Engineering 1879 Jul-Dec: Index: General Index

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GENERAL INDEX

ACCIDENT to the Screw Steamer " Arizona," The, 438
Accidents, Railway, in 1878, Reports of the Board of Trade on, 230, 237, 346, 394
" Acheron," The Australian Torpedo Launch, 52, 99
Acoustical Firedamp Detector, An, 213, 231
Acoustical Improvement of Large Halls, The, 399
Address of the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 117
"Agamemnon," H.M.S., The Launch of, 229
Agricultural Engines and Machinery, Damaged; Circular of the Royal Agricultural Society, 148

AGRICULTURAL SHOW, THE ROYAL, AT KILBURN :

Boiler, Smith's Double-Chambered Vertical, 22, 69
Clod Crusher, Randell's, 35
Crane, Priestman Brothers' Steam, with Self-Acting Bucket, 136
Door Handle Fastening, Dennis's, 36
Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, Fison's, 33

Engines:

Everitt, Adams, and Company's Steam Ploughing, 206
Garrett a Portable, 26
Marshall, sons, and Company's 14-Horse
Portable, with Automatic Expansion Gear, a
Marshall, Sons and Co's Traction, with Automatic Valve Gear, 25
Portable and Fixed, 3, 22
Ruston, Proctor, and Co's Horizontal Condensing, 6
Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Vertical, and Boiler, 5
Traction, and Steam Ploughing Machinery, 2
Governor, Shanks' Equilibrium, 26
Governor and Throttle Valve, Bagnall's,
Harrow, Nicholson's. 36
Hydraulic Valve. Dennis and Company's, 14
Ice-Making Machinery, 15
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 14, 33
Mowing Machine, Wood's, 10
Railways, Portable, 96
Reaping Machines and Sheaf Binders, 7, 27
Regulator for the Electric Light, Crompton's, 17
Roller Mill, Ganz and Company's, 33
Sheaf Binder, Burgess's, 27
Sheaf Binder, Howard's Automatic, 7
Stone Breaker, Hall's Portable, 33
Thrashing Machine Drum and Beater, Garrett's, 32
Thrashing Machines, 32
Thrashing and Straw-Chopping Machine Combined, Ransomes, Sims and Head's, 20
Tramway Locomotive, Bagnall's, 4

Air, The Sensible Warmth of the, 199
Almaden New Works; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 391
Alta Italia Railway, Express Locomotive for the, 414
Alteration of Metals, The Physical, 287
America, Iron Exports to, 441
American Marine Engines, Early, 337
American Navies, The South, 11
American "Needle," The, 476
American Pumping Engines, 154, 189, 365, 376, 488
American Shipbuilding Industry, 940
Analysis of Iron and Steel, The Application of the Spectroscope to the, 141
Anderson's Gas Washer and Scrubber, 43
Antwerp, The Improvement Works at, 280, 335, 386, 394, 486
Apparatus, Electrical, Paterson's Catalogue of, 402
Apparatus, Gas, Exhibition of, at Greenock, 242
Apparatus for Heating Foot-Warmers ; Western Railway of France, 225
Architects and Engineers, 437
Arctic Meteorology, 371
Arctic Research, 232, 254
" Arizona," s.s., The Accident to the, 438
Art of Referencing. The, 341
Assimilation of Patent Laws, The, 151
Atmospheric Electricity, 193
Austin and Hunter's Screw Colliers, The " Fenton" and " Ridge Park," 492
Australian Torpedo Launch, 52, 99
Automatic Brake, The Westinghouse, Trials of, 53, 74, 138
Automatic Expansion Gear, Hartnell's, on Marshall, Sons and Co's Portable Engine, 3
Automatic Expansion Gear, Marshall, Sons, and Company's Traction Engine with, 25
Automatic Expansion Gear, Virck's Horizontal Engine with, 186
Automatic Motion for Spectroscopes, 231
Automatic Sheaf Binder and Harvester, Howard's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 7
Autumn Meeting of 1880 of the Iron and Steel Institute, The, 154, 249,
Aveling and Porter's Winding Drum for Traction Engines, 443
Axles, Locomotive Crank, 288
Axles, Radial, Larsen's Tramcar with, 186

Bagnall's Governor and Throttle Valve, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 6
Bagnall's Tramway Locomotive, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3
Ballast and Circulating Pump, The Pulsometer as a, 413
Ballast, Water, for Steamers, 492
Balloons for Military Purposes, 32
Barff Process for the Protection of Iron, The, 441
Bars, Locomotive Guide, 95
Barton and West's Pressure Reducer, 113, 120
Barton and West's Water Meter, 113, 121
Batho's Combined Dredger, Tug, and Fire Engine, 269
Bazalgette's Proposed High-Level Bridge over the Thames, 56, 75
Belgian Company, The John Cockerill, 420
Belt Screws, Sonnenthal's, 69
Bending Moments, Maximum, upon &Beam, 63
Bills, Miscellaneous, passed in the Session of 1879, List of, 369
Bills, Private, for Session 1880, 435, 454, 475, 496
Bills, Railway, List of, passed in the Session of 1879, 161
Bills, Tramway, List of, passed in the Session of 1879, 203
Bills, Water and Gas, List of, passed in the Session of 1879, 203
Binocular Spectroscopes, 231
Birkenhead Iron and Shipbuilding Works, The, 257
Birmingham Corporation Gas Works, The, 415
Black, Hawthorn, and Company's Compound Tramway Engines, 363
Board of Trade Prosecution for Unseaworthiness, 75
Board of Trade Report for 1878 on Railway Accidents, 2:30, 237, 346, 394
Board of Trade, The, and Shipbuilders, 381, 453
Boat, An Australian Torpedo, 52, 99
Boat, The Herreshoff Torpedo, Official Trial of, 365
Boat, Yarrow's Torpedo, 307
Boats, Herreshoff's Portable Engine for, 266
Boiler-Drilling Machine, Harvey's, 136
Boiler Explosion at Crewe, The, 226
Boiler Explosion, The Halifax, 342
Boiler Explosion, The Stoneclough, 37, 73
Boiler Explosion on board the Tug-Boat " Victor ;" Board of Trade Inquiry, 233
Boiler Explosions, Fatal, 154
Boiler Inspection, 111, 459
Boiler Inspection, Compulsory, 491
Boiler Inspection v. Insurance, 459
Boiler Makers, Howson and Viilson's Heating Furnaces for, 357
Boiler, Multitubular, and Three-Cylinder Engine, Watts', 301
Boiler, Smith's Double-Chambered Vertical, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 22, 69
Boiler, Tubular, Sulzer ,Brothers', with Ten-Brink Firegrate, 175
Boiler, Webb's Steel Locomotive, 265
Boilers, Gas-Fired Sectional, 402
Bradford, The Explosion of a Dye Kettle at, 459
Brake, The Westinghouse, Details of, 52
Brakes, Continuous; Trials of the Westinghouse Automatic, 53, 74, 138
Brearley and Marsden's Stone-Dressing Machine, 300
Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's Pumping Engines at the Vienna Auxiliary Water Works, Pottschach, 432
Bridge, The East River, Contract for the Iron and Steel for the, 96
Bridge over the River Nile at Kohd, 132, 145
Bridge over the River Zwartkops, South Africa, 477
Bridge, The Severn Railway, Opening of, 314
Bridge over the Thames, Proposed High-Level, 56, 75

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, THE :

152, 172, 193, 199, 231
Conversazione, The, 232
Election of Officers for 1880, &c., 202
Grants for Scientific Purposes, 176
On the Development of the Use of Steel during the last Forty Years, considered in its Mechanical and Economic Aspects, by J. Robinson, 164
On Natural Science, by G. Johnstone Stoney, 164
On Radiant Matter, by William Crookes, F.R.S., 165, 187
On the Temperature of Town Water Supplies,
by Baldwin Latham, 168
On the Secular Changes in the Specific Inductive Capacity of Glass, by J. E. H. Gordon, 169
On the Retardation of Phase of Vibrations transmitted by the Telephone, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 169, 193
On the Action of Magnets on Liquid Jets, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 169, 194
On a Galvanometer for Demonstrating the Internal Current Transmitted through the Liquid within a Voltaic Cell, by Conrad W. Cooke, 176, 201
On the Presence of Nitrogen in Steel, by Alfred H. Allen, 185, 201
On some Curious Concretion Balls derived from a Colliery Mineral Water, by Thomas Andrews, 185
On Underground Temperature, by J. D. Everett, 193
On Atmospheric Electricity, by Dr. Michael Grabham, 193
On the Pseudophone, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 194
On Lightning Protectors for Telegraphic Apparatus, by W. H. Preece, 194, 302
On Improvements in Dynamo-Electric Machines, by Mr. Ladd, 194
On a New Electrometer Key, by Dr. Lodge, 194
On the Manufacture of Crucible Steel, by Henry S. Bell, 195
On the Separation of Iron and Phosphorus, especially with Reference to the Manufacture of Steel, by Thomas Blair, 195
On a New Metallurgical Process, by John Hollway, 195, 222
On the Euphrates Valley Railway, by Captain Cameron, 195
On Self-Acting Intermittent Syphons and the Conditions which determine the Commencement of their Action, by Rogers Field, 196, 199, 224
On Recent Advances in Electric Lighting, by J. N. Shoolbred, 196, 231
On the Changes of Volume in Iron when passing from the Liquid to the Solid State, and an Instrument for observing the same, by T. Wrightson, 196
On Pure Mathematics, 196
On the Customs of the People of Urua, by Captain Cameron, 19G
On the Native Races on the Head Waters of the Zambesi, by Major Serpa, Pinto, 197
On the Native Races of Gaboon and Ogowa, by the Comte de Brazza, 197
On Luminous Meteors, by James Glaisher, 199
On the Sensible Warmth of the Air, by Professor George Forbes, 199
On Synchronism of Mean Temperature and Rainfall in the Climate of London, by Courtenay Fox, '200
On Experiments on the Influence of the Angle of the Lip of Rain Gauges on the Quantity of Water collected, by Baldwin Latham, 200
On Hughes's Induction Balance, by W. Chandler Roberts, '202
On some Further Results of Experiments on Friction at High Velocities, by Captain Douglas Galton, 202
On the Writing Telegraph, by E. A, Cowper, 202
On an Acoustical Firedamp Detector, by Professor George Forbes, 213, 231
On Modern Improvements in Heating Air for Hot Blast Furnaces, by E. A. Cowper, 213, 232
On Variable Scales for Spectroscopes, by Johnstone Stoney, 231
On Automatic Motion for Spectroscopes, by Johnstone Stoney, 231
On Binocular Spectroscopes, by Johnstone Stoney, 231
On the Synthesis of Hydrocyanic Acid, by Professor Dewar, 232
On the Amount of Nitrous Acid produced in Electric Illumination, by Professor Dewar, 232
On Arctic Exploration, by John P. Cheyne, Commander, R.N., 232, 254
On the Proposed Canal across the Isthmus of Panama, by Captain Bedford Pim, 232
On the Law of the Power required for different Speeds of the same Steam Vessel ; Illustrated, within the Limits of Experience, by a Linear Scale of their Relation, by Robert Mansel, 429, 466
Panama Canal, The, 232
Photographic Screen, An Improved, 231
Report of the Committee, for Commencing Secular Experiments upon the Elasticity of Wires, by J. T. Bottomley, 179
Report of the Council for 1878-9, 154
Report of the Patent Law Committee, 206
Reports of the Committees, 202

British Association, The, and the Patent Laws, 323
British Museum, The Electric Light in the, 325
Buffalo and Lake Huron; Canadian Railways, 102
Buildings, The Paris Exhibition, Scaffolding for the Erection of, 108, 184
Burgess's Sheaf Binder, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 27

Cable, Marseilles-Algiers, Laying the, 493
Cable Repairing Ships, Telegraph, 473
Cables, New Submarine, 93
Cail and Company's Six-Coupled Tank Locomotive, 497
Calendering Rolls, Voith's, 394
California Works ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 463, 481
Callao, Lima, and Oroya Railway, The, 48, 105

CANADIAN RAILWAYS:

Buffalo and Lake Huron, 102
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 45, 84, 102, 181
Midland Railway of Canada, 481
Northern Railway of Canada, 389
Toronto, Grey, and Bruce Railway, 353
Toronto and Nipissing Railway, 295

Canal, The Panama, 232
Cape Mail Steamer, A Steel Built, 364
Capture of the Ironclad " Huascar," The, 309, 364, 454,476
Carbon Points in the Electric Lamp, The Temperature of the, 342
Carriage, Second-Class ; Western Railway of France, 169
Cement, Ransome's New, 211
Centrifugal Action, Skimming Milk by, 21
Cerro de Pasco Silver Mines, The, 298, 357, 425
"Chancellor Livingston," River Steamboat, Engine of the, 337
Chandler's Coupling for Railway Wagons, 413
China as a Field for Future Railway Enterprise, 59
China, The Telegraph in, 383
Circular Slide Valve, Webb's, 443
" City of Berlin," The Inman Line Royal Mail Steamship, 251
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, 477
Clerk-Maxwell, Professor, 383
" Clermont," River Steamboat, 1807, Engine and Boiler of the, 337
Cleveland, Notes from, 15, 30, 49, 79, 99, 110, 140, 155, 177, 189, 208, 236, 246, 272, 294, 299, 328, 347, 360, 379, 398, 423, 434, 452, 479, 497
Clod Crusher, Randell's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 35

CLUB SHOW, SMITHFIELD, THE: 443

Drum Guard for Thrashing Machine, Clayton and Shuttleworth's, 477
Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's, 446
Guard for Circular Saws, Lakeman's, 446
Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, Ruston,
Proctor, and Company's, 466
Implements, 445
Miscellaneous, 449
Mowing and Reaping Machines, 445
Portable and Fixed Engines, 443
Rakes of Reaping Machines, Howard and
Bousfleld's Apparatus for Controlling, 446
Safety Valve for Pumps of Portable Engines, Garrett and Sons', 443
Slide Valve, Webb's Circular, 443
Winding Drum for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter's, 443

Clyde Shipbuilding Contracts, 345, 402
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, The Prospects of the, 290
Clyde, Thames, and Mersey, Passenger Steamers on the, 430
Coal and Iron Company's Works, The Wigan, 261
Coal Shipping Machinery, Smith's, 375
Coal Wagons, Thomson's Hydraulic Tip for, 205
Coatbridge Tin-Plate Works, The, 115
College, University, The Engineering Laboratory at, 247
Colliery, The Pemberton, 259
" Colombia," s.s., Rescue of the, 242
Companies, Boiler ; Boiler Inspection, 111
Companies, The London Gas, 73
Companies, The Metropolitan Water, 400, 418
Company, French, The Messageries Maritimes, 268
Company, The John Cockerill, 420
Compass, The Tell-Tale Mariner's, 68
Compound Engine, The Theory of the, 324, 3G1
Compound Engines of the s.s. " Gallia," 219
Compound Engines, Redhead and Company's, of the s.s. " Dante" and " Petrarch," 378
Compound Pumping Engines; Vienna Auxiliary Water Works, 432
Compound Tramway Engines, Black, Hawthorn, and Company's, 363
Compounding of Locomotive Engines, The, 17,
Compressed Steel, 83, 255, 263
Compressors, Hydraulic, for Gun Carriages, 316, 349, 396, 460
Compulsory Boiler Inspection, 491
Compulsory Working of Patents, The, 191
Condensing Engine, Horizontal, with Collmann's Valve Gear, 109
Conflans Viaduct, The, 15
Congo, Natives North of the, 197
Congress at Croydon, The Sanitary, 343, 382
Constant Water Supply, 113, 119
Continuous Brakes ; Trials of the Westinghouse Automatic, 53, 74, 138
Continuous Furnaces ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 392
Contract for the Iron and Steel for the East River Bridge, 96
Controlling Rakes of Reaping Machines, Howard and Boustleld's Apparatus for, 446
Conversazione of the British Association, The, 232
Cooke, Sir William Fothergill, 94
Corliss Compound Pumping Engine at Pawtucket, The, 154, 189
Corliss Engine, Douglas and Grant's Horizontal Compound, 487
Corporation Gas Works, The Birmingham, 415
Council of the British Association, Report of the, for 1878-79, 154
Cowper's Writing Telegraph, 202
Cramp and Son's Russian Cruiser " Zabiaca," 413
Crane, Steam, Priestman Brothers', with Self-Acting Bucket, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 136
Crank Axles, Locomotive. 283
Crank-Pin Turning Machine, Webb's, 266
Crankshafts, The Forging of, 123, 137
Crewe, The Boiler Explosion at, 226
Crewe, The London and North-Western Railway Works at, 264
Crompton's Regulator for the Electric Light, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 17
Crown Iron Works, Glasgow, The ; Messrs. Thomson, Sterne, and Company, 142
Crucible Steel, 195
Cunard Steamer " Gallia," The New, 219, 450
Curves, Speed, 344
Customs of the People of Urua, The, 196
Cuttings, The Slopes of, 409

Damaged Agricultural Engines and Machinery ; Circular of the Royal Agricultural Society, 148
" Dante" and " Petrarch," s.s., Redhead and Company's Compound Engines of the, 378
Demenge's Portable Engine, 338
Dennis and Company's Hydraulic Valve, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 14
Dennis's Door Handle Fastening, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 36
Denny Brothers' Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel Ferry Steamer, 378
Denny and Company's Shipbuilding Yard, 114
Dephosphorisation of Iron and Steel, The, 249, 253
Deposits from Mineral Water, 185
Distillation, Method of ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 277
Dockyard Professional Officers, 133, 209
Double-Chambered Vertical Boiler, Smith's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 22, 69
Double Lathe for Disc Railway Wheels, Fetu and Deliege's, 148
Double-Loading Ordnance, 438
Douglas and Grant's Horizontal Compound Corliss Engine, 487
Dredger, Tug, and Fire Engine, Batho's Combined, 269
Dredger, Vertical-Action Steam, 126, 157
Drilling Machines for Rails, Fetu and Delidge's Multiple, 197
Driver for Lathes, Timmins', 379
Drop Hammer, Hasse's, 396
Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, Clayton and Shuttleworth's, 477
Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, Fison's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Drum Guards for Thrashing Machines, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's, 446
Drum, Winding, for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter's, 443
Drummond's Tank Locomotive for the North British Railway, 451
Drying Apparatus, Wilson's, 378
Dabs and Company's Glasgow Locomotive Works, 131
Durand and Chapitol's Pulveriser, 97
Dye Kettle, The Explosion of a, at Bradford, 459
Dynamo-Electric Machines, 194
Dynamo-Electric Machines ; Lighting by Electricity, 63, 101, 173, 326, 372

Eads, Port, 362
Early American Marine Engines, 337
East River Bridge, Contract for the Iron and Steel for the, 96
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Compressed Steel at the, 83
Education, Technical, 305
Eighty-Stamp Mill for Working Silver Ores at the Cerro de Pasco Mines, Peru, 357
Eighty-Ton Gun, The Trial of the, 306
Elasticity of Wires, The, 179
Elder and Company's New Russian Yacht, 325 Election of Officers of the British Association for 1880, dle., 202
Electric Currents, Obach's Tangent Galvanometer for Measuring, 356
Electric Illumination, Nitrous Acid produced by, 232
Electric Lamp, The Temperature of the Carbon Points in the, 342
Electric Light, The, 196, 231
Electric Light in the British Museum, The, 325
Electric Light, Crompton's Regulator for the, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 17
Electric Lighting. 474
Electrical Apparatus, Paterson's Catalogue of, 402
Electrical Transmission of Motive Power, The, 417
Electricity, Atmospheric, 193
Electricity, Lighting by, 307
Electricity, Lighting by ; Dynamo-Electric Machines, 63, 101, 173, 326, 372
Electrometer Key, A New, 194
Engine for Boats, Herreshoff's Portable, 266
Engine and Boiler, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Vertical, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 5
Engine, Compound, The Theory of the, 324, 361
Engine, The Corliss Compound Pumping, at Pawtucket, 154, 189, 488
Engine, Demenge's Portable, 338
Engine, Douglas and Grant's Horizontal Compound Corliss, 487
Engine, Garrett's Portable, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 26
Engine, Horizontal Condensing, with Collmann's Valve Gear, 109
Engine, Indicator, A New Steam, 117
Engine Makers' Society, Steam, Report of the, 192
Engine, Marshall, Sons, and Company's 14-Horse Portable, with Automatic Expansion Gear, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3
Engine, Mine Ventilating, and Guibal Fan, 356
Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Horizontal Condensing, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 6
Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Horizontal Non-Condensing, 466
Engine, Steam Ploughing, Everitt, Adams, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 206
Engine, Traction, with Automatic Valve Gear, Marshall, Sons, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 25
Engine, Virck's Horizontal, with Automatic Expansion Gear, 186
Engine, Watts' Three-Cylinder, and Multitubular Boiler, 301
Engineering Laboratory at the University College, The, 247
Engineering Precedents, 332, 373, 426, 494

ENGINEERS, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING

On a New Steam Engine Indicator, by John E. Sweet, 117
On Washing Phosphoric Pig Iron for the Open Hearth and Puddling Processes, at Krupp's Works, Essen, by A. L. Holley, 298
On the Tessid Gas Producer, by A. L. Holley, 457
Engineers and Architects, 437

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL; 36, 474

Premiums awarded for the Session of 1878-79, 36
On Tunnel Outlets from Storage Reservoirs, by O. J. Wood, 414
On the Passenger Steamers of the Thames, the Mersey, and the Clyde, by W. Carson, 430

ENGINEERS, THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL : 112, 117, 123, 142

Address of the President, 117
Coatbridge Tin-Plate Works, 115
Crown Iron Works, Glasgow, The ; Messrs. Thomson, Sterne, and Company, 142
Excursion to Inverary, 127
Gartsherrie Iron Works, Coatbridge, 131 Govan Iron Works, 143
Hyde Park Locomotive Works ; Messrs. Neilson and Company, 129, 147
Locomotive Works, Glasgow; Messrs. DOB and Company, 131
Locomotive Works, The St. Rollox ; Caledonian Railway Company, 143
North British Railway Locomotive Works, 130
On the Compounding of Locomotive Engines, by M. Anatole, of Paris, 17, 58
On Injector Hydrants for Fire Extinction, by J. H. Greathead, 80
On Water Power Engines with Variable Stroke, by John Hastie, 1060.23
On the Working of Traction Engines in India, by R. E. B. Crompton, 106, 124, 148
On the Pneumatic Marine Governor, by D. J. Dunlop. 112, 118
On the " Velometer" Governor for Marine and Stationary Engines, by F. W. Durham, 11'2, 118
On the Maintenance of Constant Pressure in Water Service Pipes, by Stephen Alley, 113, 119
On Barton and West's Pressure Reducer, by W. H. Thomas, 113, 120
On Barton and West's Water Meter, by W. H. Thomas, 113, 121
On the Forging of Crankshafts, by W. L. E. McLean, 123, 137
On the Construction and Working of a Vertical-Action Steam Dredger, by R. B. Buckley, 126, 157
On Fireless Locomotives for Tramways, by M. Leon Francq, 306, 367, 375
On the Loss of Power in the Screw Propeller, and the Means of Improving its Efficiency„ by the Hon. It. C. Parsons, 404
Saracen Foundry, Possilpark ; Messrs. Walter Macfarlane and Company, 127
Shipbuilding Yard, Denny and Company's, 114
Shipbuilding Yards at Govan, The, 114
Summerlee Iron Works, 143
Visit to Greenock, 127
Works of the Steel Company of Scotland, 130

Engines, American Pumping, 154, 189, 365, 376, 488
Engines, Compound, of the s.s. "Gallia," 219
Engines, Compound Tramway, Black, Hawthorn, and Company's, 363
Engines, Early American Marine, 337
Engines, Fixed and Portable, 443
Engines, Gwynne's Centrifugal Pumping, of the s.s. "Gallia," 450
Engines and Machinery, Damaged Agricultural ; Circular of the Royal Agricultural Society, 148
Engines, The Pawtucket Pumping, 154, 189, 488
Engines, Portable and Fixed, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3, 22
Engines, Portable and Fixed, at the Smithfield Club Show 443
Engines, Pumping, at the Vienna Auxiliary Water Works, Pottschach, Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's, 432
Engines, Redhead and Company's Compound, of the s.s. " Dante" and " Petrarch," 378
Engines, Traction, in India, 106, 124, 148
Engines, Traction, and Steam Ploughing Machinery, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 2
Engines, Water Pressure, 106, 123
Engines of the Yacht " Wanderer," Perkins', 469
Enterprise, Railway, China as a Field for Future, 59
Equatorial Telescope, Grubb's, 277
Euphrates Valley Railway, The, 195
Everitt, Adams, and Company's Steam Ploughing Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 206
Excavator, The Fouracres, 126, 157
Excursion of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to Inverary, 127
Exhibition Buildings, The Paris, 108, 184
Exhibition of Gas Apparatus at Greenock, 242
Exhibition and Market, The National, 268
Expenditure and Traffic, Railway, for 1878, 171
Experiments with the Krupp Guns at Meppen, 134
Exploration, Arctic, 232, 254
Explosion, Boiler, on Board the Tug - Boat Victor ;" Board of Trade Inquiry, 233 Explosion, Boiler, at Crewe, The, 226
Explosion of a Dye Kettle at Bradford, The, 459
Explosion, The Halifax Boiler, 342
Explosion, The Stoneclough Boiler, 37, 73
Explosions, Fatal Boiler, 154
Exports to America, Iron, 441
Express Locomotive for the Alta Italia Railway, 414
Extension of Hallside Steel Works, The, 449
Extension of the Metropolitan Railway, The, 419

Fatal Boiler Explosions, 154
"Fenton" and "Ridge Park," Austin and Hunter's, Screw Colliers, 492
Ferry Steamer, Denny Brothers' Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel, 378
Fetu and Delidge's Double Lathe for Disc Railway Wheels, 148
Fetu and Delidge's Multiple Drilling Machine for Rails, 197
Fire Engine, Tug, and Dredger, Batho's Combined, 269
Fire Extinction, Injector Hydrants for, 80
Firedamp Detector, An Acoustical, 213, '231
Fireless Locomotive, Lamm and Francq's, 306, 367, 375
Fison's Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, at
the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Fixed and Portable Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3, 22
Fixed and Portable Engines, at the Smithfield Club Show, 443
Floods, Metropolitan, 171
Fluid Steel, The Consolidation of, S3, 255, 263
Food Supply, Our, 93
Foot-Warmers, Apparatus for Heating ; Western Railway of France, 225
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 20, 41, 62, 98, 121, 140, 155, 215, 235, 256, 276, '281, 312, 330, 350, 369, 388, 406, 424, 442, 461, 480
Foreign Iron Trade, Our, 347
Forging of Crankshafts, The, 123, 137
Forgings, Large, '262, 274
Foundry, The Saracen, Possilpark ; Messrs Walter Macfarlane and Company, 127 Fouracres Excavator, The, 126, 157
Fowler and Company's Portable Railways. 96
French Company, The Messagerios Maritimes, 268
Froude, Mr. W., F.R.S., 76
Furnace, The Knox ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 407
Furnace, The Luckhart; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 392
Furnace, Modified Idria —Redington Works ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 331
Furnace, Piat's Oscillating, 396
Furnace, The Sarah. Lambert and Gordon's, Ironton, U.S.A., 161
Furnaces, Continuous ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 392
Furnaces, Howson and Wilson's Boiler-Makers' Heating, 3.57
Furnaces, Non - Continuous — Missouri Mine ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 277
Furze Masticator, McKenzie and Sons', 449

" Gallia," The New Cunard Steamer, 219, 450
Galvanometer, Internal Current, 201
Galvanometer, Obach's Tangent, 356
Ganz's Roller Mill, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Garrett's Portable Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 2G
Garrett and Sons' Safety Valve for Pumps of Portable Engines, 443
Garrett's Thrashing Machine Drum and Beater, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 32
Gartsherrie Iron Works, Coatbridge, 131
Gas Apparatus, Exhibition of, at Greenock, 242
Gas Companies, The London, 73
Gas-Fired Sectional Boilers, 402
Gas Managers, Annual Meeting of the North British Association of, 69
Gas-Producer, The Tessid, 457
Gas Washers and Scrubbers, 43, 313
Gas and Water Bills passed in the Session of 1879, List of, 203
Gas, Water, The Manufacture of, 384
Gas Works, The Birmingham Corporation, 415
Gauges, Rain, 200
Gear, Heathorn's Steering, 272
Gear, Wilson's Steam Steering, 282
"Germanic," The White Star Line Royal Mail Steamship, 250
Glasgow Locomotive Works; Messrs. Dubs and Company, 131
Glass Sleepers, Toughened, 154, 263, 270
Glass, The Specific Inductivity of, 169
Goods Locomotives for the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 30, 64
Gorse Masticator, McKenzie and Sons', 449
Govan Iron Works, The, 143
Govan, The Shipbuilding Yards at, 114
Governor, Shanks' Equilibrium, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 26
Governor, Steam Engine, 112, 118
Governor and Throttle Valve, Isagoall's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 6
Governors, Marine Engine, 112, 118
Grain Warehouses, The Liverpool, 252
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, The; Canadian Railways, 45, 84, 102, 181
Grants for Scientific Purposes by the British Association, 176
Greenock, Visit of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to, 127
Grier's Bridge over the River Zwartkops, South Africa, 477
Grubb's Equatorial Telescope, 277
Guard for Circular Saws, Lakeman's, 446
Guibal Fan, and Mine Ventilating Engine, 356
Guide Bars, Locomotive, 95
Gun Carriages, Hydraulic Compressors for, 316, 349, 396, 460
Gun, The 80-Ton, Trial of, 306
Gun, The 38-Ton, Trials of, 324, 473
Gunnery Experiments at Meppen, The Recent, 134
Guns, Double-Loading, 438
Gwynne's, Messrs. J. and H., Centrifugal Pumping Engines of the B.S. " Gallia," 450

Halifax Boiler Explosion, The, 342
Halls, Large, The Acoustical Improvement of, 399
Hall's Portable Stone-Breaker, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Hallside Steel Works, The Extension of, 449
Harbour Improvements, The New York, 367
Harrison's, Mr. T. E.. Report on the Westinghouse Automatic Brake Trials, 138
Harrow, Nicholson's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 36
Harvey's Boiler-Drilling Machine, 13G
Hasse's Drop Hammer, 896
Hawksley, Wild, and Company's Gas-Fired Sectional Boilers, 402
Heathorn's Steering Gear, 272
Heating Foot- Warmers, Apparatus for; Western Railway of France, 225
H.M.S. " Agamemnon, ' The Launch of, 229
Herreshoff's Portable Engine for Boats, 266
Herreshoff Torpedo Boat, Official Trial of the, 365
High-Level Bridge over the Thames, Proposed 56, 75
Hodges, Mr. James, 78
Hollway's Process of Rapid Oxidation, 38
Horizontal Compound Corliss Engine, Douglas and Grant's, 487
Horizontal Condensing Engine with Collmann's Valve Gear, 109
Horizontal Drilling Machine, 197
Horizontal Engine, Virck's, with Automatic Expansion Gear, 186
Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's, 466
Horublocks, Machine for Facing Locomotive, Webb's, 266
Hot-Blast Stoves, 213, 232
Howard anti Bousfield's Apparatus for Controlling Rakes of Reaping Machines, 446
Howard's Harvester and Automatic Sheaf Binder, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 7
Howson and Wilson's Heating Furnaces for Boiler-Makers, 357
"Huascar," Peruvian Ironclad, The Capture of the, 309, 364, 454, 476
Hughes's Induction Balance, 202
Hyde Park Locomotive Works ; Messrs. Neilson and Company, 129, 147
Hydrants for Fire Extinction, Injector, 80
Hydraulic Compressors for Gun Carriages, 316, 349, 396, 460
Hydraulic Tip for Coal Wagon°, Thomson's, 205
Hydraulic Valve, Dennis and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 14

Ice-Making Machinery, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 15
Idris, Furnace, Modified — Redington Works ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 331
Implements at the Smithfield Club Show, 445
Improvement Works at Antwerp, The, 280, 335, 386, 394, 486
Indicator, a New Steam Engine, 117
Induction Balance, Hughes's, 202
Industry, American Shipbuilding, 440
Injector Hydrants for Fire Extinction, 80
Inman Line Royal Mail Steamship " City of Berlin," The, 251
Inspection, Boiler, 111, 459
Inspection of Boilers, Compulsory, 491
Institute of Engineers and Architects, The, 437
Institute, The Sanitary, of Great Britain, Annual Meeting of, 49
Institution of Civil Engineers, The (See Engineers, The Institution of Civil)
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical)
Insurance v. Boiler Inspection, 459
Intermittent Syphons, Self-Acting, 196, 199,224
Internal Current in a Voltaic Cell, The, 176, 201
Inverary, Excursion of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to, 127
Iron, The Barff Process for the Protection of, 441
Iron Exports to America, 441
Iron, The Microscopic Investigation of, 88
Iron Ores, Manganiferous, The Determination of Manganese in, 248
Iron, The Physical Properties of, 196
Iron, Proportionate Output of, 42
Iron, The Removal of Phosphorus from, 298
Iron and Shipbuilding Works, The Birkenhead, 257
Iron and Steel, The Application of the Spectroscope to the Analysis of, 141
Iron and Steel, The Dephosphorisation of, 249, 253
Iron and Steel, The Hardening of, 263
Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, 259, 283, 309, 329

IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, THE : 154, 197, 248, 257

Autumn Meeting of 1880, The, 154, 249
Birkenhead Iron and Shipbuilding Works, The, 257
Cunard Steamship " Gallia," 219. 250
Inman Line Royal Mail Steamship " City of Berlin," The, 251
Liverpool Grain Warehouses, The, 252
London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, The, '264
Mersey Steel and Iron Works, The, 251
On the Neutralisation of Phosphorus in Steel and Steel-Like Metals, by Richard Brown, 243.249
On a New Volumetric Method of Determining Manganese in Manganiferous Iron Ores, Spiegeleisen, &c., 248
On the Dephosphorisation of Iron and Steel, By 14,. A. Poureel, 249, 253
On the Consolidation of Fluid Steel, by Alfred Davis, 255, 26:3
On the Progress of Iron and Steel as Constructive Materials, by J. A. Picton, 258, 302
On some Physical Changes occurring in Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, by Thomas Wrightson, 259, 283, 309, :329
On the Manufacture of Large Forgings and the Materials Suitable for the Same, by G. Ratcliffe, 262, 274
On Preliminary Experiments to determine the Presence of Nitrogen in Steel, by A. H. Allen, 263
On Hardening Iron and Steel ; its Causes and Effects, by Professor Richard Akerman, 263
On the Application of Toughened Glass to Permanent Ways, by C. Wood, 263, 270
On the Wrought-Iron Permanent Way laid upon the North-Eastern Railway, by C. Wood, 263, 273
Pemberton Colliery, The, 259
Printing at3,1 Stationery Works, Messrs. M’Corquodale and Company's, 261
Programme for Meeting, 197
Safety Lamps, Experiments on, 260
White Star Line Royal Mail Steamship, " Germanic," The, 250
Whitecross Wire Company, Warrington, The Works of the, 262
Wigan Coal and Iron Company's Works, The, 261

Iron and Steel, The Progress of, as Constructive Materials, 258, 302
Iron Trade, Our Foreign, 347
Iron Trade, The Northern, Prospects of, 338
Iron Trade in 1879, The Northern, 477
Iron Works, The Crown, Glasgow ; Messrs. Thomson, Sterne, and Company's, 142
Iron Works, (Gartsherrie, Coatbridge, 131
Iron Works, The Govan, 143
Iron Works, The Summerlee, 143
Ironclad " Agamemnon," The Launch of the, 229
Ironclad " Huascar," The Capture of the, 309, 364, 454, 476
Ironfounders' Society, The, 12

Jets, Liquid, The Action of Magnets on, 169,194
Jetties on the Mississippi ; Port Eads, 362
John Cockerill Company, The, 420

Kennedy's Spiral Punches, Machine for Shaping and Sharpening, 238
Key, A New Electrometer, 194
Kneading and Mixing Machinery, Pfleiderer's, 485
Knox Furnace, The ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 407
Kohl, Fowler's Bridge over the River Nile at, 132, 145
Krupp Guns. The Recent Experiments with, at Dieppe°, 134

Laboratory, Engineering, at the University College, The, '247
Lake Huron and Buffalo ; Canadian Railways, 102
Lakeman's Guard for Circular Saws, 446
Lambert and Gordon's Sarah Furnace, Ironton, U.S.A , 161
Lamm and Francq's Fireless Locomotive, 306, 367, 375
Lamp, Electric, The Temperature of the Carbon Points in the, 342
Lamps, Safety, Experiments on, 260
Large Forgings, 262, '274
Large Halls, The Acoustical Improvement of, 399
Larsen's Tramcar with Radial Axles, 186
Lathes, Timmins' Driver for, 379
Launch, An Australian Torpedo, 52, 99
Launch of H.M.S. Agamemnon," The, 229
Laws, Patent, The Assimilation of, 151
Laws, The Patent, and the British Association, 323
Laying the Marseilles-Algiers Cable, 493
Lecture Season, The, 456
Lefeldt's Centrifugal Milk-Skimming Machine, 21
Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel Ferry Steamer, Denny Brothers', 378
Light, The Electric, 196, 231
Light, The Electric, in the British Museum, 325
Light, Electric, Crompton's Regulator for, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 17
Light Measurer; A Retention-Image Photometer, 440
Light Stern-Wheel Steamers, Yarrow's, 3G1
Lighting, Electric, 474
Lighting by Electricity, 307
Lighting by Electricity ; Dynamo - Electric Machines, 63, 101, 173, 326, 372
Lightning Protectors for Telegraphic Apparatus. 194, 302
Lima, Callao, and Oroya Railway, The, 48, 105
Liquid Jets, The Action of Magnets on, 169, 194
List of Materials, Price, 42, 62, 82, 100, 122, 140, 160, 180, 198, 218, 236, '256, 276, '294, 312, 330, 350, 370, 388, 406, 424, 442, 462, 480, 498
List of Miscellaneous Bills passed in the Session of 1879, 369
List of Provisional Orders, Session 1S79; Tramways, Gas, and Water, 335
List of Railway Bills passed in the Session of 1879, 161
List of Tramway Bills passed in the Session of 1879, 203
List of Water and Gas Bills passed in the Session of 1879, 203
Liverpool Grain Warehouses, The, 252
Livesey Washers, The ; Gas Washers and Scrubbers, 314
Llandulas, New Viaduct at, for the London and North-Western Railway, 343
Locomotive, Bagnall's Tramway, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3
Locomotive Crank Axles, 288
Locomotive, Drummond's "rank, for the North British Railway, 451
Locomotive Engines, The Compounding of, 17, 54
Locomotive, Express, for the Alta Italia Railway, 414
Locomotive, Goods, for the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 3o, 64
Locomotive Guide Bars, 9(
Locomotive Hornblocks, Webb's Machine for Facing, 266
Locomotive, Lamm and Francq's Fireless, 306, 367, 375
Locomotive, Passenger, for the Southern Railway of Austria, 206
Locomotive, Tank, Cail and Company's Six-Coupled, 497
Locomotive Works, Glasgow; Messrs. Di1bs and Company, 131
Locomotive Works, Hyde Park; Messrs. Neilson and Company's, 129, 147
Locomotive Works, The North British Railway, 130
Locomotive Works, The St. Rollox ; Caledonian Railway Company, 143
London Floods, 171
London Gas Companies, 73
London and North-Western Railway Works at Crewe, The, 264
London Temperature and Rainfall, 200
London Water Companies, The, 400, 418
Luckhart Furnace, The ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 892
Luminous Meteors, 199

M'Corquodale and Company's Printing and Stationery Works, 261
Macfarlane and Company's Saracen Foundry, Possilpark, 127
Machine, Brearley and Marsden's Stone-Dressing, 300
Machine for Facing Hornblocks, Webb's, 266
Machine, Fetu and Deliege's Multiple Drilling for Rails, 197
Machine, Harvey's Boiler-Drilling, 130
Machine for Shaping and Sharpening Kennedy's Spiral Punches, 238
Machine, Thrashing and Straw-Chopping, Combined, Ransomes, Sims. and Head's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 20
Machine, Webb's Crank-Pin Turning, 266 Machine, Webb's Quartering, 266
Machine Work, 395, 421
Machinery, Ice-Making, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 15
Machinery, The Rating of, 382
Machinery, Smith's Coal Shipping, 375
Machinery, Steam Ploughing, and Traction Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 2
Machinery, The " Three Years' Purchase System" as applied to, 160
Machinery, Voith's Calendering 394
Machines, Dynamo-Electric., 194
Machines, Dynamo-Electric ; Lighting by Electricity, 63, 101, 173, 326, 372
Machines, Reaping, and Sheaf Binders, at the
Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 7, 27
Machines, Richards and Atkinson's Reversing Moulding, 224
Machines, Thrashing, at the Smithfield Club Show, 448
Machines, Thrashing, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 32
Machines, Wood-Converting; Engineering Precedents, 332, 373, 426, 494
McKenzie and Sons' Gorse Masticator, 449
Magneto-Electric Machines, M. de Meritens' ; Lighting by Electricity, 372
Mail Steamer, Cape, A Steel-Built, 364
Manganese in Manganiferous Iron Ores, The Determination of, 248
Manufacture of Scotch Steel, The, 316
Manufacture of Water Gas, The, 384
Manx Northern Railway, The, 211
Marine Engine Governors, 112, 118
Marine Engines, Early American, 837
Mariner's Compass, The Tell-Tale, 68
Market and Exhibition, The National, 268
Marseilles-Algiers Cable, Laying the, 493
Marshall, Suns, and Company's 14-Horse Portable Engine, with Automatic Expansion Gear, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3
Marshall, Sons, and Company's Traction Engine with Automatic Valve Gear, at the Royal
Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 25
Martens' Microscopic Investigation of Iron, 88
Materials, Price List of, 42, 62, 82, 100, 122, 140, 160, 180, 198, 218, 236, 256, '276, 294, 312, 330, 350, 370, 388, 406, 424, 442, 462, 480, 498
Mathematical Notes on some Questions Relating to Ordnance, 1
Mathematics, Pure,196
Matter, Radiant, 165, 187
Maximum Bending Moments upon a Beam, 63
Meat Supply, Our, 93
Meat Transport by Rail, 31
Meeting, Annual, of the North British Association of Gas Managers, 69
Meeting, Annual, of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 49
Meeting, Autumn of 1880, of the Iron and Steel Institute, The, 154, 249
Meetings of the Meteorological Society, 421, 489
"Mendoza," s.s., Trial Trip of the, 346
Meppen, Recent Gunnery Experiments at, 134
Mercury, Treatment of, in North California (See Treatment of Mercury in North California)
Mersey Steel and Iron Works, The, 251
Mersey, Thames, and Clyde, Passenger Steamers on the, 430
Messageries Maritimes, The, 268
Metallurgical Process, A Now, 195, 222
Metals, The Physical Alteration of, 237
Meteorological Society, Meetings of the, 421, 489
Meteorology, Arctic, 871
Meteors, Luminous, 199
Metropolitan Floods, 171
Metropolitan Railway, The Extension of, 419
Metropolitan Water Companies, The, 400, 418
Microphone, Sedlacek's, 205
Microscopic Investigation of Iron, The, 88
Midland Railway of Canada ; Canadian Railways, 481
Military Purposes, Balloons for, 82
Milk Slimming by Centrifugal Action, 21
Mill, Eighty-Stamp, for Working Silver Ores at the Cerro de Pasco Mines, Peru, 357
Mine Ventilating Engine and Guibal Fan, 356
Mineral Water, Deposits from, 185
Mines, Silver, The Cerro de Pasco, 298, 357, 425
Miscellaneous Bills passed in the Session of 1879, List of, 369
Miscellaneous Exhibits, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 14, 33
Miscellaneous Exhibits, at the Smithfield Club Show, 449
Mixing and Kneading Machinery, Pileiderer's, 485
Motive Power, The Electrical Transmission of, 417
Moulding Machine, Reversible, 224
Mowing Machine, Wood's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 10
Mowing and Reaping Machines, 445
Multitubular Boiler and Three-Cylinder Engine, Watts', 301

Napier, Mr. James R., F.R.S., 497
National Exhibition and Market, The, 268
Natives of the Head of the Zambesi, The, 197
Natives North of the Congo, The, 197
Natural Science, 164
Navies, The South American, 11
" Needle," 1 he American, 476
Neilson and Company's Hyde Park Locomotive Works, 129, 147
New York Harbour Improvements, The, 367
New Zealand, Railway Extension in, 83
Nicholson's Harrow, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 36
Nipissing and Toronto Railway; Canadian Railways, 295
Nitrogen in Steel, The Presence of, 185, 201
Nitrous Acid produced by Electric Illumination, 232
Non-Condensing Engine, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's horizontal, 466
North British Association of Gas Managers, Annual Meeting of the, 69
North British Railway, Drummond's Tank Locomotive for the, 451
North British Railway Locomotive Works, 130
Northern Iron Trade in 1879, The, 477
Northern Railway of Canada ; Canadian Railways, 389
Northern Railway, The Manx, 211
Northern Trade Prospects, 338
Notes from Cleveland, 15, 30, 49, 79, 99, 110, 140, 155, 177, 189, 208, 236, 246, '272, 294, 299, 328,347, 360, 379, 398, 423, 434, 452, 479, 497
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 20, 41, 62, 98, 121, 140, 155, 217, 235,256, 276, 281, 312, 330, 350, 369, 388, 406, 423, 442, 461, 480, 497
Notes, Mathematical, on some Questions Relating to Ordnance, 1
Notes from the North, 15, 30, 57, 71, 98, 110, 139. 147, 177, 197, 214, '235, 246, 271, 285, 311, 3 2 8, 339, 360, 379, 398, 423, 433, 452, 479, 489
Notes from the South-West, 30, 50, 79, 99, 110 139, 155, 177, 197, 202, 285, '266, 285, 311, 328, 339 365, 387, 398, 423, 434, 452, 479, 489
Notes from South Yorkshire, 16, 30, 52, 79, 99 110,139, 155, 176, 197, 215, 236, 246, '271, 290, 311 328, 339, 360, 379, 398, 458, 479, 486

Obach's Tangent Galvanometer, 356
OBITUARY: (Moved to separate index)
Officers of the British Association for 1880, Election of, 202
Officers, Professional Dockyard, 133, 209
Opening of the Severn Railway Bridge, 314
Orders, Provisional, Session 1879, List of ; Tramways, Gas, and Water, 335
Ordnance, Double-Loading, 438
Ordnance, Mathematical Notes on some Questions Relating to, 1
Oroya, Callao, and Lima Railway, The, 48, 105
Oscillating Furnace, Piat's, 396
Ossett Water Works, Testing Water Pipes at the, 178, 215
Outlets from Storage Reservoirs, 414
Output of Iron, Proportionate, 42
Oxidisation, Hollway's Process of Rapid, 38

Paddle-Wheel Ferry Steamer, Denny Brothers' Light-Draught, 378
Panama Canal, The, 232
Paris Exhibition Buildings, Scaffolding for the Erection of, 108, 184
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, Goods Locomotive for the, 30, 64
Passenger Locomotive fur the Southern Railway of Austria, 206
Passenger Steamers on the Thames, Mersey, and Clyde, 430
Patent Law Committee of the British Association, Report of the, 206
Patent Laws, The Assimilation of, 151
Patent Laws, The, and the British Association, 323
Patents, The Compulsory Working of, 191
Paterson's Catalogue of Electrical Apparatus, 402
Pawtucket Pumping Engine, The, 154, 189
Pemberton Colliery, The, 259
Permanent Way, Wood's Wrought-Iron, 263, 273
Persia, The Telegraph in, 401
Peruvian Ironclad " Huascar," The Capture of the, 309, 364, 454, 476
" Petrarch" and," Dante," s.s., Redhead and Company's Compound Engines of the, 378
Pileiderer's Mixing and Kneading Machinery, 485
Phenomena, Telephonic, 169, 193
Phosphorus from Iron, The Removal of, 298
Phosphorus, The Separation of, from Steel, 195
Phosphorus in Steel, '243, 249
Photographic Screen, An Improved, 231
Photometer, A Retention-Image, 440
Physical Alteration of Metals. The, 287
Physical Properties of Iron, The, 196
Piat's Oscillating Furnace, 396
Pipe-Joints, Testing, at the Ossett Water Works, 178, 215
Ploughing Engine, Everitt, Adams, and Company's Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 206
Pneumatic Sewerage System, Shone's, 52
" Polyphemus," Torpedo Ram, The, 87
Port Lads, 362
Portable Engine for Boats, Herreshoff's, 266
Portable Engine, Demenge's, 338
Portable Engine, Garrett's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 26
Portable and Fixed Engines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3, 22
Portable Railways, 96
Portable and Fixed Engines at the Smithfield Club Show, 443
Post Office Annual Report, The, 247
Pound of Steam, The Work in a, 439
Precedents, Engineering, 3:3'2, 373. 426, 494
Premiums awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers for the Session of 1878-79, 36
President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Address of the, 117
Pressure Reducer, Barton and West's, 113, 120,
Price List of Materials, 42, 62, S2, 100, 122, 140, 160, 180, 198, 218, 236, 256, 276, 294, 312, 330, 350, 370, 388, 406, 424, 442, 462, 480, 498
Priestman Brothers' Steam Crane with Self-Acting Bucket at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 136
Printing and Stationery Works, Messrs. M’Corquodale and Company's, 261
Private Bills for Session 1880, 435, 454, 475, 496
Process in Metallurgy, A New, 195, 222
Professional Officers, Dockyard, 133, 209
Progress of Iron and Steel as Constructive Materials, 258, 302
Propeller, The Screw, 404
Proportionate Output of Iron, 42
Prosecution for Unseaworthiness, 75
Prospects of the Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, The, 290
Protection of Iron, The Barff Process for the, 441
Provincial Sanitation, 210
Provisional Orders, Session 1879, List of ; Tramways, Gas, and Water, 335
Prussia, Steam Power in, 379
Pseudophone, The, 194
Pulsometer as a Ballast and Circulating Pump, The, 413
Pulveriser, Durand and Chapitel's, 97
Pump, Ballast and Circulating, The Pulsometer as a, 413
Pumping Engine, The Conies Compound, at Pawtucket, 154, 189
Pumping488 Engines, American, 154, 189, 365, 376,
Pumping Engines, Gwynne's Centrifugal, of the s.s. " Gallia," 450
Pumping Engines, The Pawtucket, 154, 189, 488
Pumping Engines at the Vienna Auxiliary Water Works, Pottschach, Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's, 432
Punches, Kennedy's Spiral, Machine for Shaping and Sharpening, 238
Pure Mathematics, 196

Quartering Machine, Webb's, 266
Questions relating to Ordnance, Mathematical Notes on some, 1

Radial Axles, Larsen's Tramcar with, 18G
Radiant Matter, 165, 187
Rails, Fetu and Deliege's Multiple Drilling Machine for, 197
Rails, Steel, 288
Railway Accidents for 1878 ; Report of the Board of Trade, 230, 237, 346, 394
Railway, The Alta Italia, Express Locomotive for, 414
Railway Bills passed in the Session of 1879, List of, 161
Railway Bridge, The Severn, Opening of, 319
Railway, The Callao, Lima, and Oroya, 48, 105
Railway Enterprise, China as a Field for Future, 59
Railway, The Euphrates Valley, 195
Railway Extension in New Zealand, 83
Railway, London and North-Western, Webb's New Viaduct at Llandulas for the, 343
Railway, The Maux Northern, 211
Railway, Metropolitan, Extension of the, 419
Railway, the Midland of Canada ; Canadian Railways, 981
Railway, North British, Drummond's Tank Locomotive for the, 451
Railway, Northern of Canada ; Canadian Railways, 389
Railway, The Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, Goods Locomotive for the, 30, 64
Railway, The Toronto, Grey, and Bruce ; Canadian Railways, 353
Railway, The Toronto and Nipissing, 295
Railway Traffic and Expenditure for 1878, 171
Railway and Tramway Sleepers, Glass, 154
Railway Wagons, Chandler's Coupling for, 413
Railway Wagons for Meat Transport, 31
Railway Wheels, Disc, Fetu and Deliege's Double Lathe for, 148
Railway Works at Crewe, The London and North-Western, 264
Railways, The Grand Trunk of Canada; Canadian Railways, 45, 84, 102, 181
Railways, Portable, 96
Rain Gauges, 200
Rakes of Reaping Machines, Howard and Bousfield's Apparatus for Controlling, 446
Ram, Torpedo, The " Polyphemus," 87
Randell's Clod Crusher, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 35
Ransome's New Cement, 211
Ransomes, Sims, and Head's Combined Thrashing and Straw-Chopping Machine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, '20
Rapid Oxidation, Hollway's Process of, 38
Rating of Machinery, The, 382
Reaping Machines and Sheaf Binders, at the
Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 7, '27
Reaping and Mowing Machines, at the Smithfield Club Show, 445
Redhead and Company's Compound Engines of the s.s. " Dante" and " Petrarch," 378 Referencing, The Art of, 341
Regulator for the Electric Light, Crompton's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 17
Removal of Phosphorus from Iron, The, 298
Repairing Ships, Telegraph Cable, 473
Report, Annual, of the Postmaster-General, 247
Report of the Council of the British Association for 1878-9, 154
Report of Mr. Harrison on the Westinghouse Automatic Brake Trials, 138
Report of the Patent Law Committee of the British Association, 206
Report of the Steam Engine Makers' Society, The, 192
Reports of the Board of Trade on Railway Accidents. The, 230, '237, 346, 394
Reports of Committees of the British Association, `202
Reports on the Stoneclough Boiler Explosion, 37
Rescue of the s.s. " Colombia," 242
Research, Arctic, 232, 254
Reservoirs, Storage, Outlets from, 414
Retention-Image Photometer, A, 440
Reversible Moulding Machines, Richards and Atkinson's, 224
Richards and Atkinson's Reversing Moulding Machines, 224
" Ridge Park.' and " Fenton," Austin and Hunter's Screw Colliers, 492
River Nile at Kohd, Bridge over the, 132, 145
River Thames, The, 267
River Thames, Bazalgette's Proposed High-Level Bridge over the, 56, 75
River Zwartkops, South Africa, Bridge over the, 477
Roasting, Method of ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 277
Roller Mill, Ganz's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Rubber-Tyred Traction Engines, 106, 124, 148
Russian Cruiser " Zabiaca," Cramp and Sons', 413
Russian Yacht, The New, 325
Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Drum Guard for Thrashing Machines, 446
Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Horizontal Condensing Engine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 6
Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Horizontal Non-Condensing Engine, 466
Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Vertical Engine and Boiler, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 5

Safety Lamps, Experiments on, 260
Safety Valve for Pumps of Portable Engines, Garrett and Sons', 443
St. Rollox Locomotive Works; Caledonian Railway Company, 143
Sanitary Congress at Croydon, The, 343, 382
Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, Annual Meeting of the, 49
Sanitation, Provincial, 210
Saracen Foundry, Possilpark ; Messrs. Walter Macfarlane and Company, 127
Sarah Furnace, Lambert and Gordon's, Ironton, U.S.A., The, 161
Saws, Lakeman's Guard for Circular, 446
Scaffolding for the Erection of the Paris Exhibition Buildings, 108, 184
Science, Natural, 164
Scientific Purposes, Grants for, by the British Association, 176
Scotch Steel Manufacture, 316
Screen, An Improved Photographic, 231
Screw Colliers, The " Fenton" and "Ridge Park," Austin and Hunter's, 492
Screw Propeller, The, 404
Screw Steamer " Arizona," The Accident to the, 438
Screw Steamer " Colombia," Rescue of the, 242
Screw Steamer " Mendoza," Trial Trip of the, 346
Screws, Sonnenthal's Belt, 69
Scrubbers and Washers, Gas, 43, 313
Season, The Lecture, 456
Second-Class Carriage ; Western Railway of France, 169
Sectional Boilers, Gas-Fired, 402
Sedlacek's Microphone, 205
Selfe's Australian Torpedo Launch "Acheron," 52, 99
Session 1880, Private Bills for, 435, 454, 475, 496
Severn Railway Bridge, Opening of the, 314
Severn's Tell-Tale Mariner's Compass, 68 Shanks' Equilibrium Governor, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 26
Shaping and Sharpening Kennedy's Spiral Punches, Machine for, 238
Sheaf Binder, Burgess's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 27
Sheaf Binders and Reaping Machines, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 7, 27
Shipbuilders and the Board of Trade, 381, 453
Shipbuilding Contracts, The Clyde, 345, 402
Shipbuilding Industry, American, 440
Shipbuilding and Iron Works, The Birkenhead, 257
Shipbuilding Trade, The Clyde, Prospects of the, 290
Shipbuilding Yard, Denny and Company's, 114
Shipbuilding Yards at Govan, The, 114
Ships, Telegraph Cable Repairing, 473
Shone's Pneumatic Sewerage System, 52
Show, The Royal Agricultural, at Kilburn (See Agricultural Show, The Royal, at Kilburn)
Show, The Smithfield Club (See Club ;Slum), The Smithfield)
Silk, Waste, Yarn from, 282
Silver Mines, The Cerro do Pasco, 298, 357, 425
Six-Coupled Tank Locomotive, Cail's, 497
Skimming Milk by Centrifugal Action, 21
Sleepers for Railways and Tramways, Glass, 154
Sleepers, Toughened Glass, 154, 263, 270
Slopes of Cuttings, The, 409
" Slurry," Wilson's Apparatus for Drying, 378
Smith's Coal Shipping Machinery, 375
Smith's Double-Chambered Vertical Boiler, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 22, 69
Society, The Ironfounders', 12
Society, The Meteorological, Meetings of, 421, 489
Sonnenthal's Belt Screws, 69
South American Navies, The, 11
South-West, Notes from the, 30, 50, 79, 99, 110, 139, 155, 177, 197, '202, 235, 266, 285, 311, 328, 339, 365. 387, 398, 423, 434, 452, 479, 489
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 16, 30, 52, 79, 99, 110, 139, 155, 176, 197, 215, 236, 246, 271, 290, 311, 328, 339, 360, 379, 398, 458, 479, 486
Southern Railway of Austria, Passenger Locomotive for the, 206
Specific Inductivity of Glass, The, 169
Spectroscope, The Application of the, to the Analysis of Iron and Steel, 141
Spectroscopes, Automatic Motion for, 231
Spectroscopes, Binocular, 231
Spectroscopes, Variable Scales for, 231
Speed Curves, 344
Standard Washer and Scrubber, The ; Gas Washers and Scrubbers, 313
Stationery and Printing Works, Messrs. M'Corquodale and Company's, 261
Steam Crane, Priestman Brothers', with Self-Acting Bucket, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 136
Steam Engine Governor, Marine, 112, 118
Steam Engine Indicator, A New, 117
Steam Engine Makers' Society Report, The, 192
Steam Hammer, Hasse's Drop, 396
Steam-Ploughing Engine, Everitt, Adams, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 206
Steam-Ploughing Machinery and Traction Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 2
Steam Power in Prussia, 379
Steam Steering Gear, Wilson's, 282
Steam Vessels, The Speed of, 429, 466
Steam, The Work in a Pound of, 439
Steamer, Ferry, Denny Brothers' Light-Draught Paddle-Wheel, 378
Steamer, The New Cunard, " Gallia," 219, 450
Steamers, Water Ballast, 492
Steamship, "City of Berlin," The Inman Line Royal Mail, 251
Steamship " Germanic," The White Star Line Royal Mail, 250
Steel-Built Cape Mail Steamer, A, 364
Steel Company of Scotland, The Works of the, 130
Steel, Compressed, 83
Steel, Crucible, 195
Steel, Fluid, The Consolidation of, 83, 255, 263
Steel and Iron, The Hardening of, 263
Steel and Iron at High Temperatures, 259, 283, 309, 329
Steel and Iron, The Progress of, as Constructive Materials, 258, 302
Steel and Iron Works, The Mersey, 251
Steel Locomotive Boiler, Webb's, '265
Steel, Phosphorus in, 243, 249
Steel, The Presence of Nitrogen in, 185, 201
Steel Rails, '288
Steel, The Separation of Phosphorus from, 195
Steel, The Use of, 164
Steel Works, The Hallside, Extension of, 449
Steele and Company's Engines of the Yacht " Wanderer," 469
Steele, Mr. Robert, Shipbuilder, 96
Steering Gear, Heathorn's, 272
Stern-Wheel Steamers, Yarrow's, 361
Stone Breaker, Hall's Portable, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Stone-Breaking Apparatus ; Durand and Chapitel's Pulveriser, 97
Stone-Dressing Machine, Brearley and Marsden's,. 300
Stoneclough Boiler Explosion, The, 37, 73
Storage Reservoirs, Outlets from, 414
Stoves, Hot-Blast, 213, '232
Straw-Chopping and Thrashing Machine, Combined, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 20
Submarine Cables, New, 93
Sulzer Brothers' Tubular Boiler with Ten-Brink Firegrate, 175
Summerlee Iron Works, The, 143
Supply of Food, Our, 93
Supply of Water, The, 152
Syphons, Self-Acting Intermittent, 196, 199, 224

Tangent Galvanometer, Obach's, 356
Tank, Locomotive, Cail and Company's Six-Coupled, 497
Tank Locomotive, Drummond's, for the North' British Railway, 451
Technical Education, 306
Telegraph Cable Repairing Ships, 473
Telegraph in China, The, 3S3
Telegraph in Persia, The, 401
Telegraphic Apparatus, Lightning Protectors for 194, 302
Telephone, The, 169, 193
Telescope, Grubb's Equatorial, 277
Tell-Tale Mariner's Compass, The, G8
Temperature of the Carbon Points in the Electric Lamp, The, 342
Temperature and Rainfall, London, 200
Temperature, Underground, 193
Tessie Gas Producer, The, 457
Testing Water Pipes at the Ossett Water Works,, 178, 215
Thames Haven Water Supply, The, III
Thames, Mersey, and Clyde, Passenger Steamers, on the, 430
Thames, The River, 267
Thames, River, Bazalgette's Proposed High-Level Bridge over the, 56, 75
Theory of the Compound Engine, The, 324, 361
Thirty-Eight Ton Gun, The Trials of the, 324, 473
Thomson, Sterne, and Company's Crown Iron Works, Glasgow, 142
Thomson's Hydraulic Tip for Coal Wagons, 205
Thrashing Machine Drum and Beater, Garrett's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 32
Thrashing Machines, Clayton and Shuttleworth's Drum Guard for, 477
Thrashing Machines, Fison's Drum Guard for, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 33
Thrashing Machines, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's Drum Guards for, 446
Thrashing Machines, at the Smithfield Club Show, 448
Thrashing and Straw-Chopping Machine, Combined, Ransomes, Sims, and Head's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 20
" Three Years' Purchase System," The, as Applied to Machinery, 160
Timmins' Driver for Lathes, 379
Tin-Plate Works, The Coatbridge, 115
Toronto, Grey, and Bruce Railway ; Canadian Railways, 353 •
Toronto and Nipissing Railway ; Canadian Railways, 295
Torpedo Boat, The Herreshoff, Official Trial of, 365
Torpedo Boat, Yarrow's, 307
Torpedo Launch " Acheron," The Australian, 52, 99
Torpedo Ram " Polyphemus," The, 87
Toughened Glass Sleepers, 154, 263, 270
Tower Bridge, The, 56, 75
Town Water Supplies, Temperature of, 168
Traction Engine with Automatic Valve Gear, Marshall, Sons, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 25
Traction Engines in India, 106, 124, 148
Traction Engines, Rubber-Tyred, 106, 124, 148
Traction Engines and Steam-Ploughing Machinery, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 2
Trade Prospects, Northern, 338
Traffic and Expenditure, Railway, for 1878, 171
Tramcar with Radial Axles, Larsen's, 186
Tramway Bills passed in the Session of 1879 List of, 203
Tramway Engines, Compound, Black, Hawthorn, and Company's, 363
Tramway Locomotive, Bagnall's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 3
Tramway and Railway Sleepers, Glass, 154
Transmission of Motive Power, The Electrical, 417
Transport of Meat by Rail, 31

TREATMENT OF MERCURY IN NORTH CALIFORNIA : 239

California Works, 463, 484
Continuous Furnaces, 392
Knox Furnace, 407
Luckhart Furnace, 392
Method of Distillation, 277
Method of Roasting, 277
Modified Idris, Furnace —Redington Works, 331
New Almaden Works, 391
Non-Continuous Furnaces—Missouri Mine, 277

Trial of the 80-Ton Gun, The, 306
Trial Trip of the s.s. " Mendoza," 34G
Trials of the 38-Ton Gun, The, 324, 473
Trials of the Westinghouse Automatic Brake, 53, 74, 138
Tubular Boiler, Sulzer Brothers', with Ten-Brink Firegrate, 175
Tug-Boat " Victor," Boiler Explosion on Board the ; Board of Trade Inquiry, 233
Tug, Dredger, and Fire Engine, Batho's Combined, 269

Underground Temperature, 193
University College, The Engineering Laboratory at, 247
Urua, Customs of the People of, 196
Unseaworthiness, Prosecution for, 75
Use of Steel, The, 164

Valve Gear, Collmann's, Horizontal Condensing Engine with, 109
Valve, Safety, for Pumps of Portable Engines, Garrett and Sons', 443
Valve, Webb's, Circular Slide, 443
Variable Scales for Spectroscopes, 231
Ventilating Engine, Mine, and Guibal Fan, 356
Vertical Action Steam Dredger, 126, 157
Vertical Boiler, Smith's Double-Chambered, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 22, 69
Vertical Engine and Boiler, Ruston, Proctor, and Company's, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 5
Vessels, Steam, The Speed of, 429, 466
Viaduct, The Conflans, 15
Viaduct at Llandulas. New, for the London and North-Western Railway, 343
Vibrations transmitted by the Telephone, 169, 193
" Victor," Tug-Boat, Boiler Explosion on Board the ; Board of Trade Inquiry, 233
Vienna Auxiliary Water Works, Pottschach, Breitfeld, Danek, and Company's Pumping Engines at the, 432
Virck's Horizontal Engine with Automatic Expansion Gear, 186
Visit of the Members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to Greenock, 127
Voith's Calendering Rolls, 394
Voltaic Cell, The Internal Current in, 176, 201

Wagons, Coal, Thomson's Hydraulic Tip for, 205
Wagons, Railway, Chandler's Coupling for 413
Wagons, Railway, for Meat Transport, 31
" Wanderer," Yacht, Steele and Company's Engines of the, 469
Warmth of the Air, The Sensible, 199
Washers and Scrubbers, Gas, 43, 313
Waste Silk, Yarn from, 282
Water Ballast Steamers, 492
Water Companies, The Metropolitan, 400, 418
Water and Gas Bills passed in the Session of 1879, List of, 203
Water Gas, The Manufacture of, 381
Water Meter, Barton and West's, 113, 121
Water Pipes, Testing, at the Ossett Water Works, 178, 215
Water Pressure Engines, 106, 123
Water Pressure, The Regulation of, 113, 120
Water Supplies, Town, Temperature of, 168
Water Supply, The, 152
Water Supply, Constant, 113, 119
Water Supply, The Thames Haven, 111
Water Works, The Vienna Auxiliary, Broitfeld, Danek, and Company's Pumping Engines at, 432
Watts' Three-Cylinder Engine and Multitubular Boiler, 301
Webb's Circular Slide Valve, 443
Webb's Steel Locomotive Boiler, 265
Western Railway of France, Apparatus for Heating Foot-Warmers for, 225
Western Railway of France, Second-Class Carriage for the, 169
Westinghouse Automatic Brake, Trials of the, 53, 74, 138
Westinghouse Brake, Details of, 52
Wheels, Disc Railway, Fetu and Delidges Double Lathe for, 148
White Star Line Royal Mail Steamship " Germanic," The, 250
Whitecross Wire Co, Warrington, The Works of the, 262
Wigan Coal and Iron Co's Works, The, 261
Wilson's Drying Apparatus, 378
Wilson's Steam Steering Gear, 282
Winding Drum for Traction Engines, Aveling and Porter's, 443
Wires, The Elasticity of, 179
Wood-Converting Machine; Engineering Precedents, 33'2, 373, 426, 494
Wood's Mowing Machine, at the Royal Agricultural Show, Kilburn, 10
Work, Machine, 395, 421
Work in a Pound of Steam, The, 439
Working of Patents, The Compulsory, 191
Working Silver Ores at the Cerro do Paseo Mines, Peru, Eighty-Stamp Mill for, 357
Works, California; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 463, 484
Works, The Coatbridge Tin-Plato, 115
Works, Dubs and Company's Glasgow Locomotive, 131
Works, The Improvement, at Antwerp, 280, 335, 386, 394, 486
Works, The London and North-Western Railway, at Crewe, 264
Works, The Mersey Steel and Iron, 251
Works, Neilson and Company's Hyde Park Locomotive, 129, 147
Works, New Almaden ; Treatment of Mercury in North California, 391
Works of the Steel Company of Scotland, The 130
Writing Telegraph, Cowper's, 202
Wrought-Iron Permanent Way, Wood's, 263, 273

Yacht, The New Russian, 325
Yacht " Wanderer," Steele and Company's Engines of the, 469
Yarn from Waste Silk, 282
Yarrow's Stern-Wheel Steamers, 361
Yarrow's Torpedo Boat, 307

"Zabiaca," Cramp and Sons' Russian Cruiser, 413
Zambesi, The Natives of the Head of the, 197
Zwartkops River, South Africa, Bridge over the, 477

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