Engineering 1897 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1897 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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ACCELERATION Diagram for Oscillating Engine, 05
Accelerity Diagram, Steam Engine, 509, 627
Accident, Compensation for, 683
Accident to H M. Destroyer " Star (Palmer), 16, 653. See Lwrinuts

Accidents, Railway

Accidents on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, 328
Accident at Peterborough, 836
Buffer-Stop Collision, 460
Buffer-Stop Collision at Durham, 311
Buffer-Stop Collision, Preventing, 105
Butt Collision on a Single Line, 192
Butt Collision when Shunting, 243
Collision at Chelmsford, 328
Collision, Double, near Dundalk, 121
Collision at Eastleigh, London and SouthWestern, 486
Collision near Edinburgh, 191
Collision on the Great Eastern Railway, 23
Collision at Melton Constable, 153
Collision at Rainford, 457
Collision at Victoria Station, Manchester, 64
Collision, Wirral Railway, Slight, 638
Collisions on North-Eastern Railway, Two, 15
Crewe, Failure of Clearance Bar, 175
Derailment, Fatal, at Rothbury, 836
Glasgow Collision (Wanted " Lock and Block "), 356
Leeds, Slight Collision at, 453
Rear Collision at Gorbals Junction, 294
Rear Collision at Wandsworth-Road, 328
Runaway Train, 419
Accumulator, Blot, 88
Accumulator for Traction, 485
Acetylene, 412, 509, 528
Aeronautics, 32, 586
Affairs in China and Korea, 583
African, South, Harbour Works, 55
Agricultural Society Show, Manchester, 22, 855
Agriculture, Ploughing Tackle, Electrically Driven, b14
Air-Compressing Plant (Ingersoll-Sergeant Company), 132
Air Hoist for Loading Rock into Spoil Wagon, 69
Air Passing through a Register, Determining Volume of, 337
Air Pump, Double-Acting Displacement, 587
Air Pumps (Blake Co., New York), 44, 75
Air Pump, Edwards', 60
" Alabama," United States Battleship, 402
Algebraic Spherical Catenaries, 229
Allocation of Underground Water, 835
Alloys, Copper-Zinc, 197, 220, 253, 379, 412, 446, 81
Alternating Currents in Concentric Conductors, 29
Alternator, Compound Engine and (Ferranti), 5
Alternator, Inductor, and Universal Engine (Brush Company), 188, 157
Aluminium Bronze Seamless Tubes, 136
Aluminium in Cast Iron, 585
Aluminium, Manufacture of, 12
Amendment of Companies Act, 282
America. See United States
American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. See Heating and Ventilating Society
Ammonia for Agriculture, Sulphate of, 698
Amsterdam Theatre Iron Curtain, 461
Anaconda Copper Refining Works, 24
Andrews, Mr. Thomas, on Microscopic Observations of Fatigue in Iron and Steel, 265, 499, 40. See 850
Anglo-American Telegraph Company, 519
Anglo-Chinese Treaty, 859
Anticylonic Conditions and Cold in England, 43
"Aorangi," Reconstruction of S.S., 882
April Weather, 617
Aqueduct at Briare, Canal, 77
Armour Plates, Price of, 148, 175
Armour Plates, The Late Sir John Brown and, 3
Arnold, Mr. J. 0., on Permeability of Crucibles, 40, 611
Artillery. See Guns
Asbestos and Asbestic, 652
Asbestos Curtains, 331, 392. See 461, 533
Ascertaining Stability of Ships, 475, 485
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., on Petroleum as Fuel for Locomotives, 738, 745
Astronomy, Measuring Stellar Photographs, 487
Atlantic Passengers, 115
Australian Trade, Japan and, 517
Automatic Gun, Hotchkiss, 520, 541. See LETTER
Automatic Machine Gun, 655
"Avon," Carron Company's New Steamer, 753
Ayrton on Submarine Telegraphy, 247, 555

Bacteriology, 416, 454, 529
Bacteriology of Water Supply, 742
Baling Presses, Cotton (Rice, Leeds), 850
Barcroft's Partially Immersed Screws, 200, 295.
See LETTERS, Propellers
Barling, Mr. I. Collingwood, on Improvement of Rivers, 774, 795
Barometers, Marine, Tests for, 824
Barometers, Stand irdising, 267
Barrels, Electrically Welded Steel, 789
Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding, 8, 82
Barsi Light Railway and Rolling Stock (Leeds Forge Company), 106, 275
Bates' Belt Spoil Conveyors, 366. See Chicago Drainage Canal
Battery, Stevens, 417
Battleships. See Warships
Battleships and Torpedo-Boats, 785
Bavarian Express Compound Locomotive with Auxiliary Gear, 691
Bayonet Catch Joint for Tubing, 557
Bazin Roller Steamer, 76
Beardmore, Mr. Wm., on Nickel Steel, 534, 589
Bearings of Marine Engines, 29. See 60, 90
Bearings, Roller, 725, 776
Behr Monorail System, 788, 815, 849
Bellasis, Mr. E. S., on Uniform Flow of Water in Channels, 21
Bellegarde Electric Power Transmission, 633, 701
Belleville Boiler Trials in H.M.S. " Terrible," 83, 09. See ',Emits, " Terrible," &c.
Belleville Boilers, 483, 489, 492
Belt Conveyor, Bates', 366. See Chicago Canal
Bending Rolls (Niles Tool Works, U.S.A.), 538
Benest, Mr. H , on Repairing Submarine Cable, 57, 387, 424
Bennett, Mr. Alfred R., on Convection Scope and Calorimeter, 239
Beresford, Lord Charles, on the Fighting Value of the older Ironclads if Re-armed, 501, 525
Berlin and its Buildings, 564, 598
Berlin Court Theatre, 35
Berlin Exhibition, 116
Berlin Theatre Stages, 127
Bernay's Water Meter, 721
Bertrand, Mr. E., on Bertrand and Thiel Combined Processes, 672, 696
Bertrand and Thiel Open-Hearth Processes Combined, 672, 696
Berwick and Edinburgh Railway Service, 380
Bessemer Process, Early History, 41
Bevel Gears, Cutting, 70
Bevel and Worm Gear, 403, 438. See LETTER, 19
Bicycles. See Cycles
Biles, Professor, on Nickel Steel for Ships, 776
Bituminous Coal, Washing (Luhrig), 103
Black Bodies, Radiation of Absolutely, 301
Blackburn Boiler Explosion, 799
Blaokwall Tunnel, 530
Blast-Furnace Plant, Duquesne, 469, 538
Blechynden, the Late Mr. Alfred, 287
Blot Accumulator, 83
Blowers v. Chimney Ventilation, 369
Blow-Off Cocks, Feed Check Valves and (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden, Limited), 25, 45
Blyth and Whitby Shipbuilding, 8, 82
Boat Chocks, Hamlyn's Collapsible, 373
Boats, Canal, Partially Immersed Screws, 200, 95. See LErrEas, Propellers
Body, Mechanics of the, 11
Bogies, Pressed Steel, for Barsi Light Railway (Leeds Forge Company), 106. See 275
Boilers, Ancient Pompeiian, 41
Boiler, Dry - Back, with Induced Draught (Fraser, Millwall), 474
Boiler Economy, 735, 758
Boiler and Engine Attendants, Certification Bill, 17, 321. See LErrErts
Boiler and Engine Stop Valve, 454
Boiler Explosion at Blackburn, 799
Boiler Explosion at Dritfield, 572
Boiler Explosion at Dukinfleld, 491
Boiler Explosions at Scarborough and Much Wenlock, 418
Boiler Feed Heater, Lundkvist's, 153, 189
Boiler Fittings, 25
Boiler Gauge, Wallach's Safety, 119
Boiler Grates, Efficiency, 135
Boiler Heating Surface, Efficiency, 135
Boiler Inspection and Registration Bill, 327
Boiler, Lyall's Tubular and Water-Tube, 603
Boilers, Marine, 263. See LETTERS, Niclatme Boiler
Boilers, Naval, 483, 489, 492
Boiler, Niclausse, 352
Boiler Tubes, Solid Drawn v. Welded. See LETTERS, Water-Tube Boilers
Boiler Water Purifier, Carroll, 23
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boiler
Boilers, Water-Tube, &o., for Merchant Ships, 39, 760
Bolting and Drilling Railway Wheels, Machine for (Craven, Manchester), 339
Bolton Electric Lighting Plant, 5
Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway, 63
Books Received, 22, 68, 101, 132, 182, 228, 261, 09, 395, 429, 461, 568, 602, 633, 809, 845
Boring Machines, Cylinder (Niles Tool Works, U.S.A.), 538
Boring Machines, Double, 208
Boring Machine, Snout (Buckton), 436
Boulnois's Refuse Destructor, 743
Bradford Portable Power Drill and Reamer, 780
Brake Car, Glasgow Subway, 301
Brandt Theatre Stages, 35, 127
Brass Alloys, 197, 220, 253, 379, 412, 446, 481
Brassey's Naval Annual, 632, 806. See LETTER, Welin's Breech Screw, 755
Brazilian State Railways, 115, 681
Breakdowns of Stationary Engines, 26, 60, 90
Breakwaters, Concrete in, 707, 833
Breakwaters, Making of, 320
Breech Screw for Ordnance, Welin, 755
Briare, Canal Aqueduct, 77
Brickwork and Masonry, 20
Bridge Contract in Egypt, 448
Bridge Conveyor, 636
Bridge Failure in Egypt (Consular Aid), 182
Bridges on Lanarkshire and Dumbarton Railway, 667, 733, 803, 839
Bridge Model Experiments, 771, 794
Bridge, New Rock Island, 437, 523
Bridges, Painting, 650
Bridges, Standardising Loads and Stresses, 771, 95
Bridges, Stresses in, 427
Bridges, Swing, for Dumbarton Railway, 733, 803
Bridge Taxes, Forth, 485
Bridge, Victoria Moving, over River Dee, 781.
See LETTER, 828
British Company in France, 216
British Consuls and Commercial Propagandism, 18
British Contractors in Egypt, 448
British Metallurgical Industry, 381
British Minerals, 52
British Older Ironclads, Fighting Value if Rearmed, 504, 525
British Sailors and British Ships, 516
British Warships. See H.M.S.
Brompton and Piccadilly Subway, 480
Bronze-Aluminium, Seamless Tubes, 136
Bronze Tail Shaft, 815
Brown, The Late SirJohn, and Armour Plates, 23
Brown Spoil Conveyor, 29D. See Chicago Canal
Brussels Exhibition, 550, 582, 615, 649, 689, 721, 51, 787, 788, 815, 821, 849, 858
Buckets for Grab and Conveyors, 848
Bucyrus Steam Excavator, 165
Buenos Ayres Railways, 115
Buildings in Berlin, 564, 598
Building, Monier System, of, 158
Building Trades Exhibition, 413
Bull's Metal Tests, 815
Burning Coke Waste, 447

Cable, Japanese Pacific, 320
Cable Laying and Repairing, Submarine, 227
Cable, Repairing Submarine, 357, 387, 424
Cable Traction In Glasgow Subway 7, 95, 167, 230, 304
Brake Car, 304
Cables for Tramway Traction, 230
Cars, Cable, 304
Clutch, Walker-Weston, 167
Corliss Valves for Hauling Engine, 95
Dobson Gear for Corliss Valve, 95
Driving Pulleys for Cable Engines, 167
Electric Lighting of Subway, 304
Engines for Cable Haulage, 37, 95
Gripper, Car, 304
Haulage Machinery (Yates and Thom), 37, 95
Lighting Cars and Subway, 304
Pulleys for Driving and for Cable, 167, 230
Shafting for Cable Engines, 167
Sheaves for Cable in Tunnel, 230
Tension Gear for Cable Haulage, 167
Upton Tension Gear for Cable Haulage, 167
Walker-Weston Clutch, 167
Cables for Tramway Traction, 230
Cableway Conveying Spoil, 211
Cadmium, 302
Caillet's Single-Rail Railway, 166, 196
Calcium Carbide, 11, 412
Calibrating a Worthington Meter, 71
Calorific Value of Coal, 465
Calorimeter, Convection Scope and, 239
Calorimeter, Dowson's Gas, 720
Campbell, Mr. Albert, on the Changes in Soft Metals by Permanent Strain, 469
Canal Aqueduct at Briare, 77
Canal Boats' Partially Immersed Screws, 200, 95. See LETTERs, Propellers
Canal, Chicago Drainage. See Chicago Drainage Canal
Canals, Dimensions of Principal, 1
Canal Dimensions and Propulsion, 200, 295. See 'Arms, Propellers
Canal Diversion for Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, 867, 733. See 830
Canal Mechanical Propulsion, 683, 591, e02, 627, 32. See LETTERS, and Negative Slip, 755
Canal, Nicaragua, 554
Canals, &Trot t nd Dimensions of Noted, 1
Canal Traffic, Continental, 554
Canal Traffic Legislation, 515
Canals, Value and Scope of, 554, 771, 790, 797
Canet-Schneider Combination, 319
Cantilever Conveyor, Double, 504
Cape Light Railways, 581
Capital and Co-operation Contracts, 211, 821
Capital and Wages, 81
Carbide of Calcium, 11, 412
Carbides in Steel, 801
Carburetted Water-Gas, 742, 761
Carey and Latham's Cement Mixer, 720
Carey, Mr. A. E., on Concrete in Marine Works, 34. See 707
Carnegie Co.'s Duquesne Furnace Plant, 469, 538
Carr, The Late Major, 519
Carriage, Motor. See Cars, Motor
Carriages, Rolling Cradles for Light Railways, 66, 404
Carroll Boiler-Water Purifier, 23
Carron Company's New Steamer " Avon," 753
Cars, Cable, 304
Cars, Motor, 786
Cars, Motor, Dust Cars, 148
Cars, Motor, Krieger Electric, 250
Cars, Peugeot Petroleum Motor, 676
Cars, Steam Road (Lancashire Company), 816
Carulla, Mr. F. J. R., on Sulphate of Ammonia, 98
Cast Iron, Aluminium in, 585
Cast Iron Tests, 187
Castings, Defects in Cast-Iron, 58, 75, 150, 218, 52, 521
Castings, Deformation in Iron, 71
Castings, Regulating Foundry Mixtures, 328
Castings, Some Old Iron, 568, 619. See LETTERS
Catenaries, Algebraic Spherical, 229
Caulking Tool, Rivet-Head, 793
Cavitation, " Turbinia," 555
Cellular Kite, 32
Cellulose, 319
Cement Mixer, Carey and Latham's, 720
Cement, Portland, 252
Cement in Sea Water, 619, 654
Cement in Sea Water, Behaviour, 457, 495, 559. See LETTERS
Cement Testing, 618
Central Railway, Grand, 290
Central Technical College, 111
Centrifugal Pumps for Docks at Newport, 543
Certificates for Boiler and Engine Attendants, 17, 321. See LETTERS
Chamberlin Observatory, Denver, 702
Channels, Digging, 133
Channel Steamer " Duchess of Devonshire," T.-S.S. (Barrow Company), 448
Channelling Machine (Ingersoll-Sergeant), 132
Channels, Uniform Flow in Open, 21
Charging, &o., Machinery for Blast-Furnaces, 69, 538
Charging Open-Hearth Furnaces by Machinery, 40, 658, 669
Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway, 321, 352
Chemistry, 301
Chemistry in the Foundry, 553
Chicago Drainage Canal : , 41, 96, 132, 163, 205, 235, 271, 299, 366, 433, 04, 569, 636, 668, 705, 752, 770
Air Hoist for Loading Rock into Spoil Wagon, 69
Bates' Belt Conveyors, 366
Belt Conveyor, Bates', 366
Bridge Conveyor, 636
Brown Conveyor, 299
Buckets for Grab and Conveyors, 848
Bucyrus Steam Excavator, 163
Canals, Sections and Dimensions of Noted, 1
Cantilever Conveyor, Double, 504
Channelling Machine (Ingersoll-Sergeant), 132
Christie and Lowe's Spoil Wagons and System of Excavation, 205
Conveyor, Bates' Belt, 366
Conveyor, Bridge, 636
Conveyor, Brown, 299
Conveyors, Christie and Lowe's, 205
Conveyor, Double Cantilever, 504
Conveyors, Hulett-M‘Myler, 848
Conveyor, Lidgerwood, 271
Conveyor, Shailer-Schniglau, 433
Conveyors, Smith and Eastman, and Trust, 366
Cuttings, 41, 96, 132
Derrick, Hulett-M`Myler Single-Boom, 569
Dipper Dredging, 668
Ditching Machine, King, 705
Dredge, Vivian Hydraulic, 770
Dredger, Jones-Lovell Land, 752
Dredger, William Sooy Smith, 752
Dredging, Dipper, 668
Dump Cars, &c., 163
Dynamite Blast, 235
Eastman's Conveying Derricks, 366
Excavation, Diagram Showing, 636
Excavator, Bucyrus, 163
Excavator, Marion, 705
Excavator, Osgood's Steam, 235
Excavator, Victor, 668
Grab Buckets, 848
Hoisting Engine for Lidgerwood Conveyor, 271
Hulett-M`Myler Conveyors, 848
Hulett-Mlfyler Single-Boom Derrick, 563
Hydraulic Dredge, Vivian, 770
Incline and Tip for Spoil, 636
Inclines for Removing Soil, 96, 163, 205, 235
Ingersoll-Sergeant Channelling Machine, 132
Jones-Lovell Land Dredger, 752
King Ditching Machine, 705
Lake Basin Map, 96
Land Dredger, Jones-Lovell, 752
Lidgerwood Conveyor, 271
Map and Plan, 1
Marion Excavator, 705
M`Myler-Hulett Conveyors, 848
Navvies. See Excavators
Osgood's Steam Shovel, 235
Overhead Conveyor, Lidgerwood, 271
Page Incline and Tip, 636
Progress Diagrams, 96
Removing Soil by Inclines, 97, 163, 205, 235
Sections and Dimensions, 1
Shailer-Schniglau Conveyor, 433
Smith and Eastman's Conveying Derricks, 366
Spoil Wagons, 163, 205, 235, 433
Tipping Machinery, 636
Truss Conveyors, 366 68
Victor Excavator,
Vivian Hydraulic Dredge, 770
Winch for Brown Conveyor, 299
Chimney Ventilation v. Fan, 369
China and Korea, Affairs in, 583
China Railway, Eastern, 182
China Railway Prospects, 399
China and Russia, 19
China Silk Mills, 275
China Spinning, 286
China Trade, 249
China and United States Trade, 552
Chinese Finance, 348
Chinese Treaty with Eng'and, 859
Chocks for Boats, Hamlyn's, 373
Christie and Lowe's Spoil Wagons and System of Excavation, 205
Circulation of Steam for Heating, 370
Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 653, 754
City and Guilds Technical College, 111
City and West-End London Subway, 480
Civil Engineers, Institution of. See Letter Membership, 49, 409, 573
Superheated Steam Engine Trials, by Professor Ripper, 121
The Diversion of the Periyar, by Colonel J. Pennycuick, 137
The Mother System of Construction, by Mr. Walter Beer (Students), 158
Cold Storage and the London and India Docks, by Mr. H. F. Donaldson, 216
The Main Drainage of London, by Messrs. W. Santo Crimp and J. E. Worth, 283
The Purification of the Thames, by Mr. W. J. Dibdin, 283
Membership Rules, 409, 441
Bacteriology, by Dr. G. D. Woodhead, 416, 454, 29
The Mond Gas Producer Plant and its Application, by Mr. H. A. Humphrey, 419
Electric Lifts and Cranes, by Mr. H. W. Ravenshaw, 449
Blackwall Tunnel, by Mr. David Hay and Mr. Maurice Fitzmaurice, 530
Civil Engineers, Institution of. Conference :
Presidential Address, by Sir J. Wolfe Barry, K.C.B., 706
* Section I.-Railways:
Rails and Permanent Way, introduced by Mr. H. Copperthwaite, 706, 727
Permanent Way, introduced by Mr. F. W. Webb, 707, 727
The Location and Cost of Working of Pioneer Railways, introduced by Mr. R. Elliott Cooper, 734, 763. See Erratum, 780
What is True or False Economy in Light Railway Construction ? introduced by Mr. A. C. Pain, 734, 763. See Erratum, 780
The Standardising of Working Loads and Working Stresses for Railway Bridges, introduced by Mr. J. M. Moncrieff, 771, 795
The Use of Small ;Scale Experiments in some Engineering Problems, introduced by Mr. A. Mallock, 771, 794
* Section II-Harbours, Docks, and Canals :
President's Address (Mr. Harrison Hayter), 07, 833, 834
Concrete in Relation to Marine Works, introduced by Mr. John Kyle and Mr. A. E. Carey, 07
The Arrangement of Docks in Relation to Approaches, &c.,introduced by Mr. H. F. Donaldson, 71
The Value and Scope of Inland Navigation, introduced by Mr. E. D. Marten, Mr. Lionel B. Wells, and Mr. J. A. Saner, 771, 796, 797
Comparison of Dredging and Training Works as Means for the Improvement of Rivers, introduced by Mr. A. F. Fowler and Mr. I. C.
Barling, 774, 795, 796
On Automatic Dredging of Rivers and River Bars, introduced by the Hon. R. C. Parsons, 74
* Section III.-Machinery and Transmission of Power :
The Transmission of Power by Electricity, introduced by Mr. W. H. Preece, C.B., F.R.S., 10, 727
The Transmission of Power by Water, introduced by Mr. E. B. Ellington, 710, 728
The Transmission of Power by other Agents, introduced by Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., 10, 729
Important Questions in the Economic Working of Steam Engines and Boilers, introduced by Mr. Bryan Donkin, 735, 758
Separate Condensing Plants, introduced by Mr. Henry Davey, 738, 759
Petroleum as Steam Engine Fuel, introduced by Mr. John A. F. Aspinall, 738, 745
Proposed Committee on Uniform System of Reports, 738.
Piston Valves in Locomotives, introduced by Mr. S. W. Johnson, 775, 798
Ball and Roller Bearings, introduced by Mr. W. Bayley Marshall, 776
Pneumatic Grain Elevators, introduced by Mr. C. R. Parkes, 776, 797
*Section IV.-Mining and Metallurgy :
Dealing with Water in Pits during Sinking and in Permanent Work, introduced by Mr. J. B. Simpson, 712, 730
Water in Deep Shafts, introduced by Mr. Henry Davey, 712, 729
Deep Levels in Mining Practice in the United Kingdom, introduced by Mr. Bennett H. Brough, 712
Prospects of Deep Mining in Cornwall, introduced by Mr. William Thomas, 713
* Section V.-Shipbuilding :
Practical Application of Model Experiments to Merchant-Ship Design, introduced by Mr. Archibald Denny, 713
The Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Rotary and Reciprocating Engines as Applied to Ship Propulsion, introduced by the Hon. C. A. Parsons, 738, 758
Use of Water-Tube Boilers in the Mercantile Marine, introduced by Mr. A. E. Seaton, 739, 60
Improved Materials of Construction and their Influence on Design, introduced by Professor J. H. Biles, 776
Influence of Choice of Materials and Workmanship on the Structural Strength and Durability of Merchant Shipping, introduced by Mr. H. H. West, 776
* Section VI.-Water Works, Sewerage, and Gas Works :
Water Gas, introduced by Mr. Corbet Woodall, 42, 761
Gas for Power Purposes, introduced by Mr. J. Emerson Dowson, 742, 761
The Bacteriology of Water Supply, introduced by Sir Edward Frankland, F.lt.S., 742
House Sanitation, introduced by Mr. Rogers Field, 743
Refuse Destructors, introduced by Mr. II. P. Boulnois, 743
Relation between Rainfall, Flow off the Ground, and Actual Yield of Reservoirs, introduced by Mr. W. Fox, 743
The Law and Allocation of Underground Water, by Mr. James Mansergh, 835
* Section VII.-Application of Electricity :
Should Generating Plant be Mounted on Springs? introduced by Mr. James Swinburne, 743, 762. See LETTERS
Turbines Applied to Dynamos, introduced by the Hon. C. A. Parsons, 745, 762
The Decimal System in Engineering Measurement, introduced by Captain H. Riall Sankey, late R.E., 779, 799
The Equilibrium System of Feeding Electric Railways, introduced by Mr. C. E. P. D. Spagnoletti, 780
Conversazioni, 719
Civil Engineering Prospects in Japan, 146
Clark's Iron Curtain with Hydraulic Gear at Lyric Theatre, 393
Clutch, Walker-Weston, 167
Clutches, Coil, 606
Clyde Shipbuilding, 55, 82, 485
Coal in France, 543
Coal-Mining in Britain, 52
Coal, Powdered, Combustion of, 71
Coal Production, Consumption and Cost, 411
Coal in Russia, 825
Coal, South African, 465
Coal and Spontaneous Combustion, 431
Coal, Washing Bituminous (Luhrig), 103
Coal Weighing and Recording Machine, 473
Coherers, Liquid, and Mobile Conductors, 453
Coil Clutches, 606
Coke Waste, Burning, 447
Cold and Anticyclonic Conditions of Weather, 543
Cold, Mechanical Production of, 214, 216, 247, 83, 349. See LErrEits
Cold Storage, 216
Collisions, Railway. See Accidents
Colomb, Admiral, on Battleships and Torpedo Boats, 785
Combustion of Powdered Coal, 71
Combustion, Spontaneous, 431
Commercial Education in Japan, 285
Commercial Organisation of Factories, 67
Commercial and Political Value of Trans-Siberian Railway, 789
Commercial Propagandism and British Consuls, 18
Communication, Geography of, 688
Companies Act, Amendment, 282
Company Law, French v. British, 216
Compendium of English Language, 809
Compensation for Accident, 683
Competition, Foreign, 17, 217, 844
Competition, German Trade, 144, 178
Competition of Motor Cars, 786
Competition in Steel Trade, 657, 895
Compound Engine. See Engines
Compound Locomotive, Experiments on, 828
Compressed Air Plant (Ingersoll-Sergeant Company), 132
Computers, Mechanical, 104
Concentric Conductors, Alternating Currents, 20
Concentric Wiring, 721
Concrete Construction, Monier System, 158
Concrete in Marine Work, 707, 833
Concrete Work on Railways, 733, 803
Condenser, Surface, for Electric Light Engines (W. H. Allen and Co.), 341
Condensing Plant, Separate, 738, 759
Conductivity of Sheet Copper, Thermal, 31, 49
Conduit, Simplex System of Electric, 351
Congress of Hygiene and Demography at BudaPesth, 1894, 11
Consular Aid, 182
Consuls and Commercial Propagandism, 518
Consumption of Coal, Production and Cost, 411
Continental Canal Traffic, 554
Continental Railway Facilities, 61
Contractors and County Council, 479, 717
Contractors, Navy, 148
Convection Scope and Calorimeter, 239
Conversazioni of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 719
Conveyors, Bates' Belt, 366
Conveyor, Brown, 299
Conveyor, Brown Spoil, 299. See 235, 277, 366, 33
Conveyor, Bridge, 636
Conveyors, Christie and Lowe's, 205
Conveyor, Double Cantilever, 504
Conveyors, Hulett-McMyler, 848
Conveyor, Lidgerwood, 271
Conveyor, Shailer-Schniglau, 433
Conveyors, Smith and Eastman, and Trust, 366
Cooling Curves of Alloys, 197, 220, 253, 379, 412, 46, 481
Cooper, Mr. R. Elliot, on Pioneer Railways, 34, 7d3
Co-operative Contracts and Capital, 211, 821
Copenhagen Royal Theatre, Fire Engine Stations, 633
Copper, Changes due to Strain on, 468
Copper Process, Dumoulin, 618, 654. See LETTERS
Copper Refining, Electrolytic, in United States of America, 690
Copper Refining Works, Anaconda, 24
Copperthwaite, Mr. 11., on Rails and Permanent Way, 706, 727
Corliss Valve Gear for Locomotives, 381
Corliss Valves for Haulage Engine, 95
Corliss Valve for Locomotive, 291. See LETTERS
Corliss Valve, Proell Cut-off with, 606. See LErrEas, 654, 690, 754, 792, 828
Cornwall Mines, Deep, 712
Corporation Finance, 449
Corporations and Co-operative Production, 821. See 211
Cost of Cold by Refrigerating Plant, 41
Cotton Baling Presses (Rice, Leeds), 850
Cotton Industry in China and Japan, 286
Cotton Spinning, 308
Cotton and Spontaneous Combustion, 431
County Council and Works Department, 479, 717
Court Theatre at Berlin, 35
Cowper-Kennedy Stoves for Blast-Furnaces, 538
Cox's Mechanical Computers, 104
Cradle for Launching Warships, 309
Cradles, Rolling, for Light Railways, 366, 404
Crane, 200-Ft. Gantry (Wellman-Leaver Engineering Company), 101
Cranes and Lifts, Electric, 449
Crane, 40-Ton Titan (Stothert and Pitt), 320, 642
Crewe Engine Shed, 277, 311
Crimp, Santo, Mr., and Watts, Mr. .I. C., on London Drainage, 288
Cruisers. See Warships
Crushing, Grinding, and Separating Machinery (Johnson, Leeds), 371
Crushing Quartz by Stamp Mills, 624, 661. See LETTERS
Crystals, Homogeneous Structure of, 382
Curve Tracer, or Monticolo Cyclesograph, 791
Cut-off, Proell, with Conlin Valve, 606. See LETTERS
Cutting Bevel Gears, 70
Cutting Machine, Double-Ended Punching Machine and (Craig and Donald), 339
Cuttings, Canal, 41, 96, 132
Cycle Construction, 573, 632
Cycle Work, Heavy Capstan Lathe for (Taylor and Hattersley), 642. See Erratum, 681
Cyclesograph, Monticolo, or Curve Tracer, 791
Cylinder Boring Machines (Niles Tool Works, U.S.A.), 538

Damming the Periyar in Madras, 137
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, 569
Davey, Mr. Henry, on Water in Deep Shafts, 12, 729. See 721, 730
Davey, Mr. H., on Separate Condensing Plant, 38, 759
Decauville and Single-Rail Railways, 166, 196, 88
December Weather, 54
Decimal System in Engineering, 779, 799
Dee, River, Victoria Moving Bridge over, 781. See LETTER, 828
Deep Mines, 712
Deep Tunnel Railways for London, 480
Defects in Cast-Iron Castings, 58, 75, 150, 218, 52, 521.
Deformation in Iron Castings, 71
Degreasing Leather, Machine for, 400
Denny, Mr. A., on Model Experiments in Ship Design, 713
Density of Water Vapour, 267
Denver, Chamberlin Observatory, 702
Deprez-D'Arsonval Galvanometers, 300
Derailment at Rothbury, 836
Derrick, Hulett-McMyler Single-Boom, 569
Design of Ships, Use of Mean Water-Line in, 08, 527
Destruction of Town Refuse, 146
Destructor, Horsfall, 122
Destructors, Refuse, 743
Desulphurising, 696
Determinations of the Radiation in Absolute Measure, 301
Determining Volume of Air Passing through a Register, 337
Dewrance, Mr. John, on Bearings of Marine Engines, 29
Diagram, Acceleration, Oscillating Engine, 665
Diagram, Accelerity, Steam Engine, 509, 527
Diagram, Metal Price, 24, 184, 322, 450, 620, 756
Diamond Mining, 286
Dibdin, Mr., on Thames Purification, 288
Diffraction Kaleidoscope, 686
Digger. See Steam Navvy
Dimensions of Drawings, 11
Dipper Dredging, 668
Direct Radiation, Measurement, 336
Dispute, Engineers', 315
Distribution of Power, 701
Ditching Machine, King, 705
Diviner, Water, 764
Dobson Gear for Corliss Valves, 95
Dock Centrifugal Pumps, 543
Dockyards, French, and Contractors, 260
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Steam Engine Economy, 35, 758
Donkin, Mr. Bryan, on Steam Engine Experiments, 464
Dowson's Gas, Power, 742, 761
Dowson, Mr. J. E., on Gas for Power Purposes, 42, 761
Drainage Canal, Chicago. See Chicago Canal Drainage of London, 288
Drainage and River Reclamation, 129
Dredge, Vivian Hydraulic, 770
Dredger, Jones-Lovell Land, 752
Dredger, William Sooy Smith, 752
Dredging. See Chicago Canal Dredging, Dipper, 668
Dredging and Training Rivers, 774, 795
Driffield, Boiler Explosion at, 572
Drill and Reamer, Bradford Portable Power, 780
Drills for Excavating, 133
Drilling and Bolting Railway Wheels, Machine or (Craven, Manchester), 339
Driving Pulleys for Cable Engines, 167
Drying and Heating Apparatus, Robinson, 46
Dryness of Steam, 32
"Duchess of Devonshire," T.-S.S. (Barrow), 448
Duckham's Pneumatic Grain Elevator, 151. See LETTERS
Dukinfield, Boiler Explosion, 491
Dumbartonshire and Lanarkshire Railway, 597, 67, 733, 803, 839
Dunioulin Copper Process, 618, 654. See LETTERS
Dump Cars, &c., 163
Duodecimal System, 136
Duquesne Furnace Plant, 469, 538
Durston, Sir A. J , on Trials of the "Powerful" and " Terrible," 483, 492
Dust Cart, Motors, 148
Dust, Coal, Combustion of, 71
Du Temple Water - Tube Boilers, "Spanker," 789
Dynamite Blast, 235
Dynamite, Storage of, 585
Dynamo, Six-Pole 70-Kilowatt, 509

Eastern China Railway, 182
Eastern Telegraph Company, 619
Eastman's Conveying Derricks, 365
Eddy, The Late Mr. E. M. G., 860
Education, Technical, 111
Education of Engineers, 855
Education of German Mechanics, 212
Education, Industrial, in Glasgow, 281
Education in Japan, 246, 285
Edwards' Air Pump, 60
Effect of Capacity on Stationary Electrical Waves in Wires, 520
Effect of Sea Water on Induction Telegraphy,830
Efficiency of Ventilation, Chimney v. Fan, 69
Egypt, Engineering Failures, 182
Egyptian Contracts, British Firms and, 448
Electric Accumulator, Blot, 88
Electric Accumulator Traction, 485
Electric Accumulators, Manganese Compounds in, 585
Electric Alternating Currents in Concentric Conductors, 520
Electric Arc and Photomicrography, 685
Electric Dynamo, Six-Pole 7-Kilowatt, 509
Electric Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition, 824
Electric Exhibits at Royal Society Soirée, 685, 823
Electric Generating Plant on Springs, 743, 762. See LETTERS
Electric Generators, Turbine, 251, 745, 762
Electric Influence Machine, Wimshurst, 685
Electric Insulation, Railroad, 355
Electric Lifts and Cranes, 449
Electric Light Engine Surface Condenser (W. H. Allen and Co.), 341
Electric Light Engines, Compound (Allen, Bedford), 74
Electric Lighting Plant, Bolton, 6
Electric Lighting of Subway, 304
Electric Motors for Ventilator Fans, 604
Electric, Parsons', Turbo-Generator, 251
Electric Plant at the Reichsanstalt, 287
Electric Power from St. Lawrence, 722
Electric Power Transmission, 859
Electric Power Transmission, Bellegarde, 633, 01
Electric Qualities of Iron, Effect of Temperature on, 677
Electric Railways, Equilibrium System of Feeding, 780
Electric Railways and Physical Institutes, 300
Electric Road Carriage, Krieger, 250
Electric Signalling without Wires, 830
Electric Telegraphy, Transatlantic, 447
Electric Traction for Glasgow, 652
Electric Traction for Railways, 753
Electric Traction, Simplex System of, 351
Electric Transmission of Power, 710, 727, 728, 29
Electric Turntable Stage, Munich, 201, 267
Electric Wiring, Concentric, 721
Electrical Engineers, Institution of:
Presidential Address, by Sir Henry Mance, 113. See LETTER, 655
On Some Repairs to the South American Company's Cable off Cape Verde in 1893 and 1895, by Mr. H. Benest, 357, 387, 424
The Generation of Electrical Energy for Tramways, by Mr. John S. Raworth, 623
Electrical Process, Formation of Mercury Films by an, 677
Electrical Tools for Shipbuilding, 536, 590
Electrical Tramway, Generation Plant, 622
Electrical Waves in Wires, Effect of Capacity on Stationary, 520
Electrically Driven High-Speed Pumps, 621
Electrically Driven Ploughing Tackle, 814
Electrically Welded Steel Barrels, 789
Electricity from Carbon, 413
Electricity through Gases, Passage of, 153
Electricity ? What is, 807
Electro-Thermal Properties of some Liquid Metals, 327
Electrolytic Copper Refining, 24, 690
Elevator, Duckham's Pneumatic Grain, 151. See LETTERS, 218, 252
Elevators, Pneumatic Grain, 776, 797
Ellington, Mr. E. B., on Water-Power Transmission, 728. See 710
Elliott, D., on Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 64
Elliott, Professor A. C., on Acceleration Diagram for Oscillating Engine, 665
Elliptical Functions, 229
Embabeh Swing Bridge Contract, 448
"Empire " and " Liberty," Niger Steamers, 340
Employers' Liability, 683
Employers' Liability, New Point, 351
Engine and Boiler Attendants, Certification Bill, 17. See LETTERS, 321
Engine and Boiler Stop Valve, 454
Engine Breakdown, II.M. Destroyer " Star," 616. See LETTERS
Engines for Cable Haulage (Yates and Thom, Blackburn), 37, 95
Engines, Compound, and Alternator (Hick, Hargreaves, and Co.), 5
Engine, Compound Electric Light (Allen, Bedford), 74
Engine, Conlies, and Air Compressor (IngersollSergeant Company); 132
Engine Economy, Steam, 735, 758
Engine Governors, 136
Engines, Gas and Oil, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 855
Engines, High-Pressure Steam, 68
Engines, High-Speed, 421
Engines of H.M. Destroyers " Swordfish" and "Spitfire " (Bellies), 73
Engines, Japanese Battleship " Yashima" (Humphrys, Tennant), 239, 241, 277
Engines, Marine, Bearings of, 29
Engines, Mounting, on Springs, 743, 762. See LETTERS
Engines, Niger Stern-Wheel Steamer (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 340
Engine, Oil and Gas, 100
Engines, Oil, Self-Igniting (Clayton and Shuttleworth), 816
Engine, Oscillating, Acceleration Diagram, 665
Engine, Quadruple-Expansion Mill (Fleming and Ferguson, Limited), 12
Engine Shed at Crewe, 277, 311
Engines, Short-Stroke Steam, 157, 188. See LETTERS, 184, 218, 321, 353, 449, 486
Engines, Stationary, Breakdowns of, 28, 60, 90
Engine, Steam, Accelerity Diagram, 509, 527
Engine Telegraph, Fiske's, and Speed and Direction Indicator, 206
Engine Tests, Steam, 464
Engine Tests, Uniformity, 738
Engine Trials, Superheated Steam, 121
Engines, Triple-Expansion Paddle-Wheel (Inglis), 71
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Spanish Destroyers (Clydebank Company, Limited), 12
Engine, " Universal," and Inductor Alternator (Brush Company), 157, 188, 321
Engines and Vibration in Ships, 258. See LETTERS, 274, 415, 449
Engines and Water-Tube Boilers of H.M.S. "Pelorus" (Clydebank Company), 385
Engineers' Dispute, 315, 549
Engineers, Education of, 855
Engineer in the Navy, 518, 599. See Erratum, 41
Engineers of the Royal Naval Reserve, 383
Engineers' School (Seafield, Crofton), 284
Engineering Diamond Jubilee Memorial, 790
Engineering, Marine, in 1896, 6, 55, 82, 109, 485
Engineering Profession, Organisation of the, 83, 415, 486, 555, 618
Engineering, United States Naval, 54
Engineering Works, Locality for, 11
English Language, Compendium of, 809
English Shipbuilding, 6, 9, 82, 485. See 109
Equilibrium System of Feeding Electric Railways, 80
Essen Theatre Stage, 127
Evaporation in Reservoirs, 743
Ewing, Professor Jas. A., on Refrigeration, 214 47, 349, 283. See LETTERS
Excavators. See Chicago Canal
Excavator, Bucyrus, 16',:
Excavator, Marion, 705
Excavator, Osgood's Steam, 235
Excavator, Victor, 668
Exhibitions of 1896, 116
Exhibition, Brussels, 550, 582, 615, 649, 689, 721, 51, 787, 788, 824, 858
Exhibition, Building Trades, 413
Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901, 147
Exhibition, Paris, 3, 229, 467
Exhibition, Technical Education, 753
Exhibition, Victorian Era, 719
Exhibition, Yachting and Fisheries, 180, 250, 687
Expanded Metal in Fire-Proof Floors, 118
Expansion of Glass, 267
Expansion of Steel, Determination of, 267
Experiments, Model, 771, 794
Experiments, Model, in Ship Design, 713
Explosion. See Boiler Explosions
Explosives, Manufacture of, 394
Export Guides, 449
Extensometers, Professor Ewing's, 720

Factories, Commercial Organisation of, 67
Factory Act and India-Rubber Works, 616
"Fair Wage" and the Dockyards, 143
Fan v. Chimney Ventilation, 369
Fans, Ventilator, 604
Fatigue of Iron and Steel, Microscopic Observations, 265, 499, 840. See 850
February Weather, 350
Feed Check Valves and Blow-Off Cocks (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden, Limited), 25, 45
Feed Heater System, Lundkvist's, 153, 189
Feed, Salt, for Water-Tube Boilers, 379
Feed Water, Purification of, 336
Feeder Railways, 734, 763
Fens, Lincolnshire, Reclamation and Drainage Works, 129
Fighting Value of the Older Ironclads if ReArmed, 504, 525
Filtration and Microbes, Water, 742
Fire Engine Stations, Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, 533
Fire at the Paris Bazaar, 648
Fire Prevention in Theatres, 331, 392
Fire Protection in Europe, 810
Fire-Resisting Curtains, 331, 392, 461, 533
Fire Risks of Public Halls, 618
Fire, Safety from, 331, 392, 461, 533
Fireproof Floors, Expanded Metal in, 118
Fireproofing Materials, 135
Fisheries and Yachting Exhibition, 250, 687
Fiske's Engine Telegraph and Speed and Direction Recorder, 206
Fitzgerald, Rear - Admiral, on Water-Tube Boilers, 483, 489, 492
Fletcher, The Late Mr. Lavington E., 859
Floors, Expanded Metal in Fireproof, 118
Flow in Channels, Uniform, 21
Flying Cellular Kites, 32
"Flying Fish," H.M. Destroyer (Palmers), 320
Focal Length, New Method of Determining, 830
Forde, The Late Mr. H. C., 287
Foreign Competition in Steel Trade, 657, 695
Foreign Meetings of Technical Societies, 749
Foreign Trade, 17, 178
Formula) of Interpolation, 398
Forth Bridge Taxes, 485
Fortifications in Britain, 177
Foundry, Chemistry in the, 553
Foundry Miximres, Regulating, 328
Four-Crank Triples, 150
Fowler, Mr. A. F., on Improvement of Rivers, 74, 795
Fractures of Shafts, 60. See 26, 90
France, Coal and Iron in, 543
Freights, Steel, 695
French Boilers, 263. See LETTERS, Niclausse Boiler
French Dockyards and Private Contractors, 250
French Shipping Bounties, 483
French Ships " Jaureguiberry " and " Carnot,' 50
French Trade, British Consul and, 518
Friction Clutch, Coil, 606
Froude's Ship Model Experimental System, 713
Frozen Meat Stores, 216
" Fuji," Japanese Battleship, 311. See " Irashima "
Furnace Charging Machinery, Steel, 640, 658, 69
Furnace, Horsfall Refuse, 122, 146
Furnace Plant, Duquesne, 469, 538
Furnace, Weardale, 637, 863
" Furor," Spanish Destroyer (Clydebank Company, Limited), 12

Galvanometers, Daprez-D'Arsonval, SOO
Gantry Crane, 200-Ft. (Wellman-Leaver Engineering Company), 101
Garbage Disposal, 146
Garnier's Section for Tool Steel, 322
Gas Calorimeter, Dowson's, 720
Gas, Carburetted Water, 742, 761
Gas Engines at Royal Agricultural Show, 855
Gas Flow through Pipes, 361, 419
Gas Industry, Present Position, 856
Gas and Oil Engine, 100
Gas Power, 752, 761
Gas Producer, Mond, 419
Gas Traction on Tramways, 286, 720
Gas Transmission of Power, 710, 727, 728, 729
Gauge Glasses, Hints about Packing, 653
Gauge, Wallach's Safety Boiler, 119
Gauss's Method of Determining Gravitation Constant, 267
Gear, Bevel and Worm, 403, 438, 619
Generation of Electrical Energy for Tramways, 22
Geometry of Stability, The, 509, 559
Geography of Communication, 688
German Competition, 144, 178, 217, 844
German Mechanics, Education of, 212
Germany, Telephones in, 116
Gibson, Mr. J. H., on Bevel and Worm Gear, 403, 38, 619
Glasgow Electric Traction, 652
Glasgow Exhibition, 1901, 147
Glasgow Subway, See Cable, &c.
Glasgow Technical College, 281
Glass, Expansion of, 267
Glass Fibres and Quartz, Torsion of, 267
Glass, Iridescent, 415
Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway, 321, 352
Governments and Co-operative Production, 821. See 211
Governors, Engine, 136
Grab Buckets, 848
Grain Elevator, Duckham's Pneumatic, 151. See LETTERS, 218, 252
Grain Elevators, Pneumatic, 776, 797
Gravehals Tunnel, 554
Gravitation, Constant of, 267
Gravitation Stamp Mills for Quartz Crushing, 24, 661. See LETTERS
Gray, Mr. Macfarlane, on the Aceelerity Diagram of the Steam Engine, 509, 527
Gray, Mr. Macfarlane, on the Geometry of Stability, 509, 559
Grease, Separation from Exhaust Steam, 336
Great Eastern Railway Works, 290
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 863
Grel Valve, 781
Grinding, Crushing, and Separating. Machinery (Johnson, Leeds), 371
Grinding, Side, Machine (Luke and Spencer), 54
Gripper, Cable Car, 304
Guides, Export, 449
Guns Afloat, Stevens Battery, 417
Gun, Automatic Machine, 555
Gun, Ballistic Recording Apparatus, 686
Gun, Hotchkiss Automatic, 520, 544. See LETTER
Gun Jacket, To Remove Shrunken, 55
Gun Turrets Worked by Pneumatic Pressure, 539
Gyrometers, 303
Gyrostat v. Stereoscope. See Limns, Technical Education

Hailstorm (April 27, 1897), 815
Hamlyn's Collapsible Boat Chocks, 373
Harbours, Concrete in, 707, 833
Harbour Works, South African, 55
Hard Steel, 58
Hargrave, Mr. Lawrence, on Cellular Kites, 32
Hartlepool Shipbuilding, 70, 82, 485
Haulage, Cable, Machinery (Yates and Thom), 37, 5
Haulage of Canal Boats, 583, 591, 602, 627, 832. See LETTERS, and Negative Slip, 755
Haze and Transparency in Air, 252
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, on Steel Furnace Charging Machinery, 640, 658, 669
Hearing, the Difference of Phase by the Two Ears, 763
Heat of Iron, Specific, 730
Heat Transmission through Metallic Plates, 31, 9
Heating, Circulation of Steam for, 370
Heating and Drying Apparatus, Robinson, 46
Heating Mains, Hot Water, 339
Heating, Steam, for Railway Trains, 88
Heating and Ventilating Engineers, American Society of:
Presidential Address, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 336
Separation of Grease and Oil from Exhaust Steam, by Mr. William J. Baldwin, 336
Method of Proportioning Direct Radiation, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 336
Determining the Volume of Air passing through a Register per Minute, by Professor J. H. Kinealy, 337
Arrangement of Mains in Hot Water Heating Apparatus, by Mr. W. M. Mackay, 339
Relative Effbiency in Ventilating by a Chimney and by a Fan, by Professor Carpenter, 869
Circulation of Steam for Heating Purposes at or Below the Pressure of the Atmosphere, by Mr. R. P. Bolton, 370
Office-Bearers, 371
Helicoidal Tunnels, Laving out, 11
Hertz Wave Transmission, 685, 823
High-Pressure Steam, 68
Highland Railway Feud, 443, 477
Himalayan Railway, Darjeeling, 569
Hire Purchase, Machinery on, 11, 118
H.M. Battleships v. Destroyers, 785
H.M. Battleship " Jupiter," Steaming Trials (Clydebank Company), 351
H.M. Cruiser Isis " (London and Glasgow Company), 321
H.M. Cruiser " Niobe " (Barrow), 277, 309
H.M. Cruiser " Pegasus " (Palmers), 320
H.H. Cruiser " Pelorus " (Clydebank Co.), 385
H.M. Cruiser " Terrible" Trials (Clydebank Company), 83, 109, 483, 489, 492. See LETTERS, Terrible," &c.
H.M. Destroyers v. Battleships, 785
H.M. Destroyers " Flying Fish," " Star," and "Whiting" (Palmers), 320
H.M. Destroyer " Star," Accident to (Palmers), 16. See LETTERS
H.M. Dockyard Labour Conditions, 143
H. M. Gunboat " Spanker," Du Temple WaterTube Boiler, 789
H.M.S. " Powerful " Trials, 483, 489, 492
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers "Swordfish" and "Spitfire " Engines (Belliss), 73
Hofburg Theatre, Vienna, Iron Curtain, 461
Hoisting Engine for Lidgerwood Conveyor, 271
Holden's Oil Fuel Locomotives, 738, 745
Hollis, Mr. H. W., on the Weardale Furnace, 863. See 637
Holt's System of Gas Tramway Traction, 720
Homogeneous Structure of Crystals, 382
Hopkinson, Dr. J., on the Transmission of Power, 29. See 710
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Machine - Moulded Wheels, 65, 125, 195, 333, 395, 429, 563, 631, 68
Horseless Carriage. See Cars, Motor
Horsfall Refuse Furnace, 122, 146
Hose Coupling, Storz, 533
Hose-Holder, Moorman, 533
Hot Water Heating Mains, 339
Hotchkiss Automatic Gun, 520, 544. See LEtters,
House Sanitation, 743
Hulett-McMyler Conveyors, 848
Hulett-McMyler Single-Boom Derrick, 569
Hulse, The Late Mr. W. W., 414
Humber Shipbuilding, 8, 82
Hungary Steel Production, 721
Hunt, The Late Mr. Wm., 448
Hydraulic Dredge, Vivian, 770
Hydraulic Electric Power, Bellegarde, 633, 701
Hydraulic Forging, 695
Hydraulic Machinery for Swing Bridge for Railway, 733, 803
Hydraulic Transmission of Power, 710, 727, 728, 29
Hydraulics, Uniform Flow of Water, 21
Hygiene and Demography at Budapest, 1894, Congress, 11
Hysteresis Loss in Straight Iron Strips, Determining Magnetic, 830

Ice Machines, 214, 216, 247, 283, 349. See LETTERS
Ice Production, Cost of, 41.
Imperial Institute, 22
India-Rubber Works and the Factory Act, 616
Indian Patents, 321
Indian Railways, 863
Indicator and its Practical Working, 22
Induced Draught Dry-Back Boiler (Fraser, Millwall), 474
Induction Telegraphy, Effect of Sea-Water on, 30
Induction Telegraphy without Wires, 830
Inductor Alternator, " Universal" Engine and (Brush Company), 157, 188
Industrial Affairs in Japan, 718
Industrial Education in Glasgow, 281
Industrial Notes, 25, 59, 89, 119, 151, 185, 219, 57, 289, 824, 355, 386, 420, 451, 487, 524, 557, 87, 621, 655, 693, 725, 756, 793, 829, 860
Industrial Outlook, 82
Industrial Troubles in Japan, 381
Ingersoll-Sergeant Channelling Machine, 132
Inglis's Triple-Expansion Paddle-Wheel Engines, 71
Ingrey's Coal-Weighing and Recording Machine, 73
Inland Navigation, Value and Scope of, 771, 790, 97
Inspection and Registration of Boilers, 327
Institute of Technology, Stevens, 391
Institution of Civil Engineers, 555. See Civil Engineers
Institutions, Organisation of Engineering, 383, 15, 486, 555, 618
Insulation, Railroad, 355
International Company Law, 216
Interpolation, Formula), 398
Inventions and Patents, 485
Inverness, Railways to, 443, 477
Ireland Shipbuilding, 55, 82, 485
Iridescent Glass, 415
Irish Mail Service, 553, 586
Iron, Cast, Aluminium in, 585
Iron Castings, Deformation in, 71
Iron Castings, Some Old, 568. See LETTERS, 619
Iron Curtains, 331, 392, 461, 588
Iron, Effect of Temperature on the Magnetic and Electric Properties of, 677
Iron Fatigue, Microscopic Observations, 285, 499, 40. See 850
Iron in France, 543
Iron Industry of South Russia, 554
Iron, Magnetic Tests of, 300
Iron Production and Machining in the States, 40
Iron, Rustless Coatings, 101
Iron, Specific Heat of, 730
Iron and Steel Institute :
Sir David and Lady Dale's Reception, 637
Report of the Council, 637
International Association for Testing Iron and Steel, 637
New President (Mr. E. P. Martin), 637
Bessemer Medal (Sir Frederick Abel), 637
President's Address (United States Trade Competition), 637, 657, 695
Microscope Accessories for Metallographers, by Mr. John E. Stead, 637, 850
The Weardale Furnace, by Mr. H. W. Hollis, 37, 863
On the Permeability of Steelmaking Crucibles, by Messrs. J. 0. Arnold and F. K. Knowles, 40, 641
Annual Dinner, 640
On Charging Open-Hearth Furnaces by Machinery, by Mr. Jeremiah Head, 640, 658, 69
On the Practice of the Combined Open-Hearth Process of Bertrand and Thiel, by Mr. E. Bertrand, 641, 672, 696
On Malleable Cast-Iron, by Mr. G. P. Royston, 41
Carbon Changes in Malleable Cast-Iron, by Mr. G. P. Royston, 641
On the Agricultural Value of Sulphate of Ammonia from Blast-Furnaces, by Mr. F. J. R.
Carulla, 611, 698
On the Specific Heat of Iron, by Professor W. N. Hartley, 641, 730
On the Effect of Phosphorus on Cold Shortness, by Baron Hanns Juptner von Jonstorff, 11
On the Determination of Hardening and Carbide Carbon, by Hanns Juptner von Jonstorff, 641
On Central Blast Cupolas, by Mr. T. D. West, 41
Iron and Steel Institute Foreign Meetings, 749
Iron and Steel Production in Britain, 381
Iron and Steel Testing, International Association, 637
Iron, Tests of Cast, 187
Ironclads, Re-Arming Older, 504, 525
Irrigation, Diversion .of the Periyar, 137
" Isis," H.M.S. (London and Glasgow Co.), 321
Isopentane, Isothermals of, 764
Isothermals of Isopentane, 761

Jackets, Steam Pressures in, 150
James Watt Lecture by Mr. W. H. Preece, 245, 25
January Weather, 179
Japan and Australian Trade, 517
Japan, Civil Engineering Prospects in, 146
Japan Commerce and Industry, 580
Japan, Economic Aspects, 786
Japan Education, 246, 285
Japan, Industrial Affairs in, 381, 718
Japan Industrial and Commercial Conditions, 14
Japan, Korea, and Russia, 722
Japan to London Railway, 649
Japan,Protection of Patents and Trade Marks, 2, 8
Japan Shipping, 117
Japan Shipping and Naval Matters, 444, 519, 822
Japan Spinning, 286
Japan Steamship Subsidies, 444, 519
Japan Steelmaking, 53, 652
Japan Steelmaking Experiments, 53
Japan, Trusts in, 551
Japan and United States, 552
Japan, Yokohama Chamber of Commerce, 750
Japanese Armament Expansion Programme, 448
Japanese Battleship " Fuji," 341. See also Yashinta
Japanese Battleship (New), Thames Iron Works, 36
Japanese Battleship " Yashima," (Armstrong, Elswick), 170. See 341
Japanese Battleship " Yashima„" Machinery (Humphrys, Tennant, and Co.), 239, 277. See 170, 341
Japanese Currency and Industry, 686
Japanese Finance, 651
Japanese Industry, United States Opinion, 113
Japanese Kobe Water Works, 859
Japanese Pacific Cable, Proposed, 320
Japanese Steamship Company, 444, 519, 822
"Jaureguiberry," 252
"Jaureguiberry " and " Carnot," French Battleships, 250
Johnson, Mr. S. W., on Piston Valves for Locomotives, 775, 798
Joiners, Ship, on Thames, 216
Joint for Metal Tubing, Bayonet Catch, 557
Jones-Lovell Land Dredger, 752
Jungfrau Railway, 75
"Jupiter," Steaming Trials H.M.S. (Clydebank Company), 351
Jute and Spontaneous Combustion, 431

"Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse " Air Pumps, 44. See Unitas, 75
Kennedy-Cowper Stoves for Blast Furnaces, 538
Kermode's Steering Arrangement. See Rapsoit's Slide, &e.
Key, A New Shaft and Wheel, 149
Keys, Roller, for Shaft Pulleys, &c. (New Southgate Company, Limited), 45
Kimberley Diamond Mining, 286
King Ditching Machine, 705
Kirkaldy, The Late Mr. David, 148
Kite, Cellular, 32
Kites for Meteorological Observation, 643
Knowles, Mr. F. K., on Permeability of Crucibles, 40, 641
Kobe Water Works, 859
Kodolitsch, Herr F. von, on Electrical Tools, 30, 590
Korea and China, Affairs in, 583
Korea, Japan, and Russia, 722
Korea Trade, 214
Krieger Electric Road Carriage, 250
Kyle, Mr. John, on Concrete in Marine Works, 33. See 707

Laboratory, Work of Reichsanstalt, 266, 300
Labour Cost of Iron and Steel, 695
Labour in H.M. Dockyards, &c., 143
Labour's Share of Profits, 81
Lake Basin Map, 96
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, 380
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, 597, 67, 733, 803, 839
Land Dredger, Jones-Lovell, 752
Lathe for Bicycle Work, Heavy Capstan (Taylor and Hattersley), 642. See _Erratum, 681
Launches and Trial Trips, 30, 62, 88, 117, 141, 92, 256, 296, 321, 358, 383, 419, 456, 494, 522, 60, 594, 620, 654, 677, 724, 764, 800, 836, 862
Launching Warships, 277, 309
Laval Steam Turbine, 445
Law and Allocation of Underground Water, 835
Leather Degreasing Machine, 400
Legislation, Traffic, 515
Letters to the Editor, 10, 58, 75, 118, 149, 182, 17, 251, 274, 321, 352, 383, 415, 449, 486, 521, 55, 586, 618, 653, 690, 754, 790, 828
Level Crossings, Protection of, 161
Lewes, Professor Vivian, on Acetylene, 509, 528
Li Hung Chang's Mission, Sequel to, 249
Liability, Employers', for Chip from Chisel, 351
Lidgerwood Cableway Conveyor, 271
Lifeboat Chocks, Hamlyn's, 373
Lift Bridge, Temporary (Rock Island), 437, 523
Lifts and Cranes, Electric, 449
Light Railways, 264, 647, 734, 763
Light Railway, Barsi, 106, 275
Light Railways for the Cape, 581
Light Railway and Rolling Stock, Barsi (Leeds Forge Company), 106. See 275
Light Railway Trolley, Meynell's (Scriven, Leeds), 85
Lighthouses, Acetylene for, 509, 528
Lighting, Bolton Electric Plant, 5
Lighting Cars and Subway, 304
Limited Liability Act, Amendment, 282
Limited Liability Act and Wages, 81
Lincolnshire Reclamation and Drainage Work, 29
Linotype Machinery, 858
Liquefaction of Gases. See Refrigeration
Liquid Coherers and Mobile Conductors, 463
Literature, 21, 67,100, 129, 181, 227, 263, 308, 394 27, 461, 564, 598, 632, 806, 842
Lloyd's Return of Shipwrecks, 117
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 485
Loads and Stresses on Bridges, Standardising, 71, 795
Locality for Engineering Works, 11
Locomotive, Compound, " Mastodon," 606
Locomotive with Corliss Valve Gear, 291. See LETTERS, 384
Locomotive, Experiments on Compound, 828
Locomotive, Express Compound, with Auxiliary Gear, 691
Locomotive, Great Western. See Railways, State v. Private
Locomotive, Metropolitan Railway, 323
Locomotives, Oil Fuel, 738, 745
Locomotive Piston Valves, 775, 798
Locomotive, " Rocket," 653, 690, 7o4, 791, 828
Locomotive Shed at Crewe, 277, 311
Locomotive Tests, 464
London County Council and Water Department, 79, 717
London Deep Tunnel Railways, 480
London Dock Cold Storage, 216
London to Far East by Railway, 649
London, Main Drainage of, 288
London and North-Western Permanent Way, 06, 727
London Railways, Greater, 220
London Technical Education Scholarships, 651
London Theatres and Iron Curtains, 461
London Water Supply, 249, 377
Longridge, Mr. Michael, on Breakdowns of Stationary Engines, 26, 60, 90
Looking Backward and Forward, 217
Luhrig Process, Washing Coal, 103
Lummer Polarimeter, The Contrast, 301
Lundkvist's Feed Heater, 153, 189
Lyall's Tubular and Water-Tube Boiler, 608

MacAlpine, Mr. John H., on Prevention of Vibration in Ships, 258. See Limns
McMyler-Hulett Conveyors, 848
Machine Cutting of Accurate Bevel and Worm Gears, 619
Machine Gun, Automatic, 555
Machine Moulded Wheels, 65, 125, 195, 333, 395, 29, 563, 631, 768
Machine Tools for Shipbuilding, Electrical, 536, 90
Machine Working and Trades Unions, 549
Machinery on Hire Purchase, 11, 118
Machinery on Springs, Mounting, 790
Machinery for Steel Furnace Charging, 640, 658, 69
Machinery and Trade Unions, 315
Machinery, Want of Uniformity in Rotating, 304
Madras Railway, 863
Magnetic Hysteresis Loss in Straight Iron Strips, Determining, 830
Magnetic Qualities of Iron, Effect of Temperature on, 677
Magnetic Tests of Iron and Steel, 300
Mallock, Mr. A., on Model Experiments, 771, 94
Management, Works, 845
Manchester Show; Royal Agricultural Society, 55
Mandrils, Lathe, Roller Keys for (New Southgate Company, Limited), 45
Manganese Compounds in Electric Accumulators, 85
Manning in the Navy, 316, 347, 378, 410
Mansergh, Mr. James, on the Law and Allocation of Underground Water, 835
March Weather, 481
Marine Barometer, Tests for, 824
Marine Engineering in 1896, 6, 55, 82, 109, 485
Marion Excavator, 705
Markwick's Rice Mortar, 139
Marshall, Mr. W. B., on Roller Bearings, 776
Marten, Mr. E. D., on Value and Scope of Canals, 71, 790, 797
Martin, Mr. Arthur J., on Flow of Gas and Steam through Pipes, 861. See Erratum, 419
Masonry an i Brickwork, 20
"Mastodon " Locomotive, Compound, 606
Maxim Hard Steel, 53
Maxim Motor Company, 217, 252
Maxim Testing Apparatus for Smokeless Powder, 51
May Weather, 787
"Mayflower," Steam Yacht (Clydebank Company), 826
Measurement of Direct Radiation, 336
Measurement of Power, Watt and the, 325. See 15
Measurement of Temperature (High and Low), 67
Measuring Instrument, Professor Ewing's, 721
Measuring Stellar Photographs, Apparatus, Kapteyn's, 487
Mechanical Computers, 104
Mechanical Contrivances at Pompeii, 149
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of:
New York Meeting, 40
President's Address (Mr. John Fritz), 40
Annual Report, 40
The Early History of the Bessemer Process, by Sir Henry Bessemer, 41
Ancient Pompeiian Boilers, by W. T. Bonner, 1
Method of Determining the Work Done Daily by a Refrigerating Plant and its Cost, by Francis H. Boyer, 41
The Moment of Resistance, by Professor C. V. Kerr, 41
Promise and Potency of High-Pressure Steam, by Dr. R. N. Thurston, 68
Experimental Investigation of the Cutting of Bevel Gears with Rotary Cutters, by Messrs. F. R. Jones and Arthur L. Goddard, 70
Calibrating a Worthington Meter, by John A. Laird, 70
Contraction and Deformation of Iron Castings in Cooling from the Fluid to the Solid State, by Francis Schuman, 71 00-Ft. Gantry Crane, by Mr. John W. Leaver, 01
The Washing of Bituminous Coal by the Luhrig Process, by Mr. J. V. Schaefer, 103
Friction Horse-Power in Factories, by C. H. Benjamin, 101
Some Special Forms of Mechanical Computers, by Mr. F. A. Halsey, 104
Rustless Coatings for Iron and Steel, by Mr. M. P. Wood, 101
A Method of Determining Selling Prices, by Mr. H. M. Lane, 135
Report of Committee on Fireproofing Materials, by Mr. H. de B. Parsons, 135
The Efficiency of the Boiler Grate, by W. W. Christie, 135
The Efficiency of Boiler Heating Surface, by Mr. R. S. Hale, 135
Paper Friction Wheels, by Mr. F. M. Goss, 135
Steam Engine Governors, by Mr. F. H. Ball, 36
The Metric u. Duodecimal System, by G. W. Colles, 136
Aluminium Bronze Seamless Tubing, by Dr. Leonard Waldo, 136
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Breakdowns of Stationary Engines, by Mr. Michael Longridge, 26, 60, 90
Annual Report of Council, 196
President's Address, 196
Fourth Report of the Alloys Research Committee, by Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, 97, 220, 253
Partially Immersed Screw Propellers for Canal Boats ; and the Influence of Section of. Waterway, by Mr. Henry Barcroft, 200, 293
Mechanical Propulsion on Canals, by Mr. Leslie S. Robinson, 583, 591, 602, 627, 832.
See LETTERS. See LETTER, Negative Slip Experiments on Propeller Ventilating Fans and upon the Electric Motor Driving Them, by Mr. W. G. Walker,504
Mechanical Furnace Carging, 640, 658, 669
Mechanical Propulsion in Canals, 583, 591, 602, 27, 832. See LETTERS, and Negative Slip, 755
Mechanical Propulsion in Canals, 653
Mechanical Refrigeration, 214, 216, 247, 349, 283. See Limns, 383, 415, 486
Mechanics of the Body, 11
Medal, Cheltenham and Gloucester, 321
Memorial, National Engineering, of Diamond Jubilee, 790
Mercury Films formed by an Electrical Process, 77
Mersey Pilot Steamers (Murdoch and Murray, Port Glasgow), 48
Mersey Shipbuilding, 82
Messent, The Late Philip John, 519
Metal, Changes Due to Strain on, 468
Metal Price Diagram, 24, 184, 322, 460, 620, 756
Metallic Structures, Painting, 650
Metallographers, Microscop3 Accessories, 637, 0
Metallurgical Industry, British, 381
Metals, Thermo-Electric Properties of Some Liquid, 827
Meteorological Society, Royal :
Shade Temperature, by the President (Mr. E. Mawley), 105
Phenological Observations in 1896 (Report), 52
Haze and Transparency, by Hon. Rollo Russell, 52
Exhibition, 375
The Relation between Cold Periods and Anticyclonic Conditions of Weather in England' during the Winter, by Mr. W. H. Dines, 543
Kites for Meteorological Observation, by Mr. W. Lawrence Rotoh, 543
Suggestions of Sunspot Influence on the Weather of Western Europe, by Mr. A. B. MacDowall, 543
Report, 673
On the Mean Monthly Temperature of the British Isles, by Mr. R. H. Scott, 677
On the Rainfall of Dominica, West Indies, by Mr. C. V. Bellamy, 677
The Non-Instrumental Meteorology of London, 713-1896, by Mr. R. C. Mossman, 815
Hailstorm, South-West London, on April 27, 897, by Mr. C. Harding, 815
Meteorology of London, The Non-Instrumental, 15
Meter, Bernay's Water, 721
Meter, Calibrating a Worthington, 71
Metric System, 136, 275
Metric System in Engineering, 770, 799
Metropolitan. See London
Metropolitan Railway Locomotive, i 323
Mexico, United States Enterprise n, 518
Meynell's Trolley for Light Railways (Striven, Leeds), 185
Michaelis, Dr. Win., on Behaviour of Cement in Sea-Water, 457, 495, 559. See LETTERS
Microbes in Water, 742
Micrometers, Theft of, 619
Microphotography, 685
Microscope Accessories for Metallographers, 637, 50
Microscopic Observations on Fatigue in Iron and Steel, 265, 499, 840. See 637, 850
Military Works, 177
Mill Engines, High-Speed, 421
Mill Engine, Quadruple-Expansion (Fleming and Ferguson, Limited), 12
Mills, Ore Crushing, 791
Mills, Silk, and Machinery in China, 275
Milling Machine for Test-Pieces (Riehle, Philadelphia), 274
Mineral Industry, 52
Mines, Pumping in, 712, 729
Mining, 711
Mining at Great Depths. 712
Mirrors, Small, Used with Paraffin Lamp and Scale, 260
Miscellanea, 15, 49, 79, 105, 141, 175, 209, 213, 88, 313, 315, 375, 407, 450, 477, 513, 547, 577, 11, 645, 681, 715, 755, 792, 819, 862
Mississippi Bridge, Rock Island, 437, 523
Model Experiments, 771, 791
Model Experiments in Ship Design, 713
Model Experiments, Use of Mean Water Line in Design, 508, 527
Model Tests to Ascertain Ship Stability, 475, 485
Moment of Resistance, 41
Moncrieff, Mr. J. M., on Standardising Loads and Stresses on Bridges, 771, 795
Mond Gas Producer, 419
Monier System of Construction, 158
Monoline Machinery, 858
Monorail System, Behr, 788, 815, 849
Monticolo Oyclesograph or Curve Tracer, 791
Moorman Hose-Holder, 533
Mordey Inductor Alternator (Brush Co.), 157, 88
Morison, Mr. D. B., on Gravitation Stamp Mills for Quartz Crushing, 624, 661. See LETTERS
Mortars, Markwick's Rice, 139
Motor Cars. See Cars, Motor
Motor Dust Carts, 148
Motor, Peugeot Petroleum, 676
Moulded Wheels, Machine, 65, 125, 195, 333, 395, 29, 563, 631, 768
Mounting Engines on Springs, 743, 762. See LETTERS, 790
Movement of Animals, &c., 21
Moving Bridge over River Dee, 781. See LETTER, 28
Much Wenlock Boiler Explosion, 418
Munich Electric Turntable Stage, 201, 267
Municipal Finance, 449
Museum, Railway, 217
Mussy Viaduct, Paris, Lyons, &3., Railway, 575

Natal Railways, &c., 543
National Engineering Diamond Jubilee Memorial, 90
Naval Annual, 632, 806. See LETTER, Welin's Breech Screw, 755
Naval Architects', Meetings Abroad, 749
Naval Architects, Institution of : 13, 749
Report of the Council, 482
Address by the Chairman, the Earl of Hopetoun,G.C.M.G., 482
Recent of the Cruisers " Powerful " and "Terrible," by Sir A. J. Durston, K.C.B., 83, 492
Water-Tube Boilers in Warships, by RearAdmiral C. C. P. Fitzgerald, 483, 489
A Mechanical Method of Ascertaining the Stability of Ships, by Mr. A. G. Ramage, 475, 85
Annual Dinner, 485
On the Fighting Value of Certain of the Older Ironclads if Re-Armed, by Captain Lord Charles Beresford, C.B., 504, 525
The Application of the Compound Steam Turbine to the Purpose of Marine Propulsion, by the Hon. Charles Parsons, 508, 526. See LETTER, 555
On the Use of the Mean Water-Line in Designing the Lines of Ships, by Mr. A. G. Ramage, 08, 527
The Accelerity Diagram of the Steam Engine, by Mr. J. Macfarlane Gray, 509, 527
Note on the Geometry of Stability, by Mr. J. Macfarlane Gray, 509, 559
Acetylene and its Probable Future Afloat, by Professor Vivian B. Lewes, 509, 528
Nickel Steel as an Improved Material for Boiler Shell-Plates and Forgings, by Mr. William Beardmore, 634, 589
Application of Electrical Transmission of Power in Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding, by Herr F. von Kodolitsch, 536, 590
Naval Boilers, 483, 489, 492
Naval Defence Works, 177
Naval Engineer and the Command of the Sea, 99. See Erratum, 641
Naval Engineering, United States, 54
Naval Expenditure, Japan's, 448
* Naval Pocket-Books, British, French, and Italian, 27
Naval Reserve, Engineers of the Royal, 383
Naval and Shipping Matters, Japan, 822
Navvies. See Excavators
Navvy, Osgood's Steam, 235
Navy Contractors on both Sides of Atlantic, 148
Navy, Engineers in the, 518
Navy Estimates, 316, 347, 378, 410
Negative Slip, 755
Newark Case regarding Allocation of Underground Water, 835
Nicaragua Canal, 554
Nickel Steel for Ships, 776
Nickel Steel, 534, 589
Nickel Steel Tests, 686
Nickel Stress Telephone, 520
Nickel Wire, Changes Due to Strain on, 469
Niclausse Boiler, 352
Niger Stern-Wheel Steamers (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden, Limited), 340
Night Soil, Treatment of, 689
Nijni-Novgorod Exhibition, 116
" Niobe," Launch of H.M.S. (Barrow), 278, 309
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 117, 444, 822
Normand Water - Tube Boilers of H M.S. "Pelorus" (Clydebank Company), 385
North-German Lloyd Steamer " Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse," Air Pumps, 44. See Lzrreas, 75
Northern Pacific Railway Compound " Mastodon" Locomotive, 606
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 15, 49, 78, 100, 140, 174, 208, 242, 279, 312,
1, 374, 406, 441, 476, 513, 546, 576, 610, 644, 24, 747, 680, 783, 818, 853
Notes from the North, 14, 48, 78, 108, 140, 174, 08, 242, 278, 312, 353, 374, 406, 440, 476, 512, 46, 576, 610, 644, 680, 723, 746, 782, 818, 852
Notes from the South-West, 14, 49, 78, 109, 140, 74, 209, 243, 279, 313, 354, 374, 407, 441, 477, 13, 577, 611, 645, 681, 724, 747, 783, 819, 46, 53
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 48, 77, 109, 139, 76, 208, 242, 279, 312, 354, 374, 406, 441, 476, 12, 546, 576, 610, 644, 680, 723, 747, 783, 818, 53
Notes from the United States, 22, 48, 77, 105, 39, 171, 242, 278, 322, 345, 373, 404, 440, 486, 55, 586, 607, 652, 680, 715, 754, 780, 815, 12, 61

Obituary:

Mr. Alfred Blechynden,_287
Sir John Brown, 23
Major Carr, 319
Mr. Francis William Crossley, 441
Mr. G. M. Cunningham, 440
Mr. Alexander Duthie, Aberdeen, 853
Mr E. M. G. Eddy, 860
Mr. Lavington E. Fletcher, 827, 850
Mr. Henry Charles Forde, 287
Mr. J. F. Hall, 747
Mr. W. W. Hulse, 414
Mr. William Hunt, 448
Mr. David Kirkaldy, 148
Mr. Philip John Messent, 477, 519
Mr. Joseph Proctor, 836
Mr. John Ramsbottom, 722, 751
Mr. Richard C. Rapier, 754
Mr. George B. Roberts, President Pennsylvania Railway, 171
Mr. James Spence, 175
Mr. J. C. Wall, 279
Observatory, Chamberlin, Denver, 702
Oil. See also Petroleum
Oil Engines. See Engines
Oil Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, 855
Oil Engines, Self-Igniting (Clayton and Shuttleworth), 816
Oil Fuel Locomotives, 738, 745
Oil and Gas Engine, 100
Oil Separation from Exhaust Steam, 336
Oils and Spontaneous Combustion, 431
Old Iron Castings, 568. See LETTEas, 619
Open-Hearth Process, Bertrand and Thiel Combined, 672, 696
Optical Exhibits at the Royal Soiree, 686
Ordnance. See Guns
Ore Crushing Mills, 791
Ore and Stone Crushing Machinery (Johnson, Leeds), 371
Osgood's Steam Navvy, 235
Output of Coal, 411
Overhead Conveyor, Lidgerwood, 271
Overhead Railways, 826
Oxidation of Carbon, 413

Pacific Japanese Cable, Propoied, 320
Packing Water-Gauge Glasses, 653
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Page Incline and Tip, 636
Pain, Mr. A. C., on Light Railways, 734, 763
Painting Metallic Structures, 6.:,0
Paper Friction Wheels, 135
Paraffin Lamp and Scale, Use of Small Mirror with, 260
Paris Bazaar, Fire at the, 648
Paris Exhibition, 3, 229, 467
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, Mussy Viaduct, 575
Paris-Orleans Railway, Locomotive with Corliss Valve, 291. See LErrzas
"Paris," Paddle Steamer with Triple-Expansion Engines (Inglis), 571
Parkes, Mr. 0. R., on Pneumatic Grain Elevators, 76, 797
Parliament and Navy, 347. See 317
Parsons, Hon. C. A., on Steam Turbine Ship Propulsion, 738. See 445, 608, 526, 75i. See LETTER, 555
Parsons, Hon. 0. A., on Turbo-Electric Generators, 745, 762
Parsons, Mr. R. C., on Automatic Dredging of Rivers and Bars, 774
Parsons' Steam Turbine, 445
Parsons' Steam Turbine in Torpedo-Boat, 445, 08, 526, 738, 758. See LErrilit, 555
Parsons' Turbo-Electric Generators, 745, 762
Parsons' Turbo-Generator Tests, 251
Partially Immersed Screw Propellers, 251
Passengers, Second-Class, 112. See LETTERS
Passengers, Transatlantic, 115
Patents, Indian, 321
Patents for Inventions, 485
Patent Law, United States, 579
Patent Record, 33, 63, 93, 123, 159, 193, 22.5, 261, 97, 329, 359, 389, 425, 459, 497, 531, 561, 595, 29, 663, 699, 731, 765, 801, 837, 868
Patents and Trade Marks in Japan, Protection, 2, 88
"Pegasus," H.M.S. (Palmers), 320
"Pelorus," Engines and Water-Tube Boilers of H.M.S. (Clydebank Company), 385
Pennsylvania Railroad. 414
Perception of the Difference of Phase by the Two Ears, 763
Periyar, Diversion of the, 137
Permanent Way, 218, 353
Permanent Way and Rails, 706, 727
Permeability of Crucibles, 640, 641
Petrifite (Building Trades), 413
Petroleum Engines. See Engines
Petroleum as Fuel for Locomotives, 738, 745
Petroleum Motor, Peugeot, 676
Peugeot Petroleum Motor, 676
Pfaff's Iron Curtain with Hydraulic Gear, 393
Phenological Observations, 252
Photographs, Apparatus for Measuring Stellar, Kapteyn's, 487
Photography of Ripples, 327
Photometry, 301
Physical Society :
Exhibition of Apparatus by Mr. Croft, 153
Passage of Electricity through Gases, by Mr. E. C. Baly, 153
Reports and Election of Officers, 260
On the Use of very Small Mirrors with Paraffin Lamp and Scale, by Mr. H. H. Hoffert, 260
The Photography of Ripples, by Mr. J. H. Vincent, 327
The Thermo-Electric Properties of some Liquid Metals, by Mr. Becket Burnie, 327
A Mechanical Cause of Homogeneity of Structure and Symmeti y Geometrically Investigated, with Special Application to Crystals and to Chemical Combinations, by Mr. William Barlow, 382
Liquid Coherers and Mobile Conductors, by Mr. Rollo Appleyard, 453 ; Exhibition of Apparatus, 453
Nickel Stress Telephone, by Mr. T. A. Garrett, 20
Alternating Currents in Concentric Conductors, by Mr. W. A. Price, 520
The Effect of Capacity on Stationary Electrical Waves in Wires, by Professor W. B. Morton, 20
An Instrument for Comparing Thermometers with a Standard, by Mr. W. Watson, C77
Effect of Temperature upon the Magnetic and Electric Properties of Iron, by Mr. D. K. Morris, 677
Formation of Mercury Films by an Electrical Process, by Mr. Rollo Appleyard, 677
Perception of the Difference of Phase by the Two Ears, by Dr. Albert A. Gray, 763
Isothermals of Isopentane, by Mr. J. Rose Innes, 764
The Effect of Sea Water on Induction Telegraphy, by Mr. C. S. Whitehead, 830
A Definition of Focal Length and an Instrument for Determining it, by Mr. T. H. Blakesley, 830
A Method of Determining Magnetic Hysteresis Loss in Straight Iron Strips, by Dr. J. A. Fleming, 831
Pilot Steamers, Mersey (Murdoch and Murray, Port Glasgow), 48
Pioneer Railways, 734, 763
Pipes, Flow of Gas and Steam through, 361. See Erratum, 419
Pipes, Hydraulic Bridge over Dee at Queensferry, 828
Piston Valves for Locomotives, 775, 798
Planimeter, 686
Planing Machine, Double-Cutting (Buckton, Leeds), 170
Plate Shearing Machine (Buckton, Leeds), 74
Platinum Unit, The Spectrum of the, 300
Ploughing Tackle, Electrically Driven, 814
Pneumatic Gear for Gun Turrets and Rudder, 539
Pneumatic Grain Elevator, Duckham's, 151. See LETTERS, 776, 797
Pneumatic Tyres, 516
Pocket-Books, British, French, and Italian, 227
Polarimeter, The Contrast (Dimmer), 301
Pompeii, Mechanical Contrivances at, 149
Pompeiian Boilers, Ancient, 4]
Porosity of Crucibles, 640, 641
Portland Cement, 252
Powder, Smokeless, 180, 215, 234
Powder, Testing Smokeless, 451
Powdered Coal, Combustion of, 71
Power Distribution, 701
Power Drill and Reamer, Bradford Portable, 780
Power Estimates on Ocean Voyages, 485
Power Transmission, 710, 727, 728, 729
Power Transmission, Salt Lake City, 859
Power, Unit of, 245, 325
"Powerful " Trials, H.M.S., 483, 489, 492
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Electric Power Transmission, 727. See 710
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Signalling without Wires, 30
Preece, Mr. W. H., on Watt and the Measurement of Power, 25. See 245
Preller, C. S. du Riche, on Rolling Cradles for Light Railways, 366, 404
Presses, Cotton Baling (Rice, Leeds), 850
Pressure Gauge, Standardising, 267
Price of Armour-Plates, 148, 175
Prices,Determining Selling, 135
Privat M., on Experiments on Compound Locomotives, 828
Production of Coal, Consumption and Cost, 411
Proell Cut-off with Corliss Valve, 606. See LETTERS, 654, 690, 754, 792, 828
Propeller, Tolch's Reversible, 781
Propellers, Partially Immersed, 251
Propulsion, Mechanical, on Canals, 583, 501, 602, 27
Protection, Fire, in Europe, 810
Protection of Level Crossings, 161
Public Halls, Safety of, 618
Pulley, Roller Keys for (New Southgate Company, Limited), 45
Pulleys for Driving and for Cable, 167, 230
Pulsometer, Grel Valve for, 781
Pumps, Air (Blake Company, New York), 44, 75
Pumps, Centrifugal, for Docks at Newport, 543
Pump, Double-Acting Displacement Air, 587
Pump, Edwards' Air, 60
Pumps, Electrically Driven High-Speed, 621
Pumps of the " Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse," 75
Pumping in Mines, 712, 729
Punching Machine and Side Cutter, DoubleEnded (Craig and Donald), 339
Purification of Sewage, The Ultimate, 192, 221
Purification of Thames, 288
Purifier, Carroll Boiler Water, 23
Pyrocollodion Powder, Russian, 180, 215, 234

Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Quadruple-Expansion One-Crank Engine (Fleming and Ferguson, Limited), 12
Quartz Crushing Stamp Mills, 624, 661. See LETTERS
Quartz and Glass Fibres, Torsion of, 267

Radial Drill (Niles Tool-Works, U.S.A.), 538
Radiation in Absolute Measure, Determinations of the, 381
Radiation of Absolutely Black Bodies, 301
Radiation of Heat from Cylinders, 31, 49
Radiation, Measurement of Direct, 336
Railroad Insulation, 355
Railroad, Pennsylvania, 414
Rails, 218, 353
Rails for Caledonian Railway, 667
Rails, Fatigue in, 265, 499, 840. See 850
Rails and Permanent Way, 706, 727
Rails, Sandberg, 156
Rail, United States Steel, 351
Railways. See also Electric Traction
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railway, Barsi Light, and Rolling Stock (Leeds Forge Company) 106
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railway, Behr Monorail, 783, 815, 849
Railways, Brazilian State, 684
Railway Carriages, Second-Class, 149, 184
Railway, Cheltenham and Gloucester, 321, 352
Railway Construction, Recent British, 290
Railway, Darjeeling-Himalayan, 569
Railway, Eastern China, 182
Railways, Electric, Equilibrium System of Feeding, 780
Railways, Electric, and Physical Institutes, 300
Railways. Electric Traction for Suburban, 753
Railway Facilities, Continental, 51
Railway Feud, Highland, 443, 477
Railway, Great Central, 290
Railways, Greater London, 220
Railways, Indian, 863
Railway, Jungfrau, 75
Railways in Korea, 214
Railway, Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire, 597, 67, 733, 803, 839
Railway Level Crossings, Protection of, 161
Railways, Light, 617
Railway, Light, Act, 264
Railways, Light, for the Cape, 581
Railways, Light Pioneer, 734, 763
Railways for London, 480
Railway from London to Far East, 649
Railway, Meynell's Trolley for Light (Striven, Leeds), 185
Railway Museum, 217
Railways in Natal, 543
Railways, Overhead, 826
Railway Passengers, Second-Class, 112, 149, 182
Railway Prospects in China, 399
Railway Rates for Iron and Steel, 693
Railway Rivalry in Scotland, 380
Railways, Rolling Cradles for Light, 366, 401
Raiiways, Scotch, 586
Railway, Single-Rail, 166, 196, 783
Railways, South American, 115
Railways, State v. Private, 383
Railway Taxes, Forth Bridge, 485
Railways and Telegraphs, Victorian Era, 619
Railway Terminal Charges, 248
Railway Track, Travelling of the Left-Sided Rails on, 791
Railway Traffic Legislation, 515
Railway Trains. Steam Heating, 88
Transiberian, Commercial and Political Value, 789
Railway Wheels, Machine for Drilling and Bolting (Craven, Manchester), 339
Rainfall in Dominica, West Indies, 677
Rainfall, Evaporation and Absorption, 743
Ramage, Mr. A. G., on Ascertaining the Stability of Ships, 475, 485
Ramage, Mr. A. G.. on Use of Mean Water Line in Design, 508, 527
Ramsbottom, The Late Mr. John, 722, 751
Rapier, The Late Mr. R. C., 754
Rapson's Slide Applied to the Steering of Large Ships, 521, 586, 619
Raworth's Engine, 157, 188. See LETTERS, ShortStroke Engines
Raworth, Mr. J. S., on Generation of Electrical Energy for Tramways, 622
Reamer, Bradford Portable Power Drill and, 780
Refractometer, Michelson's Differential, 686
Refrigerating Plant, Cost of Working, 41
Refrigeration, Liquefaction of Air by SelfIntensive, 383, 415, 486
Refrigeration, Mechanical, 214, 216, 247, 349, 283. See LETTERS
Refuse, Destruction of Town, 146
Refuse Destructors, 743
Refuse Furnace, Horsfall, 122, 146
Refuse, T,rades, in Rivers, 613
Registration and Inspection of Boilers, 327
Reichsanstalt. Work of the, 266, 300
Removing Soil by Inclines, 97, 163, 205, 235
Repairing Submarine Cable, 357, 387, 424
Reservoir, Periyar, 137
Reservoirs and Evaporation, 743
Resistance, Moment of, 41
Resistances, Standard, 267
Reversible Propeller, Tolch's, 781
Reynolds, Professor Osborne, on Dryness of Steam, 32
Rice Mortars, Mark wick's, 139
Rifle, United States Magazine, 138
Ripper Superheated Steam, 121
Ripples, Photography of, 327
River Dee, Victoria Moving Bridge, 781. See LETTER, 828
River Pollution by Trades Refuse, 613
River Reclamation, 129
River Training and Dredging, 774, 793
Rivet-Head Caulking Tool, 793
Road Carriage, Krieger Electric, 250
Road Van, Steam (Lancashire Company), 816
Roberts-usten, Professor, on Alloys, 197, 220, 53, 379, 412, 446, 481
Robinson., Mr. L. S., on Mechanical Propulsion on Canals, 583, 591, R02, 627, 832. See LETTEas, and Negative Slip, 755
Robinson, Mr. Mark H., on High-Speed Engines, 21
Robinson's Heating and Drying Apparatus, 46
Rock Island Bridge, New, 437, 523
"Rocket" Locomotive, 653, 690, 754, 791, 828
Rod, Engine, Fractures, 90
Roller Bearings, 725, 776
Roller Keys for Shaft Pulleys, &c. (New Southgate Company, Limited), 45
Roller Steamer, Bazin, 76
Rolling Cradles for Light Railways, 366, 404
Rolls, Bending (Niles Tool Works, U.S.A.), 538
Röntgen Rays, 685, 823
Roof, Stresses in, 427
Rotating Machinery, Want of Uniformity, 304
Rotterdam Theatre Iron Curtain, 461
Royal Agricultural Show, Manchester, 855
Royal Agricultural Society of England, 22
Royal Society Soirée, 684, 823
Royal Yacht " Victoria and Albert," 555
Royal Yachts, 518
Russia and China, 19
Russia, Coal in, 825
Russia, Iron Industry of South, 554
Russia, Japan, and Korea, 722
Russian Pyrocollodion Powder, 180, 215, 234
Rustless Coatings for Iron and Steel, 104

Saccharimeters, 301
Sachs, Mr. Edwin 0., on Theatre Stages. See Theatre Stages
Sachs, Mr., on Fire Protection, 810
Safety from Fire, 331, 392, 461, 533
Safety of Public Halls, 618
Sailors and Ships, British, 516
St. Lawrence, Electric Power from, 722
Salt Feed for Water-Tube Boilers, 379
Salt Manufacture, 427
Sandberg Rails, 156
Sandford Water-Tube Boiler, 557
Saner, Mr. J. A., on Value and Scope of Canals, 71, 79e, 797
Sanitation, House, 743
Sanitation in India, 461
Sankey, Captain, on Decimal System, 779, 799
Scarborough Boiler Explosion, 418
Schenectady " Mastodon" Locomotive, 606
Schneider-Canet Combination, 319
Scholarships, London Technical Education Board, 51
School for Engineers, Seafield, Crofton, 284
Scotch Railways, 380, 586
Scotch Shipbuilding, 55, 82, 485
Scotland, Railway Rivalry, 380
Screw Engines. See Engines
Screw Propeller, Tolch's Reversible, 781
Screw' Propellers, Partially Immersed, 200, 295.
See LETTERS, Propellers
Screwing Stock, Adjustable (Winn, Birmingham), 55
Sea Water Effect on Induction Telegraphy, 830
Sea Works, Concrete in, 707, 833
Seafield School for Engineers, Crofton, 284
Seamen and Ships, British, 516
Seaton, Mr. A. E.. on Water-Tube Boilers in Merchant Ships, 739, 760
Second-Class Railway Passengers, 112. See LETTERS, 149, 182
Section for Tool Steel, Gamier's, 322
Sellers,Dr. Colenlan, on the Stevens Institute of Technology, 391
Selling Prices, Determining 135
Separating, Grinding, and 'Crushing Machinery (Johnson, Leeds), 371
Separating Oil from Exhaust Steam, 336
Sewage of London, 288
Sewage Purification, 192, 224, 689
Shade Temperatures, 105
Shaft Fractures, 60. See 26, 90
Shaft, Heavy Bronze Tail, 815
Shaft Key, A New, 149
Shafting for Cable Engines, 167
Shailer-Schniglau Spoil Conveyors, 433
Shearing 'Machine, Plate (Buckton, Leeds), 74
Shearing and Punching Machine (Craig and Donald), 339
Sheaves for Haulage Cable, 230
Ship Design, Use of Mean Water Line, 508, 527
Ship Joiners on Thames, 216
Ship Lines, Tables for Constructing, 461
Ship Model Experiments, 713
Ships, Prevention of Vibration in, 258. See 'Arms, 274, 415, 449
Ship Stability, Ascertaining, by Experiment, 475, 85
Ships' Stability, The Geometry of, 509, 559
Ships, Steering, Rapson's Slide Applied to, 521, 86, 619
Shipbuilding, 6, 55, 82, 109, 485
Shipbuilding Electrical Tools, 536, 590
Shipping Losses, A Year's, 413
Shipping and Naval Matters, .Japan, 117, 822
Shipping Progress, 482
Ship Construction, Nickel Steel, &c., 776
Shipwrecks, Return of, 117, 413
Short-Stroke Engines, 184, 218, 321, 353, 449, 486
Signalling through Space without Wires, 830
Silk Mills and Machinery in China, 275
Simplex System of Electric Traction, 351
Simpson, Mr. J. B., on Pumping in Mines, 712, 30. See 729
Single-Rail Railway, 166, 196, 788
Slip, Negative, 755
Small Mirrors used with Paraffin Lamp and Scale, 60
Smith and Eastman's Spoil Conveyor, 366
Smokeless Powder Testing Apparatus, Maxim's, 51
Snout Boring Machine (Buokton), 436
Social Tendencies (Looking Backward), 217
South African Coal, 465
South African Diamond Mining, 286
South African Harbour Works, 55
South African Light Railways, 581
South American Railways, 115
South Australia Water Supply, 552
Spanish Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Clydebank Company), 12
"Spanker,' H.M.S., Du Temple Water-Tube Boiler, 789
Specific Heat of Iron, 730
Spectrum of the Platinum Unit, 300
Speed and Direction Indicator, Fiske's Engine Telegraph and, 208
Spherical Catenaries, Algebraic, 229
Spinning, Cotton, 308
Spinning in Japan and China, 283
"Spitfire," H.M. Destroyer, Engines (Belliss), 3
Spoil Conveyors. See Chicago Canal
Spoil Wagons, 163, 205. 235, 433
Spontaneous Combustion, 431
Springs, Mounting Machinery on, 790
Spurwheel Breakdowns, 26. See 60, 90
Stability, The Geometry of, 509, 559
Stability of Ships, Ascertaining by Experiment, 75, 485
Stages. See Theatre Stages
Stamp Mills for Quartz Crushing, 624, 661, 791
Standard Resistances, 267
Standardising of Barometers and Pressure Gauges, 267
Standardising Thermometers, 267
"Star," Accident to H.M., Destroyer (Palmer), 16 See LETTERS
State v. Private Railways, 383
Stations on Dumbarton Railway, 839
Statistics, 17
Society of Arts :
Mechanical Production of Cold (Howard Lectures), by Professor James A. Ewing, 14, 247, 283, 349. See LETTERS
Cellulose, by Mr. C. F. Cross (Cantor Lectures), 19
Alloys, by Professor Roberts-Austen, 379, 412, 46, 481
Stead, Mr. John E., on Microscope Accessories for Metallographers, 637, 850
Steam Circulation for Heating Purposes, 370
Steam, Density of, 267
Steam, Determining Dryness of, 32
Steam Engine, Accelerity Diagram, 500, 527
Steam Engine Experiments, 464
Steam Flow through Pipes, 361. See Erratum, 19
Steam Heating for Railway Trains, 88
Steam, High-Pressure, 68
Steam Navvy, Bucyrus, 165
Steam Navvy, Osgood's, 235
Steam Power, Transmission, 710, 727, 723, 729
Steam Pressures in Jackets, 150
Steam Road Van (Lancashire Company), 816
Steam, Separation of Oil from Exhaust, 336
Steam, Superheated, Trials, 121
Steam Trials of Naval Ships, 378
Steam Turbine, 445
Steam Turbine, Parsons, in Torpedo-Boat, 508, 26, 738, 758. See LErrEa, 555
Steam Yacht " Mayflower " (Clydebank Company), 826
Steamer " Avon," Carron Company's New, 753
Steamer, Bazin Roller, 76
Steamer " Duchess of Devonshire" (Barrow), 48
Steamers,Mersey Pilot (Murdoch and Murray, Port Glasgow), 48
Steamers, Niger Stern-Wheel (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 340
Steamer, Paddle, " Paris," and Triple-Expansion Engines, 571
Steamer, Reconstruction of Old, 382
Steamship Company, Japanese, 444
Steamship Subsidies in Japan, 519
Steamship Voyages, Power Estimates, 485
Steel Barrels, Electrically Welded, 789
Steel, Bessemer Process, Early History, 41
Steel, Carbides in, 301
Steel Corrosion in Ships, 776
Steel, Determination of Expansion, 267
Steel, Fatigue, Microscopic Observations, 265, 99, 840. See 637, 850
Steel Freights, 695
Steel Furnace Charging Machinery, 640, 658, 669
Steel, Hard, 58
Steel and Iron Production in Britain, 381
Steel and Iron Testing, International Association, 637
Steel, Magnetic Tests of, 300
Steel, Nickel, 634, 589
Steel, Nickel, for Ships, 776
Steel Production, Hungarian, 721
Steel Rail Trade, United States, 351
Steel Reheating Furnace, 637
Steel, Rustless Coatings, 104
Steel Trade Competition, 657, 695
Steelmaking, Bertrand and Thiel Process Combined, 672, 696
Steelmaking Crucibles, Porosity of, 640, 641
Steelmaking in Japan, 58, 652
Steering of Large Ships, Rapson's Slide Applied to the, 521, 586, 619
Steering by Pneumatic Pressure, 539
Stellar Photographs, Apparatus for Measuring, Kapteyn's, 487
Stereoscope v. Gyrostat, 58. See also Technical Education
Stern-Wheel Steamers, Niger (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden), 340
Stevens Battery, 417
Stevens Institute of Technology, 391
Stock, Adjustable Screwing (Winn, Birmingham), 55
Stop Valve, Boiler and Engine, 454
Storage of Dynamite, 585
Storz Hose Coupling, 533
Stoves for Blast-Furnaces, Kennedy-Cowper, 538
Strain on Metals, Changes Due to, 468
Streams, Uniform Flow of Water in, 21
Stresses on Framed Structures, 427
Stresses and Loads on Bridges, Standardising, 71, 795
Submarine Cable Laying, &c., 227
Submarine Cable Repairing, 357, 387, 424
Submarine, Japanese,Pacific Cable, 320
Submarine Telegraphy, 113, 247, 555
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 519
Subsidies, Steamship, in Japan, 519
Substances Liable to Spontaneous Combustion, 31
Subterranean Rivers, 357, 387, 424
Subway, Glasgow. See Cable Traction, &c.
Subways for London, 480
Suction Elevator for Grain, Duckhanes, 151.
See LwrrEas
Sulphate of Ammonia, 217
Sulphate of Ammonia for Agriculture, 698
Sunspots and the Weather, 543
Superheated Steam Engine Trials, 121
Surface Condenser for Electric Light Engines (W. H. Allen and Co.), 341
Swedish Rails, 156
Swinburne, Mr. James, on Generating Plant
Mounted on Springs, 743, 762. See LETTERS
Swing Bridge, Rock Island, 437, 523
Swing Bridge, for Railway at Bowling, 733, 803
Swintoi, Mr., and the X Rays, 685, 823
"Swordfish," H.M. Destroyer, Engines (Belliss), 3
Synchronograph, 690

Tail Shaft, Heavy Bronze, 815
Taxes, Forth Bridge, 485
Technical Education, 10, 58, 75, 111, 118, 150, 182 83, 217
Technical Education Exhibition, 753
Technical Education in Germany, 212
Technical Education in Japan, 285
Technical Scholarships, London, 651
Technology, Higher Training in, 111
Technology, Stevens Institute of, 391.
Tees Shipbuilding, 782, 485
Telegraph Enterprise, Submarine, 519
Telegraph, Fiske's Engine, and Speed and Direction Indicator, 206
Telegraphs and Railways, Victorian Era, 619
Telegraphing through Space without Wires 830
Telegraphy, Induction, Sea Water Effect on, 30
Telegraphy Submarine, 113, 247. See LETTER, 55
Telegraphy, United States Transatlantic, 447
Telegraphy, United States, 22
Telephones in Germany, 116
Telephone, Nickel Stress, 520
Telescope, 0-In. Equatorial, Chamberlin Observatory, 702
Temperature Effect on Magnetic and Electric Qualities of Iron,677'
Temperatures in ritain. Monthly, 677
Temperatures, High and Low, Measurement, 267
Temperatures, Shade, 105
Tension Gear for Cable Haulage, 167
Terminal Charges, Railway, 248
"Terrible," Trials of H.M.S., 83, 109. See LETTERS, 483, 489, 492
"Terror," Spanish Destroyer (Clydebank Co.), 12
"Terror," United States Steamer, with Pneumatic Gear for Gun Turrets, &c., 539
Testing Apparatus for Smokeless Powder, Maxim's, 451
Testing Cement, 618
Testing Iron and Steel, International Association, 637
Testing, Mechanical, 302
Testing, Work of the Reichsanstalt, 266, 300
Tests of Cast Iron, 187
Tests, Magnetic, of Iron and Steel, 300
Tests for Marine Barometers, 824
Thames-Built Battleships, 341, 436
Thames to Forth by Steamship, 753
Thames, Purification of, 288
Thames Ship Joiners, 216
Thames Shipbuilding, 9, 82
Thames Tunnel, 530
Theatre Hinges, Modern : 5, 127, 201, 267, 331, 392, 461, 533, 767
Amsterdam Theatre, Iron Curtain, 461
Asbestos Curtains, 331, 392. See 461, 533
Berlin Court Theatre, 35
Berlin Theatre Stages, 127
Brandt Stages, 35, 127
Clark's Iron Curtain with Hydraulic Gear at Lyric Theatre, 393
Copenhagen Royal Theatre Fire Engine Stations, 533
Court Theatre at Berlin, 35
Electric Turntable Stage, Munich, 267
Essen Theatre Stage, 127
Fire Engine Stations, Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, 533
Fire-Resisting Curtains, 331, 392, 461, 533
Fire, Safety from, 331, 392, 461, 533
Hofburg Theatre, Vienna, Iron Curtain, 461
Hose Coupling, Storz, 533
Hose-Holder, Moorman, 533
Iron Curtains, 331, 392, 461, 533
London Theatres and Iron Curtains, 461
Moorman Hose-Holder, 533
Munich Electric Turntable Stage, 201, 267
Pfaff's Iron Curtain with Hydraulic Gear, 393
Rotterdam Theatre, Iron Curtain, 461
Safety from Fire, 331, 392, 461, 533
Storz Hose Coupling, 533
Turntable Stage, Munich Electric, 201, 267
Wiesbaden Theatre Stage, 127
Theft of Micrometers, &c., 619
Thermo - Electric Properties of Some Liquid Metals, 327
Thermal Conductivity of Sheet Copper, 31. 49
Thermometers Compared with Standards (Instrument for), 677
Thermometers, Standardising, 267
Thermoscope, A Simple, 521
Thiel and Bertrand Open-Hearth Processes Combined, 672, 696
Thudichum, Mr. George, on Sewage Purification, 102, 224
Tin Mines in Cornwall, Deep, 712
Tinplates, 695
Tipping Machinery, 636
Tipping Wagons, Spoil, 205, 235
Titan Crane for Breakwaters, 320
Titan Crane, 40-Ton, Stothert and Pitt, 642
Tolch's Reversible Propeller, 781
Tool Steel, Garnier's Section for, 322
Toothed Wheels, Bevel and Worm, 403, 438, 619
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers. See Warships
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Torpedo-Boats and Battleships, 785
Torsion of Quartz and Glass Fibres, 267
Toulon Yard and Private Firms, 250
Traction. See Electric Traction and also Cable Traction
Traction Accumulator, 485
Traction, Electric, Exhibits at Brussels Exhibition, 824
Traction, Electric, for Railways, 753
Traction, Simplex System of Electric, 351
Traction on Tramways, Gas, 286
Trade Competition, 844
Trade Marks in Japan, Protection of, 22, 88
Trades Refuse in Rivers, 613
Trade Returns, 82
Trade Unions and Employers, 549
Trades Unions and H.M. Dockyards, 143
Trade Unions and Machinery, 315
Traffic Legislation, 515
Training and Dredging Rivers, 774, 795
Trains, Steam Heating, 88
"Tram," Origin of Word, 118
Tramcar Starter, 721
Tramways. See Electric Traction
Tramways, Gas Traction, 286
Tramways, Generation of Electrical Energy, 622
Tramways for Glasgow, Electric, 652
Tramway Traction Electric Accumulator, 485
Tramway Traction, Gas, 720
Transatlantic Passages, 115
Transatlantic Telegraphy, U.S., 447
Transiberian Railway, Commercial and Political Value, 789
Transmission of Heat through Metallic Plates, 31, 9
Transmission of Power, 710, 727, 728, 729
Treatment of Night Soil, 689
Trial Reports, Uniformity in Engine, 738
Trials of H.M.S. " Terrible," 83,109. See LETTERS, Terrible," &c.
Trials of Naval Ships, 378
Tricycles. See Cycles
Triple-Expansion. See Engine
Trolley for Light Railways, Meynell's (Scriven, Leeds), 185
Truss Conveyors, 366
Trusts in Japan, 551
Tubes, Aluminium-Bronze Seamless, 136
Tubes, Boiler. See Water-Tube Boilers
Tubing, Bayonet Catch Joint for Metal, 557
Tubular and Water-Tube Boilers, Lyall's, 608
Tunnel, Blackwall, 530
Tunnel, Gravehals, 554
Tunnels, Laying out Helicoidal, 11
Tunnelling, 597, 667, 839
Tunnelling under Cheshire Lines Committee Railway, 719
Turbine for Electric Power, Bellegarde, 633, 701
Turbine, Parsons' Steam, in Torpedo-Boat, 508, 26, 738. 758. See LETTER, 555
Turbine, Steam, 445
Turbine, Steam, Parsons on, 788. See 508, 626, 58
"Turbinia," Torpedo-Boat, with Steam Turbine, 08, 526, 738, 758. See LETTER
Turbo-Electric Generators, 251, 745, 762
Turbo-Generator, Parsons', 251
Turntable Stage, Munich Electric, 201, 267
Turrets, Gun, Worked by Pneumatic Pressure, 39
Twin-Screw Engines. See Engines
Tyne Improvement (The Late Mr. P. J. Messent), 19
Tyne Shipbuilding, 6, 82, 485
Type-Setting Machinery, 858
Tyres, Pneumatic, 510

Uggla, Mr. A. L., on Sandberg Rails, 156
Underground Water, Law and Allocation of, 835
Underpinning Bridges and Buildings, 697, 667, 39
Unit of Power, 245, 826
United States Telegraphy, 22
" Universal" Engine and Inductor Alternator (Brush Company), 157, 188
United States Armour-Plates, Price, 148, 175
United States Battleship " Alabama," 402
United States Competition in Steel Trade, 657, 95
United States Electrolytic Copper Refining, 690
United States and the Far East, 552
United States Enterprise in Mexico, 518
United States Machine Tools (Niles Tool Works), 38
United States Magazine Rifle, 138
United States Naval Engineering, 54
United States Opinions of Japanese Industry, 113
United States Patent Law, 579
United States Steel Rail Trade, 351
United States Transatlantic Telegraphy, 447
United States Yachts, 826
United States Steamer " Terror," with Pneumatic Gear for Gun Turrets, &e., 539
Upton Tension Gear for Cable Haulage, 167

Valve, Boiler and Engine Stop, 454
Valve, Corliss, Proell Cut-off, with, 600. See LETTERS
Valves, Feed Check, and Blow-off Cocks (Easton, Anderson, and Goolden, Limited), 25; 45
Valve and Gear Breakdowns, 26. See 60, 90
Valve, Grel, 781
Valves, Piston, on Locomotives, 776, 798
Van, Steam Road (Lancashire Company), 816
Ventilation, Chimney v. Fan, 369
Ventilator Fans, 604
Viaduct, Mussy, Paris, Lyons, &c., Railway, 575
Viaducts for Railway, 733, 803, 839
Vibration of Machinery, 743, 762
Vibration in Ships, Prevention, 258. See LETTERS
Vibration in Ships, Prevention of, 274, 415, 449
Victor Excavator, 668
Victoria Bridge over River Dee, 781. Lee LETTERS, 28
Victorian Era Exhibition, 719
Vivian Hydraulic Dredge, 770

Wages and Capital, 81
Wages in Engineering Trade, 549
Wages and Labour Cost of Iron and Steel, 695
Wagons, Dump, 164
Wagons, Rolling Cradles for Light Railways, 366, 04
Wagons, Spoil Tipping, 205, 235
Walker, Mr. G. W., on Ventilator Fans, 604
Walker-Weston Clutch, 167
Wallach's Safety Boiler Gauge, 119
Warships
British Older Ironclads, Fighting Value if Re-armed, 604, 625
French Ships " Jaureguiberry " and " Carnot," 50
H.M. Battleship "Jupiter," Steaming Trials (Clydebank), 351
H.M. Battleships v. Destroyers, 785
H.M. Cruiser Isis" (London and Glasgow Company), 321
H.M. Cruiser " Niobe " (Barrow), 277, 309
H.M. Cruiser " Pelorus " (Clydebank Company), 385
II. M. Cruiser " Terrible " Trials (Thomson,
Clydebank), 83, 109, 483, 489, 492. See LETTERS, " Terrible," &e.
H.M. Destroyer " Star," Accident to (Palmer), 16. See LETTERS
H.M. Destroyers v. Battleships, 785
H.M. Destroyers " Flying Fish," " Star," and " Whiting"(Palmer), 320
H.M. Gunboat " Spanker," Du Temple WaterTube Boiler, 789
H.M. Torpedo-Boat Destroyers " Swordfish " and " Spitfire" Engines (Belliss), 73
H.M.S. " Powerful's ' Trials, 483, 489, 492
Japanese Battleship " Fuji," 341. See also Ya8hima "
Japanese Battleship (New),Thames Iron Works, 36
Japanese Battleship " Yashima " (Armstrong, Elswick), 170. See 341
Japanese Battleship " Yashima," Machinery Humphrys, Tennant, and Co.), 239, 277. See 341
Launching Warships, 277, 309
Pocket-Books, British, French, and Italian Naval, 227
Spanish Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Thomson, Limited, Clydebank), 13
Stevens Battery, 417
Thames-Built Battleships, 341, 436
Torpedo-Boat " Turbinia," with Parsons' Turbine, 508, 526, 555, 738, 758
U.S. Battleship " Alabama," 402
U.S.S. " Terror " with Pneumatic Gear for Gun Turrets, &c., 539
Water-Tube Boilers in British Navy, 483, 489, 92
Washing Bituminous Coal (Luhrig), 103
Waste, Burning Coke, 447
Water Diviner, 746
Water, Electric Power, Bellegarde, 633, 701
Water, Electric Power from St. Lawrence, 722
Water Gas, Carburetted, 742, 761
Water-Gauge Glasses, Hints for Packing, 653
Water Gauge, Wallach's, 119
Water, Law and Allocation of Underground, 35
Water Line in Design, Use of, 508, 627
Water Meter, Bernay's,721
Water Power, Salt Lak City, 859
Water Purifier, Carroll Boiler, 23
Water Supply, Bacteriology of, 742
Water Supply, London, 249, 377
Water Supply in South Australia, 552
Water-Tube Boilers, 263. See LETTERS, Niclau8se Boiler
Water-Tube Boilers, 11, 75, 118, 148, 150, 251, 252, 75, 352, 483, 489, 492
Water-Tube Boilers in British Navy, 483, 489, 92
Water-Tube Boiler Circulation, 653, 754
Water-Tube Boilers, Circulation, Dr. Elliott on, 64
Water-Tube Boiler, Clyde (Fleming and Ferguson, Limited), 12
Water-Tube Boilers and Engines of H.M.S. "Pelorus " (Clydebank Company), 385
Water-Tube Boilers, " Spanker," Du Temple, 789
Water-Tube Boilers, Lyall's TuLular and, ( 08
Water-Tube Boilers in Merchant Ships, 739, 760
Water-Tube Boilers for Naval Ships, 378
Water-Tube Boiler, Niclausse, 352
Water-Tube Boilers, Salt Feed for, 379
Water-Tube Boiler, Sandford, 557
Water-Tube Boiler Trials in H.M.S. " Terrible, 3, 109. See LErms, " Terrible," cPc.
Water Works, Kobe 859
Watt, James, Dinner at Glasgow, 148
Watt and the Measurement of Power, 325. See 45
Wear Shipbuilding, 7, 82, 109, 485
Weardale Furnace, 637, 863
Weather, 64, 114, 179, 350, 481, 617, 787
Webb, Mr. F. W., on Permanent Way, 707, 727
Webster's Steam Heating Apparatus, 370
Weighing and Recording Machine, Ingrey's Coal, 73
Welded Steel Barrels, Electrically, 789
Welin Breech Screw for Ordnance, 755
Wells, Mr. L. B., on Value and Scope of Canals, 71, 790, 797
Welsh Coal, 466
West, Mr., on Materials for Shipbuilding, 776
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Tests of Cast Iron, 87
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Regulating Foundry Mixtures, 328
West Riding Rivers, Trades Refuse, 613
Wheels, Cutting Bevel Gear, 70, 403, 438, 619
Wheels, Machine Moulding, 65, 125, 195, 333, 395, 29, 563, 631, 768
Wheels, Paper, Friction, 135
Wheels, Railway, Machine for Drilling and Bolting (Craven, Manchester), 339
Wheels, Worm, 403, 438, 619
Whittaker's Wheel-Moulding Machine, 396
Wiesbaden Theatre Stage, 127
William Sooy Smith Dredger, 752
Wimshurst Influence Machine, 683
Winch for Brown Conveyor, 299
Wire, Changes due to Strain on Copper, 469
Witham and Welland River Reclamation, 129
Woodall, Mr. Corbet, on Carburetted Water Gas, 742, 761
Woodhead, Dr. G. S., on Bacteriology, 416, 454, 29
Wool and Spontaneous Combustion, 431
Works :
Anaconda Copper Relining Works, 24
Works Department of County Council, 479, 717
Works Management, 845
Worm and Bevel Gear, 403, 438, 619
Worm Gears, Machine Cutting of Accurate Bevel and, 619
Worthington Meter, Calibrating a, 71
Wrecks, Return of Ship-, 117

X-Rays, 685, 823

Yacht " Mayflower" (Clydebank CompahA 826
Yacht, A Modern Steam, 826
Yacht (Royal) " Victoria and Albert," 565
Yachting Exhibition, 180, 687
Yachting and Fisheries Exhibition, 260
Yachts, Royal, 518
Yachts, Small, 842
Yarrow Boilers, Salt Feed for, 379
" Yashima," Japanese Battleship (Armstrong, Elswick), 170, 239, 277. See 341
Year-Books and Annuals, 181
Year's Weather, 114
Yokohama Chamber of Commerce, 750

Zinc, Pure, 301, 302

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