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* Cail's Tank Locomotive, 264
* Cail's Tank Locomotive, 264


CANADIAN RAILWAYS :
'''CANADIAN RAILWAYS :
* Cobourg, Peterborough, and Marmora Railway, 21
* Cobourg, Peterborough, and Marmora Railway, 21
* Erie and Ontario, and Welland Railways, 61
* Erie and Ontario, and Welland Railways, 61
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* Captive Light, 52
* Captive Light, 52
* Capture of the " Huascar," The, 74. 189
* Capture of the " Huascar," The, 74. 189
* Catalogue, The Ronalds, 459
* Catalogue, The Ronalds, 459  
* Cement, Portland, 413
* Cement, Portland, 413
* Cement, Ransome's New, 361
* Cement, Ransome's New, 361
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* Engineers, Amalgamated, Report of the Society of, 438
* Engineers, Amalgamated, Report of the Society of, 438


ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL; 14  
'''ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL; 14  
* Annual General Meeting, 7
* Annual General Meeting, 7
* Address of the President, 45
* Address of the President, 45
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* On Portland Cement: its Nature, Tests, and Uses, by John Grant, 414
* On Portland Cement: its Nature, Tests, and Uses, by John Grant, 414


ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL : 81, 344
'''ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL : 81, 344
* Address of the President, 65
* Address of the President, 65
* First Report of the Committee on the Form of
* First Report of the Committee on the Form of
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* Inspection of Boilers ; The Annual Report of the Boiler insurance and Steam Power Company, 334
* Inspection of Boilers ; The Annual Report of the Boiler insurance and Steam Power Company, 334
* Inspection, Factory, 307
* Inspection, Factory, 307
* Institution of Civil Engineers (See Engineers,
* Institution of Civil Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
* The Institution of Civil)
* Institution Conversazione, The, 498
* Institution Conversazione, The, 498
* Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
* Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
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* Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, 425,442
* Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, 425,442


IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE: 362, 372
'''IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE: 362, 372
* On the Hardening of Iron and Steel ; its Causes and Effects, by Professor Richard Akerman, 59, 77, 139, 159
* On the Hardening of Iron and Steel ; its Causes and Effects, by Professor Richard Akerman, 59, 77, 139, 159
* On an Improved Apparatus for Analysing Blast Furnace and other Gases, by J. E. Stead, 372
* On an Improved Apparatus for Analysing Blast Furnace and other Gases, by J. E. Stead, 372
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* Iron and Steel, The Spectroscopic Analysis of 377, 406
* Iron and Steel, The Spectroscopic Analysis of 377, 406


IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN:
'''IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN:
* Springfield Iron Works, Springfield, Illinois, 371
* Springfield Iron Works, Springfield, Illinois, 371
* Works of the Phoenix Iron Company, The, 103  
* Works of the Phoenix Iron Company, The, 103  
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* Mineral Tanning, 250
* Mineral Tanning, 250


MINERAL WEALTH OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA:
'''MINERAL WEALTH OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA:
* Iron and Manganese, 257
* Iron and Manganese, 257
* Mines, The School of, 421
* Mines, The School of, 421
* Mining, Hathorn, Davey, and Company's WaterPressure Engines for, 358, 380
* Mining, Hathorn, Davey, and Company's Water Pressure Engines for, 358, 380
* Molecular Changes in Iron Wires, 171, 325
* Molecular Changes in Iron Wires, 171, 325
* Morin, General, 172
* Morin, General, 172
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* National Railway of Switzerland, Brown's Tank Locomotive for the, 184, 219
* National Railway of Switzerland, Brown's Tank Locomotive for the, 184, 219


NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 229, 248, 268, 289
'''NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 229, 248, 268, 289
* Address of the President, 230
* Address of the President, 230
* On Causes of Unseaworthiness in Merchant
* On Causes of Unseaworthiness in Merchant
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* Northern Railway of France, Express Locomotive for the, 303
* Northern Railway of France, Express Locomotive for the, 303


NOTES :
'''NOTES :
* Air Spaces in Loaded Rifles, 449
* Air Spaces in Loaded Rifles, 449
* Astronomer Royal's Report, The, 460
* Astronomer Royal's Report, The, 460
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* Notes from South Yorkshire, 5, 29, 49, 76, 95, 119, 129, 158, 169, 186, 207, 225, 266, 291, 805, 342, 356, 380, 400, 418, 436, 462, 476,
* Notes from South Yorkshire, 5, 29, 49, 76, 95, 119, 129, 158, 169, 186, 207, 225, 266, 291, 805, 342, 356, 380, 400, 418, 436, 462, 476,


OBITUARY:
'''OBITUARY:
* [[Captain Cadell]], 506
* [[Captain Cadell]], 506
* [[Captain Minie]], 80
* [[Captain Minie]], 80
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* Ross and Duncan's Small Compound Engines, 841
* Ross and Duncan's Small Compound Engines, 841


ROYAL. SOCIETY, THE: 228
'''ROYAL SOCIETY, THE: 228
* Conversazione, 346
* Conversazione, 346
* On the Dynamo-Electric Current, and on Certain Means to Improve its Steadiness, by C. William Siemens, 231
* On the Dynamo-Electric Current, and on Certain Means to Improve its Steadiness, by C. William Siemens, 231
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* Summary, 1879, Sanitary, 51
* Summary, 1879, Sanitary, 51
* Sunken Ships, Raising, 421
* Sunken Ships, Raising, 421
* Surfacing and Slide Bar Grinding Machine,
* Surfacing and Slide Bar Grinding Machine, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 320
* Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 320
* Sydney Exhibition, Horology at the, 499
* Sydney Exhibition, Horology at the, 499


* " Talbot" Vertical Boiler, The, 109
* "Talbot" Vertical Boiler, The, 109
* Tank Boat for Storing Grain, 146
* Tank Boat for Storing Grain, 146
* Tank Locomotive, Brown's, for the National Railway of Switzerland, 184, 219
* Tank Locomotive, Brown's, for the National Railway of Switzerland, 184, 219

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  • ABINGDON Sewerage, 305
  • Accident, The Tay Bridge, 11, 31, 52, 92, 132, 191, 211
  • Accidents, Railway, for 1879. 381
  • Accidents, Recent Railway, 118, 242, 422
  • Act, The Metropolitan Water, 209, 228
  • Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 45
  • Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 65
  • Address of the President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 230
  • Address of the President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 125, 176, 273
  • Adhesion, The Electrical, of Metal Contacts, 327
  • Agents, Explosive, 275
  • Agricultural Meteorology, Conference on, 500
  • Air Spaces in Loaded Rifles, 499
  • Alcock and Mason's Economiser, 262
  • Amalgamated Engineers, Report of the Society of, 438
  • American Iron and Steel Works (See Iron and Steel Works, American)
  • American Pumping Engines, 18
  • American Railroad Bridges, 304
  • Amsterdam Ship Canal, The, :384
  • Analysis of Blast Furnace Gases, The, 372
  • Anglesea Bridge, Cork, The New, Fidler and Walker's, 452
  • Anthracite Coal Mine, Fire in an, 459
  • " Anthracite," The Steam Yacht, 423
  • Arrah Road Bridge, The, 489
  • Arsenals-, Chinese, 440
  • Art Exhibition, The Dusseldorf, 419, 452
  • Artificial Combustion, 301
  • Asphalt and Mineral Bitumen, 176
  • Asquith's Plate-Edge Planing Machine, 186
  • Astronomer Royal's Report, The, 460
  • " Atalanta," H.M.S., 343
  • Attock's Railway Axle-Box, 282
  • Attraction in Water, Magnetic, 422
  • Augsburg Water Works, Pumping Machinery at the, '245
  • Automatic Action in Railway Brakes, 82, 100
  • Automatic Expansion Gear, Proell's, 416
  • Axle Lathe, Fetu and Delidge's 413
  • Balance, An Improved Resistance, 15
  • Balanced Doors for Bulkheads, 303
  • Baldwin Locomotive, Tests of a, 484, 502
  • Balmain's Captive Light, 52
  • Barges, Steam Hopper, for Kurrachee Harbour, 341, 355
  • Barrow Shipbuilding Company's Works, Smith's Locomotive Steam Crane at the, 492
  • Bars, River„ The Removal of by Induced Tidal Scour, 410
  • Beams, Continuous, 14
  • Belgian State Railways, The Cost of, 459
  • Bergboff's Valve Gear, 35
  • Berry's Hydraulic Sugar-Cane Mill and Megams Steaming Chamber, 204
  • Bill, The Employers' Liability, 457
  • Bitumen, Mineral and Asphalt, 176
  • Blake's Gauge Glass Fittings, 186
  • Blake's Vertical 13oiler, 147
  • Blast Furnace Gases, The Analysis of, 372
  • Blasting, Gases formed in, 421
  • Blindness, Colour, 440
  • Blowing Engine, Compound, 175
  • Boat, Tank, for Storing Grain, 146
  • Bogie Carriage, Truck for; Imperial Japanese Railways, 144
  • Boiler Drilling and Turning Machine, Butterfield's, 396
  • Boiler Explosion, The Glasgow, 203
  • Boiler Explosion, The Walsall, 402, 421, 431, 458, 497
  • Boiler Explosions, Steam ; Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 266
  • Boiler Explosions in 1879 ; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 187
  • Boiler Flues, Corrugated, 477
  • Boiler Inspection; Annual Report of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company, 334
  • Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, Kendall and Gent's, 434
  • Boiler, The " Talbot" Vertical, 109
  • Boiler Tubes. Fixing, 7
  • Boilers, Gas-Fired Steam, 2
  • Bolan Pass, The Railway to the, 439
  • Bore-Hole, A Deep, 271
  • Boyle's Soil Pipe Ventilator, 127
  • Brakes, Continuous Railway, 82, 100, 227, 345, 362, 440, 481
  • Brakes, Continuous, Railway Companies' Returns of, 227
  • Breaking Coal and Coke, Hall's Machine for, 137
  • Breechloading Ordnance, 210
  • Brewing Fountains, Pontifex and Wood's, 29
  • Bridge Accident, The Tay, 11, 31, 52, 92, 132, 191, 211
  • Bridge, The Arrah Road, 489
  • Bridge, The Forth, 113, 131, 153, 173
  • Bridge Inquiry, The Tay, 320, 335, 363, 387
  • Bridge, The Laughery Creek, 222
  • Bridge, The Matina River, 24, 48
  • Bridge, The New Anglesea, Cork, 452
  • Bridge Piers, 'the Stability of, 71
  • Bridges, American Railroad, 304
  • Bridges, Railway, in Costa Rica, 24, 48
  • Bridges, Railway, The Strength of, 179
  • Bridges, The Tay and Forth ; Paper read before the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland, 196, 295
  • Brown's Horizontal Engine, 75
  • Brown's Tank Locomotive for the National Railway of Switzerland, 184, 219
  • Brown's Tramway Locomotive, 81, 98, 138
  • Brush Electric Light, The, 13
  • Building Exhibition, The, 307
  • Bulkheads, Balanced Doors for, 403
  • Bullivant's Wire Rope Cable Apparatus, 264
  • Buoy, Mark, for Telegraph Cables, Johnson and Phillips', 416
  • Butterfield's Boiler Drilling and Turning Machine, ;396
  • Bye-Products from the Manufacture of Coke, 377, 396
  • Cable, Wire Rope, Bullivant's Apparatus for, 264
  • Cables, Submarine, 421
  • Cables, Telegraph, Johnson and Phillips' Steam Hauling Gear for, 205
  • Cail's Tank Locomotive, 264

CANADIAN RAILWAYS :

  • Cobourg, Peterborough, and Marmora Railway, 21
  • Erie and Ontario, and Welland Railways, 61
  • Great Western of Canada, 141, 237, 316, 391, 428, 487
  • Canal, The Amsterdam Ship, 384
  • Cape of Good Hope Mail Service, Launch of the Steamer "Trojan" for the, 226
  • Captive Light, 52
  • Capture of the " Huascar," The, 74. 189
  • Catalogue, The Ronalds, 459
  • Cement, Portland, 413
  • Cement, Ransome's New, 361
  • Change of Temperature of Steam Cylinders, 460
  • Change in Wires, Molecular, 171, 325
  • Check to Trade Revival, The, 287
  • Chernoff's Papers on Steel, Remarks on, 346
  • Chinese Arsenals, 440
  • Chronometers, Prizes for, 498
  • Claridge's Reversing Gear for Rolling Mills, 284
  • Cleaning Water Mains, Scraper for, 435
  • Cleveland, Increasing Iron Production in, 271
  • Cleveland, Iron Consumption in, 195
  • Cleveland, Notes from, 5, 28, 58, 65, 96, 119, 129, 149, 177, 185, 207, 226, 250, 263, 286, 305, 329, 342, 357, 380, 400, 418, 436, 456, 476, 493
  • Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering, 1879, 35
  • Coal and Coke Breaker, Hall's, 137
  • Coal and Goods Wagons for the Western Railway of France, 26
  • Coal-Cutting Machine, Lechner's, 79
  • Coal Washing, 4, 41, 94, 121, 202, 259
  • Cobourg, Peterborough, and Marmora Railway;
  • Canadian Railways, 21
  • Cold in 1879, The, 480
  • Colliery Explosions, 171
  • Colonial Telegraphs, 73
  • Colour Blindness, 440
  • "Columbia," s.s., The, 460
  • Combustion, Artificial, 301
  • Commission, The Italian Railway, 326
  • Compagnie Gdndrale Transatlantique, New Steam Fleet of the, 422
  • Compound Blowing Engine, 175
  • Compound Engines, Rankin and Blackmore's Disconnecting, for the Tug " Mount Etna," 413
  • Compound Engines, Ross and Duncan's Small, 341
  • Compound Launch Engine, Kingdon's, 496
  • Compound, A New Metallic, 157
  • Conference on Agricultural Meteorology, 500
  • Construction of Gasholders, The, 482
  • Construction of Merchant Ships, The, 292
  • Construction, Steel Ship, 329, 368
  • Continuous Beams, 14
  • Continuous Brakes, Railway Companies' Returns of, 227
  • Continuous Railway Brakes, 82, 100, 227, 345, 862, 440, 481
  • Conversazione, The Institution,498
  • Conversazione, The Physical Society, 133
  • Conversazione, The Royal Society, 346
  • Conversazione at University College, 499
  • Copper ; Japanese Metallurgical Processes, 217, 277,315, 353, 409, 447
  • Corrugated Boiler Flues, 477
  • Cost of Belgian State Railways, The, 459
  • Costa Rica, Railway Bridges in, 24, 48
  • Cotton in the United States, 440, 459
  • Couplings for Screw Shafts, Snowden's Flexible, 474
  • Crab, Newton's Overhead Steam Travelling, 299
  • Crane, Russell's Portable Steam, 64
  • Crane, Smith's Locomotive Steam, 492
  • Creek, Laughery, Bridge over the, 222
  • Cremating Car, A, 421
  • Crighton's Insulators, 120
  • Crompton's Electric Lamp, 340
  • Croton Water Supply, The, 500
  • Crude Iron Trade, The Northern, 475
  • Cumberland Sound, 278
  • Current, The Dynamo-Electric, New Applications of, 478, 487
  • Currents, Dynamo-Electric, 231
  • Darke's Indicator, 242
  • Debrun's Electro-Capillary Generator, 257
  • Deep Bore-Hole, A, 271
  • Delbecque's Lxpress Locomotive for the Northern Railway of France, 303
  • Dennert's Water Meter, 126
  • Dephosphorisation of Iron, The, 414
  • Disconnecting Compound Engines, Rankin and Blackmore's, for the Tug " Mount Etna," 413
  • Dispersion Photometer, A, 72
  • Dixon, Mr. W. G., 501
  • Dock Extension, The Victoria, 75, 384, 500
  • Docks and Trade of West Hartlepool, The, 440
  • Doors for Bulkheads, Balanced, 303
  • Double-Bogie Tank Locomotive (Fairlie System) for the Festiniog Railway, 453
  • Dovetailing Machine, The Tighe Hamilton, 38G
  • Doxford and Sons' Engines of the s.s. " Grecian," 400, 435, 475, 4(,‘,6
  • Drainage of Torquay, The, 351
  • Dredger for Kurrachee Harbour, Hawks, Crawshay, and Company's, 341, 355
  • Drilling Machine, Kendall and Gent's Boiler Shell, 434
  • Drilling and Turning Boilers, Butterfield's Machine for, 396
  • Dundee, Shipbuilding at, 176
  • Duplex Telegraphy, 448
  • Durability of Gutta Percha, The, 401
  • Dusseldorf Exhibition, The, 419, 452
  • Dynamo-Electric Current, New Applications of the, 478, 487
  • Dynamo-Electric Currents, 231
  • Dynamo-Electric Machine, Gramme's Combined, 136
  • Dynamo-Electric Machines, 1. 11G. 154, 228
  • Dynamo-Electric Machines, The Resistance of, 499
  • Dynamometer, Froude's, 288, 356
  • Economiser, Mason and Alcock's, 262
  • Effect of Temperature on the Strength of Steel Rails, The, 379
  • Electric Lamp, Crompton's, 340
  • Electric Lamp, Jamin's, 457, 480
  • Electric Light, The, 267
  • Electric Light, The Brush, 13
  • Electric Light, The Edison, 37, 113, 382
  • Electric Light, The Gramme Exciting and Dividing Machine for the, 136
  • Electric Light, Heinrichs' ; Lighting by Electricity, 161
  • Electric Light, The Jablochkoff, at the Palais de l'Industrie, Paris, 64
  • Electric Light, Progress of the, 439
  • Electric Lighting, 424
  • Electric Lighting at Blackpool, Three Months'
  • Experience of, 312
  • Electrical Adhesion of Metal Contacts, The, 327
  • Electrical Speed Indicator, An, 421
  • Electricity, The Influence of, on Evaporation, 34
  • Electricity, Lighting by, 164
  • Electro-Capillary Generator, Debrun's, 257
  • Electrometer Key, An Improved, 403
  • Electrometer, The Lippmaun Capillary, 498
  • Electrometers, 481
  • Elements in Hydrogeology, On the Quantitative, 16
  • Elevated Railroads, The New York, 7, 48, 210, 211
  • Employers' Liability Bill, The, 457
  • Employers and Workmen, 131
  • Engine, Brown's Horizontal, 75
  • Engine, Compound Blowing, 175
  • Engine, Kingdon's Compound Launch, 496
  • Engine, Vertical Rolling Mill (Corliss System) at Krupp's Steel Works, Essen, 324
  • Engine, Wallis and Steevens' Six-Horse Power Traction, 136
  • Engineering Precedents, 42, 162, 287, 298
  • Engineering and Shipbuilding, 1879, Clyde, 35
  • Engineering, Telegraphic, in 1879, 91
  • Engineers, Amalgamated, Report of the Society of, 438

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL; 14

  • Annual General Meeting, 7
  • Address of the President, 45
  • Conversazione, The,s498
  • On Fixed and Movable Weirs, by L. F. Vernon Harcourt, 101
  • On Iron and Steel at Low Temperatures, by John James Webster, 127
  • On the Use of Asphalt and Mineral Bitumen in Engineering Works, by W. H. Delano, 176
  • On the Purification of Gas, by Harry Edward Jones, 225
  • On Explosive Agents applied to Industrial Purposes, by Professor Abel, 275
  • On the Abingdon Sewerage, by Charles Foote Gower, 305
  • On the Main Drainage of Torquay, by George Chatterton, 351
  • On the Amsterdam Ship Canal, by H. Hayter, 384
  • On the Manufacture and Testing of Portland Cement, by Major-General H. Y. D. Scott and Gilbert R. Redgrave, 413
  • On Portlaud Cement Concrete, and some of its Applications, by E. A. Bernays, 414
  • On Portland Cement: its Nature, Tests, and Uses, by John Grant, 414

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL : 81, 344

  • Address of the President, 65
  • First Report of the Committee on the Form of
  • Rivetted Joints, 110, 128, 148, 254, 300, 350
  • On Brown's Tramway Locomotive, by B. C. Browne, 81, 98, 138
  • On Improvements in Machinery for Rolling Iron and Steel Plates, by Edward Hutchinson, 82, 97
  • On Continuous Brakes. Is Automatic Action Necessary or Desirable in a Continuous Railway Brake ? by T. Hurry Riches, 82, 100
  • On Permanent Way for 'Street Tramways, with Special Reference to Steam Traction, by J. D. Larsen, 347
  • On Water-Pressure Engines for Mining Purposes, by Henry Davey, 358, 380
  • On Electric Lighting, by Doctor John Hopkinson, 424
  • Reply on the Discussion on Fireless Locomotives, by M. Leon Francq, 99
  • Remarks on Chernoff's Papers on Steel, by William Anderson, 346
  • Engineers, The Society of Telegraph, 114, 125, 176, 273
  • Engines, American Pumping, 18
  • Engines of H.M.S. " Nelson," The, 279
  • Engines of the s.s. " Grecian," Doxford and
  • Sons', 400, 435, 475, 496
  • Engines, Rankin and Blackmore's Disconnecting Compound, for the Tug " Mount Etna," 413
  • Engines, Ross and Duncan's Small Compound, 841
  • Engines, Sulzer Brothers' Horizontal Winding, 109
  • Engines, Traction, Fowler q.nd Company's Military, 172
  • Engines, Water-Pressure, 358, 380
  • Engines of the Yacht " Wanderer," The, 126
  • English Navy, The, 227
  • English Telegraphy, Ten Years of, 437
  • Equatorial Telescope, The Vienna, 7, 114, 199, 309, 391, 409, 467
  • Erie and Ontario, and Welland Railways ; Canadian Railways, 61
  • Estimates, The Navy, 189
  • Evaporation, The Influence of Electricity on, 34
  • Exhibition, The Building, 307
  • Exhibition, The Dusseldorf, 419, 452
  • Exhibition of Lighting Apparatus at Glasgow, 499
  • Exhibition, The Manchester International, 439
  • Expansion Gear, Proell's Automatic, 416
  • Experiments, The Palliser Gun, 185
  • Experiments with the 38-Ton " Thunderer" Gun, 72, 86, 117, 138, 156
  • Explosion, Boiler, The Glasgow, 203
  • Explosion, The Walsall Boiler, 402, 421, 431, 458, 497
  • Explosions, Boiler, in 1879; Report of Mr. E. B. Marten, 187
  • Explosions, Colliery, 171
  • Explosions, Steam Boiler; Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 266
  • Explosive Agents, 275
  • Express Locomotive for the Northern Railway of France, 303
  • Extensions at Victoria Dock, The, 75, 384, 600
  • Eye as a Photometer, The, 382
  • Face Lathe, Fetu and Delieges, 119
  • Factory Hands, New England, 498
  • Factory Inspection, 307
  • Fairlie Locomotive for the Festiniog Railway, 453
  • Feathering Screw Propeller, Kirk and Hunt's, 225
  • Ferry Steamers, Passenger, 252
  • Fetu and Deliege's Axle Lathe, 413
  • Filtration through Spongy Iron, 309
  • Fine Tools, Tempering, 422
  • Fire in an Anthracite Coal Mine, 459
  • Fireless Locomotives, 99
  • Fittings, Blake's Gauge Glass, 186
  • Fixed and Movable Weirs, 101
  • Fixing Boiler Tubes, 7
  • Fleet, New Steam, of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, 422
  • Flexible Couplings for Screw Shafts, Snowden's, 474
  • Fluctuations of Trade, The, 481
  • Flues, Corrugated Boiler, 477
  • Force of Gravity, Lieutenant Herschel on the Method of Determining the, 459
  • Foreign and Colonial Notes, 19, 40, 60, 79, 102, 120, 126, 198, 207, 231, 251, 275, 332, 352, 385, 407, 426, 446, 465, 486
  • Form of Ships, The, 243
  • Forrestt and Son's Steel Launch for Exploration in Central Africa, 475
  • Forth Bridge, The, 113, 131, 153, 173
  • Forth and Tay Bridges, The ; Paper read before the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland, 196, 295
  • Foundations, Pneumatic, 15
  • Fountain, Pontifex and Wood's Brewing, 29
  • Fowler and Company's Military Traction Engines, 172
  • France at the Melbourne Exhibition, 439
  • French Patents, Working, 474
  • Froude's Dynamometer, 288, 356
  • Gand-Terneusen Ship Canal, The, 459
  • Garrett and Sons' Machine for Spreading Sand, 356
  • Gas-Fired Steam Boilers, 2
  • Gas Managers' Association, The West of Scotland, Meeting of, 407
  • Gas, Occlusion of, by Metals, 403
  • Gas Producer, The Tessid, 320
  • Gas, The Purification of, 225
  • Gases, The Analysis of Blast Furnace, 472
  • Gases formed in Blasting, 421
  • Gasholders, The Construction of, 482
  • Gauge Glass Fittings, The Blake, 186
  • Gear, Berghoff's Valve, 35
  • Gear, Proell's Automatic Expansion, 416
  • Gear for Rolling Mills, Claridge's Reversing, 284
  • General Morin, 172
  • Generator, Debrun's Electro-Capillary, 257
  • Gilmore and Clark's Self-Acting Ventilator, 264
  • Ginti on Radiant Matter, 325
  • Glacier, The Saumur, 184
  • Glasgow Boiler Explosion, The, 203
  • Goods and Coal Wagons for the Western Railway of France, 26
  • Goods Locomotive and Tender for the Great
  • Eastern Railway, 66
  • Gothard Tunnel, Saint, Completion of the, 190
  • Governors, Wallis and Steevens' Speed Controlling Gear for, 323
  • Grain, Tank Boat for Storing, 146
  • Gramme's Combined Dynamo-Electric Machine, 136
  • Great Eastern Railway, Goods Locomotive and Tender for the, 66
  • Great Western of Canada, The ; Canadian Railways, 141, 237, 316, 391, 428, 487
  • " Grecian," s.s., Doxford and Sons' Engines of the, 400, 435, 475, 496
  • Grinding Machine, Surfacing and Slide Bar, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 320
  • Grinding and Pan Mixing Mill, Mather's, 205
  • Grubb's Vienna Equatorial Telescope, 7, 114, 199, 309, 391, 409, 467
  • Gun Experiments, The Palliser, 185
  • Gun, The " Thunderee 38-Ton, Experiments with, 72, 86, 117, 138, 15G
  • Guns, Breechloading, 210
  • Gutta Percha, The Durability of, 401
  • Gwynn's Metaline, 53
  • Hall's Coal and Coke Breaker, 137
  • Hampton, Lord, 311
  • Hardening of Iron and Steel, The, 59,77, 139, 159
  • Hathorn, Davey, and Company's Water-Pressure Engines for Mining Purposes, 358, 380
  • Hawks, Crawshay, and Company's Dredger for Kurrachee Harbour, 341, 355
  • Hawthorn's Tramway Locomotive (Brown's System), 46
  • Hayward Tyler and Company's Pumping Machinery at the Twickenham Sewage Works, 25
  • Health, Public, and Local Government, The, 497
  • Heinrichs' Electric Light; Lighting by Electricity, 164
  • Heliotrope, The, 480
  • H.M.S. " Atalanta," 343
  • H.M.S. " Iris," The Steam Trials of, 274
  • H.M.S. " Nelson," The Engines of, 279
  • Herschel, Lieutenant, on the Method of Determining the Force of Gravity, 459
  • High Temperatures, Iron and Steel at, 425, 442
  • Horizontal Engine, Brown's, 75
  • Horizontal Winding Engines, Sulzer Brothers', 109
  • Horological Instruction, Technical, 480
  • Horology at the Sydney Exhibition, 499
  • Horseshoe Lamp, Edison's, 382
  • " Huascar," The Capture of the, 74, 189
  • Hudson River Tunnel, The, 481
  • Hydraulic Sugar-Cane Mill and Megass Steaming Chamber, Berry's, 204
  • Hydrogeology, On the Quantitative Elements in, 1G
  • Improved Resistance Balance, An, 15
  • Improved Thermo-Electric Apparatus, An, 439
  • Indicator, Darke's, 242
  • Indicator, Kenyon's Pistonless, 323
  • Influence of Electricity on Evaporation, The, 34
  • Inquiry, The Tay Bride, 320, 335, 363, 387
  • Inspection of Boilers ; The Annual Report of the Boiler insurance and Steam Power Company, 334
  • Inspection, Factory, 307
  • Institution of Civil Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
  • Institution Conversazione, The, 498
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
  • Institution of Naval Architects, The (See Naval Architects, The Institution of)
  • Insulation of Subterranean and Submarine Telegraph Wires, The, 152
  • Insulators, Crighton's, 120
  • Integrator, A Mechanical, 462
  • " Iris," H.M.S., The Steam Trials of, 274
  • Iron Consumption in Cleveland, 195
  • Iron, The Dephosphorisation of, 444
  • Iron and Manganese ; Mineral Wealth of European Russia, 257
  • Iron, the Passive State of, 403
  • Iron Production in Cleveland, Increasing, 271
  • Iron Production in 1879, Manufactured, 15
  • Iron Production of the United Kingdom, The, 460
  • Iron, Spongy, Filtration through, 309
  • Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, 425,442

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE: 362, 372

  • On the Hardening of Iron and Steel ; its Causes and Effects, by Professor Richard Akerman, 59, 77, 139, 159
  • On an Improved Apparatus for Analysing Blast Furnace and other Gases, by J. E. Stead, 372
  • On an improved System for the Utilisation of Bye-Products in the Manufacture of Coke, by Henry Simon, 377, 396
  • On the Application of the Spectroscope to the Analysis of Iron and Steel, by A. E. Tucker and John Parry, 343, 377, 406
  • On Further Experiments to Determine the Presence of Nitrogen in Steel, by Alfred H. Allen, 379
  • On the Resistance of Steel Rails at Naturally and Artificially Lowered Temperatures, by the Hon. D. Jouraffsky, 379
  • On the Separation of Silica in Analyses of Limestones, Iron Ores, and other Minerals, by H. Rocholl, 379
  • On some Physical Changes occurring in Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, by Thomas Wrightson, 425, 442
  • On the Dephosphorisation of Iron in the Bessemer Converter, by R. Pink, 444
  • On Reactions in the Open-hearth Process, by Arthur Willis, 445
  • On the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel and Ingot Iron from Phosphoric Pig, by C. B. Holland and A. Cooper, 464
  • Iron and Steel at Low Temperatures, 127
  • Iron and Steel, Nitrogen in, 379
  • Iron and Steel from Phosphoric Pig, 464
  • Iron and Steel, The Spectroscopic Analysis of 377, 406

IRON AND STEEL WORKS, AMERICAN:

  • Springfield Iron Works, Springfield, Illinois, 371
  • Works of the Phoenix Iron Company, The, 103
  • Iron Trade, The Northern Crude, 475
  • Iron Trade, 1879, The Scotch Pig, 44
  • Iron Wires, Molecular Changes in, 171, 325
  • Iron Works, The Springfield, at Springfield,
  • Illinois ; American Iron and Steel Works, 371
  • Ironclad " Huascar," The Capture of the, 74, 189
  • Ironfounders' Society, Annual Report of the, 401
  • Italian Railway Commission, The, 326
  • Jablochkoff Electric Light at the Palais de l'Industrie, Paris, The, 64
  • Jamin Electric Light, The, 457, 480
  • Japan, The Magic Mirrors of, 498
  • Japanese Metallurgical Processes, 217, 277, 315, 353, 409, 447
  • Japanese Railways, Imperial ; Truck for Bogie Carriage, 144
  • Johnson and Phillips' Mark Buoy for Telegraph Cables, 416
  • Johnson and Phillips' Steam-Hauling Gear for Telegraph Cables, 205
  • Johnston's Scrap Shears at the Parkgate Iron Works, 284
  • Joint, Painter's Pipe, 147
  • Joints, The Form or Rivetted; First Report of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the, 110, 128, 148, 254, 300, 350
  • Joints, Rivetted, Mr. Kirkaldy's Experiments on, 194
  • Kendall and Gent's Boiler Shell Drilling Machine, 434
  • Kenyon's Pistonless Indicator, 323
  • Key, An Improved Electrometer, 403
  • Kingdon's Compound Launch Engine, 495
  • Kirk and Hunt's Feathering Screw Propeller, 225
  • Kirkaldy's Experiments on Rivetted Joints, 194
  • Kurrachee Harbour, Hawks, Crawshay, and Company's Dredger for, 341, 355
  • Lakes, Sulphate of Soda, 248
  • Lamp, Crompton's Electric, 340
  • Lamp, Edison's Horseshoe, 882
  • Lathe, Axle, Fetu and Deliege's, 413
  • Lathe, Face, Fetu and Deli6ge's, 119
  • Laughery Creek Bridge, The, 222
  • Launch Engine, Kingdon's Compound, 495
  • Launch, Forrestt and Son's Steel, for Exploration in Central Africa, 475
  • Launch of the Steamer " Trojan" for the Cape of Good Hope Mail Service, 226
  • Laws, The Patent, 247
  • Lechner's Coal-Cutting Machine, 79
  • Lee, River, New Anglesea Bridge over the, 452
  • Leonardt's Safety Apparatus, 58
  • Liability Bill, The Employers', 457
  • Light, The Brush Electric, 13
  • Light, Captive, 52
  • Light, The Edison Electric, 37, 113, 382
  • Light, The electric, 267
  • Light, The Electric, Progress of, 439
  • Light, The Jablochkoff Electric, at the Palais de l'industrie, Paris, 64
  • Light, The Jamin Electric, 457, 480
  • Lighting Apparatus„ Exhibition of, at Glasgow' 499
  • Lighting, Electric, 424
  • Lighting, Electric, at Blackpool, Three Months Experience of, 312
  • Lighting by Electricity, 164
  • Limestones, Iron Ores, &c., Silica in, 379
  • Lines, Postal Telegraph, Testing the, 420
  • Lippmann Capillary Electrometer, The, 498
  • List of Materials, Price, 20, 40, 60, 80. 120, 140, 178, 198, 216, 236, 256, 276, 296, 314, 332, 352,370 , 390, 408, 426, 446, 466, 486, 506
  • Loaded Rifles, Air Spaces in, 499
  • Local Government and Public Health, The, 497
  • Locomotive, Baldwin, Tests of a, 484, 502
  • Locomotive, Brown's Tank, for the Nations, Railway of Switzerland, 184, 219
  • Locomotive, Brown's Tramway, 81, 98, 138
  • Locomotive, Cail's Tank, 264
  • Locomotive, Express, for the Northern Railway of France, 303
  • Locomotive, Fairlie, for the Festiniog Railway, 453
  • Locomotive, Goods, and Tender, for the Great Eastern Railway, 66
  • Locomotive Steam Crane, Smith's, 492
  • Locomotive, Tramway (Brown's System), 46
  • Locomotives, Fireless, 99
  • Locomotives, The Slipping of, 287
  • London Water Act, The, '209, 228
  • London Water Supply, The, 420, 460
  • Lord Hampton, 311
  • Low Temperatures, Iron and Steel at, 127
  • Lubricating Oils, 500
  • Machine, Asquith's Plate-Edge Planing, 186
  • Machine, Butterfield's Boiler Drilling and Turning, 396
  • Machine, Gramme's Combined Dynamo-Electric, 136
  • Machine, Hall's Coal and Coke Breaking, 137
  • Machine, Kendall and Gent's Boiler Shell Drilling,
  • Machine, Lechner's Coal-Cutting, 79
  • Machine, The 100-Ton Testing, 494
  • Machine for Spreading Sand, Garrett and Sons', 356
  • Machine, Surfacing and Slide Bar Grinding, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 320
  • Machine, The Tighe Hamilton Dovetailing, 386
  • Machine, Universale156
  • Machine, Woolnough and Deithe's Moulding, 355
  • Machinery, Hayward Tyler and Company's Pumping, at the Twickenham Sewage Works,
  • Machinery, Pumping, at the Augsburg Water Works, 245
  • Machines, Dynamo-Electric, 1, 116, 154, 228, 499
  • Machines, Wood-Converting ; Engineering Precedents, 42
  • Macneill, Sir Jobn, 203
  • Magic Mirrors of Japan, The, 498
  • Magnetic Attraction in Water, 422
  • Malleable Nickel, 481
  • Manchester International Exhibition, The, 439
  • Manganese and iron; Mineral Wealth of European Russia, 257
  • Manufacture of Coke, Bye-Products from the, 377, 396
  • Manufactured Iron Production in 1879, 15
  • Mark Buoy for Telegraph Cables, Johnson and Phillips', 416
  • Marten's Report on Boiler Explosions in 1879, 187
  • Mason and Alcock's Economiser, 262
  • Materials, Price List of, 20, 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 178, 198, 216, 236, 256, 276, 296, 314, 332, 352, 370, 390, 408, 416, 446, 466, 486, 506
  • Mather's Pan Mixing and Grinding Mill, 205
  • Matina River Bridge, Costa Rica, The, 24, 48
  • Mechanical Integrator, A, 462
  • Meeting, Annual, of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 7
  • Meeting, Annual, of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 266
  • Meeting of the West of Scotland Gas Managers' Association, 407
  • Melbourne Exhibition, France at the, 439
  • Merchant Ships, The Construction of, 292
  • Merchant Steamers, Causes of Unseaworthiness in, 232
  • Metal Contacts, The Electrical Adhesion of, 327
  • Metal-Working Machines and Tools ; Engineering Precedents, 162, 237
  • Metaline, Gwynn's, 53
  • Metallic Compound, A New, 157
  • Metallurgical Processes, Japanese, 217, 277, 315, 353, 409, 447
  • Metals, Occlusion of Gas by, 403
  • Meteorological Report for 1879, The, 288
  • Meteorological Society, The, 178
  • Meteorology, Agricultural, Conference on, 500
  • Meter, Dennert's Water, 126
  • Metropolitan Water Act, The, 209, 228
  • Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 420,460
  • Microphone as a Seismometer, The, 493
  • Military Traction Engines, Fowler and Company's, 172
  • Mill, Berry's Hydraulic Sugar-Cane, and Megass Steaming Chamber, 204
  • Mill Engine, Vertical Rolling (Corliss System), at Krupp's Steel Works, Essen, 324
  • Mill, Rolling, at the Works of the Grazi-Tsaritain Railway, 6
  • Milling Machine, Universal, 156
  • Mills, !tolling, 82, 97
  • Mine Cages, Leonardt's Safety Apparatus for, 68
  • Mineral and Asphalt bitumen, 176
  • Mineral Industry in Belgium, 480
  • Mineral Industry in Italy, 498
  • Mineral Tanning, 250

MINERAL WEALTH OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA:

  • Iron and Manganese, 257
  • Mines, The School of, 421
  • Mining, Hathorn, Davey, and Company's Water Pressure Engines for, 358, 380
  • Molecular Changes in Iron Wires, 171, 325
  • Morin, General, 172
  • Moulding Machine, Wooluough Ind Dehne's, 355
  • Movable and Fixed Weirs, 101
  • National Railway of Switzerland, Brown's Tank Locomotive for the, 184, 219

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF : 229, 248, 268, 289

  • Address of the President, 230
  • On Causes of Unseaworthiness in Merchant
  • Steamers, by B. Martell, 232
  • On the " Nelson" Class, by N. Barnaby, 235
  • On a Method of Analysing the Forms of Ships and Determining the Lengths and Anglo of Entrance, by A. C. Kirk, 243
  • On Passenger Ferry Steamers, Twenty Minutes with, on the Long Ferry, 252
  • On the Stability of Yachts, by Dixon Kemp, 272
  • On the Steam Trials of H.M.S. " Iris" and the Resistance of screw Propellers, by J. A. Normand, 274
  • On the Relation between the True Period of Waves, and the Period observed on Board a Vessel under Way, by L. E. Bertin, 282
  • On Cellular Construction of Merchant Ships, by W. John, 292
  • On some Recent Experiments in Artificial Combustion, by J. F. Flannery, 301
  • On Steel in the Shipbuilding Yard, by William Denny, 329, 368
  • On J. Amslor-Laffon's Mechanical Integrator, by C. W. Merrifield, 462
  • On Steel for Shipbuilding, by Henry H. West, 463
  • Navy Estimates, The, 189
  • Navy, Our, 227
  • " Nelson" Class of Ships, The, 235
  • " Nelson," H.M.S., The Engines of, 279
  • New Cement, Ransome's, 361
  • New York Elevated Railroads, The, 7, 48, 210, 241
  • New Zealand Railways, 104
  • Newton's Overhead Steam Travelling Crab, 299
  • Nickel, Malleable, 481
  • Nitrogen in Iron and Steel, 379
  • Northern Crude Iron Trade, The, 475
  • Northern Railway of France, Express Locomotive for the, 303

NOTES :

  • Air Spaces in Loaded Rifles, 449
  • Astronomer Royal's Report, The, 460
  • Belgian State Railways, The Cost of, 459
  • Brakes, Continuous Railway, 440, 481
  • Change of Temperature of Steam Cylinders, 460
  • Chinese Arsenals, 440
  • Chronometers, Prizes for, 498
  • Cold, 1879, The, 480
  • Colour Blindness, 440
  • " Columbia," s.s., The, 460
  • Conference on Agricultural Meteorology, 600
  • Continuous Railway Brakes, 440, 481
  • Conversazione, The Institution, 498
  • Conversazione at University College, 499
  • Cotton in the United States, 440, 459
  • Cremating Car, A, 421
  • Croton Water Supply, The, 600
  • Electric Light, Progress of the, 439
  • Electrical Speed Indicator, An, 421
  • Electrometers, 481
  • Exhibition of Lighting Apparatus at Glasgow, 499
  • Factory Hands, New England, 498
  • Fire in au Anthracite Coal Mine, 459
  • France at the Melbourne Exhibition, 439
  • Gand-Terneusen Ship Canal, The, 469
  • Gases formed in Blasting, 421
  • Heliotrope, The 480
  • Horology at the Sydney Exhibition, 499
  • Hudson River Tunnel, The, 481
  • improved Electrometer Key, An, 403
  • Iron Production of the United Kingdom, The, 460
  • Jamin's Electric Lamp, 480
  • Lippmann Capillary Electrometer, The, 498
  • Lubricating Oils, 500
  • Magic Mirrors of Japan, The, 498
  • Magnetic Attraction in Water, 422
  • Malleable Nickel, 481
  • Manchester international Exhibition, The, 439
  • Method of Determining the Force of Gravity, Lieutenant Herschel on the, 459
  • Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 460
  • Microphone as a Seismometer, The, 498
  • Mineral Industry of Belgium, 480
  • Mineral Industry in Italy, 498
  • Occlusion of Gas by Metals, 403
  • Passive State of Iron, The, 403
  • Railway to the Bolan Pass, The, 439
  • Raising Sunken Ships, 421.
  • Recording Solar Radiation, 403, 498
  • Resistance of Dynamo-Electric Machines, The, 499
  • Ronalds Catalogue, The, 450
  • School of Mines, 421
  • Steel Wire, 481
  • Submarine Cables, 421
  • Technical Horological Instruction, 480
  • Telegraphic, 440
  • Telephone, An improved, 480
  • Telephone Receiver, A New, 459
  • Tempering Fine Tools, 422
  • Thermo-Electricity, 499
  • Tool Steel, Russian, 480
  • Torpedoes, 498
  • Traction on Tramways, 500
  • Trade, The Fluctuations of, 481
  • United States Cotton Manufacture, 440, 44
  • United States Officers, 4;39
  • University of Pennsylvania, The, 460
  • Utilisation of Solar Heat, 499
  • Victoria Dock Extension, The, 500
  • Visual Telegraphy, 361, 403
  • Notes from Cleveland, 5, 28, 58, 65, 96, 119, 129, 149, 177, 185, 207, 226, 250, 263, 286, 305, 329, 342, 357, 380, 400, 418, 436, 456, 476, 493
  • Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 19, 40, 60, 79, 102, 120, 126, 198, 207, 281,251, 275, 332, 352, 385, 907, 426, 446, 465, 486
  • Notes from the North, 9, 29, 48, 76, 95, 119, 137, 156, 168, 185, 206, 226, 251, 266, 286, 313, :924, 342, 357, 384, 405, 418, 436, 456, 476, 501
  • Notes from the South-West, 18, 29, 49, 76, 96, 111, 137, 149, 169,186, 206, 225, 250, 266, 283, 302, 324, 342, 357, 380, 400, 418, 435, 456, 475, 501
  • Notes from South Yorkshire, 5, 29, 49, 76, 95, 119, 129, 158, 169, 186, 207, 225, 266, 291, 805, 342, 356, 380, 400, 418, 436, 462, 476,

OBITUARY:

  • Occlusion of Gas by Metals, 403
  • Officers, United States, 439
  • Oils, Lubricating, 500
  • Open-Hearth Process, Reactions in the, 445
  • Ordnance, Breechloading, 210
  • Osarisawa Works, The ; Japanese, Metallurgical Processes, 277
  • Our Navy, 227
  • Painter's Pipe Joint, 147
  • Palliser Gun Experiments, The, 185
  • Palliser, Sir William, on the 38-Ton " Thunderer" Gun, 86, 138
  • Pan Mixing and Grinding Mill, Mather's, 205
  • Parkgate Iron Works, Johnston's Scrap Shears at the, 284
  • Passenger Ferry Steamers, 252
  • Passive State of Iron, The, 403
  • Patent Laws, The, 247
  • Patents, Working French, 474
  • Pennsylvania University, Tho, 460
  • Periods, Wave, 282
  • Permanent Way, Tramway, 347
  • Peruvian Ironclad " Huascar," The Capture of the, 74, 189
  • Phoenix Iron Company, The Works of the ;
  • American Iron and Steel Works, 103
  • Phosphoric Pig, Iron and Steel from, 464
  • Photometer, A Dispersion, 72
  • Photometer, The Eye as a, 382
  • Physical Society, The Conversazione of the, 133
  • Piers, The Stability of Bridge, 71
  • Pig Iron Production in Cleveland, 195
  • Pig Iron Trade, 1879, The Scotch, 44
  • Pipe Joint, Painter's, 147
  • Pipe Ventilator, Boyle's Soil, 127
  • Pistonless Indicator, Kenyon's, 323
  • Planing Machine, Asquith's Plate-Edge, 186
  • Plate Rolling Machinery, 82, 97
  • Pneumatic Foundations, 15
  • Pontifex and Wood's Brewing Fountain, 29
  • Portable Steam Crane, Russell's, 64
  • Portland Cement, 413
  • Postal Telegraph Lines, Testing the, 420
  • Precedents, Engineering, 42, 162, 237, 298
  • President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Address of the, 45
  • President of the institution of Mechanical Engineers, Address of the, 65
  • President of the Institution of Naval Architects, Address of the, 230
  • President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Address of the, 125, 176, 273
  • Price List of Materials, 20, 40. 60, 80, 120, 140, 178, 198, 216, 236, 256, 276, 296, 314, 332, 352, 370, 390, 408, 426, 446, 466, 486, 506
  • Prizes for Chronometers, 498
  • Pressure Thermometer, Thomson's Water-Steam, 467
  • Proctor and Wallis's "Talbot" Vertical Boiler, 109
  • Production of Iron in 1879, Manufactured, 15
  • Proell's Automatic Expansion Gear, 416
  • Professor Gintl on Radiant Matter, 325
  • Propeller, Kirk and Hunt's Feathering Screw, 225
  • Propeller, The Screw, 157
  • Public Health and Local Government, The, 497
  • Pumping Engines, American, 18
  • Pumping Machinery at the Augsburg Water Works, 245
  • Pumping Machinery, Hayward Tyler and Company's, at the Twickenham Sewage Works, 26
  • Purification of Gas, The, 225
  • Quantitative Elements In Hydrogeology, on the, 16
  • Radiant Matter, Professor Gintl on, 325
  • Railroad Bridges, American 304
  • Railroads, The New York Elevated, 7, 48, 210, 241
  • Railway Accidents, Recent, 118, 242, 422
  • Railway Accidents for 1879, 381
  • Railway Axle-Box, Attock's, 282
  • Railway to the Bolan Pass, The, 439
  • Railway Brakes, Continuous, 82, 100, 227, 345, 362, 440, 481
  • Railway Bridges in Costa Rica, 24, 48
  • Railway Bridges, The Strength of, 179
  • Railway, The Cobourg, Peterborough, and Marmora ; Canadian Railways, 21
  • Railway Commission, The Italian, 326
  • Railway Companies' Returns relative to Continuous Brakes, 227
  • Railway, The Great Western of Canada ; Canadian Railways, 141, 237, 316, 891, 418
  • Railways, The Erie and Ontario, and Welland ; Canadian Railways, 61
  • Railways, New Zealand, 104
  • Raising Sunken Ships, 421
  • Rankin and Blackmore's Disconnecting Compound Engines for the Tug " Mount Etna," 413
  • Ransome's New Cement, 361
  • Reactions in the Open-Hearth Process, 445
  • Receiver, A New Telephone, 459
  • Recording Solar Radiation, 408, 498
  • Remarks on Chernoff's Papers on Steel, 846
  • Report, Annual, of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company, 334
  • Report of the Astronomer Royal, The, 460
  • Report of the Factory Inspectors for 1879, The, 307
  • Report of the Ironfounders' Society, 401
  • Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1879, 187
  • Report, Meteorological for 1879, The, 288
  • Report of the Society of Amalgamated Engineers, 438
  • Reporting by Telephone, 417
  • Resistance Balance, An Improved. 15
  • Resistance of Dynamo-Electric Machines, The, 499
  • Reversing Gear for Rolling Mills, Claridge's, 284
  • Revival of Trade Check, The, 287
  • Richards, Mr. John, 176
  • River Bars, The Removal of by Induced Tidal Scour, 410
  • River Lee, New Anglesea Bridge over the, 452
  • Rivetted Joints, The Form of ; First Report of the Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the, 110, 128, 148, 264, 300, 350
  • Rivetted Joints, Mr. Kirkaldy's Experiments on, 194
  • Rolling Mill Engine, Vertical (Conlin System), at Krupp's Steel Works, Essen, 324
  • Rolling Mill at the Works of the (Irazi-Tsaritsin
  • Railway, 6
  • Rolling Mills, 82, 97
  • Ronalds Catalogue, The, 459
  • Ross and Duncan's Small Compound Engines, 841

ROYAL SOCIETY, THE: 228

  • Conversazione, 346
  • On the Dynamo-Electric Current, and on Certain Means to Improve its Steadiness, by C. William Siemens, 231
  • Russell's Portable Steam Crane, 64
  • Russian Tool Steel, 480
  • Safety Apparatus, Leonardt's, 58
  • Saint Gothard Tunnel, The, 190
  • Sand, Garrett and Sons' Machine for Spreading, 356
  • Sanitary Summary, 1879, 51
  • Saumur Glacier, The, 184
  • School of Mines, The, 421
  • Science Summary, 1879, 151
  • Scotch Pig-Iron Trade, 1879, The, 44
  • Scour, Induced Tidal, The Removal of River Bars by, 410
  • Scrap Shears, Johnston's, at the Parkgate Iron Works, 284
  • Scraper for Cleaning Water Mains, 435
  • Screw Propeller, The, 157
  • Screw Propeller, Kirk and Hunt's Feathering, 225
  • Segrd Viaduct; Western Railway of France, 266, 280
  • Seismometer, The Microphone as a, 498
  • Self-Acting Ventilator, Gilmore and Clark's, 264
  • Sewage Pumping Machinery, Hayward Tyler and Company's, at the Twickenham Works, 25
  • Sewerage, Abingdon, 305
  • Ship Canal, The Amsterdam, 384
  • Ship Canal, The Gand-Terneusen, 459
  • Shipbuilding at Dundee, 176
  • Shipbuilding and Engineering, 1879, Clyde, 3A
  • Shipbuilding, Steel for, 463
  • Ships, The Form of, 243
  • Ships, Merchant, The Construction of, 292
  • Ships, The " Nelson" Class of, 235
  • Siemens, Dr. C. William, on Dynamo-Electric Machines, 228
  • Silica in Limestones, Iron Ores, &c., 379
  • Simey's Balanced Doors for Bulkheads, 308
  • Sir John Macneill, 203
  • Slipping of Locomotives, The, 287
  • Small Compound Engines, Ross and Duncan's, 341
  • Smith's Locomotive Steam Crane, 492
  • Snowden's Flexible Couplings for Screw Shafts, 474
  • Society of Amalgamated Engineers, Report of the, 438
  • Society, The Ironfounders', Report of, 401
  • Society, The Meteorological, 178
  • Society of Telegraph Engineers. The, 114
  • Soil Pipe Ventilator, Boyle's, 127
  • Solar Heat, Utilisation of, 499
  • Solar Radiation, Recording, 403, 498
  • Sound, Cumberland, 278
  • South-West, Notes from the, 18, 29, 49, 76, 96, 111, 137, 149, 169, 186, 206, 225, 250, '266, 283, 302, 324, 342, 367, 880, 400, 418, 485, 456, 475, 501
  • South Yorkshire, Notes from, 6, 29, 49, 76, 95, 119, 129, 158, 169, 186, 207, 225, 266, 291, 805, 342, 356, 380, 400, 418, 436, 462, 476
  • Spectroscopic Analysis of iron and Steel, The, 377, 406
  • Speed Controlling Gear for Governors, Wallis and Steevens', 323
  • Speed Indicator, An Electrical, 421
  • Spitzberg Tunnel. The, 388, 860, 382, 398, 427, 469
  • Spongy Iron, Filtration through, 809
  • Springfield Iron Works, Springfield, Illinois, The ; American Iron and Steel Works, 371
  • Stability of Bridge Piers, The, 371
  • Stability of Yachts, The, 272
  • Steam Boiler Explosions ; Annual Meeting of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 266
  • Steam Boilers, Gas-Fired, 2
  • Steam Crane, Smith's Locomotive, 492
  • Steam Crane, Russell's Portable, 64
  • Steam Fleet, New, of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, 422
  • Steam-Hauling Gear, Johnson and Phillips', for Telegraph Cables, 205
  • Steam Hopper Barges for Kurrachee Harbour, Hawks, Crawshay, and Company's. 341,05
  • Steam Launch Engine, Kingdon's Compound 495
  • Steam Travelling Crab, Newton's Overhead, 299
  • Steam Trials of H.M.S. " Iris," The, 274
  • Steam Yacht " Anthracite," The, 423
  • Steamers, Merchant, Causes of Unseaworthiness in, 282
  • Steamers, Passenger Ferry, 252
  • Steamship" Columbia," The, 460
  • Steamship " Grecian," Doxford and Sons' Engines of the, 400, 435, 475, 496
  • Steel and Iron, The Hardening of, 59, 77, 189, 159
  • Steel and Iron at High Temperatures, 425, 442
  • Steel and Iron at Low Temperatures, 127
  • Steel and Iron from Phosphoric Pig, 464
  • Steel Launch for Exploration in Central Africa, Forrestt and Son's, 475
  • Steel Ship Construction, 329, 368
  • Steel for Shipbuilding, 463
  • Steel Wire, 481
  • Storing Grain, Tank Boat for, 146
  • Strength of Railway Bridges, The, 179
  • Strength of Steel Rails, The Effect of Temperature on the, 379
  • Submarine Cables, 421
  • Subterranean and Submarine Telegraph Wires, The Insulation of, 152
  • Sugar-Cane Mill, Berry's Hydraulic and Megass
  • Steaming Chamber, 204
  • Sulphate of Soda Lakes, 248
  • Sulzer Brothers' Horizontal Winding Engine, 109
  • Summary, 1879, Sanitary, 51
  • Sunken Ships, Raising, 421
  • Surfacing and Slide Bar Grinding Machine, Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 320
  • Sydney Exhibition, Horology at the, 499
  • "Talbot" Vertical Boiler, The, 109
  • Tank Boat for Storing Grain, 146
  • Tank Locomotive, Brown's, for the National Railway of Switzerland, 184, 219
  • Tank Locomotive, Call's, '264
  • Tank Locomotive, Double Bogie (Fairlie Sy stem) , for the Festiniog Railway, 453
  • Tanning, Mineral, 250
  • Tay Bridge Accident, The, 11, 31, 62, 92, 132, 191, 211
  • Tay Bridge Inquiry, The, 820, 335, 363, 387
  • Tay and Forth Bridges, The Paper read before the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Scotland, 196, 29b
  • Technical Horological Instruction, 480
  • Telegraph Cable, Jobnson and Phillips' Mark Buoy for, 416
  • Telegraph Cables, Johnson and Phillips' Steam Hauling Gear for, 205
  • Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 114
  • Telegraph Wires, The Insulation of Subterranean and Submarine, 152
  • Telegraphic, 440
  • Telegraphic Engineering in 1879, 91
  • Telegraphs, Colonial, 73
  • Telegraphy, Duplex, 448
  • Telegraphy, English, Ten Years of, 437
  • Telegraphy, Visual, 361, 403
  • Telephone, An Improved, 480
  • Telephone Receiver, A New, 469
  • Telephone, Reporting by the, 417
  • Telescope, The Vienna Equatorial, 7, 114, 199, 309, 891, 409, 467
  • Temperature of Steam Cylinders, Change of, 460
  • Tempering Fine Tools, 422
  • Ten Years of English Telegraphy, 437
  • Tender and Goods Locomotive for the Great Eastern Railway, 66
  • Tessid Gas Producer, The, 820
  • Testing Machine, The 100-Ton, 494
  • Testing the Postal Telegraph Lines, 420
  • Tests of a Baldwin Locomotive, 484, 502
  • Thermo-Electric Apparatus, An Improved, 439
  • Thermo-Electricity, 499
  • Thirty-Eight Ton " Thunderer" Gun, Sir William Palliser on the, 86, 138
  • Thomson, Sterne, and Company's Surfacing and Slide Bar Grinding Machine, 320
  • Thomson's Water-Steam Pressure Thermometer, 467
  • Three Months' Experience of Electric Lighting at Blackpool, 812
  • " Thunderer" 38-Ton Gun, Experiments with the, 72, 86, 117, 138, 156
  • Tidal Scour, Induced, The Removal of River Bars by, 410
  • Tighe Hamilton Dovetailing Machine, The, 386
  • Tool Steel, Russian, 480
  • Tools and Metal-Working Machines ; Engineering Precedents, 162, 287, 298
  • Torpedoes, 498
  • Torquay, The Drainage of, 351
  • Traction Engines, Fowler and Company's Military 172
  • Traction Engines, Wallis and Steevens' Six-Horse Power, 136
  • Traction on Tramways, 500
  • Trade and Docks of West Hartlepool, The, 440
  • Trade, The Fluctuations of, 481
  • Trade Revival Check, The, 2S7
  • Tramway Locomotive, Brown's, 81, 98, 138
  • Tramway Locomotive (Brown's System), 46
  • Tramway Permanent Way, 347
  • Travelling Crab, Newton's Overhead Steam, 299
  • "Trojan" Steamer, Launch of the, for the Cape of Good Hope Mail Service, 226
  • Truck for Bogie Carriage; Imperial Japanese Railways, 144
  • Tubes, Fixing Boiler, 7
  • Tug "Mount Etna," Rankin and Blackmore's Disconnecting Compound Engines for the, 413
  • Tunnel, The Hudson River, 481
  • Tunnel, The Saint Gothard, 190
  • Tunnel, The Spitzberg, 333, 360, 382, 393, 427
  • Turning and Drilling Boilers, Butterfield's Machine for, 396
  • Twickenham Sewage Works, Hayward Tyler and Company's Pumping Machinery at the, 25
  • United States Cotton Manufacture, 440, 459
  • United States Officers, 439
  • University College, Conversazione, 499
  • University of Pennsylvania, The, 460
  • Universal Milling Machine, 156
  • Unseaworthiness in Merchant Steamers, Causes of, 232
  • Utilisation of Solar Heat, 499
  • Valve Gear, Berghoff's, 35
  • Ventilator, Boyle's Soil Pipe, 127
  • Ventilator, Gilmore and Clark's Self-Acting, 264
  • Vertical Boiler Blake's, 147
  • Vertical Boiler. The " Talbot," 109
  • Vertical Rolling Mill Engine (Corliss System), at Krupp's Steel Works, Essen, 324
  • Viaduct, Segrd; Western Railway of France, 266, 280
  • Victoria Dock Extension, The, 75, 384. 500
  • Vienna Equatorial Telescope, The, 7, 114, 199, 309, 391, 409. 467
  • Visual Telegraphy, 361, 403
  • Wagons, Goods and Coal, for the Western Railway of France, 26
  • Wallis and Steevens' Six-Horse Traction Engine, 136
  • Wallis and Steevens' Speed Controlling Gear for Governors, 323
  • Walsall Boiler Explosion, The, 402, 421 431, 458, 497
  • "Wanderer," Yacht, The Engines of the, 126
  • Washing Coal, 4, 41, 94, 121, 202, 259
  • Water Act, The Metropolitan, 209, '228
  • Water Mains, Scraper for Cleaning, 435
  • Water Meter, Dennert's, 126
  • Water-Pressure Engines, 358, 380
  • Water-Steam Pressure Thermometer, Thomson's, 467
  • Water Supply, The Croton, 500
  • Water Supply, The London, 420, 460
  • Water Works, Augsburg, Pumping Machinery at the, 245
  • Wave Periods, 282
  • Weirs, Fixed and Movable 101
  • Welland, and Erie and Ontario Railways; Canadian Railways, 61
  • West Hartlepool, its Docks and Trade, 440
  • West of Scotland Gas Managers' Association, Meeting of the, 407
  • Western Railway of France, Goods and Coal
  • Wagons for the, 26
  • Winding Engines, Sulzer Brothers' Horizontal, 109
  • Wire Rope Cable Apparatus, Ballivant's, 264
  • Wire, Steel, 481
  • Wires, Iron, Molecular Changes in, 171, 325
  • Wires, Telegraph, The Insulation of Subterranean and Submarine, 152
  • Wood-Converting Machines ; Engineering Precedents, 42
  • Woolnough and Dehne's Moulding Machine, 355
  • Working French Patents, 474
  • Workmen and Employers, 131
  • Works of the Grazi-Tnritsin Railway, Rolling Mill at the, 6
  • Works, The Osarisawa ; Japanese Metallurgical Processes, 277
  • Works of the Phoenix Iron Company, The American Iron and Steel Works, 103
  • Yacht " Anthracite," The Steam, 423
  • Yacht " Wanderer," The Engines of the, 126
  • Yachts, The Stability of, 272

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