Engineering 1899 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index

Engineering 1899 Jan-Jun: General Index.

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ACCELERATION of Electric Locomotives, 682
Accident on the London and North-Western
Railway at Penmaenmawr, 77
Acetylene. See also Calcium. Carbide
Acetylene, 335. See LETTERS
Acetylene Exhibits at the Article Club Show, 23
Acetylene Generators, 287
Acetylene and Railway Car Lighting, 391
Acoustics and Optics, 170
Aerial Cablewa3- across the Thames at Vauxhall, 2
Aerial Ropeway at Cement Works, Northfleet, 44
Estheticism in Bridge Design, 487, 688, 785
African. See also South Africa, 865
Agreement in China, Anglo-Russian, 620

Agricultural Show at Maidstone, Royal:

Cream Separators, 835
Dairy, 8_5
Engines, 820
Foreign Representation, 823
Gas Engines, 820
Hop-Washing Machines, 822
Implements, 821
Implements Entered, 819
Miscellaneous Exhibits, 822
Oil Engines, 820
Aide-Memoire de L'Officier de Marine, 314
Air, Compressed. See Compressed Air
Air Fallacy, Liquid, 599
Air Pumps, Electrically-Driven (Allen, Bedford), 12
"Akebono" Torpedo-Boat Destroyer (Yarrow), 47
Aldridge, Mr. J. G. W., on Electric Power and
Lighting Plant for Harbours, 159
Allen and Barker's Gas and Oil Engines, 209
Allen, The Late Mr. Harry, 283
Alloys, 205, 210, 259, 294
Alloys of Gold, Microscopic Structures, 87, 146, 54
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, 462
Alloys of Nickel and Aluminium, Disintegration of, 508
Aluminium-Nickel Alloy, Disintegration, 508
Amendment of Companies' Act, 103
America. See also United States
American C.mpetition, 256
American and English Workshop Management, 87
American Locomotives, 423, 461, 513. See also 4, 177, 688, 705, 785
American-Spanish War, 492, 852
American Trade Index, 108
Amperemeter and Voltmeter, 230
"Amphitrite's" Trials and Auxiliary Engine Consumption, 389, 991, 522, 524. See 556, 5..7, 45
Ancient Architecture, 666
Anemoscope, Self-Recording, 821
Anglo-Russian Agreement in China, 620
Anglo-Russian Trade Relations, 650
Annuals, 30, 100, 344, 448
Appleton, Mr. Joseph, on Storage Batteries, 194
Arabia and Persian Gulf Trade. 337
Arc, Hissing of the Electric, 423, 818
Arched Bridges, Large-Span, 540, 578, 633, 700. See LETTER, 656
Architectural Side of Engineering, 654. See 487, 88, 785
Architecture (History), 666
Argentine Railways, 529
"Argonaut's" Steam Trial and Jacketing, 388, 91, 432. See LETTER, 487
"Ariadne," Steam Trials of II.M.S. (Clydebank), 85
Arizona Copper Mine, 477
Armour-Plate Manufacture, 554
Armour-Plate Tests (Brawn, Sheffield), 47
Armoured Cruisers. Se2 Warships
Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Armour-Plate Manufacture, 554
Art Castings, 478
Art Printing Machinery, 365
Article Club E'.hibition, 154, 714, 823
Artillery. See Guns and Schneider
"Asama," Japanese Armoured Cruiser(Elswick), 77
Ashley's Deep Well Pumps at Brighton (Glenfield Company), 140
Atbara River Bridge, 729, 769, 836. See LETTER. 68
Atlantic and Indian Cable, First, 273
Atlantic Liner, Passengers, 151
Atmosphere, Circulation of, 220, 526
Atmospheric Circulation, Vertical, 526
Australasian Railways,Cost of, 251
Austrian Engineers and Architects, 713
* Automatic Railway Couplings, 123, 323, 356, 645
Automatic Stoker (Ransome and Rapier's), 677
Automobile Club Show at Richmond, 782, 823. See LETTERS, 824, 88
Automobiles. See also Cars, Motors
Automotor and Horseless Vehicle Pocket-Book
of Automotive Forinula3 and Commercial Intelligence for 1899, 108
Auxiliary Engines, Coal Consumption of, 389 91, 522, 524, 745. See 556, 557
Ayrton, Professor W. E., on Some Non Integrating Electric Meters, 757, 768
* Babcock, Mr. W. J., on Portable Pneumatic
Riveters for Shipbuilders, 441
Bacterial Treatment of Sewage Sludge, 765, 795
Balancing Engines, 444, 530, 561, 695. See LETTERS
Baldwin Compound Locomotive for Lehigh
Valley Railroad, 705
Ballasting of Steamships, 690
Barking Boiler Explosion, 85, 174, 361. See LETTERS
Barometer Readings in London, 824
Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding, 60
Barton, Boiler Explosion at, 262
Batteries, Storeage, 191
Battleships. See Warships
Beehive Ovens, Coking in, 478
Beet Sugar Chemistry, 169
Belfast, Shipbuilding in, 60
Belgian Locomotive, 144
Belleville Boilers of the French Steamer " Laos," 44. See also Water-Tube Boiler
Belt Tension with Variations, Power Transmitted, 7
Bending, Punching, and Shearing Machine
(S Driven), 707
Bengal, Mica Mining in, 293
Bessemer Process, Hot Blast in the, 604
Bicycles. See Cycles
Biles, Professor J. H., on Merchant Steamers as
War Vessels, 741, 757
Birmingham University, 684
Blast-Furnaces and Coke-Oven Gases, 608, 865
Blast-Furnace Steel. 610
Blast-Furnaces, United States, 3, 65
Block-Setting Titan Cranes, 88, 121
Blooming Mill in United States Steel Works, 65
Blowing Engines, Compound (Sir C. Furness,
Westgarth, and Co.), 11
Blowing Engines (Davy Brothers), 317
Blyth Shipbuilding, S7
Boiler Explosion, Barking, 85, 174, 361. See
LETTERS
Boiler Explosion at Barton, 262
Boiler Explosion at Eccles, 92
Boiler Explosion at Middlesbrough, 529
Boiler Explosion near Stroud, 686
Boiler Explosion at Trowbridge, 21
Boiler Explosion at Wigan, 228
Boiler Explosions, 19, 441, 851
Boiler-Flue Drilling Machine (Victor Coates and
Co., Bellow), 110
Boiler-Scaling Hammer and Firebar Inserter
(Brown's), 527
Boiler Tube Stopper, 719
Boiler, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube Boilers
Boilers, Belleville, of the French Steamer
" Laos," 544
Boilers, Cylindrical v. Water-Tube. See WaterTube, &c., Boilers
Boilers, Insurance, 643
Boilers and Settings, 40
Boilers, Strength of, 441, 851
Book-Printing Machinery, 208, 327, 365, 414
Books Received, 37, 139, 170, 235, 273, 438, 536, 71, 670
Boring Machine, Four-Spindle Electric Railway
Motor, 157
Boult, Mr. W. S., on Fog-Signalling, 735, 863
Bounties, France, Shipping, 853
Bounties, Japan Shipping, 712
Brass Furnaces, Gas Heating for, 324, 357, 391
Breakwaters, Waves and their Effect on, 761, 789, 90
Breaking of Chilled Rolls, 297, 332. See LETTERS
Breech Mechanism of Quick Firing Guns (Schneider), 509, 575, 610, 635, 671, 700, 731, 811
Breech Mechanism, Vickers' Gun, 76
Brett, Mr. E. S., on Forging Machines, 740, 863
Bridge, Atbara River, 729, 769, 836. See LETTERS, 58
Bridge Construction, Cableway for Vauxhall, 62
Bridge Design, 'Esthetics, 487, 688, 785
Bridge Design Pocket-Book, 138
Bridge over Niagara River, 540, 678, 633, 700. See
LETTERS, 656
Bridge, Swing, over Harlem River, 256
Bridges (Great Central Railway), 337, 479
* Bridges, Large-Span Arched, 540, 578, 663, 700.
See Lrarnuts, 656
Bridges on the Metropolitan Section (Great Central Railway), 337, 479
Bright, Mr. Charles, on Submarine Survey, 35, 01, 167, 451
Bright and Submarine Telegraphy, 272
" British Journal Photographic Album and Daily
Companion," 108
British Navy Estimates, 351, 385. See LErrEas,
Water-Tube, &c., Boilers
British Shipping Balance-Sheet, 286
British v. United States Locomotives, 688, 785
British v. United States Machine Tools, 800, 827
British Warship Storekeeping and Engineers'
Complements, 681
British Warships. See Warships
British Warships Ordered, 83
British Workmen and Trade, 117, 126
Bronze Guns (Schneider), 133
Brown's Armour-Plates, Tests of, 47
Brown's Boiler Scaling Hammer and Firebar
Inserter, 527
Bruhn, Mr. J., on Structural Stability of Ships, 05, 429
Brussels Electrical Exhibition, 287
Bucknill, Colonel J. T., on Powder Magazine Explosions, 655. See LETTERS
Buenos Ayres Harbour Works, 515
Buffer and Draught Gear, White and Burke's
Railway, 123
Builders' Price Book, 344
Building Atbara Bridge, 836
Building of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 631
Building Materials Tested for Fire Resistance, 41, 187, 517, 707, 777, 864
Building Trades Exbibition, 554, 589
Buildings. See also Great Central Railway
Buildings, Heating by Steam, 357
Buildings, Mechanics in Modern, 67
Bunsen Cells, Modified, 119
Burls, G. A., on Graphical Treatment of the Problem of Rough Inclined Plane, 499
Burma and China Railway, 457
Burma Railway Surveying, 390
Bursting of Cast-Iron Flywheels, 10
By-Product Coke Oven, 802, 829
By-Products, Recovery of, 18
* Cab Approach to Marylebone Station (Great
Central Railway), 341
Cab, Krieger Electric, 84
Cabs in Paris, Electric, 233, 269
Cable Company, Submarine, 120, 561
Cable, Submarine Survey, 35, 101, 167. See 451
Cables, First Atlantic and India, 272
Cableway, Aerial, at Cement Works, Northfleet, 44
Cableway Across the Thames at Vauxhall, 62
Calcium. See also Acetylene
Calcium Carbide Patents, 625
Calcium Carbide, Properties of, 335. See LETTERS
Acetylene
Calculated Indicated Horse-Power, 690
Calculating Cross Curves of Stability, 499
Calendars, 30, 108, 143
Callendar's Recorder and Platinum Thermometer, 675
Calorific Power of Weathered Coal, 67
Campbell, Mr. E. D., on the Diffusion of Sulphides through Steel, 128
Canada Canal Lift, A Large, 622
Canal, from the Great Lakes to St. Lawrence, 04, 134
Canal Lift in Canada, A Large, 622
Canal, Nicaragua, 200
Canals in Russia, 37, 99, 170, 267, 371, 638, 727
Canet-Scheider, Artillery. See Schneider and
Co.'s Works
Car, Motor, Water-Tube Boiler for (Toward,
Newcastle), 497
Car, Motor, Industry, 108, 779
Cars, Electric, in Paris, 233, 269
Cars, Motor, 740, 766 See LnrrErt,785
Cars, Motor, Exhibition at Richmond, 782, 823.
See LETTERS, 824, 858
Cars, Motor, Liverpool Trials, 37
Cars, Motor, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 820
Carbide Patent Litigation, 525
Cargo Steamers, 763, 793
Carnegie Steel Trust, 622
Carpenter, Mr. C. C., on Labour-Saving Appliances in Gas Works, 810, 832
Carpentry in Schools, 36
Carriage Motor, 513. See also Cars, Motor
Carriage Shed at Marylebone (Great Central
Railway), 439. See _Erratum, 558
Carriage Sheds at Neasden (Great Central Railway), 674
* Carriage Tyres, India-Rubber, 457
Carriage Window, Hill's Railway, 393
Carriages, Electrical Motor,513
Case System of Groynes, 10
Cast-Iron Flywheels, Bursting of, 10
Cast-Iron Melting Point, 330
Cast Iron and Steel, 609
Cast-Iron Test-Bars, 545
Casting Temperature of Steel, 805, 830
Castings, Art, 478
Caulking by Machinery, 806, 831
Cell (Clark), The Minor Variations of a, 470
Cells, Modified Bunsen, 119
Central London Railway, Passenger Hoists, 273, C6
Chambering 24-Centimetre Gun, 203
Channel Steamers, 740, 756
Charcoal, Spontaneous Ignition of, 153
Chemical By-Products, Recovery of, 18
Chemistry of Beet Sugar, 169
Chicago, Heavy Railway Work in, 219
Childe, Mr. H. S., on Tools for Mining, 792, S05.
See 830
Chili, Mineral Resources, 855
Chilled Rolls, and Why They Break, 297, 332.
See LETTERS
China Affairs, 420
China, Anglo-Russian Agreement in, 620
China and Burma Railway, 457
China Cotton Industry, 855
China, Kiao-Chou Development, 423
China, Shanghai Progress, 320
China, Effects of Development of, 390
China Mining and Railway Companies, 152
China Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Schichau), 108
China, Trade in 1898,716
Chinese Imperial Railway Loan, 219
Chinese Iron Production, 746
Chinese Railways, 781
Chlorate of Potash, 683
Chromite in North Carolina, 509
Chronicle and D rectory for China, Japan, and
other Eastern Countries, 448
Chuck, Positive Driving Drill, 230
Chucking Machine (Automatic) for Steam-Cock
Shells (Pratt and Whitney, Hartford, Conn.),19.9
Circular-Saw Guard at Crewe Works, 463
Circular-Saw Guard (Glover), 291. See Erratum, 16
Circular-Saw Guard (Scott), 25
Circulation, Atmospheric, 220, 526
Cito and Funck's Rail Lifter, 859
City of London Directory for 1899, 448
City and Southwark Subway Locomotives, 682
* Civil Engineers, Institution of:
The Effects of Wear upon Steel Rails, by Mr.
William G. Kirkaldy, 87
On the Micro-Photography of Steel Rails, by
Sir William Roberts-Austen, 87
High-Speed Engines, by Mr. J. H. Dales, 96
The Water Works of the Madras Presidency,
by Mr. John A. Jones, 175
Lake Superior Iron Ore Mines and their Influence upon the Production of Iron and
Steel, by Messrs. Jeremiah Head and A. P.
Head, 221
Improvements in Dioptric Apparatus for Lighthouses, by Mr. W. T. Douglass and Mr. J. A.
Purves,278
Water-Tube Boilers for Marine Engines, by Mr.
J. T. Milton, 311
Machinery of Warships, by Sir A. J. Durston,
K.C.B., and Mr. H. J. Oram, 311
Alloys of Iron and Nickel, by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 462
Buenos Ayres Harbour Works, by Mr. T. M.
Dobson, 515
James Forrest Lecture, Magnetism, by Professor T. A. Ewing, 563, 627
Premiums, 549
Office Bearers, 549
* Engineers. Institution of, Inter.
national Conference:
• 654, 732, 761, 799
Opening Address by the President (Sir W. H.
Preece, K.C.B.), 732, 748
* Section I.—Railways.
What is a Light Railway, and what °intimstances should Govern the Gauge? by Mt'.
A. C. Pain, 733, 753
Mountain Railways, by Mr. C. A. W. Pownall, 33, 753
The Advantages or Disadvantages of Uniting
the Lock-and-Block Signalling Appliances of
Railways, by Mr. A. Ross, 733, 753
The Various Systems of Fog-Signalling, by Mr.
Wilfrid S. Boult, 735, 863
* Civil Engineers= Institution of, Inter.
national Conference-continued.
The Most Expeditious Method of Relaying the
Railways of this Country, involving Least
Interruption of Traffic, having Regard to
Safety and Economy, by Mr. Harry Footner, 99, 828
Causes of Earth-Slips in the Slopes of Cuttings
and Embankments of Railways, and How to
Prevent or Remedy, by Mr. R. Elliott
Cooper, 799, 826
Economy in Handling and Transport of
Minerals, by Mr. Charles Forman, 803, 827
* Section II.-Harbours, Docks, and Canals, (C,c.
Recent Improvements in Facilitating the Discharge and Loading of Large Steamers, and
the Best Form of Warehouses, by Mr. W.
Henry Hunter, 736, 754, 773
The Length, Width, and Depth, and Shape and
Mode of Construction of Locks, Entrances,
and Graving Docks, having Regard to the
Increasing Sizes and Shapes of Vessels, by
Mr. R. C. H. Dav'son, 736, 754
Sand-Pump Dredgers, by Mr. A. G. Lyster, 61, 789. See LETTERS
Effect of Waves on Breakwaters in Different
Depths of Water, by Mr. William Shield, 61, 789
The Design of Breakwaters, by Mr. J. Watt
Sandman, 761, 790
* Section .11 I. -Machinery.
Recent Advances in Locomotive Practice, by
Mr. F. W. Webb, 737, 755
The Relative Advantages of Different Kinds
of Power for Tramways, Light Railways, and
Motor Car Traffic, both Heavy and Light,
by Mr. Thomas Parker, 740, 756. See LETTER, 85
Forgings and the Machines Used in Producing
Them, by Mr. E. S. Brett, 740, 864
Machine Tools ; with Special Reference to
American and German Practice as Compared
with English, by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, 800, 27
Separate Condensing Plants for Factory Purposes, by Sir A. Seale Haslam, 802, 828
Cranes, and the Power to be Used with Them
by Mr. Walter Pitt 801, 829
* Section I V.-Mining and Metallurgy.
Opening Address by Mr. E. Windsor Richards, 62
Modern Improvements in Coal Winding :
Winding from Deep Mines, by Mr. H. W.
Martin, 762, 791
Gold Mining, by Mr. J. H. Hammond, 763, 791
Modern Practice in Gold Mining, by Mr. Fearnside Irvine, 763, 792
Comparative Advantages of Electricity, Compressed Air and Steam for Mining and Manufacturing Purposes generally, by Mr. H. S.
Childe and Mr. W. Garforth, 792, 805, 830
By-Product Coke Ovens, by Mr. Evence Copped, 02, 829
The Influence of Casting Temperature on
Steel, by Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 805, 830
* Section V.-Shipbuilding.
Swift Passenger Steamers of Moderate Size, by
Mr. E. L. Martin, 740, 756
On the Practicability of so Constructing Merchant Steamers as to Render them Readily
Available for War Purposes, by Mr. J. H.
Biles, 741, 757
Recent Developments in Cargo Steamers, by
Mr. E. W. De Rusett, 763, 793
Dock Blocks and Docking Appliances, by Mr.
A. J. Maginnis, 805, 831
The Application of Mechanical Appliances to
the Riveting and Caulking of Ships ; and
the Materials of Ships' Rivets, by Mr. Robert
T. Napier, 806, 831
* Section VI.-Water Works, Sewerage, and Gas
Works.
The Use of Filtered Flood Water, by Mr. M.
W. Hervey, 764, 793
The Rate per Head of Supply in Different
Towns, with a Consideration of the Causes
which Increase or Diminish it in Particular
Instances, by Mr. James Watson, 764, 795
Selvage Sludge Disposal by Natural Agencies,
Including the Purification of Sewage by
Means of Artificial Filters, by Dr. G. Sims
Woodhead, 765, 795
The Purification of Gas and the Conversion of
Chemical Residuals therefrom, Including
the Preparation of Cyanogen, by Mr. W.
Foulis, 807, 832. See LETTER, 857
Labour-Saving Machinery Applicable to
Operations in Gas Works, by Mr. C. C. Carpenter, 810, 832
* Section VII.-Applications of Electricity.
Methods of Electrical Transformation, by Mr.
James Swinburne, 758, 767
Some Non-Integrating Electric Meters, by Professor W. E. Ayrton, 757, 768
Mechanical Traction by Electricity, by Mr.
G. C. Cuningham, 768,796
Economical Transmissifi and Distribution of
Electricity from a Distance, by Mr. H. F.
Parshall, i69, 796
* C011ver8azione. 44
* Excursions.
Messrs. William Cory and Son's Works, Blackwall, 782
Euston to Crewe and Back, 783
Clark Cell, The Minor Variations of a, 470
Climate of Jersey, 357
Clubs, Workshop, 419
Clutch, Friction (Croft and Perkins, Bradford), 59
Clyde Shipbuilding, 70, 83
Coal Consumption of Auxiliary Engines in
Cruisers, 389, 491, 522, 524, 745. See LErrEas, 56, 557
Coal Consumption and Evaporation Tests, 41
* Coal-Cutting Machinery, 508
Coal Distribution Works at Blackwall, 782
Coal-Gas, Residual Products, 807, 832. See
LETTER! 857
Coal Mining, 762, 791
Coal, Weathered, and Calorific Power, 67
Cookerill Company, Belgium, 109
Coherers, 253. See also Marconi
Coke-Oven and Blast-Furnace Gases, Use of, 65
Coke-Oven Gases, 608
Coke Ovens, By-Product, 802, 829
Coking in Beehive Ovens, 478
Coles, Mr. Sherard Cowper, on Preservation and
Fireproofing of Wood, 258
Collision Mats, 147
Colonial Institute of Paris, 589
Colour Photography, 818
Columns of Goods Warehouse (Great Central
Railway), 401
Combination Movement in England, 817
Combustion, Spontaneous, of Charcoal, 153
Commercial Exhibitions, 54
Commissions, Illicit, 586. See LETTERS
Companies' Act, 1898, Amendment, 18, 103
Compensating Split Packing, 555
Compensation Act, 1897, Workmen's, 57, 86, 219, 93, 327, 353, 379, 464, 484, 553, 658, 784, 815, 55
Competition, American, 256
Competition and Machine Tools, United States 99. See LETTERS
Complements in the Navy, Engine-Room, 681
Compound Engine. See Angines
Compound Locomotives, 185
Compressed Air Illness, Hudson Tunnel and, 486, 57
Compressed Air Mining Plant, 792, 805, 830
Compressed Air Riveting Machinery, 806, 831
Condensers, Evaporative, 539, 595, 661, 721, 861.
See LETrEns
Condenser Installation, Cooling Tower and, 40
Condenser, Oscillatory Discharge, 692
Condensing Plant, Separate, 802, 828
Connecting-Rod Problem, 695. See LETTERS
Balancing Engines
Consumption, Steam, 51
Contact-Maker, Electrolytic, 218, 356, 428, 818
Contracts, London County Council and Engineering, 390
Contracts in Restraint of Trade, 743
Conversazione at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 744
Conversion of Raw into Boiled Oil, 238
Cooling Tower and Condenser Installation, 40
Cooper, Mr. R. Elliott on Earth Slips, 799, 826
Cooper and Wigzell's Sounding Apparatus, 451
Copenhagen Harbour Electric Plant, 159
Copenhagen Sewage, 84
Copped, Mr. E., on By-Product Coke Ovens, 802, 29
Copper Corner, 555
Copper v. Iron Pipes, 408, 465. See LETTERs, 487
Copper Mining, United States, 586
Copper Production and Prices, V/
Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, 477
Copper Steam Pipe Flange, 487
Copper and Tin, 746
Core Loss in Electric Generators, 374
Corner, Copper, 555
"Corners" in Trade, 214, 284, 555, 43, 853
" Corners" in United States, 526, 711
Cory Coal Works at Blackwall, 782
Costs in Mining, 478. See 489
Cotton Industry in China, 855
Cotton Mills in Japan, 590
Cotton Weaving in Japan, 321
County Council and Engineering Contracts,
London, 390
Coupling. Laycock's Automatic Railway, 615
Coupling, White and Burke's, 123
Couplings, Automatic, 323, 356
Cours d'Electricite, Theone et Pratique, by 0.
Savazin, 139
Covered Way on the Metropolitan Section
(Great Central Railway), 479
Crane, Electrical Goliath, 747
Crane Practice, Some Variations in Standard, 35
Cranes, Block-Setting Titan, 88, 121, 484, 829
Cranes for Minerals at Harbours, 800, 827
cranes and the Power to be Used in Them, 801, 29
Cream Separators,835
Creusot Strike, 74
Crewe Works, Circular Saw Guard, 463
Crown Cream Separator, 835
Cruisers. See Warships
Cry 26stalline3 Structure of Iron and Steel, 191, 226,
* Cuningham, Mr. G. C., on Electric Traction, 68, 796
Cycle Trade Competition, United States, 685
Cyclists' Indispensable Handbook, 418
Cylindrical v. Water-Tube Boilers See WaterTube, &c., Boilers
*
Dairy Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Show,
Maidstone, 820, 835
Dalby, Professor W. E., on Balancing Engines, 30, 561. See 444 and LETTERS
Danish Ships, Steam Trials, 389, 395
Dantzig, Free Port of, 589
Davison, Mr. R. C. H., on Sizes of Steamers and
Docks, 736, 754
De Pontibus : A Pocket-Book for Bridge Designers, by J. A. L. Waddell, 138
De Reffye Mitrailleuse and Field Gun (Schneider), 33
De Russell, Mr. E. W., on Cargo Steamers, 763, 93
Deep Pile Foundations, 120
Depreciation in Engineering Plant, 289
Depth Statistics of the Sea, 169
Depth of Water and Speed of Ships (Danish), 89, 395
Destroyers, Torpedo-Boat. See IVarships
Destruction of Iron Water Pipes, 321
Destructors, Refuse, 458
Deveril's Steam Gauge, 718
Diagrams of Metal Prices, 24, 156, 290, 462, 692, 1
* Dick Process of Tubemaking by Extrusion, 12
Dictionary of Engine Terms in Various Languages, 113
Die Ingenieurtechnik im Alterthum, by Curt
Merck, 437
Diffusion of Elements in Iron, 604
Diffusion of Liquids, Determining Rate of, 428
Diffusion of Sulphides through Steel, 128
Diffusive Convection, Energy of, 428
Dioptric Apparatus for Lighthouses, 278
Dipping Needle, 604
Directories, 108, 191, 344, 448
Directory of Titled Persons for 1899 (Whitaker), 48
Disabled Steamers, 88
Discharging and Loading Large Steamers, 736, t4, 773
Disdier, Enrique, on the Use of Blast-Furnace
and Coke-Oven Gases, 865
Disintegration of Nickel Aluminium Alloy, 508
Distribution of Power in Warships, 403, 434, 469
Dock Appliances and Warehouses, 73d, 764, 773
Dock Blocks and Appliances, Graving, 805, 831
Dock Electric Plant, 159
Docks and Ships, Relative Dimensions, 736, 764
Dredger, Bucket (Smulder's), 814
Dredgers, Sand-Pump, 761, 789. See LETTERS
* Dredging for Gold : 03, 535, 642, 840
Current- Wheel Dredges for Gold, 501
Dipper Dredge for Gold, 604
Gold Recovery Appliances, 840
Grizzlys, 643
History of Gold Dredging, 503
Horse-Power Used in Dredging, 612
Obsolete Machines, 504
Pump Dredges for Gold, 535
Separation of Material Dredged, 643
Sluice Boxes, 841
Suction Pump Dredges for Gold, 535
Trommels, 840
Turbine Dredges for Gold, 504
Drill Chuck, Positive Driving, 230
Drilling 11Iachine, Boiler Flue, 110
Drilling Machine, Radial (Russian), 513
Driving Drill Chuck, Positive (Pratt Chuck Company, Frankfort, N.Y.), 230
Driving Piles, with Water Jet, 674
Drought of 1897 and 1898, 357
Dunalastair Locomotive. See 144
Dunkerley, Professor, on Connecting-Rod Problem, 695. See LETTERS, Balancing Engines
Durston, Sir John, on Trials of H.M.S. Argo
naut," 388, 391, 432. See LETTER, 487
Dynamometer, Transmission, 485
Dynamos, Electric. See also Westinghouse Corn
pany
Dynamos. See Electric Generators
* Early Guns, (Schneider), 133, 174
Early Steamships, 557, 591, 624
Early United States Marine Engines, 408, 434
Earth Slips, 799, 826
Earthwork, Diagram, 273
Eccles Boiler Explosion, 92
Economy of Using Heavy Rails, 57, 62
Egyptian River Bridge, 729, 769, 836. See LETTERS, 58
Electric Arc, Hissing of the, 423, 818
Electric Battery, Modified Bunsen, 119
Electric Cab, Kreiger, 84
Electric Cable, Submarine Survey, 35, 101, 167.
See 451
Electric Cabs in Paris, 233, 269
Electric, Clark Cell, The Minor Variations of a, 70
Electric, Coherers, 253. See also Marconi
Electric Depot, Municipal, 181. See LETTERS
Electric Elevator at Central London Railway, 73, 306
Electric Engines, 96
Electric Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 80
Electric Exhibits at the Royal Society's Soirée, 87, 818
Electric Generating Plant, Westinghouse Com
pany, 369, 440, 505, 612, 732, 810
* Electric Generators : 1, 100, 374, 475, 537, 670
Core Loss in Electric Generators, 374
Geared Railway Motor, 475, 537
Loss, Core, in Electric Generators, 374
Motor, Railway, Geared, 475, 537
Motors, Railway, Direct-Connected, 670, 844
Motors, Traction, 374
Railway Motors, Direct-Connected, 670, 844
Railway Motors, Geared, 475, 537 -Pole 250 Kilowatt Railway Electric Generator, 00 0-Pole Lighting Generator (Union Company,
Berlin), 41
Traction Motors, 374
Electric Generators, Railway, 732. See also
Westinghouse
Electric High Voltage Transmission, 249. See
LETTERS
Electric Lamp, Nernst, 183, 285. See LETTERS
Electric Lamps in Fire Damp Mines, 20
Electric Locomotive Design, 682
Electric Magnetic Induction, 594
Electric Meters, Some Non - Integrating, 757, 68
Electric Motor Plant, Westinghouse Company, 69, 440, 60i, 612, 732, 810
Electric Plants for Harbours and Docks, 159
Electric Power Station, Niagara, 91, 128, 160
Electric Power and Lighting Station (Schneider), 35
Electric Power for Tramways, Railways, &c., 740, 56. See LErrmas, 785
Electric Railway, Milan-Monza, 623
Electric Railway Motor Boring Machine, 157
Electric Riveting Machinery, 806. See 831
Electric Station Steam Pipes, 301
Electric Storage Batteries, 194
Electric-Thermal Combination, 6t6
Electric Traction, 374, 740, 756, 768, 798. See
LETTER, 785
Electric Tramways, Glasgow, 397
Electric Transmission Plants, Two Large, 183
Electric Voltmeter, Elliott's Recording, 230
* Electric Wireless Telegraphy, 321, 356, 360, 449, 85. See 31, 94, 124, 449
Electric Wiring Rules, 215
Electric Works at Pittsburg (Westinghouse Company), 369, 440, 505, 612, 732, 810
* Electrical Engineers, Institution of:
Improvements in Magnetic Space Telegraphy.
by Dr. Oliver Lodge, 31, 94, 124
Electric Wiring Rules, by Mr. R. E. Crompton,
Mr. C. H. Wordingham, and Mr. J. Pigg, 15
Wireless Telegraphy, by Mr. G. Marconi, 321, 60. See 3], 94, 124, 356, 449
The Hissing of the Electric Arc, by Mrs.
Ayrton, 423
Electric Locomotive Design, by Mr. P. V.
McMahon, 682
Conversazione, 617
Summer Trip to Switzerland, 617
Electrical Enterprise in Germany, 58
Electrical Exhibition at Brussels, 287
Electrical Exhibition, New York, 854
Electrical Goliath Crane, 747
Electrical Interrupter, Wehnelt-Caldwell, 218, 56, 428, 818
Electrical Mining Plant, 792, 805, 830
Electrical Motor Carriages, 513. See Cars,
Motor
Electrical Power Long Transmission, 769, 796
Electrical Recorder, Callendar's, 675
Electrical Tools for Mining, 792, 805, 830
Electrical Trades Directory, 344
Electrical Transformation, 758,767
Electrical " Year-Books," 314
Electrically Driven Air Pumps (Allen, Bedford), 12
Electricity Course, 139
Electricity, Industrial, 571
Electricity Seasoning Wood, 154
Electro-Pneumatic Signalling Plant, 773. See 824
Electrolytes, Incandescence of Refractory, 285.
See LETTERS, Nernst and Co.
Electrolytic Methods of Analysis, 536
Electrolytic Conductivity without Electrodes, 783
Electrolytic Contact-Breaker, Wehnelt, 356, 428
Electrolytic Current Interrupters, 218, 818
Electrometer, Quadrant, 692
Electroplating Ships, 315, 357
Elliott's Recording Voltmeter, 230
Embankment Washed away on London and
North-Western Railway in %Vales, 77
Employers' Liabilities and Powers, 649
Employers' Liability Act, Seamen and, 287
Employers' Liability. See also Workinens' Conpensation Act, 1897
Employers' Parliamentary Council, 283
Energy in Diffusive Convection, 423
Enfield, Evolution of Arms at, 185
Engine Connecting-Rod Problem, 695. See
LETTERS, Balancing Engines
Engine Difficulties with High Pressures, 524
Engine-Room Complements in the Navy, 681
Engine, Triple-Expansion, Wigzell's (Paul, Dumbarton), 581
Engines, Auxiliary, Coal Consumption, 389, 491, 22, 524, 745. See 556, 557
Engines, Balancing Marine, 144, 530, 561, 695.
See LETTERS
Engines, Blowing, Cross-Compound (Sir C. Furness, Westgarth, and Co.), 11
Engines, Blowing (Davy Brothers), 347
Engines, Early United States Marine, 40S, 431
Engines, Gas and Oil, 235
Engines, Gas, 344
Engines, Gas, and Blast-Furnace and Coke Oven
Gases, 608, 865
Engines, Gas and Oil (Allen and Barker's), 209
Engines, Gas, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 20
Engines, High-Speed, 96
Engines of the New Royal Yacht (Ilumphrys,
Tennant, and Co.), 641
Engines, Triple-Expansion, of the French Passenger Steamer " Laos," 484, 544
Engines, Oil, at the Royal Agricultural Show, 820
Engines at the Royal Agricultural Show, 820
Engines of the Russian Volunteer Ship, " Moskva" (Clydebank Company), 674
Engines of the S.S. " Ultonia " (Furness, Westgarth, and Co.), 276
Engines, Triple-Expansion, Japanese Destroyer
" Akebono," 847
Engineers' Charge Pay, 681
Engineers, Naval, 58, 186, 255, 289, 322, 390, 481, 24, 785
Engineers in the Navy, 149, 551. See LETTERS
Engineers, Royal. See Royal Engineers
Engineering and Architecture, 654. See LErrEns,
-Estheticism in Bridge Design
Engineering Contracts, London County Council
and, 390
Engineering History, 437
Engineering in Natal, 22
Engineering and Shipbuilding in 1898, 25, 60, 70, 3
English and American Workshop Management, 87
English Patents and Foreign Patentees, 23
English Shipbuilding, 60
Equations, Solution of Simultaneous, 255
Erecting Atbara Bridge, 836. See 729, 769, and
LETTER, 858
" Ermack," Russian Ice-Breaking Steamer, 252, 12. See 383
Evaporation Test, 41
Evaporative Condense rs, 569, 595, €61, 721, 861
See LETTERS
Evaporators on Naval Ships Worked with Exhaust Steam, 389, 491, 522, 745. See 556
Evolution of Small Arms at Enfield, 185
Ewing, Professor J. A., on Magnetism, 563, 627
Exhibition, Article Club, 154, 714, 823
Exhibition, Building Trades, 554, 589
Exhibition, Electrical, at Brussels, 287
Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901, 552
Exhibition of Motor Cars at Richmond, 782, 823.
See LETTERS, 821, 858
exhibition, New York Electrical, 854
Exhibition, Paris, 52, 150, 844
Exhibitions for Advancing Exports, 20
Expansion of Steam Pipes, 301
Explosion. See Poiler.exp!o:iong
* Explosion of Chlorate of Potash at St. Helen's, 683
Explosion, Gun, at Sandy Hook, 493
Explosion, Toulon Magazines, 665. See LETTERS
Explosive Compound, Fumelessite, 704
Export Merchant Shippers for 1899, 448
Exports and Imports, 81
Exports, Methods for Advancing, 20
Extrusion, Tube-Making by, 12
* Factory Condensing Plant, 802, 828. See Evaporative Condensers
" Faro3lawna," Steam Yacht (Schichau), 11
Field Gun, De Reffye System (Schneider), 133
Filtered Flood Wat-r, 764, 793
Fire Brigade Act, Proposed, 460, 496
* Fire Protection in Europe : 3, 141, 401, 459, 571
Bremen and Hamburg Fires, 571
Brewery, 460
Druggist's Premises, 460
Fire Material Tests, 517, 707, 777, 861
Hamburg and Bremen Fires, 571
Iron Worker's Premises, 66
Leather Worker's Premises, 460
Miller, 401
Papermaker, 66
Printer, 401
Self-Survey, 66, 401, 459, 571
Shipbuilder, 67
Sugar Refiner, 460
Testing Station in London, 141, 517, 707, 777, 64. See Erratum,187
Textile Manufacturer, 459
Woodworker, 66
Firedamp Mines, Electric Lamps in, 20
Fire Engine, London County Council (Merry weather), 209
Fire Testing Station, 141, 517, 707, 777, 861. See
Erratum, 187
Firebar Inserter, Boiler, 527
Fireproofing, and Preservation of Wood, 258
Firing Devices, Quick-Firing Guns (Schneider), 75, 610, 635, 671, 700, 731
Flange of Copper Steam Pipe, 487
Flather, Mr. J. J., on Transmission Dynamometer, 85
Fleming, Mr. T. A., on Wireless Telegraphy, 449
Flood Water, Fitering, 764, 793
Flooring, Hobson's (Great Central Railway), 337, 01
Flow of Steam through Pipes, Experiments, 67
Flow of Water, Hele-Shaw's Experiments, 28
Fluid-Pressure Motors, 187
Flying Soundings in Submarine Survey, 167
Flywheels, Bursting of Cast-Iron, 10
Fog-Signalling, Railway, 735, 863
Fog-Signalling at Sea, 1, 105
Footner, Mr. H , on Relaying Railways, 799, 826
Foreign and Colonial Notes, 15, 247
Foreign Trade Exchange, 81
Foreigners in Japan, 186
Forging Machines, 740, 864
Forman, Mr. C., on Mineral Transport and Hand.
ling, 800, 827
Foulis, Mr. W., on Residual Products from CoalGas Making, 807, 832. See LErrza, 857
Foundation, Deep-Pile, 120
Fracture of Chilled Rolls, 297, 332. See LicrrEas,
Chilled Rolls
Fractures of Steam Pipes, 408, 465. See LETTERS, 87
France, Light Railways, 74
Fraser's Evaporator Condenser, 661, 862
Freezing Point, Absolute Value of the, 785
French Colonial Institute, 587
French Naval Annual, 314
French Passenger Steamer " Laos," 413, 484, 514
French Railways, 494, 686
French Shipping Bounties, 853
French State Railway Locomotive (Schneider), 514
Friction Clutch (Croft and Perkin's, Bradford), 59
Frictional Resistance of Ships, 441
Friendly Societies, 513
Fuel, Oil, 460
" Fulda" Accident in Birkenhead Graving Dock, 05, 831
Furnace. See also Lorain
Furnace Blowing Engines (Davy Brothers), 347
Furnace Blowing Engines (Furness, Westgarth,
and Co.), 11
Furnace and Coke-Oven Gases, the Use of Blast, 08, 865
Furnaces, Brass, Gas Heating for, 324, 357, 391
Furnaces, Tilting Open-Hearth, 604, 613
Fumelessite cCompound Explosive), 704
Future of British Workmen, 117, 126
* Galton, the Late Sir Douglas, 853
Garbage Destructors, 458
Garforth, Mr. W. E., on Mechanical Mining
Plant, 805, 830. See 792
Gas Engines. See Engines
Gas Heating for Brass Furnaces, 324, 357, 391
Gas and Oil Engines, Allen and Barker's, 209
Gas, Residual Products from Coal, 807, 839- See
LETTER, 857
Gas Retort Charging Machinery, 810, 832
Gases, Utilising Blast-Furnace and Coke-Oven 08, 865
Gates of Locks, &c. See Canals in Russia
Gauge, Deveril's Steam, 718
Gear-Cutting Machine, Worm, 89
Geared Electric Railway Motor, 475, 537
Gelignite, Rhenish, 22
Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, 603
Generation and Utilisation of Steam, 41
Generators for Acetylene. See Acetylene
Generators, Electric, See Westinghouse Company and Electric Generators
Geology of the Rocky Mountains, 478
German Industrial Progress, 250
German Ship Subsidies, 84
German Trades Unionism, 746
Germany, Electrical Enterprise in, 58
Germany, Machine and Hand Power in, 24)
Gland Packing, 555
Glasgow Exhibit ion, 19;1, 552
Glasgow Tramways (Electric), 397
" Glory," floating out H.M.S. (Laird), 358
Glycerine in Paint, Mischief of, 239
* Gold Dredging. See Dre lying for Gold
Gold, Microscopic Structure of, 87, 146, 254
Gold Mining, 478, 763, 791
Gold Mining, Lay System of Placer, 478
Gold Recovery. See Dredging for Gold
Goliath Crane, Electrical, 747
Goods Department at Marylebone Station (Great
Central Railway), 378, 401, 439
Graphical Method for Problem of Rough Inclined
Plane, 499
Graving Dock Blocks and Appliances, 805, 831
Great Central Railway : 65, 208, 212, 276, 310, 410, 439, 479, 674, 701, 47
Bridges on the Metropolitan Section, 337, 479
Cab Approach to Marylebone Station, 341
Carriage Shed at Marylebone, 439. See 658
Carriage Sheds at Neasden, 674
Columns of Goods Warehouse, 401
Covered Way on the Metropolitan Section, 479
Electrical Goliath Crane, 747
Flooring, Hobson's, 337, 401
Goods Department at Marylehone Station, 378, 01, 439
Hobson's Flooring, 337, 401
Locomotive Sheds, &c., at Neasden, 674, 704
Marylebone Station, 208, 242, 276, 310, 378, 01
Metropolitan Terminus, 165, 208, 242, 276, 310, 01, 439
Neasden Sidings and Sheds, 674, 704
Opening for Goods Traffic, 337
Opening for Passenger Traffic, 337
Passenger Station, Marylebone, 208, 242, 276, 10
Platform at Marylebone Station, Roof, 276, 310
Promenade at Marylebone Station, 242, 276
Regent's Canal Wharf and Roof, 439. See 558
Roof of Marylebone Station Buildings, 242, 76, 310
Roof of Neasden Sheds, 674, 704
Roof over Wharf at Regent's Canal, 439. See 58
Route. 165
Sand-Drying Furnace, 704
Sheds, Locomotive and Carriage, at Neasden, 74, 704
Station Buildings at Marylebone, 208, 242
Tunnelling on the Metropolitan Section, 479
Umbrella Roof at Regent's Canal, 439. See
Erratum, 558
Underpinning on the Metropolitan Section, 479
Warehouse, Goods, 401
Wharf at Regent's Canal and Roof, 439. See
Erratum, 558
Greenwood, Mr. A., on Machine Tools, 800, 827
Grinding Apparatus, Lathe Centre, 313
Groynes for Sea Encroachments, 110
Guard (Circular Saw), at Crewe Works, 463
Guard for Circular Saws (Glover), 291. See
Erratum., 316
Guard for Circular Saw (Scott), 25
Gun Breech Mechanism (Vickers), 76. See also
Schneider
Gun Explosion at Sandy Hook, 493
Gun Fire, United States, at Santiago, 852
Gun Lathe, 50-In. (Bement, Miles, and Co., Philadelphia), 544
Gun Manufacture (Schneider), 133, 174, 201, 235, 77, 308, 341
Guns. See also Schneider
Guns, Howitzer, 5-In., at Omdurman, 253
Guns, Magazine, Evolution at Enfield, 185
Guns, Naval, Early Types of (Schneider), 375, 402
* Hadfield, Mr. R. A., on Casting Temperature of
Steel, 805, 830
Hakodate Trade, 216
Hammer for Scaling Boilers, 527
Hammond, Mr. J. H., on Gold Mining, 763, 701
Handbook for Chemists of Beet Sugar Houses
and Seed Culture Farms, by Guilford L.
Spencer, D.Sc., 169
Handbook of Street Railroad Location, by John
P. Brooks, 235
Handbuch der Materialienkunde fiir den Machinenbau, by A. Martens, 307
Handling Minerals at Harbours, 800, 827
Hanssen, Mr. A., on Metric System, 295
Harbour Appliances for Handling Minerals, 800, t7
Harbour Appliances and Warehouses, 736, 754. 73
Harbour, Buenos Ayres, 515
Harbour Electric Plant, 159
Harlem River, Swing Bridge over, 256
Hartlepool Shipbuilding, 27
Haslam, Sir A. S., on Condensing Plant for Factories, 802, 828
Haswell, Mr. Charles H., on Early United States
Marine Engines, 408, 434
Head, Mr. A. P., on Tilting Open-Hearth Furnaces, 604, 613
Head, The Late Mr. Jeremiah, 354
Heating Buildings by Steam, 367
Heavy Rail Sections, 508
Hele-Shaw, Professor II. S., on Further Experiments on the Character of Fluid Motion, 28
" Hermes," Trials of II.NI S., 745
Hervey, Mr. M. W., on the Use of Filtered Flood
Water, 764, 793
Her Majesty's Navy Estimates and Ships, 351, 85. See Lirrmati, Water-Tube, &c., 17oiler8
"Amphitrite" Trials and Coal Consumption of Auxiliary Engines, 389, 491, 622. See 24, 556, 557, 745
H.M.S. " Argonaut's " Trials, 388, 391, 432. See
LETTERS
H.M.S. " Ariadne " Steam Trials (Clydebank), 85
H.M.S. "Glory, Floating out (Laird), 358
H.M.S. " Hermem," Trials of the, 745
ILM.S. "Terrible," Disaster on the, 461. See
LETTERS
H.M.SS. Machinery, 311
High-Pressure Engine Difficulties, 624
High-Speed Engines, 96
high Voltage Transmission, 249. See LETTE1Iti
Hill's Railway Carriage Window, 393
Hissing of the Electric Arc, 423, 818
Ristoire de l'Architeeture, by Auguste Choisy 67
* Hobart, Mr. H. M., and Parshall, Mr. H. F., on
E'ectric Generators. See Electric Generators
Hobbing Machine, Heavy Worm Gear (Niles
Tool Works Company), 89
Hobson's Flooring (Great Central Railway), 337, 01
Hoc Proving Grounds, Havre (Schneider), 342
Hoist Equipment at Central London Railway,
Passenger, 273, 306
Honorarium for Works at Plymouth, 683
Hop-Washing Plant, 821
Horner, Mr. Joseph, on Cranes, 135
Horse-Power Absorbed by Skin Friction and
Wave-Making, 444
Horseless Carriage. See Cars, Motor
Horsfall Refuse Destructor, 458
Hot Blast in the Bessemer Process, 604
Howitzers, 5-In., at Omdurman, 253
Hudson Tunnel and Compressed Air Illness, 486, 57
Humber Shipbuilding, 60
Hunt, Mr. Robert W., on Lorain Steel Company's Works, Ohio, 3, 65
Hunter, Mr. W. H., on Loading and Discharging
Steamers, 736, 754, 773
Hydrographical Surveying, by Rear-Admiral
William Wharton, 139
* Ice-Breaking Steamer for Russia, " Ermack," 52, 412. See 383
Illicit Commissions, 586. See LETTERS
Implements at the Agricultural Show, 820
Imports and Exports, 81
Incandescence of Refractory Electrolytes, 285.
See LETTERS, Nernst, ttc.
Inclined Plane, Graphical Treatment of the
Problem of Rough, 499
India-rubber Carriage Tyres, 457
India-rubber Manufacture, 217
Indian and Atlantic Cables, First, 273
Indian Railways, 21
Indian Railways Unguaranteed, 747
Indicated Horse-Power, Calculated, 690
Inductance and Equivalent Resistance of a Wire
to an Oscillatory Discharge, 158
Induction, Electric Magnetic, 594
Induction, Magnetic, Distribution in a Long Bar, 85
Industrial Electricity, Edited by A. G. Elliott,
B.Sc., 571
Industrial Notes, 27, 59, 89, 123, 157, 190, 224, 57, 291, 326, 359, 393, 427, 463, 497, 527, 559, 93, 626, 657, 691, 719, 751, 787, 825, 859
Inertia, Theory of the Moments of, 40
Inglis, Dr. John, on the Future of British Industries, 117, 126
Interrupter, Electrolytic, 218, 356, 428, 818
Ireland, Shipbuilding in, 60
Iriehromatines, 715
Iron, Cast, Melting Point of, 330
Iron, Crystalline Structure of Steel and, 191, 226, 63
Iron in the Eighteenth Century, 603
Iron Elements, Diffusion of, 604
Iron and Nickel Alloys, 462
Iron Ore Mines, Gellivare, 603
Iron Ore Mines, Lake Superior,221
Iron Ore, Transportation of, 19
Iron Ore in Virginia, 509
Iron Paints, 238
Iron Production in China and Japan, 746
Iron and Steel Alloys, 205, 210, 259
Iron and Steel, Cast, 609
Iron anti Steel Institute : 90, 603, 777
The Crystalline Structure of Iron and Steel, by
Mr. John E. Stead, 191, 226, 263
Spring Meeting, 590
Report of Council, 603
Presidential Address (Sir W. C. Roberts
Austen), 603
Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, by Mr. H. Bauerman. 03
Tilting Open-Hearth Furnaces, by Mr. A. P.
Head, 604? 613
Hot Blast in the Bessemer Process, by Professor J. Wiborgh, 604
An improved Dipping Needle, by Professor
Henry Louis, 604 The Diffusion of Elements in Iron, by Professor Arnold and Mr. Andrew MeWilliani, 04
The Use of Blast-Furnace and Coke-Oven
Gases, by Mr. Enrique Disdier, 608, 885
Theories and Facts Relating to Cast Iron and
Steel, by Mr. Bertram S. Summers, 609
Steel Direct from the Blast-Furnace, by Mr.
Dimitrius Tschernoff, 610
Solution Theory of Iron and Steel, by Baron
H. JOptner von Jonstorff, 010
Diffusion of Sulphides through Steel, by Mr.
E. D. Campbell, 128
Iron and Steel Making, United States, 489
Iron and Steel Stresses, Thermal Analysis of, 664
Iron Test Bars, Casting, 546
Iron Water Pipes, Destruction of, 321
Ironwork and Fire Protection, 66
Iron Works, Ohio, Lorain, 3, 65
Irvine, Mr. F., on Gold Mining, 763, 792
* Jacketing of Cylinders (" Argonaut's" Trials)) 88, 391, 432. See !Arms, 487
James' Sentry for Submarine Survey, 167
Japan Cotton Weaving Industry, 321
Japan Economic Position, 165
Japan, Foreign Patents in, 121
Japan, Foreigners in, 186
Japan Imports, 684
Japan, Notes from, 555, 784
Japan, Notes from (Cotton Mill Companies), 590
Japan Railway Nationalisation, 716
Japan Railways, 473
Japan Shipping, 81
Japan Shipping Bounties, 712
Japan Trade, 216
Japanese Armoured Cruiser " Asaina" (Elswick), 77
Japanese Battleship Armour (Brown), 47
Japanese Finance, 553
Japanese Iron Production, 746
Japanese Loan, New, 783
Japanese Tariff, 20
* Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Akebono "
(Yarrow), 847
Japanese Torpedo-Boats, 119
Japanese View of Far Eastern Affairs, 116
Jersey Climate, 357
Johnson and Phillips' Sounding Apparatus for
Submarine Survey, 101
Joinery in Schools; 36
Joule-Thomson Effect and Some of its Consesequences, 279
Judges' Report upon the Liverpool Trials of
Motor Vehicles for Heavy Traffic, Edited by E.
Shrapnel Smith, 37
*
Kiao-Chou, Development of, 423
Kirkaldy Evaporative Surface Condensers, 723
Kitson, The Late Mr. J. Hawthorn, 716
Kloss System of Oil Fuel, 460
Krieger Electric Cab, 84
* Laboratory, Metallurgical, 478
Labour in New Zealand, 455
Labour Premiums in the States, 526
Labour-Saving Appliances in Gas Works, 810, 832
Laird, The Late Wm. (Birkenhead), 188
Lake Superior Iron Ore Mines, 221
Lamp, Nernst Electric, 183, 285. See LETTERS
Land and Naval Guns (Schneider), 133
Language of Science, 318
" Laos,' French Passenger Steamer, 413, 484, 44
Large-Span Arch Bridges, 656
Lathe Centre Grinding Apparatus, 313
Lathe, Gun, (Bement, Miles, and Co., Philadelphia), 544
Lathe Milling Attachment (Smart, Erith), 293
Launching Arrangements for White Star Liner
" Oceanic," 53, 75. See LETTERS 6, 1( 9, 8, 162,
Launches and Trial Trips, 23, 83, 556, 49, 513, 96, 229, 243, 288, 313, 426, 15, 864 00, 625, 656, 687, 721, 786,
Law of Picketing, 153
Law of Subsidence and Supports, 712
Law as to Trade Union Funds, 781
Laxton's Builders' Price-Book for 1899, 341
Lay System of Placer Mining, 478
Laycock's Automatic Railway Coupling, 645
Laycock's Victoria Works, Sheffield, 199
Lean's Royal Navy List, 557
Lecons Elementaires d'Acoustique et d'Optique.
By Ch. Fabry, 170
Ledward Evaporative Condenser, 661, 862
Legal Aspect of the Smoke Nuisance, 302
Legal. See also Workmen's Compensation Act ;
Companies' Amendment Act ; Picketing ; Employers' Liability ; Trade Union. Funds ;
Limited Liability Companies' Act, 18
Lehigh Valley Railroad Compound Locomotive, 05
Letters to the Editor, 22, 68, 87, 121, 146, 86, 20, 254, 289, 322, 356, 390, 423, 461, 85, 13, 57 56, 591, 623, 655, 688, 716, 785, 824,
Liabilities and Powers of Employers, 649
Libraries at Westerkirk and Lang-holm, Telford, 54
Life of a Locomotive, 595
Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tilston Bright,
Civil Engineer, with which is Incorporated the
Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies, by his Brother
Edward Brailsford Bright and his Son, Charles
Bright, 272
Lifeboat with a Drop Keel, 320
Lift, Canal, in Canada, a Large, 622
Lift Equipment at Central London Railway,
Passenger, 273, 306
Light Mineral Railroad, 574
Light Railways, 666, 733, 753
Light Railways in France, 74
Light Railways at Home and Abroad, by William
Henry Cole, 666
Lighthouse Dioptric Apparatus, 278
Lighting and Power, Electric (Schneider), 235
Lighting Railway Cars by Acetylene, 391
Limited Liability Companies' Act, 18
Liquid Air Fallacy, 599
Liquid Fuel, 460
Liquids, Determining Rate of Diffusion, 428
Literature, 36, 108, 138, 169, 235, 272, 307, 344, 37; 536, 571, 666
Little Railways for South Africa, 82. See LETTERS
Liverpool Trials of Motor Cars, 37
Livesey, The Late Mr. Frank, 622
Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, 494
Lloyd's Ship Losses Return, 185
Loading and Discharging Large Steamers, 736, 54, 773
Local Government Annual, 108
Lock-and-Block Signalling, 733, 753
Lock Gates. See Canals in Russia
Lockwood's Builders and Contractors' PriceBook, 108
Locomotive for Belgian Railway, 144
Locomotive, Compound, for Lehigh Valley Railroad, 705
Locomotive Design, Electric, 682
Locomotive Express Passenger, French State
Railways (Schneider), 514
Locomotive of the Future, 20
Locomotive, London and North • Western Performances, 737, 755, 783
Locomotive, London and South-Western, 741, 72
Locomotive, New York Central Railway,
" Mogul," 177
Locomotive Repairs and Renewals, 595
Locomotive Sheds, &c.' • at Neasden (Great Central Railway), 674, 704
Locomotive Speeds, 783
Locomotives, American, 44, 177, 423, 461, 513.
See also 688, 705, 785
Locomotive's Average Life, 595
Locomotive, British v. American, 688, 785
Locomotives, Compound, 185, 737, 755
Locomotives, Mexican (Schenectady), 44
Locomotives in Peru, 689
Locomotives, The Stability of Tank, 121
Locomotives for Swedish Railways, 320
Locomotives, Testing, 22
Lodge, Dr. Oliver, on Magnetic Space Telegraphy, 1, 94, 124. See Wireless Telegraphy
* London County Council and Engineering Contracts, 390
London County Council Specifications, 688
London County Council Works Department, 181.
See LwrrEas
London and North-Western Compound Locomotives, 737, 755, 783
London and North-Western 'Locomotive Speed, 83
London and North-Western Railway Accident
in Wales, 77
London and South-Western Locomotive, 741, 72
London Water Supply, 115, 526, 764, 793
Longridge, Captain C. C., on Dredging for Gold, 03, 535, 642, 840
Lorain Steel Company's Works, Ohio, 3, 65
Loss, Core, Electric Generators, 374
Lucas Sounding Instruments for Submarine
Survey, 101
Lykens Valley Coal Company, Coal Consumption, &c., 41
Lyster, the Late George Fosbery, 653
Lyster, Mr. A. G., on Sand-Pump Dredging, 761, 89. See LErrEas
* Machine and Hand Power in Germany, 20
Machine Tools, 800, 827
Machine Tools and Competition, United States, 99. See LErrEas
* Machine Tools :
Boiler Flue Drilling Machine (Victor Coates
and Co., Belfast), 110
Chucking Machine (Automatic) for Steam-Cock
Shells (Pratt and Whitney, Hartford, Conn.), 99
Driving Drill Chuck, Positive (Pratt Chuck
Co., Frankfort, N.Y.), 230
Four-Spindle Electric Railway Motor Boring
Machine (Newton Machine Tool Works, Philadelphia), 167
Gun Lathe, 50-In. (Bement, Miles, and Co.,
Philadelphia), 544
Lathe Centre Grinding Apparatus, 313
Lathe Milling Attachment (Smart, Erith), 298
Mortising Machine, Vertical (Fay and Co.,
Cincinnati), 450
Plate-Shearing Machine, Heavy (Hilles and
Jones Company, Wilmington, Del.), 12
Punching Machine with Side Shear, DoubleEnded (Mr. J. Cameron, Salford), 848
Radial Drilling and Tapping Machine (Russian
Company, Charkow), 513
Shearing, Bending, and Punching Machine,
(Striven and Co., Leeds), 707
Worm-Gear lobbing Machine, Heavy (Niles
Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 89
Machinery Depreciation, 289
Machinery for Mining, 792, 805, 830
Machinery for Printing, 208, 327, 365, 414
Machinery in Warships, 311;558, 569, 596, 630
Madras Presidency Water Works, 175
Magazine Rifles at Enfield, 185
Maginnis, Mr. A. J., on Graving Dock Blocks
and Appliances, 805, 831
Magnetic Induction Distribution in a Long Bar, 85
Magnetic Induction, Electric, 594
Magnetic Space Telegraphy, 31, 94, 124, 321, 356, 60, 449, 585
Magnetism, 663, 627
Maidstone Royal Show. See Agricultural, &c.
Malingering Mechanics, 619
Management of Ordnance Factories, 182
Manchester Ship Canal, Loading and Discharging
Arrangements, 736, 754, 773
Manchester Steam Users' Association, 643
Manchester Steam Users' Association Report, 51
Map, Japan Railways, 473
Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, and
Miscellaneous Improvements, 448
Map Showing Sea Routes, 201
Maps of Great Roads of England (Gall and Inglis), 777
Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy, 321, 356, 360, 85. See 31, 94, 124, 449
Marine Engineers, Institution of, Presidential
Address by Dr. J. Inglis, 117, 126
Martin, Mr. E. L., on Swift Passenger Steamers
of Moderate Size, 740, 756
Martin, Mr. H. W„ on Coal Mining, 762, 791
Marylebone Station (Great Central Railway), 208, 42, 276, 310, 378, 401
Massachusetts Institution of Technology, 685
Materials, Testing, for Machinery, 307
Mats, Collision, 147
Measures. See Metric System
* Mechanical Engineers, American Society
of:
New York Meeting.
Presidential Address, by Mr. C. W. Hunt, 7
Note on the Strength of Wheel Rims, by Mr.
Albert K. Mansfield, 10
The Bursting of Small Cast-Iron Flywheels, by
Mr. C. H. Benjamin, 10
The Theory of the Moments of Inertia, by Professor C. V. Kerr, 40
Cooling Tower and Condenser Installation, by
J. H. Vail, 40
Improvements in Steam Boilers and the Brick
Settings of Same, by W. Barnet le Van, 40
The Generation and Utilisation of Steam by
the Lykens Valley Coal Company and Summit Branch Coal Company, Dauphin County,
Penn., by Mr. R. V. A Norris, 41
The Variation of Belt Tensions with Power
Transmitted, by Mr. W. S. Aldrich, 67
The Calorific Power of Weathered Coals, by Mr.
R. S. Hale and H. J. Williams, 67
The Mechanical Plant of a Modern Commercial
Building, by Mr. W. B. Bryan, 67
Experiments on the Flow of Steam through
Pipes, by Professor R. C. Carpenter, 67
Niagara Falls Power Station, by Dr. Coleman
Sellers, 91, 128, 160
* Mechanical Engineers, Institution of: 04, 569, 651
New Buildings, 204
Report of the Council, 204
* Mechanical Engineers-cont'itticd.
Summer Meeting, 205
Officers, Election of, 205
Presidency (Sir William White), 205
Alloys Research Committee, 205, 210, 259, 294
Machinery for Book and General Printing, 08, 327, 365, 414
Dinner, 649
Presidential Address, Sir W. H. White, 558, 69, 596, 630
Evaporative Condensers, by Mr. G. H. V. Oldham, 569, 595, 661, 721, 861. See LETTERS
Historical Sketch, 651
New Building, 651
Conversazione, 651
Mechanical Engineering in Shipbuilding, 558, 69, 596, 630
Mechanical Mining, 792, 805, 830
Mechanical Stoker (Ransome and Rapier's), 677
" Mechanical World " Pocket Diary and YearBook, 108
Mechanics, Malingering, 619
Mechanics in Modern Buildings, 67
Melotte Cream Separator, 835
Melting Point of Cast Iron, 330
Melville. Admiral, on Power Distribution in
Warships, 903, 434, 469
Merchant Cruisers, 741, 757
Merchant Steamers as War Vessels, 741, 757
Mersey Bar Sand - Pump Dredging, 761, 789.
See LETTERS
Mersey Shipbuilding, 60
Mersey Tunnel Ventilation, 22
Messageries Maritimes Passenger Steamer
" Laos," 413, 484, 544
Metal Alloys, 205, 210, 259, 294
Metal Price Diagram, 24, 156, 290, 462, 592, 718
Metallurgical Laboratory, 478
* Meteorological Society, Royal:
Council's Report, 87
Presidential Address, by Mr. F. C. Bayard, 87
Phenological Observations, by Mr. E. Mawley, 20
The Circulation of the Atmosphere, by Professor W. M. Davis, 220
The Prolonged Deficiency of Rain in 1897 and 898, by Mr. F. J. Brodie, 357
Climate of Jersey, by the Rev. H. W. Yorke, 57
Soil Temperature, by Mr. H. Melish, 526
Some Phenomena Connected with the Vertical
Circulation of our Atmosphere, by MajorGeneral H. Schaw, 526
" At Home," 656
The Heavy Falls of Rain Recorded at the Seven
Observatories Connected with the Meteorological Office, 1871-98, by Dr. R. H. Scott, 24
Self-Recording Anemoscope, by Mr. J. Baxendell, 824
Average Height of the Barometer in London,
by Mr. A. C. Mossman, 824
Meters, Electric, Some Non-Integrating, 757, 68
Metric Conversion Tables, 45
Metric Screw Threads, International Standard
for, 154
Metric System, 519, 556, 591, 623, 624, 655, 716. 17, See LETTERS
Metric System of Measures and Weights, 295
Metropolitan. See London
Metropolitan Terminus (Great Central Railway), 66, 208, 242, 276, 310 401, 439
Mica Mining in Bengal, 293
Microscopic Structure of Gold and Gold Alloys, 7, 146, 254
Microscopy and Steel and Iron, 191, 226, 263, 94
Middlesbrough Boiler Explosion, 529
Milan-Monza Electric Railway, 623
Mill, Blooming, in United States Steel Works, 5
Millers' Fire Risks, 401
Milling Attachment, Lathe (Smart, Erith), 298
Milton, Mr. J. T., on Steam Pipes, 408, 465. See
LEITER, 487
Mineral Railroad, Light, 574
Mineral Resources of Chili, 855
Mineral Transport by Rail, 752
Mines, Electric Lamps in Firedamp, 20
Mining, Coal, 762, 791
Mining Companies, China, 152
Mining, Copper, in Arizona, 477
Mining Costs, 478. See 489
1Iining Engineers, American Institute
of:
The Late Albert Ludwig Serlo, 477
The Copper Queen Mine of Bisbee, Arizona,
by Dr. James Douglas, 477
Presidential Address, by Mr. Charles Kirchoff.
A Decade of Progress in Reducing Costs, 478, 89
The Lay System of Placer Mining, by Mr. 0. A.
Moses, 478
The Metallurgical Laboratory, by Dr. H. M.
Howe, 478
The Geological Structure of the Rocky Mountains, by Professor R. H. Chapman, 478
Art Castings, by Dr. Raymond, 478
Coking in Beehive Ovens of the Coals of the
New River District, West Virginia, by Charles
Catlett, 478
Important Results obtained in the Past Fifteen
Years with Stiff and Heavy Rail Sections,
by Mr. P. 11. Dudley, 508
Excursions, 508
Coal-Cutting Machinery, by Mr. E. W. Parker, 08
Disintegration of an Alloy of Nickel and Aluminium, by Mr. Sperry, 508
The Rich Patch Iron Tract, Virginia, by Mr.
II. M. Chance, 509
Chromite in North Carolina, by Mr. J. H.
Pratt, 509
Notes on the Operations of a Light Mineral
Railroad, by Mr. James Douglas, 574
List of Papers, 574
Excursions, 574
Mining, Gold, 763, 791. See also Dredging
Mining, Lay System of Placer, 478
Mining Machinery, 792, 805, 830
* Mining Machinery, Coal, 508
Mining, Mica, in Bengal, 293
Mining, United States Copper, 586
Miscellanea, 24, 49, 79, 113, 155, 179, 222, 247, 81, 315, 349, 383, 425, 452, 496, 517, 649, 583, 17, 847, 679, 709, 750, 777, 824, 856
Mitrailleuse, De Reffye (Schneider), 133
Moberly, C. H., on the Waterways of Russia, 37, 9, 170, 267, 371, 638, 727
" Mogul" Locomotive, New York Central Railway, 177
" Mohegan " Disaster, 22, 88. See 717
Moldenke, Dr. R , on Melting Point of Cast
Iron, 330
Monitors. See Warships
Monopolies and the Law, 743
Mortising Machine, Vertical (Fay and Co., Cincinatti), 450
Morton, President H., on Liquid Air Fallacy, 99
" Moskva," T.-S.S. for Russian Volunteer Fleet
(Clydebank Company), 626, 674
Motive Power in Warships, 556
Motor Car Industry, 779
Motor Carriages, Electrical, 513
Motor, Railway, Geated, 475, 537
Motor Vehicles. See Cars, Motor
*Motors, Electric. See Westinghouse Company
and Electric Generators
Motors, Fluid Pressure, 187
Motors, Railway, Direct-Connected, 670
Motors, Traction, 374
Mountain Railways, 733, 753
Mountings for Guns. See Schneider
Munday, Mr. C. F., on Calculating Cross-Curves
of Stability, 499
Municipal Ethics (Plymouth Water Works), 633
Municipal Factories, 181. See LwrrEas
Municipal Greed, 520
Museum for Advancing Exports, 20
Museum, South Kensington, 422
* Nagasaki Trade, 216
Napier, Mr. R. T., on Mechanical Riveters, 806, 31
Natal, Engineering in, 22
* Naval Architects, Institution of:
* Report of the Council, 387
Membership, Alteration of Rules, 338
Address by the Chairman, the Right Hon. the
Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.M.G., 388
Presentation of Gold Medals to Captain Kriloff,
I.R.N., and to Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw,
LL.D., 388
Trials and Experiments made on H.M.S. " Argonaut," by Sir John Durston, K.C.B , 388, 91, 432
Some Steam Trials of Danish Ships, by Captain A. Rasmussen, Royal Danish Navy, 389, 95
The Logical Arrangement of Motive Power of
Warships, by Commodore G. Melville, Milted
States Navy, 403, 434, 469
The Stresses at the Discontinuities of "ba Ship's
Structure, by Mr. J. Bruhn, 405, 429
On the Advantages of Using Tchebyscheff's
Rule in Association with the Integrator to
obtain Cross-Curves of Stability, by Mr. C. F.
Munday, 406, 499
Reminiscences of Early Marine Steam Engine
Construction and Navigation in the United
States of America from 1807 to 1850 (Continued), by Mr. Charles El. Haswell, 408, 434
On Steam Pipes, by Mr. J. T. Milton, 408, 465.
See LETTERS
Portable Pneumatic Riveters for Shipbuilding,
by Mr. W. I. Babcock, 441
Practical Experience on the Strength of
Boilers, by Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 441
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers for Sea Service, by
Mr. James Howden, 442
On the Communications Forwarded by Messrs.
J. Inglis and A. Denny and Professor Biles
on the Subject of Mr. James Hamilton's
Paper on the Horse-Power Absorbed by
Skin Friction and Wave-Making, by Mr.
James Hamilton, 444
The Balancing of Engines, with Special Reference to Marine Work, by Professor W. E.
Dalby, 445, 530, 561. See LETTERS
Concluding Proceedings, 446
Naval Contracts, 83
Naval Engineers, 58, 149, 186, 255, 289, 322, 390, 84, 624, 785
Naval Engineer Officers, 551. See LETTERS
Naval Engineer Reforms, 681
Naval Fleets of all Nations Compared, 344
Naval Guns, Early Types of (Schneider), 315, 02.
Naval and Land Guns (Schneider), 133
Naval Officers' Duties, 149
Naval Practice, Recent, 557
Naval War, Lessons of the Spanish-American, 17, 492, 852
Naval Year-Book, 344
Navy Estimates, 351, 385. See LETTERS, WaterTube, &c., Boilers
Neasden Sidings and Sheds (Great Central Railway), 674, 704
Needle, Dipping, 604
Nelson's Woodwork for Schools, A Course of
Manual Training, by Jerome Wallace, 36
Nernst Electric Lamp, 1c3. See 285. See LETTERS
New York Academy of Science, 589
New York Electric Transmission Plants, 183
New York Electrical Exhibition, 854
New Zealand, Labour in, 455
Niagara Falls Power Station, 91, 128, 160
Niagara River Bridge, 540, 678, 633, 700. See
LErma, 656
Nicaragua Canal, 200
Nicholson, Mr. E. D., on Chilled Rolls and Why
They Break, 297, 332
Nickel-Aluminium Alloy, Disintegration, 508
Nickel and Iron Alloys, 462
Nile River Bridge, 729, 769, 836. See LETTER, 58
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 84
Norddeutscher Lloyd, 704
Norddeutscher Lloyd Eastern Servict Subsidies, 4
* North German Lloyd. See Norddeutscher
Notes from Cleveland and the Northern Counties, 15, 48, 78, 112, 143, 178, 213, 246, 280, 314, 48, 382, 417, 452, 495, 516, 518, 582, 616, 646, 78, 708, 749, 776, 814, 849
Notes, Foreign and Colonial. 15, 247
Notes from the North, 14, 48, 78, 112, 142, 178, 12, 244, 270, 314, 348, 382, 416, 452, 494, 516, 48, 582, 616, 646, 677, 708, 749, 776, 814, 848
Notes from the South-West, 15, 48, 78, 113, 143, 78, 213, 246, 280, 315, 348, 383, 417, 452, 496, 16, 549, 583, 616, 647, 678, 709, 749, 776, 815, 49
Notes from South Yorkshire, 14, 48, 78, 112, 142, 78, 212, 246, 280, 314, 318, 382, 417, 452, 495, 16, 548, 582, 616, 646, 678, 708, 749, 776, 814, 48
Notes from the United States, 11, 45, 120, 156, 74, 277, 313, 358, 390, 451, 494, 526, 592, 615, 54, 677, 708, 747, 784, 823, 856

Obituary :

Harry Allen, Sheffield, 288
Robert Baillie, 449
J. H. Burrows, 548
H. H. Earl, 749
Sir Douglas Galton, 353
W. Hansen, 616
Jeremiah Head, 354
James Bernard Hunter, 549, 579
William Inskip, Treasurer of Parliamentary Committee of Trades Council, 657
George T. Kell, 348
William Kennedy, Broxburn Oil Company, 78
J. Hawthorn Kitson, 716
William Laird, Birkenhead, 188
Frank Livesey, 623
George Fosbery Lyster, 653
John Martin McCurrich, 79
John Nixon, 750
Alexander Stephen, 685
Frank Thomson, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 819
Edward Trow, Labour Leader, 225, 326
Ernest Wheatcroft, 749
T. E. Wooten, Philadelphia, 15
Sir James Wright, 517

"Oceanic," White Star Liner (Harland and Wolff), 53, 75. See LETTERS
Oesterreichische Ingenieur and Archite kten Verein, 713
Oil, Conversion of Raw into Boiled, 238
Oil Engines. See Engines
Oil Films on Water and Colour, 715
Oil Fuel, 460
Old Age Pensions, 421
Oldham, Mr. H. G. V., on Evaporative Condensers, 569, 595, 661, 721, 861 See LETTERS
Oliver Typewriter' 555
Omdurman, 5-In. Howitzers at, 253
Open-Hearth Furnaces, Tilting, 604, 613
Opening for Goods Traffic (Great Central Railway), 496
Opening for Passenger Traffic (Great Central Railway), 337
Optics and Acoustics, 170
Ordnance. See Guns and Schneider
Ordnance Factories, Management of, 182
Ordnance and Fortification Department (Schneider), 133, 174, 201, 235, 277, 308, 341
Ore Transport on the Great Lakes, 715
Ore, Transportation of, 119
Ore-Working Plant in United States, 3
Oscillograph, Duddell's, 587
Ovens, By-Product Coke, 802, 829
* Packing, Compensating Split, 555
Paddle Engines. See Engines
Pain, Mr. A. C., on Light Railways, 733, 753
Paints, Preservative, for Iron, 238
Papermaker and Fire Protection, €6
Paris Colonial Institute, 5S7
Paris Electric Cabs, 233, 269
Paris Exhibition, 52, 150, 844
" Paris" and " Stella," Stranding of S.SS., 717.
See 22, 88
Parker, Mr. Thomas, on Power for Tramways,
Railways, and Cars, 740, 756. See LETTER, 85
Parliamentary Employers' Council, 283
Parshall, Mr. H. F., on Electrical Power Transmission, 769, 796
Parshall, Mr. H. F., on Glasgow Tramways, 397
Parshall, Mr. H. F., and Hobart, H. M., on
Electric Generators. See Electric Generators
Passenger Business on the Atlantic, 151
Passenger Lift at Central London Railway, 273, 06
Passenger Station, Marylebone (Great Central
Railway), 208, 242, 275, 310
Patent Litigation, Carbide, 525
Patents in Ex-Spanish Colonies, 656
Patents, Foreign, in Japan, 121
Patents and Foreign Patentees, English, 23
Patents, Prolongation of, 319
Patent Record, 33, 63, 97, 131, 163, 197, 231, 265, 99, 333, 367, 399, 436, 471, 501, 533, 667, 601, 31, 663, 693, 725, 759, 797, 833, 867
Pencoyd Iron Works and Atbara Bridge, 729, 69, 836. See LETTER, 858
Penmaenmawr Accident in Wales, London and
North-Western Railway, 77
Pensions, Old Age, 421
Pentane, Thermal Properties of Normal, 721
Persia and Russia, 461
Persian Gulf and Arabia Trade, 337
Peru, Locomotives in, 689
Peterhead Breakwater, Waves and their Effects
on, 761, 789, 790
Petroleum Engines. See Engines
Phenological Observations, 220
Photographic Surveying, 554
Photography, Colour, 818
Photography, Micro. See Microscopic
* Physical Society :
The Equivalent Resistance and Inductance of
a Wire to an Oscillatory Discharge, by Dr.
E. H. Barton, 158
The Volume Changes which Accompany Solution, by Mr. T. H. Lockwood, 159
* Physical Society-continued.
Annual Meeting, 229
President's Address (Professor Oliver Lodge), 29
A New Form bf Amperemeter and Voltmeter
with a Long Scale, by Mr. Ben Davies, 230
The Joule-Thomson Effect and its Connection
with the Characteristic Equation, and Some
of its Thermodynamical Consequences, by
Mr. Watson, 279
The Wehnelt Current Interrupter, by Mr. A. A.
Campbell Swinton, 428. See 218, 356, 818
An Apparatus for Determination of the Rate
of Diffusion of Solids Dissolved in Liquids,
by Mr. A Griffiths, 428
The Source of Energy in Diffusive Convection,
by Mr. A. Griffiths, 438
The Minor Variations of the Clark Cell, by Mr.
A. P. Trotter, 470
The Criterion for the Oscillatory Discharge of
a Condenser, by Dr. E. H. Barton and Mr.
W. B. Morton, 470
The Effects of a Solid Conducting Sphere in a
Variable Magnetic Field on the Magnetic
Induction at the Point Outside, by Mr.
C. S. Whitehead, 594
Standardising Thermometers, by Mr. R. A.
Lehfeldt, 591
On the Vapour Pressure of Solutions of Volatile Substances, by Dr. Lehfeldt, 692
On the Criterion for an Oscillatory Discharge
of a Condenser, by Professor W. B. Morton
and Dr. Barton, 692
Quadrant Electrometer for Alternating Currents, by Mr. Addenbrooke, 692
The Thermal Properties of Normal Pentane
(Part II.), by Professor S. Young and Mr.
Rose Innes, 721
The Distribution of Magnetic Induction in a
Long Iron Bar, by Mr. C. G. Lamb, 785
The Absolute Value of the Freezing Point, by
Mr. Rose Innes, 785
On the Magnetic Hysteresis of Cobalt, by Professor Fleming, Mr. A. W. Ashton, and Mr.
H. J. Tomlinson, 860
Physical Tables (Discussion), 860
Picketing, the Law of, 153, 521
Pile-Driving with Water Jet, 674
Pile Foundation, Deep, 120
Pipe Flange, Copper Steam, 487
Pipes, Experiments of Steam Flow Through, 7
Pipes, Steam, 408, 465. See LETTER, 487
Pipes, Steam Main, for Electric Stations, 301.
See LETTERS
Piston Packing, 525, 555. See LETTER, 556
Piston Packing Rings, 556
Pitt, Mr. W., on Cranes, 801, 829
Placer Mining, Lay System of, 478
Plane, Rough Inclined, Graphical Treatment of
the Problem of, 499
Plate-Shearing Machine, Heavy (Hilles and Jones
Company, Wilmington, Del.), 12
Plateways in Lancashire, 147
Platform at Marylebone Station, Roof (Great
Central Railway), 276, 310
Platinum Thermometer, 675
Plymouth Water Works Engineer, 683
Pneumatic Electric Signalling Plant, 773, 824
Pneumatic Riveters for Shipbuilding, Portable, 41
Pneumatic Riveting, 806, 831
Poor Relief and Strikes, 490
Potash, Chlorate of, 683
Powder Magazine Explosions, 665. See LETTERS
Power Distribution in Warships, 403, 434, 469
Power in Germany, Machine and Hand, 20
Power and Lighting, Electric (Schneider), 233
Power Station, Niagara Falls, 91, 128, 160
Power on Tramways, Light Railways, and Motor
Cars, 740, 756. See LETTER, 785
Power Transmission, Electrical, 769, 796
Power Transmission, High Voltage, 249. See
LETTERS
Power Transmissions, Two Large Electric, 183
Power Transmitted, Variations of Belt Tension
with, 67
Pownall, Mr. C. A. W., on Mountain Railways, 33. 753
Powrie, Mr. William, on Printing Machinery, 208, 27, 365, 414
Preece, Sir W. H., Opening Address to Engineering Conference, 748
Premium Plan of Paying for Labour, 526
Preservation and Fireproofing of Wood, 258
Pressure, Vapour, of Volatile Substance, 692
Printers' Fire Risks, 401
Printers' Year Book and Diary, 108
Printing Machinery, 208, 327, 365, 414
Prolongation of Patents, 319
Propeller Experiments for Warships, 556
Proving Grounds (Schneider), 341, 342
Pumping, Steam Used in, 41
Pumps, Air, Electrically Driven (Allen, Bea
ford), 312
Pumps at Brighton, Ashley's Deep-Well (Glenfield Company), 140
Punching Machine, Double-Ended, with Side
Shears, 848
Punching, Shearing, and Bending Machine
(Striven), 707
Purification of Coal Gas, Residual Products, 807. 32. See LETTER, 857
* Quadrant Electrometer, 692
Quadruple-Expansion Engines. See Engines
Queen's, New, Yacht, The, 620, 641
Queensland Railways, 714
Quick-Firing Guns and Breech Mechanism
(Schneider), 509, 575, 610, 635, 671, 700, 731, 11
* Radial Drilling and Tapping Machine (Russian
Company, Charkow), 513
Rail Lifter (Cito and Funck), 859
Rail Sections, 508
Railroad, Light Mineral, 574
Rails, Alloys for, 291
Rails, The Economy of Heavy, 67, 62
Rails, Wear of Steel, 87
Railway Automatic Couplings, 123, 323, 356, 645
* Railway Bank and Cutting Earth Slips, 799, 826
Railway Bridges. See Bridges
Railway Buffer and Draught Gear, White and
Burke's, 123
Railway, Burma and China, 457
Railway Car Lighting, Acetylene, 391
Railway Carriage Window, Hill's, 39J
Railway Companies, China, 152
Railway Construction, United Kingdom, 225
Railway Coupling, Automatic (Laycock's), 645.
See 123, 323, 356
Railway Electric Generator, 100, 732
Railway, Electric Lift for Central London, 273
Railway, Electric, Milan-Monza, 623
Railway Fog-Signalling, 735, 863 •
Railway Generators, Direct-Connected, 844
Railway, Great Central. See Great Central
Railway
Railway Loan, Chinese Imperial, 219
Railway Mineral Wagons, 762
Railway Motors, Direct Connected, 670, 844
Railway Motors, Geared, 475, 537
Railway Nationalisation, Japan, 716
Railway, Siberian, 494, 855
Railway Signalling, Lock-and-Block, 733, 753
Railway Signalling Plant, Electro-Pneumatic, 73, 824
Railway Speed, London to Crewe, 783
Railway Surveying in Burma, 390
Railway Train Resistance, 182
Railway Work at Chicago, Heavy, 219
Railway Year-Book for 1899, 448
Railways, Argentine, 529
Railways, Chinese, 781
Railways, Cost of Australian, 251
Railways, French, 494, 686
Railways, Indian, Unguaranteed, 747
Railways, Indian, 21
Railways, Japan, 473
Railways, Light, 666, 733, 753
Railways, Light, in France, 74
Railways, Little, for South Africa, 82. See
LErrEar3
Railways, Mountain, 733, 753
Railways, Queensland, 714
Railways, Relaying, 793, 826
Railways, Russian, 653
Railways in Siam, 254
Railways, South African, 885
Railways, Traction on Light, 740, 756
Railways in Western Australia, 217
Rain Deficiency of 1897 and 1898, 357
Rainfall Records, 824
Rasmussen, Captain, on Steam Trials of Danish
Ships, 389, 395
Rates, Shipping, 780
Recorder, Callendar's Electrical, 675
Recovery of by-Products, 18
Recovery of Gold Appliances, 840
Refuse Destructors, 458
Regent's Canal, and Wharf and Roof (Great
Central Railway), 439. See Erratum, 558
Relaying Railways, 799, 826
Reservoir, Staines, 526
Residual Products from Coal Gas, 807, 832
Resistants, Equivalent, and Inductance of
Wire to an Oscillatory Discharge, 158
Resistance, Train, 182
Restraint of Trade, Law as to, 743
Retort Charring Machinery, 810, 832
Rhenish Gelignite, 22
Richmond Motor Car Exhibition, 782, 823. See
LETTERS, 824,.858
Rifles, Evolution at Enfield, 185
Rims, Strength of Wheel, 10
Ring, Stresses in a Circular, 324
Rings, Piston Packing, 556
Rings, Shipping, 780
Riveters, Portable Pneumatic, 441
Rivers in Russia, 37, 99, 170, 267, 371, 638, 27
Riveting by Machinery, 806, 831
Road Making by the Romans, 437
Road Plateways, 147
Roberts-Austen, Professor, on Alloys, 205, 21 59, 294
Rocky Mountains, Geology, 478
Rolling Mills, United States, 3. See 65
Rolls, Chilled, and Whyi They Break, 297, 332.
See LErrEas, Chilled Rolls
Roofs, Station, &c. See Great Central Railway
Ropeway, Aerial, at Cement Works, Northfleet, 44. See also Cableway
Ross, Mr. Alexander, on Lock-and-Block Signalling, 733, 753
Rotterdam Harbour Electric Plant, 150
Row Evaporative Surface Condensers, 723
Rowan's Electric Riveter, 806. See 831
Royal Engineers, 22, 58, 88, 220, 221, 256
Royal Society's Soirée, 587, 818
Royal Yacht, The New, 620, 641
Rubber Manufacture, India, 217
Russia and Persia, 461
Russia, Waterways of, 37, 99, 170, 267, 371, 638, 27
Russian-English Agreement in China, 620
Rgssian Ice-Breaking Steamer " Ermack," 252, 12. See 383
Russian Railways, 653
Russian Volunteer T.-S.S. " Moskva" (Clydebank
Company), 626, 674
Russo-British Trade Relations, 650
Ruud, Mr. Edwin, on Gas Engines, 344
* Saccardo's System of Tunnel Ventilation, 853
"Salvo," Tug, T.-S. (Eltringham), 644
Sand-Drying Furnaces (Great Central Railway), 04
Sand-Pump Dredgers, 761, 789. See LE'rTERS
Sandberg, Mr. C. P., on the Economy of Using
Heavy Rails, 57, 62
Sandeman, Mr. J. W., on Breakwaters, 761, 790
Sanitary Safety, 425
Santiago, United States Artillery, 852
Santiago, War, 317, 492
Saw Guard at Crewe Works, 463
Saw Guard, Scott's Circular, 25
Saw Guards, Circular (Glover), 291. See Erratum, 16
Scaling Boilers, Hammer for, 527
Schichau, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers for China, 08
* Schneider and Co.'s Works. Crensot: 33, 174, 201, 235, 277, 303, 341, 375, 403, 446, 82, 509, 575, 610, 635, 671, 700, 731, 811 0-Centimetre Gun (1892), 375 2-Centimetre Gun (1835), 375 2-Centimetre Gun (1890), 375 4-Centimetre Gun on Pivoting Mount, 378 4-Centimetre Gun on Circular Slide, 403 5-Centimetre Gun on Muzzle Pivoting and
Central Pivoting Mounting, 403 7-Centimetre Gun on Central Pivoting Mounting, 446 2-Centimetre Gun, 40 Calibres in Length, 447 1-in. Gun on Front Pivoting Mounting,
Schneider-Canet System, 446 5-Millimetre Gun on Boat Mount (1886), 375 38 6 - Millimetre Gun on Muzzle Pivoting
Mount, 378 40-Millimetre Naval Gun, 448
Breech Mechanism. of Quick-Firing Guns, 509 75, 610, 635, 671, 700, 731, 811
Bronze Guns, 133
Canet-Schneider Artillery, 344, 375, 403, 448
Chambering 24-Centimetre Gun, 203
De Reffye Mitrailleuse and Field Gun, 133
Early Guns, 133, 174
Electric Power and Lighting Station, 235
Field Gun, De Reffye System, 133
Firing Devices, Quick-Firing Guns, 575, 610 35, 671, 700, 731, 811
French State Railway Locomotive, 514
Gun Manufacture, 133, 174, 201, 235, 277, 308, 41
Guns, Naval, Early Types of, 375, 402
Hoc Proving Ground, Havre, 342
Land and Naval Guns, 133
Lighting and Power, Electric, 235
Mitrailleuse, De Reffye System, 133
Mountings for Guns, 375, 378, 403
Naval Guns, Early Types of, 375, 402
Naval and Land Guns, 133
Ordnance and Fortification Department, 133, 74, 201, 235, 277, 308, 341
Power and Lighting, Electric, 235
Proving Grounds, 311, 342
Quick-Firing Guns and Breech Mechanism, 82, 509, 575, 610, 635, 671, 700, 731, 811
Schneider-Canet Artillery, 344, 375, 403, 446
Tancarville, Long Range Proving Ground, 312
Tubes for Quick-Firing Guns, 482, 509
Villedieu Proving Ground, Creusot, 341
Science, Language of, 318
Scotch Shipbuilding, 70
Scott's Circular Saw Guard, 25
Screw Engines. See Engines
Screw Threads, International Standard for
Metric, 154
Sea Depths, Sounding, 169
Sea Encroachment and Case Groynes, 110
Sea Routes, The World's, 201
Sea, Signalling at, 1, 105
Seamen and the Employers' Liability Act, 287
Seasoning Wood by Electricity, 154
Self-Propelled Car. See Care, Motor
Sellers, Dr. Coleman, on Niagara Power Station, 1, 128, 160
Sell's Directories, 191
Sentry, James, for Submarine Survey, 167
Sewage, Copenhagen, 84
Sewage Sludge Treatment by Bacteria, 765, 795
Shanghai, Industrial Progress, 320
Shaw, Professor. See Hele-Shaw
Shearing, Bending, and Punching Machine
(Striven and Co., Leeds), 707
Shearing Machine, Plate (Hilles and Jones Company), 12
Sheds, Harbour, 736, 754, 773
Sheds, Locomotive and Carriage, at Neasden
(Great Central Railway), 674, 704
Shields, Mr. William, on Breakwaters and Wave
Effects, 761, 789, 790
Ship Collision Mats, 147
Ship Disasters and Bulkheads, 22, 88. See 717
Ship Losses, Lloyd's Return, 185, 286
Ship Manceuvring, Danish, 389, 395
Ship Resistance, Horse-Power Absorbed by, 444
Ship Stability, Tchebycheff's Rule, 406
Ship Subsidies, German, 84
Shipbuilder and Fire Protection, 67
Shipbuilders, Portable Pneumatic Riveters for, 41, 808, 831
Shipbuilding in Belgium, 109
Shipbuilding Boom, 83
Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1898, 25, 60, 70,
Shipbuilding and Mechanical Engineering, 558, 69, 596, 630
Shipbuilding, Naval and Mercantile, 388
Shipbuilding Returns, 494
Shipping Bounties in France, 853
Shipping Bounties in Japan, 712
Shipping, British, 286
Shipping, Japan, 84, 712
Shipping Rings, 780
Shipping Routes, The World's, 201
Shipping World Year-Book, 344
Ships and Docks, Sizes of, 736, 754
Ships, Electro-Deposition of Copper on Hulls, 15, 357
Ships Sold to Foreigners, 286
Ships' Stability, Calculating Cross Curves of, 99
Ships, Structural Strength of, 405, 429
Shipwrecks, &c., 185, 286
Shop Clubs, 419
Siam, Progress in, 264
Siberian Railway, 494, 855
Signalling, Lock-and-Block, 733, 753
Signalling Plant, Electro - Pneumatic Railway, 73, 824
Signalling, Railway Fog, 735, 863
Signalling at Sea, Sound, 1, 105
Sigebie Sounding Apparatus for Submarine
Survey, 101
Silvertown Sounding Apparatus for Submarine
Survey, 101
Sinkers for Submarine Survey, 36
Slips of Earthworks in Cuttings, &c., 790, 826
Sludge, Sewage, Bacterial Treatment, 765, 795
Smith, Mr. A. M., on Mica Mining in Bengal, 293
Smoke Nuisance in its Legal Aspect, 302
Soil Temperature, 526
* Soirees, 587, 589, 651, 744, 818
Solution of Simultaneous Equations, 255
Solution, Volume Changes which Accompany, 69
Soudan Trade, 391
Sound Signalling at Sea, 1, 103
Sounding Apparatus, Cooper and Wigzell's, 451
See Submarine Survey
Sounding Instruments for Submarine Survey 6, 101, 451
South Africa, Guide to, 108
South Africa, Little Railways for, 82. See
LETTERS
South African Railways, 835
South Kensington Museum, 422
Southampton Dacks Electric Plant, 159
Southend Municipal Greed, 520
Spanish-American War, 317, 492
Spanish-American War, United States Gun Fire, 52
Specifications, London County Council, 683
Speed of Motor Cycles, 779
Speed of Ships and Depth of Water (Danish), 89, 395
Split Packing, Compensating, 555
Spontaneous Ignition of Charcoal, 153
Sprague Electric Elevator at Central London
Railway,.273, 306
S.S. " Ultonia," Engines of the (Furness, Westgarth, and Co.), 276
St. Gothard Tunnel Ventilation, s53
Stability, Calculating Cross-Curves of, 499
Stability of Ships, Tchebycheff's Rule, 406
Stability of Tank Locomotives, 121
Staines Reservoir, 526
Standard for Metric Screw Threads, International, 154
Standardising Thermometers, 594
Station Buildings at Marylebone (Great Central
Railway), 208, 242
Stations, Railway. See Great Central Railway
Stead, Mr. J. E., on Crystalline Structure of
Iron and Steel, 191, 226, 263
Steam Consumption, 51
Steam Flow through Pipes, Experiments on, 67
Steam Gauge, Deveril's, 718
Steam Heating of Buildings, 357
Steam Jacketing on Trials of " Argonaut," 383, 91, 432. See LETTER, 487
Steam Lurries at the Royal Agricultural Show, 20
Steam Main Pipes for Electric Stations, 301. See
LETTERS
Steam Mining Plant, 792, 805, 830
Steam Pipes, 408, 465. See LErrEits, 487
Steam Traps for very High Pressures, 719
Steam Trials of Danish Ships, 389, 395
Steam Trials of H.M.SS. See Warships
Steam, Utilisation of, 41
Steam Yacht " Faroslawila" (Schichau), 11
Steamer, Ice-Breaking, for Russia, " Ermack," 52, 412. See 383
Steamer "Laos," French Passenger Steamer, 13, 484, 544
Steamer " Moskva," for Russian Volunteer Fleet
(Clydebank Company), 626, 674
Steamer, "Oceanic," White Star (Harland and
Wolff), 53, 75. See LETTERS
Steamer, Tug, " Salvo," 644
Steamer " Ultonia" Engines (Furness, West
garth, and Co.), 276
Steamers, Cargo, 763, 793
Steamers, Channel, 740, 756
Steamers, Disabled, 88
Steamers and Docks, Sizes of, 736, 751
Steamers in Graving Docks, 805, 831
Steamers, Loading and Discharging Large, 736, 64, 773
Steamers, Merchant,•as War Vessels, 741, 767
Steamers, Swift Channel, 740, 756
Steamships, Ballasting of, 690
Steamships, Early, 557, 591, 624
Steel Casting Temperature, 805, 830
Steel Crystalline Structure, 191, 205, 210, 220, 59, 263, 294
Steel, Diffusion of Elements in, 604
Steel, Diffusion of Sulphides through, 128
Steel Direct from Blast-Furnace, 610
Steel Furnace, Tilting Open-Hearth, 604, 613
Steel and Iron Alloys, 205, 210, 259
Steel and Iron, Cast, 609
Steel and Iron Making, United States, 489
Steel and Iron Stresses, Thermal Analysis of, 64
Steel Rails, Wear of, 87, 294
Steel Trust, Carnegie, 622
Steel, Use of Hot Blast in Making, 604
Steel Works, Ohio, Lorain, 3, 65
" Stella," Stranding of S.S. " Paris" and, 717.
See 22, 88
Stephen, The Late Mr. Alex., 686
" Stock Exchange Year-Book, " 103
Stoker, Automatic (Ransome and Rapier's), 77
Stoking Gas Retorts Mechanically, 810, 832
Storage Batteries, 194
Storekeeping in Naval Ships, 681
Stranding of " S.S. " Paris and " Stella," 717.
See 22, 68
Stream-Line Motion, Professor Hele-Shaw's Experiments, 28
Street Railroad Location, 236
Strength of Boilers, 851
Strength of Boilers, Practical Experience, 441
Strength of Ships, Structural, 405, 429
Strength of Wheel Rims, 10
Stresses in a Circular Ring, 324
Stresses, Thermal Analysis of, 564
Strike at Creusot, 744
Strikes and Poor Relief, 490
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E„ on the Strength of Boilers, 41
Stroud Boiler Explosion, 686
Structural Strength of Ships, 405, 429
Structure (Crystalline) of Iron and Steel, 191, 26, 263. See Microscopy
Submarine Survey, 35, 101, 167. See 451
Submarine Telegraph Enterprise, 120
Submarine Telegraphy, 561
Subsidence and the Law of Supports, 712
Subsidies, German Ship, 84 ; France, 853 ; japan/ 12
* Sugar? Chemistry of Beet, 169
Sulphides, Diffusion through Steel, 128
Summerfleld, Mr. R., on Steam Pipes, 301
Surveys, Submarine, 351 108, 167. See 451
Surveying, Hydrograplucal, 139
Surveying, Photographic, 654
Sweden Telephones (State), 664
Swedish Iron Ore Mines, Gellivare, 603
Swedish State Railways, Locomotives for, 320
Swinburne, Mr. James, on Electrical Transformation, 758, 767
Swing-Bridge over Harlem River, 256
* Tancarville Long - Range Proving Ground
(Schneider), 342
Tank Locomotives, The Stability of, 121
Tariff, Japanese, 20
Tchebycheff's Rule, Stability of Ships, 406
Tees Shipbuilding, 26
Telegraph Companies, Submarine, 120. See Cable
Telegraphy, Magnetic Space, 31, 94, 124, 321, 56, 360, 449
Telegraphy, Submarine, 561. See also Surveys
Telegraphy, Wireless, 321, 356, 360, 449, 585.
See 31, 94, 124
Telephones in Sweden, State, 654
Telford Libraries at Langholin and Westerkirk, 54
Temperature, Casting, of Steel, 805, 830
Temperature, Soil, 526
"Terrible," Disaster on H.M.S., 461.
Test Bars, Cast Iron, 545
Testing Locomotives, 22
Testing Materials for Machinery, 307
Testing Station, Fire, in London, 141, 187, 517, 07, 777, 864
Thames Flood Water, Filtered, 761, 793
Thames Shipbuilding, 60
Theisen's Condensers, 661
Thermal Analysis of Metal Stresses, 564
Thermal, Joule-Thomson Effect, and Some of Its
Consequences, 279
Thermal Properties of Normal Pentane, 721
Thermo-Electric Combination, 656
Thermometer, Platinum, 675
Thermometers, Standardising, 594
Thomson's Boiler-Tube Stopper, 719
Thomson, The Late Mr. Frank; 819
Thornycroft Water-Tube Boiler Patent, 319
Tilting Open-Hearth Furnaces, 604, 613
Timber, Electric Seasoning of, 154
Timber Preservation and Fireproofing, 258
Tin and Copper, 746
Tin, The Position of, 421
Tinplate Trust, 853
Titan Crane, 28-Ton (Cowan, Sheldon, and Co. 84
Titan Cranes, Block-Setting, 88, 121
Tools, British v. United States Machine, 800, 827
Torpedo-Boat Destroyers: See Warships
Torpedo-Boats. See Warships
Toulon Explosion (Magazines), 665. See LETTERS
Toward Water-Tube Boiler for Motor Cars, 497
Town Water Supply per Head of Population, 64, 795
Traction, Electric, 740, 766, 768, 796. See LETTER, 85
Traction Motors, 374
Traction, Electric Railway Motors. See Electric
Generators
Trade in Germany, Progress of, 250
Trade Marks, 118
Trade Names, 118
Trade, Restraint of, 743
Trade Union Funds, 781
Trade Union Malingering Mechanics, 619
Trade Unionism, The Future of, 117, 126
Trade Unionism in Germany, 746
Train Resistance, 182
Tmite Theorique et Pratique des Moteurs h Gaz
et k Petrole et des Voitures Automobile, by
Aime Witz, 235
Tramway Location, 235
Tramways. See also Electric Generators and
Traction
Tramways, Glasgow Electric, 397
Tramways and Municipal Greed, 520
* Tramways, Traction on, 740, 756
Transatlantic Passengers, 151
Transformation, Electrical, 758, 767
Transmission Dynamometer, 485
Transmission of Electrical Power, 769, 796
Transmission of Power, High Voltage, 249. See
LETTERS
Transport in Ancient Times, 437
Transport of Minerals by Rail, 752, 800, 827
Transport of Ore on the Great Lakes, 716
Transportation of Iron Ore, 119
Trials, Steam, of Danish Ship, 389, 495
Trials, Steam of, H.M. SS. See Warships
Tricycles. See Cyees
Triple-Expansion. See Engine
Triple v. Twin Screws for Ships, 403, 434, 469
Trowbridge, Boiler Explosion at, 21
Trust Developments, 214
Trust Mania, United States, 526
Trust, Tinplate, 421, 853
Trusts and the Law, 743
Trusts and United States Competition, 711
Tube Bursting on H.M.S. " Terrible," 461
Tube Making by Extrusion, 12
Tube Stopper, Boiler, 719
Tubes for Quick-Firing Guns (Schneider), 482, 09
Tug, Twin-Screw, " Salvo" (Eltringham, South
Shields), 644
Tunnel Ventilation, 22
Tunnel Ventilation, St. Gothard, 853
Tunnelling and Compressed Air Illness, 486, 557
Tunnelling on the Metropolitan Section (Great
Central Railway), 337, 479
Turbine Installation near Worcester, 703
Turner, Mr. C. A. P. on Thermal Analysis of
Stresses, 564
Twin-Screw Engines. See'Enoines
Twin v. Triple Screws in Warships, 403, 434, 69
Twinberrow's Railway Mineral Wagons, 752
Tyne Shipbuilding, 25
Typewriter, Oliver, 556
Tyres, India-rubber Carriaze, 457
*
" Ultonia," Engines of the S.S. (Furness, West
Barth, and Co.), 276
Umbrella Roof at Regent's Canal (Great Central
Railway), 439. See Erratum, 558
Underpinning, Law as to, 712
Underpinning on the Metropolitan Section (Great
Central Railway), 479
Union, Trade, Funds, 781
United Kingdom Railway Construction, 225
United States Artillery at Santiago, 317, 492, 852
United States v. British Locomotives, 688, 785
United States v. British Machine Tools, 800, 827
United States Competition and the Trusts, 711
United States Copper Mining, 586
United States Cycle Competition, 685
United States Gun Explosion, 493
United States Iron and Steel, 221
United States Iron and Steel Making, 489
United States Labour Premiums, 526
United States Lakes and the Atlantic, Canadian
Canal, 134
United States Lakes, Transport of Ore on the, 16
United States Marine Engines, Early, 408, 434
United States Steel and Iron Works, 3, 65
United States Steel Trust (Carnegie's), 622
United States Tools and Competition, 199. See
LETTERS
United States Triple-Screw Ships, 403, 434, 469
United States Trust Mania, 526
Universal Electrical Directory (J. A. Berly's), 44
University, Birmingham, 684
* Vapour Pressure of the Volatile Substances, 692
Vauxhall Bridge Construction, Cableway for, 62
Ventilation, St. Gothard Tunnel, 853
Ventilation, Tunnel, 22
Vickers' Gun, Breech Mechanism, 76
" Victoria and Albert," the New Royal Yacht, 20, 641
* Victoria Works, Sheffield (Mr. W. S. Laycock's), 99
Villedieu Proving Ground, Creusot (Schneider), 41
Volatile Substances, Vapour Pressures from, 692
Volga, Canals in Connection with River, 37, 99, 70, 267, 371, 638, 727
Voltmeter and Amperemeter, 230
Voltmeter, Elliott's Recording, 230
Volume Changes which accompany Solution, 59
* Wagons, Railway, Mineral, 752
War, Spanish-American, 317, 492, 85z
War Vessels, Merchant Steamers as, 741, 757
Warehouse, Goods (Great Central Railway 01
Warehouses, Harbour, 736, 754, 773
* Warships :
British Navy Estimates, 351, 385
British Warships Ordered, 83
British Warships, Storekeeping and Engineers'
Complements, 681
China Torpedo-Boat Destroyers (Sehichau), 08
Danish Ships, Steam Trials, 389, 395
Destroyers for Sea Service, 442
Distribution of Power in Warships, 403, 434, 69
French Naval Annual, 344
H.M. Navy Estimates and Ships, 351, 358. See
LETTERS, Water-Tube, 4.:e. Boilers
H.M.S. " Amphitrite" Trials and Coal Consumption of Auxiliary Engines, 389, 491, 522.
See 524, 556, 557, 745
H.M.S. " Argonaut's" Trials, 388;391, 432. See
LETTERS
H.M.S. " Ariadne," Steam Trials (Clydebank), 85
H.M.S. " Glory," Floating Out (Laird), 358
H.M.S. " Hermes," Trials of the, 745
H.M.S. Machinery, 311, 658, 569, 596, 630
H.M.S. " Terrible," Disaster on the, 461. See
LETTERS
Japanese Armoured Cruiser " Asama," (Elswick), 277
Japanese Battleship Armour (Brown), 47
Japanese Torpedo- Boats, 119
Japanese Torpedo-Boat Destroyer " Akebono"
(Yarrow), 847
Machinery of Warships, 311, 558, 569, 596, 630
Merchant Cruisers, 741, 757
Motive Power in Warships, 556
Naval Fleets of all Nations Compared, 344
Russian Volunteer T.-S.S. " Moskva " (Clydebank Company), 626, 674
Spanish-American War, Lessons of the, 317, 92, 852
Triple v. Twin Screws for Ships, 403, 434, 469
U.S. Triple-Screw Ships, 403, 434, 469
Washing Plant, Hop, 821
Waste of Shipping, 185
Water Depth and Speed of Ships (Danish), 389, 95
Water Electric Power Station at Niagara, 91, 28, 160
Water, Filtered Flood, 764, 793
Water Jet for Pile Driving, 674
Water Pipes, Destruction of Iron, 321
Water Power Installation near Worcester, 705
Water Resistance, Hele - Shaw's Experiments, 8
Water Supply per Head of Population, 764, 795
Water Supply, London, 115, 526, 764, 793
Water-Tube Boiler Circulation and the " Terrible," 691
Water-Tube Boiler of S.S. " Laos," 544
Water-Tube Boiler Locomotive, 741, 772
Water-Tube Boiler for Motor Cars (Toward, Newcastle), 497
Water-Tube Boiler Patent (Thornycroft), 319
Water-Tube Boiler, White and Forster's, 108.
See LETTERS
Water-Tube v. Cylindrical Boilers, 424, 442
Water-Tube Marine Boilers, 311
Water Works Engineer, Plymouth, 683
* Water Works of the Madras Presidency, 175
Water Works Pumps at Brighton, Ashley's (Glenfield Company), 140
Water Works Reservoir at Staines, 526
Waterways of Russia, 37, 99, 170, 267, 371, 638, 27
Watson, Mr. James, on Water Supply per Head
of Population, 764, 795
Waves and their Effects on Breakwaters, 761, 89, 790
Wave Resistance to Ship's Motion, 444
Wear Shipbuilding, 26
Weaving Industry in Japan, 321
Webb, Mr. F. W., on Compound Locomotives, 37, 755. See 783
Wehnelt's Electrolytic Contact Breaker, 218, 356, 28, 818
Weights, Metric System. See Metric Symtem
Welded Tubes Bursting on H.M.S. " Terrible," 61
West, Mr. Thomas D., on Cast-Iron Test Bars, 45
Western Australia Railways, 217
Westinghouse Electric Works at Pittsburg, 369, 40, 505, 612, 732, 810
Westinghouse Electro-Pneumatic Railway Signalling Plant, 773, 824
Westinghouse Gas Engines, 344
Wharf at Regent's Canal, and Roof (Great Central
Railway), 439. See Erratum, 558
Wheel Rims, Strength of, 10
Whitby Shipbuilding, 27
White and Burke's Central Buffer and Draught
Gear (Penney and Co.), 123
White and Forster's Water-Tube Boiler, 108. See
LETTERS
White, Sir William H., on the Connection between Naval Architecture and Mechanical
Engineering, 558, 569, 596, 630
White Star Liner " Oceanic" (Harland and
Wolff), 53, 75, See LETTERS
Wigan, Boiler Explosion at, 228
Wigzell's's Triple-Expansion Engine (Paul, Dumbarton), 581
Williams, Mr. R. Price, on the Life of a Locomotive, 595
Window, Hill's Railway Carriage, 393
Wire Equivalent Resistance and Inductance to
an Oscillating Discharge, 158
Wireless Telegraphy, 321, 356, 260, 449, 585. See 1, 94, 124
Wires for Submarine Survey, 35
Wiring Rules, Electric, 215
Wood Preservation and Fireproofing, 258
Wood Seasoning by Electricity, 154
Wood Worker and Fire Protection, 66
Wood Work for Schools, 36
Woodhead, Dr. Sims, on Bacterial Treatment of
Sewage Sludge, 765, 795 •
Woolwich Arsenal, Management of, 182
Workmanship, Good, 17
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, 57, 86, 219, 93, 327, 353, 379, 464, 484, 553, 658, 784, 845, 65
Works :
Wm. Cory and Son's Works at Blackwall, 82
Lorain Steel Company's Works, Ohio, 3, 65
Schneider's Works at Creusot. See Schneider
Victoria Works, Sheffield (Mr. W. S. Laycock's), 99
Westinghouse Electric Works at Pittsburg, 69, 440, 505, 612, 732, 810
Workshop Clubs, 419
Workshop Management, English and American, 87
Worm.Gear Hobbing Machine, Heavy (Niles
Tool Works Company, Hamilton, Ohio), 89
Wright Evaporative Surface Condenser, 862
* Yacht, The New Royal, 620, 641
Yacht, Steam, " Faroslawna" (Schichau), 11
Yarrow Boiler and Engines, Japanese Destroyer " Akebono," 847
Year-Books, 30, 108, 344, 448
Year-Books and Annuals, 30, 108, 344, 448

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