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Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

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Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.
Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: General Index.

Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1890 Jan-Jun: Index

GENERAL INDEX

  • Academy Banquet, The Navy at the, 568
  • Accident on Board II.M.S. “ Barracoota,” The, 176, 328, 367, 384, 475, 484
  • Accident, The Carlisle, 485, 595, 604
  • Accident to the “City of Paris,” The, 4_0, 481, 712, 759
  • Accident to No. 4, or Queensferry North-West Caisson ; Forth Bridge, 238
  • Accidents, Machinery, Safeguarding against, 63
  • Accumulator, The Laurent-Cely, 373
  • Adamson, Mr. Daniel, 66
  • Address by the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 575
  • Address of the President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 390
  • Administration, Naval, 417

Agricultural Society’s Show at Plymouth, The Royal : 734, 745

  • Dairy, 750
  • Disintegrators, 746
  • Engine Trials, 734, 745
  • Engines, 748
  • Grist Mills, 747
  • Knight’s Petroleum Engine, 737
  • Implements, 743
  • Miscellaneous, 750
  • Petroleum Engine, Knight’s, 737
  • Spring Mounted Road Locomotive, Burrell’s, 739
  • Traction Engine and Road Roller, Wallis and Steevens’ Combined, 754
  • Agricultural Society’s Trials, The Royal, 734, 745
  • Air Compressors for the Forth Bridge, 235
  • Air for Tramcars, Low-Pressure, 333, 354
  • Allen, Mr. Horatio, 124
  • Alloys, Steel, 85
  • Alluvial Punjaub Rivers, Bridging, 389
  • Aluminium in Carburetted Iron, 767
  • Aluminium, The Properties of, 373, 472, 545
  • Aluminium in Steel, 615, 767
  • Amalgamation Schemes, The Scotch Railway, 598
  • Ambulance Train; Western Railway of France, 560
  • Amendment of the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, 762
  • American Locomotives in Great Britain, 363
  • American Mill Floors, 19
  • American Naval Contracts, The Conditions of, 66
  • American Society of Civil Engineers, The, 159
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers {See Mechanical Engineers, American Society of)
  • American Tornado of March 27th, 1890, The Great, 513
  • Anderson’s Lubricator, 367
  • Anglo-American Lathe, Richards’, 588
  • Anti-Corrosive Paint, Steatite for, 410
  • Appliances for Smoke-Preventing, 485
  • Approach Viaduct Girders, Raising the, and Underbuildingof the Piers of the Forth Bridge, 244
  • Approach Viaduct Piers, South ; Forth Bridge, 231
  • Appropriation and Development of Heat in the Blast Fnrnace, 23
  • Armington and Sims’ Combined Engine and Dynamo for Ship Lighting, 70
  • Armour Plate Planing Machine, Shanks’s, 355
  • Arrol, Mr. W., 281
  • Arrol’s Hydraulic Spade, 240

Artillery, Modern French : 1, 27, 51, 78, 109, 134, 157, 185, 293, 320, 347, 378,403, 449, 465, 497, 530, 553, 586, 611, 641, 667, 695, 722, 751

  • Breechloading Mechanism, 109, 134, 157,185
  • Cail Company, Gun Factory of the, 449, 465
  • Cast-Iron Reinforced Guns, French, 53
  • De Bange System, The, 403
  • Firing Grounds of the Forges et Chantiers Company at Havre, 611, 641
  • French, English, and German Guns, 1873, Particulars and Efficiency of, 53
  • French Ordnance, Cost Price of, 53
  • Gun Construction, Improvements in, 1, 27, 51
  • Gun Factory at the Forges et Chantiers at Havre, 586
  • Gun Factory of the Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee, 497, 530, 553, 586, 667, 695, 722 751
  • Gun Steel, Government Test for, 78
  • Mountain and Field Guns at the Forges et Chan tiers Gun Factory, 667, 695, 722
  • Ordnance, French, The Present Condition of, 293
  • Projectiles for French Guns, 52
  • Rifling Machine for French Guns, 28, 78
  • Siege and Garrison Guns, 751
  • Steel Ordnance, 77
  • Works, The St. Chamond, 320, 347, 378
  • Ashphalting the Forth Bridge, 273
  • Association, National Electric Light, 711
  • Atlantic Navigation, The Recent Progress of, 733, 757
  • Atmospheric Resistance, An Experimental Study of, 663, 689, 715
  • Awards, Scientific, 66
  • Axle-Boxes, Stamped Steel, 741
  • Bahamas, The Fibre Industry in the, 124
  • Baker, Mr. B. ,281
  • Baku again Drying Up, 655
  • Banderali, M. D., 441
  • Banquet, the Academy, The Navy at, 568
  • Barbette Cruiser “ Turenne,” The French, 739
  • “ Barracouta,” The Accident on Board H.M.S., 176, 328, 367, 384, 475, 484
  • Barry Dock, The, 461
  • Bars in Tidal Estuaries, 151
  • Basic Steel, Phosphorus in, 618
  • Bauer Coke Ovens, The, 728
  • Bedplates of the Forth Bridge, 251
  • Belgian Metallurgical Industry, 736
  • Berger, M., on the Chicago Exhibition, 527
  • Berger-Andre’s Horizontal Compound Corliss Engine, 166
  • Bertrand’s Idiocyclophanous Prism, 427
  • Bessemer Medal, The, 569
  • Bethlehem Iron Company, The Works of the, 19, 295
  • Bevelling Machine for Ships’ Frames, Davis and Primrose’s, 646
  • Bill, The Rating of Machinery, 122, 488, 513,514, 630, 652
  • Blast Furnace, Development and Appropriation of Heat in the, 23
  • Blindness, Colour, 92, 168
  • Blow-Off Cock for Boilers, 71
  • Blower and Forge, Thwaites’ Portable, 153
  • Bogie Carriages on the Caledonian Railway, 194
  • Boiler Explosion, The Dordon, 452
  • Boiler Explosion, The Northwich, 201, 203
  • Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, Amendment of the, 762
  • Boiler Explosions and the Board of Trade, 14,341
  • Boiler Explosions at Crosby and Halifax, 521
  • Boiler Explosions at Oldham, Wickham Skeith, and Halesowen, 421
  • Boiler Furnaces, 766
  • Boiler, Locomotive, Hick, Hargreaves and Co.’s Large, 531
  • Boiler, Thwaite’s Gas-Fired, 355
  • Boilers, Dangerous, The Use of, 710
  • Boilers, Lancashire, The Evaporation of, 461, 493
  • Boilers, Marine, 433, 457
  • Boilers, Marine, Double Shell, 24
  • Boilers, Water-Tube, 43
  • Boring and Surfacing Lathes, Lang’s, 296
  • Bounties, Shipping, The French, 544
  • Brakes, Railway, in India, 511
  • Brebner, Mr. Alan, 335
  • Breechloading Mechanism, 109,134, 157, 185
  • Bridge, The Dalmarnock, Glasgow, 384
  • Bridge, the Forth, The Opening of, 303 (See aUo Forth Bridge)
  • Bridge, The North River; New York, 562
  • Bridge, Repairing a, 681
  • Bridges, Cantilever, 217
  • Bridges, Railway, 308
  • Bridging Alluvial Punjaub Rivers, 389
  • Bridging the Hudson River, 287
  • Bridging Indian Rivers, 119, 389
  • Bristol’s Miners’ Electric Lamp, 299
  • British Section at the Paris Exhibition, The, 512
  • Building the Caissons for the Forth Bridge, 235
  • Building Out of the Cantilevers of the Forth Bridge, 262
  • Building, Locomotive, in New South Wales, 485, 684
  • Bulkheads, Water-Tight, 448
  • Burns, Sir George, 682
  • Burrell’s Spring-Mounted Road Locomotive, 739
  • Cable Conduits in New York, 655
  • Cable Haulage on Canals, 19
  • Cable Tramways, Edinburgh, 202
  • Caissons for the Forth Bridge, Building the, 235
  • Caissons for the Forth Bridge, Sinking the, 239
  • Calorimeters, The Errors of Different Types of, 65
  • Canadian and United States Transportation Facilities, The, 651
  • Canal, The Manchester Ship, 497, 640, 682
  • Canal, Ship, The Proposed Scotch, 171
  • Cantilever Bridges, 217
  • Cantilevers of the Forth Bridge, Building Out of the, 262
  • Cantor Lectures, The, 175
  • Cape of Good Hope Observatory, Heliometer at the, 2, 29
  • Car Journals, Cost of Lubricating, 65
  • Carbon Deposit in a Blake Telephone Transmitter, A, 283
  • Carburisation of Iron by the Diamond, 584, 607
  • Carlisle Accident, The, 485, 595, 604
  • Carriages on the Caledonian Railway, Bogie, 194
  • Castings, The Rollet Precess for, 603, 619
  • Cement for the Forth Bridge, 229
  • Cement Industry in Scandinavia, The, 514
  • Central London Railway, The, 44
  • Changes in Iron Produced by Thermal Treatment, The, 584, 662
  • Chicago Exhibition, M. Berger on the, 527
  • Chimneys, The Design of, 41
  • China aiid Japan, Water Works in, 203
  • Chlorination Process, Gold, Hydraulic Pressure, 126
  • Chronograph, A New Electric, 736
  • Chucking Lathe, Eddy’s Turret Head, 21
  • Circulator and Feed-Water Heater, Maclaine’s Internal, 715
  • “ City of Paris,” The Accident to the, 420, 481
  • “ City of Paris” Inquiry, The, 759
  • “ City of Paris” Salvage Case, The, 712
  • City and Southwark Subway, The, 306
  • Civil Engineers, The American Society of, 159

Civil Engineers, The Institution of : 684

  • On Recent Dock Extensions at Liverpool, with a General Description of the Mersey Dock Estate, the Port of Liverpool, and the River Mersey, by Mr. George Fosbery Lyster, M I.C.E., 68
  • On Bars at the Mouths of Tidal Estuaries, by Mr. William Henry Wheeler, M.I.C.E., 151
  • On the Shanghai Water Works, by Mr. J. W. Hart, M.I.C E., 203
  • On the Tytam Water Works, Hong-Kong, byMr. Jas. Orange, A.M.I.C.E., 203
  • On the Construction of the Yokohama Water Works, by Mr. J. H. T. Turner, B. Sc., A.M.I.C.E., 204
  • On the Hawkesbury Bridge, New South Wales, by Mr. C. O. Burge, M.I.C.E., 308
  • On the Construction of the Dufferin Bridge over the Ganges at Benares, by Mr. F. T. G. Walton, C.I.E., M.I.C.E., 308
  • On the New Bridge of the London, Chatham,
  • Civil Engineers, Institution of - continued. and Dover Railway Company over the Thames at Black friars, by Mr. G. E. W. Cruttwell, M.I.C.E., 308
  • On the Barry Dock Works, including the Hydraulic Machinery and the Mode of Tipping Coal, by Mr. John Kobinson, M.I.C.E , 461
  • On the Loch Erne Drainage, by Mr. James Price, Jun., M.I.C.E., 461
  • On the Application of Electricity to Welding, Stamping, and other Cognate Purposes, by Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., D.C.L?, F.R.S., Past-President, Inst. C.E., 523
  • On the Screw Propeller, by Mr. Syd. W. Barnaby, M.I.C.E., 607
  • On the Keswick Water Power Electric Light Station, by Messrs. W. P. James Fawcusand Edward W. Cowan, A. MM. I.C.E., 645
  • On the Diurnal Variations of the Magnet at Kew, by Messrs. W. G. Robson and S. W. J. Smith, 718
  • Students, The, 571
  • Visit to the Metropolitan Sewage Works, Crossness, 64
  • Visit to the Richmond Main Drainage Works, 420
  • Clark’s Deflective Turret, 682
  • Cleveland, Notes from, 7, 45, 60, 89, 117,143,178, 197, 288, 309, 329, 353, 382, 414, 453, 486, 505, 547, 565, 602, 619, 657, 677, 714, 727, 754
  • Climatological Temperature, 173
  • Club, The Gilbert, 761
  • Clyde Export Trade in 1889, 98
  • Clyde, Tunnel under the River, at Glasgow, 70
  • Coal, Colonial, 118
  • Coal near Dover, The Discovery of, 335
  • Coal, The Price of, and Miners’ Wages, 359
  • Coal Ships, Spontaneous Combustion in, 438
  • Coast Defences of the United States, The, 707
  • Cock, Blow-Off, for Boilers, 71
  • Cockerill Company, The John, 516
  • Cofferdams at Forth Bridge, 229
  • Coils in Electrical Measuring Instruments, The Shape of, 427
  • Coiseau, M. L., 283
  • Coke Ovens, The Bauer, 728
  • Cold Steel Sawing Machine, Hill’s, 339
  • Collieries, Steam Pipes for, 80
  • Collision at Carlisle, The, 485, 595, 604
  • Colonial Coal, 148
  • Colour Blindness, 92, 168
  • Commencement of the Forth Bridge, 224
  • Commencement of the Permanent Work of the Forth Bridge, 229
  • Commercial Education, 332
  • Committees, The Research, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 122
  • Company, The Forth Bridge Railway, 275
  • Comparison of Steam Engine Indicators, 124
  • Competition, Railway, 2b5
  • Competition, TheWatkin Tower, 542, 736
  • Composing and Justifying Machine, The Lager-man, 297
  • Compound Corliss Engine, Berger-Andre’s Horizontal, 166
  • Compound Engine ; Weyher and Richemond, 441
  • Compound Engines, Theory of, 41
  • Compound Horizontal Engine with Frikart Valve Gear, 739
  • Compound Locomotive for the Michigan Central Railroad, 413, 550
  • Compound Locomotives in Russia, 147, 208, 311
  • Compound Passenger Locomotive; ‘‘Mogul” Type, 138
  • Compressed Air Tramcar ; Hughes and Lancaster System, 333, 354
  • Condition of the Shipbuilding Trade, 449
  • Conditions of American Naval Contracts, The, 66
  • Conference at Madrid, The International Industrial, 625
  • Conference, The Washington Maritime, 396, 40o, 427
  • Constructing and Designing Mills, 176
  • Consulting Engineers, The Institute of, 335

Contractors and Engineers of the Forth Bridge, The : 276

  • Arrol, Mr. William, 281
  • Baker, Mr. Benjamin, 281
  • Coiseau, Monsieur L., 283
  • Falkiner, Mr. Travers, 282
  • Fowler, Sir John, K.C.M.G., 276
  • Phillips, Mr. Joseph, 282
  • Tancred, Sir Thomas, 281
  • Contracts, Navy. 360
  • Corliss Engine, Berger-Andre’s Horizontal Compound, 166
  • Cost of Lubricating Car Journals, 65
  • Cost of Steam and Water Powers, 133
  • Coupled Reversing Rolling Mill Engines for the Steel Company of Scotland, 754
  • Crane, 100-Ton Derrick, at the Alexandra Graving Dock, Belfast, 87
  • Crane, Five-Ton Overhead Travelling, 534
  • Crankshaft Lathe, Richards’ Heavy, 501
  • Critical Points in Iron and Steel, 427, 581, 718
  • Crosby and Halifax, Boiler Explosions at, 521
  • Cruiser “Forbin,” The French Unarmoured, 703
  • Cruiser “Turenne,” The French Barbette, 739
  • Crystalline Magnetite in the Port Henry Mines, 362
  • Cup-Making Machine, Faure’s, 142
  • “ Cushing,” The Torpedo Boat,” 420
  • Cuxhaven, New Harbour at, 202
  • Cylinders, Oxygen, Testing, 455
  • Dairy ; Plymouth Show, 750
  • Dalmarnock Bridge, Glasgow, The, 384
  • Dangerous Boilers, The Use of, 710
  • Dangers of Electric Lighting, The, 18, 42
  • Davies’ Epicyclic Gear for Grab Dredgers, 620
  • Davis and Primrose’s Bevelling Machine for Ships’ Frames, 646
  • Dawsholm Station of the Glasgow Corporation Gas Works, The Three-Lift Gas Holder at the, 296
  • De Bange System at the Cail Works, 403
  • Defences, The Coast, of the United States, 707
  • Derrick Crane, 100-Ton, at the Alexandra Graving Dock, Belfast, 87
  • Description of the Forth Bridge, General, 222
  • Design of Chimneys, The, 41
  • Designing and Constructing Mills, 176
  • Development and Appropriation of Heat in the Blast Furnace, 23
  • Diamond, Carburisation of Iron by the, 584, 607
  • Diamond Washing Plants, Whitmore and Bin-yon’s, 506
  • Diepeveen, Leis, and Smit’s Triple-Expansion Marine Engines for Tug-Boats, 388
  • Direct-Acting Steam Pumps, 133
  • Discharge over a Weir, 94
  • Discoveries, Oil, in India, 599
  • Discovery of Coal near Dover, The, 335
  • Disintegrators ; Plymouth Show, 746
  • Disposal of London Sewage, The, 571
  • Distilling Mercury in a Vacuum, Apparatus for, 336
  • Distribution of Flow in a Strained Electric Solid, The, 607
  • Diurnal Variations of the Magnet at Kew, The, 718
  • Diving Dress, Stove’s, 396
  • Dock, The Barry, 461
  • Dock, Dry, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 118
  • Dock for Glasgow, A New Graving, 19
  • Docks, The Liverpool, 68
  • Dordon Boiler Explosion, The, 452
  • Double-Headed Lathe for Finishing Cock Plugs, Warner and Swasey’s, 659
  • Double Screw Ferry Boat, A, 133, 192
  • Double Shell Marine Boilers, 24
  • Drainage, Lough Erne, 461
  • Drainage Works, The Richmond Main, 420
  • Draper’s Thermograph, 179
  • Drawings for the Forth Bridge, 249
  • Dredgers, Grab, Davies’ Epicyclic Gear for, 620
  • Dredging in the Mersey Lock Estate, 639, 669
  • Driving Gear, Indicator, 420
  • Dry Air Refrigerating Apparatus without Machinery, 751
  • Dry Dock at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 118
  • Dynamo and Engine for Ship Lighting, Armington and Sims’ Combined, 70
  • Eddy’s Turret Head Chucking Lathe, 21
  • Edge Runners for Porcelain Clay, Faure’s, 83
  • Edinburgh Cable Tramways, 202
  • Edinburgh International Exhibition, The, 150, 431, 471, 500, 637, 693, 735
  • Education, Commercial, 332
  • Education, Secondary and Technical, 91, 200
  • Efficiency of Steam Engines, The, 291, 292
  • Electric Chronograph, A New, 736
  • Electric Launches at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 630

Electric Lighting :

  • Accumulator, The Laurent-Cely, 373
  • Dangers of Electric Lighting, The, 18, 42
  • Dynamo and Engine for Ship Lighting, Armington and Sims’ Combined, 70
  • Electric Lamp, Bristol’s Miners’, 299
  • Electric Light Association, National, 711
  • Electric Lighting of the Edinburgh Exhibition, 500
  • Electric Lighting at Keswick, 645
  • Electric Lighting of the Prudential Assurance Company’s Offices, 163
  • Electric Lighting of Ships, 19, 70
  • Electric Projectors, 92
  • Electrical Exhibition at Edinburgh, 150, 431, 471, 500, 637, 693, 735
  • Lighting of the Forth Bridge, The, 226
  • Electric Signalling System, Morgan’s Automatic, 590
  • Electric Splashes, 101
  • Electric Tramcar Propulsion, 758
  • Electric Tramway, The Lineff, 761
  • Electric Tramway System, Wynne’s, 307
  • Electric Tramway, The Waller-Manville, 574
  • Electric Welding and Stamping, 523
  • Electrical Exhibition at Edinburgh, The, 150, 431, 471, 500, 637, 693, 735
  • Electrical Range Finder, An, 363
  • Electricity in Mines, 362
  • Electricity in Tanning’, 599
  • Electro-Magnet, The, 124
  • Electro-Pneumatic Signal, An, 655
  • Elevator at Stockholm, Passenger, 32
  • Engine, Berger-Andras Horizontal Compound Corliss, 166 . ,
  • Engine, Compound ; Weyher and Richemond, 441
  • Engine and Dynamo for Ship Lighting, Armington and Sims’Combined, 70
  • Engine with Frikart Valve Gear, Horizontal Compound, 739
  • Engine Governors, Marine, 74 . ,
  • Engine, Hoisting, Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies Portable, 34
  • Engine, Horizontal, with Farcot Valve Gear, 8
  • Engine, Knight’s Petroleum, 737
  • Engine, Rigg’s Revolving, 435
  • Engine, Steam, Transmission of Power in tne, 123
  • Engine, Sulzer’s Triple-Expansion Horizontal, 411
  • Engine, Traction, and Road Roller, Wallis and Steevens’ Combined, 754
  • Engine Trials; Plymouth Show, 745
  • Engine Trials, Marine, 555, 577, 605,632
  • Engineer Officers, Naval, 304 .
  • Engineering, Marine, and Shipbuilding in 188J, 10, 72, 83
  • Engineering Notes from North-Western India, 21, 36, 57, 100, 179, 455, 490, 661, 674
  • Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries in Scotland, 418 , _
  • Engineers and Contractors of the Forth Bridge, The, 276 ,
  • Engineers’, Electricians’, Builders, and Ironmongers’ Exhibition, 370
  • Engineers in India, 331, 679
  • Engineers, Mining, The Federated Institute of, 88
  • Engineers, The Society of, 154
  • Engines, Compound, Theory of, 41
  • Engines, Coupled Reversing Rolling Mill, for the Steel Company of Scotland, 754
  • Engines, Fairlie, for the Mexican Railway, 3-3
  • Engines, Farcot’s Triple-Expansion, 296
  • Engines of the Great Western Railway Company’s Steamers, 700
  • Engines, Hauling, Wild’s Semi-Portable, 441
  • Engines of the s.s. “Mariposa,” Triple-Expansion, 753
  • Engines at Plymouth Show, 748
  • Engines, Pumping, at Loch Lomond, for Vale of Leven Water Supply, 647
  • Engines, Rankine’s Disconnective Quadruple-Expansion Land, 36
  • Engines, Steam, The Efficiency of, 201, 292
  • Engines, Triple-Expansion, for the s.s. “ Glenart-ney ” and “ Norse King,” 431
  • Engines for Tug-Boats, Triple-Expansion Marine, 388
  • Epicyclic Gear for Grab Dredgers, Davies’, 620
  • Errors of Different Types of Calorimeters, The, 65
  • Estimates, The Navy, 332, 361
  • Estuaries, Tidal, Bars in, 151
  • Evaporation of Lancashire Boilers, The, 461, 493
  • Evaporative Efficiency of Boilers, The, 433, 457
  • Excursions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 475
  • Exhibition, The Chicago, M. Berger on the, 527
  • Exhibition, The Edinburgh International, 150, 431, 471, 500, 637, 693, 735 . . ,
  • Exhibition, The Engineers’, Electricians, Builders’, and Ironmongers’, 370
  • Exhibition in London, International, 736
  • Exhibition, The Military, 598

Exhibition, The Paris International :

  • Ambulance Train ; Western Railway of France, 560
  • British Section, The, 512
  • Electric Projectors, 92
  • Engine, Berger-Andre’s Horizontal Compound Corliss, 166 ,
  • Engine, Compound ; Weyher and Richemond, 441
  • Engine with Frikart Valve Gear, Horizontal Compound, 739
  • Engine, Horizontal, with Farcot Valve Gear, 8
  • Engine, Sulzer’s Triple-Expansion Horizontal, 411
  • Engines, Farcot’s Triple-Expansion, 296
  • Huanchaca Mining Company, Bolivia, The, 345
  • Lathe, Richards’ Anglo-American, 588
  • Locomotive, Compound Passenger ; “ Mogul ’ Type, 138
  • Locomotive, Express Passenger; South-Eastern Railway, 506, 531
  • Locomotive, Passenger; Western Railway of France, 674, 702
  • Mining Industries, 81
  • Oil-Testing Machine; Eastern Railway of France, 321, 375
  • Oscillations of Locomotives, Apparatus for Measuring the, 47
  • Paper Machines, 35, 69
  • Planing Machine, Sellers’, 326
  • Porcelain Manufacture in France, 56, 83, 142, 194
  • Rolling Stock for Local Railways, 425
  • Exhibition of the Royal Meteorological Society, The, 363, 393, 419
  • Exhibition at Stockholm during 1892, Industrial, 176
  • Exhibition of 1892, The United States, 305, 334, 527
  • Expansion Joints in Rails on the Forth Bridge, 273
  • Experimental Study of Atmospheric Resistance, An, 663, 689, 715
  • Experiments on Flying Machines, 687
  • Experiments with Lifeboat Models, 466, 518
  • Experiments on Wind Stresses, 222
  • Explosion, Boiler, The Dordon,452
  • Explosion, Boiler, The Northwich, 201, 203
  • Explosions, Boiler, and the Board of Trade, 14, 341
  • Explosions, Boiler, at Crosby and Halifax, 521
  • Explosions, Boiler, at Oldham, Wickham Skeith, and Halesowen, 421
  • Export Trade in 1889, Clyde, 98
  • Express Passenger Locomotive; South-Eastern Extension’ o^’tlm Glasgow Corporation Gas Gearing for, 411
  • Extraction of Oxygen, The, 1*9
  • Fairlie Engines for the Mexican Railway, 323
  • Farcot Valve Gelr^Horizontal Engine with, 8
  • Farcot’s Triple-Expansion Engines, 296
  • Faure’s Machinery for Porcelain Claj, 56, 83,
  • Federated Institute of Mining Engineers, The, Feed-Water Heater and Circulator, Maclaines Feed-WaterHeater and Purifier, Sherwin’s, 127
  • Feed-Water Heaters, Note on, 527
  • Ferry Boat, A Double Screw, 133, 1J-
  • Ferry Boat “Transfer,” The; Canada Southern Railway Company, 349
  • Fibre Industry in the Bahamas, The, 124
  • Fife South Circular Piers ; Ijorth Biid»e, 230
  • Filter Press and Pump for Porcelain Claj,
  • Faure’s, 56
  • Filtration of Sewage, The, 94
  • Fire Loss, Methods of Reducing, 81
  • Firing Grounds of the Forges et Chantiers Company at Havre, 611, 641
  • Flangeless Piston Rings, Lockwood s, 443
  • Fletcher, Mr. Edward, 11
  • Flow of Steam through Orifices, The, 61
  • Flying Machines, Experiments on, 687
  • “°Forb?n,” The French Unarmoured Cruiser, 703
  • Foreign and Colonial Notes, 338, 354, 657, 678
  • Forge and Blower, Thwaites’ Portable, lo3

Forth Bridge, The : 213 to 283, 334

  • Accident to the No. 4 or Queensferry North-West Caisson, 238
  • Air Compressors, 235
  • Approaches, 231, 244
  • Asphalting, 273
  • Bedplates, 251
  • Building the Caissons, 235
  • Building out of the Cantilevers, 262
  • Cantilever Bridges Generally, 217
  • Cement, 229
  • Circular Granite Piers, The, 243
  • Cofferdams, Generally about, 229
  • Commencement of the Permanent Work, 229
  • Commencement of Work, 224
  • Company, The Forth Bridge Railway, 275
  • Designs, Alternative Preliminary and Final, 213
  • Drawings, 249
  • Engineers and Contractors, The, 276
  • Arrol, Mr. William. 281
  • Baker, Mr. Benjamin, 281
  • Coiseau, Monsieur L., 283
  • Falkiner, Mr. Travers, 282
  • Fowler, Sir John, K.C.M.G., 276
  • Phillips, Mr. Joseph, 282
  • Tancred, Sir Thomas, 281
  • Expansion Joints in Rails, 273
  • Fife South Circular Piers, 230
  • General Description of the Structure, 222
  • Historical, 213
  • Hydraulic Rams and Girders for Lifting Platforms in the Central Towers, 257
  • Hydraulic Spade, 240
  • Inchgarvie Caissons, 242
  • Inchgarvie North Circular Piers, 230
  • Lighting, 226
  • Living Model Illustrating Principle of the Forth Bridge, 218
  • Materials of Construction for the Masonry Piers, 227
  • Members Forming the Cantilever, The, 259
  • North Approach Railway, The, 275
  • Opening, The, 303
  • Painting, 273
  • Permanent Way, The, 273
  • Preliminary Tests, The, 276
  • Preliminary Work in Connection with the Four Queensferry Caissons, 233
  • Preliminary Work in Connection with the Inchgarvie South Piers, 231
  • Queensferry Caissons, 241
  • Railway Connections, The, 274
  • Raising the Approach Viaduct Girders and Underbuilding of the Piers, 244
  • Report of Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and Major Marindin, C.M.G., R.E., 46, 340
  • Rivetting, 271
  • Sinking the Caissons, 239
  • Site of Bridge and Profile on Central Line, Surrounding Country, 219
  • South Approach Railway, The, 275
  • South Approach Viaduct Piers, 231
  • Steel, The, 247
  • Temporary Work in Connection with the Erection, 271
  • Testing, 94
  • Tides, Wind, Wind Pressures, and Gauges, Climate Generally, 219, 221
  • Transport and Distribution of Material, 226
  • Visitors, The, 276
  • Water, 228
  • Weight of the Superstructure, 275
  • Wind Stresses, Experiments on, 222
  • Wire Ropes, The Use of, 272
  • Workmen, The, 273
  • Workshops, 249
  • Foundations, Poetsch Process of Sinking, 681 Fowler, Sir J., 276
  • France, Porcelain Manufacture in, 56, 83, 142. 194
  • Free Harbour at Copenhagen, A, 451
  • French Artillery, Modern (See Artillery, Modern French)
  • French, English, and German Guns, 1873, Particulars and Efficiency of, 53
  • French Navy, The, 648, 703, 739
  • French Shipping Bounties, The, 544
  • Frikart Valve Gear, Horizontal Compound En gine with, 739
  • Furnace, Siemens, A. New Form of, 570
  • Furnaces, Boiler, 766
  • Future of the Shipping Trade, The, 711
  • Galvanometers, 101, 164, 283
  • Gamble in Pig Iron, The, 173, 620
  • Gas-Fired Boiler, Thwaite’s, 355
  • Gas Institute, The, 762
  • Gas Works, Extension of the Glasgow Corporation, 56, 86, 140, 296
  • Gasholder at Dawsholm Station of the Glasgow Corporation Gas Works, The Three-Lift, 2J6
  • Gauges, Recording Pressure, 123
  • Gauges, Wind, and Wind Pressure, 219, 221
  • Gear, Tramcar, 124
  • Gearing for Extension Rails of Railway Turntables, Whitaker’s, 411
  • Geometrical Construction of Direct Reading Scales for Reflecting Galvanometers, The, 283
  • Germany, Shipbuilding in, 514
  • Gifford, Fox, and Co., v. Chard Union, 513
  • Gilbert Club, The, 761
  • Glasgow Central Railway, The, 653
  • Glasgow Corporation Gas Works, Extension of the, 56, 86, 140, 296
  • Glasgow, Dalmarnock Bridge, 384
  • Glasgow, New Graving Dock, 19
  • Glasgow, Tunnel under the River Clyde at, 70
  • “Glenartney” and “ Norse King,” s.s., Triple Expansion Engines for the, 531
  • Gold Chlorination Process, Hydraulic Pressure, 123
  • Goldfields, Victorian, 15, 53,105,160,188, 289
  • Governors, Marine Engine, 74
  • Grab Dredgers, Davies’ Epicyclic Gear for, 620
  • Graving Dock for Glasgow, A New, 19
  • Gray, Mr. Thomas, C. B., 370
  • Great Tower in London, The, 542, 736
  • Great Western Railway Steamers, The, 645, 700
  • Grist Mills ; Plymouth Show, 747
  • Gun Construction, Improvements in, 1, 27, 51 (See also Artillery, Modern French)
  • Gun Factory of the Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee, 497, 530, 553, 586, 667, 695, 722, 751
  • Gunboats, Stern-Wheel, 588
  • Guns, Cast-Iron Reinforced, French, 53
  • Guns, Siege and Garrison, 751
  • Guns, Trials of Elswick and Krupp, 44
  • Halesowen, Oldham, and Wickham Skeith, Boiler Explosions at, 421
  • Halifax and Crosby, Boiler Explosions at, 521
  • Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dry Dock at, 118
  • Hamburg-American Liner “Normannia,” The New, 112
  • Harbour at Copenhagen, A Free, 451
  • Harbour at Cuxhaven, New, 202
  • Harbour Works, Jersey, 485
  • Harbour Works near Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 317
  • Haulage on Canals, Cable, 19
  • Hauling Engines, Wild’s Semi-Portable, 441
  • Heat in the Blast Furnace, Development and Appropriation of, 23
  • Heaters, Feed-Water, Note on, 527
  • Heliometer at the Cape of Good Hope Observatory, 2, 29
  • Heliostat for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 592
  • H.M.S. “ Barracouta,” The Accident on Board, 176, 328, 367, 384, 475, 484
  • Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s Large Locomotive Boiler, 531
  • High-Speed Knitting and Weaving without Weft, 180
  • Hill’s Cold Steel Sawing Machine, 339
  • Hirn, G. A., Reminiscences of the Life of, 120, 174
  • Hoisting Engine, Ransome, Sims, and Jefferies’ Portable, 34
  • Horizontal Compound Corliss Engine, 166
  • Horizontal Compound Engine with Frikart Valve Gear, 739
  • Horizontal Engine with Farcot Valve Gear, 8
  • Horizontal Engine, Sulzer’s Triple-Expansion, 411
  • Huanchaca Mining Company, Bolivia, The, 345
  • Hudson River, Bridging the, 287
  • Hudson River Tunnel, The, 150
  • Hughes and Lancaster Compressed Air Tramcar, 333, 354
  • Huygen’s Gearing, 661
  • Hydraulic Pressure Gold Chlorination Process, 126
  • Hydraulic Rivetter, Schonbach’s, 534
  • Hydraulic Spade, Arrol’s, 240
  • Hydraulic and Steam Machinery on Steamers, Combined, 434, 491
  • Hydrographic Expedition, A Swedish, 654
  • Implements, 748
  • Inchgarvie North Circular Piers ; Forth Bridge, 230
  • India, Engineers in, 331, 679
  • India, Railway Brakes in, 511
  • Indian Frontier Railways, 150
  • Indian Rivers, Bridging, 119, 389
  • Indicator Driving Gear, 420
  • Indicators, Comparison of Steam Engine, 124
  • Industrial Notes, 21, 47, 72, 99, 127, 153, 179, 207, 284, 314, 339, 349, 394, 425, 456, 489, 501, 549, 563, 592, 620, 660, 687, 712, 742, 765
  • Industries, Mining, 81
  • Industries, Shipbuilding and Allied, 111
  • Inglis, Mr. William, 514
  • Inman Liner “City of Paris,” The, 420, 481, 712, 759
  • Inquiry, The “City of Paris,” 759
  • Institute of Consulting Engineers, The, 335
  • Institute, Iron and Steel (See Iron and Steel Institute)
  • Institute, The Gas, 762
  • Institute of Mining Engineers, The Federated, 88
  • Institution of Civil Engineers (See Civil Engineers, Institution of)
  • Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The North-East Coast, 335
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers (See Mechanical Engineers, Institution of)
  • Institution of Naval Architects (See Naval Architects, Institution of)
  • Integrator, A New, 129
  • Interdependence of Patents, 541
  • Internal Feed-Water Heater and Circulator, Maclaine’s, 715
  • International Exhibition, The Edinburgh, 150, 431, 471, 500, 639, 693
  • International Exhibition in London, 736
  • International Industrial Conference at Madrid The, 625
  • International Protection of Merchandise Marks, The, 567
  • Iron, Carburisation of, by the Diamond, 584, 607
  • Iron Company, the Bethlehem, The Works of, 19 295
  • Iron, Effect of Thermal Treatment on, 584, 6G2
  • Iron, Pig, The Gamble in, 173, 626
  • Iron and Steel, Effect of Temperature upon the Physical Properties of, 581
  • Iron and Steel Industries in 1889, The, 709

Iron and Steel Institute, The : 569

  • Bessemer Medal, The, 569
  • On a New Form of Siemens Furnace arranged to Recover Waste Gases as well as Waste Heat, by Mr. John Head and M. P. Pouff 570
  • On the Critical Points in Iron and Steel, by M. F. Osmond, 581
  • On the Carburisation of Iron by the Diamond, by Professor Roberts-Austen, 584, 607
  • On the Changes in Iron Produced by Thermal Treatment, by Dr. E. J. Ball, 584, 662
  • On the Robert-Bessemer Process, by Mr. F. Lynwood Garrison, 585
  • On the Rollet Process for Producing Purified Castings, by Mr. A. Rollet, 603, 619
  • On Aluminium in Carburetted Iron, by Mr. W. J. Keep, 615, 767
  • On Certain Chemical Phenomena in the Manufacture of Steel, by Mr. W. Galbraith, 617
  • On the Estimation of Phosphorus in the Basic Siemens Steel Bath, by Mr. W. Galbraith, 618, 738
  • Visit to America, 544
  • Iron Works, The Bethlehem, 19, 295
  • Ironclad “ Triomphante,” The French, 648
  • Ironfoundcrs’ Society, The, 199
  • Ironmongers’, Engineers’, Electricians’, and Builders* Exhibition, The, 370
  • Japan and China, Water Works in, 203
  • Japan, Railways in, 361
  • Joints in Rails, Expansion, on the Forth Bridge, 273
  • Joule, James Prescott, 121
  • Jubilee of the Penny Post, The, 629
  • “ Kathleen,*' The Screw Tug, 114
  • Keswick, Electric Lighting at, 645
  • Knight’s Petroleum Engine, 737
  • Knitting and Weaving without Weft, High Speed, 180
  • Lagerman Composing and Justifying Machine, The, 297
  • Lake Erie Railroad, The, 172
  • Lamberton Ore Crushing Mill, The, 442
  • Lamp, Electric, Bristol’s Miners’, 299
  • Lancashire Boilers, The Evaporation of, 461, 493
  • Lang’s Surfacing and Boring Lathes, 296
  • Lathe, Eddy’s Turret Head Chucking, 21
  • Lathe for Finishing Cock Plugs, Warner and Swasey’s Double-Headed, 659
  • Lathe, Potter’s, with Variable Speed, Faure’s, 142
  • Lathe, Richards’ Anglo-American, 588
  • Lathe, Richards’ Heavy Crankshaft, 501
  • Lathes, Lang’s Surfacing and Boring, 296
  • Launches and Trial Trips, 20, 69, 98, 126, 152, 165, 283, 301, 336, 357, 415, 442, 524, 578, 608, 631,656, 677, 701,731,768
  • Laurent-Cely Accumulator, The, 373
  • Laws of Steamship Propulsion, The, 696
  • Lead Tempering of Steel, 654
  • Leak Stopping in Steel Ships, 436
  • Lectures, The Cantor, 175
  • Lectures, Royal Institution, 202
  • Leslie, Mr. James, 11
  • Life Boats, 466, 518
  • Life of G. A. Hirn, Reminiscences of the, 120, 174
  • Lighter, Self, The “ Wells Light,” 98
  • Lighting of the Edinburgh Exhibition, The Electric, 500
  • Lighting, Electric, The Dangers of, 18, 42
  • Lighting the Forth Bridge, 226
  • Lighting at Keswick, Electric, 645
  • Lighting of the Prudential Assurance Company’s Offices, Electric, 163
  • Lighting of Ships, Electric, 19
  • Lineff Electric Tramway, The, 761
  • Links of the Kiew Bridge, Testing the, 736
  • Liquid Fuel Engines, 32, 132, 208, 311, 748, 737
  • Liverpool Docks, The, 68
  • Living Model Illustrating Principle of the Forth Bridge, 218
  • Local Railways, Rolling Stock for, 425
  • Lock Erne Drainage, 451
  • Lock, Tubular, 630
  • Lockwood’s Flangeless Piston Rings, 443
  • Locomotive Boiler, Large, Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.’s, 531
  • Locomotive Building in New South Wales, 485, 684
  • Locomotive, Compound Passenger ; “Mogul” Type, 138
  • Locomotive, Express Passenger; South-Eastern Railway, 506, 531
  • Locomotive Manufacturing Company’s Works, The Strong, 688
  • Locomotive for the Michigan Central Railroad, Compound, 413, 550
  • Locomotive, Passenger ; Great North of Scotland Railway, 619
  • Locomotive, Passenger; Western Railway of France, 674, 702
  • Locomotive, Road, Burrell’s Spring Mounted, 739
  • Locomotive, Ten-Wheeled; Canadian Pacific Railway, 71
  • Locomotives, Apparatus for Measuring the Oscillations of, 47
  • Locomotives (Fairlie System) for the Mexican Railway, 323
  • Locomotives in Great Britain, American, 363
  • Locomotives in Russia, Compound, 147, 208, 311
  • London, The Great Tower in, 542,736
  • London Sewage, 447, 571
  • Lough Erne Drainage, 461
  • Low-Pressure Air for Tramcars, 333, 354
  • Low Temperature Observations in Norway. 19
  • Lubricating Car Journals, Cost of, 65
  • Lubricator, Anderson’s, 367
  • Lyon’s Slide Valve, 589
  • McAlpine, Mr. W. J., 307
  • ShipS’Prame8’Davi8and
  • SImanne297°mPOSinS and JustifJ'inS- Thc Lager-Machine, Cup-Making, Faure’s, 142
  • \uk-!1C f?<r faster Moulds, Faure’s, 142
  • Machine, Mortising, Sagar’s Heavy, 207
  • Machine for Moulding Globular Objects, Faure’s,
  • Machine, Oil Testing, 321, 375
  • Machine, Planing, Richardson’s Small, 620 Machine, Planing, Sellers’, 326
  • Machine, Sawing, Hill’s Cold Steel, 339
  • Machine Screw, 416
  • \rn«k-ne’ SJ?ia?!<.s’8 Planinand for Armour Plates, 355
  • Machine, Slotting, Shanks’s Heavy, 411
  • Machinery Accidents, Safeguarding against, 63
  • MnSlnery’ The Ratin£ of, 122, 483, 513, 514, 630, 652 ’
  • Machinery on Steamers, Combined Steam and Hydraulic, 434, 491
  • Machines, Flying, Experiments on, 687
  • Machines, Paper, 35
  • Machines, Porcelain Moulding, Faure’s, 83
  • Maclaine’s Internal Feed-Water Heater and Circulator, 715
  • Madrid. The International Industrial Conference at, 62d
  • Magazine Rifle, The New, 146, 552
  • Magnet, The Diurnal Variations of the, at Kew, i 18
  • Magnetic Work, Recent, 523
  • Magnetism ^r0n’ Effeot of Temperature on the, Magnetism, Permanent Theory of, 524
  • Ma^’ietite> Crystalline, in the Port Henry Mines, ovZ
  • Manchester Ship Canal, The, 497, 640 682
  • Manoeuvres, The Naval, 286, 390, 397*
  • Manufacture °* Porce^ain *n France, 56, 83, 142,
  • Manufacture of Steel, The, 617
  • Marine Boilers, 433, 457
  • Marine Boilers, Double-Shell, 24
  • Marine Engine Governors, 74
  • Marine Engine Trials, 555, 577, 605, 632
  • Marine Enginccring and Shipbuilding in 1889,10, 72, 83
  • Marine Engines for Tug-Boats, Triple-Expansion, 388 ’
  • “Mariposa,” s.s., Triple-Expansion Engines of UliVj iuo
  • Maritime Conference, The Washington, 396, 406,
  • Materials of Construction for the Masonry Piers of the Forth Bridge, 227
  • Measures and Weights, Standard, 362

Mechanical Engineers, The American Society

  • On a Table of the Properties of Steam—Their Lse in Study of Steam-Engine Experiments, by Mr. V. Dwelshauvers-Dery, 41
  • On the Theory and Design of Chimneys. by Professor H. B. Gale, 41 J y
  • On the Philosophy of the Multi-Cylinder, or Compound, Engine, its Theory and its Limitations, by Professor R. H. Thurston, 41
  • On the Flow of Steam through Orifices, by Messrs. C. H. Peabody and L. H. Kuhnhardt,
  • On the Errors of Different Types of Calorimeters, by Professor Peabody, 65
  • On the Cost of Lubricating Car Journals, by Mr. L. S. Randolph, 65
  • On Steam Pipes for Collieries, by Mr E F C Davis, 80
  • On Rolling Steel Rails, by Mr. D. K. Nicholson 80
  • On Methods of Reducing Fire Loss, by Mr. C J. H. Woodbury, 81
  • On Recording Pressure Gauge, by Mr. W. H. Bristol, 123 J
  • On a General Solution of the Transmission of Force in a Steam Engine, by Professor D S Jacobus, 123
  • On Street Railway Car Gear for Moderate Speeds, by Mr. J. S. MacFarren, 124
  • On the Comparison of Indicators, by Professor J. Burkitt Webb, 124
  • On the Influence of Steam Jackets on the Pawtucket Pumping Engine, by Professor J. E. Denton, 124
  • On How to Use Steam Expansively in Direct-Acting Pumps, by Mr. J. F. Holloway, 133
  • On the Cost of Steam and Water Power bv Mr. C. T. Main, 133 ’
  • On the Performance of a Double-Screw Ferry Boat, by Professor J. E. Denton, 133, 192
  • Singer Sewing Machine Works, The, 134

Mechanical Engineers, The Institution of : 122 555 ’

  • Address by the President, Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, 575
  • On the Rating of Machinery, by Mr. Benjamin A. Dobson, 122
  • On the Compounding of Locomotives Burning Petroleum Refuse in Russia, by Mr. Thomas Urquhart, 147, 208, 311
  • On the Burning of Colonial Coal in the Locomotives of the Cape Government Railways by Mr. Michael Stephens, 148 ’
  • On the Mechanical Appliances Employed in the Manufacture and Storage of Oxygen bv Mr. Kenneth S. Murray, 149 y
  • On Marine Engine Trials, by Professor Kennedy. 555,577, 605, 632
  • Research Committees, The, 122
  • Medal, The Bessemer, 569
  • Memorial to the Late James Prescott Joule Proposed, 121
  • Memorial to James Watt, Proposed National, 94
  • Merchandise Marks, The International Protection of, 567
  • Mersey Bar and Sand Pumping, Dredging 451
  • Mersey Dock Estate, Dredging in the, 639, 669
  • Metallurgical Industry, Belgian, 736

Meteorological Society, The Royal : 57. 202 870, 479, 630, 737

  • Exhibition, 363, 393, 419
  • On Atmospheric Dust, by Dr. Marcet, 57
  • On the Motion of Dust, as Illustrative of the Circulation of the Atmosphere, and of the Development of Certain Cloud Forms, by the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 202
  • On Cloud Nomenclature, by Captain D. Wilson-Barker, 203
  • On an Optical Feature of the Lightning Flash, by E. S. Bruce, 203
  • On Photography in Relation to Meteorological Work, by Mr. G. M. Whipple, 370
  • On the Application of Photography to Meteorological Phenomena, by Mr. W. Marriott, 370
  • On the Cold Period at the Beginning of March, 1890, by Mr. C. Harding, 479
  • On the Whirlwind which occurred at Tulford, near York, March 8, 1890, by Mr. J. E. Clark, 479
  • On the Possibility of Forecasting the Weather by Means of Monthly Averages, by Mr. A. E. Watson, 479
  • On Rainfall of the Globe, by Mr. W. B. Tripp,
  • On the Mutual Influence of Two Pressure Plates upon each other, and Comparison of the Pressures upon Small and Large Plates, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 631
  • On the Variations of Pressure caused by the Wind Blowing across the Mouth of a Tube, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 631
  • On the Difference Produced in the Mean Temperature Derived from Daily Maximum and Minimum Readings, as Depending on the Time at which the Thermometers are read, by Mr. W. Ellis, 737
  • On the Distribution of Barometric Pressure at the Average Level of the Hill Station in India, and its probable Effect on the Rainfall of the Cold Weather, by Mr. W. L. Dallas, 737
  • On the Relative Prevalence of Different Winds at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1841 to 1889, by Mr. W. Ellis, 737
  • On some Recent Variations of Wind at Greenwich, by Mr. A. B. MacDowall, 737
  • On the Action of Lightning during the Thunderstorms of June 6 and 7, 1889, at Cran-leigh, by Captain J. P. Maclear, R.N., 737 Micrometer, Starrett’s Speeded Screw, 153
  • Military Exhibition, The, 598 Mill Floors, American, 19
  • Mill, Ore Crushing, The Lamberton, 442
  • Mills, Designing and Construction, 176
  • Mills, Grist, at Plymouth Show, 747
  • Mine Ventilation, 378
  • Miners’ Electric Lamp, Bristol’s, 299
  • Miners’ Wages and the Price of Coal, 359
  • Mines, Electricity in, 362
  • Mining Company, The Huanchaca, Bolivia, 345

Mining Engineers, The American Institute of : 362, 373

  • Excursions, 475
  • On Standard Weights and Measures, by Mr. T. C. Mindenhall, 362
  • On Crystalline Magnetite in the Port Henry Mines, by Mr. John Birkentine, 362
  • On Electricity in Mines, by Mr. J. A. Pocock, 362
  • On the Properties of Aluminium, by Messrs. A. E. Hunt, Jno. W. Langley, and Chas. M. Hall, 373, 472
  • Mining Engineers, The Federated Institute of, 88
  • Mining Industries, 81
  • Miscellanea, 20, 46, 61, 97, 125, 152, 165, 206, 288, 310, 338, 366, 383, 424, 454, 487, 517, 548, 565, 589, 623, 658, 686, 714, 738, 764
  • Model Illustrating Principle of the Forth Bridge, Living, 218
  • Models, Lifeboat, Experiments with, 466, 518
  • Modern French Artillery (See Artillery, Modern French)
  • “Mogul” Type Compound Passenger Locomotive, 138
  • Morgan’s Automatic Electric Signalling System, 590
  • Mortising Machine, Sagar’s Heavy, 207
  • “ Mosquito,” Shallow Draught Gunboat, for the River Zambesi, 588
  • Moulding Machines for Porcelain, Faure’s, 83,142
  • Mountain and Field Guns at the Forges et Chantiers Gun Factory, 667, 695, 722
  • Music, The Physical Basis of, 661
  • Narrative of the Naval Manoeuvres, The, 286
  • Nasmyth, Mr. James, 569
  • National Electric Light Association, 711
  • Naval Administration, 417

Naval Architects, The Institution of : 390,405, 433, 466

  • On Recent Naval Manoeuvres, by Mr. W. H. White, F.R.S., Director of Naval Construction, Vice-President, 390, 397
  • On the Washington Maritime Conference, by Rear-Admiral P. H. Colomb, R.N., Associate Member of the Council, 396, 406, 427
  • On the Strength of Ships, with Special Reference to Distribution of Shearing Stress over Transverse Section, by Professor P. Jenkins, 407, 458
  • On Steatite for Anti-Corrosive Paint, by Mr. Frank C. Goodall, 410
  • On the Distribution of Evaporation in a Marine Boiler, by Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 433, 457
  • On the Application of a System of Combined Steam and Hydraulic Machinery to the Loading, Discharging, and Steering of Steamships, by Mr. A. B. Brown, 434, 491
  • On a Revolving Engine as Applied on Shipboard, by Mr. A. Rigg, 435
  • On Leak Stopping in Steel Ships, by Captain C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald, R.N., 436
  • On the Variation of Stresses on Vessels at Sea due to Wave Motion, by Mr. T. C. Read, 437
  • On the Spontaneous Ignition of Coal Cargoes, by Professor Vivian Lewis, 438
  • On Experiments with Lifeboat Models, by Mr. J. Corbett, 466, 518
  • On Various Theories of the Screw Propeller, by Mr. James Howden, 466, 517
  • Presidential Address, 390
  • Naval Engineer Officers, 304
  • Naval Manoeuvres, The, 286, 390,397
  • Naval Station, Russia’s New, 176
  • N «?“’ Atlantic- The Recent Progress of, i OO) /d7
  • Navy at the Academy Banquet, The, 568
  • Navy Contracts, 360
  • Navy Estimates, The, 332, 361
  • Navy The French, 648, 703, 739
  • New South Wales’ Locomotive Building in, 485,
  • New York, Cable Conduits in, 655
  • New Zealand Railways, 307
  • Night Traffic on the Suez Canal, 120
  • “Normannia,” The New Hamburg-American Liner, 112
  • North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The, 334
  • North, Notes from the, 6, 36, 60, 88,116,143 177 196, 288, 309, 337, 352, 382, 414, 453, 486^ 504^ 547, 564, 601, 622, 656, 676, 705, 726, 755
  • North River Bridge, The ; New York, 562
  • North-Western India, Engineering Notes from, 21, 36, 57, 100, 179, 455, 490, 661, 674
  • Northwich Boiler Explosion, The, 201, 203
  • Norway, Low Temperature Observations, 19

Notes ;

  • Accident on Board the “ Barracouta,” The 176 ’
  • Allen, Mr. Horatio, 124
  • Aluminium, 545
  • American Locomotives in Great Britain, 363
  • American Mill Floors, 19
  • Baku again Drying Up, 655
  • Belgian Metallurgical Industry, 726
  • Bethlehem Iron Company, The, 19
  • Burns, Sir George, 682
  • Cable Conduits in New York, 655
  • Cable Haulage on Canals, 19
  • Cantor Lectures, The, 175
  • Cement Industry in Scandinavia, 514
  • Central London Railway, The, 44
  • “ City of Paris” Salvage Case, The, 712
  • Clark’s Deflective Turret, 682
  • Cockerill Company, The John, 516
  • Collison at Carlisle, The, 485
  • Conditions of American Naval Contracts. The. 66
  • Discharge over a Weir, 94
  • Discovery of Coal near Dover, The, 335
  • Disposal of London Sewage, The, 571
  • Edinburgh Cable Tramways, 202
  • Electric Chronograph, A New, 736
  • Electric Launches at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 630
  • Electric Lighting of Ships, 19
  • Electrical Range Finder, An, 363
  • Electricity in Tanning, 599
  • Electro-Magnet, The, 124
  • Electro-Pneumatic Signal, An, 655
  • Exhibition at Edinburgh, The Electrical, 150
  • Exhibition in London, An International,736
  • Exhibition of the Royal Meteorological Society, The, 363
  • Exhibition at Stockholm during 1892, Industrial, 176
  • Fibre Industry in the Bahamas, The, 124
  • Foam, 712
  • Forth Bridge, The, 334
  • Free Harbour at Copenhagen, A, 451
  • Future of the Shipping Trade, The, 711
  • Gilbert Club, The, 761
  • Graving Dock for Glasgow, A New, 19-
  • Harbour at Cuxhaven, New, 202
  • Harbour Works, Jersey, 485
  • Hudson River Tunnel, The, 150
  • Indian Frontier Railway, 150
  • Indicator Driving Gear, 420
  • Inglis, Mr. William, 514
  • Institute of Consulting Engineers, The, 335
  • Lead Tempering of Steel, 654
  • Lineff Electric Tramway, The, 761
  • Locomotive Building in New South Wales, 485
  • Low Temperature Observations in Norway, 19
  • McAlpine, Mr. W. J., 307
  • Magnetism of Iron, The Effect of Temperature on the, 544
  • Memorial to James Watt, Proposed National, 94
  • New Zealand Railways, 307
  • North-East Coast Institution of Engineersand Shipbuilders, 334
  • Oil Discoveries in India, 599
  • Poetsch Process of Sinking Foundations, 681
  • Prizes for Railway Improvements, 762
  • Rating of Machinery, The, 514, 630
  • Refrigerating Apparatus without Machinery, Dry Air, 761
  • Reorganising the Transcaspian Railway, 599
  • Repairing a Bridge, 681
  • Richmond Main Damage Works, The, 420
  • Royal Institution Lectures, 202
  • Russia’s New Naval Station, 176
  • Sand Pumping, Dredging, and the Mersey Bar, 451
  • Science at the Royal Institution, 44
  • Scientific Awards, 66
  • Shipbuilding in Germany, 514
  • Ships’ Compasses, The Effect of a Pig-Iron Cargo on, 451
  • Siberian Railway, The, 202
  • Smoke-Preventing Appliances, 485
  • Smokeless Powder, The Tactical Importance of, 176
  • Smyth, Sir Warrington, 761
  • South Australian Railways, 515
  • Steam Loop, The, 712
  • Steam Shipping Enterprise, 20, 66
  • Stepped Platform Railway, A, 307
  • Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 571
  • Sturgeon, William, 94
  • Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 514
  • Swedish Hydrographic Expedition, A, 654
  • Testing the Forth Bridge, 94
  • Testing the Links of the Kiew Bridge, 736
  • Torpedo Boat “ Cushing,” The, 420
  • Trials of Elswick and Krupp Guns, 44
  • Tubular Lock Syndicate, The, 630
  • Tyne, The, 654
  • United States Exhibition, The, 334
  • Vieille Montagne, The, 681
  • Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to America, 544
  • Water-Tube Boilers, 43
  • Wynne’s Electric Tramway System, 307
  • Notes from Cleveland, 7, 45, 60, 80, 117, 143,178, 197, 288, 309, 329, 353, 382, 414, 453, 486, 505, 547, 565, 602, 619, 657, 677, 714, 727, 754
  • Notes, Foreign and Colonial, 338, 354, 657, 678 Notes, Industrial, 21, 47, 72, 99,127,153,179, 207, 284, 314, 339, 349, 394, 425, 456, 489, 501, 549, 563, 592, 620, 660, 687, 712, 742, 765
  • Notes from the North, 6, 36, 60, 88, 116, 143, 177, 196, 288, 309, 337, 352, 382, 414, 453, 486, 504, 547, 564, 601, 622,'656, 676, 705, 726, 755
  • Notes from North-Western India, Engineering, 21, 36, 57, 100, 179, 455, 490, 661, 674
  • Notes from the South-West, 22, 37, 61, 88, 128, 142, 177, 196, 287, 310, 336, 370, 383, 411, 454, 487, 505, 547, 573, 602, 622, 657, 676, 704, 727, 768
  • Notes from South Yorkshire, 7, 37, 60, 89, 117, 143, 178, 197, 287, 309, 337, 353, 382, 411, 453, 486, 505, 547, 564,602, 623, 657, 677, 705, 731, 755
  • Notes from the United States, 21, 48, 57, 85, 128, 140, 177, 193, 299, 339, 355, 426, 457, 485, 549, 574, 592, 655, 675, 704, 739, 762
  • Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
  • Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, Heliometer at the, 2, 29
  • Officers, Naval Engineer, 304
  • Official Shipbuilding Statistics for the United Kingdom, 652
  • Oil Discoveries in India, 599
  • Oil-Testing Machine, 321, 375
  • Oldham, Wickham Skeith, and Halesowen, Boiler Explosions at, 421
  • Opening of the Forth Bridge, The, 303
  • Oporto, The Water Works of, 162
  • Ordnance, French, Cost Price of, 53
  • Ordnance, French, The Present Condition of, 293
  • Ordnance Steel, 77
  • Ore Crushing Mill, The Lamberton, 442
  • Oscillating Electric Spark, The, 607
  • Oscillations of Locomotives, Apparatus for Measuring the, 47
  • Osmotic Pressure, The Theory of, 336
  • Ovens, Coke, The Bauer, 728
  • Overhead Travelling Crane, Five-Ton, 534
  • Oxygen Cylinders, Testing, 455
  • Oxygen, The Extraction of, 149
  • Paint, Anti-Corrosive, Steatite for, 410
  • Painting of the Forth Bridge, 273
  • Paper Machines, 35, 69
  • Parallel Motion Suitable for Recording Instruments, A, 283
  • Paris Exhibition (See Exhibition, Paris)
  • Passenger Elevator at Stockholm, 32
  • Passenger Locomotive ; Great North of Scotland Railway, 619
  • Passenger Locomotive; Western Railway of France, 674, 702
  • Patent Record, The, 25, 49, 75, 103, 131, 155, 183, 211, 315, 343, 371, 401, 429, 463, 495, 525, 551, 579, 609, 635, 665, 691, 719, 743, 769
  • Patents, Interdependence of, 541
  • Penny Post, The Jubilee of the, 629
  • Permanent Magnetism, A Theory of, 524
  • Permanent Way of the Forth Bridge, The, 273
  • Perry, The Rev. S. J., 34
  • Petroleum Engine, Knight’s, 737
  • Petroleum Engine Trials, 748
  • Petroleum Fuel, Torpedo Boat with, 32
  • Petroleum, Locomotives Burning, 137, 208, 311
  • Phosphorus in Basic Steel, 618, 738
  • Photographs of Rapidly-Moving Objects, 607
  • Physical Properties of Iron and Steel, Effect of Temperature upon the, 581

Physical Society, The: 164

  • On Electric Splashes, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 101
  • On Galvanometers, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., Mr. T. Mather, and Dr. W. E. Sumpner, D,Sc., 101,164
  • On a Carbon Deposit in a Blake Telephone Transmitter, by Mr. F. B. Hawes, 283
  • On the Geometrical Construction of Direct
  • Reading Scales for Reflecting Galvanometers, by Mr. A. P. Trotter, 283
  • On a Parallel Motion Suitable for Recording Instruments, by Mr. A. P. Trotter, 283
  • On an Apparatus for Distilling Mercury in a Vacuum, by Professor Dunstan, 336
  • On the Theory of Osmotic Pressure and its Bearing on the Nature of Solution, by Professor S. U. Pickering, 336
  • On Bertrand’s Refractometer, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 336
  • On the Villari Critical Points in Nickel and Iron, by Mr. Herbert Tomlinson, F.R.S., 427
  • On Bertrand’s Idiocyclophanous Prism, by Professor S. P. Thompson, D.Sc., 427
  • On the Shape of Movable Coils used in Electrical Measuring Instruments, by Mr. T. Mather, 427
  • On Some Recent Magnetic Work, by Professor Rtlcker, 523
  • On a Theory of Permanent Magnetism, by M. Osmond, 524
  • On the Distribution of Flow in a Strained Elastic Solid, by Mr. C. A. Carus-Wilson, 607
  • On Photographs of Rapidly-Moving Objects, by Mr. C. V. Bovs, 607
  • On the Oscillating Electric Spark, by Mr. C. V. Boys, 607
  • On Huyghen’s Gearing in Illustration of Electric Induction, by Lord Rayleigh, 661
  • On Dr. Koenig’s Researches on the Physical Basis of Music, by Dr. S. P. Thompson, 661
  • On the Effect of Change of Temperature on the Villari Critical Points of Iron, by Mr. H. Tomlinson,F.R.S., 718
  • On the Diurnal Variations of the Magnet at Kew, by Messrs. W. G. Robson and S. W. J. Smith, 718
  • Piece-Work v. Time-Work, 145
  • Piers, Fife South Circular ; Forth Bridge, 230
  • Piers, Inchgarvie North Circular; Forth Bridge, 230
  • Piers, South Approach Viaduct; Forth Bridge, 231
  • Pig-Iron Cargo, The Effect of a, on Ships’ Compasses, 451
  • Pig Iron, The Gamble in, 173,626
  • Pipes for Collieries, Steam, 80
  • Piston Rings, Lockwood’s Flangeless, 443
  • Planing Machine for Armour Plates, Shanks’s, 355
  • Planing Machine, Richardson’s Small, 620
  • Planing Machine, Sellers’, 326
  • Plaster Moulds, Faure’s Machine for Making, 142
  • Plate-Bending Rolls, Shanks’s, 531
  • Poetsch Process of Sinking Foundations, The, 681
  • Porcelain Manufacture in France, 56, 83, 142, 194
  • Portable Forge and Blower, Thwaites*, 153
  • Portable Hoisting Engine, Ransome, Sims and Jefferies’, 34
  • Potter’s Lathe with Variable Speed, Faure’s, 142
  • Powder, Smokeless, 146
  • Power in the Steam Engine, Transmission of, 123
  • Powers, Cost of Steam and Water, 133
  • Precipitation Works, Sewage, 64
  • Preliminary Tests of the Forth Bridge, 276
  • Presidential Address to the Institution of Naval Architects, 390
  • Pressure Gauges, Recording, 123
  • Pressure, Osmotic, 336
  • Pressures, Wind, 333, 759
  • Price of Coal and Miners’ Wages, The, 359
  • Prizes for Railway Improvements, 762
  • Process for Castings, The Rollet, 603, 619
  • Process, The Robert-Bessemer, 585
  • Profit Sharing in Business, 13
  • Progress of Atlantic Navigation, The Recent, 733. 757
  • Projectiles for French Guns, 52
  • Projectors, Electric, 92
  • Propeller, The Screw, 466, 607
  • Properties of Aluminium, The, 373, 472, 545, 615
  • Properties of Steam, The, 41
  • Propulsion, Electric Tramcar, 758
  • Propulsion, Steamship, The Laws of, 696
  • Protection of Merchandise Marks, The International, 567
  • Prudential Assurance Company’s Offices, Electric Lighting of the, 163
  • Pump and Filter Press for Porcelain Clay, Faure’s, 56
  • Pumping Engines at Loch Lomond for Vale of Leven Water Supply, 647
  • Pumps, Direct-Acting Steam, 133
  • Punjaub Rivers, Bridging Alluvial, 389
  • Purifier and Feed Water Heater, Sherwin’s, 127
  • Quadruple-Expansion Land Engines, Rankin’s Disconnective, 36
  • Queensferry (See Forth Bridge)
  • Railroad, The Lake Erie, 172
  • Rails, Rolling Steel, 80
  • Railway Amalgamation Schemes, The Scotch, 598
  • Railway Brakes in India, 511
  • Railway Bridges, 308
  • Railway, The Central London, 44
  • Railway Company, The Forth Bridge, 275
  • Railway Competition, 285
  • Railway Connections to the Forth Bridge, The, 274
  • Railway Court at the Edinburgh Exhibition, The, 735
  • Railway, The Glasgow Central, 653
  • Railway Improvements, Prizes for, 762
  • Railway, The Siberian, 202
  • Railway Steamers, The Great Western, 645, 700
  • Railway, A Stepped Platform, 307
  • Railway Traffic and Railway Rates, 39
  • Railway Turntables, Whitaker’s Gearing for Extension Rails of, 411
  • Railways, Indian Frontier, 150
  • Railways in Japan, 361
  • Railways, Local, Rolling Stock for, 425
  • Railways, New Zealand, 307
  • Railways, South Australian, 515
  • Raising the Approach Viaduct Girders and Underbuilding of the Piers of the Forth Bridge, 244
  • RankfrX” DlscoAn'nSve1 Quadruple - Expansion RaLnsol?and and Jefferies’ Portable Hoisting Ra®nof’ Machinery, The, 122, 483, 513, 514, 630, RSr<315h3e43"t37ni%201, I79’, 6Sl: 665; 691: 719, 743, 769
  • Reducing Fire Loss, Methods of, 81
  • Reducing Valve, Reid s Steam, 127
  • Registering the Oscillations of Locomotives, Apparatus for, 47
  • Reid’s Steam Reducing Valve, 127
  • Reminiscences of the Life of G. A. Hirn, 12'0,
  • Reorganising the Transcaspian Railway, o99
  • Keiesrch’comiJtUe’s ol the Institution ol ile-£S.S‘S£ A. E,p.d»«.M Study of, 663, 689, 715
  • Revolving Engine, Rigg s, 435
  • Richards’ Anglo-American Lathe 588
  • Richards’ Heavy Crankshaft Lathe 501
  • Richardson’s Small Planing Machine, 6
  • Richmond Main Drainage Works, The, 420
  • Rifle, The New Magazine, 146, 552
  • Rifling Machine for French Guns, 28,
  • Rigg’s Revolving Engine, 435
  • River Hudson, Bridging The, 287
  • Rivers, Bridging Indian, 119, 389
  • Rivers, Punjaub, Bridging Alluvial, 389
  • Rivetter, Schonbach’s Hydraulic, 534
  • Rivetting on the Forth Bridge, 2<1
  • Road Locomotive, Burrell s Spring-Mounted, 739
  • Road Roller and Txaction Engine, Mallis and Steevens’ Combined, 754
  • Robert-Bessemer Process, The, 585
  • Rollet Process for Castings, The, 603, 619
  • Rolling Mill Engines for the Steel Company
  • Scotland, Coupled Reversing, 754
  • Rolling Steel Rails, 80
  • Rolling Stock for Local Railways, 425
  • Rolls, Shanks’s Plate Bending, 531
  • Royal Agricultural Society s Trials, The, /3±
  • Royal Institution Lectures, 202
  • Royal Institution, Science at the, 44
  • Royal Society Soiree, The, 599, 627
  • Russian Torpedo Boats, New, 655
  • Russia’s New Naval Station, 176
  • Safeguarding against Machinery Accidents, 63
  • Sagar’s Heavy Mortising Machine, 207
  • St. Chamond Works, 320, 347, 378
  • Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Harbour Works near, 317
  • Salvage Case, The “ City of Paris,” 712
  • Sand Pumping, Dredging, and the Mersey Bar, 451
  • Sandhurst ; Victorian Goldfields, 15, 53,105, 160, 188, 289 ,
  • Sawing Machine, Hill’s Cold Steel, 339
  • Scandinavia, The Cement Industry in, 514
  • Schenectady Compound Locomotive for the Michigan Central Railroad, 413, 550
  • Schonbach’s Hydraulic Rivetter, 534
  • Science at the Royal Institution, 44
  • Scientific Awards, 66
  • Scotch Railway Amalgamation Schemes, The, 598
  • Scotch Ship Canal, The Proposed, 171
  • Scotland, Summer Trains to, 680
  • Screw Machine, 416
  • Screw Propeller, The, 466, 607
  • Screw Tug “ Kathleen,” The, 114
  • Secondary and Technical Education, 200
  • Self-Lighter, The “ Wells Light,” 98
  • Sellers’ Planing Machine, 326
  • Semi-Portable Hauling Engines, Wild’s, 441
  • Sewage, The Filtration of, 94
  • Sewage, London, 447
  • Sewage Precipitation Works, 64
  • Sewing Machine Works, The Singer, 134
  • Shallow-Draught Gunboat for the River Zambesi, 588
  • Shallow-Draught Steam Tug, 549
  • Shanks’s Heavy Slotting Machine, 411
  • Shanks’s Planing Machine for Armour-Plates, 355
  • Shanks’s Plate-Bending Rolls, 531
  • Sharing Profit in Business, 13
  • Sheet Zinc, The Tensile Strength of, 120
  • Sherwin’s Feed-Water Heater and Purifier, 127
  • Ship Canal, The Manchester, 497, 640, 682
  • Ship Canal, The Proposed Scotch, 171
  • Ship Lighting, Dynamo for, 70
  • Shipbuilding and Allied Industries, 111
  • Shipbuilding and Engineering Industries in Scotland, 418
  • Shipbuilding in Germany, 514
  • Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in 1889, 10, 72, 83
  • Shipbuilding Statistics for the United Kingdom, Official, 652
  • Shipbuilding Trade, Condition of the, 449
  • Shipping Bounties, The French, 544
  • Shipping Enterprise, Steam, 20, 66
  • Shipping Trade, The Future of the, 711
  • Ships, Coal, Spontaneous Combustion in, 438
  • Ships’ Compasses, The Effect of a Pig-Iron Cargo on, 451
  • Ships, Electric Lighting of, 19
  • Ships’ Frames, Bevelling Machine for, 646
  • Ships, Steel, Leak Stopping in, 436
  • Ships, The Strength of, 407, 458
  • Siberian Railway, The, 202
  • Siege and Garrison Guns, 751
  • Siemens Furnace, A New Form of, 570
  • Signal, An Electric Pneumatic, 655 .
  • Signalling System, Morgan’s Automatic Electric, 590
  • Singer Sewing Machine 'Works, The, 134
  • Sinking the Caissons for the Forth Bridge, 239
  • Sinking Foundations, The Poetsch Process of, 681
  • Site of the Forth Bridge and Profile on Centre Line, Surrounding Country, 219
  • Slide Valve, Lyon’s, 589
  • Slotting Machine, Shanks’s Heavy, 411
  • Smithsonian Institution, Heliostat for the, Washington, 592
  • Smoke-Preventing Appliances, 485
  • Smokeless Powder, 146
  • Smokeless Powder, The Tactical Importance of, 176
  • Smyth, Sir Warrington, 761
  • Society of Engineers, The, 154
  • Society, The Ironfounders’, 199
  • Society, The Royal Meteorological, 57, 202, 370, 479, 630, 737 (See also Meteorological Society)
  • Society, The Steam Engine Makers’, 708
  • Soiree of the Royal Society, The, 599, 627
  • South Australian Railways, 515
  • South-East England, The Weather of, in 1889, 93
  • South-West, Notes from the, 22, 37, 61, 88, 128, 142, 177, 196, 287, 310, 336, 370, 383, 411, 454, 487, 505, 547, 573, 602, 622, 657, 676, 704, 727, 768
  • South Yorkshire, Notes from, 7, 37, 60, 89, 117, 143, 178, 197, 287, 309, 337, 353, 382, 411, 453, 486, 505, 547, 564, 602, 623, 657, 677, 705, 731, 755
  • Spade, Arrol’s Hydraulic, 240
  • Speeded Screw Micrometer, Starrett’s, 153
  • Spontaneous Combustion in Coal Ships, 438
  • Spring Mounted Road Locomotive, Burrell’s, 739
  • Staff Apparatus, Webb and Thompson’s, 562
  • Stamped Steel Axle-Boxes, 741
  • Stamping and Welding, Electric, 523
  • Standard of Efficiency for Steam Engines, The, 292
  • Standard Weights and Measures, 362
  • Standfield, Mr. John, M.I.C.E., 307
  • Starrett’s Speed Screw Micrometer, 153
  • Statistics, Official Shipbuilding, for the United Kingdom, 652
  • Steam Engine Makers’ Society, The, 708
  • Steam Engine, Transmission of Power in the, 123
  • Steam Engines, The Efficiency of, 201, 292
  • Steam, The Flow of, through Orifices, 64
  • Steam and Hydraulic Machinery on Steamers, Combined, 434, 491
  • Steam Jackets, 124
  • Steam Loop, The, 712
  • Steam Pipes for Collieries, 80
  • Steam, The Properties of, 41
  • Steam Pumps, Direct-Acting, 133
  • Steam Reducing Valve, Reid’s, 127
  • Steam Shipping Enterprise, 20, 66
  • Steam Tug, Shallow Draught, 549
  • Steam Valve, Straightway, 765
  • Steam and Water Powers, Cost of, 133
  • Steamers, The Great Western Railway, 645, 7C0
  • Steamship “ Mariposa,”Triple-Expansion Engines of the, 753
  • Steamship Propulsion, The Laws of, 696
  • Steamships “Glenartney” and “ Norse King,” Triple-Expansion Engines for the, 531
  • Steatite for Anti-Corrosive Paint, 410
  • Steel Alloys, 85
  • Steel, Aluminium in, 615, 767
  • Steel, Basic, Phosphorus in, 618
  • Steel, Effect of Temperature upon, 581
  • Steel for the Forth Bridge, The, 247
  • Steel and Iron Industries in 1889, The, 709
  • Steel, The Manufacture of, 617
  • Steel Ordnance, 77
  • Steel Rails, Rolling, 80
  • Steel Tempering by Lead, 654
  • Stepped Platform Railway, A, 307
  • Stern-Wheel Gunboats, 588
  • Stockholm, Industrial Exhibition at, during 1S92, 176
  • Stockholm, Passenger Elevator at, 32
  • Stopping Leaks in Steel Ships, 436
  • Stove’s Diving Dress, 396
  • Straightway Steam Valve, 765
  • Strength of Sheet Zinc, The Tensile, 120
  • Strength of Ships, The, 407, 458
  • Stresses on Vessels at Sea, 437
  • Strong Locomotive Manufacturing Company’s Works, The, 688
  • Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The, 571
  • Sturgeon, William, 94
  • Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 514
  • Subway, The City and Southwark, 306
  • Suez Canal, Night Traffic on the, 120
  • Sulzer’s Triple-Expansion Horizontal Engine, 411
  • Summer Trains to Scotland, 680
  • “ Sunderland,” Torpedo Boat, with Petroleum Fuel, 32
  • Surfacing and Boring Lathes, Lang’s, 296
  • Sweden, The Wood Pulp Industry in, 448
  • Swedish Hydrographic Expedition, A, 654
  • Syndicate, The Tubular Lock, 630
  • Tactical Importance of Smokeless Powder, The 176
  • Tanning, Electricity in, 599
  • Taylor’s Tube Expander, 575
  • Technical and Secondary Education, 91, 200
  • Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 514
  • Temperature, Climatological, 173
  • Temperature, Effect of, on the Magnetism of Iron, 544
  • Temperature, Effect of, upon the Physical Properties of Iron and Steel, 581
  • Tempering of Steel, Lead, 654
  • Temporary Work in Connection with the Erection of the Forth Bridge, 271
  • Ten-Wheeled Locomotive; Canadian Pacific Railway, 71
  • Tensile Strength of Sheet Zinc, The, 120
  • Testing the Forth Bridge, 94, 276
  • Testing the Links of the Kiew Bridge, 736
  • Testing Oxygen Cylinders, 455
  • Thermal Treatment on Iron, Effect of, 584, 662
  • Thermograph, Draper’s, 179
  • Thwaite’s Gas-Fired Boiler, 355
  • Thwaites’ Portable Forge and Blower, 153
  • Tidal Estuaries, Bars in, 151
  • Tides, Wind, Wind Pressures, and Gauges on the
  • Forth Bridge. Climate Generally, 219, 221
  • Time-Work v. Piece-Work, 145
  • Tornado, The Great American, of March 27, 1890, 513
  • Torpedo Boat “ Cushing,” The, 420
  • Torpedo Boat with Petroleum Fuel, 32
  • Torpedo Boats, New Russian, 655
  • Tower in London, The Great, 542, 736
  • Traction Engine and Road Roller, Wallis and Steevens’ Combined, 754
  • Trade in 1889, Clyde Export, 98
  • Trade, Shipbuilding, Condition of the, 449
  • Tradeston Works; The Glasgow Corporation Gas Works, 56, 86, 140
  • Traffic, Railway, and Railway Rates, 39
  • Traffic on the Suez Canal, Night, 120
  • Train, Ambulance ; Western Railway of France, 560
  • Trains to Scotland, Summer, 680
  • Tramcar, Compreandsed Air; Hughes and Lancaster System, 333, 354
  • Tramcar Gear, 124
  • Tramcar Propulsion, Electric, 758
  • Tramcars, Low-Pressure Air for, 333, 354
  • Tramway, Lineff Electric, 761
  • Tramway, The Waller-Manville Electric, 574
  • Tramway, Wynne’s Electric, 307
  • Transcaspian Railway, Reorganising the, 599
  • “ Transfer,” The Ferry Boat; Canada Southern Railroad Company, 349
  • Transmission of Power in the Steam Engine, 123
  • Transport and Distribution of Material for the Forth Bridge, 226
  • Transportation Facilities, The United States and Canadian, 651
  • Travelling Crane, Five-Ton Overhead, 534
  • Trial Trips and Launches, 20, 69, 98, 126, 152, 165, 283, 301, 336, 357, 415, 442, 524, 578, 668, 631, 656, 677, 701, 731, 768
  • Trials of Elswick and Krupp Guns, 44
  • Trials, Engine, at Plymouth, 745
  • Trials, Marine Engine, 555, 577, 605, 632
  • Trials, The Royal Agricultural Society’s, 734, 745
  • “ Triomphante,” The French Ironclad, 648
  • Triple-Expansion Engines, Farcot’s, 296
  • Triple-Expansion Engines for the s.s. “Glenart-ney” and “ Norse King,” 531
  • Triple-Expansion Enginesofthe s.s. “Mariposa,” 753
  • Triple-Expansion Horizontal Engine, Sulzer’s, 411
  • Triple-Expansion Marine Engines for Tug-Boats, 388
  • Tube Expander, Taylor’s, 575
  • Tubular Lock Syndicate, The, 630
  • Tug “ Kathleen,” The Screw, 114
  • Tug, Shallow Draught Steam, 549
  • Tunnel, The Hudson River, 150
  • Tunnel under the River Clyde at Glasgow, 70
  • “ Turenne,” The French Barbette Cruiser, 739
  • Turret, Clark’s Deflective, 682
  • Turret Head Chucking Lathe, Eddy’s, 21
  • Tyne, The, 654
  • Unarmoured Cruiser “ Forbin,” The French, 703
  • United States and Canadian Transportation Facilities, The, 651
  • United States, The Coast Defences of the, 707
  • United States Exhibition of 1892, The, 305, 334, 527
  • United States, Notes from the, 21, 48, 57, 85, 128, 140, 177, 193, 299, 339, 355, 426, 457, 485, 549, 574, 592, 655, 675, 704, 739, 762
  • Use of Dangerous Boilers, The, 710
  • Vale of Leven Water Supply, Pumping Engines at Loch Lomond for, 647
  • Valve Gear, Farcot, Horizontal Engine with, 8
  • Valve Gear for Three Cylinder Engines, Wilson’s, 99
  • Valve, Lyon’s Slide, 589
  • Valve, Reid’s Steam Reducing, 127
  • Valve, Straightway Steam, 765
  • Ventilation, Mine, 378
  • Vessels at Sea, Stresses on, 437
  • Victorian Goldfields, 15, 53, 105, ICO, 188, 289
  • Vieille-Montagne, The, 681
  • Villari Critical Points in Nickel and Iron, The, 427, 581, 718
  • Visit of the Iron and Steel Institute to America, 544
  • Visitors to the Forth Bridge, The, 276
  • Wages, Miners’, and the Price of Coal, 359
  • Waller-Manville Electric Tramway, The, 574
  • Wallis and Steevens’ Combined Traction Engine and Road Roller, 754
  • Warner and Swasey’s Double-Headed Lathe for Finishing Cock Plugs, 659
  • Washing Plants, Diamond, Whitmore and Bin-yon’s, 506
  • Washington Maritime Conference, The, 396, 406, 427
  • Water on the Forth Bridge Works, 228
  • Water and Steam Powers, Cost of, 133
  • Water Supply, Vale of Leven, Pumping Engines at Loch Lomond for, 647
  • Water-Tight Bulkheads, 448
  • Water-Tube Boilers, 43
  • Water Works in China and Japan, 203
  • Water Works of Oporto, The, 162
  • Watkin Tower Competition, The, 512, 736
  • Watt, James, 101, 115
  • Watt, James, Proposed National Memorial to, 94
  • Weather, The, 15, 40, 93, 146, 306, 419, 568, 680
  • Weather of South-East England in 1889, The, 93
  • Weaving and Knitting without Weft, High Speed, 180
  • Webb and Thompson’s Staff Apparatus, 562
  • Weight of the Forth Bridge, 275
  • Weights and Weasures, Standard, 362
  • Weir, Discharge over a, 94
  • Welding and Stamping, Electric, 523
  • “ Wells Light” Self-Lighter, The, 98
  • Whitaker’s Gearing for Extension Rails of Railway Turntables, 411
  • Whitmore and Binyon’s Diamond Washing Plants, 506
  • Wickham Skeith, Oldham, and Halesowen, Boiler Explosions at, 421
  • Wild’s Semi-Portable Hauling Engines, 441
  • Wilson’s Valve Gear for Three-Cylinder Engines, 99
  • Wind Pressures, 333, 759
  • Wind Stresses, Experiments on, 222
  • Wind, Wind Pressures, Tides, and Gauges on the Forth Bridge. Climate Generally, 219, 221
  • Wire Ropes, The Use of, on the Forth Bridge, 272
  • Wood Pulp Industry in Sweden, The, 448
  • Workmen on the Forth Bridge, The, 273

Works :

  • Bethlehem Iron Company’s, 19, 295
  • Gas Extension of the Glasgow Corporation, 56, 86, 140, 296
  • Harbour, Jersey, 485
  • Harbour, near Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 317
  • Richmond Main Drainage, The, 4 20
  • St. Chamond, 320, 347, 378
  • Sewage Precipitation, 64
  • Singer Sewing Machine, The, 134
  • Strong Locomotive Manufacturing Company’s, The, 688
  • Water, in China and Japan, 203
  • Water, of Oporto, 162
  • Workshops of the Forth Bridge, 249
  • Wynne’s Electric Tramway System, 307
  • Zinc, Sheet, The Tensile Strength of, 120

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