The Engineer 1899 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

• 1898, 13
• Accidents, Colliery, Government Returns, 44
• Cage, in the Derbyshire Coalfield, 350 to a Daimler Motor Wagonette, 213 Government and, 215
• Industrial, Number of Workpeople killed in, in 1898, 213
• in Mines and Quarries, Deaths from, 313, 350
• Motor Car, 213, 621
• Railway — see Railway Accidents,
• British and Foreign
• Strange Steam Pipe, 273
• with a Thrashing Machine, A Peculiar Case, 59
• Accumulator Trials, 634
• Acetylene, M. G. Claude on the Explosive Power of, 164
• Gas Engines, 145,169
• Gas Generator, Messrs. J. Stott and Co., 632
• Gas Lighting in Greece, 491
• Gas for Lighting Purposes in Prussia, 317
• as an Illuminant, Real Value of, 303
• Gas, Maximum Explosive Effect pro¬duced with 12A
• Volumes of Air and one of, 33
• Gas v. Coal Gas, 373
• Gas combined with Resin Oil, Experi¬ments with, 491
• Ackroyd, Mr. W., His Investigations on Moorland Waters, 542
• Adamson and Co., Messrs. Joseph, 50-Ton Electric Travelling Crane, 601
• Admiralty and Naval Engineers, The, 495
• Advertising on False Pretences in Leading Engi¬neering Papers, 655
• Aetheric Telegraphy, Mr. W. H. Preece on, 445
• Aetheric — see also Wireless Telegraphy and Telegraphy, Wireless
• Agricultural Machinery for the La Rochelle District, and Why American v. English, 439
• Machinery in Poland, Demand for, 439
• Machinery, South African, 376 Machinery, Steam Flour Mills, Mine
• and Quarries, &c., Opening for in Tunis, 621
• Machines at the Maidstone Show, 617 , Machines for Russia, British and J
• Foreign Competition, 655
• Air Power Company, Organisation of an Interna¬tional, 11
• Air Ships, The Aerial Navigation Company, San ' Francisco, 595
• Alabama, Coal6elds of, 237
• Pig Iron Output in, 237
• Alfheim Company, Limited, Permanent Machinery Exhibition, Christiania, 11
• Algeciras, Growing Importance of the Town of, 365
• Alleu and Co., Messrs. W. H., Compound Con¬densing Plant, 389
• Alloy called “ Bronze Gaulois,” The, 491
• Alloys of Iron and Nickel, Mr. R. A. Hadfield on, 348
• Iron and Nickel, Mr. F. Osmond on, 164
• Nickel and Aluminium, Characteristic ’ of, 287
• Alloy, A New Nickel-manganese-iron, 438
• Alloys Research Committee, Sir Wm. C. Roberts-
• Austen’s Report, 160, 166
• Almanacs and Diaries, 8, 45, 73, 91, 141, 183
• Aluminium and Copper as Conductors of Electric Currents, Rivalry between, 213
• Progress of, 155
• Effect of Washing Soda on, 33
• Seamless Tubes, 187
• Water Steriliser, 147
• Writing Capacity of, 313
• Amalgamation of German Electrical Interests, 547
• Two Well-known Firms, 547
• American Bridges, English Engineers and, 391
• Coal, 650
• Colonial Expansion, The Little Bill, 317
• Commercial Enterprise, Its Keenness, 377
• Commercial Enterprise, How it is that the Yankees are Beating the English on their own Ground, 453
• Competition, 29, 453, 498, 538, 603
• in the Engineering Trade, 538
• Industries, An English Report on, 301
• Interoceanic Canal, 351 Locomotives — see Railway Rolling
• Stock, &c. &c., Locomotives, 603
• Machine Tools, British and, 29, 66, 67
• Manufacturers’ Success in Foreign
• Markets, The Secret of, 453
• Navy, Niclausse Boiler and the, 195
• Paddle-wheel Steamers with Beam
• Engines, 26, 48, 107, 154, 252, 277
• Patents, Selected –see Patents, Selected American
• Thin Armour Trial, 545
• Trade Invasion, 409, 435, 474
• Ammonium Borate as a Hardening Liquid for Plaster of Paris, 237
• Ammunition, The Lee-Metford and Martini- Henry, Experiments with, 59
• The New British Service Bullet, 59
• Amos, Mr, E. C., on Machine Tools, 372
• Amsterdam, Telephone System of, 595
• Ancona, The New Mole at, 337
• Andrew and Co., J. E. H., Gas Engine, 470
• Anthracite Coal Removed from the List of Free Imports at San Francisco, 542
• Appert, M. L., New Method of Moulding Glass, 621

Appointments and Retirements:

• Appleyard, Mr., 439
• Arrandale, Mr. M., Address, Machine Workers’ Association, 487
• Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F., 512
• Bayley, Mr. C. W.,542
• Becbler, Captain, 412
• Black, Mr. Thos., 399
• Cassatt, Mr. A. J., 629
• Charles, Mr. A. L.,621
• Crowe, Mr. Hy., 119
• Evans, Mr. David, 607
• Fay, Mr. S., 365
• Fenwick, Mr. Luke, 378
• Forbes, Mr. Wm., 542
• Franklin, Alderman Geo., 478
• Gavey, Mr. J., 187
• Glover, Mr. John, 413
• Grierson, Mr., 365
• Heald, Mr. Horace, 621
• Henderson, Mr. Alexander, 465
• Hookey, Mr. J., 187
• Hopkinson, Mr. Chas., 607
• Howell, Mr. Walter J., 435
• Hoy, Mr. H. A., 542
• Hunter, Mr. David, 21
• Ingham, Mr. Oswald, 399
• Irwin, Mr. J. C., 542
• Jamieson, Prof. Andrew, 387, 413
• Katté, Mr. Walter, 465
• Knaggs, Mr. W. T., 504
• Knight, Mr. Robert. 72
• Laird, Sir Wm.,365
• Maclean, Mr. Magnus, 645
• McNeil, Mr. Jas., 72
• Nisbet, Mr. W. H , 592
• Purkess, Mr. Jas., 365
• Richmond, Mr. J. H., 119
• Sadler, Col., 607
• Salamons, Sir Julian, 270
• Siburn, Mr. Jas., 72
• Squire, Mr. W. W., 605
• Stafford, Mr. J. H., 542
• Sykes, Mr. Wm., 271
• Trotter, Mr. A. P., 365
• Walker, Mr. Arthur Tannett, 313
• Ward, Mr. Thos. F., 504
• Wharnclitfa, Earl of, 465
• Wilgus, Mr. W. J., 465
• Wood, Sir Lindsay, 72

• Archangel, Projected Improvement of the Port of, 491
• Arctic Currents, Casks for Testing, 337
• Ardwick Engineering Company, High-speed Vertical Engine, New Design, 377
• Argentine Republic, Meat Export from, 137
• Arnold, Prof, and Mr. Andrew MacWilliam, On the Diffusion of Elements in Iron, 461
• Armour-plate Situation in the U.S.A., 348
• Armour Trial, American Thin, 515
• Arth, Prof., On the Utilisation of Blast Furnace Gas, 387

Association, American Foundrymen’s:

• Compression Tests of Jin. Cubes of Ingot
• Mould Iron and of Bessemer Mixture, 313

Association, Chicago Electrical:

• Patent Systems of the United States and Foreign Countries Compared, Mr. W. C. Jones, 416 |

Association of Civil Engineering Students, Manchester:

• Annual Dinner, Twelfth, 93
• American Grain Elevator, The Manchester Ship Canal Company’s, Mr. Percy F. Gask on the, Electric Welding, Mr. O. Winder, 247
• Prospecting for Minerals, Mr. H. T. Hildage,

Association, Cleveland Blast Furnace- men’s :

• Election as President, of Mr. P. Trainer, and names of Candidates for the Secretaryship,

Association, The Cleveland Iron¬masters’ :

• Election as President and Vice-president of
• Mr. J. F. Wilson and Mr. C. A. Cochrane, 119

Association, Coal Trade Benevolent: 477

Association of Draughtsmen, British:

• Formation of, 162

Association of Engineers, Manchester:

• Chains, On the Making and Testing of Welded Steel, Mr. E. J. Taylor, 111
• Excursions Planned for the Summer Months, 377
• Flooring for Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best, 229
• Forty-third Annual Report and Anniversary Dinner, 71, 158
• Gas Engines as Motive Power in Engineering Works, Mr. A. R Bellamy, 327
• Gas Exhausters and Gas-exhausting Plant, Mr. ' R. Hargraves, 320
• Heating Engineering Workshops, Question of the Best Method of, 229
• Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. Hy. Webb, 73
• Odontograph described by Mr. Michael Longridge, 71
• Switches, Liquid and Metallic, The Question of the Relative Merits of, 229
• Utilising Furnace Gases as a Motive Power in Certain Gas Engines, Question of, 325

Association of Engineers, Leeds:

• Electricity, Mr. Joe A. Tempest, 330
• Machine Tools, English v. American, Mr. Alfred Towler, 230
• Mineral Oils, Mr. B. Holgate, 146

Association of Foremen Engineers and Draughtsmen, London:

• Forty-sixth Anniversary Festival, 469

Association, Geologists’:

• Excursion to Brittany, 412

Association, Lancashire Coal Sales :

• Resolution with regard to Contracts to be made with Merchants for the ensuing Twelve months, 477, 503

Association, Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic:

• Motor-Vehicle Design, Some New Features in, Mr. T. H. Parker, 269
• White, Mr. J. W., Appointed Hon. Treasurer, 237

Association, Manchester and Salford Sanitary:

• Lamps which have Exploded in Manchester, and the Oils used therein, Mr. W. Thomson’s Report on, 400

Association, Manchester Steam Users’:

• Annual Report—Boilers under the Care of, 439
• Annual Memorandum of Chief Engineer Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 599

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

• Inaugural Address of Mr. J. Cox, 42

Electric Traction:

• Its Application in Large Towns, Mr. G. Conaty, 269

Association, Mechanical Engineers', The Wltwatersrand:

• Compressed Air as Power, Discussion on the Utilisation of, 298

Association, The Miners’:

• “Character Note” Question, Mr. E. Cowey and Mr. W. Parrott on the, 442

Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Incorporated:

• Examination of Candidates for Municipal Surveyorehips, Twenty-seventh Voluntary Pass, 401
• Yorkshire District Meeting Programme, 551

Association, National Free Labour:

• Manifesto issued by, showing where Strike Funds come from, 89

Association of Old Students of the Central Technical College:

• Second Annual Dinner of, 575

Association, South Wales Miners’:

• Annual Conference : Address of Mr. Abraham —" Mabon ”—44

Associations, Trade:

• Recently-formed, 477

Association of Trade Protection Societies:

• Fifty-first Annual Meeting, 421

Association, Unmarked Bar Iron:

• Prices Advanced 10s. per Ton, 542

Association of Waterworks Engineers, The British:

• Papers to be Read at the Fourth Annual Meet¬ing, 491
• Atbara Bridge Contract, The, 297, 408
• Bridge, The (Supplement, June 2nd, 1899)
• 297, 367, 395, 408, 539, 543 :
• Bridge and Standardisation, The, 367, 395
• Atlas Engineering Company, Machine Tools, 423
• Australia, West, Rainfall, 246
• Auto-cars, Compressed Air as a Motive Power for 195
• Autocrat of the Pit, 468
• Automatic Couplers, 263, 616, 644
• Couplings—tie alto Couplings, Auto¬matic
• Coupling, The Janney, 644 Automobile Club, 150
• Particulars of the Forthcoming Trials and Awards, 439
• Show, Richmond, 37, 577, 627, 652
• Show, Richmond, 1899, Awards at the, 652
• Tours of the, 296, 496
• Auxiliary Machinery cn Board Ships, Mr. E. Nicholl on, 164
• Avery, Messrs. W. and T., Rail-weighing Ma¬chine, 196
• Ayrton, Mrs., On the Hissing of the Electric Arc, 321
• Ayrton, Prof., On Electric Meters, 611

B

• BABCOCK, Mr. W. I., on Portable Pneumatic Riveters in Shipbuilding, 147, 321
• Babcock and Wilcox Boilers, 55
• Bacon Air Lift Pump, 422, 490
• Bacteria Bed System, Mr. Dibdin's and not Pro¬fessor Roscoe's, 164
• Bactolite, The, 631
• Bailey and Co., Limited, Messrs. W. H., Branch Works at Patricroft and Extension of Business, 377
• Brillie, Mr. Robt., 351
• Baillie-Weaver, Mr. H., New Process of Season¬ing and Preserving Timber and other Fibrous Substanoes, 599
• Baker, Sir Benjamin, Visits Egypt, 33
• Baku, Water Supply Scheme for, 577
• Balancing of Engines, Prof. W. E. Dalby on, 310
• Baldwin Locomotive Works, Extraordinary Acti¬vity at, 453
• Locomotives for the Great Central and the Midland, 517, 527
• The Year's Output, 187
• Ballasting of Steamers, 289
• Band Ropes, Slow-moving, for Transmission of Power Underground, 599
• Barbed Wire in Italy, Use of, 213
• Barking Boiler Explosion, The, 31, 34, 35, 118, 145, 241
• Barnaby, Sir N., on Steam Speeds at Sea, 92
• Barnes, Mr. Geo. N., Introductory Address, Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 4S7
• Barnum and Bailey’s Special Trains, 360
• Barrett, Professor W. F., On the Thermo-electric Behaviour of Alloys of Nickel Steel, 337
• Basalt, Lava Stone, and Trass, 525
• Basset Mines, Cornish Engine, 471, 513, 575, 656
• Bath and West of England Show, The:
• Implement Department, Agricultural, 546
• Oil and Gas Engines, 546
• Traction and Agricultural Engines, 546
• Battery Calculator, An Ingenious, 313
• Bauermann, Prof. H., On the Gellivare Iron Ore Mines, 461
• Baxter, Mr. G. H., On the Pumping Machinery at the Clyde Trustee»’ Graving Dock, 405
• Beams, Problem in the Thoory of, 652
• Bearings, Hot, 374
• Beattie, Prof. J. C., On the Leakage of Electricity, 542
• Becher, Mr. Septimus J., 174
• Becks, Mr. Geo. A., Gold Coast Ice Factory, 219
• Beckton Gasworks, The, 557, 561
• Beeby’s Brick Company, Limited, Yaxley Vi-it to, 600
• Begbie and Co., Limited, Messrs., Their New Plant, 324
• Beit, Mr., 22
• Belgian Coal Strike, 478
• Belgian Trade in Coal, 1897-8, 224
• Belgians in Russia, 115
• Bell Bros., Messrs., A Limited Company, 43
• Belleville Water Separator, 383
• Beilis and Co., Messrs. G. E„ Formation into a Public Company of their Business, 657
• Belper Sewage Schemes, 33
• Belts, Joining Machine, 209
• Benischke, Dr., Apparatus for Measuring the Speed of Electric Motors, 491
• Berry and Sons, Messrs. Francis, Horizontal Cylinder Boring Machine, 362
• Bessemer Pig Iron, Advance in Price of, 527
• Bessemer Steel Ingots in the United States Pro¬duction of, 262
• Beyer, Peacock, and Co., Tank Engine for South Africa, 440, 443
• Bickford Burners Company, Messrs., the Liquid Fuel Furnace, 168
• Bicycles, Duty on, in France, 265
• Bicycles, English, and Foreign Rivals, 570
• Bicycles, Reduction in Prices of, 137
• Bicycle Tire Tests, Professor R. C. Carpenter, 137
• Bilbao, College of Mechanical Engineering, for, 517
• Bilbao, Eibar Work at, 517
• Bilbao, Pig Iron Export, 517
• Biles, Mr. J. Harvard, On Using Merchant Steamers for War Purposes, 566, 584
• Bill, The Education of Children, 241
• Bill, The Government Telephone, 240
• Bills in Parliament, Private, 405
• Bills Relating to Railway Canals, Tramways, &c., deposited for the present Session, 287
• Bills thrown out of the List this Session, 213
• Billericay, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Schemefor, 237
• Bing, Director E., A New Geometrical Quadra¬ture of the Circle, 136
• Birch and Co., Messrs. Geo., Their Machine Tools. 349
• Birmingham University, The, 172, 187, 494, 502
• Blackening of Moulds in Foundries by means of Compressed Air, 542
• Blake and Knowles Steam Pump, 40, 41, 118, 345
• Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Gases, On the Use of, 461
• Blast Furnaoe Gases, Utilisation of, 140, 387, 461,
• Bleaching Lye, Electrical Production of, in Ger¬many, 137
• Blechynden Feed-water Regulator, 142
• Blocks, On Graving Dock, 641
• Blowing Engines, Messrs. Bolzano, Tedesco, and Co., 393
• Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the
• Manufactured Iron Trades of the North, Meeting of, 119
• Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Mr. Waterhouse's Official Returns to the, 326. 349, 528
• Board of Trade and Automatic Couplings, The. 317
• Bofors Plant, 29
• Bolzano, Tedesoo, and Co., Blowing Engines, 393

Boilers:

• Boilers, Anti-Incrustation Composition for, 399
• Babcock and Wilcox, 55
• Belleville, of the Spartiate, 332, 333, 335
• Built since 1872,
• Working Stress for, 621
• Circulation in, 140, 169
• Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890, Working of the, 212
• Barking, 31, 34, 35, 118, 145, 241
• at the Halliwell Dyeing Com¬pany’s Works, The, 11
• Phenomena of, 67 in Prague, A Marine, 162,163
• of a year, 91
• Express, in Warships, 511, 522
• Feed-water heaters for, 500
• of the Future, The Naval, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
• for a Japanese Destroyer, 511, 522
• for Large Powers, Yarrow, 390
• Liquid Fuel for, 169
• Marine, 394, 493, 511, 518, 522, 529, 576
• High-pressure Steam, at Sea, 493
• Naval, of the Future, 353, 382, 403, 409, 427, 455, 499, 511, 547
• Niclausse, and the American Navy, 195
• Okes-Servo Wator-tube, 92
• of Pactolns, Regulator as Fitted to, 142
• Plates, Large, 192
• Practical Experience on the Strength of, Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, 309
• Prevention of Explosions in, Mr. D. T. Lawson’s Patent for, Extension of Applied for, 287
• The Belcher Apparatus and others for the Prevention of Smoke from, 444
• Statistics, Massachusetts, 187
• Tubes for the United States Navy, Mate¬rial to be Used in the Construction of, 337
• Under the Care of the Manchester Steam Users’ Association, 439
• Water-tube, 194, 263, 269, 290, 394, 496, 511, 518, 529, 569, 576, 603
• Water-tube, Messrs. Anderson and Lyall, 496
• Constructional Failures of, 569
• Knap's, 194
• Mr. Milton on, 263, 269 in the Navy, 394, 529
• in Passenger Steamers, 511, 518
• s.s. Orlando, 576
• Boiling Point of Liquid Hydrogen, Prof. Dewar on, 365
• Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.'s Balance-Sheet, 223
• Bombay, Mr. S. Crimp to Advise the Municipality on the Sanitation of, 577

Books Received:

• Abaques des Efforts Tranchants et des Moments de Flexion développés dans les poutres a une travéa par les surchages du Réglement du 29
• Aoüt, 1891, sur les Fonts Métalliques, par Marcelin Duplaix, 369
• Acetylene Generators at the Imperial Institute, Report of the Committee on the Exhibition of, 256
• Advertising, The Art of, Its Theory and Practice fully Described, by Wm. Stead, jun., 599
• Aide - Mémoire de l’Officer de Marine de Edouard Durassier, continué par Charles Valentine, 141
• Americaine : La Vie Ranches, Fermes, Usines, by Paul de Rousiers, 642
• American Institute of Architects, Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Convention of 545
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Transactions of, Vol. six., 63
• American Trade Index, 37
• Animals in Motion: Electro-photographic
• Investigation of Consecutive Phases of