The Engineer 1879 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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Aden and the Suez Canal Traffic, 96
African Internal Sea, Proposed, 267, 291
Air Vessel Filter, Messrs. Wippermann and Lewis, 462
Alloys of Lead and Antimony, 204
American Post-card, An, 340
Amu, Turning the Course of the River, 33
Anemophore, Messrs. Adams and Son, 326
Anemoscope, Mr. C. Vernon, 268, 326
Annuals, Business, 471
Anthracite in Pensylvania, 398
Arizona, The S.S., after Collision with an Iceberg, 393
Armour, Chilled Iron, Herr v. Gruson, 465, 468
Armstrong and Co., Sir W., 100-ton Breech-loading
Guns, 253, 255
Artesian Well, A Deep, 433
Artesian Wells in Central Australia. 112
Artillery Experiments at Meppen, 119 to 124, 128, 132
Artillery Experiments at Spezia, 31
Australia, Waterworks in, 425
Association, Enginemen’s Certificate, Projected, 243
Association of Foremen Engineers. London, 236
Optics as Practically applied to the Illumination of Dark Localities, 344
Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers, 396
Barff’s Process, 252
Barrow Water Supply, 208
Batavia Harbour Works, Java, 369, 370
Bedford Plough, The, 72
Bell-hanging, The New System of, 440
Bells and Bell Founding, 440
Bemman, Mr. R. W., Ploughshares, 43
Bergamo and Lodi Tramway, Standard Rolling Stock and Permanent Way, Station, Engine Sheds and Curves, Screw Couplings and Buffers, 416, 420, 421
Bessemer Process, 415
Bilbao Iron District, 59, 213, 375, 409
Birkenhead Iron and Shipbuilding Works, Messrs. Laird Brothers, 224
Blackburn High Level Water Supply, 111
Blowing Up” Argument, The, 418
Boat, Collapsible, Rev. E. L. Berthon, 162
Bogus Contracts, 473
Boiler, Messrs. Proctor and Wallis, 306
Boiler, Central Feed Vertical Steam, Messrs. Thwaites, Stewart and Sturgeon, 472
Boiler, Cylindrical, Messrs. Cochran and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 2
Boiler, Economical Gas, 404
Boiler Explosion, The Carr House, 109
Boiler Explosion, The Coltness, 250
Boiler Explosion, Fatal, 208
Boiler Explosion, The Kersley, 34
Boiler Explosions, 324
Boiler Explosions, Marine, 14
Boiler Explosions, The Mysteries in, 49
Boiler Feeder, Sam’s, Messrs. Kendall and Gent’s
Works, 462
Boiler Gussets, 437
Boiler Inspection, 147, 164
Boiler Inspection, Compulsory, 313
Boiler Insurance, 130
Boiler Insurance Companies, 435, 449
Boiler of the “Leader,” Locomotive Engine, 322
Boiler, Smith’s Vertical, Royal Agricultural Society’s
Show, Kilburn, 24
Boiler Surface, Useless, 469
Boiler, Vertical, Smith’s, 51
Boiler for Waste Gases, Sectional, Messrs. Hawksley,
Wild, and Co., 353
Boilers, Locomotive Engine, 222
Boilers, Locomotive, Steel v. Iron, 308
Boilers, Management of, 239
Boilers for Portable Engines, Mr. Jas. Blake, 181
Boilers, Ring Plate, 218
Boilers, Staying, 473
Bolts, Railway and Gate, Mr. W. Brenton, 259
Bombay, The Prince’s Dock, Mr. T. Ormiston, 100 101, 108
Books Received, 131, 223, 350, 437, 470
Bournemouth, The Sewerage, 42
Brake, Automatic, Mr. Aspinall, 166, 169
Brake, Automatic Sand, Mr. W. Wiseman, 73
Brake Chain, The Clark and Webb, 236
Brake, Continuous Steam, Mr. Kendal, 270, 272
Brake Experiments on the North-Eastern Railway, 36
Brake System on the London and North-Western Railway, 208
Brake Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 49, 51
Brake, The Westinghouse, 46, 65, 66, 68, 74
Brakes, Automatic Continuous, Mr. Sanders, 215
Brakes, Continuous, 325, 346, 353
Brakes, Continuous, Failure of, 295
Brand’s Plough. 44
Breakwater, South Gare, Mr. John Fowler, 471
Brenton, Mr. W., Railway and Gate Bolts, 259
Brewers’ Machinery, Apparatus and Products, Exhibition of, 259
Bricks at Wisconsin, 118
Bridge Building in Australia, 205
Bridge, The Forth, Sir Thomas Bouch, 290, 292, 313, 314
Bridge, The Severn, 303, 328
Bridgework, Wrought Iron, 277, 462
Brighton Beach, 257, 291
British Association, Meeting at Sheffield, 62, 131, 151, 160, 164
Inaugural Address of the President, Professor G. J. Allman, 140
Inaugural Address of the President of Section A, Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 141
Inaugural Address of the President of Section G, Mechanical Science, Mr. John Robinson, 146
Radiant Matter, Mr. W. Crookes, 170,171, 172
Self-Acting Intermittent Syphons and the Conditions which Determine the Commencement of their Action, Mr. Rogers Field, 270
Brown, Bayley, and Dixon’s, Messrs., Steel Works, Sheffield, 321
Bulkhead Doors, 15, 51
Bulkhead Doors, Mr. Bartley, 144
Bulkhead Doors, Mr. Simey, 268
Buoys, Gas, Illuminated, 397
Burntisland Dock, 75, 243
Burslem Sewage Works, 471
Cable, The French, 376
Cable Towing, 75
Canal-street Bridge, Wolverhampton, 15
Cargo Steamers, 453
Carpet. A New American, 22
Cask Head-Making Machine, Messrs. Worssam and Co., 397
Ceylon, Launch of a Steamer on the Kandy Lake, 40
Chandler, Mr. N., Railway Coupling, 268
Chatham Field Operations, 14
China, Torpedo Boats for, 147
Chinese Gunboats, The, 71, 92, 144
Crewe Works, The, 225
City and Guilds Institute, 320
City Statistics, 319
Civil Engineers and the Indian, Government, 349
Civil Engineers, Institution of, 449
Cleveland Iron Mines, 252, 385
Cleveland Iron Shipments, 3f 0, 368
Cleveland Iron Trade, Revival in the, 278
Cleveland Miners’ Wages, 294
Cleveland Pig Lon Production in 1879, 470
Cleveland Pig Iron Trade, 312
Cleveland Steel Question, The, 470
Clock, Remarkable, Detroit, Michigan, 291
Coal, The Cost of Winning, 402
Coal Economiser, Mr. Wavish, 451, 473
Coal Field at Newent, Forest of Dean, 58
Coal, Search for, at Ashton Moss, 281
Coalbrookdale Bridge, 324
Collision on the Thames, 149, 179
Colombo Harbour, 167
Colombo Water Supply, 469
Coltness Boiler Explosion, The, 250
Commercial Outlook, The, 240
Condenser, Messrs. Wilson and French, 266, 267
Contract Specifications, 126, 164
Contracts, Bogus, 473
Contracts and the Higher Prices, 418
Cooke, Sir William, 74
Cooling Wall, Messrs. Pontifex and Wood, 259
Cope, Messrs., Tobacco Factory, 250
Copper Plates, Coating, 444
Coupling, Railway, Mr. N. Chandler, 268
I Craig, Mr. James, Automatic Weighing Machine, 363, 364
Cramp, William, 290
Crank Shafts, Forging Heavy, 132,147
Craw shay, Mr. Henry, 403
Crown Agents and the Colonies, 349
Cupola Practice, Foundry, 130
Curtains, Metal Stage, 160
Cycloscope, The, 225
Cylinder and Valve Chest, Messrs. Garrett, Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 2
Davis, Messrs. J. H. and J., Loose Pulleys, 396
De Bay Propeller, The, 351, 352
Diamonds, Artificial, 454
Dock, Blackwall New, 1061
Dock, Bombay, The Prince’s, Mr. T. Ormiston, 100, 101, 108
Dock, Burntisland, 75
Dock, Great Grimsby, 79
Docking the Russian Circular Ironclads, 275
Dredger, Vertical Action Steam, Patna Canal, Mr. C.
Fouracres, 199, 202
Dredging Plant, 203, 267, 324
Droitwich Waterworks, Opening of, 57
Drum Guard. Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 4
Drum Guard, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., Smithfield Club Show, 432
Drum Guard Trial at Cambridge, 84
Drum Guards, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 81, 100
Drum, Hauling, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Smith-field Club Show, 430, 431
Drum Spindle Stay, Messrs. Tasker, Smithfield Club Show, 432
Dublin, Sanitary State of, 198
Durham Coal Trade Sliding Scale, 313
Edison Electric Light, The, 32
Edison’s Last Discovery, 240
Edison’s Ultimatum, 470
Effra Creek Pumping Machinery, 324
Effra Creek Storm Outlet, Vauxhall Cross, Pumping Machinery, Sir J. Bazalgette, 306, 307, 310
Electric Current Breaker, A New, 112
Electric Light, The, 126
Electric Light in the British Museum, 304
Electric Light in Burmab, 268
Electric Light in the Colonies, The, 22
Electric l ight on the Metropolitan Railway, 277
Electric Light Regulators and Electric Candles, Mr.
C. F. Heinrichs, 413
Elevator Attachment Straw, Messrs. Marshall, Sms, and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Kilburn, 100
Elswick Guns, 218
Elswick Horse Artillery Gun, New, 410
Emery Wheel and Cutter, Messrs. Smith and Coventry, 461
Emigration, 168
Emigration of English Workmen, 90
Engine, 12-H.P., with Automatic Expansion Gear, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 2, 5
Engine and Boiler, Messrs. Cochran and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 41, 45
Engine Cylinder, Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 1
Engine, 14-H.P., Double Cylinder, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., Smithfield Club Show, 434
Engine Economy, 206, 449
Engine Fittings ? What are, 274
Engine, 14-H.P., the Reading Ironworks Company, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 17
Engine, 6-H.P. Traction, Durham and North Yorkshire
Steam Cultivation Company, 413
Engine, Gas, The Bisschop, 24
Engine, Gas, Mr. Clerk, 25
Engine, “ Gippeswyk," Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 4
Engine Governors, Marine, 206
Engine, Horizontal, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co..
Smithfield Club Show, 447
Engine, Horizontal Steam, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 145
Engine, Long Boiler, 1842, Mr. Stephenson, 396
Engine, Marine, Main Centres of, 326
Engine, 1848, Passenger, Messrs. Sharp, Brothers, and Co., Inchicore Works, 177
Engine, 8-H.P., Portable, Messrs. P. and H. P.
Gibbons, Smithfield Club Show, 434
Engine, 1J-H.P., Portable, Messrs. Proctor and Wallis, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 92, 93
Engine, Rotary, Mr. Lorenzo B. Lawrence, 163
Engine Shafts, Marine, 311
Engine, Test of the Compound, 346
Engine, Theory of the Compound, 283, 291, 308, 323, 324, 364, 380, 398, 414, 440, 448
Engine, Three Cylinder, Mr. C. T. Watts, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 23
Engine, Three Cylinder Electric Light, Mr. P. Brotherhood, 34
Engine, 1860, Traction, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 17
Engine, 8-H.P. Traction, Messrs. Barrows and Stewart, 105, 106, 125
Engine, 8-H.P. Traction, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 133
Engine, 8-H.P. Traction, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 41, 48
Engine, Traction, Mr. Thomas Box’s Patent, Engineers, Messrs. Robey and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 145
Engine, Vertical, American, 378
Engineer Appointments in the Navy, 33, 44, 360, 378
Engineering, Civil, on the Tees, 470
Engineering Geology, 139
Engineering Geology, W. H. Penning, 60
Engineers, English and Foreign, 332
Engineers in Glasgow, Mechanical, 109
Engineers in India, 90, 381
Engineers, Mercantile Marine, 206
Engineers in Parliament, 32
Engineman’s Certificate Association, Projected, 243
Enginemen, Certificated, 106
Engines (See also Locomotive'}
Engines and Boilers, Vertical, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 23, 27
Engines and Boilers, Vertical, Messrs. Ruston and
Proctor, 23, 27
Engines, Compound, Mr. A. Vile, 162
Engines, Compound Portable, 13
Engines, Compound, 10 0 I.H.P., Messrs. J. Brinton and Co.’s Factory, Messrs. T. Bates and Co., 379, 381, 382
Engines, Compound, SS. Mytho, MM. Schneider et Cie., 288, 289, 290
Engines, Compound Three-Cylinder, SS. Orient, Messrs. John Elder and Co. (Supplement to The Engineer, October 3rd)
Engines, Ga«, at the Kilburn Show, 24, 51
Engines in India, Traction, 181
Engines, Locomotive, Inchicore Works, Mr. MacDon-nell, 178, 180, 184
Engines in London, Traction, 87
Engines of the Orient, 253, 267, 291
Engines, Portable, Exhibited at Paris, 16
Engines, Pumping, McLean’s Engine, Reporter on, 275
Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 1, 23, 41
Engines, Winding, Yellow Jacket Silver Mine, California, Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works Company, 345, 348, 360, 363
English and Foreign Engineers, 380
English Steel in America, 391
English Workmen in America, 360
Excavator, Reeves’s Pneumatic, 205
Exhibition of Gas Apparatus in Nottingham, 402
Exhibition of 1880, Melbourne International, 179, 333
Exhibition in Lambeth, Free Art, 179
Exhibition of 1880, South American and Buenos
Ayres, 336, 360
Exhibition, Sydney, 350, 360
Expansion Gear, Automatically Variable M. C. de Negri, 451
Explosion at a Bradford Gasworks, 433
Explosion of a Locomotive, 258
Factories, Inspection of, 320
Fans and other Blowing Machines, 328
Favre, M. Louis, 82
Fawcett, Preston, and. Co., Messrs., Works of, 250
Feeder Attachment, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co.,
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 4
Ferry Boat, A Big, 124
Ferryhill Blast Furnaces, 333
Filter, Rotary Clearing, The Pulsometer Engineering
Company, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 124
Finlay sen’s Plough, 44
Fire-box, Crown Arch, Leach’s, Rajputana State Railway, 378
Fire-box Roof Stays, 414
Fire-boxes, Copper, On the Cracks Found in the
Corners of, Herr Wehrenfennig, 455
Fire-boxes, Steel, 113
Fire Engines, New Steam, Messrs. Shand and Mason, 218
Fire Protection of the Suburbs, 245
Fison’s D>um Guard, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 81
Floating Fighting Island, A, 257
Floods in South London, 277
Food Preparing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 12, 61
Fore Carriage, Messrs, Burrell, Smithfield Club Show, 431
Fore Carriage, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., Smith-field Club Show, 432
Forest in Algeria, Destruction by Fire of, 58
Forgings, Large. 249
Forth Bridge, The, 282, 290, 292, 31’, 314
Froude, Mr. W., F.R.S., Investigations of the Late, 91
Gas Apparatus Exhibition in Nottingham, 402
Gasholder, A Huge, 402
Gasholder, Telescoping a, 396
Gas Regulator, Schooley’s Patent, 153
German Tariff and English Trade, 62, 69, 89
Gibbon’s Drum Guard, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 100
Girders, Continuous, 365
Glass, Toughened for Permanent Ways, 250
Governor, Engine, Mr. J. L. Tracy, Smithfield Club Show, 431
Governor, The Pneumatic Marine, 103
Governor, The “ Velometer,” 103
Governors, Marine Engine, 214, 236, 253, 267, 291, 325, 381 ’
Great Northern Railway Works, 454
Grimsby, New Dock at, 79
Grosser Kurfiirst, The, 341, 375, 454
Gruson, Herr von, Chilled Cast iron Armour, 465
Gun, The 80-ton, 293
Gun, The 100-ton, Casting of, Turin Gun Foundry, 290
Gun, The 100-ton, Experiments at Spezia, 152 ’
Gun, Non-recoil. Herr Krupp, 353
Gun at Woolwich. H.M.S. “ Thunderer,” 45
Gunboat for the Chinese Government, 72, 92, 144
Guns in Afghanistan, Armstrong Divided Mountain, 204 ’
Guns, 100-ton Breech-loading, Sir W. Armstrong and
Co., 253, 255
Guns, Elswick, 218
Guns, Relative Powers of British and Foreign, 139
Guns, Woolwich and Krupp, 221
Guy’s Hospital Conversazione, 253
Hammer, Power, The Hasse-Simon, Messrs. B. and S.
Massey, 412
Harbour Bars, Mr. Knapp on, 440
Hasse-Simon Patent Power Hammer, Messrs. B. and
S. Massey, 412
Hawksley, Wild, and Co., Messrs., Sectional Boiler for Waste Gases, 353
Hay Drying Machinery, 70
Heating Air by Waste Gases, Apparatus for, Messrs.
Brown, Bayley, and Dixon, 321
Heating with Ga«, 367, 438
Heaving-up Slip, Northam Ironworks, Southampton,
Messrs. Day, Summers, and Co., 198, 218
H.M.S. “Mercury,” 106
Hilf’s System of Permanent Way, 359
Hill, Sir Rowland, 164
Holborn Town Hall, 471
Hollway’s Process, 204
Hopper Dredger for Newhaven Harbour, Twin Screw,
Messrs. Simons and Co., 84, 88, 112
House Drains in North London, 325, 333, 398, 402
Howard’s, John, Plough, 72
“ Huascar,” The, 472
“ Huascar,” The, after her Defeat of Oct. 8, 1879, 439 ’
"^Sh^8 8*1Um Boyal Agricultural Society’s
Hydraulic Machinery at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 28, 99
Ickle’s, Bessemer Steel Works at Sheffield, Messrs. Steel, Tozer, and Hampton, Weston's Rolling Mill Clutch, 159
Idleness. Doctrine of, 294
Implements, Old, at the Kilburn Show, 51
Inchicore Works, Great Southern and Western Railway, 177
^274 ’ ^rons^one an^ Coal in the Central Presidency of,
Indian Government Steam Carriage, Mr. R. W. Thomson, 181
Indian Public Works Department, 129, 204, 365
Institute, City and Guilds of London, 360
Institute of Great Britain, Sanitary, 42,144
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 153,192, 224, 281
Cope, Messrs., Visit to the Tobacco Factory of, 251 Dephosphorisation of Iron and Steel, Mr. H. C.
Bull, 231, 232
Fawcett, Preston, and Co.’s, Messrs., Visit to the Works of, 251
First Session in Liverpool, 224
Forgings, Large, Mr. G. Ratcliffe. 249
Iron Permanent Way, Wrought, North-Eastern Railway, Mr. C. Wood, 250
Iron and Steel as Constructive Materials, Progress of, Mr. Picton, 233
Iron and Steel Hardening, its Causes and Effects, Prof. Ackerman, 249
Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, Physical Changes Occurring in, Mr. Wrightson, 247
Liverpool Granaries, 232
McCorquodale and Co., Messrs., Printing Works, Visit to, 249
Neutralisation of Phosphorus in Steel, Mr. Brown, 232
Shipbuilding Works, Messrs. Laird Bros., 232
Steel, Consolidation of Fluid, Mr. A. Davis, 249
Steel, Nitrogen in, Mr. A. H. Allen, 249
Toughened Glass for Permanent Ways, Mr. Bucknail, 251
Volumetric Determination of Manganese’ in Metals, Mr. John Pattison, 231
White Cross Wire Works, Warrington, Visit to, 248
Institute of Mining Engineers, The Midland, 100 218
Institution, Birkbeck Literary and Scientific, 245, 328
Institution of Civil Engineers, 33, 456
Keeping Irrigation Canals Clear of Silt, R. Burton Buckley, 336
Passenger Steamers of the Thames, the Mersey, and the Clyde, Mr. W. Carson, 466
Premiums Awarded, 346
Tunnel Outlets from Storage Reservoirs, Mr. C. J Wood, 421
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 126, 341
Compounding Locomotive Engines, M. Anatole Mallet, 84
Construction and Working of Vertical Action Steam
Dredger in India, Mr. R. B. Buckley, 199, 202
Excursions of the Members, 111
Fireless Tramway Locomotives, M. Leon Franco, 343
Forging Heavy Crank Shafts, Mr. W. L. E. McLean, I 132 1
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (continued}— Historical Sketch, Extracts of, from the Glasgozo
Herald, 126
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Robinson, on Cheap Internal Transport, 102
Maintenance of Constant Pressure on Water Service Pipes, Mr. Stephen Alley, 104
Pneumatic Marine Governor, The, Mr. D. J. Dunlop, 103
Pressure Reducer, Messrs. Barton and West’s, Mr.
W. H. Thomas, 112
Screw Propeller, Loss of Power in the, Hon. R. C.
Parsons, 341
Traction Engines in India, Working of, Mr. R. E. B. Crompton, 181
“Velometer” Governor, The, Mr. F. W. Durham, 103
Visit to the Steel Companv of Scotland’s Works. 144 Water-meter, Messrs. Barton and West’s, Mr. W. H.
Thomas, 146
Inventors and ihe Government, 186
Iron Bridgewovk, Wrought, 277
Iron, Cast, for Engineering Purposes, 295
Iron, Coal and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 20, 39, 57, 79, 96, 117, 137, 157, 175, 192, 211, 229, 245, 262, 281, 301, 319, 339, 356, 373, 391, 407, 424, 429, 443, 459, 475
Iron Company, A Prosperous, 205
Iron Contracts, Recent, 150
Iron from Corrosion, Protecting. 252, 267
Iron, Dephosphorising, 232
Iron, Dephosphorisation of Cast, 179
Iron, Dephosphorisation of Pig, 101
Iron Exports, Our, 222
Iron ure, African, for the United States, 460
Iron Output, Cleveland, 50
Iron Railway Sleepers, 250, 265, 398, 427, 445
Iron and Steel, 273
Iron and Steel as Constructive Materials, Progress of, 233
Iron and Steel, Dephosphorisation of, 231
Iron and Steel, Hardening, its Causes and Effects, 249
Iron and Steel in High-pressure Boilers, Experiments Referring to the Use of, 35, 53
Iron and Steel at High Temperatures, Physical
Changes in, 247
Iron v. Steel Rails, 150
Iron Trade, The, 130
Iron Trade, The American, 187, 233
Iron Trade, The Northern Manufactured, 258
Iron Trade Prospects, 331
Iron Trade, The Welsh, 236
Iron Tube Trade, 396
Iron in the United States, Demand for, 470
Ironmaking, Economy in Finished, 83
Ironstone and Coal of the Central Presidency, 274
Ironworks in the Market, 204
Irrigation Canals Clear of Silt, Keeping, 336
Kendal, Mr., Continuous Steam Brake, 270, 272
Kendall and Gent’s Works, Salford, 462
Kentish Plough, Old, 43
Kersley Boiler Explosion, The, 34
Kilburn Showyard, June 27th, 1879, Sketch in the, 1
Kirsch, Mr., Permanent Way, 445
Knapp, Mr. H. F., on the Institution of Civil Engineers, 340
Krupp’s Guns at Meppen, 119 to 124
Krupp’s Protected Non-Recoil Gun, 353
Laird Brothers, Messrs., Shipbuilding Works, 232
Lakeman, Mr., Saw Guard, 404
Land Drainage, 378
Lathes and Turning, 425
Leading Articles:—
Agricultural Machinery, Accidents to, 150
Alloys of Lead and Antimony, 204
American Iron Trade, The, 187
Armstrong Divided Mountain Guns in Afghanistan, 204
Artillery Experiments at Spezia, 31
“ Blowing-up” Argument, The, 417
Boiler Explosion, The Carr House, 109
Boiler Explosion, Marine, 14
Boiler Explosions, The Mysterious in, 49
Boiler Inspection, Compulsory, 318
Boiler Insurance, 130
Boiler Insurance Companies, 435
Boiler Surface, Useless, 469
Boilers, Management of, 239
Brake 'Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 49
Breech-loading Ordnance, 401
Brighton Beach, 257
Cargo Steamers, 453
Chatham Field Operations, The, 14
Civil Engineers and the Indian Government, 349
Cleveland Iron Mines, 383
Cleveland Iron Output, 50
Cleveland Iron Shipments, 350
Cleveland Iron Trade, 368
Cleveland Miners’ Wages, 294
Cleveland Pig Iron Trade, 312
Cleveland Pig Iron Production in 1879, 470
Cleveland Steel Question, 470
Coal, Cost of Winning, 402
Collision on the Thames, 149
Colombo Harbour, 167
Commercial Outlook, 240
Contracts and the Higher Prices, 417
Crown Agents for the Colonies, 349
Diamonds, Artificial, 454
Doctrine of Idleness, 294
Dredging Plant, 203
Durham Coal Trade Sliding Scale, 313
Edison Electric Light, The, 32
Edison’s Last Discovery, 240
Edison’s Ultimatum, 469
Emigration, 168
Emigration of English Workmen, 90
Engine Fittings ? What are, 274
Engineers, English and Foreign, 332
Engineers in Parliament, 32
Ferryhill Blast Furnaces, 333
Floating Fighting Island, A, 257
Foundry Cupola Practice, 130
French Locomotives, 383
Gasholder, A Huge, 402
Great Northern Railway Works, 454
Grosser Kurfurst, The, 454
Gun, The 80-ton, 293
Hay Drying Machinery, 70
Heating with Gas, 367
Hollway’s Process. 204
House Drains in North London, 333, 402
Indian Public Works Department, 129, 204
Indian Engineers, 90
Inventors and the Government, 186
Iron Company, A Prosperous, 204
Iron Contracts, Recent, 150
Iron Exports, Our, 222
Iron and Steel, 273
Iron Trade, The, 130
Iron Trade, The Northern Manufactured, 258
Iron Trade Prospects, 331
Iron in the United States, Demand for, 470
Iron v. Steel Rails, 150
Ironmaking, Economy in Finished, 32
Ironstone and Coal of the Central Presidency, 274
Ironworks in the Market, 201
Locomotive Engine Boilers, 222
Locomotives on Roads, 71
London Bridge, 70
London Gas Supply, The, 110
London and North-Western Railway Works, 470
Machinery and Unionism, 313
Madras Harbour Works, 221, 368
Marine Engine Economy, 417
Marine Engine Shafts, 311
Mechanical Engineers in Glasgow, The, 109
Meppen Trials on the Breech and Muzzle-loading Question, Bearing of, 185
Mining Accidents, 14
Leading Articles (continued)—
Mundella, M.P., Mr., on Trade Topics, 436
Musket and the Spade, The, 69
North-Eastern Railway Company and the Cleveland Iron Trade, 436
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Traffic Rates, 383
North-Eastern Railway Works, 417
Overwinding Accidents, 367
Panama Canal, The, 150
Papers and Discussions, 293
Patent Law, A New Departure in, 453
Patents in 1878, 239
Portsmouth Night Attack, 311
Proposed Sliding Scale for South Yorkshire, 368
Public Bodies and Contractors, 110
Railway Accidents in 1878, 149
Railway, A New Coal, 71
Railway Companies and the Coalowners, 258
Railway, A New, 14
Railways, Portable, 31
Reciprocity or Free Trade, 186
River Floods, 89, 167
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, The, 13
Science and Applied Science, 435
Screws v. Paddles, 203
Severn Tunnel, 312
Sewage, Disposal of, 273
Sewage Outfalls on the Thames, 383
Specifications for Iron Bridges, 383
Steam Tramways in Italy, 368
Steam Yacht Wanderer, The, 401
Steel Trade, Growth of the Northern, 223
Stephenson Memorial Hall, The, 50
strikes, The Inutility of, 90
Tariff, German, 69, 89
Tariffs, American, 32
Thomas and Gilchrist Process, 313
Thunderer Gun, The Doomed, 331
Thunderer’s Gun, The, 436
Thunderer Gun Trials, 454
Torpedo Work in the United States, 240
Trade, Improved, 168
Trade Prospects, 185
Trade Reviving ? Is, 350
Tramway Enterprise in Italy, 258, 368
Tube Trade, The, 110
Water Meters in Middlesbrough, 417
Water supply of Colombo, 469
Water Supply Curiosities, 129
Woolwich and Krupp Guns, 221
Leamington Waterworks, 217, 220
Leamington Waterworks Pump Gearing, Mr. G. B.
Jerram, 235
Legal Intelligence
Blakeley and Vavasseur’s Patent, 471
Ex parte Dering, 446
Ex parte Somerset and Walker, 446
Ex parte Wirth, 446
Hayward v. Hamilton and Another, 428
Mann v. The Royal Agricultural Society, 62
Metford’s Patent, 15
Re Le Francois’ Patent, 94
Re Wirth’s Patent, 93
Swansea Improvements and Tramways Company •y. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway Company, 132
Sykes v. Howarth, 15
The Queen v. The Institution of Civil Engineers, 381
The “ Three Years’ Pui chase System ” as Applied to Machinery, 153
Weggmann v. Corcoran, Witt, and Co., 365
Whitworth’s Patent, 15, 62, 343
Letters to the Editor :—
Ammoniacal Liquor? A Country Gentleman, 273
Apprenticeship Difficulty, An, An Articled Pupil, 415
Axle-boxes ? Adjustable, Axle-box, 203
Basic Bricks? P. B., 331
Basic Phosphate of Soda? The, Lindum, 13
Ball and Socket Joints for Water Mains ? B. and B., 417
Bell Hanging, New System of, Foreman Fitter. 440
Bells and Bell Founding, J. Llewellin, jun., 440
Bessemer Process, R. F. Musbet, 415
Bessemer Scrap Steel? E. W. H., 273
Birchwood? Treating, Greenheart, 401
Bogus Contracts, One of the Humbugged, 473
Boiler Explosions, Consulting Engineer, 324
Boiler Gussets, Boiler, 437
Boiler Inspection ? Henry Hiller, 147
Boiler Inspection, Niel McDougal], 164
Boiler Insurance Companies, Boiler Inspector, 449
Boiler Insurance Companies, John Waugh, 449
Boilers? Removing Scale from, X. Z., 311
Boilers, Staying, F. C., 473
Boot Peg Making Machinery? G. P., 31
Brakes, Continuous, J. B. H. Harrison, 325
Brighton Beach, E. B. Ellice Clark. 291
British Association, President’s Address, Section G, Alex. E. Tucker, 164
Bulkhead Doors, Charles R. Simcy, 15, 51
Cable Towing, Verne, 75
Canal-street Bridge, Wolverhampton, Observer, 15
Canal-street Bridge, Wolverhampton, G. Eastlake Thoms, 15
Cane Sugar Making? A. G., 129
Castings? Small Fragile Metal, Inquirer, 257
Certificated Enginemen, A. B., 106
Chadde; ton’s Steam Cocks ? G. S., 185
Circular Saw, Accident at a, Bodley Bros, and Co., 239
C ark and Webb Chain Brake, J. N. A., 236
Coal Dust Fuel and Machinery ? G. R. F., 109
Coalbrookdale Bridge, Martha Frances Darby, 324
Collision on the Thames, J. A., 17$)
Condensed Milk Plant? P. W. and Co., 239
Continuous Girders, J. B. H. Harrison, 365
Contract Specifications, One who Declined to Tender, 126
Contract Specifications, Robt. A. Quain, 164
Copper ? Tinned, Amateur, 31
Dephosphorisation of Cast Iron, Fluorine, 179
Dredging Plant, Wm. Brown, jun., 267
Dredging Plant, Robt. B. Buckly, 324
Effra Creek Pumping Machinery, John Gwynne, 324
Emery and Cloth Machinery? Emery, 417
Enamelling Iron ? L. C. M., 349
Engineers in India, Executive Engineer, 381
Engines at Jalovah, Asia Minor ? Oscillating Cylinder, W. V. S., 49
Engines at Kilburn, Gas, F. W. Turner, 51
Engines of the Orient, John L. K. Jamieson, 267
Engines of the Orient, Alexander C. Kirk, 253, 291
English and American Locomotives, C. R. M., 437
English and Foreign Engineers, R. M., 380
File Cutting Machinery? K. C., 367
Filters? W., 167
Fire-box Roof Stays, R. Weatherburn, 414
Fire-box Roof Stays, J. J. Tyrrell, 414
Fishing-net Making Machines ? A. P. G., 273
Flitch Beams, Strength of ? jll, 4j'
Flock-making Machines ? W. and L., 257
Forging Crank Shafts, J. B. Casley, 147
Forging Crank Shafts, Wm. L. E. McLean, 147
Free Ait Exhibition in Lambeth, Mark H. Judge, 179
Fresh Water from a Tidal River, Henry N. Maynard, 106
Furnaces ? Cost of Blast, An Inquirer, 453
Future of the Welsh Iron Trade, D., 236
Glass Blowing—Books and Machinery? F. W. M., 221
Granary Elevators ? A Subscriber, 109
Hammers? Steam, Steam Hammer, 401
Hand or Steam Shovel Presses? W. F., 149
Heating with Gas, Wm. Sugg, 438
House Drainage in North London, J. D. Thomson, 325
House Drains in North London, A Victim, 308
House Drains in North London, Another Victim, 398
Huascar, The, J. R., 472
Indian Public Works Department, A. G. Murray, 365
Letters to the Editor {continued)—'
Indigo Machinery ? W. and S., 311
Institution of Civil Engineers, Associate Member, 449
Iron Sleepers, James Livesey, 398
Iron Sleepers, P. and AV. Maclellan, 365
Judging at the Royal Agricultural Shows, Exhibitor, 66
Kerite ? Z. X., 867
Knapp, Mr., on Harbour Bars, H. F. Knapp, 440
Liebig’s Extract Preparing Machinery? 8. and 8., 149
Links in the History of the Locomotive, H. K. R., 398
Links in the History of the Locomotive Engine, John A. Haswell, 291
Links in the History of the Locomotive, Loco., 346 L:nks in the History of the Locomotive, P. N., 398
Links in the History of the Locomotive, Tyneside, 414
Locomotive ? Small Road, J. M. Wilkins, 453 London Bridge, J. H. Luson, 106
London Bridge, A. T. Walmisley, 66
Lubricants for Bearings in Hot Situations? AV. S., 257
Marine Engine Economy, AV. J. Last, 440
Marine Engine Governors, A. B., 253
Marine Engine Governors, E. A. Bourry, 291, 438 Marine Engine Governors, Edmund Hunt, 325, 449 Marine Engine Governors, A Marine Engineer, 267, 381
Marine Engine Governors, J. Silver, 206
Marine Engine Governors, T. Silver, 236, 325, 439
Marine Engine Governors, T. B., 325
Marine Engine Governors, W. M. M., 214
Marine Engine Shafts, 8. S., 324
Marine Engines, Main Centres of, J. H., 326
Melting Cast Iron Borings? S. 8., 89
Metal Mine Accidents, C. Simmons Church, 66 Middlesbrough AVater Meters, J. Urquhart, 437 Millboard Rings for Flanged Joints? A., 31
Mills’ Auxiliary Buffer, Patent No. 1082, F. A. Mills, 417
Motive Power? Light, B. C., 311
Moulding Ploughshares in Sand? A. B. IL, 453
Old Implements at Kilburn, Agricola, 51 Paper Bag Making Machinery? T. M., 293
Papers and Discussions at Technical Meetings, T. B., 326
Patents ? N., 239
Peat-cutting Machines? A. C., 185
Pedal Driving Gear for Small Machinery, Wm. Ber-nays, 438
Photography, a New Process of, W. H. H., 164
Portsmouth Night Attack, The, Killing worth Hedges, 345
Pressure Reducing Valves, S. Alley, 164
Pressure Reducing Valves, D. Bruce Peebles, 126, 179
Prevention of Railway Accidents at Night, R. Varley, 147
Proposed African Internal Sea, An Engineer, 267
Proposed African Internal Sea, G. L., 291
Railway AVagon Couplings? N. C., 109 Railways in China, C. AV. Kinder, 438
Railways, Portable, A. Percival Heywood, 74 .
Ratchet Braces, Continuous Action, C. H. Binney, 203
Ratchet Braces, Continuous Action, James Brown, 203
Ratchet Braces, Continuous Action, E. R., 203 Ratchet Braces, Self-acting? Ratchet, 185 Re “Otto” Bicycle? An Old Reader, 435
Rotation, Problem in, C. F., 49, 69
Rotation, Prob’em in, J. E. C., 89
Sago Pulping Machinery? J. L., 203
Scholey’s Patent Gas Regulator, T. H. Haynes 185 Screw Blades, Adhesion of, Thos. Garnett, 106 Screw Propeller with Guide Blades, C., 365
Screw Propellers, Efficiency of, C., 67
Screw Propulsion, An Amateur, 215
Screw Propulsion, Robt. H. Armit, 215, 252, 267, 325, 380, 437
Screw Propulsion, C., 291, 380
Screw Propulsion, C. B., 252
Screw Propulsion, AV. A. C., 346
Sewage, Disposal of, C. F. Gower, 324
Sewage. Disposal of, John Howard Kidd, 325
Shale? Specific Gravity of, C. AV. M., 31 Sheers, 120-ton Floating, J. Richards, 331 Small Blowers? E. D., 417
Small Blowers? H. E., 331
Smith’s Vertical Boiler, A. H. Bateman and Co., 51 Specifications for Ironwork, Inspector, 415 Spli'ting and Cleaning Lentils? 8. W.» 367
Steam Engine Economy, J. J.,419
Steam Engine Economy, K., 449
Steam Engine Economy, AV. C. Rawiins, 449
Steam Engine Economy, Mr. D. Stubley, 206
Steam Pipe Connections, C. AV. V., 449
Steam Pumps at Kilburn, Brinjes and Goodwin, 51 Steam Pumps at Kilburn, Josh. Evans and Sons, 66 Steam Pumps at Kilburn, Charles L. Hett, 66 Steam Pumps at Kilburn, Robt. James AVorth, 51, 106
S.S. Loftus Perkins, The, R. 8. B., 381
Steel Castings ? S. M., 469
Steel v. Iron Locomotive Boilers, D. M. Yeomans, 308
Steel v. Iron Rails, F. G. Field, 215
Steel v. Iron Rails, H. AVooseldine, 365
Steel Pen Making Machines? P. P., 331
Stove Pipe Steaming? S., 273
Steel Rails, F. G. Field, 291
Steel Rods? Blight, Machinists, 203
Steel? AVelding, E. D., 401
Strains on Girders, ]., 415
Sugar-cutting Machines ? A Subscriber, 331 Temperature of Escaping Steam, Robt. Gill, 179 Tenders, E. S., 415
Test of a Compound Engine, D. M. Yeomans, 346 Testing Portland Cement, R. H. AVillis, 438 Theodolite as a Surveying Instrument? J. G. D., 293
Theory of the Compound Engine, An Apprentice, 308
Theory of the Compound Engine, Apprentice not Ignorant of Mathematics, 414
Theory of the Compound Engine, Compound, 308 Theory of the Compound Engine, Engineer, 308,440 Theory of the Compound Engine, Enquirer, 346 Theory of the Compound Engine, G. L., 346, 398 Theory of the Compound Engine, John Henry, 324 Theory of the Compound Engine, J oseph Henry, 364 398
Theory of the Compound Engine, Henry Hiller, 346 Theory of the Compound Engine, J. R., 364
Theory of the Compound Engine, P. H., 398
Theory of the Compound Engine, Perplexity, 324 Theory of the Compound Engine, R. B. Smith, 440 Theory of the Compound Engine, A Student, 291, 324 Theory of the Compound Engine, A Superintending
Engineer, 440.
Theory of the Compound Engine, J. H. Tattersail, 398
Theory of the Compound Engine, T., 380
Theory of the Compound Engine, John 1 urn bull, iun., 3 '8, 346, 380, 414, 449 _ .,
Theory of the Compound Engine, Unemployed Draughtsman, 448 ._
Tneoiy of the Compound Engine, W. F., 3J8
Theory of the Compound Engine, AV. H. I449 Theory of the Compound Engine, X. V. Z., 308
Theory of the Compound Engine, lacht, 346
Theory of the Compound Engine, John Yeadon, 323 Thin Metallic Reflector Sheets or Plates? Solicitous, 311
“Thunderer” Gun Experiment, Geo. Hunter, 449 “Thunderer” Gun, The, An Unscientific Experi
ment, S., 345
Tidal Influence in Mines, AVm. Waller, 236
Tile Making Machines ? AV. F., 435
Tinning without Dipping, K. AV., 383
Tortoiseshell Ornament Machinery? J. T. and Co., 89
Letters to the Editor (continued)—
Tribasic Acid, Hampshire, 149
Tribasic Acid, Alfred Smetham, 167
Tripsa? A. Y. C., 203
Tripsa, Alfred Smetham, 221
Utilising Ammoniacal Liquor, Alfred Smetham, 293
Utilising Cocoa-nut Fibre? C. E. H., 383
Vernon’s Anemoscope, Adams and Son, 326 Wavish’s Coal Economiser, John Warner, 473 “ Wanderer,” The, Wm. Inglis, 415 “Wanderer,” The, Observer, 437 “ Wanderer,” The, Loftus Perkins, 414, 437 “ Wanderer,” The, The Perkins Engine Company,
Limited, 364
Westinghouse Brake, The, Fair Play, 66
Windmills ? W. S., 367
Wire Rope Street Railway, E. J. Molera, 415
Wire Rope Transmission, J. S. F. Stephens, 13
Work in a Pound of Steam, C. H. W. Biggs, 449
Wiought Iron Sleepers, J. Livesey, 315
Lightship for Demerara Harbour, 357 Literature
Baggage Car Traffic, Marshall M. Kirkman, 223
Bells and Bell Founding : a Practical Treatise upon Church Bells, by X. Y. Z., 418
Cable Making for Suspension Bridges, with Special Reference to the Cables of the East River Bridge, W. Hildenbrand, 111
Catechism of the Marine Steam Engine, for the use of Engineers, Firemen, and Mechanics: a Practical Work for Practical Men, by Emory Edwards, 470
Coal, its History and Uses, by Professors Green, Miall, Thorpe, Rucker, and Marshall, 15
Coal Mines Inspection : its History and Results, R. Nelson Boyd, 33
Electric Light in its Practical Application, The, by Paget Higgs, 91
Electro-plating ; a Practical Handbook Including the Practice of Electrotyping, J. W. Urquhart, 436
Elementary Lessons on Sound, Dr. W. H. Stone, 130
Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics, by Oliver Lodge, 333
Friction and Lubrication ; Determination of the Laws and Coefficients of Friction by New Methods and with New Apparatus, R. H. Thurston, 240.
Girder Making and the Practice of Bridgo Building in Wrought Iron, by Edward Hutchinson, 368
Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, No. 27, 91
Lezioni Elementari di Macchine a Vapore, Date Nel R. Institute di Marina Mercantile di Palermo, da Roberto Gill, 71
Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges, W. Cain, 205 Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 151, 187, 274
Naval Architects’ and Shipbuilders’ Pocket-book, by Clement Mackrow, 350
Paterson’s Electrical Catalogue, by J. A. Paterson, 460 Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers ;
Royal Engineer Institute Occasional Papers, Vol. IL, 50
Report on a Preliminary Investigation of the Properties of the Copper-Tin Alloys, made under the Direction of the Committee on Metallic Alloys, United States Board, to Test Iron, Steel, and other Metals, Robert H. Thurston, Chairman in 1879, 294
Rudimentary Treatise on the Locomotive Engine ; Comprising an Historical Sketch and Description of the Locomotive Engine, G. D. Dempsey, 168
Society of Arts Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878, 454
Strength of Materials, W. Kent, 205
The Student’s Text-book of Electricity, Henry M.
Noad, 313
Tin Mining in Larut, by Patrick Doyle, 385
Turning and Mechanical Manipulation Intended as a Work of General Reference and Practical Instruction on the Lathe, and the Various Mechanical Pursuits Followed by Amateurs ; Vol. IV., The Principles of Hand or Simple Turning, by J. J. Iloltzapffel, 402
Twenty Lessons in Inorganic Chemistry, W. G. Valentin, 110
Units and Physical Constants, J. D. Everett, 258
Universal Dictionary for Architects, Civil Engineers, Surveyors. Sculptors, &c., by W. J. Christy, Parts I. and II., 369
Voussoir Arches applied to Stone Bridges, Tunnels, Domes, and Groined Arches, W. Cain, 205
Liverpool Electric Lighting Bill, 36
Liverpool Granaries, 232
Liverpool, Water Supply at, 268
Llandulas Viaduct, The, 212, 234, 235
Lock, Railway Carriage Door, South-Western Railway Company, Messrs. Jelley, Son, and Jones, 206
Locomotive, 1827, The Royal George, Stockton and Darlington Railway, 276
Locomotive, Eight-Counlcd, 378
Locomotive Engine Building in Ireland, 111
Locomotive Engines. Compounding, 84
Locomotive. Links in the History of, 275, 291, 322, 346, 394, 398, 414, 461
Locomotive, Mineral, Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, 1830, 276
Locomotive Engines, 1836, 1840, 327
Locomotive Engines, Stockton and Darlington Railway, 461, 464
Locomotives, English and American, 437
Locomotives, French, 384
Locomotives on Roads, 71, 74
Locomotives, Tramway, Fireless, 343
London Bridge, 66, 70
London Bridge Scheme, The, 100, 106
London Gas Supply, The, 110
London and North-Western Railway Works, 470
McCorquodale and Co., Printing Works, Newton-le-Willows, 249
Machinery and Unionism, 313
Madras Harbour Works, 221, 368
Manganese in Metals, Volumetric Determination of, 231
Margate Jetty Extension, 62
Marine Engine Economy, 417, 440
Marine Engine Governors, 438, 439
Marine Engine Shafts. 324
Maxwell, J. Clerk, 351
Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880, 333
Meppen, Artillery Experiments at, 119—124, 128, 132, 185
Mersey, Defence of the River, 206
Mersey Steel and Ironworks, The, 224
Metal Mine Accidents. 66
Middlesbrough Water Meters, 437
Mill, Pulverising and Sifting, Thompson’s Patent. The Pulsometer Engineering Company, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 61
Milling Machine, Britannia Manufacturing Company. 344
Mills, Porcelain Roller, Herr Wegmann, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 61, 62, 64
Mine in Victoria, The Deepest, 90
Mineral Statistics, 187, 197, 284
Mining Accidents, 14
Minto, Mr. George, 79
Miscellanea, 11, 29, 52, 63, 83, 107, 127, 143, 165, 189. 207, 219, 237, 256, 271, 287, 309, 329, 347, 361, 377, 399 411, 429, 452, 467
Monkwearmouth Junction Railway, The, 87
Moor-row and Workington Railway, 281
Morecambe Bay Embankment, 302
Mundella, Mr., M.P., on Trade Topics, 436
Musket and the Spade, The, 69
“Mytho,” S.S., Compound Engines of the, MM Schneider et Cie., 288, 289, 290
Napier, Mr. James R., 456
Naval Engineer Appointments, 153, 433, 449
Naval Engineers, Position of, 391
Naval Intelligence, 169,188, 208, 218, 233, 385
Newcomen Engine in 1712, 396, 400
North-Eastern Railway Company and the Cleveland Iron Trade, 430
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Traffic Rates, 385
North-Eastern Railway Works, 418
North of England, Notes from, 21, 40, 58, 80, 97, 118, 138, 158, 175, 193, 212, 230, 246, 263, 282, 302, 320, 340, 357, 374, 392, 408, 425, 444, 460, 476
Notes and Memoranda, 11, 29, 52, 63, 83, 107, 127,143, 165, 189, 207, 219, 237, 256, 271, 287, 309, 329, 347, 361, 377, 399,411, 429, 452, 467
Notes from Scotland, 21, 40, 58, 97, 118, 137, 158. 175 193, 212, 230, 246, 263, 282, 302, 320, 340, 357, 374,'392, 408, 425, 444, 4Q0, 476
Notices to Correspondents, 13, 31, 49, 69, 89, 109, 129, 149, 167, 185, 203, 221, 239, 257, 273, 293, 311, 331, 349, 367, 383, 401, 417, 435, 453, 469
Obituary :—
Cooke, Sir William Fothergill, 74
Cramp, Mr. William, 290
I Crawshay, Mr. Henry, 403
Favre, M. Louis, 82
Hill, Sir Rowland, 164
Maxwell, J. Clerk, 351
Minto, Mr. George, 79
Scott, Captain R. G., 212
Oil Pipe, A Long, 124
Old Implements at Kilburn, 8, 10
Ordnance, Breech-loading, 401
“ Orient," The S.S., Messrs. John Elder and Co. (Sup-
l plement to The Engineer, Oct. 3rd), 238, 241, 242, 247, 253, 268
Overwinding Accidents, 367
Panama Canal, The, 150
I Papers and Discussions, 293
Papers and Discussions at Technical Meetings, 326
Paris Exhibition, 1879, 82. 218
Patent Law, International, 164
Patent Law, A New Departure in, 453
Patents in 1878, 239
Paterson’s Electrical Catalogue, 460
Pedal Action for Small Machinery, Mr. Archer, 344
Pedal Driving Gear for Small Machinery, 438
Pemberton Colliery, Messrs. Blundell, 225
Permanent Way in America, 253
Permanent Way, Iron, 445
Permanent Way—Iron Railway Sleepers, 303, 359,
Permanent Way, North-Eastern Railway Wrought Iron, 250, 265
Permanent Way, Heusinger von Waldegg’s, 427
Permanent Way, M. Hohenegger’s, 427
Permanent Way, Livesey’s, 195
Permanent Way, Mr. J. Macdonnel’s, 427
Permanent Ways, Toughened Glass for, 250
Peterborough Water Supply, 71
Photography, A Ney Process of, 164
Pictet, M. Raoul, his Appointment at the University of Geneva, 308
Picton Reading Room, Liverpool, Mr. C. Sherlock,
Architect, Mr. J. N. Shoolbred, Engineer, 242, 253,
Pipe Manufacture, German, 132
Piston Ring Springs, Messrs. John Jones and Sons, 113
Planing Engine Bed plates, Machine for, Messrs.
Joshua Buckton and Co., 148,153
Platinum The Beginning of the End, 192
Plenty’s Plough, 44
Ploughing Engine, 1857, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 8, 10
Ploughs at the Kilburn Show, 25, 26, 43, 72, 284, 285, 386 ’
Pontoon and Rigging Cutting Machines for Raising the Grosser Kurf first. 375
Pontypool and Taly wain Railway, 243
Portland Cement Testing Machine, Salford Sewage
Works, Mr. A. Jacobs, 397
Portsmouth Night Attack, 311, 345
Postal and Telegraph Arrangements in Germany, 460
Pressure Reducer, Messrs. Barton and West, 112
Pressure Reducing Valve, Mr. S. Alley, 104
Pressure Reducing Valves, 126, 164. 179
Pressure in Water Service Pipes, Maintenance of Constant, 104
Prices Current of Metals, Oils, and Timber (See last page of first number in every month)
Prices of Pig Iron for Thirty-six Years, 446
Print, An Old, 396
Propeller, The Debay, 351, 352
Propeller, Screw, with Guide Bars, 365
Public Bodies and Contractors, 110
Pulleys, Loose, Messrs. J. H. and J. Davis, 396
Pulsometer on the SS. Orient, 268
Pumping Machinery, Effra Creek Storm Outlet, Vaux-hall cross, Sir J. Bazalgette, 306, 307, 310
Pumping and Mixing Machinery at Twickenham
Sewage Works, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 360, 362, 366 ’
Pumps, Feed, Messrs. Garrett and Sons, Smithfield Club Show, 430
Pumps and Pumping Gear, 197 i
Pumpe, Side Suction, Mr. Hobbs, 344
Pumps, Steam, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 51, 66, 106
Pusey’s Charbury Plough, 43
Quebec Harbour Commissioners, 343
Queenstown Deep-water Quay, 120-Ton Floating
Sheers, Messrs. Charles Powis and Co., 296, 297
Radiant Matter, On, 170,171, 172
Railway Accidents in 1878, 149
Railway Accidents at Night, Prevention of, 147
Railway Axles, Wrought Iron, 305, 334
Railway Companies and the Coalowners, 258
Railway, The Inner Circle, 201
Railway Matters, 11, 29, 52, 63, 80, 83, 107, 127, 143, 165, 189, 207, 219, 237, 256, 271, 287, 309, 329, 347, 361, 377, 399, 411, 452, 467 ’
Railway, The Monkwearmouth Junction, 87
Railway, A New, 14
Railway, A New Coal, 71
Railway, New, South Yorkshire Coal Trade, 179
Railway, Portable, Kilburn Showyard, Messrs. J.
Fowler and Co., 34
Railway, Proposed Central African, 94
Railway Sleepers, Iron, 303
Railway Sleepers, Wrought Iron, 315
Railway in Tchikislar, 197
Railway, Wire Rope Street, Clay-street, San Francisco, Mr. A. S. Hallidie, 269
Railways in China, 438
Railways, Portable, 31, 74
Railways and Steam Tramways, Light, 74
Rails in the United States, Prices of, 340
Rajputana State Railway, Leach’s Fire-box Crown Arch, 378
Ransome’s Y. L. Plough, 72
Ratchet Braces, 203
Reading’s Double Furrow Iron Plough, 1820, 72
Reaper, Sheaf Binding, Messrs. J. and F. Howard Smithfield Club Show, 431
Reciprocity or Free Trade, 186
River Floods, 89, 167, 169
Rivers Round Bends, Flow of, 233
Rivetting Machine, Allen’s, Mr. Alfred Davis, 10, 12
Robey and Co.’s Drum Guard, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 100
Roller, Steam Road, Messrs. Avelingand Porter Roval Agricultural Society’s Show, 30
l0kleS BeSSemer Ste*l
Rotation, A Problem in, 49, 69, 89
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Kilburn 13
Boiler, Cylindrical, Messrs. Cochran and Co. 2 ’ Boiler, Smith’s Vertical, 24, 51'*
Cylinder and Valve Chest, Messrs. Garrett 2 Drum Guard, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co . 4 Drum Guards, 81, 100’
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show (continued)
Engine, 12-H.P., with Automatic Expansion Gear, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 2, 5
Engine, 14-H.P., The Reading Ironworks Company,
Engine and Boiler, Messrs. Cochran and Co., 41, 45
Engine, Box’s Patent Traction, Messrs. Robey and Co., 145 a
Engine Cylinder, Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, 1
Engine, Gas, The Bisschop, 24
Engine, Gas, Mr. Clerk, 25
Engine, “Gippeswyk,” Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, 4 , _ ,
Engine, Horizontal Steam, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 145
Engine, U-H.P., Portable, Messrs. Proctor and Wallis. 92, 93
Engine, Three-cylinder, Mr. C. J. Watts, 23
Engine, 1860, Traction, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 17
Engine, 8-H.P. Traction, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, 113
Engine, 8-H.P. Traction, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 41, 48
Engines and Boilers, Vertical, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 23, 27
Engines and Boilers, Vertical, Messrs. Ruston and Proctor, 23, 27
Engines, Gas, 51
Feeder Attachment, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 4
Food-Preparing Machinery, 42, 61
Food-Preparing Machines, 7
Hydraulic Machinery, 28
Judging at the Shows, 66
Mill, Pulverising and Sifting, Thompson’s Patent, The Pulsometer Engineering Company, 61
Mills, Porcelain Roller, Herr Wegmann, 61, 62, 64
Old Implements at Kilburn, 8, 10, 51
Ploughing Engine, 1857, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 8, 10
Ploughs, 25, 26, 43, 44, 72, 284, 286, 386
Pumps, Steam, 51, 66
Railway, Portable, Showyard, Messrs. J. Fowler and Co., 34
Sketch in the Showyard, June 27th, 1879, 1
Straw Elevator Attachment, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 100
Thrashing Machine, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, 99
Thrashing Machines, 4, 6, 81, 99
Thrashing Machines in 1843 and 1879, 4, 6, 9
Thrashing and Straw-chopping Machine, Messrs.
Ransomes, Sims, and Head, 6, 8
Tram-plate Wagon, Mr. W. C. Pellatt, 124
Wagon, Single Pair, 8, 10
Winnowing Machine and Riddle, 8, 10
Royal Agricultural Society’s Shows, Judgingat the, 66
Royal Navy, The, 94
Russian Naval Experiments, 150
Russian Navy, 295
Ruston, Proctor, and Co.’s Drum Guard, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 81
Rutland Plough, The, 72
St. Gothard Tunnel and the Late M. Louis Favre, 82 Salford Sewage Works, 387
Salford Sewage Works, Portland Cement Testing Machine, Mr. A. Jacob, 397
San Francisco, Wire Rope Street Railway, Mr. A. S. Hallidie, 269
“ Sanders and Bolitho ” Brake, The, 216
Sanitas Works, The, 96
Saw for Cutting Cold Iron, Messrs. Selig, Sonnenthal, and Co., 472
Saw Guard, Mr. Lakeman, 404
School of Mines, Royal, 79
School of Science and Art, Oldham, 124
Science and Applied Science, 435
Screw Blades, Adhesion of, 106
Screw Propeller Assistant, Mr. Mackenzie, 198
Screw Propeller, Loss of Power in the, 341
Screw Propellers, The Efficiency of, 67, 74, 159, 161 Screw Propulsion, 214, 252, 291, 325, 326, 346, 380, 437 Screws, Belt, Messrs. Selig, Sonnenthal, and Co., 84 Screws versus Paddles, 203
Severn Bridge, The, 303, 328
Severn Bridge, Testing the, 270
Severn Tunnel, 312
Sewage, The Disposal of. 273, 324, 325
Sewage Outfalls on the Thames, 383
Sewage Works, Burslem, 471
Sewers and Sewage, Notes on, 353
Sewing Machines in Sailmaking, 113
Sheep Shears, The Manufacture of, 159
Sheers, 120-ton Floating, Queenstown Deep Water Quay, Messrs. Charles Powis and Co., 296, 297
Sheffield District, Notes from, 20, 39, 58, 80, 97, 118, 138, 158, 175, 193, 211, 230, 246, 263, 281, 301, 320, 339, 35 7, 374, 391, 408, 425, 443, 459, 476
Sheffield Smelting Company’s Works, 266
Siemens, Messrs., Electric Light at Woolwich, 454
Simey, Mr., Bulkhead Doors, 268
Simplon-road, Fall of a Mass of Rock on the, 21
Simplon Tunnel, The, 142
Sleeper, Mr. Griffith’s, 195
Sleeper, Pot, Mr. Greave’s, 195
Sleepers, Iron Railway, 195
Sliding Scale for South Yorkshire, Proposed, 368
Smith and Coventry, Messrs., Machine Tool Works, 461 Smithfield Club Show :—
Drum Guard, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 432 Drum, Hauling, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 430, 431 Drum Spindle Stay, Messrs. Tasker, 432
Engine Governor, Mr. J. L. Tracy, 431
Fore Carriage, Messrs. Burrell, 431
Fore Carriage, Messrs. Marshall, Sons, and Co., 432 Pumps, Feed, Messrs. Garrett and Sons, 430
Reaper, Sheaf-binding, Messrs. J. and F. Howard, 431
Valve Slide, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, 430
Society of Arts, 344
Society of Engineers, 62, 144, 218, 267, 421, 459
On the Strength of Wrought Iron Railway Axles, Mr. Thomas Andrews, 305, 334
Society, King’s College Engineering :— Continuous Brakes, Mr. F. W. Kershaw, 353 Fans and other Blowing Machines, Discussion on, 328
Land Drainage, Mr. S. G. Heynes, 378
Lathes and Turning, Mr. S. E. Blackburn, 425
Water Analysis, Mr. G. Midgley Taylor, 328
Society, Liverpool Engineering, 197
Cast Iron for Engineering Purposes, Mr. John S. Brodie, 295
Pumps and Pumping Gear, Mr. E. C. V. Petherick. 197
Sewers and Sewage, Notes on, Mr. E. H. Allies, 353 Utilisation of the Tides, Mr. Arthur Oats, 443
Society, The Meteorological, 404
Meteorology of Zanzibar, Dr. John Robb, 404
Thermometer Exposure, Wall versus Stevenson’s Screens, Mr. William Marriott, 40
Somerville’s, Lord, Plough, 44
South America and Buenos Ayres Exhibition of 1880 336, 360
South American Industrial Exhibition, 42
South Kensington Museum, 21, 35, 44, 79, 84, 112, 131 147, 169, 192, 212, 230, 246, 263, 275, 295, 320, 340, 851’ 364, 392 ’
Specifications for Iron Bridges, 384
Specifications for Ironwork, 415
Spezia, Experiments with the 100-ton Gun, 152
Steam Carriage, Indian Government, Mr. R. W.
Thomson, 181
Steam Pipe Connections, 449
Steamship “ Loftus Perkins,” The, 381
Steamship “ Orient,” Tiial Trip of the. 201
Steam Steering Gear for H.M.S. “Cerberus” Melbourne, 428 ’
Steam, Temperature of Escaping, 179
Steam, Work in a Pound of, 393, 449
Steamers of the Thames, the Mersey, and the Clyde
Steel, Consolidation of Fluid, &eut?X» Phosphorus in, 232 Steel, Nitrogen in, 249
Steel Rails, 291
Steel Rails v. Iron Rails, 215, obo
"c"lSi3oRailway’ ”tlvo Engines on the, 183b, 32/, 3ov
Strains on Girders, 415
Strike, Great, 319
Strike, Novel Cause for a, 41b
Strikes, The Inutility of, 90
Sulphides as Fuel, 92
Sydney Exhibition, 350, 360, 409 nn~oro Pi old Syphons, Self-acting Intermittent, Mr. Rogers Ficl
270
Tanning Material, A New, 290
Tariff, The German, 62 ,69, 89, 100
Tariff at Work, The Anti-British, 160
Tariffs, American, 32 .
Tariffs, Some Effects of Protective, 193
Technical Education, 328, 360
Tees, Civil Engineering on the, 470
Telegraphy, A Simple Message Transmitter, 286
Tenders, 415
Tenders:— . . oqq
Belgrave Drainage, near Leicester, 333
Belgrave Sewage Works, 376
Bournemouth Sewerage, 333
Central London School District, 215
Darenth. Kent, 304, 404
Dorchester, 415
Drainage of Sheepshed, 215
Leicester, 440
Llanrwst Sanitary Authority, 2o2
Northampton Sewerage, 112
Testing Machine, Messrs. Daniel, Adamson, and Co., 412
Testing Portland Cement, 438
Thermometer Exposure : Wall versus Stephenson’s Screens, 40
Thomas and Gilchrist Process, 313 RhntHe-
Thrashing Machine, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttle
Thrashing Machine, Finishing, Messrs. P.and H. P.
Gibbons, Royal Agricultural Society s Show, 81
Thrashing Machines in 1843 and 1879, 4, 6, 9
Thrashing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Society s
Thrashing and 8Straw Chopping Machine, Messrs.
Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 6, 8
“ Thunderer ” Gun, The, 436
“ Thunderer” Gun, The Doomed, 331
“Thunderer ” Gun Experiment, 449
“ Thunderer ” Gun Trials, 454 .
“ Thunderer ” Gun, The, an Unscientific Experiment, 345
“ Thunderer’s ” Gun at Woolwich, H.M.S., 45
Tidal Influence in Mines, 236
Tidal River, Fresh Water from a, 106
Tide-Predicting Machine, Mr. Roberts, 447, 450, and Supplement.
Tides, On the Utilisation of the, 443
Time, Making Use of his, 183
Torpedo Boat, Trial of a, 33
Torpedo Boats for China, 147
Torpedo Work in the United States, 240
Torpedoes, Aggressive, Captain Ericsson, 286
Torpedoes, New Means of Clearing Harbours of, 131
Trade, Improved, 168
Trade, Is it Reviving? 350
Trade Prospects, 185
Tram-cars for South London, New, 183 .
Tram-plate Wagon, Mr. W. C. Pellatt, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 124
Tramway, M. Larsen, 163
Tramway Enterprise in Italy, 258, 363
Tramway Locomotive, 357
Tramway, Wire-rope {See Railway)
Tramways, New, 246
Tramways, Steam, in North Italy, 368, 419, 445
Transport, Cheap Internal, 102
Trial Trip at Middlesbrough, 263
Trial Trip of S.S. “ Bavington,” 243
Tripsa, 203, 22L
Tube Trade, The, 110 .
Tunnel Outlets from Storage Reservoirs, 421
Tunnel through Mont Blanc, 291
Turin Gun Foundry, Casting of the 100-Ton Gun in the, 290
United States Coal Trade, Revival of,[410
Valve, Safety, The Martyn-Roberts, 163
Valve, Slide, Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Smithfield Club Show, 430
Vernon, Mr. C., Anemoscope, 268, 326
Visits in the Provinces : —
Inchicore Works, Great Southern and Western Railway, 177 , _. , i
Sheffield, Messrs. Brown, Bayley, and Dixon s Steel Works, 321
Sheffield Smelting Company’s Works, 266
Wagon, Hampshire, 1809, Royal Agricultural Society’s
Show, 163
Wagon, Single Pair, 8, 10
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 21, 40, 58, 80, 97, 118, 138,158, 175, 193, 212, 230, 246, 263, 282, 302, 320, 340, 357, 374, 392, 408, 425, 444, 460, 476
“Wanderer,” The, 414, 437
“ Wanderer,” The Steam Yacht, 364, 401
Wapping Improvements, 187
Water Analysis, 328
Water Carts and Vans, Efficiency of, 278
Water Filter and Lime Catcher for Locomotives, Illinois Central Railroad, 466
Water Heating Apparatus, Messrs. Mart and Bradley, 259
Water Meter, Messrs. Barton and West, 146
Water Meters in Middlesbrough, 417
Water Supply, Curiosities of, 129
Water Supply, Liverpool, 268
Waterworks, Droitwich, 57
Waterworks, Leamington, 217, 220
Wavish’s Coal Economiser, 473
Wehrenfennig, Herr, System of Staying Fire-boxes, 455
Weighing Machine, Automatic, Mr. James Craig, 363, 364
Weldon, Mr., Libel on, 419
Wellington. Water Supply at, 392
Westinghouse Brake on the Central of New Jersey Railway, 333
Westinghouse Brake, Cost of Maintaining the, 46
Westinghouse Continuous Automatic Brake, The, 46, 65, 66, 68, 74
Wheel, Composite, Mr, Cleminson, 427, 428
Wheels of the “ Wilberforce ” Locomotive Engine, 323
Wheels, Wood, Effect of Brakes on, 427
White Cross Wireworks, Warrington, 248
Whitworth Scholarships, The, 125
Wilkie’s Plough, 44
Winkler, Dr., Permanent Way, 445
Winnowing Machine and Riddle, Royal Agricultural
Society’s Show, 8, 10
Wire-rope Street Railways, 415
Wiseman, Mr. W., Automatic Sand Brake, 73
Woodwork, Dowelled, 44
Worssam and Co,, Messrs., Cask Head Making Machine, 397
Yardley Sewerage Works, 304
Yorkshire College, 275
Zanzibar, Meteorology of, 404
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