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
Mill, 2000 Indicated Horse-power Compound Corliss, 35, 40
Oil, Applied to Motor Cars, Balanced, 653
in Palestine (459)
at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show, 651
Paris Exhibition, 565, 579, 593, 607, 662, 664, 672
Pilot, 436 Plenty, 387, 388
Prime Movers at the Paris Exhibition, 579, 607
Pumping, Triple-expansion, Leeds Waterworks, 150-153
Pumping, Worth, Mackenzie, and Co., (630)
Revolving Cylinder, 412, 432
Single-crank Compound, 47
Steam, Mr. C. T. Porter’s, (13)
Steam, in Use in Prussia for Generation of Electric Energy, (332)
Steam Engine Theory and Practice, Professor Wm. Ripper on, 422, 463
Tandem Launch, Mr. Jas. W. Boulton, 626
Tandem, SiDgle-crank, 235, 290
Theory, Practice, and the Steam, 410
Thurston, Professor, on the, at the End of the Nineteen Century, (13)
Traction, at Frere, (13)
Traction, for Siberian Mining District, (433)
Traction for South Africa, (64), 145, 215, 319, (389)
Traversing Winding, Mr. Morgan’s, (359)
Triple-expansion, 3000 Horse-power, fur the Berlin Tramways (Supplements, May 25lh and Jane M>th, 19C0), 546, 621
and Boiler Attendants in Massachusetts, Licensing of, (281)
Engine-room Artificers of the Channel Squadron in Disgrace, (227)
Engineering, Admiralty, 328, 406, 454, 492, 502, (521), 675
Civil, Record of the Past Year, 15
Congress at Glasgow, 285
Contractors, Working Methods of, Mr. James Brand on, 262
Electrical, Record of the Past Year, 18
in India, 384
Mechanical Record of the Past hear, 16
Relations of Electricity to, Sir W. II. Preece, 443
Sanitary, Record of the Past Year, 19
Works of the Suez Canal, Sir C. A. Hartley on, 280
Engineers, Birthday Honours for, 536
Charges, 492
and China, 74
Education of, 194
French Naval, 372
Functions of the, Sir W. H. Preece on, 183
Mr. Henry Hodgson on Our Position as, 64
in China, Mechanical, 599 — /ee also pages 542, 547, 553, Vol. lxxxviii.
Officer, Experiences of an, 133, 161, 189, 217
from Keyham. who have Joined the Navy, Number of, (201)
ia Ohio, Licence Law Requiring Ex¬amination and Licence of, (486,
Preliminary Education of, 231
Promising Markets for British, 205
and Spain, 479
Training of Young, Mr. W. C. Barrow- man on, (239)
English Newspaper to be Published in St. Peters¬burg to appear in Russian in London, (94)
Swiss Machinery, 154
Syndicate for Acquiring Coal from Ala¬bama, (433)
Easley Basic Steel Works, United States America, 142, 143
Equalising Levers, 313, 381
Erosion of Gun Barrels, 381
Evershed, Mr. S., Electric Supply Meter of the Frictionless Motor Type, 619
Evoy, Compass, 180
Ewing and Rosenhain, Messrs., On the Crystal¬line Structure of Metal’, 605

Exhibitions:

Acetylene, Budapest, Official Report, 110
in Paris, (419)
Agricultural Implements, to be held in Russia, and German Uneasiness respecting, (13)
Buenos Ayres, Dairy Industry, (145), (201)
Crete, International, (94f Glasgow, International, 1901, (308), (359), (512) Manchester, Motor Cars, (227)
Motor Vehicles, Agricultural Hall, Islington, (369), 411
Vienna, (339)
Paris—see Paris Exhibition
Tramways and Light Railways, (266), 667

Explosives:

Cordite and our Guns, 648
in a Hurry, 335
not in a Hurry, 358
Dynamicables, 68
High, in Shells, 21
Lyddite, Explosion of, (536)
and Shrapnel Shells, (25), 41, (77)
Marsite, The New, (201)
Modern, by Sir A. Noble, 335
Pitite and Stowmarket Gelignite added to the
Explosives Prohibited in Mines, (459)
Projsctiles, Soft-capped, United States (591)
Shell, A New, 488
Shells on Ships, Action of, 670, 674
Smoke, 226
Smokeless Powder, Japan, (524)
Explosions at Avigliana, Dynamite, (281)
Boiler, 316
Peculiar, (433)
at South Shields Gas Works, (145)
Exports from America to Russia, (227)

F

FAILURE of a Great Experiment, 673
Fan Tests, 308, 381
Farr, W. B., On Moving Leads on Railway Under Bridges, 141, 149
Fay and Scott Turret Lathe, 168, 167, 169
Ferriss Wheel for Sale, (486)
Ferrule, Thornycroft’s Expanding Condenser, 509
FessendeD, Professor R. A., and the Nernst Lamp, (227)
Field, Mr. Rogers, 362
Fifeshire Miners will not send a Labour Repre¬sentative to Parliament, (108)
File Makers in England, Swiss, (408)
Findlay, C. F., On the Floor System of Girder Bridges, 141, 149
Finish, Commercial Value of, 593
Fire at Blair and Co.’s Ecgineering Works, (254)
Boston, L. and N.W. Station Shed, (591)
Cyfarthfa Collieries, in Lamp-room, (332)
Glasgow, at Messrs. D. and W. Henderson’s Works, (618)
Hamstead Mine, (628)
Maiden-lane Electric Lighting Station, (258)
on the Narcissus, (308)
Annunciator, Automatic, 679
Arms for the City of London Imperial Volunteers, (39)
Arms, the Spanish Mauser R’fle Converted into a Gun, (459)
Boxes, Water-tube, London and South- Western Railway, 464
Prevention Committee, British, 437
Proofing Timber, Mr. Cowper-Coles od, 248
Tests by the British Fire-prevention Com¬mittee, (249), (254)
Test with an Office Safe, (254)
Fitzierald, Admiral, on the Imperial Japanese Navy, 352, 364
Flannery, Sir Fortescue, Questions respecting H.M.S. Terrible and H.M.S. Hermes, 675
Fleet-street, No. 17, and the London County Council, (332)
Fleets of the Powers, Parliamentary Paper show¬ing, 23, 37
Fleming, Dr., Radiator for the Production of Short Electric Waves (shown at the Royal Society’s Conversazione), 649
Floor System of Girder Bridges, C. F. Findlay on, 141, 149
F.uoroscope, Stereoscopic, Exhibited by Mr. J. M. Davidson, 649
Foden’s Straw Press, 652
Fog Signal Detonator E jonomiser, 140
Fog Signalling, 140
Forbes and Grover, Messrs., On Wrapping Ma¬chines, 300
Forbes, Prof. Geo., On Distant Electrical Power ( Transmission, 523
Foreign, Really English-made Articles Sold as, (618)
Forging Press for the Ordnance Factories at Woolwich, (361), (367)
Forging Presses, Two of the Largest, (308)
Fort to Command the Clyde, Government Pro¬ject, (408)
Fosdick and Holloway, Radial Drill, 33
Fox, Mr. C. B , On the Simplon Tunnel, 114 i
France and Free Ports, 436
French and British Guns and Ships, 299, 322
Naval Budget, The. 335
Naval Engineers, 372
Friction of Steam Packings, by Chas. Hy. Ben¬jamin, 627
Fuel Famine, 43
Oil, for Boilers, (13)
Oil, for Steamers, (13)
Ratio in the Cupola, Tne Real, 659
Furnace-chargiDg Machine, Wellman, 273, 282
The Meldrum. 144
Oil Assay, 196
Plant, New Blast, at Columbus, (548)
Furness, Mr. Geo., (78)

G

GALVANIC Cells, Reversibility of, (254)
Garbage Furnaces at San Francisco, (584)
Garrard, Mr. Milling Cutter, 466
Gas at Birmingham, Low Price of, (540)
Calorific Power of Illuminating, Mr. II. G. Colman, 483
Carburetted Water, 521
Carburetted Water, Question of Legislative
Regulation of its Use, (563)
Committee of the Leeds Corporation, 684
Companies and the Coal Famine, 285
Consumed, Enhanced Rate for, Question Raised Respecting, (671)
Cyanogen. (563)
Cylinder Testing, 572, 599
Distributing under Pressure, 524
Engineering, Details in, 626
Engines for Driving Grindstones Condemned, (145), (233)
Enrichment of Coal, Mr. G. Livesey on, 454,
483, (486), (509), 521 Explosion, South Shields Works, (145)
Holders for Glasgow, Two Big, (459)
H older, Telescoping a, 605
Lighting, Incandescent, in Germany, Pro¬posals to Reduce the Candle-power, (65)
Lowest Price Known Supplied by the Widnes Works, (540)
Main in Pennsylvania, A Wrought Iron, (433)
Making Purposes, Carbonisation of Cannel and Shales for, Mr. S. Glover on, 483
Naphthalene in Coal, its Detection and
Extraction, Mr. W. Irwin, 483
The New, Mr. W. H. Y. Webber, 616
Price Raised, (682)
Supply, London, (459)
Record of the Past year, 20
Penny-in-the-slot Meters, Figures Relating to, (145), (173)
Testing, London County Council’s Proposal Rejected, (486)
Tests of London, (394)
Undertakings in the United Kingdom, (227)
Water, for Loods, (145)
Gae, Water, Manufacture of, 501
and its Recent Continental Develop¬ments. Prof. V. B. Lewes, 483
Gasworks for Glasgow, New, (545)
Gasworks, Regenerative Benches in, 605
Gauges, Bourdon, 154. 172, 200, 235, 290, 313, 336, 412, 432, 493
Water, 309, 360, 381, 492
Pressure, F. H. StillmaD, 211
Gear Wheel Cast in America, A Large, (308)
Geological Field Class, The London, Saturday Afternoon Excursions, (372)
Geological Survey and Museum of Practical Geology, 577
German Axles, 670
Commercial Schools, Russian Language to be Taught in, (332)
Ex pert View of the American Iron and Steel Industries, 405
Foreign Trade to the German Colonies, Improvement in, (526)
General Import in 1899, Value of, '(145)
Imperial Post and Telegraph Office, Receipts of, (645)
Naval Budget, (94)
Pig Iron Output, (39)
Germany’s Exports to the United States, Value of, (433)
Germany, Population of, (459)
Giant Steel Trust Again, The, 310
Gilchrist, Mr. Archibald, 45
Gjers and Harrison, Messrs, Equalisation of the Varying Temperature of the Hot Blast, 501
Glasgow and the Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, (201), (285)
Health Committee, Area of Cleansing Operations, (94)
Glover, Mr. S., On the Carbonisation of Cannel and Shales lor Gas making, 483
Gold, Alloying of, (563)
Concessions in Celebes, Borneo, and Sumatra, (645)
Digger, Pneumatic Caisson, (173)
Exports from West Australia, (145)
fields in Japan, (408)
in India, (433)
Mining in Alaska, (332)
China, 406
Nugget weighing 160 oz., (39)
Output, Australian Colonies, (145), (212)
New South Wales, (389), (591)
New Zealand, (602)
Victoria, 1899, (39)
Reef Discovered in Newfoundland, (408)
Returns, United States, (563)
Goodman, Professor, On Design of Governors, 222
Güransson, Mr. G. F., (512)
Goschen, Mr., On Ordnance and Explosives, 515
Gothic Works, Norwich, 588, 589
Governors, New Measure of Good Quality in, by
Professor R. H. Smith, 529
Some Points in the Design of, 222
Graham, J., On Economies in Railway Bridge Design and Manufacture, 83
Morton and Co., Electric Travelling Crane and Conveyor Plant, 348, 349
Grain Warehouses, America, 24
Grantham, Mr. R. F., Closing of Breaches in Sea and River Embankments, 292
Graphite, Manufacture of, 23
Greaves, Mr. H. J., On the Mechanical Treat¬ment of Coal, (267)
Greenwich Temperature and Rainfall and Sun¬shine Records, Year ending April 30th, 1900, (671)
Greiner, Mr. Ad., On a Blowing Engine Worked by Blast Furnace Gas, 482
Grindley, Mr. J. H., On the Thermodynamical Properties of Superheated Steam, 291
Grindstones, Major Roe Condemns Gas Engines for Driving, (145), (233)
Grove, Sir George, 567
Guest, Mr. J. J., On the Strength of Materials, 576
Gan Barrels, Erosion of, 381
Gunnery Experiments, 437
Guns—sec Ordnance
Our, and their Uss in the War, 109, 177, 204
Trade, The Birmingham, (406)

H

HACKNEY Public Baths, (477)
Halifax, New Reservoirs at Walsbaw D.an, (281)
Hammer, Longworth Power, 218, 237
Hamstead Mine, Fire at, (628)

Harbours and Waterways:

Aberdeen, 451
Australia, 451
Bahia Blanca, Improvement of the Harbour, (389)
Bitoum, Port of, (347)
Canal Luck Gates by Sand Blast, Ceaning, 582
Locks, Pneumatic Balince, 582
Schemes, British and American, 21
Commercial Harbour, West End of the North Sea and Baltic Canal, (408)
Conneaut Harbour, Improvement of, by the Carnegie Company, (408)
Copenhagen, Port of, (263)
Cronstadt, (119)
Cuxhaven, (649)
Dnieper Estuary, Projacted Ilirbuur on Black Ssa, (332)
Dredging, Suction, 582
Dublin, 682
Duddon Estuary, The, 111
Garston Docks, 582
Grimsby, 451
Harrington Pier, Extsnsion, 142
Hartlepool. 582
lleysham Harbour, (356)
Hongkong, 559
Hull, 111, 582
Inland Waterways, 142
Ipswich, 451
Japan, Takamatsu, (212)
Leith, 582
Liverpool, 582
Llanelly, 111
Manchester Ship Canal, (488), 582
Manchester Ship Canal, Scheme for Utilising
the Water Ballast taken up the, (408)
Mersey Docks and Harbour Does, (486)
Mexico, Selina Cruz Harbour, 248
Middlesborough, 111
Moute Video, (258)
Moray Firth, 451
Morris Canal, 218
Ouse Navigation, River, 142
Portknockie, 582
Record of the Past Year's Work at Home and Abroad, 21
Ribble, The 582
South Africa, 451
Sunderland, 111, (157), (173), 582
Swansea, 111, (294)
Terneuzen Ship Canal, 248
Thames, The, 248, 451
Tyne, The, 111, 582 Wisbech, 248
Hardy, Mr. John, (486)
Harland and Wolff’s Extension Schemes (65)
Harpenden Sewage Disposal, (433)
Hartley, Sir C. A., On the Engineering Works of the Suez Canal, 280
Hartness Flat Turret Lathe, 219, 220, 221
Hathorn, Davey, and Co., Pumping Engines.
Leeds, 150, 151, 152. 153
Haulage, Economical, 47
Waste, 121,154, 172, 412, 521, 545
Hauling Gesr for Mines, Electric. 36
Haupt, Mr. Louis M., Reaction Jetties, 399
Health in the Workshop, Mr. J. D. Sutcliffe on, (239)
Heat on Babbitt Metal, Effect of, 235
Insulators, Method of Testing Comparative Efficiency of, (433)
Utilisation of Waste, 203, 312
Heating with, Exhaust Steam, 273
Hot-water, (209)
Hele-Shaw, Professor, The Pressure on an In¬clined Plane with Special Reference to Balanced Rudders, 397, 413
Professor H. S., On Road Locomo¬tion, 454, 468, 494, 495, 547, (571), 573, 601
Helps, Mr. J. W., On the Gas Industry, 454
Henderson, Mr. J. B., On the Mechanics of Cycling, 280
Henshaw, Mr. Alfred, (394)
Herriot, Mr. George (472)
Highgate Archway, The New, 559
Highways and Cyclists, 516
Hingeless Arcb, The, 421
Hirst, Mr. T., (318)
Hodbarrow Mines, Sea Wall to Protect, (281)
Hodgkin, Major Eliot, 106
Hodgson, Mr. Henry, on “ Our Position as Engineers,” 64
Hodgson, Mr. R. B., on the Meldrum Furnace, 144
Hogg, Mr. A., Road Paring Machine, 677
Holmes, Mr. Sheriton, (487, 488)
Homan, Mr. Brees vaD, on Steel Skeleton Con¬struction, 287
Hongkong, New Maritime Works at, 559
Hopetouu, Earl of, Inaugural Address at the Institution of Naval Architects, 352, 358
Hopkinson Memorial Wing of the Engineering Laboratory, Cambridge, (94)
Horses Employed by the Glasgow Health Com¬mittee, Cost of Feeding, (94)
Horse-power, Value of a, 122, 259
Horses Unattended on Public Roads, Dangers of Leaving, (65)
Hospitals for Railway Employés in Russia, (467)
Hospital Train, The Princess Christian, 48
Hot Blast, Equalisation of the Varying Tempera¬ture of the, Messrs. Gjers and Harrison, 501
Hot-water Heating, (209)
Hovgaard, Captain Wm., Strength of Elliptic Sections under Fluid Pressure, 379
Hughes, Prof. Edward, 91
Hulet Hydraulic Unloader, The, 330, 331
Hull Corporation Coal Inspector’s Returns for January, (185)
Corporation’s Water and Gas Committee, Meeting of the, 446
Street Improvements, (671)
Humidity of Atmosphere for Textile Manufac¬tures, (3)
Hunslet Engine Company, Narrow-gauge Tank Engine, 38, 44, 45
Huxbam, Mr. H., 194
Hydraulic Dredger for Calcutta, 668. 669
Machinery for Handling Ore, 330
of the Tower Bridge, Mr. H. M. Rootbam on, (413)
Power Plant for the Miike Mines, Japan, Mr. H. Davey, 613, 614
Power Plant for Japan, 670
Hydrogen Arsenite, Aeronaut Poisoned by, (459)
Solid, Prof. Dewar’s Discourse, 385

I

ICE and Cold Storage Trades Directory, (281)
Illinois Steel Company’s Mills, Men Thrown out of Work, (591)
India, Cotton Industry, (361)
Jute Industry, (361)
Rubber Substitutes, 462
Rubber from the Tree, Novel Process for the Extraction of, (540)
Rubber Industry, Sierra Leone, (281)
Indian Iron and Coal, 299
Indicator Cards, Central Valve Engine, 115
Diagram, Its Influence on the Design of Valve Gear, 55
Ripper’s Mean Pressure, 101
Influenza, High Temperature a Preservative against, (39)
Injectors, Holden and Brooke, Limited, 367
Irnis, Mr. J. J., Presidential Address, 53

Institute, City and Guilds of London:

Committee's Decision respecting Conduct of Examinations by the Science and Art De- par', meat, (301)

Institute of Engineers, Midland :

Sinking Shafts at Maypole Colliery, Abram, Mr. J as. Keeo, (227)

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

Receiver Drop in Multiple-expansion Engines, Prof. B. L. Weighton, 86

Institute of Engineers, South Wales:

Award of the Lewis Prize», (52)

Institute, Franklin:

Experiments on Effect of Heat on Strength of Copper, (466)

Institute, Incorporated Gas:

Inaugural Address of the President, Mr. E. H. Stevenson, 615
Automatic Stoking and Inclined Retorts, Mr. W. R. Chester, 616
Excursion to Paris, Elections for the ensuing Year, 616
Gas, The New, Mr. W. H. Y. Webber, 616
Gas and Water Experts, Some Disputed Points among, Mr. J. Wilkinson, 616
Naphthalene from Retort to Point of Diposi¬tion, Mr. W. Young, 616
Retort-house Roofs, Mr. A. T. Walmisley, 616

Institute, Iron and Steel:

Autumn Meeting to ba Held in Paris, (654)
Bassemer Gold Medal Awarded to M. H. de
Wendel, (254)
Blowing Engine Worked by Blast Furnace Gas, M. Adolphe Greiner, 482
Fluid Metal in the Open-hearth Furnace, Use of, Mr. Jas. Riley, 482
Manganese Ores of Brazil, Mr. Herbert Kil- burn Scott, 502
Open-hearth Furnace, Continuous Working of, Mr. B. Talbot, 482
Ordnance and Explosives, Mr. Goschen on, 615
Programme of the Annual Meeting, 429
Water Gas, Manufacture and Application of, Mr. Carl Dellwik, 501
Institute of Marine Engineers Conversazione and Ball, (100)

Institute of Mining Engineers : American :

Device for Sampling Pig Iron, Mr. F. W. Shimer, 392

Institute of Patent Agents: Chartered:

Conversazione, (671)

Institute: Staffordshire Iron and Steel:

Mixing Machines for Production of Foundry Pig Iron, Mr. H. Pilkicgton on the Use of, (104)

Institution of Civil Engineers:

American Engineers, Invitation to the, 621
Bearing Sptiogs, B. Humphrey and H. E. O’Brien, 233
Corrosion of Marine Boilers, J. Dewrance, 264
Election of Members and Presentation of Awards, 414
Engineering Works of the Suez Canal, Sir C. A. Hartley, 280
Floor Systems of Girder Bridges, Mr. C. F. Findlay, 141, 149
Great Central Railway Extension, Mr. F. W. Bidder and Mr. F. D. Fox, 312
"James Forrest” Lecture, The, Sir W. H. Preece on the Relations between Electricity and Engineering, 443
Locomotive Eagine, Development of the Modern, Mr. W. J. Cross, 362
Martell, Mr. B., Elected Member, 11
Moving Loads on Railway Under-bridges, Mr. W. B. Farr, 141, 149
Newcastle Association of Students, 183, 262, 280
Programme of the Thirty second Annual Con¬vention of the American Society of Civil Eogineers, to be held in London, 621
Purification of Water after its Use in Manu¬factories, by R. A. Tatton, 74
Rails in Great Britain, Sir I. L. Bell, 417
Rails in Tunnel, Wear of Steal, Mr. Thomas Andrews, 417
Railway Construction in New South Wales, Mr. Hy. Deane, 391
Student’s Meeting, Distribution of Stress in the Walls of a Thick Cylinder, by Messrs Duncan, Wales, and Day, 280
Swing Bridges over the Weaver, Mr. J. A. Saner, 104
Twenty-fifth Annual Dinner, 458

Institution of Civil Engineers: Glasgow Association of Students of:

Engineer, Functions of the, Sir Wm. Preece on, 183
Laying down of Small Works for the Produc¬tion of Wrought Iron, Mr. A. Home Morton, 392
Locomotive Practice of Great Britain and the United States, Mr. Clarence N. Goodall on Some Points in the, 392
Struts with or without Lateral Loading, Mr. H. E. Wimperis, S91
Students’ Meetings of the Institution of Civil Eogineers

Institution of Draughtsmen, British:

(512)

Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Conversazione, (671)
Distant Electric Power Transmission, Professor Geo. Forbes, 523
Meeting in Paris, (563)
Standardisation of Electrical Engineerirg Plant, Mr. Porcy Sellon, 144, 148, 175

Institution of Electrical Engineers, Glasgow:

Local Section of, Formation of a, (123)
Institution of Engineers, Chesterfield and Midland Counties:
Excuriion Meeting, April 7tb, (332)

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

Awards for Last Session, (105)
British Naval Engineer: his Present Position
and Influence on our Sea Power, Mr. D. B. Morison, 362, 391, 416, 432
Distribution of Materials in the Upper'Parts of Large Steamers, Mr. S. J. P. Thearle, 145
Engineers, Considerations affecting the Gain¬ing of Young, Mr. W. C. Barrowman, 239

Institution of Gas Engineers:

Calorific Power of Illuminating Gas, Mr. H. G. Colman, 483
Carbonisation of Cannel and Shales for Gas makirg Purposes, Mr. S. Glover, 483
Coal Gas, Enrichment of, Mr. G. Livesey, 454, 483, (486), (509)
Gasholder and other Tanks at Sheflield, Mr. Stevenson, 483
Helps, Mr. J. W., On the Scheme for Amal¬gamation with the Incorporated Gas Institute, 454
Naphthalene in Coal Gas, its Detection and Extraction, Mr. W. Irwin, 483
Water Gas and its Recent Continental Develop¬ments, Professor V, B. Lewes, 483

Institution of Junior Engineers:

Annual Dinner, 111
Arc Lamps and Arc Lighting, Mr. H. G. Cots- wortb, 144
Conversazione—Exhibits—Lecture by Hon. C. A. Parsons, 294
Motor Car Industry Past and Present, Messrs. Rush and Joy on the, 551
Visit to the Bromley Depót of the Poplar District Board of Works, 499
to Royal Min*, 111

Institution of Mechanical Engineers:

Annual Meeting and Report, Fifty-third General, 112
Graduates’ Meeting, Mr. T. Soböatheil on the Manufacture of Heavy Mooring Chains, 187
Visits. (83), (413)
Indicator, Ripper’s Mean Pressure, 101
Locomotive Practice in France, On Recent, by M. Eiouard Sauvsge, 678, 680
Longworth Power Hammer, Improvements iD, Mr. E. Samuelson, (Ulus.), 218, 237
Motor Vehicles, Paper by Mr. Hele-Sbaw on the 1000-mile Run, and Discussion thereon, 666
Pneumatic Tools, Portable, Mr. E. C. Amos, (218), 315, 327, 337
Reception of the American Visitors, 666
Road Locomotion, Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw, 454, 468, 494, 547, 573, 601
Sewage and Sewage Sludge in Rural Districts, On the Treatment of, Mr. H. H. Mogg, 53
St°el Skeleton Construction, Mr. Brees von HomaD, 287
Summer Meeting, 1900, Programme, 602
Water Meters of the Present Day, Mr. Wm. Schönheyder, 112, 125

Institution of Naval Architects:

Annual Report, Reading of, 352
Dates of Meetings, &c., (118), (302)
Inaugural Address of the President, the Earl of Hopetoun, 352
Bilge Keels, Action of, Prof. Bryan, 397
Cargo Steamers, Prof. J. H. Biles on Large, 377
Depth of Water on the Resistance of Ships, Influence of, Major Guiseppe Rota, 398
Eog'nes of the Corvette General Baquedano, Mr. Magnus Sandison, 378, 379, 380
Engines, Uniformity of Turning Moments of Marine, Prof. Loretz, 380
Japanese Navy, The Imperial, Admiral Fitz¬gerald on, 352, 364
Mathematical Paper, by Herr Otto Schlick, 380
Modern Shipbuilding, Mr. H. B. Wortley on the Practical Results of some Innovations in, 377
Pressure on an Inclined Plano, with Special Reference to Balanced Rudders, Prof. Hele- Shaw, 397. 413
Rolling of Ships on Waves, Capt. G. Russo on the, 353, 355, 356
Shafts, Corrosion and Failure of Propeller, Mr. A. Scott Younger, 398, 415
Shafts, Steel, Mysterious Fractures of, Signor R. Schanzer, 398, 440, 441, 442
Strength of Elliptic Sections under Fluid Pres¬sure, Capt. Wm. Hovgaard, 379
Types, Sizes, and Construction of Ships, Account of Changes Introduced into the, Mr. B. Martell, 352
Yacht Measurement, Mr. H. C. Vogt on, 379
Instrumental Music in the Church of Scotland, First Use of, (361)
Invent, How to, 594
Invisible Enemy, The, 172
Iron in Ancient Greece, 115
Chinese, a Rival in Japan to English and American, (513)
and Coal, Indian, 299
Effect of Nickel on Elastic Limit of, (173)
M. Galy-Aché on some Phenomena Presented by, (39)
in Japan, Working of, (513)
Mines in Spain, The Alquite, (317)
Mining in Oxford, (332)
Ore, Algerian, (540)
Deposits, Mr. B. H. Brough on, 154
Find at Marton, (591)
Supplies, 519
Producing Countries, Movement of Price,
Inland Consumption in the Various, (52)
Production, Pig, 110
and Realieed Price of, during the Two Months ending April 30th, 1900, 576
Iron and Steel Combine, A Giant, 310
Industries, German Expert View of the American. 405
Production in Sweden, Nice Months’ (78)
Rods in the United States, Pro¬duction of, (513)
Trade, The, 149
Combination in the, 310, 463
Conditions, American, 258, 491
Crisis in the Russian, 542
Ironfounding in America, Courses of Education in, (671)
Irrigation Works in Turkestan, 141
IrwiD, Mr. W., On Naphthalene in Coal Gas, and its Detection and Extraction, 483
Isler and Co.'s Artesian Wells, 187
Italian Trouble in New York, Th“, 443

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JAMES, Mr. David, (266)
James Forrest Lecture, The, 443
Jane, F. T., Classification of Warships, 250
Japan, Foreign Capital in, 580
New Import Duties in, (513)
Japanese Navy, The Imperial, 352, 364, 413, 432
Java, Agricultural Implements iD, 100
Jefferies, Mr. H. S., On American Workshops, 340
Jersey City Water Supply, (227)
Jessop, Mr. Wm., The First Railway Engineer (with Portrait), 58, 429
Jetties, Reaction, Mr. L. M. Haupt, 399
Jig Chuck, Automatic, 412 Johnson, Mr. Alf., (657)
Mr. John Hy.. 336 Mr. Wm., 563
Clapham, and Morris, Limited, New Works at Mostcn, (157)
-Lundell System of Electric Traction, 399
Josselyn, Mr. F , (52)
Jute Industry in India, (361)

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“KEEL-CAMBERING” Case of Burrell and Sons, 358
Kelvin, Lord, on Dynamical Clouds, 461, 598
Key-seating Machine, Messrs. Carter and Wright, 364
Kidderminster Water Supply, 330
King’s College, Annual Dinner of Old Students, (463)
Kingston-upon-Thames Municipal Trading Act, Powers accorded to the Corporation, (645)
Klein Patent Chimney Cooler, The, (104)
Klondike Goldfields, (611)
Krupp’s Establishments, Number of Employés, (186)

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Labour Questions,Trade Disputes and Strikes:

Aberdare Dispute, The 9 Pit, (604)
American Labour Struggle, 67
Workmen, 81, 98
Coalowners, Northumberland, Advance of Wages Granted, (119)
Coal Pits, Peace at the, 69
Colliers’ Wages in the West of Scotland, Advances, (106)
Compensation for Injaries at Collieries, (513)
Coal Strike in Austria, (94)
Disputes in March and February in 1899 and 1900, (433)
New and Old, Terminated in March, (433)
Dockers’ Strike, Bristol, (645)
Employment Returns of the Board of Trade, 205
Fuel Famine, 43 Industrial Crisis in Russia, 98
Ironworkers’ Wages Advance, Scotland, (563)
Italian Trouble in New York, The, 443
Labour, 566
Department’s Memorandum for April, (513)
Questions, Wales, (472)
Statistics, New York State, 572
Struggle, American, 67
“ Mabon’s” Attitude with regard to the M'.nars’ Federation, (158)
Miners’ Federation and C'calowners’ Conference with reference to the Wages Question, (65)
Federation, South Wales, 42, 68
Morriston and Midland Tin-plate Workers' Strike, (158)
North-East Coast Engineers' Wages and Over¬time, 675 (684)
North-Eastern Railway Company’s Decision on the Hours and Wages Dispute, (94), (105)
Railway Men in Wales, Agitation amongst, (78)
Salariesand Wages on West Australian Govern¬ment Railways, 496
Skilled Labour Market, Memorandum relating to the, (408)
Monthly Report on the, (76)
Smelters' Strike at tho West Hartlepool Steel and Ironworks, (105)
Strikes and Lock-outs of 1898, 49
Tin-plate Strike, (158), (186), 437, (684)
Trade Disputes in 1899, (65), (513), (604)
Workpeople involved in, for the Eleven Months of 1899 ended November, (13)
Protection, Scheme of Federation for, (13)
Unions, Federation of, 98

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