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
- Locomotive Engineering, Manual of, with an
- Historical Introduction, by Wm. Frank Pettigrew, 291
- London Water Supply, The, by Arthur Shad¬well, 241
- London Water Supply: Being a Compendium of the History, Law, and Transactions relat¬ing to the Metropolitan Water Companies from Earliest Times to the Present Day, by H. C. Richards and W. H. C. Payne, 511
- Machine Design, Part II.: Form, Strength, and Proportions of Parts, by Forrest R. Jones, 291
- Map of Metropolitan Railways, Tramways, and Miscellaneous Improvements, 256
- Marine Steam Engine, The, by Carl Bosley, 63
- Mathematical and Physicial Tables for the Use of Students in Technical Schools and Colleges, by Jas. G. Wrapson and W. W. Haldane, 37
- Mathematical Theory of Attraction, Introduc¬tion to the, by F. A. Tarleton, 89
- Matriculation Directory, No. xxv., 191
- Measurement and Weighing: First Year's Course in Elementary Practical Physics, Edwin Edser, 191
- Measuring and Valuing Artificers’ Work, Student’s Guide to the, Edited by E. Dobson, with Additions by E. W. Tarn, 625
- Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Easy Lessons in, by J. G. A. Meyer, 291
- Mechanics Applied to Engineering, by John Goodman, 469
- Mechanics, Text-book on Applied, Specially arranged for Engineering Students, by Andrew Jamieson, 642
- Merchants’ Hand-book of Money, Weights, and Measures, with their British Equivalents, W. A. Browne, 625
- Mersey, Report on the Present State of the Navigation of the, by Vice-Admiral Sir G. S. Nares, 599
- Metallurgical Analysis for Laboratory Use, Tables for Quantitative, by J. J. Morgan, 545
- Metallurgy, Hand-book of, by Dr. Carl Schnabel, 63
- Microscopy of Drinking Water, The Geo. T. Whipple, 291
- Mine Surveying, Treatise on, by Bennett H. Brough, 599
- Mines and Agriculture, New South Wales, Annual Report for 1897, 317
- Motor Car Manual, by R. Moffat Ford, 384
- Municipal Electricity Supply, Commercial and Business Aspects of, Alf. H. Gibbings, 418
- Municipal Trading, the Cost of, by Dixon H. T. Davies, 291.
- Naval Annual, 1899, Edited by T. A. Brassey, 443
- Naval Architecture, Text-book of Theoretical, by E. L. Attwood, 91
- Physical Chemistry, Outlines of, by A. Reychler, 384
- Physics in its Elementary Branches, History of, by Florian Cajorie, 256
- Physics; Experimental and Theoretical, Vol. i.. Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Heat, and Acoustics, by R. H. Jude, and partly from the French Third Edition of II. Gossin, 642
- Portland Cement, its Manufacture, Testing, and Use, by D. B. Butler, 642
- Railway Year-book for 1899, Edited by G. A. Sekon, 317
- Retrospect of Eight Decades, Rev. E. L. Ber- thon, 191
- Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of, Third Series, Vol. ix., Part IV., No. 36, 20
- Royal United Service Institution, Journal of the, 559, 642
- Russian Province of the North, by Alexander Platonovich Engelhardt, Translated from the Russian by Hy. Cooke, 511
- Sanitary Science, Examinations in, Questions with Suggestive Answers, by E. R. Matthews, 625
- Science and Art Department, Calendar, History and General Summary of Regulations of, 191
- Sewage Analysis, Practical Treatise on the Examination of Sewage and Effluents from Sewage, by J. A. Wanklyn and W. J. Cooper, 495
- Sewer Design, by H. N. Ogden, 559
- Ship, Know your Own, Explanation of the Stability, Trim, Construction, Tonnage, and Freeboard of Ships, &c., by Thos. Walton, 545
- "Shipping World” Year-book, Desk Manual in Trade, Commerce, and Navigation, Edited by E. R. Jones, 191
- Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents, 20, 511
- Society of Engineers, Transactions for 1898, and General Index, 1857 to 1898, Edited by G. A. P. Cnxon, 545
- South African Association of Engineers and Architect®, Proceedings of, Vol. iv., 469
- Specification—now Illustrated—for Architects, Surveyors, and Engineers, when Specifying, No. 3, 256
- Steam Engine and Gas and Oil Engines, Book for Students who have Time to Make Experi¬ments and Calculations, by John Perry, 559
- Steam Engine Indicator, Directions for Selec¬tion, Care, and Use of the Instrument, and the Analysis and Computation of the Diagram, Compiled from the Issues of “ Power,” 469
- Steinbruchindustrie nnd Steinbruohgeologie: Technische Geologie nebst praktischen Winken fiir die Verwertung von Gesteinen unter Heingehender Beriicksichtigung der Steinindustrie des Kiioigreichs Sacnsens, von Dr. 0. Herrmann, 511
- Telegraphy, by W. H. Preeoe and J. Sive- wright, 191
- Trains Rapides, Les Services Actuels, Belgique, Angleterre, France, Suisse, Notes de Voyage, 1897-8, par Camille Barbey, 291
- Tramways, Omnibuses, and Eleotric Railways, Duncan’s Manual of, 599
- Transport und Lagerungseinrichtungcn fur Getreide und Kohle, von M. Buhle, 545
- Trigonometry, Spherical, Theoretical and Prac¬tical, W. W. Lane, 20
- United States Naval Institute, Proceedings of the, Vol. xxv., No. 1, Edited by G. F. Cooper, 443
- Water Supply of Sussex from Underground Sources, by Wm. Whitaker and Clement
- Reid, 317
- Willing's Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Direc¬tory and Hand-book, Jas. Willing, jun., 291 l
- Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, with Notes and an Appendix Containing the Rales and Regulations under the Act, Toe Employers' Liability Act, 1880, by W. Adding¬ton Willis, 642
- Bore Holes, Vogt’s Patent for Sinking, 423
- Boring Machine, Corliss Cylinder, 210, 220
- Horizontal Cylinder, 362 1 A Large Snout, 279, 280
- Botley, Mr. C. F., Practical Working of Carburetted Water Gas, 457
- Boult, Mr. W. S., Various Systems of Railway Fog Signalling, 563
- Boulton, Mr. Isaac Watt, 620
- Boyle, Mr. Robert, The Bactolite, 631
- Bradbury and Co., Cam-cutting Machine, 372
- Brake, Clarke’s Field Carriage, 79
- Brassey, Lord, on the Empire, 571
- Braunkohle, Hating Power and Production of German, 262
- Brazil, Coffee Tabloids prepared by Compression, i 595
- Brazil, Mining of Manganese Ore, 595
- Breakwaters, On the Effect of Waves on, Mr. Wm. Shield, 584
- Brett, Mr., On Forgings and the Machines Used in Producing them, 566
- Brick or Stone Impervious to Water, Portland ' Cement the Best Material for Rendering, 119
- Brick-making Appliances at the International
- Building Trades Exhibition, 444
Bridges:
- Bridges, American, and English Engineers, 391
- The Bonn, and its Ornamentation, 465
- Builders, English and American, 453
- Collapse of a Roadway, Iowa, 237
- across the Danube at Ratisbon to be
- Removed, The Old, 595
- English v. American, 498
- Glasgow New, 520, 539, 540, 541
- Bridge over the Indus, The New, 413
- at Kalrebodstrand, 651
- of Mans, The, 222
- Melan Concrete, 360
- New Niagara River, Suspension, 172
- Plate-girder Arched, 270
- Railway, American, for a Bnrmah Rail¬way, 655
- Railway, over the Atbara River, (Supple¬ment, June 2nd, 1899), 297, 539, 543
- Railway, The Atbara, and Standardisa¬tion, 367, 395
- Railway, Bechuana Land, 45
- Railway, The Inkissi, Congo Railway, 218
- Railway, Moving, 198
- Railway, Siberian, across the Yeuissei, 174
- Railway— see also Railway Rolling Stock and Material, Permanent way, &c.
- for Sydney, New, 500
- Vanxhall, The New Road, and its Orna¬mentation, 262, 465
- over the Wear, Proposed Erection of, 517
- Work, Standard, 408
- Bright, Mr. Chas. Coast Telegraphic Communica¬tion, 153, 205, 227, 251
- Brighton, New Eiffel Tower, Electric Lifts for, 3, 4, 5,12
- Marine Parade Pier, 536
- Bristol Channel, The Midlands and the, 644
- Britain's Competitors, 519
- British and American Machine Tools, 29, 66, 67, 80
British Association:
- Presidents of the Various Sections, 542
- British Imports for 1898 and 1897, 119
- Fire Prevention Committee, The, 110, 224
- Railways, Limitations of, 520
- Refrigeration and Allied Interests, 150
- Shipping and the " Rings ” 623
- Steam Engines Abroad, 122
- Trade with Italy, Real Cause of its Decline, 291
- Trade Marks Abroad, 91
- Trade with the Orient, Decline of, 465
- Trade in South America, Report on, and how Business goes away from us, 313
- Brodie, Mr. F. J., On the Prolonged Deficiency of Rain in 1897-98, 287
- “Bronze Gaulois,” The Alloy called, 491
- Brooklyn, Bursting of the Retaining Tank of a Gasholder, 11
- Fracture of a 48in. Water Main, 33
- Browett, Lindley, and Co., Messrs., Compound Engine and Dynamo, 374
- Brown and Co., Limited, Messrs. John, Extension of Business, 607
- and Co., Limited, Messrs. John, Meeting of Shareholders, 621
- Brown, Mr. T. F., On the Coal Supplies of the United Kingdom, 465
- Brown, Mr. W. Walton, Mechanical Ventilators for Mines, 599
- Bruno, Professor, Experiments with the New British Service Bullet, 59
- Bryant, Mr. C. H., Oil Engine, 278
- Buckton and Co., Messrs. Joshua, A Large Snout Boring Machine, 279, 280
- Buenos Ayres, Frozen Meat Factory, 137
- Buffalo Bav, Deepening of, 542
- “Builder " on the Ugliness of the Great Central Railway Bridges, &c. &c., 387
- Buildings in New York, The Highest, 33
- New York, Moving a Five-storey, 59
- Trade Dispute, The, 217
- Bulkheads, Testing, 67
- Bulman, Mr. H. F., Kalgoorlie Coal Mines, West Australia, 534
- Bumsted and Chandler’s Fan and Engine for Forced Draught, 370, 871
- Buoy at the Manacles, New Gas-lighted Automatic Sound-producing, 491
- Burner, Petroleum, 322
- Burrator Reservoir, Plymouth Corporation, 186
- Burrows, Captain Guy, “The Land of the Pig¬mies,” 33
- Burrows, Mr. J. II., 423
- Bursting of Fly-wheels, 29
- Burton, Griffiths, and Co., Mossrs. C. W., Gisholt Lathe, 293
- Butt Hinges, American Patented Process, 43
- Butter Exported from Denmark, 134
- Bya, M. Hubert, On the Manufacture of Iron C and Steel Plates, 164
C
- CABLE Armour, Stallibrass’s Chain, 227
- Cable, Fire-detective, 575
- Indicator Submerged, for Warning Ships off Dangerous Coasts, 439
- New Submarine, 368
- United States Pacific, 362
- Cableway across the Thames, 65, 193
- Cadastral Survey, A Great, 331
- Cairo Electric Tramway, 436, 438
- Caisson Disease, 365
- for Pneumatic Foundations, Wooden, 40
- Calcium Carbide, New York Regulations as to the Sale and Use of, 11
- Output, Niagara Falls Plant, 513
- Plant at Meran driven by Water Power, 655
- Californian Wine, Concrete Tank for Storage of, 187
- Cam-cutting Machine, 372 Cambered Keels, 26
- Camera, Gun, 337 Campbell, Mr. W. R., 33
- Canada, Exports to, nnrier the full Preferential Tariff, 11
- Graving Dock at Liverpool, The New, 516
- Statistics of Exports to. 11
- Canadian Hydraulic Canal Lift, 529
Canals:
- Canals, American Interoceanic, 651
- Amsterdam, 182
- Canadian, 182
- to Connect the Rhine, Weser, and Elbe, 378
- Dortmund-Ems, 577, 630
- German, 111, 252, 387, 577, 606, 621, 630
- The Kaiser Wilhelm, 111
- Manchester Ship, 63, 187
- Lift, Canadian Hydraulic, 529
- Nicaragua, 329, 337
- North Sea and Baltic, A Year's Official Statistics, 621
- Panama and Nicaragua, 217
- Sheffield and South Yorkshire, 606
- Soulanges, 409
- Between Stettin and Berlin, Projected, 252
- Suez, Traffic for 1898, 137
- Thames and Severn, 182
- Yumniden, 40
- Canterbury Electricity Supply, 265
- Cantor Lectures, On Cycle Construction and Design, Mr. A. Sharp, 146
- Cape Colony, Government Abuses iD, 603
- Capetown Corporation, Machinery for 60,000 Lights Ordered from the United States, English Firms too Busy, 578
- Capstan Lathe, 419
- Carbon - consuming Batteries and their Possi¬bilities, Mr. W. R. Cooper on, 233
- Carbon in Electrolysis, on the Combustion of, Mr. S. Skinner, 313
- Carbonic Acid in Water on Iron Pipes, Action of, 491
- Carlsborg Viaduct, Works for the, 651
- Carlton, Mr. Thos., 43, 607
- Carnegie Steel Company, The, its Capital, 517
- Carpenter, Mr. C. C., Gas Distribution, 457
- Carpenter, Prof. R. C., Bicycle Tire Tests, 137
- Carriages, Gun, of the Horse and Field Artillery, Alterations Ordered, 262
- Carr, Mr. Wm., On the Evolution of the Hydraulic Main, 594, 626
- Casks for Testing Arctic Currents, 337
- Castings, A Record Contract for, 119
- Casting Temperature upon Steel, On the Influence of, 640
Catalogues:
- Alldays and Onions, Pneumatic Engineering Company, Limited, Turbines, 7
- Alley and Maclallan, Wall-card Illustrating a 250-H.P. Tandem Compound High-speed En¬gine Driving Alternating current Generator, 443
- Andrew and Co., Limited, J. E. H., Stockport Gas Engines, 136
- Archdale and Co., James, Machine Tools, 603
- Babcock and Wilcox, Limited, Water-tube Boilers, 312
- Bailey, Chas. S., Adjustable Utensils, 400
- Baldwin and Co., Jas., Safety Boiler Mountings, 634
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 603
- Beck and Co., Imperial Positive Water Meter, 520
- Bedford Engineering Company, 7
- Bever, Dorling, and Co., Limited, Mill Engines,
- Winding and Hanling Machinery, 340
- Bradbury and Co., Limited, No. 6 Capstan Lathe, 520
- British Thomson-Houston Company, Limited, Applications of Electric Power, 42
- Brush Electrical Engineering Company, ' Limited, The Universal Steam Engine, 96
- B, and S. Folding Gate and Lift Company, Interlocking Rubber Tile Flooring, 443
- Campbell Gas Engine Company, The Campbell ' Oil Engine, 340 1
- Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, Ballistic Tests of Armour Plate, 400
- Central Cyclone Company, Limited, Description of the Cyclone Pulveriser, 469
- Chambers and Son, Limited, Mining and Gene¬ral Machinery and Engineers’ Requisites, 520 1
- Chloride Electrical Storage Syndicate, Limited, Renewals Catalogue, 248
- Clayton, James, Clayton Compressors, 603 1
- Cox, Limited, H. W., X-ray Apparatus, Vacuum
- Tubes, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephones, 520
- Croft and Perkins, Friction Clutches and Pul¬leys, 221
- Curtis and Company Manufacturing Company, Air Compressors, Air Hoists, and Air Appli¬ances, 652
- Davies and Son, John, Electric Mining Appli¬ances, 136
- Electrical Company, Limited, Measuring and Testing Instruments, Electricity Meters, 136
- Ellison and Co., Limited, W. T., Niagara Falls Double-acting Pulsating Pump, 634
- Fairbank, Brearley, Steam Engines, 7
- Geretti and Tanfani, Chemins Aériens, 469
- Glad step Company, The Patent, Pedestals, C Puleys, and Sockets for Shafting, 469
- Greenwood, Thomas, Engineers' Tools (New C and Second-hand), Woodworking Machinery, and Contractors’ Plant, 136
- Gresham and Craven, Limited, Injectors, Ejectors, and Railway Specialities, 42
- Harpers Limited, Belt and Rope Pulleys, Gear- wheels, Cone Pulleys, &c., 312
- Haryer, C., Dehne’s Filter Presses, 400
- Hills and Jones Company, Machine Tools, 7
- Hohdell, Way, and Co., Limited, Heat-insulating Materials and Packings, Belting, Ac., 340
- Holden and Brooke, Limited, Steam Users' Specialities, 248
- Jackson and Co., Limited, P.R., Gear Wheels and Pistons, and Electrical Plant, 443
- Jenkins Bros., Valves, Cocks, and Packings, 340
- Lang and Sons, John, Lathes, 42
- Langdon-Davies Electric Motor Company, Limited, 340
- McNeil, Cbas., Steel Manhole Doors, Sludge Doors, fee., 221
- Milwaukee Harvester Company, Agricultural Implements, 42
- Muntz’s Metal Company, Limited, 221
- National Boiler and General Insurance Com¬pany, Limited, Double-cone Fusible Plugs, 400
- Niles Tool Works Company, Machine Tools, 42
- Owen, Brazil, and Holborow, Steam Engines and Pumps, 634
- Peirson and Co., High-class Constructional Steel and Ironwork, 96
- Platt, Samuel, Shafting, Shaft Fittings, Pulleys, Gearing, &c., 652
- Polland and Co., Descriptive Pamphlet of the “ Beezy ” Pocket Voltmeter, 469
- Ransome and Co., Limited, Wood-working, Sawmill, Cooperage Machinery, 7
- Ramsomes and Rapier, Limited, Rapier’s Patent Coaling Plant, 443
- Reaveil and Co., Limited, High-speed Enclosed Constant-thrust, Compound Engines, 469
- Renold, Hans, Cycle Roller Chains, 221
- Sagar and Co., Builders’ and Joiners’ Machinery, 469
- Scott and Mountain, Limited, Ernest, Com¬pound Double-acting Self-lubricating Enclosed Engines, &c., 520
- Shaw and Co., John, Cast Iron Pipes, Columns, Bends, &c., 340 (
- Shippey Bros., Limited, Self-propelled Electric Carriages and Motor Cars on the Riker System, 520
- Snowden, Sons, and Co., Limited, Lubricators ( and Asbestos, Materials of the "Snowdrift" Brand, 340
- Spencer, Limited, Mr. John, Pipes and Fittings, 136
- Standard Pneumatic Tool Company, 7
- Standard Steel Works, Locomotive Tires and Wheels, 652
- Stewart, Robt D., Paints, Colours, Oils, and Varnishes, 340
- Stone and Co., J., Electric Lighting for Railway Carriages, 42
- Tangyes Limited, Chain Blooks and Chains, 603
- Thornton, A. G., English Drawing Instruments, 400
- Tolch and Co., Oil Engines and Launches, 42 ,
- Tosi, Franco, Electric Light and Power Instal¬lations, 136
- Unbreakable Pulley and Mill Gearing Company, Limited, 248
- United Asbestos Company, Limited, Salamander Decorations for Walls, Ceilings, fee., 469
- United States Metallic Packing Company, Limited, Metallic Packing for Locomotive, Marine, and Stationary Engines, 443 1
- Wallach Brothers, " Pneumatophor,” 7 s
- Ward and Co., H. W., Machine Tools, 312
- Whitecross Company, Limited, Rolled and Drawn Steel, Cast Steel and Iron Wire,
- Wire Rope Nails, and Netting, 443
- Whitmore and Bioyon, Limited, Bnrnay’s Centrifugal Pumps, 469
- Whitmore and Binyon, Limited, Rice Mill Machinery, 603
- Willcox and Co., Limited, W. H., Semi-Rotary Wing Pumps, 136
- Wilson, Alfred, Wilson Gas Producer Described, 603
- Wood, W. A., Agricultural Implements, 312
- Wright and Co., Joseph, Feed-water Heaters, Filters, Condensers, &c., 186
- Zadig and Co., C. A., Light Railway Plant, 603
- Cement Industry of Ghent, 337
- On the Mechanism of the Disintegration of Hydraulic, 365
- Tensile Requirements of, for Recent Works in United States, Mr. R. W. Lesley on, 262
- in the United States, Natural, 370
- Works, The Wickham, 644
- Central Electric Supply Company’s Bill, 655
- Chain Pitch, Mr. V. W. Staunton, 11
- Chains, Welded Steel, Mr. E. J. Taylor on the Making and Testing of, 111
- Charing Cross Station, 378
- Charlock by Spraying, Destruction of, 542
- Chatham, Admiralty’s Scheme for Perfecting the Naval Establishment at, 187 i- Chemistry, 1898, 19
- in England, The Teaching of Industrial, 481
- Chesterfield Town Council, Electric Light and Power for the Borough, 620
- Children in Factories, 241
- Chimney Construction, Mr. S. E. Loring’s New Method of, 365
- Shaft, A Large, 323
- Tall, in the United States, Saxony, and England, 33
- China and Japan, Metal and Machinery Imports of, 431
- Chinese Iron Trade Development, 697
- Circle, A New Geometrical Quadrature of the, 136
- City of London Electric Lighting Company, The, d 232, 233, 458, 460
- Clarke’s Field Carriage Brake, 79 s
- Clarke, Mr. W. J., Apparatus for Detecting the Presence of Ships or Icebergs by Wireless Telegraphy, 655
- Cleaver, Henry, Sentenced to Hard Labour for Advertising on False Pretences, 655
- Cleveland Iron, Open-hearth Steel from, 37
- Clock, Electric, at Liverpool-street Station, 465
- Clyde Purification, 136
- Trustees’ No. 3 Graving Dock, Performances of Pumping Machinery at, Mr. G. H. Baxter on, 406
Coal:
- Coal, 62
- American, 650
- American, Shipped to European Ports, 262
- Artificial, Manufacture of, 621
- Boring at Barham, 313
- and Coal Dust at Nantes, Importation of, 439
- “Combine,” The, 451
- Kentish, 508
- The South Yorkshire Coalfields, 624
- Wages in the Coalfields, 140
- Area of the Principal Coalfields of the World, 465
- Industry of South Africa, 262
- Lignite, Production and Heating Power of German "Braunkohle,” or, 262
- Mining in Natal, 413
- Mining—Winding from Deep Mines, Modern Improvements in, 586
- Mines, Mr. F. A. Legge on, 580
- Natel, 213
- Ootput of the British Empire, 313
- Output in this Country in 1898, 387
- Pocahontas, Analysis of, 387
- Production, France, Great Britain, United States, Germany, and Belgium, 119 in Russia, Donetz Deposits Inexhaustible, 577
- and Salt Springs in the Soest District, 11
- Shipments on the Elbe, 1898, Bohemian Brown, 124
- Smoke Abatement Society, 245
- South African, and British Steam Coal, 533
- Supplies, Our Present and Future, Mr. J. A. Longdon on, 534
- Supplies of the United Kingdom, Mr. T. F. Brown on, 465
- Trade, The Yorkshire, 36, 368
- in the Vicinity of Chabarovsk, Discovery of, 85
- White, A Substitute for Mineral Fuel, 517
- Coast Defences, Our, 52, 53
- Telegraphic Communication, Mr. Charles C Bright, 153, 205, 227, 251
- Coke-handling Plant, On, 457 C
- Ovens, By-products, 640 Ovens in Course of Erection, 123
- Cold Storage Depöt, Munich, 655
- Plants at the Cape Porte, The De Beers Company’s Scheme, 376
- South Africa, 376, 505
- Cold Treatment of Patients, by a Foreign Physi¬cian, 262
- Cole, Marchent, and Morley, Messrs., Large Horizontal Engine, 310
- Colley, Mr. James. Presentation to, 477
- Colliers in South Wales, Registration of, 649
- Visions, 544
- Collision Mate, 195
- Colomb, Admiral, On the Lessons of the Spanish-
- American War, 278
- Colour Photography at Kieff, 119
- Combustion, New Process of, M. P. J. Schlicht on a, 164
- Commercial Agents to be Appointed at Foreign Commercial Centres for the Develop¬ment of British Trade, 621
- Education in Japan, 517
- Law, Russia, The New, 465
- Travellers, Licence required in the Netherlands by, 262
- Compass, Swedish Miners’ Dipping, 461
- Compensation Act, Mr. Pickard cn the, 390
- Cases—tee Workmen’s Compensa¬tion Cases and Wilful Misconduct, 516
- Compressed Air as a Motive Fluid for Auto-Cars 195
- as Power, Discussion on, before the Mechanical Engineers' Association of the Witwatersrand, 298
- used to Blacken Moulds, 542
- Compression Teste of an iDgot Mould Iron of Soft Bessemer Mixture, 313
- Compressor Plante, Three-stage, Mr. R. P. White- law on, 298
- Conaty, Mr. G., On Eleotric Traction in Large Towns, 269
- Conciliation Board, Accountants’ Returns, 550
- Concrete-mixing Machine, A Rotary (American) 398
- Storage Tank for Californian Wine, 187
- Condensers, Evaporative, 432, 442, 447, 498, 513
- in the Navy, 342
- A Novel, 146
- Condensing Plant, Compound, Messrs. W. H. Allen, Son, and Co., 389
- for Factory Purposes, Sepa¬rate, Sir A. S. Haslam on, 614
- Conductivity of an Incandescent Lamp Filament, Increase and Decrease of the, 365
- Considère, M., On the Value of Metallic Cores in , Building, 387
Contracts Open:
- Dock Pumping Machinery for the Norwegian Government, 523
- Indian State Railways, Radial Drilling Machine and Cylinder Boring Machine, 629
- Steel Barges, 418
- Works for the Carlsberg Viaduct, 652
- Cooke, Mr. J., 423
- Cooled Bars, Transference of Heat in, 29
- Coolgardie Water-pipe Contract, The, 132
- Cooper, Mr. R. E., On Earthslips in Railway Slopes and Cuttings, and How to Prevent them, 612
- Cooper, Mr. W. R., On Carbon-consuming Batteries, 233
- Coppée, M. Evenie, On By-product Coke Ovens, b 640
- Copper and Aluminium as Conductors of Electric Currents, Rivalry between, 213
- Casting, How to Make a Sound, by the
- Addition of Phosphorus, 313
- Combination, 417, 443
- Mines of America and the Rothschilds, The, 505
- Position of, 216, 570
- Tin and, 114
- and Tin, Position of, 216, 670