Engineering 1881 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABOLITION of Lighthouse Dues, Proposed, 229
Accidents, American Railway, 206
Act. Boiler Explosions. 181, The, 171
Actinic Balance. The, 495
Action of the Radiophone, The, 281
Adams's Flushing Syphon, 514
Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 79
African, South, Diamond Mines, 506
Ahroecker's Compound Engine for Aeronautical Purposes. 458
Air, Cold, Machines for Producing, 112, 194, 221
Air Compressing. 116, 170, 249
Air Compressor, Owen's, 481
Air Compressors for the Arlberg Tunnel, 114
Algiers, Railways in. 70
Alloys of manganese, The, 543
Altnanacka, Technical Pocket. 177
Alta I calla Railway, Statistics of the, for 1878, 97
Amalgamations, Railway, 573
American Bessemer Product, 206
American Express Locomotive. 333
American Locomotive, The Fontaine, 274
American Needle, The, 364
American Railroad Construction, 98
Analysis, London Water, 463
Anderson's Patent Bill, 617
Angus's Reversible Tool Holder, 39
Antecedents of the Photophono, The, 1, 42, 204, 258, 401
Anthracite Coal Breaker, 119
Anthracite Coalfields of Pennsylvania, The ; Mineral Fuel in the United States, 29, 135, 217, 271, 348, 451, 5.58, 631
"Anthracite," Yacht, Perkins' Compound Engines of the, 4
Arbitration in the United States, Industrial, 3G1
Arches, Th., Theory of. 557, 606, 631
Architecture. Naval Progress in, 93
Armour Plates, Trial of, 124
Artificial Seasoning of Timber, 495
Arts. The Society of, 44
Assurance, Sanitary, 71
" Assyrian Monarch," 8.s. Compound Engines and Boilers of the. 481, 539, 585, 641
Atlantic Cables. New. 14, 9;
Atmospheric Pressure at London. 493
Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Cables, The, 285
Automatic Vacuum Brakes, 617. 628
Aylesbury's Doub:e Band Saw, 332
Ayrton and Perry's Portable Dead-Beat Galvanometer, 640

Balance, The Actinic, 495
Balance, A Thermal, 45
Band Saw, Aylesbury's Double, 832
Barometers, Public, 571
Batley and Paddock Boiler Explosions, The, 177, 197, 200, 204, 598
Battle of Rickmansworth, The, 491
Becke's Horizontal Condensing Engine, 7
Belting, Paper, 494
Ben Nevis, The Observatory on, 643
Bergish-Markiache Railway, Composite Carriage for the, 4
Bessemer Product. American, 206
Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails in the United
States, The Manufacture of, 477, 536
Bessemer Steel in the United States, 206
Bessemer Steelmaking in the United States, 417
Bidwell's Telephotograph, 257
Bilbao Harbour, Bruce and Batho's Dredger for, 506
Bill Legislation. Private, 13, 520, 546, 569, 595, 647
Bill, Mr. Anderson's Patent, 617
Bills ih Committee, 546
Bills Private, for Session 1881, 13
Blackburn and Over-Darwen Tramway, The, 561
Blast Furnaces, American, 259
Blue Colour of the Sky, The. 339
Blundells' " Waterwitch" Pump, 61
Blythe's System for Preserving Railway Sleepers, 114
Boats. Torpedo, 469
Boiler, Cottew's Marine, 274
Boiler and Engine Inspection, 646
Boiler and Engine Insurance, 515
Boiler Explosion at Barrow, The, 648
Boiler Explosion at Loughborough. The, 226
Boiler Explosion, The Maidstone, 98 418
Boiler Explosion at the Wheal Eliza Mine, The, 125
Boiler Explosions Act, 1881, The. 171
Boiler Explosions. The Batley and Paddock, 177, 197. 200, 204. 598
Boiler Explosions ; Circular from the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 146
Boiler Explosions, D mlestic,
Boiler Explosions, Legislation re, 496
Boiler Explosions; Mr. Marten's Models. 572
Boiler Explosions in 1880; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 2.54
Boiler Inspection ; Report of Mr. J. Waugh, 177
Boiler Insurance and Inspection ; Meeting of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company. 37
Boiler, Piedbceuf's Combined Tubular and Lancashire. 352
Boiler Trials, The Dusseldorf Exhibition, 529
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders, The, 514
Boilers and Compound Oscillating Engines for the Steamships " Prinses Marie" and " Prinses Elisabeth " 65, 119, 170. 218
Boilers with Fox's Corrugated Flues. 610
Boilers of the "Livadia," The Steel, 376, 585
Boilers, Steel, in France, 596
Boilers, Water-Tube, at Dusseldorf, 642
Boudet's Microphone, 176
Boxes, Griffin's Tin, 470
Boyle's System of Ventilation, 71
Brake, The Westinghouse, 70
Brakes, Automatic Vacuum, 617, 628
brat, es, Continuous, Conference of Railway Engineers on, 461, 465
Brakes, Continuous. on Freight Trains, 546
Breaking of Tyres. 124
Bridge, The Chaudiere; Canadian Railways, 374
Bridge over the Douro at Oporto, The New, 150
Bridge, Foot, over the Seine at Palmy, 148
Bridge, The Forth. 206, 469
Bridge or Tunnel ? 517
Bridges, Girder, 242
Bridges on the Napier and Manawatu Railway, 5.2.2
Bridges, The New Thames, 439
Bridges, Straight Link Suspension, 297, 373,
British Association of Gas Managers, The, 621
British Association Meeting, The, 620
Brockie's Electric Lamp, 93
Broken Crankshaft, Repairing a, with Wire Rope, 561
Broken Stone, Testing, 286
Bronze, Manganese, '229
Bronzes, The Strongest of the, 339
Brown s Engines for Steam Launches, 34
Brush Electric Light, The, 71, 285
Brush System of Electric Lighting, The, 55, 83, 123
Brush System, The; Electric Light in the City, 337
Bucknill's Instrument for Testing Electrical Resistances, 590
Burners, Recent Gas, 466

CaMe Towage on Canals, 287
Cables for the East River Bridge, The, 98
Cables, New, 206
Cables, New Atlantic, 14,97
Cables, Submarine Telegraph, Laying and Repairing, 250
Cables, Telegraph, and the Aurora Borealis, 285
Cad'at's Lubricator, 566
California, The Treatment of Gold Quartz in, 246, 323, 403, 632, 605
Caloric Pumping Engine, Ericsson's Duplex, 382
Cambridge, Engineering at, 417
Canada Central Railway; Canadian Railways, 136, 190, 244
Canada, Public Works in, 440

CANADIAN RAILWAYS:

Canada Central, 136, 190, 244
Chaudibre Bridge, 874
Hamilton and North-Western, 581
St. Lawrence and Ottawa, 58

Canal de l'Est, The Grand, 176
Canal, The Panama Ship, and Railway, 43, 207, 257, 326. 392. 517, 597
Capital Expenditure on Railways. 469
Carbolic Acid. The Diffusibility of, 206
Carbon Reophot-as, 442
Carboniser and Destructor, Fryer's, 59
Carnelley's Hot Ice, 620
Carriage, Composite ; Bergish-Markische Railway, 4
Carriage of Mails and Parcels, The, 547
Carriages. Warming Railway, 96
Cartridges, Fired, Morris's Apparatus for Utilising, 147
Case, An Important Disclaimer, 187
Cast Iron, The Physical Properties of, 478
Cast-Iron Wheels, Webb's; London and North-Western Railway, 590
Cell. A New Photo-Electric, 44
Celluloid, 597
Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of George Stephenson, The. 124. 259, 593
Central Station for London, A New, 312
Characteristics, Lighthouse, 206, 224
Charges, Railway, 415
Charts, Statistical, 286
Chillies. Michel, 248
Chaudi6re Bridge; Canadian Railways, 374
Chicago Stock-Yards, 124
China, The Telegraph in, 311
Circular from the Manchester Steam Users' Association ; Boiler Explosions, 146
City, The Electric Light in the, 335
City and Guilds of London Institute, The, 98
"City of Rome." Launch of the, 615
Classification of Patents, 97
Cleveland, Notes from, 9, 37, 72, 100, 120, 148, 171, 202, 232, 253, 282, 31:3, 334, 360, 894, 425, 450, 464, 489. 516, 549, 567, 592, 614, 651
Clocks in Paris, Pneumatic, 521
Clocks, Pneumatic, 635
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1880, 32. 65. 141
Clyde Steamers. Two New. 649
Coal Breaker, Anthracite, 119
Coal, Deep Winning of, 61
Coal Mines, Electric Lighting in, 621
Coal. The Spontaneous Ignition of, 620
Coast Warner, A Submarine, 495
Coating of Metals, 393
Cold Air, Machines for Producing, 112, 194, 221
Cold Storage, 393
College, The London University, Engineering Laboratory at the, 68, 177
College of Science and Arts, The Glasgow, 521
Colliery Explosions in 1880, 150
Columns, Wrought-Iron, The Strength of, 339
Combined Tubular and Lancashire Boiler, Piedbosurs, 352
Committee, Bills in, 546
Composite Carriage ; Bergisb-Markische Railway, 4
Compound Condensing Engine, Ehrhardt and Sebmor's, 88
Compound Engine for Aeronautical Purposes, Ahrbecker's, 468
Compound Engine Trial at Oak Mill, Farnworth, 166
Compound Engines and Boilers of the s.e. " Assyrian Monarch," 481, 539, 585, 641
Compound Engines (Perkins' System) of the Yacht " Anthracite," 4
Compound Locomotives, 95
Compound Marine Engine, Young's, 280
Compound Non-Condensing Engines, 311
Compound Oscillating Engines and Boilers for the Steamships " Prinses Marie" and "Prinses Elisabeth," 65, 119, 170, 218
Compressing Air, 116, 170, 249
Compression, Heating Effects due to, 547
Compressor, Owen's Air, 484
Compressors, Air, for the Arlberg Tunnel, 114
Condenser, A Speaking, 45
Condensers, New Method of Comparing, 229
Condensing Engine, Becke's Horizontal, 7
Condensing Engine, Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, 401
Conductivity and Stress, Electric, 572
Conductor. Lightning, 495
Conjugate Power Curves of Steam Vessels, 27
Consolidation or Railway Stocks, 494
Constant Water Supply in London, 417
Construction of the Photophone, The, 96
Constructive Materials, Testing, 339
Continuous Brakes, Conference of Railway Engineers on 461, 465
Continuous Brakes on Freight Trains, 546
Contractors' Congress Au International, 521
Convention, A Patent, 227
Conversazione of the institution of Civil Engineers, The, 573
Conversazione of Telegraph Engineers, The, 88S
Cooke and Mylchreest's Screw Propeller, 172
Copper Mine and Works, The bIaibera ; Japanese Metallurgical Processes, 189
Copper and Tin Trades in the United Kingdom The. 15
Corliss Engine, Trial of a, 347
Corrosion of Iron and Mild Steel, The, 313
Corrosion of Iron and Steel, The, 467
Corrugated Flues, Boilers with Fox's, 610
Cottew's Marine Boiler, 274
Crankshaft, Repairing a Broken, with Wire Rope, 561
Crankshafts, On the Strength of, 431
"Cry of Tin. The." 49.5
Crusher, Hall's Stone and Ore, 566
Crystals, Electric Absorption of, 546
Cunard Mail Ship " Servia," Launch of the, 224
Current Railway Legislation, 595
Curves of Steam Vessels, On tho Conjugate Power, 27
Cylinders for Compound Locomotives, 444

Daily Weather Reports, 125
Dale's Pumping Engines at the Richmond Water Works, 65
Dalzell Steel Works, Motherwell, N.B., 215
Day, Summers and Co's Engines of the Yacht " Wanderer," 444
Days, Dickens's Dictionary of, 44
Dead-Beat Galvanometer, Portable, 640
Deep-Sea Exploration, 178
Deep Winning of Coal, 61
Deering and Morrison's Portable Rivetter, 383
Definition of " Work," The, 864
Density of Fluid Metals, The, 178
Departure in (Iasmaking, A New. 274
Depth Gauge, Sir William Thomson's New, 3
Destructor and Carboniser, Fryer's. 69
Determination of Oxygen in Iron and Steel, The, 479
Diamond Mines, South African, 506
" Diary and Text-Book, The Gas Engineer's," 44
Dickens's Dictionary of Days, 44
Diffusibility of Carbolic Acid, The, 206
Direction, Railway, 521
Directory for 1880-81, Street's Indian and Colonist Mercantile, 71
Disc, The Reese Fusing, 178, 260
Disclaimer Case, An implrtant, 187
Discovery, Palteological, 229
Distillation and Electricity, 811
Docks, Milford Haven, 81
Docks, Sunderland, New Sea Lock for, 256,106, 359, 413, 452
Docks, Sutton Bridge, 620, 649
Dockyard Extension Works, The Portsmouth, 161, 179
Dr. De la Rue's Electrical Researches, 122
Dr. Joule's Papers. 176
Dotne•tic Boiler Explosions, 98
Dominion or Canada, The Future of the, 177
Double Band Saw, Aylesbury's, 332
Douro at Oporto, The New Bridge over the, 150
Drawing Wire, 310
Dredger for Bilbao Harbour, Bruce and Batho's, 506
Dredger, Hopper, for Riga Harbour, 384
Dredger, Rennie's Swing Jib, for British Guiana 306
Dry Fogs, Mr. Aitken on, 151
Duplex Caloric Pumping Engine, Ericsson's, 382
Dusseldorf Exhibition Boiler Trials, The, 529
Dusseldorf, Water-Tube Boilers at, 642
Dust and toog, 15
Dynamite Litigation, The, 465
Dynamo-Electric Current, Telegraphing by the, 286
Dynamo-Machine and Rolling Stock, The, 893
Dynamometer, A Transmission, 579

Early Clyde Steamers, 125
Earthquake Action in Scotland and Ireland, 393
Earthwork, The Lateral Pressure of, 355
East River Bridge, The Cables for the, 98
Ebonite, Radiation through. 392
Ebonite, The Refractive Index of, 620
Economical Advantages of Steel Shipbuilding, Tho. 467, 482
Eddystone Lighthouse, The, 520
Education, Local, of Naval Architects, The, 387
Education, Technical, 469
" Efficiency of a Tandem Engine, The," 228, 2S6
Egypt, Irrigation in, 520
Ehrhardt and Sehmer's Compound Condensing Engine, 88
Eighty-Ton Sheer Legs 194
Electric Absorption of Crystals, 546
Electric Conductivity, Effects of Strain on, 259
Electric Conductivity of Heated Gases, The, 547
Electric Conductivity and Stress, 572
Electric Exhibition, The Paris International, 15, 150, 206, 259, 647
Electric Fire fell-Tale, An, 15, 218
Electric Illumination by Incandescence, The Maxim System of, 618
Electric Lamp, Brockie's, 93
Electric Lamp, Krizik's, 514
Electric Lamp, Mackenz ie's, 38
Electric Lamp, A New, 70
Electric Lamp, Swan's, 303
Electric Light, The, 494
Electric Light, The Brush, 71, 285
Electric Light in the City, The, 335
Electric Light, Edison's, 124
Electric Light, Flashing Signals by the, 176
Electric Light, Joel's, 597
Electric Light, Maxim's, 569
Electric Light in New York, The, 14
Electric Light at the Post-Office, The, 494
Electric Light in Warfare, The, 492
Electric Lighting, 43, 97, 572
Electric Lighting, The Brush System of, 5.5, 83, 123
Electric Lighting in Coal Mines, 621
Electric Lighting by Incandescence, 261
Electric Power, 547
Electric Probe, Trouve's, 260
Electric Tides, 175
Electrical Experiment, Hall's, 572
Electrical Machine, Voss's Induction, 567
Electrical Researches, Dr. De la Rue's, 122
Electrical Resistances, Captain Bucknill*s Instrument for Testing, 590
Electrical Thermometer, An, 311
Electrical Torsion, 387
Electricity and Distillation, 311
Electricity, The Future of, 339.
Electricity and Gas as Heating Agents, 187
Electricity, Stored-up, 469, 518, 560, 638
Electricity and Wool Spinning, 311
Electro-Endoscope, The, 516
Electrolysis, Thermal, 417
Electromotive Force, Measuring, 177
Emigration to the United States, 230
Energy, Radiant, Upon the Production of Sound by, 416, 481, 514, 550
Engert's Smoke Preventing Apparatus, 7
Engine. Ahz•becker's Compound, for Aeronautical Purposes, 458
Engine, Becke's Horizontal Condensing, 7
Engine and Boiler Inspection, 646
Engine and Boiler insurance, 545
Engine, Corliss, Trial of a, 347'
Engine, Ehrhardt and Sehmer's Compound Condensing, 88
Engine, Ericsson's Duplex Caloric Pumping, 382
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, with Automatic
Expansion Gear, by the Socidte Anonyme de Marcinelle et Couillet, 404
Engine, Hornsby and Sons' Six-Horse Traction, 34
Engine, Man, and Pumping Machinery, Hathorn, Davey, and Company's, 281
Engine, The Perkins, 12
Engine, Portable Winding, 301
Engine, Ryder's Hot-Air, 458
Engine, The Straight Line, 300
" Engine, Tandem, The Efficiency of a," 228. 2S6
Engine Trial, Compound, at Oak Mill, Farnworth, 166
Engine, Young's Compound Marine, 280
Engineering at Cambridge, 417
Engineering Laboratory at the University College, London, 68, 177
Engineering, Marine, and Clyde Shipbuilding, 1880, 32, 65, 141
Engineering, Telegraphic, in 1880, 11
Engineers, The American Society of Civil, 43

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL; 573

Address of the President, 79
Conversazione, 573
On Deep Winning of Coal in South Wales, by Thomas Forster Brown and George Frederick Adams, 61
On the Portsmouth Dockyard Extension Works, by Charles Colson, 161
On the Temporary Works and Plant at the Portsmouth Dockyard Extension, by O. II, Meyer, 179
On the Weight and Limiting Dimensions of Girder Bridges, by 11. am Ende, 242
On the Tide Gauge, Tidal Harmonic Analyser, and Tide Predicter, by Sir William Thomson, 274
On the Comparative Endurance of Iron and Mild Steel when Exposed to Corrosive Influences, by D, Phillips, 313
On the Actual Lateral Pressure of Earthwork, by B. Baker, 355
On the Relative Value of Tidal and Upland Waters in Maintaining Rivers, Estuaries, and Harbours, by Walter R. Browne, 463
On Torpedo Boats and Light Yachts for High-Speed Steam Navigation, by John Isaac Thornycroft, 485
On the Production of Paraffin and Paraffin Oils, by R. Henry Brunton, 565
Students of the Institution, The, 648

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL: 112, 427

On the Various Modes of Transmitting Power to a Distance, by Arthur Achard, 86, 112, 115, 143
On Harvesting Machinery, by E. Samuelson, 112, 302, 326
On Machines for Producing Cold Air, by J. B. Lightfoot, 112, 194, 221
On the Farquhar Filtering Apparatus, by Henry Chapman, 113, 145
On Stone-Dressing Machinery, by J. D. Brunton and F. Trier, 275
On Rivetting, with Special Reference to Ship-work, by Baron Clauzel, 427
On Results of Experiments on Rivettad Joints made for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, by Professor Alex. B. W. Kennedy, 427, 436, 458, 508, 588
On Thrashing Machinery, by W. W. Beaumont, 429, 457, 509, 534
Engineers, Naval, 335
Engineers, Qualified, 286
Engineers, Telegraph, The Conversazione of, 388
Engines, Compound, and Boilers of the s.s Assyrian Monarch," 481, 539, 585, 641
Engines, Compound Non-Condensing, 311
Engines, Compound (Perkins' System) of the Yacht " Anthracite," 4
Engines, Compound Oscillating, and Boilers for the Steamships " Prinses Marie" and " Prinses Elisabeth," 65, 119, 170, 218
Engines, Compound, of the Yacht " Wanderer,"
Messrs. Day, Summers, and Co.'s, 444
Engines, Dale's Pumping, at the Richmond Water Works, 65
Engines. High and Low Service Pumping, at the St. Louis Water Works, U.S.A., 143, 200
Engines, Steam Fire, in the North of Europe, 425
Engines for Steam Launch. Brown's, 34
Ericsson's Duplex Caloric Pumping Engine, 882
Estimates, Naval, for 1881, The, 173, 309
Exhibition, The Dusseldorf, Boiler Trials at, 529
Exhibition in Glasgow, Leather Trades, 628
Exhibition, A Japinese, 364
Exhibition of Milliug Machinery, The International, 338, 363, 390, 417, 430, 468, 494, 519, 571
Exhibition c Woollen Manufactures, International, 596
Experiment, Mr. Stroh's, 124
Exploration, Deep Sea, 178
Explosion, Boiler, at Barrow, The, 648
Explosion, Boiler, at Loughborough, 226
Explosion, Boiler, at Maidstone, VS, 418
Explosion, Boiler, at the Wheal Eliza Mine, 125
Explosions Act, 1881, The Boiler, 171
Explosions, Boiler, The Batley and Paddock, 177, 197, 200, 204, 598
Explosions, Boiler; Circular from the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 146
Explosions, Boiler, Legislation re, 406
Explosions, Boiler; Mr. Marten's Models, 572
Explosions, Boiler, in 1880 ; Repo:t of Mr. E. B. Marten, 254
Explosions, Colliery, in 1880, 150
Explosions, Domestic Boiler, 98
Express Locomotive, Amex jean, 333
Eyes, Localising by the, 392
Eyesight of Railway Men, The, 441

Factory Inspection, 41
Fall of Root at Leicester, 621
Faraday Lecture, The, 392
Farm ?limp, A German, 7
Farquhar Filtering Apparatus, The, 113, 145
Faure's Secondary Battery, 649
Field Telegraphs, Military, 570
Filbert-Street Extension of Pennsylvania Railroad, The, 555
Filtering Apparatus, The Farquhar, 113, 145
Fire-Engines, Steam, in the Norta of Europe, 425
Fire Tell-Tale, An Electric, 15, 218
Firedamp, 228
Firedamp and the Microphone, 417
Fired Cartridges, Morris's Apparatus for Utilising, 147
Firedoor and Furnace Front, Henderson's, 412
Fires, London ; Annual Report, 99
Fishery Harbours, 645
Flashing Signals by Electric Light, 176
Flooding the Shotts, 621
Flues, Fox's Corrugated, Boilers with, 610
Fluid Metals, The Density of, 178
Flushing Syphon, Adams's, 514
Fog and Dust, 15
Fogs, Dry, Mr. Aitken on, 151
Fontaine Locomotive, The, 274
Foot Bridge over the Seine at Pussy, 148
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 16, 54, 72, 87, 133, 215, 269, 296, 321, 346, 371, 400, 504, 580, 604, 629
Foreign Technical Literature, 151, 178, 207, 231, 261, 287, 312, 365, 393, 413, 442, 495, 522, 548, 574, 598, 650
Forth Bridge, The, 206, 469
France, The Thomas-Gilchrist Steel Process in, 230
Franco-Spanish Central Pyrenean Railway, The, 285
Freight Charges on American Railways, 45
French Arsenals, Mild Steel in, 407, 448
French International Electrical Exhibition, The, 15, 150, 206, 259, 647
French Navy, Steel in the, 415
French Railways, 71
French Treaty, The, and the Iron Trade, 638
Fryer's Destructor and Carboniser, 59
Furnace Front and Firedoor, Henderson's, 412
Furnaces, American Blast, 259
Fusing Disc, The Reese, 178, 260
Future of the Dominion of Canada, The, 177
Future of Electricity, The, 339

Galvanometer, Ayrton and Perry's Portable Dead-Beat, 640
Galvanometer Scale, An Improved, 442
Gamgee Zero-Motor, The, 418
Gas Burners, Recent, 466
Gas, Compressed, for Lighting Buoys, 648
Gas and Electricity as Heating Agents, 187
Gas Engine Litigation, The, 31], 338
Gas Engineer's Diary and Text-Book," The, 44
Gas Managers, The British Association of, 621
Gas Supply for Heating and Illuminating, 639
Gases and Radiant Heat, 176
Gasmaking, A New Departure in, 274
Gauge Grinding Machine, Taylor and Challen's, 226
Gauge, Sir William Thomson's New Depth, 3
Gauges, Tide, 274
Gear, Automatic Expansion, Horizontal Condensing Engine with, 404
Gear, Smith's Signal Locking, 61
Geology of Mount Etna, The, 124
Geology of New Zealand, The, 573
German Farm Pump, A, 7
German Rahway Tariffs, 440
German Trade with Russia, 649
Girder Bridges, 242
Glasgow, Leather Trades Exhibition in, 628
Glasgow Naval Exhibition, Lectures at the, 45
Glasgow, Telephone Progress in, 15, 418
God and Platinum in Russia, 163
Gold Quartz in California, The Treatment of, 246, 22:3, 403, 532, 605
Goods Locomotive Details, Webb's ; London and North-Western Railway, 92
Gower-Bell Telephone, The, 44
Grain-Milling Trade, The, 230
Grand Canal de l'Est, The, 176
Gray's Harmonic Telegraph, 230
Great Northern Working Expenses, The, 547
Griffin's Tin Boxes, 470
Gun, The. Hotchkiss Revolving, 124

Half-Year, The Railway, 597
Hall's Electrical Experiment, 572
Hall's Stone and Ore Crusher. 566
Hamilton and North-Western Railway; Canadian Railways, 581
Harbour, Bilbao, Bruce and Batho's Dredger for, 506
Harbour Improvements, Quebec, 248
Harbour, Milford Haven, 81
Harbour, New York, Removing Obstructions in, 151
Harbour, Riga, Hopper Dredger for, 384
Harbour Works, The Wick, 365
Harbours, Fishery, 645
Hardening of Steel, The, 646
Harmonic Telegraph. Gray s, 230
Harvest Year-Book, The, 124
Harvesting Machinery, 112, 302, 326
Hastie's Hydraulic Pumps with Variable Stroke, 366
Hathorn, Davey and Co's Pumping Machinery and Man Engine, 281
Hawks, Crawshay and Co's Compound Engines (Perkins' System) of the Yacht " Anthracite," 4
Hawks, Crawshay, and Sons' Dredger (Batho and Bruce's System) for Bilbao Harbour, 506
Head. Mr. John, 547
Heat, The Mechanical Theory of, 24
Heat, Radiant, and Gases, 176
Heat Regulator for High Temperatures, A, 71
Heat Regulator, A Photo-Electric 44
Heated Gases, The Electric Conductivity of, 547
Heating Agents, Gas and Electricity as, 187
Heating Buildings, Steam Pipes for, 125
Heating Effects due to Compression, 547
Heating and Illuminating, Gas Supply for, 63)
Henderson, Mr. William, 90
Henderson's Firedoor and Furnace Front. 412
H.M.S. " Polyphemus," Launch of, 622, 646
Herreshoff Torpedo Boats, The, 260
Herz Telephone, The, 285
High and Low Service Pumping Engines at the St. Louis Water Works, U.S.A., 143, 200
High-Speed Straight Line Engine, 300
High Temperatures, The Strength of Iron at, 109
Holes, Rivet, in Steel Plates, 283
Hopper Dredger for Riga Harbour, 384
Hornsby and Sons' Six-Horse Traction Engine, 34
Hornsby and Sons' Turnwrest Kent Plough, GO
Horizontal Condensing Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, 404
Horizontal Condensing Engine, Becke's, 7
Hot-Air Engine, Ryder's, 458
Hot Ice, Carnelley's, 620
Hotchkiss Revolving Gun, The, 124
Hudson River Tunnel, The, 588
Hulls, Steel, and Steel-Faced Armour, 352
Hydraulic Machinery for Steel Works .,478
Hydraulic Pumps with Variable Stroke, Hastie's 366
Hydrogen and Carbonic Oxide in Iron and Steel, 479
Hydrogen and Nitrogen in Steel and Iron, 203

Illuminating and Heating. Gas Supply for, 639
Important Disclaimer Case, An, 187
Improvements, Quebec Harbour, 248
Incandescence, The Maxim System of Electric
Illumination by, 618
Induction Electrical Machine, Voss's, 567
Industrial Arbitration in the United States, 361
Industry in Prussia, The Society for the Promotion of, 260
Inspection, Boiler ; Report of Mr. John Waugh 177
Inspection, Engine and Boiler, 646
Inspection, Factory, 41
Institute of Hoboken, The Stevens, 597
Institute of Scotland, The Mining, 515
Instrument for Testing Electrical Resistances Captain Bucknill's, 590
Insurance, Engine and Boiler, 545
Insurance and Inspection, Boiler; Meeting of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company, 37
Integrating Machine, A New, 505
International Contractors' Congress, An, 521
International Exhibition of Milling Machinery, The, 338, 363, 390.417, 430, 468, 494, 519, 571
International Exhibition, The Paris Electric, 15, 1.50, 206. 259, 647
International Exhibition of Woollen Manufactures. 596
Iron at High Temperatures, The Strength of, 109
Iron and Mild Steel, The Corrosion of, 313
Iron, Pig, Sliding Scale Prices, 95
Iron Shipbuilders and Boilermakers, The, 544
Iron Shipbuilding in Brisbane, 176
Iron and Steel, 1 he Corrosion of, 467
Iron and Steel, The Determination of Oxygen in, 479
Iron and Steel, Hydrogen and Carbonic Oxide in, 479
Iron and Steel, Hydrogen and Nitrogen in, 203
Iron and Steel Imports, American, 312

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE: 466, 477

On the Relative Corrosion of Iron and Steel, by W. Parker, 467
On the Economical Advantages of Steel Shipig, by W. Denny, 467, 482
On the Manufacture of Steel and Steel Plates in Russ a, by Sergius Kern, 468
On Iron and Steel Permanent Way, by R. Price Williams, 477
On the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails in the United states, by Captain W. It. Jones, 477, 536
On the Physical Properties of Cast Iron, by Charles Markham, 478
On Hydraulic Machinery for Steel Works, by Michael Scott, 478
On the Preservation and Ornamentation of Iron Surfaces, by George Bower, 478
On Hydrogen and Carbonic Oxide in Iron and Steel, by John Parry, 479
On a New Method for the Determination of Oxygen in Iron and Steel, by Alexander E. Tucker, 479

Iron and Steel Permanent Way, 477
Iron and Steel Permanent Way, Webb's ; London and North-Western Railway, 5
Iron in the Sun, 442
Iron Surfaces, The Preservation and Ornamentation of, 478
Iron Trade and the French Treaty, Tbe. 638
Iron Trade, The Northern Manufactured, 46
Iron Trade, 1880, The Scotch, 94
Iron Works, The Phoenix, Rhenish Prussia, 139
Iron Works, The Rhymney, 612
Ironfounders' Society Report, The, 618
Irrigation in Egypt, 520
Isle of Wight, Sea View Suspension Pier at, 609
Isthmian Ship Railway, The, 392
Italian Railway Commission, The, 392
Italy, Rail and Tramways in, 43

Jamieson, Prof. Andrew, on the Photophone, 295
Jamin, M. J., on Firedamp, 228
Japanese Exhibition, A, 364

JAPANESE METALLURGICAL PROCESSES:

Maibera Copper Mine and Works, 189
Omodane Works, The, 82
Jenkins Punch, The, 463
Jib Dredger, Rennie's Swing, for British Guiana, 306
Joel's Electric Light, 597
Joints, Rivetted, 427, 436, 458, 508, 588

Kapunda and North-West Bend Railway, Tank Locomotive for the, 615
Kent Plough, Hornsby and Sons' Turnwrest,
Krizik's Electric Lamp, 514

Laboratory, Engineering, at the University College, London, 68, 177
Lamb, Mr. Andrew, 393
Lamp, Brockie's Electric, 93
Lamp, Krizik's Electric. 514
Lamp, Mackenzie's Electric, 38
Lamp, A New Electric, 70
Lamp, Swan's Electric, 306
Lancashire and Tubular Boiler, Piedboeut's Combined, 352
Large Extinct Reptiles in a Belgian Coal Mine
Lateral Pressure of Earthwork, The, 355 Launch of the " City of Rom .," 615
Launch of the Cunard Mail Ship " Servia," 224
Launch Engines, Brown's Steam, 34
Launch of H.M.8 " Polyphemus," 622, 646
Laws, The Patent, 149
Laying and Repairing Submarine Telegraph Cables, 250
Leadville, Colorado, The Mineral Wealth of, 441
Leather Traci, s Exhibition in Glasgow, G28
Lecture, The Faraday, 392
Lectures at the Glssgow Naval Exhibition, 45
Lectures. The Royal institution, 15, 417
Lectureship, Proposed, on Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 443
" L'Electricien," 620
Legislation re Boiler Explosions. 406
L°gislation, Current Railway, 595
Legislation, Private Bill, 13, 520, 516, 569, 595, 647
Legs, Eighty-Ton Sheer, 194
Leicester. Fall of Roof at, 621
Library, The Ronalde, 15
Library. A Technical, for London, 71
Life in Meteorites. 177
Life-Saving Apparatus, Rocket. 310
Light, The Brush Electric, 71, 285
Light, Edison's Electric, 124
Light, The Electric, 494
Light, The Electric, in the City, 335
Light, The Electric, Flashing Signals by, 176
Light, The Electric in New York, 14
Light, The Electric, at the Post-Office, 494
Light, The Electric in Warfare, 492
Light, Joel's Electric. 597
Light, Maxim's Electric, 569
Light. The Velocity of, 573
Light Yachts and Torpedo Boats, 485
Lighthouse Characteristics, 206, 224
Lighthouse Dues, Proposed Abolition of, 229
Lighthouse, The Eddystone, 523
Lighthouse, The Sandy Island, 44
Lighting Buoys, Compressed Gas for, 648
Lighting, Electric, 43. 97. 572
Lighting, Electric, The Brush System of, 55, 83, 123, 285
Lighting by Incandescence, Electric, 261
Lightning Conductor, 495
Lightning Photographs, 229
" Lightning," The Torpedo Boat, 648
L'Institut Nations'. 71
List of Materials, Price, 26, 54, 80, 108. 134, 162,
Mi. 216, 270, 296, 322, 346, 372. 426, 504, 580, 630
Literature, Foreign Technical, 151. 178, 207. 231, 261, 287, 312, 365, 393, 413, 4 k2, 495, 522, 548,574, 5s8, 651)
Litigation, The Dynamite, 465
Litigation. The Gas Engine. 311, 338
Lic adia,," The Steel Boilers of the, 376. 585
Loral Education of Naval Architects, The, 387
Local's;ng by the Eyes, 392
Locking Gear. Smith's Signal. 61
Locomotive, American Express. 333
Locomotive Details, Webb's Goods; London and North-Western Railway, 92
Locomotive, The Fontaine, 274
Locomotive, Sharp, Stewart and Co's Ten-Wheeled Tank, 39
Locomotive, Tank, for the Kapunda and North-West Bend Railway, 615
Locomotive, Tank; North London Railway, 3S3
Locomotives, Compound, 95
Locomotives. Compound, Cylinders for, 444
Loftus and Whitby Railway, The, 469
London, Atmospheric Pressure at, 493
London Fires ; Annual Report of, 99
London Institute, The City and Guilds of, 98
London and North-Western Railway, Webb's Cast-Iron Wheels for the, 590
London and North-Western Railway, Webb's
Iron and Steel Permanent Way for the, 5
London and North-Western Railway, Webb's Standard Safety Valves for the, 454
London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive for the, 39
London Water Analysis. 363
London Water Supply, The, 98, 417
London Water Works and the Frost, The, 230
Loughborough, The Boiler Explosion at, 226
Lubricator, Cadiat's, 566

McDougall's Mechanical Stoker, 280
Machine, A New Integrating, 505
Machine, Taylor and Challen's Gauge Grinding, 226
Machine Tools in Shipyards, Improved, 470
Machine, Voss's Induction Electrical, 567
Machinery, Harvesting. 112, 302, 326
Machinery, Hydraulic. for Steel Works, 478
Machinery, Milling, The International Exhibition of, 338, 363, 390, 417, 430, 468, 494, 519, 571
Machinery, Pumping, and Man Engine, Hathorn, Davey, and Company's, 281
Machinery, Stone-Dressing, 275
Machinery, Thrashirig, 429, 457, 509, 534
Machines for Producing Cold Air, 112, 194, 221
Mackenzie's Electric Lamp. 33
Magnetic Thermoscope, A, 311
Dlaibera Copper Mme and Works, The ; Japanese
Metallurgical Processes, 189
Maidstone Boiler Exp:osion The, 98, 418
Mails and Parcels, The Carriage of, 547
Mallet's Cylinders for Compound Locomotives, 444
Manchester and Sheffield Railway, The, 621
Manganese, The Alloys of, 543
Manganese Bronze, 220
Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Steel Rails in the United States, 477, 536
Manufacture of Steel Hates in RUHR* The, 463
Manufactured Iron Trade, he Northern, 46
Marine Boiler, Cottew's, 274
Marine Engine, Young's Compound, 28)
Marine Engineering and Clyde Shipbuilding, 1880. 32, 65, 141
Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture,
Proposed Lectureship on, 443
Marten's Repot on Boiler Explosions in 1830, 254
Materials, Price List of, 26, 54, 80, 108, 134, 162, 188, 210, 270, '296, 322, 346 372, 426, 580, 630
Maxim System of Electric Illumination by Incandescence, The, 509,618
Meacock and Ward's Self-Closing Tap, 514
Measuring Electromotive Force, 177
Mechanical Refrigeration, 243
Mechanical Theory of Heat, The, 24
Meeting of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company, 37
Meeting of the British Association, 620
Mercadier's Thermophone, 572
Merchant Ships, The Stability of, 353
Metal Cables, Transmission by, 494
Metals, Coating of, 393
Meteorites. Lire in, 177
Meteorological Society, The, 108
Method of Comparing Condensers, New, 229
Metropolitan Railway Land Operations, 495
Microphone, Boudet's, 176
Microphone and Firedamp, The, 417
Microphonic Time, 206
Midland Railway Extensions, 521
Mild Steel in French Arsenals, 407, 148
Milford Htven Docks, 81
Military Field Telegraphs, 570
Milling Machinery, The International Exhibition of, 333, 363, 393, 417, 430,468,494. 519, 571

MINERAL FUEL IN THE UNITED STATES 29

Anthracite Mining in Pennsylvania, 29, 135, 217, 271, 318 451. 558,631
Mineral Wealth of Leadville, Colorado, The, 441
Mines, South African Diamond, 506
Mining Institute of Scotland, The, 515
Molecular Music. 494
Monte Penna Wire Ropeway, The, 165
Morris's Apparatus for Utilising Fired Cartridges, 147
Mount Etna. The Geology of, 124
Mountain. The Puy de Dome, 97
Music, Molecular, 494

Napier and Manawatu Railway, Bridges on the, 522
Napier_ an I Sons' Steel Steamer " Parisian," Trial of. 214

NAVAL. ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 91, 364, 648

On the " Almit ante Brown," Argentine Cased Corvette, and the Effect of Steel Hulls and Steel-Faced Armour on future War Ships, by J. D. A. Samuda, 352
On the Stability of Certain Merchant Siii;,s, by W, II. White, 353
On the Peculiarities of Behaviour of Steel Plates Supplied for the Boilers of the Imperial Russian Yacht " Livadiu,," by W. Parker, 376
On Twenty Minutes on the Increased Use of Steel in Shipbuilding awl Marine Engineering, by John R. Itavenbill, 386, 406
On the Use of Mild Steel for the Construction of the Hulls of Ships in the Arsenals of tho French Navy, by M. Marc Berrier Fontaine, 407. 4-18
On Waves raised by Paddle Steamers, and their Positions Relatively to the Wheels, by James Hamilton, 410
On Strength of Crankshafts, by J. T. Milton, 431
On the Rolling of Ships, by W. H. White, 451, 501
On Shipbuilding a Thousand Years Ago, by Colin Archer, 562
On the Russian Imperial Yacht " Livadia," by Captain E. Goulaeff, 585
Report of the Deputation of Council to the Opening of the Glasgow Naval and Marine Engineering Exhibition, 91

Naval Architects, The Local Education of, 387
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Proposed Lectureship on, 443
Naval Architecture, Progress in, 93
Naval Engineers, 335
Naval Exhibition, Glasgow, Lectures at the, 45
Navigation, The River Weaver, 97
Navy in 1881, The, 175, 309
Navy, The French, Steel in, 415
Needle, The American. 364
New Zealand, The Geology of, 573
New Zealand Railways, '1 he, 33, 141
Nitrogen and Hydrogen in Steel and Iron, 203
North-London Railway, Tank Locomotive for the, 383
Northern Manufactured Iron Trade, The,

NOTES :

Actinic Balance, The, 495
American Blast Furnaces, 259
American Society of Civil Engineers, The, 4:J
Armour Plates, Trial of, 124
Atlantic Cables, The New, 14, 97
Bessemer Product, American, 206
Bessemer Steel in the United States, 206
Bessemer Steelmaking in the United States, 417
Blue Colour of the Sky, The, 339
Boiler Explosion at Barrow. The, 648
Boiler Explosion at the Wheal Eliza Mine, The, 125
Boiler Explosions ; Mr. Marten's Models, 572
Boiler Explosions at Paddock and Batley, Th.:, 177, 598
Boiler Inspection, 177
Boudet's Microphone, 176
Iir.Lke The Westinghouse, 70
Brakes, Continuous, on Freight Ti ains, 546
Bridge over the Douro at Oporto, The New, 150
British Association, The. 620
Bronzes. The Strongest of the, 339
Brush Electric Light, The, 71, 285
Cable Towage on Canals, 287
Cables for the East River Bridge, The, 98
Cables, New, 206
Cables, New Atlantic, 14. 97
Capital Expenditure on Railways, 469
Carbolic Acid, The Diffusibility of, 206
Carbon Reophotes, 442
Carnelley's Hot Ice, 620
Carri'ge of Mails and Parcels, The, 547
Celluloid, 597
City and Guilds of London Institute, The, 98
Classification of Patents, 97
Coast Warner, X Submarine, 495
Coating of Metals, 393
Cold Storage, 393
Compound Non-Condensing Engines, 311
Condensers, New Method of Comparing, 229
Consolidation of R iilway Stocks, 494
Constant Water Supply of London, 98, 417
Contractors' Congress. An International, 521
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 573
" Cry of Tin, The," 495
Deep-Sea Exploration, 178
Density of Fluid Metals. The, 178
Dickens's Dictionary of Days, 44
Dr. Joule's Papers, 176
Domestic Boiler Explosions. 98
Dominion of Canada, The Future of the, 177
Dry Fogs, Mr. Aitken on, 151
Dust and Fog, 15
Dynamci. Machine and Rolling Stock, The, 393
Early Steam Navigation, A Relic of, 150
Earthquake Action in Scotland and Ireland, 893
Eddystone Lighthouse, The, 520
Electric Absorption of Crystabi, 546
Electric Conductivity, Effects of Strains on, 259
Electric Conductivity of Heat d Gases, The, 547
Electric Conductivity and Stress, 572
Electric Fire Tell-Tale, An, 15
Electric Lamp, A New, 70
Electric Light, The, 494
Electric Light, Edison's, 124
Electric Light, Joel's, 597
Electric Light in New York, The, 14
Electric Light at the Post-Office, The, 494
Electric Lighting, 43, 97 572
Electric Lighting in Coal Mines, 621
Electric Lighting by Incandescence, 261
Electric Power, 547
Electric Probe, Trouv(Fs, 260
Electrical Exhibition, The French International. 15, 150, 206, 259, 647
Electrical Thermometer, An. 31.1
Electricity and Distillation, 311
Electricity, he Future of, 339
Electricity and Wool Spinning, 311
Electro-Endoscope, The, 546
Emigration to the United States, 230
Engine, Efficiency of a Tandem, 286
Engineering at Cambridge. 417
Engineers, The Institution of Civil, 573
Eyesight of Railway Men, The, 411
Fall of Roof at Leicester, 621
Faraday Lecture, The, 892
Faure's Secondary Battery, 649
Flashing Signals by Electric Light, 176
Flooding the Shotts. 621
Forth Bridge, The, 206, 469
Franco-Spanish Central Pyrenean Railway, The, 285
Freight Charges on American Railways, 45
Fusing Disc, The Reese, 178, 260
Galvanometer Scale, An Improved, 442
Gamgee Zero-Motor, The, 418
Gas Engine Litigation, The, 311
" Gas Engineer's Diary and Text-Book," The, 44
Gas Managers, British Association of, G21
Geology of New Zealand, The 673
German Trade with Russia, 649
Glasgow College of Science and Arts, The, 521
Grain-Milling Trade, The, 280
Grand Canal do l'Est, The, 176
Gray's Harmonic Telegraph, 230
Great Northern Working Expenses, The, 547
Hall's Electrical Experiment. 572
Harvest Year-Book, The, 124
Heat R.-gulator for High Temperatures, A, 71
Heating Buildings, Steam Pipes for, 125
Heating Effects due to Cornpressilin, 5
Herreshoff Torpedo Boats, The, 260
Hotchkiss Revolving 'Ulla, The, 124
Indian and Colonial Mereanti:e Directory fur 1860-81, Street's, 71
International Electric Exhibition, The, 15, 150, 206. 259, 647
Iron Shipbuilding in Brisbane, 176
Iron and Steel Imports, Amei jean, 312
Iron in the Sun, 442
Irrigation in Egypt, 520
Isthmian Ship Railway, The, 392
Italian Rahway Coluraissiou, The, 392
Japanese Exhibition, A, 364
Lamb, Mr. Andrew, 393
Leadville, Colorado, 441
Lectures at the Glasgow Naval Exhibition, 4.5
Lectures, The Royal Institution, 15, 417
" L'Electricien," 620
Library for London, A Technical, 71
Library, The Ronalds, 15
Life in Meteorites, 177
Lighthouse Characteristics, 206
Lighthouse Dues. Proposed Abolition of, 229
Lighting Buoys, Compressed Gas for, 648
Lightning Conductor, 495,
Lightning Photographs, 229
L'Institut National, 71
Localising by the Eyes, 392
Loftus and Whitby Railway, The, 469
London Fires, 99
London University College. 177
London Water Supply, 98, 417
London Water Works and the Frost, 230
Machine Tools in Shipyards, Improved, 470
Maidstone Boiler Explosion, The, 98, 418
Manchester and Sheffield Railway, The, 621
Manganese Bronze, 229
Meaburing Electromotive Force, 177
Metropolitan Railway Land Operations, 495
Microphone and Firedamp, The, 417
Microphonic Time, 206
Midland Railway Extensions, 521 -
Molecular Music, 494
Mount Etna, Geology of, 124
Naval Architects, The Institution of, 264, 648
Needle, The American, 364
New York Harbour, Removing Obstructions in, 151
Observatory on Ben Nevis, The, 618
Obm and J.," Values of the, 441 Optogram, The, 546
PalceIlogical Discovery. 229
Panama Ship Cabal and Railway, The, 43, 207, 392, 547, 1,97
Paper Belting, 494
Passengers and Train Miles, 597
Pease, Mr. Henry, 596
Phosphorescence, 520
Photo-Elentric Cell, A New, 44
Photo-Electric Heat Regulator, A, 44
Photophone an i Thermophone, The, 442
Pickering and Seamer Railway, The, 59&
Pneumatic Clocks in Paris, 521
Police Telephones, 521
Prague, The Stephenson Centennial at, 621
Pressure on Thermometer Tubes, Effects of, 418
Promotion of Industry In Prussia, The Society for the, 260
Punching Steel Plates, 311
Qualified Engineers, 286
Radiation through Ebonite, 392
Radiophony, 811
Railroad Construction, American, 98
Railway Accidents, American, 206
Railway Amalgamations, 573
Railway Direction, 521
Railway Half-Year, The. 597
Railway Material for India, Shipment of, 170
Railway, A Transaustralian, ;J:12
Railways in Algiers, 70
Railways, French, 70
Refractive Index of Ebonite, The, 620
Reptiles, Largo Extinct, in a Belgian Coal Mine, 311
River Weaver Navigation, The, 97
Roundabout Telegraphing, 176
Royal Institution, The, 15, 41.7
Sandy Island Lighthouse, The, 94
Sanitary Assurance, 71
Seasoning of Timber, Artificial, 495
Ship Railway and Canal, The Proposed Panama, 43, 207, 392, 547, 597
Society of Arts, The, 44
Speaking Condenser, A. 45
Spennymoor Railway, The Projected„ 648
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal, The, 620
Station for London, A New Central, 312
Statistical Charts, 286
Statistics of the Alta Italia Railway for 1878, 97
Steamers, Early Clyde, 12
Steel Boilers in France, 596
Steel, Effect of Temperature on, 364
Steel Plates in Ruesia, 647
Steel Process, The Thomas-Gilchrist, in France, 230
Steel Shipbuilding in Russia, 125
Stephenson Centenary, The, 124, 259, 621
Stevens Institute or Hoboken, The, 597
Stock-Yards, Chicago, 124
Storing Electricity, 469
Strength of Wrought Iron Columns, The, 339
Struh's Experiment, 124
Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 648
Subterranean Telegraph Cables, 28J
Sutton Bridge Docks, 620, 619
" Tandem Engine The Efficiency of a," 286
Technical Education, 469
Technical Pocket Almanacks, 177
Telegraph in China, The, 311.
Telegraphic Progress, 151
Telegraphing by the Dynamo-Electric Current, '286
Teleohone, The, 229
Telephone, The Gower-Bell, 44
Telephone, The Flerz, 285
Telephone Progress in Glasgow, 15, 418
Telepho:iic Perturbations, 442
Tenting Broken Stone, 286
Testing (Instructive blaterials, 339
Thermal Balance, A, 45
Thermal Electrolysis, 417
Thermograph, A New, 521
Thermometer Tubes, Effects of Pressure on, 418
Thermometers, Verification of, 97
Thermophone; Mercadier's, 572
Thermoscope, A Magnetic, 311
Thomas-Gilchrist Steel Process in France, The, 230
Tin and Copper Trades of the United Kingdom, The,'15
Torpedo Boat " Lightning," The, 648
Torpedo Boats; 469
Transmission by Metal Cables, 494
Tunnelling the Simplon and M9nt Blanc, 417
Tyres, Breaking of, 124
University College, London, 177
Utilising Solar Heat in Paris, 45
Values of the Ohm and "J.," The, 441 Velocity of Light, The, 573
Ventilation, Boyle's System of, 71 Venus. The Forthcoming Transit of, 43 Vibration and Pain, 442
Water-tight Resistance Coil, A, 621
Weather. The, 1881. 151, 260, 364, 470, 598
Weather Reports, Daily, 125
Wick Harbour Works, 365
Wind Velocity, 43
" Work" The Definition of, 364

Notes from Cleveland, 9, 37, 72, 100, 120, 148, 171, 2d2, 232, 253, 282, 313, 334, 36C, 394, 423, 450, 464, 489, 516, 549 567, 592. 614, 651
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 16, 54, 72, 87, 133, 215, 269, 296, 321, 346, 371, 400, 580, 604, 629
Notes from the North, 9, 40. 66. 99, 120, 153, 174, 199, 232, '251, 282, 308, 334, 360, 385, 414, 438, 464, 490, 516, 548, 568, 592, 616, 651
Notes, Parliamentary, 520
Notes from the South-West, 9, 40, 63, 94, 120, 154, 180, 199, 232, 261, 282, 308, 331, 3.56, 381, 425, 443, 464, 490, 516, 549, 568, 591, 616, 650
Notes from South Yorkshire, 16, 46, 66, 99, 117, 154, 174, 207, '232, 253. 282, 308, 331, 394, 426, 450, 470, 490, 515, 541, 567, 592, 622, 643

Oak Mill, Furnworth, Compound Engine Trial at, 166
OBITUARY: (Moved to separate index)
Observatory on Ben Nevis, The, 648
Obstructions in New York Barbour, Removing, 151
Ohm and "J.," The Values of the, 441
Oils, Paraffin, and Paraffin, 565
Omodane Works, The; Japanese Metallurgical Processes, 82
Optogram, The, 546
Ore and Stone Crusher, Hall's, 566
Ottawa and St. Lawrence Railway, The ; Canadian Railway s, 58
Otto Gas Engine Litigation. The. 311, 333
Over-Darwen and Blackburn Tramway, The, 561
Owen's Air Compressor, 484
Owen and Dyson's Railway Wheels, 93

Paddle Steamers, The Waves of, 410
Paddock and Batley, The Boiler Explosions at, 177, 197, 200, 204, 598
Pain and Vibration, 442
Palteological Discovery, 229
Panama Ship Canal and Railway, The, 43, 207, 257, 326, 392, 547, 597
Paper Belting, 494
Papers, Dr. Joule's, 176
Paraffin and Paraffin Oils, 565
Parts International Electrical Exhibition, The, 15, 150, 206, 259, 647
Paris Inst tut National. 71
" Parisian," Steel Steamer, Trial of the, 224
Parliament, Private Bills in, 13, 520, 546, 569, 595, 647
Parliamentary Notes, 520
Passengers and Train Miles, 597
Patent Bill, Mr. Anderson's, 617
Patent Convention, A, 227
Patent Laws, The, 149
Patent Record, 16, 46, 72. 100. 126, 154, 180, 208, 233, 262, 268, 314, 340, 367, 395, 421, 445, 471, 497, 523, 551, 575, 599, 623 652
Patents, Classification of, 97
Pease, Mr, Henry, 596
Pent. sylvania Railroad, The Filbert-Street Extension of the. 555
Perkins Engine, The. 12
Perkins' Engines of the Yacht " Anthracite," 4
Permanent Way, Iron and Steel, 477
Permanent Way, Webb's Iron and Steel; London and North-Western Railway, 5
Perturbations. Telephonic, 942
Phoenix Iron Works. Rhenish Prussia, The, 139
Phosphorescence. 520
Photo-Electric Cell, A New, 44
Photo-Electric Heat Regulator, A, 44
Photographs, Lightning, '229
Photophone, Dr. Andrew Jamieson on the, 29:5
Photophone, 1 he Antecedents of the, 1, 42, 204, 258, 401
Photophone, The Construction of the, 96
Photophone and Thermophone, The, 442
Physical Phenomena, On some, 69
Physical Properties of Cast Iron, The, 478
Pickering and Seamer Railway, The, 596
Piedboauf's Combined Tubular and Lancashire Boiler, 352
Pier, Sea View Suspension, Isle of Wight, 609
Pig Iron Sliding Scale Prices, 95
Plates, Steel, Rivet Holes in, 283
Plates, Steel, in Russia, 647
Platinum and Gold in Russia, 163
Plough, Hornsby and Sons' Turnwrest Kent, 60
Pneumatic Clocks, 635
Pneumatic Clocks in Paris, 521
Pneumatic Sewerage System, The Shone, 612
Police Telephones, 621
" Polyphemus," H.M.S., Launch of. 622, 646
Portable Rivetter, Deering and Morrison's, 383
Portable Winding Engine, 301
Portsmouth Dockyard Extension Works, 161, 179
Power Curves of Steam Vessels, On the Conjugate, 27
Power, Electric, 547
Power of Rails, The Wearing, 220
Power, Transmission of, to a Distance, 86, 112, 11.5, 143
Prague, The Stephenson Centennial at, 621
Preservation and Ornamentation of Iron Surfaces, The. 478
Preserving Railway Sleepers, Blythe's System for, 114
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Address of the, 79
Pressure, Atmospheric, at London, 49:3
Pressure on Thermometer Tubes, Effects of, 418
Preventing Smoke, Engert's Apparatus for, 7
Price List of Materials. 26. 54. 80. 108, 131, 162, 188, 216, 270, 296, 322, 346, 372, 426, 556, 580, 630
" Prinses Marie" and " Prinses Elisabeth," Steamships, Compound Oscillating Engines and Boilers for the, 65, 119, 170, 218
Private Bill Legislation, 13, 520, 546, 569, 595, 647
Private Bills for Session 1881, 13
Production of Sound by Radiant Energy, Upon the, 416, 481, 514, 550
Progress in Naval Archi ecture, 93
Propeller, Screw, Cooke and Mylchreest's, 172
Provincial Sanitation, 361
Public Barometers, 571
Public Works in Canada, 440
Pump, Blundells' " Waterwitch," 61
Pump. A German Farm. 7
Pumping Engine, Ericsson's Duplex Caloric, 382
Pumping Engines, High and Low Service, at the St. Louis Water Works, U.S.A., 143, '200
Pumping Engines at the Richmond Water Works, Dale's, 65
Pumping Machinery and Man Engine, Hathorn, Davey, and Company's. 2i1
Pumps, Hastie's Hydraulic, with Variable Stroke, 366
Punch. The Jenkins, 463
Punching Steel Plates, 311
Puy de Dome, The, 97

Qualified Engineers, 286
Quartz, Gold, in California, The Treatment of, 246, 323 403, 5:32, 605
Quebec Harbour Improvements, 248

Radiant Energy, Upon the Production of Sound by, 416, 481, 514, 550
Radiant Heat and Gases, 176
Radiation through Ebonite, 392
Radiophone, The Action of the, 281
Radiophony, 311
Rail and Tramways in Italy, 43
Railroad Construction. American, 98
Railroad, Pennsylvania, The Filbert-Street Extension of the, 555
Rails, The Wearing Power of, 220
Railway Accidents, Americ Ln, 206
Railway Amalgamations, 573
Railway, The Bergish-Markische, Composite Carriage for, 4
Railway Carriages, Warming, 96
Railway Commission, The Italian, 392
Railway Direction, 521
Railway Engineers. Conference of, on Continuous Brakes, 461. 465
Railway Extensions, Midland, 521
Railway, The Franco-Spanish Central Pyrenean, 2S5
Railway Half-Year, The, 597
Railway, The Hamilton and North-Western; Canadian Railways, 581
Railway Land Operations, Metropolitan, 495
Railway Legislation, Current 595
Railway, The Loftus and Whitby. 469
Railway, The London and North-Western, Webb's Cast Iron Wheels for the. 590
Rail way, The London and North-Western, Webb's Iron and Steel Permanent Way for the, 5
Railway, The London and North-Western, Webb's Standard Safety Valves for the, 454
Railway. The London, Tilbury, and Southend, Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive for, 39
Railway, The Manchester and Sheffield. 621.
Railway Material for India. The Shipment of, 470
Railway Men, The Eyesight of, 441
Railway, The Napier and Manawatu, Bridges on, 522
Railway, The North London, Tatik Locomotive for. 38:3
Railway, The Panama Ship and Canal, 43, 207, 257. 326. 392, 547. 597
Railway, The Pickering and Seamer. 596
Railway, Projected, The Spennymoor, 648
Railway Rates. 415
Railway. The St. Lawrence and Ottawa; Canadian Railways, 58
Railway Sleepers, Blythe's System for Preserving, 114
Railway Stocks, Consolidation of, 491
Railway Tariffs, German, 440
Railway, A Transaustralian, 392
Railway Wheels, Owen and Dyson's, 93
Railways in Algiers, 70
Railways, American, Freight Charges on, 45
Railways, Capital Expenditure on, 469
Railways in 1880, 41
Railways, French, 71
Railways, The New Zealand, 33, 141
Recent Gas Burners, 466
Reese Fusing Disc, The, 178, 260
Refractive Index of Ebonite, The, 620
Refrigeration, Mechanical, 243
Regulator for High Temperatures, A Heat, 71
Regulator, A Photo-Electric, 44
Relic of Early Steam Navigation, A, 150
Removing Obstructions in New York Harbour, 151
Rennie's Swing Jib Dredger for British Guiana, 306
Reophotes, Carbon, 442
Repairing a Broken Crankshaft with Wire Rope, 561
Repairing and Laying Submarine Telegraph Cables, 250
Report, Annual, on London Fires, 99
Report of Deputation of the Institution of Naval Architects on the Glasgow Marine Exhibition, 91
Report of Lieutenant Lyle on Life-Saving
Rockets, 310
Report of the Ironfounders' Society, 618
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1880, 251
Report of Mr. John Waugh on the Batley Boiler Explosion, 200
Report of Mr. John Waugh on Boiler Inspection, 177
Reports of the Weather, 1881, 151, 260, 364, 470, 598
Reptiles, Large Extinct, in a Belgian Coal Mine, 311
Researches, Dr. Da la Rue's Electrical, 122
Resistance Coil, A Water-tight, 621
Reversible Tool Holder, Angus's, 38
Rhenish Prussia, The Phoenix Iron Works at, 139
Rhymney Iron Works, 612
Richmond Water Works, Dale's Pumping Engines at the, 65
Rickmansworth, The Battle of, 491
Riga Harbour, Hopper Dredger for, 381
River Hudson Tunnel, The, 583
River Seine at l'assy, Foot Bridge over the, 148
River 'l Names New Bridges, The, 439
River Weaver Navigation, The, 97
Rivet Holes in Steel Plates, 283
Rivetted Joints, 427. 436, 458, 508, 588
Rivetter, Deering and Morrison's Portable, 383
Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus, 310
Rolling of Sailing Ships, On the, 4:54, 501
Rolling Stock ant the Dynamo-Machine, 393
Rolls, Three-High. 611
Ronald$ Library, The, 15
Rope Towage, Wire, 370
Ropeway Wire, The Monte Penns, 165
Roundabout Telegraphing, 176
Royal Institution Lectures, The, 15, 417
Russia, Gold and Platinum in, 163
Russia, Steel Shipbuilding in. 125
Russian Imperial Yacht Li vadia„" The, 376, 585
Ryder's Hot-Air Engine, 458

Safety Valves, Webb's Standard ; London and North-Western Railway, 454
Sailing Ships, On the Rolling of, 454, 501
St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway; The Canadian Railways, e58
Sandy Island Lighthouse, The, 44
Sanitary Assurance, 71
Sanitary Summary, 1880, 121.
Sanitation, Provincial, 361
Saw, Aylesbury's Double-Band, 332
Scale, An Improved Galvanometer, 442
Science and Arts, The Glasgow College of, 521
Science Summary for 1880, 67
Scotch Iron Trade, 1880, The, 94
Scotland and Ireland, Earthquake Action in, 393
Scotland, The Mining Institute of, 515
Screw Propeller, Cooke and Mylchreest's, 172
Sea Lock fur Sunderland Docks, New, 256, 306, 359, 413, 452
Sea View, Suspension Pier, Isle of Wight, 609
Seasoning of Timber, Artificial, 495
Secondary Battery, Faure's, 649
Seine at Passy, Foot-Bridge over the, 148
Self-Closing Tap, Meacoek and Ward's, 514
" Servia," Cunard Mail Ship, Launch of the, 224
Session 1831, Private Bills fur, 13
Sharp, Stewart, and Company's Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive, 39
Sheer Legs, Eighty-Ton, 194
Ship Canal and Railway, The Panama, 43, 207, 257, 326, 392, 547 597
Shipbuilders, Iron, and Boilermakers, The, 544
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1880, Clyde, 32, 65, 141
Shipbuilding, Iron, in Brisbane, 176
Shipbuilding a Thousand Years Ago, 562
Shipbuilding. The Use (if Steel in, 380, 406
Shipment of Railway Material fur India, The, 470
Shipyar.7s, Improved Tools in, 470
Shone Pneumatic Sewerage System, The, 612
Shotts, Flooding the, 621
Siemens System, The ; Electric Light iu the City, 336
Signal Locking Gear, Smith's, 61
Signals, Flashing, by Electric Light, 176
Simplon and Mont Blanc, Tunnelling the, 417
Sir William Thomson's New Depth Gauge, 3
Six-Horse Traction Engine, Hornsby and Sons', 34
Sky. The Blue Colour of the, 339
Sleepers, Railway, Blythe's System for Preserving 114
Sliding Scale Prices, Pig Iron, 95
Smoke Preventing Apparatus, Engert's, 7
Society of Arts, The, 44
Society of Civil Engineers, The American, 43
Society, The Ironfounders,' Report of, 618
Society, The Meteorological, 108
Society for the Promotion of industry in Prussia, The, 260
Solar Heat in Paris, Utilising, 45
Some Physical Phenomena, On, 69
Sound by Radiant Energy, Upon the Production of, 416, 481, 514, 550
South African Diamond Mines, 506
South-West, Notes from the, 9, 40, 63, 94, 120, 154, 180, 199, 232, 261, 282, 308, 331, 356, 381, 425, 443, 464, 490, 516, 549, 568, 591, 616, 650
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16, 46, 66, 99, 117, 154, 174, 207, 232, 253, 282, 308, 331, 391,426, 450 470, 490, 515, 541, 567, 592, 622, 643
Speaking Condenser, A, 45
Spennymoor Railway, The Projected, 648
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal, The. 620
Stability of Merchant Ships, The, 353
Station for London, A New Central, 312
Statistical Charts, 286
Statistics of the Alta Italia. Railway for 1878, 97
Steam Engine Lubricator, Cadiat's, 566
Steam Fire Engines in the North of Europe, 425
Steam Launch, Brown's Engines for, 34
Steam Navigation, A Relic of Early, 150
Steam Pipes for Heating Buildings, 125
Steam Tramcar, Thomas's, 585
Steam Vessels, On the Conjugate Power Curvas of, 27
Steamer, " City of Rome," Launch of the, 615
Steamers, Clyde, Two New, 649
Steamers, Early Clyde, 125
Steamship " As -yt ian Monarch," Compound Engines and Boilers of the, 481, 539, 585, 641
Steamships " Prinses Marie" and " Prinses Elisabeth," Compound Oscillating Engines and Boilers for the, 65, 119, 170, 218
Steel, Bessemer, in the United States, 206, 477 536
Steel Boilers in France, 596
Steel Boilers of the " Livadia," The, 376, 585
Steel, Effect of Temperature on, 364
Steel in the French Navy, 415
Steel, The Hardening of, 646
Steel Hulls and Steel-Faced Armour, 352
Steel and Iron, The Conversion of, 467
Steel and Iron, Hydrogen and Nitrogen in, 203
Steel and Iron Imports, American, 312
Steel and Iron Permanent Way, Webb's ; London and North-Western Railway, 5
Steel, Mild, in French Arsenals, 407, 448
Steel and Mild Iron, The Corrosion of, 313
Steel Plates, The Manufacture of, is Russia,, 468
Steel Plates, Punching, 311
Steel Plates in Russia, 647
Steel Plates, Rivet Holes in, 283
Steel Shipbuilding, The Economical Advantages of, 467, 482
Steel Shipbuilding in Russia, 125
Steel Steamer " Parisian," Trial of the, 224
Steel Works, The Dalzell, Motherwell, N.B., 215
Steel Works, Hydraulic Machinery for, 478
Steelmaking, Bessemer, in the United States, 417
Stephenson Centenary, The, 124. 239, 593, 621
Stevens Institute of Hoboken, The, 597
Stock-Yards, Chicago. 124
Stoker, McDougall's Mechanical, 280
Stone-Dressing Machinery, 275
Stone and Ore Crusher, Hall's, 566
Storage, Cold, 393
Stored-up Electricity, 469, 518, 560, 638
Straight Line Engine, The, 300
Straight-Link Suspension Bridges, 297, 373, 681
Strain on Electric Conductivity, Effects of, 259
Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1880-81, 71
Strength of Crankshafts, On, 431
Strength of Iron at High Temperatures, The, 109
Strength of Wrought-Iron Columns, The, 339
Stroh's Experiment, 124
Strongest of the Bronzes, The, 339
Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers The, 648
Stuffing-Boxes, Yarrow and Co's, 280
Submarine Coast Warner, A, 495
Submarine Telegraph Cables, Laying and Repairing, 250
Subterranean Telegraph Cables, 286
Summary, Sanitary, 1880, 121
Summary, Science, for 1880, 67
Sunderland Docks, New Sea Lock for, 256, 306, 359, 413, 452
Sun, Iron in the, 442
Sutton Bridge Docks, 620, 649
Swan's Electric Lamp, 306
Swing Jib Dredger for British Guiana, Ronnie's, 3U6
Syphon, Adams's Flushiog, 514 1.

Tandem Engine, The Efficiency of a," 228, 286
Tank Locomotive for the Kapunda and North-West Bend Railway, 615
Tank Locomotive; North London Railway, 3S3
Tap, Me4cock and Ward's Self-Closing, 514
Tariffs, German Railway, 440
Taylor and Challen's (huge Grinding Machine 226
Technical Education, 469
Technical Library for London, A, 71
Technical Literature, Foreign, 151, 178, 207, 231, 261, 287, 312, 365, 393, 413, 442, 495, 522, 548, 574, 598, 650
Technical Pocket Almanacks, 177
Telegraph Cables and the Aurora Borealis, 285
Telegraph Cables, Submarine, Laying and Repairing, 250
Telegraph Cables, Subterranean, 286
Telegraph in China, The, 311
Telegraph Engineers, The Conversazione of, 388
Telegraph, Gray's Harmonic, 230
Telegraphic Engineering in 1880, 11
Telegraphic Progress, 151
Telegraphing by the Dynamo-Electric Current, 286
Telegraphing, Roundabout, 176
Telegraphs, Military Field, 570
Telephone, The, '2'2&
Telephone, The Gower-Bell, 44
Telephone, The Herz, 285
Telephone Progress iu Glasgow, 15, 418
Telephones, Police, 521
Telephonic Perturbations, 442
Telephotograph, The, 257
Tell-Tale, Fire, An Electrical, l5, 218
Temperature, The Effect of. on Steel, 364
Temperatures, High The Strength of Iron at, 109
Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive, Sharp, Stewart, and Company's, 39
Testing Broken Stone, 286
Testing Constructive Materials, 339
Testing Electrical Resistances, Captain Bucknill's Instrument for, 590
Thames Bridges, The New, 439
Theory of Arches. The, 557, 606, 634
Theory of Heat, The Mechanical, 24
Thermal Balance, A, 45
Thermal Electrolysis, 417
Thermograph, A New, 521
Thermometer, An Electrical, 311
Thermometer Tubes, Effects of Pressure on, 418
Thermometers, Verification of, 97
Therm ophone, Al ercadier's, 572
Thermophone and Photophone, The, 442
Thermoscope, A Magnetic, 311
Thomas-Gilchrist Steel Process in France, The, 230
Thomas's Steam Tramcar, 585
Thomson, Sir William's, New Depth Gauge, 3
Thrashing Machinery, 429, 457, 509, 534
Three-High Rolls, 614
Tidal and Upland Waters, 463
Tide Gauges, 274
Tides, Electric, 175
Timber, Artificial Seasoning of, 495
Time, Microphonic, '206
Thne, The Pneumatic Distribution of, G35
Tin Boxes, Griffin's, 470
Tin and Copper Trades in the United Kingdom, The, 15
"Tin, The Cry of," 495
Tool Holder, Angus's Reversible, 38
Torpedo Boat, " Lightning," The, 648
Torpedo Botts, 46d
Torpedo Boas, The Herreshoff, 260
Torpedo Boats and Light Yachts, 485
Torsion, Electrical, 387
Towage on Canals, Cable, 287
Towage, Wite Rope, 370
Traction Engine, lIornsby and Sons' Six-Horse, 34
Trade, The Grain-Milling, 230
Trade with Russia, German, 649
Traffic Receipts in 1850, Rdilway, 41
Train Miles and Passengers, 597
Tramcar, Thomas's steam, 585
Tramway, The Blackburn and Over-Darwen, 561
Tramways and Riilw Lys in Italy, 43
Transit of Venus, The Forthcoming, 43
Tra,nsaustraliau Railway, A, 392
Transmission Dynamometer, A, 579
Transmission by Metal Cables, 494
Transmission of Power to a Distance, 86, 112, 115, 143
Treatment of Gold Quartz in California, The, 246, 323, 403, 532, 605
Treaty, The French, and the Iron Trade, 638
Trial of Armour Plates, 124
Trial of a Compound Engine at Oak Mill, Farnworth, 166
Trial of a Corliss Engine, 347
Trial of the Steel Steamer " Parisian," 224
Trials of Boilers at the Dusseldorf Exhibition, 529
Trouves Electric Probe, 260
Tubular and Lancashire Boiler, Piedboeurs Combined, 352
Tunnel, The Arlberg, Air Compressors for, 114
Tunnel or Bridge? 517
Tunnel. The Hudson River, 588
Tunnelling the Simplon and Mont Blanc, 417
Turnwrest Kent Plough, Hornsby and Sons', GO Tyres, Breaking of, 124

United States, Emigration to the, 230
United States, Industrial Arbitration in the, 361
University College, London, Engineering Laboratory at the, 68, 177
Upland and Tidal Waters, 463
Use of Steel in Shipbuilding, 1 he, 380, 406
Utilising Fired Cartridges, Morris's Apparatus for, 147
Utilising Solar Heat in Paris, 45

Vacuum Brakes, Automatic, 617, 628
Values of the Ohm and " J.," The, 441
Valves, Webb's Standard Safety; London and North-Western Railway, 4b4
Variable Stroke, Hastie's Hydraulic Pumps with, 366
Velocity of Light, The, 573
Velocity of Wind, The, 43
Ventilation, Boyle's System of, 71
Venus, The Forthcoming Transit of, 43
Verification of Thermometers, 97
Vibration and Pain, 442
" Vietoria," Tug, Cottow's Marine Boiler fitted to the, 274
Voss's Induction Electrical Machine, 567

" Wanderer," Yacht, Engines of the, 444
Warfare, The Electric Light in, 492
Warming Railway Carriages, 96
Water Analysis, London, 363
Water Supply, The London, 98, 417
Water-tight Resistance Coil, A, 621
Water-Tube Boilers at Dusseldorf, 642
Water Works, The London, and the Frost, 230
Water Worlo, Richmond, Dale's Pumping Engines at the, 65
Water Works, St, Louis, U.S.A.. High and Low
Service Pumping Engines at the, 143, 200
Waters, Tidal and Upland, 463
" Waterwitch" Pump, Blundells', 61
Waugh's Report on the Batley Boiler Explosion, 200
Waves of Paddle Steamers, The, 410
Wearing Power of Rails, The, 220
Weather, 1881, The, 151,260, 364, 4-0, 598
Weather Reports, Daily, 125
Webb's Cast-Iron Wheels; London and North-Western Railway, 590
Webb's Goo is Lo :omotive Details ; London and
North-Western Railway, 92
Webb's Iron and Steel Permanent Way ; London and North-Western Railway, 5
Webb's Standard Safety Valves; London and North-Western Railway, 454
Weems, Mr. John, 548
Westinghouse, Brake, The, 70
Wheal Eliza &line, The Voiler Explosion at, 125
Wheels, Owen and Dyson's Rail% ay, 93
Wick Harbour Works, 365
Wind Velocity, 43
Wintling Engine, Portable, 301
Wire-Drawing, 310
Wire Rope, Repairing a Broken Crankshaft with, 561
Wire Rope Towage, 370
Wire Ropeway, The Monte Penns, 165
Wool Spinning and Electricity, 311
Woollen Manufactures, International Exhibition of, 596
Work," The Definition of. 364
Working Expenses, The Great Northern, 547
works in Canada, Public, 440
Works, The Omodane ; Japanese Metallurgical Processes, 82
Works, The Rhymney Iron, 612

Yacht " Anthracite," Perkins' Compound Engines of the. 4
Yacht " Livadia," The Russian Imperial, 585
Yacht " Wanderer," Engines of the, 444
Yarrow and Company's Stuffing-Boxes, 230
Year-Book, The Harvest, 124
Young's Compound Marine Engine, 2S0

Zero-Motor, The Gamgee, 418

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