Engineering 1893 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ABSTRACTS of Patent Specifications, 216
Accident, Box Tunnel Railway, 681
Accident, Chester Railway Bridge, Mass., 424
Accumulator (R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 37
Actinometer, Pendulum, 533
Admiralty Boiler Committee Report, 23, 56, 90, 114, 186
Admiralty and Contractors, 310, 332, 370
Admiralty Estimates, 275
Admiralty Programme, 593, 763. See LETTERS, Navy
Aerial Flight, 409. See LETTERs
Aeronautics, 481, 509, 523, 548, 573
African Railways, Development of South, 264, 294, 324, 502, 597, 655, 687
Agricultural Machinery at Smithfield Show, 703
Agriculture in New South Wales, 488
Air and Cement Grouting Foundations in Quicksand, 736
Air, Compressed, Fog Signals, 89, 587
Air Compressor, Duplex (Anderston Foundry Co, Limited, Glasgow), 251
Air-Core Transformer, Behaviour when Frequency is Low, 537
Air Pumps, Designs of, 740
Air and Sea Temperature in Clyde Area, 475
Air Transmission and Distribution, 27
Akers Mek. Vmrksted, Engines of Nansen's Polar Ship " Fram," 11
Alkali Nuisances, 117
Allis Company, Milwaukee, 3000 Indicated Horse-Power Quadruple-Expansion Engines, 648, 694
America. See also United States
America Cup, 461, 483, 510
American Atlantic Liners, New, 707, 722
American Blast Furnace Practice, 409
American Cargo Ships, 779
American Locomotives, 6, 81, 101, 109, 110, 172, 237, 269, 299, 330, 359, 388, 432, 465, 478, 479, 507, 537, 569, 603, 635, 695, 756, 785
American Navy, 444
American Railways, English View, 57, 115
American Refrigerator Transit Company, St. Louis, Refrigerator Cars, 603
American River and Lake Steamers, 602
American Tariff Reform, 746
American Tinplate Production, 517
American Trade. See Notes from United States American Universities at the Chicago Exposition, 36, 119, 139, 195, 227, 426, 516, 633
Ammonia Recovery from Coke, 515
Amphlet's Pneumatic Hammer (W. and J. Player, Birmingham), 46
Analysis of Iron and Steel, International Standards, 533
Analysis of Water, Sodium Peroxide for, 565
Anchorage of Suspension Bridges, 739
Anderson and Lyall Tubulous Boiler, 127. See alt4o 74, 96
Anderston Foundry Company, Limited, Glasgow, Duplex Air Compressor, 251
Andreoli Plant for Ozone Production, 153
Antwerp International Exhibition, 1894, 248, 735
Arbitration, 180
Arc Lamps, Inverted, for Lighting Workshops, 529, 554
Architecture, Mechanics of, 546
" Aretusa," Italian Torpedo Gunboat, Engines, &c. (Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 756
Arithmometer, Brunsviga, 741
Arm Rest, Gabriel's Adjustable, 648
Armatures, Self-Acting. 386
Armourclads, Stability of, 616, 637, 697, 740, 770
Armour-Plate Forgings in the United States, 753
Armour-Plate Tests, Bethlehem, 212
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Japanese Cruiser " Yoshino," 44
Arrester, Non-Arcing Lightning, 278
Artesian Bored Tube Well (13-In.) at Bourne, Lincolnshire (bier, London), 649. See 583
Artificers in the Navy, 211. See LErrEns, Navy Engineering
Asphalte Pavements, 766
Asthury 6-in. Foot Lathe (Grantham), 283
Astilleros del Nervion, Cruiser " Infanta Maria Teresa," 338, 361, 490, 590
Atlantic Liners, New American, 707, 722
Atlantic-Mediterranean Canal, 341
Atlantic Record, 46, 309, 342, 399, 460, 517, 580, 648
Atlantic Steamers, 54, 285, 311. See also 46, 309, 342, 399, 460, 631, 707, 719, 722, 766
Atlantic Steamers " Lucania " and "Campania," 46, 285, 309, 311, 342, 399, 460, 517, 580, 648
Atlantic Steamers, White Star, 133
Attendance at Chicago Exposition, 14, 543, 613
August Weather, 306
Austro-Hungarian Patents, 668
Auto Machinery Company, Ball Bearings, 527
Automatic Engine, Robb - Armstrong (Nova Scotia), 25
Auxiliary Machinery of Navy Vessels, 536
Auxiliary Pumps of Steam Engines, 589
Awards Muddle, Chicago Exposition, 150, 181, 577
Axlebox, Longridge's, 12

Babcock and Wilcox Boiler Explosion, 745
Babcock and Wilcox Water-Tube Boiler, 74, 96. See also 127
Bacteriology, 564
Balance, Spring, 797
Balancing of Engines (Yarrow), 187. See LErrEits
Balancing Reciprocating Motion, 355
Baldwin Locomotives, 6, 172, 237, 299, 507, 569
Ball Bearings (Auto Machinery Company, Coventry), 527
Ball Bearings for Thrust Blocks, 310, 332, 391, 429, 462, 483, 511, 548, 572, 616, 639, 668, 698
Ballast-Distributing Wagon, Rodger's Railway, 299
Ballast, Tanks, Wear and Tear in, 45, 73
Baltic-North Sea Canal, 279
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, History, 644
Barge with Mechanical Appliance for Coaling Steamers, 21
Barges for Depositing Blocks, Bilbao Breakwater, 229. See LETTERS, Bilbao, &c.
Baroda Water Works, 645
Barrel-Making Machinery, 727
Barr's Contracting Chill for Car Wheels, 506
Barry Docks, 78
Bascules of Tower Bridge, 448. See also 353, 382, 417, 471
Basic Steel Works at Witkowitz, 398, 435
Batteries, Plates for Secondary, 676
Battleship Design, 638
Battleship " Howe," Stranding of the, 19, 310
Battleship " Illinois," United States, 3
Battleship " Ramillies," Gun Trials, 241
Battleship Steam Trials, 733
Battleship, United States, 778
Battleship " Victoria," Sinking of the 18, 153, 365, 485, 544, 575. See LETTERS, " Victoria" Battleships, Best, 444
Battleships, British and Foreign, 593, 763. See LErrEits, Navy
Battleships " Majestic" and " Magnificent," 250
Battleships, Stability of, 616, 637, 697, 740, 770
Battleships, United States, 444
Baxters' Lock-Nut, 771
Beam Engines for Paddle Steamer " Honam " (Messrs. Inglis, Glasgow), 265. See LETTERS
Bearings, Ball (Auto Machinery Company, Coventry), 527
Bearings for Thrust Blocks, 310, 332, 391, 429, 462, 483, 511, 548, 572, 616, 639, 668, 698
Bedson, Mr. J. P., on Wire Manufacture, 413
Beira Railway, 502
Belgian Metallurgical Industries, 796
Belgium, Electric Power Transmission in, 341. See LErriuts, Electric, &c.
Bell, Sir Lowthian, on Waste Heat in Smelting Ores, 398, 433, 466
Belleville Water Tube Boiler, 74, 96. See 127
Bellis Engine and Siemens Dynamo at Kingston, 691
Ben Nevis Observatory, 475
Bengal Iron Manufacture, 533
Berkley, The Late Sir George, 796
Berlin, Projected World's Exhibition, 706
Bessemer Blowing Plant, 368
Bethlehem Armour-Plate Tests, 212
Bethlehem Iron' Works, 125-Ton Steam Hammer, 112, 205
Bicycle Design, 645
Biddulph, Boiler Explosion, 240
Bilbao Harbour Works, Electric Plant (MM. Coiseau, Couvreux, and Allard), 229. See LETTERS
Bilbao Harbour Works, 229, 269, 371, 390. See also Subaqueous Foundations
Biles, Professor, on Ocean Passenger Steamers, 106
Bilston, Boiler Explosion, 188
Birmingham Mint, Elliott's Smoke Annihilator 708
Blake Pumps, 559, 585. See LErrER, Pumps Blast Furnace Practice, American, 409
Blasting, Practical Examples, 712, 773, 802
Blechynden, Mr. A., on Heat Transmission through Tube-Plates, 74
Blechynden, Mr. A., on Sand Pump Dredger, Mersey Bar, 107, 134, 800. See 449, 494
Bleichert Tramways (Wire Rope Haulage), 232
Bliss Company, Brooklyn, 300-Ton Embossing Press, 536
Blondel, M. A., on Electric Lighthouses, 138, 144, 223, 254
Blondel, M. A., on Flashing Lights, 109, 650
Bloomsburg Car Company, Rotary Dump Car, 360
Blowholes in Steel Ingots, 399
Blowing Engine, Bessemer, 368
Bogue and Mills Company, Pneumatic Gate for Railway Crossing, 571
Boiler Construction, Government Rules, 536
Boiler Construction, Hydraulic'Appliances, 568
Boiler Construction, Marine, 196, 280
Boiler, Cornish, 121
Boiler-End Turning, Boring, and Drilling Machine (Rushworth, Sowerby Bridge), 536
Boiler Explosion at Bilston, 188
Boiler Explosion at Hindley, 745
Boiler Explosion at Yarmouth, 112
Boiler Explosions at Bradford and Biddulph, 240
Boiler Explosions at Congleton and Netherton, 623
Boiler Explosions, Some Recent, 336
Boiler Feed Heating, 568
Boiler Forced Draught, 71, 346, 568
Boiler Inspection in the United States, 752
Boiler Pnming, Locomotive Marine (H.M.S. " Antelope,") 675
Boiler Tube-Plates, 74
Boiler Tubes, Induced-Draught, Hot-Air, and Serve, 71, 346
Boiler, Yarrow Water-Tube, 612
Boilers, 23, 56, 71, 74, 90, 114, 186, 346, 568
Boilers, Coil and Tuhulous, 601
Boilers and Engines of " Iberia " (D. Rollo and Son, Liverpool), 82, 142, 206, 420
Boilers, Flue, 121
Boilers, Oil Fuel for, 669
Boilers, Thornycroft Water-Tube, Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 674
Boilers, Water-Tube, 74, 96, 127, 612, 674
Bombay (Tansa) Water Works, 645
Bona Valve Diagram, 473
Bonar Bridge, 236, 298
Bordeaux, Port of, 103
Boring Machine, Well- (Isler, London), 583, 649
Boring, and Drilling Machine, Boiler-End Turning (Rushworth, Sowerby Bridge), 536
Boring and Turning Mills (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 397
Borodin, Mr. Alex., on Steam Pumps, 559, 585. See LETTERs, Pumps
Bosphorus, Paddle Steamer for (Thames Iron Company), 551
Boughton's Telephotos, Electrical Signalling, 795
Bourne, Lincolnshire, 13-In. Artesian Bored Tube Well (Isler, London), 649. See 583
Box Cars, Harvey Steel, 449
Box Tunnel Railway Accident, 681
Boxholm, Electric Installation at, 489
Boyd Brick Press (Messrs, Chisholm, Boyd, and White, Chicago), 634
Bracket, Gabriel's Adjustable Arm Rest, 648
Bradford, Boiler Explosion, 240
Bradford, Explosion of Gas Cylinder, 665, 676. See LETTERS
Brake Ergometer, Water-Cooled, 230
Brakes on British Railway Trains, 547
Brakes, Failures of Continuous, 216
"Brancker," Sand Pump Dredger, Mersey Bar (Naval Construction Company, Barrow), 107, 134, 449, 494, 800
Breakwater, Bilbao Harbour Works, 229. See
LwrrxRs, Bilbao, tfcc.
Breakwater Construction. See Maritime Congress
Breakwater, La Guaira, 197, 314, 417. See LETTER, Tipping Box Breakwater, Wick, 217
Brewers' Exhibition, 516
Brick Press, Boyd (Messrs. Chisholm, Boyd, and White, Chicago), 634
Bridge Accident, Chester, Mass., 424
Bridge Blasting, 773
Bridge, Bonar, 236, 298
Bridge Flooring, Distribution of Loads, 319. See LETTERS
Bridge, Harvey's Suspension Foot, 331
Bridge, Pontoon, across Mississippi, 481
Bridge, Road, at Piura, Peru, 635
Bridge, Salado, Buenos Ayres and Rosario Railway, 508
Bridge Schemes in Parliament, 701
Bridge Superstructures, Design of, 369
Bridge, Tower, 353, 382, 417, 448, 471
Bridge across Tyne at Newburn, 21
Bridges, Anchorage of Suspension, 739
Bridges, Combination Wood and Steel, 707
Brier's Reducing Valve, 283
Briquette Machine, Coal and Coke Breeze (Johnson, Leeds), 81
Britannia Company, Punching and Shearing Machine, 679

British Association :

355
Mechanical Science Section. See also 365 President's Address, by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 355, 365
Automatic Balance of Reciprocating Mecha• nism, by Mr. W. W. Beaumont, 355
Lace Machinery, by Mr. E. Doughty, 356 Hosiery Machinery, by Mr. C. R. Woodward, 356
Exhibition of Lace and Hosiery Machinery, by Professor W. Robinson, 367
Report of the Committee on Graphic Methods, 358
Report of the Committee on Dryness of Steam in Boiler Trials, 358
Thermal Storage by Utilisation of Town's Refuse, by Mr. C. C. Keep, 358
Disposal of Refuse, by Mr. W. Warner, 358, 376, 402. See LETTERS
Warming and Ventilating, by Mr. F. Ashwell, 382
Modern Watchmaking, by Mr. T. P. Hewitt, 382
Pneumatic Caulking Tool, by Mr. J. M. Ross, 383, 466
Relative Cost of Conductors with Different Systems of Electric Power Transmission, by Mr. Gisbert Kapp, 383
Utilisation of Water Power by Electricity, by Mr. A. B. Snell, 383
New Form of Variable Power Gear for Electric Motors, by Mr. NV. W. Beaumont, 386
Self-Exciting Armatures and Compensators for Loss of Pressure, by Mr. W. B. Sayers, 386
Mechanical System of Electric Conductors, by Mr. E. Payne, 386
Flashing Lights of Lighthouses, by Mr. 0. T. Olsen, 407
An Automatic Gem Separator, by Mr. W. S. Lockhart, 407
Experiments with Ventilating Fans or Air Propellers, by Mr. W. G. Walker, 407
Notes on the Testing Machine and Experimental Steam Engine in the Engineering Laboratories of University College, by Professor W. Robinson, 408, 428
Flames, by Professor Smithells, 408
Spontaneous Combustion, by Professor Vivian Lewes, 408
Physical Section.
Presidential Address on Optical Theories, by Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, 445
Connection between Ether and Matter, Report by Professor Oliver Lodge, 448
Vibration Period of Magnetic Disturbances on the Earth's Surface, by Professor S. F. Fitzgerald, 448
Electrical Standards (Committee's Report), by Mr. Glazebrook, 448
Standards of Low Electrical Resistance, 448 Piezo-Electric Pile, by Lord Kelvin, 474 Piezo-Electric Properties of Quartz, by Lord Kelvin, 474
Electrolysis, Committee's Report on, 474 Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Phenomena (Committee Report) 475
Earth Tremors (Committee Report), 475 Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena of Japan, 475
Magnetic Work at Falmouth Observatory (Committee Report), 475
Ben Nevis Committee Report, 475
Temperature of Sea and Air in the Clyde Sea Area, by Dr. H. R. Mill, 475
Best Means of Recording the Direct Intensity of Solar Radiation (Committee Report), 475
Sun Spots and the Solar Envelopes, by Rev. Frederick Howlett, 477
The Moon's Atmosphere and the Kinetic Theory of Gases, by Mr. G. H. Bryan, 477
Apparatus for Elementary Class Work in Practical Physics, by Professor Carey Foster, 503
Physics Teaching, by Mr. W. B. Croft, 503 Notes on Science Teaching in Public Schools, by Mr. A. E. Hawkins, 503
A Simple Interference Experiment, by Lord Rayleigh, 503
The Publication of Scientific Papers, by Mr. A. B. Bassett, 503
Grinding and Polishing of Glass Surfaces, by Lord Rayleigh, 503
Construction of Specula for Reflecting Telescopes on New Principles, by Professor Safarik, 503
A New Artificial Horizon, by Mr. W. P. Shaboldt, 503
A New Form of Air Pump, by Professor J. J. Thomson, 503
A Peculiar Motion Assumed by Oil Bubbles in Ascending Tubes containing Caustic Solution, by Dr. Troutons, 503
Chemical Section.
Presidential Address, Chemical Science in Medical Education, by Professor E. Reynolds, 503
On Tools and Ornaments of Copper and other Metals from Egypt and Palestine, by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 532
Report of the Committee on International Standards for the Analysis of Iron and Steel, 533
On Native Iron Manufacture in Bengal, by Mr. M. Harris and Mr. T. Turner, 533
On Nitride of Iron, by Mr. G. J. Fowler, 533
British Association—continued.
Cyano-Nitride of Titanium in Ferro-Manganese, by Mr. T. W. Hogg, 533
Report of the Committee on the Silent Discharge of Electricity in Oxygen and other Gases, 533
Demonstration of the Preparation and Properties of Fluorine by Moissan's Method, by Dr. M. Meslans, 533
Report of the Committee on the Formation of Haloids, 533
Report of the Committee on the Action of Light on the Hydracids of the Halogens in the Presence of Oxygen, 533
The Iodine Value of Sunlight in the High Alps, by Dr. S. Rideal, 533
A Modified Form of Bunsen and Roscoe's Pendulum Actinometer, by Dr. A. Richardson and Mr. J. Quick, 533
Report of the Committee on the Action of Light on Dyed Colours, 533
Note on the Temperature and Luminosity of Gases, by Professor Smithells, 564
A Discussion on the Present Position of Bacteriology, more especially in its Relation to Chemical Science, by Professor Percy F. Frankland, 564
Remarks on the Chemistry of Bacteria, by Mr. R. Warington, F.R.S., 564
Fermentation in connection with the Leather Industry, by Mr. J. T. Wood, 564
On Some Ferments Derived from Diseased Pears, by Dr. G. Tate, 564
Explosion in Mines : The Dust Theory, by Professor Harold Dixon, 564
Application of the Hydrogen Flame in an Ordinary Miner's Safety Lamp to Accurate and Delicate Gas Testing, by Professor Clowes, 565
The Action of Permanganate of Potassium on Sodium Thiosulphate and Sulphite, by Mr. G. E. Brown and Dr. W. W. J. Nicol, 565
The Application of Sodium Peroxide to Water Analysis, by Dr. S. Rideal, 565
The Application of Electrolysis to Qualitative Analysis, by Dr. C. A. Kohn, 565
Apparatus for the Extraction of Gases Dissolved in Water and other Liquids, by Dr. E. B. Truman, 505
The Rate of Evaporation of Bodies in Different Atmospheres, by Dr. Phookan, 565

British Colonies at Chicago Exposition, 200, 277, 351, 379, 425, 459, 488, 680, 711, 743
British Commerce Protector, 645
British v. Foreign Navies, 593, 763. See lamas, Navy
British Guiana Colony at Chicago Exposition, 772 British Locomotives, Earnings, 677
British Merchant Navy, 90, 486
British Ports, Relative Importance of, 55
British Railway Returns, 1892, 245, 457, 547, 577, 737 to,
British Railways, 215, 240. See LErnms
Bronzing, Metal Colouring and, 691
Brooks Locomotives, 109, 110, 269, 479, 537, 603, 695, 756
Brown Segmental Wire Gun, 614
Brunsviga Calculating Machine, 741
Brush Company Locomotive and Cars, Beira
Railway, East Africa, 502
Brussels Electric Railway, 487
Bryan, Mr. G. H., on the Strength of Bulkheads, 78
Bucyrus Steam Navvy, 175
Buda-Pesth, Electric Light, 280
Buenos Ayres and Rosario Railway, Salado Bridge, 508
Building Stone, Examination of, 216
Bulkhead Division of " Victoria," 575. See also
18, 153, 365, 485, 544, and LETTERS
Bulkheads, Strength of, 78
Bullock Manufacturing Company, Willans Engine, 603
Buoys, Introduction of, 114
Buoys, Light, 138
Burner for Miners' Safety Lamps (Robson-Brown), 22
Bute Docks, 70

Cable Haulage, Tramway (Trenton Iron Com-pany, N.J.), 232
Cables, Submarine Telegraph, French Government and, 216
Cail Pumps, 559, 585. See LErrzas, Pumps
Caisson at Extension of Leghorn Graving Dock, 92, 135
Calais, Port of, 1R5
Calculating Machine, Brunsviga, 741
"Campania," Cunard Steamer, 46, 309, 342, 399, 460, 517, 580, 648
"Campania " and "Great Eastern," 54, 285, 309, 311, 342, 399, 460. See 46
Campbell's Companion Ladder with Self-Adjusting Steps, 13
Campbell's Gas Engine, 369
Canadian Pacific Railway, 182
Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive, 664
Canal, Atlantic-Mediterranean, 341
Canal, Manchester. See Manchester Ship Canal
Canal, North Sea-Baltic, 279
Canals, Irrigation, Egypt, 685
Canda Contracting Chill for Car Wheels (Ensign Company, New York), 478
Cantilever Bridges (Combination Wood and Steel), 707
Cantilever Truck, Peckhani's Extension, 755
Cape Colony Railways, 264, 294, 324, 502, 597, 655, 687
Cape of Good Hope Exhibits at Chicago, 200, 745
Capsizing of a Torpedo-Boat, 673
Capstan Lathes (Herbert, Coventry), 328
Car, Automatic Heating and Ventilating Freight (Eastman Company, Boston), 269
Car, Cattle, American, 204, 252
Car, Club Railroad (Harlan and Hollinsworth, Wilmington, Del.), 329
Car, Dumping (Thacher Company, New York), 637
Car, Eastman's Heated, 269
Car Frames, Pressed Steel (Fox's Co., Joliet, Ill.), 328
Car, Refrigerator (American Refrigerator Transit Company, St. Louis), 603
Car, Refrigerator (Hanrahan's System, United
States Car Company, Hegewisch, Ill.), 728
Car, Refrigerator (Wickes Car Company, Chicago), 539
Car, Rotary Dump (Bloomsburg Company), 360
Car Wheels, Canda Contracting Chill for (Ensign Company, New York), 478, 506
Cars, Hand (Cyrus Roberts, Railway) (Roberts, Thorp, and Co., Michigan), 509
Cars, Harvey Steel Box, 449
Cars, Pullman Observation and Sleeping, 755
Cars, Victorian Railway Standard Locomotives and, 724, 786
Carbon in Iron, 412, 552
Carburetted Gas, 461
Carey, Mr. A. E., on La Guaira Breakwater, 197, 314, 417. See LETTER, Tipping Box
Cargo Ships, American, 779
Carriage, Railway, for Prussian State Lines, 173
Carriage-Way Pavements, 766
Carriages, Beira Railway, East Africa (Brush Company), 502
Carriages, Gross Earnings of Railway Passenger, 737
Carruthers, Glasgow, Duplex Hydraulic Steam Pumps, 521
Cask-Making Machinery, 727
Catenary Problem, A, 798
Cattle Car, Standard (Street's Western Stable
Car Line), 204, 252
Caulking and Chipping Tool, Pneumatic, 383, 466
Cellular Kites, 523, 573
Cement Concrete, 185, 205
Cement Grout and Sea Structures, 109. See LErrERs, Under-Water Foundations
Cement, Portland, 514
Cement, Portland, Manufacture and Testing, 345, 374. See Lwrratts
Cement, Proportions for Sea Works, 130
Central Station (Electric) at Kingston (Siemens), 691
Centrifugal Pump, Thwaites Engine and, 771
Ceylon Exhibits at Chicago, 277, 745
Channel Steamer Service, 103, 128, 153. See LETTERS
"Charlesben ," Coal Consumption of Engines, 779
Chemical Analysis of Metal Ornaments from Egypt and Palestine, 532
Chemical Science, Advance, 503
Chemical Trade, London Wages, 645
Chemistry and Medical Education, 503
Chester Bridge Accident, Mass., 424
Chicago Exposition. See Columbian Exposition
Chicago Manufactures, 44
Chicago and New York, 399
China, Launches for, 120
Chisholm, Boyd, and White, Chicago, Boyd Brick Press, 634
Chubb's Safe, 401

Civil Engineers, Institution of:

(Statistics of Membership), 520
Minutes of Proceedings, Vol. cxiii. (Review), 291
Presidental Address, by Mr. A. Giles, 609, 615
Tansa Works for the Water Supply of Bombay, by Mr. W. J. B. Clerke, 645
Baroda Water Works, by Mr. Jagannath Sadasewjee, 645
Water Supply of Jeypore, Rajputana, by Col. S. S. Jacob, 646
On the Design of Masonry Dams, by Professor Franz Kreuter, 646
Cask-Making Machinery, by Mr. Lewis H. Ransome, 727
Hydraulic Power Supply in London, by Mr. E. B. Ellington, 769

Classification of Railway Passengers, 423. See LETTERS, Passengers
Cleveland. See Notes from Cleveland
Cleveland Industries, 152, 164, 191, 221
Cleveland Mining District, 399, 556
Climate, In Search of a, 546
Closing of Chicago Exposition, 543
Club Railroad Car (Harlan and Hollinsworth, Wilmington, Del.), 329
Clyde Sea Area, Sea and Air Temperature, 475
Coal Bunkers, 755
Coal and Coke Breeze Briquette Machine (Johnson, Leeds), 81
Coal Consumption of Cruisers, 590. See also 338, 361, 490
Coal Consumption of United States Cruiser "Charleston," 779
Coal Crisis in South Wales, 243
Coal Endurance, Navy, 371
Coal and Iron in France, 489
Coal-Mining, 33
Coal-Mining Text Book, 183
Coal in New South Wales, 712
Coal and Ore Washing Machine, Sennett's, 758
Coal Production, European, 153
Coal, South African v. Welsh, for South African Locomotives, 580
Coal Trade, Prospects of the, 456, 641
Coal, Utilisation of Small, 248, 272. See LErrns
Coal-Washing, 416, 758. See Erratum, 453
Coalfields in West Sweden, 547
Coaling Barge with Mechanical Appliances, 21
Coaling Stations, 755
Cockerill Pumps, 559, 585. See LETTERS, Pumps
Coil and Tubulous Boilers, 601
Coke Making and Ammonia Recovery, 515
Collision at Dalnaspidal, Highland Railway, 710
Collision at Ludgershall, Midland and South- Western Railway, 714
Colouring and Bronzing Metal, 691
Colours, Action of Light upon Dyed, 533
Columbia College at the Chicago Exposition, 426
" Columbia," United States Cruiser, 705. See LETTEits, Cruisers, cte.

Columbian Exposition : 543

American Locomotives, 6, 81, 101, 109, 110, 172, 237, 269, 299, 330, 359, 388, 432, 465, 478, 479, 507, 537, 569, 603, 635, 695, 756, 785
American Universities at the Exposition, 36, 119, 139, 195, 227, 426, 516, 633
Attendance at the Exposition, 14, 543, 613 Awards Muddle, 150, 181, 577
Baldwin Locomotives, 6, 172, 237, 299, 507, 569
Columbian Exposition—continued.
Ballast Distributing Wagon, Rodgers, 299 Barr's Contracting Chill for Car Wheels, 506 Battleship " Illinois, 3
Bethlehem Iron Company's 125 - Ton Steam Hammer, 112, 205
Bilbao Harbour Works Electric Plant (MM. Coiseau, Couvreux, and Allard), 229. See LETTERS
Boyd Brick Press (Messrs. Chisholm, Boyd, awl White, Chicago\ 634
Brick Press, Boyd (Messrs. Chisholm, Boyd, and White, Chicago), 634
British Colonies at Chicago, 200, 277, 351, 379, 425, 459, 488, 680, 711, 742, 772
British Guiana, 772
Brooks Locomotives, 109, 110, 269, 479, 537, 603, 695, 756
Canadian Locomotive (Canadian Pacific Railway), 664
Canda Contracting Chill for Car Wheels (Ensign Company, New York), 478
Cape of Good Hope Exhibits, 200, 745
Car, Dumping (Thacher Company, New York), 637
Car, Eastman's Heated., 269
Car, Pullman Observation and Sleeping, 755 Car, Railroad Club (Harlan and Hollinsworth, Wilmington, Del.), 329
Car, Refrigerator (American Refrigerator Transit Company, St. Louis), 603
Car, Refrigerator (Hanrahan's System) (United
States Car Company, Hegewisch, Ill.), 728 Car, Refrigerator (Wickes Car Company,
Chicago), 539
Car, Rotary Dump (Bloomsburg Company, Penn.), 360
Car Wheels, Contracting Chills for, 478, 506 Cars, Hand (Cyrus Roberts, Railway) (Roberts, Throp, and Co., Michigan), 509
Cars, Harvey's Steel Box, 449
Cars, Pullman, 569, 755
Cattle Car, Standard (Street's Western Stable Car Line), 204, 252
Ceylon Exhibits, 277, 745
Closing of Exposition, 543
Club Railroad Car (Harlan and Hollinsworth, Wilmington, Del.), 329
Coal in New South Wales, 712
Columbia College at the Exposition, 426
Compound Locomotive, Baldwin, 237
Compound Locomotive, Brooks Four-Cylinder, 756
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Congresses. See Engineering Congress Consolidation Locomotives. See Locomotives
Contracting Chills for Car Wheels, 478, 506
Cornell University, 516
Crane, 7-Ton Travelling Jib (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, Conn.), 269
Crane, 10-Ton Pillar (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, U.S.A.), 463
Dredge, Mr. James, on British Colonies at Exposition, 680, 711, 742, 772
Dumping Car (Thacher Company, New York), 637
Dynamos, Historical, 182
Electrical Apparatus, Historical, 182, 659
Elevator, Electric (Morse, Williams, and Co., Philadelphia), 240
Elevator Gear, Screw (Standard Screw Elevator Gear Company, New York), 360
Elevator, Hydraulic Passenger (Eaton and
Prince Company, Chicago), 724
Elevators (Eaton and Prince Company), 508
Embossing Press (E. W. Bliss Company, Brooklyn), 536
Engineering Congress. See Engineering Congress
Engines of 1200 Horse - Power, Compound (Messrs. McIntosh, Seymour, and Co., Auburn, N.Y.), 141
Engines, 3000 Horse-Power Quadruple-Expansion (Allis Company, Milwaukee), 648, 694
Engines, Willans, 603
Excavator, Bucyrus Steam, 175
Finances of the Exposition, 209, 543
Fire in Cold Storage Building, 55
Fox's Solid Pressed Steel Car Frames (Fox's
Company, Joliet, Ill.), 328
French Engineers' Visit, 457
Gate, Pneumatic, for Railway Crossing (Bogue and Mills Company), 571
Hammer, 125-Ton Steam (Bethlehem Iron Company), 112, 205
Hand-Cars, Railway, Cyrus Roberts (Roberts,
Throp, and Co., Michigan), 509
Harvard University, 36
Harvey's Steel Box Cars, 449
Hoists, 508
Hydraulic Machinery (Messrs. R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 37, 204
Hydraulic Passenger Elevator (Eaton and
Prince Company, Chicago), 508, 724
Influence Machines, 307
Injectors (Nathan Company, New York), 587
Iron and Steel at the Exposition, 399
Jamaica Colony, 772
Judge's Experience, 577
Judges, List of, 184
Jull Centrifugal Snow Excavator, 664. See 699
Jury System Muddle, 150, 181, 577
Laissle's Pulley-Moulding Machinery, 417
Lathe, Gisholt's Turret, 358
Lathe, 9-In. Gun (Niles Tool Works Company, Ohio), 417. See 396, 479
Lathe, Stud (Niles Tool Works Company,
Hamilton, Ohio), 479. See 396, 417
Lathes, Turret (Jones and Lamson Company,
Springfield, Ver.), 657. See 707
Laval Steam Turbine, 761
Lighting Station at the Exposition, 386
Loading Passenger Trains, 731
Lock, Post Office, Yale, 783
Locomotive, Canadian (Canadian Pacific Railway), 664
Locomotive " 999 " (New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company), 3'30, 359, 388, 432
Locomotive, Schenectady, 465
Locomotive Turntable, 60-Ft. (Detroit Bridge and Iron Works), 695
Locomotives, American, 6, 81, 101. 109, 110, 172, 237, 269, 299, 330, 359, 388, 432, 465, 478, 479, 507, 537, 569, 603, 635, 695, 756, 785
Locomotives, Old American, 478, 537. See Erratum, 507
Locomotives, Old, "John Bull," 101, 478, 507, 537
Locomotives, Baldwin, 6, 172, 237, 299, 507, 569
Locomotives, Brooks, 109, 110, 239, 479, 537, 603, 695, 756
Locomotives, Rhode Island, 635, 785
Logging Locomotive (Lima Locomotive Company, Lima, Ohio), 81
Lubricators and Injectors (Nathan Company, New York), 587
Machine Tools (Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 138
Machine Tools (Niles Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 396, 417, 479
Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Exposition, 633
McGill University, Montreal, 195, 227
Mogul Locomotive, Brooks, 269
Nail Machine, Severance Cut, 602
Navy Exhibit, 3
Neven's Rail Ice Scraper, 297
New South Wales Eihibits, 351, 379, 425, 459, 488, 7111 742
Old American Locomotives, 101, 478, 537. See Erratum, 507
Peckham Extension Cantilever Tramway Truck, 755
Pennsylvania Railroad Exhibit, 101
Planing Machines, Open-Side (Detrick and
Harvey Company, Baltimore), 571 Pneumatic Gate for Railway Crossings (Bogue and Mills Company, Chicago), 571
Post Office Exhibit, United States, 783 Princeton University, 139
Pullman Cars, 569, 755
Quadruple - Expansion Engine, 3000 Horse-
Power (Allis Company, Milwaukee), 648, 694 Railway Carriages for Prussian State Railways, 173
Railways to Chicago, 217
Refrigerator Car (American Refrigerator
Transit Company, St. Louis), 603 Refrigerator Car (Hanrahan's System) (United States Car Company, Hegewisch, 111.), 728
Refrigerator Car (ickes Car Company, Chicago), 539
Result, 543
Rhode Island Locomotives, Compound, 635, 785 Riveting Machinery (Woods and Co., Philadelphia), 37, 204
Rotary Dump Car (Bloomsburg Car Company), 360
Rotary Snow Plough (Leslie Brothers Company, Paterson, N.J.), 268
Russell Snow Plough (Ensign Company, Huntingdon, West Virginia), 449
Sale of Goods, 151
Schenectady Locomotive, 46
Severance Cut-Nail Machine, 602
Sewage Disposal Works, 722
Snow Excavator, Jull Centrifugal, 664, 699
Snow Plough, Rotary, 268
Snow Plough, Russell's, 449
Steam Excavator (Bucyrus Steam Shovel and
Dredge Company, Ohio), 175
Telautograph, Gray's, 515
Telegraphs, Historical, 659. See 182
Ticket Cancelling, Dating, and Registering Machine (Keller Printing Company), 432
Tramway Truck, Peckham Extension Cantilever, 755
Trinidad Colony, 772
Truck, Peckham Extension Cantilever Tramway, 755
Truck for Transporting Heavy Guns, 101
Turbine, Laval Steam, 761
Turntable, Locomotive, 60-Ft. (Detroit Bridge and Iron Works), 695
Turret Lathes, 358, 657, 707
United States Post Office Exhibit, 783
White Star Line, 133
Willans Engines, 603
Wire Rope Haulage (Trenton Iron Company, Trenton, N.J.), 232
Wire Tests, Insulated, 517
Woodwork of Exposition Buildings, 363
Yale University, 119

Combination Bridges, 707
Commerce-Destroyer Cruiser " Columbia," 705. See Unitas, Cruisers, &c.
Commerce-Protector, British, 645
Communication between Lightships and Shore, 90
Companion Ladder with Adjustable Steps, Campbell's, 13
Compensator for Loss of Pressure in Electric Feeders, Sayers', 460
Compound Engines. See Engines
Compound Locomotive " Greater Britain." 110
Compound Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway Passenger, 147
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives
Compressed Air Fog Signals, 89, 587
Compressed Air Power, Transmission and Distribution of, 27
Compressor, Duplex Air (Anderston Foundry Co, Limited, Glasgow), 251
Concrete Bags in Sea Works, 197, 315, 417. See LETTERS
Concrete Beams, 282, 332, 371
Concrete Cement, 185, 205
Concrete, Its Humorous Side, 511, 573
Concrete Piers in Nova Scotia, 280
Concrete, Quick v. Slow Setting, 197
Concrete Sack Blocks in Breakwaters, 197, 314, 417. See 'Arm, Tipping Box
Concrete Sack Depositors, La Guaira Harbour (Stothert and Pitt, Limited, Bath), 197, 815, 417. See LErrmit
"Condor," Engines of S.S. (Forges et Chantiers), 792
Conductors, Electrical, 383, 386
Conductors for Electric Railwa3 s, 279
Congleton Boiler Explosion, 623
Congress of Hygiene, 272
Congresses. See Engineering Congress Conic Sections, Instrument for Drawing, 605
Consett Iron Works, 439
Consolidation Locomotives. See Locomotives Construction of Boilers, Government Rules, 536
Construction, Wheel, 537
Contract Agreements (Shipbuilders and Shipowners), 159, 196
Contract v. Dockyard Building, 275. See LETTERS
Contracting Chills for Car Wheels, 478, 506
Contractors and Admiralty, 310, 332, 370
Converting Engines of S.S. " Iberia" and " Liguria" (D. Rollo and Son, Liverpool), 82, 142, 206, 420
Conveyor, Duckham's Pneumatic Grain Elevator and, 59
Cooper's Hill Engineering College, 149, 736
Copenhagen Harbour, 88, 404
Copley Turner, and Co., Harris Feed-Water Heater, 47. See Erratum, 98
Copper Pipes, Reinforcing, 182
Copper, &c., Tools and Ornaments from Egypt and Palestine, 532
Cornell University, 516
Cornish Boiler, 121
Corrosion of Underground Pipes, Electrical, 738
Corvee, Nile, 52
Court Martial, " Victoria," 153. See also 18
Coventry Cycle, Ball Bearings, 527
Coward and Ihlee, Bath, Niagara Pulveriser, 329
Craig and Donald, Johnstone, Plate-Shearing Machine, 269
Cramp, Mr. C. H., on the Evolution of the Atlantic Greyhound, 719, 766
Cramps' New American Liners, 707, 722
Crane, 7-Ton Travelling Jib (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, Conn.), 269
Crane, 10-Ton Pillar (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, U.S.A.), 463
Crane, 50-Ton Travelling, at Niagara Cataract Works (Sellers and Co., Philadelphia), 782
Crane, 150-Ton Electric Travelling, at Creuset, 109
Crane and Grab, Morgan's, 47
Crane, Stoney's Tipping, 295
Creusot, 150-Ton Electric Travelling Crane, 109
Cross-Cutting Power Saw (Reynolds, London), 493
Crossing, Railway, Pneumatic Gate (Bogue and Mills Company, Chicago), 571
Cruiser, British Commerce-Protecting, 645
Cruiser, Spanish, " Infanta Maria Teresa," 338, 361, 490, 590
Cruiser " Theseus" (Thames Iron Company), 180, 330. See LETI1F.RS, Rudder
Cruiser in the World, The Fastest (" Columbia" and Blenheim"), 705. See LErrmits
Cruiser " Yoshino," Japanese (Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co.), 44
Cruisers, United States, 444, 705, 778
Cunard Steamers " Lucania " and " Campania," 46, 285, 309, 311, 342, 399, 460, 517, 580, 648
Curves, Transition, 618
Cut Nail Machine, Severance, 602
Cyano-Nitride of Titanium in Ferro-Manganese, 533
Cycle Ball Bearings (Auto Machinery Co, Coventry), 527
Cycle Design, 645
Cyclone Disintegrator and Pulveriser, 219
Cylinder, Explosion of Paper-Drying, 584
Cyrus Roberts Railway Hand-Car at Chicago, 509

Damage to Battleship " Howe," 19, 310
Dams, Impounding, in India, 645
Dangerous Occupations, 764
"Daring," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 674
Dating, and Registering Machines, Ticket Cancelling (Keller Printing Co., New York), 432
De Mey, M. P., on Ports on Sandy Coasts, 619
Denmark, Engineering in, 427
Denmark Ferry Systems, 197
Denny, Mr. A., on Shipbuilders and Shipowners, 159, 196
Denton, The Late John Bailey, 665
Depositors for Concrete, La Guaira Harbour (Stothert and Pitt, Limited, Bath), 197, 315, 417. See !Arms, Tipping Box
Derrick for Well-Sinking, Salt Industry, 316, 344
Designs of Air Pumps, 740
Destructors, Dust, 56
Detrick and Harvey Company's Planing Machine, 571
Detroit Bridge and Iron Works, 60-Ft. Locomotive Turntable, 695
Development of the Pulsometer, 665
Diagram of Metal Prices, 24, 156, 312, 430, 550, 709, 800
Diagram of Shipbuilding Production, 767
Diagram, Temperature-Entropy, 53
Diagram, Valve, Bona, 173
Diagrams, Indicator, on a " Time-Base " for Steam and Gas Engines, 669
Diagrams of South African Railway Working,
655. See also 264, 294, 324, 502, 597, 687
Digger, Steam (Bucyrus Company, Ohio), 175
Dimensions of Specimens, 486. See LErrEns
Dining Cars, Pullman, 569
Dining Cars, Third-Class British, 119
Directories, London and other, 736
Directory, Berly's Electrical, 184
Directory of Export Merchant Shippers, 691
Disintegrator and Pulveriser, Cyclone, 219
Disposal of Refuse, Thermal, Storage and, 358, 376, 402. See LErrEas
Disposal of Sewage, Dortmund System, 722
Distillation, Separating Liquids by Fractional, 605
Distribution of Compressed Air Power, 27
Distribution of Loads on Bridge Floors, 319. See LETTERS
Distribution of Power from Niagara, 642, 673, 765. See LETTERS, 798
Diving Dress, 706
Dobson, Mr. B. A., on Artificial Lighting of Workshops, 529, 554
Dock, Graving, at Leghorn, Extension of, 92, 135
Dock and Harbour Finance, 796
Dock Schemes in Parliament, 701
Dock Walls, Sloping v. Vertical, 172
Docks, Bute, 70
Docks, Construction and Equipment. See Maritime Congress
Docks and Harbours in New South Wales, 459
Docks, Newport, 169
Docks, Penarth and Barry, 78, 79
Dockyard v. Contract Building, 275. See LErrns
Dockyard Warship Building, 794
Donkin, The Late Mr. B., 696
Dortmund Sewage Disposal Works, 722
Douglass, Mr. W. T., on Lighting Estuaries and Rivers, 121, 138
Dover Harbour Extensions, 87
Dowlais Works, 71
Drawing and Design, Manual of Machine, 184
Dredge, Mr. James, on British Colonies at the Exhibition, 680, 711, 742, 772
Dredger, Sand Pump, Mersey Bar, 107, 134, 449, 494, 800
Dredging the Mersey Bar, 107, 134, 449, 494, 800
Drilling Machine, Boiler-End Turning, Boring, and (Rushworth, Sowerby Bridge), 536
Drilling Machine, Plate (G. and A. Harvey, Govan), 82
Drilling Machines (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 397
Drills, Electrical Rock, 168, 522
Droitwich, Railway Collision, 774
Drought, The, 1893, 615
Dryness of Steam, 358
Duckham's Pneumatic Grain Elevator and Conveyor, 59
Dump Car, Rotary (Bloomsburg Company), 360
Dumping Car (Thacher's Company, New York), 637
Dundrum, Sewage Purification by Microbes, 306
Dunkirk, Port of, 135, 142, 189
Dust Coal, Utilisation of, 248. See LETTERS, Coal, dc.
Dust Destructors, 56
Dust in Mines, Explosions, 564
Du Temple Tubulous Boiler, 127. See also 74, 96
Dyed Colours, Action of Light upon, 533
Dynamo, Ganz, St. Petersburg Medical Academy, 373
Dynamo, Parsons' Steam Turbine, 126
Dynamo, Steam, for Search Light, 449
Dynamos, Historical, 182

Earnings, British Locomotives, 577
Earnings of Railway Passenger Carriages, 737
Earth Currents, Electric, 85
Earth Tremors, 475
Earthquakes in England, 572
Earthquakes and Volcanic Phenomena in Japan, 475
East Coast Dining Cars, 119
East Ferry-Road Engineering Works, Grain Elevator, 59
Eastman Company's Automatic Heating and Ventilating Freight Car (Boston), 269
Eaton and Prince Co., Chicago, Elevators, 508, 724
Economical Speeds of Steamships, 308. See LETTERS
Education, Engineering, 149, 441
Education, Technical, 310, 611, 643
Edwards' Automatic Sprinkler, 617
Efficiency of a Certain Heat Engine, 739
Egypt, Irrigation in, 163, 685
Egypt, Metals from Palestine and, 532
Egyptian and Turkish Lights, 200, 244
Eight-Hours Day, Origin, 739, 797
Electric Communication between Shore and Lightship, 90
Electric Elevator (Morse, Williams, and Co., Philadelphia), 240
Electric Feeders, Sayers' Compensators for Loss of Pressure in, 460
Electric Forging, 367
Electric Heating, 120
Electric v. Hydraulic Power in Steamers, 106
Electric Incandescent Lamps, Repairing, 216
Electric Installation at Boxholm, 489
Electric, Insulated Wire Tests at Chicago, 517
Electric Light in Buda-Pesth, 280
Electric Light v. Gas for Lighthouses, 200
Electric Light Installation, Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 373
Electric Light Schemes in Parliament, 701
Electric Lighthouse, La Heve, Havre, 7, 40
Electric Lighthouses, Continuous and Alternating Currents, 138, 144, 223, 254
Electric Lighting Station, Kingston (Siemens), 691
Electric Lighting of Workshops, 529, 554
Electric Locomotive, 614
Electric Plant, Bilbao Harbour Works, 229. See LETTERS, Bilbao, &c.
Electric Power Transmission in Belgium, 341, 371. See LETTERS
Electric Radiation in Copper Filings, 537
Electric Railway, Brussels, 487
Electric Railways, Conductors, 279
Electric Road Railway, Marseilles and St. Louis, 499, 561, 627
Electric and Steam Launches in China, 120
Electric Traction v. Telephones, 85
Electric Tramways, Regulations for Working, 676
Electric Travelling Crane, 150-Ton, at Creusot, 109
Electrical Apparatus, Historical, 659
Electrical Batteries, Plates for, 676
Electrical Conductors, 383, 386
Electrical Corrosion of Underground Pipes, 738
Electrical Directory, Berly's, 184
Electrical Engineers, Imo f tit t loll of : 648
Distribution of Power from Niagara, by Professor Forbes, 642, 673, 765. See LETTER, 798
Electrical Influence Machines, Chicago, 307
Electrical Locomotive, Variable Power Gear for, 386
Electrical Plant for Ozone Production, 153
Electrical Potentiometer for Alternating Currents, 727
Electrical Power Distribution from Niagara, 642, 673, 765. See LETTERS, 798
Electrical Resistance, Standard of Low, 448
Electrical Rock Drills, 168
Electrical Signalling by the Telephotos, 795
Electrical Standards, 448
Electricity by Water Power, 383
Electro-Magnetic Radiation on Films Containing Metallic Powders, 711
Electrolysis, Report on, 474
Elements of Graphic Statics, 690. See LETTER, 798
Elevator and Conveyor, Duckham's Pneumatic Grain, 59
Elevator, Electric (Morse, Williams, and Co., Philadelphia), 240
Elevator Gear, Screw (Standard Screw Elevator Gear Company, New York), 360
Elevator, Testing Otis, 649
Elevators (Eaton and Prince Company, at Chicago Exposition), 508, 725
Elgar, Dr. F., on Fast Ocean Steamers, 54, 285, 311. See 46, 309, 342, 399, 460
Elliott's Smoke Annihilator at Mint, Birmingham, 708
Ellis, Mr. J. D., on Induced Hot-Air Draught and Serve Tubes, 71, 346
Embossing Press (E. W. Bliss Company, Brooklyn), 536
Emery Wheels, Solid, 55
Engine, Automatic, Robb-Armstrong (Nova Scotia), 25
Engine, Bessemer Blowing, 368
Engine Boiler and Employers' Liability Insurance Company's Report, Steam Engines, 305
Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Thwaites', 771
Engine, Efficiency of a Certain Heat, 739
Engine, Fire, Double-Cylinder (Fire Appliances Company), 724
Engine, 400 Horse-Power Compound Mill (Ross and Duncan, Govan), 454
Engine, Gas, Campbell's, 369
Engine Indicator, Marine, 428, 462
Engine, Marine, Repairs, 115
Engine, Marine, Valve Motions, 602
Engine, Marshall's, with Proell Valve Gear, 703
Engine, Steam Fire, Merryweather, 310
Engine, Steam, Pathology of, 305
Engine, Steam, Williams' (Glover and Hobson, London), 369
Engine Vibration, 270, 549, 737
Engine Vibration (Yarrow), 187. See LwrrERs
Engines, Beam, Compound, for Paddle Steamer
" Honam " (Messrs. Inglis, Glasgow), 265. See LETTERS
Engines and Boilers of " Iberia " (D. Rollo and Son, Liverpool), 82, 142, 206, 420
Engines, Compound Diagonal, S.S. " Fairy Queen" (Hall-Brown, Buttery and Co., Govan), 604
Engines, Estimating Mean Effective Pressure, 482, 573
Engines, Oil, Steam, at Smithfield Show, 703
Engines, 3000 Horse-Power, Quadruple-Expansion (Allis Company, Milwaukee), 648, 694
Engines, Steam, Auxiliary Pumps, 589
Engines, Steam and Gas, Indicator Diagrams on a " Time-Base," 669
Engines, 1200 Horse-Power Tandem Compound (Messrs. McIntosh, Seymour, and Co., Auburn, N.Y.), 141
Engines, Triple-Expansion, for Dr. Nansen's Polar Ship " Fram" (Akers Mek. Werksted, Norway), 11
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the Italian Gunboat " Aretusa " (Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 756
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of S.S. " Condor" (Forges et Chantiers), 792
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of Turkish Gunboat, 664
Engines of United States War-Vessel, 778
Engines, Willans, 603

Engineering Congress at Chicago :

245, 630
Civil Engineering Section, 246, 261, :320
Mechanical Engineers, 263, 291
Electrical Engineers, 307
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 320, 367, 409
Aerial Congress, 409-
Architecture, 411
Military Section, 412
Engineering Education, 441
Marine Section, 443, 472, 534, 568, 599, 630
Papers Abstracted:
Tests, Standard System of, 263
Locomotive Tests at Purdue University, by Professor Goss, 264
Water Commerce Committee's Report, 294
Mining in America, 321
Detection and Measurement of Firedamp in Mines, by Professor G. Chesneau, 321
Segregation and its Consequences in Ingots of Iron and Steel, by Mr. Alex. Pieral, 321
Manufacture and Testing of Portland Cement, by Mr. Henry Faija, 345, 374. See LETTERS, Portland Cement
Consumption of Fuel in Taylor's Gas Producer Plant, by Mr. C. A. Stetefeldt, 367
Bessemer Blowing Engine, by Mr. Julian Kennedy, 308
American Blast Furnace Practice, by Mr. E. C. Porter, 409
Flying Machines, 409
Internal Work of Moving Air, by Professor S. P. Langley, 410
Anemometry, by Mr. S. P. Ferguson, 410
General Scheme and Plan of World's Columbian Exposition, by Mr. Olmstead, 411
Present Tendencies in Engineering Education,
by Dr. Palmer C. Ricketts, 441
Shop and Laboratory Equipments, by Professor R. H. Thurston, 441
Best Ship of War, by Sir Nathanial Barnabv, 444
Vessels of the United States Navy, by Lewis Nixon, 444
Rise and Progress of Naval Architecture in the
United States, by Mr. Benjamin Martell, 444
Present Condition of Naval Architecture, by Dr. F. Elgar, 444, 472
Trireme in Time of the Peloponnesian War, by Herr R. Haack, 472
Rossini's Method of Graphical Integration, by Senor Don Casimiro de Bona y Garcia de Tejada, 473 I
Circular and Elliptical Valve Diagram of Bona, by Senor Don Garcia de Tejada, 473
Mechanical Thory of Steamship Propulsion, by Mr. Robert Mansel, 474
The Influence of Oil on Waves at Sea, by Mr. W. J. Millar, 474
Vibration of Steamers, by Mr. Otto Schlick, 534
Welded Seams in Plates, by Mr. Warren E. Hill, 535
Screw Propeller, by S. W. Barnaby, 536
Resistance of Ships, by Professor Riehn, 536
Government Inspection of Merchant Ships and the Influence thereon of Registration' Societies, by Mr. E. Platt Stretton, 536
Rules for Boiler Construction of Various Governments and Registration Societies, by Mr. Nelson Foley, 536
Auxiliary Machinery of Naval Ships, by Mr. George W. Dickie, 536
Hydraulic Machinery for Mancouvring the Heavy Armament of Armoured Vessels of War, by Mr. A. A. Wilson, 565
Hydraulic Appliances in Boiler Construction, by Signor G. MiFliardi, 568
Steam Engine Boiler Feeding, by Mr. James Weir, 568
Forced Combustion in Steam Boilers, by Mr. James Howden, 568
Liquid Fuel for Marine Purposes, by Colonel Naktor Soliani, 599. See LErrERs
Coil and Tubulous Boilers, by Mr. Charles, Ward, 601
Problems Confronting the Naval Engineer, by Ira N. Hollis, 601
Strength of Vessels, by Herr Frederick L. 3liddendorf, 602
Practical Stability Information, by Mr. Arthur R. Liddell, 602
Form and Treatment of Tensile Specimens with Reference to the Tests of Iron and Steel, by Mr. James E. Howard, 602
Marine Engine Valve Motions, by Mr. N. P. Towne, 602
Construction of Steamboats on Western Rivers,
United States, by Mr. John McSweeney, 602
Shipbuilding and Engineering on the Great Lakes, by Mr. Walter Miller, 602
Comparison of the Types of Steamers on the Great Lakes, by Mr. J. R. Oldham, 602

Engineering in Denmark, 427
Engineering Education, 441
Engineering Leases, 147
Engineering in Navy, 240
Engineering on the Tees, 168, 284
Engineers in the Navy, 211. See LETTERS
Engineers in the Navy, Problems, 601
Engineers' Pocket-Book, Htitte, 247
English v. Indian Coal in Locomotives, 427
English View of American Railways, 57, 115
Enriching Gas, Hydro-Oxy, 580
Ensign Company, Canda Contracting Chill for Car Wheels, 478
Ensign Company, Huntington, West Virginia, Snow Plough, 449
Ergometer, Water-Cooled Brake, 280
Erosion of the Mississippi River Banks, 460
Estuaries and Rivers, Lighting, 121, 138
Ether and Matter, the Connection between, 448
Ether (Optical Theories), 445
European Coal Production, 153
Evolution of the Atlantic Greyhound, 719, 766
Examinations of Science and Art Department, 212
Excavator, Jull Centrifugal Snow, 664
Excavator, Steam (Bucyrus Company, Ohio), 175
Exhibition, Antwerp International, 248, 735
Exhibition at Berlin, Projected World's, 706
Exhibition, Brewers', 516
Exhibition, Chicago. See Columbian Exposition Exhibition, Laundry, 369
Exhibition, Tasmania, 614
Exhibition, Workmen's, 17. See 'Arms, Quality v. Low-Priced Goods
Experiences of a Judge at Chicago, 577
Explosion of a Gas Cylinder at Bradford, 665, 670. See LETTERS
Explosion of a Paper-Drying Cylinder, 584
Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion
Explosions in Mines, Dust Theory, 564
Explosive Bombs, 802
Export Merchant Shippers' Directory, 691

Factories in France, Taxation of, 213
Factory Nuisances, 117
Faija, Mr. Henry, on Portland Cement, 345, 374. See LETTERS
Failure of a Steel Water Main, 22
Failures of Continuous Brakes, 216
"Fairy Queen," Passenger Steamer, 604
Falmouth Observatory, Magnetic Work, 475
Fans, Ventilating, 407
Fast Ocean Steamers, 54, 285, 311. See 46, 309, 342, 399, 460
Fast Steamers as Dividend Earners, 545
Faylam and Lake Mceris, 685
Feed Heating, Boiler, 568
Feed-Water Filter, Harris (Copley, Turner and Co., Middlesbrough), 47. See Erratum, 98
Feed-Water Heater, 218, 240, 271
Feed-Water Heater and Purifier Combined (Pape, Henneberg, and Co., Hamburg), 478
Feret, M., on Mortar in Sea Works, 130
Ferry System of Denmark, 197
Ferryboats, New York, 782
Fighting Yachts, 782
Filter, Harris Feed-Water (Copley, Turner, and Co., Middlesbrough), 47. See Erratum, 98
Filter, Riddell's Mechanical, 369, 386
Finance, Harbour and Dock, 796
Finances of the Exposition, Chicago, 209, 543
Fire Appliances Company, Double - Cylinder Steam Fire Engine, 724
Fire in Cold Storage Building, Chicago Exhibition, 55
Fire Damp, Detection of, 321
Fire Engine, Double-Cylinder (Fire Appliances Co), 724
Fire Engine, Double-Cylinder, Merryweather, 310
Fire Hose, Hydraulics of, 717
Fireproof Floors, 737
Fishing Smacks, Steam, 429, 462
Flame, 408
Flannery, Mr. F., on Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, 134
Flash Lights, 121, 138
Flash Lights, La Heve, Havre, 7, 40
Flashing Lights, 109, 407, 650
Flash Point of Petroleum, 369. See LETTERS
Flooring, Distribution of Loads on Bridge, 319. See LETTERS, Distribution, dc.
Floors, Fireproof, 737
Flourine, 533
Flue Boilers, 121
Flushing Drains and Closets, Water Required, 766
Flying Machines, 409. See LxrrERs
Fog Signals, Compressed Air, 89, 587
Footbridge, Harvey's Suspension, 331
Forbes, Professor, on Distribution of Electrical Power, 642, 673, 765. See LETTER, 798
Forced Draught, 71, 346, 568. See Leaky Tubes
Forced (Induced) Hot-Air Draught and Serve Tubes, 71, 346
Forges et Chantiers, Engines, Triple-Expansion, of S.S. "Condor," 792
Forging, Electric, 367
Forging Steel in the United States, 753
Fortifications and Naval Port at Spezzia, 248
Foundations, 244
Foundations in Quicksand, 736
Foundations, Tower Bridge, 353, 417. See 382, 448, 471
Founder's Guide, Brass and Iron, 183
Fox's Solid Pressed Steel Car Frames (Fox's Company, Joliet, Ill.), 328
"Fran," Nansen's Polar Ship, Engines (Akers
Mek. Va3rksted, Norway), 11
Frames of Cars, Pressed Steel (Fox's Company, Joliet, Ill.), 328
France, Iron and Coal, 489
France, Taxation of Factories in, 213
Freight Car, Automatic Heating and Ventilating
(Eastman's Company, Boston), 269
Freights and Shipping, 90, 486
French Engineers' Visit to Chicago, 457
French Government and Submarine Telegraphs, 216
French Railways, 247
French Shipping, Messageries Maritimes, 427
French Steamer " Condor," Engines, Triple-Expansion (Forges et Chantiers), 792
Frictional Resistance of Vessels, 782
Fuel for Indian Locomotive, 427
Fuel, Oil, in Russia and Italy, 599. See LETTERS
Fuel, Oil, for Ships, 669

Gabriel's Adjustable Ann Rest, 648
Ganz Dynamo, St. Petersburg Medical Academy, 373
Garbage Disposal, Thermal Storage and, 358, 376, 402. See LETTERS
Garbage Disposal Works at Chicago Exposition, 722
Gas Cylinder at Bradford, Explosion of, 665, 676. See LETTERS
Gas v. Electric Light for Lighthouses, 200
Gas Engine, Campbell's, 369
Gas, Hydro-Oxy, 580
Gas, Luminosity of, 564
Gas Producer Plant and Fuel Consumption, 367
Gas Producer, Taylor's Revolving Bottom, 124
Gas Schemes in Parliament, 701
Gas and Steam Engines, Indicator Diagrams on a " Time-Base," 669
Gas Substitutes, 461
Gases Dissolved in Water, Separation of, 565
Gasholders, Low v. High Pressure, 798
Gate, Pneumatic, for Railway Crossing (Bogue and Mills), 571
Gatto, Mr. D. Lo, on Electricity v. Gas for Lighthouses, 200
Gem Separator, 407
Genoa Port, Hydraulic Installation, 172
Geometric Gyroscopic Top, 520
German Iron Market, 308
German Ironmaking and Residual Products, 515
German State Institute for Physical Technology, 468
German Wood Pulp, 615
Gisholt's Turret Lathe, 358
Gland Packing, Ward's Metallic, 493
Glasgow. See Notes from the North
Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, Testing Elevator, 649
Glass, Grinding and Polishing, 503
Glass, Permeability of, 43
Gold Extraction Mill (Orion Company, South Africa), 604
Government and Telephones in Sweden, 309
Grab, Morgan's Crane and, 47
Grain Conveying System (London Docks), 169
Grain Elevator and Conveyor, Duckham's Pneumatic, 59
Granite Sets for Carriage-Way Pavements, 766
Graphic Methods, 358
Graphic Statics, The Elements of, 690. See LETTER, 798
Graphical Integration, 473
Graving Dock at Leghorn, Extension of, 92, 135
Graving Dock, Newport, 169
Graving Docks. See Maritime Congress
Gray's Telautograph, 515
"Great Eastern " and " Campania" Compared,!
54, 285, 311
"Greater Britain," Compound Locomotive, 110
Greek Trireme in Peloponnesian War, 472
Grigg, Mr. Richard, on Middlesbrough Salt Industry,165, 315, 344
Grinder, Centre (Mr. C. Taylor, Birmingham), 617
Grinding and Polishing Glass, 503
Grouting, Air and Cement, Foundations in Quicksand, 736
Gun, Brown Segmental Wire, 614
Gun Forgings in United States, 753
Gun Lathe, 90-In. (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 417
Gun Trials of H.M.S. " Ramillies," 241
Gunboat " Aretusa," Italian Torpedo, Engines, &c. (Orlando, Brothers, Leghorn), 756
Gunboats " Speedy," &c., Torpedo, 579, 610
Guns, Hydraulic Machinery, 565
Gutta-Percha Wire Inventor, 90, 218
Gyroscopic Top, Geometric, 520

Hall-Brown, Buttery, and Co., Compound Diagonal Engines S.S. "Fairy Queen," 604 Haloids, 533
Hamilton, Mr. A. K., on Wear and Tear in Ballast Tanks, 45, 73
Hammer, Amphlet's Pneumatic (W. and J. Player, Birmingham), 46
Hammer, 125-Ton Steam (Bethlehem Iron Works), 112, 205
Hand Cars, Railway, Cyrus Roberts (Roberts, Thorp, and Co., Michigan), 509
Hanrahan's System, Refrigerator Car, United States Car Company, Hegewisch, Ill.), 728
Hansen, Captain P., on Breakwater and Port of Middelgrunden Fort, 88, 404
Harbour and Dock Finance, 796
Harbour Extensions, Dover, 87
Harbour Improvements, British and Colonial, 86
Harbour Improvements, Tees, 168, 284
Harbour Lights, Light Buoys, and Beacons in Italy, 138
Harbour Schemes in Parliament, 701
Harbour, Wick, 217
Harbour Works, Bilbao, 229, 269, 371, 390. See also Subaqueous Foundations
Harbour Works, Bilbao (Electric Plant), 229. See LErrims
Harbour Works, Peterhead, 436
Harbours. See Maritime Congress
Harbours and Docks in New South Wales, 459
Harbours and Ferry System of Denmark, 197
Harlan and Hollinsworth, Wilmington, Del., Club Railroad Car, 329
Harris Feed-Water Filter (Copley, Turner, and Co., Middlesbrough), 47. See Erratum., 98
Hartness Turret Lathes (Jones and Lamson Company, Springfield, Ver.), 657. See 707
Harvard University at Chicago Exposition, 36
Harvey, G. and A., Plate Drilling Machine, 82
Harvey's Steel Box Cars, 449
Harvey's Suspension Bridge, 331
"Havock," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Yarrow, 545
Havre Electric Lighthouse, 7, 40
Hawksley, The Late Mr. Thomas, 395
Hayward-Tyler Pumps, 559, 585. See LETTERS, Pumps
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, on Cleveland Industries, 152, 164, 191, 221
Health, Problems, Public, 661
Heat Transmission through Plates, 74
Heater and Purifier, Feed-Water, Compound (Pape, Henneberg, and Co., Hamburg), 478
Heating, Electric, 120
" Hebe," Trials of Gunboat, 610
Hendey Company, Torrington, Conn., Norton Screw-Cutting Lathe, 481
H.M.S. " Antelope," Boiler Priming, 674
H.M.S. " Daring," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 674
H.M.S. " Hornet," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Yarrow Boiler, 612
H.M.S. " Howe," Damage to, 19, 310
H.M.S. " Ramillies," Gun Trials, 241
H.M.S. " Speedy," 579, 610
H.M.S. " Theseus" (Thames Iron Company), 180, 330. See LErrEits, Rudder
H.M.S. " Victoria," Sinking of the, 18, 153, 365, 485, 544, 575. See LETTEas, " Victoria" H. M. SS. " Hebe " and " Speedy " Trials, 610
H.M.SS. " Majestic" and " Magnificent," 250
H.M.SS. " Powerful" and " Terrible," 645
H.M. Torpedo - Boat Destroyer " Havock " (Yarrow), 545, 612 ; " Daring" (Thornycroft), 674
Herbert's Capstan Lathes, 328
Heve, La, Electric Lighthouse, Havre, 7, 40
High Speed on Railways, 279
Highland Railway, Collision at Dalnaspidal, 710
Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del., Machine Tools, 138
Hindley, Boiler Explosion at, 745
Hoist. See Elevator
Hoist, Otis, Testing, 649
"Honam," Beam Engines of Paddle Steamer
(Messrs. Inglis, Glasgow), 265. See !Arms
" Hornet," Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, Yarrow's Boiler, 612
Howden, Mr. James, on Forced Draught, 568
"Howe," Stranding of the Battleship, 19, 310
Hydraulic Appliances in Boiler Construction, 568
Hydraulic and Electric Installation, 383
Hydraulic v. Electric Power in Steamers, 106
Hydraulic Installation at Genoa Port, 172
Hydraulic Machinery, 644. See LETrEas
Hydraulic Machinery for Guns, 565
Hydraulic Machinery at Marseilles Harbour, 103
Hydraulic Machinery (Messrs. R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 37, 204'
Hydraulic Motors, 669
Hydraulic Passenger Elevator (Eaton and Prince Company, Chicago), 725
Hydraulic Power Supply in London, 769
Hydraulic Riveting Machinery (Wood's, Philadelphia), 37, 204
Hydraulic Steam Pumps, Duplex (Carruthers, Glasgow), 521
Hydraulics of Fire Streams, 717
Hydro-OXy Gas, 580
Hygiene Congress, 272
Hygiene, Rural, 614

"Iberia," Converting Engines of (D. Rollo and Son, Liverpool), 82, 142, 206, 420
Igneous Rock, Text-Book on Petrology, 490
"Illinois," United States Battleship, 3
Imperial Institute, 644
Impounding Dams and Reservoirs in India, 645
Incandescent Lamps, Repairing, 216
Incorporated Institution of Gas Engineers, 247
India, Irrigation, 247
India, Reservoirs and Impounding Dams, 645
Indian v. English Coal in Locomotives, 427
Indian Iron Manufacture, 416
Indian Public Works Department, Cooper's Hill, 149
Indian Railways, 276
Indicator Diagrams on a " Time-Base " for Steam and Gas Engines, 669
Indicator, Marine Engine, 428, 462
Indices, Technical, 547
Induced Hot-Air Draught and Serve Tubes, 71, 346
Industrial Notes, 26, 59, 93, 124, 157, 187, 219, 251, 283, 313, 343, 373, 401, 431, 464, 493, 521, 551, 583, 617, 650, 679, 709, 741, 771, 787
"Infanta Maria Teresa," Spanish Cruiser, 338, 361, 490, 590
Influence Machines, 307
Inglese, M. L, on Extension of Leghorn Graving Dock, 92, 135
Inglis, Glasgow, Beam Engines for Paddle Steamers, 265. See LErrEas
Inglis, Mr. John, on Shipping Company Subsidies and Finances, 545
Injectors and Lubricators (Nathan Company New York), 587
Inspection of Machinery in America, 752
Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers, Institution of
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Naval Architects. See Naval Architects.
Instrument for Drawing Conic Sections, 605
Insulated Wire Tests at Chicago, 517
Insurance of Labourers in Sweden, Compulsory, 400
Integration, Graphical, 473
Intensifier, Hydraulic (R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 38
International Maritime Congress in London. See Maritime Congress
Inventor Guttapercha Wire, 90, 218
Inverts, Stresses in Lock, 58
Iodine Value of Sunlight in the High Alps, 533
Iron, Carbon in, 412, 552
Iron and Coal in France, 489
Iron in India, Wrought, 416
Iron Manufacture in Bengal, 533
Iron Market, German, 308
Iron, Nitride of, 533
Iron Ore, Sampling, 416
Iron Ore, Swedish, 460
Iron and Steel Analysis, International Standards, 533
Iron and Steel, Belgian, 796
Iron and Steel at the Chicago Exhibition, 399
Iron and Steel Industries, Cleveland, 152, 164, 191, 221

Iron and Steel Institute: 397

Basic Steel at Witkowitz, by Mr. Paul Kupel-wieser, 398, 435
Waste of Fuel, Past, Present, and Future, in Smelting Ores of Iron, by Sir Lowthian Bell, 398, 433, 466
Iron and Steel at the Chicago Exposition, by Mr. H. Bauerman, 399
The Last Twenty Years in the Cleveland Mining
District, by Mr. A. L. Steavenson, 399, 556
Carbon in Iron, by Professor A. Ledebur, 412, 552
Iron and Steel Wire and the Development of its Manufacture, by Mr. J. P. Bedson, 413
Suggested Improvements in Connection with the Manufacture of Steel Plates, by Mr. William Muirhead, 414
Sampling of Iron Ore, by Mr. T. Clarkson, 416
Production of Iron in Small Blast Furnaces in India, by Professor Thomas Turner, 416
Excursions.
Weardale Steel and Iron Works, Spennymoor, 399
Ltunpsey Mines, Saltburn, 399
Coal Washing at Randolph Pit, 416. See Erratum, 453
Consett Iron Works, 439

Iron and Steel Manufacture in Chicago, 44
Iron and Steel, Segregation in Ingots of (Engineering Congress), 321
Iron and Steel Wire, 413
Iron and Steel, Workshop Tests, 308
Iron, Waste Heat in Smelting Ores, 398, 433, 466
Iron Works, Consett, 439
Ironclads, Steering, 24, 57, 91, 218
Ironmaking and Residual Products, German, 515
Irrigated India, 247
Irrigation in Egypt, 685
Irrigation in Egypt., Kosheshah Escape, 163
Irrigation in Madras Presidency, 90, 91
Isler Well-Boring Machine, 583, 640
Italian Gunboat " Aretusa," Engi e &c. (Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 756
Italian Ships and Liquid Fuel, 599. See LwrrERs, Liquid Fuel, &c.
Italy, Sea Defences in, 88

Jamaica Colony at the Chicago Exposition, 772
Jamieson, Mr. C. D., on Transition Curves, 618
Japan Earthquakes, 475
Japanese Art, 341
Japanese Cruiser " Yoshino " (Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.), 44
Jeypore Water Works (Rajputana), 645
Jib, Travelling, Crane, 7-Ton (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, Conn.), 269
"John Bull" Locomotive, 101
Johnson, Leeds, Coal and Coke Breeze Briquette Machine, 81
Joly, M. Paul, on Port of Dunkirk, 135, 142, 189
Jones and Lamson Company, Turret Lathes (Springfield, Ver.), 657. See 707
Judges at Chicago Exposition, 150, 181, 184, 577
Jull Centrifugal Snow Excavator, 664. See 699
July Weather, 151
June Weather, 19
Jury System Muddle at Chicago, 150, 181, 184, 577

Keller Printing Company, Ticket Cancelling, Dating, and Registering Machine, 432
Kennedy, Professor, on Parsons' Steam Turbine Dynamo, 126
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Moon's Atmosphere and the, 477
Kingston Electric Lighting Station (Siemens), 691
Kinipple, Mr. W. R., on Monolithic Construction of Sea Works, 109. See LicrrEits, Under-Water Foundations
Kinipple, Mr. W. R., on Ship Railways, 60
Kirkaldy's Feed-Water Heater, 218, 240, 271
Kites, Cellular, 523, 573
Knitting Machinery, Lace and, 356
Knowledge, Useful, 643
Kosheshah Escape, Middle Egypt, 163
Kupelwieser, Mr. Paul, on Basic Steel Works at Witkowitz, 398, 435

La Guaira Harbour Works, Venezuela, 197, 314, 417. See LY:rrEit, Tipping Box
Labour, New Chapter of (Eight-Hours Day), 739, 797
Labour Questions. See Industrial Notes Labourers' Insurance in Sweden, Compulsory, 400
Lace and Knitting Machinery, 356
Ladder, Companion, with Self-Adjusting Steps, Campbell's, 13
Lagrafel-D'Allest Water-Tube Boiler, 74, 96. See also 127
Laissle's Pulley-Moulding Machinery, 417
Lake Mceris and Fayfini, 685
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Locomotive (Brooks), 110. See 479
Lake Steamers of America, 602
Lake Traffic in America, 602
Lamp, Hydrogen Oil Safety. See Engineering CO ngrees, 321
Lamp, Miners' Safety (Professor Clowes), 565
Lamps, Inverted, for Lighting Workshops, 529, 554
Lamps, Repairing Incandescent, 216
Lamps, Robson-Brown Burner for Miners', 22
Lancashire Watch Company's Works, 1, 33, 69. See 382
Lang, Johnstone, Open-Spindle Capstan Lathe, 431
Lathe Centre Grinder (Mr. Charles Taylor, Birmingham), 617
Lathe, Gisholt's Turret, 358
Lathe, 9-In. Gun (Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 417. See 396, 479
Lathe, Norton Screw-Cutting (Hendey Company, Torrington, Conn.), 481
Lathe, Open-Spindle Capstan (Lang, Johnstone), 431
Lathe, 6-In. Foot (Astbury, Grantham), 283
Lathe, Stud (Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 479. See 396, 417
Lathes, Herbert's Capstan, 328
Lathes (Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 396, 417, 479
Lathes, Turret (Jones and Lamson Company, Springfield, Ver.), 657. See 707
Lathes for Watchmaking, 1, 33, 69. See 382
Launches in China, Steam and Electric, 120
Launches and Trial Trips, 24, 45, 83, 155, 209, 241, 282, 348, 372, 387, 436, 465, 496, 511, 550, 590, 624, 652, 682, 746, 776, 791
Laundry Exhibition, 369
Lead Occupations, Dangerous, 764
Leaky Tubes, 23, 56, 90, 114, 186. See 568
Ledebur, Professor, on Carbon in Iron, 412, 552
Leeds Engineering Company, Piston and Piston Valve Packing, 758
Leghorn Graving Dock Extension, 92, 135
Leicester, Sanitary Condition, 371
"Leopold II.," Paddle Steamer, Belgian (Messrs. Denny, Dumbarton), 182, 273
Leslie Brothers, Paterson, N.J., Rotary Snow Plough, 268
Letters to the Editor, 22, 56, 90, 114, 147, 185, 218, 240, 269, 310, 331, 370, 390, 428, 461, 481, 509, 548, 572, 616, 637, 668, 697, 737, 770, 797
Lever Box, White's Reversible, 251
Lewes, Professor V. B., on Carburetted Gas, 461
Lewes, Professor Vivian, on Spontaneous Combustion. 408
Lido Entrance to Port of Venice, 138, 287
Lifts. See Elevator*
Light upon Dyed Colours, Action of, 533
Light, Electric, in Buda-Pesth, 280
Light, Polarisation, Reflection, and Refraction, 663
Lights, Flashing, 109, 650
Lights and Light Buoys and Beacons in Italy, 138
Lights, Ship Signal, 89
Lighthouse, Electric, La Have, Havre, 7, 40
Lighthouse, Flashing, 407
Lighthouse Improvements, 197
Lighthouses, Electric, Continuous and Alternating Currents, 138, 144, 223, 254
Lighthouses and Equipment. See Maritime Congress
Lighthouses, Fog Signals, &c., 109
Lighthouses on Turkish and Egyptian Coasts,
Lighting Estuaries and Rivers, 121, 138
Lighting and Light Dues in the Red Sea, 200, 244
Lighting Station at Chicago Exhibition, 386
Lighting of Workshops, 529, 554
Lightning Arrester, Non-Arcing, 278 200, 244
Lightship Electric Communication with Shore, 90
"Liguria," Pacific Steamer (Rollo and Son,
Liverpool), 420
Lima Locomotive Company's Logging Locomotive, 81
Liquid Fuel, 599. See LErrns
Liquid Fuel for Marine Purposes, 669
Literature, 33, 183, 215, 246, 259, 291, 339, 490, 546, 614, 631, 661, 690, 736
Lloyd's Return of Shipwrecks, 182, 337, 737
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 90, 118, 486
Loads, Distribution on Bridge Floors, 319. See
LErrEas, Distribution, &c.
Lock Inverts, Stresses in, 58
Lock Nut, Baxters', 771
Lock, Welch's Nut, 431
Lock, Yale, for U.S. Post-Office, 783
Locomotive, Beira Railway, East Africa, Brush Company, 502
Locomotive, Compound Express Passenger, North-Eastern Railway Company, 147
Locomotive Early, Pennsylvania Railroad, 101
Locomotive, Express, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Brooks, 109
Locomotive Fuel Consumption, Indian, 427
Locomotive " Greater Britain," Compound, 110
Locomotive, Logging (Lima Locomotive Company, Lima, Ohio), 81
Locomotive Marine Boiler Priming (H.M.S. " Antelope " ), 674
Locomotive, Monster Electric, 614
Locomotive " 999," New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 330, 359, 388, 432
Locomotive, Old, " John Bull," 101, 478, 507, 537
Locomotive, Rhode Island, 635, 785
Locomotive, Schenectady, 465
Locomotive Turntable, 60-Ft. (Detroit Bridge and Iron Works), 695
Locomotive, Variable Power Gear for Electrical, 386
Locomotives, American, 6, 81, 101, 109, 110, 172, 237, 269, 299, 330, 359, 388, 432, 465, 478, 479, 507, 537, 569, 603, 635, 695, 756, 785
Locomotives, Baldwin, 6, 172, 237, 299, 507, 569
Locomotives of British Companies, 332
Locomotives, Brooks, 109, 110, 269, 479, 537, 603, 695, 756
Locomotives, Canadian (Canadian Pacific Railway), 664
Locomotives and Cars, Victorian Railway Standard, 724, 786
Locomotives, Earnings of British, 577
Locomotives, High-Speed American, 110, 479
Locomotives, Old American, 478, 537. See Erratum, 507
Locomotives, South African, Welsh v. Native Coal, 580
Logging Locomotive (Lima Locomotive Company, Lima, Ohio), 81
London Docks, 169
London Hydraulic Power Supply, 769
London Metropolitan Railways, 671
London and North-Western Railway Locomotive " Greater Britain," 110

London Societies:

Royal Institution, 214, 578
London Water Supply, 366, 393. See Erratum, 470
Longridge's Axle-Box, 12
Longridge, Mr. Michael, on the Steam Engine, 305
Lubricators and Injectors (Nathan Company, N.Y.), 587
"Lucania" and "Campania," Cunard Steamers, 46, 309, 342, 499, 460, 517, 580, 648
Luminosity of Gas, 564
Lyster, Mr. A. G., on Dredging the Mersey Bar, 107, 134, 349, 494, 800

Macadamised Roads, Breaking Up, 186
McGill University, Montreal, 195, 227
McIntosh, Seymour, and Co., Auburn, N.Y., 1200 H.-P. Tandem Compound Engines, 141
Machine Construction and Drawing, 371, 390, 428
Machine Drawing and Design, Manual, 184
Machine Tools at Chicago (Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 138
Machine Tools (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 396, 417, 479
Machinery, Auxiliary, of Navy Vessels, 536
Machinery Inspection in United States, 752
Machinery, Rating of, 83. See Limns, Engineering Leases
Machinery, Taxation of, in Foreign Countries, 51. See LETTERS, Engineering Leases
Madras, Irrigation in, 90, 91
Magazine Rifles, Norway Tests, 338
Maginnis's T-Square Attachment, 463
Magnetic Disturbance of the Earth's Surface, Vibration Period, 448
Magnetic Field of a Current Running in a Cylindrical Coil, 727
Magnetic Observations, 475
Magnetic Shielding of Concentric Spherical Shells, 710
Magnetic Work at Falmouth Observatory, 475
"Magnificent," Battleship, H.M.S., 250
"Majestic," Battleship, H.M.S., 250

Manchester Ship Canal:

Completion, 635
Liverpool and the Canal, 731
Passage of First Steamer through Canal, 706
Pontoon, 250
Progress of Works, 46, 277
Prospects, 277, 479, 635
Manchester Steam Users' Association, 12

"Marie Henriette," Paddle Steamer (Cockerill Company), 182, 273
Marine Boiler Construction, 196, 280
Marine Boilers. See Boilers
Marine Engine Indicator, 428, 462
Marine Engine Repairs, 115
Marine Engines. See Engines
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1892, 767
Marine Industries, 545, 767

Maritime Congress. International: 21.

See LETTER, 186
Presidential Address by Lord Brassey, 88 Section 1.
Recent Breakwaters and Sea Defences in Italy, by Chev. L. Luiggi, 88
Breakwaters and Harbour of Middelgrunden, by Captain P. Hansen, 88, 404
Harbour and Breakwater of Copenhagen, by Mr. H. C. V. M011er, 88
Construction of Breakwaters, by Baron Quinette de Rochemont, 89
Dredging the Mersey Bar, by Mr. A. G. Lyster, 107, 449, 494, 800
Monolithic Construction of Sea Works, by Mr. W. R. Kinipple, 109. See LETTERS, Under-Water Foundations
Mortar in Sea Works, by M. R. Feret, 109, 130
Ports on Sandy Coasts, by M. V. E. de Timonoff, 135
Ports on Sandy Coasts, by M. P. Demey, 135, 619. See Erratum, 648
The Lido Entrance of the Port of Venice, by M. C. Spadon, 138, 287
La Guaira Harbour Works, Venezuela, by Mr. A. E. Carey, 197, 314, 417. See LErrEft, Tipping Box
Harbours and Ferry System of Denmark, by Mr. A. E. Carey, 197
Concrete in Sea Works (Discussion), 197
Rock Dredging in Italian Harbours, by MM. Cimino and Verdinois, 197
Section II.
The Docks of Bordeaux, by M. H. Crahay de Franchimont, 103
The Equipment and Working of Ports (Marseilles), by M. A. Guerard, 103
The Port of Calais, by M. Chargueraud, 135 The Port of Dunkirk, by M. Paul Joly, 135, 142, 189
Leghorn Dry Dock, by Signor J. Inglese, 92, 135
The Docks of London on the North Side of the Thames, and their Appliances, by Mr. R. Carr and Mr. F. E. Duckham, 169
Surrey Commercial Docks, by Mr. J. A. McConnochie, 169
Newport Alexandra Dock, by Mr. W. S. Smyth, 169
Hydraulic. Installation at the Port of Genoa, by MM. L. Luiggi and E. Borgatti, 172
Vertical v. Sloping Walls in Docks (Discussion), 172
Section 111.
Steam Communication with the Continent, by
Mr. A. E. Seaton, 103, 128, 158. See LErrERs Ocean Passenger Steamships, by Professor Biles, 106
Sand Pump Dredger for the Mersey, by Mr. A. Blechynden, 134, 449, 494, 800
Transport of Oil in Bulk, by Mr. J. Fortescue Flannery, 134
Marine Boiler Construction, by Mr. C. E. Stroineyer, 196, 280
Shipowners and Shipbuilders in their Technical Relationships, by Mr. A. Denny, 159, 196
Section IV.
Compressed - Air Fog Signals, by M. C. Ribiere, 89, 587
Ship Signal-Lights, by Mr. J. Kenward, 89
Communication between Lightships and the Shore (Discussion), 90
"Feux-Eclairs," and the Physiological Perception of Instantaneous Flashes, by M. A. Blondel, 109, 650
Methods and Formulas for Calculating the Luminous Power of Lighthouse Apparatus, by M. Bourdelles, 109
Illumination of Estuaries and Rivers, by Mr. W. T. Douglass, 121, 138
Harbour Lights, Buoys, and Beacons in Italy, by D. Lo Gatto, 138
Researches as to Continuous and Alternate Electrical Currents for Lighthouse Purposes, by M. A. Blondel, 138, 154, 223, 254
Recent Improvements in Lighthouses, by Mr. D. A. Stevenson, 197
Efficiency of Recent Gigantic Lighthouse Apparatus compared with Electric Light, by Mr. D. Lo Gatto, 200
Lighting and Light Dues in the Red Sea, by
Commander G. Hodgkinson, R.N., 200 Marseilles, Port of, 103
Marseilles and St. Louis Electric Road Railway, 499, 561, 627
Marshall's Engine with Proell Valve Gear, 703
Martell, Mr. B., on Oil-Carrying Steamers, 54, 65, 95
Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Chicago Exposition, 633
Measures, Metric, 22, 23, 56, 115, 147
Mechanical Engineers, The Institutioa of:
Recent Developments in the Cleveland Iron and Steel Industries, by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 152, 164, 191, 221
The Middlesbrough Salt Industry, by Mr. Richard Grigg, 165, 315, 344
Description of the Electric Rock Drill Machinery in the Carlin How Ironstone Mines in Cleveland, by Mr. A. L. Steavenson, 168, 522
Some Engineering Improvements in the River Tees, by Mr. George J. Clarke, 168, 284
Excursions to Iron Works, 165, 168
Port Clarence, Thornaby, and Salthurn, 169
Autumn Meeting, 528
Artificial Lighting of Workshops, by Mr. Benjamin A. Dobson, 529, 554
Working of Steam Pumps on the Russian South - Western Railways, by Mr. Alex. Borodin, 559, 585. See LErrERs, Pumps
Mechanical Flight, 481, 509, 523, 548, 573
Mechanics of Architecture, 546
Medina Cement, 197
Mediterannean-Atlantic Canal, 341
Merry weather's Double-Cylinder Fire Engine, 310
Mersey Bar, Dredging the, 107, 134, 449, 494, 800
Messageries Maritimes, 427
Metal Colouring and Bronzing, 691
Metal Price Diagram, 24, 156, 312, 430, 550, 709, 800
Metal Tools and Ornaments from Egypt and Palestine, 532
Metals, Resistance at Low Temperatures, 342
Metallic Packing, Ward's, 493
Metallurgists' Pocket-Book, 546
Metallurgy and Mining, Russian, 247
Meteorological Phenomena, Photography of, 475

Meteorological Society, Royal:

The Great Drought of 1893, and its Attendant
Meteorological Phenomena, by Mr. F. J. Brodie, 615
Thunder and Hail Storms, by Mr. W. Marriott, 615
Great Storm of November 16 to 20, 1893, by Mr. C. Harding, 797

Meters, Potentiometer for Alternating Currents, 727
Method of Taking Out Stresses, 739, 770
Metric System, 22, 23, 56, 115, 147
Metropolitan Water Supply, 366, 393. See Erratum, 470
Microbes, Sewage Purification by, 306
Middelgrunden Harbour, 88, 404
Middlesbrough. See otes from Cleveland
Middlesbrough Salt Industry, 165, 315, 344
Mild Steel, Working of, 803
Mill Engine, 400 Horse-Power Compound (Ross and Duncan, Govan), 454
Mill for Orion Gold Mine, South Africa, 604
Millar, Mr. W. J., on the Economical Speeds of Steamships, 308. See LErrzas, Economical, &c.
Milling Machine, Vertical (Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 138
Milling Machines (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 396
Milton, Mr. J. T., on Water-Tube Boilers, 74, 90. See also 127
Mineral Wealth of United States, 22
Miners and Metallurgists' Pocket-Book, 546
Miner's Safety Lamp (Professor Clowes), 565
Miners' Safety Lamps, Robson-Brown Burner for, 22
Miners' Strike, Prospects of Trade, 456, 641
Miners' Strike in South Wales, 243
Mines Explosions, Dust Theory, 564
Mining in Cleveland, 399, 556
Mining, Coal, 33
Mining Coal, Text-Book, 183
Mining, European Coal, 153
Mining and Metallurgy, Russian, 247
Mining in New South Wales, 351, 379
Mining Tramways, Wire Rope Haulage, 232
Mining in United States, 22
Mint, Birmingham, Elliott's Smoke Annihilator, 708
Miscellanea, 15, 49, 79, 111, 154, 177, 209, 250, 282, 303, 342, 363, 400, 430, 453, 492, 520, 541, 582, 607, 647, 678, 707, 731, 761, 799
Mississippi Pontoon Bridge, 481
Mississippi River Banks, Erosion, 460
" Mogul" Locomotives Brooks, 269
Monolithic Construction of Sea Works, 109, 147, 185. See Lirrermas, Underwater Foundations
Moon's Atmosphere and the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 477
Morgan's Crane and Grab, 47
Morley Memorial College for Working Men and Women, 428
Morse, Williams, and Co., Philadelphia, Electric Elevator, 240
Mortar in Sea Works, 130
Motors, Hydraulic, 644, 660. See LivrrEits
Motors for Marseilles and St. Louis Electric Railway, 499, 561, 627
Moulding Machine, Laissle's Pulley, 417
Mueller, Mr. Otto H., on Auxiliary Steam Pumps for Steam Engines, 589

Nail Machine, Severance Cut, 602
Nansen's Polar Ship " Frani," Engines (Akers Mek. Va3rksted, Norway), 11
Napier's Steam Steering Gear for S.S. " Nile," 537
Natal Railways, 264, 294, 324, 502, 597, 655, 687
Nathan Company, Lubricators and Injectors, 587
National Danger (Navy), 593, 763. See LErmits

Naval Architects. American Society of:

Inaugural Proceedings, 718
Evolution of the Atlantic Greyhound, by Mr. Charles H. Cramp, 719, 766
Comparative Performances of American and Foreign Freighting Ships, Our Superiority, by Captain W. W. Bates, 719
Determination of the Approximate Dimensions of a Vessel to Fulfil a given Programme of Requirements, by Naval Constructor J. J. Woodward, U.S.N., 722
United States Treasury Rules for the Inspection of Machinery and Boilers, by Mr. James T. Boyd, 752
Production in the United States of Heavy Steel Engine, Gun, and Armour-Plate Forgings, by Mr. R. W. Davenport, 753
Coal Bunkers and Coaling Ships, by Lieutenant A. P. Nittack, U.S.N., 755
Steel Ships of the United States Navy, by- Mr. Theo. D. Wilson, 778
Notes on Machinery of the New Vessels of the United States Navy, by George W. Melville, 778
The Wetted Surface of Ships, by Mr. D. W. Taylor, 782
The Influence of Speed and Weight of Machinery on the Determination of the other Elements of Design of Steam Vessels, by Mr. J. J. O'Neill, 782
On the Law of Frictional Resistance, by Professor W. F. Durand, 782
The Steam Yacht as a Naval Auxiliary in Time of War, by Mr. William Gardner, 782
Some Thoughts on the Design of New York
Ferryboats, by Colonel Edwin A. Stevens, 782
Naval Architects. The Institution of: Cardiff Meeting :
On Points of Interest in the Construction and Repair of Vessels Carrying Oil in Bulk, by Mr. B. Martell, 54, 65, 95
On Fast Ocean Steamships, by Dr. Elgar, 54, 285, 311
On Wear and Tear in Ballast Tanks, by Mr. A. K. Hamilton, 45, 73
Some Experiments on the Combination of Induced Draught and Hot Air, Applied to Marine Boilers Fitted with Serve Tubes and Retarders, by Mr. J. D. Ellis, 71, 346
On the Transmission of Heat through Boiler Plates, by Mr. A. Blechynden, 74
On Water-Tube Boilers, by Mr. J. T. Milton, 74, 96, 127
On the Theory of Thin Plating and its Applicability to Calculations of the Strength of Bulkhead Plating and Similar Structures, by Mr. E. H. Brian, 78
Excursions. &c. :
Bute Docks, 70
Mountstuart Dry Dock, 70
Dowlais Works, 71
Caerphilly, 74
Conversazione, 74
Penarth Dock, 78
Barry Dock, 78

Naval Architecture, Present Position, 445, 472
Naval Construction Company, Barrow Sand Pump Dredger, 134, 800. See 107, 449, 494
Naval Engineer Problems, 601
Naval Manoeuvres, 179
Naval Port at Spezzia, 248
Navigation Bureau in United States, 3
Navigation Lights, 121, 138
Navvy, Steam (Bucyrus Company, Ohio), 175
Navy, British Warship Building, 794
Navy, Coal Endurance, 371
Navy, Engineering, 240
Navy, Engineers in, 211. See LETTEEs
Navy Exhibit at Chicago, 3
Navy, National Danger, 593, 763. See LETTERS
Navy Needs, The Debate on the, 763
Navy Policy (Estimates), 275
Navy, Russian, 489
Navy, United States, 444, 547
Navy, United States, Ships, 778
Netherton, Boiler Explosion, 623
Neven's Rail Ice-Scraper, 297
New South Wales Exhibits at Chicago, 351, 379, 425, 459, 488, 711, 742
New South Wales Railways, 487, 716
New York Central and Hudson River Railway
Locomotive " 999," 330, 359, 388
New York and Chicago, 399
New York Ferryboats, 782
New Zealand Government Railways, 248
Newburn, Bridge Across Tyne at, 21
Newport Docks, 169
Niagara Cataract Works, 50-Ton Travelling Crane (Sellers and Co.' Philadelphia), 782
Niagara, Distribution of Power from, 642, 673, 765. See LEI-1'ms, 798
Niagara Pulveriser (Coward and Ihlee, Bath), 329
Nicholson, John T., on Transmission and Distribution of Compressed Air Power, 27
Nickel Steel Armour Tests, 212
Nile Corvee, 52
"Nile," Royal Mail Steamer (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 370
"Nile," Steam Steering Gear (Napier's), 537
Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio, 90-In. Gun Lathe, 417
Niles Tool Works Company, Machine Tools, 396, 417, 477, 729
Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio, Stud Lathe, 479
Niles Tool Works Company, Double Plate Planing Machine, 729
Nitride of Iron, 533
Nodder, Mr. Joseph, on Working of Mild Steel, 803
Non-Arcing Lightning Arrester, 278
Normand Boilers, 23, 56, 90, 114, 186
Normand Tubulous Boiler, 127. See also 74, 96
North-Eastern Railway Compound Express Passenger Locomotive, 147
North Sea-Baltic Canal, 279
Norton Screw-Cutting Lathe (Hendey Company, Torrington, Conn.), 481
Norway, Tests of Small Calibre Rifles, 338
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 14, 48, 82, 123, 155, 175, 207, 249, 273, 302, 333, 362, 387, 421, 452, 491, 518, 639, 673, 605, 646, 677, 698, 730, 760, 790
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 363, 453, 619
Notes from the North, 13, 48, 82, 123, 154, 176, 208, 248, 272, 302, 332, 362, 387, 420, 452, 491, 518, 540, 581, 606, 646, 676, 699, 730, 760, 790
Notes from the South-West, 14, 48, 83, 124, 155, 176, 208, 249, 273, 302, 329, 362, 391, 421, 468, 491, 518, 540, 582, 606, 647, 677, 699, 730, 761, 790
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 48, 82, 123, 155, 176, 207, 249, 272, 302, 333, 361, 391, 421, 452, 491, 518, 529, 581, 606, 635, 677, 698, 731, 760, 790
Notes from United States, 13, 44, 82, 121, 154, 207, 248, 280, 310, 329, 370, 387, 420, 461, 490, 517, 537, 572, 603, 637, 676, 707, 737, 757, 797
Nova Scotia, Concrete Piers in, 280
November Weather, 703
Nozzles, Hydraulics of Fire Streams, 717
Nuisances, Factory, 117
Nursey, Mr. P. F., on Some Practical Examples of Blasting, 712, 773, 802
Nut, Baxters' Lock, 771
Nut Lock, Welch's, 431

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatories, Falmouth and Ben Nevis, Work at, 475
Ocean Passenger Steamers, 106
Ocean Railways, Our (Review), 631
October Weather, 545
Oil-Carrying Steamers, 54, 65, 95, 134
Oil Engines at Smithfield Club Show, 703
Oil, Flash Point of, 369. See LETTERS
Oil Fuel in Russia and Italy, 599. See LicTrEfts
Oil Fuel for Ships, 669
Oil on Waves, Influence of, 474
Old American Locomotives, 101, 478, 537. See Erratum., 507
Opening Span of Tower Bridge, 448. See also 353, 382, 417, 471
Optical Theories, 445
Ordnance Bureau in United States, 3
Ore, Sampling of Iron, 416
Ore, Swedish, 460
Ore-Washing Machinery, Coal and, Sennett's, 758
Ore-Winning in America. See Engineering Congreat, 321
Oriolle Water-Tube Boiler, 74, 96. See also 127
Orion Gold Mine Mill, South Africa, 604
Orlando Brothers, Leghorn, Engines of Italian Gunboat " Aretusa," 756
Ostend Harbour, Ports on Sandy Coasts, 619. See Erratum, 648
Otis Elevator, Testing, 649
Oxygen Cylinder at Bradford, Explosion of, 665, 676. See LETrzas, Gas Cylinder, &c.
Ozone Production on Commercial Scale, 153

Packing, Piston and Piston Valve (Leeds Engineering Company), 758
Packing, Ward's Metallic, 493
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Paddle Steamer Afloat, The Fastest, " Marie Henriette," 182, 273
Paddle Steamer Beam Engines (Messrs. Inglis, Glasgow), 265. See LETrER8
Paddle Steamer for Bosphorus (Thames Iron Company), 551
Paddle Steamers. See Steamers
Panir Tunnel, 548
Pape, Henneberg, and Co., Combined Feed-Water Heater and Purifier, 478
Paper-Drying Cylinder, Explosion of, 584
Parliament and the Navy, 763
Parliament, Private Bills in, 671, 701
Parliamentary Powers for Engineering Works, 513
Parsons' Steam Turbine Dynamo, 126
Passengers, Railway, Classification, 423. See LETTERS
Passengers, Railway, 549, 573
Patent Law, Some Suggestions for a Good, 455. See LETrzits
Patent Office Library, 310, 739, 770
Patent Record, 31, 67, 99, 131, 161, 193, 225, 257, 289, 317, 349, 377, 405, 437, 469, 497, 525, 557, 591,625, 653, 683, 715, 747, 775, 805
Patent Specifications, Abstracts of, 216
Patent Specifications, Defective, 793
Patents, Austro-Hungarian, 668
Pathology of the Steam Engine, 305
Paul's Barge for Coaling Steamers, 21
Peckham's Extension Cantilever Tramway Truck, 755
Penarth Docks, 78
Pendulum Actinometer, 533
Pennsylvania Railroad Exhibit at Chicago, 101
Permanganate of Potassium and Sodium Thiosulphate and Sulphate, 565
Permeability of Glass, 43
Peru, A New, 749, 777
Peru, Road Bridge at Piura, 635
Peterhead Harbour, 147, 185. See 269
Peterhead Harbour Improvements, 436
Petroleum-Carrying Steamers, 54, 65, 95, 134
Petroleum Engines. See Oil Engines
Petroleum, Flash Point of, 369. See LETTERS
Petroleum Fuel in Russia and Italy, 599. See LETTERS, Oil Fuel
Petroleum Industries, Russian, 548
Petrology, Text Book on, 490
Photography of Meteorological Phenomena, 475

Physical Society :

On the Behaviour of an Air-Core Transformer when the Frequency is below a Certain Critical Value, by Mr. E. C. Rimington, 537
Two Lecture-Room Experiments, by Mr. W. B. Croft, 537
Electric Radiation in Copper Filings, by Dr. Dawson Turner, 537
On the Separation of Three Liquids by Fractional Distillation, by Professor Barrett, Mr. G. L. Thomas, and Professor Sydney Young, 605
Note on the Generalisations of Van der Waals Regarding " Corresponding" Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes, by Professor S. Young, 605
An Instrument for Drawing Conic Sections, by Mr. J. Gillett, 605
On the Magnetic Shielding of Concentric Spherical Shells, by Professor S. P. Thompson, 710
The Action of Electro-Magnetic Radiation on Films Containing Metallic Powders, by Professor G. M. Minchin, 711
A Potentiometer for Alternating Currents, by Mr. James Swinburne, 727
Calculation of the Coefficient of Self-Induction of a Circular Current of Given Aperture and Cross Section, by Professor G. M. Minchin, 727
Magnetic Field of a Current Running in a Cylindrical Coil, by Professor Minchin, 727 Physical Technology, German State Institute for, 468

Piers, Concrete, in Nova Scotia, 280
Piers, Tower Bridge, 353, 382, 417, 448, 471
Piezo-Electricity, 474
Pillar Crane, 10-Ton (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford), 463
Pinion-Making Machinery for Watch Works, 1, 33, 69. See 382
Pioneers of Science, 339
Pipe, Failure of Steel Water Main, 22
Pipes, Electric Corrosion of Underground, 738
Pipes, Reinforcing Steam, 182
Piston and Piston Valve Packing (Leeds Engineering Company), 758
Piura, Peru, Resources of, 749, 777
Planing Machine, Double Plate (Niles Tool Works, Hamilton, Ohio), 729
Planing Machine (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 396
Planing Machines, Open-Side (Detrick and Harvey Company, Baltimore), 571
Plastomenite, Smokeless Powder, 614
Plate-Drilling Machine (G. and A. Harvey, Govan), 82
Plate - Shearing Machine (Craig and Donald, Johnstone), 269
Plate-Straightening Machine (Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 138
Plate Welding, 535
Plates, Heat Transmission through, 74
Plates for Secondary Batteries, 676
Platt, Mr. S., Tube-Fitting Screwing Machine, 157
Player, W. and J., Birmingham, Amphlet's Pneumatic Hammer, 46
Plough, Jull's Centrifugal Snow, 664. See 699
Pneumatic Caulking and Chipping Tool, 383, 466
Pneumatic Dredger, Mersey Bar, 107, 134, 449, 494, 800
Pneumatic Gate for Railway Crossings (Bogue and Mills Company, Chicago), 571
Pneumatic Grain Elevator and Conveyor, Duckham's, 59
Pneumatic Hammer, Amphlet's (W. and J. Player, Birmingham), 46
Pneumatic Riveter, 23, 58, 91
Polarisation of Light, 663
Polar Ship "Fram," Nansen's, Engines (Akers Mek. Vterksted, Norway), 11
Polishing and Grinding Glass, 503
Pontoon Bridge across Mississippi, 481
Port of Venice, 138, 287
Portland Cement, 371, 514
Portland Cement, Manufacture and Testing, 345, 374. See LETrzits
Ports. See Maritime Congress
Ports, British, The Relative Importance of, 55
Ports on Sandy Coasts, 135, 619. See Erratum, 648
Post Office, United States, Exhibit at Chicago, 783
Potentiometer for Alternating Currents, 727
Potteries, Dangerous Occupations, 764
Powder, Smokeless, Plastomenite, 614
Power Distribution from Niagara, 642, 673, 765. See LrrrERs, 798
Power, Estimating Mean Effective Pressure in Engines, 482, 573
Power, Hydraulic, Supply in London, 769
Power Transmission and Distribution of Compressed Air, 27
Preller, Mr. C. S. du Riche, on Electric Lighthouse, Havre, 7, 40
Preller, M. C. S. du Riche, on Marseilles and St. Louis Electric Road Railway, 499, 561, 627
Premiums, Speed, 332
Presidential Addresses, 009
Press, Boyd Brick, 634
Press, 300-Ton Embossing (E. W. Bliss Company, Brooklyn), 536
Pressures and Volumes, Temperature, 605
Princeton University, 139
Private Bill Legislation, 671, 701
Problems of Naval Engineer, 601
Producer, Taylor's Revolving Gas, 124
Proell Valve Gear, Marshall's Engine with, 703
Propeller, Screw, 536
Propeller Shafts, 676
Propellers, Screw, of "Iberia " (Rollo, Liverpool), 206
Propellers, Twin, 616
Propulsion, Mechanical Theory of Steamship, 474
Prussian State Railway Carriages, 173
Publication Scientific Papers, 503
Pulley-Moulding Machine, Laissle's, 417
Pullman Cars, 569
Pullman Observation and Sleeping Cars, 755
Pulp, Wood, Syndicate in Germany, 615
Pulsometer, The Development of the, 665
Pulsometers, 559, 585. See LErrERs
Pulveriser and Disintegrator, Cyclone, 219
Pulveriser, Niagara (Coward and Ihlee, Bath), 329
Pump, Centrifugal, and Thwaites Engine, 771
Pump, Development of Pulsometer, 665
Pumps for Ammonia Refrigerators, 516
Pumps, Designs of Air, 740
Pumps, Duplex Hydraulic Steam (Carruthers, Glasgow), 521
Pumps, Steam, 559, 585. See LerrEits, Pumps
Pumps of Steam Engines, Auxiliary, 589
Punching Machine, Hydraulic (R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 39, 40
Punching and Shearing Machine (Britannia Company), 679
Purification of Sewage by Microbes, 306
Purifier, Feed-Water Heater and, Combined (Pape, Henneberg, and Co., Hamburg), 478

Quadruple Engines. See Engines
Quadruple-Expansion Engine, 3000 H.P. (Allis Company, Milwaukee), 648, 694
Quality v. Low-Priced Goods, 57, 115
Queenstown v. Southampton, 580. See Atlantic Record
Quicksand, Foundations in, 736

Radiation, Electric, in Copper Filings, 537
Radiation on Films containing Metallic Powders, Electro-Magnetic, 711
Radiation, Solar, 475
Rail Ice-Scraper, Neven's, 295
Railroad Car, Club (Harlan and Hollinsworth, Wilmington, Del.), 329
Railway Accident, Box Tunnel, 681
Railway Ballast Distributing Wagon, Rodger's, 299
Railway, Beira, East Africa, 502
Railway Brakes on British Trains, 547
Railway Bridge Accident, Chester, Mass., 424
Railway, Brussels Electric, 487
Railway, Canadian Pacific, 182
Railway Car, Cattle-Carrying (American), 204, 252
Railway Carriage for Prussian State Lines, 173
Railway Cars. See also Cars
Railway Cars, Pullman, 569, 755
Railway Cars, Third-Class Dining, 119
Railway Collision at Dalnaspidal (Highland Railway), 710
Railway Collision at Droitwich, 774
Railway Collision at Ludgershall (Midland and South-Western Railway), 714
Railway Crossing, Pneumatic Gate (Bogue and Mills Company, Chicago), 571
Railway, Electric Road, Marseilles and St. Louis, 499, 561, 627
Railway Lever Box, White's Reversible, 251
Railway Locomotives and Cars, Victorian, 724, 786
Railway Passenger Carriages, Earnings of, 737
Railway Passengers, Classification, 423. See LETTERS
Railway Projects in Piura, 777
Railway Returns, 1892, British, 245, 457
Railway Track Work, Economy, 489
Railway and Tramway Schemes in Parliament, New, 671
Railway Travelling, 549, 573
Railways, American, English View, 57, 115
Railways, British, 215, 240. See LwrrEas
Railways to Chicago, 217
Railways, Development of South African, 264, 294, 324, 502, 597, 655, 687
Railways, Electric Conductors, 279
Railways, French, 247
Railways, High-Speed, 279
Railways, Historical Work, 644
Railways in India, 276
Railways, New South Wales, 487, 716
Railways, New Zealand Government, 248
Railways, Ship, 60
Railways, Scotch, Results, 399
Railways in the United States, Street, 427
Raiyan Reservoir, 685
"Ramillies," Gun Trials, 241
Ramming of the " Victoria," 18, 153, 365, 485, 544, 575. See LETTERS, "Victoria"
Ransome's Cask-Making Machinery, 727
Rating of Machinery, 83. See LErrErts, Engineering Leases
Rating of Machinery in Foreign Countries, 51. See LETTERS, Engineering Leases
Reciprocating Motion, Balancing, 355
Reckenzaun, the Late Mr. A., 615. See LETTERS
Red Sea Light Dues, 200, 244
Reducing Valve, Brier's, 283
Reducing Valve, Cockburn's, 372
Reducing Valve, Reid's Automatic, 343
Reflecting Telescopes, Construction of Specula, 503
Reflection of Light, 683
Refraction of Light, 663
Refrigerating Pumps, 516
Refrigerator Car (American Refrigerator Transit Company, St. Louis), 603
Refrigerator Car (Hanrahan's System) (United States Car Company, Hegewisch, Ill.), 728
Refrigerator Car (Wickes Car Company, Chicago), 539
Refuse Destroyer, 56
Refuse Disposal, Thermal Storage and, 358, 376, 402. See LETTERS
Registering, and Dating Machine, Ticket Cancelling (Keller Printing Company, New York), 432
Regulations for Working Electric Tramways, 676
Reid's Automatic Steam-Reducing Valve, 343
Reinforcing Steam Pipes, 182
Rendel, Sir Alex., on Wick Harbour, 217
Repeating Rifles, Norway Tests, 338
Reschitz Pumps, 559, 585. See LETTERS, Pumps
Reservoirs, Irrigation, Egypt, 68.5
Reservoirs and Masonry Dams in India, 645
Resistance of Metals at Low Temperatures, 342
Resistance of Ships, 536
Rest, Gabriel's Adjustable Arm, 648
Result, Chicago Exposition, 543
Reynolds' Cross-Cutting Power Saw, 493
Rhode Island Locomotive (Compound), 635, 785
Ribiere, M. C., on Compressed-Air Fog Signals, 89, 587
Riddell's Mechanical Filter, 369, 386
Rifles, Tests in Norway of Small-Calibre, 338
River Banks, Erosion of Mississippi, 460
River Improvements, Tees, 168, 284
Rivers, Lighting of, 121, 138
Riveter, Pneumatic, 23, 58, 91
Riveters, Hydraulic (R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 39, 40
Riveting Machinery, Hydraulic (Wood, Philadelphia), 204
Road Bridge at Piura, Peru, 635
Roads, Breaking up Macadamised, 186
Robb-Armstrong Automatic Engine (Nova Scotia), 2.5
Robinson, Professor, on Testing Machine, University College, Nottingham, 408, 428
Robson-Brown Burner for Miners' Safety- Lamps, 22
Rock Blasting, 712, 773, 802
Rock Drills, Electrical, 168, 522
Rock, Igneous, Text-Book on Petrology, 490
Rodger's Railway Ballast-Distributing Wagon, 299
Rolling Stock, Victorian Railway Standard, 724, 786
Rollo, D., and Son, Engines and Boilers of S.S. "Iberia," 82, 142, 206, 420
Ross and Duncan, 400 Horse-Power Mill Engine, 454
Ross Pneumatic Caulking Tool, 383, 466
Rossini's Method of Graphical Integration, 473
Rotary Dump Car (Bloomsburg Car Company 360
Rotary Snow Plough (Leslie Brothers Company,
Paterson, N.J.), 268
Royal Indian Engineering College, 149
Royal Institution, 214, 578
"Royal Sovereign " Battleship Class Steam Trials, 733
Rudders, Ships', 218
Rural Hygiene, 614
Rushworth, Sowerby Bridge, Boiler-End Turning, Boring, and Drilling Machine, 536
Russell Snow Plough (Ensign Company, Huntingdon, West Virginia), 449
Russian Mining and Metallurgy, 247
Russian Navy, 489
Russian Petroleum Industries, 548

Safe, Chubb's, 401
Safety Lamp, Hydrogen Oil. See Engineering Congress, 321
Safety Lamps, Robson-Brown Burner for Miners', 2
St. Louis and Marseilles Electric Road Railway, 499, 561, 627
St. Petersburg Medical Academy, Electric Lighting, 373
Salado Bridge, Buenos Ayres and Rosario Railway, 508
Sale of Goods, 151
Salt Industry, Middlesbrough, 165, 315, 344
Sampling of Iron Ore, 416
Sand Pump Dredging, Mersey Bar, 107, 134, 449 494, 800
Sandy Coasts, Ports on, 135, 287, 619. See Erratum, 648
Sanitary Condition, Leicester, 371
Sanitary Purposes, Water Required for, 766
Sanitation and Public Health, 661
Sanitation, Rural, 614
Saw, Cross-Cutting Power (Reynolds, London), 493
Sayers' Compensator for Loss of Pressure in Electric Feeders, 460
Scarborough Tunnel Scheme in Parliament, 701
Schenectady Locomotive at Chicago, 465
Schichau Electric Plant, Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 373
Science and Art Department Examinations, 212
Science and Art Examinations, 371, 390, 428
Science Teaching, 503
Scientific Papers, Publication, 503
Scotch Railway Results, 399
Scotland. See Notes from the North
Scraper, Neven's Rail Ice, 295
Screw-Cutting Lathe, Norton (Hendey Company, Torrington, Conn.), 481
Screw Elevator Gear (Standard Company, New York), 360 •
Screw Propeller, 536
Screw Propulsion with Non-Reversible Engines, 218
Screw Steamers. See Steamers
Screwing Machine, Tube-Fitting (Mr. S. Platt, Wednesbury), 157
Screws, Single v. Twin and Triple, 106
Sea and Air Temperature in Clyde Area, 475
Sea Defences in Italy, 88
Search Light Steam Dynamo, 449
Seaton, Mr. A. E., on Steam Communication with the Continent, 103, 128, 158. See LETTERS,
Steam, &c.
Secondary Batteries, Plates for, 676
Segregation in Ingots of Iron and Steel (Engineering Congress), 321
Seismography, 475
Self-Induction of a Circular Current of given Aperture and Cross-Section, Calculating Coefficient, 727
Sellers and Co., Philadelphia, 50-Ton Travelling Crane, Niagara Cataract Works, 782
Sennett's Coal and Ore Washing Machine, 758
Separating Iron from Solutions Containing other Metals, 399
Separating Liquids by Fractional Distillation, 605
Separation of Gases Dissolved in Water, 565
Separator, Automatic Gem, 407
September Weather, 425
Serve Tubes, Induced Draught and Hot Air, 71, 346
Severance Cut Nail Machine, 602
Sewage Disposal Works at Chicago Exhibition, 722
Sewage Purification by Microbes, 306
Shafts, Propeller, 676
Sheaf Binders at Smithfield Club Show, 703
Shearing Machine, Duplex Angle (Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 138
Shearing Machine, Hydraulic (R. D. Wood and Co., Philadelphia), 38
Shearing Machine, Plate (Craig and Donald, Johnstone), 269
Shearing and Punching Machine (Britannia Company), 679
Sheffield. See Notes from South Yorkshire
Shells, Magnetic Shielding of Concentric Spherical, 710
Shielding, Magnetic, of Concentric Spherical
Shells, 710
Ship Canal. See Manchester Ship Canal
Ship Railways, 60
Ship Signal Lights, 89
Shipbuilders and Shipowners, 159, 190
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1893, 767
Shipbuilding, Present Position, 445, 472
Shipbuilding Trade, 118
Shipbuilding and Shipping, 90, 486
Shipbuilding Works in Spain, 338, 361, 490, 590
Shipowners and Shipbuilders, 159, 196
Shipping, British Statistics, 90, 486
Shipping Company Finances, 545
Shipping Losses, Lloyd's Return, 337
Shipping and Shipbuilding, 90, 118, 486
Ships' Bulkheads, Strength of, 78
Ships, Resistance of, 536
Ships' Rudders, 218
Ships' Stability, 602
Shipwrecks, Lloyd's List, 182, 737
Siemens Electric Lighting Plant at Kingston, 691
Siemens, Werner von, Scientific and Technical Papers, 259
Signal Lights, Ship, 89
Signalling, Electrical, by the Telephotos, 795
Sirens, 89, 587
Skin Friction, Wetted Surface and, 782
Sleeping Cars, Pullman, 569, 755
Slip in Finland, Large, 399
Smelting Ores, Waste Heat in, 398, 433, 466
Smith, Mr. Frederick J., on Water-Cooled Brake Ergometer, 280
Smithells, Professor, on Flame, 408
Smithfield Club Show, 703
Smoke Annihilator at Mint, Birmingham, Elliott's, 708
Smokeless Powder, Plastomenite, 614
Snow Excavator, Jull's Centrifugal, 664. See 699
Snow Plough, Rotary (Leslie Brothers Company, Paterson, N.J.), 268
Snow Plough, Russell (Ensign Company, Huntington, West Virginia), 449
Sodium Peroxide for Water Analysis, 565
Solar Envelopes, Sun Spots and, 477
Solar Radiation, 475
Solid Emery Wheels, 55
South Africa. See Notes from South Africa
South African Railways, Development, 264, 294, 324, 502, 597, 655, 687
South African v. Welsh Coal for South African Locomotives, 580
Southampton v. Queenstown, 580. See Atlantic Record
Spadon, M. Cesare, on Port of Venice, 138, 287
Spanish Cruiser " Infanta Maria Teresa," 338, 361, 490, 590
Specimens, Dimensions of, 486. See LETrzits, Dimeneions, ckc.
Specula for Reflecting Telescopes, Construction, 503
Speed Premiums, 332
Speed Trials of H.M.S. "Speedy," &c., 579, 610
Speeds of Steamships, Economical, 308. See LETTERI
Spezzia, Fortification and Naval Port at, 248
Spontaneous Combustion, 408
Spring Balance, 797
Sprinkler, Edwards' Automatic, 617
Stability of Armourclads, 616, 637, 697, 740, 770
Stability of Vessels, 602
Standard Company Screw Elevator Gear, New York, 360
Standard of Low Electrical Resistance, 448
Standards, Electrical, 448
Standards, International, for Analysis of Iron and Steel, 533
Stanley Cycle Show, 645
Statics, The Elements of Graphic, 690. See 'Arm, 798
Statutory Authority, 513
Steam Communication with the Continent, 103, 128, 158. See LwrrEns
Steam, Dryness of, 358
Steam Dynamo for Search Light, 449
Steam and Electric Launches in China, 120
Steam Engineering Bureau, United States, 3
Steam Excavator (Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company, Ohio), 175
Steam Fishing Smacks, 429, 462
Steam and Gas Engines, Indicator Diagrams on a "Time-Base," 669
Steam Hammer, 125•Ton (Bethlehem Iron Works), 112, 205
Steam Jets, 770, 797, 798
Steam Pumps, Duplex Hydraulic (Carruthers, Glasgow), 521
Steam Pumps on Russian Railways, 559, 585. See LE'rrERs, Pumps
Steam Steering Gear for S.S. "Nile," Napier's, 537
Steam Trials, Battleships, 733
Steam Trials, Spanish Cruiser "Infanta Maria Teresa," 361, 490, 590. See also 339
Steam Turbine Dynamo, Parsons', 126
Steam Yachts, Fighting, 782
Steamer Ballast Tanks, Wear and Tear, 45, 73
Steamer " Condor," Engines, Triple-Expansion (Forges et Chantiers), 792
Steamer " Marie Henriette," Paddle, 182, 273
Steamer " Nile," Royal Mail Company (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank, 370
Steamer, Paddle, Beam Engines (Messrs. Inglis, Glasgow), 265. See LErrnits
Steamer, Paddle, for Bosphorus (Thames Iron Company), 551
Steamer, Passenger, "Fairy Queen," 604
Steamers, American Cargo, 779
Steamers, American River and Lake, 602
Steamers, Channel, 103, 128, 158. See LETTERS
Steamers' Coal Bunkers, 755
Steamers, "Luca.nia " and "Campania," Cunard, 46, 309, 342, 399, 460, 517, 680, 648
Steamers, Ocean Passenger, 106
Steamers, Oil-Carrying, 54, 65, 95, 134
Steamers, Vibration of, 534
Steamers, White Star, 133
Steamship Propulsion, Mechanical Theory, 474
Steamship Stability, 602
Steamships, Early (Atlantic, &c.), 631
Steamships, Economical Speeds of, 308. See LETTERS
Steavenson, Mr. A. L., on Cleveland Mining District, 399, 556
Steavenson, Mr. A. L., on Electrical Rock Drills, 168, 522
Steel Forgings in United States, 753
Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute
Steel and Iron Analysis, International Standards, 533
Steel and Iron, Belgium, 796
Steel and Iron at Chicago Exhibition, 399
Steel and Iron Industries, Cleveland, 152, 164, 191, 221
Steel and Iron Manufacture in Chicago, 44
Steel and Iron Wire Manufacture, 413
Steel and Iron, Workshop Tests, 308
Steel, Mild, Working of, 803
Steel Plate Improvements, 415
Steel Water Pipe, Failure, 22
Steel Works at Witkowitz, Basic, 398, 435
Steering Gear, Napier's Steam, S.S. " Nile," 537
Steering Ironclads, 24, 57, 91, 218
Stevenson, Mr. D. A., on Lighthouse Improvements, 197
Stone-Dressing Machine, Trier's, 268
Stone, Examination of Building, 216
Stoney's Tipping Crane, 295
Storm, November, 797
Straightening Machine, Plate (Hilles and Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 138
Stranding of the " Howe," 19, 310
Street Railways in United States, 427
Street's Western Stable Car Line, Car, 204, 252
Strength of Bulkheads, 78
Strength of Materials, 341
Stresses in Lock Inverts, 58
Stresses, Method of Taking Out, 739, 770
Strike of Miners, 456, 641
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., on Marine Boiler Construction, 196, 280
Stud Lathe (Niles Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 479
Subaqueous Foundations, 147, 185, 269
Submarine Telegraphs, French Government and, 216
Submarine Telegraphs, 121
Sun Spots and Solar Envelopes, 477
Sunlight in High Alps, Iodine Value, 533
Surplus Valve, Cockburn's, 372
Survey of Boilers Constructing, 536
Suspension Approaches, Tower Bridge, 353, 382.
See also 417, 448, 471
Suspension Bridges, Anchorage of, 739
Suspension Footbridge, Harvey's, 331
Sweden, Coal Fields, 547
Sweden, Compulsory Insurance of Labourers in, 400
Sweden, Government, and Telephones, 309
Swedish Ore, 460

T-Square Attachment, Maginnis's, 463
Tanks, Wear and Tear in Ballast, 45, 73
Tansa Water Works at Bombay, 645
Tariff Reform, American, 746
Tasmania Exhibition, 614
Taxation of Factories in France, 213
Taxation of Machinery in Foreign Countries, 51. See LETTERS, Engineering Lea8es
Taylor Gas Producer Plant and Fuel Consumption, 367
Taylor, Mr. C., Lathe Centre Grinder, 617
Taylor's Revolving Bottom Gas Producer, 124
Teaching Science, 503
Tear and Wear in Ballast Tanks, 45, 73
Technical Education, 611, 643
Technical Indices, 547
Technical Instruction Money, 310
Technical University, Massachusetts, 633
Technology, German State Institute for Physical. 468
Tees River Improvements, 168, 284
Telautograph, Gray's, 515
Telegraphs, Historical, 659
Telegraphs, Submarine, 121
Telegraphs, Submarine, French Government and, 216
Telegraphs in United States, Western Union, 706
Telephones and Electric Traction, 85
Telephones in Sweden, Government, 309
Telephonic Disturbance by Electric Railways, 561
Telephotos, Electrical Signalling, 795
Telescopes, Construction of Specula for Reflecting, 503
Temperature-Entropy Diagram, 53
Temperature, Sea and Air, in Clyde Sea Area, 475
Temperatures, Low, Resistance of Metals at, 342
Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes, 605
Teneriffe, Water Supply, 738
Testing Gas Cylinders, 676. See also 665. See LETTERS, Gas Cylinders,
Testing Iron and Steel, Workshop, 308
Testing Machine at University College, Nottingham, 408, 428
Tests, Dimensions of Specimens, 486. See LETTERS
Text-Book of Coal Mining, 183
Thacher Company, Dumping Car (New York), 637
Thames Iron Works, H.M.S. " Theseus," 180, 330
Thames Tower Bridge, 353, 382, 417, 448, 471
Thermal Storage and Disposal of Refuse, 358, 376, 402. See LErrERs
"Theseus," Cruiser (Thames Iron Company), 180, 330. See LETTERS. Rudder
Thiosulphate and Sulphite and Permanganate of Potassium, 565
Third-Class Dining Cars, 119
Thomson, Clydebank, Royal Mail Steamer' " Nile," 370
Thornycroft Tubulous Boiler, 127. See also 74,, 96 ; Daring," 674 ; "Speedy," 579, 610 Thrust-Block Bearings, 310, 332, 391, 429, 462,
483, 511, 548, 572, 616, 639, 668, 698
Thrust Shaft of " Iberia" (Rollo, Liverpool), 206
Thunder and Hail Storms, 615
Thwaites Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 771
Ticket Cancelling, Dating, and Registering Machine (Keller Printing Company), 432
Timber Trade of America, 81
Tinplate Production in America, 517
Tipping Boxes for Concrete Sacks at La Guaira Harbour (Stothert and Pitt, Limited, Bath), 197, 315, 417. See LETTER
Tipping Crane, Stoney's, 295
Titan, Electric, Bilbao Harbour Works, 229. See LETTERS, Bilbao, &c.
Titanium Compounds in Iron, 533
Tools and Ornaments (Copper, &c., from Egypt and Palestine), 532
Top, Geometric Gyroscopic, 520
Torpedo-Boat, Capsizing, 673
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Daring" (Thornycroft Tubulous Boiler), 674
Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Havock "(Yarrow), 545 Torpedo Gunboat " Aretusa," Italian, Engines, &c. (Orlando Brothers, Leghorn), 756
Torpedo Gunboat " Speedy, &c., 579, 610
Torpedo and Torpedo Gun Boats, United States, 778
Tower Bridge, 353, 382, 417, 448, 471
Track Work, Economy, Railway, 489
Traction, Electric, v. Telephones, 85
Trade. See Notes from Cleveland, cfcc.
Trade, Chemical, Wages, 645
Trade Disputes. See Industrial Notes
Trade Unions. See Industrial Notes
Trades Union Congress, 1893, 335
Tramway, Electric, Marseilles and St. Louis, 499, 561, 627
Tramway and Railway Schemes in Parliament, New, 671
Tramway Truck, Peckhani's Extension Cantilever, 755
Tramway, Wire Rope Haulage (Trenton Iron Company, N.J.), 232
Tramways, Regulations for Electric, 676
Tramways in United States, 427
Transatlantic. See Atlantic
Transatlantic Steamers. See Atlantic, and 46
Transformer, Air - Core, Behaviour when Frequency is Low, 537
Transition Curve Field Book, 691
Transition Curves, 618
Transmission and Distribution of Compressed Air, 27
Transmission of Electric Power in Belgium, 341. See LETTERS, Electric, &•c.
Transmission of Heat through Plates, 74
Transport of Petroleum in Bulk, 134
Transvaal Railways, 327
Travelling Crane, 7-Ton Jib (Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, Conn.), 269
Travelling Crane (50-Ton), at Niagara Cataract Works (Sellers and Co., Philadelphia), 782
Travelling Crane, 150-Ton Electric, at Creusot, 109
Trenton Iron Company, N.J., Wire Rope Haulage, 232
Tricycle Design, 645
Trier's Stone-Dressing Machine, 268
Trinidad Colony at Chicago Exposition, 772
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Triple-Screw Cruiser "Columbia" (United States' Navy), 705. See LETTERS, Cruisers, &c.
Trireme at Peloponnesian War, 472
Troughing, Distribution of Loads on Bridge, 319. See LETTERS, Distribution, &c.
Truck Frames, Pressed Steel (Fox's Company, Joliet, Ill.), 328. See also Car
Truck, Peckham's Extension Cantilever Tramway, 755
Truck for Transporting Heavy Guns, 101
Trucks, Victorian Railway, Standard Locomotives and, 724, 786
Tube-Fitting Screwing Machine (Mr. S. Platt, Wednesbury), 157
Tubeplates, Heat Transmission through, 74
Tubes, Induced Hot Air Draught and Serve, 71, 346
Turbine Dynamo, Parsons' Steam, 126
Turbine, Electric Installation at Boxholm, 489
Turbines and Electricity, 383
Tuhulous Boiler Explosion, 745
Tubulous Boiler, Thornycroft, Torpedo-Boat Destroyer, 674
Tuhulous Boiler, Yarrow, 612
Tubulous Boilers, 74, 96, 127
Tubulous and Coil Boilers, 601
Tunnel, Panir, 548
Tunnel Schemes in Parliament, 701
Turkish and Egyptian Lighthouses, 200, 244
Turkish Gunboat, Triple-Expansion Engines, 664
Turner, Prof. T., on Indian Iron Manufacture, 416
Turning, Boring, and Drilling Machine, Boiler-End (Rushworth, Sowerby Bridge), 536
Turning and Boring Mill (Niles Tool Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 397
Turning Machines for Ball Bearings, 527
Turntable, Locomotive, 60-Ft. (Detroit Bridge and Iron Works), 695
Turret Lathe, Gisholt's, 358
Turret Lathes (Jones and Lamson Company, Springfield, Ver.), 657. See 707
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Twin v. Single Screws, 106
Twin-Screw Steamers. See Steamers
Twin Screws, 616
Tyndall, the Late Professor, 704
Tyndall and Radiation of Heat, 214
Tyne Bridge at Newburn, 21
Typewriting Machine, 57, 114
Typewriters at the Brewers' Exhibition, 510
Tyres, Cycle, 645

Underwater Foundations, 147, 185. See 269
Unemployed, Agencies and Methods, 734. See LETTEas
United States. See also America
United States Car Company, Hegewisch, Refrigerator Car, Hanrahan's System, 728
United States Cruiser " Columbia," 705. See LETTERS, CrUi8er8,
United States Mining, 22
United States Navy, 444, 547
United States Navy Departments, 3
United States Navy Ships, 778
United States Post Office Exhibit at Chicago, 783
United States Street Railways, 427
Useful Knowledge, 643
Utilisation of Small Coal, 248, 272. See LETTP:as

Valve, Brier's Reducing, 283
Valve, Cockburn's Surplus, 372
Valve Diagram of Bona, 473
Valve Gear, Proell's, to Marshall's Horizontal Engine, 703
Valve Motion, Marine Engines, 602
Valve Packing, Piston (Leeds Engineering Company) 758
Valve, Reid's Automatic Steam-Reducing, 343
Variable Power Gear for Electric Locomotives, 386
Venice, The Port of, 138, 287
Ventilating Fans, 407
Ventilation and Warming, 382
Vessels Lost at Sea, Lloyd's Return, 182
Vibration, Engine, 270, 549, 737
Vibration, Engine (Yarrow), 187. See Unitas
Vibration Period of Magnetic Disturbances of the Earth's Surface, 448
Vibration of Steamers, 534
"Victoria," Loss of (Letters), 57, 510, 549, 572, 616, 638, 668. See Stability of Amourelaa and Steering Ironelade
" Victoria," Sinking of the, 18, 153, 365, 485, 544, 575. See LETTERS
Victorian Railways, Locomotives and Cars, 724, 786
Viljoens Coal for South African Locomotives, 580
Volcanic Phenomena in Japan, Earthquake and, 475

Wages in London, 645
Wagon, Rodger's Railway Ballast-Distributing 299
Ward's Metallic Packing, 493
Warming and Ventilation, 382
Warner, Mr. W., on the Disposal of Refuse, 358, 376, 402. See LETTERS
Warship Building, 794
Warships, Auxiliary Machinery of, 536
Warships, Best, 444
Warships, British v. Foreign, 593, 763. See LwrrEits, Navy
Washing Coal and Ore, Machinery, Sennett's, 758
Waste Heat in Smelting Ores, 398, 433, 466
Watch Company's Works, Lancashire, 1, 33, 69. See 382
Watchmaking, 1, 33, 69, 382
Water Analysis, Sodium Peroxide for, 565
Water-Cooled Brake Ergometer, 280
Water. Hydraulics of Fire Streams, 717
Water Main, Failure of Steel, 22
Water Power and Electricity, 383
Water Required for Flushing Closets and Drains, 766
Water Schemes in Parliament, 701
Water Supply, London, 366, 393. See Erratum, 470
Water Supply, Teneriffe, 738
Water-Tube Boiler, Thornycroft's, H.M.S. "Daring," 674
Water-Tube Boiler, Yarrow, 612
Water-Tube Boilers, 74, 96, 127
Water-Tube and Coil Boilers, 601
Water Works in India, 645
Waves, Oil on, Influence, 474
Wear and Tear in Ballast Tanks, 45, 73
Weather, 19, 151, 306, 425, 545, 615, 703
Webb's Compound Locomotive " Greater Britain," 110
Weights, Metric, 22, 23, 56, 115, 147
Weir, Mr. James, on Boiler Feed Heating, 568
Welch's Nut Lock, 431
Welded Seams in Plates, 535
Well-Boring (Isler, London), 583, 649
Well-Sinking, Salt Industry, 316, 344
Welsh v. Native Coal for South African Locomotives, 580
Western Union Telegraph Company, 706
Wetted Surface and Skin Friction, 782
Wheel Construction, 537
Wheels, Cando. Contracting Chill for Car (Ensign Company, New York), 478
Wheels, Solid Emery, 55
White, Mr. W. H., on Technical Education, 611. See 643
White Star Line, 133
White's Reversible Lever Box, 251
Wick Harbour, 217
Wickes Refrigerator Car, 539
Wicksteed Testing Machine, University College, Nottingham, 408, 428
Wigham Lights on Tory Island Lighthouse, 200
Willans Engines, 603
Williams Steam Engine (Glover and Hobson, London), 369
Wire Gun, Brown Segmental, 614
Wire Manufacture, 413
Wire Rope Haulage Tramway (Trenton Iron Company, N.J.), 232
Wire Tests, Insulated, 517
Witkowitz, Basic Steel Works at, 398, 435
Wood and Co., R. D., Hydraulic Machines at Chicago Exhibition, 73
Wood Pavements, 766
Wood Pulp Syndicate in Germany, 615
Wood and Steel Bridges, Combination, 707
Woods, Philadelphia, Hydraulic Riveting Machinery, 204
Woodwork of Exhibition Buildings, 363
Workmen's Exhibition, 17. See Lwrrins, Quality v. Low-Priced Goods

Works :

Auto Machinery Co, Coventry (Ball Bearings), 527
Cleveland Iron and Steel Industries, 152, 164. 191, 221
Consett Iron Works, 439
Dowlais Works, New, 71
[[Lancashire Watch Company, Prescot, 1, 33, 69. See 382
Lumpsey Mines, Solihull), 399
Weardale Steel and Iron Works, Spennymoor, 399

Workshops, Artificial Lighting of, 529, 554
World's Fair. See Columbian Exposition
Worsdell Compound Passenger Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway, 147
Worthington Pumps, 559,585. See LErnms, Pumps
Wrecks, List of, 737
Wrecks, &c., of Ships, Lloyd's Return,
Wrought Iron in India, 416

Yachts, America Cup, 461, 483, 510
Yachts, Fighting, 782
Yale Lock for U.S. Post-Office, 783
Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, Conn., 7-Ton Travelling Jib Crane, 269
Yale and Towne Company, Stamford, 10-Ton Pillar Crane, 463
Yale University, 119
Yarmouth Boiler Explosion, 117
Yarrow Boiler, 127, 612. See also 74, 96
Yarrow's Tests, Engine Vibration, 187. See LwrVCRS, Vibration
Yarrow's Torpedo - Boat Destroyer, Havock," 545
"Yoshino," Japanese Cruiser (Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co.), 44

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