The Engineer 1900 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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A

• 1890, 15
• Abbott, Mr. W. L., on Operating Economies in Central Electric Station Practice, 655
• Aberystwith, Improvements Contemplated, (39)
• Acetylene, Action of Copper on, (178)
• Detonation of, Experiments to Ascerain the Velocity of, (332)
• Electricity »., (512)
• Enemies of, 421, 493, 553, 623, 670
• Exhibition in Paris, 359
• Exhibition and Congress, Budapest, 110
• Gas, 23
• Gas, How to Purify it and Free it ' from its Offensive Smell, (94)
• Gas, Purification of, 290
• Generator for Large Installations, 291
• and the Home-office, 205
• Lamp made by the " Velo” Company, (393)
• Operative Clause in the Order of
• Conned with Respect to the Use of, (361)
• Restrictions representing Manufac¬ture, itc., of, (145)
• Admiralty Dilemma, The, 541
• Engineering, 328, 406, 454, 492, 502, (521), 675
• and Inventions, The, 653 Programme, The, 309
• Aerial Machine, Priz9 Offered for an Efficient, (459)
• Agricultural Implements in Java, 100
• Air Compressor, Electrically-driven, 676
• Compressor at North Star Mine, Nevada, (332) Liquid, (209)
• Mechanical Dissociation of, as Proposed by Professor R. Pictet, (618)
• Resistance of, (209)

Accidents:

• Auto-car Accidents in Paris and Probable Result of same, (438)
• Automobile, in Pari9, (408)
• Barrow Steel Works, (94)
• Boiler Explosion at Deptford, Water-tube, 681
• Boiler Explosion, Farnworth, 316
• Bridge Collapse in Paris, 465, 571
• Cage Accident at Wallsend, (433)
• Cold Storage Works, Southampton, (563), 571
• Caused by Lathes, (140)
• Dam across the Colorado River, Destruction of, (513), (548)
• Datchet, Bursting of Romney Weir, (13)
• Explosion at Blackbeck Powder Works, (563)
• at the Leeds Steel Works, (621,
• Lyddite, Huddersfield, 595
• at Tin-plate Works in Manchester, (433)
• French Torpedo Boat, No. 228, (408,
• Kure Arsenal, Japan, (524)
• Landslip in Cornwall, (563,
• Leeds Steel Company’s Works, Inquest and Verdict, (94,
• Lift, (675)
• Lift, Woolwich Dockyard, (486)
• Mines and Quarries, United Kiogdom, Past Year, Government Returns, (65)
• Mining Operations, Lives Lost in, (78,
• Oakley, Sir Hy., Retirement, (671,
• Railway Accidents—see Railway Railway Servants, 95
• Rhonnda, Narrow Escape, (13)
• Royal Yacht, Mr. Goschen’s Answer as to, 141
• Sheffield Electric Tramway System, (69)
• Stockton Malleable Ironworks, (629)
• Subsidence at Ramsden Docks, Barrow, (563)
• Tramcar Collision, Glasgow, (13)
• Viaduct in Scotland, Collapse of, (459)
• Water-tube Boilers, M. A. Ravier on, (389)
• Alabama, Coal and Pig Iron Production in, (234)
• Allen-Plant at Hull, 412
• Alloys, Mr. E. Steinmann on the Thermo electric Properties of some, (618)
• used in Japanese Bronzes, (389)
• Almanacs and Calendars, 35,131, 187
• Aluminium-covered Cables, (308)
• Electrode for Arc Limps, American Patent for, (332)
• Production in the United States, (119)
• Progress of, 297 Solder for, (281)
• Some Uses of, 556
• American Armour-plate Controversy, The, 674
• Coal for England, (433)
• Coal Protection, 207
• Commercial Enterprise in Russia, (227) j
• Competition, 435, 619, 670
• Iron and Steel Industries, German Expert View of, 406
• Iron Trade Conditions, 258, 491
• Machine Tools, 165, 166, 167, 169, 219, 220, 221, 275, 276, 277, 323, 400
• Machine Tool, Monster, 481, 491, 510, 511
• American v. British Workmen, 81
• Water Hyacinth Killed by Chemical Spray, (281)
• Workmen, 98 Workshops, 340
• Ammonia Method and Analysis of Sewage, 571
• Amos, Mr. E. C., Portable Pneumatic Tools, 315
• Amos, Mr. E. C., On Portable Pneumatic Tools, (218)
• Amur River, Dredging Operations in, (332)
• Andrews, Mr. Tlios., On Wear of Rails in Tun¬nels, 417
• Appointments and Resignations:
• Adamson, Mr. Alexander, Resignation and Successor, (417)
• Appleton, Mr. Wm., Retirement, (227)
• Bell, Mr. Jas., Retirement, (94)
• Boolds, Mr. J. H., Appointment, (417)
• Bramwell, Sir Fred., Retirement, (645)
• Chambers, Mr. T. W. H., His Appointment and Successor, (213)
• Cowx, Mr. J. A., Retirement and Presentation, (51)
• GreeD, Mr. Thos., Appointment, 367
• Herriot, Mr. Geo., Retirement, (472)
• Hope, Mr. Basil, Appointment, (408)
• Kelvin, Lord, Appointment to Russian Academy of Sciences, (308)
• Kintner, Prof. S. M., Appointment, (308)
• Livett, Capt. H. W., Appointment, (525)
• Lodge, Prof. Oliver, (671)
• Lowther, Mr., (498)
• Ludford, Mr., Retirement, (576)
• Moore, Mr. W. H., Appointment,'(318)
• Marshall, Mr. F. C., Retirement, and his Sue- Acessor, 341
• Newbigging, Mr. J. G., Appointed to Man¬chester Gasworks, (39)
• Patrick, Mr. Wm., Appointment, 98
• Riley, Mr. Jas., Retirement, (145)
• Robinson, Mr. J. G., Appointmenr, (645)
• Sandeman, Mr. Edw., Appointment, (513)
• Struthers, Mr. C. G., Appointment, (227)
• Thearle, Mr. S. J. P., Appointment, (308)
• Thomas, Mr. Oswald, Appointment, (472)
• Thompson, Sir Jas., His Retirement and Suc¬cessor, 98
• Upton, Mr. Douglas, R:s-'gnation and Presen¬tation, (77)
• Williams-Drummond, Mr. Hugh, Appointment, (94)
• Wise, Mr. W. Lloyd, Appointment, (227)
• Arch, the Hingeless, 421
• Arch, the Two-hinged, 165, 421
• Arches with Metallic Joints, Masonry, 477
• A)gentine, Consular Report on the Rosario Dis¬trict of, (459)
• Armour, Nickel Steel, for German Battleships, (563)
• Plate, 21, 25
• in America, 318, (359)
• American, 12
• for the British Admiralty, 257
• Controversy, American, 674
• Firing Test, 124
• Manufacture in Germany, 887
• for Russia, 233, 423, 543
• Shops, Sir Wm. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., (129)
• Supply of, 358, 392 for the United States Navy, 269
• Terni Hard-faced, (234)
• Armoured Concrete, 822
• Train, John Fowler and Co., 512, 562, 564
• Arrol and Co., Limited, Sir Wm., Works of, 506, 507, 660, 561
• Artesian Wells, C. Isler and Co.’s, 187
• Extracting Tool, Messrs. Courtney and Birkett, 287
• Artificial Lighting, 545
• Ashworth, Mr. Jas., on Safety Lamp Failures and their Effects, 525
• Assay Furnaces, Oil, 196
• Assiout Barrage, The, 535, 539

Association, American Railway Engi¬neering:

• Formation of, 444

Association, American Railway Master Mechanics’ :

• Request Information on the Relative Merits of Cast Iron and Steel-tired Wheels, (540)

Association, Cleveland Ironmasters’:

• Cochrane, Mr. Cecil A , Elected President, (130)
• i Pease. Mr. John H., Elected Vioe-president, (130)

Association of Draughtsmen, British:

• Alteration of Title, (512)

Association of Draughtsmen, British (Newcastle Branch):

• Discussion on Mr. Primrose’s Paper on Five i Leading Types of Water-tube Boilers, (149)
• Association of Engineers, The Leeds: I
• De Laval Steam Turbine, Mr. Konrad Anders- I son, 127
• Governors, Some Points in the Design cf, I Professor Goodman, 222
• Association of Engineers, Manchester: J
• Inaugural Address of Mr. Hy. Hodgson on j “Oar Position as Engineers,” 64
• Anniversary Dinner, Forty-fonrtb, 118
• Engine Economy, Dr. J. T. Nicholson, (213)
• Health in the Workshop, Mr. J. D. Sutcliffe, (239)
• Tool-rooms a Necessary Adjunct to Modern Engineering Works, Mr. W. Heap on, 367
• Visits, Summer Months, 445, (471), (683)

Association of Foremen Engineers { and Draughtsmen, London:

• Forty-seventh Anniversary Dinner, (479)
• Association, Lancashire Coal Sales: I
• Advance of 6s. per Ton on Last Year’s Prices on I all Steam and Forge Coal Contracts, 445 I

Association of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham:

• Presidential Address of Mr. J. J. Innis, 53
• Artificial Lighting, Mr. A. E. Edwards, (479) (496)
• Meldrum Furnace, Mr. R. B. Hodgson, 144 j.
• Hickman, Sir Alfred, at the Tenth Annual Dinner, (183)
• Association, Motor Vehicle Users’

Defence:

• Secretary’s and Treasurer’s Address, (138)

Association, South Wales Steel:

• Advance of Wages to Iron and Steel Workers, (158)

Association of Students of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Glasgow:

• Engineer, Functions of the, Sir Wm. Preece on, 183
• Engineering Contractors, Working Methods of, Mr. Jas. Brand, 262
• Ninth Annual Dinner, 280

Association, Tin-plate Employers’;

• Swansea Meeting, (158), (312)

Association, Tramways and Light Railways:

• Inaugural Dinner, (411)

Association, United Kingdom Railway Officers’ and Servants’:

• Anniversary Festival, 343

Association, United Maohlne Workers’:

• Fifty-fifth Annual Report, 575
• Workmen’s Compensation Act, Mr. Arrandale on its Working, 575

Association of the United States, N.W. Electrical:

• Electrical Progress in the United States, Last Year’s, Mr. EL L. Doherty, 180

Association of Waterworks Engi¬neers, British:

• Fifth Annual Meeting: Programme of Arrange¬ments, 605
• Cardiff Meeting, Address of the President, Mr. C. H. Priestley, on Welsh Water for Wales, and Papers Read at, and Excnrsions made, (670), (671), 648, 664
• Assouan Reservoir and Dam, The (Supplement, Map Wth, 1900) 480
• Atmosphere, Artificial Humidity of, (3)
• Australian Bridge-bui'ding, 200
• Automatic Rifle, An, (227,
• Aveling and Porter's Boiler, 652
• Road Locomotive, 652
• Avery, Limited, Messrs. W. and T., Large Weighbridges, 456, 457
• Ax’es, German, 670

B

• BABBITT Metal, Effect of Heat on, 235
• Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 222, 363, 530
• at Massachusetts, (863)
• Ball, Mr. E. B., On Refrigeration, 437
• Ballistics, The Vibrations of a Rifle, 149
• Barclay, Mr. Andrew, 437
• Barge Owners and the London and India Docks, 180
• Barrow, Growth of, owing to Extension of the Works of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Limited, (513,
• Barrow Steel Works, Rail-cogging Mill at (361)
• Barrowman, Mr. W. C., On the Training of Young Engineers, (239)
• Barry, Mr. Charles, (591)
• Dock, Subsidence of Lind, (145)
• Year's Shipments at, (13)
• Batoum, Port of, (317)
• Beacon Light, Duart Point, Mull, The, 312
• Bearing Springs, by Messrs. Humphrey and O'Brien, 233
• Bedford Engineering Company, Locomotive Steam Crane, 74
• Belfast Harbour Commissioners’ Grant of Land to Harland and Wolff, (65)
• Bell, Sir I. L., On Rails in Great Britain, 417
• Belleisle Experiments, 509, 520, 543, 565, 572, (591), 595, 596, 597, 617, 620, 670 Belleville Boilers—ter.
• Boilers Belleville Belting Cotton, Stevenson and Brother, Limited, 445
• Benjamin, Mr. C. H., On the Friction of Steam Packings, 627
• Berend and Co., 0., Revolution Counter, 58
• Bertrand, M. Joseph, 1,361)
• Bessemer Gold Medal Awarded to M. H. de Wendel, (254)
• Steel Ingots in United States, Pro¬duction of, (332)
• Bethlehem Armour for Russia, 513
• Beyer, Peacock, and Co. formed into a Public Limited Company, (317)
• Bicycle a Carriage ? Is a, (394)
• Bicycle as a Machine, Tests of Efficiency of, (173)
• Biles, Professor J. IL. On Large Cargo Steamers, 377
• Bilge Keels, Professor Bryan on the Action of, 397

Bills:

• Baker-street and Waterloo Railway Extensions, (486)
• Barry Railway Steamships, 335
• Board of Trade’s First Report on the Railway, Session 1900, (408)
• Brighton Corporation, (302), (308)
• Burnley Electric Tramways, (163)
• Damage to Crops by Sparks from Locomotives, 502
• Electrical Distribution, Select Committee to Consider, (376)
• Power, (332), (675)
• Power Supply, (513), 538 Supply Bill for South Wales, 63
• Factory and Workshops, 452
• French Navy, (676)
• Halifax, Extension of the Boundaries of the Borough of, (540)
• Halifax Tramways, (332)
• Hull Docks Improvement, 582
• Irish Railway to be Considered, (186)
• Knott End Railway, (94)
• Lancashire Electric Power, Opposition to, (94)
• London and County Council, London and Middlesex Tramways and Electric on Same, (13), 305, (335)
• Hydraulic Power Company’s, Thrown out, (308)
• and India Docks Joint Committee's. (180)
• and North-Western Railway Com¬pany’s, for New Dock at Garston, 582
• and North - Western, St. Pancras Vestry's Opposition to, Withdrawn, (563)
• and South-Western Railway Com¬pany’s Omnibus, (408)
• Water, 368
• Lytham to Southport Tramway, 682
• Manchester City Railway, (13)
• Manchester Ship Canal’s, 582
• Maryport Harbour, Withdrawn, (308)
• Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal Transporter Bridge, (39), (332)
• Metropolitan District Railway Company’s, 72 (513) v )
• Morecambe Gas, (671)
• Naval Appropriation, United States, 581
• Omnibus Bill, The Coventry Corporation’s, (173)
• Private, in Parliament, 349, 423
• Proof House Act, 1868, Amendment, (406)
• Provisional Orders for 1900, 423
• Railway, to be Considered this Session, (408)
• Railways Prevention of Accidents, 280
• Scarborough Town Council’s, (47)
• South-East Metropolitan Tramways, (486)
• South Wales Electric Power Distribution Com¬pany’s, (205), (214)
• Taff Vale Estimates, (214)
• Tramways for South Lancashire. (486)
• Uganda Railway, 486, (540), (671)
• Vale of Rbeidol Light Railways, (671)
• Workington Railways and Dock, (618), (671)
• Workmen’s Compensation Act (1897), Exten¬sion Bill, 325
• Birmingham Gun Trade, The, (406)
• New University for, (496)
• Stock Exchange List, Cycle, Tube, and Tire Companies in the, (39)
• Tame and Rsa District Drainage Board, (3) 15
• Birmingham Water Act, Loan for the Purposes of the. (101)
• Blackmore, Capt. Edw., 266
• Blackpool, Electrio Lighting, (145)
• Black Smoke, Glasgow, Committee on (65)
• Blast Furnace and Stoves at S9raing, 662, 672
• Blaxton Gas Engine, 680
• Blowing Engine Worked by Blast Furnace Gas, M. Ad. Greiner, 482
• Blue-printing Room, a Large, 392
• Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron Trade of the North of England, Official Statistics Issued to, (130)
• Board of Education, Directions as to Communica¬tions relating to Elementary Education, and Science, Art, and Techni¬cal Education, (361)
• Trade, Intelligence Branch of Commer¬cial Department. (94)
• Returns for April, (486)
• Boer Projeotiles, Ineffectiveness of, (119)
• Rifle, the, 222
• Boiler», Accident to Wat9r-tube, M. A. Ravier on, (389)
• Aveling and Porter’s, 652
• Belleville, 488, 673
• Introduction of, into our Navy a Failure, 673
• and Scotch, 45, 502, 503, 504, 515
• Corrosion in Water-tube Marine, 283
• Explosion at Depford, Water-tube, 681
• Farnworth, 316 with Forced Circulation, 259
• Heating Surfacs of, Professor Dr. Frey-tag on, (513)
• Inspection, 241
• Government, (487), 543, 521
• Ioturance, 545
• Legislation, 230, 258
• Marine. Mr. J. Dewrance on Corrosion of, 264
• Model, Mr. J. C. Crebbin, (394)
• Navy, 255, 383, 398, 415, 5C2, 503, 504, 515, 623
• Oil Fuel for, (13)
• at the Paris Exhibition, 633
• of the Powerful, (534)
• Registration and Inspection Committee, (361)
• of Torpedo Boat Destroyers. 295
• Water-tube, Five Leading Types of, Mr. Primrose on, (149)
• of Normaud Type, making at Keyham, (145)
• Btmbay, Coal Shipped from Calcutta to, (119)
• Health of, (119)
• Waste Water in, (119)
• Borchers, Prof., On the Electric Power Utilised by Various Manufacturers, (389)
• Boring and Milling Machine, Electrically-driven, 484, 491, 510, 511
• Bourdon Gauges, 154, 172, 200, 235, 290, 313, 336, 412, 432, 493
• Box-nailing Machine, The Ductor Machine Com¬pany’s, (104)
• Boyer Air Drill on the Sunken Battleship Ap-axin, Work of the, (459)
• Boynton Bullet-proof Shield, Tho, (25), 37
• Bradburv’s Saw Guard. 650
• Brazil, New Customs Regulations, (129)
• Bradford, Refuse Destructors for, (254)
• Bradford Sewage Committee, Centrifugal Appa¬ratus for Purifying Woolcombers’ Suds, (540)
• Brady, Mr. John, Crank Shafts, 466
• Bramwell, Sir Fred., Retirement, (645)
• Brancker, Mr. John, Freedom of Liverpool Con¬ferred on, (540)
• Brand, Mr. Jas., On Working Methods of Engi¬neering Contractors, 262
• Breaches in Sea and River Embankments, Closing of, Mr. R. F. Grantham, 292
• Bricks, Magnetic Qaalities of Building, Tested by Messrs. Gage and Lawrence, (254)

Bridges, Railway and other:

• Aire, Great Northern Railway Bridges over the River, (Supplement, April 20th, 1900), 259, 260, 261, 262, 402, 403, 404
• American, Vertical Lift Draw at Lockport, and New Mississippi Railway, 98
• Australian, (184), 200, (212)
• Bascule Drawbridges, 568, 569, 570
• Boston, Rolling Bascule Draw, 568, 569 570
• Builders, American, their Readiness, 401
• Collapsed, Paris Exhibition, 465, 571
• Construction, Emergency, 432, 458
• Counterbalanced Swing, over the Chicago River, 518, 520
• De-ign, Economics in Railway, J. Graham on, 83
• F.oor System of Girder, C. F. Findley on, 141, 149
• Frero and Colenso, 179, (201), (215)
• Glasgow, 16
• Great Northern Railway Bridges over the Aire (Supplement, April 20fA, 1900), 259, 260, 261, 262, 402, 403, 404
• Highgate Archway or, 559
• Indus River, (591)
• Japanese Railway, (470)
• Material, Handling, (524)
• Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal, Trans¬porter, (332)
• Modder River, Process of Building Temporary Railway, (13)
• Moving Loads on Railway, Under, W. B. Farr, 141, 149
• Paris Railway, over the Seine, 5, 14
• Patent Shaft and Axletree Company's, (39), (65), 66, 71, 118, (201)
• Russia, Trans-Siberian, Yenissei River, 16
• SL Lawrence River, Quebec, Contraot Let for New, (486)
• Scherz?r Type of Bascule Drawbridge, 568, 563, 670
• Selenga River, (363)
• South African Railway, (50), 179, (201), (215)
• Steel Rope Suspension, Newquay, Cornwall, (645)
• Structures, Comparison of Railway, Mr. E. W. Porter, 295, 395
• Surrey Railway, Early, 68
• Swing, over the Aire (Supplement, April 20th, 1900), 259, 260, 261, 262. 402, 403, 401
• acro«8 the River Charlei, United States, Worked by Electricity, (65)
• over Ship Canal at Duluth, U.SA., (173)
• Swing, over the Weaver at Northwich, Mr. J. A. Saner, 104
• Sydney, North Shore, (498)
• Tugela (Supplement, March, 30th, 1900), (39), (65), 66. 71, 118, 235. 330, 481, 485
• United States, New East River (Suspension), 16, 24
• United States. Niagara River (Suspsnsion), 16
• Viaduct Construction, A Peculiar, 401
• Volga Railway, 437
• Washington Memorial, (524)
• Wear, The New, over the River, (459)
• Working Swing, by Electricity, 583
• Bridgewater Trust, Coal Mines Re-opened by, (145)
• Brighouso, Rsfuse Destructor for, (12)
• Brindley, Mr. Geo. S., Japanese Order Conferred on, 463
• British c. American Workmen, 115

British Association:

• President, Professor A. W. Rucker Appointed, (281)
• British Capital Invested in the Argentine, (459)
• Fire Prevention Committee, Partition Tests, 437
• Insulated Wire Company, The, (394)
• Swiss Machinery, 154
• Trade and Manufacturers, 670
• Browett. Brindley and Co., Limited, 290
• Brown, Mr. Andrew, Presentation to, (408)
• Brown’s Metallic Packine’, 291
• Bruff, Peter Schuyler, (221)
• Bryan, Professor, on the Action of Bilge Keels, 397
• Bubonic Plague in Sydney, (496)
• Building Trade, Agreement Brought about at Newport, Mon., iu the, (145)
• Burgon, Mr. Fred, (265)
• Burrell and Sons e. Russell and Co., 358

C

• CABLE, New Underground Telegraph, (393)
• Aluminium-covered, (308)
• Submarine, Laying of the New, (281)
• A New South African, (119)
• Submarine, between Japan, the Philip¬pines, and Colombo, (308)
• Caird, Mr. Robert, to be Made an LL.D., (254)
• Calendar for 1900, (499)
• Cambered Keel Litigation, 358
• Cambered Piston-rods, 115
• Campbell Gas Engine Company, Portable Oil
• Engine Search-light Plant, 426, 427
• Camphor Monopoly, Japanese Government., 524
• Canada, Mineral Production of, (323), (389)
• Canadian Steel, 91

Canals:

• Bengal, Four Irrigation, (173)
• Birmingham and Wolverhampton, Sudden Sub¬sidence of its Bad, (524)
• Chicago Drainage, 107, 162, (548)
• Elbe-Trave, (618), (540)
• Manchester Ship, Half-yearly Report, (201), (209)
• Morris. 248
• New York and its, 176
• Nicaragua, (94), (145), 542
• North Sea and Baltic, Traffic in December, January, and February, (173), (254), (389)
• Panama, M. Hutin the Secretary to the New Company, (254)
• Russian, 6
• Suez, Sir C. A. Hartley on the Engineering Works of, 280
• Navigation of, (604)
• Terneuzen Ship, 248
• Thames and Severn, to be taken over by the Gloucester County Council, (201)
• United States, Lakes to Mississippi, (548)
• Canals—see also Harbours and Waterways Lift, Novel, 74
• System of New York, Extension of, recom¬mended, (119)
• Traffic in 1898 in the United Kingdom, Blue-book relating to, (39)
• Capel, Mr. H. C., His Will, (308)
• Carbide of Calcium, Safety of Storing, proved in tbe Great Fire at Ottawa, (645)
• Cargo Fleet Iron Company’s Blast Furnaces, Purchase of, by Sir C. Furness, (185)
• Carnegie Armour for Russia, 233
• Interests, The,. 411
• Plates for Russia, 423
• Settlement, The, 334
• Carrying Service across the Desert in China, (433)
• Cartsr and Wright’s Key-Saatiog Maohine, 364
• Castle Rising Water Supply, (249)
• Catalogues, 34, 107, 159, 214, 241, 264, 385, 443, 472, 499, 527, 550, 677, 605, 631, 653, 670
• forwarded to Consulates, Specifica¬tion of Trade Terms should accompany, (332)
• Cei, Captain, Invention whereby the Spanish Mauser Rifle can be converted into a Gun, (459)
• New Projeotile Invented by, (563)
• Cement from Blast Furnace Slag, Methods of Making, (540)
• Contraction of, M. H. le Chatelier’s Experiments, 39
• Century, The New, Mr. Wm. Crow’s Chart, (34)
• in Germany, (39)
• Chains, Heavy Mooring, Mr. T. Sehiintheil on the Manufacture of, (187)
• Chemistry in Berlin, Teaching of, 548 Record of the Past Year, 22
• Chester Sewage Scheme, 682
• Chicago Main Drainage Canal Opened, (65)
• Tunnel for Water Sapply of, (130)
• Utilisation of Water Power Generated by the Drainage Canal, (119)
• Chimney Overthrown by Hydraulic Jacks, (13)
• China, Gold Mining in, 406
• China, Mechanical Engineers in, 699 (Nee also pp. 542, 547, 553, vol. lxxxviii)
• Naval Colleges in, 600
• Chinese Ministers’ Industrial Tour, (50)
• Railway, Progress, 591
• Chuck, Automatic Jig, 412
• Civil Engineering, Record of the Past Year, 15
• Clinker from Refuse Destructors, Utilisation of Screened, (94), (201)
• Clock, Meteorological, Presented to Sale Park by Sir W. H. Barley, (393)
• Clouds, Dynamical, 461, 698
• Clyde Firms, Amalgamation of. 665
• Trust and New Docks, 257, 859
• Trust, New Engineers to the, (451)
• Weekly Pays, (455)

Coal:

• Alabama, 254, (433)
• American, 9, 207
• American, for England, (433)
• American, for Austria, (538)
• American, for Russia, (548)
• Bituminous, Shipped to Italy from Phila¬delphia, (119)
• British, to France, (433)
• British, in Holland, (6341
• from Calcutta to Bombay, Import of, (119)
• The Case of (from The Statut), 573
• and Coke Consumption in Spain, (389)
• and Coke Output, West Pennsylvania, (308)
• and Coke Tenders for the Year, The Main
• Drainage Committee of the London County
• Council and the, (671)
• Coking, Herr Schild’s Experiments, (591)
• near Dawson City, (433)
• Day of Dear, 462
• Famine, Continental, 335
• Famine, Railways and the, (52)
• Imported to Bombay from Japan and Europe, (173)
• Imported Cadiz, 1899, (563)
• Increased Price of, Difference made thereby to the Railway Companies, (671)
• Lignitic, in the Argentine Republic, (513)
• Mechanical Treatment of, and Its Influence in
• the Construction of Modern Boiler-houses, Mr. H. J. Greaves, (267)
• Methods of Handling, United States, (656)
• Mines Re-opened by the Bridgwater Trust, (145)
• Mining, British, in 1899, 537
• Mining, South Russian, Mr. J. Crankshaw on, 79
• Output, British, (361), (459), (563)
• Scotland, (13)
• Victoria, (361)
• Pits, Peace at the, 69 Price of, 196
• Municipalisation and, (119)
• Warsaw, (591)
• Production, American, 207, 254, (433) of the Urals, (201)
• Progress and, 311
• Rite, No Increase in the, 336
• Returns, United States, Bituminous and Anthra¬cite, (563)
• Seams Pierced near Penkridge, (389)
• for South Africa, Government Orders, (119),
• (130)
• per Square Foot of Grate Surface, 200
• Strike in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, (308)
• Supply, Deficiency in the Russian, (389)
• Trade, Britain’s Over-sea, 411
• of Grimsby and the Great Central Rail¬way Company, (145)
• Yorkshire, 9, (394), (508)
• Transporting Plant, Lindon Electric Supply Corporation, Deptford, 635, 638
• field, Assam, The Makum, (629)
• Yorkshire, 45
• Coaling Ships at Sea, Methods of, 75
• Coke-making Plant on the Solvay System on the Scheldt, A Large, (201) ,
• Coke, Use of, by Motor Car Company, (408)
• Colar Goldfield, Produce of the, (433)
• Cold Storage in the British Islands, (332)
• Collieries, Compensation for Injuries at, (513)
• Purchases, and New Ones Sunk, (214)
• Colliers, Old Age Pensions for, 488
• Colliery Enterprise, Lodge Holes, Wednesbury, (156)
• Colliery Owners of the United Kingdom, This Year’s Increased Cost to the, of Supplying Steam, (540)
• Colman, Mr. H. G., Oa the Calorifio Power of Illuminating Gas, 483
• Colonial Armaments, 97
• Colour Temperatures of Steel, 69
• Comber, Mr. Arthur, (563)
• Commercial Information Office, Paris Exhibition, (649)
• Intercourse between France and Russia, Steps to Further, (618)
• Matters, Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, (94)
• Companies, New, Darran Collieries, Limited, 868
• Hemingways, Limited, (314), (341)
• Henry Pooleyand Son, Limited, and Jordan and Sons, Limited, 343
• Tat Bank Foundry and Engi¬neering Company, (472)
• Company, New, (241)
• Compass, The Evoy, 180
• Concrete, Armoured, 322
• Factory Building, Cambridge, U.S.A., 405
• Wharves, America, 24
• Condensation of Vapour on Windows, Preventing, 210
• Condensing Plant, A Central, The Klein Engi¬neering Company, (104)
• Consular Service in the United States, Bill relative to, (483)

Contracts

• Bridge over the Tugela at Colenso, Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, (39)
• Electric Lighting, 566
• Forthcoming Railway, 621
• Glasgow Tramway, 616
• Indian State Railways, 73, 4S9
• Rolling Stock for Bulgarian State Railways,