Engineering 1875 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ACCIDENT, The Shipton, 11
Act for the Regulation of Labour, Results of the Working of the, 388
Abstract of the New Patent Bill, 148
Adams's Coelometer, 145
Address to Lady Fairbairn and Reply, 30
Address of the President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 224
Address of the President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 381
Address of the President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 112, 151
Admiralty Engineering Committee, An, 51
Admiralty Experiments and their Commentators, 107
Agent, The Parliamentary; Professional Acquaintance, 253
Agricultural Society Show at Croydon, The Bath and West of England, 466
Air Brake, The Westinghouse Continuous and Automatic, 511
Air Compressor and Engine. By the Humboldt Engine Works, Kalk, near Deutz, Rhenish Prussia, 539
Air Compressors for the St. Gothard Tunnel, 104
Air Engines, 200, 211, '287, 365, 417, 504
Aitken's Proposed Port and Dock Improvements at Antwerp, 503
" Alexandra," H.M.S., Launch of, 301
Alley's Bearing Feeler, 120
American Bessemer Steel Production, 108
American Car Wheel Irons, Mechanical Properties of, 239
American Centennial Exhibition, New York, The, 232
American International Exhibition of 1876, 365
American Locomotives and Rolling Stock, 155
American Ordnance, 251
American Portable Engines. By the J. C. Hoadley Company, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 145
American Rotary Engines, The Performances of, 5, 337, 349

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE:
Notes; on the Erection of the Illinois and, St. Louis Bridge. By Theodore Cooper, 17, 39
On the Efficiency of Furnaces Burning Wet Fuel. As Determined by Experiments on a Large Scale. By Professor R. H. Thurston, 49, 78, 86
On the Utica Lifting Bridge. By Squire Whipple, 80

American View, An, of the English Patent Law, 359
Annual Dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 261
Annual Soirée of the Royal Society, 317
Antwerp, Proposed Port and Dock Improvements at, 503
Apparatus for Clearing Bilge Pumps, On an, 284
Apparatus for Colouring Paper. By Grahl and Hohl, Dresden, 519
Apprentices, Engineering, Principles of Shop Manipulation for, 25, 74, 136, 179, 201, 834, 357, 376
Appliances, Railway, 640
Approximate Table of Freeboard; Load-Line. 385
Arctic Expedition, Our, 323, 386
Artillery, Breechloading, 203, 429, 471, 494, 516, 530
Artillery, Heavy, 95, 299, 385, 399
Artisans' Dwellings and Public Health Bills, 164, 324, 344

Bahia and San Francisco Railway, The, 300
Band and Fret Saws. By Gschwindt and Company, Carlsruhe, 114
Rank, Chesil, 113
Barker's Hydraulic Continuous Brake, 29
Bastin's Horizontal Condensing Engine, 134
Bath and West of England Agricultural Society Show at Croydon, 466
Bearing Feeler. By S. Alley, Glasgow, 120
Beavan's Cattle Pens for Ships, 410
Belt Cutter, Egli's, 400
Bennison's Rotary Pump, 69
Berry's Surface Lathe, 294
Bessemer Blowing Engine. By Mackintosh, Hemphill, and Company, Pittsburg, U.S.A., 206
" Bessemer," The Channel Steamship, 227, 291, 329, 407
Bessemer Steel, The Manufacture of, 433
Bessemer Steel Production, American, 108
Bessemer Steel Rails, 329
Bilge-Pumps, An Apparatus for Clearing, 281
Bilge-Pumps, Korting's Steam Jet, 477
Bill, The Metropolitan Gas Companies, 449
Bill, The New Patent, 143, 148, 163, 188, 219, 323, 409, 491, 517
Bill, The Patent, in the House of Lords, 188, 229, 323
Bill for Preventing the Pollution of Rivers, 409
Bilston, Sewage Works at, 492
Binnacle Indicator, A New, 811
Birmingham, Sanitary Conference at, 72, 90
Blakey's Fire Detector, 159
Block Signal, Fanner and Tyer's Electric., 361
Blooming Mill Engine at the Edgar Steel Works, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 70
Blower, Korting’s Forge, 121
Blower, Root's, 842
Blowing Engine, Bessemer. By Mackintosh, Hemphill, and Company, Pittsburg, U.S.A., 206
Board of Works, Metropolitan, and the Gas Question, 210, 345, 449
Boiler Burst by Frost, A, 86
Buller Explosions, Steam, in 1874; Annual Report of E. B. Marten, 197
Boiler Explosions, Steam, Resolution of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 401
Boiler, Furnell's Sectional, 384
Boiler, Sectional Steam. By W. E. Kelly, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 207
Boiler, Shepherd's Sectional, at the Manchester Industrial Exhibition, 468
Boilers, Household, Safety Valves for; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 16
Boilers for the Navy, 540
Boilers, " Twin" Steam, Smith and Alexander's, 192
Boring and Drilling, McKay's Equilibrium Tools for, 488
Borsig's Goods Locomotive for the Russian 6 ft: Gauge, 447, 481
Bow and Stern Screws, 125
Brake, Barker's Continuous Hydraulic, 29
Brake Trials, The Continuous, 449, 492, 614, 623
Brake, Vacuum, and Signalling Apparatus, Sanders', 340
Brake, The Westinghouse Vacuum, 138, 166
Brake, The Westinghouse Continuous and Automatic, 511
Brass, Parson's White, 467
Brazilian Railway, The San Paulo and Rio do Janeiro, 107
Breechloading Ordnance, 203, 429, 471, 494, 516, 630
Breechloading Rifle, The Pieri, 532
Bridge Construction, Military, 148
Bridge over Corry-Halloch Falls, Loch-Broom, 423
Bridge Across the River Broom, 532
Bridge, The Illinois and St. Louis, Notes on the Erection of, 17, 39
Bridge, the Gunthorpe, Opening of, 536
Bridge, The Utica Lifting, 80
Bridges and Arches, Suspension, 372
Broadwell's Breechloading Ordnance : Naval and Mountain Guns, 203
Broadwell's Folding Shield, Gatling Gun with, 881
Broadwell v. Krupp, 452
Buffer, Turton's Railway. By Ibbotson Brothers and Co., Sheffield, 372
Business, Private Parliamentary, 22, 62, 118, 154
Bye-Laws of the " Slaughter-houses, &c. (Metropolis), Act," issued by the Metropolitan Board of Works, 109

Cables, Telegraphic, Progress in 1874, 12
Captain Shaw a Breathing Appliances, 115, 130
Car Wheel Irons, American, Mechanical Properties of, 239
Carding Machinery, Wool. By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, Saxony, 291
Carlisle and Settle Railway, The, b36
Carriages, Railway Sleeping, Colonel Mann's, 493
Carriers, On Railway Companies as, 501, 541
Cars, Pullman's Railway, for the Midland Railway, 263
Cars and Tramways, Street, 37, 69
Cattle Transport, 410
Centennial Exhibition, The, New York, 232
Centre-board Yacht, A New, 256
Centrifugal Pumping Engine. By J. and H. Gwynne, Hammersmith, 202
Centrifugal Pump, Lawrence and Porter's, 443
Chaffcutter. By S. Edwards, Salford, 56
Channel Steamship, The " Bessemer," 227, 291, 329, 407
Chase's Screw and Pipe-Cutting Machine, 222
Channel Tunnel, The, 353
Chatham, The 18-in. Railway at, 1, 53
Chelsea, Allen Ransome and Co's Works at, 424
Chesil Bank, 113
Chesterfield and Derbyshire Engineers' Institute, 70, 385, 495
Chicago, Pumping Engines at, 80
Circular Valve Gear, Deprez's, 518
"City of Richmond," S.S., Engines of the, 336, 863, 403

CIVIL ENGINEERS' CLUB, CHICAGO, THE :
On Deep Pile Driving in Wisconsin, by C. W. Durham, 400

Clark and Standfield's Floating Tubular Docks, 101
Clay Street Hill Railroad; Wire Rope Street Tramways, San Francisco, California, 402
Clearance and Compression in Steam Cylinders, 41, 189, 212
Cleats, Safety, 250

CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, THE :
On the Effect of the Mechanical Construction of Trucks on the Demurrage Question, and a Proposed. Remedy, by C. Wood, 327

Cleveland Notes from, 10, 3:5, 66, 70,96, 101, 181, 149, 168, 191, 213, 225, 274, 806, 821, 347, 363, 390, 413, 431, 458, 476, 486, 610, 637
Cliff's Elliptical Spring, 206 .
Clyde, Pollution of the River, 33
Clyde Shipbuilders and Engineers' Association, Memorial from, to the Board of Trade, 483
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Trades in 1874, Retrospect of the, 84
Coal and Iron in the United States, 415, 434, 458, 479,498
Coelometer, The, 145
Coke Ovens of the Societe de L'Esperance, Seraing, 463
College of Engineering, Japanese, 212
Colliers, Price's Hatchways for, 496
Cologne and its Industries, 6
Colonel Leahy on Military Bridge Construction, 148
Colouring Paper, Apparatus for. By Grahl and Hohl, Dresden, 519
Commentators on Admiralty Experiments, 107
Committee, An Admiralty Engineering, 61
Committee of the House of Lords; The Patent Bill in, 229
Companies, Patentees, and Patents, 471
Companies, Sewage, Rise in the Shares of, 253
Compound Centrifugal Pumping Engine, Gwynne's, 101
Compound Differential Engine and Pumps for the Navigation Colliery, Aberdare. By Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Leeds, 273 Compound Engines, 245
Compound and Non-Compound Engines; Report of Trials of American Steamers, 14, 129, 133, 153,177
Compressor, Air, and Engine. By the Humboldt Engine Works, Kalk, near Deutz, Rhenish Prussia, 639
Condensers for Steam Pumps, Saxby's, 432
Condensing Engine, Horizontal. By E. P. Bastin and Company, West Drayton, 134
Condensing Water, Lifting, 366
Conditions of Water Before and After its Freezing Point, The, 333
Conference at Birmingham, Sanitary, 72, 90 Conflagration, Underground, 412
Construction of Gas Works, The, 46
Continuous and Automatic Air Brake, The Westinghouse, 511
Continuous Brake Trials, 449, 492, 514, 523
Continuous Hydraulic Brake, Barker's, 29
Continuous Revolving Separator for Sewage. By Milburn and Company, New Cross, 637
Contractor's Locomotive. By S. Lewin, Poole, 214
Control of Water Supply, The, 869
Controlling Gear, Gyroscopic, J. McFarlane Gray's, 421
Copying and Engraving Machines. By F. Lotz, Offenbach, 455
Cornish Engines, Davey's Differential Gear for, 169
Corry-Halloch Falls, Loch-Broom, Bridge over, 428
Cotton Gunpowder, 109
Cotton Spinning, 115
Council of the Institution of Naval Architects, Report of the, 221
Coventry, Sewage Works at, 450
Covering Streets, Methods of, 173, 195
Crampton System of Rotary Puddling, The, 427 Cremation, 52
Crewe, A Sketch at; " Dignity and Impudence,"
"Crocodile," Steamer, Specification for Boilers of the, 640
Croydon Show, The, 466
Cultivation, Greenslade's Steam Windlass for, 121
Cunningham, H. D. P., 83
Cutting Machines, Paper, 45
Cutting-off Saw for Hot Iron. By Richards, London, and Kelley, Philadelphia, 414
Cylinders, Steam, Clearance and Compression in, 41, 189, 212

Davey's Differential Valve Gear for Cornish Engines, 169
Deep Pile Driving in Wisconsin, 400
Defective Irrigation hi India, 231
Deprez's Circular Valve Gear, 518
Deprez's Variable Expansion Gear as Fitted to Winding Engines, 443
Derbyshire and Chesterfield Engineers' Institute, 70, 835, 495
Detection of Fire, Blakey's Apparatus for the, 159
Differential Engine and Pumps, Compound, for the Navigation Colliery, Aberdare. By Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Leeds, 278
" Dignity and Impudence;" A Sketch at Crewe, Dinner, Annual, of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 261
Direct-Acting Steam Pumps at Bass's Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. By Hayward Tyler and Company, London, 48
Disengaging Lewis, Matthews', 10
Dock, New °raving, at Port Glasgow, Opening of, 65
Docks, Clark and Standfield's Floating Tubular, 101
Docks, The Hull, 284
Doctor Letheby's Report on the Water Supply of London, 57
Doors for Furnaces, Mr. Prideaux's, 13, 47
Dover Harbour, 459, 477, 487, 517
Dovetailing and Moulding Machine. By the Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 433
Downie, J., The Late, 346
Drainage, House, 108
Drawing-Room and Sleeping Cars, Pullman's, for the Midland Railway, 263
Dressing Machine, Flour. By Hopkinson and Palmer, Retford, 222
Drilling and Boring, McKay's Equilibrium Tools for, 488
Drilling Machine for Boiler-end Flanges, Horizontal. By G. and A. Harvey, Glasgow, 443
Drilling Machine, Slot. By J. J. Rieter and Company, Winterthur. 242
Drying Dyed Goods, Machine for. By MM. Pierron and Dehaitre, Paris. 532
Duplex Wheel Lathe at the Great Eastern Railway Works, Stratford. By B. New and Company, Nottingham, 510

Eads, Captain, and General Humphreys on the Mouths of the Mississippi, 81, 275
Economy of Fuel, 58

EDINBURGH AND LEITH SOCIETY, THE :
On Streets, by B. H. Cunningham, 173, 195

Education in Japan, 212
Education, Technical, 430
Edwards's Chaffcutter, 56
Egli's Leather Belt Cutter, 400
Eighteen-inch Railway at Chatham, The, 1, 63
Eighteen-Seventy-Five, Sanitary, Gas, and Water Legislation, 126, 164, 210, 824. 344, 345, 445
Eighteen-Seventy-Four, Sanitary Retrospect for, 31
Eighteen-Seventy-Four, Retrospect of the Scotch Iron Trade for, 43
Eighteen-Seventy-Four, Retrospect of Shipping In, 71
Eighteen-Seventy-Four, Telegraphic Progress in, 12
Electric Block Signal, Farmer and Tyer's, 361
Elliot's Strophometer, 111
Elliptical Spring, Cliff's, 206
Emery Wheels, Machine for Surfacing by. By the Tanite Company, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 77
Engine and Air Compressor. By the Humboldt Engine Works, Kalk, near Deutz, Rhenish Prussia, 539
Engine, Bessemer Blowing. By Mackintosh, Hemphill, and Company, Pittsburg, U.S.A., 206
Engine, Blooming Mill, at the Edgar Steel Works, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 70
Engine, Centrifugal Pumping. By J. and H. Gwynne, Hammersmith, 202
Engine, Direct-Acting Revering Rolling Mill; Panteg Steel Works, Pontypool, 249
Engine and Guibal Fan, 294
Engine, Gwynne's Compound Centrifugal Pumping, 101
Engine Mill, Failure of a, at Newark, N.J., 103 Engine, Horizontal By H.R. Marsden, Leeds, 76
Engine, Horizontal Condensing. By E. P. Bastin and Company, West Drayton, 134
Engine, Horizontal Non-Condensing. By the Maschinen und Waggonbau Fabriks Actien Gesellschaft, Simmering, near Vienna, 36
Engine, Horizontal, with Variable Expansion Gear. By Hayward Tyler and Co., London, 356
Engine, Horizontal, with Variable Expansion Gear. By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 65
Engine, Launch. Designed by J. Whitehouse, Bristol, 3
Engine, Marine, Rankin's Governor for, 27'2
Engine Performance, Steam, 164
Engine and Pumps, Compound Differential, for the Navigation Colliery, Aberdare. By Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Leeds, 273 Engine, The Robey Mining, 54
Engine, Vertical Pumping. By M. E. Prunier, Lyons, 68
Engine Wheels, Traction, 125
Engineer, The, on Engineers for India, 188
Engineer, Me, on Guns and Ships, 345
Engineering Apprentices, Principles of Shop Ma6nipulation for, 25, 74, 136, 179, 201, 334, 357, 37
Engineering Committee, An Admiralty, 51 Engineering Students, 127

ENGINEERS, ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY, THE :
Northampton and its Sewage, by J. H. Pidcock, 391

Engineers for India, 188
Engineers' Institute, The Chesterfield and Derbyshire, 70, 3:35, 495

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL:
On the Construction of Gas Works, by H. E. Jones, 46
On the Origin of the Chesil Bank, and on the Relation of the Existing Beaches to Past Geological Changes, Independent of the Present Coast Action, by Professor Joseph Prestwich, 113
On the Erosion of the Bore in Heavy Guns, and the Means for its Prevention, with Suggestions for the Improvement of Muzzle-Loading Projectiles, by C. W. Lancaster, 137
On the Working of Railways, by George Findlay, 159
On Sorting Railway Trains by Gravitation, by William Cudworth, 159
On Railway Statistics, 1873-4, by John Thornhill Harrison, 159
Annual Dinner. 261
On the Hull Docks, by Sir W. Wright, 284
On the Construction of the Albert Dock at Kingston-upon-Hull, by J. C. Hawkshaw, 284
On the Manufacture of Steel, by W. Hackney, 328
On Bessemer Steel Rails, by J. T. Smith, 329
On Pine Timber, by C. G. Smith, 351, 392
On the Systems of Constant and Intermittent Water Supply, and the Prevention of Waste, with Special Reference to the Restoration of Constant Service in Liverpool, by U. F. Deacon, 369

ENGINEERS SOCIETY, CIVIL AND MECHANICAL, THE:
On Railway Companies as Carriers, by Roger H. Willcocks, 501, 541
On Town Sewage, by R. W. Peregrine Birch, 501, 543

Engines, Air, 200, 241, 287, 355, 417, 504
Engines, American Portable. By the J. C. Hoadley Company, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 145
Engines, American Rotary, The Performances of, 5, 337, 349
Engines, Compound. 245
Engines, Compound and Non-Compound; Report of 'Trials of American Steamers, 14, 129, 133, 103, 177
Engines, Cornish, Davey's Differential Gear for 169
Engines, Fairlie, Railway Companies using the, 302
Engines, Marine Screw. By A. Wilson and Company, London, 508
Engines, Pumping, at Chicago, 30
Engines, Pumping, for the Ravensthorpe Sewage Works. By the Ravensthorpe Engineering Works, Mirfield, Yorkshire, 317
Engines, Rotary, 'rests of, 5, 837, 349
Engines of the S.S. "City of Richmond," 336, 363, 403
Engines, Testing Steam, 97
Engines, Three-Cylinder, 430
English Patent Law, An American View of the, 359
Engraving and Copying Machines. By F. Lotz, Offenbach, 405
Erosion in Heavy Guns, 137
Exhauster, Korting’s Clan, 168
Exhausting Gas, 428
Exhibition, The American International of 1876, 365
Exhibition, The Centennial, 232
Exhibition, The Leeds, 461
Exhibition, The Manchester Mechanical and Industrial, 468, 482
Exhibitions, Whitworth, 87
Expansion Gear, Variable, as Fitted to Winding Engines, Deprez's, 443
Expansion Gear, Variable, Horizontal Engine with. By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 65
Expedition, Our Arctic, 323, 386
Experimental Trials with Cotton Gunpowder, 109
Experiments, Admiralty, and their Commentators, 107
Experiments, The Ramus, 90
Explosions, E Steam Boiler, in 1874; Annual Report of E. B. Marten, 197
Explosions, Steam Boiler; Resolution of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 401

Factory Legislation, 388
Failure of a Mill Engine at Newark, N.J., 103
Fairbairn, The late Sir William : Address to Lady Fairbairn and Reply, 30
Fairlie Engines, Railway Companies using the, 302
Falls, Corry-Halloch, Loch-Broom, Bridge over, 423
Fan and Engine, Guibal, 294
Farmer and Tyer's Electric Block Signal, 361
Fast Torpedo Steam Launches, 165, '466
Fastenings for Rail Joints. By J. Potts, Sunderland, 061
Feed Water, Measuring, 139
Fibres for Paper Making, 366
Finger-Bar Attachment. By J. Tenwick, Grantham, 139
Fire Detector, Blakey's, 159
Fire, Protection from, 171
Firebars, Schmitz’s Revolving, 348
Fittings for Line Shafts, 397, 439
Fixing Life Buoys, Harland's Method of, G9
Fletcher's Reports to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 16, 58, 86
Flimsy Steamers, The Trade in, 38
Floating Ducks, Tubular, Clark and Standfield's 101
Flour-Dressing Machine. By Hopkinson and Palmer, Retford, '222
Folding Shield, Broadwell's, Gatling Gun with, 384
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 3, 40, CO, 64, 11G, 130, 152, 174, 214, 240, 262, 286, 306, 332, 354, 874, 394, 416, 426, 442, 480, 499, 622, 536
Forge Blower, Korting's, 121
Form of Vessels, The, 307
Forms of Waves, The, 279
Forty-Ton Breechloading Gun, The Russian, 530
Four-side Wood-Planing Machine. By Richards, London, and Kelley, Philadelphia, '289
Four-wheeled Tank Locomotive. By the Maschinen-fabrik and Eisengiesserrel, Darmstadt, 349
Freeboard Scales, Tabular Synopsis of, 23.5
Friction of Screws, The, 73
French Heavy Guns, 399
French National Assembly, Notes to the, on the Channel Tunnel, 363
Freezing Point, On the Conditions of Water Before and After its, 333
Fret and Band Saws. By Gschwindt and Company, Carlsruhe, 114
Frost, A Boiler Burst by, 86
Froude, Mr., on the Ramus Experiments, 90
Fuel, Economy of, 63
Fuel and Raw Material, The Waste of, 230
Furnace for Cremation, 52
Furnace Doors, Mr. Prideaux's 13, 47
Furnaces, Kidd's Gas-Producing, 326
Furnaces for Wet Fuel, 49, 78, 86
Furnell's Sectional Boiler, 331

Gas Companies Bill, The Metropolitan, 449
Gas Exhauster, Korting's, 168
Gas, Exhausting, 428
Gas-Producing Furnaces, Kidd's, 326
Gas Question, The City and Metropolitan, 210, 315 449
Gas Works, the Construction of, 46
Gatling Gun with Broadwell's Folding Shield, 384
Gauges, Railway, Dr. William Pole on, 408
Gear, Deprez's Circular Valve, 518
Gear, Gyroscopic Controlling, J. McFarlane Gray's, 421
German Mining and Iron Industries, 32, 47, 131, 158, 302, 359
Germania Iron Works, The (Cologne and its Industries), 6
Glasgow and its Sewage, 533
Glasgow, Tramways in, 111
Glass, Toughened, 312
Globe, Terrestrial; The Coelometer, 145
Goods Locomotive, Borsig's, for the Russian 5-ft. Gauge, 447, 481
Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railway, The, 494
Gothard Tunnel, The St., 104, 878, 461, 508
Government Board, The Local, and Sanitary Legislation, 52
Government Engineer Service in India, The Engineer on, 188
Government Merchant Shipping Bill, The, 144, 187, 209, 238, 343, 618
Governor for Marine Engines, Rankin's, 272
Grahl's Apparatus for Colouring Paper, 519
Graving Dock, New, at Port-Glasgow, Opening of, 55
Gravitation, Sorting Railway Trains by, 159
Greenslade's Windlass for Steam Cultivation, 121
Gschwindt's Band and Fret Saws, 114
Guibal Fan and Engine, 294
Gun, The Macomber, 166
Gun, The Russian 40-Ton Breechloading, 530
Gunpowder, Cotton, 109
Guns, American, 2'1
Guns, Breechloading, 203, 429, 471 494, 516, 630
Guns and Gun Carriages, The Requisites of New Naval, 270
Guns, Heavy, 95, 299, 385, 399
Guns, Heavy, Erosion in, 137
Guns, Naval and Mountain; Broadwell's Breechloading Ordnance, 203
Guns and Ships, The Engineer on, 345
Gunthorpe Bridge, Opening of the, 636
Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy, 212
Gwynne's Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 202
Gwynne's Compound Centrifugal Pumping Engine, 101
Gyroscopic Controlling Gear, J. McFarlane Gray's, 421

Hallidie's Wire Rope Railways, 402
Hand Turning, 394, 436, 500, 621
Harbour, Dover, 459, 477, 487, 517
Harland's Method of Fixing Lifebuoys, 69
Harvey's Horizontal Drilling Machine for Boiler-end Flanges, 443
Hatchways for Colliers, Price's, 496
Hawes' Steam Trap, 477
Hawkins' Report on the Trials of Rotary Engines at the Fair of the American Institute, 849
Hawkshaw, Sir John's, Report on the Sewage of Glasgow, 533
Health Bills, the Public, and Artisans' Dwellings, 164, 324, 344
Health, Public, in 1874, Retrospect of the, 31 Heavy Guns, 95, 131, 299, 355, 399
Heavy Guns, Erosion in, 137
H.M.S. " Alexandra," Launch of, 301
Hertford, Thu Phosphate Sewage Process at, '11
Hoadley's American Portable Engines, 145
Hopkinson's Flour-Dressing Machine, 222
Horizontal Condensing Engine. By E. P. Bastin and Co, West Drayton, 134
Horizontal Drilling Machine for Boiler-end Flanges. By G. and A. Harvey, Glasgow, 443
Horizontal Engine. By H. R. Marsden, Leeds, 76
Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear. By Hayward Tyler and Company, London, 356
Horizontal Engine with Variable Expansion Gear. By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 65
Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine. By the Maschinen and Waggonbau-Fabriks Actien Gesellschaft, Simmering, near Vienna, 86
Horse Gear and Thrashing Machine. By Wallis and St evens, Basingstoke, 360
Hot Bearings, Indicator for. By S. Alley, Glasgow, 120
House Drainage, 108
Household Boilers, Safety Valves for; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 16
Hydraulic Continuous Brake, Barker's, 29
Hydraulic Gear for Water-tight Doors, On, 280
Hydraulic Pumps, Treble. By Fielding and Platt, Gloucester, 338
Hydraulic Rivetter, Tweddell's Portable, 76
Hydraulic Rivetting Machine, McKay and Macgeorges, 22:3
Hull Docks, The, 234
Hydro-Gyrometer, Wier's, 120

Illinois and St. Louis Bridge, Notes on the Erection of, 17, 39
Impediments Surrounding Legislation; The Labours of Legislation, 474
Impurities in the London Water Supply, 232
India, Defective Irrigation in, '231
India, Engineers for, 188
Indian Waterworks, The Nagpur, 127
Indicator, h New Binnacle, 311
Indicator, Speed. By E. U. Jacobs and Company, West Killingly, Connecticut, 477
Industrial and Mechanical Exhibition, The Manchester, 463, 482
Industries at Cologne, C

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, THE:

On the Construction of Gas Works, by IL E. Jones, 46
On the Origin of the Chesil Bank, and on the Relation of the Existing Beaches to past Geological Changes, Independent of the Present Coast Action, by Professor Joseph Prestwich, 113
On the Erosion of the Bore in Heavy Guns, and the Means for its Prevention, with Suggestions for the Improvement of Muzzle-loading Projectiles, by C. W. Lancaster, 137
On the Working of Railways, by George Findlay, 109
On Sorting Railway Trains by Gravitation, by William Cudworth, 159
On Railway Statistics, 1873-4, by John Thornhill Harrison, 159
Annual Dinner, 261
On the Hull Docks, by Sir W. Wright, 281 On the Construction of the Albert Dock at Kingston-upon-Hull, by J. C. Hawkshaw, 281
On the Manufacture of Steel, by W. Hackney, 828
On Bessemer Steel Rails, by J. T. Smith, 829
On Pine Timber, by C. G. Smith, 861, 89.:
On the Systems of Constant and Intermittent Water Supply, and the Prevention of Waste, with Special Reference to the Restoration of Constant Service in Liverpool, by G. F. Deacon, 3C9

INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE : 280

Report of Council, 221
Address of the President, 224
On the Load Draught of Steamers and Sailing Vessels, by W. W. Rundell, 235
On Imperial Legislation as it Affects Naval Construction and the English Merchant Navy, by J. S. Russell; 238
On the Duties, Qualities, and Structure of the Modern Man-if-War, by J. S. Russell. 242
On Compound Engines, by It Sennett. 246
On Self-Acting Safety Cleats, for Holding the Sheets in Boats, by A. B. Cruickshank, 260
On a New Rig for Ships, by R. B. Forbes, Milton, Mass., U.S.A., '255
On a New Centre-board Yacht, by C. Homjo, New York, 266
On the Strains and Strengths of Ships, by J. W. Richardson, 258
On a Method of Ok. tuning Motive Power from Wave Motion, by B. Tower, 266
On the Requisities of New Naval Guns and Gun Carriages, by J. S. Russell, 270
On a Proposed Mode of Obtaining the Outlines of Deep Sea Waves, by W. W. Rundell, 279
On Hydraulic Gear for Water-tight Doors, by F. C. Coxhead, 280
On Iron and Steel for Shipbuilding, by N. Barnaby, 281, 804
On an Apparatus for Clearing Bilge-Pumps, by G. W. Sly, 284
On the Rigging of Ships, by W. F. Fleming, 285
On the "Bessemer" Steamship, by E. J. Reed, '291, 329
On the Graphic Integration on the Equation of a Ship's Rolling, Including the Effect of Resistance, by W. Froude, 295
On Spar Torpedo Warfare, by A. Sedgwick Woolley, 303
On a Now Base for the Form of Vessels, by Edward Jackson, 801
On the Relations Existing between Shipbuilders, Shipowners, and Ship Insurers, by W. M. Fenning, 308
On a New Binnacle Indicator, by Viscount Bury. 311

Instruction, Technical, 430
Insurers, Shipbuilders, and Owners, 308
International Exhibition of 1876, The American, 232, 365
Inventions, Inventors, and Investors in the United States, 33
Inventions, Mechanical, of Leonardo da Vinci, 182
Inventions, On Protection for; Patents and Patent Laws, 193, 208, '221, 285, 895, 413
Inventions, On Protection for, 18, o6
Inventors and investors, Patent Laws as a Protection to, 440, 485
Iron awl Coal in the United States, 415, 434, 458, 479, 498
Iron and Mining Industries, German, 32, 47, 131, 158, 802, 359
Iron Ores, 487
Iron, Phosphorus in, 404
Iron for shipbuilding, 488

IRON AND STEKL INSTITUTE, THE, 887, 410 :

Address or the President, 881
On the Estimation of Small Quantities of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel by the Spectrum Analysis, by Sir John U. N. Alleyne, 404
Account of an Underground Fire in the Wynn-stay Colliery, Ruabon, and the Measures adopted to Extinguish it, and to re-enter the Workings, by George Thomson, 412
On Notes of a Visit to Coal and Iron Mines and Iron Works in the United States, by I. L. Bell, 415, 4;34, 468, 479, 498
On the Manufacture of iron and Steel in Belgium, by M. Julien Deby, 438
On the Ores of Iron Considered in their Geological Relations, by Professor Warington W. Smyth, 437

Iron and Steel for Shipbuilding, 281, 804
Iron and Steel Testing in the United States, 400, 441
Iron Trade, The Scotch, for 1874, Retrospect of the, 43
Iron Works, American, 459, 479
Irons, American Car Wheel, Mechanical Properties of, 239
Irrigation in India, Defective, 231

Jacobs' Speed Indicator, 477
Japan, Education in, 212
Jointing Piston Rings, 336

Keats' Silk Thread Twisting Machine, 63 Kelly's Sectional Steam Boller, '207
Kidd's Gas-Producing Furnaces, 826
Korting's Exhauster, 168
Korting's Forge Blower, 121
Korting's Steam Jet Bilge Pumps, 477
Krupp v. Broadwell, 452
Labours of Legislation, The, 474
Lady Fairbairn, Address to, and Reply, 30
Lassoe and Meyer's Safety Valve, 69
Lathe, Duplex Wheel, at the Great Eastern Railway Works, Stratford. By B. New and Company, Nottingham, 510
Lathe, Self-Acting Slide. By Richards, London, and Kelley, Philadelphia, 326
Lathe, Surface. By F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge, 294
Launch Engine. Designed by J. Whitehouse, Bristol, 3
Launch of H.M.S. " Alexandra," 301
Laws, Patents and Patent, 193, 208, 221, 285, 895, 413
Laws, Patent, as a Protection to Inventors and Investors, 440, 485
Launches, Steam, Torpedo, 165, 866
Lawrence and Porter's Centrifugal Pump, 443
Leather Belt Cutter. Egli's, 400
Leahy, Colonel, on Military Bridge Construction, 148
Leeds Exhibition, The, 451
Legislation, Factory, 388
Legislation, The Labours of, 474
Legislation. 1875, Sanitary, Gas, and Water, 126, 164, 210, 324, 344, 845, 445
Legislation, Sanitary, and the Local Government Board, 52
Legislation, Shipping, 144, 187, 209, 233, 343, 513, 634
Leonardo da Vinci as a Mechanician, 182
Letters Patent in the United States, 33
Lewin's Contractor's Locomotive, 214
Lewis, Matthews' Disengaging, 10
Life Buoys, Harland's Method of Fixing, 69
Lifting Condensing Water, 366
Lima and Pisco Railway, The Proposed, 46
Line Shafts, Fittings for, 397, 439
Load Draught of Steamers and Sailing Vessels, The, 235
Load Line, 385
Local Government Board, The, and Sanitary Legislation, 52
Locomotive, Borsig's Goods, for the Russian 5-ft. Gauge, 447, 481
Locomotive, Contractor's. By S. Lewin, Poole, 214
Locomotive, Passenger, for the London and North-Western Railway. Designed by F. W. Webb, 185
Locomotive, Tank, for the Swiss Society for Narrow Gauge Railways. By the Swiss Locomotive and Engine Building Company, Winterthur, 489
Locomotive, Tank. By the Maschinen-fabrik and Eisenglesserrel, Darmstadt, 349
Locomotives and Rolling Stock, American, 1.55
Log of the Ro3 al Mail Steamer " City of Richmond," Abstract of the, 404
London Water Supply and its Impurities, 252, 276
London Water Supply, Returns of Dr. Letheby, 57
Longsdon, Mr. A., On Breechloading Ordnance, 429
Lord Cairns' New Patent Bill, 148, 148, 163, 188 229, 823, 409, 491, 517
Lotes Engraving and Copying Machines, 455

" Mab," The, Steam Launch. By G. Baird, St. Petersburg, 96
Machine, Chaff-Cutting, By S. Edwards, Salford, 66
Machine for Drying Dyed Goode. By MM. Pierron and Dehaitre, Paris, 682
Machine, Dovetailing and Moulding. By the Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 433
Machine, Flour-Dressing. By Hopkinson and Palmer, Retford, 222
Machine, Four-side Wood Planing. By Richards, London, and Kelley, Philadelphia, 289
Machine, Horizontal Drilling, for Boiler-end Flanges. By G. and A. Harvey, Glasgow, 443
Machine, Keats' Silk Thread Twisting, 63
Machine, Planing and Moulding. By the Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 171
Machine, Printing, The " Victory," 127
Machine, Quartering, at the Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Glasgow. By Neilson and Company, Glasgow, 483
Machine, Screw-Cutting, 222
Machine, Slot-Drilling. By J. J. Rieter and Company, Winterthur, 242
Machine, Spring Testing. By the Hagen Cast Steer 'Works, Westphalia, 411
Machine for Surfacing by Emery Wheels. By the Tanite Company, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 77
Machine, Thrashing, and Horse Gear. By Wallis and Steevens, Basingstoke, 860
Machine, Universal Milling. By the Brainard Milling Machine Company, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 67
Machinery, Nut-Forging. By Taylor and Company, Birmingham, 281
Machinery, Rogers' Wood-Working, 362
Machinery, Textile, at the Leeds Exhibition, 451
Machinery, Textile, at the Manchester Mechanical and Industrial Exhibition, 463
Machinery, Wood-Scraping By B. D. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 391
Machinery, Wool-Carding. By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, Saxony, 291
Machines, Engraving and Copying. By F. Lotz, Offenbach, 455
Machines, Paper Finishing, 45
McKay's Equilibrium Tools for Drilling and Boring, 488
McKay and Macgeorge's Hydraulic Rivetting Machine, 223
Macomber Gun, The, 166
Manchester Mechanical and Industrial Exhibition, The, 423, 46:3, 482
Mann's Railway Sleeping Carriages, 493
Manufacture of Steel, The, 328
Manufactures, The Waste of, 230
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades on the Clyde in 1S74, Retrospect of the, 34
Marine Engines, Rankin's Governor for, 272
Marine Screw Engines. By A. Wilson and Company, London, 508
Marsden's Horizontal Engine, 76
Marten's Annual Report on Steam Boiler Explosions, in 1874, 197
Matthews' Disengaging Lewis, 10
Measures and Weights, Standard; Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards, 66
Measuring Feed Water, 139
Mechanical Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, 182
Mechanical Properties of American Car Wheel Irons, 239
Mercantile Marine Legislation, 144, 187, 209, 238, 843, 513, 534
Mercantile Marine, Load-Line for the, 885
Meteorological Service of the United States, The, 451
Metropolitan Gas Companies Bill, The, 449
Methods of Testing Steam Engines, The, 217, 256
Metropolitan Gas Question, The, 210, 345,449
Metropolitan Water Supply, The, 276
Milburn's Continuous Revolving Separator for Sewage, 637
Military Bridge Construction, 148
Mill Engine, Blooming, at the Edgar Steel Works, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 70
Mill Engine, Direct-Acting Reversing Rolling; Panteg Steel Works, Pontypool, 249
Mill Engine, Failure of a, at Newark, N.J., 103
Minerals, Railway Trucks for, 827
Milling Machine, Universal. By the Brainard Milling Machine Company, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 57
Mining Engine, The Robey, 54
Mining and Iron Industries, German, 32, 47, 131, 158, 302, 359
Mirrors, Train Signal. By W. A. Robinson, Great Western Railway of Canada, 432
Mississippi River Mouths of the, 81, 275
Mod
Modern Ships of War, 242
Motors, Wave, 266
Moulding and Dovetailing Machine. By the Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 433
Moulding and Planing Machine. By the Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 171
Mouths of the River Mississippi, The, 81, 275 Mules, Self-Acting, 7, 85, 497

Nagpur Water Works, The, 127
Narrow Gauge Railways, Tank Locomotive for the Swiss Society for. By the Swiss Locomotive and Engine Building Company, Winterthur, 489

NAVAL ARCHITECTS, THE INSTITUTION OF :

Report of Council, 221
Address of the President, 224
On the Load Draught of Steamers and Sailing Vessels, by W. W. Rundell, 235
On Imperial Legislation as its Affects Naval Construction and the English Merchant Navy, by J. S. Russell, 238
On the Duties, Qualities, and Structure of the Modern Man-of-War, by J. S. Russell, 242
On Compound Engines, by R. Sennett, 245
On Self-Acting Safety Cleats, for Holding the Sheets in Sailing Boats, by A. B. Cruickshank, 250
On a New Rig for Ships, by R. B. Forbes, Milton, Mass., U.S.A., 255
On a New Centre-board Yacht, by C. Homje, New York, 266
On the Strains and Strengths of Ships, by J. W. Richardson, 258
On a Method of obtaining Motive Power from Wave Motion, by B. Tower, 266
On the Requisites of New Naval Guns and Gun Carriages, by J . S. Russell, '270
On a Proposed Mode of obtaining the Outlines of Deep Sea Waves, by W. W. Rundell, 279
On Hydraulic Gear for Water-tight Doors, by F. O. Coxhead, 260
On Iron and Steel for Shipbuilding, by N. Barnaby, 281, 304
On an Apparatus for Clearing Bilge Pumps, by G. W. Sly, 284
On the Rigging of Ships, by W. F. Fleming, 285
On the " Bessemer" Steamship, by E. J. Reed, '91, 829
On the Graphic Integration on the Equation of a Ship's Rolling, including the Effect of Resistance, by W. Froude, 295
On Spar Torpedo Warfare, by A. Sedgwick Woolley, 303
On a New Base for the Form of Vessels, by Edward Jackson, 307
On the Relations existing between Shipbuilders, Shipowners, and Ship Insurers, by W. H. Fenning, 308
On a New Binnacle Indicator, by Viscount Bury, 311

Naval Guns and Gun Carriages, The Requisites of New, 270
Naval and Mountain Guns : Broadwell's Breech-loading Ordnance, 203
Naval Retrospect for 1873, 71
Navy, Boilers for the, 540
New's Duplex Wheel Lathe, at the Great Eastern Railway Works, Stratford, 510
New Patent Bill, The, 143, 148, 163, 188, '229, 323, 409, 491, 517
New York City, Underground Railway, 149, 161, 193, 215, 234, '248, 319
New York River-Front Improvements, 110 New Zealand, Public Works in, 325
Non-Compound and Compound Engines; Report of Trials of American Steamers, 14, 129, 133, 1.53, 177
Northampton and its Sewage, 391
Notes from Cleveland, 15, 35, 66, 70, 96, 101, 131, 149, 168, 191, 213, 225, 274, 306, 321, 347, 363, 390, 413, 431, 453, 476, 486, 510, 537
Notes on the Erection of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge, 17, :39
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 3, 40, 60, 64, 116, 130, 152, 174, 214, 240, 262, 286, 306, 332, 364, 374, 394, 416, 426, 442, 480, 499, 522, 636
Notes from the North, 15, 35, 56, 67, 84, 113, 181, 141, 162, 191, 213, 225, 255, 274, 293, 321, 342, 371, 390, 414, 431, 453, 467, 490, 618, 637
Notes from the South-West, 15, 27, 55, 75, 95, 113, 131, 137, 162, 191, 213, 228, 255, 274, 293, 318, 347, 360, 389, 414, 481, 453, 476, 496, 609, 537
Notes from South Yorkshire, 16, 35, 55. 76, 96, 102, 131, 149, 160, 191, 205, 234, 260, 274, 306, 321, 342, 371, 390, 414, 430, 446, 476, 496, 618, 538
Noxious Trades, 109
Nut-Forging Machinery. By Taylor and Company, Birmingham, 281

OBITUARY (Movrd to separate index)
Opening of Gunthorpe Bridge, 636
Opening a New Graving Dock at Port-Glasgow, 55
Ordnance, American, 251
Ordnance, Breechloading, 203, 429, 471, 494, 616, 630
Ordnance, Broadwell's Breechloading Naval and Mountain Guns, 203
Ordnance, Heavy, 95, 137, 299, 385, 399
Ores, Iron, 437
Ovens, Coke, of the Societ6 de L'Esp6rance, Seraing, 468

Paper Colouring, Apparatus for. By Grahl and Hohl, Dresden, 519
Paper Finishing Machines, 45
Paper-Making, Fibres for, 366
Parliament, Sanitary, Gas, and Water Bills in, 126, 164, '210, 324, 344, 346, 445
Parliamentary Agency, 253
Parliamentary Private Business, 22, 62, 118, 154
Parson's White Brass, 467
Passenger Locomotive for the London and North-Western Railway. Designed by F. W. Webb, 185
Patent Bill, The New, 143, 148, 163, 188, 229, 323, 409, 491, 517
Patent Law, English, An American View of the, 369
Patent Laws as a Protection to Inventors and Investors, 440, 485
Patent Office Report, The United States, 211
Patentees, Patents, and Companies, 471
Patents for Inventions Bill; Text of Petitions, 475
Patents and Patent Laws, 193, 208, 221, 28.5, 895, 413
Patents in the United States, 33
Performances of Steam Engines, 164
Permanent Way, 89
Peruvian Railways, 46
Petitions for the Patents for Inventions Bill, Text of the, 475
Philadelphia International Exhibition of 1876, 365
Phoenix teas Works, Vauxhall, Experiments on Gas Exhausters, 428
Phosphate Sewage Process at Hertford, 211
Phosphorus in Iron, 404
Pieri Breechloading Rifle, The, 532
Pierron and Dehaitre's Drying Machine for Dyed Goods, 632
Pile-Driving, Deep, in Wisconsin, 400
Pine Timber, 851, 892
Pipe and Screw-Cutting Machine, Chase's, 222
Piston Ring Joints, 336
Planing and Moulding Machine. By the Chemnitzer Werkzeugmaschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, 171
Pneumatic Transmission, 25, 91, 135, 199, 268, 313, 868
Poisonous Vapours, or Dense Smoke, Appliances for Enabling Persons to Breathe in, 115, 180
Polar Regions, Our Expedition to the, 328, 886
Pollution of the River Clyde, 33
Pollution of Rivers, The, 223
Pollution of Rivers Bill, The, 409
Port and Dock Improvements at Antwerp, Proposed, 508
Portable Engines, American. By the J. C. Hoadley Company, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 145
Portable Hydraulic Rivetter, Tweddell's, 76
Port-Glasgow, Opening of a New Graving Dock at, 56
Portmadoc and the Gorsedda Junction Railway, 494
Potts' Fastenings for Rail Joints, 361
Power Loom, The; Weaving, 605, 535
President of the Institution of Naval Architects, Address of the, 224
President of the Iron and Steel Institute, Address of the, 381
President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Address of the, 112, 151
Price's Hatchways for Colliers, 496
Prideaux, Mr., and his Furnace Doors, 13, 47
Principles of Shop Manipulation for Engineering Apprentices, 25, 74, 186, 179, '201, 334, 357, 376
Printing Press, The " Victory," 127
Private Parliamentary Business, 22, 62, 113, 164
Professional Acquaintance; The Parliamentary Agent, 258
Professor 'Willis, 190
Protection from Fire, 171
Protection for Inventions, 18, 36, 193, 208, 221, 285, 395, 413, 440, 483
Prunier's Vertical Pumping Engine, GS Public Health Bill, The, 824
Public Works in New Zealand, 325
Puddling, Rotary, 427
Pullman Railway Cars for the Midland Railway, 263
Pump, Bennison's Rotary, 69
Pump, Lawrence and Porter's Centrifugal, 443
Pumping Engine, Centrifugal. By J. and H. Gwynne, Hammersmith, 202
Pumping Engine, Gwynne's Compound Centrifugal, 101
Pumping Engine, Vertical. By M. E. Prunier, Lyons, 68
Pumping Engines at Chicago, 30
Pumping Engines for the Ravensthorpe Engine Works. By the Ravensthorpe Engineering Works, Mirfield, Yorkshire, 317
Pumps, Direct-Acting Steam, at Base's Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. By Hayward Tyler and Company, London, 48
Pumps and Engine, Compound Differential, for the Navigation Colliery, Aberdare. By Hathorn, Davis, Campbell, and Davey, Leeds, 273
Pumps, Korting's, Steam Jet Bilge, 477
Pumps, Steam, Saxby's Condensers for, 432
Pumps, Treble Hydraulic. By Fielding and Platt, Gloucester, 338

Quartering Machine at the Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Glasgow. By Neilson and Company, Glasgow, 483

Radiation Thermometers, Solar, 176
Rail Joints, Fastenings for, Potts', 361
Railway Accident, The Shipton, 11
Railway Appliances, 540
Railway, The Bahia and San Francisco, 200
Railway Buffer, Turton's, 372
Railway Cars, Pullman's, for the Midland Railway, 263
Railway at Chatham, The 18-in., 1, 63
Railway Companies as Carriers, 501, 541
Railway Companies using the Fairlie Engines, 302
Railway Gauges, Dr. William Pole on, 408
Railway, The New York City Underground, 149, 161, 193, 215, 234, 248, 319
Railway, Portmadoc, and the Gorsedda, Junction, 494
Railway, The San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 107
Railway, The Settle and Carlisle, 536
Railway Sleeping Carriages, Colonel Mann's, 493
Railway Statistics, 1873-4, 159
Railway Trucks for Minerals, 327
Railway Tyres, The " Warming" of, 32
Railways, The Permanent Way of, 89
Railways, Peruvian, 46
Railways, The Working of, 159
Ramus Experiments, The, 90
Rankin's Governor for Marine Engines. 272
Ransome, Allen, and Company's Works, Chelsea, 424
Raw Material and Fuel, The Waste of, 230
Reaping and Mowing Machine Finger-Bar Attachment, Tenwick’s, 139
Reid's Quartering Machine at the Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Glasgow, 483
Report, Annual, of E. B. Marten, on Steam Boiler Explosions in 1874, 197
Report, Annual, of the Warden of the Standards on Weights and Measures, 66
Report of Council; Institution of Naval Architects, 221
Report of J. T. Hawkins on Trials of Rotary Engines at the Fair of the American Institute, 349
Report of Trials of Compound and Non-Compound Engines, on American Revenue Steamers; 14, 129, 133, 153, 177
Report, The United States Patent Office, 211
Reports of Mr. Fletcher to the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 16, 58, 86
Reports, Sanitary, 277
Retrospect, Naval, for 1874, 71
Retrospect, Sanitary, for 1874, 31
Retrospect of the Scotch Iron Trade for 1874, 43
Retrospect of the Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Trades on the Clyde in 1874, 34
Reversing Rolling Mill Engine, Direct-Acting; Panteg Steel Works, Pontypool, 249
Revolving Firebars, Schmitz's, 348
Revolving Separator, Continuous, for Sewage. By Milburn and Company, New Cross, 537
Reynolds' Piston Ring Joints, 336
Richards, London, and Kelley's Cutting-off Saw for Hot Iron, 414
Richards, London, and Kelley's Four-side Wood Planing Machine, 289
Richards, London, and Kelley's Self-Acting Slide Lathe, 326
Rieter's Slot-Drilling Machine, 242
Rifle, Breechloading, The Pier!, 582
Rig for Ships, On a New, 255
Rigging of ships, The, 285
River Broom, Bridge across the, 532
River Clyde, The Pollution of the, 33
River-Front Improvements, New York, 110
River Mississippi, Mouths of the, 81, 275
River Scheldt, Proposed Diversion of the, and Antwerp Port and Dock Improvements, 503
River Trent, Opening Gunthorpe Bridge over the, 536
Rivers, Bill for Preventing the Pollution of, 409
Rivers, The Pollution of, 223
Rivetter, Portable Hydraulic, Tweddell's, 76
Rivetting Machine, McKay and Macgeorge's Hydraulic, 223
Robey Mining Engine, The, 54
Robinson's Train Signal Mirrors, 432
Rogers' Wood-Working Machinery, 352
Rolling of Ships, The, 296
Rolling Stock and Locomotives, American, 155
Root's Blower, 342
Rotary Engines, American, The Performances of 6, 337, 349
Rotary Puddling, 427
Rotary Pump, Bennison's, 69

ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS, THE :
On Suspension Bridges and Arches, and Particularly a New Form of Rigid Suspension Bridge, by T. Claxton Fidler, 372

Royal Society, Annual Soiree of the, 317
Russian 5-ft. Gauge, Borsig's Goods Locomotive for, 447, 481
Russian 40-Ton Breechloading Gun, The, 530

Safety Cleats, 250
Safety Valve, Lassoe and Meyer's, 69
Safety Valves for Household Boilers; Report of Mr. L. E. Fletcher, 16
St. Gothard Tunnel, The, 104, 378, 461, 508
St. Gothard Tunnel, Air Compressors for the, 104
St. Gothard Tunnel, Ventilation of the, 378
San Francisco and Bahia Railway, The, 300
Sanders' Vacuum Brake and Signalling Apparatus, 340
Sanitary Conference at Birmingham, 72, 90
Sanitary Gas and Water Legislation, 1875, 126, 164, 210, 324, 344, 345, 449
Sanitary Legislation and the Local Government Board, 52
Sanitary Reports, 277
Sanitary Retrospect for 1874, 31
San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Railway, The, 107
Satining Machines for Paper, 45
Saw for Cutting-off Hot Iron. By Richards, London, and Kelley, Philadelphia, 414
Saws, Band and Fret. By (.4schwindt and Company, Carlsruhe, 114
Saxby's Condenser for Steam Pumps, 432
Schmitz's Revolving Firebars, 348
Scholarships, Whitworth, 87
Scotch Iron Trade for 1874, Retrospect of the, 43
Scraping Machinery, Wood. By B. D. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 391
Screw Engines, Marine. By A. Wilson and Company, London, 508
Screw and Pipe-Cutting Machine, Chase's, 222
S.S. " City of Richmond," Engines of the, 336, 3631 403
Screws, Bow and Stern, 125
Screws, The Friction of, 73
Sectional Boiler, Shepherd's, at the Manchester Industrial Exhibition, 468
Sectional Boiler, Furnell's, 384
Sectional Steam Boiler. By W. E. Kelly, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 207
Self-Acting Slide Lathe. By Richards, London, and Kelley, Philadelphia, 326
Self-Actors, 7, 85, 497
Service, The Meteorological, of the United States, 451
Settle and Carlisle Railway, The, 536
Sewage of Glasgow, The, 533
Sewage, Northampton, 391
Sewage Process, Phosphate, at Hertford, 211
Sewage Pumping Engines. By the Ravensthorpe Engineering Works, Mirfield, Yorkshire, 317
Sewage Removal from Houses, 108
Sewage Schemes, 253
Sewage Works at Bilston, 492
Sewage Works at Coventry, 450
Sewerage, Town, 501, 543
S butts, Line, Fittings for, 397, 439
Shepherd's Sectional Boiler at the Manchester Industrial Exhibition, 468
Shield, Broadwell's Folding, Gatling Gun with, Shipbuilders, Owners, and Insurers, 308
Shipbuilding, Iron and Steel for, 281, 304
Shipbuilding, Iron for, 483
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Trades on the Clyde in 1874, Retrospect of the, 34
Shipping Legislation, 144, 187, 209, 238, 348, 613, 53
Shipping in 1874, Retrospect of, 71
Ships and Guns, The Engineer on, 345
Ships, A New Rig for, 255
Ships, The Rigging of, 285
Ships, The Rolling of, 295
Ships, The Strains and Strengths of, 258
Ships of War, Modern, 242
Ship, Torpedo, The " Vesuvius," 375
Shipton Accident, The, 11
Show at Croydon, The Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, 466
Siemens' Cremation Furnace, 52
Signal Mirrors, Train. By W. A. Robinson, Great Western Railway of Canada, 432
Signalling Apparatus and Vacuum Brake, Sanders', 340
Silk Thread Twisting Machine, Keats', 63
sir Goldsworthy Gurney, 212
Sketch at Crewe, A; "Dignity and Impudence," 318
Sleeping Carriages, Railway, Colonel Mann's, 493
Sleeping and Drawing-Room Cars, Pullman's, for the Midland Railway, 263
Slot-Drilling Machine. By J. J. Rioter and Company, Winterthur, 242
Smith and Alexander's " Twin" Steam Boilers, 192
Smoke or Poisonous Vapours, Captain Shaw's Appliances fur Breathing in, 115, 130
Societe de L'Esp6rance, Seraing, Coke Ovens of the, 468

SOCIETY OF ARTS, THE:
On Protection for Inventions, by F. J. Bramwell, 18, 36
On Appliances for Enabling Persons to Breathe in Dense Smoke or Poisonous Vapours, by Captain Shaw, 115, 130
On an Apparatus for the Protection of Buildings and Ships from Fire, and for the Ventilation of Ships, by J. A. Coleman, U.S.A, 171
On the Pollution of Rivers, 223

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRY, MANCHESTER; THE :
On Street Tramways and Cars, by James Henry Lynde, 37, 59
On Protection for Inventions, and Amendment of the Patent Laws, by W. Lloyd Wise, 193, 208, 221, 285, 395, 413
Second Annual Exhibition, 423
On Tools, by Dr. Anderson, 437, 456

Soiree, Annual, of the Royal Society, 317
Solar Radiation Thermometers, 17.5
Sorting Railway Trains by Gravitation, 1.59
South-West, Notes from the, 15, 27, 55, 75, 95, 113, 131, 137, 162, 191, 213, 228, 255, 274, 298, 818, 347, 360, 389, 414, 431, 453, 476, 496, 509, 587 South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16, 35, 55, 76, 96, 102, 131, 149, 160, 191, 205, 234, 250, 274, 306, 321, 342, 371, 390, 414, 430, 446, 476, 496, 518, 5i8
Spar Torpedo Warfare, 303
Speed Indicator. By E. H. Jacobs and Company, West Killingly, Connecticut, 477
Spinning, Cotton, 115
Spinning Mules, Self-Acting, 7, 85, 497
Spring, Cliff's Elliptical, 206
Spring-Testing Machine. By the Hagen Cast Steel Works, Westphalia, 411
Standard Universal Milling Machine. By the Brainard Milling Machine Company, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 57
Standard Weights and Measures, Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards, 66
Statistics of Railways, 1873-4, 159
Steam-Boiler Explosions; Resolution of the Manchester Steam Users' Association, 401
Steam Boiler Explosions in 1874; Annual Report of E. B. Marten, 197
Steam Cultivation, Greenslade's Windlass for, 121
Steam Cylinders, Clearance and Compression in, 41, 189, 212
Steam Engine Performance, 164
Steam Engine Testing, 97
Steam Engines, The Methods of Testing, 217, 256
Steam Jet Bilge Pumps, Milting's, 477
Steam Jet Blower, Korting's, 121
Steam Launch " Mab," The. By G. Baird, St. Petersburg, 96
Steam Launches, 166, 366
Steam Pumps, Direct-Acting, at Bass's Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. By Hayward Tyler and Company, London, 48
Steam Pumps, Saxby's Condensers for, 432
Steam Torpedo Launches, 165, 366
Steam Trap, Hawes', 477
Steamers, Flimsy, The Trade in, 88
Steamers and Sailing Vessels, The Load Draught of, 235
Steamship, "Bessemer," On the, 227, 291, 329, 407
Steel, Bessemer, American Production of, 108
Steel, Bessemer, The Manufacture of, 433
Steel and Iron Testing in the United States, 400, 441
Steel Rails, Bessemer, On, 329

STEEL AND IRON INSTITUTE, THE:
Address of the President, 381
On the Estimation of Small Quantities of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel by the Spectrum Analysis, by Sir John G. N. Alleyne, 404
Account of an Underground Fire in the Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon, and the Measures Adopted to Extinguish it, and to Re-enter the Workings, by George Thomson, 412
On Notes of a Visit to Coal and Iron Mines and Iron Works in the United States, by I. L. Bell, 415, 434, 458, 479, 498
On the Manufacture of Iron and Steel in Belgium, by M. Julien Deby, 433
On the Ores of Iron Considered in their Geological Relations, by Professor Warington W. Smyth, 437

Steel, the Manufacture of, 328
Stern and Bow Screws, 125
Strains and Strengths of Ships, The, 258
Streams, The Pollution of, 223
Street Tramways and Cars, 37, 59
Street Tramways, Wire Rope, San Francisco, California, 402
Streets, Methods of Covering, 173, 195
Strophometer, The. By Elliot Brothers, London, 111
Students, Engineering, 127
Submarine Telegraphic Progress in 1874, 12
Supply of London Water, The, and its Impurities, '252, 276
Supply of Water, The Metropolitan, 276
Surface Lathe. By F. Berry and Sons, Sowerby Bridge, 294
Surfacing by Emery Wheels, Machine for. By the Tanite Company, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 77
Suspension Bridges and Arches, 372
Swiss Society for Narrow Gauge Railways, Tank Locomotive for the. By the Swiss Locomotive and Engine Building Company, Winterthur, 489

Table of British Vessels Reported to have been Destroyed during 1874, 72
Table of Clearance and Compression in Steam Cylinders, 42
Table of Experiments with Engines of American Revenue Steamers, 178
Table of Experiments upon Unloading Railway Wagons, 328
Table of the Mortality due to Cold in 1855 and 1874, 32
Table for Ascertaining the Proportion of Tonnage which should be Allowed for Spare Buoyancy over Sea Voyages, 236, 237
Table of Results of Trials of Furnaces Burning Wet Spent Tan Bark, 86
Table Showing Conditions of Liverpool Water Supply, 370
Table of the State of Contracts for New Zealand Railways, 326
Table of Tests of Cliff's Elliptical Spring, by Mr. Kirkcaldy, 206
Table of Trials of the Westinghouse Vacuum Brake, 166
Table showing Value and State of Mining Districts belonging to the Germania Iron and Mining Company, Kalk, near Cologne, 7
Tables of Averages of Solar Radiation, 175
Tables of Deflections on the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge, 40
Tables of Dimensions of Locomotives on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 155, 157
Tables of Performances of French, English, and German Heavy Guns, 400
Tables of Progress made during 1873-4-5 in the St. Gothard Tunnel, 462, 508, 609
Tables of the Results of the Competitive Trial of Steam Boilers at the Fair of the American Institute, November, 1871, 50
Tables by R. Sennett : " Compound Engines," 246, 247
Tables of Trials of American Rotary Engines, 6 Tables of Trials of the Danish Torpedo Launch, 367
Tables of Trials of Rotary Engines, at the Fair of the American Institute, 337, 338, 350, 351
Tables by J. S. Russell : " Modern Ships of War," 243, 244
Tables of Trials of Thornycroft's Steam Launches, 165, 367
Tables of Workings of Deprez's Variable Expansion Gear, 444
Tank Locomotive. By the Maschinen-fabrik and Eisengiesserrel, Darmstadt, 849
Tank Locomotive for the Swiss Society for Narrow Gauge Railways. By the Swiss Locomotive and Engine Building Company, Winterthur, 489
Taylor's Nut-Forging Machinery, 281
Technical Instruction, 430

TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS, THE SOCIETY OF:
Address of the President. 112, 151
On the Induction between Suspended Wires as Affecting Automatic Transmission, 203

Telegraphic Progress in 1874, 12
Tenwick's Finger-Bar Attachment, 139
Testing Iron and Steel in the United States, 400, 441
Testing Springs, Machine for. By the Hagen Cast Steel Works, Westphalia, 411
Testing Steam Engines, 97
Testing Steam Engines, The Methods of, 217, 256
Tests of Rotary Engines, 5, 387, 349
Textile Machinery at the Leeds Exhibition, 451
Textile Machinery at the Manchester Mechanical and Industrial Exhibition, 463
Thrashing Machine and Horse Gear. By Wallis and Steevens, Basingstoke, 360
Thermometers, Solar Radiation, 175
Thread Twisting Machine, Keats' Silk, 63
Three-Cylinder Engines, 430
Thornycroft's Steam Launches for the Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Governments, 166, 366
Timber, Pine, 351, 392
Tod's Engines for the S.S. " City of Richmond," 33G, 363, 403
Tools, 437, 456
Tools for Drilling and Boring, McKay's Equilibrium, 488
Torpedo Ship, The " Vesuvius," 375
Torpedo Steam Launches, 165, 366
Torpedo Warfare, Spar, 303
Toughened Glass, 312
Town Sewerage, 501, 543
Traction Engine Wheels, 125
Trade in Flimsy Steamers, The, 38
Trades, Noxious, 109
Train Signal Mirrors. By W. A. Robinson, Great Western Railway of Canada, 432
Tramways and Cars, Street, 37, 59
Tramways in Glasgow, 111
Tramways, Wire Rope Street, San Francisco, California, 402
Transmission, Pneumatic, 25, 91, 135, 199, 2G8, 313, 368
Transport of Cattle by Sea, 410
Trap, Hawes' Steam, 477
Treble Hydraulic Pumps. By Fielding and Platt, Gloucester, 338
Trial Trip of the Steamship " Bessemer," 407
Trials of Continuous Brakes, The, 449, 492, 514, 523
Trials of Rotary Engines at the American Institute Fair, New York, 5, 337, 349
Trials of Rotary Engines at the Fair of the American Institute; Reports of J. T. Hawkins, 349
Tubular Floating Docks, Clark and Standfield's, 101
Tunnel, The Channel, 353
Tunnel, The St. Gothard, Air Compressors for, 104
Tunnel, The St. Gothard, 104, 378, 4G1, 508
Turning, Hand, 394, 436, 500, 521
Turton's Railway Buffer, 372
Tweddell's Portable Hydraulic Rivetter, 76
"Twin" Steam Boilers, Smith and Alexander's, 192
Tyler's Direct-Acting Steam Pumps, at Bass's Brewery, Burton-on-Trent, 48
Tyler's Horizontal Engine, with Variable Expansion Gear, 356
Tyres, Railway, The " Warming" of, 32, 47

Underground Conflagration, 412

UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION, THE :
On the Proposed Enclosure of Dover Bay. Review of Designs and Historical Essay on the Harbour, by John Baldry Redman, 459, 477

United States, Inventions, Inventors, and Investors in the, 83
United States Meteorological Service, The, 451
Underground Railway, The New York City, 149 161, 193, 215, '234, 248 819
United States Ordnance, 251
United States Patent Office Report, The, 211
Universal Milling Machine. By the Brainard Milling Machine Company, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 57
Utica Lifting Bridge, The, 80
Utilisation of Sewage, Schemes for, 253

Vacuum Brake and Signalling Apparatus, Sanders', 340
Vacuum Brake, The Westinghouse, 138, 166
Valve Gear for Cornish Engines, Davey's Differential, 169
Valve Gear, Deprez's Circular, 518
Valve, Lassos and Meyer's Safety, 69
Variable Expansion Gear as Fitted to Winding Engines, Deprez's, 443
Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Engine with. By Hayward Tyler and Company, London, 356
Variable Expansion Gear, Horizontal Engine with, By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, 65
Velocity, Machines for Estimating and Indicating, 111, 120, 477
Ventilation of the St. Gothard Tunnel, 378
Vertical Pumping Engine. By M. E. Prunier, Lyons, 68
Vessels, The Form of, 307
" Vesuvius," The Torpedo Ship, 375
" Victory" Printing Press, The, 127
Vinci, Leonardo da, as a Mechanician, 182

Wallis and Steeven's Horse Gear and Thrashing Machine, 360
" Warming" of Railway Tyres, The, 32
Waste of Manufactures, 230
Water Before and After its Freezing Point, The Conditions of, 333
Water Feed, Tank for Measuring, 139
Water-Front Improvements, New York, 110
Water, Gas, and Sanitary Legislation, 1875, 126, 164, 210, 324, 344, 345, 449
Water, Lifting Condensing, 366
Water Supply, The Control of, 369
Water Supply, London, and its Impurities, '252, 276
Water Supply of London, Returns of Dr. Letheby, 57
Water Supply, The Metropolitan, 276
Water. tight Doors, Hydraulic Gear for, 280
Water Works, The Nagpur, 127
Waves, The Forms of, 279
Wave Motors, 266
Way, Permanent, 89

WEAVING:
XVI. The Jacquard Loom, 21
XVII. The Jacquard Apparatus, 117
XVIII. The Jacquard Loom—Com-pound Harnesses, 183
XIX. Tissue Weaving, 219
XX. Circular Swivels and Lappets, 269
XXI. Cross Weaving, 314
XXII., XXIII. Pile Weaving, 377, 419
XXIV. The Ribbon Loom, 465
XXV., XXVI. The Power Loom, 605, 535

Webb's Passenger Locomotive for the London and North-Western Railway, 185
Webster, Mr., Q C., F.R.S., 494
Weights and Measures, Standard; Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards, 66
Westinghouse Air Brake, Continuous and Automatic, 511
Westinghouse Vacuum Brake, The, 138, 166
Wet Fuel, Furnaces for, 49, 78, 86
Wheel Lathe, Duplex, at the Great Eastern Railway Works, Stratford. By B. New and Company, Nottingham, 510
Wheels, Machine for Surfacing by Emery. By the Tanite Company, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 77
Wheels, Traction Engine, 123
White Brass, Parson's, 467
Whitehouse's Launch Engine, 3
Whitney's Wood-Scraping Machinery, 391
Whitworth Exhibitions, 87
Wier's Hydro-Gyrometer, 120
Willan's Three-Cylinder Engine, 430
Willis, Professor, 190
Wilson's Marine Screw Engines, 508
Windlass for Steam Cultivation. By J. Greenslade, Taunton, 121
Winding Engines, Deprez's Variable Expansion Gear as Fitted to, 443
Wire Rope Street Tramways, San Francisco, California, 402
Wood-Planing Machine, Four-side. By Richards, Loudon, and Kelley, Philadelphia, 789
Wood-Scraping Machinery By B. D. Whitney, Winchendon, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 391
Wood-Working Machinery, Rogers', 352
Wool-Carding Machinery. By the Sachsische Maschinen-fabrik, Chemnitz, Saxony, 291
Wool and Cotton Spinning, Self-Acting Mules for, 7, 85
Working of Railways, The, 159
Works, Allen Ransoms and Company's, at Chelsea, 424
Works at Coventry, Sewage, 450
Works, Public, in New Zealand, 325
Works, Sewage, at Bilston, 492

Yacht, A New Centre-board, 256

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