the President, A. L. Holley, 61,70, 91, '241, 265
What is Steel ? by A. L. Holley, 108
Inadequate Union of Science and Art, The, by A. L. Holley, 241, 265
On Furnace Hearths, by Geo. Asmus, 496

ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL:
On the New Portage Bridge, by George S. Morison, 882
On the Wear of Rails as Affected by their Quality, by Ashbel Welch, 519, 569
Engineers' Association, Agricultural, Memorandum from the, 105

ENGINEERS, THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF:
On Prime Movers, by Jeremiah Head, 269

ENGINEERS, THE, INSTITUTION OF CIVIL:
Address of the President, 25, 46
On the Ventilation and Working of Railway Tunnels, by Gabriel James Morrison, 47
On the Holyhead New Harbour, by Harrison Hayter, 105
On Carlingford Lough and Greenore, by James Barton, 140
On Estimating the Illuminating Power of Coal Gas, by William Sugg, 161
On Evaporation and Percolation, by Charles Greaves, 191
On the Floods in England and Wales during 1875, and on Water Economy, by George James Symons, 221
On the Hydraulic Canal Lift at Anderton, on the River Weaver, by Sidengham Duer, 227
Annual Dinner, 253
On Sewage Interception Systems, or Dry-Sewage Processes, by Gilbert R. Redgrave 263
Students' Meeting, 323
On the Dhu Heartach Lighthouse, by David Alan Stevenson, 376 .
On the Changes in the Tidal Portion of the River Mersey and its Estuary, by James N. Schoolbred, 377
On Fasciae Work at the Outfalls of the Fen Rivers, and Reclamation a the Foreshore, by W. H. Wheeler, 395
On the Construction of Railway Wagons, with Special Reference to Economy in Dead Weight, by W. R. Brown, 422
On Railway Rolling Stock Capacity, in Relation to the Dead Weight of Vehicles, by W. A. Adams, 425
On the Probable Errors of Levelling, with Rules for the Treatment of Accumulated Errors, by Wilfrid Airy, 181
On the Permanent Way of Railways, by It. Price Williams, 470
Conversazione, 490

ENGINEERS, INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL, THE : 1168; 442
On the Lancashire Boiler, its Construction, Equipment, and Setting, by Lavington E. Fletcher, 370, 397
On the Ogi Paper Mills, Japan, by William Anderson, 399, 422
On the Yield of Wells Sunk in the Chalk in the Central Portion of the London Basin, by Edward Easton, 400
L and Petition to the Members of the House of Commons on the Patents for Inventions Bill, 472
Engineers and Foreign Orders, 487
Engineers in the Navy, 343

ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND, THE-INSTITUTION OF :
On the Action of Water and Frictional Resistance or Loss of Energy when Flowing at Various Velocities through a Nozzle with a Converging Entrance and Diverging Outlet, by James Brownlee, 169, 190
On the Strength and Fracture of Cast Iron, by W. J. Millar, 373

ENGINEERS' SOCIETY, THE EDINBURGH AND LEITH:
On Contractor's Plant, by Alexander Clark, 424, 448

Engineers, The Training of, 843
Engines and Boilers of the Russian Circular Ironclad "Novgorod," 275
Engines, Brotherhood's Three-Cylinder, and Centrifugal Pump. By Brotherhood and Hardingham, London, 534
Engines, Compound, 305
Engines, Compound and Non-Compound; Report of Trials with American Revenue Steamers, 121
Engines, Corliss, of the New Dressing Works; The Clausthal Works, 856
Engines of H.M. Screw Corvette " Rover," 191, 211, 228
Engines for Steam Launch and Cutters, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 436, 509
Engines, Steam Launch, Compound. Designed by N. Selfe, Sydney, 129
Erith, The Strike at; Piecework, 53, 75
Errors of Levelling, The, 181
Estimates, The Navy, 214
" Euphrates," Indian Troopship, Work done by the, 165
Evaporation and Percolation, 191
Exhibition, 1876, The Brussels international, 561

EXHIBITION, THE CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL, PHILADELPHIA:
33, 50,174, 324, 331, 342, 350, 369, 379, 406, 430, 439, 475, 479, 497, 499, 510, 558
Agricultural Implements, 499, 524
Boiler Houses and Main Engine, 324, 831
Boilers, Galloway and Sons', 455
British Catalogue, 475
Bucket-Plunger Pump, Wright's, 420
Circular of the British Commission, 33
Corliss Beam Engine (1400 HP, Nominal), 413
Drilling Machine, Ferris and Miles', 437
Engines and Boilers for Steam Launch and Cutters, 436, 509
Fertilisers, 547
Goods Locomotives, 485, 486, 539, 540
"Gould" Steam Fire Engine, 483
Government Buildings, 50, 499
Gunpowder Pile-Driver, Shaw's, 408
Hotel, The Trans-Continental, 227*
Japanese Tools, 348
Judges, List of, 350, 4
Machine Tools, 427, 454, 523
Machinery Hall, 174
Measuring Machine, Sweet's, 396
Paper-Cutting Machine, Brown and Carver's, 627
Passenger Locomotive, 485
Screw-Cutting Lathe, Ferris Miles', 372
Single-Cylinder Screw Engine, Cramp and Sons', 479
Exhausting Apparatus, Self-Regulating, 515

EXHIBITION OF SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS, THE:
893, 395
Applied Mechanics, 550
Art of Measuring; Address of17),t C. W. Siemens, 493
Berlin Kinematic Models, 465
Educational Collection, The, 550
Historic Machines, 405
Magnetism and Electricity, 418, 434, 477
Meteorological Section, 435
Physics (Heat), 625
Physics (Molecular Physics), 466

Expansion Gear, Ashworth's Variable, Horizontal Compound Engine with, 313
Expansion Gear, Crohn's Unison, 616
Experimental Steam Engine, Donkin's, 203
Experiments at Roorkee, Hydraulic, by Captain A. Cunningham, 10
Experiments with Torpedoes on H.M.S. Oberon," 616
Explosion, The Belfast Boiler: Report of Mr. MacColl to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 189
Explosion, Blackburn Boiler, Mr. Fletcher's Report on the, 6
Explosion, The Bremerhaven, 134
Explosions on Board the s.s. " Propontis," The, 217
Explosions, Boiler; Communication from the Manchester Steam Users' Association to all Members of Parliament, 288
Explosions, Boiler; Statement of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 162
Explosions of the Howard Boiler, 14
Extension of the Victoria Docks, 637
Externally v. Internally Fired Boilers, 5, 21, 56, 84, 175

Facing, Tapping, Nut-Boring, and Nut-Slotting Machines, Hartnell's, 365
Factory Acts, The,233
Fairbairn, Sir William, on the Strength of Boilers, 39'2, 415, 441, 511
Farms, Sewage, 94
Fascine Works on Fen Rivers, 395
Feeder and Grate, Frisbie's, as Applied to a Roots Boiler, 246
Feed-Water Heater, Northcott's, 169
Feelers, Bearing. By S. Alley, Glasgow, 98
Ferrara Marshes, Northern 'Italy, Pumping Machinery at. By John and Henry Gwynne, Hammersmith, 9
Ferris and Miles's Drilling Machine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia; 437
Ferris and Miles's Screw-Cutting Lathe at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 372
Ferro-Manganese, The Uses of, 253
Ferroux Rock Drill, The, 272
Ferry Steam Boat, The Thames, 171
Fertilisers at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 547
Fine Jigging House, The; Clausthal Works, 210
Fine Separation; Clausthal Works, 102
Fire Engine, Steam, The "Gould," at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By B. S. Nichols and Company, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., 438
Fireboxes, The Best Material for, 517
First Lord of the Admiralty, The, and the " Devastation," 560
First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic, The, 376
Fixed and Radial Drilling Machines. By W. B. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 651
Flat Staves, Sawing; Machinery for Making Barrels, 453
Fletcher's Report to the Manchester Steam Users' Association on the Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 6
Floating Depositing Dock, The Nicolaieff, 312
Floods and Economy of Water, 221
Flow of Fluids through Nozzles, The, 169, 190, 287
Flues, Boilers, The Strength of, 511
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 25, 59, 71, 106, 137, 162, 202, 222, 239, 266, 288, 297, 329, 401, 426, 449, 471, 496, 521
Foreign Orders and Engineers, 487
Forges, The Cyclops Blower for, S Foster, Rastrick, and Company's Locomotive, Built in 1829, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 564
Foundations at Pola Harbour, Morell's Submarine, Apparatus for, 127
Four-Cylinder Engine, Brown's, 126
Francois and Dubois' Air Compressor, 249
Freight Car, Box for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 444
Frisbie's Feeder and Grate, as applied to a Roots Boiler, 246
Froude, Mr., at the Institution of Naval Architects; Marine Propulsion, 463
Frozen Dynamite, Report of Experiments with, 531
Fucino, Lake, The Draining of, 17, 33
Furnace, Blast, Charging Apparatus, Weimer's, 98
Furnace Hearths, 496
Furness's Wood-Tenoning Machine, 61

Gallery and Inclined Plane for Blast Furnaces, at the Meier Iron Works, at Bessemer, Ili., U.S.A. Designed by C. A. Smith, 462, 486
Galloway Boilers at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 456
Galvanising Iron W ire, Zinc Bath for, Thum's, 481
Gas, The Illuminating Power of, 161

GAS MANAGERS, THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF: 513

On Further Experience with Concrete Tanks, by George Livesey, 510, 614
On Piecework or Daywork as applied to the Reduction of the Labouring Force in Gas Works, by '1'. Travers, 513
On Washers and Scrubbers, by C. Hunt, 514
On Heating and Setting Retorts, by W. Richards, 514, 565
On the Qualities of Iron and Steel, by W. Mattieu Williams, 514
On the Reduction of Sunday Labour in Gas Works, by Corbett Woodall, 514
On Sulphur in Gas, by G. Livesey, 515
On Pipes and Pipe Joints, Service Mains, by W. J. Warner, 515
On Self-Regulating Exhausting Apparatus, by F. W. Fison, 515
On the Valuation of Ammoniacal Liquor, by W. D. Child, 615
General Business, 515
Beckton Gas Works, Visit to the, 638

Gas Question, The, in 1875, 55, 258
Gas, Sulphur in, 515
Gases, Blast Furnace, 262, 275, 305
Gasholders and Workshops at the Beckton Gas Works, 538
Gauge, The Narrow, in India, 391
Gear, Crohn's Unison Expansion, 516
Gems, Presidential, 198
Geometrical Lines of Construction, A New System of Perspective Dispensing with, 335, 421, 469, 530
German Mining and Iron Industries, 136
" Germanic," Steamship, Abstract of the Log of the, 171
Glaciarium, The, 226, 384
Glasgow and the Sewage Question, 300
Glass from Blast Furnace Slag, 491
Goods Locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 639, 540
Goods and Passenger Locomotives at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 485, 486
Gothard Tunnel, The St., 358
"Gould" Steam Fire Engine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By B. D. Nichols and Company, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., 433
Government Buildings at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 60, 499
Gradients on Railways, Overcoming Steep, 329 Gramme Magneto-Electric Machine, The, 147
Grate and Feeder, Frisbie's, as applied to a Roots Boiler, 246
Greenore and Carlingford Lough. 140
Grinder, Universal Tool By Thomson, Sterne, and Company, Glasgow, 397
Grinding Machine, Twist Drill. By Thomson, Sterne, and Company, Glasgow, 24
Gun, The 81-Ton, Experiments with the, 195, 536
Gun, Jacketted Field, 16-Pounder. By the Broad-well Ordnance Company, Carlsruhe, 17
Gunpowder Pile-Driver, Shaw's, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the American Dredger Company, Philadelphia, 408
Guns of H.M.S. " Temeraire," 416
Gwynne and Company's Pumping Machinery at Dordrecht, 198
Gwynne's, J. and H., Pumping Machinery at the Ferrara Marshes, Northern Italy, 9

Handwork, Machine Effect Compared with, 355
Harbours of Refuge. Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25
Hartnell's Nut-Boring, Nut-Slotting, Tapping, and Facing Machines, 365
Hawkshaw, Sir John, and the Sewage of Glasgow, 800
Head's Patent Prime Mover, 269
Health and Sewage of Towns, The, 432
Hearths, Furnace, 496
Heater, Northcott's Feed-Water, 169
Heating and Setting Retorts, The Theory of, 514, 565
H.M.S. " Inflexible," 352
H.M.S. " Oberon," Experiments with Torpedoes on, 516
H.M. Screw Corvette "Rover," Engines of, 191, 211, 228
H.M.S. "Serapis," The Boilers of, 215
H.M.S. "Temeraire," 416
Herefordshire, West, Railway Progress in, 277
Historic Machines; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 465
Hoist, Self-Landing and Self-Delivering. By John Barker and Sons, Oldham, 389
Holland, The Abolition of Patents in, 488, 495
Holley, Mr. A. L., President QI the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Addresses of, 61, 70; 91, 241, 265
Holyhead New Harbour, 105
Hook, Trip, for Tug-Boats, 295
Horizontal Compound Corliss Engine (1000 Ind. HP.) for Bombay. By Douglas and Grant, Kirkcaldy, 414
Horizontal Compound Engine with Ashworth's Variable Expansion Gear, 315
Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear. By the General Engine and Boiler Company, London, 359
Hotel, The Trans-Continental, at Philadelphia, 227
Hotels at Philadelphia, 234
Houses Act, The Artisans', 467
Houses, Workmen's, in Dudley, 259
Howard Boiler, The, 14
Howden and Company's Double-Screw Tug Boat, 253
Hughes's Lubricator, 492
Hull Water Works, Pumping Engines at. By Bells, Lightfoot, and Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 433, 461
Hyde Junction, Messrs. D. Adamson and Company's Works at, 291
Hydraulic Brake, Barker's, 187
Hydraulic Canal Lift at Anderton, 227
Hydraulic Experiments at Roorkee, by Captain A. Cunningham, 10
Hydraulic Rivetter and Crane, Portable, at Crewe Works, Tweddell's, 116
Hydraulic Rivetter, Tweddell's. By Fielding and Platt, Gloucester, 493

Ice, The Manufacture of; The Glaciarium, 226, 384
Illuminating Power of Gas, The, 161
Imperial Standards of Length for the Free Use of the Public, 487
Implements, Agricultural, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 499, 624
Importation of Timber in 1875, The, 37
Improved Circuit-Closers, Mathieson's; Notes on Torpedoes, 224 410,
Inclined Plane and Gallery for Blast Furnaces at the Meier Iron Wogs, at Bessemer, 111., U.S.A. Designed by C. A. Smith, 462, 486
India, The Narrow Gauge ina0191
Indian Troopships, Our, 163
Indian Railways, The Construction of, 464
" Inflexible," 352
Institute, The Iron and Steel (See Iron and Steel Institute)
Institution of Civil Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
Institution of Cleveland Engineers (See Engineers The Cleveland institution of
Institution of Engineers and shipbuilders, Scotland (See Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland)
Institution of Marine Engineers; Presidential Gems, 198
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers. Institution of Mecnanic,a1)
Institution of Naval Architects (See Naval Architects)
Internally v. Externally Fired Boilers, 5, 21, 56, 84, 175
International Law and Submarine Cables, 233
International Exhibition, 1876, The Brussels, 661
Inventions, the Policy of Protection for: The Dutch and Patents, 495
Inventors, Notes for the Guidance of (See Patents)
Iron Industries and German Mining, 136
Iron Ure in Norway, '276
Iron Ores, The Reduction of, 31
Iron and Steel, American Tests of, 375
Iron and Steel in the Dortmund District, The Production. of, 227

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE: 260,282

On the Uses of Ferro-Manganese, by M. F. Gautier, of Paris, 253.
On the Casson-Dormoy Puddling Furnace, by E. Fisher Smith, 265
On Cal bun and Other Deposits from the Gases of Islas' Furnaces in Cleveland, by John Pattison, 262, 275, 305
On the Ferroux Rock Drill, by H. W. Pendred, 272
Notes on Iron Ore Deposits at Naeverhangen, near Bodoe, Norway, by Thorsten Nordenfelt, 276
On Improved Casting Arrangements for the Siemens-Martin Process, by Michael Scott, 293
On Overcoming Steep Gradients on Railways, by Henry Handyside, 329
Iron and Steel Manufacture, Some Pressing Needs of our. Address of Mr. Holley, President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 61, 70, 91
Iron and Steel, The Qualities of, 614
Iron and Steel for Shipbuilding, 322
Iron and Steel, Works of the United States, The, 222
Iron Trade Association, The British, 153, 174
Iron Trade, The Scotch, in 1873, 37
Iron Trade Employers' Association, Supplement to Annual Report; The Piece-Work Question, 307
Ironclad Navy, The, 258
Ironclad " Devastation," The, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, b6u
Ironclad, H.M.S. Temeraire," 416
Ironclad, Russian Circular, The - "Novgorod," Boilers and Engines of, 275
Ironclads Circular, 112, 281, 299, 807
Ironclads and Torpedoes, 321

Jacketted Field Gun, 16-pounder. By the Broadwell Ordnance Company, Carlsruhe, 17
Japan, Engineering Education in, 152
Japanese, The, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 348
Jigging House, The Coarse; Clausthal Works, 167
Jigging House, The Vine, Clausthal Works, 210
Johnson's Beam Compass, 139
Joint Stock Companies in Prussia, 491
Jointing and Bevelling Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 503
Joints, Rivetted, 415
Journal, The Trade Marks, 368
Judges at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 360, 479
" Jumna," Indian Troopship, Work done by the, 164

Keyway Cutting Machine, 88
Key way Grooving, Combined Duplex Boring, and Turning Machine, Atock's, 312
Kenyon's Low Water Alarm, 168 1iineruatic Models, The Berlin; The Exhibition of scientific Apparatus, 465
Koch and Muller's Universal Lathe, 129

Labour in Gas Works, Sunday, 514
Lake Fucino, The Draining or, 17, 33
Lancashire Boiler, The, 310, 397
Land Lines and Cables, Telegraphic, 75, 135
Lansdowne Valley Bridge, The; Designed by J. M. Wilson and H. Pettit, 90
Lanthorn for Vessels, Signal. By F. W. Wymer, Greenock, 89
Lathe, Screw-Cutting, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By Ferris and Miles, Philadelphia, 372
Lathe for Turning Piston Rods for Horizontal Engines, Schonheyder's, 148
Lathe, Universal, Koch and Muller's, 129
Lathes, Slide, Group of Self-Acting. By Shaw Hossack, and Company, Openshaw, Manchester, 406
Launch and Cutters, Steam, U.S., Boilers and Engines for, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 436, 609
Launch, Steam, Compound Engines for. Designed by N. Selfe, Sydney, 129
Launch of the Torpedo Ship " Zieten," 211
Law, International, and submarine Cables, 233
Legal Intelligence, 159, 180
Legge's Proposed Royal Albert Bridge across the Liver St. Lawrence, 249
Legislation in 1876, 151
Legislation in 1875 for the Supply of Water, 31
Legislation, Shipping, 54, 76, 9J 113, 131, 207, 344
Leith and Edinburgh Engineers' Society (see Engineers' Society. The Edinburgh and Leith)
Length, Imperial Standards of, for the Free Use of the Public, 487
Letter and Petition to the Members of the House of Commons on the Patents for Inventions ) ill, 472
Levelling, The Errors of, 181
Ley and Shearer’s Boiler Tube Stoppers, 26
Light, The Action of, on Selenium, li.;1
Light and Putrefaction, 74
Light, Weighing' a Beam of, 133, 281
Lighthouse, The Dhu Hear Litchi 376
Lightning in Wales, 551
Lime for Northern Metallurgy, 507
Linear Arch or Suspension Chain; Arched Ribs and Suspension Bridges, 183
Lines Committee, The Cheshire, 301
Lining or Marking out Work, 119, 139, 330, 521 List of Judges at the Centennial international Exhibition, Philadelphia, 350
List of Materials, Price, 20, 38, 60, 80, 100, 118, 138, 158, 180, 200, 220, 240, 264, 286, 306, 325, 364, 878, 402, 426, 450, 474, 498, 522, 646, 570
Livermore's Proposed Circuit-Closer; Notes on Torpedoes, 404
Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington, The, 393, 395, 418, 434, 465, 477, 525, 650
Locomotive Boilers, American; Report to the "Master Mechanics' Convention," Philadelphia, 517, 580
Locomotive, Completion of the 2000th, at the Crewe Works, 458
Locomotive, Four-coupled Tank, for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 27, 48, 68
Locomotive, Goods (" Consolidation" Type), for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 539, 540
Locomotive, The "Lion." Built by Rastrick and Company, Stourbridge, in 1829, at the Centennial international Exhibition, Philadelphia, 564
Locomotive Performances on the Philadelphia Railroad, 539
Locomotives, Passenger and Goods, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 485, 486
Log of the Steamship "Germanic," Abstract of the, 171
London Bridge; Special Meeting of the Court of Common Council, 113
London Chalk, Wells in the, 400
London Water Supply, The, 173
Longridge's Locomotive, 216, 282, 345
Loss of Steam Vessels at Sea; Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 46
Low-Water Alarm, Kenyon's, 168
Lubricator, Hughes's, 492

Machine, Atock's Combined Duplex Boring, Turning, and Keyway Grooving, 312
Machine, Band Sawing, for Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 454
Machine, Brickmaking, Durand and Marais', 262
Machine, Car Wheel Boring. By William B. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 605
Machine, Combined Thrashing and Finishing By Nalder, and Nalder, Wantage, 207
Machine, Disintegrating, Carter's Patent, 129
Machine, Drilling, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By Ferris and Miles, Philadelphia, 437
Machine Effect compared with Handwork, 355 Machine, Keyway Cutting, 88
Machine, Measuring. Designed by J. E. Sweet, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 396
Machine, Paper-Cutting, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By Brown and Carver, Philadelphia, 527
Machine, Shearing, and Engine. By W. Collier and Company, Manchester, 479
Machine, Tapping and Screwing. By the Pratt and Whitney Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 248
Machine Tools at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 427, 454, 523
Machine, Twist Drill Grinding. By Thomson, Sterne, and Company, Glasgow, 24
Machine, Wood Tenoning. By W. Furness and Sons, Liverpool, 61
Machinery, Agricultural; Memorandum from the Agricultural Engineers' Association, 105
Machinery, Richards' Cask-Making. By A. Ransome and Company, 95
Machinery Hall at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 174
Machinery for Making Barrels (See Barrels) Machinery, Paper Box Making, 23S
Machinery, Pumping, at Dordrecht. By Gwynne and Company, 198
Machinery, Pumping, at the Ferrara Marshes. By John and Henry Gwynne, 9
Machinery, Rock-Boring, Dubois and Francois', at the St. Gothard Tunnel, 45
Machines, Drilling. Fixed and Radial. By W. B. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 551
Machines, The Economic and Mechanical Effect or (See Economic and Mechanical Effect of Machines)
Machines, Hartnell's Nut-Boring, Nut-Slotting, Tapping, and Facing, 365
Machines, Historic; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 465
Machines, Pooley's Weighing, 493
Magnetism and Electricity; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 418, 484, 477
Magneto-Electric Machine, The Gramme, 147 Mains, Service, 516
Malabar," Indian Troopship, Work done by the, 164
Malice and Submarine Cables, 151, 535
Manchester Steam Users' Association, Annual Meeting of the, 234
Manchester Steam Users' Association on Boiler Explosions, 162
Manchester Steam Users' Association, Resolution submitted by the, to all Members of Parliament, 288
Manganese Bronze, 152
Manganese Steel, The Manufacture of, 254
Marine Engine Builders and the Board of Trade, 561
Marine Engine, Single-Cylinder, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the William Cramp and Sons' Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, 479
Marine Propulsion, 463
Marking Out or Lining Work, 119, 139, 330, 521
Marks, Trade, The Registration of, 14, 217, 261, b37
Marten's Report of Steam Boiler Explosions in 1875, 201, 221
Material and Coal on Railways, 227
Materials, Price List of, 20, 38, 60, 80, 100, 118, 138, :68,180, 200, 220, 240, 264, 286, 306, 325, 854, 378, 402, 426 450, 474, 498, 522, 546, 570
Mathieson's Circuit-Closers; Notes on Torpedoes, 153, 224
Measuring, The Art of; Opening Address of Dr. C. W. Siemens at the Mechanical Section of the Conferences, South Kensington, 493
Measuring Machine. Designed by J. E. Sweets gat the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 396
Mechanical Torpedoes; Notes on Torpedoes, 24
Mechanics, Applied; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 65u Mechanical Stoking, 514
Meeting, Annual, of the British Association of Gas Managers, 513
Meeting, Annual, of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 234
Meeting, Students', at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 323
Merchant Shipping Bill, The, 154, 178, 213, 279, 367, 394
Mersey, the River, 877
Metallurgy, Northern, Lime for, 507
Meteorological Section; The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 435
Metropolitan Board of Works and the Water Supply, 173
Metropolitan and City Gas Question, The, 55, 258
Midland Railway, Double-Bogie Carriages for the, 532
Mill Engine, Three-Cylinder Rolling, at the Cyclops Iron Works Openshaw, 341
Mills, Rope Transmission in. By Pearce Brothers, Dundee, 79
Millwall Docks, Pneumatic Dredging Plant Wee, 136
Mine, The Ontario, Utah, Steam Pump at the. By William J. Silver, Salt Lake City, 268
Mines, Submarine Experiments to Ascertain the Explosive Effects of, at Portsmouth; Notes on Torpedoes, 185
Mining Experiments, Submarine, on the Medway; Notes on Torpedoes, 18.5
Mining School, The Bristol, 564
Mining and Iron Industries, German, 136
Mississippi, River, the Mouth of the, 140
Modern and Ancient Water Works, 403, 457, 500
Morell's Apparatus for Laying Submarine Foundations at Pola Harbour, 127
Mortar Mill. By W. M. Ward and Company, Tipton, 79
Motion Bars or Engine Guide, Marking Out, 330
Motion, The Origin of, 1, 39, 83, 141, 206, 243, 280, 382, 451
Mover, Head's Patent Prime, 269
Muller and Koch's Universal Lathe, 129
Museum and Patent Office, The, 464, 511

Nalders' Combined Thrashing and Finishing Machine, 207
Napier, Robert, 551
Narrow Gauge, The, in India, 301
Narrow Gauge Tramways. Steam Tramcar for (Fairlie's System). Designed by A. Brunner, Berne, Switzerland, 252

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF :

On Circular Ironclads, by E. E. Goulaeff, 284, 307
On the Compound Surface Condensing Engines of the Paddle Steamer " Hirondelle," by M. J. A. Normand, 305
On the Nicolaieff Floating Depositing Dock, by Latimer Clark, 312
On Water-Tube Boilers, by J. F. Flannery, 318, 349
On Pumping and Ventilating Arrangements on Shipboard, by Thomas Morley, 327

Navy, The American, 13
Navy, Engineers in the, 343
Navy Estimates, The 214
Navy, The Strength of the, 193, 258
New Harbour, Holyhead, 105
New York Herald, The, on the Philadelphia Exhibition, 497
New York to San Francisco; From Atlantic to Pacific, 560
Nicolaieff Floating Depositing Dock, The, 312
Nile, the Barrage of the River, 40, 101, 143, 218, 245, 338, 379
Non-Compound and Compound Engines; Report of Trials with American Revenue Steamers, 121
Northcott's Feed-Water Heater, 169
Notes from Cleveland, 19, 29, 47, 67, 99, 109, 137, 157, 179 199, 211, 238, 247, 285, 324, 340, 372, 390, 419, 443, 462, 483, 510, 539, 558
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 25, 59, 71, 106, 137, 162, 202, 222, 239, 266, 288, 297, 329, 401, 425, 449, 471, 496, 521
Notes for the Guidance of Inventors (See Patents)
Notes from the North, 19, 29, 43, 79, 99, 117, 136, 157, 179, 199, 211, 23e, 251, 285, 297, 324, 347, 371, 396, 419, 443, 462, 483, 515, 534, 558
Notes from the South-West, 19, 25, 42, 71, 99, 117, 137, 156, 179, 199, 219, 239, 247, 284, 297, 324, 348, 371, 395, 419, 443, 462, 486, 515, 534, 558
Notes from South Yorkshire, 20, 29, 43, 67, 98, 118, 138, 149, 179, 199, 211, 239, 247, 274, 297, 324, 339, 372, 396, 419, 443, 462, 486, 510, 540, 664
Notes on Torpedoes, 15, 22, 96, 153, 184, 224, 404, 475, 549 (See Torpedoes)
Northern Metallurgy, Lime for, 507
Novel Locomotive, A, 216, 282, 345
"Novgorod," Russian Circular ironclad, Boilers and Engines of the, 275
Nozzles, Boring Curved, 376
Nozzles, The Flow of Fluids through, 169, 190, 281
Nut-Boring, Nut-Slotting, Tapping, and Facing Machines, Hartnell's, 365

OBITUARY : (Moved to separate index)
"Oberon," H.M.S., Torpedo Experiments on, 616
Ocean Steam Navigation; Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 46
Office, The Patent, 464, 511
Office, Patent, Publications of the, 116
Office, The Patent, Resignation of Mr. Woodcroft, 283
Official Summary of Railway Accidents for 1876, 313
Ogi Paper Mill, Japan, The 399, 422
Opening of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, The, 431
Opening of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 467
Opening of the Settle and Carlisle Railway, 439
Orders, Foreign, and Engineers, 487
Ore, Crushing and Sorting of; The Clausthal Works, 64
Ore-Dressing Works, The Clausthal (See Clausthal Ore-Dressing Works)
Ore, Iron, in Norway, 276
Origin of Motion, The, 1, 39, 83, 141, 206, 243, 280, 332, 451
Ores, Iron, The Reduction of, 31
Ores, Conveyance of the; The Clausthal Works, 36
Oxley Creek Railway Bridge, Brisbane. By Robinson and I'Anson, Darlington, 558

Pacific, From Atlantic to, 560
Pacific Guano Company, Massachusetts, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 547
Paper Box Making Machinery, 238
Paper-Cutting Machine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By Brown and Carver, Philadelphia, 527
Paper Mill, The Ogi, Japan, 399, 422
Parson's Manganese Bronze, 152
Passenger and Goods Locomotives at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 485, 486
Patent Bill, The, 193, 215, 258, 265, 393, 417, 441, 472
Patent Office, The, 464, 511
Patent Office Publications, The, 116
Patent Office, The, Resignation of Mr. Woodcroft, 283
Patents in Americas, 145
Patents in Holland. the Abolition of, 488, 495

PATENTS; NOTES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF INVENTORS:

No. VII., VIII. Austria and Hungary, 66, 165
No. IX. Baden, 503

Pearces' Rope Transmission in Mills, 79
Percolation and Evaporation, 191
Permanent Way, 470
Perspective, A New System of, Dispensing with Geometrical Lines of Construction, 335, 421, 469, 530
Petition and Letter to the Members of the House of Commons on the Patents for Inventions Bill, 472
Philadelphia Exhibition, The (See Exhibition, The Centennial, International, Philadelphia)
Philadelphia, Hotels at, 227, 234
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Opening of the, 467
Philadelphia, Voyage to, 369

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW, THE;

On some Erroneous Notions usually Held about the Vena Contracts, with Special Reference to the Prevalent Idea that it is to a Great Extent Caused by the Convergence of the Steam towards the Orifice, by Robert D. Napier, 287

Physics (Heat); The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 525
Physics (Molecular Physics); The Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 466
Piecework or Day work in Gas Works, 513 Piecework Question, The; Supplement to Annual Report of the iron Trades Employers' Association, 307
Piecework , Strike at Erith, 53, 75
Pile-Driver, Shaw's Gunpowder, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the American Dredger Company, Philadelphia, 408
Piston Rings, Dubied's Method of Turning, 107
Piston Rods for Horizontal Engines, Schonheyder's Lathe for Turning, 148
Plant, Contractor's, 424, 41t$
Plimpton's Roller skates, 155
Pneumatic Dredging Plant at the Millwall Docks, 136
Pola Harbour, Apparatus for Laying Submarine Foundations at. Designed by H. Morell, Berne, 127
Pooley's Weighing Machines, 493
Portable Hydraulic Rivetter and Crane at Crewe Works, Tweddell's, 116
Portage Bridge, The New, 382
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. George Robert Stephenson, Address of the, 25, 46
Presidential Gems, 198
Press, The Boomer and Boschert, 564
Price List of Materials, 20, 38, 60, 80, 100, 118, 138, 158, 180, 200, 220, 240, 264, 286, 306, 825, 354, 378, 402, 426, 450, 474, 498, 522, 546, 570
Prime Mover, Head's Patent, 269
Principles, Construction, and Uses of the Aneroid, The, 223, 490
Propeller, Screw, Thornycroft's, 88
Propelling Efficiency of Screws, The Relative, 81, 119, 181
" Propontis," Steamship, The Explosions on Board the, 217
Propulsion, Marine, 4G3
Prospects of the Clyde Shipbuilding Trade for 1876, 51
Prussia, Joint Stock Companies in, 491
Prussian Railways in 187+, Accidents on, 285 Publications, 1 he Patent Office, 116
Puddling Furnace, The Casson-Dormoy, 255 Pump, Air-Compressing, Wyllie's, 517
Pump, Bucket-Plunger, N% right's, at the Centennial International, Philadelphia, 420
Pump, Centrifugal, and Brothel hood's Three-Cylinder Engines, 534
Pump, Steam, at the Ontario Mine, Utah. By \V. J. Silver, Salt Lake City, 268
Pumping Engines at Hull Water Works. By Bells, Lightfoot, and Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 433, 461
Pumping Machinery at Dordrecht. By Gwynne and Company, Essex-street Works, strand, 198
Pumping Machine, y at the Ferrara Marshes, Northern Italy. By John and Henry Gwynne, Hammersmith, 9
Pumping and Ventilating Arrangements on Shipboard, 327
Putrefaction and Light, 74

Radial and Fixed Drilling Machines. By W. E. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 551
Radiometer, The, 133, 281
Railroad, The New York Central and Hudson River, Box Freight Car for, 444
Railroad Relic, A, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 564
Railroads, American, 2
Rails, The Wear of, as Affected by their Quality, 519, 569
Railway Accidents, Board of Trade Summary of, for 1575, 313
Railway Bridge Improvements, Stepney, 370, 420
Railway Bridge, Oxley Creek, Brisbane. By Robinson and I'Anson, Darlington, 558
Railway Carriages, Two-Story, for Swiss Branch Railways. By the Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Friburg, Switzerland, 104
Railway Collisions, The Abbotts Ripton, 73, 111, 280
Railway Collisions, The Cost of, 470
Railway Commission, the; Legal Intelligence, 186
Railway Committee, The Cheshire Lines, 301
Railway Progress in West Herefordshire, 277
Railway, The Settle and Carlisle, Opening of, 439
Railway Systems, English and Continental;
Effects of the Channel Tunnel on the, 489
Railway Traffic, American, Automatic Brock Signals for, 428
Railway Tunnels, the Ventilation of, 47
Railway Wagons, 422
Railway Wheels, Ainscow's Tyre Fastener for, 376
Railway Wheels, Cast-Iron, in the United States, 512
" Railways, Cheap; Longridge's Locomotive, 216, 282, 345
Railways, Coal and Materials on, 227
Railways in India, The Narrow Gauge, 391
Railways, Indian, The Construction of, 464
Railways, Prussian, in 1874, Accidents on, 285
Ransome, A., and Company's Cask-Making Machinery, 95
Reading and Philadelphia Railroad, Opening of the, 467
Redman, J. B., on Thames Tides, 292
Reduction of Iron Ores, The, 81
Reed's, Mr. E. J., Lecture on Circular Ironclads, 112
Refrigeration, Artificial; The Glaciarium, 226, 384
Registration of Trade Marks, The, 14, 217, 261, 537
Relative Propelling Efficiency of Screws, The, 81, 119, 181
Repairing the Crankshaft of the Steamship " Colima," 492
Repairing Telegraph Cables, 135
Report, Annual, to the Iron Trades Employers' Association, Supplement to the; The Piecework Question, 307
Report, Annual, of the United States Commissioner of Patents, 145
Report of the Board of Trade on the Abbotts Ripton Accident, 280
Report of Colonel Cox on the Thames Valley Sewage, 822
Report of Experiments with Frozen Dynamite, 531
Report of the Factory and Workshops Act Commission; The Factory Acts, 233
Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association on the Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 6
Report of Messrs. Loring and Emery on Trials with American Revenue steamers; Compound and Non-Compound Engines, 121
Report of Mr. MacColl to the Manchester Steam Users' Association on the Belfast Boiler Explosion, 189
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Steam Boiler Explosions in 1875, 201, 221
Report to the "Master Mechanics' Convention," Philadelphia, on Locomotive Boilers, 517, 530
Report of Mr. Robeson on the American Navy, 13
Retort Houses, The, Beckton Gas Works, 538
Retorts, Theory of Setting, 514,565
Revolving Shutters, Woodburne's, 248
Rings, Piston, Dubied's Method of Turning, 107
River Danube Works, The New, at Vienna, 225
River Douro, Bridge over the, 108, 149
River Mersey, The, 377
River Mississippi, The Mouth of the, 140
River Nile, The Barrage of the, 40, 101, 143, 218, '45, 338, 379
Rivers, Fen, Fascine Works on, 395
Rivetted Joints, 415
Rivetter, Tweddell’s Hydraulic, 493
Robinson and I'Anson's Oxley Creek Railway Bridge, 558
Rock-Boring Machinery, Dubois and Francois', at the St. Gothard Tunnel, 45
Rock Drill, Cranston's, 87
Rock Drill, The Ferroux, 272
Rods, Piston, for Horizontal Engines, Schonheyder's Lathe for Turning, 148
Roller Skates, Plimpton's, 155
Rolling Bridge over the Thames, Proposed. Designed by U. Barclay Bruce, Westminster, 188 Rolling or Compressing Staves; Machinery for Making Barrels, 502
Rolling Mill Engine, Three Cylinder, at the Cyclops iron Works, Openshaw, 341
Rolling Stock, The Capacity of, 425
Rolls, Middle and Fine; Clausthal Works, 167
Roof of Main Exhibition Building, Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 510, 558
Roorkee, Hydraulic Experiments at, by Captain A. Cunningham, 10
Roots Boiler, Frisbie's Feeder and Grate as Applied to a, 246
Rope Transmission in Mills. By Pearce Brothers, Dundee, 79
"Rover," H.M. Screw Corvette, Engines of, 191, 211, 228
Royal Albert Bridge, The Proposed, across the River St. Lawrence, 249
Royal Navy, Engineers in the, 343
Royal Society, Soirée of the, 1876, 300
Russian Circular Ironclad " Novgorod," Boilers and Engines of the, 275

San Francisco, From New York to; From Atlantic to Pacific, 560
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 358
St. Gothard Tunnel, Dubois and Francois' Rock-Boring Machinery at, 45
St. George's Hospital Water Tank, Bursting of the; Dangerous Tanks, 535
Sanitary Legislation in 1876, 151
Saw for Staves, Cylinder; Machinery for Making Barrels, 502
Sawing Flat Staves; Machinery fur Making Barrels, 453
Sawing Stave Blocks; Machinery for Making Barrels, 452
Schonheyder's Lathe for Turning Piston Rods for Horizontal Engines, 148
School, The Bristol Mining, 564
Scientific Apparatus, The Exhibition of, 393, 395, 418, 434, 4045, 477, 525, 550
Scientific Conferences at South Kensington, 395 Scotch iron Trade, The, in 1875, 37
Screw Corvette "Rover," H.M., Engines of the, 191, 211, 228
Screw-Cutting Lathe at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By Ferris and Miles, Philadelphia, 372
Screw Propeller, Thornycroft's, 88
Screwing and Tapping Machine. By the Pratt and Whitney Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 248
Screws, The Relative Propelling Efficiency of, 81, 119, 181
Scrubbers and Washers, 514
Selig and Company's shaped Diamond Points; Diamonds and their Technical Uses, 377
Selenium, The Action of Light on, 161
Self-Landing and Self-Delivering Hoist. By John Barker and Sons, Oldham, 389
Self-Regulating Exhausting Apparatus, 615
Semi-Portable Winding Engine. By Davey, Paxman, and Company, Colchester, 149
Separate Condenser, Davey's, and Air Pump, Separation of Goods and Mineral from Passenger Traffic on Railways; Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 2b
Separation House, The Coarse; The Clausthal Works, 65
Service Mains, 515
Serapis," H.M.S., The Boilers of, 215
" Serapis," Indian Troopship, Work done by the, 165
Settle and Carlisle Railway, Opening of the, 439 Sewage Farm, 94
Sewage and Health of Towns, The, 432
Sewage Question, The, and Glasgow, 300
Sewage Scheme, 1 he Thames Valley, 322 Sewage, The Treatment of, 263
Sewage Utilisation at Dantzig, 301, 526
Shaw's Gunpowder Pile-Driver at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By the American Dredger Company, Philadelphia, 408
Shaw, Hossack, and Company's Group of Self-Acting Slide Lathes, 406
Sheaf-Binder, Wood's, 68
Shearing Machine and Engine. By W. Collier and Company, Manchester, 479
Ship, Torpedo, The " Zieten," Launch of, 211
Shipbuilding on the Clyde in 1875, 16
Shipbuilding, iron and. Steel for, 312
Shipbuilding Trade, 'I he Clyde; Prospects for 1876, 51
Shipping Bill, The Merchant, 154, 173, 213, 279, 367, 334
Shipping Legislation, 54, 76, 93, 113, 131, 257, 344
Ships, Armoured and Unarmoured; The Navy Estimates, 214
Shutters, Woodburne's Revolving. By Salmon, Barnes, and Company, Ulverston, 248
Siemens' Instrument for Measuring the Depth of the Sea; A Bathometer, 259
Siemens-Martin Steel Casting, 293
Signal Lanthorns for Vessels. By F. W. Wymer, Greenock, 813
Signals, Automatic Block, for American Railway Traffic, 428
Silver's Steam Pump at the Ontario Mine, Utah, 268
Single-Cylinder Marine Screw Engine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By William Cramp and sons, 479
Sixteen-Pounder Jacketted Field Gun. By the Broadwell Ordnance Company, Carlsruhe, 17
Skates, Plimpton's Roller, 155
slag, Blast Furnace, Glass from, 491
Slide Lathes, Group of Self-Acting. By Shaw. Hossack, and Company, Openshaw, Manchester, 406
Slide Valve, Weatherhogg's Balanced, 168
Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse, Experiments by the, on Internally v. Externally Fired Boilers, 5, 21, 56, 84, 175
Soft Steel, Manufacture of, 253
Soiree of the Royal Society, 1876, 300
Some Pressing Needs of our Iron and Steel Manufactures. Address of Mr. Holley, President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 61, 70, 91
South-West, Notes from the, 19, 28, 42, 71, 99, 117, 137, 156, 179, 199, 219, 239, 247, 284, 297, 324, 348, 371, 395, 419, 443, 462, 486, 515, 534, 558 South Yorkshire, Notes from, 20, '29, 43,.67, 98, 118, 138, 149, 179, 199, 211, 239, 247, 27$, 297, 324, 339, 372, 396, 419, 443, 462, 486, 510, 540, 564
Spalding, H. C., on the Black Sea and the Caspian,;;50
Stamp House ("Pocharbeit"); The Clausthal Works, 303
Standards of Length, Imperial, for the Free Use of the Public, 487
Standards for determining Machine Effect, 310
Statue of James Carmichael at Dundee, 538
Stave Blocks, Cross-cutting; Machinery for Making Barrels, 453
Steam Boiler, Davies', 175
Steam Boiler Explosions in 1875; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 201, 221
Steam Boilers, The Strength of, .392, 415, 441, 511
Steam Domes. By John Ashworth, Bolton, 433
Steam Engine, Compound, An Experimental. By B. Dunkin and Company, London, 203
Steam Ferry Boat, The Thames, 171
Steam Fire Engine, the " at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By B. S. Nichols and Company, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., 433
Steam Launch Compound Engines. Designed by N. Selfe, Sydney, 129
Steam Launches, Engines and Boilers, for, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. Designed at the Washington Navy Yard, U.S.A., 4b6, 509
Steam Pump at the Ontario Mine, Utah. By William J. Silver, Salt Lake City, 268
Steam Tramcar (Fairlie's System) for Narrow Gauge Tramways. Designed by A. Brunner, Berne, Switzerland, 2D2
Steam Users' Association, Manchester, Annual Meeting of the, 234
Steam Users' Association, Manchester, on Boiler Explosions, 162
Steamer, The First to Cross the Atlantic, 376
Steamship " Colima," Repairing the Crankshaft of the, 492
Steamship "Germanic," Abstract of the Log of the, 171
Steamship " Propontis," The Explosions on Board the, 217
Steel Boilers at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia. By W. and J. Galloway and Sons, Manchester, 455
Steel Boilers, 116 Engineer on, 16
Steel and Iron, American Tests of, 375
Steel and Iron in the Dortmund District, The Production of, 227
Steel and Iron institute (See Iron and Steel Institute)
Steel and Iron for Shipbuilding, 322
Steel and Iron, the Qualities of, 514
Steel and Iron Works of the United States, The 222
Steel Production, American Bessemer, 422
Steel, The Structure of, 559
Steel, Use of Inferior Materials in the Manufacture of, 254
Steel, What is ? 108
Steep Gradients on Railways, On Overcoming, Stephenson, Mr. George Robert, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Address of, 25, 46
Stepney Railway Bridge Improvements, 370, 420
Stoking, Mechanical, 514
Strength of Boilers, The, 892, 415, 441, 511 Strength and Fracture of Cast Iron, The, 373
Strength of the Navy, The, 193, '258
Strike at Erith, The Piecework, 53, 75
Stroudley's Tank Locomotive for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 27, 48, $8
Structure of Steel, The, 559
Students, Engineering, 95
Students' Meetings at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 323
Submarine Cables and International Law, 233
Submarine Cables and Malice, 151, 535
Submarine Foundations at Pola Harbour, Apparatus for Laying. By B. Morel!, Berne, 127
Submarine Mines, Experiments to Ascertain the Explosive Effect of, at Portsmouth; Notes on Torpedoes, 185
Submarine Mining Experiments on the Medway; Notes on Torpedoes, 185
Sulphuric Acid, The Concentration of, 145 Sulphur in Gas, 515
Summary of the Patent Bill, 265
Sunday Labour in Gas Works, 514
Suspension Bridges and Arched Ribs, with their Auxiliaries, 63, 183
Sweet's Measuring Machine at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 396
Swiss Branch Railways, Two-Story Carriages for. By the Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Fribourg, Switzerland, 104
System of Perspective, A New, Dispensing with Geometrical Lines of Construction, 335, 421, 469, 530

Tank Locomotive for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 27, 48, 68
Tanks, Concrete, Further Experience with, 510, 514
Tanks, Dangerous, 536
Tapping, Nut-Boring, Nut-Slotting, and Facing Machines, Hartnell’s, 365
Tapping and Screwing Machine. By the Pratt and Whitney Company, Hartford, Connecticut, '48
Technical Uses of Diamonds, 377
Telegraph Cables, The Repair of, 136
Telegraphs, 75, 135
Telescopic Observing and Firing Arc; Notes on Torpedoes, 549
"Temeraire" H.M., 416
Tenoning Machine, Wood, By W. Furness and Sons, Liverpool, 61
Tests of Iron and Steel, American, 375
Thames, River, Proposed Rolling Bridge over the. Designed by G. Barclay Bruce, Westminster, 188
Thames Steam Ferry Boat, The, 171
Thames Tides, 292
Thames Valley Sewage Scheme, The, 322
Theory of Retort Setting, The, 514, 565
Thomson, Sterne, and Company's Twist Drill Grinding Machine, 24
Thomson, Sterne, and Company's Universal Tool Grinder, 397
Thornycroft's Screw Propeller, 88
Thrashing and Finishing Machine, Combined, Nalder and Nalder's, 201
Three-Cylinder Rolling Mill Engine at the Cyclops Iron W6r143, Openshaw, 341
Thum's Zinc' Bath for Galvanising Iron Wire 481
Tides, Thames, 292
Timber, The Importation of in 1875, 37
Tool Grinder, Universal. By Thomson, Sterne, and Company, Glasgow, 397
Tools and Building of the Japanese at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 348
Tools, Machine, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 427, 454, 523
Torpedo Experiments on H.M.S. " Oberon," 516
Torpedo Ship, " Zieten," Launch of the, 211
Torpedoes and Ironclads, 321

TORPED0Es, NOTES ON:
15, 22, 96, 153, 184, 224, 404, 475, 549
Accidental Closing of Electrical Circuit, Proposed Arrangement to Avoid the, 475
Circuit-Closers, 96, 153, 224, 404
Electrical Torpedoes, 23
Electra-Contact Torpedoes, 24
Electro-Mechanical Torpedoes, 24 1.4!vermore's Proposed Circuit-Closer, 404
Mathieson's Circuit-Closer, 153, 224
Mechanical Torpedoes, 24
Submarine Mining Experiments on the Medway, 185
Submarine Mining Experiments at Portsmouth, 185
Telescopic Observing and Firing Arc, 549

Towns, The Health and Sewage of, 432
Trade Marks Journal, The, 368
Trade Marks, The Registration of, 14, 217, 261, 537
Training of Engineers, The, 343
Tramcar, Steam (Fairlie's System), for Narrow Gauge Tramways. Designed by A. Brunner, Berne, Switzerland, 252
Trans-Continental Hotel, The, at Philadelphia, 227
Transmission in Mills, Hope. By Pearce Brothers, Dundee, 79
Treatment of Sewage, The, 263
Trial of the 81-Ton Gun, 195, 566
Trip-Hook for Tug-Boats, 295
Troopships, Our Indian, 163
Trussing or Erecting Barrels; Machinery for Making Barrels, 547
Tube Stoppers, Boiler. By Ley and Shearer, Liverpool, 26
Tug-Boat, Howden's Double-Screw, 253
Tug-Boats, Trip-Hook for, 295
Tunnel, The Channel, and its Effects on the English and Continental Railway Systems, 489
Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 45, 358
Turning Piston Rings, Dunied's Method of, 107
Tweddell's Hydraulic Rivetter. By Fielding and Platt, Gloucester, 493
Tweddell's Portable Hydraulic Rivetter and Crane at Crewe Works, 116
Twist Drill Grinding Machine. By Thomson, Sterne, and Company, Glasgow, 24
Two-Story Railway Carriages for Swiss Branch Railways. By the Railway Carriage and Wagon Works, Fribourg, Switzerland, 104
Tyndall, Professor, on Putrefaction and Light, 74
Tyre Fastener, Ainscow's, 376

Unison Expansion Gear, Crohn's, 516
United States Commissioners of Patents, Annual Report of the, 145
United states Direct Cable, The Breakages in the, 196, 535
United States, Iron and Steel Works of the, 222
United States Navy, The, 13
United States Railroads, 2
United States Revenue Steamers, Report of Trials with; Compound and Non-Compound Engines, 121
Universal Lathe, Koch and Muller's, 129
Universal Tool Grinder. By Thomson, Sterne, and Company, Glasgow. 397
Uses of Ferro-Manganese, The, 253
Utilisation of Sewage at Dantzig, The, 301, 526

Valuation of Ammoniacal Liquor, The, 515
Valve, Weatherhogg's Balanced Slide, 168
Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Engine with. By the General Engine and Boiler Company, Loudon, 359
Ventilating and Pumping Arrangements on Shipboard, 327
Ventilation of Railway Tunnels, The, 47
Victoria Dock Extension, The, 537
Vienna, The New Danube Works at, 225
Voyage to Philadelphia, 369

Wagons, Railway, 422
Wales, Lightning in, 551
Ward's Dwarf Mortar Mill, 79
Washers and Scrubbers, 514
Washing House, The Auxiliary; The Clausthal Works, 356
Water Works, Ancient and Modern, 403, 457, 500
Water, Floods and Economy of, 221
Water Heater, Northcott's Feed, 169
Water through Nozzles, The Flow of, 169, 190
Water Supply in 1875, 31
Water Supply, The London, 173
Water-Tube Boilers, 318, 349
Water Works, Hull, Pumping Engine at the. By Bells, Lightfoot, and Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 433, 461
Way, Permanent, 470
Wear of Rails as affected .by their Quality, 519, 569
Weatherhogg's Balanced Slide Valve. 168
"Weighing" a Beam of Light, 133, 281.
Weighing Machines, Pooley's, 493
Weimer's Blast Furnace Charging Apparatus, 98
Wells in the London Chalk, 400
West Herefordshire, Railway Progress in, 277
What is Steel ? 108
Wheel, Butler's Emery, 2G
Wheel, Car, Boring Machine. By William B. Bement and Sons, Philadelphia, 505
Wheels, Cast-Iron Railway, in the United States, 512
Wheels, Railway, Ainscow's Tyre Fastener for, 376
Winding Engine, Semi-Portable. By Davey, Paxman and Company, Colchester, 149
Wood's Sheaf Binder, 68
Wood Tenoning Machine. By W. Furness and Sons, Liverpool, 61
Woodburne's Revolving Shutters. By Salmon, Barnes, and Company, Ulverstone, 248
Woodcroft's, Mr. Bennet, Retirement from the Patent Office, 283
Work, Lining or Marking Out, 119, 139, 330, 521 Workmen's Dwellings in Dudley, 259
Works of Messrs. D. Adamson and Company, Hyde Junction, 291
Works, Crewe, Completion of the 2000th Locomotive at, 458
Works, The New Danube, at Vienna, 225
Wright's Bucket-Plunger Pump, at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 420
Wrought-Iron Arched Bridge at Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A. By the Iron City Bridge, Works, Pittsburgh, 529
Wyllie's Air-Compressing Pump, 517
Wymer's Signal Lanthorns for Vessels, 89

" Zieten," Torpedo Ship, Launch of the, 211
Zinc Bath for Galvanising Iron Wire, Thum's, 481

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