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,
• Salvage Company, of Genoa, with the Balaclava Municipality, to Raise a British Warship, (408)
• Steel, &3, Large, United States, (656)
• Steel Sole Plates, 48
• Coolgardie Water Pipe Line in Australia, 614
• Copper, 311, 566
• upon Acetylene, Action of, (173)
• Effect of Heat on its Strength, (466)
• on the Mechanical Properties of Steel,
• Influence of, (389)
• Ootput and Consumption in Germany, Annual Report, 368
• Price of, (332)
• Production in the United States, (65), (319)
• Veins in Baltimore, (645)
• Wire used in United States Telephone Service, (408)
• Cordite in a Hurry, 335
• Cordite not in a Hurry, 358
• Corrosion of Marine Boilers, John Dewrance on the, 264
• Corrosion of Structural Metals, Prof, A, H. Sabin on, (582)
• Corrugated Iron Buildings, 492
• Cotsworth, Mr. H. G., On Arc Lamp3 and Arc Lighting, 144
• Cotton Belting, The Phoenix Brand, 445
• Imports into this Country, Increase in, (332)
• Industry in India, (361)
• Industry, South Carolina, (408)
• to Manchester by the Canal, Shipment of, (591)
• Counter, Pocket Speed, 58
• Crane and Conveyor Plant, Electric Travelling, 348, 349
• Electric, at Bremerhaven, (201)
• Large Floating, for Cronstadt, (361)
• Locomotive Steam, 74
• at Wandsworth, Old, 8
• Crank Shafts, Hollow, 200
• Crank Shafts, by Mr. John Brady, 466
• Crankshaw, Mr. J., On Coal Mining in Russia, 79
• Craven, Mr. John, 621
• Crookes, Sir William, and Professor Dewar’s Report on Water Supplied to London (201), (251)
• Cross, Mr. J. W., On the Development of the Modern Locomotive Engine, 362
• Crystalline Structure of Metals, 605
• Cubit, the most Ancient Measure, The, (389)
• Cumbrae Lighthouse, 191
• Cupola, Lining a New, 301
• Cupola, Real Fuel Ratio in the, 659
• Currie, Mr. James, (227), (235)
• Cutter, Milling, 466
• Cyanide Patents, MacArthur-Forrest, Validity of, (332)
• Cyanide Salts, Triple, instead of Potassium Cyanide in Electro-plating, Dr. Courant's, Use of, (281)
• Cyanogen Gas, Dr. T. L. Phipson's Experiments on, (563)
• Cycle Artillery, 48
• Cyole, Tube and Tire Companies, Profits and Losses of 100, (89)
• Cycles, Price of, (94)
• Cycling, Mechanics of, 280
• Cyclists, Highways and, 516
• Cyclops Works, Sheffield, The King of Sweden at, (491)
• Cylinder, Distribution of Stress in the Walls of a Thick, 230

D

• DAIMLER, Herr, (245), (308)
• Dalmarnock Ironworks, The, 506, 557, 560, 561
• Dam across the Colorado River Destroyed, (513)
• Failure of the Austin, Texas, (513), (548)
• Niagara River, 141
• Daniels, Mr. T., 293
• Dartmouth as a Repairing Port, 684
• Davey, Mr. H., Hydraulic Power Plant for Japan, 670
• Davies, Mr. Lee, (472)
• Day, Mr., Oa American Corliss Engines, 532, 558
• Deakin, Mr. James, (105)
• Death-rate in Thirty-three Great Towns of Eng¬land and Wales, (65)
• Dellwik, Mr. Carl, Oa the Manufacture of Water Gas, 501
• Derby Water Supply, (591)
• Devizjs, Sewage Disposal, (520)
• Diokinson, Mr. Geo., (576)
• Dividends and Reports, 343
• Dobson, Sir Benjamin, Statue at Bolton, 201

Docks:

• Barry D.-y Dock, (591)
• Subsidence of Land, (145) (158)
• Year’s Shipments, (13)
• Belfast, New Graving Docks Projected, (66),
• Brooklyn Navy Yard, Condition of the Dry, (94)
• Bristol, New Scheme, (630)
• Cardiff Railway Company’s, 542
• Clyde Trust and New, 257, 859 Dry, Hebburn, (540)
• Dnke’s, Sale of, by the Manchester Ship Canal Company, (254)
• Floating Dry, Morse Company’s Yards, New York, (524)
• Floating, Hamburg, The Blohm and Voss Com¬pany, (513)
• Goole, Further Accommodation Needed, (227)
• Grimsby, (591)
• Hull and Barnslsy Companies’, North-Eastern and, Great Joint Dock Scheme, (39)
• Japan, Formosa, (212)
• Kupetscheski, Stone Jetties to be Constructed at, (459)
• London and India Dooks Joint Committee's Bill and the Barge Owners, (180)
• Mersey Dock Board, (675)
• Newport News, United State’, The New Dry, (513)
• Pembroke, Tenders, 72
• Penarth, Subway, 601
• Renfrew, 359
• Reval, Dry, (173)
• Sunderland. Hudson Dock North, to be En¬larged (157), (173)

Dockyard Notes:

• Achilles, The, 98, 252, 301
• Admiral Class, Reconstruction of the, 280, 304, 385
• Admiral Duperre, Death of, 329
• Admiralty Coaling Orders Placed at Cardiff,
• Alexandra to be Paid off, 520
• America and the “ Johnson Shell,” 536
• American Naval Needs, 72
• New Jersey Class, Alternative Plans for the, 491
• Submarine Boat Holland, 304
• Ammunition, Reduction in the Varieties of, 614
• Anchors. Testing of, 280
• Apraxin, The, 125, 455
• Armour on the Ram, Theory as to the Effect on Ships of a Heavy Bit of, 210
• Armoured Sailors, Toe Question of, 72
• Asahi, The, 125, 172, 210, 231, 280, 304, 428, 455, 536, 595, 667
• Balincourt, Marquis de, New Edition of his “ Flottes de Combat Etrange.-es en 1900,” 614
• Bat, The Destroyer, Laid up, 231
• Bslleisle, Removed from Navy List, 280
• Completed for her Final Service, 520
• Experiments, The, 595
• Boadicea, Dismantling of, 329
• Brazilian Ironclad Riachuelo, New Masts, 595
• Ships Re-named, 595
• 24 de Maio (ex Aquidaban), 170
• British Destroyers, The New, 141
• and Foreign Vessels Aground, 455
• Building Slip at Chatham, A New, 231
• “Building Slips,” Mr. Goschen and the Elswick, 536, 567
• Calliope, The, to Cease to be a Warship, 667
• Camperdown, The, 252
• Channel Fleet, The, 536, 567
• Channel Fleet, The “Illustrated London News"
• Picture of the, 399
• Charlemagne, The Bow and Stern of the, 428
• Clowes, Mr. Laird, as a Poet, 141
• Clowes, Mr. Laird, Attacked in the ‘ Nava, and
• Military Record ” for his Views on our Naval Officers, 640, 667
• Coal Ordered for Abroad, The Truth as to the, 172
• Coaling of the Channel Fleet, Results at the Last 520
• Coaling at Soa under Weigh, M. A. Normand, 37
• Cost per Ton of Battleships in I860 and 1899, 37
• Cynthia, The Destroyer, 280
• Destroyers Bat, Teaser, and Hunter, Disasters to, 231
• Destroyers Captured at Taku, 640
• Destroyer Fitted with Parson’s Turbines, which has Beaten the Viper’s Record, Purchased by the Admiralty, 536
• Devonport, Amount of Work at, 254
• Drake, The, 72
• Dutch Cruiser, Noord Brabant, 172
• Dutch Naval Programme for 1900, 71
• Electra, The Destroyer, 72
• Electric Pumps for the New French Cruisers, 23
• Ellis and Sheen, Messrs., Their Promotion, 536
• Elswick Turbine Destroyer Cobra, 595
• Epiègle and Fantome, Two Sloops, to be Com¬menced, 72
• E«px Cass, Three Funnels instead of Four, 595
• Express and Viper, The New Destroyers, 141
• Fervent, The Destroyer, 280. 304
• Fighting Tops Abolished in Swedish Navy, 252
• Fleets of the Powers, 23, 37
• Formidable, The, 125, 210, 536
• French Battleship, Gaulois, 23
• Henry IV., 280
• Steam Trials of the New, 125
• Speed of the New, 23
• built Torpedo Boats, 12, 36, 385
• Cruiser, Galilds, 125
• Guichen, 23, 304, 385, 428, 667
• Jeanne d’Arc, 170, 385
• Not to be Built, The Projected H 5, 595
• Electric Pomps for the New, 23
• Experiments similar to the Belleisle Trial. 595
• Indomptable and Caiman, 141, 385
• Naval Formation, A New, 595
• Manoeuvres, The, 614
• Programme, The New, 71
• Rcquin and Terrib'e, 141, 385
• Submarine Torpedo Boats, Goubet No. 2, 36
• Torpedo Boat, Accident on Board, 359
• Fuel, Mr. Strong’s Patent, 329
• Garibaldi Class of Cruisers, “Le Yacht's”
• Photographs of the. 567
• German Battleship Kaiser Barbarcssa, The New, 491
• v. English Torpedo Craft, 359
• Germany Copies the Russian Mast, 491
• Glory, The, 172, 210
• Goschen, Mr., and Elswick, 536. 567
• Guns of the Benedetto Brin, 428
• Practice at South sea Castle. 428
• at Southsea Castle, Mr. W. T. Stead on the Removal of the, 98
• at Southsea Castle, Mounting Two Heavy, eni Dismounting of the Old, 231, 329
• The 12-pounder, Capt. H. T. May's Agitition against their Positions, 23
• Harbour Watch, Proposed Abolition of the, 667
• Hecate, Cyclops, Gorgon, and Hydra, Best Tning to do with, 210
• Herluf Trolle, Danish Ironclad, 252
• Hermes, The Accident to the, 252
• Hero, Grounding of, 455
• The Gunnery Tender, 252, 280
• Hoche, Reconstruction of the, 170
• Hood, The, 252
• Italian Armoured Cruisers, The New, 491
• Italian Cruiser Puglia’s Mean, 491
• Jane Naval War Game, Ships’ Diagrams added to, 125
• Japanese Battleship Asahi, 125, 172, 210, 231, 280, 3C4
• Japanese Battleship, Hats use, 210
• Ousongumo, 172
• Cruiser Itsukushima to be Re- boilered, 141
• the Iwate, 210 Destroyer Niji, 172, 210
• Torpedo Boat Destroyer Ousoquo-umo, 210
• Japan’s Fleet, 567
• Jena, Basin Trial of her Machinery, 385
• Jonquihre, Marquis de la, his History of his Ancestor the Admiral, 614
• Kaiser Karl VI. to have Three Funnels, Aus¬trian Cruiser, 252
• Kent, The, 72, 170
• Kestrel Destroyer, The, 359
• King-Hall, Captain, His Naval War Game, 231
• Laird-Clowes Controversy, The, 640, 667
• Lepanto, Nickel Steel Armour Belt for the, 37
• Leven, The Destroyer, 280
• London, Work Proceeding on the, 536
• Lyddite, Mr. Fred. Villiers on, 520
• end Armour-piercing Shell for 6in. Gunsand under in place of Common Shell, 614
• Shells, 12in , The “ Army and Navy E Gazette,” 614
• Maxim Gun, The •015in., to be Roplaced by D the 303in., 614
• Naiad, Sale of the, 428
• Narcissus, The, 252
• “ Naval Annual,” Another, 455
• A’aval Annua/, Illustrations in the. 614
• Naval College at Dartmouth, The New, 304
• Engineer Officers’ Pay, 231 r
• Game on Board H.M.S. Mars, 359
• Captain King-Hall’s, 231
• Jane’s, 125
• Mrcccivres, The, 640, 667
• Publications, Year’s Editions of, 428
• Scare, Another, 640
• Tactics, Introduction to the Study of, Translated from the French, 359
• Navy Boilers, Mr. Odagiri on, 640
• League's Muzzle loader Crusade, Obsolete Breech-loaders added to the, 595
• Norge, Launch of the, 359
• Obsolete Ships, French and German, 304
• Weeding out of, 252, 2a0
• Odagiri, Mr., On Navy Boilers, 640
• Oil Trouble at Devonport Dockyard, The, 385
• Olympia, United States Cruiser, 125
• O.-de-Browne, Captain, Lecture at the Royal Institute. 359
• Pandora, The, 72,125, 280
• Paper Statistics give little Knowledge of Ships, 141
• Patent Fael in the Channel Fleet, 614
• Pelorus Type, New Cruiser of the, 72
• Petrel, New Destroyer, 304, 399
• Pique, The Cruiser, 72, 385
• Pola Almanack, The, 399.
• The Plan Draughtsman of the, 359
• Poltava, The, 125, 455
• Portsmouth Docks, Demolition of Old, 172
• Dockyard, New Basin for Destroyers, 210
• Scarcity of Men, 210
• Harbour, Torpedo Attack upon, 667
• Powerful, The, 304, 399, 428, 534, 536
• Reserve Fleet, The Alexandra, Rodney, and Leda, at Portsmouth for their Refit, 359
• Fleet, Admiral Noel’s Statement in connection with, 520
• Squadron, The, 98, 231, 252
• Resolution, Semaphore Mast for the, 125
• Rosario, The New Sloop, 36
• Royal Yacht, Accident to, 37, 125
• The New, 125, 141
• Russian Battleship Admiral Buotakoff, 280, 304
• Rstvisan, Two Military Masts, 399
• Cruiser Admiral Nakimoff Nipped in the Ice, 491
• Askold and Bogatyr, 141, 399
• Bayan, 667
• Battleship Peresvet, a Future Type for the American Navy, 399, 491
• Gunboat Giliak, 72
• Mandtchur, The, 610
• Ironclad Apraxin, 491 Building, 640
• Sinop to be Re-boilered, 141 ;
• Naval Estimates for 1900, 23
• Navy, Growth of the, 304
• Warships, The New, 125
• Sanspareil and Trafalgar, to Portland for
• their Annual Prize Firing, 329
• Scbichau Boats v. Thornycroft, 359
• Schwartzkopf Torpedo, The Daily Mail's Re¬port about the, 172
• Seagull, The Gunboat, 231
• Semaphore Masts, 125
• Shikishima, Her Trial9, 71, 98, 125, 359
• Shoddy Work in our Navy, 614
• Spanish Cruiser Estramadura, 491
• Rio de la Plate, 141
• Navy, Fate of the, 595
• Star, The New Destroyer, 141
• Sturgeon, The Destroyer, 280
• Submarine Boats, Mr. Goschen’s Statement Respecting, 491
• Submerged Tube Invented by the Prince cf Siam, 455
• Sultan, The, to be Commissioned for the Matieuvres, 640
• Swedish Battleship Giita, Re-armament and Rig, 304, 399
• Ironclad, Dristigbeten, 141
• Navy to be Increased by some Pro¬tected Cruisers, 536
• Tage, French Cruiser, to be Transformed, 72
• Taku, Destroyers Captured at, 640
• Taku Forts, The International Fleets and the, 640
• Temperley Transporters on British Ships, 385
• Temperley Transporter for the Jeanne d’Arc, Third-class Battleships and Armoured Cruisers Admiralty Crusaders Against, 252
• Torpedo Attack upon Portsmouth Harbour, 667
• Torpedo Gunboats in Commission for the Manoeuvres, 640
• Trafalgar, The, 252
• Transmitters on the Canopus and in the Japan¬ese Navy, 595
• United States Admiralty Board Rrlinquishes the Doable-turret System for the Gune of the New Jersey Class, 399
• United States Battleship Chicago, 399
• Villiers, Mr. Fred., On Lyddite, £20
• Viper, Funnels of the, 210
• Viper, Second Trial of, 37
• Volunteers in the Navy, 428
• Weyl, M , Death of, 23
• Yarrow Destroyer Niji, 125
• Doherty. Mr. H. L, On Electrical Progress in the United States, 180
• Donaldson, Mr. Wm., (520)
• Double-storey Turrets, 384, 413
• Dover, Municipal Profits, Expenditure and Rates, (13)
• New Forts at, (671)
• Dowlais Works, The New Company, (630)
• Doxford, Mr. Wm., Knighted, (13)
• Drafting of Technical Patent Specifications, 82
• Drain Testing, 458, 493, 545
• Drainage Board, Birmingham, Tame, and Rsa District, (3)
• of the Metropolis, Prevention of Storm Flooding, 376
• Plant, Erection of a, British Guiana, 4
• Underground, 571
• Dredge, Paddle-wheel Suction, Mississippi River (656)
• Dredger, Hydraulic, for Calcutta, 668, 669
• Miniature Sand-pump, 464
• Various Types of, Cost of Dredging with, New South Wales, (184)
• Dredging Requirements of the Tyne, (502), 582
• Dredging of Sand Cbannels, Suction, 194
• Sand from Dublin Bar, 582
• Suction, 582
• Dril', Radial, 33
• Rock, Worked by Self-contained Oil Engine, (618)
• Drilling Machine, American, 400
• Pillar Radial, 624
• Doctor Machine Company’s Patent Box-nailiDg Machine, (101)
• Dundee Gasworks, Patent Stoking Apparatus for, (389)
• Durham College of Science, Students’Volunteer Corps (201)
• Dyke, Dr., (106)
• Dynamical Clouds, Lo.-d Kelvin on, 461, 598
• Dynamite Factory ia the Transvaal, The Notor¬ious, (159)

E

• EADIE, Mr. A., Cupola Lining, 301
• Earth Foundations, Mr. J. E. Pierce on, (208)
• Eclipse, The Solar, Sir N. Lockyer on the, (563)
• Economics in Railway Bridge Design and Manu¬facture, 83
• Eddison, Mr. Robert W.,536
• Education, E'ementary, (361)
• Edwards, Mr. A, E., On Artificial Lighting, (179), (496), 545
• Egyptian Sugar, Manufacture of, 373, 376, 458, 493

Electric:

• Accumulator Traction in Chicago to be Re¬placed by Overhead Trolley System, (133)
• Alternating-current Distribution. 177, 181
• Arc,’ Actinic Intensity of the Three Parts of the,(332)
• Apparatus for Use of E’ectric Engineer Volun¬teers going to South Africa, Allowance made by War-office, (91)
• Block Instruments on the South Indian Rail¬way, Winter’s, (251)
• Boats to Work on the Severn, (389)
• Brakes, Tramways, and Light Railways Exhibi¬tion, 667
• Bulkhead Dcors, System for Working, (13)
• Car Works, Hadley, (525)
• Cei ing Fans in India stopped during Storm, (540)
• Central Station Practice, Operating Economies in, Mr. W. L. Abbot on, 655
• Charging Stations on the New Jersey Coast, (637)
• Charging Stations, Thames Valley Launch Company’s, (671) »
• Copper Conductors, Losses due to Manufac¬ture in, (350)
• Crane, Largest in the World, (201)
• and Conveyor Plant, Travelling,
• Graham, Morton, and Co., sub-con¬tractors, Jessop and Appleby Brothers, Limited, 348, 349
• Currents, Action on Water Pipes of Stray, (540)
• Current Generated in Canada, Niagara Falls Power Company Petition for a Tariff on, (65)
• Derrick, 233
• Development in the United Kingdom, 223
• Discharges, Experiments bearing on the Sub¬ject of Death caused by, (389)
• Distribution in Factories, 431
• Driven Air Compressor, Rea veil and Co., Limited, 676
• Driving of Factories from the Public Poiot of View, Mr. A. H. Gibbings on the, (389)
• Machine Tools (Sunplen.ent, March 23rrZ, 1900), 304, 3u6
• Machine Toils, German Experience with Regard to, (540)
• Machine Tools, Professor Jackson on the Question of, (361)
• Dynamometer Car, Illinois Central Railway, (201)
• Edison American Three-wire Patent, Expira¬tion of, (408)
• Enirgy, Stealing of, made a Criminal Offence ii Germany (299)
• Engineering at the Paris Exhibition, 615
• Plant, Standardisation of, Mr. R. P. Sellon. 144, 148, 175
• Record of the Past Year, 18
• Engineers, Local Centres for the Corps of, (563) (R.E.)
• Volunteers, (196), (227)
• Volunteers Corps, Volunteers for South Africa, (39)
• Engines—tee Engines
• Fan, Tests, The Sun Fan Company, Limited, (308)
• Ferranti-Plenty Plant, 650-Kilowatt, 386, 388
• Furnace to Iron Smelting in Switzerland, Wider Application of the, (459)
• Generation Station, Worcester, (361)
• Generator for Leeds Tramways, 70 Haulage, (658)
• HauliDgGear for Mines, E. Scott and Mountain, Limited, 36
• Heating Apparatus, M. Parville’s New Form tf Resistance for, (671)
• Heating Plant for a Hat Manufactory in New Jersey, (201)
• Hoisting Machine, Gothic Works, Norwich, 590
• Kennedy, Prof., On the Cost of Applying Electric Traction to the London Tramways, (305)
• Launch on the Grand Canal, Venice, (227)
• Magnet in German Mine, Use of, (486)
• Magnetic Transmitter and Receiver for Measur¬ing Sound Intensities, (618)
• Manufacturing Company’s Works, Preston, 636, 642, 643, 646
• Nickel in Electro-plating, How to obtain, (513)
• Notes, American News, (392)
• Open-hearth Charging Machine, The Wellman, 273, 282
• Overhead Wires Act, The Strict Carrying-out of, (215)
• Plant at Cambridge, New, 34
• Plant, Greenock Electricity Works, (671)
• Polyphase Electric Generators, (31)
• Power for Cotton Mills, America, (602)
• Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Com¬pany’s Works, 671
• Generated by Waterfalls, Transmis; ion to Industrial Establishments in Venetia of, (227)
• Plant Developing 600,000 Horse-powe-, Canada, (645)
• Plant, Hydraulic, Hartford Electric Light Company, 444
• Scheme, Colne, (645)
• Schemes in Spain, (510)
• Station, Buxton, (563)
• Stations and Distribution, America, (602)
• Transmission, On Distant, by Prof. Geo. Forbes, 523
• Transmission from the Shawinigan Falls, United States, Works for, (513)
• Utilised in Manufacture of Calcium Car¬bide, Alkalies, Aluminium, Ac. &c., (389)
• Progress in the United States, Last Year’s, 180
• Riicker v. London Electric Supply Corporation, Limited, 177, 181
• Safety Apparatus for Lifts, Messrs. Amend and Hollins, 316
• Self-cooling Transformers, 2C9
• Shepardson, Mr. G. D., Tests for Candle-power
• and Wattage of Incandescent Lamps from Lamp Factories, (308)
• Sun Fan Company, Limited, Tests on an Elec¬trically-driven Fan, (308)
• Supply Company for South Wales, 63
• Meter of the Frictionless Motor Type, Mr. S. Evershed at the Royal Society, 619
• Station, Wandsworth, 224, 226, 228
• Swing Bridge Worked by Electricity, (65)
• Trac.ion Experiments on the Mediterranean Railway, (590)
• The Johnson-Lundell System of, 399
• Mr. W. A. Walton on, 312
• Exhibits at the Tramways and Light Railway s Exhibition, 667
• on the Metropolitan Railway, 205, 52
• on Railways and Tramways, Factory at Milan for Producing Material Required for, (563)
• Undertakings in Frai.ce, Total Length of, (389)
• Transmit sion of Sound, How its ES.iency is Increased, (459)
• Turbine-driven Generating Set, New York, (615)
• Vibrations, Prof. O. Lodge on, (254)
• Waves, Radiator for the Production of Short, Dr, Flemirg at the Royal Society, 619

Electric Light:

• Alternating-current Distribution, 177
• Arc, Actinic Intensity of the Three Parts of the, (332)
• Brrmondsey, 101 Blackpool, (145)
• Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.’s Work’, (185)
• Boston, United States (602)
• Cambridge, 34 Charges, 275
• Chicago, Utilsation of Water Power Generated by Drainage Canal, (119)
• City of London Electric Lighting Company’s Report, 1899, (254)
• City Road Electric Supply Station, 197, 198, 199 202
• Corridor Trains, Great Western, (618)
• Cost of, by Private Installations v. Pubric Supply Companies, 405
• County of London Electric Lighting Company, 197, 198, 199, 202
• Wandsworth Station, 221, 226, 228
• Devonport, (281)
• Dublin, 10
• Dust on the Wires, Cause of the Collection of, (618)
• Fire at tho Maiden-lane Station, 258
• Gloucester, (570)
• The Great Chimney Stack, 285
• Harrogate, 252, 253, 313
• Hertford Electric Light Company, Hydraulic Power Plant, 441
• llcckxondwike, (513)
• Hull Corporation, Electric Lighting Station, Combined Engines and Dynamo, 305, 307
• Lamps, Aluminium, Electrode for Arc, (332)
• Arc Lighting and Arc, Mr. II. G. Cotsworthon, 144
• Deposit of Carbon on the Walls of In¬candescent, (30S)
• Effect of Lightning on, 170, 381
• Incandescent, in America, Tests to Show the Efficiency of, (332)
• Incandescent, and the Auer Incan¬descent Gas Lamp Compared, (173)
• A New Form of Arc, (591)
• Tests for Candle-power and Wattage of Incandescent Lamps from Seven Fac¬tories, (308)
• Lightships, Capa Hatteras, (389)
• Loans, 333
• London Electric Supply Corporation, Deptford, 650-Kilowatt Ferranti-Plenty Plant, 386, 388
• London Electrio Sepply Corporation, Riicker v.Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, Maryle- bone Consumers Grievances against, (65)
• Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, Limited, Willesden Works, 451, 452, 453
• Newcastle, (361)
• New York, Steel Chimney Stacks at the New Main Power Station, (119)
• Photo Prints by, 363
• Plant Operated by a Gas Engine, Central Sta¬tion, Chicago, Paper by J. C. Small, 623
• Presce and Cardew's Report on the Cost of Lighting Railway Carriages, (65)
• Railway Works, (536)
• Rolling Stock, Cost of, (65)
• Rotherham. (251)
• St. Helena (Well’s Lights), (433)
• St. James and Pall Mall Company, Board of Trade Units Generated, (145) u t. Panera?, 466 Si’.ford, (239), 671
• South Wales, (63)
• Spanish Towns to be Supplied with, (486)
• Station, Wandsworth, 224, 226, 228 Stockport, (94)
• Sydney. 24, (527)
• Train Lighting Apparatus. Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway (232)
• Train Lighting in West Australia, Stone’s System of, (281)
• United States Government Printing Office, Washington. (618)
• Warrington, (145)
• Warsaw, (591)
• Whitby, (254)
• Willesdca Electric Supply Station, 451, 452, 453
• Worcester, (361)
• York Corporation Works, (227)
• Electricity: v. Acetylene, (512)
• to Engineering, Relations of, Sir W. H. Preeco, 443
• High-tension, Mr. Stanley J. Harding on, (173)
• in the Mint at Philadelphia, Use of, (332)
• from Peat, Genoration of, (408)
• Retail, Messrs. Bentley and Co.’s Plant for Supplying, 497
• to Supersede Steam Power at Kiel Dockyard, (618)
• Supply, Gloucester, (570)
• in Warships, 521
• Working Swing Bridges by, 583
• Eleotro-plating Baths, Use of Triple Cyanide Salts in, (281)
• Electrolytic Copper instead of Lake Ingots to be the Standard Quotations, New York Metal Exchange, (361)
• Elswick Naval Mountings, 59, 62, 63, 64, 88, 89
• Elswick Shipyard in 1899, Naval Work of the, 73
• Employers’ Liability Act, A. Harris v. Great Western Railway Company, 467
• Employers' Liability Act in Spain, New, (540)

Engines:

• Esthetic Steam, 176, 235
• Air, for Boring Tool, 326, 327
• American Corliss, for Electric Traction, Notes on by Charles Day, 582, 558
• Balanced Oil, Messrs. White and Nunn’s Patent, 571
• Blowing, A "Buckeye” Vertical Invorted, (682)
• with New Corliss Gear, Sir C. Furness.
• Westgartb, and Co., Limited, (185)
• for the Ohio Works of tho National Steel Company, (389)
• Compound Ordored at Noon, April 6th, from Scott and Hodgson, Completed and at Work 4 a. m. May 2nd, (497)
• Traction, 8 Horse power, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 650
• Corliss, American, Mr. C. Day’s Notes on, 532, 558
• Crank Shafts of, Mr. John Brady, 466
• Drop in Multiple Expansion, 96
• Electric, Hall Corporation. Electric Lighting Station, 305, 307
• and Alternator, H'gh-speed, Harro¬gate, 252, 253
• with Dynamo Combined, 305, 307
• in Prussia, (332)
• Traction, 623
• Truction, American Corlis), Charles Day on, 532, 558
• Tramway, New York, 444
• Factory, A Large, Hainsburg, U.S.A., (209)
• Farcot One-cylinder, Paris Exhibition, 664
• Gas-blowing, Seraing, Paris Exhibition, 662, 672
• for High Furnace Gases, 12
• 650 Hone-power, Seraing, Belgium, 662, 663
• and Oil, Blaxton Engineering Company, 680
• at the Royal Agricultural Show, 651
• Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium, France, and Great Britain, Statistics relative to, (540)
• Indicator Cards, Central Valve, 115
• Ljungstrom’s Crankless, 362, 432
• Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Lubricants for Internal Combustion, 509 Marine, Corvettp "General Biquedano,” 378, 379, 380
• Mileage, 412