The Engineer 1895 Jul-Dec: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1895 Jul-Dec: Miscellaneous Index.

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ABBE and Schott, Drs, New Series of Glasses Discovered by, 405
Aberthan, Collapse of Bridge at, 266
Abstracts of Consular and Diplomatic Reports, 211
Accelerated Train Service <74 Hook of Holland, 336
Accelerated Train Service between London and Constantinople, 336
Acceleration of Transport of Merchandise, Mr. Lambert, 29
Accident to the “ Aquila,” 58
Accident, Blasting, 105
Accident at the East 11am Sewage Pumping Station, 13
Accidents Duo to Failure of Machinery, Springs, &c., in Six Months, 431
Accident in Messrs. Palmer’s Shipyard, 160
Accidents, Personal and Other, on Railways and Railway Premises, 595
Accidents, Railway, in America, Fatal, 35
Accidents, Railway, in America, Classification of, 641
Accident, Riilway, io Arkansas, 13
Accident, Railway, Barcelona, 160
Accident, Railway, in Belgium, 369
Accident, Railway, on the Caledonian Line, 105
Accident, Railway, Caused by Fog, 641
Accident, Railway, at East Croydon, Immense Value of Automatic Brakes, 554
Accident, Riilway, on the Grand Trunk Railway, 143
Accident, Railway, on The Great Northern, 477
Accidents, Riilway, India, 87
Accident, Railway,at the Mont Parnasse Station, Remarkable, 405, 429
Accident, Railway, at Preston Station, Board of Trade Report on, 87
Accident, Railway, on the South-Eastern, 105
Accident, Railway, at The Surrey Canal Junction, 641
Accidents, Railway, in the United Kingdom, 309, 405
Accidents, Railway, in the United States, 160, 286, 309, 477, 525
Accidents in the United States in September, I Classified, 525
Accident on the Seabeach Railway, 234
Accident, A Traction Engine, 206
Accident, Tramway, in Cleveland, 554
Accrington and Church Outfall Sewerage Board Sued by the Ribble Committee, 107
Accumulators— What They can Do, 613
Accuracy of Valve Gears, The, 238
Acetylene and Carbonic Acid Gas, Dr. Krdger on, 457
Ackerman’s Armour Plates, 391
Ackerman Process of Treating Armour Plate, Too, 641 & Court, Mr. Sydney, On Civil Engineering, 626
Acworth, Mr., On Railway Economics, 405
Adam’s Bridge, 364
Adam’s Bridge Railway, The, 90, 104
Adams, Mr., Retirement of, 43
Adams, Prof. II., Oa The Force of the Wind, 468
Aden, Frosh Water at, 25
Adhesion of Metals to Glass, On tho, 131
Admiralty Buildings, The Now, 387
Adzing and Bering Machine, Sleeper, 103, 104
Aeration of Reservoir Water by Compressed Air, 87
Aeronautical Apparatus, Proposed Exhibition of, at the Paris Exposition, 59
Africa, Riilway Extension in South, 105
Africa, The Usambara Railway in East, 160
Agassiz, Prof., on Temperature of Rocks, 651
Agricultural Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9, 10, 11, 11
Agricultural Machinery Exhibition in Vienna, 1896, 217
Agricultural Processes, Electricity Applied to, 349
Agricultural Show, Royal—see Royal Agricultural Show
Air and Circulating Pumps for 3000-Horse Power Mill Engines Patentee, Mr. J. G. Hudson, 140, 164
Air Currents Traversing Underground Workings, Loss of Head in, 218
Air, Moan Daily Movement of the, at Greenwich in 1895, 13
Air Pressure in which Men can Work, Maximum, 13
Air Propellers, Fans and, 435
Air Pump and Jet Condenser, Drum, 189
Air, Ratio of the Two Specific Heats for, 35
Albion Windmill, Mr. II. Sykes, 11
Alcohol on Mercurous Iodide, Action of, 647
“Alert,” Sale of the Flagship, 286
Algiers, Petroleum in, 517
Allan and Co., Messrs. W., Triple-expansion Eogines, s s. “Lizzie Westoll” (Supplement, JnlyMtk, 1895), 62
Allan, Mr. William, and the Belleville Boilers, 234
Allen and Blackwell’s Observations with Surface Floats for the Discharge of Niagara and other Rivers, 382
Alloys, Mr. W. G. McMillan on the Nature of, 361
Alloys of Copper and Zinc, M. Charpy on the Mechanical Properties of, 405
Alloys of Tin and Zinc as Solder for Glass, 266
Alternator, Mordey-Victoria, Leicester Electricity Works, 56
Aluminium, M. Faucon on, 270
Aluminium Alloys, Resistance to Corrosion of Light, 87
Aluminium Cups for a Rain Gauge Tried and Rejected, 296
Aluminium and Copper, M. Le Chatelier on a Fusion of, 87
Aluminium, Effects of Weather upon Sheet, 266
Aluminium Fixings of the Texas Torpedo Boats, Action of Salt Water on the, 309
Aluminium on the French State Railway, Use of, 477
Aluminium with other Metals, Coating, 286
Aluminium and other Metals to Glass, On the Adhesion of, Mr. C. Margot, 131
Aluminium in Ship Work, 579
Aluminium Torpedo Boats, 407
Aluminium Torpedo Tubes Proved to be Unreliable, 501
Aluminium Tubos ? 41
Aluminium Wire, Action of Electric Current on, 457
Aluminium Works at The Falls of Foyers, 212
American Asphalte, Dr. W. C. Day on, 525
American Cruiser “Columbia,” Atlantic Passage of the, 160
American Engineer and Engineer!ng Journal, The, Bi-weekly Publication of, 431
American Engineering News, 74, 94, 118,146,168, 294, 346, 372, 442, 538, 561, 627, 648
American Iron Trade, Activity in, 286
American Lakes, Shipbuilding on the, 357, 401
American Liner “St. Louis,” The New, 13, 35
American Liner “ St. Louis,” Trial of, 160, 192
American Machinery, Reputed Excellence of, 35
American Navy, Smokeless Powder in the, 527
American Notes, 26, 51, 77, 97,123, 149, 171,197, 223, 245, 272, 297, 322, 349, 375, 398, 420, 442, 469, 493, 516, 541, 564, 631, 651
American Railroads and Tracks, 391
American Railways, The Defects of, 319
American Railways, Train Accidents on, 160
American Self-propelled Carriages, 495
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 239
“American Special Express,” The Rumoured, Unfounded, 160
American Trade Improvement, Tho, 647
American Warships, Doublo Turrets for, 214
Amphibious Passenger Boats, 370, 434, 466, 490, 504, 538, 616
“Amphitrite,” Protest of the Officers of the, 76
Amu Daria, Proposed Railway Bridge across the, 160
Analysis of Chromo Ore and Ferro-Chromuim, Mr E. II. Saniter, 177
Anatolian Railway, New Section of, 554
Ancona Harbour, Tenders for Repair of, 35
Andersen, Dr. W., Experiment in Organ Blowing, 284
Andrews, Mr. Thos., On Railway Axles, 456
“Andromeda,” Propelling Machinery of the New Cruiser, 468
Angus and Co., Manufactured Leather of all Kinds, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Anstie, Mr. John, Scheme for Drainage and Sewage of Woking District, 59
Anthracite Briquettes, A Recent Patent for, 369
Anti-fouling Composition, One Side of H.M.S. “ Prince George ” coated with, 217
Antrobus, Mr. II. L., His Re-appointment, 13
Appleyard, Mr. R., On the Action of Sulphur Vapour on Copper, 554
Appleyard, Mr. R., On a Direct Reading Platinum Thermometer, 525
Apyrite, A New Refractory Substance, 191
Apyrite in Rhenish Bavaria, 143
“Aquila,” On the Accident on Board the Torpedo Boat, 58, 87
Architectural Curriculum at King’s College, 309
Argon, 1st Hodgkin’s Prize Granted to Lord Rayleigh and Professor W. Ramsay for their Memorandum on, 501
Argon, M. Th. Sehloesing, jun, on the Elimation of, 525
Armour Plate, The Ackerman Process of Treating, 641
Armour Platos, Ackerman’s, 391
Armour Plates, Hanging of llirveyed, 464, 529
Armour Plate Making, 337
Armour Plates for the United States Navy, 624
Armour-Plate Test of a Chrome Steel, 266
Armour Plates in the United States, 256
Armour Plating of the “ Iowa,” Testing of, 160
Armour Plating, Vegetable Fibre or Sawdust Chemically Treated and Applied to, 192
Armour Test, The Navy Department, 335
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., SirW. G., Railway Ferry Steamer for the Volga, 284
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Speed Trials of the “ Buenos Aires,” 461
Armstrong, Prof. G. F., Ilis Election, 477
Arndt’s Patent Economotcr, 240
Arnold, Mr. John Oliver, “ Influence of Carbon on Iron,” 559
Arrol, Sir William, Ridicule the Notion of a Channel Bridge, 405
Arrol’s Bridge and Roof Co., Contracts Placed with Messrs., by Messrs. A. Waterhouse and Son, 641
Artesian Well, Blasting in an, 218
Artb, M. Georges, On the Action of Water on Coal, 217
Artillery Practico, Okchampton, 365
Artisans’ Dwellings, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company’s, 369
Arundel Drainage Works, The Duke of Norfolk and the, 457
Ashanti and Gold Coast Colony, Map of, 554
Ashbourne, Light Electric Railway from Derby to, 457
Ashmore, Benson, Pease, and Co., Limited, Gasholder without Columns, 547
Asia Minor, Chrome Iron Ore Mining in,
Aslett, Mr. Alfred, His Appointment, 105
Asphalte, American, 525
Asphalte Pavements, Improved, 59
Asphalte Paving, New Form of, 266
Aspinall, Mr., On Express Locomotives, 1
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., His Appointment, 431
Assmann, Professor, State Observatory Established on the Brocken by, 336
Association for the Advancement of Science, The Australasian, Seventh Session, 140
Association, American International, of Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings at New Orleans, Report of, 536
Association of Engineers, The Bristol:— Creation and Development of the Steam
Engine, Mr. H. W. PearaoD, 468
Association of Engineers, The Leeds:—
Visit to the Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company’s Works, 171
Association of Engineers, The Manchester:— Electric Locomotives, Mr. E. Worthington, 521 Syllabus for the Fortieth Session, 404
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London :—
How not to do some Things, Mr. William T. Coates, 481
Safety Appliances for Lifts, Mr. W. P. Heath, 381
Association, Iron Trades Employers’, 90
Report Drawn up for, On the Situation of the Clyde and Belfast Strikes, by Mr. J. Stafford Ransome, 559
Association of Municipal and County Engineers, The Incorporated :—
Twentieth Voluntary Pass Examination for the Offices of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors, 368
Association, New York Street Railway:—
Car Boating by Electricity, Mr. J. F. McElroy, 450
Association, The Self-propelled Traffic, 599
Association of Waterworks Engineers, Proposed, 504, 529, 602
Association, Yorkshire Miners’, 186
Athens, On the Rainfall at, 613
Atlantic, Lighthouse on Sule Skerry in the, 266
Atlantic Liners, America and British, 509
Attock, Mr. F., His Resignation, 431
“Aurania,” Accident to the, 105
“Aurora,” Re-armament of the, 613
Australia, Railway Locomotives for, 13
Australia, Railway Mileago in West, 13
Australia, The Year-Book of, on Gauges, 13
Australian Coal, 391
Australian Engineering Notes, 146, 418, 562, 628
Austrian Ironfounders, Iron Disposed of in Seven Months by the Syndicate of, 192
Austro-Hungarian State Railway Terminus Destroyed by Fire, 105
Autocars, 418
Automatic Brakes, Immense Value of, 554
Automatic Gas Engino Starter, Groens, 312
Automatic Mountings for Heavy Guns, The New “Centurion,” 616
Automatic Overflow for Water Coolers, 140
Automatic Road Carriages, 290, 334, 408, 409
Automatic Signals between Greenwich Observatory and the Westminster Clock, 336
Automatic Stocking Knitter, 116
Auvert, M., On Electric Traction, 19, 47, 73, 119
Available Sources of Water Supply for London, 386
Avon Park, Florida, Wooden Railway, 554
Awards at The Columbian Exhibition, Small Percentage of Exhibits Receiving, 382
Awards, Result of the Non-competitive System of, Columbian Exhibition, 382
Axles, Failures of, on British Railways, 613
Axles, Railway, Mr. Thos. Andrews on, 456

BABCOCK and Wilcox Boilers on the “Zenith City,” Trial of, 431
Backer, M. do, On Contributive Traffic, 55
Bagley, Mr., On the Burno-Chinese Railway, 336
Bailey, Mr., On Incandescent Lamp3 and their Manufacture, 500
Bainbridge, Mr., and the Miners, 412
Baines, Mr. G. H., On the Introduction of the Metric System of Weights and Measures, 501
Baird and Son, Messrs. Archibald, Presentation to, 474
Baker, Sir Benjamin, Appointed Trustee of the
Benevolent Fund of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 369
Baker, Sir Benjamin, His Presidential Address at the Institute of Civil Engineers, 480, 483, 512
Balanced Locomotive and Engineering Co., Strong Locomotives, 143
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Express Locomotive for Chicago Mail Trains, 382
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Chili, 192
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Russian Railways, 595
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 19in. by 26in. Passenger Engine, 234
Baldwin Locomotive Works, A Queer New Type of Locomotive, 286
Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Westinghouse Co., Business Combination between the, 192
Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Co., Alliance of the, 336
Balloon with Self-registering Instruments, 59
Ballyshannon, Proposed Extension of The Donegal Railway to, 266
Baltic and Black Sea Ship Canal, Tho, 237
Baltic and North Sea Canal, Compound Engines of Steam Hopper Barge on the (Supplement, October 25th, 1S95), 415
Baltic and North Sea Canal, Excavators, Dredgers, &c., 310, 316
Baltic Canal—see also North Sea and Baltic Canal Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Electric Locomotive, 548
Baltimore Tunnel Electric Locomotive in Service, 404
Bamford and Sons’ Agricultural and Harvesting Implements, 11
Bamford’s Mower Gear, 10
Band Saw Machine, Horizontal, 23, 32, 63
Bangkok-Korat Railway, The, 217, 457
Bankers’ Strong Room, George Price Lim.,336
Bankfoot, Proposed Extension of Railway to, 266
Bankside Station, Ferranti Machines and Willaus Engines at the, 234
Bansept Patents, New Intensive Gas Burner covered by the, 501
“Barbadien,” Explosion on Board the, 105, 234
Barcelona Railway Accident, 160
Barcelona, 6000-Ton Depositing Dock for, 354
Barford and Perkin’s Straw and Ilay Press, 9
Barium Ferrocyanide, Removing Sulphur from Iron by the Agency of, 35
Barmen Electric Tramway, 553
Barometers, Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of, 613
Barrage, The Nile, 427, 432
Barrow Steel Works Closed for an Indefinite Time, 192
Basic Furnace, 194
Batavia, The Harbour of, 204, 205, 207
Bath and West and Southern Counties Agricultural Society’s Places of Meeting, 105
Batourn, Harbour near, 217
Battery Cars with Chloride Butteries, Storage, 369
Battery, M. Laura’s Secondary, 217
Battery, Steel Frame Stamp, for Wet Crushing, 252 253
Battery, The Velvo-Carbon, 252
Battleship “ Bouvines,” The French, 210, 214
Battleships, British, 87, 135, 160, 192, 217, 234, 286, 309, 316, 365, 414, 415, 485, 490,500,512, 549, 554,613
Battleships, French, Alterations in Progress, 87
Battleships, French Armoured, 88, 92
Battleships, Improvement in the Coal Consumption of, 197
Battleships, Italian, at Portsmouth, 31, 37, 40
Battleship “Magnificent” to be Completed by December 12th, 336
Battleships for the United States of America, Test of the Section of a Side of a Ship at Indian Head, 35
Battleships for the United States, 109, 352
Boatings, Lubrication and Wear of, 160
Beck, Messrs. R. and J., Card Case Opera Glass, 511
Belfast Central Electric Lighting Station, The, 278-280
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Company, Directors’ Report, 105
Belfast, Scheme for Lighting the Harbour, 546
Belfast Strikes, The Clyde—see Clyde and Belfast Strike
Belgian Railways, Lighting and Heating of Rolling Stock on, 87
Belgian Railways, Substitution of Electric Traction for Steam Locomotives on, 87
Belgian Railways, Tickets with Traveller’s Photograph Attached, 217
Belgian Workshops, The Metro in, 396
Belgium, Coal Export from, 13
Belgium, Disastrous Railway Accident, 369
Belgium, Number of Furnaces in Blast in, 105
Belgrade Drainage Works, Quays, and Warehouses, Tenders Invited for, 87
Bell, A Big Bronze, for a Church at Montmartre, 336
Bell, An Old Station, 457
Boll’s Asbestos Works, Messrs., Visit to, 514
Bell, Casting of, in Cincinnati, 613
Bell and Rocliffe’s Plate-joggling Machine, Pallion Yard, 19
Bell, Mr. Thomas, Proposed Retirement of, 457
Belleville Boilers, The, Engineer Officers of H.M. Cruisers “Powerful” and “Terrible” should be Familiarised with the Working of, 160
Belleville Boilers, Mr. William Allan on the, 234
Belleville Boiler and its Evaporative Efficiency, The, 464
Belleville Boilers on The Lake Steamer “ North- West ” Condemned, 382
Benier Gazogene Meter, Prof. A. Witz on a, 59
Bennett, Mr. A. R., On Municipal Telephony, 477
Bental and Co.’s Mower, 11
Bentall and Co.’s Mower, and Uncbokable Turnip Cutter, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Bergmannstage at Hanover, 143
Berg, Mr. W. G., Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 536
Berlin Ga9 Heating, Valuo of, 160
Berlin Industrial Exhibition, 1896, 217
Bessemer Process, The Robert, 412
Bessemer Steel Ingots in the United States, Production of, 160
Bessemer Steel Production in England, 521
Bevis, Mr., Engines and Boilers of The s.s. “Queen of the North,” (Supplement, November 1* 7, 1895), 426
Bicycle Fever on The Rubber Trado, Effect of the. 478
Bicycle Problem, 191
Bicycles for Inspectors of the Streot Cleaning Department in New York, 595
Bids for Composite Gunboats, 420
Bidwell, Mr. Shelford, Electrical Properties of Selenium, 35
Biggart, Mr. A. S., Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, 99
Bill for Powers to Provide London with Sea Water, 525
Bills, Private, in Preparation for the Coming Session, 525
Birch Wood for Spools from Maine Forest, 369
Birmingham and its Canal Connections with the Seaports, Mr. W. Wheeler on, 23
Births and Deaths Registered in London, 192, 234, 266, 309, 369, 525
Bismuth, On The Variation with Temperature of the Hall Effect in, 525
Blackwall, The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, 567—578
Blackwall Tunnel, Tho, 365, 430, 635, 636, 637, 638, 642
“Blake,” H.M.S., 490
Blast Furnace Gas Boilers, 532
Blasting Accident at Smerwick, 105
Blasting in an Artesian Well, 218
Blechynden Express Boiler, The, 406
Block Instruments, Electric Control of, on Busy Sections of Railways, 525
Blondel, M., His Method of Welding Lead, 160, 309
Blotting Paper, “Spongia,” 35
Blower, Mr. M. R. Ruble, 5
Blowing Engines, Murdock’s, 434
Blyth-built Steamer, Trial Trip of a, 651
Blyth, Sir James, On Dairy Farm Buildings, 48
Board of Trade, The, 500
Board of Trade and Electric Lighting, The, 42
Board of Trade Inquiry, Redcar Ironworks Explosion, 72, 81
Board of Trade Inspector on the Necessity of Automatic Control of Block Instruments, 525
Board of Trade Officers, 65
Board of Trade Reports on Boiler Explosions, 13
Board of Trade Report on The Caledonian Railway Accident, 105
Board of Trade Return, Accidents on Railways and Railway Premises, 595
Board of Trade Returns of Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, 309
Beats, Amphibious Passenger, 370, 434, 466, 490, 504, 538, 616
Boats, Horse-Propelled Paddle, 505
Boats on Inland Watorways, Traction of, 109. 142, 166
Boby, Mr. R., Hay Makers and Corn‘Dressing Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Bogie Carriages on Express Trains, /Vs to the Adoption of, 266
Boilers, Act parsed in Iknver requiring all in charge of, to bo Licensed, 595
Bailers, Belleville, Condemned on the Lake Steamer “ North West,” 382
Boilers, Belleville, and their Evaporative Efficiency, 464
Boilers, Belleville, their Working and Management 160 I
Boilers, The Belleville, 160, 234, 382, 464
Boilers, Blast Furnace Gas, 532
Boiler, Blecbynden Express, 406
Boilers of the “Chicago,” The Steel for the, 595
Boiler, Compound Tube Water-tube, Messrs. Fraser and Co., 367
Boiler, Cost of Running an Inspirator to Feed a, 457
Boiler Disincrustant, Liquid Carbonic Acid as a, 501
Boilers, Experiments on Locomotive, at the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 227
Boiler Explosions, Causes of Two, 13
Boiler Explosion, A Curious, 262, 333
Boiler Explosions in Denver and tbo Act to Diminish such in Future, 595
Boiler Explosion in the Detroit Journal Building, 457, 525
Boiler Explosions, Domestic, 650
Boiler Explosion, The Rodcar, 108, 166, 189, 216, 226
Boiler Feed, 579
Boilers and Feed Water, 338
Boilers, Firo-boxes and Tubes, Mr. E. Sauvage,
Boiler Fittings, Manganese Bronze, 545
Boiler, The Haythorn Tubulous, 152
Boilers of H.M.S. “Chargor,” Concerning the, 192
Boilers of II. M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Rocket,” Leaks in the, 105
Boiler Inspectors, 235, 258, 291, 309, 359, 386
Boilers, Locomotive, Experiments on, at the Works of The Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 179
Boilers, Locomotive, at the Works of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 43, 91
Boilers, Marine, 363
Boilers, Prevention of Scale in, 336
Boilers, RivetiDg Machine for Locomotive, 193
Boilers of Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Steel Tubes in place of Copper for the, 336
Boilers, Trial of the Babcock and Wilcox, 431
Boilers, Water-tube, 39
Boilers, Water-tube Marine, 527
Boilers, Water-tube, Mr. F. T. Milton on, 2
Boilers, Water-tube, Different Types to be Tested, 336
Boiler, Water-tube, Petersen and McDonald's, 366
Bonehill, M. Emile, Direct Puddling of Iron, 176
Books Received, 15, 43, 67, 91, 113, 163,187,213, 237, 308, 365, 413, 437, 461, 485, 510, 533, 557, 599, 620, 645
Boon to Railway Companies, A, 16
Borcher’s, Dr., Apparatus for Preparing Calcium Carbide, 641
Borneo, British North, Telegraph Line in, 105
Boron as an Alloy in Steel, 234
Boron Steel, MM. Moissan and Charpy on, 143
Boston and Albany Railway, Rails Laid on Part of its Track, 59
Bottles for Holding Carbonic Acid, Experiments on, 171
Boulton, Mr., Links in the History of the Locomotive, 240
“Bouvines,” The French Battleship, 210, 214
Bow, McLichlan, and Co., Compound Paddle Engines and Ship Steering Gear, 428, 489
Bow, McLachlan, and Co., Thistle Works, Paisley, 423, 424, 433
Bowor Barff Patent, The, 46
Bowness Sewage Scheme, 205
Boyle Surplus Valve, 319
Bradford’s Butter Moulding and Drying Machine, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 15
Brakes, Automatic, their Value proved by the Railway Accident at East Croydon, 554
Brakes, Continuous, 504
Brake, Continuous, its Origin, 38
Brakes, Friction, 250
Brakes for Light Railways, Mr. Plocq, 29, 54
Brakes, Link in the History of Continuous Railway, 35
Brake, Quick-acting, 396, 409, 466
Brake-rolls, Differential Speeds in, 148
Brake Trials on The North-Eastern Railway, 304, 334
Brassworkors’ Association, Absenco of Relief Applications during a week a Unique Event, 457
Brazil, Railway Material Ordered in England for, 192
Brewer, Mr. W. J., Brighton Dyke and Aerial Ropeway, 329, 330
Brick Arch Roof, Testing a, 192
Brickdust Mortar as Substitute for Hydraulic Cement, 266
Bricks, Glass, of the Falconier System, 431
Brick Machine, Dry Pross, 71, 94
Bridge at Aberthan, Collapse of, 266
Bridge, Adam’s, 364
Bridge building, Rapid, at Ely, 525
Bridges, Construction and Tests of Metallic, Mr. Edler von Leber, 30
Bridge over the Danube at Budapest, Now Stiffened Suspension, 60, 67, 106, 107, 108, 647
Bridge over the Danube, Inauguration of The Great, 336
Bridge, Edinburgh, The New Waverley, 128, 135
Bridge across the Hudson River, 266
Bridge, Kotri Railway, Indian Railways, 535
Bridge, Montreal, and the Proposed New, 183
Bridge ovor Niagara Gorge, New Suspension, 87
Bridge and Railway, The Channel, 105
Bridge, Railway, over the Weichsol, 548, 551, 552
Bridge at Rendsburg, Railway Swing, 127, 142
Bridge, Rutberglen, 182, 188
Bridges, Stono, on The Great Northern Company’s New Line, 309
Bridges, Superstructure of Railway, 394, 395, 416 418
Bridges, Suspension, of Maximum Span, 247
Bridges ? Swing, 15
Bridge of Tolbiac on the Orleans Railway, Opening of tho, 59
Bridge, Traffic over London and the Tower, 369
Bridge and Trestle Timbers, Strength of, 536
Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, A New High Level, 405
Bridge ovor the Wye, Projected, 309
Bridge, York, Strengthening Ixmdal, 633
Bridges which ought to be Examined, Railway,
Bridgwater, Proposed Ship Canal to, 438
Bridgwater Town Council, Contemplated Improvement of the Parret, 405
Brierley, Mr. Harwood, Spurn Point and its L’ghtbcusfs, 241
Brighton Dyke Aerial Ropeway, 329, 330
Brighton and Rottingdean Seashcre Electric Tramroad, 453
Bristol, Electric Tramway Inaugurated, 382
Britannia Company’s Fixed Oil Engine, 7
Britannia Company, Portable Oil Engine, 319
British Association, The, 254
Inaugural Address of the President, Sir Douglas Galton, 254
Inaugural Address of the President of the Mechanical Section, Mr. L. Vernon-Harcourt, 254, 269
Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tides, Mr. W. II. Wheeler, 319
Ilormite Process of Deodorising Sewage at Ipswich, Mr. J. Napier, 345
Ipswich Meeting, Section G, Provisional Programme. 220, 254
Visits to Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Works, to Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner’s, and to Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier’s, 289
Weirs in Rivers, Mr. G. F. M. Stoney, 334
Works to bo Visited, 254
British Railways, Capital Invested in, 35
British Coal Industry, The, 389
British Locomotives, Some Remarkable Performances in, 69
British Railway Material, Japan and, 163
British Shipbuilding, 430
British Small-arm Ammunition, 12
Broad Gaugo v. Narrow Gauge, 617
“Brooklyn,” Launch of the U.S., 192
Brooklyn Trolley Roads, Effect of the Reduced Speed on the, 59
Brown, Mr. C., Locomotive Steam Crane, 293
Brown, Marshalls, and Co.’s Hopper Coal Wagon, 32
Brownhills Urban District Council, Plans for the Sewerage of the Walsall Wood District, 613
Browning Automatic Gun, Tested at Indian Head, 595
Bruff, Mr., His Retirement from Active Work, 35
Brunner, Mond, and Co., Works on Teesside, 382
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Leicester Electricity Works, 56, 57, 64
Brussels a Port, 554
Brussels Tramway Co., their Trolley System of Electric Traction, 35
Brussels Declares Itself a Seaport, 405, 547
“Bruxelles Port de Mer,” 405, 547
Bryant, Mr. C. W., Elevating and Depressing Gear for Heavy Ordnance, 143
Buchanan and Sons, Messrs. James, Coal Elevating and Conveying Machinery, 132
Buck, Professor de Burg, On the Physiological Laboratory of the Yorkshire College and its Instrumental Equipment, 559
Buckingham, Sewerage Works for, Scheme Explained, 457
Bude, Projected Railway to, 431
Budleigh Salterton, A New Railway to, 501
“Buenos Aires,” Firing Trial of Elswick Cruiser, 593
Buffer, The Newark Locomotive, 116
Buffet Car on Street Railroad in Philadelphia, 143
Building Materials, Technical Congress at Zurich for Securing Unity of Methods in the Testing of, 266
Buildings, Moving, 507, 537
Bulgaria, New Railways and Harbours, 382
Bulgarian Railway, Tenders Invited for a, 87
Buoys, Electric Light, Sandy Hook, 35
Burke Electric System for Operating Gun Turrets, Test of the, 266
Burraah to the China Frontier, Proposal for a Railway from, 369
Burmah, Electric Light in, 22
Burmoister and Wain’s “Danish Junior ” Separators, 11
Burmo-Chinese Railway, With Reference to the, 336
Burnett, Mr. R. H., Six-Coupled Locomotive, Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood Railway (Supplement, October 4th, 1895)
Burntisland, Extension of Docks, 5-16
Burroll and Co., Messrs. C., Improved Compound Road Roller, 579
Burton, Griffiths and Co., Water i/cvol Indicator and Detector, 647
Bute Dock Company’s Projected New Railways in Monmouthshire, 431
Butter Moulding and Drying Machine, Bradford’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Butter Worker, Wilmot and Sons, Ibyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45

CABLE Tramways for Edinburgh, 409
Cable, Steel, for the Columbus Avonue Railway, 4o7
Cable Inclined Railway up Prospect Mountain. M.Y., 87
Caird and Co., Messrs., Launch of the “Palawan.” 234
Caird and Rayner’s Works, Visit of the Junior Engineers to Messrs., 436
Caisson at Nassel-IIama, Sinking of a, 192
Calcium Carbide, The Willson Aluminium Company and,477
Caledonian Railway, Accident on the, 105
Caledonian Railway Extension, Pressure Exerted on the Company for, 309
Caledonian Railway, Jabilee of tho, 89
Calendar for 1896, 625
Calorimeter, Junker’s Gas, 164
Cambrian Railways, Illustrated Guido to the, 35
Cambrian Railway, Tank Engines on the, 191
Cameron, Mr. John, Punching and Shearing Machine, 614
“Campania’s” Record, The, 217
Campbell Gas Engine Company’s Engines, 8
Campbell-Stokes Instrument, Hours of Sunshine Recorded by, 336
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company’s Fire Guard on both Sides of Track, 160
Canadian Sault St. Marie Canal, Opening of, 168
Canals, 63
Canal, The Baltic and Black Sea Ship, 237
Canal, The Brussels, Decree Signed, 405
Canal between Brussols and Willebrock, 554
Canal, Cauadiau Sault St. Marie, Openiug of the, 168
Canal Connecting Great Salt Pond on Block Island with the Ocean, 59
Canal, Cost of the Projected Prussian Ship, 266
Canals, 1 ho Erie, Champlain, and Oswego, Iesue of Bopds for the Improvement of. 405
Canal Haulage, 191
Canal, Leeds aud Liverpool, 441
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 180
Canal, Nicaragua, 263, 580
Canal, North Sea and Baltic—see North Sea, Ac.
Canal, The Panama, 431, 647
Canal Profits iu India, 647
Canals and Rivers of North Germany, 101
Canal, Ship, to Bridgwater, 438
Canal, The Trollhatta aud Gota, 194
Canals, Two New, 13
Canals in the United States, Vote in Favour of the Improvement of, 599
Candle Making Machinery ? 507
Canwick Irrigation Farm, New Works Opened, 477
Caoutchouc Cement for Cycle Tires, 309
Cape Colony, Railway Extension, 382
Cape Government Railways, Goods Engines and Tenders for the (Supplement, November 22nd, 1895), 497,510
Capital Invested in British Railways, 35
Capper, Professor D. S., On the Lille Experiments on the Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for Power Transmission, 639
Car Journals, Weight per Square Inch on, 171
Carbide of Calcium for Carburetting, On the Use of, 405
Carbon Dioxide, On the Use of Liquid, for Chilling Test Pieces, 105
Carbon into Graphite, Furnace for Transforming, 59
Carbon on Iron, Influence of, 559
Carbonic Acid, Experiments on Bottles for Holding, 171
Carbonic Acid Liquid as a Bailer Disincrastant, 501
Carbonic Snow, Messrs. Villard and Jarry’s Experiments with, 234
Carbon, Specific Heat at Boiling Point of, 35
Carbon in Steel, Iiow to Ascertain Percentage of, 87
Carbonickel should be Cupronickel, The Word, 244, 250
Card Case Opera Glass, The, 511
Cardiff Docks, 526
Cardiff, Proposed New Dock, 546
Cardiff Waterworks Undertaking, The, 156
Cargo, The Largest that ever left New York, 286
Carlingford Lough, Pleasure Steamers for, 309
Carnegie, Mr. A., On the Railway System of Britain and Railway Rates in Britain and America, 309
Carnegie, Edgar Thomson, Steel Works, Record Run made in the Converting Department of the, 192
Carnegie Steel Company’s Plates for the “Chicago,” Inspection of the, 431
Carriages without Horses, Mr. G. C. Marks on, 514
Carriages, Mechancal Road, 35, 38, 63
Carriages, Petroleum, 32, 36
Carriages, Petroleum Road, 12
Carriages, Road—see also Road Carriages
Carriages, Self-propelled Road, in France, 36
Carriage Tire Sections, 643
Carrier Pigeon Service in the United States, The Messenger, 477
Cars, Storage Battery, with Chloride Batteries, for New York, 369
Cartage and Delivery, Mr. Twelvetrees, 55
Carter Brothers Fixed Oil Engine, 7, 8
Carter’s Disintegrators, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Carter’s Wheel Construction, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Cartridge Cases, 244, 250
Cast Iron Columns of the St. Louis City Hall, Report on the Defects in, 525
Cast Iron, Tests of the Physical Properties of, 219
Cast Steel Ingots, Small, 206
Casting Compound Ingots for Armour Plates, Mr. T. Hampton’s Method of, 234
Catalogues, 45, 72, 113, 160, 196, 227, 285, 418
Catalogue of Earthquakes, The ‘Russian Geographical Society’s, 160
Catalogue Issued by The Royal Agricultural Society, 45
Cataract Construction Company of Niagara Falls, The, 323
Cattle Trade, Foreign, Improvements at Birkenhead, 328
Cell, A Dry, 59
Cell, The Renault Dry, 217
Celluloid Articles? Makers of, 65
Cements, Heat Tests for, 595
Cement, Specific Gravity of, 248
Census of Pedestrian and Vehicular Traffic over London and the Tower Bridge, 369
Central Cyclone Company’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Central Factories for Sugar, 86
Central London Railway, The, 22, 42
Central Siberian Line, The Tomsk Soction, 234
Centrifugal Fans, Design and Testing of, 625
Centurion, The Now, 437, 529, 616
Centurion, Tbo New, Automatic Mountings for Heavy Guns, 616
Ceylon, Battle of The Gauges in, 13
Ceylon Government Railway, Locomotives for, 143
Chabal, E., Experiments on the Lubrication and Wear of Bearings, 160
“Challenge” Feed Pumps or Heaters? 65
Channel Bridge and Railway Company, Meeting of Holders of Founders’ Stock in the, 105
Charleroi District, Coal Concessions, 143
Charleston Harbour, 441
Charpy, M., On th9 Mechanical Properties of Alloys of Copper and Zinc, 405
Cheap Money, The Day of, 312
Cheap Oxygen, 337
Cheeld’s Centrifugal Churn, 9
Chelmsford, Firo at The Arc Works, 562
Chemical Engineering in Germany, 414
Chemistry in Relation to Engineering, 269
Cheshire Lines Committee, Stipulations of the, in Inviting Tenders for Rolling Stock, 641
Chester Conference to Re-arrange the Railway Rates for Agricultural Produce, 645
C'he8ter-le-Street, Sewerage Schemes for, 250
Cheyaur Bridge, Strengthening of the Girders of, 217
Chicago Drainage Canal, Excavation Involved, 286
Chicago, Elevated Electric Railway, 143, 160
Chicago, Projected Subways for, 431
Chilian Loan for Railway Construction, 309
Chilling Test pieces with Liquid Carbon Di jxide, 105
Chimbote Railway, Mr. J. R. Maxwell on the, 59
Chimneys, Draught Power of, 309
China, New Railway, University and Schools for, 382
China, Projected Railway between Tientsin ana Chinkiaug, 309
China, Railways in, and The Cockerill Company, 457
Chinose Railways, New, 613
Chinese Torpedo Cruiser, New, 286
Chorley Sewerage Purification Works, 457
Chrome Iron Ore Mining in Asia Minor, Mr. W. F. Wilkinson, 4
Chrome Ore and Forro-chromium, Analysis of, Mr. E. H. Saniter, 177
Chromo Steel Armour Plato, Test of an, at Indian Head, 266
Chromic Salts to the Feed-water, Scale in Bailers Prevented by the Addition of, 336
Chronograph, Polarising Phot?, United States Experiments with the, 240
Church Cars on The Trans-Siberian Railway, 286
Churn, Cheeld’s Centrifugal, 9
Churns and Separators at The Royal Agricultural Society’8 Show, 11
Cigars and Cycling, 369
Circulating Pumps, Air and, for 3000-IIorso Power Mill Engines, 140, 164
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, New Steamers for tho, 160
City of Landon Electric Lighting Company, Ferranti Machines and Willans Engines at the Bankside Station, 234
City and South London Railway, Mr. J. H. Great- head on the, 500
City of York New Sewerage Works, 93
Civil Engineering, Mr. Sydney \ Court on, 626
Claret, M., Electric Tramway for Paris, 87
Clark, Chapman, and Co.’s Oil Engines, 8
Clarke, Chapman, and Co., Suspended Electric Crane, 402, 410
Clarke, Mr. R. W., His Appointment to Indian Collieries, 336
Clarke, Mr. J. C., on Grain Carrying Rates from Chicago to New York, 595
Clearance, Loss by, 189
Clearance iq Steam Engine Cylinders, 41, 63, 86, 109 189
Cloch Lighthouse, The, 615
Clock, Remarkable, Described in Machinery, 554
“Clouds and Weather,” Captain D. Wilson-Barker’s Pamphlet, 595
Clutch, A Magnetic, 118
Clutton Windmill, The, 11
Clydebank Engineering Works, 153, 187
Clydebank Shipyard, 153, 187
Clydebank and Yoker Extension Railway, The, 167
Clydo and Belfast Strikes, The, 356, 456,485,503, 555, 559, 599, 619
Clyde and Belfast Strikes, Report on The Situation of the, 559
Clyde Navigation, Recent Engineering Improvements of the, 100, 126, 131, 167, 193
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, The Lock-out in the, 356, 456, 485, 503, 555, 559, 599, 619
Clyde Shipyards, Vessels Launched from the, 105
Clyde, Sluices and Bridge over the, 334, 335
Clyde, Wages Dispute on the, 356
Coal, Action of Water on, 217
Coal Area Discovered in Newfoundland, 456
Coal, Australian, 391
Coal Contract Rates, The New, A Boon to Railway Companies, 16
Coal and Coal Miners, 90
Coal Consumption of Battleships, Improvement in, 197
Coal Consumption Trial of H. M.S. “ Magnificent,” 254
Coal Dust, Gas from, Now Method to Manufacture, 501
Coal Elevating and Conveying Machinery, 132
Coal Export from Belgium, 13
Coalfields of South Staffordshire, Mineral Resources of, 174
Coal, French Imports of, 315
Coal Gas as a Motive Power, 267
Coal, Government Railways and Locomotive, 509
Coal in India, Production of, 143
Coal, Indian, Increased Demand for, 641
Coal Industry, The British, 389
Coal, Japanese, Delivered in Bombay, 160
Coal Mines in Quetta, 234
Coal in Newfoundland, 595
Coal in New Zealand, and Possibilities of an Export Trade in, 234
Coal Supply of our Warships, Tho, 531, 601
Coal Trade, Outlook in the, 598
Coal Trade Position, Tho, 557
Coal Trade, The Yorkshire, 485
Coal Wagon, Hopper, 32
Coal Washer, The Francou, 626, 627
Coal Washing and Coke Making Plant, Cyfarthfa Iron and Steel Works, 558
Coaling on Sunday, The Admiralty and, 143
Coates, Mr. W. T., On How Not to Do Some Things, 481
Coating Aluminium with other Metals, 286
Coating of Metals ? Platinum or other Black, 65
Cockerill Company and Railways in China, The, 457
Cohoy, Mr. R., His Appointment as Locomotive Superintendent, 613
Coldest Winters since 1841, Compared, 13
Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Messrs., Compound Engines for Saltaire Mills, 258, 260
Coleman and Mortou’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Collieries, Electric Haulage and Light in Mr. W. Bassano’s, 525
Collieries in Iodia, Outpat of Various, 160
Collision with Lock Gates, 39
Collision, Railway, St. Lazaro Station, 266
“ Columbia,” The Cruiser, and Captain Sumner’s Sentence, 286
“Columbia,” Run mado by tbo, 217, 266
“Columbia,” Testing The Soa-going Qualities of the, 13, 59
“Columbia,” Speed Records of the, 160
“Columbia,” The United States Commerce Destroyer, 354
“Comet” Lamp, Messrs. Sinclair and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Commercial Fleets Compared, English, German, and French, 234
Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air, 557
Compass Trammel, Sargent’s Patent Combined, 59
Compensating Gradients, Theory of, 508
Composite Gunboats, Bids for, 420
Compound Engines—tee Engines, Compound Compounding Locomotives, Test of Three Systems of, 369
“Comus,” H.M.S., 500
“Comus,” Refit of H.M. Cruiser, 286
Commutators, Method of Repairing, 217
Concentrated Loads, 138
Condensation in Long Steam Pipes, Loss from, 317
Condenser, Jet, with Drum Air Pump, 189
Conductivity of Rocks, Messrs. Pierce nod Willson on the, 525
Congo Country, Production of Iron in the, 501
Congo, Petroleum in, 595
Congo, Railway in French, 105, 234
Conradi, Mr. J. F., Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 394,395, 416, 418 Conservation of Energy, The, and Dr. Morton's Statements, 185
Constantinople, London to, Accelerated Train Service, 336
Continental Works Practico, Technical Engineering and, 238
Continuous Alternating Current Systems in Power Supply Stations, 105
Continuous Brake, Origin of the, 38
Continuous Brakes, 504
Continuous Brake—.* « Brakes Contracts Open : Oil Tanks for India, East Coast Railway, 4S9
Kotri-Rohri Riilway, I. S. R ,5ft. 6in. Gauge, 535
Pillar Water Crane, 404
Contributive Traffic, M. de Backer, 55
Cook, Captain, His Scientific Observations in Newfoundland, 595
Coolgardie, Electric Lighting of the Grand Hotel, 613
Co-operative Association to work with the Great Eastern Railway, Proposed, 431
Copper, Action of Hydrochloric Acid on, 431
Copper, Action of Sulphur Vapour on, 554
Copper and Engineering, 212
Copper Pipes, Flange Joints on, 617
Copper Rendered more Fluid by Addition of Lead, 336
Copper Tubes Replaced by Steel, 336
Copper Wires, The Western Union Telegraph Company’s Use of, 501
Copper and Zinc, Tensile Strength of Alloys of, 405
Copying Press, The Hydraulic, 23, 39
Cord Communication on Indian Railways, 595
Corliss Compound Engines, Leicester Electricity Works, 57, 68, 86, 142
Cornish Lines, Doubling of, 217
Cornu, M. A., On the Transverse Vibrations of Cords, 217
Cornwall Works, Soho, Mes3rs. Tangyes, Limited, 175, 177, 181
Cost of Railway Working, Changes in, 163
Coventry Technical Institute and School of Art, Viscount Peel on Technical Education, 613
Cowley and Son’s Screwing Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12 Cowper-Coles’ Electrical Galvanising Plant, 344
Cowper Street Schools Old Boys’ Club, Courses of Practical Lectures, 405
Cradock and Company’s Wire Ropes, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44 Cradock’s Water Gauge Protector, Royal Agricultural Suciety’8 Show, 45
Craggs, William, Engine Driver, Doath of, 525, 550
Craig and Sons’ “ Spongia ” Blotting Paper, 35
Cramp Company’s Arrangement of Cylinders for the New American Liners, 309 Crane, Electric Timb9r Stacking, 331. 333, 396
Cranes, Electric Travelling, 402, 410
Crane, Locomotive Steam, 293
Crane, Pillar Water, 404
Crane, Timber Stacking, 540
Crane, Travelling, Indian Head, 225
Cranford, Mr., On Tin Mining, 424
Crehorc, Professor A. C., Electric Method of Determining Velocity of Projectiles, 266 Crete, Projected Railway in, 266
Crewe and Sandbach, Completion of Lino between, 35
Creosote Oil, Method of Burning, 192
Crewe Works and The Rovival in Trade, 477
Cros and Ducos du Hauron’s Method of Photography in Natural Colours, 641
Crosier, Stephens and Co.’s Vertical Boiler, with Various Special Boiler Fittings, 45 Crossley Bro?.’ Combined Gas Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 611
Crossley’s Oil Engine Vaporiser, 61
Crossley’s 8-Horse Power Portable Oil Engine, 61
Crouch and Hogg, Messrs., Ruthorglen Bridge, 182 188
Cruisers, 35, 87, 222, 234, 266, 309, 456, 521
Cruisers for the Dutch Government, 35
Cruisers, The Latest Now, 456
Cruiser “ Rurik,” The Russian Armoured, 521
Crystal Palace Company’s School of Practical Engineering, Presentation of Certificates, 160, 641
Culm for Fuel, Pennsylvania Heat, Light, and Power Company, 554
Cunard s.s. “Campania’s” Record, The, 217
Cunard Steamer “ Aurania,” Accident to the, 105
Cuuard Steamer “ Lucania’s” Run, The, 309
Cunningham, Blythe, and Westland, Messrs., Waverley Bridge, 128, 135 Cunynghame, Mr. W. IL, Locomotive Carriages for Common Roads, 5* 24
Currie, M. P., on the Magnetic Properties of Bodies at Different Temperatures, 87 Cursor, The Radial, 431 ,
Cutter, The Vance Lightning Tube, 646
Cycle Show at the Crystal Palace, 554
Cycles, The Stanley Show of, 511, 5* 28
Cycle Gear, Elliptic, 5
Cycles, Leather Tiros instead of India-rubber, 87
Cycle, Motor, 252
Cycle Tires, Caoutchouc Comont for, 309
Cyclic Feast, A, 357
Cyclist, The Military, 487
Cyclists in Naples, Stringent Regulations for, 309
Cyfarthfa Iron and Steel Works, Coal Washing and Coke Making Plant, 558, 560, 561
Cylinders, Clearance in Steam Engine, 41, 189
Cylinders for Compound Engines, Proportioning, 345
Cylinder, Explosion of a Carbonic Acid Gas, 107
Cylinders, Explosions of Gas, 112
Cylinders for the New American Lines, The Cramp Co.’s Arrangement of, 309
Cyclonic Storms in India, Mr. J. Eliot on, 501

DAFFIELD, Miniature Railway at, 554
Daimler Motor Cyclo, Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt’s, 309
Dairy Farm Buildings, Sir .Jas. Blyth on, 48
Dairy Implements, Royal Agricultural Society’ Show,45
Dairy Show, Tho, 381
Damascening Glass Artielos, New Method of, 477
Dam, California, The Lower Otay, Dimensions of, 501
Dam at Curtis Lake, U.S.A., Giving Way of, 35
Damming the River Dee, Scheme for, 360
Dams, Failure of High Masonry, 352
Danbury, Conn., Gas Works, Gas Engines in the 431
Danube Bridge, New, 617
Danube, at Buda Pest, New Stiffened Suspension Bridge over the, 60, 67, 106, 107, 108
Danube, Inauguration of the Great Bridge over the, 336
Davey, Paxman, and Co., High Speed Electric Light Engine, Indian Exhibition, 548
Davy Lamps on Steamers, The Use of, 234
Day of Cheap Money, The, 312
Day of the Great Producer, Tne, 288
Deas, Mr. James, Recent Engineering Improvements of the Clyde Navigation, 100, 126, 131, 167, 193
Deaths from Railway Accidents in the United States, England, and Franco, 87
Death Rato per 1000 from all Causes in London, 35
Death Rate per 1000, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, London, 143
Deaths Registered in Thirty-three Great Towns of England and Wales, 35, 192, 369
Deaths Registered in the United Kingdom last Quarter, 143, 525
Decimal System in Calculations relating to Railway Construction and Working, Mr. T. L. Wilkinson, Adoption of, 29
Decomposition of Glass by Water, On the, 336
Dee, Scheme for Damming the River, 360
Deep Cast obtained by H.M.S. “ Penguin,” 382
Defence of the Country, Need of Increased War Material, 89
Defects of American Railways, 319
Defender, The, 430
Delagoa Bay Railway Opened, The, 35
Delagoa Railway, Difficulties with regard to, 192
Do La Vergne Refrigerating Company, Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, Selected by, 105
Denayrouze, M., Gas Lamp of 80-Candle Power, 266, 474
Denison and Son’s Hydraulic Copying Press, 23
Donniss, Mr. C. S., Appointed Manager of the Cambrian Railway, 405
Denny, Sir Archibald, His Presidential Address at the Institute of Junior Engineers, 487
Denny, Messrs., Laven Shipyard and Engine Works, 187
Denny, Dr. P., 187
Denny, Mr. Peter, 192
Denton, Mr. H., Horso aud Cattle Automatic Feeder, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Deodorising Sewage, Hermite Process of, 345
Depow, Mr. C. M., on the Total Tonnage on Oceans and Railways, 369
Deptford, The New 100-Unit Machino at, 607
Derailing Switches and Cut-offs, Tramway Accident in Cleveland, 554
Derby to Ashbourne, Proposed Light Railway on the Electric Light System from, 160
Derby to Ashbourne, Light Electric Railway from, 457
Derby, The Midland Railway Company’s Locomotive Works, 581, 593, 594, 596
De Salis, Mr. II. R., The Steam Canal Inspection Launch “ Dragon Fly,” 451, 455, 458
Des Vignes and Co., Messrs., Steam launch “Germania,” 553
Detachable Rudders, 360
Detroit Dry Dock Company, Ice Crushing Transport Ferries for Lake Baikal, 217
Diamond Carbon in Moteoric Stones, Occurrence of, 595
Diamond Shoal, Lighting tho, 647
Diamonds, Black, their Great Hardness, 554
Dick and Co., Messrs. W. B., Anti-fouling Composition for Ships’ Bottoms, 217
Differential Speeds in Brake Rolls, 148
Dion and Barton’s Road Carriage, 36
Dion ot Bouton, MM., Somi-Automotivo Tricycle, 13
I)ine9, Mr. W. II., Experiment Illustrating The Formation of the Tornado Cloud, 501
Dinorwic Slate Quarries, Llanboris, 62
Dirschau, Riilway Bridge over the Deichsol at, 548, 551,552
Disaster on s.s. “ Iona,” 312, 317
Discharge of Niagara and other Rivors, Observations with Surface Floats for the, 382
Disinfectant in Philadelphia, Use of Electrozone as a, 525
Disintegrators and Pulverisers, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Disposal of Town Refuse, 46
Distance and Time in which a Ship may bo brought to Rest from Full Speed Ahead, 108, 142, 166
Distant Signal Lights, 104
Distiller, The Renown Sea-wator, 353
District Railway, Indicator MechaDism on the, 525
Dobbing, Mr. J., Hay and Clover Making Machine, 11
Dock for Barcelona, 6000-Ton Depositing, 354
Docks, Cardiff 526
Dock, Dry, at Kuro, Japan, 613
Docks, Dry, The United States Government, 501
Docks in Japan, New, 431
Dock for the Philippines, Floating, 626
Dock Pumping, New Departure in, 264
Dock, Southampton Graving, 103
Dolboar, Mr. A. E., On “Materialism Untenable,” 66
Doncaster Race Week, 263
Donogal Railway Extension Bill, 309
Doubling Railway Lines, 192, 217
Dowlais, Gas Producers at, 505
Dowlais, Testing Machine at, 505
Dox ford and Sons, Launches from Shipbuilding Yard of, 286
“ Dragon Fly,” The Steam Launch, 451, 455, 458
Drainage Arrangements from Cylinders, &©., in Torpedo Gunboats, 333
Drainage of East Molesey, 511
Draught Power of Chimneys, W. B. Le Van on the, 309
Dredgers and Excavators on the Baltic Canal, 110, 116, 136, 310, 31G
Dredging Plant, Clyde Navigation, 193
Dredging \ ossel for the Russian Government (Supplement, September 6th, 1895), 238
Dried \ egetablos for The Ashanti Expedition, «Va/ure on the, 641
Driggs-Schroeder Six-pound Shells, 35
Drilling Machine, Multiple, 527
Drilling Machine, Stephen and Carter’s, 507
Drills, Manure and Soed, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
Driving Centrifugal Pump* at the Sunderland Docks by Gas Engines, 40.5
Driving Tires, Bessemer Steel, Great Eastern Railway, 369
Driving Wheels on Ono Side of an Engine, Breaking of Both, 13
Driving Wheels in The United States, Single, 363
Drowning, Improved Lights for the Rjscuo of the, 411
Drum Air PuTp and Jet Condenser, Johnson’s, 189
Dry Docks, The United States Government, 501
Dry Press Brick Machino, Mr. W. Johnson, 71. 94
Dublin aud Lucan Steam Tramway Line to be
Converted into a Light Railway, 192
Duddington, Railway Accident caused by a Fog at, 641
Dumbarton, The, New Station and the Town Council, 13
Duncan, Dr. Louis, Substitution of Electricity for
Steam in Railroad Practice, 187
Duncan and Superbie’s Bicycle, 36
Dunn, Mr. Jas., Temporary Appointment of, 143
Durand, Professor, On Ship Propulsion by Storage Batteries, 309
D'drr Lamp, Tho, 286
Durston, Mr., His Presidential Address, 318
Durston, Mr., On The Machinery of Ships of War. 311
Duryea Motor Carriage at Chicago, 495
Dust Destructor and Electric Light for Hacknev. 105 7
Dust Destructor for St. Leonard’s Parish, Shore
ditch, Messrs. Manlovo, Alliott, and Co., 59
Dutch Government, Fast Cruisers for tho, 35
Du Temple and the Bolleville Types of Water-tube Boilers, Trials to Test their Respective Merits, 336
Dynamo for Colliery Working, Large, 181
Dynamo and Engines, Messrs. Ferranti and Co., 502, 503

EARLE’S Shipbuilding and Engineering Company’s Works Virited, 171
Early Great Western Locomotives, 74, 104. 142, 191, 216,239, 248, 258, 259, 285, 292, 317, 345, 355, 360, 3S6, 408, 435, 440, 441, 451,454, 476, 505, 538, 550
Earth’s Magnetism, Horizontal Force of the, 369
Eirthquakes, Catalogue of, 160
East Ham Sewage Pumping Station, Accident at, 13
East Indian Railway Company, Compound Paddle
Engines and Ship Steering Gear, 489
East London Waterworks Company, Increased Supply of Water Announced by, 105 East London Waterworks Company, Increase in the Volume of Water, 143
East Side Iron Elevator Company, of Toledo, Grain Elevator and Storehouse, 647 Easton, Anderson, and GooldeD, Limited, Electric Mining Plant, Margaret Pit, 2, 6 Easton, Andenon, and Gooldon, L:mited, The Niagara Pulveriser, 358
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Mcs;rs , Pumping Engines, Ixïicester Waterworks, 530
Eccles Corporation Sowago Works, 178
Eclipse of the Moon, 234
E^oaometer, Arndt’s Patent, 240
Economy Test of Slow Speed Electric Light Engines, 134
Edge Runners and Disintegrators ƒ 483
Eliuburgh, Cable Tramways for, 409
Edinburgh Water Supply, The, 303
Education, The Lecture Theatre as a form of, 42
Edwards’ Hay and Straw Press, 10
Effect of Gun Fire, The, 288
Eginitis, M. D., On the Rainfall at Athens, 613
Egypt, Irrigation Works in, since the British Occupation of, 275—278, 301—303, 427, 432
Elbing Oberland Canal Boat on Cage, 102
Electric Arc Light, On the Temperature of the Crator of, 143
Electric Cableway System of Towing on the Erie Canal, 501
Electric Cars, Fenders Necessary in, 192
Electric Cars in Massachusetts, Fenders and
Wheel Guards for all, 266
Electric Cars in United States, Hauling Capacity of, 457
Eloctric Communication for Life-saviüg Purposes. 143
Electric Construction Company, Wolverhampton, Bonus to tbeir Employés, 13
Eloctric Current on Aluminium Wire, Action of. 457
Electric Current, Rail Melted by, 286
Electric Distribution, Mr. Wolbourn, 404
Electrical Engineers, Institution of—see Institution of Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers. Institution of, “Low-pressure ” Limit, 554
Electric Feeders to Stoam Lines, 477
Electric Furnace, Messrs. Girard and Stroct, 59
Electric Galvanising Plant, Cowper-Coles’, 343, 344
Electrical Haulage and Electric Light at the Iladen Hill Collieries, 525
Electric Haulage, The Th waite-Cawley System of 22
Electric Headlights on South Pacific Railway, 309
Electric Incandescent Lamps in Germany, Net Cost of Manufacture of, 477
Electric Incandescent Lamps, Temperature of Filaments, 13
Electric Lamp, The Diirr, 286
Electric Limps, ^O-Volt, 36Q
Electric Light, Advantages of, from the Standpoint of Coolness, 160
Electric Light Buoys, Sandy Hook, 35
Electric Light in Burmah, 22
Electric Light Engines, Economy Test of Slow Speed, 134
Electric Light for Fulham, 505
Electric Light to pass through the Suez Canal, Percentage of Ships using the, 217
Electric Light Posts in London Re-coated with Hartmann's Paiot, 266
Electric Light Station on the Seine, Project for a Floating, 59
Electric Light Stations, German, 30
Electric L’ght Works, Wolverhampton, Messrs. Parker and Co.’s, 178
Electric Lighting, The Board of Trade and, 42
Electric Lighting of the Grand Hotel, Coolgardie, 613
Electric Lighting Regulations, 602
Electric Lighting of Salford, 166
Electric Lighting of Swansea, 267
Electric Lighting, Meeting at the Westminster
Town Hall of those Interested in, 477
Electric Lighting of Trains, 521
Electric Locomotives, Too Baldwin Works, 431
Electric Locomotive of the Baltimore Belt Railway, Speed of, 457
Electric Locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 548
Electric Locomotive, Baltimore Tunnel, 401
Electric Locomotives, Mr. E. Worthington, 521
Electric Mains in Paris. 197
Electric Metre Gauge Road Railways for Switzor- land, 457
Electric Mining Plant, Some, 2, 6, 39
Electric Motors for the Elevated Railway in Chicago, 143, 160
Eloctric Motors, Freight Hauling Test by, 35
Electric Motors, Messrs. Greenwood and Batloy, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Electric Motor, Record made by an, 35
Electric Omnibuses in London, 13
Electric Organ, The Hope-Jones, 502
Electric Plants for Long Distance Transmission in the United States, 447
Electric Plant, Noise made by, 59
Electrical Power Transmission Plant, The Folsom-Sacramento, 133
Electric Power Stations in France, 192
Electric Power Transmitted from Niagara Falls, First, 13
Electrical Properties of Selenium, 35
Electric Rack Railway up the Grossgloekncr, 13
Electric Rail Welding, Mr. H. Limp on, 203
Electric Railway Company’s New Bill Opposed by the St. Mary Woolnoth Vestry, 613
Electric Railway Companies in St. Louis, U.S.A., 8/
Electric Railway from Derby to Ashbourne, 405
Electric Railways, Increase in One Year, 477
Electric Railway, Niagara Falls, Accident on, 143
Electric Railway, Overhead, Chicago, 143, 160
Electric Railway, Kyoto, 59
Electric Railways, Philadelphia, Persons Killed on, 35
Electric Railways for Russia, The Czir on, 192
Electric Railway, Snaefell, The Projected, 35
Electric Railway io The United Kingdom, The First Mountain, 192
Electric Railways in the United States, 631
Electric Railways for Vienna, Tenders Invitodfor, 87
Electric Sugar Refiners, Herr Dammeyer’s, Experiments with, 87
Electric Supply, Small Candle Power Lamps at
High Voltages, 216 Electric Supply at 230 volts, 161
Electric Timber Stacking Crane, 331, 333, 396
Electric Traction, M. Auvert on, 19, 47, 73, 119, 144
Electric Traction in Belgium, Trolley System of 35
Electric Traction, The Lancaster and District Tramways Company and, 501
Electric Traction on Railways, 1S6
Electric Traction, Record of Recent Progress of, 477
Electric ’fraction for Steam Locomotives, Projected Substitution of, on Belgian Lines, 87
Electric Tramway, The Barmen, 553
Electric Tramroad, Brighton Seashoro, 453
Electric Tramway, Bristol, Inauguration Run. 3S2
Electric Tramways, Hartlepool, 382
Eloctric Tramway for Paris, 87
Electric Tramway into Portsmouth, 234
Electric Tramway System, The Hamburg, 537
Electric Tramway System, Overhead, in the Midlands, 405
Electric Tramways in the United States, Mileage of, 160
Electric Travelling Cranes, 402, 410
Electric Truck, United States of Annrica, Accident to, 35
Electrical Underground Conduit Tramway, New York, 155
Electrical Waves in Water, Professor Onues on the Propagation of, 525
Electric Welding, 615, 643
E'ectric Wires and Street Explosions, 424
Electrically Propelled Carriages using Accumulators, On, 613
Electricity Applied to Agricultural Proccssos, 349
Electricity in the Dwelling, Lord Kingsburgh on, Electricity, Green Wood a Better Conductor of, than Dead, 382
Electricity, Heating Street Railway Cars by, 450
Electricity, Towing by, 217
Electricity, Vagaries of, 371
Electricity Works of the Great Northern Railway, Holloway, 383, 386, 388
Electro-motors, 19, 47 Electrolysis, Refining Impure Zinc by, 143
Electrolytes, On The Ke* istance of Porous Diaphragms in Various, 525
Electrolytic Corrosion, Protecting Pipes from, 143
Electrophone Company’s Receiver for Transmitting Dean Farrar’s Farewell Address, 87
Electrozono as a Disinfectant in Philadelphia, Use of, 525
Elevating Railway, The Otis, 472
Elevator, The Otis, Manhattan Insurance Building, New York, 478, 479, 498, 499, 506
Eliot, Mr. J., On The Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in India, 501
Eliot, Mr. Wbateloy, Ilis Appointment, 551
Eiland Gasworks, Coal Elevator. 132
Eiland Urban District, Qutfall Worktj and Sewage Treatment, 431
Ellin’s Small Adjustable Spanner, 142
ElliDgton, Mr. E. B., Hydraulic Power Supply in Towns—Glasgow, Manchester, Buenos Ayres, &c., 99, 126
Elliott, Mr. Chas., Postage Stamp Affixer, 368
Elliott Bros., Messrs , Tachometer, 547
Elliptic Cycle Gear. 5
Elswick Cruiser, “ Buenos Aires,” Firing Trial of, 593
Emigration Prospects, 22
Emmensite, The New Explosive, 13
Emporor William Canal—see North Sea and Baltic Canal
Empress Theatre, Earl’s Court, The, 264, 268, 317
Engel, M. R , On the Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Copper, 431
Engines, Oil, and Air Compressors for Sounding Fog Sirens, 369
Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Combined Gas, 611
Engines, Compound, Saltaire Mills, 258, 260
Engine, Compound, Horizontal Tandem, Messrs. J. Hargreaves and Co., 189
Engines, Compound, London Electric Supply Company, 618
Engines, Compound Paddle, and Ship Steering Gear, Messrs. Bow, McLachlan, and Co., 482, 489
Engines, Compound, Proportioning Cylinders for, 345
Engines, Compound, Steam Hopper Barge, Baltic Canal (Supplement, October 25th, 1895), 415
Engines, Corliss Compound, Leicester Electricity Works, 57, 68, 86, 142
Engine, On the Creation and Development of the Steam, 468
Engine Cylinders, Clearance in Steam, 41, 63, 86, 109, 189
Engine Driver, The Oldest, in the World, 525, 550
Engine Economy, A New Departure in Steam, 15
Engine Friction, Internal, 507
Engines, Gas, their Mechanical Efficiency, 431 Engines, Gear, 12
Engine, High Speed, Mr. J. C. Poache, 550
Engine, High Speed Electric L’ght, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 548
Engines, 3000-IIorso Power Mill, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 140, 164, 194
Engines, Murdock’s Blowing, 434
Engines, Oil Fuel for Pumping, 597
Engines, Pilot, 434, 466
Engines, Portable Oil, 319
Engines, Portable and Traction, Smithfield Club Show, 600
Engines, Pumping, Leicester Waterworks (Supplement, December 6th, 1895), 553
Engine, Quadruple Expansion, Messrs. Hall and Treat, 35
Engines for the Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart,” 157, 158, 159
Engines at Saltaire, 285
Engines of the “Samoyed,” 361, 362
Engine Starter, Green’s Automatic Gas, 342
Engines, Steam, Oil, and Ga«, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 61
Engines, Steering, of H.M.S.S. “Venus” and “ Diana,” 424
Engines, Steering, in the Royal Navy, 423, 424, 433
Engines and Tenders, Goods, for The Cap Government Railways (Supplement, November 22nd 1895), 497, 510
Engines, Traction, and Self - propelled Road Carriages, 189, 311
Engines, Trains and Pilot, 434, 466
Engines, Triple-expansion, s.s. “ Lizzie Westoll ” (Supplement, July 16th, 1895), 62
Engines, Triple-expansion and Compound, 640
“ Engineer” 1000-Guinea Road Carriage Competition, 15, 41,161,1S5, 211, 235, 459, 483, 507, 531
Engineering, Benefits Conferred by, upon Pure Scionce, 270
Engineering, Chemical, in Germany, 414
Engineering of Eoglish Ironworks, The, 187
Engineering as an Experimental Scienco, 270
Engineering Fireworks, 22
Engineering Improvements of the Clyde Navigation, Mr. Jas. Deas, 193
Engineering, Coppor and, 212
Engineering in India, Incompetent Railway, 143
Engineering Literature, 270
Engineering, Past, Present, and Future, Mr. II. McLaren, 454
Engineering, Practical Steam, 39
Eogineering and Shipbuilding, 557
Engineering and Shipbuilding in Ireland, 599
Engineering and Shipbuilding on the Thames, Marine, 45
Engineering, Specialising in, 270
Engineering, Technical, and Continental Works Practice, 238
Engineering, Mr. L. Vernon-Harcourt on Mathematics, Chemistry, Geology, Meteorology, in Relation to, 269
Engineering Works, Failures of, Due to Neglect of Scientific Considerations, 270
Engineers over Forty—Nono Need Apply, 290
Engineer in Naval Warfaro aud io Commerce, The, 504
Engineer Personnel of the Navy, 2C8
Engineers, Proposed Association of Waterworks, 504, 529
Engineers, Scientific Training of, 270
Engineers and Structural Steel, 288
Engineers for the United States Navy, 526
English and American Projectiles, 317
Equilibrium Phenomena of Alloys of Two or Three Metals, Gold Medal Offered for Paper on, 477
Erie Canal, Towing by Electricity on, 217
Errata Corrected, 130, 153, 187, 244, 250
Erratum, Cartridge Caso’, 244, 250
“ Ericsson,” The, 148
“ Ericsson,” Explosion on Board the, 59
Etna, Railway Round, 336
Evans, Mr. 1)., Testimonial to, 382
Evaporation of Liquids and the Capillary Theories,
The, 457
Everard, Mr., Pumpirg Machinery Leicester Waterworks (Suppleon id, December 6th, 1895), 553
Everard, Mr. J. B., Cropston Engino House, Leicester Waterworks, 534
Everitt, Kir. W. IL, On The Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, 477
Evesham Rural District Council and (bo Hchemo for Village Water Supply, 369
Evolution of the Iron Arch, 597
Ewing, Professor, Magnetic Tester for Measuring Hysteresis in Iron, 561
Excavating Machinery ? 507
Excavators, Dredgers and Spoil Transporters, Baltic and North Sea Canal, 310, 316
Excavator, Steam Crane, Messrs. Simpson and Porter, 180
Excelsior Hoator and Filter, The, 487
Exhibition of Aeronautical Apparatus at the Paris Exhibition, 59
Exhibition, Berlin Industrial, 217
Exhibition, Brewers’, Seventaenth Annual, 382
Exhibition, Brussols, 405
Exhibition, Cardiff Industrial, 105, 260
Exhibition, Columbian, Exhibits Receiving Awards at, 382
Exhibition, East London Trades, Industries, ani Arts, 617
Exhibition, Glasgow, Industrial, at, 461
Exhibition. Manchester, British and Colonial, 266
Exhibition, Montreal. International, at, 280
Exhibition in Paris, Sanitary, 71
Exhibitions, Past and Present, Mr. H. Stopes on, 362
Exhibition, Tobacco Trades, 13
Explosion on Board the “ Barbadicn,” 105
Explosion on Board The “Lynx,” Inquiry into the, 59
Explosion on Baard The s.s. “ Sabrina,” duo to Grease on Furnace Crowns, 192
Explosion on Board The United States Torpedo Boat “ Ericsson,” 59
Eip’.csion, Boiler, 262
Explosion of Boilers in The Detroit Journal Building, 457, 525
Explosion of a Carbonic Acid Gas Cylinder, 107
Explosion, A Curious Boiler, 262, 333
Explosion in The Derbyshire Coalfield, 477
Explosions, Domestic Boiler, 650
Explosions of Gas Cylinders, 112
Explosion, Bailer, Ridcar Ironworks, 72, 81, 108, 166, 189, 216
Explosions, Boiler—see also Boiler Explosions Explosion of Main Steam Pipe on an American Liner, 613
Explosive “ Emmensite,” Tost of The New, 13
Explosive, Professor Victor Meyer’s New, 286
Explosive “ Westphalite,” Experiments with the, 266
Express Locomotive, North - Eastern Railway (Supplement, September 26th, 1895), 291, 292
Eyre Estate, St. John’s Wood, Claim, The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway and the, 382

FACSIMILE of ono of Mr. Harrison’s Original Sketches for an Engine, 249
Factories for Sugar, Central, 86
Failures of Tires, Axles, &c., on British Railways, 613
Fair Trade and No Trade, 63, 86, 109
Faith in Science, 216
Falconier System, Glass Bricks of the, 431
Fane, Rear-Admiral, Masthead Signalling, 183
Fane, Admiral, Trial of his Signalling Apparatus, 87
Fans and Air Propellers, 435
Fans, On Centrifugal, 625
Farina Machinery ? 261
Fast Run from Buffalo to New York, 431
Fast Run on the New York Central Railway, 369
Fast Train on the Lake Shore and Michigan State Railway, 486
Fast Train on the New York Central Railroad, 328
Fauron, M., On Aluminium, 270
Feed Pumps or Heaters? “Challenge,” 65
Feed-water, Bailers and, 338
Feed-water Delivered into a Boiler by an Injector, Inquiry as to the Temperature of, 336
Feed-water Heater aud Filter, Messrs. J. Wright and Co., 487
Feed-water Heater, Steam, 122
Feeding Apparatus, Furnace, 554
Feeder, Horse and Cattle Automatic, Mr. II. Denton’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show 45
Fenders iu Electric Cars Necessary, 192
Fenders on Street Cars, Philadelphia City Government Concerning, 132
Fenders and Wheel Guards for Eloctric Cars in Massachusetts, 266
Ferranti and Co., Messrs., Dynamo and Engines, 502, 503
Ferry Steamer for the Volga, Railway, 2S4, 317
Fiebiger, Captain D. F., on Wheel Guard Fenders in Columbia, 554
Fielding and Platt’s Oil Engine, 7
Filters, Mechanical Water, for Minneapolis, 405
Filtration, Scientific, 41
Fire at the Arc Works, Chelmsford, 562
Fire on Board The “ Iona,” Tho, 312, 317
Fire-box Plate, A. S. and M. Railway, 240
Fire-box Plato Trimming Machine, Messrs. Isaac Hill and Sons, 214
Fire-boxes, On, 1
Fire Catastrophes on Board Ship, 280
Firo Congress, International, 259
Fire Guard on the Cauadiau Pacific Railroad Track, 160
Firo Losses in the United Statos andC’anada, The March, 87
Fireless Locomotives in Marseilles, 293
Fires at Sea, 312, 317 Fires in Vienna, 286
Fireworks, Engineering, 22
Firing Trial of Elswick Cruiser “ Buenos Aires,” 593
Fiske’s Range Indicators on the United States Battleship “ Indiana,” 521
Fitting Machinery in Screw Steamers, 228, 229, 230, 231, 299, 379, 448, 522, 524, 543
Fitzgerald, Mr. D. G., On Electrically Propelled Carriages Using Accumulators, 613
Five-Masters, 501
Fletcher Bros, and Co., Sheep-dipping Apparatus Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Fletcher, Professor B. and Mr. B. F., Architectural Curriculum at King’s College, 309
Fletcher, Mr. William, Stoam Locomotion for Passenger Traffic on Common Reads, 2S1, 283, 314, 315
Flange Joints on Coppor Pipes, 617
Flange Rails and Metal Sleepers, 505, 529
Floating Central Electric Light Station on the Seine, Project for a, 59
Floating Pock for the Philippines, Tenders for, 626 * ’
Floods in the Rhone Valley, Damage Caused by the, 525
Flour Trade, American Millers and Possibilities of an Oriental, 405
Flushes, Three-Gallon, v. Two, 613
Fly wheel at Pittsburg, Bursting of a, 309
“ Flying Scotsman ” at Northallerton, The, 166
Foerster’s Experiments on the Decomposition of Glass, 336
Fogs, Mr. R. H. Scott on, 625
Folsom-Sacramento (California) Eleotrical Power Transmission Plant, 133
Fontesvilla to Beira, Railway from, 35
“ Forban,” High-speed Trial of the Normand Torpedo Boat, 160, 554
Foreign Cattle Trade, The, 328
Forge, Self-operating, Messrs. Rico and Rich, 105
Forgings, Bids for Rapid-fire Gun, Navy Department, 405
Fouling of Ships’ Bottoms, Effect on their Speed, 217
Found, 256
Fowler and Co. and the Brush Co., Holloway Electric Light Station, 383—386, 388
Fowler and Co., Messrs. John, 8-Horso Power Compound Road Locomotive, 8, 18
Fowler and Go., Messrs. J., Marshall’s Valve Gear, Holloway Electric Light Station, 639
Franco, Electric Power Stations in, 192
France, Mileage of Submarine Cables, 55
France, Sewage Disposal in, 251
France, Shipbuilding Projects in, 357
France, Strikes in, 217, 533
Francois, M. M., On the Action of Alcohol on Mercurous Iodide, 647
Francou Coal Washer, The, 626, 627 Fraser, Alexander, 414
Fraser and Co.’s Compound Tube Water-tube Boiler, 367
Free Trade and No Trade, 63, 86, 109, 601
Freezing Points of Silver and Gold, On the, 613
Freezing Point of Water Lowered by the Admixture of Milk or Lymph, 525
Freight Charges on The North Staffordshire Railway, Appeal for Reduction of, 525
Freight Hauling Test by Electric Motors, 35
Fremont, M. Ch., Method of Illuminating Opaque Objects for the Microscope, 405
Freight Rates on United States Railways, 477
French Admiralty’s Bill to Pat an End to Racing at Sea, 87
French Armoured Cruiser “ Pothuan,” 222
French Association for the Advancement of Science, M. Trélat on “La Salubrité,” 192
French Battleships, Alterations in Progress in, 87
French Battleship “Bouvines,” The Coast Defence, 210, 214
French Cruisers, Accidents to, 87
French Imports of Coal, 315
French Inland Waterways—Traffic Diagram, 342
Friction Brakes, New Forms of, 250
Frodsham Station, Moving, 507, 537
French Naval Authorities, Proposed Improvement of their Channel Ports, 613
French Navy, Gun No. 305 Adopted for the Artillery of the, 160
French Navy, Pirate Cruisers for the, 266
French Railway from Loango to Brazzaville, 105
French Railway in Tongking, 234
French Torpedo Boat, Trial Trip of a, 345
French War Vessels, 88, 92
Fuel, Liquid, Experiments with, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 501
Fuller, Mr. H. J., His Appointment, 192
Fulton, Mr. T. C., His Lectures in Glasgow, 521
Fulton Engineering Works, “Sure Grip” Railway Block, 11
Furnace, Basic, 94
Furnace Crowns, Danger of Grease on, 192
Furnace Grate, Wagner’s, 116
Furnace Grate, A Water Box, 553, 617
Furnaces in Blast in Belgium, Number of, 105
Furnaces, Glass Tank, 431
Furnaces Making Pig Iron, Weekly Capacity of all the, 382
Furnaces, Hawley Down-draught, Forthcoming Trial of, 431
Furnaces Struck by Lightning, 641
Furnaces, Workshop Gas, 39

GALBRAITH and Greathcad, Messrs., Waterloo and City Electrical Underground Railway, 81, 82, 83, 84, 114, 115
Galton, Sir Douglas, Inaugural Address as President of the British Association, 254
Galvanic Cell, Thermo-chemical, 286
Galvanic Polarisation, Experiments in Thermodynamics of, 234
Galvanising, Recent Improvements in, 343, 344
Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Steel Articles, Messrs. Wilmot and Co.’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Galveston Jetties, 441
Galw’ay and Clifden Light Railway, Length of, 336
Ganz and Co.’s Electric Power Installation for Agricultural Purposes, 349
Gas, Acetylene and Carbonic Acid, 457
Gas Boilers, Blast Furnace, 532
Gas Burner, New Intensive, Covered by the Bansept Patents, 501
Gas Calorimeter, Junker’s, 164
Gas from Coal Dust, New Method to Manufacture, 501
Gas Cylinders, Explosions of, 112
Gas Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Combined, 611
Gas Engines, Mechanical Efficiency of, 431
Gas Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7,61
Gas Engine Pumping Machinery, Messrs. Tangyes, 264
Gas Engine Starter, Greon’s Automatic, 342
Gas Engines without Belts or Gearing, Centrifugal Pumps at Sunderland Docks Driven by, 405
Gas Engines—.tee also Engines, Gas
Gas Exhauster, Gwynne’s New Pressure Balance 179
Gas Field, Columbus, O., 457
Gas Furnaces, Workshop, 39
Gas, Heating Value of Berlin, 160
Gasholder without Columns, 547
Gas Increased Fifteen Times, Illuminating Power of, 266
Gas, Influence of the Size of Particles on the Pressure of a, 617
Gas Motors in Berlin, Rise io, 634
Gas Plant, Thwaites’ Motor, 3
Gas Producers at Dowlais, 505
Gas Stoking Plant, Mr. F. J. West on a, 612
Gas Testings Return, London, 160, 266, 286
Gas Well, Windsor, Ontario, 595
Gasworks, Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in, 99
Gauges, Battle of the, in Ceylon and Australia, 13
Gauge, Broad y. Narrow, 617
Gaylor, Mr., Report on the Defects in the Cast Iron Columns of the St. Louis City Hall, 525
Gazogene Meter, Tests with a Bénier, 59
Gear, Bulkhead Door and, Mr. Van Ollefen, 5
Gear, Elliptic Cycle, 5
Gear Engines, 12
Gelder, Mr. G. de, Harbour of Batavia, 204, 205, 207
General Electric Co. and the Three Phase Long Distance System Applied to Street Railway Work, 234
Geology in Relation to Engineering, 269
“Georgic,” Cargo Carried by the, 286
“Georgic,” Launch of the White Star s.s., 14, 17
German Blast Furnaces, Total Production of Pig Iron Turned out by, 309
German East African Railway Company’s Line, 160
Gorman Eleotric Light Stations, 30
German and French Mercantile Marino Compared, 234
Gorman Minors at Hanover, Triennial Mooting of, 313
German Railroad Union, Permanent Way and Rolling Stock, 13
German Torpedo Boat, Loss of, 234
“Germania ” Rowing Club Steam Launch, 553
Germany, Chemical Engineering in, 414
Germany, Compound Locomotives in, 382
Germany, Inland Navigation, 101
Gesner Method of Protecting Iron and Steel from Rust, 35
Geyelin, M. Emile, Turbines, 12
Gibbs’ Harvest Saving and Tea Drying Machines, 465
Gibbon’s Patent Portable Oil Engino, 319
Gigantic Wheel, The, 406, 407
Girard and Street, Messrs., Electric Furnace, 59
Girder Problem, A, 290, 333
Glasgow Central Railway, The, 403
Glasgow Central Railway, Opening of the, <57
Glasgow Corporation, Sluice and Bridge over the Clyde, 334, 335
Glasgow Gasworks, 129
Glasgow’ Harbour Tunnel, 86
Glasgow and Horseless Carriages, 509
Glasgow Hydraulic Power Supply, 67
Glasgow, Industrial Exhibition at, 461
Glasgow Institution of Mechanical Engineers (tec Institute of Mining Engineers at Glasgow), 33
Glasgow Iron and Steel Company’s Works, 153
Glasgow Pig Iron Market, The Stir in the, 641
Glasgow Sewage Works, 129
Glasgow Shipyards and Engine Works, 129
Glasgow Water Supply, Result of Tenders, 378
Glasgow Waterworks, The, 129
Glass, On the Adhesion of Metals to, 131
Glass, Aluminium and other Solder for, 595
Glass Articles, New Method of Damascening, 477
Glass Bricks of the Falconier System, 431
Glass, Inscriptions on, How Best Obtained, 595
Glass, Process of Manufacturing Spherical or Oval Hollow Bodies of, 457
Glass Tank Furnaces, 431
Glass by Water, Foerster on the Decomposition of, 336
Glass, Solder for, 266
Glossop Sewage Scheme, 205
Glucinium, Atomic Weight of, 266
Godaiming Waterworks, The, 369
Gold Made Brittle by Admixture of Tellurium,309
Gold and Silver, Estimates of the World’s Production of, 13
Gold and Silver in the United States for the Calendar Year, Product of, 641
Goldsmiths’ Engineering Society—sec Society, The Goldsmiths’ Engineering
“ Good Enough,” The Foe of the Inventor is the Plea, 16
“ Good Roads ” Parliament, Builders or Inventors of Horseless Carriages Invited to Attend the, 369
Goods Engines and Tenders for The Cape Government Railways, Messrs. Neilson and Co. (Supplement, Noeember 22uef, 1895), 497, 510
Gooiden Power Dynamos, Margaret Pit, 2, 6
Gorton Sewage Works, The, 488
Goss, W. F. M., New Forms of Friction Brakes, 250
Goubet Submarine Boat for Brazil, a, 217
Gould, Mr., On the Electric Light used by Ships in The Suez Canal, 217
Government Railways and Locomotive Coal, 509
Government Small Arms Works, Sparkbrook, Visited, Tho, 199
Governor, Shaft, Mann and Charlesworth’s, 9
Grab, Hay and Straw, Mr. J. R. Robinson, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Gradients, Theory of Compensating, 508
Graf, Mr. F., Water Box Furnace Grate, 553, 617
Grain Carrying, Rates from Chicago to New York, 595
Grand Trunk Railway, Serious Accident on the, 143
Graphic Calculation of Stresses in Large Wheels, 550
Graphical Calculation of Stresses in Large Tension Wheels, 527
Graphite, M. Moissan on Varieties of, 457
Graphite Washers, 554
Grate, Wagner’s Furnace, 116
Grate, A Water Box, 553, 617
Grate, A Water Box Furnace, 553, 617
Graving Dock, Southampton, Opening of, 87
Gray, Mr. J. W., Presentation to, 336
Grease on Furnace Crowns, Explosion due to, 192
Great Eastern Railway Company, Conveyance of Farm Produce at Reduced Rates by Paessnger Trains, 477
Great Eastern Railway, A Co-operative Association to Work with the, 431
Great Eastern Railway, Driving Tires of Bessemer Steel, 369
Great Eastern Railway, Rapid Bridge Building at Ely, 525
Groat Northern Railway, The, 557
Great Northern Railway, Aceidont on, 477
Great Northern Railway, Electricity Works of the, 383, 386, 388
Great Northern Stone Bridges op The Now Lino in Nottinghamshire, 309
Great Western Railway, Collision at Newport, 525
Great Western Railway Company, Doubling of Cornish Lines, 217
Great Western Locomotives, Early, 74, 104, 142, 191, 216, 239, 248, 258, 259, 285, 292, 317,345, 355, 360, 386, 408,435, 440, 441, 451, 454, 476, 505, 538, 550
Great Western Railway, Milford Haven Scheme, 477
Great Wostern Company, New Line Projected to South Wales, 457
Great Western Railway, New Rolling Stock, 457
Great Western Railway Company, Now Through Trains run by, 336
Great Western Railway Company and the Stroud and Painswick Light Railway Bill, 13
Great Western Railway Company’s System, Contract for Widening of Bridges, &c., on the, 217
Great Western Railway, Water Troughs on the, 286
Great Northern of Scotland Railway, New Locomotives for, 217
Greathead, Mr. J. EL, on the City and South London Railway, 500
Green’s Automatic Gas Engine Starter, 342
Green and Sons, Steam Road Roller, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Greenwich Observatory Photographic Registration of Magnetic Declination, Vertical and Horizontal Force and Earth Currents, 13
Greenwich Railway, The London and, 39
Greenwich and Westminster, Automatic Signals Between, 336
Greenwood and Batley’s Hydraulic Press, Pneumatic Power Hammer, 6-Unit Dynamo, and Electric Motors, 44
Grice, Grice, and Son9, Fatal Accident at their Works, 641
Grindstone, The “ Handy,” Messrs. Follows and Bates, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Grossmith and Otto’s Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 84
Grover, Mr. Fred., on the Earl’s Court and Ferris Wheels, 527
Guards, Rail, 634
Guillaume, M., On the Action of Electric Current on Aluminium Wire, 457
Guns, American 12in., 35
Gun, The Browning Automatic, Tested at Indian Head, 595
Gun Fire, The Effect of, 288
Gun, The Maxim Solid Steel, 156
Gun, New Quick-firing, tried in France, 309
Gun No. 305 Adopted for the Artillery of the French Navy, 160
Gun Patented in the United States for Carrying a Double Shot which Acts like a Bomb, 336
Gun and Projectiles tried at Chalons, The New, 105
Guns, Quick-fire, Influence of, on Naval Power, 519
Guns, Quick-fire, and Men-of-War Chimneys, 525
Guns, Recoil of, Recorded by Photography, 612
Guns, Tests of Small Rapid-firing, 623
Gun Trials of the Majestic, 336
Guns, Value of Quick-fire, 620
Gunboats, Bids for Composite, 420
Gurney, Mr., New Steam Carriage (1827), 215
Gutta-percha, Substitute for, 266
Gwynne’s Now Pressure Balance Gas Exhauster, 179
Gya and Shaikpura, Railway Line from, 595

HACKNEY, Dust Dsstructor and Electric Light for, 105
Haden Hill Collieries, Electrical Haulage and Electric Light at, 525
Hadfield, Mr. R. A., Production of Iron by a New Process, 177, 183
Haggie, Mr. David, 457
Haldane, Dr., Experiments Connected with Bad Air in Mines, 286
Hall and Co., Messrs. J. P., Largo Dynamo for Colliery Working, 181
Hall and Treat, Messrs., Quadruple-expansion Engine, 35
Halladay Windmill, Messrs. A. Williams and Co., 11
Haller, Mr., On The Use of Liquid Carbon Dioxide for Chilling Test Pioces, 105
liaise, Mr. E., Mining in Mexico, 4
Hamburg-American Co.’s Steamer, Accident to, 13
Hamburg Electric Tramway System, 537
Hammer, “Toe Excel” Pneumatic Power, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Hammond, Mr. Robert, and Electric Lighting of Middlesbrough, 234
Hampton, Mr. T., Method of Casting Compound Ingots for Armour and other Plates, 234
Hamstead Colliery, The, 202
Hancock’s Steam Coaches, 290
Handy Grindstone, Messrs. Follows and Bates’, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Handyside and Co., Messrs. A., The Empress Theatre, 264, 268
Hanging of Harveved Armour Plates, 464, 529
Hanover, Triennial Meeting of German Miners at, 313
Harbour, Repair of Ancona, 35
Harbour of Batavia, The, 204, 205, 207
Harbours, Peterhead, 546, 616

Harbours and Waterways :

Belfast, 547
Brussels, 547
Burntisland, 547
Cardiff, 547
Charleston, 441
Galveston, 441
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 441
Liverpool, 547 Llanelly, 441
Mersey, The, 441
Morecambe, 547
Peterhead, 547
Sutton Bridge, 547
Swansea, 547
Vora Cruz, 441
Hardware and Cutlery Business done with Foreign Markots for The Month, 477
Hargreaves and Co., Messrs. J., Compound Horizontal Tandem Engino, 189
Harland, Sir Edward James, 645
Harland and Wolff, The Now White Star Cargo Steamer, 286
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Six Steamers Launched within Three Months, 336
Ilarland and Wolff, Messrs, Twin-screw Steamer for the Hamburg-American Line, 234
Harling, Mr. W. H., Sargent’s Patent Combined Compass Trammel, 59
Harnessing Niagara, 236
Harrison’s Elliptic Cycle Gear, 5
Harrison’s Locomotive, 355
Harrow, Mr. T. A. Wynne Edwards, 11
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., Messrs., Air and Circulating Pumps, 140, 164
Hick. Hargreaves, and Co., Leicester Electricity Works, Corliss Compound Engines, 57, 68,142
Hide Pinions? Compressed, 363
High Lift Pump, A New, 646
High Speed Eogines—see Engines, High Speed High Railway Speeds and Permanent Way, 532 High Speeds in the United States, 484
Highland Railway Company’s Lino, Doubling of Section of, 192
Hill, Mr. A. E. B., On the Now Westminster Waterworks, 283
Hill and Sons, Messrs. Isaac, Fire-box Plate Trimming Machine, 214
History of the Metropolitan Railway—tee also Metropolitan Railway
History of the Metropolitan Railway, 151, 239, 408
Hodgkin’s Prize Voted to Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay, 160
Holden, Drake, and Gorham’s Magnetic Clutch, 118
Holland, Steam Lifoboat for, 325
Holman, Mr. W. J., Queer Now Typo of Locomotive, 286
Holloway Electric Light Station, 383, 386, 388
Holloway Electric Light Station, Marshall’s Valve Gear, 639
Hook of Holland, Accelerated Train Service r/4, 266, 336
Hoosac Tunnel, No Telegraphic Messages can be sent through, 382
Hope-Jones Electric Organ. The, 502
Hopp9r Barges on the Baltic Canal, 415
Hopper Coal Wagons, Messrs. Brown, Marshalls, and Co., 32
Horizontal Band Saw Machine for Logs, 63
Horizontal Band Saw, Messrs. A. Ransome and Co., 23, 32
Horizontal Engines— see Engines, Horizontal Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, The De La Vergne
Refrigerating Company Select the, 105
Horse Power Pumping Machinery, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 250
Horseless Carriages, 418
Hartford Dredging Company, Canal Connecting Great Salt Pond with the Ocean, 59
Hartman’s Paint, Electric Light Posts in London Re-coated with, 266
Harvest Saving and Tea Drying Machines, Gibbs’, 465
Harvesting Machines at the Royal Agricultural Society* 8 Show, 11, 44
Harvesting of Refuse and the Generation of Steam, Mr. Ernest Sykes on tho, 651
Harveyed Armour Plates, Hanging of, 464, 529
Harwich Harbour Conservancy, Mr. Bluff’s Retirement, 35
Haslam and Maudslay’s Potato Digger, 10
“ Haughty,” Launch of the New Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 286
Haulage, Canal, 191
Hauling Capacity of Electric Cars in The United States, 457
Havre, and of the Navigation of the Estuary of the Seine, Improvement of The Port of, 79
Hawley Down Draught Furnaces, Trial of tho, 431
Hay and Clover Making Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Hay Makers at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11, 44
Hay Waterworks Company’s Undertaking, Purchase of the, 501
Haythorn Tubulous Boilor, The, 152
Hayward-Tylor and Co., Messrs., Horse Power Pumping Machinery, 250
Heat at Boiling Point of Carbon, Specific, 35
Heat created by the “Amphitrite’s” Funnel, 76
Heater and Filter, The Excelsior, 487
Heaters, Steam Feed-water, 122
Heath, Mr. W. P., Safety App’iances for Lifts, 381
Heating Buildings by Exhaust Steam, 104
Heating Buildings by Steam, On, 59
Heating Value of Berlin Gas, 160
Heating Street Railway Cars by Electricity, Mr. J. F. McElroy on, 450
Heenan and Gilbert, Messrs., On the Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, 625
Heilmann Locomotive, Trial3 with tho, 52
Hexagonal Rods ? 459
Heycock and Neville, Messrs., On the Freezing Points of Silver and Gold, 613
Hey wood, Mr. Percival, Miniature Railway at Duffield, 554
Hexane, On Normal, 595
Heilmann Locomotive, Trials with, 59
Heintz Trap, The, 45
Helium in Water, Solubility of, 217
Henry, M., Experiments on Locomotive Boilers at the Works of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 179, 227
Henry, M., On Locomotive Boilers at The Works of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 43, 91
Herbert, Mr. Alf., Multiple Drilling Machine, 527
Hering, the American Electrician, On the Volts Generated by every Foot of Active Wire, 234
H. M. Navy, Three New Torpedo Destroyers for, 160
H.M.S. “Blake,” 490
H.M.S. “Charger,” Concerning the Boilers of, 192
H.M.S. “Comus,” 286, 500
H.M.S. “ Hecla” to be Fitted up as a Torpedo Workshop, 217
H.M.S. “Jupiter,” Launch of, 512
H.M S. “ Majestic,” 415
H.M.S. “Minerva,” 316
H.M.S. “ Minerva,” Floating Out of, 309, 316
H.M.S. “ Monarch,” The Relit of, 554
H.M.S. “ Powerful,” Launch of, 87, 160
H.M.S “ Prince George,” Coating of hor Bottom with Anti-fouling Composition, 217 .
H.M.S. “ Renown,” 485
H.M S. “Starfish,” Speed Trials of. 365
H.M.S. “Torch” and “Alert,” Trials of, Ordered, 613
H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyer “Sunfish,” Mean Speed Attained by, 135
H.M. Torpedo Gunboat “ Sharpshooter, 87
H.M.S. “ Victorious,” Launch of tho, 414
H.M.S. “Zebra,” Launch of, 549
H.M. Cruiser “Hermione” Passed into the Devonport Fleet Reserve, 234
H.M. Cruisers to be Converted into Training Ships, 309
Uermito Process of Deodorising Sewage at Ipswich, 345
Herroun, Mr., On The Theory of Magnetism, 481
Horseless Cirriages, The Memorial, 597
Horseless Vehicles, Mr. G. C. Marks on, 514
Horseless Vehicles—.also Road Carriages Horse-propelled Paddle Boats, 505
Uoufe, Mr. W. W., On Internal Engine Friction, 507
Hours of Work on Railways, 509
Howard, Mr. Charles, 382
Howe, Mr. H. Marion, On the Hardening of Steel, 176
Howe’s Sack Turnor, 44
Howl, Mr. E., Improved Kilns. 35
llufty and Caldwell, Messrs., Processes for Converting Cast Iron into Malleable Iron or Steel, 217
Hughes, Mr. U. W., Mineral Resources of the South Staffordshire Coalfields, 174
Humphreys - Owen and Meik, Messrs., On the Relaxation of Normal Requirements for Light Railways, 55
Hunt, Mr. R. W., On Steel Rails, 478
Hydraulic Copying Press, The, 23, 39
Hydraulic Power Supply in Towns, Mr. E. B. Ellington, 99, 126
Hydraulic Presses (xre also Press, Hydraulic) Hydraulic Propulsion, 396
Hydraulic Riveting Machine for Locomotive Boilers, 193
Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, 99
Hydrochloric Acid on Copper, Action of. 431
Hydrogen, Boiling Point and Critical Temperature of, 382
ICE-CRUSHING Transport Ferries for Lake Baikal, 217
I.E.S. Storage Battery for Lighting and Traction, Mr. A. G. New on the, 22
Illinois, Machine Mining in, 264
Illuminating Opaque Objects for the Microscope, M. Ch. Frémont’s Method of, 405
Imperial Defence and War Material, 89
Imperial Institute, 619 Improvement in Trade, The, 113, 263
Iccandescent Lamps and their Manufacture, Mr. Bailey on, 500
India, Canal Profits in, 647
India with Ceylon, Projected Railway Bridge to Connect, 192
India, On The Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in, 501
India, Development of The Iron Resources, 457
India, Irrigated Area, 234 India, Light Railway for, 234
India-office, Papers on the Iron Resources in the Madras Presidency, 503
India, Periyar Irrigation Works Oponod, 382
India, Railway Enterprise in, 595
India, Stoel Making Prospects in, 427
Indian Coal Production, 143
Indian Collieries, Report on The Working of, 160
Indian Collieries, Total Cipital Outlay on. 143
Indian Government, The Umaria Colliery Output, 160
Indian Head, United States Naval Proving Ground at, 225, 232, 233
Indian Railways, 13, 59. 66. 87,105, 143,160,192, 217, 234, 286, 431, 457, 525, 556, 595, 613
Indian Railways, Accidents on, 87
Indian Railways, Broad Gauge, 160
Indian Railways, Mr. R. Cohey’s Appointment, 613
India, Railway Extension in, 59, 87, 105
Indian Railways, 2ft. 6in. Gauge Light Railway in Progress, 217
Indian Railway Girder Bridges, Strengthening of, 13
Indian Railways, Length of Timber Sloopcrs Reduced, 234
Indian Railways, Mileage of, 143
Indian Railways, North-West, 286
Indian Railways Owned by Native Rulers, Mileage of, 192
Indian Railways, Passenger Traffic cn South, 66
Indian Railways, Proposed Partition of the North-Western Railway, 613
Indian Railways, Standard Gaugo Line, 217
Indian Railways, Strengthening of the Girders of Cheyaur Bridge, 217
Indian Railway, Rolling Stock for the South, 217
Indian Railways, Total Length in Operation, 431
Indian Railways, Mr. Warirg’s Report on, 556
Indicating Names of Stations on the District Railway, Mechanism for, 525
Indicator and Detector, Water Level, 647
Ingots, Small Cast Steel, 206
Iügot Iron, Alleged Treacberousress of, 330
Inscriptions on Glass, How Best Obtained, 595
Inspectors, Boiler, 258, 291, 359
Inspirator to Feed a Boiler, Cost of Running an, 457
Institute of British Carnage Manufacturers, 192
Institute, City and Guilds ok London:—Diplomas Conferred by, 115
Institute of Clayworkers on Light Railways, 613
Institute, Coventry Technical, Viscount Peel on Technical Educarim, 613
Institute Engineering Society Goldsmiths’, 414
Institute, The Franklin:—
Resistance Io Corrosion of Sen 3 Light Aluminium Alloys, Mr. J. W. Richards, 87
Institute, The Imperial, 619
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 174
Cornwall Works, Soho, Messrs. Tangye, Visit to, 177, 184
Direct Puddling of Iron, M. Emile Bonehil), 176
Government Small Arms Works, Sparkbrook, Visit to, 199, 201
Hamstcad Colliery, The, Visit to, 202
Hardening of Steel, Mr. 11. Marion Howe, 176
Iron Industry of South Staffordshire, Mr. Dan.dopes, 174
Ironworks of the South of Russia, Geo. Kamen sky, 241, 293
Loan Collection at Mason's College Visit to, 202
Mineral Resources of the South Staffordshire Coalfields, Mr. H. W. Hughes, 174
New Method for the Analysis of Chrome Ore and Ferro-Chrominm, Mr. E. H. Saniter, 177
Nickel Steel, Mr. Wiggin, 199, 219
Parker and Co.’s Electric Light Works, Wolverhampton, Visit to, 178
Preliminary List of Papers to be Read, 17
Production of Iron by a New Process, Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 177, 183
Programme of The Autumn Mooting at Birmingham, 17, 165
Small Cast Steel Ingots, Mr. R. Smith-Casson, 206
Staffordshire Steel and Ingot Company’s Work?, Visit to, 178
Tests of the Physical Properties of Cast Iron, Thos. I). West, 219
Thermo - Chemistry of The Bessemer Process, Professor Hartley, 176
Windsor-streot Works of the City of Birmingham Gas Department, Visit to, 200
Institute of Marine Engineers:—
Fifth Annual Dinner, 285
Presidential Address of Mr. Durston, 318
Institute, The Tramways:—
Address of the President, Mr. Carruthers Wain, 22
Annual Report, 22
I. E. S. Storago Battery for Lighting and Traction, Mr. A. G. New, 22
Thwaite-Cawley System of Electric Haulage, Mr. G. Cawley, 22
Institution of Civil Engineers, 431
Appointment of Sir Benjamin Baker as Trustee of the Benevolent Fund, 369
Appointment of Treasurer, Honorary Secretary, and Secretary, 13
City and South London Railway, with some Remarks on Subaqueous Tunnelling by Shield and Compressed Air, Mr. J. H. Greathead, 500
Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, Messrs. Heenan and Gilbert, 625
Dilation, Annealing, and Welding of Iron and Steel, Mr. Thomas Wrightson, 559
Election of H.I.M. The German Emperor as Hon. Member, 477
Influence of Carbon on Iron, Mr. J. 0. Arnold, 559
James Forrest Lecture, Dr. A. B. W. Kennedy, May 7th, 369
Members and Associates who have been on the Books for upwards of Fifty Years, 602
Physical Properties of Iron and Steel, Two Papers on, 559
Presidential Address of Sir Benjamin Baker, 480, 483, 512
Subjects for Papers, Session 1895-6, 259
Institution of Civil Engineers, Association of Yorkshire Students, 113, 414
Second Annual Dinner, 490
Institution of Civil Engineers, The Manchester Branch of Students:—
Description of Gas Stoking Plant, Mr. F. J. West, 612
Iron and Steel, On the Microscopic Study of, 624
Institution of Civil Engineers, Newcastle- upon-Tyne Association of Students, 348 Some Details of Iron Foundry Work, Mr. G. H. Sheffield, 625
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 550
Annual Dinner, 627
Annual Dinner Postponed, 488
Annual Soiree of, 13
Conversazione of, 35 Leader Relating to, 509
Opening of Session Postponed, 454
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The American :—
Substitution of Electricity for Steam in Railroad Practice, Dr. Louis Duncan, 187
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland : Metallography, or The Microscopic Study of
Iron and Steel, Mr. J. E. Stead, 624
Institute of Engineers and Naval Architects, The Hull and District: —
Inquiries, Tenders, Specifications, Contracts for Steannhif s and their Machinery, Mr. F. H. Pearson, 430
Visit to the National Telephone Company’s Exchange, 501
Institution of Engineers, The North-East Coast:—
Application of The Law of Similarity of Marino Propellers, Mr. J. Denholm Young, 501
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland:—
Inaugural Address of Sir William Arrol, he Pooh-poohs all Notion of a Channel Bridge. 405 K ’
Institution of Junior Engineers, The:—
Belgian Summer Meeting, 223
Presidential Address, Mr. Archibald Denny, 487
Urban Roads and Footways, with Notes on
Gas, Water, and Electric Mains, Mr. J. Julian, 625
Visit to Messrs. Bell's Asbestos Works, 514
Institution of Marine Engineers:—
Bristol Channel Centre, 415
Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Glasgow :—
Clydebank Engineering Works, 153
Clydebank Shipyard Works, 153
Engineering Works. Visits to, 153
Glasgow Gasworks Visited, 129
Glasgow Iron and Steel Company’s Works, 153
Glasgow Sewage Works Visited. P29
Glasgow Waterworks Visited, 129
Hydraulic Power Supply in Towns, Glasgow,
Manchester, Buenos Ayres, Ac., Mr. E. B. Ellington, 99
Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, Mr. Andrew S. Biggart, 99
Leven Shipyard and Engino Works, 187
Lille Experiments on The Comparative Efficiency of Hows and Belts for The Transmission of Power, by M. V. Dubreuil, Translated by Professor I). S. Capper, 580, 639
Modern Steel Works Machinery, Mr. Riley, 100, 126
Opening of th'o Proceedings, 99
Papers to bo Read and Discussed, 33
Recent Engineering Improvements of the Clyde
Navigation, Mr. Jas. Doas, 100, 126, 131, 167, 193
Shipyards and Engine Works Visited, 129
Visits and Excursions, 33, 128 129
Institution of Mining Engineers, The Federated :—
Birmingham with its Canal Connections with the Seaports, Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 23
Blasting Efficiency of Explosives, Bergassessor Winkhaus, 367
Change of Composition Produced in Air by Flames and by Respiration, Professor Clowes, 368
Depth to Productive Coal Measures between the Warwickshire and Lancashire Coalfields, Mr. Chas. E. do Rance, 367
Economic Minerals of the Province of Ontario, Canada, Mr. W. H. Merritt, 368
Gold Mining in Nova Scotia, Mr. F. II. Mason, 368
Programme of Annual General Mooting to be Held in North Staffordshire. ‘231
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy:—
Chrome Iron Oro Mining in Asia Minor, Mr. W. F. Wilkinson, 4
Deep Mining in Mexico, and The Changes that Occur in the Country Rock and Vein-Filling in Depth, Mr. E. liaise. 4
Institution, The Royal United Service —see Royal United Service Institution :—
Institution, Royal—sec Royal Institution:— Instruments, Suspensions for Physical, 431
Insurance and Actuarial Society of Glasgow, 521
Internal Engine Friction, 507
International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company’s New Service to Trieste, 525
Invention ? What is, 162
Inventor, “Good Enough” is The Foe of tho, 16
Inventor? Who is Entitled to the Name of, 545
Invicta Reducing Valve? 619
Iodide, Action of Alcohol on Mercurous, 647
“Iowa,” The Battleship, Test of a Section of her Side Armour, 160
Ipswich and Harwich, Improvements in the Ports of, 401
Ireland, Engineering and Shipbuilding in, 599
Irish Railway Working, 139
Irish Steamer “ Lestris,” Launch of the, 43
Iron Arch, Evolution of the, 597
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 25, 48, 75, 94, 120, 146, 168, 195, 220, 242, 271, 294, 320, 340, 372, 396, 418, 442, 466,490, 514, 538, 562, 602, 628, 648
Iron in the Congo Country, Production of, 501
Iron, On the Direct Puddling of, Mr. E. Bonebill on, 176
Iron Disposed of io Seven Months by the Syndicate of Austrian Ironfounders, 192
Iron Foundry Work, Mr. G. H. Sheffield on some Details of, 625
Iren Industry of South Staffordshire, Mr. Dan
Jones on the, 174 Iron, Influence of Carbon on, 559 Iron, Ingot, 330
Iron from Iron Sand in New Zealand, Process for Producing. 369
Iron Oro in Ontario, Deviation of the Compass and,405
Iron Ore Shipments from New York to Rotterdam, 13
Iron, A Paint for, 286
Iron, Paints m~do from Tar for Coating, 431
Iron Pig Production, 554
Iron, Pig, The World’s Production of, 160
Iron Pijics, Leaks in, Stopped by Paper Pulp, 336
Iron. On The Production of, by a New Process, 177, 183
Iron Production in the North of England, 255
Iron, Removing Sulphur from, by Barium Ferro cyanide, 35
Iron Resources in the Madras Presidency, Development of tho, 457
Iron Resources in the Madras Presidency, Papers on the, 503
Iron Sand, Now Zealand, 396
Iron, Sheet, Magnetic Testor for, 561
Iron Statistics, The Scotch Annual, 641
Iron and Steel, On the Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of, 559
Iron and Stoel Industries in 1894, Swedish, 496
Iron and Steel Industry in Belgium, The 255
Iron and Steel, Influence of Pickling on, 261
Iron, Steel, or other Metal from Oxidation, F. Siemens’ Method of Protecting, 217 Iron and Steel, Physical Properties of, 559
Iron and Steel, Processes for Converting Cast Iren into Malleable, 217
Iron and Steel from Rust, Gesner Method of Protecting, 35
Iron and Steel from the United States, Exports of, 160
Iron, Tests of The Physical Properties of Cast, 219
Iron Trade, The American, 286
Iron Trades Employers’ Association, The. 90
Ironbark Sleepers in New South Wales, 13
Ironclads, Ac., for Japan, 309
Ironworks of the South of Russia, by Geo. Kamersky, 241,293
Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, The Thames, 567—578
Irregularity and Delay in the Arrival of Trains
Running into London, Mr. Ritchie on the, 217
Irrigated Area of India, 234
Irrigation Works in Egypt, 275—278, 301—303, 427.432
Irrigation Works in India, Opening of, 382
Italian Fleet at Portsmouth, The, 31, 37, 40
Italian Government and Light Railways, 286
Italian Navy, Launch of the “ Vittor Pisani,”234
Italian Submarine Boat, Trial of a New, 192
Ivory, 484

JAIIN and Schdnrock's Experiments in Thermodynamics of Galvanic Polarisation, 231
“ James Forrest ” Lecture, The, 369
Jamieson, Mr. M. B., 206
Jamieson, Professor, “ A New Departure in Stoam
Engine Economy,” 15
Japan and British Railway Materia1, 163
Japan, Ironclads, Ac., for, 309
Japan, Matches Exported from, 405
Japan, Now Docks, 431
Japan, New Rille, 309
Jap id and Russia as Machinery Markets, 365
Japanese Coal Delivered in Bombay, 160
Japanese Mills, Working Hours in, 286
Japanese Port, Construction of a Dry Dock in a 613
Jacques, Captain, on War Material in the United Spates, 502
Java, Petroleum Boring in, 405
Jot Condenser, Drum Air Pump and, 189
Johnson’s Drum Air Pump and Jet Condenser, 189
Johnson, Mr. S. W., Express Passenger Locomotive, Midland Railway (Supplement, December ï&tk, 1895)
Johnson, Mr. Sara. W., Portrait, 5S1
Johnsen, Mr. W., Dry Press Brick Machine, 71, 94
Johnston, Messrs. W. and A. K-, Map of Ashanti and Gold Coast, 554
Johnston, Messrs. W. and A. K., Map of Railways and Canals of England and Wales, 234
Jones, Mr. Dan, On the Iron Industry of South Staffordshire, 174
Julian, Mr. J., On Urban Roads and Footways ; with Notes on Gas, Water, and Electric Mains, Ac., 625
July the Wettest Month since November latt, 192
Junctions, Railway, M. Zanotta on, 29
Jungfrau Railway, Preliminary Work, 309
Junior Photographer Magazine, 183
Junker’s Gas Calorimeter, 161 “Jupiter,” ll.M.S, 512

KAMENSKY, GEO., Ironworks of South Russ a 241 293
Karri Wood Paving Blocks, 541
“ Katahdin,” The Ram, 286, 595, 613
“ Katahdin ” Ram, Report dealing with the Contractor’s Trials, 286
Kclvio, Lord, His Belief in Continuous Current Systems in Power Supply Stations, 105
Kennedy, Dr. A. B. W., The “ James Forrest” Lecture, 369
Kennedy, Professor, Result of his Tests of the Alloy used by the Manganese Bronze and Brass Company, 545
Keyham Torpedo Shop, Overtime in the, 192
Kiel, International Naval Exhibition at, 143
Kilns, Improved. 35
Kimberly, The Earl of, On Technical Education, 369
King’s College, Architectural Curriculum at, 303
King’s Norton Metal Company, The, 300
King8burgh, Lord, On Electricity in the Dwelling, 623
Kirtley, Mr. W., Presentation to, 13
Kites for Meteorological Observations, Professor McAdie’8, 382
Knapp and Co.’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
Knapp, Mr. E. C., Proportioning Cylinders for Compound Engines, 315
Kneem, Mr. W., Slethod of Burning Creosote 09, 192
Knight’s Motor Cycle, 252
Knitter, Automatic S;ockiDg, 116
Kolben, Mr. E., Oq the Use of Worm Gearing in Electrical Works, 501
Kolkcr and Naphtali, MM., Paints for Coating Iron, 286, 431
Kcosen, Mr. J. A., His MotorCar Claims not to bo a Locomotive, 613
Korda’s Thermo-chemical Galvanic Cell, 286
Kotri Bridge, Indian Railways, 535
Kiiiger, I)r., On Acetylene and Carbonic Acid Gas, 457
Kruger, M. F., On the Resistance of Porous Diaphragms in Various Electrolytes, 525
Krupp Works, The Sanitor Method triod at, 13
Kiibler, Mr. J., First Prize Design for Stiffened
Suspension Bridge over the Danube at Buda Pest. 60, 67, 106, 107, 108
Kyoto Electric Railway, Opening of, 59

LAB1NAL, M., Mode of Obtaining Simpler Connection between The Clearances and the Body of Vacuum Pumps, 35
Laing, Mr. Andrew, His Resignation, 368
Laird Bros., Launch of Now Torpedo Boat, 309
Laird Bros., Messrs., s.s. “ Quoen of The North ” (Supiiltm>nt, Xorembcr ].«/, 1895), 55, 426
Laird Bros., Twin Screw Steamers for The Irish Mail Service, 160
Like Shore and Michigan Southern Riilway, A Fast Train on the, 486
Lake Superior, Fluctuation of The Water Surface o', 369
Lakiserai to Gya, Broad Gauge Railway from, 160
Lambert, Mr., On the Acceleration of Transport of Morchaudise, 29
Lamp, The Denay rouse, 474
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Company, Meeting of Proprietors, 105
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Change in the Staff, 431
Lancaster and District Tramways Company and the Progress of Electric Traction, 501
Lanchesto", Mr. F. W., On the Radial Cursor : An Addition to the Slide Rule, 431
Langley and Son’s Now Letter Card. 87
Lascellos, Mr., His Appointment, 477
Latchford Lock Gates, Collision with tho, 526, 527
Latho, History of the, 391
Launch, A Tasmanian, 267 Launches, Oil, 34
Launches by Scotch Shipbuilders, 13
launches and Trial Trips, 13, 17, 27, 43, 51, 77, 87. 97, 105, 123, 143, 149, 160, 171, 181, 1»7, 223, 234, 237, 245, 263, 266, 273, 286, 297, 309, 316, 318, 323, 346, 349, 365, 375, 421, 445. 464 , 493, 517, 541, 549, 565, 604 , 613, 631, 647
Laura, M., Secondary Battery, 217
Laval 100-Horse Power Steam Turbine Motor and Dynamo, 358, 359
Lawn Mower Roller Adjustment at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9
Ixixy-Snaefell Electric Line Opened for Traffic, 192
Ix>ad Mining Industry, The, 484
Load Poisoning from the Service Pipes of Water-wnrbe
Lead, Welding, 160, 309

LEADERS
Adam’s Bridge, 364
Adam’s Bridge Railway, The, 90
Aluminium Works at The Falls of Foyers, 212
Another Reason, 644
Armour Plate Making, 337
Atlantic Liners, American and British, 509
Bainbridge, Mr., and the Miners, 412
Board of Trade and Electric Lighting, The, 42
Board of Trade Officers, 65
Boiler Inspectors, 235
Boilers and Food Water, 338
Blast Furnaca Gas Bailors, 532
Boon tc Railway Companies, A, 16
Central London Railway, The, 42
Change io Steam Shipping, The, 436
Changes in Cost of Railway Working, 163
Cheap Oxygen, 337
Clearanco in Steam Engino Cylinders, 41
Clydo and Belfast Strikes, Tqo, 555
Coal and Coal Miners, 90
Coal Supply of Oar Warships, The, 531
Coal Trado Position, The, 557
Coal Trado, The Oatlook in the, 59S
Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air, The, 557
Concentrated Loads, 138
Conservation of Energy, The, 185
Copper and Engineering, 212
Coppering The B)ttoms of Steel Ships, 436
Curious Briler Explosion, A, 262
Day of Cheap Money, The, 312
Day of The Great Producer, The, 288
Doncaster Race Week, 263
Durston, Mr., Oa The Machinery of Ships of War, 311
Effect of Gun Fire, The, 288
Electrical Supply at 230 volts, 161
Electric Traction ou Railways, 186
Electrical Traction in the United States, 435
Engineering of English Ironworks, The, 187
Engineering and Shipbuilding, 557
Engineering and Shipbuilding in Ireland, 599
Engineers and Structural Steel, 288
Evolution of the Iron Arch, The, 597
Explosions of Gas Cylinders, 112
Fire on Board the “ Iona,” The, 312
Fore-horo Defences at Brighton, 436
Funnels of Warships, The, 435
Glasgow and Horseless Carriages, 509
Good Enough. 16
Government Railways and Locomotive Coal, 509
Great Northern Railway, The, 557
Harnessing Niagara, 236
High Railways Speeds and Permanent Way,
532
High Speeds in The United States, 484
Hours of Work on Railways, 509
Imperial Defence and War Material, 89
Imperial Institute, Tho, 619
Improving Trade, 263
Industrial Exhibition at Glasgow, 461
Influence of Pickling on Iron and Steel, The, 261
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The, 509
Internal Engine Friction, 507
Irish Railway Working, 139
Iron Trades Employers’ Association, 90 Ivory, 484
Japan and British Railway Material, 163
Jubilee of the Caledonian Railway, 89
Load Mining Industry, The, 484
Lecture Theatre, The, 42
Light Railways Conference, The, 556
Light Railways on Highways, 288
Liquid Air, Production of, 644
Lloyd’s Register Committee, 185
Locomotives and the Manchester Ship Canal, 557
London County Council Scheme of Water Supply, 111
London and North-Western Railway and Manchester Ship Canal, 461
London Street Lighting, 112
Long Railway Runs, 261
Loss of the “Seaford,” The, 211
Marine Boilers, 363
Marino Pleasure Piers, 620
Morsey Docks and Harbour Board, The, 644
Metric System, The, 643
Municipality of Singapore. Tho, 312
National Trade Mark, A, 338
New Departure in Steam Engine Economy, A, 15
New London and South Wales Railway, The, 459
New Northern Railway, The, 3f5 No Matter, 66
Niagara Power Company, Tho, 460
Northern Railway Projects, 533
Oil Fuel for Pumping Engines, 597
Okehampton Artillery Practice, 365
Passenger Traffic on South Indian Railways, 66
Perfect Knowledge, 643
Preservation of Timber, The, 138
Railway Economics, 460
Railway Race, The, 212
Railway Working, 16
Railways of New South Wales, 411
Railway Unpunctuality, 287
Reviving Trade, 364
Robert-Bessemer Process, The, 412
Rolling Stock Experiments on Northern of
France Riilway, 90
Russia and Japan as Machinery Markets, 365
Scientific Filtration. 41 Scottish Railway Working, 237
Self-propelled Road Carriages, 211
Self-propelled Traffic Association, The, 599
Sheffield Smoke, 163
Single Driving Wheels in the United States, 363
Sir Benjamin Baker’s Address, 483
Specialisation, 598
State of Trade, The, 66
Steamers Sold to Foreigners, 113
Strike on the Clyde, The, 619
Swindon Station, 213
Theory of Compensating Gradients, 508
Trade Improvement, The, 113
Trades Union CoDgress, The, 236
Transport of Petroleum, The, 137
Value of Quick-fire Ordnance, Tho, 620
Wales and the London Water Scheme, 411
Mr. Waring’s Report on Indian Railways, 556
What is Invention? 162
Working of the Railways, The, 311
Year’s Mines Drainage Work, A, 338
Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 186
oak? in Iron Pipes Stopped by Paper Pulp, 336
Leask, Capt., His AppJntment at Sunderland Harbour, 234
Leather, Manufactured, Messrs. Angus and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Leather Tires for the French Army Cycles in Place of India-rubber, 87
leber, Mr. Edler von, On the Construction and Teeing of Metallic Bridge?, 3Q
Le Chatelier, M., On a Fusion of Aluminium and Copper, 87
Lecture Theatre, The Misdirection of Energy in the, 42
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 441 Ixoods Tramways, 387
Loo-Motford Magazno Rifle Ammunition, 200, 201
“ Left handed ” Trains in Rhode Idand and Massachusetts, 554
Legal Intelligence :—
Accriogton and Church OutMl Soworage Board <•. The Ribble Committee, 107
Bower-Barff Patent, Tho, 46
North British Rubber Company e. the Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company, 537
North Metropolitan Tramways Company r. the London County Council, 625
W. II. and L. Collirgridge r. the City Press, Limited, 545
Legislation on Light Railways, The Conference to Promote, 554
Leicester Electricity Works, 56, 57, 61
Leicester Electricity Works, Corliss Eoginos, 86
Leicester Waterworks, 530, 534
Leicester Waterworks, Pump.ng Engines (Supplement, December fith, 1895), 553
Leicester Waterworks, Triple expansion Pumping Engines, Messrs. Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, 530
Lendal Bridge, York, Strengthening, 633
Lensos, Mr. H. Dennis Taylor, 405
Leslies Weekh/, Lithographs and Account of the New York Central Railway, 554
Letter Cird, Mossrs. Laogley and Sons’, 87
LETTERS to the Editor:—
Accuracy of Valve Gears, The, Digna Sequamur, 238
Adam’s Bridge Railway, India—Ceylon, F., 104
Adam’s Bridge Riilway, India—Ceylon, E. 1. Shadbolt, 104
Aluminium Tubes ? F. M., 41
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, F. R. Hutton, 239
Amphibious Boats, Commerce, 490
Automatic Carriages in France, R. F. C., 408
Amphibious Passenger Boats, Octavius D. Deacon, 434
Amphibious Boats, C. W. Dadgin and Sons, 490, 538
Amphibious Boats, HysoD, 505
Amphibious Boats, H. R. de Salis, 466, 504, 616
Available Sources of Water Supply for Londen, R. Price Williams, 386
Bicycle Problem, Enquirer, 191
Bailer Explosion, A Curious, Engineer, 333
Boiler Inspectors, Chalkline, 258
Bailer Inspectors, Ex-Superintendent, 258
Boiler I aspect ors, A Foreman Boilermaker, 359
Bailer Inspectors, W. R. Leba, 258, 333
Boiler Inspectors, Old Cbap, 291, 386
Boiler Inspectors, Chas. J. Spancer, 291
Boiler Inspectors, John Swift, 291
Book on Rock Drills and Boring Machines? A. F., 389
Brake Trials on The North-Eastern Railway, Clement E. Stratton, 334
British Small Arm Ammunition, John MaddeD, 12
Broad Gaugo r. Narrow Gauge, E S. Marryat, 617
Bullhead Rails r. Flango Rails, E. E. Russell Tratman, 640
Canal Haulage, Thos. Irwin, 191
Canals, Lionel B. Wells, 63
Candle Making Machinery ? C. C., 507
Central Factories for Sugar, T. II., 86
“Challenge ” Feed Pumps or Heaters? S. A.S., 65
Clearanco in Stoam Engines, II. Bollinckx, 109 k Clearance in Steam Cylinders, A. Inokuty, 86, 189
Clearance io Steam Cylinders, Tin Tack, 63
Coal Supply of Our Warships, The, Chief, 601
Collision with Lock Gates, Robert McGlasson, 39
Comparative Advantages of Vignoles and Bullheaded Rails, James Whitestone, 360
Compressed Hide Pinions ? G. F. G., 363
Continuous Brakes, Percy Caldecott, 504
Corliss Eogines at Loicester Electricity Works, E. J. Brown (for Hick, Hargreaves and Co.), 142
Corliss Engines at Leicester Electricity Works, James Dunlop, 86
Detachable Rudders, D. Croll, 360
Disaster on Bjard s.s. “Iona,” The United Asbestos Company, Ld., 317
Distance and Time in which a Ship may be Brought to Rest from Full Speed Ahead, Robert McGlassoD, 142, 166
Distance and Time in which a Ship may bo Brought to Rost from Full Speed Ahead, W. D. Weaver, 108
Distant Signal L:ghts, Compensator, 104, 209
Distant Signal Lights, Signal Engineer, 166, 333
Draw a Parabola, To, S. Smeaton, 538
Early Great Western Locomotives, James Watt Boulton, 259
Early Great Western Locomotives, I). II. Ciutejohn, 191
Early Great Western Locomotives, Demi John, 239
Eirly Great Western Locomotives, Exhibitor No. 88, 239
Early Great Western Locomotives, II. Greenly, 216, 239, 292, 408, 440, 476, 505 Early Great West.rn Locomotives, Thos. Hunt, 538
Eirly Great Western Locomotives. D. II l/ttle- john, 216, 239, 259, 292, 345, 360, 387, 408, 454, 476, 505
Early Great Western Locomotives, W. 0. E. Meade-King, 317
Eirly Great Western Locomotives, W. B. Paley, 142, 387, 408, 410, 451, 476
Early Great Western Locomotives, G. A. Sekon, 101, 142, 317
Early Great Western Locomotives. Sextus 441, 505, 550
Early Great Western Locomotives, R, S’ueward. ^258
Early Great Western Locomotives, Clement E. Strotten, 166, 216, 239, 259, 360, 387, 408, 440, 476, 538
Early Great Western Locomotives, W. B. Thompson, 454, 505
Early Great Western Locomotives, A. A. W., 454 3
Edge Runners and Disintegrators? O. K., 483
Electric Welding, The Electric Welding Company, Limited, 643
Electric Wood Cargo Discharging and Stacking Craco, W. 11. Lindsey, 396
Empress Theatre, Earl’s Court, J. C. Rome, 317
Engineer in Naval Warfare and in Commerce, Bulkhead, 504
Engineer Personnel of the Navy, The, C. P., 208
English and American Projectiles, R. A. llad- tiold, 317
Excavating Machinery? E. II. T., 507
Explosion of a Carbonic Acid (las Cylinder, C. E. Shepherd, 107
Fair Trade and No Trade, W. A. S. B., 63,109
Faith in Science, Aldrovandus, 216
Fans and Air Propellers, Student, 435
Farina Machinery ? Starch, 261
Ferry Steamer for The Volga, C. Moberlcy, 317
Fires at Sea, A. Stewart Harrison, 317
Flange Joints on Coppor Pipes, Professor Isaac Storey and Sons, J. Nosbury, 617
Flange Rails and Metal Sleepers, E. E. Russell Tratman, 505
Flange Rails and Metal Slecpors, James Whito- stone
Free Trade and No Trado, W. A. S. B., 63, 109
Free Trado and No Trade, G. A. Haig, 86
Free Trade and No Trade, A. Willi imson, 63, 601
Gas Producers at Dow’a:s, Wm. Porritt Ingham, 505
Gear Engines, The, Arthur Bollicckx, 12
Girder Problem, Enquirer, 290
Girder Problem, A, F. W. Jennings, 333
Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, Arthur L Gibson, 86
Great Railway Rae?, The, Clement E. Stretton, 216
Hancock’s Stoara Cca hes, W. B. Paley, 290
Hanging of Harveyed Armour Plates, A Shipwright, 529
Heating Buildings by Exhaust Steam, Asbwell J. Nesbitt, 104
Hexagonal Rods ? Hexagonal, 459
History of tbo Metropolitan Riilway, The Makers, 239
History of The Metropolitan Railway, W. B. Paley, 408
Horizontal Band Saw Machines for Logs, W. Sam Wors-am, 63
Horse-propelled Paddle Boats, R. S. Culley, 505
Hydraulic Copying Press, The, R B. P., 39 Hydraulic Propulsion, M. W. Ruthven,396 Improved Lights for the Rescue of the Drowning, J. Lawrence-Hamilton, 411
Influence of the Size of Particles on the Pressure of a Gas, Thomas Hunt, 617
Institution of E ectric Engineers, The, R. S. Erskine and A. A. C. Swinton, 550
International Fire Congress, Amsterdam, September 24th, 28tb, Edwin O. Sachs, 259
Invicta Reducing Valve? E. II., 619
Knight’s Petroleum Motor Cyclo? John Henry Knight, 287
Leeds Tramways, Mot Jr, 387
Light Railways, Arthur W. Burgess, C02
Liquid Air, W. Hampton. 617
London and Greenwich Railway, The, W. B. Paloy, 39
Lng Railway Runs, W. M. Acworth, 317
Long Railway Runs, II. R. do Salis, 292
Largest Railway Run on Record, Too, W. M. Acworth, 505
Longest Railway Run on Record, Clement E. Stretton, 538
Loss by Clearance, Wm. Donaldson, 1S9
Loss from Condensation in Long Steam Pipes, S. A. Ward, 317
Magnetisation of Watches, C. C , 39
Makers of Celluloid Articles ? E. B , 65
Mechanical Road Carriages, J. N. A., 63
Mechanical Road Carriages, C. D., 38
Mechanical Road Carriages, P. W. D., 63
Mechanical Road Carriages, Golosiphor, 38
Mechanical Road Carriages, G. A. Haig, 63
Mechanical Vehicles, Ouo who Witnessed the Trials, 216
Metal S'eepers, Ja?. Whitestone, 409
Metre io Belgian Workshops, The, L., 396
Metropolitan Railway, W. B. Paley, 191
Metropolitan Water Supply, Hassard and Tyrell, 441
Midland Railway, Too, Fred. J. Bolt, 142
Midland Railway Locomotives, Clement E. Stretton, 617
Mild Sleel Beam Sjctim Struts, Edw. J. M. Davies, 537
Mild Steel Beam Sect:on Struts, Kendrick Edwards, 550
Mild Steel Beam Section Struts? K. E., 507
Mild Steel Beam Section Struts, W. 11. T., 550
Mild Stoel Beam Section Struts, W., 537
Montgomery-Moore Collision Doors? D. E., 89
Moss Litter and Peat Fuel? P. I., 261
Motor Carriages for Royal Mails, Fred. Simms, 617
Moulded Wcol Pump Articles? E. B., 41
Moving Buildings ? C., 507
Moving Frodsham Station, Cuthbert W. H. Whalley, 537
Munificent Offer, A, Apprentice C.E., 434
Munificont Offer, Non-Identity, 466
Murdock’s Blowing Engines, L. Richard, 434
New Admiralty Buildings, Out-of-Breath, 387
“ New Centurion,” The, Jas. Eastwick, 529
“New Centurion,” The, Precursor, 529
“ Now Centurion,” The, Automatic Mounliogs for Heavy Guns, Jas. Eistwick, 616
New Zealand Iron Sand, Wm. Butlin, 396
Nile Barrage, The, F. Mougel Bay, 504
No Engineer ovor Forty need Apply, Engineer, 290
Oil Fuel for Pumping Engines, Wm. Fairley, 640
Oil Motor Carriages, J. E. Weyroan, 451
Oldest Enzino Driver in The World, The, R. Moody, 550
Ordnance Bench Marks, Dumpy, 333
Ordnance Datum, Ernest Mullin, 360
Origin of The Continuous Brake, The, Masharo,
“ Oroya,” The, Charles F. Pars:ns, 12
Paper and other Pressed Pulp Manufacturers? S. W. S., 41
Pearl’s Spindle Oil? P. B. P., 459
Peat Compressing Machinery? A. B. G., 287
Peterhead Harbours, Whatcley Eliot, 616
Petroleum Road Carriages, G. A. llaig, 12
Petroleum Road Carriages, Lister and Company, 317
Pilot Engines, S. Murray, 466
Pitching Prcpeller Blades, James B. McLareD, 490
Plant for Nail Factories? Corazon, 261
Platinum or other BlQck Coating of Metals? 65
Pneumatic Conveyors for Light Goods? Box Makers, 89
Pot Sleepers, P. W. I)., 39
Power Lost in Slide Valve Friction, It. Collier, 602
Practical Steam Engineering, William Donald son, 39
Preservation of Timber, The, Samuel Edward Haskin, 2C9
Proposed Association of Waterworks Engineers, J. W. Bradley, 529
Proposed Association of Waterworks Engineers, I). M. F. Gaskin, 504
Proposed Waterworks Engineers' Association,
Kelvin, W. li. Preeco, and I* . Cardew, G02
Pulley Problem ? A, Meteor, 161
Pumping Problem, A, Walter Crooke, 505
Pumping Problem, A, Economy, 490
Quick Acting Brake, I). H. Littlejohn, 466
Quick Acting Brake, Norman D. McDonald, 396, 409
Quick Acting Brake, The, Clement E. Stretton, 409
Race to the North, The, W. J. Barker, 166
Rice to The North, The, Big Ead, 166
Race to the North, The, R, C. Dowie, 166
Race to the North, from London to Aberdeen, Tho, Traveller, 142
Railway Economics, W. M. Acworth, 476
Railway Race, The, A. J. B., 292
Railway Race, The, Sam. A. Forbes, 239
Railway Race, Tho, A Passenger, 239
Railway Race, The, P., 292
Railway Race, The, Chas. Rous-Marfen, 239
Railway Race, The, A. Warburton, 259
Railway Signals, F., 239
Railway Speeds, A. D. P., 191
Raw Hide Pinions ? Rotifer, 619
Rodcar Boiler Explosion, The, Engineer Inspector, 216
Redcar Boiler Explosion, S. Evans, 1S9
Redcar Boiler Explosion, Toe, A Foreman
Boilermaker, 108, 166, 216
Redcar Boiler Explosion, Wm. Southorn, 189
Reversing Screw Propellers, Robt. McGlasson, 454
Rolling of Ships, C. E. Basevi, 191
Rolling of Ships, The, M. T., 63, 259
Rotherham Sewage Competition, R. II. Rhodes, 538
Russian Orders for Locomotives, Felix Freder, C.E., 292
Screw-makiog Machinery? I. G. N., 185
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Walter Arnold, 259
Self-propelled Road Carriages, R. H. B , 616
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Camus, 434
Sel'-propelled Road Carriages, D., 640
Self-propelled Road Carriages, G. A. Haig, 239. 290, 454
S.lf-propelled Road Carriages, E. II. Hodgkin- son, 409
So’f-propolled Road Carriages,' John Goo. Inshaw, 431
Self-propelled Road Carriages, John Henry Knight, 454
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Lister and Co.. 334, 454
Self-propelled Road Carriages, A. Patterson, 505
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Roots and Venables, 476
S.lf-propellod IHad Carriages, Lyons Sampson, 454
Self-propelled Road Carrirges, Fred. R. Simms, 434 v,.
Sheffield Smoke, Merrywcather aud Sons, 191
Signalling in Tunnels, I. W. Wilkins, 466
Slow Combustion and One Thousand Pound Steam, G. A. Haig, 505
Small Candle Power Limps at High Voltages. C. II. Stearn, 216
“ Solid Cast” Steel Guns, Guns. 209
Some Electric Mining Piants, D. Selby Biggo and Co., 39
Speeds for Grinding and Cutting Tools' W. H. A., 161
Starch and Chicory Plant and Machinery ? A. S. S., Ill
Steam Packed Piste ns. J. P., 640
Stephen and Carter’s Drilling Machine? G. H . 507
Swing Bridges? Engineer, 15
Tank Engines tn the Cambrian Railway. R. N. H., 191
Tank Ships, W. B. Thompson, 191
Technical Engineering and Continental Woiki Practice, N. W., 238
Telegraphing in Tunnels, R. S. CuPey, 409
Testing Machiue at Dowlais, The, Joshua Buck ton and Co., 505
Tooth Brush Making Machinery, J. M. S. and Co., 235
Traction of Boats on In’and Waterways, Geo. Cawley, 109, 166
Traction of Boats on Inland Waterways, Commerce, 142
Traction Engines and Self-propelled Roid
Carriages, I. W. B , 189 Trains and Pilot Eogines, Sydney SheddeD, 431
Trains and Time Tables, W. B. Thompson, 386
Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild Steel,
Transverse, 617 Triton Valves? T. P., 555
Two Hundred and Twenty Volt Lamps, St Pancras, 360
Value of Quick-fire Ordnance, Tho, T. A. Brassey, 602
Walker’s Tilts for Riilway Wagens? II. E. W.
Water-box Grate, A, B. G. V., 617
Water-tube Boilers, G. A. Haig, 39
Wheat Starch ? C. E. A , 507
Wolfram Ore? S., 411
Work of Steam, Th#>, W. II. Shaw, 12
Workshop Gas Furnaces, Fletcher, Russell, and Co., 39
Worm Gear Driven Machine Tools, Stephen H. Terry, 504
Lev^n Shipyard and pngine Works, 18/
Lewis’s Hot Blast Valve, 331
Lifeboats and Electric Communication, 143
Lifts, Hydraulic and Eectric, Manhattan Insurance Building, New York, 4/8, 479, 498, 499, 506
Lifeboat, Steam, 237, 313
Lifeboat, Steam, for Holland, 325
Light Electric Railway from Derby to Ashbourne, 457
Lifts, Safety Appliances for, 381
Light Railways, 602
Light Railways, Brakes for, Mr. Plocq, 29, 54
Light Railway Conference, The, 556
Light Railways on the Continent, Very, 34
Light Railways, Delegates to Consider the Promotion of Legislation on, 554
Light Railway on the Electric System from Dorby to Ashbourne, 160
Light Railway through the Gower Poninsula, Projected, 369
Light Railways on Highways, 288
Light Railways ani Imperial Subvention, 554
Light Railway for India, 234
Light Railways, The Institute of Clayworkers and, 613
Light Railways in Italy, 286
Light Railways, Relaxation of Normal Requirements for, Mr. Humphreys-Owens and Mr. P. W. Meik 55
Light Railways, Mr. G. Whiteside on, 382
Light Railways for South Wales, 501
Light Railways—tee also Railways, Light
Lights for the Rescue of the Drowning, Improved, 441
Lights for Ships, Running, Tested in Germany, 59 Lights, Signal, 104
Lighthouse in the Atlantic, New, 266
Lighthouse, The Cloch, 615
Lighthouses, Spurn Point and its, 154, 344
Lighthouse, Triangular, United States, 13
Lighting the Diamond Shoal off Cape Hatteras, 647
Lighting, London Street, 112
Lighting by Luminescence, M. A. Witz on, 192
Lightning, Furnaces Struck by, 641
Lightning Strokes, Risks of, 477
Lille Experiments on the Comparative Efficiency
of Ropes and Belts for the Transmission of Power, 580
Lille Experiments on the Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for Power Transmission, 639
Limp, Mr. H., Electric Rail Welding, 203
Links in the History of the Locojnotive, 240, 249
L’nslade Sewerage and Water Supply, Designs for the, 477
Liquid Air, 617
Liquid Air, Commercial Manufacture of, 557
Liquid Air and Oxygen, Commercial Manufacture of, 325
Liquid Fuel at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Experiments with, 501
LITERATURE
Adrossbuch der Deutscben Maschinon Industrie, Eisen, Stahl und Metallwerko, 557
Anleitung zur Ausluhrung Grapbiscber Con- struktionen von Maschinenbau, Yon D. Hedreicb, 599
Chemische Zusammensetzung und der Heizwert der in Oesterreich - Ungarn Verwendeten Kohlen, Frarz Schwackhöfcr, 90
Colonel Sir Robert Sandeman : His Life and Work on our Indian Frontier. A Memoir, with Selections from his Correspondence and Official Writings, by Thos. Henry Thornton, 288
Construction of Carriage Ways and Footways, H. Percy Boulnois, 91
Drawing and Rough Sketching for Marine Engineers, Rough Workiog Drawings, Jas. Donaldson, 187
Economic Mining, Practical Handbook, C. G. Warnford Lock, 620
Electrical Laboratory, Notes and Forms, I)r. J. A. Fleming, 43
Elements of Electricity and Magnetism, by S. P. Thomson, 461
Engineers’ Guide to The Width of Leather Belt Required to Transmit any given Horsepower, 621
Excerpts of “ Minutas of Proceedings ” of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 569
Gold Mines of the Rand, F. II. Hatch and J. A. Chalmers, 412
Handling of Dangerous Goods, II. I. Phillips, 599
llazoll's Annual for 1896, Cyclopaedic Record of Men and Topics of the Day, 621
Hydraulic Motors, Turbines, and Pressure Engines, by G. R. Bodmer, 461
Key of the Paciöc: the Nicaragua Canal, A. II. Colquhoun, 644
Kinnaber, or The Great Riilway Rico of 1895, by W. J. Scott, 557
Life and Labour of the People in London, C'has. Booth, 113
Low's Chemical Lecture Charts, 365
Management of Dynamos, The, G. W. Lummis-Patereon, 263
Manufacture of Explosives, The, Oscar Guttman, 187
Mechanical World Pocket Diary, 1896, 557
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, by Thomas Turner, 16
Movement, by E. J. Marey, 484
Nautical Series of Books for the Use of Officers of the Merchant Navy, &c. &c, Messrs. Chas. Griffin and Co., 599
New “Centurion,” Tho, 437
Origin and Rationale of Colliery Explosions, Donald M. D. Stuart, 645
Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining, by Prof. II. S. Osborn, 533
Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, Henry Angel, 67
Practical Survoyor, Tho, Thos. Holloway, 113
Practical Telephone Handbook, The, Joseph Poole, 237
Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Brick, Tiles, and Terra-cotta, by Chas. Thos. Davis, 510
Principles and Practice of Harbour Construction, Wm. Shield, 139
Problems and Solutions in Magnetism and Electricity, by W. Slingo and A. Brooker, 557
Problems in the Use and Adjustment of Engineering Instruments, Forms for Field Notes, General Instructions for Extended Students' purveys, by W. J/. Webb, 621
“Proceedings” of the South Staffordshire Institute of Iron and Steel Works Managers,
557
Proposed London and Paris Railway, London and Paris in Four and a-half Hours, by Win. Collard, 533
Railway Almanack, 1896, Tbo, 557
Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineer ing, Joseph Nasmith, 91
Refrigerating Machinery, its Principles and Management, by A. Ritchie Leask, 485
Roport of the Proceedings of the Flameless Explosives Committee of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Part I.: Air and Curnbustiblo (Jas, 163
Screw Propellers and Marine Propulsion, I., McKim Chase, 67
Steel Works Analysis, J. O. Arnold, 163
Surveying and Levelling Instruments Theoretically and Practically Described, for Construction, Qualities, &c. &c., Wm. Ford Stanley, 557
Tabellen iiber die Blechdicken und Durch- mes8er der Flammrohre von Dampfkesseln, G. Eckermann, 263
Theoretical and Practical Ammonia Refrigeration, by Iltyd J. Redwood, 461
Theory of Turbines, De Volson Wood, 67
Traité des Eaux, Droit et Administration, A. Picard, 139
“ Transactions ” of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol. xi., 213
Victoria, 1895, Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines to The Hon. II. Foster, Minister of Mines for Victoria, during the Year 1894, 339
Working Medals for Engineering Students. Series I. and II. : Engine Slide Valves. With Des riptive Letterpress, 557
“ Zustand der Antiken Atbenischen Banwerko. Prof. Dr. Joseph Durm, 113
Liverpool City Free Library—Collection of Locomotive Diagrams, 405
Liverpool Electric Supply Company’s Undertaking Acquired by the Corporation, 160
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Diagram Illustrating Section of the Old, 160
Liverpool, New Station in, 35
Liverpool : Tranmere Ferry Purchased by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 546
Liverpool-street Terminus, Signals a% 117
Liversidge, Prof. A , “ Effec‘s of Wea’her upon Sheet Aluminium Tested,” 266 L'anelly, New Dock, 441
Lloyd’s Summary of Ve3se’s, Lost, Condemned, &c , 217
Lloyd’s Register Committee, 185 !
Loads, Concentrated, 138
Load, Maximum, for North British First-class
Passenger Engines, 105
Lock Gate., Collision with, 39
Lock Gates, Collision with the Latchford, 526, 527
Lock to Connect the Bayon P.squemine with the Mississipi, 336
Loch Katrine Aqueduct, Tenders for the Construction of the Last Section of, 369
Locomotives Made in Australia, 13
Locomotive, Baldwin Compound Single Driver, U.S.A., 192
Locomotive, 19in. by 26in., Baldwin Locomotive Works, 234
Locomotive Boilers at the Works of The Paris,
Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, M. Henry, 227
i Locomotive Boilers, Riveting Machine for, 193
Locomotive Boilers at the Works of the Paris, Lyons,and Mediterranean Riilway, M. Henry, 43, 91, 179
Locomotive Broad Gauge, Metropolitan Railwav, 1863, Sir Dan. Gcoch (Supplmo nt, Auaust \Qth, 1895)
Locomotive Buffer, The Newark, 116
Locomotive Canal Excavator, Baltic and North Sea Caral, 310, 316 Locomotivo Carriages on Roads, 524 Locomotive Coal, Government Railways and, 509 Locomotives, Compound, in Germany, 382
Locomotive Diagrams, Collection of, in The Liverpool City Free Library, 405 Locomotives, Diagrams of Eirly, 234
Locomotives, Early Great Wostern, 74, 104, 142, 191, 216, 234, 239, 248, 258, 259, 285, 292, 317, 345, 355, 360, 386, 408, 435, 440, 441, 451, 454, 476, 505, 538, 550
Locomotives, Electric, Baldwin Works, 431
Locomotive, Electric, Baltimore and Ohio Riilway, 548
Locomotive, Electric, Baltimore Tunne1, 404
Locomotives, Electric, Mr. E. Worthington on, 521
Locomotive, Express, Baldwin Works, for Chicago Mail Trains, 382
Locomotives, On Express, Mr. Aspinall, 1
Locomotive, Express, North-Eastern Railway (Supplement, September 2Q(J<, 1895), 291, 292
Locomotive, Express Passenger, Midland Railway (Supplement, December \%th, 1895)
Locomotives, Fireless, in Marseilles, 293
Locomotive, Mr. W. J. Holman’s Queer New, 286
Locomotive, Links in the History of the, 240, 249
Locomotives, Maximum Loads for North British “First-class” Passenger, 105 Locomotives, Midland Railway, 617
Locomotives with Oil-burning Apparatus, Equipment of the South Pacific Company’s, 234
Locomotive Passenger, Lake Shore and Michigan S. Railway. 486
Locomotives Ordered by the Prussian State Railway, 160
Locomotives, Remarkable Performances of British, Mr. Rous-Marten on, 351
Locomotives, Russian Orders for, 292
Locomotives for Russian Riilways, The Baldwm Works, 595
Locomotives for Russian State Railways, 234, 595
Locomotive and Salcon for the Duke of Sutherland, New, 217
Locomotive Service of The Metropolis, Report on the, 266
Locomotive, Six-Coupled, Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood Railway (Supplement, October ith, 1895)
Locomotives, Some Remarkable Performances in British, 69
Locomotives, Sparks from, Canadian Pacific Railroad Company's Mode of Guarding against, 160
Locomotive, Speed of the Electric, Baltimore Belt Railway, 457
Locomotive Steam Crano, 293
Locomotives, Three Systems of Compounding, 369
Locomotive, Trials with the Heilmann, 59
Locomotives’ Water Supply Carried by Train, 431
Locomotive Works, Derby, The Midland Railway Company’s, 581—593, 594, 596
Long Railway Runs, 261, 317
Longest Railway Run on Record, 505, 538
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company, Petition against The Croydon Corporation Bill, 13
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Details of Expenditure, 105
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Financial PositioD, 87
London, Chatham, and Dover Riilway Company, Half-yearly Roport, 105
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company’s New Steamers, 595
London County Council Scheme of Water Supply, 111
London Electric Supply Corporation, Dynamo and Engines, 502, 503
London Electric Supply Corporation, The New 1000-Unit Machine at Deptford, 607
London Gas Testings, 160, 266, 286
London and Greenwich Railway, Tho, 39
London and North-Western Railway and Manchester Ship Canal, 461
London and North - Western Railway, New Portion of Main Line Completed, 35
London and North-Western Riilway Company’s
New Station in Liverpool, 35
London and North-Western Railway, New Station at Prestatyn, 266
London Railway, The Central, 42
London and South Wales, Bill for New Lino between, 457
London and South-Western Railway, The New, 459
London and South-Western Railway Company’s Projected Railwav to Bude, 431 London and South Wales Railway, The New, 500
London and South "Wales Railway Company, Bill to Incorporate a New Company to be called the, 595
London Street Lighting, 112
London Water Scheme, Wales and the, 411
London Water Supply, 143
London Water Supply, Available Sources, 386
London Water Supply, The Charges Compared with tbos9 elsewhere, 457
London Water Supply, and the Eight Water Transfer Bills, 382
London Water Supply, Professors Crookes and Dawar on, 286
London Water Supplies, Relative Proportions of the, 554
London Water Supply from the Thames Daily, 554
London Works of the Sheffield Railway, Tho, 204
Loss by Clearance, 189
Loss from Condensation in Long Steam Pipes, 317
Loss of the “Seaford,” 211
Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway, Converted to the Narrow Gauge, 309
“ Low Pressure,” Definition to bo Officially Laid Dowd to Constitute, 554
Lubrication and Wear of Bearings, E. Chabal’s Experiments on the, 160
“ Lucania’s” Rud, The, 309
Lunken Valve, The, 248
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway begun, The, 286
“ Lynx,” Defects in her Boilers, 160
McADIE, Professor, On the Risk of Lightning Stroke, 477
McCallum and Naylor, Messrs., On the Royton Sewage Works, 46
MacDowall’s Sack Holder, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 41
McElroy, Mr. J. F., Heating Street Riilway Cars by Electricity, 450
McGuire, Mr. J. C., On Aluminium, its Alloys and their Uses in Ship Construction, 579
McKendrick, Dr. John G., Enlargements of Phonographic Traces, 156
Mac Lachlan, Bow and Co., Messrs., Steering Engines in the Royal Navy, 423, 424, 433
MacLachlan Patent Detachable Rudders, The, 316
McLaren, Mr. H., Engineering, Past, Present, and Future, 451
MacLollan, Messrs. P. and W..Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society, 11 McMillan, Mr. W. G., On the Nature of Alloys, 361
Machine Mining in Illinois, 264
Machine Tools, Soho Foundry, 261, 302, 303, 305, 308, 340, 341, 425, 426
Machine Tools, Worm Gear Driven, 504
Machinery Markets, Russia and Japan as, 365
Machinery, Springs, &c., Cases of Failure of, in the United Kingdom, 431
Madras, Electric Tram Line, 336
Madras, New Terminal Station, 13
Madras Presidency, Reservoirs for Irrigation Purposes in the, 160
Maginnis, Mr. Arthur J., Presidential Address, 466
Magnetic Clutch, A, 118
Magnetic Declination, Horizontal and Vertical Force and Eirth Currents, Photographically
Registered at Greenwich, 13
Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, On the, 477
Magnetic Observations in Ontario, Result of, 405
Magnetic, Properties of Bodies at Different Temperatures, 87
Magnetic Tester for Sheet Iron, 561
Magnetisation of Watches, 39
Magnetism, Horizontal Force of The Eirth’s, 369
Magnetism, Theory of, Mr. Ilerroun, 481
Magnets, Influence of Low Temperatures on Permanent, 266
“Magnificent” to be Completed by December
12tb, The New Battleship, 336
“ Magnificent,” Coal Consumption Trials of the, 255
“ Magnificent,” Speed Trials of the New Battleship, 237
Magrell and Llunggreen, Messrs , Amphibious Passenger Boat “Svanen,” 370
Mails, Motor Carriages for Royal, 617
Maine, Birch Forests of, Supply Wood for Spools, 369
“ Majestic,” H.M.S., 87, 330, 415
“ Majestic,” Day apd Night Work on tho, 8/
“ Majestic,” Wire Gun Trials of the, 336
Malaya, Railways in, 93
Mallett, Mr. J., Haymakers at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Il
Mailing Rural District Council, Water Supply of Woultham, Burham, and Eccles, 551
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Extension, Artisans’ Dwellings in connection with, 369
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Riilway and the Eyre Estate Claim, 382
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway to London, 123
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, The Chairman’s Financial Statement, 143
Manchester Ship Canal, Too, 180
Manche iter Ship Canal, Sir L. Williams on the Construction of, 526
Manchester Ship Canal, Latchford Lock Gates, 526, 527
Manchester Ship Canal, London and North- Western Railway and, 461
Manchester Ship Canal, Sea-going Traffic of, 286
Manchester Shippers to the Levant Ports, Resolution Carried at a Meeting of, 613
Manchester Trades Council and The Metric System of Weights and Measures, 369
Mandalay-Kunlon Railway, 595
Maneuvrier, Mr. G., Oa the Ratio of The Two Specific Heats for Air, 35
Manganese Bronze Boiler Fittings, 545
Manganese Ore in Bavaria, Deposit of, Struck, 217
Manganese Ore Struck near Partenstein, 160, 234
Manganese Sulphide, On Anhydrous Crystallised, 143
Manlove, Alliott, and Co’s Tender Accepted for a Dust Destructor for Shoreditch, 59
Mann and Charlesworth’s Shaft Governor, 9
Mansergh, Mr. Jas., to Report on the Toronto Waterworks System, 336
Map of the Navigable Rivers and Canals of North Germany, 101
Map of Railways and Canals of England and Wales 231
Map of the Nile Delta, 275
Marine Bjilers, Water-tube, 527
Marine Pleasure Piers, 620
Marine Propellers, Mr. J. D. Young on, 501
Margot, Mr. C., On the Adhesion of Aluminium and other Metals to Glass, 131
Margot, M. Chas., Alloy of Tin and Zinc as Solder for Glass, 266
Marine Boilers, 363
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding on the Toames, 45
Marks, Mr. G. C., On Horseless Vehicles, 514
Marsden’s Stone Breaker and Elevator, 11, 12
Marsh, Mr., His Appointment, 641
Marsh Steam Pump, The, 193
Marshall, Mr. F. C., Mis Jubilee in the Engineering Profession, 105
Marshall’s Valve Gear—Holloway Electric Light Station, 639
Marshall, Sons, and Co., Portable and Traction Engines, Smithfield Club Show, 600
Martin Furnace, Feeding Apparatus, 554
Martin’s Induced Draught on II.M.’s Sloop Torch, Trials with, 13
Martinoau, Councillor R. F., and Mechanical Road Carriages, 650
Masham, Lord, On Continuous Railway Brakes 35, 38
Mason’s College, The Loan Collection, 202
Masonry Dams, Mr. J. D. Van Buren on High. 352 ’
“ Messéna,” Launch of the French Ironclad, 87
Match Factories, Red Phosphorus to bo Tried at the French State, 477
Matches from Japan, Export of, 405
“ Materialism Untenable,” Mr. A. E. Dolbear’s Paper, 66
Matorials of Construction, Uniform Methods of Testing, 30
Mathematics in Relation to Engineering, 269
Mather and Platt, Messrs , z\ Now High Lift Pump, 616
Mather and Platt, Messrs., Purifying Polluted Water and Softening of Hard Water, 489
Matter, No, 66
Maudslay, Sons, and Field’s Works, Galvanisin * Plant at, 343, 344
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., The Renown Sea Water Distiller, 353
Mavaut, Mr., Scheme for Turning the Course of the Scheldt, 431
Maxim, Mr. Hiram, On the Complaints of Nuiso Made by Electric Plant, 59
Maxim-Nordenfelt Gun and Ammunition Company’s Illustrated Pamphlet. 309
Maxim Solid Steel Gun, The, 156
Maximum Loads for North British “First-class” Passenger Engines, 105
Maxwell, Mr, J. R., On the (’himbote Riilway, 59
Measuring the Coatonts of Bins used in Mills Ac., Mode of, 641
Medals Awarded by the Royal Society, 525
Mechanical Carriages in Paris, 611
Mechanical Engineering, Sir D. Galton on, 254
Mechanical Riad Carriages, 35, 38, 63, 216, 466,
Mechanical Road Carriages, An Out-of-Date Law 466
Meik and Humphreys-Owen, Messrs., On the Relaxation of Normal Requirements for Light Railways, 55
Memorial to the President of the Board of Trade concerning Self-propelled R?ad Carriages, 161, 168
Mensbrugghe, M. G. Van der, On the Evaporation of Liquids and the Capillary Theories, 45/
Mercantile Navy of the World, Annual Statistics relating to the, 477
Mercurous Iodide, Action of Alcohol on. 647
Mersey, The, 441
Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee, 267
Messenger Carrier Pigeon Service of the U.S.
Naval Acadomy, Report on the, 477
Metal Glucinium, Atomic Weight of the, 266
Metal, M. Henry Moissan’s Experiments with a New, 87
Metal Sleepers, 4C9
Metal Sleepers, FlaDge Rails and, 505, 529
Metalho Bridges, Construction Tests of, Mr Ldler von Leber, 30
Metallography-, or the Microscopio Study of Iron
Metcalf, Mr. W., Influence of Vibration on Steel, 579
Meter, Now Positive Water, 339
Meteoric Stonc3, Occurrence of Diamond Carbon in, 595
Meteorites, On The Study of Some, by M. H. Moissan, 405
Meteorological Observations, Professor McAdio’s Kites for, 382
Meteorological Observatory on the Brocken, A Stato, 336
Meteorology in Relation to Engineering, 269
Metro in Belgian Workshops, The, 396
Metro, Length of tho, Compared with that of tho
Standard Wave of Red Light, 309
Metric Congress, International, Question under Consideration, 309
Metric System, The, 500
Metric System of Weights and Measures Obligatory in tbo United States of Mexico, 369
Metric System of Weights and Measures, Mr. G. H. Baines on, 501
Metropolitan Railway, 191
Metro Dolitan Railway Broad Gauge Locomotive, 1863 (SuppU nit'iif .1 16M, 1895)
Metropolitan District Railway Company, Bill Deposited by. for next Session, 641
Metropolitan Locomotive Service, Report on the, 266
Metropolitan Railway, History of tbo, 53, 151, 239, 289, 326, 327, 377, 545, 641
Metropolitan Water Area, The Government to be asked to Constituto by Act of Parliament, A Public Authority for the Whole of tho, 621
Metropolitan Water Supply, 4 41
Mexico, Mining in, 4
Mexico, Railway Mileage in, 286
Meyer, Professor Victor, New Explosive, 286
Microbes in Butter and Margarine, 35
Microphonic Transmission of Dean Farrar’s Farewell Address, 87
Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, Quarterly Returns of, and Conclusions there from, 382
Middlesbrough, Electric L:ghting of, 234
Middlesbrough Gasholder. 547
Midland Railway, The, 142
Midland Railway, Contractor for the North Curve at Wincobank, 431
Midland Railway Company, Report of the, 143
Midland Railway Company’s Locomotive Works at Derby, 581, 593, 594, 596
Midland Railway Locomotives, 617
Midland Railway, The New Line, 336
Mild Steel Beam Section Struts, 507, 537, 550
Milford Haven Scheme, The Great Western Riilway, 477
Military Wheelmen, A New York Paper on, 487
Milk or Lymph, M. Winter’s Test for the Purity of. 525
Mill Buildings and Shaftings in Mills, Floors in, 595
Mill Engines, 3000-H.P., Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Co., 140, 164, 194
Miller, Mr. E. F., Table of Wind Velocities, 234 Millet’s Bicycle, 36
Milton, Mr. F. T., On Water-tube Boilers, 2 Mineral called Apyrite, 143
Mineral Resources of the South Staffordshire Coalfields, 174
Miners, Mr. Bainbridge and tho, 412 Minors, Coal and Coal, 90
Miners Provident Fund, Report for 1894 of The German, 613
Miners, Triennial Meeting of German, 313
“Minerva,” H.M S., 316 Miaes, Dr. Haldane on Black Damp in, 286
Mines and Miners, Changes and Improvements in their Condition, 286
Mines, Steel Girders for, 286
Mining in Asia Minor, Chromo Iron Ore, 4
Mining Engineers, Assembly of Gorman, 143
Miniog in Illinois, Machine, 264
Mining and Metallurgy, Institution for, 4
Mining in Mexico, Mr. E. Halse on, 4
Mining Plants, Some Electric. 2, 6, 39
Minneapolis, Proposal for Filtering the whole Water Supply of, 405
Miscellanea, 13. 35, 59. 87, 105. 143, 160, 192, 217, 234, 266, 286, 309, 336, 369, 382, 405, 431, 457, 477, 501, 525,554, 595, 641
Miscellaneous Implements at tbo Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9, 44
Mitchell, Dr. Charlo?, 213
Mitra, Mr. N. N.. Tablo for Facilitating Calculation of Discharge, Velocity, and Diameter of Pipes, by D’Arcy’s Formula, 118
Model, Sectional Ship, 381
Modern Steel Works Machinery, Mr. Jas. Riley, 100, 126
Moissan, M. Iloari, Experiments with a New Metal, 87
Moissan, M. Henri, Study of Meteorites, 405
Moissan, M., On some Varieties of Graphite, 457
Moissan and Charpy, MM., On Boron Steel, 143
Molesey. Drainage of Eist, 511
Money, The Day of Cheap, 312
Monitor Vessels, Ventilation for, 579
Monraouthshiro Coalfield and Cardiff, Projected Railway Communication botwoen, 431
Montgomery-Moore Collision Doors? 89
Mont Parnasse Station, Paris, Accident at, 405
Montreal, International Exhibition at, 382
Moore, Mr. E. C., Moving Two 36in. Water
Mains without Shutting off the Water, 357
Moral, M. Felix, Concessions Granted to, for Construction of Carriago Road, Electric Tramway, &c., at Teheran and Bagdad, 501
Mordey Alternator, Electricity Works of The Great Northern Riilway, 384
Mordey-Victoria Alternator, Leicester Electricity Works, 56
Morecimbe, Extension of Docks at Heysham Lake, 547
Morocambo Pier, The Board of Trade’s Roport on the, 316
Morris County, N J., Road Improvements in, 143
Mo‘8 Litter and Peat Fuel? 261
Mctivo Powtr, C.al Gas as a, 237
Motive Car not a Locomotive, Mr. J. A. Kooson’s, 613
Motor Carriages, 545—see also Self-Propelled Carriages, Oil Motor Carriage?, and Petroleum
M otor Carriago Competitions, 164. 168, 185
Motor Carriages fur Royal Mails, 617
Motor Cyclo, Knight’s, 252
Motor, Electric—«* .- Electric Motor
Moulded Wood Pulp Articles ? 41
Mourlot, M. A , On Anhydrous Crystallised
Manganese Sulphide, 143
Moving Buildings ? 507, 537
Moving 36in. Water Mains without Shutting off the Water, Mr. E. C. Moore,357
Moving Water Mains without Shutting off the Water, 634
Mowat, Mr., “Thomas Telford and his Work,” 553
Mower, Messrs. E. II. Bentall and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Mower Gear, Bamford’s, 10
Muoller Motor Carriago, The, 495
Multiple Drilling Machine, 527
Municipality of Singapore, Tho, 312
Municipal Telephony. Mr. A. R. Bennett on, 477
Munificent Offer, A, 434, 466 Murdock’s Blowing Engines, 431
Murgue, M. D., Less of Head in Air Currents Traversing Underground Workings, 218
Mushkaf-Bolan Railway, Section of, to bo Doubled, 13
NAIL Factory Piant? 261
Naphtha Spring at Grozny, Fresh, 292
Napier, Mr. J., Hermite Process of Doodorising
Sow’age at Ipswich, 345
Narrow Gauge Railway, Crimea, 217
Natal-Johannesburg Railway, Opening of the, 457
Natal-Transvaal Riilway, Progress of, 501
Nathan Co., Temporatures of Wator Delivered ioto Boilers under Varying Steam Pressures, 336
National Trado Mark, A, 338
Naval Absurdity, A, 59
Naval Armaments and Shipbuilding Company,
Blecbynden Express Boilers, 406
Naval Engineering Personnel, Numbers of the, 192
Naval Engineer Appointment?, 118,148, 156, 231, 263, 333,409, 496, 528, 599, 625, 647
Naval Power, Influence of Quick-fire Guns on, 519
Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, The United States, 225, 232, 233
Naval Warfare, Dangers in, Resulting from Quick-fire Guns, 525
Navigation, North Germany, Inland, 101
Navigation of the Thames, 553
Navy Department, Bids for Rapid-fire Gun Forgings Opened at, 405
Navy, Engineer Personnel of the, 208
Naylor and McCallum, Messrs., On the Rjyton Sewage Works, 46
Neele, Mr. G. P., His Successor Appointed, 105
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Fourteen Locomotives for Scotland, 217
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Goods Engines and
Tenders for the Cape Government Railways (Supplement, November 22ud, 1895), 497. 510
Neuhau8en Aluminium Company, On the Use of Carbide of Calcium for Carbnretting, 405
New “ Centurion,” The, 437, 529 Newark Buffer, Tho, 116
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade
Report, 26, 50, 74, 96, 123. 149, 171, 197, 244, 272, 296, 320, 349, 375, 398, 420, 142, 468, 490, 514, 511, 562, 602, 630
New South Wales Government Railways and
Tramways, 462, 463, 475
Now South Wales, Permanent Way in, 13
New’ South Wales, Railways of, 411
New South Wales, Water Supply and Consumption, 286
New York Central Railway Company, Average Speed Maintained, 263
Now York Central Railway, Fast Runs on tho, 328, 369
New York Central Railway, in Leslie's Hcebli/, 554
New York Central Railroad, Fast Train on the, 328
Now York, Disposition of tbo Garbage, Ashes, Street Sweepings, &c., of, 217
New York, Mi'eage of Paved Streets in, 13
New’ York State, Iron Oro in the, 13
Now Zealand Iron Sand, 396
Nowall-Cunuiugbam Sheep Shearing Machine, Riyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Newfoundland, Captain Cook on The Industrial Resources of, 595
Newfoundland, Coal in, 156
Niagara Gorge Now Suspension Bridge Projected over the, 87
Niagara, Harnessing, 236
Niagara Power Company, The, 460
Niagara Power Company, First Electric Power Transmitted to a Manufactory, 13
Niagara Power Works, 170
Niagara Pulveriser, The, 358
Niagara River, Discharge of, Ascertained by Surface Floats, 382
Nicaragua Canal, 263, 580
Nickel Steel, The Troublo with, 595
Nickel Steel, Mr. Wiggin on, 199, 219
Nicsko, Mr. Alwin, Method of Preventing Scale in Boilers, 336
Nile Barrago, The, 427, 432, 504
Nuttalfs Churn, 11
No Engineer over Forty need Apply, 290 No Matter, 66
Normand Torpedo Boat “ Forban,’’ High Speed Trial of the, 554
Normal Hexace, Messrs. Thomas and Young cn, 595
“ Normal ” Powder, 62
Normandy’s Improved Patent Distilling Apparatus at Aden, 25
North Bitchburn Coal Company’s Exhibition of Fire clay Goods, &c.f at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9
North British Railway Companj’s Report, 336
North British Railway Line, Doubling of Section of, 192
North British Rubber Company v. The Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company, 537
North-Eastern Railway, Brake Trials on tho, 304 334
North-Ei8tcrn Railway, Diagram Showing Relations of Road to Blast Pipe Action, 291
North-Eastern Railway, Express Locomotive (Supnh-meiif, S>/itiniliir 20///, 1895), 291
North-Eastern Railway, Smith’s Combined Piston and Relief Valves, 173
North-Eastern Railway Company, Half-yearly Report of, 113
North-Eastern Railway Company, Short Supply of Wagons Furnished by, 501
North of England, 25, 49, 76, 95, 121, 147, 169, 195, 221, 243, 271, 295, 321, 347, 373, 397, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 603, 629, 649
North German Lloyd Steamer, Lengthening of the, 143
North London Railway Company, Half-yearly Report of the, 143
North London Railway Company, New Chairman, 613
North Malabar, Railway Extension in, 35
North Metropolitan Tramways Company v. tbo London County Council, 625
North River Bridge Company, Anchorage Foundations in Proce«s of Excavation, 87
North Soa and Baltic Canal, Dredgers and Excavators on the, 110, 116, 136
North Sea and Billie Canal, Electric Lighting of, 192
North Soa and Bi’tic Canal, Limit of Draught of Vessels Permit'ed to Uso tho, 13
North Sea and Baltic Canal, Steam Hopper Birgos, 415
North Sea and Baltic Canal, Time of Passage and Traffic through, 13, 35
North Soa and Baltic Canal Railway Swing Bridge, Rendsburg, 127, 142
“ North-West,” Belleville Boilers of The Like Steamer, Condemned, 382
Northern of France Riilway, Rolling Stock Experiments on, 90
Northern Railway, The New’, 365
Northern Railway Projects, 533
Norwegian Government, Tenders of Steel Riils and Fish Plates Called for by the, 611
Norwegian State Railways, Copies of Drawings and Conditions of Tender for the Rolling Stock Required by, on View, 369
Notes from Germany, 26, 50, 76, 96, 122, 148, 170, 196, 222, 244, 272, 296, 322, 318, 374, 398, 420, 411, 468, 492, 516, 510, 564, 604, 630, 650
Notes from Lancashire, 25, 48, 75. 95,120, 146, 195, 220, 242, 271, 295, 321, 346, 372, 396, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 539, 563, 602, 628, 648
Notice to Correspondents, 15, 41, 65, 89, 111, 137, 161. 185, 211, 234, 261, 287, 311, 337, 363, 389, 411, 435, 459, 483, 507, 531, 555, 597, 618, 643
Notes from Scotland, 26, 50, 76, 96, 122, 148, 222, 244, 272, 296, 322, 348, 374, 398, 444, 468, 492, 516, 540, 564, 603, 629, 650
Notes and Memoranda, 13, 35,59, 87, 105, 143, 160, 192, 217, 234, 266, 286, 309, 336, 369, 382, 405, 431, 457, 477, 501, 525, 554, 595, 641
Nottinghamshire Coalfields, New Line Projected from Scarborough, 309

OBSERVATORY on the Brocken, Prof. Assmann, 336
Obituary : —
Craggs, Mr. Wm., 525
Denny, Dr. Peter, 187, 192
Fraser, Mr. Alexander, 414
Haggio, Mr. David, 457
Harland, Sir Eiw’ard James, 645
Howard, Mr. Charles, 382
Mitchell, Dr. Chas., 213
Smith, Mr. Thos. West, 369
Stirling, Mr. Patrick, 485
Tweddoll, Mr. Ralph Hart, 237
Yost, Mr. G. W. N., 431
“ Ocean Greyhounds,” The French Admiralty and, 87
Ocean Liners, Regular Speed of, 17
Ochre in Wales, Discovery of a Stratum of, 13
Oil-burning Apparatus, Equipment of South
Pacific Company’s Engines with, 234
Oil Blast Lamp, An Improved, Mr. Jas. McDonald, 534
Oil Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show’, 7, 61
Oil Fuel for Pumping Engines, 597
Oil Launches, Rhapsody on, 34
Oil Motor Carriages—see Motor Carriages Oil Tanks for India Eist Coast Railway, 489 Oil, Rise in Price of Burning, 105
Oil Tank, Safety, 641
Okehampton Artillery Practice, 365
Old Ago Pensions, Welsh Coalowners and the, 194
Oldest Engino Driver in the World, The, 525, 550
Ollefen, Mr. Van, Bulkhead Door aud Gear, 5
Olszswtki, Professor, his Statements as to Boiling Point and Critical Temperature of Hydrogen, 382
Onnes, Professor, Oa the Propagation of Electrical Waves in Water, 525
Onnes, Professor, On the Variation with Temperature of the Hall Effect in Bismuth, 525
Ootacamuud, Filling of Lake at, 192
Opalite, The National Opalite Glazed Buck and Tile Syndicate, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Opera Glass, The Card Case, 511
Ordnance Bench Mark, 333
Ordnance Datum, 360
Ordnance, The Burke Electric System for Operating, 266
Ordnance, Conversion of Naval, 160
Ordnance, E evating and Depressing Gear for Heavy, 143
Ordnance, New Quick-firing, tried in Franco, 309
Ordnance, Value of Quick-fire, 620
Ordnance and Warships, New Designs in, 471
Organ Blowing, An Experiment in, 284
Organ, The Hope-Jones Electric, 5C2
Oriental Flour Trade, Possibilities of an, 405
“Oroya,” The, 12
Orwell Works, Tho, 254
Osmotic Phenomena, M. F. M. Raoult on, 160
Ossett Sewage Extension Works, 87
Otay Darn, San Diego, California, Dimensions of the, 501
Olis Elovating Railway, Tho, 472
Otis Elevator in the Manhattan Insurance Building, New York. 478, 479, 498, 499, 506
Ouse Navigation, The, 371
Overhead Electric System of Tramway Traction to bo triod in Birmingham, 613
Overhead Electric Tramway System in The Midlands, 405
Overhead Railway from Waterloo Station, Projected, 266
Overhead System, The, 647
Overhead Trolley Line in Washington, Changes on the, 525
Overtime, Engineers’ Dispute at Stockton and Mildksbrough C nicer n'og, 286
Overtime in The Keyham Torpedo Shop, 192
Oxidation, Protecting Metal from, 217
Oxygen, Cheap, 337
Oxygen, Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air and, 325
Oxygon System of Dealing with Sewage, 374

PADDLE Boats, Horse-propelled, 505
Paddle Engines, Compound, and Ship Steering Gear, Messrs. Bow, McLaeh^an, and Co., 482, 489
Paint for Iron, A, 286
Paints for Coating Iron made from Tar, 431
“Palawan,” The New Peninsular and Oriental s.s., 234
Palaz, M., Advantages of Electric Light from the Standpoint of Coolness, 160
Pallion-yard, Bell and Rocliffo’s Plato Joggling Machine, 19
Palmer, Messrs., Accident in their Shipyard, 160
Palmer, Mr., His Appointment, 477 Panama Canal, The, 647
Panama Canal, The Star and J braid on the, 431
Paper and other Pressed Pulp Manufacturers? 41
Paper Pulp to stop Leaks in Iron Pipes, Use of, 336
Paper Pulp Trade, Particulars Relative to tho, 501
Parabola, To Draw a, 538
Paris, Electric Main», 197
Paris, Increaso in Numhor of Passengers Arriving at and Leaving The St. Lazare Terminus, 309
Paris Railway Collision, St. Lazare Station, 266, 429
Paris, Remarkable Accident at Mont Parnasso Station, 405
Paris, Sanitary Exhibition in, 71
Paris, Sewerage Works in, 142
Pari? Soc'été d’Encouragomont, Prizes and Medals Awarded by, 105
Park, Mr., on Rolling Stock for Express Trains, 2
Parker and Co.’s Electric Light Works, Wolverhampton, Visited, 178
Parmiter and Co., Messrs. P. J., Harvesting Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Parrot, Navigation of the River, 438
Parret, Steps towards the Improvement of tho, 405
Parry and Adoney, Messrs., Oxygen System of Dealing with Sewage, 374
Passenger Traffic on South Indian Railways, 66
Patents Applied lor in the United States, 336
Petroleum Road Carriages, 12
Petroleum, Roumanian, 197
Petroleum, Transport of, 137
Peugeot Freres Road Carriage, 36
Philadelphia Engineers' Club Turbines, M. Geyelin, 12
Philadelphia Terminal Station, Cost of, 613
Phonograph, A Portable, 613
Phonograph, Ueo of the, for Detecting the Defective Condition of a Waterworks Pump, 336
Phonographic Traces, Enlargements of, 156
Phosphorescence, How it is Affected by Cold and Heat, 336
Phosphorus, Red instead of White, to be Tried at the French State Match Factories, 477
Photo Chronograph, Polarising, United States Experiments with, 240
Photography in Natural Colours, Cros and Ducos, du Hauron’s Method, 641
Photography, Recoil of Guns Recorded by, 612
Physical Instruments, Suspensions for, 431
Physical Properties of Cast Iron, Tests of the, 219
Physical Properties of Iron and Steel, 559
Picklo3 and Sons, Messrs., Telegraph Post Shaping, 441
Pickling on Iron and Steel, Iotlucnce of, 261
Pictet, Mr. Raoul, How Temperature Affects Phosphorescence, 336
Pictet, M., On the Influence of Low Temperatures on Permanent Magnets, 266
Piers, Marine Pleasure, 620
Pig Iron Production, United States, 405
Pig Iron Production in Upper Silesia, 105
Pig lion Production, Weekly Total, 554
Pig Iron turned out by German Blast Furnaces, 309
Pig Iron, Weekly Capacity of all the Furnaces Making. 382
Pig Iron Works in and outsido Middlesbrough, 382
Pig Iron, World’s Production of, 160
Pillar Water Crane, 401
Pilot Eng'nes, 434, 466
Pipes from Electrolytic Corrosion, Protectiog, 143
Pipes, Flange Joints on Copper, 617
Pipes, Mr. N. N. Mitra’s Table far Facilitating Calculation of Discharge Velocity and Diameter of, by D’Arcy’s Formula, 118
Pitching Propeller Blades, 490
Plansifter, Mr. Carl Haggentnacher, R.A.S., 44
Plate Joggling Machine, Messrs. Bell and Rock liffe’s, 19
Plate Trimming Machine, Firo-box, 214
Plating Ships, Bell and Rockliffe’s System of, 19
Platinum or other Back Coating of Metals ? 65
Platinum Thermometer, On a Direct Reading, 525
Plenty and Sons, Messrs., Compound Engines, London Electric Supply Company, 618
Plocq, M., Brakes for Light Railways, 29, 54
Plough, Messrs. Ransomos, Sims, and Jefferies, 11, 12
Plough, Three-Furrow, Mr. J. Shore’s, 10
Pneumatic Conveyors for Light Goods ? 89 Polarisation, Galvanic. 234
IMuisation of the Light emitted by Incandescent Bodies, The, 457
Polarising Photo-Chronograph, United States Experiments with s, 240
Patents, Object for which The Patont Office Exists, 554
Paterson, Mr. Malcolm, The Eiland Sewage and Outfall Works. 431
Paved Streets in Now York, Mdeago of, 13 Paving Blocks, Improved Asphalt, 59 Paving, New’ Form of Asphalt, 266
Peacho’s High Speed Engine, 550
Pearl’s Spindle Oil { 459
Pear«on, Mr. F. H., On Inquiries,Tenders, Specifications, and Contracts for Steamships and thoir Machinery, 430
Pearson, Mr. H. W., On the Creation and Development of the Steam Engine, 468
P.el, Yiscjunt, On Tec’, uical EJucatj n, 613
Peipers, M., Method of Ascertaining Percentage of Carbon in Steel, 87
Pekin to South China, Railway from, under Consideration, 192
Pekin to Tientsin, New Double Line from, 613
Peking and Tientsin Railway from, 595
Pendulum-Chronoscope, or Timing Instrument, 105
“Pendulum Plansifter,” Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
“ Penguin,” I)3ep Sounding obtained by II. M.S., 382
Ponhard and Lovassor’s Petroleum Carriage, 32,36
P. and 0. s.s. “Sundra”and “ Sumatra,” Launch of the New, 13
Penney and Co.’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society* 8 Show, 11
Pennsylvania Heat, Light, aud Power Company obtains a Franchise, 554
Pennsylvania, New L;ne in, 286
Pennsylvania Riilway, Comparative Efficiency and Economy of Steam and Electricity, 59
Periyar Irrigation Works, Opening of, 382
Permanent Way Containing Large Percentage of Carbon, 59
Permanent Way, Flange Riils and Metal Sleepers, 505, 529
Permanent Way, High Railway Speeds and, 532
Permanent Way in India, Length of Timber Sleepers Reduced, 231
Permanent Way, Metal Sleepers, 409
Permanent Way in New South Wales, 13
Permanent Way, Places in, Requiring Special Attention, M. Sabouret on, 2
Permanent Way Pot Sleepers, 39
Permanent Way, Steel, 478
Permanent Way, Steel, for The Norwegian Government, 641
Permanent Way, Vignoles and Bullheaded, 360
Permanent Way, Wear of a 53 lb. Steel Rail, 613
Perry, Professor John, Principles of Thermodynamics, 387
Persian Government Riilway to Connect Teheran, &c., with the Trans-Caucasian Railway, 217
Peruvian Railways, Most Celebrated of the, 59
Peterhead Harbours, 546, 616
Peterhead, Improvement of the Harbour, 546,616
Petersen and McDonald’s Water-tube Boiler, 366
Petroleum in Algiers, 517
Petroleum, The Austrian Minister of Finance’s Report on, 192
Petroleum Boring in Java, 405
Petroleum in CoDgo, 595
Petroleum Export from Russia, 431
Petroleum Road Carriages, 32, 36, 252, 317—see Motors
Petroleum inGalicia and R ussia, Production of, 192
Petroleum Oils, R9-appointmont of the Committee on the Question of, 13
Port between Brussels and Laeken, New, 554
Port Talbot Railway, Extension of the, 457
Ports, French Channel, to bo Improved, 613
Ports of Ipswich and Harwich, Improvements in, 401
Portable Oil Engines— see Engines, Portable Oil
Portable Railway, Exporimont with Single Line, 13
Portishead Sewerage, 86
Portsmouth, Electric Tramway into, 234
Positive Water Meter Now, 339
Postage Stamp Allixer, A, 368
Postal Cars, New York, Too New, 595
Post-oflice Telephone VVires Opened for Use, 76
Pot Sleepers, 39
Potato Digger, Haslam and Maudsley’s, 10
“ Potosi,” the Largest Sailing Vessel in the World, The, 266, 369
“ Pothuan,” The French Armoured Cruiser, 222
Powder, “ Normal,” 62
Power Gas Plant, Mr. B. II. Th waits, 3
Powor Lost in Slide Valve Friction, 602
“Powerful,” Launch of II.M.S., 87
Practical Steam Engineering, 39
Preservation of Timber, 138, 209
Press, Hydraulic, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley, 44
Press, Hay and Straw, Barford and Perkins’, 9
Press, Hay and Straw, Edwards’, 10
Press, the Hydraulic Copying, 39
Pressure, Average, under which Man can Work, 13
Pressure of a Gas, Influence of The Size of Particles on the, 617
Prestatyn, New Station at, 263
Preston and the Ribble, 403
Preston Station, Board of Trade Report on The Accident at, 87
Pretoria Railway Extension to Pietersburg, 309
Prevention of Scale in Boilers, 336
Price, Limited, Messrs. George, Banker’s Strong Room, 336
Private Bills in Parliament, Forthcoming, 595
Private Bills in Scotland, Session 1896, 610
Prizjs for Motor Carriage Competitions, New, 164, 168, 185
Producer, The Day of the Groat, 288
Projectiles, Electric Method of Determining Velocity of, 266
Projectiles, English and American, 317
Projectiles, Experiments with Driggs-Schroeder 6 lb. Shells, 35
Projectiles and 75-Centim3tre Gun, New French, 105
Propellers, Fans and Air, 435
Propellers, Reversible, and the Accident on Board the “ Aquila,” 87
Propellers Reversing Screw, 454
Propeller Shafts of Large Steamships, Great Strains on, 309
Propelling Machinery of the “Andromeda,” 468
Propelling Machinery of the “ Samoyed,” 361, 362
Propulsion, Hydraulic, 396
Proportioning Cylinders for Compound Engines, 345
Provis, Mr. J., On the Uso of Seaweed in The Extraction of Gold, 595
Prussian Ship Canal, Cost of the Projected, 266
Prussian State Railway, Locomotives Ordered by, 160
Puddling of IroD, On the Direct, Mr. E. Bonehil], 176
“ Paflwg Billy,” The Old Locomotive, 525
Pulley Problem ? A, 161
Pullman Cars on The Brighton Railway, New Train of, 501
Pullman, Mr., Works near Shanghai, 501
Pulveriser, The Niagara, 358
Pamps, Air and Circulating, for 3000 IIor.-.e
Power Mill Engines, 140, 164
Pumps, Centrifugal, Driven by Gas Engines, 405
Pump with Constant Discharge, 245
Pump, Drum Air, with Jet Condenser, 189
Pump, The Marsh Steam, 193
Pump, A New High-lift, 646
Pumping Engines, Oil Fuel for, 597
Pumping Engines, Leicester Waterworks (Supplement, December 6M, 1895), 530, 553
Pumping Machinery, Gas Engine, 264
Pumping Machinery, Horse Power, 250
Pumping Problem, A, 490, 505
Punching and Shearing Machinery, Mr. John Cameron, 614
Punjab, Railways in the, 59
Purification of Polluted and Softening of Hard Water, 489
Purifying Water, 580
Puteaux, Leather Tires iastead of India Rubber for Army Cycles, 87
Pyro-Bronz), Strength of, 515

‘ QUAIL,” Liunch of the, A New Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 309
Quick-acting Brake, 396, 409, 466
“Queen of the North,” s.s. (Supplement, November 1st, 1895), 55, 426
Quetta, Coal Mines in, 234
Q ïetta, New Railway to, 336 Quick-fire Guns, 471
Quick-fire Guns, Danger to High Men-of-War’s Chimneys, 525
Quick-firing Gun, French Naval Authorises’ Experiments with New, 309
Quick-fire Guns on Naval Power, Influence of, 519
Quick-firing Guns. Tests of Small, 623
Quick-fire Guns, Value of, 602, 620

RACE to the North, Tho, 142, 166, 21
Racing at Sea, The French Admiralty’s Bill to put an End to, 87
Radial Cursor, Mr. F. W. Lanchester on the, 431
Radial Drill, Soho Foundry, 426
Rail Elevation in the United States, 641
Rail Guards, 634
Rails of Largo Sections, How to Secure Durable, 478
Rail Molted by Electric Current, 286
Railway Accidents, Octignies in Belgium, and
Herne Bay Station, 369
Railway Accidents in India, 87
Railway Accident in Paris, Singular, 405, 429
Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, Parliamentary Return of, 405
Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom iu 1895, 540
Railway Activity in Russia, 390
Railway, The Adam’s Bridge, 90, 104
Railway Administration in Victoria, from the General Public Service, Proposed Separation of the, 309
Railway Axles, Mr. Toomas Andrews on, 456
Railway Block, Tno “Sure-Grip,” 11
Railway Brakes, Light, M. Plocq, 29, 51
Railway Brakes—see Brakes
Railway Bridges which ought to be Examined, 595
Railway Bridges, Superstructure of, 391, 395, 416-418
Railway Bridge ovor the Weichscl at Dirschau, 548, 551, 552
Railway Bridges—also Bridges, Railway Railway Cable, Inc ined, P.ospect Mountain, ^1. x* ., 8/
Railway, The Central London, 22, 42 Railway, Cliy Cross, 430
Railway Companies, The New Coal Contract
Rites, A Boon to, 16 Railway Congress, The:—
Acceleration of Transport of Merchandise, Mr. Lambert, 29
Boilers, Fire Boxes and Tubes, Mr. Edward Sauvago, 1
Brakes for Light Railways, M. Plocq, 29, 51
Cartage and Delivery, Mr. Twelvetrees, 55
Contributivo Traffic, Mr. de Backer, 55
Electric Traction, M. René Auvert. 19, 29, 47
Express Locomotives, Discussion of Mr. Aspinall’s Paper on, 1
General zVdoption of the Decimal System in Calculations Relating to The Construction and Working of Railways, Mr. T. L. Wilkinson, 29
Junctions, M. Zanotta, 29
Metallic Bridges, Construction and Tests of,
Mr. Edler von Leber, 30 Places in Permanent Way Requiring Special
Attention, M. Sibouret, p. 5z4, Juno, 1895, and p. 2, July 5tb, 1895
Relaxation of Normal Requirements for Light
Railways, Mr. Ilumphreys-Owen and Mr. P. W. Meik, 55
Rolling Stock for Express Train* », Mr. Park, 2 Signals—Supplementary Communication, 31 Station Working, Mr. Richter and Mr. Turner,
55
Riilway Companies in the U.S.A , Dispute between, 59
Railway, The Defects of American, 319
Railway Economics, Mr. Acworth on, 405
Railway Economics, 460, 476
Railway Enterprise in India, 595
Railway Enterprise in the North and Midlands, Progress of, 266
Royal Engineer’s Incompetency, Latest Instance of, 217
Railways, Electric, Traction on, 186
Railway Extension, Cape Colony, 382
Railway Ferry Steamer for the Volga, 284
Railway Freighters’ Complaints. The Walsall Chamber of Commerce and, 431
Railway, Glasgow Central, 403
Railways, Government, and Locomotive Coal, 509
Railway, History of The Metropolitan, 289, 326 327, 545
Railways, Hours of Work on, 509
Railways, Indian, Passenger Traffic on, 66
Railway Jubilee, The Caledonian, 89
Railways, Light, Mr. G. Whiteside on, 382
Railways, Light, on Highways, 288
Railway, The London and Greenwich, 39
Railway, London and North-Western, 461
Railways in Malaya, 93
Railway Material for The Brazilian Government Ordered in England, 192
Railway Material, Japan and British, 163
Railway Matters, 13, 35, 59, 87,105, 143, 160,192» 217, 234, 266, 286, 309, 336, 369, 382, 405, 431, 457, 477, 501, 525, 554, 595, 641
Railway, The Midland, 142
Railway Mileage in Western Australia, 13
Railway, New London and South Wales, 459, 500
Railway, The New Northern, 365
Railways of New South Wales, 411
Railway Projects, Northern, 533
Railway Pace, The, 1 12, 166,203,211,216,239, 259, 292
Railway Race to Aberdeen, Mr. C. Rous-Marton, 125 173
Railway Race, The End of the, Mr. C. Rjus- Marten, 203, 239
Railway Rate Conference to be held at Chester, 645
Railway Rates in Britain and America, Mr. A. Carnegie on the Difference in, 309
Railway Runs, L'mg, 261, 292, 317, 505, 538
Railway Run, The Longest ou Racord, 505, 538
Railway Signals, 31, 239
Railway, The Simplon, 639
Railway, Single Lino Portable, Experiment with, in France, 13
Railways in South Wales, New, 528
Railway Speeds, 191
Railway Swing Bridge at Rendsburg, 127, 142
Railways and Tracks, American, 391
Railways and Tramways, New South Wales Government, 462, 463, 475
Railway Travellers in United States, England, and France, Proportion of Killed to the Number of, 87
Railways in tbo United States, 1894, Statistics of the, 577
Railways in the United States, a Fiscal Year’s Income and Expenditure of, 613
Railway Unpunctuality, 287
Railway Viaduct, Pennsylvania, 641
Railways in Victoria, Projected Reforms, 160
Railways, Working of the, 16, 311
Railway Working, Changes in Cost of, 163
Railway Working, Irish, 139
Railway Working, Scottish, 237
Rainfall at Athens, M. D. Eginitis on the, 613
Rainfall for the First Half of 1895, 35
Rainfall in June and July, 1895, 105,192
Rainfall for Week ending July 26th, 87
Rainfall of August at West Molesey and Surbiton, 554
Rainfall of October, 554
Rainforth and Son’s Tipping Cart, R>yal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Ram “Katahdin,” The, 595, 613
Ramie Cloth, Sails of, 240
Randell, Mr. F., Tumble Sanitary and other Carts, 11
Ransome, Mr. J. Stafford, Report on the Engineering Strikes at Belfast and on The Clyde, 559
Ransome and Co., Messrs., A Horizontal Band Saw, 23, 32
Ransome and Rapier, Messrs., Long Span Sluices over the Clyde, 334
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Deep Stirring Aerating Plough, 11, 12
Raoult, M. F. M., Osmotic Phenomena, 160
Raphael, Mr. John, “How Railways are Run: The Great Western Railway,” 74
Rapid-firing Guns, Tests of, 623
“ Rapide,” First Passage of The New Channel Steamer, 192
Rates on United States Railways, Freight, 477
Rathmore, The Right Hon. Lord, Chairman of
the North London Railway Company, 613
Rattlesnakes, Work on a Railway in South Carolina Hindered by, 217
Raw Ilido Pinions? 619
Riworth’s Flexible Coupling, Leicester Electricity Works, 57
Rayleigh, Lord, and Professor W. Ramsay Receive the First Hodgkin’s Prize for their Memorandum on Argon, 501
Recoil of (runs Recorded by Photography, 612 Redcar Boiler Explosion, 72,81,108, 166, 189, 216 Redcar Ironworks Explosion, The Board of Trade
Inquiry, 72, 81
Refractory Mixture to Endure the Highest Temperatures, 59
Refractory Substance, Apyrite, A Now, 191
Refuse, On the Harvesting of, and the Generation of Steam, 651
Regnault, M., A Dry Cell, 59
Renault Dry Cell, The, 217
Rendsburg, Railway Swing Bridge at, 127, 142
“Renown,” H.M.S., 485 “ Renown ” Sea-water Distiller, The, 353
Reservoirs in the Madras Presidency for Irrigation Purposes, 160
Resistance of a Diaphragm, Meaning of the Expression, 525
Reversible Propellers, Advantages of the Use of, 87
Reversing Screw Propellers, 454
Revolution Indicator, A New, 547
Rhone Valley Floods, Damago Caused by the, 525
Ribble Pollution Committee, 154
Ribble, Preston and the, 403
Rice and Rich’s Self-operating Forge, 105
Richards, Mr. J. W., On the Resistance to Corrosion of Light Aluminium Alloys, 87
Richter and Turner, Messrs., On “Station Working,” 55
Rifle, New, in Japan, 309
Riley, Mr. Jas., Modern Steel Works Machinery, 100, 126
Ritchie, Mr., and L:ght Railways on the Continent, 431
Rivalry of the United States, 390
River and Canal Navigation in Russia, 59
Riveter, Tweddell’s Combination, 193
Road Carriages, 12, 35, 36, 38, 63, 189, 211, 215,
216,252,281, 283, 290, 314, 315, 317, 389, 414, 418, 466, 490, 495, 514, 524
Road Carriage Competition, The Engineer 1000 Guinea, 15, 41, 161, 185, 211, 235, 459, 483, 507, 531
Road Carriages in France, Self-propelled, 36
Road Carriage, 1827, Mr. Gurney’s, 215
Road Carriages, Hancock’s Steam, 290
Road Carriages, Mechanical, 35, 38, 63, 216, 466
Road Carriages, Petroleum, 12, 252, 317
Road Carriages, Self-propelled, 161,168, 185,189,
211,235, 239, 259, 281, 283, 290, 314, 315, 331, 334, 389, 408, 409, 434, 454, 476, 505, 616
Road Carriages, Self-propelled, Memorial to the President of the Local Government Board Concerning, 211
Road Carriages, Self-propelled, Memorial to Parliament Concerning, 161, 168, 185 Road Carriages, Traction Engines and Self-propelled, 189, 211
Road Carriage, Steam, 281—283, 314—315
Road Carriages at Tunbridge Wells, Self-propelled, 389
Road Improvements in Morris Co., N.J., 143
Road Repairing Plant, A Modern, 511
Road Roller, Improved Compound, Messrs. C. Burrell and Co., 579
Road Sweeping Machino, Coleman and Morton’s, 11
Robert Bessemer Process, The, 412
Robey and Co.’s Fixed Oil and other Engines, 7,8
Robey and Co., Messrs., Steel Frame Stamp
Battery for Wet Crushing, 252, 253
Robinson, Mr. J. R., Hay and Straw Grab, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Robinson and Son, Messrs. Thos., Sleeper Adz:ng and Boring Machine, 103, 104
Rock Drills and Boring Machines ? Book on, 389
“ Rocket,” Leaks in The Boilers of the, 105
Rocks, Temperature of, 651
Rocks, On The Thermal Conductivity of, 525
Roller, Improved Compound Road, Mes?rs. C. Burrell and Co., 579
Roller, Steam Road, Messrs. Thos. Green and Sons, 44
Rolling of Ships, The, 63, 191, 259
Rolling Stock, Buffet Cars on Street Railroads, 143
Rolling Stock, Cheshire Lines Committee’s Tenders for, 641
Rolling Stock, Lighting and Heating in Belgium, 87
Rolling Stock, Electric Lighting of, 524
Rolling Stock, Experiments on Northern of France Railway, 90
Rolling Stock for Express Trains, Mr. Park on, 2
Rolling Stock, Great Northern Railway, 457
Rolling Stock for India, Oil Tanks, 489
Rolling Stock, Indian, A Long Saloon Carriage, 35
Rolling Stock of the South-Eastern Railway, 382
Rolling Stock for South Indian Railway, 217
Rolling Stock Trade, Our Wolverhampton Correspondent on the, 501
Rolling Stock, Use of Aluminium for French, 477
Roman Campagna, Parliamentary Paper on the Draining of the, 105
Roof, Testing a Brick Arch, 192
Ropes and Belts for the Transmission of Power, Comparative Efficiency of, 580, 639
Ropes, Wire, Messrs. G. Cradock and Co., 44
Rost, Mr. Alfred, New Process for the Manufacture of Transparent Mirrors and Daylight Reflectors, 501
Rotherham Sewage Competition, 538
Rotterdam Harbour, Plan for Enlargement of, 160
Rouen, A National Workmen’s Exhibition, 336
Rouen, Port and Inland Waterways, 341
Roumanian Petroleum, 197
Round Oak Steel Works, The, 322
Round Oak Works, West Bromwich, The Earl of Dudley’s, 256, 257, 265
Rous-Marten, Mr. C., The Railway Race to Aberdeen, 125, 173, 203, 239
Rous-Marten, Mr. C., Remarkable Performances of British Locomotives, 69, 351
Rowell-Potter Signals on the Chicago Elevated Railway, 501
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show Angus and Co’s. Manufactured Leather, 44
Bimford’s Mill with Intermediate Gear(irur- trated), 11
Bimford’s Mower Gear (Illustrated), 10
Birford and Perkins’ Lawn Mower Roller Adjustment (Illustrated), 9
Barford and Perkins’ Straw and Hay Press (Illustrated), 9
Bentall and Co.’s Mower and Unchokablo Turnip Cutter, 44
Boby’s Hay-makers and Corn Dressing Machines, 45
Bradford’s Butter Moulding and Drying Machine, 45
Britannia Co’s. Oil Engino (Illustrated), 8
Carter’s Wheel Construction, 44
Carter Bros.’ Fixed Oil Engine (Illustrated), 7, 8
Catalogues Issued by, 45
Cheeld’s Centrifugal Churn (Illustrated), 9
Coleman and Morton’s Sanitary Tumbler Cart (Illustrated), 10
Cradoek’s Water Gauge Protector, 45
Cradock and Co’s. Wire Ropes, 44
Crozier, Stephens and Co.’s Vortical Boiler with Various Special Fittings, 45
Denton’s Horse and Cattle Automatic Feeder, 45
Edwards’ Hay and Straw Press (Illustrated),
Fletcher Bros, and Co.’s Sheep Dipping Apparatus, 45
Follows and Bates’ “ Handy ” Grindstone, 45
Green and Sons’ Steam Road Roller, 44
Greenwood and Batley’s Exhibits, 44
Haggenmacher’s Plansifter, 44
Haslam and Maudsley’s Potato Digger (Illustrated), 10
Heintz Trap, The, 45
Howe’s Sacs Turner, 41
McDowall’s Sack Holder, 44
Mann and Charlesworth’s Shaft Governor (Illustrated), 9
Miscellaneous Implements at, 9, 44
Marsden’s Stone Breaker and Elevator (Illue- tratedj, 11
Newall-Cunningham Sheep-shearing Machine, 45
Opalite, 45
Rainforth and Son’s Tipping Cart, 44
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Deep Stirring Aerating Plough, 11
Robey and Co. ’s Fixed Oil Engine (Illustrated), 7, 8
Robinson’s Hay and Straw Grab, 45
Sinclair and Co.’s “ Comot” Lamp, 44
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at tbe, 7
Strawson’s Seven-row Sprayer (Illustrated), 10
Waldo and Son’s Butter Worker, 45
Wells Bros.’ Governor (Illustrated), 8
Wilmot and Co.’s Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Steel Articles, 45
Royal Blue Line, Single Driver Engino for the, 192
Royal Dockyards, The Shipwrights and tbe Fitters of the, 286
Royal Institution:—
Christmas Courso of Lectures on Sound, Hearing and Speech, by Professor John Gray McKendrick, 489
New Members Elected, 553
Royal Mails, Motor Carriages for, 617
Royal Meteorological Society, The :—
Experiment Illustrating tl.e Formation cf the Tornado Cloud, Mr. W. H. Dines, 501
Origin of tbe Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in India and the Character of The Air Movement on the Indian Seas and Equatorial Belt, &c., Mr. J. Eliot, 501
Somo of The I)ilTorenco3 betweon Fogs as Related to the Weather Systems which Accompany them, Mr. R. II. Scott, 625
Royal School of Minos, List of Associatcsbips, Royal Scholarships, and Prizes Awarded in Session 1894-95, 140
Royal Scottish Society of Arts: - Electricity in The Dwelling, Lord Kingsburgh,
623
Improved Oil Blast Lamp, Mr. Jas. McDonald on, 534
Royal Society, Tiik:—
Elïect of Pressure of The Surrounding Gas on
tbe Temperature of tbo Crater of an Electric Arc Light, Mr. W. E. Wilson, 143
Medals Awarded by the Society
Royal United Service Institution:— Water-tube Boilers, Mr. F. T. Mitton, 2
Royton Sewage Works, Mr. McCallam and Mr. Nay Hr on the, 46
Rubber Trade, Bicycles and tho, 478
Rubber Blower, The, 5 Rudders, Detachable, 360
Rodders, The Maclachlan Patent Detachable, 316
Running Lights for Use on Board Ship, Tested by the German Marioe Observatory, 59
“Rurik,” The Russian Armoured Cruiser, 521
“ Rurik,” Celerity with which she can be Coaled, 554
Rusui, Electric Railways desirable for, 1Q2
Rassia, Ironworks of South, by Geo. Kamensky, 241, 293
Rjssia, L:stof Lines to be Constructed in, 234
Russia, Mileage of Navigable Rivers and Canals, 217
Russia, New Railways in, 309
Russia, Petroleum Export from, 431
Russia, Railway Activity io, 390
Russia, Trado with, 17
Russian Armoured Cruiser “ Rurik.” The, 521,554
Russian Government, Dredging Vessel for tbe (Supplement, September 6th, 1895), 238
Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart,” Engines for the, 157, 158, 159
Russia and Japan as Machinery Markets, 365
Russia, Locomotives for, 595
Russian Maritime Ports, Sums Spent on their Improvement, 87
Russian Orders for Locomotive?, 292
Russian Railways, Distance of Stations from Town or Village, 13
Russian Rivers and Canals, Tonnage of Goods carried on, 59
Russian Sea-going Torpedo Boats to have Numbers, not Names, 431
Russian Smokeless Powder, Account of, 525
Russian State Riilway, Locomotives for, 234
Russian Steam Transport “Samoyed,” Speed Trials of, 181
Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Sokol,” The, 209 263
Russian Torpedo Destroyer, “ Sokol,” Trial Trip of, 209
Russian Towns, Direct Communication for Passengers between London and, 286
Russo-Japanese Exhibition, A. 234
Rust, the Gesner Method of Protecting Iron and Steel from, 35
Rusting, Preventing Tools from, 336 Rutherglen Bridge, 182, 188

SABOURET, M., Places in Permanent Way requiring Special Attention, 2
Sack Holder, MacDowall p, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Sack Turner, Howe’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Safety Appliances for I/fts, Mr. W. P. Heath on, 381
Safety Valve, Steam Pipe, S4
“ St. Louis,’’The New American Liner, 13,35,160, 192, 286
“St. Louis,” American Lino Steamer, Lirger Funnels for, 286
“ St. Louis,” Successful Trial of the, 192
“ St. Louis,” Testing of The American Liner, 160
St. Louis, U. S. A., Electric Railway Companies in, 87
St. Mary Woolnotb, The Vestry of, Oppose the New Bill of the Electric Railway Company, 613
Saleve Electric Railway, 73
Salford, Electric Lighting of, 166
“Salmon,” Repairs of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 105
Saloon Carriage, with a Long Namo and for a Long Price, 35
Salt Deposits of New Iberia, La, Depth of, 525
Salt Water on Aluminium, Action of, 309
Saltaire Mills, Compound Engiuos, 2£8, 260
Saltaire, Eogines at, 285
“Samoyed,” Propelling Machinery of the, 361, 362
“Samoyed,” Sp9ed Trials of the Russian Steam Transport, 181
Samson, Mr. Peter, his Appointment by tbe Board of Trade, 500
Saniter, Mr. E. H., New Method for tbe Analysis of Chrome Ore and Ferro Chromium, 177
Sanitary Exhibition in Paris, 71
Saniter Method at The Krupp Works, Experiments with the, 13
Santiago, Concerning the Raising of a Loan for Completion of Railways begun in 1888, 217
Sargeant and Company’s “ Corncrake,” 10
Sargent’s Patent Combined Compass Trammel, 59
Saul. Mr. C J., Steam Launch,‘267
Sault St. Marie Canal, Opening of. 168
Sauvage, Mr. E., On Boilers, Fire-boxes, and Tubes, 1
Saw Machine, Horizontal, 63
Saw Mil’s, Shot Gun Feed used in, 266
Scale in Boilers. Preventing Formation of, 336
Scarborough with the Midlands, New Line to Connect, 309
Scheldt, Schemo for Turning the Course of the, 431
Schenectady Locomotive Work?, Use of “Steeled Iron,” 286
Sehenkor’8 “ Normal ” Powder, 62
Sjhenkl, Herr T., Electric Railway up The Gross- glockner, 13
Sahiffer and Kirscher, Messrs., Apyrite, 143
Schilling, Dr., on the Untransformed Power in a London Gas Holder and the Loss by Electric Transmission, 286
Schloesing, jun., Mr., On The Estimation of Argon, 525
Schnelle and Schlce’s “Pendulum Plansifter,” R A.S., 12
Scbrötor, Herr M., on tbe Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air and Oxygen, 325
Science and Art Department, National Scholarships, Royal Exhibitions, and Free Studentships (Science), 1895, 197
Science, Faith in, 216
Scientific Filtration, 41
Scientific Training of Engineers, 270
Scotch Oil Traders, Rise in Price of Burning Oil Docidcd upon by, 105
Scotch Shipbuilders, Vessels Launched by, 13
Scotland, Private Bills in, Session 1896, 610
Scott, Mr., on Storms in The Summer and Winter Half-years, 457
Scott, Mr. R. II., on Fogs, 625
Scottish Railway Working, 237
Screwing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show’, 12
Screw Making Machinery? 185
Screw Propellers, Ravorsing, 454
Screw Steamers, Fitting Machinery in, 228, 229, 231,379, 448, 522, 524, 543
Sea Beach Railroad, Troublo with Bugs on the, 234
“Seaford,” Foundering of the, 192, 211
Sea Water Distiller, The “ Renown,’’ 353
Sea Water Supply for London, Bill for, 525
Seaweed to Cyanide Solution in the Extraction of Gold, On the Addition of, 595
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Notices Rsceived by tbe, from Bulgaria, Vienna, and Belgrade for Tenders for Railways, 87
Séguio, Mare, Memorial Statue of, 234
Seine Basin, Port of Rouen and Waterways of the, 341
Seine, Improvement of the Navigation of tbo, 79
Selected American Patents, 28, 52, 78, 98, 124, 150, 172, 192, 198, 224, 245, 274, 298, 324, 350, 376, 400, 422, 446, 470, 494, 518, 542, 566, 606, 632, 652
Selenium, Electrical Properties of, 35
Self-propelled Read Carriages—xee Road Carriages, Self-propelled, also Motor Carriages, Mechanical Read Carriages
Self-propelled Carriages, Glasgow and, 509
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Memorial to the President of the Local Government Board Concerning, 211
Self-propelled Road Carriages in Paris, 611
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Memorial to Parliament Concerning, 161, 168, 185
Self-propelled Road Carriages at Tunbridge Wells, 389
Self-propelled Traffic Assoc'aticn, The, 599
Separators and Churns at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Serve Tubes, 227 Sewage Disposal in France, 251
Sewage Extension Works, Ossctt, 87
Sewage, llermite Process of Deodorising, 345
Sew’age, Oxygen System of Dealing with, 371
Sewage Purification, Sir D. Galton on, 254
Sewage Schemes, Bowness and Glossop, 205
Sewage Works, Eccles Corporation, 178
Sewage Works, The Gorton, 488
Sewerage Purification Works, Chorloy, 457
Sewerage Schemes for Chester-1 e-Street Rural District Council, 250
Sewerage Works in Paris, 142
Sewerage Works, York, 93
Shaft Governor, Mann and Charlesworth’s, 9
Shafts, Great Strains on Propeller, 309
Shale Oil Industry, 471
Shank, Mr. J. W., Device for Saving Water, 579
Sharley, Mr. Walter, Proposed Montreal Bridge, 183
Shaping Machine, Telegraph Post, 411
“Sharpshooter,” Trial of II.M. Torpedo Gunboat, 87
“Sharpshooter,” Accident to the Main Steam Pipe of the, 286
“ Sharpshooter,” Now Duties of the, 525
Sheep Dipping Apparatus, Messrs. Fletcher, Bros, and Co , R.A.S. Show, 45
Sheep Shearing Machine, Newall-Cnnningham, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Sheet Iron, Magnetic Tester for, 561
Sheffield, Mr. G. H., on some Details of Iron Foundry Work, 625
Sheffield to Chapeltown and Barnsley, Midland Railway Extension, 336
Sheffield District, 25, 49, 75, 95, 121, 147, 169, 195, 221, 243, 271, 295, 321, 347, 373, 397, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, £63, 603, 629, 649
Sheffield, Inadequacy of the Victoria Station, 405
Sheffield Smoke, 163, 191
Sheffield Technical Schools, Presentation of Prizes, Medals, &c , to Students, 477
Shell Experiments at Indian Head, U.S.A., 35
Sheppard and Soup, Messrs., Coal Washing and
Coke Making Plant, 558, 560, £61
Shield, Mr. John, “Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of Barometers,” 613
Ships Built on The B&tcaux Roulcurs System, Company for, 31
Ship Canal, Tbe Baltic and B ack Sea, 237
Ship Canal to Bridgwater, Proposed, 438
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 180
Ship Canal, Projected Prussian, 2C6
Ships, Distance and Time in which they may be brought to Rest from Full Speed Ahead, 108, 142, 166
Ships, Firo Catastrophes on, 280
Ships Lost, Condemned, &c., Lloyd’s Statistical Summary of, 217
Ship Model, Elaborate Sectional, 381
Ship, The “ Potosi,” The Largest Sailing, 266
Ship Propulsion by Storage Batteries, Professor Durand on, 309
Ships on the Roller-borne System, Company formed in Paris to Experiment cn, 431
Ships, Rolling of, 63, 191, 259
Ships, Tank, 191
Ship3 of War, Mr. Darston on The Machinery of’ 311
Ship, Wator Supply on Board, 352
Ship Work, Aluminium in, 579
Shipbuilding on The American Lakes, 357, 401
Shipbuilding, British, 430
Shipbuilding, Engineering and, 557
Shipbuilding and Engineering in Ireland, 599
Shipbuilding Projects in France, 357
Shipbuilding, A Record in the History of, 336
Shipbuilding on The Thames, Marine Engineering and, 45
Shipbuilding Trade, The Crisis in tho, 413, 428, 545 559 599 621
Shipbuilding Trade, Tbe Strike in tbe, 35G, 391, 456, 485, 503, 524, 555, 559, 599, 619
Shipbuilding Wages Dispute, The, 391
Shoeburyness, Visit of The Society of Engineers to, 326
Shores, Mr. J., Three-furrow Plough, 10
Shot-gun Feed for Moving Circular Saw Trolleys, 266
Shrewsbury Wator Supply, 143 Siam, Railway in, 286
Siberia, Scheme for Facilitating tbe Internal Navigation of, 217
Siberian Railway, Church Cars in, 286
Siberian Railway, Progress of the Great, 286
Sifter, Pendulum Plan, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Signalling Apparatus, Trial of Admiral Fane’s, 87
Signalling, Masthead, 183
Signalling in Tunnels, 466
Signal Lights, Distant, 104, 166, 209, 333
Signals at Liverpool-street Terminus, 117
Signals, Railway, 239
Signals, Railway, Mr. Thompson at the Railway Congress od, 31
Silesia, Pig Iron in Upper, 105
Simons and Co., Messrs. W., Dredgiüg Vessel for the Russian Government (Supplement, September 16M, 1895), 238
Simplon, Projected Tunnel through the, 501, 525
Simplon Railway, The, 639
Simpson and Porters Steam Crane Excavator, 180
Simpson, Strickland, and Go., Steam Launch and Steam Canoe, 141, 142
Simpson and Wilson, Messrs., Clydebank and Yoker Extension Railway, 167
Sinclair and Co.’s “Comet” Lamp, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Singapore, Tno Municipality of, 312
Singer Manufactory, Kilbowie, 164
Single Driving Wboels in the United Stites, 363
“Sirius,” Boiler Trials of the, 654
Sixty-three Miles an Hour, 487
Size of Particles on tbe Pressure of a Gas, Influence of the, 617
Sleeper Adzing and BoriDg Machine, 103, 1C4
Sleepers, Motal, 409 Sleepers, Pot, 39
Slide Valve Frictien, Power Last in, 602
Slow Combustion and One Thousand Pound Steam, 505
Sluices, StoDey’s, 254
Small Arm Works, Sparkbrook, The Government, 199
Small Candle Powor Lamp3 at High Voltages, 216
Small Arm Ammunition, British, 12
Smerwick, Blasting Accident at, 105
Smith, Mr. Aston Wm., Obtains tbe Contract for the Midland Railway, 431
Smith-Casson, Mr., Small Cast Steel Ingots, 206
Smith-Casson System of Castiog Small Steel Ingots in Staffordshire, The, 501 Smith’s Combined Piston and Relief Valves, North-Eastern Railway, 473
Smith and Sons’ SyreD, 86
Smith, Mr. Thomas West, Driver on the Leicester and Swannington and Midland Railways, 369
Smithsonian Institute’s Grant to lxard Rayleigh and Professor W. Ramsay for their Mem. on Argon, 501
Smoke Abatement, Sir I). Galton od, 251
Smokeks3 Powder, 62
Smokeless Powder in the American Navy, 527
Smokeless Powder. Russian, 525
Smulders, Mr. A. F., Dredgersand Excavators on the Baltic Canal, 110, 116, 136, 310, 316
Smulders, Mr. A. F., Compound Engines of the Steam Hopper Barge, Baltic Canal (Supph „ant, October 25th, 189:»), 415
Soaofcll, Projected Electric Railway up, 35, 192, 207
Snowden Railway, Tbe, 59
Societk des Amis des Sciences:—
Annual Meeting of, 50
Societe Anonymk de Eonne-Esperance:—
Coal Concession, 143
Society of Arts:—
Locomotive Carriages for Common Roads, Mr.
H. Cunynghame, 524
Society of Arts, The Royal Scottish—are Royal Scottish Society of Arts
Society, The Chemical:—
Freezing Points of Silver and Gold, Messrs. Heywood and Neville, 613
Society of Chemical Industry:—
Holds its Thirteenth Aunual Meeting, 105
Society, City of London College Science :— Force of The Wind, Prof. II. Adams, 468
Society of Civil Engineers, The American:— Moviüg Two36in. Water Mains without Shutting off The Water, Mr. E. C. Moore, 357
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’:— Civil Engineering, Mr. Sydney a Court, 626
Visit to the East Landon Waterworks Co.’s Works, 371
Society of Electrical Engineers, The Northern :—
Municipal Telephony, Mr. A. R. Bennett, 477
Society’ of Engineers :—
Annual Dinner, The Forty-second, 627
Railway Axlo9, Mr. Thomas Andrews, 456
Ventilation and Warming, Mr. W. T. Sugg, 349
Visit to Shoeburyness, 326
Society of Engineers, The Western :—
Steel Rails of Large Sections, How to Secure, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 478
Society of Glasgow, Insurance and Actuarial :—
Present Day Applications of Electricity, with Special Reference to Fire Risk, Mr. T. Crichton Fulton, 521
Society, The Goldsmiths’ Engineering :—
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Jno. Thornycroft, 429
Society, Kino’s College Engineering :—
Electric Distribution, Mr. Welbourn, 404
Incandescent Lamps and their Manufacture, Mr. Bailey, 500
Mining of Tin, Mr. Cranford, 424
Officers Elected for the Ensuing Term, 562
Theory of Magnetism, Mr. Herroun. 481
Thomas Telford and his Work, Mr. Mowat, 553
Society, The Physical :—
Direct Reading Platinum Thermometer, Mr. Appleyard, 525
Electrical Properties of Selenium, Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 35
latent Heat of Evaporation of Betzone, Mr. E. II. Griffiths and Miss Dorothy Marshall, 477
Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, Mr. W. II. Everitt, 477
Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of Barometers, Mr. .John Shield, 613
Society, Liverpool Engineering :—
Inaugural Address of The President, Mr. J. Maginnis, 466
Scheme of Papers to bo Read during The 22nd Session of, 407
Visit to the Dinorwic Slato Quarries, Llanberis, 63
Society, Manchester Engineering:—
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, J. F. Conradi, 394
Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American, 239
Society, Royal—ar* Royal Society
Society, The Yorkshire College Engineering, 454
Earl’s Court and Ferris Wheels, Mr. Fred. Grover on the, 527
Engineering—Past, Present and Future, Mr. H. McLaren, President, 454
Harvesting of Refuso and The Generation of Steam, Mr. Ernest Sykes, 651
Professor de Burg Buck’s Description of the Instrumental Equipment of the Physiological Laboratory of the. 559
Soho Foundry, The, 305—308, 340, 341.392, 393, 425, 426
Soho Foundry, Machine Tools at, 425, 426
“Sokol,” The Torpedo Boat, 209, 263, 525
“ Sokol,” Trial Trip of The Russian Torpedo Destroyer, 209
“ Sokol ” Type, Vessels of the, 510
Solder ftr Glass, Aluminium and other, 266, 695
Sounding, Deep, Obtained by H.M.S. “Penguin,” 382
Sounding Fog Sirens on Lightships, Oil Engines and Air Compressors for, 369
Southampton Graving Dock, Opening of, 87, 103
Southampton, New Quay at, 234
South-Eastern Railway, Accident on the, 105
South-Eastern Railway Company, Overhead Railway Projected by the, 266
South-Eastern Railway, Rilling Stcck of the, 382
Southern Cross Railway, Part of, Opened, 192
South Kensington Museum, Diagrams cf Early Locomotives, 234
South Staffordshire, Iron Industry and Coalfields of, 174
South Wales to London, New Lino from, 4C6
“ Spanker,” Torpedo Gunboat, to carry out Steam Trials with tbe Du Temple Water-tube Boilers, 336
Spannor, Ellin’s Small Adjustable, 142
Spanners, Messrs. Wynne, Timmins and Co.’s, 87
Spark Arresting on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 160
Sparkbrook, The Government Small Arm Works, 199
Specialisation, 698
Specific Gravity of Cement, 248
Specific Heats for Air, Ratio of the Two, 35
Speed of Ocean Liuers, The Regular, 17
Speeds for Grinding and Cutting Tools ? 161
Speeds, Railway, 191
Speed, Record, on American and English Lines, 266
Speed Trials of The Torpedo Beat Destroyer “Starfish,” 365
Speed Trials of the New Argentine Cruiser “ Buenos Aires,” 461
“ Spongia ” BlottiDg Paper, Messrs. R. Craig and Sons, 35
Spools for Thread, Maine Forest Supplies the Wood for, 369
Sprayer, Strawson’s, 10
Sprint Races, Experiments in Running, 382
Spurn Point and its Lighthouses, 344
Spurn Point, New Lighthouse, 154
Staffordshire Steel and Ingot Co.’s Works Visited, 178
Stamp Affixer, Postage, 368
Standard Gaugo Railway, India, 217
“Standart,” Engines for the Russian Imperial Yacht, 157, 158, 159
Stanley Show of Cycles, 511, 528
Starch and Chicory Plant and Machinery ? Ill
“ Starfish,” Boilers of the, 406
“ Starfish,” Speed Trials of H.M.S., 365
Starter, Green’s Automatic Gas Engine, 342
State of Trade, The, 66
Station WorkiDg, Mr. Richter and Mr. Turner on, 55
Stations, Railway Movement to Establish them Near the Business Centres, 13
Statistics of the Railways in the United States, 1894, 577
Statter and Co., Messis. J. G., Electric Timber
Stacking Crane, 331, 333, 396
Stead, Mr. J. E., on Metallography, 624
Steam Carriage, 1827, Mr. Gurney, 215
Steam Carriages—see also Road Carriages Steam Coaches, Hancock’p, 290
Steam Crane, Locomotive, 293
Steam Engine Cylinders, Clcaranco in, 41, 63, S6, 109
Steam Engine, Mr. II. B. Pearson on the, 468
Steam Engine Economy, A New Departure in, 15
Steam Engineering, Practical, 39
Steam Feed-water Heaters, 122
Steam Hopper Barges on the Baltic Canal, 415
Steam and Electricity as Motive Power, Comparative Efficiency and Economy of, 59
Steam Launch “Dragon Fly,” Tho, 451, 455, 458
Steam Launch “Germania,” The, 553
Steam Launch and Steam Canoe, Messrs. Simpson, Strickland, and Co., 141, 142
Steam Launch, A Tasmanian, 267
Steam Lifeboat, A New, 313
Steam Locomotion for Passenger Traffic on Common Roads, Mr. Wm. Fletcher on, 281— 283, 314-315
Steam Lifeboat for Holland, The New, 325
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 61 Steamers, Paddle, for Turkey, 414
Steam Pipes, Loss from Condensation in Lodct, 317
Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 84
Steam Pump, The Marsh, 193
Steam Road Carriages, 434, 454
Steam Road Traction in 1833, 328
Steam Saw Mills and Joinery Works, Croydon, Sale of, 35
S.S. “ Iona,” Disaster on Board, 312, 317
S.S. “ Lizzie Westoll,” Trip’e-expension Engines (Supplement, July 19M, 1895), 62
S.S. “ Oroya,” The, 12
S.S. “ Queen of the North,” The, 55
Steamships and their Machinery, Oa Inquiries, Tenders, Spacifications, and Contracts for, 430
S.S. “ Ward,” Launch of the, 318
Steam Turbine, Laval’s, 358, 359
Steam, Tne Work of, 12
Steamer to Cross by Rail a Strip of Land between Two Lakes io Denmark, 131
Steamers, Screw, Fitting Machinery in—see Fitting Machinery in Screw Steamers Steamers Sold to Foreigners, 113
Steel—see also Iron and Steel Steel Armour Plate, Test of Chrome, 266
Steel Boiler Tubes in Lieu of Copper, for II. M. Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 192
Steel, Boron, MM. Moissan and Charpy, 143
Steel, Boron as an Alloy in, 234
Steel Cable for tbo Columbus Avenue Railway, Weight of, 457
Steel Castings, Messrs. Penney and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Steel Company of Scotland, The Sales of the, 286
Steel, Engineers and Structural, 288
Steel Frame Stamp Battery for Wet Crushing, 252,253
Steel Girders for Mines, Mr. E. Thompson on, 286
Steel, Hardening of, Mr. H M. Howes on the, 176
Steel, Influence of Vibration on, 579
Steel and Ingot Company’s Works, The Staffordshire, 178
Steel Ingots, Crucible, Produced in the United States, 105
Steel Ingots, Small Cast, 206
Stool Ingots in The United States, Production of Bessemer, 160
Steel Making Prospects in India, 427
Steel, Nickel, Mr. Wiggin on, 199, 219
Steel, Percentage of Carbon in, 87
Steel Plant at the Earl of Dudley’s Round Oak Works, West Bromwich, 256, 257, 265
Steel Production, Bessemer, in England, 521
Steel Production in the United States, 105
Steel Rails, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 478
Steel Rails in The United States, Large Demand for, 143 B
Steel Rail, Wear of a 531b., 613
Steel Sleepers, Durability of, 143
Steel Sleepers in Mexico, Use of, 143
Steel Steam Yacht, Mr. Geo. L. Watson, 477
Steel, Transverse Loads and Beams of Mild, 617
Steel Tubes in place of Copper, 336
Steel Works Machinery, Modern, 100, 126
“Steeled Iron” at The Schenectady Locomotive Works, Use of, 286
Steering Engine of H.M.S. “Venus” and “ Diana,” 424
Steering Engines in the Royal Navy, 423,424, 433
Steering Gear, Ship, and Compound Paddle Engines, Messrs. Bow, McLachlan and Co., 428, 489
Stephens, Mr. M., Goods Engines and Tenders built by Messrs. Neilson and Co. for the Cape Railways (Supplement, Xorcmber 22n<t, 1895), 497, 510 "
Stephen and Carters Drilling Machine? 507
Stirling, Mr. Patrick, 485
Stocking Knitter, Automatic, 116
Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, Hydraulic, 99
Stone Breaker and Elevator. Marsden’s, 11, 12
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M., On Weirs in Rivers, 331 Stoney’s Sluices, 254
Stopes, Mr. H., On Past and Present Exhibitions, 382
Storago Battery Cars with Chloride Batteries, 369
Storage Battery for Lighting and Traction, The I.E.S.,22
Storehouse, An Immense, 647
Storey’s Dead-weight Safety Valve, 646
Storms in Summer and Winter Half-years. 457
Straw and Hay Press, Barford and Perkins’, 9
Straw and Hay Press, Edwards’, 10
Strawson s Seven-row Sprayer, 10
Street Cleaning Inspectors in New York on Bicycles, 595
Street Lighting, London. 112
Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 536
Szrikes m France, 217, 533
Strike The Shipbuilding 856, 456, 485, 503, 521, 545, 555, 559, 599, 619
‘Strong’s” Locomotives. 143
Subaqueous Tunnelling by Shield and Compressed Air, Mr. J. H. Greathead on, 500
Subways for Chicago, Projected, 431
Submarine Cables possessed by France. Mileage of, 55
Suez Canal Company, S atue of the Late President at Port Sa:d, 105
Suez Canal, E'ectric Light used by Ships iü, 217
Sugar, Central Factories for, 86
Sugar Refiners, Electric, Herr Dammeyer’s Experiments with, 87
Su/er. Mr. W. T., on Ventilation and WarmiDg, o49
Sulphide, Anhydrous Crystalled Manganese, 143
Sulphur from Iron by means of Barium-Ferro cyanide, Removing, 35
Sulphur Vapour ra Copper, Action of, 554
Sumner, Capt., His Sentence. 286
Sunderland Central Railway Station, Inadequacy of, and the Board of Trade, 405
Sunshine Recorded at Greenwich by the Campbell- Stokes Instrument, 336
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 394, 395, 416, 418
Supplements :—
Broad Gaoge Locomotive, Metropolitan Rail- , way, Sir Dan. Gcoch, August 16tb, 1895 Compound Engines and Locomotive Boilers of
the s.s. “Queen of the Norih,” Messrs. Laird Bros., November 1st, 1895
Steam Locomotion for Passenger Traffic on >
Common Roads, Mr. Wm. Fletcher on, 281— 283, 314-315
Steam Lifeboat for Holland, The New, 325
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at tbo Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 61 Steamers, Paddle, for Turkey, 414
Steam Pipes, Loss from Condensation in Lodct, 317
Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 84
Steam Pump, The Marsh, 193
Steam Road Carriages, 434, 454
Steam Road Traction in 1833, 328
Steam Saw Mills and Joinery Works, Croydon, Sale of, 35
S.S. “ Iona,” Disaster on Board, 312, 317
S.S. “ Lizzie Westoll,” Trip’e-expension Engines (Supplement, July 19M, 1895), 62
S.S. “ Oroya,” The, 12
S.S. “ Queen of the North,” The, 55
Steamships and their Machinery, Oa Inquiries, Tenders, Spacifications, and Contracts for, 430
S.S. “ Ward,” Launch of the, 318
Steam Turbine, Laval’s, 358, 359
Steam, Tne Work of, 12
Steamer to Cross by Rail a Strip of Land between
Two Lakes io Denmark, 131
Steamers, Screw, Fitting Machinery in—see Fitting Machinery in Screw Steamers Steamers Sold to Foreigners, 113
Steel—see also Iron and Steel Steel Armour Plate, Test of Chrome, 266
Steel Boiler Tubes in Lieu of Copper, for II. M. Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 192
Steel, Boron, MM. Moissan and Charpy, 143
Steel, Boron as an Alloy in, 234
Steel Cable for tbo Columbus Avenue Railway, Weight of, 457
Steel Castings, Messrs. Penney and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Steel Company of Scotland, The Sales of the, 286
Steel, Engineers and Structural, 288
Steel Frame Stamp Battery for Wet Crushing, 252,253
Steel Girders for Mines, Mr. E. Thompson on, 286
Steel, Hardening of, Mr. H M. Howes on the, 176
Steel, Influence of Vibration on, 579
Steel and Ingot Company’s Works, The Staffordshire, 178
Steel Ingots, Crucible, Produced in the United States, 105
Steel Ingots, Small Cast, 206
Stool Ingots in The United States, Production of Bessemer, 160
Steel Making Prospects in India, 427
Steel, Nickel, Mr. Wiggin on, 199, 219
Steel, Percentage of Carbon in, 87
Steel Plant at the Earl of Dudley’s Round Oak Works, West Bromwich, 256, 257, 265
Steel Production, Bessemer, in England, 521
Steel Production in the United States, 105
Steel Rails, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 478
Steel Rails in The United States, Large Demand for, 143 B
Steel Rail, Wear of a 531b., 613
Steel Sleepers, Durability of, 143
Steel Sleepers in Mexico, Use of, 143
Steel Steam Yacht, Mr. Geo. L. Watson, 477
Steel, Transverse Loads and Beams of Mild, 617
Steel Tubes in place of Copper, 336
Steel Works Machinery, Modern, 100, 126
“Steeled Iron” at the Schenectady Locomotive Works, Use of, 286
Steering Engine of H.M.S. “Venus” and “ Diana,” 424 ’
Steering Engines in the Royal Navy, 423,424, 433
Steering Gear, Ship, and Compound Paddle Engines, Messrs. Bow, McLachlan and Co., 428, 489
Stephens, Mr. M., Goods Engines and Tenders built by Messrs. Neilson and Co. for tbo Cape Railways (Supplement, Xorcmber 22n<t, 1895), 497, 510 "
Stephen and Carters Dril’.ing Machine? 507
Stirling, Mr. Patrick, 485
Stocking Knitter, Automatic, 116
Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, Hydraulic, 99
Stone Breaker and Elevator. Marsden’s, 11, 12
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M., On Weirs in Rivers, 331
Stoney’s Sluices, 254
Stopes, Mr. H., On Past and Present Exhibitions, 382
Storage Battery Cars with Chloride Batteries, 369
Storage Battery for Lighting and Traction, The I.E.S.,22 ’
Storehouse, An Immense, 647
Storey’s Dead-weight Safety Valve, 646
Storms in Summer and Winter Half-years. 457
Straw and Hay Press, Barford and Perkins’, 9
Straw and Hay Press, Edwards’, 10
Strawson s Seven-row Sprayer, 10
Street Cleaning Inspectors in New York on Bicycles, 595
Street Lighting, London. 112
Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 536
Szrikes m France, 217, 533
Strike The Shipbuilding 856, 456, 485, 503, 521, 545, 555, 559, 599, 619
‘Strong’s” Locomotives. 143
Subaqueous Tunnelling by Shield and Compressed Air, Mr. J. H. Greathead on, 500
Subways for Chicago, Projected, 431
Submarine Cables possessed by France. Mileage of, 55
Suez Canal Company, S atue of the Late President at Port Sa:d, 105
Suez Canal, E'ectric Light used by Ships iü, 217
Sugar, Central Factories for, 86
Sugar Refiners, Electric, Herr Dammeyer’s Experiments with, 87
Su/er. Mr. W. T., on Ventilation and WarmiDg, o49
Sulphide, Anhydrous Crystalled Manganese, 143
Sulphur from Iron by means of Barium-Ferro cyanide, Removing, 35
Sulphur Vapour ra Copper, Action of, 554
Sumner, Capt., His Sentence. 286
Sunderland Central Railway Station, Inadequacy
of, and tbe Board of Trade, 405
Sunshine Recorded at Greenwich by tbe Campbell- Stokes Instrument, 336
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 394, 395, 416, 418
Supplements :—
Broad Gaoge Locomotive, Metropolitan Rail- , way, Sir Dan. Gcoch, August 16tb, 1895 Compound Engines and Locomotive Boilers of
the s.s. “Queen of the Norih,” Messrs. Laird Bros., November 1st, 1895
Compound Engino of the Steam Hopper Barge on the Baltic Ship Canal, Working Drawing No. l,* Mr. A. F. Smuldors, October 11th. 1895 w-—a
Dredging Vessel for The Russian Government Messrs. W. Simons and Co.. September 6th, 1895
Express Passenger Locomotivo, Midland Railway, Mr. S. W. JohnsoD, Deccmbor 13th, ,1895
Express Locomotivo, North-Eistern Railway, Mr. Wilson Worsdcll, September 20th, 1895 Narrow Gauge Goods Locomotivo, Cape Government Railways, Messrs. Neilson and Co., November 22nd, 1895 Six-coupled Locomotive, Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood Railway, Mr. R. II. Burnett, October 4 th, 1895
Triple-expansion Eogino’.s s. “ Lizz'e Westoll,” Messrs. W. Allen and Co., Jaly 19.li, 1S95
Vertical Triple-expansion Pumping Engines, Leicester Waterworks, Messrs. Eiston. Anderson, and Gooiden, December 6tb, 1895
“ S are-Grip ” Railway Block, Teo, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Surplus Valve, The Boyie, 319
Suspension Bridges of Maximum Span, 247
Suspensions for Physical Instrument?, 431
Sutton Bridgo, Extension of The Dock, 517
Swan and Iionter, Messrs., Suspended Electric Crane, 402, 410
“Svanen,” Amphibious Passenger Boat, 370
Swansea, Electric Lighting of, 267
Swansea, Extension of the Port, 546
Swedish Iron and Steel Industries in 1894, 496
Swindon Station, 213 Swing Bridges? 15
Switzerland, Electric Motro Gauge Road Railways for, 457 7
Sydn3y Waterworks, Description of the, 369
Sykes, Mr. Ernest, On the Harvesting of Refuse and the Generation of Steam, 651 Syren, An Improved, 86

TACHOMETER, Messrs. Elliott Bros., 547
Talbot, Mr. B , Basic Furnace, 194
Tandem Engines—sec Engines, Tandem
Tangyes’ 4-Horse Power Fixed Oil Ensjine, 61, 91
Tangyes, Messrs., Gas Engino Pumping Machinery, 264
Tangyes’ Hydrocarbon Gas Producer, 62
TaDgyes’ O»1 Engine, Vaporiser, and Lamp, 61
Tangyes’ Works, Messrs., 175, 177, 184
Tank Engines on The Cambrian Railway, 191
Tank Furnaces, Gla?s, 431
Tank, Safety Oil, 641 Tank Ships, 191
Tar, Paints for Coating Iron made from, 431
Tasmanian Steam Launch, A, 267
Taxation of Cycles in Naples, 309
Taxing of Cycles with Motors. The French Customs Authorities on the, 457
Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson, Lenses Manufactured by, 405
Tea Drying Machine, Harvest Saving and, 465
Technical Education, Earl of Kimberley on, 369
Technical Education, Viscount Peel on, 613
Technical Engineering and Continental Works
Telegraph Line in the World, The Longest, 266
Telegraph Office. The Largest in the World, 595
Telegraph Post Shaping Machine, 441
Telegraph Wire3 from Inverness, Daily Tostin? of, 192
Telegraphing in Tunnels, 409
Telephone Induction Adopted by the German Government, New Form of, 105 Telephone Wires Opened for Use, Post-office 76
Telephony, On Municipal, 477
Telford Paving in Morris County, 113
Telford and his Work, Mr. Mowat on, 553
Tellurium as an Alloy with Aluminium, 309
Tellurium with Gold, Effect of Admixture of 309
Temperature of The Crater of an Electric Arc
Light, Mr. W. E. Wilson on, 143
Temperature of Filaments in Electric Incandescent Lamps, Professor Weber on. 13
Temperature on Mont Blanc in Winter, Minimum 405
Temperature of Rocks, 651
Temperature of Water fed into a Boiler by an Injector. With Reference to, 336
Temperley Transporter, The, 622, 623 624
Tenders : —
Portishead Sewerage, 86
Tenders for the Construction of Last Section cf Loch Katrine Aqueduct, 369
Tenders Invited for Electric Railways from Belgrade, Bulgaria, and Vienna, S7
Tenders for Locomotives in Australia, Local, 13
Tenders for Works Connected with the Evesham Rural Dutrict Council’s Scheme for Villages Water Supply, 369
Tensie-Meter, Mr. J. A. Wanklyn’s, 309
Tension Wheels, Graphical Calculation of Stresses in, o2/ Completion of, 405
Testing a Brick Arch Roof, Method of, 192
Testing of Building Material?, Technical Congress at Zurich for Securing Unity of Methods in, 26b
Testing the Frames of Warships. 393
Testing Machine at Dowlais, 505
Testing Materials of Construction, Uniform
Methods of, 30 Testing Metallic Bridges. 30
Tests of the Physical Properties of Cast Iron,
Tests of Turrets and Side Armour, The Navy Department, 335
Tetmajer, Professor, On Hoat Tests for Cements 59a ’
United Statos Battleship, Strained in Dock.ng, 554
Tba™8rl2on/?rks and Shipbuilding Company, oöz, Oz z | 6^.0
Thames Ironworks Company, Eogines of The Samoyed,” 361, 362
Thames Ironworks Company, Speed Trials of the Samoyed, 181
Thames London, Average Daily Supply from me,
Thames, Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding oa the, 45 re
Thames, Navigation of the, 553
Thames and Severn Canal Undertaking, Tho, 336
Thames Water, Condition of, 286 309
Thames Waters, Diminution of Microbial Life in, 286
Theory of Compensating Gradients, 508
Thermal Conductivity of Rocks, Messrs. Pierce and Willson on tbe, 525
Tbormo-chcmical Galvanic Cell, M. Korda’s, 286
Thermodynamics, Professor John Perry on the Principles of, 3S7
Thermometer, On a Direct-reading Platinum. 525
Thistle Works, Paisley, The, Steering Engine of H.M.S. “ Venus’’and “Diana,” 423, 424
Thomas and Young, Messrs., on Normal Hexano, 595
Thompson, Messrs., Three Torpedo Destroyers for The French Navy, 169
Thompson, Mr. E., Advocates The U?o of Steel Girders in Mines, 286
Thornton and Crcbbin’s Disintegrators and Pulverisers, 12
Thornycroft and C?., Steam Lifeboat for Holland, 325
Thornycroft. Mr. Juo. 1. His Presidential Address, 429
Thwaitc-Cawley System of Electric Haulage, Mr. George Cawley on the, 22
Towaite, Mr. B. i'l., Safety Oil Tank, 641
Thwaitos’ Motor Gas Plant, 3
Tidal Waves in Little T« averse Bay, 595
Tides, Effect of Wind and Atmosphere on the,
319
Tilts for Railway Wagons. Walker’s, 111 Timber, Preservation of, 138, 2C9 Timber Stacking Crane, £40 Timber Stacking Crane, Electric, 331, 333, 396 Timing Instrument or “ Pendulum Chronoscopo,”
Tio, Mining of, Mr. Cranford on, 424
Tin-plate Scrap, Treatment of, for Ut.lisation of,
. 382 .
Tin-plate in the United States, Increase in the Manufacture of, 611
Tio io The United State?, 405
Tipping Cart, Messrs W. Rainforth and Sons’, 44 Tires, Basscmer Steel Driving, Great Eastern
Railway, 369
Tires for Cycles, Loathe* instead of India-rubber. 87
Tires which Failed on our Railways during Nine Months, Specified 641
Tobacco, Falling off in tbe Demand for, United States, aud its Cause, 369
Tobacco Trades Exhibition, A, 13
Tomsk Railway, Tho, 231
Tonbridge Waterworks Company, Additions to tbeir Pamping Station, 612
Tongking, French Railway in, 234
Tonnage of Goods Carried on Russian Rivers and Canals, 59
Tonnage on the Oceans and on tbe Railways of The \\ orld, M. C. M. Depew on the whole of the, 369
Tools, Micbine, Soho Foundry, 392, 393 Tools from Rusting, Recipes for Keeping, 336 Tooth Brush Making Machinery ? 235 “Torch’’and “Alert,” Machinery of the, to be
Tested, 551
Tornado Cloud, Expsriment Illustrating the Formation of the, 501
Toronto \\ aterworks, Rise of the Submerged Steel Intake of the. 554
Toronto Waterworks System, Mr. Jas. Mansergh ta Report upon, 336
Torpedo Boats, Aluminium, 407
Torpedo-boat Dcstroyors. 13. 87, 135, 160, 209. 217, 263, 286. 309, 525, 613
Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Sokol,” Tlie Russian. 209, 263, 525
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, The Contracts for the New, 13
Torpedo Boat Destroyers to be Employed for Instruction Purposes, 613
l °r‘2?G° ” a°d “Sharpshooter,”
^°r3C9 ° ^°* Raised in Fareham Creek,
Torpedo Biat Destroyer “Quail,” Launch of a New, 309
Torpedo Gunboat “Sharpshooter,” New Duties of, 525
Torpedo Cruiser, New Chinese, 286
Torpedo Gunboats, Drainage Arrangements from Cylinders, &c., in, 333
Torpedo Shop, Overtime in the Keyham, 192
Tower Bridge, Changes in the Street Traffic Caused by the Opening of, 309
Towing, Electric Cableway System of, Erie Canal, 501
Towing by Electricity on the Erie Canal, 217
Town Refuse, Disposal of, 46
Track Lining on The Detroit Riilway, Ripid, 143
Traction of Boats on Inland Waterways, 109,142, 166
Traction Engine Accident, A, 206
Traction Engines and Sjlf - propelled Iliad Carriages. 189, 211
Trade and Business Announcements, 17, 74, 96, 120, 148, 159, 196, 242. 215, 254, 300, 335, 357, 391, 414, 426, 461,' 476. 500, 534, 617, 625, 617
Trade, Free Trade and No, 63, 86, 109
Trade of Germany, On the, 234
Trade Improvement The, 113, 263, 382
Trade, Improvement in, Crewe Works. 477
Trade Mark, A National, 338
Trade Report of Bombay, Increase in the Demand for Coil, 611
Trade with Russia 17
Trade, The State of, 66
Trades Union Congress, The, 230, 236
Trafalgar Square Distributing Station, 610
Traffic, Contributive, M. de Bicker, 55
Train delayed by Hornets, 231
Trains, Electric Lighting of, 524
Trains and Pilot Engines, 434, 466
Train Service to Trieste for Alexandria, New. 525 ’
Trains and Time Tables, 385
Tramroad, Sea-shoro Electric, Brighten, 4:3
Tramcor, Invented by a Glasgow Gentleman, 217
Tram-lino Authorised for the Loudon Companies, Length of, 266
Tram-line System in Madras, 336
Tramway Accident in Cleveland, Derailing Switches and Cut-offs, 554
Tramway, The Barmen Electric, 553
Tramway Car with Oil Motor, Glasgow, Accident to, 3S2
Tramways, The Compagnie Mutuilia de, 477
Tramways for Edinburgh, Cable, 409
Tramway, Electric, Bristol, 382
Tramway, Electric, Hartlepool, 3S2
Tramway, Electric, for Paris, 87
Tramway, Electric, into Portsmouth, 234
Tramway, Electric, United States, 160 i
Tramways Institute, Annual Meeting of, 19
Tramways, Leeds, 387
Tramway Lines, The South Staffordshire, Time > Granted for the Use of Steam on. Expire?, 525
Tramway, Now York, Electrical Underground Conduit, 155
Tramways and Railways, New’ South Waloi Government, 462, 463, 475
Tramway Route in Birmingham, Overhead Electric System of Traction to be Tried on, G13
Tramway System, Overhead Electric, in tbe Midlands, 405
Transparent Mirrors and Daylight Reflectors, Mr. Alfred Rost’s New Process for Making, 501
Transport of Petroleum, 137
Transporter, Tbe Temperloy, 622, 623, 624
Trans-Siberian Railway, Completion of a Section of, 192
Trans-Siberian Railway, Progress of the, 160
Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild Steel, 617
Travelling Crane» Indian Head, 225
Tricycle, Semi-Automotive, 13
Trimming Machino, Fire-box Plato, 214
Triple-expansion Engines we Engines, Triple- expansion Triton Valves? 555
Trolley Speed Ordinances, Brooklyn, New, 59
Trolley System of Electric Traction in Belgium, 35
Trollbatta and Gota Canal, The, 194
Trotter, Mr. Alexander, His Appointment, 554
Tube Cutter, The Vance Lightning, 646
Tubes, On, 1
Tubes, Boiler, Steel Instead of Copper for H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 192
Tubes, Serve, 227
Tubulous Boiler, The Haythorn, 152
Tumbler Sanitary Carts at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Tunbridge Wells, Electric Light for, 369
Tunnel, The Blackwall. 365, 430, 635, 636, 637, 638, 642
Tunnel, Completion of the Tcquixquiac, 405
Tunnel, Glasgow Harbour, 86
Tunnel on The Sheffield Extension Lino, Big, 160
Tunnel through the Simplon, Projected, 501, 525
Tunnelling on the Mari-Attock Railway, 192
Tunnelling, Subaqueous, Mr. J. H. Greathcad on, 500
Tunnels, Signalling iu, 466
Turbine Motor aud Dynamo, Laval’s Steam, 358, 359 ’
Turbines Working on The same Horizontal Axi?, Pair of, M. Emile Geyelin, 12
Turkish Paddle S:eamers, Trials of New, 414
Turkish Railways, List and Mileago of, 105
Turnbull, Mr. Rob9rt, His Appointment, 105
Turnor and Richter, Messrs., on “ Station Working,” 55
Turnip Cutter, Unchokable, Messrs. E. H. Ben- fall and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Turrets for American Warships, Double, 214
Tweddell’s Combination Riveter, 193
Twelvetrecs, Mr., Cartage and Dolivory, 55
Tweddell, Mr. Ralph Hart, 237 Two-IIundred-and-Twenty Volt Lamps, 360
Tylor, Mr. Louis, Welsh Coalowners and the Old Age Pensions, 191
Ty ne, Proposed New High Level Bridge over the, 405

UETLIBERG, Railway Accident on the, 266
Uganda Riilway, The, 234, 255
Uganda Railway, Progress of, 457
Uganda Railway, Mr. Whitehouse and his Staff, 477
Umaria Colliery Output, 160
Underground Cable Railway in Washington. Small, 369, 6
Underground Workings, Loss of Head in Air Currents Traversing, 218
Unionism, The Now, 390
United States, Armour Plates in the, 256
United States, Electric Railways in the, 631
United States, Battleships for the, 109, 192, 352, 501, 641
United States Battleships, Conference respecting the Proposed Now, 501
United States Battleship “Olympia,” 143
United States Battleship “Indiana,” Lieutenant
risko’s Range Indicators, 521
United States Battleship “Texas” Strained in Docking, 554
United Statee, Bessemer Steel Ingots Produced in the, 160
United States Bureau of Navigation, Returns for the past Year to, 369
United States, Canals of the, their Importance to Trade and the Desirability of their Improvement, 405 r
United States, Captain Jaques on War Material m tbe, 502
United States Commerce Destroyer “Columbia ” Tho, 354
United States, Crucible Steel Ingots Produced in the, 105
United States Cruiser “Columbia,” 266
United Srates Cruiser “Columbia,’”Run Made by tho, 217 7
United States Croiscr, Launch of a, 192
United States Cruiser, Passige Trial of tbe, 160
United States, Estimated Product of Gold and Silver in, for the Cilondar Year, 641
United States, Exports of Iron and Steel from, 160
United States, The “Good Roads” Parliament, Inventors of Horseless Carriages, 369
United States Government Dry Docks at Brooklyn and Puget Smnd, 501
United States, High Speeds in the, 484
United States, Income and Expenditure of Railways in tbe, 613
United States in 1894, Iron and Steel Ships built m tho. 71
United States Lighthouse Board, Oil Engines and Air Compressors for Sounding Fog Sirens,
United States Naval Academy, The Carrier Pigeon Service, 477
United S a»e? Naval Provinj Ground, Indian Head, 225, 232, 233
United States Navy, Armour Plates for tho, 624
United States Navy Department, Bids for the Construction of Battleships Nos. 5 and 6, Opened at, 641
United States Navy, Engineers for the, 526
United States Navy, New Battleships for the, 192, 611
United States, Railway Accidents in October in the, 641
United States, Railway Accident on the Seabeacb Railway, 234
United States, The Rivalry of tbo, 390
United States, September Accidents in the, Classified, 525
United States Statistics of The Railways in the, 577
United States, Steel Production in the, 105
United States, T»n in the, 405
United States Tin-plate Manufacture, 641
United States, Train Accidents in the, 286
United States Warship?, 109, 143, 192, 352, 472, 501, 521, 641
United States Yacht.“ Defender,” Sails of Ramie Cloth, 240
University College, London, Ezening Classes, 434
Unsheathed Warships, Decrease of Speed of, after Six or Twelve Months Afloat, 217
Urban Roads and Footways, Mr. J. Julian on, 625
Utrecht-Amersfoot Railway Extension, The, 266

VACUUM Pumps, How to Obtain Simpler Connection between the Clearances and the Body of, 35
Vagaries of Electricity, 371
Value of Quick-fire Ordnanco, 620
Valve, The Boyle Surplus, 319
Valve, Deadweight Safety, Mr. Isaac Storey, 648
Valve, Lewis’s Hot Blast, 331
Valve, The Luuken, 248
Valve, Steam Pipe Safety, 84
Valves? Triton, 555
Valve Gear, Marshall's, Holloway Electric Light Station, 639
Valve Gears, The Accuracy of, 238
Van B’dreu, Mr. J. D , Notes on High Masonry Dams, 352
Van Ollefen’s Bulkhead Door and Gear, 5
Vance Lightning Tube Cutter, Toe, 646
Vathairo, M. A., How to Remove Sulphur from Iron, 35
Vantour,” Accident to the French Cruiser, 59
Velocipode3 with Motors iu France, Oa the Taxing of, 457
Velocity of Projectiles Determined by Electricity, 266
Velvo-carbon Primary Battery, The, 252
Venezuela, Concession for a Railway in, 217
Ventilation for Monitor Vessels, 579
Ventilation and Warming, Mr. W. T. Sagg on, 549
Vera Cruz Harbour Improvements, 286 Vera Cruz, Port of, 441
Vernon-Harcourt, Mr. L. F., His Address to the Mechanical Science Section of The British Association, 269
Vessels, Steam and Sail, Built and Documented in the United States in The Past Year, 369
Viaduct Railway, Pennsylvania, 641
Vibration on Steel, Influence of, 579
Vibrations of Cords, M. A. Cornu on the Transverse, 217
Victoria, Railway Reforms in, 160
Victoria Station, Sheffield, Inadequacy of, 405
Victorian Railways, The Working of the, and Proposed Changes in, 309
“Victorious,” Launch of H.M.S. ,414
Vienna, 1896, Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, 217
Vienna, Fires in, 286
Vienna, Tenders Invited for Electric Railways for, 87
Vienna Terminus Destroyed by Firo, 105
Vignoles and Bull-headed Rails, Comparative Advantages of, 360
Villard and Jarry, Experiments with Dry Carbonic Acid, 234
Violle, Mr., Oo the Specific Heat at Boiling Point of Carbon, 35
Vipan and Ileadly’s Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Volga, Ferry Steamer for tbo, 317
Volga, Railway Ferry Steamer for the, 317, 284
“Vulcan,” The, Converted to a Tank Engine, 355

WADDINGTON, Mr. John, Newark Locomotive Buffer, 116
Wages Dispute on the Clyde, The, 356
Wages Dispute, The Shipbuilding, 391
Wagner’s Furnace Grate, 116
Wagon, Hopper Coal, 32
Waldo and Sons’ Butter Worker, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Wales and Adjoining Countio3, 26, 50 . 76, 96, 122, 148, 170, 196, 222, 244, 272, 296, 322, 348, 374, 39S, 4* 20, 444, 46S, 492, 516, 540, 564, 604, 630, 650
Wales, Light Railway for, 369
Wales and the London Water Scheme, 411
Wales, New Railways in South, 528
Walker's Tilts for Railway Wagons, 111
Walsall Chamber of Commerce, To Railway Freighters, 431
Walsall Wood District, Plans for the Sewerage of the, 613
Wanklyn, Mr. J. A , his Tensic-Meter, 309
War Material, Imperial Defence and, 89
War Material in the United States, Captain Jaques on, 502
Waring, Mr., his Report on Indian Railways, 556
Warsbip3, Breakdowns, 196
Warships, Coal Supply of our, 531
Warships, Decrease of Speed of Unsheathed, after Six or Twelve Months Afloat, 217
Warships, Double Turrets for American, 214
Warships for France, Two New, 266
Warships and Ordnanco, Now Designs in, 471
Warships, Testing Frames of, 393 Warships, The United States, 472
“ Warspite ” to bo repaired at Haulbowlino, The, 192
Warwickshire Coalfield, Development of the, 501
Warwickshire, Railway Accommodation for, 457
Washington, from the Capitol to the Congressional Library, Underground Cable Railway, 369
Washington, Horse Cars instead of Overhead Trolley System in, 525
Watches, Magnetisation of, 39
Wator, Aeration of Reservoir, by Compressed Air, 87
Water Box Furnace Grate, Mr. F. Graf, 553, 617
Water Box Grate, A, 553, 617
Water-closets, Agitation to Secure a Larger Flush for, 457
Water ou Coal, M. George 3 Arth on tb9 Action of, 217
Water Coolers on Railway Cars, Automatic Overflow for, 140
Water Filters, Mechanical, Te3ts of, at Minneapolis, 405
Water, Freezing Point of, Lowered by the Admixture of Milk, 525
Water Gauge Protector, C.* adock’s, Riyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Water Level Indicator and Detector, 647
Water Mains, Moving, without Shutting-off tbe Water, 357, 634
Water Meters, Hiring of, in South Wales, 303
Water Meter, New Positive, 339
Water, Orton, Projected Sewerage Works at, 369
Water Pipes, Constantly Charged, within the Mctroplis, Mileage of, 160
Water Power and Electric Plant for Loog Distance Transmission, 447
Water Power, Utilisation of. in Fresno, to Dovelope Electric Power, 160
Water, Propagation of Electrical Wavc3 io, 525
Water Purification, 580
Water Supply on Board Ship, 352
Water Supply, Comparative Charges in London and Elsewhere, 457
Water Supply of Edinburgh, The, 303
Water for Sopply of Locomotives carried by Train, 431
Water Supply for London, Available Sources of, 386
Water Sapply, London County Council Scheme of, 111
Water Supply in London, Rentals and Price of, 3S2
Water Supply, Metropolitan, 441
Water Supply, Metropolitan, Three Gallon Flashes or Two 1 613
Water Transfer Bill?, The Eight, all Suspended, 382
Water Troughs on the Great Western Railway, 286
Water-tube Boilers, 2, 39, 336. 366; 367, 527
Water-tube Boiler. Messrs. Fraser and Co.’s Compound Tube. 367
Water-tube Boilers, Mr. F. T. Milton on 2
Water-tube Boilers, Marine, 527
Water-tubs Boiler, Petersen and McDonald’s, 366
Wator-tubo Boilers, Trials to Tost The Du Tomple and Belleville Types of, 336
Waterloo and City Electrical Underground Railway, SI, 82, S3, 84, 114, 115
Waterloo and City Railway Company, Progress of Operations on the, 217
Waterloo Station to the City, Projected Overhead Railway from, 266
Waterways, Traffic Diagram of French Inland, 312
Waterworks, West llampshiro. 393
Waterworks Tower, Eden Park, Cincinnati, Tóe Highest Artificial Structure in America, 641
Weardale Railway to be Opened, 382
Wear Valley Extension Railway, Opening of, 405
Weaver Navigation, The, 536
Weber, Professor, on the Temperature of Filaments in Electric Incandescent Lamps, 13
Wedne8bury Sewage Disposal, 290
Weirs in Rivers, Mr. F. G. M. Stoney on, 334
Weight per Square Inch on Car Journals, 171
Weights and Measure?, Report of the Select Committee on Present System of, 59
Welbouro, Mr., Electric Distribution, 104
Welding Car, Electric Rail, 203
Welding a Carriago Tiro, 643
Welding, Electric, 615
Welding, Lead, M. Blondel’s Method, 160, 309
Wells Bros., Fixed Oil Engine, 8
Welsh Coalowners and tbe Old Age Pensions, 194
Wembley Tower, Progress of the, 266
West, Mr. F. J., On a Gas Storing Plant, 612
West, Thos. D., Tests of tbe Physical Properties of Cast Iron, 219
West Hampshire Waterworks, 393
West Highland Railway Bill, The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the, 192
Westminster Waterworks, Tbe New, 283
Westphalite, The Explosive, 266
Western Union Telegraph Company, Length of Miles added to its Wire Lines, 501
Westinghouse - Baldwin Electrical Locomotive Alliance, Practical Results cf tbe, 431
Wharf Erected ou Steel Rods at Rockland, Me., 405
Wheat Starch ? 507
Wheel Construction, Carter’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Wheel, Tqo Gigantic, 406, 407
Wheel Guard Fenders in Columbia, Captaio D. F. Fiebiger on, 554
Wheels, Single-driving, in the United States, 363
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Birmingham and its Canal Connections with the Seaports, 23 Wheeler, Mr. W. H., On the Effects of Wind and Atmosnheric Pressuro on the Tides, 319, 405
White, Mr. John, Automatic Stocking Knitter,
116
Whitehouse, Mr., His Staff, 477
White and Baltic Seas, Projected Railway to Connect the, 309
White Star Cargo Steamer, Cargo Carried by the New, 286
White Star s.s. “Georgic,” Launch of, 14, 17
Whiteside, Mr. G., On Light Railways, 382
Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 197, 227
Wiggio, Mr., On Nickel Steel, 199, 219
“ Wild Duck,” The Steam Launch, 141,142
Wilkinson, Mr. T. L., On the Adoption of the Decimal System in Calculations Relating to Railway Construction and Working, 29
Wilkinson, Mr. W. F., Chromo Iron Oro Mining in Asia Minor, 4
Williams, Sir Leader, On the Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, 526
Willcox, Mr. J. E., and the Evesham Rural District Council’s Scheme for Villagos Water Supply, 369
Willcox, Mr. J. E , The Water Orton Sewerage Scheme, 369
Willson Aluminium Company and the Making of Calcium Carbide, 477
Wilmot and Co.’s Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Steel Articles, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Wilson - Barker, Captain D., “Clouds and Weather,” 595
Wilson and Co., Messrs. J. H., Steam Crane Excavator, Messrs. Simpson and Porter, 180
Wilson, Rear-Admiral, Masthead Signalling, 183
Wind and Atmosphere on the Tides, Effect of, 319
Wind, On the Force of the, 468
Wind Velocities, Mr. E. F. Miller’s Table of, 231
Winding Shaft?, Temporary and Permanent Repairs to, 612
Windmills at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Windsor-street Works of the City of Birmingham Gas Department, Visited, 200
Winter, M., On the Lowering of the Freezing Point of Water by tbe Admixture of Milk,525
Wire Guns of tbe “ Majestic” Tested, The, 336
Wire Ropes, Messrs. G. Cradock and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Witz, M. A., On Lighting by Luminescence, 192
Witz, Professor A., Tests with a Benier Gazigene Meter, 59
Woking Drainage and Sewage Schemes, 59 Wolfram Ore ? 411
Wood Drying and Seasoning, Mr. H. C. Lap- pert’s Process for, 160
Wood, Green, Conducts Electricity Better than Dead, 382
Wood for Making Spools for Thread in tbo United States and England, 369
Wood Paving Blocks, Karri, 511
Wood Pulp Articles? Moulded, 41
Wooden Railway, Florida, 551
Woolf Process, Electrozono made by the, to be used as a Disinfectant, 525
Woolwich Arsenal, A Unionist Government and, 89
Work, Average Pressure in which Men CaD, 13
Work of Steam, The, 12 Working of the Railways, 311
Workshop Gas Furnaces, 39
World’s Columbian Exposition, Proportion of Exhibitors and Awards, 595
Worm Gear Driven Machine Tools, 504
Woim Gearing for Power Transmission in Electrical Works, On the Use of, 501
Worsdell, Mr., On the Brake Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 304
Worsdell, Mr. William, Express Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway (Supplement, September 26th, 1S95), 291, 292
Worthington, Mr. E., Electric Locomotives, 521
Wright and Co., Messrs., Feed-water Heater, and Filter, 487
Wrightson, Mr. Thomas, Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of Iron and Steel, 559
Wye, Projected Bridge over the, 309
Wynne Edwards, Mr. T. A., Harrow, 11
Wynne, Timmins, and Co., Their New Spanners, 87
W. H. and L. Collingridge v. The City Press, Limited, 545

YARROW and Co., Messrs., Liunch of The “ Sokol,” 209
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Torpedo Boat Destroyer " Sokol,” 263
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Vessels of the “Sokol” Type, 510
Yarrow, Mr., Torpedo Boat “Sokol,” 525
Yenisei, Scheme for Correcting tbe Course of tbe, 217
York, Sowerage Works, 93
Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 485
Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 186
Yorkshire Patent Drill Company’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
Yöst, Mr. G. W. N., 431
Young, Mr. J. D., On Marine Propellers, 501

ZANOTTA, M., On Junctions, 29
Zappert, Mr. II. C., Process for Drying and Saasoning Wood, 160
“ Zsbra,” Liunch of H.M.S., 549
Zinc by Electrolysis, Refining Impure, 143
Zurich, Conference on Uniform Methods of Testing Materials of Construction, 30

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ABBE and Schott, Drs , New Series of Glos3sfi Discovered by, 405
Aberthan, Collapse of Bridge at, 266
Abstracts of Consular and Diplomatic Reports, 211
Accelerated Train Service <74 Hook of Holland, 336
Accelerated Train Service between London and Constantinople, 336
Acceleration of Transport of Merchandise, Mr. Lambert, 29
Accident to the “ Aquila,” 58
Accident, Blasting, 105
Accident at the East 11am Sewage Pumping Station, 13
Accidents Duo to Failure of Machinery, Springs, &c., in Six Months, 431
Accident in Messrs. Palmer’s Shipyard, 160
Accidents, Personal and Other, on Railways and Railway Premises, 595
Accidents, Railway, in America, Fatal, 35
Accidents, Railway, in America, Classification of, 641
Accident, Riilway, io Arkansas, 13
Accident, Railway, Barcelona, 160
Accident, Railway, in Belgium, 369
Accident, Railway, on the Caledonian Line, 105
Accident, Railway, Caused by Fog, 641
Accident, Railway, at East Croydon, Immense Value of Automatic Brakes, 554
Accident, Riilway, on the Grand Trunk Railway, 143
Accident, Railway, on The Great Northern, 477
Accidents, Riilway, India, 87
Accident, Railway,at the Mont Parnasse Station, Remarkable, 405, 429
Accident, Railway, at Preston Station, Board of Trade Report on, 87
Accident, Railway, on the South-Eastern, 105
Accident, Railway, at The Surrey Canal Junction, 641
Accidents, Railway, in the United Kingdom, 309, 405
Accidents, Railway, in the United States, 160, 286, 309, 477, 525
Accidents in the United States in September, I Classified, 525
Accident on the Seabeach Railway, 234
Accident, A Traction Engine, 206
Accident, Tramway, in Cleveland, 554
Accrington and Church Outfall Sewerage Board Sued by the Ribble Committee, 107
Accumulators— What They can Do, 613
Accuracy of Valve Gears, The, 238
Acetylene and Carbonic Acid Gas, Dr. Krdger on, 457
Ackerman’s Armour Plates, 391
Ackerman Process of Treating Armour Plate, Too, 641 & Court, Mr. Sydney, On Civil Engineering, 626
Acworth, Mr., On Railway Economics, 405
Adam’s Bridge, 364
Adam’s Bridge Railway, The, 90, 104
Adams, Mr., Retirement of, 43
Adams, Prof. II., Oa The Force of the Wind, 468
Aden, Frosh Water at, 25
Adhesion of Metals to Glass, On tho, 131
Admiralty Buildings, The Now, 387
Adzing and Bering Machine, Sleeper, 103, 104
Aeration of Reservoir Water by Compressed Air, 87
Aeronautical Apparatus, Proposed Exhibition of, at the Paris Exposition, 59
Africa, Riilway Extension in South, 105
Africa, The Usambara Railway in East, 160
Agassiz, Prof., on Temperature of Rocks, 651
Agricultural Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9, 10, 11, 11
Agricultural Machinery Exhibition in Vienna, 1896, 217
Agricultural Processes, Electricity Applied to, 349
Agricultural Show, Royal—see Royal Agricultural Show
Air and Circulating Pumps for 3000-Horse Power Mill Engines Patentee, Mr. J. G. Hudson, 140, 164
Air Currents Traversing Underground Workings, Loss of Head in, 218
Air, Moan Daily Movement of the, at Greenwich in 1895, 13
Air Pressure in which Men can Work, Maximum, 13
Air Propellers, Fans and, 435
Air Pump and Jet Condenser, Drum, 189
Air, Ratio of the Two Specific Heats for, 35
Albion Windmill, Mr. II. Sykes, 11
Alcohol on Mercurous Iodide, Action of, 647
“Alert,” Sale of the Flagship, 286
Algiers, Petroleum in, 517
Allan and Co., Messrs. W., Triple-expansion Eogines, s s. “Lizzie Westoll” (Supplement, JnlyMtk, 1895), 62
Allan, Mr. William, and the Belleville Boilers, 234
Allen and Blackwell’s Observations with Surface Floats for the Discharge of Niagara and other Rivers, 382
Alloys, Mr. W. G. McMillan on the Nature of, 361
Alloys of Copper and Zinc, M. Charpy on the Mechanical Properties of, 405
Alloys of Tin and Zinc as Solder for Glass, 266
Alternator, Mordey-Victoria, Leicester Electricity Works, 56
Aluminium, M. Faucon on, 270
Aluminium Alloys, Resistance to Corrosion of Light, 87
Aluminium Cups for a Rain Gauge Tried and Rejected, 296
Aluminium and Copper, M. Le Chatelier on a Fusion of, 87
Aluminium, Effects of Weather upon Sheet, 266
Aluminium Fixings of the Texas Torpedo Boats, Action of Salt Water on the, 309
Aluminium on the French State Railway, Use of, 477
Aluminium with other Metals, Coating, 286
Aluminium and other Metals to Glass, On the Adhesion of, Mr. C. Margot, 131
Aluminium in Ship Work, 579
Aluminium Torpedo Boats, 407
Aluminium Torpedo Tubes Proved to be Unreliable, 501
Aluminium Tubos ? 41
Aluminium Wire, Action of Electric Current on, 457
Aluminium Works at The Falls of Foyers, 212
American Asphalte, Dr. W. C. Day on, 525
American Cruiser “Columbia,” Atlantic Passage of the, 160
American Engineer and Engineer!ng Journal, The, Bi-weekly Publication of, 431
American Engineering News, 74, 94, 118,146,168, 294, 346, 372, 442, 538, 561, 627, 648
American Iron Trade, Activity in, 286
American Lakes, Shipbuilding on the, 357, 401
American Liner “St. Louis,” The New, 13, 35
American Liner “ St. Louis,” Trial of, 160, 192
American Machinery, Reputed Excellence of, 35
American Navy, Smokeless Powder in the, 527
American Notes, 26, 51, 77, 97,123, 149, 171,197, 223, 245, 272, 297, 322, 349, 375, 398, 420, 442, 469, 493, 516, 541, 564, 631, 651
American Railroads and Tracks, 391
American Railways, The Defects of, 319
American Railways, Train Accidents on, 160
American Self-propelled Carriages, 495
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 239
“American Special Express,” The Rumoured, Unfounded, 160
American Trade Improvement, Tho, 647
American Warships, Doublo Turrets for, 214
Amphibious Passenger Boats, 370, 434, 466, 490, 504, 538, 616
“Amphitrite,” Protest of the Officers of the, 76
Amu Daria, Proposed Railway Bridge across the, 160
Analysis of Chromo Ore and Ferro-Chromuim, Mr E. II. Saniter, 177
Anatolian Railway, New Section of, 554
Ancona Harbour, Tenders for Repair of, 35
Andersen, Dr. W., Experiment in Organ Blowing, 284
Andrews, Mr. Thos., On Railway Axles, 456
“Andromeda,” Propelling Machinery of the New Cruiser, 468
Angus and Co., Manufactured Leather of all Kinds, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Anstie, Mr. John, Scheme for Drainage and Sewage of Woking District, 59
Anthracite Briquettes, A Recent Patent for, 369
Anti-fouling Composition, One Side of H.M.S. “ Prince George ” coated with, 217
Antrobus, Mr. II. L., His Re-appointment, 13
Appleyard, Mr. R., On the Action of Sulphur Vapour on Copper, 554
Appleyard, Mr. R., On a Direct Reading Platinum Thermometer, 525
Apyrite, A New Refractory Substance, 191
Apyrite in Rhenish Bavaria, 143
“Aquila,” On the Accident on Board the Torpedo Boat, 58, 87
Architectural Curriculum at King’s College, 309
Argon, 1st Hodgkin’s Prize Granted to Lord Rayleigh and Professor W. Ramsay for their Memorandum on, 501
Argon, M. Th. Sehloesing, jun, on the Elimation of, 525
Armour Plate, The Ackerman Process of Treating, 641
Armour Plates, Ackerman’s, 391
Armour Plates, Hanging of llirveyed, 464, 529
Armour Plate Making, 337
Armour Plates for the United States Navy, 624
Armour-Plate Test of a Chrome Steel, 266
Armour Plates in the United States, 256
Armour Plating of the “ Iowa,” Testing of, 160
Armour Plating, Vegetable Fibre or Sawdust Chemically Treated and Applied to, 192
Armour Test, The Navy Department, 335
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., SirW. G., Railway Ferry Steamer for the Volga, 284
Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Speed Trials of the “ Buenos Aires,” 461
Armstrong, Prof. G. F., Ilis Election, 477
Arndt’s Patent Economotcr, 240
Arnold, Mr. John Oliver, “ Influence of Carbon on Iron,” 559
Arrol, Sir William, Ridicule the Notion of a Channel Bridge, 405
Arrol’s Bridge and Roof Co., Contracts Placed with Messrs., by Messrs. A. Waterhouse and Son, 641
Artesian Well, Blasting in an, 218
Artb, M. Georges, On the Action of Water on Coal, 217
Artillery Practico, Okchampton, 365
Artisans’ Dwellings, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company’s, 369
Arundel Drainage Works, The Duke of Norfolk and the, 457
Ashanti and Gold Coast Colony, Map of, 554
Ashbourne, Light Electric Railway from Derby to, 457
Ashmore, Benson, Pease, and Co., Limited, Gasholder without Columns, 547
Asia Minor, Chrome Iron Ore Mining in,
Aslett, Mr. Alfred, His Appointment, 105
Asphalte, American, 525
Asphalte Pavements, Improved, 59
Asphalte Paving, New Form of, 266
Aspinall, Mr., On Express Locomotives, 1
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., His Appointment, 431
Assmann, Professor, State Observatory Established on the Brocken by, 336
Association for the Advancement of Science, The Australasian, Seventh Session, 140
Association, American International, of Railway Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings at New Orleans, Report of, 536
Association of Engineers, The Bristol:— Creation and Development of the Steam
Engine, Mr. H. W. PearaoD, 468
Association of Engineers, The Leeds:—
Visit to the Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company’s Works, 171
Association of Engineers, The Manchester:— Electric Locomotives, Mr. E. Worthington, 521 Syllabus for the Fortieth Session, 404
Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London :—
How not to do some Things, Mr. William T. Coates, 481
Safety Appliances for Lifts, Mr. W. P. Heath, 381
Association, Iron Trades Employers’, 90
Report Drawn up for, On the Situation of the Clyde and Belfast Strikes, by Mr. J. Stafford Ransome, 559
Association of Municipal and County Engineers, The Incorporated :—
Twentieth Voluntary Pass Examination for the Offices of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors, 368
Association, New York Street Railway:—
Car Boating by Electricity, Mr. J. F. McElroy, 450
Association, The Self-propelled Traffic, 599
Association of Waterworks Engineers, Proposed, 504, 529, 602
Association, Yorkshire Miners’, 186
Athens, On the Rainfall at, 613
Atlantic, Lighthouse on Sule Skerry in the, 266
Atlantic Liners, America and British, 509
Attock, Mr. F., His Resignation, 431
“Aurania,” Accident to the, 105
“Aurora,” Re-armament of the, 613
Australia, Railway Locomotives for, 13
Australia, Railway Mileago in West, 13
Australia, The Year-Book of, on Gauges, 13
Australian Coal, 391
Australian Engineering Notes, 146, 418, 562, 628
Austrian Ironfounders, Iron Disposed of in Seven Months by the Syndicate of, 192
Austro-Hungarian State Railway Terminus Destroyed by Fire, 105
Autocars, 418
Automatic Brakes, Immense Value of, 554
Automatic Gas Engino Starter, Groens, 312
Automatic Mountings for Heavy Guns, The New “Centurion,” 616
Automatic Overflow for Water Coolers, 140
Automatic Road Carriages, 290, 334, 408, 409
Automatic Signals between Greenwich Observatory and the Westminster Clock, 336
Automatic Stocking Knitter, 116
Auvert, M., On Electric Traction, 19, 47, 73, 119
Available Sources of Water Supply for London, 386
Avon Park, Florida, Wooden Railway, 554
Awards at The Columbian Exhibition, Small Percentage of Exhibits Receiving, 382
Awards, Result of the Non-competitive System of, Columbian Exhibition, 382
Axles, Failures of, on British Railways, 613
Axles, Railway, Mr. Thos. Andrews on, 456

BABCOCK and Wilcox Boilers on the “Zenith City,” Trial of, 431
Backer, M. do, On Contributive Traffic, 55
Bagley, Mr., On the Burno-Chinese Railway, 336
Bailey, Mr., On Incandescent Lamp3 and their Manufacture, 500
Bainbridge, Mr., and the Miners, 412
Baines, Mr. G. H., On the Introduction of the Metric System of Weights and Measures, 501
Baird and Son, Messrs. Archibald, Presentation to, 474
Baker, Sir Benjamin, Appointed Trustee of the
Benevolent Fund of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 369
Baker, Sir Benjamin, His Presidential Address at the Institute of Civil Engineers, 480, 483, 512
Balanced Locomotive and Engineering Co., Strong Locomotives, 143
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Express Locomotive for Chicago Mail Trains, 382
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Chili, 192
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Locomotives for Russian Railways, 595
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 19in. by 26in. Passenger Engine, 234
Baldwin Locomotive Works, A Queer New Type of Locomotive, 286
Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Westinghouse Co., Business Combination between the, 192
Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Co., Alliance of the, 336
Balloon with Self-registering Instruments, 59
Ballyshannon, Proposed Extension of The Donegal Railway to, 266
Baltic and Black Sea Ship Canal, Tho, 237
Baltic and North Sea Canal, Compound Engines of Steam Hopper Barge on the (Supplement, October 25th, 1S95), 415
Baltic and North Sea Canal, Excavators, Dredgers, &c., 310, 316
Baltic Canal—see also North Sea and Baltic Canal Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Electric Locomotive, 548
Baltimore Tunnel Electric Locomotive in Service, 404
Bamford and Sons’ Agricultural and Harvesting Implements, 11
Bamford’s Mower Gear, 10
Band Saw Machine, Horizontal, 23, 32, 63
Bangkok-Korat Railway, The, 217, 457
Bankers’ Strong Room, George Price Lim.,336
Bankfoot, Proposed Extension of Railway to, 266
Bankside Station, Ferranti Machines and Willaus Engines at the, 234
Bansept Patents, New Intensive Gas Burner covered by the, 501
“Barbadien,” Explosion on Board the, 105, 234
Barcelona Railway Accident, 160
Barcelona, 6000-Ton Depositing Dock for, 354
Barford and Perkin’s Straw and Ilay Press, 9
Barium Ferrocyanide, Removing Sulphur from Iron by the Agency of, 35
Barmen Electric Tramway, 553
Barometers, Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of, 613
Barrage, The Nile, 427, 432
Barrow Steel Works Closed for an Indefinite Time, 192
Basic Furnace, 194
Batavia, The Harbour of, 204, 205, 207
Bath and West and Southern Counties Agricultural Society’s Places of Meeting, 105
Batourn, Harbour near, 217
Battery Cars with Chloride Butteries, Storage, 369
Battery, M. Laura’s Secondary, 217
Battery, Steel Frame Stamp, for Wet Crushing, 252 253
Battery, The Velvo-Carbon, 252
Battleship “ Bouvines,” The French, 210, 214
Battleships, British, 87, 135, 160, 192, 217, 234, 286, 309, 316, 365, 414, 415, 485, 490,500,512, 549, 554,613
Battleships, French, Alterations in Progress, 87
Battleships, French Armoured, 88, 92
Battleships, Improvement in the Coal Consumption of, 197
Battleships, Italian, at Portsmouth, 31, 37, 40
Battleship “Magnificent” to be Completed by December 12th, 336
Battleships for the United States of America, Test of the Section of a Side of a Ship at Indian Head, 35
Battleships for the United States, 109, 352
Boatings, Lubrication and Wear of, 160
Beck, Messrs. R. and J., Card Case Opera Glass, 511
Belfast Central Electric Lighting Station, The, 278-280
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Company, Directors’ Report, 105
Belfast, Scheme for Lighting the Harbour, 546
Belfast Strikes, The Clyde—see Clyde and Belfast Strike
Belgian Railways, Lighting and Heating of Rolling Stock on, 87
Belgian Railways, Substitution of Electric Traction for Steam Locomotives on, 87
Belgian Railways, Tickets with Traveller’s Photograph Attached, 217
Belgian Workshops, The Metro in, 396
Belgium, Coal Export from, 13
Belgium, Disastrous Railway Accident, 369
Belgium, Number of Furnaces in Blast in, 105
Belgrade Drainage Works, Quays, and Warehouses, Tenders Invited for, 87
Bell, A Big Bronze, for a Church at Montmartre, 336
Bell, An Old Station, 457
Boll’s Asbestos Works, Messrs., Visit to, 514
Bell, Casting of, in Cincinnati, 613
Bell and Rocliffe’s Plate-joggling Machine, Pallion Yard, 19
Bell, Mr. Thomas, Proposed Retirement of, 457
Belleville Boilers, The, Engineer Officers of H.M. Cruisers “Powerful” and “Terrible” should be Familiarised with the Working of, 160
Belleville Boilers, Mr. William Allan on the, 234
Belleville Boiler and its Evaporative Efficiency, The, 464
Belleville Boilers on The Lake Steamer “ North- West ” Condemned, 382
Benier Gazogene Meter, Prof. A. Witz on a, 59
Bennett, Mr. A. R., On Municipal Telephony, 477
Bental and Co.’s Mower, 11
Bentall and Co.’s Mower, and Uncbokable Turnip Cutter, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Bergmannstage at Hanover, 143
Berg, Mr. W. G., Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 536
Berlin Ga9 Heating, Valuo of, 160
Berlin Industrial Exhibition, 1896, 217
Bessemer Process, The Robert, 412
Bessemer Steel Ingots in the United States, Production of, 160
Bessemer Steel Production in England, 521
Bevis, Mr., Engines and Boilers of The s.s. “Queen of the North,” (Supplement, November 1* 7, 1895), 426
Bicycle Fever on The Rubber Trado, Effect of the. 478
Bicycle Problem, 191
Bicycles for Inspectors of the Streot Cleaning Department in New York, 595
Bids for Composite Gunboats, 420
Bidwell, Mr. Shelford, Electrical Properties of Selenium, 35
Biggart, Mr. A. S., Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, 99
Bill for Powers to Provide London with Sea Water, 525
Bills, Private, in Preparation for the Coming Session, 525
Birch Wood for Spools from Maine Forest, 369
Birmingham and its Canal Connections with the Seaports, Mr. W. Wheeler on, 23
Births and Deaths Registered in London, 192, 234, 266, 309, 369, 525
Bismuth, On The Variation with Temperature of the Hall Effect in, 525
Blackwall, The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, 567—578
Blackwall Tunnel, Tho, 365, 430, 635, 636, 637, 638, 642
“Blake,” H.M.S., 490
Blast Furnace Gas Boilers, 532
Blasting Accident at Smerwick, 105
Blasting in an Artesian Well, 218
Blechynden Express Boiler, The, 406
Block Instruments, Electric Control of, on Busy Sections of Railways, 525
Blondel, M., His Method of Welding Lead, 160, 309
Blotting Paper, “Spongia,” 35
Blower, Mr. M. R. Ruble, 5
Blowing Engines, Murdock’s, 434
Blyth-built Steamer, Trial Trip of a, 651
Blyth, Sir James, On Dairy Farm Buildings, 48
Board of Trade, The, 500
Board of Trade and Electric Lighting, The, 42
Board of Trade Inquiry, Redcar Ironworks Explosion, 72, 81
Board of Trade Inspector on the Necessity of Automatic Control of Block Instruments, 525
Board of Trade Officers, 65
Board of Trade Reports on Boiler Explosions, 13
Board of Trade Report on The Caledonian Railway Accident, 105
Board of Trade Return, Accidents on Railways and Railway Premises, 595
Board of Trade Returns of Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, 309
Beats, Amphibious Passenger, 370, 434, 466, 490, 504, 538, 616
Boats, Horse-Propelled Paddle, 505
Boats on Inland Watorways, Traction of, 109. 142, 166
Boby, Mr. R., Hay Makers and Corn‘Dressing Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Bogie Carriages on Express Trains, /Vs to the Adoption of, 266
Boilers, Act parsed in Iknver requiring all in charge of, to bo Licensed, 595
Bailers, Belleville, Condemned on the Lake Steamer “ North West,” 382
Boilers, Belleville, and their Evaporative Efficiency, 464
Boilers, Belleville, their Working and Management 160 I
Boilers, The Belleville, 160, 234, 382, 464
Boilers, Blast Furnace Gas, 532
Boiler, Blecbynden Express, 406
Boilers of the “Chicago,” The Steel for the, 595
Boiler, Compound Tube Water-tube, Messrs. Fraser and Co., 367
Boiler, Cost of Running an Inspirator to Feed a, 457
Boiler Disincrustant, Liquid Carbonic Acid as a, 501
Boilers, Experiments on Locomotive, at the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 227
Boiler Explosions, Causes of Two, 13
Boiler Explosion, A Curious, 262, 333
Boiler Explosions in Denver and tbo Act to Diminish such in Future, 595
Boiler Explosion in the Detroit Journal Building, 457, 525
Boiler Explosions, Domestic, 650
Boiler Explosion, The Rodcar, 108, 166, 189, 216, 226
Boiler Feed, 579
Boilers and Feed Water, 338
Boilers, Firo-boxes and Tubes, Mr. E. Sauvage,
Boiler Fittings, Manganese Bronze, 545
Boiler, The Haythorn Tubulous, 152
Boilers of H.M.S. “Chargor,” Concerning the, 192
Boilers of II. M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer “ Rocket,” Leaks in the, 105
Boiler Inspectors, 235, 258, 291, 309, 359, 386
Boilers, Locomotive, Experiments on, at the Works of The Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 179
Boilers, Locomotive, at the Works of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 43, 91
Boilers, Marine, 363
Boilers, Prevention of Scale in, 336
Boilers, RivetiDg Machine for Locomotive, 193
Boilers of Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Steel Tubes in place of Copper for the, 336
Boilers, Trial of the Babcock and Wilcox, 431
Boilers, Water-tube, 39
Boilers, Water-tube Marine, 527
Boilers, Water-tube, Mr. F. T. Milton on, 2
Boilers, Water-tube, Different Types to be Tested, 336
Boiler, Water-tube, Petersen and McDonald's, 366
Bonehill, M. Emile, Direct Puddling of Iron, 176
Books Received, 15, 43, 67, 91, 113, 163,187,213, 237, 308, 365, 413, 437, 461, 485, 510, 533, 557, 599, 620, 645
Boon to Railway Companies, A, 16
Borcher’s, Dr., Apparatus for Preparing Calcium Carbide, 641
Borneo, British North, Telegraph Line in, 105
Boron as an Alloy in Steel, 234
Boron Steel, MM. Moissan and Charpy on, 143
Boston and Albany Railway, Rails Laid on Part of its Track, 59
Bottles for Holding Carbonic Acid, Experiments on, 171
Boulton, Mr., Links in the History of the Locomotive, 240
“Bouvines,” The French Battleship, 210, 214
Bow, McLichlan, and Co., Compound Paddle Engines and Ship Steering Gear, 428, 489
Bow, McLachlan, and Co., Thistle Works, Paisley, 423, 424, 433
Bowor Barff Patent, The, 46
Bowness Sewage Scheme, 205
Boyle Surplus Valve, 319
Bradford’s Butter Moulding and Drying Machine, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 15
Brakes, Automatic, their Value proved by the Railway Accident at East Croydon, 554
Brakes, Continuous, 504
Brake, Continuous, its Origin, 38
Brakes, Friction, 250
Brakes for Light Railways, Mr. Plocq, 29, 54
Brakes, Link in the History of Continuous Railway, 35
Brake, Quick-acting, 396, 409, 466
Brake-rolls, Differential Speeds in, 148
Brake Trials on The North-Eastern Railway, 304, 334
Brassworkors’ Association, Absenco of Relief Applications during a week a Unique Event, 457
Brazil, Railway Material Ordered in England for, 192
Brewer, Mr. W. J., Brighton Dyke and Aerial Ropeway, 329, 330
Brick Arch Roof, Testing a, 192
Brickdust Mortar as Substitute for Hydraulic Cement, 266
Bricks, Glass, of the Falconier System, 431
Brick Machine, Dry Pross, 71, 94
Bridge at Aberthan, Collapse of, 266
Bridge, Adam’s, 364
Bridge building, Rapid, at Ely, 525
Bridges, Construction and Tests of Metallic, Mr. Edler von Leber, 30
Bridge over the Danube at Budapest, Now Stiffened Suspension, 60, 67, 106, 107, 108, 647
Bridge over the Danube, Inauguration of The Great, 336
Bridge, Edinburgh, The New Waverley, 128, 135
Bridge across the Hudson River, 266
Bridge, Kotri Railway, Indian Railways, 535
Bridge, Montreal, and the Proposed New, 183
Bridge ovor Niagara Gorge, New Suspension, 87
Bridge and Railway, The Channel, 105
Bridge, Railway, over the Weichsol, 548, 551, 552
Bridge at Rendsburg, Railway Swing, 127, 142
Bridge, Rutberglen, 182, 188
Bridges, Stono, on The Great Northern Company’s New Line, 309
Bridges, Superstructure of Railway, 394, 395, 416 418
Bridges, Suspension, of Maximum Span, 247
Bridges ? Swing, 15
Bridge of Tolbiac on the Orleans Railway, Opening of tho, 59
Bridge, Traffic over London and the Tower, 369
Bridge and Trestle Timbers, Strength of, 536
Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, A New High Level, 405
Bridge ovor the Wye, Projected, 309
Bridge, York, Strengthening Ixmdal, 633
Bridges which ought to be Examined, Railway,
Bridgwater, Proposed Ship Canal to, 438
Bridgwater Town Council, Contemplated Improvement of the Parret, 405
Brierley, Mr. Harwood, Spurn Point and its L’ghtbcusfs, 241
Brighton Dyke Aerial Ropeway, 329, 330
Brighton and Rottingdean Seashcre Electric Tramroad, 453
Bristol, Electric Tramway Inaugurated, 382
Britannia Company’s Fixed Oil Engine, 7
Britannia Company, Portable Oil Engine, 319
British Association, The, 254
Inaugural Address of the President, Sir Douglas Galton, 254
Inaugural Address of the President of the Mechanical Section, Mr. L. Vernon-Harcourt, 254, 269
Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tides, Mr. W. II. Wheeler, 319
Ilormite Process of Deodorising Sewage at Ipswich, Mr. J. Napier, 345
Ipswich Meeting, Section G, Provisional Programme. 220, 254
Visits to Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Works, to Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner’s, and to Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier’s, 289
Weirs in Rivers, Mr. G. F. M. Stoney, 334
Works to bo Visited, 254
British Railways, Capital Invested in, 35
British Coal Industry, The, 389
British Locomotives, Some Remarkable Performances in, 69
British Railway Material, Japan and, 163
British Shipbuilding, 430
British Small-arm Ammunition, 12
Broad Gaugo v. Narrow Gauge, 617
“Brooklyn,” Launch of the U.S., 192
Brooklyn Trolley Roads, Effect of the Reduced Speed on the, 59
Brown, Mr. C., Locomotive Steam Crane, 293
Brown, Marshalls, and Co.’s Hopper Coal Wagon, 32
Brownhills Urban District Council, Plans for the Sewerage of the Walsall Wood District, 613
Browning Automatic Gun, Tested at Indian Head, 595
Bruff, Mr., His Retirement from Active Work, 35
Brunner, Mond, and Co., Works on Teesside, 382
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Leicester Electricity Works, 56, 57, 64
Brussels a Port, 554
Brussels Tramway Co., their Trolley System of Electric Traction, 35
Brussels Declares Itself a Seaport, 405, 547
“Bruxelles Port de Mer,” 405, 547
Bryant, Mr. C. W., Elevating and Depressing Gear for Heavy Ordnance, 143
Buchanan and Sons, Messrs. James, Coal Elevating and Conveying Machinery, 132
Buck, Professor de Burg, On the Physiological Laboratory of the Yorkshire College and its Instrumental Equipment, 559
Buckingham, Sewerage Works for, Scheme Explained, 457
Bude, Projected Railway to, 431
Budleigh Salterton, A New Railway to, 501
“Buenos Aires,” Firing Trial of Elswick Cruiser, 593
Buffer, The Newark Locomotive, 116
Buffet Car on Street Railroad in Philadelphia, 143
Building Materials, Technical Congress at Zurich for Securing Unity of Methods in the Testing of, 266
Buildings, Moving, 507, 537
Bulgaria, New Railways and Harbours, 382
Bulgarian Railway, Tenders Invited for a, 87
Buoys, Electric Light, Sandy Hook, 35
Burke Electric System for Operating Gun Turrets, Test of the, 266
Burraah to the China Frontier, Proposal for a Railway from, 369
Burmah, Electric Light in, 22
Burmoister and Wain’s “Danish Junior ” Separators, 11
Burmo-Chinese Railway, With Reference to the, 336
Burnett, Mr. R. H., Six-Coupled Locomotive, Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood Railway (Supplement, October 4th, 1895)
Burntisland, Extension of Docks, 5-16
Burroll and Co., Messrs. C., Improved Compound Road Roller, 579
Burton, Griffiths and Co., Water i/cvol Indicator and Detector, 647
Bute Dock Company’s Projected New Railways in Monmouthshire, 431
Butter Moulding and Drying Machine, Bradford’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Butter Worker, Wilmot and Sons, Ibyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45

CABLE Tramways for Edinburgh, 409
Cable, Steel, for the Columbus Avonue Railway, 4o7
Cable Inclined Railway up Prospect Mountain. M.Y., 87
Caird and Co., Messrs., Launch of the “Palawan.” 234
Caird and Rayner’s Works, Visit of the Junior Engineers to Messrs., 436
Caisson at Nassel-IIama, Sinking of a, 192
Calcium Carbide, The Willson Aluminium Company and,477
Caledonian Railway, Accident on the, 105
Caledonian Railway Extension, Pressure Exerted on the Company for, 309
Caledonian Railway, Jabilee of tho, 89
Calendar for 1896, 625
Calorimeter, Junker’s Gas, 164
Cambrian Railways, Illustrated Guido to the, 35
Cambrian Railway, Tank Engines on the, 191
Cameron, Mr. John, Punching and Shearing Machine, 614
“Campania’s” Record, The, 217
Campbell Gas Engine Company’s Engines, 8
Campbell-Stokes Instrument, Hours of Sunshine Recorded by, 336
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company’s Fire Guard on both Sides of Track, 160
Canadian Sault St. Marie Canal, Opening of, 168
Canals, 63
Canal, The Baltic and Black Sea Ship, 237
Canal, The Brussels, Decree Signed, 405
Canal between Brussols and Willebrock, 554
Canal, Cauadiau Sault St. Marie, Openiug of the, 168
Canal Connecting Great Salt Pond on Block Island with the Ocean, 59
Canal, Cost of the Projected Prussian Ship, 266
Canals, 1 ho Erie, Champlain, and Oswego, Iesue of Bopds for the Improvement of. 405
Canal Haulage, 191
Canal, Leeds aud Liverpool, 441
Canal, The Manchester Ship, 180
Canal, Nicaragua, 263, 580
Canal, North Sea and Baltic—see North Sea, Ac.
Canal, The Panama, 431, 647
Canal Profits iu India, 647
Canals and Rivers of North Germany, 101
Canal, Ship, to Bridgwater, 438
Canal, The Trollhatta aud Gota, 194
Canals, Two New, 13
Canals in the United States, Vote in Favour of the Improvement of, 599
Candle Making Machinery ? 507
Canwick Irrigation Farm, New Works Opened, 477
Caoutchouc Cement for Cycle Tires, 309
Cape Colony, Railway Extension, 382
Cape Government Railways, Goods Engines and Tenders for the (Supplement, November 22nd, 1895), 497,510
Capital Invested in British Railways, 35
Capper, Professor D. S., On the Lille Experiments on the Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for Power Transmission, 639
Car Journals, Weight per Square Inch on, 171
Carbide of Calcium for Carburetting, On the Use of, 405
Carbon Dioxide, On the Use of Liquid, for Chilling Test Pieces, 105
Carbon into Graphite, Furnace for Transforming, 59
Carbon on Iron, Influence of, 559
Carbonic Acid, Experiments on Bottles for Holding, 171
Carbonic Acid Liquid as a Bailer Disincrastant, 501
Carbonic Snow, Messrs. Villard and Jarry’s Experiments with, 234
Carbon, Specific Heat at Boiling Point of, 35
Carbon in Steel, Iiow to Ascertain Percentage of, 87
Carbonickel should be Cupronickel, The Word, 244, 250
Card Case Opera Glass, The, 511
Cardiff Docks, 526
Cardiff, Proposed New Dock, 546
Cardiff Waterworks Undertaking, The, 156
Cargo, The Largest that ever left New York, 286
Carlingford Lough, Pleasure Steamers for, 309
Carnegie, Mr. A., On the Railway System of Britain and Railway Rates in Britain and America, 309
Carnegie, Edgar Thomson, Steel Works, Record Run made in the Converting Department of the, 192
Carnegie Steel Company’s Plates for the “Chicago,” Inspection of the, 431
Carriages without Horses, Mr. G. C. Marks on, 514
Carriages, Mechancal Road, 35, 38, 63
Carriages, Petroleum, 32, 36
Carriages, Petroleum Road, 12
Carriages, Road—see also Road Carriages
Carriages, Self-propelled Road, in France, 36
Carriage Tire Sections, 643
Carrier Pigeon Service in the United States, The Messenger, 477
Cars, Storage Battery, with Chloride Batteries, for New York, 369
Cartage and Delivery, Mr. Twelvetrees, 55
Carter Brothers Fixed Oil Engine, 7, 8
Carter’s Disintegrators, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Carter’s Wheel Construction, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Cartridge Cases, 244, 250
Cast Iron Columns of the St. Louis City Hall, Report on the Defects in, 525
Cast Iron, Tests of the Physical Properties of, 219
Cast Steel Ingots, Small, 206
Casting Compound Ingots for Armour Plates, Mr. T. Hampton’s Method of, 234
Catalogues, 45, 72, 113, 160, 196, 227, 285, 418
Catalogue of Earthquakes, The ‘Russian Geographical Society’s, 160
Catalogue Issued by The Royal Agricultural Society, 45
Cataract Construction Company of Niagara Falls, The, 323
Cattle Trade, Foreign, Improvements at Birkenhead, 328
Cell, A Dry, 59
Cell, The Renault Dry, 217
Celluloid Articles? Makers of, 65
Cements, Heat Tests for, 595
Cement, Specific Gravity of, 248
Census of Pedestrian and Vehicular Traffic over London and the Tower Bridge, 369
Central Cyclone Company’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Central Factories for Sugar, 86
Central London Railway, The, 22, 42
Central Siberian Line, The Tomsk Soction, 234
Centrifugal Fans, Design and Testing of, 625
Centurion, The Now, 437, 529, 616
Centurion, Tbo New, Automatic Mountings for Heavy Guns, 616
Ceylon, Battle of The Gauges in, 13
Ceylon Government Railway, Locomotives for, 143
Chabal, E., Experiments on the Lubrication and Wear of Bearings, 160
“Challenge” Feed Pumps or Heaters? 65
Channel Bridge and Railway Company, Meeting of Holders of Founders’ Stock in the, 105
Charleroi District, Coal Concessions, 143
Charleston Harbour, 441
Charpy, M., On th9 Mechanical Properties of Alloys of Copper and Zinc, 405
Cheap Money, The Day of, 312
Cheap Oxygen, 337
Cheeld’s Centrifugal Churn, 9
Chelmsford, Firo at The Arc Works, 562
Chemical Engineering in Germany, 414
Chemistry in Relation to Engineering, 269
Cheshire Lines Committee, Stipulations of the, in Inviting Tenders for Rolling Stock, 641
Chester Conference to Re-arrange the Railway Rates for Agricultural Produce, 645
C'he8ter-le-Street, Sewerage Schemes for, 250
Cheyaur Bridge, Strengthening of the Girders of, 217
Chicago Drainage Canal, Excavation Involved, 286
Chicago, Elevated Electric Railway, 143, 160
Chicago, Projected Subways for, 431
Chilian Loan for Railway Construction, 309
Chilling Test pieces with Liquid Carbon Di jxide, 105
Chimbote Railway, Mr. J. R. Maxwell on the, 59
Chimneys, Draught Power of, 309
China, New Railway, University and Schools for, 382
China, Projected Railway between Tientsin ana Chinkiaug, 309
China, Railways in, and The Cockerill Company, 457
Chinose Railways, New, 613
Chinese Torpedo Cruiser, New, 286
Chorley Sewerage Purification Works, 457
Chrome Iron Ore Mining in Asia Minor, Mr. W. F. Wilkinson, 4
Chrome Ore and Forro-chromium, Analysis of, Mr. E. H. Saniter, 177
Chromo Steel Armour Plato, Test of an, at Indian Head, 266
Chromic Salts to the Feed-water, Scale in Bailers Prevented by the Addition of, 336
Chronograph, Polarising Phot?, United States Experiments with the, 240
Church Cars on The Trans-Siberian Railway, 286
Churn, Cheeld’s Centrifugal, 9
Churns and Separators at The Royal Agricultural Society’8 Show, 11
Cigars and Cycling, 369
Circulating Pumps, Air and, for 3000-IIorso Power Mill Engines, 140, 164
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, New Steamers for tho, 160
City of Landon Electric Lighting Company, Ferranti Machines and Willans Engines at the Bankside Station, 234
City and South London Railway, Mr. J. H. Great- head on the, 500
City of York New Sewerage Works, 93
Civil Engineering, Mr. Sydney \ Court on, 626
Claret, M., Electric Tramway for Paris, 87
Clark, Chapman, and Co.’s Oil Engines, 8
Clarke, Chapman, and Co., Suspended Electric Crane, 402, 410
Clarke, Mr. R. W., His Appointment to Indian Collieries, 336
Clarke, Mr. J. C., on Grain Carrying Rates from Chicago to New York, 595
Clearance, Loss by, 189
Clearance iq Steam Engine Cylinders, 41, 63, 86, 109 189
Cloch Lighthouse, The, 615
Clock, Remarkable, Described in Machinery, 554
“Clouds and Weather,” Captain D. Wilson-Barker’s Pamphlet, 595
Clutch, A Magnetic, 118
Clutton Windmill, The, 11
Clydebank Engineering Works, 153, 187
Clydebank Shipyard, 153, 187
Clydebank and Yoker Extension Railway, The, 167
Clydo and Belfast Strikes, The, 356, 456,485,503, 555, 559, 599, 619
Clyde and Belfast Strikes, Report on The Situation of the, 559
Clyde Navigation, Recent Engineering Improvements of the, 100, 126, 131, 167, 193
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, The Lock-out in the, 356, 456, 485, 503, 555, 559, 599, 619
Clyde Shipyards, Vessels Launched from the, 105
Clyde, Sluices and Bridge over the, 334, 335
Clyde, Wages Dispute on the, 356
Coal, Action of Water on, 217
Coal Area Discovered in Newfoundland, 456
Coal, Australian, 391
Coal Contract Rates, The New, A Boon to Railway Companies, 16
Coal and Coal Miners, 90
Coal Consumption of Battleships, Improvement in, 197
Coal Consumption Trial of H. M.S. “ Magnificent,” 254
Coal Dust, Gas from, Now Method to Manufacture, 501
Coal Elevating and Conveying Machinery, 132
Coal Export from Belgium, 13
Coalfields of South Staffordshire, Mineral Resources of, 174
Coal, French Imports of, 315
Coal Gas as a Motive Power, 267
Coal, Government Railways and Locomotive, 509
Coal in India, Production of, 143
Coal, Indian, Increased Demand for, 641
Coal Industry, The British, 389
Coal, Japanese, Delivered in Bombay, 160
Coal Mines in Quetta, 234
Coal in Newfoundland, 595
Coal in New Zealand, and Possibilities of an Export Trade in, 234
Coal Supply of our Warships, Tho, 531, 601
Coal Trade, Outlook in the, 598
Coal Trade Position, Tho, 557
Coal Trade, The Yorkshire, 485
Coal Wagon, Hopper, 32
Coal Washer, The Francou, 626, 627
Coal Washing and Coke Making Plant, Cyfarthfa Iron and Steel Works, 558
Coaling on Sunday, The Admiralty and, 143
Coates, Mr. W. T., On How Not to Do Some Things, 481
Coating Aluminium with other Metals, 286
Coating of Metals ? Platinum or other Black, 65
Cockerill Company and Railways in China, The, 457
Cohoy, Mr. R., His Appointment as Locomotive Superintendent, 613
Coldest Winters since 1841, Compared, 13
Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Messrs., Compound Engines for Saltaire Mills, 258, 260
Coleman and Mortou’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Collieries, Electric Haulage and Light in Mr. W. Bassano’s, 525
Collieries in Iodia, Outpat of Various, 160
Collision with Lock Gates, 39
Collision, Railway, St. Lazaro Station, 266
“ Columbia,” The Cruiser, and Captain Sumner’s Sentence, 286
“Columbia,” Run mado by tbo, 217, 266
“Columbia,” Testing The Soa-going Qualities of the, 13, 59
“Columbia,” Speed Records of the, 160
“Columbia,” The United States Commerce Destroyer, 354
“Comet” Lamp, Messrs. Sinclair and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Commercial Fleets Compared, English, German, and French, 234
Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air, 557
Compass Trammel, Sargent’s Patent Combined, 59
Compensating Gradients, Theory of, 508
Composite Gunboats, Bids for, 420
Compound Engines—tee Engines, Compound Compounding Locomotives, Test of Three Systems of, 369
“Comus,” H.M.S., 500
“Comus,” Refit of H.M. Cruiser, 286
Commutators, Method of Repairing, 217
Concentrated Loads, 138
Condensation in Long Steam Pipes, Loss from, 317
Condenser, Jet, with Drum Air Pump, 189
Conductivity of Rocks, Messrs. Pierce nod Willson on the, 525
Congo Country, Production of Iron in the, 501
Congo, Petroleum in, 595
Congo, Railway in French, 105, 234
Conradi, Mr. J. F., Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 394,395, 416, 418 Conservation of Energy, The, and Dr. Morton's Statements, 185
Constantinople, London to, Accelerated Train Service, 336
Continental Works Practico, Technical Engineering and, 238
Continuous Alternating Current Systems in Power Supply Stations, 105
Continuous Brake, Origin of the, 38
Continuous Brakes, 504
Continuous Brake—.* « Brakes Contracts Open : Oil Tanks for India, East Coast Railway, 4S9
Kotri-Rohri Riilway, I. S. R ,5ft. 6in. Gauge, 535
Pillar Water Crane, 404
Contributive Traffic, M. de Backer, 55
Cook, Captain, His Scientific Observations in Newfoundland, 595
Coolgardie, Electric Lighting of the Grand Hotel, 613
Co-operative Association to work with the Great Eastern Railway, Proposed, 431
Copper, Action of Hydrochloric Acid on, 431
Copper, Action of Sulphur Vapour on, 554
Copper and Engineering, 212
Copper Pipes, Flange Joints on, 617
Copper Rendered more Fluid by Addition of Lead, 336
Copper Tubes Replaced by Steel, 336
Copper Wires, The Western Union Telegraph Company’s Use of, 501
Copper and Zinc, Tensile Strength of Alloys of, 405
Copying Press, The Hydraulic, 23, 39
Cord Communication on Indian Railways, 595
Corliss Compound Engines, Leicester Electricity Works, 57, 68, 86, 142
Cornish Lines, Doubling of, 217
Cornu, M. A., On the Transverse Vibrations of Cords, 217
Cornwall Works, Soho, Mes3rs. Tangyes, Limited, 175, 177, 181
Cost of Railway Working, Changes in, 163
Coventry Technical Institute and School of Art, Viscount Peel on Technical Education, 613
Cowley and Son’s Screwing Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12 Cowper-Coles’ Electrical Galvanising Plant, 344
Cowper Street Schools Old Boys’ Club, Courses of Practical Lectures, 405
Cradock and Company’s Wire Ropes, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44 Cradock’s Water Gauge Protector, Royal Agricultural Suciety’8 Show, 45
Craggs, William, Engine Driver, Doath of, 525, 550
Craig and Sons’ “ Spongia ” Blotting Paper, 35
Cramp Company’s Arrangement of Cylinders for the New American Liners, 309 Crane, Electric Timb9r Stacking, 331. 333, 396
Cranes, Electric Travelling, 402, 410
Crane, Locomotive Steam, 293
Crane, Pillar Water, 404
Crane, Timber Stacking, 540
Crane, Travelling, Indian Head, 225
Cranford, Mr., On Tin Mining, 424
Crehorc, Professor A. C., Electric Method of Determining Velocity of Projectiles, 266 Crete, Projected Railway in, 266
Crewe and Sandbach, Completion of Lino between, 35
Creosote Oil, Method of Burning, 192
Crewe Works and The Rovival in Trade, 477
Cros and Ducos du Hauron’s Method of Photography in Natural Colours, 641
Crosier, Stephens and Co.’s Vertical Boiler, with Various Special Boiler Fittings, 45 Crossley Bro?.’ Combined Gas Engine and Centrifugal Pump, 611
Crossley’s Oil Engine Vaporiser, 61
Crossley’s 8-Horse Power Portable Oil Engine, 61
Crouch and Hogg, Messrs., Ruthorglen Bridge, 182 188
Cruisers, 35, 87, 222, 234, 266, 309, 456, 521
Cruisers for the Dutch Government, 35
Cruisers, The Latest Now, 456
Cruiser “ Rurik,” The Russian Armoured, 521
Crystal Palace Company’s School of Practical Engineering, Presentation of Certificates, 160, 641
Culm for Fuel, Pennsylvania Heat, Light, and Power Company, 554
Cunard s.s. “Campania’s” Record, The, 217
Cunard Steamer “ Aurania,” Accident to the, 105
Cuuard Steamer “ Lucania’s” Run, The, 309
Cunningham, Blythe, and Westland, Messrs., Waverley Bridge, 128, 135 Cunynghame, Mr. W. IL, Locomotive Carriages for Common Roads, 5* 24
Currie, M. P., on the Magnetic Properties of Bodies at Different Temperatures, 87 Cursor, The Radial, 431 ,
Cutter, The Vance Lightning Tube, 646
Cycle Show at the Crystal Palace, 554
Cycles, The Stanley Show of, 511, 5* 28
Cycle Gear, Elliptic, 5
Cycles, Leather Tiros instead of India-rubber, 87
Cycle, Motor, 252
Cycle Tires, Caoutchouc Comont for, 309
Cyclic Feast, A, 357
Cyclist, The Military, 487
Cyclists in Naples, Stringent Regulations for, 309
Cyfarthfa Iron and Steel Works, Coal Washing and Coke Making Plant, 558, 560, 561
Cylinders, Clearance in Steam Engine, 41, 189
Cylinders for Compound Engines, Proportioning, 345
Cylinder, Explosion of a Carbonic Acid Gas, 107
Cylinders, Explosions of Gas, 112
Cylinders for the New American Lines, The Cramp Co.’s Arrangement of, 309
Cyclonic Storms in India, Mr. J. Eliot on, 501

DAFFIELD, Miniature Railway at, 554
Daimler Motor Cyclo, Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt’s, 309
Dairy Farm Buildings, Sir .Jas. Blyth on, 48
Dairy Implements, Royal Agricultural Society’ Show,45
Dairy Show, Tho, 381
Damascening Glass Artielos, New Method of, 477
Dam, California, The Lower Otay, Dimensions of, 501
Dam at Curtis Lake, U.S.A., Giving Way of, 35
Damming the River Dee, Scheme for, 360
Dams, Failure of High Masonry, 352
Danbury, Conn., Gas Works, Gas Engines in the 431
Danube Bridge, New, 617
Danube, at Buda Pest, New Stiffened Suspension Bridge over the, 60, 67, 106, 107, 108
Danube, Inauguration of the Great Bridge over the, 336
Davey, Paxman, and Co., High Speed Electric Light Engine, Indian Exhibition, 548
Davy Lamps on Steamers, The Use of, 234
Day of Cheap Money, The, 312
Day of the Great Producer, Tne, 288
Deas, Mr. James, Recent Engineering Improvements of the Clyde Navigation, 100, 126, 131, 167, 193
Deaths from Railway Accidents in the United States, England, and Franco, 87
Death Rato per 1000 from all Causes in London, 35
Death Rate per 1000, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, London, 143
Deaths Registered in Thirty-three Great Towns of England and Wales, 35, 192, 369
Deaths Registered in the United Kingdom last Quarter, 143, 525
Decimal System in Calculations relating to Railway Construction and Working, Mr. T. L. Wilkinson, Adoption of, 29
Decomposition of Glass by Water, On the, 336
Dee, Scheme for Damming the River, 360
Deep Cast obtained by H.M.S. “ Penguin,” 382
Defence of the Country, Need of Increased War Material, 89
Defects of American Railways, 319
Defender, The, 430
Delagoa Bay Railway Opened, The, 35
Delagoa Railway, Difficulties with regard to, 192
Do La Vergne Refrigerating Company, Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, Selected by, 105
Denayrouze, M., Gas Lamp of 80-Candle Power, 266, 474
Denison and Son’s Hydraulic Copying Press, 23
Donniss, Mr. C. S., Appointed Manager of the Cambrian Railway, 405
Denny, Sir Archibald, His Presidential Address at the Institute of Junior Engineers, 487
Denny, Messrs., Laven Shipyard and Engine Works, 187
Denny, Dr. P., 187
Denny, Mr. Peter, 192
Denton, Mr. H., Horso aud Cattle Automatic Feeder, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Deodorising Sewage, Hermite Process of, 345
Depow, Mr. C. M., on the Total Tonnage on Oceans and Railways, 369
Deptford, The New 100-Unit Machino at, 607
Derailing Switches and Cut-offs, Tramway Accident in Cleveland, 554
Derby to Ashbourne, Proposed Light Railway on the Electric Light System from, 160
Derby to Ashbourne, Light Electric Railway from, 457
Derby, The Midland Railway Company’s Locomotive Works, 581, 593, 594, 596
De Salis, Mr. II. R., The Steam Canal Inspection Launch “ Dragon Fly,” 451, 455, 458
Des Vignes and Co., Messrs., Steam launch “Germania,” 553
Detachable Rudders, 360
Detroit Dry Dock Company, Ice Crushing Transport Ferries for Lake Baikal, 217
Diamond Carbon in Moteoric Stones, Occurrence of, 595
Diamond Shoal, Lighting tho, 647
Diamonds, Black, their Great Hardness, 554
Dick and Co., Messrs. W. B., Anti-fouling Composition for Ships’ Bottoms, 217
Differential Speeds in Brake Rolls, 148
Dion and Barton’s Road Carriage, 36
Dion ot Bouton, MM., Somi-Automotivo Tricycle, 13
I)ine9, Mr. W. II., Experiment Illustrating The Formation of the Tornado Cloud, 501
Dinorwic Slate Quarries, Llanboris, 62
Dirschau, Riilway Bridge over the Deichsol at, 548, 551,552
Disaster on s.s. “ Iona,” 312, 317
Discharge of Niagara and other Rivors, Observations with Surface Floats for the, 382
Disinfectant in Philadelphia, Use of Electrozone as a, 525
Disintegrators and Pulverisers, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Disposal of Town Refuse, 46
Distance and Time in which a Ship may bo brought to Rest from Full Speed Ahead, 108, 142, 166
Distant Signal Lights, 104
Distiller, The Renown Sea-wator, 353
District Railway, Indicator MechaDism on the, 525
Dobbing, Mr. J., Hay and Clover Making Machine, 11
Dock for Barcelona, 6000-Ton Depositing, 354
Docks, Cardiff 526
Dock, Dry, at Kuro, Japan, 613
Docks, Dry, The United States Government, 501
Docks in Japan, New, 431
Dock for the Philippines, Floating, 626
Dock Pumping, New Departure in, 264
Dock, Southampton Graving, 103
Dolboar, Mr. A. E., On “Materialism Untenable,” 66
Doncaster Race Week, 263
Donogal Railway Extension Bill, 309
Doubling Railway Lines, 192, 217
Dowlais, Gas Producers at, 505
Dowlais, Testing Machine at, 505
Dox ford and Sons, Launches from Shipbuilding Yard of, 286
“ Dragon Fly,” The Steam Launch, 451, 455, 458
Drainage of East Molesey, 511
Draught Power of Chimneys, W. B. Le Van on the, 309
Dredgers and Excavators on the Baltic Canal, 110, 116, 136, 310, 31G
Dredging Plant, Clyde Navigation, 193
Dredging \ ossel for the Russian Government (Supplement, September 6th, 1895), 238
Dried \ egetablos for The Ashanti Expedition, «Va/ure on the, 641
Driggs-Schroeder Six-pound Shells, 35
Drilling Machine, Multiple, 527
Drilling Machine, Stephen and Carter’s, 507
Drills, Manure and Soed, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
Driving Centrifugal Pump* at the Sunderland Docks by Gas Engines, 40.5
Driving Tires, Bessemer Steel, Great Eastern Railway, 369
Driving Wheels on Ono Side of an Engine, Breaking of Both, 13
Driving Wheels in The United States, Single, 363
Drowning, Improved Lights for the Rjscuo of the, 411
Drum Air PuTp and Jet Condenser, Johnson’s, 189
Dry Docks, The United States Government, 501
Dry Press Brick Machino, Mr. W. Johnson, 71. 94
Dublin aud Lucan Steam Tramway Line to be
Converted into a Light Railway, 192
Duddington, Railway Accident caused by a Fog at, 641
Dumbarton, The, New Station and the Town Council, 13
Duncan, Dr. Louis, Substitution of Electricity for
Steam in Railroad Practice, 187
Duncan and Superbie’s Bicycle, 36
Dunn, Mr. Jas., Temporary Appointment of, 143
Durand, Professor, On Ship Propulsion by Storage Batteries, 309
D'drr Lamp, Tho, 286
Durston, Mr., His Presidential Address, 318
Durston, Mr., On The Machinery of Ships of War. 311
Duryea Motor Carriage at Chicago, 495
Dust Destructor and Electric Light for Hacknev. 105 7
Dust Destructor for St. Leonard’s Parish, Shore
ditch, Messrs. Manlovo, Alliott, and Co., 59
Dutch Government, Fast Cruisers for tho, 35
Du Temple and the Bolleville Types of Water-tube Boilers, Trials to Test their Respective Merits, 336
Dynamo for Colliery Working, Large, 181
Dynamo and Engines, Messrs. Ferranti and Co., 502, 503

EARLE’S Shipbuilding and Engineering Company’s Works Virited, 171
Early Great Western Locomotives, 74, 104. 142, 191, 216,239, 248, 258, 259, 285, 292, 317, 345, 355, 360, 3S6, 408, 435, 440, 441, 451,454, 476, 505, 538, 550
Earth’s Magnetism, Horizontal Force of the, 369
Eirthquakes, Catalogue of, 160
East Ham Sewage Pumping Station, Accident at, 13
East Indian Railway Company, Compound Paddle
Engines and Ship Steering Gear, 489
East London Waterworks Company, Increased Supply of Water Announced by, 105 East London Waterworks Company, Increase in the Volume of Water, 143
East Side Iron Elevator Company, of Toledo, Grain Elevator and Storehouse, 647 Easton, Anderson, and GooldeD, Limited, Electric Mining Plant, Margaret Pit, 2, 6 Easton, Andenon, and Gooldon, L:mited, The Niagara Pulveriser, 358
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Mcs;rs , Pumping Engines, Ixïicester Waterworks, 530
Eccles Corporation Sowago Works, 178
Eclipse of the Moon, 234
E^oaometer, Arndt’s Patent, 240
Economy Test of Slow Speed Electric Light Engines, 134
Edge Runners and Disintegrators ƒ 483
Eliuburgh, Cable Tramways for, 409
Edinburgh Water Supply, The, 303
Education, The Lecture Theatre as a form of, 42
Edwards’ Hay and Straw Press, 10
Effect of Gun Fire, The, 288
Eginitis, M. D., On the Rainfall at Athens, 613
Egypt, Irrigation Works in, since the British Occupation of, 275—278, 301—303, 427, 432
Elbing Oberland Canal Boat on Cage, 102
Electric Arc Light, On the Temperature of the Crator of, 143
Electric Cableway System of Towing on the Erie Canal, 501
Electric Cars, Fenders Necessary in, 192
Electric Cars in Massachusetts, Fenders and
Wheel Guards for all, 266
Electric Cars in United States, Hauling Capacity of, 457
Electric Communication for Life-saviüg Purposes. 143
Electric Construction Company, Wolverhampton, Bonus to tbeir Employés, 13
Eloctric Current on Aluminium Wire, Action of. 457
Electric Current, Rail Melted by, 286
Electric Distribution, Mr. Wolbourn, 404
Electrical Engineers, Institution of— see Institution of Electrical Engineers Electrical Engineers. Institution of, “Low-pressure ” Limit, 554
Electric Feeders to Stoam Lines, 477
Electric Furnace, Messrs. Girard and Stroct, 59
Electric Galvanising Plant, Cowper-Coles’, 343, 344
Electrical Haulage and Electric Light at the Iladen Hill Collieries, 525
Electric Haulage, The Th waite-Cawley System of 22
Electric Headlights on South Pacific Railway, 309
Electric Incandescent Lamps in Germany, Net Cost of Manufacture of, 477
Electric Incandescent Lamps, Temperature of Filaments, 13
Electric Lamp, The Diirr, 286
Electric Limps, ^O-Volt, 36Q
Electric Light, Advantages of, from the Standpoint of Coolness, 160
Electric Light Buoys, Sandy Hook, 35
Electric Light in Burmah, 22
Electric Light Engines, Economy Test of Slow Speed, 134
Electric Light for Fulham, 505
Electric Light to pass through the Suez Canal, Percentage of Ships using the, 217
Electric Light Posts in London Re-coated with Hartmann's Paiot, 266
Electric Light Station on the Seine, Project for a Floating, 59
Electric Light Stations, German, 30
Electric L’ght Works, Wolverhampton, Messrs. Parker and Co.’s, 178
Electric Lighting, The Board of Trade and, 42
Electric Lighting of the Grand Hotel, Coolgardie, 613
Electric Lighting Regulations, 602
Electric Lighting of Salford, 166
Electric Lighting of Swansea, 267
Electric Lighting, Meeting at the Westminster
Town Hall of those Interested in, 477
Electric Lighting of Trains, 521
Electric Locomotives, Too Baldwin Works, 431
Electric Locomotive of the Baltimore Belt Railway, Speed of, 457
Electric Locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 548
Electric Locomotive, Baltimore Tunnel, 401
Electric Locomotives, Mr. E. Worthington, 521
Electric Mains in Paris. 197
Electric Metre Gauge Road Railways for Switzor- land, 457
Electric Mining Plant, Some, 2, 6, 39
Electric Motors for the Elevated Railway in Chicago, 143, 160
Eloctric Motors, Freight Hauling Test by, 35
Electric Motors, Messrs. Greenwood and Batloy, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Electric Motor, Record made by an, 35
Electric Omnibuses in London, 13
Electric Organ, The Hope-Jones, 502
Electric Plants for Long Distance Transmission in the United States, 447
Electric Plant, Noise made by, 59
Electrical Power Transmission Plant, The Folsom-Sacramento, 133
Electric Power Stations in France, 192
Electric Power Transmitted from Niagara Falls, First, 13
Electrical Properties of Selenium, 35
Electric Rack Railway up the Grossgloekncr, 13
Electric Rail Welding, Mr. H. Limp on, 203
Electric Railway Company’s New Bill Opposed by the St. Mary Woolnoth Vestry, 613
Electric Railway Companies in St. Louis, U.S.A., 8/
Electric Railway from Derby to Ashbourne, 405
Electric Railways, Increase in One Year, 477
Electric Railway, Niagara Falls, Accident on, 143
Electric Railway, Overhead, Chicago, 143, 160
Electric Railway, Kyoto, 59
Electric Railways, Philadelphia, Persons Killed on, 35
Electric Railways for Russia, The Czir on, 192
Electric Railway, Snaefell, The Projected, 35
Electric Railway io The United Kingdom, The First Mountain, 192
Electric Railways in the United States, 631
Electric Railways for Vienna, Tenders Invitodfor, 87
Electric Sugar Refiners, Herr Dammeyer’s, Experiments with, 87
Electric Supply, Small Candle Power Lamps at
High Voltages, 216 Electric Supply at 230 volts, 161
Electric Timber Stacking Crane, 331, 333, 396
Electric Traction, M. Auvert on, 19, 47, 73, 119, 144
Electric Traction in Belgium, Trolley System of 35
Electric Traction, The Lancaster and District Tramways Company and, 501
Electric Traction on Railways, 1S6
Electric Traction, Record of Recent Progress of, 477
Electric ’fraction for Steam Locomotives, Projected Substitution of, on Belgian Lines, 87
Electric Tramway, The Barmen, 553
Electric Tramroad, Brighton Seashoro, 453
Electric Tramway, Bristol, Inauguration Run. 3S2
Electric Tramways, Hartlepool, 382
Eloctric Tramway for Paris, 87
Electric Tramway into Portsmouth, 234
Electric Tramway System, The Hamburg, 537
Electric Tramway System, Overhead, in the Midlands, 405
Electric Tramways in the United States, Mileage of, 160
Electric Travelling Cranes, 402, 410
Electric Truck, United States of Annrica, Accident to, 35
Electrical Underground Conduit Tramway, New York, 155
Electrical Waves in Water, Professor Onues on the Propagation of, 525
Electric Welding, 615, 643
E'ectric Wires and Street Explosions, 424
Electrically Propelled Carriages using Accumulators, On, 613
Electricity Applied to Agricultural Proccssos, 349
Electricity in the Dwelling, Lord Kingsburgh on, Electricity, Green Wood a Better Conductor of, than Dead, 382
Electricity, Heating Street Railway Cars by, 450
Electricity, Towing by, 217
Electricity, Vagaries of, 371
Electricity Works of the Great Northern Railway, Holloway, 383, 386, 388
Electro-motors, 19, 47 Electrolysis, Refining Impure Zinc by, 143
Electrolytes, On The Ke* istance of Porous Diaphragms in Various, 525
Electrolytic Corrosion, Protecting Pipes from, 143
Electrophone Company’s Receiver for Transmitting Dean Farrar’s Farewell Address, 87
Electrozono as a Disinfectant in Philadelphia, Use of, 525
Elevating Railway, The Otis, 472
Elevator, The Otis, Manhattan Insurance Building, New York, 478, 479, 498, 499, 506
Eliot, Mr. J., On The Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in India, 501
Eliot, Mr. Wbateloy, Ilis Appointment, 551
Eiland Gasworks, Coal Elevator. 132
Eiland Urban District, Qutfall Worktj and Sewage Treatment, 431
Ellin’s Small Adjustable Spanner, 142
ElliDgton, Mr. E. B., Hydraulic Power Supply in Towns—Glasgow, Manchester, Buenos Ayres, &c., 99, 126
Elliott, Mr. Chas., Postage Stamp Affixer, 368
Elliott Bros., Messrs , Tachometer, 547
Elliptic Cycle Gear. 5
Elswick Cruiser, “ Buenos Aires,” Firing Trial of, 593
Emigration Prospects, 22
Emmensite, The New Explosive, 13
Emporor William Canal—see North Sea and Baltic Canal
Empress Theatre, Earl’s Court, The, 264, 268, 317
Engel, M. R , On the Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Copper, 431
Engines, Oil, and Air Compressors for Sounding Fog Sirens, 369
Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Combined Gas, 611
Engines, Compound, Saltaire Mills, 258, 260
Engine, Compound, Horizontal Tandem, Messrs. J. Hargreaves and Co., 189
Engines, Compound, London Electric Supply Company, 618
Engines, Compound Paddle, and Ship Steering Gear, Messrs. Bow, McLachlan, and Co., 482, 489
Engines, Compound, Proportioning Cylinders for, 345
Engines, Compound, Steam Hopper Barge, Baltic Canal (Supplement, October 25th, 1895), 415
Engines, Corliss Compound, Leicester Electricity Works, 57, 68, 86, 142
Engine, On the Creation and Development of the Steam, 468
Engine Cylinders, Clearance in Steam, 41, 63, 86, 109, 189
Engine Driver, The Oldest, in the World, 525, 550
Engine Economy, A New Departure in Steam, 15
Engine Friction, Internal, 507
Engines, Gas, their Mechanical Efficiency, 431 Engines, Gear, 12
Engine, High Speed, Mr. J. C. Poache, 550
Engine, High Speed Electric L’ght, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., 548
Engines, 3000-IIorso Power Mill, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., 140, 164, 194
Engines, Murdock’s Blowing, 434
Engines, Oil Fuel for Pumping, 597
Engines, Pilot, 434, 466
Engines, Portable Oil, 319
Engines, Portable and Traction, Smithfield Club Show, 600
Engines, Pumping, Leicester Waterworks (Supplement, December 6th, 1895), 553
Engine, Quadruple Expansion, Messrs. Hall and Treat, 35
Engines for the Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart,” 157, 158, 159
Engines at Saltaire, 285
Engines of the “Samoyed,” 361, 362
Engine Starter, Green’s Automatic Gas, 342
Engines, Steam, Oil, and Ga«, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 61
Engines, Steering, of H.M.S.S. “Venus” and “ Diana,” 424
Engines, Steering, in the Royal Navy, 423, 424, 433
Engines and Tenders, Goods, for The Cap Government Railways (Supplement, November 22nd 1895), 497, 510
Engines, Traction, and Self - propelled Road Carriages, 189, 311
Engines, Trains and Pilot, 434, 466
Engines, Triple-expansion, s.s. “ Lizzie Westoll ” (Supplement, July 16th, 1895), 62
Engines, Triple-expansion and Compound, 640
“ Engineer” 1000-Guinea Road Carriage Competition, 15, 41,161,1S5, 211, 235, 459, 483, 507, 531
Engineering, Benefits Conferred by, upon Pure Scionce, 270
Engineering, Chemical, in Germany, 414
Engineering of Eoglish Ironworks, The, 187
Engineering as an Experimental Scienco, 270
Engineering Fireworks, 22
Engineering Improvements of the Clyde Navigation, Mr. Jas. Deas, 193
Engineering, Coppor and, 212
Engineering in India, Incompetent Railway, 143
Engineering Literature, 270
Engineering, Past, Present, and Future, Mr. II. McLaren, 454
Engineering, Practical Steam, 39
Eogineering and Shipbuilding, 557
Engineering and Shipbuilding in Ireland, 599
Engineering and Shipbuilding on the Thames, Marine, 45
Engineering, Specialising in, 270
Engineering, Technical, and Continental Works Practice, 238
Engineering, Mr. L. Vernon-Harcourt on Mathematics, Chemistry, Geology, Meteorology, in Relation to, 269
Engineering Works, Failures of, Due to Neglect of Scientific Considerations, 270
Engineers over Forty—Nono Need Apply, 290
Engineer in Naval Warfaro aud io Commerce, The, 504
Engineer Personnel of the Navy, 2C8
Engineers, Proposed Association of Waterworks, 504, 529
Engineers, Scientific Training of, 270
Engineers and Structural Steel, 288
Engineers for the United States Navy, 526
English and American Projectiles, 317
Equilibrium Phenomena of Alloys of Two or Three Metals, Gold Medal Offered for Paper on, 477
Erie Canal, Towing by Electricity on, 217
Errata Corrected, 130, 153, 187, 244, 250
Erratum, Cartridge Caso’, 244, 250
“ Ericsson,” The, 148
“ Ericsson,” Explosion on Board the, 59
Etna, Railway Round, 336
Evans, Mr. 1)., Testimonial to, 382
Evaporation of Liquids and the Capillary Theories,
The, 457
Everard, Mr., Pumpirg Machinery Leicester Waterworks (Suppleon id, December 6th, 1895), 553
Everard, Mr. J. B., Cropston Engino House, Leicester Waterworks, 534
Everitt, Kir. W. IL, On The Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, 477
Evesham Rural District Council and (bo Hchemo for Village Water Supply, 369
Evolution of the Iron Arch, 597
Ewing, Professor, Magnetic Tester for Measuring Hysteresis in Iron, 561
Excavating Machinery ? 507
Excavators, Dredgers and Spoil Transporters, Baltic and North Sea Canal, 310, 316
Excavator, Steam Crane, Messrs. Simpson and Porter, 180
Excelsior Hoator and Filter, The, 487
Exhibition of Aeronautical Apparatus at the Paris Exhibition, 59
Exhibition, Berlin Industrial, 217
Exhibition, Brewers’, Seventaenth Annual, 382
Exhibition, Brussols, 405
Exhibition, Cardiff Industrial, 105, 260
Exhibition, Columbian, Exhibits Receiving Awards at, 382
Exhibition, East London Trades, Industries, ani Arts, 617
Exhibition, Glasgow, Industrial, at, 461
Exhibition. Manchester, British and Colonial, 266
Exhibition, Montreal. International, at, 280
Exhibition in Paris, Sanitary, 71
Exhibitions, Past and Present, Mr. H. Stopes on, 362
Exhibition, Tobacco Trades, 13
Explosion on Board the “ Barbadicn,” 105
Explosion on Board The “Lynx,” Inquiry into the, 59
Explosion on Baard The s.s. “ Sabrina,” duo to Grease on Furnace Crowns, 192
Explosion on Board The United States Torpedo Boat “ Ericsson,” 59
Eip’.csion, Boiler, 262
Explosion of Boilers in The Detroit Journal Building, 457, 525
Explosion of a Carbonic Acid Gas Cylinder, 107
Explosion, A Curious Boiler, 262, 333
Explosion in The Derbyshire Coalfield, 477
Explosions, Domestic Boiler, 650
Explosions of Gas Cylinders, 112
Explosion, Bailer, Ridcar Ironworks, 72, 81, 108, 166, 189, 216
Explosions, Boiler—see also Boiler Explosions Explosion of Main Steam Pipe on an American Liner, 613
Explosive “ Emmensite,” Tost of The New, 13
Explosive, Professor Victor Meyer’s New, 286
Explosive “ Westphalite,” Experiments with the, 266
Express Locomotive, North - Eastern Railway (Supplement, September 26th, 1895), 291, 292
Eyre Estate, St. John’s Wood, Claim, The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway and the, 382

FACSIMILE of ono of Mr. Harrison’s Original Sketches for an Engine, 249
Factories for Sugar, Central, 86
Failures of Tires, Axles, &c., on British Railways, 613
Fair Trade and No Trade, 63, 86, 109
Faith in Science, 216
Falconier System, Glass Bricks of the, 431
Fane, Rear-Admiral, Masthead Signalling, 183
Fane, Admiral, Trial of his Signalling Apparatus, 87
Fans and Air Propellers, 435
Fans, On Centrifugal, 625
Farina Machinery ? 261
Fast Run from Buffalo to New York, 431
Fast Run on the New York Central Railway, 369
Fast Train on the Lake Shore and Michigan State Railway, 486
Fast Train on the New York Central Railroad, 328
Fauron, M., On Aluminium, 270
Feed Pumps or Heaters? “Challenge,” 65
Feed-water, Bailers and, 338
Feed-water Delivered into a Boiler by an Injector, Inquiry as to the Temperature of, 336
Feed-water Heater aud Filter, Messrs. J. Wright and Co., 487
Feed-water Heater, Steam, 122
Feeding Apparatus, Furnace, 554
Feeder, Horse and Cattle Automatic, Mr. II. Denton’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show 45
Fenders iu Electric Cars Necessary, 192
Fenders on Street Cars, Philadelphia City Government Concerning, 132
Fenders and Wheel Guards for Eloctric Cars in Massachusetts, 266
Ferranti and Co., Messrs., Dynamo and Engines, 502, 503
Ferry Steamer for the Volga, Railway, 2S4, 317
Fiebiger, Captain D. F., on Wheel Guard Fenders in Columbia, 554
Fielding and Platt’s Oil Engine, 7
Filters, Mechanical Water, for Minneapolis, 405
Filtration, Scientific, 41
Fire at the Arc Works, Chelmsford, 562
Fire on Board The “ Iona,” Tho, 312, 317
Fire-box Plate, A. S. and M. Railway, 240
Fire-box Plato Trimming Machine, Messrs. Isaac Hill and Sons, 214
Fire-boxes, On, 1
Fire Catastrophes on Board Ship, 280
Firo Congress, International, 259
Fire Guard on the Cauadiau Pacific Railroad Track, 160
Firo Losses in the United Statos andC’anada, The March, 87
Fireless Locomotives in Marseilles, 293
Fires at Sea, 312, 317 Fires in Vienna, 286
Fireworks, Engineering, 22
Firing Trial of Elswick Cruiser “ Buenos Aires,” 593
Fiske’s Range Indicators on the United States Battleship “ Indiana,” 521
Fitting Machinery in Screw Steamers, 228, 229, 230, 231, 299, 379, 448, 522, 524, 543
Fitzgerald, Mr. D. G., On Electrically Propelled Carriages Using Accumulators, 613
Five-Masters, 501
Fletcher Bros, and Co., Sheep-dipping Apparatus Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Fletcher, Professor B. and Mr. B. F., Architectural Curriculum at King’s College, 309
Fletcher, Mr. William, Stoam Locomotion for Passenger Traffic on Common Reads, 2S1, 283, 314, 315
Flange Joints on Coppor Pipes, 617
Flange Rails and Metal Sleepers, 505, 529
Floating Central Electric Light Station on the Seine, Project for a, 59
Floating Pock for the Philippines, Tenders for, 626 * ’
Floods in the Rhone Valley, Damage Caused by the, 525
Flour Trade, American Millers and Possibilities of an Oriental, 405
Flushes, Three-Gallon, v. Two, 613
Fly wheel at Pittsburg, Bursting of a, 309
“Flying Scotsman” at Northallerton, The, 166
Foerster’s Experiments on the Decomposition of Glass, 336
Fogs, Mr. R. H. Scott on, 625
Folsom-Sacramento (California) Eleotrical Power Transmission Plant, 133
Fontesvilla to Beira, Railway from, 35
“Forban,” High-speed Trial of the Normand Torpedo Boat, 160, 554
Foreign Cattle Trade, The, 328
Forge, Self-operating, Messrs. Rico and Rich, 105
Forgings, Bids for Rapid-fire Gun, Navy Department, 405
Fouling of Ships’ Bottoms, Effect on their Speed, 217
Found, 256
Fowler and Co. and the Brush Co., Holloway Electric Light Station, 383—386, 388
Fowler and Co., Messrs. John, 8-Horse Power Compound Road Locomotive, 8, 18
Fowler and Go., Messrs. J., Marshall’s Valve Gear, Holloway Electric Light Station, 639
Franco, Electric Power Stations in, 192
France, Mileage of Submarine Cables, 55
France, Sewage Disposal in, 251
France, Shipbuilding Projects in, 357
France, Strikes in, 217, 533
Francois, M. M., On the Action of Alcohol on Mercurous Iodide, 647
Francou Coal Washer, The, 626, 627 Fraser, Alexander, 414
Fraser and Co.’s Compound Tube Water-tube Boiler, 367
Free Trade and No Trade, 63, 86, 109, 601
Freezing Points of Silver and Gold, On the, 613
Freezing Point of Water Lowered by the Admixture of Milk or Lymph, 525
Freight Charges on The North Staffordshire Railway, Appeal for Reduction of, 525
Freight Hauling Test by Electric Motors, 35
Fremont, M. Ch., Method of Illuminating Opaque Objects for the Microscope, 405
Freight Rates on United States Railways, 477
French Admiralty’s Bill to Pat an End to Racing at Sea, 87
French Armoured Cruiser “ Pothuan,” 222
French Association for the Advancement of Science, M. Trélat on “La Salubrité,” 192
French Battleships, Alterations in Progress in, 87
French Battleship “Bouvines,” The Coast Defence, 210, 214
French Cruisers, Accidents to, 87
French Imports of Coal, 315
French Inland Waterways—Traffic Diagram, 342
Friction Brakes, New Forms of, 250
Frodsham Station, Moving, 507, 537
French Naval Authorities, Proposed Improvement of their Channel Ports, 613
French Navy, Gun No. 305 Adopted for the Artillery of the, 160
French Navy, Pirate Cruisers for the, 266
French Railway from Loango to Brazzaville, 105
French Railway in Tongking, 234
French Torpedo Boat, Trial Trip of a, 345
French War Vessels, 88, 92
Fuel, Liquid, Experiments with, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 501
Fuller, Mr. H. J., His Appointment, 192
Fulton, Mr. T. C., His Lectures in Glasgow, 521
Fulton Engineering Works, “Sure Grip” Railway Block, 11
Furnace, Basic, 94
Furnace Crowns, Danger of Grease on, 192
Furnace Grate, Wagner’s, 116
Furnace Grate, A Water Box, 553, 617
Furnaces in Blast in Belgium, Number of, 105
Furnaces, Glass Tank, 431
Furnaces Making Pig Iron, Weekly Capacity of all the, 382
Furnaces, Hawley Down-draught, Forthcoming Trial of, 431
Furnaces Struck by Lightning, 641
Furnaces, Workshop Gas, 39

GALBRAITH and Greathcad, Messrs., Waterloo and City Electrical Underground Railway, 81, 82, 83, 84, 114, 115
Galton, Sir Douglas, Inaugural Address as President of the British Association, 254
Galvanic Cell, Thermo-chemical, 286
Galvanic Polarisation, Experiments in Thermodynamics of, 234
Galvanising, Recent Improvements in, 343, 344
Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Steel Articles, Messrs. Wilmot and Co.’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Galveston Jetties, 441
Galw’ay and Clifden Light Railway, Length of, 336
Ganz and Co.’s Electric Power Installation for Agricultural Purposes, 349
Gas, Acetylene and Carbonic Acid, 457
Gas Boilers, Blast Furnace, 532
Gas Burner, New Intensive, Covered by the Bansept Patents, 501
Gas Calorimeter, Junker’s, 164
Gas from Coal Dust, New Method to Manufacture, 501
Gas Cylinders, Explosions of, 112
Gas Engine and Centrifugal Pump, Combined, 611
Gas Engines, Mechanical Efficiency of, 431
Gas Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7,61
Gas Engine Pumping Machinery, Messrs. Tangyes, 264
Gas Engine Starter, Greon’s Automatic, 342
Gas Engines without Belts or Gearing, Centrifugal Pumps at Sunderland Docks Driven by, 405
Gas Engines—.tee also Engines, Gas
Gas Exhauster, Gwynne’s New Pressure Balance 179
Gas Field, Columbus, O., 457
Gas Furnaces, Workshop, 39
Gas, Heating Value of Berlin, 160
Gasholder without Columns, 547
Gas Increased Fifteen Times, Illuminating Power of, 266
Gas, Influence of the Size of Particles on the Pressure of a, 617
Gas Motors in Berlin, Rise io, 634
Gas Plant, Thwaites’ Motor, 3
Gas Producers at Dowlais, 505
Gas Stoking Plant, Mr. F. J. West on a, 612
Gas Testings Return, London, 160, 266, 286
Gas Well, Windsor, Ontario, 595
Gasworks, Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in, 99
Gauges, Battle of the, in Ceylon and Australia, 13
Gauge, Broad y. Narrow, 617
Gaylor, Mr., Report on the Defects in the Cast Iron Columns of the St. Louis City Hall, 525
Gazogene Meter, Tests with a Bénier, 59
Gear, Bulkhead Door and, Mr. Van Ollefen, 5
Gear, Elliptic Cycle, 5
Gear Engines, 12
Gelder, Mr. G. de, Harbour of Batavia, 204, 205, 207
General Electric Co. and the Three Phase Long Distance System Applied to Street Railway Work, 234
Geology in Relation to Engineering, 269
“Georgic,” Cargo Carried by the, 286
“Georgic,” Launch of the White Star s.s., 14, 17
German Blast Furnaces, Total Production of Pig Iron Turned out by, 309
German East African Railway Company’s Line, 160
Gorman Eleotric Light Stations, 30
German and French Mercantile Marino Compared, 234
Gorman Minors at Hanover, Triennial Mooting of, 313
German Railroad Union, Permanent Way and Rolling Stock, 13
German Torpedo Boat, Loss of, 234
“Germania ” Rowing Club Steam Launch, 553
Germany, Chemical Engineering in, 414
Germany, Compound Locomotives in, 382
Germany, Inland Navigation, 101
Gesner Method of Protecting Iron and Steel from Rust, 35
Geyelin, M. Emile, Turbines, 12
Gibbs’ Harvest Saving and Tea Drying Machines, 465
Gibbon’s Patent Portable Oil Engino, 319
Gigantic Wheel, The, 406, 407
Girard and Street, Messrs., Electric Furnace, 59
Girder Problem, A, 290, 333
Glasgow Central Railway, The, 403
Glasgow Central Railway, Opening of the, <57
Glasgow Corporation, Sluice and Bridge over the Clyde, 334, 335
Glasgow Gasworks, 129
Glasgow’ Harbour Tunnel, 86
Glasgow and Horseless Carriages, 509
Glasgow Hydraulic Power Supply, 67
Glasgow, Industrial Exhibition at, 461
Glasgow Institution of Mechanical Engineers (tec Institute of Mining Engineers at Glasgow), 33
Glasgow Iron and Steel Company’s Works, 153
Glasgow Pig Iron Market, The Stir in the, 641
Glasgow Sewage Works, 129
Glasgow Shipyards and Engine Works, 129
Glasgow Water Supply, Result of Tenders, 378
Glasgow Waterworks, The, 129
Glass, On the Adhesion of Metals to, 131
Glass, Aluminium and other Solder for, 595
Glass Articles, New Method of Damascening, 477
Glass Bricks of the Falconier System, 431
Glass, Inscriptions on, How Best Obtained, 595
Glass, Process of Manufacturing Spherical or Oval Hollow Bodies of, 457
Glass Tank Furnaces, 431
Glass by Water, Foerster on the Decomposition of, 336
Glass, Solder for, 266
Glossop Sewage Scheme, 205
Glucinium, Atomic Weight of, 266
Godaiming Waterworks, The, 369
Gold Made Brittle by Admixture of Tellurium,309
Gold and Silver, Estimates of the World’s Production of, 13
Gold and Silver in the United States for the Calendar Year, Product of, 641
Goldsmiths’ Engineering Society—sec Society, The Goldsmiths’ Engineering
“ Good Enough,” The Foe of the Inventor is the Plea, 16
“ Good Roads ” Parliament, Builders or Inventors of Horseless Carriages Invited to Attend the, 369
Goods Engines and Tenders for The Cape Government Railways, Messrs. Neilson and Co. (Supplement, Noeember 22uef, 1895), 497, 510
Gooiden Power Dynamos, Margaret Pit, 2, 6
Gorton Sewage Works, The, 488
Goss, W. F. M., New Forms of Friction Brakes, 250
Goubet Submarine Boat for Brazil, a, 217
Gould, Mr., On the Electric Light used by Ships in The Suez Canal, 217
Government Railways and Locomotive Coal, 509
Government Small Arms Works, Sparkbrook, Visited, Tho, 199
Governor, Shaft, Mann and Charlesworth’s, 9
Grab, Hay and Straw, Mr. J. R. Robinson, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Gradients, Theory of Compensating, 508
Graf, Mr. F., Water Box Furnace Grate, 553, 617
Grain Carrying, Rates from Chicago to New York, 595
Grand Trunk Railway, Serious Accident on the, 143
Graphic Calculation of Stresses in Large Wheels, 550
Graphical Calculation of Stresses in Large Tension Wheels, 527
Graphite, M. Moissan on Varieties of, 457
Graphite Washers, 554
Grate, Wagner’s Furnace, 116
Grate, A Water Box, 553, 617
Grate, A Water Box Furnace, 553, 617
Graving Dock, Southampton, Opening of, 87
Gray, Mr. J. W., Presentation to, 336
Grease on Furnace Crowns, Explosion due to, 192
Great Eastern Railway Company, Conveyance of Farm Produce at Reduced Rates by Paessnger Trains, 477
Great Eastern Railway, A Co-operative Association to Work with the, 431
Great Eastern Railway, Driving Tires of Bessemer Steel, 369
Great Eastern Railway, Rapid Bridge Building at Ely, 525
Groat Northern Railway, The, 557
Great Northern Railway, Aceidont on, 477
Great Northern Railway, Electricity Works of the, 383, 386, 388
Great Northern Stone Bridges op The Now Lino in Nottinghamshire, 309
Great Western Railway, Collision at Newport, 525
Great Western Railway Company, Doubling of Cornish Lines, 217
Great Western Locomotives, Early, 74, 104, 142, 191, 216, 239, 248, 258, 259, 285, 292, 317,345, 355, 360, 386, 408,435, 440, 441, 451, 454, 476, 505, 538, 550
Great Western Railway, Milford Haven Scheme, 477
Great Wostern Company, New Line Projected to South Wales, 457
Great Western Railway, New Rolling Stock, 457
Great Western Railway Company, Now Through Trains run by, 336
Great Western Railway Company and the Stroud and Painswick Light Railway Bill, 13
Great Western Railway Company’s System, Contract for Widening of Bridges, &c., on the, 217
Great Western Railway, Water Troughs on the, 286
Great Northern of Scotland Railway, New Locomotives for, 217
Greathead, Mr. J. EL, on the City and South London Railway, 500
Green’s Automatic Gas Engine Starter, 342
Green and Sons, Steam Road Roller, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Greenwich Observatory Photographic Registration of Magnetic Declination, Vertical and Horizontal Force and Earth Currents, 13
Greenwich Railway, The London and, 39
Greenwich and Westminster, Automatic Signals Between, 336
Greenwood and Batley’s Hydraulic Press, Pneumatic Power Hammer, 6-Unit Dynamo, and Electric Motors, 44
Grice, Grice, and Son9, Fatal Accident at their Works, 641
Grindstone, The “ Handy,” Messrs. Follows and Bates, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Grossmith and Otto’s Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 84
Grover, Mr. Fred., on the Earl’s Court and Ferris Wheels, 527
Guards, Rail, 634
Guillaume, M., On the Action of Electric Current on Aluminium Wire, 457
Guns, American 12in., 35
Gun, The Browning Automatic, Tested at Indian Head, 595
Gun Fire, The Effect of, 288
Gun, The Maxim Solid Steel, 156
Gun, New Quick-firing, tried in France, 309
Gun No. 305 Adopted for the Artillery of the French Navy, 160
Gun Patented in the United States for Carrying a Double Shot which Acts like a Bomb, 336
Gun and Projectiles tried at Chalons, The New, 105
Guns, Quick-fire, Influence of, on Naval Power, 519
Guns, Quick-fire, and Men-of-War Chimneys, 525
Guns, Recoil of, Recorded by Photography, 612
Guns, Tests of Small Rapid-firing, 623
Gun Trials of the Majestic, 336
Guns, Value of Quick-fire, 620
Gunboats, Bids for Composite, 420
Gurney, Mr., New Steam Carriage (1827), 215
Gutta-percha, Substitute for, 266
Gwynne’s Now Pressure Balance Gas Exhauster, 179
Gya and Shaikpura, Railway Line from, 595

HACKNEY, Dust Dsstructor and Electric Light for, 105
Haden Hill Collieries, Electrical Haulage and Electric Light at, 525
Hadfield, Mr. R. A., Production of Iron by a New Process, 177, 183
Haggie, Mr. David, 457
Haldane, Dr., Experiments Connected with Bad Air in Mines, 286
Hall and Co., Messrs. J. P., Largo Dynamo for Colliery Working, 181
Hall and Treat, Messrs., Quadruple-expansion Engine, 35
Halladay Windmill, Messrs. A. Williams and Co., 11
Haller, Mr., On The Use of Liquid Carbon Dioxide for Chilling Test Pioces, 105
liaise, Mr. E., Mining in Mexico, 4
Hamburg-American Co.’s Steamer, Accident to, 13
Hamburg Electric Tramway System, 537
Hammer, “Toe Excel” Pneumatic Power, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Hammond, Mr. Robert, and Electric Lighting of Middlesbrough, 234
Hampton, Mr. T., Method of Casting Compound Ingots for Armour and other Plates, 234
Hamstead Colliery, The, 202
Hancock’s Steam Coaches, 290
Handy Grindstone, Messrs. Follows and Bates’, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Handyside and Co., Messrs. A., The Empress Theatre, 264, 268
Hanging of Harveved Armour Plates, 464, 529
Hanover, Triennial Meeting of German Miners at, 313
Harbour, Repair of Ancona, 35
Harbour of Batavia, The, 204, 205, 207
Harbours, Peterhead, 546, 616

Harbours and Waterways :

Belfast, 547
Brussels, 547
Burntisland, 547
Cardiff, 547
Charleston, 441
Galveston, 441
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 441
Liverpool, 547 Llanelly, 441
Mersey, The, 441
Morecambe, 547
Peterhead, 547
Sutton Bridge, 547
Swansea, 547
Vora Cruz, 441
Hardware and Cutlery Business done with Foreign Markots for The Month, 477
Hargreaves and Co., Messrs. J., Compound Horizontal Tandem Engino, 189
Harland, Sir Edward James, 645
Harland and Wolff, The Now White Star Cargo Steamer, 286
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Six Steamers Launched within Three Months, 336
Ilarland and Wolff, Messrs, Twin-screw Steamer for the Hamburg-American Line, 234
Harling, Mr. W. H., Sargent’s Patent Combined Compass Trammel, 59
Harnessing Niagara, 236
Harrison’s Elliptic Cycle Gear, 5
Harrison’s Locomotive, 355
Harrow, Mr. T. A. Wynne Edwards, 11
Hick, Hargreaves, and Co., Messrs., Air and Circulating Pumps, 140, 164
Hick. Hargreaves, and Co., Leicester Electricity Works, Corliss Compound Engines, 57, 68,142
Hide Pinions? Compressed, 363
High Lift Pump, A New, 646
High Speed Eogines—see Engines, High Speed High Railway Speeds and Permanent Way, 532 High Speeds in the United States, 484
Highland Railway Company’s Lino, Doubling of Section of, 192
Hill, Mr. A. E. B., On the Now Westminster Waterworks, 283
Hill and Sons, Messrs. Isaac, Fire-box Plate Trimming Machine, 214
History of the Metropolitan Railway — see also Metropolitan Railway
History of the Metropolitan Railway, 151, 239, 408
Hodgkin’s Prize Voted to Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay, 160
Holden, Drake, and Gorham’s Magnetic Clutch, 118
Holland, Steam Lifoboat for, 325
Holman, Mr. W. J., Queer Now Typo of Locomotive, 286
Holloway Electric Light Station, 383, 386, 388
Holloway Electric Light Station, Marshall’s Valve Gear, 639
Hook of Holland, Accelerated Train Service r/4, 266, 336
Hoosac Tunnel, No Telegraphic Messages can be sent through, 382
Hope-Jones Electric Organ. The, 502
Hopp9r Barges on the Baltic Canal, 415
Hopper Coal Wagons, Messrs. Brown, Marshalls, and Co., 32
Horizontal Band Saw Machine for Logs, 63
Horizontal Band Saw, Messrs. A. Ransome and Co., 23, 32
Horizontal Engines— see Engines, Horizontal Hornsby-Akroyd Oil Engine, The De La Vergne
Refrigerating Company Select the, 105
Horse Power Pumping Machinery, Messrs. Hayward Tyler and Co., 250
Horseless Carriages, 418
Hartford Dredging Company, Canal Connecting Great Salt Pond with the Ocean, 59
Hartman’s Paint, Electric Light Posts in London Re-coated with, 266
Harvest Saving and Tea Drying Machines, Gibbs’, 465
Harvesting Machines at the Royal Agricultural Society* 8 Show, 11, 44
Harvesting of Refuse and the Generation of Steam, Mr. Ernest Sykes on tho, 651
Harveyed Armour Plates, Hanging of, 464, 529
Harwich Harbour Conservancy, Mr. Bluff’s Retirement, 35
Haslam and Maudslay’s Potato Digger, 10
“ Haughty,” Launch of the New Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 286
Haulage, Canal, 191
Hauling Capacity of Electric Cars in The United States, 457
Havre, and of the Navigation of the Estuary of the Seine, Improvement of The Port of, 79
Hawley Down Draught Furnaces, Trial of tho, 431
Hay and Clover Making Machines, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Hay Makers at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11, 44
Hay Waterworks Company’s Undertaking, Purchase of the, 501
Haythorn Tubulous Boilor, The, 152
Hayward-Tylor and Co., Messrs., Horse Power Pumping Machinery, 250
Heat at Boiling Point of Carbon, Specific, 35
Heat created by the “Amphitrite’s” Funnel, 76
Heater and Filter, The Excelsior, 487
Heaters, Steam Feed-water, 122
Heath, Mr. W. P., Safety App’iances for Lifts, 381
Heating Buildings by Exhaust Steam, 104
Heating Buildings by Steam, On, 59
Heating Value of Berlin Gas, 160
Heating Street Railway Cars by Electricity, Mr. J. F. McElroy on, 450
Heenan and Gilbert, Messrs., On the Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, 625
Heilmann Locomotive, Trial3 with tho, 52
Hexagonal Rods ? 459
Heycock and Neville, Messrs., On the Freezing Points of Silver and Gold, 613
Hey wood, Mr. Percival, Miniature Railway at Duffield, 554
Hexane, On Normal, 595
Heilmann Locomotive, Trials with, 59
Heintz Trap, The, 45
Helium in Water, Solubility of, 217
Henry, M., Experiments on Locomotive Boilers at the Works of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 179, 227
Henry, M., On Locomotive Boilers at The Works of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, 43, 91
Herbert, Mr. Alf., Multiple Drilling Machine, 527
Hering, the American Electrician, On the Volts Generated by every Foot of Active Wire, 234
H. M. Navy, Three New Torpedo Destroyers for, 160
H.M.S. “Blake,” 490
H.M.S. “Charger,” Concerning the Boilers of, 192
H.M.S. “Comus,” 286, 500
H.M.S. “ Hecla” to be Fitted up as a Torpedo Workshop, 217
H.M.S. “Jupiter,” Launch of, 512
H.M S. “ Majestic,” 415
H.M.S. “Minerva,” 316
H.M.S. “ Minerva,” Floating Out of, 309, 316
H.M.S. “ Monarch,” The Relit of, 554
H.M.S. “ Powerful,” Launch of, 87, 160
H.M.S “ Prince George,” Coating of hor Bottom with Anti-fouling Composition, 217 .
H.M.S. “ Renown,” 485
H.M S. “Starfish,” Speed Trials of. 365
H.M.S. “Torch” and “Alert,” Trials of, Ordered, 613
H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyer “Sunfish,” Mean Speed Attained by, 135
H.M. Torpedo Gunboat “ Sharpshooter, 87
H.M.S. “ Victorious,” Launch of tho, 414
H.M.S. “Zebra,” Launch of, 549
H.M. Cruiser “Hermione” Passed into the Devonport Fleet Reserve, 234
H.M. Cruisers to be Converted into Training Ships, 309
Uermito Process of Deodorising Sewage at Ipswich, 345
Herroun, Mr., On The Theory of Magnetism, 481
Horseless Cirriages, The Memorial, 597
Horseless Vehicles, Mr. G. C. Marks on, 514
Horseless Vehicles—.also Road Carriages Horse-propelled Paddle Boats, 505
Uoufe, Mr. W. W., On Internal Engine Friction, 507
Hours of Work on Railways, 509
Howard, Mr. Charles, 382
Howe, Mr. H. Marion, On the Hardening of Steel, 176
Howe’s Sack Turnor, 44
Howl, Mr. E., Improved Kilns. 35
llufty and Caldwell, Messrs., Processes for Converting Cast Iron into Malleable Iron or Steel, 217
Hughes, Mr. U. W., Mineral Resources of the South Staffordshire Coalfields, 174
Humphreys - Owen and Meik, Messrs., On the Relaxation of Normal Requirements for Light Railways, 55
Hunt, Mr. R. W., On Steel Rails, 478
Hydraulic Copying Press, The, 23, 39
Hydraulic Power Supply in Towns, Mr. E. B. Ellington, 99, 126
Hydraulic Presses (xre also Press, Hydraulic) Hydraulic Propulsion, 396
Hydraulic Riveting Machine for Locomotive Boilers, 193
Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, 99
Hydrochloric Acid on Copper, Action of. 431
Hydrogen, Boiling Point and Critical Temperature of, 382
ICE-CRUSHING Transport Ferries for Lake Baikal, 217
I.E.S. Storage Battery for Lighting and Traction, Mr. A. G. New on the, 22
Illinois, Machine Mining in, 264
Illuminating Opaque Objects for the Microscope, M. Ch. Frémont’s Method of, 405
Imperial Defence and War Material, 89
Imperial Institute, 619 Improvement in Trade, The, 113, 263
Iccandescent Lamps and their Manufacture, Mr. Bailey on, 500
India, Canal Profits in, 647
India with Ceylon, Projected Railway Bridge to Connect, 192
India, On The Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in, 501
India, Development of The Iron Resources, 457
India, Irrigated Area, 234 India, Light Railway for, 234
India-office, Papers on the Iron Resources in the Madras Presidency, 503
India, Periyar Irrigation Works Oponod, 382
India, Railway Enterprise in, 595
India, Stoel Making Prospects in, 427
Indian Coal Production, 143
Indian Collieries, Report on The Working of, 160
Indian Collieries, Total Cipital Outlay on. 143
Indian Government, The Umaria Colliery Output, 160
Indian Head, United States Naval Proving Ground at, 225, 232, 233
Indian Railways, 13, 59. 66. 87,105, 143,160,192, 217, 234, 286, 431, 457, 525, 556, 595, 613
Indian Railways, Accidents on, 87
Indian Railways, Broad Gauge, 160
Indian Railways, Mr. R. Cohey’s Appointment, 613
India, Railway Extension in, 59, 87, 105
Indian Railways, 2ft. 6in. Gauge Light Railway in Progress, 217
Indian Railway Girder Bridges, Strengthening of, 13
Indian Railways, Length of Timber Sloopcrs Reduced, 234
Indian Railways, Mileage of, 143
Indian Railways, North-West, 286
Indian Railways Owned by Native Rulers, Mileage of, 192
Indian Railways, Passenger Traffic cn South, 66
Indian Railways, Proposed Partition of the North-Western Railway, 613
Indian Railways, Standard Gaugo Line, 217
Indian Railways, Strengthening of the Girders of Cheyaur Bridge, 217
Indian Railway, Rolling Stock for the South, 217
Indian Railways, Total Length in Operation, 431
Indian Railways, Mr. Warirg’s Report on, 556
Indicating Names of Stations on the District Railway, Mechanism for, 525
Indicator and Detector, Water Level, 647
Ingots, Small Cast Steel, 206
Iügot Iron, Alleged Treacberousress of, 330
Inscriptions on Glass, How Best Obtained, 595
Inspectors, Boiler, 258, 291, 359
Inspirator to Feed a Boiler, Cost of Running an, 457
Institute of British Carnage Manufacturers, 192
Institute, City and Guilds ok London:—Diplomas Conferred by, 115
Institute of Clayworkers on Light Railways, 613
Institute, Coventry Technical, Viscount Peel on Technical Educarim, 613
Institute Engineering Society Goldsmiths’, 414
Institute, The Franklin:—
Resistance Io Corrosion of Sen 3 Light Aluminium Alloys, Mr. J. W. Richards, 87
Institute, The Imperial, 619
Institute, The Iron and Steel, 174
Cornwall Works, Soho, Messrs. Tangye, Visit to, 177, 184
Direct Puddling of Iron, M. Emile Bonehil), 176
Government Small Arms Works, Sparkbrook, Visit to, 199, 201
Hamstcad Colliery, The, Visit to, 202
Hardening of Steel, Mr. 11. Marion Howe, 176
Iron Industry of South Staffordshire, Mr. Dan.dopes, 174
Ironworks of the South of Russia, Geo. Kamen sky, 241, 293
Loan Collection at Mason's College Visit to, 202
Mineral Resources of the South Staffordshire Coalfields, Mr. H. W. Hughes, 174
New Method for the Analysis of Chrome Ore and Ferro-Chrominm, Mr. E. H. Saniter, 177
Nickel Steel, Mr. Wiggin, 199, 219
Parker and Co.’s Electric Light Works, Wolverhampton, Visit to, 178
Preliminary List of Papers to be Read, 17
Production of Iron by a New Process, Mr. R. A. Hadfield, 177, 183
Programme of The Autumn Mooting at Birmingham, 17, 165
Small Cast Steel Ingots, Mr. R. Smith-Casson, 206
Staffordshire Steel and Ingot Company’s Work?, Visit to, 178
Tests of the Physical Properties of Cast Iron, Thos. I). West, 219
Thermo - Chemistry of The Bessemer Process, Professor Hartley, 176
Windsor-streot Works of the City of Birmingham Gas Department, Visit to, 200
Institute of Marine Engineers:—
Fifth Annual Dinner, 285
Presidential Address of Mr. Durston, 318
Institute, The Tramways:—
Address of the President, Mr. Carruthers Wain, 22
Annual Report, 22
I. E. S. Storago Battery for Lighting and Traction, Mr. A. G. New, 22
Thwaite-Cawley System of Electric Haulage, Mr. G. Cawley, 22
Institution of Civil Engineers, 431
Appointment of Sir Benjamin Baker as Trustee of the Benevolent Fund, 369
Appointment of Treasurer, Honorary Secretary, and Secretary, 13
City and South London Railway, with some Remarks on Subaqueous Tunnelling by Shield and Compressed Air, Mr. J. H. Greathead, 500
Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, Messrs. Heenan and Gilbert, 625
Dilation, Annealing, and Welding of Iron and Steel, Mr. Thomas Wrightson, 559
Election of H.I.M. The German Emperor as Hon. Member, 477
Influence of Carbon on Iron, Mr. J. 0. Arnold, 559
James Forrest Lecture, Dr. A. B. W. Kennedy, May 7th, 369
Members and Associates who have been on the Books for upwards of Fifty Years, 602
Physical Properties of Iron and Steel, Two Papers on, 559
Presidential Address of Sir Benjamin Baker, 480, 483, 512
Subjects for Papers, Session 1895-6, 259
Institution of Civil Engineers, Association of Yorkshire Students, 113, 414
Second Annual Dinner, 490
Institution of Civil Engineers, The Manchester Branch of Students:—
Description of Gas Stoking Plant, Mr. F. J. West, 612
Iron and Steel, On the Microscopic Study of, 624
Institution of Civil Engineers, Newcastle- upon-Tyne Association of Students, 348 Some Details of Iron Foundry Work, Mr. G. H. Sheffield, 625
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 550
Annual Dinner, 627
Annual Dinner Postponed, 488
Annual Soiree of, 13
Conversazione of, 35 Leader Relating to, 509
Opening of Session Postponed, 454
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The American :—
Substitution of Electricity for Steam in Railroad Practice, Dr. Louis Duncan, 187
Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland : Metallography, or The Microscopic Study of
Iron and Steel, Mr. J. E. Stead, 624
Institute of Engineers and Naval Architects, The Hull and District: —
Inquiries, Tenders, Specifications, Contracts for Steannhif s and their Machinery, Mr. F. H. Pearson, 430
Visit to the National Telephone Company’s Exchange, 501
Institution of Engineers, The North-East Coast:—
Application of The Law of Similarity of Marino Propellers, Mr. J. Denholm Young, 501
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland:—
Inaugural Address of Sir William Arrol, he Pooh-poohs all Notion of a Channel Bridge. 405 K ’
Institution of Junior Engineers, The:—
Belgian Summer Meeting, 223
Presidential Address, Mr. Archibald Denny, 487
Urban Roads and Footways, with Notes on
Gas, Water, and Electric Mains, Mr. J. Julian, 625
Visit to Messrs. Bell's Asbestos Works, 514
Institution of Marine Engineers:—
Bristol Channel Centre, 415
Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Glasgow :—
Clydebank Engineering Works, 153
Clydebank Shipyard Works, 153
Engineering Works. Visits to, 153
Glasgow Gasworks Visited, 129
Glasgow Iron and Steel Company’s Works, 153
Glasgow Sewage Works Visited. P29
Glasgow Waterworks Visited, 129
Hydraulic Power Supply in Towns, Glasgow,
Manchester, Buenos Ayres, Ac., Mr. E. B. Ellington, 99
Hydraulic Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, Mr. Andrew S. Biggart, 99
Leven Shipyard and Engino Works, 187
Lille Experiments on The Comparative Efficiency of Hows and Belts for The Transmission of Power, by M. V. Dubreuil, Translated by Professor I). S. Capper, 580, 639
Modern Steel Works Machinery, Mr. Riley, 100, 126
Opening of th'o Proceedings, 99
Papers to bo Read and Discussed, 33
Recent Engineering Improvements of the Clyde
Navigation, Mr. Jas. Doas, 100, 126, 131, 167, 193
Shipyards and Engine Works Visited, 129
Visits and Excursions, 33, 128 129
Institution of Mining Engineers, The Federated :—
Birmingham with its Canal Connections with the Seaports, Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 23
Blasting Efficiency of Explosives, Bergassessor Winkhaus, 367
Change of Composition Produced in Air by Flames and by Respiration, Professor Clowes, 368
Depth to Productive Coal Measures between the Warwickshire and Lancashire Coalfields, Mr. Chas. E. do Rance, 367
Economic Minerals of the Province of Ontario, Canada, Mr. W. H. Merritt, 368
Gold Mining in Nova Scotia, Mr. F. II. Mason, 368
Programme of Annual General Mooting to be Held in North Staffordshire. ‘231
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy:—
Chrome Iron Oro Mining in Asia Minor, Mr. W. F. Wilkinson, 4
Deep Mining in Mexico, and The Changes that Occur in the Country Rock and Vein-Filling in Depth, Mr. E. liaise. 4
Institution, The Royal United Service —see Royal United Service Institution :—
Institution, Royal—sec Royal Institution:— Instruments, Suspensions for Physical, 431
Insurance and Actuarial Society of Glasgow, 521
Internal Engine Friction, 507
International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company’s New Service to Trieste, 525
Invention ? What is, 162
Inventor, “Good Enough” is The Foe of tho, 16
Inventor? Who is Entitled to the Name of, 545
Invicta Reducing Valve? 619
Iodide, Action of Alcohol on Mercurous, 647
“Iowa,” The Battleship, Test of a Section of her Side Armour, 160
Ipswich and Harwich, Improvements in the Ports of, 401
Ireland, Engineering and Shipbuilding in, 599
Irish Railway Working, 139
Irish Steamer “ Lestris,” Launch of the, 43
Iron Arch, Evolution of the, 597
Iron, Coal, and General Trades of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 25, 48, 75, 94, 120, 146, 168, 195, 220, 242, 271, 294, 320, 340, 372, 396, 418, 442, 466,490, 514, 538, 562, 602, 628, 648
Iron in the Congo Country, Production of, 501
Iron, On the Direct Puddling of, Mr. E. Bonebill on, 176
Iron Disposed of io Seven Months by the Syndicate of Austrian Ironfounders, 192
Iron Foundry Work, Mr. G. H. Sheffield on some Details of, 625
Iren Industry of South Staffordshire, Mr. Dan
Jones on the, 174 Iron, Influence of Carbon on, 559 Iron, Ingot, 330
Iron from Iron Sand in New Zealand, Process for Producing. 369
Iron Oro in Ontario, Deviation of the Compass and,405
Iron Ore Shipments from New York to Rotterdam, 13
Iron, A Paint for, 286
Iron, Paints m~do from Tar for Coating, 431
Iron Pig Production, 554
Iron, Pig, The World’s Production of, 160
Iron Pijics, Leaks in, Stopped by Paper Pulp, 336
Iron. On The Production of, by a New Process, 177, 183
Iron Production in the North of England, 255
Iron, Removing Sulphur from, by Barium Ferro cyanide, 35
Iron Resources in the Madras Presidency, Development of tho, 457
Iron Resources in the Madras Presidency, Papers on the, 503
Iron Sand, Now Zealand, 396
Iron, Sheet, Magnetic Testor for, 561
Iron Statistics, The Scotch Annual, 641
Iron and Steel, On the Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of, 559
Iron and Stoel Industries in 1894, Swedish, 496
Iron and Steel Industry in Belgium, The 255
Iron and Steel, Influence of Pickling on, 261
Iron, Steel, or other Metal from Oxidation, F. Siemens’ Method of Protecting, 217 Iron and Steel, Physical Properties of, 559
Iron and Steel, Processes for Converting Cast Iren into Malleable, 217
Iron and Steel from Rust, Gesner Method of Protecting, 35
Iron and Steel from the United States, Exports of, 160
Iron, Tests of The Physical Properties of Cast, 219
Iron Trade, The American, 286
Iron Trades Employers’ Association, The. 90
Ironbark Sleepers in New South Wales, 13
Ironclads, Ac., for Japan, 309
Ironworks of the South of Russia, by Geo. Kamersky, 241,293
Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, The Thames, 567—578
Irregularity and Delay in the Arrival of Trains
Running into London, Mr. Ritchie on the, 217
Irrigated Area of India, 234
Irrigation Works in Egypt, 275—278, 301—303, 427.432
Irrigation Works in India, Opening of, 382
Italian Fleet at Portsmouth, The, 31, 37, 40
Italian Government and Light Railways, 286
Italian Navy, Launch of the “ Vittor Pisani,”234
Italian Submarine Boat, Trial of a New, 192
Ivory, 484

JAIIN and Schdnrock's Experiments in Thermodynamics of Galvanic Polarisation, 231
“ James Forrest ” Lecture, The, 369
Jamieson, Mr. M. B., 206
Jamieson, Professor, “ A New Departure in Stoam
Engine Economy,” 15
Japan and British Railway Materia1, 163
Japan, Ironclads, Ac., for, 309
Japan, Matches Exported from, 405
Japan, Now Docks, 431
Japan, New Rille, 309
Japan and Russia as Machinery Markets, 365
Japanese Coal Delivered in Bombay, 160
Japanese Mills, Working Hours in, 286
Japanese Port, Construction of a Dry Dock in a 613
Jacques, Captain, on War Material in the United Spates, 502
Java, Petroleum Boring in, 405
Jot Condenser, Drum Air Pump and, 189
Johnson’s Drum Air Pump and Jet Condenser, 189
Johnson, Mr. S. W., Express Passenger Locomotive, Midland Railway (Supplement, December ï&tk, 1895)
Johnson, Mr. Sara. W., Portrait, 5S1
Johnsen, Mr. W., Dry Press Brick Machine, 71, 94
Johnston, Messrs. W. and A. K-, Map of Ashanti and Gold Coast, 554
Johnston, Messrs. W. and A. K., Map of Railways and Canals of England and Wales, 234
Jones, Mr. Dan, On the Iron Industry of South Staffordshire, 174
Julian, Mr. J., On Urban Roads and Footways ; with Notes on Gas, Water, and Electric Mains, Ac., 625
July the Wettest Month since November latt, 192
Junctions, Railway, M. Zanotta on, 29
Jungfrau Railway, Preliminary Work, 309
Junior Photographer Magazine, 183
Junker’s Gas Calorimeter, 161 “Jupiter,” ll.M.S, 512

KAMENSKY, GEO., Ironworks of South Russia 241 293
Karri Wood Paving Blocks, 541
“ Katahdin,” The Ram, 286, 595, 613
“ Katahdin ” Ram, Report dealing with the Contractor’s Trials, 286
Kclvio, Lord, His Belief in Continuous Current Systems in Power Supply Stations, 105
Kennedy, Dr. A. B. W., The “ James Forrest” Lecture, 369
Kennedy, Professor, Result of his Tests of the Alloy used by the Manganese Bronze and Brass Company, 545
Keyham Torpedo Shop, Overtime in the, 192
Kiel, International Naval Exhibition at, 143
Kilns, Improved. 35
Kimberly, The Earl of, On Technical Education, 369
King’s College, Architectural Curriculum at, 303
King’s Norton Metal Company, The, 300
King8burgh, Lord, On Electricity in the Dwelling, 623
Kirtley, Mr. W., Presentation to, 13
Kites for Meteorological Observations, Professor McAdie’8, 382
Knapp and Co.’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
Knapp, Mr. E. C., Proportioning Cylinders for Compound Engines, 315
Kneem, Mr. W., Slethod of Burning Creosote 09, 192
Knight’s Motor Cycle, 252
Knitter, Automatic S;ockiDg, 116
Kolben, Mr. E., Oq the Use of Worm Gearing in Electrical Works, 501
Kolkcr and Naphtali, MM., Paints for Coating Iron, 286, 431
Kcosen, Mr. J. A., His MotorCar Claims not to bo a Locomotive, 613
Korda’s Thermo-chemical Galvanic Cell, 286
Kotri Bridge, Indian Railways, 535
Kiiiger, I)r., On Acetylene and Carbonic Acid Gas, 457
Kruger, M. F., On the Resistance of Porous Diaphragms in Various Electrolytes, 525
Krupp Works, The Sanitor Method triod at, 13
Kiibler, Mr. J., First Prize Design for Stiffened
Suspension Bridge over the Danube at Buda Pest. 60, 67, 106, 107, 108
Kyoto Electric Railway, Opening of, 59

LAB1NAL, M., Mode of Obtaining Simpler Connection between The Clearances and the Body of Vacuum Pumps, 35
Laing, Mr. Andrew, His Resignation, 368
Laird Bros., Launch of Now Torpedo Boat, 309
Laird Bros., Messrs., s.s. “ Quoen of The North ” (Supiiltm>nt, Xorembcr ].«/, 1895), 55, 426
Laird Bros., Twin Screw Steamers for The Irish Mail Service, 160
Like Shore and Michigan Southern Riilway, A Fast Train on the, 486
Lake Superior, Fluctuation of The Water Surface o', 369
Lakiserai to Gya, Broad Gauge Railway from, 160
Lambert, Mr., On the Acceleration of Transport of Morchaudise, 29
Lamp, The Denay rouse, 474
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Company, Meeting of Proprietors, 105
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Change in the Staff, 431
Lancaster and District Tramways Company and the Progress of Electric Traction, 501
Lanchesto", Mr. F. W., On the Radial Cursor : An Addition to the Slide Rule, 431
Langley and Son’s Now Letter Card. 87
Lascellos, Mr., His Appointment, 477
Latchford Lock Gates, Collision with tho, 526, 527
Latho, History of the, 391
Launch, A Tasmanian, 267 Launches, Oil, 34
Launches by Scotch Shipbuilders, 13
launches and Trial Trips, 13, 17, 27, 43, 51, 77, 87. 97, 105, 123, 143, 149, 160, 171, 181, 1»7, 223, 234, 237, 245, 263, 266, 273, 286, 297, 309, 316, 318, 323, 346, 349, 365, 375, 421, 445. 464 , 493, 517, 541, 549, 565, 604 , 613, 631, 647
Laura, M., Secondary Battery, 217
Laval 100-Horse Power Steam Turbine Motor and Dynamo, 358, 359
Lawn Mower Roller Adjustment at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9
Ixixy-Snaefell Electric Line Opened for Traffic, 192
Ix>ad Mining Industry, The, 484
Load Poisoning from the Service Pipes of Water-wnrbe
Lead, Welding, 160, 309

LEADERS
Adam’s Bridge, 364
Adam’s Bridge Railway, The, 90
Aluminium Works at The Falls of Foyers, 212
Another Reason, 644
Armour Plate Making, 337
Atlantic Liners, American and British, 509
Bainbridge, Mr., and the Miners, 412
Board of Trade and Electric Lighting, The, 42
Board of Trade Officers, 65
Boiler Inspectors, 235
Boilers and Food Water, 338
Blast Furnaca Gas Bailors, 532
Boon tc Railway Companies, A, 16
Central London Railway, The, 42
Change io Steam Shipping, The, 436
Changes in Cost of Railway Working, 163
Cheap Oxygen, 337
Clearanco in Steam Engino Cylinders, 41
Clydo and Belfast Strikes, Tqo, 555
Coal and Coal Miners, 90
Coal Supply of Oar Warships, The, 531
Coal Trado Position, The, 557
Coal Trado, The Oatlook in the, 59S
Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air, The, 557
Concentrated Loads, 138
Conservation of Energy, The, 185
Copper and Engineering, 212
Coppering The B)ttoms of Steel Ships, 436
Curious Briler Explosion, A, 262
Day of Cheap Money, The, 312
Day of The Great Producer, The, 288
Doncaster Race Week, 263
Durston, Mr., Oa The Machinery of Ships of War, 311
Effect of Gun Fire, The, 288
Electrical Supply at 230 volts, 161
Electric Traction ou Railways, 186
Electrical Traction in the United States, 435
Engineering of English Ironworks, The, 187
Engineering and Shipbuilding, 557
Engineering and Shipbuilding in Ireland, 599
Engineers and Structural Steel, 288
Evolution of the Iron Arch, The, 597
Explosions of Gas Cylinders, 112
Fire on Board the “ Iona,” The, 312
Fore-horo Defences at Brighton, 436
Funnels of Warships, The, 435
Glasgow and Horseless Carriages, 509
Good Enough. 16
Government Railways and Locomotive Coal, 509
Great Northern Railway, The, 557
Harnessing Niagara, 236
High Railways Speeds and Permanent Way,
532
High Speeds in The United States, 484
Hours of Work on Railways, 509
Imperial Defence and War Material, 89
Imperial Institute, Tho, 619
Improving Trade, 263
Industrial Exhibition at Glasgow, 461
Influence of Pickling on Iron and Steel, The, 261
Institution of Electrical Engineers, The, 509
Internal Engine Friction, 507
Irish Railway Working, 139
Iron Trades Employers’ Association, 90 Ivory, 484
Japan and British Railway Material, 163
Jubilee of the Caledonian Railway, 89
Load Mining Industry, The, 484
Lecture Theatre, The, 42
Light Railways Conference, The, 556
Light Railways on Highways, 288
Liquid Air, Production of, 644
Lloyd’s Register Committee, 185
Locomotives and the Manchester Ship Canal, 557
London County Council Scheme of Water Supply, 111
London and North-Western Railway and Manchester Ship Canal, 461
London Street Lighting, 112
Long Railway Runs, 261
Loss of the “Seaford,” The, 211
Marine Boilers, 363
Marino Pleasure Piers, 620
Morsey Docks and Harbour Board, The, 644
Metric System, The, 643
Municipality of Singapore. Tho, 312
National Trade Mark, A, 338
New Departure in Steam Engine Economy, A, 15
New London and South Wales Railway, The, 459
New Northern Railway, The, 3f5 No Matter, 66
Niagara Power Company, Tho, 460
Northern Railway Projects, 533
Oil Fuel for Pumping Engines, 597
Okehampton Artillery Practice, 365
Passenger Traffic on South Indian Railways, 66
Perfect Knowledge, 643
Preservation of Timber, The, 138
Railway Economics, 460
Railway Race, The, 212
Railway Working, 16
Railways of New South Wales, 411
Railway Unpunctuality, 287
Reviving Trade, 364
Robert-Bessemer Process, The, 412
Rolling Stock Experiments on Northern of
France Riilway, 90
Russia and Japan as Machinery Markets, 365
Scientific Filtration. 41 Scottish Railway Working, 237
Self-propelled Road Carriages, 211
Self-propelled Traffic Association, The, 599
Sheffield Smoke, 163
Single Driving Wheels in the United States, 363
Sir Benjamin Baker’s Address, 483
Specialisation, 598
State of Trade, The, 66
Steamers Sold to Foreigners, 113
Strike on the Clyde, The, 619
Swindon Station, 213
Theory of Compensating Gradients, 508
Trade Improvement, The, 113
Trades Union CoDgress, The, 236
Transport of Petroleum, The, 137
Value of Quick-fire Ordnance, Tho, 620
Wales and the London Water Scheme, 411
Mr. Waring’s Report on Indian Railways, 556
What is Invention? 162
Working of the Railways, The, 311
Year’s Mines Drainage Work, A, 338
Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 186
oak? in Iron Pipes Stopped by Paper Pulp, 336
Leask, Capt., His AppJntment at Sunderland Harbour, 234
Leather, Manufactured, Messrs. Angus and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Leather Tires for the French Army Cycles in Place of India-rubber, 87
leber, Mr. Edler von, On the Construction and Teeing of Metallic Bridge?, 3Q
Le Chatelier, M., On a Fusion of Aluminium and Copper, 87
Lecture Theatre, The Misdirection of Energy in the, 42
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 441 Ixoods Tramways, 387
Loo-Motford Magazno Rifle Ammunition, 200, 201
“ Left handed ” Trains in Rhode Idand and Massachusetts, 554
Legal Intelligence :—
Accriogton and Church OutMl Soworage Board <•. The Ribble Committee, 107
Bower-Barff Patent, Tho, 46
North British Rubber Company e. the Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company, 537
North Metropolitan Tramways Company r. the London County Council, 625
W. II. and L. Collirgridge r. the City Press, Limited, 545
Legislation on Light Railways, The Conference to Promote, 554
Leicester Electricity Works, 56, 57, 61
Leicester Electricity Works, Corliss Eoginos, 86
Leicester Waterworks, 530, 534
Leicester Waterworks, Pump.ng Engines (Supplement, December fith, 1895), 553
Leicester Waterworks, Triple expansion Pumping Engines, Messrs. Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, 530
Lendal Bridge, York, Strengthening, 633
Lensos, Mr. H. Dennis Taylor, 405
Leslies Weekh/, Lithographs and Account of the New York Central Railway, 554
Letter Cird, Mossrs. Laogley and Sons’, 87

LETTERS to the Editor:—

Accuracy of Valve Gears, The, Digna Sequamur, 238
Adam’s Bridge Railway, India—Ceylon, F., 104
Adam’s Bridge Riilway, India—Ceylon, E. 1. Shadbolt, 104
Aluminium Tubes ? F. M., 41
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, F. R. Hutton, 239
Amphibious Boats, Commerce, 490
Automatic Carriages in France, R. F. C., 408
Amphibious Passenger Boats, Octavius D. Deacon, 434
Amphibious Boats, C. W. Dadgin and Sons, 490, 538
Amphibious Boats, HysoD, 505
Amphibious Boats, H. R. de Salis, 466, 504, 616
Available Sources of Water Supply for Londen, R. Price Williams, 386
Bicycle Problem, Enquirer, 191
Bailer Explosion, A Curious, Engineer, 333
Boiler Inspectors, Chalkline, 258
Bailer Inspectors, Ex-Superintendent, 258
Boiler I aspect ors, A Foreman Boilermaker, 359
Bailer Inspectors, W. R. Leba, 258, 333
Boiler Inspectors, Old Cbap, 291, 386
Boiler Inspectors, Chas. J. Spancer, 291
Boiler Inspectors, John Swift, 291
Book on Rock Drills and Boring Machines? A. F., 389
Brake Trials on The North-Eastern Railway, Clement E. Stratton, 334
British Small Arm Ammunition, John MaddeD, 12
Broad Gaugo r. Narrow Gauge, E S. Marryat, 617
Bullhead Rails r. Flango Rails, E. E. Russell Tratman, 640
Canal Haulage, Thos. Irwin, 191
Canals, Lionel B. Wells, 63
Candle Making Machinery ? C. C., 507
Central Factories for Sugar, T. II., 86
“Challenge ” Feed Pumps or Heaters? S. A.S., 65
Clearanco in Stoam Engines, II. Bollinckx, 109 k Clearance in Steam Cylinders, A. Inokuty, 86, 189
Clearance io Steam Cylinders, Tin Tack, 63
Coal Supply of Our Warships, The, Chief, 601
Collision with Lock Gates, Robert McGlasson, 39
Comparative Advantages of Vignoles and Bullheaded Rails, James Whitestone, 360
Compressed Hide Pinions ? G. F. G., 363
Continuous Brakes, Percy Caldecott, 504
Corliss Eogines at Loicester Electricity Works, E. J. Brown (for Hick, Hargreaves and Co.), 142
Corliss Engines at Leicester Electricity Works, James Dunlop, 86
Detachable Rudders, D. Croll, 360
Disaster on Bjard s.s. “Iona,” The United Asbestos Company, Ld., 317
Distance and Time in which a Ship may be Brought to Rest from Full Speed Ahead, Robert McGlassoD, 142, 166
Distance and Time in which a Ship may bo Brought to Rost from Full Speed Ahead, W. D. Weaver, 108
Distant Signal L:ghts, Compensator, 104, 209
Distant Signal Lights, Signal Engineer, 166, 333
Draw a Parabola, To, S. Smeaton, 538
Early Great Western Locomotives, James Watt Boulton, 259
Early Great Western Locomotives, I). II. Ciutejohn, 191
Early Great Western Locomotives, Demi John, 239
Eirly Great Western Locomotives, Exhibitor No. 88, 239
Early Great Western Locomotives, II. Greenly, 216, 239, 292, 408, 440, 476, 505 Early Great West.rn Locomotives, Thos. Hunt, 538
Eirly Great Western Locomotives. D. II l/ttle- john, 216, 239, 259, 292, 345, 360, 387, 408, 454, 476, 505
Early Great Western Locomotives, W. 0. E. Meade-King, 317
Eirly Great Western Locomotives, W. B. Paley, 142, 387, 408, 410, 451, 476
Early Great Western Locomotives, G. A. Sekon, 101, 142, 317
Early Great Western Locomotives. Sextus 441, 505, 550
Early Great Western Locomotives, R, S’ueward. ^258
Early Great Western Locomotives, Clement E. Strotten, 166, 216, 239, 259, 360, 387, 408, 440, 476, 538
Early Great Western Locomotives, W. B. Thompson, 454, 505
Early Great Western Locomotives, A. A. W., 454 3
Edge Runners and Disintegrators? O. K., 483
Electric Welding, The Electric Welding Company, Limited, 643
Electric Wood Cargo Discharging and Stacking Craco, W. 11. Lindsey, 396
Empress Theatre, Earl’s Court, J. C. Rome, 317
Engineer in Naval Warfare and in Commerce, Bulkhead, 504
Engineer Personnel of the Navy, The, C. P., 208
English and American Projectiles, R. A. llad- tiold, 317
Excavating Machinery? E. II. T., 507
Explosion of a Carbonic Acid (las Cylinder, C. E. Shepherd, 107
Fair Trade and No Trade, W. A. S. B., 63,109
Faith in Science, Aldrovandus, 216
Fans and Air Propellers, Student, 435
Farina Machinery ? Starch, 261
Ferry Steamer for The Volga, C. Moberlcy, 317
Fires at Sea, A. Stewart Harrison, 317
Flange Joints on Coppor Pipes, Professor Isaac Storey and Sons, J. Nosbury, 617
Flange Rails and Metal Sleepers, E. E. Russell Tratman, 505
Flange Rails and Metal Slecpors, James Whito- stone
Free Trade and No Trado, W. A. S. B., 63, 109
Free Trado and No Trade, G. A. Haig, 86
Free Trade and No Trade, A. Willi imson, 63, 601
Gas Producers at Dow’a:s, Wm. Porritt Ingham, 505
Gear Engines, The, Arthur Bollicckx, 12
Girder Problem, Enquirer, 290
Girder Problem, A, F. W. Jennings, 333
Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, Arthur L Gibson, 86
Great Railway Rae?, The, Clement E. Stretton, 216
Hancock’s Stoara Cca hes, W. B. Paley, 290
Hanging of Harveyed Armour Plates, A Shipwright, 529
Heating Buildings by Exhaust Steam, Asbwell J. Nesbitt, 104
Hexagonal Rods ? Hexagonal, 459
History of tbo Metropolitan Riilway, The Makers, 239
History of The Metropolitan Railway, W. B. Paley, 408
Horizontal Band Saw Machines for Logs, W. Sam Wors-am, 63
Horse-propelled Paddle Boats, R. S. Culley, 505
Hydraulic Copying Press, The, R B. P., 39 Hydraulic Propulsion, M. W. Ruthven,396 Improved Lights for the Rescue of the Drowning, J. Lawrence-Hamilton, 411
Influence of the Size of Particles on the Pressure of a Gas, Thomas Hunt, 617
Institution of E ectric Engineers, The, R. S. Erskine and A. A. C. Swinton, 550
International Fire Congress, Amsterdam, September 24th, 28tb, Edwin O. Sachs, 259
Invicta Reducing Valve? E. II., 619
Knight’s Petroleum Motor Cyclo? John Henry Knight, 287
Leeds Tramways, Mot Jr, 387
Light Railways, Arthur W. Burgess, C02
Liquid Air, W. Hampton. 617
London and Greenwich Railway, The, W. B. Paloy, 39
Lng Railway Runs, W. M. Acworth, 317
Long Railway Runs, II. R. do Salis, 292
Largest Railway Run on Record, Too, W. M. Acworth, 505
Longest Railway Run on Record, Clement E. Stretton, 538
Loss by Clearance, Wm. Donaldson, 1S9
Loss from Condensation in Long Steam Pipes, S. A. Ward, 317
Magnetisation of Watches, C. C , 39
Makers of Celluloid Articles ? E. B , 65
Mechanical Road Carriages, J. N. A., 63
Mechanical Road Carriages, C. D., 38
Mechanical Road Carriages, P. W. D., 63
Mechanical Road Carriages, Golosiphor, 38
Mechanical Road Carriages, G. A. Haig, 63
Mechanical Vehicles, Ouo who Witnessed the Trials, 216
Metal S'eepers, Ja?. Whitestone, 409
Metre io Belgian Workshops, The, L., 396
Metropolitan Railway, W. B. Paley, 191
Metropolitan Water Supply, Hassard and Tyrell, 441
Midland Railway, Too, Fred. J. Bolt, 142
Midland Railway Locomotives, Clement E. Stretton, 617
Mild Sleel Beam Sjctim Struts, Edw. J. M. Davies, 537
Mild Steel Beam Sect:on Struts, Kendrick Edwards, 550
Mild Steel Beam Section Struts? K. E., 507
Mild Steel Beam Section Struts, W. 11. T., 550
Mild Stoel Beam Section Struts, W., 537
Montgomery-Moore Collision Doors? D. E., 89
Moss Litter and Peat Fuel? P. I., 261
Motor Carriages for Royal Mails, Fred. Simms, 617
Moulded Wcol Pump Articles? E. B., 41
Moving Buildings ? C., 507
Moving Frodsham Station, Cuthbert W. H. Whalley, 537
Munificent Offer, A, Apprentice C.E., 434
Munificont Offer, Non-Identity, 466
Murdock’s Blowing Engines, L. Richard, 434
New Admiralty Buildings, Out-of-Breath, 387
“ New Centurion,” The, Jas. Eastwick, 529
“New Centurion,” The, Precursor, 529
“ Now Centurion,” The, Automatic Mounliogs for Heavy Guns, Jas. Eistwick, 616
New Zealand Iron Sand, Wm. Butlin, 396
Nile Barrage, The, F. Mougel Bay, 504
No Engineer ovor Forty need Apply, Engineer, 290
Oil Fuel for Pumping Engines, Wm. Fairley, 640
Oil Motor Carriages, J. E. Weyroan, 451
Oldest Enzino Driver in The World, The, R. Moody, 550
Ordnance Bench Marks, Dumpy, 333
Ordnance Datum, Ernest Mullin, 360
Origin of The Continuous Brake, The, Masharo,
“ Oroya,” The, Charles F. Pars:ns, 12
Paper and other Pressed Pulp Manufacturers? S. W. S., 41
Pearl’s Spindle Oil? P. B. P., 459
Peat Compressing Machinery? A. B. G., 287
Peterhead Harbours, Whatcley Eliot, 616
Petroleum Road Carriages, G. A. llaig, 12
Petroleum Road Carriages, Lister and Company, 317
Pilot Engines, S. Murray, 466
Pitching Prcpeller Blades, James B. McLareD, 490
Plant for Nail Factories? Corazon, 261
Platinum or other BlQck Coating of Metals? 65
Pneumatic Conveyors for Light Goods? Box Makers, 89
Pot Sleepers, P. W. I)., 39
Power Lost in Slide Valve Friction, It. Collier, 602
Practical Steam Engineering, William Donald son, 39
Preservation of Timber, The, Samuel Edward Haskin, 2C9
Proposed Association of Waterworks Engineers, J. W. Bradley, 529
Proposed Association of Waterworks Engineers, I). M. F. Gaskin, 504
Proposed Waterworks Engineers' Association,
Kelvin, W. li. Preeco, and I* . Cardew, G02
Pulley Problem ? A, Meteor, 161
Pumping Problem, A, Walter Crooke, 505
Pumping Problem, A, Economy, 490
Quick Acting Brake, I). H. Littlejohn, 466
Quick Acting Brake, Norman D. McDonald, 396, 409
Quick Acting Brake, The, Clement E. Stretton, 409
Race to the North, The, W. J. Barker, 166
Rice to The North, The, Big Ead, 166
Race to the North, The, R, C. Dowie, 166
Race to the North, from London to Aberdeen, Tho, Traveller, 142
Railway Economics, W. M. Acworth, 476
Railway Race, The, A. J. B., 292
Railway Race, The, Sam. A. Forbes, 239
Railway Race, Tho, A Passenger, 239
Railway Race, The, P., 292
Railway Race, The, Chas. Rous-Marfen, 239
Railway Race, The, A. Warburton, 259
Railway Signals, F., 239
Railway Speeds, A. D. P., 191
Raw Hide Pinions ? Rotifer, 619
Rodcar Boiler Explosion, The, Engineer Inspector, 216
Redcar Boiler Explosion, S. Evans, 1S9
Redcar Boiler Explosion, Toe, A Foreman
Boilermaker, 108, 166, 216
Redcar Boiler Explosion, Wm. Southorn, 189
Reversing Screw Propellers, Robt. McGlasson, 454
Rolling of Ships, C. E. Basevi, 191
Rolling of Ships, The, M. T., 63, 259
Rotherham Sewage Competition, R. II. Rhodes, 538
Russian Orders for Locomotives, Felix Freder, C.E., 292
Screw-makiog Machinery? I. G. N., 185
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Walter Arnold, 259
Self-propelled Road Carriages, R. H. B , 616
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Camus, 434
Self-propelled Road Carriages, D., 640
Self-propelled Road Carriages, G. A. Haig, 239. 290, 454
Self-propelled Road Carriages, E. H. Hodgkinson, 409
Self-propelled Road Carriages, John Geo. Inshaw, 431
Self-propelled Road Carriages, John Henry Knight, 454
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Lister and Co.. 334, 454
Self-propelled Road Carriages, A. Patterson, 505
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Roots and Venables, 476
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Lyons Sampson, 454
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Fred. R. Simms, 434 v,.
Sheffield Smoke, Merrywcather aud Sons, 191
Signalling in Tunnels, I. W. Wilkins, 466
Slow Combustion and One Thousand Pound Steam, G. A. Haig, 505
Small Candle Power Limps at High Voltages. C. II. Stearn, 216
“ Solid Cast” Steel Guns, Guns. 209
Some Electric Mining Piants, D. Selby Biggo and Co., 39
Speeds for Grinding and Cutting Tools' W. H. A., 161
Starch and Chicory Plant and Machinery ? A. S. S., Ill
Steam Packed Piste ns. J. P., 640
Stephen and Carter’s Drilling Machine? G. H . 507
Swing Bridges? Engineer, 15
Tank Engines tn the Cambrian Railway. R. N. H., 191
Tank Ships, W. B. Thompson, 191
Technical Engineering and Continental Woiki Practice, N. W., 238
Telegraphing in Tunnels, R. S. CuPey, 409
Testing Machiue at Dowlais, The, Joshua Buck ton and Co., 505
Tooth Brush Making Machinery, J. M. S. and Co., 235
Traction of Boats on In’and Waterways, Geo. Cawley, 109, 166
Traction of Boats on Inland Waterways, Commerce, 142
Traction Engines and Self-propelled Road Carriages, I. W. B , 189
Trains and Pilot Engines, Sydney SheddeD, 431
Trains and Time Tables, W. B. Thompson, 386
Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild Steel,
Transverse, 617 Triton Valves? T. P., 555
Two Hundred and Twenty Volt Lamps, St Pancras, 360
Value of Quick-fire Ordnance, Tho, T. A. Brassey, 602
Walker’s Tilts for Riilway Wagens? II. E. W.
Water-box Grate, A, B. G. V., 617
Water-tube Boilers, G. A. Haig, 39
Wheat Starch ? C. E. A , 507
Wolfram Ore? S., 411
Work of Steam, Th#>, W. II. Shaw, 12
Workshop Gas Furnaces, Fletcher, Russell, and Co., 39
Worm Gear Driven Machine Tools, Stephen H. Terry, 504
Lev^n Shipyard and pngine Works, 18/
Lewis’s Hot Blast Valve, 331
Lifeboats and Electric Communication, 143
Lifts, Hydraulic and Eectric, Manhattan Insurance Building, New York, 4/8, 479, 498, 499, 506
Lifeboat, Steam, 237, 313
Lifeboat, Steam, for Holland, 325
Light Electric Railway from Derby to Ashbourne, 457
Lifts, Safety Appliances for, 381
Light Railways, 602
Light Railways, Brakes for, Mr. Plocq, 29, 54
Light Railway Conference, The, 556
Light Railways on the Continent, Very, 34
Light Railways, Delegates to Consider the Promotion of Legislation on, 554
Light Railway on the Electric System from Dorby to Ashbourne, 160
Light Railway through the Gower Poninsula, Projected, 369
Light Railways on Highways, 288
Light Railways ani Imperial Subvention, 554
Light Railway for India, 234
Light Railways, The Institute of Clayworkers and, 613
Light Railways in Italy, 286
Light Railways, Relaxation of Normal Requirements for, Mr. Humphreys-Owens and Mr. P. W. Meik 55
Light Railways, Mr. G. Whiteside on, 382
Light Railways for South Wales, 501
Light Railways—tee also Railways, Light
Lights for the Rescue of the Drowning, Improved, 441
Lights for Ships, Running, Tested in Germany, 59 Lights, Signal, 104
Lighthouse in the Atlantic, New, 266
Lighthouse, The Cloch, 615
Lighthouses, Spurn Point and its, 154, 344
Lighthouse, Triangular, United States, 13
Lighting the Diamond Shoal off Cape Hatteras, 647
Lighting, London Street, 112
Lighting by Luminescence, M. A. Witz on, 192
Lightning, Furnaces Struck by, 641
Lightning Strokes, Risks of, 477
Lille Experiments on the Comparative Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for the Transmission of Power, 580
Lille Experiments on the Efficiency of Ropes and Belts for Power Transmission, 639
Limp, Mr. H., Electric Rail Welding, 203
Links in the History of the Locojnotive, 240, 249
L’nslade Sewerage and Water Supply, Designs for the, 477
Liquid Air, 617
Liquid Air, Commercial Manufacture of, 557
Liquid Air and Oxygen, Commercial Manufacture of, 325
Liquid Fuel at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Experiments with, 501

LITERATURE

Adrossbuch der Deutscben Maschinon Industrie, Eisen, Stahl und Metallwerko, 557
Anleitung zur Ausluhrung Grapbiscber Con- struktionen von Maschinenbau, Yon D. Hedreicb, 599
Chemische Zusammensetzung und der Heizwert der in Oesterreich - Ungarn Verwendeten Kohlen, Frarz Schwackhöfcr, 90
Colonel Sir Robert Sandeman : His Life and Work on our Indian Frontier. A Memoir, with Selections from his Correspondence and Official Writings, by Thos. Henry Thornton, 288
Construction of Carriage Ways and Footways, H. Percy Boulnois, 91
Drawing and Rough Sketching for Marine Engineers, Rough Workiog Drawings, Jas. Donaldson, 187
Economic Mining, Practical Handbook, C. G. Warnford Lock, 620
Electrical Laboratory, Notes and Forms, I)r. J. A. Fleming, 43
Elements of Electricity and Magnetism, by S. P. Thomson, 461
Engineers’ Guide to The Width of Leather Belt Required to Transmit any given Horsepower, 621
Excerpts of “ Minutas of Proceedings ” of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 569
Gold Mines of the Rand, F. II. Hatch and J. A. Chalmers, 412
Handling of Dangerous Goods, II. I. Phillips, 599
llazoll's Annual for 1896, Cyclopaedic Record of Men and Topics of the Day, 621
Hydraulic Motors, Turbines, and Pressure Engines, by G. R. Bodmer, 461
Key of the Paciöc: the Nicaragua Canal, A. II. Colquhoun, 644
Kinnaber, or The Great Riilway Rico of 1895, by W. J. Scott, 557
Life and Labour of the People in London, C'has. Booth, 113
Low's Chemical Lecture Charts, 365
Management of Dynamos, The, G. W. Lummis-Patereon, 263
Manufacture of Explosives, The, Oscar Guttman, 187
Mechanical World Pocket Diary, 1896, 557
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, by Thomas Turner, 16
Movement, by E. J. Marey, 484
Nautical Series of Books for the Use of Officers of the Merchant Navy, &c. &c, Messrs. Chas. Griffin and Co., 599
New “Centurion,” Tho, 437
Origin and Rationale of Colliery Explosions, Donald M. D. Stuart, 645
Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining, by Prof. II. S. Osborn, 533
Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, Henry Angel, 67
Practical Survoyor, Tho, Thos. Holloway, 113
Practical Telephone Handbook, The, Joseph Poole, 237
Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Brick, Tiles, and Terra-cotta, by Chas. Thos. Davis, 510
Principles and Practice of Harbour Construction, Wm. Shield, 139
Problems and Solutions in Magnetism and Electricity, by W. Slingo and A. Brooker, 557
Problems in the Use and Adjustment of Engineering Instruments, Forms for Field Notes, General Instructions for Extended Students' purveys, by W. J/. Webb, 621
“Proceedings” of the South Staffordshire Institute of Iron and Steel Works Managers,
557
Proposed London and Paris Railway, London and Paris in Four and a-half Hours, by Win. Collard, 533
Railway Almanack, 1896, Tbo, 557
Recent Cotton Mill Construction and Engineer ing, Joseph Nasmith, 91
Refrigerating Machinery, its Principles and Management, by A. Ritchie Leask, 485
Roport of the Proceedings of the Flameless Explosives Committee of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Part I.: Air and Curnbustiblo (Jas, 163
Screw Propellers and Marine Propulsion, I., McKim Chase, 67
Steel Works Analysis, J. O. Arnold, 163
Surveying and Levelling Instruments Theoretically and Practically Described, for Construction, Qualities, &c. &c., Wm. Ford Stanley, 557
Tabellen iiber die Blechdicken und Durch- mes8er der Flammrohre von Dampfkesseln, G. Eckermann, 263
Theoretical and Practical Ammonia Refrigeration, by Iltyd J. Redwood, 461
Theory of Turbines, De Volson Wood, 67
Traité des Eaux, Droit et Administration, A. Picard, 139
“ Transactions ” of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol. xi., 213
Victoria, 1895, Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines to The Hon. II. Foster, Minister of Mines for Victoria, during the Year 1894, 339
Working Medals for Engineering Students. Series I. and II. : Engine Slide Valves. With Des riptive Letterpress, 557
“ Zustand der Antiken Atbenischen Banwerko. Prof. Dr. Joseph Durm, 113
Liverpool City Free Library—Collection of Locomotive Diagrams, 405
Liverpool Electric Supply Company’s Undertaking Acquired by the Corporation, 160
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Diagram Illustrating Section of the Old, 160
Liverpool, New Station in, 35
Liverpool : Tranmere Ferry Purchased by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 546
Liverpool-street Terminus, Signals a% 117
Liversidge, Prof. A , “ Effec‘s of Wea’her upon Sheet Aluminium Tested,” 266 L'anelly, New Dock, 441
Lloyd’s Summary of Ve3se’s, Lost, Condemned, &c , 217
Lloyd’s Register Committee, 185 !
Loads, Concentrated, 138
Load, Maximum, for North British First-class Passenger Engines, 105
Lock Gate., Collision with, 39
Lock Gates, Collision with the Latchford, 526, 527
Lock to Connect the Bayon P.squemine with the Mississipi, 336
Loch Katrine Aqueduct, Tenders for the Construction of the Last Section of, 369
Locomotives Made in Australia, 13
Locomotive, Baldwin Compound Single Driver, U.S.A., 192
Locomotive, 19in. by 26in., Baldwin Locomotive Works, 234
Locomotive Boilers at the Works of The Paris,
Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, M. Henry, 227
i Locomotive Boilers, Riveting Machine for, 193
Locomotive Boilers at the Works of the Paris, Lyons,and Mediterranean Railway, M. Henry, 43, 91, 179
Locomotive Broad Gauge, Metropolitan Railwav, 1863, Sir Dan. Gooch (Supplment, Auaust \Qth, 1895)
Locomotive Buffer, The Newark, 116
Locomotive Canal Excavator, Baltic and North Sea Caral, 310, 316
Locomotivo Carriages on Roads, 524
Locomotive Coal, Government Railways and, 509
Locomotives, Compound, in Germany, 382
Locomotive Diagrams, Collection of, in The Liverpool City Free Library, 405
Locomotives, Diagrams of Early, 234
Locomotives, Early Great Wostern, 74, 104, 142, 191, 216, 234, 239, 248, 258, 259, 285, 292, 317, 345, 355, 360, 386, 408, 435, 440, 441, 451, 454, 476, 505, 538, 550
Locomotives, Electric, Baldwin Works, 431
Locomotive, Electric, Baltimore and Ohio Riilway, 548
Locomotive, Electric, Baltimore Tunne1, 404
Locomotives, Electric, Mr. E. Worthington on, 521
Locomotive, Express, Baldwin Works, for Chicago Mail Trains, 382
Locomotives, On Express, Mr. Aspinall, 1
Locomotive, Express, North-Eastern Railway (Supplement, September 2Q(J<, 1895), 291, 292
Locomotive, Express Passenger, Midland Railway (Supplement, December \%th, 1895)
Locomotives, Fireless, in Marseilles, 293
Locomotive, Mr. W. J. Holman’s Queer New, 286
Locomotive, Links in the History of the, 240, 249
Locomotives, Maximum Loads for North British “First-class” Passenger, 105 Locomotives, Midland Railway, 617
Locomotives with Oil-burning Apparatus, Equipment of the South Pacific Company’s, 234
Locomotive Passenger, Lake Shore and Michigan S. Railway. 486
Locomotives Ordered by the Prussian State Railway, 160
Locomotives, Remarkable Performances of British, Mr. Rous-Marten on, 351
Locomotives, Russian Orders for, 292
Locomotives for Russian Riilways, The Baldwm Works, 595
Locomotives for Russian State Railways, 234, 595
Locomotive and Salcon for the Duke of Sutherland, New, 217
Locomotive Service of The Metropolis, Report on the, 266
Locomotive, Six-Coupled, Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood Railway (Supplement, October ith, 1895)
Locomotives, Some Remarkable Performances in British, 69
Locomotives, Sparks from, Canadian Pacific Railroad Company's Mode of Guarding against, 160
Locomotive, Speed of the Electric, Baltimore Belt Railway, 457
Locomotive Steam Crano, 293
Locomotives, Three Systems of Compounding, 369
Locomotive, Trials with the Heilmann, 59
Locomotives’ Water Supply Carried by Train, 431
Locomotive Works, Derby, The Midland Railway Company’s, 581—593, 594, 596
Long Railway Runs, 261, 317
Longest Railway Run on Record, 505, 538
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company, Petition against The Croydon Corporation Bill, 13
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Details of Expenditure, 105
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Financial PositioD, 87
London, Chatham, and Dover Riilway Company, Half-yearly Roport, 105
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company’s New Steamers, 595
London County Council Scheme of Water Supply, 111
London Electric Supply Corporation, Dynamo and Engines, 502, 503
London Electric Supply Corporation, The New 1000-Unit Machine at Deptford, 607
London Gas Testings, 160, 266, 286
London and Greenwich Railway, Tho, 39
London and North-Western Railway and Manchester Ship Canal, 461
London and North - Western Railway, New Portion of Main Line Completed, 35
London and North-Western Riilway Company’s
New Station in Liverpool, 35
London and North-Western Railway, New Station at Prestatyn, 266
London Railway, The Central, 42
London and South Wales, Bill for New Lino between, 457
London and South-Western Railway, The New, 459
London and South-Western Railway Company’s Projected Railwav to Bude, 431 London and South Wales Railway, The New, 500
London and South "Wales Railway Company, Bill to Incorporate a New Company to be called the, 595
London Street Lighting, 112
London Water Scheme, Wales and the, 411
London Water Supply, 143
London Water Supply, Available Sources, 386
London Water Supply, The Charges Compared with tbos9 elsewhere, 457
London Water Supply, and the Eight Water Transfer Bills, 382
London Water Supply, Professors Crookes and Dawar on, 286
London Water Supplies, Relative Proportions of the, 554
London Water Supply from the Thames Daily, 554
London Works of the Sheffield Railway, Tho, 204
Loss by Clearance, 189
Loss from Condensation in Long Steam Pipes, 317
Loss of the “Seaford,” 211
Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway, Converted to the Narrow Gauge, 309
“ Low Pressure,” Definition to bo Officially Laid Dowd to Constitute, 554
Lubrication and Wear of Bearings, E. Chabal’s Experiments on the, 160
“ Lucania’s” Rud, The, 309
Lunken Valve, The, 248
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway begun, The, 286
“ Lynx,” Defects in her Boilers, 160
McADIE, Professor, On the Risk of Lightning Stroke, 477
McCallum and Naylor, Messrs., On the Royton Sewage Works, 46
MacDowall’s Sack Holder, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 41
McElroy, Mr. J. F., Heating Street Riilway Cars by Electricity, 450
McGuire, Mr. J. C., On Aluminium, its Alloys and their Uses in Ship Construction, 579
McKendrick, Dr. John G., Enlargements of Phonographic Traces, 156
Mac Lachlan, Bow and Co., Messrs., Steering Engines in the Royal Navy, 423, 424, 433
MacLachlan Patent Detachable Rudders, The, 316
McLaren, Mr. H., Engineering, Past, Present, and Future, 451
MacLollan, Messrs. P. and W..Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society, 11 McMillan, Mr. W. G., On the Nature of Alloys, 361
Machine Mining in Illinois, 264
Machine Tools, Soho Foundry, 261, 302, 303, 305, 308, 340, 341, 425, 426
Machine Tools, Worm Gear Driven, 504
Machinery Markets, Russia and Japan as, 365
Machinery, Springs, &c., Cases of Failure of, in the United Kingdom, 431
Madras, Electric Tram Line, 336
Madras, New Terminal Station, 13
Madras Presidency, Reservoirs for Irrigation Purposes in the, 160
Maginnis, Mr. Arthur J., Presidential Address, 466
Magnetic Clutch, A, 118
Magnetic Declination, Horizontal and Vertical Force and Eirth Currents, Photographically
Registered at Greenwich, 13
Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, On the, 477
Magnetic Observations in Ontario, Result of, 405
Magnetic, Properties of Bodies at Different Temperatures, 87
Magnetic Tester for Sheet Iron, 561
Magnetisation of Watches, 39
Magnetism, Horizontal Force of The Eirth’s, 369
Magnetism, Theory of, Mr. Ilerroun, 481
Magnets, Influence of Low Temperatures on Permanent, 266
“Magnificent” to be Completed by December
12tb, The New Battleship, 336
“ Magnificent,” Coal Consumption Trials of the, 255
“ Magnificent,” Speed Trials of the New Battleship, 237
Magrell and Llunggreen, Messrs , Amphibious Passenger Boat “Svanen,” 370
Mails, Motor Carriages for Royal, 617
Maine, Birch Forests of, Supply Wood for Spools, 369
“ Majestic,” H.M.S., 87, 330, 415
“ Majestic,” Day apd Night Work on tho, 8/
“ Majestic,” Wire Gun Trials of the, 336
Malaya, Railways in, 93
Mallett, Mr. J., Haymakers at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, Il
Mailing Rural District Council, Water Supply of Woultham, Burham, and Eccles, 551
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Extension, Artisans’ Dwellings in connection with, 369
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Riilway and the Eyre Estate Claim, 382
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway to London, 123
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, The Chairman’s Financial Statement, 143
Manchester Ship Canal, Too, 180
Manche iter Ship Canal, Sir L. Williams on the Construction of, 526
Manchester Ship Canal, Latchford Lock Gates, 526, 527
Manchester Ship Canal, London and North- Western Railway and, 461
Manchester Ship Canal, Sea-going Traffic of, 286
Manchester Shippers to the Levant Ports, Resolution Carried at a Meeting of, 613
Manchester Trades Council and The Metric System of Weights and Measures, 369
Mandalay-Kunlon Railway, 595
Maneuvrier, Mr. G., Oa the Ratio of The Two Specific Heats for Air, 35
Manganese Bronze Boiler Fittings, 545
Manganese Ore in Bavaria, Deposit of, Struck, 217
Manganese Ore Struck near Partenstein, 160, 234
Manganese Sulphide, On Anhydrous Crystallised, 143
Manlove, Alliott, and Co’s Tender Accepted for a Dust Destructor for Shoreditch, 59
Mann and Charlesworth’s Shaft Governor, 9
Mansergh, Mr. Jas., to Report on the Toronto Waterworks System, 336
Map of the Navigable Rivers and Canals of North Germany, 101
Map of Railways and Canals of England and Wales 231
Map of the Nile Delta, 275
Marine Bjilers, Water-tube, 527
Marine Pleasure Piers, 620
Marine Propellers, Mr. J. D. Young on, 501
Margot, Mr. C., On the Adhesion of Aluminium and other Metals to Glass, 131
Margot, M. Chas., Alloy of Tin and Zinc as Solder for Glass, 266
Marine Boilers, 363
Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding on the Toames, 45
Marks, Mr. G. C., On Horseless Vehicles, 514
Marsden’s Stone Breaker and Elevator, 11, 12
Marsh, Mr., His Appointment, 641
Marsh Steam Pump, The, 193
Marshall, Mr. F. C., Mis Jubilee in the Engineering Profession, 105
Marshall’s Valve Gear—Holloway Electric Light Station, 639
Marshall, Sons, and Co., Portable and Traction Engines, Smithfield Club Show, 600
Martin Furnace, Feeding Apparatus, 554
Martin’s Induced Draught on II.M.’s Sloop Torch, Trials with, 13
Martinoau, Councillor R. F., and Mechanical Road Carriages, 650
Masham, Lord, On Continuous Railway Brakes 35, 38
Mason’s College, The Loan Collection, 202
Masonry Dams, Mr. J. D. Van Buren on High. 352 ’
“ Messéna,” Launch of the French Ironclad, 87
Match Factories, Red Phosphorus to bo Tried at the French State, 477
Matches from Japan, Export of, 405
“ Materialism Untenable,” Mr. A. E. Dolbear’s Paper, 66
Matorials of Construction, Uniform Methods of Testing, 30
Mathematics in Relation to Engineering, 269
Mather and Platt, Messrs , z\ Now High Lift Pump, 616
Mather and Platt, Messrs., Purifying Polluted Water and Softening of Hard Water, 489
Matter, No, 66
Maudslay, Sons, and Field’s Works, Galvanising Plant at, 343, 344
Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Messrs., The Renown Sea Water Distiller, 353
Mavaut, Mr., Scheme for Turning the Course of the Scheldt, 431
Maxim, Mr. Hiram, On the Complaints of Nuiso Made by Electric Plant, 59
Maxim-Nordenfelt Gun and Ammunition Company’s Illustrated Pamphlet. 309
Maxim Solid Steel Gun, The, 156
Maximum Loads for North British “First-class” Passenger Engines, 105
Maxwell, Mr, J. R., On the (’himbote Riilway, 59
Measuring the Coatonts of Bins used in Mills Ac., Mode of, 641
Medals Awarded by the Royal Society, 525
Mechanical Carriages in Paris, 611
Mechanical Engineering, Sir D. Galton on, 254
Mechanical Road Carriages, 35, 38, 63, 216, 466,
Mechanical Road Carriages, An Out-of-Date Law 466
Meik and Humphreys-Owen, Messrs., On the Relaxation of Normal Requirements for Light Railways, 55
Memorial to the President of the Board of Trade concerning Self-propelled R?ad Carriages, 161, 168
Mensbrugghe, M. G. Van der, On the Evaporation of Liquids and the Capillary Theories, 45/
Mercantile Navy of the World, Annual Statistics relating to the, 477
Mercurous Iodide, Action of Alcohol on. 647
Mersey, The, 441
Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee, 267
Messenger Carrier Pigeon Service of the U.S.
Naval Acadomy, Report on the, 477
Metal Glucinium, Atomic Weight of the, 266
Metal, M. Henry Moissan’s Experiments with a New, 87
Metal Sleepers, 4C9
Metal Sleepers, FlaDge Rails and, 505, 529
Metalho Bridges, Construction Tests of, Mr Ldler von Leber, 30
Metallography-, or the Microscopio Study of Iron
Metcalf, Mr. W., Influence of Vibration on Steel, 579
Meter, Now Positive Water, 339
Meteoric Stonc3, Occurrence of Diamond Carbon in, 595
Meteorites, On The Study of Some, by M. H. Moissan, 405
Meteorological Observations, Professor McAdio’s Kites for, 382
Meteorological Observatory on the Brocken, A Stato, 336
Meteorology in Relation to Engineering, 269
Metro in Belgian Workshops, The, 396
Metro, Length of tho, Compared with that of tho
Standard Wave of Red Light, 309
Metric Congress, International, Question under Consideration, 309
Metric System, The, 500
Metric System of Weights and Measures Obligatory in tbo United States of Mexico, 369
Metric System of Weights and Measures, Mr. G. H. Baines on, 501
Metropolitan Railway, 191
Metro Dolitan Railway Broad Gauge Locomotive, 1863 (SuppU nit'iif .1 16M, 1895)
Metropolitan District Railway Company, Bill Deposited by. for next Session, 641
Metropolitan Locomotive Service, Report on the, 266
Metropolitan Railway, History of tbo, 53, 151, 239, 289, 326, 327, 377, 545, 641
Metropolitan Water Area, The Government to be asked to Constituto by Act of Parliament, A Public Authority for the Whole of tho, 621
Metropolitan Water Supply, 4 41
Mexico, Mining in, 4
Mexico, Railway Mileage in, 286
Meyer, Professor Victor, New Explosive, 286
Microbes in Butter and Margarine, 35
Microphonic Transmission of Dean Farrar’s Farewell Address, 87
Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, Quarterly Returns of, and Conclusions there from, 382
Middlesbrough, Electric L:ghting of, 234
Middlesbrough Gasholder. 547
Midland Railway, The, 142
Midland Railway, Contractor for the North Curve at Wincobank, 431
Midland Railway Company, Report of the, 143
Midland Railway Company’s Locomotive Works at Derby, 581, 593, 594, 596
Midland Railway Locomotives, 617
Midland Railway, The New Line, 336
Mild Steel Beam Section Struts, 507, 537, 550
Milford Haven Scheme, The Great Western Riilway, 477
Military Wheelmen, A New York Paper on, 487
Milk or Lymph, M. Winter’s Test for the Purity of. 525
Mill Buildings and Shaftings in Mills, Floors in, 595
Mill Engines, 3000-H.P., Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Co., 140, 164, 194
Miller, Mr. E. F., Table of Wind Velocities, 234 Millet’s Bicycle, 36
Milton, Mr. F. T., On Water-tube Boilers, 2 Mineral called Apyrite, 143
Mineral Resources of the South Staffordshire Coalfields, 174
Miners, Mr. Bainbridge and tho, 412 Minors, Coal and Coal, 90
Miners Provident Fund, Report for 1894 of The German, 613
Miners, Triennial Meeting of German, 313
“Minerva,” H.M S., 316 Miaes, Dr. Haldane on Black Damp in, 286
Mines and Miners, Changes and Improvements in their Condition, 286
Mines, Steel Girders for, 286
Mining in Asia Minor, Chromo Iron Ore, 4
Mining Engineers, Assembly of Gorman, 143
Miniog in Illinois, Machine, 264
Mining and Metallurgy, Institution for, 4
Mining in Mexico, Mr. E. Halse on, 4
Mining Plants, Some Electric. 2, 6, 39
Minneapolis, Proposal for Filtering the whole Water Supply of, 405
Miscellanea, 13. 35, 59. 87, 105. 143, 160, 192, 217, 234, 266, 286, 309, 336, 369, 382, 405, 431, 457, 477, 501, 525,554, 595, 641
Miscellaneous Implements at tbo Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9, 44
Mitchell, Dr. Charlo?, 213
Mitra, Mr. N. N.. Tablo for Facilitating Calculation of Discharge, Velocity, and Diameter of Pipes, by D’Arcy’s Formula, 118
Model, Sectional Ship, 381
Modern Steel Works Machinery, Mr. Jas. Riley, 100, 126
Moissan, M. Iloari, Experiments with a New Metal, 87
Moissan, M. Henri, Study of Meteorites, 405
Moissan, M., On some Varieties of Graphite, 457
Moissan and Charpy, MM., On Boron Steel, 143
Molesey. Drainage of Eist, 511
Money, The Day of Cheap, 312
Monitor Vessels, Ventilation for, 579
Monraouthshiro Coalfield and Cardiff, Projected Railway Communication botwoen, 431
Montgomery-Moore Collision Doors? 89
Mont Parnasse Station, Paris, Accident at, 405
Montreal, International Exhibition at, 382
Moore, Mr. E. C., Moving Two 36in. Water
Mains without Shutting off the Water, 357
Moral, M. Felix, Concessions Granted to, for Construction of Carriago Road, Electric Tramway, &c., at Teheran and Bagdad, 501
Mordey Alternator, Electricity Works of The Great Northern Riilway, 384
Mordey-Victoria Alternator, Leicester Electricity Works, 56
Morecimbe, Extension of Docks at Heysham Lake, 547
Morocambo Pier, The Board of Trade’s Roport on the, 316
Morris County, N J., Road Improvements in, 143
Mo‘8 Litter and Peat Fuel? 261
Mctivo Powtr, C.al Gas as a, 237
Motive Car not a Locomotive, Mr. J. A. Kooson’s, 613
Motor Carriages, 545—see also Self-Propelled Carriages, Oil Motor Carriage?, and Petroleum
M otor Carriago Competitions, 164. 168, 185
Motor Carriages fur Royal Mails, 617
Motor Cyclo, Knight’s, 252
Motor, Electric—«* .- Electric Motor
Moulded Wood Pulp Articles ? 41
Mourlot, M. A , On Anhydrous Crystallised
Manganese Sulphide, 143
Moving Buildings ? 507, 537
Moving 36in. Water Mains without Shutting off the Water, Mr. E. C. Moore,357
Moving Water Mains without Shutting off the Water, 634
Mowat, Mr., “Thomas Telford and his Work,” 553
Mower, Messrs. E. II. Bentall and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Mower Gear, Bamford’s, 10
Muoller Motor Carriago, The, 495
Multiple Drilling Machine, 527
Municipality of Singapore, Tho, 312
Municipal Telephony. Mr. A. R. Bennett on, 477
Munificent Offer, A, 434, 466 Murdock’s Blowing Engines, 431
Murgue, M. D., Less of Head in Air Currents Traversing Underground Workings, 218
Mushkaf-Bolan Railway, Section of, to bo Doubled, 13
NAIL Factory Piant? 261
Naphtha Spring at Grozny, Fresh, 292
Napier, Mr. J., Hermite Process of Doodorising
Sow’age at Ipswich, 345
Narrow Gauge Railway, Crimea, 217
Natal-Johannesburg Railway, Opening of the, 457
Natal-Transvaal Riilway, Progress of, 501
Nathan Co., Temporatures of Wator Delivered ioto Boilers under Varying Steam Pressures, 336
National Trado Mark, A, 338
Naval Absurdity, A, 59
Naval Armaments and Shipbuilding Company,
Blecbynden Express Boilers, 406
Naval Engineering Personnel, Numbers of the, 192
Naval Engineer Appointment?, 118,148, 156, 231, 263, 333,409, 496, 528, 599, 625, 647
Naval Power, Influence of Quick-fire Guns on, 519
Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, The United States, 225, 232, 233
Naval Warfare, Dangers in, Resulting from Quick-fire Guns, 525
Navigation, North Germany, Inland, 101
Navigation of the Thames, 553
Navy Department, Bids for Rapid-fire Gun Forgings Opened at, 405
Navy, Engineer Personnel of the, 208
Naylor and McCallum, Messrs., On the Rjyton Sewage Works, 46
Neele, Mr. G. P., His Successor Appointed, 105
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Fourteen Locomotives for Scotland, 217
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Goods Engines and
Tenders for the Cape Government Railways (Supplement, November 22ud, 1895), 497. 510
Neuhau8en Aluminium Company, On the Use of Carbide of Calcium for Carbnretting, 405
New “ Centurion,” The, 437, 529 Newark Buffer, Tho, 116
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade
Report, 26, 50, 74, 96, 123. 149, 171, 197, 244, 272, 296, 320, 349, 375, 398, 420, 142, 468, 490, 514, 511, 562, 602, 630
New South Wales Government Railways and
Tramways, 462, 463, 475
Now South Wales, Permanent Way in, 13
New’ South Wales, Railways of, 411
New South Wales, Water Supply and Consumption, 286
New York Central Railway Company, Average Speed Maintained, 263
Now York Central Railway, Fast Runs on tho, 328, 369
New York Central Railway, in Leslie's Hcebli/, 554
New York Central Railroad, Fast Train on the, 328
Now York, Disposition of tbo Garbage, Ashes, Street Sweepings, &c., of, 217
New York, Mi'eage of Paved Streets in, 13
New’ York State, Iron Oro in the, 13
Now Zealand Iron Sand, 396
Nowall-Cunuiugbam Sheep Shearing Machine, Riyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Newfoundland, Captain Cook on The Industrial Resources of, 595
Newfoundland, Coal in, 156
Niagara Gorge Now Suspension Bridge Projected over the, 87
Niagara, Harnessing, 236
Niagara Power Company, The, 460
Niagara Power Company, First Electric Power Transmitted to a Manufactory, 13
Niagara Power Works, 170
Niagara Pulveriser, The, 358
Niagara River, Discharge of, Ascertained by Surface Floats, 382
Nicaragua Canal, 263, 580
Nickel Steel, The Troublo with, 595
Nickel Steel, Mr. Wiggin on, 199, 219
Nicsko, Mr. Alwin, Method of Preventing Scale in Boilers, 336
Nile Barrago, The, 427, 432, 504
Nuttalfs Churn, 11
No Engineer over Forty need Apply, 290 No Matter, 66
Normand Torpedo Boat “ Forban,’’ High Speed Trial of the, 554
Normal Hexace, Messrs. Thomas and Young cn, 595
“ Normal ” Powder, 62
Normandy’s Improved Patent Distilling Apparatus at Aden, 25
North Bitchburn Coal Company’s Exhibition of Fire clay Goods, &c.f at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 9
North British Railway Companj’s Report, 336
North British Railway Line, Doubling of Section of, 192
North British Rubber Company v. The Gormully and Jeffery Manufacturing Company, 537
North-Eastern Railway, Brake Trials on tho, 304 334
North-Ei8tcrn Railway, Diagram Showing Relations of Road to Blast Pipe Action, 291
North-Eastern Railway, Express Locomotive (Supnh-meiif, S>/itiniliir 20///, 1895), 291
North-Eastern Railway, Smith’s Combined Piston and Relief Valves, 173
North-Eastern Railway Company, Half-yearly Report of, 113
North-Eastern Railway Company, Short Supply of Wagons Furnished by, 501
North of England, 25, 49, 76, 95, 121, 147, 169,
195, 221, 243, 271, 295, 321, 347, 373, 397,

443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 603, 629, 649

North German Lloyd Steamer, Lengthening of the, 143
North London Railway Company, Half-yearly Report of the, 143
North London Railway Company, New Chairman, 613
North Malabar, Railway Extension in, 35
North Metropolitan Tramways Company v. tbo London County Council, 625
North River Bridge Company, Anchorage Foundations in Proce«s of Excavation, 87
North Soa and Baltic Canal, Dredgers and Excavators on the, 110, 116, 136
North Sea and Billie Canal, Electric Lighting of, 192
North Soa and Bi’tic Canal, Limit of Draught of Vessels Permit'ed to Uso tho, 13
North Sea and Baltic Canal, Steam Hopper Birgos, 415
North Sea and Baltic Canal, Time of Passage and Traffic through, 13, 35
North Soa and Baltic Canal Railway Swing Bridge, Rendsburg, 127, 142
“ North-West,” Belleville Boilers of The Like Steamer, Condemned, 382
Northern of France Riilway, Rolling Stock Experiments on, 90
Northern Railway, The New’, 365
Northern Railway Projects, 533
Norwegian Government, Tenders of Steel Riils and Fish Plates Called for by the, 611
Norwegian State Railways, Copies of Drawings and Conditions of Tender for the Rolling Stock Required by, on View, 369
Notes from Germany, 26, 50, 76, 96, 122, 148, 170, 196, 222, 244, 272, 296, 322, 318, 374, 398, 420, 411, 468, 492, 516, 510, 564, 604, 630, 650
Notes from Lancashire, 25, 48, 75. 95,120, 146, 195, 220, 242, 271, 295, 321, 346, 372, 396, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 539, 563, 602, 628, 648
Notice to Correspondents, 15, 41, 65, 89, 111, 137, 161. 185, 211, 234, 261, 287, 311, 337, 363, 389, 411, 435, 459, 483, 507, 531, 555, 597, 618, 643
Notes from Scotland, 26, 50, 76, 96, 122, 148, 222, 244, 272, 296, 322, 348, 374, 398, 444, 468, 492, 516, 540, 564, 603, 629, 650
Notes and Memoranda, 13, 35,59, 87, 105, 143, 160, 192, 217, 234, 266, 286, 309, 336, 369, 382, 405, 431, 457, 477, 501, 525, 554, 595, 641
Nottinghamshire Coalfields, New Line Projected from Scarborough, 309

OBSERVATORY on the Brocken, Prof. Assmann, 336
Obituary : —
Craggs, Mr. Wm., 525
Denny, Dr. Peter, 187, 192
Fraser, Mr. Alexander, 414
Haggio, Mr. David, 457
Harland, Sir Eiw’ard James, 645
Howard, Mr. Charles, 382
Mitchell, Dr. Chas., 213
Smith, Mr. Thos. West, 369
Stirling, Mr. Patrick, 485
Tweddoll, Mr. Ralph Hart, 237
Yost, Mr. G. W. N., 431
“ Ocean Greyhounds,” The French Admiralty and, 87
Ocean Liners, Regular Speed of, 17
Ochre in Wales, Discovery of a Stratum of, 13
Oil-burning Apparatus, Equipment of South
Pacific Company’s Engines with, 234
Oil Blast Lamp, An Improved, Mr. Jas. McDonald, 534
Oil Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show’, 7, 61
Oil Fuel for Pumping Engines, 597
Oil Launches, Rhapsody on, 34
Oil Motor Carriages—see Motor Carriages Oil Tanks for India Eist Coast Railway, 489 Oil, Rise in Price of Burning, 105
Oil Tank, Safety, 641
Okehampton Artillery Practice, 365
Old Ago Pensions, Welsh Coalowners and the, 194
Oldest Engino Driver in the World, The, 525, 550
Ollefen, Mr. Van, Bulkhead Door aud Gear, 5
Olszswtki, Professor, his Statements as to Boiling Point and Critical Temperature of Hydrogen, 382
Onnes, Professor, Oa the Propagation of Electrical Waves in Water, 525
Onnes, Professor, On the Variation with Temperature of the Hall Effect in Bismuth, 525
Ootacamuud, Filling of Lake at, 192
Opalite, The National Opalite Glazed Buck and Tile Syndicate, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Opera Glass, The Card Case, 511
Ordnance Bench Mark, 333
Ordnance Datum, 360
Ordnance, The Burke Electric System for Operating, 266
Ordnance, Conversion of Naval, 160
Ordnance, E evating and Depressing Gear for Heavy, 143
Ordnance, New Quick-firing, tried in Franco, 309
Ordnance, Value of Quick-fire, 620
Ordnance and Warships, New Designs in, 471
Organ Blowing, An Experiment in, 284
Organ, The Hope-Jones Electric, 5C2
Oriental Flour Trade, Possibilities of an, 405
“Oroya,” The, 12
Orwell Works, Tho, 254
Osmotic Phenomena, M. F. M. Raoult on, 160
Ossett Sewage Extension Works, 87
Otay Darn, San Diego, California, Dimensions of the, 501
Olis Elovating Railway, Tho, 472
Otis Elevator in the Manhattan Insurance Building, New York. 478, 479, 498, 499, 506
Ouse Navigation, The, 371
Overhead Electric System of Tramway Traction to bo triod in Birmingham, 613
Overhead Electric Tramway System in The Midlands, 405
Overhead Railway from Waterloo Station, Projected, 266
Overhead System, The, 647
Overhead Trolley Line in Washington, Changes on the, 525
Overtime, Engineers’ Dispute at Stockton and Mildksbrough C nicer n'og, 286
Overtime in The Keyham Torpedo Shop, 192
Oxidation, Protecting Metal from, 217
Oxygen, Cheap, 337
Oxygen, Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air and, 325
Oxygon System of Dealing with Sewage, 374

PADDLE Boats, Horse-propelled, 505
Paddle Engines, Compound, and Ship Steering Gear, Messrs. Bow, McLaeh^an, and Co., 482, 489
Paint for Iron, A, 286
Paints for Coating Iron made from Tar, 431
“Palawan,” The New Peninsular and Oriental s.s., 234
Palaz, M., Advantages of Electric Light from the Standpoint of Coolness, 160
Pallion-yard, Bell and Rocliffo’s Plato Joggling Machine, 19
Palmer, Messrs., Accident in their Shipyard, 160
Palmer, Mr., His Appointment, 477 Panama Canal, The, 647
Panama Canal, The Star and J braid on the, 431
Paper and other Pressed Pulp Manufacturers? 41
Paper Pulp to stop Leaks in Iron Pipes, Use of, 336
Paper Pulp Trade, Particulars Relative to tho, 501
Parabola, To Draw a, 538
Paris, Electric Main», 197
Paris, Increaso in Numhor of Passengers Arriving at and Leaving The St. Lazare Terminus, 309
Paris Railway Collision, St. Lazare Station, 266, 429
Paris, Remarkable Accident at Mont Parnasso Station, 405
Paris, Sanitary Exhibition in, 71
Paris, Sewerage Works in, 142
Pari? Soc'été d’Encouragomont, Prizes and Medals Awarded by, 105
Park, Mr., on Rolling Stock for Express Trains, 2
Parker and Co.’s Electric Light Works, Wolverhampton, Visited, 178
Parmiter and Co., Messrs. P. J., Harvesting Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Parrot, Navigation of the River, 438
Parret, Steps towards the Improvement of tho, 405
Parry and Adoney, Messrs., Oxygen System of Dealing with Sewage, 374
Passenger Traffic on South Indian Railways, 66
Patents Applied lor in the United States, 336
Petroleum Road Carriages, 12
Petroleum, Roumanian, 197
Petroleum, Transport of, 137
Pengeot Frbres Rood Carriage, 36
Philadelphia Engineers' Club Turbines, M. Geyelin, 12
Philadelphia Terminal Station, Cost of, 613
Phonograph, A Portable, 613
Phonograph, Ueo of the, for Detecting the Defective Condition of a Waterworks Pump, 336
Phonographic Traces, Enlargements of, 156
Phosphorescence, How it is Affected by Cold and Heat, 336
Phosphorus, Red instead of White, to be Tried at the French State Match Factories, 477
Photo Chronograph, Polarising, United States Experiments with, 240
Photography in Natural Colours, Cros and Ducos, du Hauron’s Method, 641
Photography, Recoil of Guns Recorded by, 612
Physical Instruments, Suspensions for, 431
Physical Properties of Cast Iron, Tests of the, 219
Physical Properties of Iron and Steel, 559
Picklo3 and Sons, Messrs., Telegraph Post Shaping, 441
Pickling on Iron and Steel, Iotlucnce of, 261
Pictet, Mr. Raoul, How Temperature Affects Phosphorescence, 336
Pictet, M., On the Influence of Low Temperatures on Permanent Magnets, 266
Piers, Marine Pleasure, 620
Pig Iron Production, United States, 405
Pig Iron Production in Upper Silesia, 105
Pig lion Production, Weekly Total, 554
Pig Iron turned out by German Blast Furnaces, 309
Pig Iron, Weekly Capacity of all the Furnaces Making. 382
Pig Iron Works in and outsido Middlesbrough, 382
Pig Iron, World’s Production of, 160
Pillar Water Crane, 401
Pilot Eng'nes, 434, 466
Pipes from Electrolytic Corrosion, Protectiog, 143
Pipes, Flange Joints on Copper, 617
Pipes, Mr. N. N. Mitra’s Table far Facilitating Calculation of Discharge Velocity and Diameter of, by D’Arcy’s Formula, 118
Pitching Propeller Blades, 490
Plansifter, Mr. Carl Haggentnacher, R.A.S., 44
Plate Joggling Machine, Messrs. Bell and Rock liffe’s, 19
Plate Trimming Machine, Firo-box, 214
Plating Ships, Bell and Rockliffe’s System of, 19
Platinum or other Back Coating of Metals ? 65
Platinum Thermometer, On a Direct Reading, 525
Plenty and Sons, Messrs., Compound Engines, London Electric Supply Company, 618
Plocq, M., Brakes for Light Railways, 29, 54
Plough, Messrs. Ransomos, Sims, and Jefferies, 11, 12
Plough, Three-Furrow, Mr. J. Shore’s, 10
Pneumatic Conveyors for Light Goods ? 89 Polarisation, Galvanic. 234
IMuisation of the Light emitted by Incandescent Bodies, The, 457
Polarising Photo-Chronograph, United States Experiments with s, 240
Patents, Object for which The Patont Office Exists, 554
Paterson, Mr. Malcolm, The Eiland Sewage and Outfall Works. 431
Paved Streets in Now York, Mdeago of, 13 Paving Blocks, Improved Asphalt, 59 Paving, New’ Form of Asphalt, 266
Peacho’s High Speed Engine, 550
Pearl’s Spindle Oil { 459
Pear«on, Mr. F. H., On Inquiries,Tenders, Specifications, and Contracts for Steamships and thoir Machinery, 430
Pearson, Mr. H. W., On the Creation and Development of the Steam Engine, 468
P.el, Yiscjunt, On Tec’, uical EJucatj n, 613
Peipers, M., Method of Ascertaining Percentage of Carbon in Steel, 87
Pekin to South China, Railway from, under Consideration, 192
Pekin to Tientsin, New Double Line from, 613
Peking and Tientsin Railway from, 595
Pendulum-Chronoscope, or Timing Instrument, 105
“Pendulum Plansifter,” Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
“ Penguin,” I)3ep Sounding obtained by II. M.S., 382
Ponhard and Lovassor’s Petroleum Carriage, 32,36
P. and 0. s.s. “Sundra”and “ Sumatra,” Launch of the New, 13
Penney and Co.’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society* 8 Show, 11
Pennsylvania Heat, Light, aud Power Company obtains a Franchise, 554
Pennsylvania, New L;ne in, 286
Pennsylvania Riilway, Comparative Efficiency and Economy of Steam and Electricity, 59
Periyar Irrigation Works, Opening of, 382
Permanent Way Containing Large Percentage of Carbon, 59
Permanent Way, Flange Riils and Metal Sleepers, 505, 529
Permanent Way, High Railway Speeds and, 532
Permanent Way in India, Length of Timber Sleepers Reduced, 231
Permanent Way, Metal Sleepers, 409
Permanent Way in New South Wales, 13
Permanent Way, Places in, Requiring Special Attention, M. Sabouret on, 2
Permanent Way Pot Sleepers, 39
Permanent Way, Steel, 478
Permanent Way, Steel, for The Norwegian Government, 641
Permanent Way, Vignoles and Bullheaded, 360
Permanent Way, Wear of a 53 lb. Steel Rail, 613
Perry, Professor John, Principles of Thermodynamics, 387
Persian Government Riilway to Connect Teheran, &c., with the Trans-Caucasian Railway, 217
Peruvian Railways, Most Celebrated of the, 59
Peterhead Harbours, 546, 616
Peterhead, Improvement of the Harbour, 546,616
Petersen and McDonald’s Water-tube Boiler, 366
Petroleum in Algiers, 517
Petroleum, The Austrian Minister of Finance’s Report on, 192
Petroleum Boring in Java, 405
Petroleum in CoDgo, 595
Petroleum Export from Russia, 431
Petroleum Road Carriages, 32, 36, 252, 317—see Motors
Petroleum inGalicia and R ussia, Production of, 192
Petroleum Oils, R9-appointmont of the Committee on the Question of, 13
Port between Brussels and Laeken, New, 554
Port Talbot Railway, Extension of the, 457
Ports, French Channel, to bo Improved, 613
Ports of Ipswich and Harwich, Improvements in, 401
Portable Oil Engines— see Engines, Portable Oil
Portable Railway, Exporimont with Single Line, 13
Portishead Sewerage, 86
Portsmouth, Electric Tramway into, 234
Positive Water Meter Now, 339
Postage Stamp Allixer, A, 368
Postal Cars, New York, Too New, 595
Post-oflice Telephone VVires Opened for Use, 76
Pot Sleepers, 39
Potato Digger, Haslam and Maudsley’s, 10
“ Potosi,” the Largest Sailing Vessel in the World, The, 266, 369
“ Pothuan,” The French Armoured Cruiser, 222
Powder, “ Normal,” 62
Power Gas Plant, Mr. B. II. Th waits, 3
Powor Lost in Slide Valve Friction, 602
“Powerful,” Launch of II.M.S., 87
Practical Steam Engineering, 39
Preservation of Timber, 138, 209
Press, Hydraulic, Messrs. Greenwood and Batley, 44
Press, Hay and Straw, Barford and Perkins’, 9
Press, Hay and Straw, Edwards’, 10
Press, the Hydraulic Copying, 39
Pressure, Average, under which Man can Work, 13
Pressure of a Gas, Influence of The Size of Particles on the, 617
Prestatyn, New Station at, 263
Preston and the Ribble, 403
Preston Station, Board of Trade Report on The Accident at, 87
Pretoria Railway Extension to Pietersburg, 309
Prevention of Scale in Boilers, 336
Price, Limited, Messrs. George, Banker’s Strong Room, 336
Private Bills in Parliament, Forthcoming, 595
Private Bills in Scotland, Session 1896, 610
Prizjs for Motor Carriage Competitions, New, 164, 168, 185
Producer, The Day of the Groat, 288
Projectiles, Electric Method of Determining Velocity of, 266
Projectiles, English and American, 317
Projectiles, Experiments with Driggs-Schroeder 6 lb. Shells, 35
Projectiles and 75-Centim3tre Gun, New French, 105
Propellers, Fans and Air, 435
Propellers, Reversible, and the Accident on Board the “ Aquila,” 87
Propellers Reversing Screw, 454
Propeller Shafts of Large Steamships, Great Strains on, 309
Propelling Machinery of the “Andromeda,” 468
Propelling Machinery of the “ Samoyed,” 361, 362
Propulsion, Hydraulic, 396
Proportioning Cylinders for Compound Engines, 345
Provis, Mr. J., On the Uso of Seaweed in The Extraction of Gold, 595
Prussian Ship Canal, Cost of the Projected, 266
Prussian State Railway, Locomotives Ordered by, 160
Puddling of IroD, On the Direct, Mr. E. Bonehil], 176
“ Paflwg Billy,” The Old Locomotive, 525
Pulley Problem ? A, 161
Pullman Cars on The Brighton Railway, New Train of, 501
Pullman, Mr., Works near Shanghai, 501
Pulveriser, The Niagara, 358
Pamps, Air and Circulating, for 3000 IIor.-.e
Power Mill Engines, 140, 164
Pumps, Centrifugal, Driven by Gas Engines, 405
Pump with Constant Discharge, 245
Pump, Drum Air, with Jet Condenser, 189
Pump, The Marsh Steam, 193
Pump, A New High-lift, 646
Pumping Engines, Oil Fuel for, 597
Pumping Engines, Leicester Waterworks (Supplement, December 6M, 1895), 530, 553
Pumping Machinery, Gas Engine, 264
Pumping Machinery, Horse Power, 250
Pumping Problem, A, 490, 505
Punching and Shearing Machinery, Mr. John Cameron, 614
Punjab, Railways in the, 59
Purification of Polluted and Softening of Hard Water, 489
Purifying Water, 580
Puteaux, Leather Tires iastead of India Rubber for Army Cycles, 87
Pyro-Bronz), Strength of, 515

‘ QUAIL,” Liunch of the, A New Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 309
Quick-acting Brake, 396, 409, 466
“Queen of the North,” s.s. (Supplement, November 1st, 1895), 55, 426
Quetta, Coal Mines in, 234
Q ïetta, New Railway to, 336 Quick-fire Guns, 471
Quick-fire Guns, Danger to High Men-of-War’s Chimneys, 525
Quick-firing Gun, French Naval Authorises’ Experiments with New, 309
Quick-fire Guns on Naval Power, Influence of, 519
Quick-firing Guns. Tests of Small, 623
Quick-fire Guns, Value of, 602, 620

RACE to the North, Tho, 142, 166, 21
Racing at Sea, The French Admiralty’s Bill to put an End to, 87
Radial Cursor, Mr. F. W. Lanchester on the, 431
Radial Drill, Soho Foundry, 426
Rail Elevation in the United States, 641
Rail Guards, 634
Rails of Largo Sections, How to Secure Durable, 478
Rail Molted by Electric Current, 286
Railway Accidents, Octignies in Belgium, and
Herne Bay Station, 369
Railway Accidents in India, 87
Railway Accident in Paris, Singular, 405, 429
Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom, Parliamentary Return of, 405
Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom iu 1895, 540
Railway Activity in Russia, 390
Railway, The Adam’s Bridge, 90, 104
Railway Administration in Victoria, from the General Public Service, Proposed Separation of the, 309
Railway Axles, Mr. Toomas Andrews on, 456
Railway Block, Tno “Sure-Grip,” 11
Railway Brakes, Light, M. Plocq, 29, 51
Railway Brakes—see Brakes
Railway Bridges which ought to be Examined, 595
Railway Bridges, Superstructure of, 391, 395, 416-418
Railway Bridge ovor the Weichscl at Dirschau, 548, 551, 552
Railway Bridges—also Bridges, Railway Railway Cable, Inc ined, P.ospect Mountain, ^1. x* ., 8/
Railway, The Central London, 22, 42 Railway, Cliy Cross, 430
Railway Companies, The New Coal Contract
Rites, A Boon to, 16 Railway Congress, The:—
Acceleration of Transport of Merchandise, Mr. Lambert, 29
Boilers, Fire Boxes and Tubes, Mr. Edward Sauvago, 1
Brakes for Light Railways, M. Plocq, 29, 51
Cartage and Delivery, Mr. Twelvetrees, 55
Contributivo Traffic, Mr. de Backer, 55
Electric Traction, M. René Auvert. 19, 29, 47
Express Locomotives, Discussion of Mr. Aspinall’s Paper on, 1
General zVdoption of the Decimal System in Calculations Relating to The Construction and Working of Railways, Mr. T. L. Wilkinson, 29
Junctions, M. Zanotta, 29
Metallic Bridges, Construction and Tests of,
Mr. Edler von Leber, 30 Places in Permanent Way Requiring Special
Attention, M. Sibouret, p. 5z4, Juno, 1895, and p. 2, July 5tb, 1895
Relaxation of Normal Requirements for Light
Railways, Mr. Ilumphreys-Owen and Mr. P. W. Meik, 55
Rolling Stock for Express Train* », Mr. Park, 2 Signals—Supplementary Communication, 31 Station Working, Mr. Richter and Mr. Turner,
55
Riilway Companies in the U.S.A , Dispute between, 59
Railway, The Defects of American, 319
Railway Economics, Mr. Acworth on, 405
Railway Economics, 460, 476
Railway Enterprise in India, 595
Railway Enterprise in the North and Midlands, Progress of, 266
Royal Engineer’s Incompetency, Latest Instance of, 217
Railways, Electric, Traction on, 186
Railway Extension, Cape Colony, 382
Railway Ferry Steamer for the Volga, 284
Railway Freighters’ Complaints. The Walsall Chamber of Commerce and, 431
Railway, Glasgow Central, 403
Railways, Government, and Locomotive Coal, 509
Railway, History of The Metropolitan, 289, 326 327, 545
Railways, Hours of Work on, 509
Railways, Indian, Passenger Traffic on, 66
Railway Jubilee, The Caledonian, 89
Railways, Light, Mr. G. Whiteside on, 382
Railways, Light, on Highways, 288
Railway, The London and Greenwich, 39
Railway, London and North-Western, 461
Railways in Malaya, 93
Railway Material for The Brazilian Government Ordered in England, 192
Railway Material, Japan and British, 163
Railway Matters, 13, 35, 59, 87,105, 143, 160,192» 217, 234, 266, 286, 309, 336, 369, 382, 405, 431, 457, 477, 501, 525, 554, 595, 641
Railway, The Midland, 142
Railway Mileage in Western Australia, 13
Railway, New London and South Wales, 459, 500
Railway, The New Northern, 365
Railways of New South Wales, 411
Railway Projects, Northern, 533
Railway Pace, The, 1 12, 166,203,211,216,239, 259, 292
Railway Race to Aberdeen, Mr. C. Rous-Marton, 125 173
Railway Race, The End of the, Mr. C. Rjus- Marten, 203, 239
Railway Rate Conference to be held at Chester, 645
Railway Rates in Britain and America, Mr. A. Carnegie on the Difference in, 309
Railway Runs, L'mg, 261, 292, 317, 505, 538
Railway Run, The Longest ou Racord, 505, 538
Railway Signals, 31, 239
Railway, The Simplon, 639
Railway, Single Lino Portable, Experiment with, in France, 13
Railways in South Wales, New, 528
Railway Speeds, 191
Railway Swing Bridge at Rendsburg, 127, 142
Railways and Tracks, American, 391
Railways and Tramways, New South Wales Government, 462, 463, 475
Railway Travellers in United States, England, and France, Proportion of Killed to the Number of, 87
Railways in tbo United States, 1894, Statistics of the, 577
Railways in the United States, a Fiscal Year’s Income and Expenditure of, 613
Railway Unpunctuality, 287
Railway Viaduct, Pennsylvania, 641
Railways in Victoria, Projected Reforms, 160
Railways, Working of the, 16, 311
Railway Working, Changes in Cost of, 163
Railway Working, Irish, 139
Railway Working, Scottish, 237
Rainfall at Athens, M. D. Eginitis on the, 613
Rainfall for the First Half of 1895, 35
Rainfall in June and July, 1895, 105,192
Rainfall for Week ending July 26th, 87
Rainfall of August at West Molesey and Surbiton, 554
Rainfall of October, 554
Rainforth and Son’s Tipping Cart, R>yal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Ram “Katahdin,” The, 595, 613
Ramie Cloth, Sails of, 240
Randell, Mr. F., Tumble Sanitary and other Carts, 11
Ransome, Mr. J. Stafford, Report on the Engineering Strikes at Belfast and on The Clyde, 559
Ransome and Co., Messrs., A Horizontal Band Saw, 23, 32
Ransome and Rapier, Messrs., Long Span Sluices over the Clyde, 334
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Deep Stirring Aerating Plough, 11, 12
Raoult, M. F. M., Osmotic Phenomena, 160
Raphael, Mr. John, “How Railways are Run: The Great Western Railway,” 74
Rapid-firing Guns, Tests of, 623
“ Rapide,” First Passage of The New Channel Steamer, 192
Rates on United States Railways, Freight, 477
Rathmore, The Right Hon. Lord, Chairman of
the North London Railway Company, 613
Rattlesnakes, Work on a Railway in South Carolina Hindered by, 217
Raw Ilido Pinions? 619
Riworth’s Flexible Coupling, Leicester Electricity Works, 57
Rayleigh, Lord, and Professor W. Ramsay Receive the First Hodgkin’s Prize for their Memorandum on Argon, 501
Recoil of (runs Recorded by Photography, 612 Redcar Boiler Explosion, 72,81,108, 166, 189, 216 Redcar Ironworks Explosion, The Board of Trade
Inquiry, 72, 81
Refractory Mixture to Endure the Highest Temperatures, 59
Refractory Substance, Apyrite, A Now, 191
Refuse, On the Harvesting of, and the Generation of Steam, 651
Regnault, M., A Dry Cell, 59
Renault Dry Cell, The, 217
Rendsburg, Railway Swing Bridge at, 127, 142
“Renown,” H.M.S., 485 “ Renown ” Sea-water Distiller, The, 353
Reservoirs in the Madras Presidency for Irrigation Purposes, 160
Resistance of a Diaphragm, Meaning of the Expression, 525
Reversible Propellers, Advantages of the Use of, 87
Reversing Screw Propellers, 454
Revolution Indicator, A New, 547
Rhone Valley Floods, Damago Caused by the, 525
Ribble Pollution Committee, 154
Ribble, Preston and the, 403
Rice and Rich’s Self-operating Forge, 105
Richards, Mr. J. W., On the Resistance to Corrosion of Light Aluminium Alloys, 87
Richter and Turner, Messrs., On “Station Working,” 55
Rifle, New, in Japan, 309
Riley, Mr. Jas., Modern Steel Works Machinery, 100, 126
Ritchie, Mr., and L:ght Railways on the Continent, 431
Rivalry of the United States, 390
River and Canal Navigation in Russia, 59
Riveter, Tweddell’s Combination, 193
Road Carriages, 12, 35, 36, 38, 63, 189, 211, 215,
216,252,281, 283, 290, 314, 315, 317, 389, 414, 418, 466, 490, 495, 514, 524
Road Carriage Competition, The Engineer 1000 Guinea, 15, 41, 161, 185, 211, 235, 459, 483, 507, 531
Road Carriages in France, Self-propelled, 36
Road Carriage, 1827, Mr. Gurney’s, 215
Road Carriages, Hancock’s Steam, 290
Road Carriages, Mechanical, 35, 38, 63, 216, 466
Road Carriages, Petroleum, 12, 252, 317
Road Carriages, Self-propelled, 161,168, 185,189,
211,235, 239, 259, 281, 283, 290, 314, 315, 331, 334, 389, 408, 409, 434, 454, 476, 505, 616
Road Carriages, Self-propelled, Memorial to the President of the Local Government Board Concerning, 211
Road Carriages, Self-propelled, Memorial to Parliament Concerning, 161, 168, 185 Road Carriages, Traction Engines and Self-propelled, 189, 211
Road Carriage, Steam, 281—283, 314—315
Road Carriages at Tunbridge Wells, Self-propelled, 389
Road Improvements in Morris Co., N.J., 143
Road Repairing Plant, A Modern, 511
Road Roller, Improved Compound, Messrs. C. Burrell and Co., 579
Road Sweeping Machino, Coleman and Morton’s, 11
Robert Bessemer Process, The, 412
Robey and Co.’s Fixed Oil and other Engines, 7,8
Robey and Co., Messrs., Steel Frame Stamp
Battery for Wet Crushing, 252, 253
Robinson, Mr. J. R., Hay and Straw Grab, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Robinson and Son, Messrs. Thos., Sleeper Adz:ng and Boring Machine, 103, 104
Rock Drills and Boring Machines ? Book on, 389
“ Rocket,” Leaks in The Boilers of the, 105
Rocks, Temperature of, 651
Rocks, On The Thermal Conductivity of, 525
Roller, Improved Compound Road, Mes?rs. C. Burrell and Co., 579
Roller, Steam Road, Messrs. Thos. Green and Sons, 44
Rolling of Ships, The, 63, 191, 259
Rolling Stock, Buffet Cars on Street Railroads, 143
Rolling Stock, Cheshire Lines Committee’s Tenders for, 641
Rolling Stock, Lighting and Heating in Belgium, 87
Rolling Stock, Electric Lighting of, 524
Rolling Stock, Experiments on Northern of France Railway, 90
Rolling Stock for Express Trains, Mr. Park on, 2
Rolling Stock, Great Northern Railway, 457
Rolling Stock for India, Oil Tanks, 489
Rolling Stock, Indian, A Long Saloon Carriage, 35
Rolling Stock of the South-Eastern Railway, 382
Rolling Stock for South Indian Railway, 217
Rolling Stock Trade, Our Wolverhampton Correspondent on the, 501
Rolling Stock, Use of Aluminium for French, 477
Roman Campagna, Parliamentary Paper on the Draining of the, 105
Roof, Testing a Brick Arch, 192
Ropes and Belts for the Transmission of Power, Comparative Efficiency of, 580, 639
Ropes, Wire, Messrs. G. Cradock and Co., 44
Rost, Mr. Alfred, New Process for the Manufacture of Transparent Mirrors and Daylight Reflectors, 501
Rotherham Sewage Competition, 538
Rotterdam Harbour, Plan for Enlargement of, 160
Rouen, A National Workmen’s Exhibition, 336
Rouen, Port and Inland Waterways, 341
Roumanian Petroleum, 197
Round Oak Steel Works, The, 322
Round Oak Works, West Bromwich, The Earl of Dudley’s, 256, 257, 265
Rous-Marten, Mr. C., The Railway Race to Aberdeen, 125, 173, 203, 239
Rous-Marten, Mr. C., Remarkable Performances of British Locomotives, 69, 351
Rowell-Potter Signals on the Chicago Elevated Railway, 501
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show Angus and Co’s. Manufactured Leather, 44
Bimford’s Mill with Intermediate Gear(irur- trated), 11
Bimford’s Mower Gear (Illustrated), 10
Birford and Perkins’ Lawn Mower Roller Adjustment (Illustrated), 9
Barford and Perkins’ Straw and Hay Press (Illustrated), 9
Bentall and Co.’s Mower and Unchokablo Turnip Cutter, 44
Boby’s Hay-makers and Corn Dressing Machines, 45
Bradford’s Butter Moulding and Drying Machine, 45
Britannia Co’s. Oil Engino (Illustrated), 8
Carter’s Wheel Construction, 44
Carter Bros.’ Fixed Oil Engine (Illustrated), 7, 8
Catalogues Issued by, 45
Cheeld’s Centrifugal Churn (Illustrated), 9
Coleman and Morton’s Sanitary Tumbler Cart (Illustrated), 10
Cradoek’s Water Gauge Protector, 45
Cradock and Co’s. Wire Ropes, 44
Crozier, Stephens and Co.’s Vortical Boiler with Various Special Fittings, 45
Denton’s Horse and Cattle Automatic Feeder, 45
Edwards’ Hay and Straw Press (Illustrated),
Fletcher Bros, and Co.’s Sheep Dipping Apparatus, 45
Follows and Bates’ “ Handy ” Grindstone, 45
Green and Sons’ Steam Road Roller, 44
Greenwood and Batley’s Exhibits, 44
Haggenmacher’s Plansifter, 44
Haslam and Maudsley’s Potato Digger (Illustrated), 10
Heintz Trap, The, 45
Howe’s Sacs Turner, 41
McDowall’s Sack Holder, 44
Mann and Charlesworth’s Shaft Governor (Illustrated), 9
Miscellaneous Implements at, 9, 44
Marsden’s Stone Breaker and Elevator (Illue- tratedj, 11
Newall-Cunningham Sheep-shearing Machine, 45
Opalite, 45
Rainforth and Son’s Tipping Cart, 44
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Deep Stirring Aerating Plough, 11
Robey and Co. ’s Fixed Oil Engine (Illustrated), 7, 8
Robinson’s Hay and Straw Grab, 45
Sinclair and Co.’s “ Comot” Lamp, 44
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at tbe, 7
Strawson’s Seven-row Sprayer (Illustrated), 10
Waldo and Son’s Butter Worker, 45
Wells Bros.’ Governor (Illustrated), 8
Wilmot and Co.’s Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Steel Articles, 45
Royal Blue Line, Single Driver Engino for the, 192
Royal Dockyards, The Shipwrights and tbe Fitters of the, 286
Royal Institution:—
Christmas Courso of Lectures on Sound, Hearing and Speech, by Professor John Gray McKendrick, 489
New Members Elected, 553
Royal Mails, Motor Carriages for, 617
Royal Meteorological Society, The :—
Experiment Illustrating tl.e Formation cf the Tornado Cloud, Mr. W. H. Dines, 501
Origin of tbe Cold Weather Storms of 1893 in India and the Character of The Air Movement on the Indian Seas and Equatorial Belt, &c., Mr. J. Eliot, 501
Somo of The I)ilTorenco3 betweon Fogs as Related to the Weather Systems which Accompany them, Mr. R. II. Scott, 625
Royal School of Minos, List of Associatcsbips, Royal Scholarships, and Prizes Awarded in Session 1894-95, 140
Royal Scottish Society of Arts: - Electricity in The Dwelling, Lord Kingsburgh,
623
Improved Oil Blast Lamp, Mr. Jas. McDonald on, 534
Royal Society, Tiik:—
Elïect of Pressure of The Surrounding Gas on
tbe Temperature of tbo Crater of an Electric Arc Light, Mr. W. E. Wilson, 143
Medals Awarded by the Society
Royal United Service Institution:— Water-tube Boilers, Mr. F. T. Mitton, 2
Royton Sewage Works, Mr. McCallam and Mr. Nay Hr on the, 46
Rubber Trade, Bicycles and tho, 478
Rubber Blower, The, 5 Rudders, Detachable, 360
Rodders, The Maclachlan Patent Detachable, 316
Running Lights for Use on Board Ship, Tested by the German Marioe Observatory, 59
“Rurik,” The Russian Armoured Cruiser, 521
“ Rurik,” Celerity with which she can be Coaled, 554
Rusui, Electric Railways desirable for, 1Q2
Rassia, Ironworks of South, by Geo. Kamensky, 241, 293
Rjssia, L:stof Lines to be Constructed in, 234
Russia, Mileage of Navigable Rivers and Canals, 217
Russia, New Railways in, 309
Russia, Petroleum Export from, 431
Russia, Railway Activity io, 390
Russia, Trado with, 17
Russian Armoured Cruiser “ Rurik.” The, 521,554
Russian Government, Dredging Vessel for tbe (Supplement, September 6th, 1895), 238
Russian Imperial Yacht “Standart,” Engines for the, 157, 158, 159
Russia and Japan as Machinery Markets, 365
Russia, Locomotives for, 595
Russian Maritime Ports, Sums Spent on their Improvement, 87
Russian Orders for Locomotive?, 292
Russian Railways, Distance of Stations from Town or Village, 13
Russian Rivers and Canals, Tonnage of Goods carried on, 59
Russian Sea-going Torpedo Boats to have Numbers, not Names, 431
Russian Smokeless Powder, Account of, 525
Russian State Riilway, Locomotives for, 234
Russian Steam Transport “Samoyed,” Speed Trials of, 181
Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Sokol,” The, 209 263
Russian Torpedo Destroyer, “ Sokol,” Trial Trip of, 209
Russian Towns, Direct Communication for Passengers between London and, 286
Russo-Japanese Exhibition, A. 234
Rust, the Gesner Method of Protecting Iron and Steel from, 35
Rusting, Preventing Tools from, 336 Rutherglen Bridge, 182, 188

SABOURET, M., Places in Permanent Way requiring Special Attention, 2
Sack Holder, MacDowall p, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Sack Turner, Howe’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Safety Appliances for I/fts, Mr. W. P. Heath on, 381
Safety Valve, Steam Pipe, S4
“ St. Louis,’’The New American Liner, 13,35,160, 192, 286
“St. Louis,” American Lino Steamer, Lirger Funnels for, 286
“ St. Louis,” Successful Trial of the, 192
“ St. Louis,” Testing of The American Liner, 160
St. Louis, U. S. A., Electric Railway Companies in, 87
St. Mary Woolnotb, The Vestry of, Oppose the New Bill of the Electric Railway Company, 613
Saleve Electric Railway, 73
Salford, Electric Lighting of, 166
“Salmon,” Repairs of the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, 105
Saloon Carriage, with a Long Namo and for a Long Price, 35
Salt Deposits of New Iberia, La, Depth of, 525
Salt Water on Aluminium, Action of, 309
Saltaire Mills, Compound Engiuos, 2£8, 260
Saltaire, Eogines at, 285
“Samoyed,” Propelling Machinery of the, 361, 362
“Samoyed,” Sp9ed Trials of the Russian Steam Transport, 181
Samson, Mr. Peter, his Appointment by tbe Board of Trade, 500
Saniter, Mr. E. H., New Method for tbe Analysis of Chrome Ore and Ferro Chromium, 177
Sanitary Exhibition in Paris, 71
Saniter Method at The Krupp Works, Experiments with the, 13
Santiago, Concerning the Raising of a Loan for Completion of Railways begun in 1888, 217
Sargeant and Company’s “ Corncrake,” 10
Sargent’s Patent Combined Compass Trammel, 59
Saul. Mr. C J., Steam Launch,‘267
Sault St. Marie Canal, Opening of. 168
Sauvage, Mr. E., On Boilers, Fire-boxes, and Tubes, 1
Saw Machine, Horizontal, 63
Saw Mil’s, Shot Gun Feed used in, 266
Scale in Boilers. Preventing Formation of, 336
Scarborough with the Midlands, New Line to Connect, 309
Scheldt, Schemo for Turning the Course of the, 431
Schenectady Locomotive Work?, Use of “Steeled Iron,” 286
Sehenkor’8 “ Normal ” Powder, 62
Sjhenkl, Herr T., Electric Railway up The Gross- glockner, 13
Sahiffer and Kirscher, Messrs., Apyrite, 143
Schilling, Dr., on the Untransformed Power in a London Gas Holder and the Loss by Electric Transmission, 286
Schloesing, jun., Mr., On The Estimation of Argon, 525
Schnelle and Schlce’s “Pendulum Plansifter,” R A.S., 12
Scbrötor, Herr M., on tbe Commercial Manufacture of Liquid Air and Oxygen, 325
Science and Art Department, National Scholarships, Royal Exhibitions, and Free Studentships (Science), 1895, 197
Science, Faith in, 216
Scientific Filtration, 41
Scientific Training of Engineers, 270
Scotch Oil Traders, Rise in Price of Burning Oil Docidcd upon by, 105
Scotch Shipbuilders, Vessels Launched by, 13
Scotland, Private Bills in, Session 1896, 610
Scott, Mr., on Storms in The Summer and Winter Half-years, 457
Scott, Mr. R. II., on Fogs, 625
Scottish Railway Working, 237
Screwing Machines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show’, 12
Screw Making Machinery? 185
Screw Propellers, Ravorsing, 454
Screw Steamers, Fitting Machinery in, 228, 229, 231,379, 448, 522, 524, 543
Sea Beach Railroad, Troublo with Bugs on the, 234
“Seaford,” Foundering of the, 192, 211
Sea Water Distiller, The “ Renown,’’ 353
Sea Water Supply for London, Bill for, 525
Seaweed to Cyanide Solution in the Extraction of Gold, On the Addition of, 595
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Notices Rsceived by tbe, from Bulgaria, Vienna, and Belgrade for Tenders for Railways, 87
Séguio, Mare, Memorial Statue of, 234
Seine Basin, Port of Rouen and Waterways of the, 341
Seine, Improvement of the Navigation of tbo, 79
Selected American Patents, 28, 52, 78, 98, 124, 150, 172, 192, 198, 224, 245, 274, 298, 324, 350, 376, 400, 422, 446, 470, 494, 518, 542, 566, 606, 632, 652
Selenium, Electrical Properties of, 35
Self-propelled Read Carriages—xee Road Carriages, Self-propelled, also Motor Carriages, Mechanical Read Carriages
Self-propelled Carriages, Glasgow and, 509
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Memorial to the President of the Local Government Board Concerning, 211
Self-propelled Road Carriages in Paris, 611
Self-propelled Road Carriages, Memorial to Parliament Concerning, 161, 168, 185
Self-propelled Road Carriages at Tunbridge Wells, 389
Self-propelled Traffic Assoc'aticn, The, 599
Separators and Churns at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Serve Tubes, 227 Sewage Disposal in France, 251
Sewage Extension Works, Ossctt, 87
Sewage, llermite Process of Deodorising, 345
Sew’age, Oxygen System of Dealing with, 371
Sewage Purification, Sir D. Galton on, 254
Sewage Schemes, Bowness and Glossop, 205
Sewage Works, Eccles Corporation, 178
Sewage Works, The Gorton, 488
Sewerage Purification Works, Chorloy, 457
Sewerage Schemes for Chester-1 e-Street Rural District Council, 250
Sewerage Works in Paris, 142
Sewerage Works, York, 93
Shaft Governor, Mann and Charlesworth’s, 9
Shafts, Great Strains on Propeller, 309
Shale Oil Industry, 471
Shank, Mr. J. W., Device for Saving Water, 579
Sharley, Mr. Walter, Proposed Montreal Bridge, 183
Shaping Machine, Telegraph Post, 411
“Sharpshooter,” Trial of II.M. Torpedo Gunboat, 87
“Sharpshooter,” Accident to the Main Steam Pipe of the, 286
“ Sharpshooter,” Now Duties of the, 525
Sheep Dipping Apparatus, Messrs. Fletcher, Bros, and Co , R.A.S. Show, 45
Sheep Shearing Machine, Newall-Cnnningham, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Sheet Iron, Magnetic Tester for, 561
Sheffield, Mr. G. H., on some Details of Iron Foundry Work, 625
Sheffield to Chapeltown and Barnsley, Midland Railway Extension, 336
Sheffield District, 25, 49, 75, 95, 121, 147, 169, 195, 221, 243, 271, 295, 321, 347, 373, 397, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, £63, 603, 629, 649
Sheffield, Inadequacy of the Victoria Station, 405
Sheffield Smoke, 163, 191
Sheffield Technical Schools, Presentation of Prizes, Medals, &c , to Students, 477
Shell Experiments at Indian Head, U.S.A., 35
Sheppard and Soup, Messrs., Coal Washing and
Coke Making Plant, 558, 560, £61
Shield, Mr. John, “Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of Barometers,” 613
Ships Built on The B&tcaux Roulcurs System, Company for, 31
Ship Canal, Tbe Baltic and B ack Sea, 237
Ship Canal to Bridgwater, Proposed, 438
Ship Canal, The Manchester, 180
Ship Canal, Projected Prussian, 2C6
Ships, Distance and Time in which they may be brought to Rest from Full Speed Ahead, 108, 142, 166
Ships, Firo Catastrophes on, 280
Ships Lost, Condemned, &c., Lloyd’s Statistical Summary of, 217
Ship Model, Elaborate Sectional, 381
Ship, The “ Potosi,” The Largest Sailing, 266
Ship Propulsion by Storage Batteries, Professor Durand on, 309
Ships on the Roller-borne System, Company formed in Paris to Experiment cn, 431
Ships, Rolling of, 63, 191, 259
Ships, Tank, 191
Ship3 of War, Mr. Darston on The Machinery of’ 311
Ship, Wator Supply on Board, 352
Ship Work, Aluminium in, 579 Shipbuilding on The American Lakes, 357, 401 Shipbuilding, British, 430
Shipbuilding, Engineering and, 557
Shipbuilding and Engineering in Ireland, 599
Shipbuilding Projects in France, 357
Shipbuilding, A Record in the History of, 336
Shipbuilding on The Thames, Marino Engineering and, 45
Shipbuilding Trade, The Crisis in tho, 413, 428, 545 559 599 621
Shipbuilding Trade, Tbe Strike in tbe, 35G, 391, 456, 485, 503, 524, 555, 559, 599, 619
Shipbuilding Wages Dispute, The, 391
Shoeburyness, Visit of The Society of Engineers to, 326
Shores, Mr. J., Three-furrow Plough, 10
Shot-gun Feed for Moving Circular Saw Trolleys, 266
Shrewsbury Wator Supply, 143 Siam, Railway in, 286
Siberia, Scheme for Facilitating tbe Internal Navigation of, 217
Siberian Railway, Church Cars in, 286
Siberian Railway, Progress of the Great, 286
Sifter, Pendulum Plan, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Signalling Apparatus, Trial of Admiral Fane’s, 87
Signalling, Masthead, 183
Signalling in Tunnels, 466
Signal Lights, Distant, 104, 166, 209, 333
Signals at Liverpool-street Terminus, 117
Signals, Railway, 239
Signals, Railway, Mr. Thompson at the Railway Congress od, 31
Silesia, Pig Iron in Upper, 105
Simons and Co., Messrs. W., Dredgiüg Vessel for the Russian Government (Supplement, September 16M, 1895), 238
Simplon, Projected Tunnel through the, 501, 525
Simplon Railway, The, 639
Simpson and Porters Steam Crane Excavator, 180
Simpson, Strickland, and Go., Steam Launch and Steam Canoe, 141, 142
Simpson and Wilson, Messrs., Clydebank and Yoker Extension Railway, 167
Sinclair and Co.’s “Comet” Lamp, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Singapore, Tno Municipality of, 312
Singer Manufactory, Kilbowie, 164
Single Driving Wboels in the United Stites, 363
“Sirius,” Boiler Trials of the, 654
Sixty-three Miles an Hour, 487
Size of Particles on tbe Pressure of a Gas, Influence of the, 617
Sleeper Adzing and BoriDg Machine, 103, 1C4
Sleepers, Motal, 409 Sleepers, Pot, 39
Slide Valve Frictien, Power Last in, 602
Slow Combustion and One Thousand Pound Steam, 505
Sluices, StoDey’s, 254
Small Arm Works, Sparkbrook, The Government, 199
Small Candle Powor Lamp3 at High Voltages, 216
Small Arm Ammunition, British, 12
Smerwick, Blasting Accident at, 105
Smith, Mr. Aston Wm., Obtains tbe Contract for the Midland Railway, 431
Smith-Casson, Mr., Small Cast Steel Ingots, 206
Smith-Casson System of Castiog Small Steel Ingots in Staffordshire, The, 501 Smith’s Combined Piston and Relief Valves, North-Eastern Railway, 473
Smith and Sons’ SyreD, 86
Smith, Mr. Thomas West, Driver on the Leicester and Swannington and Midland Railways, 369
Smithsonian Institute’s Grant to lxard Rayleigh and Professor W. Ramsay for their Mem. on Argon, 501
Smoke Abatement, Sir I). Galton od, 251
Smokeks3 Powder, 62
Smokeless Powder in the American Navy, 527
Smokeless Powder. Russian, 525
Smulders, Mr. A. F., Dredgersand Excavators on the Baltic Canal, 110, 116, 136, 310, 316
Smulders, Mr. A. F., Compound Engines of the Steam Hopper Barge, Baltic Canal (Supph „ant, October 25th, 189:»), 415
Soaofcll, Projected Electric Railway up, 35, 192, 207
Snowden Railway, Tbe, 59
Societk des Amis des Sciences:—
Annual Meeting of, 50
Societe Anonymk de Eonne-Esperance:—
Coal Concession, 143
Society of Arts:—
Locomotive Carriages for Common Roads, Mr.
H. Cunynghame, 524
Society of Arts, The Royal Scottish—are Royal Scottish Society of Arts
Society, The Chemical:—
Freezing Points of Silver and Gold, Messrs. Heywood and Neville, 613
Society of Chemical Industry:—
Holds its Thirteenth Aunual Meeting, 105
Society, City of London College Science :— Force of The Wind, Prof. II. Adams, 468
Society of Civil Engineers, The American:— Moviüg Two36in. Water Mains without Shutting off The Water, Mr. E. C. Moore, 357
Society, Civil and Mechanical Engineers’:— Civil Engineering, Mr. Sydney a Court, 626
Visit to the East Landon Waterworks Co.’s Works, 371
Society of Electrical Engineers, The Northern :—
Municipal Telephony, Mr. A. R. Bennett, 477
Society’ of Engineers :—
Annual Dinner, The Forty-second, 627
Railway Axlo9, Mr. Thomas Andrews, 456
Ventilation and Warming, Mr. W. T. Sugg, 349
Visit to Shoeburyness, 326
Society of Engineers, The Western :—
Steel Rails of Large Sections, How to Secure, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 478
Society of Glasgow, Insurance and Actuarial :—
Present Day Applications of Electricity, with Special Reference to Fire Risk, Mr. T. Crichton Fulton, 521
Society, The Goldsmiths’ Engineering :—
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Jno. Thornycroft, 429
Society, Kino’s College Engineering :—
Electric Distribution, Mr. Welbourn, 404
Incandescent Lamps and their Manufacture, Mr. Bailey, 500
Mining of Tin, Mr. Cranford, 424
Officers Elected for the Ensuing Term, 562
Theory of Magnetism, Mr. Herroun. 481
Thomas Telford and his Work, Mr. Mowat, 553
Society, The Physical :—
Direct Reading Platinum Thermometer, Mr. Appleyard, 525
Electrical Properties of Selenium, Mr. Shelford Bidwell, 35
latent Heat of Evaporation of Betzone, Mr. E. II. Griffiths and Miss Dorothy Marshall, 477
Magnetic Field of any Cylindrical Coil or Plane Circuit, Mr. W. II. Everitt, 477
Mechanical Device for Performing the Temperature Corrections of Barometers, Mr. .John Shield, 613
Society, Liverpool Engineering :—
Inaugural Address of The President, Mr. J. Maginnis, 466
Scheme of Papers to bo Read during The 22nd Session of, 407
Visit to the Dinorwic Slato Quarries, Llanberis, 63
Society, Manchester Engineering:—
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, J. F. Conradi, 394
Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American, 239
Society, Royal—ar* Royal Society
Society, The Yorkshire College Engineering, 454
Earl’s Court and Ferris Wheels, Mr. Fred. Grover on the, 527
Engineering—Past, Present and Future, Mr. H. McLaren, President, 454
Harvesting of Refuso and The Generation of Steam, Mr. Ernest Sykes, 651
Professor de Burg Buck’s Description of the Instrumental Equipment of the Physiological Laboratory of the. 559
Soho Foundry, The, 305—308, 340, 341.392, 393, 425, 426
Soho Foundry, Machine Tools at, 425, 426
“Sokol,” The Torpedo Boat, 209, 263, 525
“ Sokol,” Trial Trip of The Russian Torpedo Destroyer, 209
“ Sokol ” Type, Vessels of the, 510
Solder ftr Glass, Aluminium and other, 266, 695
Sounding, Deep, Obtained by H.M.S. “Penguin,” 382
Sounding Fog Sirens on Lightships, Oil Engines and Air Compressors for, 369
Southampton Graving Dock, Opening of, 87, 103
Southampton, New Quay at, 234
South-Eastern Railway, Accident on the, 105
South-Eastern Railway Company, Overhead Railway Projected by the, 266
South-Eastern Railway, Rilling Stcck of the, 382
Southern Cross Railway, Part of, Opened, 192
South Kensington Museum, Diagrams cf Early Locomotives, 234
South Staffordshire, Iron Industry and Coalfields of, 174
South Wales to London, New Lino from, 4C6
“ Spanker,” Torpedo Gunboat, to carry out Steam Trials with tbe Du Temple Water-tube Boilers, 336
Spannor, Ellin’s Small Adjustable, 142
Spanners, Messrs. Wynne, Timmins and Co.’s, 87
Spark Arresting on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 160
Sparkbrook, The Government Small Arm Works, 199
Specialisation, 698
Specific Gravity of Cement, 248
Specific Heats for Air, Ratio of the Two, 35
Speed of Ocean Liuers, The Regular, 17
Speeds for Grinding and Cutting Tools ? 161
Speeds, Railway, 191
Speed, Record, on American and English Lines, 266
Speed Trials of The Torpedo Beat Destroyer “Starfish,” 365
Speed Trials of the New Argentine Cruiser “ Buenos Aires,” 461
“ Spongia ” BlottiDg Paper, Messrs. R. Craig and Sons, 35
Spools for Thread, Maine Forest Supplies the Wood for, 369
Sprayer, Strawson’s, 10
Sprint Races, Experiments in Running, 382
Spurn Point and its Lighthouses, 344
Spurn Point, New Lighthouse, 154
Staffordshire Steel and Ingot Co.’s Works Visited, 178
Stamp Affixer, Postage, 368
Standard Gaugo Railway, India, 217
“Standart,” Engines for the Russian Imperial Yacht, 157, 158, 159
Stanley Show of Cycles, 511, 528
Starch and Chicory Plant and Machinery ? Ill
“ Starfish,” Boilers of the, 406
“ Starfish,” Speed Trials of H.M.S., 365
Starter, Green’s Automatic Gas Engine, 342
State of Trade, The, 66
Station WorkiDg, Mr. Richter and Mr. Turner on, 55
Stations, Railway Movement to Establish them Near the Business Centres, 13
Statistics of the Railways in the United States, 1894, 577
Statter and Co., Messis. J. G., Electric Timber
Stacking Crane, 331, 333, 396
Stead, Mr. J. E., on Metallography, 624
Steam Carriage, 1827, Mr. Gurney, 215
Steam Carriages—see also Road Carriages Steam Coaches, Hancock’p, 290
Steam Crane, Locomotive, 293
Steam Engine Cylinders, Clcaranco in, 41, 63, S6, 109
Steam Engine, Mr. II. B. Pearson on the, 468
Steam Engine Economy, A New Departure in, 15
Steam Engineering, Practical, 39
Steam Feed-water Heaters, 122
Steam Hopper Barges on the Baltic Canal, 415
Steam and Electricity as Motive Power, Comparative Efficiency and Economy of, 59
Steam Launch “Dragon Fly,” Tho, 451, 455, 458
Steam Launch “Germania,” The, 553
Steam Launch and Steam Canoe, Messrs. Simpson, Strickland, and Co., 141, 142
Steam Launch, A Tasmanian, 267
Steam Lifeboat, A New, 313
Steam Locomotion for Passenger Traffic on Common Roads, Mr. Wm. Fletcher on, 281— 283, 314-315
Steam Lifeboat for Holland, The New, 325
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 61 Steamers, Paddle, for Turkey, 414
Steam Pipes, Loss from Condensation in Lodct, 317
Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 84
Steam Pump, The Marsh, 193
Steam Road Carriages, 434, 454
Steam Road Traction in 1833, 328
Steam Saw Mills and Joinery Works, Croydon, Sale of, 35
S.S. “ Iona,” Disaster on Board, 312, 317
S.S. “ Lizzie Westoll,” Trip’e-expension Engines (Supplement, July 19M, 1895), 62
S.S. “ Oroya,” The, 12
S.S. “ Queen of the North,” The, 55
Steamships and their Machinery, Oa Inquiries, Tenders, Spacifications, and Contracts for, 430
S.S. “ Ward,” Launch of the, 318
Steam Turbine, Laval’s, 358, 359
Steam, Tne Work of, 12
Steamer to Cross by Rail a Strip of Land between Two Lakes io Denmark, 131
Steamers, Screw, Fitting Machinery in—see Fitting Machinery in Screw Steamers Steamers Sold to Foreigners, 113
Steel—see also Iron and Steel Steel Armour Plate, Test of Chrome, 266
Steel Boiler Tubes in Lieu of Copper, for II. M. Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 192
Steel, Boron, MM. Moissan and Charpy, 143
Steel, Boron as an Alloy in, 234
Steel Cable for tbo Columbus Avenue Railway, Weight of, 457
Steel Castings, Messrs. Penney and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Steel Company of Scotland, The Sales of the, 286
Steel, Engineers and Structural, 288
Steel Frame Stamp Battery for Wet Crushing, 252,253
Steel Girders for Mines, Mr. E. Thompson on, 286
Steel, Hardening of, Mr. H M. Howes on the, 176
Steel, Influence of Vibration on, 579
Steel and Ingot Company’s Works, The Staffordshire, 178
Steel Ingots, Crucible, Produced in the United States, 105
Steel Ingots, Small Cast, 206
Stool Ingots in The United States, Production of Bessemer, 160
Steel Making Prospects in India, 427
Steel, Nickel, Mr. Wiggin on, 199, 219
Steel, Percentage of Carbon in, 87
Steel Plant at the Earl of Dudley’s Round Oak Works, West Bromwich, 256, 257, 265
Steel Production, Bessemer, in England, 521
Steel Production in the United States, 105
Steel Rails, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 478
Steel Rails in The United States, Large Demand for, 143 B
Steel Rail, Wear of a 531b., 613
Steel Sleepers, Durability of, 143
Steel Sleepers in Mexico, Use of, 143
Steel Steam Yacht, Mr. Geo. L. Watson, 477
Steel, Transverse Loads and Beams of Mild, 617
Steel Tubes in place of Copper, 336
Steel Works Machinery, Modern, 100, 126
“Steeled Iron” at The Schenectady Locomotive Works, Use of, 286
Steering Engine of H.M.S. “Venus” and “ Diana,” 424
Steering Engines in the Royal Navy, 423,424, 433
Steering Gear, Ship, and Compound Paddle Engines, Messrs. Bow, McLachlan and Co., 428, 489
Stephens, Mr. M., Goods Engines and Tenders built by Messrs. Neilson and Co. for the Cape Railways (Supplement, Xorcmber 22n<t, 1895), 497, 510 "
Stephen and Carters Drilling Machine? 507
Stirling, Mr. Patrick, 485
Stocking Knitter, Automatic, 116
Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, Hydraulic, 99
Stone Breaker and Elevator. Marsden’s, 11, 12
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M., On Weirs in Rivers, 331 Stoney’s Sluices, 254
Stopes, Mr. H., On Past and Present Exhibitions, 382
Storago Battery Cars with Chloride Batteries, 369
Storage Battery for Lighting and Traction, The I.E.S.,22
Storehouse, An Immense, 647
Storey’s Dead-weight Safety Valve, 646
Storms in Summer and Winter Half-years. 457
Straw and Hay Press, Barford and Perkins’, 9
Straw and Hay Press, Edwards’, 10
Strawson s Seven-row Sprayer, 10
Street Cleaning Inspectors in New York on Bicycles, 595
Street Lighting, London. 112
Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 536
Szrikes m France, 217, 533
Strike The Shipbuilding 856, 456, 485, 503, 521, 545, 555, 559, 599, 619
‘Strong’s” Locomotives. 143
Subaqueous Tunnelling by Shield and Compressed Air, Mr. J. H. Greathead on, 500
Subways for Chicago, Projected, 431
Submarine Cables possessed by France. Mileage of, 55
Suez Canal Company, S atue of the Late President at Port Sa:d, 105
Suez Canal, E'ectric Light used by Ships iü, 217
Sugar, Central Factories for, 86
Sugar Refiners, Electric, Herr Dammeyer’s Experiments with, 87
Su/er. Mr. W. T., on Ventilation and WarmiDg, o49
Sulphide, Anhydrous Crystalled Manganese, 143
Sulphur from Iron by means of Barium-Ferro cyanide, Removing, 35
Sulphur Vapour ra Copper, Action of, 554
Sumner, Capt., His Sentence. 286
Sunderland Central Railway Station, Inadequacy of, and the Board of Trade, 405
Sunshine Recorded at Greenwich by the Campbell- Stokes Instrument, 336
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 394, 395, 416, 418
Supplements :—
Broad Gaoge Locomotive, Metropolitan Rail- , way, Sir Dan. Gcoch, August 16tb, 1895 Compound Engines and Locomotive Boilers of
the s.s. “Queen of the Norih,” Messrs. Laird Bros., November 1st, 1895
Steam Locomotion for Passenger Traffic on >
Common Roads, Mr. Wm. Fletcher on, 281— 283, 314-315
Steam Lifeboat for Holland, The New, 325
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at tbo Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 7, 61 Steamers, Paddle, for Turkey, 414
Steam Pipes, Loss from Condensation in Lodct, 317
Steam Pipe Safety Valve, 84
Steam Pump, The Marsh, 193
Steam Road Carriages, 434, 454
Steam Road Traction in 1833, 328
Steam Saw Mills and Joinery Works, Croydon, Sale of, 35
S.S. “ Iona,” Disaster on Board, 312, 317
S.S. “ Lizzie Westoll,” Trip’e-expension Engines (Supplement, July 19M, 1895), 62
S.S. “ Oroya,” The, 12
S.S. “ Queen of the North,” The, 55
Steamships and their Machinery, Oa Inquiries, Tenders, Spacifications, and Contracts for, 430
S.S. “ Ward,” Launch of the, 318
Steam Turbine, Laval’s, 358, 359
Steam, Tne Work of, 12
Steamer to Cross by Rail a Strip of Land between
Two Lakes io Denmark, 131
Steamers, Screw, Fitting Machinery in—see Fitting Machinery in Screw Steamers Steamers Sold to Foreigners, 113
Steel—see also Iron and Steel Steel Armour Plate, Test of Chrome, 266
Steel Boiler Tubes in Lieu of Copper, for II. M. Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 192
Steel, Boron, MM. Moissan and Charpy, 143
Steel, Boron as an Alloy in, 234
Steel Cable for tbo Columbus Avenue Railway, Weight of, 457
Steel Castings, Messrs. Penney and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 12
Steel Company of Scotland, The Sales of the, 286
Steel, Engineers and Structural, 288
Steel Frame Stamp Battery for Wet Crushing, 252,253
Steel Girders for Mines, Mr. E. Thompson on, 286
Steel, Hardening of, Mr. H M. Howes on the, 176
Steel, Influence of Vibration on, 579
Steel and Ingot Company’s Works, The Staffordshire, 178
Steel Ingots, Crucible, Produced in the United States, 105
Steel Ingots, Small Cast, 206
Stool Ingots in The United States, Production of Bessemer, 160
Steel Making Prospects in India, 427
Steel, Nickel, Mr. Wiggin on, 199, 219
Steel, Percentage of Carbon in, 87
Steel Plant at the Earl of Dudley’s Round Oak Works, West Bromwich, 256, 257, 265
Steel Production, Bessemer, in England, 521
Steel Production in the United States, 105
Steel Rails, Mr. R. W. Hunt, 478
Steel Rails in The United States, Large Demand for, 143 B
Steel Rail, Wear of a 531b., 613
Steel Sleepers, Durability of, 143
Steel Sleepers in Mexico, Use of, 143
Steel Steam Yacht, Mr. Geo. L. Watson, 477
Steel, Transverse Loads and Beams of Mild, 617
Steel Tubes in place of Copper, 336
Steel Works Machinery, Modern, 100, 126
“Steeled Iron” at the Schenectady Locomotive Works, Use of, 286
Steering Engine of H.M.S. “Venus” and “ Diana,” 424 ’
Steering Engines in the Royal Navy, 423,424, 433
Steering Gear, Ship, and Compound Paddle Engines, Messrs. Bow, McLachlan and Co., 428, 489
Stephens, Mr. M., Goods Engines and Tenders built by Messrs. Neilson and Co. for tbo Cape Railways (Supplement, Xorcmber 22n<t, 1895), 497, 510 "
Stephen and Carters Dril’.ing Machine? 507
Stirling, Mr. Patrick, 485
Stocking Knitter, Automatic, 116
Stoking Machinery in Gasworks, Hydraulic, 99
Stone Breaker and Elevator. Marsden’s, 11, 12
Stoney, Mr. F. G. M., On Weirs in Rivers, 331
Stoney’s Sluices, 254
Stopes, Mr. H., On Past and Present Exhibitions, 382
Storage Battery Cars with Chloride Batteries, 369
Storage Battery for Lighting and Traction, The I.E.S.,22 ’
Storehouse, An Immense, 647
Storey’s Dead-weight Safety Valve, 646
Storms in Summer and Winter Half-years. 457
Straw and Hay Press, Barford and Perkins’, 9
Straw and Hay Press, Edwards’, 10
Strawson s Seven-row Sprayer, 10
Street Cleaning Inspectors in New York on Bicycles, 595
Street Lighting, London. 112
Strength of Bridge and Trestle Timbers, 536
Szrikes m France, 217, 533
Strike The Shipbuilding 856, 456, 485, 503, 521, 545, 555, 559, 599, 619
‘Strong’s” Locomotives. 143
Subaqueous Tunnelling by Shield and Compressed
Air, Mr. J. H. Greathead on, 500
Subways for Chicago, Projected, 431
Submarine Cables possessed by France. Mileage of, 55
Suez Canal Company, S atue of the Late President at Port Sa:d, 105
Suez Canal, E'ectric Light used by Ships iü, 217
Sugar, Central Factories for, 86
Sugar Refiners, Electric, Herr Dammeyer’s Experiments with, 87
Su/er. Mr. W. T., on Ventilation and WarmiDg, o49
Sulphide, Anhydrous Crystalled Manganese, 143
Sulphur from Iron by means of Barium-Ferro cyanide, Removing, 35
Sulphur Vapour ra Copper, Action of, 554
Sumner, Capt., His Sentence. 286
Sunderland Central Railway Station, Inadequacy
of, and tbe Board of Trade, 405
Sunshine Recorded at Greenwich by tbe Campbell- Stokes Instrument, 336
Superstructure of Railway Bridges, 394, 395, 416, 418
Supplements :—
Broad Gaoge Locomotive, Metropolitan Rail- , way, Sir Dan. Gcoch, August 16tb, 1895 Compound Engines and Locomotive Boilers of
the s.s. “Queen of the Norih,” Messrs. Laird Bros., November 1st, 1895
Compound Engino of the Steam Hopper Barge on the Baltic Ship Canal, Working Drawing No. l,* Mr. A. F. Smuldors, October 11th. 1895 w-—a
Dredging Vessel for The Russian Government Messrs. W. Simons and Co.. September 6th, 1895
Express Passenger Locomotivo, Midland Railway, Mr. S. W. JohnsoD, Deccmbor 13th, ,1895
Express Locomotivo, North-Eistern Railway, Mr. Wilson Worsdcll, September 20th, 1895 Narrow Gauge Goods Locomotivo, Cape Government Railways, Messrs. Neilson and Co., November 22nd, 1895 Six-coupled Locomotive, Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood Railway, Mr. R. II. Burnett, October 4 th, 1895
Triple-expansion Eogino’.s s. “ Lizz'e Westoll,” Messrs. W. Allen and Co., Jaly 19.li, 1S95
Vertical Triple-expansion Pumping Engines, Leicester Waterworks, Messrs. Eiston. Anderson, and Gooiden, December 6tb, 1895
“ S are-Grip ” Railway Block, Teo, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Surplus Valve, The Boyie, 319
Suspension Bridges of Maximum Span, 247
Suspensions for Physical Instrument?, 431
Sutton Bridgo, Extension of The Dock, 517
Swan and Iionter, Messrs., Suspended Electric Crane, 402, 410
“Svanen,” Amphibious Passenger Boat, 370
Swansea, Electric Lighting of, 267
Swansea, Extension of the Port, 546
Swedish Iron and Steel Industries in 1894, 496
Swindon Station, 213 Swing Bridges? 15
Switzerland, Electric Motro Gauge Road Railways for, 457 7
Sydn3y Waterworks, Description of the, 369
Sykes, Mr. Ernest, On the Harvesting of Refuse and the Generation of Steam, 651 Syren, An Improved, 86

TACHOMETER, Messrs. Elliott Bros., 547
Talbot, Mr. B , Basic Furnace, 194
Tandem Engines—sec Engines, Tandem
Tangyes’ 4-Horse Power Fixed Oil Ensjine, 61, 91
Tangyes, Messrs., Gas Engino Pumping Machinery, 264
Tangyes’ Hydrocarbon Gas Producer, 62
TaDgyes’ O»1 Engine, Vaporiser, and Lamp, 61
Tangyes’ Works, Messrs., 175, 177, 184
Tank Engines on The Cambrian Railway, 191
Tank Furnaces, Gla?s, 431
Tank, Safety Oil, 641 Tank Ships, 191
Tar, Paints for Coating Iron made from, 431
Tasmanian Steam Launch, A, 267
Taxation of Cycles in Naples, 309
Taxing of Cycles with Motors. The French Customs Authorities on the, 457
Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson, Lenses Manufactured by, 405
Tea Drying Machine, Harvest Saving and, 465
Technical Education, Earl of Kimberley on, 369
Technical Education, Viscount Peel on, 613
Technical Engineering and Continental Works
Telegraph Line in the World, The Longest, 266
Telegraph Office. The Largest in the World, 595
Telegraph Post Shaping Machine, 441
Telegraph Wire3 from Inverness, Daily Tostin? of, 192
Telegraphing in Tunnels, 409
Telephone Induction Adopted by the German Government, New Form of, 105 Telephone Wires Opened for Use, Post-office 76
Telephony, On Municipal, 477
Telford Paving in Morris County, 113
Telford and his Work, Mr. Mowat on, 553
Tellurium as an Alloy with Aluminium, 309
Tellurium with Gold, Effect of Admixture of 309
Temperature of The Crater of an Electric Arc
Light, Mr. W. E. Wilson on, 143
Temperature of Filaments in Electric Incandescent Lamps, Professor Weber on. 13
Temperature on Mont Blanc in Winter, Minimum 405
Temperature of Rocks, 651
Temperature of Water fed into a Boiler by an Injector. With Reference to, 336
Temperley Transporter, The, 622, 623 624
Tenders : —
Portishead Sewerage, 86
Tenders for the Construction of Last Section cf Loch Katrine Aqueduct, 369
Tenders Invited for Electric Railways from Belgrade, Bulgaria, and Vienna, S7
Tenders for Locomotives in Australia, Local, 13
Tenders for Works Connected with the Evesham Rural Dutrict Council’s Scheme for Villages Water Supply, 369
Tensie-Meter, Mr. J. A. Wanklyn’s, 309
Tension Wheels, Graphical Calculation of Stresses in, o2/ Completion of, 405
Testing a Brick Arch Roof, Method of, 192
Testing of Building Material?, Technical Congress at Zurich for Securing Unity of Methods in, 26b
Testing the Frames of Warships. 393
Testing Machine at Dowlais, 505
Testing Materials of Construction, Uniform
Methods of, 30 Testing Metallic Bridges. 30
Tests of the Physical Properties of Cast Iron,
Tests of Turrets and Side Armour, The Navy Department, 335
Tetmajer, Professor, On Hoat Tests for Cements 59a ’
United Statos Battleship, Strained in Dock.ng, 554
Tba™8rl2on/?rks and Shipbuilding Company, oöz, Oz z | 6^.0
Thames Ironworks Company, Eogines of The Samoyed,” 361, 362
Thames Ironworks Company, Speed Trials of the Samoyed, 181
Thames London, Average Daily Supply from me,
Thames, Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding oa the, 45 re
Thames, Navigation of the, 553
Thames and Severn Canal Undertaking, Tho, 336
Thames Water, Condition of, 286 309
Thames Waters, Diminution of Microbial Life in, 286
Theory of Compensating Gradients, 508
Thermal Conductivity of Rocks, Messrs. Pierce and Willson on tbe, 525
Tbormo-chcmical Galvanic Cell, M. Korda’s, 286
Thermodynamics, Professor John Perry on the Principles of, 3S7
Thermometer, On a Direct-reading Platinum. 525
Thistle Works, Paisley, The, Steering Engine of H.M.S. “ Venus’’and “Diana,” 423, 424
Thomas and Young, Messrs., on Normal Hexano, 595
Thompson, Messrs., Three Torpedo Destroyers for The French Navy, 169
Thompson, Mr. E., Advocates The U?o of Steel Girders in Mines, 286
Thornton and Crcbbin’s Disintegrators and Pulverisers, 12
Thornycroft and C?., Steam Lifeboat for Holland, 325
Thornycroft. Mr. Juo. 1. His Presidential Address, 429
Thwaitc-Cawley System of Electric Haulage, Mr. George Cawley on the, 22
Towaite, Mr. B. i'l., Safety Oil Tank, 641
Thwaitos’ Motor Gas Plant, 3
Tidal Waves in Little T« averse Bay, 595
Tides, Effect of Wind and Atmosphere on the,
319
Tilts for Railway Wagons. Walker’s, 111 Timber, Preservation of, 138, 2C9 Timber Stacking Crane, £40 Timber Stacking Crane, Electric, 331, 333, 396 Timing Instrument or “ Pendulum Chronoscopo,”
Tio, Mining of, Mr. Cranford on, 424
Tin-plate Scrap, Treatment of, for Ut.lisation of,
. 382 .
Tin-plate in the United States, Increase in the Manufacture of, 611
Tio io The United State?, 405
Tipping Cart, Messrs W. Rainforth and Sons’, 44 Tires, Basscmer Steel Driving, Great Eastern
Railway, 369
Tires for Cycles, Loathe* instead of India-rubber. 87
Tires which Failed on our Railways during Nine Months, Specified 641
Tobacco, Falling off in tbe Demand for, United States, aud its Cause, 369
Tobacco Trades Exhibition, A, 13
Tomsk Railway, Tho, 231
Tonbridge Waterworks Company, Additions to tbeir Pamping Station, 612
Tongking, French Railway in, 234
Tonnage of Goods Carried on Russian Rivers and Canals, 59
Tonnage on the Oceans and on tbe Railways of The \\ orld, M. C. M. Depew on the whole of the, 369
Tools, Micbine, Soho Foundry, 392, 393 Tools from Rusting, Recipes for Keeping, 336 Tooth Brush Making Machinery ? 235 “Torch’’and “Alert,” Machinery of the, to be
Tested, 551
Tornado Cloud, Expsriment Illustrating the Formation of the, 501
Toronto \\ aterworks, Rise of the Submerged Steel Intake of the. 554
Toronto Waterworks System, Mr. Jas. Mansergh ta Report upon, 336
Torpedo Boats, Aluminium, 407
Torpedo-boat Dcstroyors. 13. 87, 135, 160, 209. 217, 263, 286. 309, 525, 613
Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Sokol,” Tlie Russian. 209, 263, 525
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, The Contracts for the New, 13
Torpedo Boat Destroyers to be Employed for Instruction Purposes, 613
l °r‘2?G° ” a°d “Sharpshooter,”
^°r3C9 ° ^°* Raised in Fareham Creek,
Torpedo Biat Destroyer “Quail,” Launch of a New, 309
Torpedo Gunboat “Sharpshooter,” New Duties of, 525
Torpedo Cruiser, New Chinese, 286
Torpedo Gunboats, Drainage Arrangements from Cylinders, &c., in, 333
Torpedo Shop, Overtime in the Keyham, 192
Tower Bridge, Changes in the Street Traffic Caused by the Opening of, 309
Towing, Electric Cableway System of, Erie Canal, 501
Towing by Electricity on the Erie Canal, 217
Town Refuse, Disposal of, 46
Track Lining on The Detroit Riilway, Ripid, 143
Traction of Boats on Inland Waterways, 109,142, 166
Traction Engine Accident, A, 206
Traction Engines and Sjlf - propelled Iliad Carriages. 189, 211
Trade and Business Announcements, 17, 74, 96, 120, 148, 159, 196, 242. 215, 254, 300, 335, 357, 391, 414, 426, 461,' 476. 500, 534, 617, 625, 617
Trade, Free Trade and No, 63, 86, 109
Trado of Germany, On the, 234
Trado Improvement The, 113, 263, 382
Trade, Improvement in, Crewe Works. 477
Trade Mark, A National, 338
Trade Report of Bombay, Increase in the Demand for Coil, 611
Trade with Russia 17
Trade, The State of, 66
Trades Union Congress, The, 230, 236
Trafalgar Square Distributing Station, 610
Traffic, Contributive, M. de Bicker, 55
Train delayed by Hornets, 231
Trains, Electric Lighting of, 524
Trains and Pilot Engines, 434, 466
Train Service to Trieste for Alexandria, New. 525 ’
Trains and Time Tables, 385
Tramroad, Sea-shoro Electric, Brighten, 4:3
Tramcor, Invented by a Glasgow Gentleman, 217
Tram-lino Authorised for the Loudon Companies, Length of, 266
Tram-line System in Madras, 336
Tramway Accident in Cleveland, Derailing Switches and Cut-offs, 554
Tramway, The Barmen Electric, 553
Tramway Car with Oil Motor, Glasgow, Accident to, 3S2
Tramways, The Compagnie Mutuilia de, 477
Tramways for Edinburgh, Cable, 409
Tramway, Electric, Bristol, 382
Tramway, Electric, Hartlepool, 3S2
Tramway, Electric, for Paris, 87
Tramway, Electric, into Portsmouth, 234
Tramway, Electric, United States, 160 i
Tramways Institute, Annual Meeting of, 19
Tramways, Leeds, 387
Tramway Lines, The South Staffordshire, Time > Granted for the Use of Steam on. Expire?, 525
Tramway, Now York, Electrical Underground Conduit, 155
Tramways and Railways, New’ South Waloi Government, 462, 463, 475
Tramway Route in Birmingham, Overhead Electric System of Traction to be Tried on, G13
Tramway System, Overhead Electric, in tbe Midlands, 405
Transparent Mirrors and Daylight Reflectors, Mr. Alfred Rost’s New Process for Making, 501
Transport of Petroleum, 137
Transporter, Tbe Temperloy, 622, 623, 624
Trans-Siberian Railway, Completion of a Section of, 192
Trans-Siberian Railway, Progress of the, 160
Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild Steel, 617
Travelling Crane» Indian Head, 225
Tricycle, Semi-Automotive, 13
Trimming Machino, Fire-box Plato, 214
Triple-expansion Engines we Engines, Triple- expansion Triton Valves? 555
Trolley Speed Ordinances, Brooklyn, New, 59
Trolley System of Electric Traction in Belgium, 35
Trollbatta and Gota Canal, The, 194
Trotter, Mr. Alexander, His Appointment, 554
Tube Cutter, The Vance Lightning, 646
Tubes, On, 1
Tubes, Boiler, Steel Instead of Copper for H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 192
Tubes, Serve, 227
Tubulous Boiler, The Haythorn, 152
Tumbler Sanitary Carts at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Tunbridge Wells, Electric Light for, 369
Tunnel, The Blackwall. 365, 430, 635, 636, 637, 638, 642
Tunnel, Completion of the Tcquixquiac, 405
Tunnel, Glasgow Harbour, 86
Tunnel on The Sheffield Extension Lino, Big, 160
Tunnel through the Simplon, Projected, 501, 525
Tunnelling on the Mari-Attock Railway, 192
Tunnelling, Subaqueous, Mr. J. H. Greathcad on, 500
Tunnels, Signalling iu, 466
Turbine Motor aud Dynamo, Laval’s Steam, 358, 359 ’
Turbines Working on The same Horizontal Axi?, Pair of, M. Emile Geyelin, 12
Turkish Paddle S:eamers, Trials of New, 414
Turkish Railways, List and Mileago of, 105
Turnbull, Mr. Rob9rt, His Appointment, 105
Turnor and Richter, Messrs., on “ Station Working,” 55
Turnip Cutter, Unchokable, Messrs. E. H. Ben- fall and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Turrets for American Warships, Double, 214
Tweddell’s Combination Riveter, 193
Twelvetrecs, Mr., Cartage and Dolivory, 55
Tweddell, Mr. Ralph Hart, 237 Two-IIundred-and-Twenty Volt Lamps, 360
Tylor, Mr. Louis, Welsh Coalowners and the Old Age Pensions, 191
Ty ne, Proposed New High Level Bridge over the, 405

UETLIBERG, Railway Accident on the, 266
Uganda Riilway, The, 234, 255
Uganda Railway, Progress of, 457
Uganda Railway, Mr. Whitehouse and his Staff, 477
Umaria Colliery Output, 160
Underground Cable Railway in Washington. Small, 369, 6
Underground Workings, Loss of Head in Air Currents Traversing, 218
Unionism, The Now, 390
United States, Armour Plates in the, 256
United States, Electric Railways in the, 631
United States, Battleships for the, 109, 192, 352, 501, 641
United States Battleships, Conference respecting the Proposed Now, 501
United States Battleship “Olympia,” 143
United States Battleship “Indiana,” Lieutenant
risko’s Range Indicators, 521
United States Battleship “Texas” Strained in Docking, 554
United Statee, Bessemer Steel Ingots Produced in the, 160
United States Bureau of Navigation, Returns for the past Year to, 369
United States, Canals of the, their Importance to Trade and the Desirability of their Improvement, 405 r
United States, Captain Jaques on War Material m tbe, 502
United States Commerce Destroyer “Columbia ” Tho, 354
United States, Crucible Steel Ingots Produced in the, 105
United States Cruiser “Columbia,” 266
United Srates Cruiser “Columbia,’”Run Made by tho, 217 7
United States Croiscr, Launch of a, 192
United States Cruiser, Passige Trial of tbe, 160
United States, Estimated Product of Gold and Silver in, for the Cilondar Year, 641
United States, Exports of Iron and Steel from, 160
United States, The “Good Roads” Parliament, Inventors of Horseless Carriages, 369
United States Government Dry Docks at Brooklyn and Puget Smnd, 501
United States, High Speeds in the, 484
United States, Income and Expenditure of Railways in tbe, 613
United States in 1894, Iron and Steel Ships built m tho. 71
United States Lighthouse Board, Oil Engines and Air Compressors for Sounding Fog Sirens,
United States Naval Academy, The Carrier Pigeon Service, 477
United S a»e? Naval Provinj Ground, Indian Head, 225, 232, 233
United States Navy, Armour Plates for tho, 624
United States Navy Department, Bids for the Construction of Battleships Nos. 5 and 6, Opened at, 641
United States Navy, Engineers for the, 526
United States Navy, New Battleships for the, 192, 611
United States, Railway Accidents in October in the, 641
United States, Railway Accident on the Seabeacb Railway, 234
United States, The Rivalry of tbo, 390
United States, September Accidents in the, Classified, 525
United States Statistics of The Railways in the, 577
United States, Steel Production in the, 105
United States, T»n in the, 405
United States Tin-plate Manufacture, 641
United States, Train Accidents in the, 286
United States Warship?, 109, 143, 192, 352, 472, 501, 521, 641
United States Yacht.“ Defender,” Sails of Ramie Cloth, 240
University College, London, Ezening Classes, 434
Unsheathed Warships, Decrease of Speed of, after Six or Twelve Months Afloat, 217
Urban Roads and Footways, Mr. J. Julian on, 625
Utrecht-Amersfoot Railway Extension, The, 266

VACUUM Pumps, How to Obtain Simpler Connection between the Clearances and the Body of, 35
Vagaries of Electricity, 371
Value of Quick-fire Ordnanco, 620
Valve, The Boyle Surplus, 319
Valve, Deadweight Safety, Mr. Isaac Storey, 648
Valve, Lewis’s Hot Blast, 331
Valve, The Luuken, 248
Valve, Steam Pipe Safety, 84
Valves? Triton, 555
Valve Gear, Marshall's, Holloway Electric Light Station, 639
Valve Gears, The Accuracy of, 238
Van B’dreu, Mr. J. D , Notes on High Masonry Dams, 352
Van Ollefen’s Bulkhead Door and Gear, 5
Vance Lightning Tube Cutter, Toe, 646
Vathairo, M. A., How to Remove Sulphur from Iron, 35
Vantour,” Accident to the French Cruiser, 59
Velocipode3 with Motors iu France, Oa the Taxing of, 457
Velocity of Projectiles Determined by Electricity, 266
Velvo-carbon Primary Battery, The, 252
Venezuela, Concession for a Railway in, 217
Ventilation for Monitor Vessels, 579
Ventilation and Warming, Mr. W. T. Sagg on, 549
Vera Cruz Harbour Improvements, 286 Vera Cruz, Port of, 441
Vernon-Harcourt, Mr. L. F., His Address to the Mechanical Science Section of The British Association, 269
Vessels, Steam and Sail, Built and Documented in the United States in The Past Year, 369
Viaduct Railway, Pennsylvania, 641
Vibration on Steel, Influence of, 579
Vibrations of Cords, M. A. Cornu on the Transverse, 217
Victoria, Railway Reforms in, 160
Victoria Station, Sheffield, Inadequacy of, 405
Victorian Railways, The Working of the, and Proposed Changes in, 309
“Victorious,” Launch of H.M.S. ,414
Vienna, 1896, Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, 217
Vienna, Fires in, 286
Vienna, Tenders Invited for Electric Railways for, 87
Vienna Terminus Destroyed by Firo, 105
Vignoles and Bull-headed Rails, Comparative Advantages of, 360
Villard and Jarry, Experiments with Dry Carbonic Acid, 234
Violle, Mr., Oo the Specific Heat at Boiling Point of Carbon, 35
Vipan and Ileadly’s Miscellaneous Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Volga, Ferry Steamer for tbo, 317
Volga, Railway Ferry Steamer for the, 317, 284
“Vulcan,” The, Converted to a Tank Engine, 355

WADDINGTON, Mr. John, Newark Locomotive Buffer, 116
Wages Dispute on the Clyde, The, 356
Wages Dispute, The Shipbuilding, 391
Wagner’s Furnace Grate, 116
Wagon, Hopper Coal, 32
Waldo and Sons’ Butter Worker, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Wales and Adjoining Countio3, 26, 50 . 76, 96, 122, 148, 170, 196, 222, 244, 272, 296, 322, 348, 374, 39S, 4* 20, 444, 46S, 492, 516, 540, 564, 604, 630, 650
Wales, Light Railway for, 369
Wales and the London Water Scheme, 411
Wales, New Railways in South, 528
Walker's Tilts for Railway Wagons, 111
Walsall Chamber of Commerce, To Railway Freighters, 431
Walsall Wood District, Plans for the Sewerage of the, 613
Wanklyn, Mr. J. A , his Tensic-Meter, 309
War Material, Imperial Defence and, 89
War Material in the United States, Captain Jaques on, 502
Waring, Mr., his Report on Indian Railways, 556
Warsbip3, Breakdowns, 196
Warships, Coal Supply of our, 531
Warships, Decrease of Speed of Unsheathed, after Six or Twelve Months Afloat, 217
Warships, Double Turrets for American, 214
Warships for France, Two New, 266
Warships and Ordnanco, Now Designs in, 471
Warships, Testing Frames of, 393 Warships, The United States, 472
“ Warspite ” to bo repaired at Haulbowlino, The, 192
Warwickshire Coalfield, Development of the, 501
Warwickshire, Railway Accommodation for, 457
Washington, from the Capitol to the Congressional Library, Underground Cable Railway, 369
Washington, Horse Cars instead of Overhead Trolley System in, 525
Watches, Magnetisation of, 39
Wator, Aeration of Reservoir, by Compressed Air, 87
Water Box Furnace Grate, Mr. F. Graf, 553, 617
Water Box Grate, A, 553, 617
Water-closets, Agitation to Secure a Larger Flush for, 457
Water ou Coal, M. George 3 Arth on tb9 Action of, 217
Water Coolers on Railway Cars, Automatic Overflow for, 140
Water Filters, Mechanical, Te3ts of, at Minneapolis, 405
Water, Freezing Point of, Lowered by the Admixture of Milk, 525
Water Gauge Protector, C.* adock’s, Riyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Water Level Indicator and Detector, 647
Water Mains, Moving, without Shutting-off tbe Water, 357, 634
Water Meters, Hiring of, in South Wales, 303
Water Meter, New Positive, 339
Water, Orton, Projected Sewerage Works at, 369
Water Pipes, Constantly Charged, within the Mctroplis, Mileage of, 160
Water Power and Electric Plant for Loog Distance Transmission, 447
Water Power, Utilisation of. in Fresno, to Dovelope Electric Power, 160
Water, Propagation of Electrical Wavc3 io, 525
Water Purification, 580
Water Supply on Board Ship, 352
Water Supply, Comparative Charges in London and Elsewhere, 457
Water Supply of Edinburgh, The, 303
Water for Sopply of Locomotives carried by Train, 431
Water Supply for London, Available Sources of, 386
Water Sapply, London County Council Scheme of, 111
Water Supply in London, Rentals and Price of, 3S2
Water Supply, Metropolitan, 441
Water Supply, Metropolitan, Three Gallon Flashes or Two 1 613
Water Transfer Bill?, The Eight, all Suspended, 382
Water Troughs on the Great Western Railway, 286
Water-tube Boilers, 2, 39, 336. 366; 367, 527
Water-tube Boiler. Messrs. Fraser and Co.’s Compound Tube. 367
Water-tube Boilers, Mr. F. T. Milton on 2
Water-tube Boilers, Marine, 527
Water-tubs Boiler, Petersen and McDonald’s, 366
Wator-tubo Boilers, Trials to Tost The Du Tomple and Belleville Types of, 336
Waterloo and City Electrical Underground Railway, SI, 82, S3, 84, 114, 115
Waterloo and City Railway Company, Progress of Operations on the, 217
Waterloo Station to the City, Projected Overhead Railway from, 266
Waterways, Traffic Diagram of French Inland, 312
Waterworks, West llampshiro. 393
Waterworks Tower, Eden Park, Cincinnati, Tóe Highest Artificial Structure in America, 641
Weardale Railway to be Opened, 382
Wear Valley Extension Railway, Opening of, 405
Weaver Navigation, The, 536
Weber, Professor, on the Temperature of Filaments in Electric Incandescent Lamps, 13
Wedne8bury Sewage Disposal, 290
Weirs in Rivers, Mr. F. G. M. Stoney on, 334
Weight per Square Inch on Car Journals, 171
Weights and Measure?, Report of the Select Committee on Present System of, 59
Welbouro, Mr., Electric Distribution, 104
Welding Car, Electric Rail, 203
Welding a Carriago Tiro, 643
Welding, Electric, 615
Welding, Lead, M. Blondel’s Method, 160, 309
Wells Bros., Fixed Oil Engine, 8
Welsh Coalowners and tbe Old Age Pensions, 194
Wembley Tower, Progress of the, 266
West, Mr. F. J., On a Gas Storing Plant, 612
West, Thos. D., Tests of tbe Physical Properties of Cast Iron, 219
West Hampshire Waterworks, 393
West Highland Railway Bill, The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the, 192
Westminster Waterworks, Tbe New, 283
Westphalite, The Explosive, 266
Western Union Telegraph Company, Length of Miles added to its Wire Lines, 501
Westinghouse - Baldwin Electrical Locomotive Alliance, Practical Results cf tbe, 431
Wharf Erected ou Steel Rods at Rockland, Me., 405
Wheat Starch ? 507
Wheel Construction, Carter’s, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Wheel, Tqo Gigantic, 406, 407
Wheel Guard Fenders in Columbia, Captaio D. F. Fiebiger on, 554
Wheels, Single-driving, in the United States, 363
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Birmingham and its Canal Connections with the Seaports, 23 Wheeler, Mr. W. H., On the Effects of Wind and Atmosnheric Pressuro on the Tides, 319, 405
White, Mr. John, Automatic Stocking Knitter,
116
Whitehouse, Mr., His Staff, 477
White and Baltic Seas, Projected Railway to Connect the, 309
White Star Cargo Steamer, Cargo Carried by the New, 286
White Star s.s. “Georgic,” Launch of, 14, 17
Whiteside, Mr. G., On Light Railways, 382
Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 197, 227
Wiggio, Mr., On Nickel Steel, 199, 219
“ Wild Duck,” The Steam Launch, 141,142
Wilkinson, Mr. T. L., On the Adoption of the Decimal System in Calculations Relating to Railway Construction and Working, 29
Wilkinson, Mr. W. F., Chromo Iron Oro Mining in Asia Minor, 4
Williams, Sir Leader, On the Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, 526
Willcox, Mr. J. E., and the Evesham Rural District Council’s Scheme for Villagos Water Supply, 369
Willcox, Mr. J. E , The Water Orton Sewerage Scheme, 369
Willson Aluminium Company and the Making of Calcium Carbide, 477
Wilmot and Co.’s Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Steel Articles, Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 45
Wilson - Barker, Captain D., “Clouds and Weather,” 595
Wilson and Co., Messrs. J. H., Steam Crane Excavator, Messrs. Simpson and Porter, 180
Wilson, Rear-Admiral, Masthead Signalling, 183
Wind and Atmosphere on the Tides, Effect of, 319
Wind, On the Force of the, 468
Wind Velocities, Mr. E. F. Miller’s Table of, 231
Winding Shaft?, Temporary and Permanent Repairs to, 612
Windmills at The Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 11
Windsor-street Works of the City of Birmingham Gas Department, Visited, 200
Winter, M., On the Lowering of the Freezing Point of Water by tbe Admixture of Milk,525
Wire Guns of tbe “ Majestic” Tested, The, 336
Wire Ropes, Messrs. G. Cradock and Co., Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 44
Witz, M. A., On Lighting by Luminescence, 192
Witz, Professor A., Tests with a Benier Gazigene Meter, 59
Woking Drainage and Sewage Schemes, 59 Wolfram Ore ? 411
Wood Drying and Seasoning, Mr. H. C. Lap- pert’s Process for, 160
Wood, Green, Conducts Electricity Better than Dead, 382
Wood for Making Spools for Thread in tbo United States and England, 369
Wood Paving Blocks, Karri, 511
Wood Pulp Articles? Moulded, 41
Wooden Railway, Florida, 551
Woolf Process, Electrozono made by the, to be used as a Disinfectant, 525
Woolwich Arsenal, A Unionist Government and, 89
Work, Average Pressure in which Men CaD, 13
Work of Steam, The, 12 Working of the Railways, 311
Workshop Gas Furnaces, 39
World’s Columbian Exposition, Proportion of Exhibitors and Awards, 595
Worm Gear Driven Machine Tools, 504
Woim Gearing for Power Transmission in Electrical Works, On the Use of, 501
Worsdell, Mr., On the Brake Trials on the North-Eastern Railway, 304
Worsdell, Mr. William, Express Locomotive, North-Eastern Railway (Supplement, September 26th, 1S95), 291, 292
Worthington, Mr. E., Electric Locomotives, 521
Wright and Co., Messrs., Feed-water Heater, and Filter, 487
Wrightson, Mr. Thomas, Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding of Iron and Steel, 559
Wye, Projected Bridge over the, 309
Wynne Edwards, Mr. T. A., Harrow, 11
Wynne, Timmins, and Co., Their New Spanners, 87
W. H. and L. Collingridge v. The City Press, Limited, 545

YARROW and Co., Messrs., Liunch of The “ Sokol,” 209
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Torpedo Boat Destroyer " Sokol,” 263
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Vessels of the “Sokol” Type, 510
Yarrow, Mr., Torpedo Boat “Sokol,” 525
Yenisei, Scheme for Correcting tbe Course of tbe, 217
York, Sowerage Works, 93
Yorkshire Coal Trade, The, 485
Yorkshire Miners’ Association, 186
Yorkshire Patent Drill Company’s Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 10
Yöst, Mr. G. W. N., 431
Young, Mr. J. D., On Marine Propellers, 501

ZANOTTA, M., On Junctions, 29
Zappert, Mr. II. C., Process for Drying and Saasoning Wood, 160
“ Zsbra,” Liunch of H.M.S., 549
Zinc by Electrolysis, Refining Impure, 143
Zurich, Conference on Uniform Methods of Testing Materials of Construction, 30

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