The Engineer 1897 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1897 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABERDARE Merthyr Colliery Re started. The 100
Aberdeen, Graving Dock at, 482
Abernant Colliery Disaster, Report on the, 606
Accelerity Diagram of the Steam Engine, Mr. Macfarlane Gray, 409
Accidents and Casualties in 1896, Railway Returns to the Board of Trade of, 549
Accident, Cleveland Tram Car, 43
Accident at Coldrenick Viaduct, The Fatal, 291
Accident, Colliery, 558, 570
Accident, Colliery, at Dover, 263
Accident to the “ Corrientes,” Torpedo Destroyer, 301
Accidents and Deaths in the Mines and Quarries of Great Britain, Return of, 95
Accident at the Eiffel Tower, New Brighton, 95
Accident, An Extraordinary, 532
Accident, Menheniot Viaduct, 628
Accident in a Mill near Lyons, 570
Accident, Mines, Garth Pit, 620
Accidents, Railway, 95, 163
Accident, Railway, Burntisland, 60
Accident, Railway, on the Cambrian Line, 620
Accident, Railway, due to Fracture of Couplings, 513
Accident, Railway, Glazebrook Junction, 341 ,
Accident, Railway, India, 57 | .
Accident, Railway, in Ireland, 237
Accident, Railway, on the London and South- . Western, 461
Accident, Railway, Manchester, 35
Accident, Railway, Neath and BrecoD, 513
Accident, Railway, Oporto Tunnel, 35
Accident, Railway, Pitsea Junction, 593
Accident, Railway, at Rothbury, 199
Accident, A Runaway Boiler, 199
Accident, Tunnel, Mentone, 593
Accidents, Railway, in the United States, Monthly Records, 7, 35, 199, 263, 373, 461, 593
Accident, Railway, Welshampton, 623, 626
Accrington, Railway Accident at, 291
Accumulator, The Ribbe, 408
Accuracy in Engineering Tests, 596
Acetone a Good Solvent for Acetylene, 391
Acetylene, Carbide of Calcium and, 51
Acetylene, The Dangers of, and what they are Dependent on, 109
Acetylene Gas, Comgreavcs Works, Plant for Making, 124
Acetylene Gas, Mr. Le Neve Foster on, 400
Acetylene Gas to Lightships and Buoys, Adapt¬ability of, 413
Acetylene Gas Producers, 53
Acetylene Gas for Railway Carriages, 35
Acetylene, Laboratory Use of, 342
Acetylene in Laboratories, Mr. H. G. Süderbaum on the Use of, 513
Acetylene, The Manufacture of, 189
Acetylene, Ratio of the Two Specific Heats of,
Addison, Lieut-Col., Reports to the Board of Trade, 7
Addison, Lieut.-Col., Report on the Manchester Railway Accident, 35
Adhesion, A Question of, 170, 213, 601
Admiralty Requirements and the Contractors, 513
Admiralty Steam Pinnace, 444
Adulteration of Rubber on the West Coast of Africa, 641
Aeronautics, Proposed Journal of, 237
Aerostatic Ascents, International, 237
Africa, Railway Extension from the Loanda Ambaca Terminus, 413
Africa, Traction Engines in South, 213
African Lake and River Navigation, Steamers for, 94
African Trans-Continental Telegraph Company’s Line, Another Section of Opened, 217
Agave, Fibre, Export and Uses of, 199
Agricultural Implements in Russia, 2, 372
Agricultural Implements at Vera Cruz, Demand for, 443
Agricultural Machinery in Bulgaria, Opening for British, 431
Agricultural Machinery in East Europe, 324
Agricultural Machinery in Russia, 2
Agricultural Machines, Bath and West and Southern Counties Show, 548
Air-compressing Plant, Hydraulio, 685, 626
Air Compressor for Pneumatic Tools, 173
Aird’s “ Express” Pipe Joint, 408
Air Ship, Herr Woelferi’s Fatal Experimental Ascent, 620
Air Ship from Nashville, Ascent of an, 593
Alabama Iron to England, Delivery of, 400
Alabama Iron, Foreign Demand for, 31
"Alabama" and the “Prince George,” The, 335
“Alabama,” United States Battleship (Supple- ml, April 9th, 1897), 361
Albert Medal, The, 228
Albion, The Cambrian Engine, 167
Albion Locomotive, The, 198
Aldersgate-street Explosion, The, 515
“Alfred Hickman, Limited,” Important Amalga¬mation, 354
Allen, Mr. W. D., References to, 203
Allen, Son, and Co., Messrs. W. H., Electric Lighting Plant for Ships of War, 436
Allis Company, The E.P. Engine for Belt Driving,
Alloys for High Grade Steel Castings, 291
Alloys, Japanese, 109
Alloys, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts-Austen, Lectures on, 272
Alloys, Research Committee, Fourth Report to the, 164, 176, 190, 224
Alpe Manufacturing Syndicate, Particulars re¬lating to, 278
Alternate Current Switch Gear, On, 125
Altschul, Mr. Rudolf, Covering Composition for Ships’ Bottoms, 461
Aluminium, Action of Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide on, 163
Aluminium Bed plate, Messrs. Mills & Co., 504 509
Aluminium in Contaot with Mercury Eineri- ments with, 57 r
Aluminium Helmet, A New, 413
Aluminium Hydrate, The Formation of, 57
Aluminium, New Use for, reported from France, 570
Aluminium, its Present and Future, 335, 405, 503, 529
America, Census of the Unemployed in, 312
American Air Power Company, Compressed Air Cars, 217
American Battleships, New, 20, 361, 412
American Bicycle Tube Manufacture, 403
American Competition, 295
American Competition in the Steel Trade, 179
American Corn Pith Cellulose, 9
American Electric Carriage, An, 8
American Engineering News:
45, 71, 97,124,177, 251, 277, 305, 375, 423, 556, 604, 627
American. English Railway Bridges, 640
America, Export Trade of, in Sewing Machines,
American Export Trade, The United Kingdom the Best Customer, 319
American Gould Continuous Vestibule Trains in Great Britain, 73
American Lakes, Car Ferries of the, 132
American Liner “Paris,” The, 74
American Liner "St. Paul,” The, 6
American Locomotives for China, 423
American Locomotive Engines, 399
American Locomotives, Fire - boxes of, too Small, 7
American Locomotives for Japan, 375
American Locomotives, Ratios in, 447
American Locomotive Performance, 348, 352, 394, 434
American Machine Tools, Some, 59, 62
American Merchant Shipping, 298
American Native Modesty on Automatic Ma¬chinery, 620
American Notes:
22, 74,127, 155, 201, 228, 254, 280, 308, 332, 856, 378, 402, 426, 476, 500, 526, 558, 580, 606, 630, 653
American Pig Iron Competition, The, 474
American Railway Tools, 589
American Standard Rails, 448
American Steam Engines for Australia, 641
American Steam Yachts, 245
American Steel Rail Trade, The, 240
American Tariff Bill, Relative to the Now, 354
American Tariff, The New, 304, 306, 307
American Tariff 1 What of the, 272
American Tools, and Why they Come from the United States, 605
American (South) Trade, 516
American Tramway Tunnel, An, 410
American Winding Engino, An, 159, 168
Amman Iron and Tin-plate Works, Sale by
Auction of, 280 Ammonia, Sulphate of, 212
Anchor, Folding and Collapsible, 47
Anderson, Mr. James, His Appointment at Stockton, 73
Andrews, Mr. L , on Alternate Current Switch Gear, 125
Anglesea, Light Railways for, 319
Anglo-American Oil Company’s Business, Mr. Shaw’s Statements Concerning, 341
Anglo-Swedish Steel Tube Company’s Annual Meeting, The, 252
Angus, Mr. Fred, Folding Anchor, 47
Anti-fouling Composition on the “Scotia,” Ex¬plosion of, 57
Antwerp Dock Accommodation, Extension of, 3
“ Aorangi,” s.s., 293
Appleyard, Mr. W. P., Ccpper Sheathed Passenger Coach, 261
Apprentice Boys in Railroad Shop?, 288
Aqueduct, Nashua, 71
Arch Construction, On the Monier System of, 252
Archibald’s Life Buoy, 301 Argentine Destroyer “Corrientes,” 165
Argentine, Patents and Trade Marks in the, 80
Argentine Republic, Coal Machinery, &c., in, 371
Argentine Torpedo Boat Destroyer at Buenos
Ayres, Arrival of, 95 Argentine, Trade in the, 80
Argon, Messrs. Trowbridge and Richards’ Experi¬ments on, 217
Armour for her Majesty’s First-class Battleships,
Armour for the “ Kearsage ” and " Kentucky,” 4
Armour-piercing Capped Shot, Johnson’s, 110
Armour Plates, Electrically Annealing, 446
Armour Plates, English and Foreign, 416
Armour Plates, Krupp Thin, 634
Armour Plate Prices in the U.S., 441
Armour Plate Rolled in the Queen’s Presence, 557
Armour Plato Tested, Nickel Harveyised Steel, 461
Armour Plate, Trial of Cammell's 6in. Plates, 84
Armour Plate, Vicker’s din. after Trial, 437
Armour Plate in tho U.S., Mr. Chandler and the Price of, 137
Aimour Plates? Who was the Pioneer of, 107
Armour Plates, Witkowitz Steol, 610, 611
Armour and Shot, British and Fore’gD, 369
Armour Test, “ Kearsage,” 586
Armour Trial, A Russian, 213
Armoured Express Burglar Proof Cars, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railway, 291 Armstrong, Captain, 605
Armstrong, Mr. George, His Retirement, 124
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Lim., Messrs., 146
Armstrong and Sir Joseph Whitworth and Co., Amalgamation of the Firms of Sir W. G., 179
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Lim., Sir W. G.,
Activity in the Various Departments of the Works, 377
Armstrong and Co., Lim., Sir W. G., Change of the Company’s Name, 203
Armstrong and Co., Lim., Sir W. G., Chilian Cruiser " Esmeralda,” 320
Army Armament Artificers, 240
Army Railway Council, An, 339
Army Signalling and its Use in War, 455, 468
Arnold and Knowles, Messrs., Experiments on the Permeability to Furnace Gases of Clay Crucibles, 479
Arrol and Co., Lim., Sir W., Redheugh Bridge, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 199
Art and the Motor Car, 597
Artificial Coal Convention, Production and Sale of the, 204
Artil'ery in the Greco-Turkish War, 442
Asbestos, Experiments of Fireproof Materials made from, 559, 570
Asbestos, Mercury and Arsenic, Mr. W. R. . Baldwin-Wiseman, 354
Ashburnham Tin-plate Works, Auction of, 426
Asphalt for Pavements, Towns that Employ, 551
Aspinall, Mr., On Petroleum as Steam Engine Fuel, 538
Assam-Bengal Railway, Construction Work on the, 583, 609, 633
Asselot, M., llis Method of Rendering Celluloid Uninflammable, 83
Associated Chambers of Commerce Invited to meet at Middlesbrough, 253
Association, British Iron Trade:
Presidential Address of Mr. Alfred Baldwin, 485
Association, Cleveland Blast Furnace- men’s :
Members Give in their Notices to Cease Work if the Employers do not Grant the Eight Hours Day, 401
Association, British Steel Smelters’ Amalgamated:
Operations of the Society during the Past Year, 401
Association, British —of British Association.
Association, The Cased Tube Manu¬facturers:
Advance in Wages, Further, 152
Association of Civil Engineering Stu¬dents, Manchester:
Monier System of Arch Construction, Mr. W. B. Worthington on the, 252
Reconstruction and Erection of Latchford Lock Gates, Mr. R. H. Garvie, 199
Visit to the Headquarters cf the Manchester ’ Fire Brigade, 499
Association, The Cleveland Iron¬masters :
Exhibit Representative of the Cleveland Indus¬tries for the Brussels Exhibition, 425
Association, The Coalowners’:
Annual Meeting, 280
Association of Engineers, The Man¬chester:
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Joseph Nasmith, 71
Efficiency and Management of Steam Boilers, Mr. E. J. Duff, 124, 137
Forty-first Annual Dinner, 223
Sir William Bailey’s Remarks at the Annual Dinner, 202
Transmission of Heat through Surfaces, Mr. O. M. Row on the, 252
Use of High-speed Engines for Mill Work, Mr. Mark Robinson, 306
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London:
Experience of a Foreman in the Operation of Technical Education in the Workshop, Mr.W. P. Heath, 387
Forty-Fourth Anniversary Festival, 500
Monthly Meeting, Balance-sheet Discussed, 61
Association of Gas Managers, The Midland :
Carburetted Water Gas Manufacture, Mr. J. i Young on 252
Association of Geologists:
Latest Circular of, 321
Association, The Manchester and Nor¬thern Counties Federation of Coal Traders:
Siding Rent Question, The, 202, 203
Association, The Iron Trades Em¬ployers’ :
Re-organisation of the Manchester Branch of, and its Title, 424
Association of Mechanical Engineers, The Birmingham:
R^oes and Rope Driving, Mr. G. H. Kenyon,
Seventh Annual Dinner, 200
Association of Municipal and County Engineers, The Incorporated :
Construction of the Most Recent Flood-prevention Works at Eastbourne, Mr. Gloyne,
598
Dover Corporation Electric Tramways, Mr. H. E. Stilgoe, 431
Groynes, Mr. A. T. Walmisley, 431
Market Harborougb, Mr. H. G. Coates on the Public Works of, 484
Municipal Works of Llandudno, Mr. E. Paley Stephenson, 626
Ripon City Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works, Mr. H. A. Johnson, 484
Ripon, Twenty-five Years of Municipal Work in the City of, Mr. W. Edson, 484
Some of the Public Works of Dover, Mr. H. E. Stilgos, 431
Twenty-third Voluntary Pass Examination for the Office of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors to District Councils, 342
Association, Municipal Electrical:
Provisional Programme of the Second Annual, Convention, 576
Association, The Papermakers’:
Mr. Lewis Evans at the Annual Meeting on the
Necessity for the Organisation of the Com¬mercial Interest, 319
Association of Students, The Man¬chester:
Discussion of the Question of Examination of Students, 72
Testing of the Strength of Materials, Mr. A. H. Jameson, 153
Association, The Self-Propelled Traffic:
Report of the First Session, 485
Atkinson and Philipson, Messrs., Steam Motor Carriage, 388
Atlantic Cable, On the Making and Laying of an, 291
Atlantic Liners, Some Great, 312
Atlantic Racer, A New, 197
Atlas Engineering Company, Modern Machine Tools, 366, 367
Atlas Oil Engine, Humphries and Co. 's, 639
Atomic Weights, Numerical Relation of, 626
Atmospheric Engine and Humphrey Potter, Th 61
Atmospheric Railway Revived at Baltimore, The OH, 496
Attack on Fortifications by Ship’, 77
Auckland, Park Colliery, in 1895-96, Coal Raised at the, 73
Auction, Colliery Plants and Tin-plate Works to b9 Submitted to Public, 526
Augur, A New Coal, 431
“Augusta Victoria,” The, 4?5
Australia, Railways in, 98
Australia, W., Wharfage and Drainage Plans at Freemantle and Perth, 45
Australian Notes:
45, 98, 225, 500, 580, 650
Australasia, Trade Statistics of, 319
Austria Becomes a Competitor for International Business, 278
Austrian Compound Goods Locomotive, Kaiser Ferdinand Nord Bahn, 241, 242
Austrian Cruiser, Yarrow Boilers for an, 513
Austrian State Railways, Locomotive Engines on the, 131
Austro -Hungarian Agricultural and other Ma¬chinery, Fund for Pushing, 278
Austro-Hungarian Business in Iron Ore, Metals, &c., 500
Austro-Hungarian Mining and Iron Production, The Present, 606
Auto-car Competition at the Brussels Exhibition, 44
Automatic Drainer for Steam Engine Cylinders, 141
Automatic Machine Gun, The Hotchkiss, 414, 415, 416
Automatic Machinery in America, An American Cycle Manufacturer on, 620
Automatic Railway Couplings, 491
Automatic Tools, Introduction of, and Employ¬ment thereon of Unskilled Labour, 401
Average Cylinder Pressure as a Measure of Train Resistance, 244
Avon Navigation Improvement Scheme, 202
Avon, Question of the Navigation of the, Re¬ported on, 628
Axle Breakages on the Motor Cars of Brooklyn Bridge, 391
Axles of Motor Car, on the Fractures of, 496 Axles, Railway, 87
Azima Wheat in the Novorossisk District of Russia, The Last Crop of, 277

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BACTERIOLOGY, The “ James Forrest ” Lecture on, 233
Bacteriology, Sir G. Sims Woodhead on, 445
Bailey and Co.’s Albion Works, Visit to, 216
Bailey, Sir William, at the Dinner of the Man¬chester Association of Engineers, 202 Balanced Locomotive and Engineering Company, New Locomotive to be Tested at Purdue University, 620
Balanced Slide Valves for Locomotives, 90
Balanced Slide Valve, Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de l’Est, 407
Balanced Valves for Locomotives, 107
Balanced Valves, Locomotives in the U.S. with, 620
Baldwin, Mr. W. J., Separation of Oil and Grease from Exhaust Steam, 258
Baldwin-Wiseman, Mr. W. R., on Asbestos, Mercury, Arsenic, 354
Baldwin Works, Locomotives for Japan and China, 57, 263, 375
Baldwin Works, Small Locomotive of a Novel Description, 513
Bile, Mr. Geo. R., Some Graphic Statistics, 27
Billan, Mr., Succeeds Mr. John Bland, 525
Balloon Ascent, Herr Woelfert’s Fatal, 620
Baltic Canal, Reduction of Fees, 52
Baltic Canal, Traffic Through, 513
Baltic Provinces Railway, Extension in the, 513
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, The, 489
Bamboo and Bamboo Wares Export, Japan, 341
Barber, Mr. J. P., On the Proposed Bye-laws of the London County Council with Respect to House Drainage, 247
Barcelona, Importation of Coal into, 570
Barcelona, Tonnage and Cargo Value of British Vessels in the Port of, 570
Barcroft, Mr. Henry, Partially immersed Screw Propellers for Canal Boats, 288
Barker s Compound Crank, 374, 412, 435, 465, 489, 521, 575
Barnard Castle, Borings for Coal, 401
Barnes, Mr. G. N , Annual Reports of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 532, 557
Barnes, Mr., On the Machine and Eight Hours Question, 524, 629
Barr, Mr. John, On Scraping Water Mains, 647
Barr, Professor Archibald, Comparisons of Similar Structures Large and Small, 172
Barrow Corporation Recommend the Purchase of the Tramways and Depót, 496
Barrow, New and Important Departure for the Future of, 451, 475
Barrow Trade - see Wetkiy Notes from Lancashire:
Barus, Dr. Carl, On the Tempering of the Magnetic Parts of Instruments, 496
Bary, Mr. A. R., Thuchof, Water-tube Boilers, 164, 243
Bary, Mr. A. R., Water Tower, Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, 293
Bascule Drawbridge, A, 556
Bates, Mr. L. W., Electro-hydraulic Dredger, 314, 315
Bath and West and Southern Counties Agricultural Show:
List of Prizes issued, 95
Mower, Albion, No. 7, Messrs. Harrison, McGregor, and Co., 549
Thrashing and Clover-hulling Machine, Messr.-. R. Garrett and Sons, 549
Traction Engine, 6-N.H.P., Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 548
Bathurst, Mr. Fred, on the Prevention of Fires duo to the Leakage of Electricity, 295
Batoum District, Consular Report for 1896 on the Agriculture of the, 217
Battery, A New Secondary, 107
Battleships, American, 361
Battleships, Defects in French, 113, 194
Battleship Design, Absence of a Standard in, 54 Battleship, A French, 442
Battleship “Fuji,” The Japanese, 221, 361
Battleships, The Latest American, 412
Battleships, The New Japanese, 317, 351, 613
Battleships, New, 65
Battleships, New American, 20
Battleships, The New Seagoing U.S. {Supplement, April 9th, 1897), 335
Battleship “ Ocean,” The, 192
Battleship, the “ Powerful,” New, 57
Battleship “Renown,” Aluminium Copper Fittirgs for, 35
Battleship “Temeraire,” Refit of the, 35
Battleships, United States, “Wisconsin,” '‘Illi¬nois,” and “Alabama ” (Supplement, January Is?, 1897)
Battleships-*^ <d«> Warships and Ships of War and H.M.S.S., and United States Battleships.
Bavaria, Prof. S. Thomson on the Universities of, 95
Baxter’s, Messrs., Steering Gear, s.s. “Jackdaw ” and “ Comrade,” 246
Beardmore, Mr., Nickel Steel as an Improved Material for Boiler Shell Plates, Forgings, and other Purposes, 406, 420
Bearings of the Marine Engine, 42
Bearings, Vulcanised Graphite, 110
Beaumont Pump Works, Their ‘ ‘ Rapid ” Hori¬zontal Pumps, 499
Beckton, Mr. W. Rushworth, Protection of Buildings, &c., from Fire, 328
Bedell, Dr. F., New Form of Transmission Dynamometer, 593
Bedford Electric Light Committee's Report, 340
Bed-plate, Aluminium, 504, 509
Beer, Mr. Walter, On the Monier System tf Arch Construction, 97, 252
Beeton’s Starting Gear for Vehicles, 352
Behr’s Lightning Express Railway Carriage, 337
Beira, South Africa, Trade of, 413
Belfort, Mr. Ronald, Making and Laying of an Atlantic Cable, 291
Belgian Foreign Trade in Coal and Coke for Two Years, 308
Belgium, Improvement of Ostend Port, Tenders Opened, 482
Belgian Iron Market—see Notes from Germany Belgian Railways, Electric Traction Trials on, 329 Belgian Railway Fares, 439
Belgrade, Tenders Wanted in, 34
Bell, Mr. Thos., His Appointment, 307
Bellamy, Mr. C. V., On the Rainfall of Dominion, West Indies, 509
Belleville Boiler, Mr. Moss’s Attack on the, 359
Belleville Boiler at Sea, A, 575
Belt and Rope Transmissions, M. Dubreuil od, 199
Belting, Mr. F. W. Taylor’s Notes on, 133, 302
Benedict, Dr. Moritz, Denies that the Röntgen
Rays are Dangerous, 461
Benjamin, Prof. C. H., On the Advantages of the Independent Driving System, 373
Benjamin, Prof. C. H., Friction Horse-power in Factories, 21
Bennett, Mr. A. R., A Convection Scope and Calorimeter, 390, 421
Bennett and Sayer, Messrs., Brick-making Plant, Benson, Mr. W. R., 203
Beresford, Capt. the Rt. Hon. Lord Chas., On Fighting Value of Certain of the Older Iron¬clads if Re-armed, 385
Berthelot, M., On the Age of Copper in Chaldea, 237, 593
Berthelot, M., On Researches on Helium, 187
Berthelot, M., on Tools and Weapons of tie Copper Age in Egypt, 237, 593
Bertrand, Mr., Notes on the Combined Open- hearth Process, 508
Bertrand-Thiel Process, The, 28, 43, 129, 166
Bessemer and Basic in Germany, 1883-1896, Pro¬duction in, 652
Bessemer and Co., Limited, Messrs. Henry, Annual Meeting, 203
Bessemer Medal Presented to Sir Fred. Abel, 479
Bessemer Steel Production of tho United States, 263
Bessemer Steel Rail Production, British and American, 496
Bevel Gears, with Rotary Cutters, Cutting, 96
Beyrouth and Damascus Railway, The, 31, 36, 58,
Beyrouth and Damascus Railway, Rack Rail Locomotive for, 58, 97
Bicycle Factory, Electricity in a, 305
Bicycles for the German Army, Supply of, 319
Bicycle Mechanics, 492, 521
Bicycle Tube Manufacture, American, 403
Biera, Coast Defence Works at, 57
Bigler’s Signal Buoy, 495
Bill, Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway, 319
Bill, Manchester Ship Canal Company’s, Material Clauses of, 7
Bills in Parliament, Railway, 87
D-Ü’ Sheffield District Railway Company's, £5
Bill, The Workman’s Compensation, 456
Bingley, Electricity Supply to, 126
Binnie, Mr. A. R., The Black wall Tunnel, 504, 505, 506, 507, 514
Bird, Mr. F. G., Some Noteworthy Exprets Locomotives, 114, 119
Birkenhead Destroyers, The, 550, 567
Birmingham City Council and the Purchase of the Electric Light Supply Company’s Under- taking, 461
Birmingham Corporation and the Question of the Purchase of the Property of the Electrio Lighting Company, 498
Birmingham Criterion Engineering Company. Formation of the, 400
Birmingham, Increased Telephonic Facilities urged by the Postmaster-General to the Liver¬pool Chamber of Commerce, 98
Birmingham Motor Car Club, First Spring Excur¬sion, 498
Birmingham Motcr Omnibus Company, The, 400
Birmingham, New Gasholder for, 252
Birmingham, Small Arms and Metal Company, Interim Dividend declared by, 202
Birmingham, Tame and Rea District Drainage, 98, 628
Birmingham Tramways Company, Overhead Wires not permitted by the Corporation, 628
Birmingham, Tramway Traction for, 252
Births and Deaths, Quarterly Return of Mar¬riages, 496
Births and Deaths Registered In 33
Great Towns of England and Wales, Weekly Returns of:
35, 57, 95, 199, 319, 311, 373, 413, 439, 513, 570, 620 .....
Bismuth from Metals, Separation of, 57
Blaber, Mr. Charles 0., Davil’s Dyke Railway, Brighton. 339, 346
Blackburn, Reduction in the Rate of Charges for Electricity, 374
Blackburn, Shuttle Guard on Looms to be Obli¬gatory, 57
Black Sea and Baltic^Canal, A, 360
Black and Tin-plate Industry of Pennsylvania, Growth of the, 593
Blaekwall Tunnel, The, 400, 504, 505, 506, 507, 514, 572, 576
Blackwood and Gordon, Messrs. Blotting-book, 109
Blaina Tin Works, Strike ended, 378
Blaisdell Paper Pencil, The, 570
Blanahe, M.M., Beyrouth and Damascus Railway, 31,36
Bland, Mr. John, Retirement of, 525
Blankenberghe, Sewerage of, 9, 10, 12, 32, 33
Blast Cupolas, Mr. Thos. D. West on, 522
Blast Furnace Gases, Experiments on the Utilisa¬tion of, 137
Blast Furnacemen and the Eight Hours’ Ques¬tion, The, 307, 557, 651
Blechynden, Mr. Alfred, 213, 227
Blot Secondary Cell, The, 97, 251
Blower, Variable Steam Jet, 192
Blyth, Harbour Dues, Reduction of the, 100
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the
North of England Manufactured Iron Trade, Satisfactory Statistics for November and December, 125
Board of Trade, Committee Appointed by, to Inquire into the Means of Communication in Railway Trains, 496
Board of Trade on Railway Accidents, Reports to, 7. 35
Board of Trade Report, Skilled Labour Market in March, 439
Board of Trade, Retirement of Mr. J. M. Gray and Appointment of Mr. J. A. Rowe, 95
Board of Trade Returns for December, 73
Board of Trade Returns of the Trade Unions and the Unemployed, 570
Board of Trade Summary of Nine Months' Rail¬way Accidents, 112
Boat, Tbe Holland Submarine, 598
Boats of Waterproof Canvas and Rubber in Air¬tight Compartments, 237
Buhler Bros. and Co., Combines with the Volga Steel Works, 125
Boilers, Ancient Pompeiian, 55
Boilers, Belleville and Howdenised, 359
Boiler, The Belleville, Mr. Moss Attacks the, 359
Boilers, Comparative Cost of English and American, 54
Boiler Coverings and their Relative Non-con¬ducting Qualities, 137
Boiler Drilling Machine, Three-head, 45
Boilers, On the Efficiency and Management of Steam, 124
Boiler, Eves’ and Ellis’s, Mr. Gross od, 360
Boiler Explosions Act, Sir M. W. Ridley and the Inquiry into the Working of the, 513
Boiler Explosions in the U.S., Summary of, 319
Boiler Feed Pump Efficiency, 152
Boiler Furnaces, Imperfect Combustion Due to Heavy Fires in, 213
Boilers, On Heat Radiation and Air Leakage in, 109
Boiler Inspection, 21, 270
Boilers Inspection and Registration Bill, 236, 570
Boiler Installations for Passenger Steamer 10,000
Indicated Horse-power, Weights, &c., of, 541
Boiler, A Lancashire, 303
Boilermakers’, and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’ Association, Work Dispute, 47
Boilermakers’ Union, The Case of the, 596
Boiler, Munro’s Steam, 110
Boilers, Navy, 393
Boilers in the Navy, Scotch, 435
Boilers, Niclausse Water-tube, 237
Boiler Owner, A Recalcitrant, 516
Boiler Plates for Gunboats, U.S. Government Specifications for, 263
Boiler on the Road, Alarming Accident at Accrington to a, 199
Boiler-room Labour, Report dealing with the Cost of, 439
Boiler Shells, Forgings, and other Purposes, Nickel Steel for, 406, 420
Boilers, Salt Water in Water-tube, 297
Boiler, The Sandford Vertical, 399
Boiler at Sea, A Belleville, 575
Boilers, Steam, on their Efficiency and Manage¬ment, 137
Boiler, Strong’s Horizontal, 97
Boilers, Suction Draught for Marine, 147
Boiler Tests, 43, 61, 87
Boilers, Thornycroft Water-tube, their Deficient Evaporative Power, 570
Boiler onder 800 lb. per Square Inch, Behaviour of a, 495
Boilers in the U.S. Navy, 493
Boiler Water Purifier, The Carroll, 55
Boilers, Water-tube, 97
Boilers, Water-tube, Earl of Hopetoun on, 359
Boiler, Water-tube, Mr. J. C. R. Okes, 165
Boilers, Water-tube, The Belleville and the Babcock and Wilcox, Tested in the U.S., 56
Boilers, Water-tube, and Liquid Fuel, 277
Boilers, Water-tube, in the Navy, 263
Boilers, Water-tube, at Nijni Novgorod, 164
Boilers, Water-tube, on their Use in the Mercan¬tile Marine, 541
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., Limited, Profit made in 1896, 253
Bollinckx’s Small Clearance Valves, 113
Bolsover Collieries, Accident at, 570
Bolt Heating Furnaces? 595
Bonner, Mr. W. T., On Two Forms of Boilers Constructed 2000 Years Ago, 7
Books Received:
20, 40, 65, 91, 118, 145, 221, 246, 272, 300, 326, 350, 371, 396, 419, 443, 469, 491, 517, 573, 623, 645
Bordeaux, The Question of Electric Traction, 291
Bore Hole io Existence, The Deepest, 74, 496
Bore Hole Pump, Matthew's Deep, 136
Borings, Deep, 644
Borland, Mr. W. D., On Caps and Ignition of Powder, 456
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1896, Exports from, 291
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Railway Construction in, 291
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Total Population of, 291
Boughton, Mr. F. E., 21
Bournemouth Corporation, An Undercliff Drive Projected by, 7
Braila, Tenders Invited for a System of Electric Tramways for, 291
Brake, The Chapsal Electric Air, 217
Brakes, Continuous, Mr. J. H. McDowell on, 273
Braun, Dr. C., New Determination of the Gravitation Constant and Mean Density of the Earth, 641
Brazil, Tenders for the Lease of Government Railways in, 439, 620
Breakage of Propellers and Propeller Shafts, to Form the Subject of a Marine Board Inquiry, 496
Breakdown of Two Westinghouse Engines, 373. 461
Breaking Tests of Long-span Floor Arches, 60, 87
Brewster, Mr. E. H. G., On Refrigeration, 226
Brick Kilns'! 195
Brick and Macadam Paving, 45
Brick-making at Beira, South Africa, 413
Brick-making Plant, Youghal, 97
Bridal Veil Lumbering Company, Railroad with¬out Cars, 421
Brest and Fioisterre, Doubling of the Main Line between, 593
Bridges, American v. English Railway, 640
Bridge, Brisbane, Lamington, 587, 594
Bridge, Brooklyn, 653
Bridge at Buda-Pesth, The Francis-Jcseph, 486, 487, 490
Bridge at Clydach, New Railway, 7
Bridge, Collapse of a Railway, 217
Bridge over the Don, 456, 466, 518, 520, 563
Bridge, Great Eastern Railway, Skinner-street, 222, 223
Bridge, Havanns, The New, 496
Bridges in Hand in India, Important Railway,
Bridge, The Longest in the World, 263
Bridge over the Mississippi River, 556
Bridge, Moving a Railway, 81
Bridge over the Nene, New, 570
Bridge at Newcastle, The New Redheugb, 199, 227, 475
Bridge over the Noe at Town Head, Hope, 373
Bridges at Northwich to be Worked by Electricity, Two, 321
Bridge over the St. Lawrence, Proposed, 124
Bridge, Railway, across the Obi, 342
Bridges, Standardising of Working Loads and Working Stresses of Railway, 578
Bridge, Suspension, New York, 593
Bridge, Swing, New York, 165
Bridge, The Tay, 87
Bridge over the Wear, Proposed New, 475
Bridge Work, Mr. J. A. Macpherson on the Manufacture of High-class, 250 Bridgwater, 232
Bridgwater Colliery, Mr. Dury Mitton on an Underground Fire at, 588
Brighton, Improvement of the Madeira-road Foreshore, 372
Brighton, Steep Grade Railway at the Devil's Dyke, 339, 346
Brighton Waterworks Pumping Engines {Supple¬ment, January ‘i.'i.ntl), 85
Brinnington Junction, Accident at, 163
Brisbane, Lamingham Bridge, 587
Bristol and Inconstant, The, 521
Bristol Tramways, Eastville Branch Opened, 167
Britannia Company, The Plate-flanging Machine, 123
British Ability, 63, 71 British Association, The:
Members Advised to Apply at once for Canadian s.s. Berths, 593
Names of the Presidents of the Different Sec¬tions of the forthcoming Meeting at Toronto, 341
British Channel Squadrons, The, 492
British Coal Imported into France, 319
British Coal Trade v Geiman, 319
British Corporation for Survey and Registry of Shipping, 187
British Electric Traction Company Withdraws its Bill, 354
British Fleet, Tabular Statement of the Entire. 636
British and Foreign Armour and Shot, 369
British and Foreign Guns, 298
British Isles, On the Mean Monthly Temperatures of the, 509
British Mines and Quarries, 552
British Motor Syndicate, The, 34
British Navy, The, 122
British Produce Supply Association, 275
British Trade Maintains its Position in Uru¬guay, 570
British Trade, Three Months of, 395
British Shipbuilding, 359, 360
“Briton,” The Union Mail Steamer, 602
Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway Bill. The, 319, 439
Bronze and Iron Egyptian Implements, Analysis of Some Old, 613
Bronze Tail Shaft, A Heavy, 637
Brooklyn Bridge, 653
Brooklyn Bridge, Electric Motors on the, 72
Brooklyn Timber Dry Dock, The New, 558
“Brooklyn,” U.S. Cruiser, 410, 411
Brooke’s Thermal Regulator, 290
Brooks Locomotive Works, A Heavy Bank Engine,
Brooks Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Japan, 137
Brough, Mr., On Deop Levels in Mining Practice ip the United Kingdom, 536
Browett, Lindley, and Co., Limited, Independent Surface Condensing Plant, 44
Brown, Mr. F. R. F., On the Use of Cast Steel in Locomotive Building, 57
Brown, Sir John, with Portrait, 5
Bruce, Sir G. B., Goods Locomotive, Indian Midland Railway, 618
Brush, A New Automatic, 110
Buchanan, Mr. George, 602
Buda Pesth as a Milling Centre, 263
Buda-Pesth, The New Francis Joseph Bridge at, 486, 487, 490 '
Budleigh-Salterton Railway, The, 523
Buffers, Outside, for Railway Carriages, 43
Bnkarest, Rolling Stock for, 356
Bulgaria, Opening for British Agricultural Machinery, 431
Bulgarian Government Invites Tenders for Rail¬way Line from Rustchuk to Tirnovo, 356
Buluwayo, Railway to, 35
Bunsen Burners, Prof.V. Lewes on the Chemical Actions in, 35
Bunsen Petroleum Burners, The, 35, 195, 275, 326
Bunsen Flame, with Blue and Greenish Inner Cones, Temperatures of a, 57
Benten, Mr. Jas. Clark, Chairman of the Caledonian Railway, 570
Buoy, Archibald's Life, 391 Buoy, Bigler's Signal, 495
Burma, Expenditure on the Railways in, 413
Burma State Railway, New Line, 7
Burma State Railway, Traffic on the, 391
Burn, Mr. Jas., 401
Burnie, M r. B., on “ The Thermo-Electric Pro¬perties of Some Liquid Metals,” 237
Burntisland, 232
Burntisland, New Dtck for, 232, 443 Burntisland Railway Collision, The, 60
Burstall, Mr., Particulars Regarding Iron and Steel-testing Machines, 252
Burstall, Mr. H. R. J., On Underground Electric Mains, 240,252
Bush bury Electric Dog Cart, Th?, 565
Bute Dock Bill, The, 630
Bute Dock Case, The, 526
Bute Docks Co., Inquiry into the Powers Sought by, Completed, 573
Butlin, Mr. Wm., 162
By-product Coke Ovens in Europe, Extended Use of, 480

C

CAHILL, Thaddeus, A Curious Patent, 444
Cailletet’s Apparatus for Capturing Air of the Upper Atmosphere, 237
Cairo, Drainage Works and Tramways, 109
Cable Electric Railway above Los Angelos, Failure of, 641
Cable Laying-on, Rapid, 452, 464
Cable, Proposed New Form of Submarine, 391
Cable Steamer Equipment, Messrs. Johnson and Phillips, 444, 445
Cables, Submarine, 95
Cables, Telephone, Across the Channel, 391
Calcareous Water onlron Pipes, Deleterious Action of, 365
Calcium, Carbide of, 250
Calcium Carbide, Manufacture of. An Augsburg Co., 350
Calcutta, Growing Need of a Central Station, 378
Caledonian Railway Company, Mr. Bolton is Succeeded by Mr. J. C. Bunted, 504 *California, Cable Electric Railway, Sierra Madre Mountains, Unsuccessful, 641 *California, Long Distance Electrical Transmission, 238, 239
Calthrop, Mr. E. R., on Light Railways, 246
Cambrian Engine Albion, 167
Cambrian Engine as Applied to Locomotives, 140
Cambrian Railway Accident, 620
Cambrian Railway Company’s Half-yearly Meet¬ing, 254
Cambrian Railways, Conference at Welshpool, Camera Club, 1 he, 262
Cameron’s Steoring Gear, Japanese Battleship “ Fuji,” 363
Cammell and Co., Limited, Annual Meeting of, 355
Cammell and Co., Limited, Messrs. Chas., Issue of their Report, 331
Cammell and Co., Limited, Messrs. Chas., Steel Permanent Way for the Mexico and Pacific Railway, 451
Cammell’s 6in. Plates, Trial of, 84
Campbell, Mr. F. A., Oil Works of the Victorian Railway Department, Australia, 138 Cauada, Imports of, 263
Canada, Railways in, The Crow’s Nest Railway,
Canadian Government, Project for Deepening the
Canal System, 338, 354
Canadian Tariff, The New, 442
Canal Barge, A Wrecked, 146
Canal, A Black Saa and Baltic, 360
Canal Bursts its Banks, The Macclesfield, 137
Canal Communication from the Midlands to the Sea, 311
Canal, The Dortmund, Ems, 496
Canal, The Erie, 305
Canal, A Japanese, 509
Canal Lift, An Inclined Plane, 81
Canal, Manchester Ship, 95, 99, 226, 232 Canal Navigation, 511
Canal, The Nira Irrigation, 135, 136, 188, 184, 234, 235
Canal System in Canada, Deepening of the, 838, 354
Canal, Trent and Mersey, 232
Canal, United States Ship, 177
Canet Quick-fire Guns for the Greek Navy, 189 193
Cantor Lectures on Alloys, The Next Course of. 272 ’
Cantor Lectures, Professor J. B. Lewes on Car¬bide of Calcium and Acetylene, 51
Cape Colony, The Electric Industry in, 396
Cape Railways, Sir J. Sivewright, 57
Capell, The Rev. G. M., on Mine Ventilation, 306
Capillary Tubes, Viscous Flow in, 1
Caps and Ignition of Powder, Mr. W. D. Borland on, 456
Capstan Gear, H.M.S. “ Prince George,”78, 79
Carbide of Calcium, 250
Carbide of Calcium and Acetylene, 51
Carbolic Acid for Tempering Steel Tools, 199
Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide on Aluminium, Action of, 163
Carborundum Crystals to Replace Diamonds in the Production of Finely-divided Scales, Use of, 641
Carburetted Water Gas, 366
Carburetted Water Gas, Mr. C. Woodall on, 542
Carburetted Water Gas Manufacture, Mr. J. Young on, 252
Car Couplings Patented in the United States, 319
Car Ferries of the Great Lakes of America, 132
Car Lighting by Electricity, 627
Cars, Armoured Express Burglar Proof, 291
Cars, Immense Ore, 375
Cars in New York, Trial of Compressed Air, 217
Cardiff Electric Tramways, The, 373, 426
Cardiff Water Supply, The Taff Vawr Reservoir, 630
Carey, Mr. A. E., On Concrete in Relation to Marine Works, 533
Carpenter and Poole, Messrs., Experimental Study in Connection with Electrical Con densers, 7
Carrickfergus Railway Station Destroyed by Fire, 95
Carrington, Mr. W., Various Types of Ropeways 216
Carroll Boiler Water Purifier, The, 55
Carsbalton Main Drainage, 342
Carswell, Mr. Jas., 109
Carter Torpedo, Trial of the W. T., 584
Carter, Mr. Tremlett, Gas Engine Cycle, 461
Case, Mr. W. E., On Electricity from Carbon without Heat, 341
Casebourne, Mr. C. T., 525
Cask-making Machinery ? 347
Casteele, Mr. Van De, Blankenberghe Sewerage Works, 9, 10, 12, 32, 33
Cast Iron Investigated, The Phenomena of, 413
Casting Cattle, Competition for, 368
Casting Pig Iron, New Method of, 556
Casting of Steel Stern Frame and Bracket of the New “ Oceanic,” 588
Catalogues:
8, 9, 48, 118, 150, 225, 240, 262, 402, 498, 526, 578, 623
Catalogues, Consuls on, 493
Cell, The Blot Secondary, 97, 251
Celluloid Rendered Uninflammable, 83
Cellulose, Corn Pith, 9
Cement Floors, 295
Cement Kilns, Chimneys for, 213
Cement, Tests of, 305
Census in France, Population of the Towns, 439
Central Attraction, Mr. R. W. Wood’s Experi¬ments on, 413
Central Electric Station Driving, Manchester, 401
Central London Railway Company, New Site for Station in Oxford-street, 57
Central London Railway, Progress of the Work, 620
Central Marine Engine Works, Hartlepool, 94
Centre Board for Large Steam Vessels, 465
Certificated EDginemcn, 220
Ceylon, 597
Ceylon, Railways in, 95
Ceylon Railway Department, Annual Report, 109
Chain Cable Train, The Question Raised of Bogus Certificates in the, 474
Chain, Method of Taking up the Stretching of a, 252
Chairs, Ventilation Through the Legs of, 7
Channel Tunnel, 495
Channel Tunnol Project Abandoned, 57
Chapman, Mr. Hedley, 425
Chapsal Electric Air Brake, Trial of the, 217
Charging Opsn-hearth Furnaces by Machinery, On, 508
Chase Pneumatic Cycle Tire, The, 8
Chatham and Dover Company’s Continental Service Through Trains, Trains from the North connected with, 391
Cheltenham, Electric Lighting of, 178
Chemical Composition Stipulated for Steel Rails, New York Central Railway, 291
Chemical Manufacture, The Northern, 272
Chemistry, 1896, 19
Chemistry, London County Council’s Report on the Teaching of, 391
Chesterfield and Clowne to Lincoln, Through Line from, 263
Chesterfield Viaduct, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway. 264, 265, 288
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, Fast Run on the, 266
Chicago, Fires Attributed to Electricity in, 413
Chicago Railway Stations, Subway to Connect the, 413
Chicago Shipbuilding Company, Quadruple-ex¬pansion Engines for the Crescent City, 137
Chili, Iron Manufacture in, 427
Chili, Railway Extension in, 35
Chilian Cruiser “Esmeralda,” First-class, 320, 328
Chili, Government Subvention Granted to Iron Foundries in, 513
Chilian Government Telegraph Lines, 57
Chilian Torpedo Boats, 198
Chimneys for Cement Kilns, 213
Chimney at Manhanset, New York, Moving of a Large Brick, 593
China, American Locomotives for, 423
China, Industrial Development in Connection with Railway Enterprise, 620
China, Railways in, 117, 257, 551, 570, 597, 620
China, Railways in, Contract with a Belgian Syndicate, 570
China, Railway under Contemplation in, 620
Chinese Eastern Railway, The New, 7
Chinese Eastern Railway, Mr. Yugowitch Ap¬pointed Chief Engineer, 95
Chinese Navy, Re-organisation of the, 422
Chinese Railways, Difficulties in the Way of the Construction of Projected, 199
Chinese, Railways and Locomotives for the, 551
Chinese Railway in Progress, 257
Chinese Treaty Ports, 644
Chinese Warships, New, 201
Chrimes, Mr. Richard, 451
Christiania, Competitive Plans of Station Arrangements asked for, 217
Christiania Gasworks Invito Tenders for C-d Iron Pipes, 461
Chronograph, A New, 462
CLionomoters and Deck Watches under Test at the Greenwich Observatory, 620
Church Car ou the Trans-Siberian Railway, 551
Circular Chain Syndicate, Particulars Relating to, Circum-Etna Railway, Travelling Crane, 530, 531
City Improvement, Widening of Newgate-streot, 8, 35
City and West End Railway Bills, The London Corporation decides to Oppose the, 391
City and West End Riilwav, and Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Cos., Undertake to Insulate their Return, 217
Civil Engineering, 1896, 13
Civil Engineers, Examination Test for, 43
Civil Engineers, Institution, A New Departure with Regard to Admission to Membership, 349
Clacton-on-Sea, Projected Enlargement of the Pier at, 496
Clapham junction, Trains Passing Through, 163
Clarke, Chapman, and Co., Messrs., Capstan Gear, H.M.S. “ Prince George,” 78, 79
Clarke, Mr. T. C., Swing Bridge, New York, 1 ho
Clays Used for Making Bricks and Pottery, 173
Cleland, Mr. Wm., On the Phenological Observations of the Last Year, 209
Cleveland Ironstone Miners, Advance in Wages asked by, 73
Cleveland Tram-car Accident, 43
Clipper Pneumatic Tire Co., Particulars relating to, 278
Clirehugh, Mr. S. V., on The Transmission of Power in Factories by Electricity, 524
Clouds, On the Formation of, 35
Clowes, Prof. F., on the Detection of Inflam¬mable Gas and Vapour on Board Ships, 137
Clutch, Lindsay’s Patent, 423
Clyde Navigation Dangers, 44
Clyde Navigation Trustees, Change in the Dues for Coal from Glasgow Harbours, 308
Clyde Shipbuilding Yard, Fire at a, 163, 180
Clyde Shipwrights, Advance in Wages, 204
Clyde Shipyards, Output of April, 461
C each builders’ Exhibition, A, 589
Coal Auger, A New, 431
Coal Cargoes, Dangers to which Ships are Liable Carrying, 650
Coal and Coke, German Foreign Trade in, 332
Coal Consumption Trial at Natural and Forced Draughts, 237
Coal Convention, the Artificial Production and Sale of the, 204
Coal at Dover, Prof. Boyd Dawkins on, 178
Coal in 1896, 30
Coals for France, 154
Coal-handling Machinery, 251
Coal Imported into France, British, 319
Coal Imported into Hamburg, 95
Coal Machinery, &c., in the Argentine Republic,
Coal Mines Explosions, Remarks on, 175
Coal Mines after Explosions, Suggested Rules for the Recovery of, 583
Coal Mines, Explosives in, 640
Coal in Mines, Apparatus for Breaking Down, Mr. Jas. Tonge, 524
Coal Mines Regulation Act. The Home Secretary’s Order under Section 6, 7
Coal Mines Regulation Bill, Probable Results of, 280
Coal Mining, Electricity in, 273 Coal Mining in Japan, 319
Coal for Norwegian State Railways, Tenders Invited for, 199
Coal Output, Scheme for the Control of the, 254, 280, 476
Coal Output, Schemes for Controlling the, Mr. D. A. Thomas and Sir W. T. Lewis, 204
Coal Control Output Scheme, Mr. Brale's Sugges¬tion, 332
Coal Output, English, American, German, Aus¬trian, Hungarian, French, and Russian, 48
Coal Output Returns, Wales, 254
Coal Output in the United States, 1893-95, Aver¬age, 237
Coal Output in Welsh Collieries, Question of the Control of, 402
Coal Production in the Dortmund District, 593
Coal Production in England in 1895, 237
Coal on Prussian State Railways, New Tariff for the Carriage cf, 513
Coal, Steel and Iron in 1896, 9
Coal Trade, The, 145
Coal Trade, British v. German, 319
Coal Trade Prospects for the Year, 74
Coal Trade in 1897? What of the, 39
Coal Trade, Railway Nationalisation in Relation to the, 216
Coal Trade in Silesia, 154
Coalfields, Mishaps in the Welsh, 48
Coalfield, Some Interesting Features of the South Wales, 201
Coates, Mr. H. G., on the Public Baths of Market Harborough, 484
Coating Ships’ Bottoms, Mr. R. Altschul’s Com¬position for, 461
Cocbus, Railway Traffic to and from, 496
Coil Clutch, Lindsay's Patent, 423
Coinage Issued by the Royal Mint in 1896, 35, 95
Coke as a Filtering Medium, 7
Coke, Manufacture of, 207, 231
Coke Ovens in Europe, Use of By-product, 480
Cold Storage at the London and East India Docks, Mr. H. F. Donaldson, 200
Cold Store Doors ? 595
Coldrenick Viaduct, The Fatal Accident at, 187, 291
Cole, Marchant, and Morley’s Sarface Condenser, 552
Collapsible Tubes 1 143
Colliery at Aston, Important New, 226
Collieries, Derbyshire and Notts, 221, 418
Colliery Disaster in Wales, 48
Colliery Extension in Derbyshire, 418
Colliery Floatation, The Next Important, Wales, ' 254
Colliery Flooded, Messrs. Walter S:ott and Co.’s, i 500
Colliery Plant to be put up to Auction, 652
Colliery Surface Labour in Yorkshire, 91
Collision, Burntisland Railway, 60
Collision on the Great Eastern Railway, 95
Collision in the Hamoaze between the "Confiance ” and a Barge, 95
Collision between H.M. Cruiser “Blenheim” rmd_the “France,” 109
Cologne cShiitd Station, Report of the Working of, 95
Colomb, Admiral, On the Future of the Torpedo, 589, 595
Colorado, Railway Mileage in 439
Combe, Barbour and Combe, Messrs., Double¬ending Machine, 146
Combustion, Due to Heavy Fires, Imperfect, 213
Communication between Railway Passengers and Officials to be Inquired into. Means of, 496
Companies Floated in Wales, New, 74
Compressed Air Care in New York, Trial Run of, 217
C impressed Air and Electric Traction on New York Street Railway, 127
Compressed Air Fog Horns, 604
Compressed Air Locomotive, 424
Compressed Air Locomotive, The Hardie, 95
Compressed Air Locomotive for New York, 95
Compressed Air Machine Tools, American, 177
Compressed Air, Operation of Machine Tools by, 612
Compressed Air with Steam, Question of the Admixture of, 319
Compression of Air by the Direct Action of Water, 612
Compressor, A Waterfall Air, 251
Concrete in Relation to Marine Works, Mr. A. E. Carey, 533
Concrete in Relation to Marine Works, Mr. John Kyle on, 533
Condensation under Difficulties, 369, 387, 416, 438, 465
Condenser, The Frasor, 372
Condenser, Independent Surface, 552
Condensing Plant, Independent, 44
Condensing Plants, On Separate, 538
Conference of the Members of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 515
Ccngo State, General Commercial Movement of, 1896, 413
Congolese Rubber Imports into Antwerp, 35 Connell's Motor Car, 566
Consett Iron Company, Interim Dividend An¬nounced by, 125
Construction, The Monier System of, 97
Consuls on Catalogues, 493
Consuls and Competition, 219, 248, 275
Continuous Brakes, Mr. J. H. McDowell on, 273
Contracts in Japan, 368
Contract, A Large Dredging, 360
Contract for Redheugh Bridge, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 199
Control-of-Output Question at Cardiff, 126
Control-of-the-Output Scheme, End of the, 643, 652
Control-of-the-Coal-Output Scheme, The, 280
Convection Scope and Calorimeter, A, 390, 421
Conveyer, Thompson’s Universal, 602
Conveyer, Thompson’s, Erratum in Description,
Cooper, Mr. J. H., on the Performance of Two- cylinder Compound Locomotives on American Railways, 152
Cooper, Mr. R. E., Chesterfield Viaduct, Lanca¬shire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 264, 265, 288
Cooper, Mr. R Elliott, on the Location and Cost of Working Pioneer Railways, 539
Copper Age in Egypt, On Tools and Weapons of the, 593
Copper in Chaldea, On the Age of, 237
Copper, Exports from, 199
Copper from Green Water, 232
Copper Mining and Engineering, 395
Copper Pan, An Euormous, 413
Copper, Separation of Mercury from, 57
Copper-sheathed Passenger Coach, A, 231
Copper Used Prior to Bronze for Making Tools, 237
Copperthwaite, Mr. Harold, on Rails and Per¬manent Way, 533
Cordite Case, The, 241, 270
Cordite in India, Manufacture of, 496
Cordite, Storage of, 144
Cores. Temperature at which to Dry and Bake, 109 ' ’
Corliss Engine, Messrs. W. II. Hopper, 106, 108,
Corliss Engine Cylinder, 113
Corn Pith Cellulose, American, 9
Corngreaves Furnace Company, New Furnace to be Started by, 124
Cornices, Danger of Projecting Stone, 137
Cornwall, On the Prospects of Deep Mining in, 537
Cornwall Railway, Accident on the, 163
Correction, A.—see, 164, 243
“ Corrientes ” Boiler, Interior of Steam Chamber. 301
Corrugated Disc Steel Pulley, 301 Corrugated Pulley 329
Corscaden, Mr. Thos., A Wrought Steel Pulley, 647
Cortecine for Steel Decks, 163
Corundum and Steel Tested, Relative Strength of, 461
Costs of Patent Cases, 327
Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, Inquiry into the Working of, 291
Cotton Industry of Lombardy, The, 592
Cotton-spinning Industry in North and South Carolina and Georgia, 413
County Council Projects, 143
Couplings, Automatic Railway, 491
Coupling for Winding or Hauling Engines, A Spring, 175
Coventry Gear Case and Belting Company, Par¬ticulars Relating to, 278
Coventry Sewage Disposal Scheme, 573
Cradock and Co., Messrs. G., Wire Rope made by, 109
Cramp, Mr. H. P., on American Corn Pith Cellulose, 9
Cramp, Messrs., Steam Yacht, 245
Crane at Dowlais Worked by Electricity, The Travelling, 74
Cranes, Immense Travelling, 71
Cranes and Lifts, Electric, 362
Cranes, Safety Hooks for, 43, 122
Crane, 30-Ton Steam Travelling, 321
Crane, A Titan, 241
Crank for Cycles, Barker’s, 374, 412, 435, 463, 489, 521, 575
Crater of an Electric Arc, On the Effect of Pressure in the Surrounding Gas on the Temperature of the, 373
Crewe, Fifty Compound Locomstives Ordered at, 109
Crimp _ and Worth, Messrs., On the Main Drainage of London, 250
Crossley, Mr. Francis Wm., 351
Crossley Bros., Limited, Oil Engine Department, 355
Crow’s Nest Pass Railway, Question of the, 257

Croydon Water Supply, The, 593

Crucibles, Permeability to Furnace Cases of Clay, 479
Cruisers “Amphitrite,” “Argonaut,” and “Ariadne,” Details of the, 109
Cruiser “ Brooklyn,” The U.S., 410, 411
Cruiser "Esmeralda,” First-clats Chilian, 320, 328
Cruiser “Niobe,” The New, 211
Crutchley and Snell, Messrs., On Rapid Cable Laying for War Purposes, 452, 464 Crystallisation and Electricity, 601
Cuban Sugar Output in 1897, 40
Cummins, Mr. W. R., High Pressure for Marine Engines, 418
Currency Reform, The U.S., 6C6
Cutlers’ Company’s Enterprise to Protect the Manufactures and Name of Sheffield, 30 Cutting of Bevel Gears with Rotary Cutters, Experimental Investigation of the, 96 Cutting Raw Rubber into Slices, Machine for, 330
Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, The, 381, 429, 440, 457
Cycles, Automobiles, &c., in Vienna, Exhibition of, 95
Cycles, Barker’s Compound Crank for, 374, 412, 435, 465, 489
Cycle Brakes, Mr. George Turton’s Patent, 47
Cycle Construction, Mr. Alf. Marshall, 409
Cycle, Gas Eogine, Mr. Tremlett Carter’s, 461
Cycle Production, Increase of, 306, 330
Cycle Show, Birmingham, The, 124
Cycle Tire, The Cha e Pneumatic, 8
Cycle Trade Boom, The, 72, 179, 498
Cycle Trade, Impetus given to the Steel Trade by the, 72
Cycles by Train, Van for Conveyance of, 95
Cycle Tube Joining, Machine to Dispense with Brazing, 124
Cylinder, Joy’s Patent Assistant, 619
Cylinder Pressure, Average, as a Measure of Train Resistance, 244
Cylinders for Valve Gear, Assistant, 150
Cyprns, Railway for, 35, 413
Czekelius, Mr. Aurel, The New Francis-Joseph Bridge, 486, 487, 490

D

DAIMLER Co.’s Motor Cars, The, 124
Duluth to New York, Cost of Carryirg a Barrel of Flour from, 237
Dam, the Croton, near New York, 136
Dam, an Iron-plated, 71
Danish State Railways, 291
Danish State Railway Authorities, Steel Rails Likely to be Required by, 278
Danube Cataracts for Power Production, Exclusive
Use of the, Acquired by a German, 627
Darlington Forge, Steel Stern Frame Casting. 588
Darlington Steel and Iron Company, Limited, Liquidation, 401
Darlington Steel and Iron Company, The Liqui¬dator’s C rcular to the Shareholders, 253
Darlington Steel and Iron, the Reconstruction Pronounced Impossible by Mr. W. B. Peat, 425 538’ °n ®ePara^e Condensing Plants,
Davey, Mr. Hy., on Water in Deep Shafts, 536
Davidson’s Direct-acting Steam Pumps, 216
Dawkins, Prof. W. Boyd, on the Coal Measures at Dover, 178
Dawkins, Prof. W. B., on the Relation of Geology to History, 295
Dawson, Mr. Geo., Presentation to, 461
Day, Summers, and Co., Sheers for Haulbowline Dockyard, 613
Dearne Valley Railway Company’s Bill, The, 513
De Bergue and Co., Multiple Punching Machine and Other Works in Progress, 451 Decimal System, The, 21
Decimal System in Engineering Measurement, Capt. Sankey on the, 573
Decks of Warships, Cortecine for Covering the, 163
Deeley, Mr. R. M., Superficial Tension and Lubri¬cation, 157, 198
Deeley, R. M. and C. E. Wolff, Viscous Flow in Capillary Tubes, 1
Deep Borings, 644
Deep Levels in Mining Practice in the United Kingdom, Mr. Broogh on, 536
Deep Mining Prospects in Cornwall, 537
Defacqz, M. Ed., Wolfram Reduced by Carbon in the Electric Furnace, 57
Defects in French Battleships, 113, 194
Deleterious Action of Calcareous Water on Iron Pipes, 365
Denaby Sinking Pump, The, 216
Denny and Dunipace Sewage Works, 316
Denny and Dunipace Sewage Works, Mr. J. Fer¬guson, 261
Denver, High Masonry Dam, 375
D6I593and Ashbourne, L;ght Railway between,
De Ridder’s Flue Gas Sampling Apparatus, 627
Designs Applied for aftho Patent-office, 1896, 413
Destroyer “ Corrientes,” The Argentine, 165
Detonators, Mr. W. J. Orswan on the Best Class of, 524
Devil’s Dyke Railway, Brighton, 339, 346
Devonport, Dredging with Explosives, 450
Dewar, Prof., On Liquid Air as an Agent of Research, 496, 513
Dewrance, Mr. John, Marine Engine Bearings, 42
Diagrams from the Engines of H.M.S. “Power¬ful,” 130
Diamond Jubilee Pit, Turning of the First Sod of a New Shaft, 354
Diamonds, The Manufacture of, 348
Diaries, Calendars, &c., 4, 31, 113
D:atto Surface Contact Electric Tramway at Tours, 217
^'^109' ^r' J'* on London Water Supply,
Dibdin, Mr. W. J., on the Purification of the Thames, 250
Dibdin, Mr. W. J., His Resignation, 291
Dick’s Anti-fouling Composition on the “Scotia,” Explosion of, 57
Dielectric Stresses, Competition for Experiments . Confirming Maxwell’s, 391
Dines, Mr. W. H., on the Relation between Cold Periods and Anti-Cyclonic Conditions of Weather in England during Winter, 426
Dingle Station, Railway Accident at, 641
Disclaimer, A, 167, 198
Disinfectant, Izal as a, 425
Distortion cf Indicator Diagrams, Prof. Gots cn the Causes of the, 439
Diversion of the Periyar, 113
Diving Bell Rock Dredger, 41
Dixon and Thwaite, Messrs., Experiments on the Utilisation of Blast Furnace Gases, 137
Dock at Aberdeen, Graving, 482
Doek Accommodative n at Antwerp, Extension of 3
Dock, Dankirk, Improvements at, 481
Dock Entrance of St. Nazaire, The New, 391
Dock, Floating, for the Spanish Government, 163, 179
Dock and Harbour Improvement, Burntisland, 443
Dock, Hull, New Gates for the Albert, 482
Docks, The Kidderpur, 217
Dock at New York, Need of a Dry, 137
Dock Pumping Machinery, 544, 549
Dock and River Bills, Summary of, for the Coming Session, 105
Dockyards for Japan, 95
Dominion Government's Contract for a Fast Atlantic Steamship Service, 413
Dominion Government, Railway Enterprise En¬couraged, 641
Dominion, West Indies, On the Rainfall of, 509
Don, Bridge over the, 456, 466, 518, 520, 663
Donaldson, Mr. H. F., Cold Storage at the London and East India Docks, 200
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, On Important Questions in the Economic Working of Steam Engines and Boilers, 537
Dorman, Mr. C. M., Inaugural Address dealing with the Principles of Radiation, 72
Dortmund District, Coal Production in the, 593
Dortmund-Ems Canal, Approaching Completion of, 496
Double-cutting Planing Machines, On, 263
Double-ending Machine, A, 146
Dover Collieries, Accident at the, 263
Dover Electric Tramways, Mr. H. E. Stilgoe, 431
Dover-Ostend Service, The, 464
Dover, Public Works of, Mr. H. E. Stilgoe on, 431
Dowlais, Accident at, 426
Dowlais Fitters’ Strike, Cost of the, 48
Dowlais Works, Electric Plant at, 526
Dowlais Company’s Difficulty with its Colliers ended, 180
Dowlais Company, Meeting of Colliers, 48
Dowson, Mr. J. E., on Gas for Power Purposes, 542
Dowson, Mr. J. E., on Metric Weights and Measures, 237
Doxford and Sons, Cargo-carrying Vessels for the Clan Line, 48
Dragon Fly Bicycle, The, 179
Drainage, House, Proposed Bye-law3 of the London County Council with respect to, 247
Drainage of London, On the Main, 250
Drainer, Automatic, for Steam Engine Cylinders,
Draught, Forced v. Suction, 213
Draught, Induced, 175, 194,196
Drawbridge, A Bascule, 556
Dredger, Electro-hydraulic, Mr. L. W. Bates, 314, 315
Dredging Contract, A Large, 360
Dredging with Explosives at Devonport, 450
Dredging Gold-bearing Gravel, 375
Dredging at Natal, 52
Dredging on the Rhine, Rock, 41
Drill, Liesen’s Rock, 329
Drilling and Boring Machine, Radial, Messrs. J. Spencer and Co., 613
Drilling Machine, Three-head Boiler, 45
Drilling Steel with Drills having Tubes containing Oil, 391
Driving System, On the Advantages of the In¬dependent. 373
Drummond, Mr., Locomotive for the London and South-Western Railway Company, 291
Drunkenness among Boilermakers, 558
Dry Dock at New York, Need of a, 137
Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway, The, 439
Dublin and Lucan Steam Tramway, The, 519
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, The Electric Tramway v., 413
Dubreuil, M., On Belt and Rope Transmissions. 199 ’
Duckham Patent Pneumatic Grain Elevator
“ Garryowen ” for Limerick (Supplement, Feb¬ruary VZth, 1897), 193
“Ductor” Combined Nail-making and Box Nail¬ing Machine, 40
Duff, Mr. E. J., On the Efficiency and Manage¬ment of Steam Boilers, 124, 137
Duller Smoke Absorption Apparatus, The, 523
Dunkirk, Dock Improvements at, 481
Dunkirk, Maritime Improvements at, 78
Dunlop Company’s Works, Strike at, 98
Dunn, Mr. Jas., Appointed Director of Messrs. Vickers, Son, and Co.. 524
Dunston Iron and Steel Works for Sale, The, 629
Duplex Wheel Lathe, Messrs. Jas. Spencer’ and Co., 613
Durham College of Science, The Experimental Engines at the, 89, 92, 104
Durham Miners' Association and the Federation of Great Britain, The Talked-of Amalgamation of the, 125
Durham Miners’ Federation Board, Claim for Advance in Wages, 355
Durston, Mr. Albert, Recent Trials of the
“ Powerful” and “ Terrible,” 359, 363
Dutch Guiana Duty Free, Importation of Tools and Machinery for Gold Mining into, 439
Dynamical Terminology, 248, 274, 275, 294, 327, 345, 367, 386, 412, 465, 489, 556
Dynamite Disaster at Plymouth, 6
Dynamite, Disastrous Explosion of, 217
Dynamite Explosion in Devonport Harbour, The, Dynamite, On the Influence of Heat on, 513
Dynamo-Electric Machinery and Electric Lamps, Import Duties in Foreign Countries, 200
Dynamometer, Froude, Durham College of Science, Dynamometer, New Form of Transmission, 593
Dynamos, On Turbines Applied to, 543

E

EAGLE Foundry at Stockton Re-opened 47
Eagle Ironfoundry and the Oxbridge Foundry, 73
Earth's Magnetic Field, 163
Earth, A New Determination of the Gravitation Constant and Mean Density of the, 641
Eastbourne, The Flood-prevention Works in, 598
East China Railway Company Comes into Existence, 202
East Coast Route to Scotland, 249, 275, 295
East Ferry Read Engineering Works, Pneumatic
Elevator “Ga-ryowen " (Supplement, Februari/ 19M, 1897), 193
East River, United States, New Bridge over the. 627
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Limited, Issuo of Stock, 485
Easton, Anderson, and Goolden’s Exhibit at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 599
Easton and Anderson Ram, The, 211 "^3^ar’S ” Stokeh°ld8, The Ventilation of the,
Edison Company of Milan, Increased Capital of the, 551
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Pater¬son, Fireproof Flooring in their Power Station, 237
Edison's System for Electrically Separating Metallic Iron from its Surroundings, 74
Educational Facilities on Board the Recruiting and Training Ships, Additions made to the, 217
Edwards, Mr. Clement, Railway Nationalisation in Relation to the Coal Trade, 216
Egypt, Important Public Works to be Undertaken in, 604
Egypt, On Tools and Weapons of the Copper Age in, 593
Eight Hours, 516
Eight Hours for Miners, 468
Eight Hours Question and the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers, 579
Eight Hours Question, Mr. Barnes on the, 629
Eight Hours Question at the Blast Furnaces in the North, 579 1897, 13
Eiffel Tower at New Brighton, 122
Elastic Journal Packing for Axle Boxes, The Patent, 125
Elbe, Rectification of the, 620
Electric Air Brake, The Chapsal, 217
Electric Carriage, An American, 8
Electric Central Station Working, Mr, P. W. McDougall on, 8
Electric Condensers, Experimental Study in Connection with, 7
Electric Construction Company, Continuous Current Multipolar Dynamo for the Man¬chester Corporation, 401
Electric Currents, Polyphase, 284, 327
Electric Driving, Utilisation of Multiphase Currents in, 6
Electric Energy at 2d. per Unit, The St. Pancras Vestry Agrees to Supply, 109
Electric Engineering, 1896, 17
Electric Express Underground Line for London, 163
Electric Governor, The Replcgle, 3
Electric Hansom, An, 350
Electric Haulage of Certain Belgian Railways, Working by, 257
Electric end Horse Traction Tramways in Hanover, 551
Electric Healing of the Generating Station of the Niagara Falls Power Company, 413
Electric Industry, The, 69
Electric Industry in Cape Colony, The, 396
Electric Industry in France, Progress of the, 551
Electric Installation Rules, 40
Electric Installation and Supply, Prescriptions of the Soc. des Electriciens Suisse for, 641
Electric Interlocking the Block and Mechanical Signals on Railways, 147, 167, 186, 276
Electric Lift, Messrs. Easton, Anderson, and j Gooiden, 599
Electric Lifts and Cranes, Mr. H. W. Ravenshaw on, 362
Electric Lift Engine, Compound, Messrs. E. Scott 1 and Mountain, 588, 599
Electric Light and Other on British and French 1 Coasts, 319
Electric Light Extension Projects, Manchester, 620
Electric Light Installation for West Hartlepool, 1 593
Electric Light for Cheltenham, 178
Electric Light for Leeds, 137
Electric Light for Leith, 593
Electric Light for Malta, 7
Electric Light for Manchester, 551
Electric Light Plant, Paterson, 277
Electric Light on Swiss Railways, 513
Electric Lighting Company of Birmingham, The, 498
Electric Lighting Plant for Ships of War, 436
Electric Mains, Underground, 240
Electric Mains, Underground, Mr. Burstall on,
Electric Motor Cars, Electric Energy at 2d. per Unit, 109
Electric Motors on the Brooklyn Bridge, 72
Electric Motors in a Factory, 604
Electric Plant, London Central Railway, 587
Electric Power Station for the London Underground Lines, 391
Electric Power Stations in Germany, on the Alternating and Continuons Current Systems, Percentage of, 95 I
Electric Power Supply for Madeira, 439
Electric Power Transmission from Niagara Falls, 45
Electric Power Transmission' Plant at Traverse City, U.S.A., 627
Electric Railway between Detroit and Port Huron, 341
Electric Railway, The Dublin and Lucan, 439
Electric Railways, London, Underground, 200, 373, 391
Electric Railway, South London, 200
Electric Resistance Wire, A New, Messrs. W. T. Glover and C'o., 227
Electric Safety Lamp for Mines, 72
Electric Ships of Marvellous Speed, 163
Electric Shunting Locomotive in the United States, 162
Electric Supply Companies of London in 1896, Capital Expenditure of, 64
Electric Supply Station, Harrogate, 439
Electric Supply Stations of the United Kingdom, The Electrician'.i Supplement on the, 35
Electric Traction, Bristol Tramways, 167
Electric Traction Question, Bordeaux, 291
Electric Traction for Railways, U.S.A., 627
Electric Traction for Tramways, 267 >n
Electric Traction Trials on Belgian Railways, 329
Electric Training and Testing Institution, 113 >8
Electric Tranicars, SiDgle Wire Distribution for, :o 109
Electric Tramway, Diatto Surface Contact, 217
Electric Tramways at Barcelona, English . Bel¬ie gian Competition, 620
Electric Tramways for Braila, 291
Electric Tramways, The Cardiff, 373
Electric Tramways, The Dover, 431
Electric Tramways at Havre, 319
Electric Tramway for Monaco, 518
Electric Tramway Pole, Fountain of Water Spring- iting from the Top of an, 598
Electric Tramways with Underground Conductors,
Electric Tramway, Willoughby, New South Wales, 319
Electric Transmission of Power in a Colliery, Mr. Gorchot on, 603
Electric Transmission, Long Distance, Between a, Folsom and Sacramento, 590
Electric Transmission of Power in Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding, 446
Electric Transmission Water-power Plant, Fresno, in California, 238, 239
Electric Underground Railway Bill for London,
Electric Waves in Wires, Effect of Capacity on Stationary, 391
Electric Wire, The Peril of the, 403
Electric Work, Modern Japan, 138 ;e
Electrically Annealing Armour-plates, 446
Electrically-welded Tubes, 575
Electrically WeldiDg Steel Rails, U.S., 7
Electricity Applied to Engineering Tools, Mr. F. id J. Rowan, 470
Electricity in a Bicycle Factory, 305
Electricity, Car Lighting by, 627 in Electricity from Carbon Without Heat, Mr. W. E.
Case on, 341
Electricity in Chicago, Fires Attributed to, 413
Electricity in Coal Mining, Messrs. Locker and ie C. C. Tasker, 273
Electricity, Crysta'li3ation and, 601
Electricity and Electrical Vibration, Lord Rayleigh on, 263, 341
Electricity, Factory Operated by, 277
Electricity, Heating Dwelling-houses by, 373
Electricity in Oil Mining, The Use of, 634 in Electricity, On the Prevention of Fires due to Leakage of, 295
Electricity instead of Steam. 562
Electricity Supply, Malta, 337, 342, 343, 344
Electricity Supply, On Methods of Charging for, 278
Electricity Supply at 230 Volts, Mr. A. H. Gibbings on, 179
Electricity, On the Transmission of Power by, 534
Electricity, On the Transmission of Power in l, Factories by, 524
Electricity, On the Utilisation of the Cataracts for the Generation of, 373
Electro-hydraulic Dredger, Mr. L. W. Bates, 314, i, 315
Electrolysis in Brooklyn, Damage to Gas and Water Pipes by, 319
Electrolysis, A Water Pipe Eaten Through by,
Electro Machine Tools, America, 177
Electrometer, An Absolute, 163
Elevated Railroads in the United States, “ Faulty 1 Detailing,” 257
Elevation of a Railway in America, 177
Elevator, “ Garryowen,” Duckham Patent Pneu¬matic Grain (Supplement, Felt urn 19M, 1897), 193
Elevators, Pneumatic Grain, 577
E'lington, Mr. Edw. Bayzand, 535
Ellis, Mr. R. P., Succeeded by Mr. J. Farrow, v 391
Eltringham, Alderman J. T., 652 t Emigration from Germany, 57
Employers’ Liability, 515 l Employment Statistics, 020
Enamelled Ironware, Foreign Better than English,

Engines:

Engine, An American Winding, 159, 168
Engine, The Atmospheric, and Humphrey Potter, 61
Engines for Australia, American Steam, 641
Engine Bearings, Marine, 42
Engine for Belt Driving, Compound Inverted Vertical, 109
Engines and Boilers, On Important Questions in , the Economic Working of Steam, 537
Engines and Boilers in Parliament, 197
Engine, Compound, Messrs. Greter, Krevanick. and Co., 192, 193
Engine, Compound, Messrs. Lilpop, Rau, and Levenstein, 192
Engine, Compound Electrio Lift, Messrs. E. Scott and Mountain, 588, 699
Engine, Compound Six-coupled Goods, 241
Engine, Computing the Power of a Steam, in Kilowatts and in Horses, 620
Engines, Condensing and Non-condensing, Ideal Limit of Performance for, 109
Engine, Corliss, Messrs. W. H. Hopper, 106, 108,
Engine Cylinder, Corliss, 113
Engmo, jggU^e Clotch Winding, Montana Mines,
Engine and Dynamo Combination, Steam, for the Manchester Corporation, 391 Engine and Dynamo, Compound, Messrs. Hay¬ward-Tyler and Co., 647
Engine and Dynamo, High-speed, Messrs. E. Scott and Mountain, 388
Engines in the Electric Railway Power House in Omaha, Breakdown of Two Westingbouse, 373, 461
Engines, Gas, Mr. Joseph Ledent, 305
Engines, Gas, for Pumping, 375
Engines, Goeds and Passenger, in Japan, 283, 289
Engines, Experimental, at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with some Results from same, 89, 92,104
Engines of H.M. “ Isis," with Natural and Forced Draught, Horse-power Indicated by the, 237
Engines of H.M.S. “ Powerful,” Diagrams from the Engines of, 130
Engines of H.M.S. “ Powerful,” Satisfactory Open¬ing Out of the, 217
Engine, Launch, 150
Engines for Mill Work, The Use of High-tpeed, 306
Engine, An Old Newcomen, 616
Engine Practice, Marine, The Highest Point yet Reached in, 137
Engines, Pumping, Brighton Waterworks (Sup¬plement, January 22nd, 1897), 85
Engines, Pumping, for India, 482
Engines, Pumping, for Rotterdam (Supplement, May 7 th, 1897), 429, 432, 433, 460 Engines, Quadruple - expansion, for the Lake Steamer “Crescent City,” 137
Engines, Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Rotary and Reciprocating Marine, 540
Engines, Russian Mill, 141
Engines, On Short-stroke Steam, 122
Engine, 6-N.H.P. Traction, Messrs. Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 548
Engine, Small Triple-expansion, MM. Foque et Cie., 172
Engines in South Africa, Traction, 213
Engines, Spring Coupling for Hauling or Wind¬ing, 175
Engines, Tests of Three Sulzer, 620
Engines, Traction, Royal Agricultural Show, 639
Engines, Triple-expansion, Nijni Novgorod Exhi¬bition, 80, 88
Engineer and the Auto-car Competition, The,
297, 467, 483, 491, 515, 571, 653
Engineer's Conference, The, 349
Engineers' Dispute in the North of England, 855, 377
Engineer 1100 Guineas Road Carriage Competi¬tion, 297, 467, 483, 491, 515, 571, 653
Engineers, Examination Test for Civil, 43
Engineers and Firemen in the United States, Number of, 217
Engineers, Honours for, 645
Engineer Horseless Carriage Competition, Dia¬gram Route Map, 483
Engineer Officers Added to the Navy List, 1897, 291
Engineer, The Pullie Health, A New Sixpenny Weekly, 551
Engineers, Stationary and Other, to be Examined and Licensed, Efforts in the United States to Render it Compulsory for, 199
Engineers in Sydney, Rate of Wages asked for by the, 225
Engineering, Civil, 1896, 13
Engineering Contract Dispute, 344
Engineering Dispute, The, 425
Engineering, Electrical, 1896, 17
Engineering Industries, The Dispute in the, 279
Engineering, Inland Navigation, 271
Engineering Laboratories, The Equipment of, 321
Engineering, Mechanical, 1896, 14
Engineering, Mechanical, as a Profession, 601
Engineering in Peace and War, Volunteer, 301
Engineering, Professional, 394
Engineering, Sanitary, 1896, 18
Engineering Tests, Accuracy in, 596
Engineering Tools, Recent Practice in the Appli¬cation of Electricity to, 470
Engineering Trades Employers, Organisation to Strengthen the Hands of the, 424
Engineering Trade, The Expected Lock-out in the, 307, 331
Engineering Trade, The Lock-out in the, 546
Engineering Trades in May, Employment in the, 570
Engineering Trade, Revival in the, 64
Engineering Trade, Wages in the, 39
Engineering Undertakings, The Rating of, 403
Engineering Work at Rouen, A Novel, 409
Engineering Works to be Offered for Auction, 652
Enginemen, Certificated, 220
Engine-room Artificers, 315, 367, 368, 387
England the only Sea Power of the First Rank, 496
English and Foreign Armour Plates, 416
Equilibrium System of Feeding Electric Railways, Mr. C. E. P. D. Spagnoletti on the, 573
Erie Canal, The, 305
Erratum in Description of Thompson’s Conveyor, 621
Esparto Industry, The, 161
Eston Steel Works, Activity of Trade at, 525
Ether and its Work, The, 271, 295
Ethereal Telegraphy, 546
Evans and Sons, Messrs., The Dragon Fly Bicycle, 179
Evans and Sons, Messrs. Joseph, Orders for Steam Pumps taken by, 496
Evaporator, Foster’s Film, 449
Evaporation, Possible, 46
Examinations for Engineering Students, The Question of Regular, 72
Examination Test for Civil Engineers, 43
Excavating Machines, French, 305
Exhaust Valves, Non-clearance, 198
Exhibitions:
Brussels Exhibition, 44, 130, 390, 425, 589, 616
Building Trades’ Exhibition, 237, 318
Coachbuilders’ Exhibition, 589
Hamburg, Tramway Technical, 373
Imperial Institute, Motor Car Exhibition, 86
Imperial Institute: Yaohting and Fisheries, 162
Kieff Agricultural Society’s, 7
Lima Exhibition, 547
Meteorological Instrument, 172, 291
Munich, Motors and Machine Tools, 191
Newcastle, Electrical and Engineering Trades,
203, 210, 388, 599
Nijni Novgorod, 80, 88,106, 108, 111, 164,192, 292, 293
Paris International, German Participation in, 57
Polytechnic Institute, Exhibition of Inventions and Improvements Relating to Science, Industry, Arts and Crafts, Alimentation, and Hygiene, 496
Saint James’s Hall, Piccadilly, Fireproof Materials made from Asbestos, 559
St. Petersburg International Electrical, 593
Sydney Engineering Association Exhibition, 233, 500
Tennessee Exhibition, Large See-saw at, 439
Victorian Era Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 513, 637
Victorian Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 456, 561
Vienna, Cycles, Accessories, Automobiles, and Sporting Goods, 95
Yachting and Fisheries, 246
Expanded Metal Company, Breaking Tests of Long-span Floor Arches, 60, 87 Expansion v. Throttling, 89, 92, 104
Explosion at Aldersgate-street Station, 439, 545
Explosion on an Austrian Warship at Lisbon, 570
Explosions in Brussels and their Cause, 137
Explosion of Dynamite, Disastrous, 217
Explosion, Gas, Nine Elms, 95
Explosion on 1I.M.S. "Blake,” 217
Explosions, Remarks on Coal Mines, 175
Explosion on a Russian Battleship. 327
Explosion at Seaton Carew Blast Furnaces, 95
Explosion, Submarine, 449
Explosions, Suggested Rules for the Recovery of Coal Mines After, 588
Explosion of a Torpedo on the ‘ ‘ Theseus,” 319
Explosive Atmospheres on Board Ship, On the Detection of, 137
Explosives as Compared with Gunpowder, Safety Cost and Efficiency, 216
Explosives, Cost and Efficiency of Safety, 202
Explosives in Mines, 30,100, 141, 640
Explosives in Mines, New Order in Council Respecting, and its Effect on the Cost of
Coal-production, 141
Explosives, Question of the Introduction of the Orders Concerning, 402
Explosives, the Use of which is Permitted in Coal Mines, 7
Express Locomotives, Some Noteworthy, 114,119
Express Trains in the United States, Elaborate, 641
Eye Injuries in tho Mining and Foundry District of Bochum, 237
Eyelet Machines? 369
Eyre, Mr. R , on Electrically-welded Steel Rails, 7
Eyres, Mr. U. C., Presentation to, 94

F

FACTORY Operated by Electricity, 277
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Com¬pany’s Premises, Fire at the, 163, 180 Fall of Rock on a Scotch Railway, 11
Famine Works in India, The Nira Irrigation Canal, 135, 136, 183, 184, 234, 235
Fans, The Capell, Rateau and Mortier, 306
Fans, Experiments upon Propeller Ventilating, 648
Fan, Portable Hand-driven, Tho Schiele Union Engineering Co., 330
Fay’s Balanced Valve for Locomotives, 107
Faraday, Mr. P. M , Rating of Engineering Undertakings, 373, 403
Fares on Belgian Railways, 439
Farming Machinery in Manitoba, 25
Farnham Waterworks, 161
Fast Run on the Chicago, Barlington, and Qaiuoy Railway, U.S.A., 266
Fast Run on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway, 263
Fast Train, A, 375
Fastest Trains in Germany, The, 74
Faulkner, Mr. John, 163
Federation of Engineering Associations, the Machine Tool Dispute, the Forty-eight Hours Question, 472, 474, 499, 524, 557
Follows and Bate, Messrs., Method of Taking up the Stretching of a Chain, 252
Ferguson, Mr. J., Denny and Dunipace Sewage Works, 261
Ferraris, Prof. Galileo, 199
Ferreira Cyanide Works, 429, 440
Ferries Car, The Great Lakes of America, 132
Ferro-Man Ranese, Average Analysis of 80 percent., 291
Fibre, Agave, Its Uses, 199
Files, Machine-cut v. Hand-made, 279
File Contracts, The Government and, 99
File Trade, Machinery in the, 516
Files, Hand and Machine-cut, 99
Film Evaporator, Fester’s, 449 Filters, Coke Sewage, 7
Filter Tanks on Government Propsrty, Use of Polarite in, 570
Filtration of Sawage through Coke Breeze, 7
Fires Attributed to Electricity in Chicago, 413
Fire-boxes of American Locomotives too Small, 7
Fire-box Sheets for the Schenectady Locomotive Works, 237
Fire Brigades Union, Annual Meeting of the National, 137
Fire at a Clyde Shipbuilding, 163, 180
Fire-damp Indicator for Mines, 439
Fire and Electricity, Mr. Fred Bathurst on, 295
Fire Engine Factory on Fire, A, 652
Fire Engines, Steam, Messrs. Wm. Rose and Co., 226
Fire in Ice-cold Storage Vaults, A, 551
Fire Installation at the General Post-office Tested, 263
Fire at Messrs. Walker and Hall's London Show¬rooms, 179
Fireproof Flooring, Novel Kind of, 237
Fireproof Materials made from Asbestos, Exhibi¬tion of, 559, 570
Firth and Sons, Limited, Messrs. Thos., Combina¬tion between the Sterling Steel Co. and, 109
Firth and Sons, Messrs. Thos., War Goods’ 525
Firth’s Shot and other Armour-piercing Projec¬ tiles, Trials of, 301
Fisher, Air. Joseph Scott, 279
Fitzgerald, Admiral C. C. P., Water-tube Boilers in Warships, 359, 361
Flag Signalling at Sea, Interesting Arithmetical Fact relative to, 217
Fleet, The Mobilisation of the, 426
Fleming, Dr. J. A., Method of Determining Magnetic Hysteresis. 641
Fleming and Ferguson, Messrs., Pumping Engines, Brighton Waterworks, 85
Fletcher, Mr. LaviDgton E., 614, 646
Fletcher, Rus;ell, and Co., Gas Brazing Bench. 355
Fletcher, Mr. Thos. Wm., Gas Muffle Furnaces, 603
Fleuss Life-saving Apparatus for Mines, The, 72
Floating Dock for the Spanish Government, 163, 179
Flood-prevention Works in Eastbourne, On the, 598
Floor Arches, Breaking Tests of Long Span, 60, 87
Floors, Cement, 295
Flooring, Novel Kind of Fireproof, 237
Flow of Air and the Pressure Exerted is Expressed, Formula by which the Relation between the, 237
Flue-gas Sampling Apparatus, De Ridder’s, 627
Fluorine Gas, Liquefaction of, 593
Fly-wheel Accidents in the U.S., 391
Fly-wheel, Rreakage of a, 361
Fly-wheols, Experiments on the Bursting of Small, 461
Folen, Sons, and Co., Messrs., Traction Engines, 639
Fog Horns, Compressed Air, 601
Fulkard, Mr. Arthur, 5
Folsom - Sacramento Power Transmission, The, 590
Foque et Cie., MM., Small Triple Expansion,
Forbes, Mr., Appointment, 401
Forbss, Professor, ou the Utilisation of the Cataracts for Generating Electricity, 373
Force, Philosophers and Units of, 37
Forced and Natural Draughts, Coal Consumption Trial at, 237
Forced <•. Suction Draught, 213
Forde, Mr. H. C., 213
Foreign-built Yachts and American Customs, 372
Foreign Competition and English Trade, On, 330
Foreign Competition, Lord Herschell on, 107
Foreign Competition and our Patent Laws, The Question of, 226
Foreign Iron Standards, 646
Foreign Metal Trades, Our, 171
Forth Bridge Railway Company r. the North British Railway Company, 373
Fortifications by Ships, Attack on, 77
Forty-eight Hours Question, The, 557
Forty-eight Hours Week, A, 575
Foster’s Film Evaporator, 449
“ Foudroyant ” Ashore at Seacombe, The, 513
“ Foudroyant," The Last of the, 628
Foundry Iron, Freaks of, 376
Fractures of Motor Car Axles cn the Brooklyn Bridge, On the, 496
France, Oil Find in, 446
France, Population of the Towns in, 439
France, Shipbuilding in, 64
France, Tonnage of Vessels built in One Quarter in, 496
France, The Tramway System in, 365
Francis Joseph Bridge at Buda-Pesth, The, 486, 487, 490
Fraserburgh Harbour, 511
Fraser Condenser, The, 372
Fraser Railway Door Controller and Station In¬dicator, 447
Free Trade and No Trade, 316
Free Trade in Queensland, 90
Freaks of Foundry Iron, by Mr. A. B. Harrison, 876
French Battleship, A, 442
French Battleships, Defects in, 113,194
French Cable-laying Steamer •‘Portena,’’ The, 444, 445
French Coal and Coke Business, 1894-95-96, 280
French Excavating Machines, 305
French Export Trade in Flour with England, 263
French, Mr. Hy., 625
French Iron Production in 1896, 452
French Motor Car Race, The, 131, 143
French Naval Architecture, 117
French Naval Programme, 370
French Naval Rsforms, 394, 551
French Navy, The, 568
French Railways in 1896, 532
Frictional Effects of Trains of Cirs on the Air, Apparatus to Determine the, 291
Friction Hoists, Messrs. Richmond and Chandler, 330
Friction Horse-power in Factories, 21
Friction Wheels? 323
Friction Wheels, Paper, 151
Frictionless Engine Packing Co., Ogden’s Metallic and Fibrous Packing, 304
Froude Dynamometer, Durham College of Science, “ Fuji,’’ The Japanese Battleship, 221, 317
“ Fuji," Steering Gear of the, 363
Fullerton, Hoggart.and Barclay, Messrs. Foster’s Film Evaporator, 449
Furnace Gases of Clay Crucibles, On the Perme¬ability to, 479
Furnaces, Mr. G. Giers’ Patents, 199
Furnaces, Gas Muffle, 603
Furnaces by Machinery, Charging Open-heartb, 508
Furnaces Producing Pig Iron in Scotland, 426
Furnace, Thwaites’ Steel, 160, 194, 212
Furnace Valves, Water-sealed, 201
Furnace, The Weardale, 479, 497
Furness Railway Co., The, 623
Fyenoord Engine Works, Pumping Engines, Rotterdam (Supplement, May 7 th), 429, 432, 433, 460

G

GALE, A Violent, 620
Galloway, Mr. Chas. J., His Commercial Jubilee, 452
Galloway, Mr. John, with Portrait, 9
Galvanised Buckets? 467
Galvanised Tanks, 640
Garforth, Mr. W. E., Suggested Rules for the Recovery of Coal Mines after Explosions, 588
Garrett, Mr. T. A., Experiments upon Telephones with Nickel Magnets, 391
Garrett’s Compound Thrashing and Clover Hull¬ing Machine, 549
Garryowen,” Duckham Patent Pneumatic Grain Elevator (Supplement February 19/A, 1897), 193
Garth Pit Accident, 620
Garth Pit Accident, The, and Mr. Robson’s Evidence, 652
Garvie, Mr. R. H., on the Reconstruction and Erection of Latchford Lock Gates, 199
Gas, On Acetylene, 400
Gas, Acetylene, for Rolling Stock, 35
Gases, Blast Furnaces, Experiments on their Utilisation, 137
Gas, On Carburetted Water, 366, 542
Gas, Carburetted Water, Manchester Corpora¬tion's Scheme, 7
Gas Consumers in Indiana v. Oil Producers, 612
Gas, Dangerous Properties of Water as Compared to Coal, 319
Gas Engines, Mr. Joseph Ledent's Patent, 305
Gas Engines, French Ships Propelled by, 439
Gas Engines for Pumping, 375
Gas Explosion at Nine Elms, 95
Gases, Liquefaction of, 327, 368
Gas Liquor, Utilisation of, 413
Gas made in Germany in 1895, 163
Gas Manufacture in London, 144
Gas Meter, Messrs. Greenall and Heaton, 330
Gas Muffle Furnaces, 603
Gas, Natural, Latest Report of the Philadelphia Company Concerning, 593
Gas for Power Purposes, On, 542
Gas Producer, 576, 601, 626, 640
Gas Producer Plant, On the Mond, 295
Gas Supply, 1896, 19
Gas Testing, Mens. J. Coqui.lion and Pro Clowes, 216
Gases Traversed by Electric Sparks, On the Cooling Properties of, 513
Gasworks Extensions, Leicester, 237
Gasworks in Great Britain and Ireland, 35
Gasworks, Nitrogenous By-products of, 77
Gaster and Scott, Messrs., On the Mean Monthly Temperatures of the British Isles,
509
Gates, Prof. Elmer, Novel Method of Producing a Vacuum, 291
Gauntleted Tracks, Running Trains on, 305
Gear Wheel, The Rimmington Anti-friction, 71
Generating Plant, Should it be Mounted on Springs 542
Generator Tests of 200-Kilowatt Continuous Current Turbo, 198
Geological Congress, St. Petersburg, 1897, Inter¬national, 285
Geological Field Class, London, 390
Geology to History, Lectures on the Relation of, 295
German Accident Insurance, 18,000,000 Persons Insured in the, 378
German and American Technical Schools, 329
German Blast Furnaces in March, Output of the, 570
German Competition with British Manufacturers in the Netherlands, Mr. W. Robinson on, 314
German Emigration Statistics, 496
German Empire, Miles of Navigable Inland Waterways in, 570
German Foreign Trade in Coal and Coke, 332
German Iron and Steel Industry, Woman’s Labour in the, 378
Garman Liner “ Augusta Victoria,” The, 495
German Merchant Fleet, The, 439
German Naval Estimates, The, 210
German Railways, 438
Garman Railway Working, 1895-96, 530
German State Railways, Receipts for November. 1896, 57
German State Railways, Revenues for February, 373
Germany, Electric Power Stations in, 95
Germany, Emigration from, 57
Germany, The Fastest Trains, 74
Germany, Gas Made in 1895 in, 163
Germany, Leather Industry of, 551
Germany’s Participation in the Paris Exhibition of 1900, Grant Voted for, 57
Germany, Porcelain Industry in, 341
Germany, Production in Bessemer and Basic in. 652
Germany, Report Relating to Export of Railway Material from, 496
Germany, Technical Education in, 116
Gibbings, Mr. Alf. H., on Electricity Supply at 230 Volts, 179
Gibraltar Dock Extension, 570
Giers, Mr. G., Patent for Manufacture of Cast Steel and Homogeneous Iron, 199
Gilchrist, Mr., The Bertrand-Thiel Open-hearth Process, 129
Giltay, Mr. J. W., Polarisation of Telephonic Receivers, 551
Glasgow Internal Exhibition, 144
Glasgow Tramways, Electric Equipment of, 593
Gla201" 8nd WeSt °f Sootland Technical College,
Glass, Utilisation of Waste, 370
Glazebrook Junction, Accident at, 341
Glew’s Cushion Tire for Road Vehicles, 495
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Com¬pany’s Works, Lightning Express Railway Carriage, Behr’s Patent, 337
Glover and Co., Messrs. W. T., Appliance for Curing the Joints in Vulcanised Electric
Light Wires and Cables, 605
Glover and Company’s New Electrical Resistance Wire, 227
Gloyne, Mr. R. M., on the Flood-prevention Works in Eastbourne, 598
Gold Extraction, The Cyanide Process of, 381, 429, 440, 457
Gold System for Hoating Railway Carriages, The, 125
Goods Train Loads, 83
Gorchot, Mr. L., on Electrical Transmission of Power in a Colliery, 603
Goss Mr. W. F. M., Paper Friction Wheels, 35, 151
Goss, Prof., on the Causes of the Distortion of
Indicator Diagrams, 439
Gottenburg Gas Company’s Coal Orders, 204
Government Contracts, Operation of the “Fair Wages ” Resolution as Applied to, 524 Government Steamers, Shallow Draught, 197
Governor for Water Wheels, The Replogle, 3
Gower Light Railway Scheme, The, 439
Grain Elevator “Garryowen,” Duckham Patent (Supplement, February 19ZA, 1897), 193
Grain Elevators, Pneumatic, 577
Grand Junction Canal, An Inclined Plane Canal Lift, 81
Granger, Mr., Variable Steam Jet Blower, 192
Grant, Mr. Alfred, 95
Graphical and Mechanical Aids to Calculation, Mr. G. H. Strong, 241
Graphic Statics, Some, 27
Graphite Bearings, Vulcanised, 110
Graving Dock and Repair Works at Burntisland, Proposed, 443
Gray, Mr. J. Macfarlane, Accelerity Diagram of the Steam Eogine, 409
Gray, Mr. J. Macfarlane, His Retirement, 95
Great Eastern and the " Oceanic,” The, 438
Great Eastern Railway, Accident on, 7, 95
Great Eastern Railway Company, New Steamer on the Hook of Holland Route, 630
Great Eastern Railway Works, 84
Great Northern and City Railway Scheme, The, 95
Great Northern Railway Bridge over the Don 456, 466, 518, 520, 563
Great Northern Railway and its Suburban Traffic, O/, OO1
Great Western Goods Engine, Mr. Snary’s Photo¬graph of, 570
Great Western Railway, Accident on, 163
Great Western Railway, C'jldrenick Viaduct Disaster, 187
Great Western Railway Extension, Wrexham and Rhos, 439
Great Western Railway, Progress of the, 259
Great Western Railway Projects for Next Session, 22
Great Western Railway, Rebuilding of Windsor Station, 163
Great Western Railway Company, Tenders Re¬quired for the, 570
Great Western Railway Terminus, Paddington, New Platform at, 109
Great Western Railway Company’s Welsh Lines, 57
Great Western and Swansea Bay and Rhondda Railways, Reported Amalgamation, 180
Great Yarmouth to Lowestoft, Proposed Railway Extension, 109
Great Yarmouth, Revolving Observation Tower at, 570
Greece, Railway Construction in, 551
Greece, 1895, Total Production of Ores in, 291
Greenall and Heaton, Messrs., Gas Meter, 330
Greenland Colliery to be Sold, 280
Greenock and its Graving Dock, 245
Greenock Harbour Trust Returns, The, 391
Greenwich, New Magnetic Observatory to be Erected at, 593
Greenwich Observatory, Chronometers and Deck Watches under Test at, 620
Greter, Krivaneck, and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine, 192,193
“Griffon,” Official Speed Trial of the, 567
Groynes, Mr. A. T. Walmisley, 431
Guatemala Northern Railway, Progress of the, 95
Gulf Transit Co., The, 461
Gun Accident, The “ Sissoi Veliki," 299, 418
Guns, British and Foreign. 298
Gun for Firing High Explosive, A 12in. R'tled, Washington Gun Shops, 137
Guns for the Greek Navy, New Canet Quick-fire, 189, 193
Gun. The Hotchkiss Automatic Machine, 414, 415, 416
Gun, A New Sectional, 247
Gun, Powder-Pneumatic, 389
Gun, The Sims-Dudley, 436
Gun Trial, Hotchkiss Automatic Machine, 389
Guns in the United States, Manufacture of, 78
Gunboats, New Composite, 71
Gunpowder Forbidden in Certain Collieries, Use of, 100
Guntz and Masson, MM., on the Action of Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide on Aluminium, 163
Gutters for Irrigation Water, Street, 436
Guttmann, Mr. Oscar, on the Influence of Heat on Dynamite, 513
Guttmann, Mr. Oscar, Test for Explosives Sug¬gested as a Substitute for the “ Heat Test,” 551
Gwynne and Co., Messrs., Dock Pumping Machinery, 544, 549

H

HALL, Mr. Henry, on the Cost and Efficiency of Safety Explosives as Compared with Gun¬powder, 202, 216
Hall, Mr. Hy., on the Fleuss System as a Lifesaving Appliance in Mines, 72
Hall, Messrs. J. and E , Refrigerating Plant, 446
Hall, Mr. J. F., 573
Hamburg-American Liners " Pennsylvania ” and “ Arabia,” 339
Hamburg, Coal Imports, 95
Hammer, Pneumatic, 173, 194
Hammer, 12-Ton Steam, 45
Hamstead Colliery Company, Loss Suffered by the, 152
Hanover Tramway System, Overhead Wires and Accumulators Compared, 447
Happy Valley Waterworks, The New, 277
Harbours and Docks, Mr. Lecuona on, 226
Harbours, Extension of Russian, 35

Harbours and Waterways:

Aberdeen, 482
Belgium, 482
Bridgwater, 232
Burntisland, 232
Canal Navigation, 511
Fraserburgh, 511
Hull, 482
Lowestoft, 232
Manchester Ship Canal, 232
New York, 512
Peterhead, 232
Trent and Mersey Canal, 232
Tynemouth Piers, 232
Harbours and Waterways, 105
Harbours and Waterways, 1896, 16
Harbour Works, Naples, 439
Harbour Works at Ostend, Tenders Invited, 263
Harbour Works, Vera Cruz, 439
Harden, Dr. A., Analysis of Some Old Egyptian Bronze and Iron Implements, 513
Hardie Compressed Air Locomotive, Storage of Air in the, 95
Hardingham, Mr. G. G. M., On the Refusal in Turkey of Patents for Inventions in which Electricity is Employed, 9
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Launch of the “Briton,” 602
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Lengthening the “Augusta Victoria,” 495
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., The Union s.s. “ Gascon,” 211
Harrison, McGregor, and Co.’s "Albion” No. 7 Mower, 549
Harrison, Mr. Jas. William, 253
Harrogate, Electric Supply Station, 439
Hartlepool, Central Marine Eogine Works, 94
Hartshorne, Mr. Joseph, The Bertrand-Thiel Open-hearth Process, 28, 129
Harvey Nickel Plate Trials, 437
Harvoy Steel Cammell Armour-plate, 6in., 84
Hastings Harbour District Railway Scheme, The. 513
Hastings Harbour, Inaugural Stone Laid, 620
Hatfield, Mr. R. A., HLs Presentation to the Wednesbury Technical School, 124
Haul bowline Dockyard, Sheers for, 613, 624
Haulage, Mechanical, between Liverpool and Manchester, 159, 198
Haulage Power of Locomotives, West Australian Government Railways, 250
Havanna, The New Bridge, 4£6
Havanna, Roads and Railways in, 496
Havre, Electric Tramways in, 319
Hawkins and Co., Limited, Birmingham, Treat to Employees, 457
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Russian Volunteer Troopship “ Kherson,” 111
Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Tatk Locomotive, Circum-Etna Railway (Supplement, May 21sf, 1897), 509, 611
Hay and Fitzmaurice, Messrs., The Blackwall Tunnel, 400
Hayward-Tyler and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine and Dynamo, 647
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, On the Charging of Open- hearth Furnaces by Machinery, 508
Head, Wrightson, and Co., Messrs., Water-sealed Furnace Valves, 201
Headland Battery, The, 107
Heat Transmission through Surfaoes, Mr. O. M. Row on, 252
Heath, Mr. W. P., Experiences of a Foreman in the Operation of Technical Education in the Workshop, 387
Heating Dwelling-houses by Electricity, United States, 373
Heating Railway Carriages, Different Systems for, 125
Heavy Day’s Work, A, 438
Heavy Fires, Imperfect Combustion Due to, 213
Heeley Silver Rolling and Wire Mills, Limited, The, 73
Heenan and Froude, Keay and Harold, Messrs., Contractors for the Great Northern Railway Company’8 New Warehouse, 524
Hele-Shaw, Prof. H. S., Degree Conferred by the University of St. Andrew's on, 373
Helium, Researches on, 137
Helmet for the German Army, A New, 413
Henderson, Mr. John, 401
Henry, Mr. A. J., Report on the Relative
Humidity of South New England and other Localities. 267
Henry, Mr. J. C., System of Single-wire Distribu¬tion for Electric Tramcars, 109
Hereford, Lord James, Rumour as to his Appoint¬ment as Umpire in the Wages Arbitration, 496
H.M.S.S. “Andromeda” and “Spartiate,” 163
H.M.S. “Avon,” Preliminary Trials of, 125
H.M.S. “Blake,” Accident on, and its Cause, 319
H.M.S.S. “Earnest’’and “Griffon," Birkenhead Destroyers, 550
H.M.S. “Goliath," 44
H.M.S. “ Isis,” Coal-consumption Trial at Forced and Natural Draughts, 237
H.M.S. "Powerful,” 130, 217, 509
H.M.S. “Powerful,” Diagrams from the Engines of, 130
H.M.SS. “Powerful” and “Terrible,” Their Masts to be Lengthened, 217
H.M.S. “Prince George," 78, 79, 638, 642
H.M.S. “Prince George,” Capstan Gear, 78, 79
H.M.S. “Renown” (Supplement, June 25th, 1897)
H.M.S.S. “ Swordship ”and “Spitfire,” 422 H.M.S. “Terrible,” 56, 436
H.M.S. "Terrible,” Electric Lighting Machinery, 436
Herschell, Lord, on Foreign Competition, 107
Heycock, Mr. C. T., on Metallic Alloys and the Theory of Solution, 373
Heywood Town Council, Proposed Alterations at the Nayden Valley Reservoir, 413
Hickson, Sir Joseph, 57
Highgate-hill Cable Tramway, 327
High Latitudes, Observations on, 213
High Pressures at Sea, 418
High Speed Engines for Mill Work, Use of, 306
High Speed, Wbat it Means, 112
Hill and Co., Messrs. R., Wire for Gun Construc¬tion, 425
Hodgkinson, Mr., Improved Mechanical Stokers. 524
Hofman, Mr. H. O., on German and American Technical Schools, 329
Hoists, Friction, Messrs. Richmond and Chandler. 330 '
Holden’s Liquid Fuel Injector, 539
Holden and Brooke’s New Works, 651
Holgate, Mr. Benjamin, Clays used for Bricks and Pottery, 173
Holland, Manufacture of Yeast in, 26
Holland Submarine Boat, The U.S.A., 496, 598, 627
Hollins, Mr. F. J., Electric Interlocking the Block and Mechanical Signals on Railways 147,167, 186, 276
Hollis, Mr., on the New Heating Furnace at the Weardale Iron and Steel Company’s Works, 479, 497
Holmes, Mr. Christopher, 475
Holst Pumping Engine, The, 29
Holtzer Projectiles, 489
Honours for Engineers, 645, 652
Hook of Holland Route, New Steamer on the, 630
Hooks, Safety, for Cranes, 122
Hopetoun, Earl of, his Inaugural Address at tho
Institute of Naval Architects, 359
Hopkinson, Dr. John, on the Transmission of Power by other Agents, 535
Hopper and Co., Messrs. W. H., Corliss Engine, Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, 106, 108 111
Hopper and Co Messrs. W. H , Triple Expansion Engine, 80, 88 F

Horseless Carriages, see also Motor Cars :

Horseless Carriage Competition, Our, 297 Horseless Carriage, The Mors, 328
Horseless Carriage Notes, 118, 241, 272, 360 4°8
Horseless Carriages, Pretor, 118 ’
Horseless Vehicles, 44, 118, 166, 174, 177, 198 328
Horseless Vehicles at Brussels Exhibition, 44
Horses, in Favour of for Field Work’ in the Caucasus, 217
Hotchkiss Automatic Machine Gun, The, 389 414 415
Hours of Work on Railways, 7
Howard Lectures on the Mechanical Production of Cold, 122
Howard Lectures, Society of Arts, 94
Howdenised Boilers, 359
Howe Mr. H. M on the Tenacity of Steel, 163
Howell Torpedo, The, 71
Huelva, Port of, 9
Hughes, Prof. D. E., Albert Medal Presented to, 217
Hull Annual Meeting of the Workmen’s Federa¬tion of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, 499
Hull, New Gates for the Lock of the Albert Dock, 482
Hull, Tramways in, 460
Hulse and Co.'s Works, Visit to Messrs., 451
Hulse, Mr. W. Wilson, 326
Humidity of South New England and other Localities, Report on the Relative, 268
Hummel, Mr. F. H., on the Utilisation of Water Power, 149
Humphrey, Mr. H. A., on the Mond Gas Producer Plant, 295
Humphries, E. and Co.’sLtd., Atlas Oil Engine,639
Hungary, Light Railways for, 46 Hunt, Mr. Wm., 373
Hunt and Steele’s Experiments with Aluminium in Contact with Mercury, 57
Hunter, Mr. W. D., Tests of 200-kilowatt Con¬tinuous Current Parsons Turbo Generator, 198
Hydraulic Air-compressing Plant, 585, 626
Hydraulic Apparatus for Breaking Down Coal in Mines, Mr. Jas. Tonge, 524
Hydraulic Power Scheme, St. Lawrence, 553
Hydraulic Rams, 211, 248, 249, 275,294, 327, 345, 368
Hydraulic Ram Plant for a Public Water Supply, 123
Hysteresis, Method of Determining Magnetic, 641

I

ICELAND, 622
Imperial Institute Motor Car Exhibition, £6
Imperial Tramways Co.'s Proposal, The Middles¬brough Corporation and the, 100
Import Dues, 546
Import Duties in Foreign Countries on Dynamc- electric Machinery and Electric Lamps, 200
Importation of Fruit through the Tropics by means of a Linde Refrigerating Machine, 373
Inclined Plane Canal Lift, An, 81
Independent Driving System, On the Advantages of the, 373
India, Irrigation Engineering in, 135, 245, 263, 438, 620
India, Irrigation Bongal Report. 620
India, Mica Mining Iudustry, 163
India, Mills, Looms, Spindles, and Persons Employed in, 237
India, The Nira Irrigation Caral, 135, 136, 183, 184, 234, 235
India, Pumping Engines for, 482
Indian and Burmah Railway, Decrease in, 641
Indian Famine, The, 145
India, Famine Works iD, Nira Irrigation Canal, 135, 136, 183,184, 234, 235
Indian Government and the Burma-Siam China Railway, 263
Indian Government, Reling Respecting the Customs Daty on Tramway Sleepers, 620
Indian Ink, Account of its Manufacture, 570
Indian Market and the Germans, The, 99
Indian Railway Accident, 57
Indian Railways, Bezwada-Madras Line, 646
Indian Railways, Branch of the East Bengal Slate Railway, 496
Indian Railways, Contemplated Extensions, 341
Indian Railways, The Capti Valley Railway, 341
Indian Railways, Doubling of the Line from Poradaha to Naihati, 217
Iadian Railway Extension, 35, 461, 593, 620
Indian Railway Extension, Bombay Protests against the Government Programme, 620
Iadian Railway Extension, Line from Kullar to Coonoor, 593
Iadian Railways, Goods Locomotive, Sir G. B. Bruce, 618
Indian Railways, General Result of the Working of, 513
Indian Railways, Important Bridges in Hand, 217
India, Railways, Light, for, 496
Indian Railways, Line Proposed from Noakbali to the Assam-Bengal Railway, 217
Indian Railways, Line under Construction for the Gaekwar of Baroda, 341
Indian Railways, Locomotives with Tenders with Vacuum Brakes for, 593
Indian Railways, Metre Gauge Railway, 57
Indian Railways, Mileage of, 35
Indian Railways, Narrow Gauge Link, from Cawnpore, 620
Indian Railways, The Nilgori Railway Proposals, 641
Indian Railways, Passenger Service between Calcutta and Chittagong, 496
Indian Railways, Revised Working Hours, 341
Indian Railways, Tank Locomotives for the, 567, 569
Indian Railways, The Tapti Valley Railway, 6
Indian Railways, Temporary Line from Cuttack, 391
Indicator Diagrams, Causes of the Distortion of, 439
Iaduced Draught, 175, 194, 196
Induction Problems, Lord Rayleigh's Illustrations of ths Use of the Telephone and Soasitive Flame in, 341
Inglis, Messrs. A. and J., The Twin-screw Yacht “ Varuna,” 214, 216
Inland Navigation Engineering, 271
Inquiries:
63, 89, 143, 169, 195,219, 243, 323, 347, 369, 417, 411, 467, 491, 571, 595, 621, 643
Inspection of Mines by Labour Delegates, 84
Institute of Engineers, Chesterfield and Midland Counties:
Safety Props for Supporting Cages in the Headgear of Pits in Cases of Over-winding, Mr. C. S. Smith, 35

Institute of Engineers, The South Wales:

Interesting Gathering of, 378

Institute, The Incorporated Gas:

Thirty-fourth Annual General Meeting, Pro¬gramme of Proceedings, 602

Institute, The Iron and Steel:

Annual Meeting, Report of the Council, Presentation of the Bessemer Medal to Sir F. A. Abel, Mr. Martin’s Inaugural Address, 479, 483, 512
Charging of Open-hearth Furnaces by Machinery, Mr. Jeremiah Head, 508
General Utility and Economy of Central Blast Cupolas, Mr. Thos. D. West, 522
Microscope Accessories for Metallographers, Mr. J. E. Stead, 479
Permeability to Furnace Gases of Clay Crucibles, Prof. J. 0. Arnold and Mr. F. K. ] Knowles, 479
Preparations for Meeting at Cardiff, 331
Programme of Arrangements for the Annual Meeting, 449
Programme of the Cardiff Meeting of August 3rd and 4th, 576
“ Weardale” Furnace, Mr. Hy. Wm. Hollis on , the, 479, 497

Institute of Iron and Steel Works Managers, The South Staffordshire:

Acetylene Gas, Mr. Ls Neve Foster, 400
Annual Meeting, 304
Iron and Steel Testing Machines, Mr. F. W. Burstall, 252
Lubricating Oils and Lubrication, Mr. A. Tucker, 152

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Annual General Meeting and Seventh Annual Dinner, 313, 567
Assistant Cylinders for Valve Gear, Mr. Basil H. Joy, 150
Bearings of the Marine Engine, Mr. John Dewrance, 42

Institute of Mining Engineers, The American:

Bertrand-Thiel Open-hearth Process’, Mr. J. Hartshorne, 28, 129
Notes on the Treatment of Refractory Low- grade Gold Ores at the Ouro Preto Gold Mine, Brazil, Mr. S. J. McCormick. 351
Notes on Underground Lighting by Electricity, Mr. John Daw, jun , 352
Position of the Society, 351
West Australia from a Gold Mining Point of View, Mr. Jas. Mactear, 351
Work of Mining and Metallurgical Societies in 1896, The, 351

Institute of Technology, The Stevens:

Twenty-fifth Anniversary, 46 Institution of Civil Engineers, The: 368
Admission to Membership, A New Departure with Regard to, 349
Annual Dinner, 340
Annual General Meeting, Election of the Council for 1897-98, 445
Blackwall Tunnelt, Mr. David Hay and Mr. Maurice Fitzmaurice, 400
Carburetted Water Gas, Mr. Corbet Woodall, 542
Central London Railway, Toe, 564
Cold Storage at the London and East India Docks, Mr. H. F. Donaldson, 200
Concrete in Relation to Marine Works, Mr. John Kyle. 533
Conference Excursions, The, 564 Conference to be Held This Year, 472, 533
Time-tables of Meetings and Visits to Works, 485, 515
Conversazione, 550
Data of its Establishment and Number of Present Members, 31
Decimal System in Engineering Measurement, Capt. Sankey on the, 574
Deep Levels in Miniog Practice in the United Kingdom, Mr. Brough, 536
Diversion of the Periyar, Col. J. Pennycuick, 113
Electric Lifts and Cranes, Mr. H. P. Raven- sbaw, 362
Equilibrium System of Feedirg Electric Rail¬ways, Mr. C. E. P. D. Spagnuletti, 574
Fifth James Forrest Lecture on Bacteriology, Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, 445
Gas for Power Purposes, Mr. J. E. Dowson, 542
Important Questions in the Economic Working of Steam Engines and Boilers, Mr. Bryan Donkin, 537
Letter from “Fair Play” respecting the President's Term of Office, 368
Letter from Mr. B. H. Thwaite respecting the Programme of Reform, 438
Location and Cost of Working Pioneer Rail¬ways, Mr. R. Elliott Cooper, 539
Main Drainage of London, Messrs. W. S. Crimp and J. E. Worth, 250
Mond Gas Producer Plant and its Application, Mr. H. A. Humphrey, 295
Permanent Way, Mr. Webb, 533
Petroleum as Steam Engine Fuel, Mr. Atpinall, 538
Piston Valves in Locomotives, Mr. S. W. Johnson, 577
Pneumatic Grain Elevators, Mr. Chas. R9g. Parkes, 577
Prospects of Deep Mining in Cornwall, Mr. W. Thomas, 537
Purification of the Thames, Mr. W. J. Dibdin, 250
Rails and Permanent Way, Mr. Harold Copper- thwaite, 533
Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Rotary and Reciprocating Engines as Applied to Ship Propu'sion, The Hod. C. A. Parsons, 540
Riverside London Water Companies, The, 564
Separate Condensing Plants, Mr. Hy. Davey,
Should Generating Plant be Mounted on Springs ? Mr. Swinburne, 542
Standardising of Working Loads and Working Stres8esof Railway Bridges, Mr. John Mitchell Moncrieff, 578
Superheated Steam Engine Trials, Prof. W. Rippar, 60, 140
Transmission of Power by Electricity, On the, Mr. W. H. Preece, 534
Transmission of Power by Other Agents, Dr John Hopkinson, 535
Transmission of Powor by Water, Mr. E. Bay zmd Ellington, 535
Turbines Applied to Dynamos, The Hon. C. A. I Parsons, 513
Twenty-second Annual Dinner of the Students, 577
Use of Water-tube Boilers in the Mercantile Marine, Mr. A. E. Seaton. 541
Water in Deep Shafts, Mr. Hy. Davey, 537
What is True and False Economy in bight
Railway Construction, Mr. A:thur Cadlick 1 Pain, 539

Institution of Electrical Engineers :

Conversazione, 619
Electric Interlocking the Block and Mechanical
Signals on Railways, Mr. F. T. Hollins, 148, 167, 186, 276
Programme of the Birmingham Jubilee Meeting, 485

Institution, Electric Training and Testing:

Annual Dinner of Old Students, 113

Institution of Engineers and Naval , Architects, Hull and District:

Graphical and Mechanical Aid3 to Calculation, Mr. Geo. H. Strong, 241
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, The North-East Coast:
Experimental Engines at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with Some Results from Same, Prof. R. L. Weighton, 89, 92, 104

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Conversazione, 262
Cycle Construction, Mr. Alfred Marshall, 409
Electric Central Station Working, Mr. P. W. Mc’Dougall, 8
Manufacture of High-class Bridge Work, Mr. J. A. Macpherson, 250
Protection of Buildings, &c., from Fire, Mr. W. Rushworth Beckton, 328
Twelfth Anniversary Dinner of, 122

Institution of Mining Engineers, The Federated:

Excursions Arranged for the Members, 588
General Meeting, Arrangements for Visits, and Papers to be Read, 141, 485
Hall, Mr. Henry, On the Cost and Efficiency of Safety Explosives as Compared with Gun¬powder, 202
Light Railways, Mr. Leslie S. Robinson, 588
List of Papers to be Read or Taken as Read, and Papers to be Open for Discussion, 588
Presidential Address of Mr. Lindsay Wood, 588
Suggested Rules for the Recovery of Coal
Mines after Explosions, Mr. W. E. Garforth, 588
Underground Fire at Bridgwater Colliery, Mr. Dury Milton on an, 588

Institution of Naval Architects:

Accelerity Diagram of the Steam Engine, Mr. J. Macfarlane Gray, 409
Annual Address of the President, the Earl of Hopetoun, Gold Medal and Premium Awards, 359
Application of the Compound Steam Turbine to the Purpose of Marine Propulsion, The Hon. Cbas. Parsons, 397
Application of Electrical Transmission of Power in Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding, Herr F. von Kodolitsch, 446
Arrangements for an International Congress, 341
Fighting Value of Certain of the Older Iron¬clads if Re-armed, Capt. Lord Chas. Beresford, 382, 386
Gold Medal Offered for any Paper of Excep¬tional Merit, 221
Mechanical Method of Ascertaining the Statical Stability of Ship3, Mr. A. G. Ramage, 365
Nickel Steel as an Improved Material for Boiler-shell Plates, Forgings, and other Pur¬poses, Mr. Beardmore, 406, 420
Proposed International Congress of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers to Celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee, 576
Recent Trials of the Cruisers “ Powerful ’’ and “Terrible,” Mr. A. J. Durston, 359, 363
Session 1897, Programme of Proceedings, 354
Use of tho Mean Water-line in Designing the
Lines of Ships, Mr. A. G. Ramage, 396
Water-tube Boilers in Warships, Rear-Admiral C. C. P. Fitzgerald, 359, 361

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Annual General Meeting, Fiftieth, and Syllabus of Papers, 123, 164, 426
Alloys Research Committee, Fourth Report of, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, 164, 176, 190, 224
Experiments upon Propeller Ventilating Fans and upon tho Electric Motor Driving them, Mr. W. G. Walker, 648
Jubilee Dinner, The, 472
Mechanical Propulsion on Canals, Mr. Leslie Robinson, 164
Partially-immersed Screw Propellers for Canal Boats, and the Influence of Section of Water¬way, Mr. H. Barcroft, 164, 288
Summer Meeting in Birmingham, 199, 262, 646

Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders In Scotland:

Recent Practice of the Application of Electri¬city to Engineering Tools, Mr. F. J. Rowan, 470
SrrapiDg of Water Mains, Mr. John Barr on the, 647
Suction Draught for Marine Boilers, Mr. Matthew Paul, 147

Institution, United Service:

Action of Caps in the Ignition of the Charges of Small-arms, Mr. W. D. Borland, 456
Army Signalling and its Use in War, Lieut. - Col. Kennedy, 455
Probable Future Development of the Torpedo Vessel, Admiral Colomb, 589, 595
Rapid Cable-laying for War Purposes, Lieut. Crutchley, 464
Insulation of the Trolley Line, Necessity Demon¬strated of Looking-out for Bad Work or Acci¬dent in the, 593
International Code of Signals, Report of the Com¬mittee, 365
International Submarine Telegraph Memorial, 118
Invicta, The Old Canterbury and Whitstable Engine, 163
Ipswich Sewage Works, Windmill Works, 304
Ireland, Extraordinary Railway Accident in, 257
Ireland, The Landslip in, 7
Ireland, Light Railways for North-West, 137
Irish Mails, Accelerated, 197
Irish Railway Working, 197
Iron, Alabama, 31
Iron, Average Selling Prices of Finished, 1896, 46
Ironclad, Fatal Gun Accident on a Russian, 299
Ironclads, On the Fighting Value of Certain of the Older, 385
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Bir¬mingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts:
21, 46, 72. 98, 124, 152, 178. 202, 226, 252, 278, 306, 330, 354, 376, 400, 424, 450, 474, 498, 524, 557, 578. 604, 628, 650
Iron, Effect of Temperature upon the Magnetic and Electric Properties of, 513, 551
Iron to England, Delivery of American, 400
Iron, Freaks of Fouodry, 376
Iron and Ironstone Trade in 1897, North Lincoln¬shire, 39
Iron Manufacture in Chili, 427
Iron Market, Manchester, 98
Iron Miners during May, Employment of, 620
Iron in the North of England, Official Statistics of the Production and Price of Manufactured, 331
Iron-plated Dam, An, 71
Iron Production in 1896, French, 452
Iron Ore Production in Spain, 1896, 291
Iron in Russia, Cast, 61
Iron Standards, Foreign, 646
Iron, Steel, and Coal in 1896, 9
Iron, Steel, and Cutlery Trades, A Prosperous
Year in the Reports of Public Companies con¬nected with the, 227
Iron and Steel in 1896, 30
Iron and Steel Exports for May, Board of Trade Return’, 604
Iron and Steel, The Fatigue of, 277
Iron and Steel Industries in America, Mr. C.
Lancaster on the Strides made in the, 341
Iron and Steel Industries, The Austro-Hungarian, 100
Iron and Steel Industries, The French, 100 Iron and Steel in Liège, 83
Iron and Steel Market as Affected by the Cretan Difficulty and Wages Disputes in tho North, 203
Iron and Steel for the Markets of the World, Water-borne American, 237
Iron or Steel, Method for the Estimation of Sal- phur in, 57
Iron and Steel Production from Japanese Coal and Ore, Steps Taken for, 57
Iron and Steel Testing Machines, Mr. Burstall on, 252
Iron and Steel to the United States, Exports of, 373
Iron and Steel Wages Board, Meeting of th?, 354
Iron Trade in Turkey, 180
Irrigation Canal, The Nira, 135, 136, 183, 184, 234, 235
Irrigation Engineering in India, 245
Irrigation in India, 438
Irrigation Projects for India, The, 263
Irrigation Report, Bengal, 620
Irrigation Water, Street Gutters for, 436
Irvine and Sons, The Firm of, Converted into a Limited Company, 525
Isherwood, Mr. B. F., on Heat Radiation and Air Leakage in Boilers, 109
“ Isis,” H.M.S., Coal Consumption Trial at Forced and Natural Draughts, 237
Isle of Wight, Reduction of Railway Fares in the, 373
Italian Battleship, Launch of an, 551
Italian Railway Extension, 439
Italy, Foreign Trade of, 413
Italy, Our Trade with, 262
Ivory Trade, The Benin Expedition and the, 99
Izal as a Disinfectant, 425

J

JAFFA to Jerusalem, Railway from, 439
Jaffa, Machinery and Public Improvements, 439
James, Mr. D. W., 652
James, Mr. Enoch, Presentation at Cardiff to, 254
“James Forrest” Lecture, Dr. G. Sims Wood-head, 233
Jameson, Mr. A. H., on the Testing of the Strength of Materials, 153
Jannasch and S. Grosse, Messrs. Paul E., Separa¬tion of Bismuth from Metals, 57
Jaques, Capt. W. H., Armour, Ordnance and Projectiles Counted as Commercial Commodi¬ties by the Americans, 199
Japan, American Locomotives for, 375
Japan, Bamboo and Bamboo Wares Commerce. 341
Japan, Battleship of 11,000-Tons for, 613 . Japan, Coal Mining in, 319 1 Japan as a Competitor and a Customer in the United States, 313
Japan, Contracts in, 368 .
Japan, Dockyards for, 95
Japan, Effect of the Law for the Encouragement of Navigation and Shipbuilding, 391
Japan, Establishment of Steel and Iron Works in, 57
Japan, Locomotives for, 57
Japan, Locomotive Purchasing in, 326
Japan, Machinery Imported into, 57
Japan, Modern, Industrial and Scientific, 25, 51, i 138
Japan, Modern, Industrial and Scientific, Electrical Work, 25, 51, 138
Japan, Modern, Locomotive Building in, 283,289. 326
Japan, Private Railways Sanctioned by the Railway Council, 237
Japan, Proportion of Foreign Imports into, 95
Japan, Railway Extension in, 95
Japan, Registration of Patents, 56
Japan, State Railways of, 109
Japan, Steel Works in, 593
Japan, Textile Industries in, 57
Japan, Trade Marks in, 122
Japan, Wars|iifs for, 34, 4-J
Japanese Alloys, Composition of a Number of, 109
Japanese Battleship “ Fuji,” 221, 317, 363
Japanese Battleship “Fuji,” Steering Gear of, 363
Japanese Battleship, The Latest, 351
Japanese Canal, A Proposed, 509
Japanese Coal, Analysis by Mr. F. Browne of, 95
Japanese and English Money, Relative Value of, 237
Japanese Government, Accuracy and Con¬scientiousness of Officials in Testing Foreign Goods, 57
Japanese Government, Torpedo Boat Destroyers for, 109
Japanese Imports and Exports, Effect on the Trade of Great Britain and the U.S., 91
Japanese Investigations and Reports on the Iron and Steel Manufactures of the United Kingdom, 152
Japanese Labour and Workmanship, 51
Japanese Locomotives, 322 (and Supplement, March 26th, 1897)
Japanese Steamers, New, 110
Java, Railways in, 570
Java, Steam Tramways and Rolling Stock in, 287
Jerusalem District, 1896, Report on the Trade of the, 439
Joggled Ship Plates, 438
John Bull Locomotive, 556
Johnson Capped Shot, The, 110
Johnson, Mr. Francis Robt, Construction Work on the Assam-Bsngal Railway, 583, 609, 633
Johnson, Mr. H. A., Ripon City Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works, 484
Johnson and Phillips’ Cable Steamer Equipment, 441, 445
Johnson,, Mr. Richard, Great Northern Railway Bridge over the Dod, 456, 466, 518, 520, 563
Johnson, Mr. R., Presentation to, 137
Johnson, Mr. S. W., on Piston Valves in Loco¬motives, 577
Joint, Aird’s “Express” Pipe, 40S
Joints, Applianca for Curing Cable, 605
Joints, Tests of Riveted, 495
Jonas and Colver, Limited, Messrs., Now Rolling Mill, 425
Jones, Mr. David, Presentations to, 7
Jones, Mr. Forrest R.,and Mr. A. L. Goddard, Cutting Bavel Gears with Rotary Cutters, 96
Joy, Mr. Basil II., on Assistant Cylinders for Valve Gear, 150
Joy’s Patent Assistant Cylinder, 619
Jungfrau Railway Scheme, 161

K

KANSAS City, Pittsburgh and Galf Railway, Progress of, 391
Kearsage Armour Test, 586
Kennedy, Lieut.-Col., on Army Signalling and its Use in War, 455, 468
Kennedy, Prof., his Report to the Electric Lighting Committee of the Leith Corporation, 593
Kenyon, Mr. G. II., Ropes and Rope-driving, Kherson, The, 111
Kidderpur Docks to be Improved, 217
Kieff Agricultural Society's Exhibition, 7
Kilns, Chimneys for Cement, 213
Kimberley (David) and Sons’ Tool Manufacturing Company, 98
King’s Cross Station, Proposed Reconstruction of the Metropolitan, 413
Kirchner’s Mortising and B oring Tool, 318
Kirkaldy, Mr. David (with Portrait), 118, 147
K>te Ascent of Lieut. H. D. Wise, 217
Kites to obtain Meteorological Records, On the Use of, 426
Klimm, Professor M., 237
Kaarosborough Sewage Schome, 249
Knight, Mr. Robert, Presentation to, 307
Knowledge, A Little, 622
Knowles and Son, Messrs. Andrew, Annual Re¬port, 178
Kodolitsch, HerrF. von, Application of Electri¬cal Transmission of Power in Marine Engi¬neering and Shipbuilding, 446
Krupp Thin Armour Plates, 631
Kyle, Mr. John, on Concrete in Relation to Marine Works, 533
Kynoch and Co., Messrs. G., Scheme of Recon¬struction, 152
Kyoto Electric Light Works, 138

L

Laboratories. Tho Equipment of, 324
Laboratory Use of Acetylene, 342

Labour Questions:

Labour and Wages Disputes and Questions 7, 91, 95, 98, 99, 154, 227, 253, 307, 323, 355, 377, 401. 439, 499, 606, 620
Labour Difficulty in the Engineering Industry, 253
Labour Dispute, The Oldham, 499
Labour and Machinery, 323
Labour Statistics, 620
Labour Troubles at Barry, 606
Labour Troubles in the North, 227, 307, 355, 377
Labour in Yorkshire, Colliery Surface, 91
Lagos Railway, Progress of the, 362
Lakes of North Ameria, Traffic on the Great, 543
Lamington Bridge, Brisbane, 587, 594
Lancashire Boiler, A, 303
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Bill, The, 513
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Extensions, 57, 263
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. Adopt the Gold System for Heating their Carriages, 125
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co., Half-yearly Report, 199
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co., Its Omni¬bus Bill, 109
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co., Rolling Stock, 199
Lancashire and, Yorkshire Railway Co.’s Works, Visit to," 216
Lancaster, Mr. Chas., His Inaugural Address, 3U
Lancaster, Projected New Station at, 257
Landslip on the Banbury and Cheltenham Rail¬way, 112
Landslip near Killarney, 7
Landslip, Shakespeare's Cliff, 263
Lap-welded Steel Pipes, Process of Manufactur¬ing, 261
Lappage, Mr., and Mr. Hawkins, Important Experiments in the Process of Manufacturing Steel, 604
La Rochelle, Report on the Trade of, 371
Latchford Lock Gates, Mr. R. H. Garvie on the
Reconstruction and Erection of, 199
Lathe, Duplex Wheel, 613
Latitudes, Observations on High, 2.3
Launch Engine, 150
Launches, Petroleum Vapour, 212
Launches and Trial Trips:
23, 48, 72, 99, 101, 127, 155, 178, 202, 226, 249, 278, 303, 332, 354, 355, 379,388, 403, 413, 427, 438, 448, 461, 474, 476, 496, 498, 525, 527, 550, 551, 556, 559, 578, 598, 602, 604, 628, 637
Laur Herr on the Origin of Petroleum, 217
Lavatory and Bath Overflows, Accessible, 330
Law, Mr. E. F., Report on the Economic and Financial Situation in Italy, 262
Lawford, Mr. G. M., Presidential Address of, 151
Lawson 8 Metallic Packing, 342
Laycock Mr., Packing for Axle Boxes, 125

Leaders: 1897, 13

Accelerated Irish Mails, 197
Accuracy in Engineering Tests, 596
Agricultural Machinery in East Europe, 321
Aldersgate-street Explosion, The, 515
American Locomotive Performance, 348, 394
American Merchant Shipping, 298
American Steam Yachts, 245
Armour Piate Prices in the United State?, 411
Art and the Motor Car, 597
Artillery in the Greco-Russian War, 442
Automatic Railway Couplings, 491
Average Cylinder Pressure as a Measure of Train Resistance, 244
Balanced Slide Valves for Locomotives, 90
Bicycle Mechanics, 492
Blackwall Tunnel, The, 572
Boiler Inspection, 270
Boilers in the Uaited States Navy, 493
British Ability, 63
British Channel Squadrons, Two, 492
British Columbia, 572
British and Foreign Armour and Shot, 869
British and Foreign Guns, 298
Canadian Tariff, The New, 442
Case of the Boilermakers' Union, The, 596
Certificated Enginemen, 220
Ceylon, 597
Chemistry, 19
Chineso Treaty Ports, 644
Civil Engineering, 13
Coal Trade, The, 145
Coal Trade in 1897 ? What of the, 39
Collieries in Derbyshire and Notts, New, 221
Colliery Extension in Dsrbyshire, 418
Colliery Surface Labour in Yorkshire, 91
Condensation under Difficulties, 369
Conference, The, 515
Consuls on Catalogues, 493
Consuls and Competition, 219
Copper Mining and Engineering, 395
County Council Projects, 143
Deep Borings, 644
Eght Hours, 516
Eight Hours for Miners, 468
Electrical Engineering, 17
Employers’ Liability, 515
Eud of the Control-of-the-Output Scheme, 613
Engineers’ Conference, The, 349
Engines and Boilers in Parliament, 197
Equipment of Engineering Laboratories, Th',
Ether and its Work, The, 271
Ethereal Telegraphy, 546
Expansion r. Throttling, 89
Fatal Gun Accident on a Russian Ironclad, 299
Fleet at Spithead, The, 621
Free Trade in Queensland, 90
French Battleship, A, 442
French Naval Architecture, 117
French Naval Programme, The, 370
French Naval Reforms, 394
Gas Manufacture in London, 144
Gas Supply, 19
Glasgow International Exhibition, 144
Greenock and its Graving Dock, 245
Harbour and Waterways, 16
High Pressures at Sea, 418
How Trade is Lost and Kept, 220
Iceland, 622
Import Dues, 546
Indian Famine, The, 145
Induced Draught, 196
Inland Navigation Engineering, 271
Irish Railway Working, 197
Irrigation Engineering in India, 245
Labour and Machinery, 323
Light Irish Railways, 220
Light Railways, 38, 220
Light Railway Gauges, 468
Lima Exhibition, 547
Little Knowledge, A, 622
Lock-out in the Engineering Trade, The, 516
Locomotive Performance (see p. 458), 467
London Water, 115, 196
Machine Tool Dispute, The, 493
Machinery in the File Trade, 516
Manufacture of Diamonds, The, 348
Mare per Terras, The (with Reference to Mr. Wolfe Barry’s Address), 545
Marine Propulsion in the Past, 347
Maxim-Cordite Case, The, 169, 195, 270
Mechanical Engineering, 14
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession. 441
Mechanism of Qur Ships of War, The, 38
Micro-mechanical Examination of Steel Rai's and Tires, 144
Military Works Bill, The, 170
Miners’ Fallacies, 622
Motor Cars, 596, 622
Motor Car Competition, The, 571
Motor Car of the Future, The, 621
Naval Programme and Estimates for 1897-98 269
Naval Warfare, 493
Navy Boilers, 393
Neutral Axis, The, 595
New Departure, A, 319
Naw Method of Manufacturing Soeam, A, 63
North Lincolnshire Iron and Ironstone Trade in 1897, 39
Northern Chemical Manufacture, Tho, 272
Opposition to Machinery, 299
0 ir Foreign Metal Trades, 171
Outlook for Engineers, The, 90
Patent Law in the United States, New, 324
Philosophers aud Units of Force, 87
Professional Engineering, 394
Question of Adhesion, A, 170
Kain Making, 395
Railway Speeds, 116, 298
Railway Workers in Conference, 491
Railways io China, 117
Recalcitrant Boiler Owner, A, 516
Revival in the Engineering Trades, 64
Salt Water in Water-tube Boilers, 297
Sanitary Engineering, 18
Shallow Draught Government Steamers, 197
Shipbuilding in France, 64
Shipments of Yorkshire Coal from the Humber
Ports in 1896, 64 Ships of War, 37
“ Sissoi Veliki,” Gun Accident, The, 418
Sixty Years, 643
Smuggling, 572
South American Trade, 516
Steam Coal Market and Artificial Regulations, 244
Steam Motor Cars, 143
Steel in England and America, 171
Steel and Pig Iron Output, 370
Stiffnecked ness, 647
Stokers, 493
Storage of Cordite, The, 144
Submarine Telegraphy, 418
Subsidised Research, 171
Sugar Machinery Prospects, 220
Supernatural Powers, 572
Technical Education, 90
Technical Education in Germany. 116
Three Months of British Trade, 395
Throttling, Expansion, 89
Tonnage Measurements, 243
Torpedo Vessel the Future Battleship, The, 595
Trade Follows the Flag, 644
Trade Manoeuvres, 468
Trade Marks, 469
Trade Secrets, 324
Trade Union Foolishness, 417
Wages in the Engineering Trade, 39
War Material, 16
War Signals (ire page 455), 468
Water Supply, 18
What of the American Tariff ? 272
Wooden Steamer Afloat, The Largest, 412
Woolwich Arsenal, 417
Work of a Mine Inspector, The 644
Leakage of Electricity, On the Prevention of Fires due to the, 295
Leather Industry of Germany, 551
Lecuona, Mr., on Harbours and Docks, 226
Ledent's Gas Eagines, 305
Leeds, Electric Lighting of, 137
Lse-Metford Ballet, Experiments in India with. 263
Leicester Gasworks Extensions, 237
Leith Corporation, Prof. Kennedy’s Report to the Electric Lighting Committee of the, 593
Le Neve Foster, On Acetylene Gas, 400
Lengthening a German Liner, 495
Lens, The Largest Made, 623

Letters to the Editor:

Acetylene Burners ? J. P. W., 491
Albion Locomotive, The, G. A. Sakon, 198
American Competition, H. J. Skelton and Co., 295
American c. English Railway Bridges, Alt, D. Ottewell, 640
American Locomotive Performance, C. E. Wolff, 434
Atmo.-pheric Engine and Humphrey Potter. The, Alfred Marson, 61
Automatic Machine Gun, Hiram S. Maxim, 416
Barker's Compound Crank for Cycles, Gerald
Barker, 435, 489, 575
Barker’s Compound Crank for Cycles, E. M. Bowden, 465
Barker’s Compound Crank for Cycles, J. H. Gibson, 435, 465
Barker's Compound Crank for Cycles. R J. H.. 412,465
Barker’s Compound Crank, R. J. Hutchinson. 521
Barker’s Compound Crank for Cycles, Jas. S. Yabsley, 465
Bayrouth- Damascus Railway, Rinecker, Abt and Co. 122
Belleville Boiler at Sea, The, W. H. Moss, 555, 5/5
Bertrand-Thiel Open-hearth Process, P. C. Gilchrist, 43, 166
Bicycle Mechanics, Anti-friction, 521
Bicycle Mechanics, Hoop-driver, 521
Blackwall Tunnel, The, Pickford Van, 576
Bolt Heating Furnaces? W. J. S., 595
Boiler Inspection, Duped, 21
Boiler Tests for the Improved Patent Forced Draught Furnace Syndicate, Limited, 61
Boiler Tests, Frank L. Watson, 43, 87
Braiding Machines ? T. H. J., S9
Breaking Teste of Long-span Floor Arches, Maxwell and Tuke, 87
Brick Kilns ? J. A. B , 195
" Bristol ” and “ Inconstant,” The, R. M. S. 521
British Armour, F. F., 556
British Navy, The, Leopold Roper, 122
British Produce Association, Winchilsea, 275
Bunsen Flame Petroleum Burners. J. S. V Bickford, 275 326
Bansen Flame Petroleum Barners, G. H 195
Calcium Carbide? G., 169
Cambrian Engine as Applied to Locomotives G. A. Sekon, 140
Cask-making Machinery ? Casks, 347
Castings for the Trade ? B. M. P., 63
Cement Floors, G. A. Haig, 295
Centre Boards for Large Steam Vessels, Pre¬cursor, 465
Chimneys for Cement Kilns, Portland, 213
Chimney Shafts ? E.C., 169
Cleveland Tram-car Accident, Archibald P. Head, 43
Coffee Cleaning and Sugar-refining Machinery W. G., 491
Coffee Machinery ? L. B., 491
Cold Store Doors ! C. H., 595
Collapsible Tubes' D. II., 143
Comparative Cost of Road Pavements, J. W. Bradley, 212
Competition for Casting Cattle, George Wm. Rayner Wood, 368
Condensation under Difficulties, S. Bailey, 387
Condensation under Difficulties, John Kirkaldy, 416
Condensing under Difficulties, Frank Bailey, 465
Condensing under Difficulties. E. E., 433
Consuls and Competition, C. P., 275
Consuls and Competition (with Respect to Scissors), J. L. S., 248
Contracts in Japan, Spigot, 368
Costs in Patent Cases, Quill Driver, 327
Crystallisation and Electricity, W. Peters, 601
Cupolas for Malleable Castings, R L., 63
Decimal System, The, Leonard R. Flint, 21
Disclaimer, A, Hiram S. Maxim, 167
Disclaimer, A, Jas. Rickard, 198
Dynamical Terminology, A. H. Barker, 275
Dynamical Terminology, W. A. S. B , 345, 386, 465
Dynamical Terminology, R. M. Deeley, 248, 275
Dynamical Terminology, A. G. Greenhill, 248, 345
Dynamical Terminology, W. Silver Hall, 556
Dynamical Terminology, J. Harrison, 248, 294, 367, 412
Dynamical Terminology, Incog., 275, 327, 386
Dycamical Terminology, C. V. Kerr, 465
Dynamical Terminology, G. L., 412
Dynamical Terminology, J. McL., 294
Dynamical Terminology, Leibnitian. 327
Dynamical Terminology, Oliver J. Lodge, 248, 386
Dynamical Terminology, W. H. Northcott, 489
Dynamical Terminology, X., 248
East Coast Route to Scotland, The, A. J. Chisholm, 249, 295
East Coast Route to Scotland, Gairlocb, 275
Electrically-welded Tubes, Reginald J. Wallis-Jones, 575
Engine-room Artificers, R. N. E., 387
Engine-room Artificers, Fairplay, 387
Engine-room Artificers, Sidney H. Holland.368
Engine-room Artificers, Geo. Howell, 367
Engine-room Artificers, C. P., 368
Engine-room Artificers, Now a Tiffy, 368
Engine-room Artificers, Once a Tiffy, 345
English and Foreign Armour Plates, Tommy, 416
Examination Test forCivil Engineers, Thorough,
Eyelet Machines' A. E. W., 369
Flock-cleaning Machinery? Flocks, 63
Forced v. Suction Draught, Alex. Dalrymple,
Forced <•. Suction Draugh», W. H. Watkinscn, 213
Forty-eight Hours Week, A, An Engineer’s Traveller, 575
Free Trade and No Trade, W. A. S. B , 316
Free Trade and No Trade, A Williamson, 274
Friction Wheels? F. L. B., 323
Galvanised Buckets ' Cush, 467
Galvanising Tanks. B. and Co., 640
Great Eastern and the “Oceanic,” H. Cop, M. I. N. A., 438
Great Northern Railway and its Suburban Traffic, G. A. Sekon, 87
Historical Locomotive, An, David Salomons, 43
Holtzer Projectiles, Jacob Holtzer, 4S9
Hydraulic Air - compressing Plant, H. W. Pearsall, 626
Hydraulic Rams, E. W. Anderson, 211 Hydraulic Rams, John Barr, 249 Hydraulic Rams (for Easton, Anderson, and
Gooiden, Limited), E. W. Anderson, 211. 327
Hydraulic Rams, Sydney H. Farrar, 211, 275
Hydraulic Rams, John W. Fyfe, 345
Hydraulic Rams, A. H., 294
Hydraulic Rams, H. D. Pearsall, 368
Hydraulic Rams, A. Pounder, 249, 327, 368
Hydraulic Rams, G. F. Ransome, 248
Imperial Institute Motor Car Exhibition, An Outsider, 87
Induced Draught, Hammersley Heenan, 175
Institution of Civil Engineers, Fair Play, 36S
Institution of Civil Engineers, B. H. Thwaite 438
Irrigation in India,LA. T. Fraser, 438
Joggled Ship Plates, W. B. Thompson, 43S
John Bull Locomotive, Clement E. Stretton 556
Latest American Battleships, The, J. J. O’Neill,
Light Railway Gauges, J. C. Mackay, 521
Light Railways, F. R Johnson, 465
Links in the History of the Locomotive, W. J. Barker, 601
Liquefaction of Air by Self-intensive Refrigera¬tion, W. Hampson, 294
Liquefaction of Gases, T. B. Lightfoot. 327
Liquefaction of Gases, T. R. Murray, 368
Locomotive Adhesion, W. M. A., 198
Locomotive Adhesion, Old Sleeper, 198
Locomotive, An Old, Clement E. Stretton 61
Locomotive “Invicta,’’ Clement E. Stretton, 387
Locomotive Performance, H. A. Ivatt, 520
Locomotive Purchasing in Japan, Progress, 326
Machine for Decorticating Ramie ’ J. R 169
Machinery for Preparing Mustard ' H. and Co., Manjak, Walter Merivale, 575
Manson’s Valve Gear, Jas. Steele, 43
Maxim Motor Co., The, Hudson Maxim, 198
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, Deter¬mined to Get On, 489, 556
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, Forced into a Commercial Life, 575, 626
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, S. W. F., 575
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, Sidney H. Holland, 521, 601
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, Johny, 601
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, Oney Narmen, 626
Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, One who Tries to Engineer his Time, 556
Mechanical Haulage between Liverpool and
Manchester, E. Shrapnoll Smith, 198
Midland Scottish Service, The, Gairloch. 141
Mr. F. E. Boughton, H. Wells Eames, 21
Moment of Resistance, A Builder, 316
Moment of Resistance, J. S. C., 488
Moment of Resistance, Claverhouse, 488
Moment of Resistance, C. B. Collett, 212, 274, 465
Moment of Resistance, E. J. M. Davies, 249, 275, 316, 520
Moment of Resistance, Wm. Donaldson, 345
Moment of Resistance, Jas. Gilchrist, 316, 387, 489
Moment of Resistance, P. W. D. I., 465
Moment of Resistance, L. K., 327
Moment of Resistance, Walter Percival, 387, 465, 521
Moment of Resistance, Chas. L. Smith, 316, 315, 434, 556
Moment of Resistance, W. H. T., 434
Moment of Resistance, G. Jas. Wells, 294
Moment of Resistance, N. D. Y., 489
Motor Cars, A. J. A., 626
Motor Cars, John Beech, 640
Motor Cars, S. Cotterell, 122
Motor Cars, John Johnston, 625
MotorCars, John Hy. Knight, 625
Motor Cars, Peeping Tom. 540
Motor Cars, Practical Engineer, 625
Motor Cars, Simpson and Bodman, 625
Motor Cars, E. Shrapnell Smith, 640
Motor Cars, Jas. Edw. Tuke, 353
Motor Cars, Chas. Wicksteed, 625
Motor Cars, Van Builder, 625
Motor Cars, A Van Man, 122, 198
Motor Cars, The Yeovil Motor Car and Cycle Company, Limited, 625
Motor Car Competition, The, J. S. V. Bickford, 600
Motor Car Competition, The, C. Harrington Moore, 601
Motor Car Competition, The, J. D. Roots, 601
Motor Car Competition, Hy. Sturmey, 601
Motor Car in Excrisis, An Outsider, 174
Motor Cars—see also Steam
Motor Cars Moulding Winding Drums, Chas. Singer, 121
Mounting Machinery on Springs, Jas. Whitcher, 575
Neutral Axis, Wm. Donaldson, 626
Newspapers for Abroad, L. Dodgson, 175
New Tower at New Brighton, Butters, Brothers, and Co., 122
Nickel Steel, T. P. H., 434
Non-clearance Exhaust Valves (for Hicks, Har¬greaves, and Co., Limited), E. J. Brown, 198
North-Western Engines, W. B. Paley, 412
North-Western Engines, Clement E. Stretton, 412
Noteworthy Locomotives, George Fred Bird, 166, 249
Noteworthy Locomotives, F. W. Brewer, 166
Noteworthy Locomotives, Clement E. Stretton, 166
Numerical Relations of Atomic Weight, H. A. Hensman, 626
Observations in High Latitudes, A Geographical Student, 213
Oceanic and Great Eastern, The, Vigilance, 249
Oiling Calico P. W. and Co., 243
Old Locomotive, An, H. A. A. Dombrain, 21
Old Locomotive, An, David Salomons, 43
Optical Puzzle, Jay Aitch, 368
Outside Buffers for Railway Carriages, Dj Bergue and Co , Limited, 43
Packing Steam Boiler Water-gauge Glasses, John Moncrieff, 489
Petroleum Burners, Wm. Cross, 295
Petroleum Burners, John Hy. Knight, 295
Petroleum Vapour Launches, R. H. Campbell, W. Reitz, 213
Piston Rings, J. W., 489
Polyphase E ectric Currents, A. C. Eborall, 327
Pounds and Poundals, R. M. Daeley, 213
Pounds and Poundals, A. G. Greenhill, 198
Pounds and Poundals, Sextus, 213
Producer Gas, H. A. Humphrey, 576, 626
Producer Gas, Gas Power, 601, 640
Producing Rain, Dry Blower, 387
Pump, Hydraulic, Joseph Evans and Sons, 386
Pump Regulators, Hydraulic, 386
Pyramids, The, H. Johnson, 575
Question of Adhesion, A, H. E. Gresham, 213
Question of Adhesion, A, Walter Shellshear, 601
Railway Axles, Lax Terrse, 87
Railway Bills in Parliament, Le Brasseur and Oakley, 87
Railway Couplings, W. M. A., 521
Railway Couplings, Clement E. Stretton, 521
Railway Speeds, Running Shed, 141
Railway Spaeds, Geo. S. Strong, 353, 434
Railway Speeds, Jas. Tyler, 167
Railway Speeds, D. X., 626
Recent Developments in the Mercantile Ship Construction, Nickel, 521
Rips Driving, I. W. B , 368
Rope-making Plant? Twiner, 195
Russian Mill Engines, Andrew Alison, 141
Russian Mill Engines, H. A. Richardson, 141
Safety Hooks for Cranes, P. T. H., 43
Safety Hooks for Cranes, F. W. Webb, 122
Scotch Boilers in the Navy, W. H. Moss, 435
Self-propelled Traffic, S. Cotterell, 21
Self-propelled Traffic, Alf. R. Sinnott, 61
Sliding Seats for Oarsmen, Inquirer, 489
Some Noteworthy Locomotives, Archibald Sturrock, 141
Seme Noteworthy Locomotives, Clement E. Stretton, 141
Some Remarks on Coal Mines Explosions, J. E. Newby, 175
Spring Coupling for Hauling or Winding Engines, John Wales Laverick, 175
Steam Canoes? R. J. S., 515
Steam Engine and Boiler Certificated Attend¬ants Bill, Mechanic, 295
Steam Engine Efficiency, R. L. Weighton, 166
Steam Heating Apparatus, S. H., 640
Steam Motor Cars, Britannia Company, 166
Steam Motor Cars, Carrier, 166
Steam Motor Cars, H. A. D. Mackenzie, 166
Steam Motor Cars (forG. F. G. Des Vignes and Co., Limited), S H. Terry, 166
Steel Castings to about 1 cwt., 441
Steel Chairs, A. Richards, 626
Steel Sleepers for Light Railways, Shareholder, 576
Steel Wool? W. H. C., 643
Stern Tubes and Propeller Tail End Shafts, John Clarke, 166
Strike Funds, Ironmaster, 575
Sugar Evaporating Pans ? G. C. F., 595
Sulphate of Ammonia, F. J. R. Carulla, 212
Tay Bridge, The, Joseph Ilimblet, 87
Technical Education, J. W. Cuffe, 140
Technical Education, M. L and S. Inst., 140
Technical Education, A Practical Engineer, 141
Technical Education, Stud, 122
Technical Education, W. C. Unwin, 122
Thwaite Steel Furnace, The, Horace Allen, 212, 345, 412
Thwaites’ Steel Furnace, Vulcan, 368
Thwaites’ Steel Melting Furnace, Vulcan, 294
Trade Marks in Japan, Messrs. T. B. Browne, Limited, 122
Train Resistance, A Diagram, 275
Tramway Traction (for the British Gas Traction
Company), Percy Holyoake, 521
“Turbinia,” The (for the Marine Steam Tur¬bine Company, Limited), Richard Smith, 167
Valve Gear of the Locomotive Engine, R. Collier, 438
Victoria Locomotive, The, C.R., 489
“ Welshampton ” Accident, The, One who saw the Wreck, 626
Wire Rope Suspension Bridges? G. G., 595
Work of the Ether, the Writer, 295
Levat, M., Carbolic Acid for Tempering Steel Tools, 1S9
Lewes, Prof. Vivian B., Acetylene Gas for Light¬ships, 413
Lewes, Prof. V., on the Best Hydrocarbon for Miking Oil Gis, 109
Lewes, Prof. Vivian, on the Chemical Action in Bunsen Burners, 35
Liberty and Property Defence League’s Protest Against the Steam Engines and Boilers Bill, 263
Liège, Iron and Steel in, 83
Liesen’s Rock Drill, 329
Life Buoy, Archibald’s, 301
Li'e-saving Apparatus for Mine?, The Fleus», 72
Lift, An Inclined Plane Caual, 81
Lifts and Cranes, Electric, 362
Light Railways:
Light Railways, 38, 46. 137, 220, 226, 237, 246, 295, 263, 373, 319, 391, 413, 439, 465, 468, 496, 513, 521, 539, 551, 588, 593, 620, 628
Light Railways Act, 1897, 370
Light Railways for Anglesea, 319
L’ght Railways in Brittany, 593
Light Railway, Circular, Aberdeenshire, 593
Light Railway Commission, The, 137
Light Railway to Connect the Cattle Market with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail¬way System, 413
L’ght Railway Construction? On what is True and False Economy in, 539
Light Railway, Derby and Ashbourne, 593
Light Railway Gauges, 468, 521
Light Railways in Germany, Total Length of Narrow Gauge, 237
Light Railway Scheme, The Gower, 439
Light Railways for Hungary, 46
Light Railways for India, 496
Light Railways for Ireland, 137, 220
Light Railway from Llandudno to Colwyn Bay Refused by the Commissioners, 373
Light Railway from the Mound to Dornoch, Pro¬posed , 391
Light Railways, North France, 513, 551
Light Railway from Portmadoc, 620
Light Railways for the Potteries and Newcastle District, 226
Light Railways in Scotland, 513
Light Railway, Sutton Bridge to Spalding, 263
Light Railways for Wales, 439
Light Railways for Worcestershire, 628
Light Railway, Wrington Vale, 551
Light Railways, Mr. E. R. Calthrop on, 246
Light Railways, Mr. Leslie S. Robinson, 588
Light Railways, Mr. H. W. Standen on, 295
Lighting in Country Districts, East Hanningfield Complains of the Brilliant Glare, 2
Lightning Express Railway Carriage, Mr. Barr’s, 337
Lightning Trains on the North British Railway, by Chas. Rous-Marten, 257
Lights on and Round British and French Coasts Compared, 319
Li Hung Chang and the American Railway System, 496
Lilpop, Rau, and Levenstein, Messrs., Compound Engine. 192
Lima Exhibition, 547 Limited Companies, 72
Lincoln to the East Coast, Proposed Railway from, 57
Linde, Dr. Carl, Liquefaction of Air by Self-inten¬sive Refrigeration, 294
Lindsay’s Patent Clutch, 423
Liners, Some Great, 312
Links in the History of the Locomotive, 601
Lion Ammunition Works, Bursting of a Large Hydraulic Press, 450
Liquefaction of Air by Self-intensive Refrigera¬tion, 294
Liquefaction of Fluorine Gas, The, 593
Liquefaction of Gases, 327, 368, 593
Liquid Air as an Agent of Research, Prof. Dawaron, 496, 513,
Liquid Fuel Engineering Co.’s Van, The, 565
Liquid Fuel Injector, Holden’s, 539
Liquid Fuel in the Mines and Mills of the Oural
Region, Extended Use of, 641

Literature:

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Aeronautical Annual, 1897, No. 3, edited by Jas. Means, 645
Alternating Current Circuit: Introduction and Non-Mathematical Book for Engineers and Students, by W. Perrin Maycock, 623
Analysis of the Accounts of the Principal Gas Undertakings in England, Scotland, and
Ireland for 1896, compiled by John W. Field, 623
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Opera¬tions, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institute in July, 1894, 145
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution for the Year ending June 30th, 1894 : Report of theU.S. Natural Museum, 300
Australian, South African, and Eastern (India, China, and Japan) ABC Guides to the Principal British Manufacturing Exporters, 300
Bicycles and Tricycles: Elementary Treatise on their Design and Construction, with Examples and Tables, by Archibald Sharp, 319
Brown’s Marine Engineer’s Indispensable Pocket Log and Diary, Speed Tide, and Reference Book for 1897, 326
Calculus for Engineers and Physicists, The, by Prof. H. Smith, 622
Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, A Practical Text Book, by Bertram Blount and A. G. Bloxam, 299
Chronicle of Books relating to Steam Naviga¬tion, the Navy and Allied Subjects, with their Sellirg Prices, 40
Coach Building, by John Philipson, 371
Colliery Working and Management, Com¬prising the Duties of a Colliery Manager, the Superintendence and Arrangement of Labour and Wages, and the Different Systems of Working Coal Seams, by H. F. Bulmau and R. A. S. Redmayne, 39
Commercial Organisation of Factories, Hand¬book for the Use of Manufacturers, Engineers, Managers, and Others, by J. Slater Lewis, 272
Compressed Air Illness, or so-called Caisson Disease, by E. Hugh Snell, 91
Conciss History of English Carriages and Motor Cars, by Geo. Smith, 91
Copenhagen and its Free Port, 246
Cotsworth’s Direct Calendar (0), Compiled and Published by M. B. Cotsworth, 517
Cyclist Year-book for 1897, 469
Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, The .Illustrated Guide, 197
Directory of Titled Persons for 1897, Com¬panion to Whitaker’s Almanack, 246
Egyptian Self-taught (Arabic), with the English Phonetic Transliteration of every Word, by C. A. Thimm, 350
Eissnbahn Technic der Gegenwart, Herausge- geben von Blum, von Borries u. Barkhausen, Vol. i, Section 1, Part 1, Die Locomotiven, 197
Electric Lighting, by Francis B. Crocker, 370
Electric Wiring, by Russell Robb, 349
Electrician Electrical Trades' Directory and Handbook for 1897,221
Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Vol. iii., Kinetics, by Prof. A. Jay Du Bois, 623
Elements of Theoretical Physics, by Dr. C. Christiansen, Translated by W. F. Magie, 573
Engineering Works of the Godavari Delta: Descriptive and Historical Account, by Geo. J. Walcb, 221
Engineer’s Sketch Book of Mechanical Move¬ment’, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances. &c , employed in the Design and Construc¬tion of Machinery for every Purpose, by Thos. Walter Barber, 494
Engineer’s Year Book of Formulae, Rules, Tables, Data and Memoranda in Civil, Me¬chanical, Electrical. Marine, and Mine Engi¬neering, by H. R. Kempe, 145
Everybody’s Guido to Photography: A Prac¬tical Handbook, containing full Instructions for Amateur Photographers, by “ Operator,” 246
Every Man’s Own Lawyer: A Handy Book of the Principles of Law and Equity, by a Barrister, 91
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Ei port Merchant Shippers, with their Trading Ports and Class of Goods Shipped, 197
First Principles of Mechanical and Engineering Drawing, by H. Holt-Butterfill, 469
Gas Engineer’s Text-book and Gas Companies' Directory, 145
Gas and Fuel Analysis for Engineers, by Aug. H. Gill, 300
Gas and Oil Engines, The, by Dugald Clerk, 272
General Trade Calculator: Containing Engi¬neering, Commercial, and other useful Tables for all Classes of Business Men, by Rajbhoy Esmailjee, 300
Getting Gold, Practical Treatise for Prospec¬tors, Miners, and Students, by J. C. F. Johnson, 350
Handbook for Laying out Curves on Railways and Tramways : Calculated for every possible Angle and Radius, by G. H. A. Krohnke, 396
Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, by Henry Adams, 371
Handbook of Modern Explosives, M. Eissler, 371
Higher Mathematics : A Text-book for Classical and Engineering Colleges, Edited by Mans¬field Merriman and Robert S. Woodward, 547
History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire, by W. H. Wheeler, 419
Hydraulic Machinery, by Robert Gordon Blaine, 645
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La Machine k Vapeur : Traité Général, &c. &c., par Edouard Sauvage, 117, 145
La Marine de la Guerre, Six Mois Rue Royale, par Edouard Lockroy, 395, 418, 443, 469
Law of Motor Cars, Hackney, and other Car¬riages : An Epitome of the Law, Statutes, aua Regulations, by G. A. Bonner, 517
Law of the Motor Car and the Statutes Affect¬ing the Same, with Appendix of the Board of Trade Regulations, &5., E. Grimwood Mears, 91
Laxton’s Prize Book for Architects, Builders, Engineers, and Contractors, 145
Loan's Royal Navy List, by Lieut.-Col. F. Lean, 91
Light, W. T. A. Emtage, 443
Local Government Annual, An Official Direc¬tory, 1897, 91
Lockwood’s Builders’ and Contractors’ Price Book, 1897, 246
Locomotive Magazine for January, 1897, 40
Linden, Chatham, and Dover Railways, Its Passenger Services, Rolling Stock, Locomo¬tives, Gradients, and Express Speeds, by tho Author of British Railways, 622
Lubricating Oils, Eats, and Greases, their Origin, Preparation,and Properties, Use3and Analysis, by Goo. II. Hurst, 64
Magnetic Fields of Force, by H. Ebert, 517
Manual of American Waterworks, 1897, 517
Manual of Elementary Seamanship, D. Wilson-Barker, 91
Manuale dell’lDgegnero Civile e Industrial, por G. Colombo, 39
Manual of Irrigation Engineering, by Herbert M. Wilson, 319
Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants, by Fred. Remsen Hutton, 494
Mechanics of Pumping Machinery, Dr. J. Weisbach and Prof. G. Hermann, 324
Millennium of Hungary and its People, The, 326
Minutes of Proceedings of the Eogineering Association of New South Wales, Vol. ix, 443
Modern Cycles, their Construction and Repair, by A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 419
Mountain Observatories in America and Europe, by Edw. S. Holden, 145
Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1897, 443
Muret-Sanders Eucyclopiidisches Wiirterbuch der Eoglischen u Deutschen Sprache, Teil ii. von Prof. D. Sanders, 300
Murray’s Cyclists’ Road Book, Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, &c., 517
Naval Annual, T. A. Brassey, 516
Naval Engineers and the Command of the Sea, a Story of Naval Administration, by F. G. Burton, 325
Naval Pocket Book, The, by W. Laird Clowes, 65
Notes and Wrinkles for Apprentice Engineers on the Lining-off and Erection of a Set) Marine Engines, by Thos. Wallace, 494
One Hundred and Fifteen Experiments on the Carrying Capacity of Large Riveted Metal Conduits up to 6ft. per Second of Velocity. of Flow, by Clemens Herschel, 645
Patent Law and Practice, Including the Regis¬tration of Designs and Trade Marks and the Laws relating to the Copyright of Library, Dramatic, and Artistic Works (two parts), by A. V. Newton, 145
Polarising Photo-chronograph, being an Account of Experiments at the U S. Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., in Developing this Instru¬ment, by Albert Cushing Crehore and Geo. Owen Squier, 494
Practical Electrical Measurements, Introductory Manual for Young Engineers and Students, by Ellis H. Crapper, 300
Practical Hints for Light Railways at Home and Abroad, by F. R. Johnson, 246
Practical Treatise on the Otto Cycle Gas Engine, by W. Morris, 118
Practical Treatise on Segmentil and Elliptical Oblique or Skew Arches, setting forth the Principles and Details of Construction in Clear and Simple Terms, by Geo. Joseph Bell, 245
Premier Cypher Telegraphic Code, compiled by Wm. H. Hawke, 494
Railway Technical Vocabulary, French, English, and American Terms, by Lucien Serraillier (22 Tables), 494
Registrar of the Associates and Old Students of the Royal College of Chemistry, tho Royal School of Mines, and the Royal College of Science, with Historical Introduction and Biographical Notices and Portraits of Past and Present Professors, by T. G. Chambers, 145
Retaining Walls for Earth, Including tho Theory of Eirth Pressure as Developed from the Ellipse of Stress, with a Short Treatise on Foundations, Illustrated with Examples from Practice, by Malverd A. Ilowe, 547
Revue de Mécaniquo, 272
Röntgen Rays and Phenomena of the Anrdo
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Scheme for the Regulation of the Output of Coal by International Agreement, by Emile Lewey, 65
Sell’s Dictionary of Registered Telegraphio Addresses, 145
“ Shipping World " Year-book, a Desk Manual in Trade, Commerce, and Navigation, 145
Slide Rule, The, Mr. C. N. Pickworth, 221
Smithsonian Physical Tables, Prepared by Thos. Gray, 494
Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa, Major J. R. L. Macdonald, 326
Stanford’s Map of Central London on the Scale of Four inches to One Mile, 371
Stanford’s Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, and other Improvements for Session 1897, 350
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Stresses in Framed Structures, Including the Strength of Materials and Theory of Flexure, also the Determination of Dimensions and Designing of Details, Specifications, Com¬plete Designs and Working Drawings, by A. Jay Du Bois, 493, 597
Syren and Shipping, The, 300
Tables for Iron Analysis, by John A. Allen, 65
Tables showiog Loss of Head due to Friction
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Technical Education : Application of Funds by Local Authorities, 371
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Text Book on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines, or Internal Combustion Motors without a Boiler, by Bryan Donkin, 245
Transactions of the ; American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol. xiii., 623
Transformer Design, by G, Adams, 300
Treatise on Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, by Thos. Jay Evans and W. W. P. Pullen, 547
Tresidder’s Rapid Reckoner, 221
United States Geological Survey, Sixteenth Annual Report, 171
Uuiversal Electrical Directory (J. A. Berlv’s). 1897, 246
Virginia Cartography: Bibliographical Descrip¬tion, by P. Lee Philips, 300
War Map of Greece with Turkish Frontier, Crete, &c., W. and A. K. Johnston, 494
Water and its Purification : A Handbook for the Use of Local Authorities, Sanitary Officers, and Others Interested in Water Supply, by Sam. Rideal, 325
What is Electricity? By John Trowbridge, S.D., Who’s Who, 1897, 371
Willing’s British and liish Press Guide and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook for 1897, 246
Wire Mining and Hauling Ropes, their Manu¬facture and Applications, by J. Bucknall Smith, 221
Wood Industries of Canada, The, 350
Liverpool Corporation Tramways Bill, The, 413
L'verpool Dock Board, Retiring Allowance to
Mr. G. F. Lyster and Appointment of his Son, 57
Liverpool and Manchester, Mechanical Haulage between, 159, 198
Liverpool Overhead Railway, Expenditure and Working, 199
Liverpool Overhead Railway, Report, 163
Liverpool, Projected Street Improvements in, 513
Liverpool Tramways, 567
Llandudno, On the Municipal Works of, 626
Llwydcoed Ironworks, History and Sale of, 279
Lloyd’s Register, Tonnage Classed by, 217
Lloyd’s Shipping Register, Vessels under Con¬struction in the United Kingdom in the Quarter ending March, 1897, 391
Locker and C. C. Tasker, Messrs., cn Electricity in Coal Mining, 273
Lockyer, Mr. N. J., his Appointment, 7
Lock-out in the Engineering Trade, The, 546
Lodge, Dr. Oliver, Note on Sound, Signals at Sea, 641

Locomotives:

Locomotive Adhesion, 198, 213 Locomotive Albion, The Cambrian, 140, 167, 198 Locomotives, American, 124, 152, 399, 447, 620
Locomotives, American, Ritios io, 447
Locomotives, American Two-cylinder Compound,
Locomotives, Austrian State Railways, 131
Locomotive, Balanced Compound, to be Tested at Purdue University, 620 Locomotives, Bdanced Slide Valves for, 90
Locomotives, Balanced Slide Valves on French, 407
Locomotives with Balanced Valves in the U. S., 620
Locomotives for the Bayrouth Damascus Rail¬way, 97
Locomotive Buildiüg and Purchasing, Japan, 283, 289
Locomotives, On Cast Steel for, 57
Locomotives for China, 263
Locomotives for China, American, 423
Locomotive, Compound Goods, Kaiser Ferdinand Nord Babn, 241, 242
Locomotives, Compound, Largest Order for, ever Received at Crewe, 109
Locomotives, Compound, on the London and
North-Western Railway, 458, 459, 467
Locomotive, Compressed Air, 424
Locomotive, Compressed Air, New York, 95
Locomotive, Electric Shunting, U. S., 162
Locomotive Engine, Valve Gear of the, 438
Locomotive, Express, North British Railway, 257
Locomotive, Express Passenger, Mr. F. W. Webb, 392, 396
Locomotive, Fay’s Balanced Valve for, 107
Locomotive Fires with Oil, Kindling, 84
Locomotive Fuel Consumption, Variation id, 641
Locomotive, Goods, Indian Midland Railway, 618
Locomotives for the Great Eastern Railway Com¬pany, Ten New, 496
Locomotives for the Great North of Scotland Railway Company, 126
Locomotive, The Hardie Compressed Air, 95
Locomotives, Heavy, 423
Locomotive, A Heavy Bank, 251
Locomotive, Heavy Goods, Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 45
Locomotive, Heavy Tank, for the Indian State Railways, 567, 569
Locomotive Improvement, by Leonard J. Todd, 553
Locomotives for India with Tenders with Vacuum Brakes, 593
Locomotive Invicta, The, 387
Locomotive Invicta, The Old Canterbury and Whitstable, 163
Locomotives, Japan and, 57, 95, 187, 322, 326, 375 (Supplement, March 26th, 1897)
Locomotives for Japan, American, 375
Locomotives for Japan, with Six-coupled Wheels, 137
Locomotive John Bull, 556
Locomotive, The Latest Single-wheel Express, 633
Locomotive, Links in the History of the, 601
Locomotive for the London and South-Western Railway Company, Mr. Drummond's First, 291
Locomotive, Narrow - gauge Passenger, Cape Government Railways, Mr. Michael Stephens (Supplement, April 2Srd, 1897), 422
Locomotives for the Northern Pacific Railway, the Largest ever Constructed, 237 Locomotives, Noteworthy, 114, 119 141, 166. 249
Locomotive of a Novel Description, Small, 513
Locomotive, An Old, 21, 43, 61
Locomotives, Painting of, 551
Locomotive Performance, 458, 459, 467, 521
Locomotive Performance, American, 394, 434
Locomotives, Piston Valves in, 577
Locomotive, Rack Rail, for the Beyrouth and Damascus Railway, 58
Locomotives and Rolling Stock in 1896, 20
Locomotive, Six - coupled Tank, Circom-Etoa Railway (Supplement, May 2bt, 1897), 509, 511
Locomotives, South Pacific Railway Company, Schedules of Tonnage Rating for all the Goods, 593
Locomotives and Steel Rails for Japan, 263
Locomotives, United States, 95, 162
Locomotive '* Victoria.” 489
Locomotives, Vulcan Foundry, The Earliest and Latest, 618
Locomotives, Mr. Worsdell’s, An Engine-driver’s Comments on the Close Cab, 35
Lombardy, The Cotton Industry of, 592
Lorillard, Mr. Jacob, Yacht of a New Shape, 109
Louisville and Nashville Railway Co., Export Business Managed by, 461
London Central Railway, Electrical Plant, 587
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Accele¬rated Services, 439
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, Corridor Carriages between Calais and Bile, 263
London County Council, Technical Education Board, Grant Required, 186
London County Council, The, Welsh Water Supply Scheme, 185
L D. and E.C. Railway, Sections, 266
London E ectric Supply Co , in 1896, Capital Ex¬penditure of the, 641
London, Gas Manufacture in, 144
London Geological Field Class, 390
London, On the Main Drainage of, 250
London, The New Lice to, 241
London, New Railway Projects for, 82, 137
London and North-Western Railway Company,
Improvement of the Service to Ireland, 373
London and North-Western Railway, Memo¬randum Relative to the Returns of Accidents to Railway Servants, 341
London and North-Western Railway Rcpors, 162
London and North-Western Railway, Second-class Fares, 341, 461
London Railway, The First, 27
London and Soatb-Western Mail Train on the Great Western Main Line by Mistake, 217
London, Walthamstow, and Epping Forest Rail¬way to be Abandoned, 57
London Water Riverside Companies, Visits to the, 564
London Water Supply, 109, 115, 196, 496, 606
London Water Supply, Mr. W. J. Dibdin on, 109
London Water Supply, Royal Commission Ap¬pointed to Consider the Subject of, 496
Lorenzo Marquez Port and Railway, 570
Lowestoft, 232 Lowestoft Harbour, 232
Lubricating Oils and Lubrication, Mr. Alexander Tacker, 152
Lubrication, Superficial Tension and, 157, 198
Lubricator, The Ottewell Sight-feed, 31
“ Lucania,” Record Passages of the, 95
Luggage Van for the Conveyance of Cycles, Priza Offered for, 95
Lunge, Prof., on Technical Education—A Little Knowledge a Dangerous Thing, 622
Lycoudis, Lieut. P. S., Sectional Gun, 247
Lyle, Mr., His Appointment, 154
Lynde, Mr. F. G., Lavatory with Accessible Over¬ flow, 330

M

MABON’S Award, re The Duffryn Dispute Rejected, 526
Macaulay, Mr. F. W., Resignation, 401
Macclesfield Canal Bursts its Bank, 137
McDougall, Mr. P. W., on Electric Central Station Working, 8
MacDowall, Mr. A B., Suggestions of Sunspot Influence cn the Weather of Western Europe, 426
McDowell, Mr. J. II., on Continuous Brakes, 273
Machine Labour Question, The, 323, 472, 474, 493, 524, 629, 651
Machine Labour Question, Mr. Barnes on the, 524, 629
Machine Question at the Newton Heath Works, The, 651
Machine Tool Dispute, 472, 493
Machine Tools, American, 59, 62, 177
Machine Tools, American Compressed Air, 177
Machine Tools, American Electro, 177
Machine Tools by Compressed Air, Operation of, Machine Tool Makers in 1886, 30
Machine Tools, Modern, 366, 367, 517
Machinery Imported into Japan, 57
Machinery, Labour and, 323
Machinery, Opposition to, 299
Machinery on Springs, Mounting, 575
Machinery and the Transmission of Power, 537
McMillan, Mr. W. G., Successor to Mr. F. H. Webb, 570
Macpherson, Mr. J. A., on the Manufacture of High-class Bridge Work, 250
Madeira, Electric Power Supply for, 439
Madras, Mica Mining Industry, 163
Magnetic Force of the Earth, Dr. A. Schmidt’s Analysis of the, 163
Magnetic Hysterisis, Dr. J. A. Fleming’s Method of Determining, 641
Magnetisation Limit of Magnetic Substances, Mr. Hy. Wilde on the, 637
Malta, Electric Lighting of, 7
Malta Electric Lighting Station, Engines and Dynamos, 337, 342, 343, 344
Mamontnn et Cie, Extension of the Newski Establishment, 154
Manchester--'-' also Notes from Lanca¬shire :
Manchester, 252
Manchester, Carburetted Water Gas Plant for, 7
Manchester Coal Exchange Committee, Annual Report, 99
Manchester, Control of the Electric Undertaking to be Supervised by a Special Committee, 373
Manchester, Electric Light for, 551
Manchester, Electric Light Extension Projects, 620 J ’
Manchester, Railway Accident, 35
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, Meeting of Employés to Consider a Reduction of Hours of Labour, 496
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Proposed Change of Name, 137
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, the Strike Averted by the Managers' Concessions, 499
Manchester and Sheffield Company's London Ex¬tension Line, Carriage and other Works for the, 291
Manchester Ship Canal, 7, 95, 99, 226, 232
Manchester Ship Canal Company, Bill Deposited by the, 7
Manchester Ship Canal Traffic Rjturns, 95, 99
Manchurian Railway, The, 7, 199, 201
M.nohurian Railway, The Russo-Chinese Bank takes 1000 Shares in the. 199
Maneuvrier et Fournier, MM., on the Rt*io of the Two Specific Heats of Acetylene, 163
Mangoes and Pineapples from Queensland, Im¬portation of, 373
Manitoba, Farming Machinery in, 25
“ Manjak," The Mineral Locally called, 402, 575
Manson's Valve Gear, 43
Mantles, Calculating Illuminating Values of Various, 35
Manurial Experiments, Staffordshire, 42
Map of the American Lakes, 132
Map, Diagram Route, Engineer Horseless Carriage Competition, 483
Map of New Lines of the Great Western Rail¬way, 259
Map of New Railways for London, 82
Mire per Terne (referring to Mr. Wolfe Barry's Address), 545
Marindin, Major, Reports to the Board of Trade, 7
Marine Boilers, Suction Draught for, 147
Marina Engines, High-pressure for, Mr. W. R. Cummins, 418
Marine Engine Practice, Highest Point yet Reached, 137
Marine Propulsion in the Past, 847
Maritime Improvements at Dunkirk, 78
Market Harborougb, Mr. H. G. Coates on the Public Works of, 484
Market Harborough Public Baths, Mr. H. G. Coates on the, 484
Marriages, Births, and Deaths, Quarterly Return, 496
“ Mars,” Overtime Work on the, ta Satisfy Admiralty Requirements, 513
Marsden, Mr. Benjamin, 153
Marshall, Mr. Alf., Cycle Construction, 409
Marten, Mr. E. D., His Report on the Improve¬ment of the Waterway between Wolverhamp¬ton and Bristol, 524
Martin, Mr., His Inaugural Address at the Meet¬ing of the Iron and Steel Institute, 483, 479, 512
Martinique, Project for Connecting by Rail the Sugar Factories of, 513
Masonry Dam for Denver, 375
Matchets for Sugar Plantations, German Compe¬tition in, 125
Material Employed for the Construction of Ships, 1896, 163
Mathematicians, Desirability of an International Congress of, 319
Matthews, Mr. Thos., Deep Bore-hole Pomp, 136
Maxim-Cordite Case, The, 169, 195, 241, 270
Maxim, Mr. H , Letters Patent Granted to, for Improvements in Processes and Apparatus for Reducing Metals from their Ores, 391
Maxim Motor Co., The, 198
Maxim Motor Co., A Disclaimer, 167
Maxwell’s Theory of Dielectric Stresses, Compe¬tition for Experiments Confirming, 391
May Train Services, The, By Chas. Rous-Marten, 455
Mayer, Mr. A M , Experiments on the Flotation of Clean Wires on Water, 496
Mean Water-line in Designing the Lines of Ships, Use of the, 396 ’
Measurement of Power, Watt and the, 233
Mechanical Engineering, 1896, 14
Mechanical Engineering as a Professian, 441, 489, 521, 556, 575, 601, 626
Mechanical Engineers and Ironfounden in 1896, 30
Mechanical Haulage between Liverpool and Man¬chester, 159, 198
Mechanical Production of Cold, The Howard Lectures cn the, 122
Mechanism of our Ships of War, 38
Medway, Mr. John, Tests to Determine the Relative Non-conducting Qualities of Three Kinds of Boiler Covering, 137
Mendenhall, Prof. T. C., On a Ring Pendulum for Absolute Determination of Gravity, 513
Menheniot Viaduct Accident, The, 628
Mercantile Ship Construction, Recent Develop¬ments in, 406, 455, 521
Merchandise Marks Act, The, 319, 567
Merchandise Marks Act, Inquiry into the Working of, 319 HO
Mercury from Copper, Separation of, 57
Mermet, M. A., Solution for Detecting Inflam¬mable Gas in Mines, 570
Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee, 360
Merthyr Hospital, A Jubilee Ward for, 332
Merw-Kushk Railway Inaugurated, The, 593
Messent, Mr. Philip John, 371
Metal for Cylinders, Valves, &c., The Best, Subject of an Investigation, 496
Metal Produced by the Reduction of Wolfram by Carbon, 57
Metal Trades, Our Foreign, 171
Metallic Alloys and the Theory of Solution. On. 373
Metallic and Fibrous Packing, Ogden’s, 3C4
Metallic Packings, Lawson’s, 342
Metallurgical Laboratory, King’s College, 81
Metals, Reducing Metals from their, Mr. H. Maxim’s Improvements in Processes, 391
Meteorological Instruments, Sixty Years’ Im¬provements in, 290
Meteorology of London, On the Non instrumental. 628
Metre-gauge Railway, South India, 57
Metric System to be Adopted in the United States, 593
Metric System of Weights and Measures, Ques¬tion in the House Concerning the Legalisation of the. 199
Metric Weights and Measures, Mr. J. Emerson Dowson, 237
Metropolitan Railway between Finchley and Wembley, Widening of, 109
Mexico, Copper Exports from, 199
Mexico, Railway Mileage in, 199 Mexico, Trade of, 35, 190
Mexican Government, New Railway Concession Granted by, 109
Mexican Imports through Tampico in 1895, 373
Mica Mining Industry, Madras, 163
Micro-Mechanical Examination of Steel Rails and 1 Tubes, I))
Microphones, Experiments Recently Made with, 551
Microscope Accessories for Metallographers, Mr, J. E. Stead on, 479
Microscopy of Iron and Steel, Mr. Wm. Cleland on the, 209
Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, Quarterly Report, 401
Middlesbrough Furnaces, Pig Iron Output in 1896 by, 73
Middlesbrough Graving Dock, Electric Lighting of the, 378
Middlesbrough, Tramway Extension, 100
Midget Steam Trap, The, 305
Mid-Kent Line, Improvements on the, 35
Midland Iron Company’s Annual Meeting, Busi¬ness Results, 237
Midland Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway, Dinner Given by the Chair¬man of the, 109
Midland Railway Enginemen's Home at High- gate, 384, 385
Midland Railway Mineral Traffic, The, 383
Midland Railway, New Bridge at Clydach, 7
Midland Railway, New Standard Rail, 247
Midland Railway, Train Mileage, Coal Consumed, Number of Engines for, 1895, 263
Midland Scottish Service, The, 141
“ Midland-Scottish,” With the, Mr. Chas. Rous- Marten, 103
Milan, The Edison Company of, 551
Military Material, Active Production of, 525
Military Works Bill, The. 170
Mill Engines, Russian, 141
Milling Machine, American, 59
Mills and Co., Messrs., Aluminium Bed-plate, 504, 509
Mills, Looms, and Spindle?, and Persons Employed in India, 237
Mill Work, Use of High-speed Engines for, 306
Milne, Prof. John, on Rjcent Advances in Seismology, 199
“ Milwaukee,” Trial Trip of the Largest Ca-go Steamer ever Built in England, 99
Mine Inspector, The Work of a, 644
Mine Managers in East Australia Wanted, Com¬petent, 45
Mine Ventilation Question, The, 306
Mineral Called “ Manjak,” The, 402, 575
Mineral Products of Servia, 7
Minerals and Oils in the United States, Produc¬tion of, 57
Miners, Eight Hours for, 468
Miners’ Fallacies, 621
Miners’ International Congress, Proceedings of the, 629
Miners’ Parliament, The, 31
M:nes after Explosious. Suggested Rules for the Recovery of Coal, 588
Mines, Explosives in Coal, 640
Mines, Fire-damp Indicator for, 439
Mines, Fleuss Life-saving Apparatus and Electric Safety Lamp for, 72
Mines by Labour Delegate.», Inspection of, 84
Mines and Quarries, British, 552
Mines, Solution for Detecting Inflammable Gas in, 570
Mines, Wood Consumption in, 65
Mining in Australia, 45
Mining in Cornwall, Mr. W. Thomas on the Prospers of Deep, 537
Mining and Metallurgical Societies in 1896, The Work of, 260, 351
Mining, Metallurgy, and Mechanics, Promiums Offered by the Soo. de l’lndustrie Minerale of St. Etienne, for Original Communications on, 237
Mining and Technical School in the Ural, 426
Mining Practice in the United Kingdom, On Deep Levels in, 536
Mint, Birmingham. Annual Report of the Nit Profit of the, 628

Miscellanea:

7, 35, 57, 95, 109, 137, 163, 199, 217, 237. 26’, 291, 319, 341, 373, 391, 413, 439, 461, 496, 513, 551, 570, 593, 620, 641
Mississippi River, Bridge over the, 556
Mitton, Mr. Dury, on an Underground Fire at Bridgewater Colliery, 588
Modern Japan, Industrial and Scientific, Electrical Work, 138
Modern Japan, Industrial and Scientific, Loco¬motive Building and Purchasing, 283, 289
Modern Machine Tools, On, 517
Moissan, M., Gold Medal Awarded to, 237
Moissan and Dewar, MM., Liquefaction of Fluorine Gas by, 593
Moment of Resistance, 212, 249, 294, 316, 327, 345, 387, 434, 465, 488, 489, 521,556, 595
Monaco, Electric Tramway for, 513
Moncrieff, Mr. John Mitchell, Standardising of Working Loads and Working Stresses of Rail¬way Bridges, 578
Mond Gas Producer Plant and its Application. The, 295
Monier System of Arch Construction, Mr. Walter Beer cn the, 252
Monier System of Construction, The, 97, 252
Montana Mines, Double-clutch Winding Engine 159, 168 ’
Moore, Mr. Harrington, and the Motor Car Club. 596
Moorwocd and Sons, Messrs., Cycle Manufac¬turers, 179
Morris, Mr. D. K., Effect of Temperature upon the Magnetic and Electric Properties of Ire n, 513, 551
Morrison and Ingram, Messrs., Lavatory with Accessible Overflow, 330
Morriston Tin-plate Works, Accident at, 426
Mors Motor Carriage, 328
Mortising and Boring Tool, Kirchner’s, 318
Morton, Prof. W. B., on the Effect of Capacity on Stationary Electrical Waves in Wires, 391
Moseley Corporation Gasworks, Extensions of Plant, 499
Mossman, Mr. R. C., Non-instrumental Meteor¬ology of London, 1713-1896, 628

Motor Cars:

6, 26. 34, 60, 86, 122.124, 131, 143, 174, 177, 198, 353, 888, 450, 523, 524, 564, 596, 600, 613 619, 621, 622, 625, 626, 637, 640
Motor Car, Art and the, 597
Motor Car Competition, The, 571, 6C0
Motor Cars at the Crystal Palace, 564
Motor Cars, The Daimler Company, 124
Motor Car in Excelsis, The, 174
Motor Car Exhibition, Imperial Institute, 8Q
Motor Car of the Future, The, 621
Motor Car Notes, 524, 619, 622
Motor Cur, The New Peugeot, 177
Motor Car for Practical Work, Six Month) Experience of, 450
Motor Car Propulsion, Magisterial Proceeding Connected with, 474
Motor Car Race in France, A, 131, 143
Motor Cars, Relative to Another Letter from Mi Sturraey, 637
Motor Car Speed Gearing, The Pretot, 523
Motor Cars, Steam, 131. 143
Motor Cars, Storage of Energy in, 60
Motor Car, Messrs. Thornycroft’s Test of tho, 31
Motor Carriage, Messrs. Atkinson and Philipsor 388
Motor Carriages in Paris, 6
Motor Syndicate, The British, 34
Motor Van Competition of tho Royal Agricu tural Society, 611
Motors and Machine Tools, Munich, Ssc:n Exhibition, 191
Moulding Winding Drums, 121
Mounting Machinery on Springs, 575
Moving a Railway Bridge, 81
Muirheud’s Rolled-steel Railway Chair, 473
Multiphase Currents in Electric Driving, Utilise tion of, 6
Munby, Mr. A. E , On the Laboratory Use c Acetylene, 342
Municipal and County Engineers, The Summe Meeting, 411
Munro's Steam Boiler, 110
Muntz’s Metal Company’s Report, 306
Murphy, Mr. E , Automatic Brush, 110
Murphy ManufacturingCo., Machine for Trueing up Electric Tramcar Wheels, 291

N

NAIL-MAKING and Box-nailing Machine, Thi “Ductor,” 40
Naples, 1896, Total Number of Vessels tha Entered the Port of, 439
Naples, Harbour Improvements, 439
Narrow Gauge Folly in England, The, 95
Nashua Aqueduct, 71
Nasmith, Mr., His Inaugural Address, 63, 71
Natal, Dredging at, 52
National Department of Science, A, 187
National Railway Museum for London, A 319
Natural Gas Supply, The, 593
Naval Architecture at the Earl’s Court Victoria! Era Exhibition, 637
Naval Architecture, Fronch, 117
Naval Construction and Armaments Co., Sale ol the Works Decided on, 475
Naval Construction Works, Barrow-in-Furness, 651
Naval Engineer Appointments:
46> '2> A13’ 226> 240> 3O4< 327, 340, 365,
426, 485, 526, 576, 586, 623 > > »
Naval Programme and Estimates for 1897-98, 259
Nava1 Review »ƒ Spithead. (Supplement, June T&th), 513, 614, 615, 621, 635
Naval Review at Spithead, The Steamship Com¬panies and the, 513
Naval Section of the Victorian Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 561, 586
Naval Warfare, 493
Navies of Europe, A German Review on the, 496
Navy Boilers, 393 Navy, The British, 122
Navy, The French, 568
Neath and Brecon Railway, Shcnting Accident,
Neath Colliery District, Accident in the, 558
Neath Steel Company, The, 21
Neely, Mr. Sam. T., on the Resistance of Vehicles on Common Riads. 627
Neilton and Co., Messrs., Heavy Tank Locomotives for the Indian State Railways. 567, 569
Neilson and Co., Order for Twelve Locomotives Placed with, 126
Netherlands, German Competition with British
Manufactures in the, 314 Netherlands Navy, The, 34
Nettleship, Mr. J. H., 263
Neustadt-Lokomotiv Fabrik, Express Locomotive Kaiser Ferdinand Nord Bahn, 142 Neutral Axis, The, 595, 626
Newcastle Electric and General Engineering Exhibition. 388
Newcastle-on-Tyne, The New Rodheugh Bridge,
Newcomen Engine, An Old, 646
New England and Other Localities, Relative Humidity of South, 268
Newgate-street, Widening of, 8, 35

Newport Harbour Commissioners' Weekly Trade Report:

21, 48, 74, 100, 126, 154,180,228, 254, 280, 303 356, 378, 426, 452, 474, 500, 526, 559
New Rapid Cycle Company, Particulars Relating to, 278
New South Wales Exports, 225
New South Wale?, Railways and Tramways in, 257, 319, 650
New South Wales, Railway and Tramway Mileage, Earnings and Expenditure, in, 257
New South Wales Railways and Tramways, Quarterly Report, 650
Newspapers for Abroad, 175
Newton Machine Tool Works, U.S.A., Cold Saw,
Milling Machine, Boring Machine for Motors. &o., 59, 62
New York and Brooklyn Elevated Railways, Traffic on, 341
New York City Grand Central Station to be Enlarged, 291
New York, The Growth of, 559
New York Harbour, 199, 375
New York Harbour, A Deeper Entrance Recom¬mended to, 199
New York Street Railways, Compressed Air and Electric Traction on, 127
New York and Milford, Scheme for a Steamship Line between, 476
New York, New Suspension Bridge, 593
New York, New Tram Rail for, 78, 79
New York State Canal, Total Freight Carried in 1896, 57
New York, Swing Bridge, 165
New York, Water Supply of, 137
New Zealand, Railway Extension, 45
New Zealand, Volcanic Districts, 7
Niagara Falls, Electric Power Transmission, 45
Niagara Falls Power Company, Electric Heating of the Generating Station of the, 413
Nicaragua Canal, Projected Further Surveys of the, 319
Nicaragua, Development of, 54
Nicholls, Mr. Percy, Utilisation of Multiphase Currents in Electric Driving, 6
Nickel in 1896, 172
Nickel Steel, 172, 434
Nickel Steel for Boiler Shells, Forgings and Other Purposes, 406, 420
Nickel Steel as Made in the United States, Average Compcsition of, 109
Niclausse Water-tube Boilers in French Battle¬ ships, 237
Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, The, 80, 88, 164, 238, 273, 274, 292
Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, Machinery Hall, 268, 273, 274
Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, Thuchof Water-tube Boilers, 164
Niles Tool Works Company, Planing Machine, 612
“Niobe,” The New Cruiser, 211
Nipher, Prof. F. E., Apparatus to Determine Frictional Effects of Trains of Cars on the Air, 291
Nipber, Prof. E., Apparatus for Measuring the Resistance of a Tube to the Flow of Air, 291
Nira Irrigation Canal, Famine Works in India, 135, 136, 183, 184, 234, 235
Nitrogenous By products of Gasworks, 77
Nixon, Mr. Edw., 95
Nobol, Mr. Alfred, Particulars as to His Will, 35
Nordberg Manufacturing Company, Double-clutch Winding Engine, Montana Mines, 159, 168
Nordberg, Mr. B. V., Winding Engine, 159, 168
Nord Express, The New Daily Service of the, 341
North British Company to Engine all Trains from
Berwick Northward, 331
North British Railway, New Route to Helens¬burgh. 461
North British Railway Time and Wages Altera¬tions, 7
North-Eastern Railway Co., Bridge over the Level Crossing, West Hartlepool, 378
North-Eastern Railway Co., The Durham Coast Railway, 461
North-Eastern Railway Co.’s, Improvements at Hartlepool Docks, 227, 425
North-Eastern Railway Co.’s Locomotive Works,
Darlington, Extension of the, 99
North-Eastern Railway Co., Points in Dispute to be Submitted to Arbitration, 377
North-Eastern Railway Co. and its Servants, Arbitration Opened between, 525
North-Eastern Railway Co.’s Servants, Deputation to the Directors, 307
North-Eastern System, General Strike Declared all over the, 217

North of England:

22, 47, 73, 99, 125,153,179, 203, 227, 253, 279,
307, 331, 355, 377, 401, 425, 451, 475, 499, 525,
557, 579, 605, 629, 651
North Lincolnshire Iron and Ironstone Trade in 1897, 39
Northern Chemical Manufacture, The, 272
North Staffordshire Tramways, Cods mt for a Year’s Extension of the Use of Steam on, 641
Norway, Railway Extension in, 257
Norwegian Bsard of Works invite Competitive Plans of Station Arrangements, 217
Norwegian State Railways, Tenders invited for Coal for, 199

Notices to Correspondents:

13, 37, 63, 89, 115, 143, 169,195, 219, 237, 269, 297, 323, 347, 369, 393, 417, 441, 467, 491, 515, 545, 571, 595, 621, 643
Notes from Germany: 22, 48, 74, 100, 126, 154, 180. 204 , 228, 254, 280, 308, 332, 356, 378, 402, 426, 452, 476, 500, 526, 558, 580, 606, 630, 652

Notes from Lancashire:

46, 72, 98, 124, 152, 178, 202, 226, 252, 278, 306, 330, 354, 376, 400, 424, 450, 474, 498, 557, 578, 604, 628, 650

Notes and Memoranda:

7, 35, 57, 95, 109, 137, 163, 199, 217, 237, 263, 291, 319, 341, 373, 391, 413, 439, 461, 496, 513, 551, 570, 593, 620, 641
Notes from Scotland: 47, 73, 100, 126, 154, 180, 204, 228, 253, 280, 307, 331, 356, 378, 401, 425, 452, 476, 500, 558, 580, 605, 630, 652
Nova Scotian Provincial Department of Mines, Report for 1896, 461
Numerical Relations of Atomic Weights, 626
Nut and Bolt Combination, 385

O

Obituary:
Abercam, Mr. D. W. James, 652
Armstrong, Captain, 605
Benson, Mr. W. R., 203
Butlin, Mr. Wm., 162
Blechynden, Mr. Alfred, 213
Brown, Sir John, 5
Buchanan, Mr. George, 602
Burn, Mr. James, 401
Casebourne, Mr. C. T., 525
Chapman, Mr. Hedley, 425
Chrime8, Mr. Richard, 451
Crossley, Mr. Francis William, 351
Eltringham, Alderman J. T., 652
Faulkner, Mr. John, 163
Fletcher, Mr. Lavington, 614, 646
Folkard, Mr. Arthur, 5
Forde, Mr. Hy. Charles, 213
French, Mr. Hy., 525
Galloway, Mr. John, 9
Grant, Mr. Alfred, 95
Hall, Mr. J. F., 573
Harrison, Mr. Jas. William, 253
Henderson, Mr. John, 401
Hickson, Sir Joseph, 57
Hulse, Mr. W. Wilson, 325
Hunt, Mr. Wm., 373
Kirkaldy, Mr. David, 118, 147
McColl, Mr. Hugh, 451
Marsden, Mr. BrojimiD, 153
Messent, Mr. Philip John, 371
Nixon, Mr. Edward, 95
Oswald, Mr. Ralph Patterson William, 605
Pastour, Mr., Ill
Pringle, Mr. Thoma?, 425
Putnam, Mr. Wm.. 461
Ramsbottom, Mr. John (with Portrait), 549, 568
Rap'er, Mr. Richard Christopher (with Portrait), 573
Roberts, Mr. George, 149
Ruston, Mr. Joseph, 623
Snow, Mr. Wm., 203
Sylvester, Prof. Jas. Joseph, 295
Vickers, Mr. Edward, 307
Wasdell, Mr. Thomas, 172

Observations on High Latitudes, 213
“Oceanic,” Toe, 209, 249, 579
“Oceanic,” Cast Steel Stern Frame and Brackets for the, 579
“Ocean” and “Great Eastern," The, 219
“Ocean,” The Battleship, 192
Official Secrets, 34
Ogden’s Packing for Engines, 304
Oiling Calico 1 243
Oil Cargoes in Bulk, Importation and Storage of, at Manchester, 641
Oil Field, The Roumanian, 137
Oil Find in France, An, 446
Oil Fire Kindling Apparatus for Locomotives, 84
Oil Gas, On the Best Hydro-carbon for Making, 109
Oil Gas Plant ( 417
Oil and Grease from Exhaust Steam, Separation of, 258
Oil Lighting by Constant Supply, 312
Oil Mining, Use of Electricity in, 634
Oil Producers and Gas Consumers in Indiana, Legal Fight between, 612
Oil Storage, Manchester and Liverpool, 641
Oil Tanks at Old Trafford, Manchester, 7
Oil Well at Maastricht, Discovery of an, 461
Oil Works of the Victorian Railway Department, Australia, 138
Okes Water-tube Boiler, The, 165
Oldham District, Wages Dispute in the, 401, 450, 475, 499
Oliver Iron and Steel Company, Combination Nut and Bolt, 385
Open-hearth Furnaces by Machinery, Charging, 508
Open-h<arth Process, The Bertrand-Thiel, 28, 129
Open-hearth Process, Notes on the Combined, 508
Operation of Machine Tools by Compressed Air, 612
Oporto Tunnel, Collision in, 35
Opposition to Machinery, 299
Optical Puzzle, An, 368
Ordnance and Armour, Our Present Position in, 129
Ore Cars, Immense, 375
Ores in Greece, 1895, Total Production of, 291
Ores, Low Grade, Treatment of, in Queensland, 45
Ore in Wales, Pressure for Supplies of, 74
Organ, Fleet-engineer, His Retirement and Successor, 319
Orswan, Mr. W. J., On the Best Class of Detonators, 524
Oscillations of a Tower Produced by the Ringing of Bells, 439
Ostend Port, The Improvement of, 482
Ostend, Tenders Invited for Harbour Works at, 263
Oswald, Mr. R. P. W., 605
Ottewell, Sight-feed Lubricator, 31
Otto Cycle Gas Engine, The, 118
Otto-Hoffmann Goke Ovens, 207, 208, 231
Our Horseless Carriage Competition, 297
Our Present Position in Ordnance and Armour, 129
Outside Buffers for Railway Carriages, 43
Overflows, Accessible Bath and Lavatory, 330

P

PACKING for Axle-boxes, Patent Elastic, 125
Packing for Engines, Ogden’s, 304
Packing, Lawson’s Metallic, 342
Packing Steam Boiler Water-gauge Glasses, 489
Paddington Station, New Platform at, 109
Pain, Mr. Arthur Cadlick, On What is True and False Economy in Light Railway Construction,
Painted Locomotives, London and North-Western Railway, 551
Painton Electric Motors for Ship Propulsion, 163
Painton, Electrical Steamship Company, The, 163
Pin, Copper, the Largest yet Made out of a Solid Piece of Copper, 413
Paper Friction Wheels, 151
Paper Wheels, Tests of, 35
Parcel Post Agreement between Great Britain and Sweden, 176
“ Paris,” The American Liner, 74
Paris Metropolitan Railway, 287
Paris, Motor Carriages in, 6
Paris Water Supply, 552
Parkes, Mr. Chas. Reg., On Pneumatic Grain Elevators, 577
Parkgate Ironworks, Armour Plates First Made at, 107
Parkhead Forge and Steel Works, New Depart¬ment for Rolling Railway Wheel Tires, 413
Parliamentary Select Committee, Evidence
Tendered to, on the Operation of the “Fair Wages” Resolution as Applied to Government Contracts, 524
Parnschowitz, The Deepest Bore Hole in the World, 74
Parsons Generator, Tests of 200 Kilowatt Con¬tinuous Current Turbo, 198
Parsons, The Hon. Chas., Application of the Compound Steam Turbine to the Purpose of Marine Propulsion, 397
Pais ins, The Hon. Chas. Algernon, Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Rotary and Reciprocating Engines as Applied to Ship Propulsion, 540
Parsons, The Hon. C. A., On Turbines Applied to Dynamos, 543
Passenger Services, Two New, 567
Pastour, M., Ill
Patent Cases, Costs of, 327
Patents Filed in Eleven Years, 137
Patent Filed by Tbaddeus Cahill, A Curious, 444
Patents in India, 240
Patents, Japan, Registration of, 56
Patent Laws, Movement for the Reform of, Deputation to Mr. Ritchie, 391
Patent Law in the U.S., The New, 324
Patent Nut and Bolt Company’s Statutory
Gathering, 226
Patent-office, 1896, Designs Applied for at the, 413
Patent-office Statistics, 137
Patents aud Trade Marks in the Argentine, 80
Patents in theU.S., Car Couplings, 319
Paterson, Tait and Co., The Dominion Govern¬ment's Contract with fra Fast Atlantic e.s. Service, 413
Patterson, Mr. Jas., His New Appointment, 401, 475
Paul, Mr. Matthew, Suction Draught for Marine Boilers, 147
Pavements, Comparative Cost of Road, 212
Pavements, Data Relating to the Cost, lie., of Different, 163
Paving, Brick and Macadam, 45
Pease, Mr. Henry Fell, His Will, 331
Peckett and Sons, List of Engines, 48
Peking Petition Relative to the Iron Ore of the
Province, 461
Pembroke Dock, Sewerage Scheme Disapproved in respect to the Outfall at, 570
Pembroke Sewerage, 427
Penclawdd Tin-plate Works, Purchased by a New Company, 100
Pender, Sir John, Gold Melal called by his Name, 485
P. and O. Co.’s Landing Arrangements at Cal¬cutta, Projected Improvements in, 391
Penn, Mr. Cooper, On the South Wales Coalfield, 201
Pennycuick, Col. J., On the Diversion of the Periyar, 113
PoDrhyn Quarry Strike, The, 22, 48, 126
Pensacola, The Gulf Transit Company’s Wharves at, 461
Pennsylvania, Growth of the Black and Tin-plate Industry of, 593
Pennsylvania, Railway Mileage in, 217
Pennsylvania Railways, The, 149
Pennsylvania, Use of Electricity in Oil Mining iD, 634
Performance of Two-Cylinder Compound Loco¬motives on American Railways, Mr. J. H. Cooper on the, 152
Peril of the Wire, The, 403
Periyar, Diversion of the, 113
Permanent Way, American Standard Rails, 448
Permanent Way, Mr. H. Copperthwaite on, 533
Permanent Way, Midland Railway, 247
Permanent Way, Muirhead’s Rolled Steel Rail¬way Chair, 473
Permanent Way, Steel Chairs, 626
Permanent Way, Steel, for the Mexico and Pacific Railway, 451
Permanent Way Tramway, 78
Permanent Way, Mr. Webb on, 533
Permeability to Furnace Gases of Clay Crucibles, On the, 479
Pérot and Fabry, MM., An Absolute Electro¬meter, 163
Peterhead, 232
Peterhead Harbour, 232
Petrifite, 94
Petroleum Burners, 295
Petroleum Burners, The Bunsen, 326
Petroleum Exports, U.S., March Statistics, 620
Petroleum, Herr Laur on the Origin of, 217
Petroleum Industry in Roumania, 70
Petroleum and other Inflammablo Liquids, The Law Relating to the Keeping, Selling, &c., of, 341
Petroleum Output, Roumania, 7
Petroleum and its Products from the U.S., Roturns of Shipments of, 551
Petroleum as Steam Engine Fuel, Mr. Aspinall on, 538
Petroleum Tanks, Ventilation of, 641
Petroleum Traffic, Roumania, 137
Petroleum Vapour Launch Engine, 150
Petroleum Vapour Launches, 212
Petroleum Wells in Prussia , 1895, 199
Pettigrew, Mr. W. F., His New Appointment, 263
Peugeot Motor Car, The New, 177
Phenomena of Cast Iron Investigated, The, 413
Philadelphia, Water Supply of, 424
Philosophers and Units of Force, 37
Pier at Clacton-on-Sea, Intended Enlargement of the, 496
Pier at Mumbles, Swansea, Contract Given to the Widnes Foundry Company, 100
Pig Iron Prices—see Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, &c.
Pig Iron Production, Comparative, 276
Pig Iron Production in the U.S., 7, 109, 137
Piles, Teredo-proof, San Francisco, 641
Pinnace, Admiralty Steam, 444
Pioneer Railways, On the Location and Cost of Working, 539
Pipes by Electrolysis, Damage to Gas and Water, 319
Pipe Cutter, Improved Self-acting, 375
Pipe Joint, Aird’s “ Express,” 408
Pipes, Lap Welded Steel, 261
Piston Rings, 489
Piston Valves in Locomotives, 577
Pitsea Junction, Railway Collision at, 693
Planing Machines, On Double Cutting, 263
Planing Machine, Niles Tool Works Company, 612
Plate Flanging Machine, Improved, 123
Plates and Girders in Silesia, Advances met with by, 100
Platers’ Helpers on Strike at Stockton, 47
Plates, Joggled Ship, 438
Platinum Production in Russia, 263
Plymouth Colliers’ Dispute Ended, 154
Plymouth, Dynamite Disaster at, 6
Pneumatic Cycle Tire, The Chaso, 8
Pneumatic Grain Elevators, 577
Pneumatic Row Boat Company, Novelty in the Way of Row Boats, 237
Pneumatic Tools, Air Compressor for, 173, 194
Polarisation of Telephonic Receivers, 551
Polarite in Filter Tanks on Government Property Use of, 570 7
Polyphase Electric Currents, 281, 827
Pompeiian Boilers, Ancient, 55
“ Pont Transbordeur ” ltouen, A, 409
Population of the United Kingdom, 496
Porcelain Industry in Germany, 311
Port of Huelva, 9
Port of Rouen and the Seine, 473
Port Talbot Dock and Railway, Half-yearly Report, 180
" Portena,” French Cablo Laying s.s., 444, 415
Portland Cement Imported into the Brazil», 593
Portland Cement Trade in 1896, 30
Portmadoc, Light Railway from, 620
Portrait of Sir Alexander Wilson, Bart., 598
Portrait of Sir John Brown, 5
Portrait of Mr. John Galloway, 9
Portrait of Mr. D. Kirkaldy, 147
Portrait of Mr. R. C. Rapier, 573
Pounds and Poundals, 198, 213
Powder, Pneumatic Gun, 389
“ Powerful,” Progress of Work on the First-class Cruiser, 237
“Powerful” and “Terrible,” Recent Trials of, by Mr. A. J. Durston, 859, 363
Preece, Mr. W. H., Electricity Supply, Malta, 337, 342, 343, 344
Preece, Mr. W. H-, Signalling through Space without Wires, 593, 616
I’reece, Mr. W. H., on the Transmission of Power by Electricity, 534
Preece, Mr. W. H., Watt and the Measurement of Power, 233
Presentation to Mr. H. C. Eyres, 94
Pretot Motor Car Speed Gearing, Th«, 523
Pretot Motor Omnibus, 118
Pretot Motor Victoria, 118
“ Prince George,” H.M.S., 638, 642
Pringle, Mr. Thos., 425
Private Bills Session, 1897, 416
Prize Offered for Luggage Van for Cycles, 95
Prizes to be Offered by the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 95
Producer Gas, 576, 601, 626, 640
Projectile, Holtzer, 489
Projectiles, The Johnson Capped Shot, 110
Projectiles, Trials of Firth’s Shot and other Armour-piercing, 301
Propeller Ventilating Fans, Experiments upon, 648
Props for Mine Cages, Safety, 35
Protection of Buildings, lie., from Fire, Mr. W. R. Beckton on. 328
Provisional Orders—Present Session, 553
Prussian State Railways, Contemplated Redaction in the Tariffs, 263
Prussian State Railways, Herr Thielen on the, 319
Prussian State Railways, New Tariff for the Car¬riage of Coal on all, 513
Public Health Engineer, The, A New Weekly, 551
Public Works in 1896, 30
Pulley, Corrugated, 329
Pulley, Corrugated Disc Steel, 301
Pulley, A Wrought Steel, 647
Pullman Sleeping Car, A, 80
Pullman Vestibule Car, Standard (Working
Drawing, No. 9, Engineer, January 22nd, 1897)
Pumps, Davidson’s Direct-Acting Steam, 216
Pump, Deep Bore hole, Mr. Thomas Matthews’,136
Pump, The Denaby Sinking, 216
Pump Efficiency, Boiler-Feed, 152
Pumps, Improved Forms of, Introduced by the
Beaumont Pump Works, 499
Pump Regulator, Worthington’s, 339
Pumps, Steam, Orders for, taken by Messrs. Joseph Evans and Sons, 498
Pump Windmill, Ipswich Sewage Works, 304
Pumping Engines, Brighton Waterworks (Supple¬
ment, January 22nd'), 85 PumpiDg Engine, The Holst, 29
Pumping Engines for India, 482
Pumping Engines for Rotterdam (Suppliment,
May 1th, 1897), 429, 432, 433, 460
Pumping, Gas Engines for, 375
Pumping Machinery, Dock, 544, 549
Pumping by Steam and Electricity, 556
Purdue University, New Locomotive to be Used in its Laboratory, 593
Purification of the Thames, Mr. W. J. Dibdin on the, 250
“Puritan,” U. S. Monitor, 285, 286, 296
Putnam, Mr. William, 461 Pyramids, The, 575
Pyrometer, Gold Medal Offered for a Portable, 570

Q

QUARRY Accident, An Extraordinary, 530
Queensland, Free Trade in, 90
Queensland, Trade in, 98
Question of Adhesion, A, 170, 601
Quick-fire Guns, New Canet, 189, 193

R

RACK-RAIL Locomotive for the Beyrouth and Damascus Railway, 58
Radial Drilling and Boring Machine, Messrs. J. Spencer and Co., 613
Radiation, Mr. C. M. Dorman on the Principles of, 72
Railroad without Cars, 421
Railroad Shops, Apprentice Boys in, 288
Rails, American Standard, 448
Rails and Permanent Way, Mr. Harold Copper¬ thwaite on, 533
Railway Accidents, 7, 35, 95, 112, 163, 461, 641
Railway Accident at Dingle Station, 611
Railway Accidents, Nine Months', 112
Railway Accidents in November, 1396, 95
Railway Accident, Oporto Tunnel, 35
Railway Accidents, U.S., March Record of, 461
Railway Accident, Welshampton, 641
Railway Accidents—see alto Accidents,
Railway
Railway, Assam-Bengal, 583, 609
Railways, Australian, 98
Railway Axles, 87
Railway, Beyrouth-Damascus-Hauran in Syria, 31,36
Railway Bills, The Battle of the Welsh, 476
Railway Bills in Parliament. 87, 513, 551
Railway Bridge, Moving a, 81
Railway Bridges, American i>. English, 610
Railway Bridges, alto Bridges, Rail¬way :
Railway, Brighton, Devil’s Dyke, 339, 346
Railway, Bulawayo, 35
Railway Carriagos, Outside Buffers for, 43
Railways in Ceylon, Progress of, 95
Railways in China, 117, 597
Railway Construction in Grceoe, 551
Railway Construction in India, 35
Railway Construction in the U.S. in 1897, 121
Railway Couplings, Accident due to Fracture of, 513
Railway Couplings, 521
Railway Door Controller and Station Indicator, The Fraser, 447
Railway, Elevation of an American, 177 ,
Railway Extension in Russia, Enormous Outlay on, 95
Railway, The First London, 27 Railways, Light Irish, 220
Railways, On the Location and Cost of Working Pioneer, 539
Railways for London, New, 82, 137, 241
Railway Line to London, The New, 241
Railway Material from Germany, Report Relating to the Export of, 496
Railway Material for South America, 451
Railway Matters:
7, 35, 57, 95, 109, 137, 163, 199, 217, 237. 263, 291, 319, 341, 373, 391, 413, 439, 461, 496, 513, 551, 570, 593, 620, 641
Railway Mileage in India, 35
Railway Mileage of the Leading Railway Countries, 217
Railway Museum for London, A National, 319
Railway Nationalisation in Relation to the Coal Trade, 216
Railway News, Interesting Supplement Contained by the, 570
Railways, The PecnsylvaniaD, 149
Railway Rates, 162
Railway Servants Killed and Injured in Three Years, Return Showing the Number of, 199
Railway Speeds, 116, 141, 167, 194, 298, 304, 352, 434, 626
Railway Speeds, Mr. G. S. Strong on, 304
Railway Subsidence near Brigg, 163
Railway System of the British Isles during a Quarter of a Century, Increase in the, 319
Railway, The Tapti Valley, 6
Railway Terminus, 71
Railway through Trafford Park Estate, New, 592
Railway Time in France, 328
Railway Tools, American, 589
Railway and Tramway Mileage, Earnings and
Expenditure in New South Wales, 257
Railway Travelling during the Queen’s Reign, Record of Progress Made in, 570 Railways in Victoria, 225
Railway Vocabulary, A Technical, 163
Railway, The West Suburban, 173
Railway Workers in Conference, 491
Rainfall of Dominion, West Indies, On the, 509
Rain Making, 395 Rain, Producing, 387
Rainton Collieries to be Dismantled, 136
Ramage, Mr., on a Mechanical Method of Ascer¬taining Stability, 360, 365
Ramage, Mr. A. G., Use of the Mean Water-line in Designing the Lines of Ships, 396
Rams, Hydraulic, 211, 248, 249, 275, 294, 327, 345, 368
Ramsbottom, Mr. John, 549, 568
Ramsgate, Sea Wall for, 360
Ransomes and Rapier, Messrs., 30-Ton Steam Travelling Crane, 321
Rapid Cable Laying, On, 452, 464
Rapier, Mr. Richard C., 573
Rating of Engineering Undertakings, The, 373, 403
Rating of Engineering Undertakings, Mr. P. M. Faraday, 373
Rating of Machinery Suspensory Bill, The, 137
Ratios in American Locomotives, 447
Ravenshaw, Mr. H. W., on Electric Lifts and Cranes, 362
Raworth, Mr. J. S., Short-stroke Steam Engines, 122
Rayleigh, Lord, on Electricity and Electric Vibra¬tions, 263, 341
Redheugh Bridge at Newcastle, Contract for the New, 475
Reduction of Hours, Question of the, 499
Refrigerating Machinery, 44, 446, 551, 620
Refrigerating Machinery for H.M. Battleships and Cruisers, 551
Refrigerating Machinery, Increase in the Number of Ships with, 620
Refrigerating Plants, 446
Refrigeration, Mr. E. H. G. Brewster, 226
Registration of Trade Marks, Total Number of Applications for, 413
Regulator, Brooke's Thermal, 290
Relation between Cold Periods and Anti-cyclonic
Conditions of Weather in England during the Winter, 426
Reliance Tube Works, Extension of the, 202
“Renown,” H.M. Battleship, Fittings of Alu¬minium Copper for, 35
Replies:
13, 37, 63, 89,115, 169, 195,219, 243, 297, 323,
347, 369, 393, 417, 441, 491, 545, 571, 595, 621, 643
Replogle Turbine Governor, The, 3
Research, Subsidised, 171
Reservoir Site, Stripping a, 423
Resistance, The Moment of, 212 , 249 , 274, 275, 294, 316, 327, 346, 387, 434, 465 Resistance, Train, 275
Resistance of Vehicles on Common Roads, 627
Reval, Extension of the Harbour of, 35
Reynolds and Co.’s Tramway Car for Street Cleaning, 40
Rhenish - Westphalian Coke Convention, 1896, Production of the, 180
Rhymney and Bute Amalgamation, Attempt to Oppose the, 126
Ribbe Accumulator, The, 408
Richardson and Sons, Messrs. J., Electric Power Branch Added to their Business, 641
Richmond and Chandler, Messrs., Friction Hoists, 330
Richmond and Chandler, Messrs., Machine for Cutting Raw Rubber, 330
Richmond Rolling Mills, Stockton-on-Tees, to be Re-opened, 7
Richmond, Mr. Wm. F., Self-acting Pipe Cutter, 375
Rife Hydraulic Ram Plant, The, 123
Right of a City to its Name, The, 30
Rimmington Anti-friction Gear Wheel, The, 71
Ring Pendulum for Determinations of Gravity, On a, 513
Rio de Janeiro, The Leopoldina Railway Concern to be Transformed into an English Company, 373
Ripon City Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works, Mr. H. A. Johnson, 484
Ripper, Prof. Wm., On Superheated Steam Engine Trials, 60, 140
Ritter, Prof. W., Experiments on the Oscillations of a Tower Produced by the Ringing of Bells, 439
Riverside London Water Companies, The, 564
Riveted Joints, Tests of, 495
Road Pavements, Comparative Cost of, 212
Roads, Resistance of Vehicles on Common, 627
Roberts-Austen, Prof. W. C., Fourth Report to
the Alloys Research Committee, 164,176, 190, 224
Robinson, Mr. Leslie S., On Light Railways, 588
Robinson, Mr. W., German Competition with British Manufactures in the Netherlands, 314
Rock on the Callandar and Oban Railway, Fall of, 11
Rook Dredging on the Rhine, 41
Rock Drill, New Hand-worked, 329
Rock Salt Deposits of North-west Cheshire, Mr. Jas. Ward on the, 651
Röntgen Rays, Dr. Waymouth Reid's Experi¬ences of the, 263
Röatgen Rays Denied to be Dangerous, 461
Röntgen Rays, Diffraction Phenomena Produced with, 496
Röatgen Society, Formation of a, 641
“ Roestene,” The, A New Electrical Resistance
Wire, 227
Rolling Mill Engine, The Largest in the World, 172
Rolling Mills, Stockton-on-Tees, to be Re-opened, 7
Rolling Stock from America for the Waterloo and City Railway, The Question asked in Parlia¬ment, 474
Rolling Stock for Bukarest, 356
Rolling Stock Business in the United States, 124
Rolling Stock, A Copper Sheathed Passenger Coach, 261
Rolling Stock, Economy in, 421
Rolling Stock, Growing Business in Railway, 604
Rolling Stock of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, 199
Rolling Stock, Orders for New, Placed by Different Railway Companies, 73
Rolling Stock, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railway Armoured Express Burglar-proof Cars, 291
Rolling Stock, Pullman Sleeping Car, 80
Rolling Stock Industry, Activity in the, 152
Roots and Venables’ Petro-cycle and Petro-car, 566
Rope-driving, 368 Rope-making Plant ? 195
Ropes and Rope Driving, Mr. G. H. Kenyon, 409 Ropeways, 589
Ropeways, Various Types of, 216
Rose and Co., Messrs. Wm., Steam Fire Engines for King’s Norton, 226
Ross, Mr. Alexander, Presentation to, 201
Rotch, Mr. A. Lawrence, On the Use of Kites to Obtain Meteorological Records in the Upper Air, 426
Rothbury Railway Accident, 199
Rotterdam, Pumping Engines fcr (Supplement, May 7th, 1897), 429, 432, 433, 460
Rouen and Havre Line, Fiftieth Anniversary, 341
Rouen, Industrial Society of, Gold Medals Offered by, 570
Rouen, Junction of the West and Orleans Lines, 570
Rouen, A Pont Transbordeur at, 409
Rouen and the Seine, The Port of, 473
Rouen, Viaduct Connecting the West and Orleans
Railway Lines, 461
Roumania, Permanent Way Orders for, 152, 330
Roumania, Petroleum Industry in, 70
Roumania, Petroleum Output, 7
Roumania, Steel Rails for, 330
Roumanian Oil Field and a British Syndicate, 137
Roumanian State Railways, Orders for Coal, 332
Round and Son’s Presentation Silver Casket, 401
Roundwood Colliery offered for Sale, The, 377
Rous-Marten, Charles, The Latest Great Northern Single-Wheeler, 633
Rous-Marten, Mr. Charles, “ Lightning Trains ” on the North British Railway, 257
Rous-Marten, Charles, The May Train Services, 455
Rous-Marten, Mr. Charles, The Midland-Scottish Service, 141
Rous-Marten, Mr. Charles, With the “ Midland- Scottish," 103
Row, Mr. O. M., On the Transmission of Heat through Surfaces, 252
Rowan, Mr. F. J., On the Application of Elec¬tricity to Engineering Tools, 470
Rowe, Mr. J. A., Succeeds Mr. J. M. Gray, 95
Royal Agricultural Society’s Motor Van Competi¬tion, 611

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show:

Formation of a Joint Board with the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 570
Judges of the Self-moving Vehicles and Names
of those to whom the Silver Medal is to be Awarded, 341
Motor Van Competition of the Society, 611
Opening of the Implement Yard, Date Altered, 373
Plan of the Implement Yard, 600
Space Allotted in the Implement Department, and Entries for the Prizes offered for Motor Traction Engines and Agricultural Implements, 639, 640
Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Lighthouses and Light-vessels, 318
Royal Counties Agricultural Society, Prince Christian elected President, 7

Royal Institution:

Annual Meeting and Officers Elected for the Ensuing Year, 474
Coming Lectures, May and June, 509
Election of Members, 240
Electricity and Electrical Vibrations, Lord I Rayleigh on, 263
Lecture Arrangements after Easter, 396
Liquid Air as an Agent of Research, Pro'essor Dewar, 496, 513
Metallic Alloys and the Theory of Solution, Mr. C. T. Heycock, 373
Recent Advances in Seismology, Prof. John i Milne, 199
Relation of Geology to History, Prof. W. B. Dawkins, 295
Signalling through Space without Wires, Mr. W. H. Preece, 593, 616
Royal Meteorological Society:
Afternoon Meetings aud Papers to be Read to the same, 485
Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments, 172, 291
Haze and Transparency, The Hon, Rollo Russell’s Observations on, 209
Mean Monthly Temperatures of the British Isles, Mr. F. Gaster and Mr. R. H. Scott, 509
Non-instrumental Meteorology of London, Mr. R. C. MossmaD, 628
Relation between Cold Periods and Anti- cyclonic Conditions of Weather in England during the Winter, Mr. W. H. Dines, 426
Report on the Phonological Observations daring the Last Year, Mr. Edw. Mawley, 209
Use of Kites at the Blue Hill Observatory, Massachusetts, to Obtain Meteorological Records in the Uppar Air, Mr. A. L. Rotch, 426
Royal Society, The:
Conversazione, Exhibition of Scientific Ap¬paratus, &c., 509, 618
Effect of Pressure in the Surrounding Oas on the Temperature of the Crater of an Electric Arc, Mr. W. E. Wilson, 373
Royal Yacht to be Built at Pembroke Dock, 254
Rubber, Adulteration of, at Lagos, 641
Rubber, Congolese, 35
Ruhr District, Coal Output and Consumption for 1896, 180
Ruhrort, Tonnage Entered and Cleared at, 217
Russia, Agricultural Implements in, 372
Russia, Agricultural Machinery in, 2
Russia, Cast Iron in, 61
Russia, Miles of Railway Open in, 461
Russia, Population of, 551
Russia, Railway Extension io, 95, 257, 513
Russian Armour Trial, A, 213
Russian Battleship, Explosion cu a, 327
Russian Harbours, Extension of, 35
Russian Ironclad, Fatal Gun Accident on a, 299
Russian Mill Engines, 141
Russian Navy, The, 30
Russian Petroleum Industry, Reduction of Freight
Rates, 199
Russian Railway, A New, 133
Russian Volunteer Fleet Troopship “ Kherson,” 111
Ruston, Mr. Joseph, 623
Ruston, Proctor, and Co., 6-N.H.P. Traction Engine, 548

S

" Saaie,” Speed Trial of the, 496
Safety Explosives as Compared with Gunpowder,
Cost and Efficiency of, 216
Safety Hooks for Cranes, 43, 122
Safety Lamp, Dr. Simon’s Patent, 100
Safety Lamp for Mines, Electric, 72
Safety Props for Cages, Mr. C. S. Smith on, 35
Sagaing-Monywa Railway, The, 7
Sailing Tonnage, Percentage of Steel and Wood, 163
St. Albans, Great Northern Railway Station, Accident Averted at, 154
St. Lawrence Bridge, The, 124
St. Lawrence Hydraulic Power Scheme, 553
St. Nazaire, The New Dock Entrance of, 391
"St. Paul,” The American Liner, 6
St. Petersburg, International Geological Congress, 1897, 285
St Petersburg Metallic Works Company, Machinery Hall, Nijni Novgorod Exhibition, 268, 273, 274
Salonica-Constantinople Junction Railway, Pro¬gress of, 109
Salt Deposits in Cheshire, Rock, 651
Salt Trade Returns, 345, 513
Salt Water in Water-tube Boilers, 297
Salt Works of Torrevieja and La Mata, Con¬ditions under which Tenders are Invited for the Lease of, 373
Sand Blast for RomoviDg Paint from Ironwork. 424
Sandford Vertical Boiler, The, 399
Sandwell Park Colliery Company’s Extension Scheme, 124
Sanitary Engineering, 1896, 18
Sankey, Capt., On the Decimal System in Engi¬neering Measurement, 573
San Salvador, Railway in, 236
Sarle, Sir Allen, Presentation to, 199
Saw Mill Operated by Electric Power, The First, 109
Schenectady Works, The Largest Locomotives ever Constructed, 237
Schenectady Works, Locomotive for the Labora¬tory of the Purdne University, 593
Schenectady Works, Passenger Locomotives, 124
Schiele Union Engineering Company, Portable Hand-driven Fan, 330
School of Mines Dinner, 113
Scientific Research in Bavaria, £5
Scissors, English and Foreign, 248
Scotch Boilers in the Navy, 435
Scotch Pig Iron, Table of Production, &c., of, 48
Scotch Railway, New Line Proposed, 461
Scotch Railway Extension, The Argyle County Council and, 496
Scotch Shipbuilding in April, 1897, 496
“Scotia,” Explosion on Board the Cable Ship, 57
Scotland, Circular Light Railway from Kitty Brewster, 593
Scotland, Furnaces Producing Pig Iron in, 426
Scotland, Railway Extension in, 137
Scott and Mountain, Compound Electric Lift Engine, 588, 599
Scott and Mountain, Electrical Plant, 687
Scott and Mountain, Messrs. E., High-speed Engine and Dynamo, 388
Scraping Wator Mains, Mr. John Barr on, 617
Screw Propellers for Canal Boats, Partially Immersed, 288
Sea Water on Induction Telegraphy, Effect of, 620
Search-light on Tower's Steady Platform, 422
Seaton, Mr. A. E., on the Use of Water-tube Boilers io the Mercantile Marine, 541
Seats, Sliding, for OarsmeD, 489 Secondary Battery, A New, 107
Secondary Cell, The Blot, 97
Section of Waterway, Partially Immersed Screw Propellers for Canal Boats and the Influence g of, 288
See-saw 160ft. Long, Tennessee Exhibition, 439, 556
Seeley, Prof., L’ctureson the Physical Geography and Geology of the Thames and its Tributaries, 390
Seismology, Recent Advances in, 199
Selby, Bigge and Co., Electric Plant at Dowlais Works, 526
Selected American Patents:
24, 50, 76. 101, 128, 156, 182, 206, 230, 256, 282, 310, 334, 358, 380, 401, 428, 454, 478, 502, 528, 560, 582, 608, 632, 654
Self-propelled Traffic, 21, 61
Self-propelled Vehicles, tee Horseless Carriages and Motor Cars
Self-propelled Vehicles, A Motor Car Race in France, 131
Semaphores on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 291
Separation of Oil and Grease from Exhaust Steam, 258
Servia, Mineral Products of, 7 Servia, Railways in, 319
Settle, Mr. Joel, on the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 263
Sewage Disposal at Hamilton, Canada, 277
Sewage Problem, Mr. B. Stevens on the, 312
Sewage Works, Denny and Dunipace, 261
Sewerage Works, Blankenberghe, 9, 10, 12, 32, 33
Sewing Machines, Export Trade of America in, 319
Sowing Machines for Loudon Board Schools, 260
Shaft, A Heavy Bronze Tail, 637
Shaft, The Sinking of, 131
Sharp, Stewart, and Co., Messrs., Passenger Engine for Cape Government Railways (Sup¬plement, April 23rd), 422
Shears for Haulbowline Dockyard, 613, 624
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Manufac¬tures, Annual Meeting of, 99
Sheffield Corporation and the Purchase of the Electric Light and Power Co.'s Undertaking, The, 461
Sheffield District:
21, 47, 73, 99, 125, 153, 179, 2C3, 227,253, 279, 307, 330, 355, 377, 401, 425, 451, 475, 499, 525, 557, 579, 605, 629, 651
Sheffield District Railway Company’s Bill, 35
Sheffield Edge-tool Forgers and Strikers’ Wages Dispute, 451
Sheffield Electric Light, Reduction in the Cost, 57
Sheffield Firms’ Exhibits at the Brussels Exhibi¬tion, 451
Sheffield Trades, as Affected by the Famine and Plague iu India, 203
Sheffield Trade, Augmentation of Business with the Colonies, 99
Sheffield, Tramways for, 137
Shipbuilders in the North of England, Fresh Orders for, 451, 475, 499, 525 Shipbuilding, British, 359, 360, 391, 476
Shipbuilding Business of Sir R. Dixon and Co. Converted into a Company, 651
Shipbuilding in 1896, 4, 30, 137, 163
Shipbuilding in France, 64, 496
Shipbuilding Industry iu the North of England, Orders Booked by Leading Firms, 451, 475, 499, 525
Shipbuilding in Japan, The Government’s New Construction Regulations, 391
Shipbuilding Output of 1896 in the United Kingdom, 137
Shipbuilding Output, January, 1897, 163, 391
Shipbuilding Programme of the Admiralty, Earl of Hopetoun on the, 359
Shipbuilding, Recent Developments in Mercantile, 406, 455
Shipbuilding, Scotch, 496
Shipbuilding Trade, Good Contracts placed in the, 476
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Quarter ending March, 1897, 163, 391
Ship Canal, Manchester Ship, 95, 99
Ship Canal, U.S., 177
Ship Construction at Port Glasgow, Recent Im¬provements in, 438
Ship Plates, Joggled, 438
Ship Propulsion, The Painton System of, 163
Ship Propulsion, Relative Advantages and Dis¬advantages of Rotary and Reciprocating
Engines for, 540
Shipping, American Merchant, 298
Shipping, British Corporation for Survey and Registry, 187
Shipping Industry in South Wales, 221
Shipping Returns from Lloyd’s Register, 137
Ships, Attack on Fortifications by, 77
Ships' Bottoms, Covering Composition for. 461
Ships Carrying Coal are Liable, Inquiry into the Dangers to which, 650
Ships Fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, Increase in the Number of, 620
Ships Launched by Scotch Shipbuilders, 388
Ships, Mechanical Method of Ascertaining the Statical Stability of, 365
Ships under Construction in the United Kingdom on December 31st, 1896, 163
Ships and Vessels under Construction in the United Kingdom, 300
Ships, Use of the Mean Waterline in Designing the Lines of, 396
Ships from Private Yards and Admiralty Require¬ments, 513
Ships Propelled by Gas Engines in France, 439
Ships of War, 37
Ships of War, Mechanism of our, 38

Ships of Wap—sec aim Warships, Battle¬ships, and H.M.S.S.

Shuttle Guards on Looms to be Obligatory, 57
Siam, Opening of the Kborat Railway, 341
Siberian Railway Expenditure, 95
Siberian Railway Bridge across the Obi, 312 S
Siberian Railway Extension in China, 562
Sicily, 1896, Sulphur Export from, 291
Siding Rents, The Midland Coalmasters and, 278
Sidings Rent Question, The, 202
Siegel and Cooper, New York, New Dry Goods Store, 423
Siegerland, Production of Iron Ore for 1896 in the, 452
Sierra Leone Railway, The, 137
Sir Raylton Dixon and Co., Limited, Ship¬building Business, 629
Sight-feed Lubricator, The Ottewell, 31
Signal Buoy, Bigler’s, 495
Signal Protection for a Drawbridge, 375
Signalling, On Army, 455, 468
Signalling at Sea with Flags, Interesting Arithmetical Fact relative to, 217
Signalling through Space without Wires, Mr. W.H. Preece on, 593, 616
Signals, International Code of, 365
Signals on Railways, Electric Interlooking the Block and Mechanical, 147, 167, 186, 276 Signals at Sea, Dr. 0. Lodge on Sound, 641
Silesia, Coal Trade in, 154
Silk Trade of Lyons, The, 652
Silver Casket, Presentation, Messrs. John Round and Son, 401
Silver Rolling and Wire Mills at Sheffield, 73
Similar Structures, Large and Small, Comparisons of, 172
Simons, Dr., Patent Safety Lamp, 100
Simpson, Mr., on the South London Electric Railway. 200
Sims-Dudley Power Pneumatic Gun, 389, 436
Sinking of Shafts, The, 131
Sissoi Veliki Gun Accident, The, 418
Sivewright, Sir J., on the Cape Railways, 57
Sixty Years, 643
Skelton and Brotton Sewerage, 295
Skinner-street B.idge,Great Eastern Railway, 222, 223
Slide Valves, Balanced, 90
Slide Valves, Inclined, 40
Sliding Seats for Oarsmen, 489
Smith and Burford, Messrs., on Filtration of Sewage through Coke Breeze, 7
Smith, Mr. C. S., Safety Props for Mine Cages, 35
Smith, Mr. E. Shrapnell, His New Office, 319
Smith, Mr. Holroyd, Motor Car, 565
Smith, Mr. Thos. D., Automatic Drainer for
Steam Engine Cylinders, 141
Smiths of Saltley, Ltd., Formation of the Com¬pany, 474
Smoke-absorption Apparatus, The Dulier, 523
Smuggling, 572
Snow, Mr. William, 203
Snowdon, Railway, Re-starting of the 402, 413
Société de Construction, Winterthur, Rack-rail Locomotive, 58
Soclete de lTndustrie Minerale of St. Etienne:
Premiums Offered for Original Communications from its Members on Mining, Metallurgy, and Mechanics, 237

Society of Arts:

Alloys, The Cantor Lectures on, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, 272
Howard Lectures, The, 94, 122
Light Railways, Mr. E. R. Calthrop, 246
Prevention of Fires Due te the Leakage of
Electrioity, Mr. Fred Bathurst, 295
Society of Chemical Industry, Not¬tingham Section :
Character of the London Water Supply, Mr. W. J. Dibdin, 109
Filtration of Sewage through Coke Breeze, Messrs. T. R. Smith and S. F. Barford, 7
Society, City and Guilds of London Institute, Engineering:
Continuous Brakes, Mr. J. H. M‘Dowell, 273
Society of Civil Engineers, The American:
Annual Meeting, Financial Report, Awards, Address of the Secretary, Mr. Hunt, Visit to the Now Croton Dam, 136
Society of Civil Engineers of France:
Opening of their New Buildings, 96
Society of Civil and Mechanical Engineers:
Carburetted Water Gas, Mr. J. T. Westcott, 366
Refrigeration, Mr. E. H. G. Brewster, 226
Some Interesting Features of the South Wales Coalfield, Mr. W. Cooper Peon, 201
Society of Electrical Engineers, The Northern:
Alternate Current Switch Gear, Mr. L. Andrews, 125
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. C. M. Dorman, 72
Methods of Charging for Electricity Supply, Mr. R. P. WilsoD, 278
Transmission of Power in Factories by Elec¬tricity, Mr. S. V. Clirehugh, 524
Society of Engineers, The:
Compression of Air by the Direct Action of Water, Prof. H. W. Umney, 612
Inaugural Address of the President for 1897, Mr. G. M. Lawford, 151
Notes on the Proposed Bye-laws of the London County Council with Respect to House Drainage, Mr. J. B. Barber, 247
Premiums Awarded for Papers Read during the Year, 151
Rating of Engineering Undertakings, Mr. P. M. Faraday, 373, 493
Society of Engineers, The Amalga¬mated :
Advance of Wages Claimed by, 154
Capital of the Society, 99 Forty-eight Hours Question, The, 557
Monthly Reports, 72, 202, 524, 629
Probability of a Rupture with the Machine
Workers’ Society on the Question of the Employment of Labour upon Machine Tools, 425
Relations between Members of, who are Work¬men of the Federated Engineering Employers, 254
Reply of the Employers’ Federation of Engi¬neering Associations re the Machine Tool Dispute, 472, 474, 494, 524
Settlement between the, and the Employers' Federation demanded, 319

Society of Engineers and Metallurgists, The Sheffield:

Loss of Strength in Iron and Steel by reason of Use, Mr. Thos. Andrews on, 373

Society, Glasgow University Engineering:

Visits of the Membors, 396

Society of Heating and Ventilating

Engineers, The American :
Separation of Oil and Grease from Exhaust Steam, Mr. W. J. Baldwin, 258 (
Society, Inchlcore Engineering (Dub¬lin):
Inaugural Me&ting, 415

Society of Ironfounders, The Friendly:

Membership and Funds of, 99

Society, King’s College Engineering:

Harbours and Docks, Mr. Lecuona, 226
Light Railways. Mr. H. W. Standen, 295
South London Electric Railway, Mr. Simpson, 200

Society, The Manchester Geological:

Detonators, Mr. Orswan on the best Class of, 524
Fleuss Life-saving Apparatus for Use in Mines, and an Electric Safety Lamp for Mines, Mr. G. H. Winstanley Describes his Improved Design of, 72
Hydraulic Apparatus for Breaking Down Coal in Mine, Mr. Jas. Tonge, 524
Mine Ventilation, Rev. G. M. Capell, 306
Yorkshire Coalfield, Mr. R. Sutcliffe on the Middle Measures of the, 425

Society, Manchester Literary and Philosophical:

Convection Scope and Calorimeter, Mr. Alf. R. Bennett, 390, 421

Society, Mason College Engineering:

Excursion to the Earl of Dudley’s Ironworks, S Round Oak, 342
Modern Machine Tools, Mr. H. M. Waynforth, 517
Sewage Problem, Mr. B. Stevens on the, 312
Underground Electric Mains, Mr. H, R. J. Burstall, 240, 252
Utilisation of Water Power, Mr. F. H. I Hummel, 149
Society of Mechanical Engineers, ; The American :
Advantages of Independent Driving of Machines, Prof. C. H. Benjamin, 373 ,
Ancient Pompeiian Boilers, W. T. Bonner, 55
Experimental Investigation of the Cutting of ,
Bevel Gears with Rotary Cutters, Forrest R. Jones and Arthur L. Goddard, 96
Friction Horse-power in Factories, Mr. C. H. I Benjamin, 21
Notes on Belting, Mr. F. W. Taylor, 133, 302
Paper Friction Wheels, Mr. W. F. M. Goss, 151 ,
Sulzer Engines, Mr. Hamilton A. Hill’s Account of Tests of Three, 620
Water-tube Boilers, Mr. W. T. Bonner, 7

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers:

American Corn Pith Cellulose, Mr. H. W. Cramp, 9

Society, New York Electrical:

Electricity from Carbon without Heat, Mr. W. E. Case, 341

Society, The Physical:

Effect of Capacity on Stationary Electrical Waves in Wires, Prof. W. B. Morton, 391
Effect of Sea Water on Induction Telegraphy, Mr. C. Whitehead, 620
Effeot of Temperature upon the Magnetic and Electric Properties of Iron, Mr. D. K. Morris, 513
Instrument for Comparing Thermometers with a Standard, Mr. W. Watson, 551
Magnetic Hysteresis, New Method of Deter¬mining, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 641
Submarine Cable, Mathematical Investigation of Proposed New Form of, Mr. W. A. Price, 391
Telephones with Nickel Magnets, Experiments on, Mr. T. A. Garrett, 391
Thermo-electric Properties of some Liquid Metals, Mr. Beckit Burnie, 237
Society, A Roentgen: 641

Society, Royal Meteorological —see Royal Meteorological Society

Society, The Shipmasters’:

Deteotion of Inflammable Gas and Vapour on Board Ships, Prof. F. Clowes, 137
Society, Steam Engine Makers’:
Accession of New Members, 99
Annual Report by Mr. Jas. Swift, 185
Employment Returns, 72

Society, Royal Counties Agricultural:

Prince Christian Elected President, 7

Society, Yorkshire College Engi¬neering:

Clays Used for Making Bricks and Pottery, Mr. B. Holgate, 173
Microscopy of Iron and Steel, Mr. Wm. Cleland, 209
Short-stroke Steam Engines, Mr. J. S. Raworth, 122
Utilisation of Multiphase Currents in Electric Driving, Mr. Percy Nicholls, 6
Volunteer Engineering in Peace and in War, Capt C. Wright, 301
Söderbaum, Mr. H. G., on the Use of Acetylene in Laboratories, 513
Sound Signals at Sea, Dr. 0. Lodge on, 641
South Africa, Traotion Engines in, 213
South American Commission, 313
South American Trade, 516
South-Eastern Railway, Collision on, 7
South-Eastern Railway Improvements on the Mid-Kent Line, 35
South-Eastern Railway, Widening the, 130
South London Eleotric Railway, Mr. Simpson, 200
South Pacific Railway Company, Uniform Ton¬nage Rating for its Goods Locomotives, 593
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Commission, Meeting of, 474
South Wales Coalfield, On the, 201
Spagnoletti, Mr. C. E. P. D., on the Equilibrium
System of Feeding Electric Railways 573
Spain, Output of Basic iu, 630
Spain, 1896, Production of Iron Ore in, 291
Spain, Railway Mileage in, 461
Spanish Pig Iron and American Steel, Importation into Wales of, 100
Spanish Mining Industries, The, 532
Speeds, Railway—see Railway Speeds
Speed of a Train in Miles per Hour How to Find, 461
Spence, Mr. W. G., Appointed to Succeed Mr. Jas. Patterson, 475
Spencer and Co., Messrs. Jas., Special Radial
Drilling aud Boring Machine, 613
Spithead, Naval Review at—if-- Naval Review Sponsel Rapid-fire Gun Patent, Purchase of, by the U.S. Navy Department, 439
Spring Coupling for Winding or Hauling Engines, 175
Stability of Ships, Mechanical Method of Ascer¬taining the Statical, 365
Stamping of British Made Iron with British Manufacture, 178
Stamping Firm, Conversion of a Large, 474
Standard in Battleship Design, Absence of a, 54
Standardising of Working Loads and Working Stresses of Railway Bridges, 578
Standen, Mr. H. W-, on Light Railways, 295
Starting Gear for Vehicles, Beeton’s, 352
Stead, Mr. J. E., on Microscope Accessories for Metallographers, 479
Steam Canoes 515
Steam Coal Market and Artificial Regulations, 244
Steam and Electric Power Plant, Mr. A Siemens on the Relative Initial Costs of, 137
Steam, Electricity instead of, 562
Steam Engines for Australia, American, 641
Steam Engines and Boilers Bill, Protest against the, 263
Steam Engine and Boiler Certificated Attendants Bill, 295
Steam Engines and Boilers, On Important Questions in the Economic Working of, 537
Steam Engine Efficiency, 166
Steam Engines, Ou Short Stroke, 122
Steam Hammer, 12-Ton, 45
Steam Hoating Apparatus, 640
Steam Jet Blower, Variable, 192
Steam Motor Cars, 131, 143,166
Steam, New Method of Manufacturing, 63
Steam Pinnaces for the Admiralty, 444
Steam Plant of a Store in New York, 423
Steam Tonnage, Percentage of Steel and Iron 163
Steam Train on Common Roads, Trial of, at Verona, 263
Steam Tramways and Rolling Stock in Java, 287
Steam Trap, The Midget, 305
Steam Turbine, A big, 485
Steam Yacht Ivy, The, 172
Steamer for the Brighton, Worthing, and South Coast Company, 154
Steamers for African Lake and River Navigation, 94
Steamers, New Japanese, 110
Steamers and Sailing Vessels Classed by Lloyd’s Register, 217
Steamers and Sailing Vessels on the Official Register of the United Kingdom, 217
Steamers, Shallow Draught Government, 197
S.S. “ Aorangi,” 293
S.S. “La Grande Duchesse,” The, 510
Steamships, Average Proportion of Paying Load to Total Displacement of, 373
Steel Armour Plates, Witkowitz, 610, 611
Steel Cast for Locomotives, 57
Steel Castings, Alloys for High-grade, 291
Steel Castings to About 1 cwt., 441
Steel Chairs, 626
Steel Constructional Work in 1896, 30
Steel, Effect of Hardness on the Electrical and Magnetic Constants of, 496
Steel in England and America, 171
Steel Furnace, The Thwaite, 160, 194, 212
Steel, Iron, and Coal in 1896, 9
Steel and Iron used in the Construction of Ships, 1896, 163
Steel Joists aud Girders, Subject of Considerable Interest to Makers of, 124
Steel-melting Furnace, Thwaites’, 294
Steel, Nickel, Average Composition of, as made in the United States, 109
Steel Permanent Way for Light Railways, 576
Steel and Pig Iron Output, 370
Steel Pipes, Lap-welded. 261
Steel Pulley, Corrugated Disc, 301
Steel Pulley, A Wrought, 647
Steel Rail Market in America, The Crash in the, 228
Steel Rail Prices, 305
Steel Rail Trade, The American, 240
Steel Rail Trust, Dissolution of the, 237
Steel Rails, Electrically Welding, 7
Steel Rails to India, Another Large Consignment of, 476
Steel Rails on the Now York Central and Hudson River Railway, Chemical Composition Stipulated, 291
Steel Rails for Roumania, 330
Steel Rails and Tubes, Micro-mechanical Exami¬nation of, 144
Steel Sleepers for Light Railways, 576
Steel Steamers Ordered, 475
Steel Stem Frame Casting, Darlington Forge, 588
Steel and Stone, Testing the Relative Strength of, 461
Steel, On the Tenacity of, 163
Steel Tools, Carbolic Acid for Tempering, 199
Steel Trade, American Competition in the, 179
Steel Trade in South Staffordshire, Phenomenal Progress in, 72
Steel Tubes of Large Diameter, Amalgamation of Three Tube Companies, 354
Steel, Wolga Bohler, 125 Steel Wool! 643
Steel Works in Japan, Syndicate to Establish, 593
Ste3?9G346Ö RsiIway’ Devi1’8 Dyke, Brighton,
e Steering Gear of the Japanese Battleship ’' Fuji,” 363
Steering Gear, s.s. “Jackdaw” and “Comrade,” i, 246 ’
Stephens, Mr. Michael, Passenger Engine for l" 23rrf
1897e)r,442nt RftUways {SuPPl'm»M, April
Stephenson Mr. E Paley, On the Municipal Works of Llandudno, 626
Stephenson and Co , Limited, Messrs., Floating Dock for the Spanish Government, 163, 179
Stern Frame Casting, Steel, Darlington Forge, 588
Stern Tubss and Propsller Tail Ead Shaft», 166, 191
Stevens, Mr. B., On the Sewage Problem, 312
Stevenson and Co., Messrs. R., Largest Floating Dock in the World, 163, 179
^"°30].rt’ C°rru8ated Disc Steel Pulley, Stiffnsckedneis, 517
Stilgoe, Mr. H. E., On Some of the Pub’.ii Works of Dover, 431
Stirling and Swann, Messrs., Bridge over the Noo, Town Head, Hope, 373
Stockholm Gas Company’s Coal Orders, 203
Stockport, Municipal Electricity Works for, 593
Stockton Forge Company’s Works, Purchasers of, Stockton News, 47
Stookten, Sowerage of Hartburn and Fairfield in the District of, 427
Stokeholds of Cruisers, Ventilation of the, 35
Stokers, 493
Stokers, Mechanical, Mr. James Hodgkinson's Improved, 524
Stone Cornice in New York, Falling of a Piece of, 137
Stonehouso Works Company, Limited, Manufac¬ture for the Bicycle Trade, 202
Storage Battery Tramway, America, 45
Storage, Cold, at the London and East India Docks, 200
Storage of Cordite, 144
Storage of Energy in Motor Cars, 60
Street Cleaning, Tramway Car for, 40
Street Gutters for Irrigation Water, 436
Street Improvements in Liverpool, Projacted, 5l3
Street Railway Mileago of tho U.S., 7
Strike in the Chain Trade, Probability of Settle¬ment. 202
Strike, Crsdley Heath Chain Trade, 178
Strike at the Dunlop Company’s Works, 98
Strike of Engineers ia North Staffordshire, The, 524
Strike Funds, 575
Strikes and Labour Situation in the U.S , 576
Strike of the Marine Engineers of tho Australian Coaling Trade, 137
Strike of Marine Engineers at Melbourne, 48
Strike over the North-Eastern System, 217
Strike of Railway Men on Tyneside and North Durham, 253
Strike on the Swiss North-Eastern Railway, 291
Strikes in the Tees Distriot, and at the Elswick Works and at the Pallion Forge, 203
Strike Threatened in Connection with the Australasian Institution of Marine Engineer.», 224
Strike in the Tubs Trade, Midland District, Threatened, 354
Strikes in Wales, 22
Strong, Mr., American Locomotive Performance, 348, 352
Strong, Mr. G. H., Graphical and Meohanical Aids to Calculation, 241
Strong’s Horizontal Boiler, 97
Strong, Mr. G. S., On Railway Speeds, 304
Strong, Mr. G. S., What Highspeed Means? 112
Sturmey, Mr., His Statements as to the Work of the Daimler Company, 596
Submarine Boats, Competition Invited by the French Admiralty, 413
Submarine Boat, The Holland, 598
Submarine Cables in Existence, Number of, 95
Submarine Cable, Proposed New Form of, 391
Submarine Explosion, 449
Submarine Telegraph Cable between Germany and Spain, 35
Submarine Telograph Memorial, International, 118
Submarine Telegraphy, 418
Submarine Torpedo Boat, The Holland, 627
Subsidence of a Main Line, 163
Subsidised Research, 171
Suburban Traffic of the Great Northern Railway. 551
Subway to Connect the Chicago Railway Stations, Subway, A New Thames, 373, 413
Suction Draught for Marine Boilers, Mr. Matthew Paul on, 147
Sugar Evaporating Pans ? 595
Sugar Machinery Prospects, 220
Sulphate of Ammonia, 212
Sulphur in Cast Iron or Steel, Method for Esti¬mation of, 57
Sulphur Export from Sicily, 1896, 291
Sulzer Eogiues, Mr. H. A. Hill’s Tests of Three, 629
Sunspot Influence on the Weather of Western Europe, Mr. A. B. MacDowall, 426
Superficial Tension and Lubrication, Mr. R. M. Deeley, 157, 198
Superheated Steam Engine Trials, Prof. Wm. Ripper, 60, 140
Supernatural Powers, 572

Supplements:

H.M. First-class Battleship “ Renown,” 12,3 0 Tons, June 25tb, 1897
Narrow-gauge Passenger Eagine, Cape Govern¬ment Railways, Mr. Michael Stephens, April 23rd, 1897
Six-coupled Tank Locomotive, Messrs. Haw¬thorn, Leslie, and Co., May 21st, 1897
Standard Pullman Vestibule Car, Working Drawing, No. 9, January 22nd, 1897
Thirty Types of Locomotive Engines, Imperial Railways, Japan, March 26th, 1897
Triple-expansion Pumping Engines, Brighton Waterworks, Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, January 22nd, 1897
Triple-expansion PumpiDg Engines, Rotterdam Waterworks, the Fyenoord Engine Works, May 7th, 1897
Typical Warships at Spithead, June 18th, 1897
U.S. Battleship “Alabama,” Section, Ac., April 9th, 1897
U.S. Battleships “Wisconsin,” “ Illinois,” and , “ Alabama,,r January 1st, 1897
Views on the Trans-Siberian Railway, June 4th, 1897
Surface Condenser, Independent, 44, 552
Survey Expeditions for West Africa, 109
Sutcliffe, Mr. R., on the Middle Measures of the -Yorkshire Coalfield, 425
Sutton-in-Ashfield Sewage Disposal, 240
Swaledale to Richmond, The Proposed Railway, 307
Swan and Hunter, Messrs. C. S., Trial Trip of the “Milwaukee,” 99
Swansea for the Bunkering of Atlantic and Pacific Liners, Advantages Offered by, 35
Swansea Harbour Improvements, 416
Swansea Harbour Reports, 74 Swansea Harbour Trust Meetings, 280, 402
Swansea Harbour Trustees, Important Agreement with, 22
Swansea Hematite Company’s Works at Landore, The, 630
Sweden, The Industrial Development of, 436
Swedish Iron aud Steel Industries in 1896, 311, 532
Swift, Mr. James, Annual Report of the Steam Engine Makers’ Society, 185
Swinburne, Mr., Should Generating Plant be Mounted on Springs ? 542
Swing Bridge, Third-avenue, New York, 166
Swinton, Mr. A. A., Campbell, Tubes for Producing X Rays of Various I’duetrative Capacities, 461
Swiss North-Eastern Railway, Strike on the, 291
Swiss Railways, Electric Light on, 513
Switch Gear, On Alternate Current, 125
Sydney, Intended Exhibition, 1899, 45
Sykes, Mr. Henry, Windmill Pump, Ipswich Sewage Works, 304
Sylvester, Prof. J. J., 295

T

TAFF Yale Bill, The, 526
Taite, Howard and Co., Ltd., Messrs , Air Com¬pressor for Pneumatic Tools, 173,191
Tampico, Mexican Imports through, 373
Tank, Expsrimental, to be Constructed at Washington for Trials with Models of New Ships, 641
Tank, Locomotive. Circum-E';na Railway (Supplement, May 21s', 1897), 509, 511
Tanks, Galvanising, 640
Tanks, Ventilation of Petroleum, 641
Tapti Valley Riilway, The, 6
Tariff Bill, Relative to the New, 354
Tariff for the Carriage of Coal in Prussian State Railways, New, 513
Tariffs for Goods in Germany, Contemplated Re¬duction, 263
TauntoD, New Station, 260 Tay Bridge, The, 87
Taylor, Mr. F. W., Notes on Belting, 133, 302 ,
Technical Elucation, 90, 116, 122, 140, 141, 329, 387
Technical Education, Experiences of a Foreman in the Operation of, in the Workshop, 387
Technical Education in Germany, 116 Technical Schools, German and American, 329 Technical Riilway Vocabulary, Mr. L.Serrail tier's,
Tees Conservancy Commissioners Reduce their Dues, 153
Teesdale Ironworks, Illustrated Pamphlet de¬scriptive of, 341
Tees Furnace Company, Limited, Sale of their Blast Furnaces at Middlesbrough, 355
Teheran, A Beetroot Sugar and a Glass Factory in, 291
Telegraph Cable between Germany and SpaiD, 35
Telegraphy, Ethereal, 546
Telegraphy, Submarine, 418, 464
Telegraphy, Submarine, during War, 464
Telephone Cables across the Channel, Two New, 391, 496
Telephone Cable across the Channel by the “ Monarch,” Laying of a New, 496
Telephones with Nickel Magnets, Experiments on, 391
Telephone and Sensitive Flame in Induction Problems, Lord Rayleigh’s Illustrations of the Use of, 341
Telephone Wires from London to the North, Additional, 98
Telephonic Messages as Telegrams over the Postal Telegraphs, Negotiations for the Transmission of, 551
Telephonic Rsceivers, Polarisation of, 551
Telescopes for the Navy, Long Distance, 341
“Temeraire,” Refit of the, 35
Temperature, Effect of, upon the Magnetic and Electric Properties of Iron, 513
Temperature at which to Dry and Bake Cores,
Temperatures of the British Isles, On the Mean Monthly, 509
Temperatures of a Bunsen Flame with Blue and Greenish Inner Cones, 67
Temperature of the Crater of an Electric Arc, Effect of Pressure in the Surrounding Gas on the, 373
Temperature, Effect of, On the Magnetic and Electric Propsrties of Iron, 551
Tempering the Magnetic Parts of Instruments, Dr. Carl Barus on, 496
Tempering Steel Tools, Carbolic Acid for, 199
Temperley Transporter in H.M. Navy, Further Adoption of the, 217
Tenders for the Lease of Government Railways. Brazil, 439
Tenders Invited for Delivery of Coal for Nor¬wegian State Railways, 199
Tenders Invited for Electric Tramways for Braila, 291
Tenders Invited for Harbour Works at Ostend. 263
Tenders Invited by the Public Works Depart¬ment of New South Wales, 225
Tenders Required for a Railway for the Great Western Railway Company, 670
Tenders Wanted in Belgrade, 34 Tennessee Exhibition, “ See-saw ” at the, 439 Tension and Lubrication, Superficial, 157, 198 Tenacity of Steel, On the, 163
Testing of the Strength of Materials, Mr. A. H. ' James on the, 153 '
Tests, Boiler, 43, 61, 87 Tests of Cement, 306
Test for Explosives to Replace the “ Heat Test,” ’ 551
Tests of Floor Arches, Breaking, 60, 87
Tests of Long-span Floor Arches, Breaking, 60,87
Tests of Malleable Iron Castings, 556
Tests of Riveted Joints, 495 '
Texas, Railways Working in, 670
Textile Industries, Japan, 57
Thames Ironworks Company, Admiralty Steam Pinnace, 444
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, The Japanese Battleship “ Fuji," 317
Thames, On the Purification of the, 250
Thames Subway, A New, 413
Thermal Regulator, Brooke’s, 290
Thermo-electric Properties of Some Liquid Metals, Mr. B. Bunr'e on the, 237
Thermometers with a Standard, Instrument for Comparing, 551
Thielen, Herr, On the Prussian State Railways, 319
Thomas, Mr. W., On the Prospects of Deep Mining in Cornwall, 537
Thompson’s Conveyer, 602
Thompson’s Conveyer, Erratum in Description of, 621
Thomson and Co., Battleship for Japan, 613
Thorncliffe Product, Izal, the Latest, 425
Thornycroft Water-tube Boilers of H.M.S. “Proserpine ” not Satisfactory, 570
Thrashing and Clover Hailing Machine, Garrett’s Compound, 549
Three-head Boiler Drilling Machine, 45
Thucbof Water-tube Boilers, Nijai Novgorod, 164
Thurston, Dr. H., The Ideal Limit of Performance for Condensing and Non-condensing Engines, 109
Thwaitss’ Steel Melting Furnace, 160, 194, 212, 291, 345, 368, 412
Tickets, Privilege Railway for, Allen Searle and the Interchange of, 199
Tilghmann Sand Blast Process for Removing Paint from Ironwork, 423
Tin-plate Business in the United States, 45, 576
Tin-plate Exports to the United States, British, 109, 439
Tin-plate Industry, American, 45
Tin-plate Industry in Italy, Report on the, 461
Tin-plate Industry of Pennsylvania, Growth of
the Black and, 593
Tin-plate Works of the Swansea District, 74
Tin-platers, Distress amongst the, 426
Tin-plates to Foreign Countries, Shipments of, 217
Tire, The Chase Pneumatic Cycle, 8
Tire for Road Vehicles, Clew’s Cushion, 495
Tire-makers’ Lock-out at Coventry, End of the, 121
Titan Crane, A, 241
Todd, Mr. L. J., Locomotive Improvement, 553
Tonge, Mr. Jas., Hydraulic Apparatus for Break¬ing Down Coal ia Mines, 524
Tonnage Built in this Country for Foreign Orders, 359
Tonnage Entered and Cleared at Ruhrort Last Year, 217
Tonnage Launched in Great Britain and Ireland, 95
Tonnage Measurements, 243
Tonnage Rating for Goods Locomotives, Uni¬formity of, on the South Pacific Railway Com¬pany’s Divisions, 593
Tonnage of Vessels Built in France in One Quarter, 496
Tools, American Railway, 589
Tools, American, and their Superiority over English, 605
Tools for Japan, 354
Tools and Machinery for Gold Mining into Dutch Guiana, Importation of, Daty Free, 439
Tool Makers, Class of Work now keeping them Busy, 354
Tools, Some Modern Machine, 366, 367
Tools and Weapons of the Copper Age in Egypt, M. Bertbelot on, 593
Torpedo Boats, Chilian, 198
Torpedo Boats in Commission in the British Navy, 319
Torpedo Boat Destroyers for the Japanese Government, 109
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Messrs. Yarrow and Co., 95
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, The Utility of the, 312
Torpedo Boat “Turbinia,” The, 397, 413, 540
Torpedo Explosion on the “ Theseus,” 319
Torpedo, Future of the, 589, 595
Torpedo Boat, The Holland Submarine, 627
Torpedo, The Howell, 71
Torpedo, Trial of the W. T. Carter, 584
Torpedo Boats for the U.S. to be Constructed from Plans by Prof. Biles, 217
Torpedo for the U.S. Navy, A Universal Auto¬mobile, 341
Torpsdo Vessel the Future Battleship, The, 595
Tottenham Junction, Accident at, 7
Traction Engines, Royal Agricultural Show, 639
Traction Engines in South Africa, 213
Tractometer Diagram No. 1, Passenger Train, Crewe to Carlisle, 458, 467
Tractometer Diagram No. 2, Goods Train, Edgeley to Heaton Lodge, 459, 467
Trade in the Argentine Republic, 80
Trade in the Australasian Colonies, Improvement of, 224
Trade and Business Announcements:
6, 46, 69, 94, 113, 149, 162. 216, 241, 272, 303, 312, 350, 365, 390, 406, 438, 473, 489, 509, 559, 564, 601, 628, 637
Trade Disputes in 1896, 303
Trade in 1896, 30
Trade and Finance Reports from the Foreign Office, Value of the Annual, 217
Trade Follows the Flag, 644
Trade in Frozen Meat between Queensland and Austria, 225
Trade : How it is Lost and Won, 220
Trade with Italy, Our, 262
Trade Marcenvros, 468
Trade Marks in Japan, 122
Trade Marks, 469
Trade Marks, Number of Applications for Regis¬tration of, 413
Trade of Mexico, 190
Trade Secrets, 324
Trade Union Foolishness, 417
Trade Unionists Returned as Unemployed, Small Proportion of, 620
Trade in the United States, 576, 600
Trade of the United States with Canada, 543
Trades, Employment in the Engineering and Kindred, 620
Traffic on the Great Lakes of North America, 513
Trafford Park Estate, New Railroad Running through, 692
Train Accidents in November, 1896, 95
Train Accidents—see alio Railway Accidents Trains, Extension of Workmen’s, 95 *Trains on Gauntleted Tracks, Running, 305
Train Resistance, Average Cylinder Pressure as a Measure of, 244
Train Resistances, 275
Tramcar Accident, Cleveland, 43
Tramcars, Single Wire Distribution for Electric, 109
Tram Rail for New York, New, 78
Tramway Car for Street Cleaning, 40
Tramways, Bristol, 167
Tramways, Dover Electric, 431
Tramway, Dublin and Lucan Steam, 519
Tramways, Electric, English v. Belgian Competi¬tion, Barcelona, 620
Tramways, Electrical Equipment of Glasgow, 593
Tramway, Electric, for Monaco, 513
Tramways, Electric Traction for, 267
Tramways, Electric, with Underground Conduc¬tors, 375
Tramways in Hanover, with Electric and Horse Traction, 551
Tramway, Higbgate Hill Cable, 327
Tramways in Hull, 460
Tramways, Liverpool, 567
Tramways for Middlesbrough, 100
Tramways and Rolling Stock, Java, 287
Tramway Sleepers, Ruling of the Indian Govern¬ment respecting the Customs Duty on, 620
Tramways for Sheffield, 137
Tramway System in France, The, 365
Tramway System, The Hanover Overhead Wires and Accumulators Compared, 447
Tramway Technical Exhibition, A, 373
Tramway at Tours, Diatto Surface Contact Electric, 217
Tramway Traction, 479, 521
Tramway Traction for Birmingham, 252
Tramway Traction on the Continent, Deputation to Inspect, 330
Tramway Traction in the Netherlands, Four Systems of, 373
Tramway Tunnel, An American, 410
Tramways and their Working, Returns issued as to, 109
Transatlantic Mail Service, New, 567
Trans-Caspian Railway, New, 593
Trans-Siberian Railway, Church Car on the, 551
Trans-Siberian Railway, Views on the (Supplement, June 4th, 1897)
Transformers, Lord Rayleigh on the Theory of,
Transmission Dynamometer, A New Form of, 593
Transmission of Power, The, 561
Transmission of Power by Electricity, On the, 534
Transmission of Power in Factories by Electricity, Mr. Clivehugb on the, 524 Transmission of Power, Machinery and the, 537
Transmission of Power by Other Agents, Dr. John Hopkinson on the, 535
Transmission of Power by Water, Mr. E. B. Ellington on the, 535
Trap, The Midget Steam, 305
Tredegar Works, Revival of, 126
Trees of Western Australia, Area in Acres
Occupied by the respective Principal, 109
Trent and Mersey Canal, 232
Tresidder's “ Rapid Reckoner," 273
Trevithick, Mr. R. F., PasseDger and Goods Engines, Japanese Railway, 283, 289
Trinkitat and Tokar, Railway between, 163
Triple-expansion Engines—see Engines, Triple¬ expansion, 172
Troisier, M., On Balanced Slide Valves, 407
Truck Act, The New, 154
Trueing-up Eleotric Tramcar Wheels, Machine for, 291
Trusty Oil Engine Works Destroyed by Fire, 46
Tubes, Electrically Welded, 575
Tube Manufacture, Bicycle, 403
Tube Manufacture for Cycles, New Development in, 124
Tubes, Stern, and Propeller Tail End Shafts, 166, 194 ’
Tube Trade, The Cased, 21
Tubes, Viscous Flow in Capillary,
Tucker, Mr. Alexander, on Lubricating Oils and Lubrication, 152
Tulip, Mr. Sim., Engineer in Chief to the Lamb- ton Collieries, 100
Tunbridge Wells, Electricity Undertaking, High Tension Works a Success, 496
Tunnel, Accident in the Cap Martin, 593
Tunnel, an American Tramway, 410
Tunnel, The Blackwall, 400, 504, 505,506, fC7. 514, 572, 576
Tunnel, Channel, 57, 495
Tunnel, Collapse of a Lake, Chicago, 423
Tunnel Shield for Underground Railways, 305
Turbines Applied to Dynamos, On, 543
Turbine, A Big Steam, 485
Turbine Governor, The Replogle, 3
Turbinia, The Torpedo Boat, 167, 397, 413, 540, 602
Turbinia, The American Shipbuilder on the, 602
Turkey, Refusal of Patents for Inventions in which Electricity is Employed in, 9
Turret of the U.S. Battleship “Massachusetts,”
Tests of an Experimental, 161
Turton, Mr. George, Improvement in Cycles Patented by, 47
Turton and Sens, Messrs. Bonus to Their Employés,
Twenty-four Hours Time on Railways Adopted by Belgium, 439
Twin-screw Yacht, Varuna, 214, 216. 218
Tynemouth Piers, 232 Tynemouth Pier, Damage to the, 179
Tynemouth Pier, Rebuilding of the, 203, 513

U

UGANDA, Development of the Trade of, 217
Uganda Railway, Mr. Cuizon on the, 391
Uganda Railway, Mr. Francis W. Fox’s Report on, 620
Uganda, Trade and Industry of, 291
Umney, Prof. H. W., Compression of Air by the Direct Action of Water, 612
Underground Electric Mains, Mr. H. R. J. Bur¬stall on, 252
Underground Electric Railway Bills, The London,
Underground Electric Railway from Charing Cross to Hampstead, Bill Passed, 373
Unemployed in America, Census of the, 312
Union Mail Steamer “Briton,” The, 602
Union Steamship “Gascon,” The, 211
Union Rolling Stock Co.’s Dividends and Reserve Fund, 152
United Kingdom America’s Best Customer, The, 319
United States Armour Plate, Prices in the. 441
United States Battleship “Alabama” (Supple¬ment, April 9th, 1897, 335
United States Battleship “ Massachusetts,’’ Turret of the, 161
United States Battleships, The New Sea-going (Supplement, April 9th, 1897), 335
United States, British Tin-plate Exports to the, 109, 439
United States with Canada, Trade of, 543
United States, Car Couplings Patented in the, 319
United States Cruiser “ Brooklyn,” The, 410, 411
United States Deep-water Commission's Report, The, 237
United States in 1893 95, Average Coal Output, 237
United States, 1896, Railway Construction, 57
United States, 1897, Railway Construction in the, 124
United States, Elaborate Express Trains, 641
United States, Engineers and Firemen in the, 217
United States, Exports of Iron and Steel to the, 373
United States, First-class Sea-going “ Iowa,” 438
United States Government, Specifications for Boiler-plates for Gunboats, 263
United States, Great Water Power Project, 35
United States, Japan as a Competitor and Customer, 313
U.S.S. “Kearsage,” Armour for the, 4
United States, Locomotives with Balanced Valves in the, 620
United States, Locomotives Built in the, 95
United States, Locomotives Compound in the, 162
United States Locomotive, Electric Shunting, 162
United States, Manufacture of Guns in the, 78
United States, Tho Metric System in the, 693
United States Monitor “Puritan,” 285, 286, 296
United States, National Association of Manufac¬turers, Annual Report of the President of, 313, 338, 398
United Statea Navy, 108
United States Navy, Boilers in the, 493
United States Navy, New Battleships, 20
United States, New Patent Law in the, 324
United States Navy, A Universal Automobile Torpedo for the, 341
United States, Patriotic and Independent Policy of the, and where it cannot be Adhered to, 217
United States, Pig Iron Production in the, 7, 109
United States of America, Petroleum Exports for March, 620
United States, Presidential Proclamation, Rules for Prevention of Collisions at Sea to Come into Force, 45
United States, Production of Minerals and Metals in 1896, 57
United States, Railway Accidents in the, Monthly Record, 199
United States Railway Accidents, Records during January and February 263, 373
United States Railway Extension, 641
United States Requisites in Armour, Ordnance and Projectiles, 199
United States, Rolling Stock Business in, 124
United States Ship Canal, 177
United States Steamer “ Grande Duchesse,” 510
United States, Street Rai.way Mileage of, 7
United States, Summary of Boiler Explosions in the, 319
United States, Trade in the, 576, 600
United States, Trade Relations with Mexico, 313
United States, The Very Latest from the, 313
Units of Force, Philosophers and, 37
Uranium, Properties of, 35
Uruguay, British Trade with, Maintains its Position, 570
Utilisation of Waste Glass, The, 370
Utilisation of Water-power, Mr. F. H. Hummel, 149

V

VACUUM, Novel Method of Procuring an Absolute, 291
Vale of Glamorgan Railway, Engineers’ Estimate to the, 126
“ Valparaiso,” Launch of the, 373
Valves, Balanced, for Locomotives, 107
Valves, Balanced Slide, 90
Valves, Balanced Slide, on French Locomotives, 407
Valves, Bollinckx’s Small Clearance, 113
Valve Gear, Assistant Cylinders for, 150
Valve Gear of the Locomotive Engine, The, 438
Valve Gear, Manson’s, 43
Valves, Inclined Slide, 40
Valves, Non-clearance Exhaust, 198
Valves, Water-sealed Furnace, 201
Vancouver, Saw Mills in, 35
“ Varuna,” Twin-screw Yacht, 214, 216, 218
Ventilating Fans, Experiments upon Propeller, 648
Ventilation of the “ Edgar” Stokeholds, 35
Ventilation of the Lordon Underground Railways, Inquiry into, 163
Ventilation, Prof. S. H. Woodridge’s System of, 7
Ventilation of the Underground Railways, Com¬mittee to Consider the, 134
VeraCruz, Demand for Agricultural Implements,
Vertical Earth-air Electrical Currents, 163
Vera Cruz, Harbour Works, 439
Vessels Launched in April in Scotland, 496
Vessels on the Register of the United Kingdom, 359
Vestibule Cars on British Lines, American Gould, I 73
Viaduct Accident, The Mouhemot, 628
Viaduct, The Chesterfield, 264, 265, 288
Viaduct Connecting the Western and Orleans Railway Lines, 461
Viaduct Disaster, The Coldrenick, 187
Vice Trade, The English and Foreign Competi¬tion, 330
Vickers, Mr. Edward, 307
Vickers’ 6in. Armour Plate after Trial, 437
Vickers, Sods, and Co., Nickel Harveyised Steel Armour Plate Tested, 461
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Acquisition of the Naval Construction and Armaments Com¬pany by, 22
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Ltd.. Messrs., Purchase of ( New Works at Barrow, 451, 475
Vickers, Sons, and Co., Limited, Report of Messrs., 203
Victoria Embankment Extension Scheme, The House of Commons and the, 513
Victoria Locomotive, 489
Victorian Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, see Exhibition, The Victorian
Victorian Railways, 225
Victorian Railway Revenue for November, 1896, I 319
Villari, Prof. E., on the Cooling Properties of Gases after being Traversed by Electric Sparks, 513
Viscous Flow in Capillary Tubes, 1
Vocabulary, Technical Railway, 163
Volcanic Districts, New Zealand, 7
Volunteer Engineering in Peace and War. 301
Vulcan Foundry, Earliest and Latest Lccomotives Built at the, 618
Vulcanised Graphite Bearings, 110

W
Wages and Labour Questions :
Waddell, Mr. J. A. L., on the Elevated Railroads of the United States, 257
Wages, Advance in, The Cased Tube Manufac¬turers' Association, 152
Wages, Advance of, Claims, 73
Wages Advance, Cleveland Ironstone Mine ' Owners, 125
Wages Advanced, Mid and East Lothian, 48
Wages Arbitration between the North-East Rail¬way Company and their Employees, 496
Wages to Boys, The Yorkshire Miners’ Associa¬tion and, 203
Wages of the Colliers, Meeting in Cardiff, 356
Wages Disputes, Central Marine Engine Works, 179
Wages Dispute in the Oldham District, The, 377, 450, 475
Wages Dispute, The Plymouth Colliers’, 154
Wages Disputes in the Sheffield District, 203
Wages Disputes in Shipyards in North-East of England, 203
Wages in the Engineering Trade, 39
Wages of German Colliers, 426
Wages, Increases in Rates of, 95
Wages of Marine Engineers, Wages Advanced, 331
Wages and Labour Questions, 7, 98, 125, 154, 254, 278, 401, 525, 524, 526, 605 |
Wages Question, The Fair, as Applied to Government Contracts, 524
Wages Questions, Machine Workers’, 605
Wages Questions Settling Themselves, 278
Wages Questions at the Shipyards in the North of England, 125
Wages Questions, South Wales, 526
Wages Questions in Wales, 254
Wages in Scotland, Advances Conceded in, 22
Wales and Adjoining- Counties:
22, 48, 74, 100,126,154, 180, 204, 228, 254, 279, 308, 331, 356, 378, 402, 426, 452, 476, 500, i 526, 558, 580, 606, 630, 652
Walker and Hail, Messrs., Fire at their London Show Rooms, 179
Walker, Mr. W. G., Experiments upon Propeller Ventilating Fans, 648
Walker Shipyard Men Resume Work, 73
Wallach’s Improved Water Gauge Fittings, 85
Wallwork and Co., Messrs. H., Nail-making and Box-nailing Machine, 40
Walmisley, Mr. A. T., On Groynes, 431
Walsall, Extension Sewage Work», 178
Walsh, Mr. T. J., On Foreign Competition and English Trade, 330
War Material, 18S6, 16
Ward, Mr. James, On the Rock Salt Deposits of North-West Cneshire, 651

Warships-set alto Battleships and Ships of War, and H. M. S.S.

Warships, 37
Warships for Japan, 34, 44
Warships, Mechanism of Onr, 38
Warships, New Chinese, 201
Warship Tonnage Launched in 1896 in the United Kingdom, 137
Warships, United States Navy, 285, 286, 296
War Signals, 455, 468
Wardell, Mr. Thomas, 172
Warren Manufacturing Company's Mill, Engine for Driving, 109
Water, Compression of Air by the Direct Action of, 612
Water between Freezing and Boiling Points, Value of the Specific Heat of, 593
Water in Deep Shafts, Mr. Henry Davey on, 536
Water Gas for Birmingham, 152
Water Gas, On Carburetted, 542
Water Gas Manufacture, On Carburetted, 252
Water Gas, Question of Lighting by, Considered in Prague, 373
Water-Gauge Fittings, Wallach’s Improved, 85
Water-Gauge Glasses, Packing Steam Boiler, 489
Waterhouse, Mr., His Statistics for March and April, 558
Water Mains, Scraping and Cleaning, 647
Water-pipe Eaten Through by Electrolysis, 593
Water-Power Plant for Lighting and Manufacturing Purposes, Utilisation of, 305
Water Power Plant, Minneapolis, 277
Water Power Project, Great, 35
Water Power Scheme, Southern California Power Company’s, 291
Water Power, Utilisation of, 149
Water-sealed Furnace Valves, Messrs. Head, Wrightson, and Co., 201
Water Supply, 1896, 18
Water Supply, The London, 115,185, 196, 496, 60
Water Supply for London, Tne Welsh Scheme, 185
Water Supply, The London, Royal Commission to Consider the Subject, 496
Water Supply of New York, 137
Water Supply of Philadelphia, 424
Water Supply Returns in Five Big Towns, 95
Water, On the Transmission of Power by, 535
Water-tube Boilers, 97
Water-tube Boilers, Esrl of Hopetoun on, 359
Water-tube Boilers in French Battleships, 237
Water-tube Boilers and Liquid Fuel, 277
Water-tube Boilers in the Mercantile Marine, On |
the Use of, 541
Water-tube Boilers, Salt Water in, 297 Water-tube Boilers, Vessels in the Navy being
Fitted with, 263
Water-tuba Boilers in Warships, Admiral C. C. P. ' Fitzgerald, 359, 361
Water-tube Bailers—see also Boilers, 164
Water-tube System understood by Greeks and Romans, 7
Waterways between the Midlands and the Bristol Channe1, Scheme to Improve the, 498
Waterway between Wolverhampton and Bristol, Improvement of the, 524
Waterways of England, The Southern, 311
Waterway Improvement, Congress and, 155
Water Winding, 584
Waterworks, Brighton, Pumping Engines (Sup¬plement, June2'2nd, 1897), 85
Waterworks, Farnham, 161
Waterworks, The New Happy Valley, 277
Waterworks at Waddon, The Croydon Corporation’s Scheme for the Construction of, 593
Watson, Mr. W., Instrument for Comparing Thermometers with a Standard, 551
Watt and the Measurement of Power, 233
Waverley Class, Express Passenger Engine, 392, 396
Waynforth, Mr. H. M., Modern Machine Tools, 517
Wear Steel Works, Dismantling and Sale of the Plant, 475
“Weardale” Furnace, Mr. Hollis on the, 479, 497
Weather Averages, 295
Weaver, The River, Works of Improvement, 321
Webb, Mr., on Permanent Way, 533
Webb, Mr. F. W., Experiments to Test the Performance of Locomotives, 458, 459, 467
Webb, Mr. F. W., Express Passenger Engine, ] Waverley Class, 392, 396
Wednesfield Iron and Steel Works Put in Opera¬tion, 202
Weighton, Prof., Experimental Engines at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 89, 92, 104
Weighton, Prof., His Steam Engine, and Experi¬ments with, 89, 92, 104
Welding Steel Rails, Electrically, 7
Weldless Steel Tubes Company, Formation of the Universal, 400
“ Weldless Tubes Limited,” Amalgamation of Two Companies, to be Styled the, 306, 330
Weldless Tube Manufacture for Cycles, 124
Weldless Tube Trade, Sensational News con¬nected with the, 450
Welds of Steel Rails, 7
Wellingborough Railway Bridge Injured by Flood, 163
Wellman Charging Machine for Open-hearth Furnaces, 508
Welshampton Railway Accident, The, 623, 626, I 641 j
Welshpool, Railway Conference at, 35
Welsh Water Supply Scheme, The, 185, 308, 376, 579
Welsh Waterworks, Inspection of the, 579
Wentworth Water Scheme, The, 526
West, Mr. Thos. D., on the General Utility and Economy of Blast Cupolas, 522
West Hartlepool, Electric Light Installation for, 593
West Hartlepool, The Jubilee of, 630
West Suburban Railway, The, 173
Westcott, Mr. J. T., Carburetted Water Gas, 366
Western Australian Government and Proposed Improvements in the Colony, The, 319
West Australian Government Railways, Haulage Power of Locomotives, 250
Western Valley Outfall Sewage Scheme, Inquiry by Col. Coke, 413
Westphalia Coal and Coke at Venice, 237
Wbat High Speed Means? 112
Wheels, Paper Friction, Prof. Goss on, 35
Whee's, Paper Friction, 151
Wheel Tears in Use at the Altoona Shops of the Pennsylvania Railway, 263
Whitehead, Mr. C. S., Effect of Sea Water on Induction Telegraphy, 620
White Star “ Gigantic,” The Often Talked-of, 197
White Star Mail Steamer, The New, 209
Whitwell, Mr., Presentation to, 153
Wicksteed, Mr. J. H., on Double-cutting Planing Machines, 263
Widening of Newgate-street, The, 8, 35
Widening the South-Eastern Railway, A Proposed Relief Line, 130
Wiener, Neustadt Works, Compound Goods Loco¬motive, 241, 242
Wigan Coal and Iron Co.’s Annual Report, 202
Wilde, Mr. Hy., Magnetisation Limit of Mag¬netic Substances, 636
Wilkinson and Sons, Messrs. G., Three-head Boiler Drilling Machine, 45
Williams, Worcester, and Upper Forrest Works, Restart of the, 280
Wilson, Sir Alexander (with Portrait), 598, 629
Wilson, Mr. J., Skinner-street Bridge, Great Eastern Railway, 222, 223
Wilson, Mr. R. P., on Methods of Charging for Electricity Supply, 278
Wilson, Mr. W. E., on the Effect of Pressure in the Surrounding Gas on the Temperature of the Crater of an Electric Arc, 373
Winding Drums, Moulding, 121
Winding Engine, An American, 159, 168
Winding Engine, Double Clutch, Montana Mines, 159. 168
Winding or Hauling Engines, Spring Coupling for, 175
Winding Water, 581
Windmill Pump, Ipswich Sewage Works, 304
Windsor Station, Rebuilding of, 163
Winstanley, Mr. G. H., and the Fleuss Life¬-saving Apparatus and Electric Safety Lamp for Mines, 72
Wire for Gun Construction, Messrs. R. Hill and Co., 425
Wire, The Peril of the, 403
Wire Rope made by Messrs. G. Cradock aud Co., 109
Wire Rape Suspension Bridges'? 595
Wire Works, Merthyr, Toe, 426
Wise, Lieut. H. D., Kite Ascent of, 217
Witkowitz Steel Armour Plates, 610, 611
Woelfert’sFatal Balloon Ascent, 620
Wolfram by Carbon, Reduction of, 57
Wolga Bohter Steel, 125
Wolverhampton Eleotric Light Extensions, 400
Woman’s Labour in the German Iron and Steel Industry, Increase of, 378
Wood Consumption in Mines, 65
Wood, Mr. E., Secures a Contract for the Con¬struction of a Cotton Storage Shed, Mersey Docks, 330
Wood, Mr. Lindsay, Presidential Address, 589
Wood, Mr. R. W., His Experiments on Central Attraction, 413
Wood, Mr. R. W., Diffraction Phenomena Pro¬duced with Röntgen Rays by, 496
Woodall, Mr. Corbet, on Carburetted Water Gas 542
Wooden Steamer Afloat, The Largest, 442
Woodhead, Dr. G. Sims, on Bacteriology, 445
Woodridge, Prof. S. H., System of Ventilation, 7
Woodward, Mr. W. W., Successor to Mr. Shon- bridge, 499
Woolwich Arsenal, 417
Work of the Ether, The, 295
Workman’s Compensation Bill, The, 456
Workmen’s Trains, The Extension of, 95
Works Committee of the Landon County Council Half-yearly Returns, 513
Worsdell’s Engines, An Engine Driver’s Comments on the Close Cab, 35
Worthington’s Pump Regulator, 339
West Africa, Survey Expeditions for, 109
Wreck a Train, Attempt to, 109
Wright, Capt. C., Volunteer Engineering in Peace and War, 301

Y

Yachts, American Steam, 245
Yachts, Foreign-built, and American Customs, 372
Yacht “ Ivy,” The Steam, 172
Yacht “ Varuna,” The Twin-screw, 214, 216, 218
Yacht, whose Model is the Salmon, A, 109
Yachting and Fisheries Exhibition, Imperial Institute, see Exhibitions, 162, 246
Yarrow Boilers for an Austrian Cruiser, 513
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Torpedo Boats, 95
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Torpedo-boat Des¬troyers for Japan, 109
Yarrow and Thornycroft, Shallow Draught Steamers for the Government, 197
Yeast in Holland, Manufacture of, 26
Yeovil Motor Car, The, 565
Yerkes Telescopic Lens, The, 623
Yokosuka Dockyard, 25
Yorkshire Coal from the Humber Ports in 1896, Shipments of, 64
Yorkshire Coalfield, Mr. R. Sutcliffe on, 425
Yorkshire, Colliery Surface Labour in, 91
Young, Mr. J., on Carburetted Water Gas Manufacture, 252
Yugowitch, Mr., His Appointment, 95

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ZAM BESI Railway Company, The Capital of the,
Zurich Waterworks, Mr. G. M. Lawford Describes the, 151

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