The Engineer 1871 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous
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Abel, Professor, Explosive Agents, British Association,
114, 126, 150
Accident, An Extraordinary, 195
Accidents to Railway Structures, Mr. T. C. Clarke, 271
Adams, Mr., Traction Engine Wheels, 20
Admiralty Appointments, 192
Air Pumps and Condensers, 259
Albert Bridge Cylinders, 340, 426
Albert Ironworks, Warrington, Sale of Machinery at the, 390
America, Short Route to, 275, 288
American Steamboat Engines, 166
Ammonia Engine, The, 131
Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections, A Rudimentary Treatise on, by James Hann
Andrews, Di., Address at Edinburgh, 86
Anglo-Danish Asphalte Roofing Pasteboard, 12
Animal Mechanics, Rev. S. Haughton, M.D., F.R.S., 37
Anstruther Pier, 325
Arbitration, 294
Armour, Deflecting, 195, 223, 230
Armour Piercing Projectiles, Development of, 448
Arsenal, Frankfort, Philadelphia, 205
Arthur, Launch of the, 234
Artillery, Austrian Rifled Field, 275, 276
Artillery, Field, 397
Artillery in France, 306
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen
The London, 92, 325, 449
Half-yearly Meeting, 5
Machinery Used in the Manufacture of Cloth, Mr.
T. Haughton, 395
Multitubular and Multiflue Boilers, Mr. Galloway, 258
Atmosphere of the Earth, Professor Everett, British Association, 158
Auroras, Red, 390
Austrian International Exhibition, 216
Austrian Rifled Field Artillery, 275, 276
Axles, Railway, 412
Ayrton, Mr. W. E„ On a Quantitative Method of Testing “ Telegraph Earth,” Asiatic Society of Bengal, 187
Babbage and Clements, 324
Bailey, Mr. W. H., Reservoir Recorder for the Southport Waterworks, 358
Baldwin Locomotive Works, United States, Narrow Gauge Passenger Locomotive, 160
Baltic, Sounding the, 206
Barker, C.E., Mr. E. D., Brake, Great Eastern Railway, 213, 214
Bame’s Composition for Clothing Boilers, 320
Barrows and Stewart, Messrs., Steam Ploughing Windlass, 71
Baths at University College Hospital, 158
Battery Elements, Galvanic, 323
Bearings, Glass, 313
Beeley, Mr. T., Cop Tube Boiler, 55
Belgian Rails, 10, 24, 92, 156,174,195, 230, 264, 355, 357, 382, 406, 432
Bell, Mr. Lowthian, Mr. Feme’s Self-Coking Blast Furnace, Iron and Steel Institute, 143
Bells, Mr. Walckcr’s Pneumatic, 37
Bennie and Co., Messrs. J., Shearing Machine, Bowe-field Ironworks, 295
Berthon, M.A., F.R.A.S., Rev., On the Calculation of the Powers of Telescopes, 184
Bessemer, Mr., New Guns, 229
Bessemer Converter, Mr. G. J. Snelus on the Gases
Evolved from, Iron and Steel Institute, 167
Bessemer Steel in Germany, 274
Bickford, Mr., The “Little Rapid ” Knitting Machine, 407
Biddulph Valley Boiler Explosion, 12, 24, 122
Biddulph Valley Ironworks, Plan of a Portio n of, 12
Big Plates, 230
Bilbao Iron Ore Company, 355
Bills of the Coming Session, 365
Birmingham Export Trade, 49
Birmingham, Sale of Machinery at, 325
Birmingham Sewage, 314, 329, 355
Blast, The Steam, Mr. C. W. Sicmans, M.I.C.E., F.R.S.,
British Association, 132
Boats, Submarine, 438
Bodmer, Mr. J. J., Pudding Apparatus, 161
Boiler, Mr. J. B. Root, 143
Boiler, Cop Tube, Mr. T. Beeley, 55
Boiler Explosion at the Biddulph Valley Ironworks, 12, 24
Boiler Explosion, The Westfield, 103, 128, 151, 216
Boiler Explosions, Experiments on, 420
Boiler Incrustation, 322
Boiler Legislation, 122
Boiler Legislation, Mr. L. Fletcher, C.E., British Association, 96
Boiler Making in New York, 260
Boiler, Miller’s Tubulous, 70
Boilers, Franklin Institute on Steam, 62
Boilers, Portable Engine, 326
Boilers, Steel Locomotive, 382
Boxer, General, Parachute Light Balls, 437
Braham, Mr. P., Torpedo Boat, 269
Brake, Great Eastern Railway, Mr. E.D. Barker, C.E 213, 214
Brake for Railway Carriages and Tenders, Herr Ester, 330
Breakwater, Aberdeen, 288
Breakwaters, 41 _
Breakwaters, Mr. T. Cargill, C.E., A.B., A.I.C.E., on
Floating, Society of Engineers, 431
Breech-loading Ordnance of the Middle Ages, 195
Breech-loaders, Militia, 379
Breech-loaders in Prussia, 249
Breitenbach Meteorite, 213
Brislau, Schweidnitz and Freiburg Railway Apparatus for Warming Railway Carriages, 377, 383
Bridge, The Albert, 168, 179
Bridge to Carry a Single Line over an Occupation Road and a Stream, 107
Bridge of the Lumfjord, 366
British Association, 67, 76, 85, 98
Address of Dr. Andrews, President of the Chemical Section, 86
Address of the President, Professor Thomson. 77
Address of Professor Fleeming Jenkin, President of Section G, 80
Address of Professor Tait, President of the Mathematical and Physical Section, 85
Atmosphere of the Earth, Professor J. D. Everett, Section A, 158
Automatic Discharge Gauge, Thomas Stevenson,
F. R.S.E., M.I.C.E., Section G, 95
Carr’s Disintegrating Flour Mill, Mr. T. Carr, Section
G, 105
Corliss Engine, particularly with Reference to its Economy of Steam, and its Extreme Regularity of Speed, Mr. Douglas, Section G, 89
Description of a Salmon Ladder Meant to Suit the Varying Levels of a Lake, used as a Reservoir, Mr. J. Leslie, C.E., Section G., 89
Experiments on Chemical Dynamics, J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and Alfred Tribe, F.C.S., Section B, 151
Improved Ships of War, Michael Scott, M.I.C.E., M.I.N.A., Section G, 95
Nature of Researches of the Late Rev. Mr. Vernon Harcourt on the Condition of Transparency in Glass, and the Connection between the Chemical Composition and Optical Properties of Different Glasses, Professor Stokes, Section A, 170
New Photographic Dry Process, Thomas Sutton,
B. A., Section A, 151
New Steam Gauge, Professor Ch. V. Zenzer, Section.
A, 124
One Cause of Transparency, Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney, M.A., F.R.S., Section A, 146
Proposed Thermometer of Translation for Recording Daily Changes of Temperature, Thomas Stevenson,
F. R.S.E., M.I.C.B., Section G, 95
Railway Gauges, Mr. R. F. Fairlie, Section G, 113
Recent Investigations and Applications of Explosive
Agents, Professor Abel, F.R.S., 114, 126, 150
Reports of Committee on Treatment and Utilisation of Sewage, Mr. R. B. Grantham, C.E., Mr. Hope, Dr. Corneld, and Dr. Gilbert, Sections G and B, 133
Report of the Rainfall Committee for 1870-71, Mr.
G. J. Symons, Secretary, 108
Rhysimeter, The, An Instrument for Measuring Speed of Flowing Water or of Ships, Mr. Fletcher, Section G, 90
Some Conditions to be Observed in Designing Pointed Roofs, Mr. Thomas Gillott, Section G, 88
Steam, Blast, Mr. C. W. Siemens, M.I.C.E., F.R.S., Section G, 132
Steam Boiler Legislation, Mr, L. E. Fletcher, C.E., Section G, 96
Testing Submerged Electric Cables, Mr. C. F. Varley,
C. E., F.R.S., Section A, 170
Thermodynamics of the General Oceanic Circulation, Professor Carpenter, LL.D., M.D., F.R.S., Section A, 151
Brown and Co., Messrs., Wages Cards, 408
Buchanan, Mr , Cylinder Lock, 28
Buildings, Heating, 341
Burdett Coutt’s Prize, The Baroness, 144
Burgoyne, on Steam Road Rolling, The Late Fieldmarshal Sir John, 405
Burmah, Lighthouses on the Coast of British, 442
Burrell, Mr. C., 12-H.P. Road Locomotive, 40
Burrell, Mr. C., Traction Engine and Omnibus, 214
j Cab, Mr. C. King’s Improved, 277
, Cables, Mr. C. F. Varley. C.E., F.R.S., On a Method of Testing Submerged Electric, British Association, 170
- Caledonian Railway Locomotive Works, Extension of, 320
- Campbell, Capt. J. R., Range Indicator, 21
I Cane Fields, Greig’s System of Clearing, 70
I Captain, The Loss of the, 105
I Cargill, C.E., A.B., A.I.C.E., &c., Mr. T., On Floating Breakwaters, 431
Carpenter, Prof., Thermodynamics of the General i Oceanic Circulation, British Association, 151
Carr, Mr. T., Disintegrating Flour Mill, British Association, 105, 144
Carriage of Coal to London by Railway, Results of Reduced Rates, 263
Carriages, Warming Railway, Breslau, Schweidnitz, and Freiburg Railway, 377, 383
Cars, Bogie Tramway, 324, 360, 378
Cars, Tramway, 259
Castings, Large, 237
Cataract Gear, Cornish Engine, 441
Caterham Asylum, Boilers and Pumping Machinery, Messrs. Lawson and Mansergh, 215, 218, 222
Caterham Asylum, Cornish Boilers, 215
Central National Art Training School, South Kensington, 9’2
Cerberus-Guns, The, 398
Ceylon. Railways in, 59, 70
Chatham, Siege Operations at, 28-1
Chemical Dynamics, Experiments on, J. IL Gladstone, F.R.S., and Alfred Tribo, F.C.S., British Association, 151
Chemie, Neues Handwbrterbuch dor, Dr. Hermann Von Fehling, 419
Chicago Fire, 325, 337
China, Lighthouses in, 271
Christie, Mr. J., Rolling Mill Belts, 182
City of Bristol, The,. 182
Civil Engineers and the Indian Uncovcnantod Service, 179
Clarke, Mr. T. C., Accidents to Railway Structures, 271
Cleveland District, 16, 31, 50, 65, 84, 102, 120, 137, 155, 174, 191, 210, 228, 246, 264, 282, 300, 318, 335, 353, 372, 388, 401, 418, 436, 453
Cleveland, Random Notes in, 265, 319
Clifton Collieries, Near Nottingham, 23
Clocks and Chronographs, 32
Closet, Mr. Stanford’s Carbon, 133
Clyde, Shipbuilding on the, 360
Coal-field, Mr. II. Johnson on the Geological Features of the South Staffordshire, Iron and Steel Institute, 140
Coal Miners, Safety for, 259, 323
Coal in the Navy, 273, 314, 360, 879, 424
College, Indian Civil Engineering, 25, 26
College, The Working Men’s, 181
Colliery Houses, &c., Plans of Cheap, Mr. J. Povcy Harper, 416
Colliery Plant, A Model, 295
Colosseum in the Regent’s Park, 432
Combustion, Report of Committee on Waste in, 125
Combustion, Waste in, 121, 148, 175, 187
Comets, Observations on, John Williams, F.S.A., 446 Committee of the House of Commons upon Paten t
Law :—
Armstrong, Sir W., Evidence of, 38
Chittenden, Mr. Lucius E , Evidence of, 23, 38
Grove, Q.C., F.R.S., Mr. W. R,, Evidence of, 373
Holden, Mr., Evidence of, 11
Macfie, Mr ./Evidence of, 33
Michell, Mr. W. M., Evidence of, 38
Nasmyth, Mr., Evidence of, 11, 38
Romilly, Right Hon. Lord, Evidence of, 449
Committee of Railroads at the National Comm ercial Convention, 299
Commune and the Fonts et Chaussees, The, 35
Concretion, Mr. A. Fryer, Messrs. Manlove and Alliott, 72, 74
Condensation of Steam, Practical Treatise on the, N. P, Burgh, 203
Condensation of Steam without Air Pumps, 378
Condenser, Martin’s, International Exhibition, Messrs.
Curtis, Parr, and Madeley, Engineers, 21
Condenser for Steam Engines, City Saw Mills, Londonderry, Mr. McCarter, 423
Conference of Miners, Proposed Great National, 294
Conservancy, The Thames, 201
ConstUction, Elementary Papers on, 185, 426
Construction of Traction Engines, 51, 67,103, 139, 175, 193
Continental Locomotive Building, 390
Cooke and Sons, Messrs., lOin. Equatorial Telescope, 322
Cooper’s Hill College, Address of Colonel Chesney, 240
Cornish Boilers, Caterham Asylum, 215
Cornish Engine, The, 142, 373, 389, 405, 428, 441
Cornish Engine, Details of 50in, 10, 430
Costa Rica Railroad, 84
Cotton Gin Trials, 398, 413
Court Martial on the Loss of the Megfora, 363
Cultivating Tackle, Mr. Ulrick Rosing’s “Norway” Steam, 163
Cyclops, The, 50
Cylinders, The Albert Bridge, 340, 426
Cylinder Cock, Improved, Mr. Buchanan, 28
Cylinders, Jacketed, 341, 378, 381 ,395, 407, 424
Cylinders, Steam Engine, 427
Daily Motion of a Brick Tower, Caused by Solar Heat, 313
Daily Motion of a Brick Tower, Caused by Solar Heat, Professor C. G. Rockwood, Ph. D., “American Journal of Science and Art,” 198
Damaging Property by Coal Mining, Important Decision, 263
Danks’ Puddling Furnace, 368
Danks, Mr. S., Revolving Puddling Furnace, Iron and
Steel Institute, 166
Deptford Foreign Cattle Market, 406
Destructive Distillation of Light Petroleum Naphthas at Comparatively Low Temperatures, Mr, Dana Hayes on the, 239
Details of Works at the Junction of the Fleet Ditch with Low Level Sewer, Blackfriars, 196, 200, 204
Devastation’s Carriage, Trial of, 376
Devastation and Cyclops, 96, 122
Diamonds in Situ, Discovery of, 239
Disinfectants, 75
Dockyard Handy Book, The Model, 446
Douglass’, Mr., Corliss Engine, British Association, 89
Drainage, Inefficient, 411
Dredger Steam, 50 Nominal Horse Power, for the |
Dundee Harbour Trustees, Messrs. Simmons and Co., Designers, Mr. D. Cunningham, C.E., 250, 251
Dredgers for the Brazilian Government, 433
Drill, Messrs. B. Reid and Go’s Irrigating, 384
Drill with Crow’s Balance Table, Messrs. Fairburn, Kennedy, and Naylor’s Radial, 441, 444
Drilling Machine, Messrs. Fairburn, Kennedy, and Naylor’s Armour Plate, 426
Drying Proceeds, Eyton’s, 37
Earthquakes, Professor Fuch’s Report on, 87
Eclipse Expedition, 122
Education, Technical, 195
Elastic Wheels, Bite of, 62
Electricity, Is it a Force ? 230, 259, 271, 288
Elementary Papers on Construction, 185, 420
Elcmonto dor Graphischcn Static, J. Bauschinger, 362
End-on Fire on Shipboard, 405
Engine, The Ammonia, 131
Engine, The Corliss, Mr. Douglass, British Association, 89
Engine, Cornish, The, 142, 373, 389, 405, 428, 411
Engine, Details of Nozzles and Valves of 80in. Cornish, 142
Engine, Messrs. J. Evans and Sons, Steam Pumping, 125
Engine, Messrs. J. Fowler and Co.’s 14-Horso Power Double Cylinder’ Ploughing, 36
Engine at Messrs. Gilkes, Wilson, Pease, and Co.’s Works, Messrs. Hopkins, Gilkes, and Co.’s Blowing, 272, 277
Engine for the 3ft. Gin. Gauge, Mr. J, unt’s Locomotive, 24
Engine, Goods, Paris, Lyons, and Me erranean Railway, 337, 358, 359, 362
Engine, Messrs. Jessop and Co.’s Combined rtable
Steam Fire, 92
Engine and Omnibus, Mr. C. Burrell’s Traction,
Engine for River Navigation, Messrs. Fletcher, ri-son, and Co.’s Marine, 164
Engine, Messrs. Robey and Co’s 10-Horse Power Semi-Fixed, International Exhibition, 24
Engine, Royal Arsenal, Bombay, Messrs. Whieldon
Lecky, and Co.’s 6-Horse Power High Press re
Expansion, 380, 383 ’
Engine, Messrs. Yarrow and Hedley’s Steam Fire, Messrs. Merryweather, 125
Engineering, Celestial, 327
Engineering College, Examination for Admittance into the Indian, 57, 72, 75, 90, 94, 98, 104, 107, 122
Engineering in Glasgow, 325
Engines, The Adhesion of Traction, 257
Engines, American Steamboat, 166
Engines and Boilers, Messrs. Laird and Sons’ Twin Screw Inverted Direct-acting, 325, 326
Engines, Construction of Traction, 51, 67, 103, 139, 175,193
Engines, Messrs. Gilbert and Cooper’s Compound Screw, 40
Engines at the Grace Mary Colliery, Oakham, Messrs.
Withinshaw and Co.’s Winding, 286, 295
Engines, Great Northern Railway, Mr, Stirling’s, 211
Engines, Heating Feed-water for Portable, 358, 378
Engines of the Magloria, Twin Screw, 284 (See Supplement)
Engines, Traction, 62, 169, 223, 230
Engines, Messrs. E. and R. Turner’s Steam, 110
Erith Ironworks, Visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to the, 70
Euphrates Valley Line, 9
Evans and Sons’, Messrs. J., Pumping Engine, 125
Everett, Professor, Atmosphere of the Earth, British Association, 158
Examinations for the Indian College, 57, 75, 80, 94, 104, 122
Applied Mathematics, 72
Arithmetic, Mensuration, Algebra, 57
Construction in Iron, 107
Drawing, 108
Dynamics, 98
Engineering, 72
Engineering, Practical, 107
Euclid and Trigonometry, 57
General Construction, 107
Geology, Mineralogy, 98
Heat, Fuel, Steam, 98
Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, 98
Metallurgy, 98
Miscellaneous, 108
Railway. 108
Statics, 72 .
Steam Engine and Machinery,
Surveying, 72, 98
Waterworks, 108
Excursion of the Iron and Steel Institute into Staffordshire and Shropshire, 186, 195, 223, 234
Exhaustion as a Power for Underground Purposes, Mr. II. Ogden, 426
Exhibition, Austrian International, 216
Expenditure, Railway, Details of, 337, 338
Experiments on Boiler Explosions, 420
Experiments on the Strength of Cast Iron Girders, 104
Explosion, Biddulph Valley, 122
Explosion, Stowmarket, 129, 183, 178, 195
Explosions, Boiler, 144
Explosive Agents, Professor Abel, F.R.S., British Association, 114,126, 150
Exter’s Brake for Railway Camages and Tenders. 330
Eyth, Mr., Valve Gear, 106, 144
Eyton, Drying Process, 37
Factory Act, Alteration in the, 163
Factories, Management of the Government, 129
Fairburn, Kennedy, and Naylor, Messrs., Armom
Plate Drilling Machine, 426
Fairburn, Kennedy, and Naylor, Messrs., Locomotive Frame Slotting Machine, 406
Fairburn, Kennedy, and Naylor, Messrs., Radial Drill, with Crow’s Balance Table, 441,444
Fairlie, Mr. R. F., Railway Gauges, British Association, 112
Feed Heater, Messrs. Oswald and Swaddle, 322
Feed-water, Heating, -JW7
Feed-water for Portable Engines, 358, 378
Field Battery Equipment, The Now, 251
Field Boiler of the Ravee, 287
Fire Engines in Hamburgh, 277
Fishing by Steam, 70
Fleet Ditch and Low Level Sewer, Blackfriars, Details of Works at the Junction of, 196, 200, 204
Fletcher, Harrison, and Co., Messrs., Marine Engine for River Navigation, 164
Fletcher, Mr., The Rhysimctcr, British Association, 90
Fletcher, C.E., Mr. L., Steam Boiler Legislation, British Association, 96
Flying Bridge with the Swiss Pile Driver, Erecting, 341
Flying Machines, 222
Foreign Mechanical Industry, 37, 178
Foreign Periodical Literature, 10, 25, 42, 60, 76, 94,112, 130, 148, 166, 184, 204, 220, 238, 258, 275, 294, 310, 328, 348, 365, 382, 412. 429
Fowler and Co., Messrs. J., 14 Horse-power Double Cylinder Ploughing Engine, 36
Fowler, Messrs. J., Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 3
Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, 205
French Atlantic Cable, Repairs of the, 151
Fryer, Mr. A., Concretor, Messrs. Manlovcand Alliott, 72, 74
Fuchs, Professor, Report on Earthquakes, 87
Fuel, A New—Compressed Leaves, 307
Furnace, Mr. S. Banks’ Revolving Puddling, Iron and Steel Institute, 166
Furnace, M. Gruner’s Contributions to the Chemistry of the Blast, 355
Furnace, Mr. Lowthian Bell on Mr. Ferrie’s Self Coking Blast, Iron and Steel Institute, 143
Furnace and Rail Press, Orc Melting, Siemans’ Steel Works, Landore, 236
Furnace, Mr. Siemans’ Continuous glass Melting, 304
Furnace, Steel Melting, Siemans’ Steel Works, Landore, 232
Furnaces, Mr. A. Howatson’s Heating and Puddling, 197, 223
Furnaces in the Midland District, Mr. T. W. Plum, On Increasing the Height of, Iron and Steel Institute,
Furnaces, Hematite Iron Company, Works of, 54, 56, 87
Gadd and Moore, Messrs., Small Ware Loom, 146
Garrison Point Fort, 104
Gas, Eveleigh’s System of Producing, 271
Gatling Guns, 383
Gauge, Automatic Discharge, Mr. T. Stevenson,
F.R.S.E., M.I.C.E., British Institution, 95
Gauge, Changing, 186
Gauge, The Narrow, 109
Gauge, A New Steam, Professor Zengcr, British Association, 124
Gauges, Railway, Mr. R. F. Fairlic, British Association, 112
Gauges, Steam, 33, 105
Gauges, Water, in the United States, 230
Gellcrat and Co., Messrs., Decade of Steam Road
Rolling in Paris, 446
Geometry, Elements of Plain and Solid, H. W. Watson,
M.A., 238
German Word Building, 305
Gilbert and Cooper, Messrs., Cempound Screw Engines, 40
Gillott, Mr. T., On Pointed Roofs, British Association, Girders Experiments on the Strength of Cast Iron, Gjers, Mr. T., Ayrsomc Ironworks, Middlesbrough,
Iron and Steel Institute, 140
Gladstone, F.R.S., Mr. J. IL, and Mr. A. Tribe,
F.C.S., Experiments on Chemical Dynamics, British Association, 151
Glass, Professor Stokes on Researches of the Late Rev.
W. Vernon Harcourt, on the Condition of Transparency in Glass, British Association, 170
Glatton, The, 348, 349, 376
Gloucester, A New Railway Station for, 260
Gloucester, Steam Ploughing in, 284
Gold Yield in the United Kingdom, 1861-69, 53
Grass Drill, Mr. R. Tooth. 205
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Circular of, 10
Greenwich Time, 447
Greig’s System of Clearing Cano Fields, 70
Griffin, C.E., Mr. F., Permanent Way, 366, 378, 424
Gruner, Mr., Contribution to the Chemistry of the
Blast Furnace, 355
Gun, Mr. Bessemer’s New, 229
Gun-Cotton, 354
Gun-Cotton, How is it Made, 184
Gunpowder, Report of Committee on Explosive Substances, 10
Guns versus Targets, 147
Hammer, Invention of the Steam, 35
Hannah, Mr. S., Water Meter, 20
Harbours of Refuge, 241
Hayes, Mr. S. Dana, on the Destructive Distillation of
Light Petroleum Naphthas at Comparatively Low Temperatures, 234
Haywood, Mr. J., Logovirsktche Bridge, Novotorsky Railway, 422, 423
Head, Wrightson, and Co., Messrs., Colliery Locomotive, 407
Hecate, Launch of the, 234
Hill and Ward, Messrs., Wire, 151
Hind and Son, Messrs., Treble-Geared Facing Lathe,
179
Hipkiss, Mr., Harding Steel Pens, 205
Hodgson, C.E., Mr. C., Wire Tramways, 168, 269, 365
Holmes, Mr., Self Lighting Inextinguishable Signal Lamp, 20
Hopkins, Gilkcs, and Co., Messrs., Blowing Engine at
Messrs. Gilkcs, Wilson, Pease, and Co’s. Works, Middlesbrough, 272, 277
Howatson, Mr. A., Heating and Puddling Furnaces, 197, 223
How to Photograph a Tracing without a Camera, 282
Hunt, Mr. J., Locomotive Engine for the 3ft. 6in.
Gauge, 24
Hunter, Mr. G., Stone Cutting and Tunnelling Machine, 37
Hydra, H.M.S., Proposed Launch, 449
Hydraulic Bending Machinery for Pembroke Dockyard, 305
Hydrostatic Weighing Machines, Duckham’s, 42
Illuminations in Warfare, 437
India, Engineering in, 144
India, Public Work in, 219, 230
India, Railway Communication with, 265, 306, 356
Indian College, 99
Indian Government Steam Traill Engine Ravce, Trip from Ipswich to Edinburgh, 287, 293, 313
Indian Railway Service, 155
Indian Railway Interest, 122
Indicator, Capt. Campbell’s Range, 21
Industrial Classes in Egypt, 433
Institutes, Amalgamation of the Midland and Derbyshire Mining, 23
Institute of Engineers, The South Wales,
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 121, 15;
Address of President, 139
Institute, The Iron and Steel (cont.)
Ayresome Ironworks, Middlesbrough, with Remarks P.Pon the Alteration in Size of Cleveland Furnaces, Mr. John Gjcrs, 140
Composition of Gases Evolved from the Bessemer Converter during the Blow, Mr. George J. Snelus,
Danks’ Revolving Puddling Furnace, Mr. Samuel Banks, 166
Excursion in Staffordshire and Shropshire, 186, 195,
Further Results of the Use of Hot Blast Fire-brick Stoves, Mr. Thomas Whitwell, 141
Geological Features of South Staffordshire Coal Field in Special Reference to its Future Development, Mr. Henry Johnson, 140
On Increasing the Height of Blast Furnaces in the Midland District, Mr. W. T. Plum, 141
On Mr. Ferrie’s Self Coking Blast Furnace, Mr. I. Lothian Boll, 143
Institute of Mining Engineers, The Midland:—
Exhaustion as a Power for Underground Purposes Mr. H. Ogden, 426
Institute, South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Mining, 325
Institute on Steam Boilers, The Franklin, 62
Institution of Civil Engineers, 11, 87,181, 183, 310, 330
Pneumatic Despatch Tubes, Mr. Carl Siemens, M. Inst. C.E.,
Premiums Awarded, 181
Stresses of Rigid Arches and other Curved Structures, Mr. W. Bell, M. Inst. C.E., 421
Visit to Portsmouth Dockyard, 71
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland, 271, 305
Institution of Engineers in Scotland :—
Condenser for Steam Engines, Mr. J. W. McCarter, 423 '
Temperature and Elasticity of Steam, Mr. Alex. Morton, 175
Institution, London, Finsbury Circus, 271 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Brake Drums on the Ingleby Incline, Mr. J. A. Haswell, Middlesbrough, 53, 69
Compound Cylinder Blowing Engines at Lackcnby Ironworks, Mr. Alfred Hill, Middlesbrough, 53
Geological Features of the Cleveland District, Mr.
John Jones, Middlesbrough, 53
Hematite Iron, Mr. W. Crossley, Middlesbrough, 52
Miller’s Cast Iron Steam Boilers, Mr. J. Laybourne, 306
Preliminary Treatment of Materials used in the Manufacture of Pig Iron in the Cleveland District, Mr. Lowthian Bell, Middlesbrough, 52
Simple Construction of Steam Engine Governor, Mr. J. Head, Middlesbrough, 53
Steam Boilers with Small Water Space, and Root’s Tube Boiler, Mr. C. Cochrane, Middlesbrough, 69
Wire Tramways, Mr. Hamilton Weldon Pcndrcd, C.E., 269
Institution of Naval Architects :—
Circular of the Secretary, Mr. Merrifield, 305
Institution, The Royal:—
Animal Mechanics, Rev. S. Haughton, M.D., F.R.S., 37
Inventors in America, 260
Iron Bridges on the Continent, 418
Ironclads, 342, 360
Ironclads, Centre Board, 259
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 15. 31, 49, 65, 83, 101, 119, 137, 155, 173, 191, 209, 227, 245, 263, 281, 299, 317, 335, 353, 371, 387, 401, 417, 435, 453
Iron to the Construction of Bridges, &c., Treatise on the Application of, Francis Campin, C.E., 446
Iron Fronts for Buildings, 342
Iron Making, Economic Devices in, 277
Iron Rail, 304
Iron Rails, Improvements in, 367
Iron Sections, 449
Iron Shipbuilding in Italy, 251
Iron and Steel Institute (See Institute)
Iron Surfaces, Preservation of, 427
Iron Trade, The Wages Question in the, 278
Iron Tubes, Strength of, 147
Ironworks, The Ayresome, Mr. John Gjcrs’ Description of, Iron and Steel Institute, 140
Irrigation, Sewage. 273,395
Irriagation versus Disinfectants, 237
Jacket, The Steam, 347
Jenkin, Prof. Fleeming, Address at Edinburgh, 80
Jessop and Co., Messrs., Combined Portable and Steam Fire Engine, 92
Johnson, Mr. H., Geological Features of the South Staffordshire Coal Field, Iron and Steel Institute, 140 .__-
Journal Friction in Steam Engines, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, LL.D., F.R.S., 283
King.Mr. C., Cab, 277
King’s College Prizes, 34
Klerity’s Parallel Motion, 161
Knitting Machine, The “Little Rapid,” Mr. Bickford, 407
Labour, Value of, 219
Laird and Sons, Messrs., Twin Screw Inverted Direct-acting Engines and Boilers, 325, 826
Lamp, Mr. Holmes’ Self-lighting Inextinguishable Signal, 20
Lamp, A New, Dr. Bachhoffner, 260
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company Dividend, 138
Lan dore Steel Works, The, 231
Lathe, Messrs. Hind and Son’s Treble-Geared Facing, 179
Launch of the Korara, 131
Launch, Mr. T. Messenger’s 35ft. Paddle Wheel Steam, 307, 308, 342
Law Courts, The New, 165
Law of Resistance to the Passage of Air through Pipes of Different Diameters and Lengths of Various Velocities, Mr. Spiller, M.I.C.E., on, 312
Lawson and Mansergh, Messrs., Pumping Machinery, Caterham Asylum, 218, 222
Leading Articles :—
Adhesion of Traction Engines, 257
Arbitration, 294
Asbestos Piston-rod Packing, 428
Breakwaters, 41
Celestial Engineering, 327
Coal in the Navy, 273
Disinfectants, 75
End of the Strike, 257
Euphrates Valley Line, 9
Examinations for Direct Appointments in the
Public Works Department, India, 75
Field Artillery, 397
Fish Torpedo, The, 381
Glatton, The, 348
Guns v. Targets, 147
Heating Feed-water, 397
Heavy Rifled Ordnance, 411
Hematite Ore and Iron of Cumberland, 59
Indian Civil Engineering College, 25, 94
Indian Government Steam Train, 293
India-rubber v. Iron Tires, 25
Inefficient Drainage, 411
Institution of Civil Engineers, 183
Intercommunication in Trains, 309
Irrigation v. Disinfectants, 237
Jacketed Cylinders, 381
Large Castings, 237
Macadamised Roads, 445
Management of the Government Factories, 129
Mechanical Section of the British Association, 111
Megsera, The, 43, 293
Megsera Court Martial, The, 363
Metropolitan District Railway, 9
New Law Courts, 165
Nine Hours’ Movement, 201
Patent Office References, 274
Portable Engine Boilers, 327
Leading Articles (oont.):—
Preservation of Iron Surfaces, 427
Projectiles for 25-Ton Guns, 445
Public Works in India, 219
Railway Axles, 412
Railways in Ceylon, 59
Railways in Turkey, 202
Reed as an Oracle, Mr., Ill
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Cardiff, 60
Sewage Irrigation, 273
Sewage Poison, 412
Sewerage of Large Towns, 347
Steam on Common Roads, 41
Steam Engine Cylinders, 427
Steam, Jacket, The, 347
Steam Omnibuses, 165
Steel Locomotive Boilers, 382
Stowmarkct Explosion, 129, 183
Strength of Iron Tubes, 147
Strength of Struts, 309
Thames Conservancy, 201
Thomson, on the Origin of Life, Sir William, 93
Value of Labour, 219
What should a Road Locomotive Weigh, 364
Leamington Model Sewage Works, 296
Legislation, Traction Engine, 34
Lehrbuch der Mechanik in Elementarcs Darstellung, Ad. Wernicko, 42
Lehrbuch der Physikalischen Mechanik, Dr. Hcin-rick Buff, 42
Leslie, C. R. M. J., Salmon Ladder, British Association, 89
Letters to the Editor:—
Aberdeen Breakwater, W. Dyer Cay, 288
Air Pumps and Condensers, Tantalus, 259
Albert Bridge, The, A. K„ 179
Albert Bridge, The, R. Maurell, 168
Babbage and Clements, D., 324
Biddulph Valley Explosion, Experience, 122
Bite of Elastic Wheels, C. G. Kleberg, 62
Bite of Road Driving Wheels, L. J. Todd, 259, 271
Bogie^Cars, AV. J. Cockburn Muir, 378
Bogie Cars, J. Hind, jun., 360
Bogie Tramway Cars, Frank H. Storic, 324
Boiler Explosions, D. H., 144
Boiler Explosions, E. Mirehin, 144
British Association, T., 98
Carr’s Disintegrating Flour Mills, Robert Douglass, 144
Centre-board Ironclads, R. N. T. C., 259
Civil Engineers and Indian Uncovenanted Service,
C. E., 179
Coal in the Navy, Horne, 424
Coal in the Navy, John Pinchbeck, 379
Coal in the Navy, R. Wood Running, 360
Committee on Patent Law, Esse non Vidcri, 19
Concentration of Steam without Air Pumps,
R. J. AV., 378
Daily Motion of a Brick Tower Caused by Solar Heat
Alex. W. Mackay, 313
Disinfecting Armour, J. M. Hyde, 195, 230
Deflecting Armour, II. Thomas, 223
Devastation and Cyclops Ironclads, The, E. Gardener
Fishbourne, 96, 122
Duckham’s Hydrostatic Weighing Machine, E. Duckham, 424
Employment of Surveyor Arthur Catos, and F. M.
Rickman, 62
Engineering in India, A Civil Engineer, 141
English Mechanic, Scientific, and Mechanical Society,
Manchester, F. G. Wood, lion. Sec., 179
Evdeigh’s System of Producing Gas, AV. H, Beck,
Examinations for the Public Works Department, India, Medicus, 104
Eyth’s,Valve Gear, John W. Hackworth, 144
Flying Machines, Major J. Scott Phillips, 222
Galvanic Battery Elements, W. H. Coffin, 323
Glass Bearings, K. W. H., 313
Griffin’s Permanent Way, G. Featherstone Griffin,
C.E., M.S.E, 425
Griffin’s Permanent Way, Platelayer, 378
Heating Feed-water for Portable Engines, J. Pinchbeck, 378
Howatson’s Furnace, Andrew Howatson, 223
Hutchinson’s Rolling Stock, General, J. AV. AVilson
C.E., 98, 167
Hydrostatic Speed Measures, W. J. M. Rankine.
195
Improved Air Pump, An, Robert Edge, 360
Indian Examination, C. E., 122
Invention of the Steam Hammer, F. S. Rowlands. 35
Inventors and their Right as Distinguished from
Patent Law, A. Crestadoro, 35
Ironclad Ships, H. Faiga, 360
Ironclads, J. Hadd-an, 342 __
Is Electricity a Force ? AV. H.'Tfcece, 230, 271
Is Electricity a Force ? Your Reviewer, 259, 288
Jacketed Cylinders, G. Dowell, 407, 424
Jacketed Cylinders, Paul Kaeuffer. 341, 378, 395
Jacketed Cylinders, A. Wallace, 378
Lighthouses in China, James N. Douglass, 271
Liquefaction of Steam, A Student, 442
Liquefaction of Steam a Measure of Work, John C
Fell, 424
Loss of the Captain, M. AV. Ruthven, C.E., 105
Mendez System of Building Ships, George Bush, C.E., 35
Newcastle Strike, TubaLCaiu, 223
Nillus' Improvement in Breech-loading Ordnance,
L. De Fontaine Moreau and Co., 98
Passenger Signals, A. Mackie, 378
Patent Right, G. W., 62
Ponts-et-Chaussces and the Commune, C. M. Poole
3
Portsmouth Dockyard, Dock Labourer, 105
Public Policy of a Patent Law, W. Spence, Assoc.
Inst. C.E., 35,122
Public Works in India, Confidential, 230
Rhysimeter, The, E. L. Berthon, 144, 169
Rhysimeter, The, St. John Vincent Day, 195
Rhysimoter, The, Alfred E. Fletcher, 144
Rhysimeter, The, Log, 104, 179
Rhysimeter, The, Lover of Justice, 104
Rhysimetev, The, Alex. R. Terry, 179
Road Locomotives, AV. Campbell Muir, 824
Road Locomotives, Lieutenant R. .E. Crompton, 408
Road Locomotives, Arthur G. Fenn, 378
Road Locomotives, AV. AV. Harris, 408
Russian Railways, Translator, 342
Safety for Coal Miners, Economy to all Concerned,
J. Deacon, 259, 324
Sewage Irrigation, D. and S. E., 395
Seymour Rudder, A Constant Reader, 269
Short Route to America, A. Seal, 288
Smoke Nuisance in the Navy, T. S. Prideaux, 412
Steam Boiler Legislation, C. J. L., 122
Steam Boiler Legislation, Edward Malbon, 122
Steam Gauges, Y., 105
Steam Launch, A. Sedley, 342
Steam Omnibuses, Engineer, 180
Steam Omnibuses, Lewis Olrick, 180
Steam on the Road, J. F. Cole, 325
Strength of Struts, David Kirkaldy, 312
Strength of Timber Struts, AV. J. Macquorn Ran-kine, 323
Strength of Timber Struts, Thomas D. Ridley, 360
Strength of Timber Struts, B. B. Stoney, 378
Torpedoes, A. Alexander, 408
Torpedoes, Philip Braham, 408, 424
Torpedoes, J. Haddan, 223
Torpedoes, George AVarsop, 408
Traction Engines, J. AV. Gordon, 223, 230'
Traction Engines, J. II., 169
Traction Engines, A. Schmid, 62
Tramway Cars, J. R. Boger, 259
Tramways, M. M. E., 230
Treatment of Town Sewage, Lawson ancl Mansergh, 167
Trial Trip of the Ravee, Lieutenant R. E. Crompton, 318
Trial Trip of the Ravee, J. H. K., 313
Trial Trip of the Ravee, Lewis Olrick, 314
Letters to the Editor (cont.):—
Tunbridge Wells Sewage, W. Hope, 181
Utilisation of Slag, John Milroy, 342
Ventilation of Sewers, Burrell and Valpy, 442
Warming Buildings, A. H., 341
Water Gauges in the United States, J. A. Rogers, 230
Wolverhampton Trials, The, Alex. W. Wallace, 3G0
Working Railways, J. Smith, 181
Letters Patent, 198,
Lighthouse, The Sha-wei-Shan, China, 188
Lighthouses on the Coast of British Burmah, 44-
Light Railways, 28
Liimf jord, Proposed Bridge over the, 366
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Obituary :—
Babbage, Mr, C., 284
Burgoyne, Field Marshal Sir John F., 248
Cail, Mr. Jean Francois, 330
Dunn, C.E., Mr. T., 435
Dyke, Mr. Charles, 115
Easton, Mr. J ames, 296, 306,
Meiklcham, Mr. Robert, 186
Murchison, Sir Roderick, 284
Mushet, Mr. Robert, 161
Newlands, Mr. J., 40
Parkes, Mr. J., 122
Pease, Mr. Walter, 408 •
Sommciller, M., 62
Tuxford, Mr. W. W., 122
Wicksteed, Mr. T., 383
Ogden, Mr. H., on Exhaustion as a Power for Underground Purposes, 426
Oldham School of Science and Art, 230
Omnibuses, Steam, 165, 180
Om Jernet som Kanonmaterial, C. W. Carstens-Bcrgkandidst, 364
Opening of the Mansion House Station, 11
Opening of the Nottingham Trent Bridge, 57
Ordnance, Heavy Rifled, 411
Ordnance of the Middle Ages, Breech-loading, 195
Ordnance, Nillus’ Breech-loading, 55, 98
Ore and Iron in Cumberland, Hematite, 59
Orwell Works, Ipswich, The Nine Hours’ Movement at 374
Osborne, The Royal Paddle-Yacht, 271
Oswald and Swaddle, Messrs., Feed-heater, 323
Ozonised Ether, 144 ,
Packing, Asbestos Piston-rod. 428
Parachute Light Balls, Gen. Boxer, 4S7
Parallel Motion, M. Klerity’s, 161
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway Goods Engine, 337, 358, 359, 362
Paris Workmen, Migration of, 307
Particulars of the Trial Trip of the Ravce, 357
Passages Bay, New Works, 240
Patent Law, 373
Patent Law, Committee on, 19, 449
Patent Law, Inventors, and their Rights as distinguished from, 35
Patent Law, Public Policy of, 35, 122
Patent Law Reform, Meeting of London Agents, 8
Patent Law, Report of the Select Committee on, 19
Patent, A Nonsensical, 127
Patent Right, 62
Pcarn, Messrs. R. and F., Donkey Pump, 305
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Photographic Dry Process, Mr. T. Sutton, B.A., British Association, 151
Photometry, Notes on, 229
Pile Driving in Deep Water with Towle's “ Spider,” 160
Plant at the Furness Ironworks, 58
Ploughs and Traction Engines, Steam, 301
Plum, Mr. T. W., Blast Furnaces in the Midland District, Iron and Steel Institute, 41
Poison Sewage, 412
Portsmouth Dockyard, 105
Portsmouth Dockyard Extension, 71
Portsmouth Harbour Works, 35
Power in Motion, Horse Power, &c., James Armour, C.E., 238
Premiums Awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers, 181
Prentice, Messrs., Plan of Works, Stowmarket, 178
Price of Minerals, 365
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Projectiles for 25-ton Guns, 445
Propeller, Mr. H. B. Young, 186
Propeller, Mr. Wimshurst’s Improvements in Screw, 376
Prospectus of the Excelsior Hydraulic Gold Washing Company of California, 266
Proof Butts at Woolwich, 271
Prussia, Breech-loaders in, 249
Prussian Mortars, 191
Puddling Apparatus, Mr. J. J. Bodmer, 161
Pump Air, 360
Pump, Donkey, Messrs. R. and F. Pearn. 305
Pump “ Hercules ” Steam, Messrs. Winder Brothers, 240
Pumping Machinery, Caterham Asylum, Messrs.
Lawson and Mansergh, 218, 222
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Railways, Working, 181
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Symons, British Association, 108
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Selenitic Mortar, 413
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Sewage, Tunbridge Wells. 181
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Sewers, Ventilation of, 442
Seymour, Mr. G., Steering Apparatus, 128
Sha-Wei-Shan Lighthouse, China, The, 188
Shearing Machine at the Bowesfield Ironworks, Messrs.
J. Bennie and Co., 295
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Ships, Mendez System of Building, 35
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Siege Operations at Chatham, 284
Siemens’ Continuous Glass Melting Furnace, 304
Siemens’ M.I.C.E., F.R.S., Mr. C. W., The Steam
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Signals, Passenger, 378
Simons’ and Co., Messrs., Steam Dredger, 50 Nominal Horse-power, for the Dundee Harbour Trustees, Mr. D. Cunningham, C.E., 250, 251
Sinnette, Assoc. I. N. A., Mr. J. L., Curved Tillers, 322
Situ, Discovery of Diamonds in, 239
Slag, Utilisation of, 342
Slotting Machine, Messrs. Fairburn, Kennedy, and Naylor’s Locomotive Frame, 406
Smithfield Club Show, 385, 392
Asken, Mr., Refrigerator, 392
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Steam Road Roller, 393
Ayshford, Mr., Adjustable Dog Cart, 393
Boby, Mr., Grain Propelled Screen, 393
Clayton and Shuttleworth, Messrs., Iron Wheel, 392
Clayton and Shuttle worth, Messrs., Thrasher Framing, 392
Coleman and Morton, Potato Digger, 392
Fisken, Mr., Steam Ploughing System, 392
Forbes, Colonel, Rotary Pump, 393
Mackinder, Mr., Elastic Wheel, 392
Page, Mr. W., Corn Screen, 392
Perowne, Mr., Gardner’s Turnip Cutter, 393
Pollard and Jephson, Messrs., Gate Bolt, 393
Smoke and Heat Precipitator, Messrs. Tangye, 322
Snelus, Mr. G. J., Gases Evolved from the Bessemer Converter, Iron and Steel Institute, 167
Society, The Aeronautical :—
Aerial Flight as Dependent on Man’s Muscular Exertion, Mr. Wenham, 60
Particulars of Experiments made January, 1846, to Ascertain the Law of Resistance to the Passage of Air through Pipes of Different Diameters and Lengths of various Velocities, Mr. J. Spiller, M.I.C.E., 312
Resistance of Air Through Passages of Different Lengths, Mr. Bandler, 60
Society of Arts, Royal Scottish :—
Quantitative Method of Testing a Telegraph Earth, Mr. W. E Arlyton, 187
Society of Bengal, The Asiatic:—
Water Meters as in Use by Water Companies, Mr. J.
Reid, F.R.S.S.A., 169
Society, The Chemical:—
Burnt Iron and Steel, W. H. Johnson, B. Sc , 367
Essential Oils, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 408
Eulyte and Dyolite, Mr. Henry Bassett, 439
Nitration Products of the Dichlorophenol Sulphuric Acids, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 439
Society of Civil Engineers, The American:—
Accidents to Railway Structures, Mr. T. C. Clarke, 271
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers :—
Light Railways, Mr. W. Lawford, M.I.C.E., 28 Society, Edinburgh and Leith Engineers’, 299
Bell and Helmet Diving, Mr. Alan Brebner, C.E., 421
Marine Propulsion, Mr. Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 383
Some Curiosities in Surveying, Mr. G. Romanes, C.E., 337
Tramways, Mr. Hugh C. Bell, C.E., 395
Water Supply of Cities and Towns, Mr. A. Leslie, C.E., 299
Society, Engineering, King’s College:—
Carbonate of Soda, Mr. Gamble, 307
Fleet of the Future for Commerce, for War, Mr.
W. M. Vivian, 390
History of the Steam Engine, Mr. Terry, 325
Theory of the Microscope, Mr. R. W. Baynes, 337
Travel in Iceland, Mr. Milne and Mr. Watt’s, 296
Society of Engineers, 83, 144, 212, 383, 395, 408
Floating Breakwaters, Mr. T. Cargill, C.E., A.B., A.I.C.E., 431
Society, English, Mechanic, Scientific, and Mechanical, Manchester, 179, 390
Society, Royal Agricultural, at Cardiff, 60, 142,157
Society, Royal Agricultural, Wolverhampton, 1, 51
Anchor, Mr. Campain’s, 1,
Awards in Implement Department, 18
Boiler, Miller’s Tubulous, Isca Foundry Company, 70
Cane Fields, Greig’s System of Clearing, 70
Chenab, Trial of the, 17
Cultivator, Turning, Messrs. J. Fowler and Co., 5
Drill, Steam Seed, Messrs. J. Fowler and Company, 4 Engine with Details, Messrs. Tuxford’s, 1 Engine, Messrs. J. and F. Howard, 1
Engine, 12-H.P. Traction, Messrs. J. Fowler and Company, 3, 8, 17
Engine, Trial of Messrs. Amies and Barford’s 10-H.P. 3
Engine, Trial of Messrs. Avcling and Porter’s 6-H-P., 2
Engine, Trial of Messrs. Avcling and Porter’s Traction, 10-H.P., 2
Engine, Trial of Messrs. Burrell’s 8-H.P., 2
Engine, Trial of Messrs. Howard’s 10-H.P. Traction, 3
Engine, Trial of Messrs. Ransome and Head’s 8-H.P, 2
Extractor, Root and Stone, Messrs. J. Fowler and Company, 3, 8
List of Steam Gauges Exhibited, 33
Particulars of Preliminary Trial of Traction Engines on Saturday, July 1st, 1871, 6
Particulars of the Trial of Steam Cultivating Machinery, 6
Particulars of the Trial of Traction Engines at Barnhurst, July 3rd, 1871, 6
Particulars of Trial of Traction Engines on Brake, 6 Particulars of Trip of Traction Engines from Wolverhampton to Stafford, July 6th, 1871,19
Plough, Mr. Jefferies’ Turnwrest Double-Furrow, 55 Stone Breaker, Archer’s, Dunton Engine Works, 18 Stone Breaker, Blake’s, Messrs. H. R. Marsden and
Company, 18
Valve Gear, Mr. Eyth, 106
Van for Men, Sleeping, Messrs. J. Fowler and Company, 5
Vernon Cup, 33
Wagon, Improved Three-wheeled, Messrs. J. Fowler and Company, 4
Windlass, Messrs. Barrows and Stewart’s Steam Ploughing, 71
Windlass, Messrs. Tuxford’s and Sons’ Steam Ploughing, 110
Solar Eclipse, The Coming, 357
South Kensington Museum, 12, 32, 34, 83, 95, 104, 131, 140, 173, 188, 195, 212, 230, 263,282, 299, 306,325, 341, 360, 388, 408, 432, 450
South Kensington and the School of Mines, 139
Spain, Railway Tickets in, 249
Spectroscope foi the Government Eclipse Expedition, Messrs. Whieldon, Lecky, and Lucas, 304
Spiller, M.I.C.E., Mr. J., Law of Resistanoc to the Passage of Air through Pipes of different Diameters and Lengths of various Velocities, 312
Stanford’s Carbon Closet, 133
Steam on City Railroads, 84
Steam, Liquefaction of, 442
Steam a Measure of Work, Liquefaction of, 424
Steam,. Mr. A. Morton on the Temperature and Elasticity of, Inst, of Engineers in Scotland, 176
( Steam Ploughs and Traction Engines, 301
Steam on the Road, 325
Steam Whistle, Powerful, 320
Steel Horseshoe Nails, 275
Steel Pens, Hardening, Mr. Hipkiss, 205
Steel, Something New in, 365
Steel Testing by the Griswold Method, 299
Steel Tires in the United States, 419
Steering Apparatus, Mr. G. Seymour, 128
Stevenson, F.R.S.E., M.I.C.E., Mr. T., Automatic Discharge Gauge, British Assoc., 95
Stevenson, F.R.S.E., M.I.C.E., Mr. T., Thermometer, British Assoc., 95
Stevenson, Memorial to the Late George, 178
Stirling, Mr., Engines, Great Northern Railway, 211
Stokes, Professor, on Researches of the Late Rev.
W. V. Harcourt on Transparency in Glass, British Assoc., 170
Stone Cutting and Tunnelling Machinery, Mr. G. Hunter, 37
Stoney, M.A., F.RS., Mr. J., One Cause of Transparency, British Association, 146
Stoves, Mr. T. Whitwell, on Further Results of the use of Hot Blast Fire Brick, Iron and Steel Institute, 241
Stowmarket Explosion, 129, 183, 178, 195
Stowmarket, Plan of Messrs. Prentice’s Works, 178
Stranton Iron and Steel Company, 405
Strike, The End of the, 257
Struts, Strength of, 309, 323, 342, 360, 378
Submarine Boats, 438
Suez Canal, 274
Sultan, The, 288 # .....
Sun, Professor Norton on the Physical Constitution of the, 22
Surveyors, Employment of, 62
Sutton, B.A., Mr. T., Account of a New Photographic Dry Process, British Association, 151
Swiss Pile Driver, Erecting Flying Bridge with the 341
Switches and Crossings, W. Donaldson, M. A., A.I.C.E. 238
Tait, Professor P. G., Address at Edinburgh, 85
Tangye’s Smoke and Heat Precipitator, 322
Telegraph Earth, Mr. W. E. Ayrton, on a Quantitative
Method of Testing a, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 187
Telegraph Lines from Lightning, Protecting, 212
Telegraphs, Management of Atlantic, 70
Telegraphs, West Indian, 342
Telegraphy, Handbook of Practical, R. S. Culley, 202
Telegraphy in Turkey, 122
Telescope, Messrs. Cooke and Sons’ 10-in. Equatorial 322
Telescopes, On the Calculation of the Powers of, Rev
E. L. Berthon, M.A., F.R.A.S., 184
Thames Embankment, 406
Thermodynamics of the General Oceanic Circulation Professor Carpenter, British Association, 151
Thermometer, Mr. T. Stevenson, F.R.S.E., M.I.C.E.
British Association, 95
Thomson, Professor, Address at Edinburgh, 77, 93
Tillers, Curved, Mr. J. L. Sinnette, Assoc. LN.A., 322
Tires, India-rubber versus Iron, 25
Tooth, Mr. R., Grass Drill, 205
Torpedo Boat, 144
Torpedo Boat, Mr. P. Braham, 269
Torpedo, The Fish, 381
Torpedoes, 223, 408, 424
Towle, C.E., Mr. H. E., “ Spider” for Pile Driving, 160
Traction Engine Legislation, 34
Traffic Receipts of the South Austrian and Upper
Italian Lines, Aggregate, 19
Trains, Communicating in, 309
Tramways, 230
Tramways in Edinburgh, Royal Assent to the Act, 26 Tunnel, The Mont Cenis, Opening of, 204, 212, 233, 247 Transparency, Mr. J. Stoney, M.A, F.R.S., on One
Cause of, British Association, 146
Turkey, Railways in, 202
Turner Company, 62
Turner, Messrs. E. and R., Steam Engines, lit
Tuxford and Sons, Messrs., Steam Ploughing Windlass, 110
Type Composing Machine, Mr. Mackie, 178
United States, Steel Tires in the, 419
Untcrrichtshifte fur den Gesammtcn Maschinenbau
C. G. Weitzel, 364
Valve Gear, Mr. Eyth, 106, 144
Varley, C.E., F.R.S., Mr. C. F., Method of Testing
Submerged Electric Cables, British Association, 170
Vendome Colume, The Place, 188
Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Befordcrung des Gewerbflieses in Preussen, 364
Victorian Railway, 407
Wages Question in the Iron Trade, 278
Walcker, M., Pneumatic Bells, 37
Wales and the Adjoining Counties, 16, 32, 50, 66, 84, 102, 120, 138, 156, 174, 192, 209, 227, 246, 264, 282, 300, 318, 336, 354, 371, 388, 402, 418, 436, 453
Warwick Water Supply, 341
Waste in Combustion, 121, 148, 175, 187
Weekly Chemical, Mineral, and Metal Report, 102 210 228, 354, 453
Weir, Martin’s Self-acting, 26
Westfield Explosion, 103, 128, 151, 216
Wheels, Adams’ Traction Engine, 20
Whieldon, Lecky, and Co., Messrs., 6-H.P., High Pressure Expansion Engine, Royal Arsenal, Bombay, 380, 383
Whieldon, Lecky and Lucas, Messrs., Spectroscope for the Government Eclipse Expedition, 304
Whitfield, Mr., Safes, 124
Whitwell, Mr. T., Hot Blast Fire-brick Stoves, Iron and Steel Institute, 141
Wimshurst, Mr., Screw Propellers, 376
Winby, Mr., Reversible Rail, 38
Winder, Messrs., “Hercules ” Steam Pump, 240
Windlass, Messrs. Barrows and Stewart’s Steam Ploughing, 71
Windlass, Messrs. Tuxford and Son’s Steam Ploughing,
Window Guard, Railway, 322
Wire, Messrs. Hill and Ward, 151
Wire, A Long Stretch of, Over the Mississippi, 62
Wire Tramways, Mr. C. Hodgson, C.E., 268, 269
Wire Tramways, Mr. H. W. Pendred, C.E., on, 269
Withinshaw and Co., Messrs., Winding Engines at the
Grace Mary Colliery, Oakham, 286, 295
Wolverhampton Trials, 360
Wolverhampton, Results of the Trials of Steam Cultivating Machinery at, 303
Woods, Messrs., Self-delivering Reaping Machine, 440
Woolwich Dockyard, 260
Woolwich Dockyard, Destruction of, 122
Works of the Furness Hematite Iron Company, 54, 56, 87
Yarrow and Headley, Messrs., Floating Steam Fire Engine, Messrs. Merryweather, 125
Young, Mr. H. B., Propeller, 186
Zenger, Professor, New Steam Gauge, British Association, 124
Zweiterbericht der Standigen Commission fiir die Adria an die Kairliche Akademie der Wissenschaft, 1869,1870, Geroldssohn, 42
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