The Engineer 1896 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

The Engineer 1896 Jan-Jun: Miscellaneous Index.

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1896, 30
Abbott, Mr. George, His Fiftieth Year of Service, 187
Abell, Mr. W. P., Megass and Refuse Furnaces, 41
Abernethy, Mr. Jas., 271
Acceleration of Railway Speeds, 407
Accident, Bridge, at Victoria, B. C., 625
Accident, Cage, 213
Accident, Railway, in Algeria, 489
Accidents, Railway, 111. 139, 187, 213
Accidents, Railway, 1895, 393
Accidents on American Railways, 376, 519, 560, 591
Accident, Railway, on the Bedford Belt Railway, Ind., 463
Accidents, Railway, Canses of Two, 489
Accidents, Railway, on Indian Railways, 263
Accident, Railway, to the Leeds Express, 263
Accident, Railway, on the London and North-Western, 376
Accident, Railway, Narrow Escape of the London and North-Western Fast Train from, 161
Accidents, Railway, Returns for 1895, 393
Accident, Railway, at St. Louis, 419
Accident, Railway, on the Snowdon Rack Rail¬way, S71, 375, 402, 563
Accidents on Railways in the United States, 111
Accidents, Railway, in tbe United States in February. Record of, 419
Accident to Platelayers in Sapperton Tunnel, 393
Accident to Railway Servants, Returns as to, 419
Accident to W. Stevens, Engine Driver, Singular, 161
Accident with a Traction Engine, 625
Accumulators for Lighting Railway Carriages, Experiments with, 416
Accuracy in Mechanical Construction from the Manufacturer's and the Purchaser’s View, 90
Acetylene, Action of, upon Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, reduced to Hydrogen, 643
Acetylene, Advantages of, as a Secondary Photo¬metric Standard, III
Acetylene, On the Combustion of, 248, 446
Acetylene, Commercial Value of, 417
Acetylene Gas, Professor Raoul Pictet on, 643
Acetylene Tank Explosion, An, 248
Acetylene Theory of Luminosity, Mr. V. B. Lawes’, 139
Acheson, Mr. E. G., Carborundum, 155
Ackermann, Mr. A. S. E , Testing the Materials of Construction, 233
Ackton Hall Colliery, Lord Masham's addition to, 393
Actinography, The New Photography should be called, 139
Adam, Mr. William, 402
Adamson and Co., Messrs. Dan, Horizontal Compound Engines, Islington Electrio Light Station, 534, 544
Adamson and Co., Messrs. Dan, Rolling Mill Engines, Dowlais Works, Cardiff (Supplement, April 1CM, 1896), 375
Admirable, 30
Admiralty, The, 31
Admiralty Contracts, 61, 193
Admiralty and the Homacoustic Apparatus, The, 263
Admiralty, Increased Rates of Salary sanctioned by, 293
Admiralty Programme, The, 616
Admiralty Tenders, 498
Admiralty and Messrs. Yarrow, The, 195
Adt and Son, Messrs., Bicycle Chain Riveting Machine, 170
Aerating Water in a Bottle, Devioe for, 474
Aeronautic Society in France, M. Fariot's 1 Bequest to the, 376
Africa, Railway for British Central, 111
African Lake and River Transport, 270
African Railways, South, Tenders for, 248
Abmedabad-Parantij Railway, Special Interest attaching to, 319, 353
Air Pomp, Raising Water by an, 83
Alarm, Electric Low Water, 84
Albert Railway Bridge at Indooroopilly, Queens¬land, 52, 53, 60
Albuminoids and External Work, Questions Rela¬ting to, 263
Algiers, Harbour Works at, 213
‘‘Algoa,” Tbe Screw Steamer, 353
Allen, Mr. F., Timber Bridge over Glennies Creek, New South Wales, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527

Almanacks and Calendars for 1896: 10, 39, 91

Alternating Carrent Stations and High Voltage Lamps, On, 611
Aluminium Alloys prepared by M. Charles Margot, 625
Aluminium Bronz», To Obtain tbe Best Casting with, 643
Aluminium Cooking Utensils, Coating which Forms on. Pronounced Harmless by Messrs. Bowen, 353
Aluminium for “ Flash-light ” Photography, Use of, 353
Aluminium into Glass, On tbe Intrcductionof, 625
Aluminium, Growing Use of, 519
Aluminium, 'I he Manufacture of, Mr. Alfred E. Hunt on, 165
Aluminium, Production of, in the United States, 376
Aluminium, S‘eel will be Superseded by, 563
Aluminium Wire, M. Charles Margot's Experi¬ment with, 474
Amagat, M. E. H., On tho Specifio Heats of Gases, 139
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, General Policy of the, 484
Ambulance Service, Steam Launch for, 108
America and tbe Bessemer Process, 267
America, Railway Accidents in. 376, 519, 560, 591
America's Steel Production, 215
American Armour-plates, 56

American Engineering- News:

98, 148, 176, 202, 278, 330, 356, 380, 407, 452, 574, 654
American Horseless Carriage Trials, Official Report, 274, 275
American Lines, Electric Power on, 187
American Locomotive Performance, 313, 317, 322
American Milling, Review of, 293

American Notes:

23, 47, 72, 126, 150, 178, 204, 228, 281,304, 330, 352, 383, 408, 434, 455, 480, 506, 530, 552, 576, 604, 628, 656
American Patent Records, 423
Americsn Railway, Fast Run on an, 313, 322
American Rifles, Tosts of, 560
American Rolling Mills, On Four, 504
American Rolling Stock, Resistance of, 191
American and Russian Armour Trials, 32
American Self-propelled Carriages, 1, 40
American Society cf Civil Engineers, New House for the, 611
American Torpedo-boats, The New, 419
“ Amiral Doperré,” Cause of Explosion on Board the, 584
Ammonia Compressors, Scbau’s, 403, 405
Ammonia Ice-making Plant, Sheffield, 516, 517
Amur, Steam Navigation for the Province of, 161
Analysis, On the Introduction of Standard Methods of, 487
Anchors. Mr. W. Cooper Penn on, 452
AncHoè Gear for H.M.S. “ Victorious,” 282
Andrews, Mr. T. R., Series of Micrographs, Shown at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 584
Anemometers, Mr. R. H. Curtis on the Exposure of, 516
Angle of Countersink for Ships’ Plates, Professor Weighton on the, 519
Angus Smith'8 Composition, 193
Animal Mechanics, A Question Relative to, 263
Annealing of Hard-faced Armour-plates, 355
Anstruther - Thomson and Allingham, Messrs., On Belgian Electrical Engineering Practice, 493
Anthracite Coal Regions, Capricious Distribution of Iron Oxide in the Rocks of, 419
Appert, Mr. Leon, On the Introduction of Alu¬minium into Glass, 625
Appleyard, Mr. R., On Dielectric?, 543
“ AquiloD,” Trial of the. 213
Arc Lamp, The Jandus, 33, 301
Arc Welding ia Connection with Steel Steam
Pipes and Fittings, 458 Arctic Circle, Railway Inside of the, 463
Arctic Hail and Thunderstorms, Mr. H. Harries on, 624
Ardrossan, 247
Argentine Government, Armoured Torpedo Boat Destroyers for the, 513
Argentine Navy, The New Destroyers for the, 329
Argon from Air, Volume, by Prof. Ramsay on the Methods of Extracting, 293
Argon, Lord Rayleigh on tho Chemical Position of, 489
Armour Belt of the “ Poltava,” Order for, Placed with the firm of Friedrich Krupp, 263
Armour, Carnegie’s Double-forged, 215
Armour, Krupp’s, 112, 113 Armour of Peace, The, 37
Armour, Perforation of, Formul® for Calculating, 429
Armour Plates, American, 56
Armour Plate, Bethlehem, 32
Armour Plates, Hardening of, 241
Armour Plates, Local Annealing of Hard-faced, 355
Armour Plates Supplied to the Russian Govern¬ment by the Carnegie Company, 446
Armour Plates for United States Battleships, Trial of, Ill
Armour-testing for Russia, 434
Armour Trials, American and Russian, 32
Armstrong, Captain, His Appointment as Dock-master at Middlesbrough, 139
Armstrong and Co., Sir G., Steel Foundry to be Erected in Japan by, 463
Armstrong, Lord, on Mr. Edison, 6
Army and Navy on the Defence of the Empire, Functions of the, 601
Arnold’s Motor Carriage with Benz Motor, 472, 473
“ Arrogant,” Launch of the, 489, 543
d’Arsonval, M.A., on Photography through
Opaque Bodies, 293 Asiatic Turkey, Railways in, 558
Asquith, Mr. W., Sliding and Surfacing Brake Lathe, 40
Asphalt Companies, Bill Aimed by New York Legislature at Foreign, 293
Assam-Burma Railway Survey, Result of, 293
Assay Balance, Auxiliary, 489
Assistant Engineers in the Royal Navy, 367

Association of Engineers, The Bristol:

Visit to H.M. Docks at Portsmouth, 474

Association, The British — see British Association:

Association of Engineers, The Leeds:

Annual Meeting for the Election of Officers, 418
Ship Canal for Leeds, Mr. R. Haste Carr, 202

Association of Engineers, The Manchester :

Development of the Milling Machine for Heavy Engineering Work, Mr. Sam. Dixon, 395
Fortieth Anniversary Dinner, Mr. Joseph Nasmith in the Chair, 170

Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, The London:

Anniversary Festival, The Forty-third, 444
Annual Meeting, 52
Annual Dinner, 297
Manufacture of Crank and Propeller Shafts, and some of the Causes of their Breakage, Mr. Wm. Royal, 378

Association, Maritime Technical:

Problem of Speed, M. J. A. Normand, 510

Association of Mechanical Engineers, The Birmingham:

Application of Electricity to Motive Power Purposes, Mr. Thos. Meacock, 416
Capstan Lathes, their Construction and Utility, Mr. A. Calvert, 297
Half-Yearly Meeting, 614

Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Incorporated:

Programme of tho Midland Counties District Meeting, 301
Twenty-first Voluntary Pass Examination of Candidates for the Offices of Municipal Engi¬neers, &c., 434

Association, The Municipal Electrical:

Alternating Current Stations and High Voltage Limps, Mr. H. W. Couzens, 612
Cable Specifications and Tests, Mr. Joseph A. Jeckell, 634
Combined Electric Lighting and Traction Plant?, Mr. John Hesketh and Mr. John H. Rider, 636
Control by Municipal Authorities of Consuming Devices and the Wiring Connecting them to the Main, Mr. C. H. Wordingham, 633
Cost of Electricity Supply, The, Mr. Arthur Wright, 633
Electricity Supply at 220
Volts, Mr. A. S. Barnard, 611
Extensions to Outlying Districts, Mr. A. H. Gibbings, 636
First Annual Convention Programme, 558. 598. 611
President’s Inaugural Address, 598

Association of Waterworks Engineers, British:

3, 11, 58, 96, 161,297, 387
Atlantic Coast Canals, Advocated, Government Ownership of, 213
Atmosphere of Great Towns, The, 496
Atmospheric Pressure, Dr. Buchan on the, 213
Auction Sale, The Greatest, 104
Australia, State and Private Railways, 393
Australia, How the Cable was Carried Across, 11
Australia, Proportion of Railway Mileage to Population, 446
Australia, Railways, Important in the Develop¬ment of. 419
Australian (West) Government Railways, Revenue and Expenditure on, 376
Australia (West), Mr. Piesse appointed Minister of Railways and Public Works, 319
Australian Colonies, Estimated Populations of and Railway Mileage and Population per mile, 446
Australian Colonies, Ganges adopted by, 416
Australian Notes:
44, 148, 356, 408, 552, 576
Austria-Hungarian Navy, Addition to the, 574
Austrian Railways, 187
Austrian Torpedo Boat “ Viper," The, 343
Automatic Block Signalling, Electro-pneumatic, 9
Automatic Boiler Feed, Fitted to the “ Lynx ” not satisfactory, 446
Auxiliary Engines in Screw Steamers, 483
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Road Locomotives, 52, 84
Aveling and Porter, Messrs., Spring Mounted Traction Engine, 85
Avon, Lockisation of the, 307
Ayrton and Mather’s Dynamo for Workshop Experiments, Royal Society’s Conversazione, 584

B

BABCOCK and Wilcox Company, Orders Received by, 416
Bacot, Mr. W. S., On the Maintenance of Roads and Streets in Suburban Towns, 162
Bailey’s Hydraulic Sewage Pump, 184
Baily, M., On Underground Haulage by Elec¬tricity, 393
Baines, Mr. H. S., 519
Baker-street and Waterloo Railway, Bill Relative to Extension of, 463
Balance, Assay, 489
Balance, Self-registering Thermometer, 489
Balance Sheet of a German Steelworks, 143
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Locomotives Built in 1895, 263
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Orders for Russia, 563
Baling Press, Self-filling Perpetual, 573
Ball Bearings for Centrifugal Machinery, 447
Ball Bearings, Side Pressure, 499
Balloon Aërophile, On the Ascent of the, 463
Balloon, Tbe North Pole, 438
Balloons, Firing at Captive, 620
Baltimore City Code, The City Commissioners to
be hereafter Civil Engineers, 353
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, Cars and Locomo¬tives for, 563
Banavie Junction, Lt.-Col. H. A. Yorke on the Accident at, 643
Bancroft, Mr. F. J., Stability of Tall Chimneys, 184
Band Saw, An Old, 11
Band Saw for Sweep and Bevel Work, Log, 277
Band Saws, Sweep Cutting, 301
Bandsept Burners, M. Broca on the, 591
Bangor, New Pier and Landing Stage for, 506
Bar, Dick’s Apparatus for Making, 462, 464
Barges, Steam and Towing, Mr. J. McGregor, 97
Barker’s Bridge Flooring, 82
Barker, Mr. A. F., Weaving Mechanisms, 202
Barker, Mr. E. G., Twelve-wheeled Tank Engine, 643
Barnard, Mr. A. S., on Electricity Supply at 220 Volts, 611
Barometer Readings, The Recent High, 213
Barrels, Damascus Hand-made Gun, 393
Barrels, Iron Petroleum, 552
Barron, Mr. H. J., Screwed Fittings for High Pressure, 350
Barry Docks, 135, 136, 137, 584, 585
Baterden, Mr. J. Rae, Road and Street Making in Towns, 217
Bath and West of England Agricul¬tural Show: 187
Particulars Relative to the Annual Exhibition, 187, 446, 489
Opening of the Show, 538
Carter’s Pendulum Sifter, 572
Compound Road Locomotive with Crane,
Messrs. J. Fowler and Co., 572
Easton and Bessemer's High-speed Engines, 573
Oil and Gas Engines, Name of Exhibitors of, 538
Radiator Butter-maker, M. Gustaf Salenius, 613
Traction and Portable Engines, Names of Exhi¬bitors of, 538
Batteries, One of the Large Type " G,” New York Exhibition, 581
Battersea, Electric Lighting Question at, 452
Battleship to be Built at Devonport, The New, 376
Battleship, Cause of Explosion on Board a French. 584
Battleships, Herr A. Dietrich on German, 586, 608
Battleship, An Old, 8
Battleship “ Yashima,” Launch of the Japanese,
Bavaria, Productive Power of, Nuremburg Exhi¬bition, 636
Baxter’s, Limited, Messrs., Anchor Gear for H.M.S. “ Victorious,” 232
Bayard, Mr., and H.M.S. “Calliope,” 550
Bazin Wheel Steamboat, The, 502
Bazin, M., on the Distribution of Velocities in Tubes, 643
Beacb, Mr. Alf. Ely, His Inventions, 86, 111
Beams of Mild Steel, Transverse Loads on, 10
Beare, Prof. T. Hudson, Problems Connected with the Theory, Working, and Testing of Gas Engines and Hot Air Motors, 68
Bearing, A Good, 44
Bearings, Railway Axle, 327
Bechnanaland Railway, The, 187
Becquerel, M. Henri, on the Invisible Radiations
Emitted by Phosphorescent Bodies, 263, 293
Becquerel, M. H., Invisible Radiations Emitted by Salts of Uranium, 376
Bedford Belt Railway, India, Accident on the, 463
Beglinger, Mr. W., On the Heat Conducting Power of Iron and Steel, 489
Beira Railway, Extension of the, 213
Belfast and County Down Railway, Major Marindin’s Report on the Accident on the, 161
Belfast and Dublin, Port9 of, their Relative 1 Prosperity, 438
Belgian Conseil Supérieure de l’lndustrie et Commerce, Re-organisation of, 587
Belgian Electrical Engineering Practice, Notes on, 493
Belgian Girders in Manchester, 96
Belgian Light Railways, Permanent Way of, 362
Belgian Light Railways, Types of Locomotives on (Supplement, May Is/, 1896), 439, 440, 441, 445
Belleville Boilers in the Royal Navy, 240
Belt Breakage at the Star Manufacturing Company, 625
Belts, How to Clean, 625
Belt Shifter, Simplex Dead-lock, Mr. E. S. Rit¬cliffe, 541
Belt Tighteners, Concerning Defective, 463
Bemrose and Sons’ Brown Sensitised Paper, 213
“Benbow,” Refit of the, 376
Bengal, Official Returns of Rail and River-borne Trade of, 353
Bennett, Sons, and Shears, Aluminium Cocks, 519
Bmneville, Mr. J. S. de, on tho Study of Alloys with Iron Carbides, 488
Benton Harbour Motor Company’s Carriage, 40
Benz Motor, Arnold’s Carriage with, 472, 473
BeDzine, Melting Point of, 591
Beresford, Tbe Right Hon. Lord Charles, on Water-tight Doors and their Dangers to Modern Fighting Ships, 314
Berkbamstead, Tenders for Sewerage and Sewage : Disposal, 221
Berlin Exhibition, The S.E. Railway Company’s Cheap Return Tickets to, 454
Bernardo's Arc Welding in connection with Steel Steam Pipes and Fittings, 458
Berryman Feed-water Heaters, 131
Bertrand, Mr. J., Theory of Gases, 519
Bessemer Medal Award, 462
Bessemer Process, The, 267, 299, 467, 538
Bessemer Process, America and the, 267
Bethlehem Armour Plate, Diagram of, 32
Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Twelve-wheeled Tank Locomotive, 643
Bicycles, Approximate Relation of Power to Speed in, 190
Bicycles to be carried free as Baggage, The New York Legislature, 446
Bicycle Chain Riveting Machine, 170
Bicycle Hub Forming Lathe, 564
Bicycle Show, The New York, 188
Bifilar Pendulum, A, Mr. Horace Darwin, 584
Bills in the Coming Session, Tramway, 376
Bill, Dam across the Dee, 519
Bill, The Dee Sluices, 234
Bill, The Floods Prevention, 625
Bills 1896, Highland Railway Schemes, 500
Bill, The Horseless Carriage, 323
Bill, Light Railways, 543, 591, 600
Bill, Metropolitan Railways, 519
Bills, Opposed Railway, 248
Bills in Parliament, Tramways, and Railways, Canals, &c., 31, 213, 422
Bill Passed Authorising the Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation to Light the Area of the Strand District Board of Works, 319
Bill Promoted by the Manchester Ship Canal Co., .484
Bills Relating to the Water Questions, 111
Bill Sanctioning Extension of Baker-street and Waterloo Railway, 463
Bill, The Sheffield District Railway, 519
Bills that have not Passed Standing Orders, 248
Binnie, Mr. A. R , Tunnel under the Thames at Blackwall, 259 .
Binny, Mr. W. M., Hot Water Heating, 139
Birkenhead Ironworks, Launch of a Torpedo Gun Vessel, 416
Birmingham and the Bristol Channel, 97
Birmingham Canal Navigations, 438
Birmingham Corporation, Public Works Depart¬ment of the, Proposed Re-arrangements in Consequence of Mr. Till's too Onerous Duties, 319
Birmingham, Important Railway Improvement Completed, 519
Births and Deaths Registered in Greater London in a Week, 31, 419, 489
Births and Deaths in London and Thirty-two other Great Towns of England and Wales, 31, 319, 419, 489, 543
Blackpool Great Wheel, Graydon v. Bassett, 159
Blackwall, Tunnel, The, 83, 209, 446, 554, 573
Blackwall Tunnel, Mr. Simpson on the, 554
Blackwall Tunnel, Total Cost of the Work in, 83
Blake Electrio Rifle, The, 84
“Blake,” Fatal Accident on Board the, 643
Blast Furnaces of the Cockerill Co., 446
Blast Furnace, Increased Yield cf the, 374
Blasting Operations in Mines, Safety Explosives for, 263
Blea Tarn Reservoir, The, 213
Blechynden, Mr. A., Transmission of Heat through Metal Plates, 509
Block Signalling, Electro-pnenmatic Automatic, 9
Blohm and Voss, Shipyard and Floating Docks, 590
Blohm and Voss, Messrs., their Works, Hamburg, 648, 649
Blower, Hodges’ Compound, 431
Blowing Engines at the Stanton Ironworks, 139
Blumenberg Process for making Chlorate of
Potash, Niagara Water Power applied to, 213
Board of Trade’s Report on Bills and Provisional Orders for the Session, 213
Board of Trade Report on Railway Accidents, 161, 213
Board of Trade’s Statement showing Production and Consumption of Coal, 591
Boilers, Belleville, in the Royal Navy, 240
Bjilera, British Types of Land, 199
Boilers, Commercial Efficiency of Steam, 386
Boiler, A Compound, Col. Soliani on, 335
Boilers for Electric Light Stations, 322, 399, 450
Boilers, Expanding Tubes in Yarrow, 513
Boiler Explosion on the Pennsylvania Railway, 187
Boiler Explosions in the United States, Locomo¬tive, 319, 543
Boiler Explosions during tho Year ended June 30th, 1895, 147

Boiler Inspection in New Zealand, 241

Boiler of the Locomotive Type, Largest, 293
Boiler, Locomotive, s.s, “ Queen of the North," Messrs. Laird Bros., Working Drawing (Sup¬plement, January 24th, 1896)
Boiler, Sarface Scum Cock and Valve for, 355
Boiler ? The Pierre Boeuf, 645
Boiler Plates, Testing Steel, 431
Boiler on the Steamer “St. Pierre,”Loose, Cause of Accident, 498
Boilers of Torpedo-boat Destroyers, The, 616
Boilers, Water-tube, 28, 30, 67, 146, 172, 202, 318, 335, 343, 372, 397, 446
Boilers, Water-tube, Mr. J. Watt, 318, 335
Boilers, Water-tube. Ordered of the Babcock and Wilcox Company, 446
Boilers, Water-tube, Stratton Separators, New York City, 446
Boiler, Water-tube, The Reed, 172
Boilers, Water-tube, Yarrow, 343
Boilers, Water-tube, Circulation in, 28, 30, 67, 118, 146, 335, 347, 351, 372, 397, 423, 450, 451, 467, 493, 495, 551
Bois de la Cambre and Schaerbeck Tramway Line to be Electrically Worked, 293
Bombay Corporation and Horseless Carriages The, 393
Bombay Municipality and Petroleum Automobile Traction for Meat, &c., Carts, 316
Bonta Safety Engine Stop, 583

Books Received:

39, 63, 91, 117, 143, 169, 195, 245, 349, 402, 427, 449, 497, 523, 547, 571, 595, 621, 647
Boring and Drilling Machine, Multiple, 247
Boston, Shifting 3U0ft. of Water Main in, 463
Bouvines, Further Trial of the Armour-clad, 293
Bouzey Dam, Failure of the, 50
Boydell’s Engine, Steam Ploughing with, 319
Boys, Prof. C. V., Geometric Wall Brackets and Steady Blocks, 474
Bradford, Tramway Accident at, 498
Brahn, Mr. J., Geometry in Connection with the Stability of Ships, 335
Brake, Cycle, Hudson’s Rear-acting, 407
Brake, The Vacuum, on the Midland Railway, 182
Bran with Lime, Products obtained by the Dry Distillation of, 187
Brand, Herr Paul, Compressed Gas Rifle, 139
Brass Finishers’ Lathe, Messrs. Carter and Wright, 512
Brake Lathe, Sliding and Surfacing, 40
Brewer, Mr. W. J., Light Railways, 233
Brewster, Mr. E. H. G., on Nut-locks and Nut¬ locking Devices, 58
Brick-making at Peterborough, 563
Brick Paving, Specification for, adopted by Peoria, III., 449
Bridge Accident at Victoria, B.C., Inquiry into, 625
Bridge, The Albert Railway, Indooroopily Queensland, 52, 53, 60
Bridges, Concrete Arch, 364
Bridges Destroyed in Cbitral by Floods, 427
Bridge Flooring, 82, 145 Bridge Flooring, Barker’s, 82
Bridge at Glasgow, Proposed New Bridge, 233
Bridges, Life of Iron Railway, 157
Bridge over the Medway, Steel, 111
Bridge over the Ness, The New Waterloo, 366, 392, 394
Bridge over the Ouse at Ely, Great Eastern Rail¬way, 77, 78
Bridge at Paris, New Cantilever, 499
Bridges, Railway, for Branch Lines, 571
Bridges, Road, 190
Bridge, The Rochester, 290, 327
Bridge over the Seine, The Mirabeau, 609, 61 618
Bridge, Timber, over Glennies Creek, New South Wales, Mr. F. Allen, 520, 524,525, 526, 527
Bridges, Traffic on London and the Tower, 489
Bridge at Worship-street, Great-Eastern Railway Company, 414, 415
Brigg, Mr. T. H., The Mechanics of Horse Haul¬ing, 96, 234
Bristol Channel and English Channel Ship Canal, Proposed, 273, 340
Bristol Docks, The Problem of, 307
Bristol Harbour, 246

British Association:

Transfer of Heat through Plates with Differently Arranged Surfaces, Mr. W. G. Walker, 87
British Built Steam Yachts for American Owners, i 448
British Guiana Timbers, 263
British Patents, Application for, 643
British Pig Iron Trade Association and Foreign Competition, 301
British South African Company Authorise Ex¬tension of the Beira Railway, 213
British Types of Land Boilers, 199
British Warship Building Notes, 267
British Workshops, Some Special Features seen in, 271
Brooks, Messrs. J. and H., Suspended Safety Lift, 121, 122
Brooklyn Bridge, Through Trains Proposed over, t 543
Brooks, Captain N. M., Mail Records of Trans-atlantic Steamers, 83
Brooks, Mr., at the Society of Arts, Relative to ,Non-Luminous Actinic Rays, 263
Brooms, Attachment for Bass, 139 ,
Broughton Paper Mills, Chimney Underpinned,
Brown, Mr. John, on Horseless Carriages, 421
Brown, Bjveri, and Co., Polyphase Plant for Electric Railways, 293
Brown and Co., Messrs. John, Working of Carhouse Colliery Stopped, 187
Bruce, Mr. A. F., on the Flow of Water in the ,New Aqueduct from Loch Katrine, Glasgow Waterworks, 55
Brunn’s Automatic Feed-water Softener, Mr. P. Schau, 162
Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Lough¬borough, Extension of their Works, 543
Brussels, Central Terminus for, 446
Brussels a Sea-port or Not? 353
Bryan, Dr. G. H., on Flight and Flying Machines, 248
Bryan Donkin and Co., Powdered Coal Firing, 44
Bryan Donkin and Co., Wegener’s Powdered Fuel
Boiler Furnace and Apparatus, 485
Buchan, Dr., On the Atmospheric Pressure, 213
Buckland's Table for Maxim Gnns, 118, 119
“Buda-Pest,” The Battleship, 574
Buenos Ayres, The Sanitary Works of, 55
Buffington Crozier Gun Carriage, The, 41
Built-up Locomotive Crank Shaft, A, 451
Bulgaria, Locomotives for, 486
Bulkhead Rails and Flange Rails, 165
Bull’s Metal Launch, 11
Bullhead Rails and Flange Rails, 66
Bulletin of the International Railway Congress, Papers Contained, 111
Bullion Assaying, Auxiliary Balance, 489
Burnley, Chimney Disister at, 144
Burntisland, 247
Burners, The Bandsept, 591
Burrell and Sons’ Compound Traction Engines, 498
Burrell and Sons’ Dunble-breasted Plough, Record found in Old MS. Book relating to, 319
Barrell and Sons' Road Locomotives, 51
Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, Messrs., Passenger Engine, Great Southern and Western Railway, 1847, 64, 65, 66
Bute Docks Company withdraw their Bill, 161
Butler and Pittsburg Railway Project, Tbe, 625
Butter, Manufacture of Sterilised, 613, 616

C

CABINS and their Fittings, Ships’, 308
Cable Across Australia, How it was Carried, 11
Cable Repairing and Cable Danger, 116
Cabling and Serving Machine, Combined, 420
Cable Specifications and Tests, Mr. J. A. .Jeckell, 633
Cage Accident, Shocking, 213
Caisson Work, Safety in, 497
Caking Power of Coals, Mr. L. Campredon on the, Calcium Carbide, Price of, 591
Calculation of Horse-power, Lt-Col. English, 143
Calcutta, Dearth of Kerosene Oil at, 84
Calcutta, Electric Lighting Act for, 233
Caledonian Railway Express Locomotive, 211, 235, 242
Caledonian Railway Locomotives, Statistics of the
Whole Fifteen, 513 Caledonian Railway Extension, 296
Calendar, M. Flamant on the, 111
Calvert, Mr. A., On Capstan Lathes, their Con¬struction and Utility, 297
Calyx Diamond Baring Crown? The, 89
Cambrian System, Reduction of Fares on the, 376
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company’s Exhibits at the Royal Society's Conversazione, 584
Cameron’3 Expansion Gear, £60
Cameron, Mr. John, Punching and Shearing Machine, 223
Campbell, Mr., On New Instruments for Measur¬ing Periodic Electrio Currents, 543
Campredon, Mr. L., On the Caking Power of Coals, 591
Canada, Flood Prevention Works Wanted in, 419
Canals, 143, 493
Canal between the Atlantic and the Mediter¬ranean, Commission to Report upon, 613
Canal, The Crinan Ship, 338, 503
Canal, The Erie-New S'ork State, 76, 111, 155
Canal, Forth and Clyde, 247
Canal, Tho Jonage, 541
Canal Lift, Tho Heinrichsbnrg, 388, 389
Canal and Light Railway Legislation, 372
Canal from Lockfyne to Crinan, Proposed, 249
Canal of the Lower Loire, Maritime, 560
Canal, Manchester Ship, 247
Canals and Navigable Rivers, Mr. L. B. Wells, 171
Canals in New York State in 1895, Tons carried cn, 111
Canal, On the Nicaraguan, 139
Canal, Nicaragua" also Nicaragua Canal Canals, Panama and Nicaragua, 272
Canal Proposal, A, 209, 241
Canal, Proposed Ship, to connect the Bristol and English Channels, 97, 273, 840, 460, 468
Canal and River Hydraulics, The Manchester Ship Canal and, 484
Canal, Tbe Sheffield, 270
Canal. The Thames and Severn, 97, 273, 340, 460, 468
Canal, Worcester and Birmingham, 97, 273, 340, 460. 468
Canet E ectric Turrots, 57
Cantilever Bridge at Paris, New, 499
Cantor Lectures at the Royal Institution, 364
Capital and Private Enterprise, Mr. William Crosshay, 393
Capstan Lathes, their Construction and Utility, Mr. A. Calvert on, 297
Caracas, Electric Power for, 213
Carbide of Manganese, M. H. Moissan, on the, 263
Carbides of Yttrium and Thorium, On the, 319
Carbon Dioxide in the Burning of Carbon Compounds, On the Mode of Formation of, 353
Carbon into Graphite, MM. Girard and Street’s Investigations respecting the Transformation of, 563
Carbon, Natural Crystallised, The largest Speci¬men of, 111
Carbon, On the Rate of the Diffusion of, by Mr. Roberts-Austen, 488
Carbonic Anhydride, On Solid, by MM. Villard and Jarry, 87
Carborundum, 155

Cardiff Exhibition:

328, 473, 512
Coal Department, 512
Docks and Models of Vessels, 473, 512
Machinery Section, 473
Maritime Section, 473
Railway Section, 473
Cardiff, The North-East Coast Engineers at, 293, 650
Carhouse Colliery, Working of, Stopped, 187
Carriage Building, Mr. G. J. Jacobs cn the Improvements in, 643
Carter and Wright, Messrs., Brass Finisher's Lathe, 512
Carnegie Armour, Double Forged, 56
Carnegie’s Double - forged Face – hardened Armour, Tested at St. Potersburg, 214 Carnegio Armour Plates, Trial of, 111
Carnegio Company, Armour Plates supplied to the Russian Government, 446 Carpenter, Mr. R. C., Insulating Underground Systems of Steam Piping, 201
Carr, Mr. R. Haste, A Ship Canal for Leeds, 202
Carrying Power of Mains, Experiments on the, 376
Cars, Now Dining, Great Northern Railway Company, 376
Carter’s Pendulum Sifter, 572
Cast Iron Car Wheels, their Use in the United States, and Report upon, 543
Cast Iron, Mobility of Molecules of, 430 Casting Pump Pipes, 79
Catalogues, 406, 493
Catley and Ayres’ Steam Wagonette, 1863-67, 1 264, 265 I
Caws, Mr. Frank, Testing of Models of German Warships by, 213
Celluloid as an Insulator for Electric Cables, On, 1 446
Cellulose for Warships, Corn Pith, 40
Cement Trade, The Slag, 419
Cement Works in Germany, 161
Centrifugal Series Pump and Engines, Messrs. J. 1 and H. Gwynne, 390 '
Century of Soho, A, 120
Chambers of Commerce, Congress of tho, 563
Channel Services, Night, 339
Channel Squadron, The, 517
Channelling Machine for Cutting Asphalte and ' Macadam, 625
Chapman, Mr. G., The Link Movement Engine, I 272
Charter, The Now Coal, 619
Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation, Bill Passed in Favour of, 319 '
Chatham County, Georgia, Topographic and Hydrographic Survey of, 161 1
Chauveau, M. A., on the Relation between Muscular Work and the Albuminoid Materials of the Body, 263
Chemical Means, Measuring Feed and Circulating Wat:r by, 365, 379
Chemical Progres», Prof. Dewar on Recent, 419
Chemistry in 1895, 20 '
Chester, Corporation of, their Bill for Weir i across the Dee, 519
Chester, Mr. W. R., Presidential Address at the Gas Institute, 590
Chicago, Medals and Diplomas Awarded to British Exhibitors at, 643
Chicago, Self-propelled Carriages at, 1
Chicago, Telephone and Signal System, 463
Chicago, Tramway Companies in. 563
Chignecto Main Railway Co. Bill Thrown Out, 263
Chili, Launch of a Torpedo Gun Vessel for, 416
Chili, Railway Expenditure in, 591
Chimneys, Demolishing, 266
Chimney Disaster at Bornley, 144
Chimneys, Stability of Tall, Mr. F. J. Bancroft, 184
Chimney Underpinned, Broughton Paper Mills, 222
China, Railways in, 114
China, Railways in, The Emperor’s Edict relating to, 353
Chlorate of Potash, Niagara Water-Power Applied . to the Making of, 213
Chloride of Lime in Water Fatal to all Bacilli, 41S
Chlorine Broxide, True Explosion Waves Propa¬gated through, 353
Church, Mr. Janez, 327
Circulation in Water-tnbe Boilers, 28, 30, 67,118, 146, 335, 347, 351, 372, 397, 423, 450, 451, 467. 493. 495, 551
City and South London Railway Ast Bill, 519
Civil Engineering in 1895, 13
Clapyron's Formula applied to the Melting Point of Banzine, 591
Clark Cells, Tests Applied to Standard, 353
Clark, Mr. Dan Kinnear, 118
Clark, Mr. Lyonel, on Recent Improvement? in Docks and Docking Appliances, 608, 623, 653
Clarke, Mr. Wm. John Bird, 195
Clarke’s Crank and Forge Company, Duplex Oil Engine, 638
Clayton and Shuttleworth's Portable Oil Engine, 638
Cleaning Belts, On, 625
Cleckbeaton Junction, Toe Accident at, 139
Clerk, Mr. Dugald, Recent Developments in Gas Engines, 110
Cleveland, Akron, and Columbian Railway, The Electric Line Competition, 213
Cleveland Miners' Association, Re-election of the same Chairman and Vice-chairman, 187
Cleveland Steel Canal Boats, Tbe, 578
Cloud each Day of the Year at the Greenwich Observatory, Mr. W. Ellis on the Mean Amount of, 416
Clowes, Mr. W. Laird, Naval Pocket Book, 301
Clowes, Prof. Frank, Explosive Mixtures of Com¬bustible Gases with Air, 590
Clyde-built Schooner, A Notable, 428
Clyde Engineering Dispute, The, 38, 58, 91,109 Clyde, Free Labour on the, 8
Clyde, Proposed New Bridge at Glasgow Over the, 233
Clyde, Settlement of Trade Disputes on the, 338
Clyde Shipbuilding Industry, The, 442
Clyde Shipbuilding, A Quarter's, 348
Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, Wages in the, 348 Coal, 116
Coals, Caking Power of, 591
Coal Charter, The New, 619
Coal Consumed by Car-mile Run on French Tram¬ways, 463
Coal Consumption on French Tramways, 591
Coal Consumption and Production, Board of Trade's Statement Respecting, 591
Coal Consumption of Different Countries, On the, 263, 625
Coals, Determination of the Heating Effects of, 543
Coal District in Kent, 419
Coal Dost Fuel, 106
Coal Dust and High Explosives, 1S4
Coal Dust Fuel, Tbo 1’ropfe Mill for Grinding, 407
Coal Trade, Tbe Outlook in the, 447
Coalfields, The Struggle for tho Scottish Southern, 184
Coalfields, Tbe Warwickshire and Lancashire, s 186
Coal, Firing with Powdered, 44
Coal Handling Plants for Steam Generation, 365
Coal, I-ast Year's Total Production of, 319
Coal MiDiDg, Machinery Applied to, in the United States and here, 625
Coal Output in Different Countries, 263
Coal Premiums, 241, 267
Coal Production of France in 1894, 387
Coal Production, Number of Persons Employed in, 613
Coal Production in the United States in 1895, ' Statistics of, 643
Coal Station for the German Navy, 617
Coal Storage Hoppers at Battersea, Mr. P. W. Symmons, 162, 163
Coal Tenders for Norwegian Main Railway, 187
Coal Trade, The, 296
Coal, Victorian, 543
Coal-washing Plant at tho Wirral Colliery, 215
Coast Defence Ships, 167, 191, 241
Coast Guard Station at Minster, New, 319 Cochin, Water Supply of, 393
Cochrane and Co., Messrs. J., 300-T.H.P. Triple- expansion Mill Engines, 559, 560, 561
Cockerill Co.'s New Blast Furnace, 446
Cocks, Aluminium, 519
Coda, Sig. C., on Wator Cranes, 111
Cog-wheel and Rack Railways of the World, Total Length of, 248
Coins, English, 446
Coin Gas Meters, Mr. A. Dougall on, 590
Coke Screening Machinery ? 115
Coke Trade, The South Yorkshire, 646
Colchester Waterworks Romping Engines, 27, 33
Coke, Regenerative, 91
Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Messrs., Test of One of their Engines, 56
Collieries, Discharge Note System in, 400
Collisry Exp'osions, Mystery of, 244
Colliery Explosions, Origin and Rationale of, 120
Colliery Winding, Safety in, 493
Collision of Electric Cars at St. Louis, Result of, 419
Collision on the Mersey. 376
Collision, Railway, at Bellahouston, Cal. H. A. Yorke on, 489
Collision, Railway, Manchester, 519
Collision, Railway, at London Bridge Station, 489
Collision, A Railway, as a Novel Attraction, 543
Collisions on Railways, 1895, 393
Collisions at Sea, 272
Collision at Wortley Station Junction, 111
Collman Valve Gear, Engine with, Messrs. Jessopand Son, 156, 158
Calomb, Admiral, Elements of Force in Warships, 297
Colomb, Admiral, Functions of the Army and Navy on the Defence of the Empire, 601
Columb'a Machine and Colt Gun, The, 189
Combustion of Acetylene, M. H. Le Chatelier, 248
Combustion in a Gas Engine Cylinder, Effects of the Products of, 245
Commercial Efficiency of Steam Boilers, 386
Commercial Value of Acetylene, 417
Common Sense in Work and Wages, 322
Commonicat'on cn Board Ship, A Problem to be solved by the Admiralty, 263
Compensating Nuts, Drysdale and Stoddart’s, 461
Compound Locomotives— see Locomotives, Compound
“Compressed Air," Monthly Periodical entitled, 1 started in the United States, 625
Compressed Air for Street Car Propulsion, The 1 Question of, 563 1
Compressed Gas Cylinders, Safety of, 337
Comte and Regnault, MM., On Walking and Running en flexion, 248
Concrete Arch Bridges, 364
Condensers for Rolling Mill Engines, Mr. Robert 1 J. Worth, 420
Conduits, Doulton's Stoneware, 237
Cone Papar Mill, Sale of tho Plant of, 319
Congo Railway Bonds, Issue of, Guaranteed by tne Brussels Chamber, 519
Congo State Railway, Progress of the, 213
Conisborough, Attempt to Wreck a Train near, 376
Connah’s Quay to Bidston, New Line from, 293, 489
Conservators of the Thames, their Report for 1895, 519
Construction of Modern Lighthouses, 78
Consuming Devices and the Wiring Connecting them to the Main, On the Control by Munici¬pal Authorities of, 633
Continental C.mpetition and the Railway Rates, 115
Continental Workmen, 142
Contractors, London Amateur Engineering, 210
Contracts, Admiralty, 61, 193

Contracts Open :

First-class Carriages, Oude and Rohilcund Rail¬way, 58
Public Works, Lower Assam Division, 190
Converter, Explosion of a, 543
Coolgardie from Perth, Arrival of the First
Through Train from, 319
Cooper, Mr. A. S., cn the Influence of the Cha¬racter of Sand on Cement Mortar, 519
Cooper, Mr. R. Elliott, and Messrs. S. Peareon and Son, Viaducts, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 213, 218
Cooper Steam Digger, The, 640, 644
“Co-operation by Rail and Road,” On, 376
Copeland, Mr. W. R , Dunoon Bnrgh Pier, 339, 346
Copper Mines in Spain, 4G0
Copper-plate Printing of Autograph Sketches, Prof. Herkomer'8 Process, 161
Copying Lathe, An Early, 92, 93 Cordite, 255
Corn Pith Cellulose for Warships, 40
Corner in Engineering Material, A, 375
Cornish Pumping Engines, Compound, 84, 85
Corrosion of Screw Propeller Blades, 408
Corrugated Iron I 521
Corrugated Water Pipes, 336
Corthell, Dr. E. L., The Tampico Harbour Works, Mexiio, 365
Corundum, Electrio Process of Converting Emery into, 563
Cost of Electricity Supply, 633
Cost of Locks and Weirs 1 167
Cotton Spinning in Japan, First, 625
Courtney, Mr. S , his Letters Relative to Me¬chanical Road Carriages, 54
Couzens, Mr. H. W., on Alternating Current Stations and High Voltage Lamps, 611
Cowan, Mr., bis Evidence before tbo Select Com-roittea of the House of Commons on
Traction Engines on Reads, 492
Coward, Mr. H., Mechanical Handling of Goods at Riverside Premises, 301
Crane, Locomotive Steam, 420 Crane, Steam, Messrs. Taylor and Hubbard, 641
Crane, 100-ton Travelling, Parkhead Forge, 154
Crane, Ten-ton Hydraulic, 342
Crank and Prrpeller Shafts, and Causes of their Broakago, 378 I
Crawshay, Mr. Wm., Original Letter from, 393
Cremation Gains Favour, 293
Cremation Society, Report of the Council of the, 293
Crematoriums, New, 293
Crinan Ship Canal, The, 338, 503
Crocker-Wheeler Electric Company, Electric Motors for Shop Tools, 164
Crookes’ Tube, Eiporimsnte with a, 591
Crookes’ Tube, On the Mechanical Action Pro¬ceeding from a, 376
Crosby, Lockwood, and Co.’s New Books, 263
Crossings and Curves I 495
Crozier Gun Carriage, Tho Boflington, 41
Cruiser, Gunboats, kc., for the Portuguese Navy, 463
Cruisers of the Pelorus Typo to be Constructed by Messrs. Earle’s Company, 293
Cruisers for the Royal Navy, Toe Five New, 111
Crystal Palace, The, 397, 422, 451
Crystal Palace Exhibition—Exhibition, Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace School of Engineering, 420
Cubitt, Sir W., The Rochester Bridge, 290
Cugnot’s Steam Carriage, 422, 623 Cultivators, 642
Cultivator, Nicholson’s SpriDg Steel Tine, 642
Cuningham, Mr. G. C., On the Electric Street Railway System of Montreal, 223
Cunliffe and Croom, Messrs., Multiple BoriDgand Drilling Machine, 247
Cutlery Trade with tbe States, Effect of President
Cleveland’s Message on England’s, 111
Cutter Bridge at Ely, 77, 78
Cutting Asphalt and Macadam, Channelling Machine for, 625
Cycle Mechanics, 265
Cycle Exhibition, The Recent, 54
Cycle Show at the Crystal Palace, 376
Cylinders of Compressed Gases, Report on Causes of Explosion of, and Precautions to Eiuure Safety of, 319

D

DAIMLER Motor Company’s Cirriage, The, 472
Daimler Motor Carriage, The lion. Evelyn Ellia’ Tour in his, 590
Daimler Motor Company, Narrow Gauge Self- propelling Tramcar, 696
Dalmuir and Clydebank Railway, The, 562
Damascus Gun Barrels, Hand-made in Liège Province, 393
Dam, Failure of the Bouzsy, 50
Dams with Iron Sheeting, Reservoir, 459
Darby, Mr. J. H., On the Application of Mond Producer Gas to the Manufacture of Steel, 488
“ Dark Light,” M. Gustavo Le Bon on, 161
Davey, Paxman, and Co., Messrs., Electric Light Installation, India and Ceylon Exhibition (Supplement, May 22nd, 1896), 513
Davey, Paxmau, anil Co., Messrs., Indicator Gear for High-speed Eogines, 473
Davis and Son, Messrs. J., Electric Low-water Alarm, 84
Davison, Mr. R., White Metals for Wearing Surfaces, 519
Davy, Mr. Abraham, 111
Dawkins, Professor, Oa Water in Hertfordshire, 159
Deacon, Mr. G. F., Vyrnwy Works for the Water Supply of Liverpool, 423
Dead Weight Power, 443
Dean, Mr. F. W., Largest Boiler of the Loco¬motive Type, 293
“ Dear Old Smoky Sheffield,” 505
Deaths Registered in Greater London in a Week, 31, 419, 489
Deaths Registered in Thirty-three Great Towns of England and Wales, 31, 319, 419, 489, 543
Dee, Proposed Dam across the, 519
Dee Sluices Bill, Tbe, 234
Deep Soundings, Mr. W. J. L. Wharton cn, 248
Deepening of Harwich Harbour, 65
Defence of the Empire, The, 593
Defence of the Empire, Functions of the Army and Navy, 601
Dehérain, M. P. P., on Fallow Ground, 446
Delagoa Bay Railway Arbitration, 643
De La Vergne Motor Carriage, 2
Delmar Victorias at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, 607
Donnis, Mr. H., Ball Trap Gulley, 642
Denny and Bros., Messrs., Pioneers of Steam
Service across tbe Channel, 489
Denny and Sons, Messrs., Triple-expansion Paddle Engines of tbo Southend Belle, 592, 597
Deodorising Gas Engine Exhausts, 187
Deprez, M. Marcel, on the r/!Ze of tho Induction Ring in Dynamo-electric Machines, 543
Derby and Ashbourne Tramways Bill, The, 293
Des Coudres, Professor, on Kath ;dic Radiation, 161
Destroyers for tho Argentine Navy, The Now, 329
Destroyers, Modifications in the Design of, 524
“Destroyers” now Building, Tho Now, 610
Detonator, A New, 519
Devonport's First Battleship, 489
Devonport Programme of Work for 1896-97, 263
Dewar, Professor, on Recent Chemical Progress, 419
Dexter, Mr. F. G., on Incandescent Public Lighting, 610
Dibrtin, Mr. W. J., on a Standard Photometer, 610
Dick's Method of Producing Metal Sections by Extrusion, 462, 464
Dido, Launch of the British Second-class Cruiser, 293
Dido, Sir W. H. Whito’s Inspection of the, 489
Dielectrics. Mr. R. Appleyard on, 543
Dietrich, Herr A., Development in Design and Construction of German Men-of-war, 686, C08
Digger, The Cooper Steam, 640, 644
Dining Cars, Great Northern Railway Company's New, 376
Dining Cars on the Great Western Railway, 563
Dion and Bouton Motor Tricycle, The, 473
Discharge Note System in Collieries, 400
Disposal of Town Refuse ? 193
Distillation of Bran with lame, Products obtained by the Dry, 187
Dixon, Mr. H. B., on the Mode of Formation of Carbon Dioxide in the Burning of Carbcn Compounds, 353
Dixon and Harker, Messrs., their Experiments relative to the Propagation of True Explosion Waves. 353
Dixon, Mr. Sim. Divalopmen1. of ths Milling Machine for Heavy Ensrineering Work, 395
Dxsks. The Barry. 135, 136, 137
Dook Entrances, Modern Warships and, 217
Dock Gates at Hull, Collapse of, 519
Docks and Docking Appliances, Mr. Lvonel Clark
on Recent Improvements in, 60S, 623, 653
Docks, The Liverpool, 561
Docks, The London, 216
Dock, New Dry, Japan. 463
Dock, Opening of the Port Orchard Dry, 513
Docks, Plymouth New, 262
Docks at Portsmouth, The Two New, 181, 185, 192
Dockyard at Sasebo, New, 146
Doors, Water-tight, 314, 325
Doors, Water-tight, Col. N. Soliam, 325
Doors for Water-tight Bulkheads, Mr. Martell on, 650
“Dog Cart ’’ Steam Fire Engine, A, 150
“Doris," H.M.S., 237
Doutrall, Mr. A., On Coin Gas Meters, 590
Dou,ton's Stoneware Conduits, 237
Dover and Calais, Accelerated Service vid, 643
Dover Undercliff, The, 365
Dowlais Works, Cardiff, Rolling Mill Eagines (Supplement, April 10M, 1896). 375
Doxford and Sons, Messrs., Screw Steamer “ Algoa,” 353
Drake and Gorham, Messrs , The Jandus Arc Lamp, 301
Dredgers, Mr. W. J. Hunter on, 476
Dredger for East London, South Africa, 591
Dredger and Hydraulic Spoil Elevator on the Baltic Ship Canal, Working Drawing, Mr. A. F. Smulders (Supplement, January 3itl, 1896)
Dredger, Spoon, 266
Dredger and Stoamer on the Mersey, Collision of, 376
Dredgers at Work, Suction, 293
Drilling and Baring Machine, Multiple, 247
Droufield Sewage Disposal Scheme, 143
Drop Testing Machine, at the Altoona, Pa., M. F.
D. Casanave and, 625 Drowned Pumps, 35
“ Drummond Castle ” Disaster, The, 645
Dry Dock and East Broadway Riilway Co., Street
Car with Pivoted Seats, 563 Dry Process as Applied to Gold Mining, 146
Drying Apparatus for Ores, Clay, and Phosphates? 269
Drying of Timber, Circumstances connected with the, 591
Drysdale and Stoddart’s Compensating Nuts, 461
Dublin, Incandescent Lamps for, 139
Du Bois, Dr., on Magnetising and Hysteresis of Steel and Iron, 625
Dudley, Mr. P. H., Wear of Tires on Passenger Engines of the New York Central Railway, 431
Dudley, Mr., Some of the Difficulties in Designing Rail Sections, 443
Duna'astair, The, 235, 242
Dunalastairs Locomotives, The, 543
Duncan and Superbie Motor Bicycle, The, 472
Dundee and Aberdeen Harbour Extensions, 194
Dunlop, Mr. James, Economical High-power Loco¬motives, 489, 490
Dunoon Burgh Pier, The, 339, 346
Duplex Detonator, The, 519
Durham Coal Trade, Parties to the Proposed Transfer in the, 463
Durham Sewerage Disposal Scheme, 169
Duryea Motor Carriage, The, Duryea Pyramid Bicycle, The, 189
Dust in the Atmosphere, Mr. E. D. Fridlander on, 416
Dutch Tugboat “ Ocean,” 235, 238, 239
Doty of Pumps, 518
Dynamo-electric Machines, On the Use of the Induction Ring in, 543

E

EARLE’S Shipbuilding and Engineering Com¬pany, Tbe Admiralty’s Orders to, 293
Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Torpedo Boat Destroyers for the Admiralty, 419
Early Locomotives, 10, 35, 67, 80, 81, 120
Early Locomotives, Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, 80, 81
Earthquake Pulsations, Professor G. Vioentini on, 446
Earthquake Shocks on May 30tb, 563
Earthquake Waves, On the Velocity of, 419
Earth's Crust, On the Relief of the, 625
Eastbourne Water Supply, 40
Easterbrook, Allcard, and Co., Order for Loco¬motive Workshop Plant for Asiatio Railway Company, 213
East Indian with the East Coast Railway, Pro¬posal to Connect the, 353
Easton, Anderson, and Gooiden, Messrs., Pump¬ing Engines, 27, 33
Easton and Bessemer's High Speed Engines, 572
Edison, Mr., Lord Armstrong on, 6 Education and Invention, 470
Edwards, Lieutenant, The Engineer in Naval Warfare, 42, 69
Egyptian Government. Geological Survey Deter¬mined on by the, 463
Egyptian Government, New Shipping Tax to be Levied by, 419
Egyptian Railways, Proposed Adoption of Metre ~ Gauge Rolling Stock on, 353
Eickenradt, Herr F., On the Use of Electricity on Board Sbips, 627, 660
Electric Arc Lamps for Upper Regent-street, 263
Electric Arc Light, Lamp to Furnish an, 293
Electric Colonisation, Jte, 452, 467
Electric Current at Chisago, Another Carious Freak of the, 213
Electric Discharges, Photographs of, 584
Electric Drill for Naval Construction, 155
Electric-driven Portable Painting Machine, 499
Electric Engineers, Glut of, 221 Electric Engineering in 1895,18
Electric Engineering Practice, Notes on Belgium, 493
Electric Exhibition at New York, 221, 581
Electric Heaters, Efficiency Prize for a Research Essay. 543
Electric Horse-power in the United States, Cost of, 563
Electric Lamps, High Voltage, 611
Electric lamps for Ticket Collectors, 139
Electric Light Engines, 11
Electric Light in the Provinces, 323
Electric Light Stations, Boilers for, 322, 399, 450
Electric Light Stations, Gas Engines in. 613
Electric Light Station, Islington, 533—538, 514
Electric Lighting Acts. 1882—1888, 133
Electric Lighting Act for Calcutta, 233
Electric Lighting, The Board of Trade's Model Rs^ulati.ni, 139
Electric Lighting Extensions to Outlying Districts, Mr. A. H. Gibhings, 633
Electric Light'nz, Insurance Companies and the Safety of, 591
Electric Lighting of Islington, 249
Electric Lighting by Local Authorities in the Metropolis, 54
Electric Lighting Question at Battersea, 452
Electric Lighting, St. Panoras, ‘258, 259, 260, 261
Electric Lighting of Stone Qaarries, 56
Electric lighting of tho Strand District Board of Works’ Aren, 319
E'eotric Lighting and Traction Plants, On Combined, 633
Electric Locomotive built by the Baldwin- Westinghouse Combination, 263
Electric Low-water Alarm. 84
Electric Motor Cars, New York E'evatod Railway, 262
Electric Motors, Cars equipped with. Tested in Shunting Trains at Brooklyn Terminus, 353
Electric Motors for Shop Tools, 164
Electric Power on American Lines, 187
Electric Power for Caracas, 213
Electric Process of Converting Emery into Corundum, 563
Electric Pump, Worthington, 581
Electric Radiation, Article on, 213
Electric Railways Equipped with Polyphase Plant, 293
Electric Rifle, The Blake, 84
Electric Sanitation at Netley, The Hermite, 319
Electric Street Cars in New Orleans, Mr. C. L. St. John on, 463
Electric Street Railway System of Montreal, Canada, 223
Electric Traction on Railways, Progress of, 293 Electric Traction Company, Report of the, 625
Electric Traction on Tramways, 293
Electric Tramcar Fares, Brooklyn, 463
Electric Tramways, Dangers of, by a United States Correspondent, 591
Electric Tramways in Europe, Total Length of, 591
Electric Tramways, Underground and Overhead, Trolley Systems, 591
Electric Tramway Subway in Boston, and Shift¬ing of Water Main, 463
Electric Turrets, 57
Electrically Welded Rails, Success of, 319
Electric Welding, Process of, 213
Electric Welding, Mr. T. Scott-Anderson, 186
Electricity on Board Ships, On the Uso of, 627
Electricity on Board Ship, Use of, Herr F. Eickenradt, 650
Electricity in Connection with Mining Engineer¬ing, Economy of, 161
Electricity to Motive Power Purposes, Mr. Thos. Meacock on the Application of, 416
Electricity, Some of the Latest Important Applications of, 581, 582, 583
Electricity Station at the Earl’s Court Exhibi¬tion (Supplement, May 22nd, 1896), 513
Electricity Supply, Cost of, 633
Electricity Supply at 220 Volts, Mr. A. S. Bar¬nard on, 611
Electricity, Underground Haulage by, 393
Electricity by Vapour, The Dissipation of, 591
Electro-chemical Company’s Works at St. Helens, 370
Electrolysis, New Apparatus for, 663
Electro-pneumatic Automatic Block Signalling, 9
Elements of Force in Warships, Admiral Colamb, 297
Elgar, Prof., on the Classification and Relative Power of Warships, 608
Ellipsoidal Envelope, On the Equilibrium of an,
Ellis, Hon. Evelyn, his Tour in his Daimler Motor Carriage, 590
Ellis, Mr. W. T., on the Mean Amount of Cloud each day of the Year at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1841—90, 416
Ellison, Judge, his Decision in the Wages Dis¬pute of 1879 between Yorkshire Coalowners and Colliers, 376
Elston’s Carriage with Kane-Pennington Engine, 3
Ely, Great Eastern Railway Bridge over the Ouse at, 77, 78
Emery and Corundum ? 619
Emery into Corundum, Electric Process of Con¬verting, 563
Empire, Defence of tbe, 593
Eogine and Air Compressor, 200-I.H.P. Gas, 273
Eagine, Another Economical, 280
Engines, Auxiliary in Screw Steamers, 483
Engines, Blowing, Lilleshall Co., 139
Engine, Boiler, and Employers Liability Insurance Company, 226
Engine and Boiler, Multitubular Horizontal Con¬densing, Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, 317
Engine and Boiler, Sami-portable Compound, 342
Engines and Boilers of the s.s. “Aberdeen,” 311, 312
Engine and Boiler for Superheated Steam, Schmidt’s, 105,107, 109
Eagines, Centrifugal Series Pomp and, 390
Engine with Collman Valve Gear, Compound Horizontal, 156, 158
Engines, Compound Cornish Pumping, 84 , 85, 88
Engine Driver, Singular Accident to William Stevens, 161
Engines of the Dutch Tugboat “Ocean,"Triple Ex¬pansion, 238, 239
Engine and Dynamo, Compound, Messrs. J. R. Hall and Co., 250
Engines, Easton and Bessemer’s High-speed, 572
Engines, E'ectric Light, 11 Engine Fire-boxes, Locomotive, 469
Engines, Gas, 68, 110, 280, 349. 538, 590, 613,638
Engines, Gas, Mr. Dugald Clerk on, 110
Engines, Gas, as Economical Motors, 590
Engines, Gas, in Electric Light Stations, 613
Engines, Gas, and Hot Air Motors, Prof. T. H. Beare on, 68
Engines, Horizontal Compound, Messrs. Daniel Adamson and Co., Islington Electric Light Station, 534, 544 1^,1 •• ,
Engine, A Hugon Gas, 280
Engines, Hydraulic Rotative, 476
Engines, Indicator Gear for High-speed, 473
Engines, Johannesburg, 10,12
Engines, Lead and Lip of Winding and other, 215
Engine, The Link Movement, 272, 301
Engines, Locomotive— tee Locomotive, 417
Engine, Oil, Clarke's Crank and Forge Company, 638
Engine, Oil, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth, 638
Engines, Oil, Mr. J. H. II imilton on, 147
Engines, Oil and Gas, Exhibited at tbe Bath and West of England Agricultural Show, 538
Engine Power in Paddle Steamers, 301, 327, 377, 397
Engine Power and Self-propelled Traffic, 610, 617
Engine Power and Self-propelled Traffic, Sir David Salomons, 610
Engines, Pumping, Colchester Waterworks, 27,33
Engines, Reversing Rolling Mill, Parkhead Forge, 154
Engines, Rolling Mill, Dowlais Works, Cardiff (Supplement, April 10M, 1896), 375
Engine-roam Staff of the Mercantile Marine, Suicides in the, 477
Engine, The Simplex Wind, 133
Engines, Small Gas and Gasoline, 158
Engines, Steam, Oil, and Gas, Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 638
Engine for Superheated Steam, Schmidt's Compound Horizontal, 214, 221
Engine Tests, 145
Engine, Test of a Steam, 56
Engine, Tests of a 10-Horse Power de Lava), 477
Engines, Thermal Efficiency of, 354, 503
Engines, Traction, 341, 492, 498, 539, 567
Engines, Traction and Portable, Exhibited at the Bath and West of England Agricultural Show, 538
Engines, Traction, on Raads, 341, 423, 444, 473, 492
Engines, Traction, on Raads, Mr. Mulvaney's Evidence, 512
Engine, Triple-expansion, Mr. Wigzell, 139
Engines, 300 Indicated Horse-power Triple Ex¬pansion Mill, 559, 560, 561
Engines, Triple-expansion Paddlo, s.s. "Kóningin Wilhelmina,” 268
Engines,Triple-expansion Paddle,The “Southend Belle," Messrs. Denny and Sans, 592, 597
Engine, Trusty Gas, 145, 165
Engine Wheels, Traction, 123
Engineers or Artificers I 495
Engineers, English and Foreign Markets, 63
Engineers, Glut of Electrical, 221
“ Engineer " Horseless Carriage Competition,
385, 469, 521, 545, 566, 569
Engineers, Naval, 35, 66, 120, 267, 399, 425
Engineers, Naval, Mr. Gosohen and tbe, 243
Engineer in Naval Warfare, The, 5, 42, 66, 69
“Engineer” Raad Carriage Competition, The Beard of Trade’s Certificate, 469
Engineers for the Royal Navy, 35, 66, 120, 267, 399, 425
Engineers of the Royal Navy Reserve, 399
Engineers in the United States Navy, 231, 240
Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Electrica1, and Sanitary, in 1895, 13, 14, 18, 19
Engineering Contractors, Landon Amateur, 210
Engineering Dispute, Tne Clyde, 38
Engineering Education, Quackery in, 593
Engineering Ixaok-out, The Marine, 497
Engineering Material, A Corner in, 375
Engineering, Physical Experiment in Relation to, Dr. A. B. W. Kennedy, 500
Engineering as a Profession, Elements of Success in, 270
Engineering Trade, Wages in the, 335, 457, 557
Engineering Work Completed in Venice, A Great, 419
England Leads in this only, Gas Eogines, 158
“ English Coins,” Mr. G. F. Hill, 446
English Engineers and Foreign Markets, 63
Enormous Plate, An, 506
Envelope of an Incandescent Lamp, Materials employed in Making, 248
Equilibrium of an Ellipsoidal Envelops, On the, 187
Equipment and Working of Rolling Mills, Mr. S. T. Wellmann, 504
Erie Canal, The, 111, 155
Erie, New York State Canal Improvements, Surveys for, 111
Errata in Sir D. Salomon's Article, 610, 647
Erratum, Misspelling of Mr. Thomas Gallon’s Name, 63, 95
Eureka Safety Lift, The, 121, 122
Evaporators, 518
Ewing, Professor J. A., Apparatus for Measuring the Magnetic Permeability of Iron and Steel, 474
Ewing, Professor J. A., On the Magnetic Testing of Iron and Steel, 551
Ewing, Mr. J. A., On Measurements of Small Strains in the Testing of Materials and Struc¬tures, 94
Exeter Sewage, The Septic Tank System, 489

Exhibitions:

Exhibition, The Berlin, Cheap Fare3 to, 452
Exhibition, Budapest, 1896, Hungarian National, 195
Exhibition, The Cardiff—see Cardiff Exhibition
Exhibition, The Cycle, 54
Exhibition, The Empire of India and Ceylon, 293, 513
Exhibition, Guatemala, 1897, Central American, 430
Exhibition, Horse and Horseless Carriage, Crystal Palace, 221, 262, 376, 449, 451, 461, 607
Exhibition, Horseless Carriages, Imperial Institute, 443, 463
Exhibition, Milling, Next Year, 376
Exhibition, The New York Bicycle, 188
Exhibition, Tbe Nuromburg, 636, 637
Exhibition, New York, Electrical, 221, 581
Exhibition, Sheffield Art Crafts Guilds, 591
Exhibits at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show, Leicester, 638, 610, 611
Expansion Gear, Cameron’s, 560
Explosion on Board the “Terrible,” Cause of the, 519
Explosions, Boiler— see Boiler Explosions, 543
Explosions, Colliery, their Mystery, 244
Explosion of a Converter, 543
Explosion on French Battleship, 519, 5S4
Explosion on a French Ironclad, Cause of, 519
Explosions, Gasoline, 234
Explosion on the Irish Mail Train, 30
Explosion, The Tylorstown, 124
Explosion Waves, True. Propagated through Chbnne Peroxide, 353
Explosive), Coal Dust and, 181
Explosives for Mines, Safety, 253
Explosive Mixtures of Combustible Gases with Air, Professor Clowes on, 590
Ettrusion, On Produciog Metal Sections by, 462. 461

F

FAILSWORTH Sewage Purification Works, The, 386
Failure of the Bonzey Dam, 50
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company,
Three Swift Steel Paddle Steamers for the Zsel&nd Steamship Company, 256, 257, 268
Fallow Ground, M. P. P. Djhcrain on, 416
Fane, Hoar-Admiral C. G., his Semaphore Adop¬ted by the Admiralty, 591
Faraday's Papsrs on the Liquefaction of Gases, 643
Fares, Brooklyn Electric Street Car, 463
Fariot, M. Eueeue, Death of the Aëronaut, his Boqnest, 376
Fast Run oa an American Railway, Ditails of the, 313, 322
Fast R inning on French Railways, 213
Fast Service of the East Coast Passenger Traffic, 591
Fast Time in France, 301
Fa9t Train Service between New York and Buffa’o, 591
Fast Yacht, A, 499
Fastest Boat in the World. The, 297
Fay-Richardson Valve, United States Locomo¬tives, 622, 623
Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, Toe General Meeting of, 187
Feed and Circulating Water, Measuring, by Chemical Means, 365, 379
Feed Pipes, Long Internal, The Admiralty's Decision Respecting, 228
Feed-water Heaters, Berryman, 131
Feed-water, On a Method of Estimating, 335
Feed-water Siftener, Automatic, 162
Fibre, Rhea, 596, 616
Fielding and Platt, Large Tandem Gas Engine and Air Compressor, 273
Fielding and Platt, Messrs., Ten-ton Hydraulic Crane, 342
Fire-boxes, Locomotive, 396, 422, 469, 493, 518
Fires and the Brigade, London, 116
Fire Engine, A “Dog-cart” Steam, 150
Fire Engine, New Floating Steam, 336
Fire Engine, Quadricycle, 111
Fire Telegraph Alarms, Police and, 582
Firing at Captive Balloons, 620
First Steam Hammer, 354
Fisher, Mr., Tests Applied to Standard Clerk Cells, 353
Flamant, M., on the Calendar, 111
Flameless Explosives Committee's Report, The, 187
Flames, On the Temparature of Certain, 463
Fleming and Ferguson, Messrs., Eugines and Boilers of the “ Aberdeen,” 311, 312
Fleming and Ferguson, Messrs., Launch of the "Sir Evelyn Wood,” 330
Fletcher, Mr. Charles H., Coal-handliog Plant) for Steam Generation, 365
Fletcher, Mr. S. L., “The Planets: Are they Worlds like Ours ? ” 345
Fletcher, Mr., on Telescopes, 567
Fletcher, Mr. W., Steam Locomotives on Common Roads, 51, 84, 104
Flexible Metallic Tube, Trial at Liverpool of a New, 187
Flight and Flying Machines Dr. G. H. Bryan on, 248
Floating Steam Fire Engine, A New, 336
Flood-Page, Mr., on Electrically – propelled Vessels, 421, 422
Floods Prevention Bill, Lord Thring on the, 625
Flood Prevention Works Wanted in Canada, 419
Floods, Thames, 321
Flooring, Barker's Bridge, 82 Flooring, Bridge, 145
Flour Mill at Fort Saskatchewan, New, 543
Flour Mills in New South Wales, 393, 519
Flour Mills in New South Wales, Labour Em¬ployed by, 519
Flow of Water in the Aqueduct Connecting Lock Katrine with Glasgow, Mr. A. F. Bruce on the, 55
Fiutometer, The, 599
Flying Scotsman Service, New Trains for the. 551
Fly-wheel Casualties in the United States, 563
Foden and Sons’ Traotion Engine, 639, 644
Folkeston and Boulogne, New Express Service rid, 419
Food, Experiments to Determine the Nutritive and Caloric Value of, 419
Forbes, Prof. G., on Celluloid as an Insulator. 446
Ford and Moncar Hot Blast Stove, Mr. B. J. Hall on the, 462
Foreign Competition in the Iron Trade, 89, 390
Foreign Markets, English Engineers and, 63
Foreign Navies, 226
Forge, Parkhead, 130,140, 153, 155
Forging Press, Hydraulic, 316
Forket Railway, Progress of the, 643
Formal® for Calculating the Perforation of Armour, 429
Forth and Clyde Canal, 247 “ Foudroyant,” Toe, 651
“Foudroyant,” The, to be Exhibited in the Thames, 393
Fowler and Co., Messrs., Spring Mounted Traction Engine, 85
Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Limited, Messrs., Issue of Four per Cent. First Mortgage Debentures,
Fowler and Co , Messrs. J., Compound Locomo¬tive with Crane, 572
France in 1894, Coal Production of, 387
France, Fast Time in, 301
France, Horseless Carriages in, 643
France, Inland Navigation in, 541
France, Prize Competition io, 4S9
Free Labour on the Clyde, 8
Free Trade and No Trade, 66
Freight Cars in Germany, Heating, 353
Freight on Street Car Tracks, Transportation of, Prohibited in Newark, N.J., 111
French Battleships, 139
French Tramways, Coal used on, 463
Friction, Reducing Journal Box, 356
Friction, Slide Valve, 301
Fridlander, Mr. E. D.. On the Amount of Dust in tbe Atmosphere, 416
Fried rich shall, Accident in the Rock Salt Mine at, 446
Frith, Mr. J., Exhibit at tho Royal Society's Con¬versazione, 581
Fuel, Coal Dust, 106
“ Fuji,” Model of the Battleship, 446
Fuller, Horsey, Sons, and Cassell, Sale of Cone Paper Mill Plant by, 319
Furnaces Owned by tbe Cockerill Co., Blast, 416
Furnace, Megtss aud Rsfu-e, 41

G

GAINSBOROUGH, Tubo Wells at, 452
Gainsborough Waterworks, 428, 452
Gallow, Mr. Thomas, 63
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Co.’s Police. and Fire Alarms, 582
Ganz and Co.’s System, Tramways Wo ksd on the, 293
Garland, Mr. Joseph, his Appointment, 202
Garrett, Mr. Hubert A., bis Appointment to the Northern Polytechnic Institute, 625
Gas, Acetylene, 613
Gas and Air, Professor Frank Clowes on Explosive Mixtures of, 590
Gas Apparatus on Hire, On Letting, 590
Gas, Compressed, for Lighting Railway Cars and Buoys, 563
Gas Cylinder Committee's Exhibits at the Royal Society'8 Conversazione, 474
Gas Cylinders, Safety of Compressed. 337
Gas from Electric Culverts, Testing, Prof. Clowes' Method of, 474
Gas Engine and Air Compressor, 200 Indicated Horse-power, 273
Gas Engine Cylinder, Effects of the Products of Combustion iu a, 215
Gas Engines as Economical Motors, 590
Gas Engines in Electric Light Stations, 613
Gas Engine, A Hugon. 280
Gas Engines, Recent Developments in, 110
Gas Engine, The Trusty, 145, 165
Gas Engines, Mr. Wm. Norris on, 319
Gas Engines—see Engines, Gas
Gas Engine Exhausts, Deodorising, 187
Gas Engines and Hot Air Motors, Prof. T. H Beare on, 68
Gas Eogines, Ignition Tubes for, 419
Gas and Gasoline Engines, “England Leads in this Only,” 158
Gas Industry, Growth of, Reviewed, 590
Gas Lighting, Incandescent, 317, 426
Gas in Melbourne, Price of, 263
Gas Meters, On Coin, 590
Gas Regions of Ohio and Indiana, Building of Industrial Towns in the, 353
Gas, Sheffield Gas Company's Reduction in the Price of, 161
Gas Supply in 1895, 20
Gos Traction System for the Nechells Tramways, 139
Gas Undertakings, Mr. E. H. Stevenson on the Principles Governing the Transfer of, 599
Gas, The Use of Heating, 142
Gase3 a» Illuminants, Mr. Sodesn on, 297
Gases, L'qnetac’ion of, 310 372. 393, 396, 422. 451, 457, 493, 518, 566, 613
Gues, Liquefaction of, Faraday's Papers on, 613
Gases, Oa the Specific Heats of, 139, 446
Gases, Theory of, Mr. J. Bertrand, 519
Gasholder Construction, Mr. E. L. Pease on, 590
Gasoline Explosions, 234
Gaster, Mr. Fred., On Weathor Forecasts and Storm Warnings, 293
Gauges Adopted in New Seuth Wales and Australia, 419, 446
Geometry in Connection with the S ability of Ships, 335
Gorman Empire, Output of Pig Iron during March in, 416
German Government and Eaglish Steel for Ship- build iog, 470
German Hygienic Association, Prizo Offe-ed by, for a Research Essay on the Efficiency of Electric Heaters, 543
German Manufacture of Wire Nails, 293
German Men-of-War, Development in Design and Construction of, 586, 608
Germany, Cement Works in, 161
Germany, Mileage of New Railways in. 353
German Railway Union, their Ru e Forbidding Use of Brakes with Cast Iron Wheels, 513
German Steel Works, Balance Sheet of a, 143
Germany, Shipbuilding in, 598, 607
Germany, Total Oatturn of Pig Iron in, 161
Gibbings, Mr. A. H , Oa Extensions to Outlying Districts, 633
Glasgow Hydrau ic Power Supply, 245
Glasgow Locomotive Trade, 480
Glasgow, Proposed New Bridge, 233
Glass, Crookes', Tubes, Experiments with, 591
Glass, On the Introduction of Aluminium into, 625
Glass, Rod Pot, 187
Glass, Ribbed Window, 652
Glass Trado, Machinery in the, 270
Glass Water Gauge Protector, 34
Glennies Creek, New South Wales Timber Bridge over, 520. 524, 525, 526, 527
Gloucester Waterworks, 486
Goelet, Mr. Robert Steam Yacht Ordered by, at Clydebank, 563
Gobna Landslip and Flood, The, 413
Gold Coined at the Sydney Mint, 393
Gold's Electric Heater, 582
Gold Extraction Process,The Hyatt-Henochsbnrg, 496
Gold Mining, Tbe Dry Process as Applied to, 146
Goldfields of Matabcloland, Mr. Shaw on the, 186
Goschen, Mr., and the Naval Engineers, 243
Gossage’s Hose Reel, 502
Gouffre Mountain, Movement of the, 454
Government Ownership of Atlantic Coast Canals Advocated, 213
Graham and Co., Messrs. W. and A., Gigantic Petroleum Iron Tanks for Bombay, 376
Grangemouth Docks, Collision of tho Steamer “Bulls," 213
Graphite Sight-feed Lubricator, Automatic, 272
Grates, Locomotive, 168
Gray, Professor E'isha, Telautograph, 565
Great Eastern Railway Works, 90
Great Eistern Railway Co., Whitsun Monday Traffic, 563
Great Northern Railway, Jubilee of the, 652
Great Northern Railway Co.'s New D.niug Cars, 376
Great Northern Railway, 8ft. Single-driver, Engines with Domes, Engines with Larger Fire-boxes. 563
Great Northern Railway, Their Pall-out Regula¬tor to be Rstained, 563
Great Southern and Western Railway, Compound Express Locomotive, 417, 421
Great Western Railway, Dining Cars on tbe, 563
Great Western Railway, Major Marindin's Report on the Accident on the Cornwall Section of the, 161
Great Western Railway, Mr. Standen on the, 610
Great Western and Taff Vale Railways, Rumoured
Coalition of, 218
Great Western Railway, Testimonial to Benjamin Jean», 543
Gréhan», M. N , on the Combustion of Acetylene, 446
Green’s Economiser, Brooklyn City Electric Rail¬way, 583
Greenheart Timber, 263
Greenwich Rainfall Records from 1879—90, Major H. E. Rawson cn the, 416
Grenville. Mr. Neville, Steam Carriage, 1875. 421
Gr.hges, Mr. H. de, On Electric Traction on Railways, 293
Grierson, Mr. F., On Supply of Sea Water for London, 87
Grover, Mr. F., Effects of the Products of Com¬bustion in a Gas Engine Cylinder, 215
Growth of Steamships, 426
Gutta Percha as an Insulating Material, Substi¬tutes for, 563
Guard, Railway, Testimonial to Benjamin Jeans, 543
Guatemala, Central American Exhibition, 1897, 430
Guatemala Central Road, Sale of the. 543
Gulf of Alexandretta, Turkish Naval Station to be Established in. 643
Gulik, Mr. D Van, On Variation of Resistance in Microphonic Contacts brought about by Electric Vibrations, 393
Gun Barrels. Hand made Damascus, in Liège Province, 393
Guns. Buckland's, Tables for Maxim, 118, 119
Gun Carriage, The Buffington Crozier, 41
Guns of H.M S. “ Anson,” Defects in, 20
Gun Sights, Naval, 300
Gun Sights, Quick-fire Naval, 231
Gunter, Mr. John, 161
Gwvnne, Messrs J. anl H , their Suction Dredgers at Work, 293

H

HACK FORD, Mr. George, 315
Haden Hill Colliery, Electric Power Plant a», 161
Hall, Mr. B. J., on the Ford and Moncur Hot Blast Stove, 462
Hall and Co., Messrs. J. P , Compound Engine and Dynamo, 250
Hall and Martin, Messrs., their Visit to the Schalke Mines and Roport on Safety Explo¬sives, 263
Hamburg, Maritime Position and Principal Features of the Port of, 601
Hamburg, Messrs. Blobm and Voss's Works, 648, 1 649
Hamburg, Mr. F. A. Meyer on the Maritime Position of, 607
Hamilton, Mr. J. H., on Oil Engines, 147
Hammer, First Steam, 354
Harapson Liquid Oxygen Procoss, 326
Hampson System of L'quefying Gases, The, 310, 393
Hand Saws, Temper of, 120
Handling Goods at Riverside Premises, Mechini- cal, 301
Haniel and Lueg, Messrs., Tbe Heinrichsburg Floating Canal Lift, 388, 389
Uanssen, Mr. A., Commercial Efficiency of Steam Boilers, 386
Harbours and Waterways:
Ardrossan, 247
Birmingham Canal Navigations, 438
Bristol, 246
Burntisland, 247
Forth and Clyde Canal, 217
Harwich, 131
Hastings, 131
Hoogbly, The, 247
lp3wicb, 438
Kurrachee, The, 247
Leith, 246
London Dooks, Toe, 246
Manchester Ship Canal, 247
Peterhead, 438 Removal of Wreck, 131
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, 438
Tees, The, 247
Thames, The, 437
Tyne, The, 247
Welsh Ports, 131
Whitehills, 131
Yarmouth, 438

Harbours and Waterways in 1895, 17
Harbour Extensions, Dundee and Harbour, 194
Harbours of India, The, 168
Harbour Works at Algiers, 213
Harbour Works, Mexico, Tno Tampico, 365
Hardening of Armour plates, 241
Hardman, Mr., Hand-power Circular Sawin-,
BoriDg, Drilling, and Spoke-tanging Machine, 641, 642
Hardy, Mr. John, The Vienna Papers on his Death, 643
Harland, Sir Elward, Portrait, 8
Harland and Wolff, Messrs., Lengthening the Mail Steamer " Scot,” 212, 291, 292, 294
Harries, Mr. H., On Arc'ic Hail and Thunder¬storms, 624
Harrison Fond Appeal, The W. H., 327
Hirrison’s Patent Steel Railway Chair, 498
Hartlepool, Tbe North-Extern Railway Com¬pany's New Dock at, 319
Hartley, Prof., his Exhibit at the Royal Society's Conversazione, 474
Hartley Rotarv Engine and Steam Carriage, 3, 4
Hartley, Mr. W. N., On tbe Temperature of Cer¬tain Flames, 463
Harwich Harbour, 131
Harwich Harbour, The Deepening of, 65
Hastiugs, Harbour for, 131
Hntcbet Planimeter, Mr. Scott's, 139
Ha’.horn, Davey, and Co., Compound Cornish Pumping Engines, 84, 85. 88
Hailsge by Electricity, Underground, 393
Haulbowline Dockyard, 523
Havre, Steam and Rope Tramway at, 30
Haynes' Motor Carnage, 2
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, American and English Methods of Manufacturing Steel Plates, 504
Head, Mr. Jeremiah, and his Son have left lor the United States, 643
Heating, Hot-water, Mr. W. M. Binney on, 139
Heat, Transfer of, through Plates with Differently Arranged Surfaces, 87
Heat Transmission through Metal Plates from
Heated Gas to Water, Mr. A. Bleehynden, 509
Heat Conducting Power of Iron and Steel, 489
Heaters, Barry man Feed-water, 131
Heating Effects of Coal, Determination of the, 543
Heating Freight Cars in Germany, Arrangements for, 353
H<a 8 of Gases, The Speci6c, 139
Heine Boiler, A 500-Horse Power, 582
Heinricbsburg Floating Canal Lift, The, 388, 389
Hsrzill, Mr. C. G., On the Rede Pipa Line of the Newcastle and Giteshead Water Company, 93
Hepworth, Mr. C. M., The Riss-Hepworth Pro¬jection Lamp, 293
Herkomer, Prof., his Process for Reproducing Autograph Sketches by Copper Pate Printing, 161
H.M. Cruiser “Blake," Fatal Accident on Board, 643
H. M. Docks at Portsmouth, Visit of the Bristol Association of Engineers to, 474
H.M. Inspectors of Mines’ Visit to Schalke, in Westphalia, and their Report, 263
H.M.S. ’• Andromeda,” Construction of, 165
H.M.S. “Doris,” 237
H.M.S. “Majestic,” Programme of the Series of Trials. 380
H.M.S. -‘Mars,” 337
H.M.S. “Victorious,” Anchor Gear for, 232
“ Hercule?,” Spring Steel Tine Cultivator, 642
Hermite and Basantpn, MM., On the Ascent of the Balloon “ Aërophile,” 463
Hermite Electrical Sanitation Process at the Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, 319
Hertel Motor Carriage, 3
Hertfordshire, Water in, 159
Hesketb, Mr. J , On Combined Electric Lighting and Traotion Plants, 633
Hessarghatta Works, Completion cf the Great Tank cf, 319
High and Low Tension Currents, The Board of Trade and, 419
Highland Railway Schemes, Session 1896, 486, 500
Highway Authoritiesin Rural Districts in England, Expenditure of, 161
Hill, Mr. G F.. On English Coins, 446
Hill, Mr. G. IL, The Thirlmere Works for tho Water Sapply of Manchester, 423
Hiller, Mr. Edw. G., British Types of Land Boilers, 199
Historic Eigines, 643
Hodges’ Compound Blower, 431
Holland aud Siise, Messrs., their Investigation of Reck Structures in Bengal, 293
Holliday, Mr. J., Gas Engines as Economical Motors, 590
Hollman, Admiral, his Inaugural Speech, 608
Holmfirth Sewage Works, Loan for, 139
Holt. Mr. A., his Scheme for Road Locomotives, 187
Holt’s Steam Carriage, 132, 264
Hollzsr-Canot Electric Carriage, 4
Homacoustic Apparatus and the Service Voice- pipe, Trials of the, 263
“Honolulu,” The Four-masted Sohooner, 428
“ Hooghly," The, 247
Horn Comb Making Machinery ? 193
Horss Haulage e. Motor Friction, Mr. Mowat, 512
Horse Hauling, The Mechanics of, 234
Horse power, Electrical and Water, Comparative Cost of, 563
Horseless Carriages and Notes thereon, 146, 164, 186, 221, 225, 244, 262, 264, 265, 267, 274, 275, 319, 323, 350, 354, 376, 385, 393, 397, 421, 422,
425, 443, 451, 463, 467, 469, 471, 472, 497, 502,
512, 517, 545, 549, 566, 571, 590, 596, 607, 60S, 616, 648
Horseless Carriages, Mr. John Brown on, 421
Horseless Carriage Bill, The, 323
Horseless Carriage Competition, The Engineer 100 guinea, 385, 469, 521, 545, 566, 569
Horseless Carriages and the Bombay Corporation, £93
Horseless Carriages in France, 648
Horseless Carriages, Military, 244, 267
Horseless Carriiges at Pressnt on the Market all more or less Unsatisfactory, 607 Horseless Carriages, Mr. Mowat on, 502
Horseless Carriages for Paris, The Chief of the Police’s Report to the Prefect of the Seine, 319
Horseless Carriage Trials, American, 274, 275
Horse and Horseless Carriages, Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 262
Horseless Vehicles, Prizes offered for, by the Royal Agricultural Show, 376
Hoss Reel, Gossage's, 502
Hot Blast Stove, Ford and Moncur, 462
Hot Water Heating, Mr. W. M. Binney on, 139
House of Commons Committee, Traction Engines on Roads, 473, 512
Howard, Messrs. J. and F., Self-filling Perpetual Baling Press, 573
Howard, Mr. Thomas, 122
Howard and Taile’s Railway Carriage Warming Apparatus, 329
Howrah Waterworks, Opening Ceremony of the, 263
Howrah Water Sapply, 354 Howrah, Bursting of a Main at, 543
Huddersfield Gasworks, Result of an Explosion at, 393
Hudson's Rear-actiDg Cycle Brake, 407
Hudson Tunnel Railway, Meeting of Bondholders of the, 625
Hughes, Professor, Paper Reid at the Cambridge
Philosophical Society, 463
Hugon Gas Engine, A, 280
Hukong Valley, Proposed Line by the, 293
Hull, Collapse of Old Dock Gates at, 519
Hull, Professor, On tho Geology of the Nile 1 Valley, 353
Hulse and Co., Messrs., Vertical and Horizontal Milling Machines, 568, 573
Humber Bicycles, The, 51
Humphreys, Mr. W. J., Examines the Solution and Diffusion of Metals in Mercury, 543
Humphrys, Mr. N. H.,On Letting Gas Apparatus on Hire, 590
100-guinea Road Carriage Competition, The, Conditions of Competition, Board of Trade’s Certificate, 385, 469, 521, 545, 566, 569
Hunt, Mr. Alfred E , Manufacture of Aluminium by Electrolysis, 165
Hunt and Mitton, Messrs., Marks and Morley’s Surface Scum Cock and Valve, 355
Hunter, Mr. W. J., Oa Dredgers, 476
Hyatt-Henochsburg Gold Extraction Process, The, 496
Hydraulic Crane, Ten-loD, 312
Hydraulic Forgiog Prew, 316
Hydraulic Sewage Pump, Bailey’s, 181
Hydraulic Rotative Engines, Mr. Arthur Riggon, 476
Hydraulics, The Manchester Ship Canal and Canal and River, 484
Hydrogen, Liquefying, 393
Hygiene, Prize for Industrial, 617

I

ICE Ages, On Recurring, Professor Hughes, 463
“If the Collier keeps the Peace,” 374
Igneous Rocks, Motamorphism and Re-crystallisat'on of, 293
IgDition Tubes for Gas Engines, M. Wallington’s Experiments with, 419
Imperial Institute: Exhibition of Horseless Carriages. 443, 463, 472
Arnold's Motor Carriage, with Benz Motor (Illustrated), 472, 473
Bol'éo Tricycle, The, 473
Daimler, Motor Company's Carriage, 472
Daimler Motor Company's Narrow-gauge Se'.f-
propelled Tramcar, 596 Dion and Bouton Motor Tricycle, 473
DuDcan and Superbie Motor Bicycle (IIIni¬trated), 472
Lutzmann Carriage, Tho, 472
Motor Sociable, 472 Motor Victoria, 472
Panhard and Levassor Motor Carriage, Daim¬ler Motor, 472
Implements at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 638
Incandescent Gas Light Company, Limited, v. the De Mare Incandescent Gas Light System, Limited, and others, 314
Incandescent Gas L:ght Cass, The, 426
Incandescent Gas Lighting, 347, 426
Incandescent Lamp, Materials employed in making
the Eovelope of an, 218
Incandescent Lamp, New, 571
Incandescent Public Lighting, Mr. F. G. Dexter on, 610
Increased Yield of the Blast Furnace, 374
Index Map of the Geological Survey, 65
India and Ceylon Exhibition, Electricity Station at the (Supplement, May 22nd, 1896), 513
India, Harbours of, 168
India, Impetus given to Native Trade in, 419
Indian Railways, 58, 59, 87, 139. 187, 218, 263, 293, 298, 299, 319, 353, 439, 625
Indian Railway Administration, Report for 1895, 625
Indian Railways, Abmedabad, 319, 353
Indian Railways. Locomotives for tbe Eastern
Bengal State Riilways, 298, 299
Indian Railways, Metre Gauge Rolling Stock on, Proposed Adoption of in Egypt, 353
Indian Railways, New Line Projected, 489
Indian Railways, Net loss to tbe State on, 187
Indian Railways Opened for Traffic, 489
Indian Railways. Proposed Connecting Line be¬tween two, 353
Indicator Gaar for High-speed Engines, 473
“ Inflexible," Refit of the, 213
Inglis, Mr. John, Rates of Speed and Rates of Freight, 210
Inland Navigation aDd Foreign Going Steamers, 39

Institute of British Carriage Manufacturers :

Address by Mr. Geo. J. Jacobs, 613

Institute, The City and Guilds of London:

Award of tho Salters’ Company’s Research Fellowship, 218
Conversazione, Progamme, 599
Perry, Prof. JohD, Appointment of a Successort>, 489

Institute of Electrical Engineers, The American:

Local Annealing of Hard-faced Armour Plates, Mr. H. N. Lemp, jun , 355

Institute, The Imperial — t<e Imperial Institute:

Institute, The Incorporated Gas:

Thirty-third Annual General Meeting, P.o- gramme, 571, 590
Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. W. R. Chester, 590
Election of Officers for the Ensuiog Year, 610
Explosive Mixtures of Combustible Gases with Air, Professor F. Clowes, 590
Gas Engine) as Economical Motors, Mr. J. Holliday, 590
Gasholder Construction, New Details in, Mr. E. Lloyd Pease, 590
Lettiog Gas Apparatus on Hire, Mr. Norton II. Ilumphrys, 590
New Details in Gasholder Construction, Mr. E. L. l’oase, 590
Photometers and Standards of Light, Mr. W. Sugg, 610
Popularisation of Gas, Mr. A. Dougall, 590
Principles Governing the Transfer of Gas
Undertakings, Mr. E. II. Stovonson, 590
Season's Experience with Incandescent Public Lighting, A, Mr. F. G. Dexter, 610
Standard Photometer, Mr. W. J. Dibdin on a, 610

Institute, The Iron and Steel:

Autumn Meeting, Programme, 221
Programme of Arrangements for the Annual Meeting, May 7-8, 892
Bessemer Medal Awarded to Dr. H. Wedding, , 462
Carbon, Experiments on the Rate of the Diffu¬sion of, Mr. Roberts-Austen, 487
Darby, Mr. J. H., on the Application of Mond Producer Gas to the Manufacture of Steel, ] 488
Dick's Method of Producing Metal Sections by Extrusion, Mr. Nureey, 462, 464
Ford and Moncur Hot-blast Stove, Mr. B. J. Hall, 462
Origin of Middle Lias Ironstone in South ' , Oxfordshire, Mr. E. A. Walford, 462
Introduction of Standard Methods of Analysis, Baron Jiiptner von Jonstorff, 487
Treatment of New Zealand Magnetic Irons and, Mr. E. Metcalf Smith, 462

Institute of Iron and Steel Works’

Managers, The South Stafford¬shire:
Discussion of Report upon Foreign Competition in the Iron Trade, and Paper on the Subject by Mr. H. M. Punnott, 301, 390

Institute of Junior Engineers:

Illustrated Newspaper Production, Mr. James Rennie, 339
Roatgen Rays, Mr. H. L. Tyson Wolff, 339
Theatrograph, Mr. R. W. Pauli, 339

Institute, The Junior Franklin:

Influence of Character of Sand on Cement Mortar, Mr. A. S. Cooper, 519

Institute of Marine Engineers:

Sixth Annual Dinner of, 652
White Metals for Wearing Surfaces, Mr. R. Divisoa, 519

Institute of Mining Engineers, The American:

Mobility of Molecules of Cast Iron, Mr. A. E. Outerbridge, 430

Institute of Mining Engineers, The Midland:

MiniDg Explosives, Discussion on Prof. Lewes’ Paper on, 449
Roth Method of Firing Shots, Discussion on Mr. G. Blake Walker’s Paper od, 449

Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, North of England:

Report of the Flameless Explosives Committee. 187

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy:

Election of Mr. Joseph Garland as President, 202

Institute, The Sanitary:

Exhibition at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 500

Institution of Civil Engineers:

137, 191, 402
Annual General Meetiog, 600
Appointment of Mr. J. H. T. Tadsbery as Secretary, 656
Committee Appointed to Consider the Question of Defining a Standard of Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines, 503
Electric Street Riilway System of Montreal, Canada, Mr. G. C. Cuningham, 223
Letter to the Editor on, by A. J. Wallis-Tayler, 191
Littoral Drift: In Relation to River Outfalls and to Harbour Entrances, Mr. W. H. Wheeler, 249
Magnetic Data of Iron and Steel, Mr. H. F. Parshall, 552
Magnetic Testing of Iron and Steel, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 551
Recent Developments in Gas Engines, Mr. Dugald Clerk, 110
Rolling Mills, Equipment and Working of, Two Communications Concerning English and American Practice, Mr. J. Head and Mr. S. T. Wellman, 504
Sanitary Works of Buenos Ayres, The Hon. R. C. Parsons, 55
Tampico Harbour Works, Mexico, Dr. E. L. Corthell, 365
Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines, Capt. H. Riall Sankey, 354
Thirlmere Works for the Water Supply of Man¬chester, Mr. G. H. Hill, 423
Vyrnwy Works for the Water Supply of Liver¬pool, Mr. G. F. Deacon, 423

Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland:

Light or Secondary Railways, Mr. A. D. Price, 488

Institution of Civil Engineers, The Manchester Association of. Students:

Ninth Annual Dinner, 8

Institution of Civil Engineers, Newastle-on-Tyne Association of Students:

Election of Council, 476
Rede Pipe Line of the Newcastle and Gates¬
head Water Company, Mr. C. G. Henzell, 93
Road and Street Making in Towns, Mr. J. R. Biterien, 217

Institution of Civil Engineers, Yorkshire Association of Students:

Effects of the Products of Combustion rn a Gas Engine Cylinder, Mr. F. Grover, 245
Third Annual Meeting of, 377
Visit to the York City Sewage Works, 506

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Circular Issued by, 110
Utilisation of Water Power, especially with a Small Fall, with Examples of Plants for the Generation of Electrical Energy, Mr. Alph. Steiger, 548

Institution, Electrical Standardising and Training:

Objects and Work of, 55

Institution of Engineers, Chesterfield and Midland Counties:

List of Papers to be Read or Taken as Read, 341

Institution of Engineers, The Cleveland:

British Types of Land Boilers, Mr. Edw. G. Hiller, 199

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

Removal of the Marsh-lane Tonne), Leeds, r Mr. H. J. Rudgard, 202

Institution of Engineers and Ship¬builders, North-East Coast:

Visit to Cardiff and Newport and to the Barry I Dock, 651
Papers Road—Account Postponed until a Future Impression, 651

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland:

Premium Awards, 476
Rites of Speed and Rates of Freight, Mr. John I Inglis, 210

Institution, The Farnham Mechanics:

Motorcycles, Mr. J. H. Knight, 293

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Programme of the General Meeting, 478

Institutions of Junior Engineers:

Coal Handling Plants for Steam Generation, Mr. C. H. Fletcher, 365
Dredgers, Mr. W. J. Hunter, 476
Lectures on Marine Engineering Design, Course of, 39
Notes on Belgian Electrical Engineering Practice, Mr. A. Anstrutber-Thomson and Mr. i G. C. A. Allingham, 493
Stability of Tall Chimneys, Mr. F. J. Bancroft, 185
Urban Roads and Footways, Mr. J. Julian, 87
Visit to the National Skating Palace, 262

Institution of Mechanical Engineers: 143

Forty-ninth Annual General Meeting, Papers to be Read and Discussed, 86
Address of the President, Mr. E. W. Richards, , 458, 474
Calculation of Horse-power, Lieut.-Col. English, 1 143 ,
Commencement of Spring Meeting, Presidential Address, Mr. E. Windsor Richards, 458, 474 .
Dinner of the Institution, 459
Notes on Superheating, Mr. W. Patchell, 143, 196, 458
Steel Steam Pipes and Fittings, and Benardo's Arc Welding in Connection therewith, Mr. . Sam. MacCarthy, 458
Telemeters and Range Finders, Professors Barr and Stroud, 143

Institution of Mining Engineers, The Federated:

List of Papers Read at the General Meeting, Sheffield, 186, 215
Coal Washing Plant at the Wirral Colliery, Mr. Jas. Platt, 215
Eastern Limits of the Midland Coalfield, Pro¬fessor E. Hull, 187
General Meeting, Programme of Excursions, ‘ &c., 542
Lead and Lap of Winding and other Engine', Mr. H. Walters, 215
Vibromotor, Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, 187 Visits and Excursions, 215

Institution of Naval Architects:

Annual Summer Dinner, Berlin, Toasts and i Speeches, 648
Classification and Relative Power of Warships, Professor Elgar, 608
Dates of Annual Meetings, 155
Development in Design and Construction of •
German Men-of-war, Herr A. Dietrich, 586, 608
Docks and Docking Appliances, Recent Improvements in, Mr. Lyonel Clark, 608, 623, 653
Doors Applicable to Water-tight Bulkheads, Various Descriptions of, Mr. Martell, 650
Electricity on Board Ship, Use of, Herr F. Eickenradt, 650
Leading Article on the Meeting of, 373
Leading Article on the Reception in Germany, 646
Maritime Position and Principal Features of the Port of Hamburg, Herr Franz Andreas Meyer, 601, 607
Method of Estimating Feed-water, Mr. Strome- yer, 335, 365, 379
Microscopical Investigations into Steel, Mr. Seaton, 335, 365, 377
New Theory of the Pitching Motion of Ships on Waves, &c , Captain A. Kriloff, 336
Non-uniform Rolling of Ships, Mr. R. E. Froude, 336
Notes on the Carriage of Grain Cargoes, Mr. George Herbert Little, 336
Opening of the 37th Annual Session, Lord Hopetoun's Inaugural Address, 309
Programme for Session 1896, 297
Salvage Appliances, Mr. J. G. Kinghorn, 324, f 335
Shipbuilding in Germany, C. F. Laeisz, 598,
Some Geometry in connection with the Stability , of Ships, Mr. J. Brahn, 335
Summer Meetings of, at Hamburg, 438, 586, 607, 646, 648
Use of Electricity on Board Ship?, Herr F. Eickenhardt, 627
Visits to the Berlin Machine Works Company’s Works to Potsdam and Stettin, 649, 650
Visit to Messis. Blohtn and Voss’ Shipyard and Floating Docks, Hamburg to Steinwarder, 590, 648, 649 „
Visit to the Works of Messrs. Siemens and Halske
Water-tight Doers, Captain Lord Charles t Beresford on, 309, 314 ,
Water-tight Doors, Colonel N. Soliani, 324
Water-tube Boilers, Colonel Soliini, 335
Water-tube Boilers, Professor W. H. Watkin- I son, 335, 347, 351
Water-tube Boilers, Mr. J. Watt, 318, 335
Weakness in Tank Steamers, Herr Otto Schlick, 648, 649, 651
Last Meeting, 373

Institution, The Royal United Service:

Elements of Force in Warships, Admiral Colomb,
Institution at Woolwich, The Royal K Artillery:
Flight and Flying Machines, Dr. G. H. Bryan, 248
Insulating Materials to Replace Gutta Percha, 563
Insulating Underground Steam Pipes, 377
Iolegrator, A New, 83
Invention, Education and, 470
“ Invention,” The Indefinable Requirement of the Patent Law, 541
Inverness, The New Waterloo Bridge, 366, 392, 394
Ipswich, New Dredging Plant for the Port of, 438
Irish Mail Train, Explosion on the, 30
Irish Railway, Air. Hanbury on the Proposed Sale of an, 419
Irish Railway Working, 169:
Irish Trade, The Manchester Ship Canal and the, 310
Iron, Best Yorkshire, 296
Iron, Coal, and General Trade of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other Districts, 21, 44, 70, 98, 124, 148, 176, 202, 226, 250, 278, 302, 330, 356, 380, 408, 432, 452, 478, 504, 528, 552, 576, 602, 628, 654
Ironmoulding ? 593
Iron Oxide in the Rocks of Anthracite Coal Regions, on the Capricious Distribution of, 419
Iron, Pig, Output in Germany, 446
Iron Railway Bridges, The Life of, 157
Ironsand, On the Treatment of Magnetic, 462
Iron, Sandy Pig, 301
Iron Sheeting, Reservoir Dams with, 459
Iron and Steel, Apparatus for Measuring the Magnetic Permeability of, 474
Iron and Steel, Heat Conducting Power of, 489
Iron and Steel, Magnetic Properties of, Two Papers on the, 551
Iron and Steel Trades, The Delegates of the, 58
Ironstone in North Oxfordshire, Origin of Middle Lias, 462
Iron Trade, Facts concerning the Competition of the Continent and America in the, 463
Iron Trades, Foreign Competition in the, 89
Iron Trades, Wages in English and Continental, 35
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, New Paddle Steamer for the, 563
Islington, Electric Lighting of, 249
Islington Electric Light Station, 533, 538, 544
Italy, The Future Route to, 621
Italy, New Railway along West Coast of, 376
Italy, Steam Tramways in, 519
Ivatt, Mr. H. A., Compound Express Locomotive, Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, 417, 424
Ives, Mr. F. E., On the Stereo Photo-chromoscope, 213
Ives, Mr. F. E., Steroscopic Photo-chromoscope, 584

J

JACOBS, Mr. G. J., his Presidential Address on Carriage Building, 643
Jacobus, Mr. D. S., Tests to Show the Distribution d of Moisture in Steam when Flowing through a Horizontal Pipe, 123
Jaffa, Need of a Harbour at, 519
Jakobson’s Three-wheeled Tandem, 188
“James Forrest” Lecture, The, Dr. A. B. W. Kennedy, 500
Jandus Arc Lamp, The, 93, 301
Japan, Contract Price of Light Railways for Japan made by the Illinois Steel Works, 563
Japan, First Cotton Spinning Factory in, 625
Japan, Intended Erection of a Steel Foundry in, 463
Japan, New Dry Dock, 463
Japan Railways, Cost of Construction per Mile, 446
Japan, Railways in Operation in, 463
Japanese Nav*p, Model of the “Fuji” at the Museum of Royal United Service Institution, 446
Japanese Battleship “Fuji,” The, 221, 339
Japanese Battleship “ Yashima,” Launch of the, 237
Japanese Imperial Railway Department, Report of, 393
“Jaureguiberry,” The French Battleship?, 139
Jeans, Mr. Benjamin, Testimonial to, 543
Jeckell, Air. J. A., Cable Specifications and Tests, 633
“ Jenny Lind,” Locomotive, The, Mr. D. Joy, 25, 36, 246, 422, 527, 639
Jessop and Son, Messrs., Compound Horizontal Engine with Collman Valve Gear, 156, 158
Johannesburg Engines, 10, 12
Johnson and Phillips, Messrs., Combined Cabling and Serving Alacbine, 420
Johnson, Air. §., Express Passenger Locomotive, Alidland Railway (Supplement, January 31s/, 1896), 114
Jonage Canal, The, 541 | Jones, Mr. John, 393
Jonstorff, Baron Jüptner von, On the Introduction of Standard Methods of Analysis, 487
Joule Effect, The, 550
Journal Box Friction, Reducing, 356
Joy, Mr. David, Passenger Engine, Alidland Railway, 25, 36, 246, 422, 527, 539
Jubilee of the Great Northern Railway, 652
Julian, Air. J., On Urban Roads and Footways. 87
Jumeau, M., his Retirement, 389

K

KANE-PENNINGTON Gasoline Engine, 3, 4,
Kane-Pennington Alotor, The, 3, 4, 114
“ Katahdin,” The United States Ram, 329
Kathodic Radiation, Prof. Des Coudres on, 161
Kelvin, Lord, 620
Kendall and Gent, Messrs., Alachine Tools, 395. 398
Kendall and Gent, Alessrs., Milling Planing Machine, 395
Kennedy, Dr. A. B. W., Physical Experiment in Relation to Engineering, 5C0
Kennedy, Mr., On Co-operation by Rail and Road, 3/6
Kent Coalfields Syndicate, Contract Entered into by the, 419
Kerosene, How to Avoid the Dangers of, 563
Kerosine Oil at Crlcutta, Dearth of, 84
Khedive and the Officials of the Midland Railway Works, The, 248
Kiliick, Nixon, and Co., Indian Railway Conces¬sion to, 489
Kinghorn, Mr, J. G., Salvage Appliances, 324, 335
King’s College, Annual Dinner of the Old Students, 486
Kington and Eardisley Railway Company’s Bill not to ba Proceeded with, 319
Kissling, Mr. R , Amount of Paraffin in Burning Oil, 419
Kiese, G., Experiments with Accumulators for Lighting Railway Carriages, 116
Knaresborough, The Dropping Well, Water Analysed, 463
Knight, Mr. J. U., On Motorcycles, 293
Knight, Mr., Steam Carriage, 1868, 421
Koepeke, Prof., Method for Pulling up Trains, 647
Kremson, Prof., On the Duration of Sunshine over Europe, 187
Krupp’s Armour in 1894—1895, 112, 113
Kurrachee, 247

L

LAEISZ, Mr. C. F., Shipbuilding in Germany 598, 607
Lafay, M. A., Deviation of the x Rays by the Magnet, 376
Lafayette, Mr. F. M. Goss, Tests of a 10-Horse Power de Laval Steam Turbine, 477
Laird, Messrs., Torpedo Boat Destroyer for the Chilian Government Launched, 263
Lake Erie Ship Cana), The, 76
Lakes in Norway, Concerning the Depths of the, 519
“ La Marguerite," Opening Trip of, 647
Lamp, Mr. Herman N., Local Annealing of Hard-faced Armour-plates, 355
Lamp, The Jandus Arc, 93
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 213, 217, 218
Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Company, Meeting of, 248 Lancashire Plateway, The Proposed, 250
Land to Water Surface, The Ratio of, 591
Landing Stage, Liverpool, 540
Landslip and Flood, The, 413
Langhorne, Mr.,Traffic on London and the Tower Bridges, 489
Lathe, Bicycle Hub-forming, 564
Lathe, Brass Finishers’, 512
Lathe, An Early Copying, 92, 93
Lathe, Sliding and Surfacing Break, 40
Launch, Bull’s Metal, 11
Launches of H.M.S. "Pelorus” and “Desperate,” 189
Launches and Trial Trips, 23, 47, 79, 101, 151, 176, 189, 200, 229, 237, 249. 281, 293, 305,350, 359, 383, 411, 416, 435, 446, 455, 478, 489, 504, 519, 531, 543, 552, 563, 576, 602, 628, 647, 654
de Laval Steam Turbine, Tests of a 10-Horse Power, 477
Lavatories, Railway Carriage, 431
Law, Major E. Fitzgerald, On the Railways in Asiatic Turkey, 558
Law, Mr. Robeit, Auxiliary Assay Balance described by, 489
Lawford, Mr. G. Maxwell, bis Scheme adopted for the Drainage of Marlborough, 263
Laycock, Mr. W. F., Products Obtained by the
Dry Distillation of Bran with Lime, 187
Lead and Lap of Winding and other Engines, 215

Leaders:

1896, 13 Accuracy, 90
Admiralty Contracts, 61, 193
African Lake and River Transport, 270
America’s Steel Production, 245
American Locomotive Performance, 322
Armour of Peace, The, 37
Atmosphere of Great .Towns, The, 496
Biscay and Mediterranean Canal, The, 522
Boilers for Electric Light Stations, 322, 399
British-built Steam Yaohts for American Owners, 448
Cable Repairing and Cable Danger, 116
Caledonian Railway Extension, 296
Canals, 143
Chemistry, 1895, 20
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, 347, 495
Civil Engineering in 1895, 13
Clyde Engineerirg Dispute, The, 38
Coal, 116
Coal Charter, The New, 619
Coal Trade, The, 296
Coast Defence Ships, 167
Coke Gas Possibilities of the States, 34S
Common Sense in Work and Wages, 322
Complications in the Coal Trade, 522
Compound Locomotives, 447, 570
Continental Competit'on and the Railway Rates, 115
Continental Workmen, 142
Copper Mines in Spain, 400
Corner in Engineering Material, A, 375
Cost of a Great Frost, The, 546
“ Dear Old Smoky Sheffield,” 595
Defence of the Empire, The, 593
Discharge Note System in Collieries, 400
Drummond Castle Disaster, The, 645
Dundee and Aberdeen Harbour Extensions, 194
Education and Invention, 470
Electric Light.inHhe’.Provinces, The, 323
Electrical Engineering in 1895, 18
Elements of Success in Engineering as a Pro¬fession, The, 270
Engineering Settlement, The, 546
Engineers or Artificers ? 495
Engineers of.tho Royal Naval Reserve, 399
Engineers for the Royal Navy, 425
English Engineers and Foreign Markets, 63
Explosion on a French Ironclad, 522
Feature of the New Naval Programme, A, 168 :
Fire-boxes of Locomotive Ecgines, The, 469
Firiug at Captive Balloons, 620
Foreign Competition in the Iron Trades, 89
Gas Supply, 1895, 20
German Government and English Steel for Shipbuilding, 470
Glasgow Hydraulic Power Supply, 245
Goichen, Mr., and the Naval Engineer?, 243
Great Eastern Railway Works, 90
Great Map of tho World, The, 374
Growth of Steamships, The, 426
Harbours of India, The, 168
Harbours and Waterways in 1895, 17
Horseless Carriages, 425
Horseless Carriage Competition, Our, 569
Hyatt-Henochsburg Gold Extraction Process, The, 496
“ If the Collier keeps the Peace,” 374
Incandescent Gas Lighting, 3471
Incandescent Gas Light Case, The, 426
Increased Yield of the Blast Furnace, The, 374
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 143
Institution of Naval Architects, Last Meeting of, 373
Irish Railway Working. 169
Iron, Best Yorkshire, 296
Light Railways, 243
Light Railways Bill, The, 569
Locomotive Grates, 168
London Dock Companies and Shipowners, The, 594
London Fires and the Brigade, 116
Lord Kelvin, 620
Machinery in the Glass Trade, 270
Managers of our Ordnance Factories, The, 619
Marine Engineering Look-out, The, 497
Mechanical Engineering in 1895, 14
Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee, The, 374
Military Horseless Carriages, 244
Miners’ Conference, The, 61
More Light, 546
Mystery of Colliery Explosions, The, 244
Naval Architects in Germany, The, 646
Navy and the Admiralty, The, 141
Outlook in the Coal Trade, The, 447
Permanent Way, 295, 448
Petroleum in the United States, 594
Pneumatic Process, The, 545
Position of the Mechanical Draughtsman, The, 645
Problem of Speed, The, 521
Quackery in Engineering Education, 593
Quarter’s Clyde Shipbuilding, A, 318
Race to the North, The, 38
Royal Ordnance Factories, The, 37, 115
Safety in Caisson Work, 497
Sanitary Conditions at Hong Kong, 522
Sanitary Eegineering in 1895, 19
Scotch Railway Working, 270
Sheffield Canal, The, 270
Silk from Wood, 522
South Yorkshire Coke Trade, The, 616
Submarine Telegraphic Works, 448
Superheated Steam, 193
Thames Floods, 321
Thames as a Highway, The, 38
Trade Revival, 646
Train Resistance, A Question of, 62
Triple Cylinder Locomotives, 269
Use of Heating Gas, The, 142
Wages in the Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 318
Wanted, the Reason Wby, 594
War Material in 1895, 16
Water Board for tbe Metropolitan Counties, A, 295
Water Supply, 1895, 19
Welsh Water Scheme, A Great, 521
West of Scotland Industrial Outlook, 194
What is an Invention ? 545
Work and Wages, Common Sense in, 322
Yorkshire Iron, Best, 296
Yorkshire Miners 620
Yorkshire Mining n 1895, 646
Le Bon, M. Gustave, on “ Dark Light,” 161
La Cbatelier, M. IL, on the Combustion of Acetylene, 248
Lecornu, M. L., on the Equilibrium of an Ellip¬soidal Envelope, 187
Leeds Express, Accident ta th9, 263

Legal Intelligence:

Blackpool Great Whae), Graydon r. Bassett, 159
Incandescent Gas Light Company, Limited, v. Toe De Mare Incandescent Gas Light System, Limited, and Others, 314
Leith, 247
Lengthening the Cape Mail s.s. “ Scot,” 212, 291, 292, 294

Letters to the Editor’:

Admiralty Programme, Retrop, 616
America and the Bessemer Process, F. J. R. Carulla, 267
Angus Smith's Composition, J. I’., 193
Approximate Relation of Power to Speed in
Bicycles, Robert Wilcox, 190
Association of Watarworks Engineers, D. M. F. Gaskin, 11
Association of Waterworks Eogineers, Wm. Matthews, 96
Band Saw, An Old, J. Hamilton, 11
Bayard, Mr., and H.M.S. “Calliope," Robert McGlacson, 550
Belgian Girder? in Manchester, Henry Simon, 96
Bessemer Process, Tbe, Henry Bessemer, 299
Boilers for Electric Light Stations, John Brown and Co., F. Gross, 450
Boiler Inspection in New Zealand, Geo. Croll, 241
Books on Railway Signals H. Rayner Wilson, 469
Bridge Flooring, J. W. Twinberrow, 145
B lilt up Locomotive Crank Shaft, A. F. W. Webb, 451
Bullhead Rails and Flange Rails, E. Russell Tratman, 165
Bullhead Rails and Flange Rails, Jas. Whito- stone, 66
Bull’s Metal Launch, G. F. G. Des Vignes and Co., 11
Calvx Diamond Boriog Crown? The, M. and F., 89
Canal and Light Railway Legislation, E. A. Hackett, 372
Caual Proposal, A, Wm. B. Cook, 241
Canals, Geo. T. Pardoe, 493
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Ch. Ballens, 67
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, F. W. Crohn, 467
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Iron, 146, 397
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Carlton J. Lambert, 450, 493
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Hiram S. Maxim, 551
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Observer, 423
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Senex, 372
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Old Tube, 118
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Old Tubu- lou8, 397
Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, W. H. Watkinson, 372
Coal Premiums, Charles Rous-Marten, 267
Coal Premiums, A Running Shed Foreman, 267
Coal Premiums, Clement E. Stretton, 211
Coast Defence Ships, Robert McGlasson, 191
Coast Defence Ships, J. II. R. Rose, 241
Coke Screening Machinery ? 115
Compound Locomotives, Ernest E. Baguley, 450
Compound Locomotives, F. W. Dean, 450
Corrugated Iron? K. P., 521
Coat of Looks and Weirs, The? E. P. J , 167
Crossings and Carves? Student, 495
Crystal Palace, The, M. E., 422
Crystal Palace, The, Mem. Inst., 452
Crystal Palaco, The, Norwood, 397, 423
Demolishing Chimneys, A. Denny, 266
Disposal of Town Rofuso? Ernest McCullough, 193
Drowned Pumps, Joseph Evans and Sons, 35
Drying Apparatus for Ores, Clay, and Phos¬phates? J. H., 269
Duty of Pumps, J. B., 518
Early Locomotives, Henry Greenly, 67, 120
Early Locomotives, D. H. Littlejohn, 35, 120
Early Locomotives, G' H. Sekon, 35, 67, 96
Early Locomotives, Clement E. Strettoc, 35, 67, 120
Early Locomotives, J. W., 120
Early Locomotives, John Wilson, 10, 35
Economic Production of Lime ? J. F. S., 243
Electrical C alonisation, Thos. Meaoock, 467
Electric Light Engines, D. U. M. Barton, 11
Electric L;ght Engines, Robt. A. Bruce, 11, 35
Emery and Corundum ? Emery, 619
Engine Power in Paddle Steamers, J. M., 327
Engine-power in Paddle Steamers, Mareotis, 397
Engine-power in Paddle Steamers, R. B. S., 301, 377
Engine-power in Paddle Steamers, Spcnson, 37 7
Eoginepower in Paddle Steamers, Superintend¬ing Engineer, 301
Engine Tests, H. Bollinckx, 145
“ Engineer ” Horseless Carriage Competition, The, Alf. R. Sennett, 566
‘ Engineer ” Il orsoless Carriage Competition, The, Wm. Rose Smith, 566
Engineers of Naval Warfare, The, Robert McGlasson, 66
Engineers for the Navy, C. P., 267
Evaporators, E. Stephenson, 518
Extracting Water from Milk I B. J., 321
Fast Time in France, R. Collier, 301
First Steam Hammer, The, Charles Harrison, 354
Free Trade and No Trade, A. Williamson, 66
Glass Water Gauge Protector, F. W. Webb, 34
Hampson Liquid Oxygen Process, Zero, 326
Hardening of Armour-plates, B. H. Thwaite, 241
Hardening Steel to Cut Hard Steel ? Tool- maker, 115
Horn Comb Making Machinery? J. H. H., 193
Horseless Carriages, E. T. Clubbe, A. W. Southey, 616
Horseless Carriages, A Country Gentleman, 467
Horseless Carriages, Chas. T. Crowden, 422
Horseless Carriages, G. A. Haig, 451
Horseless Carriages, Harry R. G. Inglis, 451
Horseless Carriages, Inquirer, 118
Horseless Carriages, Phillips, Ormonde, and Co., 451
Horseless Carriages, Alfred R. Sennett, 397
Horse'ess Carriages, John Todd, 354
Institute of Civil Engineers, Alex. J. Wallis-Tayler, 191
Insulating Underground Steam Pipes, Edgar Kidwell, 377
Ironmoulding ? Ironfounder, 593
James Watt and Co., Soho Works, Soho, 267
James Watt and Co., Soho Works, One of the Staff, 241
Jenny Lind, The, David Joy, 527
Jenny Lind, The, Clement E. Scrotton, 539
Jenny Lind, The, L. and S. W., 422
Joule Effect, The, C. E. Basevi, 550
Light Locomotive Bill, The, S. Flood-Page, 422
Light Railways, Wm. Lawford, 616
Light Railways Bill, The, J. M. Burke, 600
Light Railways Bill, The, J. C. Mackay, 600
Light Railways r. Light Road Locomotives, Slow Speed, 345
Lime? G. G. S., 193
Lime Kilns and Lime Burning, W. J. Jenkins, 267
Line Movement Engine, W. H. T., 301
Linde Oxygen Process, The, M. A., 67
Linde Process, The, M. A., 120
Links in the History of the Locomotive, W. J. Barker, 396
Liquefaction of Gases, The, Cry os, 372, 422, 493, 566
Liquefaction of Gases, Frank Dowling, 467
Liquefaction of Gases, J., 518
Liquefaction of Gases, Zero, 396, 451, 493, 518
Locomotive Fire-boxes, Adriatic, 396
Locomotive Fire-boxes, Edward J. M. Davies, 422
Locomotive Fire-boxes, Joseph J. Tyrrell, 493
Locomotive Fire-boxes, C. E. Wolff, 518
Machinery for making Umbrella Parts, Horn, Ivory and Metal Buttons, and Steel Pens? J. H. H., 469
Machines for Painting Mouldings? S. A., 269
Marine Governors ? C. W. F., 545
Mechanical Road Carriages and Featherweight Motors, Lister and Co., 96
Metric System, The, J. Emerson Dowson, 34
Metropolis Water Supply—The Welsh Scheme, Hassard and Tyrrell, 34
Military Horseless Carriages. W. Cooper, 267
Mustard Machinery? R. D. C., 321
Naval Architecture—No. IV., Stability (In¬clining), F. W. C., 327, 354, 397
Naval Architecture—No, IV., Stability, B. C. Laws, 372
Naval Architecture—No. IV’., Stability, The
Writer of the Articles, 354 Naval Engineers, Civilian, 35, 120
Naval Gun Sights, Archibald Birr, 300
Navigation of the Thames, A. Scott, 451, 600
North London Railway Locomotives, F. J. P., 377
Origin of the Bessemer Process : How Facts are
Manipulated, Henry Bessemer, 467
Origin of the Bessemer Process, Jos. D. Weeks, 538
Origin and Rationale of Colliery Explosion’, Donald M. D. Stuart, 120
Pelton Wheel, The, George F. Pardoo, 145
Permanent Way, W. M. Acworth, 518, 567
Permanent Way. Jas. Andrews, 422
Permanent Way, Anglo, 539
Permanent Way, J. C., 372
Permanent Way, S. E., 451
Permanent Way, James Fforde, 451, 518
Permanent Way, Inspector, 451
Permanent Way, R. R. Gubbins, 567
Permanent Way, Corn-Lundie, 466
Permanent Way, M. Inst. C.E., 616
Permanent Way, Norman D. McDonald, 451
Permanent Way, Old Ganger, 493
Permanent Way, F. J. P., 372, 466
Permanent Way, For the Platelayers, 422
Permanent Way, Rail-bed, 67
Permanent Way, J. H. R. Rose, 397, 518
Permanent Way, G. A. Sekon, 327
Permanent Way, Sextus, 35
Permanent Way, Clement E. Stretton, 539
Permanent Way, C. Trenail, 539
Permanent Way, J. Whitestone, 327, 397, 451, 466
Permanent Way, J. W. Wilkins, 345, 397, 451, 492, 518, 539, 600
Pierre Bmuf Boiler ? The, Enquirer, 645
Pin-making Machinery ? C. C., 321
Prior Publication or Not, J. H , 191
Prior Publication or Not, M. W. Llewellin, 267
Problem of Speed, The, A. Normand, 539
Problem of Speed, The, Practical Marine Engi¬neer, 567
Paffing Billy, Norman D. Macdonald, 600
Puffing Billy v. No. 1, Geo. S. Pardoe, 518
Puffing Billy, Clement E. Stretton, 539
Puffing Billy, W., 539
Pumping Problem, A., T. B. Freeman Lowe, 96
Question of Screw Propulsion ? A, Thrust, 193
Question of Train Resistance, A, Signal Post, 96
Radiation and Box-coil Connections under the Mills System, Edgar Kidwell, 567
Railway Axle Bearings, Foundryman, 327
Railway Coaches, Headstock, 267
Railway Economics, Jas. Whitestono, 267
Railway Shop3 in War, R. M. H. Buckland, 118 /Jr Electrical Colonisation, Rural, 452
Reform of the Institution of Civil Engineers, B. H. Thwaite, 137
Regenerators, J. Robson, 146
Resistance of American Rolling Stock, Norman D. McDonald, 191
Rhea Fibre, For Midlands Spinning Co., Ltd., Elias Neel, 616
Rochester Bridge, J. W. Leigh, 327
Rolled Steel r. Cast Iron Chairs for Railways, For the Platelayers, 467
Sandy Pig Iron, W. B., 301
Self-propelled Road Carriages, W. T. F., 11
Sewage Disposal at Salford, W. Shaw Duncan, 165
Slide Valve Friction, C. D., 120, 191
Slide Valve Friction, Edw. J. M. Davies, 34, 96, 138, 165, 191
Slide Valve Friction, Frottoir, 67, 165
Slide Valve Friction, John Reikie, 301
Snowdon Railway, The, J. S. Hughes, 397
Solid Top Wcod Peg Turning and Stamping Machines? R. T. C., 619
Steel Penmaking Machinery, H. D., 89
Steel Sleepers, James Whitestone, 137
Steamship Propulsion, R. de Villamil, 138
Storey’s Deadweight Safety Valves, Honour to whom Honour is Due, 67
Storey's Deadweight Safety Valve, Isaac Storey and Sons, 11
Straw Bottle Cases? J. H., 593
Sweep Cutting Band Saws, W. Sam. Worssam, 301
Temper of Hand Saws, Patternmaker, 120
Thames Tunnels, The, Henry Law, 551
Three-cylinder Locomotives, E. E. Baguley, 301
Three-cylinder Locomotives, W. H. Booth, 301
Three-cylinder Locomotives, J. Dunlop, 327
Three-cylinder Locomotives, H. W. Staner, 327
Three-cylinder Locomotives, F. W. Brewer, 326
Three-cylinder Locomotives, John Reikie, 617
Three-cylinder Locomotives, W. M. Smith, 301
Traction Engines, H. R. Summers, 567
Traction Engines, Traction Engine Admirer, 539
Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild Steel, Ken¬drick Edwards, 10
Trusty Ga3 Engine, The, J. A. Drake, 145
Trusty Gas Eogine, Tbo, J. E. Weyman, 165
Tube Wells at Gainsborough, A. Timmins, 452
Typewriters, A Distracted Typist, 396
Underground Steam Piping and Insalating, H. Gray, 550
United States Patent Law, Fell and James, 191
Velox Drilling Machine ? The, C. W. E., 521
Walschaort’8 Valve Gear, M. L , 616
Water-tight Doors in the Navy, Chas. W. Rowe, 467
Wire Rope Manufacture, Rope Maker, 617
W. II. Harrison Fund Appeal, Fred. H. Varley, 327
Watt and Co., Mossrs. James, T. H. A. Biddle, 301
X Rays, H. H. P. Powles, 301

Levels, Interesting, 591
Loverich, Mr. G., A Ripid Transit Problem, 549
Lewes, Mr. V. B., Tne Acetylene Theory of Luminosity, 139
Lewes, Professor, bis Paper on “ Mining Explo¬sives ” Discussed, 449
Lewis Motor Carriage at Chicago, 2
Lift, Canal, Messrs. Haniel and Lueg, 388, 389
Lift, Suspended Safety, Messrs. J. and H. Brookes, 121, 122
Light Locomotive Bill, 422
Light, Lord Rayleigh on, 213, 319
“Light and the New Photography,” The “New," 155
Light after its Passage through Opaquo Bodios The Properties of, 161
Light Riils for Japan, made by the Illinois Steel Works, 563
Light Railways, 111, 161, 209, 233, 213, 218, 233,
288, 315, 361, 372, 488, 513, 569, 591. 616
Light Railways, Mr. Arthur C. Paia, 288
Light (or Sscsndary) Railways, Mr. A. D. Price on, 488
Light Railways Abroad, Their Permanent Way and Rolling Stook (Supplement, May lxf, 189C), 351, 439, 440, 441, 445
Light Railways Association, A Disputation waits on Mr. C. T. Ritchie, 161
Light Railways Association, Proceedings at the Meeting of the, 111
Light Railway Bill, 191, 543, 591, 600
Light Railways Bill, Mr. Ritchie on the, 191
Light Railways, Government Measures for the Construction of, 161
Light Railway and Harbour Scheme for Bideford and Westward Ho, 248
Light Railway Legislation, Canal and, 372
Light Railways, New Book on, 263
Light Railways in South Wales, 209 Lighthouses, Construction of Modern, 78
Lighthouses, L'oyd’s Desire for More, 519
Lighthouse and Tug-boat for Lorenzo Marquez
Port, Plans and Designs Invited, 319
Lighting Corporation, Limited, Tae, 589
Lighting of Goods Yards, Col. H. A. Yorke on, 489
Lighting Railway Cars and Buoys with Pintsch Gas, 563
Lightning, Professor Neesen on Two Strokes of, 161
Lightning, Reported Fusion of Two Nails by, 543
“Lightning,” Sale of No. 1 Torpedo-boat, Tne, 213
Lilleshall Co., Blowing Engines at Stanton Iron¬works, 139
Lime? 193
Lime? Economic Production of, 243
Lime Kilns and Lime Barning, 267
Lindau, Dr., On tho Cooling of Gases during their Adiabatic Expansion, 446
Linde Oxygen Process, The, 67
Linde Process, The, 120
Link Movement Engine, Tho, 272, 301
Links in the History of the Locomotive, 393
Lippmann, M. G., On Keeping up the Motion of a Pendulum, 139
Liquefaction of Gises, 310, 372, 396, 422, 451, 467, 493, 518, 566, 6 43
Liquefaction of Gases, Faraday's Papers on, 643
Liquefying Gases, 310, 372, 396, 422
Liquefying Gass3, The Hampson System of, 310
Liquefying Hydrogen, Professor Onnes on, 393
Liquefying Oxygen, Self-cooling Motor for, 393
Liquid Oxygen Process, Hampson, 326

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Locomotives for Bulgaria, 486
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Locomotives on Common Roads, Steam, 51, 84, 104
Locomotives, Compound, 447, 450
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Locomotive with Corliss Valves, Park and Orleans Railway, 489, 490
Locomotive with Crane, Compound, 572
Locomotive Crank Shaft, A Built-up, 451
Locomotives, Early, 10, 35, 67, 80, 81, 120
Locomotives, Early, Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, 80, 81
Locomotives for the East Bengal State Railways, 298, 299
Locomotive] for East Coast Passenger Traffic, Trial Run, 591
Locomotives, Economical High-power, 489, 490
Locomotive for Experimental Purposes, Large Electric, 263
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Locomotive Fire-boxes, 396, 422, 469, 493, 518
Locomotive Grates, 168 Locomotives, Great Northern Railway, 563
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Locomotive, Tbe “Jenny Lind,” 25, 36
Locomotives, Light Road, and Light Railways, 345
Locomotive, Links in the History of the, 396
Locomotive, Midland Railway, Mr. D. Joy, 246
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Locomotive, The New Caledonian Express, 211
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Locomotives, North London Railway, 377
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Locomotives, Triple-cylinder, 269, 617
Locomotive, Twelve-wheeled Tank, for the Wirral Railway, 643
Locomotives, United States, 123, 614, 622, 623
Locomotive in the United States, The First, 123
Log Band Saw for Sweep and Bevel Work, Messrs. A. Ransome and Co., 277
Loire, Maritime Canal of the Lower, 560
London Amateur Engineering Contractors, 210
London Bridge Station, Collision at, 187
London and Cardiff, New Service between, 563
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company,
Accelerated Service to riA Dover and Calais, 643
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, through Tickets to Budapest, 446
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, New Service from London to Petersburg!], 449
London Docks, The, 246
London Dock Companies and Shipowners, The, 594
London Fires and the Brigade, 116
London and North-Western, Accident on the, 376
London and North-Western Fast Train, Narrow Escape from Accident, 161
London and North-Western Railway Company, the Greatest Corporation on Earth, 353
London and North-Western Railway Company, Tunnelling under Crewe Station, 319
London, Population of Registration at the Recent Census, 543
London and South Wales Railway, The Proposed, 79
London and South-Western Railway, Working Expenses of, 187
London Street Tramways Company, Annual General Report, 161
London Tramways to be Sold to the London County Council, 419
London Water Supply, 34, 247, 263, 591, 613
London Water Supply, Bill Dealing with, 263
London Water Supply, Mr. Robinson on, 247
Lord Kelvin's Jubilee, 620
Lorenzo Marquiz, Port, Improvements Commis¬sion of, will receive Plans and Designs for Lighthouse and Tug-boat, 319
Loreczo Marquez, Inadequate binding Facilities at, 643
Low Water Alarm, Electric, 84
Lubricant for Railway Axles, A New, 627
Lubrication of Plain Parallel Surfaces, The Theory of the, 25
Lubricator, Lunkenheimer's Automatic Graphite Sight-feed, 272
Lunkenbeimer's Automatic Graphite Sight-feed Lubricator, 272
Lyall, Sir Jas.. On Punjab Irrigation, Ancient and Modern, 139
Lyman, Mr. J., his Experiments on the Electric Tractive Force Required on United States Tramways, 293
“ Lynx,” Trial of the Automatic Boiler Feed fitted to the, 446
Lyster, Mr. A. G., Liverpool Landing Stage, 540

M
MACADAM, Dr. STEVENSON, his Evidence before Mr. Mundella’sCommittee on Petroleum, 691
MacCarthy, Mr. Sam, On Steel Steam Pipes and Fittings and Benardo’s Arc Welding in con¬nection therewith, 458
McConnell, Mr. J. H., On Locomotive Service, 157
McConnell, Mr. J. H., On Rolling Stock, Past and Present, 376
McCulloch, Mr. Robt., On the Success of Elec¬trically-welded Rails, 319
McGregor, Mr. J.. Steam and Towing Barges, Worcester and Birmingham Canal. 97
McIntosh, Mr., “The Dunalastair,”, 235, 242
McIntosh, Mr., The Fifteen New Locomotives built by the Caledonian Railway, 543
McKenzie’s Steam Brougham, 132, 133
McLaren, Messrs. J. and H., Road Locomotive and Van, 84
Machine Tools, Messrs. Kendall and Gent, 395, 398
Machinery Applied to Coal Mining in the United S'ates and Here, 625
Machinery in the Glass Trade, 270
Machinery Repairs at Sea, Engineers Rewarded for. 187
Madras Electric Tramway Company, The, 263
Maffei, Locomotives at the Nuremburg Exhibition, 637
Magnesium Paper, Mode of Making, 393
Magnet, Deflection of the x Rays by the, 376
Magnetic Ironsand, On Treatment of New Zea¬land, 462
Magnetic Properties of Iron and Steel, Two Papers on the, 551
Magnetisation of Iron and its Importance to the Electrical Engineer, Time R >ta of Growth of, 204
Magnetising and Hysteresis of Steel and Iron, On the, 625
Magnetometer Method, Testing Rods by the, 463
Maidenhead, Railway Accident at, 213
Mail Records of Transatlantic Steamers, 83
Mains, Experiments on the Carrying Power of, 376
Mains in New York, A Million Dollars for New Water, 574
“ Majestic,” Trials of the, 380
Mallaig Railway and Harbour, 486
Managers of our Ordnance Factories, The, 619
Manchester, Collision at London-road Station, 519
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company! Busiest Week of the Year with the, 319
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Express Passenger Locomotive (Supplement, March 20th, 1896), 290
Manchester Ship Canal, 247
Manchester Ship Canal Affairs, 376
Manchester Ship Canal and the Irish Trade, The, 810
Manchester Ship Canal and Canal and River Hydraulics, 484
Manchester Ship Canal Traffic, 64
Manganese, On the Carbide of, 263
Mann and Charleswortb, Messrs.. Semi-pc rtab’e Compound Eogine and Boiler, 342

Maps:

Map of Banavie and Malla'g Railway, 486
Map, Crinan Ship Canal, 503
Map of the Geological Survey, Tbe Index, €5
Map, Highland Railway Schemes, 500
Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, Ac., 18
Map Showing Ribble Improvement Works, 492
Map of the World, Tbe Great, 374
Margarine Factory, Southall, Monsted’s, 156, 158, 403, 404
Margot, M. Charles, Aluminium Alloys, 625
Marindin, Major, bis Reports on the St. Neots nd the Gorgie Junction Accidents, 139
Marine Engineering Design, 39
Marine Engineering Look-out, The, 497
Marine Governors ? 545
Maritime Canal of the Lower Loire, 560
“ Marking” Mania, The “Journal” of the London hamber of Commerce on tbe, 161
Marks and Morday’s Surface Scum Cock and Valve, 355
Marlborough Town Drainage, 263
Maries Colliery, Underground Haulage by Elec¬tricity, 393
Marone, Mr. Grieve, his Survey connected with a New Railway io Africa, 111
Marshall, Mr. Ellis, On Bricks and Brick-making, 563
Marshall, Fleming,and Jack, Messrs., Locomotive Steam Crane, 420
Martell, Mr., On Doors applicable to Water-tight Bulkheads, 649
Marten, Mr. L. C., On the Niagara Power Scheme, 647
Mason College, Birmingham, 614
Masonry Dams, Remscheid aid Chemnitz Water¬works, 494, 498
Massachusetts, State Railways of, 293
“Massachusetts,” Trial of the U.S. Battleship, 489
Masut Oil Fuel, Tbe, 248
Matches in Belgium, Regulations relative to the Manufacture of, 187
Materials of Construction, Testing the, 233
Mathieson, Mr. J., Post of General Manager of
the Victorian Railways offered to, 543
Maxim Guns, Buckland's Table for, 118, 119
Maxim Motor Tricycle, 4
Maxwell Formula described as Absurd, by M. J. Bertrand, 519
Mcachen, jun., Mr., on the Electric Power Plant at Haden Hill Colliery, 161
Meaeock, Mr. Thomas, on the Application of Electricity to Motive Power Purposes, 416
Meade-King, Mr. W. O. E., Proposed Ship Canal for Connecting the Bristol and English Chan¬nels, 273, 340
Mean Temperature of the Year 1895, 625
Measurements of Small Strains in the Testing of Materials and Structures, Mr. J. A. Ewing on, 94
Measuring Feed and Circulating Water by Chemical Means, Mr. Stromeyer, 365, 379
Measuring Periodic Electric Currents, Instruments for, 543
Mechanical Engineering in 1895, 14
Mechanical Engineers’ Estimating, 256
Mechanical Handling of Goods at Riverside Premises, Mr. H. Coward on, 301
Mechanical v. Horse Traction on New York Tram¬ways, 263
Mechanical Production of Extreme Temperatures, On the, 248
Mechanical Road Carriages—see Horseless Carri¬ages Mechanics, Cycle, 265
Mechanics of Horse Haulage, Mr. J. J. Brigg on the, 96
Mechanics of Horse Hauling, The, 234
“Mechanism in Men of War,” The Future of Aluminium as set forth in, 563
Medway, Steel Bridge over the, Mr. H. Wood- house’s Design, 111
Megass and Refuse Furnaces, 41
Merryweatber and Sons, “Dog-cart” Steam Fire Engine, 150
Merry weather and Sons’ Messrs., New Floating Steam Fire Engine, 336
Mersey, Estuary, The, 328
Mersey Forge Works, to be Let or Sold, 319
Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee, The, 374
Messina Water Supply, Tenders invited, 591
Metal Sections by Extrusion, Mr. Dick's Method of Producing, 462, 464
Metallic Tobe, Flexible, Trial of, at Liverpool, 187
Metallurgical Laboratory, King’s College, 35
Metre Gauge Rolling Stock for Egypt, 353
Metric System, The, 34, 493, 626
Metric System in our Workshops. Will its Value equal its Cost ? 626
Metropolis Water Supply, 34
Metropolis Water Supply- The Welsh Scheme, 34
Metropolitan Counties, A Water Board for the, 295
Metropolitan Railway Extension, 463
Meyer, Herr Franz Andreas, On the Maritime Position and Principal Features of the Port of Hamburg, 601, 607
Microphonic Contacts brought about by Electric Vibrations, Cause of the Variation of Resist¬ance in, 393
Microscope, Causes of Mysterious Fractures in Steel Revealed by the, 365, 377
Middle-Lias Ironstone in North Oxfordshire, Origin of, 462
Midland Coalfield, On the Eastern Limits of the, Professor Edward Hall, 186
Midland Railway Company, Arrangements for the Riyal Agricultural Society’s Show, 543
Midland Railway Company’s Automatic Steam and Vacuum Brake, 182
Midland Railway, 1848, Passenger Engine, 25, 36
Midland Railway Station, Gloucester, Opening of the New, 389
Midland Riilway Works, The Khedive and the Officials of tbe, 248
Mild Steel. Transverse Loads on Beams of, 10
Military Horseless Carriages, 214, 267
Mill Chimney at Manchester, Demolition of a,
Mill Engines, 300 Indicated Horse-power Triple¬expansion, 559, 569, 561
Mills, English and American Rolling, 504
Mills, Floor and Grist, in New South Wales, 393
Mill for Grinding Coal Dust Fuel, The Propfe, 407
Mill, Heavy Turning and Boring, 222
Mill, New Flour, at Fort Saskatchewan, 543
Milling, American, 293
Milling Congress in Paris, 563
Milling Exhibition to be held in 1897, 376
Milling Machine for H»avy Engineering Work, Development of the, 395 N
Milling Maohine, Three-head Surface, 367
Milling Machines, Vertical and Horizontal, 568,
573
Milling Planing Machine, Messrs. Kendall and H Gent, 395
Milne and Sons, Messrs., The Link Movement > Engine, 272
Miners' Conference, The, 61
Miners, Yorkshire, 620
Mining Explosives, Discussion on Professor Lewes' Paper on, 449
Mining in Nova Scotia, 330
Mirabeau Bridge over the Seine, The, 609, 615, 618
Miscellanea, 7, 31, 59, 87, 111, 139, 161, 187, 213, 248, 263, 293, 319, 353, 376, 393, 419, 446, 463, 489, 519, 543, 563, 591, 625, 643
Mobility of Molecules of Cast Iron, 430
Modern Warships and Dock Entrances, 217 ?
Moissan, M. H., on the Carbide of Manganese, 263
Moi’sanand Etard, MM., on Yttrium and Thorium Carbides, 319
Moissan and Moureu, MM.. On the Action of Acetylene on Iron, &3., 643
Moisture in Steam flowing through a Horizontal Pipe, Tests to show Distribution of, 123
Molecules of Cast Iron, The Mobility of, 430
Molybdenite, M. M. Guichard on, 643
Mond Producer Gas : On its Application to Steel Manufacture, 488
Monsted's Margarine Manufactory, Southall, 156, 158, 403, 404
Moore Etheric Light, Photographs taken by, 213
Morehead and de Chalmont on the price of Calcium Carbide, 591
Morgan, Mr. C. Langbridge, Presentation to, 111
Morris and Salmon, Storage Battery Carriage, 2
Morrison and Ingram’s Railway Carriage Lavatories, 431
Motor Carriages—tee Horseless Carriages Motor Carriage Notes, 110
Motor, The Kane-Pennington, 3, 4, 114
Motorcycles, Mr. J. H. Knight on, 293
Mott, Mr. C. F., on Petroleum, 171
Mountains, Subsidence of, 563
Mowat, Mr., his Presidential Address, 158
Mowat, Mr , Horseless Carriages, 502
Mowat, Mr., Horse Haulage r. Motor Traction, 512
Mueller Carriage with Gasoline Motor, 1
Muirhead’s Wrought Steel Railway Chair, 444
Municipal Tramway Working, Bill relative to, 489
Murani, Signor, Experiments on the Influence of Vibration, 213
Mustard Machinery ? 321
Myall, Mr. A., Wire Netting Machinery, 336

N

NAPHTHA Well in the Transcaucasus, 111
Natal, Shipping Facilities at, 562
National Skating Palace, The, 40
Naval Architects in Germany, The, 646
Naval Architecture, A Few Principles Properly Explained, 49, 129, 207, 283, 327, 354, 372, ; 386, 397
Naval Architecture, No. 1, Displacement, 49
Naval Architecture, No. IV., Stability, 283, 327, 354, 372, 386, 397
Naval Architecture—Tonnage and Freeboard, 437
Naval Construction, The Electric Drill for, 155
Naval Construction, The French Press and the Recent, 293
Naval Engineer Appointments, 40, 56, 109, 217, 247, 323, 345, 430, 438, 476, 549, 558, 599
Naval Engineers, 35, 66, 120, 243, 267, 399, 425 '
Naval Engineers, Mr. Goschen and the, 243
Naval Gun Sights, 231, 300
Naval and Military Record, The, as to the Launch of the “Arrogant,” 489
Naval Pocket-book, The, Mr. W. Laird Clowes, 301
Naval Programme of 1896, The, 236
Naval Programme, A Foature of the New, 168
Naval Programme, The New, 168
Naval Warfare, The Engineer in, 5, 42, 69
Navies, Foreign, 226
Navigation, Thames, 451, 600
Navy and the Admiralty, The, 141
Navy, Cost of the New United States, 293
Nechells Tramways, Tbe, 139
Neesen, Professor, On Two Strokes of Lightning, 161
Neilson and Co., Messrs., Narrow-gauge Goods Locomotive (Supplement, February 28M, 1896), 221
Nell, Messrs., Contract for Turbines placed with, 319
Ness, The New Waterloo Bridge over the, 366, 392, 394
Nevada County Electric Power Co., Works of the, 248
Newark, N.J., Steel Water Supply Conduit of, 248
“ Newest Crank,” The, 265
New Orleans, Importance of Electric Street Cars in, 463
Newport Harbour Commissioners’ Weekly Trade Report, 22, 46. 70, 98, 124, 148, 176, 202, 226, 250, 281, 304, 330, 382, 408, 432, 454, 478,504, 530, 554, 576, 604, 628
New South Wales, Flour Mills and other Indus¬tries in, 393, 519
New South Wales Post-office, Letters pasring through, in 1894, 376
New South Wales, State and Private Railways, 393
New South Wales, Sugar and Molasses Produced 0 in, 376
New South Wales, Tallow Produced in, 393
New York Bicycle Show, The, 188
New York aud Brooklyn Bridge Railway, Car with Electric Motors Tested in Shunting C Trains, 353
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, Telephonic Connection with Motor-men on Cable Cars, 111 C
New York and Buffalo, Fast Train Service C between, 591
New York, The Commissioner of Public Works, Collis, Order respecting New Streets, 543
New York Legislature compels Railways to carry Bicycles as Baggage, 446
New York, Metropolitan Traction Company, Mechanical Horse Traction, 263
New York, National Electrical Exhibition at, 581
New York, New Railway for, 101
New York, New Water Mains for, 574
New York, Street Cars with Pivoted Seats on Trial in, 563 I
New York State, Bill to Exclude Foreign Paving Materials, 293
New Zealand, Magnetic Ironsand, On Treatment 1 of, 462
Niagara Falls, Electric Current Generated by the, 1 161
Niagara Power Works, 647 1
Niagara Water Power, Another Application of, 213
Nicaragua Canal, Official Estimate, Plans, and Cost of Construction, 319
Nicaraguan Canal Question, Mr. J. Nimmo and Mr. A. Co'.quhoun on the, 139
Nicholson's Spring Steel Tine Cultivator, 642
Night Channel Services, 339
Nile Valley, On the Geology of the, 353
Niles Tool Works, Ohio, Bicycle Hub-forming Lathe, 564
Nodes of a Bell, Mr. Osborne on the, 111
Normand, Mr. J. A., The Problem of Speed, 510
Norris, Mr. Wm., Gas Engines, 349
North, Col. J. T., 471
North-Eastern Railway Carriages, 600
North-Eastern Riilway Company, Intended Reduction of Rates by the, 463
North-Eastern Railway Company’s New Dock at i Hartlepool, 319
North-Eastern Railway, New Locomotives for the, , 563
North of England, 22, 45, 71, 99, 125, 149, 177, 203, 227, 251, 279, 303, 331, 357, 331, 409, 433, 453, 479, 505, 529, 553, 577, 603, 629, 655
North London Railway Locomotives, 377
North Pole Balloon, The, 438
Northernmost Railway in the World, 463
Norway, Scheme for the Utilisation of a Great Waterfall in, 110
Norwegian Main Railway, Coal Tenders for, 187
Notes from Germany, 22, 46. 72, 100, 126, 150, 178, 204 , 228, 252, 280, 304 , 332, 358, 382, 410, 434, 454, 480, 506, 530, 554, 578, 604, 630, 656
Notes from Lancashire, 21, 44, 71. 99,124, 148, 176, 202, 226, 251, 278, 302, 310, 357, 380, 408, 432, 452, 478, 505, 528, 552, 576, 603, 628, 654
Notes and Memoranda, 7, 31, 59, 87, 111, 139, 161, 187, 213, 248, 263, 293, 319, 353, 376, 393, 419, 446, 463, 489, 519, 543, 563, 591. 625, 643
Notes from Scotland, 22, 46, 72, 100, 126, 150, 178, 204, 227 , 252, 280, 303, 332, 358, 382, 410, 434, 454, 480, 506, 530, 554, 578, 604, 630, 656
Notices to Correspondents, 13, 37, 61, 89, 115, 140, 167, 193, 219, 243, 269, 295, 321, 347, 372, 399, 425, 447, 469, 494, 521, 545, 569, 593, 619, 645
Nottingham Water Supply, The, 378
Nova Scotia, Mining in, 330
Noyes, McTaggart, and Craven, Messrs., On Coals,
Determination of their Hearing Effects, 543
Nuremburg Exhibition, The, 636
Nuremburg Exhibition, Pumps at the, 637
Nursey, Mr., On Mr. Dick's Method of Producing Metal Sections by Extrusion, 462, 464
Nutritive and Caloric Value of Food, Novel Ex¬periments to Determine the, 419
Nuts, Compensating, Messrs. Drysdale and Stoddart, 461

O

Obituary:

Abernetby, Mr. James, 271
Adam, Mr. Wm., 402
Baines, Mr. Herbert Stachops, 519
Beach, Mr. Alf. E., 86
Church. Mr. Jabez, 327
Clark, Mr. Dan Kinnear, 118
Clerke, Mr. Wm. John Bird, 195
Davy, Mr. Abraham, 111
Gallow, Mr. Thomas, 63, 95
Gunter, Mr. John, 161
Hackford, Mr., 315
Hardy, Mr. John J., 643
Harland, Sir Edward, 8
Howard, Mr. Thomas, 122
Jones, Mr. John, 393
North, Colonel J. T., 471
Scbichau, Ferdinand, 138
Swain, jun., Mr. John, 315

O'Brien, Mr. Wm., leaves the Fairfield Company, 111
“ Ocean," The Dutch Tugboat, 235, 238, 239
Oil, Amount of Paraffin in Burning, 419
Oil Engines—.«re Engines, Oil
Oil Engines, Mr. J. H. Hamilton on, 147
Oil Fuel, The Masnt, 248
Oil Tanks for Bombay, Gigantic Petroleum, 376
Oil Trade, The Scotch, 213
Oldknow, Mr., On the Probable Future of Alu¬minium, 563
Old Machines and Tools in England, An American Engineer on, 139
Onnes, Professor Kamerlingh, On an Apparatus for Liquefying Hydrogen, 393
Opening of the New Midland Railway Station, Gloucester, 389
Ordnance Factories, Annual Accounts of and Report on, issued as a Blue-book, 446
Ordnance Factories, The Managers of our, 619
Orfèvre Grossier, Tour it Vaiselle, 92, 93
Oroya to Cbanchamayo, Project for Railway from, 463
Osmond, M. F., Hardening of Extra Hard Steels, 139
Outerbridge, Jun., Mr. A. E , On the Mobility of “ Molecules of Cast Iron, 430
Outlook in the Coal Trade, The, 447
Overhead Electric Traction System for the Nechells Tramways, 139
Overhead Railway, Liverpool, 376
Oxford, Rainfall at, 139
Oxygen Process, The Linde, 67

P

PACKING Block, The Sundale, 589
Paddle Steamers, Engine Power in, 301, 327, 377, }’ 397
Paddle Steamers, Three Swift Steel, for the Zes- P land Steamship Company, 256, 257, 268
Pain, Mr. Arthur C , Light Railways, 288
Paint, Inflammable Gas given off by, Cause of an Explosion, 519
PaintiDg Machine, Wallwork and Wells’, 499
Painting Mouldings? Machines for, 269
Paisley, Technical College for, 339
Panama and Nicaragua Canals, 272 “
Pandurpur, Native Trade at, 419
Panhard and Levassor Motor Carriage, Daimler Motor, 472
Paraffin in Burning Oil, Amount of, 419
Parallel Surfaces, Theory of the Lubrication of Plain, 25
Parenty and Picard, MM. H., Thermometer P B stance, 489
“Paris,” The American Liner, Damaged one by, P 187
Paris and Orleans Railway, Locomotive with Cor¬liss Valves, 489, 490
Paris Suburbs, Water Supply of the, 338
Parker, Mr. E. W., Statistics of Coal Production in the United States, 643
Parkhead Forge Rolling Mills and Steelworks, 1 130, 140, 153-155
Parliament, Select Committee on Traction Engines F on Roads, 473
Parliamentary Business, Traction Engines on Roads, 492
Parliamentary Notes: f
Mess/s. Yarrow and the Admiralty, 195
New Bills, 195
Postal Pneumatic Tubes, 195
Parshall, Mr. H. F., On Magnetic Data of Iron F and Steel, 552
Parsons, The Hon. R. C., On the Sanitary Works F of Buenos Ayres,, 55
Pasteurised Butter Maker, 613, 616
Patchell, Mr. W., Notes on Steam Superheating, 143, 196, 458
Patents, Application for British, 643
Patents, Designs, aud Trade Marks, Collection of,
in the United States and here. 161
Patent Law, “ Invention,” the Indefinable Requirement of the, 541
Patents, United States, 423
Paving Materials, New York State, Bill Aimed at Foreign, 293
Paving Wood, 567
Pease, Mr. E. L., Oa Gasholder Construction, 590
Peirce, Mr. A., his Appointment, 349
Pelton Wheel, The, 145
Pendulum, On Keeping up the Motion of a, 139
Peninsular and Oriental Company, New Shipping I for the, 367
Penn, Mr. Cooper, On “Anchors,” 452
Pennsylvania Railway, Boiler Explosion on, 187
Pentricb Collieries, Views in the, 316, 320
Percy, Mr. C. M., Safety in Colliery Winding, 493
Perforation of Armour, Formula! for Calculating I the, 429
Permanent Way, 35, 66, 67, 137, 165, 213, 295, 327, 345, 361, 362, 372, 397, 422, 443, 444,
448, 451, 466, 492, 498, 518, 539, 567, 600, 616, 643
Permanent Way of Belgian Light Riilways, 362
Permanent Way, The Board of Trade Recommends, 213
Permanent Way, Bulkhead and Flange Rails, 165
Permanent Way, being Curved by the Heat, Accident Caused by, 643
Permanent Way, Harrison’s Patent Steel Chair, 1 498
Permanent Way and Rolling Stock, Notes on Light Railways Abroad, their, 361
Permanent Way. Some of the Difficulties in Designing Rail Sections, 443
Permanent Way, Steel, 137
Permanent Way, Wrought Steel Railway Chair, 444
Permeability Bridge, Prof. Ewing’s, 474
Perrin, M. Jean, On the Röotgen Rays, 187, 376
Perry, Prof. J., his Appointment at South Kensington, 393
Persia, Cost and Difficulties of Transport in, 376
Peru, New Railway Project, 463
Peterborough, Brick-making at, 563
Peterhead, Progress of the Harbour of, 438
Petroleum, Action of Sulphuric Acid in RefiniDg, 393
Petroleum Barrels, Iron, 552
Petroleum as Cargo, Concerning the Shipment of, 463
Petroleum Discovered in Cadiz, 446
Petroleum Fuel, The German Admiralty's Ex¬periments with, 213
Petroleum Mines io Roumania, 599
Petroleum Motors for Paris, 319
Petroleum, Mr. C. F. Mott on, 171
Petroleum, New Ways of Adulterating, 543
Petroleum, Proposal to Import Crude, and Refine it Here, 563
Petroleum, Dr. Stevenson Macadam's Evidence before Mr. Mundella’s Committee on, 591
Petroleum Tanks, Safety Appliances for, 265
Petroleum in the United States, 594
Petter and Hill and Boll's Oil-motor Carriage, 350
i Philadelphia Natural Gas Company, Large Supply of Gas, 353
Philce, Clearing the Dibrit on the Island of, 248
Philipson, Jun., Mr. John, Honour Conferred on, 393
" Phoenix,” The Sloop, 35
Phosphor Bronze Company’s Bearing, 44
Phosphor Bronze Company's White Anti friction Metals, 248
Phosphoresce-.ce, On Radiations Emitted by, 263 '
Phosphorescent Bodies, On the Invisible Radia¬tions Emitted by, 293
“Photogram,” Special Issue on the New Light and the New Photography, 155
Photographs taken at Greenwich of the Sun, 625
Photographs, Underground, 316,320
Photography, The New, 232
Photography, Ordinary and Colour, Exhibits at the Royal Society's Conversazione, 471
Photography through Opaque Bodies, M. A. d'Arsonval, 293
Photometer, On a Standard, 610
Photometers and Standards of Light, On, 610
Physical Experiment in Relation to Engineering, Dr. A. B. W. Kennedy, 530
Pictet, Professor R., On Acetylene Gas, 643
Piece-rate System, A, 391, 418. 442
Pier, The Dunoon Burgh, 333, 346
Pier and Landing Stage for Bingor, New, 507
Pierre B<uuf Boiler? The, 615
Piesse, Mr., his Appointment, 319
Pig Iron in Germany, Output in March, 446
Pig Iron in Germany, Total Outturn of, 161
Pig Iron, Sandy, 301
Pig Iron Trade Association, British, and Foreign Competition, 301
Pig Iron in the U.S. in 1895, Produc'ion of, 6
Piles. Long Used by the Tacoma Land Company, 489
Pilkington end Colson, Messrs., New Graving Docks at Portsmouth, 181,185, 192
Pin making Machinery ! 321
Pintsch Gas for Lighting Railway Cars, 563
Pipes, Casting Pump, 79
Pipes and Fittings, On Steel, 458
Pipes, Insulating Underground Steam, 377
Pipes, Street Subways for, 86
Pittsburg Water Supply, Feasibility and Cost of Sand Filtration to be Investigated, 187
Plain Parallel Surfaces, Theory of the Lubrication of, 25
Planck, Professor, On the Cooling of Gases during Adiabatic Expansion, 446
Planets, The, Are they Worlds like Ours? 345
Planimeter, Hatchet, 139
Planing Machine, Horizontal and Vertical, 444
Plants for Generation of Electric Energy, Exam¬ples of, 548, 549, 575
Plate, An Enormous, 506 Plates, Carnegie's Double-forged, 215
Plateway, The Proposed Lancashire, 250
Platforms at Sea for Searchlights, On Steady, 443
Platinum in New South Wales, Large Deposits of, discovered in, 353
Platt, Mr. James, Coal Washing Plant at the Wirral Colliery, 215
Ploughing Record in Old MS. Book, 319
Ploughing by Steam, bink in the History of, 147
Plumbago Deposits near Mandalay, 151
Plumbers’ Registration Bill, The, 248
Plymouth New Docks, 262
Police Telegraph Alarm, 582
Pollard Urquhart, Mr., on Riilway Bridges for Branch Lines, 571
Pollitt, Mr. Harry, Express Passenger Loco¬motive, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln¬shire Railway (Supplement, March 20th, 1896), 290
Pollitt, Mr. William, his New Appointment, 353
Polyphase Currents directed to E'ectric Traction, Application of, 293
Popecatepetel, Proposed Aerial Cable Railway to the Summit of, 463
Population of Registration London, The, 543
Port Orchard Dry Deck, Opening of the, 543
Portland Cament, Comparative Tests of, 563
Portsmouth Corporation r. the London, Brighten, and South Coast Railway Bill, 248
Portsmouth Dockyard, Great Activity in, 187
Portsmouth, The Two New Docks at, 181, 185, 192
Portuguese Government, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company's Tender accepted by the, 463
Postal Pneumatic Tabes, 195
Potato Diggers, 612
Potato Planter, Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, 639
Potato Planters, Royal Agricultural Society's Trials of, 319
Powdered Coil Firing, 44
Powdered Fuel Boiler Furnace and Apparatus, Wegener's, 485
Power, Deadweight, 443
Preston and the Ribble Navigation, 492
Price, Mr. Alfred D., Light or Secondary Railways, 488
Price, Mr. J., New Graving Docks at Portsmouth. 181, 185, 192
Price-Williams, Mr., on Victorian Coal, 543
Prior Publication or not, 191, 267
Private Bills in Parliament, 187, 315, 406
Prize Competition, On the Stimulus to Invention of a, 489
Problem of Bristol Docks, Tho—Lockisation of the Avon, 307
Problem of Speed, A, 510, 539, 549, 567
Problem of Speed, Mr. J. A. Normand, 610
Projectiles, Wheeler-Sterling. 487
Propeller Blados, Corrosion of Screw, 408
Propfe Mill for Grinding Coal-dust Fuel, 407
Provisional Orders, 1896, 406
Puffing Billy, 489, 518, 539, 600, 643
Puffing Billy, Resolution Passed that Steps bs taken to Preserve, 643
Puffing Billy, Stephenson’s, Steps to Preserve, 489
Pulling up Trains, New Method for, 647
Pulsometer Engineering Company, Ammonia Ice¬-making Plant, 516, 517
Pump, Bailey’s Hydraulic Sewage, 184
Pump and Engines, Centrifugal Series, 390
Pump Pipes, Casting, 79
Pumps, Drowned, 35
Pumps, Duty of, 518
Pumps at the Nuremburg Exhibition, 637
Pump, Plunger, 637
Pump, Rotary, 637
Pump, Worthington Electric, 581
Pumping Engines, Colchester Waterworks, 27, 33
Pumping Engines, Compound Cornish, 84, 85, 88
Pumping Engines for Johannesburg, Messrs. Jas. Simpson and Co., 10, 12
Pumping Problem, A, 96
Punching and Shearing Machine, Mr. John Cameron, 223
Punjab Irrigation, Ancient and Modern, Sir Jas. Lyall on, 139
Putzler Bros., Messrs., Red Pot Glass, 187
Puy du Gouffre, Sliding of the Mountain called, 3 I 187

Q

QUADRICYCLE, with Rotary Pump and Fire Hose, 111
Quartz Crushing and Dressing Plant, 146
Queensland, The Albert Railway Bridge, Indooroopilly, 52, 53, 60
Quick-fire Naval Gun Sights, 231

R

RACE to the North, The, 38
Racine Carriage with Kane-Pennington Engine, 3, 4
Rack and Cog-wheal Railways of the World, Total Length of the, 248
Rack Railway, Accident on the Snowdon, 371, 375, 402
Radiation and Box-coil Connections under the Mills System, 567
Radiations Emitted by Phosphorescence, On, 263
Radiations Emitted by Phosphorescent Bodies, Invisible, 293
“ Radiator” Butter-maker, The, 613, 616
Rail Sections, Some of the Difficulties in Design¬ing, 443
Rails, Bulkhead and Flange, 165
Railway Accidents, 111, 139, 187, 213, 376, 489, 560
Railway Accident in Algeria, 489
Railway Accidents in America, 376, 560
Railway Accidents and their Causes, Two, 489
Railway Accident near Garstang, 376
Railways in Asiatic Tarkey, 558
Railways in Australia, Importance of the Develop¬ment of, 419
Railway Axle Bearings, 327
Railway Axles, A New Lubricant for, 627
Railway Bills, 248, 319
Railway Bridges, for Branch Lines, 571
Railway Bridges, Life of Iron, 157
Railway Carriage Lavatories, 431
Railway Carriage and Wagon Companies, Great Improvement in Trade found by all, 319
Railway Carriage Warming Apparatus, Howard and Taite’s, 329
Railways, The Chilian Government and, 591
Railways in China, 114, 319
Railways in China, The Emperor’s Edict Relating to, 319
Railway Coaches, 267
Railway Collision, A Pre-arranged, as a Novel Attraction, 543
Railway Companies concerned in the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Leicester, Cart¬age Rates Reduced by the, 319
Railways and the Country, 311
Railway, Dalmuir and Clydebank, 562
Railway Economics, 255, 267
Railway Department, Japanese Imperial, 393
Railways in Germany, Mileage of New, 353
Railway and Harbour, Mallaig, 486
Railway Industry of Bavaria, Nuremburg Exhi¬bition, 636
Railways, Light, 209, 233, 243, 345, 543, 569, 591
Railways, Light, in South Wales, 209
Railway from London to South Wales, Proposed, 79
Railway Matters, 7, 31, 59, 87, 111, 139,161,187, 213, 248, 263, 293, 319, 353, 376, 393, 419, 446, 463, 489, 519, 543, 563, 591, 625, 643
Railway Mileage in Australia, Europe, United States, and Canada Compared, 446
Railway for New York, New, 101
Railways, Private and State, in the Colonies, 393
Railway Race, After the Great, 103
Railway Rates, Continental Competition aud the, 115
Railway Rates, Reduction of, 463
Railway Schemes of 1846, Some, 108
Railway Shops in War, 118
Railway Signals, Books on? 469
Railway Speeds, Acceleration of, 407
Railway Working, Irish, 169
Railway Working, Scotch, 270
Railways of the World, 263
Railway Zone Tariff System in Russia, The, 428
Rainfall at Greenwich for 1896, 643
Rainfall at Oxford, 139
Raising Water by an Air Pump, 83
Ram “Katahdin,” The United States, 329
Ramsay, Dr. W., On the Growing Tendency to Parasitic Work, 213
Ramsay, Professor, Volume by, On Methods of Extracting Argon from Air, 293
Rance, Mr. Charles E. de, On the Warwickshire and Lancashire Coalfields, 186
Randolph’s Steam Coach at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, 461, 465
Ransome, Mr. J. Stafford, 457
Rinsome, Mr. J. Stafford, Wages in the Engi¬neering Trade, 335, 557
Ransome and Co., Messrs. A., Log Band Saw for Sweep and Bevel Work, 277
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Messrs., Potato Planter, 639
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Messrs., Shaft Governor, 638
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Messrs., The Showman’s Road Locomotive, 639
Rapid Erection of Tall Steel Buildings, 92
Rapid Transit Problem, A, 549
Ratcliffe, Mr. E. S., Simplex Dead-lock Belt Shifter, 541
Rates of Speed and Rates of Freight, 210
Rawson, Major H. E., Analysis of the Greenwich Rainfall Records, 1879-90, 416
Rayleigh, Lord, On the Chemical Position of Argon, 489
Rayleigh, Lord, his concluding Lecture on Light, 393
Rayleigh, Lord, on Light, 213
Rays, x, 301
Red Pot Glass, 187
Reducing Journal Box Friction, 356
Reduction of Fares on the Cambrian System, 376
Redwood-Clowes Inflammable Vapour Detector, The, 590
Reed Water-tube Boiler, The, 172
Refining Petroleum Action of Sulphuric Acid in, 393
Refractory Material, Sternberg and Delettre, New Process for the Production of, 419
Refrigerating Plant, Ammonia Compression Ice¬making and, 516, 517
Regenerative Cold, 91
Relief of the Earth’s Crust, On the, 625 Removal of Wreck, 131
Remscheid and Chemnitz Waterworks, The, 494, 498
“ Renown ” Battleship, Trial of, 353
Resal, M., The Mirabeau Bridge over the Seine, 609, 615, 618
Reservoir Dams with Iron Sheeting, 459
Resistance of American Rolling Stock, 191
Retort Carbon as a Material for the Manufacture of Resistance, 463
Reversible Propellers Controlled from the Deck, Another Instance of the Advisability of, 213
Reversing Screw Propellers Controlled from the Bridge, Advantages of, 187
Rhea Fibre, 596, 616
Rhodes’ Steam Carriage, 265
Ribbed Window Glass, 652
Ribble Improvement Works, Map Showing, 492
Richards, Mr. E. Windsor, his Presidential Address at the Institute of Mechanical Engi¬neers, 457, 474
Richmond Well Adits, Concussions Produced by Gelignite Shots Fired in the, 353
Riekie’s Compound Engine for Steep Inclines, 617
Rifle, The Blake Electric, 84
Rifle, Compressed Gas, Herr Paul Brand, 139
Rifles, Tests of American, 560
Rigg, Mr. Arthur, Hydraulic Rotative Engines, 476
Riotte Motor Bicycle, The, 4
Ritchie, Mr., On the Light Railways Bill, 191
Rivers Committee’s Report, The, 187 Road Bridges, 190
Road Carriage Competition, Tbe “Engineer” 100
Guinea, 385, 469, 521, 545, 566, 569
Road Carriages, Self-propelled—see Horseless Carriages
Roads in England and their Cost, 161
Road Inquiry of the United States, Department of Agriculture, Results of, 489
Road Locomotives, Mr. W. Fletcher on, 51, 84
Road Locomotives, Mr. A. Holt’s Scheme for, 187
Road Locomotives, Light Railways c. Light, 315
Road and Street Making in Towns, Mr. J. Rae Baterden, 217
Roads and Streets in Suburban Towns, The Main¬tenance of, 162
Roberts-Austen, Professor, Exhibit at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 584
Roberts-Austen, Professor, his Modification of M. C. Margot’s Experiment with Aluminium Wire, 474
Robertson, Mr. Thomas, his Appointment, 161
Robey and Co., Messrs., Road Locomotives, 52
Robinson, Mr., London Water Supply, 247
Robinson, Professor H., and Mr. W. N. Blair, The St. Pancras Electric Lighting and Dust Destructor Installation, 284—288
Rochester Bridge, 290, 327
Rochester, United States, Tramways and Electric Traction, 293
Rock Structures, Metamcrpbism and Re-crystal¬lisation of, 293
Rock Temperature, Professor Agassiz’s Tests of, 111
Rods by the Magnetometer Method, Tests of, 463
Rolled Steel c. Cast Iron Chairs for Railways, 467
Rolling Mill Eagines, Condensers for, 420
Rolling Mill Engines, Dowlais Works, Cardiff
(Supplement, April 10th, 1896), 375
Rolling Mills, Equipment and Working of, 504
Rolling Mills and Steel Works, Parkhead Forge, 130, 140,153-155
Rolling Stock, 267
Rolling Stock of the Belgian Light Railway (Sup¬plement, May Is/, 1896), 439, 440, 441, 445
Rolling Stock on the East and West Coast, and the Great Western Railway Third-class and First-class Cars, 563
Rolling Stock for the Flying Scotsman Service, New, 551
Rolling Stock, Great Northern Railway Com¬pany’s New Dining Cars, 376
Rolling Stock in India, Metre-gauge, Proposed Adoption of, in Egypt, 353
Rolling Stock—Lavatories, 431
Rolling Stock, North-Eastern Railway, 60C
Rolling Stock, Oude and Rohilkund Railway, 58
Rolling Stock, Resistance of American, 191
Rolling Stock, Standard Capacity of Russian Freight Cars, 446
Rolling Stock of To-day and Twenty-five Years ago, 376
Roatgen, Prof., The New Photography, 232
Röntgen, Prof., his Discovery should be called Actinography, 139
Röntgen Rays, Diagnosis made by Means of, 161
Röntgen Rays, Exhibits connected with, at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 474, 584
Röntgen .r Rays, Experiments by Italian Physi¬cists on, 393
Röntgen Rays, M. Jean Perrin on the, 187, 376
Röntgen Rays, M. J. Rydberg on, 376
Röntgen Rays, Mr. A. A. C. Swinton and the, 213, 248, 263
Rope Traction, 64
Ross-Hepworth Projection Lamp, The, 293
Rotative Engines, Hydraulic, 476
Roth Method of Firing Shots, Discussion on Mr. G. Blake Walker’s Paper on the, 449 Rotherham, Scarcity of Water, and Assistance offered by Sheffield, 591
Rotherham Sewage Scheme, 293
Roumania, Petroleum Mines in, 599
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., After the Great Rail¬way Race, 103
Rous-Marten, Mr. Chas., On the “Dunalastair,” 235, 242
Rous-Martin, Mr. Chas., The New Caledonian Express Locomotive, 211

Royal Agricultural Society:

Show at Leicester, Dates of Entries and Trials, 233, 319, 463
Midland Railway Company’s Arrangements Connected with, 543
Clarke’s Crank and Forge Company, Duplex Oil Engine, 638
Clayton and Shuttleworth’s Portable Engine, 638
Cooper Steam Digger, 640, 644
Foden and Sons, Road Locomotive, 639, 644
Hardman’s Hand - power Circular Sawing, Boring, Drilling, and Spoke-tanging Machine, 641, 642
Implements’ Department, Things included in, 638
Miscellaneous Exhibits at the, 641
Nicholson's Spring Steel Tine Cultivator, 642
Prizes for Self-moving Vehicles to bo offered by, 376
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’ Potato Planter, 639 :
Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies’, Showman’s Road Locomotive, 638, 639
Silver Medals Awarded for Implements, 638
Steam, Oil, and Gas Engines at, 638
Stephenson-Armstrong Igniter, 641
Taylor and Hubbard’s Steam Crane, 641
Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., Wheat Washer and Whizzer, 640
Royal Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Engines of the “ Ocean," 238, 239
Royal Institution :
Lectures before Easter, 143
Lectures after Easter, Subjects and Names of Lecturers, 319, 365
Light, Lord Rayleigh, 213, 393
Niagara Power Works, Mr. L. Comm erford Marten, 647
Recent Chemical Progress, Professor Dewar, 419
Tunnel under the Thames at Blackwall, Mr. A. R. Binnie, 259
Royal Navy, Assistant Eagineers in the, 367
Royal Navy Reserve, Engineers for the, 399
Royal Ordnance Factories, The, 37, llo
Royal School of Mines, 64, 134
Royal Society:
Conversaziones, Exhibitors and Exhibits at, :
474, 584
Expansion of Argon and Helium as compared ; with that of Air and Hydrogen, Dr. J. P. Kuenen and Dr. W. W. Randall, 31
Royal Society of Edinburgh :
Stereo-photo-chromoscope, Mr. Frank Ives, 213
Royal United Service Institution:
Apparatus for Providing a Steady Platform at, Sea for Searchlights, &c., Mr. Beauchamp Tower, 443
Royal, Mr. William, Manufacture of Crank and Propeller Shafts and Some of the Causes of i their Breakage, 378
Ruchonnet and Dumur, Messrs., Line through the SimploD, 161
Rudgard, Mr. H. I., Removal of the Marsh-lane i Tunnel, Leeds, 202
Russell and Powles, Messrs., New Integrator, 83
Russell—see Electric Indicator for Ships’ Lights, The, 582
Russian Battleships, Telephones and Electric Alarm Bells on, 139
Russian Freight Cars, Standard Capacity of, 446
Russian Government, Torpedo-boat Destroyers for the, 263
Russia, Locomotives for, Baldwin Works, 563
Russian Railway Mileage in 1895, 446
Russia, The Railway Zone Tariff System in, 428
Russia, Testing Armour for, 434
Rust on Steel, French Process for Preventing, 319
Rydberg, M. J. R., On the Mechanical Action , proceeding from a Crookes’ Tube, 376

S

ST. ALBANS, Show, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society’s, 446
St. Helens, Electro-chemical Company’s Works, 370
St. Louis, Collision of Electric Cars at, 419
St. Neots Accident, Major Marindin’s Report, 139
St. Neots, Accident at, and Necessity for Heavier Rails, 213
St. Pancras Electric Lighting Works, 258, 259, 260, 261, 284-288
St. Pancras Electric Lighting, King’s Road Refuse Destructor and Electric Lighting Station, 284-288
Safety Appliances for Petroleum Tanks, 265
Safety in Caisson Work, 497
Safety of Compressed Gas Cylinders, The, 337
Safety Valve, Storey’s Dead Weight, 11, 67
Salenius, M. Gustaf, “Radiator” Butter-maker, 613, 616
Salford, Sewage Disposal at, 68, 165
Salomon, M., On Lubrication of the Vehicles on the Eastern Railway of France, 111
Salomons, Sir David, Engine Power and Self- propelled Traffic, 610
Salomons, Sir D. L., New Form of Stereoscope, 584
Salvage Appliances, Mr. J. G. Kinghorn, 324, 335
Sand, Character of, and the Strength of Cement Mortar, 519
Sand Filtration, Feasibility and Cost of, to be Investigated at Pittsburg, 187
Sandy Pig Iron, 301
Sanitary Engineering in 1895, 19
Sanitary Works of Buenos Ayres, Tee, 55
Sankey, Captain H. R., Thermal Efficiency of
Steam Engines, 354
Sapperton Tunnel, Accident in, 393
Sasebo, New Dockyard at, 146
Saving of Life, Exhibition of Manufactures, &c., for the, 563 Saw, An Old Band, 11
Saw for Sweep and Bevel Work, Log Band, 277
Saws, Sweep Cutting Band, 301
Sawing and Spoke-tanging Machine, Mr. Hard¬man’s, 641
Schau, Mr. P., Brunn’s Automatic Feed-water Softener, 162
Schenectady Works, Twenty Locomotives ordered by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, 622, 626
Schichau, Ferdinand, 138
Schlick, Herr Otto, On Signs of Weakness in Tank Steamers, 649, 651
Schmidt’s Engine and Boiler for Superheated Steam, 105, 107, 109, 214, 221
Schooner, A Notable Clyde-built, 428
Schou’s Ammonia Compressors, 403, 405
Schwabbe, Dr., On the Dissipation of Electricity by Vapour, 591
Schweitzer, Mr. H., On the Adulteration of Petroleum, 543
Schwimmer, Consul, Iron Petroleum Barrels, 552
“Scot,” Lengthening the Cape Mail S.S., 291, 292, 294
Scotch Railway, Working, 270
Scott-Anderson, Mr. T., On Electric Welding, 186
Scott, Mr., Hatchet Planimeter, 139
Scott, Mr. R. H., On the High Barometer Read¬ings, 213
Scottish Soathern Coalfields, The Struggle for the, 184
Screw-pile Lighthouse and Tug-boat for LoreD/.o Marquez Port, Plans aud Designs Invited, 319
Screw Propulsion ? Question of, 193
Screw Steamers, Auxiliary Engines in, 483
Screwed Fittings for High Pressure, Mr. H. J. Barron, 350
“ Scud,” The Steam Yacht, 597
Seaton, Mr. A. E., Causes of Mysterious Fractures in Steel Shafts Revealed by the Microscope, 335, 365, 377
Sea Water for London, 87
Second-class Traffic, Steps to Arrest the Decrease in, 263
Seeley, Professor, Summer Course of Lecture Excursions, 406
Selected American Patents, 24 , 48, 74, 102, 128, 152, 180, 206, 230, 254, 282, 306, 334, 360, 384, 412, 436, 456, 482, 508, 532, 556, 580, 606, 632, 658
Self-moving Vehicles, Prizes Offered for, by the Royal Agricultural Society, 376
Self-propelled Carriages—see Horseless Carriages Sellers, Mr. Coleman, On the Introduction of the Metric System in our Workshops, 626
Semaphore Adopted by the Admiralty, Rear- Admiral C. G. Fane’s, 591
Sensitised Paper, Messrs. Bemrose and Sons, 213
Septic Tank System for Exeter, Experiment with the, 489
Sewage Disposal at Salford, 68, 165
Sewage Scheme for Rotherham, 293
Sewage Pump, Bailey’s Hydraulic, 184
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, Berkhamstead, Tenders for, 221
Sewerage of Westgate-on-Sea, 518
Shanks and Co., Messrs. Thomas, Horizontal aud Vertical Planing Machine, 444
Shaw, Mr., On the Goldfields of Matabeleland, 186
Shifting Cast Iron Water Main in Boston, 463
Sheffield Art Crafts Guild Exhibition, 591
Sheffield Canal, The, 270
Sheffield City Council and the Salaries of its Officers, 376
Sheffield, Dear Old Smoky, 505
Sheffield Dristrict, 21, 45, 71, 99, 125, 149, 177, 203, 227, 251, 279, 303, 331, 381, 409, 433, 453, 479, 505, 529, 553, 577, 603, 629, 655
Sheffield District Railway Bill, The, 519
Sheffield Extension to London, Progress of the, 190
Sheffield Municipal Tramway Working, Bill Relative to, 489
Sheffield, Reduction in the Price of Gas, 161
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, 438
Ship Canal between the Atlantic and the Mediter¬ranean, Commission to Report upon, 643
Ship Canal, The Lake Erie, 76
Ship Canal for Leeds, Mr. R. Haste Carr, 202
Ship Canal, Proposed, to Connect the Bristol and English Channels, 273, 340
Ship Canal, Proposed Crinan, 338, 503
Shipbuilding in Germany, 598, 607
Shipbuilding in Germany, Mr. F. Laeisz on, 598
Shipping, British and Foreign, New, 367
Shipping Facilities at Natal, 562
Shipping Tax to bo Levied by the Egyptian Government, New, 419
Ships’ Cabins and their Fittings, Mr. F. Somer- scales, 308
Ships, Coast Defence, 167, 191, 241
Ships, Geometry in Connection with the Stability of, 335
Ships with Long Internal Feed - pipes, The Admiralty relative to, 228
Ships, Number and Tonnage of, that Traversed the Suez Canal in 1895, 543
Ships’ Plates, Angle of Countersink for, 519
Ships’ Side-lights at Sea, Screening, Order in Council respecting, 161
Ships, On the Use of Electricity on Board, 627
Shipyard and Floating Docks of Messrs. Blohm and Voss, 590
Shrewsbury Main Drainage, 67
Shunting in Darkness, Colonel H. A. Yorke on, 489
Shunting Trains, Cars Equipped with Electric Motors for, Tested at Brooklyn Terminus, 353
Siam Railways, 225
Siberian Line to China, Progress of the, 625
Sicilian Sulphur Mines and Miners, Report on, 446
Side Pressure Ball Bearings, 499
Siemens Bros, and Co.’s Exhibits at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 584
Siemens and Halske’s Experiments in Connection with the Reported Fusion of Two Nails by Lightning, 543
Sifter, Carter’s Pendulum, 572
Signalling, Electro-pneumatic Automatic Block, 9
Silicides of Nickel and Cobalt, M. Vigouroux on 139
Simond’s Steam Motor Velocipede, 5
Simons and Co., Dredger for South Africa, 591
Simonsen, Nielsen and Wedum, Messrs., Flutmeter, 599
Simplex Wiud Engine, The, 133
Simplon, Line through the, 161
Simplon Railway, Projected, 563
Simplon Route to Italy, The, 621
Simplon Tunnel, Convention between Switzerland and Italy, 213, 625
Simpson and Co., Messrs. James, Pumping En¬gines for Johannesburg, 10, 12
Simpson, Mr., On tbe Blackwall Tunnel, 554
Singapore, Municipal Engineer, 249
Sirius Fabrik, Patent for the Use of Retort Carbon for the Manufacture of Resistance, 463
Skating Palace, Tho National, 40
Skelmorlie Mile, Vessels Tried on the, 519
Slag Cement Trade, Reports Dealing with the, 419
Slide Valve Friction, 34, 67, 96, 120, 138, 191, 301
Sliding and Surfacing Brake Lathe, 40
Sligo, Leitrim, and Northern Counties of Ireland Railway, Mr. Hanbury on the Proposed Sale of the, 419
Sloop “ Phoenix,” The, 35
Slough, Water Supply of, 423
Smit and Zoon, Messrs., The Tug-boat " Ocean,” 235, 238, 239
Smith and Coventry, Messrs., Heavy Turning and Boring Mill, 222
Smith, Mr. E. Metcalf, On the Treatment of New Zealand Magnetic Iron-sand, 462
Smith, Professor R. H., his Resignation, 614
Smulders, Mr. A. F. Dredger, and Hydraulic Spoil Elevator, Baltic Snip Canal, Working Drawing (Supplement, January 3rd, 1896)
Smyth, Mr. W. H., “ Invention,’’the Indefinable Requirement of the Patent Laws, 541
Snowdon Riilway, The, 218, 263, 371, 375, 397, 402, 563
Snowdon Railway, Accident on the, 371, 375, 402
Snowdon Railway Accident, Question in the House concerning, 563
Société St. Leonard, Locomotives, Belgian Light Railways, 440, 445
Société Metallurgique, Locomotives for Light Railways, 440, 441
Society of Apts:
Annual Conversazione, 625
Benjamin Shaw Trust Gold Medal. 647
Cantor Lectures, Subjects and Lecturers’ Names, 364
Fothergill Prize and Silver Medal, Subject of Paper for which the Society Offer the, 402
Röntgen's Photography of the Invisible, Mr. A. A. C. Swinton, 248, 263
Supply of Sea Water for London, Mr. F. Grier¬son, 87
Society of Apts, The Indian Section of:
Gohna Landslip, Mr. Glass on tbe, 266
Punjab Irrigation, Ancient and Modern, Sir James Lyell, 139
Society, The Belfast Philosophical:
Horseless Carriages, Mr. Brown on, 422
Society, The Berlin Meteorological:
Atmospheric Electricity, Dr. Schwalbe on some Theories of, 591
Sunshine over Europe, Professor Kremson on the Duration of, 187
Society, The Berlin Physical:
Cooling of Gases during their Adiabatic Expansion, Dr. Lindau and Prof. Planck on the, f 446
Magnetising and Hysteresis of Steel and Iroo, Dr. Du Bois, 625
Society, The Cambridge:
Some Scratched Stones from the Permo- carboniferous Rocks of South-east Australia and the Question of Recurring Ice Ages, Professor Hughes, 463

Society, The Chemical:

Acetylene Theory of Luminosity, Mr. Vivian B. < Lewes, 139
Composition of the Limiting Explosive Mixtures ; of Various Combustible Gases with Air, Mr. , Frank Clowes, 7
Mode of Formation of Carbon Dioxide in the Burning of Carbon Compounds, Mr. H. B. Dixon, 353
Products Obtained by the Dry Distillation of Bran with Limo, Mr. W. F. Laycock, 187
Temperature of Certain Flames, Mr. W, N. Hartley. 463

Society, The Civil and Mechanical Engineers:

Anchors, Mr. W. Cooper Penn, 452
Commercial Efficiency of Steam Boilers, Mr. A. Uanssen, 386
Hot-water Heating, Mr. W. M. Binney, 139
Lock Nuts and Nut-locking Devices, Mr. E. H. Brewster, 58
Mechanical Handling of Goods at Riverside Premises, Mr. H. Coward, 301
Testing of the Materials of Construction, Mr. A. S. E. Ackermann, 233
Visits of the Members, 202
Wire Netting Machinery, Mr. A. Myall, 336

Society of Civil Engineers, The American:

New House for, 611

Society of Engineers, The:

First Ordinary Meeting, 133
Hydraulic Rotative Engines, Mr. Arthur Rigg, 476
Mechanics of Horse Haulage, Mr. T. H. Brigg, 234
Riilway Bridges for Branch Lines, Mr. M. A. Pollard-Urquhart, 571

Society of Engineers, The Amalgamated :

General Policy of, 484

Society of French Civil Engineers:

Progress of Electric Traction on Railways, Mr. de Grièges, 293
Varennes, Mons., Statement as to Increase of Speed on the Orleans Railway, 213

Society, The Geological:

Alteration of Certain Basic Eruptive Rocks from Brent Tor, Devon, Mr. Frank Rutley, 7
Observations on the Geology of the Nile Valley, Professor E. Hull, 353
Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, American:
Methods of Insulating Underground Systems of Steam Piping, Mr. R. C. Carpenter, 201
Screwed Fittings for High Pressure, Sir. Hugh J. Barron, 350

Society, King’s College Engineering:

Presidential Address, Mr. Mowat’s, 158
Blackwall Tunnel, Mr. Simpson, 554
Gases as llluminants, Mr. Sod can, 297
Great Western Railway, Mr. Standen, 610
Horse Haulage r. Motor Traction, Debate on, 512
Horseless Carriages, Mr. Mowat, 502, 512
London Water Supply, Mr. Robinson, 247
Officers Elected for the Ensuing Term, 339
Petroleum, Mr. C. F. Mott, 171
Planets, The, Are they Worlds Like Ours.' Mr. S. L. Fletcher, 345
Tolescopes, their Construction and Revelations, Mr. Fletcher, 567
Time-rate of Growth of Magnetisation of Iron and its Importance to the Electrical Engi¬neer, Mr. Wilson on the, 204

Society, The Manchester Geographical :

Canals and Navigable Rivers, Mr. L. B. Wells, 171

Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American:

Piec9-rate System, A, Mr. Fred W. Taylor, 391, 418, 412
Tests of a 10-Horae Power De Laval Steam
Turbine, Mr. W. F. M. Goss Lafayette, 477

Society, The Meteorological:

Analysis of the Greenwich Rainfall Records from 1879-1890, Major H. E Rawson, 416
Arctic Hail and Thunderstorms, Mr. H. Harries, 624
Dustin the Atmosphere, Mr. E. D. Fridlander’s
Observations on, 416
Exposure of Anemometers, Mr. R. H. Curtis, 516 . .
High Barometer Readings in the British Isles, Mr. R. H. Scott on the, 213
Mean Amount of Cloud on Each Day of the Yeir at the Greenwich Observatory, on the Average of Fifty Years, 1841-90, Mr. W. Ellis, 416
Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings, Mr. Frederick Gaster, 293

Society, The Physical:

Dielectrics, Mr. R. Appleyerd, 543
Eection of President and Council, 202
New Instruments for tho Direct Measurement of tbe Frequency of Alternating or Pulsating Electric Currents, Mr. Campbell, 543
Photographs taken by Professor Röntgen's Method, Mr. Campbell Swinton Exhibits, 111

Society, Steam Engine Makers':

Introductory Address of Mr. James Swift, and Seventy-first Annual Report, 159

Society, The Yorkshire College Engineering:

Gas Engines, Mr. Wm. Norris, 349
Weaving Mechanisms, Mr. A. F. Barker, 202
Sodean, Mr., Gases as Illuminates, 297
Soho, A Century of, 120
Sabo Foundry, A Curious Old Engine, 208
Soho Works, James Watt and Co., 241, 267 S
“Sokol” Type, Destroyers of the, 263
Soliani, Colonel, On a Compound Boiler, 335
Soliani, Co’onel N., Water-tight Doors, 325
Solid Top Wood Peg Turning and Stamping Machines.' 619
Solution and Diffusion of Metals in Mercury, and of Non-metallic Solids in Liquids, 543
Solvay, M. E., On the Mechanical Production of Extreme Temperatures, 248 Somerscales, Mr. F., Ships’ Cabins and their Fittings, 308
Soudan, Progress of the Forket Railway, 643
Souudings, On Deep, 248
Southall, Monsted's Margarine Factory, 403, 404
South-Eastern Railway Company’s Cheap Fares to the Berlin Exhibition, 454
South-Eastern Railway Company, Reduction of Rates on Agricultural Produce Considered by the Directors, 353
South Kensington Museum, The Southern Galories Lighted and Opened, 161
South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Acts,
Meeting of Arbitrators at Dudley, 489
South Yorkshire Coke Trade, The, 646
Spain, Copper Mines in, 400
Spanish Flest, Special Credits Applied for Increasing the, 643
Spain, Torpedo Boats for, 7 Speed on French Railways, Increase of, 213
Speed, The Problem of, 510, 549, 567
Speed, Problem of, Mr. J. A. Normand, 510
Speed Record, Highest Trials Made on the Berlin and Görlitz Line, 643
Speed Record, One Way of Making a, 97
"Spider" in Commission, The, 191
Spoon Dredger, Swales’, 266
Sprague Electric Elevator, 582
Stability of Ships, Geometry in Connection with the, 335
Stability of Tall Chimneys, Mr. F. J. Bancroft, 184
Stability in Warship Construction, The French Naval Authorities and, 446
Stamping of Patent and other Forms at Inland Revenue Offices in the Provinces, Authorised, 463
Standard Methods of Analysis, On the Introduc¬tion of, 487
“ Standart.” Signalling to the, 184
Standen, Mr., On the Great Western Railway, 610
Stanton Ironworks, Blowing Engines at the, 139
Starley’s Rover Cob Bicycle, 51
State Railroad Commissioners of New York Refuse to Permit Construction of a Bicycle Railway in the City, 213
Staten Island, Projected Development of, 563
Steady Platforms at Sea for Searchlights, On, 413
Steamboat, The Bazin Disc Wheel, 502
Steam Carriage, Cugnot's, 422, 623
Steam Carriages at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, 461, 465
Steam Carriages at the Imperial Institute Exhibi¬tion, 472
Steam Carriage, Randolph's at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, 461, 465
Steam Carriages, Some more, 421
Steam Carriages—»" Horseless Carriages Steam Crane Locomotivo, -120
Steam Digger, The Cooper, 640, 644
Steam Engines —sre Eagines.
Steam Steam Engines, Thermal Efficiency of, 354, 503
Steam Fire EDgine, Floating, 336
Steam Hammer, First, 354
Steam Launch for Ambulance Service, 108
Steam Locomotives on Common Roads, 51, 84, 104
Steam Locomotives on Common Roads, Mr, W. Fletcher, 104
Steam Pipes, Insulating Underground, 201, 377,
Steam Pipes, On Steel, 458 Steam Ploughing, Link in the History of, 147
Steam Road Carriages—css Horseless Carriages Steam and Rope Tramway at Havre, 30
Steam, Superheated, 193
Steam Superheating, Notes on, 196
Steam Superheating, Mr. W. H. Patchell's Notes on, 458
Steam Tramways in Italy, 519
Steam Trap, A New, 626
Steamers, Auxiliary Engines in Screw, 483
Steamers, Engine Power in Paddle, 301, 327, 877, 397
Steamers. Inland Navigation and Foreign-going, £ 39
Steamer " Scot,” Lengthening the Mail, 212
Steamer, Tank, Herr 0. Schlick, On Signs of
Weakness in, 619, 651
Steamers, Three Swift Steel Paddle, for the Zse- land Steamship Company, 256, 257, 268
S.S. “Aberdeen, Engines and Boilers of the, 311, 312
S.S. “ Mare,” Machinery of, Repaired at Sea, 187
Steamships, Tne Growth of, 426
Steamship Propulsion. 138
Steam Yacht “Scud,” Tho, 597
Steam Yachts, American and English, 563
Steel, On the Application of Mond Producer Gas to the Manufacture of, 488
Steel Boiler Plates in the United States, Testing, 431
Steel Bridge ovor the Medway, Mr. H. Wood- £ house's Design for, 111
Steel Buildings, Rapid Erection of Tall, 92
Steel Canal Boats, 578
Steel Foundry to be Erected in Japan, 463
Steel-hardening, To Cut Hard Steel, 115
Steels, Hardening of Extra Hard, 139
Steel Houses in the Transvaal, 111
Steel and Iron, Dr. du Bois on the Magnetising and Hysteresis of, 625
Steel Pen-making Machinery? 89
Steel Plates, American and English Methods of Manufacturing, 504
Steel, Preventing Rnst on, 319
Steel Production. America’s, 245
Steel Rails, Combination amongst British Manu¬facturers of, 187
Steel Railway Chair, Harrison’s Patent, 498
Steel Railway Chair, Muirhead’s, 444
Steel, Mr. Seaton's Microscopical Investigations into, 335
Steel Shafts, Causes of Mysterious Fractures in, Revealed by the Microscope, 365, 377
Steel for Shipbuilding, The German Government and English, 470
Steel Sleepers, 137
Steel Steam Pipes and Fittings, On, 458
Steel, Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild, 10 "j
Steel Water Supply Conduit of Newark, N.J., 248
Steel will be Superseded by Aluminium, Mr.
Oldknow considers that, 563 Steel Works, Balance-sheet of a GermaD, 143
Steiger, Mr. Alph., On the Utilisation of Water Power, with Examples of Plant? for the Generation of Electrical Energy, 548 , 575
Stephenson-Armstrong Igniter, Toe, 611
Stereo-photo-chromoscope, Mr. F. Ives on the, 213 '
Sterilised Butter, Manufacture of, 613, 616 ’
Sternberg and Delettre’s Process for Producing 'Refractory Material, 419
Stettin, The Vulcan Works, 564, 588, 589
Stevens' Wood Spoko Wheal, 188
Stevenson, Mr. E. L , On the Principles Governing tbe Transfer of Gas Undertakings, 590
Stokers for the Navy, Standard Height to be Reduced, 643
Stone Quarries, Electric Lighting of, 56
Stoneware Conduits, Doulton's, 237
Storage Battery Traction on French Tramways, 591
Storey’s Deadweight Safety Valve, 11, 67
Stove, Ford and Moncur Hot-blast, 462 ’
Stratton Separators Reported on by the United ' Electric Light and Power Co., of New York, ’ 446
Straw Bottle Cases 593
Street, Mr. A. J., his Report as Inspector of Weights and Measures, 446
Street Car Fares, Brooklyn, 463
Street Car Lines, Tbe Underground Conduit
System and the Overhead, 591
Street Car with Pivoted Seats in New York, Trial of, 563
Streets in tho Metropolis containing Water-pipes Constantly Charged, Mileage of, 463
Street Subways for Pipes, 86
Strikes in the United States, Effect of, 80
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., Measurement of Feed and Circulating Water, &c., by Chemical Moans, 365, 379
Stromeyer, Mr. C. E., Method of Estimating Feed-water, 335
Strond Canal, The, 460, 468
Sturge's Storage Battery Carriage, Submarine Telegraphic Works, 448
Subsidence of Mountains, 563
Subways for Pipes, Street, 86
Suction Dredgers, Messrs. J. and H. Gwynne, 293
Suez Canal, Total Number and Tonnage of Vessels Traversed the, in 1895, 543
Sugar Industry in New South Wales, The, 519
Sugar and Molasses Produced in New South Wales, 1894, 376
Sugg, Mr., On Photometers and Standards of Light, 610
Suicides in the Engine-room Staff of tbe Mer¬cantile Marine, 477
Sulphur Minos and Miners, On Sicilian, 446
Sulphuric Acid in Refining Petroleum, Action of, 393
Sun, Photographs of, taken at Greenwich, 625
Sundale Packing Block, The, 589
“ Sunfish ” Trials, The, 79
Sunshine over Europe, On the Daration of, 187
Superheated Steam, 193
Superheating Steam, 196
Superheating Steam, Mr. W. Patchell on, 143
Superheated Steam, Remarks on, at tho Institute
of Mechanical Engineers, 458

Supplements:

Dredger and Hydraulic Spoil Elevator, Baltic Ship Canal (Working Drawing), Mr. A. F. Smolders, January 3rd, 1896
Electric Light Installation, India and Ceylon Exhibition, Earl’s Court, Messrs. Davey, Paxman, and Co., May 22nd, 1896
Express Locomotive, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, Mr. Harry Pollitt, March 20th, 1896
Express Passenger Locomotive, Midland Rail- i way, Mr. S. Johnson, January 31st, 1896
Locomotive Boiler, 8.8. “Queen of the North,” Mossrs. Laird Brothers (Working Drawing), January 24th, 1896
Midland Railway Express Passenger Locomotive (Portfolio Working Drawing, No. 5), June 5tb, l£9j
Narrow Gauge Goods Locomotive, Cape Govern¬ment Railway, Messrs. Neilson and Co , February 28 ;h, 1896
Particulars of the Locomotives on Belgian Light Railways, May 1st, 1896
Rolling Mill Engines, Dawlais Works, Cardiff, Messrs. Dan. Adamson and Co., April 10th, 1896 .
Types of the Rolling Stock of the Belgian Light Railways, May 1st, 1896
Surface Scum Cock and Valve for Boiler, 355
Swain, Jud., Mr. John, 315
Swales’ Spoon Dredger, 266
Swansea, Triple Scheme of Refuse Destructor, Electric Lighting and Tramcar Propulsion for, 161
Sweden, Northernmost Railways in the World, 463
Sweep-catting Band Saws, 301
Sweet, Prof. John E., Special Features Seen in British Workshops, 271
Swift, Mr. James, Introductory Address and Report of the Steam Engine Makers' Society, 159
Swinton, Mr. A. A. C., and the Röntgen Rays, 213
Swinton, Mr. A. A. C., On Röatgen's Photography, 111, 248, 263
Sydney Mint, Gold Coined at the, 393
Sydney, Smith, and Sons, Messrs., Syren with Organ Whistle for the “Standart," 184
Symmons, Mr. P. W., Coal Storage Hoppers at Battersea, 162, 163

T

TALLOW Produced in New South Wales, 393
Tampico Harbour Works, Mexico, 365
Tanging Machine, Sawing, Boring, and, 641
Tanks for Bombay, Petroleum Storage, Gigantic, 376
Tank of the Hessarghatta Waterworks Practically Completed, 319
Tank Steamer.*, On Signs of Weakness in, 649 651
Tarapaca Waterworks Co., Net Profits of the, 463
Taylor, Mr. Fred. W., A Piece-rate System, 391, 418, 442
Taylor and Hubbard’s Steam Crane, 641
Taylor and Hattersley, Messrs., Three-wire Cut¬ting and Straightening Machine, 351
Teall, Mr. J. J. H., Exhibits at the Royal Society’s Conversazione, 584
Technical College for Paisley, 339
Tecs, The, 217
Telautograph, The, 565
Telogram on Record, The O
Telegram, Twice Round tne worm Minutes, 541
Telegraphic Works, Submarine, 448
Telemeters and Range Finders, Professors Barr and Stroud, 143
Telephones and Electric Alarm Bells on Russian Battleships, 139
Telephone Service between London and Paris, 376
Telephonic Communication between the Train Dispatcher’s Office and Motor-men on Cable Cars, 111
Telescopes, Mr. Fletcher on, 567
Temper of Hand Saws, 120
Temperature of Certain Flames, Mr. W. N. Hart¬ley, 463
Temperature of 1895, Mean, 625
Temperatures, On the Mechanical Production of Extreme, 248
Tomperley Transporter Adopteiby the Admiralty,

Tenders:

Admiralty, 498
Pamping Engines for Enfield, 139
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, Berkhamstead, 221
South African Railways, Grand Junction Rail¬way Company’s, 248
‘‘Terrible,” Explosion on Board the, Inquired into, 519
“Terrible,” Trials of the, 563 Testing Armour for Russia, 434
Testing the Materials of Construction, 233
Testing Steel Boiler Plates in the United States, 431
Tests of Amerian Rilles, 560
Test of a Steam Engine. 56
Tests of Rods by tho Magnetometer Method, 463
Tests to Show Distribution of Moisture in Steam Flowing through a Horizontal Pipe, 123
Tests Appliod to Standard Clark Cells, 353
Thames, The, 437
Thames Conservators, their Report for 1895, 519
Thames Floods, 101, 321
Thames for Foot Traffic, Tunnel under the, 489
Thames as a Highway, The, 38
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Cruiser, Gunboats, Ac., for Portugal, 463
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, The Japanese Battleship “ Fuji," 221
Thames Navigation, 451, 600
Thames Paddle Steamer, “ Southend Belle,” 592, 597
Thames and Severn Canal, The, 460, 468
Thames Tunnels, The, 551
Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engine*, 354, 503
Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines, Capt. H, R. Sankey, 351
Thermometer Balance, Self-registering, 489
Thermometer into France, History of the Intro¬duction of the First Hermetically Sealed, 111
Tbirlmere Works for the Water Supply of Man¬chester, Mr. G. H. Hill on the, 423
Thomson and Joule’s Porous Plug, Prof, Onnes on the Action of, 393
Thomson, Mr. Thomas, On Reservoir Dams with , Iron Sheeting, 459
Thorine, 319 1 Thorite, 319
Thorium Carbide, Yttrium and, 319
Thorium Ores, On, 319
Thornycroft and Co., Admiralty Orders Received by Messrs., 446
” Thomycroft and Co., Messrs., Fastest Boat in the , World, 297
Three-cylinder Locomotives, 301, 326, 327
Three-head Surface Milling Machine, 367
Three-wire Cutting and Straightening Machina, Messrs. Tiyhr and Hatter fley. 351
Timber Bridge Construction in New South Wales, 520, 524, 525, 526, 527 !
Timbers, British Guiana, 263
Timber, Drying of, 591
Time Kate of Growth of Magnetisation of Iron, and its Importance to the Electrical Engineer, Mr. Wilton, 204
Tin Ore in Europe, Gnat Britain the Largest Pro¬ducing Country of, 161
Tipton New Drainage Scheme, Progress with the, 489
Tires on Passenger Engines, Wear of, New York Central Railway, 431
Todd’s Steam Carriage, 132
Tod morden Sewerage, Application for Loan Inquired into, 352
Tomlinson, Mr. S., Municipal Engineer, Singa¬pore, 249
Tommasi, M.D., New Apparatus for Electrolysis, 563
Tonnaga and Freeboard, Naval Architecture. No. VI., 437
Torpedo Boats Conveyed by Rail in Russia, 248
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 136
Torpe lo Boat Destroyers, Boilers of, 616
Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Porcupine,” 134
Torpedo Boat Destroyers for the Russian and the Argentine Governments, 263
Torpedo Boat Destroyers, Trial of, after Com¬missioning, ordered by the Admiralty, 376
Torpedo Boats, The New American, 419
Torpedo Boat “Spider” Commissioned, The, 191
Torpedo B at “ Viper,” The Austrian, 343
Torpedo Catchers ordered by the Admiralty, 446
Torpedoes in Flight, 524
Torpedo Gun Vessel for Chili, Launch of a, 416
Torquay, Electric Light for, 200
Tower, Mr. Beauchamp, his Experiments in Lubrication of Plain Parallel Surfaces, 25
Tower, Mr. Beauchamp, Steady Platforms at Sea for Search Lights, 443
Tower to be erected at the Empire of India and Ceylon Exhibition, 293
Traction Engines, 539, 567
Traction Engine, Accident with, 625
Traction Engines, Compound, 498
Traction Engines on Reads, 249, 328, 341, 419, 423, 444, 473, 492, 512
Traction Engines on Roads, Mr. Mulvaney’s Evidence, 512
Traction on Road Regulations, Infringement of the, 419
Traction Engines on Roads, Select Committee of the House of Commons, 328
Traction Engine Wheels, 123
Trade and Business Announcements, 11, 30, 100, 122, 147, 171, 202, 221, 250, 262, 297, 314, 352, 367, 392, 416, 502, 523, 542, 576, 599, 647
Trade Disputes of Clyde Settled, 338
Trade, Improven in, found by Railway Carriso’e,iics] 255,"pu Company’s, 319 ƒ Department I“-iramo on London and the Tower Bridges, 489
Train Accidents in the United States, 187
Trains for the Flying Scotsman Service, New, 551
Train Resistance, Question of, 62, 96
Tramcar, Narrow Gauge Self-propelling, 596
Tram Eogine and Car, A Runaway, 383
Tramway Accident at Bradford, 498
Tramway Bills in the Coming Session, 376
Tramways Bill, Derby and Ashbonrne, 293
Tramways, Coal Consumption on French, 461, 591
Tramway Companies in Chicago Ten Years Ago and Now, 563
Tramway Company’s Report, The London Street, 161
Tramways, Electric, 2y3
Tramways, Electric, A United States Corre¬spondent on the Dangers of, 591
Tramways, Electric, Madras, 263
Tramways, Electric, Total Length of, in Europe, 591
Tramways at Havre, Steam and Rops, 30
Tramways in Italy, Steam, 519
Tramways, London, to be Sold to the County Council, 419
Tramways, Mr. Lyman on the Power required for Electric Traction on, 293
Tramways, The Nechells, 139
Tramways, Proposal to Work the Middlesbrough,
Thornaby, and Stockton by the Overhead Electric System, 353
Tramways, Report of the Highways Committee of the London County Council’s on the Pur¬chase and Leasing of, 319
Tramway System of the Metropolis, Purchase of, by the London County Council, 376
Tramway Track at Rochester, United States, 293
Tramway Trust, A, 376 Tramways in the United States, 226
Tramways, Vauxhall Bridge, 218
Tramway Working, Municipal, 489
Transatlantic Steamers, Mail Records of, 83
Transfer of Heat through Plates with Differently-arranged Surfaces, 87
Transporter, The Temperley, adopted by the Admiralty, 353
Transverse Loads on Beams of Mild Steel, 10
Transylvanian and Roumanian Railways, 187
Trap, A New Steam, 626
Traube, Professor, on the Germ-killing Properties of Chloride of Lime in Water, 419
Tresidder, Captain, his Formula; for Calculating the Perforation of Armour, 429
Triple Cylinder Locomotives, 269, 617
“Trusty ” Gas Engine, 145, 165
Tubes, On the Distribution of Velocities in, 643
Tube Wells at Gainsborough, 452
Tudsbury, Mr. J. H. T., Appointed Secretary of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 653
Tug-boat “ Ocean,” The Dutch, 235, 238, 239
Tunnel, Blackwall, 209, 259, 446, 554, 573
Tunnel from Millwall to Greenwich, for Foot ;
Traffic, The, 489
Tunnel, The Simplon, 625
Tunnel, Underground Electric Railway, The City,
Tunnelling under Crewe Station, 319
Turbines at the Falls of Foyers, at Brantham Mills, at Chauxdefcnds Waterworks, Ac. Ac., 548, 549, 575
Turbines, Largest Contract for, ever Placed, 319
Turbine, Tests of a 10-H.P. de Laval Steam, 477
Turner's Horizontal Condensing Engine and Mul¬titubular Boiler, 317
Turner, Messrs. E. R. and F., Wheat Washer and Whizzar, 640
TurniDg and Boring Mill, Heavy, 222
Turrets, Canet Electric, 57
Tyloratown Explosion, The, 114
Tyne, The, 247
Typewriters, 396

U.

UGANDA Railway, Progress of the, 248
Uganda Railway, Staff and Labourers quartered at Mombassa, 353
Umbrella Parts Machinery for Making Horn, Ivory, and Metal Buttons, and Steel Pens, 469
Underground Haulage by Electricity, M. Baily e-n, 393
Underground Photographs, 316, 320
Underground Steam Pipes, Insulating, 377, 550
United Electric Light and Power Co., of New York, Stratton Separators used by, 446
United States, Aluminium in the, 376
United States Battleship “Massachusetts,” Trial ' Trip of, 489
United States, Boiler Explosions in 1895 in the, 543
United States, Coal Production in 1895 in the, 643 ;
United States, Earnings of Railways in the, 139
United States, Effect of Strikes in the, 80
United States, The First Locomotive in the, 123
United States, The Fly-wheel Casualties in the, 563
United States Gunboats, Water-tube Boilers for, 111
United States Locomotives, 614, 622, 623
United States, Loss by Bad Roads in the, 489
United States, Machinery Applied to Coal Mining in the, 625
United States Navy, Cost of the New, 293
United States Navy, Engineers in the, 231, 240
United States Navy, Present Strength of, 277
United States Patents, 423
United States Patent Law, 191
United States, Petroleum in the, 594
United States, 1895, Production of Pig Iron in, 6
United States Projectile Co., Orders being Executed by, 248
United States, Railway Accidents in February in the, 419
United States Ram “Katahdin,” The, 329
United States 13in, Gun, Breech Mechanism of the, 487
United States, Train Accidents in the, 187
United States, Tramways in the, 226
Uranium, Invisible Radiators Emitted by Silts of, 376
Urban Roads and Footways, Mr. J. Julian, 87
Use of Heating Gas, The, 142
Utilising the Power of a Waterfall, 463

V

VACUUM Brake, Death of the Inventor of the, 643
Vacuum Brake on the Midland Railway, 182
Valve, Fay-Richardson, United Slates Locomo¬tives, 622, 623
Valve Friction, Slide, 34, 67, 96, 120, 191, 301
Valve Gear, Walschaert’s, 616
Valve, Storey’s Deadweight Safety, 11, 67
Vauxhall Bridge Tramways, Relative to the, 248
Velocities in Tubes, On the Distribution of, 643
Velocity of Earthquake Waves, On the, 419
Velox Drilling Machine ? The, 521
Venice, A Great Engineering Work in, 419
Viaducts, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway, 213, 218
Vibration, On the Influences of, 213
Vibration in Steam Pipes, Practical Abolition of all, by Use of Water Separators, 446
Vicentini, Prof. G., On Earthquake Pulsations, 446
Victorian Coal, Mr. Price-Williams on, 543
Victorian Railways, Mr. J. Mathieson offered the Post of General Manager of the, 543
“Victorious,” H.M.S., Anchor Gear for, 232
Vigouroux, M., On the Silicides of Nickel and Cobalt, 139
Villard and Jarry, On Solid Carbonic Anydride, 87
“ Viper,” Austrian Torpedo Boat, 343
“Volage,"Character of the Injuries Sustained by the, 643
Vulcan Works, Stettin, The, 564, 588, 589, 650
Vyrnwy Works for the Water Supply of Liver¬pool, Mr. G. F. Deacon, 423

W

WAGES in tbe Clyde Shipbuilding Trade, 348
Wages in the Engineering Trade, 335, 457, 557
Wages in the Engineering Trade, by J. S. Ran¬some, 335
Wages in English and Continental Iron Trades, 35
Wagner, Prof, Hermann, On the Relief of the Earth’s Crust, 625
Wainwright Water-tube Feed-water Heater, 583
Wales and Adjoining Counties, 22, 46, 72, 100, 126, 150, 178, 204, 228, 252, 280, 304, 332, 358, 382, 410, 434, 454, 480, 606, 630, 554, 578, 604, 630, 656
Wales and Birkenhead, New Line to assist the Mineral Traffic between, 293
Wales, Light Railways iD, 209
Walford, Mr. E. A., On the Origin of Middle-Lias Ironstone in N. Oxfordshire, 462 Walker, Mr. G. Blake, his Paper on the Roth Method of Firing Shots discussed, 449 Walker, Mr. W. G., Transfer of Heat through Plates with differently arranged Surfaces, 87
Walking and Running, <« Flexion, MM. Comte and Regnault, 248
Wallington, M. , Experiments with Ignition Tube for Gas Engines, 419
Wallis and Steevens, Messrs., Spring – mounted Traction Engine, 85
Wallwork and Wells’ Painting Machine, 499
Walrand-Legenisel Plants, New, 428
Walschaert’s Valve Gear, 616
Walter’s Excentric Shifting Gear, 215
Wanklyn, Mr. H. A., Attachment for Bass Brooms, 139
Wanted the Reason Why, 594
Ward Electrical Omnibus at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, The. 607
War Fleets, 'the World’s Principal', 75
War Material in 1895, 16
Warship BuildiDg Notes, British, 267
Warships, On the Classification and Relative 'Power of, 608
Warships, Corn Pith Cellulose for, 40
Warships and Dock Entrances, Modern, 217
Warship “ Foji,” The Japanese, 339
Washington Fir, Long Piles made from the, 489
Water Board for the Metropolitan Counties, 295
Water Committee of the London County Council, their Report, 591
Water Delivered from the Thames, Average Daily Supply of, 111
Waterfall in Canada, Utilising the Power of 8, 463
“WaterFamine,” The “St. James’Gaz3tte”oathe, 161
Water from Milk Extracting, 321
Water Gauge Protector, Glass, 34
Water in Hertfordshire, 159
Water Pipes, Corrugated, 336
Water Power, Mr. A. Steiger on the Utilisation of, 548, 575
Water Purified by Chloride of Lime, 419
Water Questions, Bills Relating to the, Coming jbefore Parliament, 111
Water in the Race-ways, Rate at which it is Offered, 563
Water Separators of Large Size in America, Use of, 446
Water Supplied by the London Water Companies, 139
Water Supply, Eastbourne, 40 Water Supply in 1895, 19
Water Supply, Government and the London, 161
Water Supply, Howrah, 354
Water Supply, London, 613
Water Supply, The Metropolis, 34
Water Supply of the Metropolis, Government Bill Dealing with the, 263
Water Supply of the Metropolis, Mileage of Streets containing Pipes Constantly Charged, 463
Water Supply, The Nottingham, 378
Water Supply of the Paris Suburbs, 338
Water Supply of Slough, 423
Water Tapped at Messrs. Eastman, 376
Water-tight Doors, 314, 325
Water-tight Doors, Mr. Martell on, 650
Water-tight Doors, Col. N. Soliani, 325
Water-tight Doors in the Navy, 467
Water-tight Doors and their Dangers to Modern Fighting Ships, Lord Charles Beresford on, 314
Water-tube Boilers, 30, 67, 111, 172, 202, 318, 335, 343, 372, 397, 446
Water-tube Boilers, Babcock and Wilcox Com¬pany, 446
Water-tube Boiler, The Reed, 172
Water-tube Boilers and Stratton Separators, 446
Water-tube Boilers for United States Gunboats, 111
Water-tube Boilers, Yarrow, 343 .
Water-tube Boilers, Circulation in, 28-30, 146, 347, 372, 397, 450, 451, 467, 493, 495, 551
Waterfall in Norway, The Water Power of, to be , Utilised for Electric Power, 110
Waterford Harbour: Its Claims for Selection as ' Torpedo Boat Station, 353
Waterloo Bridge, Inverness, The New, 366, 392, 394
Waterloo and City Railway Company, Directors’ Report, 161
Waterways, Value of Inland, 169
Waterworks, Engineers, Association of, 11, 96
Waterworks, Gloucester, 486
Waterworks, Opening of the Howrah, 263
Watkinson, Professor W. H., Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, 335, 351
Watt and Co., Soho Works, 241, 267
Watt and Co., Messrs. James, 301
Watt, Mr. J., Water-tube Boilers, 318, 335
Watt Engine, A Curious Old, 208 J
Way.^Mr., Result of the Assam-Burma Survey,
Wear of Tires on Passenger Engines on New York Central Railway, 431
Weather Averages, 98
Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings, Mr. I Fred Gaster, 293
Weaving Mechanisms, Mr. A. F. Barker, 202
Wedding, Dr., Bessemer Medal awarded to, 462 !
Wednesbury Sewage, Loan Sanctioned for, 625
Wegener’s Powdered Fuel Boiler Furnace and Apparatus, 485
Wegener System of Firing, Powdered Coal, 44
Weighton, Professor, Angle of Countersink for Ships’ Plates, 519
Weights and Measure?, Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of, 446
Weights and Measures Act, Meeting relative to the, 247
Welding, On Benardo's Arc, 458
Wellman, Mr. S. T., On Four American Rolling Mills, 504
Wells, Londen, 376
Wells, Mr. L. B , Canals and Navigable Rivers, 171
Welsh Porte, 131
Wembley Park Tower, First Platform opened, 519
West Highland Railway Extension, 486
West of Scotland Industrial Outlook, 194
Westinghouse Electric Tramway, The, 170, 171
Westinghouse Engines, Stratton Separators ap¬plied to 1200-H.P. of, 416
Wharton, Mr. W. J. L., On Deep Soundings, 248
Wheat Press, Table of, in the Minnesota Labour Statistics, 625
Wheat Washer and Whizzjr, Messrs. E. R. and F. Turner, 610
Wheeler-SteriiDg Projectiles, 487
Wheeler, Mr. W. H., Littoral Drift, in Relation to River Outfalls and to Harbour Entrances, 249
Wheels, Cast Iron Car, Their Usj in the United States and Report thereon, 543
Wheels, Traction Eagine, 123
White, Mr. J. S , Steam Yacht “Scud,” 499, 597
Whitehills, Harbour for, 131
Whito Metals for Wearing Surfaces, Discussion of the Subject, 519
Wigzell, Mr., Triple Expansion Engine, 139
Wilkinson and Sons, Messrs., Three-head Surface Milling Machine, 367
Willans and Robinson, Limited, Messrs., Deben¬ture Stock issued by, 549
Willson Aluminium Company, Price of their Calcium Carbide, 591
Wilson, Mr., Time Rate of Growth of Magnetisa¬tion of Iron and its Importance to the Elec¬trical Engineer, 204
Wilson, Mr., Worship-street Bridge, Great Eas¬tern Railway Company, 414, 415
Wilson, Mr. John, Great Eastern Railway Bridge over the Ouse at Ely, 77, 78
Wind Engine, The Simplex, 133
Winding, Safety, in Colliery, 493
Window Glass, Ribbed, 652
Wire Nails, German Manufacture of, 293
Wire-netting Machinery, Mr. A. Myall, 336
Wire, Rscent and Novel Applications of, 263
Wire Rope Manufacture, 617
Wistar, Gen. J. J., On the Distribution of Don Oxide in the Rocks of Anthracite Coal Regions, 419
Wolff Duplex Tricycle, The, 188
Wolverhampton, New Waterworks for, 596
Wood, Mode of Preserving and Colouring, 543
Wood Pavicg, 567
Woods of tbe South American Colony of British Guiana, 263
Wordingham, Mr. C. H., On Municipal Control of Consuming Devices and Wiring, 633
Work and Wages, Common Sense in, 322
Worthington Electric Pump, 581
Worthington, Pumping Engines for Johannes¬burg, 10, 12
Woking Main Drainage, 131
Worcester and Birmingham Canal, 97
Workshops, Special Features Seen in British, 271
World’s Principal War Fleets, The, 75
Worth, Mr. Robt. J., Condensers for Rolling Mill Engines, 420
Wortley South Junction, Collision at, 111
Wreck a Train, Attempt to, 376
Wright, Mr. Arthur, Presidential Address, 598
Wright, Mr. Arthur, Oa the Cost of Electricity Supply, 633
Writing in Railway Carriages, Hanging Desks for, 643

X

X’ RAYS, 301

Y

YACHT, A Fast, 499, 597
Yachts, British-built Steam, for American Owners, 448
Yacht, Steam, Mr, J. S. White, 499, 597
Yachts, Steam, English and American, 563
Yarmouth Harbour, 438
Yarrow Boilers, Expanding Tubes in, 513
Yarrow Water-tube Boilers for Dutch Cruisers, 343
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., and the Admiralty, 195
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Austrian Torpedo Boat “Viper,” 343
Yarrow and Co., Messrs., Destroyers of the Sokol Type, 263
Yarrow and Co., The New Destroyers for the Argentine Navy, 329
Yarrow and Hilditch’s Steam Carriage, 1862, 264
“ Yashima,” Launch of the Japanese Battleship, 237
Yates, Mr. Edward, A New Steam Trap, 626
Yorkshire Coke Trade, The South, 646
Yorkshire Iron, Best, 296
Yorkshire Miners, 620
Yorkshire Mining in 1895, 646
Yttrium and Thorium, On Carbides of, 319

Z

ZEELAND Steamship Company, Three Swift Steel Paddle Steamers for the, 256, 257, 268

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