The Engineer 1887 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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ABSTRACTS of Consular and Diplomatic Reports, 2, 23, 70, 98, 108, 147, 167, 188, 208, 225, 250, •278, 284, 304, 329, 352, 367, 397, 405, 428, 452, 468, 488, 514, 533
Accidents on Indian Railways, 386
Accidents on Tramways, 193, 213
Accumulator, An Efficient, 212
Acton and Ealing Sewage Works and Ealing New
Storage Reservoir, 339
Acton Sewerage Works, The, 227
Address of the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 393
Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition, 395
Admiralty Coefficients, On, Mr. Robert Mansel, 510
Aerostation and Aeronautics, 196, 440
Agra Waterworks, The Proposed, 220
Agricultural Engineers’ Association, 497
Air Pump for use in the Laboratories of Works, A Simple, 14
Air Brakes in the United States, 197
Aluminium Company, The, 2
America, Locomotive Cylinder Practice in, 83
American Cities, Growth of, 21
American Engineering News, 36,115,162,200, 240, 279, 318, 360, 398, 429, 482, 526
American Engineering News, Construction of Hydraulic Dock at San Francisco, 80
American Ironclad, 107
American Locomotives in Australia, 153, 173
American Notes, 21, 39, 61, 83, 101, 121, 143, 223, 242, 281, 301, 321, 343, 401, 443, 465, 485, 528
American Shipbuilding, 156
American Stuffing-box Packings, 290, 292
American War-ships, 79
Anchor, Cast Steel, Mr. Hall. 296
Anchor Tests, 348
Anchors, Cast Steel, 310, 328
Anchors, Stockless, Wasteneys Smith’s, 171
Ardrossan, New Docks at, 36
Armour and Projectiles, 357
Armstrong, Lord, 24
Army Tools, 314
Asbestos Theatre Curtains, Terry’s Theatre, 430
Ashbury Railway Carriage Works, The, 247
“Asiatic Express,” The, 271
Association for the Advancement of Science, The American :—
The Pyromagnetic Dynamo, by Mr. Thos. A. Edison, 231
Association, The Agricultural Engineers’, 471, 497
Association, The City and Guilds of London Finsbury Technical College Old Students’, 368
Association of Engineers, The Manchester :— Electric Lighting from Central Stations, Mr. J.
R. Williamson on, 501
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London, 61, 474
Heat and Work, Mr. W. T. Coates, 474
Jottings on Hydraulic Lifts, Mr. Suggate, 240 The Native Army in India, Mr. Haggis, 61 Propelling Ships by Sail and Paddle, Mr. Hitt, 474
Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lamp, The, Mr. Heath, 318
Association, the Geologists’, Excursion to Sheppey 71
Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors, The :—
Visit to Luton Sewage Works, 420
A thus Iron and Steelworks, 205, 214
Atkinson’s Cycle Gas Engine, 536, 537
Austrian Consul on British and German Merchants, 363
Autographometer, The, 96
Automatic Cut-off Valve Gear of Steam Engines, 348
Automatic Gas Machine, The, 508, 509
Automatic Shops, 335
Axle Boxes, 287
BALLOON Ascent, Professor Mendelief’s, 212
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Broken Bridge, 54
Band Saws, 495, 518
Barcelona, Proposed Canal at, 39
Barrow Engine, The, 376
Basic Open Hearth Process, Mr. J. Wailes on the, 258 ’
Basic Slag, The Origin, Composition, and Use of 146
Basic Steel, Present Position of, as a Material for Shipbuilding, 96
Basic Steel, Recent Experiments with, 96
Beaumaris Sewerage Works, 126
Belgian Coal Industry in 1886, 498
Belt Guides and. Belt Stretchers, Cobbett’s, 513
Belted Cruisers, 419
Bend Trueing Machine, 238
Benier’s Hot Air Engine, 366, 372
Benzine Barrels, Empty, as Dangerous as Full
Ones, 340
Berlin Screw Industry, The, 74
Birmingham Cable Railway, The, 126
Birmingham and Gloucester Ship Canal, The, 131 Blakey,-Emmott Dynamo, The, 409 .
Blast Pipe, Messrs. Appleby and Robinson, Waterford and Limerick Railway, 14
Blast Pipes, 11
Blooming or Cogging Mill, Mr. Jeremiah Head ,269 Blowers, Experiments and Experience with, 499 Boats, Self-righting, 87 W
Boiler Cleaner, Feed-water Heater, and Purifier,
The Crockford, 388
Boiler, The Essex Vertical, 469
Boiler Feeders, Automatic, 273
Boiler Registry, 363
Boiler Registry and Inspection Bill, 212
Boilers and Engines of the German Mail Steamers, 516
Boilers, Furnace, 213, 233
Boilers, High-pressure Marine, 4, 29
Boilers, Pattison’s, 533
Boilers, s.s. “Elbe,” General Arrangement of, 522
Boilers, Torpedo Boat, 29
Boilers, Water Tube, 294, 338, 356, 419
Bolton Strike, The, 375
Bolton Strike, Close of the, 374
Bombay, The Tansa Works for the Water Supply of, Mr. W. Clarke, Engineer, 53
Books Received, 13, 74, 115, 296, 315, 375
Boring Machinery, 31
Bostwick’s Folding Gates, 271
Bostwick’s Steel Folding Gates and Shutters, 250
Bows of the s.s. “ Emilie,” 171
“ Boycotting,” v. Railways, 414
Bradford Water Supply, 409
Brake, Mr. Wicksteed on a, 359
Brake, Continuous, 348
Brake, The London and North-Western Railway, 131
Brake, R.A.S.E. Type, McLaren’s, 460, 461, 482
Brakes, Continuous, 162, 386, 419
Brakes on Freight Trains, 395
Brakes on the London and North-Western Railway, 162
Brakes, Railway, 371
Brewing Trades Exhibition, The, 375
Bridge, A Defective, 348, 371, 386
Bridge, the Sice Ho, 450, 476
Bridge Structures, A Railroad Bed for, 499
Brighton and Dyke Railway, The, 228
British Association, The, 215
Address of the President, Sir H. Roscoe, 199 City of London and Southwark Subway, 297 Excursion to Northwich and Anderton, 217 Experiments on the “ Mechanical Equivalent of
Heat” on a Large Scale, byE. A. Cowper and W. Anderson, 213
Horwich and Rivington, 246, 248, 249
Improvements in the Manufacture of Portland Cement, Mr. F. Ransome, 218
Injector and Brake Works, Messrs. Gresham and Craven, 240
Ironworks, Messrs, de Bergueand Co., 239
Alachine dool and Crane Works, Alessrs. Craven Bros., 239
Mather and Platt’s Machine and Electrical Works, 217
Pump and Compressor Works, Messrs. Frank Pearn and Co., 239
Sharp, Stewart, and Co.'s Works, 217
Specimens of Steel Produced by Skidding Rail-( way Wheels, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 218 Spinning Machinery Works, Alessrs. Hetherino-ton and Sons, 238
Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersev Air. Shelford, 383
Visit to Messrs. Hetherington and Son’s Alachine lool Works, 544
Visit to Alessrs. Platt Bros, and Co., Oldham, 545 Visit to Messrs. Thos. Robinson and Sons, Rochdale, 545
1 British Industries and Technical Education, 313
British Manufacturers and Consular Reports, 436
British Trade at Canton, Opening for, 39o
British Trade in Foreign Markets, 517
Brown’s Street Surface Box, 517 I
Brunswick Park, Wednesbury, Opening of the, 29
Buckling of Rails under the Sun’s Heat, Prof. A.
G. Greenhill, 23
Buddicom, Mr. W. B., 180
Bute Docks Extension, 61
Burrell’s Trainway Locomotive, 347
Burst Steam Pipe, s.s. “ Elbe,” 305
“ Buzz,” The American Steam Launch, 368
CABLE Tramway, The Edinburgh Northern, 347, | 351, 369
Cable Tramway, Birmingham, 126
Calais Harbour, Improvements in, 168
Calorific Value of Coal, 370
Calorific Value of Fuel, The, 440, 459
Canadian Imports of Iron, 21
Canadian Tariff, The, 32
Canal, Birmingham and Gloucester, 131
Canal Connecting Two Seas, A, 32
Caple’s Combination Set Square, 508
“ Carbonit,” The New Explosive, 255
Cardiff, Opening of the Roath Dock, 197
Carding Engine, Double Composite, Messrs. Asa
Lees and Co., 336
Carding Engine, Improved, 238
Carron Ironworks, The, 116
Carter-Turner Three-High Roller Mill, The, 405
Castner’s Sodium Furnace, 513
Catalogues, 432
Cearil Harbour Works, Brazil, 88, 90
Cement for Ships, 4
Cements, How to Test the Strength of, 499
Chains for Lifting and Hauling, The Use and Care of, 28
Charterhouse Science and Art Schools and Lite- | rary Institute, 233
Chaser Stocks and Dies, Mr. T. Woods, 480
Chatsworth Disaster, The, 218
Chilled Moulds for Casting Bearings, Messrs.
Richard Garrett and Sons, 473
Chilled Plate Rolls, Strength of, 270
Chimneys, Shape of, 175
China Railways, Ten-Wheeled Tank Locomotive, 410, 493, 498
tl.Cinderlithic, 286
' Circular Saw, Invention of the, 271
City of London College, Mr. II. Adams on “ Foundation,” 310
City of London College, Syllabus of Lectures in the Engineering Department, 257
City of London and Southwark Railway, Map of, 298
City of London and Southwark Subway, Mr. J.
H. Greathead, 297
Claremont, Iowa, U.S.A., Three-Hinged Wrought
Iron Arch at, 136, 137
Clark, Mr. Alvan, 173
Clark Process, The, 78, 86, 87, 107, 172, 348, 371
Clark Process for Bristol, The, 12
Clarke, Mr. John Algernon, 437
Clock and Watch Making, Technical School of, Brussels, 396
Clyde Shipbuilding for July, 134
Clyde Shipbuilding for August, 216
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, Revival in, 374
Clyde Shipbuilding Trades, 294
Coal, Calorific Value of, 370, 394
Coal Measures in Upper Burmah, 375
Coal Miners and Restriction, 436
Coal Production, Our, 498
Coal Production, The Year’s for the United
Kingdom, 306
Coal in South Africa, 478
Coal Trade, Restriction in the. 295
Cobbett’s Belt Guides and Belt Stretchers 513
Coins, rhe New. 13
Coke Breaker, Hoyle’s, Portway’s Patent, 517
CoIhsions in the English Channel, 481
Collisions at Sea, 55
Colombo Shipping Wharf, 66
Colonial College of Holleselv Bay, The 543
Colonial Defence, 232, 270, *386 ' ’
Colonial Land Sales and Public Works 113 Colonies and their Railways, Our. 455 ’ Combination Set Square, Caple’s, 508 C ombustion, 157, 205
Combustion, Analysis of the Products of 4S
Commercial Education in Relation to’Foreign Competition, 270
Commercial and Utilitarian v. International
Views, 162
Compass, A New, 317
Competition in the Home Trade, 172 _
Compound Locomotives in France, 235
Concrete Work under Water, 56
Condenser, Rayner’s Double Distilling, 276
Constructive Ironwork in a New Theatre, Mr.
Max am Ende, 257, 283
Constructive Ironwork in Terry’s New Theatre by Max am Ende, 283, 285
Continental Girders in England, Advanced
Prices for, 95
Contracts Open :
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, Specification for Ironwork for Roofing, Ban-dora Station, 446, 447
Indian State Railways, Pillar Water Cranes, 288, 290
Indian Midland Railway, Specification of Carriages, Brake Vans, &c., for 5ft. 6in. Gauge, 429
Indian State Railways, Underframes for Third-class Carriagesand Covered Goods Wagons, 3 Copper, Comparative Tensile Strength of Electrolytic and Ordinary, 471
Copper at High Temperatures, 535
Copper Mines in the Ufa Government, 153
Copper, and its Price, 394
Copper Steam Pipes, Mr. Sinclair’s Experiments on the Strength of, 524
Correction, 479
j Corrosion of Lead Pipes Built up in Walls or Laid
I Underground, 101
Corrosion of Metals in Mine Waters, 55
| Cost of Transmission of Power, 177
(Jotton Machinery at the Manchester Exhibition, 75
I Cotton Mule, Self-acting, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 340
I Cotton Spinning in Manchester, 336, 310
Cotton Spinning by Water Power in India, a New Industrial Enterprise, 502
I Coupling, Engine and Tender, 512
I Crane, Five Tons, Permanent Way Hand. 268
I Craven Brothers Machine Tool and Crane Works, 238
“ Craven ” Scholarship at the Yorkshire College, The, 419
Cream Separator, the Victoria, 326
Crockford Boiler (’leaner, The, 388
(’roton Aqueduct, Reports on the, 357
Cruiser Designs, Recent, 366
I Cruiser, the Fastest in the World, 309
| Croydon Waterworks, 162
Cupola, Messrs. Greiner and Erpf, ISO
' Cut-off Gear for Reversing Engines, Mr. E. Foden, 46
- Cut-off Valve and Governor, Horton’s Patent Automatic, 317
Cut Steel Nails ? Patent, 273
DAIRY Show, The, 156
Dairy Show, Novelties and Trials at the, 326
' Davits { Hinged, 235
De Bergue and Co.’s Ironworks, 239
Decrease in W ages, and Improvements in Machinery, 290
Dee, Spanning the, 177
Defence of Colonial Harbour*, The, 31
epression of Trade and Foreign Competition,
Depression of Trade. Foreign Competition, and lechmeal Instruction, 448
Devil Disintegrator, The, 376
Diepi>e, New Docks at, 74
Disinfector, Aero-steam. Mr. W. E. ThuiKfield, 90 Disintegrator, The “ Devil.” 371;
The Patent Eclectic. 219
Distiller and Pump. Mr. John Kirkaid v’s Com-
Lined Compactum,’’7
istnbution of Heat in a Stationary Steam Tiiv- P°’ on. Major T. English. 16
Diving Apparatus, M r. Sparks’, 465 .. n Accommodation in the Emt, 411
dogah, Engines of the. 109, ]]o 116
Domestic Cooking A ppa nit us. 134, 286
D^innt,C >k,ng APJ'aratu,S Mr. J. Ixshman,31« Drainage, Domestic, 18
Drajnage of Fens anti Uw hinds by Steam Power, i. *lr; ■ 11 •, u heeler, 103, 186,283,323,359,404 1 raughUinen s Provident Soviet v, 140, 171,195 draughtsmen » Salaries' 273
Dredger, New Form of, for Removal of Rocks in the Suez Canal, 306
Dredger used in the Clyde Estuary, 138
Dredging of the Lower Estuary of the Clyde, 138
Drilling Machine, Wild’s Improved Portable Handpower, 458
Dronfield—An Unfortunate Town, 135
Dublin and Kingstown Railway, History of the, 125
Durability of Iron and Steel Ships, The, 156
Dynamite Gun, Lieutenant Zalinski’s, 171
Dynamo and Arc Lamps, The “ Lever,” 329
Dynamo, The Blakey-Emmott, 409
EAST London Water Supply, Official Inquiry into the, 23u
East Molesey, Oil Lamps v. Gas, 339
Economic Theory of the Location of Railways, 428
Edinburgh Northern Cable Tramway, The, 347,
351, 369, 389, 390 ’
Edinburgh Waterworks, The, 117
Edison’s New Electrical Generator, 271
Edison’s System of Continuous Current Transformers, 377
Education of Engineers, 4, 56, 78, 87, 162
Elastic Extension, a Species of Motion, Mr R H
Graham, 145, 185 *
“Elbe’’ Catastrophe, The, 330
“Elbe,” Messrs. Kirkaidy’s Reports on the Steam
Pipe of the, 331
“ Elbe’s ” Steam Pipe, The, 348
Election of Water Engineer of Nottingham 339
Electric Light at the Adelaide Jubilee ’ International Exhibition, 1887, 305
Electric Light v. Gas for Glasgow Public Buildings, 78
Electric Lighthouse on the Isle of May Messrs.
D. and T. Stevenson, 158, 159
Electric Lighting from Central Stations, W. J. R.
Williamson on, 501
Electric Lighting and Inertia, 498
Electric Lighting, Trials of Motors for, 66
Electric Lighting in Works and Factories, Prof.
J. A. Fleming on, 259
Electric Meters, Mr. A. H. Preece, 360
Electric Sewing Machine, Mr. Philip Diehl, 265
Electric Telegraph, Jubilee of the, 4
Electric Tramcar Propulsion, 95
Electric Tramways, 490
Electrical Engineering, The School of, 27
Electrical Generator, Edison’s New, 271
Electrical Governor, Messrs. Robey and Co., 8
Electrical Launches, 131
Electricity, Modern Views of, Dr. Oliver Lodge 367
Electrical Tramways and Railways, 541
Electro-deposition of Alloys, 233
Electro-motive and Electric Launch, The Elieson, 318
Elieson Electro-motive and Electric Launch, 318
Emigration of Capital, The, 455
Endless Railway, Fender’s, 451
Engine, The Barrow, 376
Engine, Benier’s Hot air, 366, 372
Engine, Blowing, Athus Iron and Steel Works, 205, 214 5
Engine, Compound High-speed Box, Messrs.
Be ver and Dori i ng, '508
Engine, Compound, for the Indian State Railways, 194, 198, 207, 230, 232
Engine, Compound Mill, 1000-H.P., Messrs.
Buckley and Taylor, 507
Engine, Compound Portable, Messrs. J. and H.
McLaren, 147
Engine, Compound Traction, Mr. E. Foden, 43, 46
Engine, Compound Vertical, Messrs. Wallis and
Steevens, 472
Engine Economies, Steam, 78
Engine, Explosion of a Portable, 316
Engine, Express, L. and S.W. Railway, 108
Engine, Express, Midland Railway, 517
Engine, The de Glehn, 235
Engine, High-speed Compound Vertical, Messrs.
Davey, Paxman, and Co., 473
Engine, High-speed Vertical, Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, 473
Engine, Passenger, Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, 174, 179
Engine, Passenger, L. and S.W. Railway (Supple
ment November 1887), 370
Engine, Prize Compound, Messrs. Davey, Pax man, and Co., 63
Engine, The Steam, Prof. Ryan on the, 514
Engine Trials, The Newcastle, 42, 48, 63, 78,105,
106, 147, 172
Engine Turntables—Indian State Railways, 347, 350
Engine, Vertical, Messrs. Robey and Co., 472
Engine, The “Viator” Vertical, Messrs. Jeffery
and Blackstone, 268
Esk Paper Mills, The, 117
Essex Vertical Boiler, The, 469
Engineering and Applied Science Department of
King’s College, London, 526
Engineering Education, University College, Bristol, 176
Engineering Laboratories, The Use and Equipment of, 277
Engineering Students’ Club. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 360
Engineering Trade Prospects, 114
Engineering Trades, 80
Engines of the “ Bencroy,” 308, 309
Engines, Compound, 50, 54, 55, 542
Engines, Compound, Electric Light Installation
at Olympia, 131, 132
Engines, Compound High Speed Launch, 125
Engines, Differential Pumping, Umaria Colliery, 149, 151
Engines of the “ Dogali,” 109, 112, 116
Engines, Export of Steam, 518
Engines, Multi-cylinder, 75
Engines, Portable, at Tansa Waterworks, 107
Engines, Pumping, Indian State Railways—
Umaria Colliery, 149, 151
Engines of the Spanish Cruiser, “ Reina Regente,”
Messrs. J. and G. Thompson, 431
Engines, Steam, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s
Newcastle Show, 510
Engines, Triple Expansion, 29
Engines, Triple Expansion, for German Mail
Steamers, 452, 454
Engines, Triple Expansion, s.s. “Worcester” and “Oxford,” 89 *
Engines, Triple Expansion Marine, Messrs. A.
Shanks and Sons, 178
English and Continental Railway Traffic Charges. 478
English Foot v, the Metre, The, 440, 449
Pv^1Shn-°n!tone and SPan:sh Ore, 236
Exeter Disaster, The, 216
Exhaust Injector, The, 481
Exfe“S H?'
Exhibition, I he Brewing Trades 375
FXh'k-J-On’ n he Frenc’h Railway,’ 75
pXHu-J-on’ Newcastle, 371
.ko NewaaU,
Bxhdntion, The Vincennes Railway Jubilee, 408, Experimental Machinery, 51
Recent,*73 °H °UF Shotand Arm™r, Effect of Explosion on Board the s.s. “Elbe,” 245. 521 522 Explosion on Board a Torpedo Boat, 20 Explosion, A Curious, 193
EXPMnaECoCtrT®xntractingRefining,and naimgLo., Limited, 501
Extension of the Mersey Railway, 543 Eyemouth Harbour, The, 13
FASTEST Cruiser in the World, 309
Paddle Wheels, 172, 193, 232, 471 494 Featherstone^ West Riding, Water Supply of 147 Feed-water Heater, Maclaine’s, 265
I' eed-water Heater, Mr. John Kirkaldy 7 Fender s Endless Railway, 451'
B ens and Lowlands, Drainage of—See Drainage 1 Fre7dyFl^“erTRunni1^ Both Wa^’ 175 i f ie!d Electric Locomotive, The, 450
ter, A Large, Messrs. Slack and Brownlow 331 1 Finsbury Technical College, 71 ’|
b ires in Theatres, 287, 307, 355
f ishing, An Easy Way of, 330
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Flonr lWnP7b °£’ fr!’m th° United States> 18 LIour the Laubardemont, 50, 55, 72
F °FirsS^405 °f Mr’ Harr!son Carter’s System,
Flow of Water, The, 518
K1°Lw }yater,in Pipes and Open Channels, A
Kew 1- ormula for the, Mr. Edgar C. Thrupp,
Fly Ropes, 479
F°lnd rX? 57gnalApParatuS’ Messrs’ Ke“Pe log and Smoke, Sir Douglas Gal ton on, 490 foreign Competition, 293, 306, 348
I oreign Ships and British Trade, 52
foreign Torpedo Boats, 440
Forth Bridge, The, 71
FOBfi>-gartg438he Ere°tion of the’ Mr- Andrew S.
K°i ‘i».
Forth Bridge, A Main Cantilever Pier, 438
f orth Bridge, Rivetting Cage, 439
forth Bridge Works, The, 116
Foundations, Air. Henry Adams, 310
“d H”’«.s-
s 3;l-
I French m Japan, The, 240 ’
I Fr?n/?h Shipbuilding and Shipping, 255
1 friction in Toothed Gearing, 499
| Fuel, Liquid, 419
i Fuel, Value of Natural Gas, 278
Furnaces commonly called Destructors, Defects m, 471 ’
Furnaces commonly known as Destructors, some
i Defects in, 49o
Fusible Plugs, Williams’, 513
some
I GAS, Apparatus’ for Removing Tires, Messrs.
Gentry and O’Brien, 79
Gas Engine, Rolla^’s, The Beck Gas Engine Co., z / o
i Gas Fuel, Value of Natural, 278
I Gas Heating, 410
Gas Lamp, The Welsbach Incandescent, 318
Gas Lighting Buoys, 343
Gas Lighting of the Clyde, Extension of the, 255
Gas Lighting, lhe Invention of, 216
Gas, Natural, 410
Gas Production, Profits on, 314
Gas, Reduction in the Price of, 374
Gas, A Sensational Story about, 114
Gas r. Steam Engines, 535
Gas Supply, 11
Gates, Folding, 250, 271
Gatling, The Eighty-pound, 428
Generation of Steam, 137, 205, 271
German Competition with British Shipping 196
German Cycles, 348
German Imitation of Trade Marks, 295
German Mail Steamers, Boilers and Engines of the, 516
Giiclirist Engineering Scholarships, University
College, 210 J
Gland Packing, A New, 249
Glass Manufacture in Norway and Sweden 263
Globe Quartz Crushing Mill, The, 26
Glucose, Machines for Extracting, 195
Gold, Note on the Atomic Weight of, Messrs T
E. Thorpe, and A. F. Laurie, 403
Goods and Passengers on Railways, 197
Government Sale of Historic Steamships 371
Granilc Works at Naples of the Mediterranean
Railway Company, 512
Grease-cup Lubricator, Messrs. Leek Bros 34
Grease Extractor, Steam, 397
“Great Eastern” Steamship, The, 71
Greenwich Hospital Pension, The, 237
Greig’s Tramway Locomotive, 328
Gresham and Craven’s Injector and Brake Works
240 ’
Grinnel Automatic Sprinkler and Fire-alarm Experiments with at the Victoria Corn Mills Sheffield, 520 ’
Gun, Bursting of an 11-ton Howitzer, 330
Gun, 12-pounder Breech-loading Field, 325
Gun, Section of 67-ton Breech-loading, H M S “Trafalgar,” 123
Gunpowder as a Boiler Cleaner, 56
Guns, American Steel Cast, 330
Guns, Horse and Field Artillery, 324
Gyrating Stone Breaker, Continuous Action,
Lowry’s, 521
HALL, Mr. W., 131
Halle, Sewage Works of, 159
Hammer, Radial Arm Steam, 54
Hammers, Radial Steam, 2/1
Hangchow, Fire Engine at, 261
Hangk'ton Bridge, Brighton and Dyke Railway,
Harbour Improvements at Melbourne, Australia, 295
Harlem River Bridge, New York, Sinking Foundation for New, 183
Harrison’s Scouring Dredger for Fen Drains and
Rivers, 359
Haslar, New Experimental Tank at, 130
Heat and Work, Mr. W. T. Coates, 474
Heating Gas, 410
Heisler Incandescent Light, The, 309
Henley-on-Thames Sewage Works Machinery, 348
Henley-on-Thames, Sewerage of, 325
H.M.S. “ Trafalgar,” 123
Herreshoff Yacht, “ Now Then,” The, 227
Herreshoff Yacht, A 28-Knot, 101
Hetherington and Co.’s Machine Tool Works, 544
Hetherington and Sons’ Spinning Machinery
Works, 238
Hexthorpe Accident, The, 245, 440
Hexthorpe Collision, The, 273, 286, 307, 338, 413
Hoists and Lifts, 215
Holyhead Steamers, 11
Horse and Field Artillery Guns, 324
Horwich and Rivington, 246, 248, 249
Hotchkiss Guns, The, 159
Hot Water Cylinder Jacket, 314
Hull and Barnsley Railway, The, 356
Hunt, Mr. Robert, 335
Hydraulic Baling Machinery, Messrs. John Birch and Co., 15
Hydraulic Lifts, Jottings on, Mr. Suggate, 240
Hydraulic Pipe Testing Apparatus, The Glenfield
Company, 277
Hydraulic Pressure, Application of, to Gunnery,
IBBOTSON’S Lock Nuts and Fish Bolts, 193 Ice-making Machine, Hand, Fleuss’ Patent, 34 Ignition of Mine Gases and Coal Dust, Experiments on the, 150
India, The Native Army in, 61
Indian Coal and its Storage, 313
Indian Midland Railway, Transship Vans, 429
Indian State Railways, Compound Vertical Engine, 194, 198, 207, 230, 232
Indian State Railways, Pumping Engines, Umaria Colliery, 149, 151
Indian State Railways, Underframes and Covered Wagons for, 3
Indian State Railways, Water Cranes for the, 288, 290
Injectors for Portable Engines, 78
Institute, City and Guilds of London, 192
School of Art Wood Carving, 295
Institute of Great Britain, The Sanitary :
Programme of the Autumn Meeting, 1887, 240 Institute, The Iron and Steel, 95, 240, 462
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Daniel Adamson, 228
Basic Open Hearth Process, Mr. J. Wailes, 258 Electric Lighting in Works and Factories, Prof.
J. A. Fleming, 259
Notes on the Reduction of Iron Ore in the Blast
Furnace, Mr. Lowthian Bell, 258
Programme of the Autumn Meeting, 240 Institute Mining and Mechanical Engineers :
Visit to Newcastle-on-Tyne, 90
Institution, Birk beck Literar y and Scientific :
Conference of Teachers on the Technical Education Bill, 287
Prospectus for the Sixty-Fifth Session, 286 Institution of Civil Engineers, The, 31, 149
List of Papers to be Read during the Winter Season, 381
Magnesia, a Substitute for Plaster of Paris, D. Frank, 317
Permanent Way for the Belgian State Railways, 301
Presidential Address, Mr. George R. Bruce, 391, 418
Sewage Works of Wiesbaden, 321
Upsetting of a Railway Train by Wind, 203
Visit to Messrs. J. and E. Wright’s Wire and
Hemp Rope Works, 277
Water Supply of Birmingham, 180 Institution of Civil Engineers—Association of Birmingham Students, 508 Institution of Civil Engineers, Ireland :
Electrical Tramways : the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway, Mr. Edward Hopkinson, 490
Enlargement of the Westland-row Terminus, with a Sketch of the Early History of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Mr. T. B. Grierson, 125
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders— North-east Coast :
Reaction and Efficiency of the Screw Propeller, On the, Mr. A. Blechynden, 1 Institution oy Mechanical Engineers, 79
Description of the New Tay Viaduct, by Mr.
Fletcher F. S. Kelsey, 198
Dredging of the Lower Estuary of the Clyde, Mr. C. A. Stevenson, 139
Experiments on the Distribution of Heat in a Stationary Steam Engine, Major Thomas English, 16
Visit to the Carron Ironworks, 116
Visit to the Edinburgh Waterworks, 117
Visit to the Esk Paper Mills, Penicuick, 117
Visit to the Forth Bridge Works, 116
Visit to the Valley field Paper Mills, Penicuik, 118
Institution of Naval Architects, 66
Application of Hydraulic Pressure to Gunnery, Lord Armstrong and Mr. J. Vavasseur, 96
Present Position of Basic Steel as a Material for Shipbuilding, Mr. B. Martell, 96
Recent Developments in Marine Engineering, Mr. F. C. Marshall, 96
Recent Experiments with Basic Steel, Mr. W.
H. White, 96
Instruction of Engineer Officers in the Navy in Hydraulic Gun Machinery, 31
Insurance Value of Steamships, The, 176
Trithrrafcl°?alcPailway Con£ress, Milan, 257, 275
Iron AOroh y ST.rVey°oShiP Examination, An, 406
U.stS’4 W g6d’ C16rem0nt’ iowa> Ir°Wnlvt\and ,Genera’ Trades Of Birmingham,
59 w ooan|1T’o0?.nn? other Districts, 18, 37, ?-o82hn9\U9’ 140> 168> 180> 200, 221, 241 259 Sio2;iy’,|^36O’379’398>421>4«.^.’
Iron Founders and Steel Castings, 520
Iron Manufacture in France, Decrease of the, 345
Iron Mountain, An, 183 ’
Iron Ore in the Blast Furnace, Notes on the, Mr.
L. Bell on Reduction of, 258
Iron and Steel Duties, The New Canadian, 177
Iron and Steel Imports, 414
Iron and Steel, The Improvement in, 498
Iron and Steel Ships’ Bottoms, Complete Protection of, against Rust, 306
Iron and Steel Ships, Preservation of, 415
Iron trade Association Boards, 156
Iron Trade, Improvement in the, 456
Ironwork in a New Theatre, On the Construe tive, 4/1
Ironworks Practice and Steel Competition, 310
Irrigation, Mr. Jones on, 390
Irrigation in India, 546
Irrigation Work, Hindrance to, 437
Isinglass ? Machinery for Cutting, 273
Isle of May, Electric Light on, 158, 159
Itehani Government, The “Kangaroo” and the ,.JPter_^atlonal Chartered by the, for Distilling Water at Massowah, 320
Italian Made Steam Plate, Trial of 498
Italian Railways, 365
Ivory, Artificial, 51
JEROME’S Metallic Packing, 289, 290
John, Mr of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, T hs Armoured Battle Ship,” 138 1
Joist Sawing Machine, 545
Jubilee, The Business Side of the, 13
Jubilee Calamity, A, 377
KENT’S Uniform Water Meter, 450, 451
Kerosene Oil in Steam Boilers, Use of, 499
Khyber Railway, The, 52
Kirchoff, Prof., 328
Kirkaldy, Mr. John, 150
K‘rkaIdy’s Messrs. Reports On the Steam Pipe or the Elbe, 331
Kout’s Car-stove Cremation, The, 363
AlfreA a?d his Work as a Cast Steel
Manufacturer, /4 85, 104, 123
LA534UR Market, Supply, and Population, Lade Bank, Lincolnshire, Engine and Pump, 103 Lake Haarlem, Pumps, 323
iS“,Annexc in the Melbourne Exhibition, loco, 226’
Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, Union of 3f 0 Horw[eeh,‘24d6, MT Sh°PS at La H^lseand0^, 4^1
Laubardemont Flour Mill, The, Messrs. T. Powell and Company, 50, 55, 72
Lau^her? and Trial ^8, 60, 95, 120, 140 182 219, 242 298, 339, 362, 381, 410, 462, 482, 518
Launching Lifeboats, 534 ’
Lead Mines and Lead, 478
Lead Pipes, Corrosion of, 101
Leader an<^ ^an^s^er Machinery, 175
Address^ of . the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 393
Advanced Prices for Continental Girders in England, 95
Aerostation and Aeronautics, 196
Agricultural Engineers’ Association, The 497 Air Brakes in the United States, 197 ’
American Shipbuilding, 156
Armour and Projectiles, 357 Army Tools, 314
Association of Electrical Engineers, 335
Awards at Exhibitions, 295
Belgium Coal Industry in 1886, 498 Berlin Screw Industry, The, 74 Blast Pipes, 11 ’
Boiler Explosion Act of 1882, The, 333 “Boycotting” and Railways, 414 Brakes on Freight Trains, 395 Brewing Trades Exhibition, The, 375 British Association, The, 215
I"du8tri°s and Technical Education, 313 British Manufacturers and Consular Reports 4J0 x ’
British Workman in Foreign Countries, The
Calorific Value of Coal, The, 333, 394
Canadian Iron and Steel Duties, The New 177 Canadian Tariff, The, 32 ’ "
Canal connecting Two Seas, A, 32 “Carbonit,” The New Explosive, 255 Clark Process for Bristol, The 1J Close of the Bolton Strike, 374 Clyde Shipbuilding for August, 216 Clyde Shipbuilding for July, 134 Clyde Shipbuilding Trades, 294 Coalminers and Restriction, 436
Coal in South Africa, 478 Coins, The New, 13
Colonial Land Sales and Public Works 113 Compound Engines, 542
Compound Locomotives in France 235 Copper and its Price, 394
Dairy Show, The, 156
Defence of Colonial Harbours, The 31 Depression of Trade and Foreign Competition, Dock Accommodation in the East 414 Domestic Cooking Apparatus, 134 Dronfield—An Unfortunate Town 135 Fff^bnJt5p°“?^and.Steel Shil’s- The, 156 tflArmourK 73°nt ExPerlments 011 our Shot and Electric Lighting and Inertia, 498 Electrical Tramways and Railways, 541 Emigration of Capita], The, 455
SeotT76Education’ u™ity c°’^, E DroSt,g4,%'1Uiry in‘° the L°WCr Tham-Engineering Trade Prospects, 114
English and Continental Rail way Traffic Charges,
Leaders (continued):—
English and French Railway Competition in the East, 294
English Ironstone and Spanish Ore, 236
Exeter Disaster, The, 216
Experimental Machinery, 51
Extension of the Mersey Railway, 543
Eyemouth Harbour, The, 13
Faulty Sword Bayonets and Sir John Adye, 274
Fires in Theatres, 355
Foreign Competition, 293
Foreign Ships and British Trade, 52
French Shipbuilding and Shipping, 255
Gas Lighting, The Invention of, 216
Gas, A Sensational Story about, 114
Gas Supply, 11
German Competition with British Shipping, 196
German Imitation of Trade Marks, 295
Glehn’s Engine, M. de, 235
Goods and Passengers on Railways, 197
Harbour Improvements at Melbourne, Australia,
Hexthorpe Collision, The, 273, 413
Hindrance to Irrigation Work, 437
Hot-water Cylinder Jackets, 314
Hull and Barnsley Railway, The, 356
Improvement in Iron and Steel, The, 498
Improvement in the Iron Trade, 456
Indian Coal and its Storage, 313
Instruction of Engineer Officers in the Navy in
Hydraulic Gun Machinery, 31
Insurance Value of Steamships, The, 176
Ironfounders and Steel Castings, 520
Iron and Steel Imports, 414
Iron Trade Association Boards, 156
Jubilee, The Business Side of the, 13
Lead Mines and Lead, 478
Leviathans of the Deep, 295
Local Government and Public Works, 215
Lord Carnarvon on Imperial Defence, 236
Loss of Merchant Shipping, The, 543
Machinery for the East, 155
Maligakanda Reservoir, The, 51, 542
Manchester Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 253
Marine Boilers, The Management of, 155
Marine Engines from the Shipowner’s Point of
View, 175
Midland Railway, The, 134
Mining Bill, A Year’s, 197
Mining in East Scotland, 216
Naval Review, The, 93
Newberry-Vautin Gold Extraction Process, The,
273 ’
New Water Scheme for Halifax, A, 543
Nordenfelt, The, 519
North-east Coast Engineers, 334
Novel Railway Accident, A, 13
Official Enquiry into the East London Water Supply, 235
Opening for British Trade at Canton, 395
Our Coal Production, 498
Our Colonies and their Railways, 455
Our Merchant Fleet’s Change, 334
Panama Canal, The, 73, 156
Parkes’ Smelting Process, The, 543
Perpetual Motion in Disguise, 254
Petroleum Refuse as a Fuel, 176
Petroleum Trade of the Black Sea, 357
Piece-work and Technical Education, 436
Ports and Steamships, 74
Practice of Pig Iron Manufacture, The, 520
Preston Docks, 255
Preston Docks Scheme, The, 274, 373
Priming, 32
Profits in Gas Production, 314
Public Works Department of India, 394
Pumping Engines at Work in Staffordshire, 295
Railway Dividends, 95
Railway Enterprise in Turkey, 175
Railway Half-year, The, 520
2*16^ Mismanagement in New South Wales,
Railway Rates and Charges, 437
Railway Working, 114
Railways in India, 478 «
Reduction in the Price of Gas, 374
Registration of Workmen, The, 114
Reports on thdNew Croton Aqueduct, 357
Restriction in the Coal Trade, 295
Revival in Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 374
Richmond Main Drainage Board, The, 197
Roads in the Colonies, 414
Roath Dock, Cardiff, Opening of the, 197
Russian Iron Trade, The, 94
Sanding Locomotives, 357
Sanitary Registration of Buildings Bill, The 52
Sanitary Registration of Buildings—’The Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 94
Sanitary Surveyors and Inspectors of’Nuisances
435 ‘ ’
Saving Life at Sea, 195
Softening Water by the Clark Process, 334
Spanish Ore and British Steamships, 456
Spanning the Dee, 177
Staffordshire Colliery Owners and Pumping
Operations, 357
Standard of Light, The, 133
Steam Engine Economies, 12
Steamship Freights and the Iron Trade, 374
Steamship Power, Our, 32
Steam Tramway Locomotives, 355
Steel Trade, Activity in the, 74
Structural Stiffness, 497
Successful Railway Legislation, 519
Technical Education, 393
Technical Instruction, 94, 133
Thames at Richmond, The, 177
Thames, The State of the, 113
Trade Competition and Education, 253
TT^u1 ?]f ^ian-made steam Plates, 498
United States Navy, The, 477, 541
Vacuum Brake, Another Failure of a, 275
V illage Sanitation, 293
W. A. Scholten Disaster, The, 435
War-office Organisation, 113 ’
Water-tube Boilers, 294, 356
Yorkshire College, Leeds, The, 255
Lees and Co., Messrs. Asa, Cotton Preparing and
Spinning Machinery, 336, 340 V
Leg a l I nte lligence :
Albo-Carbon Light Company v. J. Kidd and Co.,
BlndKenU43SC°mPany (Limited>- «rindell
Chailender v. Boyle, 86
Ellington r. Clark, Bunnett, and Co., 514
219,"1-!C- HaU and Another>
Proctor v. Bennis and others, 160
Leicester Snow Ploughs, 517
Letters to the Editor : Accidents on Tramways, H.
Aerostation and Aeronautics,
Conradi, 193, 213 Eduardo Claudio,
American Locomotives in Australia, C., 173
American Locomotives in Australia, A Colonial
Locomotive Superintendent, 153
American Transit Theodolites, J. M. F,, 43a
Anchor Tests, Justicia, 348
Artificial Ivory, E. A. G., 51
Automatic Boiler Feeders, J. J. B., 273
Axle Boxes, H. Kenneth Austin, 287
Band Saws, The Author of “ Sawmills,” 495
Band Saws, R. F. Drury, 518
Band Saws, J. H., 477
Bearings for High-speed Engines, Marine Engineer, 413
Bearings for High-speed Engines. Steam Launch, 373
Belted Cruisers, J. A., 419
Bevel Wheel Cutting, Engineer, 413
Boiler Registry and Inspection Bill, M. Powis Bale, 212
Boring Machinery, Seibats, 31
Bostwick’s Folding Gates, Yankee, 271
Brakes on the London and North-Western
Railway, 162
Broken Propeller Shafts, China, 339
Button-making Machinery, C. S. M., 519
Calorific Value of Fuel, Anthony J. Bower, 370, 440
Calorific Value of Coal, Alfred Chatterton, 459
Calorific Value of Fuel, Bryan Donkin, jun., 440
Calorific Value of Coal, John Goodman, 370
Calorific Value of Coal, Practical, 459
Caustic Soda ? Atlas, 455
Cement for Ships, E. C. S., 4
Comparative Tensile Strength of Electrolytic and Ordinary Copper, Alexander Watt, 471
Chain-making and Testing Machinery? F. S. and Co., 355
Circumlocution at the Patent-office, C. E., 270
Clark Process, The, J. W. Gray and Son, 107, 172, 348
Clark Process, The, Andrew Howatson, 86
Clark Process, The, C. J., 87
Clark Process, The, J. Alfred Wanklyn, 86
Clark Process for London, The, W. J. Cooper, 78 Colonial Defence, Robert A. E. Scott, 232,270,386 Commercial Education in Relation to Foreign
Competition, W. A. S. B., 270
Commercial Education in Relation to Foreign Competition, U., 270
Commercial and Utilitarian r. International
Views, H. A. T. S., 162
Competition in the Home Trade, X. M., 172
Complete Protection of Iron and Steel Ships’
Bottoms against Rust, Holzapfel and Co., 306
Compressed Lime Cartridges, A. H. F., 519
Compressed Yeast? H. G. B., 113
Continuous Brakes, John E. Hopkinson, 162
Continuous Brakes, Clement E. Stretton, 386
Contraction of Concrete? A. C. G., 413
Constructive Ironwork in a New Theatre, On the, John S. de Jongh, 470
Continuous Brakes, G. Mitchell, 419
Continuous Brake, Clement E. Stretton, 348
Copper at High Temperatures, Leslie S. Robin son, 535
Cream Separator Trials ? Freeth and Pocock, 355
Croydon Waterworks, Thos. Walker, 162
Curious Explosion, A, Chas. Fredk. Fuller, 193
Defective Bridge, A, Inquirer, 348, 386
Defective Bridge, A, Wilfrid Stokes, 371
Depression of Trade, Foreign Competition and Technical Instruction, C., 448
Domestic Cooking Apparatus, D. J. Russell Duncan, 286
Domestic Drainage, W. Silver Hall, 18
Draughtsmen’s Provident Society, John Brindley, 440
Draughtsmen’s Provident Society, The, W. A. Chambers, 495
Draughtsmen’s Provident Society, The, G. A.
T. Middleton, 470
Draughtsmen’s Salaries? W. R., 273
Drying Gelatinous and Pasty Substances? A. D., •435
Early Roller Milling, J. Harrison Carter, 87
Edison’s New Electrical Generator, Volt, 271
Education of Engineers, E. H. B., 162
Education of Engineers, Slow Coach, 4, 78
Education of Engineers, The G. G., 87
Education of Engineers, Via Media, 56
Efficient Accumulator, An, W. T. de L.
Roberts, 212
“Elbe’s” Steam Pipe, The, Oswald, Mordaunt, and Co, 348
Election of Water Engineer of Nottingham, Arnold Wym, 339
Electrical Launches, A. B. Frenzel, 131
Electro-Disposition of Alloys, Alexander Watt,
English and American Locomotives, J. D., 339
English Foot u the Metre, The, G. E. Child, 440
English and Foreign Locomotives and Bridges, England, 56
Export of Steam Engines, R. Marshall, 518
Explosion on Board the s.s. “Elbe,” J. P. Williams, 535
Feathering Paddle Wheels, M. E., 193
Feathering Paddle Wheels, A. G. Greenhill, 172, 471
Feathering Paddle Wheels, R. Hartland, 232, 494
Ferry Steamer Running Both Ways, An Advocate for Double-ended Ferry Boats, 175
Fires in Theatres, Bob, 287
Fires in Theatres, E. H., 307
Flanging Steel Plates ? Ferrum, 477
Flow of Water, The, D. L., 518
Foot r. Metre, Saddleton Frank Saint y, 449
Foreign Competition, E. Gobcrt, 306
Foreign Competition, Richard Kerr Miller, 348
Foreign Torpedo Boats, Bolling and Lowe, 440
Fraud, A, Exporters, 419
Fraud, A. E. Schroiter, 440
Free Trade and No Trade, W. A. S. B., 449
Free Trade and No Trade, John Brett, 371, 439, 470
Free Trade and No Trade, International Cooperation, 518
Free Trade and No Trade, Wm. Muir, 339, 371, 439
Free Trade and No Trade, Protectionist, 348
Free Trade and No Trade, G. Fredk. Ransome, 419, 535
Free Trade and No Trade, Slow Coach, 338
Free Trade and No Trade, Roger T. Smith, 495
Letters to the Editor (continued)'.—
Free Trade and No Trade, A Sufferer, 449.
Free Trade and No Trade, Trader, 306, 449
From New York to Liverpool in a Cattle Ship,
R. S. Edwards, 286
Furnace Boilers, F. B., 213
Furnace Boilers, F. Botting, 233
Furnace Boilers, Furnace Builder, 233
Gas v. Steam Engines, H. E. C., 535
Generation of Steam, H. Leopold, 271
German Cycles, Hon. Life Director of an English
Chamber of Commerce, 348
Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888, Arrol
Bros., 435
Guide for Forging Iron and Steel' J. A., 355
Gunpowder as a Boiler Cleaner, J. W. Smith, 56
Hand Power Mills? E. J. B., 235
Henley-on-Thames, Sewage Works Machinery,
Pratchitt Bros., 348
Hexthorpe Collision, The, Westinghouse Brake
Co., 286
Hexthorpe Collision, The, F. Gobert, 338
Hexthorpe Collision, The, John E. Hopkinson, 307
Hexthorpe Collision, The, Clement E. Stretton,
286, 307, 338
High and Low Locomotives, Fred. A. Field, 470
High Pressure Marine Boilers, Boiler, 29
High Pressure Marine Boilers, H. P. Fenby, 4
Hinged Davits ? W. K., 235
Hoistsand Lifts, Scrutator? 215
Holy head Steamers, Paddle? 11
Ibbotson’s Lock-nuts and Fish-bolts, Ibbotson
Bros, and Co., 193
Ice Crushing Machines? J. C., 455
Injectors for Portable Engines, Geo. F. Hooper, 78
Invention of the Circular Saw, John Place, 371
Invitations for Tenders, Contractors, 271
Inventor of the Circular Saw, M. Powis Bale,
339
Labour Market, Food Supply, and Population, Indicator, 534
Latent Heat of Steam, Latent Heat, 495
Launching Lifeboats, J. W.. 534
Lead Shot and Tin Canister Machinery, K., 175
Liquid Fuel, Balance, 419
Locomotive Blast Pipes, Boiler, 56
Locomotive and Elastic Oscillation, Robert II.
Graham, 494
Locomotive Engine Blast, Boiler, 161
London and North-Western Railway Brake, The, H. C. W. Borrie, 131
Long Struts? H. W. G., 175
Machinery for Cutting Isinglass? H. 0. E., 273
Machines for Extracting Glucose ? S. S., 195
Management of Marine Boilers, The, J. W. R., 172
Marine Engine Bearings, J. H. K., 193
Masouta? G. B. Froom 477
Masouta? Influx, 413
Match-box and Match-making Machinery ? Ulzella, 435
Mersey Bar, The, Joseph Boult, 287
Modern Milling Machinery, J. A. Arnold Buchholz, 4
Modern Milling Machinery, A. M. Robinson, 29
Modern Milling Machinery, The Writer of the Article 4
Monitors and Turret Ships, G. W. Cobb, 131, 172
Monitors and Turret Ships, U. S. N., 153
Moorgate-street Station, Roof, Pessimist, 271
Multi-cylinder Engines, M. E., 153
Multi-cylinder Engines and Monitors r. Turret
Ships, Slow Coach, 213
Newcastle Engine Trials, The, Thos. Cooper, 78
Newcastle Engine Trials, The, An Ex-portable Engine Builder, 106
Newcastle Engine Trials, The, E. Hall-Brown, 172
Newton’s Third Law of Motion, Eduardo Claudio, 29
Non-conducting Silicate Cotton? T. G. and C., 175
Patent Cut Steel Nails ? E. Davies, 273
Patent-office Library, Wm. Spence, 286
Pearl Button Makers ? D. J., 133
Pipe Cores, A Constant Subscriber, 175
Portland Cement Concrete, A Portland Cement Manufacturer, 87
Portland Cement Concrete, F. E. Duckham, 78
Preston Dock Scheme, The, Benjamin Sykes, 287
Preston Docks, Nemo, 307
Preston Docks, The, River Ribble from Preston to the Irish Sea, G. Henry Roberts, 439
Preston and the River Ribble Navigation Works,
G. Henry Roberts, 270
Preston and the River Ribble Navigation
Works, Benjamin Sykes, 270
Problem of Flight, The, I. Lancaster, 56
Problem in Strains, A, W. A. S. B., 193, 339
Problem in Strains, A, John Batey, 193, 271
Problem in Strains, R. Hartland 193, 233, 271. 287
Problem in Strains, A, T. N. M., 212
Problem in Strains, A, T. E. N., 193
Problem in Strains, C. G. Major, 271
Problem in Strains, C. S., 233
Problem in Strains, A, D. S. Sinclair, 193
Problem in Strains, J. Trevor, 271
Problem in Strains, A, X., 153
Problem in Strains, A, Zit, 247
Professor Mendeleef’s Balloon Ascent, W. Anderson, 212
Provident Fund for Draughtsmen, A. Edgar Farman, G. A. T. Middleton, 371
Pulp Boilers ? A., 113
Quantity of Coke from Coal, Foreman, 56
Radial Steam Hammers, Jas. Bennie and Co.. 271
Rail Joints, A. M. Clark, 78
Rail Joints, Baldwin Latham, 107
Rail Joints, S., 107
Railway Brakes, G. Mitchel], 371
lie Test of Stone Breakers, S. Mason and Co., 338
Relative Strength of Screw Threads, R. Hartland, 270
Relative Strength of Screw Threads, The Inquirer, 233
Relative Strength of Screw Threads, N. D Y 270
Riachuelo Bridge, The, W. C. Kernot 4
Ribble Docks and Estuary, The. J. B.. 247
Ribble Scheme, The, G. E. Child, 4]9’ ~
Ribble Scheme, The, Engineer, 348
Ribble Scheme, The, W. C. Hankinson, 386
I Letters to the Editor
Kibble Scheme. The, James Hibbert, 38b
Kibble Scheme, The, A Prestenian, 380
Koller Milling, W. A. S. B., 131
Roller Milling Machinery, One U ho Knows, 56
Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes Jas. Atkinson, 495
Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes, Wilson Hartnell, 194
Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes,
J. and H. McLaren, 495
R.A.S.E., Engine Trials, J., 470
R.A.S.E, Engine Trials, L. St. Lawrence, 470
R.A.S.E., Steam Engine Trials, J. and H.
McLaren, 460
R.A.S.E’s Steam Engine Trials, The, R., 518
R.A.S.E., Steam Engine Trials, R. A. 8., 470, 518, 535
Safety Match Making Machinery? A. G., 195
Sanitary Registration of Buildings Bill, Reginald E. Middleton, 86
Sanitary Surveyors, N. B., 449
Sawing Grindstones? R. P. and S., 11
Sea-Water and Cement. Henry Faija, 494
Self-Righting Boats, -J. W., 87
Shape of Chimneys, The, An Outsider, 175
Sheet Brass with Diagonal Indentations? J. C. and Co., 293
Ship Canal from Woolwich toNewhaven, W. 11.
Thomas, 270
Ships’ Boats, E. L. Berthon, 87
Sir Wm. Thomson’s Recent lecture and the Lundborg Design, E. H. Parker, 172
Skidding Railway Wheels, Effect of, John Place, 233
Skidding Railway Wheels, Effect of, Clement E. Stretton, 233
Softening Water. John H. Porter, 370
Softening Feed Water. B. Donkin and Co., 131
Softening Feed Water, Gimson and Co., 131
Softening Feed Water, J. W. Kennard, 131
Some Defects in Furnaces commonly called Destructors, A. M. 1. C. E. ,171
Some Defects in Furnaces commonly known as Destructors. Another A. M.I.C.E., 495
Southwark Tramways, William D. Gooch. 107
Specimens of Steel Scale Produced by the Skidding of Railway Wheels, C. P. F., 271
Specimens of Steel Scale Produced by the Skidding of Railway Wheels, R. Hartland, 271
Standard Gauges for Brass Unions to Hose, Tubal-Kain, 494
Standard Gauges for Hose Coupling Screws, Hayward Tyler and Co., 440
Steam Engine Economies, II. Lcupold, 78
Steam Engine Economies, Chas. hitfield, 78
Strength of Chilled Plate Rolls, R. T. C., 270
Strains in the Legs of Cross-legged Stools,
K. W. M. M.» 212
Stresses in a Camp Stool, B. C., 173
Stresses in a Camp Stool, W. A. S. B., 193
Stresses*in a Camp Stool, .John Batey, 193, 271
Stresses in a Camp Stool, D., 212, 213
Stresses in a Camp Stool, Common Mechanical Engineer, 131
Stresses in a Camp Stool, R. Hartland, 161. 233, 287
Stresses in a Camp Stool, B. J. Hall, 107
Stresses in a Camp Stool, E. K., 107
Stresses in a Camp Stool, K. W. M. M., 107
Stresses in a Camp Stool, T. E. N., 161
Stresses in a Camp Stool, C. E. S., 173
Stresses in a Camp Stool, Scrutator, 131
Stresses in a Camp Stool, E. J. Wilson, 173
Stresses in the Iowa Bridge, J. H. Cunningham, 172
Stresses in the Iowa Bridge, The, Robt. 11.
Graham, 153, 193
Stresses in the Legs of a Cross-legged Stool Puzzled, 93
Stresses in Rolling Mills, R. T. C , 73
Stresses in Tension Rods, L., 307
Technical Education, Expert, 339
Technical Education, H. J., 87
Technical Education in its Bearing on Foreign Competition, C., 247
Technical Education and Foreign Competition. Gaffer, 439
Technical Education and Foreign Competition,
Technical Instruction, W. A. S. B., 107 162
Technical Instruction, (’., JOG
Technical Instruction, An Engineer. 162
Telegraphy and Lightships, T. Bradshaw, 172
Test of Stone Breakers, S. Mason ami Son. 287
Theoretic Diagrams, J. Jennings ('ampML 18
Theoretic Diagrams, Thomas Mudd. 56
Theory of the Steam Engine, Technical Unit,
Theory of Struts, The, T. Claxton Fidler, 347 Tidal Estuaries and Bar of the Mersey, Joseph
Boult, 418, 518, 535
Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersey A. F. Fowler, 418
Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersey C. P. J., 459
Tidal Estuaries and Bar of the Mersey, J. V., 535
Tinning Gun-metal '! Fortis, 11
Torpedo Boat Boilers, M. A,, 29
Torpedo Boat Casualties, J. A., I
Torpedo Boat Casualties, John Donaldson, 4 Torpedo Boat Casualties, W. A. Martin, 4 Torpedo Boat Casualties, Win. Thompson, 78 Town Refuse Crematories ? Subscriber, 51 Trial of Stone Breakers, W. H. Baxter and Co., 307
Trial of Stone Breakers, Pp. Lancashire Patent Belting and Hose Company, S. J. McMeehan, ‘-a
Trial of Stone Breakers, H. J. McMeehan, 307 Triple Expansion Engines, Robt. S. Lawrence, 29 Water Softening, J. W. Gray and Son, 386,448 Water Softening, Andrew Howatson, 153, 348, 386, 418
Water Softening, John H. Porter, 139, 118
Water Softening, The Stanhope Company, Limited, 439
Water Softening, The Clark Process, A. B. C., 371
ater Softening, The Clark Process, The Stan-hope Comi»any, Limited, John S. Sawrcy, 371 Water-tube Boilers, T. W. Baker, 338, 419 Water-tube Boilers, Conrad Knap, 2438, 370 W elding and Tempering < -ast Steel ? N. ., 293 Working Women, their Present, their Future,
Walter Besant, 87
“Lever” Dynamo and Arc Lamp, The, 329 Leviathans of the Deep, 295
Lifeboat Service, The. 391
Light for Instantaneous Photographs, Messrs.
Goedicke and Miethe, 131
Lighthouses, Mr. A. K. Brydges, 371
Lightning Tapper, 239
Limpsfield and Oxtod Waterworks, 197
Liquid Fuel, 474
Liquid Fuel on the Thames, 395
Literature :
Analysis of the Accounts of Gas Companies and Corporations, 1886, John Allan, Offices of the Gas World, 315
Annali di Agricoltura, 1887, Rivista del Ser-vizio Minerario nel 1885, 375
Civil Engineers’ Field Book, The, Designed for the Use of the Locating Engineer, by Edward Butts, 357
Civil Engineers’ Pocket Book, The, by John C. Trautwine, 375
Conversion of English Timber, The London : W. Rider and Son, 357
The Economic Theory of the Location of Rail-ways, by Arthur Mellen Wellington, 414
Exercises on Quantitative Chemical Analysis, with a Short Treatise on Gas Analysis, by W. Dittmar, 395
Des Ingenieurs Taschenbuch, von dem Verein Hiitte, 157
Electrical Distribution by Alternating Currents and Transformers, by Rankin Kennedy, 456
Electricity for Public Schools and Colleges, by W. Larden, 296
Elementary Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Perfectly Elastic Solids, with a short Account of Viscous Fluids, by W. J. Ibbotson, 13
Factory Accounts : Their Principles and Practice, by Emile Garcke and I. M. Fells, 217
Field Practice of Laying Out Circular Curves for Railroads, The, by John C. Trautwine, 375
Geology of England and Wales, The, by Horace Woodward, 74
Health of Nations, The : Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick, with a Biographical Dissertation, by Benjamin Richardson, 237
Iron Bridges of Moderate Span : Their Construction and Erection, by Hamilton Weldon Pend red, 395
London Water Supply: An Analysis of the Accounts of the Metropolitan Water Companies, by Alfred Lass, 335
Magneto and Dynamo Electric Machines, with Description of Electric Accumulators : Practical Handbook, Trans, from the German of Glacer de Cew, 177
Matter and Energy: Are these Two Real Things in the Physical Universe, by B. L. L., 74
Metallurgy of Silver, Gold, and Mercury in the United States, The, by T. Egleston, Vol. I., Silver, 395
Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting, by E. D. Peters, jun., 415
Notesand Formulae for Mining Students, by J.
H. Merivale, 315
Particulars of the War-ships of the World, extracted from the {i Universal Register” for the Year commenced 1st April, 1887, 32
Practical Engineers’ Handbook, The: Comprising a Treatise on Modern Engines and Boilers, Marine, Locomotive, and Stationary, &c., by W. S. Hutton, 177
Practical Handbook on Pump Construction, by Philip H. Bjoerling, 479
Practical Treatise on Petroleum, by Benjamin J. Crew, 74
Pump Catechism: A Practical Help to Runners, Owners, and Makers of Pumps of any Kind, by Robert Grimshaw, 479
Die Schiffmaschinen, ihre Construction, Wirk-ungsweise, und Bedienung, Ein Hand u Nachschlagebuch fur Ingenieure u.s.w., Bear-beitet von Carl Busley, 197
Theory and Practice of Electro-Deposition, &c.. by Dr. G. Gore, 296
Theory and Practice of Surveying, The, by J.
B. Johnson, 114
Treatise on Azimuth, with a Study of the Astronomical Triangle and of the Effect of Errors in the Data, by Joseph Edgar Craig, 456
Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction as Applied to the Working of Street or other Railways, by J. Bucknail Smith, 357
Treatise on the Integral Calculus, Part I. containing an Elementary Account of Elliptic Integrals and Applications to Plain Curves, byR. A. Roberts, 477
Littleport and Downham Pumping Stations, 103
Local Government and Public Works, 215
Lock-nut and Washer, New, 358
Lock Washer, New, 180
Locomotive, Messrs. Black, Hawthorne, and Co., 6
Locomotive Blast Pipes, 56
Locomotive Boiler Fittings, Messrs. Gresham and
Craven, 57
Locomotive Cylinders, The Proportion of, 538
Locomotive and Elastic Oscillation, 494
Locomotive Engine Blast, 161
Locomotive, The Field Electric, 450
Locomotive, Four-coupled Outside Cylinder, London and South-Western Raiiway (Supplement, November 4th, 1887), 370
Locomotive, High-speed Road, 496, 500
Locomotive, London and South-Western Railway, 385, 392, 407, 432, 462
Locomotive, The Ten-wheeled Tank, China Railways, Messrs. Dubs and Co., 410, 412, 493, 498
Locomotives, English and American, 339
Locomotives, High and Low, 470
Locomotives, High and Low, Professor A. G.
Greenhill on, 445
Locomotives at the Newcastle Exhibition, 6
Locomotives, Sanding, 357
Locomotives, Steam Tramway, 355
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company’s Denial of Report Concerning Cattle Trucks, 249
London and South-Western Railway Locomotive, 385, 392, 407,^432, 462
Long Struts ? 175
Lord Canarvon on Imperial Defence, 236
Loss of Merchant Shipping, The, 543
Lowestoft Ravine Bridge, Mr. B. M. Parkinson, 191
Lowry’s Continuous Action Gyratory Stone Breaker, 521
Lundborg Design, Sir Wm. Thomson’s Lecture and the, 172
Luton Sewage Works, The, 420
Luxemburg, The Iron Industry of, 57
MuDOUGALL’S Steam Trap, 521
Machine Drawing, Cheap Copies, 499
Machine Tools at the Newcastle Exhibition, 256
Machinery for the East, 155
Machines for Treating Auriferous Materials, Messrs Jordan and Commans, 210
McLaren’s Brake, R.A.S.E. Type, 482
McLaren’s, Messrs., Engine Trials, 460, 461, 482
McLaren’s High Speed Road Locomotive, 496, 500
Magnesia, a Substitute for Plaster of Paris, Dr.
Frank on, 317
Maligakanda Reservoir, Thcj 51, 542
Manchester Exhibition : 64, 118
Cotton Machinery at, 75
Locomotive Boiler Fittings, Messrs. Gresham and Craven, 57
Locomotives at, 64, 118
Nut Finishing Machine, Messrs. Dunderdale, Wood and Co., 35
Schiele Ventilating Fan, 171
Manchester Fire Brigade, 317
Manchester Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 253
Manchester Ship Canal, 500
Manchester Ship Canal Commenced, The, 409
Mandril, Expanding Face Plato, 388
Mannheim, New Bridge at, Competitive Designs, 489, 492
Map of the Clyde Estuary, 138
Margate, Dr. Page’s Report on the Sanitary Condition of, 75
Marine Boilers, The Management of, 155
Marine Boilers, Management of, 172
Marine Engine Bearings, 193
Marine Engineering, Recent Developments in, 96
Manne Engines from the Shipowners’ Point of View, 175
Mason’s Lever Cracking Motion Stonebreaker, 328
Mechanical Engineers at Edinburgh and Dundee, With the, 135
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Apparatus for Determining, 213
Mediterranean Railway, The, 457
Mediterranean Railway Co.’s Pietrarsa and Granile
Works, Naples, 512
Mersey Bar, The, 287
Metallurgical Department of King’s College, The, 247
Mica Mine, A, 232
Midland Railway, The, 134
Midland Railway Express Engine, 517
Mill, The Carter-Turner Three High Roller, 405
Mill, Head’s Improved Blooming or Cogging, 269
Mill and Sieves, Multiple Roller Break, Mr. J. A.
Bucholz, 41, 47
Millers’ Convention, Mr. H. Simon’s Paper at the, 36, 58
Milling, Early Roller, 87
Milling Machine, The, a Substitute for the Planer, 499
Milling Machine, Universal, Messrs. Tangye and Co., 396
Milling Machinery, Modern, 4, 29
Milling Machinery, Roller, 56, 87, 131
Milling, Modern—:its Birth and Development, Mr.
Gilbert Little, 41
Mills, Hand Power, 235
Miner’s Safety Lamps, Mr. Win. Wood on, 471
Mining Bill, A Year’s, 197
Mining in East Scotland, 216
Mining Institutions of Great Britain, 124
Miscellanea, 9, 25, 49, 67, 91, 111, 126, 153, 169, 189, 209, 229, 251, 267, 291, 311, 327, 349, 378, 387, 411, 433, 453, 475, 491, 515, 539
Modern Milling—its Birth and Development, by Mr. Gilbert Little, 167, 404
Monitors and Turret Ships, 131, 153, 172, 213
Montreal, The Harbour of, 296
Moorgate-street Station Roof, 271
Moseley, Mr. Charles, 296
Motors for Electric Lighting, Trials of, 66
Multi-Cylinder Engines, 153, 213
Mumford’s Marine Engine, 125
NAVAL Docks in China, 307
Naval Engineer Appointments, 20, 52, 69, 126, 183, 243, 278, 328, 359, 375, 396, 420, 452, 479, 511
Naval Engineer Students, 367
Naval Review, The, 93
Newberry-Vautin Gold Extraction Process, The, 273
Newcastle Engine Trials, The, 63, 105, 147
Newcastle Exhibition, The :
Apparatus for the Analysis of the Products of Combustion, Mr. J. E. Stead, 48
Condenser, Double Distilling, Messrs. Rayner, 276
Distiller and Pump, Combined “Compactum,” Mr. John Kirkaldy, 7
Electrical Governor, Messrs. Robey and Co., 8
Engine, Compound, Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co., 43
Engine, Compound Portable, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, 147
Engine, Compound Traction, Mr. E. Foden, 43, 46
Engine. Simple, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 42
Engine Trials at, 42
Express Engine, London and South-Western Railway, Mr. W. Adams, 108
Feed-water Heater, Mr. John Kirkaldy, 7
Foundry Ladle, Messrs. Goodwin and How, 5
Furnace Mouth Rivetter, Messrs. Tweddell, Platt, and Fielding, 5, 7
Gas Engine, Rollason’s, The Beck Gas Engine Company, 276
Hydraulic Pipe Testing Apparatus, The Glenfield Company, 277
Implement Trials at, 76
Locomotive, Messrs. Black, Hawthorne, and
Company, 6
Machine Tools at, 256
Plan of the Implement Yard at, 15
Plate-closing Rivetter, Messrs. Tweddell, Platt, and Fielding, 5, 7
Potato Digger, Messrs. Penny and Co., 76
Potato Digger, Mossrs. Powell Bros., 76
Potato Planter, Messrs. Murray, 76
Stoker, Messrs. Johnston and Blandford, 256
Syphon Meter, Messrs. W. and B. Cowan, 277
Tool Holder, Gavin Jones, 256
Weighing Machine, Prize Cattle, Messrs. Hart and Co., 77
New Companies, 21, 39, 61, 83, 101, 121, 143, 165, 183, 203, 243, 261, 281, 301, 321, 343, 363, 381, 401, 423, 443, 465, 485, 505, 529, 549
Newhaven Drainage, 92, 96
New South Wales Railways, The, 23
Newton’s Third Law of Motion, 29
New York to Liverpool in a Cattle-ship, From, 286 New Zealand, Total cost of the Harbour Defences of, 398
Niagara Suspension Bridge, New Towers of the, 481
Nordenfelt, The, 519
! Nordenfelt Submarine Vessel, Official Trial of the, I 511
North Derbyshire Colliery, Visit to, 220
North of England, The, 19, 38, 59, 82, 100, 119, 142, 164, 181, 202, 222, 241, 260, 300, 319, 342,
361, 380, 400, 422, 442, 463, 484, 504, 527, 547 Notes from Germany, 20,38, 60, 82, 100, 120, 142,
164, 182, 202, 222, 242, 260, 280, 300, 320, 342,
362, 380, 400, 422, 442, 464, 484, 504, 528, 548 Notes from Lancashire, 19, 37, 59, 81, 99, 119, 141,
163, 181, 201, 221, 241, 259, 279, 299, 319, 341,
361, 379, 399, 421, 44], 463, 483, 502, 527, 546 Notes and Memoranda, 9, 25, 49, 67, 91, 111, 126,
153, 169, 189, 209, 229, 251, 267, 29], 311, 327, 349, 378, 387, 411, 433, 453, 475, 491, 515, 539 Notes from Scotland, 20, 38, 60, 82, 100, 120,142,
164, 182, 202, 222, 242, 260, 280, 300, 320, 342,
362, 380, 400, 442, 464, 484, 504, 528, 548
Notices to Correspondents, 11, 31, 51, 73, 93, 113, 133, 155, 175, 195, 215, 235, 253, 273, 293, 313, 333, 355, 373, 393, 413, 435, 455, 477, 497, 519, 541
Nut-finishing Machine, Messrs. Dunderdale, Wood and Co., 35
- OBITUARY
■ Buddicom, Mr. W. B., 180
Clark, Mr. Alvan, 173
i Clarke, Mr. John Algernon, 437
Hall, Mr. William, 131
Hunt, Mr. Robert, 335
• Kirchhoff, Professor, 328
Kirkaldy, Mr. John, 150
Krupp, Herr Alfred, 74, 85, 104, 123
i Walker, Mr. Thomas, 502
Moseley, Mr. Charles, 296
Woodhouse, Mr. 0. E., 296
“Ochwadt” Self-registering Meter, The, 536
Oil Lamps v. Gas at East Molesey, 339
Olympia, Electric Light Installation at, 131, 132
Olympia Hall, Kensington, Portion of the, 150
Oxford Waterworks, Extension of the, 360
PACKINGS, Piston Rod, 289, 290, 292
Panama Canal, The, 71, 73, 156, 430
Paper Stencils, 193
Paris International Exhibition of 1889,150,152,227
Fino Arts Court, 190, 234
Quelch’s Metallic Permanent Way, 536
The Great Machinery Hall, 150
Parkes’ Smelting Process, The, 543
Patent-office Library, 286
Patent-office, Circumlocution at the, 270
Pattison’s Engine Works, Naples, 533
Pearl Button Makers ? 133
Pearn and Co.’s Pump and Compressor Works, 239
Pedestals for Colliery Tubs, Self-lubricating, 459
People’s Palace, The, 316
Permanent Way for the Belgian State Railways, New, 301
Permanent Way Hand Crane, Five Tons, Messrs.
Grafton and Co., 268
Permanent Way, Post Metallic Railway Sleepers,'75
Perpetual Motion in Disguise, 254
Petroleum Fuel, 226
Petroleum Refuse as a Fuel, 176
Petroleum Trade of the Black Sea, The, 357
Photographic Apparatus, Mr. Ranken, 443
Piece-work and Technical Education, 436
Pier, Section of, New Tay Viaduct, 199
Pig Iron Manufacture, The Practice of, 520
Pig Iron, Statistics of the Production of, 199
Pig Iron in the U.S. and Great Britain in 1886, 124
Pipe Cores? 175
Piston Rod Packing, 289, 290
Platt Bros, and Co.’s Works, Oldham, 545
Portland Cement Concrete, 78, 87
Portland Cement, Improvements in the Manufacture of, 218
Ports and Steamships, 74
Portsmouth and Ryde Ferry Boats {Supplement,
September 23rd, 1887), 128, 129, 148, 154, 245
Portway’s Patent Coke Breaker, Royle’s, 517
Postal Tubes, Proposed System of, 407
Post’s Metallic Railway Sleepers, 75
Potato Diggers at the Newcastle Exhibition, 76
Potato Planters at the Newcastle Exhibition, 76
Preservation of Iron and Steel Ships, 415
Press, Combined Light Baling and Finishing, Turner’s, 26
Preston Dock and the River Ribble, 263
Preston Dock Scheme, The, 287, 373
Preston Docks, 255, 307
Preston Docks and the Ribble, 225
Preston and the River Ribble Navigation Works, 270
Preston Docks—River Ribble from Preston to the i
Irish Sea, 439
Preston Docks Scheme, The, 274
Primary Batteries for Illuminating Purposes, Mr.
P. F. Nursey, 388
Primary Battery in which Carbon is Consumed, A
New, 265 I
Priming, 32
Private Bill Work in the Past Session, 298
Problem of Flight, 56
Problem in Strains, A, 153, 193, 212, 233, 247
Problem in Strains, 271
Problem in Strains, A, 287
Problem in Strains, 339
Proctor’s Furnace Feeder, 160
Provident Fund for Draughtsmen, 371
Propeller Shafts, Broken, 339
Proportion of Locomotive Cylinders, 538
Public Works Department of India, 394
Pulp Boiler? 113
Pump, The Differential Feed and Force, 35
Pumping by Electricity in Coal Mines, 460
Pumping Engines, Southwark and Vauxhall
Waterworks, Hampton {Supplement, July 22nd, 1887), 10,13, 30, 65, 68, 69, 97
Pumping Engines, Whampoa Docks, 409
Pumping Engines at Work in Staffordshire, 295
Pumping Plant, An Enormous, for the City of Montreal, 228
Pumps, Widnes Waterworks, 170,171
Pyromagnetic Dynamo, The, Mr. Thos. A.
Edison, 231
QUELCH’S Metallic Permanent Way, 536
Quicksilver Deposits, Prof. S. B. Cristie, 188
RADI AL Drill and Milling- Machine, 544
Radial Steam Hammers, ‘271
Railroad Sleepers in America, 307
Railroads of New York, The Elevated, 317
Rail Joint, Spliced, Mr. Lightfoot, 481
Rail Joints, 78, 107
Railway Accident, A Curious, 4'20
Railway Accident, A Novel, 13
Railway Brakes, 371
Railway Congress, International, 315
Railway Construction, A Remarkable Achievement in, 546
Railway Diary and Officials’ Directory, 1888, The 548
Railway Dividends, 95
Railway Enterprise in Turkey, 175
Railway Extension in Ceylon, 204
Railway Half-Year, The, 520
Railway Legislation, Successful, 519
Railway Materials for Italy, 504
Railway Matters, 9, 25, 49, 67, 91, 111, 126,153, 169, 189, 209, 229, 251, 267, 291, 311, 327, 349, 378, 387, 411, 433, 453, 475, 491, 515, 539
Railway Mismanagement* in New South Wales, 216, 264, 345
Railway Rates and Charges, 437
Railway System of South Africa, The, 391
Railway Work in New Zealand, 192
Railway Working, 114
Railways in India, 478
Railways in India, Mr. R. L. Tapscott, on, 502
Railways in India, New, 506
Railways of Italy, Map of the, 365
Railways and Population, 187
Ravine Bridge, Lowestoft, Mr. B. M. Parkinson, 191
Reaction and Efficiency of the Screw Propeller, Mr. A. Blechynden on the, 1
Refrigerating Machinery, s.s. “Fifeshire,” Mr.
T. B. Lightfoot, 305, 312
Registration of Workmen, The, 114
“Reina Regente,” Spanish Cruiser, The, Messrs,
J. G. Thompson, 352, 354
Reversing Gear, Italian, 512
Riachuelo Bridge, The, 4
Ribble Navigation and Preston Dock Act, 266
Ribble Scheme, The, 348, 386, 419
Richmond Main Drainage Board, The, 197
Rio Tinto Mines, The, 225
Riyetters, Plate Closing and Furnace Mouth, Messrs. Tweddell, Platt, and Fielding, 5, 7
Rivetting of Iron and Steel Ships, 85
Roads in the Colonies, 414
Robinson and Sons, Messrs. Thomas, First Order of Merit Awarded to, for Wood-working Exhibit at the Adelaide Exhibition, 422
Robinson and Sons’ Works, Rochdale, 545
Roburite Experiments at Monk Bretton, 352
Roller Brake Mill and Sieves, Multiple, 41, 47
Roller Mill Plant, Mr. Simons’ Flow Sheet of the
First Complete, 167
Roller Milling, 56, 87, 131
Roller Mills, Tests as to the Power Consumed by Various Machines Used in, 36, 58
Rolling Mill for Corrugated Sheets, 71
Roof of Bandora Station, Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India Railway, 446, 447
Roscoe, Sir H., His Address at the Annual Meeting of the British Association, 199
Roving Frame, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 337
R.A.S.E. Steam Engine Trials, 459, 470, 534
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, The, 33
Brakes, Trials of, 494
Steam Engine Trials at, 459, 461, 470, 482, 535
Steam Engines at, 403, 427, 457
Royal Agricultural Society’s Trials of Brakes, 495, 518
Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, Distribution of Prizes at, 86
Royle’s Coke Breaker, Portway’s Patent, 517
Rushworth’s Strong Bar and Angle Iron Shears, 43<r
Russian Iron Trade, The, 94
SAFETY Lamps, Sandbrook’s, 513
Safety Match-making Machinery, 195
St. Chamond Projectile, Effect of, on a Steel Plate, 197, 198
St. Helen’s Water Supply, 130
Sandbrook’s Safety Lamp, 513
Sanding Locomotives, 357
Sanitary Registration of Buildings Bill, 52, 86
Sanitary Registration of Buildings, The Society of
Civil and Mechanical Engineers, 94
Sanitary Surveyors, 449
Sanitary Surveyors and Inspectors of Nuisances, 435
Saving Life at Sea, 195
Sawing Grindstones, 11
Schiele Fan, Large, 171
Scholten Disaster, The, W. A., 435
School of Art Wood Carving, 295
Scientific Education, 266
Scoop Wheel at Nordelph, 187
Screw Threads, Relative Strength of, 233, 270
Scutcher, Improved, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 336
Seamless Tubes from Solid Blanks, 396
Selected American Patents, 22, 40, 62, 84, 102, 122, 144, 166, 184, 204, 224, 244, 262, 282, 302, 322, 344, 364, 382, 402, 424, 444, 466, 486, 506, 530, 550
Seller’s Patent Compound Engine, 536, 540
“Severn,” Placing of the, on the Active List of the Royal Navy, 329
Sewage Treatment, Mr. W. J. Dibdin’s Experiments on, 118
Sewage Utilisation Works, Leicester, 140
Sewage Works of Halle, 159
Sewage Works of Wiesbaden, 321
Sewerage of Henley-on-Thames, 325
Sewing Machine and Electric Motor Diehl’s Combined, 265
Shafting Bearings, Mr. H. Fordsmith, 27
Shaping Machine, Tangye’s Self-Shaping, 368
Shears, Rushworth’s, 430
Sheffield District, The, 19, 37, 59, 81, 99, 119, 141, 164,181, 201, 221, 241, 260, 280, 299, 319, 341, 361, 379, 399, 421, 441, 464, 483, 503, 527, 547
Sheffield, Water in, 331
Shell for the Dynamite Gun, A Large, 505
Ship Canal from the Thames to Newhaven, 259
Ship Canal from Woolwich to Newhaven, 270
Shipbuilding Orders for the Clyde, 69
Ships’ Boats, 87
Siee Ho Bridge, China Railways, The, Mr. C. W.
Kinder and Mr. Jas. Cleminson, 450, 476
Silicate Cotton ? Non-conducting, 175
Silk Reeling, A New Departure in, 105
Skidding Railway Wheels, Effect of, 233
Slag Manure, 437
Slabbing Frame, Messrs. Asa Lees and Co., 337 Smithfield Club Show, The :
('hilled Moulds for Casting Bearings Messrs.
Richard (Jarrett and Sons, 473
Compound Vertical Engine, Messrs. Wallis and Steevens, 472
High-Speed Compound Vertical Engine, Messrs.
Davey, Paxman and Co., 473
High-Speed Vertical Engine, Messrs. Hornsby and Sons, 473
Vertical Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co., 472
Wheelwrights’Sinking Platform, Baker’s “Simplex,” Exhibited by Messrs. Pfeil, Stedall, and Son, 472
Smith’s Forge, Horwich Works, 246, 249
Smoke Nuisance, The, 440
Snow Ploughs, Leicester, 517
Society of Arts, 8, 388
Society, Bristol University College Engineering :
Early Forms of Stamping Machinery used in Brazil, Mr. Fonsica^460
Submarine Torpedo Boats, Mr. Littleton, 460 Society, The Chemical :
Note on the Atomic Weight of Gold, Mr. T. E.
Thorpe and Mr. A. F. Laurie, 403
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’, 513
Use and Care of Chains for Lifting and Hauling, The, Mr. Henry Adams, 28
Society, Dundee Mechanical, 70
Visit to the North Derbyshire Colliery, Mr. G.
Worrall, jun., 220
Society of Engineers, The, 79, 490
Acton and Ealing Sewage Works, and Ealing New Storage Reservoir, Visit to, 339
New Formula for the Flow of Water in Pipes and Open Channels, Mr. Edgar C. Thrupp, 499
Primary Batteries for Illuminating Purposes, Mr. Perry F. Nursey, 388
Visits of the, 79
Society, Junior Engineering, 87
Visit to the Beckton Gasworks, 263
Visit to the Royal Mint, 87
Society, King’s College Engineering :
Diving Apparatus, Mr. Sparks, 465
Electric Meters, Mr. A. H. Preece, 360
Irrigation, Mr. Jones, 390
Lighthouses, Mr. A. K. Brydges, 371
Photographic Apparatus, Mr. Ranken, 443
Society, Liverpool Engineering 149 Society, The Manchester Geological :
Miners’ Safety Lamps, Mr. Wm. Wood on, 471 Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American :
Experiments and Experience with Blowers, Mr. Henry I. Snell, 499
Friction in Toothed Gearing, Prof. Gaetano Lanza, 499
Investigation how to Test the Strength of Cement, Prof. Jerome Sondericker, 499
Milling Machine, The, as the Substitute for the Planer in Machine Construction, Mr. John J. Grant, 499
New Principles in Steam Piston Packing, Mr. John E. Sweet, 499
Railroad Bed for Bridge Structures, A, Mr. 0.
C. Woolson, 499
Results from Steel Tested shortly after Rolling, Mr. Felton, 499
Steel Car Axles, Mr. John Coffin, 499
Use of Kerosene Oil in Steam Boilers, On the, Mr. Louis F. Lyne, 499
Society of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors, The :
Examination of some Recent Experiments on Sewage Treatment made by Mr. W. J. Dib-din for the Metropolitan Board of Works, 118 Society, Yorkshire College Engineering, 359 “Ona Brake,” Mr. Wicksteed, 359
Sodium Furnace, Castner’s, 513
Softening Feed Water, 131
South Kensington Museum, 8, 55, 101, 240, 368 437
Southport Railway, The New, 173
Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks, Hampton, Double Cylinder Compound Pumping (Supplement July 22nd, 1887), 10, 13, o0, bo, 68, 69, 97
Southwick Tramways, 107
Spanish Cruiser “ Reina Regente, lhe,, M
1 Spanish Ore and British Steamships, 4r>6
1 Speedometer, Willis’s Hydro-pneumatic, one Staffordshire Colliery Ownersand Pumping Opera
tions, 357 . J TT .n.
Standard Gauges for Brass Unions to Hose, 494
Standard Gauges for Hose Coupling Screws, 440
Standard of Light, The, 133
Stead, Mr. J. E., Apparatus for Analysis of Products of Combustion, 48
Steam Boilers’ Bill, 20.
Steam Engine Economies, 12 , ,
Steam Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society s
Newcastle Show, 403, 427, 457
Steam Grease Extractor, Stuart’s, 397
Steam, Latent Heat of, 495
Steam Launch “Buzz,” The American,. 368
Steam Piston Packing, New Principle in, 499
S.S. “Bencroy,” Engines of the, 308, 309
S.S. “Duchess of Edinburgh,” Portsmouth and Ryde Ferry Steamer (Supplement, September 23rd}, 128, 129, 148, 154, 245
S.S. “Elbe,” Explosion or Board the, 521, 522
S.S. “ Fifeshire,” Refrigerating Machinery, 305, 312
S.S. “ Worcester” and “Oxford,” Triple Expansion, Engines, 89
Steam Tramway Locomotives, 355
Steam Trap, McDougall’s, 521
Steamship Freights and the Iron Trade, 374
Steamship Power, Our, 32
Steel Cables for the Birmingham Tramways, 126
Steel Car Axles, 499
Steel Decking, Messrs. W. H. Lindsay and Co., 289
Steel-faced Armour Trials in Russia, 197
Steel Guns at the Watervliet Arsenal, 89
Steel and Iron Trade Changes, The Advance o", 390
Steel Scale Produced by Skidding Railway Wheels, 218, 219
Steel Scale, Specimens of, Produced by the Skidding of Railway Wheels, 271
Steel Tested shortly after Rolling, 499
Steel Trade, Activity in the, 74
Stern-wheel Steamer for the River Magdalena, South America, 268, 272
Stockton Bridge, Removal of the Old, 183
Stoker, Messrs. Johnston and Blandford, 256
Stone-breaker, Mason’s Lever Cracking Motion, 328
Stone-breakers, Test of, 287
Stone-breakers, Trial of, 255, 271, 307
Stone-breaking and Delivering Apparatus for the Indian Government, Messrs. W. H. Baxter and Co., 431
Stoney Stratford Town Waterworks, 452
Strains in the Legs of Cross-legged Stools, 212
Street Surface-box, Brown’s, 517
Stresses in a Camp Stool, 107, 131, 161, 173, 193, 212, 233, 271, 287
Stresses in the Iowa Bridge, 153, 172, 193
Stresses on Lattices, A New Method of Obtaining the, Mr. William Robertson, 531
Stresses in the Legs of a Cross-legged Stool, 93
Stresses Occurring in Cast Iron and Steel, The Internal Investigation into, General Nicholas Kalakoutsky, 467, 487, 507
Stresses in Rolling Mills, 73
Stresses in Tension Rods, 307
Stretton, Mr. C. E., Presentation to, 504
Structural Stiffness, 497
Struts, The Theory of, 347
Struts, their Working Strength and Stiffness, 345
Struts, their Working Strength and Stiffness, Professor R. H. Smith, 303, 425
Stuffing-box Packings, American, 290, 292
Stuffing-boxes, Independent, 358
Subway, City of London and Southwark, 297
Sukkur Bridge, The, 107
Sumatra, Proposed Railway for, 223
Supplements :
Compound Engines, Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks, Hampton, Constructed from the Designs of Mr. J. W. Restler by Messrs. R. Moreland and Sons, July 22nd, 1887
Supplements (cojitmued):— Kf.Mi-.nd
Four-coupled Express Midlan
Rail way, Decern be r 23rd ,188/ ,
Four-coupled Outside-cylinder Locomotive L.
and S.W. Railway, Mr- W. Adams Constructed by Messrs^ R. Stephenson and Co., November 4th, 1887 ....
.November 4tn, iooz ,f...
One Thousand Horse-power Compound .Mill Engine, Messrs. Buckley and Taylor, December 23rd, 1887 ,
S.S. “ Duchess of Edinburgh, Portsmouth and
Ryde Ferry Steamer, Mr. W. Stroud ley, September 33rd, 1887
Surveying and Levelling Apparatus, 9b
Sword Bayonets, The Faulty, and Sir John Adyc, 274
Syphon Meter, Messrs. W. and B. Cowan, 2/ /
TANGYE’S Shaping Machine, 368
Tank at Haslar, New Experimental, 130
Tansa Waterworks, Portable Engines at, 107
Tansa Works for the Water Supply of Bombay,
The, Mr. Killingworth Hedges on the 53
Tay Viaduct, Description of the New, 198
Technical Education, 87, 106, 107, 162, 173, 278, 339, 393
Technical Education Bill, Conference of Teachers on the, 287
Technical Education in its Bearing on Foreign Competition, 247
Technical Education and Foreign Competition, 439, 534
Technical Education, Mr. Henry Dyer, 384
Technical Instruction, 94, 133, 149
Telegraph, The Writing, 420 ~
Telegraphy and Lightships, 172
Telephone into China, Introduction of the, 180
Tenders
Borough of Leicester, 396
Canterbury, 353
Corporation of Leicester, 353, 375
Drainage Works, &c., at the Hailsham Union,
Polegate, Sussex, 148
Laundry, and Married Couple’s Quarters, St.
Marylebone Workhouse, 24
Litherland Road Bridge, 24
Lymington Sewerage, 232
Public Conveniences at Bournemouth, 148
Road Making under the 150th Section, Public Health Act, 1875, at Bournemouth, 148
Sea-water Scheme for Watering Roads, &c., at Bournemouth, 148
Storm Outfall, Bournemouth, 148
Tenders, Invitations for, 271
Terni Steel Works, Vertical Turbines, 252, 255
Terni, Visit of the King of Italy to, 124
Terry’s New Theatre, Constructive Ironwork of,
Messrs. Matthew T. Shaw and Sons, 283, 285 |
Test of Stonebreakers, The, 338
Testing Apparatus, Messrs. McLaren’s Engine
Trials, 460, 461
Thames at Richmond, The, 177
Thames, The State of the, 113
Theoretic Diagrams, 18, 56
Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersev, 418, 459, 494, 518, 535
Tidal Estuaries and the Bar of the Mersey, Mr.
W. H. Wheeler on Mr. Shelford’s Paper on, 383 I
Tinning Gun Metal ? 11
lire Testing, Woehler’s Experiments on, 502
Tonnage of Ships, The, 532
Tool Holder, Gavin Jones, 256
Torpedo Boat Casualties, 4, 78
Torpedo Boats, Bids for, 462
Torpedo Boats, The Concealment of, 511
Torpedo Boats for Spain, Messrs. Yarrow and I Co., 331, 332
Torpedo Boats for the United States Navy, 135
Town Refuse Crematories t 51
Trade Competition and Education, 253
Trade Marks in Roumania, 507
Tram Rail Cleaner, Mr. Jno. Prosser, 27
Tramway Engines, Greig and Aveling’s, 328
Tramway Locomotive, Birmingham Central Tramways, 347
Tramway Sleeping Car for the Argentine Republic, 500
Tramways, Cable v. Horse, 326
Transvaal Industry, A New, 226
rra'o6 i2HCrane’ 5°ft’ Span’ t0 Lift Thr0° T,)nS’
Trial Trip of the “ Halcyon,” General Steam Navigation Company, 9o
Tributary Development, Modern Milling, Mr. G.
Little on, -104
Tunnel in Colorado, A, 106
Turbines, Vertical, Term Steel Works. 252, 255
CM A RI A Colliery, Differential Pumping Engines, 149, 151
Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, 390
United States Geological Survey, 110
United States Navy, 4/7
United States Navy, I he, 541
United States Navy, Progress in the, 116
United States War Ships, Five. J 73
University College, London, 277
Upsetting of a Railway Train by Wind, 203
VACUUM Brake, Another Failure of a, 275
Valley field Paper Mills, The, 118
Valve, Lambert’s Screw-down Guided, 358
Vice Chuck, Cosgrove’s, 27
Village Sanitation, 293
Vincennes Railway, Jubilee Exhibition Building, The, 408, 416 *
Volga, Steam Tug Boat for the, 499
WAGES in Great Britain, 66
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 20, 38, 60, 82,100, 120, 142, 164, 182, 202, 222, 242, 260, 280, 300, 320, 342, 362, 380, 400, 422, 412, 164, 484, 504, 528, 548
Walker, Air. Thomas, 502
Wallsend Slipway Company’s Marine Boiler, The, 7 Walsall Chamber of Commerce and the New Merchandise Marks Bill, 275
War-office Organisation, 113
Waste Bolts, Nuts, Rivets, and Washers, 22
1 Waste Power for Mills, 107
Wasteneys Smith’s Stockless Anchor, 171
Water Capacity of Soils, The, 219
Water Cranes, Pillar, the Indian State Railways.
! 288, 290
j Water-gauge Float, Improved, 159
Water Meter, Kent’s Uniform, 450, 451
i Water Power for Mills, 55, 65
Water Scheme for Halifax, A New, 543
Water Separator, Messrs. Vaughan and Sons, 269
I Water Softening, 348, 370, 371, 386, 439, 448
I Water Softening—The Clark Process, 348, 371 Water Supply of Birmingham, 180 Water Supply Case, A Complicated, 409 Water Supply of West Gloucestershire, 48 Water-tube Boilers, 294, 338, 356 Water Waste in Town Supplies, 495 Watervliet Arsenal, Steel Guns at the, 89 Wear Shipbuilding in 1887, 546 Weardale Railway, The, 35
Wednesbury Sewerage Works, The, 490
Weighing Alachine, Prize Cattle, at the Newcastle Exhibition, 77
Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lamp, The, 318 Westinghouse Automatic Engine, The, 4]5 Westinghouse Brake Tests near New York, 489 Whampoa Docks Pumping Engines, 409 Wheel Pen, Mr. W. F. Stanley, 396 Wheelwright’s Sinking Platform, Baker’s Simplex 472
Whittlesea Alere Pump, 186
Whitworth Scholarships for 1887, 233
Widnes Waterworks, New Pumping Alachinerv 170, 171
Wild’s Improved Portable Hand-power Drilling Machine, 458
Williams’ Fusible Plugs, 513
Willis’s Hydro-pneumatic Speedometer, 358 Woehler’s Experiments on Tire Testing, 562 Woodhouse, Mr. 0. E., 296
Working Women: Their Present and their Future 87
Writing Telegraph, The, 420
YEAST, Compressed, 113
Yorkshire College Evening Classes, 335
Yorkshire College, Leeds, The, 255
ZALINSKT, Lieut., Dynamite Gun. 171
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