Engineering 1885 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1885 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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GENERAL INDEX

Absorbing the Extra Current of Dynamos, 270
Abstracts of Patents, 429
Accidental Explosions by Non-Explosive Liquids, 536
Accidents, Railway, in Russia, 706
Accumulator Patents, The Validity of, 117
Accumulator, The Regenerative, 93
Accumulators, Indicating Charge of, 659
Act, The Electing Lighting, 9, 292
Act, The New Patent, 35
Actinometer, A Selenium, 170
Action, Another Telephone, 63
Action, The Fleet in, 607
“Active,” The Gun Accident on Board the, 119
Address of the President of the Iron and Steel Institute, 539, 563, 587, 633, 662
Adige, River, at Verona, Bridge over the, 390
Adjusting Bridge Piers, 246
Administration, American Naval, 141
Admiralty, The New “Scouts” for the, 237
Aerial Torpedoes, 657
Agriculture, Winds in, 513
Air Compressors at the Arlberg Tunnel, 364
Air Compressors, Scott’s, 505
Air Compressors, Walker Brothers’, 485
Alloy, Prize fora New, 372_|
Alloys of Indium and Gallium, 320
Aluminium, Process for Producing, 64
America, Fire Inspection in, 559
America, Natural Gas in, 373
America, The Telephone in, 372
America, Train Communication in, 320
American Cities, Rapid Transit in, 374
American Exhibition, The, 583
American Gas-Lighted Buoy, An, 705
American Iron and Steel Industry, The, 658
American Lake, A New, 37
American Naval Administration, 141
American Railway Gauge, 170
American Society of Civil Engineers, The, 206
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 703
American Technical Literature, 172
American Time, 398
Ammonia from Nitrogen of Coal, &c„ 581
Analysis of Natural Gas, 559
Anchor Gear, Baxter’s, 199
Anderson and Gallwey’s Shearing- Machine, 212
Andrews’ Electric Light Apparatus, 456
Anemometrical Observations at Dundee, 350
Automatic Boiler Feeder, Mayhew’s, 69
Anglesea Swing Bridge, Machinery at the, 185
Angra Pequena, Minerals at, 535
Annual Convention of American Society of Civil Engineers, 612
Annual General Meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 646
Anti-Fouling Composition, 373
Antwerp Exhibition, Electricity at the, 667
Application of Electricity, A New, 627
Applications for Tramway Powers, 653
Arc Lamp, The Belfast, 145
Arc Lamp, Rogers’, 118
Arc Lamps, Protecting from Lightning, 247
Arc Light, Nocturnal Reconnaissance by, 535
Arc Lighting, Public, in Boston, 269
Architects, Naval, Institution of, 317, 346, 359
Arctic Trading Route, Survey for the New, 705
Arlberg Tunnel, Air Compressors at the, 364
Armour-Clad, The New Brazilian, 94, 612
Armour-Clad, A New French, 513
Armour-Clad Ships, French and English, 576
Armoured Decks v. Side Armour, 232
Arrangement of the Thermopile, A New, 513
Artesian Wells, Boring, 535, 683, 708
Artillery at the Inventions Exhibition, 472, 548
Artillery Question, The, 15
Asbestos Company, The United, 505
Asbestos, A New Use for, 295
Asbestos, Works at Harefield, The, 231
Ascent of Roraima, The, 582
Asphaltum in Tiles, 513
Atmospheric Absorption o Light, 38
Atmospheric Electrical Measurements, 632
Atmospheric Electricity, 559
Attwood and Co.’s Lifts, 550
Auriferous Pyrites, Working, in Transylvania, 707
Australian Population, 320
“ Australasian,” s.s., Engines of the, 111
Austrian Naval Almanack, The, 349
Auto-Accumulator? Jablochkoffs, 534? 678
Autobiography of a Whitehead Torpedo, The, 127, 155, 177, 205, 233, 257, 279, 306, 333, 383, 414, 521
Automatic Phidol, The, 297
Automatic Sprinklers, 20, 71, 151, 706
Automatic Stone Screen, Stafford’s, 408

Babcock and Wilcox Boiler, The, 480
Bagshaw and Sons’ Friction Clutch, 563
Baku and Batoum, Communication between, 9
Ball Lightning, Artificial, 194
Ballast, Mercury as, 348
Ballooning, Military, 269
Balloons, Meteorological Observations from, 193
Band Saw, Double, Watts and Co.’s, 649
Band Saw Sharpener, Rasmussen’s, 509
Barlow’s Expanding Mandrel, 353
Barrow’s Screw-Cutting Machine, 501
Bars, Wire, Production of, from Fluid Steel, 93
Basement Floors for Light Machinery, 222
Batteries, Dry, 63
Batteries, Secondary, 320, 612
Battery, A Selenium, 398
Bauer, Link Spanner, The, 501
Baxter’s Anchor Gear, 199
Baxter’s Field Kitchen, 505
Beckenham Boiler Explosion, The, 293
Belfast Arc Lamp, The, 145
Belgium, The Waterways of, 374
Bell, A Rhythmic Electric, 194
Bell’s Pulley Block Brake, 504
Belted Cruisers and Single-Turretted Battle Ships, The New, 402
Belts, Driving, 694
“ Benbow,” H.M.S., Launch of, 672
Bending Machine, Hydraulic Keel Plate, 134
Bennet-Mackay Cables, The, 63, 92
Berly’s Electrical Directory, 220
Bernay’s Steam Pump, 525
Berry and Sons’ Planing Machines, 391
Berry and Sons’ Treble-Geared Lathe, 551
Bessemer Plant, The Clapp and Griffiths, 657
Bessemer Steel in the North, 348
Bessemerising Copper Matte, 37, 143, 372
Bessemerising Nickel and Cobalt Mattes, 219
Bill Legislation, Private, 25, 47,131,181, 347, 371, 426, 556, 579, 679
Binary Vapour Engines, 36
Bjerknes, Professor, The Hydrodynamic Researches of, 304, 357, 413, 543
Black Lead Paint, New, 220
Blast Furnace Value of Coke, The, 544, 663, 685
Blast Furnaces, Effects of Moisture on, 194
Blasting, Sub-Aqueous, 702
Bleaching, A New Process of, 400
Blooming Mill at Ebbw Vale, 525
Boat, The Torpedo, of the Future, 94
Boats, Torpedo, 321
Boats, Torpedo, in War, 425
Boiler, The Babcock and Wilcox, 480
Boiler, The Cestus, 484
Boiler, Coles and Matthews’s Vertical, 342
Boiler Drilling Machine, Sharp, Stewart’s, 573
Boiler Explosion, The Beckenham, 293
Boiler Explosion, The Rotherham, 62
Boiler Explosions in 1884 ; Report of Mr. E» ,B.
Marten, 263, 286
Boiler Feeder, Mayhew’s Automatic, 69
Boiler Inspection in the United States, 582
Boiler, The Lane Sectional, 484
Boiler, The Root, 479
Boiler Scale, Compounds for Removal of, 632
Boilers and Boiler Fittings at the Inventions Exhibition, 479
Boilers, Craig’s Heating and Circulating Apparatus for, 649
Boilers and Engines of the “ Sobralense, 620, 674
Boilers, Forced Draught for, 408
Boilers of the “Louisiana,” with Water Walls and Firebrick Furnaces, 238
Boilers, Marine Steel, 353, 387
Boilers, Steam, The Construction of, 136
Bore Hole, Finding a, 31
Bore Hole Test, or Clinograph, The, 260, 334
Bore-Tube Drilling Machine, Merry weather s, 187
Boring Artesian Wells, 535, 683, 708
Boring and Screw-Cutting Apparatus, 574
Borland’s Injectors and Jet Pumps, 484
Bosisio, Larini, Nathan, and Co.’s Pumping Machinery, 237, 286
Boston, Public Arc Lighting in, 269
Boulton’s Creosoting Apparatus, .505
Bourdais’ Tower of Babe), 143, 220
Bower-Barff Process and the Strength of Iron, 219
Bower and Thorp’s Regenerative Gas Lamps, 222
Box and Waller’s Washer Gas Scrubber at the St. Alban's Gas Works, 405
Brake, Colquhoun’s Continuous, 500
Brake, The Vacuum Automatic, 500
Brake, The Westinghouse Automatic, 499
Brakes in Germany, Railway, 15
Brass Finishers’ Chasing and Boring Lathe, 328
Brazilian Armour-Clad, The New, 94, 612
Breakdowns, Naval, 401
Breakwater, Clark’s Floating, 505
Breakwaters, Floating, 559
Brennan Torpedo, The, 612
Bridge over tne Adige River at Verona, 390
Bridge, The Anglesea Swing, Hydraulic Machinery at, 185
Bridge over the Dnieper, 69, 84, 112, 159, 212
Bridge, The East River, 117
Bridge, Fall of a, during Construction, 248
Bridge, The Forth, 43, 54, 64, 127, 188, 267, 328
Bridge Piers, Adjusting, 246
Bridge over the St. Lawrence near Quebec, Proposed, 336
Bridge, The Tay, 689
Bridge, The Tower, A Design for, 64
Brighton, The Trunk Telephone Line to, 15

British Association, The :
Experiments upon Automatic Sprinklers, by Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury, 20, 71, 151
Wind Velocity, by Professor E. D. Archibald, 104

British Capital in South Africa, 144
British and Metric Measures, 84
British Museum Catalogue, The, 223
British Navy, Barnaby’s Address on the, 70
British Power in the East, 372
Broker’s Commission, Ship, 271
Brush Apparatus, The, 349, 453
Brush Report, The, 119
“ Bryderen,” The Ice-Breaking Ship, 134
Buda-Pesth, Electric Light at Central Station, 8
Buda-Pesth, Pumping Engines at, 528, 574, 622
Buenos Ayres, Great Southern Railway, Saloon Carriages for, 251
Buffalo, The Water Works of, 246
Building Blocks, &c., from Furnace Slags, 118
Building Stone, Disintegration of, 612
Building Trades Exhibition, The, 292
Bulgarian Railway Construction, 170
Bullivant’s Steel Wire Launching Checks, 286
Bumstead’s Paper Bag Making Machine, 692
Burmah, Hydraulic Dredger for, 648
Burmah and Siam, A Proposed Railway for, 170
Bust’s Ensilage Cutter and Elevator, 364
Butcher’s Voting Apparatus, 325
Butler’s Movable Staiths, 504
Bye-Laws of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 613
Bye-Products in Coking Coal, 568, 569, 685

Cable-Laying, Dynamometers for, 174
Cable, New Submarine, 64
Cable Tramways, 26, 157, 255, 307, 415, 642
Cables, The Bennet-Mackay, 63, 92
Caissons and Travelling Bridges for Dock Entrances, 707 t
Calcining Furnaces, Revolving Cylinder, 221
Calcium Chloride, Sulphur Extraction by, 400
Calculating Machines, 500
California Street Railroad, The, 255
Camphor in Water, Movements of, 705
Canada, The Bell Telephone in, 170
Canal, Isthmus of Corinth, 145
Canal, The Oise and Aisne, 117
Canal for Paris, A Sanitary, 38
Canal Project, The Nicaragua, 243
Canal System, The Russian, 171
Candle-Moulding Machines, The, 567, 596, 619
Cape Parliament House, Electric Lighting of, 247
Car Coupling, The Janney, 500
Carbon Contacts, The Electrical Resistance of, 39
Carbon, The Electro-Deposition of, 272
Carbon in Steel, 130, 150, 200..
Carriage, Electro-Plated; South-Eastern Railway, 11 „ ,, IL
Carriage, Webb’s Saloon; London and North-Western Railway, 671
Carriages, Saloon, for Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway, 251
Cartridge Magazine, Quilliam s, 476
Cask-Washing Machine, Thornewill and Warham’s, 693
Cast-Iron Sleepers, The Denham-Olpherts, 497
Castings, “Mitis” Wrought-Iron, 561
Catalogue, The British Museum, 223
Caustic Soda Condenser, Honigmann s, 22o
Cellular Structure of Steel, The, 221
Cement, Portland, On Testing, 656
Cement, Slag, 95 ,
Cement Testing Machine, Micheie s, 251, 501
Cement Testing Machine, Spoor’s, 693
Central African, Sea, The, 143
Central Laboratory of Electricity, A, 193
Central Station, Buda-Pesth, Electric Light at, 8
Cestus Boiler, The, 484
Chamber of Electricity, The Pans Syndical, 246
Chandler’s High-Speed Engine, 69
Charging Secondary Batteries, 680
Chased by a Train of Fire, 679
Chasing and Boring Lathe, Brass Finishers, 328
Checks, Launching, Wire Rope for, 286
Chemical Trade, The Tyneside, 195
Chimney, Taking Down a, 657
Chlorine Gas, Manufacture of, 632
Chlorine, Manufacture of, 430
Cholera, Disinfectants against, 659
Chuck, Jaw, Storey and Phillips’, 501
City, Electric Light in the, 657
Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 206

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 20, 65, 646
Annual General Meeting, 646
Bye-Laws, The, 613
Conversazione, The, 658
Institution Dinner, The, 513
On Comparison of British and Metric Measures by Mr. A. Hamilton-Smythe, B.A., 84
On Physiography, by Mr. John Evans, 123
On Modern Practice in the Construction of Steam Boilers, The, by Mr. David Salmond Smart, 136 .
On the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways, by Mr. Benjamin Baker, M.I.C.E., 199
On the Construction of Locomotive Engines and some Results of their Working on the London, Brighton, and South Coa^t Railway, by William Stroudley, M.I.C.E., 240
On the Electrical Regulation of the Speed of Steam Engines and of other Motors for Driving Dynamos, by Mr. P. W. Willans, 339
On Water Motors, by Professor W. Cawthorne Unwin, 367
On Rivers Running into Tideless Seas, by Mr. W. Shelford, 403
On Inland Navigation, by Sir Charles A. Hartley, 431
On Mechanical Integrators, by Professor II. S. Hole Shaw, 536
On the Forms of Ships, by Sir Edward Reed, 560
On the Theory of the Indicator and the Errors in Indicator Diagrams, by Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R S., M.I.C.E., 659
Report of the Council, 20

Clapp-Griffiths Steel Process, The, 350, 657
Clark and Bowman’s Lamp, 453
Clark’s Floating Breakwater, 505
Clay-street Hill Cable Tramway, 26
Cleveland, Notes from, 11, 33, 59, 86, 113, 138, 162, 188, 214, 241, 265, 298, 315, 343, 366, 395, 423, 517, 529, 553, 577, 597, 621, 650. 673, 698
Clinograph, or Bore Hole Test, The, 260, 334
Clock Dials, Electric Illuminated, 428
Clutch, Friction, Bagshaw and Sons’, 563
Clyde Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1884, 81, 108, 135, 208
Clyndograph, The, 400
Coal Question, The, 168
Coal, Spontaneous Combustion of, 116
Coal Trade in 1884, The Northern, 14
Coals, The Export of, 142
Coasts, Defence of Our, 511
Cochin China, Telegraphs in, 247
“ Cocoa” Gunpowder, 144
Cogging Mill with Balanced Top Roll; Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 421
Coke, The Blast Furnace Value of, 544,663, 685
Coke Ovens, Tar and Ammonia from, 400
Coking Coal, The Recovery of Bye-Products in, 568, 569, 685
Coking Process, The, Simon-Carves, 569, 604
Coles’ Crane and Grab Bucket, 504
Coles and Matthews’s Vertical Boiler, 342
Collier, Screw, for Sydney, 661
Colorado, Lead Smelting at Leadville, 78
Colour Blindness, Testing for, 220
Colquhoun’s Continuous Brake, 500
Columbia Type-Writer, The, 507
Combustion of Coal, Spontaneous, 116
Combustion in Dried Gases, 400
Commerce in Western Asia, 195
Commercial Marine, The Russian, 169
Committee, The Electric Light Act, 292
Communication between Baku and Batoum, 9
Communication, Telephonic, 63
Company, The Jablochkoff, 63
Comparative Value of Labour, The, 13
Competition of Irrigation Machinery, 582
Composition, Anti-Fouling, 373
Compound Engines of the “ Cotentin,” 342
Compound Engines of the “Etna,” 134, 210
Compound Engines of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Co.’s Paddle Steamei “Normandy,” 284
Compound Launch Engine, Duncan’s, 485
Compound Locomotives, Webb’s System, 462
Compound Pump, The Worthington, 489
Compound Pumping Engines at the Buda-Pestt Water Works, 528, 574, 622
Compound Receiver Engine, The Willans, 392
Compound Spiral Piston Packing, 275
Compressors, Air, at the Arlberg Tunnel, 364
Concentration of Rays, 429
Condensation of Gases on Glass, The, 271
Condensation of Sulphurous Acid Gas, 399
Conductivity and Magnetism, 143
Conductivity of Metals at Low Temperatures The, 632
Conductors, Silicious Bronze, 18
Conductors, Telegraph, 272
Conductors, Underground, Electrical, 37
Conference, The Industrial, 141
Construction of Locomotives, The, 240
Construction of Steam Boilers, The, 136
Controversy, The Lighthouse Illuminants, 144
Convention of American Society of Civil Engineers, Annual, 612
Conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 658
Copper, Electrolytic Extraction of, 680
Copper Matte, Bessemerising, 37, 143, 372
Copper Mattes, New Process for Working, 581
Copper for Roofing Purposes, 8
Copper Smelting Process, Welsh, 92
Cores for Steel Castings, 428
Cosmogony and Geological Epochs, 429
“ Cotentin,” Compound Engines of the, 342
Cotton Seed Oil, Test for, 143
Coupling Apparatus, Railway Wagon, 500
Coupling for the Transfer of Rotary Motion, 694
Covinto, Roller Mill at, 433
Cox-Walker’s Lamp-Holder, 460
Craig’s Heating and Circulating Apparatus, 649
Cranes, Heavy, Wire Rope for, 64
Creil, The Experiments at, 536
Creosoting Apparatus, Boulton’s, 505
Cruiser, A French, 658
Cruisers and Single-Turretted Battle Ships, Tt New Belted, 402
Cut-off Gear, The Proel, 485
Cut-out, Automatic (Tumbler), 351
Cutter, Ensilage, and Elevator, 364

Danger from Dynamos, 349
Davis’s Steering Gear, 504
Deane Sinking Pump, The, 489
Decks, Armoured v. Side Armour, 232
Defence of Our Coasts, 511
Demonstration of the Earth’s Magnetic Indue tion, An Audible 39J qlee„ers The, 497
Denham-Olpnerts Cast-Iro P
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, ine, Depolishing Electric Light Globes, Desert, Water Supply in the, 244
Designs of War Vessels, The. ziu S?United States’ Toledo Ship 270 Diagrams, Indicator, 659 .
Diffusion Photometer, A, 223
Direct-Acting Ram Pump, obi
Direct Production o Iron from the Ore, 3«,
Direct Production oHrpno^ Steel, 66
Disinfectants against Cholera, 6oJ
Disinfecting Rags, 349
Disintegration of n ’ 6 "
Distillation of Shale, The, 533
Distribution of Steam in To ,»
Dnieper, Bridge over the, 69, 84, 112, ibv,
Dock Entrances,, 707
Dock, The Hull Alexandra, 613
Dock, The James Watt, Greenock, 584
Dockyard Routine, 93
Dockyards, Russian, 93
Dr. Sang on the Forth Bridge, 267
Dome for the Nice Observatory, 643
Domestic Motor, Davey’s, 609
Donaldson’s Hydraulic Motor, 185
Door Spring, A Hydraulic, 251
Doors, Fireproof, 583
Double Band Saw, Watts and Co. s, 649
Double Ram Pump, Evans and Sons , lUb
Dowlais, Rail Mill Engines at, 19, 32
Dredger, Hydraulic, for Burmah, 648
Dredging, Hydraulic, 536.
Dried Gases, Combustion in, 400
Drill, Double-Headed Radial, Rushs, 363
Drilling Machine, Bore Tube, Merry * eathei s, 187
Drilling Machine, Houghton s Electric, 501
Driving Belts, 694
Driving Dynamos, 159
Driving and Pumping Engine, Gwynnes , 134
Dry Batteries, 63
Dry Docks, Simpson’s Timber, 311
Dryer and Rosenkranz’s Water Meter, 372
Duncan’s Compound Launch Engine, 485
Durham, Churchill and Co.’s Marine Engine Governors, 539 , .
Durham and Churchill’s Spiral Piston Packino, 275
Dust-Bin, Street, Sidgwick’s, 508
Dynamo, The Edison-Hopkinson, 109
Dynamo-Electrotyping at an Ordnance Survey Office, 192
Dynamo, Goolden and Trotter’s, 610
Dynamo and Lamp, The Sun, 457
Dynamo and Motor, Parsons’, 460
Dynamo and Photometrical Tests at Munich, 226
Dynamometers for Cable-Laying, 174
Dynamos, Absorbing the Extra Current of, 270
Dynamos, Danger from, 349
Dynamos, Driving, 159
Dynamos, High-Tension Current, 144
Dynamos,“Starting, with Gas Engines, 271
Dynamos, Zig-Zag Winding of, 219

Earth Currents, Polar, 195
Earthquakes and Luminous Paint, 631
Earthquakes, The Recent, 196
Earth’s Magnetic Induction, An Audible Demonstration of the, 399
East River Bridge, The, 117
Easton and Anderson’s Apparatus for the Purification of Water, 525
Ebbw Vale, Blooming Mill at, 525
Ebbw Vale Steel Works; Cogging Mill with Balanced Top Roll, 4?1
Economiser Explosion at Oldham, The, 36, 90
Edison Central Lighting Station, The, 219
Edison Company, The German, at Berlin, 145
Edison-Hopkinson Dynamo, The, 109
Edison-Swan Exhibit at the Inventions Exhibition, The, 456
Effects of Induced Currents, 631
Effects of Moisture on Blast Furnaces, 194
Electric Alarm for Hot Bearings, An, 92
Electric Bell Indicator, The Mackenzie, 492
Electric Co., The Western, at Philadelphia, 2
Electric Conductors and Service Pipes, 269
Electric Drilling Machine, Houghton’s, 501
Electric Gas Lighters, 170
Electric Generator, Kendall’s, 702
Electric Governor, Jamieson’s, 31
Electric Illuminated Clock Dials, 428
Electric Light Act Committee, The, 292
Electric Light Globes, Depolishing, 320

Electric Lighting :
Arc Light, Nocturnal Reconnaissance by, 535
Arc Lighting in Boston, Public, 269 Brush Apparatus, The, 453
Conductors for Electric Lighting, 37
Dynamo, The Edison-Hopkinson, 109
Dynamo, Goolden and Trotter’s, 610
Dynamo and Motor, Parsons’, 460
Dynamo and Photometric Tests at Munich, 226
Dynamos, High-Tension Current, 144
Dynamos, Mather and Platt’s System of Driving, 159
Dynamos, Zig-Zag Winding of, 219
Edison Central Lighting Station, The, 219
Edison Swan Exhibit, The, 456
Electric Gas Lighters, 170
Electric Governor, Jamieson’s, 31
Electric Illuminated Clock Dials, 428
Electric Light Act Committee, The, 292
Electric Light Apparatus, Andrews’, 456
Electric Light at Buda-Pesth, 8
Electric Light in the City, 657
Electric Light in Factories, 144
Electric Light Globes, Depolishing, 320
Electric Light in Photo-Micrographv The 39i
Electric Light Plant, Portable, 339 ’ -
Electric Light on Ships of War, The 374
Electric Light at the Stock Exchange The 37
Electric Light and the Telemeter, 535* ’
Electric Light Works, The Temesvar. 104
Electric Lighting Act, The, 9,292 of the Cape Parlia“e“t
Electric Lighting in the Forth and Tay, 659
Electric Lighting—continued.
Electric Lighting at Greenock, 29b
Electric Lighting at Havre. 38
Electric Lighting at the Inventions Exhibition, 319, 441, 552, 581
Electric Lighting in the Navy,
Electric Lighting of New y ork Harbour, 92
Electric Lighting of Oil Works, 37
Electric Lighting of the s.s. Etruria and “ Umbria,” 674
Electric Lighting of the s.s. Oceanlen, ^32«
Electric Lighting of the s.s. “ Tainui,” 117
Electric Motors, 169
Electrical Exhibition, Paris, 117, 296, 309, 3e8
Electrical Exhibition, The Philadelphia, 2
Electrical Resistance of Carbon Contacts. 39
Electricity at the Antwerp Exhibition, 667
Electricity and Sacrilege, 657
Gaulard and Gibbs’ System, 458
Gerard Apparatus, The, 460
German Edison Company at Berlin, The, 14o
Gillcher System, The, 456
Hochhausen System, The, 457
Jablochkoff System, The, 456
Jablochkoff’s Auto-Accumulator, 534, 678
Lamp, The Belfast Arc, 145
Lamp, Clark and Bowman’s, 453
Lamp and Dynamo, The Sun, 457
Lamp Holder, Cox-Walker’s, 460
Lamp, Rogers’ Arc, 118
Lamp, The Stanhope, 453
Lamp, Trouvd’s Incandescence, 18
Lamp, The Varley Flexible Carbon, 457
Lamps, Efficiency of Incandescence, 118
Lamps, Woodhouse and Rawson’s, 459
Lighted Weathercocks, 399
Phidol, The, 221. 297
Protecting Arc Lamps from Lightning, 247
Silvered Incandescence Lamps, 193
Thomson-Houston System, The, 452
Three-Wire System for Incandescence Lighting, 401
Train Lighting by Electricity in Germany, 631
Weston System, The, 452

Electric Machine, Wimshurst’s, 60,171, 491
Electric Motors, 169
Electric Patrol Launch, The, 246
Electric Railway Signals, 583
Electric Tramcar, Reckenzaun’s, 350, 496
Electrical Directory, Berly’s, 220
Electrical Discharge in Gases, The, 349
Electrical Exhibition, Paris, 117, 296, 309, 338
Electrical Governors, 339
Electrical Industries, Syndical Chamber of, 611
Electrical Measurements, Atmospheric, 632
Electrical Resistance of Carbon Contacts, 39
Electrical Signs and Symbols, 555
Electrical Surgery, 170
Electrical Terminology, 657
Electrical Transmission Experiments, The Paris-Creil, 117
Electrical Work in the Soudan, 350
Electricians, The International Society of, 171
Electrician’s Pocket-Book, The, 144
Electricity at the Antwerp Exhibition, 667
Electricity, Atmospheric, 559
Electricity, A New Application of, 627
Electricity, Oxidation of Oil by, 219
Electricity and Sacrilege, 657
Electrique, L’Annee, 92
Electro-Deposition of Carbon, The, 272
Electro-Plated Carriage ; South-Eastern Railway, 11
Electro-Thermostats, 296
Electrolytic Extraction of Copper, 680
Electrometer, The Quadrant, 321
Electromotive Force Contact, Inversion of, 117
Electromotive Force, Voltaic, The Seat of, 372
Elevated Railroads, The New York, 37, 63, 348
Elevator, Grain, Fifty-Ton Floating, 207
Elevator, The Otis, 391
Elevators, Passenger, in the United States, 582
Ellipsograph, Knott’s, 221
Enamels, &c., Test for Presence of Lead in, 295
Engine, Chandler’s High-Speed, 69
Engine, Duncan’s Compound Launch, 485
Engine, Gas, The Korting-Lieckfeld, 526
Engine Governors, Marine, 539
Engine, GWynnes’, Combined Portable Pumping and Driving, 134
Engine, Mather’s Portable, 328
Engine, Matthews’, 460
Engine, Parsons’ High Speed, 460
Engine, The Tower Spherical, 303, 461
Engine, The Westinghouse, 509
Engine, The Wheelock, 484
Engine, The Willans, 392, 509
Engineering Society Soiree, 220
Engineers in India, The Telegraph, 701
Engineers in South Australia, 320
Engineers, Telegraph, The Society of, 103
Engines of the s.s. “ Australasian,” 111
Engines, Binary Vapour, 36
Engines and Boilers of s.s. “ Sobralense.” 620. 674
Engines, Compound, of the “Etna,” 134, 210
Engines, Compound, of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Co.’s Paddle Steamer “Normandy,” 284
Engines of the “Cotentin,” Wilson and Co.’s Compound, 342
Engines, Pumping, at Buda-Pesth, 528, 574, 622
Engines and Pumps at the Inventions Exhibition. 484
Engines, Rail Mill, at Dowlais. 19, 32
Engines, Triple-Compound, 359
English Coal in Russia, 93
English and French Armour-Clad Ships, 576
Ensilage Cutter and Elevator, 364
Epitaph, An, 660
Equipment of War Vessels, Steamboat, 50, 79
Estimates, The Navy, 217, 291
“Etna,” Compound Engines of the, 134, 210
“ Etruria” and “ Umbria,” s.s., Electric Lighting of the, 674 h
Europe, Inland Navigation in, 431
Evans and Sons’ Double Ram Pump, 108
Examining Objects under Great Pressures, 631
Exchange, The New Stock, 37
Exhibition of 1889, The, 94, 117, 193, 219 296
Exhibition, The American, 583 *
Exhibition, Antwerp, Electricitv at the, 667
Exhibition, The Building Trades, 292
Exhibition, The Jurors of the, 556
Exhibition Literature, 270
Exhibition, The New Orleans, 37
Exhibition, The Paris Milling, 630, 669 690
Exhibition of Patented Inventions, A French 169
Expanding Mandrel for Facing Nuts 353 ’
Experiment, A Magnetic, 535
Experiments at Creil, The, 536
Experiments, Friction, 131,150
Experiments in Magnetism. 271
Exploring Hudson's Bay, 38
Explosion, The Beckenham Boiler, 293
Explosion, Boiler, The Rotherham, 62
Explosion at Oldham, The Economiser 36 90
Explosions, Accidental, by Non -’Explosive Liquids, 536
Explosions, Boiler, in 1884 ; Report of Mr F p. Marten, 263, 286 *
Export of Coals, The, 142
Exports and Imports for February, The 271
Extraction of Zinc by Electrolysis, 400 ’
Extraction of Zinc and Lead, Simultaneous 8

Facing Nuts, Expanding Mandrel for, 353
Factories, Private Ordnance, 369
Fall of a Bridge during Construction, 248
Fast Railroad Time, 513
Faults in Submarine Cables, 535
Fever and Cholera, Inoculation for, 631
Field Kitchen, Baxter’s, 505
Fifty-Ton Floating Grain Elevator, 207
Fighting Stern-Wheelers, 654
Filter Paper, Toughened, 246
Finding a Bore Hole, 31
“ Finds,” New Geological, 37
Fire Alarms, Electrical, at Philadelphia, 3
Fire Alarms in Paris, 117
Fire Apparatus, Portable, 512
Fire Department, The New York, 193
Fire Engines for Liverpool, Steam, Mem weather and Sons’, 284, 340
Fire Escapes, Projecting Life Lines as, 679
Fire Inspection in America, 559
Firebars, Sharpe’s, 84
Fireless Tramway Engines, 15
Fireproof Doors, 583
Fires in Mills, 295
Fires in the United States, 144
Fleet in Action, The, 607
Fleet, Our Ironclad, 532
Floating Breakwaters, 505, 559
Floating Telegraph Station, Harding’s, 506
Flow of Metals, The, 660
Flux, A New Soldering, 428
Fog Whistle Operator, or Sonnebula, The, 187
Forced Draught for Boilers, 408
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 22, 44, 72, 113, 139, 166, 189, 228, 276, 380, 518, 553, 651, 708
Forgings, Heavy Steel, 219
Forms of Ships, 560
Forms of Vibrating Bodies, The, 640
Forth Bridge, The, 43, 54, 64, 127, 188, 267, 328
Forth Bridge Railway ; Inspectors’ Reports, 54, 328
Forth and Tay, Electric Light in the, 659
France, The New Topographical Plans of, 373
France, Science Commissions in, 118
France, Telephone Legislation in, 194
French Academy Prizes, 247
French Armour-Clad, A New, 513
French Cruiser, A, 658
French and English Armour-Clad Ships, 576
French Navy, The, 679
Friction Clutch, Bagshaw and Sons’, 563
Friction Experiments, 130, 150
Friction, The Laws of, 118
“Friday Evenings” at the Royal Institution, The, 37
Frischmuth’s Aluminium, 64
Frue Vanning Machine, The, 508
Fuel, Gaseous, 195
Fuel, On the Use of Petroleum as a, 686
Furnace, Destructor, Healy and Thwaites’, 694
Furnace Slags, Preparation of Building Blocks, &c., from, 118
Furnaces, Welford’s Smokeless, 405
Future of the Shipbuilding Trade, The, 191

Gallium, 295
Galvanometer, A Mercury, 350
Garabit Viaduct, The, 549, 593
Gardner Gun, 476
Gas Engine, The Kbrting-Lieckfeld, 526
Gas Engines, Starting Dynamos with, 271
Gas-Fired Lime Kiln, 694
Gas Hammer, Tangye Brothers’, 573
Gas-Lighted Buoy, An American, 705
Gas Lighter, A Static Induction, 350
Gas Lighters, Electric, 170
Gas, Natural, 40, 194, 609
Gas in New York, Lighting, 220
Gas Producer, Siemens’, On a Modified Type of the 569
Gas Scrubber, Box and Waller’s Washer, at the St. Alban’s Gas Works, 405
Gas, Sulphurous Acid, Condensation of, 399
Gas, Testing,. Apparatus for, 657
Gas, Water, 194, 345, 513
Gas in the Workshop, 118
Gaseous Fuel, 195
Gases, Condensation of, on Glass, 271
Gases, The Electrical Discharge in, 349
Gaulard and Gibbs’ System, The, 458
Gear, Baxter’s Anchor, 199
Gear, The Pepper Steam Steering, 563
Geary-street Cable Tramway, The, 308
General Post Office, Improvements attne, dJ
Geological Epochs and Cosmogony, 429
Geological “ Finds,” New, 37
Gerard Apparatus, The, 460
German Edison Company at Berlin, The, 14o
Giant Pulley, A. 117
Girard Turbine, The, 390
Glass, Tempered, 245
Goolden and Trotter’s Dynamo, 610
Governor, Jamieson’s Electric, 31
Governors, Electrical, 339
Governors, Marine Engine, 539
Grab Bucket and Crane, Coles’, 504
Grain Elevator, Fifty-Ton Floating, 207
“Graphic” Printing Machine, The, o08
Grate Surface of Locomotives, 321
Great Northern Telegraph Company, biz
Greenock, Electric Lighting at. 296
Greenock, The James Watt Dock, 584
Groynes, Iron Shingle, 194
Guide-Blade Propeller, The, 706
Gtllcher System of Electric Lighting, The, 456
Gulf Stream, The, 65
Gun Accident on Board the “ Active,” The, 119
Gun and Carriage, Anderson’s Pivotting, 477
Gun Carriage, Revolving, Sawyer’s, 477
Gun, The Gardner, 476
Gun, The Maxim, 522, 634
Gun, The Multi-Charge, 92, 429
Gunboats, Russian, 64
Gunpowder, “ Cocoa,” 144
Guns for Repelling Torpedo Attack, 281
Gutta-Percha Tree, A New, 612
GWynnes’ Portable Pumping and Driving Engine, 134

Hamer, Metcalfe and Co.’s Exhaust Injector, 484
Hand-Screw Steering Gear, Hastie’s, 539
Hardening Plaster, A New Process for, 513
Harding’s Floating Telegraph Station, 506
Harding’s Speed Indicator, 492
Hardness of Metals, The, 64
Harefield Asbestos Works, The, 231
Hartlepool, Marine Engine Works at, 95
Havre, Electric Lighting at, 38
Healy and Thwaites’ Destructor Furnace, 694
Hearing, Tests for, 117
Heat and Ventilation, The Utilisation of the Sun’s Rays for, 535
Heating and Circulating Apparatus, Craig’s, 649
Heating by Radiation, 226
Heavy Ordnance, 317
H.M.S. “Benbow,” Launch of, 672
High Explosives in Shells, 349
High-Speed Engine, Chandler’s, 69
High-Speed Engine, Parsons’, 460
High Tension Current Dynamos, 144
Hochhausen System of Electric Lighting, 457
Holden and Brooke’s Exhaust Injector, 484
Holtham’s Permanent Way, 497
Honigmann’s Caustic Soda Condenser, 225
Honigmann’s Fireless Locomotive, 373
Horizontal Milling Machine, 692
Hot Bearings, An Electric Alarm for, 92
Hotchkiss and Co.’s Machine Guns, 472 4
Houghton’s Electric Drilling Machine, 501
Hudson’s Bay, Exploring, 38
Hudswell, Clarke and Co.’s Tank Locomotive, 18 in. Gauge, 418
Hull Alexandra Dock, The, 613
Hydraulic Door Spring, A, 251
Hydraulic Dredger for Burmah, 648
Hydraulic Dredging, 536
Hydraulic Elevator, The Otis, 391
Hydraulic Keel Plate Bending Machine, 134
Hydraulic Lift and Mud Receiver, Powell’s, 19
Hydraulic Machinery, 117
Hydraulic Machinery at the Anglesea Swing Bridge, 185
Hydraulic Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 477
Hydraulic Motor, Donaldson’s, 185
Hydraulic Power, Recent Progress in the Public Supply of, 262, 299, 325
Hydraulic Shearing Machine, Anderson and Gallwey’s, 212
Hydro-Carbons, The Illuminating Power of, 430 Hydrodynamic Researches of Professor Bjerknes, The, 304, 357, 413, 543
Hygiene, Industrial, 654
Hygrometer, A Registering, 194

Ice-Breaking Ship “ Bryderen,” The, 134
Ice Palaces at Montreal, 222
Illinois, Railway Rates in, 372
Illuminant, Water Gas as an, 246, 679
Illuminating Power of Hydro-Carbons, The, 430
Illumination, Lighthouse, 558
Imports and Exports for February, The, 271
Improvements at the General Post Office, 39
Incandescence Lamps, Efficiency of, 118
Incandescence Lamps, Silvered, 193
Incandescence Lighting, Three-Wire System for, 401
India, The Railways in, 167
India, The Telegraph Engineers in, 701
Indian Public Works Department, The, 706
Indicating Charge of Accumulators, 659
Indicator Diagrams, 659
Indicator, Thorpe’s, 497
Indium and Gallium, Alloys of, 320
Induced Currents, Effects of, 631
Induction Coil, A Spark, 269
Induction on Telephone Lines, 170
Industrial Conference, The, 141
Industrial Establishments, Electric Light in, 144
Industrial Hygiene, 654
“ Inflexible,” The, 170 ,
Injector, Exhaust, Hamer, Metcalfe and Co. s, 484
Injector, Exhaust, Holden and Brooke’s, 484
Injectors and Jet Pumps, Borland s, 484 Inland Navigation, 171
Inland Navigation in Europe, 431
Inoculation for Fever and Cholera, 631
Insecticide, Use of Quicksilver as an, 558
Institution Dinner, The, 513
Institution of Naval Architects, The, 317, 346, 359
Institution of Permanent Way Inspectors, The, 198
Integrators, Mechanical, 536
Intense Lights, The Photometry of> *2?
International Society of Electricians, The, 171

Inventions Exhibition, The, 437, 531
Artillery: .
Cartridge Magazine, Quilliam s, 47b
Gardner Gun, The, 476
Hotchkiss and Go’s. Machine Guns, 472
Muzzle Pivotting Gun, Anderson s, 477
Nordenfelt Exhibits, The, 548
Revolving Gun Carriage, Sawyers,.477
Small Arms, Suft’s Improvements in, 476
War Department Exhibit, The, 472
BOBaebc3ockdand WHcoSr, The, 480
Injector,^Exhaust, Hamer, Metcalfe and Injector^ Exhaust, Holden and Brooke’s, 484
Injectors and Jet Pumps, Borland s, 484
Lane Sectional Boiler, The, 484
Mechanical Stoker, Knap’s, 480
Root Boiler, The, 479
Calculating Machines, 500
Double Band Saw, Watts and Co’s., 649
Electric Lighting, 319, 441, 552, 581
Brush Apparatus, The, 453
Dynamo, Goolden and Trotter’s, 610
Dynamo and Motor, Parsons’, 460
Edison-Swan Exhibit, The, 456
Electric Light Apparatus, Andrews’, 456
Engine, Davey’s Domestic, 509
Engine, Mathews’, 460
Engine, Parsons’ High Speed, 460
Engine, Tower Spherical, The, 461
Engine, The Westinghouse, 509
Engine, The Willans, 509
Gaulard and Gibbs’ System, 458
Gerard Apparatus, The, 460
GUlcher System, The, 456
Hochhausen System, The, 457
Jablochkoff Lighting, The, 456
Lamp, Clark and Bowman’s, 453
Lamp and Dynamo, The Sun, 457
Lamp-Holder, Cox-Walker’s, 460
Lamp, The Stanhope, 453
Lamp, The Varley Flexible Carbon, 457
Lamps, Wood house and Rawson’s, 459
Lighting of the Exhibition, 319
Thomson-Houston System, The, 452
Weston System, The, 452
Engines and Pumps:
Air Compressors, Walker Brothers’, 485
Air and Water Pumps, Westinghouse, 489
Compound Launch Engine, Duncan’s, 485
Compound Pump, The Worthington, 489
Compound Pumping Engines, 485
Cut-off Gear, The Proell, 485
Lubricator, Sugden’s, 489
Sinking Pump, The Deane, 489
Slide Valve, Thom’s, 485
Speed Recorder, The Moscrop, 485
Steam Pump, Bernay’s, 525
Wheelock Engine, The, 484
Hydraulic Machinery, 477
Jurors of the Exhibition, 556
Kendall’s Electric Generator, 702
Lifts, Attwood and Co’s., 550
Locomotives, Compound, Webb’s System, 462
Machine Tools :
Boiler Drilling Machine, Sharp, Stuart’s, 573
Boring and Screw-Cutting Apparatus, Snowden’s, 574
Cement-Testing Machine, 501
Electric Drilling Machine, Houghton’s, 501
Gas Hammer, Tangye Brothers’, 573
Horizontal Milling Machine, 692
Jaw Chuck, Storey and Phillips’, 501
Knife Grinder, Slack’s Automatic, 504
Link Spanner, The Bauer, 501
Pulley Block Brake, Bell’s, 504
Screw-Cutting Machine, Barrow’s, 501
Slot-Drilling Machine, 692
Vertical Milling Machine, 691
Miscellaneous Exhibits:
Air Compressors, Scott’s, 505
Band Saw Sharpener, Rasmussen’s, 509
Cask - Washing Machine, Thornewill and Warham’s, 693
Cement-Testing Machine, Spoor’s, 693
Columbia Type Writer, The, 507
Coupling for Transfer of Rotary Motion, 694
Crane and Grab Bucket, Coles’, 504
Creosoting Apparatus, Boulton’s, 505
Field Kitchen, Baxter’s, 505
Floating Breakwater, Clark’s, 505
Floating Telegraph Station, Harding’s, 506
Furnace, Healy and Thwaites’, 694
Gas-Fired Lime-Kiln, 694
“ Graphic” Printing Machine, The, 508
Paper Bag-Making Machine, Bumsted’s, 692
Pipe Joint, Knyper and Denis’s, 694
Staiths, Butler’s Movable, 504
Steering Gear, Davis’s, 504
Street Dust-Bin, Sidgwick’s, 508
United Asbestos Company, The, 505
Vanning Machine, The Frue, 508
Permanent Way:
Cast-Iron Sleepers, Denham-Olpherts’, 497
Holtham’s, 497
Webb’s Steel, 497
Physical Exhibits:
Electric Bell Indicator, The Mackenzie, 492
Electric Machine, Wimshurst’s Duplex, 491
Indicator, Thorpe’s, 497
Range-Finder, The Weldon, 492
Speed Indicator, Harding’s, 492
Speed Indicator, Young’s, 492
Tramcar, Reckenzaun’s Electric, 496
Universal Time, 491
Watt-Meter, Walker’s, 496
Plan of the Exhibition, 441
Purification of Water, Easton and Anderson’s
Apparatus for, 525
Railway Appliances:
Brake, Colquhoun’s Continuous, 500
Brake, The Vacuum Automatic, 500
Brake, The Westinghouse Automatic, 499
Car Coupling, The Janney, 500
Signalling Apparatus, 497
Variable Gauge Trucks, Mackinlay’s, 499
Wagon Coupling Apparatus, 500
Rivetting Machines, Tweddell’s System, 477
Saloon Carriage; London and North-Western Railway, 671
Shale, The Distillation of, 533
Tank Locomotive, Dick, Kerr, and Co.’s, 672
Textile Machinery, 629, 655, 703
War Material, 703
Inventions Exhibition and United States, 143
Inventories, The Paris, 611
Inversion of Contact Electromotive Force, 117
Inverted Railway, The, 558
Iron Direct Production of, from the Ore, 38, 706
Iron’ Malleable, Microscopic Examination of, 610
Iron’ Nickel, and Steel, Magnetisation of, 582
Iron,’ Removal from, of Red-Shortness Caused by Copper, 220
Iron Shingle Groynes, 194
Iron or Steel, Direct Production of, 66
Iron and Steel Industry, The American, 658
Iron and Steel Institute, The : 535, 543, 568
Address of the President, 539, 563,587, 633, 662
Iront and Steel Institute Tiif 7
On the Blast Furnace Valu7 of t
Coke Ovens, by Mr. Watson Smfth 56^ Proce’S8> b’y^.
Cokins
On ffiaiUGa;*Fu°eTandtt/ r^’ 569 OnMth“f M-UreS’ Mr' A‘ Ca™egief 609 ‘ ‘°
0 nKia T Mlc™scopicaI Examination of Malle able Iron, by Dr. Hermann Wedding Rin
Iron and Steel Works in Russia, 143 8’ 10
Iron Telegraph Poles, 707 Iron, Tempered, 246
Ironclad Fleet, Our, 532
Irrigation Machinery, Competition of 5R?
Irrigation Works, The Nice, 1, 53 184 82 t-J? England to be Caught Napping ? ” 397
Isthmus of Corinth Canal, 145
Italian War Ship, An, 611

Jablochkoff Company, The, 63
Jablochkoff Lighting, The, 456
Jablochkoff’g1 Auto-Accumulator, 534, 678
James Watt Dock, Greenock, The 584
Jamieson’s Electric Governor 31 *
Janney Car Coupling, The, 500
Jaw Chuck, Storey and Phillips’s, 501
Jenkin, Professor Fleeming, 680 Joints, Rivetted, 524
Jurors of the Exhibition, The, 556

Keel Plate Bending Machine, Hydraulic. 134
Kendall s Electric Generator, 702
Kerr, Stuart, and Co.’s Tank Locomotive, 697
Kitson and Co. s Electric Light Plant, 339
Knap s Mechanical Stoker, 480
Knife Grinder, Slack’s Automatic, 504
Knyper and Denis’s Pipe Joint, 694
Knott’s Ellipsograph, 221
Kbrting-Lieckfeld Gas Engine, The, 526
Kurrachee Steam Tramways, 558

Laboratory of Electricity, Paris Central, 193. 611
Laboratory Machine, The Wimshurst, 171 ’
Labour, The Comparative Value of, 13
Lake, A New American, 37
Lamp, The Belfast Arc, 145
Lamp, Clark and Bowman’s, 453
Lamp and Dynamo, The Sun, 457
Lamp, Rogers’ Arc, 118 Lamp, The Stanhope, 453
Lamp, Trouv6’s Incandescence, 18
Lamp, The Varley Flexible Carbon, 457
Lamp-Holder, Cox-Walker’s, 460
Lamps, Efficiency of Incandescence, 118
Lamps, Silvered Incandescence, 193
Lamps, The Woodhouse and Rawson, 459
Lane Sectional Boiler, The, 484
L’Ann^e Electrique, 92
Larynx, Photographing the, 143
Lathe, Brass Finishers’, Chasing and Boring. 328
Lathe, Treble-Geared, 551
Lathe, Vertical, Rush worth and Co.’s, 603
Lathing Wire, 658
Launch of a Brazilian Armour-Clad, 94
Launch of H.M.S. “ Benbow,” 672
Launch of the “ Mersey,” The, 513
Launch, Screw, Thornycroft’s Light Draught 363
Launches and Trial Trips, 5, 32, 83, 109, 137 198 211, 237, 272, 298, 324, 339, 374, 402, 422,’ 518* 537, 552, 586, 624, 695 ’
Launching Checks, Wire Rope for, 286
Law of Thermodynamics, The Second, 252
Laws of Friction, The, 118
Lead Smelting, Prospects of, at Leadville, 78
Legislation, Private Bill, 25, 47, 131, 181 347 371, 426, 556, 579, 679
Library, The Telegraph Engineers’, 37
Liebig’s Statue, 399
Life Lines, Projecting, as Fire Escapes, 679
Lift, Hydraulic, and Mud Receiver, Powell’s, 19
Lifts, Atwood and Co.’s, 550
Light, Atmospheric Absorption of, 38
Light Draught Screw Launch, Thornycroft’s, 363
Light, Electric, Apparatus, Andrews’, 456
Light, Electric, at Buda-Pesth, Central Station, 8
Light, Electric, in the City, 657
Light, The Electric, in Factories, 144
Light, The Electric, in Photo-Micrography, 321
Light, The Electric, on Ships of War, 374
Light, Electric, and the Telemeter, 535
Light Electric Works, The Temesvar, 104
Light Machinery, Basement Floors for, 222
Light, The Penetration of, in Water, 558
Lighted Weathercocks, 399
Lighthouse Experiments, South Foreland, 401
Lighthouse Illuminants Controversy, The, 144
Lighthouse Illumination, 558
Lighting Act, The Electric, 9
Lighting, Electric, of Cape Parliament House, 247
Lighting, Electric, in the Forth and Tay, 659
Lighting, Electric, at Greenock, 296
Lighting, Electric, at Havre, 38
Lighting, Electric, at the Inventions Exhibition, 319, 441. 552, 581
Lighting, Electric, in the Navy, 535
Lighting, Electric, of New York Harbour, 92
Lighting, Electric, of the s.s. “Etruria” and “ Umbria,” 574
Lighting, Electric, on the s.s. “Oceanien,” 322
Lighting Gas in New York, 220
Lighting Station, The Edison Central, 219
Lighting Trains, 631
Lightning, Artificial Ball, 194
Lightning, Protecting Arc Lamps from, 247
Lightning Protection on the Washington Monument, 535
Lime Kiln, Gas-Fired, 694
Link Spanner, The Bauer, 501
Liquefying Oxygen, A New Process for, 632
Literature, American Technical, 172
Literature, Exhibition, 270
Liverpool, Merryweather and Sons’ Steam Fire Engines for, 284, 340
Locomotive, Honigmann’s Fireless, 373
Locomotive, Tank, Dick, Kerr, and Co.’s, 672
Locomotive, Tank, Kerr, .Stuart, and Co.’s, 697
Locomotive, Tank ; Taff Vale Railway, 262, 313
Locomotive, Tank, at Woolwich Arsenal, 418
Locomotives, Compound, Webb’s System, 462
Locomotives, The Construction of, 240
Locomotives, Grate Surface of, 321
Locomotives, Russian, 9
Locomotives, Sparks from, 65
Lodestone, Magnetising the, 94
LOme, Dupuy de M., 143
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company’s Paddle Steamer “ Normandy,” Compound Engines of the, 284
London and North-Western Railway, Webb’s Saloon Carriage, 671
“ Louisiana,” Boilers of the, with Water Walls and Firebrick Furnaces, 238
Lubricator, Sugden’s, 489
Luminous Paint and Earthquakes, 631
Lyman-Haskell Multicharge Gun, The, 429

Macgeorge’s Clinograph, 262, 334
Machine, Barrow’s Screw-Cutting 501
Machine, Cask-Washing, Thornewill and Warham’s, 693
Machine, Cement Testing, 501
Machine, Cement Testing, Spoor’s, 693
Machine, The Frue Vanning, 508
Machine, The Graphic “Printing,” 508
Machine Guns, Hotchkiss and Co.’s, 472
Machine Guns for Repelling Torpedo Attack, 281
Machine, Hydraulic Shearing, 212
Machine, Michele’s Cement Testing, 251, 501
Machine, 84-in. Milling, 420
Machine, Pneumatic Moulding, 394
Machine for Preparing Stereotype Plates, Sauvcfe’s, 6
Machine Tools at the Inventions Exhibition, 501, 573, 691
Machine, Wimshurst’s Electric, 60, 171, 491
Machinery, Hydraulic, 117
Machinery, Pumping, Bosisio, and Co.’s, 237, 286
Machinery, Textile, at the Inventions Exhibition, 629, 655, 703
Machinery, Wood-Working, 130, 164, 303
Machines, Calculating, 500
Machines, Candle-Moulding, 567, 596, 619
Machines, Planing, Berry and Sons’, 391
Machines, Rivetting, Tweddell’s System, 477
Mackenzie Electric Bell Indicator, The, 492
Mackinlay’s Variable Gauge Trucks, 499
Macleod’s Sunshine Recorder, 170
“ Magneta,” The Missing Telegraph Ship, 558
Magnetic Experiment, A, 535
Magnetisation of Iron, Nickel, and Steel, 582
Magnetising the Lodestone, 94
Magnetism and Conductivity, 143
Magnetism, Experiments in, 271
Magnetism, Terrestrial, in Russia, 37
Magnetometer, A Mercurial, 38
“ Magnolia,” The Steam Yacht, 598
Making Sea-Water Potable, 583
Manchester Steam Users’ Association, The, 379
Mandrel for Facing Nuts, Expanding, 353
Manganese, Volumetric Determination of, 66
Manitoba, The Soil of, 400,
Mansion House Subways, The, 65
Manufacture of Ammonia from Nitrogen, 581
Manufacture of Chlorine, 430, 632
Manufacture and Use of Oxygen, 428
Manufacture of White Lead, 427
Marine Engine Governors, 539
Marine Engine Works at Hartlepool, 95
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding, Clyde, in 1884, 81,108, 135, 208
Marine, The Russian Commercial, 169
Marine Steel Boilers, 353, 387
Maritimes, The Messageries, 704
Masonry, Settlement in, 143
Materials, Non-Conducting, 207
Mather and Platt’s System of Driving Dynamos, 159
Mather’s Portable Engine, 328
Matthews’ Engine, 460
Maxim Gun, The, 522, 634
Mayhew’s Automatic Boiler Feeder, 69
Measures, British and Metric, 84
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of, 703

Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of, 61, 90, 128, 303, 522
Final Report of Experiments upon the Condition in which Carbon Exists in Steel, by Sir Frederick Abel, 130, 150, 200
On Friction Experiments, by Mr. Beauchamp Tower, 130, 150
On Recent Improvements in Wood-Cutting Machinery, by Mr. George Richards, 131, 164, 303
On the Tower Spherical Engine, by Mr. R. Haminersley Heenan, 303
On the History of Paddle-Wheel Steam Navigation, by Mr. Henry Sandham, 304, 354, 405, 433, 589
On the Automatic Machine Gun, by Mr. Hiram B. Maxim, 522,634
On the Labours of the Research Committee on Rivetted Joints, by Professor Kennedy, 524
On the New Blooming Mill at Ebbw Vale Works, by Mr. Calvert B. Holland, 525

Mechanical Integrators, 536
Mechanical Stoker, Knap’s, 480
Memorial, The Trevithick, 522, 634
Merchant Shipping Commission, The, 246
Mercurial Magnetometer, A, 38
Mercury as Ballast, 348
Mercury Galvanometer, A, 350
Merryweather and Sons’ Steam Fire Engine for Liverpool, 284, 340
“ Mersey,” The Launch of the, 513
Mersejr Railway, The, 15
Messageries Maritimes, The, 704
Metallurgical Statistics, Prussian, 271
Metals, The Conductivity of, at Low Temperatures, 632
Metals, The Flow of, 660
Metals, The Hardness of, 64
Metals, The Oxidation and Bronzing of, 705
Metals, Tempering of, by Cold Flow, 401
Meteorological Observations from Balloons, 193
Meteorological Society, The Royal, 83, 198, 329
Meter, Water, Dryer and Rosenkranz’s, 372
Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways, The, 199, 118
Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, The, 14
Michele’s Cement Testing Machine, 251, 501
Microphone, A Vacuum, 272
Microscopic Examination of Malleable Iron, 610
Military Ballooning, 269
Military Ports, 322
Military Telegraphists, 320
Mill, Blooming, at Ebbw Vale, 525
Mill, Cogging, with Balanced Top Roll, 421
Mill, Roller, at Covinto, 433
Mill Spools, Protection to, 322
Milling Exhibition, The Paris, 630,669, 690
Milling Machine, 84 in., 420
Milling Machine, Horizontal, 692
Milling Machine, Vertical, 691
Million, Stairs for the, 705
Mills, Fires in, 295
Mineral Oil Works, The Pumpherston, 37
Minerals at Angra Pequena, 535
Mines, Rio Tinto, 658
Miscellanea 68, 87, 120, 146, 163, 196, 215, 248, 273, 288, 323, 351, 375, 403, 432, 517, 538, 560, 585, 614, 625, 676, 697
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Inventions Exhibition, 504, 692
“ Iritis ” Wrought Iron Castings, 561
Modern War Vessels, 92
Montreal, Ice Palaces at, 222
Monument, The Washington, 171
Moscrop Speed Recorder, The, 485
Motion, A Treadle, 658
Motive Power in the United States, 247
Motor, Davey’s Domestic, 509
Motor, Donaldson’s Hydraulic, 185
Motors, Electric, 169
Motors, Water, 367
Moulding Machine, Pneumatic, 394
Mount Royal Park, Montreal, 428
Mount Washington Railway, The, 297
Mountings for Quick-Firing Guns, 270
Movements of Camphor in Water, 705
Mud Receiver and Hydraulic Lift, Powell’s, 19
Multi-Charge Gun, The, 92
Munich, Dynamo and Photometrical Tests at, 226
Muzzle Pivotting Gun, Anderson’s, 477

Napier, Mr. R. D., Glasgow, 558, 584
“Napping? Is England to be Caught,” 397
Natural Gas, 40, 194, 220, 373, 559, 609
Naval Administration, American, 141
Naval Almanack, The Austrian, 349
Naval Architects, The Institution of : 317, 346 On a Practical Measurement of the Comparative Fighting Efficiency of Ships of War, by Captain G. H. Noel, R.N., 317
On the Use of Water Chambers for Reducing the Rolling of Ships, by Mr. P. Watts, 318
On the Stowage of Steamships, by Mr. F. P. Purvis, 319, 346
On a Method of Arranging the Coal Bunkers of a Steamer, by Mr. J. Nicholson, 319, 347
On Yacht Measurement and Time Allowance for Racing, by Captain J. C. Tuxon, 319
On a Mechanical Method of Measuring a Vessel’s Stability, by Mr. Heck, 346, 377
On the Most Suitable Propeller for Shallow Draught, by Mr. J. I. Thornycroft, 347
On Experience in the Use of Thick Steel Boiler Plates, by Mr. W. Parker, 353, 387
On Triple Compound Engines, by Mr. A. E. Seaton, 359
On the Strength of Plates and Rivets Used in Shipbuilding, by Mr. J. G. Wildish, 359
On the Strength of Rivetted Joints, by Mr. J. T. Milton, 359
On Large Forgings for Stern Frames, by Mr. D. Purves, 386
On the Efficiency of Marine Boilers, by Mr. J. T. Milton, 390
On the Propelling Machinery of High-Speed Ships, by Mr. E. A. Linnington, 390
On the Joy Valve Gear, by Mr. Joy, 390
On the Application of Moderate Forced Draught to the Furnaces of Small Steam Vessels, by Mr. Mark H. Robinson, 408

Naval Armaments, Russian, 246
Naval Breakdowns, 401
Navigation, Inland, 171, 431
Navigation, Paddle-Wheel Steam, 304, 354, 405, 433,589
Navy, The British, Mr. Barnaby’s Address on, 70
Navy, Electric Lighting in the, 535
Navy Estimates, The, 217, 291
Navy, The French, 679
Navy, The Russian, 116, 246
Navy, The United States, 89
New Orleans Exhibition, The, 37
New South Wales, Railways and Tramways in, 51, 75, 194, 370
New Thermodynamics, 252
New York Elevated Railroads, The, 37, 63, 308
New York Fire Department, The, 193
New York Harbour, Electric Lighting of, 92
New York, Pneumatic Despatch in, 270
New Zealand, Port of Otago, 84
Niagara, Utilising, 269
Nicaragua Canal Project, The, 243
Nice Irrigation Works, The, 1, 53,184
Nice Observatory, The, 643
Nickel and Cobalt Mattes, Bessemerising, 219
Nile, Stern-Wheel Steamers for the, 430
Noises, Subterranean, 320
Non-Conducting Materials, 207
Non-Tidal Rivers, 403
Nordenfelt Exhibits at the Inventions Exhibition, The, 548
“Normandy,” Compound Engines of the Paddle Steamer, 284
Northern Coal Trade in 1884, The, 14
Northumberland Straits, A Railway Across, 608

Notes :
Abstracts of Patents, 429
Academy Prizes, French, 247
Accidental Explosions by Non - Explosive Liquids, 536
Adjusting Bridge Piers, 246
Alloys of Indium apd Gallium, 320
Notes—continued.
American Exhibition, The, 583
American Technical Literature, 172
Ammonia from Nitrogen of Coal, 581
Analysis of Natural Gas, poj nnndee 350
Anemometrical Observations at »
Annual Convention of AmericanSocietj otuvii Engineers, 612
Anti-Fouling Composition, 373
Arc Lighting in Boston, Public, 269
Artificial Ball Lightning, 194
Artillery Question, The, 15
Asbestos, A New Use for, 295
Ascent of Roraima, The, 58-
Asphaltum in Tiles, 513
Atmospheric Absorption of Light, 38
Atmospheric Electrical Measurements, 632
Atmospheric Electricity, 559 Mncmetio
Audible Demonstration of the Earth s Magnetic
Induction, An, 399
Australian Population, 320
Austrian Naval Almanack, The, 343
Automatic Sprinklers, 706
Basement Floors for Light Machinery, 2ZZ
Bell Telephone in Canada, The, 170
Bennet-Mackay Cables, The, 63, 92
Berly’s Electrical Directory, 220
Bessemerising Copper Mattes, 37, 143, 3/2
Bessemerising Nickel and Cobalt Mattes, 219
Black Lead Paint, New, 220
Bleaching, A New Process of, 400
Boiler Scale, Compounds for Removal of, 632
Boring Artesian Wells, 535
Bourdais’ Tower of Babel, 143, 220
Bower and Thorp’s Gas Lamps, 22-
Bower-Barff Process, The, 219
Brakes in Germany, Railway, 15
Brazilian Armour-Clad, The New, 94, 61-
Brennan Torpedo, The, 612
British Capital in South Africa, 144
British Museum Catalogue, The, 223
British Power in the East, 372
Brush Patent, The, 349
Brush Report, The, 119
Bulgarian Railway Construction, 170
Bye-Laws of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 613
Cellular Structure of Steel, The, 221
Central African Sea, The, 113
Central Laboratory of Electricity, A, 193
Chased by a Train of Fire, 679
Chlorine Gas, Manufacture of, 632
Clapp-Griffiths Steel Process, The, 350, 657
Clyndograph, The, 400
“ Cocoa” Gunpowder, 144
Combustion in Dried Gases, 400
Commerce in Western Asia, 195
Communication between Baku and Batoum, 9
Competition of Irrigation Machinery, 582
Concentration of Rays, 429
Condensation of Gases on Glass, The, 271
Conductivity of Metals at Low Temperatures, 632
Conversazione of the Institution, The, 658
Copper Mattes, New Process for Working, 581
Copper for Roofing Purposes, 8
Cores for Steel Castings, 428
Cunynghame, Woodhouse, and Rawson’s Automatic (Tumbler) Cut-Out, 351
Danger from Dynamos, 349
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, The, 246
Depolishing Electric Light Globes, 320
Designs of War Vessels, The, 270
Despatch Vessel “ Surprise,” H.M., 680
Diffusion Photometer, A, 223
Direct Production of Iron from the Ore, 38, 66, 706
Disinfectants against Cholera, 659
Disinfecting Rags, 349
Disintegration of Building Stone, 612
Dockyard Routine, 93
Dry Batteries, 63
Dryer and Rosenkranz’^ Water Meter, 372
Dynamos, Absorbing the Extra Current of, 270
Dynamos, Zig-Zag Winding of, 219
East River Bridge, The, 117
Edison Central Lighting Station, The, 219
Effect of Moisture on Blast Furnaces, 194
Electric Alarm for Hot Bearings, An, 92
Electric Conductors and Service Pipes, 269
Electric Gas Lighters, 170
Electric Illuminated Clock Dials, 428
Electric Light in Industrial Establishments, 144
Electric Light in Photo-Micrography, The, 321
Electric Light on the s.s. u Oceanien,” 322
Electric Light on Ships of War, The, 374
Electric Lighting Act, The, 9
Electric Lighting of the Cape Parliament House, The, 247
Electric Lighting in the Forth and Tay, 659
Electric Lighting at Greenock, 296
Electric Lighting at Havre, 38
Electric Lighting in the Navy, 535
Electric Lighting of New York Harbour, 92
Electric Motors, 169
Electric Patrol Launch, The, 246
Electric Railway Signals, 583
Electrical Discharge in Gases, The, 349
Electrical Resistance of Carbon Contacts, 39
Electrical Surgery, 170
Electrical Terminology, 657
Electrical Work in the Soudan, 350
Electrician’s Pocket-Book, The 144
Electricity, Paris Syndical Chamber of, 246
Electricity and Sacrilege, 657
Electro-Deposition of Carbon, The, 272
Electro-Thermostats, 296
Electrolytic Extraction of Copper, 680
Elevated Railroad, The New York, 348
Engineering Society Soirde, 220
Engineers in South Australia, 320
English Coal in Russia, 93 under Great Pressures aqi
Exhibition Literature, 270 assures, 631
Experiments at Creil, The, 536
Experiments in Magnetism, 271
Exploring Hudson’s Bay, 38
Extraction of Zinc by Electrolysis, 400
Extraction of Zinc and Lead, Simultaneous, 8
Fall of a Bridge during Construction, 248
Ordnance Survey, The, 513
Otchakoff, 63
Oxidation and Bronzing of Metals The 705
Oxidation of Oil by Electricity, 219 *
Palais Royal, The, 246
Paris Central Laboratory of Electricity 611
Paris-Creil Electrical Experiments, 117*
Paris Electrical Exhibition, The, 117 296
Paris Exhibition of 1889, The, 91,’ 117 193 219, 296 1’
Paris Inventories, The, 611
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The 143
Paris Post Office, The New, 246
Paris Post Office and the Telephone The qq Paris Postal Service, The, 193 ’’
Paris Water Supply, The, 144,169
Passenger Elevators in the United States ksq
Paulson’s Torpedo, 145’
Penetration of Light in Water, The, 558
Permeability of Silver for Oxygen, 349
Petroleum in Pennsylvania, 170
Petroleum in South Russia, 64
Phidol, The, 221, 297
Phosphorus in Iron and Steel, 632
Photographing the Larynx, 143
Photometer, A New, 295
Photometry of Intense Lights, The, 429
Pipe Transit, 349
Plante’s Rheostatic Current, 658
Pneumatic Despatch in New York, The 270
Polar Earth Currents, 195
“ Polyphemus,” The, 93, 612
Port, Proposed, at the Mouth of the Vol^a 194
Putsch’s Method of Shaft-Sinking, 8 ° ’
Preserving Timber, 247
Prize for a New Alloy, 372
Production of Bars from Fluid Steel, 93
Protecting Wooden Buildings, 400
Protection to Mill Spools, 322
Prussian Metallurgical Statistics, 271
Pumpherston Mineral Oil Works, The 37
Purifying Water by Air, 64
Pyro-Electricitj' of the Topaz, 270
Pyrometers, 631
Quadrant Electromotor, The, 321
Quicksilver, A New Use for, 38, 558
Railway Accidents in Russia, 706
Railway for Burmahand Siam, A Proposed, 170
Railway Gauge, American, 170
Railway Rates in Illinois, 372
Rapid Transit in American Cities, 374
Recent Earthquakes, The, 196
Reckenzaun’s Electric Tramcar, 350
Reclamation Works in the South of France, 295
Recovery of Sulphur, 582
Regenerative Accumulator, The, 93
Registering Hygrometer, A, 194
Removal from Iron of Red-Shortness, 220
Report of the Committee on Telegraph and
Telephone Wires, The, 559
Resistance of the Voltaic Arc, The, 272
Results of Boiler Inspection in the United States, 582
Revolving Cylinder Calcining Furnaces, 221
Rhythmic Electric Bell, A, 194
Rifle Practice in the United States Army, 295
Rio Tinto Mines, 658
Russian Canal System, The, 171
Russian Dockyards, 93
Russian Gunboats, 64 -
Russian Heavy Ordnance, 171
Russian Locomotives, 9
Russian Naval Armaments, 246
Russian Navy, The, 246
Russian Steel and Iron Trade, 63
Safety of Iron Pillars in Cases of Fire, 582
Sanitary Canal for Paris, A, 38
Saturn in 1885, 631
Science Commissions in France, 118
Sea W'ater Potable, Making, 583
Seasoning Oak Timber, 193
Sebastopol, 93
Secondary Batteries, 320, 612, 680
Selenium Actinometer, A, 170
Self-Propelling Torpedo, A, 169
Settlement in Masonry, 143
Ship Broker’s Commission, 271
Shocks in Water Pipes, 372
Siberian Railway, The, 144
Silicious Bronze Conductors, 18
Slag Cement, 95
Small Arms Factories in Russia, 143
Soil of Manitoba, The, 400
Soldering Flux, A New, 428
Soldering Platinum, 428
South African Diamond Mining, 39
South African Railways, 705
South Foreland Lighthouse Experiments, 401
Spark Induction Coil, A, 269
Sparks from Locomotives, 65
Special Squadron, The, 612
Stairs for the Million, 705
Stamps v. Rolls in Mi ling Silver Ores, 66
Standard Ohm, The, 219
Starting Dynamos with Gas Engines, 271
Static Induction Gas Lighter, A, 350
Steam Yachts, 64
Steel Ordnance for Russia, 247
Steel Rails, 9
Stern-Wheel Steamers, 430
Stock Exchange, The New, 37
Street Telephonic Stations in Paris, 169
Strength of Large Timber, The, 270
Submarine Cables, New, 64
Substitutes for White Lead, 373
Subterranean Noises, 320
Sulphur Extraction by Calcium Chloride, 400
Survey for the New Arctic Trading Route, /05
Syndical Chamber of Electrical Industries, 611
“Tainui,” s.s., The, 117
Taking Down a Chimney, 657
Tar and Ammonia from Coke Ovens, 400
Telegraph Company, The Great Northern, 61-
Telegraph Conductors, 272
Telegraph Engineers’ Library, The, 37
Telegraph in the Soudan, The, 270 ~
Telegraph Tariff, The Proposed, 373
T^®SraPh and Telephone Legislation, French,
Telegraph Wanted, A, 63
Trains,h296 Communication wi*h Moving
Telegraphs in Cochin China, 247
Telemeter and Electric Light, The, 535
£eJeP"°ne Action, Another, 63
Telephone in America, The, 372
Telephone Co., The General, of Paris, 295
Telephone Line to Brighton, The Trunk, 15
Telephone in Switzerland, The, 613
Telephones in Paris 219, 348
Telephonic Communication, 63
Tempered Iron, 246
Tempering of Metals by Cold Flow, 401
Terrestrial Magnetism in Russia, 37
Test for Cotton Seed Oil, 143
Test for Presence of Lead in Enamels, &c., 295
Testing for Colour Blindness, 220
Tests for Hearing, 117
Textile Shield, A, 399
Thames Police, The, 170
Thermo-Microphone, The, 169
Ttennopile, A New Arrangement of the, 513
Jnree-Wire System for Incandescence Lighting, 401 °
Thunderstorms, Origin of, 63
Time Penalties, 296
Topographical Plans of France, The New, 373
Torpedo Boats, 94, 321
Torpedo Cruiser “Panther,” The Austrian, 679
Torpedo Trials, 143
Torpedoes, Aerial, 657
Toughened Filter Paper, 246
Tower Bridge, A Design for the, 64
Tower, The Proposed 1000 ft., 118, 143, 220
Trade Route, Proposed New, 558
Train Communication in America, 320
Train Lighting, 631
Treadle Motion, A, 658
Tresca, M. Henri, 705
Trouv^’s Incandescence Lamp, 18
Trunk Lines in the United States, 372
Tyneside Chemical Trade, The, 195
Underground Conductors for Electric Lighting. 37
Underground Telephone Conductors, 39
United States and the Inventions Exhibition.
The, 143 ’
United States Patent Office, The, 613
United States Torpedo Ship “ Destroyer,” 270
Utilisation of Basic (Phosphate) Slags, The, 8
Utilisation of Phosphoric Acid, 658
Utilisation of the Sun’s Rays, The, 535
Utilising Niagara, 269
Vacuum Microphone, A, 272
Validity of Accumulator Patents, The, 117
Visionary Ship Canal, A, 117
Volatilisation of Silicium, 658
Volumetric Determination of Manganese, 66
Washington Monument, The, 171
Water Gas, 194, 220, 246, 513, 679
Water Works of Buffalo, The, 246
Waterways of Belgium, The, 374
Welsh Copper Smelting Process, 92
Western Union Telegraph Company, The, 348
Wimshurst Laboratory Machine, The, 171
Winds in Agriculture, 513
Wire Lathing, 658
Wire Ropes for Heavy Cranes, 64
Witham Sea Channel and Improvements, The, 195
Working Auriferous Pyrites, 707
Zinc, Analytical Separation of, 611
Zinc in Drinking Water, 270

Notes from Cleveland, 11,33,59,86,113, 138, 162, 188, 214, 241, 265, 298, 315, 343, 366, 395, 423, 517, 529, 553, 577, 597, 621, 650, 673, 698
Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 22, 44, 72, 113, 139, 166, 189, 228, 276, 380, 518, 553, 651, 708
Notes from the North, 12, 33, 67, 86, 112, 138, 159, 189, 214, 241, 264, 297, 315, 342, 366, 395, 422, 518, 528, 552, 577, 597, 620, 650, 673, 699
Notes from the South-West, 22, 32, 67, 86 112, 138, 162, 188, 213, 240, 265, 297, 314, 343, 366, 394, 423, 517, 529, 552, 576, 597,621,650, 672,699
Notes from South Yorkshire, 12, 33, 68, 86, 113, 139, 162, 188, 214, 241, 265, 298, 315, 343, 365, 395, 423, 517, 529, 553, 577, 602, 621, 651,673, 699
Notes from the United States, 18, 32, 67, 82 112, 135, 172, 188, 211, 236, 275, 285, 314, 339, 365, 402, 422, 516,552, 584, 600, 620, 645, 672, 697
Novorossick Railway, The, 9

Oak Timber, Seasoning, 193
Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observations at Dundee, Anemometrical, 350
Observatory, The Nice, 643
Ocean Telephony, 38
“ Oceanien,” s.s., Electric Light on the, 322
Ochorowicz Receiving Telephone, The, 295
Office, The Patent, 218
Ohm, The Standard, 219
Oil Scouts, 400
Oise and Aisne Canal, The, 117
Oldham, The Economiser Explosion at, 36, 90
One Thousand-Feet Tower, Proposed, 118,143, 220
Open Hearth Steel Production, 427
Operator, Fog Whistle, or Sonnebula, The, 187
Ordnance Factories, Private, 369
Ordnance, Heavy, 317
Ordnance, Russian, 171, 247
Ordnance Survey, The, 513
Ordnance Survey Office, Dynamo-Electrotyping at an, 192
Ore, Direct Production of Iron from the, 38, 706
Origin of Thunderstorms, 63
Otago, Port of, New Zealand, 84
Otchakoff, 63
Otis Elevator, The, 391
Oxidation and Bronzing of Metals, The, 705
Oxidation of Oil by Electricity, 219
Oxygen, Manufacture and Use of, 428
Oxygen, A New Process for Liquefying, 632
Oxygen, Permeability of Silver for, 349

Paddle-Wheel Steam Navigation, 304, 354, 405, 433 589
Paint, New Black Lead, 220
Palais Royal, The, 246
“ Panther,” The Austrian Torpedo Cruiser, 679
Paper Bag Making Machine, Bumstead’s, 692
Paris Central Laboratory of Electricity, The, 611
Paris-Creil Electrical Experiments, The, 117
Paris Electrical Exhibition, 117, 296, 309, 338
Paris Exhibition of 1889, 94, 117, 193, 219, 296
Paris, Fire Alarms in, 117
Paris, General Telephone Company of, 295, 628
Paris Inventories, The, 169, 611
Paris Metropolitan Railway, The, 143
Paris Milling Exhibition, The, 630, 669, 690
Paris Post Office, The New, 246
Paris Post Office and the Telephone Co., The, 93
Paris Postal Service, The, 193
Paris Syndical Chamber of Electricity, The, 246
Paris, Telephones in, 219, 348
Paris Water Supply, The, 144,169
Park, Mount Royal, Montreal, 428
Parsons’ Dynamo and Motor, 460
Parsons’ High-Speed Engine, 460
Passenger Elevators in the United States, 582
Patent Act, The New, 35
Patent, The Brush, 349
Patent Office, The, 218
Patent Office, The United States, 613
Patent Record, The, 22, 44, 73, 100,124, 153, 175, 203, 229, 253, 276, 300, 330, 354, 380, 410, 434, 518, 540, 565, 590, 614, 636, 664, 686, 710
Patents, Abstracts of, 429
Patrol Launch, The Electric, 246
Paulson’s Torpedo, 145
Pearn and Co.’s Direct-Acting Ram Pump, 587
Penalties, Time, 296
Penetration of Light in Water, The, 558
Pepper Steam-Steering Gear, The, 563
Permanent Way, Holtham’s, 497
Permanent Way Inspectors, Institution of, 198
Permanent Way at the Inventions Exhibition, 497
Permanent Way, Webb’s Steel, 497
Permeability of Silver for Oxygen, 349
Petroleum as a Fuel, On the Use of, 686
Petroleum in Pennsylvania, 170
Petroleum in South Russia, 64
Petroleum, The Storage of, 168.
Phidol, The, 221, 297
Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition, The, 2
Phillips’s New Rotary Pump, 351 .
Phosphoric Acid, Utilisation of, from the Basic Bessemer Process, 658
Phosphorus in Iron and Steel, \ olumetnc Estimation of, 632 . . .
Photo-Micrography, The Electric Light in, 321
Photographing the Larynx, 143
Photometer, A Diffusion, 223
Photometer, A New, 295
Photometrical and Dynamo Tests at Mlinich, The 226
Photometry of Intense Lights, The, 429
Physical Science at the Inventions Exhibition, 491

Physical Society, The : . . _
Action of Light in Diminishing the Resistance of Selenium, by Shelford Bidwell, 605, 695
Calculating Machines, by J. Edmondson, 367
Calculating Surface Tensions, by A. M. Worthington, 695
Characteristic Curves of Incandescence Lamps, by J. A. Fleming, 322
Electrical Anemometer, by W. Baily, 188
Electrolytic Decomposition, by J. W. Clark,
Equilibrium of Forces, by W. Baily, 124
Evaporation and Dissociation, by W. Ramsey, 551
Exhibition of Physical Instruments, 367
Experiments in Spectrum Analysis, by E. Cle-minshaw, 124, 323
Line and Area Divider, by Miss Marks 188
Nicols’ Prism. The Use of, by J. C. McConnel, 252
Poiograph, The, by C. H. Hinton, 124
Polarising Prisms, by H. C. Mad an, 252
Propagation of the Electro-Magnetic Wave, by S P. Thompson, 551
Properties in the Ether, by G. F. Fitzgerald, 367
Recent Researches on Radiation, by Captain Abney, 322 ,
Self-Recording Strain and Stress Recorders, by H. S. H. Shaw, 551
Theory of Illumination in a Fog, by Loid Rayleigh, 516 ,
Thomson’s Quadrant Electromotor, by Dr. Hopkinson, 323 ..... xu
Variations caused by Magnetisation in the Length of Iron, Steel, and Nickel Rods, by Shelford Bidwell, 605
Winding Voltmeters, by Messrs. Ayrton and Perry, 695

pSnTraSeVor 1884, Scotch, 210
Pillars, Iron, Safety of in Cases of Fire, 582
Pipe Joint, Knyper and Dems s, 694
Pipe Transit, 349
Piston Packing, Compound Spiral, 275
Planing Machines, Berry and Sons , 391 _
Plant, Portable Electric Light, for the Suakim-Ber’ber Railway, 339
Plant’s Rheostatic Current, 658 .
Plaster A New Process for Hardening, 513
Plates, Stereotype, Machine for Preparing, 6
Pireumatic^De^paTc^i | New York 270
Pneumatic Moulding Machine, 394
Pocket-Book, The Electrician’s, 144
Polar Wth Currents, 195
Poles, Iron Telegraph, 707
Police, The Thames, 170
“ Polyphemus,” The, 93, 612
Population, Australian, 320
Port of Otago, New Zealand, 84
Port, Proposed, at the Mouth of the Volga, 194
Portable Engine, Mather’s, 328
Portable Fire Apparatus, 512
Portable Pumping and Driving Engine, Com
pound, Gwynnes’, 134
Portland Cement, On Testing, 656
Ports, Military, 322
Post Office, The New Paris, 246
Postal Service, The Paris, 193
Pbtsch’s Method of Shaft Sinkingin Quicksand, 8
Powell’s Mud Receiver and Hydraulic Lift, 19
Preserving Timber, 247
Printing Machine, The “ Graphic,” 508
Private Bill Legislation, 25, 47, 131,181,347, 371, 426, 556, 579, 679
Private Ordnance Factories, 369
Prize for a New Alloy, 372
Prizes, French Academy, 247
Process of Bleaching, A New, 400
Proell Cut-Off Gear, The, 485
Professor Bjerknes, The Hydrodynamic Researches of, 304, 357, 413, 543
Propeller, The Guide Blade, 706
Prospects of Lead Smelting at Leadville, 78
Protecting Wooden Buildings, 400
Protection to Mill Spools, 322
Prussian Metallurgical Statistics, 271
Public Supply of Hydraulic Power, 262, 299, 325
Pulley Block Brake, Bell’s, 504
Pulley, A Giant, 117
Pump, Bernay’s Steam, 525
Pump, Direct-Acting Ram, 587
Pump, Double Ram, Evans and Sons’, 108
Pump, Phillips’s New Rotary, 351
Pump, Sinking, The Deane, 489
Pump, The Worthington Compound, 489
Pumpherston Mineral Oil Works, The, 37
Pumping Engines at Buda-Pesth, 528, 574, 62
Pumping Engines, Compound, 485
Pumping Machinery, 237, 286
Pumps, The Westinghouse Air and Water, 489
Purification of Water, The, 525
Purifying Water by Air, 64
Pyro-Electricity of the Topaz, The, 270
Pyrometers, 631

Quadrant Electrometer, The, 321
Quebec, Proposed Bridge over the St. Lawrence near, 336
Question, The Artillery, 15
Question, The Coal, 168
Quick-Firing Guns, Mountings for, 270
Quicksilver, A New Use for, 38
Quicksilver, Use of, as an Insecticide, 558
Quilliam’s Cartridge Magazine, 476

Radial Drill, Rush worth and Co.’s, 363
Radiation, On Heating by, 226
Rags, Disinfecting, 349
Rail Mill Engines at Dowlais, 19, 32
Railroad, The California Street, 255
Railroad, The Denver and Rio Grande, 246
Railroad, The New York Elevated, 37, 63, 348
Rails, Steel, 9
Railway Accidents in Russia, 706 .
Railway Across Northumberland Straits, A, 608
Railway Appliances, Inventions Exhibition, 497
Railway Brakes in Germany, 15
Railway for Burmah and Siam, A Proposed, 170
Railway Construction, Bulgarian, 170
Railway Gauge, American, 170
Railway The Inverted, 558
Railway, The Mersey, 15
Railway, The Metropolitan, 119
Railway, The Mount Washington, 297
Railway, The Novorossick, 9
Railway, The Paris Metropolitan, 143
Railway Rates, 115
Railway Rates in Illinois, 372
Railway, The Siberian, 144
Railway Signalling Apparatus, 497
Railway Signals, Electric, 583
Railway Signals, Electrical, at Philadelphia, 2
Railway in the Soudan, The Proposed, 191
Railway, South Eastern; Electro-Plated Carriage 11
Railway, The Suakim-Berber, 275, 579
Railway, The Suakim-Berber, Portable Electric Light Plant for, 339 ,,
Railway, Taff Vale; Tank Locomotive for the, 262 313
Railway, The Tehuantepec Ship, 28, 76
Railway Wagon Coupling Apparatus, 500
Railways in India, The, 167 ...
Railways, The Metropolitan and Metropolitan District, 199 , r.
Railways in New South Wales, 51, 75,194
Railways, South African, 705
Railways and Tramways. New South Wales, 370
Ram Pump, Direct-Acting, 587
Range Finder, The Weldon, 492
Rapid Transit in American Cities, 374
Rasmussen’s Band Saw Sharpener, 509
Rates, Railway, 115
Rays, Concentration of, 429
Recent Earthquakes, The, 196
Recent Progress in the Public Supply of Hydraulic Power, 262, 299, 325
Reckenzaun’s Electric Tramcar, 350 496
Reclamation Works in the l rance, 29o
Reconnaissance by Arc Light Nocturnal 535
Record, The Patent, 22 4M3,10°, 124, 153, 1/5, 203, 229, 253, 276, 300 , 330, 354 380, 4W, ’ 518, 540, 565, 590, 614, 636, 664, 686, 710
Recovery of Bye-Products in Coking Coal, 568
copper, Removal of from Iron, 220
Regenerative Accumulator, The, 93 222
Regenerative Gas Lamps, Bower and Thorp s, 22-
Registering Hygrometer, A, 194
Removal of Boiler Scale, Compounds for 632
Repelling Torpedo Attack, Machine Guns for,
Report’ of6 the1 Committee on Telephone and
Repo'rFof ^In^ection^on the Forth Bridge Rail-way, 54f 328
Report of Mr. E. B. Marten on Boiler Explosions in 1884, 263, 286
Researches, The Hydrodynamic, of Professor Bjerknes, 304, 357, 413, 543
Resistance of the Voltaic Arc, The, 272
Results of Boiler Inspection in the United States, 582
Revolving Cylinder Calcining Furnaces, 221
Revolving Gun Carriage, Sawyer’s, 477
Rheostatic Currents, Plante’s, 658
Rhythmic Electric Bell, A, 194
Rifle Practice in the United States Army, 295
Rio Tinto Mines, 658
River Adige at Verona, Bridge over the, 390
River St. Lawrence, Proposed Bridge over the, near Quebec, 336
River Volga, Stern-Wheel Steamer for the, 363
Rivers, Non-Tidal, 403
Rivetted Joints, 524
Rivetting Machines, Tweddell’s System, 477
Rivetting, Ship and Boiler, 359
Road Metal, Stafford’s Automatic Screen for, 408
Road and Railway Bridge over the River Dneiper, 69, 84, 112, 159, 212
Roller Mill at Covinto, 433
Roofing Purposes, Copper for, 8
Root Boiler, The, 479
Roraima, The Ascent of, 582
Rotary Pump, Phillips’s New, 351
Rotherham Boiler Explosion, The, 62
Routine, Dockyard, 93
Royal Institution, “Friday Evenings” at the, 37
Royal Meteorological Society, The, 83,198, 329
Royal Society Soiree, The, 1885, 556
Rushworth and Co.’s Double-Headed Radial Drill, 363
Rushworth and Co.’s Vertical Lathe, 603
Russia, English Coal in, 93
Russia, Iron and Steel Works in, 143
Russia, Small Arms Factories in, 143
Russian Canal System, The, 171
Russian Commercial Marine, The, 169
Russian Dockyards, 93
Russian Gunboats, 64
Russian Heavy Ordnance, 171
Russian Locomotives, 9
Russian Naval Armaments, 246
Russian Navy, The, 116, 246
Russian Steel and Iron Trade, 63

Sacrilege and Electricity, 657
Safety of Iron Pillars in Cases of Fire, 582
St. Albans Gas Works, Box and Waller’s Washer Gas Scrubber at the, 405
St. Lawrence, Proposed Bridge over the, near Quebec, 336
Saloon Carriage, Webb’s ; London and North-Western Railway, 671
Saloon Carriages for Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway, 251
Sang, Dr., on the Forth Bridge, 267
Sanitary Canal for Paris, A, 38
Saturn in 1885, 631
Sauvde’s Machine for Preparing Stereotype Plates, 6
Sawyer’s Revolving Gun Carriage, 477
Science Commissions in France, 118
Scotch Pig-Iron Trade for 1884, 210
Scott’s Air Compressors, 505
“ Scouts” for the Admiralty, The New, 237
Scouts, Oil, 400
Screw Collier for Sydney, 661
Screw Cutting and Turning Machine, Barrow’s, 501
Screw Launch, Light Draught, 363
Sea, The Central African, 143
Sea Channel and Improvements, The Witham, New, 195
Sea-Water Potable, Making, 583
Seasoning Oak Timber, 193
Seat of Voltaic Electromotive Force, The, 372
Sebastopol, 93
Secondary Batteries, 320, 612, 680
Selenium Actinometer, A, 170
Selenium Battery, A, 398
Self-Propelling Torpedo, A, 169
Separation of Zinc, Analytical, 611
Service Pipes and Electric Conductors, 269
Settlement in Masonry, 143
Sewage Discharge, Metropolitan, The, 14
Shaft-Sinking in Quicksand, Putsch’s Method of, 8
Shale, The Distillation of, 533
Sharp, Stewart, and Co.’s Boiler Drilling Machine, 573
Sharpe’s Firebars, 84
Shearing Machine, Hydraulic, 212
Shells, High Explosives in, 349
Shield, A Textile, 399
Ship and Boiler Rivetting, 359
Ship Broker’s Commission, 271
Ship Canal, A Visionary, 117
Ship Railway, The Tehuantepec, 28, 76
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1884, Clyde, 81, 108, 135, 208
Shipbuilding Trade, The Future of the, 191
Shipping Commission, The Merchant, 246
Ships, Battle, The New Belted Cruisers and
Single-Turretted, 402
Ships, Forms of, 560
Ships of War, The Electric Light on, 374
Shocks in Water-Pipes, 20, 372
Siberian Railway, The, 144
Side Armour v. Armoured Decks, 232
Sidgwick’s Street Dust-Bin, 508
Siemens Gas Producer, A Modified Type of, 569
Signalling Apparatus, Railway, 497
Signs and Symbols, Electrical, 555
Silicious Bronze Conductors, 18
Silicium, Volatilisation of, 658
Silver Ores, Milling, Stamps v. Rolls in, 66
Simon-Carvds Coking Process, The, 569, 604
Simpson’s Timber Dry Docks, 311
Single-Turretted Battle Ships, The New Belted Cruisers and, 402
Sinking Pump, The Deane, 489
Slack’s Automatic Knife Grinder, 504
Slag Cement, 95
Slags, The Utilisation of Basic (Phosphate), 8
Sleepers, Cast-Iron, The Denham-Olpherts, 497
Slide Valve, Thom’s, 485
Slot Drilling Machine, 692
Small Arms Factories in Russia, 143
Small Arms, Suft’s Improvements in, 476
Smokeless Furnaces, Welford’s, 405
Snowden’s Boring ahd Screw-Cutting Machine, 574
“ Sobralense/’s.s.,' Engines and Boilers of, 620,674
Society of Civil Engineers, The American, 206
Society, The Physical {See Physical Society, The)
Society, Royal Meteorological, 83, 198, 329
Society of Telegraph Engineers, The, 103
Soda Condenser, Honigmann’s Caustic, 225
Soil of Manitoba, The, 400
Soirde, The Engineering Society, 220
Soirde, The Royal Society, 1885, 556
Soldering Flux, A New, 428 Soldering Platinum, 428
Sonnebula, or Fog Whistle Operator, The, 187
Soudan, Electrical Work in the, 350
Soudan, The Proposed Railway in the, 191
Soudan, The Telegraph in the, 270
South Africa, British Capital in, 144
South African Diamond Mining, 39
South African Railways, 705
South Australia, Engineers in, 320
South-Eastern Railway ; Electro - Plated Carriage, 11
South Foreland Lighthouse Experiments, 401
South of France, Reclamation Works in the, 295
South Russia, Petroleum in, 64
South-West, Notes from the, 22, 32, 67, 86, 112, 138, 162, 188, 213, 240, 265, 297, 314, 343, 366, 394,423, 517, 529, 552, 576, 597, 621,650, 672,699
South Yorkshire, Notes from, 12, 33, 68, 86, 113, 139, 162, 188, 214, 241, 265, 298, 315, 343, 365, 395, 423, 517, 529, 553, 577, 602,621, 651, 673,699
Spanner, Link, The Bauer, 501
Spark Induction Coil, A, 269
Sparks from Locomotives, 65
Speed Indicator, Harding’s, 492
Speed Indicator, Young’s, 492
Speed Recorder, The Moscrop, 485
Speed Trials, 19
Spherical Engine, The Tower, 303, 461
Spiral Piston Packing, Compound, 275
Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, 116
Spring, Door, A Hydraulic, 251
Sprinklers, Automatic, 20, 71, 151, 706
Squadron, The Special, 612
Stability of Vessels, The, 346, 377
Stafford’s Automatic Stone Screen, 408
Stairs for the Million, 705
Staiths, Movable, Butler’s, 504
Stamps v. Rolls in Milling Silver Ores, 66
Standard Ohm, The, 219
Stanhope Lamp, The, 453
Stanhope Water Softener, The, 574
Static Induction Gas Lighter, A, 350
Statue, Liebig’s, 399
Steam Boilers, The Construction of, 136
Steam, The Distribution of, in Towns, 218
Steam Fire Engines for Liverpool, 284, 340
Steam Navigation, Paddle-Wheel, 304, 354, 405, 433, 589
Steam Pump, Bernay’s, 525
Steam Steering Gear, The Pepper, 563
Steam Tramways, Kurrachee, 558
Steam Users’ Association, The Manchester, 379
Steam Yacht “Magnolia,” The, 598
Steam Yachting, 654
Steam Yachts, 64
Steamboat Equipment of War Vessels, 50, 79
Steamer, Stern-Wheel, for the River Volga, 363
Steamship “Australasian,” Engines and Valve Gear of the, 111
Steamship “Cotentin,” Compound Engines of the, 342
Steamship “ Sobralense,” Engines of the, 620,674
Steamship “ Tainui,’' The. 117
Steamships “Etruria” and “Umbria,” Electric Lighting of the, 674
Steel, Bessemer, in the North, 348
Steel Boilers, Marine, 353, 387
Steel, Carbon in, 130, 150, 200
Steel Casting, Cores for, 428
Steel, The Cellular Structure of, 221
Steel, Fluid, Production of Bars, Wire, &c., Direct from, 93
Steel Forgings, Heavy, 219
Steel and Iron Trade, Russian, 63
Steel Ordnance for Russia, 247
Steel Permanent Way, Webb’s, 497
Steel Process, The Clapp-Griffiths, 350
Steel Production, Open Hearth, 427
Steel Rails, 9
Steering Gear, Davis’s, 504
Steering Gear, Hand-Screw, 539
Stereotype Plates, Machine for Preparing, 6
Stern-Wheel Steamers, 363, 430, 654
Stock Exchange, The New, 37
Storage of Petroleum, The, 168
Storey and Phillips’s Jaw Chuck, 501
Stream, The Gulf, 65
Street Dust-Bin, Sidgwick’s, 508
Street Telephonic Stations in Paris, 169
Strength of Iron and the Bower-Barff Process, 219
Strength of Large Timber, The, 270
Suakim-Berber Railway, The, 275, 579
Suakim-Berber Railway, Portable Electric Light Plant for the, 339
Sub-Aqueous Blasting, 702
Submarine Cables, Faults in, 535
Submarine Cables, New, 64
Substitutes for White Lead, 373
Subterranean Noises, 320
Subways, The Mansion House, 65
Suft’s Improvements in Small Arms, 476
Sugden’s Lubricator, 489
Sulphur Extraction by Means of Calcium Chloride, 400
Sulphur, Recovery of, 582
Sulphurous Acid Gas, Condensation of, 399
Sun Lamp and Dynamo, The, 457
Sunshine Recorder, Macleod’s, 170
Supply of Hydraulic Power, 262, 299, 325
Supply, Water, 300 Surgery, Electrical, 170
“Surprise,” H.M. Despatch Vessel, 680
Survey for the New Arctic Trading Route, 705
Survey, The Ordnance, 513
Swing Bridge, The Anglesea, Hydraulic Machinery at, 185
Switchboard, The Williams Telephone, 2
Switzerland, The Telephone in, 613
Swivelling Wheel, Ten wick’s, 341
Sydney, Screw Collier for, 661
Syndical Chamber of Electrical Industries, 611

Taff Vale Railway, Tank Locomotive for, 262, 3.
“ Tainui,” s.s., The, 117
Taking Down a Chimney, 657
Tangye Brothers’ Gas Hammer, 573 >
Tank Locomotive, Dick, Kerr and Co. 8, 672
Tank Locomotive ; 3-ft. l|-in. Gauge, 697
Tank Locomotive, 18-in. Gauge, at Wool wk Arsenal, 418
Tank Locomotive ; Taff Vale Railway, 262, 313
Tar and Ammonia from Coke Ovens, 400
Tariff, The Proposed Telegraph, 373
Tay Bridge, The, 689 _
Tehuantepec Ship Railway, The,,28,76
Telegraph Company, The Great Northern, 612
Telegraph Company, The Western Union, 318 Telegraph Conductors, 272
Telegraph Engineers in India, The, /01
Telegraph Engineers’ Library, The, 37
Telegraph Engineers, The Society of, 103
Telegraph Poles, Iron, 707 .
Telegraph Ship “ Magneta,” The Missing, 5o8
Telegraph in the Soudan, The, 270
Telegraph Station, Harding’s Floating, 506
Telegraph Tariff, The Proposed, 373
Telegraph and Telephone Legislation, French, 19
Telegraph Wanted, A, 63
Telegraphic Communication with Trains, 296
Telegraphists, Military, 320
Telegraphs in Cochin China, 247
Telemeter and Electric Light, The, 535
Telephone Action, Another, 63
Telephone in America, The, 372
Telephone, The Bell, in Canada, 170
Telephone Company of Paris, General, 295, 628
Telephone Co., and the Paris Post Office, 93
Telephone Conductors, Underground, 39
Telephone Line to Brighton, The Trunk, 15
Telephone Lines, Induction on, 170
Telephone, The Ochorowicz Receiving, 295
Telephone in Paris, The, 348
Telephone Switchboard, The Williams, 2
Telephone in Switzerland, The, 613
Telephone and Telegraph Wires, Report of th Committee on, 559
Telephones in Paris, 219
Telephonic Communication, 63
Telephonic Stations, Street, in Paris, 169
Telephony, Ocean, 38
Temesvar Electric Light Works, The, 104
Tempered Glass, 245
Tempered Iron, 246
Tempering of Metals by Cold Flow, 401
Tenwick’s Swivelling Wheel, 341
Terminology, Electrical, 657
Terrestrial Magnetism in Russia, 37
Test, Bore Hole, or Clinograph, The, 260, 334
Test for Cotton Seed Oil, 143
Test for Presence of Lead in Enamels, &c., 295
Testing for Colour Blindness, 220
Testing Gas, Apparatus for, 657
Testing Portland Cement, On, 656
Tests, Dynamo and Photometric, at Munich, 226
Tests for Hearing, 117
Textile Machinery at the Inventions Exhibition, 629, 655, 703
Textile Shield, A, 399
Thames Police, The, 170
Thermo-Microphone, The, 169
Thermodynamics, New, 252
Thermopile, A New Arrangement of the, 513
Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist, 146
Thom’s Slide Valve, 485
Thomson-Houston System of Electric Lighting The, 452 °
Thornewill and Warham’s Cask-Washing Machine, 693
Thornycroft’s Light Draught Screw Launch, 363
Thorp’s Indicator, 497
Three-Wire System for Incandescence Lighting 401
Thunderstorms, Origin of, 63
Tiles, Asphaltum in, 513
Timber Dry Docks, Simpson’s, 311
Timber, Large, The Strength of, 270
Timber, Preserving, 247
Time, American, 398
Time, Fast Railroad, 513
Time Penalties, 296
Time, Universal, 491
Topaz, The Pyro-Electricity of the, 270
Topographical Plans of France, The New 373
Torpedo Attack, Machine Guns for Repelling 281
Torpedo Boats, 94, 321, 425 F
Torpedo, The Brennan, 612
Torpedo, A Self-Propelling, 169
Torpedo Trials, 143
Torpedo Warfare, 677
Torpedo, Whitehead, The Autobiography of 127 155 177, 205, 233,257, 279, 306, 333,383 414 521
Torpedoes, Aerial, 657 ’ ’
Torpedoes, The Use of, in War, 268
Toughened Filter Paper, 246
Tower Bridge, A Design for the, 64
Tower, The Proposed 1000 ft., 118, 143 220
Tower Spherical Engine, The 303 461
Tiade, The Northern Coal, in 1884 id.
Trade Route, Proposed New, 558 ’
Trade, Scotch Pig-Iron, for 1884 210
Trade, the Shipbuilding, Thefuture of 191
Tiain Communication in America ’ 191
Train of Fire, Chased by a, 679 ’
Train Lighting, 631
Tramcar, Reckenzaun’s Electric, 496
Tramway Engines, Fireless, 15, 350
Tramway Powers, Application for 653
Tramways, Cable, 26, 157, 255, 307 415 642 and CaiSSOn8 for Dock
Treadle Motion, A, 658
Treble Geared Lathe, 551
Tree A New Gutta Percha, 612
Trial Trin^Tr01'181’ The> 522> 634 211, 2^, 298,r32h4eS3^ 537, 552, 586, 624, 695 ’ 339, 3 4’ 402’ 422> 518,
Tresca, M. Henri, 705
Trials, Speed 19
Trials, Torpedo, 143
Triple-Compound Engines, 359
Triple Expansion Engines and Boilers of the s.s. Sobralense, 620, 674
Trouvfi’s Incandescence Lamps, 18
Trucks, Mackinlay’s Variable Gauge, 499
Trunk Lines in the United States, 372
Turbine, The Girard, 390
Tweddell’s System of Rivetting Machines, 477
Tyneside Chemical Trade, The, 195
Type-Writer, The Columbia, 507

Underground Leads for Electric Lighting, 37
Underground Telephone Conductors, 39
Union and Market-street Cable Tramways, 416
United Asbestos Company, The, 505
United States Army, Rifle Practice in the, 295
United States, Fires in the, 144
United States and the Inventions Exhibition, The, 143
United States, Motive Power in the, 247
United States Navy, The, 89
United States, Notes from the, 18, 32, 67, 82, 112, 135, 172, 188, 211, 236, 275, 285, 314, 339, 365, 402, 422, 516, 552, 584, 600, 620, 645, 672, 697
United States Patent Office, The, 613
United States Torpedo Ship “ Destroyer,” 270
United States, Trunk Lines in the, 372
Universal Time, 491
Use for Asbestos, A New, 295
Use of Petroleum as a Fuel, On the, 686
Use for Quicksilver, A New, 38
Use of Torpedoes in War, The, 268
Utilisation of Basic (Phosphate) Slags, The, 8
Utilisation of Phosphoric Acid from the Basic Bessemer Process, 658
Utilisation of the Sun’s Rays for Heat and Ventilation, The, 535
Utilising Niagara, 269

Vacuum Automatic Brake, The, 500
Vacuum Microphone, A, 272
Validity of Accumulator Patents, The, 117
Value of Labour, The Comparative, 13
Valve Gear and Engines of the “Australasian, 111
Vanning Machine, The Frue, 508
Vapour Engines, Binary, 36
Variable Gauge Trucks, Mackinlay’s, 499
Varley Flexible Carbon Lamp, The, 457
Velocity, Wind, 104
Verona, Bridge over the River Adige at, 390
Vertical Boiler, Coles and Matthews’, 312
Vertical Lathe, Rushworth and Co.’s, 603
Vertical Milling Machine, 691
Vessels, The Stability of, 346, 377
Viaduct, The Garabit, 549, 593
Vibrating Bodies, The Forms of, 640
Visionary Ship Canal, A, 117
Volatilisation of Silicium, 658
Volga, Proposed Port at the Mouth of the, 194
Volga, River, Stern-Wheel Steamer for the, 363
Voltaic Arc, The Resistance of the, 272
Voltaic Electromotive Force, The Seat of, 372
Volumetric Determination of Manganese, 66
Volumetric Estimation of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel, 632
Voting Apparatus, Butcher’s, 325

Wagon Coupling Apparatus, Railway, 500
Walker Brothers’ Air Compressors, 485
Walker’s Watt-Meter, 496
Wanted, A Telegraph, 63
War Department Exhibit at the Inventions Exhibition, 472
War Material at the Inventions Exhibition, 703
War Ship, An Italian, 611
War, Torpedo Boats in, 425
War, The Use of Torpedoes in, 268
War Vessels, The Designs of, 270
War Vessels, Modern, 92
War Vessels, Steamboat Equipment of, 50, 79
Warfare, Torpedo, 677
Washer Gas Scrubber at the St. Albans Gas
Works, Box and Waller’s, 405
Washington Monument, The, 171
Washington Monument, Lightning Protection on the, 535
Water, Drinking, Zinc in, 270
Water Gas, 194, 220, 246, 345, 513, 679
Water Motors, 367
Water Pipes, Shocks in, 20, 372
Water, The Purification of, 525
Water, Purifying, by Air, 64
Water Softener, The Stanhope, 574
Water Supply, 300
Water Supply in the Desert, 244
Water Supply, The Paris, 144,169
Water Walls and Firebrick Furnaces, Boilers of the “ Louisiana” with, 238
Water Works of Buffalo, The, 246
Waterways of Belgium, The, 374
Watts and Co.’s Double Band Saw, 649
Weather, The, 36, 50, 142, 245,371, 533, 628
Weathercocks, Lighted, 399
Webb’s Saloon Carriage; London and North Western Railway, 671
Webb’s Steel Permanent Way, 497
Webb’s System of Compound Locomotives 462
Weldon Range Finder, The, 492
Welford’s Smokeless Furnaces, 405
Wells, Artesian, 535, 683, 708
Welsh Copper Smelting Process, 92
Western Asia, Commerce in, 195
Western Electric Company’s Exhibit at Philadelphia, 2
Western System of Electric Lighting, The 452
Western Union Telegraph Company, The *348
Westinghouse Air and Water Pumps, The 489
Westinghouse Automatic Brake, The 499 ’
Westinghouse Engine, The, 509 ’
Wheel, Tenwick’s Swivelling, 341
Wheelock Engine, The, 484
White Lead, Manufacture of, 427
White Lead, Substitutes for, 373
Whitehead Torpedo, The Autobiography of a 127, 155, 177, 205, 233, 257, 279, 306,1 333, 383' 414, 521 ’
Willans Engine, The, 392, 509
Williams Telephone Switchboard, The, 2
Wilson and Co.’s Compound Engines of the “ Cotentin,” 342
Wimshurst’s Electric Machine, 60, 171, 491
Wind Velocity, 104
Winds in Agriculture, 513
Wire Lathing, 658
Wire Rope for Launching Checks, 286
Wire Ropes for Heavy Cranes, 64
Witham New Sea Channel and Improvements, The, 195
Wood-Working Machinery, 131,164, 303
Wooden Buildings, Protecting, 400
Woodhouse and Rawson Lamps, 459
Woolwich Arsenal, Tank Locomotive at, 418
Working Auriferous Pyrites in Transylvania, 706
Working Copper Mattes, New Process for, 581
Works Department, The Indian Public, 706
Works, The Nice Irrigation, 1, 53, 184
Works, The Temesvar, Electric Light, 104
Workshop, Gas in the, 118
Worthington Compound Pump, The, 489
Wrought-Iron Castings, “Mitis,” 561

Yacht “ Magnolia,” The Steam, 598
Yachting, Steam, 654
Yachts, Steam, 64
Young and Beilby’s Apparatus for the Distillation of Shale, 533
Young’s Speed Indicator, 492

Zig-Zag Winding of Dynamos, 219
Zinc, Analytical Separation of, 611
Zinc in Drinking Water, 270
Zinc, Extraction of, by Electrolysis, 400
Zinc and Lead, Simultaneous Extraction of, 8

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